win a free treatment. >> thanks for joining us. >> we are back tomorrow. "america's newsroom hq" starts now. >> we are moments away from the start of the white house press briefing. sarah huckabee sanders will take to the lectern a day after a major shakeup inside the trump administration. general john kelly took over as chief of staff. it was breaking news about 20 minutes or so into this program yesterday. he then dismissed incoming white house communications director anthony scaramucci. we have livestock steam coverag coverage. mike emanuel standing by on capitol hill. let stand by the white house with chief white house correspond to john roberts. white house is now focusing on a major legislative push. >> good afternoon to you from inside the white house. the dust is beginning to settle

after the transition to the new chief of staff john kelly and the president is trying to push his legislative agenda which includes a big push towards tax reform. the present and about an hour's time will be hosting a number of small business owners here at the white house. the president wants to reduce the tax rate on small businesse businesses, the same as the corporate tax rate. he wants to lower it to about 15% of he may have to settle for some 20%, which is in the ryan tax plan. could be impossible. the president was his try to build some momentum so he can get tax reform done or at least begun. the day after people get back from the labor day weekend, the treasury secretary steven mnuchin expected there is going to be some opposition to whatever plan comes out of the white house and congress, but he is urging everyone to get together to pull together for tax reform for it listen to what he said yesterday. >> the special interests will come out. so the messages it may not be

perfect for everything you want, but it's going to be really, really good for the economy and a lot better than what we have. this is about everybody's got to be in one direction of let's get tax reform done. let's get it done now, let's create economic growth. >> all that said, regardless of whether or not you get health care reform done, there still a real push here in the white house to try to get health care reform done because by reforming health care and getting rid of obamacare and its inherent taxes, you open up a pool of nearly a trillion dollars they can put together to tax reform. >> also sets you up potentially for being able to work on the budget, which is due which expires in the next few weeks so that potentially sets you up for another win in the white house. >> will quickly before let you go and i want to remind anybody at any moment, sarah huckabee sanders could stack up to the lectern and give us the white house press briefing. we will take you live no matter what we're doing here on fox news channel.

one of the things that she may be asked about by the new reports that talk about the president's alleged involvement in the response to his son's meeting with the russian attorney. what more you hearing? >> likely that she will probably get a couple of questions on that. "the washington post" reporting that the president on his way back from the g20 afford air force one actually dictated that initial statement attributed to a son donald trump junior in response to the meeting that he had with natalia, the russian attorney on june 9th 2016 let's remind you what that original statement said. it was a short introductory meeting. i asked jeron and paul to stop by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago and was since ended by the russian government. it was not a campaign issue at the time and there is no follow-up. of course, that statement did not tell the entire story. had to be amended later to say the original region for the meeting was that the russians were offering up some opposition research on hillary clinton. less to the issue of whether or not the president dictated the

statement himself, his legal team is pushing back hard against that is attorney jay secular saying apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent. the sources pointing fingers at disgruntled former members of the president's legal team saying maybe they're just trying to stir the pot. it did seem to be some discrepancy when talking to sources about the difference between what donald trump junior and his team want to come out and say. they want a little more transparency will require some further clarification. the president's legal team also says even if the president did dictate that statement word for word, legally there's nothing wrong with that. spit it out at the bottom line. john roberts will come back to you. of course, all the news broke about scaring magic, you never know. we may see them pop up again. joining me now for more of all this is former director of women's outreach for the democratic national committee and fox news contributor.

an chairman of the american conservative union. good to see you both. i want to start with you about what changes when somebody who is respected, someone on both sides of the political aisle like someone who's been on the job in different capacity and seen some success, general kelly taking over as white house chief of staff, what happens to the morale inside the white house? >> is a special counsel. whenever that's going on, there's a degree of stress that accompanies that. now you take a brand-new chief of staff and in this white house, what's interesting is that reince priebus had moved so many people over from the rnc into the west wing and i think all of those folks who are seen as quote and quote ranked people are a certain amount of duress. will i survive the next reforms or will i get the cut? >> what about just this idea of keeping the party inside the white house? >> it's a misnomer. people are assuming that when rnc moved over, that is completely false.

