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us. president trump working phones today in advance of a big trip including his first face-to-face with vladimir putin. >> trying to predict president trump is a fool's errand. i have to assume a lot of discussion about syria, very important. hopefully a reference to the situation in ukraine, also pretty dire. i have very little confidence that the president will bring up the russian attack on our voting system last november. >> more on that in a moment. congress home for the fourth of july but talks on a senate obamacare replacement deal continue, and, yes, it's complicated. >> i mean, the bill is just being lit up like a christmas tree full of billion dollar ornaments and it's not repeal. we don't repeal the regulations. we don't repeal the subsidies. >> and the president adds a body slam to his war on the media and in a style he calls "modern day presidential." >> he's the most genuine president and the most non-politician president that

we've seen in my lifetime and he's demonstrated, whatever the content of that particular tweet is or any tweet, demonstrated a genuine ability to communicate to the people. >> that's one take. with us to share reporting and insights, from the "washington post," and from the "new york times," and 538 and from the "daily beast." consistency, not a trump trademark. abandoned promises. including, yes, golfing. he put himself front and center at a big rose garden sell brace of the house health care plan and found out what was in it and calmed it mean. one constant, war an the media and turning up the volume. this saturday night at what was supposed to be a tribute to do veterans. >> the fake media is trying to intense us, but we will not let them. because -- the people know the truth.

the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house, but i'm president and they're not. >> and then this -- sunday morning -- >> what's going to happen? >> oh, my god! >> the president calls such things "modern day presidential." whatever you call it, we should not be surprised. this president sometimes switches positions on policy in the same speech, but the media whining is his gospel. spelled out by his chief strategist "the media here is the opposition party" steve bannon told the "new york times." they don't understand this country. there we are on monday heading into july 4th. we should not be surprised and i think sometimes people in our business get overly whiney about it. >> i totally agree. >> whines about us. the president whines about us, we whine back, but this is clearly a political strategy. clearly designed to keep his

base locked in. what else is it? >> i totally agree we shouldn't whine back. cover him for what he is and the fact that it does not get him five more senate votes. there is no obscure senate rule that says if you have a good tweet content, you get five more votes. the fact is that all the attacks on the fake news media don't move shelley moore capito, susan collins, dean heller. their still nos on health care. nothing else matters right now. the obsession he tweeted, i get we have to cover it but it doesn't change the fact his agenda is stalled and that's the really story in this presidency. >> thinking this is a vat strategy but impulse move you could say maybe. maybe to rile up his base. saber rattling for a 2018 race but not working. he particularly does not seem

purchase turns ter tuperturbed by that. and policy matters away from that because we're discussing this, but -- >> not even aimed at the dean hellers of the world but the media generally. at one point took aim at their own party in the commercials against heller. the second complained they yank the ads off the air. mostly it's complaining about the media but not aimed to actually moving senate votes, which is the whole issue now. >> showing his people. >> the president goes to a veterans event, lashing out at the media. the president sunday morning, a lot of people going to church, posts a tweet and lashes out at the media. the staff complains we're complaining what the president said and did. >> really extraordinary. that said, we have to give him credit for being consistent on the media. all over the board on everything else but trade, but when it comes to bashing reporters, he's

extremely thorough and consistent. that said, this isn't new to his time at president. for his entire career he's been aware of the power, influence role the media playing in the american political and cultural conversation, watches cable news from the white house the way a tv executive watches. pays attention to chyrons, pays attention to graphics. keeps an eye on hair and makeup. how the visuals look. not just the way a typical tv viewer watches tv. part of the reason his tweets get him in trouble is he's live tweeting the shows he's watching's when he digs himself into the biggest holes like the joe and mika thing last week, it wasn't about policy or congress but cable news. something i think is crucial to understanding his presidency, that it goes back years and years to his life, his career, as a voracious consumer of television media. >> my concern is not about the media as such but the war at times the white house has had on independent facts and independent ideas. like the fact they're bashing the cbo constantly is basically like the media know there's no

