A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. >> could trump's own policies undermine the economic uptick. white house economic adviser larry kudlow will be here in moments. healer in chief? we'll talk to a potential dark horse 2020 candidate with a history of bringing people together. >> you elected me to do the right thing, not the easy thing. >> former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu next. >> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is seemingly on two different tracks. there are now 100 days until the midterm elections and president trump is dealing with two different realities, positive economic news and also scandal and controversy including a messy public war with his former personal lawyer michael cohen. the feud between the president and his former fixer is heating up. late saturday night, one of the president's current attorneys, rudy giuliani, argued in an people, jake, don't run for office is because they don't like every single thing they've done in their lives put on "state of the union." here we are now. my guess is this is a riff that will continue. i'm not sure what the criminality is here. to me it doesn't look like it's criminal. when i step back and try to look at it objectively. and i think the president is frustrated because he's got a great economic plan going. he's got great things going on whether it's in north korea, the potentiality of a deal with the eu now. so this is one of those sidetracking things that has to be frustrating. >> i can understand that. you told cnn you thought michael cohen would remain loyal to the president. that was after, of course, the raid on his office and his hotel room. what do you think happened to change michael cohen's calculus? >> what i also did say is that the isolation strategy of michael cohen -- i've said that a couple of times publicly, is probably not the best strategy either. i'm not on the president's legal term. so i don't know what they're legally allowed to do and not allowed to do and i'm not exactly sure what michael is being targeted for. the president is indicating in a tweet yesterday it might be related to the medallions and the taxi cab licenses that michael had. so to me it's not clear what is absolutely going on. i think michael would probably say that he didn't leak the last piece related to the russian meeting. i'm not really exactly sure where that came from. but i don't like the crossfire. when you and i -- we have friends go back a long time and you see friends get in a disagreement, you say to yourself, gee, i wish these guys could put down their arms, recognize the longevity of their relationship and stop the back biting and infighting. lastly, doing it on i was in the campaign during that period of time. there was a major flurry of activity. you have to go back, jake, back to june of 2016 where one of the things that the campaign was worried about, and this is something paul manafort, frankly, was working on, is to make sure the president's electoral success state by state was going to be matched at the convention floor where we were counting delegates and we wanted to make sure there wasn't some kind of insurrection. so there was a massive amount of activity around that, very, very little activity away from that. you also have to remember, we were understaffed on that campaign, we were underfunded relative to secretary clinton's campaign as well. so to me it's very possible, and i take the president at his word, that he did not know about the meeting. >> but knowing what you know about president trump and how he runs things, you really find it credible that donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort would have had this meeting where they were going to get all this dirt allegedly on hillary clinton for him to use against her and they wouldn't have told him about it? that sounds credible to you? >> well, i think -- could he have known after the fact? i think that's possible. i think what donald trump jr. said last year, the meeting was about 20 minutes. they thought they were going in for one thing. it turned out to be a completely other thing. they shortly dismissed the meeting. so, yes, i do think it's possible. i think if you check sources inside the white house and check sources inside that campaign, the level of freneticism, it is very possible. you have to remember the president is an entrepreneur. one of the things that entrepreneurs do very well, they delegate to other people and create a lot of autonomy around them. one of the reasons why that campaign was so successful is that the president said, okay, paul has a job, jared has a job. everybody was in different positions. he's a guy that would delegate to people the way good entrepreneurs do. yes, i do think that's possible. i understand the pushback, why people think it isn't possible. but you have to understand, it was one meeting, and donald trump jr. said it was a meeting that was 20 minutes long. when you think about the totality of what was going on in the campaign, we're looking at it now with a microscope and the way we magnify and destroy ants, but back then it wasn't that big a deal. i take them at their word, also. >> anthony, you were the white house communications director for a few days and i know you wanted to improve relationships between the press and the white house, so i do want to ask you about this. this week the white house barred caitlin collins, an excellent reporter of ours, from attending the event after she asked, quote, inappropriate questions during the president's pool spray when he was meeting with the head of the european commission. as someone who wanted to improve relations, what's your take? are you okay with the way the white house handled this? >> what i would do -- listen, i think -- i don't know this for a fact. that probably came from the president. he likes to be respected. he was probably frustrated at that moment. what i would do in a situation like that, i'd pull a tape of questions that sam donaldson screamed at ronald reagan