they threw out the guy in charge of planning the transition, chris christie, including all the briefing materials he had prepared, list of possible candidates for administration jobs, even national security staffers have said crucial briefing materials even on national security issues appear to have just never even been opened, let alone used substantively by the incoming trump teams. at the health and human services department one of the people brought in as an adviser to the trump transition was a long-time anti-abortion activist lawyer named scott lloyd. during that transition, scott lloyd was brought in as a special adviser in health and human services but he didn't have any specific job title. one day, though, somebody came

staffing was absolutely blownup it was done by chris christie. they had done according to independent observers a pretty darn good job andhey just burned that. so they have been behind. epmost administrations, ublican and democrat, at the office of personnel management put in professionals, i mean really talented people. i'r known a num them myself, and, you know, because they recognizehat personnel i policy in any administration. you have the greatest ideas and policy in the making but unless you have able, committed people to execute those policies, it's for naught. that's exactly what's een the problem here. >> woodruff: change of subject, but relat in ay because it's administration policy, david, as we learned from the census bureau, from the administration, the trumpti administ, that what the census folks are going to do in 2020 is add a question about people's citizenship, raising all kinds of questions about whether this is going to be a deterrent to people

that's what people need to do. >> chris christie is the drama taking over? >> from the beginning staff failures to the president have exacerbated the problem. the president, the tweeting and other things he does makes him popular. it made him win, but also created some down sides. the rob porter situation was not a situation the president created. that has led to all the things we've seen this month. >> security clearances taken away. >> yeah. the fact that was not handled correctly from the beginning, the fact you had all these people on interim clearances created a lot of these problems. it's nice to say the president creates drama and we have to look away from that. i agree with reince on the issues of the courts and the tax cut. the problem is the president has been ill served by staff over the period of the last 15 months where they create the distractions through their infighting and leaking. >> the leaking has continued. reince, the security clearances, you were chief of staff. we're learning this week, not only jared kushner, but 30 white house offic

on that run. >> reporter: back at the house, courtney dozed through her first wake-up while chris and christi made their way outside to the spa. just after 6:30, chris looked in to courtney again, second call, headed back to the spa. life's last normal moments, 6:37 a.m. >> i got up out of bed and i was putting on my robe and i just heard this panicked -- panicked scream, my dad yelling for me. i ran to the back porch and i saw him just trying to pull out my mom out of the spa. >> 911 emergency. >> reporter: it was she who dialed 911 as she and her father struggled to lift her mother out of the spa. >> it was the first moments of the worst day of our lives. >> reporter: is it possible for people to understand what it's like to be in that situation? >> i don't think so. to see both your parents in the worst time that you've ever seen them. obviously my mom unconscious and my dad just panicked and for the first time in my life seeing him just -- that way not knowing what to do. >> because he was a cop. he was used to dealing with those kinds of things. >> he was a cop used to deeling with those

he jokes about it and many, and reince priebus and even chris christie say he likes chaos, but therehis other sentiment that he is frustrated when things don't sound like it's smooth sailing. which is it really? >> i don't think the president minds chaos like some of the people around him do. you heard reince priebus, former chief of staff, others publicly say this administration has to work. he doesn't like the news coverage of a chaotic administration that's wayward and is not hitting its notes. so there's two things. the president often doesn't mind the infighting, in fact, he publicly said he likes to watch his top advisers joust to see who love him the most. those were his words at one point. but he doesn't like consuming coverage of how that manifested itself. you have on guns and on tariffs, you have shape shifting all the time. nobody knows exactly what's going to happen. the president is going outside his policy and protocol process to make announcements whenever he feels like it. we're trying to get things done and the president's tendency to fly out of the seat of his pant

he is taking back those progressive values that chris christie took away. it's not just phil murphy. i remember going to new jersey with curry. we went downstair in the belly of the more conservative parts of that state. monmouth county i believe it was. the 11th district. a guy name d vingo paul who if e came here today you would say what you said to yourselves. after all these speakers, this guy's got game. he wasn't supposed to win because nobody wins in that district. well, they were wrong. a seven-point upset victory for vingo paul. that is real work. i was in washington state last week, my friends. and you know what, was in the d the legislature has been transformed in washington state and how is that so, you might ask, because he was just elected. well, they flipped the state. they took up and pass and signed a series of sweeping voting rights reforms that the republicans had been able to stymie for years. we believe that all eligible voters should be able to cast their right to vote. the republicans don't. they want to make it harder for people to v

