go. >> nobody showed up at the show. >> that does it forward "bulls and bears." thank you for watching. we'll see you next time. [♪] blake: from one rally to the next, "the evening edit" live from orlando. president trump set to launch his reelection campaign. what the trump team is saying about the latest poll that shows they have work to do. the talks are back on. a phone calm between president trump and china's leader prompted a big rally on the corner of wall and broad as we hear xi and president trump are

about to meet. good evening, i'm blake berman in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. [♪] blake: we begin tonight in florida. president trump and his campaign are officially launching their reelection effort. it's one of the swing states the president flipped in 2016 and he'll now have to defend in '20. >> there have been a lot of people strolling in. people started waiting in line as early as 2:30 in the morning monday morning. there is some polarization across the board with one newspaper already, the orlando centennial that posted an

editorial, a 2020 endorsement saying "not donald trump."

it's the same newspaper that did endorse mitt romney back in 2012. the latest polls are showing a 44 approval rating here in florida we know the elections are in 17 months. we still have a while to go regarding that. but the enthusiasm is here. i spoke to a lot of people who are excited and focused on the economy as well as immigration. we are going to be waiting and wee i know within the next 24 hours he'll be heading over to miami for a major fundraiser. blake: kristina partsinevelos in orlando. a phone call involving the president today had the market spike. the president said he spoke with china's xi jinping and they will have an extended meeting next week in japan. they talked about demoting the fethe -- the fed chair. reporter: two factors rallying markets. one the u.s.-china trade deal after the president tweeted he's going to have a long extensive meeting with xi jinping.

we have the federal reserve central bank kick off its policy meeting. there is a 23% chance we'll be cutting interest rates. there is an 85% chance they will cut in july. bloomberg reports came out today saying the white house considered demoting jerome powell for the federal reserve. something the president hasn't exactly taken off the table. president trump: we'll see what he does. if you look at what they have going on with the euro, they have a different stance than our folks do. >> we have the dow rallying. tomorrow we'll be closely watching what the central bank does. if jerome powell and the rest of the federal reserve cut interest rate or remove the word patience they will be tilting that way in

july. >> the prospect of a trade deal fueling the markets as trade has been a key tenet of the president's first 28 months in office. he pulled the u.s. out of the trans-pacific partnership and is aiming for it biggest deal with china. the president has withdrawn the u.s. from the paris climate accord and the nuclear deal. the president has also been unable to fulfill two key parts of his initial platform. affordable care act, obamacare, that has he yet to be repealed and replaced. that just part of the record as the president is set to take to the stage tonight to officially begin the process of asking for a second term in office. joining us now is the communications director for trump 2020. he joins us live there. wit he's running for reelection and he can point to a clear record of accomplishment and he'll talk about promises made and promises kept. blake: what is the benefit of look backward instead of looking forward to what need to happen. >> i think it's fair for a president to point to things he accomplished on behalf of the american people. i think he can say he encountered obstruction in

congress who famously refused to give him a dime for the border wall. but he can say look, i have done all this much while they have been trying to oppose me and i need your help. i need to you send me back to the white house for for missouri years. those are things we'll be hearing about. we'll be talking about the booming economy and how he wants to continue it. if the democrats take office they will undo it. and he'll be saying listen. we need donald trump in the white house to keep this economy going. blake: today's polling does not look too kind. this comes from quinnipiac university showing the president loses to biden heads up with biden hitting the 50% mark. you know very well as i do that

if the president occupies the oval office in 2020, it will be in part because of florida. how much does that poll concern you? >> not even a little bit. the quinnipiac poll is in tore wasly terrible. in 2018 that very same poll had senator rick scott and governor desantis losing by 6 points on the day before election day. that's spol is terribly sourced and produced. all the numbers we have inside the campaign show the president is winning every state we tested, including until, we'll win florida. blake: this is the sixth state the president flipped in 2016. you are telling me your polling shows that he'll win all six of

those states again? >> absolutely it does. the president is leading in every state we tested inside the campaign. the president's record of accomplishment with the american people across the midwest and manufacturing jobs, they are a red hot economy. the record of accomplishment of the trump administration makes an incredible argument to add four more years on to his time as president. that's what the president will be asking for tonight and we believe that, what america will give him. blake: if all the internal polling looks rosie, what concerns you at this point? >> we don't take any state for granted. whoever the democrats put up as our opponent will be a tough challenge. we are not going to cruise between now and the election. it will be a lot of hard work. we firmly believe the record of

