the butler at mar-a-lago center close back from mar-a-lago to her.a week later he had wooed her back and she told aides she is sending her close back to mar-a-lago. a wonderful little vignette about melania is on the apprentice they were filling in their apartment at trump tower and donald was there and melania was there shipping champagne and one of the contestants said to melania you are very lucky and she motioned over towards trump and said he's not lucky? this is a really sharp woman with a great sense of humor everybody who has any encounter with her is impressed . >> she has a tremendous residence out there and so i'm glad that you're doing your part of showing us that the president. >> so let's talk about the secret bunker that's on the north lawn. >> the presidents classified into things that you also talk about about protecting the president. i wonder is that making him at risk? are you saying too much to expose some of what you do? how do you make those calls? >> i would not reveal anything that was about to happen that might undercut that

generally, let me say that the mar-a-lago meeting had a very good atmosphere to it. our leaders played, of course, golf again and even had a cheeseburger to bite. i don't know when you could call it cheeseburger diplomacy rather than golf diplomacy, but they spent a long time -- i think all together seven hours or something -- together and had a very, very good and in-depth discussions about which i think i was involved. of course, i was not able to be involved in their discussions at the time, the two leaders and their first ladies had nice, gorgeous dinner alone, by themselves. only with the interpreters. and, of course, i was not able to join when they played golf on the cart and the green. but otherwise i think i was there with my prime minister, so i think i can be in a position to tell how rich and how really spontaneous and how their friendship's evolved based upon already good personal relations between the two leaders. when the president was in japan in november, i was still vice minister at the top of the bureaucracy. there was a photo in the papers of him

then i headed the state in preparations for the meetings of leaders in palm beach, mar a lago. eager to start connecting beyond the beltway, i also did a west coast tour, visiting japanese-american leaders and the national japanese-american museum in los angeles, and going to go to the -- join another cherry blossom festival in san francisco. therefore, i now rolled twice. in nice open car d -- i rode twice in nice open car. one was a 1948, really good gigantic american made open car here in washington, dc, in eastern side of this country, and then newly made gorgeous convertible ford in san francisco, so i can claim to twice, both eastern side and western side to take ride in open car in the cherry blossom festivals. somewhere in through went to richmond to meet its governor, as well as the first ladies. i also went to fredericksburg, texas, for the rededication of the japanese peace guardian of the national museum of the pacific war. i came back from d.c. just only two or three days ago. just stay overnight there. but so i been rather so busy, going to see -- many people not

generally let me say that the mar-a-lago meeting had a very good atmosphere to it. our leaders played of course golf again, and even had a cheeseburger to bite. i don't know whether you could call it cheeseburger diplomacy rather than golf diplomacy, but they spent a long time i think altogether seven hours of something together and had a very, very good and in-depth discussions about which i think i was involved. of course i wasn't not only involved in their discussions at the time, the two leaders and their first ladies had nice dinner alone by themselves, only with the interpreters here and, of course, i was not able to join when they played golf on the cart, on the green. but otherwise i i was a with my prime minister, so i think i can be in a position to tell how rich and how really spontaneous and how their friendships evolved based upon the relations between the two leaders. when the president was in japan in november, i was still vice minister of the bureaucracy. there was a photo in a paper of him giving the prime minister a fist bump. i think that might be

posted saying he was happy to see cohen at #mar-a-lago.chael cohen to quote check in before cohen appeared in court regarding his office raid. again, the white house down-playing his relationship. >> the president has many attorneys. >> reporter: michael cohen's own lawyer painted a picture of more than a relationship. before trump became president, nearly constant contact between the two men. >> michael cohen got calls at 3:00 in the morning. >> reporter: has that changed after more than a decade of michael cohen being at trump's side? perhaps, there are own two men who know the answer to that. so michael cohen was one of the originals who pushed for donald trump to run for president. back in 2011, he started a web side called should trump one. and as much as the white house has been trying to distance donald trump from michael cohen, michael cohen still feels strongly about the president and clearly supports him. he told "vanity fair" magazine that i am the guy who protects the president and his family. i am the guy who would take a bull

it was to go down to mar-a-lago.out why he pulled out of the dinner at the very last moment. you do get the sense that we are coming to a head on the mueller investigation, at least the part of it that relates most directly to president trump which would be the obstruction of justice assertions or allegations by some. you have a sense of this investigation is coming to a conclusion that they are really close to the point where they would fish or cut bait on whether president trump himself will testify in the sense that there may, in fact, be an inclination on the part of the special counsel, if possible, to wrap that part of it up soon enough that he cannot be accused of meddling in the midterm elections, which is one of the more recent charges we're hearing from the white house. >> peter baker, this underlines the president's mentality and his view of the presidency which is that he is a king surrounded by a court of people, including his fbi director of whom he asked loyalty, james comey at the time and now we're l

