t: the white house gets a lot of wear and tear. if a lot of people are coming into the home, it will get worn out very quickly. reported president trump said the white house was a "dump." people going back to the mid-19th century complained about the white house being somewhat dingy. abraham lincoln complained the foundation wasn't enough it was nearly torn down after the civil war for security reasons they wanted to move the president's house. i mentioned the coolidge edition and the 20's and harry truman rebuilding. it was a massive inside out project. some of the things we're talking about. once a generation things have to be done because there is a lot of wear and tear. there are hundreds of people work within the complex. the heating and air-conditioning system was really only installed about 30 years ago, 27 years ago, i think. because it is used heavily it has beenlock -- used for almost 80 years. we're talking about a facility that gets a ton of around-the-clock use. a ton of visitors every day. of course the wear and tear w

steve bannon leaving the white house. se chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon mutually agreed it would be steve's last day. welcome to "the intelligence report." bannon has been somewhat controversial figure in the white house. he often clashed with other white house advisors as well as members of president trump's cabinet, including the new chief of staff, john kelly. while this sort of hard-nosed conservative, very

the president and the white house, they were debating how and when to dismiss steve bannon but now we have confirmed. he will no longer be the chief strategist over at the white house. steve bannon, 63 years old, is out. let's go to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. covering the president up in bedminster, new jersey. this is major news. a very significant development and it comes on the heels of several other senior officials leaving. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and i'm hearing from one white house official in the last couple of minutes here that it is believed that steve bannon resigned, but it is also believed that he may have been given the option to resign. so sounds like, wolf from a source i'm talking to in the last couple of minutes here that he was essentially forced out of this position, as chief strategist at the white house, and one of the big reasons why and we've heard it time and again, from people close to the president. the president does not like other people inside the white house stealing the limelight. you saw this happen time and again. steve

that is the challenge for the white house. the president has to seize on that optimism about the economy and draft off it when it comes to talking about everything from the economy to national security. >> jonathan, i have 30 seconds. i want to get you in. final thought? >> i think some of his weaker numbers is sending a signal to other republicans. we are seeing in the last week or two, senator flake and kasich laying the ground work for 2020. we have the vice president denying reports that he's thinking about 2020. i think the anger in his denial was clearly to an audience to his boss in the white house. >>> just hours after blasting the media, many times, he says for using unnamed sources, the president, himself, chooses to retweet a story about north korea containing classified intelligence based on a named source. we'll give you all the details, next. a trip back to the dthe doctor's office, mean just for a shot. but why go back there, when you can stay home... ...with neulasta onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of se

the east and we begin with a direct contradiction between president trump's personal lawyer and the white house over the president's role responding to his son's meeting with a russian lawyer. the white house now conceding the president did weigh in without getting into any further specifics. no matter how far weighed in goes, it flies in the face of what trump's lawyer said that he had no involvement. >> just the latest instance of trump aides and only after published rorltss forced them to acknowledge problems. in a lack of clarity not inspiring confidence on capitol hill. more when the white house. >> reporter: we're learning for the first time that president trump was involved in helping to shape the narrative about that meeting back at trump tower on june 9th, 2016. the white house acknowledged on tuesday for the very first time, the president in their words weighed in on that statement saying that that meeting was about a discussion about a russian adoption. it was not about anything else. as we learned of course it was about a russian operative trying to give dirt on the hillary clinton

the street, wn across the street to blair house his e spent the bulk of presidency living there, not in the white house, but blair were there for four and a half years. this is really the biggest appears, since then, that was about 75 years ago. host: we have time for a couple viewers have it on the renovation project or the history of renovations at the house. paul brandos, a great person to ask for the history, somebody who knows it well. republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. atinder of what is happening the white house. new air conditioning and heating million price tag total for the upgrades here. there is an upgrade going on of portico steps, new cable and wiring, new carpet and paint. picture you don't see very often, the oval office floor, carpet on the without anything on the walls, a nayson of om jeff euters of what that renovation looks like. it was reported by gulf magazine the white house a dump, the president denied he used that term to describe the house, but how much was president trump involved in hese most recent renovations, is this some

maggie, we'll ask you one last question here of the business of the white house. ve qualities inside the white house. do you think any sense that it will operate more smoothly. >> i think general kelly is trying to put some structure in place and some processes in place, they're still appear to be ongoing. but at the end of the day, john kelly is not sleeping with donald trump at night. he's not taking his phone and putting in a safe. donald trump, a number of people he speaks to late at night, there is only so much he can control. >> all right. >> ed martin and jen saki, thank you all very much. next we'll ask a good breitbart editor. what is he good for? ditch verizon. keep your phone. we'll even pay it off when you switch to america's best unlimited network. there's nothing more important so when i need to book a hotel, i want someone who makes it easy. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i'm getting the best price every time. visit booking.com. booking.yeah! if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,... ...isn't it time to let the real

