richard haass, we certainly the talk of donald trump blowing it at the negotiation table is actually a bit more comforting than where we were three or four months ago worried about 500,000 people dying on the korean peninsula. that said, while we do want piece with north korea, talk about your feelings over the past weekend or so hearing donald trump speak as if he's already managed to get kim jong-un on the deck of the uss missouri in tokyo bay to basically sign the surrender documents. >> everybody needs to take a

richard haass.his morning, get ready for what as the president walks back the presidential bluster with nice, new, smart options on the pentagon's table. it is uncertain if get ready is imminent. get ready for a more trump-like gop. the house speaker will imminently exit. speaker b of house the minority? good morning, this is "bloomberg surveillance." from new york. tom keene in new york, francine lacqua -- what is prime minister may doing on this london thursday on syria and on the president in the united states? francine: it is occupying a lot of press coverage in the u.k. because we understand that the prime minister would be willing to support president trump in military airstrikes without asking parliament. we have spoken to not only the deputy leader of one of the main parties, but also other parliamentarians who say that would be an outrage. that parliament needs to have a vote on this. tom: let's get an update. taylor: president trump is considering ways to retaliate against syria for an app

richard haass will talk about that. but first we're going to bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> it was a beautiful weekend, wasn't it, mika? we finally had a really nice one in the northeast throughout the northern plains where they melted all the 20 inches of snow they had from the week before. unfortunately there was a storm this weekend. louisiana was one of the areas hard hit. this is a sonic drive-through. this is a tornado with 100 mile-per-hour winds. watch that car. thankfully no injuries. no one was reported hurt in that tornado. that was breakfast time saturday morning. >>> that storm still lingering in the south, heavy rain for georgia, south carolina. we'll give you coastal areas. riff surf, two to three inches of rain. horrible beach weather today. let's time this. this will be a slow-moving storm. charlotte, you get into the rain today. d.c. a dry monday. raleigh has a dry monday. go into tuesday morning, rain and raleigh arriving in richmond. as i mentioned, the great weather continues fro

. >> i was going to say, is richard haass still with us. >> i don't see richard. >> it's all on you.reak with you. >> he's got his pipe. >> you know, this is actually, mika, this is very significant. be curious to think what you and willie think about it. the fact that he is calling assad what assad is, he's a barbarian and he does violate all international norms. so, listen, let's just take a quick turn here and say that donald trump, while this sounds like saber rattling and maybe frightening to certain people, i've got to say the fact that donald trump is now calling out vladimir putin and calling out the fact that he's an enabler for a man who continues to gas and kill children in the most heinous way and mothers and grandmothers and the elderly, the most heinous way, that actually is positive. mika, are you calling richard back from the set. >> yeah. i brought him over. i don't know if he's miked. >> does he have a mike? >> he's got a mike. >> i have a mike. >> and we have clint. >> pretty remarkable thing when mika is motioning they can actually just show me and willie talking

call today. >>> we are in a trade war with china. >> back with us richard haass, author of "a warld inld in " the art of the deal. this is a he president who has been consistent. this may be a way to get them to the table. >> with all due respect the secretary is of commerce, it's easier to begin wars than it is and we can't say where this is to take us. we need serious trade with china. there's legitimate grounds. what's not smart is kicking off a trade war. >> is this a negotiation or start of a trade war? >> confrontation kwral approach. it is high-risk strategy. we could have it it without all the style. he likes to begin with a controversial boom. he is he hoping that sets the stage where the other side is more likely to compromise. mr. trump did not yank the united states out of the trance pacific partnership week one of his presidency. with another 11 cups at our side saying, hey, china, here's the higher rules you need to play by. >> the critique has been consistent. in the short history of the administration, he was appealing to china. there was getting leverage on north korea

bush white house and elise jordan president of the council of foreign relations and richard haass andry to president obama and nbc news political analyst and suffering kansas city royals fan josh earnest. we were just saying, you knew it was coming. >> when it's spring training and you know it's going to be a long year. >> you can enjoy the summer. take the summer off. >> we'll start rooting for the chiefs. >> start early. >>> some other big stories we're following today. the president tamps down speculation and he'll fire the special council as his allies are ratcheting up the allies on bob mueller's boss at the justice department. bob costas joins us with his new reporting. plus, we already heard from stormy daniels and now a former playboy