you saw that joint press conference immediately after the mar-a-lago meeting that first evening. that was your president, donald trump, started saying at the outset that he should stand tody to do what he can do urge north korea leader kim jong-un to release these abductees. my prime minister, it is only natural. he felt a kind of friendship and he felt a kind of friendship and thoughts from the u.s. presence. this is very important to us so many people in this country don't understand how deeply this runs in japan, but i do believe by that statement, i think understanding becomes much deeper. citizensne if american were abducted from beaches in maine, oregon, or kidnapped in their home. how would your people feel, that is exactly what is happening. way, yesterday, just before i came, i was with the education and science minister today, i am going to host a dinner for minister kato, together with the abductee families. two leaders, as i was going to say, strongly agree that japan and the u.s. continue to be fully aligned on everything, including north korea, which seems to be the

it's not at mar-a-lago. so tell the story. so you're having lunch, and there's the president. - and the president calls ruddy over, and i come up behind ruddy and ruddy says, mr. president, i have mike schmidt of the new york times with me, and the president looks up at me as if what are you doing in my golf club? and then he says, oh michael, and he remembered our interview in july. - in the white house. - in the white house, and he thought that we had treated him fairly. and i went up and i shook his hand and he immediately launched into a thing about salt. it's state and local taxes. something i know very little about, but they had just passed the tax bill and he was very, very proud of that, and wanted to be his best own spokesman. and starts going on and on with me about that. and the problem is, i really wanted to interview the president, but i didn't have my recorder out. - is that why you went to the golf club? - um. - you were just gonna have lunch. - chris ruddy asked me to have lunch. we knew the president was gonna

of 37 million pretty significant bump down there for mar-a-lago revenue he made that up at the d.c.fice hotel there, a lot of fund-raisers and political events being held there. that revenue had more than doubled over the past year from 20 million to 40 million that's going to be the headline we're going to see a lot tonight and tomorrow when people look at how much that is it justified some other interesting points here he had some stock sales, among the top was apple. he sold and had a capitol gain of apple between 100,000 and a million. caterpillar and pepsi sold for a smaller amount some of the businesses that had strong revenue at least, we don't know how they compared to last year, that was a $75 million revenue number for him pretty big gain off the last year, and you have turnberry hotels, the trump national, all those courses around 15 to 17 million. those were roughly in keeping with last year, i suspect the big headlines from this again will be that decrease at mar-a-lago due again to a lot of the optics and politics where the not for profits didn't want to have events th

cohen is not a member of mar-a-lago and would have needed an invite.n instagram, cohen is seen in a photo embracing mark burns, who posted, saying he was happy to see cohen two days ago at mar mar-a-la mar-a-lago. and more recently, on april 13th, "the new york times" reported the president called michael cohen to, quote, check in, before cohen appeared in court regarding his office raid. again, the white house downplaying the relationship. >> the president has many attorneys, this isn't his only one. >> reporter: michael cohen's own lawyer painted a picture of a cozy relationship. >> this is not a normal relationship. this is much murl than an attorney-client relationship. >> and before trump became president, nearly constant contact between the two men. >> believe me, michael cohen got calls at 3:00 in the morning, michael and i would be at dinner, the boss would be calling all the time. >> reporter: so, has that suddenly all changed after more than a decade of michael cohen being at trump's side? perhaps there are only two men who know the answer to

to mar-a-lago. >> reporter: as for how it all affect the president's bottom line? we still don't know. mr. trump refuses to release his tax returns. this year, he filed for an extension. >> and kyra phillips with us live tonight from the white house. and kyra, president trump says he did not have to disclose his payment to michael cohen, that he did it in the interest of transparency, but the office of government ethics tonight saying that's not true, they've informed the justice department. >> reporter: that's right, david. ethics officials want to make sure the department of justice has all these documents. it's unclear, though, whether they're going to pursue an investigation, but there are questions tonight about whether the president was required to disclose this payment last year. david? >> kyra phillips leading us off tonight. kyra, thank you. >>> meantime tonight, the president dealing with something else, north korea. will the summit take place after all? tonight here, the first standoff before the summit, north korea now threatening to cancel the talks, t