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colombia, chile and the bahamas. senator mitch mcconnell is pushing a vote on border fund. president trump is asking for $4.5 billion in emergency border funds. this as the united states is planning to with hold aid to god, honduras and el salvador. -- with hold aid to guatemala, honduras, and el salvador. >> it's 3.3 billion for you be accompanied minors, processing new arrivals and shelters. a leading senate republican said it should not be that complicated. >> we are not talking about

border security funding. we are talking about humanitarian relief, clothing and food. people in their most of vulnerable states. this should not be a partisan issue. democrats need to step up to support the president's initiative to try to get this aid package passed. reporter: senator chuck schumer hinted there are aspects of the president's proposal he doesn't like. he talked about he would like to add to the funding component. >> allow people from honduras, el salvador and guatemala to ask for asylum in their own countries. why are they making this expensive, thousand-mile trek. their daughters are threatened with rape, their sons are

threatened with murder. reporter: mcconnell intend to force the issue soon. blake: the president announcing i.c.e., will soon start removing millions potentially of undocumented immigrants from the country. joining me is the national border patrol vice president, hector garza. a lot to get into here. let's start with the $4.5 billion package. he says it's not for the wall, it's for the humanitarian crisis. do you think he'll get it? >> this money is very important and desperately needed on the border. people are pouring across the border and coming in numbers we have never seen before. numbers we haven't seen in 13 years. this is the money we need so we can hold people and transport

them to the hospital. blake: the issue for democrats is when you start talking about detention beds. >> there is something you different between permanent and temporary detention beds. people are pouring in across the border and we don't have anywhere to hold them. sometimes people sleep outdoors in the parking lot because there is no room. blake: chuck schumer said allowing these immigrants to apply for asylum in their country. would that be a solution? >> that's something we have been asking for. they can ask for asylum. but the reason these people are making the trek to the u.s. border is they don't have legitimate asylum claims. blake: you think their home countries would say no? >> they don't have legitimate

cases. they won't get released into the united states. blake: we got the tweet from the president in which he said i.c.e. will begin the process of removing the thousands of illegal all yenss who illicitly found their way into the united states. i haven't seen many of the details. what are the details of this? >> some of the details have not been announced to us. blake: is that a problem? >> these people are going to get deported are people abusing our immigration system. these are people claiming asylum and never showed up to their deportation hearing. they behaved in a way they knew was wrong. border patrol and i.c.e. will be very busy.

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set to deplane there from air force one. they will head to the amway center where the president will officially announce his run for reelection. reporter: lara trump has taken to the stage. she is a campaign advisor to president trump and the white of eric trump. she is talking about polls. there are many polls showing joe biden in the lead. the quinnipiac poll, you are seeing joe biden riding by 9 points. as well as bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. the point lara trump is bringing up now is sometimes these polls can be wrong. so we are 17 months away from

the 2020 election. people are motivated by two factors. one is the economy and the second is immigration. they are willing to tough it out in the rain. i spoke to one one and who said i wouldn't wait in line overnight for a rock concert but i will do it for the united states. you are getting mixed polarized views across the state about how they feel about president trump. but not inside the -- the amway center in orlando. blake: one thing you know about florida. it will be a close election. i wanted to bring in a former member of president trump's

team. interesting time top have you in here as the president is set to launch his second run. >> i think the president does want a trade deal with china. but it has to be the right deal. what the president signals when the tariffs escalated, he's willing to walk away if it's not a good deal. the best case scenario is the united states and china can pick up where they left off and get a deal that helps rebalance that relationship. blake: the president talking to ron desantis, one of his biggest allies in congress, now the governor of florida. the last time president trump

met with joining ping, you were the officerr officer p -- -- yoe sherpa who ushered the president around. what do you think can happen at the next meeting at the end of next week. >> the reality is you cannot get a deal if you are not talking. in the last couple weeks it was pretty quiet. the fact they are engaging again is a positive signal. it's significant the engagement is happening at the leader level. they have done a great job moving the substance forward. a lot of the issues that tripped up the negotiations were political issues where you will need to see president trump, president xi get together and work through them is critical. in terms of what we are going to see in japan, we need to be realistic and say they are not

going to get a fully fledged completed -- there is too much that needs to be done. i think what we hope to see is a replay of what happened in argentina. if you recall at that time, negotiations weren't going that well. negotiations weren't going that well. the sides were basically talking past each other. they got together in what was the most of productive period of negotiations with china. what you hope to see here is they get together, they start to talk about what some of these thorny issues are and hopefully the sides can get together and have a deal in a matter of weeks or months. i do think that again the presidential involvement is going to be critical. maybe you see a ceasefire potentially. blake: as someone who saturday across the table with the

chinese negotiators and talked to the president about all this stuff. do you think a deal can get done this year and if so, when? >> my prediction has been august to the end of the year. there needs to be time to get through some of those thorny issues. ultimately if the sides get back to the table and manage the politics of it. going back to what both sides had is what the president says needs to happen, do you think they can start from the 50 yard line. >> i think where we are forms the basis of that and if we can manage the difficult issues, such as what is china going to do with china in its law. if the meade leaders can find consensus on those issues, you can harvest' what is done.

