paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i'm paul gigot. that was president trump in indianapolis touting the republican's long awaited blueprint for overhauling the u.s. tax code. details of the plan released wednesday include reducing individual tax brackets from 7 to 3 doubling the standard deduction for individuals and married couples and eliminating the so-called debt tax but reduction of corporate tax rate from 35 to 20%, a provision the president has called nonnegotiable. visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome, senator, great to have you here. >> thank you, paul. paul: so as you look at this plan, how good is it, do you think, in terms of helping the economy? >> i think it's very good in terms of helping the economy. i think with what we are doing legislatively through rule-making, through executive order and and and lessening regulatory burden, we would guaranty that we would return to 3% plus growth, more jobs, better jobs, higher-paying jobs and, of course, the government would get $2.2 trillion in new reve

paul: welcome to ""the journal editorial report"" i'm paul gigot. the scope of the devastation from hurricane harvey continues to unfold. harvey will go down as one of the most of destructive and costliest storms in history. my guest this week gets a response from state and local authorities high marks. he's author of the book "shall we wake the president?" you literally wrote the book on the history of disaster management. why do you give this effort so far good marks? >> thank you for having me. i notice you said so far three times which is important because things can often go off the rails. but the first initial phase of response in terms of getting materials to people who need it and you have people on top of it who have practice and know what they are doing. what we have seen thus far is these things are coming together, and you have a top leader in brock long over at fema who did have table top exercise with his cabinet on the first day after he was confirmed. you had the governor of texas, governor abbott, saying he gives an a plus to the fe

paul: welcome to ""the journal editorial report"" i'm paul gigot. the scope of the devastation from hurricane harvey continues to unfold. harvey will go down as one of the most of destructive and costliest storms in history. my guest this week gets a response from state and local authorities high marks. he's author of the book "shall we wake the president?" you literally wrote the book on the history of disaster management. why do you give this effort so far good marks? >> thank you for having me. i notice you said so far three times which is important because things can often go off the rails. but the first initial phase of response in terms of getting materials to people who need it and you have people on top of it who have practice and know what they are doing. what we have seen thus far is these things are coming together, and you have a top leader in brock long over at fema who did have table top exercise with his cabinet on the first day after he was confirmed. you had the governor of texas, governor abbott, saying he gives an a plus to the fe

paul owned a local hangout, a cafe. unusual place by north american standards where customers could smoke flavored tobacco pipes called hookahs. this man was a fan. >> he's a good-looking man. he looks good, smells good, he's witty, he's smart and he's just affectionate. >> so love at first sight? well, maybe. said their friends. >> from the minute he told me about her, he always talked about how wonderful she is and how she's perfect. >> he definitely was very charismatic and liked to joke around. >> and money? there was a lot of it around apparently, too. and jennifer and paul worked hard to get it. they seemed only too happy to spend it. >> when jennifer and paul first got together, paul took jennifer to new york city. >> and i remember he was like a kid in a candy store, just planning all of these elaborate, wonderful things that they were going to do together. >> they were passionate, these beautiful people. they both had strong personalities. their love burned hot. >> jennifer was a strong, independent woman, and

paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i'm paul gigot. that was president trump tuesday this his first crease to the -- first address to the united states nations general assembly where he took on north korea and other rogue regimes. that warning was followed up thursday with the announcement of an executive order imposing new sanctions on individual, companies and banks doing business with pyongyang. and with word that china's central bank has ordered its financial institutions to stop dealing with north korea. john bolton is the former united states ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor. ambassador, welcome back. >> glad to be with you. paul: so since those remarks by the president, kim jong un has now said maybe we will send a missile with a hydrogen bomb over the pacific. >> right. i think it shows he's trying to demonstrate he's not intimidated by everything that's going on. this would be the first atmospheric test in more than -- paul: 1980, yeah. >> the environmental consequences would be enormous. but the steps that ha

paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i'm paul gigot. that was president trump tuesday this his first crease to the -- first address to the united states nations general assembly where he took on north korea and other rogue regimes. that warning was followed up thursday with the announcement of an executive order imposing new sanctions on individual, companies and banks doing business with pyongyang. and with word that china's central bank has ordered its financial institutions to stop dealing with north korea. john bolton is the former united states ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor. ambassador, welcome back. >> glad to be with you. paul: so since those remarks by the president, kim jong un has now said maybe we will send a missile with a hydrogen bomb over the pacific. >> right. i think it shows he's trying to demonstrate he's not intimidated by everything that's going on. this would be the first atmospheric test in more than -- paul: 1980, yeah. >> the environmental consequences would be enormous. but the steps that ha

paul: yeah. if their banks, i mean, they're the main customer, the main servicer financially of north korea. if they stop doing that, north korea's in a much worse situation. the other thing is i know you're a skeptic of sanctions, and i often am too, but i will say this: the one sanctions that have seemed to work in the past is financial sanctions because the u.s. financial system is still such a dominant player in the world. and if you can cut off chinese banks or russian banks and say you can't do business with the world financial system, the u.s. financial system is, that really hurts. >> well, the issue, i think, is how much china puts up with. you know, xi jinping has an important party congress coming up in october. i don't think we're going to see a lot of additional steps before then, he doesn't want to look like an american lackey before this important event. but also if you really went after chinese financial institutions, would they in turn go after ours. paul: would china go after ou

paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i'm paul gigot. that was president trump in indianapolis touting the republican's long awaited blueprint for overhauling the u.s. tax code. details of the plan released wednesday include reducing individual tax brackets from 7 to 3 doubling the standard deduction for individuals and married couples and eliminating the so-called debt tax but reduction of corporate tax rate from 35 to 20%, a provision the president has called nonnegotiable. visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome, senator, great to have you here. >> thank you, paul. paul: so as you look at this plan, how good is it, do you think, in terms of helping the economy? >> i think it's very good in terms of helping the economy. i think with what we are doing legislatively through rule-making, through executive order and and and lessening regulatory burden, we would guaranty that we would return to 3% plus growth, more jobs, better jobs, higher-paying jobs and, of course, the government would get $2.2 trillion in new reve

but with paul manafort, want anything that has anything to do with paul manafort. thank you american press corp. since last july at least known with increasing specificity and frankly increasing alarm that donald trump didn't go out and find a normal republican or radical republican to run his campaign last year, for some reason the guy he picked works with the russian military intelligence guy and putin linked oligarchs to promote the russian government and unexplained debts and russian payments to pro-putin political parties. we know investigators are all over him, we still don't know why trump hired him. only reason we know any of this at all is america has great reporters and free press. today of all days, if you don't subscribe to local paper, fix that. i'm going to play a commercial now. during the commercial get online, pay to get behind the pay wall at your local paper. seriously, your country needs you. endless shrimp is back at red lobster. and we went all out to bring you even more incredible shrimp and new flavors. like new nashville hot shrimp, drizzle

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[laughter] paul: certainly my wife does. [laughter] paul: not. [laughter] paul: i want to thank the buffalo bill center of the west. i want to thank jeremy and his excellent staff. this really has been a marvelous three days. the only thing i've really learned as i have aged is how little i know. and being around all these bright, young scholars this week has certainly shown me just really how little i know about something i thought i knew everything about. it is just wonderful, new work and exciting new work. as a historian, one of the things that makes you get up in the morning, and after hearing that introduction, all this stuff i have done, i understand why i am so tired, and it is so hard to get up in the morning. [laughter] paul: but i certainly appreciate so much all that they are doing to bring about new insight, but also to discover new material. i mean, we were shown all kinds of new material about buffalo bill, and his show this week that is just absolutely astonishing to me. thank you all for educating me this week. i don't know if i

