bush white house. she has degrees from new college in sarasota, florida and the university of missouri columbia. to her immediate left is tamara keith, who joined npr in 2009, and has been a white house correspondent since 2014. -- for national public radio since 2014. she co-hosts the npr politics podcast, which is the top political podcast in america. and i admit, it is something i listen to every single week. miss keith has covered the trump administration from day one. covered the final two years of the obama presidency, as well as covering the 2016 presidential campaign, when she was assigned to cover hillary clinton. in 2018, she was elected to serve on the board of the white house correspondents association. she has worked for a number of npr affiliate stations, including wosu in columbus ohio, and kpcc, southern california public radio. she has degrees from the university of california berkeley and the ucb graduate school of journalism. last but not least, she is a member of the bad news babes,

the gardens of the white house. we will hear from dr. susan, programs manager for the u.s. botanic garden, jim adams, horticultural manager from the united states botanic garden, and jim mcdaniel, board of directors, like our previous panel, we will hear three short presentations and then our panelists will have a short conversation moderated by dr. chapelle. please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] >> thank you, it is an honor to be here today to speak with you about white house gardens. both of our other panelist our named jim and both worked on white house gardens. at the end am going to let you ask questions. we are the last panel of the day and we will finish the discussion by talking about gardens that have been established and modified since the kennedy administration. so from the johnson administration on. in many different ways, the white house gardens have been inspired and used. the start out by talking about garden trends and movements that have inspired and influenced the development of the

bush white house invited the chinese president at the time to come visit the white house. and again, this is just one of those times in life when it was clear this might not work. i mean, it was at least clear it was going to be very tense from the beginning. i think it was maybe even clear from the beginning that it was going to go badly. i mean, in the first instance the chinese wanted hu jintao to be given the full state treatment. george w. bush said, no, it will just be an official visit, which is one big wrung down the ladder in terms of protocol and pomp and circumstance. the chinese wanted hu jintao to have a state dinner at the white house. george w. bush white house said, nope, we want you to come, but we're not willing to give you dinner. how about lunch? then an even bigger problem. hurricane katrina blew ashore in the gulf coast and devastated the great american city of new orleans and the bush administration, of course, disastrously botched the response to that hurricane. huh jintao's visit had originally been scheduled for the week new orleans had almost bee

the white house can see it. i just published a piece updating some charts that the administration had used in september to show us all how great the economy was doing. and by almost every measure that they used to sell the health of the economy, things have gotten worse. growth has slowed. we're not in recession territory yet in terms of growth but manufacturing is essentially in a recession. and we have a lot of reason to be worried about the overall health of the global economy. so in that environment, yeah, there's real reason to be worried, especially if you are a president who has, you know, a stronger ratings -- poll ratings on the economy than on almost any other issue and you're facing re-election next year. they have every reason to be both trying to talk up the strength of the economy, trying to talk to consumers who remain the big engine of growth while at the same time making contingency plans for what if things get worse because of these external and self-inflicted headwinds? >> so you have, at the

>> look, nobody in this white house or few people in this white house spent as much time close to the president physically every day as madeleine westerhaut. she had an office just outside of the oval office. she was a gatekeeper for the president. if you wanted to have a chance to talk to him, she was a good person to know in the west wing. and so for her to suddenly be on the outs was shocking to a lot of people. she had been seen as one of the people in his inner circle. mind you, she had previously worked for other republicans. she was not originally a trump supporter in the primaries. but she had works her way into his level of trust. so when he heard about these comments, apparently she had made at this dinner, obviously, you know, pushed over a line that he was willing to tolerate. he says, as he always does, he blames the media. nobody in the media reported on these, that i saw. this got around the white house because they were pretty surprising things for somebody to say, even in a private setting. >> jill, it was interesting too, some of the reporting out there suggests mayb