kind of objective reality in the world, and they're constantly fighting. and then i am concerned about, cnn a part of trying to create and show what is reality in our culture. >> he beats up on news organizations. and maybe we don't give enough credit for executive actions taken, but he promised a wall, congress won't pay for the wall. promised to repeal obamacare. easy. we're almost six months in, very hard. go on and on with the list. do that. another network he doesn't criticize when they interview him, ask, sir, we're confused. are you excellent or extraordinary? let's get into the part of this debate. republican congressman scott taylor, i think has a good take here. says the president knows how to drive the content, the conversations on television, he wants it to be about him. >> i think you guys are getting played, man. every time he does this, you guys overreact and i say, you guys, i mean the media in general. overreact and play into his hands. i don't think any american, most

americans, excuse me, certainly some, maybe, but most americans out there believe he's incite violence from a wwf clip. >> i want to pick up on the last part. a comment if you looked at social media, was the president inciting, encouraging, giving a green light to vile ens against journalism. i don't take it that way although i think you certainly can. anyone watching serm can. knowing this president's history as you mentioned, i took it as something else. more of his way of punching, not a physical way. here's the led of council, only a matter of time before shun actually does it. suspect this in erdogan's turkey, not the united states. mike kaufman, swaying district in colorado, republican congressman but a swing district, a tough district. he tweeted yesterday, exactly what i meant when i said, stop the twitter tantrums. those republican members of congress worry about this from a -- if trump is not all that popular in their districts, they worry it poisons the water back

home. >> which is potentially does. for some of these people trying to-not necessarily catering to an electric all trump republicans and need to worry about that. i mean, it's -- it may not be a total inciting to violence but certainly something in between making it okay, palatable. making it a normal part of the conversation thif the presidents doing it. not going as far as saying go beat up the media, certainly a -- >> it does tell you this white house has a vat strategy. should not be surprised. sometimes the president do more to reach out to democrats. reach out to democrats. they decided they got elected on the base and keeping that. when the president gets mad at us when we raise the questions, the american people have questions about his temperament. intelligence, yes? six in ten of americans say intelligent. good leadership skills? no. honest, no. level headed, almost two-thirds

of the american people. a lot of republicans saying, no, their president is not level headed. i suspect this poll was taken last week. i suspect tweets like the body slam don't help. >> go ahead. >> i think level headed, though, can be in cases code for insider establishment boring, and trump ran on a platform to shake things up. dramatic actions. yob usually for most it's a negative to be considered not level headed. for a lot of trump supporters they like that he's very brash. they like that he's willing to buck norms. i mean, if you look at trump reddit for instance, thrilled we tweeted that wwe video. for context, important to remember the things most republicans, most politicians, try to avoid, trump embraces and sometimes makes work for him. >> he's saying it's a political -- the attack on the media is part of his brand. i'm not convinced republicans love this either. the number i say, approve many rating of republicans in the low 80s. usually first year of your term,

your own people in your own party are in the 90s. 95s. suggests to me as a political strategy, not the best one. probably in his first year, elected in a controversial way george w. bush was but tried to broaden out and get numbers up in the first term, maybe win a second term. not sure trump is pursuing a strategy that's that smart, even if it is a strategy. >> deliberate from day one, undermine the credibility of any organization that might question the president. question his strategy, question his policies. put up a scorecard that says obamacare is still the law of the land. haven't built the wall, so an and so forth. listen to republican senator ben sasse on "state of the union" with jake tapper. the president has every right to complain about coverage he doesn't like, but -- >> i mean, there's an important distinction between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue about that, and complain about that. and trying to weaponize

distrust. >> weaponize distrust. interesting way to put it in the sense that the president does not want his bases specially to trust people who are critical of him. he says everything critical, any poll critical, fake news. report that's critical, fake news, despite the fact it's based on fact. >> yeah. how you in part keep your base. by trying to delegitimize the mainstream press. if you look, as i did yesterday, at the front pages of major papers across the country, what they were focused on. it wasn't trump's tweets. it was medicaid and health care broadly. and, john, to your point, this is why trump wants to create this dynamic with the media. because if his supporters don't believe those stories about folks losing health care coverage, or folks losing medicaid, then i -- i think that the assumption is that his party will suffer less at polls next year, if folks don't believe

