can germany defeat its demands in the whole federal cabinet only one minister has actually been to cabinets in the aftermath of these riots there and that's the family minister who herself has a background of from. eastern germany what's going on where are the rest of the government of politicians and should they be standing up in a different way. well i've been actually interviewed her when she was in cabinets and i think she did a really good job you know bringing in the the civil society talking to them and and'vtalked to them and they would have you know for years nobody has talked to us yeah. so i mean it's it's it's important for politicians also to look at these remote areas can it's you know this is the in town in a very typical eastern german town you know big streets socialistic architecture really liked. the place where you coming to and say okay yeah this is interesting here but you know i don't feel. very good here coming up the for side yeah so you know and she did a very good job giving the feeling that we're looking for here but of course i mean it's a question of the interi

there were early whispers within the cabinet -- within donald trump's cabinet -- of invoking the 25th amendment which would start a complex process for removing the president. but no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis so we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until one way or another it's over. >>> i have never in my life read something like that from someone who is a political appointee to a sitting president, saying until one way or another it's over. what are those ways? >> so, so, there is a fundamental lack of competence that perhaps has not reached the 25th amendment, right. the suggestion the president doesn't understand he can't manipulate the department of justice, he can't manipulate the free press. a friend of mine who served a year and found himself looking at the presidential seeing saying, i can't do this any more. this doesn't represent the dig nits of the country in the office i signed up to serve. what continues to come out and the woodward book and in writings like this is whether or not the president is actually fit

and that was one of the cabinet was a with the va about.t seems very unlikely that the cabinet meeting will not be about that, it's almost certainly likely to be dealing with the fallout of what happened that salzburg. there are certainly people around the cabinet table who have been sceptical about the checkers brand. many of them may use this as an opportunity to say, it's time to let go and time to find an option b done for them all at of them, their preferred option is a canada style free trade deal which has some serious implications for the irish border. i think that's right. they will have to use this opportunity to look again at checkers because the curious thing about theresa may's statement today was putting aside the tone of it which was very combative, she was essentially saying, this is my offer and i'm not going to budge which is really frankly an impossibility. something has got to change, she has got to go in one direction or the other. the party at no going to let her go any further towards the eu as it were. so this only r

thursday morning in downing street, and the cabinet are about to meet.t sceptic. and there are some true believers. you're one of the faces of leave. why are you in here making chequers work when out there are all the people who you campaigned with who thought it was a terrible idea? not at all. of course, there are some people who don't necessarily agree with every aspect of our negotiation. my view is... they think it's a sell—out, you're over here selling out brexit and all the people that voted for leave. no—one's ever used that language to me. of course, we need to make sure that we get the best possible deal. and of course, any deal, any negotiation, involves compromise. is it going to be my perfect vision of brexit? no. but you must never make the perfect the enemy of the good. this is no ordinary cabinet — it's been called to examine how ready they are if no deal can be reached. inside the room, sealed envelopes with secret government papers on what might happen. shall we make our way into the room? i'm going to invite reactions around the room.

so the member of the cabinet of someone in the room with members of the cabinet all the time, a cabinetel official. the person still works there. so it is not the first secretary of state rex tillerson or priens pree does -- rieeince priebus. in the words of the op ed piece, quote, working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agendas and his inclinations. it is easy to dismismost of the cabinet right off the bat because most of them have never demonstrated even the slightest disagreement with the president and most of them have never publically demonstrated the capacity for the kind of thinking about government and how it should work that is demonstrated in this op ed piece. so it is not steve or linda mcma hahn. there is every reason to believe that the author of the piece is an experienced politician who knows the workings of washington well and knows how to deal with the new york times at the highest levels. that leaves out almost everyone else, james mattis, jeff sessions, ryan sinky, alex azar. that leaves us with a short list that includes people like secretary of stat

you have to look at his cabinet. let's go back, alex, and look at the cabinet. these were people he fought viciously against in the campaign, that he called names, the things he said about carson or any of his other opponents. now they're sitting in a position where they could exact revenge on donald trump if they wanted to. it all starts with the cabinet. and who has the most to gain but vice president pence. he has said he's not involved in it. okay, we'll take him at his word but let's look at his staff and see some things they did. like raising a pac while he was running for office. let's go back to 25th amendment. it all starts with his cabinet. and we've seen validation but particularly woodward who talks about these cabinet members who expressed shock at some of the decisions donald trump has attempted to make, things he has said, his lack of understanding or comprehension. that all starts with the men and women who sit around that cabinet. i sat in every cabinet meeting while i was at the white house, had an opportunity to observe him, and i can tell you

