>> Sreenivasan: RETURNING NOW TO
POLITICS, THIS WEEKEND THE
TEMPERATURE IN WASHINGTON HEATED
UP ON MANY FRONTS: FROM MORE
TALK OF A TRADE WAR WITH CHINA,
TO INCREASINGLY HARSH WORDS
ABOUT IMMIGRATION THE PRESIDENT
WAS AGAIN ON THE OFFENSIVE.
IS THERE A THEME TO THE
PRESIDENT'S WORDS?
NEWSHOUR WEEKEND SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT JEFF GREENFIELD IS
HERE WITH SOME PERSPECTIVE.
A THREAT, A THROUGH LINE?
>> YES, I THINK YOU PARTICULARLY
SEE WHEN IT YOU WATCH THE
CHANGES IN THE PERSONNEL AROUND
THE WHITE HOUSE.
ONE THING TRUMP HAS BEEN TOTALLY
CONSISTENT ABOUT FOR DECADES IS
WE'RE BEING RIPPED OFF BY
FOREIGNERS, THEY ARE EATING OUR
LUNCH IN EVERY TRADE DEAL AND
THEY ARE SENDING MARAUDING
BANDS OF IMMIGRANTS ACROSS OUR
BORDERS TO DO TERRIBLE THINGS.
NOW THAT IS POLICY.
SO YOU HAVE THE IDEA OF A TRADE
WAR, WHICH HE SAYS HE CAN WIN
EASILY COUPLED WITH THE
EXTREMELY HARSH RHETORIC ABOUT
IMMIGRANTS AND NOW THEY ARE
VOTING ILLEGALLY ALL OVER
CALIFORNIA AND I THINK THE
THREAT IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHO
NOW IS SURROUNDING THE
PRESIDENT, GARY COHN, WHO WAS A
FREE TRADER IS GONE AS A KEY
ECONOMIC ADVISOR, REPLACED BY
LARRY KUDLOW WHO THINKS TARIFFS
ARE TERRIFIC, THE SO-CALLED
INTERNATIONALISTS LIKE
McMASTER, THE NATIONAL
SECURITY ADVISOR, REX TILLERSON
AS SECRETARY OF STATE, THEY ARE
GONE, REPLACED BY JOHN BOLTON
AND PROBABLY MIKE POMPEO, MUCH
MORE NATIONALISTIC IN THEIR
APPROACH, SO THE IDEA THAT WE
HEARD A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO THAT
WELL THE GROWNUPS WILL RESTRAIN
TRUMP AND PUT HIM ON A MORE
CONVENTIONAL COURSE, NO THE
PEOPLE AROUND HIM NOW, IN FACT,
ARE REINFORCING THOSE VERY CORE
INSTINCTS OF THE PRESIDENT.
>> Sreenivasan: WHAT ARE THE
POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THIS
FOR HOUSE AND SENATE CANDIDATES
UP FOR REELECTION IN JUST A FEW
MONTHS?
>> ON THE ISSUE OF TRADE, THIS
IS REALLY GOING TO CAUSE AND HAS
CAUSED AN ENORMOUS PROBLEM WITH
THE REPUBLICANS, BECAUSE IN THE
FARM STATES, AND THERE
STILL ARE STATES WHERE FARMING
IS IMPORTANT, WHERE ARE A LOT
OF VULNERABLE DEMOCRATIC
SENATORS ARE UP FOR REELECTION,
THE IDEA OF A TRADE WAR, IF IT
HAPPENS, IS GOING TO CLOBBER
THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY AND
YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT STATES
LIKE MONTANA, MISSOURI, NORTH
DAKOTA, MANY OTHERS, THE PROBLEM
FOR THE REPUBLICANS IS, BROADLY
SPEAKING, THE PRESIDENT IS SO
POPULAR AMONG REPUBLICANS THAT
THEY ARE CAUGHT, THEY CAN'T
ATTACK HIM, HE IS THE LEADER OF
OUR PARTY, BUT THEY DON'T WANT
TO SEE A TRADE POLICY LIKE HE IS
ENUNCIATING BECOME REALITY.
THE OTHER THING TO REMEMBER
ABOUT THIS IS, ONE OF TRUMP'S
NOTIONS ABOUT HIMSELF IS HE'S
A MASTER NEGOTIATOR, AND THE ART
OF THE DEAL, TO QUOTE ONE OF HIS
BOOKS, SUGGEST YOU BEGIN WITH
KIND OF A MAXIMAL LIST OPENING
BARGAINING STANCE, IF THAT WERE
TO WORK, IF HIS THREATS RESULTED
IN A DEAL WITH CHINA WHERE THEY
CURB SOME OF THEIR CLEARLY
UNFAIR PRACTICES, THAT IS GOING
TO BE A WIN, BUT THE QUESTION
IS, WHETHER CHINA IS AMENABLE TO
THAT KIND OF NEGOTIATION, THAT
IS VERY MUCH UP IN THE AIR AND
COULD BE A HUGE POLITICAL
PROBLEM FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN
THE FALL.
>> Sreenivasan: SO IN THE
TOPIC OF IMMIGRATION, WOULD THAT
NOW, WOULD HIS ACTIONS AGAIN BE
CONSISTENT WITH THIS SORT OF
THESIS THAT YOU CAN READ ALOUD
IN HIS BOOKS?
