he uses both john miller and john barron. 've also spoken to at least a half a dozen new york editors and reporters who received calls from donald trump posing as john miller or john barron. in addition, we've spoken to several former executives, high ranking executives of the trump organization who told us that they heard they were there in the office when donald trump made calls to news organizations as john barron. >> so they actually did. stay with me. i want to bring in paul ginsburg, forensic audio expert. you've consulted with the fbi, cia and secret service. i want to play another brief clip of it for you. >> sure. >> ivana wants to get back with donald. >> what is she going to say? >> is she going to say, yes, i want to get back. i want to get back? he's a pretty savvy woman. she's not going to say he's live with marla and he's got three other girlfriends. and she's not going to say -- all right, i really want to get back. she wants to get back. she's told it to a lot of her friends, and she's told it to him, but it's

he admitted it was him years ago. >> in 1990, under oath, he testified that he did use the name john barron, and in 1991, he told "people" magazine that he did use the name john miller, so this has already been admitted. >> larry: we know, he's such a (bleep) liar! we know! we know! (applause) plus we know trump likes to impersonate people! he does it all the time! >> trump: you ever see crooked hillary clinton? she walks in, this is how she walks in -- good afternoon, bridgeport. how are you? this is crooked hillary clinton. (laughter) >> larry: he totally captured the way hillary clinton always introduces herself as "crooked hillary clinton." you notice that? that was so life like. (laughter) and his imitations aren't any better when he uses props. >> trump: it's rubio! (cheers and applause) >> larry: man, trump has more disregard for water than a flint politician. (audience reacts) oh, too soon? too soon? (applause) some of trump's imitations are just downright offensive. >> reporter: trump insists he didn't know that "new york times" reporter serge kovaleski suffers from a physical disa

john barron, john miller. and i found a few instances including new york times articles from 1994 and 1985 in which, you know, there's a spokesman, john barron quoted as vice president of the trump organization and this has kind of been an open secret. not only in new york media circles, especially the gossip pages of new york tabloids that have repeatedly use the quote unquote spokesman but trump organization executives who have told cnn that, in fact, this was well known that donald trump would, in fact, use these mon k monikers. >> he was obviously not happy with matt and savannah's line of questions and actually said, you're going to go so low to talk about something that took place 25 years ago, whether or not i made a phone call, let's get on to the current topics but the problem is, is that donald trump just in the last week has focused very, very heavily on stuff from 25 years ago from the 1990s and he has been sort of trying to destroy hillary clinton over things in the 1990s. >> that's right. yeah. t

he also used john barron to try and trick various journalists into thinking he was a p.r. of a general donald trump strategy to trick people and deceive them which he brags about in his book and to intimidate them. donald called me april 27th to tell me he was going to sue me if he doesn't like what i write about him. i'm not intimidate-able. i have run down a cold-blooded murder and run into a burning building. but lots of journalists are. he's trying very hard to make sure the american people don't know the quality of his character and conduct. >> and the mistreatment of the polish workers who were taking live wires out with their bare hands, no protections, no safety, and not being paid properly, this actually came up during the primary. i want you guys to listen to marco rubio attempting to bring this up in really just the a awkwardest way and not getting the information out. >> you are the only person in this stage who has ever been fined to hire people to work on your projects illegally. >> i'm the only one on the stage that's hired people. you haven't hired anybody.

. >> john barron is on the phone for you? donny: john? john barron? johnny boy?ou for a while. what have you got for me? mark: donny deutsch keeping us honest. katie couric is here to talk about the week. >> high. hi,: so, lindsey graham -- we saw there -- in an extended talk about foreign policy. i thought in a week where trump did not get enough credit for a lot of finesse moves, that was a finesse move. guest: considering how much the two men have gone through, how much donald trump has dragged lindsey graham through the mud or tried to, gave his cell phone out. i was there for that. and lindsey graham has taken every potshot he could add trump. if the two of them have a phone call, and graham admitted he asked some decent policy questions, unsurprising he does not say he is voting for trump. mark: but after what he said to us, praising trump and saying he has changed -- i think he is going to say trump is the best. katy: here's what i find so surprising for some one that did not cover political campaigns before. i am surprised a much the republican party can

