. >>> joining us is david gregory and john avlon. brother david, let's do a little so what, now what. this story about gary cohn, why does it matter? what does it mean going forward? >> i'm really disturbed by it. it is either a sign that the president is moving in a sign of economic nationalism, counter to the conservative principles of the republican party, concerning to the path of economic growth, or it's just another example of an erratic white house that may be moving in a direction until it doesn't move in that direction anymore. so the lack of predictability that we are seeing in the futures here is troubling. it's not to put everything on the markets. but the president pays such close attention to the movement of the markets that he reportedly felt vindicated because there was a rebound on monday. so he will try to ride the wave. i think this is troubling to lose somebody and to have an economic adviser like gary cohn. >> correct me if i'm wrong, he was never planning to be a lifer in the white house. wasn't he part of the cr

joining us is david gregory and gordon chang. give us the plus minus of this. >> you have to follow-up on this opportunity. we cannot allow him to drive a wedge between seoul and washington. moon jae-in wants this prattly. trump really had very little choice in terms of what he was going to do. he didn't have to accept on the spot. by doing so, he made moon jae-in very, very happy. >> let's put up a graphic between the sticking points as we enter into potential negotiations. the secretary of state said we're nowhere near this happening at the same time the president saying it's about to happen. so full denuclearization. sanctions and maximum pressure remain. no missile testing. so there's really two of those on the side of what the u.s. wants. and one obviously relief that north korea wants. >> you know, the fact that the regime has promised to give up this nuclear program before and has cheated on that is an important piece of history that has to be counseled here. but i think what you point out, months ago we were talking about

let's bring in cnn political analyst john avlon and david gregory. david gregory, the simple read on why the president is doing this with tariffs is because he likes to shake it up, show he can flex his muscle. this is how he's putting america back in the game. he's getting unanimous condemnation from economists and congressmen in his own party. >> this is somebody who talked about dead manufacturing in the united states, that he would bring it back. this is part of his constituency and his political base of support. if you listen to opposition among economists, you have to wonder if this makes sense. the strong financial markets has been interrupted by strong fears. what is it going to gain our economy? that's what i think people are questioning. for a president who promised to be a jobs president, a president who said that he's the one who had the golden touch when it came to booming financial markets. he's putting all of that at risk. >> go ahead, john. >> look, this is something that is fundamental to what the republican party had to believe. tar

david gregory, man of few words in the latest tweet about north korea. he had a lot of words this hour about something else on his mind, about what's going on in the white house. i'll read this to you and you can compare and contrast. >> sell it. >> the new fake news narrative is that there is chaos, all caps, in the white house. wrong, exclamation point. people will always come and go. i want strong dialogue before making a final decision. i still have some people that i want to change, always seeking perfection. i could psycho analyze that. but i'll move on. there is no chaos, capital, only great energy. >> the whole capitalization subject -- >> i agree. >> i was thinking the same thing. even with the auto correct where sometimes when you text it capitalizes for no good reason, i don't think it's the same issue on twitter. >> don't you think if he feels that way, if there's only great energy in the white house, tell that to your staffers who keep talking to reporters and telling them how demoralized they feel by the chaos. >> the best way to show that

. >>> want to bring in david gregory and cnn legal analysis michael zelden. it seems to me we know three big things that have happened over the last few days. number one, the president's legal team has met with the special counsel's investigators. number two, the president all of a sudden started attacking directly the investigation by name, robert mueller. and number three, he's shaking up his legal team. he brought in a lawyer who is a fighter, david gregory. >> i think very much so. i think what's clear is that they're getting indications of exactly what investigators and prosecutors want to question the president about. i think that makes the team and the client very, very uncomfortable. so what we see from president trump, we've seen it from the beginning. he watches a lot of television. he see joe degenova as a long-time fixture in washington is saying just the things trump loves to hear. that's right. it was a framed job. the fix was in from the beginning. this is not on the level. now, it's just astonishing in our age of media because joe says these t