>> what an honor it is to walk into the white house. ence in my life being able to walk into the west wing of the white house reporting for work every morning. the history of the place. the majesty of it. and just the respect. and literally, until this administration, people that really disagree with politically and the most liberal democrats. people who served in the obama administration. but everyone i know in the obama administration and everyone i know who served in the clinton administration all of us from the most conservative republicans and most liberal democrat, we're in awe of the place. >> it takes your breath away. >> we're in awe of the place and so honored to be there. just the disrespect that's shown by their actions, by their comportment and their demeanor towards it. we don't have in our country a national official religion. but we dahave shrines that are deeply significant to us as a, the cia shrine to the pollen officers with his political speech and on and on and on. it's the, it's the dbrought upo institutions and ou

. >> sandra: breaking fuse from the white house. fox news now confirming the departure of chief strategist steve bannon. hello, everyone. i'm sandra smith. let's get right to it and bring in our chief white house correspondent who has followed bannon from the very beginning. john roberts. john, how did this all go down? >> reporter: sandra, good afternoon to you. it did not all go down this morning. it wasn't something that suddenly happened today. this has been in the works for some time. we have heard, via "the new york times" that steve bannon may have tendered his resignation as early on as august 6th. i'm told that that timeline might be a little bit aggressive. but that this has been going on for at least a few days. we do know the chief of staff john kelly has been reviewing, evaluating a lot of the positions at the west wing. steve bannon's was among them. i'm also told by an administration official that the interview that bannon did with the american prospect, quote, didn't help his case, in terms of staying on at the white

see what the white house says. mark preston, to you, though, does this tie into a bigger week where republicans seem to have this liberty to lash out at the president, lash out at this white house and be more forthcoming with the criticism especially if they see these honesty gaps from the white house? >> i still think it remains to see how much we're going to see pushback from republicans when we run into instances like this when it's clearly a blatant lie and it's been a habit of president trump to exaggerate or outright lie. of having said that i do think it's inevitable that republicans are going to end up pushing back against president trump for a couple reasons. one is that president trump isn't a true conconservative. not part of the movement, a believer in the sense they're embracing him. they saw him as a vessel because he was the republican nominee to try to get some things done. the second thing is that republicans running in 2018 don't necessarily need president trump to get them over the fen ni finish l

how much of a concern is there inside the white house that this could be a problem for them in the white house? >> yeah, i talked to sources for weeks now. remember, this has come up before. steve bannon's head has been on the chopping block more than once, one thing you heard from people at the white house is that the concern was if steve bannon were to leave the west wing he would start firing pot shots back over at breitbart. now steve bannon is back at breitbart. but we're told by a source who talked to steve bannon earlier today that he has no plans to go to a hash tag war as a breitbart editor put it earlier today, against president trump. that he wants to go to war with president trump and push for the president's agenda outside the white house. of course, steve bannon really had his i would say -- i don't want to call them disagreements, certainly, with jarod kushner, the president's son-in-law. so it remains to be seen if the president and the issues with jared kushner, may prompt breitbart to respond for kind. >> quickly, do you think other heads could roll? >> yes, we are hear

steve bannon out at the white house, the controversial white house advisor leaving after what could be called a controversial week. an explosive ber view where he seemed to contradict many policy positions and then just a few days ago a very lukewarm endorsement from president trump where he referred to a mr. bannon several times and characterized him as a late comer to the campaign. >> mr. bannon came on very bad later than that. he is a good man, i think, he is not a racist. he gets unfair press in that regard, but we'll see what happens with mr. bannon, but he is a good person and i think the press treats him very unfairly. >> so we start with our reporting on this, as i was watching this unfold and thinking about this, when there has been a shake up, that changes things internally inside that west wing, is it your sense that this is a high of relief. have so many things just happened in this white house in a compressed period of months that is just business as usual. >> i had a text from a top source that gajust gave me that one word. before we were able to fully confirm it and rep