donny: i'm sure that democrats will have ads about donald trump guy.g as a fake pr >> john barron is for you? john? johnny boy? i have not heard from you for a while. what have you got for me? mark: donny deutsch keeping us honest. to talkuric is here about the week. lindsey graham -- we saw there -- in an extended talk about foreign policy. i thought in a week where trump did not get enough credit for a lot of finesse moves, that was a finesse move. guest: considering how much the two men have gone through, donald trump and lindsey graham, and lindsey graham has taken every potshot he could add trump. graham even admitted he asks some pretty decent foreign-policy questions. but he will still not be voting for trump. mark: i'm not going to rule out that lindsey graham is going to say, you know what, trump is the best. katy: you know what is surprising for someone who has not covered political campaigns before -- i am surprised a much the republican party can call them dangerous, call him untrustworthy, that he is an idiot basically, and then come out and say, you know, we are going t

says it's not him, i believe it's not him. >> in 1990 under oath he testified he did use the name john barron and in 1991 he told "people" magazine he did use the name john miller so this has already been admitted previously. i don't understand why now. >> i don't know those facts to be true or not. i just know that he said it's not him. i believe him. i don't know the relevance of this frankly other than it's 25 years old, it's dealing with interest that "people" magazine and not focusing on the issues trump is trying to talk about today, jobs, terrorism, immigration problems. these are the issues we should be talking about. why the media is spending so much time going back 25 years to talk about "people" magazine tape that may or may not be trump. totally irrelevant. >> mr. trump brought up things that were 25 years old on behalf of mr. clinton, former president clinton. >> but that was not "people" magazine. those were issues that related to a core component of hillary clinton's strategy, which is that she's talking about breaking the ceiling for women, and yet she was an enabler and made

so his name is donald trump but you can call him the presumptive nominee or call him john barron or john miller. it all works maybe. confused? well, a just plain strange new report from "the washington post" out this morning suggesting donald trump posed as his own public relations person fake names and all and it's all on tape. an alleged spokesperson sounding like trump is speaking by phone with a reporter from "people" magazine to talk about the end of trump's marriage to then wife ivana and several of his relationships, including one with france's former first lady, who went on to be france's former first lady, carla bruni. here is a portion of that audio. >> eric clapton pintroduced her to mick jagger. and then she stopped mick jagger for donald and that's where it is right now. and, you know, again, he's not making any commitments to karla either, just so you understand. >> so this just on the heels of trump's capitol hill charm offensive, meetings he described great at every turn and just as many republican party holdouts were coming around to the idea of backing the presumptive n

>> we have been doing these reports where trump would call reporters and editors had him as john barroniller and giving them stories. mo some of them thought it was playful but it was a common place that it would be on city's desk when these calls come in. and of course, we like to listen to that. and it was just sort of a running joke. as you hear, he makes no real effort to disguise his voice. >> let me ask you about this, there is no criminality, did you check your legal voice? is there any legal issue here that can be used against him? >> imitating yourself or somebody else. it does not sound like a crime to me. >> that's not a scoot. i once saw him on letterman, some football player were thwing a football into a theater to some other building and they had to get somebody. it was him. he was available for publicity. this is not a shock. well, i am just kidding. you are just kidding. good work on that, mark. we'll weigh the importance of this now. thank you for joining us, let's go right now to susan >> we are talking about this beforehand. i think the cover is worse than the crime.

