Relations committee. We are happy that conversation is taking place. We need china to lead that. And the president s tweets made it more difficult for diplomacy to work. The we know the only reasonable solution for north korea crisis is through the diplomacy and the president s tweets make that more challenging. Harris is this story advances past the midday point, we are looking for information on what the tweet meant. Is it part of policy or learned . Reporter it is a clearest indication that the president frankly doesnt care how a lot of people perceive his bombast and white house officials argue that peyongchang flaunted International Norms for decades and along the line fleecing the u. S. , russia and china under the threat of war. This is it the president saying bombast work and thats what they are going to get. To be sure, this administration has been able to point to victories as it relates to north korea policy in addition to supporting the new dialogue with the south and north
It was after he was sworn in . Yes, after the inauguration. I spent about three hours with the president over the course of the campaign and in the white house. My window into donald trump is is pretty significant. Harris wolffs remarks follow a fiery tweet from the president where he gives a nickname to steve bannon who supplied quotes, he tweeted this, i authorized zero access to the white house and turned him down for the author of the phony book. Full of lies and misrepresentations and sources that dont exist. Look at this guys past and what happens to him and sloppy cs. Kevin cork joins us live. As you could well imagine, white house officials are following the lead of their boss, theyre pushing back forcefully against the book and its content and particularly the work of Michael Wolff. The president has posted tweets talking about bannon. The latest, the president sending out this one, the mercer family, which in case you dont know, thats the big financial backer for the bannon e
And the joint chiefs of staff and our military, which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world and has been greatly enhanced recently as you all know is ready if necessary. Harris at a hearing on capitol hill where secretary of state mike pompeo testified, the top democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee bob menendez took a jab at the administration. The art of diplomacy is harder than the art of the deal and the reality is when you talk about a libyan model, i dont know what type of messages you are sending at the end of the day. It didnt work well for gaddafi. Harris the president has called in some of the press pool in the oval office. We were joking with each other when we got the call for the event that was supposed to be closed. Oh, the summit is back on. That is not what its about. The president will announce pardon of a famous boxer jack johnson. Also in attendance will be sylvester stallone, wilder, lennox lewis and maybe other heavyweight champions there as
Email setting up that meeting and he doesnt know when the president and his team learned of the email. When it comes to questions about President Trumps involvement in a july 8, 2017, statement about that controversial meeting trump jr. Seemed to suggest he was somewhat involved through former White House Communications director hope hicks. In a july state he told the New York Times the meeting with the russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was about russian adoption. He did not mention the fact he agreed to the meeting after a british publicist named Rob Goldstone told him the person had information that might hurt Hillary Clintons campaign. Washington post reported that trump dictated this on air force one. When asked if it was correct trump jr. Said i dont know. He was asked if he provided any edits to the statement and trump jr. Said he may have commented through hope hicks. Do you know if the comments were incorporated to the final statement . Trump jr. , i believe some may have be