market is up 213 points. i'm out of time. sorry, everyone, neil cavuto. it is yours, sir. neil: thank you very much, stuart. the president arrived as you are indicating where he address as large group of farmers. concerned about impact of approaching trade war. to hear some tell it is already on. 12 billion, but could go up to 18 billion of support to ward off effect of tariffs. so concern that money might not be enough to cover everything. but president indicating in the long run everything will be okay and these tariffs, despite pain in that neck of the woods is the greatest. welcome, everyone, i'm neil cavuto. this is "coast to coast." my thanks for charles payne for filling in yesterday.

things are largely a lot of optimism that earnings are bedrock for everything. backdrop of everything we have is this notion right now the economy is doing just fine. he is going to be telling farmers that. he will tell particularly veterans that. that is going to be the wind at the economy's back, their back, everybody's back. so everyone should ease up. deirdre bolton with very latest. >> neil, we saw the tweet from the president this morning, the best of financial, don't want to misquote him. great to have uas winning again. look at report card we've gotten so far to the exact point about earnings here is what you will see. we heard from 20% of the s&p 500 companies so far. among them, this is a standout. coming back to technology in a minute. alphabet google trading at a, this is a new high actually for the stock. utx, verizon, harley-davidson

reporting. green arrows across the way. we're seeing so far net-net, with 20% reported, you have 83% ex-seated expectations as far as profits go. fast forward to the earnings, those earnings, rather to the sales, you will see similar strength in numbers. you will see 74% of the s&p 500 companies. this is earnings. but if you to to sales, you will see 74% of companies we've her from so far actually exceeded revenue expectations. -- exceeded. look at this quarter, year to year, stacked up versus other years for the second quarter, if you compare it to the second quarter last year, neil, better than 20%. go back to original screen, companies reported including alphabet google, essentially they knocked the cover off the ball. they exceeded top line and bottom line even with the

european commission fining the company $5 billion. mobile ad sales still growing more than expected. focal point for investors is the gdp print. that is the magic formula. with earnings, strong gdp, we have a lot of reasons to feel good. neil: i wonder when we get a head's up from the white house. >> a little preview? neil: greatest report ever. thank you, deirdre bolton. go to charlie gasparino. he is hearing whispering how potentially the second quarter gdp number could be on friday. what are you hearing, buddy? >> i give you a preview from what the white house is saying. yesterday we exclusively reported president trump's economic advisors are looking at 4.3, 4.4% gdp number. trump himself told friend and associates, that would be 4.8% growth. those would be fairly big number. i'm talking to white house

officials who say if certain things break their way, meaning some of the numbers, how they are adjusted, how they look, they could have economic growth above 5% that could be the print. this isn't written in stone. this is what the people inside the trump administration are telling people. telling me exclusively. i'm not saying i'm endorsing it. i'm not saying he should trade off it. they're setting extremely high expectations what will come out on friday. of course these numbers are not written in stone. these are two people are saying. we won't know until about 830, commerce department bureau of economic analysis comes out to release numbers, second quarter gdp they're basically presenting right now, neil, incredibly rosy scenario. they're getting ready for major media blitz if these bogeys are hit. comes up, look for all of them, larry kudlow, steve mnuchin. touting numbers.

amazing display of pr here. here is what i tell you from inside the white house. you can take this as well with the earnings numbers that deirdre just talked about. these numbers are baked in now. a lot of these numbers are before, including the earnings before any of the real stuff involving tariffs have kicked in. all the negative stuff. so remember, the real question is, does this carry forward to the third quarter? i do know the white house is worried about sustainability in the third quarter. that's right, before the midterm elections. it could have real big impact. we do know they're worried how the left and progressive media will respond. they're talking about, want to see clues how the left will respond to this, look at column by paul krugman, talked about some shadiness inside numbers of gdp for the second quarter. this will be a really interesting political football. likely to come friday. here is the other thing, neil. if the numbers don't match up,

if they combee low 4%, president trump obviously has a problem with economic messages. but they are telling me that they are expecting four to five. there isn't, if things break their way, they think this thing could get above 5%. last time we had above 5% gdp growth, third quarter of 2014 when president obama was president. as you know it was never sustained. he had mediocre is like giving it a good name, i guess, throughout his presidency. never really surpassed 3% on a yearly basis. this is not a yearly number. this is a quarterly number. neil, back to you. neil: thank you very much, charlie gasparino. get read from sean spicer, you remember that name, former white house press secretary under trump. author of a book, the briefing, politics, the press, the president. sean, good to have you. >> thanks for having me, neil. neil: how closely did the

president watch in your time with him these economic numbers come out, whether employment data or gdp? i mean, i know he would fixate on the markets but, seems like he was fixated on a lot of numbers? >> i actually look at it a little differently. i think on all these areas, whether health care or economy or trade, he is results oriented. he looks at all these numbers trying to figure out what is doing well and what is not doing well. so the variety of indices and reports are what consume him. he is figuring out what policies sustain good news and good growth and what we need to fix and what policies we need to reverse. neil: so when you say obviously, he is now in kansas city, missouri, specifically talking to veterans, but a big agricultural community as well, sending a signal that he will provide support for farmers not only in that region, but nationally might be affected by

upcoming trade war, he is seems to getting concerned it could boomerang on his base? >> look, for many whether farmers or people in the services industry, or manufacturing industry who have been adversely affected by trade for a long time they have been told they have been forgotten in a lot of cases or overlooked, or told things will get better. i think they appreciate the president fighting for them. saying hey we might have to have short-term pain for long-term gain. they stick with him. they continue to want to see, what his plan is. so far they see him pushing back on china and others where we have a disproportionate area of market access which is what we see so often, we agree to a much lower tariff rate than another country does for similar product. so i think on variety of these sectors you're seeing the president say to these folks, i told you i will do exactly what i said i would do as a candidate.

i'm implementing that plan now. i want to get countries to the table. get those tariffs lower where you are, if you think about it, 95% of the world's population lives outside of the united states. we want to get these consumers to buy u.s. goods, agriculture, services or manufacturing. the president will do everything he can to get a greater market access share. neil: you know the president you talk about this knows very, very well how he has deemed in the press and certainly to his base and the american public, maybe to that end, he is continuing to talk about maybe residual effects of putin meeting last week, sean. but tweeting just a few minutes ago, i'm very concerned russia will fight very hard to have impact on upcoming election. president is been pushing hard on russia but pushing hard on the democrats they definitely don't want trump. what do you make of all of that? >> i think the narrative that has gotten out there where you have a lot of folks who i think

at least perceptionwise are trying to use this russian meddling going on for decade as a way to seemingly you know mine the victory he had, the support that he has. it is very frustrating thing. part of the reason i wrote the book the briefing, to give people an understanding of the mind set during the campaign, transition first six months. there is relentless attack on the president from the media and the left, questioning his motives, not giving him so proper due in so many areas he has gotten results for american people. neil: you think the russians were mucking around in the elections, didn't change the results but you concur with that, right? >> from everything i have seen and read they have been doing this for decades. there is nothing unique to the last cycle. they used modern technology in way they hadn't in previous attempts. this is nothing new that russia tried to do. >> right. were you disappointed the president didn't seem at least publicly more forceful on issue with pew put last week?

