welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thanks for sharing your friday with us. listen here as vladimir putin says. >> don't worry. be happy. >> yeah. that actually happened. that's not fake news. that actually happened. president trump's decision to abandon the paris climate accords gets the hometown tabloid treatment. french toast says the post. trump to the world, drop dead is the daily news take. we begin, though, with several new and important developments in the russia election meddling investigation. among them president putin shrugs off questions about why his ambassador to the united states had so many election year

meetings with top members of team trump. >> translator: our ambassador met someone. what did the ambassador have to do? that's his work. he's getting paid for that. he must meet. he must discuss current affairs. he must make agreements. >> with us to share their reporting, margaret, michael, yes, that's our version of the national spelling bee and yak key kucinich. follow the money is a trademark phrase from the watergate investigation now also courtesy of "washington post" reporting. remember former fbi director james comey is set to publicly testify before congress next thursday. issue number one for director comey will be conversation in which he says the president tried to get him to pledge his loyalty and then tried to get him to shut down key aspects of the russia meddling

investigation. but it's also a pretty safe bet comey will also be asked what he knows about a mysterious december meeting between presidential son-in-law jared kushner and sergei gorkov, a russian spy turned banker who's tight with vladimir putin. the post reports today that flight tracking data show a plane routinely used by gorkov traveled from moscow to now aand then to tokyo where president putin was at the time. what was on the agenda? >> mr. gorkov, quick question. what did you really speak to jared kushner about in new york when you met him in december? did you talk about sanctions? >> no comment. >> what was discussed? the white house says it was a diplomatic meeting, that cukushr met you as part of the transition team. >> thank you so much. sorry. >> were you a conduit to the kremlin, mr. gorkov?

>> that's cnn matthew chance giving it better than the college try there. mr. gorkov not answering. how important are the answers to this in the sense that mr. gorkov's bank, they won't talk anymore, but they stand by his statement where they say the meeting with jared kushner was about private business. the kushner companies. real estate. new york investment. gorkov's bank invests russian money in the united states. that's what they say it was about. the white house on behalf of kushner says it was about normal transition business and just buildi building relationships. was jared kushner trying to cash in on his about to be senior adviser role? that's one question democrats are going to push. or was he trying to have some conversation about sanctions is another question, because gorkov's bank at the time was under obama administration sanctions. what's the answer? when do we find out? >> look, i don't know that we're going to find out the answer at this hearing. though everybody is going to be on the edge of their seats obviously. but there's a lot of investigation to go and i think comey is going to be very

careful about what he shares. i think that the real thing that underscores why it's all so important is that this is the direct connection to the crept white house. this is not paul manafort who was connected in the campaign and is no longer here. not even flynn who was in the white house and is gone. this is not only the current white house and the senior adviser to the president, but the son-in-law. that makes all of these questions all the more important. and i think, you know, not to mention all of the other questions about what director comey said to the president and what the president said to him. it's a huge hearing. we're all going to be watching carefully. >> there's also the distinction between whether improper things were done at these meetings and illegal things. if he was trying to trade on his business with his incoming position, chances are that's improper but not illegal. if there's something else going on here and a lot of this russia investigation has just been more

smoke every time and we don't know what's behind it. we don't know why the president's been trying so hard to stop these russia investigation, to take the heat off flynn. we don't know exactly what flynn's motives were in these meetings. then you have, you know, an attack dog, bob mueller who's investigating this. i think there's broad confidence that he will get to the bottom of it. >> i just want to say jared kushner attorney jamie gorelick says he's eager to tell his story. however, there's a republican controlled congress. i would assume a senior adviser to the republican president f. he wanted to tell his story could get this hear scheduled pretty quickly. >> i was going to add you've also seen other members of the kushner family use their connections to the white house as a way to learn business and learn investment. was this a part of that? we don't know that. that's what the russian bank sa says. it's not without precedent for

