work. in about four months i got bogged down in that swamp. i also have traveled, i just got back from paris and the message was similar to what it was. that deficits do matter and are coming down. >> mr. president, thank you for the opportunity to serve at sba. i can tell you that as i haven't been traveling internationally, but i've been traveling around the country and what i'm continuing to hear is this renewed optimism from small businesses. it's higher than it's been in about 16 years. so those people returning to the work force, a lot of them are because small businesses are creating new jobs. portfolios are up. mentoring and our out reach, the programs are being so successful. thank you. we're on a good trajectory and still a lot of work to do. >> on behalf of the entire

senior staff, mr. president, we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you've given us to serve your agenda and the american people and we're continuing to work very hard every day to accomplish those goals. >> it's an honor to serve. it's a privilege to lead the men and women so we can do the national security mission. i'm not going to say a damn thing to the media. { laughter } >> mr. president, thank you for your support and honoring our responsibility to america's veterans. i know that this is personally very important to you. i have the great honor of being able to represent the 21 million american veterans that have done such great things for this country and i worked every day to make sure we're honoring that responsibility. >> thank you very much. >> mr. president, it's been a great honor to work with you.

thank you for your strong support of hud and for all others around this table. we're making tremendous progress and converting to a business model. we've already seen tremendous savings there. and this month is national homeowners month and therefore i'll be ringing the bell at wall street at 4:00 which means i've got to leave at 12:00. thanks. >> good morning, mr. president. while we're talking about international travel, i just got back from mississippi. they love you there. and i want to congratulate you on the men and women you've placed around this table. the teamworki working for ameri making results in each and every area. tom price and scott pruitt, this is a team you've assembled that's working hand in glove with -- for the betterment of

america. i want to thank you for that. these are great team members and we're on your team. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. president. it is a great honor traveling with you around the country for the last year and an even greater honor to be here serving in your cabinet. on behalf of everybody at the treasury, i can assure you we are focused on creating sustained economic growth, sweeping tax reform, and fighting terrorism with sanctions and all other programs within our control. >> thank you. thank you all very much. thank you, everybody. >> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. you've been listening there for 23 minutes. the president of the united states in the cabinet room with his full cabinet. noting the first time he's had his full cabinet in there. he blamed that on democratic obstruction. he went around the table. make no mistake of what's happening. the president of the united states under siege because of the russian investigation.

bu bob mueller trying to make the case he's back to work and he will not be distracted. we'll discuss what the president just said. another big breaking news, one of the cabinet members, jeff sessions has agreed to testify tomorrow before the senate kb s intelligence committee. he tried to arrange that in private. he has finally agreed to testify in public tomorrow about questioning about the ethical cloud over him, the nation's top law enforcement officer. with me today, carol lee, margaret talla cnn manu raju. jackie kucinich. the cabinet meeting the president understands what is happening. he understands in town, forget the meed yachdia.

the republicans are worried when it comes to tax reforms, nothing has reached the president's desk and they're worried it won't because of the constant cloud of investigation. at the very top let's listen to the president. if you joined during that meeting one of the issues he focused on the top, remember, we are almost 150 days in. obamacare is still the law of the land. the president says they're still working at it and he says the problem sent the republicans but the democrats. >> if we had the greatest bill in the history of the world on health care, we wouldn't get one vote from the democrats. >> now, that's not exactly true. he may be right to the point that democrats don't want to sign o. at tn. at the moment, the problem here is not the democrats. it's the republicans. and how much, manu, you spend all your time on the hill, how much is it the republicans can't work out their differences and is it any harder to waorkout

those differences because of the cloud over the white house? >> it's difficult as we all know. republicans in the house and senate have a lot of different views about what should go in a bill, whether a full repeal, partial repeal, how to reform the key aspects, the medicaid expansion, difficult in some state like ohio where a republican senator serves, rob portman, but they expanded medicaid, but conservatives want to gut the medicaid expansion. there is a push to try to get a vote in the senate before the july 4th recess. even if it does come to the floor before the july 4th recess, it will be very difficult as it stands right now to pass it because you have at least two objections from the right and the left republican conference, rand paul, susan collins, the moderate, and then you can't lose any more, john, and a lot of people are concerned about where this is going. >> beneath the legitimate policy and philosophical differences, sometimes the glue to get things done is party loyalty.

