seward is there every day when there is a cabinet meeting and an hour on cabinet days. as stanton does not go to the president, the president goes to him. fesiton, who is now treasury secretary, frets, because there are no cabinet consultations and stays away. according to wells. seward never forgot the president's support of him in the cabinet crisis of 1862.st nor did lincoln ever have causeu to question the secretary of state's fateful service to him or to the union. returning from grant's army on april o9, 1865, lincoln rushedo the best side of seward, who had been badly injured in a carriage accident. for about a half hour, the president sat and described the situation at the front to his friend and told him, we are nearly end at last in this war. he left while talking to seward when seward fell asleep. they never saw each other again. thank you. i will take a few questions and hopefully i'll be able to answer them, at least in part. g this gentleman over here. >> good morning. thank you for a wonderful talk. in the beginning, you referenced a group, and you referr

seward remain in the cabinet. -- remained in the cabinet. other spoke a similar sentiment. severe criticisms of lincoln, placing the armies under the command of officers who did not believe in the policy of the government, in no some of the with its purposes. of vermontob announced that "the difficulty was to be found in the fact that the president had no cap and it in a true sense of the word." it was notorious that the president did not consult his cabinet counselors as a body up on important matters. the vermont senator reported that he had understood the president to express the opinion, that it was best to have no policy and let you member of the cabinet attend to the duties of their department. management -- this was poor management any recipe for failure coming he believed. bethought measures should taken to bring about a different state of things in the administration. another senator told the republican senators, a crisis had arrived, requiring the senate's active interposition into affairs. warning that the caucus should , actionsautiously could along the country,

here if you we might see any possible successors within this cabinet i think what is interesting is that she may become the first person as chancellor who actually decide when it's time to go and who are not voted out of office. for you know a lot of people expected that in her last term did not happen so we'll have to wait and see but i think we both agreed this is her last term and when she will end it will have to see. and we'll have to wait for the result of that review process that's going on next year of course when all the parties involved in this coalition government that nobody really wanted in the first place well have to sit down and see whether or not they get the feeling that they're managing to reshape their own party's identity while at the same time being forced into this cabinet discipline and to get them but the new element of course is young that was not there or four years ago there are some potential successes now and that new and therefore she can sit back and see how things evolve. but. this is we look into the future we have to look into the present and we se

>> well, as long as you're doing a cabinet shuffle, the problems that are going on in your cabinet canaybe be resolved. and that's not really good news in this case because you've got somebody who is generating bad headlines. we know one of the fastest ways to find your way into the bad graces of the president is to show up on television and cast the administration in a negative light. in this particular case, it's -- there's almost no way around making the trump administration look awful because whether yew an establishment republican who -- those folks don't like to see money wasted, or you're part of the outsiders who promise to come in and drain the swamp, either way you've got a lot of swamp-like behavior going on here where there's a cozy relationship apparently between the cabinet secretary and a bunch of lobbyists and public money is being sort of wasted along the way. it's not good hanes -- good headlines, and while the shuffle is going on, we've seen that one thing this president is good at is firing people abruptly, without warning, on twitter. and for what could seem like s

and now you see the culmination of the cabinet.t he was not prepared to oversee the administration. >> i think it is fair to say we'll see several more changes in the days and weeks to come. i know you agree with me on that. >> do i. >> rand paul, he now says he will vigorously oppose the confirmation of both mike pompeo to become secretary of state and gina to become director of central intelligence. do you think these with nominations are in trouble? >> i don't know if they're in trouble yet. republicans have 51 republicans. and if you lose one, you're already in the place to get a tie breaking vote from mike pence. so for anyone to come out, especially in the president's side. and from democrats like bill nelson in florida, even dianne feinstein who really had a lot to do with this torture issue, touting this relationship. remember, had you have the red state democrats running for office. deep red states like claire mccaskill of missouri, joe manchin in west virginia. they're not just going to vote against the president in an el

