done so far for brussels summit then here we are on the same day we've all america american allies mr michaels and donald trump is reported to have said that is as. i want to get this right here it is as bad as laughter so what do you make of that. you know mr trump has tweeted said. you know promise during campaign different issues but to be honest of course we would like to see what will happen next week in in proselytism for us looking from mr o'neill from tightly to prime montes the unity among the allies these is what we have seen recently during the g seven meeting or during some you know messages coming from twitter of course there are question marks but. again the if we look at what what is happening on the ground what already in the u.s. during the trumpet administration has increased its defense. abilities on the eastern flank of nato in poland in politics states also resources for a european the deterrence initiative are going up but of course there are also other questions up the this first and foremost issue of course these are sort of a question mark around crimea and the recogni

far for brussels summit then here we are on the same day we've all are american american allies mr michaels and donald trump is reported to have said that is as. i want to get this right it is as bad as laughter so what do you make of that. you know mr trump has tweeted said. you know promise during campaign different issues but to be honest of course we would like to see what will happen next week in in proselytism for us looking for a mr o'neill from tally the prime montes the unity among the allies these is what we have seen recently during the g seven meeting or during some you know messages coming from twitter of course there are question marks but. again the if we look what what is happening on the ground what already in the u.s. during the trumpet administration has increased its defense capabilities on the eastern flank of nato in poland in politics states also resources for a european the deterrence initiative are going up but of course there are also questions about the this first and foremost issue of course these. sort of a question mark around crimea and the recognition of crim

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well mr michael is i'm very unhappy because he thinks that the negotiations of benefited germany but not fronts that the whole point of this is to try obviated twenty five percent tax by trump tower of by trump on german cause and goods but in return for that. said the he will a lot of american agricultural exports into europe and soybeans and other things the great french fear is the germs are sold a lot in that the fed should have a very protective towards culture will be betrayed in that huge amount of american food grain soybeans would have a window into europe undercutting the french. opposition after that meeting do you think he had no idea what you think it was actually going to see all for donald trump. no idea if he did i mean i'm not even sure that you had because not let's put. the best of times he went along and i think the great feat obviously being primed by merkel the huge fear. with. threats of a twenty five percent on cause was the bricks of bricks in the german export market to britain break at the same time it was twenty five percent tariff on german cause the be h

mr. president, is michael cohen telling the truth? is michael cohen telling the truth? mr. president, is michael cohen telling the truth? >> you have been watching president donald trump address reporters on the south lawn, talking about the new gdp numbers, new economic figures out today. the voice you heard is that woman right there, nbc's kristen welker, shouting questions to the president on another topic, which he didn't answer. i'll come to you once you get setup. your camera is still working on that. ali velshi is with us, as well. i'll go to you, ali, before i get to kristen. just on the economic piece we heard from the president. >> yeah. >> he talked a lot about how this is very, very sustainable growth. i think that was the word that he used. he hinted all day yesterday about seeing these gdp numbers, wanting to get them out. he was excited about it. he wanted to see a 4 in front of that, and it is what he got. >> yup. >> give us fact checks here. he talked about a lower trade deficit, for example. we know there are some things happening on that front. >> right. w

is an issue and the fake news is not what people think it is hiding it by the official press of mr michael and others you know on the fourteenth of july in the evening after the football match was on the show as it is a by the minority people coming from the areas of france where the police doesn't even dare go there were hundreds of cars burnt and not the cars of the rich people are the cause of the poor people of the same area this should stop people a voice the idea that singapore was the perfect place where the mixing was perfect to the interests of all times and singapore is perfect but singapore is a very tough democracy the drug dealing there is punished with death penalty and if you attack the walls you spent months cleaning it with a jacket saying i'm a pig so you know if you have a multicultural society you need to be very tough to impose that everybody respects the public space and respects also the culture of the country of origin and it is not the case now and that's why you have so many people in europe who really refuse the society which is proposed by the by the politicians