>> it isn't unless mueller's attempts at obstruction dependant by the president at mar-a-lago in march of 2017 enkourng him him mueller will say this indicates the president was concerned and worried and wanted sessions back on the case. why would he want him back on the case? so i think it could pull the time line back earlier if obstruction is the special prosecutor's theory. >> dooupg do you think it expands? >> i say the president can't use unlawful power. he heights the recusal. if all things are equal. they have total power he would have shut it down. >> this is a deteriorate story, good reporting as always by maggie and the "time's" it's nothing new. the president made it quite clear, he's tweeted about it, talked about it, he's mentioned this isn't anything new, sessions in my view did the right thing by recusing himself. it would have been a conflict of interest on a campaign he was part of. that was why he did it. i think it was the right thing to do. in my view he should focus on something else, if he wants to focus on north korea, let's do. that. >> i guess the new details

getting him to mar-a-lago over this dinner with which they talked about the unrecusal. >> the timelineis fired may 9th. we read this interview with the president when he lashed out publicly about sessions' recusal. so there was no special counsel, comey wasn't fired yet. it's a strenuous effort. and he said, unrecused doesn't mean you try to stop the investigation. it may be an appropriate use of his authority. it certainly means there are probably more conversations with sessions that we don't know about. he is obviously a key witness for robert mueller. what is interesting, guiliani says he hasn't spoken with the president about it. all these questions and that readout. >> i'm not even sure if the word unrecused exists in the dictionary. the reason i say that is in years as a prosecutor or a defense attorney i've never seen somebody unrecuse himself. usually when a prosecutor says i'm out of the case, he stays out of the case. because it's a big decision in the first place. >> the quote guiliani said unrecused says on the face of it, take responsibility for it and handle it correctly

they say rory mcelroy, but last year he had such a backlash when he play with him at mar—a—lago.reign office officials ringing him and saying please, come play with this guy. it is a funny idea. we've lost for so many reasons, it is that we lost bruce forsyth and ronnie corbett because they would both be possibilities. not quite the level of profession i think he is looking for. they can find a politician to do their goal. this is a serious point, but i remember they said monday the reasons when obama started, he was learning the lesson about having to have a role in congress he was starting to play golf. a successful president and many peoples eyes. maybe as the secret of,, and future of his presidency. let's end on independence. buried in the top honour, but in some ways one of the biggest stories of the day. you see what government does talk about and it is busy talking about newjets and this, but in front of their eyes you have got the high street changing beyond recognition. of course shops changing beyond recognition. of course shops are changing beyond recognition. of cour

york times" first reported that two days after jeff sessions recused himself last march he flew to mar-a-lago met with the president where he first made that request, hey, overturn the decision to recuse yourself, go back to being in charge of the russia investigation. "new york times" reported that's something that special counsel robert mueller is looking at. we don't know if he is looking into multiple requests for jeff sessions to take back the recusal. mueller knows more about what is going on and what he is looking at, it could be one of the things he is looking at, could show that what mueller is looking to as far as obstruction and actions post election since in office could be much more widespread than previously believed. >> but it is all the same story. it is all the president using his power to try to limit the investigation of him. the reason he is going to jeff sessions and saying well, don't unrecuse yourself, it is not because he thinks it is good policy, he wants sessions to help him limit the russia investigation. and that's evidence of obstruction of justice. >> and it's a

the president has been very clear since the first resident -- meeting with president chien mar-a-lagohat we are going to reduce the trade deficit. we have an agreement with china that they will substantially agreed to it. reporter: both sides put out a statement where they also committed to work more closely together on intellectual property and also to increase the trade in manufactured goods. what this doesn't mark, though, is a significant shift in the policies coming out of they -- beijing. they have long talked of the desire to increase u.s. agricultural products and services. they have committed to that again and said they would ramp up those imports. that is something beijing has been talking about for quite some time. rishaad: that is one thing left unresolved, quite a lot else. there seems to be a lot of headlines, but not that much substance. certainly, one crucial topic that wasn't resolved was this suggestion by larry kudlow, the chief economic advisor to president trump, who said friday that china had committed to reducing the surplus by $200 billion u.s. we did not get c

