senator rob portman said they should apologize, the person that said it should apologize. it's wrong. senator john kennedy of louisiana also thinks they should apologize. senator roger wicker of mississippi as well. and senator joni ernst of iowa says she hopes it comes up in the senate republican policy lunch. a good chance that somebody will ask the president about that. we're getting an indication that there could be repercussions as a result of the leak that told the world about kelly sadler's comments. it was interesting that in the early going people were only too happy to tell fox news what she said. sarah huckabee sanders, the press secretary, said that that leak should have never happened. now it seems that the white house retrenched and is not going anywhere near the distance of a public apology on that. the president tweeting out last night, the so-called leaks out of the white house are a massive overexaggeration put out by the fake news media in order to make us look as bad as possible. with that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards and we'll find out

senator rob portman speaking to date with david westin. argentina needs a lifeline. -- set to meet with christina lagarde. a $30 billioning credit line to calm assets rocked by concerns of overheating inflation. ramos. me is alberto .hank you for joining us it alberto: is an important source of cheap financing for argentina. allow argentina to stay away from international -- markets for now. large external funding requirements and the steady presence of argentina in international markets. that they have access to a pool of cheap finance without being subject to the whims of the market. shery: you can see argentina --tury bonds which expire in the imf credit lines will not come for free. there will be demands. at what cost? alberto: there will be a condition that will be agreed with the artist -- with the argentine authorities. the money will not be disbursed immediately. there will be a sequence in which authorities have to perform according to the criteria set by the imf. that is part of the economic and financial cost of it. the other is

we will talk about this with rob portman, coming up next.loomberg. ♪ ," this is "bloomberg daybreak and coming up later today on "rumored markets," the goldman sachs cohead of investment banking. david: mike pompeo, secretary of state, coming home in the middle korea,night from north bringing home the americans who were imprisoned there. a few minutes ago i spoke rob portman, who sits on the foreign relations committee, about the latest developments. >> i was delighted to see them off the lane and honor their and soil. to see their smiling faces was wonderful. it was difficult for a number of us who have been so involved in trying to get auto warm beer -- otto warmbier back. unfortunately he came back in a vegetative state and had been so for about 16 months. we were not told that during our discussions with the north koreans. this goes to both the opaque nature of the regime and the evil nature of that regime. so, we are delighted that izaak answer back and we wish that some of things had been different two years ago, 18 months ago, that we

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rob portman from ohio has been outspoken about this and said this is isn't necessarily a question about. this is a moral question about how we want to act as a country. it will be interesting when congress comes back how they're confronted with this. which know kamala harris has called this immoral and tweeting about it over the weekend. so we'll see if more senators join in on that conversation. >> mitch mcconnell has not wanted to rejoin the debate over immigration, but there is a push by some members of congress, some republicans, as well, to deal with daca and come up withwith an immigration bill. >> the president keeps talking about loophole s in the law tha permit children from staying, now that the trump administration wants to deport their parents. the fact is, republicans control the congress. so if loopholes need to be closed, it's on the republicans. this is the last thing republicans want to deal with. senator portman and others don't want to answer questions about these tragic stories of separation and these incredible pictures. what's going on with the moderate republicans

ohio republican senator rob portman here. he's a member of the senate foreign relations committee. senator always good to have you. what do you make, sir, of these latest developments on the trade front, you know, some division within the white house we're told among going really tough, sort of the navarro route or mainstream mnuchin route? what do you make of that? >> i think the president is right to focus on china. he's right to say that the imbalance between the u.s. and china has grown over time. and by the way, of the $500 billion trade deficit we have, $370 billion is with china. so no question about that. one of the issues that he's focused on was intellectual property. the fact that they take our secrets and use them. so it's real and it's good that he is finally sort of standing up to it. not finally him but finally an american administration is doing that. but neil, you have to be careful how you do it. >> neil: in doing so, senator, he's willing to offer an olive branch to zte who has been stealing secrets, doing all the things you just mentioned in order to extract a t

a lot of people like rob portman who actually care about the constitution. the chairman has said stay away from bob mueller. you've had a lot of people who came out, upstanding citizens. this puts more president on them. a president who only can be described as nicks ownian. -- nixonian. what does the senate and the house do about this? >> well, donald trump has been l lectured on the dangers of actually firing bob mueller. i feel there has been a coordinated effort to impress upon him firing bob mueller would really, really be the fracture and up in set the condoning of this behavior from donald trump. the question i have can donald trump ever control his impulsi e impulsivity enough. >> no. >> after what he did this weekend, this was not some well thought out grand strategy. this was donald trump mouthing off on twitter, exercising his twitter hand. on sunday morning, the morning other presidents previously went to church, donald trump is having a twitter war. that's why i think he has to continually up the ante when it comes to shock value and what he get

rob portman, republican senator from ohio said out of common decency the white house should apologize and the person who said it should apologize. senator john kennedy thinks she should apologize and senator joni ernts of iowa said she hopes it comes up for discussion. maybe some uncomfortable moments and the whole stadler thing threatens to capture the attention or command the attention that republican policy lunch today. we'll find out where it goes. >> bill: probably be some leaks from that as well. thank you from the north lawn. >> sandra: violent clashes continue at the israel/gaza border at this hour. dozens reportedly killed and while palestinians are blaming israel for those deaths, the white house says the world should be blaming hamas. >> we're aware of the reports of continued violence in gaza today. the responsibility for these tragic deaths rests squarely with hamas. hamas is intentionally provoking this response and as the secretary of state said israel has the right to defend itself. >> sandra: good morning, connor. >> good morning. for the last six weeks we've seen vio

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i here by appoint the honorable rob portman, a senator from the state of ohio to perform the duties of the chair, signed orrin g. hatch, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order the senate will resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, kurt d. engelhardt to be united states circuit judge for the fifth circuit. mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: an important tribute took place here in the capitol this morning, the fifth annual memorial service for the four united states capitol police officers who have died in the line of duty. sergeant christopher uni, officer jacob chestnut, detective john gibson, and sergeant clinton holts were rememberedded with a wreath laying in the capitol's visitor's center. this marks the anniversary of the shooting when officer chestnut and gibson were kimed. next w

taken steps to stop that kind of promotion on the internet as a result of legislation that senator rob portman of ohio and i led here, legislation called sesta, passed overwhelmingly you bipartisan legislation that will assist victims to have their day in court and law enforcement to do even better against sex trafficking. that story is just one example of the laudable work that the department of justice and the f.b.i. do every day to keep america safe. the attack against them has extraordinary irony and harm because it seeks to sow doubt about democratic institutions that are vital to our way of life. and president trump has literally taken a page from his authoritarian heroes who systematically seek to say that the law is not what our enforcement agencies say, not what our democratic institutions say but what they say. he has persistent lids and purposefully -- he has persistently and purposefully attempted to undermine all of the department of justice. and the fact is, these attacks have effect when they come from the president's mouth. they have consequences. not surprisingly, these repeat