ashley parker is jieni injoinin along with ruth marcus. let's talk about the vote announced be the white house. >> we have senator graham here as well talking about the syria vote as well. so the gorsuch vote going down as we expected. senator mitch mcconnell went nuclear yesterday. that all played out and you saw that confirmation vote on the senate floor this morning -- this afternoon i guess now. we talked to mitch mcconnell before that vote went on and he said that chuck schumer started it and he was not taking responsibility. >> thank you, lindsey graham there talking about syria, i think as well. we'll get a update on that. ruth marcus, the significance of this ascension to the supreme court. you now have a complete court. he can get to work right away. big cases are pending. he can't rule on anything that has already been argued, but this is something of an unknown quantity, people change when they get to the high bench. >> big cases pending and coming. the constitutionality of the president's immigration ban. heading to a supreme c

ashley parker who has a pair of human hands affixing a microphone and earpiece to her as we speak is by day a reporter for the "washington post." our thanks to ashley and the friendly technician who made it possible for her to hear us and to speak to us. and michael crowley, senior affairs correspondent for politico. see how cool he keeps it in that third box. always very cool. bobby, we welcome you back to thesstores. shores. yohave the only double life among us. you get to live over there and come back here. what is this story playing like over there? >> well, it's astonishing. the level of astonishment about the donald trump presidency, just simply keeps rising. >> where do you start? twitter or the russia ties or -- >> twitter, actually, the fact that you have a president who is speaking over the top of his entire administration directly to the american people, but speaking in this sort of really bizarre manner. it's sort of my newspaper every day either online or in the paper, we're covering this, because people are fascinated. this is the leader of the free world or so we would

bianna golodryga remains with us and ashley parker is still with us. it is with deep affection and appreciation for ashley's work that we welcome our friend back to the broadcast tonight because this was a big day for her. ashley, of course, white house reporter for "the washington post." we must show you this. a camera was rolling on ashley as she reacted to sean spicer at today's briefing, specifically his contention about hitler not using chemical weapons. and repeated on a loop, it slowly took over the internet. we will now re-run the clip with the accompanying audio to see what she was reacting to. >> i just want to give you the opportunity to clarify something you said this evening. quote, hitler didn't even sink to the level of using chemical weapons. what did you mean by that? >> i think when you come to sarin gas, there was no -- he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is dog. there was clearly -- i understand your point. thank you. i appreciate that. there was not, in the -- he brought them into the holocaust center.

ashley parker of the washington post.ound—up some of the other main stories: the head of united airlines has apologised for what he now describes as the truly horrific removal of a passenger from a flight on sunday. ceo oscar munoz at first told staff he stood by them but with united's stock market valuation plummeting, issued another statement saying he was disturbed by the incident. clashes in chile on tuesday as students protested against education reform. legislation proposed by president michelle bachelet would expand free access to university but the students say it doesn't go far enough, they're seeking free tuition for all. the man suspected of carrying out last week's stockholm truck attack has told a court that he committed a terrorist crime. rakhmat akilov, an uzbek national, appeared in court for the first time on tuesday, and confessed to driving the lorry that killed four people and injured 15. with tensions mounting over syria and the us secretary of state in moscow for talks, vladimir putin has hardened hi

i bring in msnbc chief legal correspondent ari melber and ashley parker and the socialed press's jonathanemire. ari, judge curiel assignment, totally random. is there any reason to think the history between donald trump and the judge could play into this, he might have to recuse himself? >> the history may play in for president trump who of course made a lot of noise about the judge but ultimately settled that case for $25 million. there's no recusal issue whatsoever. we were speaking to kathleen clarke an expert on this and we'll read you her review "the fact the president tried to pick a fight with judge curie le doesn't mean he gets knocked off on cases against the government." if you ask what kind of thing would it take, if judge curiel made statements that exhibited bias against one of the parties other made a statement that prejudged this case that would be the basis for recusal which brings us back to the beginning in the sound. it was president trump' view the ethnicity of the judge somehow basically implied some preconceived view about issues about trump or immigration. of course

let's bring in our panel, senior adviser and national spokesperson for moveon.org and ashley parker for the "washington post." ashley, donald trump is clearly aware of his image and this 100 day marker. what do you make of this tour of this wisconsin factory and this signing of an executive order that is intended to protect american jobs in such a public way? >> i mean, i think exactly what you said is correct. he is very aware of his image and he's privately very upset that he doesn't have a ton of legislative achievement to show heading into this marker. he did of course help muscle through neil gorsuch and the importance of that can't be overstated. but in going to wisconsin, these executive orders do do something. president obama used executive orders very succefully but they are sort of -- they have a little less teeth and it's more of a way of trump reminding people of the campaign promises he made even if he hasn't made good on them legislatively, which is the real way to enshrine something. as you know from covering him, he loves the adulation of crowds and he loves returning to