she is at the white house this morning. sarah, the white house portrayed a very different reception. they even released a sort of propaganda-like video on social media showing a warm reception, but the facts seem to counter the white house messaging here. >> that's right, jim. the white house did try to portray the president's visits to dayton and el paso as sort of a demonstration of the president's ability to act presidential in these kinds of situations. for example, his social media director, claiming that trump had been refused like a rock star at those places. and president trump, as you mentioned, had disputed the characterizations of local officials in dayton while he was flying from dayton to el paso to visit the scene of the other mass shooting, saying that they had mischaracterized his visit, even though democratic mayor of dayton, nan whaley, ohio senator sher odd brown, both of them had been dmikplitry of the visit itself. the eight surviving victims still being treated at the university medical center in texas

here is one from the white house briefing room. doug: that one got a lot of interesting comments on twitter. it was a day when we had seen the president couple times, i believe. the white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, who i have gotten to really know and respect, she has the toughest job in the white house, by far, she was doing her daily briefing. because we had seen the president a couple of times and where my desk is at the white house reading room, it is all the way in the back. i can hear on the pa when the secretary comes in and starts speaking. i was not planning to go out and photograph her until question started. when she said she had a guest with her, i grabbed my camera and run up to the briefing room. that would be his first time in the briefing room. all of a sudden, a feed shows on the monitor. all of a sudden it was like, this is a first, i have never seen this. it was an interesting day. her face -- the questions that she got about it, they were interesting. but again, she has a tough job. just like

they keep marching around and around the white house. they circled the property four times or five times. they go back to cameron house on lafayette square and say, well, we are going to keep the pickets up. if you will not even meet with us, we are not stopping. we will keep going with pickets. so they keep it up throughout the spring of 1917. by the end of april, u.s. is now involved in world war i. now what do you do? do you keep criticizing the president in this very public way while we are at war? you know public opinion is going to turn against it will continue to be the biggest stumbling block. it says president wilson are deceiving russia. they say we are a democracy, help us win a world war so that democracy may survive. we the women of america tell you that america is not a democracy. 20 million american women are denied the right to vote. help us make this nation really free, that it must deliberate its people. this message is for photographs and newspaper coverage. today this would be a tweet. public opinion does turn against

we came back to the white house. typically, once you get inside the gates of the white house, there is a sense of relief that you have accomplished her mission. there is a little bit of a deep breath. just as we are pulling up to the oval office area where the president gets out, you have seen it many times in a press where he will walk up to the oval office, we got over the radio that there was a fence jumper. the french jumper was over on the ease part of the complex over by the treasury building. i was sitting in the right front seat of the limousine and i had to turn back to the president and say, we have a fence jumper and we have to stand in the vehicle until we get the issue resolved. and he said, a fence jumper, where? he started looking behind him and looking through. i was kind of glad for that response. on, he few seconds goes cannot see the fence jumper and i am not hearing it's all clear yet. we say we have to get into the over office -- oval office. time i knew the uniformed officers and the to get this

isn't there an irony here that it is the white house itself that it is the white house itself thatis that it is the white house itself that is at times stoking extremism and online, on twitter? online and in mainstream media as well. i see this a little bit as a way of distracting from taking responsibility on the part of the white house for that and on the gun control laws. i'm not saying you don't need to do something, you do, it's difficult but it is by no means the only piece of response that we should be looking for from, particularly, the us government to think about how you deal with these incidents. do you think it is a deliberate smoke show by the white house to put out statements like this? yes. you believe so. in your view? in my view, yes. that is not to say we should do nothing online, of course we should, a lot of workers going into that. it is a handy fall guy for where the blame, perhaps, really lies. mike weston, thank you very much. shares of ride hailing giant uber have been falling sharply in extended wall street trade, that's after it reported weak results. the f

house reporters at the white house. and then, joint sessions develop later, mostly with foreign leaders that the president has those sessions. and then, you have exchanges with reporters. those are the short q&a's that take place on the south lawn with the helicopter whirling in the background, or in the roosevelt room, or the oval office, and sometimes in the cabinet room. these are much more informal sessions. then, the third types are interviews. and so, the last two, the exchanges with reporters and interviews, have increased. in trump's case, he has had many more. when you look at the six presidents, trump has 442. these figures are by the end of june. 442 short question-and-answer sessions, which sometimes can involve one question, but most times are many minutes, and it can go up to 20 minutes or so. they are sessions where the president, especially in the marine one ones, it is a somewhat chaotic situation. and -- [laughter] martha: with people with ladders, cameras, edging their way in. it's a setting where in

