25 to 50 people to get these documents out the door. lou: thanks for being with us. good night. kennedy: author ron kessler says president trump will be seen as a great leader just like ronald reagan. china retaliates with tariffs on american goods. who will win if we ends up in a trade war. the president set to meet with vladimir putin. grab a hammer, it's time to nail this thing. no american president has had as

big an impact in the nation and the world in such a short period of time, that according to author ron kessler. in his book he details how the president makes decisions whoab trusts and what he thinks of people around him. he claims first laid yesterday melania trump rules the roost and is the one who convinced donald trump to run for president. he claims jared kushner and ivanka trump are responsible for the president's worst decisions and the president is encouraging them to move back to new york city. he says kellyanne conway is the major leaker, a charge she denies. welcome to the show. you say this president will be

seen in such legendary favor as ronald reagan. >> reagan was also dissed by the press and it turns out he had remarkable accomplishments. we are seeing that with donald trump. isis almost defeated. meeting with the north korean leader. years from now nobody will remember the tweets and the controversies. they will remember the results. and they are remarkable. this is the first and only book to actually present the positive side of trump overall. but it's an honest journalistic negatives. ken are you have known him for a

long time, and you see the positives outweighing his detractors. >> we see the chaos and comments and tweets that are outrageous. i interviewed someone who was his top aide for 25 years. she knows more than nickels on the business and social side. and she said that there are two donald trumps. one is the guy on tv who snakes outrageous comments to get attention for his brand. at that time was real estate. he came the idea of brand real estate. there was no such thing before. but then she says there is the veal trump that only insiders know which is the opposite. kennedy: that's a good points. we have had people on the show, and they are no longer working

for him or they were fired or forced to resign. but they were still incredibly loyal to him. here you have a forceful personality who is so loyal that he put his son-in-law and daughter in charge of a large swath inside the white house answer you say they are responsible for some of his worst decisions. >> namely firing comey. jared kushner thought this would be a great political stunt because democrats would like the. of course, they attacked him no matter what he did. the hiring of scaramucci which has to be the worst hiring decision in the history of the white house. and trump understands the problem, has hinted to them maybe they should go back to new york. kennedy: dose want them out? >> i think he does. kennedy: here is a forceful personality an says this is how

i like it, this is who i want in and this is who's out. but private lure he has a -- but privately he has a much harder time. but people think she is beautiful and removed, that she is a doting mother which she appears to be. but at the same time you say she has a lot of influence on trump. >> a lot of this on the record from the aides. unlike laura bush who would just express her views to her husband. melania sits in on meetings and expresses her opinion. kennedy: why haven't we heard more about that? >> because they want to keep it quite. she is very modest. i send her a picture of her and me at one of the new year's eve parties. she said thank you, not a very

good picture of me. can you imagine seeing a picture of her that's not so wonderful? but she'll sit in and express her views and summarize what others are saying and couple with new strategies on a regular basis. kennedy: we are running out of time. you say the president does have legacy lasting power in that -- he survives to the end of one or two terms he'll be seen favorably by history. which would be no small feat. what will be his undoing. >> this guy is as winner as he'll tell you any time. and there is always another side to everything that seems unfavorable. namely, he makes a nasty remark and reporters are turned off. that scares foreign leaders and

scares ceos and makes them want to the cultivate trump. and not take him on. it enhances his power. so there was quite a bit going on. a lot of psychology where they feel they can expand because there is overregulation. kennedy: the president understands psychology and intuition and uses them to his advantage. but he needs to learn how to manipulate things like the stock market. on a down day you say there is so much upside to this presidency and we'll see the economy continue to flourish. very good. at a time when many americans were hiding easter eggs on sunday morning the president dropped a few goose eggs. he said border patrol agents are not allowed to properly do their

job at the border because of liberal democrat laws like catch and release. caravans coming. republicans must go to nuclear option to pass tough nows now. no more daca deal. he also trashed the mexican government for doing very little if nothing for allowing the flow illegal i am grants into our country and drugs. he also threatened to ends nafta if they don't help. he demanded funding for a border warm because he said our country is being stolen. who is to blame for this daca gust-up. -- dust-up.