he is taking back the progressive values that chris christie took away. and it's not just phil murphy. i remember going to new jersey with chairman curry. we went down state in the belly of the more conservative parts of the state. mammoth county, i believe it was. a guy named vin paul, who if he came here today, he would say what you said to yourselves after all these speaksers, this guy's got game. he wasn't supposed to win. because nobody wins in that district. well they were wrong. seven-point upset victory for paul. that is real work. i was in washington state last week, my friends. and you know what? the election of dingra transformed the state legislate tour in washington state. how is it so, you might ask? she just got aelected. because they flipped the state they were able to finally take up and pass and sign a series of sweeping voting rights reforms that the republicans had been able to stimy for years. we believe that all eligible voters should be able to cast their right to vote. the republicans don't. they want to make it harder for people t

and just a couple days after donald trump was elected he booted chris christie. that should have been a real signal to us of what was to come if his head of transition was booted a couple of days after the election. so you just can't put together a transition team like this overnight. and what you're talking about is not only the most departures in the first year of an administration that we have seen in 40 years, but it is also the failure to even name people to new posts. so not only do we have rex tillerson, secretary of state, gary cohn, top economic advisor, david shulkin, veterans affairs, h.r. mcmaster, the national security advisor. the list goes on and on of all these people leaving. but we don't have the trump administration even putting forward yet at this point, more than a year in, the name of a new south korea ambassador. and we're about to go into talks with kim jong-un, the north korean dictator, and we don't even have a nomination for a u.s. ambassador to south korea. some of this is just self-inflicted wounds. this is own-goals, brian, where the

chris christie put jared kushner's father in jail. this week we learned credible reporting, they have a past, but we've done reporting that president trump is asking his chief of staff, which somehow is still in this job, to look for replacement for jared, his daughter and son, and also asked his daughter and son to look for replacement for john kelly. we know the kushners have no right being there, and president trump seems to know, as well, but they are his family. >> okay, but let's talk about the fact now hope hicks leaving, seems as if the president is going to be somewhat isolated. no one is going to be in the white house. why would he ask jared kushner to leave and his daughter to leave when he has someone, a confidante, hope hicks, the history he has with her and relationship he has with her and now she's gone? >> the timing of her departure, too, couldn't be worse for him, as well. so now who's left there for him really to talk to? and that's another reason, even if you're clear minded, at least jared is somebody he believes

and chris christie and trump have a really good relationship. sometimes it can be feisty. ristie has -- i know new jersey, a lot of people didn't like him. i think -- i still think it's christie's time. watch. >> here's my prediction. a lot of time left. it's going to happen. >> laura: he will get hired at some point. >> look at the examples that you gave. susan rice did some -- she told clearly false stories repeatedly on national television. lois learner, improperly targeted conservative groups. found in contempt of congress. and kathleen sebelius, the roll-out of obamacare was disastrous. so there's a lot of people that made some major mistakes and did not lose their jobs over it. >> laura: john kelly, i like general kelly. he might be a change. >> i cannot say that. everybody thinks where does he go? where does the president go for a chief of staff after that? >> laura: i think that's a tough one. great conversation. why is the vatican admitting to distorting letters of the retired pope? we'll tell you in the seen an unseen segment. that's wild. first, you won't believe

anthony scaramucci very close to the president and former new jersey governor chris christie talking about what's going on inside the white house with staff. >> i know. it's civilian organization. >> this has been going on for administration after administration after administration. the idea of white house staffs having disagreements and fighting and leaks goes back a long time. >> can i ask you, i want to get this in before i let you go. you have a good relationship with the president. what is it like to be in his inner circle? we're looking from outside the glass. you know what it's like. >> he's an incredible man. he was an incredible man to be around when he was a candidate. i've enjoyed seeing him quite a bit. i was actually at the gridiron dinner on saturday evening. i got to see him there. he's exactly what you expect. he's kind of that blue collar billionaire up close and personal. we were so busy, we ate fast food. those are the jokes we talked about. people made a big deal out of our book. it's true. he works so hard for the american people. he wants the united states to s