the president has a problem there right new. let's turn to the news as jeff sessions was at this cabinet meeting, the justice department sent word he was prepared to talk publicly. he was trying to pull a fast one. he had two testimonies planned before two committees on budget matters when he realized democrats are going to ask and even republicans. he tried to take those two public commitments and turn them into private testimony before the senate intelligence committee and the pushback was no way, sir, you've got to do this in public. this is a big deal. he's going to be asked was there a third meeting you did not disclose during the campaign. he's also going to be asked if you recused yourself as you said from all things russia related how were you a central player in firing james comey who was leading the russian investigation? >> and he's also going to answer questions about james comey said he left him alone in the room with the president. there's a number of things. he's going to be forced to answer questions that everyone

has had for months now. in a public setting. again, you know, this is something that's happening that's going to over shadow the white house's effort to get out from under this russia cloud. it's supposed to be work force week. last week was infrastructure week. we had james comey. but republicans and democrats i think have questions particularly after james comey suggested that there's a lot more to what jeff sessions -- more to what he has had, contacts he has had or involvement after he said he would recuse himself. so it's going to be a must -- another must watch. >> obviously jeff sessions was not in the room when he had a one-on-one conversation with james comey in which comey said the president looked him in the eye and said i hope you can let go of the flynn investigation. no, defenders of the president said hope. he didn't say you have to do this. he didn't say i order you. comey says i took it as a directive. sessions wasn't in the room but

you know one of the questions is going to be director comey says as you were leaving even you got this this was inappropriate. under lingering at the door of the oval office before you left. that's high drama. >> i think we know what questions he's going to be asked. i don't think we know which questions he's going to answer. there is another answer and you saw a preview of it when dan coats was before the panels last week, but executive privilege is an option. when and how -- >> it's a huge political risk for the nation a top law enforcement officer to invoke executive privilege for the president of the united states and his conversations? >> i think we have yet to understand what all the rules of the road of tomorrow are. i know it's tomorrow and we're going to know soon enough. my understanding is everything is essentially fair game in terms of what ground could be covered. not just jeff sessions tenure as attorney general but his work during the campaign and transition. in terms of what he is going to be released to answer by the white house and how he will choose to answer those questions, i don't think we. >> including will the white house allow someone to answer

the question yes or no or is there a white house recording system. if there's no recording system, were conversations somehow recorded. the white house has refused to say yes or no. maybe they'll give jeff sessions the brief to go tell the congress that finally. >> i think jeff session system going to be an extraordinary amount of pressure to defend this president because he hasn't been -- trump hasn't been happy with jeff sessions because of the dealings with the muslim ban. he was tweeting -- he was kr criticizing the justice department on twitter just last week he's mad he recused himself in the first place because he thinks that sent the snowball down the hill. >> that sent another snowball down the hill and that's what started the president tweeting about obama wire tapping him at trump tower. i think jeff sessions is going to be very careful because falling out of favor with this president is not something you want to do if you want to stay in the mix. >> this is the first time that he has testified publicly since he was confirmed, but the senate

in this after, remember he had to amend his testimony before the senate judiciary committee to tell the senate that he did have two previously indisclosed meetings with the russian ambassador. this is the first time we'll see him on the record under oath talking about this third meeting that there have been a lot of questions about. this is a huge risk for sessions. if he misstates anything now, that would be a huge problem. not just political but also possibly legal. >> he did not disclose those in the testimony to congress. he did not disclose them on his original form that he had met with a foreign interest. he didn't disclose it. jared kushner didn't. general flynn didn't disclose it. which is one of the questions. remember last week one of the questions everyone here has raised what would sessions answer, what will he refuse to answer or say can we take this in a private session. last week not with james comey, but with admiral roders and dan coats, they both said they weren't pressured by the

