coward and leave heidi the hell alone. just a little, you know, trip down memory lane for you. so when we watch these two share a stage tonight, what will happen? jim acosta certainly saw his fair share of that rivalry during the 2016 campaign. number one, great to see you in person. you, too. first of all, there s a lot of back and forth, lyin ted, and ted cruz push back, but at the end of the day, this is politics and these are two men who want to get things done. should we be that surprised? and apparently a few moments ago, the president, when he was on his way out to this rally in houston, he was asked about ted cruz and now he says ted cruz is beautiful ted, according to the pool reports that are coming out from the white house press corps who were there for this departure. listen, this is all politics, of course. i remember during the campaign when ted cruz was at the republican national convention, almost trying to slam the brakes on a donald trump nomination. but, you
this could be a trust building measure for north korea. international experts said the destruction of the specific site would not be regarded as a step toward denuclearization. it would mean that north korea no longer needed or wanted or planned to use that site. the topic of north korea is the subject that pompeo can work with north korea on or china, rather. he has gone from pyongyang to seoul to beijing. he has been meeting with his counterparts there. christine, it has been a trip which is off to an awkward start. the initial exchange included bold language for the pool reports in the room. this happened a week after vice president pence made a speech blasting china for trade practices and under mining the u.s. election and military aggression. weng, the chinese counterpart to secretary pompeo pushed back on those accusations, but both
successful as we ve seen them be so far, they re not going to provide more spending for more military devices and goals and agendas that the left feels like we already are overfunding. how did we get here? you go back and look, this was kind of a throwaway line in a speech the president delivered. now when he goes to these rallies, it is one of the lines that gets the most applause if you look at the white house pool reports. as i mentioned, you got the defense secretary questioning the need for this, why this is a priority here for the administration. what is your take on that? how does it come to life in the way that it has? i think there are two things. one, i mean russia and china are very active in space in terms of like missiles and just monitoring other countries. i think the president wants the u.s. to have a larger footprint somewhere out there. but i think also the president has consistently shown interest in communicating this tough guy image that his critics say is root
this a rather expensive political stunt on taxpayers dime. no one is questioning whether the vice president should be flying on air force two. that goes without saying, but what they are saying is whether they knew that they were going to do this ahead of time. you mentioned the president s tweet. about talking to the vice president and telling him to leave. also we know from pool reports there, the press was told stay in the vab van because the vice president won t be here very long, so the criticism is they knew what they were going to do going into this game, dana. thaupg so much. that s an important point. nobody is saying the vice president shouldn t go to a football game or you know, do some of the things that you know, they re going to do as citizens of this country. and yes, it just costs a lot more because they happen to need certain kind of plane. secret service, so on and so forth, but to renee s point, if
reince so strong, that didn t bother the pot and he didn t fight back and played into that notion the president had of being weak, unclear, you can understand why somebody like reince priebus after six months on the job might want the public to believe he resigned, obviously the writing was on the wall, it s hard to see somebody putting themselves on the pace of today, going on the plane, having to walk off the plane, as the president is fired via twitter. certainly the first fired over twitter and being in the motorcade, to be in his own van, leaving the motorcade before the president gets off the plane, an embarrassing final coda for reince priebus chief of staff. it didn t look very voluntary on the pool reports and the images we saw coming back from andrews. michael steele, all these guys from wisconsin this sort of one time very important powerful