America. Up first, pomp, pageantry and political insults. President trump beginning his state visit to the uk by getting into a war of words with the mayor of london and trying to walk back calling the duchess of sussex nasty. Ahead of the visit the president spoke with the spoke about the domestic issues of brexit, saying to walk away if british officials dont get the brexit deal that they want. Pamela brown is traveling with the president. Tell us, pam are a, whats unfolded so far. Reporter certainly been a stately welcome, brianna, for President Trump and first lady melania. Its also been filled with a little bit of controversy as you pointed out. Theres been a war of words between President Trump and the mayor here in london, President Trump tweeting about the mayor saying he was foolishly stupid, something to that effect as he was landing here in london, but if the royal family was bothered at all by this, they certainly didnt show it. They were very welcoming to President Trump and the first lady here as they arrived on the helicopter. Prince charles, his wife camila greeted them, and later they were able to meet with the queen, had a lunch at Buckingham Palace and President Trump looked really engaged as they looked at royal artifacts and from there they went to Westminster Abbey and laid a wreath and had tea at Clarence House and then, of course, this evening theres a state banquet where the president will be attending with his children and also prince harry will be there. The person who is not going to be there is, of course, meghan markle, his wife on maternity leave, and as you know as weve been talking about just recently, the president called her nasty in response to a reporter who told him about the critical comments she had made about President Trump in 2016. Now the president had then denied he called her nasty even after theres audio of that, but, again, the royal family isnt showing that they are bothered at all, though it is worth noting that prince harry kept his distance from the president today. We didnt see the two talking at all, so all of this is playing out, brianna, against this backdrop of a country that really is in political turmoil right now. Its grappling with its identity it is a figures out what to do with pulling out of eu. As you know the Prime Minister theresa may will be stepping aside in just a couple of days, and the president himself breaking with protocol and weighing in on all of this in a recent interview. The president said that if the uk doesnt get the deal that it wants with the eu, it should just leave, that there should be Nodeal Brexit which will have a tremendous impact on businesses as well as trade, so theres really a lot going on during this trip. Yes, this is a state visit. Only third u. S. President to be afforded the honor of a state visit by the kweerngs an outstanding invitation for a couple of years, but at the same time there is this tenuous time right now here in the uk and the president will be meeting with the Prime Minister theresa may tomorrow. Brianna . Pamela, thank you so much for that report from london. Next hour the president and the first lady will return from Buckingham Palace for a state banquet. White house reporter kate bennett is outside of Buckingham Palace for all of this, and that is trip, kate, that involves a lot of pomp and circumstance it is a always does, and it appears today so far that the president is actually sticking to protocol. Reporter it does. He seems to have not made the gaffe he made last summer when they went to windsor palace and he walked ahead of the queen while inspecting the troops. Seemed like they okay today. Of course, all eyes are on the first couple. Melania trump actually studies up pretty hard for these sorts of trips, brianna. She meets with her staff and the Protocol Team with the state department making sure weeks in advance everything is done right and handled appropriately and titles are bestowed properly. These are the tricky moments with the first lady and the queen, of course. The queen has been hosting first ladies all the way back to Jackie Kennedy and has been a guest at the white house and many, many played itties from Michelle Obama who put her arm around her to barbara bush who asked hear question, many first ladies have felt that near vows moment of meeting the queen, and i dont think melania is any different. A few moments where we caught her laughing and smiling and holding on to the hat in the wind with camila and the queen seems very relaxed as she often is on the global stage. Shes done a lot of planning. Tomorrow night when they reciprocate the state dinner she was planning it back to washington, the seating arrangements, the china, the whole menu, everything, so shes definitely part of todays activities and keeping an eye on the president , too, i would imagine. The banquet tonight real seems ripe for awkward moments. The president has had an encounter and has been around prince harry, and the president , of course, called his wife the duchess of suction ses nasty, and he says he didnt, and if thats not a sticky wicket, kate, im not sure what it is. I mean, i think certainly it is, and we have to remember, harry met melania back in 2017 in canada, so they kind of knew each other ahead of time and today prince harry walked a lot with ivanka and hang back a bit and maybe that helped with the tension. Tonight its going to be interesting with young royals with Prince William and kate with the younger trumps, the Adult Children of donald trump who are also on this trip, who have decided to come along and join the president and their stepmother Melania Trump for this event and dinner tonight and tomorrow night and well see Tiffany Trump who we dont usually she. Well see done jr. And eric trump and their interactions with the royal family should be interesting as well. Yeah. I think it was not you know, we anticipate that had prince hair and the president wouldnt be so buddy buddy today considering the head lines recent days with meghan markle. Certainly they seemed to keep their distance. Prince hair lagging behind and spending more time with ivanka so well see how that plays out, too. Very interesting visual. Kate ben net landon, thank you. The unit king sdom in a state of disarray as britain is planning on exiting the european union. Ten downing street tried to stop the president from meeting with top brexit supporters. The Prime Ministers office brushed this off saying who the president meets during his visit is a matter for him and keep inminute the support set to meet theresa may tomorrow. We have anne berry with us, and youve been up on this. Why would this be a problem for trump to meet with the men vying for theresa mays job . I think its an unusual situation to have a for leader weighing in at a moment of time when youve got the unit kingdom extremely conflicted about how to have a path forward. I think the controversy is more around the protocol as opposed to the substance of what those meetings entail. Its worth remembering that theresa may is lame duck Prime Minister at this point so the president meeting with her is part of the pomp and circumstance that weve seen on this trip, but its very unclear that anything substantive can come out of this meeting with her or other candidates standing to replace her. Also weighed in ahead of the trip saying that britain should walk away if they dont get what they want from the eu. Why is that something that really sticks out to you . Well, i think its interesting because it supports taking a very