president to intervene but they would not talk in detail about conversations and they left a clear impression the president asked them to do something and the senator who pushed them on that saying that's not acceptable and are you invoking executive privilege was angus king. here he is this morning saying i'm looking forward to a chance to question the attorney general. >> he was certainly a member of the trump campaign. what were his contacts if any, with russian officials during the period of the campaign. i think that's certainly a question that we need to ask. secondly a question i'm interested in is what role did he play, if any, again, in the comey firing. >> that last part, the last part is interesting in the sense that yes, there were very legitimate questions about jeff sessions during 2016. what the democrats want to say is at least there's smoke about collusion, why were you meeting with the russian ambassador, was there a third meeting you didn't disclose. that would be a big deal. the fact that he had recused

himself from all things russia and then as the white house put out was directly involved in firing the person leading the russia investigation has created a giant ethical cloud over the chief law enforcement officer of the united states. that's going to be a big part of the hearing. >> how he answers that question is going to be key, because he could -- the white house's first argument was that they were firing james comey because of the way he handled the clinton investigation which presumably mayor may not fall under the attorney general's decision to recuse himself but the president which james comey hung around his neck said i did it because of the russia investigation. that raises all sorts of questions. the other thing i would say if he go there and does what dan coats and mike rogers did last week, we're going to see out cry. learning from that it will be interesting to see if the white house and jeff sessions can get on the same page to avoid a situation like. >> i leave obstruction of

justice to lawyers but there was obstruction to accountability when coats and rodgers refused to answer the question. i think the republican might come down if sessions does as well. after comey the justice department did put out some statements critical of comey saying that he didn't exactly get some things right and they wanted to push back on the facts. jeff sessions probably next to president trump f you're a trump voter out there, jeff sessions is an ambassador to the trump base. he happens to be at the moment the attorney general of the united states, but during the campaign he was a very loyal and important political deputy to this president. is he going to sit there in a public setting and say jim comey is a liar? when jim comey says the president is a liar, it's gym comey that's lying. is he going to say that? >> i don't know. >> sessions is very careful. he's a very cautious politician. he's actually not really a flame flow throw the way a lot of people in his line ideologically are.

but he does to v have to stick for the president. underlying this is sessions own relationship with the president. we have not heard the president off any sort of defense or say he has full confidence in the attorney general, so how will that affect sessions testimony? i expect he will be loyal to the president and try to do what he can to suggest there's nothing untoward about his meetings with the russian ambassador, but the questions about the relationship will be part of the line of questions as well i think. >> he might say i wasn't a party to the conversation because according to james comey he was not. he left. >> i agree. and that's one great out. i wasn't. it but you can ask. were you and mr. kushner linger at the door. was james comey characteration of you looking uneasy when the president asked you to leave s that fair. if you weren't uneasy, what were you? that's where we're going to go tomorrow. up next we're going to hear from attorneys general, state attorneys general, maryland and district of columbia. they have just filed a lawsuit against president trump. we'll tell you why.

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states. the suit alleges that president trump is violating the constitution which explicitly bars presidents from receiving gifts or inducements from foreign or domestic government entities. never in the history of this country have we had a president with these kind of extensive business entanglements or a president who refused to adequately distance themselves from their holdings. president trump's businesses and his dealings violate the constitutions anti-corruption provisio provisions. the framers included these two anti-corruption provisions to prevent foreign and domestic entities from seeking to influence the president by bestowing money or other things of value on him. why did the framers include

these clauses? it was all about corruption. as alexander hamilton wrote, one of the weak side of republics among their numerous advantages is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption. the framers knew that government entities, foreign and domestic, would of course try to use things of value to influence or induce the president to do their bidding instead of that of the american people. now we see it every day. my office window is just a few floors above where we're sitting today and i can tell you that as i look out the window and see the tower of the trump international hotel, we know exactly what's going on every single day. we know that foreign governments are spending money there in order to curry favor with the president of the united states.