former chief of staff reince preibus and chris christie will weigh in on the week in the white house. >> and democratic senator chris murphy, debates and the power house round table. obviously. >> you're there too. >> yeah. >> not power house unless vega is on. thank you, george. >> see you guys. >>> we'll move on to the massive clean up after the nor'easter. flooded homes downed power lines and made a mess on the roads and at the airport. >> eva pilgrim has more on the clean up and ongoing travel mess. >> reporter: this morning millions of americans in the northeast waking up to catastrophic scenes like this. >> the wind was scary. >> reporter: major cities stretching from maryland to maine trees split in half, roads collapsed, power lines out. leaving more than a million in the dark. >> it was so devastating. >> reporter: the massive nor'easter turning deadly killing at least eight. all by falling trees. outside boston this tree slamming through a car's windshield and those gusting winds completely uprooting trees in washington, d.c. look at this scene in massachusetts. the tides ri

. >> chris christie there on hope hicks' unexpected resignation this week.hat announcement comes just a day after her closed door testimony before the house intelligence committee during which she told lawmakers that she sometimes tells white lies for president trump. joining me now congressman castro of texas. very good to see you again. let's get right in here. >> great to see you. >> how important is it to you whether hope hicks made this comment about white lies at all. >> you are right. i cannot say exactly what she said but i think many of us left that interview of the impression that she was willing and did spread information at the president's direction. that's troubling not only for the members of committee in congress but should be troubling for the american people. this information that she gave to the committee. i know you cannot be specific but you are saying she has indicated the spread of missed information. if that's the case, what are your chances and how much do you want to get her back in front of your committee to a subpoena. >> we need t

family members in the white house it makes it much more difficult -- >> i always think rich, that chris christie is trying to send a message to the president himself on these things. what was the message there? >> one, he doesn't like jared kushner. they have a long history going back to christie prosecuting jared's father and jared ousting christie from the transition. he's right on the fundamental question. jared and ivanka never should have been in there. they don't know anything about government. they distort the policy process because you don't know whether you can disagree with him, you're on thin ice. i take matt's point as a general matter. you don't know where trump is on a lot of stuff. you do know where he is on protectionism. this is something he's been consistent on for 30 or 40 years. it's something he's been chomping at the bit to do and his aides have raeigned him pac. he said, i'm the president of the united states i'm going to do it. i want to talk about the president has said about russia this morning. if we can put this tweet back up on the screen because i think it is intere

jared kushner, chris christie, rudy giuliani. [ everybody talking at once ] >> everything changes in life and you have to adjust and move forward. different people will be in the white house. barack obama was very different. he had a very different chief of staff. so i think that going forward you will see a variety of people, but comfort level and this highest office in the world is extremely important and that is one of the real problems here. >> comfort level is not what this is about. >> it is about that. i know that this is counter due difference to your book, but if he would have had giuliani or chr christie who could lead from knowing the president understanding how to deal with washington, not everything is about how the books are going to be made. things are changing and we have to change with the time and this is what the democratic party needs to do as well. >> we'll see who might come next and then we'll have you back on to debate it. meanti meantime, i appreciate all of you. >>> coming up next, she has been described as having been president trump's security blanket. how

i want to take a listen to new jersey governor chris christie real quick, and then we'll talk. >> the president has the right to do what he want to do. if the president has absolutely no con if i dance in the attorney general, then the president has to act. not just criticize, but act. he has the right to do that. >> the president, tara, does have the right to do that. when it comes to attorney general jeff sessions. now he is calling him mr. ma goo it seems. is the president trying to push his ag out? >> here is what donald trump does. i know this. what he does is he won't ever directly fire someone. remember he didn't fire comey. comey heard about it on the news. he won't fire you. what he will do is make it very uncomfortable for you and get someone else, if he feels like he needs to fire you, he will get someone else to do it. but he will make the situation extremely uncomfortable. so a lot of these leaks, a lot of people say this administration leaks a lot. a lot of these leaks, when they are leaks about people negatively in the administration, a lot are coming from donald trump.