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>> i don't think we're getting anywhere with the bill we have. we're at an impasse. every time you add more federal money, more spending for the big government republicans, it offends the conservatives. right now this bill, which is not a repeal, has become the kitchen sink. >> now, if conservatives like rand paul had their way, two steps. one vote on repeal and then debate on replace. >> sometimes when you lump too many things into one piece of legislation, you doom its likelihood of success. and i fear that might be where we are today. >> cnn's phil mattingly on capitol hill with more on the process and the substance debates. hey, phil. >> reporter: john, look, on the process, the separate repeal and replace option is not the option. you noted, mitch mcconnell making clear, moneying on going forward with both and external political issues talking about senators home for recess and the pressure put on them. behind the scene, the policy here that matters. look what this bill does, at least the proposal, if you look

at the moderate centers. not just medicaid expansion, but states with large populations in general looking at the bill and changes, reforms to the program itself seeing reductions in spending in the second decade up to 35% for the program. a change in how federal spending is actually applied to the program. something conservatives always wanted, but when you come from a state that has a vulnerable pop langs, problematic, because the state is going to have to pick up that money right now. we talk to senators and wary that could happen. they want more money there. the focus now john is on conservatives. look what they want. obviously, as much of the obamacare infrastructure taken away as possible and where that stands, all about regulations. when that matters, ted cruz matters specifically one of his proposals. is this -- it could be crucial to unlocking conservative votes. ted cruz proposes for any exchange or insurer offering an aca plan on regulatory side must offer one that's not. essentially that means

pre-existing conditions, residual health benefits, key protections required by the affordable care act wouldn't be available driving premiums down for the plans but the problems would be, do republican senators want to deal with preexisting conditions and more importantly, would insurance markets be able to handle that? the big question, where are senators on this? very wary of this idea. listen to what white house legislative affairs director mark short had to say. >> are you worried that they'll push it so far to the right that you're going to lose a lot of those moderates you need to have? >> no, not at all. we support senator cruz and senator lee's efforts. this is similar to efforts that transpired in the house and we think it's perfectly appropriate, his amendment and hope it's part of the process in bringing everybody together. >> reporter: my ears perked up, sounded like like a tacit endorsement. whether the white house gets

behind this proposal, wary senators, could be a very, very important issue as they try and map this out. a lot of questions, again. not close to 50 yet, but these are the dynamics of a debate we're going to see come to a head here in the next couple weeks. >> phil mattingly live on capitol hill. say hi to tourists up there as well. an interesti ing point. the bill moves to the right, white house says that's okay with us. mitch mcconnell can only lose two. the bill moves to the right, that means lose susan collins, dean heller. the question, lose only those two or lisa murkowski and rob portman and so on, so forth. mention eed shelley moore capit >> and throw opioid money into the pot, the ohio governor, republican, an effort to buy you off. put that out there for the ohio voters. don't fall for this crap, basically. talking shelley moore capito has to somehow be convinced.

lisa murkowski. others we haven't heard jeff flake tull talk all that much but also from a medicare expansion state puts all of them in a strange bind to face political pressure and if trump is thinking, i can't lose the house. go too far towards the middle i'll lose the house, he may lose the senate before it gets back to the house. >> you move it to the left to get collins, heller, portman, moore capito and flake you lose lee, cruz and rand paul. use it on that side. listen to mitch mcconnell. imagine yourself trying to figure out the rubik's cube and meet the senate majority leader? >> sitting there with a rubik's cube trying to figure how to twist the dials to get to 50. to replace this with something better. the american people said we elected a republican president, a republican house and republican senate. we want to see some results, and i can't -- say anything other than i agree with you.

