go 12.7%, if you're in the market the problem is donald trump has regulations, not at night in the minutia of obamacare, travel, has to get regulations and tax cuts, the economy will rebound. dagen: this is about mainstreet, people in the country versus the mainstream media. does it worry you the mainstream media is so negative that it does hurt how people feel and how optimistic they are? >> it does worry me a little bit but the bottom line is the media is the least trusted it has ever been. trust and the media is a multimodal, trust income, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. that is why donald trump is in office, he represented antiestablishment. people are more likely to believe their peers than the mainstream media so the mainstream media has a huge amount of influence people are not listening to them saying they it people don't know where to go for the truth is i do agree we will need to see victories. i want to see tax reform and se we saw that continued optimism but the bottom line is people don't trust the media the way they used to. dagen: for final word, don't trust pol

like a reception or a state dinner or even a -- or maybe it's even a summit of some sort down to the minutiaif there will be gifts. it's gifts, it's visits, ceremonyial issues, everything that happens when heads of state and specifically that means our president, our vice president, our secretary of state, when they are dealing internationally, the chief of protocol is the one calling the shots >> it reminds me of a big incident that happened back in the obama adni job is to make sure the president and first lady don't embarrass themselves. the obamas visited or met with queen elizabeth for the first time and mrs. put her hand on the queen's back not realizing protocol was you don't touch the queen. we know the trumps are scheduled perhaps in the next few months or later this year to go visit with the queen. do you think that it's absolutely a necessity to have a chief of protocol so something like that doesn't happen again? >> fortunately, state department has a fantastic staff of career professionals who know a lot of that. but -- and but, one thing the chief of protocol is, is the chief o

. —— minutiae. think about that across several levels. is heading fast towards his 100th day in office and we will look at it in more detail in the back half of outside source but let's look summer table —— at some of his high profile campaign promises. the war has not be signed off and there is no prospect of mexico paying for it any time soon that the process of finding designs and contractors is underweight. his health care, to repeal and replace obamacare, failed health care, to repeal and replace obamaca re, failed spectacularly. health care, to repeal and replace obamacare, failed spectacularly. but more successful has been the appointment of neil gorsuch to the supreme court. on immigration mr trump said he would be tougher and he has brought in tough measures. we will get into that in more detail in a few minutes time. hello. if you have been watching this paul litten the last couple of days you will have heard us talking about the storms in the united states. the storms have proved intense in the last 12 hours. we have the classi

let's deal with the principle before we get to the minutiae of any policy.of pollution? absolutely, i mean, i represent 1.6 terms of pollution? absolutely, i mean, i representi.6 million drivers and they would be the first to agree that they want cleaner emissions. unfortunately what is happening with the various policies around the country, particularly in london, is that they are being demonised and picked on. for example, in london, only 11% of the permissions are generated by diesel cars, and yet they are going to be charged with 100% of the money coming you know, the increase, the £20 or £24, for the problems of the other 90%, that is being a nod. also, the particular information is being ignored. there are lots of things going on and nojoined up thinking. what would you like to see instead ? thinking. what would you like to see instead? there are a lot of things under consideration. is garbage scheme we should be looking at, but the most important thing is incentives to move to cleaner fuels —— a scrappage scheme. it is 81% down on the last five years,

joining a meeting in progress, secretary minutia has some comments he would like to make. we will take some questions from him. without further do, the abbasid or of the united nations. >> thank you. we have had an exciting day in hosting the members of the security council. this is the most powerful group any sortdes sanctions, of conflict that comes up, this is the group. they would come to d.c. is overwhelming for them. extremely pleased. senators graham and carton, as well as congressman smith and the congresswoman. probably about an hour and a half talking about issues from budget to peacekeeping issues as well as conflict and syria and iran. a healthy discussion. we came over to the white house and the president greeted all the members, had his picture taken with them, and we all sat down for lunch. it was an open dialogue, the members wanting to hear from the president what his plans are, what he will continue to do on syria or not continue to do with north korea, and all of those issues are at the forefront. the idea that he would have that dialogue with them is tr

