have a very significant global impact and i do want to talk about that a little bit later but joe watkins let me bring you in now would there what president trump has tweeted that trade was a good and easy to win what do you make of that. well that this is a course not unusual for president trump he uses the tweet in a way that no president before him has used. social media communication and he used it to move the dial use it to change the conversation to use it to put people on notice and then he's also able to to to to do it about face and whatever he pronounces so while on the one hand he's made this pronouncement that pleases his base and that certainly pleases the american manufacturers of steel and aluminum even though it hurts other industries in the united states at the same time he's capable of changing that pronouncement in the next week well this be good for america let's take him at his would he's saying that he will sign this order next week still al the many americans employ what some one hundred forty thousand people but it's businesses that use steel and a million i mean t

joe watkins, forminger white house aide to george h.w. bush, and rick tyler former cruz campaign spokesman, msnbc political analyst. a welcome to all three of you. i will reach out to you, rick, first. general sessions has shown himself capable of withstanding pressures from the president. what do you think his motivation is here? did he gain anything politically with this mccabe move? >> jeff sessions? >> yeah. >> i'm not sure. clearly this was directed by the president, at the president's behest which is very concerning. his tweet gives it away. he is trying to undermine the fbi. he talks about corruption at the highest levels. so he is saying that mccabe was corrupt. mccabe was apparently close to comey. comey was corrupt. it is designed to undermine the fbi, which is designed to undermine the mueller investigation. i think it is deeply concerning. >> i'm going to put this another way. does jeff sessions now get good standing with the president because of this? ? probably. but it's going to be very difficult -- remember, the fbi is und

joe watkins joining me here in new york. let's turn ahead the clocks to two weeks before that now infamous access heat tape and two months before donald trump was elected. by the time they were talking about a victory, allen lichtman made a bold prediction, donald trump will be our next president. we now know he was correct. he's predicted the presidential election correctly for more than 30 years. he joins us now. he is also predicting that president trump will be impeached him let me ask you first of all about a name in the news, the president tweeting about an article in the "new york times" suggesting the president interviewed or hiring emmett t flood. >> that's right. he works for a major law firm. he's been involved in a lot of white collar issues. he worked as a special counsel during the administration of george w. bush and of course is best known for counseling bill clinton during his impeachment. so this shows how seriously the trump administration is taking this investigation and how worried his lawyers are about

political strategist and for me an aide to president george bush she joins us from philadelphia joe watkins welcome to news and clearly we don't need to know who did what to whom with a copy of fortune magazine not interested what is pertinent is why an american lawyer spontaneously gave a former porn star one hundred thirty thousand us two weeks before the election. well that doesn't course sound right to most people watching and i think mr cohen is probably going to have some challenges going here is certainly he has one big challenge already which is that the group common cause is file the complaint with the federal election commission and also with the justice department about that one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment saying that it amounts basically to an income and campaign contribution and of course that's in excess of the the allowable amounts and so i think that that's going to be a charge it will likely stick and. they'll cause the mr cohen some some trouble what are the questions that need to be oncet as well vi's of the threats that allegedly took place inside the will in

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well joining me now in the studio is joe watkins he's a republican political strategist and former white house aide to president george bush sr so it's becoming difficult to keep up the list is getting longer isn't it i mean it seems to right now be a question of when and not if fired why why is president trump taking his time on making this announcement well there's no rush of course is the president really has a keen understanding of media cycles and news cycles unlike other presidents he's very focused on this and so he's for the most part driving most of the breaking news and is his timing has been a very deliberate i think so far in terms of the firings of have taken place in the past and in the case of secretary tillerson i think that he wanted to embarrass him when he fired him so that's why you fired him by tweet as opposed to doing the usual of something into his office and and telling him that he wanted his resignation with mcmaster there's not so much of a rush but everybody knows everyone i was though i mean you're saying he fired you know with to listen it was that was an el

