Speaking on behalf of the administration on the message of that day. So in those instances, they feel like they dont need to have a press briefing. But as you and i both know, there have been many occasions where the president has a spray or something in the oval office, talks to reporters a little bit and they still have a press briefing. There are a number of questions that need to be asked, one of them being this daca issue. But wolf, as you saw early this morning, the president likes it when the news sort of fits his tailored message. That is why its no mystery, i guess, that he was defending Sinclair Broadcasting early this morning and going after news outlets like our own which, of course, like to ask those questions they dont want to answer at the press briefing. All right, jim, thank you. Jim acosta reporting from the white house. Were also following the progress of that caravan. The caravan, as its Accident Call as its being called, seek
asylum either in mexico or the United States. Leyla santiago is in mexico. Leyla, what else can you tell us about the movement of this group . Reporter lets talk about where they are right now, wolf. They are in wahaka, and thats about 200 miles south of the mexican border. Families, children, men from Central America now in mexico trying to make sense of this caravan. During this holy week in mexico, theyre usually talking about these sort of pilgrimages that have become so symbolic over the years as an annual tradition that many use it to make a statement. So in this group in particular, this group out of san diego, theyre getting a lot of attention because its quite a big group. Were talking about more than a thousand people who started in
chiap, right there in the southern part of mexico on the border with guatemala, and theyre making their way up. The goal for them is to raise awareness of these issues with the immigrants and whats happening right now from their Point Of View in Central America. And some, were told, will make it to the u. S. Mexico border, and they plan to seek asylum upon reaching there. When that exactly will happen, we know that organizers right now are in a meeting trying to decide what their next move will be. Still a little bit up in the air as to what theyre route will be and when they will arrive, wolf. Leyla santiago in mexico city, thank you. Joining us now to discuss this, diplomatic analyst john kirby. Senior analyst and political analyst and chief political analyst, gloria borger. The president spent a large part of the weekend meeting with some
of those dangerous reporters, some of them affiliated with fox news. Hes hearing what they have on their minds and its clearly reflected in some of the tweets and statements. It was kind of like a meeting in the fox green room, all these people coming to maralago to meet with him and to let him know his base was unhappy about immigration, mentioning ann coulter who had been tweeting about this, for example. Suddenly you see this flurry of tweets from the president. It seems to me that its really reflective of the fact that this is now Donald Trumps sort of version 2 taking over his own white house, bringing in people he feels comfortable with, who agree with him on everything, and listening to them. We know that Chief Of Staff jim kelly was not there with him thm weekend. So you can just imagine the peop
people. Everybody wants to get in on the daca bandwagon. Hes going on and on and on, molly. I want you to listen to what he said about daca, though, the dreamers in the past. Its a very tough subject. Were going to deal with daca with heart. This should be a bill of love. Truly, it should be a bill of love, and we can do that. Now hes walking away from that, hes saying its dead. It was already dead, to be clear. I think only in Donald Trumps mind was there still a deal on the table and some kind of negotiation happening. In the democrats mind, he walked away from that some time ago. But its true that in the past he seemed motivated primarily going back to his inauguration when he told dick durbin that he cared about these kids. Now you dont see that in his rhetoric. He seems to have just decided
that because this is a political matter that hes dissatisfied with, he is dropping it, and so and then going further and further on all these border controversies, calling for new Immigration Legislation that i dont think even has support from his own party in congress, and i think as gloria was saying, what john hill knows is the people who feeds the information to his mind, and when hes getting the information in his ear that are concerned with this kind of thing, thats what hell be saying. Hes also going after the Department Of Justice and the fbi, john. His latest tweet, quote, so sad that the department of Justice Justice is in quotes and the fbi are slow walking or not giving the unredacted documented requested by congress. An embarrassment to our country. Here he is accusing the department and the fbi of being an embarrassment to the United States. The real embarrassment is
this constant criticism to the fbi. Who the owner said, we have always worked up to the task. And when they were making copies of all those emails of Hillary Clinton, this was a timeconsuming bit of work to get through. But its sin. There are men and women across this country who have no other job than to protect and defend their fellow citizens. Hes walking a fine line because hes attacking the fbi, but he will say hes attacking leadership but not the hard. People in this country respect certain institutions. One of them is the justice department. The other one is the fbi. These are the. If he is continually attacking them and we know what thats ball, too. He nominated Jeff Sessions to be the attorney general, he views them as having betrayed him by not protecting him. In his view the only purpose of all of these people is to serve as his personal lawyers, his personal enforcers. Theyre doing their job according to what they view is the letter of the law. I spent time with Jeff Sessions in my profile last week in time magazine. The president s threats are starting to sound a little bit
