Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin 201805

CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin May 17, 2018

Important. Its a tremendous part of the world. I think its got tremendous potential. I think its got tremendous potential for its leader and for its people. But well see how it all works out. Right mao wenow were dealing them just a little while ago, were dealing with them as if nothing happened. Were working out times and meeting times, if i read your various media the various media, i find maybe its not going to take place. If it doesnt take place, thats fine. If it does take place, i think some tremendous things can happen. Well see what happens. Reporter the iran deal and countries like germany and france and i think its a great thing the u. S. Is out of the iran deal. Its a ridiculous deal for the u. S. And a ridiculous deal for the world. Reporter [ inaudible question ] the European Union last year we had a trade deficit of 151 billion. I known jeanclaude very well and i know donald very well. I like them very much but theyre tough. We never had anyone negotiating fors. The European Union treats us on trade as bad as you can be treated. Our farmers arent allowed to a large extent to sell their product into the European Union. Its very hard for us to sell our cars into the European Union. But the European Union, in this case germany, has its mercedes and bmws and cars pouring into the United States with no barriers. They pay a tiny tax, whereas the uni European Union charges a massive tax and they dont want the cars, they doesnt want the product. We lost 151 billion last year dealing with the European Union. So they can call me all sorts of names and if i were them, id call me names also because its not going to happen any longer. Thank you very much, everybody. Time to go time to go please head out this door right now thank you, everybody. All right, youve been listening there to round two of President Trump. Next to the nato secretarygeneral. Here he talked iran, he talked immigration, trade negotiations. I do want to start with north korea because President Trump talking at really for the First Time Since kim jong un threatened to pull out of next months Nuclear Summit in singapore. The president contradicting his National Security adviser john bolton, who has proposed the, quote, libya model, for north korea. Listen. The libya model was a much different model. Y d we decimated that country. We never said to gadhafi were going to give you protection, military strength. We went in and decimated him and we did the same thing with iraq. But the model, if you look at that model with gadhafi, that was a total decimation. We went in there to beat him. That model would talk take place in we dont make a deal most likely. But if we make a deal, i believe kim jong un is going to be very happy but this is just the opposite. I think when john bolton made that statement, he was talking about if were going to be having a problem because we cannot let that country have nukes. We just cant do it. So thats the way it meant, just the opposite. If you look at syria, that was a total decimation. Lets unwind these rhetorical gymnastics with dana bash and jim sciutto and brian carom with us as well. Just to be clear, what happened was john bolton, his new National Security adviser said were looking at the libya model, libya hands over its nuclear parts, its a different situation than what north korea has and sanctions are cgadhafi. And trump is saying no, no, no, no, completely throws john bolton under the bus but says says if these dont work out, maybe that is the model. Two very contradictory messages from the president. A lot of times its the president s aides cleaning up for him. I think in this case i can let you guys talk about the substance what he meant but in terms of the approach, the strategy and diplomacy attempt here, it is him trying to say dont worry kim jong un, i got this. What upset you about what my very new National Security adviser said, the same guy who has been very openly until he came into the Trump Administration against the notion of sitting down with the North Koreans, very hard line on the North Koreans, never mind what he said. Look, i think that this is his way of cleaning it up. The other thing that he tried to do is get it back on track with his rhetoric by saying everythings fine, were going ahead with this, we havent heard anything different in the back channel. But that was certainly a pretty remarkable moment. It was unbelievable. So he says over and over but we decimated libya, we decimated libya. We didnt say that we would get protection to gadhafi, we didnt say he would have military strength. He seems to be saying to kim jong un, you will have adequate protection. Its stunning to say that. Well, the president doesnt know what the libya model is. Hes confusing two different things. What john bolton was referring to was a deal prior to the 2011 u. S. Backed where the u. S. Negotiated for him to remove his Nuclear Program at the time top to bottom. What followed several years later was a military intervention in libya with european backing because the concern at the time was that Moammar Gadhafi was going to decimate some populations there. So john bolton was referring to the Nuclear Agreement that removed libyas Nuclear Program, not to the air cam ppaign sever years later. Either the president doesnt know what he was refer to or he mixed up two different things. Isnt kim jong un hearing libya model and going gadhafi is dead, right . It was a mistake for john bolton to