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just yesterday we saw him in the oval office with a world leader when abc's john carl posed a question about whether or not he considering pardoning michael cohen if it ever came to that, the president snapped at john carl and said it was a stupid question. it's not a stupid question. it's on a lot of people's mind. it's a question the white house has not been able to answer. i think we see from the president but look at the president's cabinet and all the scandals that have unfolded. a lot of them have been years in the making but a lot of them have become public lick, or living in lobbyist furnished housing, a lot of those things come to life because of reporters. i think that answers just how important the reporters are to this without. >> ryan liza, what did you think? >> beating up on the press obviously nothing new but you really would like and expect the white house press secretary when asked about freedom of the press to be able to say unequivocally we support, you know, a free press. instead sarah sanders always says we support a free press but -- and here are the things we wo

as he left the white house this morning he didn't answer abc news john carl. >> did you get a chance to watch the comey interview, mr. president, mr. president, comey says you are morally unfit to serve. any reaction, sir? the president did take to twitter yesterday morning to fume. calling the fired fbi director slippery. worst director in history. tonight "nightline" brings you more on the story of truth and lies. >> you must tell the truth. it matters enormously. an extraordinary moment in american history with the former director of the fbi calls the president who fired him, destructive. >> i liken president trump in the book to a forest fire. going to do tremendous damage. going to damage those important norms. but a forest fire gives healthy things a chance to grow. >> promoting a higher loyalty, comey explains why he is stepping forward now. >> why the title, a higher loyalty? >> the title comes from a bizarre conversation with the president at dinner at the white house in january of last year. where he asked for my loyalty personally, as the fbity to theo people and the ens t

john carl asked sarah huckabee sanders about the comments the president made yesterday talking about rapists and mexico coming over the border. again, the question was president trump said yesterday that women are being raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. what was he talking about? she referred to an "l.a. times" story and john carl asked, is he saying that 80% of women coming across the border have been raped? her response was, no, we're saying that the drug smugglers, the traffickers, the coyotes, that has been up to 80%. the only mention of rape in the 8 "l.a. times" article refers to robberies are common in one incident in 2010. 72 kidnapped migrants were killed by a cartel in northern mexico. terrible, terrible, yes, but not quite this claim that 80% of women coming across the border have been raped. so just a fact check on that. the other big headline is scott pruitt. joining me now is nbc's peter alexander at the white house, also with us from the "washington post," is senior political reporter aaron blake who's been reporting on scott pruitt and maxwell, a forme

it's as predictable as a question from john carl. >> mr. president, what about mikele cohen. >> thank you very much. stupid question. greg: that's so enjoyable. this is why kanye feels so dangerous and trump unlike anything else, and leave it to trump to counter program with his own rally. what a great comparison to the correspondents dinner. look at the dinner. it's like a time share presentation at a retirement village. one is soul destroying and the other is full of fun. it feels like a rip in the universe. kanye and trump, bubbles are bursting and beliefs are appended. if this is what happens after sleeping with a porn star -- >> period. let's welcome tonight's guest. he's so wise owls come to here for advice. dr. drew pinsky. he's the man with the grand. tom shillue. she thought silence of the lambs was a romantic comedy. national review reporter kat timpf. is he considered a giant among giants. former wwe superstar my massive sidekick tyrus. greg: you claim to be a doctor. i'm interested in the psychological effect of trump wing on th

john decker, judy pace, john carl, and olivia knox. we will do a terrific job.b. no one can ever replace julie, who is in the audience tonight, but steve, with we're so thrilled to have you aboard. and of course, the whc a's attorney who does an amazing, amazing job for us. thank you. >> that's the president of the white house correspondent association. we're going to take a quick break and be right back with our special coverage. we're finally back out in our yard, but so are they. introducing scotts turf builder triple action. it kills weeds, prevents crabgrass and feeds so grass can thrive, guaranteed. our backyard is back. this is a scotts yard. does your business internet provider promise a lot? let's see who delivers more. comcast business gives you gig-speed in more places. the others don't. we offer up to 6 hours of 4g wireless network backup. everyone else, no way. we let calls from any of your devices come from your business number. them, not so much. we let you keep an eye on your business from anywhere. the others? nope! get internet on our gig-speed