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mr. president, did michael cohen betray you, sir? mr. president? did michael cohen betray you, sir? mr. esident, why did you cancel the meeting with vladimir putin, sir? did michael cohen betray you, sir? did you mislead the american people, sir, when you said you did not know about the payment? >> "outfront" now, former nixon white house counsel, john dean, asha rangappa, and audio expert, paul ginsburg. he has 40 years experience in this area, including working on the o.j. simpson and waco cases. john, let me start with you, moen moichael cohen appears to officially turned on trump by releasing this tape. a trump he made of a man that he said he would take a bullet for. maybe he meant, shoot a bullet at. how worried should trump be? >> well, i think there's good reason to be concerned. this is -- michael is certainly in the process of turning towards state's -- becoming a witness for the southern district, if they're inclined. you know, i think that he -- there's, what, 4 million pages of records that were seized from michael cohen. about 3,000 of them were deemed to be attorney/client

and of course michael avenatti, who is an enemy of mr. trump is now seems to be befriending michael cohen to a degree under the theory that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. so we'll have to see how this goes. >> stormy daniels' lawyer, michael avenatti. it's interesting giuliani himself says on the recording, then the president-elect told michael cohen, write a check, it was $150,000 that karen mcdougal received, not cash. the words not cash suggests maybe there have been other deals where they used cash. >> well, you could read that into it. nothing was paid apparently according to giuliani. so we don't know, but according to rudy giuliani what this means is that the president wanted an accounting of it so that it would not be hidden. obviously cash hides things, so it could be your interpretation, it could be rudy giuliani's more benign interpretation. he's doing his job, he's trying to defend the president. and now lanny davis has spoken out because he's trying to defend michael cohen. >> a lot of different versions of this right now

mr. michael hiam, the director of clean power s.f.e to present on this item. >> thank you, good morning, supervisors. i'm the director of the clean s.f. program for the power enterprise. i also wanted to welcome supervisor brown, we look forward to working with you. before you is a resolution to authorize the amendment to c cs247r, with calpine energy solutions to provide data management and billing and customer care services for the sfpuc clean power program. i have a few slides for and you some remarks and i can take your questions about this item. by way of background, clean power s.f. is san francisco's community choice aggregation program. authorized by assembly bill 117, and adopted by the board of supervisors and mayor. cca allows a city and/or a county to become the default electric supplier in its jurisdiction in partnership with the local investor-owned utility. by allowing the city to determine the source of its energy supply, and to direct more of its electric customers' dollars towards renewable and clean sources of energ

did michael cohen betray you, mr. president? did michael cohen betray you? mr. president you worried about what michael cohen is going to say to prosecutors? are you worried about what is on the other tapes, mr. president? donald trump's answer to each of these questions today was thank you. when he was being bombarded by questions about the tape of his conversation with michael cohen as reporters were being ushered out of the president's oval office meeting with the president of the european commission. and in classic trump white house style, the cnn reporter who yelled those questions to the president was banned from the president's next appearance in the rose garden where another cnn reporter was allowed to cover that event for the network. but it didn't meater because the president immediately turned and left before reporters could shout their questions across the grass. if you are one of those people who thinks that donald trump does not have a good answer to any one of those questions that were yelled at him today, you are not alone. you are not alone tonig

as trump wrapped up kristen welker asked him about michael cohen. >> mr. president, is michael cohen telling the truth? is michael cohen telling the truth? mr. president, is michael cohen telling the truth? >> as we say, it's been ten times now the president has ignored reporters questions since the cohen audio first aired tuesday evening. and for that matter there have only been three white house press briefings in the entire month of july. on the cohen front politico reports the president's advisors have "been taken aback by cohen's no holds barred approach and his willingness to publicly reveal potentially devastating details of his private conversations with the president. asked to describe the mood among trump's close confidants, one person close to the president replied simply not good." they add this. quoting someone close to the president. "trump is enranged over the cohen revelations." emily jane fox who is standing by to join us, has been covering the trump-cohen fallout for "vanity fair." her latest piece out just late today details the current m

michael cohen. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> mr. president. did michael cohen betray you? >> thank you. >> mr. president, are you worried about what michael cohen is going to say to prosecutors? are you worried about what is on the other tapes, mr. president? >> business as usual. she was the pool reporter representing the press corps. the white house took offense. kaitlan collins says minutes later, communications chief bill shine disinvited her from the press in the rose garden. >> she said the questions she asked was inappropriate for the venue. as you saw, other reporters were pitching questions as well. cnn sent different reporters to the event. and a statement from the white house called it misguided and inappropriate decision. fox news issued a statement in support of cnn and kaitlan collins ability to ask questions. >> most that cover the white house is competitive job and to have all of those other people competing with and say that was inappropriate on the white house. i will point out the president was tweeting about the subject early in the day. raising this to

