powers jason miller have over any negotiation deal? >> the only one with veto power in this country is the president. ask what about jerusalem, is it still too early to talk about -- >> is it still too early to talk about in control? host: sarah huckabee sanders indicated the president would be signing the bill earlier tonight. he did so. this photograph from the indian treaty room which is in the eisenhower executive office building adjacent to the white house. the president signing hr 195 which keeps the government in operation through february 8. this from the chicago tribune. a team of washington post reporters published on the chicago website. let me read to part of what robert custer and his team are reporting. "from the outset, there was a battle of wills. democrats realized they had lost wednesday morning. just of the senate floor, a group of vulnerable democrats told their leader chuck schumer that their cost of the effort to protect the dreamers from deportation was rapidly escalating. it could imperil what was otherwise a pr

>> i want to bring in jason miller. the new york times reports that the president erupted in anger after sessions recused himself, saying he needed his attorney general to protect him. protect him from what, exactly? >> well, we're seeing a lot from this story of unnamed sources and such. it's important to point out we need to take that with a little context. >> he's not happy that sessions recused himself. he's been public in that part. >> he's absolutely right. the attorney general was hearing the chatterings folks in washington saying he needed to recuse himself. if he did recuse himself, that would make those -- the political opponents die down with their criticism of him. i think what the president knows is whether it be from the campaign or in his time in office as president, is that's not going to slow people down at all. all it's going to do is make people double down and say, see, see, see. i think president trump was wrong in saying, you don't need to step aside and recuse yourself. the president was spot on h

so let me ask the question, in this way, jason miller.o attend a private meeting with the president on the eve of this first state of the union address, what would be the one thing you think he would be most excited about. >> i would -- guessing, of course, i would say the president is very excited about the economic numbers that we have seen so far with this first year. and in particular when you stack up the first year of his presidency really against the first year of any presidency that we have seen in modern history, you can make the case in just about any president in history. there are pretty darn good accomplishments. i expect the president will talk a lot about his record and the great things we have seen. i think also too, one important thing to keep in mind, this president is very aware of the response he got to his speech at the joint session this last year. that was arguably one of the best new cycles that he had. i think you're going to see the president look to try to build some consensus on the things he wants to get done

host: executive editor with federal news radio, jason miller. thank you for joining us. guest: my pleasure. host: we opened up phone lines, particularly the line for federal employees 202-748-8923. ,we want to get your reaction to the shutdown. they number one. here is dean in san bernardino, california on the democrats line. caller: hello. host: go ahead, you are on the air. caller: i have a question, to everybody who was supposed to take care of years ago, it has to do with the men and women fighting for the country when they tried to shut the government down last time. come essentials -- the men and women fighting for this country, they have to do their job, regardless or not if they get paid or not. how come congress gets paid whether or not they get a paycheck, and the men and women fighting for this country do not get a paycheck? it was the best we passed a long time ago to change this. discography to paycheck in order to do their job? -- does congress need a paycheck in order to do their job? of membersple mentioned introducing legislations of congress would not g

tripadvisor. >>> david joly jason miller, angela rye back with me now. you to respond, angela. i think you took umbrage to something jason said. this is what the president said about immigration tonight. >> tell them not to be concerned, okay. >> they have not to be concerned about? >> tell them not to worry. >> can i clarify. >> we will solve the problem. it's up to the democrats. but they should not be concerned. >> can we just clarify one thing. >> we're putting in a fund. $25 billion in a fund. >> all up front? >> we have $5 $25 billion for a wall. 5 billion. aft daca is done. >> you want chain miergs and lottery. >> we're putting in the initial, putting chain and negotiated chain. we're putting a replacement for lottery or an end to lottery. it could be a replacement. we bring people in from various countries coming in based on merit and other reasons and we are going to billed a wall. those primary things. >> okay. so he said we're putting in fawned we're going to do. but is the money coming from mexico for the fund? where is that. >> come on, don.

let's discuss jason miller and ana navarro.ear to you both, and it's always good to see you even with a question as silly as this. jason miller, is there a deep state and a conspiracy that includes the justice department in a conspiracy against trump. >> when the president talks about the deep state he's talking about a permanent class of unelected officials that fundamentally believe they know more than our elected officials and know more about the president about the direction of the country, and we saw it in the campaign trail and we it in this year, and you see it all the time with the leaks constantly coming out. if you go to any top shelf journalist, they will tell you it's from the career officials -- >> those leaks always come, so that would not make president trump unique, and the question is still different than what you are responding to right now, jason. he says the justice department is part of a deep state conspiracy against me. let's put it to the side. he obviously is not defining deep state the way it tradition