hard stance on what is an incredibly complicated issue, and at this point in time youve got experts within with the uk who very explicitly said a Nodeal Brexit is the worst possible outcome for the british economy and the bank of england came out last year and said that could lead to a recession as bad as what we saw after the financial cries so the idea of setting precedent in the United States could come out and support an action to lead to such dire consequences for one before its biggest allies is by many a big mistake. We saw the president trading insults with londons mayor and watching that play out yesterday wasnt as surprising because they have a long history but a lot of political british leaders declined the i invitation to dinner tonight and the president was not invited to speak at parliament. Jeremy corbyn declined to participate and thats extremely unorthodox and when you look at what that means in the grand scheme of things between the relationship between the uk and u. S. , that special relationship transcends any one set of individuals. I think youve seen that the way the royal family has continued to comport itself throughout the early part of the visit with theresa may meeting with the president despite the fact that shes out going and this trip is real befriendship and collaboration between two countries and nations rather than friendships between two individual politicians. Thanks for being with us. President trumps soninlaw and Senior AdviserJared Kushner, he bombed side stepping questions about the Birther Movement as well as russian interference in the allegations. He was trying to defend President Trump about allegations of racism and refused to discuss one of his fatherinlaws most rates of acts. Was birtherism racist . Look, i wasnt really involved in that. I know you werent. It was racist . Like i said, i wasnt involved in that. I know you werent. Was it rates of . Look, i know who the president is, and ive not seen anything in him that is racist, so, again, i was not involved in that. Did you wish that he wouldnt do that . I was not involved in that. That was a long time ago. The other issue that often gets brought up in this conversation is that he campaigned on ban is muslims. Would you describe that as religiously bigoted. Look, i think the president did his campaign the way he did his campaign. He did, do you wish he didnt make that speech . I think hes here today and i think hes doing a lot of great things for the country and thats what im proud of. Chief political analyst Gloria Borger is here with us. I mean, not only what did you think that have answer, but it was the interplay of the question and the answer. Well, the question kept coming do you wish he didnt do it. Because he said hes not safeties. Thats what Jared Kushner is saying. Hes not rates of, okay. And and you werent involved. Okay. We get that, but, what do you think of it . You know, what do you say . Completely evasive. And and i think kushner was trying very hard not to answer the question directly which he refused to answer. I wasnt involved in that. Its not real an answer. When somebody is asking you a direct question, what do you think about birtherism . What do you think about your fatherinlaw saying that barack obama wasnt born in the United States . It was racist . Well, i wasnt involved in that. Thats not the question. And its germane because even if he was not involved in that. Of course. He is there almost as a character witness when it comes to racism for his fatherinlaw. Always. So those questions are completely fair game, the followup less. Theres a character question on a lot of issues whether it comes to the muslim ban or whatever. When youre a Senior Adviser to the president and youre asked a question like that, you dont get a pass because oh, im his soninlaw and i dont want to get him angry at me and i think thats what was going on. He knew if he had answered the question by saying, yeah, i think it was inappropriate, i mean, to use a weasel word, but i think it was inappropriate, which would not be Strong Enough obviously, but even if he had said that, he would have been in trouble at 1600 pennsylvania avenue so he wasnt going to do it, and i think his answer was offensive, incomplete, whatever you want to call it will. All kinds of sglings yeah. There are so many moments and one of them is when Jared Kushner would not say whether he would alert fbi if there was a meeting request from russia, there is a was was the Infamous Trump tower meeting and downmade significance. I shoipd at the meeting, 15 minutes, its a clown show. Let me finish this. I text and said can i get me a call, let me get out of here, this is a waste of time. I never would have thought about that meeting again. Had there been something nefarious at that meeting that came up maybe we would have done Something Different but the meeting was a total waste of. Does it not set off at least some alarm bell when you see an email that the russian government wants to the email that i got on my iphone at the time said show up at 4 00. I never would have thought about if. Had russia in the subject line. I would get about 250 emails a day so i literally showed up at 4 00, i showed up at 4 00. Would you call the fbi if it happened again . We were not given anything that was salacious. Hard to do hypotheticals. What does that tell you . Why is it hard . It seems pretty easy. What does that tell but his concern its not a hypothetical and heres, why because the Intel Community says that russia continues to meddle in american elections. Right. Going to keep doing it in 2020. This is ongoing, and this has happened before with the request from russia. What does that tell but his level concern . Well, remember, he also gave another interview in which he downplayed and dismissed russian interference as a few facebook ads, remember, that and im looking what the bob mueller said last week wand when he said there were multiple systematic efforts to interfere in our allegation and that allegation deserves the attention of every american, he was talking about the russians and when Jared Kushner who doesnt know as much about this as mueller. Im assuming he might have read the Mueller Report would say, you know, i dont know if i would alert the fbi . What . Somebody from russia says that they have got dirt on an opponent and you wouldnt say would i go to the general counsel of the campaign and pick up the phone and let the general counsel deal with it . Is there a Lesson Learned here . Hes concerned about it looking like he did something wrong. Thats right. That the meeting was wrong. Of course, and what hes thinking about in his own head is his own legal culpability here and the fact that he has always said that he didnt know what the meeting was about. You just heard that i didnt scroll down on my email. I showed up. It was ridiculous. There was nothing there, but thats not the point. The point wasnt that the meeting turned out to be nothing. The point was that they took the meeting. Correct. And that is the problem and why not say, look, if we had to do it all over again, i think wed call the general counsel, by the way, don mcgahn. I think we would call the began counsel and say they didnt go too far and hes still worried about his own legal issues. Its not so hard to say that, you know, maybe we made an innocent mistake and we should done it differently, and i wouldnt have attended the meeting, but none of that. None that have. Gloria, thank you so much. Sure. 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