To change the rules so they can confirm President Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court. Also today one week before turkey votes on whether to give president erdogan greater powers, we have a report from his hometown. They call it the weekend white house. Well take a look through the keyhole of tthe president ial retreat, mar a lago. Hello, i am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. It is day 77 of the Trump Presidency and a defining moment for this new administration. A short time ago, donald trump left a very rainy washington to fly down to his mar a lago resort in florida for his first meeting with chinese counterpart xijinping. Mr trump is already warning that it will be a very difficult meeting. The leaders will dine together this evening before formal talks begin on friday. President trump wants a better deal for America On Trade and more cooperation from beijing on north korea. But after candidate trump was so harsh on china, what kind of concessions can he get
A weeknight look at the news, featuring interviews, analysis and Panel Discussions hosted by Bret Baier. One concession, according to sources he has agreed to reduce his number of questions from pandas initial list of 49 and hes willing to accept some answers in writing, but others he still wants oral answers to. Sources say it talks continue but add there is a long way to go. Rudy giuliani told fox news his inclination is still to say no to an interview but President Trump wants him to keep talking with mueller. News of the mueller response followed a this morning in which President Trump criticized the investigation and strongest language yet. The president tweeting this is a terrible situation, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stay in our country any further. The white house was quick to proclaim he was airing his frustration, not telling Jeff Sessions what to do. Piece stating his opinion clearly and is expressing th
this is substantive, it s happening in affecting a lot of people. the proposal is now to float the idea on the next $200 billion of chinese goods up from 25% from 10%. there is a realization even by all of those at the table that china is a bad actor and the scope of china taking advantage of america on trade makes it difficult to come to any compromise. there is the president calling into rush limbaugh. president trump: our farmers they are great patriots. bret: he continued that thought to say that farmers are going to take it on the chin in the short term. this is real, they believe they can hold the line. it might be real, it s still a threat. he s put only a small dollar
about this leadup to the nato summit which will take place right before president trump s summit with president putin. it s promising to be very animated in the words of one official. they are concerned this will be a reprise of last year s summit or the g7 summit where he is lecturing that the narrative is that these europeans are fleecing america, whether it s on nato and not paying their fair share of the defense burden, or they are fleecing america on trade. so what they are concerned about is that the optics of having this very tense meeting with the europeans, with nato and then he goes on to have a very chummy meeting with vladimir putin and that will only help to kind of damage the unity of the alliance. that s what vladimir putin wants to do. it has been his goal is to divide nato.
announce that he s moving ahead with that deal. so there s some sense that countries will start to move around america on trade if america continues to take a hard line. that said, donald trump has not been entirely consistent on this message on tpp. he was very consistent during the campaign and then he gets here and has this interview with joe kernen on cnbc and this is what he had to say about the tpp. listen to this. i like bilateral because if you have a problem, you terminate. when you re in with many countries like with tpp, so you have 12 if we were in, you don t have that same you know, you don t have that same option. right. but somebody asked me the other day, would i do tpp. here s my answer, i ll give you a big story. i would do tpp if we had a much better deal than we had. we had a horrible deal. nafta is a horrible deal, we re renegotiating it. by may terminate nafta, i may not. we ll see what happens.