that was his touchtone two rnc operatives. the president's touchtone to the party is done through all kinds of very close relationships including his own. actually think that's not so much a question. >> it's been interesting to hear democrats respond to general kelly. so much positivism you hear from the likes of blumenthal, maybe not a lot of surprises there, but more moderate. >> i think we all are hoping that the chaos is going to calm down. the anxiety that you mention for the rnc operatives inside the white house, i think we've all been facing that, not just in the media, all these different issues, every single day, every single week. we need to get back to the business of helping the american people. general kelly is either going to have to go around president trump, lock him up in the white house bunker, take them a basic training boot camp, something is going to have to

shift because the problem in the white house doesn't come from reince priebus or any of the other names that have popped up. it comes from the leader who is in the oval office. >> this is wrong. i will agree with you that the west wing was not exactly set up in a way where it could be efficient and effective at the beginning of this administratio administration. and the leaks have been debilitating and terrible. but actually general kelly coming in, i think it's because donald trump realizes that he wants to set the west wing and his staff up in a way where it can be more successful. and then donald trump is looking at the last six months and wanted to make improvements. it's not done over donald trump donald trump's objections. it's done because he is seeing what he wants. >> how is he going to keep them in check? >> and want to keep them in check. >> this fool me once mentality because how many times have you been fooled by the president giving to be more presidential? how many countless times is that been said?

a pivot to taking away the chaos would be good for your agenda, for trump's agenda for sure. go chaos happens because the president is taking on the media, taking on the bureaucracy, taking on the swamp and he did with a lot of outsiders. he wants to get more experienced people. >> we will get to that just a moment. i would take you now live to the state department briefing. secretary of state rex tillerson actually has stepped up to the lectern briefing on threats around the world. will monitor and bring you any news out of this. he would for the spokesperson to step up and i was in the secretary of state. we know he is facing. north korea, russia, a lot on his plate right now. our team is listening and watching this very closely and we will take you there depending on the statements he makes right away as breaking news. we want to show you that we are watching this. let's come back to that. let's talk about this a little bit because behind the scenes of the white house, you've got

staffing and you got some things going on. in front of the rest of the world, he of things on like if you live next door to russia, ukraine sending in troops there potentially, your thoughts on that? >> actually think that what faces this administration in some ways because the previous administration didn't take care of problems with the problems were just so serious like north korea that i think all this talk about russia and collusion and investigation is really going to dissipate we realize the serious national security questions facing the country, not just with iran getting nuclear weapons to look at north korea and look at the implications in a relationship with china. this is what is really going to overshadow unfortunately all the silliness of the day. >> really quick, russia is on the landscape because they are pressing with sections and i don't like that so they want to kick out 755 diplomatic staff and ancillary staffing as well. >> we need to continue to hit them hard, but you also use the

word chaos. this is not some democratic talking point. this is what has been right in front of our eyes and someone like general kelly being able to come in and take control? i'm a fan of just common sense when lowering the temperature because i think the anxiety that has been causing last six months is actually making people ill. not just us in the media who pay attention to this every single day come up with the american people who are wondering what is going on in? >> my friends who are actually -- >> your party, they're ready to step up with some ideas to replay or obamacare. his present public and lawmakers to keep fighting to get the job done. going to ask you to sit tight for just a second. want to move on and change the talk to other concerns like tax reform to congressional correspondent mike emanuel stepping up live to talk about this now. how frustrated our key republicans after coming up

short in the end of last week. >> very frustrated after they were defeated on the set up for by three of their own. susan collins, lisa murkowski, and john mccain. never public and lawmakers are looking for health care a form plan i can get them at least one more yes vote. >> three different proposals to vote on last week, with to figure out how to the magic number we know it's an issue that we need to respond to to try to spare the american people from a program that is failing. >> let's not talk in terms of repeal. if we replace it, it's going to be what we're going to have to do. but when you have to actually

replace it. >> for now, most lawmakers are shifting their focus to other critical issues on the agenda. the budget, a debt ceiling, and also funding the government in the relevant committees will look at next steps on health care reform. >> not democrats? you've heard the likes of nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, coming up with some ideas, bridge the gap with those republicans. what are they saying? >> there's no doubt that there breathing a sigh of relief. they said republicans had the boat and now they are calling for taking on a lot of these big issues in a bipartisan way. >> i'm most concerned about around here is the death of the senate. the failure of us to work in a bipartisan way. obamacare became very political because just democrats voted for it. last week, we saw what happens when just one party tries to do it alone. i am hoping we don't repeat that mistake on tax reform because i think it'll have the same ending. the democrats do not want to be out of the loop and are warning of more trouble if republicans try to go to loan. >> senator, one party did do it alone originally on health care and the president had to fix it more than 45 times. we have to go. thank you. we are standing by now for the white house press briefing and will take you there as soon as

