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begin with the front page of the wall stre"wall street journal." the headline, trump to exit g7 summit early. donald trump would leave the group of 7 summit earlier than plan as a dispute erupted between mr. trump and two of america's closest allies over the u.s.'s trade stance. late thursday, mr. trump would depart canada en route to singapore in anticipation of his coming meeting with north korea's leader kim jong-un on tuesday. the statement didn't mention the president's escalating feud with the leaders of canada and france late thursday. mr. trump had signaled before the summit that he would continue his aggressive trade agenda and tariff policies, leaving some observers worried about the impact of fractured relations between long-time allies. french president emmanuel macron, who until now has been mr. trump's closest ally in the european union, said the u.s.'s newly announced steel and aluminum tariffs against the european union and canada are pushing the six remaining nations of the g7 to become a

force of their own. you said the u.s. president doesn't care at all, maybe, but nobody is forever, mr. macron told a news conference flanked by canadian prime minister justin trudeau on thursday. and then mr. macron went to twitter to reiterate that message, tweeting out yesterday, the will to have a text signed by seven countries must not be stronger than the content of that text. on principle, we must not rule out a 6 plus 1 agreement. then he went on to say the american president may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a six-country agreement if need be because these six countries represent values, they represent an economic market which has the weight of history behind it and which is now a true international force. the drudge banner page this morning, their headline, "macron turns on trump, g7 battles, america first." the president responded on

twitter yesterday saying this, please tell prime minister trudaeu and president macron that they are charging the u.s. massive tariffs and create nonmonetary barriers. the eu trade surplus with the u.s. is $151 billion and canada keeps our farmers and others out. look forward to seeing them tomorrow. the president woke up this morning and tweeted this. canada charges the u.s. a 270% tariff on dairy products. they didn't tell you that, did they? not fair to our farmers. and he added, looking forward to straightening out our unfair trade deals with the g7 countries. it doesn't happen, we come out even better. what do all of you think? let's go to james who's in atlanta, georgia. you approve of the president's diplomatic style. tell us why. good morning. >> caller: you know, trump is one of them people. we need to check transcripts of his school grades, his college grades because there's a lot of people that can function, but they can't read and write. i hear that trump don't read.

you have to read stuff to him and show him pictures and things. i think that we need to check his transcripts. i feel like that white privilege has got trump to where he is. if we could see his grades like he asked for obama -- >> okay, so james, given what you just said, what you think, what does that say about his diplomatic style? what do you think that is doing to america's standing in the world and our relationship with our allies? >> caller: well, you know, style has nothing to do with substance. it could work. what i'm trying to say, i feel like this is his only thing that he can do because he's not an educated type person and because of his white privilege he's not an educated person. he went to school, just passed

through. you know people who just pass through and give them grades and different type things. in life, they can articulate something to you, but you tell them to write it down on paper, they can't. >> okay. all right. james, we'll leave it there. cnn story about the president leaving the g7 summit early notes this. even as late as thursday afternoon, trump was questioning why he would attend a g7 meeting where he's outnumbered on key issues like trade and climate change. as a series of combative tweets from macron emerged late in the day, trump talked about scrubbing all or part of his trip to canada. he was told that cancelling the visit entirely would appear likely shrinking from a fight he probably began. waen that in his head, trump told his advisers he'll enter the talks swinging. and swing he did on twitter, responding as we showed you to macron's assertion that g7 nations would band together without the u.s.

so that on cnn today. they also note that mr. macron and mr. trump have had testy phone calls last week. also, he's had tense phone calls with mr. trudeau, the canadian prime minister. what do you all think about the president's diplomatic style? from "the washington post" this morning, they say this. the twitter exchanges highlighted trump's contrasting negotiating approaches to allies and adversaries. the president traded barbs with the french president just hours after his administration relaxed its punishment of the chinese telecom company zte. trump has shown a willingness to conciliate china in hopes of a trade deal he can bill as a major achievement. so it's not just with u.s. allies, those european nations. it's also his approach to meeting with north korea that's on the table for discussion this morning as well.

