A motion filed today. Were going to see what that means. Constitute epa administrator, scott pruitt, be the next Trump Administration official to be shown the door . Well see why the president is angry with him tonight. A lot to talk about in the hour ahead. Fareed zakaria, host of Cnns Fareed Zakaria gps. First full week without hope hicks by his side, the president on a tirade, airing grievances about news networks, amazon, nafta, the u. S. Justice department, democrats, mexico, news, the news business. Hes busy. What do you make of it . Well, you know at some point you stop getting surprised by donald trump. You stop getting surprised by how many things to point out. I read this open before about him going on a weekend twitter tie rate how many times . And the scattershot approach. The bizarre aspects of criticizing elements of his own administration. Acting like a spectator as if hes not the most powerful person in the government. Doing things that are borderline kind of extralegal, like singling out a particular company. But you know, the larger question you asked in the open is the real one which is, is there an issue with american credibility when the president of the United States does this . Lets remember that every president , republican or democrat, the one thing they have been very careful about is their words. There has been a sense that the United States, the president speaks with the credibility of the most powerful country in the history of the world. And now you have a president for whom words are weightless. They are like this kind of ghost. So he just pushes them out there, they mean nothing, he can change what he thinks about them. And if you ask does it have an effect on american credibility, lets remember what the criticism of barack obama was on that famous red line in syria. The criticism was that barack obama said the president of syria, if he did certain things, would probably need to go. And then he didnt quite follow through on that, even though he did in a complicated way, making a deal with the russians. That was supposed to be the thing that eviscerated american credibility. Trump every day says he says hes going to rain fire and fury on north korea like the world has never seen. Then he says, i love kim jongun, im going to get together with him, solve this problem. He says the chinese are raping america, then he says xi jinping is my best friend. He says the saudis are the most heinous regime in the world, only to make it his first stop and embrace the king and say, i love this man. Your head spins with the degree to which theres kind of the whole thing is like a circus. And i just again want to remind us, barack obama was supposed to have cheapened american credibility because of that one sentence, wasnt completely fulfilled to its entirety. I mean, what were watching now is a circus. Its not a president tial administration. Heres the dilemma. If this was a child or a poorly acting relative or friend or acquaintance or neighbor, wed just ignore them. The problem is, hes the president of the United States. And so especially as maybe most of the country is ignoring it or supporters are saying, all right, well, you know. I dont want to see that, thats a part of him i dont like. But you cant ignore it as a news organization. Because what the president says should account for something. And he says a lot. Well, it has to account for something. Because a lot of Public Policy echos the words of a president , it suggests what your legislative agenda is going to be. For example, tariffs. A good example. Ever since the smoot holly tariffs when the congress in the 1920s and 30s legislated terrible protectionist tariffs that screwed up the economy, congress basically said to the administration, you do tariffs, were going to take the back seat. So the president has enormous power to begin a trade war, to initiate it, to escalate it. And so what President Trump says on trade and tariffs could get us into a trade war because he is the authority on it. Look at the stock market. The stock market, how the chinese are reacting, how other countries are reacting. So yeah, its very important to understand theres a reason why american president s, republicans and democrats, have chosen their words very carefully. So theres been a lot of departures in the white house. Secretary mattis is the only one theyre saying hes the only adult in the room left. How does this bode for a chaotic administration by any objective standard, chaotic and not normal . The most impressive thing about mattis for me is you remember that moment when trump summoned his cabinet, and he essentially got them each to engage in this kind of bizarre act of almost dear leaderlike praise where each one was explaining how trump was the greatest thing in the world, it was an honor to serve him, they were fulfilling i think priebus said it was like fulfilling his religious duty to god by serving donald trump. Mattis is the only guy who said, i am proud to be serving the american people, and thank you for that opportunity. So he even then understood that his role was really a larger one to serve the country. The tap we have him there is frankly so comforting in a moment when we are in a complicated situation with north korea, with iran, with syria. You know, who knows what would happen if you had somebody like mike flynn, a guy who salutes and jumps when trump tells him to, when trump got into a bad mood with kim jongun, which will happen. For now, i hate to scare you, but for now, you say the fact that we have him