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in which it was done, it was this direct ask from the president to jeff sessions at a dinner at mar-a-lagoay that this happened back in march 2017, after sessions recused himself from the russia investigation, he was at a dinner with the president, with trump at mar-a-lago, where the president began to berate jeff sessions, telling him he shouldn't recuse himself from the russian investigation, he should get back in. "the times" said this is a potentially inappropriate request, and jeff sessions refused, and as we know, the special counsel has been looking into obstruction. this, we're told, is part of that investigation. but the president's lawyers have been working, have been negotiating with mueller and his team to limit some of the questions that mueller wants to ask, including those about comey's firing. and really the overall picture, the overall investigation into obstruction. >> michael cohen, the president's long-time attorney, back in court today. what did we learn from that? >> reporter: this is the continuation of the document production, the review of the documents that michae

the president has been very clear since the first meeting with president xi in mar-a-lago that we are going to reduce the trade deficit. we have an agreement with china they will substantially agree to it we just comment that ultimately these are not government to government transactions. it's not a giant purchase order with us. >> and if you don't think words matter, they do. we're indicated now to open up 230 points higher. folks, you know this is one of the strongest moves for stock futures that we have seen in a long time. by the way, the treasury secretary will join cnbc about 8:00 a.m. eastern time this morning. much more on your morning coming up in moments. let's get your reaction to the comments from the other side of the trade story. that is china. eunice un is live for us in b n beijing. >> the term win-win is kind of used as a boilerplate for language the chinese use in order to describe diplomatic relations more generally however, the vice premier spoke to a reporter in washington and he said that this was constructive for both sides and very good for a couple of reasons.

mar-a-lago. $25 million in 2017. >> many of the world's great leaders request to come to mar-a-lago.cts the president's bottom mrtrp umreon't know. extension. ethics officials want to make sure the department of justice has all these documents. it's unclear whether they're going to pursue an investigation, but there are questions to whether the president was required to disclose this payment last year. kyra phillips, abc news, the white house. >>> the president's lead attorney rudy giuliani claims that even if special counsel robert mueller finds evidence of wrongdoing he will not indict president trump. they cannot in president, however, legal experts point out that is not a law but a long-standing policy ironically enough, this is the anniversary of the naming of that special counsel robert mueller. >> i'm sure he has a registry for all the gifts he's expecting. >>> and north korea's apparently angry over cs ntby john me he said the north should follow the exampl lofe aib nuclear weapons program without conditions. north korea is now threatening to cancel the summit next month sayi

week can't possibly have helped and chris ruddy not only president trump's friend but a member at mar a lago the president's club were supposedly he met with the tories to negotiate this deal he says there's no truth to this now but is this whole debacle just that a debacle and maybe they wish they hadn't and gauged in it this story at politico was based on information brought by two sources who apparently had a close early information about the deal they were working on the negotiations so it's it's possible that somebody planted the story in order to generate negative press and kill the deal because if chris reddy is denying charities well if chris reddy is denying it it might be suggested it might not actually happen right if he's going to go away deny this deal i doubt we're going to hear in a few weeks that it actually went through but who knows maybe that's possible but as you say it is ironic because they're out there the qataris are out there trying to get in good with the white house and get positive press but then when these stories of how the deals fall through once they're not go

basically since the mar-a-lago summit -- the chocolate cake summit where he hit the syrians further chemicalapons use, something trump was well it rise to do an obama did not do -- he was able to get the chinese to squeeze the north koreans. that has given him one of the biggest foreign-policy whence he has had so far to date. even if this does not address the underlying problem, i think the orientation of president trump right now is to try to find a way the americans and chinese can say they win. almost every tweet on china has tried to find a way to say, he likes xi jinping, he respects xi jinping. he has been much warmer toward xi, if you read vr cabal of his statements, then he has been toward theresa may or angela merkel and germany. frankly, maybe even toward macron and france, who is his body. i think that is worth noting. what about the relationship common june 12 with the all-important meeting with kim jong-un? where do expect that to go, the north korean relationship? the the very fact of meeting is historic. no north korean leader has met with an american president. i suspect it

i think there's only one place on earth that would be better and that would be mar-a-lago.ke mongolia. the thing about singapore is it's not going to be in china was the chinese want to claw their way back into the can nuke rye disaition process. and they've been on the line of influence. and it's not in the demilitarized zone. and it would feed the euphoria, continue the euphoria that south koreans have over reunification. when you think about moon jay in, it's undercutting the efforts of the international community. singapore is a great place to hold the talks with the north koreans. >> you are the expert on north korea. you've written books about it, lectured on it. here's the money question. how do you handicap trump's success at the summit? >> i'm actually quite optimistic. i'm going to go out on a limb. this is a not a kim question. this is a question of whether president trump will use the elements of american power to protect us and the international community. i think he will do it. you know, on tuesday he agated the iran deal. he set himself a very high bar for su