president and recruiting cabinet members to remove him from office. rosenstein however denies it all. >> in the meantime the "washington post" reports that president trump sought advice on whether or not to fire rosenstein, but some urged him not to make any decisions right away. at a rally, president trump didn't publicly criticize rosenstein or the report, but he did have harsh words about the justice department and the fbi. >> just look at what is now being exposed in our department of justice and the fbi. look at what is going on. look at what is going on. and i want to tell you, we have great people in the department of justice. great people. i really believe, you take a poll, i got to be at 95%. but you have some real bad ones. you've seen what has happenedato the fbi. they are all gone. they are all gone. they are all gone. but there is a lingering stench and we'll get rid of that too. >> and sara murray has more on the political firestorm surrounding rod rosenstein. >> reporter: he floated the idea of wearing a wire to secretly record presiden

and ambassador haylee in the cabinet of people able to come to him and say, mr. president, have you asked us to execute on this. here is the progress report. this is what we have been able to do and can't do yet here is the vision of the future. by the way often in these cabinet meetings, the press is in the room when many of those reports are happening. they don't want to cover it but the american people can find it online. i'm sure we have it in the whitehouse.gov if they want to access the president's relationship with his own cabinet and subject matter experts are doing to help the american people. ainsley: kellyanne, you said offer the weekend the president doesn't that person in a meeting where is he discussing china and russia and north korea. you said any president should have the comfort and the freedom to speak with his national security team. you have been with this president sings the beginning, after this anonymous op-ed was written, have your meetings with the president, has it changed because he is always probably wondering who is in this room? who

let's send our reporters to cabinets because it will be a day of violence. and so it's it's hard to believe that the police was not following these all these accounts. so i would say it's the it's the wrong political decision because they are not aware and they don'tt have the empathy that's but i would think the they have a lack of empathy. with the troubles neo* could make because mostly they are not. they're not the target of the in the mike embley understaffed but they always clubhouse the federal police for help exact and in fact we do have some indications that the police and other officials at least in saxon. may themselves be susceptible to right wing extremist views a case interest and has been making headlines a in august at a demonstration by the anti immigrant groups gita protesting chancellor under america's refugee policy. a demonstrator asked police to prevent the television. from filming. from telling him the police honored his demand and then it emerged without demonstrated was a member of the saxony state criminal police who just happened t

cabinet secretaries have been coming out with statements saying don't look at me. trump world has gone -- it's become a washington who done it as in the history of the senior administration official who anonymously wrote a scathing op-ed in the "new york times" claiming to be a part of the internal resistance. so far more than a dozen top officials a who's who from the vice president to cabinet secretaries released statements to say not it. >> i think it is a disgrace. the anonymous editorial represents a new low in american journalism. i think the "new york times" should be ashamed. i think who wrote this editorial should be ashamed. >> reporter: the daughter of u.s. ambassador to russia said it wasn't her father. >> my dad works for the administration. >> did you write it? >> i did not write it. my dad did not write it as far as i know. >> reporter: a frustrated press secretary sarah huckabee sanders tweeted a statement calling for speculation to quote stop as she lashed out at the "new york times" posting the paper's phone number. house minority leader nancy pel

and it involves at least initially a vote of the cabinet.ly not something that a single cabinet member has suggested is remotely possible, but given, you know, the lunacy described in this piece and in the woodward book and, you know, the incredible narcissism, ignorance, racism, just, you know, terrible behavior, it's not surprising that people have talked about it but, you know, look, this all is shocking but it's not surprising. the portrait that has emerged is one that has come out in these other books, that has come out in the journalists who cover the white house every day. so the idea that everybody's lying, you know, about, you know, what's going on here is really just preposterous. >> david swerlig, watch this. i'll play the clip. this is how the president responded to the article in "the new york times." >> can you imagine it? we have somebody in what i call the failing "new york times" that's talking about he's part of the resistance within the trump administration. this is what we have to deal with and, you know, the dishonest me