bring up the libya model as a good one because libya did get rid of its weapons and then gadhafi was removed by western force. Get the facts right on it first, but second of all, why that is an uncomfortable association for kim if youre trying to make a deal with him. All you have to do is see a picture of gadhafi when they were pulling him out when he was dead for the people to go time out for this important commercial message. The regime change is the fear. Kim jong un wants the guarantee this is not about regime change. What you said the president was playing cleanup. The idea of trump playing cleanup is frightening. But he didnt clean it up. Thats my point. Hes trying to clean up something that bolton did. Neither one of them got their facts straight and north korea is panicking over what may or may not happen. At the end of the day, were all talking poll tex itics in a vac because we dont know what this president or the administration is going to do at any given minute. It will change on a dime and were left without adequate access. These meetings that you see are not adequate access to find out whats really going on. Its a smoke screen to keep us from finding out whats really going on. I still think theyre still flying on the seat of their pants, making it up as they go along. You have extensive experience in china. It was really interesting to hear the president blaming the chinese president saying kim jong un made another trip to china and the next thing you know things are falling apart is what he was saying. Whats his calculus there . Its hard to say. It changes so quickly. A few days ago the president was willing to make an enormous concession to china, rescue zte, which china uses as a tool to surveil the americans. Now this is partly life in trump world. Youre his best friend or worst enemy depending on which issues hes talking about, now making a threat there. You have to wonder how officials in beijing ride out those ups and downs and try to read the president to see where he actually stands on these issues. But on the saving of jobs through zte, hes so sensitive to that because hes come out and said we need to save these jobs and then he gets so dinged for it because there are a number of problems with zte he should be sensitive to it. Sure. Youve got dod saying this should be a National Security risk, theyre not selling their phones on military bases, they think they may be compromised and took u. S. Parts and sold their product to iran and north korea in violation of american law. Okay, hes focusing still today on but there a lot of u. S. Jobs, there are a lot of u. S. Jobs connected to zte, which also kind of speaks to this globalization that he and those around him kind of reject and yet he seems to be admitting it right there. Right. I dont think there has ever been an accusation that this white house or this president is highly consistent. I mean, theres just no other way to say it. Consistently inconsistent. Having said that, one thing that we have seen a pattern of and knowing how the president operates now after weve all watched him in this capacity for two and a half years since hes been a candidate is kind of like the way that he doesnt say hes sorry, he doesnt back down even if and when a move that he makes is clearly wrong. And the zte move was clearly wrong on a policy level, on a p. R. Level, on an i mean, all across the board. Now, hes had supporters saying its a game of chess. He is trying to explain it away. And thats what that is. Even if it contradicts the notion of his fear about globalization and poohpoohing the idea of american jobs. As he explains all this away and were discussing it, words have consequences, especially in an International Community where theyre not used to seeing an American Government this chaotic or this despotic. The problem thatty has is he tries to explain it away when you look at it from outside the u. S. , when i talk to people from outside the u. S. , they dont know whats going on and we have to say neither do we. And it causes real concern. You see the president next the head of nato. The head of the european council, used to be the Prime Minister of nato ally poland said nato can no longer rely on the u. S. As the president says countries who dont meet the 2 limit, maybe we abandon them but those word and threats have real meaning. Thank you to all of you. Next, who was donald trump calling moments after that now infamous meeting at trump tower . We know from newly released transcripts that donald trump jr. Called someone on a blocked number yet the president s son cant recall who it was. Well have more on that next. But what a powerful life lesson. And dont worry i have everything handled. I already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. Which is so smart on your guys part. Like fact that theyll just. Forgive you. Four weeks without the car. Okay, yup. Good night. 