our editorial department donald trump would use the names of john barron or miller. they played a 1991 recorder of john miller to different new york reporters and donald trump's ex-wife marla ma >>> thousands of illegal immigrants in fear of a new round of deportation. 100 people in virginia are on the list. immigrant advocates promise to fight the planned immigrations. the agents are targeting undocumented workers that were no shows in court. >> it came illegally during my first term. i want to help you stay and give you work permits. if you came illegally during my second term, deportation is schizophrenic. >> the spokesperson cannot confirm or deny but the immigrants that arrived in the u.s. after january of 2014 could be removed. >>> canada's prime minister is in fort mcmurray to get a first hand look at the damage from the huge wildfire that forced the city's evacuation. no timetable on when the 88,000 residents can return home. the fire damaged or 3000 homes in other buildings but firefighters managed somehow to sake 25,000 other structures. the fire is now burn

sometimes they would get a call back from a john barron or john miller.e donald trump, called him a great man. we have more recording. take a listen for yourself. is this donald trump? >> well, it's just that he really decided that he wasn't, you know, he didn't want to make the commitment, he didn't want to make a commitment. he really thought it was too soon. he's coming out of, you know, a marriage and he's starting to do tremendously well financially. he's been working hard and doing well and probably, as you know, there's a real estate depression in the united states and he's probably doing as well as anybody there is and frankly he wants to keep it that way. he thought it was too soon to make any commitment to anybody. >> so what is going to happen -- is she being asked to leave or is she going to be allowed to stay? >> he treats everybody well. you know, you don't know him -- >> no i have me have met him? >> you have met him? he's a good guy. >> reporter: in the 1980s trump actually did admit that sometimes he did go by the name of john barron but

barron, of course, is the name of his youngest son. paula. >> john miller, john barron. have to imagine the campaign is scrambling this morning. how are they explaining all this? >> reporter: trump is sticking by that denial, but in another strange twist "the washington post" was interviewing trump on the phone, and when they asked if he ever employed a john miller, the line suddenly went dead. >> all right, mary. as you said, stranger than fiction. >> yeah, all right, mary, thank you. >> thank you, mary. >>> let's bring in political commentator lz granderson to weigh in on this. lz, good morning, sir. so let me just ask you straight up, do you buy trump's denials here? >> of course not. i don't think anyone who's paid attention to his cadence over the past six to eight months can read a transcript and not think that it's donald trump, but him denying this is kind of par for the course. >> yeah, it sounds just like him but, of course, he has denied it so how does he walk this back, if at all? >> well, he doesn't need to walk it back, and he's proven through his entire pr

especially using the name john barron more than miller. but yeah, he used john barron all the time. baron is actually a name that he just seemed to use a lot with girlfriend and things and now baron is his youngest son's name. >> and he reportedly admitted this in '90s that he did this. >> everyone in new york media knew it at the time. that happened before my time at "people" magazine. but those stories still went around the newsroom because everybody knew it. it was part of who he was. why he isn't owning up to it now, i don't know. >> why would he do this? what's in it for him? you think it makes him look kind of silly? >> maybe. because we're talking about the presidency. we're talking about the president of the united states. and the president of the united states is generally not the same person that donald trump was when he was a tabloid fixture in new york city going through very public divorces. living a life as a business man. that was a celebrity. he was a symbol of '80s excess that was rolling into the '90s. that is very different persona that even what the people that w

our editorial partners say he would try to get good press using john barron or miller. people magazine played a 1991 recorder of john miller to different reporters and to donald trump's ex-wife marla maples and they agreed its trump. >> to prince georges county where several people were burned out of their homes. the flames raced through the homes. they believe it broke out on the 2nd floor and traveled all the way up to the third. there is no word on what sparked the fire. one firefighter suffered serious burns to his hands. >> police in fairfax county are searching for a hit-d-run driver. investigators say at shiplet boulevard near cappella avenue at 9. a car, possibly a dark colored honda or toyota struck him and the driver stopped for a moment and then kept going. and he, the victim, was pronounced dead at the scene. >>> turning now to the latest in the trial of the baltimore police officer charged in the death of freddie gray. one of his long-time friends brandon ross took the witness stand in the trial of edward nero. he says he saw nero throw gray head first into

