they haven't admitted the white house is the source of those documents. there's a whole bunch of problems. devin nunes simplicitily told a reporter he did not obtain those documents from white house firms, but apparently he did. apparently now the white house is at least implicitly admitting they were the source of the documents because today they made those documents available to adam schiff. how else could they be showing them to him if they never had them in the first place? the white house has still not explained why they previously covered up where they came from even if they are implicitly admitting now it was them. in print, this is sort of the coverup part of this scandal, i guess, experiencing it though in day-to-day life it feels less like a scandal is more like a fiasco, it feels like a mess. after reviewing those documents, schiff did release this statement about what he saw. quote, today my staff director and i reviewed materials at the white house. it was represented to me these are precisely the documents presented to nunez a week ago. i cou

so it's not as if the white house isn't responding. there just aren't documents and that's the problem. >> do you think michael flynn broke the law? >> it doesn't appear as if he complied with the law. i don't see evidence that he complied with the law. >> this is not some witch hunt. this is about a fight for the soul of our democracy. and i want to be real clear on that. what i'm trying to do is make sure that we pursue this investigation and go where the evidence leads. our next step is to hopefully sit down with the white house and explain to them that they don't determine what we investigate as a congress, we do. >> sean spicer was also pressed on this today during the white house briefing. >> the president feel that he was misled by general flynn? >> i think the president made a decision a while ago because flynn was not straight with the vice president at the time and let him go. i think he stands by that decision and it's up to others to review all of the information that's coming out. >> does he now feel that he also wasn't str

we didn't assume the white house until the 20th at noon. we don't have the documents prior to assuming the white house and the third would be they listed for every call and contact that he made which is an extraordinary number, it's a very un -- it's a very unwieldly request. >> the sheer volume? >> to say we want the national security adviser, whose job it is to document every call he may or may not have made is not a request that is able to be filled. but my understanding is that they have gotten every report they've asked for. >> is it your understanding that during the trump transition, the trump administration has none of these documents that flynn filled out as part of the process to become the national security adviser? it seems like this is an arm's length relationship. >> thanks. there's two issues. there was the sf-86, security clearance form, filled out during the obama administration. he had a reinvestigation done under the last administration. again, those are not documents that the white house would ever possess on any employe

the white house has yet to explain why the senior white house staff has shared them with only one memberof the committee. so schiff there making it perfectly clear is that he's unhappy with the way the white house has handled this, unhappy with the fact that nunes saw these documents a week ago and saying the white house should have shared the information with the full committees in the first place. >> and how the house intelligence committee chairman nunes responding today? is he responding to this? >> reporter: the white house continues to push back on these reports and confirmed today by cnn that two white house staffers were indeed involved in some way in these intelligence disclosures. his staff today issuing a very kurt statement saying, quote, chairman nunes will not confirm or deny speculation about his source's identity and he will not respond to speculation from anonymous sources. and later today, this evening, he was asked in an affiliate interview when he was out in california, his home state about these reports and he called them in his words "mostly wrong" but notably, ande

in the case of the white house, the evidence points more that the white house is unable to comply withese requests than that they're unwilling because it doesn't seem these documents even exist, the ones that congress want. >> it does seem at times, they seem as surprised to learn things about what general flynn did and didn't do and who he told and didn't tell. we'll see when this one goes. as we inch closer to the 100 day mark, how is president trump doing on the domestic front? >>> welcome back. a bit more now about how you the american people feel about the country and about president trump as he nears the 100 day mark. the polls are mostly discouraging, but here's great new. 59% say they feel good about economic conditions in the united states. 41% say poor. that's a good number anyway. think about this. it has not been good. good has not been at 59% in ten years. so people feel good about the economy right now. that generally does help a president. let's look at some of the issues. the president is struggling on the big issues. the economy, health care and immigration. if you com

the white house when is no such room. heatre, i've little doubt that the president show up for a few moments, he will have cameras with him, i think there is a tremendous amount of political theatre here. but you are going anyway? yes, the situation in north korea is one we all have to ta ke in north korea is one we all have to take extremely seriously. and i do wa nt to take extremely seriously. and i do want to have the chance to have my collea g u es want to have the chance to have my colleagues and myself question the administration over their objectives, their plans, how they intend to respond to certain things if they occur. what is the outcome if they occur. what is the outcome if they occur. what is the outcome if they are looking to achieve. we have to leave it there, thank you very much. the president said the other day i'm not sure kim jong un the president said the other day i'm not sure kimjong unis the president said the other day i'm not sure kim jong un is as strong proceedings he is. no one in congress is

