laws. in new york, the taxi and limousine commission has given him two weeks to sell his taxi medallions. they aretetetete taxixixixiin the citititit and has plummeted. and he could be called back to capitol hill. he testified before the senate ce c c c c c c c ceeeeeeeeayayae didididi tnow if the president d advance offff t t t t trump tower meeting witititit russian. so the intel committee says we recently reengaged with mr. cohen and his team. as to whether he stood by his testimony, they responded that he did stand by his testimony. there s information about russia, mr. cohen has information about russia, we want to know that. we should know that. we need to know that. well, dana, there s no word on when that might happen. dana: and rick, we re hearing A look at the day s top news and headlines. immunity. despite the fact the president said they re not crimes, cohen pled guilty to two crimes. his attorney is making it clear that he s serving time. three to five years is no small amount of time in prison. he s not expecting a pardon and his attorney says he doesn t want one. fox news shannon bream had a juror on who had said that she really was a supporter of president trump. we have a sound bite from peter doocy. he interviewed her as well. the paper trail was just there was so much of it. there were four full boxes of papers to go through. the e-mails, the false documents. e-mails that paul manafort sent to other people. it was just there in the paper. it was fair. so the rigged witch hunt then turned into a trial. paul manafort convicted by a jury of his peers and now one speaking out saying she didn t think that she went in there with an open mind an convinced he was guilty. and she s a big trump supporter. she has her maga had. she kept it in her back seat. that s an interesting point that she s making there. regardless of where you fall in the political spectrum, when you look at the evidence and the exhibits, the evidence was overwhelming. there were ten counts that were a mistrial. there were zero accounts in which he was acquitted. that shows that the evidence is overwhelming. and also that our jury system works. it works. the jury. dana: thanks, shelby. thanks. dana: california congressman duncan hunter and his wife pleading not guilty at their formal arraignment. both are accused of using campaign funds for expenses. william la jeunesse has more. hunter claims this is a political witch hunt. a hit job from bias prosecutors that attended a clinton fund raiser. so this investigation has been two years in the making. hunter s lawyer told me yesterday, prosecutors could have filed this before the primary along for a different candidate. instead, by waiting before the general, the indictment is he says a gift to democrats that hunter will fight. i m not going to resign with a bunch of leftist government folks throwing allegations at me. there s a trial. this means nothing. the indictment is all they have. they only have what you are now seeing. that s it. i ve done nothing wrong. so prosecutors claim that hunter spent $250,000 in campaign money on vacations and private school. he claimed government shorts and golf balls for wounded warriors. the company overdrew their bank account 1,100 times. there s nothing illegal about being poor. i don t think there s anything illegal about not having money in your bank account. so while the deputy u.s. attorney generals are democrats, the u.s. attorney says is a trump-appointed republican. what does it mean? this moves from a safe republican seat to a safe competitive race. the gop there have to defend it. for democrats, the indictment support as swath of corruption narrative as they try to flip 23 house seats. hunter and his father i m not going to judge congressman hunter. i m not going to judge anybody else. where the cards fall where they may. let them have their day in court. lawyers tell me nothing happened substantially in court. dana: thanks, william. a meeting between national security adviser john bolton and his russian counterpart on russian meddling is not going as planned. democrats renewing their calls to delay hearings for brett kavanaugh saying his nomination is tainted by all of the legal drama surrounding president trump. not in a legitimate position for them to take. there s no precedent similar to what we have now. dana: supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh is on capitol hill meeting with senate democrats. some are calling to delay his confirmation hearing. we should not only be talking about it, but we should be moving to postpone the hearing. this nomination is now tainted with ill legality because the president who nominated brett kavanaugh has been implicated in a criminal conspiracy, not just any criminal conspiracy but one that impacted the outcome of the election. dana: joining me now, nora rossman. there s three senators that said they ll cancel their meetings with them. all of the three said they would vote against him anyway. so cancelling the meeting sounds like they re getting ahead of themselves. they would have more punch if they said we weren t going to support this nominee. so not meeting with him doesn t carry a lot of weight. the notion that they re trying to pedal here, that his nominees are illy legitimate, it s one thing to argue that. to say it does a disservice to their chamber, the senate. the nominee is not legitimized by his nomination. the senate confirms legitimacy by confirming this nominee. it s a backwards assertion of the constitutional duty. dana: it s not like brett kavanaugh is a lawyer but he s not michael cohen. he s not michael cohen. we can safely establish that. he has a long track record. the paper trail has been its own issue. they re trying to dig far in his past and a lot to dig into. those are legitimate things to go into. but to say that the nominee does not deserve a nomination not to say he doesn t deserve a hearing but not a nomination because he was nominated by donald trump doesn t carry water. dana: and the feature, they wouldn t like that argument used against them. what happens to the democrats and the left if they don t win in november? we know that like for example, talking about the supreme court obstruction that makes it harder for senate democrats in tough re-elections in those red states, they re probably going to end up voting for kavanaugh. you had someone like tom stire saying things that he s making impeachment a litmus test for the democrats. take a listen. one of the counts for mr. cohen talked about conspireing to break federal election laws with donald trump. mr. trump has in addition committed at least nine impeachable offenses. the evidence continues to mount up. the question is when will congress pay attention. dana: there s that litmus test. there s a leader in the senate democrats saying not so fast. listen to dick durbin. we re too early in the process to use these words. we need to gather the information, allow bob mueller to complete his investigation. if there s one thing that this senate and house will do is to protect bob mueller to complete the investigation. i worry what this president would do at any given moment to stop this. dana: what they re trying to do is get the progressive left and the activists to tap the brakes for calling for impeachment. this is smart. a, it comes then out of the news and their infighting which is what they want. they don t want to provide a foil for republicans to rally against. it s smart politics. it s a responsible approach. you would have the responsible duties of the special counsel on the table so you can make an informed judgment. that is something that is going to cause a schism within the democratic party and the left. not democratic party representatives but the representatives and the grass roots democratic left. prognosticators are beginning to see the prospects of having a very good november but not far enough to take the house. maybe a 25% chance that they can keep the house. dana: a decent chance. the crisis of confidence in the left after all of their victories and special elections, after all the organizing, the notion that the american public would ratify of two years of corruption, sexism, bigotry, the american people would ratify that and donald trump would be on a good course to win in 2020. a crisis on the left is entirely possible. some might withdraw, some might revert to more radical means of resistance. dana: with that, we ll keep it in mind. thanks, noah. hurricane lane bearing down on hawaii as islanders scramble for safety. we have team coverage. new concerns about meddling in the mid-terms. the adversaries besides russia to influence the vote. - my family and i did a fundraiser walk in honor of my dad, willy davis, who has alzheimer s. i decided to make shirts for the walk with custom ink. the shirts were so easy to design on the site. the custom ink team was super helpful and they just came out perfect. seeing 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here. this is an example of russian being a trendsetter with iran not being particularly sophisticated at this but seeing what russia tried to do and america and their deciding that they might want to try it as well. dana, i ran has gone to school on what russian did to news 2016 and what they continue to do today. so they re using a disinformation campaign to discredit or allies in the middle east and to spread other hateful anti-semitic messaging across social media platforms around the world. this is the new way that people with spread disinformation to spry to sow differences among each other. we ve got to get better prepared for it. dana: as i understand it, iran was good ativan at vandalizing sites and changing propaganda. the concern is, that we don t want to see competition in this area because competition leads to innovation and more sophisticated tools down the road. what we ve got to lay down is for russia and for iran and others, that if you are to meddle in our electoral system or even our, let s say, industrial systems that operate our power plants, we ve got to be clear about what we re going to do to you if you take those actions. it s called a declaratory policy. we need to say if you do this, we re coming back at you harder than ever so that we might deter them from doing it in the first place. they certainly weren t deterred by president obama. i think the trump administration is trying to get these policies stood up. but it s getting late. dana: the thing to remember, too, is that other countries like russia, iran, china, they have an asymmetrical response. they have state-owned industries and they work for government. here in america we don t have that. we have companies like facebook, twitter taking down the iranian sites over the week. listen to alex stamos. he wrote that if the weak response of the obama white house that the u.s. government would not respond forcefully, the subsequent actions of president trump being very critical. you have the companies coming forward and not trying to hide behind their walls in silicon valley. no, i think they learned the lesson. it s the school of hard knocks. they re electing to come forward, tell people what they re trying to do on their platforms. we re never going to root it all out but we have to be more aggressive about it and educate all of us online about what fishing attacks are and how to have better cyber hygiene because they are going to continue to try to mess with our electoral systems, spread bad information and the rest. dana: let me switch to another topic. the taliban has been invited by russia for peace talks and the taliban has accepted. i want your take on it. i am skeptical of russia chairing the talks rather than something that the united states might have a more active role in. i think maybe russia should be part of it, but i don t think they should run the show. there s rumors or reports that president bush s ambassador to afghanistan is soon going to become the special rep for the united states. i hope that is true. he s a good man. we need something on the political front to augment what our troops have been doing on the ground in afghanistan so that we might be able to get to a more stable situation. the outgoing general there saying today that the strategy is working militarily. your point is well-taken about the politics. thanks, michael. thank you. dana: we have new polls on what americans think about the mueller investigation. and tracking hurricane lane. how there could be flooding and landslides. we re concern about the surge and high surf that might be created from the winds. mirroring on tsunami evacuation protocols if anything comes to that point. dear great-great grandfather, they could never hold you down. when i built my family tree and found you, i found my sense of adventure. i set off on a new life, a million miles away. i m heidi choiniere, and this is my ancestry story. now with over 10 billion historical records, discover your story. get started for free at ancestry.com east, where the big island is located. on the east side of that, that area has been getting pounded with rain. some areas, 13 inches of rain have fallen. on the other side of the big idea, they got 1/4 inch at most. shows you the unpredictability of the storm. the water on the east shore, has come down, flooding. flash flood warning for the entire state of hawaii right now through the next couple days. preparations, people here in all the islands preparing a couple days. nobody has taken the storm lightly. maybe you can make the argument because they don t get a lot of massive storms like this, the last one to hit was in 1992. still category four officially. right now it s all watch and wait as the rain comes in small bands at this point, expected to pick up throughout the afternoon and evening here. we talk to the mayor of maui and tells everybody, make sure you re prepared even if the storms are out, keep checking back and refill. if effects of this hurricane as it passes down in oahu could last longer than one that moves quickly like hector. the rain will be heavy and longer and we could have coastal flooding that lasts because of the winds whipping from the south and hitting the south shore. the wind from the south that was the mayor of honolulu. we re expecting higher surf. could be as much as four feet in this area. again, all dependent on how this storm is shut down by the wind shear. the words you re hearing are preparation and wind shear. it seems to be breaking down this storm some. a ton of rain coming through and everybody here has prepared as much as they can. dana? dana: thanks, adam. rick reichmuth is tracking the storm. he joins me now live here. it s an interesting storm. hawaii is a needle in the hay stack. the pacific ocean is that hay stack. there s small islands there. one of the reasons why they don t get hit often from hurricanes, this is a strong and big storm. you can see the at light there. the winds are 130, had been a category five, down to a cat four. doesn t mean anything. doesn t mean it s going to be a worse storm. as this continues to pull off to the north, we re going to continue to see the rain get stronger and stronger. we have flooding because of the 13 inches of rain that adam has said. the way the big island works, there s mountains there. the air hits the mountains and rises and wrings the moisture out. the other side is the dryer side. one of the bigger concerns, it moves to the north and pulls off to the west. that s where it makes the turn. it s going to have big implications if it s more of a direct hit or stays offshore. it s also going to take time to make the turn and that is why it s going to stay and rain longer. it s not just moving