mr. president, are you worried about allen weisselberg? >> do you have any response to michaelen, mr. president? allan wieisselberg's subpoena? will you respond to allen weisselberg's subpoena? >> no answers there. none this morning, no answer yesterday either when cnn's katelyn collins asked the question at a white house event. actually, there was an answer. katelyn who was serving as a pool reporter, meaning working for all the networks has been barred from a following event. we'll have more on that. you asked the white house today, and what happened? >> reporter: we've gotten nothing but silence on this all day today, anderson, and also all week. this is a white house that has only had three white house press briefings in one month and president trump on the lawn refusing to answer questions from reporters about this and a number of other topics that have come up about this issue. the reason we continue to ask the white house about this is because hope hicks, the president's spokesperson during the campaign denied any knowledge of this payment to karen mcdougal during the ca

mr. president, is michael cohen telling the truth? is michael cohen telling the truth? mr. president, is michael cohen telling the truth? >> that of course our own kristen welker. the president is scheduled this afternoon to lead his first national security meeting in the white house situation room on how to prevent russian meddling in the upcoming midterms, despite the president's frequent description of the mueller probe as a witch hunt, a phrase also picked up this week by his national security adviser john bolton. joining me now, nbc white house correspondent kristen welker, msnbc national security contributor michael schmidt, and msnbc legal analyst mimi rocah, former federal prosecutor in the southern district of new york. kristen, the choreography today clearly reflecting bill shine, the new former fox executive, brought in from fox television previously, to be the deputy chief of staff and communications director. this was not a scrum or a gaggle, nothing like that crazy moment on the north lawn when you were all chasing him a good half hour a couple of weeks ago. >>

mr. president, is michael cohen telling the truth? is michael cohen telling the truth? mr. president, is michael cohen telling the truth? >> that right there was the voice of my colleague kristen welker trying to get answers about the latest in the russia investigation on the heels of a secret recording between donald trump and his long-time lawyer michael cohen. former lawyer, going public. a source now tells nbc news that cohen is willing to inform robert mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, that donald trump jr., the president's son, told his father about the 2016 trump tower meeting between don jr., paul manafort, jared kushner and a russian lawyer who said she had dirt on hillary clinton. today there is word that that russian lawyer is tied more closely to the kremlin than she has claimed. the ap is reporting, quote, scores of emails, transcripts, and legal documents paint a portrait of her as a well connected attorney who served as a ghost writer for top russian government lawyers and received assist

mr. michael cohen's lawyers and representatives is that he went through a change. that now he wants to set the record straight. that now he is choosing country over donald trump. and that is what they are offering as an explanation for his change intact. >> well, there is it an obvious parallel that suggests itself that may or may not be relevant, that is in watergate to john dean, who did a similar thing. he was part of a conspiracy. we don't know that cohen and the president engaged in a conspiracy, but that's what some people are alleging. and then dean decided alt a certain point he wanted immunity, one. and, two, he would tell in his view a patriotic act what he knew. if michael cohen is doing something of the same thing, it could be very, very consequential. we now are going to find out as this goes along what facts he knows, what facts he doesn't, and special prosecutor will deal with the question of his truthfulness, validity, and whether or not he wants to make a deal with cohen. he may not want to make a deal with cohen because he might have more evidence

michael avenatti, the attorney who represents stormy daniels is holding a news conference some sorts outside the courthouse. let's listen into what mr. avenatti, michael avenatti in california. >> i am going to make a brief statement and take some questions. first of all, we applaud judge owe ote o' tarro for clearly understanding the ramifications of the first amendment of this proceeding. we are confident based on his statements that the efforts by the president of the united states and michael cohen to silence me and prevent me from presenting the truth and evidence to the american people that those efforts are going to fail as they should. i agree with the judge that this is very serious business. incredibly serious business. americans deserve to know the truth about their elected leaders and what they knew and when they knew it and how they cover it up. what you witnessed is a continued effort by the president of the united states and michael cohen to silence me and to prevent the truth from being exposed. this is a search for the truth, i am going to lead that search and we'll get to the bottom of this within way or the other.