washington post white house reporter ashley parker. sean spicer navigating these questions about iran, about the uss vincent saying we never said exactly where it was. >> yeah, i think the white house was probably ill-certaserved in. it looks like the errors were at the pent gone in this case, and it feeds a narrative of incompetition. . immigration, health care, and some of the other issues. it is a middle of a crisis. >> ashley, sean miss espicer is correct, the democratsai they're goal was to get 50% a not have a run off, and there is a run off. i think it is hard to genuinely argue that having a democratic nearly get to 50% come out so far ahead. it is a district that is ruby red, i would not chalk it up as a win either, but it was not ain based on the stated goal of the democrats. nbc chief white house correspondent halle jackson. i want to ask you about sean spicer's fluid explanation of past statements and by the president of the united states. they were certainly very vague about the location of the carrier, but that it was ste

ashley parker, white house reporter asey, let me start wyou st in terms of the question here of who ise trump administration, how the foreign policy, how the syria policy is being constructed. i think it can be a little confusing to an outsider looking in. you have hawkish signals being sent by nikki haley, reserved signals by tillerson, of course, the president, himself, said very specific things during the campaign that are now at odds with the air strikes he launched last week. do we have a sense if there is a central message that's going to emerge here? and if so, how? >> well, of course, the one person you didn't mention in that list was jared kushner who is very powerful behind the scenes and has been operating as a bit of a shadow diplomat and also helping on policies ranging from syria to, of course, his portfolio, china, the middle east, mexico. at the end of the day, the president makes the decision, but i think at least today in this briefing, we saw that the press secretary was sort of reflecting much more in line with what nikki haley said at the u.n., a more hawkish appro

and ashley parker, white house report forethe "washington post." hard to know where to begin. malcolm, i think the first question goes to you. explain to the good folks watching what a fisa warrant is, how hard they are to get, how much certainty you have to show a federal judge that it's worth looking at someone, and who is carter page? >> well, as you know, carter page was a campaign person that donald trump said early last year was the person who, you know, advises him on issues of russia. a fisa warrant is a foreign intelligence surveillance act warrant which is a secret court which issues warrants so that american citizens who are being investigated for counter-intelligence, which is spy hunting, or counter-terrorism, which is we suspect they are operateding with terrorists. it allows the justice department to use all the national resources or select resources to go after those individuals and work up a case or prove them innocent. one way or the other. the fbi director, about three weeks ago, sat down along with the director of the national security agency and made it ve

he's since made a public apology on us tv: ashley parker is white house correspondent for the washingtonthe briefing. as you will surely know, there is a close—up macro to the face —— there isa close—up macro to the face —— there is a close—up guess of your face. close—up macro to the face —— there is a close—up guess of your facem went crazy on social media. that's why you saw the correspondence in front of me. what was jarring to us ina front of me. what was jarring to us in a briefing room was that instead of cleaning up and clarifying his misstatement, he made it worse. i think we were all watching in a state of confusion and disbelief. think we were all watching in a state of confusion and disbelieflj guess state of confusion and disbelief.” guess there was no conversation about how comparisons to hitler work but not if you are white house press secretary. somehow it came to killing people in a confined space was worse than doing it in the street and the city or in a hospital. there is a good rule of thumb even schoolchildren know that you compare nothing to hitler. that is somethin

ashley parker is here as well. and let's talk about this 100 day benchmark, which crystal has pointed out. this was because of fdr noted this. this isn't a media dead line. that said, we know that pump has called this dead line ridiculous. sean spicer has called it artificial. why do you think then that they are jam packed the president's schedule with events all week long? >> i think the first reason is that the president is someone who is very concerned about media coverage generally. so the white house knows that. they don't want him coming up to the end of this week looking a at the coverage and being sort of disappointed or upset that it's not the way that e he wanted it to be. but secondly, i think the president and the conversations close to him, he's pretty convinced he's had a a very robust 100 days. he believes haes got quite a bit done and wants to be recognized for it. it's definitely a smart strategy on the white house's part to get ahead of the coverage and put things out on the table so things can de

