joins us to respond and to tell us why he s running for governor again. plus, it seems like the justice department under president trump secretly obtained reporters phone records. more on the washington post coming up. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson welcome to the week. well, the battle lines are getting sharper in the fight for the future of the republican party. donald trump has been working behind the scenes to banish people that he deemed disloyal. today, the washington post reported that congresswoman liz cheney, she s the chair of the house gop conference, has been working just as hard to keep the former president from being the face of the party. publicly she voted to impeach president trump and said that he has no place in the party. she also quietly organized an op-ed last fall among ten former defense secretaries. they warned the military to avoid getting involved in donald trump s election protests. now, the post
crist joins us to respond and to tell us why he s running for governor again. plus, it seems like the justice department under president trump secretly obtained reporters phone records. more on the washington post report coming up. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson welcome to the week. well, the battle lines are getting sharper in the fight for the future of the republican party. donald trump has been working behind the scenes to banish people that he deemed disloyal. today, the washington post reported that congresswoman liz cheney, she s the chair of the house gop conference, has been working just as hard to keep the former president from being the face of the party. publicly she voted to impeach president trump and said that he has no place in the party. she also quietly organized an op-ed last fall among ten former defense secretaries. they warned the military to avoid getting involved in donald trump s election protests.
they are conducting on whether or not republicans can be brought along in this process. on the republic side of things, the infrastructure road show rolls on to coastal virginia with how the president s spending proposals will benefit. he will speak at a community college. you have the vice president and cabinet secretaries getting in on the act later this week. lawmakers on capitol hill and add my straights here say this week will be pivotal while they have more negotiations to see if republicans can work with democrats on the physical infrastructure part of the president s proposal. all of that money aimed at revitaliing roads, railways, and more. they are going to reassess the approach of trying to bring along republicans. i m told the president views action as being more important than bipartisanship when it comes to transforming the social safety net. so garrett, can you pick up on this point? what are you hearing from your sources on the hill regarding whether or not
taking sharper hits against bloomberg. this is bulls and bears, we re glad you could join us, i am david asman, with us jonathan hoenig, krist kristina partsinevelos, and gary kaltbaum, bloomberg is not on ballot in nevada. will not create the kind of excitement and energy we need to have the voter turn out we must have to defeat donald trump. david: even though bloomberg is not on ballot in nevada, his democrat rivals like bernie sanders already targeting the democrat billionaire, bloomberg has been outlining plans to overall social security and proposal on minimum wage and paid family and se sick leave tt mimic those of other democrat candidates, but do they cancel out the direct attacks on his character. my big issue, i a i am waitig for someone in that party to talk about tax cuts not government, all i hear is government mandate, and government this and that. the government overseeing that, they let you get into as he puts riskless type things, i want something
all that and so much more on making money . . charles: president trump s big beautiful monster, phase one of a trade deal with china is officially in the books. it is a big win. we know now there will be big repercussions if beijing doesn t deliver on its promise. edward lawrence joins us from the white house to lay out more details of the agreement. edward? reporter: the report right here goes into effect in 30 days now but within 60 days, with a notice from either side this report can be canceled. u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer says this is a very detailed trade agreement. he says that it is a binding one, because every chapter starts with china shall follow through. now, every chapter again starts with that, key phrase there. now one of the key point in this, protecting intellectual property. the scope of that section is huge, according to u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer. he says that it deals with breaching of systems to take in intellectual pro