and go right through the last 30 years of pool reporters asking questions that presidents probably think are obnoxious or untoward or disrespectful questions and just point out that she was doing her job. so i understand that she was put in the penalty box. i would certainly recommend to my former colleagues that you take her out of the penalty box. i've said this consistently and i will continue to say this to anybody who listens, having a war declaration or having that level of antagonism with the president does not help the president, does not serve his interests going into the midterms or the elections. i understand the frustration and i understand his personality where he likes to punch back and be combative. what i think that also does, and i think you'll agree with me, it galvanizes the press vis-a-vis the white house. i was watching one of the press conferences where i think it was a gentleman from politico yielded to the woman from nbc. so what you're doing is you're starting to galvanize people against the white house, and it's a collective which i think is not in the best interest of the president. so, one, i don't like that decision. number two, it probably came from the president himself. so you sort of can't -- when you're getting told by the president to do a, b and c and you're sitting there saying, well, it may not be the best idea, i'm sure these people have strong enough personalities where they would tell him, look, it's not the best idea. but he probably wanted them to do it anyway. but i disagree with it, and i'm happy to talk about it. i'm happy to explain why. i think the best people around the president will always give him constructive coaching. it's not criticism. look, this is not in your best interest, long-term, removing caitlin from the pool, putting her in the penalty box, you're not getting the desired outcome. what is the desired outcome that people don't ask you those questions? 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>> i appreciate that they disagree, they often do. policies matter a lot, jake. i think the president deserves a victory lap. low tax rates, rolling back regulations, opening up energy, for example. trade reform which i think is already paying off with respect to the eu agreement we did last week. the fundamentals of the economy look really good. parsing through some of these numbers, the 4.1% quarter. inventory is very low. cap goods booming, business investment spending really booming. that's a productivity creator, that's a job creator, that's a wage creator for ordinary main street folks. terribly important. in fact, the saving rate was revised higher by $500 billion. that gives consumers plenty of ammunition. and as i say, as mr. trump has made it very clear that he intends to reward success, he's not trashing businesses, he wants people to take a rip at the ball. you're seeing the results of these new policies now. we've got five trump quarters, just under 3%, 2.9%. this was 4.1. the first half was 3.1. honestly, any reason why we can't run this for several quarters again in technical terms, rock bottom inventories and a capital goods investment boom, that's are strong factors. >> i want to get to both trade and the eu deal that you talked about. but before i do, i would be remiss if i didn't point out that this week the office of management and budget came out with a projection that the budget deficit will reach $1 trillion in 2019. that's $101 billion more than previously projected. republicans control the white house, the house, the senate. is president trump ever going to try to reduce the deficit? >> yes, yes, of course. look, the effects of this economic growth boom are going to be a major important factor to this. >> right now it's raising the deficit. right now the tax cuts are raising the deficit. sometimes in the short run, in order to invest in the economy, lower tax rates do yield lower revenues. i reckon it will take us a year, maybe 18 months to start turning that around. it's not unusual. i look at it as a good investment in america's future prosperity and healthy economy. >> ultimately you think it will be deficit neutral, if not reducing the deficit? >> some of the numbers i've seen -- heaven forbid, even the cbo, they're suggesting we already paid for two-thirds of the corporate tax cut. i think by the end of fiscal year '19, the corporate tax cut will be paid for. by 2020 it will be more than paid for. of course, we inherited a tough deficit situation. any time you have slow growth -- the prior administration had a very slow growth period. that really damages the budget deficit. >> they were coming off the great recession of 2008. >> by the way, i gave them that. i always have, but not eight years. that was the problem. they never got the snap-back we should have gotten. i don't want to waste time on those policies. you have a new sheriff in town. >> let's talk about the sheriff and his plans. >> i do want to say for mick mulvaney, our budget director and president trump, we are going to be tougher and tougher on spending. tougher and tougher on spending. that's part of the deficit calculation as you well know. i believe a combination of faster economic growth over the next bunch of years, jake, as well as much tougher on spending to get that deficit on down. >> let's talk about trade. before you became the president's top economic adviser you wrote, quote, tariff hikes are really tax hikes. the president tweeted this week in part, tariffs are the greatest. as a philosophical discussion, are tariffs great? >> you know, if they're targeted for good purpose as per china, i think the answer is absolutely yes. that's always been my view. most free traders agree china has not played by the rules and the trading system is broken largely because of them. i hope we get to our eu trade deal. let me say this. the president has adopted a view with which i completely agree. he's a free trader. and he wants to have no tariffs. >> no tariffs at all. >> and no nontariff barriers and no subsidies. that's a