the president called gary koen [indiscernible] in front of others.moves over to a couch in the oval office and him moving over, that's when this was really settled. the president knew he was going to get what he was saying. he was going to get tariffs. >> congress has authority here. the constitution says this should be set by congress and any tariff or thing like this. the president was appealing to national security concerns, saying you need factories and steel resources out of national security concerns. not like there's not an argument for that but the law lets you enact tariffs. this is an attempt for an end run. >> you saw how that went over with canada. one of our best allies. for him to invoke is completely unacceptable, especially in canada and other places. >> not going well around the globe. if trump uses this as negotiating tactic, it undermines the argument that he was a national security threat to begin with. >> it is also true that the u.s. has lower tariffs than everybody else. for people to act like this is, if it is unacceptable for

aluminum imports and you can see a lot of good things happening and that was apparently too much for koen who reportedly spent weeks warning the president that protectionist policies would only harm u.s. interests and anger key allies. there is literally nothing to be guy and. in the united states at all from imposing tariffs on a stride in steel exports so that's so we've made a very strong case and. we're continuing to mike attention now turns to who will take cones place at the podium where the president is denying rumors of a shortage of top flight candidates individuals so many people want to come in i have a choice of anybody i could take any position in the white house and i'll have a choice of the ten top people having to do with that position everybody wants to be there and they love this white house because we have energy like rarely before the other really as gary cohn prepares to leave the white house markets are once again on edge amid fears the president could now be free to launch a full scale trade war. as how all this goes down on the markets that spring in only bots at t

right now the president's conduct is consuminger, and there it's polls that say voters want a koens that stands up, or original about facing a referendum, or warning how suburban voters threaten the gop's grip on the house. today the white house was asked about the presidentacy morals, and they answered by pivoting to his agenda. >> i think that the people of this country came on the by the millions to support donald trump, support his agenda and the policies he is pushing forward. he has been delivering day in/day out on that front. i think the people that came out and supported him still do so, and do so because they believe the agenda that he was driving, and he's been delivering on that since he came into office. >> they were asked about the president's alleged affair with the porn star, and their answer was pretty clear that they want this story to go away. >> the president has addressed this, we have addressed it extensively. there's nothing else to add. just because you continue to ask the same question over and over and over again doesn't mean we have to keep up coming with new t

someone with neo nazi sympathies that person is now going on trial but because of the developments koen had been under pressure to resign in no small part because he's a jewish american person and the idea that he would serve in a government where the president basically said that there were people who were violating the laws and disrespecting people's right to protest on both sides really put his reputation in jeopardy back then there have been some reports suggesting that carrie kahn even had drafted a resignation letter but may have been tossed out of it in recent days the rumor has been that because of the president's decision to impose steel and al minium a tariffs on other countries that cone essentially had lost the fight to prevent those tariffs from being an imposed because he has a reputation as believing in free trade and so there is this suggestion that between charlottesville and now these new tariffs on state steel and al minium that gary condit has decided that he's had enough rosen thank you. russia's military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fight

just this question of did -- was it signed about it president, it is also the question of has michael koenng the statements said things that have nulified the agreement? it's really a lot broader. >> i think he's right to and i think anderson knows this, but my guess is that there is documentary evidence that they don't want out. otherwise, they would not be fighting this. >> that's part of the agreement too. >> right. >> yeah. >> how likely -- the president attached himself on to this case when it switched to federal court. why would he do that if according to michael kohn this has nothing to do with the president? >> there is a new lawyer. he is very skilled. knows what he is dealing with. he knows what the field requires of him and there is no way they're going to get any action if trump says he's not in there. if they don't have all parties. then they give avanetti an argument. they figured it out. they know what they have to do. you have to have all parties in there and they're going to argue it doesn't matter if he signed the agreement anyway because it's an adopted admission by his