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things we're uncomfortable with, things the north koreans are uncomfortable with. hopefully, we see a denuclearizdenucleariz denuclearized verifiable north korea. >> you said the mueller probe has to be allowed to proceed and come to fruition. the president's lawyer rudy giuliani yesterday in his words said the special counsel needs to, quote, put up or shut up. do you agree? >> i would love to see this probe wrap up. it needs to wrap up after all the work is done. this has been over a year now in the making. it's really torn the country apart. there's been no evidence pointing to collusion. i'm looking at this saying, i want the special counsel to finish it because americans -- if this thing ends prematurely, it's going to be this division in our country going forward forever. it's going to cast a shadow everywhere. get the report. i'm sure he is not watching me right now. but if he is watching, i would say, let's wrap this up as fast as you can while doing all your
work, because time for america to deal with whatever it says and move forward as best we can. >> he does not have a television in his office. he is not watching right now. congressman, your colleagues in the senate, your colleagues in the senate yesterday blocked a democratic amendment that would have provided $250 million to ramp up election security ahead of the midterms. this would go to new voting equipment, cyber security efforts. in your side on the house, house democrats had tried to amend a bill last month for election security funding, $380 million worth. it would kick in october 1. you and your fellow republicans voted against that. i know you are concerned about election meddling. why oppose that? >> because it's a maneuver by the minority party to kill a bill. that's all it is. this is something, frankly, we did whether we were in the minority. the democrat dozs do it.
democracy. >> more money for it? okay. you said -- >> wherever it's necessary. >> you said in a recent interview on fox, people in congress or the senate or in other positions are scared to call him, meaning the president, out when he is incorrect. do you think too many of your fellow republicans right now are scared to call out the president because they see the polling numbers in the party and they say 88% of republicans are supportive of this president? >> i don't know -- i guess there's some fear. you tick off people that support you if you do it. i think what's incumbent on us as members of congress -- what i have said is i'm going to support the president in every way i can. i will oppose him when i must. i don't celebrate having to do that. i represent 700,000 people. my responsibility is to do what's right for the district. whether it's trade policy against specifically canada, mexico, europe, you have to be clear. at the same time, i'm going to
support the president. i wish him success. >> let's talk about something you asked this president to do. you sent a letter on july 13, two weeks ago, to the white house on syria. this is an issue for you as a veteran, as an american, as a representative that's incredibly important. you look at the civil war, more than 500,000 people killed, more than 50,000 children killed. you sent a letter to the white house two weeks ago. you called on them to establish more no-fly zones. have you gotten a response? if not, is the white house doing enough right now on the ground in syria and when it comes to initiatives like this? >> i haven't gotten a response that i know of. frankly, we need to do more in syria. i would say no. they have been very aggressive against isis. i have no complaints with the counter-isis plan. the president stepped that up massively. we have seen isis disbursed. my concern starting with the last administration is assad is killing so many people and
creating an environment that that's what is allowing these folks to radicalize because they are so angry and looking to the united states to help. in some cases, again, this started with president obama, both sides share some blame on this, we have ceded the area. it's difficult to do without a stronger commitment. i'm not talking massive military forces. a no-fly zone is easy. >> you brought up russia and iran in the letter. this was just after the president stood side by side with vladimir putin on stage in helsinki and said putin and russia could help the united states in syria. when the hear the president say something like that and you look at sort of who is aiding assad the most, how does that sit in your stomach? >> i don't like it. i have been very clear that russia does not have american good interests in mind. you think about -- a number of years ago we accidentally bombed a hospital in afghanistan.