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sarah: jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of with veto power in this country is the president. thanks, guys. reporter: is it still too early to talk about gun control? >> before the- house voted on the three-week spending bill, members of the congressional black caucus held a news conference to voice their opposition to the measure. this is 25 minutes. >> first of all, thank you all for joining us this afternoon as the congressional black caucus announces to the country a couple of things, one of which the congressional black caucus voted overwhelmingly to oppose this continuing resolution to fund government that we are receiving from the senate, and it was not a decision that we reached likely. this congress, the republican house, the republican senate, and the republican president has failed this country. the fact that their incompetence prevents them from coming together within their own ranks to pass a long-term spending bill is wreaking havoc on american families and countless -- families in cou

jason miller is mentioned in the book, and i want to get a reaction from jason on what it says.ned twice. part of what wolff says a private army of leakers and defenders. i want to give you a chance to -- >> well, i'm clearly on board president trump's team. and i'm a strong supporter of the president. steve was someone who i worked closely with on the campaign trail, as was a bunch of other folks who are currently in the white house, as far as this outside team, look, i'm a strong supporter of the president, i'm proud to say that every day of the week. >> i'm going to read another passage. part of which is the characterization, and his sourcing is unclear, he faced a number of journalistic conundrums because of the white house's lack of experience and procedures for setting parameters. here's what he wrote and what he says steve bannon told him. the koour position was not helped by the fact that the president had been gleefully telling people jared could solve the middle east problem because jared knew all the crooks in jerusalem. jared kushner and ivanka was terrified, said a

sarah: jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of with veto power in this country is the president. thanks, guys. reporter: is it still too early to talk about gun control? announcer: you for the house voted on the three-week spending bill, members of the congressional black caucus held a news conference to voice their opposition to the measure. this is 25 minutes. >> first of all, thank you all for joining us this afternoon as the congressional black caucus announces to the country a couple of things, one of

sarah: jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of

>> i'm told that the whole cooperation was jason miller asked someone in the white house what should i talk to the guy and somebody sent back a note saying, hey, you should say nice things and talk about the president's accomplishments. and that was the only thing that was communicated to staff. it was never a blanket discussion, i am told that people should cooperate. >> you said there were hundreds of journalists who were at the white house who were reporting and that they don't report these things. there are also many journalists who can confirm, michael wolff had unprecedented access and he became a fixture around this white house. >> i don't think he did, and if you look at the fan it's a call stories that he's telling, for instance, he says his own children hate him. so i've known the president, i first met him 20 years ago. i know him very well -- there was nothing -- >> he's made these comments that he's not close, he wasn't a good father. all of this stuff. >> not the only one to say that. >> so i've seen him interact with his family for many years. usually people like yours

sarah: jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of with veto power in this country s the president. thanks guys. >> is it still too early to be talking about gun control? [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] host: a final vote under way on the senate floor on a short-term spending bill to keep the government open. the shutdown under way since friday. s the third day of the federal worker shutdown and we are of course keeping an eye here on the senate floor. you can continue watching coverage of the vote under way in the senate on c-span2. a look at a tweet from eric watson who points out that some of the delay this afternoon once they'd held their cleture vote to move forward was delayed a

sarah: jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of with veto power in this country is the president. thanks guy,. -- thanks, guys. reporter: is it still too early to talk about gun control? [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] host: the white house briefing there. white house press secretary sarah sanders saying that they expect things to be back to normal tomorrow. at least at this point they expect that. the senate moving forward. not a final vote yet in the senate on funding the government but looking like they are progressing in that way. they just had a vote as was mentioned by the press secretary again, 81-18 vote. they needed 60 to move forward. to end debate. in order to get government funding passed through february 8. we're going to take your phone calls, get your thoughts. the numbers there at the bottom of your screen. host: the senate brea