straight through. because of that, we ll see the rainfall totals higher and significant flooding. storm surge, 2 to 4 feet. dana: when will this hit hand? the center may not hit land at all. it s feeling the impacts of it. it goes until sunday before it s out of the area of hawaii. so that is potentially a three-day range of getting significant rainfall. dana: thanks, rick. hope everybody stays safe. the polls are in for the race of the house. a new fox news poll shows democrats have opened up a 11-point lead from last month. joining me, a.b. stoddard from real clear politics. good to have you here, a.b. we re about 75 days out from the mid-terms. there s a lot of polls between now and then. what did you take from this one? well, what is interesting that we should remind obviously the viewers from november of 2016 in perpetuity, polls are not votes. so while a majority of the country did not prefer candidate donald trump, many voters stayed home. they didn t like hillary and he won the election. we don t know who will show up on election day. even though there s good news in president trump s approval rating these days, holding steady the last couple months, that that will have much bearing on getting voters in the car on election day to vote for republican candidates because they are supportive of president trump. he s not on the ballot. that s the big challenge for democrats. dana: let me ask you this. we talked about with noah rothman how there s some democrats that want to push for impeachment and senate democratic leaders saying tap the brakes on that. we don t want to do that. could that actually help republicans with turnout? yes, i do think that if they focus on democratic control of the house being definite impeachment, that that will probably motivate a bunch of trump voters to vote for republicans that they re highly disappointed in an apathetic about. on the democratic side, these numbers look good but they don t turn out in mid-terms as you know. it s usually an electorate older and wider and more conservative. so they have to change their model. obama got slaughtered in 2010 and 14. they seem motivated. the republicans show they re facing these head winds. african americans, young voters have to turn out. they didn t turn out for hillary clinton and certainly didn t turn out for mid-terms in the past. dana: larry sabato from the university of virginia had rating changes. ten races he left to the left. two raises he moved to the right. they were for two republican women. karen handel of georgia and kathy mcmorris rogers in the house side. good news for them? oh, yes. especially for kathy mcrogers. she s probably been very good on the ground, showing up her support and the republican party has come to her rescue and made sure that she s reached out to her constituents. that s good news for the republican leadership. they re they were not worried about that seat. they re worried about districts that hillary clinton won in the swing districts. that s where the president issues are a huge matter and democrats are capitalizing on anti-trump energy to try to take those seats back. shepard: i want to ask you about texas. the senate race there. ted cruz, the republican running against beto o rourke. he raised $2.8 million in july. now this latest poll shows him four points behind ted cruz. you think that changes a lot and people focus or is ted cruz in possible trouble here? ted cruz doesn t want to be a few points ahead of beto o rourke. democrats are just excited about this person. they don t have a leader in their party and they re looking for him to be the next barack obama. if he turn texas blue, he could rock to the top of the list. it s a huge challenge to win this seat and beat ted cruz. he s not doing well enough with latino voters that are part of the many of them are supporting ted cruz as hillary clinton did in that state. so that would be your number 1 demographic that you d have to turn to your side in order to win a statewide seat as a democrat in texas. that said, nationally there s incredible excitement behind him. we ll see if he can close the gap in september and october. it s going to be very difficult. dana: a.b. stoddard, thanks for joining us. thank you. dana: ohio state is suspending their football coach. and the president taking aim at a tv network that says they will not broadcast the anthem before nfl games. we ll have more on those topics. olay deep hydrating eye gel breaks through the competition olay eyes with b3 complex hydrates better than $100, $200 even $400 eye creams. that s something to see. olay hour. shepard smith reporting. dana: the suspect accused of killing molly tibbets at a farm using a fake i.d. the farm said they were unaware that chisthian rivera was illegal. rivera could face more charges if authorities find evidence of molestation. president trump taking aim at espn after they said they won t show the national anthem. now cbs too says they will skip televising the anthem and fox broadcasting will show it before certain games. joining me now, tyrus, fox news contributor and co-host on the g.g. show. so that what they call you? a co host? assistant host to the host. dana: okay to the host. there we go. dana: tell me what you think. can i read a statement? the president said an e-mail to make america great again committee wednesday night that said this. just after we heard a sitting governor trash american, espn has decided they will no longer play the national anthem before monday night facebook. if america is too offensive for anybody in our country what are they doing in america? i m calling on you to denounce the spineless liberal mob. i get the sentiment. this is the nfl putting band aids on an open wound. the way this has been handled from the beginning has been they literally dropped the ball. citizens have a right to protest, whatever your job is. i support the first amendment. you can protest. the other side, your boss has a right to fire you if you choose to protest at work. these men are risking their dream careers for something that they believe in. instead of having to conversation about the issue, it s become whether it s disrespectful to our flag, disrespectful to our veterans. i don t feel it is. i also don t like to see it. i wish we didn t have to be in that situation where a man feels that i have to risk the career that i worked my life for to get out my view. if we look at history, mohammed ali, when he protested the vietnam war, he went to prison and considered a traitor and lost the best years of his boxing career. we look back for it. he s a hero for it. we have to look back at name calling. let s see the national anthem, let s look at the field, the city around it. if you don t want to look at kneeling players, don t show them. who is your team? dana: i ve been a diehard patriots fans. you don t like the broncos? my favorite player all-time is bruce armstrong. left tackle. andre tippett. lots of years of get new england patriots fans, winning is new. dana: one other topic. ohio state suspending the head football coach, urban meyer the first three games of the season. they said he mishandled an allegation of domestic abuse against a former coach and also suspending james smith, the athletic director. i don t follow this. interested in what you think about this. another great tough topic today. no softballs from you today. any time you deal with domestic violence, it s always going to be an awkward sticky situation, especially when you re not involved. i watched her interview several times. i don t think anyone going through domestic violence is horrible. the first was did you call the police. her advice from what appears to be family was don t call the police. he will lose his job. you guys won t pay your bills. that s a common thing that you hear. but you ll end up at the police anyway. relying on his boss or his boss wife to help your situation isn t the way to go. call the police. that should be the lesson in this. if she would have filed charges right away, it would have maybe deescalated. dana: you think ohio state handled this appropriately? there s no appropriate way. me personally, friends, they have a fight. you take sides, you don t take sides. you tell your friend, hey, maybe you should leave her. then they stay together. you re the bad guy. you re the awkward person. if he s abusing her, it s even worse. he s telling you one thing, she s telling you another. you don t know who to believe. it s not cut and dry. he was misleading about the press conference when he said he didn t know what he knew when he knew it. yes, he should be i think the suspension is not fair. dana: we ll catch you saturday night at 10:00 p.m. yes, ma am. assistant host to the host. dana: thanks. automakers are bracing for more tariffs with china. jeff block is outside one factory to tell us what he has. the tariffs get complicated when it comes to the auto industry. i m here to sort it out for you. ford explorer plant behind me. thanks to new tena intimates overnight with proskin technology for two times faster absorption so you can have worry free 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that s a minuscule amount. take a look at the germans. bmw and mercedes have plants in the u.s. employing 12,000 american workers that sell many more cars in china than they make here. 52,000 bmw x5s. when you look at the top u.s. automaker selling in china, it s the lincoln mkc. only sold 17,000 in china last year. the impact on u.s. automakers fairly small. if you look at the numbers, bmw sold over 100,000 cars that it made here in the u.s. in china last year. they re all now subject to a 40% tariff. the way it worked, there used to be a 25% tariff. they reduced it, the chinese did, to 15% as a concession to president trump. when he upped the ante, they upped it to 25 more percent. so if you had to pay that, i suspect you might not buy a car and maybe sales would go down. that could jeopardize the workers at the plants in south carolina and alabama. dana? dana: thank you. a paralyzed war vet tran cycling 1,500 miles to raise awareness for those that you can t see. there s many of my 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The day s biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. you ve got michael cohen, of course, guilty. these are individuals who were incredibly close to the president of the united states of america, and we ve got to get an answer to the question, what did the president know? when did he know it? when this crime spree was taking place all around him. we ve got to clean up corruption with this administration, and washington, d.c., restore our democracy for the people. we played maya some sound bites of those that are coming out and defending the president, saying this is not a crime. some to maybe some extent are saying, yeah, maybe it s legally a crime, but it s like a smaller crime, a 12k3450ermisdemeanor. what is your read of what michael cohen did? is it significant or not, is it being blown out of the proportion for political reasons? it s extremely significant because it goes directly to whether or not a candidate, donald trump, directed michael cohen, his attorney, to essentially quiet a scandal that regularly d regularly demonstrates that there s a real issue about whether our commander in chief is actually a commander in thief? interesting. let me ask you about that money aspect. the argument, that the president is asking somebody to do it, commanding them to do it, paying them out of his own money, that it s not a crime. had cohen done this on his own without the president s knowledge, he would be liable for this. to that end, that trump says it s not a crime because it s his own money? all due respect to the professor, i think he s wrong here. admit the conduct, then deny the conduct, then deny that it s criminal. and the professor is part of that. even under his read it s an expenditure. and if it s an expenditure, it needs to be reported and the president did not report it. therefore, he filed false paperwork with federal authorities. so either way the president is in criminal trouble. how severe is that to not report it? could it be negligence and negligence in itself is not as significant as the intent to cover up? yeah, that s a key question. if he knew about it, and i think there s ample evidence he knew, it s more than negligence, it s willful. keep in mind, this is effectively what john edwards was prosecuted for and brought to trial for years ago, edwards was acquitted because there wasn t enough proof that the expenditures were made to protect him in the campaign. the argument was he was trying to protect his privacy and his family. here if you look at the amounts, as maya pointed out, and the timing, these alleged affairs happened many, many years before and then just weeks before the election, that s when they need to cover them up. michael cohen was reimbursed after the president got after the president got into the white house. reimbursed, rudy giuliani said imagine if this had come out on october 15th, 2016. he, himself, even as he was trying to argue this was about protecting the marriage of the president in the same breath said suggested about the election. and the politics of it. speak about the politics of it, given what we see emerge over the past 24, 48 hours, are we beginning to see republicans crack here in their unity around the president, their support for this president? do other colleagues share your sentiment that you expressed earlier that there s a cloud of suspicion over 1600 that needs to be addressed? i certainly hope so. this is not democratic or republican, it s an american issue. but what we ve seen from my colleagues on the house judiciary committee on the republican side and throughout the republican conference is that they ve engaged, not as americans, but as part of the cover up caucus. basically, to hide and to cover up the things that donald trump has done relative to crimes that may have been committed at his direction, or through his underlings, possibly connected to collusion with russia to sell out our democracy. instead of trying to get to the bottom of what has occurred, they basically are taking orders from donald trump to cover it all up. and that s shameful, irresponsible and a dereliction of duty relative to who we are as a separate and co-equal branch of government. let ple me ask you, maya, ab what has happened with michael cohen. he s saying, he s a bad lawyer, if you re looking for a lawyer, hire him. but for manafort, praise, sympathy for him, saying he was a brave man. why the difference? how do you read the difference between these two men that served very intimately with the president? very clearly. michael cohen flipped on the president. he pointed the finger, he called him out, he said he committed a crime. paul manafort refused to actually cooperate with prosecutors. he did not plead guilty to any of his crimes. he went through the entire court process and had to be actually found guilty by a jury of his peers. so what the president is signaling, both to both to paul manafort as well as to others out there who may have to make a decision about whether or not they re going to cooperate with prosecutors and investigators, he s saying if you stick by me i will stick by you. if you turn on me, i will come at you, guns blazing. and to that point, let s ask about pardons. because this is kind of like the big question everyone wants to know, something sarah huckabee sanders was asked about today. take a listen to lanny davis talking about a possible pardon for michael cohen. is he hoping for a pardon from president trump? not only is he not hoping for it, he would not accept a pardon. he considers a pardon from somebody who has acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never accept. so what is your take on what you just heard there from lanny davis? i take lanny davis at his word on that. i don t think there s any chance michael cohen receives a pardon, even if he did, it wouldn t necessarily shut him up. against this president? we re going to remain focused on drive down the costs of health care spiraling out of control because of republican recklessness, increase the pay of the american worker, wage stagnation, underemployment challenges throughout america, and we re going to focus on cleaning up corruption. now, we fought for the recusal of jeff sessions. he recused himself. he fought for the appointment of a special counsel, bob mueller was appointed. so now we just have to let mueller be mueller, do his work. finish the investigation. report to the american people, report to congress, report to the department of justice. at that point, we ll let the chips fall where they may. congressman, appreciate it. thank you for joining. maya and elie, stick around. sam nunberg actually warned, believe it or not, that cohen could be in trouble. i worry about michael. and i m not going to say michael is going to lie. i worry about michael. sam nunberg is back tonight live on the beat. plus the emerging dangers for trump, new details about what the president knew and when he actually knew it. and is trump s legal team dangling a pardon for paul manafort. what happens if that happens? 