Right, but its just a reminder of some of the risks of traveling abroad. We are getting a sense too that the president is looking forward to this trip not only for a planned golf outing tomorrow but a wrestling event he would be the first United States president to while traveling on foreign soil go to a wrestling event and that alone is worth the price of admission so around all of that and were also keeping track back and forth about where possible impeachment proceedings could begin, and now last week we were talking about this they looked extremely unlikely and now increasingly looking likely. Were getting more detalls on that meeting, that nancy pelosi had with democrats, that might have galvanized or at least driven her to the point where things started agitating and the president agitated you know what happens so were going to try to go behind the scenes and find out exactly what happened and also talk to Louisiana Republican senator bill cassidy on where he sees republicans right now in the middle of all of this, but first i want to get the latest from the white house. Thats where youll find our garrett tenney. Reporter neil good morning to you the president was clearly looking forward to this trip to japan but this week he had a lot of back and forth with House Speaker nancy pelosi and that was clearly still on his mind, as he departed the white house for japan on friday. President trump right now, we are, im only speaking for myself. I want to do whats good for the country. I think nancy pelosi is not helping this country. I think the democrats are hurting our country, very very badly. We can pass so many different bills right now, but all they want to do is investigate because they failed with Robert Mueller and the Mueller Report. They want a do over of the mueller property. It doesnt work that way. This latest clash between the president and the speaker started when she claimed this week he is engaging in a cover up by not cooperating with House Democrats and investigations into him and his administration and this comes as pelosi is facing growing pressure from women in her own party to start impeachment proceedings against the president. Something that Top Democrats are pushing back on, this idea that there is any Division Within the party over how to move forward, they argue, they are simply doing their jobs by carrying out these investigations. Were also responsible for doing oversight of this administration, holding them accountable, making it clear that no one is above the law including the president of the United States, and ensuring that we get the truth and that we prevent the president from continuing this ongoing coverup. Reporter House Democrats are pressing forward in their investigations of President Trump and late this week judiciary chairman jerry nadler said negotiations are underway to have special counsel Robert Mueller testify before congress, though he says mueller wants it to be in private so that his testimony does not turn into political specatacle, neil . Neil garrett thank you very much in washington. Lets get the read from the left and the right, republican strategist and nate learner here , senior digital strategist. Nate, i was mentioning that was there a possibility that something changed in that meeting that nancy pelosi had with democrats . Im sure she knew and suspected many are pushing for impeachment , maybe in greater numbers than she appreciated, because she came out of that meeting, talking about a cover up and all of the rest, so what happens there . Well i think democrats are simply at the end of their rope trying to conduct oversight over the president which is congress job, they are trying to hold investigations to dig deeper into the Mueller Report. Mueller clearly left it open as to whether or not the president committed crimes and its really difficult when you subpoena members of the trump adminitration and they ignore the subpoenas. Thats illegal. Its really frustrating when we subpoena documents and they refuse to provide those document s so how are democrats supposed to do their job when that keeps happening so they are at the end of the rope and running out of options so thats why impeachment is still on the table and nancy pelosi is getting frustrated and calling out President Trump for conduct ing a coverup. Neil i read the Mueller Report. Im no lawyer, so a lot of it went right by me, a lot of allegations, a lot of witness testimony and all that i get it but was it a leap and is it a leap for nancy pelosi to come out and said theres a coverup going on and would that be reason enough for the president to say i dont know why the heck im meeting with you weve youve all but indicted me now. S. Yes, neil youve got to look at the fact that i feel like you do not, youre not encouraged especially right now, the democrats are not really encouraging bipartisanship. One of the number one things they should be working on is Something Like the infrastructure, which you know, the meeting because of the press conference that nancy pelosi. Neil but the president adjourned that meeting. He did but hes got to look at neil would he have been better off just going through with it even though hes clearly ticked off but go through with it because a lot of people appeared to be like it probably is but in the long short of it i think after a twoyear investigation that he feels like hes been vindicated, hes tire of it, but this is, theres a bigger problem in d. C. The constituents and the people that voted for a lot of their, for the democrats, that they elected, theyre not getting full service for that vote, because there are many issues that they believed in, while campaigning. Neil i dont know why they cant work on two tracks though and i understand the president getting annoyed and if someone had all