Number. Com im more than liebermann at the pentagon. And this cnn welcome to our special ive read your former President Trumps historic Hush Money Criminal Trial. Im Briana Keeler in washington, Phil Mattingly is outside of court in new york where phil here on day seven of testimony, jurors were hearing from one of the most trusted members of trumps inner circle, hope hicks, of course, who was both a top aide on his 26th its team campaign. And in the white house when he was president and court of course now fill is just taking a lunch break, just Getting Started yeah thats right. Briana. But there have been a number of really critical moments over the course of the last several hours, we know who picks, had several phone calls with Michael Cohen, the trump lawyer who silhouetted the Stormy Daniels payment in the closing weeks of the 2016 campaign. And we know from a prior witness, hicks was on a called discussing the Karen Mcdougal payment . After Trump Took Office when hicks was then
Money in 2017 than they were in the year before. dagen: steel dynamics, record sales, record income, record shipments last year, even u.s. steel posting a profit last year. david: are you willing to punish the consumer that much for an industry that is not being punished that much from a growing economy? dagen: by the way holding up a can of soup or lecturing somebody about the cost of a six pack of beer, it s condescending. is this messaging so tone deaf because hope hicks isn t there anymore? i know she just resigned. but again, you ve got to think about the way this looks because that looked bad and it sounded worse. neil: bill, is there a way to fix this and make it right to address some of these trade inequities? the president is right about that. there are some disparities. how do we go about changing it? we talked about it before and
Again there s so much about this white house that often doesn t that doesn t sort of compute and there s a lot of questioning that comes with it. but i think you point to a question that we re trying to answer right now, the timing is odd and you re right. let me throw it to maya, would you allow me a little real talk? i m going to give you real talk. it s so perplexing, it seems like maybe people aren t telling us the whole story? oh, maybe a little white lie there? so, look, hope hicks isn t just close to trump, she was his nonfamily advisor on the campaign, one of the longest serving nonfamily advisors that he has had affiliated with him in the white house. so this is really actually quite shocking, and so from a political standpoint, the fact that there was no leak, that she was thinking about leaving before yesterday speak s volume. it s just the real talk here this is just straight up
A lot of people from direct access or the access they used to have with president trump. hope hicks isn t going to have that problem. jonathan, to that point, what is your understanding of the role that the chief of staff john kelly is playing these days to keep president trump from becoming unglued? well, i mean, i think it is similar to what it has always been, trying to get the president to focus on what he s supposed to focus on and do a little bit less of the random policy announcement. although we saw with the trade announcement this week, the president sort of busted through a lot of the advisers saying not to do it. if you look at the totality of the last few weeks, though, and the nothing is permanent in trump world if your last name isn t trump. but i think if you look at all of this, general kelly has consolidated power. what we have seen is a lot of people that went up against him lose. and sticking to trump world shlg kevin, we are seeing multiple reports of presid