david gregory is with us. normally with a toast like that, they raise their glasses and there is a round of applause. i didn't hear the applause. >> this is a crowd that i don't think the president has won over. he is making an essential point that i think is very much in keeping with his philosophy and some of the criticisms he made with the un overtime. it's very much consistent with a message that brought him into the presidency. i will call the institutions out for not doing a good enough job and not pulling their weight if it has to do with nato that is detonato or agreements that are bad. that's a controversial position and he has a lot of people who support that. look at the problems we have been having with north korea going back to the 90s. bill clinton negotiated a position. this is consistent with a tough approach to the united nations. he is not very diplomatic about it, he has been a critic, but there is potential to work together. that's what the supporters will say was a win today and he will ha

david gregory, the language alone he is tweeting about the nfl. and the language deserves examination. forget about that it was the loudest he ever heard at the dallas game. who knows if that's true. it was true in his mind. great anger. who says those words? there is nothing great about anger. yet to the president, he sees negativity directed at these people on the field as a good thing. how is it a good thing? >> well, it's not a good thing. and i think it shows something about how the president sees himself as president in the country. he sees himself as a culture warrior, to get into the heart of a divisive issue like this, and create a firestorm to his liking. in other areas he's more of a bystander, when it comes to major legislation he would like to see passed, he has been more of a bystander. it's really much more of a team effort, thankfully so, given some of the advisers he has around him, when it comes to dealing with foreign affairs. here, he feels like he can uniquely drive this particular issue. you know, that earlier tweet about --

let's bring in cnn political analysts david gregory and john avlon and associate editor and columnistor realclearpolitics a.b. stoddard. a.b., let me start with you. why did donald trump do this? is this donald trump the deal-maker and party be damd. >> i don't think he woke up yesterday morning and decided he wanted to be bipartisan. there's a lot of poison in the well right now. it was really as bad as republicans thought it could be with the president attacking republicans over the summer when they got back from the august recess with all this work to do in 12 legislative days. this was beyond their imagination. he basically wanted to do something that he thought would help clear the decks or get back at republicans or both, but what he's done is made everything way more complicated for his own objectives. he's given the democrats more leverage before december, created another perilous vote for republicans. he slowed down momentum on tax reform. >> wait a second. you say slowed down momentum. wasn't this the breathing room, his aides said, the breathing room of september. >> no. th

let's bring in cnn political analyst, david gregory, and a columnist for "the daily beast." they may have the capacity in north korea to build an h bomb? >> yes, that was yesterday. the head of the strategic command said this was probably an h bomb. >> not last night but the one prior to that? >> the september 3 detonation. >> we have north korea making accelerated progress. what concerns me enough is not their technical achievements, but it's their defiance. they saw china and russia water that down and they are pretty confident, so they are going to say whatever they want and do whatever they want. this was extremely provocative arcing it over japan. >> david gregory, about donald trump's response. he seems to have tempered it since his fire and fury comments weeks ago. yesterday he gave a more measured responses, and i don't know if we have it, and we are working on different things, and i can't tell you what i am working on, but believe me the f people in this country will be very safe. what do you hear? >> i think president trump wants to work with china and south korea

let's talk about this with cnn political analyst david gregory. morning, david. >> good morning. >> we have a lot to talk about. let's start with what it looks like robert mueller was focused on this week and that is, he wants to interview other white house staffers on the plane who watched or listened as that statement was kraftcrafted. it turned out to be a misleading statement about don junior's meeting with the russians. of course robert mueller wants to get to the bottom of it especially since don junior wasn't able to provide many detai details. >> right. you have changing stories about what happened, why he went to the meeting. it was supposed to be about adoptions. then it was about testing for fitness. president trump said anybody would have taken that meeting. there's so much evidence about what the russians were up to, and so many shifting explanations from the white house team, from the trump family, that that's obviously an area of inquiry. what is related to that is the idea that we know mueller is looking into potential obstruction

cnn political analyst david gregory, cnn senior analyst and former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin and former fbi special agent, asha ringatha. great to have all of you. what does it mean that the fbi agents were able to go to a fisa court and get two warrants to monitor paul manafort? >> right. nothing but national security matters and they go to a judge and say we have probable cause to believe, if you approve this wiretap, you will get -- we will get information related to violations of national security. >> but we don't know what that probable cause was? >> no. but we do know that these are generally very voluminous documents filled with evidence. some people accuse these fisa courts, foreign intelligence surveillance act courts of being rubber stamps. you can be sure with someone as high profile as this, a judge would have been very careful. they approve, these judges, whoever -- we don't know the identity of the particular judge -- approved these warrants twice. that suggests there is some evidence that paul manafort was involved with foreign intelligence. doesn't mean he's g