i think the president here actually has a point. it's one thing to talk about spending billions of dollars building a wall. it's another thing to say, mexico, a bored has two sides, how about doing your share? >> that's part of the problem. with the number of immigrants pouring leaps and bounds. when you had him threaten the wall you saw a decrease in people coming for a while. but mexico has to do their part. it's their people and they should do their part. kennedy: if we had a bunch of people coming from el salvador and honduras and they were on their way to canada, wouldn't we open our northern border and say keep going? you can understand where mexico is coming from. they are having a lot of problems of their own. >> that's what they have become,

a bad third base coach sending every runner into america. but he knows the democrats don't care about these people. kennedy: he said they won't be used as a bash gaining chip. >> they walked away from the deal over border funding. nobody cares about spending in congress, republican or democrat. like for real. johnny depp is more fiscally conservative than this congress. i think it's ridiculous. kennedy: so mexico, acapulco, former tourist beacon of glory and fun has now turned into a murder zone. and there are warring drug factions in tourist areas of

mexico and they are taking hostages and they are killing tourists and it's become such an untenable situation because of the ongoing drug war. what can we do on our end to mitigate the drug violence mexico? >> what we should do is legalized the drug war here. so if everything were legal here we wouldn't have all these cartels coming in. kennedy: that's part of the issue. americana is legal in 29 states plus the district of columbia. there is a lot of marijuana on the market. they are competing for fewer resources and now they are trying to supply us with more heroin. >> you should legalize heroin. kennedy: that way people know what they are getting in their drugs. and these countries in central america specifically who are

controlled by drug gangs and are the victims of drug violence and murder. >> i was going to disappear to find a gop strategist it will haunt me if i say something for the rest of my life. kennedy: if we do there is show properly that's absolutely true. president trump had more than one tarring net his twitterrify raid. for the past five days he has attacked amazon. only fools or worse say the post office makes money with amazon. they lose a fortune. our fully tax paying retailers are closing stores all over the country. not a level playing field. federal regulators say amazon

pays the same rate bulk shippers do. the company's founder jeff bezos also owns "the washington post," a paper that has been critical of the president and his administration. pension, and a decline in first class letters. the president is not making a good anti-trust argument. he's making an argument why we should privatize the post office. >> put trump on the white lowls lawn once a year and you get to three balls and you get to dunk him.

he's making a good point. to be honest with you, i don't know the answer to this. but if you do privatize the post office, you can get inefficiency out of the bureaucracy. i was at the post office for 40 minutes to get a book of stamps because they didn't have atm machines. kennedy: the post office is not losing billions of dollars because of amazon. the post office is losing billions of dollars because it's the post office that's beholden to unions, they are poorly run, and they are not set up to make a profit. they figured out the cheapest way of doing things is by going to the post office. >> i love amazon, i think it's fantastic. i'm a shut-in now which is very, very nice. i even got a coat rack out of

it. i did build it upside down. i have to drape them over because i did the the wrong way. but at least i have the opportunity to fail. but this isn't about amazon. this is a personal thing. it's about jeff bezos. i think he driewf attention by "the washington post." this is "the washington post" and trump retaliating. why? because he can. i think the first mistake he made was with "the washington post." kennedy: "the washington post" says he has no influence. >> amazon has the power to move the markets. they moved into the healthcare sector and a lot of people are looking at amazon, a lot of the brick and mortar.

kennedy: if i can get healthcare as efficiently as i get my silicone swim caps -- >> your prostate exam will be here in five days. >> there is no reason anyone should ever leave their homes. >> they are a job creator, but they have also taken jobs. they provide and ask created a lot of jobs. kennedy: you want service, they provide it. much to be discussed with the panel. we'll talk about the trade war. chinese have respond by slapping their own taxes on more than 100 goods exported to china. charles payne does the math. he's brilliant and

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kennedy: dow doesn't like trade wars and there is a good reason. they are from isolationist policies and they never deliver

what they promise. when you are nursing a broken hand and restraining order they are less terrifying. after all, those trade deficits won't reconcile themselves. but in the end it becomes a series of regressive taxes. we all know our economy is deeply linked to china's and ex trikaight ourselves would be like wrestling with crazy glue on our fingertips. china is being childish and selfish by stealing our intellectual property. our president needs to tell their president to keep their meat hooks off the digital

stakes. there is no sense in tanking the markets and taking them down with a game of chicken that will have predictable results, namely hurting our economy, hastening inflation and punishing lesser earners and pushing them off the trade war doom. this morning on "fox and friends," sarah huckabee sanders was asked about china's counter punch. >> we are in the middle of president trump doing what he said he was going to do, and what he has been talking about for decade. he's tired of our intellectual property being taken. he's going to stand up and fight for the american worker. kennedy: let me ask the host of "making money," charles payne. so let's talk about this.