and on that deal with zte, "the washington times" front page this morning, caving to pressure from president trump, the commerce department announced thursday that it will scrap massive sanctions against chinese company zte and instead allow the telecommunications giant to get off with a $1 billion fine and tristrict eve y oversight. officials said it will include a u.s.-picked oversight team that will be embedded in the operations to prevent further problems. but outraged republicans and democrats on capitol hill said the penalties were far too weak for a company found to have been doing business with north korea and iran. senators marco rubio and others are looking to block the action by the commerce department. james in durham, north carolina, you disapprove of the president's style. good morning to you and tiell u why. >> caller: yes, i think that mr. trump may have been good at running his own company, his

real estate company, but he cannot run america like he would run his autocratic real estate company. i just wonder how long the people in congress are going to allow him to do this. >> well, and what should they do? >> caller: i think they should do what they were elected to do. use the checks and balances that were put in place by the constitution and basically agree on things that they agree with him and stand up and disagree with things that they know they should stand up and disagree for because they're there to work for the american people. they're not there to work and appease mr. trump. >> well, there is a coalition of lawmakers who are looking to stop the president on tariffs.

"the wall street journal" editorial weighs in on that this morning, congress versus trump on tariffs. republicans have complained for years that the executive has encroached on the powers of the legislature, but the gop hasn't done much to stop the invasion. this week, a bipartisan coalition in the senate is finally rebelling against the trump administration's unilateral trade war unilateral trade war, and we're glad to see it. he's working with pat toomey of pennsylvania, among others, including democrats like heidi heitkamp of north dakota, to minimize the tariffs on steel and aluminum. the tariffs have invited retaliation from canada, mexico, and the eu on everything from motorcycles to chocolate. mr. trump may be willful enough to escalate. the corker bill would amend the trade expansion act of 1962, which under section 232 allows the president to impose tariffs or restrictions in the name of national security. this is the justification the

trump administration has invoked to -- the corker legislation would require the president to submit 232 restrictions to congress for approval under an expedited process. the white house is now trying to block even a vote on mr. corker's bill, which he wants to move on an amendment to the national defense authorization act. this annual bill tends to pass with generous bipartisan support, and the white house is arguing the corker position would hurt mr. trump's ability to work on trade deals. majority leader mitch mcconnell is saying the corker bill would be an exercise in futility because either the house or the senate might fail and show congress is impotent or the president will veto, but so what. members of congress don't take orders from mr. trump, and they have their own principles and constituents to represent. to get to james' point in durham, north carolina, disapproving of the president's diplomatic style and calling for

congress to hold him accountable. jeff in olympia fields, illinois. you disapprove as well. jeff, good morning. go ahead. jeff, are you there? >> caller: yes, i am. >> all right. now you're on the air. good morning. go ahead. >> caller: good morning, greta. yes, it is painfully obvious when you look at the division and the strife that's being created by this president with certain types of people globally and domestically, you can see who the strife is not being created with. we are now fighting with our allies. we're not fighting with the russians. we're fighting domestically here, dividing people along racial lines. this president has an agenda. the agenda -- and people know it in the white house. i'm just waiting for the leadership to come and express themselves intelligently to us that they know what's going on. they're trying to make us appear

that we don't know what's going on, but we know what's going on. the connection to russia is painfully obvious. the connection to communist leaders is painfully obvious. when are american republicans going to stand up for this country and for america and for the constitution? when are they going to do it, greta? we know what's going on. >> jeff, when you say we know what's going on? what are you saying, all of these actions by the president are motivated by russia? is that the accusation you're making? >> caller: these actions are motivated by what -- the crumb drops that mueller is investigating. a couple of the senators are starting to stand up and recognize they're motivated by his connection to russia to some degree. and that's what the american people have got to understand. we don't have the detailed

intelligence out here in the public, but we know what's happening. we must stand up to protect this country from this president that has some deep connection to communistic positions. >> okay. roy agrees with the president's diplomatic style. he's in woodstock, georgia. roy, good. >> caller: a few years ago i was stationed in germany and went on to price cars. i could buy three italian made sports cars for the price of one chevrolet impala and a corvette was 93,000. the italian sports car was 33,000. i do approve that we've been unfairly charged extra money for buying american cars in germany. i think it's unfair. germans love american cars, but they can't afford to buy them.

