and merrill's partner on the ice, charlie white. >> i find that athletes are the easiest to train. >> love on the floor hits the stage on october. right around the time dance moms starts airing. she stepped in after abby lee miller quit the show. >> i don't like the way she teaches sometimes. i do feel like they are traumatized by the situation. i try and inspire my students

including mirrorball champs kristi yamaguchi and meryl davis, and meryl's partner on the ice, charlie whiteall out or were they some of your favorite dancers? >> well, i find that doing "dancing with thstars" for 19 seasons athletes were always the easiest to train, they are punctual. they are graceful. >> "love on the floor" hits 30 u.s. cities starting in october, right around the same time cheryl's episodes of "dance moms" will start airing. she stepped in for the season's last three episodes after abby lee miller quit the show. >> i do not like her way of teaching sometimes and i feel like both the girls and the moms -- i know abby hates what i'm about to say -- but i do feel like they are traumatized from the situation. i try and inspire my students and expect the best out of them and not call them names. >> still ahead -- ♪ >> our tlc exclusive as the '90's girls group makes a big comeback. what chilli told us about the nick canyon dating rumors. >>> plus, we're taking flight with tom cruise. >> aviation fanatic. >> from the mummy to the top gun sequel to the first scenes from his new

and merrill's partner on the ice, charlie white. >> i find that athletes are the easito >> love on thee on october. right around the time dance moms starts airing. she stepped in after abby lee miller quit the show. >> i don't like the way she teaches sometimes. i do feel like they are traumatized by the situation. i try and inspire my students and expect the best out of them and not call them names. >> well, tell us how you really feel. >> exactly. >> exactly. up next. >> go, go, go. >> why did oprah break into song in our interview. >> i don't know what to say about that. >> plus the cast of "this is us". >> how much do you miss us? >> like a father misses his kids. >>> and the fierce new show, attack with the coolest nails on tv. >> shows us around their new orleans my daughter is... ...studying to be a dentist and she gave me advice. she said... 4 out of 5 dentists confirm... ...these crest pro-health... ...products help maintain a... ...professional clean. go pro with crest pro health crest pro-health... ...really brought my mouth... ...to the next level. you...smells fine, but yo

charlie: that is not easy for anybody, is it? >> no. >> particularly in this white house. ghter] >> the president does not like to be told no. charlie: not much give-and-take or compromise in the political world. ce comes out of politics. all of us had some experience doing some policy. but it can be brutal. but it is also a tremendous honor to do it. having done a lot of different jobs over the course of my life, it is the one where you have the most impact most immediately. you see if the most. as andy noted, you're really helping the president achieve what he needs as director of the country. -- at theve as pleasure of the president, but your job is not to please them. >> what i learned from talking to these guys and interviewing 17 living chief of staff's for "the gatekeepers come copresidents cannot rule having aly without chief of staff as first among equals to execute their agenda, and most importantly, tell them what they do not want to hear. it is a most impossible to overstate the importance of having a chief of staff who is a gatekeeper. he controls access to the

, then you begin to lose at every level. >> well, charlie, that's right pseo aggressive both in the statement that you just referenced and why this white house is on a war footing in general. charlie, for your viewers, this is an important insight that you don't necessarily pick up from the daily coverage, and that is that, when this white house looks back to the campaign and when they got in trouble and goodness knows this campaign had plenty of low spots, what did they do? they doubled down, they were aggressive and they went after their base, their supporters. they kept those people with them. so that's why you see the white house on the permanent war footing. that's why you see the president being so aggressive and basically saying you want a piece of me? i'll talk to you under oath. that's 100% aimed at his voters because, charlie, i know that you agree that so little has been done by this white house to talk to or court the 54% of people who didn't vote for the president. i can tell you the mood, the view in the west wing is they absolutely have to keep those core voters, and if they get impatient or that gets soft, that's when y

charlie: exactly. >> it was a lot more gripping and colorful, but the problem for the white house wass, not substance. not new substance. that is important. charlie: this is not only an issue of questions of legality and criminality, but it is also issues of questions of public opinion, because public opinion -- if you cannot hold the public in terms of support for your position, then you begin to lose at every level. mike: for your viewers, this is an important insight you do not necessarily pick up from the daily coverage. that is when this white house ands back at the campaign, when they got in trouble, and goodness knows, this campaign has plenty of low spots, what did they do? they doubled down. they were aggressive, and they went after their base, their supporters. they kept those people with them, and so that is why you see the white house on the permanent war footing. that is why you see the president being so aggressive and basically saying "you want a piece of me? i will talk to you under oath." that is 100% aimed at his voters. charlie, i know you agree that so little has b