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>> so the news this hour that will be broken coming up as the white house press briefing. we are waiting for sarah huckabee sanders, who will surely be asked about the latest staff changes at general john kelly takes turns. can the general get the trump agenda back on track? policy? military experts and men who have served. former navy seal carl had become a member of the trump advisory board 2020 rate also retired

marine sergeant johnny joey jones. good to have you both. thank you gentlemen for being with me. let's start with the mission plan here. what is it for the general inside the white house? >> first things first is you have to stop the leaking. spacek started to do this but he is an exceptional leader. there's nothing in his career package that shows failure on anything. he is a type of guy who can get order and discipline back to the white house. i think is going to streamline the command structure there. no more walking into the president's office and having meeting with whoever. everything has to come through him and want to get that in order, you can start organizing things a lot better. >> what about the idea that the new incoming chief of staff, general kelly will have full authority to operate within the white house, all staff will go through him. he has some family members in that scenario but talk to me about that. >> good. that's the way it should be. you have to have one decision maker. if he is the chief of staff,

he's the chief of all staff. no family, nobody gets around the corner but everything has to go through him because if he is a single point of contact, he can organize a lot better and allocate resources far better than they are being used right now. >> sergeant jones, in terms of military battle strategy, we had colonel west on outnumbered earlier. he said there's a line walk chart. every buddy knows the chain of command and i know how they will go. they get the calendar, that sort of thing. what type of disciplinary or organizational skills do you think a general in particular takes him to the white house? >> i think the first thing people need to understand is that the are not just in battle hardened and battle-tested battle train, and he kind of personality out there be a marine general will be a military general. there are only three to five marine core four-star generals and a time. it's an incredibly elite group not because of their own personal performance but because of the performance of those under their command and under the responsibility. general kelly brings out to the

white house. talk about chaos, talk about all the ins and outs of operating in d.c. i don't think we should look at general kelly. we should look at general kelly is someone who knows how to stick to the mission and put mission accomplishment as an ideal inside his in subordinates. always say in the marine corps and what was in the military is you don't just do the right thing when your leader is looking. this one is doing the right thing when your leader isn't there. that's the kind of perspective and the kind of morality that he can bring to the white house. because that's a great line for everybody. including all of us civilians. we making too much out of his military experience? here the term commander in chief is applied to the president and the war clinic role with questions last 15 or 20 years. we need a military presence in the white house, but are we making too much of the fact that he is a general? what you think? >> i forgot which congressman it was. a congresswoman out of california that we are

militarizing the white house. something that people need to understand is that the world is in turmoil right now and there are wars on the precipice of being fought. having general kelly there, someone who has faced the actual ultimate sacrifice. any parent will tell you about i'd much rather late mile line then the life of my child. to have that person was springer talking to the president about these issues, i couldn't think of a better person for that. he has proven himself to be careful in a political climate as well as the battlefield and it's by far the best things in general maddest come out of this administration. >> i'd like to add just to that real quick is the fact that military members are willing to die for this country. there a lot of people that are out for themselves plain and simple. military members would die for this country. we put people like that georgia major government organizations, people are going to adjust their personal careers. >> do think that's enough to

raise morale and galvanize everyone who has been leaking like a sieve? >> i wouldn't want to cross general kelly. but what you get the last line. good to see you both. thank you very much. we are just moments away now from the white house press briefing. sarah huckabee sanders set to answer reporters questions and we will take you there live as soon as it starts. secretary rex tillerson is also briefing live right at this moment at the state department talking about the middle east and the islamic state savages. we are monitoring that for news at the same time. stay with us. a busy hour.