they were asked that at the white house. aid we don't know yet, this is just the starting offer from the administration as far as what they would like to do. so i don't know if these numbers will stay where they are. obviously when you change the tax code and cut taxes across the board, the people that pay the most taxes, the wealthy, are likely to benefit the most. so for average families, it's unclear what that relief might look like. could be something that the average family would appreciate. remain to be seen yet. >> shepard: as the plan goes -- all we have is the plan. we can talk about what the plan does. if you're making -- let's just say you make $10 million a year. you're tax cut is very substantial. >> huge. one of the things they want to do here is repeal the estate tax. you have mnuchin sitting there saying, this is not a give-away for the wealthy. this will help all americans. the estate tax only affects people that die and have large inheritances. >> shepard: you have options. you can leave your money to charit

deja vu on the battle between the courts and the white house. the president had a couple tweets this morning criticizing the federal courts as well as the ninth circuit. also talking about ridiculous rulings. he said i'll see you in the supreme court. >> the white house blasting a federal court ruling after a san francisco judge blocked the president's kbektive action that threatened to strip federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities citing trump's own words in the decision. >> i don't want to defund anybody. i want to give them the money they need to properly operate as a city or a state, and they're going to have sanctuary cities, we may have to do that. certainly, that would be a weapon. >> in a scathing statement, the white house calls judge william's ruling an overreach by a judge who unilaterally re-wrote immigration policies and had the blood of dead americans on their hands. >> these cannot take away our rights and they certainly can't steal our tax dollars. >> hours earlier reince priebus asserting the ninth circuit is going banana

visit ncicap.org] >> the annual white house correspondents dinner is this saturday. for the first time in recent history, the president has decided not to attend. this year's entertainer will be senior correspondent at "the daily show," hasan minhaj. let's take a look at what we can expect. >> jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters and president of the white house correspondents association, you've seen the end of one administration, the start of a new administration. what have been the biggest challenges? mr. mason: the correspondents association is the main interlocutor between the press corps in the white house. we served that role at the end of the obama administration and started with the new trump administration. the biggest challenges have been that adjustment. a new administration comes in with new priorities, with less experience dealing with the press, and new ideas. we've had to talk to them about the needs of the press corps, and we've had some significant tensions. that is not a surprise. we also developed a working relationship with the press

do you believe the white house is obstructing your investigation? >> as i said at the end of my statement we have not gotten , certain information we have asked for. i would not call it obstruction. these things happen. as far as the documents are concerned, hopefully we will get them. as far as emoluments, it is interesting. a lot of people were totally unfamiliar with the emoluments clause of the constitution, but it is something i talked about a long time ago and said we should be able to avoid some of the problems we have had. this was done long before president trump came into office. that is a clause that is very significant. apply to people like general flynn but to the , president and his folks too. >> [inaudible] the scope of documents that were reviewed? >> i can't get into that. >> you know better than that. >> are you ruling out calling general flynn? are you deferring to the intelligence committee? >> of the investigative body is the select committee on intelligence. we have been pursuing this portion of it, the payments that happened pr

it has the white house reeling. when it came to the travel ban as much discussion of them vindicated on the law, which there may be, there is political fallout from all of this for this president, who at the very least this drives him nuts and have him going in so many directions. and the policy is stopped for now. >> carol lee, let's tee you up with the sound of the president with the intentions of the order. >> i don't want to fund anybody. i want to give them the money they want to operate as a city or state. if they have sanctuary cities, we may have to do that. >> it was that last word that wound up sticking in the judge's head this was punitive and connected. ultimately how does this fight play out on trump for the issue of sanctuary cities. people have strong feelings against sanctuary cities. especially among his base. >> the white house has vowed to continue to fight this. they said they will go all the way to the supreme court. this is something that president trump's base really fires them up. we heard him

we begin with the russia-white house watch. today we learned that michael flynn is under yet another investigation, this one from the top watch dog at the pentagon over failing to disclose payments he received for a speech at a russian television event. the house oversight committee says newly revealed documents show that flynn was warned explicitly about taking foreign money years ago. this comes just days after the house oversight committee said that flynn may have broken the law by not disclosing the payments. and as you may or may not remember depending on how closely you follow the president's twitter feed a month ago, the president was saying this about flynn and the russian investigation as a whole. quote, mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this a witch hunt, excuse for big election loss by media and dems of historic proportion. candidate trump in multiple events, shunning one of the many great generals who supported him. >> general flynn, i met him at a ball room because somebody was being honored. you know who i