last thing, to understand president trump, google mark taylor on the show called "supernatural" and also rabbi jonathan khan. trump has a mission, a mission to restore america. i wish more people would look at that prophesy. there's several prophesies about what trump is doing. so many of us are ignorant of what he's actually trying to do and his plan to make america great again. >> okay. well, cecilia, the eu trade commissioner, writes an opinion piece in today's "wall street journal"s did -- disagreeing with what roy had to say. she argues, the administration has decided to administer tariffs on steel and aluminum from the eu and mexico. the tariffs will raise the price of both imported and domestically produced steel and aluminum. the price increase will hurt all

american companies like the auto companies that employ millions of americans directly and indirectly. fewer americans will be able to afford cars that have become suddenly more expensive. you can read more at "the wall street journal" today. jeff in florence, kentucky, you disapprove. good morning, go ahead. >> caller: hey, how are you doing? >> good. >> caller: i think that donald trump is one of the most ignorant presidents we've ever had. obviously to me he's the most ignorant because he doesn't even understand trade balance. international trade is not the government spends money and spends too much to china and we're mad about it. american people spend their money at walmart buying chinese goods. the problem with the trade imbalance is we just buy more from china than they buy from us. well, get over it. the international trade system has imbalances in it, but we're

doing just fine. why are they picking fights with all our allies and making all these tariffs because donald trump doesn't understand the basics of international trade relationships? he's a complete idiot, and he's running our country in the ditch. the american people, for example, need to know what he's recently done to the solar power industry. north carolina is number two in the nation. i'm from north carolina. i'm just currently in kentucky. north carolina is number two in the nation. solar power depends critically on buying the cells from china because they're just cheaper to get from china. all the business plans have been based on the price of chinese solar panels. we can manufacture them and replace them, but the business plans and the tax incentives and everything that promotes solar power are critically dependent

on that. well, donald trump has done a good favor for the coal industry by killing the solar power industry right when it's on the take-off pad for giving strong competition for energy generation to dirty coal. this guy is a nut case, and we need to get rid of him. >> jeff, you might be interested in the financial times this morning. inside the paper, maybe you can find it online, is an in-depth story about chinese investments in the electric grid around the world. sounds like you might be interested in that topic. the president also tweeting this morning congratulations to the washington capitals on their great play and winning the stanley cup championship. alex ovechkin, the team captain, was spectacular. a true superstar. and he says d.c.'s popping in many ways. what a time. and there is ovechkin raising the stanley cup on the front page of the "washington post"

with the caption "at last capitals hoist the cup." 26 years is the period since washington had won a championship in a major professional sports. it's been 44 years washington's hockey team came into existence in 1974. this is its first stanley cup title. desmond in ft. wayne, indiana, you approve. good morning to you. >> caller: good morning, greta. hey, kudos to the president. i agree with him about the stanley cup. good for the capitals. normally i wouldn't agree with the president necessarily on something like this, but he is the president of the united states. he sets the agenda. so the folks voted him in. if the policies end up being detrimental, well, then it has to play out and actually prove that. i approve the fact that he's the president and he has the right to do it as the executive.

and i think it's a little bit too early to jump to conclusions, but either it's going to work or it's not going to work. and we're already seeing senator corker coming out against it because of the many automobile manufacturers that have relocated down south. so i mean, you know, the proof is in the pudding. if it turns out it's going to be detrimental to the folks that were instrumental in putting trump in office, then that's the way it's going to be. if it turns out to be -- i'm sorry, go ahead. >> no, i was going to ask you your reaction to this headline on bloomberg's website. merkel urges europe to step up in trump's new world order. she made a forceful pitch for europe to play a more assertive role in global affairs, setting the stage for a potential stand-off at the group of 7 summit this week. what do you think about our

allies isolating us or accusing us of wanting to isolate ourselves? >> caller: that they don't know trump like we do. they gave him a wide berth at the beginning of the presidency. i don't think they really understood who they were dealing with. trump makes his own decisions. >> desmond, when you say they, are you referring to these other leaders? >> caller: correct. i believe that they -- i don't think they really understood what was going on politically over here, and i think they kind of dismissed the populism to a certain degree. now they're seeing the executive that we have. trump doesn't consult anyone. he makes his decisions based on his gut instincts or whichever way the prevailing political winds are blowing. and for good or worse, we're going to have him for the next few years.