michael cohen betray you? >> thank you, everybody. >> mr. t, are you worried about what michael cohen is going to say to prosecutors? >> thank you, kaitlin. let's keep going. >> are you worried about what's on the other tapes, mr. president? >> keep going. thank you, everybody. >> why has vladimir putin not accepted your invitation? >> as a pool reporter, she's persistent as is required and expected of any pool reporter, david, but who, if anyone, can really step in here to help make sure that that kind of freedom of asking of questions by a white house press corp can carry on? >> sure. as you say, fred, our colleague kaitlin collins was doing her job as a reporter, trying to get answers to important questions in an opportunity with the president of the united states. for viewers, it is worth reminding she was there as a pool reporter, as a representative of all the broadcast networks. there's also print pool reporters there at the same time, and she's doing there what reporters do, asking tough questions. to your question, fred, about whethe

mr. president, did michael cohen betray you? >> thank you, everybody. thank you. >> mr. ident, are you worried about what michael w woe -- cohen will say to prosecutors? are you worried about what is on the tapes? >> thank you, everybody. >> thank you. >> why has vladimir putin not accepted your invitation? >> thank you, everybody. >> come on. let's go. thank you. >> why has vladimir putin not accepted your invitation, mr. president? >> thank you. >> thank you, everybody. thank you. >> shepard: the reporter you heard was katelyn collins, white house reporter for cnn. she was the pool reporter at the time meaning on that day in that setting, she represented all of the television networks, including this one. a few hours later, she said white house officials told her the questions were inappropriate and she was not allowed to attend the president's joint news conference in the rose garden. the president of this statement superintendent out a support of collins and journalism quoting -- >> the president of the white house correspondent's association issued a statement. it re

mr. michael cohen, mr. felix saider, the record is very clear on this both of whom have lynx to the russian mafia. he has continued the secrecy about his business finances by not releasing his tax returns. the ethics commissioner told the president of the united states to divest. he did not and he defied that person most responsible for draining the swamp. the ethics commissioner. from operating his business at or beyond the edge of ethical boundaries, trump's pension for compromising behavior, his willingness to work closely with criminals, and express desire to protect his privacy makes him the ideal target. with close business ties, russia has enjoyed financial leverage over president trump for 15 years. this is a fact that his family has admitted to multiple times. the story is well known. after a series of brazen abuses of bankruptcy laws, president trump, was not president at the time, mr. trump found it impossible to borrow from american banks. so he turned to unconventional sources of capital, inclu

. >> michael cohen betray you, mr. president ? mr. president, dave michael cohen betray you? mr. are you worried about what michael cohen is going to say to prosecutors? are you worried about what is on the other tapes, mr. president? >> think you everybody. >> why has vladimir putin not accepted your invitation? >> harris: howard kurtz, host of "media buzz." it is not uncommon for reporters to shout questions like this, particularly when it is an outdoor situation, was this somehow different? >> as we just heard, there were a number of reporter shouting questions in the oval office after that photo op, caitlin collins was among them, and she says that she was summoned, one of many journalist who was there, but she says that she was summoned by white house deputy chief of staff bill shine, a former copresident of fox news. here's what she says. >> it was him in the press secretary sarah sanders who told me that i would not be invited to an open press event in the rose garden moments later because they thought the questions that i posed to president trump were inappropriate and ina

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mr. president, is michael cohen going to flip, sir? will michael cohen flip? >> thank you very much. >> reporter: in the oval office today, president trump ignored questions. in the past, he predicted cohen won't turn against him, tweeting, "most people will flip in the government lets them out of trouble. sorry, i don't see michael doing that." but now cohen is sending a clear signal to the president, prosecutors and the country. "i will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy," he told me. "i am not a villain of this story, and i will not allow others to try to depict me that way." cohen is under investigation by the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york for possible bank and wire fraud. prosecutors are digging into his $130,000 hush payment to porn star stormy daniels. the president claimed to know nothing about it. >> you have to ask michael cohen. michael's my attorney, and you'll have to ask michael. cohen insisted he acted on his own initiative. but now, when i asked if the president directed him to pay off the porn star