we went through all these things to figure out why we did it. we held people accountable. the russians bomb three hospitals a day or three medical clinics a day. the idea that somehow the russians can be the miraculous savior of syria simply is unrealistic and wrong. in areas like this, the president is doing a lot of great stuff in foreign policy. but in areas i disagree, i have to be vocal about it. >> we have to go quickly. the president said with ru-- shutting down the government if he doesn't get the wall. would it be great for republican candidates? >> nope. >> thank you, congressman. i think that's the first actual one-word answer i have gotten from a lawmaker. i appreciate you being with me. the president's daughter
ivanka trump contradicted her father's attacks on the media. he called the media the enemy of the american people. she said, no, the media is not. hear more from her ahead. the president doubling down on his attacks towards one of his party's major donors. we are talking about the koch brothers. what's the strategy? urban meyer is on administrative leave. they are investigating whether he was aware of domestic violence allegations against a former assistant coach. duncan just protected his family
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over and over again. here is her response. >> i have to ask you, do you think that we're the enemy of the people? >> sorry? >> do you think we're the enemy of the people? >> no, i do not. are you looking for me to elaborate? >> sure. >> no, i don't. >> with me now earl lewis and paul callen. it's not funny at all when the president calls the press the enemy of the american people. ivanka said she was on a different page with her dad when she was asked about the family separation. she called it a low point. also warned of coyotes and other issues with children being
trafficked. look, this is -- she's out there more now as the new york types -- "the new york times" elaborated on this. >> this is by no mean -- this is not a big tent, shall we say. one of the tensions that's been running through the white house from the beginning was that she and her husband, jared kushner, se seemed to be in a different place than a lot of the workhorses of the trump administration. there are times when they are a little isolated. they can't be completely excluded, can't be fired, can't be removed. it helps the administration to have someone there. i would point out, in that exchange, it gets laughed off. she's on a different page than her father when it comes to this hot button phrase. underlying it is a serious issue. i don't know if she was given the right level of serious attention about what it means to have a president, even if it is her father, making those kinds
of comments. that's where the interview i would have hoped could have gone. >> followed up. paul, to you on mueller and the investigation and the different page that the president is on from his own legal team. the reporting in "the new york times" this morning really makes you believe this isn't just they are acting as they they are on different teams. the president does want to sit down with mueller, even though his lawyers are advising him against it. they write, in effect, he, being the president, believes he can convince the investigators for the special counsel of his belief that their own inquiry say witch hunt. what do you make of that? >> it's not surprising to me that the president would, in his own mind, think he could talk mueller out of investigating him. this is a possibility. i can tell you this. no lawyer will ever recommend to him that he should sit down and talk with mueller. i suspect in the end, the president will follow his lawyer's advice on something that might be as critical as
whether he survives the presidency. >> even if it means not sitting down at all? we know that mueller will give a little bit on the obstruction questions. but he still wants to ask some questions face to face with the president. if giuliani and the president's white house team can't stomach that, how does the president politically go out and tell voters and explain why he won't sit for an interview even though he says he did nothing wrong? >> politically, he has quite a lot of wiggle room, shall we say, a lot of leeway with his base to say things that are directly contradictory. he is in a great deal of danger if he goes in. whether or not they make agreement around obstruction, there's always this question about -- raising new issues and independently drawing new attention and new charges on oneself by giving false statements under oath. you cannot do that. it's a crime whether or not you
have formally been placed under oath to lie to federal officials. you can not l you cannot lie to the fbi. he doesn't want to etch poxpose himself to that. there are a lot of things you can't convince donald trump about. i think on this score, they can convince him that these people are hostile. one word out of place can lead to a catastrophically bad legal situation for him. you don't have to do it. >> this is someone who has been deposed before. he knows what it is like. >> he is a seasoned pro. he has had thousands of lawsuits against him. he has been through a lot. he is a master at giving vague answers that are sort of not prosecutable as perjury. he is up against a seasoned team of prosecutors here. if he lies, in the interview, h he has committed a new crime. he doesn't know if mueller has information that there isn't publicity about that they will
launch on him. that's what the lawyers are afraid of. >> on the manafort case, which is in day three in the federal courthouse in virginia, i thought the president might stay out of it. he chose to weigh in yesterday on twitter and said, why didn't the justice department tell me they were investigating my campaign chairman. it's obvious as to why they didn't tell him. his team is trying to get him out to do rallies and not focused on the manafort investigation. he is weighing in. what's your sense and your reporting on how much the american people care about this trial and how they see it as relating to the president or not? this is not a case -- this one -- about his work for the president. >> nevertheless, if you lay this on the watergate template that some of us older folks have lived through, this is around the time where the public actually does start to pay attention, where it starts to get big. it's one thing if some obscure papadopoulos or somebody gets charged. who was he? i never heard of him.