goal. i think that was part of our eu discussion. that's his view in general. that is also my view. so i think he's gaining -- this is a tough, hard thing to do. people say president trump's tariffs are damaging this, that and the other thing. i say don't blame president trump. he inherited a completely broken world trading system including a world trade organization, most particularly china, but not only china. he's trying to fix it. other u.s. presidents in both political parties, dems and republicans evenhanded, have never pushed the way he's pushing. he believes, and i agree, if we can work these things out and improve the trading system, it will be to the benefit of the united states economy, our exports, our farmers, our industry and, by the way, will probably help the rest of the world, too. got to give them a chance to get the policy in place. >> seems like people like farmers are giving them a chance. they say we want trade, not aid. >> i agree. >> they don't want that. they want open markets to sell their goods. >> so does potus on this. as i said, china is the worst offender. the point here, the deal we made with the european union is very important. >> let me talk about that specifically. >> and mexico is coming. >> let me talk about the eu because there is this deal on paper to agree. critics say that all that president trump accomplished with this deal were to get things that were already on the table as you know during the obama administration including negotiations on something our viewers may not have heard of, the ttip. take a look at what the president of the national foreign trade council said. quote, most of this deal is stuff we were already on the verge of agreeing on in the ttip negotiations before that deal got deep-sixed after trump's election. your comment? >> i'm not sure about that. i don't want to get hung up on that, the atlantic trading deal. there are a lot of issues with that. i don't even want to go back there. eu president and president trump got together and surprised probably almost everybody in the world and basically came to agreement on a number of key items. look, if the deal works through nicely, and it's going to be several stages, i don't think there will be steel tariffs for the european union. i don't think there will be automobile tariffs. i don't want to get ahead of it. >> that's not in the deal right now, but you're saying long term. >> was discussed. there was a line in this carefully crafted final statement that suggests that would be the case. europeans came, by the way, right at the top with an offer to purchase tons and tons of american soybeans. they don't have tariffs on them. they just said we will buy them from you. this is a contentious issue because of china's soybeans tariffs and to the point you made earlier, our farmers would prefer trade not aid but they've been stuck. i think soybean prices have already started to firm up in the commodity markets. they want a big lng deal, natural gas. the eu doesn't want to have to do business with russia. they'd rather do business with the usa. in fact, they suggested to us they would find ways and means to have us build or help them build pipelines for lng. these are all major steps forward. i wouldn't say it replicates anything because things have been a little bumpy. now all of a sudden we're on the right path. i like that very much. >> stay healthy. we need you back on the show soon. your friends and family love you and were worried about you. >> thank you very much. potential democratic dark horse weighs in next. russians have tried to interfere in one key senate race in missouri. could the u.s. power grid be next? 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>> it's a good number. we've had 93 months of growth since the great recession and president obama had four times economic growth. the long-term question are wages growing, are the right people getting the jobs, the resources, the job training? is american healing and moving together or moving in a different direction? the other thing, of course, you just had larry kudlow on saying trust me, it will sustain itself over time. likely the next quarter will be lower. we all hope it's higher. the elephant in the room is the trade war, whether or not the actions now taken by the president will undermine the great work everybody has done in the last couple years. all you have to do is listen to the farmers who, although some of them are still sticking with the president are sending the message that you're hurting me. the greatest indication that the tariffs are hurting is that they've had to put $12 billion in place to sustain it while the pain takes course. in louisiana we have a $6 billion export economy that will be hurt as well. you hope the trade war doesn't impact the economic growth we're seeing today. >> let's turn to some of the policy differences within the democratic party. last month i asked one of the most prominent possible 2020 candidates senator bernie sanders if i.c.e., the immigration organization, should be abolished. here is what the senator had to say. >> i think what we need is to create policies which deal with immigration in a rational way, and a rational way is not locking children up in detention centers or separating them from their mothers. >> so he refrained from saying i.c.e. should be abolished. by seven days later after elizabeth warren, kirsten gillibrand, kamala harris called on i.c.e. to be abolished, senator sanders came out and say he wants i.c.e. to be abolished. you said you don't want them abolished although you agree there need to be reforms. are you concerned about your party lurching to the left? >> i was the mayor of the city of new orleans, so having said that, i have always talked about governing from the middle. i'm what they call a radical centrist. there aren't many of us left anymore. it is really important for us to make sure that, if we are given the responsibility to govern, that we govern in a pragmatic way. i don't think abolishing i.c.e. is a good idea. primarily