a 40-year-old congressional rebel with a cause and john carl spent the day with him. >> he's been given more power over the federal budget than anybody in congress. paul ryan, the republican with the budget ax. >> 23 million. >> reporter: he's a little like the guy in the movie "dave" who sets out to fix the budget line by line. >> that's another 47 million. so this is good. >> reporter: but in the movie he only has to find $650 million in savings. ryan wants to cut several trillion over the next 10er years. >> how do you find the kind of savings you want to find? >> you literally go through it line by line. direct loans. a new spending on autopilot and it gave the illusion they were cutting spending. >> that's the paul ryan party trick he does with reporters. open to any page. i'll find you wasteful spending on any page. you thought your burping the alphabet routine was good. no, no, try opening the budget. boom, i'd kill that. yes, there were party poopers who pointsed oout in that televised interview, that one random thing he pummed out of the budget at random, it's something that sa

it's as predictable as a question from john carl. >> mr. president, what about michael cohen? are you -- >> thank you very much stupid question. [laughter] greg: this is why kanye feel so dangerous and trump, unlike anything else, leave it to talk to once again counter program with his own rally. what a great comparison to the correspondent dinner? look at the dinner. at the timeshare presentation at a retirement village. look at the rally -- it's club med on the clothing optional night. one is still destroying but the other is fun. this feel like a rip in the universe. kanye west and trump and kim and moon and the media doesn't get it but you do. bubbles are bursting and beliefs are appended. this is what happens after sleeping with a porn star -- [laughter] let's welcome tonight's guest, he's so wise, i will come to him for advice. most of the radio show doctor drew. [cheering and applause] he's the man with a friend who's never had a tan. fox news radio host tom. [cheering and applause] she thought silence of the lambs with a romantic comedy. kat sims. [cheering and applaus

think he was, again, letting that frustration show publicly, but it is not a stupid question that john carld. this is the president of the united states, his personal attorney who is now caught up in this investigation, it is a very legitimate question for journalists to be asking him about at this point. >> and admiral kirby, back to the issue of france and the united states. it strikes me that for president macron, the friendship with president trump is a means to an end. for president trump, it is an end in and of itself. it seems as if what he cares most about is the appearance of a friendship, joking about removing a speck of dandruff from the shoulder of the french president. >> yeah. right. he believes -- trump believes it is about relationships and anything can be done with a warm and friendly relationship. but to the degree this is a actual friendship and i don't know that it really is, it is because macron has put so much energy into building it and to crafting it. and he knows that trump is a transactional guy. he loves the respect and the homage, he's transactional. macron is eq

. >> reporter: so you see there, kate, of course, the president was asked a question by abc news john carl about if the united states pulls out of the iran deal and iran starts the nuclear program and the president issuing a threat, saying there will be a big price to pay. that wasn't the only thing that caught the president's attention as the reporters were asking questions. generally in these settings, they're making electe inine ini statements. but the president was asked if he was considering a pardon for his long time attorney michael cohen, something that has been in debate lately with the president's legal team, saying they believe that michael cohen could end up cooperating with the federal officials who were investigating him for his business dealings, some which have to do with president trump this was president trump's answer there, sitting next to another world leader, when asked if he was going to consider a pardon for cohen. >> thank you very much. stupid question. >> reporter: so you see his face there, he was clearly quite irritated by that question. he said it was a stupid

. >> and also an interesting moment, jonah, when a reporter, i think it was john carl from abc askedmp whether he would pardon michael cohen under criminal investigation. take a listen. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> thank you very much. stupid question. go ahead. anybody else? it. >> stupid question. it doesn't seem all that stupid to me. it seems like a very legitimate question. he keeps talking about pardons. >> yeah, he's giving them away like oprah with presents under the chair. and i understand why he doesn't want to talk about it then and there but it is obvious he is thinking about it and sending the signals about it. i think it would be a terrible idea particularly before you find out what it is exactly that they are looking at about michael cohen. it is one thing to do it after you find out what the charges are and maybe they don't touch you and you could do it in the spirit of mag nomminity but to do it preemptively which would seem like a cover-up. >> and an interesting moment and story that cnn broke, the president using his personal phone -- cell phone to contact people

sandberg, their 3 children and their two grandchildren, john, carl and paul are.the home was 6000 ft. and this is sandberg was able to use recycled material to line house with bookshelves that show his collection of 16,000 books. sandberg was hesitant to leave his home in michigan. mrs. sandberg had designed it, it perfectly fit his work schedule. there was a lovely room upstairs for him to work quietly for the rest of the house and not be disturbed by his wife or children in a dairy farm operation and he wanted to make sure his books and everything arrived to just as he had it in michigan, he was in the middle of a big project and he wanted to make sure all his materials arrived and that he could find them when the family arrived, so they sold every book off the shelf, put it in a marked crate, identified where it was in the new home in 20 arrived a month later after the books were loaded on the first train car, he was able to sit down in his study in the same location and then he felt settled and was pleased with his new home. carl sandberg's daily schedule, he

