david bossie. hope can you find time to take your wife on vacation. maybe just a weekend. vid, thank you for helping us get to the bottom of that. ainsley: vacation, cafeteria? brian: yes, fuddruckers. jillian: i agree with you enjoy your time while you have it. let's get to a fox news alert. a warning before you log on to your commuter this morning. that massive global cyber attack could be far from over. security experts expecting even more hacks today. the ransom ware hitting 200,000 victims and at least 150 countries so far. the white house holding emergency meetings to evaluate the attack. the hacker was exploit ago tool that may have been stolen from the nsa. also breaking right now, the u.s. vowing to tighten the screws after north korea tests a missile they claim is capable of carrying a nuclear war head. kim jong un celebrating after the long wage rocket flew for 30 minutes and crashed into the sea o. nikki haley condemning the watch. until he me our conditions. we're not sitting down with limb. thinking blackhawks player: -- giving up first class plane seat toe a

we are told tonight david bossie is not going to go back in. he has family concerns. we don't know what that means for loun do youski. it is a fluid situation. you can see why there is anxiety and uncertainty inside the west wing right now. >> ashly, because leaks have become such a thing and because all we know from this white house is what we get from the podium, that's the sper face with the customer since the president doesn't appear to take questions on camera anymore. i know you will be careful here. but what kinds of people leak to you on average? are they career types? are they appointees? you have had by lines with 20 and 30 -- all of you now on television have -- we have never seen numbers like this at all. so is there a leak or profile you can put together -- leaker profile you can put together. >> i think to think that hopefully everyone leak to the "washington post." but you do -- you notice in these stories we do mention how many people we have talked to. and you get a lot of -- without saying anything specific you get a lot of different people who all h

david bossie helped set up his hiring. he introduced him to steve bannon.im when there were only five people working on the campaign. i think it's donald trump's comfort level, too, that is at issue too. >> this seems to me a very bad sign for the white house. because it is an acknowledgement that they are in a state of permanent crisis. they have decided they have to institutionalize crisis response 27/7. that's not a good look especially less than six months into your administration. and as julie was saying. this is not a communications problem. but trump still thinks. >> it's a problem. that does it for "inside politics." the news continues after a quick break with my colleague wolf blitzer. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $509 on auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. he's happy.t's with him? your family's finally eating vegetables thanks to our birds

david bossie, close friend of bannon. and miller, that relationship starts with bannon and breitbart. they're all breitbart-bannon- orchestrated personnel. so that tells you who's really running the show and what's going on at that point. >> ...with that breaking news from the campaign trail, donald trump's lewd remarks about women... >> narrator: but then, a shocking revelation... >> ...they let you do it. you can do anything. grab them by the (bleep). >> narrator: ...the emergence of the access hollywood videotape. >> the trump camp has swiftly launched into disaster mode. >> people were revoking their endorsements. republicans were all coming out against trump. and we know now, internally, reince priebus was urging trump to consider getting out of the race. >> narrator: rather than give up, bannon wanted to fight back. >> bannon recommends that trump hit back 100 times harder. change the topic just enough so that the emphasis goes from donald trump's wayward transactions with women to bill clinton's activities decades

if david bossie is coming back, that means a win for steve bannon.een four months into this presidency. we've talk the about upheavals. none of the top aides have left. they're all still there. >> ashley? >> donald trump just can't quit these people. corey was fired. bo bossy was pushed out. >> why was corey fired? i'm getting so confused at this point. >> one big thing is he clashed with jared and got on jared's bad side. but the point is even once they were fired and were quote, unquote, oat, they were still talking to the president. so they were never totally out, and he got them in the first place because there weren't many people to do the job of jumping on his campaign early on when he was a long shot. and he may get them again to help in the crisis because there's not that many people who want to come in and help with this. >> what are they actually going to do? what does a crisis manager do in this situation? >> priority to jared kushner, who is running the white house. it always has to be the family. you always have to be on the right side o