. >> jason miller doesn't work in the immigration. the only person with the power in this country is the president. thank you, guys. >> dana: alright. that's sara sanders. he was she was completing the briefing. the democrats didn't want to be done. she has left the room. she answered a lot of questions about the shut down and the deal made today between schumer and mcconnell. joining me now democratic congressional campaign committee deputy and -- thank you to you both for sticking around and listening to that briefing. it helps us with our discussion here. let me start off with something for you, david. i will start with you. >> okay. >> dana: mitch mcconnell made an agreement that basically he's promising a vote in the senate on da ca up or down vote. schumer says yes. the democrats are not happy the dreamers rejecting the deal. concern about schumer caving to early. mcconnell can't promise a vote in the house is. this now speaker paul ryan's problem. >> i don't think it's his problem. what senator mcconnell said is let's have a fa

jason miller writing, if the shutdown continues, feds should report to work on monday but after that it depends. if congress and the white house don't come to an agreement and reopened the government, federal employees were told whether they should report to work on monday, the office of management and budget in its shutdown guidance set a lesson appropriations happened on a friday, employees should conduct an orderly shutdown. mick mulvaney telling the agency saturday to begin a shutdown in accordance with contingency plans. melvin in new york, republican line. caller: thank you. president. for the my parents are on social security. i am out of work and on welfare. ,hree months from the shutdown they will lose that funding. my parents will lose their medication. i don't know what will happen to me. [indiscernible] host: let's go to our federal employees line, michelle from rosemont, california. caller: i want to say that i beieve the nation needs to upholding the laws of the country. i think the president should not be bashed on national television. i think they need to come togethe

. >> jason miller, your response to that? you heard clapper say this moves us closer to war. heard tim say you shouldn't joke about nuclear war, especially with a regime like north korea. >> i don't think this moves us closer to nuclear war and i don't think the president was joking. i think we have to take a step back and look clearly as what kim was doing today which is trying to divide south korea from the u.s., saying that he wants to sit down and have some sort of talks with south korea, also saying he has a button on his desk where he can launch nukes and hit anywhere in the united states. and so while much of the world is then running around, scurrying around, trying to figure out are these talks real, are they sincere, the president is sending a very strong message that we're strong in our resolve and no, we're not going to sit down and have talks. >> you talk about a split between the u.s. and its allies here. in fact, south korea, public statements from south korea saying they don't want war without their permission. you've heard this from south korean leaders, conc

reporter and editor at large for cnn politics, chris cillizza, and jen sake for president obama and jason miller, former senior xhin communications adviser for the trump campaign. jason, you know donald trump very well. he had already fired comey in may. not only did that not go well just in the court of public opinion, but it ended up bringing us to the -- to mueller, to the special counsel. it was a bit of out of the frying pan and into the fire. why would he want to fire mueller in june, especially considering it wouldn't have ended the investigation? >> well, i think there are a couple of things with the story i would take issue with. i don't think we necessarily know he want fod fire mueller. he is saying that's not the case. he's taken issue with the reporting. but, again, here is -- >> you're saying the report may not be accurate. even though there is sources stunned by -- >> hold on. cnn confirmed it. fox news confirmed it. >> four people said they were briefed on this supposed conversation. does not say there were four people in the room. >> that's who you're going with supposed convers

joining us now is cnn political commentator jason miller and ana know srar r know vara.na, first to you. your reaction? >> i can't even believe you're asking the question if president donald j. racist is a person who is a bigot and is in the white house. of course he is. when a person who shows you who they are, believe them the first time. he showed us throughout his life, throughout his campaign, throughout his time as president. he is not going to change. a 71-year-old racist is not going to see jesus and come to a different conclusion and a different heart at this stage in life. this is who he is. and it's up to the rest of us in america to say that that is not who america is. the reason i'm so pissed off about this, john, because i live in miami. it is a vibrant city that have been built by people who come from shitholes like me, people working in hospitals. today the message they need to hear is we are with them. they are part of this community, part of this country and they are what make america great already. >> j.b., i love you but i thought the intro was comple

former senior communications jason miller and angela wry, jason, oprah 2020.learly something many desperately want. look at today. >> well, it was a fantastic speech last night. i have to give oprah a lot of credit for that. ultimately i don't think she'll run in 2020. everybody loves oprah. her favorables are in 80 to 90%. as soon as she were to run for office, half the country isn't a fan. also, a lot of the sharpest criticism will come from democrats. two important take aways, erin, number one, the strong rebuke democrats have for secretary clinton. they never clapped like that for secretary clinton. it shows how much democrats wanted someone they could be excited about in 2016. as we look ahead to 2020, it's a rejection of the current field, whether it be kristen gilley brandt, mark clooney. >> you're basing your whole hope here, jason, on that she won't run but if she does, formidable. >> what she'll find out is hollywood is not an early primary seat. the road to nomination goes through des moines, manchester, columbia, south carolina. one thing we learne

cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris and former ohio state senator nina turner and jason millernior communications adviser for the trump campaign. jason, i want to start with the moment that we saw. we saw things like president trump recognizing a young boy who had done work on behalf of military families who have lost a loved one. and then at the sort of the same breath he takes a swipe at protesting professional football players. is that a unifying gesture? >> i think overall the speech definitely was unifying and i know obviously as a trump supporter i have one opinion and the good senator is someone who's not a trump supporter might have a different opinion. but when you look at the polling numbers that came out after the speech, of the people who were watching the speech, 80% thought that it was unifying in tone. i think when we talk about -- >> but what did you think? >> i loved it. >> you thought it was unifying? >> absolutely. i thought the human interest story. >> couldn't he have gone without the nfl player thing? >> i think that's important because he's talking about

let's go to jason miller, former senior communications adviser for the trump campaign, and normizen. son, coming out here, ostensibly to take credit for no airplane crash deaths in 2017, why would he feel the need to even do that, to even take credit for that? >> well, erin, i gotta hand it to the president, of all the issues i thought we would be talking about this evening, at least when i got up this morning, aviation safety wasn't one of them, but the fact we're debating whether or not this is the single safest year that's on record or if it's tied for being the safest year on record, i think really goes to the fact that president trump knows how to go and push the issues and get us talking about things that he wants us to be talking about. but i think in all -- >> when something awful happens in the air, he's going to take credit for that, going to take the blame? >> what i would say is he has actually gone and implemented measures on the safety front that do allow him to take some credit here. because one of the important things to point out is that while there have been zero acc

>> jason miller doesn't work in the administration.only person with veto power is the president. thanks, guys. >> and she's off. let me bring back dana bash and chris cillizza. it's important to go back to her first talking about a meeting between the president and the democratic leader in the senate, chuck schumer, saying schumer accepted the deal that the president initially put on the table. is that the case, dana? >> if that's the case why didn't the president take yes for an answer? >> i don't know. >> i wasn't sure where that was going at all. it didn't make a lot of sense. it sounded like what she was saying was that the way senator schumer described the last sort of 12 hours or so before the government shut down was he thought he had a deal. he did agree to the demands that -- many of the demands the president put on the table and yet the white house pulled it back. that didn't clear things up for me at all. i think it made them, if possible, a little bit more muddy. >> what do you think, chris? >> no commitment on a pathway to

i was in the room and i talked to kellyanne conway and cnn's own jason miller and bryan lanza. they were always upbeat. dave bossy, the same way the president, the candidate himself. you look at it because i've got feelt like i was getting my brains beat in, sometimes on this station and often times other stations and then i go up there -- >> but someone who doesn't want to read, according to this boo, he doesn't read, he fell asleasleep, sam said on the record that he got to the fourth amendment and his eyes were rolling back. is is that someone -- >> isn't that boring? it's kind of boring. >> but if you're going to be president you should probably know about the constitution. you should probably know about it. i mean, does that concern you? >> it doesn't concern me because i know as a politician there are experts that come in and they want to tell you how the watch is made and you just need to know what time it is and who is my expert that i can call on when i need know more information. then you get somebody who wants to be a prancing pony and tell you stuff you don't want

to talk about this with former republican congressman david jolly, cnn political commentators jason millernd angela rye. good evening, all, one and all. >> good evening. >> angela, let's start with you. president trump gave a very upbeat answer tonight about the possibility of reaching an agreement on immigration reform and the future of d.r.e.a.m.ers. what's your reaction? >> my reaction is i can't take the president's word for a grain of salt, like, this is someone who regularly says one thing out of his mouth and says something very different. i think the reality of it is when i was listening to those remarks, duon, i thought of the man who was recently deported, husband of a wife, with kids, and he didn't do anything. so i don't believe someone who built his campaign on calling mexicans drug dealers and rapists, i don't believe a man who has spent time tweeting about a wall, and the importance of the wall. no wall, no deal. i don't believe him today because he doesn't have the compassion to make this type of policy decision. >> representative jolly, your former republican colleagues in

>> jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person i'm aware of veto power in this country is the president. thanks, guys. reporter: events? jerusalem? trish: sarah huckabee sanders answering reporters questions about the shutdown. go back to fox news contributor deroy murdoch and democratic strategist antwan seawright who are back with me. let me throw this out there. what do you do if donald trump is the one who actually gets immigration reform through and is the one provide some kind of pathway, i don't know to citizenship, pathway to legitimacy for all these "dreamers"? what is that going to mean for the democratic party? >> well, what it is going to mean that democrats have pushed the president to do what 80 to 90% of the american people want to do. that is fix a very broken immigration system. trish: do you think he can take credit for it? >> absolutely. democrats, the democrats can take credit for it. let me tell you why. we have branches of government in this country. the legislative branch is responsible for p

. >> jason miller doesn't work in the administration. the only person with veto power in this country is the president. thanks, guys. >> sarah sanders there saying this was all the democrats' fault, the democrats were the ones that decided to turn the lights off on the government. sarah huckabee sanders refused to put blame on the president's shoulders although members of the republican party said the president was unclear where he stood or what he would accept in a deal to reopen the government or deal on immigration. let's break in august of down with our reporters starting with our white house contour kristin walker. she kept saying there were certain criteria that the white house needed to make an daca. funding the wall, ending chain migration and the visa lottery program. she was asked whether those parts were in cement or negotiable. she refused to say if they were negotiable, but it seems like they're not negotiating on a whole lot. you had senator graham and senator durbin there last week. you had senator schumer there last week

. >> jason miller doesn't work in the administration the only person i'm aware of with veto power in this country is the president >> we have been listening to sarah sanders, white house press secretary, holding a briefing right after the senate voted to end the government shutdown, at least temporarily. a lot of questions surrounding what happens once the next deadline is crossed. we're still waiting for the house to officially vote on this and the president is expected to officially end this shutdown late this afternoon or early this evening so the government shutdown looks to end some time today possibly as early as this afternoon. a lot of questions also around that controversial article, really scathing article about wilbur ross and the criticisms around him >> i would suggest he falls asleep at meetings, he's not useful after 11:00 in the morning, and that more importantly, donald trump was very unimpressed with his negotiating skills in deals which would be a scathing criticism from one deal maker to another. >> right, but sarah sanders says the president has 100% confidence i

miller, but kelly. he's actually perhaps becoming much of a stronger presence in the white house than even vice president pence. >> to that point, jason johnson, it does feel like donald trump is surrounded by people who will -- we'll call them immigration hard-liners, steven miller, apparently kelly. his own instincts are so hardline, it's hard for me to believe he wanted a deal. the kato institute did a bill that would require anyone to maintain an annual income at least 125% of the poverty line. if they fall below that level for 90 days, not only are they subject to deportation, again they would be criminals. what do you make of that? >> joy, this is the thing. this is why donald trump and the republicans are really bad hostagetakers. they have a gun. we have c.h.i.p., we have daca. once the negotiator realizes, wait, you'll kill the hostages no matter what i do. they don't have to work with you. that's what the democrats have realized. you know what? donald trump doesn't want these daca kids here. he doesn't want them. he made that clear. steven miller doesn't want them. john kelly doesn't want them. why try to negotiate a deal th

miller agenda on building the wall and throwing out the brown people. it's a clown show. >> who is in charge of telling ann coulter? i nominate you. you have to tell her. jason, democrats in my twitter feed, there is some anger democrats aren't putting their foot down and saying we ain't voting for a wall period, end of story. we don't care what you say. should democrats be planting their flag there? >> they don't have to put the flag down yet, joy. it's clear this is from the book and everyone that talked about this president, he agrees with whatever the last person who left the room. i hate this immigration, i don't like these kind of people, i like these people. the democrats don't have to take a strong position now because they don't know what position trump would have in three weeks. [ laughter ] >> that's part of the problem. there is no reason to plant a flag. >> sarah sanders is the white house mistress of word vomit. every day something new pops out. look, i don't blame her. it's like donald trump speaks some sort of forgotten language or syrian and just rambles on and she tries to translate as best she can. this is a white house led by a man that d