>> i think he did the right thing by making very clear what his position was in the cabinet meeting and subsequent interview with jeff glor. neil: not with vladmir putin? >> he said he misspoke and went on make it clear what his position was. neil: okay. >> i take him at his bored at that. >> sean, reading through your book and all, you examine a lot of your own flaws and problems along the way. you don't seem to blame the president for anything, so you, good guy in that regard i guess but, you said of sarah sanders that she understands what the president wants. were you implying there maybe you did not? >> well, clearly i think at the beginning, i talk about this right off the bat that my, i looked at the role initially in very traditional sense, gathering information going out. donald trump wants his person

speaking on his behalf, if you say donald trump believes something or thinks something or president does, he wants to make sure he has input knowing exactly how it is said and what words are used to communicate that. sarah i think has done much more effective job out of the gate making sure that she does that. i learned to check in with him more. as i evolved in the job over first few weeks, recognized how he -- neil: but he evolved, right? his opinions and views on things, seemed like a lot of times they evolved with you? >> what you do, that was the point, if the issue is evolving he waned you to check in, look this issue is evolving and changed. neil: it evolved in the same hour you were speaking to the press sometimes. >> look. he is very clear how he wants things communicated. neil: by the way, do you ever want to go back there? >> no. i was honored to do the job. but it was unbelievably intense and, and i think, you know,

having done it and then the six years before it, in terms of at rnc, really working hard to advance our party i was ready to move on. i thanked the president and the vice president, first lady, rest of the entire team for the opportunity they gave me. i think sarah is doing great up there. i'm much better being a viewer than a briefer. neil: it is funny, a lot of people, a "politico" report out today, wondering life after sarah sanders, what happens, who is being considered. what did you make of that? >> i think this is part of what i touch on in the book, neil, there is become this constant palace intrigue using anonymous sources talking about how somebody feels what they thought or where they're going not based on necessarily what that person thinks but what other people believe they think or feel and i think that is where we lose, it is undermining sort of the institution of journalism where it is not fact-based, becomes

conjecture and theory what other people believe other people feel. that to me is not really helpful in the current dialogue. that is something that i face consistently during my tenure. i write extensively about so as a spokesman, my job was to speak on behalf of other people for my entire career and you're really not supposed to worry about your feelings or give your side of it. kind of stayed silent through the seven months in the white house. the book gave me an opportunity to tell people, this is how i felt, this is the impact that it had as these narratives played out and memes played out. first time i took people behind the scenes through some big events they saw play out and maybe had one-dimensional view who i was, wondered in the back of their head, what is going on back there? how is he handling that? what is he thinking? how did he get there? neil: a lot of people don't know you. there is a great deal of depth and decency to you just as human being. i'm not just blowing you smoke. >> thank you. neil: i see you put in very,

very tough positions. for example the day after the inauguration, insisting those were the largest crowds ever, i guess what you meant at time, what president was saying at the time include internet and everyone logging in from all over the world, i will leave that aside. you drew the line i think on the mueller probe of late to say it is not a witch-hunt. the president calls it a witch-hunt. explain. >> i have not seen, look, i'm not in the day in, day out that he is. i don't have privy to the information that his counsels have. i read what i see. i think mueller has arrested countless, over 20 russians who clearly interfered with our election. i think there is two issues here. this is where there is conflating of issues. was there collusion by anyone in the campaign which is the central premise that the president is accused of and his team being attacked for and on that front i agree with the president so far we've seen nothing that even hints -- everything gets leaked in this

town, regarding this probe. we've seen nothing that shows any serious impropriety or collusion between anyone on the campaign of significance or the president and russia. then there is the question of meddling. and i think that's where what i have seen mueller go after so far on those fronts with respect to the indicts he handed out on russians on people that meddled. none of those people have any affiliation or even been alleged to have any affiliation with the trump campaign. neil: we don't know everything yet. >> you're right. neil: call it a witch-hunt is probably a bit premature? >> i kind of bifurcate it. from the president's perspective, what he sees, his counsels see, he looks at much differently in terms of personal impact and what he knows and privy too. the idea after 18 plus months whatever it is now, going on two years where you have all of the interviews, every single thing leaking out, there is no nexus hinted at between senior folks in the campaign and collusion,

that is distinctly separate. i understand his use of the word there. with respect to meddling i think what mueller has done passed down indictments from people, russian operatives, clearly trying to engage in some sort of activities, nefarious activities with respect tourelection. neil: melissa mccarthy is famous for doing a lot of impressions for you. you write, i had no choice to laugh when you first saw her doing you. >> right. neil: like many "snl" sketches they were too long but no denying it was fun by but had to hurt your feelings? >> i stepped it in the first day by all accounts. i think i deserved a little ribbing. she is talented actor. did a great job. as i write -- neil: have you ever talked to her, by the way? >> i have not, no. the second and third one, i think were more on the mean-spirited side. i didn't find them as funny. that is not her fault. she is an actor. but look, i think, look, if you

can't laugh at yourself in this business, especially when you are self-inflict, step in it, you are in the wrong game. neil: it wasn't always self-inflicted. >> i have an entire chapter called moment, memes of the talks about some of the ones that weren't helpful and hurtful there. is difference between what is funny and hurtful or mean. neil: i was so thin-skinned i wouldn't be able to take any of that. you do comment, i didn't realize during the transition you lost your dad to pancreatic cancer. you said there were times i wished my dad lived long enough to see me at the white house and times i admit i'm glad he did not. was it that kind of dispointing? >> well, obviously he would have been so proud and so supportive what i had accomplished and trust and privilege the president placed in me. he was such a supporter of my entire career, both personally, professionally i would have loved to share the moment with him.

obviously as you note from the book, there are very painful moments where i misspoke or did something that was hurtful or painful and i'm glad he wasn't there to see it, because, for all of his support and everything he did to support me, one thing i never wanted to do was let him down and so on days when i didn't do my best, i'm glad he didn't have to see that here on earth. neil: the president and now, you know, comedians who have a field day ripping him a new one, might have seen this new samantha bee skit comparing ice agents to isis, what do you think of all that? >> i think it is interesting, number of one these are dedicated public servants. neil: michelle wolf, i misspoke. samantha bee is another issue. >> there is always one with them. i think couple things. one it is interesting how they pick and choose which public servants they support. they love to talk to themselves

as champions until they don't like what they do. overall mission of i.c.e. to keep this country safe, to prevent human trafficking of women an children. i think that, you know, it is amazing to me that these folks get away with this kind of stuff. neil: yeah. >> i think you have people who care deeply about protecting this country and its citizens and frankly the people who are here as visitors. neil: all right. >> and the idea we're calling for abolition of them when it is not just, it is minimum gray is issue, it's a safety issue. we need to make sure people here in the country are here for the right reasons and not here to harm our fellow citizens is and visitors. neil: sean spicer, the book is "the briefing." politics, the press and the president it is very real. >> thank you. neil: his heart and gut, what he is thinking. in the end we're all human beings, my friends. you try to handle the pressure that guy handled. we'll have more after this.