this current administration. >> jared kushner is on the cover of "time" magazine and when steve bannon was on the cover t did not sit well. but when you see this, you hear from time to time of course he's the president's son-in-law, of course he's the ambassador of everything or secretary of everything. he has a pretty broad portfolio, but this president like any politician also has sort of a line that if you become a liability to me then things get different. >> that's true. we're all still at this table getting to know jared kushner and donald trump and the entire administration sort of week by week, month by month. but one thing i would say about my observations on jared kushner so far is he's a deliberate cautious sort of behind the scenes operator and perhaps better than anyone else in that white house, this is his father-in-law. he understands the nuances of what we're talking about, that if you put person "x" in the spotlight it's likely to anger the president. i think one question we've had with michael flynn is in terms of his conversations with the russians, did he ask whatever he

asked about sanctions or anything else at the president's behest or completely on his own? with jared kushner it seems much more likely that anything on that front was something that he would not have done without the president's knowledge and that's where some of these questions are going. >> when the meeting with kislyak took place at trump tower. we know the plane came. we know they met. jared kushner confirms that they met. he says it was normal transition business. the question is why do you have normal transition business with a bank under sanctions with a guy who's a former spy who's close to vladimir putin? you mentioned the comey testimony. one of the big questions is would the president of the united states try to block it? comey was an executive branch employee. the president has the right to private conversations with executive branch senior officials. he could try to exert executive privilege. he's already talked about it himself. the president has so much that would be thin ice to walk on. kellyanne conway this morning.

is this the answer to will the president try to stop it? >> we'll be watching with the rest of the world when he's testifying. the last time the fbi had a scurry to -- the president will make that decision. >> the president will make that decision, but she does seem to suggest that they will be watching and gets an opportunity to smack director comey there too. >> i think there's going to be a lot of smacking of director comey. i don't think you can silence him. you exert executive privilege but much of what he's going to testify about we already been. former colleagues of comey and friends of his have already leak today to the press. so this is a guy who has a long history of saying what he thinks needs to be said and so i don't think as a play they can maybe try and do this. it may not work. but it wouldn't have the effect they want in keeping anything quiet. >> there's sort of a rule to washington. when you attack senior officials in the intelligence community, then we all go to sleep and wake

up. within one or two good nights there's something on the front page of a newspaper. they are going to be aggressive. they are going to challenge his credibility. is that a smart move? >> well, what they can't do i think politically is actually try to stop his testimony. i would think the city would kind of explode. so i think like mike says, i think we're going to see them undermine his testimony, call into question some of the things that he's saying. his spin on things. but i think the idea of exerting executive privilege would -- look, i've been surprised before with this administration. but i think it would be surprising if they tried to do that. >> the other problem is the president himself has talked about the conversations and characterized them which could be -- could have waived his executive privilege already. that could be argued if he tries to stop. he might try to slow it down. nothing surprises me anymore. but in terms of silencing comey entirely, as you said -- >> i have a fascinating question going forward. we know what the democrats want to do.

they want comey to read his memos or at least discuss them. the president had dinner with you and asked you to pledge his loyalty. please explain. the president met with you and sent everyone else out of the oval office and asked you to shut down the flynn investigation. that's what the democrats want. my question is what do the republicans do? do they aggressively come to the president's defense or is this one where they say no thank you? >> we talk a lot about unmasking. the pattern has been they try in all these russian hearings to talk about how other leaks have gone out and part of the russian investigation the president most wants to talk about. >> and leaks. which are very legitimate avenues of inquiry. i want to come back to hearing president putin. it is interesting that the russian -- first the answer from the russians was we had nothing to do with it, you're making this all up. then yesterday it became well, the government had nothing to do with it, but there might be some patriots, russian patriots who decided they want to -- >> heroes. >> heros and artists who wanted to help the state. listen to president putin today

where he sounds a lot like donald trump. he says look, hillary clinton lost and she's looking for an excuse. >> translator: they voted for him and the other team, they made a mistake and they don't want to recognize this mistake right now. they don't want to say that they were not wise enough. it's easy to say it's not our fault. it's the russians. they intervened, they interfered. it's like the jews are to blame. >> comparing the russians to antisemitism. the idea that putin is talking more about this, is that just soiso coincidence but also some of the huge moments in the investigation and the public testimony like comey that he's deciding he wants to be in the mix. >> i think there's a level of gloating going on. i think he's bragging to the

