notjust of the noises off within the cabinet. not just from of the noises off within the cabinet.by the manoeuvres of philip hammond, the manoeuvres of philip hammond, the chancellor, articulating a different position from the foreign secretary and arguing that the brexit deal should keep the uk as close to the european union as possible. borisjohnson was articulating a rather different position. for the prime minister the challenge to square the circle between mr hammond and mrjohnson, while having something substantial to say in florence tomorrow, that it can act as a catalyst to kick on those negotiations between the british government and michel barnier, the eu chief negotiator. chris, thank you. mexico has asked other countries to provide specialist teams and equipment to help search for survivors after the devastating earthquake on tuesday, in which at least 230 people were killed. in mexico city, emergency workers are still trying to reach people trapped under the rubble of a school, where 21 children and five adults are known to have died. david pena was in the epicentre o

that is just one cabinet secretary. i can't blame him for one of the trips he took in august to the beautiful and secluded island in st. simons island georgia and to et to his condo in nashville and have lunch with his son. it was hot, hot, hot here in washington, d.c.,, as climate change sets in across america and the world. but as we say on capitol hill, it's not the heat, it's the stupidity. and look at what our secretary of health and human services did and here i'll read from politico, september 26, an article entitled price's private jet travels included visits with colleagues, lunch with son. h.h.s. secretary combined official travel and meetings with friends and families. health and human services tom price took a government funded jet to get to st. simons island, an scluse i have resort where he owns land before he addressed a medical conference of doctors. st. simons' trip was one of two trips which he traveled to where he owns property to meet with family and friends. on june 6, he chartered a jet where he ow

and litigation with the group cause, joining us to talk about the travel of government officials, cabinet officials and others and how that is funded and paid for, this in the wake tom price reports of and others using chartered flights and military flights. headline this morning, the reaction from tom price on this. price is going to pay part of cost of those flights. health and human services said ary tom price thursday he would reimburse the for a fraction of the cost after coming under sharpcriticism, members of both for the expensive practice saying today i will write a personal check for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes. paul seamus ryan, remind us what government rules and regulations officials in l terms of travel. how are they supposed to make arrangement? guest: the bottom line, in order anything other than commercial travel, government o terms officials need to bear in mind effectiveness is what is most important. explicitlylation say that travel should be cost-effective because taxpayers more than no necessary for the official's transportation. three specifi

but another is what we allow the cabinet system to become. these cabinet agencies are so powerful looking at their budgets it is astounding. and people who should never be in charge of so much to take those positions. but it is also a structural vulnerability the guy in charge of nuclear waste is one who wants to eliminate the department but could not remember that. nuclear doing a party of way they don't change maybe you are right but also those structural flaws that trump helps us to see we did not address those policies with more than one man and i have a lot of ejections the largely about this one man and this we the people get beyond that and we run the risk of replacing trump. >> en terms of the traditional party?. >> it is very hard aisle and your question i am not pushing you away but i am telling you that as we speak i am working on a book on the future of the democratic party. more of that. or who gave us donald trump's. >> i do believe that is what mr. trump is doing right now. this is the uncouth public. i think the courage if you

his cabinet colleagues didn't exactly give him a ringing endorsement.n might have felt a little shutout from the brexit process but after his intervention, he certainly cannot be ignored now. nonetheless i think it's important not to overstate the divisions around the cabinet table, at least in the short term. there seems to be agreement there should be a transition period after we formally leave the european union in 2019, and that we should continue to make contributions to the eu budget during that time. it's also been suggested to keep what are usually our eastern european allies on side, the prime minister could reassure them they won't have to fork out extra cash to cover any funding gap when we leave. some close observers of negotiations in brussels say the eu want to hear a specific offer of cash. any number is a good starting point. we are spending too much time on an issue we shouldn't be spending time on so we need to get on with it and that's important to make progress with other stuff. here, some of the most ardent leave campaigners say the