former top trump campaign officials corey lewandowski and david bossie were at the white house yesterdayth are under consideration for key roles in a white house war room that would deal with stories about investigations of the white house by the f.b.i. and congress. that would include multiple probes into the trump team's contacts with russia. trump son-in-law jared kushner is now at the center of that story, following reports, confirmed by cbs news, that kushner tried to set up a secret back channel to russia during the presidential transition. sources say kushner's rivals on the staff are now taking shots at him, and for the first time, there's a sense in the white house that kushner is "vulnerable." president trump, though, is said to value kushner's work, including his key role in last week's trip to the middle east, and mr. trump is well known for putting family bonds first. today, mr. trump pushed back against recent negative stories in a tweet saying: >> i think he's very pleased with the work of his staff. >> reporter: press secretary sean spicer today agreed. are you saying rep

destroying enemies talk about that and the fact that you spoke with someone formerly of "breitbart" and david bossi as well. >> guest: the thing when trump and bannon got together that first time in almost every time after that there was a common quality that they shared in the sort of real fighter instinct. you saw that manifest after the firing of comey in the pushback that was happening when trump went to the coast guard academy last weekend and gave the commencement address insteadfi fight, fight, fight. i'm going to go for it. that is pure bannon-ism 100%. i think that's really the thing they have in common trump says he recognized the wealthy guy i who was kind of like him. i think there's an awful lot about the two of them that is very much the same including that instincts to go after people, hit them when they are down. winners and losers in trump got it from his father back when he was a little boy. his father kept saying in the dichotomy of the world there are winners and losers in the donald r. winner. that's very much also the steve bannon back story. that's how the two of them really

the possibility of bringing in reinforcements, ousted campaign manager, corey lewandowski and david bossie both spotted at the >> there's always some tension and there should be tension at the white house. you don't want a white house where everybody agrees all the time. really, that should be happening outside of the public view and should be done inside the white house to help the president do his job. >> reporter: according to three sources close to the white house, the president is seeking advice on more potential staff changes that could include chief of staff reince priebus. no final decision has been made yet as of this hour. >> thank you. >>> we are getting a much clearer picture tonight what led to tiger woods arrest over the holiday weekend for driving under then influence. the police report just released today gives a dramatic act to the moment the police came across the golfer behind the wheel but in no condition to drive. >> reporter: according to the affidavit florida police say when they approached woods' mercedes 2:00 a.m. monday nine miles from his home, woods was asleep a

david bossie is a villainous figure from the democratic side. he's the guy that did the documentary on hillary clinton, which became the whole story of how they got to spend any dollar they wanted to spend. >> exactly. i just think this is -- >> citizens united. the whole thing is from him, his attack on hillary. >> exactly, the whole digging out of the campaign finance laws. but i just think that this is, you know, trump has had such a great week in europe, such a great week in israel and the wailing wall and in saudi arabia. like for once he's on message. and this is going to be a real test when he wakes up tomorrow morning, is he going to reach for his twitter and immediately explode over all of this breaking news? is he going to go off message and complety derail -- >> if you go after h son-in-law, you're going after his daughter. you're going after somebody he may just explode after. >> imagine how one of us would feel if one of our family members were under scrutiny, which means under investigation by the fbi. it's monumental. remember, th

former top campaign officials corey lewandowski and david bossy were at the white house yesterday.under key consideration for a white house war room that would deal with stories about investigations by the fbi and congress. that would include multiple probes into the trump team's contacts with russia. jared kushner is now at the center of that story, following reports confirmed by cbs news that kushner tried to set up a secret back channel to russia during the presidential transition. sources say kushner's rivals on the staff are now taking shots at him. and for the first time, there's a sense in the white house at that kushner is quote. >> -- vulnerable. he played a key role in the trip to the middle east and trump is well-known for putting family bonds first. today trump pushed back in a tweet saying it is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up by the fake news media. >> i think he's very pleased with the work of his staff. >> reporter: press secretary sean spicer agreed. >> are you saying that reports that there's going to be