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neil: all right. the president is getting set to address right now largely veterans in kansas city, missouri. this is a big agricultural state. he will talk what he wants to do to help out farmers, providing $12 billion of relief for farmers that might be affected by tariffs separately and issues

of veterans and war and peace and some sabre rattling this week with iran. former national security advisor to vice president dick cheney, john hannah. always good to have you. on the iranian dust-up here, and, how the iranians are responding and still talking about closing down the strait of hormuz, of course a crucial oil tanker passageway that could send prices skyrocketing if they were to succeed in doing so where is this going? >> well it remains to be seen, neil. i do i this the president is clearly taking a book, a page out of his north korea playbook. in the case of kim jong-un i think he is convinced that his bellicose rhetoric, the economic pressure and the credible threat of force did succeed bringing north korea to the negativing table. and we'll have to see if that works with iran but no one should underestimate the risks because while we can hope that

the iranians will roll over and sue for peace, i don't think we can do any planning on that basis. the iranians are likely to react in ways that we can only anticipate now. neil: you know, he is also going to be no doubt trying to dial back some of the criticism he has gotten over his visit from vladmir putin. i imagine almost every day comes out with a statement to prove how tough he is on the russians. he has been tougher than most american presidents in the post-world war ii era. today i'm concerned russia will be fighting very hard to have impact on upcoming election based on the president is tougher on russia than me. he will be pushing hard for the democrats. they definitely don't want trump. what do you make of that? >> well on one hand it is important i think, that the president does recognize the threat that's out there to the integrity of our election process. on the other hand, you know, i would prefer he doesn't put it

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>> welcome back to "cavuto: coast to coast." i'm nicole petallides live on the floor of the new york stock exchange. look at this, a new record for the nasdaq composite today, currently up 1/4 of 1%. we're seeing dow and s&p gaining as well. traders keeping key eye on earning.

looking at 3m, harley-davidson, lockheed martin and united technologies all with up arrows across the board. google hitting it out of the park with earnings per share revenue, traffic acquisition costs less than expected. advertising revenue, really blowing it out of the water, lifting up all the tech stocks. united technologies also beating but saying about tariffs, they boost inflation. harley-davidson talks about inflation could hurt profit going forward but a great, great showing. when we look at tech stocks, many with up arrows, many hitting new highs today, we're awaiting earnings on facebook wednesday and on amazon thursday and apple next week on tuesday. we're seeing stellar numbers so far. traders say keep it right here. keep your money right here. jeff frankel told me exactly that. saying there is nowhere else to invest, despite the market running up at new highs or near highs, keep your money here.

somewhat worried about trade and tariff, but still keeping it right here believing. neil: they are believing. thank you very, very much. the president now ready to give some relief to farmers here. could be up to $12 billion. joni ernst of iowa saying that kind of help is probably long overdue. >> i think his reception will be very mixed. on one hand with the tax cut and jobs act it's a wonderful, wonderful boon for the state of iowa and low income wage earners. they have really seen some great benefits. but then again our farmers which are quite a mainstay in iowa are really feeling the pinch of the tariffs. the retaliation has been pretty heavy directed at agriculture. neil: to bush 43 special assistant ron christie on this and how it is reverberating right now. more than just coincidental he is offering this amount of money right now to buffett the blow of these potential tariffs. some not potential.

they're happening as we speak for farmers. what did you make of it, ron? >> good to see you, neil. really reverberating in d.c. today. what do i make of it? i don't like it. i'm a free trader guy. the president is harming a lot of his base. we're talking about soybean farmers. we're talking about pork producers. we're talking about dairy farmers. why is the federal government in the business of bailing out farmers to the tune of $12 billion when this administration's action led to the depressed wages and frankly to depressed market for some of these farmers. neil: so when the president comes back and said you know, it isn't free trade when the chinese gouge us the way they do, fix their markets the way they do, their currency the way they do, this has been going on through republican, democrat administrations alike, they haven't done anything about, i'm going to, you say? >> i get that the chinese have been manipulating currency for many, many years. they depressed am amount of imports from china. put this isn't right way to do

it. i really worry about the impact on our economy, on our farmers, on our workers when wees can late go to a trade war, tariff war with china. i don't think that is the right way to go. neil: i know you're not a market guy, are you surprised markets don't agree with you? maybe they're ignoring that real possibility or maybe thinking it doesn't happen but they have been racing to new highs, what do you make of it? >> i'm not a market guy per se but i think market folks are looking at strong economic growth we've had, low unemployment, other very good factors saying you know what, maybe we'll not take a strong look at the tariff war trump is doing with china because every other aspect of our economy is doing quite well. neil: he is speaking to largely veterans group there in missouri, i'm sorry, you lost my place. one of the things he will no doubt mention is the escalating tensions with iran. he might talk about north korea and signs that they are indeed, that country is indeed apparently dismantling a missile

testing facility. encouraging developments? >> i believe so look, we haven't seen this sort of progress from north korea since the north korean, since the korean war. the fact that we have had republican and democratic administrations trying to talk to dictatorships, trying to find a way to a peaceful solution, if these reports are in fact true, neil, that they are dismantling a nuclear facility, i look at that as welcome development and strong presidential leadership. neil: what else do we have to see out of the north koreans? that seems to be a blueprint which we base some other tough talk maybe by more positive developments, like we were saying with iran and even when it comes to russia. what do you make of the president's approach? >> well, i have an off-shoot of the old ronald reagan adage trust but verify. i don't trust the north koreans, but we have to verify. any opportunity we have, certainly secretary of state mike pompeo has been doing a great job of going over there

and continuing to talk and negotiate. if we continue to see signs that they are dismantling their programs and we're having significant progress, i say all power to president trump and his administration for taking strong and necessary steps to really de-escalate one of the most difficult spots in the world as it relates to tension and nuclear power. neil: switching gears again to china, this ongoing trade war here, the president earlier this morning tweeting that tariffs are the greatest. either a country that has treated united states unfairly on trade negotiates a fair deal or it gets hit with tariffs. very black and white, very simple. >> very black and white, very simple. i don't agree with that approach. many things the president is doing right. i just don't think this escalation particularly on twitter is the way to do it. let's have negotiations. let's have the commerce secretary, secretary of state sit down with the chinese counterparts to find a way to have fairer trade, more free trade but just having escalating

battle in social media frankly is not right way to do it in my book, neil. neil: ron, when the president addresses veterans, largely supportive group, wonder how it wrestles with his very pragmatic approach to dealing with the russians, and maybe the back and forth with north korea. they are a loyal bunch. are they still that way? >> look, they are. the vfw, these patriots served our country. they put they'reselves on the line to make sure that we live in the greatest bastion of democracy and freedom. so the president of the nights, yes, they might not agree with him on all of his policies, some of his tactics, but i think they are going to give him a very warm welcome. they will be happy to hear what they have to say, particularly brings home some remains of our bravest men and women in uniform who made the ultimate sacrifice in the korean war. yeah, i'm looking for very warm reception for president trump momentarily. neil: thank you very, very much, ron. as ron was speaking, we're