this was the campaign chairman, a force in american politics for decades. somebody who has an easy to understand story involving ostrich jackets and opulence. to have him possibly convicted of financial fraud involving foreign powers -- then we get into another trial. this is whethn the public will start to weigh in, realize there's something seriously wrong here. >> one other thing i wanted to scrum p in wi jump in on, i was looking at reporting in may about one of the original questions that prosecutors were going to ask the president. the question was, did you have any knowledge of paul manafort's outreach to the russians prior to the inauguration. i think there is still a potential for a tie to manafort in the mueller russia probe. >> his work for yanukovych, who was a russia puppet in ukraine.
this is very much tied to russia. thank you both very much. still to come, this could get very ugly. the president is threatening to double down on his tariffs with china. to double them. what does that mean for you and your pocketbook ahead? when i received the diagnoses,
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administration is considering doubling the size of the tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of chinese goods. this would mean that a 10% tax would go up to 25%. that would mean a lot of stuff. let's bring in christina leschi. >> this is classic trump. he is frustrated by the lack of a deal between the u.s. and china and those negotiations on a trade deal. he is ratcheting up the pressure in the hopes of getting china to the negotiating table. the problem is, this strategy of escalation hasn't worked. the first round of tariffs, china imposed tariffs on u.s. goods. yes, there was a pause on european cars -- tariffs on european cars. again, no deal. the question remains, where is this deal for the american worker? all we have are strongly worded
statements from china. overnight china saying it is actually repaprepared and force launch kaunt ekaunlte ecounterm. consumers and companies are caught in the middle of the fight. what's going to happen on the cost ofs go goods? >> a tariff is a tax. >> i don't want to make it sound like the strategy won't work. it hasn't worked yet. china's economy is taking a hit as a result of the -- >> it's a good point. i want to ask you about something that's really important and doesn't always make the headlines. that's the size of the deficit in the country. there's a warning on the news that it looks like the united states -- trump's own office of management and budget is saying,
we will run a trillion dollar plus deficit for the next four years. "the wall street journal" said it prompted the u.s. go increase its borrowing substantially. >> look, in the long term, deficits, can be detrimental. the u.s. can be in so much debt that it can't spend on anything else, including on medicare and medicaid. in the short term, most republicans or many of them who have traditionally, to your point, been deficit hawks do not see the political upside in standing up to this president whose policy seems to be spend, spend, spend, they think it's a good time to push for tax cuts, which they have been vying for. at this point when the president seems to be not caring about the
deficit. they are getting their way. the political upside of standing up to the president is not there. >> this is going to be deficit neutral, we're going to make it up. >> that is a subject for much debate. >> thank you. one of the biggest names in college football, urban meyer on leave. this as controversy grows around a former coach on his team. we will explain. at crowne plaza, we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we're all business, mostly.
ohio state places urban meyer on paid administrative leave as it investigates what he knew about domestic violence allegations against a former assistant coach. what's the latest? >> this bleacher report brought to you by ford. zach smith was fired last week after being served a civil protection order on behalf of his wife. they said urban meyer's wife knew about the alleged domestic violence. >> with shelly meyer being aware of everything going on and saying that she was going to have to tell urban, do you think he knows about all of this? >> i believe he does. >> did he ever directly talk to you about what was going on in your marriage or between you and zach? >> not the abuse.
he never spoke to me about the physical abuse. but he had made a couple comments to me. we had had a couple conversations, very brief, how are you doing, everything okay. >> the full interview is available on watchstadium.com. meyer says he knew about an incident, but that was 2009. he denies knowing anything about something happening more recently. he released a statement saying in part, quote, being on leave during this inquiry will facilitate its completion. this allows the team to conduct training camp with minimal distraction. ohio state says, quote, we are focused on spoupporting our players and getting to the truth. zach smith's attorney tells cnn once smith gets his chance to tell his side of the story, it will be corroborated by police. urban meyer has a $38.1 million buyout if he is fired without cause.
