Trump didn't answer a question about whether it is inevitable he’ll be impeached. He left the Oval. Which is unusual. Usually *we* leave the Oval.

Trump also bonded with Putin over a scorn for journalists. “Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn't it? You don’t have this problem in Russia, but we do.” “We also have,” Putin answered, in English. “It’s the same.” They shared a chuckle.

NEWS: Bloomberg News has VIDEO of Trump's closed-door gathering with U.S. diplomats at the United Nations. "We’re at war,” he said, referring to the whistle-blower. “These people are sick. They’re sick.” (Story out soon, from @nwadhams  and me.)

Breaking: Just four of Trump’s trips to Mar-a-Lago — the four he took in February/March 2017 — cost $13.6 million, the US Government Accountability Office says.

Trump and MBS are meeting on a high floor of the Imperial Hotel in Osaka right now. Trump calls the Saudi crown prince “a friend of mine” and says it’s an “honor” to be with him.

NEWS: The White House ethics lawyer, Stefan Passantino, leaves the post *tomorrow*, sources tell me.

Scoop: John Kelly and John Bolton engaged in a profanity-laced argument outside the Oval Office today, I'm told. The shouting match was so intense others worried one of the two men might immediately resign. Neither is resigning, I'm told.