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just yesterday. john kelly took the helm of the west wing as you know. he is already making changes. that happened while we were live. 2:00 p.m. eastern. the white house is all white house staff will report to general kelly. but will everybody? does that include jared kushner, steve bannon? joining us now is someone who serves as a special advisor to the trump transition team. cfo, as a state treasurer of arizona. good to have a day. you also talk regularly with the president, so i understand. he spoke with him just about a month ago is what i'm being told. did you forecast any of the trouble that has gone on in terms of messaging and some of the bumpy starts that the president's has faced inside the white house? >> i don't know if i would call it trouble. anytime you're an outsider the president ran as an outsider to the political system and he ran against the establishment and the swamp has done its best to fight back, but the president

has done very, very well even given those constraints. he has repealed more business problems than anyone has ever done. he is at 850,000 jobs. the president has a very, very good track record even given the swamp and what they have tried to do. i think we are going to see more of that continue. i'm excited about the changes. he is the master of building great teams. i've worked with him closely on that and he is always looking to improve the staff. i think general kelly is a great addition to the team. anytime you can become a four-star general, very, very rare, he knows a thing or two about building a team himself and about managing an organization. i think we're going to see even more good things to come. >> just as you are saying this, sarah huckabee sanders has stepped up to the lectern for the white house press briefing live now here on fox. let's watch. >> in about an hour, the president will join small

business administrator linda mcmahon and his daughter ivanka for a special event highlighting the role of small businesses play as major drivers of our economy. around 58 million people are employed by small businesses around the country accounting for nearly half of the united states employment. that's 58 million individuals whose families count on small businesses to keep food on the table, send their children to college, or spend for the future. that's why we have an entire agency led by an incredibly successful businesswoman dedicated specifically promoting small businesses. during the last administration, small business found themselves under assault from federal government that seemed determined to keep piling on regulations and compliance requirements until it became impossible to keep their doors open. obamacare is mandates settled many with health care costs they simply couldn't afford and every year, these business owners see new additions to the tax code that forced them to spend additional time and money to file. the president is committed to ending these antigrowth policies

and unleashing the american economy. we will continue to work with congress to repeal obamacare is oppressive mandates and along with our partners in congress, will deliver a bold tax reform that provides relief or middle income individuals, a more competitive model for businesses and its implication for everyone. we will continue the president's ambitious plans to eliminate unnecessary regulation which disproportionately affects small businesses. we look forward to hearing from a small businesses this afternoon about how the trump administration can continue to be an advocate for them. and with that, we will keep it short today and i will take your questions now. >> i want to ask about a comment lindsay graham said this mornin morning. so there's a military option to destroy north korea's programs and north korea itself. as the white house supportive of and battlements connect will the white house be supportive of

that option to destroy north korea's program and north korea itself? >> i just keep hearing somebody's phone. talking or something. it's very distracting. >> destroy north korea's program and north korea itself? >> the president obviously has been very outspoken about how he feels about north korea, weighing all options, keeping all options on the table and as we have said many times before, we are not going to broadcast what we are going to do until that happens. >> i'm sorry? >> destroying the country like lindsey graham talked about? 's bill is not what i'm saying. the president has been very outspoken about the need to stop north korea. we've been very focused on stopping the nuclear program, stopping the missiles, stopping the aggression, that still continues to be the focus and we are keeping all options on the table in order to do that.

[indistinct question] >> the type the statement that john, jr., issued is true. there's no inaccuracy in the statement. the president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information that he has. this is all discussion frankly of no consequence. there is no follow-up. was this close to the proper parties what is how "the new york times" found out about it to begin with. the democrats will continue to use this as a p.r. stunt and are doing everything they can to keep the story alive and in the papers every single day. the president, the american people, they voted america first, not russia first and that's the focus of our administration. >> he certainly didn't dictate, but like i said, he waited in, offered suggestion like any father would do.

>> was he aware at the time that don, jr., had a meeting that was based on the pretext that he would be promised information that was negative about hillary clinton when he suggested that the statement only estate at the meeting was primarily about russian adoption policies? speak of the statement that was issued was true and there were no inaccuracies in the statement. i think the bigger question is everybody wants to try to make this some story about misleading. the only thing i'm saying misleading is a year's worth worth of stories that have been fueling a false narrative about this russia collusion and based on anonymous sources. i think if we are going to talk about misleading, that's the only thing misleading icy in in this entire process. you guys are focused on a meeting that don, jr., had no consequence when the democrats actually colluded with a foreign government like ukraine. the democrat linked fear of fusion gps actually took money from the russian government while they created phony dossier which has been a basis for all the fake news. if you want to talk further