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neil: all right. kansas city missouri. president addressing largely veterans group any second. the president proposed helping farmers with concern that they will get walloped by these upcoming tariffs. he proposed upward $12 billion

in aid to the farmers to ward off the threat but not getting thumbs up from senator rand paul who says tariff are taxes that punish american consumers and producers. if tariffs punish farmers, the answer is not welfare for farmers. the answer is remove the tariffs. we're efforting the senator. get to "real clear politics" reporter kaitlin huey burns. this is a key base of the president's. from joni ernst and others been on the network, talking to stuart varney, they're getting worried, they're getting antsy, right? >> sure they're getting worried, a lot of trump's base of support happen to be in their states and districts that will be feeling, if they're not already, the pinch from the president's tariff policy. this is a major disagreement, policy disagreement that republicans had with the president. they had it for a long time on trade, on tariffs. they don't like the way the president is going here. we heard from speaker paul ryan

earlier today saying tariffs are not a good idea. the republican party as he sees it, doesn't agree those are the right measures, policywise. so you're going to see a lot of reaction to this own capitol hill i think. rand paul is alluding to idea of paying back or subsidizing these farmers. he doesn't agree that is the right thing to do. i think you will see some other conservatives kind of echo that sentiment as well. neil: yeah. you can argue we provided tariff support to farmers who we argue are getting hurt by tariffs on the other side. it's a little weird. looks like they're sitting down, waiting for the president. how is he doing with his core group? poll numbers ticked up a little bit, what do you make of all that? >> his poll numbers ticked up a little bit. he is is still very popular among republican voters. we saw in a couple of different polls in the past week or so, his base of support among republicans is around, upwards of 85%, 88% rivaling only, you

know george w. bush after 9/11. and so his base of support among republicans is very high which, you know, leads him i think to believe that he has a lot of leeway with republicans on this. talking to voters you sometimes hear them say we're willing to give him leeway here. they trust where the president is going. but on issue of tariffs you're not really hearing that. you are hearing from farmers and others in the industry, this real concern about getting pinched here. we'll see reaction to the new policy that is supposed to be announced today. it is a interesting thread to keep watching as we assess the president's base of support. neil: another base that likes him, obviously the invest community. they have been buying up, up, nasdaq at a record. the dow following suit. not in record territory, advancing appreciably under the belief, katelyn, they don't ever

see this coming to pass. all will blink, everything will be good and call down. it doesn't always work out that way, but what do you think of that? >> it is a interesting dynamic, we've seen this a while now the markets don't respond in the way the political world does. i'm not sure if that is kind of built in. what you're talking about in terms of people just kind of in this wait and see mode. neil: right. >> and there is a lot of wait and see, but just judging from the reaction from people who would be directly affected by this, there is still that concern, but president often talks about the stock market which can be a positive or negative to him, no matter, depending which way that goes. neil: right. >> he talks a lot about the economy which is he helping his numbers among republicans. neil: quickly, elizabeth warren seems to emerge, always risky to emerge as be deemed a front run for democratic nomination. she made news, talking about the

punishment eu slapped on google, $5 billion fine. they seemed more interested in antitrust issues than we are, seemingly taking the side of the european union over an american company. how is that going to go down? >> right, well you know, among her supporters it won't be negative. if she makes it into a general election of course, she would get larger pushback here. the president tweeting earlier that fine was punishing an american company. google posted $3 billion in profits last quarter. making it seem like the fine was not a big deal to the bottom line. elizabeth warren is so-called front-runner in the democratic party right now. as we're looking ahead towards the next presidential election. she was arguing that you know the u.s. has to take up similar laws to encourage competition. so we'll see how that is

received. remember, she carved out a niche for herself is on the consumer, on the consumer angle. we'll see how that is received. probably postively among her base but negatively from a broader range. neil: real quickly, the argument has been because president benefits so many people likely to challenge him, divide their message, ultimately divide the support. he is free and clear on his own. what do you think? >> democrats will have this problem likely some people running it does kind of chop up the field. we saw that on the republican side last time around which, you know, lots of republicans wanted to run to take on hillary clinton. i think we'll see lots of democrats want to run to take on president trump. the midterms right now are about in terms of messaging about opposing the president, just given dynamic of a midterm. of course in 2020 democrats know they will have to have a bigger, more broader, positive message but that primary figures to be

long, exhaustive, divisive, like we saw on republican side. neil: oh, man, time for that again. kaitlin, good to see you. we'll always break in if the president gets to the proceed yum. we'll have more after this. and the miles and the years. he's gonna get mine -but i'm gonna get a new one. -oh yeah when it's time for your old chevy truck to become their new chevy truck, there's truck month. get 18% of msrp cash back on all silverado 1500 crew cab lt pickups when you finance with gm financial. that's $9,000 on this silverado. plus, during truck month make no monthly payments for 90 days.

neil: the president right now in kansas city, missouri, speaking to largely veterans group. he will talk about the economy, the backdrop he says is the envy of the world, earlier tweeting that tariffs are the greatest. this country will come out just fine. that he has to do this. he will do this. everyone will be better off for it. the president now ready to speak in kansas city, missouri. ♪ from the lakes of minnesota, to the hills of tennessee, across the plains of texas, from sea to shining sea, from detroit down to houston, and new york to l.a., where the pride in every american heart and it's time we

stand and say ♪ ♪ that i'm proud to be an american where at least i know rhyme freeh ♪ ♪ i won't forget the men who died to gave that life to me and i gladly stand up, next to you, and defend her still today ♪ ♪ but there ain't no doubt i love this land, god bless the usa ♪ ♪ and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free ♪ ♪ i won't forget the men who died who gave that life to me, and i gladly stand up, next to you and defend her still today,

because there ain't no doubt i love this land ♪ ♪ god bless the usa [cheering] >> thank you, lee. thank you, lee. >> usa. usa. >> thank you. >> usa. usa. >> and thank you all also to commander harmon, we're greatful for your service, for your leadership and this incredible organization. that is what it is. it is incredible. [cheering] i'm honored to be here today in kansas city, missouri. to pay tribute to the men and women who make freedom possible.

kansas city, what a special place, what a special group of people. [applause] the veterans of foreign wars, you people should be very proud of yourselves, i want to personally thank each and everyone of you who has served our country in uniform, defended our nation in battle, and protected our great american flag. thank you. [cheers and applause] i also want to recognize a great kansas city legend, who i met today the at plane, somebody i've been a fan of a long time, a member of the baseball hall of fame, george brett of the kansas city royals. where is george? he is around here somewhere. [applause] george, how many years? 20. what was your batting average, .305. i said that is pretty good, .305

for 20 years. a special guy. i want to thank a true patriot, your executive director bob wallace along with your outstanding national auxiliary president, president, dee gilroy. thank you, dee. [cheers and applause] congratulations to vfw incoming leadership, b jlaw recognize, and and sandy kribel. [applause] great, congratulations. we're joined by our brand new va secretary, robert wilkie. he is going to be fantastic. who was just confirmed by the senate last night with an overwhelming vote. the only ones that voted against him were all of the people, super left, that are running

against me in 2 1/2 years. everyone of them. if you want to know who is running just take a look at wilkie's score, because every single one of them. there will be probably quite a few more, but in the senate, that was it. what a great vote. he will do a fantastic job. there is nothing more important to me. thank you. [applause] thank you, bob. i also want to thank our acting va secretary, peter o'rourke for doing such a fantastic job in the meantime, holding down the fort, until wilkie got approved and peter will be joining the whole team, and they are doing numbers and they are doing the job with choice and with all of the other things that we've gotten approved. they're doing some job for our vets. it was a very important commitment that i made to you

during the campaign, fulfilling that commitment. several terrific members of congress are here today as well. great friends of mine. they helped me so much. we're joined by kevin yoder from kansas. incredible guy. [applause] kevin yoder, what an incredible guy. members of missouri's congressional delegation. vicki hartzler, billy long, jason smith, alongwith your states attorney general, we need him badly, hopefully your new senator to be josh hawley. we need josh badly. josh, thank you. in fact, josh, do me a favor, come up here for a second. just shake my hand. this guy is a special man. come here, josh.