the white house typically gets the best of the best. somebody as pernicious as racist and nonintellectual as stephen miller generally wouldn't have a place to shine in the white house of any other administration but he's here because this administration has picked up a bunch of individuals to do their bidding. >> the post pressing this man credited with the most hardline immigration policies on claims from co-workers he harbors racist views listen to part of his answer. >> anybody who says that is an ignorant fool, liar, and reprobate who has no place in civilized society. >> what's your reaction to that? >> sounds crazy. even his response, the way his tone sounded, sounds a little unstable. look, stephen miller has been operating in sort of a shadows of washington for a long time. he worked for michelle bachmann, who, of course, notoriously held a hard line on immigration, and now he is on the front lines of the issue. he has singular control over one of the most important consequential issues of not just our lifetime but also going up

though some white house officials are pushing back. the president publicly supported background checks and the expanded background checks in the days after the mass shootings in dayton and el paso that killed 31 people. tonight cnn is learning folks in the white house from capitol hill and outside groups have all been pressures the president to turn away. that may be exactly what is behind this change in tone. >> we have very, very strong background checks right now. but we have sort of missing areas and areas that don't complete the whole circle. and we're looking at different things. and i have to tell you that it is a mental probable problem. i've said it a hundred times it's not the gun that pulse the trigger. it's the person that pulse that tryinger >> outfront now rob aft trin o. and our democratic strategist and comment tare. rob is the president kachg to the nra. >> it's typical like president obama would talk to planned parenthood. this is advocacy. there are 5 million people members of the nra. many more tens of millions not

it is hard to imagine who in the white house would do a good job with that. >> speaking of white house scenarios, he talked to run was given the escalations between the united states and washington into rome, give a really vivid high political scenario where israel and iran reach and force united states to become involved in our ally but in the scenario described the situation room where the president is informed and blocked their readin. and they say begin bombing around, do you think that's a scenario that is truly possible and if so is it about this white house or any white house and how the cyber war escalates. >> it's a short piece of fiction in the book. and i think it's realistic. after that piece of fiction, we take it apart, we analyze the fiction and say this happened in the fictional scenario, we go through and deconstruct it and i think the conclusion is yes it can happen and almost did, three weeks for the book came out united states did a cyber attack and my co-author and i looked at each other and said our scenario is going to take place before our book is out. it'd only

who was running the rope line at the white house? >> my answer would be the white house communications agency. and that's part of the department of defense. and when their sheet came in, it's the one that says, the president's call, and it puts the time. and it says to, the call to, the sea of tranquility, the moon. we have those notes in the exhibition. it says call to the sea of tranquility on the moon. how much time did he spend prepping for what he would say to the astronauts ? do any of you know? >> i don't. >> i can't say. i would say probably considerable time knowing him. i can envision that he was over in the eob office with his yellow pad on his lap and that he wrote out several different thoughts that he might have on how he would do it. this is a man who always prepared. and he always loved to tell the story about winston churchill .and how churchill one time somebody came up to winston churchill and said how in the world, the spontaneous remarks of yours are so special. they're so great. and winston churchill said some o

the white house said that is being misinterpreted. the press secretary saying the president's regret was that he was not tougher on china and that the tariffs weren't more stringent. so inverting the way many people read that moment in the room. you asked me to explain what the president meant there, chuck. i can't tell you. i can only look at what the president is saying and doing. the issue here at the g7 is he's saying and doing things that are contradictory. in this instance, for example, of these china tariffs and whether or not the president is having second thoughts, the white house seems to want it both ways in front of two different audiences. this is a president, chuck, who knows how to read the room. he's in a room now, right, and he was in that instance, with other leaders who are gently pushing back on the issue of trade. he gets that. this is a president who at least for this trip does not want to be, it seems, the wrecking ball. that's different from other summits. in this instance, the president wants to portray that e

