welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. a live look at the white house where israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be arriving any moment. the cameras will also be in the oval office greeting a bit later. plus, the president ignores a republican revolt and defends

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signed. that's the president tweeting this morning. he punctuates it with this: to protect our country we must protect american steel. america first. the speaker's office in a rare review with the president this morni morning issued a statement saying, this is a mistake. we are extremely worried about the consequences of a trade war and are urging the white house to not advance with this plan. the response? >> everybody in the swamp is rising up against it. at the end of the day, we're getting a bad deal, and the president has said quite clearly and quite correctly that these countries around the world are running huge trade surpluses with us, we're shifting our wealth offshore, they're taking our jobs in factories, and all

we're trying to do with our trade policy is to get a fair and level playing field. >> with to us share the report and go their insights to this day, time's molly ball, eric norton with the "new york times." the president, again, if you're an america first voter, the president is finally keeping a campaign promise, but very rare is it that the republican house speaker would have his office issue a statement about an hour after they also distributed some news accounts about the markets being down, saying, mr. president, you're wrong. >> it is pretty remarkable. we've seen at times the republican leadership and others in congress push back on things the president has said. but rarely have you seen a significant policy divide such as this. however, the president did campaign as someone who would take such punitive actions against other countries, imports and the like. but not a lot of people thought he would actually carry through with it. this is potentially problematic for the economy, according to

the views of the republicans, but also for the midterm elections as the party leaders in the republican party believe touting their tax legislation would be the way to save their seats in congress. but if they're at war over this issue and if there's undercuts in the perceived gains of the tax reform law, perhaps that will be problematic in the long term. >> and it's worth noting the president hasn't actually followed through on this yet. he came out last week against advisers and said he's planning to do this. the question a lot of republicans are wrestling with right now is, is this going to be another thing where the president promises action, makes statements about it and ultimately doesn't take action? a political argument because they do sense this opening where his views could be swayed. >> to manu's point, i think when trump took office, a lot of people did think he would do a lot of things that went against

the doctrine of the republican party. over the course of his first year in office, republicans and the people around him, the more conventional, conservative advisers, found they could talk him off the edge of these things or just distract him to point where he didn't get around to doing them. most of the things he did in his first year were conventional, conservative things in terms of policy. this is an exception. this was a promise that was very explicit, really a signature promise that differentiated him against the rest of the republican field in the primaries. he was all alone in talking about trade in this manner. i think that clip you played of peter navarro, it's true, there is a consensus in washington on trade policy. that's not necessarily the consensus out there in america among democratic and republican voters. when you look at the way trump flipped a lot of these rust belt states where there used to be a lot of manufacturing, people really heard this promise. >> it's actually politically fascinating because trump is basically placing his rust belt base ahead of his southern and

farm belt base. he won all three regions of the country. he won the planes ins in the fa belt states, and he crucially won the midwest. what he's doing here, he's saying to the states that produce a lot of the crops in this country and a lot of the cars in this country, the south and the west, he's saying that you are to me politically in my eyes important as pennsylvania, ohio, michigan. it's really vast politics, too. >> i'm going to pause for a moment. let's just watch sarah netanyahu and benjamin netanyahu enter the white house. the president out there to greet them. the schedule did not include events in the white house. netanyahu is in major corruption back home. he wants these pictures to show i'm a player back home, i'm a player in the united states, president trump is on my side. we'll watch the leaders head

inside. they also have an oval office family meeting. they do have a business meeting later, but the first photo in the oval office will be with the spouses. that's outside the normal protocol, the president going out of his way to give the israeli prime minister what he wants, this picture. we'll watch the two leaders go into the white house here and we'll continue the conversation when we see them in the oval office. both men under investigation, both men say it's a witch hunt, both say the media is conspiring against them. they have business to be done between the two nations as well, but this cloud of investigation over both of them. let's come back to the trade argument to the very same point. the president has a chaotic white house staff right now, does have this investigation over his administration, and to the point everybody is making, now he gets to be like he was in the campaign. so even the republican establishment is against me. i'm the outsider again, i'm fighting for you. the question is, does he follow through? julie brought this up. this is the commerce secretary, wilbur ross, one of those in the administration that wants the president to do this. this is a big tug-of-war in the