this guy is special man. many couldcome here. >> thank you. it is incredible honor to be here. thank you for your service, what you mean this to this country but what about the leadership of president donald trump. what do you think? [cheers and applause] when i think about president trump one word comes to mind. that word is courage, do you agree? how many people over the years said they will do this, they will do that, there is one guy who had the guts to fulfill his promises. the guts to move our embassy to jerusalem. the guts to stand up against our enemies overseas. the guts to put conservatives on supreme court of the united states. that is donald trump. [cheers and applause]

the president always says we're at turning point moment for our country. he is providing leadership. as we lead the world to the new century. i tell you what he needs reinforcements let's do this. let's show our appreciation again for president trump in the leadership he is getting to this country let's redouble our efforts and recommit ourselves to stand together, working hard and making america great again. [cheering and applause] >> goodbye. [laughter] that was great. what a great, young man. before going any further want to take this moment to send our prayers to the victims of the

tragic boat accident that took place in your great state last week. i have to tell you the whole world is watching that. we lost 17 beta vessels including nine members of one family and babies life is just beginning. their lives were cut short but they and the love runs will never ever be forgotten. a tragedy. we will hold their memory close to our hearts. i want to thank your governor, a friend of mine and a great person, for his leadership during this terrible tragedy along with the coast guard and all of the first responders who were incredible. thank you very much. thank you come back come back

next year will mark the 120th anniversary of the veterans of foreign wars and the oldest major veterans organization in our country and that is pretty good. [cheering and applause] more than one century the vfw is represented american heroes who promoted american values and they did so with honor. you are the universal symbol of the patriotic pride to be loudly in every single american heart. we don't apologize for america anymore. we stand up for america. we stand up for the patriots to defend america. [cheering and applause] and we stand up for our national

anthem. [cheering and applause] we are putting america first again and we are seeing the incredible results. we are destroying the bloodthirsty killers known as isis - almost gone. we are calling the threat by its real name, a name that was not mentioned for a long time, called radical islamic terrorism. that is what it is. you have to know your enemy before you can defeat your enemy. earlier this year i recognized the true capital of israel, as josh said, jerusalem, where we just open the american embassy.

[cheering and applause] they thought it would never be named and after it was named they thought it would never get built and i built it within four months. how about that? four months. they came to my office and they had a document to be signed, $1 million for the embassy. i said 1 billion? they do not have a site or know anything. our great ambassador to israel called david friedman, very successful lawyer in new york city one of the most, he said we could do it faster. we were great site in a building already at the site and we could renovate the building quickly and we could open the embassy, if you'd like to do that. i said how much would it cost? he said $150,000. i said what? what? he said i think we can do it in four months. we are talking about 1 billion,

maybe in 20 years, maybe never and we know what goes on. he said i'd rather build ships or i'd rather build something else. if we can save the money. [cheering and applause] we can save that money, let's use it wisely. so, i said david, let's not do 150 but how about 400,000 and make it nicer. and it is beautiful. it just opened and it is beautiful. we are years ahead of schedule and i understand frankly every president for the last many presidents have said we will open our embassy in jerusalem and then they never did. they all failed. they never did it. i understand why because when it came time and the people were hearing rumors about it i was inundated from calls of every leader from all over the world imploring me, even demanding that we not do it, to a point

where i never took their calls but i called them back after i did it. it's one of those, let me call them back. [laughter] i was getting calls from kings and presidents and dictators and getting a call from everywhere and when i knew what it is about i said tell them i will call them next week. then i called them and i said oh, i did not know you felt that way, it's too late. i understand why they didn't do it because there was tremendous power but we didn't. we proud of it. enjoy it. [cheering and applause] by the way, the biggest fan may very well be the evangelicals. they wanted that built and they wanted that they are so were proud of it. [applause] we removed on this theory restraints on her war fighters in afghanistan, those who risk their life and limb for our country and they deserve rules

of engagement to give them the best opportunity to finally defeat the enemy. [cheering and applause] and we are making, for the first time in years, making progress in afghanistan. i withdrew the united states from the horrible one-sided iran nuclear deal. [cheering and applause] iran is not the same country anymore, that i can say. we will see what happens but were ready to make a real deal, not the deal done by the previous administration which was a disaster. we are also pursuing the denuclearization of north korea

and a new future of prosperity, security and peace on the korean peninsula and all of asia. new age of his just today show that north korea has begun the process of dismantling it came as a site and we appreciate that. we had a fantastic meeting with chairman kim and it seems to be going well. i know we are joined today by many incredible veterans of the korean war, thank you for your courageous service, as you may know we are also working to bring back the remains of your brothers in arms who gave their lives to korea and i hope that very soon these fallen warriors will begin coming home to lay addressed in american soil. starting the process. [cheering and applause]

that - at the end of our meeting i said to chairman kim, good relationship, good feeling, i said i would appreciate if you could do that and he said, it will be done. i was very happy and that process is starting fairly soon, we hope cormac. [applause] we believe in no american left behind and we believe in that. no american left behind and i want to thank the vfw for your devotion to our fallen heroes unknown soldiers and prisoners of war and those missing in action and their families no one better understands the horrors of war and the people in this room and it is the warrior who bears the scars of battle and who prays most fervently for

peace and that is why we remember george washington's advice that the best way to preserve the peace is to be prepared for war. [applause] and that is exactly what we do all the time and my thinking is always on military and military strength and that is why i'm proud to report that we are now undertaking the greatest rebuilding of our united states military in its history. [cheering and applause] we have secured $700 billion for defense this year and $716 billion next year, approved. [cheering and applause] we are ordering 147 new f35's

lightning fighters and this is an credible plane. it is stealth and you can't see it so when i talk to even people from the other side they are trying to order our plane and they like the fact that you can't see it. i said how would it do a battle with your plane and they say, we have one problem. we can't see your plane. that's a big problem. stealth, super self, the best in the world. we make the best military government in the world but remember this, jobs. [cheering and applause] we are ordering 239 apache and black hawk helicopters, you know what they are. they are incredible. nineteen major naval vessels and nearly 8000 humvees and these will be humvees that are used by

our great soldiers, not handed out to everybody like you been reading about in the past. [applause] all made right here in the usa. [cheering and applause] and we are adding nearly 30000 new soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines and i have directed the pentagon to begin the process of creating the six the branch of our military, called the space force. [cheering and applause] we are living in a different world we have to adapt. that is what it is. a lot of very important things will be taking place in space and i don't mean going up to the moon or mars where we will be going very soon and will be going to mars very soon but from