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cabinet of course with herself being the only east german that the christian democrats pointed where we could well see francisco gifty she's from east germany she's actually the mayor of noid cohen here in berlin it which is an area with a high level of migrants second third generation germans actually living here in berlin she is tipped to become the new family minister so that would certainly be quite an interesting appointment that we're expecting to see heikal moss' currently justice minister to remain in the cabinet for i would think most likely also as justice minister so it looks like the renew will come from the social democrat side in terms of age and also representing the east here in germany tried to look at that a parliamentary stooges thank you you're welcome. turning out a sieve in each convoy bond for the besieged opposition enclave of eastern huta has been postponed as fighting in the area intensifies syrian government forces of seize top of the territory held by the rebels in the damascus suburbs the last opposition stronghold close to the capital and on four hundred

when will you nominate new members of your cabinet? practice is the president appoints the new cabinet after he enters office, so i will have to consider a few things first. i think all of the appointments will take place after the inauguration date. do you have somebody in mind for prime minister? and are you going to launch a constitution of reform during your new term? >> no. at this point, no constitutional reform is on the table. the premise to and cabinet in general, i am thinking about candidates, but i will start naming specifically from today, because i have to wait from -- wait for some results. all announcements will be made after. about the united states and latin america? hashe united states reinstated the doctrine in latin america. from what we know about history, we know it is a history of political pressure in latin american countries but i really hope that the u.s. will be able to renew their relations with latin american countries, based on the quality. continentsntries and to develop their relations in a positive way

comes toa cabinet and the shadow cabinet comes to a collective you abide by it.were, to a constituent is somewhat different to writing an article in a newspaper. in a sense was owen smith being provocative because he must have known whether or not you think the substance of what he said was any difference and i accept the context that you are offering to try and explain it as see it. by going and explain it as see it. by going and publishing an article and presumably not clearing it with the leader ‘s office, in the sense that he was asking to be sacked, inviting to be sacked. i don't think he left the leader with any choice, to be honest. people from right across the political spectrum inside the labour party ta ke political spectrum inside the labour party take that view. john mann and myself and look acres have all accepted that owen's remarks were unacceptable and work contrary and in contravention of collective responsibility and on that basis jeromy had no choice it seems to me. he has now been replaced by an excellent new shadow minister who i am sure will

this is gary cohn's last meeting in the cabinet. and he has been terrific, he may be a globalist but i still like him. but you know what? he is a nationalist because he loves our country. and where is gary? you love our country. [applause] president trump: and he will go out and make another couple hundred million and come back. might come back. we will be here another seven years. but i have a feeling you will be back. i don't know if i could put him in the same position. not quite as strong on those tariffs. but seriously, on behalf of all of us, he has been great. he really worked with wilbur and steve and mike. we all worked so hard on the tax cuts. and they have been far beyond, i would say, beyond our wildest expectations. what we thought would be very good has turned out to be unbelievable, great. and people are appreciating it a lot. the democrats don't know what to do. they are saying this is not turning out to be good. we didn't get one democrat vote. i want to thank gary. before me, i have some rocket ships. you haven't s

the cabinet secretary, as i understand it, is, you know...tion, as always happens when unauthorised leaks of documents occur. i haven't heard that he has reached any conclusions yet. the chancellor also said he was setting aside £3 billion over the next two years to prepare for brexit. it's being spent on ensuring that we're prepared for a full range of outcomes. some of it is being spent on preparations for a no deal exit in march 2019. clearly, we will make his money available to departments on the basis that we will continually review the situation. they have to get on with this now because, obviously, there's limited time. the chancellor there. you're watching monday in parliament, with me, lucy grey. the prime minister has announced changes to the planning rules in england after admitting that young people without family wealth were "right to be angry" at not being able to buy a home. she told a conference in london that the disparity was entrenching social inequality. it was left to her housing secretary, sajid javid, to sell the new po

party into that cabinet and really he had been fighting tooth and nail over those past weeks trying to secure his spot as germany's foreign minister previously he was germany's trade minister he was pretty well recognized and this internal feud that we're talking about really erupted when martin schultz let's all remember the former head of the european parliament to then became the top candidate and leader of the social democrats well he stepped down from the posse leadership but announced that he would become foreign minister in this next cabinet if it so happens that led to a backlash particularly from who ended up citing his young daughter saying well look dad. she apparently said that it's not all bad news you will then have to be able to spend more time with us and not the man with the head in the face now that man with the hair in the face is indeed mark i just don't see it and there was a huge backlash just not just in german politics but there was outrage that he would steep so low as many people felt to cite his own daughter he spoke about broken promises and he's a character