david bossie, good morning to you, david. >> good morning. ainsley: breaking news this morning.en to this. >> in terms of quote staff shakeups, you know, i always read things that simply aren't true. we're constantly being told people who work in this white house what's going on here. >> we have at the bottom of the screen that mike is out as white house communications director. can you confirm that yes or month? >> so what i will say is that he has expressed his desire to leave the white house and made very clear that he will see through the president's international trip. ainsley: all right. so, david, what's your reaction? >> you know, i don't know mike very well. but he has done a good job in trying to put together a communications staff at the white house, and it looks like it's his time to move on because the campaign -- the white house looks like it's going in a little bit different direction. clayton: david, you've been on this program multiple times saying we need different personnel, more personnel. is this the extent of what should change or should we expect to see ad

members are white house chief of staff reince priebus and steve bannon, corey lewandowski and david bossie also mentioned. neither of those two are in the trump administration but are loyalists. >> they are brushing aside questions about russia. here's how trump's national security adviser responded to reporters on saturday about it. >> we're not going to comment on jared. we're just not going to comment. >> generally speaking, general, would you be concerned if someone on the national security council or someone in this administration were to seek a back channel communication system with the russian members and with the kremlin? would that concern you not to address specifically but in general terms? >> no. we have back channel communications with a number of countries. so generally speaking about back channel communications, what that allows you to do is to communicate in a discrete manner, so to doesn't predispose you. so no, we would not be concerned about it. >> cnn u.s. security analyst, julia khaiem elaborated on what a back channel is. >> a back channel is an authorized, right, ove

discussed now to potentially come into the white house or support from the outside are folks like david bossiecorey lewandowski, former campaign hands like david urban, people that are friendly to steve bannon. >> so stephanie, one of the folks that may be headed to the white house, bossie, deputy campaign manager, what he said this morning when asked about whether there was even an opening. >> they've talked to, you know, many people including me. >> david, is that a yes, have you been asked? >> no. i'm not going to say that there's something sitting on the table for me to pick. that would be a little -- i think that's -- there's -- it's an ongoing conversation and think that that's a fair way to put it. >> so clearly, they're talking to him. clearly bossie may be going back. >> yeah. bossie is totally -- they're talking to bossie. i think it's likely based on what i heard from people inside that bossie is probably going to go inside. there's basically little chanko lewandowski. reince despises him. the feeling is mutual. jared kushner and ivanka trump don't trust him. no one likes cory lewan

also david bossie, the deputy campaign manager down the homestretch for president trump. bossy was on "fox & friends" this morning and would not say he is specifically being targeted for this role to lead what is being labeled as a war room of sorts to deal with the negative russia headlines on a daily basis. here is bossy from earlier today. >> i'm not going to say that there is something sitting on the table for me to pick. that would be a little -- i think that -- it is an on going conversation and i think that is a fairway, fairway to put it. reporter: neil, there have been several reports about this war room that might be established here at the white house to deal with russia. here is what i can tell you white house source familiar with the on going discussions described it as just that at this point, discussions. basically discussions trying to figure out how to get these russian headlines, this group would be able to deal with that aspect of it, the source telling me that a leader or potential leaders of that group has not yet been identified. neil. neil: thank yo

steve: david bossie, former deputy campaign manager for donald trump. >> thanks for having me.ctor james comey. senator rand paul will join us next. ainsley: what will the fbi look without him. his replacement might have strong ties to hillary clinton. what would that mean? ed henry breaks it down next. ♪ before fibromyalgia, i was a doer. i was active. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. woman: for some, cantly relieve fibromyalgia pain lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain a

just yesterday the former campaign manager, corey li lewandowski, deputy campaign manager david bossie were both seen leaving yesterday. they were inside talking to people inside the west wing about all of this. they are some of the names surfacing as part of this war room operation that's being set up at the white house. the question is whether or not corey lou d corey lewandowski takes a position at the white house. that would be something that would need to be passed by the president's family. you'll recall during the campaign he was fired by the campaign and first among the people inside the president's inner circle who were concerned about corey lewandowski were the president's it daughter ivanka trump and the son-in-law jared kushner. of course jared kushner is keeping his head down is the way sources close to him describe it because of the russia news that cropped up with respect to him last week, but he's summer still a very influential adviser to the president. >> lots of questions coming up for sean spicer. his briefing is scheduled to begin with less than an from now. we'll