something white house aides repeatedly denied over the last 24 hours. but he's not considering it because he's worried about the economy. the president insisting that move would have nothing to do with increased fears of recession. instead use the opportunity to once again slam federal reserve chairman jerome powell. pamela brown starts us off today from the white house. >> reporter: president trump pushing back against recession fears. >> i think the word recession is a word that is inappropriate. >> reporter: and defending the u.s. economy to reporters in the oval office today. >> we're very far from a recession. in fact, if the fed would do its job, i think we would have a tremendous spurt of growth. a tremendous spurt. >> reporter: the president starting on twitter sharing a dozen tweets from allies and supporters praising his administration's efforts on the economy. from vice president pence, our economy is thriving and americans are winning to the rnc chairwoman, economic confidence is at record highs. but even as the trump administration touts th

who was running that at the white house? >> my answer would be the white house communications agency and that is a part of the department of defense. when their sheet came in, it is the one that says the presidents call and it puts the time and it says the call to the sea of tranquility, the moon. we have those notes in the exhibition. how much time did he spend prepping for what he would say to the astronauts? do any of you know? >> i don't. >> i can't say. >> probable considerable time knowing him. i can imagine he was in the office with a pad on his lap and he wrote out several different thoughts you might have and how he would do it. this is a man who always prepared. he always wanted to tell the story about winston churchill and how one time 70 came up to winston churchill and said, how -- someone came up to winston churchill and said how do you do that, it is so great. and winston church hillside part of the work i -- winston churchill said part of the work i do is writing out those responses. >> one of the things we a

house i the white house to a production video i very literally i of the white house i turned i had the help of robert montgomery helped with the advisor as an official function of the white house staff and, ultimately i house those researching ways capitalized on television to get people interested in what he's doing as an individual from the white house. so he experimented with television the same way that fdr had experimented. again, this is on purpose. what robert mann company talked about is fdr was very innovative and we need to pick up where he left off and take the presidency into the next chapter with television so, a variety of tactics he introduces. so in 1954 there's a first televised cabinet meeting also available to the c-span archives . i would show you a clip but it shows how it's not effective. eisenhower was reluctant to have a televised cabinet meeting , but the press secretary said it's a great opportunity to, like radio before, james haggerty says that television allows you to go to the people and go directly to them without them having to read stories by the press.

. >>> we're also watching the white house. president trump is about to head out once again, which means he could very well head to the cameras once again. will he cancel another state visit? will he explain why he really canceled his visit to denmark? will he explain why he's backing down from supporting stronger background checks for gun owners? and will he lay out how seriously he really is about pushing new tax cuts as fears grow about an economic slowdown? this just as a new cnn poll shows for the first time in trump's presidency americans' perception of the economy is on the decline. let's get to it. cnn's sarah westwood is in louisville, kentucky, where president trump is headed today. sarah, first on greenland. are you hearing anything more from the white house on the president's decision to postpone this meeting with the prime minister? >> reporter: well, kate, president trump's stated reason for not heading to copenhagen is the fact that the danish prime minister had signaled that the government was not interested in

one senior source says the white house has major ideological blinders on. when the national counter interest or rimp strategy was released last fall, the white house did add a paragraph about other forms of extremism but failed to even specifically reference white supremacists. >>> new this morning, the national rifle president is warning president trump. his support for background checks on gun purchases will not be popular. this is what the president said about background checks on wednesday. >> well, i'm looking to do background checks. i think background checks are important. i don't want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable people or people with rage or hate. sick people. i don't want to -- i'm all in favor of it. >> the president, all in favor there, but he's gone back and forth on gun control before. white house officials say he's torn between wanting to do more and growing concern that doing more would cause a revolt from his base. >>> president trump spent wednesday visiting the scenes of both weekend massacres, dayton, ohio, and el paso

