A recap of the days news. Truth is a choose your own adventure kind of thing because he cant explain away the following fracts. So listen, write dedown if you have a pen, if you have your phone on record it. So the White House Counsel Don Mcgahn sat down for 30 hours of interviews with Robert Muellers team and the white house doesnt know exact lewhat he said. The fact that in a matter of days the president s former attorney and socalled fixer Michael Cohen could Face Criminal Charges related to possible fraud and Campaign Finance violations. The fact that former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort is on trial on charges that could land him behind bars for the rest of his life if convicted, and the fact that so far the special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought a total of 191 criminal charges against 35 defendants. There have been five guilty pleas. Those are the facts. That is truth. And the president cannot
distract and deflect from that. Facts matter. Now i want to bring in a man w
today what he is saying is that countries that don t meet their financial obligations to nato, their commitments he may not come to their defense, obviously that opens them up to attack. and that s what i m wondering. is this a situation where donald trump plays coy because he doesn t want to give an answer to a question coming from a reporter? i mean he asked would you commit if there s a country that is delinquent on these payments, would you commit to defend them if they were attacked, his answer being i m going to be discussing that today. it s an interest it s a very interesting question, isn t it, he says to the reporter. if it is just him being coy and this isn t a major statement would be we might not, what does it do? well, kate, again, this is a softball question. this is a signed treaty and this is the basis of our collective defense arrangement. when he makes this kind of noncommittal answer, he is opening up countries to threat, countries that don t meet their 2% obl
i also think hearing that statement from the president this morning, aside from china, is there another singular issue that could impact the trump economy in such a major way other than china in an election year. there are a lot of things i would argue the administration has done that affect the economy. some for better, some for worse, certainly the tax cuts have juiced markets at the very least. i don t think they ll have a huge long-lasting impact. letting this linger through an election year, i feel like this is could be the singular biggest issue that could impact the economy. you have farmers suffering, manufacturers who are suffering. we now have a farmer bailout that is twice the size of the auto bailout from ten years ago under obama that republicans opposed as you may recall. so there s a lot of sort of efforts at cleanup to try to buy off votes, i think, at this point but the real problem is that we have all of this
president s team will appeal this and just got a statement from jay seconkulow who said we believe it s invalid in light of the second circuit decision we re valua we re valuating our next decision. we have the subpoena that the grand jury in new york for tth the working with the manhattan district attorney s office that sent to trump s accounting firm for his taxes. that s up at the supreme court. there was another decision by a d.c. court appealing another subpoena to the firm and it s on its way to the supreme court. we are seeing the path but it s another critical step in this because that was another decision that had been waiting out there coming from the court. thanks, kara. still ahead, president trump is warning the u.s./china trade war could go beyond the 2020 election. and it s jolting markets already. that s ahead. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose.
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