minutia, look what he's done for them, basically foreclosed on old ladies.tuart: ooh. >> i think that trump has been pulled in the wrong direction. stuart: right, don't ooh me. look how these guys made their money. stuart: here is what iould expect at the end of ts meeting with president xi. i would expect a kind of non-descript statement in which china claims they're now on an equal footing with the united states, but in private president trump is very strong on china trade. that's what i would expect. are you going to disagree with me? >> i think he'll be very strong in what he says, but he won't come away with results. if you get a statement like that, what it means, not much is going to happen. look at wall street journal this morning, the diary of the american dream or the epitaph of american greatness. it said that china has already revalued its currency and gone up a whole 1%, you know, and yesterday pronounced the truth on the trade war was that really america's industry was stronger and better off because of a $300 billion deficit. i don't know what

i think the more we get into a lot of this little minutia of this event, the longer it goes on. we've been on nonstop korea watch. we're getting into a little bit of death by a thousand cuts. will the north stop their development of nuclear weapons and how the west can achieve it. trump has become much more militaristic in his tone. the language that's come out of this administration is miles ahead of the previous eight years as far as threatening and dominating and drawing red lines all over the place. so there's nothing tempered about this, how they're speaking. it's good that the united states military is professional enough to hold their fire. but instead of bringing the north koreans towards any peace table or any negotiation or slo stopping the program, it looks like trump has poked an ant hill and things have got worse. >> scott, how precarious do you believe the situation is in north korea right now and how we are reacting to it? >> the korean peninsula right now is a geopolitical earthquake zone, and we have seen early tremors that are potential warnings for the escalat

what i call tax reform is not what secretary minutia and was describing -- secretary mnuchin is describing by a long shot. tax reforms should not be dis equalizing. it should not follow the mnuchin rule, where you don't see tax cuts for the wealthy. every single plan we have seen goes far in the other direction. this is not tax reform. this is regressive tax cuts that will exacerbate our fiscal challenges. >> dave camp, you have dealt with this issue. you hav ese scars to prove it. what advice would you give the trump administration? heard thiswhat we morning is absolutely critical. the administration is fully engaged at the highest levels on this issue and they are coordinating as much as possible with the leadership that are interested in advocating for tax reform. as you go through this process, certainly with all the people, data, and resources the administration has, they can help to get through the ups and in thehat are process as big as this. it is natural they are trying to do it this year. i think it is welcome news for an opportunity for success. i did not have that kind of engag

get a discount given the strength of the dollar versus the lunni, as wilbur ross said, it is in the minutia, lumber prices will go up but not enough to be destabilizing to the u.s. housing market, jose. >> that's not true, the prices of homes in america are going to go up by a thousand dollars, it bounces back. trish: jose, you're saying -- this is about the market, right? >> right now, we're seeing a robust housing market. what we're dealing with canada is unfair practices in display from canada for years, a matter for the united states to take action, exactly what wilbur ross explained. they're the ones that are protectionists, like japan and other nations, they take care of themselves and it's time for the united states to take action. it was a clear approach from the trump administration that we're going to protect american interests and the unfair practices are unacceptable from other nations. >> go ahead, david. >> the rhetoric runs off the table here. you're talking about not making america better, about the other side losing. that's what jose is talking about, to push the rhetoric.

. >> well, you know, every once in a while it's good to get into the minutia of the cybersecurity andyberintelligence world. and most of the time we just want to talk about the big picture. but every once in a while there is a key point of intelligence that comes up. and today one of the -- i think one of those key points of intelligence has come up. the department of justice had the spanish arrest a king of spam, a russian by the name of pyotr levashov. and he mastered what are called tnet and botnets are the thing that send out billionspon billions of spam messages all throughout the internet. and they arrested him today. but the way it looks is his wife made a statement to the effect that he developed a virus which may have been related to using this botnet work to send out spam or deny messages to go around through the use of these botnets during the trump campaign and possibly related to trump campaign itself. we don't know that. however, it's very much akin to how elliot ness went after the untouchable, right? they didn't go after, you know, al capone himself after he eluded the