-- i guess any cabinet official or cabinet at any level.what about -- david, what about this story that has -- confrontation that's just blown up before our eyes over the last week and a half between the president openly criticizing professional football players and the league standing up for them. >> yeah, well, i don't approve of what colin kaepernick did. i don't think you kneel before the national anthem. i think if you protest you protest in a way that doesn't undermine our common nationality. so i didn't think that he did what he did. but donald trump reacted in his typical way which was to find a wound in the american body politic and in this case a wound about race, stick a red-hot poker in it and rip it open. to me that's the most troubling about what we have been seeing in the last year or two is the fabric of society is being destroyed by somebody who's really good at finding out where we're weakest and exploiting the differences to launch a cultural agenda. so the fragmentation we saw last sunday and will probably see phenis som

that is a topic where the cabinet is united.d be around two years long, we understand, and that the uk will make, and we herded then report, a "open and generous" offer around money. that has been a sticking point with brussels till now. that could amount to around about £10 billion per year. the idea being that would not leave any individual eu member state out of pocket as a result of the uk leaving the european union, and therefore potentially leaving a gap in its budget if it does not make this kind of offer. but, the expectation from another source is that that kind of deal would be based on continued access to a single market along the lines that the uk has now. also membership of some sort of customs union, perhaps not the existing one, which presents the uk from going on striking trade deals around the world, or any eu striking trade deals around the world, orany eu member, but some sort of customs union which comes close to the arrangement at the moment. all of that just about the transitional period, then there is the

others in the president's cabinet that are under scrutiny for similar problems.he dollar amount is not as high, but you wonder, in the wake of this decision, if this sets a precedent. >> it was the volume of this that dated. you're going to occasionally need to travel. there may be an important function for somebody outside the national security apparatus where they need to be someplace for something important, and the only way to get there is either a military plane or a charter. but that is a rare occasion, particularly the private charter question, for people who are not in the national security part of the government. the only good news out of this is, this is probably going to cause every cabinet official for the rest of the time the donald trump is in the white house to say, i'd better be real careful about this issu issue. but the downside is, we've lost a very important member of the president's cabinet who has played a vital role in framing the president's response in repealing and replacing obamacare. >> sandra: that is a great point. filling that posit

cabinet ministers spent the morning locked in discussions over brexit.head of a major speech in italy by theresa may tomorrow. mrs may is said to be preparing to make what one minister called an "open and generous offer" to the rest of the eu. the prime minister's intervention is being seen as an attempt to break the deadlock on the negotiations with brussels. downing street insists the government is working together to get the best deal for britain, despite continued speculation about division among ministers. here's our political correspondent, iain watson. open and generous — as the prime minister arrived at downing street to share the contents of her speech with the cabinet, one minister told the bbc that was exactly the kind of offer theresa may was prepared to make to the eu. it sounded like a strong hint she was willing to cough up cash in future to move the brexit process forward. but do all her colleagues agree? is the prime minister going to make an open and generous offer to the eu? good morning. morning. as the prime minister going to make an

first off, anyone can be a member of a cabinet. i will guarantee you if i took the first five rows, i'd have a better cabinet than donald trump has and if i took the people in the back it would be really great. it's the late arrivers who are doing good works. i just want to start out quickly by saying, thank you 'opolitic and prose, a wonderful independent book store that stands strong, it's gone through the downturnsturnsturns of the k industry, and now that people are coming back to the prisoned page, this store is a model for the whole country and i want that thank brad and everybody for me having me here i want to thank choose which is with us, c-span book of the and all of the work they do opens up the dialogue from the left and the right, brings everybody in and i have to tell you, in this book, learned -- when i was analyzing some cabinet picks, i watch morning journal and i'd listen to the calls on both sides, because it really gives you a perspective. you know where the power base is for many of these members of the trump

one is there are a lot of members of this cabinet who are wealthy. a few who have their own fleet of planes or their own planes and they fly. so it seems like, well, if they're doing that, perhaps so can i. but that is not what the law really allows. even if it was legal, a new instructive from the omb going out to the white house chief of staff on friday evening says that just because something is legal does not mean that you should do it. so i think the overall -- overall, this is another friday night firing. we've seen a lot of them. but this is the first cabinet secretary to be shown the door here. but i think also it's slightly more than optics. we asked the president if he had confidence in him. but also, he didn't get the job done. he was hired to get health care through. that doesn't happen. why keep him around? >> it's also a reaction to the first few months in this administration, where nobody really had control of everything that was going on. nobody was really minding the store. you know, one of the things we found out is senior white hou

