with it but he doesn t have the support of his own party going into doing it so it isn t clear whether he s trying to put pressure on the negotiators or whether he s continuing to give a signal to his base. it has been about the base all along because of course it s not about border security since all sides are agreed on that. it s the symbolism of the wall. so it seems to me that s more signal making to the base than involved in the negotiation. three scenarios here, laura. how do you see it? national emergency gets dezplard a deal gets done or, got forbid another shut down?declared? a deal gets done or, got forbid another shut down? that s hard to predict, trump is hard to predict. the majority of the country opposes using a national emergency and trump has undermined his own ability to do that by waiting so long. the definition of an emergency, the point of an emergency is that you need to move quickly so if you ve waited weeks and start declaring one as a political
statement like manufacturing jobs didn t come through but that s not the point. maybe he meant the first in it 10 years, or multiplied by the four-year term all of that would be wrong. what i meant about holier than how the is we saw from the same trip the media speak in incredible terms that they were violating rules. all that wasn t true and yet newspaper outlets ran stories cover to cover saying it was. i hes tiitate to use the wor lie first it s clear whether what he said is false. but isn t clear whether he has no idea what he s talking about or telling bald face lies. he s been lying his entire life.
north korea with kim jong-un. we ll hear from angela merkel in the oval office in just a moment. the headline a little bit earlier with, who will win the west, with merkel and macron with the firebrand. look at the headlines for macron. macron seduces congress. lamont. macron points out differences between he and the president. despite the handshakes and kisses, macron knew he was going home and he was much more critical of trump. in the short term, he understands policy, but in the long term, it s insane. time will tell how this works out for macron, because it isn t clear whether his strategy with trump was ultimately successful, whether trump is going to feel burned by his comments on the way out.
it seems that every hour i keep telling people that it couldn t get worse. and yet every hour it does seem to get worse. number one this year, hurricane harvey. the numbers are staggering and still being counted. it s heart wrenching. > by some estimates it could be the most expensive natural disaster in u.s. history. category 4 storm with winds of 130 miles per hour just north of corpus christi. but the damage just began. houston especially hard hit with flooding. parts of the area saw over 50 inches of rain. beaumont picked up 26 inches in 24 hours. we ve been at it since 10:00 a.m. in the morning. paramedics and volunteers are carrying her through the waters. in the end, an incredible 27 trillion gallons of rain fell on texas and louisiana. over just six days. and that s it for me. the news continues with brianna
mow. fair enough. a lot of upkeep. queen or the queen? the queen. cnn correspondent melissa bell joins me now. that was pretty fun. of course, he s going to choose suits. the answer to the question, a reference, of course, to meghan markle. we know that prince harry is to marry her may 19th. this was a scoop for the bbc when this interview was shot back in september because of course, the former american president simply doesn t give that many interviews. although his successor s name was never mentioned it was fascinating to hear his take on issues such as the use of social media. there was a very clear dig at donald trump s use of social media since barack obama referred to the fact that civil discourse was being corroded, that it was important to find common spaces and harder to be cruel in real life than it was on twitter. although of course, he never