just one example. the kingdom of saudi arabia whose government has important business and policy before the president of the united states has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the trump international hotel. and that hotel is but one example of how president trump's vast global businesses and that empire he has is entangled with foreign and state government interest. we are a nation of laws and no one, including the president of the united states, is above the law. no one, not even the president, can be allowed to endanger our democracy and erode our faith in our institutions. but just as -- at the time they're needed the most, traditional checks and balances are failing us. first by not divesting from his businesses, the president has

chosen to put himself and our country in the situation we find ourselves today. and every time the president has spoken about drawing a line between his presidency and his businesses, he's walked his promises back. second, the republican controlled congress has wholly failed to fulfill its responsibility of serving as a check and balance on the president and has thus far given the president a total pass on his business entanglements. state attorney generals answer to the people of their jurisdictions and we have a duty to enforce the law and that's why we're taking action today. >> that's karl racine, brian frosh standing by his side. saying the president has not kept his word to separate himself enough from his businesses.

they are alleging here that the president's in violation of the so-called emolument clauses because the trump international hotel here in washington, other trump properties around the country and around the world are getting a lot of money from foreign governments. they say that's a violation. is this a real test of ethical standards of whether the president's drawn the right lines or is this a democratic stunt? >> i think we don't know where this -- it's something we haven't really seen before obviously like a lot of things with president trump because of his business ties. the fact that it's democratic attorneys generals adds a certain element of partisanship to it. >> allow them to push back. >> and cast it as a political stunt. we don't know where the lawsuit goes. the questions it raises are interesting ones to think about. >> the question is do they get standing? does a federal judge in this federal district court give them standing? if they get standing, then they move into the discovery phase. the discovery phase they want

the president's tax returns to show that he has financial interest here. that's why if you're on team trump they say this is a stunt, democrats have been trying to get his taxes forever. this is yet another attempt of however you have seen ethics saying this is a gray area and the president is saying i'm not going to give up all of my businesses and a lot say he has not built a strong enough fire wall to block it off. i'll note he sometimes shows publicly he doesn't care for this conversation. this past weekend was the 17th time in the trump presidency he went to a trump property. to that the -- >> he might stop by the event in your town. there was a report of that. they were going to try to deal with some of these questions by donating the foreign money that was given to trump properties to the treasury. well, now they're saying oh, it's kind of hard and we'll do it at the end of the year and

they said a couple different things and tried to walk it down but it certainly isn't being done yet. while care is right, this cab cast under a partisan lens, there are very real knquestions about the president going to his properties. >> if it advances, it doesn't get dismissed, when we get into the discovery phase, they produce documents about who's going to the trump properties, who's spendsiing money we could learn a lot. this administration has shut the door on any sort of public scrutiny about who's actually going to these trump properties and who the president himself is meeting. >> this has always been an issue and since the transition and since the opening week of the administration these are questions that some folks wanted to tackle through the legal system if necessary. now you have the president's vulnerability, a moment of softness or exposure that democrats want to seize on.

