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Joining us now to talk through what the release of the report means for the president is NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. CHANG: So it sounds like the president is pretty happy. LIASSON: Well, there's a lot of damaging information. Mueller actually corroborated several news reports that the president has called fake - one of them where he asked his White House counsel, Don McGahn, to order the deputy attorney general to fire Bob Mueller, which he didn't do, or the Mueller report validated news reports that show the president dictating the false statement about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians. LIASSON: Yes. JERRY NADLER: The responsibility now falls to Congress to hold the president accountable for his actions. You can call on the Russians to hack your opponents' emails. And remember Mueller's bottom line - no Trump campaign official knowingly assisted the Russian government in their interference, and no American illegally participated in Russia's hacking of emails. CHANG: That's NPR's Mara Liasson. LIASSON: Thank you.

The Ford-Kavanaugh hearings were both a moment the country watched together but also one that seemingly drove us further apart. President Trump yesterday, before heading to a rally in West Virginia, expressed only support for Brett Kavanaugh as the FBI investigates sexual misconduct allegations into his Supreme Court nominee. GARCIA-NAVARRO: For more, I'm joined by NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson. LIASSON: All in for Kavanaugh. LIASSON: Things stand right now - I think Republicans don't yet have the votes. But every Republican I've talked to doesn't expect the FBI investigation to turn up anything new. So this all does really depend on what happens this week and with the FBI. Women saw a credible woman, a kind of everywoman. It wasn't just Kavanaugh who embraced the kind of Trumpist style of politics. GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

Joining me now to talk about it all is NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. But the other effect of Trump talking about this so much is to take attention away from that good economic news that we heard last week, with wage growth finally ticking up. Is President Trump's sort of relentless focus on his base working? LIASSON: Right now the polls, at least for now, show the outlook for the House elections bad for Republicans, good for Democrats. But polls show, at least for this week, they are dead heats. LIASSON: Democrats certainly hope that President Obama's star power will engage Democrats, energize them, get them to turnout in a midterm year. President Trump certainly hopes that. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Let's talk about Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court. Nothing that happened in the hearing seemed to have shaken any Republican votes loose - in other words, gotten any Republicans to vote against him. That's NPR's national political correspondent, Mara Liasson.

Let's begin this hour with that and security clearances with Mara Liasson. GARCIA-NAVARRO: So that first item about President Trump's White House lawyer Don McGahn comes to us via The New York Times. All of this goes to Mueller's investigation of whether Trump obstructed justice when, among other things, he told McGahn at one point to try to fire Mueller, which McGahn didn't do. But the most extraordinary thing about The New York Times story is that it suggests that McGahn talked to Mueller to show Mueller that he did nothing wrong. And today, the president tweeted that he didn't like The New York Times suggesting that McGahn was a, quote, "John Dean type rat." LIASSON: Well, the president is threatening to revoke the security clearances of a whole bunch of critics of his. LIASSON: The impact could be pretty chilling, according to a lot of former intelligence officials. In other words, the president talked about removing the security clearance of a top Justice Department official. If you're going to tell the president about intelligence that he might not like, you might be worried that he'll yank your security clearance. GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's NPR national political correspondent, Mara Liasson.

Joining us to talk about all of this is NPR's national political correspondent, Mara Liasson. Presidents don't always control the economy. But the fact is that presidents get the blame when the economy goes bad, so they should be able to take the credit when the economy is good. 4.1 percent is a really good number. MONTAGNE: Well, speaking of tariffs, let's talk about President Trump's announcement with the European Union on trade. They're also going to work toward lowering the tariffs they've already put on each other's goods. The other thing that made a big difference, according to a senior White, House official that I talked to, was that the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, came in with a specific deal. But I think that if the negotiations go well, and that leads to lifting the steel and aluminum tariffs and the retaliatory European tariffs that were causing farmers so much economic pain, that will help the president keep his base happy. MONTAGNE: Well, just finally, the president will be holding campaign rallies this week in Florida and Pennsylvania, both battleground states. MONTAGNE: That's NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

The meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump in Helsinki reverberated throughout the week and particularly on Capitol Hill. COLEMAN: NPR's Mara Liasson is here to help us process the past week and prepare for the next one. LIASSON: I think members of Congress are going to want to ask the secretary of state, what happened in the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump? But the Russians say agreements were made, and the Russians are eager to follow up on those agreements. COLEMAN: Well, can you tell us about the pushback from the president's party in Congress? But Congress did go forward. COLEMAN: Well, we might get to do it all over again, right, Mara? LIASSON: Yes, because one of the other big news stories of the week was that the White House announced that the president is inviting Vladimir Putin to come to Washington in the fall for more talks. COLEMAN: NPR's Mara Liasson. LIASSON: Thank you.

We're following that story, and we will bring you updates throughout the morning. Tomorrow, we're expecting President Trump to announce his Supreme Court pick. And then the president heads to Europe for the annual NATO summit and later to Finland for a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here to help us understand what to watch for is NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. There's Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Raymond Kethledge and Judge Amy Coney Barrett. GARCIA-NAVARRO: So, Mara, it's not just about the money for President Trump. He's also questioned the value of the alliance for national security of the United States. TRUMP: President Putin is KGB and this and that. Putin's fine. GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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President Trump spent much of the week fighting his own party and undermining efforts to pass immigration legislation. NPR's Mara Liasson joins us now. DAVIS: Mara, this did seem to be a notable week in the Trump presidency. We saw for the first time a significant pushback within the party - going up against the president on the family separation policy. So I think the White House once again looks politically incompetent to members of Congress. DAVIS: But he said - he told Republicans in Congress don't bother because we have to wait for what he called the red wave coming this November to elect more Republicans. But whether that would help the effort to pass a big compromise immigration bill, which is what the president says would happen after the so-called red wave, isn't clear. And I think his loss isn't just to conservatism in particular, but it's to political discourse in general because Charles was an - a conservative intellectual, not a Republican partisan. LIASSON: ...You mean, will he have an impact on the party? NPR's Mara Liasson, thank you so much.

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