you know in the meantime paul feeney one of the one of the folks the revolution your group endorsed won his primary last night massachusetts another one of those stories of seems to have vanished off the radar because it wasn't about you know a victory by the tea party can you tell us more about paul and what he and our revolution are trying to do you have paul's amazing i've known him for years he's a technician it arrives in what i'd call working class hero he took a leave of absence he was the director of bernie's campaign in massachusetts but the really amazing and he's a key leader in our revolution massachusetts which is about twenty groups all over the state banded together to work on issues like decent health care to work for decent candidates like paul ballot measures last year rejecting an increase in charter schools and to change the democratic party but the amazing thing about paul is he ran a campaign straight out with that kind of messaging about health care about

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quote, paul j. manafort was in bed early one morning in july when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his virginia home. they took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files looking for evidence that manafort had set up secret offshore bank accounts and photographed the expensive suits in his closet. later in the story, here is more detail on that. quote, it is is unusual for a prosecutor to seek a search warrant against someone who like paul manafort had already put his lawyer in contact with the justice department. to get the warrant, robert mueller's team had to show probable cause to a judge that manafort's home contained evidence of a crime quote to be allowed to pick the lock and enter the home unannounced, prosecutors further had to persuade a federal judge that manafort was likely to destroy evidence. if t"the times" is right in thi reporting tonight, why did prosecutors believe -- why were prosecutors able to convince a judg

paul: i guess so. charlie: keith richards of the rolling stones said it reminded him of otis redding. someone else said james brown because of the energy you bring on stage. i appreciate those. i think that is sacred ground. i'm a lot more clumsy than some like james brown. i can't do the splits. that would be bad news for mike pence. mythat would be bad news for pants. i'm flattered by that. there's no real good response to it. i would never say that about me. that anyone would even suggest that. i don't think you can get better than that. first it is a journey. you don't want to be, he was pretty good for 2017. you want to be, it was pretty good. charlie: how long have you been performing? st. paul: i've been singing since i was four years old. since i was in church. my first solo was when i was four. i grew up singing. charlie: do people praise your voice? st. paul: yes. i had a pastor who kind of held me down. he was trying to teach me about humility. and he did. i never thought i am a good singer.

paul manafort was fired and not working supposedly on the trump campaign. what is donald trump doing talking to him after the campaign is over? what can possibly be the subject of that conversation? can't be campaign strategy. can't be campaign tactics. the campaign is over. so if he's talking to paul manafort in december, january, february, maybe longer, he is talking about the investigation, what manafort knows, told the investigators and the fact that donald trump is so interested in that, that's a very important fact. >> nick, there's a striking moment in these reports and that is the after the raid of paul manafort's home when prosecutors unnamed, not sure exactly who, tell paul manafort, we plan to indict you. >> right. >> that is a very unusual move by prosecutors. it's not a common interaction between the prosecutors and someone they plan to indict. what is that about? when does a prosecutor decide, i'm going to tell this guy, we plan to indict him? >> you decide to tell somebody that when you want that person to turn and testify against other peopl

paul: i'm paul allen in sydney. you are watching daybreak australia of it quick flash of the latest headlines. toshiba is finalizing the sale of its flash chip memory unit despite opposition. thank capital will be named the buyer on wednesday, but the plant faces resistance because the group now includes several competitors, including seagate technology. betty: infosys has been given a month to fix glitches in its tech. the company is trying to find returns and facing problems rectifying errors and software bugs. the network is supposed to handle 3 billion invoices a month but critics say it is not capable of matching credit, tax collections, and refunds. paul: hong kong security regulars are pushing through with their plan to invest in initial public offerings despite scrapping changes to the listing projects. the proposals were announced last year. says it is less about enforcement, more about tackling problems before they happen. takeover.osed what is going on here? paul: this has gone to the high court. cbs has