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one that keeps you connected to what matters most. welcome back. the president's political strategy in dealing with james comey is clear. try to turn the tables by labeling the former fbi director as the one who isn't telling the truth and the one who is acting improp improperly. total l totally illegal? note the question mark. cowardly. team trump knows thou stay in the boss's good standing. >> this is a man who admitted he leaked a memo to hurt this president and that he admitted to agreeing to loretta lynch's request to downgrade essentially

something that was an investigation to be calling it a matter. >> kellyanne conway on fox news. comey did admit he leaked information about his kfg conversations with the president but the last part is a white house lie. comey did not agree to attorney general lynch's investigation. he used the quote 13 times in the opening statement at the press conference describing hillary clinton's use of a private e-mails server. 14 times if you count the word investigation on the press release the fbi released. why do you have to make lying a part of your strategy? you want to attack jim comey. that's a judgment call. you make that call. why say things and where it was said tells me it's way to stoke up the trump base by trying to tie james comey to loretta link and flynn. if you're a trump voter dorks it yourself. go to a searching in.

he did not take, he said investigation, investigation, investigation, investigation. >> it's hard to attack james comey as a part son actor given the way he -- the actions that he took during the campaign which significantly hurt hillary clinton not just days before the election but also that july press conference where he called her careless about the way she handled the e-mail servers and then testified for hours before the house oversight committee. trump himself praised comey on the campaign trail. so the turn around now and attack him is being partisan just does not pass the smell test. and on top of that there are a lot of republicans who are quick to defend james comey. they believe that he's credible. they think his testimony last week was credible, so the white house in a lot of ways is isolated in their attack lines within their own party. >> if you're trying to keep your base, which is important, especially if you're a president whose approval rate suggest somewhere around 35%, it's very important to keep your political base.

i get that part . if you're making a political argument that's going to unnerve members of congress, b, bob mueller the special prosecutor is a close friend of james comey. i don't think trashing james comey, especially if you're doing it in ways that are false is going to help your legal case. >> you're already seeing trump people start to trash bob mueller, so this is a part of -- maybe it's a couple step strategy to try to make this look like a part son witch hunt and pull him into it. no one on the hill is going to -- very few people on the hill are going to buy into that. but to rally the base, to keep that 37% loyal, they're going to keep on doing that. >> one of the curious parts of this is the president saying i've been vindicated by james comey and then calling him a liar. and if you look at the way that james comey delivered his testimony, he made it very hard. i think he even said this in the testimony. you can't cherry pick what you want out of this. that's what you're seeing them try to do. >> the american people more than

19 million people saw it on television, i don't know the numbers for streaming more of it. jeff sessions gets to sit in that chair tomorrow. he is the first trump rebuttal to james comey in that kind of a setting. it's going to be fascinating to watch the credibility test there. white house press secretary under george w. bush, he's trying to give advice. he's normally friendly to the president on tv. from a communications standpoint he sees trouble. advice. you have not been vindicated. you won't be unless bob mueller says so. stop talking. you're heading into a giant perjury trap. lindsey graham not a fan of trump during the campaign. since then he says i like the president. i've had dinner with the president. he has a good agenda. when it comes to the investigation, lindsey graham, i'm paraphrasing, wants the president to shut up. >> i like him. he's got a good jend. but he can you be a street fighter on all things and still be a good president? when you're talking about jim

comey and objenot the american people you're making a mistake. here's what's so frustrating for republicans like me. you may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop inappropriately talking about an investigation that if you just were quiet would clear you. >> so what lindsey graham is trying to signal to the president, anothd other republis are we want to stick with you because we know that's good for us also and that if we go our separate ways the midterms become a grab bag and everything is in crisis but you have to help us stick with you. that's what they're telling him. help us help you. >> you're making it hard. at the moment you're making it really hard. >> yes. when you look at this story from january until now, there was one sets of issues which was the russia investigation which obviously is looking at collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government. then there's this whole set of problems that the president created himself and this is what the republicans find increasingly frustrating. this is now something the white

house is having to contend to or a series of self-inflicted wounds. >> it's overtaken the other stuff and the investigation as e everybody knows it. >> in part because conduct as approximate is a lot more interesting. before it was what did trump calls them satellites, did people do during the campaign. now it's about the conduct of the president of the united states including in the oval office. you mentioned some people starting to attack bob muller from the republican side. among them is newt gingrich who tweeted out republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair. look who he is hiring. time to rethink. that is from newt gingrich about bob mueller. for a little historical context, we try that every now and then in washington, here's newt gingrich a short time ago, may 17th. robert mueller is a superb choice to be a special counsel. media should calm down. so we had our staff, look, there