about a relationship with russia, look no further than the clintons as we said time and time again. bill clinton was paid half a million dollars to give a speech to a russian bank and was personally thanked by putin for it. hillary clinton allowed one fifth america's uranium to be sold to a russian firm whose investors were clinton foundation donors in a clinton campaign chairman's brother lobbied against sanctions on russia's largest bank and failed to report it. if you guys want to talk about having relations but you seem obsessed with doing, look no further than they are. if you want to talk about somebody who's actually been tough on russia, look at president trump. he wants more fracking, more cool, more energy, a stronger military, a stronger military defense. those things are good for russia. decisions are very clear and you guys want to create a narrative that just doesn't exist. >> follow-up on what you are talking about. the responsibility.

it was reported today based on a lawsuit was filed that says that sean spicer met with campaign donor and a journalist from fox news whether a pushing this story that staffer who was murdered was perhaps the one responsible for the wikileaks breach. two questions. sean put out a statement. he said it was just a brief meeting. he said the guy didn't know the president. the lawsuit alleges that the president knew about it and had an influence on the story. to the president know about the story prepublication entity have an influence on the way the story was written? spit of the president had no knowledge of the story and it is completely untrue that the white house had involvement in the story. as an ongoing litigation error-free to the actual parties involved which are in the white house. >> does distribute to the press secretary for the president of the united states gave us passionate pushback on us for focusing on russia. does it disturb you when there is an allegation out there in a lawsuit and sean spicer emitted

meeting with these individuals that this was discussed in your white house? stickel he met with members of the media. i don't find that to be a strange thing. you guys are all members of the media. still he met with that reporter and he met with the campaign donor. does it disturb you, does it say anything about this white house that you would entertain that kind of story? to go doesn't bother me that the press secretary would take a meeting with someone involved with the media about a story. none of that was disclosed. had a conversation and that was the end of it. you guys come to us with stories all day. i've taken meetings with the majority of the people in this room. i don't always know the nature of the story of what you are coming to talk to me about but it's my job to talk to you, to listen to him, and i'm responding. the president didn't have knowledge of the story. white house didn't have any involvement in the story and beyond that, it's ongoing litigation that doesn't involved anybody in the build buildings where differ you to the parties that it does. but i want to follow up in

something you said yesterday after my first question. did you invite the president to be truthful in that statement? speak i wasn't part of the conversation regarding that. >> i was in the air on a plane but it was a part of the conversation so i can't speak to that hospital yesterday, so the president was joking about his comments about telling police observation would cover their heads and putting them in the car. was he making a joke about police brutality? speak i think you guys are trying to jump and make something out of nothing. he was simply making a comment, making a joke and it was nothing more than that. >> what's funny about that, sarah? >> it wasn't a directive. it was a joke. it is a very big difference.

>> has the president said the russia north korea sanctions? >> has he signed it? >> he has not but as we put out a statement earlier this week, he will and we will let you know the final plans. >> was a delay? 's to be aggressive had this since friday. what's holding him back? there's nothing holding him back. there's a review process, legal process. they are going through that and he will sign the bill and we will let you guys know. but two questions. first i really interesting story out. by defense when talking about air force one. and it says that they found an alternative. that was to buy a pair of boeing set 747 airliners pretty can you verify the accuracy of the story of know if that's correct? stick that something i have to check in and get back to you. >> just an update on the chief of staff general kelly. can you talk to us in broad

strokes about leadership with congress, any governors, that sort of thing. can you talk broadly about the message that he is sending the people it is talking to both inside and outside of the administration? >> i know he has spoken to a number of members of congress as well as a large number of individuals within the staff. he is taking time to get to know everyone here in the building that he hasn't met previously to his other role in working through setting up new processes and setting the tone i think for white house and that under his leadership will be in very focused the president's agenda as we been doing the last six months. we are going to continue on that track we're going to do that under general kelly and we are very excited to work alongside him in that process. >> i heard you list off a list of reasons why you think that the media should be focusing on democrats and not the president and not to believe an obvious

point that donald trump is. there seems to be a trust deficit that is being created on capitol hill and i want to tell you what lindsay graham said this morning. he said if this is true, it's "washington post," it was a bad decision by the president which will make us ask more questions. we make it hard to say. this is what is hurting the president's legislative agenda, this credibility issue? >> i think what's hurting the legislative agenda is congress' inability to get things passed. >> clearly there is a concern some republicans of the president is not always being as truthful as he could be. how does he plan to address that? >> i think by being truthful and transparent as he has every single day. >> like to return to north korea them. can we expect any action from the administration with actions on china?