. >> not a single moment of the day-to-day minutia is fun. a lot of it is very arduous. great, when you go out there and do something great, you know, for people back home, for the country, for freedom, for standing up for the constitution for fiscal responsibility yeah, have you accomplished something good and it makes every sacrifice worth it. steve: what a guy. abby: his life has changed so much. look what he is doing with it this might be the beginning of his political career. ainsley: recovery but look what god is doing in his life. he is here for a big reason. is he serving our country again. and then came back and had two more children with his wife. they have three total, right? abby: kids are adorable. he has his hands full. ainsley: i saw his cell phone in his mouth walking down the hall. steve: brian mast who got the call from ed. ed: i had met him at charity event. they said they are not putting president trump's portrait up in any of these v.a. offices around the country. look, it's symbolic but it's important is he commander-in-chief. he went down to the pa

when you know the leaders heart, the goals, values and core essence of who they are in the minutia ofhe decisions they make are the bits of information here there doesn't matter so much. that's why the leadership component is so important. the actuality of how it plays out by the policies on the exact list doesn't matter. he would buy into the vision of the leader and if so that would change everything. >> throughout your entire career with everything you have done, what was the hardest or most nerve-racking thing you had to do? how did you remain optimistic about going into it? >> definitely the most heartbreaking part was when the president announced he had alzheimer's. that for me personally was devastated. i had a personal relationship with him. beyond that one of the most difficult tasks i ever had has been part of a team that release that information to the world. i knew how i felt about him and i knew how millions of people around the world felt about it. they would write him and call him and wanted to be connected to his life. so here i was, one of his biggest fans and support

. >> not every single moment of the day-to-day minutia is fun. a lot of it is very arduous.for the country, for freedom, for standing up for the constitution, for fiscal responsibility, yeah, have you accomplished something good and it makes every sacrifice worth it. abby: could you imagine waking up in the hospital and realizing that you don't have legs anymore and you thought your whole purpose in life was to be in the military to serve he? said that was the hardest thing for him was not being able to serve in the military? how incredible for him to turn that around and say what else can i do? what an example he should be to all of us. ed: he really is not giving up. coming back strong, and now finding a new way to serve. by the way his district is where i will be tomorrow for the diner segment. just to show abby she is not the only one that can do it. abby: always back to the diner. ed: benny's on the beach lake worth, florida only restaurant on the beach in palm beach, county. maybe we will call the congressman to see if we can get him there. abby: that would be a good i

last week, i follow the minutia, last week company called greenbrier, they make railcars.care? they had amazing numbers, amazing results. they signed a gargantuan deal to provide railcars the next five years. these are underpinnings things we're seeing buttresses idea that this market could be okay, not with standing going higher. artificial timelines on things should get done i think the market is ignoring although the sooner the better. neil: obviously this will be the first white house briefing since the tomahawk missile attack that lifted president trump's poll numbers a little bit. most americans support the move. they want to be sure he gets congressional okay doing it again? do you think something like that helps on other agenda items? >> i think more americans feel confident in the president and foreign policy more confident they will feel on domestic economy and puts pressure on those trying to push back against them. let's be clear, most of the essential push back from his own party. neil: that's right. >> organization around infrastructure, tax cuts, obamacare r

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tom: in the minutia of the week, and i seened a judge democratic senators moving away and i guess the have to make a key constitutional decision. is this the week where they go nuclear? >> i think essentially does democratic senators including centrist senators continue to oppose judge gorsuch, which, of course, the minority leader senator chuck schumer says they want to hold steady against an block that opposition, this would allow the white house to use the so-called nuclear option which would change the rules, essentially, and allow them to just pass on a simple majority vote. guy: is there any overlap on the vent diagram between what happens with the china meeting at the back end of the week and domestic politics on the hill? >> a little bit. i think when you look at it more broadly, when you focus with the president tweeting about north korea and south korea ahead of visit in thes second half of this week, i think when you look at it in terms of russia and the questions circulating you have to remember that these are questions coming from not just democrats but also republicans.