months, the president and president putin not only talked about meeting, but the president invited him to come to the white house for a meeting. This comes at a time when they just dispelled. This is regress, hes becoming further isolated from the international community. It freight. Maybe there is the sense that he can be the good cop while everybody else can be the bad cop. I think that might be his thinking, im not sure. There is a vast difference between kim jongun and vladimir putin. I dont think the president is going to fight kim jongun to the white house. Im not defending it, im
just sort of trying to get into his mind. They will come after a series of presummit discussions. I would be pretty surprised if kim is invited to the white hou house. There is nobody who wants this more than vladimir putin, right . Its a huge political victory for the president to just sort of agree to things out of the. It looks like were getting taken advantage of. For that stunning video of local news anchors in the United States, reading a script of the conservative owner of thosely. Slapping the u. S. With nearly 3
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places like ohio where they actually do have a lot of pork production. These are states that the president did well in, but the farmers and others will be hurt as a result of these tariffs. The 3 billion that china announced today, thats only just the beginning if this continues. If you talk to trade experts, one of the things they talk about constantly is china is very good at targeting pain when it comes to its own tariffs. We could see even more of this. Next could be tech companies, other big things that the United States exports like airplanes. We could really see a broadening impact if this escalates on both sides. We are still waiting to see where the Trump Administration is actually going to put its tariffs on chinese products. And these chinese products, if theres huge tariffs coming into the United States, could involve u. S. Consumers having to pay more if they buy these products. Jeff bazos tweeted, only fools say the post office makes money without amazon. They lose a fortune. Lts talk a little bit about this tweet. Is it accurate . First off, it really depends on the way you view the relationship between the post office and amazon. Its true that some reports have found that amazon could pay more for what it gets from the Postal Service, but the Postal Service says that it makes money on its contracts with amazon. So this is a level of president ial involvement and negotiations weve never seen before. He wants to renegotiate the Postal Services contract with one company. He also said because amazon selling the lines directly to the customers screws them over. But some say they dont want to
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appeals process. Both sides agreed not to hear the appeal, though, until september. Zervos former attorney, gloria allred, withdrew from the case last week. More on that story coming up. President trump jumped to the defense of Sinclair Broadcasting on twitter this morning. So funny to watch the fake news networks, he writes, among the most dishonest groups of people i have ever dealt with, criticized Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased. Sinclair is far more superior to cnn and even more fake nbc, which is a total joke. A Promotion Campaign echoes the president s antifake News Campaign rhetoric. Our greatest responsibility is to serve our treasured communities. Eastern iowa communities. Mid michigan communities. We are concerned about trying to tell responsible, onesided stories. Lets discuss this with editor at large chris lizza. Hard to believe sinclair is doing this. They own Many Networks and theyre trying to force their employees to echo what trump says about the fake news community. I would remind people how big a deal local News Stations are. These are people that come into your home that are trusted every night. My parents watch the local news every night. I still remember the people, my local tv news anchor. This is a big deal. Take President Trump out of it for a second. A largescale media company, as you pointed out, of 170plus stations demanding that anchors across all of those stations
read a preprepared document, statement. Whatever that statement is should be a little bit concerning, particularly when it echoes what we know is one of Donald Trumps hobby horses which is the news is fake and people theres too much falsity out there. Whats false . Whats fake . Absolutely something local in National Television should cover. But allegations and then repeating this word for word i think is somewhat dangerous. They wrote this for the anchors to read, and if they didnt read it, they presumably feared they might be fired. I think people think the media, well, they can just say no. Sure, but ryan noble, who is a colleague of ours, who was a local anchor in virginia before coming to cnn, he said, these are peoples jobs. So there is a concern if they lose their job, they lose their ability to pay their mortgagemo
or send their kid to college. Thats why this is so insidious, i think, is when you make demands everyone says, they should just stand up and not read it. Well, if youre talking about your wellbeing, your livelihood, medicine, education, all those things that depend on you having a job, it puts these people in a very, very difficult position. Again, i just think the idea of making people who are a trusted news source in their local communities read something, unless that thing is whats President Trumps connection with sinclair . I think sinclair is a