mix the president's former campaign manager corey lewandowski and former deputy campaign manager david bossieth spotted leaving the white house on memorial day. over the holiday weekend, daughter ivanka seen at the white house too with the very lawyer president trump hired to handle the russia investigation. >> mr. president, did jared try to set up a back channel to the russians? >> reporter: those sightings happening after questions mount why the president's son-in-law and adviser jared kushner attempted to create a communication back channel with the russian ambassador. kushner is not a target of the fbi's russia probe. the white house is insisting he did nothing wrong. >> it's both normal in my opinion and acceptable. >> reporter: but some members of the president's party are raising concern. >> my view is i don't like it. i just don't. i know that some administration officials are saying, well, that's standard procedure. i don't think it's standard backing kushner saying in a statement jared is doing a great job for the country. i have total confidence in him. he is respected by virtuall

white house over the past few days, past few weeks, including corey lewandowski has been there and david bossie this is what i do think that we should say when we're looking at the whole communication strategy of the white house, and i think we're all in agreement here, that it's real being driven by president trump. it's not being driven by his aides, nor is he really taking their advice. oftentimes he will say something that will totally contradict what they were sent out to say 24, 48, 72 hours beforehand, so, you know, mike dubke leaves, but i don't think that's going to change anything in the white house, and i don't care who is standing behind that podium. it is still going to be probably the hardest job in the united states. >> all right, guys. everybody stand by. there's much more coming up, including a crucial test as the u.s. military ramps up its defense against a potential missile attack by kim jong-un's north korea. will the u.s. be able to shoot down an incoming icbm? how if guests book direct ater, choicehotels.com and stay twice they'll get a $50 gift card? summertime. badda boo

but of the four men that you pictured, the most important person in this case is david bossie and i thinkeople should remember that name if, indeed, he comes into the white house. he was a deputy, the campaign manager in the trump campaign, but, most important, he comes from an investigative congressional background. he helped let the investigations against bill and hillary clinton when bill clinton was president, from his perch in one of the hill investigative imphecommitt all through the hill hearings during the bill clinton years up to and including impeachment. he also ran citizens united. big research operation. he knows how the hill investigations work. . these are in the hands of republicans, although they are not necessarily friendly, i think he could help bring a better understanding, at least to the white house what is going on and then they could communicate it. one quick thing. it's not a war room issue. it's that they have a problem. that is the problem. the problem is they have a problem. >> is there a here here, although the president continues to say it's fake news, we kno

trump is mulling over returning david bossie, trump's former campaign deputy manager.imes" reports both discussed the possibility of returning to the white house with the president before his last overseas trip. >>> joining us from washington, d.c., national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. good to have you back with us. republican senator john mccain very critical. he spoke out yesterday about jared kushner's reported attempt to use russian facilities to communicate with moscow. take a listen to what he said. >> i know some administration officials are saying, well, that's standard procedure. i don't think its standard procedure prior to the inauguration of the president of the united states by someone who is not in an appointed position. . >> so, give me your take. is the white house bracing for more statements like this? are they somewhat concerned to hear some senior republican leaders express their concern about jared kushner? >> well, that tape you played was significant because john mccain in saying that became the first republican senator to publicl

. >> this has happened before, and david bossi, a tribe administration advisor said this on "fox & friends morning. he's going to go off, rip the staff apart, it is minute exaggerated. i do think this time, enough time has passed that the president may be making more changes than the tweaks we have seen before, based on my reporting. by john roberts is right, a lot of the reports are exaggerated. >> it is also wishful thinking. >> there is more crisis, crisis, but i don't believe that. >> we will continue talking to this on ot, but we have to go to commercial. more "outnumbered" in just a minute. ♪ ♪ depression is a tangle of multiple symptoms. ♪ that's why there's trintellix, a prescription medication for depression. trintellix may help you take a step forward in improving your depression. tell your healthcare professional right away if your depression worsens, or you have unusual changes in mood, behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens and young adults. do not take with maois. tell your healthcare professional about your medications, includi