. >> john barron. >> the prime minister, and we on these benches, can be very proud of the fact that in recent years we have reduced both relative poverty and income inequality. we are a one-nation party or we are nothing. so does he agree with lord rows, the leader of the remain campaign, that if we were to leave the eu and exercise greater control over immigration for the sake of public services, then wages would rise even faster. >> prime minister. >> i think what would happen if we were to leave the eu is we would see an impact on our economy that would be largely negative. that's not just my view. that's the view now of the bank of england, the imf, the oecd, and a growing number of international bodies. i would say to anybody who wants to make this choice, obviously it's a choice for the british people, a choice to make. but i think we have to be clear about the economic consequences. >> thank you, mr. speaker. in 1972, age just 19, nine months marry pd and six months pregnant with their first child, my constituent susan lee received a knock on the door to say that her husband,

how many voters going, john miller, john barron, how does this make me feel? donald trump, dispatching of these things easily has been one of his primary positives throughout this campaign. his ability to do that over and over again with the media, on the stump, all of these things. his inability to do that with this issue is almost stunning to me. why wouldn't he sit there and say, yeah, it's me. i was messing around. a different time. his answer for everything. i wasn't a politician then. a businessman, playing the game. the fact he wasn't able to do that kind of causes you to raise your eyebrows. >> puts you in a box. paul manafort, need to be legit, a nudge and a wink, yeah, i can't make sense of it. if he says it's not him, it's not him. you got to look at him twice. >> when he wants to talk about terrorism, attack hillary clinton, everybody at the start of every interview, do you mind giving us john miller to talk to at the start? in person. it he's a real human being, let us interview him and that clouds over or cover everything he wants to talk about,

. >> drew, donald trump, insists that he actually had some public relations people named john barron or john miller making calls in the 1980s. seems to be easy to have him tell us where they are or give us some proof that they actually exist. or existed. >> that's right. i asked both the campaign and trump's own attorney today. let us talk to john baron or john miller. that's what they did for a living. talk to the press on behalf of donald trump. we've gotten no response from either the trump organization or trump campaign as of yet. anderson? >> i understand that the washington post reporters they asked trump about john miller in a phone interview. what did trump say? >> they were 44 minutes into a conversation about trump's finances when one of the washington post reporters asked about this john miller. according to the post, the phone went silent, then the phone went dead. when they called back, trump's secretary said yes i understand you were disconnected, sorry for that, but he can't take the call now. that's how they handled that. >> all right. drew, thanks very much. >>> joini

i don't think he would use john miller or john barron, but -- he could do this to putin. >> it's not just "people" magazine that, i'll take your word, he was punking. he used john miller with you, but this is now a john baron quote in the "new york times," 1980. the merit of these stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them. it's not just you. it wasn't a one-off, is my point. he apparently was playing this game with all of the media, including the "washington post" and the "new york times" and was able to pull one over on them as well. >> yeah. well, we're all in the same club. >> you're in good company, i guess. thank you for being here, sue carswell, i appreciate it. are we ready for this? are we ready for a president who calls up a bar and say, will you page seymour butts? i know where my next guest stands. she regularly defends donald trump. scottie l. hughes is a regular. i might have talked about hillary's e-mails today if only he had gone on and said, of course it's me. >> of course you would be talking about hillary clinton's e-mails, we know that, but this

. >> somebody named john barron, also john miller, so he's admitted this. but this morning on the "today" show as you said he flatly denied it. take a listen. >> are you aware of the tape? is it you? >> no. i don't think -- i don't know anything about it. you're telling me about it for the first time and it doesn't sound like my voice at all. i have many people who are trying to imitate my voice and there are many scams. i think we have more important things to discuss. >> here's the thing, i think he gets away with this stuff because people frankly don't necessarily care what he did in his past. >> people meaning the voters. >> the voters that like him. >> people are so frustrated -- >> robots? >> people and humans who vote. >> as opposed to the media, right? >> who don't invite you back. >> i'm not counting on an invite back. >> where's your zwsweater? the candidates are frustrated with washington and they don't care if somebody -- unusual let's put it nicely -- past because they want someone who will be completely different and frankly they are so frustr

