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President trump disagreeing with his own National Security adviser and japans Prime Minister on the subject of north koreas missile tests. President trump says hes not personally bothered by north koreas first small weapons launches. Prime minister abe and john bolton says north korea violated u. U. U. N. Security council resolutions. President trump bashing former Vice President joe biden, making headlines on the trade war with china. Joining us to talk about all this, samantha, Senior Adviser to the National Security adviser under president obama. Boris sanchez in tokyo and catherine rampell. Its great to have you all with us. Boris, lets go to you. Youre on the ground with the president. What has been the japanese Prime Ministers reaction to the president praising kim jongun and essentially dismissing these most recent rocket launches for which japan is in the firing line . Reporter john, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe was asked about the Short Range Ballistic Missile tests earlier today. He essentially said they were regretful. Clearly he has to walk a fine line as President Trump doesnt believe theyre something to worry about. Abe is tasked with a really difficult challenge. He has to essentially continue this strong relationship that he has with President Trump, heaping adulation onto him and praise and simultaneously deal with the fact that President Trump has this personal relationship with kim jongun in which he trusts kim jongun apparently more than some of his own advisers. So abe trying to get trump to sort of give him support for a bilateral meeting with kim jongun while simultaneously calling out the north koreans for violating u. N. Resolutions. Sam, kim jongun broke his promise to President Trump. President trump believed him in february after the fail of the hanoi summit. Ill remind you of what President Trump said when he believed kim jongun back then. One of the things importantly that chairman kim promised me last night is, regardless, hes not going to do testing of rockets and nuclear not going to do testing. So i trust him and i take him at his word. I hope thats true. Not going to do testing. I trust him. I take him at his word. Well, hes now done testing. I think President Trump is going to trust kim jongun until the cows come home because he doesnt want to admit hes been played by the north korean dictator. There is a slight difference. Kim jongun has only tested short range missiles. The promise he made was a little different, a moratorium on longer range missiles, icbms and nuclear weapons. These short range missiles affect not only japan and south korea, but americans. We have 54,000 troops in japan. They are within range of the rockets that kim jongun is popping off. President trump is not a great student. He wont release his transcripts. History shows he likes to make up facts and forget behavior thats happened in the past. North korea has done exactly this over a decade ago. In 2006 they were annoyed with the pace of negotiations. They popped off short range missiles. They escalated to longerrange missiles a few weeks later. President trump saying hes not disturbed by whats happening, but this could be the start of kim jongun testing the waters. Katherine, we believe in factbased debates here. I want to hold the president to account on comments last night regarding china, tariffs and who pays for them. Foolishly some people said the american taxpayer is paying the tariffs of china. No, no, no, its not that way. Theyre paying a small percentage. Our country is taking in billions and billions of dollars. Katherine, reality check that for us. Look, there are two Major Research studies both by elite teams of exists, people from princeton, yale, columbia, berkeley, the new york fed, lots of prestigious institutions, both of which have found that 100 of the tariffs, not only on chinese goods, but all the other countries weve waged trade wars with, are being paid by american buyers. We know right now the absorption of that cost is on the u. S. Side. Americans are paying those taxes, and tariffs are taxes. Its funny, this party, the republican party, the party of which President Trump is a standardbearer has historically been, if nothing else, consistently anti tax except for some reason when it comes to these taxes which again are raising the costs for americans. Its always strange, catherine, when President Trump says something demonstrably false. Is it strange . I think its normal. Its one thing to say falsehoods that are unprovable. Its one thing to say falsehoods that are your opinion. Its another thing to keep repeating the same falsehood when we have Business Owners coming on new day routinely telling us how much the tariffs are hurting them. Some of these were trump voters. Its just hard to know what the game plan is. Whats the end game. I dont know. Its like that old line, who are you going to believe . Me or your lying eyes or me or your lying Grocery Store receipt or whatever. I dont know what the end game is here, particularly since it seems like its going to be very difficult to unwind this conflict that we now have, this economic conflict, hopefully not a noneconomic conflict that we have with china at this point. Everything that trump has been doing all to bluster is only causing china to dig in its heels. Its increasing National Sentiment within china and its going to make it much harder to extract the kind of concessions that we want, not only because trump is basically insulting china throughout all of this, but weve also alienated, of course, all the allies whose help we need in reigning in china including japan. Your lying Grocery Store receipt is the least popular Hank Williams song. Boris, the president also doing something unprecedented overseas, attacking democratic rival joe biden and invoking kim jongun to do it. I want to play people that sound and hear what the trump team how theyre defending it in japan. Kim jongun made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. He probably is based on his record. I think i agree with him on that. So boris, that is unprecedented for an american president to attack a rival in domestic politics by invoking a dictator. How is the trump Team Responding to the criticism of those comments . As usual, theyre standing by the president , effectively saying that joe biden has demonstrated, via his record, that he isnt the best thinker in history. President trump did so from the podium, talking about the iran nuclear deal, suggesting it was a huge failure. The president , though, seems to be swayed by foreign leaders injecting themselves into american politics. This isnt the only instance of this. Keep in mind that shinzo abe himself talked about the tax breaks that the Trump Administration passed in 2017 and how theyve greatly benefited certain parts of the country. It just so happens that he mentioned important swing states that went for President Trump in 2016. I think this is partly a way for foreign leaders to show President Trump that they like him, that they have his back, knowing full well that the president is going to turn around and defend what they say. Sam, you have