where was chris christie way back when? where have all the lawmakers been?e -- we're hearing president trump and marco rubio trying to sound like gun control advocates. there is a change going on here. have you seen black, white, brown, male, female, gay, straight from all regions of this country affected by this issue, you see them mashirching washington, the traditional way to bring attention to an issue. scores and hundreds of thousands of people, there is something very different about this time. >> i don't disagree with that. there are 3 to 5 million ar-15s in $ worlthe world right now. there are millions of people like me who own firearms who don't feel like we're the bad guy. >> sewure. >> and there are other people -- i think there are a lot of people who spoke today who would like to take everyone's gun away, others don't want to take everyone's gun away. when i was in high school, you could go to the parking lot, there were guns at school, they were all in the pickup truck on the gun rack and nobody shot each other. >> what are you say? >> i'm sayi

let's end this. >>> let's bring in the power house round table former new jersey governor chris christienna brazil, jonathan swann and abc news correspondent mary bruce. governor christie, i recall republicans screamed bloody murder when obama shook hands with castro. if president obama had agreed to meet one on one with kim jong-un without concessions, republican heads would have been exploding. >> remember republican heads also exploded when i shook hands with president obama. there's a lot of that reaction too. >> that's true. >> i think the president is doing what i think he's being forced to do given the failure of policy over the last number of years. it's smart to have the sitdown. i don't think we have a choice. we've allowed three administrations, clinton, bush and obama, to pursue a policy where they didn't engage with north korea. assuring us they would not allow them. we heard all those presidents say they would not allow a nuclear north korea. we now have one. >> would you have jumped on this offer? >> this is the president's style. i love when people are surprised. we're sh

questions for reince priebus and the ally he chose to run his transition, chris christie.ses democrats by backing their calls for sweeping gun legislation before backing down. then he defies his top economic advisers with a surprise announcement on trade. >> what's been allowed to go on for decades is disgraceful.

"action news" reporter christie ileto is there and she joins us live chris -- christie. >> reporter: walter, still a heavy police presence here that started as a domestic dispute and then quickly turned violent. one of the stabbing victims a woman ran across the street to the fire department to get help. net filed police who swarmed the home, with that armed suspect barricaded, inside. >> nd i cannot move i cannot move, and, you know, that was pretty much it. >> reporter: commotion this man who didn't want to be identified heard was an armed man, stabbing several people in the apartment below. sources say that a woman and her children lived in that apartment of the duplex on the 800 block of jenkintown road for the last couple of years. her boyfriend had recently moved in. >> officers immediately forced entry into the house confronted the suspect, the suspect refused to comply, with officers, demands and the officer had to discharge his weapon and shoot the suspect. >> reporter: now police could not go into details with how many victims were stabbed or if that suspect was killed but

by the way, my good friend john kerry is now presiding over new jersey and they no longer have chris christie. there with to be up you mr. chairman, we lifted up democrats across the board. t, hemurphy is kicking but is taking back those progressive values. it is not just him. i remember going to new jersey with the chairman. and the morestate conservative parts of that state. the 11th district, there was a you saidould say what to yourself after all of these speakers. the sky has game. he wasn't supposed to win, ins in that district. that israel were work. i was in washington state last week. transformed the state legislature in washington state. how is it so, you may ask? they flipped the state. they were able to finally take up and pass & is series of sweeping voting rights reform that the republicans have been able to stymie for years. we believe that all eligible voters should be able to cast the right to vote. the republicans don't. they want to make it harder for people to vote. that is what they have done for years. until theton state, democrats were elected. i must give a shout out t

people who got significant raises and the common thread they were all connected to former governor chris christie. some of the raises were as high as 70,000 i want to bring in a former candidate for november and john, welcome back to "chasing news" how are you. >> good with you. you had governor crest ty as he left office about singing the praises of new jersey tran. i have yet to find a commuter meanwhile is this axe like what we expect in hol politics connected insiders taking the money and we still don't have positive control that could save lives well, that is the problem. mean, we. >> own up the christie administration, the administration that was too talk about attitude but the real action really not in keeping with those so you can see so many people being brought into new jersey. granted, for exam pe, well, brought to work on the projects when in fact he was press spokesperson for the goff and received salary. in new jersey, transit or trying to mack it to work with little machine inand the past eight years with no leadership. i am hopeful now under the governor that we have two executive