administration cabinet team. wig b wilbur ross wants the president to get tough on trade, but is the president maybe going to change his mind? >> whatever his final decision is is what will happen. if he says something different, it will be something different. i have no reason to think he's going to change. >> you can say that about pretty much every single issue. >> there you go. >> the argument that republicans are making to trump that they think could be successful is they are going to argue about the stock market declines in the aftermath of the reports that he's going to do this, and they are going to argue on the merits of the economic gains they feel like they're starting to see from the tax bill. both of those, the daily churn of the stock market and the tax bill, have been big boons for trump. he feels like those are successes that he is responsible for, that he can argue on not just for republicans in the midterms, but he can argue on for his own reelection, and they

want to essentially put fear in him that that will all go away. >> that helped on nafta. they scrambled and put maps in front of him and the whole nine yards. the challenge, i think, on the tariff issue, especially on steel and aluminum, the data doesn't matter. it's a gut thing for him. he's been convinced for 35 years that america is taking it on the chin in these industries and that foreign competitors have an upper hand. by god, he wants to even things out. it's one of the few substantive things where you can watch his comments for literally decades and he's consistent on it. >> that's true, but i think there are two wariring impulses on trump. there is this gut instinct on trade which is deeper than pretty much any other issue. but at the same time he wants the respect of the establishment. he wants the republicans and the rich people and wall street to like him. and when he does something like the tax bill -- even the media. when he does things like the tax

bill that makes wall street happy, that gives him a really good feeling. the fact those people now are being disrupted on this, we've now seen in the trump presidency on policy a president that is not nearly as disruptive. >> i think some republicans hold out hope he may retreat from this decision ultimately, also because the president has done this time and time again. suggesting they cut a big deal with democrats, and on guns last week perhaps a retreat from more significant gun control measures. perhaps he does it this time on tariffs. the negotiations are stalled, they think the trump administration is being recalcitrant in these negotiations, but he did dangle out the prospect here. here's the test for the president. as you mentioned, he's been consistent on this for a long

time. even when people say, okay, mr. president, you can try this. i want to show you jobs in the coal industry, the aluminum industry and the steel industry, the three industries the president has promised to correct. on the left, a little over ten years ago. all three industries are down. about the status quo as of november 2017. the latest data is a couple months old. the president is making a bet that he can revive these industries that many people would say, in the global economy, you're not going to do it. >> even some of his own advisers say that. they are careful about how much they say about that publicly because they know these are people who voted mr. we're talking about entries the company is moving on from from. will there be new jobs that will come in?

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for trump's decision to move the embassy to jerusalem. he's trying to get the president to come to israel when they do that in the coming months. which leader has the most at stake right now? i think without a doubt, mr. netanyahu. >> the situation he's facing has echoes of what's going on with president trump, but it is much further along. the people who are flipping, we talk about the mueller investigation, people who are flipping and working with investigators are much closer to the inner circle of netanyahu than what we've seen with the mueller investigation and president trump. there were reports out of israel this morning that another close adviser is cooperating in this investigation. it is notable that president trump is giving netanyahu the pictures that he wants. they time these visits for the evening news in israel so this will be broadcast live there right now. trump is certainly putting his chips in netanyahu's corner right now, banking on him surviving this investigation, banking on him being there in a

year or two, but i think that looks like a bit of a risk at this point based on all of what we're seeing out of israel. >> a risk that netanyahu will survive, but is it a risk for president trump to stand with netanyahu, assuming, for the sake of argument, if netanyahu's government does fall or he personally does face charges. does president trump pay any price for standing with him now? i would think not. >> i don't think so, because look at what he's been saying about even more controversial foreign leaders, xi jinping over the weekend saying, i'm okay if you abolish tariffs. maybe he said that offhand but he hasn't criticized jinping for that, president putin, dutarte. the president has taken these steps to show himself aligning with a variety of controversial foreign leaders. this is probably another example. >> for viewers in the states who haven't followed this closely, netanyahu facing at least three

