Transcripts For MSNBCW MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle 20180

MSNBCW MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle July 26, 2018

Fireworks on capitol hill as both parties demand answers from mike pompeo about the private meeting with Vladimir Putin in finland. Your question implied some notion there was something improper about the one oneonone meeting i completely disagree. If president obama did what President Trump did in hlgds olad id be peeling you off the capital ceiling. And facebook in free fall, the social Media Company stock plunges Mark Zuckerberg losing a fifth of the fortune as the scandal over privacy catch up. They have to figure out how to pay to fix the problems. We begin with the president literally kissing and making up with the head of European Union. One day after criticizing the eu at a rally. Its one example of the president and his team now trying to change the narrative on some of the most contentious issues out there, issues, problems that they created i have a great team to help me break it down. First i want to explain what im talking about. We know that for the entire course of his presidency donald trump has seemed to go out of his way to do exactly the opposite of what his critics want him to do. But maybe thats changing. Take trade. On wednesday the president went from slamming the eu to praising its leadership and declaring victory for averting a trade war. Thats a huge change from 11 days ago. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. What the European Union is doing to us is incredible. How bad . We just want it to be a level Playing Field for our farmers, for our manufacturers for everybody. And we also want a big beneficiary, frankly to be the European Union. Now, what did he actually accomplish . The president says the European Union agreed to buy more natural gas and soybeans from the United States. In kpj, he is promising to hold off on tariffs while the sides talk. The more immediate victory may belong to the president s fellow republicans especially those in the midwest who are worried about the impact of his policy but they dont want to risk alienating his base. Then the issue of Election Security. The president took a ton of criticism again from republicans and democrats for insisting that russia wasnt targeting the u. S. That triggered a week long series of walk backs and clarifications culminating in this. President trump chairing a full meeting of the National Security councils tomorrow to discuss you guessed it Election Security and russian interference. And speaking of russia, guess who got to try and clean up the president s massive mess after helsinki . It was secretary secretary of state mike pompeo. Testifying in Senate Wednesday and getting grilled by members of both parties listen. Has the president told you what he and president putin discussed in re twohour closed door meeting in plgds. The president has a prerogative of choosing who is there or not. Im sure youve had private meetings. What is it that causes the president to purposefully, purposefully create distrust in institutions and whaer what we are doing. Senator, i disagree with most of you what you just said. More pike pompeo. Helsinki, he needs a mop and bucket around the hill. The biggest question of the day, pompeo tried to clear up question base whether the president was onboard with the consensus which is russia hacked the election, attempted i want to you know President Trump has stated that he accepts our Intelligence Community conclusion that is russia meddled in the 2016 election. He has a complete and proper understanding of what happened. I know. I briefed him on it for over a year. He might understand it. He just doesnt tell anyone that. Why is all of this happening . Keep in this mind marks 100 days until the midterm elections. Something that is certainly not lost on this president or his party. I want to bring in nbcs Peter Alexander live at the white house. Peter, clearly it seems there is a concerted effort to clear the decks for republicans running in the midterms because in the last week 1 2 the president has done a lot to serve himself and his personal interests but hurt his party. Stephanie i think youre right. The president obviously trying to defuse this battle over european steel and lum kr number exports and tariffs broadly. The white house is aware of the polls that Job Performance is getting panned pl 38 or below in all three of these states. The president campaigned on the America First policies, fighting for better trade deals. He said he is not backing away from them at least not initially. A couple days ago he writes tariffs are the greatest. But then yesterday he tweeted we are all believers in no tariffs. Clearly he is hearing criticism from democrats and republicaning thinking tariffs are wrong. And this is why the president tried to claim victory in the rose garden with the head of the Eu Commission and which the president said the eu would buy more soybeans. I asked the treasury secretary what was agreed to what they came with. Was anything agreed to yesterday or just an agreement to work toward agreement. No. Absolutely there was an agreement in principal. In principal. What does that mean. We have the outline the first phase. Its is deal with the steel and aluminum tariffs and the rirpgle tariffs. We have the outlet in industrial and industrial and l and g. The question remains what concessions did the u. S. Get . From that answer i want not clear. As for the 12 billion aid package to give relief to farmers, mnuchin disputed that its a bailout, that the president obvious lip railed against bailouts . The past. Mnuchin telling us he isnt bailing out farmers. He called that a ridiculous comment. We should note as we have this conversation President Trump in an effort to warm up support in some parts of the midwest is in route to zu buick iowa, focusing on jobs and economy as the heavily agriculture state is impacted by tariffs. Lets remind the audience right there you heard Steve Mnuchin say its a work in progress and nothing set in stone. Yesterday before the market closed the white house extraordinarily leaked out the eu appear the great concessions in the trade talks. And what did the market do . Shot up. Imi want to bring in my panel. Corey shockky. And a Deputy Director in the state department. Eddie is a Princeton University professor. And ben white. A correspondent for politico. Ben, to you first. You wrote that you said you feel like this is a positive. But you also felt that way soon after the president spoke to china. Yeah, i mean it feels very similar to what happened after the beijing talks when secretary mnuchin was there. They came out and said we have an agreement with china to avoid all the tariffs. There was a positive notes. Markets reacted positively. Trump changed course and we started a trade war. 200 billion with more to come. On europe we dont know whether trump sticks to this whether he gets angry at juncker and the eu. We have we have not avoided the auto tariffs. The steel and aluminum tare nifs place. The impact of this trade war still happening. And frngly its true that trump is absolutely freaking out and republicans are freaking out about the midwest numbers. Down in the three midwesten states. The generic ballot the up 12. There are people panicking so trump is trying to change. As we know he tends to go back to the old ways. Go backwards with me for a moment. Where were we before trump was in office . If you talk to the farmers they could