a military standpoint space is becoming everyday more and more important. i'm thrilled to say that we have secured for our military service members and their families the largest - you don't really want to, you're too patriotic for this, the largest payraise in almost one decade. [cheering and applause] you don't want it. [cheering and applause] [laughter] anybody willing to give it up for the sake of your country? okay. keep it. you deserve it. you really do. been a long time since you got a raise and you deserve it. my administration is committed to ensuring that our war fighters have the tools, the resources, the firepower that they need to defeat our enemies

with overwhelming force. hopefully we will never have to use the kind of power that i'm building and helping to build for you. hopefully people will look at us and see let's pass, let's pass. [applause] america is a peaceloving nation and we do not seek conflict but if conflict is forced upon us we will defend ourselves and if we must, we will fight and we will do nothing but win. [cheering and applause] as the great general macarthur once said, in war there is no substitute for victory. victory. we are also committed to ensuring that when our warriors return home as veterans they receive the best care anywhere

on earth. [applause] since taking office and working alongside the vfw - by the way, your representatives have done an incredible job in helping us with the va. it's accommodated subject and so many things they helped us so much because he put in legislation and i said, let's make sure it's legislation that is good and works, not legislation that is obsolete before we even get it. we will fight like hell to get everyone to approve it. let's get approved what is good and we have enacted some of the largest va reforms in the history of the va. probably the largest. last year i signed into law the landmark ba accountability act

which nobody thought we could get approved. nobody. we will get - we are getting good at things getting approved but nobody thought it when a bad person, maybe a federal employee in this case, but someone bad mistreats or neglects or abuses our great veterans in their time of need we can turn to them, look at them in the eye and say you are fired, get out. [cheering and applause] before there was nothing you could do and you had to live with these people. we got rid of a lot of people, only the bad ones, the good ones we cherish. but we had that apples and they are gone. as promised we established the white house, be a hotline and every va medical center now

offers same-day emergency mental health care, something very important. [cheering and applause] we are greatly extending telehealth and walk-in clinics start veterans can get anywhere at any time and they can get what they need to learn about the problem and they don't have to necessarily drive long distances in weight. we are - it's been a big success and were also processing veteran disability claims more quickly than ever before and the va has implement it the decision ready claims where claims can be completed in under makes and we are striving for one day but under two weeks. it used to be many months. [applause] last year i signed legislation,

amazing i said last year, it's been a long time already, has in it? that was some campaign, was in it? i signed legislation so that veterans can use their g.i. bill education benefits and any point in their lifetime. big difference. they never expire so that's can get the education they need when it is right for them. and with the vfw's terminus help we passed veterans twice, the biggest thing ever and the biggest thing that has to be the biggest improvement you can ha have. so now if you can't get treatment that you need in a timely manner, people used to wait two weeks, three weeks, eight weeks and they cannot get to doctor but you will have the

right to see a private doctor immediately and we will pay for it. you know what? cost-effective and thousands and thousands of lives will be saved and your quality of life will be so much better. you don't have to wait in line for two and half weeks to see a doctor like in the past. veterans choice has been passed. [cheering and applause] and my administration also understands that we cannot be as a country we are not a prosperous country and we have to think of ourselves. yet to see these deals they're working on. they are a disaster. losing hundreds of billions of dollars with individual countries every year and they are you have to stick it out and we have to fight it. no one else bought it.

i went to some of the countries and said how did he get so unbalanced and they said nobody ever called. they said no one ever called. they would do whatever they wanted and we just put up with it. not any longer, folks. not any longer. [cheering and applause] making tremendous progress and they are all coming in they don't want to have those tariffs put on them. they're coming to see us and to farmers it will be the biggest beneficiary. watch. we are opening up markets and you watch where it will go. just be patient. they are aiming at everybody who likes me and have lobbyists like no one ever seen in the best lobbyists ever put together. it was hearing and reading that they have some of the greatest lobbying teams ever put together. to stop the president from putting tariffs on his countries and companies. that are ripping off the united states. you got to stop them.

just remember we will do something that honestly, no one else could do. over the else could do. we have - thank you, darling. [laughter] i like you too. i like her. then you very much. that was good timing. [laughter] we are now in the midst of a great economic revival and is for that reason that i chose this is the time. last year our country lost 80017 billion dollars on trade. we lost $817 billion and people say could you do it this week or get it done immediately in these countries have been ripping us off for decades. it does not take a week but it takes longer. we will get it done but just remember we can't lose

$817 billion. we rebuilt china. what the european union is doing to us is incredible. they made 151 billion dollars last year and our trade deficit with the european union but it sounds nice but they are rough. they're coming in to see me tomorrow. they're all coming to the white house. i said you have to change and they did not want to change so i said okay, good we will tariff your cars because they felt millions of cars, mercedes, bm bmws, so many cars and i said we will have to tariff your cars and they said when can we show up. when can we be there? would tomorrow be okay? [laughter] folks, stick with us. stick with us. [applause] amazing. remember the biggest, best, strongest lobbyists and they are

doing a number. don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake ne news. [cheering and applause] i saw a piece on nbc today, nbc, not just cnn and cnn is worse but i thought piece on nbc that was heartwarming. they were interviewing people and probably go through 20 and pick the one that sounds like the worst but they went through a group of people and in fact, i wanted to say i got to do something about this trump. terrible. [laughter] that piece was done by the lobbyists done by the people they hire and it was a total set up in this country is doing better than it is ever done before economically and this is the time to take off the rebuff and we have to do it.

other countries have tariffs on us so i want to put tariffs on them they say he's using tariffs but china charges us when we make a car 25% tariff. we charge them to a half%. other than that it's a fair de deal. [laughter] similar things with other countries like the european union. they are a big abuser but it's all working out and just remember what you are seeing and reading is not what is happening. i will tell you i have so many people that are in so in favor because we have to make our country truly great again. make america great again, remember? into enough years is called keep america great. the way we keep america great is to make at least reasonable, i'm

not saying at least reasonable at least a fair trade deals, not stupid trade deals like we've put up with for 25 years. we are changing it and changing it rapidly. [cheering and applause] over the last little more than a year and a half we have created 3.7 million jobs in selection and african-american, hispanic and asian american unemployment has reached the lowest levels ever recorded in our country's history, the lowest levels. [applause] i used to say and i said here what you had to lose and i was right. women's unemployment recently achieved a 65 year low, lowest

in a 65 years. [cheering and applause] you will like this one. veterans on appointment has fallen to the lowest level in almost 18 years and working to make it better. eighteen years is not a good when you hear history. [applause] eighteen years and i will guarantee within a month or two and 18 we will be a much higher number. they take great care of our pets. consumer business and manufacturing confidence has reached its all-time highs, confidence is all-time high. we got a record number of job killing regulations, no president, no matter how long they been in office even though were here for a short time has cut anywhere near the regulations.