when police departments get out of the way, do the wrong thing, you don't say get rid of the police department, you reform the police department. we are, in fact, a nation of immigrants. we know that. we are a nation of laws. i think congress has been remiss in not passing comprehensive immigration reform. it has to be common sense, it has to be thoughtful and protect the border while at the same time making sure that everybody is dealt with in a constitutional way. i do believe very clearly that separating families from children was not a smart thing. it was a cruel thing. that really is not who we are. there's a much better way to do this. >> as a centrist, someone who believes in governing from the center, are you concerned to see the democratic party which you and your family have been proud members of for generations going to the left on a lot of issues? >> you'll see this with republicans and democrats. it happens every election cycle. the party will get tested from the left, the middle and the right. both parties are going to do that. that's going to happen to the democratic party, too. it's clear that president trump will be the nominee of the republican party. you will see a family fight on the democratic side. you see the party getting pulled to the left. you'll have people to the middle, to the right of the party. that's the way it's always going to be. if the democrats want to win, they have to govern responsibly, with common sense and think about what people in america want which is essentially to have a great opportunity and great responsibility and a better chance for themselves and for their kids. >> a recent quinnipiac poll found 65% of democratic voters believe if your party takes back the house in november, they should put impeachment of president trump on the table. what do numbers like that say about where the democratic party will go if you do take back the house? >> of course right now because the president is in office, the question is do you like him or don't you like him. he is the distinguishing factor between and amongst the people that say the nation is so divided. i come from a different perspective. i don't think the nation is as divided as we think it is. if you're on the ground in america on any day, people of different races, creeds, colors, religions are working together. that's really what americans most want. this impeachment talk in my opinion is premature. i think you have to let these investigations follow their course, let the lawyers do their job. and when there is evidence of something that significant, then you take that step. impeachment in a democracy is always the last resort, not the first resort. running towards that at this point in time in my opinion right now, based on what we know, is ill advised. >> it seems like all the energy in your party is with the progressive left. you saw the primary of alexandria cortez in new york. bernie sanders is still drawing huge crowds. is there a market for a centrist democrat like yourself when it comes to democratic primary voters? >> first of all, i'm not a candidate. i expect there will be other people that will occupy the right side of the democratic party and the center part of the democratic party. the bigger message for democrats long term is to do what the republicans are not doing which is to be a big ten party, to make sure everybody has room and we hear all these things. there's a tremendous amount of energy. you don't want to quell that. you want to increase it. you do want to forge it into something that's pragmatic and thoughtful and that can deliver for most of the american public. as you know, not everybody in the country is a democrat. there's a part that are democrats, a part that are independents and a part that are republicans. the president of the united states has to govern for the entire country. >> you say you're not a candidate. nobody is a candidate right now. a lot of the potential 2020 democrats are descending on your city for this progressive congress called net roots. you're not going to be there. should your supporters, should people want you to run take this as a sign that you're not going to get into the race at all? >> first of all, i don't intend to run. i've said that many, many -- >> nobody tends to run until they're running. >> that's absolutely true. when i decide to, i'll let you know. right now i'm not planning to do that. what i am planning to do is to talk and speak about the direction the country ought to go in, irrespective of whether i'm in the private or public sector. i wasn't invited. i didn't know the conference was going to be there at the time. that is what it is. it's not a sign of anything plus or minus. >> your book is great and congratulations on it. >> thank you. >> thank you for being here and we hope to have you back. >> we'll be back. >> good to see you, mr. mayor. it's a question some conservatives are starting to ask. even if the president was working with russia in 2016, so what? we'll tackle the next stage of the russia spin cycle in just a few moments. stay with us. >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. with safelite, you can see exactly when we'll be there. saving you time for what you love most. >> kids: whoa! >> kids vo: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ the kenya tea development agency is an organization that is owned by tea farmers. every week we sell this tea, we get paid in multiple accounts. we were looking for a bank to provide a safe and efficient technology platform to pay our farmers. citi was the only one that was able to ensure that this was done seamlessly. and today, at the touch of a button, all the farmers are able to get their money, pay school fees and improve their standard of living. with citi, we see a bright future for our farmers and their families. ♪ we are ready to invite president trump to moscow to be my guest. he has such an invitation. i have told him that and i'm ready to go to washington. >> president trump says he's open to accepting vladimir putin's