Thats what were going to be focused on in these meetings. Trust me, its a lot warmer in the white house, i assure you. The white house did not give you anything to say they did not give me anything to say. So you cannot say asked and answered, chuck. The president still has confidence in his National Security advisor. Its not for me to tell you what is in the president s mind and for our chief of staff. Ing fascinating story there. The trump affect on pop culture. The grammys remind us the new president is polarizing, to say the least. At this particular point in history, our voices are needed more than ever. As Tony Morrison once said, this is precisely the time when artist goes to work. There is no time for despair, no place for selfpity, no need for silence, and no room for fear. We do language. That is how civilizations heal. So tonight we celebrate our most universal language, music, as we honor the voices of the past and the present. The atlantics molly ball and okeefe Olivia Knox Atta hue news and the federalist. Just moments ago a glimpse into the oval office with the canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau. An economic roundtable coming up in a few minutes, and then a working lunch. The two leaders meet with reporters in the 2 00 eastern hour. Here in the United States. Well get back to u. S. Canada reelss and the president s early Foreign Policy style in just a moment, but, first up, just week four of the new administration, but already talk of a white house shakeup. National security advisor Michael Flynn is in the deepest trouble for starters. He had dealings with russia during the final weeks of the obama administration, that are at a minimum highly unusual. Perhaps some say even illegal. Then i lied to the Vice President about those conversations and that led to this. Take a look. Those happened to occur around the time that the United States took action to expel diplomats. Had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. Nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. You just heard it there from mike pence. Thanks to intelligence intercepts of the flynn calls, Vice President pence now knows that statement was not true. He is described by several sources as furious. The fate of general flynn just one of the many staff dilemmas. You hear these rumors. It depends who you talk to in the white house. Some say the chief of staff is in trouble. This one is trying to angle that one. Set that aside for a minute, the palace intrigue, if you will, the trademark that has plagued trump. Lets talk about general flynn for a minute. The Vice President met with him a couple of times on friday. The Vice President feels his credibility was put on the line here. For all the criticism of general flynn, theres a jury of one here, the president of the United States, does he sur vief this . From what i understand he absolutely is on the rocks. We dont know yet because Steven Miller basically said he didnt know because it was trumps decision. From what i understand talking to senior people in the white house, they also think flynn is in trouble, but they dont know because trump hasnt come down yet, and thats sort of the way this place works. We saw during the campaign, he replaced his Campaign Manager when necessary. He always took it right up to the wire when he had those turnovers. General flynn has been with him from early on. He is one of the most loyal people in the trump circle. There are people that say he feeds the dark side of this president with conspersy theory or dont trust the press and the like. You learn a lot from the president in early days, and let me pause and say weve covered a lot of administrations at the table here. Theres always turmoil in the early days. At some point you say calm down. This is the National Security advisor, and he did put the Vice President in a horrible position. What mike pence said was not true. Sometimes it causes trump to double down. Thats the feeling that pretty much every white house staffer has right now apparently. Thats the question too with pence. If you are going to take this off the chain, you got to know that youre going to be successful, and its very hard with trump to know that he backed pence instead of felony. No one knows the answer to that question. Thats where he gets a lot of power in his management style such that it is. The National Security counsel, you dont hear much about it. Its hundreds of people. They get flown in from other agencies and its absolutely critical. The president has to make a decision when north korea test launches a missile, when the president is preparing for a meeting like he is in now with Justin Trudeau, and the nature row relationship. Listen to this from the New York Times on the turmoil inside general flynns National Security council. Three weeks in, Council Staff members get up in the morning, read President Trumps twitter posts and struggle to make policy to fit them. Most are kept in the dark about what mr. Trump tells foreign leaders in his phone calls. Some Staff Members have turned to encrypted communications to talk with their colleagues after hearing that mr. Trumps top advisors are considering a Insider Threat program that could result in monitoring cell phones and emails for leaks. Sounds like reporters. You need these people, especially at a crisis moment, sharing information quickly, trusting each other, and trying to boil down the advice staff gives to general flynn