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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Someone broke into the house or drunk driving, he would be there in a minute, unquote. Now the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani is out there calling Michael Cohen a liar. Do you think Michael Cohen is a liar . Well, listen, theres certainly been a breach in the relationship. So when i said that, i meant that because i had known michael for ten years, known the president for a very long time and my guess was that they were very loyal to each other. When your house gets raided and your apartment and hotel room gets raided and you get jarred by the fbi, maybe that has changed now. The leaking of the tape and i listened to the tape. I think the president is trying to make the point and mayor giuliani is making the point that it seems like the tape was cut off, that there was more e dialogue there and the president thinks it was more favorable to
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the decision reportedly took the state department officials by surprise. what is the signal to you and this is the right move at this time? it was secretary pompeo at the right decision and reflects the fact that the president is finally accepting the reality that he did not get the breakthrough agreement in the clear commitment to denuclearization that he claimed he did at the singapore summit back in june. clearly the north koreans don t see denuclearization the same way we do. they are clearly demanding a lot more in return from the u.s. than kim jong un indicated in singapore and then reconsidering a strategy was the right move to make. they could be doing more and the trade war doesn t help encourage them to do that. the real problem is the president, to be frank, misjudged kim jong un unless if
sustainable 5% is possible? this is like baseball. batting averages matter. president obama averaged 1.9% growth. donald trump since he came to office, the economy has done 2.7, 2.8, his batting average is 40% higher. that is what we should be emphasizing. as i see the economy going forward of the trade war doesn t derail us we will continue to grow at 3%. we haven t seen that in two decades. that is terribly good news and that is what they should be running on. unfortunately mister trump is inclined to say the extreme. what economist he has in the white house which are few tend to come up with numbers to justify. a bad way to do economics. jillian: is he being extreme in these numbers he is helpful for