you spoke with richard haass is sitting here waiting to join the show. >> hey, richard. >> talking abouthe president has on the ground in syria. what are they suggesting could be some of these options? >> what richard said to us and what he'll say in the show today is that he basically is a moral imperative and a strategic imperative that the united states does respond, that when you have these redlines, when a country like syria uses chemical weapons on its people that there has to be an aggressive response to it. the question is how aggressive and on what timing and whether or not we have partners in that fight. and i think that's what your going to hear from almost the entire military and republican establishment over the next 48 hours as they try to put pressure on them. the israelis are trying to put pressure on them. there's reports in the last five to ten minutes there's already been an air strike in syria and syria is claiming it's the israelis that carried it out. that wouldn't be a shocker, if, in fact, that did happen. you'll see more and more pressure on this president to act

richard haass, you see syria being blamed in the gas attack there, new york times reports that israel has responded early this morning already. but this was so predictable. i wrote a column for sunday's washington times -- post. >> washington post. it's early. sunday's washington post and said as trump leaves to fight his imaginary border war, he's leaving the real war where we can make a difference and said he's turning it over to assad and to iran and to isis and -- >> and russia. >> and russia. and sure enough. trump who mocked and ridiculed barack obama for, quote, creating isis, for abandoning iraq instantly, has done nothing but encourage our sworn enemies here. >> exactly. it's fair to critique barack obama for what he didn't do in syria, but that was then and now is now. and now it's mr. trump's choices and tweets about mr. obama seem a little bit thin and he's got to decide now what he's going to do. his rhetoric has been extraordinarily tough and you always get in trouble when your rhetoric outpaces your reality on your policy. if he simply does what he did last time a year

stuart: richard haass, you're all right.bout this one, the coffee industry fighting back, fighting california law that puts cancer warning labels on coffee products. who is doing what? ashley: well, a judge in l.a. said basically there is is a by-product in the coffee from roasterring beans. starbucks and retailers are fighting back that the levels are so small that they do not pose a danger. let's not forget california has a list of some 900 chemicals that they believe could, i say could perhaps create problems with cancer. and once that is designated you have to put a warning on every product that you sell. the coffee companies are coming back look, we've already been to court over this and proved the levels of a crylimide are not dangerous to consumers. here we go. stuart: warning labels on absolutely everything, they lose their force. liz: california, you said, california said put warning labels on fire logs? stuart: you buy firewood, a block of six logs. ashley: yep. stuart: there has to be a warning label on it, danger

for many life in trump's orbit ends in crash landing, but right now i want to go to richard haass. you look at what's going on with those handshakes in north korea and south korea, talk about the other key principal players here. obviously the united states wants to play a vital role in this, china wants to be a part of it, japan has every reason to be a part of this process, too, since all of those countries are going to be affected by any instability in north korea. talk about how those major players fit into this plan and if we could expect five countries to get together and talk about this sometime soon. >> it's possible at some point you'd have a summit involving four or five countries china, japan, the united states as well as the two koreas, that would probably come more as the caboose of this peace train. but a lot has to be done by that but china has obviously applied a lot of pressure with economic sanctions, didn't want there to be a war on the peninsula but does not want north korea to keep nuclear weapons left to create a context where japan might one day be tempted to

all right, richard haass, thank you so much.osta and walter isaacson, as always, great to have you with us. >>> still ahead on "morning joe" -- >> we are seeing more and more advertising, very unfortunately, by the traffickers and smugglers specific to how to get around our system and enter our country and stay. we have documented cases of borrowing children appearing at the border as a family unit in a fraudulent way so why today not yesterday or tomorrow, today is the day. today's the day we want to start this process, the threat is real. >> and why today? because today is the day that donald trump said some embarrassing things that i now have to come out and cover for despite the fact that crossings over the u.s./mexican border are at a 46-year low. that was homeland security secondary kirstjen nielsen describing the president's decision to deploy national guard troops to the southern border despite the fact, again, that illegal immigration coming into this country from mexico is at an almost 50-year low. >>> up next, we'll b