>> no the president is not going to change that would require the mayhem to calm down in the white house. that's not going to happen. steve bannon is a story, it will probably be a story down the road when he attacks the president or people within the white house. until the president decides that he really wants to have a real agenda and move forward, the more he wants to go off the cuff the more chaos he will create. >> philip you got bannon in an interview saying or predicting, i don't know, taunting trump saying he is going to go establishment now. will you get an establishment republican agenda on taxes, he is saying a typical republican tax program. is that right? do you think something will emerge of the tax plan we would have gotten from president cruz, from president rubio? is that going to happen? >> i think what we should keep in mind, donald trump came to the presidency the campaign with no previous plans, he was produced of the policy he had promised andy enacted as president. you know the white house ownership over it. clearly they didn't, donald trump, he's a policy guy, he

, the chaotic nature of the white house, the undisciplined nature of the white house is the president himself. the president is his own communications director. he's his own strategist. he acts as his own lawyer. he doesn't listen to other people, and he's fighting every war that can possibly, that he could possibly take on. when you do all of that, it's a losing proposition. maybe he's turned a corner here with a new chief of staff. we have to see what happens, but that is just another indication of the core problem in this white house. >> all right, so you have two issues. the first one is that the president's counsel said he had nothing to do with it. that was the word from the white house, and now "the washington post" says that was all a lie, to remind, here is his attorney on "new day," being asked about this specifically. so he didn't have anything to do with the statement that don jr. put out being worked on with his team? >> no, the statement that don jr. put out, you talking about yesterday's, chris? >> the one over the weekend the president was seen as help

the white house a dump. featured in golf.com, sports illustrated. he apparently told friends the reason he comes to his course in new jersey is quote the white house is a real dump. the spokesperson denied the president said that. we wanted a take a closer look at the iconic building. mcwilliams condo resale division is here to sell us something, no, he's not here to sell us something. >> first thing is first. i mean, you know, is the white house a dump? >> absolutely not. for me, as a kid, w here from communist afghanistan with family many moons ago at this point, 1600 pennsylvania avenue has always been so much more than just a prestigious address. for me and my family and so many others like me. the white house has always been this rich enduring symbol of american leadership, of american ideals, and principles, rooted in our notions of democracy and freedom. >> take the emotion out of it and look at it as a real estate professional. >> absolutely. you know, if the -- the gravtas of the white house symbolis

wheeler argues that was true and the white house was involved in the retracted story. t was not true, it would help the white house but not fox news. that's one side of the case. fox is fighting this case today and denying all of these allegations saying quote, the accusation that fox news.com published a story to help defrakt tr coverage of russia collusion iss erroneous. the white house said this today. >> did the president know about the story pre-publication and did he have an influence? the president had no knowledge of the story and it's untrue that he or the white house involvement in this story. >> i want to be clear as we proceed. there's two sides to this story. we hear at the beat have invited the white house on this show the e happen rate an open invitation this week. tonight we have another side of this story. rob wheeler, the plaintiff in the case and his attorney. rod, what are you claiming and when did this entire incident change for you because initially you were voluntarily involved? >> that's right. i was asked to get involved this conducting an inves

and the official white house statement cited the tough new white house chief of staff john kelly who has been trying to restore order to the west wing. john kelly and steve bannon have mutually agreed today would be steven last day. we're grateful for his service and wish him the best. bannon, the latest, in a long lichte of top trump advisers to head for the exit including sean spicer and reince priebus. the president indicated his days were numbered this week. >> he's a good man. he is nos a racist. i can tell you that. we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. >> reporter: a darling of the alt right, role of keeping the promises the president made during the campaign. >> hold us accountable to what we promised. hold us accountable for delivering on what we promised. >> reporter: the blowback coming from the left and right, breitbart editor reacting to bannon's ouster on twister, one ominous word "war." nancy pelosi said it doesn't disguise where president trump himself stands on white sprechl sifts and the bigoted beliefs they advance. this may not quell the blowback from controversi

almost all the senior staffers have now left the white house. d to the constant upheaval to the white house? let's bring in the roundtable. >>> voice of the republican party. we'll start with you. obviously there's a soap opera quality. a symbolic role he plays and a lot of speculation. it is a big story. in terms of what we'll be talking about a month from now, is this a big moment the say something changed in the trump white house, the trump administration? or will we be talking about the same stories? >> no. the president is not going to change. that's what would require the mayhem to calm down in the white house. steve bannon will probably be the story down the road when he starts attack president or people within the white house. until the president are decides to have a real agenda, the more chaos he'll create. they're maybe taunting him saying you'll get a establishment agenda. is that right? do you think something will emerge that is tax plan we would have gotten why cruz or rubio? >> i think we should keep in mind is that donald trump ca

