. >> i want to stipulate i know politics is about compartmentization and you have done deals with allinds of crazy figures you didn't like and that's part of the territory. i get that. do you understand why people look at that image and say we had a productive meeting and think you were on mars? >> here's the point here. first anything we do that might end up being constructively, it's not going to stop us from investigating the president and looking into the president and trying to make him come clean on all the facts. second, here is my credo. stick to your values. i told the president this can't be a tiny bill. it has to be huge. it has to be clean. clean energy. we are not going to do the typical bill wees had in the past. it has to deal with wind and solar and power and electric vehicles and charging facilities and battery storage. third, has to protect labor. we are not doing a bill that under mines labor. we need little class wages and fourth, we have to protect minorities and women and veterans to get a fair share. if you don't do those things, we will not do a bill. we will s

. >> because chris i heard you say like you said earlier, it is difficult to compartmentalize and keepder wraps and difficult to work through those things. i think bill clinton was extraordinary in his ability to compartmentalize during this incredibly difficult time but realistically this is a much more partisan congress than back then and i think -- >> you think so? >> listen, i heard some of the clinton administration staffers even say -- admit so today. >> let me ask you this, amy, let's get amy in here. the sign, that sign has nothing to do with infrastructure. what was that sign doing there on the podium, amy? >> well, i'm not sure, i'm not part of the administration, chris. but i would imagine that he had planned on doing a press conference at some point and they had that sign made up. and so he was obviously angry today and he has every right to be. i'm glad he's fighting back. at some point it is human nature when you're attacked, repeatedly and accused of crimes that did not commit, you eventually fight back. he allowed the mueller investigation to go on and play out, how man

is good at doing anything it's good at compartmentalizing problems and putting officials in charge of it and leaving the politicians to get on with other things and that's exactly what happened during the 2 year article 50 process that was given over to michel bonnie and his team they negotiated a deal and the rest of the e.u. got on with this business i think that is now starting to change most obviously with the british participation in the european elections the numbers in what is going to be a very finely balanced european parliament. the presence of british there could change the balance they could for example complicate the question of how the parliament elects the new presidents of the european commission so i think we are starting finally to see the nightmare of brics it starts to infect the everyday business of the european union and i think when the dust settles in britain when we have a new prime minister mr singh to think about whether there's going to be yet another extension to breaks it that is going to be uppermost in the minds of e.u. leaders good talking to thank you

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you know, i think we need to learn at the federal government to compartmentalize.disagreements, times that tempers flare and words that are said that make people upset. we can't let that get in the way of working for the american people to try and tackle some of the tough problems that we're facing as a country. we've got to come together, we've got to work with people. look, nobody asks a member of congress or expects that you have to like the people that you work with. you may or may not like people you work with. we've still got to get stuff done. charles: i love everybody i work with here at fox, but for most people watching, you're right. there was a collective amen talking about the idea of congress doing its job, but that being said then, you know, when nancy pelosi comes out of one meeting with members of her party and she starts to say that president trump has really, is really orchestrating some sort of cover-up just moments before a critical meeting on infrastructure which, for a lot of people, appears to be the lowest hanging fruit with respect to bipar

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the president is about compartmentalizing, taking bad things that are bothing you and still able to conduct the business of the country, which we're seeing right now despite the president's insistence he would love to work with democrats, if they, when they won the majority, he's not been able to compartmentalize things that upset him, and the business of the country, which is going to really put in for a really long two-year sense until the 2020 election. by the way, predicting now, seems like it's all but over legislative-wise. we're only a quarter into this congress and the president cannot separate these two things. democrats are marching head-strong into a host of investigations and the president saying, stop them. only ramping up these investigations. my question for pelosi in a round-about way i'll answer you, do you anticipate a budget deal? i mean, huge, steep budget cuts going into effect beginning of next year. based on the president's behavior, do you believe you'll be able to sit down and work with him to prevent billions of dollars of spending reductions aimed at the pentagon

and all of them are doing it in a compartmentalized way. and, that is exacerbating this fragmentation. that is where the -- of the g7+ was informed. and we -- i don't know how many of you might have heard about it. it was the first international agreement or framework which recognized the nexus among all of these factors, like you mentioned in the beginning, that we should not, we should stay away from the compartmentalized way of tackling these issues. all these problems, like a security, justice, politics and also, economic foundation this country, hmmm made this country become a breeding ground for terrorism and extremism and frigidity. the chairman -- when we endorse a new deal and had huge, it was endorsed by more than 40 countries. the civil society and the g7+. it was recommend justin the circle of technocrats. it did not take the political roots. it didn't take the political fine from the donor countries. >> not interrupt, but i think that is a key difference with at least the goal of this report. if you notice, who the cochairs are