ryan day will act as the head coach while meyer is on paid leave. the season opener is september 1 versus oregon state. >> important they get to the bottom of who knew what when. coy, thank you. we are 96 days from the midterms. the president set to make a stop in a key swing state. we will talk about it next. it's the ford summer sales event and now is the best time to buy. man: (on tablet) preparing classic campfire trout. say what? trout. trout. alright. you don't think i need both? why does he have that axe? make summer go right with ford, america's best-selling brand. now get 0% financing for 72 months plus $1,000 ford credit bonus cash on a great selection of suvs. during the ford summer sales event, get our best offer of the season:
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president trump will do something tonight he has done three dozen times before. he will hold a rally in pennsylvania. a battleground state that voted blue in six presidential elections in a row before it went for trump narrowly in 2016. two former keystone state lawmakers are with me to talk about this. charlie dent served seven times in the house. rick santorum ran for president twice. no better voices to have on this. thanks for being with me. let's look big picture, congressman dent, to you. you say your party, republicans should look at pennsylvania and be alarmed at the way that independents are trending. why? >> i am concerned. i believe this election is going to be more about swinging independent voters in the bases. both bases are with their candidates. in my view, the democratic base is a bit angrier and more energized. that's because they are out of
power. i look at the swing voters, not just in pennsylvania but across the country. they tend not to be tending well for republicans right now. here we are again. this election is really more about us, the party in power, than about the party out of power. i would be very concerned about those swinging independent voters. >> senator santorum, the president goes to wilkes-barre, pennsylvania. he will stump for lou barletta who struggled. the polling has them about 15 points apart, him behind democrat senator bob casey. given trump's recent success, the governor race in florida and the swing towards desantis there, do you -- how do you like barletta's odds having the president come here? is this a fight the president should wage? >> absolutely. i think pennsylvania is very much in play in this election. while charlie is right in one respect, casey is doing well among democrats, you know, lou
could do better among republicans, in large part because he is not well-known outside of the region of the state he is from. bringing the president to campaign for him and giving lou some visibility will be a very good thing and solidify the republican base and closing the polls. i have seen polls that have this race closer. most of the polls have casey below 50%, which is not a great place for a democrat -- for any incumbent to be. >> the thing with desantis in florida is that he just went all things trump. he even has that new ad out that sort of is making fun of himself, teaching his kid how to build a wall with blocks. has lou barletta gone -- is he all things trump? >> certainly, ron desantis has gone in that direction. but i would caution people on that type of a campaign strategy. my friend rick santorum, his old seat, the one that went to connor lamb, a republican nominee in that seat said, i'm
trump, i'm trump's wing man. he lost the seat. i think the issue is in a again election, you have to demonstrate that you are somewhat independent of the executive. even if the people in your district or your state like the president, they do expect you to not be a rubber stamp. i think it's important they not get too close. i think that can boomerang. look what happened in southwestern pennsylvania in rick's old seat. >> what do you think, rick? >> it's a fine line you have to walk. you have to energize the republican base. lou barletta endorsed the president. he has been a trump guy. he did so on the issues, because lou has been very strong on the issue of immigration, very strong on the issue of trade and manufacturing. he is a blue collar conservative. i think that plays very well. if you look at the issue sets that lou is focused on, he is right on with the state of pennsylvania. to me, it's a matter of aligning
with trump on the issues. but again, i agree with charlie. you are representing the state of pennsylvania. you are not there to work for the administration. he has to show that he is an independent vote and he will fight for the people of the state. >> could the tariffs complicate all of that? >> did the what -- >> could the tariffs complicate all of that? >> i'm not catching that word. >> tariffs. tariffs. >> paris? i'm missing it. i'm sorry. >> i hope this makes it on "the daily show". >> trade, tariffs. >> oh, tariffs, i'm sorry. i have to work on my ear -- >> i wish we were talking about paris. >> i couldn't hear -- i apologize. the issue -- no, not in pennsylvania. agriculture, while it's important -- the agriculture tariffs that are the counter tariffs aren't that big of an impact this pennsylvania. the state there is still very