the other one what happened to be the question from john carl about would he pardon michael cohen?eve that question came from carl. >> sandra: what struck many of us was the talk of the relationship between the two leaders, macron commented on their excellent personal relationship which he wanted to thank the president for. the president started off by wiping something off the french president's shoulder saying we need to make him perfect. he is perfect. and he, too, weighed in on the significance of their warm relationship. >> bill: you sometimes need a friend to do that, don't you? >> sandra: i'll do it for you. >> bill: likewise, too, but off camera. to hear him go after tehran repeatedly. what kind of a deal is it? he said that several times. he has major problem with what happened during the obama years and the deal that kerry and obama cut with regard to the cash that was delivered to tehran to get the deal done. >> sandra: the president weighed in multiple times on the iran deal and said it was a disaster. he goes into the extended meeting with the french president. he said

i think we see john carl there from abc, accepting an award or introducing one of the next ones.re over trump over the last year? >> i think all of it. like i said, i think this press journalism here in washington has been doing an outstanding job and covering every aspect. you've seen reporters in washington, i've been here over ten years, than you've ever had before. we have a president whose attacking the fir amendmest amen a regular basis. he's doing ridiculous things he shouldn't do to open up libel laws. it's an extraordinary time and to see journalism thriving in this town, still suffering in a lot of other parts of our country of the industry, but to see it thriving here in the face of that is remarkable. >> now, david it makes you proud to be part of an institution like this one. my colleagues that were both on capitol hill and in the white house do deserve a break. >>> stay with us you're watching msnbc's continuing coverage of the white house correspondents' dinner. michelle wolf coming up after this. >> i stand by this man because he stands for things, not only for th

so i think that was john carl from abc, succeeded in that way.it a little bit. stuart: and that's considered a success, chris, really? on the part of our media? >> i didn't -- well, first of all, i work for the fox news channel, and i don't work at abc. i'm saying that in the mind of the questioner, i presume they think it was a success because they got the president riled up, and he took the bait. now that's that. now, the reason it's a pointless question is we have no idea what michael cohen's going to be charged with. we have no idea what, if anything, he's going to be charged with, what kind of crimes are involved here, do they relate to the president, do they not relate to the president. it's way too early in the criminal justice process to determine what kind of trouble cohen's in and whether or not it's germane to the president or whether he might pardon him. it's just too soon to say. stuart: i'm not trying to draw you out in this, chris finish. [laughter] i'm really not. but i'm fit to be tied. i think the behavior of the american media

a little more ways to go not far from session highs let's get over to sully and the half >> carl, morgan, johno halftime. i'm brian sullivan in for scott wapner the dow within striking distance of what some are calling a very important technical level. the 50-day moving average. the number to watch is 24,620. 24,620, and there will be a quiz write that down. joining us for the hour is joe, jim, steve, josh, and kevin o'leary, chairman of o-shares etfs a pretty good day on our hands dow is u

preventing the women and the children from returning home we asked aid worker mohammed sort of carl and radio host john gone for their views on how family members of extremists should be dealt with. people should be treated fairly we need to find out if these people are associated with cherish if they are associated with terrorism then to office far as i'm concerned we need said the strong message out we've got to be careful with this situation nothing iraqis are going to treat these people with respect but by the same token they've got to put the protection of the majority of citizens first we're talking about the islamic state here. this is just an alarm for us to pay attention of what we can and do in the post isis so if their ministry has this will be with us we ask for join we ask for the u.n. to send transparent independent. organization to to look into making sure those camps regardless of the how the member of isis be soon or of how we can make sure the cycle of violence to not continue because those ninety two women or the children though tomorrow they're going to take arms against the governm

a little more ways to go not far from session highs let's get over to sully and the half >> carl, morgan, john, thank you all. welcome to halftime. i'm brian sullivan in for scott wapner the dow within striking distance of what some are calling a very important technical level. the 50-day moving average. the number to watch is 24,620. 24,620, and there will be a quiz write that down. joining us for the hour is joe, jim, steve, josh, and kevin o'leary, chairman of o-shares etfs a pretty good day on our hands dow is up 209 points the s&p and that dacand the russell rising as well small caps continuing to do well joe, are you surprised by the recent resilience? this is a market two weeks ago, we were having primetime market in turmoil suddenly, everything is great. what's changed >> i think what the best condition we could talk about is volatility that's historic in 2018 when the vix this morning trading down to 1675, you haven't seeb that level since march 21st that's something to be encouraged about i have been talking about trying to get away from predicting where the next 10% of the s&p is go