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welcome back. the economy is critical to any presidency and it's the first friday of the month which means the government released its jobs report for last month. how you view this one depends on whether you see the glass as half empty or half full. 138,000 jobs created in may. down a bit from april. up from march. here you start february, march, april, may. these are the trump months, you will. barack obama was still president back here. job growth has decidedly slowed in the early months of the trump presidency. that would be a concern to any president. look at those numbers. up but not up in a robust way. however, the unemployment rate is down to 4.3%. that is a markabremarkably low . manufacturing jobs down a bit last month. that's down a bit to a president who says he's going to refine

manufacturing. health care continues to be a huge driver in the economy right now. keep an eye on this one as the health care debate makes its way through congress. yesterday even before this report came out the president was in the rose garden. his top priority was to talk about climate change, but he also put in a plug for his record on jobs. >> the economy is starting to come back and very, very rapidly. we've added $33 trillion in stock market value to our economy and more than 1 million private sec-ttor jobs. he was talking yesterday and said more than a million private sector jobs. even if you include today, they're up to $601,000. the president clearly wants -- any president wants to say i'm in office, the economy is going

to get better, but it's actually been a mixed picture so far. if you've got your 401 k, pretty good. the job growth, it's up. it's not negative, but it's not great. >> this is a bloomberg stat, but this is the weakest three month payroll gain since 2012. not to say the jobs aren't growing. just to say that this is not the pace of the past in terms of that. when you offset it against unemployment, a lot of other factors, it is a mixed bag. the problem for president trump is so many of his policies, the explanation for withdrawing from paris, the explanation for why he wants to do all these tax cuts on the notion of 3%, 4%, maybe more, 5% gdp growth and on the one hand, you look at these numbers and say that's why we need all these policies. on the other hand, it makes getting to 4% that much harder. >> and i guess i would also say that maybe more than most presidents, this one made

dramatic promises during the campaign about what would happen to people's jobs. coal manufacturing jobs were going to come racing back. everybody was going to be employed that wanted to be employed. again, as margaret says, you've got to wait a little bit until some of his policies are given a chance, but it sure doesn't look like if you're one of those steelworkers or one of those coal miners, you're not feeling the effects of the trump presidency yet. >> and it could catch up with him because of those promises. because if those jobs aren't coming back, we all know other presidents who have talked about major job growth. if they're not feeling it on the ground, which is one of the things that really fueled president trump's rise, is that obama kept talking about increasing jobs and in the midwest, in the rust belt. they weren't seeing it where they lived. if they're not, all of his promises are going to catch up with him. >> that's a great point. we'll get to the math because the president use today to make his climate change agreement. but if you look at the states

trump won, he tapped into that. you lived this. you know it. you don't feel it. the question, here's the vice president. if they keep saying this and those numbers don't improve, they run the same risk. >> there's a reason why the month of may we just found out a quarter of a million new jobs have been created. this economy -- >> over a million now. >> as i travel around the country, the confidence, the enthusiasm, i tell people from the shop room floor to the board rooms in this country know that they've got someone in the oval office who gets up every day and is fighting for them. >> i -- when i first came to washington i covered the labor beat. he made a mistake and he should know better. he's on a cheer leading show but he was quoting from a private sector guest mat that comes out every month that thought the numbers were going to show a quarter million. then the numbers kmut come out

next day. the vice president was wrong. if you keep telling we're here now and everything is great, you've got a problem. >> the animal spirits matter. and donald trump is nothing if not a salesman. he has convinced a lot of people, it's hard to know how much of this is him and how much of it is other things, but he has convinced a lot of people to double down on the economy. i think they're going to do everything they can to keep -- that's what they can control. they can't get tax reform through right now or obamacare through right now. regulatory stuff is tinkering on the edges. they can't hit the economy in the mainstream. >> you make a critical point. the psychology of trump is what helped the markets early on. businesses thought he's going to lift regulations and he is doing that. they can do a lot of that administratively. we'll have this conversation in july, september, october. repeal and replace obamacare, congress. listen to the president yesterday saying tax reform,