and general flynn gives to the president. This is not funny. You havent seen you have not heard from donald trump himself on this controversy. You probably will at this press conference with the canadian Prime Minister, and the other thing is what you havent heard is another name coming out of the pack. Maybe they could replace him with so and so. Thats really important. If you dont have a logical replacement lined up, why would you push someone out thats loyal to you. There were people people in the military community that didnt like him when he served. He had to leave the defensive intelligence agency. Part of this is the president s fault. I mean it this way. He gets on the phone a lot and talks to his friends. When he is talking to one friend, he is a tea party guy. He is a stir it up. I dont trust the establishment. He calls his friend out in l. A. , the developer, tom barrett. Calm down, mr. President. Have a long view. He calls a bunch of different people, and then when you talk to those kind of people, they all give you different snippets and perspectives on what he is thinking, and what you get is reince is doing great, reince is going to get fired. Steve bannon is the most important person in the white house. Steve bannon is in trouble. What is it . There were stories that said that reince had come upon much more authority and everything was to be run through him. If that was the case last week, you look at this past week, it went pretty poorly. I would think this is a tricky week to get rid of mike flynn. The meeting with the canadians, the israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu coming. Do you really want to shake up your National Security team at a moment quite like this . Theres never going to be a good moment, but this week especially given that he is coming facetoface with critical allies, i would think its a tricky week. Prime minister netanyahu, he is here on wednesday. The canadian Prime Minister at the white house today. He just got on the plane to leave israel to come to the United States. He tweeted a picture of himself and his wife saying a strong aliengs is about to get even stronger. He is hopefulful a very positive relationship with this president. President trump gave an interview to an israeli paper that said slow down on settlements, meaning to netanyahu, haets not helpful to peace. How much does this factor in . When the president is seeing these reports about general flynns conduct, he has been silent on it so far about this turmoil or knives out in the white house staff. Private communications, even though they work 30, 40 feet from each other. His Approval Rating, if you look at gallop, his net Approval Rating is remarkably low. President trump with a negative net 15. Minus 15. President obama at this point was plus 42. When you take approval and disapproval, add or subtract, george w. Bush was at plus 32. Remember, george w. Bush won a contested election. Bill clinton, plus 17. Won with only 43 pi of the votn the ross perot year. Ronald reagan, plus 37. When you see donald trump at minus 15, and we know this is the stuff he pays attention to this he pays attention to this. How much does this drive what he thinks about the efficiency of the staff . I think he pays attention to this stuff, but he is also a guy who survived and thrived in the general election to be president of the United States even though his negatives were extremely bad. Im not sure thats his most important metric. The other thing i would say is the ability of this white house and some of the knives out means that we should be really kashs about who is leaking what and why and so some of the stories i want to be very critical or skeptical about or healthily skeptical about, but flynn himself walked back his denials of this story. I think thats a really important element of this. This one the principal himself said maybe i did talk about it. Zoo thats a key difference. I will reinforce it. You have these Staff Members. You see a lot of people saying is Kellyanne Conway openly seeking the chief of staff job . Why would she be campaigning . Its only week four. This is the facts here are general flynn told the senior white house staff, including the president and the Vice President , he did not discuss sanctions with the Russian Ambassador while president obama was still in office. That would be a major faux pas. Now he says he cant recall. Maybe it came up. Again, he sent the Vice President out there on a limb, and the Vice President now feels burnt. Its a circular firing squad. I think this also speaks to the fact that none of these folks really have ever worked in an Administration Like this. Theyre still feeling their way. This is week four. Its a month in. You have to give them some space to figure things out. I think, you know, day after day, week after week we have seen examples of them not realizing that whatever they say and do matters much more than it ever did before. Their paycheck is coming from the government. Its not coming from mr. Trump anymore. Its clearly been a tough adjustment for a lot of these folks. Some of whom will survive, and others who may not. Its undermined to a degree confidence on capitol hill. Bigtime. This republicans say were not sure who to go to or if x tells us something, if thats operative or if y is going to tell us something else, and ive said this several times in the program, a striking degree to which you hear people who payed for by this president say dont pay any attention to what the president tweets or sometimes not even to what he says. Pay attention to what we do. Thats remarkable. In the fourth week the president gets four years. Up next, our neighbors to the north. President trump meets with the canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau. Just what those two might be talking about. Thats next. Theres no other way to say this. Its over. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. Together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say if you love something. Set it free. See you around, giulia wont replace the full value of your totaled new car. The guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. No, i picked the wrong insurance company. With Liberty Mutual new car replacement™, you wont have to worry about replacing your car because youll get the full value back including depreciation. And if you have more than one Liberty Mutual policy, you qualify for a multipolicy discount, saving you money on your car and home coverage. Call for a free quote today. Liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. Tech dont let a cracked windshtrust safelite. Plans. With safelites exclusive on my way text. Youll know exactly when well be there. Giving you more time for what matters most. team sing safelite repair, safelite replace. Its realizing beauty doesnt stop at my chin. Roc®s formula adapts to delicate skin areas. My fine lines here . Visibly reduced in 4 weeks. Chest, neck, and face cream from roc®. Methods, not miracles. ™ 90 of the Worlds Largest supercomputers run on intel . That means you can take a universe of data in your case literally and turn it into medical discoveries, diagnostic breakthroughs. Proof that black holes collapse into one singularity. I dont know what that is. But yes. Innovation runs on supercomputers. And supercomputers run on intel. You are super smart. And super busy. Ooh ufo false alarm, eyelash everyone deserves attention, whether youve saved a lot or just a little. At pnc investments, we believe youre more than just a number. So we provide personal Financial Advice for every retirement investor. President Trump is0. Leaders of a different age, different styles, and vastly different views on issues like climate change, immigration and whether to welcome orrion refugees from syria and other hot spots. They have 700 billion neighborly reasons to try to find Common Ground. The trade in broader economic relationship is vital to both countries, and the big focus of todays getting to know you meetings at the white house. At this hour as we speak we know the leaders have met in the oval office. President trump tweegt a photo outside of the west wing as he gave an embrace to Justin Trudeau. Welcome to the white house, Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. White house Officials Say ivanka trump had a big hand in this. Well get the tape momentarily talking about entrepreneurial spirit. Its interesting for two men who have such big differences. Especially on immigration. It would be hugely destableizing for canada and for the u. S. Canada relationship. You know, youve got to think that Prime Minister trudeau is going to seek assurances that any renegotiation of nafta will go through normal channels and will have the canadians on board. What they fear is that trump would do something sudden and unexpected and disruptive and they want to be sure that they can be a partner in whatever happens. Interesting, is the bar higher . Are the tests higher for this meeting because of the first steps with mexico went badly . The president was supposed to come here. Nieto pena. Then they canceled because much the wall announcement. It becomes the neighborhood economic relationships that are so important. Is the bar higher for this one . Does President Trump have to say we have to get along . The white house is trying to get a sense of the man that is the commander in chief. It was interesting to watch, but just so you know Prime Minister abe comes. He gets the meeting at the white house. They have a News Conference. He gets an air force one ride. Then they have a crisis. North korea launches a missile. More on that any aminute. I guess one of the questions is how long of a memory does President Trump have in the sense that canada trump Justin Trudeau tweeted, again, a very positive statement of late. You saw him. He was in a visit to Northern Region of canada where he said im going to come and talk about issues. Heres what he tweeted. To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, canadians will welcome you regardless of your strength. Diversity is our strength. Welcome to canada. Thats a direct reput yags to Donald Trumps travel ban. Is this the kind of thing that theyre going to remember or does he say, okay, you are doing what you need to do for you politically, ill do what i need to do. He spent some time, and he may have seen it. Trudeau goes vooirl. They have things i think molly is right that the trade stuff might be the better place to start, and theres plenty of room for reporters to ask about the hotter disagreements, but i do want to throw it out there just because of 2017 anything can happen, but trump calls canada america junior, and trudeau gets his hugh grant action. Stole my line. This is where we are. I will watch for that love actually moment. Okay. Thats one way. Thats the contrarian view of what might happen. Is it not a fact if you lo