corruption probes. one of the allegations is he offered regulatory benefits to executives for better media coverage. he also allegedly offered help to a newspaper owner in exchange for better media konch and allegedly accepted $280,000 worth of champagne, cigars and other gifts. the media embraced it and the police fell into their trap. you can see how the police are being led by the media and the left. sound familiar? here's another one, every half leak immediately becomes the main headline and a public indictment. the public understands that there is a witch hunt which you have undertaken for the past 22 years. >> democracies are messy. a free press and opposition figures, this is the kind of thing that happens. in other countries it doesn't happen, you know why? if it's erdogan and turkey and what have you, they crack down

on the free press you don't see. there are not enough american voters to have enough of a political impact here, but what is striking to me is the similarities between not just the investigation but the two figures, right? they're such similar figures. on one hand they claim not to care about the media. they're consumed by the media. i mean, you read in the indictments there, it's all about being worried about the coverage. here we are talking about trump watching cable tie rods. it's the same deal, you know. >> as you led into this segment, i was imagine tg ing it reverse. i was imagining hearing it in hebrew, here's trump, a leader in this investigation. i think there is a similar dynamic that trump wants to be seen standing with israel. whatever happened to domestic politics, obviously he doesn't

necessarily feel an investigation is a bad -- or is necessarily proof that you've done something wrong, right, because he said very similar things about what he feels about his own investigation. i think for both men this show of solidarity is about saying that our countries are linked, our fortunes are linked and let the chips fall where they may. >> forget the pun, but netanyahu's trump card has always been, people of israel, you need me to keep you safe, to keep you from iranian menace, to keep you in this complicated neighborhood. and the president has given netanyahu words of support every time. as our peace negotiator calls it, the president is giving him a port in the storm. >> absolutely. on the issue of symbolism which is important on this tough iran deal, and this discussion about mideast peace negotiations, the trump administration has largely fallen on the side of the israelis to the point where the white house isn't even

communicating directly with the palestinians right now, b.b. has gotten everything he hopes to get right now. >> let's also be honest, there is no peace process at the moment, so not a lot of classified information you need to see access to. again, we'll take you back to the white house. it will be fascinating to see if they take any questions. both of the leaders have been in the press. >> last year, famously, between the two of them, there was reference to, there it is, the art of the deal. quick break. up next, early voting numbers in texas. are they an early warning sign for republicans across the country?

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bet on texas for the midterm goals. but there are some dramatic signs even in ruby red texas of what political pros call the enthusiasm gap. first to the point of the democrats placing too much of a bet on texas. these are the house districts in texas. as you can see, it's overwhelmingly republican. but early voting has ended, the primary voting is tomorrow. among the early voters, republicans are about evenly split between men and women. democrats think this is a great sign, not only in texas but across the country. democrats are counting on women across the country to pour out in this midterm election year. younger voters are also part of the democratic coalition. 30% 30 and younger. look how big the slice of younger voters are. democrats think it's a good sign in texas. they think it's a great sign across the country, younger voters joining the coalition. what about a primary for the

first time. 11% of the early vote on the republican side were first time primary voters, people who perhaps voted in the general election before but never a primary. look how much bigger. 24% of the early voters never played in a primary before. they think that's intensity. that early voting advantage is just one example of voting intensity. in texas, including one in the houston area, the democratic family feud is a big issue. >> we have to fix our broken politics, and that starts by rejecting the system or watching party bosses tell us who to choose. we tried that before and look where it got us. this time it's our turn. we have the power to choose who represents this district. i'm laura moser and i represent this message because you have the right to choose your politicians in washington. >> they see pieces of their