great. >> our tax bill is in congress and i believe it's doing very well. i think a lot of people will be very pleasantly surprised. the republicans are working very, very hard. we'd love to have support from the democrats, but we may have to go it alone. but it's going very well. >> again, it's our job sometimes to check facts even if it's the president of the united states. he doesn't have a tax bill. he has a piece of paper with some bullet points on it that says i'd like to do this. that's fine. that's a defensible way to do it. if congress is writing the legislation, you can send them guidelines and make sure it fits this. but when he stands in the rose garden and says our bill is doing great and it's fine and we know that his own treasury secretary is up on capitol hill trying to convince house republicans to abandon their speaker, their bill is in

trouble. >> psychology, political psychology is a lagging indicator, right? so there will be a lot of, sort of people still hoping businesses, still hoping that tax reform is moving ahead the way the president says it is and health care might somehow get revival or whatever. but eventually it's going to catch up. eventually there's going to be a realization that the 2018 cycle is upon us that. some of this is not going to happen. the question is does wall street do these businesses, make that all of a sudden into -- and the confidence fades. >> there are a lot of republicans who would like to see that white house plan or get permission to begin moving their own. >> and like health care, all republicans don't agree. you can't count on all of them to get it through. >> you mean who knew? it's complicated everybody sit tight. when we come back, the big paris decision. number one, global outrage. number two, the president in making his decision was not relying so much on climate data,

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youngstown, ohio, detroit, michigan, and pittsburgh, pennsylvania along with many, many other locations within our great country before paris france. it is time to make america great again. >> visitors on the oval office say the president gives them his version, a paper version of a map like this whch. when he makes big decisions, he looks at this map. particularly he looks at thchl t. the former blue states he turned red. the climate decision he changed yesterday is risky politically. 90% of democrats think climate change is real. republicans think it's real, 54%. should we stay or go when it

comes to the paris climate change deal? millennials, their support for the paris deal is higher, about you it runs across the spectrum. baby boomers, world world ii veterans. why would the president get out? let's look at it from a political perspective. slide this over here. 86% of democrats say stay in the paris accords. but even a narrow majority say stay in. so the president was not doing this because his base was overwhelmingly demanding he get out based on climate change. the president looks at this map, remembers the last election, and thinks on every big decision he's going to make the point that for these people here, whether you're in coal mining or manufacturing, it's not about climate change. it's about jobs. >> the paris agreement handicaps the united states's economy in order to win praise from the

very capitals and global activists that have long sought to gain wealth at our country's expense. they don't put america first. i do. and i always will. >> the condemnation is broad. the president has put himself and republicans on a pretty small island, both domestically, but in his mindset, in his mindset, this is how he thinks. this is why he talks about nafta, that the elites have conspired against blue collar america and i'm going to change it. >> there's a way when those numbers are a little bit misleading. i don't think they're thinking about raw numbers and specific districts. they're thinking about his brand. and he built a brand that really was around this idea of, you know, kind of the forgotten

america, america first, that whole thing. i think their thinking was and steve bannon who we saw yesterday along the sidelines, was if he didn't do this, if he stayed in paris, it totally undercut the message and narrative he's been building about what his presidency is about. from that standpoint it makes sense politically. >> he would have been a globalist to stay in and he wants to be a populist or nationalist. >> there are several areas in which he already has compromised those kind of base campaign views. he was going to declare china a curre currency manipulator. he took a break when he realized, for nafta, nato. this was one place to make a stand. it's predicated on two very strong beliefs. convictions. one is that the republicans will continue to control both chambers of commerce after the midterm elections. number two is that the democrats are so ineffectual or

disorganized that they will not be able to mount a serious commitment. >> he said maybe we can renegotiate. if i can't renegotiate, that would be okay too. the whole premise has been i can get you a better deal. so wherever the policy, he could back off this policy. now we're withdrawing from paris. maybe in six months ar a year he says we renegotiate. i'm not going to pay the money to developing kuscountries, we a better deal. >> since it's a nonbinding agreement, he could have done that anyway. he said obama committed to "x," i'm going to do 60% of "x." instead he decided i'm going to walk away. i'm going to blow it up. i'm trust the disrupter, i'm going to blow it up. he views this as the brand than about climate change. it is a fair question when the united states pulls out of a