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he can be indicted, but he can t be tried while sitting as president. there could be charges against him, i would hope everybody, if they brought charges would keep them in a sealed indictment, i don t think anybody thinks it would be good if we had pending charges of anybody sitting as president in the united states. no matter you think of our sitting president. but the fact is, he could have charges brought against him, can t be tried. has that been tested in the supreme court and upheld? i don t think so. i don t think we have a historical president for anyone being tried. generally the only way that high crimes and misdemeanors have been dealt with in our history has been through the avenue of impeachment. of course we had richard nixon who resigned before anything happened. then we had gerald ford who pardoned him before any charges ever could be brought, if they were going to have been brought. let me play you this sound byte from michael cohen, what he had to say about president trump as he negotiated that deal to silence karen mcdougal. take a listen to this. he s more to us than just a boss. he s a mentor. he s a sage. he s like family. and when you have a problem, mr. trump feels like he has a problem. so we now heard the president has distanced himself from michael cohen, called him a bad lawyer. is trump s best defense here to paint cohen as a liar? what is the best strategy for president trump? he really only had one strategy, which is to dirty up the witness against him. that s who michael cohen is now after what he said in court yesterday. and i want to be very clear with the viewers, in federal court, a judge takes an allocution, or a factual basis, done under oath, this is a very big deal what michael cohen said yesterday, so the only avenue that trump has is to attack cohen. i don t really think it will be successful given the fact that there are tapes of the conversation involving the payouts. so he president trump is limited in his defense, and i think this is really going to become more of a public relations issue. and to be quite honest, giuliani is not doing a very good job defending him. you talked about giuliani. interesting you bring that point up. i want to play you the contradicting statements from both trump and giuliani on the stormy daniels payment? do you know about $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? do you know where he got the money to make that payment? no, i don t. it s not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so they funneled it through the law firm. funneled through a through firm, and then the president repaid it. oh, i didn t he did? yeah. the president reimbursed that over a period of several months. so how do you make sense of that when you have the president s lawyer saying, he knew about the payments, the payments came, as he said, funneled through a law firm, and then you had on the left as we played you there aboard air force one the president saying he didn t know about the payments and that the payments didn t come from him? it s hard to reconcile the two of those. i don t think it s a good idea, and i don t think any lawyer thinks it s a good idea to be trying cases in the press, and particularly when you don t know what the facts are, or you can t keep the facts straight. i don t think it s advised or well advised for either of them to be talking without knowing what the facts are, and they should figure them out. with the allocution yesterday and the documents that came out, we ve learned that what happened was the repayment was made, and it was disguised, or it was labeled legal fees, and it was repaid in $35,000 a month to the law firm of michael cohen, quote, for legal fees, another problem, because they weren t legal fees, and it was an amount that was higher than originally given to make the payment for keeping her quiet. so both of them are wrong. so to that point, the defense here, if you were trying to put a defense strategy that is trying to reconcile what giuliani said, with what the president said, is that even possible, what is your take? final thoughts on this. well, look, the only defense that trump had on this was that this was the money wasn t used to pay off both of these women for political reasons, but it was in order to protect his family, that is, he didn t want the first lady, and his children, to know that he had two of these affairs, but he s not willing to say that. so he has maintained, and he even said it today on fox & friends, that this was about politics. it doesn t matter whether it came from personal funds or campaign funds. it is still a violation of the law to use money for political reasons in a campaign. and that, the real problem, the president has going forward. lot of legal assessment is that it is only going to get worse going forward from all the various accounts we re getting. thank you both very much. i want to turn now to former trump aide, sam nunberg, a friend of michael cohen. sam, thank you for being here, a lot of cover with you. start with your reaction to what we ve seen of michael cohen s admission that the president knew about these payments and, in fact, directed him to make the payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels, woman one and number two. it was clear michael admitted he hired lanny davis, trump associates figured he was going to if not flip, if you want to call it flip on the president, with this said i would be interested to see if he is saying that now president trump directed him to make these specific payments at that time. what the the president seems to me, that he has said on fox & friends from my understanding of watching it he didn t know about these specific o until after the election. michael had full authority to do whatever he wanted on this. the fact the president didn t give him that money from trump one of the charges michael pleaded guilty was he filed false paperwork. if the president wanted to be paid, the president would have paid it himself and would have had michael handle it. i d like to know, therefore, specifically what the president knew and when he knew it. i believe i believe the president, when he says he didn t know it until after the election. all right, but there s tape of that, you know. no, there s tape of him discussing the issue with tapes of him discussing the issue with mcdougal. yeah. the mcdougal one. i m talking about the stormy daniels. the fundamental question is did the president know these payments were being made, and michael cohen s recording suggested he knew about the payments being made. he knew there were going to be payments, excuse me, didn t know there would be payments, but he knew there would be issues and michael would be handling the issues. the recording, when i listen to it, it s about david pecker and about the karen mcdougal issue. therefore, he definitely knew about that one. but uh don t necessarily think he knew about stormy daniels. the irony of it is, i don t think they should have paid off stormy daniels from a political point of view because it wouldn t have cost them a vote. if it were to come out they were negotiating, it would have been worse. giuliani disagrees with you. he says in october, can you imagine what would have happened if it would have come out in the middle of october. his assessment, this had a lot of political implications. that s their argument. my argument would be, for reasons i don t believe that once again michael pled guilty to this, he wasn t found guilty by a jury, this is the first time anyone has pled guilty, to my understanding, because we had the edwards case, but to my understanding this is the first time i think that the argument is, i think that things like this may have happened in the past, michael handled things like this. when you look at the statue, you can argue this was dual use, this could be done outside of the campaign. we re scratching the surface here. take a quick 30-second break, stick around. e. at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. lease the 2018 is 300 and is 300 all wheel drive for these terms. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. you might or joints.hing for your heart. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. all right, we re back along with sam nunberg, and also maya wiley is back with us. sam, i know you were concerned about michael cohen, what are your thoughts about his legal situation? i m very sad. i don t necessarily do you believe him? do i believe that he s saying what he said yesterday in terms of his guilty plea got president, that the president knew? i believe that the president did not know at that time about stormy daniels, which is why which is why trump org did not take care of it. he would have taken care of it, he had the money to do it. you just suggested michael cohen did these types of things for the president. that s exactly how do you reconcile the two things, if the president expected michael to take care of these things. the president said he didn t learn about the specific payment until after the election. i believe he didn t know about the payment until after the election based on the fact that michael took out the money himself to pay it. he could have gone to the cfo, who s already been subpoenaed, he could have talked to allen wiseleberg. i want to hear the specifics about what they re exactly saying. all i have is what the reporting is, and i read the transcript. it s vague to me. when was the last time, really quickly, you spoke to michael cohen? i used to run into michael when he was staying at the hotel because steve bannon stays in the same hotel. michael had texted me a couple weeks ago. i was looking for it yesterday. he texted me a couple weeks ago. i said, we can communicate lawyer to lawyer. he asked for my attorney s tact information, i gave it. my attorney never heard from his attorn attorney. maya, did you want to weigh in on what he was saying about the timeline of the president knowing and not knowing? first of all, i would say, obviously, sam, you know michael cohen and i do not, and obviously you have more of a window into the operations of donald trump. i don t dispute that. from a legal standpoint, there is so much evidence, both direct and circumstantial, that suggests, number one, the president at that point in the election, the issue of his sexual conduct was an issue in the election. and therefore it seems, when you have someone say, and you have a conversation where the president is directly talking about cash versus a non-cash transaction, even if it s in one of the other counts that michael cohen pled guilty to, it suggests a pattern of behavior that is consistent with what michael cohen pled guilty to. and i think my other question would be, why plead guilty if, in fact, to that and implicate the president if he didn t have actual if he wasn t actually directed by the president? it doesn t help him one way or the other. he s already guilty of the count. he doesn t benefit by implicating the president when he s already pled guilty to his own campaign finance violation. what do you make of the fact that lanny davis has been saying he has something to offer bob mueller, and even suggested it had to do with the hack and the attack on our democracy? look, when i was in when i was in the special counsel, when excuse me, grand jury testimony, i was in there for around five to six hours. and there could have a lot of it had to do specifically with michael. and the fact that they then they put out michael s case to the southern district meant to me that they didn t really believe that michael had anything of value for them. that s my perhaps the professor has a different interpretation, or has a different idea, but i thought that in light of that, in light of the amount of time, and they spent more time with me on michael than i than on roger stone even. what were they probing you about michael? what were they trying to get at about michael? michael s role in the campaign, what his type of role was going to be and other issues i just you know, business type issues which just general things i had seen around trump which i don t want to get into. it s nothing guilty or criminal. at least i don t believe it is. to that point, do you think you used the word michael cohen has flipped, is that your assessment of what michael cohen is doing now, that he has flipped on the president? do you see it as that? we all thought this once he hired lanny davis. i heard from mutual friends and reporters he talked to he was very upset with the president. i like michael personally, once again. i sympathize with him. the minute he retained lanny davis, for somebody like me that was, well, that s a little inappropriate, to me, and i see where you re going with this. and lanny has said this, he basically wants him to be the john dean to impeach this president. i don t believe whatever michael has is of that type of value. do you think that it was wrong for michael cohen to not trust the president and tape the president and some of the conversations they were having? my idea first of all, yes. number two, i can tell you that i don t believe michael did that tape because michael wanted to protect himself, or ever envisioned he would be prosecuted by a special counsel. one, he envisioned he would be in the white house. i think that if he did those tapes, as opposed to the phone calls, let s say you have an iphone, and you just take every phone call automatically, i don t have one of those. but if you walk in and you re essentially wearing a wire, to somebody where you ve profesed you would take a bullet for him, internal politics, always the one that was closest to the president, the most loyal one, this or that, you know, maybe he really wasn t and that was very, very surprising to me. there s obviously a lot of speculation as to whether the president has also been loyal to his own associates and stuff. i m not arguing that the president i ve said the president did not treat me well. okay, with that water under the bridge for me. long time ago. i sympathize with the fact that michael did not get a job in the white house. wouldn t it