phone call, what phone call? that is the response from the chinese foreign ministry after president trump claimed that hopes for a trade deal with china had improved because chinese leaders had called the u.s. to restart trade talks. stocks are continuing to rise after that news. so what about that deal? what about the call? cnn white house reporter sarah west wood joins us now. has the white house presented any evidence that such a communication took place? reporter: not so far, jim. and president trump is still creating a lot of confusion around that phone call, which may or may not have ever actually happened. so first, during a bilateral meeting between president trump and the president of e gist, president trump said that china had called and asked to go back to the negotiating table. then in another bilateral meeting later in the day he seemed to imply that that phone call came from the vice premier
right. no, it is the base. that is what happened. the base is what has rebelled here. he gist reversed himself. that is a victory for nancy pelosi and it will be perceived as such. trump lost the battle so he has to win the war and get something out of an emergency declaration. with us now democratic congresswoman dina titus from the infrastructure committee thank you for being with us, representative and well you ve reached the end here, haven t you. members of congress getting what they wanted, most of them all of the democrats and many republicans here the question is what can get done in the next 20 days will we see some sort of state of emergency at the end of this? nobody wants it. well i don t think the president is going to be able to shut down government again he did it in a fit of peak for 30 days and nothing was accomplished we re right back where we started except for many people were put in harm s way, couldn t pay their bills, didn t know what the future h
where did they ve get that from? where do they get that headline from. just think about it. jim comey this is a guy who never memorialized any conversation with barack obama. he never did with loretta lynch. even though he now says loretta lynch was conflicted. it was only from day one with donald trump. that meeting to me is very fishy. jim clapper, i and most of my republican colleagues believe is the one that actually leaked the existence of the meeting to cnn. but, why would comey have. laura: how do you know that? why do you think that? based off the intelligence committee what they were able to come up with and they allude to it in their report. but that s just the inference i make. i think he was the guy. now, here s the deal, comey acknowledges that it s not news worthy at the time they needed a hook. what does he do? he gist them the hook. so either him and clapper knew this together or maybe he was acting at clapper s suggestion. but he provided the hook for that to go
russian efforts to compromise him. where door they get that from? where do they get that headline from. just think about it. jim comey this is a guy who never memorialized any wufertion with barack obama. he never did with loretta lynch. even though he now says loretta lynch was conflicted. it was only from day one with donald trump. that meeting to me is very fishy. jim clapper, i and most of my republican colleagues believe is the one that actually leaked the existence of the meeting to cnn. but, why would comey have. laura: how do you know that? why do you think that? based off the intelligence committee what they were able to come up with and they allude to it in their report. but, that s just out inference i make. i have think he was the guy. now, here s the deal, comey acknowledges that it s not news worthy at the time they needed a hook. what does he do? he gist them the hook. so either him and clapper knew this together or maybe he was acting at clapper s suggestion. but
brian: if she gist the speech she has to provide her own security perhaps. steve: how can they say they don t protect her. brian: what if they don t send security there. steve: if the president of the united states would go to berkeley, you would imagine that s a significant security envelope around him. why don t they give her of the same thing. ainsley: so she can speak. the university is there they have to protect their students. they don t want all of that mayhem. they don t want glass shattered. so i understand their perspective but if it s truly just to prevent a conservative from speaking, then that s a totally different issue. steve: keep in mind that same university where m milo went a couple months ago if u.k. berkeley does not alieu free speech and practices violence on people with different point of view, no federal funds. remember that? brian: a lot of parents are deciding this week where their kids are going to go to school. so why would you, if you are part of the people