not as wealthy as cabinet who has own fleets of planes.axpayer money for private planes. so you are right, this is a long list of advisers here. i would not put tom price in the higher echelon of someone the president listened to on a lot of matters but of course was an early supporter. and one of the members of congress who was brought over to join this administration, to be confirmed, and help get things through congress. that simply has not happened at all here. so the president as he left today seemed like he was not sweating this too much, jake, he wanted to -- he said, look, he's a fine man, he's a nice man. whenever you hear that on a friday, that's a kiss of death. >> i'm going to let you make some phone calls and do so reporting and come back tous. if you are just tubing in, we just got this from the white house press secretary, thomas price offered resignation earlier today and president accepted and plans to serve as acting secretary effective at 11:59 p.m. this evening. we have lots to talk about with our pan tell. amanda carpe

to know how many members of the cabinet? they wenner said four or five depending on how you count john adams. we know the names. hamilton. jefferson. but donald trump but he struggled when he was announcing keefe struggle to remember which job he was appointing devoss. [laughter] there is more government and he knows what to do with and to become so imperial the president has the ability to put people in charge of huge aspects of for future and transportation "war and peace" and donald trump had no idea. maybe i'll make you secretary of state and maybe i want, and is struggling to comment present himself to lobby people for positions. that is not how things are supposed to work you should have a few ideas of what you want to do he did not have that. so when it case after case with the al loudest dealer. so kennedy was us senior a friend of woody guthrie is that i want to be the loudest yowler. with the loudest yowlers caving in to be with donald trump could you put in charge of education? teeeighteen the loudest yelling agai

the cabinet officials are chosen by the president. they don't have the same level of accountability to people. so if president trump wants to fly back and forth to bedminster or mar-a-lago to visit his properties, that's a political question. it's not the same kind of thing as a cabinet official. but if you're setting an example, if president trump thinks this is a big deal, thinks this matters and he certainly seems to think it matters in terms of tom price he has to enforce that with everybody else. what precedent has he set now with this price case for everybody else? steve mnuchin tries to take a government plane on his honeymoon also did fly a government plane to fort knox, which just happened to put him in the path of the eclipse to inspect the gold. he wanted to inspect the gold on the one day he needed to be in the path of the eclipse. things like that if president trump is going to enforce this kind of standard about not misusing taxpayer money to fly on private planes, where does this stop and who else has already stepped ov

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to continue the allegory, and i'm going to make sure, as far as i am concerned and the rest of the cabinet are concerned, we help her do that. this is back—seat driving, in effect? you could call it back—seat driving, absolutely. and i'm very clear that the cabinet and the government supports theresa may, that there is a difficult moment to make sure that we get the best result for the united kingdom, but i am sure we can. was that the home secretary publicly admonishing the foreign secretary, providing evidence of widening cabinets blitz over brexit, as bbc news bulletins and website articles subsequently claimed 7 not according to clive tong, who objected to what he called... a viewer called john from gloucester agreed... across the atlantic, the chaos and destruction caused by recent storms and floods continued with hurricane maria devastating several islands in the caribbean. how the name of one of those islands was pronounced caught the attention of several newswatch viewers following broadcasts like these. and there are reports of extensive damage to dominica where there are torrenti

to said cabinet minister being turfed onto the backbenches.mal times given the prime minister approaches the conference humiliated after the general election. we will leave it there. plenty more from you throughout the weekend. at ukip's party conference in torquay, new leader henry bolton has warned that mass immigration is harming british culture — and overwhelming public services. but in a major shift on ukip's position he added there should be no cap on the number of migrants who can come to the country — instead calling for an australian style points—based system to manage figures instead. across the uk, people see their community is changing. they have little or no voice in a way that across the uk, people see their community is changing. they have little or no voice in a way that those communities are being shaped, the environment they live in and the services that are provided to them. they are rarely consulted and when they are it is a matter of procedure rather than care for their opinion. doctors surgeries are being closed, police n

