Against the company of amazon and led a new somewhat baffling allegation against president obama. A side of himself that we and many others is going to be coming out. Today, and on twitter we got a big dose of President Trump uncut. Here he was speaking about the u. S. Military presence in syria which he announced last week that he wants to end. I want to get out. I want to bring our troops back home and start rebuilding our nation. We will have as of three months ago, 7 trillion in the middle east over the last 17 years. We get nothing, nothing out of it. And as you remember, in civilian
life for years, i said keep the oil. We didnt keep the oil. Who got the oil . Isis. That is what funded their campaign. They took a lot of the oil. And we should have kept the oil then. We didnt keep the oil. The United States didnt keep the oil or take the oil which is the word mr. Trump used to use on the campaign trail. Didnt take the oil because among other reasons that is called plunder and pretty much went out with genghis khan. The issue is this seems to be news to Senior NationalSecurity Officials even though it has been several days since he first broached the idea. At almost the same promomoment the president said it. This was said. Our Mission Isnt Over and we are going to complete that mission. The president also spoke today about nato something his three baltic guests count on to determine his three russian occupiers. Which made it awkward when the president turned to another theme. Nato was delinquent. Not paying their bills. Not paying what they should be paying. Since i came in, many additional dollars have been paid by countries that werent paying. And they are going to have to pay more. The president has long spoken as if he believes nato is a dues paying nation. If it is Member Nation defense spending, there is a nato guideline on that. And the baltics sharply
decreased that. And for accuracy sake, they started before. We have been tough on russia, and nobody has been tougher on russia. Nobody has been tougher on russia than i have. Nobody tougher on russia. Once again, keeping them honest, this president would be correct in saying no president has been tougher on russia in the last couple of weeks. He has joined nato in expelling russia personnel. He did not however lead the way. And shortly before the expulsion mr. Trump congratulated putin on
winning an election. Be the policy of this nation to regard any Nuclear Missile launched as an tack by the soviet union on the United States requiring a full retaliatory response upon the soviet union. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down these walls. Has President Trump been tougher than that, tougher than president truman. It wasnt the only hyperbole, the president said this about the border with mexico. It is like we had no border because we had obama make
changes that basically created no border. Called catch and release. You catch them, you register them and they go into our country. We cant throw them out and in many cases they shouldnt be here. Many, many cases they shouldnt be here. And after they get whatever happens over the next two or three years, they are supposed to come back to court. Almost nobody comes back to court. They are in our country. And we cant do anything about it because the laws that were created by democrats are so path etic and weak. Lack of space in Detention Fitzs and republicans say loopholes in state law. When you take a look at the post office, you take a look at the post office and the post office is losing billions of
dollars and the taxpayers are paying for that money because it delivers packages for amazon at a very below cost and that is not fair to the United States. It is not fair to our taxpayers. Now, keeping him honest on that, if the president has a beef with amazon, he should leave the post office out of it. Now, here is another fact that might be relevant, amazon founder jeff bezos also owned the Washington Post which the president also despises. Sending the stock market into large gyrations. He took yet another shot at Hillary Clinton and tweeted this in reaction to some new polling. Thank you to rasmussen for new polling. Not sure what kind of cheatin he was referring to. Mr. Trump repeated his call today to send troops to the southern border. In speaking with general mattis, we are going to be doing things militarily until we have a wall. It is a big step. Jim acosta was in the room for much of it and he joins us now. Reporter the version of the president that we saw today is this part of a bigger shift in who he is listening to . It is hard to tell. He was in maralago yesterday. Seemed to be guiding his white
hot immigration comments that are coming into this week. The president did have a National Security meeting with top officials including Chief Of Staff and defense secretary. Within the last hour who says that the Trump Administration does have a Working Number of National Guard troops that they want to deploy to the southern border. They are not releasing that number at this point. Waiting on the white house to make the announcement. They are looking into operation jump start which is something that happened during the Bush Administration when george w. Bush deployed National Guards to help down there. He is also harkening back to the Bush Administration to try to find a solution he likes on the border. I think it was 2006 theNational Guard troops were sent down and there to help on clerical things not stopping people from coming into the United States. The idea is to help free up Border Patrol. They were do other tasks that did free up Border Patrol agents. And the president was talking about this, and we should point out that not only did president bush do this, but president obama did this as well. Aides you are talking about in the west wing, what are they seeing now from the president. Reporter i have been taking to aides who are still looking at clarity on this syria issue. The president last week made this stunning announcement that he is willing to pull troops out. I talked to administration
official saying there is no clarity on that. We do know that the president was essentially contradicting his own envoy to the battle on isis. In real team as the president was speaking to this news conference, bret mcguirk at almost the same moment saying United States is not going to leave until the fight is finished. So he is confusing people, and also contradicting top officials like bret mcguirk who are looked to around the world for guidance in what the president is doing. I appreciate it. The panel ways on all of this shortly. Coming up tonight what could be Breaking News. New reporter on what Robert Mueller told the president s lawyer on whether the president
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competition and quality of sinclair broadcast. The fakers have done so much dishonest reporting. Raising questions along with all of it. Cnn political analyst david gergen as well as gloria borger. Is this the unrestrained version of him or less restrained version. I think this is the president now who has been talking to friends and i have talked to some of his friends that he feels like he knows how to do this job and has it under control. He has said publicly, that i am close to getting the cabinet i want. He is looking to people who he is comfortable with. The people who show up in his Living Quarters Night After night from fox news. And those are the people he is