of a sudden just taken it as a fact that ive been covering up or whatever, you might as well begin the impeachment proceedings now and thats a question i have for you nate. Why not just take the leap if theres enough information there , youre convinced that the president covered up, youre convinced the house judiciary chairman nadler that there is obstruction of justice, then why not take the leap to begin impeachment proceedings . As i said i think it should absolutely be on the table. I trust Nancy Pelosis judgment on this. I trust the leadership with the democrats on this. I think they want to, the idea was to continue investigations and investigations make a lot more sense than impeachment but if the president does continue to make these investigations impossible, often by breaking the law and refusing subpoenas then yes thats why impeachment has to remain on the table. Neil what do you think of this . But why is it front and center . Why does she have to call a press conference and say this . Why couldnt this just be, you know, a private meeting, to say what she feels about this . We all know that President Trump is very sensitive to media, hes going to respond. Hes not going to sit by. Why would nancy pelosi call a press conference and then say that, and then expecting to go into the meeting business as usual. She knows better and if she is good at what she does calling press conference, to say, you know, that she believes which we dont, i dont think its true, but she believes that there is a coverup, why would you even call a press conference to do that . What you need to do is to try to at least get along a little bit to try to get infrastructure. Neil do you think that this relationship though is beyond repair . Do you think the way both have been acting toward each other makes you wonder if anything gets done now . No, i think as weve seen, donald trump has gone up and down with democratic leadership. Neil and so has democratic leadership. Exactly, so neil its like separating my teenagers. At the end of the day they both have a job to do and they recognize their duty is to the American People so hopefully well see progress on infrastructure. I love to see progress on healthcare. Neil we do agree on a lot. The prescription is there. Guys thank you both very much. I know you had car trouble so i very much appreciate it. We deliberately said that lets mess with a liberal and see what happens so anyway weve got senator bill cassidy joining us on the phone beautiful state of louisiana and some of the things the senator wants to see done on energy and particularly with an infrastructure plan that might involve energy, very important to his state where of course natural gas has suddenly become a big issue and energy, healthcare, you name it. The senator was kind einto if to join us on the phone. Senator very good having you. Hi, neil, thank you for having me. Neil let me ask you, sir is it your sense that the two parties can put aside the friction its building over this Mueller Report and subpoenas back and forth and judges rulings and the rest, and get to work on some of these issues, which they do have common ground. I think we can but i think the president is right in the sense that the democrats have to move beyond this idea that theyre going to bring the president down with the Mueller Report when the Mueller Report says there was no collusion, and i think the president understands unless they are able to move off that its going to be very difficult to do many things that the country needs to have done. Neil but senator do you think its a good idea for the president to keep ignoring subpoenas . The legislative branch does have a constitutional right and authority to investigate these and followup on these. In fact you could argue mr. Mueller and the report was advocating them doing so, so do you think he helps his cause when he kind of tells everyone around him dont talk to these guys. I think that the congress perogative should be respected by and large so lets just look for example, the subpoena of his irs report that has nothing to do with anything except getting to go after the president politically. By the way i saw at the gym the woman was saying on msnbc, as complex as those reports are going to be, its going to be easy to pull things out of context and use it as a political weapon. Now, and does that further the ability of congress to work with the president for importance to our country . Absolutely not. Neil but it sounds like you are oh, there is a difference between requesting tax records and requesting people to testify before your committee. I can understand your tax thing but just having witnesses appear before lets say the House Judiciary Panel thats kind of a separate issue. Do you think the president should stop fighting these subpoenas, allow them to speak if some of them want to speak behind closed doors, fine but that is inviting a constitutional crisis right there, right . It is and i think it would be wiser for the house to be tempered in what they request as opposed to again playing out this Mueller Report after mueller said there was no collusion and i think it would be tempered upon the administration in terms of how they negotiate these agreements. I think barr actually attempted to make a good faith effort to do it and they wanted a public specatacle with somebody cross examining them so i think that theres room for both to move to a ground where it doesnt happen. Neil do you worry, senator . We can argue, whether the president deserves all of the credit for the Strong Economy but we blame president when its a lousy economy so it seems only fair, and yet with that Strong Economy, with record low unemployment, in states like pennsylvania, state by the way the president won, he now trails joe biden by some 