charlie: and the white house should have the ability to fire the head of the consumer protection agencyc. mnuchin: like the occ and other independent regulators, the white house should be able to remove the person without cause. or if they can't do that, there should be an independent board that oversees that person. charlie: in terms of tax form, the sequencing of the legislative agenda -- the president laid it out that healthcare comes first, care regulation, -- at the same time, there is a sense that this may have been successful with finding common ground with democrats. sec. mnuchin: the president has been very hard at work on all of these issues. as it relates to tax reform, some question whether we should have gone for tax reform first. i have been working on it since january here, meeting with the house and senate. tax reform is complicated. it has been 30 years since we have had comprehensive tax reform. we are working as fast as we can to come out with a plan where we have buy-in from the house and senate to get something passed this year. charlie: where does that stand? sec.

charlie. right? maybe there are in some parts of the white house.is not surprising given how they have been doing things, but it is illuminating and it instructive that from the podium , the white house press office is not willing to say whether or not there are tapes. you think that would be fairly easy to clear up and they would want to clear it up. this is part of the president's strategy. he watched this with his own staff. he likes to keep people off balance. it is part of his thing. here, he might be paying a big price for that. some people wonder if he is comeyg checkers and jim and bob mueller, the independent counsel, are playing chess, because we had a fascinating revelation this week that the reason that jim comey leaked the account of his memos and his conversation with the president was after the president had put out his tweet threatening him raising this idea of tapes. the president has brought a lot this on it. think of all the information we know now that we would not if he had not canned jim comey. look at what is coming next week.

in fact, charlie, earlier in the week when i spoke to white house officials and i was over there at pennsylvania avenue, they said that they worries he may live tweet the testimony, that they were not ruling that out. we had a front page story in the post about this angst inside the west wing, that the president was unwilling, at least earlier in the week to put away the idea that he would engage with comey, perhaps minute by minute but in a series of conversations with kasowitz, with don mcgan and other aides, trump was told let it sit, you may be vindicated, they argued to him, if comey does not lean into the idea of obstruction of justice. so trump who thinks of himself, i have covered him as a long time as a political warrior, who wants to be his own spokesman. he suddenly on this thursday decided to sit back. >> rose: do the people that you talk to on that side supporters of donald trump, or members in good standing of the republican party who worried about where it might be, do they believe that there was today some successful of the to impugn james comey? >> there were certainly an effort

we used to go down to the white horse tavern. charlie: in the village.stopher: yes and i saw dylan thomas get up and speak. charlie: in the tavern. christopher: he haunted that place. charlie: would he read his portrayal? christopher: he was angry about something. charlie: rage into the night. christopher: yes, he had gone off again. i don't member what it was all about, but it was so musical and he was extraordinary. he could talk on any subject. charlie: d have any great regrets that you didn't do this or take this role, that you didn't take this opportunity to do something when it was within grasp? christopher: i don't have any regrets and i shouldn't have because i have been extremely lucky. i somehow managed to cut terrible corners in my life and i have gotten away with it. charlie: like what? christopher: i can't tell you. it is too embarrassing. charlie: cutting corners. christopher: to be lazy and do it all technically. that was only for a while and i got down to the serious stuff. as i got older i realized there wasn't that much time left and i

charlie. in the white house, on foreign policy, national security issues, international economic issues, climate change. one of them is what the media is now calling the nationalist group, right. it's steve bannon, it's steven miller, it's this sebastian corker guy, peter and a half aro on trade, right? it's people who have this america first mentality. people who want to restrict trade. people who want to restrict immigration, people who want to drop out of the climate change agreements, people without want to go backwards on the environment, because they want to save jobs in west virginia, et cetera, et cetera, right. and very-- they're very narrowly focused. narrow minded, in my view. the second group are what the media is now calling globalists. i call them the traditional republican national security camp. general mcmaster, the national security advisor, jim patties,-- mattis, the defense secretary, rex tillerson, mike pompeo, the cia director. >> rose: you conclude pompeo. >> i would include him, dan coates, the dni, nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., gary cohen, the president's