you know, regardless of my political party, i have to respect the office. you know, he has every right to do what he's doing. >> did you feel the same way when president obama was in office? >> caller: absolutely. absolutely, 100%. now, i mean, i draw the line constitutionally, but you know, we have a revolution every four years, greta. so we're just going to have to play it out and see. >> okay. kevin in jackson, mississippi, disapproves. hi, kevin. you're on the air. >> caller: hey, get that. how you doing? >> doing well. >> caller: thank you for taking the call. i was wanting to say, the president should not, with north korea, the summit coming up, he should not be meeting with a tyrant. >> okay. you disapprove of that. why? >> caller: well, the guy -- his elections are never for real. his grandfather started north

korea. his dad and then him, they don't have elections. and the people are put down so bad that my heart goes out to them. they're in a bad way. if you disapprove, you go to work camp. >> okay. well, the president is getting ready to leave the white house and board air force one to make his way to canada this morning where he will be meeting with the other g7 leaders for talks today and part of saturday as well. he was supposed to stay in canada for those talks until midday. he's decided now that he will leave and miss a discussion on climate change as well as another g7 family photo. we will have coverage of today's

meetings in canada between the president and those leaders. there will be a welcoming ceremony around 11:45 a.m. eastern time, and we will bring that to you on c-span3. then close to 5:00 p.m. eastern time, mr. trump will be sitting down with the canadian prime minister justin trudeau for what they call a bilateral meeting, and we'll have coverage of that on c-span. go to our website c-span.org. you can also listen with the free c-span radio app to our coverage of that as well. and then on saturday, the president heads off to singapore for that meeting. the front page of the washington times this morning, the headline is "trump says attitude will be big asset for summit with kim." the president insists he is prepared. days away from the historic meeting, mr. trump said after months of briefings, he's studied the issue as much as he can. he was quoted as saying, i don't

think i have to prepare very much. mr. trump told reporters, it's about the attitude. here is the president yesterday in the rose garden when he held a joint news conference with japanese prime minister. here's what he had to say about this upcoming summit. >> we are going to -- we're going to have a great success. i don't think it will be in one meeting. i think it'll take longer than that. this has been going on for many, many decades. this is something that should have been solved by other presidents, as i've said often before. long before this point. they waited until the last second, and they shouldn't have waited. this should have been solved by many others. i'm not just saying president obama. i'm saying other presidents. long time ago, this could have been solved in a lot easier manner. and a lot less dangerous manner. but it wasn't. so i'll solve it. and we'll get it done. as far as the prime minister's concerned, we've -- we will agree and we have agreed that we're going to be helping -- if

the deal is done, we're going to be helping north korea. we're going to be working with china. we're going to be working with south korea. president xi of china has been terrific. the border has been certainly more closed than ever before. i'd like him to close it like t little bit more. but it's more closed than ever before. china has never worked with us this way, and, you know, i give them a lot of credit. we're in a dispute as to the imbalance of trade. there's a massive imbalance in china's favor. it's been that way for many decades, and it should have also been handled by previous presidents but it wasn't. so we'll handle that too. but i give president xi tremendous credit and i give president moon tremendous credit. he really would like to see something happen. they've been living with the threat of war from their beginning, and it doesn't make sense. i really believe that kim jong-un wants to do something. i think he wants to see something incredible happen for the people of north korea. so we have a lot of great

opportunities right now. shouldn't have waited to this point but we have a lot of great opportunity. >> president trump on his upcoming meetings with the north korean leader in singapore on tuesday. the "the washington times" says a successful summit could include north korea's commitment to complete denuclearization and an agreement to end the korean war which has been in a standoff for 65 years. success would be agreement to hold more meetings which mr. trump said is necessary to reach a deal for the complete verifiable, irreversible dismantling of north korea's nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons facilities. analysts estimate a complete dismantling of the north korea's extensive nuclear weapons program could take as long as ten years. secretary of state mike pompeo has met with mr. kim twice in north korea in the past two months since the reclusive leader has indicated to me personally that he's prepared to denuclearize. he said mr. kim told him that he

understands the current model doesn't work. he's prepared to denuclearize. and he too, that to he understands he can't do it the way we've done it before this, has to be big and bold and we have to agree to making major changes. the president also saying yesterday at that news conference, which is the headline in the "new york times," trump says his iran policy worked and he predicts success with kim as well. your thoughts on the president's diplomatic style? kevin in jackson, mississippi. you disapprove. kevin, good morning. >> yes. yes, i do disapprove. >> okay. tell us why. >> well, the president is fly by night. and the summit like i said he should not be meeting with him.