by house democrats into the president's actions in the white house. >> we'll see what happens. a very sensitive issue, diindee. phil, thank you very much for that report. joining us now, congressman ted lieu, he serves both on the judiciary and foreign affairs committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> i'll get to these subpoenas in just a moment or so. but first, president trump did acknowledge that he did speak to people in israel about the decision to ban two of your colleagues. these are elected members of the u.s. congress. what message does this send? >> thank you, wolf, for your question. no american president should ever work with a foreign power to negatively affect americans. donald trump should be defending the rights of americans to travel to other countries. the fact that he has not done and has done exactly the opposite shows again that he is unfit to hold the high office of the presidency. >> and what about the israeli government decision, prime minister netanyahu's decision to flip his ambassador here in washington, a few weeks ago, sa

white house denied it. they denied it to us and to "the wall street journal." the president just confirmed what they have been busy denying. at this point it's not clear if we should believe anything a white house spokesperson says or what the president says for that matter because they just contradict each other constantly and themselves. we'll have more on the double talk in a second. because a lot of it is on camera and you have to see it to believe it. one spokesperson denied it and confirmed it in the same interview, which is, i mean, that takes skill. that's the best people. i want to begin by discussing and focussing on the other presidential double talk we saw today about background checks for gun buyers. after the mass shootings in el paso and dayton, the president was talking about meaningful background checks. confirmation he's not looking at background checks. we'll be joined by a reporter of details the president may have fully caved a phone conversation with the head of the nra. it's not the f

in the white house. me theya nixon cox told would look from the television to the oval, from the oval to the television, because they couldn't believe what they were watching. part, i'm wondering if your father mentioned this to you, when it was done, your grandfather arrived. they went down to greet him. he was completely humbled by the event, totally overwhelmed by the courage of the astronauts and staggered by the history of the moment. has that come through to you? to your mom as well? >> yes. she says he was really excited about it. he thought it was a great opportunity. speech he talked about the gray service -- surface of the moon. i think he saw it as an amazing opportunity. >> we are going to talk about the context first before we get to the phone call. inyou all know this began 1957. i was a year-old, it wasn't my fault, the russians launched sputnik one. let's get the reaction to sputnik. go ahead. splat -- a slap in the face to american complacency. we were in the eisenhower presidency, the n

who was at the white house during the clinton years. there are many examples of this. the trump white house has a record of misleading the public. this administration lies consistently. and it's all led from the top by a president who lies even about the weather and the time of day. that is why this deserves outrage and backlash. sanders going to fox is not surprising. there's been a revolving door between fox and the white house for several years. it should be surprising that someone who misled the public and called the press the enemy would land these types of jobs. spicer is not at the top of his career right now. you don't go to dancing with the stars when you're at your peak. this is the kind of job you take when you may not have many other options, maybe he has an incredible dancing talent we don't know about. i guess we'll find out. >> oliver darcie, thank you so much to both of you. >>> we have breaking news, subpoenas have been issued in the suicide of jeffrey epstein, aimed at re-creating the night he died behind bars. plus, t

one evening at the white house. the president and first lady were heading out. we saw his son, barron was up by the motorcade. i saw him walk across the lawn. normally, we are not allowed to photograph any of the children. we always give them that respect that we aren't going to photograph him unless the president is around. because he was around and we thought he was leaving, the ball started rolling, i thought i should get this. in case they see this video. so, i started photographing. as soon as the two boys saw the tv cameras, they put their jackets over their head. which made it kind of funny and different. you know, the boy, barron always has a secret service agent with him. so, just like every member of the trump family and like every member of the obama family group -- family, they had constant secret service around. i think they just like, sasha and melia, going to school, barron has secret service with him in school. brian this is a unique photo. : people can see your stuff independently on twitter. how do