but it's not easy. and we're going to continue to wrestle with this and try to get it done. >> he went on to say during his trip home, it's not easy making america great again. is it? >> a pretty self-aware mitch mcconnell, by the way. plays his card close to the vest, fascinating to watch that clip back home because he's usually tacit and to say out loud, yeah, you guys elected republicans and want stuff done. >> i think that's a message -- a message, though, because he knows there's no policy solution in 50 votes. you can't turn the cubes to get those more moderates we talked about and keep the conservatives. can't turn it to get conservatives and keep the moderates. a rgt in the end, done the best i could. we have to pass something, because we promised we would pass something. >> i'm skeptical that the ted cruz, mike lee alternative is a silver bullet to get this done. certainly an interesting policy idea to put out there. anytime you talk about people losing coverage for pre-existing conditions all the moderates get antsy and concerned.

perhaps the sum text in other corners as far as the policy world in d.c., there is some weird optimism, if health care fails it could make tax reform easier. the president desperate for a win. the sunny side up mcconnell is thinking about, do the best we can and see what happens. >> you mentioned before. this president has an amazing communications platform, followers on twitter, the rose garden. a great communicator. tweeted over the weekend's support for what conservatives say. can't get a deal in the next few days, split it. not what the majority leader wants. is that the administrational policy? depends who you ask. >> no, we don't think so. we think that leader mcconnell and his senators within the senate are working to try to get this piece of legislation on track. >> it could either be repealed and replaced at the same time or you could do what happened in the 2015 senate bill where every republican senator there except for one voted and voted to immediately do away with it

penalties and taxes under obamacare, to they dealt with medicaid as well. >> when the leader in the senate said talking about splitting this undermines what i'm trying to do, why would the president tweet it and why would kellyanne conway go on television and say, that's okay? >> on top of that, amazing irony, that months ago when the health care conversations were first kicking off mcconnell and ryan were open to the idea of doing first a clean repeal and then replace, but heard from the white house that's not going to work. too complicated. a mess. they decided not to and now all of a sudden the president's saying, never mind. that's what i want to do. the president will have a huge credibility problem. >> and i said that, and then a bill passed. should be clear that it seems hard but this party is really driven by the idea of getting rid of things that obama did. particularly obamacare. so i do think we should be open to the fact maybe they'll get there because everybody wants to get there. >> a secret plan. maybe they will.

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president trump's prep work for a big summit includes calls with the leaders of germany, france and italy. biggest on the agenda, the president's first face-to-face with the russian president, vladimir putin. in a moment, whether he will rebuke putin for russian interferen interference. no doubt syria will come up in the meeting and bringing tough choices to the president's desk soon. barbara starr is live at the pentagon with more. >> reporter: hi, john. well, you know, we know now from the white house that the two leaders are going to discuss syria. we don't know exactly what they're going to talk about, but as you say, on the table, here's the way it looks right now. the fighters that the u.s. has been backing for months, so-called sdf syrian democratic forces, are making progress towards getting to raqqa and fighting to get isis out of raqqa. its self-declared capital in

syria. that will by any measure be an extremely important victory in the war against isis, but if they get it back, now the problem for president trump is it opens up a whole host of new problems, and mainly, russian backing of bashar al assad. you know, this is still assad's country. the fighters might get raqqa back, but what is president trump going to do for them to be able to hold on to raqqa? the billions of dollars in reconstruction, the civilian government that would have to be installed there and what happens if assad backed by russia also backed by iran begins to move his forces towards raqqa again? that could happen in the coming months, and will the fighters that the u.s. backs be able to hold them off? will this about separate enclave? because right now u.s. policy doesn't really address the issue of the trump administration trying to get assad out of power. it's something that the two men may well talk about and not