. >> david gregory, there are two audiences here. the audience at the united nations, general assembly, leaders from all over the world, and the american people who elected president donald trump. who do you think he will be speaking to? >> probably both. americans are rightly concerned about north korea, how that is going to unfold, the prospect of miscalculation, who is running north korea policy. >> the u.s. is trying to find out who is providing this very powerful rocket fuel. udmh are its initials. and the thinking is that china and russia have been providing that to north korea. and we don't know if they still are. >> that's right, alyson. this is a story i do with my colleague bill broad. and the reason we focused on it is while the word is talking and nikki haley was trying to talk about cutting off fuel oil to the north koreans which could property a big humanitarian crisis in the winter if you're freezing out 25 million north koreans, there is a simpler way at this, which is to try to cut off their access to this very rare

. >> david gregory, so this will likely split the republican party, fracture it. we've already seen who's on which said so far. the but you have two options, don't you? either something happens at the six month the and as the president said daca is legal identified by congress and they may head into the midterm the if they can't get other big accomplish. the through with the one big led legislati legislative being amnesty or have them heading into the midterms without helping these 800,000 people. >> there's an opportunity here, big time opening here for president trump if he can see his way to seizing it. and it's that leadership piece. talking to republicans on the hill. there's an opportunity to fix, at least temporarily thisd.r.e.a.m.er situation. but to couple it in terms of a longer fix with some level of border security. you heard lindsay graham. i don't think the politics are right for some that comprehensive but the reality is that donald trump is the leading republican voice on immigration in america. he campaigned on this. he swept up the energy among t

we have cnn political analyst david gregory. the president is putting up a million dollars of his own money, going back to see people. that checks boxes. those are good things to do. the big task is going to be controlling congress in its approach to how it funds harvey. what's your tabke? >> that's the big question, especially when the president is threatening to fight congress, his own congressional leadership, over the wall with mexico, and the talk of shutting down the federal government. people have to remember this is the poor function of government, to look after people, take care of people who have no other place to go, not even to their local government or the state government. they have to be able to rely on the federal government when something is this large. i think it's a huge opportunity for a president who claims to want to dig in on details around infrastructure, to understand core function as president is to lead a federal effort to respond to disasters. >> so what do you think trump's options are? hopefully it

cnn political analyst david gregory and common cater peter beinart have both been standing by. peter bine art has a piece in the atlantic about how we got here. with a legal immigration. great to have you. your piece is so comprehensive, so interesting. talking about all the shifting sands and illegal immigration. how some sides have sort of over the past decade crossed, people -- just everybody has sort of reverted to their corners and dug in on illegal immigration. people used to be more in the middle. what do you think listening to sara talk about how they haven't gotten to the point of what they'll do with t thed.r.e.a.m.ers? they haven't thought about if this means 800,000 people will be deported, taken from the universities and work place. this is just i guess the starting point. >> i mean i have to say, i think this was a cowardly decision by president trump. if he wants to own the fact that these 800,000 people who most americans support, being able to be in the united states because really america is the only country they've known. the if he wants to own destroying the

large at "time" magazine and president of ur arab ra group, ian bremer and cnn political analyst david gregory. david, is there any way to tell what to expect from president trump? >> a few minutes ago tony blair was saying there's confusion and anxiety and i think that's the principle aim here is to try to clear some of that up. this is now president trump on the world stage, a major international institution, one he's been critical of. it is not unusual to have a new president to be looked at by the international community, and this president even more. he's also been unpredictable. we've seen that in domestic affairs in the past couple of weeks how he's worked with democrats. now there's some signaling that maybe he will find a way back into the paris climate accord. and there's a looming crises over north korea where we're going to see the president privately and publicly ramp up pressure on north korea but also put pressure on, namely, china to play a bigger role to diffuse this growing nuclear threat from north korea. so i think this is really going to be about tone. it's going to be abo

. >> let's bring in the panel, cnn political panelist john avlon and david gregory. david, we've been seeing this immigration fight go on for a long time. this happened before 9/11 which is when the dream act first started. how did we get here? >> i think the president is trying to manage very difficult politics. on this particular issue he is not ideological. i don't think he wants to send dreamers back to a country that they wouldn't recognize. they are effectively americans, yet i think he's trying to manage his own nativist wing of his own political coalition. it's not unreasonable to force congress to do the job it should have done all along. but he's not providing any leadership. he is, yet again, strikingly a bystander on an important issue instead of giving congress real direction. he's head of the government, head of the republican party. he should drive on what the solution really ought to be. if he thinks congress, which couldn't deal with health care, we don't know about taxes, is going the take on comprehensive immigration reform with the idea of a wall i