ten in all including gareth anscombe at fly half, the ospreys centre 0wen watkin will make his firste way for north. his selection comes just days after he was missing for his club, northampton. the management there suggested he didn't want to play for them. warren gatland says george north, who is returning to wales in the summer, has his support if he wa nted the summer, has his support if he wanted to leave bath and an early. with said to george that if he wants to come home quicker than next season then we will look after him. we are here for him. he knows that. he is comfortable in the home environment, we will support him and the union will support him 100% for whatever happened to him, i think is just focused on getting on the field and starting on saturday. among the forwards and all new front row with elliott dean the hooker making a first start alongside mickey smith and thomas francis. bradley davies joins college hill in the second row, taulupe faletau back at number eight, also captain whilejustin tipuric is at blindside flanker. and it will be a day that scarlets flanke

and nothing from president trump yet on twitter or otherwise, let's bring in zir lena maxwell, joe watkinsnd rick tyler. so i want to get all of you quickly. why the twitter silence from the president? >> i think he's scared of stormy daniels. i think michael ofavenatti, is filing solid documents in court. his motion was denied, but he's going to refile. i think a lot of facts are on her side. the bottom line is that the president seems to be in a position where he's finally met his match. he's met someone in stormy daniels who knows how to manipulate the media in the same way he's done so successfully over the years. soy think only time will tell if he's going to speak but i highly doubt it i don't think he's going to say anything about stormy daniels because he's afraid. >> look, rick, the president doesn't typically shy away from punching back his opponents, is it fear that keeps him from doing so. >> zirlena is right, it's a reality show. you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. it has legal implications other than public perception. so he's going to ride out the storm. >> joe, i

joe watkins, political analyst rick tyler. you guys have all of that straight? there's so much going on this week. >> and indicted on new charges. >> that's right. i should have had that as well. i'm going to ask you all to think about what the most important thing is, the most significant thing. i will start with you, atima. what do you think it was? >> i think it is a combination of sort of all the questions around the ethics in this white house, whether it be hope hicks's resignation after she knits she tells the president white lies. a big ethics cloud that is getting bigger and darker around the white house. that has been the theme, some of the standouts. >> ethics for atima. joe, what about you? >> well, i'm going to agree with atima. i think the cloud around jared kushner is about to get a lot worse given what's come out this past week. whether it is gun control or the president's surprise announcement of raising tariffs on these aluminum and steel imports, that's all bad news. that's bad policy. not well thought. but it even took republicans by surprise.

joe watkins, republican strategist and aide to george h.w. bush. and rick tyler, msnbc political analyst. very good morning to all three of you. >> bill maher does have a point. i was appalled when the president started tweeting about little rock et man. but at the end of the day we have a shot to have negotiations with north korea. now, i caution shouldn't just take place without strong agreement that north korea will stop its testing. i would think the president might want to hearken back to what bill clinton did. he september over madeline albright to talk to kim jong eupl, kim jong-un's father, and decided not to go have conversations after that visit. who knows? maybe this is a step in the right direction. but it is still much too early to tell. >> for sure. rick, are people justifiably skeptical because it is trump who is doing this. you may have heard ted deutch of florida say it is better than ratcheting up the fire and fury on twitter. >> i do think bill has a point. that is it is so crazy it just might work. he could have announced he was

sergeant natasha watkins, you were here on duty during and before the beast from the east, when did youit was coming? so, the met office that we have based here gave us a warning on tuesday, the beast from the east was coming on the thursday. so we spent some time checking our manpower, checking the operational aircraft, which priority they would take, making sure our equipment was ready. kind of all the things that you plan for without it actually happening. it must have been an amazing few days. it was, yeah. you're laughing about it, this was an experience. it was, incredible. why was it so valuable to your teams, going through that and dealing with all of that cold and snow? so, they carry out training prior to the start of every season and it's a dry run. you don't really get to use it in anger until something like the beast from the east comes in. do you actually like snow yourself? everybody says i'm a hot weather person, but i really like it. i like it when i'm operational rather than being out in it myself. this is one of the ploughs that was operational. sarah is up in the cab