have been better add they just given michael a job in the eob? he didn t have to be in the west wing. things would have been different had hthey done that. i think he was taping him, so if you had a meeting, he could play to show you he was important and had this relationship with the president and would show you off the record. little do you know, he could be taping you too with one of the other phones. let me get your reaction to the fact that michael cohen was the subject of his interview with the grand jury for a substantial amount of time, the agreement yesterday that michael cohen signed does not necessarily exclude him from cooperating with robert mueller, in fact, that s still very much very much on the table. very much still on the table and what a lot of legal analysts expected to happen for what happened yesterday. lanny davis, basically said it would happen today. how significant is michael cohen to the mueller investigation? i think if you have someone who has the length of history working for donald trump in multiple capacities, right, not just as an attorney, but also connected to some of his business transactions, including working on trying to get trump moscow, right, the trump hotel in moscow. there s no question that that s going to relate to the mueller investigation. that s also clear that he s going all the documents that he had, not just the tapes, but also documents, e-mail exchanges are all going to be significantly important into trying to understand what the communications relationships were between donald trump, close associates, business transactions, and even the possibility of whether there was any on donald trump. there was no question michael cohen was always going to be a relevant, if not someone who actually committed crimes, somebody who might be a fact witness or have documents or evidence. i think the fact that michael cohen was being asked, you were being asked questions about michael cohen, you previously have talked about how many questions you got about roger stone, and there s no question we might see indictments on roger stone coming down the pike. but even if michael cohen hadn t committed any crimes, i think he would have been someone who was significant to the mueller investigation to understand what he knew and what he had. what we see here is mueller kicked it out to the southern district because it made sense. michael cohen was in new york. the crimes related to this were happened in new york. it is part of the justice department. and they have the ability to actually leverage that evidence in the mueller investigation. so let me ask you, you know the mind-set of the president, you re working closely with steve bannon who also knows the mind-set of the president. there s reporting that there s great concern inside the white house after the developments yesterday involving paul manafort and michael cohen, what is your assessment of the president s mind-set following these two developments? i don t know the president s current mind-set. what i would say is this, i think that the minute i think that this was something we expect people that are going to fight the impeachment, it s funny, i saw you interview congressman jeffries, he doesn t want to talk about impeachment, they ll be impeaching him if they have the majority in 2018. this is something we expected in terms of michael. i was surprised, i did not expect that michael committed these other crimes. these were a shock to me that he did things like this. people said to me, oh, come on, you knew michael was corrupt. i never knew he was corrupt. i thought he was a wealthy, successful businessman. in terms of manafort, i would be quite surprised. i think the consensus is we would be surprised if he turned government to a government witness. but it is what it is. look, they went the point is, is that the minute rick gates cooperated they threatened him with 100 years. they couldn t mention him in their closing argument. should the president pardon paul manafort? he should not pardon anyone, and he should not fire mueller or sessions. he should not pardon anyone until after this investigation is over. you re not ruling it out as a suggestion to the president. he should not pardon anyone until after the investigation is completely over. until the report is submitted to congress. sam nunberg, thank you for your time. maya, thank you very much. ahead, president trump saying he feels bad for paul manafort. is he thinking about a pardon? big news on that today. plus, i m going to talk to a democratic senator who says indictment should be on the table for trump in the wake of the explosive cohen news. stay with us. with the new chase ink business unlimited card i get unlimited 1.5% cash back. it s so simple, i don t even have to think about it. so i think about the details. fine, i obsess over the details. introducing chase ink business unlimited with unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase. back pain can t win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. i m hoping these nature sounds will help me relax a bit.. at least we don t have to worry about homeowners insurance. just call geico. geico helps with homeowners insurance? 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the manafort case doesn t have anything to do with the president. doesn t have anything to do with his campaign. doesn t have anything to do with the white house. so you re hearing there, the white house today dodging the questions swirling around donald trump s former campaign chair, convicted of eight charges yesterday. so the question today is, will paul manafort get a pardon? today, trump lawyer rudy giuliani say trump isn t considering a pardon for manafort, quote, at this time. the legal spokesman says if trump wants to pardon manafort he ll wait until after his second trial scheduled for september. manafort s own attorney saying his client is evaluating all of his options. manafort currently facing a maximum sentence of 80 years. and trump himself praising manafort this morning as a, quote, brave man. with me now is margaret carlson, columnist for the daily beast. margaret, begin with you, does it look like from the tone of the tweets, from the messaging coming out of the white house, that the president trump is thinking about pardoning paul manafort? you barely have to parse the statements to see that, yes, a pardon is on the table at the top of his mind. i mean, giuliani said everything. but at this point in time. which is watergate language. he s a brave manafort s a brave man, a good man, he didn t break, like that awful michael cohen to get a deal. and trump played lawyer on twitter all day. a crime is not a crime. he says, you know, if you get convicted on ten counts, eight counts, but not ten counts, then you re not really guilty. and, you know, by contrast, michael cohen is dead to him. there s no pardon coming for that guy. to that point, margaret, politically speaking, does it make sense for the president to pardon somebody like paul manafort? you already have republican you have republican senator susan collins, john corn yn of texas, they re saying it s a misuse of power, a bridge too far for the president to pardon paul manafort. politically speaking does it make sense for the president to do so? well, these senators fold like cheap umbrellas. you know, just yesterday senator cornyn was saying, i don t know what the implication of this is, it doesn t involve russia and not that bad. there s no red line they won t cross. so their threats are not to be taken seriously. and sadly, to have the pardon in trump s hand is too bad because it is absolute. so elie, the president may pardon him on federal crimes, but he s not off the hook on some state crimes. if, in fact, he paul manafort is pardoned, he still faces potential legal challenges here in new york for his involvement with the trump organization, the trump foundation and a whole other set of issues. pardon obviously is a powerful exercise of constitutional power, but it cannot trump the state system, no pun intended. the pardon only is federal. governors can issue state-level pardons. but no, even if the president was to pardon paul manafort he would still be in legal jeopardy from the new york attorney general or any state attorney general. and margaret, finally, if it s not the pardon, what is the line for republicans on this particular issue? you mean what they re going to say when a microphone is stuck in their faces? yeah, i mean, to what extent will republicans stand behind this president if pardoning paul manafort does not draw the ire of republican senators and republican congressmen, what would? well, i predict that they say this you know, paul manafort, you know, was not close to the campaign. he he had nothing to do with the russia investigation. it s not germane to mueller. and therefore tax fraud and bank fraud and, you know, every other, you know, moral decrepetude that manafort practiced doesn t matter. the president made the argument these charges were all about things manafort did before the campaign. when he did it yesterday he gave a new pronunciation to collusion. there s no collusion. he said it ten times in ohio. margaret carlson, elie, thank you for being with us. coming up, richard blumenthal says everything has to be on the table, including an indictment for the president, joining us live next. mom: okay we need to get all your school supplies today. school. grade. done. done. hit the snooze button and get low prices on school supplies all summer long. like these for only $2 or less at office depot officemax. oscar mayer deli fresh ham has no added nitrates, nitrites or artificial preservatives. now deli fresh flavor is for everyone. like those who like. sweet. those who prefer heat. and those who just love meat. oscar mayer deli fresh. a fresh way to deli. oscar mayer deli fresh. you may be learning about, medicare and supplemental insurance. medicare is great, but it doesn t cover everything .only about 80% of your part b medicare costs. a medicare supplement insurance plan may help cover some of the rest. learn how an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company might be the right choice for you. a free decision guide is a great place to start. call today to request yours. so what makes an aarp medicare supplement plan unique? 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will be talking about that new agreement with two of our biggest allies to save nafta. we ll go live to the white house rose garden in a few moments. also the combat over kavanaugh. questions over what the fbi is going to be asking in the investigation of allegations made about the supreme court nominee, and about the people who will not be a part of that. we ll look at that in a moment. but we start with just moments from now president trump will step in front of reporters in the white house rose garden to tout an 1 1th hour trade deal reached last night. the u.s. mexico, canada agreement replaces nafta, at least in name. and at this morning s tweets if it s any indication, you can expect a victory lap. the president writing the agreement is, quote, a great deal for all three countries and will bring all three great nations together in competition with the rest of the world. the markets so far seem to like the deal. all of the indices are up right now. jeff bennett standing by in the rose garden. i m also joined by john harwood and also josh barrow. an nbc political contributor as well. and phillip is with us as well, and former indiana congressman david mcintosh, the president of the federalist society. we have assembled quite the esteemed panel. john, let me start with you. this new agreement aims to do a number of things. modernize food and agriculture trade. addressing the digital trade anti-corruption regulatory practices. also gives the u.s. greater access to canada s dairy market. what e else is in this deal? is it a winter for t win for president? it s a win for the economy in a sense that we avoid the threat of collapse of an old nafta. that s one positive thing. there are some steps forward for particular u.s. sectors like dairy. it is a good thing from u.s. u.s. perspective that canada opened the dairy market a bit. but most of the improvements on the deal were on the president s deal the day he walked into office. they were negotiate by obama in canada and mexico as part of the transpacific partnership will president trump threw in the trash can. this is mostly relabeling. unclear whether it is going to result in more jobs and higher paying jobs in the u.s. for auto workers which is the goal of that. so mostly the president who is a master marketer is putting his name on a deal that was already in place, and it s better than not having a deal. mr. bennett, the president announcing this morning s event on twitter a few moments ago as we watched folks assemble for this news conference. the president is calling it that. do we know if president trump is going to take questions or talk about anything beyond the trade deal? a staffer laid out a microphone which would suggest reporters will have a chance to ask questions. another detail from the rose garden is the people on the stage who will end up flanking the president include staffers from the u.s. trade representatives office and members of the national economic counsel. these are all the folks involved in hashing out this deal ahead of this tdeadline. there are modest revisions. this is not a rewrite of the 24-year-old nafta treatment. this is a political win. he gets to sell it as a promise made, promise kept. it s also a branding win. he suggested he might call it the usmc in honor of the u.s. marine corps. usmca won out. the things included in this deal, it s more of a long-term win. this isn t expected to be ratified by congress until 2019. short-term, including tonight when the president heads to tennessee, expect him to tout this as a concrete policy proposal. concrete policy achievement that he got to see on his watch. you just mentioned ratification there on the hill. garrett haake standing by. what s been the response on the hill so far? congressman considering this a new deal or just a rebranded version of nafta? the response has been relatively muted. we ve heard from a couple of democratic lawmakers including nancy pelosi saying they need to review this and see whether or not they think it will ultimately be good for american workers. that s the framework they re looking the. republican leadership inclined to be favorable. republicans particularly in the senate have been back on their heels about how president trump has dealt with trade thus far. this is much more the kind of thing that they re comfortable with. the kind of deal. they want to see a republican president hammering it out. i don t think this is the kind of thing that can be done before the midterms. the house is already gone until november. i suspect we ll see a lame duck session which could be interesting if democrats take control in january if they ll put more pressure on the president on this deal. but i would say cautious optimism so far from the hill as both parties are reviewing what s actually specifically in this new agreement. again, as we wait for this news conference to start there, not exactly sure why the camera just zeroed in. i don t see the president there unless somebody in the control room tells me otherwise, we are waiting for that s not the president there. we re waiting on the president to make his way to the rose garden for this announcement. mr. mcintosh, we just saw commerce secretary wilbur ross under the deal. the president s 25 % is 25 % tariff on canadian steel remains in place. on fox business this