in her recent comments to the media state department spokesperson heather nauert had some interesting words to describe the largest country in the world russia has long arms russia has lots of tentacles we imagine that they will continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other nations' elections as well. arms and one of the that's right quite acquitted and you just said that this one of the bees from the deep sea yes russia has tentacles all over the world it's a beast from the deep sea it's rather creative now with metaphors like that you think that heather nauert was on par with herman melville and jules verne but she didn't think of it herself take a look at these old propaganda posters inciting americans to be afraid of the soviet union it turns out heather was just beating an old dead mccarthyist horse we decided to ask americans if they think that russia is really a deadly octopus what country do you think they were referring to. since if it ioannes ireland years later that isn't what i what country you think it is no idea they called it the med learn. i have no

heal heather nauert came to the white house and bumpedped up to fourth in line even though she has noience in public affairs. and also are, pete hegset is a fox morning show host, but he is to be running the office of veteran affairs that employees just under 400,000 people, and he has no experience in health care nor management, but he is an iraq war veteran. president trump doesn't just hire media types bush he dines with them, too, with jesse wat r watewate watters and to dinner with geraldo herrera. >> and kimberly guilfoyle acted as fe she has spoken to him many times. and shawn hannity leans on him for advice. he not only consulted on him on the nuclear deal, but he also asked him to release a memo that alleged corruption, and bias of those investigating the campaign, and hannah painted it to be a massive political scandal. >> this is like watergate like stealing a candy bar. >> the advisers in the age of trump. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >>> joining us now, cnn correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter, and now showing the pictures of the people he has fired in

. >> there was heather nauert there from the state department. the president mentioned on twitter said this. he received the message from xi jinping last night. i want to share the one nugget from his tweet about this which i thought was interesting. maximum pressure and sanctions must be maintained at all cost. meaning, despite this idea, julie, that there appears to be some progress, you have to stay the course to see if it all pans out in the long run. of course, we will keep you posted. the briefing coming up about 1:30 give or take. i promise to be there for you. for now back to you. >> julie: we trust you will. kevin corke at the white house. >> you bet. >> jon: to marches across the country to calls for a constitutional change. the gun control debate is taking on new life. president trump though is saying no way to retired supreme court justice john paul stephens. he called for the repeal of the second amendment. president trump tweeting this. the second amendment will never be repealed. as much as democrats would like to see this happen a

steve: how many times have we said heather nauert with the news.oughts with janice and your whole family up there. steve: that is so nice to you. we hope to have janice back in the next day or two. i think she is taking off next week on vacation anyway. >> yes, i might be seeing her. steve: there you go. thanks very much, heather. ainsley: hand it over to jillian who has headlines for us. jillian: good morning to guys, to you at home as well. fbi admitting being too slow providing thousands of documents related to the hillary clinton email and russian investigations. director christopher wray will double staff reviewing records addressed by the house judiciary committee. the attorney general is angry how slow the process has moved when it comes to requests from congress to the fbi. >>> look at this. a trooper is slammed by a car and sent flying into the air. the terrifying moments all caught on dash-cam. whoa, that is, utah sergeant cade branch trying to help a stranded driver. the father of foursome how survived with broken bones. >> i watched the

heather nauert, state department spokesperson next.liday inn express, we can't guarantee that you'll be able to contain yourself at our breakfast bar. morning, egg white omelet. sup lady bacon! fruit, there it is! but we can guarantee that you'll get the best price when you book with us. holiday inn express. be the readiest. >>> historic development. north korean dictator kim jung-un and south korea i can't's president will hold a summit next month. they have only held talks two since the '50s. this comes as president trump prepares for his own summit with kich kim jung-un. the president tweeting there is a good chance kim jung-un will do what is right for his people and humanity. look forward to our meeting. joining us now is heather nauert. good morning madame undersecretary. >> acting. good morning. grace to see great to see you. >> now with your promotion, i can no longer call you you heather. >> you may always call me heather. >> congratulations. let's talk about north korea. because so many interesting things are happening. so to