richard haass, let me start with you.s you have watch this had player out from the pompeo meet and the description of how it took place and what may take place next with a meeting between president trump and kim jung-un, have you been impressed by the way this administration has gone forward? >> what the administration has done is put enormous pressure on itself by agreeing to a presidential summit as the first step. usually that is the caboose of the train. they made it the engine. but the fact that mike pompeo went is good news because that suggests a degree of preparation and what the president said yesterday, part of this was okay. if he didn'ten things we think be fruitful, they would not go ahead. if preparation suggests that there is not a deal to be had, what you don't want to do is have a summit that totally fell apart. it is all going to come down to the president used the word fruitful yesterday. what does he mean by fruitful. how ambitious are we going to be, what will we require now, what will we require down

and richard haass is the author of the world in disarray. also with us is walter russell meade, professor of foreign affairs and humanities and a columnist for "the wall street journal." what do you make of kim jong-un's trstrategy, the trip beijing, it all seems well thought through. >> he seems to be keeping himself at the center of things, first with olympic diplomacy and now on this stage. i actually think this had more to do with xi jinping. the chinese are staying you're not going to make any deals without us at the table and it's reasonable to think they similarly wanted to make that very career to the north koreans. >> do you think, richard, that the united states has a strategy here? because for the longest time, it said we're not going to talk until you do something concrete. now they say we'll talk. is that a plan? >> there doesn't seem to be. the one thing you constantly hear is we're demanding denuclearization. but nobody has defined it. it's also not clear what we're prepared to do in exchange for whatever denuclearization is d

when we look at this on a broader scale, i noticed this tweet from richard haass, basically i wonder if any of those advising donald trump on trade have pointed out the u.s. will be far stronger vis-a-vis china if it joined tpp and was confronting china not unilaterally but wiin concert wh japan and ten others. >> the decision has been to go it alone. that is unfortunate. just as suggested by the tweet you just read, if we had been part of a multilateral sort of global or even regional sort of discussion with china, you have a lot more strength, a lot more possibilities. you have a lot better way of sort of making it less about tit for tat as opposed to taking the hit ourselves. what will happen is the damage can go beyond the rural areas that ron was talking about. when you see stocks like caterpillar dive in value, stocks like boeing dive in value, everybody watching this broadcast right now who has a pension or 401(k) probably has a stake in the outcome of that. when ben sasse says he could be setting things on fire, it goes really beyond the wheat fields in nebraska. it could be

and joining us now from new york is former state department official richard haass. nt of the council on foreign relations and author of a world in disarray. great timing for that book, richard. you have written that what the us needs right now is an endurance strategy, not an exit strategy, do you see any sign from this white house that president trump has an endurance such evil syria ? house that president trump has an endurance such evil syria? it is clearly not what he wants, but he might still —— injuries strategy for syria? my guess is that he will still say the present is temporary rather than permanent, but my guess is that he will probably sign off on something that is effectively open ended, and that might be the single most important thing, that we will do in response. we will make it very difficult for isis to reconstitute itself, it may even create some areas of syria where the syrians could live in safely, so that would not be insignificant. it would not be dramatic, but it would be significant. what are the competitions in terms of any prospective respo

but on morning joe, richard haass said it's too early to evaluate the american negotiating position.ody needs to take a deep breath here. trump is being criticized for having given away the store. he has not given away the store. what matters in a negotiation is not where you begin, it's where you end up. >> well said. meanwhile, white house press secretary sarah sanders was asked if the administration planned to take north korea's overtures at face value. >> certainly we're not going to make mistakes from previous administrations. and we're not going to take the north koreans simply at their word. like i said before, and we've said many times before, the maximum pressure campaign is going to continue until we see concrete actions taken by -- look, we're not naive in this process. >> i'm joined by susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today. covering the funeral on saturday, i just felt great to cover such a great marriage and to honor the marriage. and the marriage and honor our country. it's one of the great partnerships going back to world war ii. it's great stuff in any way

