Would the media like to hear Mick Mulvaneys report or would you find it extraordinarily boring and therefore not fit for camera . Yes, please. Would you like to hear it . Yes, please. Why dont we do this. Well say grace afterwards. We are actually going t use that as an opportunity to take a bit of a break here. President trump there, weekly cabinet meeting, calling on his Budget Director Mick Mulvaney for a presentation. We will go back when the president starts to take some questions there from reporters who have assembled in the room. Craig melvin here once again from mcallen, texas. You heard President Trump there going on a bit about the economy, going on a bit about the bad hand he has been dealt with regards to iran, with regards to north korea as well, and, of course, with regards to mexico. All of this coming just less than a day really after President Trump did an aboutface on his Policy Of Separating children from their parents as they illegally try to
cross the border here
all right. president trump in, weekly cabinet meeting. taking a few questions from a handful of the assembled reporters. let me go back to peter alexander for a moment here, peter, the question that i did not hear asked and i haven t heard i haven t heard an explanation yet, correct me if i m wrong, but the administration has yet to explain how it is that the president was able to sign an executive order reversing essentialla policy decision that was announced by his attorney general just a few months ago, how is he able to sign that order when for the better part of the past week, he s said several times that he couldn t do it by executive order, his homeland security secretary said essentially the