heather nauert even snubbed a russian reporter who tried to challenge her on it and this is not the first time she has made caustic responses to journalists working for russian media. if you're small to take in the united states it. sends a different direction so i had to say that they are going to tell you everything from their shit yeah ok ok enough said and i'll move on. what is funny if it turns out they're not. a fish because of the price of government the same question about was like ok. did by the russian government the fact that you were here as a representative of the russian government so-called news organizations russian news if you were. misquoted in a great joke on. some. guy you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what but i think the money that money. got it would got to go with i i would talk to you after the no doubt your proxy card that's. stable for the rocky. voting has ended in italy's general election and exit polls pointed to a possible hung parliament with voters favored favoring anti-establishment and center right parties the center right coalit

department believes that russia's new hypersonic missile violates international treaties and heather nauert was particularly concerned about the video or imagery associated with the unveiling claiming that it showed the missile targeting the u.s. and when reporters asked about this the situation got really ugly really fast she seemed angry and defensive and then she even went on to call the russian reporters who asked about it representatives of the russian government something she's called me now this was met with significant backlash and she responded with sarcasm let's take a look these were slow to take in the united states interests new styles all sent a different direction so i had to say that they are you know you ran from there she can i can hear you ok ok enough said then i'll move on. which is when it did happen they're not officials of the russian government they're just asking a question about me overtly ok well we know that. r.t. and other russian news or so-called news organizations are there i'm good and directed by the russian government so if i don't have a lot of these que

. >> the spokeswoman at the state department, josh heather nauert, just announced this. >> ministry of foreign affairs of the russian federation, dubbing 60 of our staff persona nongrata and must depart within 60 days and the closing of our consulate in 48 hours. it's clear that the russian federation is not interested in a dialogue on issues that matter to our two countries. i spoke with him a short time ago and other colleagues serving in moscow. i left ambassador huntsman know that the entire state department and u.s. government stands with our people admission russia. >> you heard her, josh. this 60 for 60. does it end there? >> i think it ends this round of the tit-for-tat. who knows what putin will do next. each of these steps that they take is in response to something egregious and often illegal that the russian government did in the first place, right? first invading crimea, then eastern ukraine, interfered in our election. now they're killing people on the streets of england. so, sure, we can have this sort of diplomatic detante for a while. john bolton, incoming national secu

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trump also hired tv friends like the mooch, heather nauert, and jay sekulow, from fox.retary wilbur ross from "the walking dead." ( laughter ) great season. fantastic season. and trump is thinking of hiring more people from the tv, including pete hegseth, a co-host of "fox & friends weekend," and trump has approached fox news hosts tucker carlson, kimberly guilfoyle and laura ingraham... about joining his communications team. ( audience reacts ) trump does so much hiring off of fox news, chances are his next press secretary is going to be a self-lubricating catheter. ( laughter ) ( applause ) we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: and we're back. thanks, jon. now, normally, you'd see commercials now, but, instead, we're trying something that we call "more show", presented by the nest video doorbell. ( doorbell ring ) who makes nest? google? google's paying for this right now. "that's a lot of money." ( laughter ) tonight on more show, does your house have a door? then the better business bureau is warning about "scammers impersonating

heather nauert said russia shouldn't be acting like a vick till.s the united states reserves the right to respond to russia's response. that's been the concern. where does it end? we don't know. russia kicked out the diplomats after the u.s. and other nations picked out diplomats. we're investigating for a verdict in the trial of the pulse nightclub shooter's window. jurors deliberating for a second day to try to decide the fate of noor salman. her husband was oman mateen. he killed 49 people at the pulse nightclub in orlando in 2016. prosecutors say she helped him with the planning and lied to investigators. her defense attorneys say she's a victim here and mateen abused her and lied to her about his life and his plan to attack. charges against salman include providing material support to a terrorist organization and obstruction of justice. if convicted, she faces life in prison. matt finn is in our florida newsroom. still no verdict, right? >> no verdict, shep. a short while ago, we heard from the shooter's window. they said they didn't expect a