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. >> you mentioned the idea of compartmentization, one thing trump is above average at is compartmentalizationu mentioned it earlier. from what you have seen in the news, how much is donald trump, the president, a continuation of the donald trump you worked with all of those years ago? >> he's still very much that. he has to compartmentalize. every day is a new disaster. every tweet is a misspelling or embarrassing, cringeworthy moment so he has to put things in boxes and compartments and move on. the larger similarity is he had no -- no talent for running his business empire. he was completely in ept at it and really had no interest in it. and it's the same thing with the country now. he focuses on so many things fighting with joe biden or making up names for people. little, small things, petty things he can get away with but the country as a whole running that, it can run itself into the ground if other people didn't step in and save him. >> charles, if you were doing all of those things at the time, who was running his businesses? >> sometimes when you do that, when you create these vacuums

the uncertainty is a concern, compartmental's for the product. that would be a positive. most of the gains, i would expect even from a successful negotiation, would come in overtime. not the kind of thing where you would immediately feel the effects right away. it would be important over a longer time. that would be the expectation. i don't know, i have not seen the details of what has been negotiated. getting back to inflation, can you talk more about the transitory factors holding down inflation? and howificant they are you think these factors will pass? >> let me just say, i do not mean to diminish concerns. there is good reason to think that these readings are particularly influenced. when asset prices went back up, probably, there would be a swing around there. although once again mentioned are things like apparel and prices which are very low. they do not know until they see, but there is reason to think those will be transient. another way to look at it was that there are models that look at inflation. measures like i mentioned. big movements on the upside and down

whether he can ever compartmentalize thattion.me, hasbeen, a missing piece of the political strategy of the housecr demots here. put legislation out everyday, make them vote on this. most members of congress republican or democrat will vote to criminalize foreign interference. >> he spent most ofme his ti talking about that. >> it's been the most frustrating part of any american citizen that cares what happene t we're glad know trump didn't actively participate in the conspiracy. that doesn't mean what he russians did was right. >> chuck todd. glad to see you. >> chuck has more reporting ahead on "nbc nightly news" after news4 at 6. >>> coming up, the nation's best spellers descending on national harbour today. the next round ofng the spelli bee. >>> it was a grave diagnosis >>> it could be a significant new tool in the fight against cancer. researchers at the joh hopkins kimmel cancer center have developed a new blood test that can detect seven different types of cancer. the test a usesificial intelligence to idtify dna fragments

people said he compartmentalized. he was laser focussed on demonstrating to the american people that he was still -- that he was still focusesed on making their lives better, passing legislation and trying to improve health care and child care and a whole range of issues, despite the investigation. and i think that's what kept the general opposition to impeachment. once donald trump tells the american people i am not focussed on making investments in infrastructure or improving anything. i'm just focussed on me. i'm not going to pass any bills with the democrats and if you're not passing bills with the democrats, you're not passing bills. i think he'll lose support and support for impeachment may go up. >> the first question is what is your reaction to nancy pelosi's comments? >> i think the idea that eekter nancy pelohsy or chuck schumer were ever serious about struking a deal on infrastructure is a joke. and for either one of them to go in public and say we were going to work the president and he doesn't want to wor

if you compartmentalize your needs, wants and wishes. not a lot of wiggle room. someday maybe, if you start with a plan. get your spending in check. you can start making the sacrifices today in order to look for the future. >> are wealthy people affected by this as much as those not so wealthy? the reason i ask, a new survey says san francisco residents have the highest incomes in the world. >> income is one thing and spending is another. having your spending habits in check. it can go a long way to have you keep on track. and by the way, you have to go back and update your plan and make sure you're making progress. that's empowering. whether you're having a high impact or not. the key is to have a plan and stay on track. >> i feel like this is a bit of a softball. can you do it yourself or do you need a financial planner? >> i'll catch that softball. >> it doesn't have to be elaborate. it is as simple as budgeting. getting the handle, looking at the statements. see what you're spending in each of the categories. start to get a framework around them and set some