a dinner at mar-a-lago. session said no.resident continued to discuss this with people, the idea that he wanted sessions to unrecuse. he was told by some of the allies that the recusal was overly broad. and that is what fueled it. and still talking about it in into the fall. and now special counsel mueller is looking into this as part of a broader question of obstruction of justice >> the number of questions that the trump team believes mueller wants to talk about, a number of those refer to sessions and efforts to get him to unrecuse himself. correct, or at least efforts to talk about sessions or sessions' recusal. >> is it known the back and forth, what it was like? the president had according to reporting been avoiding talking to sessions for days, correct? >> right. my understanding is not that it was -- and again, i am not certain, i don't believe it was a hot contentious exchange. we are not talking about president who responds to interpersonal confrontation in most examples. so we don't have enough information about t

the good news is, president trump and president xi, since mar-a-lago, have been talking about the tradeance. president xi acknowledged that the objective is to have a more balanced trading relationship. i think they have a close relationship and i'm going over there with our economic team to see what we can get. emily: if i was listening to what you just described, it will be you, u.s. trade representative's, and heater navarre -- peter navarro. mr. mnuchin: and larry kudlow and secretary ross. emily: should i be listening to you -- stephanie: should i be listening to you? mr. mnuchin: you should be listening to all of us. i would say that we have a tremendous economic team. we meet almost daily on these issues. we meet with the president regularly. it is good to have a diverse opinion and when we go over there, we will have a good talk. mr. mnuchin: what is success when you are on your way back? -- stephanie: what is success when you are on your way back? mr. mnuchin: you will know it when you see it. stephanie: we have an agreement expiring for the european union and can you tell us w

the president has been very clear since the first meeting with president xi in mar-a-lago that we areduce the trade deficit. we have an agreement with china that they will substantially agree to it. paul: the former malaysian prime minister will be questioned about his investment fund scandal on tuesday as the new government steps up its investigation into the missing millions. he has requested police protection and blames the new government for what he calls a campaign of slander and personal attacks. the man who transformed algae into south korea's fourth-largest conglomerate has died. he turned the company from a maker of cheap appliances into a global tech and chemical powerhouse. he fell ill a year ago and died sunday morning. he is expected to be succeeded by his son who was nominated to the board last week. global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am paul allen. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: let's get you a quick update on the markets. trading is underway in new zealand. we see th

have a current president who constantly talks about the wall, but nonetheless owns property in mar-a-lago, where we are told that russian women come over and have their children, and then go back to russia. so we have people who could be legally spying in later years in the united states. and legally entering our country. i find that far worse than illegal immigrants and wondered what your thoughts are there. >> well, anita i think was your name. you're right. that happens. rich russians, and not just russians, but rich people from all over the world do exactly what you're talking about. they come to america for, you know, sometimes just a few weeks, few months, give birth here, and as a result of that, their children become american citizenin citizens. and i think some greater regulation of that practice is in order. >> sherry is in louisiana, republican, go ahead. >> caller: yes, i grew up a democrat but switched recently. i'm just wondering, there are thousands of stories that i've read over the last year about the collusion on the election. which basically it seems to me amounts to me

attorney general to reverse his decision about recusing himself going back to when he brought him to mar-a-lagopalm beach. >> it's remarkable. i know he said and tweeted all those things, but to see them, we are not talking the attorney general from the democratic administration. this is his hand picked guy. he was the first senator to endorse donald trump's candidacy. they had a huge rally in alabama. he's the attorney general. this is one of the top, premier cabinet jobs. you know, i think -- there's no conclusion other than the one you made. because donald trump knows how difficult it would be, i think, to get rid of jeff sessions, to fire jeff sessions, he's trying to force his hand to quit. if jeff sessions hasn't quit by now, i don't think he will. donald trump sees everything through his lens. i always come back to the quote about jeff sessions. "the new york times" asked about his recusal, why are you so unhappy about it. he says it was unfair to the president. he doesn't understand, whether it's willful or not, he doesn't understand there are processes in place here. this isn't about y

for those of you keeping track, a 16-foot sinkhole opened up in front of mar-a-lago just a year ago today. let us know what you think it means on twitter @davebriggstv. >>> conditions on hawaii growing worse for residents as kilauea's volcano hits the three-week mark. next, hear from a man who was hit by a lava bomb. >>> tragedy at the yosemite national park. a hiker falling to his death trying to climb the famous half dome trail. national park officials i have he was hiking with another person during a thunderstorm when he slipped and fell from the cables that take hikers up to the last 400 feet of the summit. this is the first death on the 5,000-foot-high half dome cables since 2010. nchlt>>> breaking news. pulitzer prize-winning novelist philip roth has died. he was a towering figure in the 20th century. a prolific writer, he offered more than two dozen books along with short stories and other writings that included "good-bye columbus," "american pastoral," "port noise complaint," "the human stain," and "i married a communist." he died tuesday of congestive heart failure. philip rocket