coalition coming out in big numbers, but you also see, in a number of these contested primaries in texas and around the country, the democrats have some family feuds as well which democrats say, that's great, we get some diversity. others say it's a little dicey. >> certainly in the numbers you showed, there are some signs for democrats and reasons to be optimistic. i do think it's worth noting that democrats get excited about texas a lot. it tends to be something where they see a lot of demographic trends that look favorable based on what we see for the party nationally and it never really comes to fruition. so i think it's worth being cautious at this point seeing how this plays out. it just is a difficult state for democrats, even though the trends do seem to be lining up with what happens naturally, they don't seem to be able to crack through and put it to the finish line. >> in a lot of ways this is a reflection whof what we saw in 2010 heading to the republican side.

there was a fight between purity politics and electable candidates. we'll see what happens in the primary season if people can win a general election or if they resort to the idealogically pure candidates who may captivate the interests of these more liberal voters but may not do so well in general election. >> it's energized by what they see as the radical party. certainly tchls tit was the sam president trump and with obama in 2010. there is a bit of the texas obsession on the left. but here's why i think the democrats have a right to be excited about that this year. not because of the statewide, i think that's still a rage, but there are a handful of seats in that state, namely culver sson d pete sessions, dallas and houston area, that are upscale suburban seats where hillary and trump broke even. they basically voted hillary

clinton there. we tried that before and what happened, she is a birdie person. the washington bosses in primaries are crazy. have folks forgotten 2006? rahm emanuel pissed off half his party. >> half? >> okay, two-thirds. it created issues and it didn't matter. why? there was a bigger backlash that was bigger than rahm and his primaries that was a reflection that led to a blue wave. >> you did have excitement in 2010 of republicans that were so i impassioned by the tea party that spilled over. there were people that couldn't win. sorry to interrupt. i have to get tout whius to the house. the president and the prime minister. >> there's no pressure.

>> very little, very little. they don't like covering us. they like us. thank you very much. it's a great honor to have prime minister netanyahu and mrs. netanyahu with us. they've been friends for a long time. we have, i would say, probably the best relationships right now with israel that we ever had. i think we're as close now as maybe ever before. jerusalem was a wonderful thing, and i know it was very much appreciated in a big part of the world, not just in israel, in a very big part. so that was a decision i had to make. many presidents were discussing whether or not to make that decision, and they promised it in their campaigns but they never were able to do what they should have done. so i was able to do it, and i think it's something that's very much appreciated in israel. but far beyond israel, we are very close on trade deals, we are very, very close on military and terrorism and all of the things that we have to work

together on. so the relationship has never been better, and mr. prime minister, mrs. netanyahu, it's a great honor to have you. >> thank you. thank you. mr. president, donald, melania, sarah and i want to thank you for your extraordinary friendship and hospitality. it's always a pleasure to see you both, but this is the first time we meet in washington, america's capitol, after you declared, mr. president, jerusalem as israel's capitol. and this was a historic proclamation followed by your bold decision to move the embassy by our upcoming national independence day. i want to tell that the jewish people have a long memory. so we remember the proclamation of the great king, cyrus the great, 2500 years ago. he proclaimed that the jewish

exiles in babylon can come back and rebuild our temple in jerusalem. we remember 100 years ago lord balfour that recognized the rights of the jewish people in our an assess tractor-trailsanc. we remember the recognition of our home state. and we remember that president trump recognized israel as the embassy. others talked about it. you did it. i want to thank you on behalf of the people of israel. i look forward to our discussions on both challenges and opportunity. if i had to say what is our greatest challenge in the middle east to both our countries, to our arab neighbors, it's encapsulated in one word: iran.