>> i think there's a very partisan era in the white house right now. i'm disappointed that the house leadership and mr. nunes have not risen above politics. i was struck by something he said in the clip, he said, well, who else is going to do it? he talked about ultimately we're accountable to our constituents which is u troo, but the day that we take the oath of office on january 3rd, each new congress, we take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and to serve the interest of the nation. so i would remind my republican colleagues we put the nation first, to para phrase edmund burke, we owe our constituents more than our vote, we owe our constituents our conscience. i think these are grave high akes mters involving russia and putin in particular, and the american people, two-thirds of them would like to see us to get to the truth. that's why i think who else can do this is an independent commission that is above politics. lyndon johnson came into office with control of both houses of congress after the assassination of john f. kennedy and to p

jim acosta at the white house. more on all of this, democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut is joining us. he's a member of the foreign relations committee. senator, thanks for joining us. >> sure, thanks for having me. >> let me get your quick reaction to the breaking news this hour. a federal judge now blocking part of president trump's most recent executive order to make away funds from sanctuary cities across the united states. your reaction? >> well, it's not surprising. it's yet another executive action that the president has taken that has not held up in courts of law to some extent. the checks and balances built into the constitution on executive power are working. the fact of the matter is, you know, the president really shouldn't be telling local law enforcement what their priorities should be. if a city decides that their priority is to go after violent criminals and not deputize their street officers as immigration enforcement officials, that's their decision. have you to give some discretion to l

. >> where was the white house on this? i mean, you vet everyone carefully, especially your national security adviser. and sean spicer's response to questions earlier in the week, even before we knew all of this? i don't know what he filled out or what he did or did not do. is that an acceptable answer? >> no. i mean, the short answer is no. and we should note for our viewers out there, michael flynn, retired general michael flynn, also oversaw all the intelligence agencies here in the united states and barack obama's administration. so it's not like he didn't know that he had to do this. and as manu just reported earlier, the fact of the matter is, his lawyer, flynn's lawyer says that he did brief them. so, there is a he said-he said situation going on here right now, but we do know that the white house transition was very chaotic. mike pence eventually took it over, but chris christie, the governor of new jersey, oversaw it at the beginning. and we also know that donald trump had a very thin, close circle of people that we

a new president comes into the white house with new priorities, and less experience, in this case, in dealing with the press, and new ideas. we have had significant tensions. that is not a surprise. but we also developed a good working relationship with president trump's press team, on behalf of the press corps. there were certainly some battles that i did not expect to find, like the press moved out of the press room that was floated at the beginning, but we had a discussion about that, and we are still there, and the pool is flying on air force one, and that is all good things. host: between the west wing and the white house, why is it so important to be in that location? >> it is important to be there just to be present when things happen at the white house. we are right there. if the president has a meeting with a foreign leader, we are right there. if there is something last minute where they need the press, and the press pool sees something, we are right there. being at the white house shows the transparency that is detected by the constitution, by the first amendment, i coming

the white house spokesman lied in the briefing room. all according to them because of untrue information that was conveyed to them personally by mike flynn. the nature of those lies was such the acting attorney generally thought national security adviser might b susceptible to blackmail. informed of that though, the white house just, eh, sat on it for a few weeks. so you can imagine the questions, right? sally yates, ms. yates, thank you for being here. do we have this story right? is that really what happened? what can you tell us about what happened? the house intelligence committee gets into that. they have this hearing, a blockbuster hearing where james comey admits, yes, there was an ongoing counterintelligence investigation as to whether or not it cooperated in the russian attack on the united states last year. after that bombshell, we are next going to hear from yates. the next hearing in a few days is going to be the one that has sally yates on it. she's not going to be talking about the muslim ban, she's going to be talking abo

the white house does not a place you should wander around. if you don't need to be there but i worked in something called the president initiative are one america. you've never heard of it but it was an outgrowth of president clinton's initiative on race. he is the wild and crazy idea about the initiative race. if we actually talk to one another, listen, we might we might find out that we have a lot more in common than what supposedly divides us. that went on for a year and a half and after that the board that iran that recommended that there be an ongoing office in the white house to deal with racial reconciliation and other racial issues. that was the initiative for one america. >> when you got the idea to to this book and you started the research ? how many years did you do the research to back eight years in the making. what really inspired me was unemployment. [laughter] that's always an inspiration. >> at the change of an administration what happens if you're a political appointee -- by the way i got the job by the old old-fashioned way.