we have john avlon and david gregory. let's just -- kaitlan played a point how he was strong. is listen to where he was in the days after parkland. >> in addition to everything to what we're going to do about background checks, we're going to go very strong into age of purchase. you can't buy a handgun at 18, 19, 20, but you can buy this horrible gun at 18. you are going to decide. but i would give very serious is thought to it. >> perhaps we'll do something on age. >> right. >> because it doesn't seem to make sense that you have to wait until you're 21 years old to get a pistol. but to get a gun like this maniac used in the school, you can get at 18. >> the president wants to raise the age to 21 to get certain firear firearms. >> obviously the president believed the age should be raised. he said it over and over. it is not in the white house proposal. that means he was talked out of it by someone somehow. >> trump is in retreat. apparently the last person he spoke to was the nra. this is something the president was clearly personally convinced should be done. this package is

david gregory, conor lamb is as far from donald trump as a tv persona as you can get. alisyn is a master of trying to get the personal tidbits and moments of levity. he ain't having it. >> he wasn't falling for my charm. >> i think that served him well. he oozes integrity. he served his country with distinction. as a prosecutor. he was selling people on the proposition, i'm for you. i'm not about any of this other stuff. now it looks like it may have worked for him. trump raised an interesting point, dave. we didn't hear lamb address it yet. do you think this type of democrat may vote with republicans sometimes and what does that mean for the evolution of the democratic party? >> yeah, right. well, as you were talking earlier this morning, he harkens back to when democrats actually survived in the congress who had more conservative views culturally but democrats on taxes and entitlements that and kind of thing. i think what he said to alisyn was a lot if you unpack it. he talked about president trump and his support in that district, a district he won by 20 points, yes

joining us now, david gregory and our chief political correspondent dana bash.a, the president is over at the white house today, but presumably all three of these cases weighing heavy i will on his mind. >> you would think. i talked to two sources who speak with him just before coming on who insist that it's not, that he considers it noise, that this kind of thing, he feels like he put a stake in it in october of 2016 when the "access hollywood" tape came out. obviously three separate events that are going on, very different from that, but that the president when he gets agitated, it is still about the russia probe. so the question is whether these two are going to converge. it seems as though, at least with the stormy daniels situation, they could be if mueller really is looking into questions about that. but for right now, i had a source say to me, you know what, he's still a new york real estate guy who has been in the tabloids for a long time, and maybe he's just going to be the berlusconi of america, meaning the italian leader. >> this is the least surprisi

cnn political analyst david gregory. now, before we get to this circus of nunberg, let's deal with the implications of this breaking news out of north korea. david gregory, at first blush, you have to say congratulations to the trump administration. they were able to move the ball here. maybe north korea is not telling the truth. maybe they won't really do this, but even the suggestion, even the potential offer is progress, is it not? >> no question. i mean, this is a big deal potentially historic potentially. but i think the caveats do apply when you're dealing with a leader kim jong-un, what he is prepared to do, how much of this is theater, how much of it is real. but we do know that the korean regime has long feared that it would be wiped off the map. that they would be invaded. and so getting security guarantees would go beyond what was the last big deal was back in the '90s during the clinton administration when they were allowed to produce weapons great plutonium, peaceful purposes to have nuclear reactors to get

let's bring in cnn political analyst david gregory. okay. so this is an unusual position for the zuck, and he is clearly uncomfortable with it. took a lot of time for him to come forward. his answers leave a lot to be desired. what is his political future in terms of facing some kind of congressional testimony? >> i think you're going to see him in washington. he is going to have to face down these committees. it is frankly laughable that whoever knows most about these issues is -- sorry. he's accountable. it's mark zuckerberg. he will be dragged before capitol hill. you know what, these tech companies generally don't like this level of accountability or scrutiny. they have enjoyed a much cozier relationship with the government when they felt they were kindred spirits with more progressives who were in government. now they are had he saying things have changed. the same progress if's will crack down on them, especially in the way that the site has been compromised and that this open platform that can bring people together all over the world

let's bring in john avlon and david gregory. you have how the tillerson thing was handled. that made a lot of waves. and then the simply reality that trump continues to thin out the ranks and put in loyalists. where are your concerns? >> well, first of all, on style what you see is the president seeming very confident. there is a lot of spin there that now he is getting it the way he wants it. this is not the way he wanted it. he has a chaotic administration that reflects his own erratic behavior and decision making. in this particular instance he has somebody who is closer -- not to his personality but to his thinking on hot button issues internationally. he is a hard liner. certainly a hard liner on issues like north korea and iran. but he has proven himself to be a shrewd insider not just within the west wing but in the government overall, which is a plus for the country and a plus for the role as secretary of state. what i think is of concern is that the president still out of his own insecurity goes out of his way to show he's in charge by breaking the china as much as