there was never anyone that came out and wrote anonymous op-eds that the cabinet talked about invokingamendment. never happened. never ever happened. what's so extraordinary in that piece by ashley and phil rucker and their colleagues, these are things people close to trump has been saying since he was 1 of 17 candidates in the primary. the criticism of his character. >> criticism of his character, observation of not a man who reads books and wasn't a titan of business and essentially ran a family business and not talent. the video that came out, is that trump or me talking about someone in the third person. this is someone whose rot of character is known by everyone known to him. >> this isn't a story of him working nuts, i started working for him because he was all right and started working for him and now sounded the alarm. mechanisms to prevent something like this happening. >> like community dave. >> or presidents known to pick up the bottle, not something like that. something was fine and not become fine. what you're describing is consistent with my own understanding of the peopl

given the instability many witnessed there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th amendment which would start a complex process to remove the president but no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. so we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until one way or another it's over. until one way or another it's over. 25th amendment to the constitution as everybody and their mother googled today we all now know came into effect in 1967 after the assassination of john f. kennedy to clarify the procedures for handling the succession of handling the line of the president if he became unable to fulfill the duties of the presidency. there's more to it but section 4 of the 25th amendment spells out in that instance the vice president and a majority of the cabinet would notify the house and senate the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. and with the senate and the house so notified, the vice president would then assume the powers and duties of the office as acting president. it gets more complicated

that the 25th amendment was a reasonable path, do you want to bring the cabinet in? do you want to have a session -- do you want to bring them into a closed session and under what the concerns are the president's own cabinet thought that invoking the 25th amendment might be necessary? >> i would guess those who would attend would be former cabinet members the next morning. i don't believe that you could make that appearance on capitol hill without eliminating the possibility that you'll be part of this government going forward. and what about the vice-president? he is supposed to be part of this conversation. i don't think anything is going to happen because of the high bar that is set by the 25th amendment using that approach. >> with men and women serving our country in the military, is it your obligation to find out what the cabinet was concerned about they would go to the step of talking about the 25th amendment? >> well, of course. i'm concerned not just for the machine and women in uniform, but for everyone in the country. this president is still the commander

one was about the 25th amendment that there have been whispers among cabinet members or in the cabinetth amendment. and the other is that what the writer describes as an organized resistance, but an effort among officials who work for president trump to contain him. and that they kind of know each other and they are doing this in concert. that is an amazing thing. that this group of people who are saving the country from the president. >> like the guardrails, that the people don't know how to bowl, those guard rails to make sure the ball chanstays in the lane. >> how do you enact policy that the president is not advancing. >> apparently this is something that they are able to do. they were able to circumvent a number of policy in a number of different ways. it seems to me that this so-called resistance. >> let's go to the broader thought. the article says there are two lines of reality in this administration. what is portrayed as a somewhat crazed policy, and this other policy we are going to keep russia in control. totally different effort. >> i think the so-called resistance, the oth

this is the first chance the cabinet have had to hear from the first chance the cabinet have had to hearfrom response to the eu summit in salzburg last week. we had come out on friday saying she was standing her ground, sticking to her guns and made it clear she felt she had not been treated with respect. we know there are shades of enthusiasm, if you like, varying levels of agreement around the cabinet table about the checkers agreement and whether it is the right way forward. it'll be a bold move for any of the cavernous members to voice their disagreement. she is facing calls from within her party to change her strategy on brexit. we heard that this morning from the institute for economic affa i rs from the institute for economic affairs think tank. they have put forward their plan for a free trade deal with the eu which will allow britain to do trade deals with the country around the world whilst also solving the problem of the northern ireland border. if the uk were to have a separate free—trade agreements with the eu. the number 10 comeback against that saying any free trade agreement

i know he isn't a cabinet minister, but he is going to say something.use he is a lovable eccentric and people will just report that straight, as to do with brexit. and also, actually, people don't take on seriously as a leadership contender, i suspect, because he is not in the cabinet.|j think they are absolutely taken seriously as a leadership contender. well, the bookies do. we will undoubtedly see an awful lot on that. let's look at the telegraph front page. matt cartoon.