obviously we want our economy to do well. i love the president's thrust towards deregulation. i think that is smart, sensible, rational and practical. it seems like isolation itch is over -- is isolationism is overregulation. charles: that was a tariff on 20,000 items. this is a targeted approach. what do we lead the world in? our expertise in technology is being sucked away from us. it's ironic. thursday there was a chinese company opened the opening bell for the new york stock exchange. china is catching up with us in part because of all the things they stole from us.

we don't push back and at some point we won't be able to push back. kennedy: i don't think we should apiece china and i don't think we should fear china. but at the same time the blanket ice st. louisist trade policies will end up hurting our workers baits makes things more expensive over there. and if pork and wine are more expensive in china, if it's more expensive for them, if they are raising the prices, then it will hurt pork producers and wine producers over here. charles: what we are trying to do is level the playinged field for tens of thousands of industries and products. not just three or four. kennedy: it feels that way. charles: we have come to the point in america where we are afraid to do anything. we are afraid to shut down the government, we are afraid to push back against someone who is obviously stealing from us.

if i went to your house every year and stole a tv from you at some point you would lock the door. kennedy: i agree with you about the intellectual property theft and the hacking. charles: that's what we are work on. kennedy: he needs to take xi jinping into a room and say stop it. you cannot tell american businesses they can't operate in your country without giving up mayor secrets. charles: the bush administration thought they did that when they admitted china to the world trade organization. kennedy: obama's foreign policy was don't do stupid stuff and strategic patience. it allowed that brand of theft to flourish. the chinese now think we are going to let them get away with it because the president was

charmed when he went over for that state visit. charles: i think china is taking president trump very seriously. they own smithville foods. they almost put a tariff on themselves. they had to do something for their own citizens to show they were fighting back. but this wasn't a jab intended to land. but they have a lot to lose. they have more to lose than we do. we are in a trade war. china has an average tariff of 10%. their economy has grown 8% every single year on average. kennedy: our gdp is three times as high as that in china. charles: chain appalachians is growing much faster than ours. by 2026 china -- kennedy: i understand they are

playing long ball but we can protect our interests and tariff or tariff isn't going to win the war. charles: tariffs have not hurt china, south korea or india's tariff. kennedy: india is at a different point in their growth. charles: we don't just want to be a nation of consumer. if we want to ignite entrepreneurship, we need to make sure the markets are open. i think we are going to win this. thank you so much. coming up, you won't believe how a russian spy was poisoned with putin sending the world an eerie message.

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trump cite the donation to her campaign from terry mcauliffe as evidence of corruption. >> she says it feels awful every day. it keeps me up nights. she went on to say quote i made the decision to run for office base was trying to help people. instead it turned into something that was used to attack our family, my husband's career and the entire fbi. if you are having so much trouble sleeping at night maybe you shouldn't accept $700,000 in donations from a political ally, such a polarizing figure running for president.

crazy details about the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. officials say they believe an assassin smeared a nerve agent on the doorknob of their home. experts say it could have only been undertaken with kremlin approval. the russians continue to deny their involvement. but it's what british and american officials say is right. is there any way it went down without putin giving it the okay? let me ask mike baker. >> i am going to choose no. how does that sound. there is no way that something of this nature would be done without putin's knowledge. sort of a nod of the head. not a paper trail.

we won't be searching his server to get incriminating emails. back in 2006, the russians parliament passed authorization that allowed for the russian government to reach out and attack opponents abroad. then you know what happened in 2006? they killed li lit herks nenko. it was an awful, excruciating death. it's got his fingerprints on it it was a very technical operation. there is no doubt about it. american and british intelligence services don't just make wild-eyed accusations. a lot of forensic work goes into this, and they left behind

residue on the doorknob of sergei's home. you have a russian operative who is in london, goes to a small sleepy town of salisbury and puts on the front doorknob of the home much sergei and his daughter this nerve agent. kennedy: a nerve agent not only developed in the soviet union, but is manufactured there. given the high profile fight between our government and their government over russian election meddling, you would think now wouldn't be the time for some former kgb agents to go rogue and start pick off adversaries. this obviously was directed by someone to send a message. >> the message is do not defect. do not double cross us. that's the message putin and his