there are other cabinet members being looked at. >> there certainly are. of course we should remember that tom price, this whole scandal, it developed over a matter of days. and tonight even though tom price is out, the inspector general probing his use of private jets says the work will continue as other cabinet secretaries now have to account for their flights on private planes. >> in the end, it was the same type of lavish jet flights that tom price railed about as a common that brought him down. >> i think we've made it halfway where we ought to, and that is cut it from eight to four jets. now we need to cut it from four jets to zero jets. this is just another expect of fiscal irresponsibility run amok in congress right now. >> reporter: as secretary of health and human services, price spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on private planes and hundreds of thousands more when he and his wife flew on military jets for two international trips from liberia, germany, switzerland, to china, vietnam, and japan, racking up a bill in the neighborhood

what was that cabinet meeting on 25 years ago?own as the rem, yes another row about the european union. before tomorrow we understand jean—claude juncker at the european commission will speak to the prime minister on the telephone this afternoon, that is something he has said in brussels this morning. thence to the speech itself and the actual detail. we expect to talk about a transition arrangements, cabinet on that does seem agreed that that is something that's required. it looks like the prime minister will talk about a two year transition period and then there will be focus on is any detail there will be focus on is any detail the kind of money the uk is willing to pay during the transition and as pa rt to pay during the transition and as part of our divorce. chris, thank you for now. ryanair‘s chief executive, michael o'leary, has admitted a significant management failure at the airline, and says more flights may have to be cancelled. a group of ryanair pilots has rejected an offer of a bonus of up to £12,000 each to work ext

the cabinet officials are chosen by the president. they don't have the same level of accountability to people. so if president trump wants to fly back and forth to bedminster or mar-a-lago to visit his parties, that's a political question. it's not the same kind of thing as a cabinet official. but if you're setting an example, if president trump thinks this is a big deal, thinks this matters and he certainly seems to think it matters in terms of tom price he has to enforce that with everybody else. what precedent has he set now for everybody else. steve mnuchin tries to take a government plane on his honeymoon also did fly a government plane to fort knox which vus happened to put him in the path of the eclipse to inspect the gold. things like that if president trump is going to enforce this kind of standard about not misusing taxpayer money to fly on private planes, where ask this stop and who else has already stepped over the line in the cases we talked about. i'm interested to see how president trump follows this up or if it's just

this is a working weekend which is the fourth cabinet meeting since the president took office. the president will be discuss the priorities as well as receiving briefings on hurricane

but this is, again, another hole in the president's cabinet. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. >>> and this week was supposed to be about tax reform. but instead, mr. trump had a cabinet official resign in disgrace and took a lot of heat to his response for hurricane ravaged puerto rico. with me now to talk about it is steve erlinger joining us by skype from brussels, belgium. steve, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> first of all, i want to get your reaction to what top price did and losing his job over it. taking these private jets that cost the taxpayers of the united states up to $1 million. >> i have to say, it's pretty amusing. we know trump loved his own private jet much more than air force one. he's been very disparaging about air force one. maybe it's no surprise that others in his cabinet have sensitive taste. if this is draining the swamp, maybe one should clear the skies. and there are other issues like that had. betsy devoss, another cabinet member, flies in her own private plane. now she says that doesn't cost the taxpaye

administration mired in investigations and now a cabinet -- appearance of cabinet run amok. that can't continue for him. >> after the treasury secretary and his wife flew the plane to fort knox. >> the day of the eclipse. >> and she decided to tweet on instagram. >> and tom price was brought on, member of congress that was going to overturn obamacare, that has turned into major fiasco. it was senate not house that price came from. but there's nothing donald trump likes at moment about house and senate republicans. tom price is representative of them. another reason he's irritated. >> and cnn reporting tonight that administration is on the hunt for leakers within the department of health and human services. interesting about that, as if leaking is the egregious part of the tale. >> that's all -- >> ask maggie. >> always tends to be where this goes with this administration. it is part recognition that there's a public issue here and large part about paranoia and fear that things are going on we're not in control of. bigger question for white house right now is what is happenin