invitation. we learned that russian military intelligence tried to hack into the computer of senator claire mccaskill and trying to get into the u.s. grid. my panel is with me now. congressman swalwell, you sit on the house intelligence committee. what does it say to you that while russia continues to attack the united states, whether claire mccaskill or the u.s. grids, that president trump is willing to have this meeting, whether putin coming to the white house or him going to moscow? >> sends a green light to the russians. they believe the president is more alined with them than he is with us. if they believe that, they'll keep doing that. intelligence officials don't have directives from this president to stop the interference campaign. it's on congress. if the executive isn't going to defend the country, our congressional leaders need to unite and say we're going to do all we can to protect the ballot box. >> where are the republicans on this? >> i think the one chance they had to rebuke the president on something firm that came out was what we learned happened in helsinki, when we learned president trump discussed the possibility of letting americans be interrogated by russian agents. once we got word of that, the senate has never moved so fast, instituted a resolution that passed 98-0 to say we're not going to do that. part of the problem is that no one knows what the president's agenda is when it comes to russia. when there's nothing firm to grasp onto, there's nothing firm to reject. >> let me turn the subject of, on russia, staying with russia but on the question of whether or not there was any help that the russians offered that was actually accepted by the trump campaign which is a charge the trump campaign has always denied. we haven't seen any evidence per se. but already we started to see this week a change in the conversation where members of congress and trump-friendly pundits are starting to say, even if they did do this, so what, it's no big deal. take a look at california republican congressman darrell issa who is retiring. >> if he's proven to have not told the whole truth about the fact that campaigns look for dirt and if someone offers it, you listen to them, nobody is going to be surprised. there are some things in politics that you just take for granted. >> wouldn't you be surprised? >> look, let's put a pin in that and go back to a couple things the congressman said. this administration has been pushing back on and fighting against interference -- the russians interfering in our elections since the get-go. just because the president didn't stand up and announce it -- they're going to continue to act. that's their job. bad guys are going to do bad things. the good guys on our side are stopping them, the nsa, cia, fbi -- >> and perhaps president trump should be talking about doing a joint cyber security campaign with the russians while they're hacking us. that's another bright line. >> why not? why not try to stop them from the inside? >> because they are inside. >> i don't know what information you guys have that i don't have that tells you what the fbi counterintelligence folks are doing overseas or what the cia is doing or the nsa is doing. you guys must have a lot more intelligence. >> i'd like to bring back the topic of some republican office holders and trump-friendly pundits changing the level now saying it's no big deal, so what if the russians did help the trump campaign. >> had it been president obama they would be running around like their hair is on fire. it's certainly a political double standard. all elected officials should care whether a foreign force, especially the russians, tried to hack and continue to try to hack into our voter system and not just what the russians are doing. what signal does it give to any other foreign power that if the united states of america, and i agree with the congressman, that congress needs to step up and do something to protect the integrity of our elections both on the foreign side, cyber warfare and also on the domestic side. since the help america vote act, we really have not made requisite investments into securing our system. >> i agree it is a big deal if they've done that. it is a big deal. you know what? let's see what the mueller investigation proves. >> if they offer information. >> you know what we do know about the mueller investigation? nothing to do with collusion, nothing to do with the russians. >> lying about meetings with russia. >> hold on for a second. >> the mueller investigation, the first person to go to trial, paul manafort, the mueller team, the government has said no evidence of collusion or anything to do with the russians. >> in that trial. >> that's the first part. that's the first part. who is the centerpiece of this grand piece of espionage? carter page? papadopoulos? who is the center? >> can we boil this -- it comes to two questions. did members of the trump campaign knowingly solicit stolen information. >> no. >> number two, was there any arrangement to set election help -- >> no. >> have you noticed your colleagues changing the bar saying, so what if there was? >> we should never allow that to take place. if a foreign adversary is offering i don't dirt, they want something in return. if you take it, you're compromised. president trump has never claimed to be a veracious reader. this week it sounded like he had taken a page from literature. stay with us. your all you can eat riblets. okay. enjoy. thanks. ♪ ♪ when i touch you like this ♪ and i hold you like that. ♪ it's so hard to believe ♪ but it's all coming back me. ♪ baby, baby, baby. ♪ if you touch me like this ♪ and when you hold me like that. ♪ all you can eat is back, baby. applebee's. eatin' good in the neighborhood. we carry flowers that signifyn why we want to end the disease. and we walk so that one day, there will be a white flower for alzheimer's first survivor. join the fight at alz.org/walk. ♪ ♪ your hair is so soft! did you use head and shoulders two in one? 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