cohorts are sending out. he's send out a message to anybody else work in the ssb or any sensitive position within russia. don't ever think about doing what sergei did. kennedy: they can get you anywhere you are at no matter if it's in a foreign country. that's obviously the message. >> they have a very long history of this. think about what this means. sergei is living in this small town. this required lead-up, this required work. kennedy: they can't feed their people but they have no problem

getting these high-flying miles. those bastard. >> somebody will write this up into a netflix series. kennedy: you and i can tap his out in an hour. >> we'll get an emmy. kennedy: president trump expected to meet kim jong-un. but until they meet, the president said he'll keep up the maximum pressure. the annual exercises are meant to flex muscle in helps of preventing a north korean nuclear attack. according to south korean officials, rocket man understands the need for the drills. so is this another sign the president's strategy with the regime is working? the party panel is back.

noelle, i will start with you. it's obvious this one area where the president's strength to fall in line and with the help of south korea and kind of with the help of the hesitant china, north korea is coming to the table. if they don't test any missiles while we are having these joint exercises, that's a sign of success, isn't it? >> absolutely. if this president can get north korea to denuclearize, and keep the tax cuts and if he can do all the things he said he was going to do on the campaign trail, he'll go down as a very good president. kennedy: just like ron kessler said at the top of the show. it's almost like a hostage negotiator. the united states is the hostage negotiator. north korea is in the back room with the gun.

let the people go so the rest of the world, they are the hostages. once north korea gets rid of guns, they are done. >> then comes the smoke grenade. >> he outcrazies kim jong-un. i sat on the panel three months ago and got screamed at, i won't name names. they said he'll talk us off the nuclear cliff. kennedy: they wanted this to escalate into a horrific crisis and shouldn't have been president. >> even the market dipped down on north korea and little rocketman. kennedy: hillary clinton, would north korea be coming to the diplomatic table if she was president? >> i was again the way he was talking to north korea and it seems it's sort of actually

working. he scaled them back from previous years. there were some changes made there so maybe that's why they are not reacting the way they have not reacted in the past. i would love not to be blown up by north korea. kennedy: that's because you are a lover of peace and want to maintain humankind on this beautiful blue planet. >> never mind that north korea never paid hillary's speaking fees. before we sit down i will need $500,000. >> kim jong-un is a fan of pop culture. and donald trump represents the epitome of pop culture. kennedy: he's bringing dennis rodman, madeleine albright.

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kennedy: the president going after democrats on twitter, tweeting 39% of my nominations

have not been confirmed due to democrat obstruction and delay. at this rate it will take more than 7 years before i can have these great people work. never happened before, disgraceful. richard, what is the first thing that happens if the democrats do take back the reins of the house? >> depending on what happens with daca, i think they will try to get a deal done there. kennedy: the first order of business? >> i don't think it's the first order of business. it's the president's job to set the agenda. kennedy: is impeachment the first order of the agenda. >> no. it depend on what happens with the mueller investigation.

if the mueller investigation says this president obstructed justice, then the members of congress have something to consider. kennedy: if he says the president kind of obstructed justice and there weren't enough democrats in the news proceed with impeachment, but wasn't going to go anywhere in the senate, would the democrats still do it? >> republicans did it two decade for a process crime. kennedy: do the democrats have enough of a vision to tight mid-termsr or are they counting on the president's unpopularity? >> i think way it's going to come down to is having a conversation with the american people talking about healthcare, not obamacare, but employees based health insurance, and having the conversation of how we make end meet for working families.

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stripper. topic number two. president trump preside over his second easter egg roll today and the joint was jam packed. kids love the white house easter parties now that they have a first lady that allows them to have candy. i won't say which one bandit, but let's say her name rhymes with michelle obama. there is th the flotus and the potus. the kids had a blast. they passed the post-roll drug test. the president wasn't the only member of his family to make head lines. donald trump, jr. was sporting a

lapel pin that said deplorable. poor hillary, i wish people would stop brilg up her election loss. by people i mean hillary. you will find it way easier than taking the stairs wobble wobble. topic number three. red bull launched a line organic beverages as a healthier alternative than regular red bull. up until now if you wanted a healthier alternative to red bull you had to drink plutonium. but these can be ordered with a click of the button on amazon until the president shuts it down. it's good news for people who like to drink red bull and vodka but prefer to be charged an extra $10. the organic red bulls have 32 of

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