as we see this splits. yes, let me walk you through donald trump s strategy over the next three days to do the ten state splits. we are calling that hillary clinton s blue firewall, the states of wisconsin and pennsylvania. that s one region and then you know donald trump has to be able to win the must-win florida and north carolina. if he does not win any of those states, this race is over. he has to be able to hone onto that. he wants to be able to go out to the west and see if he could pick off a state like colorado, for example, that helps him out. just to kind of show you then, you know, hillary clinton s
holds. pennsylvania is critical to that. michigan is critical to that. that s a reliably blue state and she will be here later today. and campaigning later on tonight with jay z, she s adding a stop this weekend. the polls are all tied up. she s battling for every vote and not taking any vote for granted, thomas. kristen, standby, lets go to our katy tur. this rhetoric tha
leaders in congress, are to pretend didn t happen. is that just mitch mcconnell s nature? what has to happen for something to get done? tell me what you saw when you watched the press conference today. reporter: well, mitch mcconnell knows when you re the leader, a party in the senate, you ll take shots. that s part of the job, a guy who takes incoming fire and allows your caucus to get things done. the two men appearing side-by-side today was politically smart or at least acknowledgement of political reality. their goals in most cases are the same and desperately need each other to get any of them done. on tax reform, they cannot have the same problems they had on health care. if they re sniping back and forth at each other day after day it s gawk to be that much more difficult to get done. you heard some of that today. the president praising mitch mcconnell. saying he s the guy to get it done on all of these issues and put a bunch of additional issues on mitch mcconnell s plate n
would the media like to hear mick mulvaney s report or would you find it extraordinarily boring and therefore not fit for camera? yes, please. would you like to hear it? yes, please. why don t we do this. we ll say grace afterwards. we are actually going t use that as an opportunity to take a bit of a break here. president trump there, weekly cabinet meeting, calling on his budget director mick mulvaney for a presentation. we will go back when the president starts to take some questions there from reporters who have assembled in the room. craig melvin here once again from mcallen, texas. you heard president trump there going on a bit about the economy, going on a bit about the bad hand he has been dealt with regards to iran, with regards to north korea as well, and, of course, with regards to mexico. all of this coming just less than a day really after president trump did an about-face on his policy of separating children from their parents as they illegally try to
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release her first book of photography. it s cold of love and war. that s it for today. have a great week and we will see you next fox news sunday . i am thrilled to announce that in the second quarter of this year, the united states economy grew at the amazing rate of 4.1 percent. if economic growth continues at this pace, the united states economy will double in size. more than 10 years faster than it would have under either president bush or obama. paul: welcome to the journal editorial report . i am paul gigot.
that was president trump taking a victory lap on the news that the u.s. economy grew at a robust rate at 4.1 percent in the second quarter. the fastest pace in almost 4 years. here with a look at what s behind that acceleration is - - chair of the white house council of economic advisory. nice to see you. 4.1 percent. economists predicted 4.4, as you look at the details of the report. what do you like in it? it goes back to a piece i wrote a while back that corporat
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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
washington. i m elizabeth prann. leland: i m trying to figure out a saturday that wasn t busy in recent memory. nice to be with you. i m leland vittert. it s the weekend, but president trump is getting ready for the election mode. we have endorsements for republicans ahead of primary elections this year and new details for the president s plan for hitting the campaign trail for some g.o.p. candidates in vulnerable districts around the country. ellison barber travelling with the president up in new jersey at his golf club. hi, ellison. hey, leland, president trump has spent a lot of time on the road of late. he s set to head to tampa on tuesday for a campaign rally there. traditionally in election mid term years, the party, no matter who it is, whoever is in the oval office, their party tends to lose seats, but president trump says he is confident that this year republicans can buck that trend. i am going to work very hard. i ll go six or seven days a week
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which i imagine mueller i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him. it would involve something that actually wasn t settled even to this day. what s the conflict in. i have a good idea what it is. it s one that would have kept me out the investigation. all cleared up? add to that this. giuliani is not sure that collusion with russia that collusion with russia, if it happened, is a crime anyway. is this the definition now of moving the goalposts? regardless of goalpost moving, why then is the president spending so much time and at every turn will say that no collusion happened with russia if it s now not a big deal and not a problem? again, all cleared up? as far as michael cohen, the president s attorney says cohen doctored the tapes of his conversations with the president, says their experts agree. now what? abby phillip is at the white house. i would not fault anyone if their head was spinning today
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chairman, paul manafort. he has pleaded not guilty, but here s why this really matters. the first trial to come out of the mueller investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards robert mueller really has. and as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although we ve heard that one before. right now the president s not happy with mueller. donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the justice department has shot down. let s go to the white house with nbc s kristen welker, here to get us started. rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no? reporter: it was striking, hallie, to hear rudy guil
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levelling at robert mueller. it s much more personal than it has been in the past. the president used to sort of question the genesis of the mueller investigation, suggested there were a lot of conflicts of interest among his team. now he s really going after mueller. this is of a piece with a decision that we re told will be coming very soon in which the president and his legal team are likely to say and there s always a chance it could be different but we re told they are likely to say that there will be no interview with robert mueller. the president has got the final say, but there s pretty much unaminomt. there was question that i was going to ask at the press conference had i been called on. the two people that were called on did not bring it up. there s reasons why, a multitude of reasons why the president s attorneys believe that he should not sit down with him. first and foremost, they believe
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eric: let s go to chicago. andrew, how do we know this claim is true as giuliani claims someone fiddled with the tape. i don t think anyone knows whether the tape has been fiddled with. i wouldn t put anything past him. even if these tapes prove to be admissible, they still have major problems. the tapes aren t complete. it s apparently a tape of a tape. and you have big segments of the tape that can t be heard. remember there is still nothing illegal that was discussed in those tapes. i realize why everybody likes it. we have the president of the united states talking about a payoff to a playboy model that never took place. it appears mr. trump says
something so exclusive with his client. that s a breach. then releasing this information to cnn to try to make the president look bad. it doesn t matter if the president waived the i have with respect to these tapes or conversations. you can t put these tapes out to people to try to embarrass your client.