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Talk with your advisor about shield annuities from Brighthouse Financial established by metlife. The president today slamming the oneyear anniversary of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. He called the probe the disgusting, illegal and unwarranted witch hunt. Sarah sanders added this. The president knows there was no collusion in the campaign and he has been quite clear about this. Its gone on for over a year and strongly believe its a witch hunt. Im not sure how we could be any more clear and not sure how the president could be any more clear in his beliefs and his opinion. The mueller anniversary happens as we get new details on the Infamous Trump tower meeting when donald trump jr. And others met with russians five months before the election. He called someone on a blocked number and the president s son cant remember who it was and now democrats are demandings ands demanding answers. And in the meantime, Rudy Giuliani is downplaying the meeting. The headline today, cnn, don jr. Admits he was looking for dirt on hillary oh, wow and they werent looking for dirt on donald trump . Even if it comes from a russian or german or american, it doesnt matter. They never used it was the main thing. They rejected it. If there was collusion with the russians, they would have used it. Joining me is former prosecutor elli hoenig. Does it matter when it comes to the special counsel, is the special counsel still able to piece this together . Sure. The special counsel certainly is going to be looking root ight a these calls to the blocked number. Any time you have an important event, a meeting, a phone call, the first thing you want to know is who did the participants talk to before, during and after. You get the phone records and they see the call to the blocked number and now there seems to be good evidence that was probably President Trump. Investigators are going to want to know what was said, what was the reason for the call. This could well be evidence of collusion. Well, the telephone company, as we understand it, its not a secret to them who the number was. Is that something the special counsel could get . Its something im sure if i had to bet Robert Mueller and his team are already working with the phone company, served subpoenas to find out who the blocked number is. The fact theres a blocked number is not the end of the investigation and im sure the mule are teeller team is knowins is. We do know from Corey Lewandowski his dad at least had a blocked number. Does that matter to the special counsel if theyre unable to tell what was said . It does matter a lot. Donald trump jr. Has said i dont remember who it was, i dont remember what was said. At some point the team may get an interview or have donald trump in a grand jury under subpoena. Im sure theyll ask him. If i had to bet, i bet hell say the same thing, i dont remember, i dont remember if that was me and i dont remember what was said. A reality of being a criminal investigator is sometimes you cant know. If that phone call wasnt for some reason recorded, which seems very unluikely, it may ony the two participants who know and it could be a dead end. Thank you, elie honig. Coming up, the shocking video of a man berating people inside of a new york restaurant for speaking spanish instead of english to each other. vo i was born during the winter of 77. I first met james in 5th grade. We got married after college. And had twin boys. But then one night, a truck didnt stop. But thanks to our forester, neither did our story. And thats why well always drive a subaru. If youd have told me three years ago. That wed be downloading in seconds, what used to take. Minutes. That guests would compliment our wifi. That we could video conference. And do it like that. snaps if youd have told me that i could afford. A gigspeed. A gigspeed network. Its like 20 times faster than what most people have. Id of said. Id of said youre dreaming. Dreaming definitely dreaming. Then again, dreaming is how i got this far. Now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. A manhattan attorney goes on a racist rant about people speaking spanish and its all caught on video. Client and your staff are speaking spanish to customers when they should be speaking i mean, sometimes they do every person i listen to, he spoke it, he spoke it, shes speaking it. Its america. Yeah, it is america. It is america [ bleep ]. Hes very ignorant and he shouldnt be allowed here. My guess is theyre not documented. So my next call is to ice, to get out of our country. I pay for their welfare, i pay for their ability to be here. The least they can do is speak english. [ bleep ]. Running a place in midtown manhattan, they should be speaking english, not spanish. Because of people like you the nation sucks. He became upset when he overheard people ordering in spanish. Thats when he exploded. Polo has more on this attorney and other alleged incidents involving him. What can you tell us . Reporter in that video, that is what set him off according to the woman who shot that footage is there was a customer and some employees speaking spanish. He then confronted those employees, accused them of being undocumented and threatened to call immigration authorities. What is Aaron Schlossberg saying about this . We dont know. Hes staying silent on this incident and others. Hes been seen back in 2017, for example, this same gentleman was seen shouting at some Ultra Orthodox Jews against israel at a protest that was against an event that was taking place here in new york. And then in 2016 the same individual approaches an individual by the name of willy morr morris, accusing him of being a foreigner. And that supposed foreigner spoke out online saying he was born in massachusetts and is a u. S. Citizen. We do know that there is a new york representative that has been speaking out right now who has requested that the state of new york suspend schlossbergs license to practice as they continue to investigate exactly what happened. But again, we have not heard from him at this point, not anything about this incident captured on tuesday or the ones in 2016 and the 2017 incident as well. A reminder this i

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