twenty fifth amendment early on in the administration that's basically what i mean george of the cabinet votes and says the president is unfit to hold office they said they chose not to do that to the not provoke a constitutional crisis now of course what everyone in washington is talking about right now is who wrote this you bet that the president's going to be asking his staff that very same question well the u.k. has called for a united nations security council meeting to discuss new revelations in the nova talk poisoning case british prosecutors have charged two russians accuse of trying to kill former spy service cripple and his daughter yulia with a nerve agent in southern england russia though says it's never even heard of the suspects or ensley reports from london the british police believe these are the men who attempted to assassinate a double agent on the streets of the u.k. alexander petrol and bruce lundvall she rolf probably aliases and now the prime suspects in the attempted murder of segars cripple the police have images of the two men near the strip malls house apparentl

but according to the daily telegraph, the pm could face a show—down next week, when her cabinet ministerser news, the ft weekend says uber has sharpened its appetite for european takeaways, as it plans a link—up with deliveroo. and the daily mirror leads with the story of ellie chessell, an acid attack victim, who says she was talked out of suicide by the strictly star katie piper. that was a quick look at the front pages. let us discuss these a little further. we are going to start up with the guardian, which gives a nice summary of what has happened today. jo—anne, do you want to start off for us? i think what is quite remarkable in a way about all of the newspapers is, despite mrs may having come back from south spoke with frankly less than zero, having had a very disappointing session there, the tone of the front pages of the newspapers, is not inside the papers, is actually pretty positive on the whole, they seem to have reacted well to the combative approach he has taken with today's unplanned announcement outside number10. —— selt unplanned announcement outside number 10. —— selt s

so far more than a dozen top officials, a who's who from the vice president to cabinet secretaries all released statements to say not it. >> i think it's a disgrace. the anonymous editorial published in the "new york times" represents a new low in american journalism. i think the "new york times" should be ashamed and whoever wrote this should be ashamed as well. >> even the daughter of john huntsman said it wasn't her father. >> full disclosure, my dad works for the administration. >> did you write it? >> i did not and my dad did not as far as i know. >> reporter: sarah sanders tweeted out a statement calling for the speculation over anonymous to stop as she lashed out at the "new york times" posting the paper's phone number. nancy pelosi said she thought it was vice president pence. >> the vice president that was my first thought. by process of elimination it will come down to the butler. >> reporter: officials inside the administration have been carefully reading the op ed for clues. the author suggests there may be more than one resister in the ranks writing the president's appoint

there are people walking around washington in the cabinet, in offices all across this administration, and particularly in the senate and the house. i mean this is exactly what paul ryan has talked about in certain ways and hinted at very directly. but when you add this up with the president's performance in helsinki, where he stood with putin toe to toe but melted, never went toe to toe, never defended the interests of our country, never held president putin accountable for what he has been doing, but melted away, saying it was a wonderful idea to have an american ambassador actually traded off to go to russia and be subjected to interrogation there, who then after people got to him and said that's a terrible idea backed off. but his initial instincts again and again and again in a tweet yesterday, he steps over a line where he publicly chass sizes the attorney general of the united states for doing his job, for upholding rule of law and suggests he should in fact have been political and not upheld the law for political purposes. this is a serious moment for our country, and i hope th

meanwhile, cabinet ministers, cabinet colleagues are warning the pm that we risk breaking up the uk, the border? and also, interestingly, bringing scotla nd and also, interestingly, bringing scotland into it as well. i'm not... i'm not 100% sure that the digital aspect of it comes in. —— where that aspect of it comes in. —— where that aspect of it comes in. the i received, splitting the country in that sense. i'm sure the other argument is if we crashed out committee argument is there would be a border between northern ireland, the republic of ireland and that, according to some analysis, might create some support for a united ireland and break of the union that way. clearly the s&p and the scottish, people in scotland, might argue that don't like brexit, did i vote that way. i would like to know who cabinet colleagues are. it does strike me that that does not seem to bea strike me that that does not seem to be a large group within the cabinet. i think there seems to be a much more aggressive effort by the brexiteers within the cabinet to try and drive the narrative brother. what the