morning, the commerce secretary said there is no timetable, no time line for dropping these tariffs. does that give the white house leverage? so one, i think the president has done a great service in stabilizing nafta, making sure it will continue to be in place and putting this new agreement there. but i think next steps have to be peeling back the tariffs. they re hurting american countries. companies that are trying to use steel and aluminum to produce, and i think they ll get to that. there s a battle within the administration between the free and fair traders and between the protectionists like navarro who want the lift high tariff boundaries around the united states. this is a sign the president is going for an international agreement. he s making it a better agreement, and one of the things that he s also doing is on intellectual property, unifying canada and mexico so he can go back to china and say you have to change. you have to adopt these new standards. josh barrow, always enjoy having your perspective. you re able to give us sort of the 30,000 foot view of all of this. what do you make of this new deal? is it essentially just nafta 2.0? i think the remarkable thing is it buys the president into nafta. during the campaign he went around saying nafta was the worst agreement the u.s. had ever entered. now he s putting his stamp on a deal that is not terribly different from the old nafta deal. he can go out there and paint this as a win. i think some of the changes are genuine improvements to the deal. i think some of them are not necessarily positive for america including weakening some of the international dispute provision. more or less nafta is going to come out not that different from how it went in. the president will be locked into the idea that now nafta is good. it s his stamp on it. a similar thing has happened with the south korea trade deal which the president just touted relatively minor renegotiation of it and said it was a bad deal, and now it s a good deal. i think the main long term effect is the president is in a way committing himself to a less protectionist agenda. and i think also some of the worst ideas that the trump administration had about how to change nafta were blocked by the canadians or mexicans. they wanted a sunset cause that caused nafta to blow up after five years. the trump administration wanted that in order to give themselves a stronger hand to force more changes on canada and mexico. canada and mexico for good reasons refused to give them that. i think this is a win for free trade in the long run. the president will say he s making trade better. he s raul just capitulating to the consensus in washington. i m happy about that. between now and thursday president trump is going to be speaking in rallies in tennessee, mississippi, minnesota as well. we are in full midterm mode now. you are media director for hillary clinton. you know the drill. how is this going to play with the midterms now just five weeks away? how is this going to play for voters in some of these key races? well, i mean, just listen to the states you listed between tennessee and mississippi. i think right off the bat that s not a bad thing. the numbers are obviously against the democrats in the senate, but overall the midterms are feeling pretty good. i think there are two historical differences between 2018 and previous first term midterms. if you look at 2010 or 1994, people came out and voted republicans came out and voted against what president clinton and president obama had done in their first term in the first two years. whether it was clinton and the budget deal or obama and obama care. here you have a different dynamic. here while no one is ever happen when their candidate loses, you could have held the mid terms on january 21st, 2017, and you would have had a tremendous backlash against republicans. president obama had fewer people at his inauguration protest against him the next day. every day since nothing has gone well. in terms of the economy, there s also a distinction between the past. when president clinton ran for president and he pressed the economy, we were in a recession. when president obama ran we were on the verge of collapse. they saved our economy. president obama excuse me president trump, too many president s names in a row. president trump is basically running around saying i raised this by .2% and i lowered that by .3% and i m this economic god when in reality he just kept the race car gassed and the tires fresh. live look here. rose garden. you can see secretary mnuchin there. we just saw commerce secretary wilbur ross. also we re told larry kudlow is somewhere in the house as well and so is the department of homeland security, secretary kiersten nielsen. we ve been given the five minute warning here. jeff bennett is still there standing by for us. jeff, you mentioned that there s a microphone in place for the assembled reporters? one would assume the president is going to be taking questions. one would probably also assume he will get at least one or two questions about his supreme court nominee, brett kavkavanau. and i want to jump in. the point made about president trump being locked into nafta is a good one. there are some 36 states that count canada as its number one exporter. all among members of congress who have to ratify this deal have been saying they re not going to accept a u.s./mexico only deal. they say no canada, no deal. now there s this usmca that will most likely get ratified sometime next year. the big question is brett kavanaugh, the reopened investigation into the sexual assault claims. the white house counsel s office is limiting the scope of the investigation fbi can do. we heard over the weekend sarah huckabee sanders make the point that the white house is not micromanaging this process. even if you take them at their word, maybe they re not micromanaging, but there s no denying the white house is in charge of this process. that s how this process works. the white house is the client here. the fbi is doing the investigative work on behalf of the white house. the white house sets the terms telling the fbi who they can and who they can t interview. on that long list of people to be interviewed by the fbi you will not find julie swetnick. why? they say she doesn t meet the threshold of being credible. there s a concern among democratic and republican members of the senate, certainly those on the judiciary committee that by limiting the scope of the investigation, it could determine with the fbi finds. and there s also a notion that this does not meet the expectations that folks like jeff flake and others thought they were getting when they called for thissi week-long pau. i asked president trump if he would give free raeign. he said yes, whatever they need to do to come about finish their investigation. the thing is he has to give his white house counsel the authorization to then give the fbi the free reign to do that work. david, let s talk about the impact of the brett kavanaugh confirmation process as we wait for the news conference to start. i apologize in advance if i have to cut you off. there s this new nbc poll out. it found that 41% of men and 29% of women think that brett kavanaugh should be confirmed. how concerned should conservatives be? how concerned should republicans be about the numbers? i think what that shows is men on the whole are saying look, you can t say that all men are guilty until proven innocent. and i think that s become for part of the population, the key take away from this whole process. it s unfair. it s putting him on trial. no collaborative evidence shows he did anything. i think what you re seeing is a division there that will actually in the election probably energize both parties. now, the democrats were already energized as someone pointed out from the day after the election. but republicans were kind of lacking. our polling showed that at the club for growth. this will likely energize both and we ll see what happens. it will come down candidate by candidate, issue by issue election. where i think the republicans at that point stand a chance of winning and keeping both houses. no one else is predicting that, d you re the first person i ve heard say that on the air. we just saw jared kushner. it would seem as if every adviser and cabinet member is there waiting for the president to come out and talk about the trade deal. josh, let me pick up where i left off with david with regards to brett kavanaugh. you guy that? do you think that brett kavanaugh becomes justice kavanaugh? i think he will be confirmed. i think we re likely to see not that much come out in this fbi report and the republican senators who sought the report seem to be looking for that political cover to say look, we took time. we had the fbi look into it. they didn t find much. apart from any restrictions the white house imposes, this was 36 years ago and the evidence may be limited. in terms of effects on the election, i thought there was a good point. the undecided numbers in these polls about brett kavanaugh are high. partisans with strong opinions. a lot of peopled in middle don t know what to make of the situation. it s the dr. ford testified. she seemed credible. she has some people she discussed the incident with some years ago but some years after it happened. a lot of people look at this and don t know for sure whether brett kavanaugh did this or not so they can t make a strong opinion. that is one of several things in terms of the politics of it that make it unclear which party is likely to get partisan advantage here either if he s confirmed or rejected. i think the politicians on both sides need to think about not just appealing to their bases but how to reach the voters in the middle who aren t sure if brett kavanaugh should be on the court or not. one of the things that continues to strike me about the conversation that we re having about brett kavanaugh in this country and over the weekend, i mean, it was all that anyone wanted to talk about when i saw them. it would seem as if folks pretty much had their mind made up before the hearing started. and it would also seem again, this is based on conversations i ve been having with people. after the hearing their minds very pretty much the same. do we think that minds are going to be changed at the end of this fbi investigation? well, i think you re 100% right. he s become a proxy war for much larger fight we ve been seeing for 20 months. and people are dug in. i do think people s minds can change because we re only talking about a hand full of minds. we re talking about jeff flake, susan collins, maybe bob corker, and i very much think or i want to believe that those minds can be changed. first off if jeff flake s mind couldn t be changed, he wouldn t have asked for this. he would have voted on friday. but he didn t. and i believe you have a problem here. you have two problems here. one, the hearing was a debacle. you not only have what he did in the past in question. i think you have u.s. senators not to mention any sane person, looking at him and saying he was unhinged. he went haywire and he certainly lied even if it s just out of embarrassment, about his past. if the white house continues to meddle and obstruct this conversation, i don t know how jeff flake and susan collins and lisa murkowski in their right mind can say i m happy now. murkowski needs to vote now for her own to last in politics. this comes down to susan collins. i want to believe she can t do it. president trump there in the rose garden at the white house making his way to the podium to talk about the new united states/mexico/cana states/mexico/canada agreement. this was an agreement reached last night. it s great to see everybody on this beautiful beautiful day in washington d.c. some people say the swamp, but i will not say that today. i refuse. this is too important what we re doing. one of the most important deals, and the most important trade deal we ve ever made by far. i want to thank senator joni ernst for being here. iowa, i ll be there soon. we ll be doing something very important in iowa, but this is maybe more important than all of it put together. i want to thank you for being here. congressman holding, congressman rowe, congressman knewhouse and congressman meadows, thank you for being here. you ve been very instrumental. thank you. i am thrilled to speak to the american people to share truly historic news for our nation and, indeed for the world. i want to thank vice president pence for joining us this morning. it s my great honor to announce we have successfully completed negotiations on a brand new deal to terminate and replace nafta, and the nafta trade agreements with any credible new u.s.-mexico-canada agreement called usmca. it sort of just works. mca. usmca. that will be the name i guess that 99% of the time we ll be hearing, usmca. has a good ring to it. i have long contended that nafta was perhaps the worst trade deal ever made. since nafta s adoption the united states racked up trade deficits totaling more than $2 trillion and it s a much higher number than that with dcanada ad mexico it lost vast amounts of money and lost 4.1 million manufacturing jobs and one in four auto jobs. lost about 25% of our auto jobs, even more than that. throughout the campaign i promised to renegotiate nafta and today we have kept that promise. but for 25 years as a civilian, as a businessman, i used to see how could anybody have signed a deal like nafta. i watched new england and so many other places where i was just the factories were leaving the jobs were leaving. people were being fired. and we can t have that. so we have negotiated this new agreement based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity. to me it s the most important word in trade because we ve been treated so unfairly by so many nations around the world and we re changing that. we signed a much better deal with south korea. we had a horrible, horrible deal. we just signed it at united nations, and that s worked out well. and they re happy. we re happy. it s good for jobs. good for a lot of things. when that deal was signed they said 250$,000 jobs will be given by signing this transaction, and they were right. i ve said it before. they were right. 