that manner he should try to stick it out. if he s gone, i m not sure the president bring someone in who will be able to prevent him from creating catastrophe. you mentioned instincts and the president s instincts towards chaos. we have this report that describes some of john kelly s contributions to the white house but includes this, quote, under kelly s watch the president now has policy time. sessions once or twice a day where advisers present and argue their competing views over a specific issue with trump presiding. what does that say about the way he shapes policy? look, i think ultimately the buck stops with the president, right, and i remember when general kelly was first selected, the idea or the notion was being put out that he would be able to create a white house that would function more normally as what we have seen in the past. that is not the case. why is that? because, again, the president doesn t listen to his advisers.
he doesn t know them. if you look at donald trump, he s a personality-driven person. he wants people around him that he s comfortable so that he can be more honest. that s the problem. here s a guy who is an ego maniac. when you have people that are ego maniacs, it is harder for them to be honest with people they don t know. that s why structurally from the beginning it is a flawed process. maya, this same report from the post describes some of john kelly s contributions to the white house thus far, including, quote, under kelly s watch the president now has policy time sessions once or twice a time where senators argue their side with trump presiding. what does this say with how the president views policy making? i think that s the real question here, alex. it s kind of ridiculous when you talk about the fact that you have to put policy time on his calendar. what is he doing with the rest of his day? he has policy time. he has tv, which we call executive time.
advantage of pride china says it s tariffs get about a small percentage of more than $130 billion in goods the united states sent to china. though analysts and free-trade advocates say they worry about the next step. president trump has also threatened to tax $60 billion in imports. the u.s. government says that cost u.s. businesses between 225 and $600 billion a year. discussions continue between the government, american producers say they want the u.s. and china to resolve this soon. there are 550,000 jobs in rural america that are tied directly to the u.s. pork industry. 110,000 of those jobs are directly tied to exports. so important for the growth of our industry and economy. there are also national security concerns. china is key to upcoming talks with north korea. the white house has just announced that president trump will soon meet with the leader
george orwell. here was jon meacham on one channel this morning. it s a state media essentially. only donald trump could do this, could unify fears of the corporate media plus first amendment people, plus true conservatives who should be worried about large institutions dictating the reality for others. bret: heard that a lot. brit? well, jon meacham is a friend of mine them i ve admired his work for many years but i don t know what he s talking about. i know a lot of people in social media have interpreted this mission statement by these stations read by anchors across the country as being pro-trump. trump has never mentioned the fact that trump, like this group of stations, think there s a lot of bad stuff seeping into the media doesn t make it wrong because trump agrees with it.
is incredibly sad. democrats dismissed the criticism saying it wasn t an president trump we started all this? what are the president do? you promise during his campaign two things. one, he would terminate daca. he did that. he created this crisis, he created this problem all by himself. it wasn t something that needed to be done. president trump again called for immigration reform and new border security measures, linking immigration to nafta negotiations. in a tweet warning, mexico is doing very little, if nothing, at stopping people from flowing into mexico through their southern border and then into the united states. they must stop the big drug and people flows or i will stop their cash cow, and after. mexico s current president did not respond to the tweet but former president did, telling president trump to stop the twitter threats. nafta is a trademark for progress and success all over the world. and he accused the president of