is one person on the staff so far and we're going to look at them all who gave about $18,000 to democratic causes over the years. that's one person. this is washington. is that reason enough for newt gingrich to suddenly turn and say bob mueller, a guy who was fbi director under george w. bush extended his term so that he could stay on, bob mueller has become a partisan hack overnight? >> no. because bob mueller is the one in charge of this investigation. ultimately to decide how to proceed and there is some oversight over him by rod rosenstein even though there is a special counsel, so he can't really just do whatever he wants in this investigation. can't just do whatever they want. so the question is -- the jury's out about how bob mueller conduc conducts himself. he has tremendous respect on both sides. who knows. we'll see which way he takes us. maybe it will become a witch hunt. maybe the trump team will be right. we just don't know that yet. >> we don't know. but we do know on this day most of the republicans on capitol

hill have 10, 15, 20 years of experience with bob mueller and they view him as a pro. if the white house starts attacking him it will raise alarms. everybody sit tight. next we'll shift gears. the battle for the soul of the democratic party. it's a national fight and it's just across the potomac in virginia. garfunkel (instrumental) is that good? yeah it's perfect. bees! bees! go! go! go! [ girl catching her breath } [ bees buzzing inside vehicle ] potoma easy-access 3rd row. life's as big as you make it.

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many progressives, but also viewed as an offensive lecture by many other democrats who by the way would like to neat if bernie sanders wants to save the democratic party, maybe he should start by becoming a member. put it this way to "the new york times." we are going to lose every possible winnable seat in a year where there are many winnable seats if we come across as inflexible left wingers. i respect bern need. i just don't think we can become the party of bernie. he's not exactly way right of center. he's a liberal in his own right. but what are these tensions and do democrats have a basic standing when they say bernie, if you want to keep lecturing us about what we should be, why don't you stop being an independent and be a democrat? >> but they don't do that because they need his people. >> they do it privately. >> no. it was bernie sanders and tom perez. they're sitting next to each other. they asked bernie sanders whether he was a democrat and he said no. and tom perez shifted really

uncomfortably in his seat and you see it all over his face. i feel like that was a perfect snapshot. he didn't say anything. because they know that the energy is with bernie sanders. at least a big part of it that could really help them in the midterm elections. but they need to figure out how to harness it in a way of good for the party. >> we see an example in the v virginia governor race. the democratic primary is essentially clinton sa/sanders over again. you have the governor support, both democratic senators support. so it's kind of the grass roots versus the establishment. i want to give you a sample of an ad in the end. they're unified by trump but they have many differences. >> he's somebody who says i am going to make change and i want to make change. not for the richest. not for the most powerful. >> i'm listening careful i well

to donald tru to i think he's a na-- >> both playing for the wealthy. but again, you have had race where you have warren and sanders with one candidate and i'll call it hillary clinton establishment crowd with the other. it's a very close race. primary is tomorrow. >> indeed. what you're seeing also largely is that this is a -- the party in general is shifting dramatically to the left because the leadership of the party knows they need to be in line with the base which just wants to oppose and stop donald trump at every turn, the resistance as they call themselves. north of who is supposed to be the establishment candidate in that virginia governor's race calleds donald trump a total authoritarian. actually he called him a maniac. so -- >> keep it straight. >> so the point is that that's where the leadership and these candidates are trying to move

even if some of them are not willing to move. >> so congressman cleaver's position if everybody goes way left, there are parts in the country, donald trump is the president of the united states, the republicans control the house, the republicans control the senate. if you're going to win back the house, you're going to take red seats away. and if you're going to take red seats away, can you be that far left including as we're sitting here, brad sherman is delivering articles of impeachment. >> so if you look at the last nevada november's results t, it reminds you pennsylvania is important, ohio is important. as the approval ratings dip into the 30s it creates an opportunity for democrats, about you it creates an opportunity for, like, joe -- i think the party hasn't figured it out. >> perhaps there are democrats who hope that these initial elections will help them sort it