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whether or not the president can put a final stamp on this i think as richard haass said earlier this morning on "morning joe", you know, we still have a long way to go before this is a concrete solution to a 70-year-old war. >> why should we be optimistic things are different? mult pu multiple presidents have tried to cut a deal and failed. >> a military official who was recently in south korea, i spoke to this morning and was told that, attributed it to a three-point strategy. the economic sanctions. the little bit crazy trump brought to the table is having an impact. and just the credible use, the credible threat of force to this go-around has actually brought north korea to the table and has made the conditions different this go-around. >> what could this do to china/united states relati relationship? >> it might further separate the united states from china. in as much as china has an interest in maintaining the status quo. you know, it's interesting that the president passed on the transpacific partnership, the tpp, because had we been on this, it would strengthened our hand in

tom: we have richard haass talking about a world in disarray, which starts with our fiscal affairs, andt analyst wrote for "forbes" using. absorbed ourworld trillion dollar deficits? harm: the world sees the united states as being out to lunch -- gideon: the world sees the united states is being out to lunch. most of the broad lines of american policy, foreign policy, and others continue on inertial grounds, while at the top there is a crazy person running around screaming, and there is all sorts of corruption scandals and other things going on. everyone is basically watching and not counting on us to do anything for the next year or two, and see what happens afterwards. tom: gideon rose with us, we will look at domestic politics. harm banholz also with us. in washington, 99.1 fm. sirius xm.new york, bob moon, bloomberg "daybreak." ♪ taylor: this is bloomberg "surveillance." i am taylor riggs. more problems for tesla model three. is temporarily suspending production for the second time in roughly two months. to five dayhe four hiatus will improve automation and ease bottleneck. walmart

president of the counsel on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray "richard haass and david ignatius and heidi przybyla is with us as well. we have the circus with us here. are they going to take pictures of you drinking your coffee? >> no, of you drinking your coffee. >> that's the reason they're here. so the real michael cohen will be in court today in the wake of the fbi raid last week. it comes as the legal bills continue to mount for the president. nearly $4 million since he was sworn in. >>> on that, i heard that is it true that he spent like 20% of all the money they've raised politically on legal bills? did you hear that john heilemann? >> is that true? that's a lot. >> big chunk. >> what a waste. >> i wouldn't be surprised by it. >> a big chunk going to legal bills. >> i spent much of sunday on twitter railing against jim comey's media blitz and the president calls it, quote, mission accomplished in syria. we'll discuss whether there is a strategy following friday night's air strikes or maybe several strategies. >>> but first, joe, we want to get your take

president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is with us.nversation, "new york times" washington bureau chief elizabeth bumiller. and also political reporter for the "washington post" and moderator of "washington week" on pbs, robert costa. john heilemann, i will continue the list with you. there's a caravan, a caravan in his mind. i think there is a caravan somewhere in central america or maybe moving up to mexico and buzzfeed i think has a reporter on it. so there's this big caravan of people. a big -- there's -- john heilemann, there are a couple of vehicles from people who would like to come to the united states and donald trump has been tweeting about this now for four or five days. you can take the tweet down. i don't want to see the tweet anymore. he's been tweeting about this for four or five days only because fake news is covering it. and while he's doing that, he's attacking the "washington post," a newspaper that's investigating all of his misdeeds. he's slashing and burning amazon because -- he's angry because guess what they're

superb withlooks edward alden and richard haass.d edward morris. your morning briefing coast-to-coast, "bloomberg daybreak," stay with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ tom: good morning. "bloomberg surveillance." a wonderful conversation with the president, he tweeted a partial tweets. it's like george carlin from years ago, the wonderful comedian from years ago. half a tweet. so much fake news about what is going on in the white house. very calm and calculated with a big focus on open fair trade with china, the coming north korea meeting, and of course, the vicious gas attack in syria. feels great to have bolton and larry k on board. , i'ml get the second tweet sure he's working on it. penny pritzker with us, a study on work as well. i want to turn to the two of you and bring your two worlds together on this idea of economic growth. morris, or use that, do we just need to get set and used to that lower economic growth is unacceptable to secretaries of commerce and unacceptable to politicians of all persuasion? mr. morris: no, i think we