these are unnecessary and waste regulations. it will take 20 years to get approval to be build a highway. were trying to bring it down to one year. have a down to about two trying to get it to one. if it doesn't work or of its environmentally unsound or there something wrong, we will not approve it but we will not take a process 20, 21 years and raise your hand that is not approved. let you know within a year or two but right now it's a two and are trying to bring it down to one. with past the biggest tax cuts in reforms in american history, biggest in history. [applause] unfortunately, we had tremendous opposition for lowering taxes from claire mccaskill. she voted against, unbelievable. [crowd boos] she wants to now and it so that

you pay more. figure this one out. is it good - figure this one out. in the first quarter of this year alone american companies repatriated a record of nearly $300 billion and this is in the first quarter and is coming back into our country with our companies and our employment and building plans and factories in headquarters in our country where it belongs. [cheering and applause] we think the number and this is all because of our tax reform and tax cuts we think the numbers will be close to $4 trillion coming back into our country. money that never would be seen by you or us or me. just like i promised we are confronting the unfair trade deals and we are doing it like nobody's ever done because the burgers have been cheated, our

companies have been cheated and they've stolen our wealth and brought it to other countries and as you know, i can paint in that issue and is close to my heart and i understand that issue better than anybody. i don't like it when they close a factory in your state. or a plant in your great state and they move it to another country and they make the product and fire all of you and they make the product and send it back into our country to be sold tax-free. i don't like that. i don't like it. we are stopping it. companies are moving back in to our country like never before. you saw chrysler announced and many are announced in japan just announced two big companies are opening up in michigan we have a lot of companies coming back into our country and not the net for 25 years you have not seen

it. [applause] we need workers because our unemployed rate at repointing present is so low and were taking people off the roles and training people but we need workers and that is why i want people coming and people don't say this and they certainly reported but i want people coming into our country but i want them coming in based on merit. i want the merit system so they can help us. [applause] the forgotten men and women of our country are forgotten no more. the democrats are trying to find out who are these people that came out to vote and where did they come from? remember that? where did they come from? now they know but they're not going to the democrats were gone so far left that no one can believe them. they want open borders and crime

is okay. we want strong borders and we want no crime. other than that we are very similar. other than that were similar. [applause] we also know that to be a strong nation we have to have these strong borders. we cannot send our military to confront threats abroad only to allow those same threats to cross our borders and to threaten us right here at home. [cheering and applause] we help other countries protect their borders and we don't protect our own borders. how about that? we are fighting every day to secure our borders and were doing a great job with were not given the tools. we have the worst loss in any country ever in history. we have catch and release. you catch them and now we say,

give me your name, oh, good. come back in a couple years and will take you to court. you are release. this is the policy of fools. catch and release. you catch even a criminal and you catch a bad person, you release the person as soon as you catch them. we have to end it. despite that, were doing a great job. and ice, oh, ice. the goodness for ice. we have some of the worst drug dealers and terrorists and criminals and ms 13 gang members and were either throwing them the hell in jail or throwing them out of our country and ice goes up there and they walk in like it's another day in the office. thank goodness for ice. [cheering and applause] the democrats want to abandon ice and and ice and i saw one of the people in this was - i think

ms 13 is strong, too. the only thing they understand is strength and they don't understand anything but streng strength. and i.c.e. is tough and smart and they track them down and stop tremendous amounts of crime. these are great people and they're not being treated properly. [applause] the fact is instead of supporting our i.c.e. officers many of these democrat politicians who are really disciples of a very low iq person, maxine waters - [crowd boos] and perhaps even worse, nancy pelosi. [crowd boos] they have launched vicious smears on the brave men and women who defend our communities

and i.c.e. officers work in dangerous conditions to protect our communities and more than a third of i.c.e. officers happen to be veterans themselves. about one third. [applause] but democratic politicians want to abolish i.c.e. they want to see open borders. can you imagine? every once in a while you hear something and usually you hear from something and you have to understand the other side but when you hear open borders and get rid of i.c.e. or some of the things they are proposing is like you can't even understand it. can you imagine open borders? millions of people would pour into the country, millions and millions of people and many people that you don't want in our country. you would have millions of

people pouring in to our country. the crime would be unbelievable and they want to get rid of the crime fighter on top of everything else. open the border and get rid of your crime fighters. you don't understand it. nobody understands it but i hope they keep it up because we'll have a lot of fun in four months and we will have a lot of fun in 2020 running against that. [cheering and applause] my administration will always stand probably with the heroes of i.c.e. and border patrol. they are heroes. i want them to know that we thank them. [cheering and applause] the veterans of foreign wars understand better than anyone the importance of honoring those who put service to their fellow citizens before they put service to themselves. that's at home and abroad.

[applause] here with us today is an extraordinary man who embodies the highest ideals of loyalty, patriotism and service. he is a world war ii veteran from the great state of pennsylvania, that's another one we won. we won you guys by 20 points, of course, i'm not going to bring that up. i'm not going to tell that to george brett, 20 points. many of you know him well and he is a lifetime member of the vfw sergeant alan jones. where is alan? sergeant? [applause] should we bring him up?

come on alan. [applause] >> he's only 94 and the secret service made him walk 100 yards out of his way but that is okay. [laughter] [applause] >> i just thank you.

this is one of the highlights of this 94 -year-old man. i just want to tell you a few things, may i, mr. president? >> i got time. [laughter] >> i had four brothers serve in world war ii. my oldest brother was lost off the coast of italy. many times i just wished he could come back to the land of free and the home of the brave again. [applause] i have given to the veterans of foreign wars 70 years of my li life. [cheering and applause]

thank you. my wife is with me today but she is not here she is not feeling well. my children are watching me today, hopefully, to know that their dad got to stand beside the president of the united states. [cheering and applause] with the president, mr.

president, i want to ask you something. [laughter] i have been told that i could never enter the oval office in washington dc. i'm going to be 95 years of age april 11 of next year. hopefully, you will allow me to bring my family into the oval office to meet you? >> yes. anytime you want. [applause] >> one last thing, mr. preside president. [laughter] i want to tell you, mr. president, this group knows not

to give the microphone to alan jones to speak at the national convention. i ask you to autograph this picture personally because this was taken to you with you when you were running for election as president of the united states. >> thank you. have a good one, ellen. [applause]

>> you got it. thank you, alan. >> god bless you, mr. president. i wish you well in the future thank you. [cheering and applause] >> i started to get concerned when he was finishing. [laughter] this is a president that will have you in the oval office so all of my people back there will work it out already, okay? [applause] we pay tribute to not only alan but to all of the heroes of the the greatest generation.