"fox & friends" co-anchor heather nauert was hired to be state department spokesperson last april andpromotion despite having zero prior experience in diplomacy, trump installed her as the acting undersecretary of state after firing the prior one undersect along with tillerson yesterday. she is now the fourth highest ranking official at the state department which means in just 11 months is, less than a year she's gone from "fox & friends" to number four at the state department. >> i really want to the congratulate the president to pick you. quite frankly, i was worried about who he would pick. maybe somebody on tv. >>> we've got damning developments today in the case of ben carson's $31,000 dining set. you may remember when news first broke late last month about the furniture purchase, secretary carson claimed ignorance. a hud spokesman saying at the time that he didn't know the table had been purchased but secretary carson didn't have a problem with it, and he was going to keep it. however, we also found out a former top hud official was demoted after claiming carson's wife demanded

heather nauert from over at the state department saying this. the maximum measure campaign has forced kim jong un out of isolation. we are closely linked with our ally, the republic of korea on the rok-dprk summit in april and look forward to north korea taking real action towards denuclearization. until then the meeting will continue. create the atmosphere for the upcoming summit which would be the third as we pointed out of the two koreas sense the end of the sine war. china being the primary benefactor for the north, those two countries obviously share a border and instability in pyongyang would be, well, a real problem for beijing first and foremost. now, on capitol hill, lawmakers are crediting the trump administration's approach for change in the tone by the north. >> i met with the president today. he doesn't want a war. is he hoping this can result in ending the north korean nuclear threat, stabilizing that part of the world. i think he is ready to go big. if you told me a year ago that north korean leader would be meeting with president

another source told my colleagues they didn't know what the president was talking about and heather nauert said she didn't see the president's comments but was not aware of any plans to pull out of syria. one big question mark, essentially, after the president said that. and i should note that the white house has not responded to our requests for comment, seeking a little bit more clarity on exactly what the president was talking about. but you're right, as you point out, not only does no one know what the president is talking about when he said that, this is a president who, for so many months now that he was on the campaign trail and now in office wasn't going to be a commander in chief that telegraphed his military moves. he wasn't going to show his hand, essentially, and let the enemy know what he was going to do next. what he said in cleveland, ohio, seemed to be sshlly doing just that, brooke. it certainly does raise a lot of questions. it raises questions about whether or not it's in line with what his administration officials also say because just in january, the defense secretary,

by the way, two former fox anchors in that little monday teenage, megyn kelly and heather nauert to pointanel. russia flexing its muscles, steve? >> this was largely done, i think for domestic consumption, vladimir putin making these kind of comments to stir up patriotism before the election snrart later this month. is he able to do this in part because we have had successive administrations that haven't been tough on russia. you had the obama administration which gave russia a free hand in the middle east. in crimea. syria, and elsewhere and the trump administration which has tightened the policy a little bit. but re tore rickly. president has not gone after vladimir putin or raised alarms about vladimir putin in the way people he regards as true threats like alec baldwin. >> vladimir putin has been too many kim jong un videos. it is striking though. alec baldwin tweets the president given this threat from the leaderboard of russia didn't respond in some way. silence was kind of deafening. >> bret: leslie, i mean, key can point a list of things that the administration has done. often not

we hear heather nauert, we are sanders with definitive strong statements about russia. we're ascribing to trump the statements the white house puts out but we've not seen trump say these words. and the russians in their pronouncements are saying there is a divide, which i think there is as well, between the president of the united states, that person, and his own administration. there's also a divide with congress that's wanted tougher actions on russia. and not tougher actions on their own, you know, expelling diplomats for this nerve gas agent. while i think it's very important to have supported the uk, very important to support the very countries that have come together on this, that does not constitution a long-term strategy of where the united states is going with russia and how we're going to counter and meet, just to pile on with what ned price is saying, how to deal with russia's nefarious behaviors and activities across a lot of platforms. so yes, i applaud the minor steps we've taken. things are low. what the big thing is, we don't have a russia strategy and w

state department spokesman heather nauert not ruling out further retaliation. >> russia is further isolatingf following the brazen chemical attack. we are e reviewing the russian action and let me say that we reserve the right, further, to any russian retaliation against the united states. >> benjamin hall is following this from london, benjamin? >> hi, melissa. the russians have been saying this is a tit for tat response to the expulsions carried out by the u.s. if anything they're playing the victim in all of this, that ignores the main point that they used a deadly nerve agent to kill a british citizen, a russian spy, in the u.k. a few weeks ago. meanwhile in st. petersburg where the u.s. consulate is forced to close staff is packing up to leave. 58 u.s. diplomats from moscow and two from the could be su lat of been named persona none grate a and must leave. ambassadors arrived at the russian foreign ministry. the u.s. ambassador hinted at further moves possibly against russian assets. that's something that russia has threatened would have, quote, the gravist consequences for global stabi