much a state that relies on manufacturing. the fact that the president is fighting -- i could tell you from my experience, particularly in the west where actually lou western pennsylvania, i think - lining up with the president on trade is absolutely the perfect thing to do. >> charlie, on the koch brothers, not coke, just so we're very clear here, fascinating reporting in "the new york times." charles koch takes on donald trump. both of your campaigns, you have received donations from the koch brothers. here is what "the new york times" writes. we know charles koch hates what the president has done on tariffs. he mr. koch and his organizations have struggled to find their place in a political party they barely recognize and whose
political fortune is now wedded, for better or worse, to mr. trump. >> he should separate out the pack and they have their own political enterprise that's separate. it's clear the koch organization is concerned about issues. they are concerned about trade. they are free traders. they want a more tolerant immigration policy. they are concerned about spending in the omnibus. they are concerned about re-authorization of the export/import. i was with them on two of the four issues. they are alarmed by the trade issue. i think that's motivating them. that's why they are not participating or actively participating in some of the senate races where republicans have a chance at beating democrats. the c they aren't going to endorse democrats. but they may feel taken for granted that they are expected to support the republican nominee regardless where he stands on any given issue that's important to them. >> they do still plan to spend $00 million in the midterms.
where the money is going or where it's not is hugely important. thank you, gentlemen. i wish you a nice weekend and a trip to paris soon, senator santorum. >> i'm going next week. maybe i had that on my mind. i'm sorry. >> it's clear, it would be on my mind as well. thank you. the administration just proposing a rule that would roll back federal limits on emission standards for cars and trucks. this will be a big fight. a group of attorney generals is gearing up to throw down in court. (vo) when bandits stole the lockbox from the wells fargo stagecoach, agent beekman was one step ahead of them. because he hid his customers' gold in a different box. and the bandits, well, they got rocks. we protected your money then and we're dedicated to helping protect it today. like alerting you to certain card activity we find suspicious. if it's not your purchase, we'll help you resolve it. it's a new day at wells fargo. but it's a lot like our first day.
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an obama administration rule, mandating that automakers make cars more fuel efficient. the government is saying this is all about safety. one reason for the change is that -- they also talk about making cars more affordable. this is tied together. let's go to nick watt. swift reaction from 20 attorneys general across the country. they will take this to court. >> absolutely. buckle up. this is going to be a rough ride. we heard from california's governor jerry brown who says this -- these are his words. california will fight this stupidity in every conceivable way. here is what happens. back in 2012, the obama administration set fuel efficiency standards for auto makers that could have ratcheted up when all automakers would have to have an average fuel efficiency of 50 miles per gallon. the trump administration is freezing those at the 2020
level, which is 43 miles per gallon. i will read a statement from the acting epa administrator to explain their rationale behind this. our proposal aims to strike the right regulatory balance based on the most recent information and create a 50 state solution that will enable americans to afford newer, safer vehicles that pollute less. they are still going to have these efficiency standards. they claim that if automakers don't have to meet these stringent standards, then cars will be cheaper, more people will buy new cars. therefore, more older, less safe cars will be off the road. that's their argument. opponents say, actually, if cars are going to be less fuel efficient, then we the consumers will pay more for gas. there's not really going to be a cost saving. we have heard from the auto alliance. they say, well, we urge california and the federal government to find a common sense solution that sets
increases while meeting the needs of american drivers. usa menti 20 states attorneys general are saying they will challenge this. california is going to challenge this. this, i've been told by one environmental activist, this may drag through the courts long after the trump administration has left the white house. >> i actually read that this takes it further, the trump administration rollback takes it further than the auto make hmare been asking for. >> they signed up to the obama era standards. those standards were reviewed in 2017. just before the obama administration left, they reviewed the standards to see if they were workable, if they were reachable. the conclusion was, yes, they are. everyone was on board. when the trump administration came in, they decided to re-open
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