is she and her cabinet up to the challenges ahead. what we do know for sure is that it is probably going to be her last time in office and they has been a lot of pressure on uncle a makeover to show that she's willing to prepare for some sort of sign of renewal she has brought in fresh faces and she's relying on some experienced people in the cabinet so that's a new mixture of people some with experience and some without experience frankly so this will only show in a couple of months time whether that will play out but it was needed as a sign to hope policy members that she takes this a call for more up for renewal of the party seriously ok then what do you think is on a limb ackles team up to the task some of them we just heard there from max often migration redistribution of migrants looking at a you finance minister something germany in the c.d.u. has balked at for years while the truth is we have to wait and see it's very hard to predict what will happen in these uncertain times in the next six months of twelve months or whatever

as the president is on capitol hill, so, too, are his most embattled cabinet members.mors swirling about changes in the cabinet including veterans affairs chief david shulkin and interior secretary ryan zinke facing questions about how they're pending taxpayer money. democrats quick, especially, to pounce on zinke. >> these reports have raised significant questions about your stewardship of taxpayer dollars and i believe the public deserves a detail accounting of these questionable expenses. >> in so many ways right now, this great agency is mired in chaos, cronyism, and at least the appearance of corruption. >> the secretary hasn't had a chance to respond to the criticism yet. we're monitoring the hearing. shulkin, meanwhile, said he's sorry his conduct has raised so many questions. >> it will me just say that i publicly acknowledge that the distraction that's happened that you've talked about is something that i deeply regret. i've come here for one reason and that's to improve the lives of veterans and that's what i'm focused solely on doing. >> both on capitol hill

he said, i've been here 14 months now, i'm finally figuring out the cabinet i want, the cabinet i need. is there a presidential learning curve? every president goes through this to a degree. >> i think he was focused on a secretary of state that had a wild factor. that was a very important thing for his own credibility is getting the a-team around him. but he wasn't a good fit from the very beginning, and i disagree with one thing. i don't think the president undermined the secretary, i think the secretary undermined the president, which he's the policymaker, not the secretary. he was out there saying things undermining what the president's message was. mike pompeo is going to be on message and it's perfect. i think it sends a very strong signal to north korea. i think the timing is perfect for this. we're on the same page, we're dead serious about this, we're not trying to good cop-bad cop you, we're on the same page. >> because mike pompeo came to washington, new to washington. yes, he traveled the world when it came to oil interests, but we didn't know very much about what does he t

bad news for members of the cabinet after a week of still more white house departures. fo cabinet after a week of still more white house departures. >>> fascinating new numbers are out and you might be surprised to learn what kinds of americans came out last weekend to march and demonstrate against gun violence. steve kornacki will break it down for us as "the 11th hour" gets under way a friday night. >>> we're almost there, and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york on a friday night. day 435 of the trump administration, and as another week comes to an end there is a new figure at the center of the latest development tonight in the russia matter. our nbc news investigative unit reports earlier this week mueller's investigators detained, questioned, and then served a subpoena to a trump ally named ted malic when he arrived at boston's logan airport from his home in england. malik is an american, a trump ally and former advise histor w just finished a book called "the plot to destroy trump: how the deep state fabricated the russian dossie

cabinet what does bolton bring to the cabinet that is pretty decisive as didn't well for the time being he's bringing support from the president all the reporting was that mcmaster and trump were not a good combination it is reported that mr trump didn't like mcmasters sort of slowly going over the pros and cons and pushing back when he disagreed with the president john bolton is a skilled bureaucratic player been in washington a long time you obviously has been able to cozy up to the president and convince him that they're on the same page even though there are differences between the two but what they share and i want to underline there's a lot of you know what we're hearing is that this is signaling or it has to do with policy your ideology i disagree completely. for this president this is not a policy president this is not an idiotic president it's about emotion and personality and what he finds in john bolton for the moment is a personality that sinks with him and some views that he's in agreement with if lincoln had a team of rivals then this president is looking for a team of peo

this is gary cohn's last meeting in the cabinet and of the cabinet.fic he may be a globalist but i still like him he is seriously a globalist, there is no question but you know what, in his own way, he's a nationalist because he loves our country where is gary? you love our country [ applause ] and he's going to go out and make another couple of hundred million and then he's going to maybe come back, you might come back, right? >> absolutely. >> we'll be here another seven years, hopefully, that's a long time but i have a feeling you'll be back. i don't know if i can put him in the same position, though, he's not quite as strong on those tariffs. seriously, on behalf of all of us, i want to thank gary, he's been great he really worked with wilbur and steve and all of the people, mike we all worked so hard on it, on the tax cuts and they have been far beyond, i would say, gary, our wildest expectations what we thought would be very good has turned out to be unbelievable, great. and people are appreciating it a lot. the democrats don't know what to do t