>> as we said, we are not going to broadcast movements on things like that before they take place, but we are going to continue to work with our allies, continue to work with our partners, and the goals are to stop the nuclear programs, stop the missiles, stop the aggression with north korea. we are going to continue looking at the best options and ways to accomplish that. you said yesterday that they would be no shuffle in the cabinet, meaning general sessions would not move over to the homeland security. is that correct? 's to go. >> does that also mean that secretary of state chris called back, the vice chairman of the president's commission on election role in integrity when not be considered for homeland security? stick on not aware of any movements for him, but as

always, we have a personnel announcement and i will be happy to share with you. john decker? since we are in the john's? speak of open just a follow-up on north korea. clarify the administration's message that has for north korea, another day the president said when asked about north korea, we will take care of them. we will take care of everything. a little bit ago, the secretary of state, secretary of state to loosen said that the u.s. is trying to convince north korea that the u.s. is not your enemy. so which one is it? is the president focused on north korea as an adversary or his secretary to loosen correct that the u.s. is trying to send this message that the u.s. is not north korea's enemy? >> like i just had a few minutes ago, the big priorities here, which we have laid out, the third or fourth time i've done it just today is to stop the

nuclear program, stop the missiles, stop the aggression. that's what we are focused on in regards to north korea and we are going to continue pushing on that, continue working with our allies and partners to accomplish that and do what is necessary to achieve it. >> are they an adversary? >> i think in some ways, they get to decide by the actions that they take. what they want to stop their nuclear program, stop the games, stop the missiles, stop the aggression, then we may build a find ways to move forward but those are the priorities of this administration. >> secretary mission had a meeting this morning with senate leaders about the debt ceiling. apparently according to reports, he didn't get anywhere. obviously this has the potential to affect the stock market rallies at the president was so pleased with. >> i think the whole country is pleased with it. spit it you have any reason to believe at this point you were going get that done by the end of september? >> to ensure that we have robust

economic growth and promote physical discipline, the trump administration believes it's important to raise the debt ceiling as soon as possible. over the past two decades, members of congress and presidents from both parties have raise the debt ceiling 15 times and we look forward to working with congress to ensure the full faith and credit of the united states the government. >> since you said my name so politely. >> somewhat sarcastic. >> are you being sarcastic? >> go ahead. >> when it comes to what the president said friday, you have many organizations, the american citizenship that is upset about this. could there be an apology from the president, and what does he view is reasonable when he's not joking when it comes to force from police can ask to go i would have to ask him that specific could you think that

the president is remorseful for what he said, the outcry from friday? >> he wants the law and force me to do their job. it is not anything beyond that. >> the white house authority said they would sign it. what is the nature of that presumably? >> with every particularly complex piece of legislation like this is, there's a legal review and once we sign that, we will work through and put more of the details of that process out. >> one more for you. a warning to congress a couple of times not to take vacation, what is the status of the president's august plans? does he plan to leave washington, for how long, and will he be doing during that time? >> will continue to keep you updated on his august schedule

is as details are finalized. >> i haven't heard those comments or had a chance to speak with any one about it. and of the goal is to work with all of the relevant departments, primarily department of defense to lawfully implement that new policy. >> he would have to ask for an apology would be appropriate, are you saying you will ask them and get back to us to mexico i said i would have to in order to answer that question. i will let you know if i do. >> the reporting to the president through him, is that an accurate characterization? >> general kelly has full authority in the white house. >> nobody can wander into the

white house on their own and? >> i don't think anyone can wander into the white house on their own without secret service stepping in. >> can his daughter, ken his son-in-law wander into the oval office and talk to anyone to mexico and nothing anyone wanders into the oval office. the president of the united states of america, and there are processes. >> people talk to him, they don't wait for approval to talk to him. >> general kelly is going to work with the entire team. sitting down and talking to individuals about the needs that they have, the conversation and putting a structure in place. there's nothing abnormal about that. >> how to talk to a president about the approval? >> i don't know that i would say approval is the correct word, but i certainly don't think it's like were getting permission slips sign, but i do think that there is something to having a structured process in order to make things run more smoothly at