you and your cabinet have just sat for 3.5 hours contemplating the possibility of no deal.d. i wonder how you felt when you heard the governor of the bank of england say that house prices might drop by a bird. when the cabinet met and we did spend 3.5 hours, we were doing what i think is an important part of the government'sjob in what i think is an important part of the government's job in these negotiations which is to say, we are working for a good deal, i believe we can get a good deal but actually, we're still not at the end of the negotiations so we need to prepare for all eventualities. no deal is one of those eventualities. there is the governor of the bank of england, a man you have reappointed, and he is saying to the cabinet of the united kingdom, not because of the war or natural disaster but because ofa war or natural disaster but because of a political choice, house prices might slump by a third, thousands of jobs might be lost, you might be stockpiling medicines and food.“ jobs might be lost, you might be stockpiling medicines and food. if i can finish what i

were dropped and also the other thing is the cabinet has been cut down from in excess number of about thirty five to twenty and the other thing is that we have seen a mixture of the old and young taking all classes that are coming in the other thing is that you all saw the president a muslim appointed kiss the korvin tree if former three time middle east or for zimbabwe as their youth and sports minister into this cabinet and some of the people who are coming in who have never been in the corridors of politics they are coming in is to ignore crowds and you decided to include these fresh blood in this cabinet you're talking to thank you privileged privilege was fun here in harare. just hundred ninety five top story at this hour human rights watch has called on the international community to impose sanctions on china because of its treatment of muslim minorities it's believed that more than a million muslims are being detained in what rights groups say is a form of ethnic cleansing. up to date i'll have more for you at the top of the hour i'm going to once i check out what's going on ar

because i know the men and women who serve with us in this cabinet. but i also do because whoever wrote that editorial, and the narrative that comes out of some other writings recently, just doesn't know what really happens in this white house. i've seen this president in action. is he demanding, yes. is he a strong leader who expects things done yesterday, yes. but for someone to say that what we've accomplished in the last 18 months is in spite of this president'sde ts aboutresident adminition.bout our >> brennan: one of the claims-n disc 25th amend tomorrow even remove the president from offi office. have you ever been part of a conversation about that? >> no. the truth of the matter is over the last eight years despite what we heard from president obama on friday -- >> by the time i left office, household income was near all all-time highs and uninsured rate had all time low, wages were rising, poverty rates were falling. i mention all this for when you hear how great the economy is doing right now, let's just remember when this recovery started.

perfect sense to me, but i am not in the cabinet.id, tax cuts would help the uk to help with a no—deal brexit. wilby brexiteers like this as an idea? say it won't be necessary because it will be fine? javid is quite curious. this is part of his pitch to become the leader. he keeps coming up in cabinet with his own ideas for brexit, at which point theresa may slaps him down. she becomes a bloody difficult woman at that point. the idea of tax cuts to boost the economy obviously is suggesting the economy will dip after brexit anyway. this was basically the idea that gordon brown had after 2008, when we had austerity. rather than the austerity and cuts that came with it, actually invest money into the economy and try to boost it that way. tax cuts ata time try to boost it that way. tax cuts at a time when the cost of living is going up anyway, and the cost of living is outpacing wage increases and we all know that it is going to get a lot worse after brexit, when the price of food will rise and because of the summer and everything else.

meetings where he goes around the room and cabinet officials and secretaries praise him for the workdoing. this is very much in line and character with that. i will tell you, anderson, talking to sources close to this white house, i talked to one source earlier today raising questions about the strength of some of these statements coming from some of these cabinet officials. i think there is, in sort of the same way they were going through that "new york times" op-ed searching for clues whether this person or that person wrote this in "the new york times." there are allies of the president going through these cabinet officials wondering if they're loyal enough and gives you an idea how intense these are inside the white house and oval office. >> appreciate it. with me is senator richard blumenthal member of the senate judiciary committee. do you think the senior administration who wrote this should come forward? >> i think he should come forward or she, because there's an obligation to tell the american people even more about the reasons that this official has such deep-seated and fr

in terms of the cabinet meeting, they will talk about future plans. faced criticism over the past year when it came to that contingency planning in terms of future trade, that's something that seemingly theresa may is getting traction with in brussels we heard from joean-claude juncker that he was happy with the proposals around a free-trade area. she quoted him in the house of commons yesterday. in terms of the face of the struggles she faces within her own party, that's not something we should forget there are a large number of conservative mps not happy with the checkers proposal. there are high-profile tories who are still backing theresa may even though they say they don't like the policy she's putting forward. but this announcement from moody's significant talking about things like uk-based companies in automotive, aerospace and chemical spaces will be affected land rover talking about the effects of a no-deal scenario. weaker house prices are also likely if there's no-deal. and banks, asset quality and profitability will also likely decline. a