if paul manafort has a residence in trump tower and paul manafort was being surveiled and wiretapped, trump tower was wiretapped. >> no, it wasn't. >> how do you know? >> well, i don't know, but what we know is that -- unless you're saying that he owns every single thing in trump tower. >> that's what i'm saying. >> people who own their coops or condos in that building. number two, he used that tweet to suggest that the surveillance was political and his word was witch hunt. to jeffrey's point it was a fisa court warrant. >> hold on a second. to go back to the original tweet march 4th at 6:35 a.m., obviously president trump heard something, maybe from officials. >> this is actually an important point. there's two questions here. one is whether he read this in breitbart, which had a piece being pushed around, somebody put on his desk or whether he knew from something internal within his own government. >> yeah. >> that raises its own questions. >> let me just go back. >> no, but if he was told that, that raises other questions, too, about propriety of information. >> all true. however,

so i think senator paul. >>s associated -- so i think senator paul's associated health plan married with our tail would really great. i am excited that we have found -- an alternative to obamacare that really makes sense. to take the money that we would have spent on obamacare and given it to the states. because if you keep replicating obamacare even at the state level you will get the same outcome. where are you? >> yes or no? jigs, it is very difficult for me to envision a scenario where i would end up voting for this bill come a jake. bill, jake.r this the impact on the medicaid program, which has been on the books for more than 50 years or more and provides health care to our most vulnerable citizens including disabled children and of low income seniors, i am concerned about the impact on that. also the impact on cost and coverage and we are in the have problems under the affordable care act with the cost of names and deductibles and finally, i am very concerned about the erosion of protections for people

paul j. manafort was in bed early one morning in july when federal agents picked the lock on his front door and raided his home. they took binders stuffed with documents. the special counsel robert s. mueller then followed the house search with a warning. his prosecutors told mr. manafort, they plan to indict him. cnn providing even more detail, reporting that, quote, u.s. investigators wiretapped former trump campaign manager paul manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, an extraordinary step video offing a high ranking official now at the center of the russian meddling probe. there was a period in which mr. manafort was known to talk to president donald trump. to hear what this means for the investigation, ashley parker, reporter with "washington post" and political analyst. former federal prosecutor paul butler, also an msnbc analyst, jeremy bash is a former national security analyst and the former chief justice of the department of justice also an msnbc analyst. j

and paul manafort, as was reported by the daily beast, paul manafort was still advising trump through the tran tigs. as we get deeper into the investigation, as it broadens its scope we're going to see that habit that donald trump has of keeping people with problematic things around him is going to be detrimental. >> the posture of the folks in the white house around this investigation, i can see it going a number of different ways. one is okay this is a witch hunt there's nothing there we'll be fine. it's going to blow over. the other is, the shoe is going to drop any day and someone is going to show up at my condo and pick the locks. how are people thinking. >> in terms of public, it's the former. in terms of of what's going on in their own heads and hearts is the latter. olivia brought up paul manafort earlier. he's an interesting case in terms of trump's inner circle and white house officials working there because they greatly resent mr. man sfwoafor many of them blame, fairly or unfairly, for the widening scope of the investigation into the finances of the president and his famil

paul manafort was. now, whether or not some of paul manafort's conversations with, you know, then candidate trump are sort of put into that wiretap, we don't know. we don't know the answer to that. but i just want to comment to what everybody else says. the idea that president trump's campaign chairman will get indicted, that's a big problem politically for the president, for the administration. not just for paul manafort. this is something that this investigation has been going on for months and months. we've seen a lot of smoke. we haven't seen a fire yet, but if there's an indictment, there's a fire. and that's a problem. >> listen, i was speaking to rick santora earlier, mike, and i think that's the conversation you heard, mike. the conversation was about whether the president's tweet was justified or not, and that's really not the question. the question is whether he thinks the trump administration should take the latest reporting very seriously, something they should be concerned about, mike? >> w