back now in the senator away from the white house. about the foreign aid budget. he talked about the cuts, you mentioned the cuts and the american aid budget. here is an interesting fa ct. aid budget. here is an interesting fact. america spends less than 1% of its budget on foreign aid. many americans think it's about a quarter of the us budget. that is where the political demand for it to be cut comes from. the senator is quite right, this is an important part of american diplomacy around the world and cutting it would cause america problems potentially. soft power. soft power. less than 1% of the budget, remember that. today there was another terror alert just yards away from last month's deadly attack in westminster. armed police have arrested a man under the terrorism act and seized a number of knives he was carrying. it's now clear that the suspect — who has been captured — was under surveillance by scotland yard's anti—terror squad. joining us now from the scene is the bbc‘s danjohnson. does it seem to you as though this man had

at the white house. gets a little trickier when the party that is the controls the white house is someone of your own party and of of the difficulties investigating your own party. i know congressman chaffetz has that he wasn't being hard enough. i also do think that he has had political ambitions beyond congress. although yet all he talks about potential senate candidate. with senator orrin hatch saying year. i'll retire next he has also been -- he has also about as a potential governor for utah candidate in 2020. chief of staff for former governor john untsman, so you see where that experience comes from. i believe in his retirement i tement he made it clear will not be a candidate in 2018. 'm not rolling it out for the future which looks like the race in utah in 2020. host: let me ask you about 2018. for pelosi said conversation which in part turned to her thinking about what might happen in 2018 and taking s potential for that back. i want to play you a little bit of a clip and get your reaction it. >

why did it have to be at the white house? to get up on buses and go there for it? what was the important information that they needed to have imparted to them at the white house? about this urgent situation in north korea? i don't know. but senators seem underwhelmed. here, for example, was the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. senator bob corker. >> how was the briefing? >> it was fine. >> did you guys learn anything in there you didn't know before? >> not really. it was an okay briefing. >> what do you mean it was an okay briefing? didn't really learn much? >> i -- it was -- it was okay. >> it was okay. maybe not worth the trip? senator cory booker from new jersey was there for the strange event today. senator booker joins us live next. whether you're after supreme performance... ...advanced intelligence... ...or breathtaking style... ...there's a c-class just for you. decisions, decisions, decisions. lease the c300 sedan for $389 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the bes

from college campuses to the white house. rica first-generation muslim kid get on the stage and make fun of the president. [applause] the orange man behind the muslim ban. it is a sign to the rest of the that that this tradition even the president is not be on the reach of the first amendment. [applause] but the president did not show up. donald trump does not care about free speech. tweets that everything that enters his head, refuses to a knowledge the amendment that allows him to do it. think about it. hours11:00 p.m. in four donald trump will be tweeting minaj bondad nicki at this dinner. he will be doing that completely sober. [laughter] that is his right. i am proud that all of us are here tonight to defend that right, even if the man in the white house never would. i would like to thank the white house correspondents association for having me here. have i want to thank all of you. woodward thank bursting for inspiring a generation of journalists. i would like to thank donald trump for inspiring the next. [applause] it h

the white house made no apologies for that. they said, look, a legislation will come when it's ready with the house and senate. brooke, the reality here is that we are essentially -- the white house is just now getting behind what candidate trump promised on the campaign trail. they're a long way away from legislative meat on this. and the challenge of this, of course, is the president is coming to this with not as much popularity, as much strength as he had at the beginning of the administration. of course, the big health care defeat is looming over him. that could change. but the reality is, republicans are going to be among the skeptics of this bill. a, they believe that they were not fully informed and brought up to speed on this. but "b," they believe this is not neutral. this ll in fact raise the debt. as gloria said before, it could be revenue neutral if the economy grows but there is no certainty of that before. in fact, that has not happened over the last couple of decades through these tax cuts. but i think one of the