edward mason, tony dilario, kendra watkins and anemia rahimi. come on up. we'll open up public comment. >> edward mason, thank you. the permit is perfectly required, but they need to proceed cautiously. these circumstances have staged around the corner idling. they operate in bus zones, block bike lanes, they operate in taxi zones and enforcement should not have to rely on neighborhood vigilance and percent fear especially. it's a replication of the commuter bus program. four years later, that program is experiencing violations that should not be occurring and the responsibility for monitoring it should not be the responsibility of the neighborhoods. i realize it's touted as being a carpool and van pool. i think what you are doing is taking away ridership from muni and in the domaine. so proceed cautiously with this and take into consideration all the violations that have been absorbed in the neighborhood and the city. whether this will be a model for the future remains to be seen. until we come up with a robust system for muni, this is a program fraught wi

yeah well one of the movies is all about a disabled woman who's being sexually harassed at watkins she ends up sleeping with a green skin fallen or old indeterminate jad death my money's on my. boys with a broad new show check it out well for one scene to another has been drawn right so the white house in washington which temporarily wanted to look down on for gun shot was about to this bright. focus of ending the war and that's not intermingle fisherman a tearing concern which is the bombing of hospitals a body of civilians the shelling of the massacres by rebel groups that's not enough for the bodies either here as i was listening to some mix of that with the political objectives which some people may still have. but whole existence to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. we somehow want to be preached. to the right to be for us this is what before three of the four people that i'm interested always in the warnings are out. there soon. i guess this is art international a man's died after shooting himself outside t

always a pleasure talking with you great subject matter to men crazy crazy stuff out there in the watkins author educator always a pleasure thank you. for anyone with a love of space advanced technology and throwing g.i. joe parachute figures into the sky when they were a kid i've got great news for you this week mouse announced it will once again be testing its supersonic parachute for its next mars rover mission on thursday march twenty eighth and it's quite the spectacle of human engineering and science fiction awesomeness the advanced supersonic parachute inflation research experiment also known as a spider will be ferried some fifty one kilometers and earth's atmosphere of the thin air is similar to the conditions on mars by the eighteen metre tall terrier black brant nine rocket a spiral will then be traveling faster than sound as a parachute unfurled and we get one more step closer to nasa scheduled twenty twenty new rover and mission to mars that's incredible when i first saw that the last time a test that i think was back in the fall and you saw that's where the so this push come

joe watkins is a republican political strategist and a former aide to president george h.w. bush and he says the allegations will have little impact on donald trump's supporters. interestingly it should but it doesn't even the evangelicals in the united states have given him a pass on these allegations from other accusers and as far as his base is concerned these are just allegations meant to the real him from his primary agenda so with his base i don't think he suffers at all i think he does just fine with his base of course it he takes a moral hit from the standpoint of how he looks in america and how he looks of the international community but from the standpoint of hurting his base hurting him with his base or impacting the election in two thousand and twenty i don't think this impacts the election in twenty twenty in any kind of a big way is very different than any other political candidate we've had the past because we know that in the past any one incident like this would derail the candidacy of a person gary hart ran for president in one nine hundred eighty was runni

adviser and chief of staff for communications directors and a number of obvious senior advices well joe watkins is a republican political strategist and former aide to president george bush sr he says many of trump's decisions are largely driven by his desire to manipulate and dominate headlines the president really has a keen understanding of media cycles and news cycles unlike other presidents he's very focused on this and so he's for the most part driving most of the breaking news and is his timing has been a very deliberate i think so far in terms of the the firings of have taken place in the past been very skillful in making sure that that when there is breaking news about perhaps the russian investigation that there's usually another breaking news story about something else whether it's the decision to talk to kim in north korea which nobody expected him to make or the decision to fire rex tillerson or the decision by his chief economic adviser last week to resign after the president talked about without telling anybody imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports he's driving a new cyc