let's get back to the late us on the white house shakeup. a none suspected as being the source behind some of the white house leaks. could leaks be a thing of the past now that he is out? washington examiner's white house correspondent sarah west wood joins me now with more. sarah, that's my first question for you. does this mean that some the leaks might stop? i guess if he was leaking he wasn't the only one there, though. >> you know, leaks have been the reasoning behind a few of the dismissals that we have seen from the white house leaks were one of the stated reasons given for deputy chief of staff katy walsh's ouster. earlier this year it was the reasoning -- part of the reasons behind former chief of staff reince priebus ouster last month. now it's one of the reasons being floated for steve bannon's ouster. the truth is a lot of the senior white house aides do leak now and then to further their own purposes to achieve their own goals. if bannon did that, he wouldn't have been the only one. and it is certainly not going to stop the leak

on this one, the white house has had key stakeholders over, the senate, house, they have been brought was with the speaker last friday, had been over at the white house. there is a better collaborative process of getting people on the same page. that will hopefully lead to a better result david: than the health care fiasco. ver norquestgro who was also at the meeting. you conservative advocates, are you speaking with a unified voice? michael: i don't know every position grover holds, but certainly we are all in the same business, looking to cut taxes. as you look at this, there are minor disagreements in washington on issues, temporary, permanent, full expensing, do you do something short of that, permanent bonus depreciation. there are issues that need to be worked out. unlike health care, where there were some republicans who just want to keep the republic -- regulatory architecture of obamacare, others that wanted to keep president obama's medicaid expansion in place, on tax reform, we all want the same thing. how much from column a, column b be put into the final package. i think

>> with this white house in particular it is a bit unorthodox. the white house is being operated in a different way. change as a result of uncertainty? departing andnon unclear what effect that will have. you still have this rift between the white house and congress, even the president's own party. --that's a really impressed really important point. it's a necessary requirement for policy changes. there is a challenge between what is going on in the white house. unitys a huge amount of in the republican party. economistsds of surveyed by bloomberg believe there will be some sort of tax planor part of a tax passed by the end of this year. do you fall into that camp? >> when you make the question sufficiently open like some sort of something, then it increases the chance of it happening. it is tax reform, legitimate tax reform to overhaul the admittedly very complex task system is unlikely to happen in very -- in any material way. i think they come up show for it because -- come up short because of the lack. it, would take a run at come up short and do

that he came onto the white house. obviously he has been a lightning rod since the very first day that president trump announced him as the chief strategist. he's someone whose linked to the alt right movement and breitbart news. the republican establishment from the very beginning was skeptical of him and obviously a lot of democrats were very indicate cal when president trump made this announcement but craig, we can't underscore this enough in the wake of charlottesville. the calls for him to go were growing louder by the day. the fact you had president trump drawing a parallel between white supremacists and counterprotesters, a lot of people felt that was very bannon-esque and calling for him to go. >> nicole, is that why steve bannon is out? charlottesville? >> listen, i trust kristen welker's reporting. if that was a factor, i'm sure thafbs the case but it would have been the factor in chief of staff kelly's mind. the window into donald trump's -- lays there in his twitter feed and indiscernible from steve bannon's

the investigator claims there was more from the white house. days after the story aired, the donor left a voicemail, sing the white house was on board with the story. >> i got a note that we have the full attention of the white house on this. and deal. nancy: then a follow-up text about the fox news article before was published. to add pressure, but the president just read the article. he wants the article out immediately." the donor said he had never even spoken to the president before. >> i was being sloppy with my words. nancy: late today, the white house was pressed about the story. the press secretary said the president had no knowledge of the story, that neither the nor the white house were involved. out,han: an annual night designed to connect police officers with their communities. alison: this after controversial comments from the president that some say encourages police brutality. >> like when you are putting some of the other car and the way you head. you can take your hand away. alison: the white house press secretary later said the

here's the official statement from the white house that came out today, saying that the white house chiefutually agreed today would be steve's last day we are grateful for his services and wish him the best. so the white house portraying this as a john kelly decision, not naming president trump in that statement and then take a look at this graphic, to give you a sense of the astonishing amount of turnover that we have had in this white house, just over 200 days in. and look at all the names that have departed from this white house, whether they've been fired, ousted, resigned, or what have you bannon today, scaramucci, priebus, spicer, dubke, walsh and flynn all out over the course of the past 200 days. and when you look at that list, kelly. you see people from every one of the president's many fanctions inside this white house who have been forced out or left for one reason or another. this isn't just one wing of the president's inner circle, dominating over another wing you see members of the rnc-linked establishment group here, as well as people who are more familiar from the alt-righ