when we saw the rest of the cfo, who is now being detained in -- try china really come hard to compartmentalize two issues. they thought they could get a deal on trade and said they are prepared to stay quiet about the flyway -- about the issue. blow tothis more severe operational capacity. i think we will have to see some kind of response from china. what will it look like? if we go back further in time whenee how china responded korea was considering installing a data review is missiles, we to china cutting off trips korea, we saw them doing additional inspections of korean shops and facilities on the chinese mainland. we saw imports of korean goods facing additional checks at the border. we saw specific challenges for some of the big korean companies. there is a playbook which china has used in the past. my expectation is they will go back to the playbook figuring out this challenge. david: thank you, tom. reporting from washington. there were a couple of big elections. better than thought. >> he is moving very quickly to get back to business. instead, a majority in the lower half, which he

yeah, and it is unfortunate that the president can't meet in the situation room, top-secret compartmentalizeds share my concerns about how is it that we are seeing more leaks from the white house and other departments and agencies, but more leaks against this president than any we have seen in history? no president in history has done more and better than this president in the oval office. and it's outrageous. on one level, i simply don't understand why it is not technologically possible to stop that sort of nonsense. >> well i think it is possible to get after it. it is also hard to find. but i think if you really went after it quite a bit, people would understand that you are serious. but it is fundamentally a lack of loyalty. i mean, you take an oath. you are serving the country. if you disagree with the president -- lou: then get the hell out. >> first of all, tell him, and this president i know for a fact and you do as well, he accepts that disagreement, and then he will challenge it and so called sharpen his pencil a little bit. lou: yeah. >> so we're not going to war over iran, lou. th

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but we have come to realize that voters compartmentalize a lot. there was this comment around that time that said don't take him literally. just take him figuratively. that's shocking when you are talking about the president of the united states, right? and, so, voters have found a way to get along with him and to sort of try to believe him. but i don't know that works necessarily for the voter that voted for obama twice and him once. >> when i look at this, i think there is a case to be he is the most successful con artist of all time. name someone. this is someone who built this entire reputation for himself as an independent businessman that was a bailout of daddy's money. then turned this myth of being a reality star television into the most powerful person in the world. >> it's true. and all he did -- as you said, chris, banks avoided him. the only bank that would deal with him was the wealth desk at deutsche bank. all he was doing was selling his name. >> but here is my question. you were on capitol hill across -- you were there when he was

climate change,, specialist in rebel rallies, i'm a specialist on kashmir, you know, this kind of compartmentalizingactually thating the real problem we have. now you have to understand the connection between cast and climate change and capitalism and nationalism and internationalism. and i think this is where literature and a way of grappling with history as a kind of supple there to is important. quoteelling truths as you james baldwin saying it is easier to often tell this truth than fiction rather than nonfiction. which is your preferred way of writing, as we move into your next book coming out in june, 1000 pages of your nonfiction essays? >> well, as i said in my lecture -- apart fromple which is my preferred way, other people have their preferred forms of my writing. to me, they are both hard of my body. they are both part of the way i think. theuld only say that nonfiction that i have written has always been an urgent intervention. together, somehow when i look at it together, the urgency but together over 20 years creates a special kind of narrative, a special kind of history. -- the nonfic

states about saddam and on the floor they're debating whether to impeach him that ability to compartmentalize -- if pelosi could give the president anything, they'll have the beginning of a conversation. trump is a natural negotiator. schumer could do it. schumer has indicated several times now he would like to do it, whether it's on infrastructure or it's on some other things. but pelosi is in a hardline san francisco liberal driven further to the left by her younger new members, and i think that she's so rigid. i can't -- bill and i -- i shouldn't say bill. president clinton and i used to sit down in the evening, have a drink, talk. both graduate students. have a policy b.s. kind of session. and i can't imagine how president trump and nancy pelosi could have that kind of conversation. >> martha: you make such an interesting point. you're saying bill clinton knew he was -- knew he did something wrong. so in his mind, i'm going to push this off to the side. let them go through their process. guilty on however many counts. if i can distract people by getting stuff done. you got a budget throug