according to this "times" report, it was at mar-a-lago a month after jeff sessions, the attorney generalimself from the russia investigation, that president trump berated sessions for doing so and asked him to reverse his decision. now the "times" reports that the president, that rather, has also drawn the eye of special counsel robert mueller. so that "times" report comes out this morning. congressman trey gowdy was then asked about it on the cbs morning show. he responded to it this way. listen. >> i would be frustrated too. that is how i read that. senator sessions, why didn't you tell me this before i picked you? there are lots of really good lawyers in the country. he could have picked someone else. reporter: here is why that is important. president trump took to twitter. he quoted trey gowdy comments, he ended tweets by writing, quote, i wish i did. he wish he would have picked another attorney general. we asked if the department of justice had any comment on this they did not weigh in whatsoever. by the way, one thing president trump did not speak about on twitter, comments that t

. >> he had had a dinner with michael cohen at mar-a-lago weeks ago.mber. >> that's right. >> there was the phone call to michael cohen, which i believe was right after the raid. do we know are there any more connections? >> my understanding is no. i've heard from a couple of people that the president asks people, you know, how -- who know michael cohen how is he holding up, how is he doing? you know, i have to imagine that that is said in part to get back to cohen. i don't know of any other direct contact, but what has existed has been enough. >> just in terms of, you know, the chief of staff kelly, kind of feeling within the white house -- is it as -- i mean, i guess with giuliani out there sort of making gaffe after gaffe, that's got to have been a concern. >> i mean, it's frustrating -- look, you've seen the stories about how trump is really frustrated. the reality is that, yes, trump is frustrate bod i soy what som giuliani has said. it was predictable he wasn't going to like some of what jounl's said. it makes the staff's job much harder. this un

investigation, but we do know when stormy daniels occurred, the president invited michael cohen to mar-a-lagoably discuss the stormy daniels case. so whether michael cohen could pick up the phone, call the president and say, hey, my client, novartis, my client at&t, you know, whatever my clients are, they want to know what you're going to do on x, y and z, we don't know the answer on that but seems like novartis figured it out pretty quickly was, no, he can't, he doesn't. >> thank you for that. >> three american detainees released by north korea are on their way back to the u.s. as we speak. what is behind this stunning diplomatic shift, as we get new details on the location of trump's face-to-face meeting with kim jong un. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. ♪ no matter when you retire, ensure you still have income every month of your retirement, guaranteed. see how lincoln can help. you turned a family recipeher, into a brewing empire before prohibition took it a

the president has been very clear since the first meeting with president xi in mar-a-lago that we aregoing to reduce the trade deficit. we have an agreement with china that they will substantially agree to it. >> melissa: markets are celebrating. the agreement reached sets up the framework for addressing the trade imbalances between the two trading partners. >> jon: the high school shooting in texas last week drawing a wide range of reaction from around the country. parkland survivor david hogg calling on the media to stop naming school shooters saying this overnight fame acts as an incentive and tweeted i don't know the shooters name and you don't want to. any time you see a post from name or face from a news organizations text notoriety. we make these people known worldwide for their horrifying acts. let's stop that. we have our fox news contributors here. tammy, this has been suggested before. in fact, on another network one of the anchors friday night said we're not going to name the shooter in this particular case. so hogg's suggestion is not new but comes around every time there

he was very much on the sidelines, although he did speak to the president frequently here and at mar-a-lago. but the at&t ceo, of course at&t trying to buy cnn's parent company, he said it was a mistake. it was a mistake to give money to michael cohen in this effort here. yet another example of how these investigations and everything are really creating a cloud over this white house on a day when -- on a week when the president certainly focused on north korea diplomacy and today prescription drugs. so many more things to talk about, brianna. >> certainly. jeff zeleny in the rose garden. we'll be monitoring the scene there as the president is set to make an announcement on prescription drug prices. moments from now those remarks will be coming from the rose garden. we'll bring it to you live. also this hour, the white house press briefing, among the questions likely to face the press secretary sarah sanders, will the president fire the white house aide who joked very distastefully about john mccain dying? >>> the president there about to make remarks from the rose garden, unveiling his prop