inside of the white house here in the building, john kelly, the new chief of staff -- been on the job only three weeks or so -- he is certainly putting his imprint on this white house. gerri: that's right, blake. starting to look like a clean sweep. thanks for that. >>> president trump was lukewarm on bannon's future on tuesday. watch this. >> i like mr. bannon. he's a friend of mine. but mr. bannon came on very late, you know that. i went through 17 senators, governors, and i won all the primaries. mr. lap northern came on very much -- bannon came on very much later than that. and i like him, he's a good man, he is not a racist, i can tell you that. he's a good person. he actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. but we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. gerri: and that appeared to be, at least to observers, the kiss of death, a signal that bannon was on his way out. this, as we're hearing at least 19 conservative groups are protesting the removal of steve lap nonand the potential removal of -- bannon and the potential removal of kellyanne conway. joining me now, rich lowry

and is now going to be totally unleashed outside of the white house. so the one place i might depart from steve schmidt is that, you know, to the extent that you find steve bannon objectionable and want him out of the white house, it doesn't necessarily mean that when he is out of the white house, that the public's fear will become more civil. so it it really better for america to have him out of the white house? it dependsment i think it's going to be a lot noisier in the public sphere than it has already because breitbart is going to be re-radicalized after a period without bannon, and they're going to become hysterical and shouty again under steve bannon and they're going to pick a much bigger fight with the white house and with the president. and i think we're looking at a period of extreme chaos. >> gentlemen, my executive producer says that there are too many bald guys on tv right now, so i have to say good night to wil hylton and steve schmidt. >>> coming up, a west wing expert on what john kelly a next move should be after ousting steve bannon.

that's very much the position at the white house. they were not saying this was a decision by the president himself. the white house likes to say the president took a position. in this case it's between the white house and saek. >> what u the staff. what dow owe now about the people that are staicking aaround. >> that's a good point you don't know if that's a has cleaning ore an atamt to change news cycle we're also learning from politico that riengs prebessie all star sometimes when you read up a top official, you have to go with it. >> stay with us because we're going to get more news conferences. we spend every august saying how these are the slow days of august nogg noggin that's when the government locked up the nil ceiling. as not a calm edmonton. >> not since 1997. >> take me back to fundamentalsing michael. how them then. this an over reach of whether he's been getting things done. when you do look a. tell economy. the market very full dwrily priced things are energy looks lake it could be getting ready for a bit of a rebound

he's been inside the white house for the last eight months. the rhetoric and what's going to happen as a result of him coming out of the white house. >> james, recently breitbart waged a campaign to try to get national security advisor mcmaster fired. there's no military solution to north korea in that he said because he didn't see a playbook yet that didn't have the decimations of millions of south koreanss there. with bannon gone, do you think we should be more concerned about military action against north korea? >> no. mcmaster actually also understands that there are very limited options when it comes to north korea. i don't think anyone is interested in going to nuclear war. people might talk a big game, there's any way -- it doesn't seem like that situation would be resolved that way. what's interesting to think about bannon's role in this, is that, bannon is into this sort of antiglobalist rhetoric. he tries to be very consistent about that across his economic -- across his economic ideology and his foreign policy ideology. so at the en

house has had the bill since friday afternoon. the white house insists the president will sign it. the vice-president today traveling in a georgia, he said the president will sign it as well, but still no sense of when that will be. now, wolf, we know the president and the white house indeed were not supportive of the sanctions bill. they tried to slow walk it through the house of representatives and essentially this bill handcuffs him in, you know, releasing and freeing sanctions in the future. it puts most of the control of that in the hands of congress, which this white house didn't want. but again, he said he would sign it on friday. he still hasn't yet. sarah huckabee sanders, the white house spokeswoman, said this today. >> he has not, but as we put out a statement earlier this week, he will and we'll let you know when the details and final plan on that -- >> what's the delay, what's the dlat here? you have had this since friday. what's holding him back? >> there's nothing holding him back. there is a review process, a legal process.