[applause] i would like to take this moment to recognize every world war ii veteran in the audience today, each of you is a national treasure. it is true. [applause] [applause] we will never forget what you did for us ever from bunker hill to bella would, from iwo jima americans have stormed into danger and stare down evil and

stood strong and tall for god, country and freedom. [cheering and applause] anytime we see an american in uniform from the army, navy, marines, air force or coast guard our hearts swell with pride. anywhere those uniforms appear our enemies tremble with fear because they know there is no greater force for peace and justice than the united states military. [cheering and applause] to every single member of the vfw because of your service encourage and your example we are restoring the dreams in the glory and the greatness of america and we will never given

we will never give up and we will never stop fighting for our country, our flag in our freed freedom. [applause] together we will keep on fighting and we will keep on winning as one people, one family and one nation under god. thank you, god bless you and god bless our veterans and god bless the united states of america. take you very much. [cheering and applause] neil: you been listening to the president of the united states speaking in kansas city, missouri when a world war ii veteran, 94 years old, got up to share the limelight with the president commended him and let him know he like to be invited to the oval office before his birthday. i think he said next april.

the president already arranging that to make good on the promise. he signed a photograph of himself with the veteran. i know he stands behind that so this was approved yesterday, sworn in and will address some of the issues that come up in the president also discussing the american economy and the fact that we are a nation that is respected globally right now and as he was speaking we got news concerning his daughter, ivanka trump, who is closing her namesake fashion brand that has become a lightning rod for critics that said she had not fairly separated herself from that in the financial interest but she's now closing it down to avoid any issue. it spent the better part of the year, on again off again concern for ivanka trump and her husband jared. it's now a moot point. she shut it down. former deputy assistant secretary of the army, dan, the

president with this group this is his face and it's a supportive group and they feel he's doing the right things on iran and north korea and i would imagine by extension, to russia the matter how that is been interpreted. what you think? >> this was vintage trump, neil. as a member of the bmw i love what he said but you saw something they normally don't see the trump event. president got upstaged by a 94 -year-old sergeant elgin alan jones but the president has a lot to take credit for. what happened with the north korean launch facility and the north koreans do not announces that it was an open force intelligence organization, 38 north, they began to dismantle that in secretary pompeo has said he's upbeat but one thing i want to say i'm so glad this president talked about robert wilkie, incoming secretary to the va.

i believe he is the best skills that we've ever had in an incoming secretary of the va. he's a chance to be the best secretary we've ever had and let me tell you why. this guy cannot be hoodwinked by the institutional bureaucrats and the veterans of this country need a secretary like that. it's about time you one he wants to deliver the goods on this promises and i'm wondering how this resonates not only with his commitment to veterans but he said to make good on the promises within a minimum of two weeks. he is serious about that and serious about providing raises for our military servicemen and women that they get them now. your thoughts. >> he did say and said these will be one of the largest in history for the military and i noticed he has a take away that i feel like he had to audiences here. i feel like he was talking to the voters of missouri to try to

replace senator mccaskill and i also feel and i know everybody noticed the undertones of how strong the military is. if conflict is forced upon us we will fight and we will win, no substitute for victory. i think he was also speaking to irene. i'm over here in london and all everybody is talking about with the conflict with united states in iran and what is going to be happening because they think that trump is hitting iran hard and so i noticed promilitary, large increase in pay for the military and the fact that we enforced to fight we will be victorious. i noticed that there were two tones or to audiences, i think, he was speaking to. neil: let's go to former bush 43 beatty chief of staff karl rowe.

presidents poll numbers have ticked up and it doesn't hurt that that is based on an improvement with a strong base and how does this all play out right now? where you see it with wants to go? >> what, yesterday "the wall street journal" and nbc poll showed his approval hit 45%, up one from one month ago. a lot of that was the improvement due to the fact that he's so strong among his face. you can't win an election among his face. a third of the electric are republicans is likely a third are more than democrats and it's those independents. he went from having a 7% deficit on the generic balance to having a 12% deficit on the generic balance. if the white house pays attention to the polls and we see this affected in them he's great with the base but he has got to be focused for the next

just under 100 days and what he can do to strengthen his standing in the standing of his party among independent swing voters, particularly in the congressional districts where to come down to a handful of streets and seats. neil: this might be an outside issue but ivanka trump is shutting down her fashion brand. she says my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work i'm doing here in washington but she has become a lightning rod for criticism with that association. will it move the needle much? >> i don't think it will move the needle much with public opinion but she had a job and that was being an advisor to the present. her husband is similarly occupied having worked in that place for seven years, let me tell you, you don't want to have distractions and her outside business enterprise has become a distraction. good for her for making the tough decision to do it. i wish it had happened earlier

and i suspect she was is she had done it earlier and it would capture from bad press. neil: i can't help mention this ongoing trade representative and that the markets generally ignore it or aren't seemingly concerned about it but on the president saying he'll take time and will not happen overnight and honestly here that crowd with him and he is offered an olive branch to farmers and $12 million in relief to ward off the effects of the tariffs that they are feeling. what you think of that back. >> it's hurting the industrial midwest. it's putting in farm country. the center of our country is a gigantic machine and it grows and raises protein and get sold abroad. when you have literally every soybean contract also brings going to the north dakota been canceled as the chinese move from fine uso points to find them from brazil is a problem in the middle part of the country. in races like the race for iowa governor in two congressional seats in that state with the

missouri center race and the dakota center race and lobby important. there's a reason why the democrats are coming to pick up seats in places like kansas or take the kansas governor because they sensed there is a chance that those free-trade part of the countries that have had so much depend on sales and that is it about our difficulty particularly an egg country. neil: carl, i had [inaudible] on earlier in his writing about but once again, we heard the mueller probe is a different is that the president has and he can understand the patrician as it goes on month after month after month but he said it's not a witch. he emphasized he thinks it's not at which. how is that plane out to back. >> well, look, a lot of the republicans think it is. brickley, the president would've advisor early on may remember he said it several times i want to know if anybody is meddling in our elections and i don't want

them to be meddling. in the last 36 hours he delivered a similar message by tweed. i wish had been consistently there because then we would've spent a lot of time talking about the mueller probe and i would've allowed him to more time to talk about the other things he's out there. we spent time on the mueller probe and at the end of the day i may be entirely wrong but there is no evidence whatsoever that there was collusion or cooperation conspiracy between the campaign and the russians. if there had been, we would've heard about it. that campaign linked like the proverbial set. robert mueller in his report is the greatest verification and exoneration of the president that he could possibly have. it's been wasted opportunity by

spending time talking about mueller the get the white house talking about other things and there were much more to the bennett. neil: he meets vladimir putin in the fall and how soon should he be with him? >> i thought it was interesting that there are reports that vladimir putin is not particularly excited about coming over. neil: it might not happen at all. >> and i hope it doesn't. there was little accomplished at that meeting other than a photo opportunity and between now and november if that happens before the november elections it will hurt the republicans and if it happened after he could but the democrats will be talking about it. again, that's not helpful in the president should be talking about other things. meet with putin and talk with him but only meet with him when you have constructive things that you can achieve them unless the in ministration has a better sense and described the american people what it wants to achieve and has a better opportunity to explain that in the aftermath is a mistake. neil: karl rowe, thank you. the president at 94 years young veteran that made the day in a moment. we will give you an update on

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greatest. some argued with that. he will take his case to eu leaders who will be meeting with him tomorrow in washington. put it mildly that could get very, very interesting. to trish regan right now with the dow up 162 1/2 points. hey, trish. trish: it is always interesting these days for sure. thank you, neil. we're up 160 right now, off the highs of the session. president trump touting our booming economy and his america first trade policies and he says if we want this momentum to continue we must put more republicans in congress. so a little bit of a political tone in the speech that he just ended moments ago. just a few minutes from now, the president will attend a fund-raising event for missouri attorney general josh hawley who is looking to unseat democratic senator claire mccaskill. we have a lot coming up. i'm trish regan. welcome, everyone, to "the intelligence report." ♪