matt, let me begin with you and we heard from chris christie. we heard from senator lankford right there. both fairly confident, they say, that president trump is not going to move to fire robert mueller. are you that sure? >> i don't know. i guess we have to see what happens. it's been a heck of an interesting process. for my point of view, i served with bob mueller. i trust that he's going to do the right thing by the american people and he will look at the facts and talk to everyone he should talk to and make recommendations and i think that's what his job is and i think for most of us who support president trump, the most alarming part of all this is that some of our worst fears that the fbi and people within the fbi were somehow agitating against the president turned out to be true. you have james comey and you have now mr. mccabe both kind of caught up in this idea that they were leaking, inappropriately leaking and you have the -- you have the ethics officer recommending that mr. mccabe be fired. i mean, i think this is a moment where the

former new jersey governor chris christie said that trump is housebating his white proclivity for staff chaos by bringing family members on as top advisers and taking scrutiny of the son-in-law and his business interests. that jeffie also said sessions should stay on the job and can be effective. but that trump has to act confidencehas lost in mr. sessions. the president has been ill-served by staff of it -- over the period of the last 15 months. time for a couple more phone calls. tennessee, independent, go ahead. caller: good morning. i am calling to comment on the thisr of the president weekend, last year i made a comment and i called this for my and said that section of the president's comment and when he was running for election, when he became that the point is to be the last president of the united states and the first dictator of the united states. joke,t believe that was a i believe he put it for so it could be considered by his race and that is how i am looking at it. host: north carolina, republican. good morning. i just turned on to your station, all of these people are just

piece i was chris christie always along any. knowledge of what's going on in the russian military or security establishment he wasn't really in a position to provide any of this kind of information and also i think i've read maybe three maybe not true but still him self so in talking to i think to the guardian which is a lot of contact pushing the stay with us if examples that actually he wasn't involved in any way production of that i'm going to jump in here we have to go to a hard break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on british russian relations with. the not ones that. i'm. going to bring. this is what was because. when you don't. know through ted. said. claiming to know everything that. you speak french. that's a new. there's a place probably in this a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia god . is controlled by them one day impose the opening to. the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by artists like picasso and modigliani i can't

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my own home state is becoming a flash point now that we have gone from chris christie files to phil murphytrum in new jersey, taking the lead on the east coast in resisting the federal government on all matters immigration. we have mayor bill diblasio championing the rights of immigrants and trying to resist the president and it will end in a court room. jillian: to use the other states joining? judge napolitano: 16 have joined, tomorrow morning it will be 20. you want to run to the other studio? rob: let's get the line. the nra firing back after supreme court justice calls for the repeal of the second amendment. in an op-ed for the new york times justice john paul stevens, now 97 years old writing the move would weaken the nra ability to block constructive gun-control legislation. the nra quickly responded. >> justice stevens, you may have been a supreme court justice and i may just be a small voice for freedom but you should be ashamed of yourself lose your words and your ultimate wish list is a disgrace to america and the values we all hold dear. rob: the nra vowing to unapologetically

where was chris christie way back when? where have all the lawmakers been?sident trump and marco rubio trying to sound like gun control advocates. there is a change going on here. have you seen black, white, brown, male, female, gay, straight from all regions of this country affected by this issue, you see them marching in washington, the traditional way to bring attention to an issue. scores and hundreds of thousands of people, there is something very different about this time. >> i don't disagree with that. there are 3 to 5 million ar-15s in the world right now. there are millions of people like me who own firearms who don't feel like we're the bad guy. >> sure. >> and there are other people -- i think there are a lot of people who spoke today who would like to take everyone's gun away, others don't want to take everyone's gun away. when i was in high school, you could go to the parking lot, there were guns at school, they were all in the pickup truck on the gun rack and nobody shot each other. >> what are you say? >> i'm saying someone needs to ask the qu