. >> reporter: david bossy is playing coy about whether he may be headed to the west wing. >> i'm not going to say that there's -- something is sitting on table for me to pick. it's an ongoing conversation. >> reporter: as jared kushner faces scrutiny in the russia probe, sources tell cnn he isn't going anywhere. for now, sean spicer's job is also safe. the press secretary reemerged in front of the camera for the daily briefing today. his first since mid may. insisted the president's priorities are on track. >> the president's legislative agenda is in full swing. >> reporter: in a chaotic west wing, crisis management is putting the brakes on the agenda. trump venting on twitter said, the u.s. senate should switch to 51 votes immediately and get health care and tax cuts approved fast and easy. dems would do it, no doubt. both of those irs are slated to move through a process that only requires 51 votes. the biggest problem has been getting republicans on the same page. meanwhile, the president isn't making key decisions that lie within his control. he hasn't named a new fbi director, t

of his campaign staff, ex-campaign manager corey lewandowski and former deputy campaign manager david bossie, both spotted at the white house last night, mentioned as possible players in an outside rapid response team working closely with the white house war room. bossie may also be in line for a position within the trump administration. >> investigators are trying to figure out exactly why jared kushner met in december with a russian banker with links to vladimir putin, what the point of that meeting was. that's according to "the new york times." cnn has already reported kushner met with russian ambassador sergey kislyak, seeking to engage further with russia. kushner was then told to meetgo of a russian bank under sanction by the u.s. >> and the white house pushing back on reporting kushner tried to set up a secret back channel with the russians by blaming the russians, claiming it was their idea. the source tells cnn's gloria borger the russian ambassador asked kushner if the russian military could talk to michael flynn about syria. a source says kushner did not say he would arrange it an

house chief of staff reince priebus and chief strategist, steve bannon, corey lewandowski and david bossie are also mentioned. neither of those two are currently in the trump administration but they are long-time trump loyalists. cnn's claire sebastion joins us for the latest from moscow, and claire, it's just russia, russia, russia, here for this administration. so what does russia think about the fact that they continue to be the focus of so many questions? >> reporter: well, it's extremely frustrating for the government here in moscow. they're getting increasingly exasperated. and you can see that expressed in the statement from the foreign minister. the spokeswoman called it mccarthyism or simply internal political struggle. sorry, squabbles. because three are concerned hey in moscow that russia is being used as a way of discrediting the russian ambassador to the u.s., sergei kislyak. another called it absolute rubbish and continuing on the course of attacking that ambassador, but there's also serious concern, natalie, that the politics, the policy of the trump administration is not go

at the white house yesterday, former and formerly fired campaign manager corey lewandowski and david bossieay be brought back in to the fold to help shape the white house message. the prospect of their return is already causing panic inside the west wing. one white house official told the daily beast it would be another train wreck. another senior aide said they gagged when they first heard about it saying corey would not be an asset in the white wing but a hot head in a white house that needs the opposite. joining us is john harwood. let's talk about this potential change. and let's start with mike dubke, the communications director. was this his decision to leave or was he pushed out? >> not specifically, but i would suspect that there's a little but of both. the president has made clear he's not satisfied with the performance of his staff. and if you are mike dubke, somebody who has served successfully mainstream republican politicians for a number of years, imagine how difficult it is to walk into this environment, a white house this factionaliz, this dysfunctional, this outside the nor

we saw also with david bossi was going to come inside, and now we're hearing maybe he won't come inside. we know the people who are in the mix, but your point earlier is very well taken, which is that in order to go in, you really need to look at people who are willing to run towards a fire. these people are being counseled not to go in, that they would be putting themselves potentially in legal jeopardy. there are a lot of people around town, republicans, that wouldn't touch this white house with a 50-foot pole. so it takes a special kind of person to run into this situation, and that's why i think you see these people they call street fighters, people like coren lewandowski, people who are blind to trump and have nothing to lose. >> that's where coren lewandowski got his start and that's where his talents lie. kelly, let's talk about whether or not president trump plans to pull out of the paris climate accord. where does it stand now? >> reporter: we suspect that pulling out is imminent. president trump expects to make a decision within days. white house sources are telling our team t

