closer to some of these issues, including foreign agents registration act alleged violations. >> ken vogel, paul butler, mimi rocca, thank you for our lively conversation. next i'm joined by ken stein, maria teresa kumar. first, president trump's $12 billion bailout for the farm industry being hit hard by tariffs. apparently isn't the answer some gop lawmakers were looking for. we're back after this. so all this hysteria is a lot to do about nothing. >> right. >> can of diet coke getting expensive because of the 10% tariff on imported aluminum, which makes this can more costly to produce. >> welcome back. coca-cola says it expects to pass on higher prices to consumers because of those tariffs and now global auto powers like japan, mexico, the european union and south korea are preparing to meet next week to discuss a response to the president's threats to impose new tariffs on automobiles and car parts. and as soon as september, farmers will be getting a $12 billion aid package designed to help them bounce back as a result of aggressive tariff policies. for more on all of this, i want to b

closer to some of these issues, including foreign agents registration act alleged violations. >> ken vogelhank you for our lively conversation. next i'm joined by ken stein, maria teresa kumar. first, president trump's $12 billion bailout for the farm industry being hit hard by tariffs. apparently isn't the answer some gop lawmakers were looking for. we're back after this. >> we want trade, not aid. >> my farmers don't want aid, not trade. >> we want trade, not aid. >> give me trade, not aid. so you have, your headphones, chair, new laptop with 24/7 tech support. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes start them off right. with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. save $200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax. welcome to holiday inn! thank you! ♪ ♪ wait, i have something for you! every stay is a special stay at holiday inn. save up to 15% when you book early at hollidayinn.com could help them save money on car insurance? yea,that and homeowners, renters, motorcycle and boat insurance. huh.that's nice. what happens when you catch a fish?

. >> ken vogel wrote that story, he joins me now. >> rick gates got $300,000 combined for informationministration. that's a lot of money, ken. >> yeah, it is. what's notable is that not necessarily you have close associates of the president who finds themselves in high demand at the beginning of the presidency when people are trying toto navigate. rick gates at this time is already under scrutiny from mueller. a whiff of scandal would be enough to urge the president and keep the president and his allies from letting someone like that hang around, let alone inside the white house. here you had no such concerns and in fact that kind of raises questions about maybe these donors are trying to essentially subsidize rick gates so that he may be more incline to try to fight an illegal case that may come out of this scrutiny. instead as we know, he ended up pleading guilty and flipping in large part because he did not twoo want to face the cause of what paul manafort is facing. >> a close friend of president trump. why would he need to pay gates $20,000 a month to help navigate the new trump

. >> ken vogel, introduce us to the man that's the deputy of the epa at the interim of the environmental protection. tell us a bit of andrew wheeler and his background and what he may do here with environmental protection agency? >> as you just lobbyiest and he concerns for some of those advocates cheering scott pruitt to mind. andrew wheeler knows these and has a longer record of washington of being an effective low profiler player. when you combine the ability with the same sort of deregulatory inclination as scott pruitt has, it is a recipe to continue and maybe even escalate the type of deregulation around things like obama's era, clean power plant that regulated carbon emissions to cooler plants. he >> jake, i want you to weigh on this as well. this was an astonishing editorial today. the one line, what it claims remarkably that the swamp claims scott kroopruitt. you talk about andrew wheeler here, he may say a creature of the swamp. he knows it well and the corridors and the principles and the players, how different do you think he's going to make the institution when he's running

one of the reporters on that story, ken vogel joins us now from "the new york times." ken, it's a fascinating read. it goes deep into some of the geopolitical cross currents between the uae and qatar and the sort of layers that the special counsel has peeled off, and that's the practice of selling access to this white house and this president. can you pull that thread through for us? >> yeah, absolutely, nicolle. one of the things that you just alluded to, that these payments came even as rick gates was emerging as a key figure in mueller's investigation and investigation of congressional committees looking into connections between trump and russia, it is notable. because in past administrations, as you know, when there was someone who was ahanger-on, or even an insider, the white house and administration and people around the white house went to great lengths to keep that person away from the inner circle. and here you have rick gates, not only continuing to have access, but selling his access to other people who presumably would have their own access here, which raise

adrian elrod, ken vogel, guys, thank you very much. matter. >> thanks, katie. >>> we are still watching the white house. we will be hearing from president trump at 2:00 p.m. it's the first time he will be speaking after helsinki. he has been facing waves of criticism. not just from democrats but from republicans as well. criticism on fox news. criticism on the drudge report. criticism from newt gingrich. it's coming at him from all sides. what will he say? will he be listening or will he keep praising vladimir putin? we'll see. stay with us. . my life is here... [telephone ring] ahoy-hoy. alexander graham bell here... no, no, my number is one, you must want two! two, i say!! like my father before... [telephone ring] like my father before... ahoy-hoy! as long as people talk too loudly on the phone, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. so let's promote our summer travel deal on choicehotels.com like this. surfs up. earn a $50 gift card when you stay just twice

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for more i'm joined by ken vogel, political reporter for the "new york times," and caroline polici, aeral and white-collar criminal defense attorney. ken, let me start with you. when you're in the legal situation michael cohen is in, you don't just randomly give sit-down interviews to national television networks. there had to be a purpose here. what do we think that was? >> well, there are a couple possibilities. number one is he is signaling his willingness to strike a deal with prosecutors. possibly to cooperate, to give them something on trump. this would be an unusual way to do that. typically those types of deals are reached in private and prosecutors don't like you going out and talking a lot when you're either cooperating with them or you are in the process of reaching a deal under which you would cooperate with them. that leads us to the second possibility that he might be sending a signal to none other than his former boss donald trump suggesting either that -- as we said, more than suggesting that he would not sort of sit idly by if the trump folks tried to roll on him and