stuart: the big -- a lot of people just can't get a grip at all with details.the mah minutia of this truth in president trump's tweet that saturday morning a month ago said obama bugged trurp tower there seems to be at least an element of truth in that tweet, right? >> yes. however i will never think that was a good move as long as i'm on this planet a distraction and i go back to a charles said last night the world is on fire. we need a rapid attention in north korea, in syria with the trillion dollar -- infrastructure deal. we've got to find something on health care. can -- this is a clearly a distraction with no winners, and there was going to be collusion, but believe me would have heard of it already but in the end a big tie. nothing gained opinion nothing earned, a lot of people are going to say i don't believe the outcome anyway. and nothing is going to happen had and the relationship with russia is i'm going to accomplish russia's goal and more poison than ever before so act like russia's high-fiving over this which by the way i don't know how russia celebrated it but not sur

it's a little bit of a minutia into how airlines work.ber of hours they are up and awake and flying then they have to give them ten hours of down time between flights. as a result, they didn't have enough pilots. they were all trying to recover from too long of a day and had to give them enough down time. didn't have enough pilots and planes. couldn't get everybody back in position. this continued day after day after day. the airline actually was doling out cash yesterday. in one case giving $11,000 to a family who missed entire florida spring break vacation. hopefully today is recovery day. nbc tom costello, thank you very much. >> still ahead. >> just going to say we always joke in the south because you know, you always go through atlanta. after you die, wherever you're going you have to go through atlanta first. i wonder if delta doesn't diversify. if there's thunderstorms over atlanta for a day, it really shuts down movement. >> that's their lesson now. >> i know they were building out cincinnati as alternative hub. they can't put it

but carrying out the approaches and going through the minutia and the congress and all of the problemse have to execute change in america, is a real challenge. and it is frustrating, i'm sure, for businessmen on occasion. used to getting things done king quickly. >> the cia director said it was time to call out wikileaks for what it is, a hostile server embedded in places like russia. do you agree? >> we're having problems with leaks. some of this is very serious. not just a leak of abuse, a theft, or some whistle-blower or government. these are direct threats to the techniques and security procedures our government has. i'm worried about it. i think we need to do more to end this. we need to step up our efforts. >> do you afree with director pompeo, that wikileaks is a state actor, working at the behealb behest of a state like russia? >> we're going to do our best ability to analyze these matters. the cia director shares with us, leaks and things that are appropriate. and we investigate them appropriately. >> it does beg the question, duds bodoes it bother you that candidate trump wou

has a good philosophy and approach to it but carrying out those approaches and going through the minutia congress and all the problems you have to execute change in america is a real challenge and it is frustrating, i'm sure, for businessmen on occasion who is used to getting things done quickly. >> we're doing the lightening round here. the cia director delivered a speech and said it was time to call out wickdy leaks for what it is, a nonstate, hostile intelligence service vetted by state actors like russia. do you agree? >> we are having a tremendous problem throughout our system, it seems to me, with leaks. some of this is very serious. not just a leak of abuse or theft or some whistle blower approving government. these are direct threats to the techniques and security procedures that our government has. and i'm worried about it. i think we need to do more to end this. we've got to step up our efforts. >> but to the question, do you agree with the director, wikileaks is a state actor working at the beheadst of a state like russia. >> we are going to follow our responsibility to analyz

minutia.ays the trump administration plans to release a major tax reform plan in his words, very soon. regardless, regardless of the outcome of the health care overhaul bill >> soon. very soon. very soon. and just to be clear, we hope this won't take till the end of the year. so we're very focused on it. big priority for the president. we will get tax reform done it will be sweeping. it will be significant. and it will create a lot of economic growth. >> yeah. buddy mark they're interviewing him. we should have had him on to debrief him on that. that gave the markets a boost in yesterday's session. here to talk markets and more, former council of economic advisers chairman austan goolsbee. professor at university of chicago's school of management and sarah hunt portfolio manager at alpine fund. and i mean like it or not, austan, sometimes the market seems to be a barometer of the chances of some of the trump stuff going through. at least in terms of tax reform. i mean a lot of the -- >> i agre

joining a meeting in progress, secretary minutia has some comments he would like to make. we will take some questions from