the white house has compounded the problem by their handling of what they did with devin nunes. they opened up a new front which is what did white house officials do? why did they do it? who else knew about it? all of that still remains to be figured out. robert: we look at the congressional sphere. it's complicated. you have devin nunes who has all of these questions over him about his relationship with the white house. but then you have senator burr working with the democratic senator mike warner from virginia. they seem to be taking a different approach than the house intelligence committee after they had these questions. >> finally there are adults in charge. there are adults leading an investigation on the hill. and it is by all accounts a much more serious, substantive and secretive investigation. these senators are not talking. marco rubio says he spends eight hours a week on this stuff. that's a significant amount of stuff for a senator to be doing other than raise funding. and in the benghazi investigation and now those investigators have clearance to see the most sensit

the white house's answer, no can do. the oversight chair said it doesn't look like he followed the law. tough crowd. not exactly a

can the white house deliver? suzanne is on capitol hill. our christina is in washington with all of the numbers. let's begin with the politics of this. how do they make it happen? >> reporter: well, that's a very good question. this is a far cry from what we heard from donald trump during the campaign. some of his slogans saying wall street was getting away with murder and they would have to pay for it through taxes. but dealing with tax cuts for businesses perhapsing down the road, kicking the can down the road for families and individuals. but as you had mentioned, we have been watching the treasury secretary at this event in washington. started at 8:30 and he outlined kind of a broad brush strokes of what this means for the president, what this means for the american people and of course big businesses. he said he started his conversation with president trump at 7:30 this morning, that the two of them talked and that they spent a good deal of time in the oval office yesterday working out the details that the president is very much involve

usually at the white house. it gets a little trickier when the person, the party that people in the white house it's someone of your own party and kind of the difficulties of investigating your own party and i know congressman had gotten that he wasn't being too hard on it. i also think that he has had other political ambitions beyond congress, although he had always been talked about as a potential candidate and with senator or in half saying maybe not all of this next year. >> has also been, he has also been talked about as a potential donor for utah. a candidate in 2020. he was a former chief of staff for former governor jon huntsman so he wears that experience loudly and he said , i believe in his statement he made it clear that i'm not going to be candidate for office next year though no house or senate but i'm not ruling out for the future which looks like a gubernatorial race in utah. >> host: let me ask you about 2018 because nancy pelosi recently said the ceo of the texas review for conversation which tu

to provide. >> if the white house has documents germane. >> the important point is the white house has not invoked executive privilege over anything here and not stonewalling. >> elijah cummings, tough guy, strong partisan. he's not the type of person who will go running way downfield and break with his counterpart unless he's experiencing really serious opposition. what you saw elijah cummings do tonight and the challenge he laid down to sean spicer to let you know there is a big problem going on and it's senseless. >> the whole russia stuff, the white house said if they want to have an investigation let them have an investigation, it's never been to van's point we will do everything we can to make sure. >> if anything, going back to the earlier point about the president defending flynn early on i think there has been -- i'm not saying this is why this is happening, i don't want to connect the two, i want to take note some in the white house have been concerned about flynn has been around them a very long time. if flynn feels as if he is being fully thrown under the bus or whatever me

moments ago, the white house resolute that it got nothing wrong. the carrier group is eventually headed to north korea, they said. >> we have an armada going towards the peninsula. that happened -- it is happening rather. it was heading there, it is heading there. so that remains -- [ inaudible ] >> if there's an impression, then that's not -- there should haveeen clarification from people who were seeking it. >> we have new reporting on that, as well as analysis on the reports that the trump white house is reviewing the iran deal as well this afternoon. msnbc's chris jansing is at the white house. we have an less from jeremy bash. john feider and charlie sykes are here. chris, let me start with you there at the white house. we heard sean spicer defending the separation. break it down for us if you can. >> reporter: it's still not clear how this misinformation got out there. it's clear that it was misinformation, although we might not have ever learned it if that picture hadn't come out. let's go pack to the beginning, because sean spicer referred r

chris, that is the white house correspondent dinner washington in the nation's capital are john avalon and margaret hoover join us from there. margaret is a contributing worked. white house had the guys, i'm sure you heard the top of the president's remarks but he said this is a place where hollywood actors and washington media are consoling each other in a hole tell ballroom right now. your thoughts. >> well, let me just cut off my head on who's blood pressure may be through the roof because of the fabulous commentary. let me tell you as a republican there are a lot less media and a lot less actors and celebrities here, always the republicans kauch up to the white house dinner. hollywood never turns out for republican presidents the way they turned out for barack obama or bill clinton. so in the george w. bush years we didn't have many celebrities either arn the trump era it seems a bit more sedate. >> we're the world's tiniest vile lin. but let's not forget that donald trump was knocking down the doors to get ann variety to the correspondents dinner when he was primarily a reality tv