25 0,000 jobs to south korea. this is a brand new deal. the agreement will govern nearly 1.2 trillion in trade which makes it the biggest trade deal in the united states historic. i want to congratulate u.s. trade representative bob lighthizer who has worked. nobody understands how hard he s worked. [ applause ] no matter when you called him, he was in the office, or he was in somebody else s office doing the same thing. bob lighthizer is great. i ve heard it for years. i said if i ever do this, i want to get lighthizer to represent us. and the entire team at the ustr standing behind me and some right here in the audience. i want to thank you all. fantastic job. peter in a vnavarro, everybody. thank you all. thank you. fantastic group of people. they love our country. i also want to thank secretary mnuchin, secretary ross, secretary nielsen, secretary perdue, jared kushner, peter navarro and kelly craft. i also want to thank president of mexico. we had a few disagreements but i really like him a lot. i think he may like me. i m not sure. i think he s a terrific person, and he ll be leaving soon. he s really done a good job. and wonderful, wonderful person. and the mexican president elect who has given his support to this agreement, and we re developing a really good relationship which i think is very important for our country, frankly, and for mexico. and so they work together on this. this was done by both. i said look, i don t want to sign an agreement, and then a new president comes in. they don t like it and we have difficulty. they work very much together on it. and i appreciate it from both. i have to certainly give my highest regards to prime minister of canada, justin trudeau. a lot of stories came out about justin and i having difficulty together with what we did over the trade deal, but i ll tell you, it s turned out to be a very, very good deal for both, and a a very, very good deal for all three. it puts us in a position we ve never been in before. it s very good when you look at the world and what the world is doing and when you look at the unfair trade practices that countries are using against the united states, this is a terrific deal. for all of us. once approved by congress, this new deal will be the most modern up to date and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country. with the most advanced protections for workers ever developed. if you look at the reviews, people that would normally not under any circumstances say good things because automatically they have to say bad. even some democrats say that s amazing. they haven t been given the sound bites yet, i guess, mike, but actually you had some democrats say this is really amazing if he really got all of that. but by tomorrow i would suspect they ll change their tune, but that s okay, because people know how good it is. it s an amazing deal for a lot of people. likewise, it will be the most advanced trade deal in the world with ambition provisions on the digital economy, patents, very important. financial services and other areas where the united states has a strong competitive advantage. mexico and canada have agreed to strong new labor protections, environmental protections, and new protections for intellectual property. so important. this new deal is an especially great victory for our farmers. our farmers have gone through a lot over the last 15 years. they ve been taken advantage of by everybody. prices have gone way down. and we re working on some other deals that are going to make them happy also. this is a very, very big deal for our farmers. mexico and canada will be opened up a lot more than they are now. and i think there will be a better spirit between the countries which is important for our farmers. the agreement will give our farmers and ranchers far greater access to sell american grown produce in mexico, and in canada. the deal includes a substantial increase in our farmer s opportunities to export american wheat, poultry, eggs, and dairy including milk, butter, cheese, yogurt and ice cream to name a few. i want to be very specific. i want to be very specific. all right? and many other products but those products were not really being treated fairly as far as those that work so hard to produce them. and now they re going to be treated fairly. these measures will support many hundreds of thousands of american jobs. this is also a historic win for american manufacturers, and american auto workers who have been treated so badly. we ve lost so many jobs over the years under nafta. under the current new deal and if you look at the current nafta deal, the new deal is taking care of all of these problems, because nafta, foreign companies have been allowed to manufacture many of their parts overseas, ship them to mexico and canada for assembly and send their foreign-made cars into the united states with no tax. so we let all our people go. we fire everybody. they make cars. they make products. they make everything in another country. they send them into the united states, no tax. and the cost is very little difference. sometimes it s more for those people that like to talk about cost. with this agreement we are closing all of these terrible loopholes. they re closed. they re gone. they were a disaster. for example, we are requiring a large portion of every car to be made by high-wage workers which will greatly reduce foreign outsourcing which was a tremendous problem. and means more auto parts and automobiles will be manufactured inside the united states. we will be manufacturing many more cars and our companies won t be leaving the united states, firing their workers, and building their cars elsewhere. there s no longer that incentive. before under the nafta deal they had that incentive. they have the opposite incentive now. to me that was the most important thing. i don t want to see our companies leave and fire our workers and our workers never get jobs to replace those jobs. those days are over. this deal will also impose new standards requiring at least 75% of every automobile to be made in north america in order to qualify for the privilege of free access to our markets, and that s what it is. it s a privilege. we don t take it as a privilege. we don t take it as a privilege. it s a privilege for them to do business with us. and i m not talking about mexico. i m talking about everybody. everybody. it s a privilege for china to do business with us. it s a plrivilege for the european union who has treated us very badly, but that s coming along, to do business with us. japan, every country, it s a privilege for them to come in and attack the piggie bank. and this, we will have a result of much more happening right here in the united states. it means more than anything else far more american jobs and these are high quality jobs. there are also strong provisions to enforce what s called the rules of origin. once approved this will be a new dawn for the american auto industry and for the american auto worker. they will see. they understand. they voted for us in large numbers even though their leadership always goes democrat. a couple of them said to me i don t know how i can do it again. many of them the leaders would become democrats and tell me you re going to get most of the votes from union workers and we got most of the votes from workers, period. but the american auto worker was very much behind what we were doing as one primary aspect. it will transform north america back into a manufacturing power house. if you remember the previous administration said we re not going to have manufacturing jobs anymore, essentially. we re not going to make things anymore? no. just the opposite. we re going to be a manufacturing power house that allows us to reclaim a supply chain that has been offshored to the world because of unfair trade issues. we also provide brand new intellectual product protection for drugs. we want our drugs to be made here. when you talk prescription drugs, we don t like getting them from foreign countries. we don t know what s happening with those drugs, how they re being made. too important. this landmark agreement will send cash and jobs pouring into the united states, and into north america. good for canada. good for mexico. instead of jobs leaving for overseas. they will be returning back home and we ve already had it. we have many, many car companies. i was with prime minister abe of japan. he said we have sent many car companies to the united states over the last year and a half. it s true, and big expansions. and very importantly he said many more are coming. because they have an incentive now to be here. people want to be back in the united states again. as i say, the united states is respected again. but it s also respected as to trade and industry. this is a truly extraordinary agreement for the united states, canada, and mexico. the mexico president, it s so important that the president and i have developed this sort of a bond. a bond on trade. pena nieto, a man that has done a very good job for mexico in terms of trade and prime minister trudeau who i just spoke to, just spoke to both of them a little while ago. they love their countries. they want to do right for their countries. that s what they ve done, and if you look at the agreement, we formed a great partnership with mexico. and with canada. and i plan to sign the agreement by the end of november. by then we ll submit it for approval to congress where in theory there should be no trouble, but anything you submit to congress is trouble. no matter what. it s a single greatest agreement ever signed. they ll say well, you know, trump likes it, therefore, we re not going to approve it because that would be good for the republicans so we can t approve it. but it will be sent to congress pursuant to the trade promotion authority act. this agreement follows on the heels of our successful completion of a new and balanced trade deal with south korea. tremendous difference in that deal from what it was. it was a disaster, as i said. to improve the old deal that it kills so many jobs. it also follows on our announcement last week of a new trade negotiation with japan. japan would never negotiate with the united states. they said we re not going to negotiate. they told the previous administration we re not going to negotiate. i said you don t have to negotiate, but we re going to put a very, very substantial tax on your car if you don t. without tariffs, we wouldn t be talking about a deal just for those babies out there that keep talking about tariffs. that includes congress. oh, please don t charge tariffs. without tariffs you wouldn t be we wouldn t be standing here. bob and all of these folks would not be standing here right now. and we re totally prepared to do that if they don t negotiate. but japan is wanting to negotiate. actually, they called about three weeks ago, and he s a terrific man. had a tremendous victory. they said we d like to start negotiations immediately. india which is the tariff king, they called it and they say we want to start negotiations immediately when bob lighthizer said what happened, he would never do this. they said no, we want to keep your president happy. is that nice? isn t that nice? it s true. they have to keep us happy, because they understand that we re wise to what s been happening. india charges tariffs of 100%. and then if we want to put a tariff of 25% on people we ll call from congress, that s not free trade. i d look back to people and say where do these people come from? so because of the power of tariffs and the power that we have with tariffs, we in many cases won t even have to use them. that s how powerful they are. and how good they are. but in many cases we re not going to have to use them. and in many cases countries that are charging massive tariffs are eliminating those tariffs. as you know we have $250 billion at 25% interest with china right now. and we could go $267 billion more. and china wants to talk very badly. and i said frankly, it s too early to talk. can t talk now because they re not ready. they ve been ripping us for so many years, it doesn t happen that quickly. and if politically people force it too quickly, you re not going to make the right deal for our workers and for our country, but china wants to talk, and we want to talk to them. and we want them to help us with north korea. we want them to continue to help us with north korea. that s very important. the european union has been very tough on the united states. last year and for many years they ve lost in the vicinity of $150 billion a year. they have massive trade barriers. and they didn t want to come. they didn t want to talk. jean claude, great business person, head of the european union, my friend, i d say jean claude, we want to make a deal. he goes no, no, no, we are very happy. i said you may be happy but i m not happy. we have one of the worst deals of any group with the european union, and they just didn t want to come because they were happy with the deal. i said but we re not happy with the deal. and finally after going through a whole process i said look, we re going to put a tax of 20% on all the millions of cars. millions of millions of cars that they sell here that they won t take over there. farm product that they won t take over there because there are barriers. you can t sell. you re not allowed to. our farmers aren t allowed to sell many of their products over there, most of them. and so i announced we re going to put a 20 % tariff, could be 25% on their cars coming in, and they immediately called and said we d like to start negotiations and we re having a successful negotiations. we ll see what happens. who knows? we ll see. i have a feeling we ll be successful. a pillar of national security is economic security in trade. national security is not where we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year. over the last five years we ve averaged $800 billion a year loss on trade. how dumb is that? $800 billion. this group doesn t know about those numbers. i don t want them to hear those numbers, but the united states in its trade deals has lost on average almost $800 billion a year. that s dealing with china, dealing with european union, with everybody. japan. mexico, canada, everybody. and we re not going to allow that to happen. but we have to have a strong manufacturing base and manufacturing sector. we need a thriving economy. those are all really essential ingredients to national security. we can t allow what s been happening over the last 25 years to happen. we re building our military like never before. it will be the strongest it ever was. and all the jets that are made and rockets and missiles and ships, they re all being made in the united states. jobs. our economy is booming like never before. jobless climbs are at a 50-year low. the stock market is at an all-time high. think of that. over 50% since my election. 