he rand paul. and this is being called the graham/cassidy by. >> any update on where you stand with graham/cassidy? >> no. >> thank you. >> i have a lot of concerns and it is very difficult to evaluate a bill when you don't have the analysis. >> no cbo newspapers yet. and republicans know, this is it as a parliamentary member. lindsey graham who named and it co-sponsored it, has said if it doesn't pass, it could be terrifying. >> paul ryaned medical to my face, if you pass it, we pass it. you can have different opinions about the quality of the bill. the end of the day, there is the only process left available to stop a march toward socialism. >> it is pretty clear to me where the country is going after obamacare and bernie care. >> bernie care. >> governor/doctor, i start with you on a march toward social i. >> i like his foreign policy. this is ignorant. this is an insurance based bill. it was written by people from the assuraninsurance. >> do you mean it will help copies more than patients? >> n

before paul manafort went into trump world this was -- this was going on. so you know, it sort of begs the question, you know, obviously we have no idea if anybody from the president on down knew that he was under this kind of investigation, certainly it's impossible to think they did. if you take a step back and think about the whole question of russian interference in the election, and poof, suddenly this guy who was, you know, so under surveillance that they got this warrant, which you said is so hard to get, and then appears in the trump campaign after not working in politics for decades is very, very curious. >> our excellent reporting, we have shown it, but "the new york times" has strong reporting suggesting that manafort, the special counsel, robert mueller and his team have had scare tactics, go into paul manafort's home and picking his lock and going through his clauseeosets taking documents. this is big time. >> it is big time. it's not only what do they have on him, but what do they want to get on other people. you are going after somebody like

are you expecting rand paul is a "no"? >> with rand paul, he has very particular on health care. we want hit support, because when else would he get the opportunity to vote on a bill that actually provides real entitlement reform? when will be get a chance that doubles the ability to double to your health savings account. when we get rid of the individual, employer mandate, and those are things that are important to rand paul. this administration stood for life, in this per protects life. he can say it, i protect life and instead, i went the other way. >> chris: rand paul has made it clear, he wants to repeal obamacare. he says the bill doesn't leave a lot of obamacare including all of the taxes in place. he calls it obamacare-lite. >> the support that rand paul has given, we support as well. there was a vote on a simple repeal measure that failed 45-55. the president said he would have supported it, but our choices are to continue obamacare, continue crushing the american people with higher premiums, less coverage, what is the option of a new path? you have covered the amount of

if paul manafort were a named intercept interceptee. was he an incidental target or otherwise, i request guarantee you it went to the attorney general level for review and approval. >> this is actually really crucial what you just said. the reason why is because of this, let me give a moment to explain. we remember those tweets on march 4th, for anyone who's just joining us. just found out obama had my wires tapped. how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the sacred election process. bad [ or sick guy ] he was derided for this, is he somehow vindicated? >> no, i think what we're seeing is president trump, he distorts the facts, creates a smoke screen tries to twist the facts in a way that will only be beneficial to him. his phones were not tapped. we don't know if his conversations were picked up on the intercept with paul manafort, they could have, but we don't know that yet. if they were, they weren't directed at him specifically. however, if there was discussion where president trump acknowledged what paul manafort i

officials wiretapped paul manafort from a secret court before and after the election. joining us is page la brown who broke the story and have the details about why the government was listening to someone so close to the president. pam, what have you learned? >> and rson, sources tell us that the fbi got permission to monitor paul manafort before and after the election. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. and, of course, manafort is at the center of the russia meddling probe. we're told that are intercepted

ken dilanian, i want to go to your reporting for nbc news about these paul manafort notes. walk us through that. >> sure, lawrence. one of the most interesting things about it is that we learned that paul manafort, while he seemed to be on his phone during the meeting according to some of the participants, he was actually taking notes on his phone. and those notes are now in the hands of the house and senate intelligence committee and in the hands of special counsel robert mueller. what we're told is that those notes are rather cryptic. they're not sentences. they're fragments. they're words. some of those words included a reference to the republican national committee, as you said, and a reference to political donations. and the context is not clear according to my sources. but it raised enough alarms that people want to look more closely into this because, of course, it's illegal for russians or any foreign source to contribute to a u.s. political campaign. it's an illegal for an american political campaign to accept foreign donations. so if there was any hint of donation