caller: they need to look into all the other cabinet members using these private airplanes.irplane?s on the and what are they talking about while on the airplane? that is the way these people can get private access to them. when price, he is like, i will pay for my seat but who else was on the plane with him and what were they doing? host: interior secretary ryan zinke he at an event in washington gave a statement before his speech about the story surrounding his travel expenses. >> i would like to address, and the words of general sports gas, -- general schwarzkopf, bs on traffic -- travel. i believe taxpayers absolutely have the right to know official travel costs. as common sense, and at the department, we make those document and those travel schedules available to everyone. using tax dollars wisely and ethically is the greatest responsibility and at the good part of the government. there are times we have to utilize charter services because we often travel in areas under circumstances that we do not have other flight options. tweet, bill king says tom price is not the on

certainly times when each of those members of cabinet have used private planes.hen it comes to that kind of usage, it is something that donald trump supporters, the blue—collar workers, are simply not going to support. so donald trump will probably be looking as well. this is also not following the rules. a number of the people that he hired onto his team have been wealthy bankers or people with wealthy backgrounds. so when they're seen swanning around in a private plane seats, it doesn't look good for donald trump. the other issue is that this is the 14th member of donald trump's administration to resign or be fired since he took office. the rest have been members of the white house administration, this is the first cabinet member. but to lose 1a members of your administration in such a short time doesn't look good. the bbc‘s laura bicker in washington. thousands of catalan separatists have held a final rally ahead of sunday's planned referendum on independence from spain. the head of the regional government told the crowd he believed catalonia would become a so

the obama cabinet and, you know, so you have loretta lynch, leon pan et at that, they routinely took private jets. it's not as if this is the first time you've had cabinets agencies flying around on private jets. i'm not excusing it. i think in most cases it probably is excusable. but for the most part it probably -- why can't they fly on commercial jets like the rest of us. >> even if that is true, which is not -- >> it is true. i mean, they did take those flights. >> not true. >> i looked it up. >> not true that's not true. it never happened in the bush administration. we did not allow that in the bush administration. i talked to people -- >> i'm talking about the obama administration administration. >> it is not true. i checked that out too. we did not tolerate that in the bush administration and the obama -- >> i'm not talking about bush. i'm talking about obama. >> it is not true. >> leon pan et at that and eric holder, they all took private jets. >> to the extent that this administration is taking to the tune of a million dollars in

sending a message to the cabinet, knock it off. this is not draining the swamp and also tom price found the president's wrath. time to go. >> jen, big news. a new book out. we'll spend time talking about it next time you're here. will you come back monday, or any day that works for you? >> sure. >> and thank you to you all. that does it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace, "mtp daily" strarts right now. hi, chuck. >> hi, nicolle. let you know, friday at 5:00 p.m. -- >> happy fun day. >> shocker, right? >> i guess. >> well, if it's friday, private jet travel comes at a price. a steep one. hhs secretary tom price steps down. >>> good evening. i'm chuck todd in washington. we begin tonight with the breaking news. health and human services secretary tom price has resigned. after being engulf in a controversy surrounding his use of private jets. moments ago the white house put out a statement saying price offered his resignation earlier today and the president accepted it. moments before that the president told reporters he was not happy

he should be influencing it within the cabinet. why not during a tory conference?iations. it is not helpful to negotiations. it is not helpful to negotiations. it is not helpful at the time of a party co nfe re nce not helpful at the time of a party conference that their second or third in command is to start saying i disagree with the lead on this point. if labour had done it, you will be talking about labour splits. this is not the way to carry on. this is not the way to carry on. this is not the way to carry on. this is egotistical, overarching arrogance insisting i know and i wa nt arrogance insisting i know and i want to be heard and this is me. arrogance insisting i know and i want to be heard and this is mem is democratic and witty and entirely welcome. none of that has been waived. let's move on to the times. johnson and a fire of eve of the tory conference. who is the under fire from? ruth davison -- ruth davidson. she is slightly better at herjob. she is saying he has two shut up and can't keep doing the splits. she says it did stop the march towards the