if you remember bill clinton was famous for trying to compartmentalize.ld care, patient's bill of rights. his goal was to communicate to people. despite these investigation of me, i am still your president. i am still focused on your problems and if you remember, that kept his approval rating up during all of the scandal. >> before i let you go, what do you think is the most important thing for speaker pelosi and house democrats to legislate before this next election? . >> i think the next important thing is donald trump is communicating to the american people he doesn't care about the public issues. i think he is going to actually weaken his hand on impeachment issue. there is nothing else he is going to get to or focused on is his own self. >> what should they pass? >> i think the most important thing for her is to continue the oversight. donald trump is demonstrating that it is getting to him. >> that he's worried about his poll numbers. >> that he's worried about public approval collapsing. she has the upper hand and leverage. i have to say in my inte

public opinion polls went up because he showed the country he was dealing with the job and could compartmentalizeresident nixon got a budget act through, a federal highway act through. he did lose his focus at one point, an extraordinary moment when he was giving his state of the union in 1974 in the midst of it all happening, and he meant to say we have to replace the discredited welfare system. instead he said we have to replace the discredited president. so it was clearly on his mind. needless to say, they thought it was better to do their job and let other people talk about it. president trump is the master of it all. he's the one that wants to lead the band. it would be hard for him to cede this to someone else. >> that's what you call a freudian slip from president nixon. you knew president johnson well, he's included in your book on leadership. he was the master of working with congress. he resuscitated jfk's legislative agenda and passed mammoth legislation working with congress, working with congress and also working with republicans. you have a quote i want to throw up on screen for fol

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laughter ] >> so they are supportive, but they will watch the piecesas but my mom ho kind of compartmentalize job, to keep your job." [ laughter ] you know "i don't want you lose your b so we just won't talk about it." >> seth: does humor run in your do you have some relat with comedy tropes back in kentucky >> yeah. my aunt has like a really dirty sense of hor she's almost 80 years old. and just to give you an idea, she -- for my wedding when i got married, she gave me a slow cooker, like a crock potd but she changee outside of the box to read crotch pot [ laughter ] and she filled it with crotchless panties and lubes and likedusting powders. i don't know what they're for. >> seth: and you had not registered for that. [ light laughter ] >> i had not registered for that g >> seth: oka it. >> i had not registered for that [ laughter ] and she filled it with these like dirty recipes sofoike, she wrote a recipe roasted chicken, it was like gently massage the oil on the skin of the chicken and spread apart the thighs and i'm like, "oh, my god, she's almost 80 years old. [ laughter ]s she' hero. >

you say now as we navigate this somehow dangerous season for retailers do you like >> i say we compartmentalized in the haves and have nots. haves can grow their sales and end of margins profitably. and walmart is one we just recently came -- >> you like the home centers, home depot and lowe's? >> home centers generally, yes. >> even with lowe's move today >> i think the outlook for housing is still decent. there is optimism you will sigh an improvement on existing home sales as the year goes by. there was gross margin issues that i think the market and us are still trying to sort through. so that's one space. the other is walmart. >> yeah. >> the biggest retailer that most people have heard of who is telling the market, hey, look, we can lose money in e-commerce but we can grow profitably that's a pretty tricky way for other retailers to navigate, the person with the largest scale and purchasing power will lose money in the most important business and still grow profitability. >> like you said amazon, target and walmart all winning at the same time, that's an interesting environment and that's

>> well, as i say in the piece, the only thing i think he's above average at is compartmentalizing. to put all that bad stuff. >> aisle the failure. >> in a box that he didn't think about during the day. i think it only really bothered him when it became public. at this time things were really going to hell in his business, but the public didn't know about it yet so he wasn't that concerned. >> then he wants to put this book out to -- i'm curious what word you'd use. let's talk about a yacht. he bought a yacht. he calls it the trump princess in 1987. >> right. >> actually a relative from jamal khashoggi. he had to turn it over to lenders because he was so far in the hole that he lost the boat. in the book he said after a couple of years i started to think about an even bigger boat and i had plans drawn for a second one. this is a classic example of how i keep trying to top myself. as much as i've enjoyed it until now, i don't need it anymore. i don't want it anymore. in that year when it was taken from him -- >> right. >> -- he had $42.2 million in business losses. this was not spin