global climate change agreement to ask the question does the president believe that human activity influences global warming and climate change or does he still believe as he said repeatedly early nier in his li that it's a hoax. >> the president believes in clean vieenvironment, clean air clean water. he made clear what he doesn't believe which is that the u.s. government should stay in an agreement. >> what president trump believes is he was elected to grow the u.s. economy and provide great job opportunities for american citizens. >> this is about making sure that america, as we negotiate co 2 reductions that we do so with an america first approach. >> is it not a fair question of a president on an issue that is across the whole world, not just here in the united states of america, do you or don't you? now they all say you have to ask him. is that because they don't know the answer or because they've learned from other issues not

rell related to this one that he my undermine them tomorrow. >> he's not answering the question because there's political upside to answering the question. there are a huge part of his base who don't believe, who have come down that the science and the elites have all lied. he doesn't want to alien nate them. >> on behalf of press corp, we would like to ask him directly, but having come back from a nine day foreign trip where they gave no opportunities for the press corp to ask president trump a question, which is totally against tradition on these trips and we haven't -- we have very little opportunity ever to ask him questions. so we would love to. >> you mention ds ted the presis view and this is steve bannon's view, so the president can win again with his states, even if his numbers go down in california and down in new york on the coasts where they're more

liberal votes and climate change might be more of an issue. we've seen democratic governors say we'll have our own climate agree. you saw protests in big cities. they had the sort of show of support that we're going to continue to do this. listen to the chairman of the democratic national committee trying to make the democrats argument. the question is can they make an argument on television or can they win at the polls? >> we're here to tell this president you can't ban hurricanes from entering this country. you cannot dismiss rising tides and temperatures as fake news. you know what? we shouldn't have to wait until mar-a-lago goes under water before this president starts understanding climate change. >> it's a clever line, but even though you look at those poll numbers, the support is pretty overwhelming for the belief in climate change. the support is pretty overwhelming among democrats and independents for doing something about it and republicans are

more evenly split. there's not a lot of evidence despite those numbers that come election day this is one of those issues that move to the top. people vote in the economy. in the last election they voted on leadership. >> they would be smart to make this about jobs like the president has. they would be smart to make this about the economy and incorporate the climate change message into something that can reverberate and really apply to people and their everyday lives rather than mar-a-lago going under water. this is where the national democrat leadership really needs to plug into their local base. because they haven't really done a good job of that, particularly with midterm elections. >> isn't it telling that it's tom perez, a relatively a noun mouse bureaucrat? the next election will be decided between two people. they don't have anybody showing at this point who they can stand

up toe-to-toe with trump. >> by the economic point, if they have a lot of candidates out there running for the government races and house races f they come up with a coherent answer on the economics. when they come back, the global reaction has been harsh. and trump has decided he's okay with america being almost alone. those who suffer from lower back pain

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>> translator: the position of the united states to step out of the paris climate change agreement is very regrettable. and i'm expressing myself very carefully when i say that. >> now it's often said that one trump trademark is that he loves to be loved. he loves to be showered with praise. in this case the president is wearing that scorn as a badge of honor. >> the same nations asking us to stay in the agreement are the countries that have collectively cost america trillions of dollars through tough trade practices and in many cases lacks contributions to our critical military alliance. you see what's happening. >> team trump says this is one deal he can continue to do whatever they do on climate here in the united states outside of paris. he says he'll be the cleanest

president ever when it comes to the environment and this will not be such a big deal. you move on to the next issue. you listen to some of the world leaders, it will be hard for the united states to step forward and lead. another example is your newspaper, big headline says it's a gift to china which has been looking to step forward and assert itself a a global leader. >> we'll see how it plays out. the diplomatic dance that countries go through often depends on the issue at han d. it may be down the road when some of these countries are dealing with other unrelated issues, it may be in the interest to give the united states help and cooperate with the united states. it's not like all is lost. but the truth is when the united states goes to another country with sort of hat in hand saying help us with troop levels in afghanistan or help us with the

south china sea or help us with north korea, this lingers. the issue of this climate accord and the kind of abandonment that the united states has sort of decided to undertake, that will linger. >> and it came after the public lecture of nato allies in brussels, so there's sort of -- you begin to see almost a domino effect. the president of playing to his domestic base. they're playing to their audience as well. we can put the german magazine. trump is the boogy man in europe without a doubt. some of these politicians are being god forbid politicians. >> one risk is that the u.s. would be politically marginalized. the one risk president trump inside the u.s. would be marginalized by this move. you're seeing this collection of businesses, including excxon, many other businesses saying