. >> with us to share their reporting and insights, ashley parker of the "washington post," michael bender of "the wall street journal." terry bannon of 538. and bloomberg politics. i want to start with what we heard a moment ago from the ambassador to the united nations. this is a candidate trump and president trump relukt tants to react. nicki naleigh said there at the united nations she was essentially laying out what we used to call the bush doctrine. either the world acts or we will act alone. i assume she will not go out there and freelance. i assume we'll hear the same from president trump with king abdullah in the next hour. >> that's exactly right. nikki haley has seemed to operate from a distance from the administration. she said previously we're putting russia on notice. we don't trust them, we believe they meddled the u.s. election what is not exactly what the president is saying but at this point, it seems like there may be a call to action. and the president will actually have to make a decision and it will be interesting to see how much in line he is with what she just laid

also washington bureau chief susan page and white house reporter for the "washington post," ashley parker. a big thanks to all of you. jacob, let me start with you there inside the room. what are folks there hoping to hear from president trump? >> reporter: i'll tell you, craig, that the president will take the stage in any moment. lee greenwood is singing behind me singing the song that introduced a lot of his campaign events. people here are thrilled, and when they endorsed president trump, it was an anti-clinton, this is what will happen if hillary clinton takes office kind of event. the trump campaign warned that if she were to take office, she would take away all the guns, destroy all the magazines and put everyone on an administration. he talked about how proud he was of neil gorsuch and about how proud he was of general mattis and the other appointees of president trump. that's what i heard from a lot of people, a couple dozen of them, before the event actually started. they said maybe they'll see more action on the second amendment going forward, but right now they're just happy t

marker that the president is using to decide whether or not sean spicer is doing a great job as ashley parkerosta of the "washington post" reported. clearly you can make a sound argument that he has a credit ability issue. given the amount of times they have shaded the truth on a number of different issues. the mike flynn controversy, the idea that he was a volunteer when he was a policy adviser. paul manafort playing a limited role. so those were pretty jarring and pretty shocking to hear somebody try to make those arguments. but again, he is at the whim of the president. and if the president is asking you to go do something, you have to find a way to go doit. >> ultimately his boss. >> ultimately. we'll see who eventually is the one that --is in charge at the voting booths. >>> all right. up next, we'll take a look at the big gains in the markets after the nasdaq soared above 6,000 for the first time. >>> time for the your business entrepreneur of the week before mar lena was a teacher who loved makeup. she started creating youtube tutorials for her friends and they spread like wildfire. sh

i'm joined by ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post," ken vogel, chief investigateeporter for politico, and sa heel ca por, national political reporter for bloomberg politics. let me go to ashley. i'm just going down the list. nafta was a big issue with this guy. nato is one of the general anti-establishment things he said. no good. he was going to go to war with china. nothing. >> i guess the only thing he's been predictable on is when he also said he was incredibly flexible. and on all of these, he's shown sort of that willingness to be non-ideological, a pragmatist, and basically do a total flip-flop on some of these issues. but it does fit in line with his flexibility, his desire to get a deal, and his sort of instinct to often listen to the last person he heard from. >> that's the key. i want to get to that. you know his voters out there, do they care about issues, or do they care about attitude? as long as he's anti-establishment, as long as he's against us, if you will, as long as he's the alternative to everything else, they like him. according to the number

i'm joined by the round table, ashley parker white house reporter for the washington post, national politicse "boston gle." and "police kco." i guess i'm looking for a diond the display of the trump administration, what do you think, ashley, does she got it? are you going to call her secretary of state in a couple of years? >> she was already a political star. i think she's done a job. she's distanced herself from the president on a number of issues, sort of with no backlash against her. >> how do you explain that? she doesn't seem to be leeched or controlled by tillerson or the president? >> she's away from the madness of washington. i think you mentioned tillerson, he created a vacuum, he's press shy, she's not. and on syria, especially, you saw her lead by going to the u.n. and showing those photos and almost seemed if the president and trump spicer and the briefing was following her. >> i will piggyback off of that. i think there's a vacuum that has been created by the secretary of state because he ashley mentioned. >> press averse part. he doesn't want anybody around him from the report

that is what the "washington post," and ashley parker is the washington correspondent for the "washington post" and she interviewed president trump in the oval office yesterday. ashley, a truly fascinating take that you got on how this whole nafta evolution, let's call it, happened. where the president really stood on nafta at any given moment in this past week truly was anyone's guess. so, who wha was behind what seemed like a sudden shift from terminate the deal to renegotiate it? >> well, a couple things. one is there was actually a very big lobbying push as soon as news sort of leaked out before the white house wanted it to that president trump might be considering with drawing from nafta. everyone in that administration or a lot of people kind of went into full gear. you had the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, you had wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, sort of going to the president and saying, i don't know that you really want to do this. their point to him was you can only withdraw from nafta once, and once you do, it sort of creates a situation that is so politically unpa