is it unusual for a white house aide to have to sign that or is that white house procedure? >> we don't know for sure she signed such an agreement, but it is pretty standard for government positions that are so high leveled. it wouldn't be surprising. trump sees to sort of see a sort of loyalty with the president. we've seen this with amirosa and others, so it's easy to see this play out. >> do you think this is because she's going elsewhere? >> they had a pretty good rapport. he saw her going to meetings and saying disparaging remarks about her child, so he had that, but he still felt a warmness toward her. >> he sort of dangled the confidentiality agreement and that he would slr. >> maybe we do see a book or tell-all, or maybe it won't get there. he was asked yesterday about whether or not he fired west westerhout. >> i think she had a bad night. i think it was unfortunate. she said she was drinking. the whole thing was very unfortunate and i think the press was very dishonest because it was supposed to be off the record, but still, it went to something painful. >> he says

and then ended at the white house. so again, it's trying to create a national electorate to overcome different divides in region. and even class and social status through television. trying to build a new constituency for the republican party through that language of television. and for the republican party ad dwight eisenhower, it worked. media analysts after the 1952 1e electionle noted that eisenhowe and republicans used this new medium more effectively to effet attract aiv wider range of vote and to bring in new people to the republican party. and so i think that's a really key thing here. thinking about how you can use a new medium to bring in individuals that may not have e been engaged in the political process before. they may not be invested in voting like workers are whose negotiating rights depended on e building that new deal coalitio or farmers who some of their ecm economic interests depending on these new deal programs.. rather, you're appealing to consumers and finding a the co way to getns them invested

the white house issued a veto threat for a house democratic bill that contained those back in february. but yesterday as he was leaving the white house, president trump then told reporters that he does have an appetite for background checks. the white house and president trump at different times have also said that he backs red flag laws, red flag proposals exist in some states. even allies like senator lindsay graham are pushing broader red flag laws. he's even talked about strengthening the death penalty, making mass shooters hate crimes have to face the death penalty. so president trump not sending a lot of clarity on his gun control stance and time is running out. congress will soon be coming back and this conversation will get a lot more serious. >> if you look at the track record he's repeatedly backed off any subsequent gun control measures after shootings. sarah west wood at the white house, thanks very much. >> joining me lynn suite and michael sheer, white house correspondent for "the new york times." lynn, rachel bay of the "washington post" made what i thought was a smart o

shannon pettypiece senior white house reporter for msnbc news. and the new economics editor for "the washington post" who just got there and has already broke this story we're talking about, about these payroll tax discussions. and my friend dan nathan principal at risk reversal advisers and cnbc contributor. shannon, to you first. preparing for a recession does make sense. it's like taking an umbrella out if it might rain. but has the administration boxed itself into a corner if they continue to say there are no signs of a recession and it's the best economy ever? >> if you listen carefully to what they've been saying, they are ig are saying everything is fine and okay now. when you push them on what about next year you see them starting to stumble. behind the scenes there is definitely growing anxiety about what the economy is going to look like in 2020 and the main thing i hear people focused on doing is trying to get a trade deal with china. they obviously see it is a big overhang in the markets. in the past there's been sort of a wing in the

the trump white house is the craziest white house in history. it is the most reckless group of people who have ever worked in a white house. and the president himself is the most reckless of them all. the judiciary committee's letter signed by the top democrat and the top republican on the committee, is asking if anyone in the trump white house was involved or aware of the removal of the suicide watch of jeffrey epstein. that's what's in question number 14. was the termination of mr. epstein's suicide watch discussed with or directed by any supervisory personnel or leadership of the bureau of prisons or any department of justice personnel or executive branch personnel? was william barr involved? was donald trump involved? that's what is in question number 14. and the house judiciary committee is going to get answers to these questions, to all of these questions, including please provide information pertaining to the individual correction officers who were responsible for monitoring mr. epstein on august 9th and august 10th specifically with resp