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yanni nuchay watkins, 13. chadi adinajar, 17. atem zabarov, 18. dustin kourey, 17. layla goodwin, 4 years old. and that is not the entire list of people under 20 who were shot and killed in maryland. in the state of maryland, in 2017, 481 souls were lost to homicide, and in 2016, 436 marylanders were lost to homicide, all cases by gun violence. mr. president, the time to act has long passed. but for goodness sakes, let's join with the students and americans crying out throughout this country to say enough is enough and enact commonsense gun safety legislation. ms. klobuchar: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, these are the names of 17 children who were killed with guns in my state. i read their first names only because it makes us remember they could be anyone's children. lisa marie, age 15. william robert, age 15. anthony, age 16. jacob alexander, age 14. joseph anthony, age 17. terrell, age 3. joshua albert, age 15. alyssa, age 17. jesse, age 18. cedric, age 18. darion geoff, age 15. justin daniel, age 1

. >> reporter: but amanda watkins prides herself on her daughters' peect school attendance. >> i can'ts a day! it's my perfect attendance, not even hers! >> reporter: in cleveland public schools though, that kind ofec attendance rd is not typical. a couple of years ago, school system leaders found more than half of their 40,000 students were chronically absent. the problem starts as earlas kindergarten.ar >> oh,ul now! >> reporter: principal brittany anderson at patrick henry school greets every child as they comed in--heir parents. >> we appreciate you for keeping them safe. y reporter: a lot of parents expressed that tdidn't feel welcomed in the school in prior years. so once a week, she sets out coffee and pastries. >> at first, it was a way to get them in. but th, coffee clubs turned into a way for the parents to talk to teachers that way, we can have these conversations with our parents without it feeling formal. ( laughter >> reporter: diamond gadomski has three kids in the school. she preciates the warm welcome. >> when you come in, they smiling and friendly faces with stuff to

joe watkins, former white house aids to president george h.w.c mill analyst rick tyler. i'm changing gears. i'm sitting now with rick here in d.c. instead of in new york. i'm just saying. i don't know about you, joy, you have to get up from philadelphia. >> i want to start with you, rick, and the assumption that john dowd is going to push more aggressive action, rather john bolton will push more aggressive actions towards opponents. do you think that is the case? >> that's kind of been his case. i like john builton and actually the president has a right to pick whoever he wants in this position. but i'm not sure it's the right position for him. the national security adviser should be presenting all different types of points of view. he should be making sure the president sees every situation from every angle. john bolton would be one of those people -- john bolton's history, he has a very distinct point of view. he has strong opinions about foreign policy, how the military should be used and our posture in the world. and you can agree with those

joe watkins is a republican political strategist and former aide to president george h.w. bush he says the allegations were little influence on donald trump's supporters. interestingly it should but it doesn't even the evangelicals in the united states have given him a pass on these allegations from other accusers and as far as his base is concerned these are just allegations meant to the real him from his primary agenda so with his base i don't think he suffers at all i think he does just fine with his base of course that he takes a moral hit from the standpoint of how he looks in america and how he looks at the international community but from the standpoint of hurting his base hurting him with his base or impacting the election in two thousand and twenty i don't think this impacts the election in twenty twenty in any kind of a big way is very different than any other political candidate that we've had the past because we know that in the past any one incident like this would derail the candidacy of a person gary hart ran for president and one hundred eighty was running

. >> we'll get to that joe watkins, former george h.w.h white house adviser he's balanced, joe is. >> fair and balanced >> i'm very balanced i'm a balanced guy >> with us for the rest of the show, larry bossidy, former honeywell chairman and cnbc contributor. after reading your piece, kate, it made me think that in a perfect world you have -- you go to serve in the white house and it's not about you, you present your side and you stand up as strongly as you can for your viewpoints but if you don't prevail, you're glad you were there to present your side of things and you probably think you'd like to be there the next time your side needs to be presented. i don't know if you kick your ball and go home if you don't get your way maybe that's not what happened. >> it seems to me gary cohn is trying to be all things. he's leaving on a gracious note. there were, you know, affirmative comments all around from him, from general kelly, from the president about the term he served. >> yeah. >> he comes back in the cabinet. >> exactly we even heard s

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