special counsel robert mueller is looking into a march 17 meeting that trump had with sessions at mar-a-lago, a meeting in which he reportedly asked sessions to reverse his recusal. sources with the investigation tell fox news that mueller never spoke about that. but in his list of questions for the president, mueller was clearly interested in the issue asking, what did you think and what did you do regarding ag sessions recusal? and what did you try to do to get him to change his mind and reverse? while the president was in lockstep with gaudi, he was over gaudi's assertion that the fbi did nothing wrong. but this dispatching a confidential informant to get close to several members of the president's campaign. >> i'm even more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want him to do when i got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with donald trump. >> reporter: the press secretary today said it, not so fast. >> if the president still has concerns about whether or not the fbi acted inappropriately, having people in his campaign, and certainly, the pr

at their mar-a-lago summit in april, president trump promised he would raise it. >> president trump: we will do everything possible to have them brought back and bring them back from japan. i give you that promise. >> president trump has sought the president's help, but the white house announced it will soon impose a 25% tariff on 50 billion in chinese and plum, imports china responded tersely to what it saw as a negotiating a tactic. in a statement the ministry of congress is saying we are surprised by the strategic statement being released at the white house but at the same time it is somewhat expected. and president trump got some low back after a tweet he sent out on memorial day where he posted, abby memorial day. those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. it's the lowest unemployment numbers for blacks and hispanic ever and women in 18 years. that prompted a sober response from the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. general martin dempsey tweeted, this day of all days of the year should not be about any

but just the way that he mistreated him, making him go down to mar-a-lago. refusing to take his phone calls and then when sessions goes down to first and foremost talk about the travel ban, certain aspects of travel ban, which according to trump was so incredibly important for national security. the president refused to even talk about it, and insisted they talk about why he does not unrecuse himself. it shows you at every step of the way the president is first and foremost about him. look at what he said about roseanne. that tweet. i mean, if that is not the ramblings of a narcissist, i don't know what is. roseanne even apologized. take what you will from her apology, how genuine tvs, but she even apologized. he has to say whoa is me and i'm being victimized? the level of narcissism when it comes to the ability that the president has on this specific issue of racism which is still present in this country, he could have led on this issue, and he chose instead to talk about himself, and that's probably the most disturbing thing to me about what he said. >> yo

. >> bret: since the president and mar-a-lago verse spoke, we haven't made it reciprocal. i think our delegation was very clear and going through this issue. we came back and we briefed the president and he was very supportive of our position. but i look forward to the vice mayor coming here and continuing our negotiations. we will continue to have a fair and balanced objective. >> bret: we appreciate your time. up next, a leader in women's rights and a leading trump critic is facing allegations of physical abuse. but first, let's see what our affiliates around the country are covering tonight. the hawaiian government is telling the white house and the federal emergency management agency that he believes estate will need help to deal with the kilauea volcano. eruptions and lava have forced evacuations and destroyed at least 26 home so far. in the twin cities, a minneapolis police officer accused of killing a woman. he did not enter a plea in the officer is accused of shooting justine damon as she approached his vehicle after she called 9112 9112 report a sexual assault nea

because exactly one year ago today, a sinkhole opened at mar-a-lago.nd now there's one outside the white house. i'm starting to think maybe god's aim is slightly off. [ laughter ] that's a closer look. we sure this is a sinkhole and not one of melania's escape tunnels? [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] i don't want to read into it. she did ask for a headlamp for mother's day. the president right now is trying to stop his deal with kim jong-un from sinking into the ground. trump met at the white house with the president of south korea today. his aides spent all morning prepping him. they said this is not kim jong-un of north korea, it's moon jae-in of south korea. you got it? moon, not un. fantastic, un. no, moon. let's start again what does a cow say? anyway. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] the president really wants this summit to happen. he wants the summit with north korea to happen so badly that his aides are concerned that if they do meet, his overeagerness will give kim jong-un leverage. in other words, he moved on korea like a bitch, and