cnn has learned the president met monday with former campaign aides, corey lewandowski and david bossy to discuss possible new roles on crisis management. one top official telling cnn there will be more changes but i don't know how fast they are going to come. the president not seen in public today. son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner, the closest person to the president, who the fbi wants to speak with, also hunkering down behind the scenes. spicer not saying whether the president was meeting with the new outside lawyer he brought on to handle the russian investigation or whether kushner will give into democratic calls to relinquish his security clearance. >> i'm not going to dignify partisan accusations of ano one house sources and alleged, unsubstantiated attacks. i'm not even going to -- [ inaudible ] >> if we have -- the president has a lot of meetings. if the president has a decision on anything, we will be sure to let you know. >> tonight, the president's long time personal lawyer, michael cohen, is a new focus of the congressional investigation. he told cnn he would dec

david bossi, for example, is someone who is eyeing. he is also eyeing corwin lewandowski as someone to play a bigger role outside the white house. i think it would be tough to come back into the fold because he does have some tensions with the trump family. but he's really looking at the big picture here and how he wants his messaging to evolve moving forward. >> i'm going to end this segment by paying homage to glen thrush and what he said earlier, you can't make this stuff up. thanks to both of you. >>> joining me now, ned price, msnbc's national security analyst, former analyst of the cia and former director, former director and spokesperson for the state department. good to have you both here. thank you for being with us on memorial day. ned, i want to talk more about the "washington post" reporting, about kushner's back channel he tried to get with the russians. weird stuff. he talked about establishing a special channel, allegedly, from the russian embassy so it would be more secret. homeland security secretary john kelly this we

the president announced yesterday, hugh had two former campaign advisors, corey lewandowski and david bossiaddressed in the white house but actually in the oval office, this is a clear signal these two former campaign aides are in the mix for potential major posts inside the white house. for now, the only changes, communications manager dubke after just three months on the job. he saw the handwriting on the wall and punched out before he was fired. he had enough watching potential successors paraded in front of him before he got the clue. talk about how there have been a whole bunch of top republicans in and out of the west wing, potentially taking that job. for his part, dubke said that the reasons for my departure are personal but it is to my great honor to serve president trump and this administration. it has also been my distinct pleasure to work side by side, day by day, with the staff of the communications and press department. among the big questions tonight are what happens to the other leader of the communications department. you mentioned to sean spicer, the white house press secr

bringing back a corey lewandowski and a david bossie, if they were to join the administration, a source inside the white house told me that other staffers could actually leave. why? not because of ego or personality, who is in charge, but because there are people inside the administration who are not part of the campaign, who joined because they said, we want to focus on policy. they have concerns that if we get back to this campaign-style, if the president goes out and conducts raies, he surrounded by the team he was and, granted, he did win with that team, then they won't get to the administration's agenda. in fact, it could bog down the administration, even derail republican plans. according to the source inside the white house, it is a choice between promoting the brand, which kellyanne conway and cory lunn douewandowski do best, or promoting the country. if we see a shift, if the president goes to his comfort zone, out there on the trail, conducting the rallies, doesn't it set up the administration, who then have to deliver policy n a difficult position, like the position they were

david bossie was a name well-known to anybody who covered the clinton administration in the '90s whof controversies around the clintons and who appeared again at the ends of the trump campaign very close to trump's chief strategist steve bannon and served as deputy campaign manager from the time steven bannon came on at the end of the campaign all the way through the end of the campaign. neither man ended up joining the white house. but they are the people that trump is turning to now as scandals threaten to engulf his administration and derail any substantive agenda. >> charlie, we have a president with let's call it situational loyalty. giuliani and christie were with him for a long ride. they are not around anyme. he may miss these two guys. it may be that he feels even though itnclude victory in the electoral college, he feels the turbulence started when they left his orbit and he is got to have that comfort factor so far. >> ileana's story is fascinating. it's sort of like having a burning house and getting two guys with kerosene cans. these are the bomb throwers, the enablers.