this isn't the only cabinet member. the treasury secretary wanting to go on his honey moon on a jet and took a jet out to view the eclipse and i guess inspect the gold at fort knocks. it's excessive. we've had other problems with price. he was trading in health care company stock while he was sitting on a committee passing health care legislation. he has no sense of the appearances that come from this type of conduct and the same with a lot of other people in the administration. it's really quite shocking. i think he need to be fired and put on the first greyhound bus back home. >> richard i'm asked all the time, some version of but who do we see about this, who's going to do something about this, who's going to raise the complaint? is it you and the group of lawyers you've put together who file legal cases? where does this go other than the inspectors general of the cabinet department. do you have faith in those men and women to carry this out to the end? >> they'll find what they find and make recommendations, but it'

all that followed comments by cabinet collea g u es that followed comments by cabinet colleagues who public take on brexit. colleagues who were not thrilled by his public take on brexiti colleagues who were not thrilled by his public take on brexit. i do not wa nt his public take on brexit. i do not want him managing the brexit process. and what we have is theresa may managing the process. she is driving the car and i will make sure that as far as i'm concerned and the rest of the cabinet is concerned, we assist her. so this is backseat driving? backseat driving, absolutely. the article argued for a bold and positive brexit, leading to claims of a cabinet split and attem pts claims of a cabinet split and atte m pts to claims of a cabinet split and attempts to undermine the prime minister. despite the headlines, there is no suggestion that he will lose hisjob. there is no suggestion that he will lose his job. publicly, there is no suggestion that he will lose hisjob. publicly, the government says it is united about getting the best brexit deal. and the spokesman for borisjohnson says

so cabinet colleagues have supported this however there are so many in our party who are really pushing for a hard break said and this might be that direction that's reason may is going to go into she hasn't really made it clear today but there are those a fear amongst those who are not who don't want a hard race or that this could be the direction that the country is going because she has said that neither can a dart nor switzerland are good enough so some new model creative model as she said but what exactly is that going to be and how realistic is it to achieve that to negotiate this within the very short period of time thurgood mass in london barbara faisal in brussels thank you both. a three day since a powerful earthquake has struck central mexico toppling buildings and killing more than two hundred eighty people emergency services are still working around the clock to find survivors doubly correspondent kelly macian boy has been to mexico city to watch the rescue efforts. this has become the most important symbol of hope for mexico city after the earthquake it sounds far silent s

two other members of the cabinet are under scrutiny for their travel.unday's planned referendum on independence from spain. the head of the regional government, told the crowd he believed catalonia would become a sovereign nation. madrid's trying to block the vote, claiming it is unconstitutional. the us has warned americans not to travel to cuba and pulled half the staff from its embassy in havana after a spate of "sonic attacks." more than 20 people have suffered symptoms, including dizziness and brain trauma. the cause remains a mystery. birmingham's bid to host the 2022 commonwealth games has officially been backed by the government. at a cost of at least £750 million, the city council is expected to fund 25% of the bill.

and this is not the only cabinet member.ve had steve mnuchin, the treasury secretary, he's running around wanting to go on his honeymoon on a jet and he actually took a jet out to view the eclipse and i guess inspect the gold at fort knox. it's getting -- it's excessive. and with respect to price, we've had other problems with him. he was trading in to come when he was a member of congress. he was trading in health care company stocks while he was sitting on the committee that was passing health care legislation. and he has no sense of the appearances that come from this type of conduct. and the same with a lot of other people in the administration. it's really quite shocking. i think he needs to be fired and put on the first greyhound bus back home. >> richard, i'm asked all the time some version of but who do we see about this? who is going to do something about this? who is going to raise the complaint? is it on you and the group of lawyers you've put together who file legal cases? where does this go, other than the inspe