>> tye cobb, the inside white house counsel, and the special counsel inside of the white house said theyntend to cooperate with this investigation, and they want it to be over as soon as possible, and have every intention of cooperating. the fact that mike flynn is being investigated is something that has been known at least on some level for a very long time. >> and what about the revelation of not one but two grand juries, seema, washington, d.c., and northern virginia inside of the white house, and what is the sense now that it is public news, and a sense of fear or defiance or how is that being read a? >> the public face of it is that it is the natural course of the investigation, but looking at president trump in the rally in west virginia, calling it a witch hunt, and trying to take away the victory that you voters gave to us, to me. and it is two different looks. >> and is there a concern about the blowback if they pursue the russia and not the kitchen table, and the health care and e e kconmy. >> we saw it in the 2016 presidential election and some special elections this year, wh

they'll say he no longer works at the white house. we'll have that back and forth as we have with other members of the senior staff that left of the white house. this is clear as he said in his resignation letter that brian indicated. sebastian gorka felt that make america great policies will no longer be implemented with this white house. we saw this when steve bannon left. he was concerned about what the chief of staff kelly and the breitbart wing of the old white house refers to them as democrats in the west wing, and concerned about policies they would implement. based on what sebastian gorka wrote, he says he didn't feel like policies he stood for and people that he knew supported donald trump stood for were going to continue to be implemented. >> i just got a thank you note written by sheriff joe arpaio to the president of the united states. let me read it outlo loud. it says thank you @real donald trump for seeing my conviction for what it is. a political witch-hunt by holdovers in the obama administration. i look forward to put

inside the white house, it's a different ball game. he may not have the same handcuffs as it relates to individuals inside the white house, who he doesn't believe carries the president's agenda wholeheartedly. >> kimberly: you have my full attention. good to have you here tonight. coming up, more reaction to tonight's breaking news. steve bannon is out as white house chief strategist. that and much more on the special edition of "hannity" as we continued. d 6 is greater tha. flonase changes everything. so you miss the big city? i don't miss much... definitely not the traffic. excuse me, doctor... the genomic data came in. thank you. you can do that kind of analysis? yeah, watson. i can quickly analyze millions of clinical and scientific reports to help you tailor treatment options for the patient's genomic profile. you can do that? even way out here? yes. even way out here. even way out here? for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you

today the white house cleared the decks again. it ranks among the shortest ten years and white house history after ten days on the job, anthony scaramucci is out as white house communications director. general john kelly, new white house chief of staff, asked for scaramucci to go after an interview scaramucci thought was off the record. >> the president felt anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person that position. and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. >> scaramucci's removal sharp indicator of how much power john kelly will have. president trump lavishing praise on him after his swearing in this morning. >> i predict general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. >> as the senior military assistant to robert gates and leon panetta, kelly is well versed in the ways of washingto washington. president trump is banking that kelly's military discipline can bring some order to a west wing riven by competing power centers. >> what he's done in

starting with nbc's kristen welker live at the white house. kristen, we need to star first, let's get to the bottom of this "washington post" report. the fact that the president says great day at the white house, this whole narrative, general kelly is here to clean up shop, tighten up the ship, 90 minutes later this puppy gets dropped. >> reporter: yet another russia headline roiling this administration, steph. let me just give you the top line here. "the washington post" reporting overnight that it was president trump who personally dictated the statement from his eldest son, donald trump jr., about that controversial russian meeting. here's what the post reports. "the president directed that trump jr.'s statement to "the times" describe the meeting as unimportant. he wanted the statement to say that the meeting had been initiated by the russian lawyer and primarily was abher pet issue, the adoption of russian children, in a forward cabin trump was busy working on his son's statement, that being air force one. the president dictated the statem

the country. >>> plus, white house reset. a general at the helm. >> general kelly has the authority to operate in the white house and all staff will report to him. >> but with kelly as boss, the president's old twitter habits die hard. >>> and following the money trail. investigators looking at any trump cash ties to the kremlin. >> the president's camp set red lines for bob mueller. >> the headlines sourced by the best reporters now. >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm dana bash. john king is off today. to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world, thanks for sharing your sunday with us. president trump is not at the white house this morning but west wing turmoil and brewing trouble with his shaken base are following him on his working vacation. the latest quinnipiac poll shows the president's job approval at just 33%. he's so under water that 63% don't approve how he's doing the job. look closer at the survey and there's even more important danger signs for the president. support from a key part of his base is slipping.