within the white house whether it was the obama white house, the bush white house, the clinton whitese, people have specific rolls. this is a unique situation. i acknowledge that. >> those definitions are -- your definition that i'm sure your responsibilities are much more obtuse than your narrow definition of what your job duties were. you didn't just color in the lines. you did whatever necessary to advance the cause of the president. i think that's what she's doing here. she's working on whatever's necessary that day. >> no one can identify that is the challenge. >> i don't know if that's true. >> do you think -- there is this challenge about there is this weird thing about what role do all the people in the white house play. this is something that a lot of us have talked about about he seems to like the -- the president seems to like to have a lot of different centers of gravity. he seems to like to have people play off each other. sometimes it gets a little tough as with stephen bannon and jared kushner. other times he thinks competition is good. ivanka and her husband, a top ad

cnn correspondent ryan nobles is at the white house. o change the subject or just continuing his health care fight with his own party? >> well, he certainly doesn't want to talk about this investigation into russia's meddling in the american election, that's for sure, fredricka. the topic of health care is one that's interesting for the president to take on because they did fall short of that plan to repeal and replace obamacare. but it's clear from these tweets this morning and what the president has had to say over the past week that he's not giving up on the idea of taking another run at health care. it's important to point out, though, at this point there's no tangible plan on the table. and there's no real idea coming from the congress or the white house that they have a plan in place to take another run at this. so the fact he's continuing to talk about it certainly shows that at least he has an inclination in that collection. and the other thing important to point out in these tweets from this morning is that he's once again talki

documents that the white house offered off. and afterwards he did confirm that the documents he saw today, the information he viewed today was the same information that devin nunes reviewed himself over a week ago. he would not speak about the n contempco contents of that information, he really blasted the white house saying, quote, nothing i could see today warranted a departure from the normal review proceed jaguars and these materials should now be shared with membership of both committees. so schiff there making it perfectly clear is that he's unhappy with the way the white house has handled this, unhappy with the fact that nunes saw these documents a week ago and saying the white house should have shared the information with the full committees in the first place. >> and how the house intelligence committee chairman nunes responding today? is he responding to this? >> reporter: the white house continues to push back on these reports and confirmed today by cnn that two white house staffers were indeed involved in some way in

. >> also on the hill. white house republicans in agreement but do they actually have the votes to pass the bill. that's the big question. >>> and an nbc exclusive. our own lester holt talking with united airlines. >> a circumstance like we've all witnessed should have never happened. >> the company out with new guidelines after a passenger was dragged off an overbooked flight. that includes new compensation rules for bumped patterns. just wait until you hear how much they're willing to pay. kelly o'donnell at the white house. i want to get to breaking news. he's regarding the russian investigation. kasie hunt on capitol hill. this is related to mike flynn. kasie, what are you hearing? >> we're going through all of the documents from the house oversight committee and essentially what they've released are three documents that kind of walk through the process leading up the mike flynn taking that payment from r.t., the russian network, of course, with ties to the russian government. so one of the critical pieces of

the white house said today, mexico will pay for the wall. the last time congress let the government shut down was the 2013 during the obama administration. according to researchers in our brain room, if it happens again, national parks will close and irs will stop processing refunds and food safeties will stop. air traffic controllers will stay on the job and social security and medicare payments will continue and the fbi will remainly staffed if there's a shut down. back in 2013, the cia did put some employers on paid leave. john roberts is on the north line. is the white house -- what is the white house saying about the budget battle? >> they're working hard, shep, to try to cut a deal with the democrats to avoid a government shut down. that i have 4 1/2 days left to do it. midnight friday. portions of the government will run. the president doesn't want an exclamation point on the end of the first 100 days. two things he wants in the spending bill, $30 billion in additional spending for the pentagon for military and a lot of money for bord

he started covering the white house during the obama administration. next, kristin welker, white house correspondent for nbc news since 2011 and can be seen freely on the front row of the briefing room going back and forth with the man you just saw up here sean spicer, numerous times. her reporting appears on all nbc and an msnbc platforms and spent 2016 reporting from the trail of hillary clinton's campaign. finally, glen ross white house correspondent for the new york times has a long history going back to days at the new york's newsday covering and interviewing donald trump is some history there. just last week, his they conducted a headline making invert under interview in the audience and he during the times from politico just a few months ago where he was the chief political correspondent. this is a panel. let's give them a round of applause. [applause] hi glenn. obviously, the press briefings have been pretty interesting. the fact that you have a saturday night live character already is a factor. talk about this particular white house and the cha

