Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Anybody else. That aint playing anymore, President Trump. Lets bring in kevin, the Chief Washington correspondent for bloomburg. Great to have you here on this sunday morning. Happy to be here. Your reaction to first lady melania trump. We are seeing an extraordinary moment in this presidency where the president s own family, those closest to him seem to be distancing himself from the controversial statements. The tichliming of the statementm melania, defending lebron james is right after the president lashed out with his strong criticism. It doesnt seem like a coincidence there. Ivanka trump breaking with her father over Family Separations and the criticism of the media. We are seeing those closest to the president publicly saying
backing the president or going to pull full support, but they are weighing in on the issues as sean correctly mentioned on an issue like immigration where ivanka is saying she disagrees
there s a difference between the political discussion and the criminal discussion in the courtroom. if, for example, donald trump jr. said, i never told my father about this and you have a witness who said i was standing there and saw him tell him, that s serious trouble. here, there s a disconnect in that donald trump jr. cannot testify about what somebody else, or in this case, his father knew. that s not within what a witness can do. the point is, if he said my father didn t know about it and michael cohen is saying, i m testifying the president did know about it, will somebody else? it s hard to say. in terms of the overall report, i can understand where the president would be concerned, this is difficult and tricky. looking at it globally, not so much in the legal weeds, you know, if he said he didn t know about it and there s toefd the
from this trial in terms of the extravagance of paul manafort s lifestyle. you know, i think that s typical, these details are typical of a high-profile litigation. they are trying to build a case against him and those details are only part of the case. shawn, kevin touched on this, rudy giuliani, the president s lawyer is working over the weekend to work on an interview with the president. what, really, should we expect to come out of this? i think the short answer is, we still don t know what they are going to decide in terms of allowing the president agreeing to meet with mueller s team. it s not clear that the president s team decided, ultimately, where they are going to come down on this. we have seen mixed signals. it s clear that the president wants to demonstrate he has not done anything wrong. we have heard him say that in public. it s clear the legal team knows they need to be careful about
let s bring back kevin and sean. kevin, i want to start with you this time. what did you hear by the responses by the congressmen? they want to win back the house. they have the enthusiasm gap. republicans would disagree with that assessment. the second point is, there is a battle, a moving battle for the leadership of the democratic party. house leader nancy pelosi is going to have to make her case, should democrats win, she deserves to hold on to that seat. look, ohio, ohio, ohio is a bell state. what are you hearing about the efforts for a new speaker? kevin makes a great point. this underscores the division in the democratic party and the factions that are competing for power. we talk about the republicans divisions between trump allies