iran has not given up its nuclear ambitions. it came out of its nuclear deal emboldened, enriched. it's practicing aggression everywhere, including on our own borders. we have to stop this country. iran must be stopped. that is our common challenge. the second is seeking, because of that challenge, to explore the opportunity for peace because the arabs have never been closer to israel, israel has never been closer to the arabs and we seek to broad than peace to the palestinians. i look forward to those discussions, but i want to reiterate what you just said. mr. president, i've been here for nearly four decades with seeking to build the american-israel alliance. under your leadership, it's never been stronger. and the people of israel saw

your position on israel, they see your position on iran, they see your magnificent defense of israel and truth in the united nations. and i as prime minister see something that you as president see and others can't see, the extent of our intelligence and other cooperation in matters that are vital for the security of both our people. mr. president, i just want to say thank you for your leadership and thank you for your tremendous friendship. >> thank you very much. thank you. my honor. thank you very much. i may. i may. [ inaudible question ] >> they have started, as you know, construction. i may. we'll be talking about that and other things. i may. we're looking at it. we'll have it built very quickly. a lot of people wouldn't be doing it quickly like that, but we'll have it built very quickly and very inexpensively. they put an order on my desk last week for a billion dollars.

i said, a billion? what's that for. we're going to build an embassy. i said, we're not going to spend a billion dollars. we're actually doing it for about $250,000. check that out. it's temporary, but it will be very nice. $250,000 versus a billion dollars. is that good? >> yeah. [ inaudible question ] >> we're looking at coming. if i can, i will. israel is very special to me. special country, special people, and i look forward to being there, and i'm very proud of that decision. [ inaudible question ] >> we're going to see. we're working on it very hard. it would be a great achievement, and even from a humanitarian standpoint what better if we could make peace between israel and the palestinians. i can tell you, we're working very hard at doing that and i think we have a very good chance. the biggest difficulty anyone has had, you look over 25 years,

nobody could get past, number one, jerusalem. they couldn't get past it. we've taken it off the table. so this gives us a real opportunity to peace. we'll see how it works out. the palestinians, i think, are wanting to come back to the table very badly. if they don't, you don't have peace. you don't have peace. if they don't, you don't have peace and that's a possibility also. i'm not saying it's going to happen. everybody said this is the hardest deal to make of any deal. whenever you have a hard deal like in business, you say, oh, this is almost as bad as israel and the palestinians. you use it as an example. this is the hardest deal. this is years and years of opposition and, frankly, hatred and a lot of things involved in this deal beyond the land. and i will tell you that if we could do peace between israel and the palestinians, that would be a great thing for the world, it would be a great thing for this country, and for everybody. so we're working very hard on

it. we have a shot at doing it. thank you all very much. i appreciate it. thank you. thank you very much. no, we're not backing down. mexico is -- we've had a very bad deal with mexico, a very bad deal with canada. it's called nafta. our factories have left our country, our jobs have left our country. for many years nafta has been a disaster. we are renegotiating nafta as i said i would, and if we don't make a deal, i'll terminate nafta. but if i do make a deal which is fair to the workers and to the american people, that would be, i would imagine, one of the points that we'll negotiate, will be tariffs on steel for canada and for mexico. we'll see what happens, but right now 100%, but it could be a part of nafta, and indy just got a call from the people who are right now in mexico city negotiating nafta. mexico and really canada want to

talk about it. but if they aren't going to make a fair nafta deal, we're just going to leave it this way. people have to understand, our country on trade has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world, whether it's friend or enemy. everybody. china, russia. and take people that we think are wonderful. the european union. we can't do business in there. they don't allow it. they have trade barriers that are worse than tariffs. they also have tariffs, by the way, but they have trade barriers far worse than tariffs. if they want to do something, we'll just tax their cars that they send in here like water. so we may have friends, but remember this. we lost, over the last number of years, $800 billion a year. not a half a million dollars, not 12 cents, we lost $800 billion a year on trade. not going to happen.

