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This morning. good morning. thank you for being here. i want to get to those text messages and your response to the i.g. report in a moment, but first id like you to address some of the assertions that the president made this morning in this wide-ranging interview and press gaggle at the white house. so first on north korea, here is what the president said. when a reporter asked him about otto warmbier, the college student who died at the hands of the kim regime and the president has said hes go...

>> just remind people of what your ultimate goal is. you want stormy daniels to be able to speak freely. >> we want four things. we want the nda invalidated on the grounds that we claimed. >> so that she can speak freely. >> she can speak freely and also will not be threatened with millions of dollars in bogus damages if she does speak. so thats the first thing we want. we want the defamation claim against michael cohen to be decided in her favor and we want damages. we want the defamation claim...

The investigations were not impacted. so everyone is just going to accept that, i think. and let it lie from here. >> asha rangappa, to you as a former -- formerly working with the department, the president said to me, he said about the fbi, beginning of the fox interview, that he would have the best polling, i think we have it, the best polling possible, listen to this. >> i would bet if you took a poll in the fbi i would win that poll by more than anybody has ever won a poll. >> you were a for...

War. although, as everyone has pointed out this morning, theres nothing on paper that says that, theres nothing concrete that we know about as of this moment. the president said that details on verification are being worked out right now, poppy. >> abby, thank you. david chalian, our political director, back to you. just to be very clear here, and laura makes a good point, did the president even read the i.g.s report before making those assertions this morning. its very unclear to say the least....

Former presidential candidate, hillary clinton. and when you contrast that with the way they handled the so-called trump/russia collusion, no evidence for which i have yet seen, i think people will be astonished there with us this kind of bias in the federal bureau of investigation. >> bill: thats a loaded statement. >> and its a very aggressive accusation before we have seen whats in the report. im hoping people on both sides of the aisle can read it and focus on the facts and what we know and ...

>> that is the president revealing a concession to kim jong-un. stopping what he calls war games with south korea. the president holding court for more than an hour in the h historic summit meeting. lets bring in josh rogin and david rhode. david, when he talks about the war games which are joint military exercises with the democratic ally, south korea, he said south korea wasnt paying its fair share. this is a concession. no question he gave to the north koreans. >> it is enormous concession. i...

>> neil: all right. what happensn they first sit down? donald trump made news when he said within the first minute or so, i have a pretty good idea how things can go. dont laugh about it. a lot of people say in business, general life, we can size up someone almost that quickly. lieutenant colonel alan west here. he served in korea. thanks for taking the time. >> my pleasure, neil. >> neil: what do you make of it? you think you can size people up that quickly? >> i can tell you when i was a comma...

Personality. >> doesnt make sense. >> there was always the argument to be made republican voters especially in rural areas are voting against their own best interests. >> yes. >> but so many times you maybe have to connect. its obtuse argument. you have to connect point "a" to "b" to "c." >> he announces the tariffs on thursday and friday electrolux is pulling out. >> friday at 5:00 p.m. trump and trudeau are all smiles is there. shortly after that 10:00 a.m. yesterday president trump says hes g...

Charlie savage, you have written quite a bit about this in the "new york times." it does seem as though there is an emerging political consensus that the president shouldnt do this. there is more legal debate than i expected. >> good job asking him and getting him on the record on that by the way. paul ryan has a tendency to slip hype the bushes when trump and his extraordinary actions and assertions. >> he was pretty direct today. you are right. thats a good point. >> trump is feeling his oats ...

Acobsessed with crowd side and the embarrassment of a party no one wants to attend. >> the president announcing the eagles will not visit the white house tomorrow. >> reporter: fox news ran with the president false assertions showing photos of eagles players kneeling. but these players were praying, not protesting and fox later apologized. back at the celebration for america event, the president had to. he left roughly ten minutes after it began and refused to answer our questions. >> are you sa...