Watch their body language. In the Press Conference, which is the first time we assumed questions about don junior will come up. What, errol, are you expecting . Im expecting in addition to all the things well end up talking about, there will be interesting stuff around trade and tourism and all the normal things that go on when two nations of this kind are together. When the questions begin, though, im very interested to hear what the french press is going to ask. Weve got this narrative and its going to probably continue here for a long time where the president says all of American Media is against him except for the conservative press. Its all fake news. Were making things up, getting paid more to say things damaging to him and so forth. The french press who are a pretty sharp bunch, they have nothing to do with any of that. Theyll answer very straightforwa straightforward questions whabt what did you dorks when did you do it, Whats Going On with your
son . Are you aware theyre trying to destabilize other Western European governments and on and on and on. It will be interesting to see what President Trump has to say. Its going to be fascinating to hear him speak out loud about the revelation about his son don junior. You know that will come up. Karoun, the president ploeted a little how hell respond. He said everyone would have taken the meeting that don junior took. He said there was zero coordination, the dumbest thing ive ever heard. This is a hoax, this is made up by the democrats, greatest con job in history. A party sits down the day after they got their ass kicked, he said it, not me, whats their excu excuse . The white house has two lines, everyone would have taken the meeting, its still a hoax. I dont think thats it. This is chapter 4, less than a week since this first came out. The president s traditional point the finger and blame game is not quite as probable as it usually is when hes saying dont believe the media and their fake sources. This is his own son who put out those emails in which it says very clearly, hey, weve got russian government information thats damaging to your opponent. Great. I love it. It would be ideal if it came out in late summer. More discussion about, okay, this is a russian lawyer with government ties. Its there in Black And White, something his own son put out there. The blame game of this being a hoax and dont trust the people saying it, who is he talking about . Hes also, as you said, in the reuters interview saying everyone would have done it, no big deal, which is basically talking both ways. Theres what his son put out there which seems to suggest some level of coordination or at least an intent to coordinate. You cant say theres no coordination and coordination at the same time. Its very interesting that hes in paris meeting with macron. Can you imagine on a day when weve got massive icebergs breaking off from antarctica, what they would be talking about, when this isnt front and center, whats been going on in that family, at the epicenter of this administration with the russia ties. Fascinating to see whats on the parisian reporters minds, if they want to talk Climate Change, we assume they will. David drucker, what do you see . I think this is a very interesting trip for the president. Even though hes had a lot of frosty ties with our traditional allies, president macron invited President Trump to meet with him and enjoy the bastille Day Festivities and President Trump accepted. We have to look at this as the potential for a very important relationship for this president who, despite what he said coming
out of the g20, hasnt necessarily gotten along with the leader of germany a, and others in europe are so concerned and rightly so about his commitment to nato, his commitment to the u. S. Role as the leader of the west notwithstanding the speech he delivered in warsaw. I think theres so much that can come out of this, especially because really the way to trumps heart is the personal. So by inviting trump to paris and by showing him around by the way, that restaurant in the eiffel tower is a great spot. Dont discount these things. Thats how i avoided the line in the eiffel tower. It is a great spot. These are the kinds of things for this president in particular given that so much of him is relying on the personal rather than the policy and values, that this could be a very useful relationship for the United States, and this could be a way for trump to sort of learn and appreciate the value of our
european alliances. A useful relationship for the president today because he gets to be somewhere otherhan washington, d. C. Facing the heat on the late of the report about his son, errol louis. It doesnt escape the greater questions about russia and the investigation. The president was asked more about that yesterday. Was russia involved . What did you tell Vladimir Putin inside the meeting . The president s latest response is, you know, i think something happened, basically i think something happened and we need to keep looking into it. Something happened isnt what the u. S. Intelligence services say. They say Vladimir Putin directed a weaponized cyber attack on the u. S. Election system. Its an odd sort of Time Shifting conversation you have with the president when he talks about these things when he says, gee, something happened, somebody ought to look into it. Coincidentally enough, President Trump, we have 17 Intelligence Agencies, the top four of this have looked into this already and presented some conclusions. You might want to follow up on that. Here again, the public conversation about this coming out of the white house has been almost exclusively political and never touching on what is the followup, how do we slam the door on this to make sure it never happens again. The joint Cyber Security idea was floated for a couple hours and then it went away. There has to be some kind of a response. He did say, by the way, in that answer, he does say so it doesnt happen again. He did tell that to reuters which is a little bit of a different take on it from the president. Well see what he suggests to put in place, whether its legislation, best practices, keeping in mind, of course, that all those things have been suggested by multiple sources. Speaking of Time Shifting, karoun, President Trump likes to time travel back to the campaign and he was doing this in an interview yesterday. Let me play a portion where he talks again about hillary
clinton. If hillary had won, our military would be disseminated. Our energy would be much more expensive. Thats what putin doesnt like about me. Thats why i say why would he want me. From day one i wanted a strong military. He doesnt want to see that. From day one i want fracking to get Energy Prices low. He doesnt want that. He would like hillary where she wants to have windmills. What do you think, karoun, about why the president likes to dwell in that sort of same contest . It helps his support, i think. Hes a guy that cares about the politics of it more than the policy. This seems to be a way of presenting itself. Look, people on both sides of the aisle, frankly, are not willing let go of the 2016 elections. You have to remind people