i'm carl with john fortt and morgan brennan starting today is officially co-anchor on this program.d to have you, given how much amazing work you've done covering all kinds of sectors. we are glad to know you are going to be at the desk every day. >> so thrilled to be here. like the best team in television so thank you for having me. >> with you here it is, morgan brennan. watching the markets today, as the sell-off continues, dow down 138, session high up 163 as the banks got sold on jpmorgan and citigroup's print. first up thebattle between bezos and trump is heating up. the president formed a task force to study the finances and operations of the usps the executive order ten days after he went after amazon on twitter for making the postal service its delivery boy claiming the postal service is losing many billions of dollars a year due to its financial arrangement with the e-commerce giant. joining us this morning, stephanie meta at fast company with us and kevin delaney editor and chief. happy friday. >> thanks. >> people are trying to do some rigorous work on the structure of t

everybody's choking now time's up ♪ ♪ snap back to reality oh, there goes gravity ♪ >> i'm carl quintanilla with john is up 475. despite the rally, the dow is the worst performer of the major averages in 2018, down about 1%. hey, bob. >> the rally is holding. the question is how much does the market care about progress on trade issues? it cares an awful lot. 10:00 p.m. eastern time. chinese president xi jinping and we went up 30 points in 30 minutes, almost 300 points on the dow. and that's continued to sustain itself here. the president, president xi talked about opening up his country, specifically more to financial firms and insurance companies. we have some big financial firms that are up nicely this morning, jp morgan, black rock, invesco, for example. 2.5%, holding on to that lower auto tariffs not only u.s. automakers but european ougautomakers, dimelers up this morning. sectors, i love the action when semis and industrials lead and financials and i am particularly happy that energy is strong and i think it's more than just the fact that oil is up nicely today. they're startingto emerge as lea

john hart reports. >> thousands of people gathered outside for a memorial prayer service were mayor carl stokes asked for a continuing. for a memorial prayer service >> you can kill a man, but you cannot kill an idea. the idea and the ideal for which dr. martin luther king's book, for which he lived and for which he died, will continue to live in this country. it will continue to live in this city. despite the sorrow on all of us today, there will be a resurgence of him being right and that we will overcome. >> with martin luther king gone, who could take his place in the leadership of the nation's negro moderates? whitney young was asked about this after attending a meeting with the president. >> who do you see will take over leadership? >> the president of the united states, the congress, i just don't see this kind of separation any more. i think i am a leader of whatever color. i think the people who would engage in violence, whether black or white, they are not leaders of decent people. i think the problem is decent people versus indecent people. it is clearly a question of right thinking people

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i'm carl quintanilla with jon fortt, morgan brennan at ge's shareholder meeting outside of pittsburgh. the first annual meeting for johnnnery who took the reigns in august a lot more is coming up. we are watching the markets try to bounce back from early losses, down about 200 points early in the session in and out of so-called correction territory. after that big move in rates we've seen, 10-year is holding above the 3% mark today that started the year as you know at 2.41 dick is the former chairman and ceo of wells fargo and can talk about the macro and financial backdrop good to have you back. good morning. >> good morning. >> lot of discussion about what higher rates mean this time around given record levels of global debt and business debt nominal to gdp is 3% some magic number for you? >> no. i'm surprised it took us this long, frankly, to get to 3%. i think the bond market is saying that the growth, international growth, is going to continue. the stock market not so much but i think the bond market is right. i think we'll see increasing rates. you know, if you take historical perspective, the 3% is still a very,

must get wall funding tacfast we'll go down to miami, where our john harwood is joined by former mexico president vicente fox. >> thanks, carl. president, there are three possibilities for nafta. one, we stick with the old nafta, already in effect second, a deal gets struck and the countries ratify, we have a new one. third, there is no deal and president trump rips it up what do you expect to happen >> number one, what a surprise that morning when he was tweeting, we were speaking here at this great conference totally different points of view i'm sure he's trying to impress his base, his electorate, because he's convinced that a better nafta is to the benefit of the united states that will be the result, a better nafta that benefits canada, the united states, and mexico >> a better nafta for the united states or better nafta for mexico as well >> trading is always to the benefit of the three, canada, united states, and mexico. there is only winners, not zero sum like trump pretends to tell people, that you can only win when others lose that doesn't work in trading >> given the nature of his views on immigration and trade wh