and only this white house could see some advantage to being labeled white supremacist. >> but again, the president said it's not good. his campaign, though, according to axios saying -- >> that could be a good cop, bad cop routine. i can't imagine a worth epithet for a president or his administration. it appeals to do worst elements in our society. and i think it needs to be condemned. it is one of the reasons >> let's talk about background checks, guns. the president seemed very optimistic today when he was leaving the white house saying that there's tremendous support across the aisle, saying that mitch mcconnell is on board with this even though we've heard from mitch mcconnell's side that he hasn't actually endorsed specific legislation. do you think that anything is actually going to be done this time around? do you believe the president that really there could be movement on back gruground chec and getting legislation passed? >> i think there is a slim chance. the problem is that there's enough time between these tragedies and when congress reconvenes that once again it gets on

the day before that the white house said they aren't. now today the white house says they are. just from a messaging standpoint they clearly seem disorganized. >> from a messaging standpoint it could be cleaned up a bit obviously. but i don't think -- look, i think if we learned, nothing is off the table in this administration, right? there's one decider in chief here, and until he says it's completely off the table, it's not off the table. so just because -- >> even if he says it's off the table, it may not be off the table. >> exactly. and that makes it difficult, right, for his republican allies in the congress to kind of move forward on plans like a 2.0. >> it also makes it difficult for folks like you to come on television and definitively state what the policy is. catherine, just in terms of the economics of this, i mean, republicans used to care about the deficit. under president obama there were, you know, there was so much focus understandably on the deficit and concern about it. you don't hear -- there's hardly any republicans who talk about the deficit. certainly thi

do you think a plan is coming out of this white house? >> reporter: if there is a plan to deal with any economic slowdown or recession, steph, the white house isn't emphasizing it. what accounts for this message? in large part the white house knows the way in which americans view the economy matters at least in terms of perception. when it comes to the economy perception can affect the reality. i think the question for this white house for trump's re-election campaign is, will he or can he successfully continue to project this message of positivity as it relates to the economy all the way through november, 2020, come what may. we just heard the president say he sees no signs of a recession on the horizon and that point can be debated but this is one of the things that what the president says publicly matches up with what he is saying privately. i'm told the president has reassured his advisers he is not at all bothered by the stock market swings, not bothered by the warning shot in the bond market last week. the top line take away from th

robert: is ivanka trump a force in this white house? anita: she's calling members of congress and is worki on the issue, spoke with her father about hit. but i hearing on capitol hill some of these republicans d't nt her involved. her father calls her liberal. calls her a democrat. that's not someone they actually want to work with when they're up forel rtion. it's not going to look good for them. while she's out there doing things, therere some peopl who wish she wasn't. red flag law, something that's watered down? martha: that might be the kind of thing it could end up being is thated flag law. sort of just from his rhetoric, the past week, tndt s like it would be more likely something he would do. anita: you know this about the president, but sometimes when he's out there talkg about tax cuts, universal background checks, all different things, he's waiting to see wt people think. he goes and watches television to see what people are saying aboutwh it. are republicans thinking about it. he wants to put the ideas out there. robert: he'

how does the white house see it? >> jim, this is another wrinkle in the white house's efforts to calm fears of economic strain. we heard peter navarro try to downplay this and we asked the white house for an official statement about the tariffs. we haven't heard back yet. recall that last week president trump did delay the imposition of additional tariffs on some chinese goods, delayed them until december. but that was not necessarily an olive branch to china. that was, in fact, something that the president did largely because he was afraid of how those tariffs could potentially affect americans during the christmas shopping season. that's what sources told cnn at the time. and those were tariffs that he decided to move forward with earlier this month after a period of relative calm over the summer. recall that in june, president trump indefinitely suspended the kplen ta implementation of the new tariffs. that was when he last sat down with xi jinping at the summit. they have hit a snag and the administration not see

would the white house want to seize on this? >> i think at this point, president trump, as you know, with president trump, you know, expect the unexpected. we saw this, you know, in seoul, south korea, when he met with kim jong-un, stepping across the demilitarized zone into north korea. the president does like these big splashy moments but it seems as though in this case, fredricka, they weren't ready for that kind of big splash even on the beach here in southwestern france. >> okay. and also i want to ask you about a conversation you had with the white house adviser stephen miller, that on immigration. >> that's right. >> what did he have to say? >> yeah, that's right, fredricka. as you know, he's been working along with other white house officials on this new administration rule that would allow the trump administration and border authorities to hold children, migrant children, longer than 20 days down on the border. this has to do with the so-called flores settlement agreement. which requires that border officials release ch