the president didn't say he was getting the cabinet he wanted heb he was close to the cabinet that he wanted. >> what's the difference? i'm getting the cabinet i want, i'm close to getting it. for him it's the same. >> it does indicate there's more changes afoot. >> i just said that. >> get specific, whose next? >> you can run the gamut who knows. it's about how the president views the relationship he had with hi cabinet members. is it devos? carson? i don't know. but the president is now in a position where he's reevaluating his can net and others around him in light of everything else that's been moving over the last three weeks. i think he's comfortable with that, which in the end may be a good thing. it may settle some thing down. you won't have the certain up ended nature of the state department right now. weal get that ambassador to south korea and fill the other concepts with mike pompeo on behalf of the president. >> if you take the president's reasoning for replacing rex tillerson pause he's heading into potential negotiate, trade, the one that looks like to go next is hr mcm

you show that list of cabinet folks.you put on the screen, looking at all their faces, almost all the problems that they've found themselves in, the problem isn't the actual substance of what they purportedly did. it's that it got reported in the press. that's what trump cares about, the coverage of the action, not the action itself. >> we'll take a break from that but keep an eye on it. when we come back, republicans want to say pennsylvania-18 just one race. doesn't have any national impact. we'll map it out when we come back, just why they could be very wrong. i made my own way, now it's time to make yours. ♪ everything is working, just like it should ♪ ♪ with expedia one click gives you access to discounts on thousands of hotels, cars and things to do. like the avalon hotel beverly hills for 40% off. everything you need to go. expedia. if you'd have told me three years ago that we'd be downloading in seconds what used to take minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference and do it lik

there seems to -- it is about the cabinet and the various wild things that are happening with the cabinet and all of the -- what we were talk about with phil rucker. i imagine there will be another headline next week. >> the travel stuff is an unforced error. the you mentioned the tom price is going on for -- had started a long time ago. once that happened, you would have thought everybody in senior levels of government would have said, they're on to us and bee careful about how we spend on travel. >> how about being careful with taxpayer money. >> in general considering there is a president that ran on that but more importantly i don't understand why the signal wasn't taken. steve mnuchin does have a ear about this. i don't know that they should travel coach or be in first class but this seems weird this continues to be a stink that they can't get rid of. >> leadership starts from the top down. >> have a good weekend. >> you too. >> good morning. i'm ali velshi. we're ending as katie mentions a whirlwind week after another looming staff shake up. it is not clear who will get the pink sli

there seems to -- it is about the cabinet and the various wild things that are happening with the cabinetnd all of the -- what we were talk about with phil rucker. i imagine there will be another headline next week. >> the travel stuff is an unforced error. the you mentioned the tom price is going on for -- had started a long time ago. once that happened, you would have thought everybody in senior levels of government would have said, they're on to us and bee careful about how we spend on travel. >> how about being careful with taxpayer money. >> in general considering there is a president that ran on that but more importantly i don't understand why the signal wasn't taken. steve mnuchin does have a ear about this.

as leaders present their six cabinet picks for the new government. with the quarrels over the foreign ministry behind them the focus now is on teamwork. we saw to put together a good team who can work together extremely well a good team made up of highly competent people with the expertise to take on significant portfolios through a hamburg mayor own life scholtz is set to become vice chancellor and take on the coveted post a finance minister former justice minister heiko mass takes a career leap to become foreign minister the important labor ministry goes to who batteries hile a parliamentarian with twenty years experience the three male s.p.d. ministers will be joined in the cabinet by the same number of women the incoming family affairs minister francisco gif i was previously mayor of the berlin district of noise. committees angry as mayor it has always been important for me to say it doesn't matter where you come from what matters is who you want to be that's what we have to work for making sure that all the people living in our country have equa

the cabinet now still to learn who the social democrats will bring into this cabinet one potential leading figure is. on stage behind me that just now the interim head of the party who will certainly see anthony analysis in the leading function and the big question is whether the current foreign minister if he. can remain foreign minister after really having how can i say and everybody who's anybody in the social democrats against him so yes a lot of internal party political problems and yet he's the most popular politician in germany head of german chancellor going back up this time so we expect more lively debates amongst the social democrats themselves until we then see actually a functioning government head. to ask you know as we saw this moment of suspense waiting for this final hurdle to be cleared for germany to get another government this has been an incredibly long process and you have been covering it the entire way and also of course the elections themselves how have you seen german politics and its nature of consensus politics change or do you think that it has changed in the i