are you sticking by the denial of the pr person named john miller or john barron, wasn't really donald trump? >> yes, wolf. mr. trump heard a clip. he said it wasn't him. so it wasn't him. >> katrina pierson. thank you very much for joining us. >> good to be here. good to see you. >>> governor kasich has a bone to pick with the national committee and exclusive interview. he said reince priebus was premature in naming donald trump. he made a tweet after the indiana primary he won. >> when indiana happened and you had the chairman of the republican party endorse trump, which i thought was completely inappropriate, my -- >> inappropriate because? >> i'm still there. he just wanted to get this thing over. i'm not happy about it. >> cnn political commentator, cnn politics editor mark preston. ryan, why is this still a very sore spot for john kasich? >> i think because he believes that reince priebus jumped the gun that trump did not have in hand the 1,237 delegates and despite the fact that kasich really had no chance of hitting that number either, kasich believed that it was still possible

from 1991 in which donald trump pretended to be a fake publicist named john miller or sometimes john barront there's more to this story than just a weird phone call from 1991. the saga of trump's fake spokesman reveals something deep about trump the man and trump the candidate. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." ♪ [ applause ] >> seth: we first told you about this story a few weeks ago. back then it was just another bizarre trump anecdote. but then on friday, this happened. >> there is evidence that back in the 1990s, donald trump posed as his own public relations person when he talked to reporters by phone. >> "the washington post" has obtained new audio from 25 years ago of a man handling public relations for trump who sounds an awful lot like trump. >> what's your name again? >> john miller. >> what's your position? >> i'm handling pr because he gets so much of it. >> that's right. donald trump posed as his own publicist to brag about how much publicity he was getting, and it was so clearly trump. the only way john miller could have been more obviously fake is if he was thr

you'd call reporters and plant stories and say either you were john miller or john barron but, in fact it was actually you on the phone. is that something you did with any regularity? >> no, and it was not me on the phone. and it doesn't sound like me on the phone. i will tell you that, and it was not me on the phone. when was this? 25 years ago? >> in the early '90s. you're going so low as to talk about something that took place 25 years ago about whether or not i made a phone call? i guess you're saying under a presumed name? >> yes. >> okay, well, the answer is no n let's get on to more current subjects. i know it's wonderful for your listeners, but i think we have more important things to discuss. >> all right. trump denying it. the audio recording is out there, though. "the washington post" got them together this morning. now turning to that meeting between donald trump, paul ryan justice yesterday. it ended still without an endorsment from ryan. still calling the meeting encouraging and the first of more to come. >> i was very encouraged with what i heard from donald trump today.

reports that he used to pose as his own publicist in the '80s and '90s under the names john miller or john barron. >> not a lot of options, and frankly, he gets call bid everybody. he gets called by everybody in the book. >> despite previously admitting using both pseudonyms. >> is the campaign seriously claiming that that isn't mr. trump? >> i could barely understand it. if donald trump says it's not him, i believe it's not him. >> latest controversies amid continued efforts within the gop to mount a third-party candidate to derail him. ben sass and mark cuban both denying the job. >> they could hijack another party to get on the ballot. it's a suicide mission for the country. >> a rough weekend for donald trump, carol. at least positive news when it comes to the potential of a third party candidate, no real commitment so far. the path forward isn't clear. looks like the window is closing there. on the issue of women, donald trump can expect to be attacked going forward repeatedly. so these stories from "the new york times" obviously don't help. trump campaign has made very clear donald trump be

that you would plant stories saying to you are john miller or john barron.hat it was you on the phone. did you do that with regularity? me on thet was not phone. it doesn't sound me and it was not me. when was this, 25 years ago? >> the early 90's. trump: you are going so low to talk about whether i made a phone call 25 years ago under a presumed name? >> yes. trump: ok. the answer is no. let's get on to more current subjects. i know it's warm -- i know it's a wonderful for your listeners. donald trump, denying that he is john miller. york news" is writing about it as well. "does pretending to be john miller make him a liar unfit for the presidency? if we eliminated every politician who like to us we would be down to mother teresa and she is dead." story from "the new york daily news." hillary clinton is the subject of an editorial this morning. herhillary myth ignores reputation as the public has called her on dubious ethics with a penchant for lying, lying when it's necessary and when it isn't, her lies are so numerous and palpable it takes 13 minutes for