>> there is an opinion in the white house. on economics lines that really have been coming for a couple of months but just happened over the last couple of weeks. the inverted yield curve that we all now know is a traumatic none of us probably had. >> i kept thinking of credit default swaps but -- >> exactly. we all learned what that was back then and we are learning what this is. this is basically just an indicator in the bond markets which are often other countries are not doing as well, china not doing as well. the point is that our economy is okay but are they considering doing anything? i heard of a middle-class tax cut is on the table? >> you invited them to say what the additional steps would be and he responded with a series of existing proposals for trade deals and trade initiatives. and said that they are considering a tax cut. but clearly if they wanted to do that they could have moved on already. it is still under consideration, he is right. our sources tell us that white house is looking at other ways that they ca

how is this affecting discussions at the white house? because that is just nowhere in tune with what the message that's coming out of the president or the white house. >> right. but those forecasts and the unease broadly about the possibility of a recession in the near future, that is the reason folks inside the white house are having these discussions at all about coming up with something to stablize the economy ahead of the election because the president for all his cheerleading understands that if the economy takes a nosedive that that is a real big problem for him. yes, he is under water with his approval rating anyway even in the good economy but this is a guy who has been out there for two and a half years now, taking credit for the american economy every time there is a good jobs report going, to say all of the world leaders are congratulating him on what he says is the hottest economy around. the way he talks about it and the way he has tried to sell it maybe they can continue to just get by on bluster but i think the president a

when you talk to people who are inside this white house, close to the white house, people who talk to the president, they will remind you that gun rights enthusiasts are the most active of the trump conservative base. if the president disappoints those voters, that could spell big trouble. david hogg joins us know. i'm wondering, first of all, what your response is to this -- the idea that they're going to have some gun proposals by -- when congress comes back. >> i love the idea. but it's painful to see this again and again if i'm being honest. >> this is what he did after parkland. it's exactly what he did after parkland and it's zpaexactly wh he's done again and again. and i think what we need to realize is we got to tell him that he can't keep doing that. if you're going to say you're going to do something, do it. donald trump says he's a man of his word. he says that, you know, he is someone that is able to get his job done and able to take action and he's not controlled by anyone. prove it. prove that you're not controlled by the nra. that's what i would say to him. and realize

cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins me live here in dayton. the president's coming to a difficult moment here, a divided moment in this country. he said a lot this morning as he was leaving the white house. how is he going to handle this? >> that's going to be something he has to grapple with while he's here. >> i don't mean to interrupt. what are folks behind us saying? they're saying "do something." that's what governor mike dewine heard yesterday when he was trying to speak. that's the emotion here. but please go ahead. >> yeah, you see some of the signs critical of the president. dump trump, flip the senate, talking about the politics in washington that's come under such scrutiny in the wake of these mass shootings. the president is going to be following the typical role of a commander in chief. it sadly has been their job too many times after a mass shooting, meeting with law enforcement, meeting with families of victims, some of the victims themselves. also, the president is going to be facing the resistance he's seen from local official

you served in the white house with obama. what are democrats thinking when they're going after the former president legacy here? >> i don't think it's a smart tactic. i will say that they're not attacking obama specifically. which is obviously smart when you have someone who is has a 97% approval rating. within the democratic party. they are attacking the policies. and the real smart thing to do is say look, we want to build on the great success of president obama. it's like we're saying when fdr passed social security in 1935 people say we didn't go far enough. and medicare and medicaid that was not far enough. we have taken great strides with the affordable care act. we need to cover more people. it's not right that 28 million americans don't have insurance. and i want to build upon that work. that's the message we need to have. the circular firing squad i do not think is the right long term strategy. i hope we'll see that start to change. >> will is right. obama is incredibly popular. 95% aremoval rating in the last year o

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