the white house. >> two opposition leaders of venezuela? what is the president's reaction to the two opposition leaders being jailed in venezuela after the sanctions from yesterday? >> overnight, the regime of the venezuelan dictator detained two leading opposition figures following this outrageous seizure of power through sham elections this weekend. the vice president spoke with mr. lopez just last week and he and our political prisoners held unjustly by the regime, united states condemns the actions of the dictatorship and we hold and personally responsible for the health and safety of those men and any other seized by his dictatorship. >> is the president already considering increasing the sanctions and perhaps going after the exports? speak on not going to broadcast what he said yesterday. will consider all options and keep you guys updated.

>> keeping the president's agenda from going to congress and their votes, the president has said he wants to see health care done before anything else. that's not the message we have seen from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell in the last few days. can you explain the discrepancy between the president and senior public on the hill about what you be done next? >> as we said before, we can do a lot of different things at one time. we are continuing to focus and continuing to try to push a new health care system. we know that obamacare is failing. we know that inaction is simply not okay. we want to continue to make that a priority. we want to work with congress to do that. we may look for other ways to improve health care in the meantime. we are also continuing to focus on tax reform. we have been doing tax reform listing sessions for the last month with had countless meetings with members of congress, other organizations, talking about tax reform, infrastructure. we are going to continue to talk about all those priorities

moving forward. >> congress taking csr payments out of his hands, there's been some to justin again among senior publicans of this is important to do given the president's threats to stop these payments. they are saying this should be taken out of the executive branch. >> at have to get back to you on that. speak of this is something that's been discussed pretty aggressively on capitol hill. >> i'm happy to get back to about it. >> very quickly, . >> >> we've gotten a small buss event coming up shortly and hopefully -- because thank you. >> sarah huckabee sanders wrapping up the white house press briefing there, getting peppered with questions and as we come back on set, match lab are here. going to our democrat guest first because she had a comment about their huckabee sanders and said she did a good job.

>> i was a quote wonder woman. never send amanda do a woman's job. she did fantastic up there. i think that level of stability is exactly what this white house needs. the substance of what she says is also really important. i'm a little conflicted when she says in action on obamacare means that it's not going to fail, action by the president to actually sabotage obamacare and withhold these payments, that's even harsher. >> prepared answers for certain tough questions. >> on russia. she was ready with a 452nd answer. >> that's not a weakness of the spokesperson. that's a strength. they run it through the lawyers, they run into the policy advisors. you can take it to the bank. i also think that she didn't just dwell and wasn't overly feisty on tough questions.

she's in, she's out. that's the job of the press secretary. deliver the message and keep moving. >> use it at one point, that's news. secretary mission met with the secretary about the debt ceiling issue and what sarah huckabee sanders just said as she was asked what you get anything done with this and she said but the president wants to raise it, she gave the example of previous presidents who have done this. he needs congress to do it. you said that's news, that's big news. >> >> is a very clear message to republicans in congress who are worried about raising the debt limit because that means more deficit spending. sending a clear message that president trump visit an economic interest of the country to get this done. it's a tough thing especially for conservatives like myself to do, and he is sending a message i'm going to push for this. >> the reporter's question, the way that he phrased it about that, he said throwing it aside, i don't know if you've noticed was happening on wall street. she said the american people have noticed.

>> i've noticed, i don't know about you, but i've noticed. >> i want to look at that section where she was prepared for the russia question for it i want to get you one more time because the two of you both looked at each other and you said that's ridiculous when sarah huckabee sanders was being asked about whether or not ivanka trump and gerrit kushner and stephen bannon. i've asked the question about whether or not they will still have access to the president. she said no one has that kind of access. you can't just roll into the oval office. >> is someone who worked in the west wing, the president is going to talk to who the president wants to talk to. there's a phone, he calls anybody he wants. >> he tweets, so we know he has a phone. speak what he uses that phone a lot so the idea that he is not going to talk to his closest advisors and his family is absurd. the real question about a chief of staff on like how it was handled with reince priebus, is there a structure meccas system good to go through? it doesn't mean that an end, general kelly is the ultimate gatekeeper because he be wasting his time. >> real quickly. ask about the russia situation that's coming out now that