two cabinet members, shulkin and carson. betsy devos causing alarm after failing to answer questions about schools in public interviews. >> have public schools in michigan gotten better? >> i can't say overall they have all gotten better. i have not intentionally visited schools underperforming. >> reporter: anxiety growing over additional departures as new documents obtained by cnn directly link another trump organization employee with efforts to silence stormy daniels about her alleged affair with the president. the documents show jill martin, a senior lawyer with mr. trump's company, filed an arbitration document against daniels last month. the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen, still insists he paid that in his private capacity as the president's lawyer and acted alone. martin said she acted as an attorney for cohen. so the attorney continues to unfold and unraffvel. >>> editor-in-chief john avlon and cnn mark preston. we want to give the grist for the mill this morning. so here is the transcript from the "washi

and also more female faces so the average age in the cabinet now has dropped from fifty four to just forty nine and there's even some cabinet ministers under the age of forty the new health minister and also the new family and youth minister and merkel herself pointed out that there is actually only one cabinet minister older than her that's going to be the interior minister so this is a very active decision to kind of rejuvenate the cabinet and also at the same time individually the parties so it's been almost awful month since we voted in germany and the government is being formed now so what is. the next few steps to be finally have a government exactly where the big day they sweet is on wednesday now and where expect an angler marco to be elected by the german parliament as chancellor on wednesday show them be sworn in as well as her fifteen ministers and then that will be one hundred seventy one days after the german election will finally have a new german government right get ready thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us. let me now being updated some other storie

former labour leadership contender owen smith has been sacked from jeremy corbyn‘s shadow cabinet afteralling for a second eu referendum. the high court has granted an application by the information commissioner's office for a warrant to search the london offices of cambridge analytica. claims by russia that the nerve agent that poisoned a former spy in salisbury could have escaped from the porton down defence research facility have been categorically rejected by the head of the site. also in the next hour... we'll bring you news of a royal visit to belfast. prince harry and meghan markle continue their tour of the uk in the runup to the royal wedding. good evening and welcome to bbc news. french police have shot dead a gunman who killed three people and injured 16 others in southern france. the attacker, named as 26—year—old redouane lakdim, pledged allegiance to the islamic state group. he is thought to have killed and wounded his victims in three separate incidents which began in the city of carcassonne. he is then believed to have driven to a nearby town where he took people hostage

that he wa nts. close to half the cabinet that he wants. wants. that's taken a while! —— close to having. it has. thank you, paul adams. now the headlines. the foreign secretary says there is strong international support for the uk over the poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter in salisbury. in his spring statement, the chancellor says the uk economy has been growing at a slightly faster rate than predicted and borrowing is down. in the past hour, donald trump has sacked his secretary of state rex tillerson, replacing him with the director of the cia. an agreement has been reached between lecturers' leaders and university officials over a pensions dispute — potentially paving the way for strike action to be called off. a deal would mean a new, independent re—evaluation of a pension deficit and temporary arrangements to tackle the funding gap. the strike has disrupted classes at more than 60 universities. a website selling new rail card has crashed after only 10,000 went on sale. passengers between the ages of 26 and 30 were e

can go to follow on those latest headlines up next to cross talk examines whether donald trump's cabinet is readying a war with iran. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle there is an issue probably the only issue that unite. many of the most powerful individuals surrounding donald trump and the issue his hostility directed at iran there is every reason to believe these same people will translate their hostility into action even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. across talking trumps war cabinet i'm joined by my guest russian mohammad ali in london he is a journalist and documentary maker with press t.v. also in london we have some a humvee he is editor in chief of the international interest as well as a geo political risk consultant and in los angeles we cross to john rainwater he is executive director of peace action. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate russia let me go to you first in london we have mr bolton coming in as the national security advisor to donald trump we have pale leaving the