there. You never know, let hope he remains the adult in the room and stays there to handle the situation. I want to ask you about it. Today the white house ordered the state department to freeze 200 million in recovery funds to syria following remarks that President Trump made last week, watch this. Were knocking the hell out of isis. Well be coming out of syria like very soon. Let the other people take care of it now. Very soon, very soon were coming out. So the president said that troops will be coming out. Cnn is reporting today the u. S. Military is planning to send dozens of additional troops to northern syria. How do you interpret these mixed messages to syria . You know, the thing about trump ive often thought is he cant really hide his basic intentions and inclin nations. What you saw to me was a little heartening. Trump has always been something of an isolationist. He criticized the iraq war, why the hell are we in the middle east . And for many people who worried that trump seemed to be because he wants to be a tough guy, he was bombing more, he was sending bigger bombs, escalated the mission in afghanistan. To me thats the real trump. Trump really does not want to be engaged in the middle east. And thank god. Because i think a more activist, macho trump who wants to teach those guys a lesson would be much more scary than a slightly inconsistent guy who at the end of the day his gut seems to be lets get the hell out of there. Ill take that. You mentioned flynn. What would it be like to have someone like that helping him make decisions. Can we talk about john bolton . Hes the new National Security adviser, known as a hawk. Hes advocated for years, advocated war with north korea, with iran, cyber war with russia. Im just wondering what kind of influence you expect him to have on the president with these hot spots. Its very worrying. The National Security adviser is the essentially the man the president sees first in the morning, last in the evening. He is the gatekeeper through whom all influence comes. Hes the guy who shapes the options the president has. And as you say, john bolton is beyond left and right, really. John bolton is probably within the Foreign Policy establishment of the United States over the last 30 years, the most extreme hawk who exists. He has been in favor of an unprovoked war against north korea. I mean, thats a very important point to make. This is not an argument that theyre building up and it seems that theyre beginning to threaten to use icbms on the United States so they should act, no. He argues the United States should go to war unprovoked against a country 10,000 miles away, which would devastate americas credibility, stability there, what it would do to our relations with china, not to mention the fact that north korea now has Nuclear Weapons and could escalate. To have somebody like that in a situation with the president himself has a very, very thin grasp of International Affairs is very worrying. And again, as i say, this is what makes me think that general mattis is the most important person in the American Government right now, and if hes thinking of resigning, i think we should all take out petitions asking him to stay. Two weeks ago i was asking guesses, you think the president and kim will meet . You i have to ask, you think the president and putin will meet . Of course. Heres the simplest way to think about it, don. Hes a tv star. At heart. What do you think he wants to do . This would be payperview. You could sell tickets for this, right . I mean, hes going to meet with kim, hes going to meet with putin, hes going to meet with all these people, because ultimately its all about the tension donald trump can command for himself. With putin and kim, you could do payperview. This is ali frasier rumble in the jungle. Always a pleasure, thank you. Tune into Fareed Zakaria gps sunday. Lawyers for the president moving to force the Stormy Daniels case behind closed doors, do they have a shot . Vo gopis found a way to keep her receipts tidy, even when nothing else is. Brand vo snap and sort your expenses with quickbooks and find, on average, 4,340 in tax savings. Quickbooks. Backing you. If yor crohns symptoms are holding you back, and your Current Treatment hasnt worked well enough, it may be time for a change. Ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohns. Entyvio works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. Infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. Entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. Pml, a rare, serious, potentially fatal brain infection caused by a virus may be possible. 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The ironic thing about this, theyre asking the court to send this back to private arbitration. Stormy daniels for all practical purposes has already told her story. Everything short of what may be the extension message or the photograph her lawyer keeps teasing may exist, weve heard her entire story. I have to keep asking myself, i and i think the American Public some ask, why does donald trump care so much . Why does his lawyer join in this motion to refer to matter to private arbitration . If he continues to insist that nothing happened, that this is a fabricated story, seems to me he would want to be transparent and have this discussed publicly. Because it didnt happen, according to him. So hes making great efforts to keep something private that he alleges didnt happen. And thats mysterious. Well, that is a veg question. Im sure Michael Avenatti i want to ask you