it is somebody who is cabinet or just cabinet level. and that person may well go on television in the next few days to defend the administration, may get he asked about this op-ed and will say i have never seen anything that could possibly justify somebody saying such a horrible thing about the president. and if you're willing to write this in private and say that stuff in public, you've got to ask yourself about the integrity of your own oath of office. >> you know, ben's point there, what is so maddening about this moment in so many ways, is every reporter in the white house says we hear this every time. they awe say it, they all know it. they sound more critical of him. and yet they go on camera and lie through their teeth. and gas lit all the time about the basic facts of the matters as pertained to the person who has the nuclear codes. >> i want to keep the focus on trump. because the reality is as we all know it, however gutless and everyone who didn't write a letter similar to this are all complicit. so that's clear, and that has

news live from burlington could some reports of violence in the german city of cabinets last week be fake news this video of an alleged attack on a farm it was widely circulated but now germany's domestic intelligence chief says he has no reliable evidence that such chases actually took place. his remarks appear to contradict those of germany's chancellor. thomson machall meanwhile has been meeting the french president emmanuel mccraw in masai with the stated objective of bringing europe for what the head of a full interview summit later this month. also on the program those things fall off a serious last rebel stronghold iran and russia rejected turkish proposal into diverting a humanitarian catastrophe in its live province but they have agreed to keep talking. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program the east and german city of cabinets is tense again tonight as about fifteen hundred demonstrators much against the government's migration policy is chanting with other people and this is the carrot calling for a complete halt. the arrival of asylum seekers hundreds of police officers hav

the cabinet gathered this afternoon with brexit on the agenda. minister is still sticking to her original plan. brexit again proving problematic for both party leaders. at the labour conference they will be hoping to widen the debate. this afternoon quite a significant events in downing street because the government has been publishing more papers outlining what might be necessary in the event of a no—deal brexit. the prime minister has been sharing that cabinet meeting this afternoon. let's speak to our political correspondent. what have they been discussing and what have they been discussing and what have they published 7 it was a long cabinet meeting this afternoon, almost two hours and 20 minutes or so. this was the first full meeting of the cabinet since the prime minister theresa may returned from the summer in salzburg last week when she was told in no uncertain terms that the plan she has for the future relationship with the eu will not work. she was updating her senior team of ministers on that. they also discussed immigration policy and

five thousand people turned out for a free concert against the racism in the eastern german city of cabinet's a show of defiance against neo nazis following last week's violent anti migrants protests also on the program to palliate by the strongest typhoon for more than twenty five years more than a million people evacuated rather than traffic massively destructive. taking sides of the taking of the need for struct nike puts american football player calling company at the center of its new ad campaign and ignites a new controversy. i feel gail welcome to the program it's not about being left wing or right wing it's about doing of a decent thing. that lead singer of one of germany's best known rock bands to total hosen describe last night's concert against racism in the east german city of cabinets musicians said they wanted to send a signal after the violence that followed last week's protests in the city tens of thousands of people turned out to watch. and you. may have there are more of us that was the motto of the candidates concert is liberal germans responded to calls to stand up against

the other is for the members of the cabinet to declare that a president is incapacitated. not capable of doing his job. and according to the "new york times," which first reported this story, this is one of the things that rod rosenstein talked about, which is recruiting people like jeff sessions and john kelly, to try to get members of the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment. now, why is this coming forward? some of the people who were in these meetings, including andrew mccabe, the deputy director of the fbi, actually memorialized some of this, wrote down memos about what rosenstein was saying in these meetings. the issue is that rosenstein, as far as we know, never went through with any of these recordings. never went through with any of these meetings with people in the cabinet to try to invoke the 25th amendment. it appears this is a plan, wolf, that he discussed in these meetings and it never actually came to fruition. but you can see how just the fact that these discussions were made. that these comments were made in these meetings, and that they are memos that are