david gregory and cnn legal analyst carrie cordero, former counsel to the u.s.t attorney general for national security. good to have you both. thank you for being here. let's put up the first tweet. why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats? some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans? another dem recently added, does anyone think this is fair? and yet, there is no collusion. let's start there. what do we know about who is on this team and that they're about, carrie cordero. >> first of all, special counsel himself is historically a republican nominee. i served in the justice department for many years for parties, presidents of both parties. there was a time when the beginning of the george w. bush administration where bob mueller was acting attorney general in the bush administration. then he was the nominee for fbi director. he served as the head of the criminal division in the first bush administration in the justice department. so he has historically been a republican nominee for positions. as to the rest of the special counsel team,

joining us is david gregory and ted johnson, variety senior editor and washington bureau chief. he was in the room when it happened during president trump's speech at the gridiron dinner. we have more meat on the bones with what's going on with the dinner. the president is up and tweeting. it does seem these tariffs, in trump's mind, are bait to bring people to the table and cut better deals. people will say this is what he's a master of. what's the risk? >> well, let's just explain what he is suggesting there. because this caught my eye. saying the tariffs only come off, only half if we don't renegotiate nafta. is that how you read it? >> i don't. i read he's going to do it. and then if they want to come and talk about it -- let me just read it. we have large trade deficits with mexico and canada. it has been a bad deal for the usa. massive relocation of companies and jobs. tariffs on steel and aluminum will only come off if you new fair nafta agreement is signed. also, canada must treat our farmers much better. highly restrictive. mexico must do much more on stopping drugs fro

so the decision-making process david gregory just made this point, has really broken down. we don't know where he is on guns. he has this big meeting. he hasn't said i'm going to do this. i'm going to take on the nra but then he doesn't. he walks into these tariffs. the whole place is out of control. >> and then he targets alec baldwin with a tweet. alec baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on snl now says playing me was agony. alec it was agony for those who were forced to watch. bring back darrell hammond funnier and far greater talent. that was sent at 4:00 a.m. people are worrying he is unraveling when they see things like this. >> today is friday, correct? >> yes. >> tomorrow is saturday. "saturday night live" comes on tomorrow night. he will repriev the role. doing it again. the president is known to get up very early. he operates on very little sleep. >> this is early even for him, right? >> he had a very early day today. he was at billy graham's funeral service. he has been leading it well with dignity and honor. and qui

cnn's chief political analyst gloria borgeer and david gregory with back with us.nt piece on cnn.com, breaking it all down. we've gone through it before but you say something feels different this time. >> talking through friends of his who have known him for quite some time, they tell me they're worried about him because they say this has a different feel. they say he is spiraling, lashing out, out of control. this has economic impact, talking about his decision on tariffs and said something is very wrong here. he's blaming everybody else for his problems, then he confuses people by what side of an issue he's going to be on. one day he's for saving dreamers, the next day not so fast. so, the whole thing needs to be just growing a little too chaotic for their comfort level. and they like donald trump. >> you wrote the sentence that certainly jumped out at me. not since richard nixon started talking to the portraits on the walls of the west wing has a president seemed so alone against the world. >> hope hicks is leaving. melania is not so happy with him these days af

let's bring in cnn political analyst david gregory and jeffrey toobin. it is one of those laugh or cry moments, gentlemen. help me understand this. the president doesn't want to deal with these lawsuits from women. he doesn't want to deal with the allegations. he said they were all lies from the women during the campaign. but when joe biden brings up the allegations and what he thinks should be done, the president takes the bait and says to joe, don't talk about me like that or i'll basically beat your behind. >> well, that's the difference between twitter and a sworn deposition. you know, the president is very happy to tweet on any subject under the sun because you get -- you can say what you want and no one gets to ask follow-up questions. the great peril, as bill clinton discovered, even during your presidency, if you are subject to civil litigation, you can be forced into a deposition. we are now in the incredible situation where the president has three pending lawsuits against him, all related to sexual misconduct of one kind or another. and they ar