he's a tyrant. >> okay. all right. kevin we'll go to anthony who is in hawaii and approves. anthony, good morning to you. >> hi. i would like to say thank you for having this discussion. it's very cool. i do approve. it's working. finally -- i mean i think the callers made it clear like the gentleman that previously approved trump is his own man and finally standing up -- people know there's a globalism thing happening and this whole witch-hunt that's been going on for so long and nothing has come of it. it's ridiculous. and trump is his own man. finally standing up. he cares for america. i voted for obama in 2008 and i cry tears of joy but i realized he was not standing up for the united states and trump is different and i wish he was more on the environmental side but really there's something special going on and i'm very excited. >> okay. michael also approves in

maryland. hi, michael. >> yes, hi. thank you for having me. >> go ahead. >> yeah. i agree with the last caller for the most part. i like trump. i think that tariffs are a good idea to boost steel production and aluminum production in this country. you know, i mean he wants america first. and i think that's, you know, i think that's a positive thing for our country. i mean, you know, people say he's a populace president but look at europe. populism is on the rise there because of all their mass immigration. i think it's a great idea too. you got to look out for your own people. that's how the world works. china looks out for their people. we should look out for ours. >> michael, senator jeff flake, a republican of arizona who is retiring this year came to the senate floor yesterday and criticized u.s. leadership and policies. here's what he had to say.

>> instead we find ourselves today led by those who express admiration for authoritarianism. in russia, china, philippines and other places who make common cause with bullies who flirt with tyrants. we see a world descending into a tribalism, a political climatism where dealings between nations are driven by fear and antagonism, bullying and threats, taunts and brinksmanship rather than mutual benefit. we fine ourselves led by those who would fall for its ligsist instincts and apre-industrial economic flofs. the very same short sighted issues that usher in the great depression. on the virtues of free trade,

open markets, international interdependence, the policies that have led to the greatest sustained growth that our world has ever seen. what shall our friends make of such erratic behavior? how will they respond to such confusing actions? and most importantly, how long will they remain our friends if this irrational approach continues. alliances, institutions, pacts that took generations to patiently build, generations more to solidify that were paid for both in blood and treasure are shattered in an ill-tempered second, ill considered tantrum, a childish tornado her, a bellacose insult there. utterances off ten is not by tweet, contradicted in the space of a single news cycle, muddied

and mercurial this is not grown-up leadership. our allies are left baffled, confused, often appalled. make mistake those who look to us for leadership will not wait for us to come to our senses. >> senator jeff flake on the senate floor yesterday criticizing u.s. leadership, abandoning pacts like the g7 and others nato, et cetera as the president gets ready to leave washington and head to canada for the annual g7 summit. he will be there until saturday morning and then he heads off to singapore for that historic meeting on tuesday between the united states president and the north korean leader kim jong-un. we will have coverage of that. can you go to our website for both the g7 summit and that

meeting in singapore if you go to website c-span.org follow it all there. on the summit and possible outcomes between the united states and north korea, roll call had this headline. the white house would seek congressional approval of any north korean deal. this coming from the secretary of state mike pompeo. telling reporters yesterday that they would seek approval of any north korean deal from the u.s. congress. what are your thoughts on the president's diplomatic style? that's our conversation. let's go to al who is in california. you approve, al. tell us why. >> well, all the countries that are complaining, they don't even pay their 2% to the u.n. and all the country that are complaining the taxpayers have to pay the deficit of our trading between our countries. i don't know how that's good for the united states. >> okay. well, let me show you this, al. this is from the "new york

times" this morning. u.s. tariffs will hurt growth advisors find. white house economic analysis of president trump's trade agenda has concluded that mr. trump's tariffs will hurt economic growth in the united states. the findings from the white house council of economic advisors have been circulated internally and not publicly released. making the exact economic projections unknown. determination comes as top white house officials continue to insist publicly that mr. trump's trade approach will be massively good for the u.s. economy. chairman of the council of economic advisors and economists who came to the administration from the american enterprise institute a conservative think tank dodged questions at a white house briefing on tuesday whether tariffs would hurt an economy that has accelerated. asked whether administration's economist modeled the impact that a trade war with china would have on the united states economy, they said mr. trump was a great negotiator who would

persuade other countries to open their trade. dennis you approve. good morning. >> thanks for having me. i definitely approve of trump's, at least diplomatic moves going to north korea. only other option is to attack them. bomb them. we gave a show of force to them. they realize they have no other option but to meet up. i think once we do meet up with kim jong-un and get something settled that it will open up a little bit of society to their country that's so isolated. it will take a lot of time to get them on the track, international community. but only other option is war. we don't want that. with the tariffs, like the guy said from indiana. it's a wait and see type of deal. could it be drastic. other country leaders don't like