say we have problems that need fixing. One of the reasons President Trump was elected is because people wanted better more prosperous lives. What have we gotten in he has made it worse. Now as best he has taken us back to the mean. You go back to pretrump. We were working on the Transpacific Partnership which would have opened markets for farmers. They were desperate to get it. And you had the Transatlantic Investment Partnership which would have reduced as you mentioned on morning joe would have reduced tariffs between the eu and u. S. Almost zero. 90 of tares i was gone we could have done this without any of this and we didnt. Corey take in in a broader sense. What does it do for the United States and negotiations Going Forward . You are watching the president a absolute about face. Those who are in the trump camp like to claim he wrote the art of the deal and his unpredict ability is magic. Right now most people say his unpredict accurately shows he doesnt know what he is doing. Yeah, i i think the breadth of the data lies on the latter case, which is that the best way to understand President Trumps Foreign Policy is that its entirely driven by domestic policy. He thought he was out there making the art of the deal starting a twofront trade war with both china and europe. And im delighted to see republicans on capitol hill pushing back on that narrative. And democrats on capitol hill pushing back on that narrative. So on russia policy, on trade policy, and on being mean to our closest friends in the world that Capitol Hills finding its voice. American voters are finding their voice. And american businesses are finding their voice. And i think thats why the president has capitulated on all those things. It was almost painful to watch secretary pompeo on capitol hill trying to simultaneously say ignore the president s statements. Our policies are wril yant and then the president s statements are our policies. They cant both be true, unless they come into better alignment than they are. Okay. Well what we are talking about those focusing on mike pompeo policy and the president s statements. But lets go to people, eddie out there voting every day. People voting every day want better lives. If you are a republican candidate running in the midterms and youre doing it lets say in a midwesten state how complicated is all this . We could talk about how bad this is for farmers we but when gou to the farm states a lot of people voting for the president who may be suffering right now are saying well im giving more time see how it goes. Right. What you do is you bracket the chaos of trump and go to culture wars. Right. You play immigration. You play the changing demographics of the country. You do what kemp is doing in georgia. You make yourself look as if you are kind of trump a trump follower in certain sorts of ways not necessarily with regards to the policies. But definitely in terms of trump in terms of make America Great again. Lets go back to mike pompeo. It was pain to feel watch him weave through. We showed the sound early your where he said im sure the president understands talking about russia and the cyber attack. But trump might understand he knows the facts. But he gets out and lies about them. How does mike pompeo do his job effectively. Nikki haley has corner herself off up here with the u. N. , doesnt have to sit facetoface with trump. But pompeo does. I thought it was striking how good the statement that the secretary of state secretary of defense and the australian counterparts put out. So contradictory to what the president says and does. They were talking about the importance of upholding the rules based order and the way we and the australians and other allies will work in concert to advance our interests. I think it looks to me like secretary pompeo is in the unpleasant position of understanding that good policy is not what the president is saying. So he tries to match the president s words when he thinks the president is listening. And take policy actions much morp consistent with our national interests. Its a very awkward position for the secretary of state to be in. Yeah, well he is also the one that has to deliver after the president has a summit with kim jong un that gets us nothing, maybe in a worse position. Mike pompeo is the one that has to do something about it. Then i want to share part of what senator corker said yesterday. Again, republican, during that hearing with mike pompeo. I cant say it more forcefully. We really need a clear understanding as to what is going on, what our president is agreeing to, and what our strategy is on a number of issues. From where we sit, it appears that in a ready, fire, aim, fashion the white house is weigh up every morning and making it up as they go. Are we actually seeing republicans take a more a stronger stance and doing sheer . Because lets be honest we have heard republicans talk a big game the last year and a half and not much has happened. They are not taking more aggressive action. There is some degree of more aggressive rhetoric. Snorp quashinger is retiring and doesnt have to worry about trump pete beating him up on the campaign trail. And a few others havent done much on trade. The voting record doesnt reflect it. Its aer retroic algame. He is hearing fl designates that he carried at a that are hurting from tariffs and having some impact. On that front the rhetoric matters. On other fraents like mueller and russia it toents matter. And the house is trying to impeach Rod Rosenstein. The senate wont do it. But there is a lot of talk not a lot of action. I think the rhetoric matters a bit on trade. Freedom caucus members, some moving forward on articles of impeachment for Rod Rosenstein and saying nothing about the ballooning deficit. Im on the hunt for conservatives. Absolutely. But, you know, with regards to pompeo and with regards to the senators stephanie process we have to nuance a bit. Donald trump does not believe in the post world war ii concensus us. Thank you. If we are talking about a trump doctrine with regards to the world its a trump doctrine that doesnt reflect what came about post world war ii. Its a dock rein rooted in isolationism, uni lateralism. Its a doctrine that in some ways goes against everything people are trying to hold him accountable to. Then why does the president do the walkbacks and clarify . Why doesnt he simply say you know russia helped us win the action. Arent you happy hillary within. Would the base actually care tell me the truth. They wouldnt. Youve seen some movement on the right to he asked for russia help during the campaign. Saying find the hillary emails. Why are we doing the walk back. He knows what happens. He loves it. He could own it at this point. It doesnt matter how represent prepare reprehensible. He could. And the base wouldnt love leave limb. It does matter in the swing districts. Moderate republicans. Thats where the midterms wind up. Republicaning down by 12 in the generic ballot, illinois, michigan, ohio, indiana, the races where they have incumbent in trouble and he cant embrace the far right and say go russia. I would have thought that being a serial adulter and the access Hollywood Tape mattered to white women and evangelicals. It matters now. Look at the numbers in the apology look at the quinnipiac poll showing the women. Blow your nose. Youre looking backwards. Im talking about 2018 midterms if they are narrowly divided in a lot of races and the difference in white women in the suburbs. 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