john hart reports. >> thousands of people gathered outside and inside the church in cleveland for a memorial prayer svts, where mayor carl stokes asked for a continuing. >> you can kill a man but you cannot kill an idea. and the idea and the ideals for which dr. martin luther king stood, for which he lived and for which he died will continue to live in this country. will continue to live in this city. and despite the sorrow upon -- under which all of us today feel so heavily, there will on the morrow be a resurgence of the confidence that he was right and that we will overcome. >> with martin luther king gone, who can take his place in the leadership of the nation's negro moderates? whitney young, the head of the national urban league, was asked about this after attending a white house meeting with the president. >> mr. young, whom do you see who can take over leadership now that dr. king is gone? who will be the moderating force? >> the president of the united states and the congress, and i just don't see this kind of separation anymore. i think i'm a leader of decent people, of whatever color. i think the people who wo

john, everybody listened. >> indeed. especially her sons. jamie, thank you very much. >> joining me now, carl the story and the auth are on of more than a dozen books about first ladies. you sat down for an interview with barbara bush back in 1994. what do you remember most about her? >> well, that there are few moments where we had -- i wouldn't say disagreement, but i asked her about people who were independents and she said, oh, that's a cop-out. you should be either a democrat or a republican. a moment that i really remembered was in asking her about what she herself might have wanted to pursue as a young woman and she explained that she didn't really have a chance to even think about that because she met the man she loved at 16, and really, he became, in a sense, her career, but she also made a very good point, which is that many women, all women work. it's just that some of them get paid and others don't. >> we're looking at video right now of you interviewing barbara bush in 1994 and wonderful to see her there. in this political environment and said that barbara bush was in politics an

carl dingis. he's up there. >> all the way up. [applause] i work for leslie equipment, we're a john deere dealership. and last week we were at a cat training facility. you are the competition, speaking about the infrastructure and how you were going rebuild the american infrastructure. that's a blessing to hear for our company. you know, my job as a parts manager is to make sure our dealership has the parts in stock to take care of the machine to keep the infrastructure running, so just job security, that's good to know. you know, we also, you know, coal fields are big around our area. you know, it's good to see that coming back. me and my wife, we are members of a large car show in the area. it benefits a lot of charities, the biggest being hospice of southern west virginia. it's great to be able to see you supporting the industries that really supports those charities and that event. the big reason we're here is our family was blessed a lot by the tax cuts. i'm going to introduce my wife now, elizabeth. she can tell you exactly how that's been a blessing to our family. >> thank you for being here,

south korea across a variety of issues carl and i have to say when they are i'd say let me interrupt you for just a moment because we're getting more now what john has been saying and the session i think this is important he says that we don't want to repeat of the past where we were able to fulfill our agreement so it seems to be obviously his acknowledging that they see things that happened before and nothing really fruitful came out of it. oh yeah that's great that he's acknowledging it but now it's the question of whether or not north korea can actually live up to its side of the agreement of course there is plenty of blame to be pushed around on both sides some people say that the u.s. in previous agreements didn't deliver on its and you know the prime example being the delivery of heavy fuel oil but there are a number of numerous occasions where south or north korea rather has decided that it was going to walk away from an agreement the primary example of this is the leap day deal which was signed i believe in two thousand and twelve or twenty thirteen that was supposed to put a moratorium on missile launches and then essentially one day o

carl quintanilla and david faber. dow is down 72 points. this is the first time the new ceo johnt with shareholders for their meeting morgan brennan is at the meeting and joins us with the latest good morning >> good morning. so this meeting started just a little over 30 minutes ago in this building right behind me. john flannery, ceo and chairman taking the stage they're now moving into q&a with shareholders as we speak but really meet with the shareholder base and retirees for the first time in this position saying that -- reiterating the need to make ge simpler and stronger adding there are important changes at all levels of the company under way right now, including the board which is seeing its mixed change and its number drop from 18 directors down to 12 today at this meeting. also the quote, we are keenly aware of the pain our share performance and dividend cut have caused. these are steps we've taken with much deliberation. talking about the fact they are in the middle of a rede tailed three-year forward look and strategy for the businesses but saying that, quote, highly

i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer joining us on set fresh from announcing the massive long talked about merger. ceo of t-mobile and ceo of sprint johnegre and marcelo claure. did you see it happening >> i'll let marcelo chime in we've been thinking about this for a long time. there's been gyrations as to whether it could get through from a price or government standpoint one thing that was never confused, these two companies made sense together and the 5g aspects that are critical for the country and us was the flipping point as to this is the time and it makes great sense. >> all right marcelo, is my bill going to go up how could it not in the end, competition, free market competition brings down prices. >> ask him who his provider is his bill is going down he has the dumb and dumber. >> you never told me which was dumber. >> at&t has solidly moved into the dumber solidly all in i mean, that egg they laid the other day. come on. >> right we've been clear in this merger what would make the merger unique is we're set to build the world's most advanced 5g network and the combination of our companies allow us to do that. we made a commi