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here's what reince priebus and former trump adviser chris christie said about sessions today. don't think it would be good for the president for attorney general sessions to leave but i think the president has made up his mind in regard to how he feels about the recuse at. he feels like that was a first sin, the original sin and he feels slighted by it. he doesn't like it and he's not going to let it go. >> the president has the right to do what he wants to do. if the president has no confidence in the attorney general, then the president has to act. not just criticize but act. >> so michelle, do you think it's better that jeff sessions goes or stays? >> i can't believe i'm saying this because i think jeff sessions is one of the truly worst people in public life but i think that he should stay. first of all, he believes the attorney general is his own conciliatory, a person who wouldn't recuse themselves isn't fit to be attorney general because by all ethical -- all of the ethical standards of the department, it was a no brainer, there was no other option but for him to recuse

in related news, chris christie was cited yesterday eating a snickers bar. trump is flawed, the media insists that america has an obligation to ber shocked and disgusted. if there is one thing reporters do well, it's setting a high moral tone for the rest of us. that's why people are anxious to take important life advice fromf tv anchors. parents dream about allowing anyone in cnn's prime-time line-up to babysit their kids. come on. what is more shocking is trump's personal life or the mindlessness and the dishonest of the average tv anchor? which of these hurts america more? it is not a close call. mark steyn is an author who had never heard of stormy daniels until last night. he joins us now. i am sure you watched every moment of this unfolding saga. what is your view?w? >> well, i do think that if one is in the media. i am an old fleet street hand. we knew about sex scandals in the u.k. three in a bed. autoerotic asphyxiation. i have been there and done. that i know all about it. when this thing started and tucker, you may have seen anderson cooper asking

chris christie got ousted for mike pence. they were behind the 8 ball from day one, they're still playing catchup. >> ousted by jared kushner or at least in part by jared kushner. josh, you were in the inner sang item of the obama administration. what is it usually like to fill a position in the we asked wing? >> there are people who are eager to come to the place and work in the building and be surrounded by the people who are exercising the most influence in washington, d.c., and in some cases, the most influence in the world on a particular policy area. i think there are two primary reasons why the trump administration is having a lot of trouble filling these jobs in addition to the reasons laid out by kelly and jonathan. president trump doesn't treat his staff well. he pubically embarrasses them and undermines them. he was conspicuous in passing over gary cohn for the fed job. you're not walking in there expecting a lot of support from the top. the second thing is you want to have an opportunity to influence the process b

desired in this administration, despite the fact there was a good transition plan put in place by chris christiead of the transition. but you have to start to consider how many lives that scott pruitt, for example, has left. the security, travel. he's been doing what the president wants cutting the environmental regulation, the size of his department. he's a hero in conservative circles. it's possible that he has more leeway. but you come to a point i think when the damage that someone is doing, the administration from these repeated scandals and stories, outweighs what he brings the administration. you think that the white house might start to consider if somebody else there can do the same job with less controversy. >> i have to get to this other story. abc news reporting that pruitt's protective detail broke down the door of that condominium that we've been talking about all morning on capitol hill because they believed to be unconscious. this happened a year ago. abc reporting that the epa is being really kind of silent, mysterious, they're not answering questions about this. what do we know

within the department and then reward him by firing him as he had done say to mitt romney or chris christie. it would put on display so many of the characteristic called qualities of the president. and pruett has proven himself to be an absolute water carrier for the president. it would be an absolute tour de force. you wouldn't think things could get much lower an the department of justice. this would be the test of that. >> we have watched the president in the open attempt to subvert the independence of the department of justice at every turn from firing comey and telling him to let flynn go to berating the attorney general to telling his white house council to fire mueller and direct mueller to be fired, berating rod rosenstein. he has not been it appears not been successful particularly, not gotten rid of mueller, but the question is how long that wall holds up. >> right. and have some bricks already fallen. you're right. some of the big signature items he wants to achieve still are left undone. but you know, a 40-year career guy, real standup fellow to everyone who worked at doj resign

i did that at the point where he was going around campaigning with chris christie who got around five votes in new mexim hampshire and allow him to run his campaign. >> do you have immunity? >> they say you're not a subject. when you go in there what they say is as long as you tell the truth anything else you tell them you're not going to get charged for. sgr everything you told them they say they will not charge you for? >> yeah. back to this point about the taxe texts. >> they can get them from your service provider. >> i was thinking to save time, i've been advised against this, maybe i'll just give them my passwo password. >> then you're going to comply. >> then i would. >> you willmply. >> i have no problem of complying. i will not sit 15 hours after i've sat with them. >> is there more to these two page pages? >> no. there's something else i didn't get from my attorney and say you have to show up to the grand jury next friday. >> march 9th. >> that's what i've been told my my lawyer. >> to your knowledge he did not respond before 3:00 p.m. today. sdplm. >> you haven't talked to