"fox & friends" co-anchor heather nauert was hired to be state department spokesperson last april and she just got a promotion despite having zero prior experience in diplomacy, trump installed her as the acting undersecretary of state after firing the prior one undersect along with tillerson yesterday. she is now the fourth highest ranking official at the state department which means in just 11 months is, less than a year she's gone from "fox & friends" to number four at the state department. >> i really want to the congratulate the president to pick you. quite frankly, i was worried about who he would pick. maybe somebody on tv. we may be one of the world's most familiar companies, but we make more than our name suggests. we're an organic tea company. a premium juice company. a coconut water company. we've got drinks for long days. for birthdays. for turning over new leaves. and we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. we are the coca-cola company, and we're proud to offer so much more. you or joints. something for your heart... but do you take something for you

. >> acting undersecretary, heather nauert, thank you very much. >>> we're following a lot of news. let's get to it. >> good morning. well do to your "new day." it is maundy thursday, 8:00 in the east. president trump firing his v.a. secretary, tapping his white house doctor to replace him. the president insists dr. ronny jackson is highly trained and qualified. but if you look at his resume, he has never managed anything significant let alone of the scale of the federal government's second largest department. so how will he justify picking someone to manage hundreds of thousands of employees, hundreds of billions of dollars? >>> and "new york times" reports that john dowd flirted the idea of pardoning michael flynn and paul manafort as the special counsel was building cases against both men. was dowd trying to influence flynn and manafort from cooperating with the investigation? we begin with abby phillip live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning. another day, another firing here at this white house. this time it is the only obama holdover in president trump's cabinet, dav

he joins former cnbc contributor larry kudlow and former fox anchor heather nauert, now fourth in linee state department, not to mention all the other fox anchors trump leans on for advice. digenova and his wife, meanwhile, have their own law firm in washington, d.c. before opening the firm, he served as the u.s. attorney in the district of columbia. most of his focus has been on cases involving corruption and fraud. the hiring of digenova may all be part of a more aggressive approach. digenova is expected to engage the media and mount a strong defense of the president. often digenova delivers personal attacks, sounding a lot like the president himself. listen. >> the fbi has lost almost all of its credibility and regrettably its integrity as a result of the conduct of james comey, who remains america's most dirty cop. whatever you make think of loretta lynch, and she was a lowly, lowly attorney general by virtue of her conduct -- >> reporter: like trump, one of digenova's favorite targets is hillary clinton. >> there was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate hillary clinton, and if she

former secretary manage and mattis secretary national security adviser -- mcmaster but thenis , heather nauert tonight there was such a deal. clearly there are areas of common interest, and i'm interested to hear, particularly, eric, and others on the panel, how we might move forward. there is suggestion that turks collaborated with ypg in the past, and we have interest in not setting iranian influence -- offsetting iranian influence in the election. >> demetri right here. >> thank you. visiting fellow at georgetown. question on eu-turkish relations -- is it possible, do you consider the possibility of the erdogan regime being able to play eu member states against each other? we talk about authoritarianism quite a bit, we know there are some states within the european union tented by these kinds of politics. is it possible that the transactional politics applies to countries like germany, which takes the longer view, and other countries remain skeptical and therefore able to play them against each other? thank you. >> excellent. do i have one more? down here, please. thank you very much. >> i

heather nauert. >> reporter: this is only a cease-fire on paper.evidence there's been a stoppage or pause in east ghutta, the cease-fire was optimistic. they wanted a 30-day cease-fire to start with and that was probably never going to happen and on monday vladamir putin said he'd support a five-hour pos going into effect on tuesday. that hasn't materialized either. we've not seen any break in the fighting. not surprisingly the russians and the syrian regime are saying it's because the rebels continue to fire on this corridor that was supposed to be a humanitarian corridor where supplies would go in and out and civilians can leave and rebels said the assad regime keeps firing them and what we've seen on the ground is no change at all, sandra. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: and president trump saying drones are leaving shooting victims defenseless. we'll talk to a man who lived through that experience, steve scalise and his reaction is live. i don't know why i didn't get screened a long time ago. i kept putting it off... what was i thinking? ok, mr.

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