charlie: and it takes place entirely over the course of the dinner. john: in one set, one costume for each of us. brilliantly written. -- brilliantly written by john whiteuel arteta. the two of them work together often, and they presented it to salma as nothing but an idea. salma said yes, and here we are. charlie: why did you say yes? salma: i would have said yes to anything. it was one of those, you had me at hello. i'm a huge fan of them. i almost worked with him once before in a movie he wrote and was going to direct and it didn't happen. then i hired him for "ugly betty " as a director. finally mike one day had this idea, and they called me over. they came to the house and said, we want to do a film together. we have this idea we want you to be in it. i said, what is it? what's it about? it's about a dinner. i thought for sure i'm the cook, you know. i said, what do i play? he said nothing. he would not tell me. two weeks later, on the day of my birthday -- he hasn't written anything. he gave me the script. what prompted him was the idea of the dentist that killed cecil the lion. we were outraged because we all love animals. and he thought, what wo

that worries the white house more than all of the smoke on russia collusion. charlieome point, do you expect, all of you here at the table, looking at how, events you have covered, that is some point people begin leaving the administration because they a, think it is a sinking ship, or because there is something about the values they believe in that they think are being sullied? zanny: i would not be at all surprised if that happened. i suspect it is a matter of time. for me, the interesting metaphor, when we went to see the president a few weeks ago, we described it as such in our editorial, it felt like a court. it felt like courtiers around a king rather than an administration around the president. and i think -- frankly, it is no surprise to me that the president gets on terribly well with autocrats. not that he is authoritarian in the 1930's european sense, but it is a king and his court. he goes to saudi arabia and he rather likes the way things are done there. it's not as -- i make it sound more sort of sinister than i mean it to, because when he ran the trump

evidence of wanting to work with democrats or being ideologically heterodox since winning the white house. charliewhat do you to differ on? ezra: i was waiting for andy to go to our debate. andy: i do think we need to get away from the point where, as ezra was pointing to, we change our health care election system cycle. the real world we live in that american families, hospitals, physicians, they can't handle that. it will not last. i think americans are very scared of the fact that they are political identity and their interest in improving health care had become one thing. and they have to identify themselves as either a trump supporter or an obama person or some political label, and that drives how they expect the health care system should go. that is how it should be. ultimately, my perspective is the only way we get to bipartisanship is when partisanship fails. if you have both houses, if you have the white house, sure the easiest path is to go down and get your bill done. if it does not work, this is why we need it to fail, we don't need it to fail because it is bad policy, we need it to fa

. >> yes, i have thought an awful lot about blowing up the white house. ian * charlie sheen tweeting that he wishes god would take out donald trump next. and mickey o'rourke threatening to beat the president with a baseball bat. patty mccomb said she would refuse to perform should the president of the united states walk into that theater. why? >> because i hate the [bleep]. how is that? judge jeanine: not a theme here in they are all has-beens. of course they are going to stand in the way of progress. they forgot what it means to be a success. the attempted assassination of congressman today his, and make no mistake there is a cause and effect, a feeling that the actions are justified, the actions are an extension of the verbal hatred. in courts of -- courts have held verbal hate speech can be considered an incitement to violence or riot. this isn't about free speech. we respect that right. and no one says you cannot peak freely. but here is the kicker. there are consequences. i don't see republicans flipping their lids trying to burn down buildings in ninja outfits wh

charlie: or somebody has to. >> the idea right now, republican leaders of congress are driving up to the white and saying -- having that work, it can be plausible on both parts of pennsylvania avenue. it is implausible that if they ever did get in the car and drive up, they would say, paul, you are right. this is not working out, i am stepping aside some mike pence can be president. it does indicate a pattern that we have all studied. that would be quitting. removal is another thing. 2018, maybe after the election in 2018, we will see a different kind of congress. charlie: not quitting is part of the american creed, too. jeffrey: you don't quit the presidency. nixon, it was so far gone. you don't really quit. i assume unless someone can prove to me otherwise, he is president for four years. it is a pretty intense ride. charlie: here is your field. what is it doing to our reputation abroad? how does that affect the possibilities of the future? jeffrey: it is interesting, i i don't want to decontextualize him in a way that would be unfair to trump. the preceding presidents of the 9/11 era, each