he can't compartmentalize. so it was eventually going to come to this place. he told them he couldn't separate these things. >> we were trying to figure out this week. maybe nobody knows. let me go to tim o'brien, you might know this. is trump wanting to play this game, tease, edging, get them to the end of impeaching them and somehow make fools on a wild goose chase. they won't convict him and throw him out of office. does he want to tease impeachment? want the wrap in the hearings to stop? what's his game? >> chris, we talked about this before. i think it's a mistake to look for a method in the madness. trump is not a strategic thinker. i don't think he has a long game plan. he doesn't know how to play impeachment as an election strategy. trump is realizing he hasn't guilt e built a coalition to get him close to a meaningful and expensive infrastructure bill throu through. so he doesn't have cards or bringing money to the table when talking to pelosi and schumer about an infrastructure bill. i think what always happens when trump is in the corner focused on

th and eventually, i compartmentalized and strategized.in a lot of ways, the c rategy is to pull people in with that aestheauty but then they're seeing something that's got a lot more depth than justhe surface. >> reporter: his is constantly inaying with t clock... speeding it up, slit down... lingering on a frame. >> if you change chronologies away from real time, our experience of time as humans, it can give you the overview effect. which is the same kind of thing at you get if you were to look at space photos from the international space station. it sort of expands your mind into this wider view, and we really need that because i don't think in the evolution of our species, anything has ever developed to give us a global instinct. >> reporter: zaria forman has her own tale of overview. >> so, one day i opened this email that was in my inbox that read "dear zaria, we would love for you to come fly with us over antarctica, love nasa." and i was like "what?" >> reporter: it was the crew of nasa's "icebridge," which flies low altitude sensi

. >> if they start investigating you, can you compartmentalize that and still continue to work with them the benefit of the rest othe country -- >> no. >> or are all bets off? >> no. if they do that, then it's just -- all is is a war-like posture. >> seth: i can't exactly imagine trump in a war-like posture. he spends mostf his time in a duck-like posture. [ laughter ] if he were at "the battle of e nterfell", he wouldn't h been on the front lines or fighting a dragon. he would have been sitting under a tree in his golf cart. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] but now, trump and his tg m are showin their war-like posture, after his attorney general william barr refused to show up for a hearing, today, in the house judiciary committee to answer questionsbout special counsel robert mueller's report. barr refused to show up specifically because the committee wanted to let lawyeres ask him quons. >> william barr informing the house panel he will not testify as scheduled. es had been scheduled to tfy to the house judiciary committee about his handling of the mueller report. but barr rejected the

think tanks are having an effect on russian foreign policy formation, or are the two realms compartmentalized? the foreign ministry, does it seek the opinion of experts from the academic community? thank you. >> these are very good questions indeed. we lack specialists in china. the real good specialists, we , our institute of international relations has been a leading school in such relations in china. the current level of relations tells us we need more wecialists here, and i guess do have an insufficient number, especially in the middle generation, middle and probably young generation. and another issue, there is a lot of people not talking to experts on china-russia relations. i think it is happening all over the world because of interest in china. the countries our friends and , there is atogether huge conflict, and they are working together in order to balance. there is a lot of antagonism going on. china will not help russia, which is not the case. we still do not have a lot of traditional schools, but their number should really be increased here. do you have a lot of students learning

june 1st, that gives a few more weeks to discuss, iis possible that they manage to basically compartmentalizee ofhe security issues and everything else continues as continues as it was before. if will is a complete breakdown we arek willing at higher tariffs and tradae biers and friction and the rest of the world having to choose sides between whether they want to do business with china or the united states. >>soodruff: but it sounds you are saying st still very much a guessing game. >> it really is. both sides have strong incentives to reach a deal. president trump wants a strong economy, he wants a strong stock market, all of that is essential to his reelection. american companies want to contue to do business in china. china wants to maintain its reputation as a ong and reliable source. but it may be, this is what we find out, that the two sides, that they just cannot reconcile what they want from each other. >> woodruff: what can we learn greg ip from what happened am the past when there have been trade battles between the united states and other countries? >> we don't have a good tell pl