it. that's okay. let's see what happens. if it works great. if not he's voted out and we'll try something else. >> okay, dennis. front page of the final times. white house seals $1.4 billion zte deal. they have been i rxed by what they see as a more conciliatory approach by washington to trade negotiations with china. justin trudeau said it was risible that u.s. was rising steel and aluminum tariffs. mr. macron said you cannot wage commercial war. he added, no one is eternal. mr. ross the commerce secretary accused canada and other allies

of being hypocritical. they haven't bothered to use any excuse why they have asymmetrical tariffs against us. he also said the u.s. tariffs had worked in putting pressure on allies to take action against chinese imports of steel into their own markets which the u.s. has been pushing for years. in washington, marco rubio the republican senator leading criticism of mr. trump's shift on zte lashed out at the agreement calling it a very bad deal and vowing to continue his push for a congressional action to block it. that happening in the house as the president sets off for the world stage today. canada first and then off to singapore. there's also the issue of immigration that's playing out domestically here in washington, and the fracture in the republican party over what to do about the deferred action

childhood arrival program, the daca program. and the speaker of the house paul ryan, republican of wisconsin held his weekly news conference yesterday, and he said all was going well. politico's headline house gop immigration talks go off the rails. first listen to the speaker of the house. >> members were running a discharge petition because they were worried we weren't going to take action, they wouldn't be able to have votes on the floor for policies they like. but i think members also realize a discharge petition will not make law. so i think our members realize it's better to have a process that has a chance of going law than not and that's why the conversation we had this morning about the president's four pillars which has a daca solution within it, is the most optimistic plausible chance of getting into law and that's why i think our members -- we have a lot of members come to mike

thanking us, thanking their colleagues for engaging in this kind of a conversation. that's what, when we had tough pho phone issue, long conference, people come and express their views. and when you see that happening you actually find that there's more consensus than not and that helps us legislate. that's basically the kind of process we've had the last few weeks, the process we had this morning. i think a lot of our members are appreciative of the fact the right kind of conversations are happening and the next step is start putting pen to paper to get ledge allocation to the floor. >> that was paul ryan around 11:30 a.m. yesterday. after that things fell apart according to politico. house gop efforts to tanp down fell apart after a feel good meeting. moderate republicans said thursday afternoon members of the ultraconservative house freedom caucus offered them an olive branch they thought could

halt the looming immigration showdown a nuvi is a program for dreamers that would lead to citizenship. such an offer would have significant development for immigration hawks who long dismissed such action as amnesty. it was intended to avert a discharge petition forges immigration votes. freedom caucus has now made any offer on immigration the group tweeted thursday night. we're continuing to talk with our colleagues and remain engaged in working through the process of ideas that will secure our borders. so the group went back on their word, representative jeff denim a republican of california key moderate leader who is part of the charge to put a discharge petition on the floor, he said moderates have set a deadline for tuesday coming up next week to garage terrify final 218

signatures they need to force a bipartisan immigration vote with democrats to salvage the deferred action for childhood arrival program. so according to reporters yesterday, the republicans are only three votes away from the 218 they need to force a vote and the moderate republicans are saying well they have let a couple of deadlines slip. tuesday one coming up is the final deadline and if a deal is not made then they say they will be bringing that discharge petition to the floor. if you missed speaker ryan's news conference find it on our website, c-span.org. another headline. "the washington times" anticipates a report on comey to be released. inspector general report on how the former fbi director handled the investigations into hillary clinton will be released on june 14th. the justice department inspector general said he will appear on capitol hill june 18th to answer

questions about his findings which reportedly ding both former fbi director james comey and loretta lynch for their handling. the report will cover the fbi and justice department's decisions during the 2016 election including moves to clear mrs. clinton and publicly talk about the investigation in the middle of the campaign. the latest report will only focus on the clinton e-mail investigation. a review of potential foreign intelligence surveillance act abuses by the fbi and justice department which was announced in march will remain separate. the fisa review will determine whether the agencies acted inappropriately when it sought warrants to spy on campaign aide carter page. the fbi relied on the discredited anti-trump dossier. on the presidents diplomatic style. jay in virginia, you disapprove. >> i believe we have a level of