clear they'll have a solution. >> something to keep an eye on. barbara raising a fascinating question. this is part of the idea. president trump would like to have a good relationship with putin. russian meddling and including russian behavior in ukraine made it less likely. and presidents in the past, mad about russia with one thing and have to work with him on others. president obama worked with putin on the nuclear deal. put it this way. this president has not articulate add clear syria policy yet. is this the moment? >> we'll have to wait and see. remember, obama didn't ever clearly articulate what he wanted to do in syria either. >> after the red line collapsed. >> exactly. a long-returning problem and major issue for folks in defense. i don't know the goal and stands in sharp contrast to putin's policy in syria. he knows what he wants, assad in power, after isis is driven out,

control for territory than before. trump and the united states have been very vague. at best you hear a loosely partitioned confederation, maybe assad controls part of it. that's not a way to handle a military conflict and eventually trump has to figure it out. >> the problem, he doesn't have as many choices to make in the situation as obama did. a new conflict, more the united states could do to throw its weight around. russia worked its way in, they're established. and donald trump is a neophyte at this game. vladimir putin the best in the business, among the best in the business, at least. fsb trained. former kgb, excuse me, mixing up my acronym. the point, he knows how to read people and control things and may bring trump along for a ride. in which case, him dictating what's a good way to go forward and not necessarily our president. >> and assad is putin's guy, assad in power, you run ice osit

and hand a gift to assad. what was said about the agenda. noagenda. whatever the president wants to talk about. all say democrats and republicans, say he damn well better raise election meddling. the white house said, we don't know if it will come up or not. can the president of the united states after. whatted in the 2 whatted -- what happened in the 2016 election, not bring this up? >> given the president, the answer is, yes, something in trump's wheelhouse to not -- >> there are smiles at the table, but that's not funny. if thinking about the united states brand in the rearview mirror or 20 years ahead, 2018, 2020 re-election campaign for this president it would be stunning, except nobody would be surprised by it. >> while we're smiling. the answer to your question, of course, it wouldn't be surprising if he doesn't do that, because this president does not adhere to longstanding

american political norms. we knew that for the year and a half he ran for president and guess what? got the nomination, won the presidency, because his party didn't really care that much about the fact he flagrantly, discarded longstanding political norms. where we are. he's now the president of the united states. why assume he suddenly will confront putin about their meddling in the election when for the last year and a half he's done things his way and his base does not care. >> why would -- >> the difference, he doesn't seem to really think this is a big issue. com comey talked about it in his testimony, trump never asked me about russia. very little interest at least from the president. his staff feels differently. the cabinet feels differently. the president is not very focused on -- russia's not in r interfering in our election but has done it in other elections. trump may not bring it up, for

h him, undermining my election victory not about american security. >> if trump isn't willing to go hard after putin in the united states and -- when in the room together, physical presence of two men with enormous personalities all of a sudden trump will find conviction and a willingness to -- >> a history of confrontation in person. everybody who covers the white house knows "you're fired" tag line is richly ironic. because the guy can't fire anybody. can't even fire his own campaign staff, how will he sit face-to-face with a russian leader, flattered him for years now, and confront him? it's not who he is. right? >> you spent time reporting in moscow before you came back to washington. what will putin take away from a meeting, a first meeting with president trump, if president trump does not mention what, yes, russia has done this for years, doing it actively in europe as we speak.

from a u.s. perspective, unprecedented in to 1-- 2016 wht does it mean? >> we're in a situation, the russians want compounds in new york and maryland back, using for intelligence gathering purposes may have contributed to the crisis we're in. a president unable to disassociate the allegations about himself from the problem that exists of russian meddling in this country, played out as it has in other countries, as perry said, and also an administration floating the idea, maybe offer carrots, not sticks. those it compounds are part of this. they've talked about not wanding hands tied on sanctions. congress is considering a sanctions bill severe and hasn't gone far enough. the president still has the authority. putin may walk away with a lot, actually. may be able to convince trump the united states needs to give russia something for russia to play ball. if he can spin that better, trump able to command the situation, we may end up in a

very different situation. >> perhaps he will surprise us. it's happened in the past. a big week ahead. president trump plans a quick return after the g-20, accepted an invitation to visit paris and french authorities charging a 23-year-old man with plotting to assassinate the french period duing those festivities. the suspect arrested after authorities were alerted to an online effort to buy an assault rifle. next, no joke. a guy driving an uber in iowa this weekend, will he challenge president trump for the republican nomination in 2020? the competition. es olay regenerist hydrates skin better than creams costing over $100, $200, and even $400. fact check this ad in good housekeeping. olay. ageless.