i don't think that the john miller, john barron fiasco hurt him at all.m. did you notice yesterday on the stump when she began to adapt some of his tonality in addressing him, i think that's a mistake for her. may i remind you of marco rubio and what happened when rubio tried to play at trump's level? she needs to play an elevated game and talk substance, leave the rest to him. and here's the key part. make sure that she selects a vice presidential candidate who can go toe-to-toe with this guy, because somebody is going to have to. >> it is interesting. i mean, even if you want to look at it strategically, the place he lines up best competitively with clinton, how both of them are disliked. play into unfavorable you're playing right into his hands. michael smerconish, thank you for the analysis. we'll see how primeraries turn out and take it from there. >>> what do you think? tweet us at "new day" or post your comment on facebook.com/newday. >>> and aides for paul ryan and donald trump meeting. is a united front on the way? or are the gaps just too wide?

jack hough, "barron's" senior editor and john petrides. what happened is after the rate hike, as small as it was, i think we have a chart, the dow was up a month later, 9.7%. the s&p was down, the nasdaq was down, that's not correct. the nasdaq was down 11.7%. so the markets were hammered after that tiny little rate hike. they're afraid of that happening again, right? >> there's many factors that went into the market sell-off. fed is not helping the market direction here by raising rates in december, stepping to the side in february, and now saying they may raise rates in june, two fed governors speaking next week so we'll see where they come out on fed policy. david: jack, it's been my policy, melissa agrees with me on this, the fact is that janet yellen does not want donald trump to win, she recognizes if the rates go up before the election, the same thing that happened in january would happen again. the market would be and i would make trump maybe not guarantee he gets in the white house, make it easier for him. >> did she send you an e

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john ald, uh... melania-witz. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: i'm sorry, melania-witz? >> i mean, barron mcjohnington. anyway, listen here, dummy. i was watching your show, and i don't like the lies you're telling about donald trump, who is my incredibly successful boss and definitely a different guy than me. laugh >> stephen: wait, you're saying that back in the 1990s donald trump did not pretend to be his own publicist? >> of course not. he didn't have time back then. he was too busy banging madonna, and jessica rabbit. >> stephen: look, mr. mcjohnington, jessica rabbit was animated. >> she sure was, if you know what i mean. we had loony tune sex. i mean, donald trump did. >> stephen: come on, you're obviously donald trump. >> i wish i was. the man is a god, an unstoppable force of charisma and sexual energy. sometimes i wish i could have sex with him myself. >> stephen: look, mr. mcjohnington-- >> who's that? >> stephen: it's you. >> not anymore. he got fired. i'm his new public >> stephen: look, mr. trump-- >> mr. trump is not available. he's making love to taylor swift on a boat mad

barron, baby. >> let's start with the phone call. let's take a listen to john miller talking about how madonna wanted to date donald trump back in 1991. >> she called and wanted to go out with them, that i can tell you. the people that you write about really are -- i mean they call. they just call. actresses, people that you write about call to see if they can go out with him. >> this is from a "people" magazine interview in 1991. donald trump says that was not me on that phone call. most people believe it is him, even his own pr in a long conversation talking about the many women who want to date him. it's funny. it's fun to listen to. does it tell us anything about him that we need to know? >> my initial reaction was was this option to be a movie in the 1980s? it is, you know, to your point, willie, this guy is running to be the commander in chief of the united states. do we want someone who is impersonating a publicist and basically prank calling new york media outlets, so much so that it became a running joke at the news desk of the "new york post." it rais