to not only gain the trust of the american people, but the admini and the presid we have david gregory. and media and business reporter. this i a question, david. is this something that will give tom price. >> he lower thresholds to fire people. he may look and see how much there and decide that's not enough >> did tom price understand the proble here? is he getting it? >> i don't think is. i have to agree with you. >> he is paying a fraction of the cost. $400,0 and he is paying someth and i will pay you $2. >> that's what it is. when you pay that back, this has been a through line from this whole thing. it's a story that has been dragging on for 10 we follow all the regulations and he had to meet with the americ people. and they get a sense of how caller are reacting and calling him a swamp rat and saying they have to take it this is supposed to be this messenger and at a time when he is giving it away to the rich. how bad does this look for the admini >> care a lot about object and searches for tom price peaked in the last few days after this and people are rememb about him right now

cnn political director, david chalian, and cnn political analyst, david gregory, and wesley lowry. wesley, you were just listening to the mayor of san juan, and she sees the devastation and touches it with her hands and her biggest fear was she would not be able to get to people on time and it sounds like that fear has been realized. >> yeah, it's haeartbreaking to listen to the mayor of san juan, and it's hard and we have thus far have been able to get them the resources we need. and we have been parsing some of the politics, should the president be talking about this more often and then beyond that there's this desire sometimes in the question of how can we begin to assess the response of fema and other organizations. when i listen to the mayor pleading on national television now a week after a hurricane to me suggests that perhaps we have not gotten them all the aid and resources they need. in the context of how our political leaders are discussing this, i think that further raises this question of whether or not tweets calling for the firing of nfl players perhaps would be bett

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. >> david gregory, all happening in spite of or maybe because of this health care battle that continues to be waged in washington right now. that doesn't look promising at least right now for the republicans. one vote away from the latest version of the repeal measure being killed. what changes over the next three days, do you think? >> incidents like this just, i think, deprive the president of yet more political capital, because this is where he's putting his energy. but i think he's in many way as bystander in the political fight over health care as he's been throughout. there are republicans trying to make this work. it appears to be hanging on by a thread. and even if it were to prevail it would not get over that bar of -- of being a unified bipartisan piece of legislation, just as the democrats moved on it in a way that there were no republican votes. i think, you know, this is a difficult time and a lot of american wos like to see the president focused on diffusing a crisis with north korea rather than wading this far into sports. >> david, perry, tranche very much. great to talk

we'll keep maggie haberman and bring in cnn political analyst david gregory.e clear, maggie. you gave us a great debrief on your reporting about what's going on. just the general thread, we saw this with health care, now seeing it again. political pressure, a political play motivating the president's action even though he doesn't seem to understand what he is doing. he didn't know what was in that bill with health care. he didn't understand why it wasn't going to go the wrong way. once again now, your reporting and others seems to demonstrate that in the hours before doing this, he still wasn't sure. what will this mean? >> he wasn't sure what it would mean. but i think he was also unsure where to go with it. unlike health care which is incredibly intricate, this is complicated but it's pretty clear-cut. you either deport people or don't deport people. i think at the end of the day he was able to met tab loiz that. they were trying to in the white house make clear that he has a heart. >> with no real immediacy in play either. you have the states attorney gener

we have gregory and cnn politics reporter and editor at large. david gregg gregory what does m for mcmcconnell and trump and beyond? >> reporter: sometimes when you lead a wave the way donald trump did, a new pop limp in politics and ride that into the white house, it doesn't mean you can control the current after that. and i think that's what donald trump is experiencing now. trump himself campaigned against the establishment as president, campaigning against fellow republicans, cutting a deal on the budget, a short-term deal, criticizing republicans for failing to get health care done. i also think it's one of the reasons why with this result coming that donald trump -- i changed my views on this a little bit the -- rather cynically waded into the culture wars again. that is his bread and butter, trying to allow himself shoulder to shoulder with the roy moores of the country. there will be more of it with steve bannon out there s is toking it up. >> roy moore makes donald trump look like a puppy when it comes to, dream views. this man is the real dea

david gre gregory, what do you make of this?has to know that going into this area only hurts situations, only makes people feel in some way, no matter how much he says he condemns them, he seems to be getting cover and drawing equivalencies between those who want to kill jews and other people in this country and other types of political violence. >> look, it's just wrong. i don't understand it. i think he -- he must be bullied at certain times by some backup that he gets, some validation he gets from a position he has taken. it must strengthen his resolve to say i'm stick to go my guns. this is the position that makes sense. and maybe i had a point. i don't know in what quarters he gets that validation. but it is the wrong quarters. here you have a responsible conversation. you have tim scott of south korea. an african-american senator coming to him saying this is wrong. you cannot do this. he has all of these good points and turning around and doing this. i've nephew understood it. it is corrosive. it undercuts other areas wher

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