opposed t the president the president saying im better than obama, better than what you would have gotten with clinton. Hillary clinton was hawkish for democrats and trumps plans for expansion have been criticized by people like john mccain saying, not good enough, its all talk. Hes about branding his policies. Thats the best forum for him to do that, to continue this narrative of the election because it diverts attention away from what hes doing now back to the choice people had. Hillary clinton was a polarizing figure. Im sure he thinks it helps him. This was an is interesting way to present this in terms of the russia probe. Hes saying, oh, putin would have liked her more. We know putin and clinton had a very im kabl relationship. We know from don juniors
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severe cuts. Alisyn, john . Thanks, suzanne. Errol louis, Karoun Demirjian and David Drucker with us. Mitch mcconnell cant lose one more. One more in this thing is essentially sunk. One of the Unwithes Against is rand paul who has been pretty consistent. Listen to what he said. I just came from the republican caucus. Many other members Behind Closed Doors are willing to admit its not a repeal bill. This needs to be the discussion. Our promise to the American People we would repeal obamacare. Now it looks, if this bill goes through, were voting to keep obamacare. The thing is, David Drucker, theres no way to give rand paul what he wants or to give ted cruz or mike lee more of what they want without taking away from the Susan Collinses of the world. The republicans find themselves in a pickle here. So much of this, john, is because republicans, many of
them have changed the position on the medicaid expansion. Seven, eight years ago when we were covering the obamacare debate, the bill that eventually became the Affordable Care act, i couldnt find a republican that supported expanding medicaid. Now that its time to repeal obamacare, you have a lot of republicans in the house as well that dont want to repeal it, are concerned about how it will affect their states and districts. So many rural hospitals depend on it, their voters depend on it, even if they dont know it or wish they did not depend on it. Republicans are in this bind where voters want them to repeal obamacare, but theyre afraid the consequences of repeal will end up leaving their constituents on the short end of the stick when it konls to health care and access and everything else. Theyll end up paying for it. Mitch mcconnell has a very narrow lane to try and get through to try to tie this all together. I think the question is, can he get the bill that theyre going to introduce today on the floor
and start to agree to what kind of amendments it would take to get them to 50 votes so mike pence could break the tie . One thing on the tax cuts that theyre not going to get rid of in this bill, theyre going to make the argument to the conservatives that they will get rid of those taxes in the Tax Reform Bill that theyre working on quietly. So thats one sales pitch theyre going to make. This is a very difficult position theyre in. Lets talk about another big event on the hill yesterday. That was chris wrays Confirmation Hearing or appearance there in front of the senate committee. Hes going to be the fbi director it looks like. It looked like it went well. They had many exchanges. It seems like the senators responded to him well. Here was a particularly interesting exchange, senator Lindsey Graham asking the nominee what he would do in a situation a hypothetical situation that seemed awfully familiar. Listen to this. Well, let me ask you this, if
i got a call saying the russian government wants to help Lindsey Graham to get dirt on his opponent. I think you should consult with legal advisers. The answer is should i call the fbi . I think it would be wise youre going to be the director of the fbi. Here is what i want you to tell every politician. If you get a call from somebody suggesting a Foreign Government wants to help you by disparaging your opponent, tell us all to call the fbi. To the members of this committee, any threat or effort to interfere with our election from any nation state or any nonstate actor is the kind of thing the fbi would want to know. Errol, whatever could he be referring to, senator graham . It was actually the right way to frame it. If we have a replay of what we
just saw, what would you do . How can we avoid a repeat of that crisis . There were smiles and a little levity around it. In the end, deadly serious stuff. Of course, the nominee gave exactly the right answer which is to say, if this happens again, number one, im not swearing any loyalty oaths. Number two, if you see foreign interference reported to us, this will become part of what the fbi does. That doesnt mean were Out Of The Woods on the current crisis, but it does suggest we wont have a repeat of it. It was interesting. He said definitely no loyalty oath. He would never swear a loyalty oath. He said its not a witch hunt. What bob mueller, the special counsel is doing, he wouldnt consider it a witch hunt. In that specific answer, car reaso karoun, it seems a simple yes or no answer would have sufficed. Really it was Lindsey Graham who answered the question for himself. I was a little curious why the nominee wouldnt be more clear about the fact that don junior
perhaps should have called the fbi. This is classic dynamics of aering ha. Everyone hoping to get congressional confirmation tries to make the most Dipiplomat Cal Approach possible. Lindsey graham is in his element, playing the prosecutor again and going after these things. Hes always got a little twinge of humor which is evidence, tell us to call the fbi. Wray played ball in ways that others probably would not have. The other interesting thing was to listen to the interplay back and forth. There were other times they were asking him specifically because wray had said i would resign before i compromise my integrity. There were a lot of people a lot of senators that kept coming back to those comments on both
sides of the aisle. They have an opportunity with wray who is popular on both sides of the aisle to cement what should be. It doesnt mean you wont see a repeat of what happened before. That was all driven by the side of the president. Everyone was taking the moment of saying, okay, here is what i think thho playing into this because hes a man trying to commit to staying independent. Panel, thank you very much. Great to get all your perspectives. We do want to get to this breaking news. There are major developments in the case of four missing young men in pennsylvania. Authorities made a shocking discovery. We have the latest on this Murder Mystery next. Ush the off . Legacy technology can handcuff any company. But yes is here. Youre saying the new app Will Go Live Monday . Yeah. With help from hpe, we can finally work the way we want to. With the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes. Neulasta onpro is designed to deliver neulasta the next day. Neulasta is for certain Cancer Patients receiving strong chemotherapy. Do not take neulasta if youre allergic to neulasta or Neupogen Filgrastim . Ruptured spleen, sometimes fatal as well as serious lung problems, allergi