needham of "the hill," zack warmbrodt of politico, jon sopel of bbc, john gizzi from newsmax, and don lee from the "l.a. times," and laura barron-lopez of huff post, to start. >> hi. you are heading to china next month for the strategic dialogue for the economic relationship, and i would like to ask, against the backdrop of slowing global growth, china's increasing clout, and the u.s.' slight pivot toward a harder line toward china, what are the challenges you think the u.s. faces in regards to this relationship over the course of the next year? mr. lew: i think that the u.s.-china relationship -- i will limit myself to discussing the economic relationship -- but the u.s.-china economic relationship is one of the most important economic relationships in the world. we are the two largest economies in the world. the global economy will do well if we do well. it will suffer if we suffer. we have made clear in our dealings with china that they have to take steps that are good for china, but also good for the global economy, that there is a responsibility that comes with being one of the two largest economies in the world. i think w

barron. [applause] i'm honored, i'm honored to be john morgan for a little bit -- joan morgan for a little bit. i always wondered what it would feel like to be joan morgan, you know, with a sex change and not as brilliant as she is, but we're going to work with what we got. [laughter] these are all friends of mine. i happen to know some of the smartest people in the world. and this is just such an honor to extend this conversation that we often have offline in various fora into this particular situation. so let me introduce people who really need no introduction. to my right here, m.k. assan today. and you all know this -- that's right, give it up for him right there. [applause] best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, hip-hop artist and tenured professor at morgan state university. [cheers and applause] he can say what he want to say and still not get fired. [laughter] but it is a school that we know wouldn't do it anyway. he's the author of four books, and i'm holding in my hand here his memoir. he's serving at the sundance film festival now as a feature film fellow for the movie adapta

needham of "the hill," zack warmbrodt of politico, jon sopel of bbc, john gizzi from newsmax, and don lee from the "l.a. times," and laura barron-lopez of huff post, to start. >> hi. you are heading to china next month for the strategic dialogue for the economic relationship, and i would like to ask, against the backdrop of slowing global growth, china's increasing clout, and the u.s.' slight pivot toward a harder line toward china, what are the challenges you think the u.s. faces in regards to this relationship over the course of the next year? mr. lew: i think that the u.s.-china relationship -- i will limit myself to discussing the economic relationship -- but the u.s.-china economic relationship is one of the most important economic relationships in the world. we are the two largest economies in the world. the global economy will do well if we do well. it will suffer if we suffer. we have made clear in our dealings with china that they have to take steps that are good for china, but also good for the global economy, that there is a responsibility that comes with being one of the two largest economies in the world. i think w

john miller. [ laughter ] but i also think, i'm not gonna pick one. >> it's just me. >> i don't need anybody else. >> or he could go with barron. >> i think he's goingristie. i think donald trump loves a suck up and i think he loves that chris christie was the first out of the gate. >> that's my bet as well. that does it for us. thank you, panel. i'll be back here tonight at 8:00 p.m. for "all in." "mtp daily" with mark cuban, he's not hosting, he'll be a guest, starts right now. >>> if it's monday, the wait is over for hearing how donald trump and hillary clinton will tear each other down from now until november. but is there still room and time for a third person to jump into the fight? mark cuban's name is floating out there and tonight he's here. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. ♪ >>> and good

donald trump has used the alias john miller to pose as his own publicist in the early '90s, a new report has surfaced showing that trump also used the name donald barronfar back as 1980. how is anyone so lazy they can only be bothered to change half their name when going undercover? unless he didn't decide that until halfway through that he wanted to do it. "yes, this is donald barron. a different donald. a different donald and now i can say whatever i want. like how i, donald, just saw donald trump, not me barron, in the office gym and if that boy ain't hung like a horse, then my name's not donald j. barron, which it is. and if you don't believe me, just ask my wife, melania jones." [ laughter and applause ] that's good object work. so good at object work. melania trump has given an exclusive interview to "du jour magazine" in which she shot down accusations that she avoids the public eye. saying, "i'm not shy, i know what i want." and if it's anything like trump's previous wives, i'm guessing half of everything. [ laughter and applause ] authorities in spain are warning of a new trend called sex roulette parties in which one person in an orgy secret