today the white house said the president was involved but only to a point. the white house pushed back hard today against a report president trump personally dictated the initial statement responding to news of donald trump juniors meeting with russian attorney in june of 2016. >> the president waited as any father would based on the limited information he had. >> reporter: clarified the degree to which the president weighed in. >> he didn't dictate but he weyden, offered suggestion. >> the encounter was "a short introductory meeting primarily discussing the adoption of russian children." trump, jr., was -- an offer of information that would incriminate hillary in the dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders insisted there was nothing false or misleading in the initial statement. >> the statement that was issued was true and there were no inaccuracies in the statement. the only thing i see misleading as the years worth of stories that have been feeling a false narrative. a phony scandal b

perhaps won't be on the white house itself and how he might effect trump or the people within the white house but how he's going to effect conservatism in general and the media coverage. so i think he's going to put the republican party to a test. they've been reluctant to distance themselves from trump, to directly condemn trump over many things but most recently his reaction to charlottesville and i think he's really going to put them to the test. do they want the alt-right to be the mouth of the republican party or do they want movement conservatism as we've known it for the last 30 or so years to be the republican party? >> where might this go with the culture wars? the statues and all that? what about the culture wars? >> i think we're going to have a very interesting situation coming up as some of these protests are going to continue going on, perhaps this week in boston. i think the thing to watch for is how donald trump responds to that. especially after the blowback he got with the pathetic response to charlottesville. if he calibrates it all and gives what people woul

he does have allies in the white house. blic, the best thing that's happened to the white house in his head of homeland security. so he's put him up and said he's in charge. and i think we'll see more changes coming along in terms of who reports chain of command and discipline and also the kind of language that people use as well. whether he can shut down the president on tweeting is another whole matter. my guess is no. maybe for a couple of days, and that's a big issue. i was going to tell you i've been in wyoming the last couple of days working on a 75th anniversary of heart mountain. it was a japanese internment camp. we're in a small town, community college, prosperous farm community. voted 70% for trump. i went around and said where are you now in 69.9, i'd say at this point, and they blame us. they say you guys are all in the hands of the democratic party. they don't feel any connection between what we do and how they live their lives. and they're not entirely wrong. because they look at these shows, doing analysis an

jefferson at one point invites native american chiefs to the white house. typically that had happened before but he did something different. he invited the wives. many of the women in washington were insulted by that, the white women, because it put them on par with them. louisa is writing in her diary and says, what next, maybe the magnificent sally will make her appearance. >> oh. >> so there was a lot of bad blood between the two of them. >> wow. let me ask this question, and anybody jump in. can you tell us stories of first ladies who strongly influenced the flow of history, who had a huge impact on her husband's presidency and the direction that the country moved in her time? >> well, i could start with an influence that's a very interesting influence, elizaon son, the wife of andrew johnson, who is periodically listed as the worst -- or next to the worst president who ever lived. in the year that i wrote the little biography about him, he actually made it to being the worst, you know. so she taught him how to write. an jo andrewon s andrew johnson did

. >>> two big stories that go right to the heart of this white house. the president said to be directly involved in both. this is cnn tonight. i'm chris cuomo in for don lemon. the first story, the white house changing its story again about the president's role in don junior's initial statement about his meeting with russians in trump tower. first, the white house denied there was any role on behalf of the president. now, the white house admits the president weighed in on that misleading statement. the second story, an explosive lawsuit charging the white house worked hand in hand with fox news and a wealthy republican donor to concoct a fake news story about a murdered dnc staffer. his family outraged. now, tonight, we're going to put that donor's side of the story to the test. but first up is this latest twisting of the truth on russia. the white house has been denying for weeks that the president had anything to do with that misleading statement about his son don junior's 2016 meeting with a russian attorney. the statement claiming the meeting was pri

but does this latest shake up really change anything inside the white house? nquote globalists in the white house. >> plus the mayor on charlottesville on what he thinks should happen to the confederate statues now. >>> and total clims of reason. what does monday's eclipse have to do with your health, the planet your anus, president trump and probably 1776, probably nothing. but don't tell that to your local atrolg engineer. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right