12 points and now its early on and youll always remind me of that and we know that about polls but that does seem out of whack with an economy that is booming there, doing very well there, and if the economy cant help republicans in swing states like that, hes similarly trailing in michigan and wisconsin, are you concerned . It is early. No contract has been drawn with, for example, joe biden and the Obama Administration. The Obama Administration would go crazy, if gdp growth was 1 in which we had stagnation and those at the bottom were being left behind. Neil well to be fair to barack obama, you know, everything was melting down. I covered at the time we were losing 1 million jobs a month. Im saying looking back at that and where we came from that i think fair is fair in comparing statistics, right . That is but that was 2008, and so eight years later, we were still stuck in that and people were describing the new normal we were going to lose manufacturing jobs and typically when the recession is deeper, the rebound is more robust. Instead you found a deep recession, with a very anemic re bound. Neil well you know, you raise a point you could say it took a good eight or nine years after the depression to see it come back but leaving that aside do you worry though about it . The fact that americans, for example, a healthy majority dont think that they got a tax cut when seven out of 10 of them actually did and im wondering now, if theres a disconnect. Theyre not either seeing it or appreciating it, and maybe added to all of this other stuff. Its not helping your party. Now, youre right. That could change but is it a worrisome start to events . That is the reason we have political campaigns. That with the Mainstream Media since Campaign Highlights and they highlight their own event but i think theres so much to the Republican Party to highlight to our advantage. Neil all right senator thank you very very much. And i will try here. I know much has said of the Mainstream Media and all that. I just look at the numbers. Its not a left or right thing with us were very pragmatic, we look at the numbers and see where the chips fall and right now if youre a republican and looking to recapture the white house you have to be wondering what the heck is going on, after this. male announcer get huge savings on clothing for the outdoors only at Bass Pro Shops and cabelas. Like redhead trail head cargo shorts starting at under 20. And world wide sportsman angler shirts starting at under 20. Your adventure starts here. Neil a Beautiful Day here in new york, not such a beautiful situation going on in north korea where the North Koreans are saying, you know, until you cool it on this disarmament thing we are cooling it on any chance for talks. Now the president is in japan that issue no doubt will come up and the japanese are in harms way there, not too far from north korea, so its in their vested interest to echo the point, continue these negotiations, and try to get them to denuclearize, that is proving a lot easier said than done, lets go to former ambassador of the United Nations , bill richardson. What do you make of this in pass now and it was a bit of a change that the North Koreans who earlier talked about disarming are now saying not so bad. Whats happening . Well the North Koreans are trying to get negotiating leverage over us. Theyre doing their typical fiery rhetoric threats and saying their deadline at the end of the year and stop negotiations and continue their nuclear development, theyre violating United Nations resolutions by shooting those short range missiles, which by the way, japan is vulnerable to those, so what were concerned about, right now, is why cant we get some negotiations going . The North Koreans wont even meet with our negotiators, steven began, whose a capable guy, but this is how they negotiate, neil. They bob and weave, delay threats. About the only good thing i see is that the threat came from the Foreign Ministry, as opposed to the spy chief, and i have found the Foreign Ministry types much more flexible, so thats about the only good sign i saw out of this impasse. Neil you know, you dealt with the North Koreans, before youve get with them and since in between the trump adminitration. Im wondering whether theyre just stringing us along and the president has done everything he can in his power to reach out to kim jongun to try to find a workable personal relationship that can develop into something more substantive on an agreement here but no matter what approach we take, we seem to be stuck in the same position. What do we do . Well what we do, what i would do is a compromise but one that is good for us. Look north korea said they are going to denuclearize. Theyre never going to do it because they dont want to end up like saddam hussein. Neil we already told them they wont be. Do they just not believe that . They dont believe it. They have a real mentality that we want to destroy them even though things have gotten better so i think what we need to do is not necessarily meet them half way. All right, north korea get rid of some of your weapons some of your missiles, let them be inspected. In turn, youll have some sanctions relief. Now the sanctions are really hurting north korea. I think thats very evident. This is why kim jongun went to hanoi to get some sanctions relief. He still doesnt look good with his people, by not, by the summit blowing up and no sanctions relief so theres bob bing and weaving, and i think what we need to do is be patient the president should not keep tweeting about kim jongun being such a great guy, just let his negotiators try to do the right thing, and get a compromise out of this. I think its still achievable and in the best interest of the world. Neil well theres no negotiat ing going on for the