>> I THINK IT IS MORE PRIMAL
THAN THAT.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HE HAS
TALKED ABOUT FROM THE TIME WHEN
HE WAS A FEATURE OF NEW YORK
TABLOIDS, AND I THINK ONE OF
THE THINGS THAT WE SAW THIS
WEEK IS THE OTHER THING ABOUT
DONALD TRUMP IS HE IS A SHOWMAN,
RIGHT, HE PLAYS TO THE BASE, SO
HE GOES TO AN EVENT THAT IS
SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE THE TAX
CUTS, AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
HE LITERALLY THROWS AWAY THE
PREPARED SPEECH, THIS IS
BORING--
>> THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A
LITTLE BORING.
A LITTLE BORING.
>> AND GOES OFF ON ONE OF HIS
HARSHEST RANTS YET ABOUT
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, TO ME IT IS
LIKE HE KNOWS WHAT GETS THE
CROWD GOING, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE
WE GOING TO DO?
BUILD A WALL.
WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT?
MEXICO.
AND WHEN TRUMP STANDS UP IN
FRONT OF A CROWD IT IS KIND
OF LIKE A LED ZEPPELIN REUNION,
YOU KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR
"STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" AND YOU ARE
GOING TO HEAR HIM BASH
IMMIGRANTS.
>> Sreenivasan: IS THERE-- WHILE
WE END UP SPENDING ATTENTION ON
THIS, YOU POINT OUT VERY
IMPORTANT STORIES THAT ARE
UNDERCOVERED.
>> I ALWAYS KIND OF LIKE TO
REMIND PEOPLE THERE IS STUFF
GOING ON BEHIND THE HEADLINES.
THIS PAST WEEK, JUDGE STEPHEN
REINHARDT DIED, HE IS A NINTH
CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS OUT
WEST, PROBABLY THE MOST LIBERAL
FEDERAL JUDGE IN THE ENTIRE
COUNTRY, AND THAT COURT OF
APPEALS HAS BEEN THE BANE OF
CONSERVATIVES FOR YEARS.
THIS IS FUNDAMENTALLY DOMINATED
BY LIBERALS.
SO THERE ARE NOW EIGHT VACANCIES
ON THAT COURT, PART OF 100
FEDERAL VACANCIES HE AND SENATE
MAJORITY LEADER MITCH McCONNELL
ARE DETERMINED TO FILL AS
QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
SO MUCH SO THAT McCONNELL IS
ABOUT TO 86 A LONGSTANDING
TRADITION IN THE SENATE THAT A
HOME STATE SENATOR CAN BLOCK A
FEDERAL JUDGE FROM HIS OR HER
STATE.
>> Sreenivasan: A BLUE SLIP.
>> A BLUE SLIP, EVEN IF IT IS
FROM THE OTHER PARTY.
NOW, YOU LOOK AT WHAT IS COMING
OF THOSE 100 FEDERAL VACANCIES,
AND UNLESS THE DEMOCRATS TAKE
THE SENATE IN THE FALL, THEY ARE
GOING TO HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL
RESHAPING OF THE FEDERAL BENCH,
AND MEANWHILE, IF ONE OF THE
CENTRIST OR LIBERAL SUPREME
COURT JUSTICES WERE TO LEAVE,
RUTH BADER GINSBURG, ANTHONY
KENNEDY, TRUMP IS GOING TO BE
ABLE TO RESHAPE THAT COURT IN A
WAY THAT WILL BE BY FAR THE
MOST CONSEQUENTIAL POLITICAL
ACTION HE WILL HAVE TAKEN IN
HIS FIRST TERM.
>> Sreenivasan: THE PRESIDENT
HAS ALSO BEEN ON THE DEFENSIVE
ABOUT SCOTT PRUITT AND THE
CHALLENGES THAT HE'S FACING AT
THE E.P.A., THIS WEEKEND HE CAME
OUT WITH A TWEET AND I'M
JUST GOING TO READ IT
RATHER QUICKLY, "WHILE SECURITY
SPENDING WAS SOMEWHAT MORE THAN
HIS PREDECESSOR, SCOTT PRUITT
HAS RECEIVED DEATH THREATS
BECAUSE OF HIS BOLD ACTIONS AT
E.P.A.
RECORD CLEAN AIR AND WATER,
WHILE SAVING U.S.A. BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS.
RENT WAS ABOUT MARKET RATE,
TRAVEL EXPENSES OKAY, SCOTT IS
DOING A GREAT JOB."
IN THE LENGTH OF ONE TWEET,
THERE IS AT LEAST A HALF-DOZEN
INACCURACIES THERE, BUT DOES IT
EVEN MATTER?
>> THE CONDUCT THAT SCOTT
PRUITT IS UNDER FIRE FOR IS
EXACTLY THE KIND OF CONDUCT THAT
CONSERVATIVES SAY THAT'S WHAT
BIG GOVERNMENT SWAMPY
BUREAUCRATS DO, ADDING
ON, TRIPLING THE SECURITY STAFF
AND WANTING A BULLET PROOF DESK
AND ASKING THE SECURITY DETAIL
TO RUN SIRENS SO YOU CAN GET TO
A RESTAURANT ON TIME AND MOVING
THAT SECURITY GUY OUT WHEN HE
WON'T DO IT.
WHEN SOMEBODY IS ON YOUR SIDE,
THE CONDUCT LOOKS MUCH MORE
DEFENSIBLE THAN IF THAT GUY
WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
POLITICAL DIVIDE AND THAT IS
TRUE, BY THE WAY, ACROSS THE
BOARD.
>> Sreenivasan: ALL RIGHT, JEFF
GREENFIELD, THANKS SO MUCH.
>> OKAY.
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