i'm paul gigot. that was president trump tuesday in his first address to the united nations general assembly. when he took on north korea and other rogue regimes. and they wanted to kim jong-un followed up with the announcement of an executive order imposing sanctions on individuals companies and banks doing business with pyongyang. and with were that china's bank has as their hesitations is not dealing with north korea. we have a former united states ambassador to the un and fox news contributor, welcome back ambassador. >> got to be with you. >> since those remarks, kim jong-un has not said maybe we will send a missile with a hydrogen bomb over the pacific. >> right. i think it shows that he is trying to demonstrate he is not intimidated by everything going on. this would be atmospheric testing more than 35 years.i think the environmental consequences would be enormous. the steps that have been taken as you mentioned, the executive order i think is potentially quite significant. although the words

paul manafort was the campaign chairman. the fact that they are focused on him has pretty severe implication implications. >> the pressure that is on him and the fact that they're looking at all these crimes and are willing to charge him in court that they believe that he is essentially some kind of hub in agreement or activity going on between the russians and anyone else in the united states whether or not they were connected to the campaign. i think that he holds the key and that's what they wanted known and that's probably why he's being very reluctant. and i think that, you know, the tactics that are being used are probably -- they're being used because he's not being as forthcoming as they would like him to be. and they need to go in and do it more aggressively. >> interesting possibility. we'll get into that much more coming up. jeffrey, asha, david, thank you very, very much. >>> backdrop for president trump. in a few hours, he will take center stage at the united nations and address the general assembly for the firs

in addition to president trump, who else was paul manafort speaking to, don? i'm sure there are a lot of people out there tonight right now wondering if there's caught on those tapes. >> absolutely, and they should be wondering that. susan, the fbi restarted surveillance after obtaining a new fisa warrant that extended into 2017. of course getting a fisa warrant is not easy to do. what does that tell you about this investigation? >> so at the outset, obtaining a fisa warrant means that the government was able to prove that they had probable cause that paul manafort was the agent of a foreign power. the definition can encompass a lot of different activities but typically it does indicate there's some evidence here of there being criminal wrongdoing. >> so considering the surveillance was discontinued at some point last year for lack of evidence, it means when they got the fisa warrant again, they must have learned something new, right? something that rises to that level that you just stated. >> right. so it does appear as though obviously there are connections

thank you paul butler for the expertise and natasha, thank you so much. paul hamburger as well. we'll get back to the politics in a minute but coming up, the latest on two major natural disasters. they're catastrophes, first a deadly earthquake in mexico right now that happened yesterday, the death toll is going to rise as rescue crews continue to comb through the rubble. and hurricane maria, the big storm devastated puerto rico knocking out power across the entire island. no more leg tris pi there. the strongest hurricane to hit puerto rico in 90 years. a live reportmenting up live from puerto rico. >>> obamacare on the brink. republicans are trying one last time i think to repeal the affordable care act but they've got pretty big opponents in talk show host jimmy kimmel and a lot of governors. kasich is one of them and he joins us tonight. finally let me finish with trump watch. you don't like this one but he is playing this game. that's donald trump and this is "hardball" where the action is. . he's on his way to work in new mexico. willie and john both work for us, a busines

right now rand paul is no, number one. he says the legislation doesn't go far enough to repeal obamacare. susan collins is likely no number two. she says she is leaning against it because of concerns it goes too far, which means all eyes are on john mccain, again, lisa murkowski, again, and mike lee. all of them are undecided though for different reasons. as if the day wasn't wild enough, at his first speech before then u.n. genral assembly president trump threatened allout war with north korea. >> the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. >> republican leadership is at the intersection of all of these stories. joining me now is republican senator john barasso of wyoming who is the chairman of the republican policy committee. senator thank you for joining us. i do want to start, if you don't mind, with north korea. the president today talked