. >> he could be getting a big promotion is another member of the president's cabinet is fired. >> how could you have voted for him? >> he talked about jobs, said he would shake things up. >> have you looked at the news, now things are worse. >> not on the real news. jillian: donald trump drinking cup rosanne to congratulate him on great ratings on the reboot. "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ rob: still dark out there. in midtown this morning, we have stories on that. we will talk about other things. it is 5 am on the east coast. jillian: thanks for starting the day with us. the fbi and doj under investigation for alleged pfizer abuses in the russia probe. >> text messages between peter stzrok and lisa page suggest coordination between the intel community and the obama administration. >> reporter: doj inspector general michael horowitz is reviewing what the justice department and fbi knew when they asked the federal court to let them spy on carter page's communications. page was an advisor to donald trump. republicans on the house intelligence committee say when federal i

sarah: you just nominated two new people to be part of his cabinet. so we are getting close. we'd like those two individuals to be quickly confirmed, quickly put through that process so they can take a seat at the table, so they can continue to engage with the president on big issues that actually matter to the american people. sorry. i am going to keep moving fear. reporter: saying he had the best people -- reporter: it's been a week since the u.s. accepted the north korean's offer for a meeting. can you give us any update? have the u.s. had direct or northin direct contact with the north koreans or are you relying on this? sarah: i am not going to go into the details on the internal u.s. government preparations but i will say this is a comprehensive approach in had support of the president. we're continuing to move forward with those conversations. reporter: anything on timing? sarah: no updates on time or location. dave. reporter: thanks, sarah. the government said this week we reached a point where the government has added $1 trillion to the debt since president trump too

he did his best job putting together a cabinet. now that he's been there for a while, he wants to pick people that he really works well with. >> reporter: show can says he believes he was fired because he urged cautions on privatizing the healthcare system for veterans. many veterans have him out against president trump for privatizing the va. >>> sal is here covering traffic. you're going to be out of the oakland a's game. >> i'm loving pam's colors. >> icy. color coordinator -- coordinated. absolutely. i am going to be out there. i'm going to ditch the coat and tie. i'm going to go out there and be with the fans is what i'm going to do. and also going to provide you with excellent traffic coverage until about 9 and then the whole show is going to be out there. good morning to you. if you're starting off in gilroy perhaps, you want to check out this. it looks good. as a matter of fact, it looks pretty good all the way up into the valley. but even farther still, if you're going to san francisco, it's very go -- good on the one- to-

talk of pardons and another cabinet shakeup. i'm robert costa. inside the latest diplotic showdown and changes at the department of veterans, affai tonight on "washington week." >> russia is responsible for that horror risk attack on the britishitizen and his daughter. once again they have broken the kem cal weapon. convent robert: days after the trump administration announced it would kick out 0 rushes --ss ns, moscow kicks back, telling the same number of u.s. diplomats to leave and shutting down a consulates and as the community you highlights in to hold russia accountable forer his agent attacks, the russians announce a new sbontal ballistic mitchell.t presidump gives veterans affairs director david shulkin the pink slip. t wi president's personal physician, rear admiral ronny rm told take over the secondest -- second last re-- largest department in the fshman department? plus, did president trump's legal team consider pardons for formerampaign dividors. we discuss it all with mark mazzetti ofthe new york mes." shawna thomas of vials news. an

when is she going to put the country's interests before the outsized egos of her own cabinet?lso on this programme: the international development secretary says she is considering stopping aid to a number of charities in the wake of misconduct claims. and in the lords, there's a dire warning about the future of retail. retail trading may decline by 22% in the next year. and really, it is time for the government to move very urgently indeed. but first, theresa may has told mps the eu's draft brexit withdrawal agreement would threaten the constitutional integrity of the united kingdom. the european commission has published a draft version of the treaty, based on negotiations held last year. on the contentious issue of the irish border, it proposes, in effect, keeping northern ireland in a customs union if solutions cannot be found for the post brexit border. but a prime ministers questions, theresa may said no uk but at prime ministers questions, theresa may said no uk prime minister could ever agree to it. the draft, legal text the commission have published would, if implemente

it is unusual and different than the way president bush dealt with his cabinet officials. we have a different residence, dealing with a different attorney general in different circumstances. host: jeff sessions responding and it reads -- "we have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against the departmental be fully and fairly acted upon, it necessary. as long as i am attorney general, i will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and constitution." gary directly, if you were jeff sessions and you base this public criticism, would you personally state believe? -- they only -- stay or leave? guest: it depended on the circumstances. if privately the president assured me i am happy with your performance and said i will say comments that are tough, that would be ok with me, but if i have the feeling the president is truly not supportive and doesn't have confidence in my work, that would make a big difference in terms of whether i would

