Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. In the white house. The first lady if President Trump would hammer his successes and tweet less about lebron and this off stuff, it would allow people to focus on what hes done and his administration have done well. Thats called an unforced error. The president is once again putting focus on that Trump Tower Meeting, potentially complicating legal matters for his son over the high level sitdown donald trump junior, jared kushner, and then Campaign Chair in his second week of his trial, Paul Manafort had with a kremlin linked lawyer and alleged Russian Intelligence Agency an oligarchs representative and an interpreter. Whats wrong with that . Well, lets look at the shifting story from the white house and the campaign. The New York Times first broke the news of the Trump Tower Meeting more than a year after it happened. Donald trump then released a
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the man is writing to help at risk children by opening doors for them was being attacked by the man who has put children at risk by locking them in cages. when i read that tweet, i was standing in line at acme, and i could hear him drop a mike from a thousand miles away. how is this a good strategy for the president? it s a terrible strategy. look, i think jonathan is right an building on what he said, i think when lebron james says he would not sit with donald trump, i think that got under his skin. he was clearly hate watching don lemon. look, the president is well, let me start with melania and ivanka. there s a lot of people around the president including his family who are very consumed or want to manage their public image. and the problem is and it s remarkable that president trump, they have to actually distance themselves and try to preserve their own reputation based on what their husband or their
president tweeted this over the weekend. this was a meeting to get information on an opponent. totally legal. and done all the time in politics. that would be true if you ignore the fact that this was a hostile foreign government that was trying to attack our elections. in various statements put out by both donald trump junior and the white house turned out to be lies. here s what i want to know. why? if the president of the united states and his campaign did absolutely nothing, why does the president and his son and the president s lawyer continue to change their storys? one said over time the facts developed. facts do not develop, sir. facts are facts. joining me now white house reporter robert acosta, and mimi. rob, donald trump was on a radio show that said this is a media
missing anything. this is an economic gibberish argument the president s making, and to the extent that people who are on the short end of the stick economically from that argument are nevertheless embracing what the president s doing, that is a leap of faith they re making for somebody they see as an ally on other issues, and sort of their trust they re trusting he has their best interest at heart. if you talk to economists, nobody thinks they re going to come out ahead through the policies which, in fact, are going to be destructive to the american economy, and destructive to many of the people who voted for donald trump. gosh, all right. well, josh, i want to ask you about your story from the ap. from last may to this may, 58.5% of job gains were in counties that voted for hillary clinton in 2016. and it s a similar story when it comes to job losses.
narrative. nothing ever changes. put this in perspective why it s a big deal. you have the court of public opinion that doesn t change, but in robert mueller s eyes, how is this different? because robert mueller didn t say anything over the weekend. the president did. because you have a president weighing in on an active investigation. the president is talking about the meeting with don junior and the russian lawyers in 2016 as we just discussed. the original response from the administration was that there was nothing to see here. there was about adoptions. the president eventually changed his story. so did donald trump junior. what s interesting about the timing of the president s tweets in response in a sense to the washington post s story about the ongoing scrutiny of this moment in 2016 is that the president has to make a decision soon. will he sit down with federal prosecutors and talk act that exchange on air force one? will he talk about his knowledge of the meeting with feder