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a little politics now. listen here. the question, straightforward. the answer, not so much. >> is there any chance you'll kalg president trump for the republican nomination in 2020? >> first of all, let's be clear why i'm going to be in iowa this weekend. i don't want to admit it anywhere let alone on national tv, but nebraska lost to iowa last year in a football game and i lost a bet.

so i have to drive uber in iowa next weekend. that's the reason i'm going to be in iowa. it's about hawkeyes and huskers bloods-lerti i bloods-letting on the football field and after that. >> the senator did not rule out kalging the president in 2020. back to the question, could a guy driving an uber in iowa this weekend challenge the president in the primaries as a republican in 2020? >> i think this guy definitely is thinking about it. watch him. he's trying to frame himself as the -- a book out. not about politics. tweets are constantly about the need for civility in politics. it's not subtle who he's talking about. also, tom cotton has been to iowa, too, and john kasich has been to new hampshire already. go to iowa, without question, trying to increase speculation about what you're doing next. >> but it takes courage to challenge a sitting president. >> it does. >> if you watched what happened, trump chainsawed 16 other people in the 2016 primaries. people with a lot of political experience. the question is, if it was

one-on-one or two w-on-one? could it happen? the president had a fund-raiser, raised $10 million. before that, raised $7.1 million already in the first three months this year. doing that on purpose to send a statement. don't do it. >> yeah. look, i think that it's hard to beat a sitting president when you primary them, but you can really wound them. look at the elections where incumbent presidents lost in american history. all three have in common, the sitting president was challenged at a serious primary before he lost the general election, of those races. trump could be wounded. guys, we're looking, i think, way too much in the future now. who the heck knows what the world looks like in the winter of 2020 or late 2019? what's trump doing at that point? >> the mid-term elections -- what happens to the party -- gets wiped out in 2018, a rationale to do it, at least. >> absolutely.

>> interesting thing about sasse, hasn't bucked trump on policy issues. at the forefront for his demeanor, the way he talks about the press. when it comes to votes, not someone causing that much trouble for him. not making a lot of noise about health care. if sasse were to run against trump, hard to draw a contrast. >> and constant talk donald trump was a republican, a democrat, independent, it is his party now. sasse, not harsh in criticism. questioned the president's tone and tweets. not terribly harsh. listen to the chairman commenting on the great senator from nebraska. >> we had senator ben sasse from nebraska. he crosses the missouri river and in that sanctimonious tone talks about what he doesn't like about donald trump, what he doesn't like about donald trump. you know what, senator sasse? i really don't care what you like. we love donald trump, and if you

don't love him, i suggest you stay on your side of the missouri river. >> the point being -- since winning, since winning, the president and his organization have put their people, have their people in the states in the right places. >> well, and, look, the voters in iowa are directing jeff kaufman there. jeff kaufman is looking at the -- polling. guess what, rank and file iowa conservative activists like trump and jeff kaufman got a guarantee early-on caucuses. guess what? donald trump is guarantee them nation's -- >> gambling in the casinos. >> absolutely. fine with trump and not violating party orthodoxy, he's really not at this point, i just don't think it's going to be a factor. look, steve bannon somehow got his way and donald trump came out for a tax increase on the top bracket, fastenetting. then talking about violating

party orthodox in a way trump has not yet. >> a pat buchanan, read my lips no now taxes. a fun one like that. see an uber driver in iowa looks familiar. sasse, get him on the record. up next, no lifeguard to save chris christie from himself. (woman) when you have type 2 diabetes,