perhaps the president may have dictated on air force one is at the what donald, jr., should say about his meeting with the russian attorney. this question, this answer from sarah huckabee sanders. >> you guys are focused on a meeting that don, jr., had no consequence when the democrats actually colluded with a foreign government like ukraine. the government linked firm, fusion gps actually took money from the russian government while it created a phony dossier that's been the basis for all of the russia scandal fake news. if you want to talk further about a relationship with russia, let's go further than the clintons as we've said time and time again among the bill clinton was paid half a million dollars to give a speech to a russian bank and was personally thanked by putin four. hillary clinton allowed one fifth of america's uranium reserve to be sold to a russian firm whose investors were clinton foundation donors. and the clinton chair means brother sanctioned on russia's bank and failed to report it.

what you like the substance? you are giving her some props while this was going on. >> i was giving her props on her performance. i'm not going to give her props on the clinton defense. the requested is not president of the united states. we have to get past every single answer being oh, but hillary, but president clinton, what about donald trump? >> she's got a book. it says what happen? go ahead. >> i will say that there is one thing that i do wish, that she had talked about that she didn't, that 45 members of the u.s. senate, democrats, set the president a letter today saying we want to work with you on tax reform. i think that's a message. absolutely. three principles, make sure that you prioritize over the top 1%. i am optimistic, i think the american people would be more optimistic about this white house if she had shared that in the briefing. they are looking for this type

of bipartisan cooperation. >> they're going to get some democrats on tax reform, so i am hopeful on that. >> hope. look at that. you had to get one in pretty good to see you both. thank you very much britt i want to bring back a previous guest because we went right to sarah huckabee sanders and he had just started to talk to me. just do it, serve as a special advisor on the trump transition team and is a straight treasure of arizona. i want to jump in the middle so we can cover some ground here quickly. sarah huckabee sanders did make some news there when she talked about the debt ceiling. any other points that you see where this president is ready to move forward on some things? >> first off, let me say you can cut away from me at any time for sarah. she is wonderful and i am so impressed with the jobs he is doing. she was around working for us for the campaign and she is just great. the president wants to move forward on a lot of fronts and he wants bipartisan support. he is a dealmaker and that's one of the reasons the american public elected him.

because he's a successful businessman and a dealmaker pretty wants to get things done. congress needs to want to get to work. when you see these things like obamacare, repealing obamacare, which so many republicans ran on for years and raise money on, now up republicans under came out a few days ago and said we need to hold the meetings, some committees and find out the problems. you had seven years to do that. at the time to act is now at the president said, his pen is ready, he is ready to act. what really needs to happen, the only logjam in the system is that congress won't get to work fast enough. the president is ready to sign bills and he wants to get to work. they just need to put the bills on his desk. he is ready. spit of the president said nobody should go home. at the time, he was talking about senators but the house is home now until this gets done. your last words please on this president and this congress? >> i think congress is due to have a wake-up call. if they don't, i think they're going to see a mass exodus in the next election cycle of incumbents from both parties.

they have to wake up and realize the american public wants things done. they elected donald trump, who gets things done more than anybody else in the country. he built a billion-dollar empire. he is going to fix this country of congress gets on board. they need to work with him. >> we appreciate your time today. thank you very much as we were watching that together. breaking news. the white house briefing and we brought you the news out of tha that. also, it is national night out. where we all get together in our communities across america and we forge and fashion relationships with police and our communities. i don't know if your city or town is doing this. i know in my hood of new jersey, we are all doing this and going out tonight and celebrating the relationships that are possible and that exist between us and our members of law enforcement. i encourage you to do the same thing. it's a news point, but it's also a point of relationship around your house and in your town. that's going to do it for us for this hour. stick around for jon scott, who was in for shepard smith today and remember, we have had a

couple of things going on the sour. the secretary of state rex tillerson talking about north korea and the middle east. we'll get the news nuggets from that and also the press briefing. thank you for watching. you don't let anything

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>> jon: it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 on the east coast. we're expecting to hear about the president's tax plan. the dow stretches into record tear money. we'll see what's driving the gains president and where the president dictated a misleading statement about his son's controversial interview with a rush lawyer. how that could be trouble for the president. and the united states flexes their muscle with a new long range missile test. defense analyst