former campaign aides like corey lewandowski and david bossie met with truch in the west wing and bossiebe heading to the white house. >> i'm not going to say there's something sitting on the table for me to pick. >> reporter: even former aides like david urban, who hasn't been spotted reasonly but ran trump's successful campaign in pennsylvania are dodging questions about whether they're joining the administration. >> are you talking to the white house? >> no comment on that. >> reporter: as jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, faces scrutiny in the fbi's russia probe, sources tell cnn he isn't going anywhere and that for now, sean spicer's job is also safe. the press secretary re-emerged in front of the camera for the daily briefing today, his first since mid-may, and insisted the president's priorities are on track. >> the president's legislative agenda is in full swing. >> reporter: but in the chaotic west wing, crisis management is putting the brakes on the agenda. trump, venting on twitter tuesday, said the u.s. senate should switch to 51 votes immediately and get health care

i'm hearing that people are reading a little bit too much into the corey lewandowski and david bossieurning to the white house. they have a lot of considerations to think about. they're making a lot of money outside of the white house, or going back in. they had to make a decision, go in or stay out. so, those are some changes and things that are abuzz in washington. also, sean spicer, you know he'll be on the podium today for the press briefing. my understanding, he's going to stay for a while, so a lot of talk about a big shake-up. my understanding is all talk and not a lot of action at this point. >> christine quinn, i am sure you have criticism for the white house in many fronts, but you know, you've worked in politics before. how important is it to get the right person in that communications role and have it be someone that you trust with everything? >> well, it's one of the most important things. i mean, it's one of the most important things because it's basically the person, even in local levels -- forget national -- that is you. they are the personification of you to the press

so cory lewandowski, david bossie, people like that coming in -- >> they speak to that base. >> and iad one other point. i think washington is consumed with this conversation. what i watched happen these past few days in jerusalem, they were not paralyzed by this conversation. for all the constraints the president is under because of the self-inflicted wounds, the president still has enormous power in foreign affairs to act independently, act unilaterally and what you saw over the last few days is a say change at least the arctic could you you lags of a sea change in u.s. foreign policy. if i'm him, i'm going to spend as much time overseas as possible. >> all right. we'll hit pause and a tease that could have been written by dan himself, steve kornacki will tell us what the odds are for republicans to keep the house. so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i'm getting the best price every time. now i can start relaxing even before the vacation begins. your memorial day weekend i

meanwhile, former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski and miz deputy, david bossie, are being considered new roles in the administration. joining me right now, the roundtable. three white house correspondents, glenn thrush, shannon petty piece, phil rucker. three heavy weights. the american people don't care about process. they care about who is leading the country and is he or she getting anything done? how come they're not going to get anything done on the hill this year, it looks like? trump is tweeting. it seems like a kid could do that on the corner somewhere. he's president of the united states. he seems to have no effective power except to be boorish. >> that's the problem for donald trump as president. his approval ratings are at a historic low. >> they're up a little this week. >> he has no major legislative achievement. he had what the house sees as a really good foreign trip. >> he turned nunes into a nothing, the chairman of the intelligence committee. he turns spicer into a patsy every day. he gives him nothing to say except, don't say anything. get out there and cover for m

one suggestion, one obvious person out there, is david bossy, who is a deputy campaign manager, >> citizens. >> with citizens united. >> yep. >> in this context, he's a veteran of capitol hill, of the congressional campaign committee. he was on the staff of one of the committees that did some of the big investigations of bill clinton that went on forever during the clinton years. so, he knows -- just think, chris, we have two hill investigations going on as well as the fbi probe. so, you maybe need somebody who knows how to -- knows how to deal with the hill, with the republicans there who are in the probe, doing the probe, plus get the whole picture, plus have a policy portfolio he has to get past congress, the white house and the agencies. the >> that will be interesting coming in. you're all coming back. thank you very much. >>> still to come, though, james comey in the hot seat. the fired fbi director set to testify smieometime after memor day. will he finally reveal what he wrote in those memos about president trump? break through your allergies. try new flonase sensimist allergy relie

