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
border and asylum granting is separate or is different, anyway. and a different conversation. a president who did not traffic in care ka tours and as you say rightly fight constant cultural battles, could ask for a moment of having a rationale debate about that, but trump has to deal with the world he created. he s not a just i can t believe i have to say this sentence out loud, to say that donald trump doesn t really engage new wa engage nuance is perhaps the greatest understatement one can imagine. i think that we re in a particularly difficult political time, obviously, made exacerbated by the way trump has weaponized almost everything in our national life. and so there s i think the reason he does it, if you ask for the reason because that s