A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Campaign, the reelection in november, and apparently, wolf, does not want to say anything that could infuriate the president. Perhaps one reason he did not want to answer that question. But no doubt about it, wolf, republicans did not want to embrace these concerns today perhaps because the president is so about the mueller probe. Manu raju on capitol hill. Joining us now, republican congressman chris stewart. Hes a member of the house Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. Good afternoon. The president has told his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, to stop the Russia Investigation right away. Is that in your opinion Obstruction Of Justice . I think it would be very, very difficult as a prosecutor to make the case. Im not an attorney but common sense would tell me its going to take much more than that to prove any kind of
exchange with rudy giuliani. everything, brooke. always tweeting up a storm. doing the do, and i was saying in commercial break, i don t didn t know there was stop sign emoji until rudy giuliani used it with you. what did he say to you whether or not he was still representing the presidents and what he said about john bolton and the in u.s. to come there? god bless him for teaching us about the stop sign emoji, but there was confusion the other day. the president wouldn t say whether or not rudy giuliani was still representing him. he said he believed he was. seemed to be clarified for the moment. but i think like anybody else in donald trump s inner circle the second they become a problem you can never know how long you re going to hang on. never know who he s going to remain loyal to. i asked giuliani if he thought the president might throw him under the bus. he said no. asked if he would be surprised if that were to happen and that s when he said, stop, with the stop sign emoj
reporter: well, i just spoke to a u.s. official who said the two leaders had a long discussion and a frank discussion, but the source wouldn t say whether the president confronted macron face to face on the digital tax and the threat that you made, just played, imposing tariffs on french wines and perhaps other french goods, though i am told by sources that is something top of mind for the president and he wants to discuss with macron, among many other subjects and trade. the u.s. is threatening tariffs on auto imports from europe and there s this ongoing trade war with china that escalated yesterday with both sides slapping tariffs on each other and some g7 leaders believe that is partly causing the global chick sl economic slowdown. but the two leaders exchanged pleasanttories, putting a positive spin on everything. here s what they had to say. we look forward to it.
briefing, top officials wouldn t say whether president trump had actually received a full scale briefing on 2020 election security. does that concern you? i can tell you the most important part of that was that the key agencies, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, are on the case. they are not taking 2020 for granted. they re moving in the right direction. they ve had some success already when it comes to the 2018 election and forwarding efforts to intervene there. i think that s a good indication that they re taking 2020 seriously west ought to stay on top of it. we have to work with election authorities across the united states. my state of illinois, the state board of elections, was one of the fifrt in the 2016 election cycle. so we don t assume a thing. did you go to that briefing today? i did. did you learn something? i did. i thought there were several things brought out that were very reassuring. the top leaders of the agencies were there making the commitment t
the brazil president referred to fake news but they talked at least about venezuela. as you pointed out, there was no word whether the u.s. might take military action in venezuela. only to say as he has so many times that all options are on the table. the president asked the same thing, wouldn t say whether or not brazil might commit its military to take maduro out of venezuela. when asked whether or not if brazil would base troops in brazil, he did say that he wants to be a very strong extra nato ally of the united states. president trump even said that he might consider getting brazil in to be a part of nato. when asked about how long it might take for maduro to step down, president trump said he didn t know. listen here. i m not being told any specific time. been there a long time between him and his predecessor. at some point, i would imagine things will change. we really haven t done the