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potentially have a deal struck between the u.s. and china. does that give you some sort of relief or are you still worried because the tariffs may be coming? >> i don't know if relief is the right word when we have this threat hanging over our heads. it is the hope that they will be able to come to a deal. blake: ways your case. >> we'll ask them to please not put tariffs on toys. that they would have a significant impact on the 700,000 u.s. jobts toy industry supports. we are estimating 70,000 jobs will be impacted by these tariffs and consumers could see a 15% price increase on toys this holiday season. blake: is that having their

benefits taken away? all of the above, some of the above. >> 70,000 jobs lost. jobs supported by small businesses here in the united states. blake: it seems like it's an obligatory part of the process. you know where the president stand on the issue. if there is no forward movement, the tariffs will go forward. do you feel like you can have your word heard and make a difference or do you feel like this is all a show that everyone is going through until you get the final word from the president? >> i understand why you think that it seems like just going through the paces and how can they go through the thousands of comments they are receiving objecting to these tariffs. but we are hoping to have our voices heard and the president doesn't go ahead on tariffs,

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blake: the acting defense secretary patrick shanahan has withdrawn as the acting chief. lucas is at the pentagon with the details. >> patrick shanahan resigned after six months on the job. president trump weighed in before leaving for orlando. president trump: he said it would be a rough time for him because of what happened. but i did not ask him to withdraw. this is something that came up over the last short period of time. i heard about it yesterday for the first time. blake: democrats on capitol hill

think shanahan's past was covered up. >> there was possibly a deliberate concealment. there ought to be an investigation in the department of defense. >> this shanahan fiasco shows what a mess this administration's policy is. reporter: "the washington post" revealed a separate incident in which his son assaulted his ex-wife when he was just 17 years old. according to the post it left his ex-wife in a spool of blood with her skull fractured. he said it's unfortunate that a painful family situation from the past is being dredged up and

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more troops to the region as a u.s. strike fighter squadron arrives. russia's deputy foreign minister says the trump administration is trying to start a war. >> we are very prepared for iraq. we are very prepared. >> president trump told "time" magazine he might take military action. those said it would be a question mark on whether he would do so to protect international oil supplies. >> there are now over a half dozen different instances of iranian attacks in the region. some not successfully thwarted. reporter: german chancellor angela merkel calls u.s. intelligence a high level of

evidence. president trump agrees with that assessment but downplays the tanker attacks saying so far it's been very minor. >> they are counting on iran to continue to comply. if it does not, there will be consequences. >> israeli prime minister netanyahu. >> the international community will have to cooperate in snapback sanctions. israel will not allow iran to get nuclear weaponry. reporter: the senior state department official says the international community must remain united and hold iran responsible for threats to expand its nuclear program. blake: rich edson, thanks.

joining us is the former u.s. ambassador to israel. thanks for joining us tonight. >> good to see you, blake. we are dealing with a little bit of a delay. it's great to have you on. the president said what iran has been engaged in, these attacks are quote very minor. do you see it that way? >> actually what i see is that this escalation that is perpetrated by iran, this aggression and more violence and provocation actually proves that the sanctions do work. i think that iran is trying to deter and snap out of the sanctions through aggression. but once they understand that nobody is going to back down,

quite contrary, they will have no choice but to get back into order and hopefully also get into negotiations about changing the parameters of the bad deal that was achieved in 2015. blake: i have got a couple different messages coming out of the administration. the secretary of state mike poll pave oh said president trump does not want to go to war. but in that same "time" magazine interview, the president said i would certainly go over nuclear weapons and i would keep other a question mark. the president's comments, do you think those are in the right direction? >> nobody wants war. if there is a war, it will be only the doing of iran and rouhani would be solely responsible and will bear all the consequences. i think what they are doing now,

not just attacking oil tankers in the gulf. but also getting very quickly to exceed the stack piles of enriched uranium will also put the europeans on the side of the united states and i think that would really bring iran into a situation where they cannot win. they are on the verge of total collapse to their economy which can lead into social and political unrest. they are trying to raise up the ante to walk on the brink, but why they realize that the international community is not going to be deterred by their provocation. quite the contrary, they will have to back down, and i believe they will. blake: it is 1:52 in the morning

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in an ideal position but he is also the -- >> you acknowledge he's not in an ideal position in the polls? >> no but also walter mondale was up 10 on reagan. incumbents win at 86 percent clip. -- i like his chances and his odds. >> how much would you advise the president to talk to himself, his policies, and what he's done in the past and the future versus talking about joe biden? >> he actually has a talk about his accompaniments and that beyond the economy. he said start talking about where he wants to go on immigration, healthcare, his future goals. but he also has to remind people about the military. talking about joe biden is important because in politics it is all about framing your opponent before they can get their legs out from underneath them. assuming joe biden is the

nominee. this is the most important time for trump to frame biden. >> he is trying to frame him a sleepy joe. >> it worked for barack obama in 2012. by the time mitt romney came the nominee he was known as a dog killer. >> we had to leave it there. we will see what happens i guess. ford o'connell, good to have you in. lou dobbs coming up next. lou: good evening everybody, the 2020 presidential campaign has been underway for 23 democrats for months now. and tonight those 23 presidential hopefuls begin to get an idea of what they are in for. because the republican incumbent, they are running against has devastated large, even -- numbers of opponents before. president trump question 17 republican opponents in the 2016 primary. and tonight he turns to these tens of thousands of supporters gathering in rainy orlando florida and millions of s