what's your relationship with the white house, though, and what's the status of the white house's ability and to be able to count votes and to put together a package that will actually pass the house and pass the senate so the president can sign it? >> so the foreign policy side of this white house i've been money away by in a very good way. a level team, making really good moves around the world. when i actually had my first interaction with the president at the white house during health care debate and there were ten of us in there, i have to tell you i was really impressed first time i met him where he was asking folks what are your concerns with this bill. somebody would mention a concern and look at folks and say, is there something we can do about that? is that possible to fix in the bill? i was really struck about how engaged he was in that process. coming off six years of president obama who i met twice as a member of congress, both times in a receiving line at christmas parties versus within 50 days being called into the white house, meeting with president trump, and actually hav

the heart of white america. i wanted to about issues of police brutality, of racial discourse, i wanted to be honest about the fact that we feel that we have been deeply entrenched in the culture of privilege on the other side, white privilege, white vulnerability in the find ways to talk about it honestly and openly. here we are in the age of 12 speaking about not being politically correct. can you take that both ways? can you also as white americans into her beyond the onslaught of brutally frank conversation hopefully inarticulate black american trying to say this is the kind of stuff we want to say anat we talk about behind your back and not want to talk about in front of your face and these are the challenges that i want to levy in the kind of conversation i want to engage by being open and honest in the way that often doesn't occur. not nasty, not preaching, down from the pulpit, i'm not that kind of preacher. i believe in getting in the trenches with the people to say what can we do to lift thehe burden to

and how the creation of white identity led to the rise of white supremacy. the national archives in washington hosted the event. it is just under one hour. bob, thank you sandy for convening this timely the 13th,on about 14th, and 15th amendments, and how they matter in the past, but shaping possibilities of the present. historians arees the present. -- thatthat engagement is our charge as historians, to think how we got here, and learn something, if not several good questions. today i'm going to try to compress what is a book manuscript into just 20 minutes. i apologize if i'm reading. needed to putth it down into language that would try to include as much as i could. recent centennial, commentators discussed in a compliment of how a constitutional system dedicated to legalized chattel slavery in our constitution could become transformed into an abolitionist project in 1865. accomplishment was neither easy nor inevitable. it was a product of sustained resistance, ideological battle, consciousness-raising, organizing, and ultimately a war of national liberati

they fed him stuff out of the white house one night. he came back the next morning and announced it tot president with alarming news he'd just gotten from the president's people the night before. how do you see it yourself? >> yeah, i'm listening to the three stooges theme in the background unfortunately. it's extraordinarily troubling and frustrating, and at this point in time, the only thing we have is the opportunity to go forward. you know, i'm not giving up on the house investigation. there's a lot of good people over there. clearly we've had an extraordinarily tough week. you know, you know that there have been calls for mr. nunes to step aside. that's not going to happen unfortunately. so we're going to work together hopefully and pivot and go back to regular order this week. >> do you trust him? >> i think he's made it difficult for the investigation to go forward. but given that there are very few options, i don't have any choice. i'll tell you this. he was a very fair chairman under the obama administration. it's been difficult

>> is this affecting the white house? this something the media follows but generally speaking, this has no affect? does it have an affect? chaffetz doesn't normally say things like this. >> chaffetz is leaving his position and going back to utah, potentially running for governor. it doesn't hurt to look like you are doing a bipartisan work on ethics reform while you are trying to run for a bigger, higher executive office. i agree with your first point that i think for most americans, they're not sitting around going i wonder what happened to michael flynn. he is not part of the white house right now. it's not a good story when you are still talking about the fact that somebody that you brought on either lied to you or to the other more damming point that you were not as an organization competent enough to find this out before you brought him on. i think most people are much more concerned with what is the current national security adviser doing than what the former national security adviser who was there for 15 minutes --

after that, president trump holds a working lunch at the white house with members of the un security council. later, white house press secretary sean spicer takes questions from reporters about friday's deadline for funding the federal government. today, former president barack obama made his first public office.ce since leaving he discussed organizing with young adults. he also talked about his post-presidency plan