out so that when they head into the midterms you're not having this sort of still very divisive divide among democrats. >> the challenge for the leadership to take back the house, they don't necessarily need to move to the center. it will probably be a base election in the midterms that are roughly two dozen seats that hillary clinton won that republicans have occupy those seats in those districts. if the base turns out, the republican bases turnout, maybe they win back the house in the midterms, but the question is what does that mean for 2020, what does that mean for the future of the party? even if they do well for 2018. there will still be a lot of questions. >> trump unifies them to a degree. up next a white house surrogate we don't often hear from back in the spotlight. the president's daughter ivanka. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back

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joe manchin manc with all the noise, with all the intensity that -- of the media coverage and obviously what's -- what makes headlines, ultimately we're really focused on why the american people elected donald trump as their president. at the end of the day, if you want to think about difficult, it's the factory worker who's been laid off. difficult is, you know, the mother whose lost a child to opioid abuse. these are the real challenges. i think that does put it in perspective for me. >> presidential daughter and senior adviser, truivanka trump fox and friend this morning. very effective as a communicate or to television trying to say that the administration will plow through what she called the noise. she also said she's been

surprised by the viciousness of washington but making the case they believe they can. that's a big question mark at this point in the sense that none of the big initiatives have made it to the president's desk yet. is her role, is she going to be more out there? is here role -- can she point to anything kp sand say here's pros advancing key elements of my sub set of the agenda? >> this is a chance for them to try to reintroduce her publicly and i think you will see her take a more visible role. she's kind of settling in. she's focused on very narrow kinds of issues like women and paid leave and things like that. we don't know exactly where those issues are going to go, but i thought her comments about vi viciousness were interesting given that her dad ran a very aggressive and -- >> some would say vicious. >> i didn't say vicious. >> people are saying. >> some say. so that was striking. >> and her husband is a central

role, jared kushner is a central person in these investigations as well. can they sell a paid childcare paid leave proposal to a republican congress at the same time they're asking them to pass an increase in the debt ceiling, to somehow reconcile their -- can they sell that? >> i don't know. it's going to be very expensive to do that. they want to do this as part of the larger tax overhaul. tax reform is nowhere right now. they have to go a long way to get to that point. that's one of her central things that she's pushing. they may not get that. they of course may not get repealing and replacing obamacare through which would be a huge problem for this congress. >> it's hard to see a republican congress adding something they would characterize as another entitlement. it's hard for me, based on what they cut from their health care bill, based on what they talked about cutting elsewhere, it just -- it's hard for me to think that they're going to make that leap just because the first daughter is pushing it.

>> inside the beltway, ivanka's mojo as an ability to get things done has suffered from what happened with climate change. ultimately, i don't have a good sense of how that translates outside the beltway. she's an eloquent spokes person. she's younger. she's very appealing to listen to. so she still has some potential in some of those lanes that we had talked about like women pay and that sort of thing. when it comes to translating that into policy, i do think in the sort of early months climate change was a huge test and ultimately the president did what he thought he had to do for his base. >> it will be interesting. she talked about helping people with opioids. a lot of people are saying her father's budget eviscerated those. he's going to hit the road to talk about apprenticeship and training programs. you would think we could have some bipartisan support. we'll see how that plays out.

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. hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're following breaking news right now in the ninth circuit court of appeals has just issued a ruling in the legal battle over president trump's travel ban. i want to bring in cnn paul callan and laura coats, our legal analysts. we're going through the ruling right now, paul. i want to set the scene for our viewers. what's at stake in this decision that we're about to get from the ninth circuit? we earlier received a decision prosecute the president's travel ban. set the scene