. >> making news in america this morning another cabinet member under scrutiny for taking private jets. hear where he's accused of going on tax payer money as another secretary agrees to pay for his travel expenses. >> another dangerous rock slide at yosemite. the racks slamming into a vehicle filled with tourists. >> also this morning a mother left with a choice get her child vaks nated or face jail time. >> new details on the death of hugh hefner why his wife might not be getting any of >> good morning to you all. a fourth member of president trump's cabinet is under scrutiny for high priced travel. >> this time it's interior secretary ryan zinke accused of using private plans and military jets that cost tax payers $12,000. lana zak joins us from washington d.c. >> good morning. president trump says he's not happy with reports that some of his cabinet secretaries are spending excess amounts of tax payer funds on private jets. now the house oversight committee is demanding answers asking all 24 agencies to account for travel since inauguration. >> reporter: this morning health and hum

the cabinet that advised him to sign that amnesty act reversed that positions. ed mideast who served as attorney general at the time and i had that conversation. he also regrets they had him sign the amnesty act you can't reward lawbreakers and simultaneously restore respect for the rule of law. i say we don't take that up. it was unconstitutional, still unconstitutional, not a prudent policy. it erodes the rule of law. as much compassion as i have for people, i love the rule of law, bill. host: steve king is our guest. he's with us until 9:00 when the house comes in. et's get to your call. 202-748-8000 for democrats, 02-74 -8001 for republicans -- ms. huckabee sanders: good afternoon. the president is constantly monitoring hurricane irma and the federal government is working closely with our state and local partners to ensure the safety of the coastal communities. in his weekly address to the nation this morning, the president noted this is a storm of historic destructive potential. he's asking that everyone in the storm's path remain vigilant and heed all reco

in relation to her cabinet, there was not a lot she could say.l barnier said afterwards the spirit was great but it needed to be turned to actual proposals but that is the problem for theresa may because any concrete proposals about what our relationship with the eu looks like will aggravate one wing of her cabinet or the other and after the general election it is not the most sta ble general election it is not the most stable government so what needs to happen now before we see any more speeches, theresa may needs to take her cabinet somewhere else and set them down and say we will not leave until we sort out what our concrete negotiating positions are. the article 50 process has been trebled and that clock is ticking. she got the tone right yesterday, couldn't she now argue that the details or what david davis needs to deal with when he sits down with michel barnier? no, the details are too important to be delegated because it isa important to be delegated because it is a matter of huge importance to both sides whether or not we maintain regula

. >> it is the first member of the president's cabinet to leave in this way. and it is something that was a drip, drip, drip, all week long. the president, i'm told, was growing increasingly unsatisfied and even angry about the optics of this more than anything else. but late this afternoon when he was flying out of washington and leaving the white house we caught up with him. he was taking some questions from reporters and we asked him about the secretary and if he had confidence in his leadership. this is what he said. >> have you confidence in secretary price? >> i was disappointed because i didn't like it. cosmeticic cosmetically or otherwise. so i don't like to see somebody that perhaps the perception that it was not right. >> of course if it was a perception, all of these flights were approved in various ways, there was nothing illegal about it. but the optioptics, indeed, hals military, half was private. simply flew in the face of what was meant to be done. again, we heard much more about the optics of this than the actual substance here, the money that

this meant the new president would keep his predecessor's cabinet intact. among those he retained was secretary of commerce herbert hoover. since entering the cabinet in 1921, hoover had rapidly established himself as one of the most able and energetic of harding's advisors. hoover is the smartest gink i know, harding had remarked once. , only president's cabinet charles evans hughes had wielded comparable influence. if the hard-driving hoover and the genial harding have been unlikely twosome, hoover and coolidge would be stranger still. in 1895, each man had graduated from college. coolidge from amherst in massachusetts. hoover from stanford university in california. from that point on, their careers could hardly have been more divergent. hoover had become a highly successful, globetrotting mining engineer and financier, with a business interest on six continents. coolidge had become a politician in a small city less than 12 miles from his alma mater. during the world war i and its tumultuous aftermath, hoover became a close associate of president woodrow

the cabinet office has said it is committed to getting a best brexit deal.ister, who is leading negotiations. but privately there is frustration and some anger at the nature and timing of this intervention, coming less than a week before the prime minister is due to make a major speech on brexit of her own in florence on friday. in an interview with american television recorded last week and broadcast today, she described her vision for life outside the eu. some people look at brexit and think it is turning inward. it is not. it is about as looking outward to the rest of the world but ensuring we can control our laws, money and borders. now it is over to the prime minister to ensure she can carry out her plan of brexit and show her party she can deliver. a woman party she can deliver. awoman and party she can deliver. a woman and two children remained critically ill in hospital after a collision on the m5 in gloucester which left four people dead. a lorry crashed through the central reservation yesterday, hitting vehicles. our reporter is there. the northbou