mr. trump knew about the infamous trump tower meeting with russians in advance. if michael cohen tells that version of events and if he could prove it, it could turn out to be the game changer, even for members of mr. trump's own party. >> is michael cohen lying? >> for more than a year, president trump and his surrogates have denied that he knew of the june 2016 meeting with kremlin-connected agents at trump tower that included his son, his son-in-law, and his then campaign chairman, who is now behind bars. >> no, i didn't know anything about the meeting. >> do you tell your father anything about this? >> no. it was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. >> the president said he became aware of it very recently, right before this came out, and that's when he was notified. >> and just this week, the president repeated, i did not know of the meeting with my son. sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. that someone? the president's former personal lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, who is floating himself as a

mr. president, did michael cohen betray you? >> thank you very much. >> reporter: mr. president, are you worried about what michael cohen is going to say to prosecutors? are you worried what's on the other tapes, mr. president? >> a boisterous day in the oval office to be sure, but no more boisterous than many other days. that went on for about 30 more seconds. you just heard cnn reporter kaitlan collins in that clip. she went on to ask the president a few more questions, mostly about vladimir putin. according to cnn, after the white house announced another event in the rose garden later in the day, collins herself was asked to come to former fox news executive bill shine's office in the west wing. she was met by shine, who is these days deputy chief of staff for communications in the white house. and by white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. shine told her she was disinvited because the questions she asked why inappropriate for the venue and that she was shouting. condemnation quickly poured in from the news madeedia. even fox news supported the cnn corres

mr. trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, tonight on "washington week." president trump: i amhrilled to announce that the united states economy grew at the amazingat of 4.1%. we're on track to hit the growth annual average rate in over 13 years. robert: president trump touts a surging economy that grew during the secot quart the strongest pace in nearly four years. he also took a victory lap over his recent trade discussions with the european union. president trump: as the trade deals come in one by one, we're going to go a lot higher than these numbers. robert: some republicans on capil hill are increasingly wary of the president's news, saying the just-announced $12 billion in aid for farmers is a federal bailout that proves the its.ident's policy has l >> i don't think tariffs are the right answer. i don't support tariffs. robert: leaders of the house freedom caucus call for the impeachment ofut depy attorney general rod rosenstein who oversees the ongoing russia probe, a move the attorney general does not support. >> my deputy, rod rosenstein, is high

. >> i'm about to sit down with the one and only michael cohen, mr. g to jail, trump's lawyer, michael cohen. now, you might be asking yourself, "how did i land the interview of the year?" i sent him a tweet. actually, i sent michael cohen 48 tweets. seems desperate, even a little bit extreme, but you know what? harassing people on twitter gets results. and because of my harassing tweets, the most infamous trump lackey is sitting down with me. suck it, cnn. so, michael cohen. you spent $130,000 to protect donald-- who the (bleep) are you? >> michael cohen. > you're not michael cohen. i've been tweeting at michael cohen the past two weeks. >> i've seen all your tweets. i work for the "milwaukee journal sentinel" and i cover the green bay packers. i'm a sports reporter. >> so i'm been harassing the wrong dude this whole time. >> you're not the only one. >> looks like i was only one of ignorant asholes harassing this dude online. what does michael do about it? >> i just let it go. >> you don't let shit go. somebody hit you with a hateful tweet, you report

mr. giuliani talks about to get away from the issue of truth. he accused falsely, falsely michael cohen of using the word "cash." all america and all the media now knows that was a lie, and the tape says very clearly, mr. trump used the word "cash." this is about truth, and the larger issue we face in coming months will be about truth versus falsehoods. >> i want to ask you about a couple things. people are going to hear it and say man, it cuts off fast and goes to another conversation. why? >> i don't know. mr. cohen has no explanation. the phone either cut off or stopped recording. so we don't know why it suddenly got clipped off, but we do know that donald trump uses the word "cash". >> and then "check". >> at the very, very end after donald hears -- excuse me -- after mr. trump hears mr. cohen say, no, no, no, no, then we hear mr. trump say "check" after. >> all right. >> after mr. cohen says, no, no, no, no. but mr. giuliani said it was my client, michael cohen, who used the word "cash." that was false. >> in speaking with rudy giuliani today, he does not make the case, at le