worked with Vice President joe biden. On the idea that a president overseas would attack and insult a former Vice President , is this something biden will respond to . I think hes busy focusing on Campaign Messages and doesnt need to focus on donald trump. You have kim jongun criticisming President Trumps political rivals, Vladimir Putin criticizing democrats. Lets wait for him to Say Something about joe biden. Its all pretty clear why theyre doing it. These despots are trying to manipulate President Trump by criticizing his rivals because they want him in the oval office in 2020 onward. Hes been pretty good for him. Russia is misbehaving globally. Kim jongun is making more weapons. I think kim jongun wants to ride the trump train all the way through 2020 because its so good for kim jongun to have trump in the oval office. I dont know thats going to be a bumper sticker. I want to stick with you for one final question because of your expertise. Simultaneous with this trip to japan, the Trump Administration is ratcheting up the presence of troops in the middle east with an eye towards iran. Whats your read of the some 1,500 troops deployed to the middle east against the rhetoric. I think it may be the tip of the spear. These 1500 troops are largely for maintenance. I dont think theyre authorized for combat. Theyll probably be to help with the operations and maintenance. If trz keeps escalating countries with iran, policies, we need more troops he said in japan today all he wants is a nuclear deal with iran. He doesnt want regime change. We had a nuclear deal with iran. He violated it. The administration laid out 12 steps that iran lad to take to come back to the negotiating table. We have the president all the way from japan, addlibbing from the podium on iran policy while 1500 more americans are being deployed to the middle east because hes so irresponsible in what he says and does. Sam, kathryn, boris, thank you very much. We appreciate that. Six people are dead in oklahoma after several days of flooding, severe storms and tornadoes. A twisting striking this Mobile Home Park near Oklahoma City killing two people. Widespread destruction in the town of el reno. Cnns omar jimenez is live with more. Omar, tell us whats going on . Reporter john, were getting an upclose look at some of the destruction this morning. You can see the power the tornado had, classified as ef3, five being the most severe. It ran for two miles but only on the ground dpour minutes. You see how much it was able to destroy in four minutes. This used to be a hotel here alongside the highway in el reno, one of two points of emphasis crews have been focusing on, a hotel and Mobile Home Park where trailers were lifted up and slammed back down as well. There are a few telling things in this hotel. One, dumpsters now thrown into the second floor of this hotel. You see the force that has crashed through those walls there. Search and rescue efforts are over, is what the mayor tells me. You can see there are in some parts of the doors xs drawn so they dont go back on their efforts. You touched a little bit on this. Not just el reno affected over the course of this past week, statewide six people are dead due to Severe Weather and flooding weve seen over the course of the weekend. All 77 counts here in oklahoma under a state of emergency. Omar, thank you very much for showing us whats happening on the ground there. Meanwhile, 35yearold amanda eller was rescued this weekend 17 days after she got lost during a hike in hawaii. It came down to life and death and i had to choose, and i chose life. Well bring you more of her incredible survival story next. S arent actually in the room . Hey, that baker ladys on tv again. Shes not a baker. She wears that apron to sell insurance. Nobody knows why. Shes the progressive insurance lady. They cover pets if your owner gets into a car accident. Covers us with what . 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Surely his decision to say he will not work with the congress is the opposite of the stand that both president clinton and president nixon took when they were under investigations and impeachment. Most notably president clinton almost refused to talk about the investigation and simply talked about what he wanted to get done in congress. When he was under the senate trial, his state of the union was coming up. He said you have to delay it. He said, no, im going to deal with the problems of the country. It was a huge thing that was going on, but basically his Public Opinion polls went up because he showed the country he was dealing with the job and could compartmentalize. Even president nixon got a budget act through, a federal highway act through. He did lose his focus at one point, an extraordinary moment when he was giving his state of the union in 1974 in the midst of it all happening, and he meant to say we have to replace the discredited welfare system. Instead he said we have to replace the discredited president. So it was clearly on his mind. Needless to say, they thought it was better to do their job and let other people talk about it. President trump is the master of it all. Hes the one that wants to lead the band. It would be hard for him to cede this to someone else. Thats what you call a freudian slip from president nixon. You knew president johnson well, hes included in your book on leadership. He was the master of working with congress. He resuscitated jfks legislative agenda and passed mammoth legislation working with congress, working with congress and also working with republicans. You have a quote i want to throw up on screen for folks. There is but one way for a president to deal with congress, and that is continuously, inses antily and without interruption. How did johnson corral a congress including republicans to pass legislation at the time . I think what he meant by the incessant and incestuous was you have to Treat Congress like a family, like theyre over for you. He had congressmen over for dinner, in groups of 30s. Called hem at 6 00 a. M. , called a senator at 2 00 a. M. And said i was lying here looking at the ceiling hoping my president would call. The most important difference is congress was different then, bipartisanship was different there. Three out of four congressmen and senators who were veterans of world war ii and the korean war. They knew what it was like to have a common purpose that went across party lines. They werent racing home to raise money. Partisan lines werent drawn quite the same way. They cared about their institutions of the congress and senate. He could play on that and get civil rights, voting rights, medicare, medicaid. Extraordinary until the war cut into it. So important about the common purpose they had on this memorial day. How much of a peculiar situation were in is about the politial context trump is operating in . Hes a symptom of our polarized hyper partisan times. That dynamic is whats creating a president who is very popular within the base of his party, has enormous power within his party as a result but is not broadly popular with the american people. Therefore, things like impeachment proceedings as the founders might have mentioned wouldnt work in this circumstan