consulting as well as his own instincts. He told one friend, i got this. I know how to do this. You are seeing things not only on policy as jim acosta is talking about such as troops at the border or withdrawal from syria. And then he is also playing games with people like he did with general mcmaster on his future and like he may be doing with peruit. And maybe on general kelly. And i think this is the real donald trump and i think we are going to keep seeing him. David, the notion that the president has reembraced the idea that he is his own best
advisor, i am wondering if you think that is going to serve him well . No. President s no matter how much experience they have need a stabilizing forces around them. They need someone there who can look them in the eye and tell them you are full of it or you need to hear the other side of the story. You may be hearing the fox version of the truth, about you if you consider there may be other ways to think about that and president s need that. So i think it is a mistake. I do think and what i am told is there were three heavy weights who were the stabilizing forces and two are gone. Ga gary cohen, and h. R. Mcmaster. And the third is general kelly. And so you have a trump who is unleashed on his own volition. And fox news has become even
more important in his mind. Almost like people who work for fox are his advisors. Sean hannity playing golf and the like. What we are seeing is a new chapter in the trump presidency. And what we dont know if the people coming in, kudlow, or bolton, whether they are going to be stabilizing forces or play to his instinct. Gloria, there was this interesting moment in the luncheon, the president tried to get the president of estonia to praise him. Three president s told me that nato is taking in a tremendous amount of money because of donald trump. That would have never happened. You may want to say that. Would you like to say that madam
president . That donald trump made a difference. Very risky question. Well, he is kind of used to getting that from his own cabinet as we saw in a couple of those dear leader cabinet meetings. He likes to get praise and the lithuanian president was honest when he said she said at one point that there was kind of unpredictable leadership. And that at some point, and we want, and she kind of moved, they moved around it and said but we still need leadership from President Trump. So there is a sense in the baltics that they want a president to be more predictable. And they went in there with a
mission trying to get a straight answer identiout of him. I want to say, most disturbing part of the news to me today was this notion that he wants to now send troops to the border. It is true that two past president s have deployed National Guard to the border and it was because there was pressing need. There is no pressing need. This is more of a political move here. He sees the military as a play toy. First he wants to have this massive parade. You know, he wanted to take money out of the Military Budget and pay for the wall and now he wants to send troops to the border. There is no real reason to send troops to the border other than to make political points. And to satisfy fox. They are not supposed to be used for Law Enforcement anyway. Gloria, to davids point, it doesnt seem to be a coincidence that this idea that he now has sending the military, by the military, the National Guard because you cant send active service full time, inside the United States. But it cant be a coincidence that it comes now after he received criticism from some of the folks he has listened to according to the reporting has raised issues that maybe his base thinks he is weakening on immigration. Yeah. You can look at this, he invited the Fox Green Room to maralago over the weekend. And this is a president who is concerned more than anything
about pleasing his base. And so what we are hearing from him are Base Sweeteners and he is going to build a wall. He is going to send troops to the border. He is going to with draw from syria because we won the war against isis. And so i think, you know, it is kind of he has become the echo chamber to these people. Gloria borger, david gergen, i appreciate it. Whether the president is or is not a criminal target in Robert Muellers probe. We will tell you what they were told when we come back. A place with flexible fmeal plans. E. And 24hour room service a place where seniors get the care they need in the comfort of home. Home instead senior care. 3 toddlers wont stop him. And neither will lower back pain. Because at a dr. Scholls kiosk he got a recommendation for our custom fit orthotic to relieve his foot, knee, or lower back pain, from being on his feet. Dr. Scholls. Born to move. Nondrowsy claritin 24 hour relief when allergies occur. Day after day, after day. Because life should have more wishes and less worries. Feel the clarity and live claritin clear. Breaking news in the news paper, the president loves to hate. The Washington Post reporting that mueller has briefed the president legal team saying he does not. In talks early last month, mr. Mueller described the president as a subject of the probe. What is the distinction, joining us for that is jeffrey could bein a toobin and carrie
cordero. There are targets who are almost certainly going to be charged and indicted. There are witnesses. And in between the two there is somebody called the subject. Someone who is under investigation but who may or not be charged. Trump is a subject. And i dont think that is particularly good news for him. It is a big deal to be under criminal investigation by the fbi particularly if the you are the president of the United States. This has been implicit in what the Mueller Investigation has been doing. But this confirm aiation, that president is under criminal investigation, that is a profound thing to think about. Carrie, according to the Washington Post reporting some have told him that is part of the danger of sitting down for
an interview, that you can go from being a subject to a target quickly. One could depending on the outcome of the interview. Being a subject, they shouldnt cracking open any champagne in the white house. There is certainly risk of him sitting down for an interview although it is difficult at this point to see a path forward for this investigation both in terms of its look at the russian influence on the election and any potential cooperation or knowledge on behalf of the campaign and the obstruction piece, it is hard to see how it will conclude without the president at some point being interviewed by the investigative team. Well, in a normal circumstance, a subject would simply take the fifth. Most lawyers would advise the subject of an investigation dont talk under any
circumstances. The question is can the president of the United States take the fifth. I think he can. I think he can denounce the investigation and say this is a witch hunt, i am not participating. I think it is entirely possible he will refuse this interview. Carrie, according to the reporting, mueller is still pushing hard to interview President Trump to both determine if the president had corrupt intent and that is why he feels this interview is important. That he needs to figure out the intent behind mr. Trumps accuracies. The specific, the intent that he personally had is important to that investigation because it is actions that he took, statements that he took over the course of a year that potentially could put together a case for obstruction. On that piece in particular, he
probably has the most exposure but also his statements or what he has to say about his intent is also the most relevant to that piece of the investigation. Jeff, you heard, i heard you earlier talking today, i heard you ta