mr. president, are you worried about what michael cohen is going to say to prosecutors? going. orri about what's on the other tapes, mr. president? >> thank y'all. let's keep going. thank you, everybody. >> thank you very much. >> why has vladimir putin not accepted your invitation? >> seth: oh, yeah, yeah, it was definitely that last one. [ laughter and applause ] oh, that last one was the one that made him unhappy because trump is probably refreshing his e-vite page every five minutes. [ laughter ] "okay, i'm going to check again. i'm just going to check again. what time is it in russia?" [ laughter and applause ] of course, it's a relevant question, trump is desperate to get putin to like him, as he's made clear many times. and yet, in his speeches he keeps repeating all the empty slogans republicans have been parroting for years about putting america first, as he did yet again on tuesday during a speech to the vfw. >> we don't apologize for america anymore. we stand up for america. we stand up for the patriots who defend america. and we stand up for our national anth

is michael cohen telling the truth? mr. president, is michael cohen telling the truth?ident who usually loves shouting questions and scrums with the media. but this week the typical chatty president hasn't answer aid single question. it's been a rough few days for the president. the start of the week we found out federal investigators have 12 audio tapes from trump's former fixer michael cohen and a new poll found that a majority of americans believe russia has compromising information on donald trump. on wednesday one of the cohen audio tapes was released and the public heard then candidate trump talking about buying the rights to a former playboy play mate story about an alleged affair. then a federal judge rejected the president's effort to stop a lawsuit alleging he violated laws regarding conflicts of interest with foreign governments. we also learned the trump organization cfo who has deep ties to the trump family was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in the cohen criminal case. and last night, michael cohen claimed his former boss knew about in advance th

mr. president, well michael: -- will michael cohen flip? your way out, everyone, let's go! you, sir. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] morning, the mexican ambassador to the united states talks about relations with the united states in what is ahead in the aftermath of sunday's presidential election in mexico. we will have live coverage of the ambassador's at 11:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. earlier today, the state department policy planning thector reap reporters on timeline for real imposing sanctions against iran. briefed reporters on the timeline for th reimposing sanctions in iran. >> good morning, everyone. i hope you are doing well. thanks for coming in. i know a lot of you have an interest with what we are doing with iran and our diplomatic efforts going forward. people in that in mind, we have our director of policy planning to come down and give you a briefing on where things stand. welcome, brian. questions and few then go on a better day. and then i will see you tomorrow i

mr. michael fukes. from the center of american progress, mr. fukes is a senior fellow at focusing on the u.s. foreign policy and u.s. policy to the asia pacific region. mr. fuchs has previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state for the east asian and pacific affairs. we thank you both very much for being here. your patience in waiting. and senator menendez, i don't know if you want to welcome them. go ahead and summarize your comments at about five minutes, any written materials you have will be entered into the record. with that, if you would begin, we would appreciate it. again, thanks for being here. >> thank you, chairman corker. >> mike. >> thank you, chairman corker. senator menendez, other members of the committee, thank you for holding this hearing and for inviting me to testify on behalf of business roundtable. business roundtable is an association of chief executive officers of leading u.s. companies. our ceos are today overwhelmingly bullish about the american economy. thanks in large part to tax reform and ongoing regula

mr. president -- did michael cohen betray you? >> thank you very much. >> thank you, everybody. >> mr. president, are you worried about what michael cohen is going to say to prosecutors? are you worried about what is on the other tapes, mr. president? >> thank you, everybody. >> why has vladimir putin not accepted your invitation? mr. president -- >> thank you, thank you. >> margaret, for the uninitiated, it may sound like cha chaos, but that is a typical press scrum. there was yelling in the room, but kaitlyn was in a normal tone, she was banned from an open rose garden event. tell us what the aftermath and the repercussions are of this? >> it was swift and pretty universal. we saw kwon determine nation, but from many individual journalists and news outlets including the president of fox news. and it is the message of the press core that this is a very ordinary performance from a reporter in a pool spray. it is up to the president to answer them or not. so i hope that sent a very clear message of uniformity, but that it was certainly, certainly, you know, crossing the line in terms of