50%. people, the 401 ks and they have 401ks. they were dying with them for years. now they re so happy. i was telling the story, i often tell of a policeman in new york. came up. his wife was always very upset with him as an investor because he wasn t doing well with the 401ks. now she thinks he s a genius because the numbers are so crazy. we re up over 50% since the election. and you ve heard me say this many times, but african american unemployment, asian unemployment, hispanic unemployment is at record lows in history. not for the last two years. the history of our country, african american, asian, hispanic, young people without high school diplomas. all at historic that s an important sector. all at historic lows. the lowest in history. it s really something that s great. this is helping so much with people to get out of prison. we have a tremendous problem. people come out of prison. they can t get a job. employers don t want to hire them. the economy is so good they re hiring them and they re turning out to be incredible workers. they give it a chance. they give it a second, third chance in some cases. but i ve had numerous employers come up and say i ll tell you what. i ve taken people in prison, and we ve hired them. he wouldn t have done this in a normal economy or bad economy. only in this kind of an economy, and now he s like the biggest fan. one man in particular has taken numerous people. he said most of them have been unbelievable. most of them have been unbelievable. that s a great thing. that s a really great thing. it gives them a chance. so before we take questions, i want to extend our warmest condolences to the country of indonesia. friend of mine. we re going to be calling up the leader who is a great leader, indeed, but they got hit by a giant tsunami, like people have not seen in this part of the world. this part of the world hasn t seen it so much fortunately. you look at the tornadoes, the hurricanes, all the different natural disasters, a friend of mine who studies natural disasters i don t know why he does that but he does he says tsunami is the worst of all, and they got hit very hard, and probably thousands of people killed. we have already sent a lot of first responders and military and others to help but it s a really bad, bad situation. and finally before closing, i want to send our thoughts and prayers to the victims of the las vegas shooting. that was a horrible, horrible time in the life of our country. it took place exactly one year ago today. all of america is grieving for the lives lost and for the families they left behind. to all of those families and to the people of las vegas, we love you. we are with you. we are working with you very hard. it was a terrible, terrible event. thank you very much for that. i want to ask bob lighthizer who is a terrific individual as well as a man that knows a lot about this subject, to come up and say a word about the usmca, the new agreement, and if you have any questions, we ll take some questions after that, please. bob. thank you, mr. president. before i start, i would just like to give a vignette. i think it says something about working for the president. so august 16th of last year we started this process. and i m at a hotel in washington, and there s, like, you know, hundreds and hundreds of people waiting to have the introduction of myself and my two counterparts, one from canada and one from the united states. we re sgetting lined up. i get a call that says the president wants to talk to you. the president starts talking. everybody is waiting. he s talking and going through what he wants to get done in nafta, and his problems with it all. he s familiar with. he finally says two things which i thought were telling. when he said bob, i will back you up like no other usdr has been backed up in history. he did that. and the second thing he said was he said now, go out there and have fun. i thought well, it s probably not going to be as much fun from my side as it will be from your side, but i m proud to be on your team, and i really am positive to follow you through this and the other trade changes. as you have said, mr. president, this agreement is historic in many ways. the usmca will cover $1.2 trillion easily making it the biggest agreement in history. we have done this in 14 months. and believe me, in trade negotiating terms, that s like warp speed. when we began these negotiations last year, the president instructions to me were precise and straightforward. protect american workers. fight for our farmers and ranchers. preserve america s competitive innovation edge. secure greater access for our businesses, and above all, bring back jobs to america. i think we have succeeded with this agreement. the usmca will accelerate the manufacturing renaissance our country has enjoyed under president trump. it will bring our trading relationship with mexico and can a into the 21st century, and it will protect america s competitive age in digital and innovation across the economy. the new agreement will also serve as a template for our trade agreements under the trump administration in the future. this paradigm shifting model rests on three pillars. the first pillar is fairness. we have negotiated stronger rules of origin for automobiles which will bring billions of dollars in manufacturing back to america. we have secured greater market access for our farmers and ranchers. we ve agreed to unprecedented labor standards that will help level the playing field for our workers. we ve also agreed to a first of its kind review and termination provision. it will ensure that the usmca unlike nafta, will not become unbalanced and out of date. the second pillar will consist of a host of ambitious provisions on digital trade, intellectual property, services including financial services designed to protect our competitive edge. the third pillar consists of new provisions designed to eliminate unfair trade practices including strong new disciplines on state-owned enterprises, on currency manipulation, relations with nonmarket economies and much, much more. we wouldn t be here today if it were not for several people who contributed so much to this endeavor. first the president s key adviser and my good friend, jared kushner, was my partner in leading the u.s. negotiating team. i ve said before and i ll say again, this agreement would not have happened if it wasn t for jared. thank you very much. i d like to thank my counterpar counterparts, mexican and canadian government officials and ambassadors. i d also like to thank the wonderful staff at ustr, many of whom are on here. i like to think of us a little bit like we were the marine corps. i like the name particularly of this agreement. ustr is about 250 people, and they re all devoted and they re all exceptional, and they all work around the clock. many of the people you re looking at spent more than one night in the office over the course of the last few weeks. and they have enormous ability and this president has unleashed them. finally, i would like to thank president trump. your leadership, vision, and grit made this agreement possible. no other person could have done it. millions of for years to come. because of this vision and probably even more important, his grit. thank you, sir. thank you. thank you very much, bob. thank you very much. some questions. thank you, sir. you have had tensions with prime minister trudeau. yes. it how did that affect your ability to get this deal done? i don t think it did. he s a professional, i m a professional. we had very strong tensions. it was just an unfair deal, whether it was mexico and canada. now it s a fair deal for everybody. it s a much different for everybody. it s a brand-new deal. it s not nafta redone. it s a brand-new deal. i just spoke to him, question ha we have a great relationship. don t forget, the rest of the world is trying to take advantage of us as a region. and we re going to work very closely with an da and mexico. we have energy that nobody else has. we have timber that nobody else has. we have things that no other part of the world has to the extent we have. so we re going to do very well together. i think we have there was a lot of tension, i will say between he and i, i think more specifically and it s all worked out. you know when it ended? about 12:00 last night. but he s a good man, he s done a good job. and he loves the people of canada. you mentioned the $267 billion in possible mortar rif s more tariffs on china. we have lost $375 billion in trade deficits. they have a surplus of $365 billion, with a b, with the united states and it s been that way for years and years and years. i always say, we rebuilt china, they took all that money and they built fighter jets, they built bridges. they built more bridges than we built in the last 100 years probably, big ones, like the george washington bridge, like big bridges. and i m not going to take, you know look, i don t blame china, i blame our leadership. they should have never let that happen. and i told that to president xi. i said, you know, i was making a speech in china, and i was really hitting china hard. and i m in china, i don t know if that s a good thing to do. but i said, you know, i don t really blame you, i blame our leadership orfor allowing this happen. we had no deal with china. i talked to someone who represented china at the highest level came to the oval office. i said how did this happen? he s a pro so he doesn t have to be cute. he said nobody ever did anything from the united states. when we put on a 25% tariff on every car that comes from the united states into china, we thought we would be rebuked. we thought it would be terrible. nobody ever called. nobody did anything. that was years ago. and we charge them nothing, 2.5, but we don t collect it. we do now, by the way. but we don t collect the 2.5. so they charge 25, we charge essentially nothing. i said how did that happen? he said nobody ever called. we don t have a deal with china, there s no deal. they do whatever they want. so we have a tremendous problem with theft of intellectual property with china. we have a lot of other problems with china. we have primarily trade problems. and as you know, they re having a much more difficult time now. i don t want them to have a difficult time. and we re doing better than we have ever done. everybody talked about the tariffs, oh, the tariffs, tariff tarif tariffs. you know the tariffs ended in 9 1913. and then they went to a totally different system. then in 1928, you had the great depression, for a lot of different reasons, not our country s fault, but a little bit our country s fault. and then in the 1930s, they said we need to start charging tariffs, we need money to come into our country again. i m not advocating tariffs. but i will tell you our steel industry is stronger than it s been in 25 years. this has taken six months. because i charge for the dumpers, they dumping steel, and dumping aluminum into our country. i charge 25%, that s a lot, but it could be mor more but that s lot. u.s. steel is building eight or nine plants. they re expanding plants. i don t think there s industry like what s happened to steel in the last nine months, ten months since i really started doing what i m doing. it s been really pretty amazing. aluminum also. and we need steel, we need steel for defense. what are we going to do, go and say, we ll get our steel from another country? can t do that. excuse me. we can t do that. so we need steel and we need it badly for defense. so i m very proud of what s happened with the steel industry. okay, question. yeah, go ahead. sure. she s shocked that i picked her. she s in state of shock. i m not thinking, mr. president. i know you re not thinking. you never do. i m sorry? no, go ahead. in a tweet this week, mr. president, you said it s incorrect to say you re limiting the scope of the fbi investigation. what does that have to do with trade? i don t mind answering the question. but i would like to answer the trade questions. it has to do with the administration. how about talking about trade and we ll get to that a little bit more. do you think your trade deal with pass through congress, sir? we think so, but if not, we have a lot of other alternatives. i think so, i think if it s fair on both sides, the republicans love it. industry loves it, our country loves it. if it s fair, it will pass. i think it will pass easily. because it s a great deal. i mean nafta passes, it s one of the worst deals that was ever made. inconceivable that it was made. i ll get back with you on the other question. it i would like to get back on my kavanagh question. we ll do that later. thank you very much. thank you mr. president, you have described india charges tremendous tariffs. when we send harley davidson s motorcycles, other things to india, they charge very, very high tariffs. and i spoke with prime minister modi and he s going to look at it. nobody s ever spoke to me. we have had leaders here, i m not trying to be overly dramatic, we have had presidents of the united states, and trade representatives. they never spoke to india. braz brazil s another one, that s a beauty. they charge us whatever they want. if you ask some of the companies, they say brazil is among the toughest in the world, maybe the toughest in the world. we don t call them and say, hey, you re treating our companies unfairly, you re treating our country unfairly. to india, they really charge tremendously high tariffs. on motorcycles, it was 100%. so you send a motorcycle into india, there s 100% tariff. that s so high that it s like a barrier. in other words who s going to buy it, it costs you so much. they have already reduced it substantially. our relationship with prime minister modi is great. they called us to make a deal. we didn t even call them, they called us to make a deal. which is like shocking to people. yes, sir, go ahead. yes. well, i do have a second question on the kavanagh thing when you get back to it. that s good. you ll take that now? no, no, on trade. on trade, does this mean the end of tariffs, if you can spell that out for canada? no. the steel is staying where it is, and aluminum. but it means probably for the most part we won t have to use tariffs. in other words if we can t make a deal with the european union, we will respectfully put tariffs on the cars. the united states will take in billions and billions of dollars into our country. most people don t say that. but really what s going to happen, they ll make the cars in the united states, this way they don t have to pay the 20, or 25% tax. so i don t think you re going to have to use the tariffs too often. but there will be cases where you have countries that are just absolutely not willing to do what s fair and reciprocal. and in that case, they ll pay tariffs. and you know what? the united states will do very well. either way, it will do very well.
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german exile. but first we take a look at northern iraq. where an ex ira fighter is on duty as a social worker promoting peaceful coexistence in his neighborhood. john donnelly is a former fighter from derry and his home is a small collection of treasures from the decades of warfare known as the trouble to . show me a young lad the british soldier spelt back contains photos from a secret list of wanted a members and as a matter of michelle they are technically army. miscarry usually dan. barry and former. music farmer. and radio host martin mcguinness was the former provisional ira leader but later shin faced chief negotiator for the good friday agreement twenty one years ago or. over three decades he and the ira fought british rule in northern ireland john donnelly was the leading political force in terry northern ireland second largest city he was instrumental in curse aiding ira operatives to lay down their. twenty one years on the conflict seems to have been settled but for many this is merely a superficial arrangement. john donnelly says poorer areas of dairy are still waiting for the peace dividend to kick in. says the patient raman ok up till now it there s been no tangible. shuffler people can put their finger on and say look. that that was. that s what happened it would fade if you remember that a b. and c. . in the rossa moment community center the former i.e. fighter is a social worker helping those who are off. to punish so-called anti-social behavior radical elements impose ritual and justice in the poorer areas of dairy this is a holdover from earlier times when the ira police neighborhoods a tradition that radical irish republicans are carrying on today. a mother and her son visit the community center they want to remain anonymous the boys accused of stealing a car his threatens punishment is to be shot in the leg you know we re trying donnelly is trying to mediate. i talk to people here should the threat. because. because we made it. we re a girlie you write a letter a letter of apology will hopefully avert the looming threat. it s a typical day at the rosamond community center an indication that for some people in northern ireland peace hasn t returned. even twenty one years after the good friday agreement. reporters without borders warns press freedom is under threat in hungary. that means many hunt garion journalists are forced to go into exile. nearly nine hundred kilometers separate berlin in budapest but for a journalist or a dish areas work the two cities are worlds apart since viktor orban became prime minister nine years ago hungary s media landscape has changed radically. i got her best when i was a child i always heard that hungry was one of the most liberal countries in what was the eastern bloc and i grew up with this idea that is depressing but specifically this democracy in hungary is slowly being deconstructed and that press freedom is being restricted. during the experience first hand how new regulations turn the broadcaster