joining us, our cnn legal analyst laura coates, panelist david gregory and our senior reporter nia-malika henderson. if president trump's attorney was using trump administration e-mail to facilitate this payment, what does that suggest? >> first of all it says he was lying when he said the trump organization didn't have anything to do with the actual payment of it or the trump campaign. that is lying by the fact you have a trump e-mail being used. did you really make a settlement negotiation and a $130,000 payment without trump's knowledge in ethical standards and the practice of law and just contrary to everyone's logic? you're seeing now that is not the case. if he really did make that payment with the knowledge of the trump organization, then you have a campaign expenditure or a contribution. the outcome of the election is not the big deal here. the deal is with the campaign finance laws, you have to have transparency. we have to know where the money is coming from, we have to know how it's being spent and there are limits. even rudimentary math tells you, wolf, that $130,000 is way mo

i want to bring in our panel, our cnn political analyst david gregory is with us, our cnn congressional correspondent manu raju, our senior correspondent john king and our senior analyst gore gloria borger. most of the senators have split, they're out of town already, and if he doesn't sign this into law, the government shuts down. >> and he doesn't get to go to mar-a-lago, and john and i were discussing this earlier, i think he's scheduled to go later this afternoon. i think what the president wants to do, particularly if he signs this, is be on the record saying, this is what i don't like about it, and the democrats are forgetting the dreamers, and what about my wall, and i'm going to make these demands. but otherwise he would be shutting the government down, and our reporting says he doesn't want to do that. >> but it is a remarkable moment in a sense that what the president is about to do, assuming the sources are correct and he doesn't pull the rug out from underneath everybody again, sur is under the chaos and dysfunction of his presidency. the people said vote for it, vote for it

at the house of connie wood, and the other people involved, the felds and gregorys, there were several couples involved and david in his book gives a lot of credit to the remarkable qualities of that -- of that keene group who -- who in certain ways i believe set the tone for a lot of the organizing that went on subsequently. anyway, i was nothing but a foot soldier. i would pick up the fliers and whatever and head out -- and head out canvassing door-to-door over a -- i guess a reasonably decent swath of territory, and i met with nothing but -- all of the encounters were really quite -- were very civilized. new hampshirites were very civilized about these things and if it didn't bring you around sort of at least listening to you and sending you off with a good luck kind of wish even if you guessed they were not necessarily going to be voting for gene mccarthy in the end. and it was kind of thrilling. i'm kind of shy. i think by temperament and not a forward personality, and i must say stepping on to the streets for the first time as a canvasser was -- was very scary, and then -- but then i would always realize t

gregory's were involved. there were several couples involved. and david hoeh gives a lot of credit to the remarkable qualities of that keen group, who in certain ways set the tone for the organizing that subsequently occurred. anyway, i was nothing but a foot shorter. -- soldier. i would head out canvassing door to door over a reasonably decent swath of territory. and all of the encounters were civilized. new hampshire rights were very civilized about these things somehow. if they showed signs of not being, it did not take much to bring them around and sending you off with a good look -- kind of wish. that is even if you guessed they were not necessarily going to be voting for gene mccarthy in the end. it was kind of thrilling. i am kind of shy by temperament. i'm not a forward personality. i must say, stepping onto the streets for the first time as a canvasser, was very scary. but, i always realize that within a couple of minutes i was enjoying this and it was really fun actually, going from one door to the next, and not having the slightest idea who you

gregorys. there were several couples involved and they were -- david and his book gives a lot of credit to the remarkable quality of that keen group. who in certain way set the tone for the lobby organizers that went on sub se frequentlubseque. >> i would pick up the flyers and head outdoor to door. i met with nothing but, if all of the encounters very very quite and civilized. >> new hampshire were civilized with these i thithings some how. >> so at least listening to you and sending you off with a kind of good luck, even if you kind of guess it is not necessarily and going to be voting for jean mccarthy at the end. >> it was kind of thrilling. i think myme temperament, takin as a first dime time as a candi. then i realize realized that when a couple of minutes, i am really enjoying this and really fun. actually going around from one door to the next. and not having the slightest idea who you are going to meet with but it is becoming really, quite confident that people were at least going to be decent in the way that receive you. you are changing minds. i always recall that it seems me that t

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