Reagan. The repeal and replace obamacare act. Inpenetrable, physical,tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall. We will cancel every illegal obama executive order. But though republicans control the white house and both chambers of commerce, they have failed to pass any significant piece of legislation. The Obamacare Repeal republicans promised for seven years was yanked from the house floor. And the Treasury Secretary has pushed the deadline for tax reform from the summer to the end of the year. The president s one big accomplishment, the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was largely delivered by Senate Leader mitch mcconnell. In a new nbc news wall street journal poll, confidence has eroded. Even on the attributes where he performed best. Hes down by seven points since february on being firm and decisive, down six on changing Business As Usual in washington,
thats what we have the white house for. And joining me now, President Trumps Chief Of Staff reince prieb
This picture taken in march of 2016. The man circled in this photo is george papadopoulos, who pled guilty to lying about the fbi and his interactions with russians during the campaign. Also in this picture, if you widen it a little bit you see the Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who previously said he did not remember that meeting, but today. I do now recall that the march 2016 meeting at the trump hotel and mr. Papadopoulos attended, but have no clear recollection of the details of what he said at that meeting. In all of my testimony i can only do my best to answer your questions as i understand them and to the best of my memory. Martha chief National Correspondent ed henry live at the white house with the back story on todays big hearing. It also included some brandnew details about the clintons. Great to see you today. Accusations that i have ever lied. That is a lie. Let me be clear, i have at all times conducted myself honorably and in a manner consistent with the high standards
coming to a head. what happens with the amazon deal? for starters amazon i think the president has to be careful about calling out individual companies number one. having said that, i do think that there is an issue about dominance. every industry is getting afraid of big bad amazon because it s coming in disrupting that industry whether it s grocery stores or healthcare, insurance, you know, beyond. media. so i think this president has shown us that he doesn t like dominance whether it be dominance in terms of this at&t time warner deal and trying to figure out if they ll have a dominant position or media and amazon. i think there is risk in the president calling out individual companies. i don t think anybody wants to see that. bill: i m looking at the tariff fight and the tax reform deal that was passed. i m looking at the economy. i see an election seven months away. among those with whom you speak
defending him, saying there are no downstream effects here, only the president saving and defending steel and aluminum industries, as the president said, we can t have a country without those industry, and i believe that. matt? that s the same party that s been beating up nancy pelosi for her crumbs comment, you know, talking about the money that americans can have in their pocket because of the tax reform deal. pennies in this aluminum can, who cares. that s utter ignorance. there isn t anybody who studies economics who is, regardless of where they are, who believes you can sort of magically have imposed costs, not ripple throughout the economy and be more important than a single penny. downstream, every other industry, specifically the automobile industry will be affected by these tariffs. you can t have a country without an automobile industry either. reminds me a few years ago at the opening olympics ceremony, pounding these drums, that s a metaphor what china does. they are la
i don t know. maybe that s because that s all they ve talked about. dana: buss from the senate side leaving to take the republican senators up to the white house so that they can have a press conference and speech with president trump. juan, what happened for democrats if the economics don t bear out the way they think they will? will they end up not having anything to run on in 2018? the opposite thing. what you ve got here is a situation where the american people are able to put in their income, enter it into a computer and say, how do i come out in terms of this so called tax cut/tax reform deal? they see they re not getting very much. what they were promised was big tax cuts for working class, middle class americans and they re not the beneficiaries of most of this tax deal. as we know, 80% of this tax deal right now goes to the top 1%. more than that to the top 0.1%. dana: that s eight in ten