the cabinet didn't meet until monday. it wasn't until tuesday that they announced a general was -- and then today general buchanan, who is a very competent general, he and kim both know what they're doing. and hopefully they're given the thofrt to do what they need to do. in new orleans the president told me do what i have to do and indicated to secretary chir off who was already on the ground until mike brown who was on the ground in new orleans that i was to sort out any confusion in the evacuation and had the author to do what i needed to do of the i hard a conversation earlier today where they indicated if the task force commander wanted to do air drops, he could make a recommendations. that's bullshit. not that buchanan is on the ground he need to be giving orders and figure out what rules need to be braked to safe lives. this bureaucratic response support working. in thing is moving too slow and they don't have it scared right. we need to have at least 100 hmts there. we've got less than 60 at this timement we need

our outstanding shadow cabinet team here today. and our message -- thank you for all you do, and the work you've done. [applause] >> great colleagues around the table taking our party and country forward. our message to the whole country could not be clearer. labor is ready. inequality,kle ready to rebuild our nhs, ready to give opportunity to young people, dignity, and security to older people. ready to invest in our economy and meet the challenges of climate change and automation, ready to put peace and justice at the heart of foreign policy. and ready to build a new and progressive relationship with europe. [applause] we are ready, and the tories are clearly not. they're certainly not strong and they're definitely not stable. there hanging on their fingertips. this government does have one thing we like. they have tracked down the magic money tree. it has been put to use, when it was needed to keep theresa may in downing street, it was given a good shake. and lo and behold now we know the price of power it's about £100m for each

the headlines: the prime minister briefs the cabinet on how she plans to break the brexit deadlock ahead of her speech in italy tomorrow. she is expected to announce a two—year transitional arrangement. in mexico rescuers are desperately searching for survivors at a school which collapsed in the earthquake. these are the live pictures as the rescue effort continues. police make a sixth arrest in the investigation into the london tube bombing. police have been searching a house in south london. also in the next hour: ryanair boss rya nair boss michael ryanair boss michael o'leary warns his pilots not to misbehave. ryanair says it will make its pilots delay taking their annual leave to avoid further flight cancellations. and a warning overfridges with flammable backs. the consumer group, which? , says almost half of machines could be dangerous. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may is expected to say to you new macro leaders that she would like a two—year transitional period —— expected to say to eu leaders. she is trying to break the deadlock which there seems to be between

so cabinet colleagues have supported this however there are so many in our party who are really pushing for a hard break said and this might be that direction that's reason may is going to go into she hasn't really made it clear today but there are those a fear amongst those who are not who don't want a hard race or that this could be the direction that the country is going because she has said that neither can a dart nor switzerland are good enough so some new model creative model as she said but what exactly is that going to be and how realistic is it to achieve that to negotiate this within the very short period of time burgomaster in london barbara faisal in brussels thank you both. meanwhile voters here in germany are gearing up for federal elections on sunday and both candidates for the post of chancellor are making a final push latest polls have not been encouraging for martin jol time to center left social democrats trailing i'm going to question democrats by and large margin surveys suggest a conservative bloc could take thirty six percent of sunday's vote both candidates will

infighting. 0ver are really tired of cabinet infighting. counter briefing when we thought there might bea briefing when we thought there might be a leadership contest. the result isjacob be a leadership contest. the result is jacob reese—mogg got be a leadership contest. the result isjacob reese—mogg got to be a leadership contest. the result is jacob reese—mogg got to the top of our future leader survey and nobody thinks he is going to be leader but it's a sign from party members they want the cabinet to back up and get behind the prime minister. there was a poll of voters i think minister. there was a poll of voters ithink in minister. there was a poll of voters i think in borisjohnson's own constituency which says the same thing. so is this less about boris johnson and more about the prime minister and the weak position she is end? if anyone else would have done this she presumably would have sacked them? exactly. it's a warning shot from boris, look what i can do, ican get shot from boris, look what i can do, i can get the whole country