, worked in the white house, been an adviser to white houses. myself have covered presidents going back many years. what about the president's comment to the golf magazine of sports illustrated that the white house is, quote, a real dump, explaining why he's spent so much time at his other properties on weekends. you most recently worked inside the white house. >> i can't imagine a situation where anybody would call that a dump. it is a privilege. it is a privilege to serve the country. in the white house. period. end of story. >> and, george, you and i both were involved in different capacities in the reagan years. i was a reporter, young reporter. every time i would walk through the gates i would feel a sense of awe that i was somehow, you know, representing the american people by covering this white house. ronald reagan used to put on his suit coat before walk ing into the oval office just to show respect. some of his predecessors and successors did not. >> ronald reagan had his personally imposed dress code to counteract what he thought was t

now both these men are now in the white house with salaries paid by you, the taxpayer. azing how the back-and-forth went from radio fodder to actual policy in the white house in just over a year. >> the r.a.i.s.e. act ends chain migration and replaces the low scaled system with a new points-based system for receiving a green card. this competitive application process will favor applicants who can speak english, financially support themselves, and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. >> that was donald trump today. the same donald trump who despite his rhetoric against immigrants in this country has said he's open to legal status for some undocumented immigrants, and also expressed concern about sending home foreign students who come here to get their ivy league education. now trump is fully endorsing a plan put forth by republican senators tom cotton of arkansas and david purdue of georgia that would cut by half the number of people allowed green cards in this country over the next decade. in part, by ending a long-held policy that

inside the white house, it's a different ball game. he may not have the same handcuffs as it relates to individuals inside the white house, who he doesn't believe carries the president's agenda wholeheartedly. >> kimberly: you have my full attention. good to have you here tonight. coming up, more reaction to tonight's breaking news. steve bannon is out as white house chief strategist. that and much more on the special edition of "hannity" as we continued. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,... ...isn't it time to let the real you shine through? maybe it's time for otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months,... ...with reduced redness,... ...thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has... ...no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occ

there's no discipline in the white house what the message is. the lawyers are on one page, the staff is talking about another thing. the question going forward, can general kelly bring the kind of discipline to this white house that would at least get them all on the same page so these kinds of situations where they're providing information that's just flatly not true to the public. i mean that's what they've got to get a handle on. >> chris cillizza, for people waking up, lets reremind them that the initial statement was actually dictated by the president. here's what don jr. said july 8th about that meeting. "it was a short introductory meeting. i asked jared and paul manafort 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 but the russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time, and there was no follow-up. i was asked to attend the meeting by an aquintance but not told the name of the person i would be meeting w

and open conversations with the white house about this particular bill. he said publicly, that the fact that the white house has not really given strong state of thes as it relates to russia is one of the reasons that this bill had to be passed and provide more controls by the congress as it relates to the implementation of sanctions like these. this is another indication, wolf, of kind of the rocky relationship between capitol hill and the white house right now and it's not just democrats, there are more and more republicans that are uncomfortable with that relationship, it even tracks back to the health care debate. so this was a loud and clear message from this congress that they are a co-equal branch of government and part of their job is to keep the white house in check. >> the president clearly does not believe that. we're going to get into that a little bit more, ryan nobles, jim acosta, guys, thanks very much. let's discuss all these late breaking developments, i'm joined by republican senator bill cassidy of georgia. you were part of the 98 that v

to mention that the interview was recorded before news of anthony scaramucci's dismissal from the white houseome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. donald trump promised to be a disruptive president. right now, the thing he's disrupting the most is his own white house team. he now has a new chief of staff and a new director of communications, but what he can't is the sense of a presidency in crisis, at odds with republicans in congress and still dogged by federal investigations of russia's alleged meddling in last year's election. my guest is sebastian gorka, a deputy assistant to the president on national security. where does the trump presidency go from here? sebastian gorka in washington, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. i want to begin with something you just said five days ago, you said, "the atmosphere here in the white house is absolutely wonderful. we've got a new broom sweeping through the communications shop in anthony scaramucci and we are humming along on all cylinders." plenty has happened since then. what's the atmosphere in the white house like today? fabulous. i literall

steve bannon leaving the white house. whites who issuing a statement, i quote, white house chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon mutually agreed it would be steve's last day. welcome to "the intelligence report." bannon has been somewhat controversial figure in the white house. he often clashed with other white house advisors as well as members of president trump's cabinet, including the new chief of staff, john kelly. while this sort of hard-nosed conservative, very nationalistic economic agenda, earned him a lot of support from trump supporters it caused friction with more moderate aides think gary cohn for example. maybe steve mnuchin. family members like jared kushner and donald trump. i want to go to blake burman, standing by at the white house with the breaking news. as i said the market doesn't quite to know what to make of it. we're off a little bit because there is some concern they're still going through a lot of speed bumps here blake. reporter: this shows, trish, i think you could says influence of new chi