they are putting together outside counsel and there are reports cory lewandowski and david bossie mayte, crisis managers. let's go to robert cost take a a journalist behind that report and somebody who knows the trump team inside and out. talk to us about how an out side legal docounsel would work in ts scenario. >> as someone put to me, the president is looking for a large team of lawyers to help him navigate some of the thorny legal issues that crop up not just with the special counsel in the federal probe, but also the congressional committees. the white house counsel, his lawyer, inside of the west wing won't be responsible for dealing with with the onslaught of injuries and questions about these issues. >> so if he's hiring an outside counsel, does that -- is that an admission from the white house that they are taking this investigation seriously despite what the president is tweeting? >> i think in certain ways an admission. it's also an acknowledgement of reality that they are facing major issues on the horizon about all these things. and they have to turn not just to the long

hearing that could lead that war room corey lewandowski, former trump campaign manager early on, also david bossid of a clinton antagonist and also close trump outside advisor. these are war dogs. they are attack dogs. they would protect the president and his staff from this russia investigation enveloping it and making that nothing can actually get done. so they want to continue having accomplishments for the american people. >> let's bring in msnbc contributor christopher dickey, going to join conversation right now. chris, as you look at this, some of the reports right now that you're very well aware of happening in the united states in the last 24 hours, now at the top of if you will the news cycle is the perception there in paris, in france and in europe at the moment that potentially the europe trip it's already done with, we're now moving on to the issues back in the united states? >> well, i think the feeling is -- i won't say a complete lack of confidence, but there's a terrible lack of confidence in the abilityf president trump both to govern and to make valid decisions that affect the

corey lewandowski, david bossi, former deputy campaign manager. they were spotted outside the white house and they've been talked about in terms of being part of this war room rapid response team that's being propped up both inside the white house and among the president's outside supporters. a lot to discuss for sean spicer and just going by the way things have been going, he may get a note in the mid dedle of the briefing advising him that there are other things to discuss. i was on that foreign trip for eight or nine days. we didn't get a presidential news conference. got very few briefings by top officials and those briefings that we did get were off camera. so it's comforting to see this white house put somebody forward and take questions from us. >> it has been a minute since we've seen sean spicer's face. we look forward to it as well. jim acosta, i'll look forward to that and your questions. let me bring in dana bash now to begin with your reporting that indicates that russians discussed this derogatory information about a financial nature

insiders, members of the campaign, former campaign manager corey lewandowski and former manager david bossie, who was on fox news saying there isn't some job waiting for him right now, to be considered in a situation like this, this is more about addition than subtraction as the white house looks to sort of buffer to strengthen its ranks at this time right now. what was striking to me in speaking to a senior administration official here just a short time ago, is how all of this conversation focused on the turmoil surrounding the scandal about russia, has in effect swamped the ability for this west wing and white house and president to focus on what they want to be talking about and what is it they want to be talking about. when i asked a short time ago what would you like to be talking about besides russia right now, they said well, we would like to focus on the foreign trip, the budget, but notably, president isn't doing any of those things himself. he has only one public event today on his schedule at least, that's a meeting with his vice president. here's what he was tweeting a short time

david bossie former campaign manager for donald trump. david, let's talk about this.that they feel like they got so much over this new funding bill to get keep the government open for another six months. >> unfortunately it's not surprising. they have broken the appropriations system over the last 8 years. there is no regular order. there is no regular appropriations process in place in washington right now. so the president goes with a 1600 page cr, continuing resolution that he is forced to do. he has been in office 100 days. he is coming in to a situation that is fundamentally broken and is he trying to manage that while manage repeal and replace obamacare, tax reform, dealing with all of these foreign problems that he is having to deal with because, again, barack obama leaves it all on the table for him. brian: this is the framework that he put out, president obama put out. and up to the president each shut down the government or compromise. this is a severe compromise no. border wall no. deportation force no. e.p.a. roll backs. no sanctuary city funding or crackd