we got to get it back. of course, the biggest problem is china. we lost $500 billion. how previous presidents allowed that to happen is disgraceful, but we're going to take care of it. thank you all very much. thank you. thank you. i don't think so. i don't think you're going to have a trade war. >> thanks, everyone. thank you all. >> thanks, everyone. >> president trump, prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the oval office along with their spouses. a show of support for the embattled israel at the moment. let's start where the president ended on trade. he said i don't think we're going to have a trade war. i'm hoping canada and mexico will speed up the nafta renegotiation and deal with this aluminum/steel tariff issue and take it off the table, but he

said, no, i'm not backing down. >> rest in peace. the 2018 trade war appears to be what killed them, perhaps. it just goes to show you have to go on whatever the last thing he said. over the weekend he's tweeting about trade wars are good, we can win this one, now we're not going to have a trade war. >> again, you have to go with what he's saying. he's saying he's not going to back down. >> most recently. >> most recently. he says he's not going to back down. there is a lot of pressure behind the scenes from lawmakers, from his own advisers, from people in the unions to try to get him to avoid doing what he has a way of doing which is putting something on paper. at this point it is a talking point and no policy. >> he's clearly leaving himself a way out by suggesting it could be wrapped in the nafta negotiations. let's take a break. when we come back we'll talk about the president's oval office meeting with mr. netanyahu, including saying he'd

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welcome back. let's talk more about moments ago. this picture you see on the right, president trump in the oval office with prime minister netanyahu of israel. when talking about issues most important to the prime minister, saying iran must be stopped, they are emboldened and enriched by the embassy deal put together by president trump. and will or will not the united states president travel to israel when the temporary u.s. embassy -- they're building a temporary as they build a larger version -- and the president said i would like to go, but he didn't commit. >> and on the trade issue we're

talking about all the things president trump has blustered about. the iran deal is one of those and it's very much like the trade issue. he said he was going to do it as president, and then he took an action that stopped short of that. so i think the people who are pressuring him on trade are thinking, even with it rthe ira deal where he did make this explicit promise and took a step toward eliminating it, he never followed through and that's because this is a man who doesn't like to make a final decision that might make some people angry at him and is easily distracted. >> he continues to talk glowingly about the prospect of a mideast peace deal. they're really nowhere on that and he said, quote, there is a very good chance that something might happen. i don't know how he can make that assertion when at the moment there isn't anything.

>> and the relations with the palestinians were frayed, anyway. when the president announced moving the embassy from tel aviv to enginejerusalem, that is sup to be negotiated between the two parties, and the president of the united states put his thumb on the scale. >> and the embassy is another one of these half measures. yes, there is a temporary embassy that will open in may, but there are a lot of people involved in this issue at the state department who believes we will never see a full, large-scale u.s. embassy open in jerusalem. >> like a lot of things, the trade war -- usually these meetings are so carefully choreographed. i'm surprised the israelis didn't have some certainty whether he was going to commit going to the opening in mayor n -- may or not. trump was very noncommittal. i'd like to be, and not saying

he will be there. don't they want to know that in advance? >> sometimes the president wants to save it for the next episode. >> cliffhanger. next for a moment, just forget about the midterms. it's less than two years to iowa, idaho. will president trump face a primary challenge? lit ix s critics say, don't be surprised. are those my heels? yeah! yeah, we're the same size in shoes. with t-mobile taxes and fees are already included, so you get four unlimited lines for just $35 bucks each. you wouldn't accept from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. flonase.

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governor here soon. i hear applause in the background. i don't know what i'm going to do, but all options are on the table, both for me in my private and professional life, but i want to keep a voice because i think it's important. >> so -- >> john kasich stopped running in 2016. he lost one state, won everything else. what's fascinating, though, both states have disappeared from the party. they are shunned. they aren't talked about by party leaders. what does that tell us? this is trump's party now. but the vast majority of people have come around the establishment to accept him. could that change in 2020? yes. >> if you're trump with a 37% approval rating, don't you want trump to run? >> kasich and flake, it's a very good point. it's troublesome we're even having this conversation about

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. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem, 1:00 a.m. tuesday in bangkok. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you very much for joining us. two leaders under scrutiny in their countries, right now together inside the white house. is benjamin netanyahu using president trump to try to help save himself? also, global backlash erupts over the president's threat to laurc launch a trade war, but a new twist from the president himself just moments ago. plus