temptation in the white house now that reaches the level of genesis. we have a dancer with a serpent. we have a purveyor of emotional reality. you can choose emotional reality or we can choose logic. we do have a problem with trade. we can deal with it rationally. we can be like president gerald ford and we could have in the 1970s did a metricfication program and became the world's manufacturing center. but ronald reagan decided to stop that. we can be rational or we can be emotional. we are now have the most

emotional person and he chooses by emotion. emotional reality turning that into physical reality is a lot of friction, and it is bad choicing. and it's up to you, we fall to temptation. and we have to learn from that. and we're not learning. so it's all up to us and we'll just have to see how it comes out. >> okay, jay. paul in oklahoma, you approve. good morning. >> good morning. yes. i just want to bring to people's attention and let anybody that calls in explain this. what other country in the world could sustain an $800 billion trade deficit? also, everybody is bringing up the point about it's going to hurt the workers, and i've heard the numbers of 14,000, and a couple of million dollars. well in the last 25 years,

because of the global trade practices of america has sustained, we've lost 5 million jobs and 70,000 businesses. so something needs to be done. and anybody who calls in, please explain and list all the countries that can sustain an $800 billion deficit year after year. thanks. >> okay. sally is next in st. petersburg, florida. hi, sally. >> hi there. i do approve because i was there -- i was here when they closed our businesses. i was in detroit. we had great lakes steel, the car companies, and we were living wonderfully. all of a sudden i left home and came back and every house, there were about four houses on each block that people lived, all

people moved out. all our companies left the united states. people were starving for jobs. why the heck they would allow people to leave like that. the next thing is the steel companies are gone and number one, you buy anything made out of steel from china. you put it outside, some kind of outside furniture. in three months it's rusting. didn't even get to use the $400 thing for a year. then again trump is absolutely correct, because they are charging us -- listen to one you all heard. 300% tariff on dairy products. but they won't allow our farmers to sell them dairy markets. trump started to balance that up

and have us make the money that they are making or have them lower their tariffs to the same tariffs we're in and lower our the rivers. it's wrong. it's wrong what they are doing. why should we have to pay a 300% tariff and they pay 20% or 25%? no. no. you don't do that. now these three companies, they are hooked up together because they know they are going to lose money. the only reason everybody started moving out is because our politicians were getting kickbacks to allow people to move out. how do you think some of them are living in $4 million homes? >> okay. sally's point there in florida. tim in alabama. you disapprove, tim. >> yes. i disapprove. i think if you look at trump, he was voted in by some people, they said he was a business person or business man.

but he filed bankruptcy five or six times. and if you look at what he's doing now, he is actually bankrupting the united states with his foolishness. one other thing too, when they look at the unemployment rate, they said unemployment rate is great. but you have to look at, that's part of the economy and i think not just looking at the unemployment rate, look at the, at the price of gas that people are paying. look at in the next few years they are going to go into medicare/medicaid and social security to pay for this tax plan he has. all the price of food, everything is going up. so you don't look at just unemployment as one part. you have to look at the whole

economy. and this man is bankrupting this country. and i'm surprised that the people just don't see it. thank you. >> okay. that was tim there in alabama. more of your calls. president trump is participating in the g7 summit in canada this weekend but he's leaving early and skipping those parts of the summit devoted to the environment and climate change. the g7 short for group of seven includes seven of the largest economies in the world. the united states, japan, germany, united kingdom, france, italy and canada. the group meets in one of those countries each year. the welcoming ceremony with g7 leaders was earlier today in quebec and you can see it tonight on our companion network c-span starting at 8:00 eastern. this week marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of robert f. kennedy. >> these last few weeks rocket francis kennedy was enjoying himself. he really enjoyed getting out among the people.

he enjoyed the physical contact. he refused police protection because he said that all the people wanted to do was to touch him, not to hurt him. >> this weekend on real america on american history tv, watch the cbs news special report from june 6, 1968. the night robert kennedy died from gunshot wounds. >> quickly decided to transfer him to good samaritan hospital where the facilities were better for delicate brain surgery. mrs. kennedy was with him all of the time ridge in the ambulance now from one hospital to the other. the suspect now identified as sirhan sirhan was grabbed. then led by police back through the ballroom and hotel. some officers had to protechnicality him from the crowd. there were several kennedy supporters, by standers who were close to hysteria and there was concern for the suspect's safety. >> watch real