Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Important meeting because i never even heard that. As far as you know, this is all of it. This is everything. This is everything. All right. So who do you believe . Joining me now to break this down, former state Department Senior adviser. Paul butler, Professor Of Law at georgetown law school. Former fbi agent. Clint watts author of messing with the enemy. David k johnson and former watergate prosecutor. Wow, we just have an embarrassment of riches. Im going to go Around The Horn and talk about. Im going to start with you paul. Just on how this changes the legal case. Trump tower meeting. June 3. Donald trump jr. Gets email from Rob Goldstone saying moscow supports his fathers candidacy. He responded if its what you say it is, i love it. Trump junior and goldstone finalize a date. Same day trump teases this major speech. June 8 russian intelligence
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Enormous turn and that brought us to 24,265. These trade tariffs are widening a lot. It started with steel and aluminum. Its affecting a variety of products, everything from televisions and cigarettes to plastics. You name it. Porkrelated, beef products. Soy beans, an area that they didnt want to get into that theyre into. All of this was a big stepback moment to say its bad, its coming but maybe its not coming at all. This was crazy. Youre right. Boy, just as the opening bell rang this morning at 9 30, it was looking like we were going to have one of the worst days you could see on wall street. We were down 500 points like this. A couple of things happened after that. The aforementioned larry kudlow did an interview and he shade we
wouldnt see a trade war. The markets started to come back after that. There were technical factors at play. People in support levels, held up meaning that at a certain level in a market, whether its the Dow Jones Industrial average, maybe the nasdaq or the
Nine months away. There is a lot to talk about. Lets begin at the white house. Kelly odonnell, we are learning that rob porter, the Staff Secretary, accused of Domestic Violence by his exwives that he could be out as early as today, is that correct . Reporter thats our reporting and the issue is that rob porter offered his resignation and Sarah Huckabee sanders said there would be an extended time of transition, where he would be able to help facilitate a successor. That has changed in the sense that there has been a lot of controversy around this, a lot of attention drawn to the two former wives of rob porter. The statements they have made publicly alleging verbal abuse, physical abuse and Emotional Abuse and porter has said that these are smears. He has said that these are baseless allegations and a coordinated campaign against him. We saw a shift, in fact, that at first, members of the white house senior Team Including chiefofstaff john kelly were very supportive of porter and he
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Japan, they stopped all nuclear testing. They stopped nuclear research. They stopped rocketry, they stopped everything that you would want them to stop, and they blew up sites where they test and do the testing. And it was a great meeting. And kim jong un will turn down, and i will too, he will turn that country into a great successful country. And it let me you, let me tell you this. I gear and a half ago, nobody thought that was possible. In fact before i was elected, everyone assumed we were going to war. And remember i go into big stadiums like this that were packed. And by the way, you are very good at real estate. Did you see the thousands and thousands of people outside that will never be reported by the fake news, but the thousands of people that couldnt get in. Many thousands, they are all over. It would be great if the cameras could take a shot of the arena. [cheers and applause] so usually they dont do it, and usually i go home and my wife would say, i was the crowd. Well wh
They say that created an unknown factor. Other climates talk about the tax cuts for a sugar rush. They say its not clear if people will spend in the if youture as they did during the Second Quarter. President trump addressed the issue of sustainability. He predicted growth of 3 or better. Emphasis on better. Here is the president. In the Second Quarter of this year the United States economy grew at the amazing rate of 4. 1 . Ill say this right now and ill say it strongly. As the trade deals come in one by one well go higher than these numbers. So, neil, most economist if you look at on average what they expect they expect 2. 5 through the end of 2019. That eye higher than the 2 they have been tracking. These are the same economist. Yes, indeed. All right, thank you very much. Now to the remark the president made to sean. He thinks if you think this is off the charts how about eight or nine percent. He said he could do that by have the Trade Deficit that will have a benefit to the couns