. >> as stanton came into lincoln's cabinet he was a war democrat. did he ever actually change his political affiliation to that of republican as he continued to support lincoln in lincoln's bid for re-election? >> no. i mean, he lived here in the district of columbia where of course one couldn't vote for president on sort of political lines. he wasn't a registered democrat because that concept didn't exist. but i think if you had asked him say in 1864, when he spends a great deal of his time on the lincoln re-election campaign, are you still a democrat, he would say yes, i'm a union-loving democrat like our candidate for vice president, andrew johnson, like thousands of other union-loving democrats, and i would support the union party. we tend to forget that lincoln's second presidential campaign was not run as a quote, republican. it was run as a union party candidate. i think that would have even been stanton's answer in the election of 1868, when he campaigned for grant against the democratic nominee, if he had been asked are you still a democrat

been talked about the last couple of weeks here is something michelle also was discussing the cabinet posts and how important that has been and what was really important probably for a lot of members imagine is the details the devil's in the details what kind of you know agreement that they get and do you think that the s.p.d. party leadership could go to its members and say we have done the best we could. yes i think the result of the negotiations must vary in favor of the s.p.d. it's basically an s.p. do you coalition agreement with some conservative accents and that's. just not. reason why the s.p.d. members were grumpy this time they. they had a problem with their own leadership they have they are afraid for a new coalition that their friends are losing them from phone even more than they already have. doesn't really matter how good the result was they were just insecure about their own leadership and about their own political course for of people again just joining us you are looking at pictures of the s.p.d. party headquarters in berlin a room full of journalists people watching

believe these same people will translate their hostility into action even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. cross-checking trumps war cabinet i'm joined by my guess russian mohammad ali in london he is a journalist and documentary maker with press t.v. also in london we have some a humvee he is editor in chief of the international interest as well as a geo political risk consultant and in los angeles we cross to john rainwater he is executive director of peace action. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate russia let me go to you first in london we have mr bolton coming in as a national security advisor to donald trump we have pale leaving the cia going into the state department and there are others in the around trumpet have an intense intense hostility towards iran we also know that a. little bit a year ago we had bolton addressing would be. possessors of power after there is forced regime change and by the end of two thousand and nineteen it's very public and we can talk about those people who are what is your are you concerned that t

former labour leadership contender owen smith has been sacked from jeremy corbyn‘s shadow cabinet afterng for a second eu referendum. the head of the porton down defence laboratory categorically denies russian claims that nerve agent from the site could have been used to poison the former spy in salisbury two lorry drivers have been sentenced for causing a pile—up that killed eight people in a minibus on the m one motorway killed eight people in a minibus on the mi motorway. also this hour — president trump signs a huge government funding bill into law just hours before the third government shutdown of the year was due to start the news comes amid a flurry of resignations and appointments at the white house — we'll bring you the latest analysis. and a new museum opens in the west country dedicated to the engineer isambard kingdom brunel. good evening and welcome to bbc news. a gunman who went on a shooting spree in southern france, killing three people and injuring 16, has been killed by police. the attacker, named as 26—year—old redouane lakdim, pledged allegiance to the islamic state

wants his cabinet to be filled with allies.uld have a rapport with him. >> kristen well kerr, those are the very moments that have been the most heavily criticized, not only by allies aary ies around but leaders in both parties, that rally in pittsburgh was considered a disaster politically as well. it did not help the candidate. we'll know more tomorrow. but certainly did not seem to help the candidate. >> it harkened back to some of most controversial moments from the 2016 campaign trail, andrea, and as you point out, he barely mentioned the candidate that he was there to support. he made that rally about himself, lashed out at all of his familiar foes, including a number of people in the media. and yet i think it does represent this moment in time. the fact that you have a number of people within the president's inner circle who are leaving. people who are safeguards, who would essentially protect the president from himself in the words of one top official. now a number of those people with leaving. and we saw the president

there's some cabinet unrest. we'llor save that next week and welcome, john -- jon, "washington week." great to have you on the program and also to our favorites who are back. shawna, and remarks mark, always a pleasure. on the "washington week" extra, we'll discuss the controversy surrounding a question about citizenship onhis year's sense us. plus president trump's message to the leader of north korea ahead of their planned summit. watch it online tonight and all week long at pbs.org/"washington week."rt i'm roosta and from all of us here, happy pass over ander happy ea >> funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive.er they undand the challenges of today and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. >> my dad once said to me tragedy has a way of defining people. >> what the hell happened, teddy? >> they're treating this like a crime scene. >> we tell the truth or at least our version of it. >> senator, can we -- can we ex