. >> yes, i have thought an awful lot about blowing up the white house. ian * charlie sheen tweeting that he wishes god would take out donald trump next. and mickey o'rourke threatening to beat the president with a baseball bat. patty mccomb said she would refuse to perform should the president of the united states walk into that theater. why? >> because i hate the [bleep]. how is that? judge jeanine: not a theme here in they are all has-beens. of course they are going to stand in the way of progress. they forgot what it means to be a success. the attempted assassination of congressman today his, and make no mistake there is a cause and effect, a feeling that the actions are justified, the actions are an extension of the verbal hatred. in courts of -- courts have held verbal hate speech can be considered an incitement to violence or riot. this isn't about free speech. we respect that right. and no one says you cannot peak freely. but here is the kicker. there are consequences. i don't see republicans flipping their lids trying to burn down buildings in ninja outfits wh

charlie: how many were there? david: there were 2000 or sue. in 1923, that you're alone, those 2000 or so would be worth $400 million. they live in mansions. they had servants, many of whom were white this belied long-standing racial stereotypes. it was said at the time where as one american might own a car, each osage owned 11 of them. charlie: then what happened? david: then they began to be targeted. i write a lot the book about a remarkable osage woman named molly burkart. in 1921, she had an older sister, anna. she disappeared. molly looked everywhere for her. a week later, anna was found in a ravine shot in the back of the head. it was the first hint that the family was being targeted. in just a few days, her mother became mysteriously sick. evidence later suggested she had been poisoned. molly had a younger sister. she was so frightened by these murders, she moved closer to molly. one night at 3:00 in the morning, she heard a loud explosion. molly goes to the window of her house and she looks out in the direction of where her sister lived. all she could see was this large orange ball rising into the sky. it looked like the sun had burst. somebody planted in bomb under her si

charlie: to know you is to know the battle of ideas. john: it was written for her and inspired by her in many ways. although, she somewhat represents both mike whiteiguel too. charlie: in terms of their values and how they see the world? john: yes. on the other hand, they are not sternly judgmental of the other characters. that's what makes it such a provocative film. charlie: they also make you interesting in a way. it's not just a buffoon who got rich. john: it was very interesting the way miguel directed my character. from what we've already told you, your reflexive response alpha guestug, the at this dinner, is the villain. but he goes way beyond this almost immediately. charlie: what did he do to go beyond that? john: the first time i talked to him about the character on the phone, he talked about doug with great- doug affection. charlie: and who believes he's doing good because he provides jobs and pays taxes. john: he doesn't think of himself as the villain, so why should we? taxes and creating jobs is a wonderful thing. it's important to mac. exactly. i think it's done with a lot of respect, both sides. the arguments are equally eloquent a

charlie: some people have been talking about the different sites within the white house.learly, this was a victory for the economic nationalists, steve bannon, miller, and others. or was it simply the president listening to his own head and you cannot attribute it to anyone other than the president listening to what he believed? >> have to believe it is the latter and not the former. you can make the argument legitimately that this was a victory for steve bannon because he argued vociferously to get out of this. you can argue this is a victory for economic nationalists. but i think in the end, this was donald trump acting as donald trump. i am not sure and this is me projecting a thought, that he came down or you wanted to be where he thought he always was and was willing to hear various sides but that this reflected core values he has carried with him into the white house and he's going to operate on, not just on this but other matters as well. charlie: it had the additional tot of quality of it seems be what his base want to come to do. >> is no question about that -- t

white house. >> trish: charlie, will this backfire against the likes of tim cook? elon musk threw in the towel after the climate issue. might some of these ceos be haunted by the fact that they sat down with the president? >> it's net-net positive. one of the best things about trump's economic plan, some of it is not been implemented, like the tax cuts and health care is part of the economic agenda. but the best part about trump, he meets with corporate ceos, he talks to them, relates to them. he doesn't lecture them and beat them up and threaten them with more regulations and put them in jail like president obama did. this is a business-friendly administration. i know a lot of liberals will say oh, this is horrible. business friendly. look what they're going to get away with. they might get away with putting more people back to work. you think of that? that's a positive thing here. trump relates to these guys. >> trish: we'll leave it there. you're right, charlie. you have to understand business to understand this economy for sure. so that's perhaps one thing he h

charlie: there is also said to be warring factions in the white house.eople for staying within the paris accord, people who wanted to leave it. we have identified some of them. michael: i have been an analyst of other countries my entire career. now i have become an analyst of my own country because everybody wants to talk about what is going on in washington. right? so, i have been looking closely at this. obviously, i don't talk to these guys. but i see four centers of gravity in the white house on foreign policy, national security issues, international, economic issues, climate change. one of them is what the media is now calling a nationalist group. steve bannon. it is stephen miller. sebastian gorka, peter navarro on trade. it is people who have this america first mentality, people who want to restrict trade, people who want to restrict immigration, people who want to drop out of the climate change agreement, people who want to go backwards on the environment because they want to save jobs in west virginia, etc. they are very narrowly focused. narro

