A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Could trumps own policies undermine the economic uptick. White house economic adviser larry kudlow will be here in moments. Healer in chief . Well talk to a potential dark horse 2020 candidate with a history of bringing people together. You elected me to do the right thing, not the easy thing. Former new orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu next. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is seemingly on two different tracks. There are now 100 days until the midterm elections and President Trump is dealing with two different realities, positive Economic News and also scandal and controversy including a messy public war with his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. The feud between the president and his former fixer is heating up. Late saturday night, one of the president s current attorneys, rudy giuliani, argued in an
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that is also my view. so i think he s gaining this is a tough, hard thing to do. people say president trump s tariffs are damaging this, that and the other thing. i say don t blame president trump. he inherited a completely broken world trading system including a world trade organization, most particularly china, but not only china. he s trying to fix it. other u.s. presidents in both political parties, dems and republicans evenhanded, have never pushed the way he s pushing. he believes, and i agree, if we can work these things out and improve the trading system, it will be to the benefit of the united states economy, our exports, our farmers, our industry and, by the way, will probably help the rest of the world, too. got to give them a chance to get the policy in place. seems like people like farmers are giving them a chance. they say we want trade, not aid. i agree. they don t want that.