trump by recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to the constitution. crucial question now, will the president fire rosenstein who oversees robert mueller's investigation and has been a top target of mr. trump's anger? i'll talk to leon panetta who served as defense secretary and cia director, and our correspondents and analysts are standing by including white house correspondent kaitlan collins and chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. first to our injuries advertise correspondent, evan perez. evan, break down this jom shell story us. >> these are extraordinary conversations that allegedly happened last year in the days and weeks after the president fired james comey, the fbi director. rod rosenstein in meetings with fbi and other justice department officials suggested that he could possibly wear a wire, wear a recording device in meetings with the president. he also, according to memos or written -- after these conversations happened, he suggested that he could help recruit members of the cabinet to try to invoke the 25th amendment. that's one of the wa

today's cabinet was designed asa deal.esigned as a long cold shower for minister, as a long cold shower for minister, a reality check for those ministers who maybe have been dragging their feet thinking it is never going to that, a gentle boot up the backside to them, to put in place plans for no deal. it was also designed though, as a reality check, if you like, for the eu, to dispel the idea this is how a great big bluff by mrs may, that she is not serious about walking away from the negotiating table if she can't get the agreement she want, most importantlyer, i think it was meant as a reality check for those disgruntled mps on the backbenches unhappy with the chequers plan, to say to them, look, it is either mrs may's deal or no deal. and the hope is that faced with that choice, they will blink and they will back her chequers plan. thank you. norman smith. if you would like help demistifying the various terms surrounding brexit you can find the bbcjargon buster on the website. profits at the john lewis partnership have

cabinet sources said. this isa article? cabinet sources said.doesn't mean it didn't happen. he painted a bleak picture of unemployment reaching double figures, house prices falling 35%, transport links stalling, the death of the firstborn by friday. that is not in there. transport links stalling. no one ever went to europe before 1973, did they? if there was i'io before 1973, did they? if there was no deal, people would still travel to europe. but it might not be as easy. i welcomed your balance at the end about highly unlikely. easy. i welcomed your balance at the end about highly unlikelylj easy. i welcomed your balance at the end about highly unlikely. i was balanced all the way through. but you are agreed on highly unlikely, yes? it's got nothing to do with britain, it is not in germany's interest, germany runs europe, bosses europe, and no deal breaks it means lots of unemployment in germany and they are not standing for that. he is actually looking into the camera. that is absolutely true. there will be a deal, not because we are obsessing

the cabinet has agreed to new immigration rules after brexit. live or work in the uk would be treated the same as migrants from elsewhere in the world. currently, government policy allows for 20,700 non—eu, high—skilled workers to come to the uk each year. but for eu residents and members of the european economic area, the ‘freedom of movement‘ principle allows to travel and work within the area without visas, regardless of skills. well, the new immigration system would be based on skills rather than nationality, but some business leaders fear a bar on low—skilled eu migrants could damage the economy. 0ur political correspondent leila nathoo is at westminster. natasha ednan—laperouse, is a picture emerging other immigration policy post brexit? —— leila, is a picture emerging? i think we are getting the beginning of post brexit immigration strategy today. we had the government commissioned report about no preferential treatment of eu citizens after brexit am prioritising highly skilled workers. yesterday the cabinet heard from the chair of the mi

this is a person in the cabinet writing an anonymous op-ed. if this is a minor staffer, it could have a less cost. you think about dave stockman breaking with the administration, a with name. sometimes when people who are a minor speech writer write an op-ed, it doesn't mean the same thing. >> richard painter, i think you and i could sooner fly to the moon this evening than count on half or a majority of this president's cabinet to opt to invoke the 25th amendment. it is no easy feat. for a lot of people further, there has been this frog boiling experiment. this has happened in slow motion. david frum published a piece tonight says in the headline, ""this is a constitutional crisis." when you read something like that, it gets your attention. there is a sense of moment. but for a lot of folks that sense of moment is not here. so what do you do? >> well, this is a constitutional crisis and it's not about being a conservative, as is the author of this piece in "the new york times," or a liberal or a moderate such as myself. this is not about ideo