whats your reason . I think hes trying to make precedent here. I think this cat is already out of the bag, trains left the station, whatever. But i think he understands that if this happens here, everyone else with a confidentiality provision and agreement he may have made could go on 60 minutes and do the same thing without anything happening to them. You forgot genies out of the bottle. Stormy daniels attorney, this is for joe, Michael Avenatti tweeted in response, we will vigorously oppose the justfiled motion to have this case decided in a private arbitration in a private Conference Room hidden from the American Public. This is a democracy and this matter should be decided in an open court of law owned by the people. In the declaration mr. Cohen just filed, more interesting for what it does not state. It does not state he never discussed agreement with djt, that djt did not know about the agreement, that djt did not ultimately pay 130,000. All issues djt is silent on. Does he have a point, and will that convince a judge . No, i well, look, theres some points to be made there. But lets take this into federal court where it is right now. You have to understand the reason trumps lawyers want this in federal court is because a federal judge is much more likely to enforce the arbitration provision pursuant to the federal arbitration act. Thats important. The federal arbitration act basically in almost all instances will require arbitration if there is an arbitration clause in agreement. A claim for recision, which is whats happening here, a claim for recision as to an agreement with an arbitration clause does not avoid arbitration. So cohen saying i mean, Stormy Daniels lawyer saying that there should be no agreement because they violated it, well, that doesnt get you out of arbitration if theres an arbitration clause according to the federal arbitration act. The distinction i will make is that recision simply means the unmaking of a contract between two parties. In this instance, what avenattis going to argue, and maybe successfully, is that there never was a binding agreement, this contract was a fraud in the first place, what hell cite is Michael Cohen. Michael cohen went on the record, unbelievably, and said publicly that trump never knew about the agreement. Right there, what that does is render this agreement null and void. And frankly calls it fraudulent. Because he binded a client without the client knowing it, which is unethical, illegal, and certainly renders this the agreement maybe nonbinding whatsoever. So might not even fall under recision claims. You should go on twitter, theyre offering you advice. Theyre saying toothpaste is out of the tube. You didnt say that one as well. Never heard that one. Toothpaste out of the tube. Avenatti wants to nullify the agreement stormy signed with cohen and depose the president in arbitration. What are the options for the judge . The judge can decide if the case remains under his jurisdiction and keep the case and let the case move forward and let discovery proceed, including the deposition of trump and cohen, which is what Stormy Daniels attorney wants. Or send this to private arbitration. If that happens, we wont know much about this case after that. Because everything will be private. As Stormy Daniels attorney says, it will be a private Conference Room with a private arbitrator making decision about discovery, if there is discovery. Thats what the president and his team ultimately want. But i think Stormy Daniels attorney has done an outstanding job with what he was information he was given. Hes unearthed information about cohen using the Trump Organization email, letters or emails addressed to cohen with his title working for the Trump Organization. All of this evidence which suggests there is there was knowledge, there was participation, or at least there was some coordination between trump and his team and Michael Cohen, which undercuts this argument that trump didnt know anything about it. So hes walking this really fine line between trump didnt know, but yet theres this evidence that suggests his team had some particular may have had some information. So i think those arguments are going to be powerful when he makes them to this federal judge. So i have to tell you, i have to say something, joe. I think the cohen folks will tell you its a twoparty agreement, not a threeparty agreement. Well listen, heres the bottom line. Still, trump is one of the individuals who is supposedly bound by the way, by that same confidentiality clause theyre claiming daniels violated. So hes a party. If he had no knowledge of this, the agreement is fraudulent. Again, what shes saying is a good point as far as catching them in a gotcha moment, maybe, regarding whether he knew or didnt know. But its better, much better that trump, for trumps side at this point that trump knew about the agreement that the greemen was an actual agreement. Now the claim for recision is not valid in a federal court under the federal arbitration act and they do go to arbitration. Theyre all over the place on whether he knew or didnt know, theyve got to make up their mind. All right, we can talk about this all night. Thats where well focus on this. We could talk about this all night but elvis has left the building. Tooth paste is out of the tube. We said that one already. Hey, thank you, guys. The ship has sailed. Well get another member of the president s cabinet resigned over unearth call behavior. Sources telling cnn the president is angry at epa chief scott pruitt. What he d