paul ryan, he put quite a good face on this morning. the motivation of this president was bipartisan. look, we all talk about wanting to see a bipartisan moment. can you take me behind the scenes? what do you think mitch mcconnell was saying yesterday? >> i think the speaker and majority leader are going to put on the best face they can. they are team players. they will play team ball on it. i don't think it's difficult to figure out what happened here. the president's own staff, if you read the coverage, the secretary of treasury, the office of management are all on the same page as paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. somehow the president didn't get the message. the idea nancy pelosi had more leverage here -- the only way democrats were able to with hold is filibustering harvey funding. think about that. that would absolutely never happen. they had no leverage and walked out with a perfect deal. >> that's what paul ryan was saying. democrats with a three-month extension will playing politics with harvey funding. that's it. >> that's it. th

and now with paul manafort's revelation, we know that's true. it wasn't just paul manafort. it was everyone paul manafort was talking to. everyone he was talking to.. not just president trump. >> sean: i might have made a call or two. hi, guys. good to talk to y'all. >> you are in there. this is a serious, serious violation of our fourth amendment rights and when you think about what cheryl atkinson wrote, this is what is so important. you can't target american

that man, paul manafort, worked against that for decades. at the behest of the russians and then he became the head of the campaign of a man who people are wondering is -- whether he's colluding with russia or not. connecting those dots is a very scary prospect. >> i'm interested in your confidence in the fisa process because a lot on the right, they are suddenly, you know, people who might not have necessarily been civil libertarians before but are suddenly more concerned about this process and are taking it as evidence that president trump himself was indirectly tapped through paul manafort through the fisa court having approved a wiretap for paul manafort. are you confident that there must have been enough evidence for this warrant to have been granted? >> yeah, i am. i think in -- in 2014, obviously, there was stuff going on that had absolutely nothing to do with donald trump because manafort had no association with him at that point. my interaction, my -- >> he was still on his birther campaign. >> my interaction with the fisa court, my

i'm paul gigot. that was president trump tuesday in his first address to the united nations general assembly. when he took on north korea and other rogue regime

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we expect to hear from paul ryan maybe this hour. andrea? >> the president said he already called mitch mcconnell. there is damage control being done by republicans because of the fact pelosi and schumer came out last night. they didn't say there was a deal, they said there was an agreement and they were working on this. it's the sequencing of when the funding of the wall comes up, but the fact is the president is trying to reassure everyone that he still wants that wall, which is so critical to his base. this is what the president had to say pushing back against complaints from the base that he's talking about amnesty. >> we're not looking at citizenship, we're not looking at amnesty, we're looking at allowing people to stay here. we're doing it in conjunction with the republicans. we have a very, very good relationship with a lot of people. a lot of people want this to happen, they expect it to happen and we'll see if it happens. >> so, kelly, there is obviously -- i mean, this is a big change in that whether it's a deal or not a deal, the

i think what the president is trying to do is say publicly, i like rand paul. i support rand paul. he's one of my guys, and i'm going to get him to be with us at the end. whether that will work or not, we just don't know what the substance of it will be. >> you know, i don't know what his optimism is, as you point out, next aryear's an election year, a midterm election year, it's going to be even more politically complex. >> yeah, he likes rand paul, senator paul, except for all those times he tweeted about him trying to browbeat him into voting for legislation he really didn't want to support. i think the president is trying to make this last-ditch sales pitch, because he knows it will be harder to do tax reform and harder to say that he had a successful first year if health care reform isn't accomplished. but, it's just going to get harder and harder as we go along. >> in the meantime, let's see what he can do with democrats, working with chuck and nancy, as he likes to call them. >> i'm going to predict a couple of rounds of golf between rand paul and president trump. >> they've