would have passed the intern vetting so the compare the obama cabinet and the trump cabinet are apples and oranges. >> leland: we'll get alana in on that. what is the defense when you start seeing the ads about pruitt and his private jets, price and his private jets, zenke and his professional behavior what is the promise to drain the swamp? >> we are draining the swamp in a lot of ways. you see a lot of this behavior in both parties. you look at not necessarily the cabinet of obama, but you look at other democrat leadership, senate leadership. they do the same things and they've been called out on it. look at claire mccaskill and the terrible things she's done with her own travel. you might not have that directly or have not been exposed in obama's particular administration, but i think this happens on both sides. >> leland: certainly though there are republicans from conceivably dark red places that are at least perhaps in trouble. ted cruz, which won texas by 16 points in 2012, now the president is promising to campaign for him, this is the a.p. quote from the profile on beto o'rour

but the cabinet ministers, who will swing the way? will swing the way?id javid falls into that category. falls into that category. sense that they will back away from chequers. chequers. the door at all to another strategy, on some sort of canada type deal. on some sort of canada type deal. interviewed last week and he left the door open to a cabinet option. the door open to a cabinet option. week, they did not quite close the door on a canada option. door on a canada option. maximum dangerfor mrs may and her chequers. —— chequers plan. -- chequers plan. appearance during the course of the week? week? have reached and passed peak johnson. johnson. wading in this morning and describing it as deranged. describing it as deranged. what more can he do? can he do? what more can he say that hasn't already been said? hasn't already been said? and, so far, there's no sign of that. that. no doubt he's locked away in his hotel bedroom as we speak. his hotel bedroom as we speak. norman, thanks for speaking to us. norman smith that the conservative party conference.

and more tension in the german city of cabinets up for another march by amzi immigration protests are poor so went to the region and explains how the migration issue is also highlighting divisions between germany's east and west. i knew cubans mckinnon welcome to the show. reports coming in of renewed strikes on syria's last major that's just a day off to turkey iran and russia failed to agree on a ceasefire in the syrian. syrian activists say the strikes seen here and on verified for said. on the most violent in a month they say their targets in rebel positions in it live and hama provinces it live is the last opposition stronghold in the country and the government says it will retake it that is three million civilians trapped its fear an all out assault could lead to humanitarian catastrophe. for more on the situation let's bring in now and shall hora in beirut and shell thanks for joining us reports of heavy russian ass strikes is this the beginning of a major offensive. but it does seem like that perhaps it will be a phased offensive not the men who did yesterday said that it's ti

i know he isn't a cabinet minister, but he is going to say something. free pass because he is a lova ble gets a free pass because he is a lovable eccentric and people will just report that straight, as to do with brexit. and also, actually, people don't take on seriously as a leadership contender, i suspect, because he is not in the cabinet. leadership contender, i suspect, because he is not in the cabinetlj because he is not in the cabinet.|j think they are absolutely taken seriously as a leadership contender. well, the bookies do. we will undoubtedly see an awful lot on that. let's look at the telegraph front page. matt cartoon. after brexit, only highly skilled russian assassins will be allowed into the uk. joke? a little bit tasteless?‘ woman uk. joke? a little bit tasteless7. woman did die as a result of this. the way britain has responded to the bizarre absurdist accounts we have had from russia, they came to see a cathedral and now it turns out he is a decorated russia war hero. a bit of british humour goes a long way in thisjoke. of british humo

ok and we should know more about where this is having following that cabinet meeting today josh bloom thanks very much for that from. well will german cities be banning diesel cars and trucks ben we'll have more on that coming up in the business. and. a contentious figure at home. in germany. gorbachev was one of the great heroes of the twentieth century mikhail gorbachev the last leader of the soviet union was an agent of change.

like i said, the entire cabinet or a majority of the cabinet and the vice president have to certify essentiallypresident is unfit to be in office. they have to, then, tell congress about it. the president can disagree with them. and then they have to do it again within four days. and then congress has 21 days to vote. let's think about this. it keeps coming up for some reason. steve bannon we know was obsessed with it for a time. according to some reports. and then in that anonymous op-ed, they discussed how the 25th amendment was discussed by some cabinet officials and now rozenstein. we have to keep coming back to it. just the mountain you'd have to climb for this to happen if you can imagine, pence, who's never said a bad thing about trump, essentially saying he was unfit to be in office, and then sending that to the entire congress. where a super majority, 67, more than a filibuster proof majority, would have to agree and essentially kick trump out in order for pence to take hold. so it keeps coming back but it just seems so unlikely. >> underscores a collective body not necessarily in priv