where she worked into state controlled media critical colleagues were fired she herself quit and went to germany in twenty twelve. bagnall is from back home two hundred journalists including doris former colleague were recently laid off and here t.v. station once critical of the hungary and government he reports that the broadcaster was taken over by a media foundation headed by a manager loyal to the government. as that kind of length. there are no long term opportunities for quality journalism in hungary. dora works at a nonprofit organization in berlin with its own news portal and last is an agency that produces content focused on eastern europe she says you can find critical reports written in hungary and about corruption for example but they are mainly online yes good propaganda you know there s a lot of propaganda in hungary the same militaristic choice of words the same formulations the same phrases that government speak is use. of the. journalists who do not cooperate are denounced as traitors according to reporters without borders animosity towards the media leads to violence dora fears that this could also happen in hungary. five years ago the boko haram terror group abducted more than two hundred girls in northeastern nigeria today half of them are free and enroll that university but not all parents approved. to be a muslim is in high spirits and he can laugh again something he wasn t able to do for a long time we first met a most five years ago just a few months after the terror group boko haram abducted his daughter from her school in chibok up to that but i was totally devastated then i couldn t eat for three days and i cried and cried and it was and file called all of this and like i thought i had failed as a father. but actually my most important duty as a father is to protect my daughter and i failed to do that. in my. two and a half years ago his daughter comfort was suddenly freed after the government s negotiations with boko haram. her family is finally recovering but a farmer is still not entirely if. he lives in chad book and his daughter received a government scholarship to study at a university that a whole day s journey away. i m proud of her and happy that she can study again but that s one problem no one is telling us exactly what the girls are doing. more than one hundred freed girls from chip book housed at the american university in your to attend a kind of prep course reginald bragg s the school director shows us around for the girls protection filming is allowed only during the school break he says the trauma has left its mark the clock stopped you know. so we re very sensitive to. just feeling depressed. you know. liver. leg. back you know blast. bragg s says the girls need peace and quiet and time to concentrate on their studies. says he says only a few parents have been as critical as the most level most of the people you know are supportive but you always have people who are not you know where you feel you need to be out here on a far we need to begin very shortly to do this so don t listen to those naysayers because in the. process stage. degree. you say wow i can t believe she did. called his daughter comforts at least twice a week that s his only contact with her he says she d like to come back to chibok after her studies and work as a doctor on and serve her community her father can hardly wait. thomas jefferson first came to shanghai as a student then he married today his funny online videos of being a foreigner in china and having chinese in-laws at made him an internet sensation. when thomas docks also known as often strolls through the streets of shanghai he rarely goes unnoticed. there are now. thomas is a celebrity on the chinese internet seven million people follow him on social media we post clips about his life as a foreigner in china. says it s done out there shanghai accent is great you re a real shanghainese. there were. thomas came to shanghai as a student in two thousand and twelve he fell in love and stayed in his videos he talks in fluent chinese about a broad range of topics. but. traffic. has been one of the. but it all started with a sketch about his german marriage. you know what. i do you hide the. body. wires you paper the kind you. thomas and his wife julie write and produce the clips together and they can make a living from them it all started when they came across a video by a chinese internet celebrity. sketch she recorded a sketch about coming hung for chinese new year that s when people are us the same questions over and over again when you getting married how much do you know when you re going to buy a car when you re going to buy a flat julie then said to me you should film a clip about marrying into a chinese family as a foreigner. but . when i told my parents i m dating a foreigner my father chris glass down we were having lunch and he said what did you say i said a foreigner. he shouted are you crazy what s wrong with you all these foreigners are playboys. it s true i didn t like him at the start he s fat he said he was poor and a student base don t talk about that it s embarrassing. they continued to joke about what has now turned into a wonderful friendship for his part thomas says he s not going to have found a chinese family who share his sense of humor one sketch at a time. it s one of the most hotly debated buildings in germany first there was the city promise then the east german palace of the republic. after the german unification the decision was made rebuild berlin city cops dramas a stand up project the film booked for. next on d w. e coli africa town under threat looks to me like making the song let me everything will be fun i m going to dance it is a. long look at political climate change and industrialization have battered
check out our website d.w. dot com for the latest news headlines i m calling aspen. good morning to one official estimates more than one point two million venezuelans live in colombia legally and illegally. i d return to venezuela. to visit friends is that i don t think i d ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i don t know so i m not sure. bearing witness to global news that matters. made for mines. and on demand. in which course a. video and or you. talk. w. . it was wall to wall sunshine in germany on saturday so that means the summer is on its way and abundantly the season is heating up at the top and the bottom of the table coming up we ll see if biron could avoid slipping up against the brain and avoid the possibility of losing their slim lead at the top of the bundesliga table. i m glad are within a whisker of a champions league spot but could inform leipzig dash their hopes of moving up the tech. published on a.b. s welcome to the bundesliga the big clash on saturday tied bahrain and braman anything other than a victory for munich would have piled the pressure on the league leaders they kicked off their match just one point ahead of second place dortmund saturday s clash was also the first of two encounters with bremen in less than a week they face them again in the german cup and are well aware that verdict is a side capable of causing an upset let s take a look and see if that was the case this time around. raymond s team morale had been unbeatable this year and florian cofield was deterred. aminta dent pines title aspirations they certainly threw themselves into the tussle from the very first whistle. by and had the first real chance of the match search cannot break going close after twenty six minutes. a tidy spin and shot from the germany international but she is the past like i was equal to the task braman was standing strong in the face of binds onslaughts which left me coco vetch looking for answers by in turn the screw up to half time. but they found braman to fence in an imperious mood. have lanka was in particular on top of his game. the match turned on its head after fifty eight minutes though. neil us felt of it sent off for a second yellow card the strike elbow ending his saturday afternoon early. down to ten men have lanka continued to reel out the highlights. but he was palace today not nicklaus. on seventy five minutes i ve wickeds a flexion leaving him stranded one goal enough to hand by in a hard fought one victory that s right now in the second half we were able to step up a gear absent let s hope they had a man sent off and we laid siege to their goal i got one on that but i missed a lot of chances and the win was fully deserving it as it s my family could have had a more comfortable end to the game. if it s an inch ponderous was fun as it was forced into. an important win for bahrain they will be looking to repeat the job when the two teams meet up again in the german cup on wednesday. are hungry for a champions league spot next season their victory last weekend against hanover gave them a boost of confidence in what has been a rather erratic twenty nineteen but it was also bittersweet as their captain was injured and will miss the rest of the campaign but back to this much they and their form would be put to the test against high flying leipsic a team that is also unbeaten against so let s see how the game panned act. for. on a farewell tour and d. to hacking both want to leave their successor tickets to european football it was visitors like they could threaten first and you ll forsberg testing young. blood banks keeper came into this one with twelve shots to his name this term. was only one keeper has more opposite number. the hungry and made light work of some players shot. chances of another clean sheet were at risk of to just fifteen minutes. back fell in the box i don t see was the last in the face of football superstition by taking the kick him self and slammed it comfortably home i m one of the more penalty misery for summer who stopped only one in twenty four from the spot and has been does he get career. just after half time popped up again and bloodbaths books and promptly made it to nail of my third of the season for the young germany international and his first from open play. with many writing glad they suddenly showed signs of life was playing a house of the deficit just after the hour was ten minutes later passed up the chance to seal the points for leipzig. back then laid siege to goloshes goal but after talking. to panic stations cameron couldn t find the equaliser my leg held on for an away when that all but guarantees a champions league place for a run nick successor. meanwhile still has a lot to do before he clinches a year for his replacement. my let s take a look at some of the other clashes on saturday in a moment we ll see. european hopefuls leverkusen got on against rovers in europe burg but first shift our travel to one objective beat their hosts and give their fans some hope that they ll be spared relegation the time is running out and their recent form has been dreadful they d only managed to pick up two points in their previous five games now stuttgart coach mike course was feeling the heat so let s watch the action now. stuttgart sort of a rotten rolonda marcus vine zero and out made them suffer early the hosts were deservedly ahead after eleven minutes. ronnie kidd era was left completely alone to slot home shook up were all over the place defense of the again soon afterwards this time under a handsome good vantage to know for out. it was a fine finish from the forward but he was given so much time still got had no plan going forward and were even worse about to let match making it three now after less than half an hour the game was practically over the hapless stockcar but it was the same story in the second half got again showed where they were stranded in the relegation playoff spots marco victor did not fall for. max then grabbed his second on the out. and out did not let up as they look to secure their bunkers legal status thanks to crowning a super display to score the six. martin schmidt is working wonders it out. got meanwhile in a real mess and sacked coach vines deal after their joint heaviest bonus league defeat ever. that loss meant nuremberg at the chance to leapfrog their relegation rivals and leave stuck out in the automatic drop zone but nuremberg struggled in leverkusen with chi habits rattling the power. kristin martin you re also getting on to it but just after the hour mark sanny was finally beaten by lucas allow rio. replay shown the ball had clearly crossed the line. they ve accused and then wrapped up the win lights on. kevin full on thing as the home side mounts and right champions league charge. in contrast nuremberg failed to capitalize on slumping stock gods. well it s the end of the road for marcos vines feel at stuttgart and here s a little start for you and this is the fourth time in six seasons that a stuttgart coach has been sacked after losing to albert now it gets more interesting because the first three times that happened mark was vine seal was the coach and now he s on the receiving end and the one who has given his marching orders but moving on now to another team having a poor season they have the chance to distance themselves from the relegation zone all they needed was a positive result against huff and haim but it was another disappointing performance from shell shock bells for dale and andrei crime marriage but haas and haim to mill up in the first half. yuri pulled one back for shelter after the break of goals from. mary and another from belfort deal sealed the win for the visitors tito birch tyler scored a late consolation goal five to the final score and hope stevens shelter remain in trouble. let s get a round up of old results so far from much day thirty as you can see there byron edged braman glad lost to life sick smashed six past stuttgart leverkusen beat nuremberg two. shell and hoffenheim as you can see there absolutely well the great when there are four hundred and i m and mights they took on the door in a mid table clash and dusseldorf haven t even touched the ball before john believe my tits are scored in the first minutes. just the doors back to life with an equaliser on nineteen minutes i the belgian turned a villain by missing a second half penalty. kareem on his roommate to one and a second from a tighter seal the win for mines three one runs from. now on sunday dortmund travel to freiburg have to take on hanover and as you can see there on monday votes for it will host frankfurt now it s at a table defending champions byron munich xtend their lead at the top to four points as you can see from dorgan to leipsic still in third frankfurt in force of course but they re playing they still yet to play though their movement their live labor has moved up braman move down at the other end of the table no change at the bottom shall come missed out on their chant chance to extend their lead and minds move up . now it s time for the bun this latest play off the day as voted by you our followers on twitter and your winner with fifty three percent of the vote is byron s nick glass sudha the big defender was byron s unlikely hero clinching a vital three points for the champions as the title rights heats up it might not have been the prettiest of stripes but no one in byron colors was complaining. it s just our from him well that s all from us here on the bundesliga we ll be back on sunday with more bundesliga action and of course plenty of analysis until then we ll leave you with some of the best scenes from saturday s games so for me and the rest of the team here in berlin by. place. to. play if. so you re looking for history and culture. shopping and wellness you want tranquility and nature. anything else yes tony when the john karr. anything is possible and bob 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