charlie. >> rose: thank you, jack. the book is called the gatekeepers how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency.chris whipple back in a 0 moment. stay with us. >> robert rauschenberg once said that the artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. for six decades he serves this local working across medians, including painting, photography and footage, on new york museum of modern art brings together more than 250 of these works. robert rauschenberg among friends is the artist first 21st century retrospective and organized by leah dickerman, marlene hess painting and sculpture at the museum of modern art and joins me now to talk about robert rauschenberg, one of the artists i have had the great pleasure to have known, which is, when you think about him and you think about his art and you think about someone having this kind of retrospective on this kind of exhibit among friends, and bringing it within all of the other great artists, like jaspar johns. >> like jasper johns and twombly and mercs cunningham and patricia cage, brown, the people he collaborated with is so fundamental to what

white house or who were part of the campaign. any one of those is a significant investigation. you have all of that operating at the same time. charlieyou may remember there was a thing called watergate and someone said follow the money. >> i do remember a little about that and follow the money it is. there have long been questions about the role of money and russia's money with donald trump's organization and his financial empire. we don't know exactly what bob mueller's team may be beginning to look at, whether it is that or money involving some of the trump associates. once you start down the trail, you don't know where it is going to lead or end. the one thing we know from watergate and almost all of these investigations that begin with a specific subject, that they go in unexpected directions based on where the evidence leads and can end up in unexpected places. for the president and the trump white house, that has to be worrying. i believe the president's reaction to it and some of the things he said in his tweets today make it clear he is very unhappy about it. charlie: you wonder, as you did about president clinton when he wa

michael douglas. >> gets a laugh. >>> i'm charlie king and norah o'donnell. >>> the white house lastextraordinary warning to the syria leader that says he will pay quote, a heavy price if he launches another chemical attack. >>> a u.s. official says intelligence detected activity near the same syrian chemical weapons bunker connected to that deadly attack back in april. more than 80 people including children were killed. in response, the u.s. fired 59 cruise missiles at a syrian government air base. we're at the white house with more on this story. >> reporter: good morning. well, this ominous white house statement was issued late last night after u.s. intelligence detected activity around the airfield. that is the same location from which that deadly april chemical weapons attack was launched. now, according to what a u.s. official tells our own cbs around that bunker which was not destroyed during the u.s. strike due to fear at the time that it would spread the toxic material. the u.s. has also picked up increased communications by the syrian unit responsible for chemical weapons.

white house. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> how much of a threat is the focus on the russian probe todent's domestic agenda, including health care, tax reform and infrastructure? >> look, charlie, we're here to implement the president's agenda. the president ran on a pro-economic growth, pro-job croatian agenda. that's what we're doing. we're working every day to do that. we're just plowing ahead with that. >> clearly that sounds like a canned answer that you expected to that question. how are you going to get it through congress when so much attention and so much >> as you know, you said we're going to cincinnati today. we're going to look at our inland waterway system. we've got 12,000 miles of inland waterways. enormous amount of freight moves through those inland waterways. we are a huge exporter of agricultural products to the world that moves through the inland waterways, the ohio river and mississippi river. we talked on monday about air traffic control and the privatization of air traffic control. we're doing all of these things to make american citizens' lives better. we're t

al: the russians interfered in our election to disrupt -- charlie: but did they want to put somebody in the white house who they had influence with, not with him but people around him? al: or with him. if the trump businesses are in large part financed by -- it's hard to borrow money in the united states after you've gone bankrupt many times. if your son is saying there's a lot of russian money coming into our business, he's presumably saying because there's a lot of russian money coming into their business. so that's -- part of the kremlin playbook is corrupting people, getting their claws into them by investing in them. and corrupting them. nd so we will -- this will unfold. we're at a fairly early stage of this. charlie: let me talk about the budget they have and look at this domestic agenda. is this going to mean that in fact for this president, he's going to have a hard time getting his domestic agenda passed because the focus will be on the investigations. al: i think he'll have a hard time getting his domestic agenda passed because his budget is pretty much dead on arrival. charlie: that's