the white house is saying that the question was not answered -- excuse me -- asked correctly, but the white house along with senior military officials all went along with this idea that this aircraft carrier was on its way, at the moment when they were saying it, to the korean peninsula to, quote, send a message. is the is their explanation now problematic to you? >> yes, there is, on two levels. they need to know where their assets are. i'm pretty sure if gu on tyou ge u.s. navy site, you can tell where all of our assets are located generally. so the defense department needs to articulate to the white house correctly where its assets are. and from the standpoint of the press secretary, nobody likes quibbling. and when the press secretary quibbles, it makes almost everything else he says, whether it has something to do with the use of the military issuing of power, or indeed, everything else, it makes it extremely difficult then for the real information to get delivered to the press. so quibbling is no good, and you got to know where your assets are, and yes, it's troubling. >> michae

there is optimism at the white house. the republicans i talked to on capitol hill said there is skepticism they can get it done. next week is only the deadline of 100 days and still time in this administration to try to pass that law. >> more on the effort to do what the president promised so often in the campaign, you think would be easy given the control of congress. the white house was so confident, there was no plan b well, plan b part two. later, sarah palin and kid rock visited the white house and posed like this in front of a portrait of hillary clinton? is it an uproar about nothing? "360" continues. nobody does underwater stunts, sylvia. except me, of course. this is my stop. adios! ♪ if you're a stuntman, you cheat death. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. número uno! it'that can make a worldces, of difference. expedia, everything in one place, so you can travel the world better. i'm on it.ar does weathertech go to protect your ve

accuses the white house of a cover-up. tonight the trump team has a stunning defense suggesting it's the obama administration's fault. last minute legislation, house republicans press forward with their new attempt to repeal and replace obamacare but their hopes are colliding with another urgent goal to keep the government running. is a shutdown eminent? >> broad strokes, the president's bullet point plans for sweeping tax cuts leaves americans guessing about the bottom line. new questions about whether the middle class will pay more while the trumps pay less. >>> and palace intrigue. for nearly 100 days the president's top advisors have been wrangling trying to consolidate their power, we're going to tell you whose up and down at this pivotal moment for the white house. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news on the widening evidence that fired national security

number one, what documents exist that are here at the white house? have they turned over all of the documents that relate to michael flynn? spicer has himself made the argument, made the case that michael flynn had a number of conversations on any given day with foreign officials. that's part of the argument you heard officer cummins make that they want to see all those documents. those are presumably the documents that would be up for subpoena. the question, do those documents exist? who has them? those are questions we didn't get to ask in this briefing. this continues to dog the white house, katy, as you point out, as this investigation goes on. the white house wants to be focused on its 100-day benchmark, but once again they're bogged down by this headline, katy. >> which makes you wonder if they don't come out with everything they have to put room between them and the investigation so they can concentrate on other things. cummins a democrat, and what have others said about this. >> they have been saying that wasn't the right idea to the public, a

the four of them posing for a photograph on their way into the white house. into the oval office for what will be a crucial, crucial set of discussions. that is it for me for this hour of msnbc live. andrea mitchell takes it from here. >>> thanks, right now on "andrea mitchell reports" live pictures from the white house. king abdullah of jordan, the queen, and first lady melania at the white house. >>> steve bannon removed from the national security council's key principals committee. the decision making committee. and syrian war crimes. topic one for today. what the apparent gas atax tack the area of idlib. they are claiming that assad had a weapons depot. >>> and north korea launching their fourth missile of 2017 just houring before china's president is set to arrive in the u.s. for a critical summit with president trump. all of this and more. big questions when president trump and king abdullah meet. the press in the rose garden an hour from now. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. a major shake up in president trump's national security council. st

so really we have to take the white house out of our investigation. right now the way they are working with chairman nunes, they have inserted themselves into the independent and incredible work we have to do. that is wrong and it affects our ability to do this the right way. >> the ranking member of your committee, adam schiff, was at the house reviewing documents at the heart of nuance's claims, but he's not sharing them. obviously you would like to see those documents. is this a step forward towards transparency? >> well, it's certainly a step toward giving us information that the chairman went and received without telling us and only revealed what looks like an effort to try and validate the president's wiretapping claim. so again, i think the chairman is making this investigation about him and he should really step aside because if we are going to have that independence and credibility and make progress, we need to not be working with the white house where the president's campaign right now is under federal, criminal and counterintelligence invest