. >> but, remember, michael cohen had dinner with the president at mar-a-lago not long ago, shortly beforehe search of his office. >> that was about stormy daniels, we would think, who knows? i don't know what they talked about but you know if you're a company that has interests in the federal government like at&t, like novartis, like these companies that actually did pay michael cohen, who better to pay? sure, maybe you wouldn't -- maybe it wouldn't work out but you know, he was peddling influence and it was worth taking a shot. >> we have to go but very quickly, jeffrey, if he's also taking money from a foreign company like korean aerospace, doesn't he have to register as a foreign agent under the foreign agents registration act? >> well, that we would have to see, we have to see what the terms are, and lobbyists have to register, too, and i don't -- i don't eliminate the possibility that there was some technical violation of the lobbying rules but i think the genre action to this story of my goodness, he's selling his influence shows that people don't understand what a cesspool this pla

sessions flew down to mar-a-lago -- on the government's dime -- to see the president face to face. at that point the "new york times" says, quote, mr. trump who told aides he needed a loyalist overseeing the inquiry berated mr. sessions and told him he should reverse his decisi decision, an unusual and potentially inappropriate request. mr. sessions refused. rudy giuliani said he has not discussed the recusal with mr. trump but giuliani felt it was a reasonable request within the president's authority. this morning republican trey gowdy said the president's actions were understandable given the circumstances. >> if i were the president and i picked someone to be the country's chief law enforcement officer and they told me later, oh, by the way, i'm not going to be able to participate in the most important case in the office, i would be frustrated, too. that's how i read that is senator sessions, why didn't you tell me this before i picked you? >> the president actually quoted trey gowdy this morning who said he could have picked someone else. the president added, quote, i wish i di

ultimately what happened jeff sessions had to fly down to m mar-a-lago where the president was spending the weekend and have dinner with him to talk about this travel ban issue. but the issue that the president really wanted to talk about was the recusal. and he actually asked him to essentially un-recuse himself, to take back control of the investigation. sessions said he couldn't do that, he wouldn't do that. but the president didn't let it go. and we also know that robert mueller, the special counsel investigating russia's interference in the election is now looking at this episode. and what it really tells you, it's a much broader look into the possibility that the president was obstructing justice. >> and tim, you're nodding your head. what did you want to say? >> i just think that sounds so much like obstruction of justice, i don't know what to say about it. trying to pressure him to walk away from one of the really dignifi dignified things sessions did, to admit he was conflicted here after lying on congress. >> my question, this happened over a year ago. why are we just finding

. >> and this was really significant, in their conversation at mar-a-lago donald trump was expressing to attorney general or to aides before his conversation with sessions that he needs a loyalist to oversee this investigation. >> right. >> why? that's my question. why do you need a loyalist to oversee an independent investigation? what is the president afraid of of an independent investigation into this? >> and also, you know, it is so interesting, too, the story points out that when you have the question that the mueller probe would like to ask of president trump. almost one-fifth of them have to do with jeff sessions and that tells you a lot of how significant this all plays into the investigation. >> absolutely. david mentioned those questions why does the president expect so much loyalty from this attorney general and why did he feel so betrayed when sessions recused himself? this latest story is really pounding the nail into the obstruction case, briana, because once again, the hardest thing to prove in obstruction of justice is corrupt intent. it's what was the president's thin

later that month president trump and michael cohen having dinner together at mar-a-lago, the night before "60 minutes" aired its interview with stormy daniels. to april, the cruelest month. air force i, the president denied knowing anything about those payments and a few months later, the president saying that, yes, michael cohen did handle that crazy stormy daniels deal. >> that money was not campaign money. the money wasn't paid to help or hurt the campaign. imagine if that came out on october 2016 in the middle of the last debate with hillary clinton. >> how is rudy giuliani doing? >> rudy's a great guy. he just started a day ago. he started yesterday. ah, he'll get his facts straight. >> a new report shining a light on michael cohen's cash flow during the campaign, it's a matter being investigated by the fbi and federal prosecutors. michael, great to have you with us. i'm going to go through some of the headline numbers and have you add a bit of the color, if you would. in november 2015, there is a $529,000 mortgage, line of credit there. february 2016, $245,000 credit line increase.

" mueller's team is looking into a march 2017 meeting between sessions and the president at his mar-a-lagoesort in florida. the report says trump berated sessions and pressured him to rescind his recusal from the russia investigation. in a tweet, the president said he regrets choosing sessions as his attorney general. he quotes republican congressman trey gowdy who said "there are lots of really good lawyers in the country. he could have picked somebody else." to which the president replied, and i wish i did. let's go to jeff zeleny. jeff, what more does all this tell us about mueller's investigation? >> reporter: wolf, beyond anything, it confirms the president's frustration with this investigation, and certainly the point about the potential line of inquiry about obstruction of justice. the president calls this investigation a witch hunt repeatedly, over and over, saying there was no collusion. but the obstruction of justice is equally important, perhaps more so. so this is the president going after his attorney general as he's done so often. but certainly the fact that he's still keep t