opioid has been far less than it should have been and far less than his own task led by governor chris christiended. to substitute for a policy, talk about the kind of death penalty that has been practiced in dictatorial countries some of whom the president has supported or praised is the wrong answer. you don't do it by threatening to kill people. you do it by dealing with the problem. the supply side and demand side of this issue. talk about a capital punishment, talk about the death penalty, let the dictatorships think that way. we, in the united states, don't. we don't run around talking who we will kill and we don't praise foreign dictators and do nothing when russia is attacking america or go into korea war and -- >> i got to keep us on focus, brent. >> those are pretty important issues! we could have a war, victor. >> i understand they are important issues but we have got this issue to talk about in this segment. andre, i need you to weigh in on this. do you believe, do you support a plan that would include the death penalty for drug dealers? and who qualified as a drug dealer? are we ta

going to do it differently, getting rid of the 100 odd member office that was recommended by chris christieho does know something about government was just a huge, huge mistake. and this embarrassment was something that was not only predictable but was, in fact, predicted. >> melissa, the "post" describes the director and deputy director respectively as a college dropout with arrests for drunk driving and bad checks and a marine corps reservist with arrests for assault, disorderly conduct, fleeing an order and underage drinking. the without deputy press secretary raj shah said that the presidential personnel office is filling the administration with the best and brightest appointees who share the president's vision for the country, staff work tirelessly and have experience consistent with the practice in previous administrations. the "post" reporting is that they do not. you'll remember the president several months ago when questioned about why there were not the embassy positions, the ambassadors, the diplomats across the world, why those weren't being filled, he said that he was saving th

that didn't stop chris christie from dab dancing.strategist karl rove through strategy to the winds in the worst dance ever. >> and the best humor is when you make fun of yourself. >> reporter: will farrell -- like the time you twirled your daughter in a near wardrobe malfunction. jeanne moos cnn, new york. >> thanks for joining us, ac 360 starts now. >>> we begin with breaking news. this is just unfolding now after a whole lot of mystery with what began as kim jong's train. what can you tell us about this surprise two-day trip? >> well, the big news of course that it is kim jong-un. that was the general feeling that it was kim given the level of security that it has been in beijing for the last couple of days. he

of initially kellyanne conway's portfolio dealing with the opioid crisis along with governor chris christiey has an opioid epidemic as well like a lot of other states, like new hampshire. but i think his view of taking this on is like this tough on crime the say way he's going to take on gang groups in america, that his supporters seem to respond to. this is a very different issue. and, you know, it just doesn't really -- there is a pretty long history at this point of even republicans talking about criminal justice reform, talking about reforming the way that we deal with drug crimes. rick perry, who is obviously in this administration, was leading the way on that kind of stuff in texas. newt gingrich had a change of heart. he has a lot of change of hearts on things like that. but on this issue, trump is completely far removed from that. >> i enjoyed having you. you're regulars. she's new here. i enjoy the perspective. her piece is called "the departure of the trump whisperer has left the white house in chaos, which certainly pleases some angling to get in" that's it for us. thanks for wat

. >> new reaction of former new jersey governor chris christie defending president trump's public criticismrney general jeff sessions. this latest war of words drawing the attention of special counsel robert mueller who's looking at the president's efforts to fire sessio sessions according to "the washington post." from communications director hope hicks announcing her departure to growing public scrutiny of presidential son-in-law jared kushner, joining me now is congressman jeffries, a lawyer, as well, i should note from my home borough of brooklyn. i want your reaction to the chaos. i'll read a little of a piece of this earlier week. trump's decision to launch a potential trade war born out of anger at every simmering issues and the result of a broken internal process that's failed to deliver him consensus views that represent the best advice of his team so a window into the dysfunction. give us a sense of being there in the nation's capital how dysfunctional is it? >> well, from the beginning of this administration the white house has been riddled with chaos, crisis and confusion and ad