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welcome back. it's summer. the july 4th holiday and in new jersey that means the shore, and springsteen tunes. no one bopping down the beach with the radio except for the new jersey governor and invited guests. >> last monday, a week ago today, no matter what happened we were coming here as a family this weekend. this is where we live. one of the places we live. and so what a great bit of journalism by the "star ledger," actually caught a politician being where he said he was going to be with the people he said he

was going to be with. his wife and his children and their friends. so -- it's really a bit of -- i'm sure they'll get a pulitzer for this one. >> that's governor christie, a business surly, if you didn't notice, trying to justify these pictures. he and his family alone toes in the sand while the rest of the state, couch-ridden barred from the beaches after christie closed all public tourists attractions. if those weren't enough, this will. the governor insists he wasn't doing what you just saw him doing. tanning. >> no. i didn't get any sun today. i'm done. we're talking about the closure of government. and you're talking about your tmz stuff. >> one new jersey paper ran this headline to sum up christie's attitude running out his clock in office. let him eat funnel cake. >> that's pretty good. >> the legislature in emergency session trying to break the budget impasse. you know, he's authentic, i

guess, the right way to put it. would you close state-run beaches and then go to the state beach if you're the governor? >> not if you were looking to run for president. but those days are behind him. remarkable. the rise and fall. the numbers he had in that state and where he is now. you're a baseball fan. nearing the political mendoza line, in baseball, 200. politics, 15% approval. >> put up the quinnipiac poll. the governor's approval rating. >> could fall now below 10% given this story. it's so easy to understand, as you said. you can't take advantage of something when your own voters are not able to access the beach. infuriates them and he's so cavalier about it. sort of his way, but i think that that reflects somebody who is looking in the rearview mirror at his career in politics, at least. >> if we show you the "jersey

journal," to christie, get the heck off the beach. politics in jersey feisty. got to like that. would you have gone to the beach? >> probably not. i think not. i like to tell myself i wouldn't have. i mean, he's the grinch who stole the fourth of july. how do you clean up after that? it's just -- the visuals are catastrophic. >> lied about it, too? said no sun at a press conference. >> he had a hat on. >> and said -- >> that's good. incredible. >> the crazy thing, a side piece, the photographer is pretty sure that christie and he made eye contact, hanging out and doing passes and went ahead and lied about it, anyway. >> told his versions of events. wearing a hat. that's not sun, is it? >> his lack of options not just in new jersey or presidential also not in the cabinet either. people thought, a.g., v.p., what a fall. >> if you don't think he -- his lieutenant governor is running for governor. she was a christie ally most of

her term. her on twitter, beyond words. if i were governor sure wouldn't be sitting on the beach if taxpayers didn't have access to state beaches. so -- at -- lieutenant governor? >> wow. >> yeah. >> so -- having fun with this. >> she's going to have a very hard time winning state-wide office. >> because of his unporp latepu >> a combination. and the governor's unpopularity. i'm not sure he couldn't get a job in the administration. knowing governor christie a little, his passion, much like donald trump, is the media. he'd be a happier guy doing sports talk radio or media than a second-tier job in the administration. >> to be a little serious what people hate about politicians. everything we talk about. people hate this kind of hypocritical bad behavior. i'm not tanning. are you insane? this kind of stuff is what the people hate in politics and i

agree with them about that, and can we also agree, what the "star ledger" did, flew a plane over the beach. journalistic undertaking. >> good to know newspapers -- >> flourishing. >> newspapers spending money. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." see ut right back here tomorrow, celebrate fourth of july with us. and more answers after a quick break.

hi there. i'm brianna keilar in for wolf blitzer. 9:00 p.m. in mosul, wherever you're watching around the world, thank you so much for joining us. up first, president trump set for his first face-to-face meeting with russian president vladimir putin. the two leaders will meet on the sidelines of the g-20 summit in germany this week. platt been working phones, chatting up world leaders in europe, asia and the middle east ahead of the summit and will return to the white house this evening after a visit to his resort in bedminster, new jersey. cnn white house reporter kaitlyn collins joins us live from nearby bridgewater,