they're going to band together and go forth with their own environmental plans to try to meet the commitment. that's very interesting if that holds. that in combination with what you may see some of the governors. jerry brown. but if you see a broader collection of governors pursue this, if all these kind of both market and political forces decide they want to save the paris accord, the u.s. role in the paris accord with or without the white house, that's a different kind of process. >> there might be a little bit of cutting off your nose to spite your face. last night when gary cohen was talking to wolf, wolf asked him about the country being left behind. what he used to defend that was silicon valley is somewhere where there's been a lot of people being led by the united states. you already have france saying come here, we're a better climate for you. that sort of thing could end up hurting country if some of these

silicon valley companies decide to say you know what, you're right. >> we've mentioned it here a little bit, but it's important to remember the paris agreement does not determine how much carbon the u.s. will be emitting in the next ten years. when trump says we're going to create all these jobs and we're going to change the economy and all that, that hasn't happened. moving out of the paris agreement just means we are not going to abide by previous voluntary standard. now the discussion will begin with what we do want to do with fuel economy standards, what do we want to do with utilities and methane gas. those decisions, including ones made by states, will determine how much carbon is putting out. >> the implications, we already know about the sort of trump angela merkel power game, but macron really is trying to get in there himself. maybe just for domestic consumption. but it seems like on a broader sense than that. from a handshake to the make the planet great again, i think it's

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the losing side but a number of officials said she most likely overplayed her hand. she was not on hand for the big announcement nor was her husband jared kushner. they were at synagogue for jewish holiday, steve bannon basked in what for him was a rose garden resurgence. what do we make of this? as i noted early in the show, everyone said steve bannon is on thin ice at the white house. he's getting too much press attention. the president thinks he's pushing him out of favor. this is ivanka trump who was the great moderate hope, if you will. democrats, others saying she's the one who will get to the president on these big ones and keep him from going on to the steve bannon reservation. on this one she failed. >> to be fair, she did have a tougher job than the steve bannons of the world. this is where the president was during the campaign. this is what his promise was. she had to bring him back from the edge. now, if anyone could do it, could it be her? sure. but she definitely had a tougher job than the steve bannons of

the world to completely change his mind on this. >> i put this in the category of something to watch. i do think that steve bannon helped donald trump win the election. not ivanka trump. and ivanka trump's role in this white house in those early weeks and months always was uncertain in how much was process will she be and how much will she be around. but ultimately for him to have stayed in that agreement would have represented -- it would have represented a real threat to the base. we need to see if this is a one offer or a trend. >> when it comes to just the focus on her, it's an adult daughter of a president in the white house deciding to take on senior adviser, deciding to have an office with her husband who's right there. i want to go back to april. she was on cbc this morning with gayle king. talking about her role and should or should she not expect much. >> i think that for me this isn't about promoting my

viewpoints. i wasn't elected by the american people to be president. i think my father is going to do a tremendous job. and i want to help him do that. but i don't think that it will make me a more effective advocate to constantly articulate every issue publicly where i disagree. and that's okay. that means that i'll take hits from some critics who say that i should take to the street. >> does she take a hit for this? >> people have talked about this divide in the white house as an ideological one. there is that divide. sometimes each side wins. i think the more operative divide has to do with the people who are there for donald trump, who know him for a long time, for more than a year. most people at the white house have known him for six months or eight months and who in the end will always be fighting for him.

there's no doubt that ivanka and jared are still in that camp. it's other in that orbit and that camp. that gives them their power. so i think losing this, reading too much into it kind of gets away from that essential fact that trump really wants a group around him who he trusts and she's still going to be there. >> that's an excellent point. thanks everybody, thanks for joining us. we'll see you on sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. don't go anywhere. minutes from the white house press briefing. wolf blitzer will bring you that after a quick break. but we don't want annual contracts and hardware. you scoundrel! ugh! we just want to stream live tv. and we want it for 10 dollars a month. (raspy) wow. i'd like that in my house. it's a very big house. yeah, mine too. look at us. just two bros with sick houses. high five.

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