but there was a huge development this week in terms of media relations between the white house and the journalists who cover the white housee house correspondents association. olivier, you're obviously a past president of that. do you want to talk through a little bit aboutjust what was announced this week by the press secretary, caroline leavitt? sure. so the white house correspondents association exists essentially to represent the interests of the white house press corps, try and regularly fail to forge a consensus for collective action by the press in relation to the white house, you know, advance first amendment principles and the like. but the day—to—dayjob is that negotiation for, you know, how many reporters can we get into this event to observe the president first—hand, do hisjob? moving forward, the white house pressl pool will be determined by the white house press team. what they said this week was that they would take control over who was in this pool. and they seized that control from the whca, from this journalist organisation, which had controlled it for decades, for basically as long as it it's a really si

there's also being the statement from the white house of white house spokesperson saying that the us is discussing a date and location for potential chokes with ukraine. that the suspension of this age. there has been a lot of concern amongst the premiums that involve potentially ending intelligence sharing with the us. we're hearing conflicting reports as to whether that intelligent sharing is ongoing or not. but certainly yesterday, the polls, poland was saying back to the, the delivery of us weapons had been whole cheat at the border. we're talking about one can only imagine ammunition and military hardware. so it's, it's interesting that that does seem to be for the 1st time in the last $24.00. busy hours unofficial statement recognizing that is a suspension has been put in place. let's remind ourselves as, as how we go here. this is a landscape visit on friday last friday at the oval office where he said initially that he was going to sign this deal a minerals deal that would have given the us 50 percent of, of all ukraine's minerals. and, and we'll see said that he would sign t

that is all through a showing and that with the entire ukrainian delegation being takes house of the white house, a proposed west of minerals deal was also left to unsigned. following sundays, folks in london, zalinski was asked about his diplomatic fiasco in washington. ukrainian leader said he was give that power so easily released, hesitating any communication with the administration since the overall office me to have they reached out to you and separately, you talked about resignation a few days ago. how you thinking about elections? i mean, there is communication, but not on my level. and as for resignation, if i am to be changed and i am here now will, how can i put it with what's happening with all the support, it won't be easy to change me. it is not enough to just hold elections, you'll have to keep me from participating in the elections, and that will be difficult. they'll have to negotiate with me. i have said that i would swap for nato membership as that would fulfill my mission. although honestly, it should be our people, the ukranian saying, who must be taking posts as others talk

white house says it's going to manage the white house press pool in a different way. um, what what are the challenges that you and many correspondents are facing right now in this kind of tenor that is being sent from this white house? >> well, that that requires maybe a little sort of one on one explanation of what the white house press pool is and what it does and what the pool is, is it's a group of of journalists and news organizations that go in to smaller places like the oval office or fly on air force one when the whole press corps, which is hundreds of reporters, can't, can't fit. uh, so that's something that presidents of, you know, of both political parties have made use of when they're holding meetings with foreign leaders, uh, like with president zelenskyy last year, or, excuse me, last week. um, and and that's, that's what the pool is there for, is to go in, uh, to ask questions and then to share that material with the rest of the press corps. what the white house decided to do last week is take over organization of that pool from the white house correspondents association, and essentially start to pick who it wants to be in it. so, you know, we believe an

captioning institute, which is responsible for its ca announcer: members of the house freedom caucus spoke to reporters outside of the white house following a meeting with president trump. his federal spending plan. mr. harris: we had a great meeting with the president and want to support the president's agenda and work toward to getting that continuing resolution and all the people said you can never pass that reconciliation bill. wait until next week. we have another chance with the week-long c.r. mr. roy: had a great meeting with the president and like-minded members of the freedom caucus and overwhelming support of the president's agenda and give room for elon musk and doge to deliver to the american people and finding and recognizing the cuts that need to occur and identify those and get those in place and importantly freeze spending at current levels which is going to be hold spending in check and those cuts keep coming out. and identifying waste, fraud and abuse. and expenditures of a $32,000 transgender comic book in peru. and support what the president's agenda is to guarantee we reduce spending to create the room for e

white house moves to control and restrict the white house press pool. i'll talk to jim acosta, longtime white house correspondent who spent years holding trump to account. another hour of velshi starts right now. i begin this hour with donald trump's economy and republicans plans, as they laid out in as they're laid out in a newly passed budget to slash the health care program that serves 1 in 5 americans. they're doing that in order to pay for tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the rich. that bill now heads to the senate, where republicans want to put up a smoke screen to obscure that enormous cost from the american people by using a budget gimmick which would reconstruct the way congress creates budget and balances debt. it helps me through that smoke screen. let's take a look at the numbers. these new tax cuts come in the form of extending the 2017 trump tax cuts, which expire at the end of this year for another ten years. that will cost an estimated $4.5 trillion with a t, which poses several important issues for republicans, including leaving almost no room in the budget for several of trump's other tax promises, including no taxes on tips or overtime, no so

moving forward, the white house press pool will be determined by the white house press team. howie: more ofconversation with karoline leavitt. let me go larger on the question of the pool. you say, with the white house taking it over, this is returning power to the people, but it's really transferring power to the white house. what's to stop you from largely, and i say largely, because i know, for example, that you're keeping legacy media outlets as part of the pool, largely picking friendly reporters who will ask friendly questions. >> i love you, howie, but i have to fundamentally disagree with what you're saying. our print pooler two day ago was the independent from the uk which is not a very friendly outlet to donald trump. the print pooler yesterday was the los angeles times for goodness sakes. cnn was our tv pooler yesterday, and we know the misinformation that they've reported about this administration and this president for years. this is not about revoking the right of biased news organizations to be in the oval office or to cover this president. it's simply about ending the moneti

white house? jasmine: we don't have a booth by we were a part of waca. white houseorrespondents association and i spend a lot of time at the white house. i was justout there at the south lawn on friday when trump left for mar-a-lago, his west palm beach hotel location club right after that employee-up with zelensky. so it's quite a privilege to beh zelenskyy. it is such a privilege to be able to walk the white house grounds, particularly at a time like this. peter: how often does the president stop and talk with y'all? jasmine: it's only been a couple of weeks, but almost every weekend. he is savvy, he likes to talk. i find it actually to be sort of hopeful that he's talking so often, because one difference between the biden administration , his administration, you have to talk to a lot of people around biden to get biden's point of view, where with trunk, he will give it to you right away. it is typically a straightaway version of what he's thinking in the moment. there he goes. peter: let's listen for a minute. jasmine: there he is in the beast come about to drive

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you said the white house takeover of the press pool is a brazen attack on the first amendment. this was not when the white when the white housese correspondents association was formed, these were not partizan things. and not only that, the members of the pool are not one organization. i think the public might be surprised to know that sometimes it's the new york times. sometimes fox is involved because there's an agreement. >> it's the daily caller, correct. >> if you are part of that pool, you have a responsibility to all your fellow journalists and the american public to report accurately. tell me about this from your perspective, because you were on the other side of this on the white house side. >> absolutely. you know, there is a there's an african proverb that says, until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. acclaimed african author wrote those words. and the journalists, especially the journalists that reported on the white house, they are the historians for the lions, right? for the american people. they are going in there telling the full picture of the story, n

administration. in terms of media relations between the white house do you want to talk through a little bit aboutjust sure. exists essentially to represent the interests of the white houseps, action by the press in relation to the white house, and the like. moving forward, what they said this week was that they would take control over who was in this pool. from this journalist organisation, which had it's a really significant blow to press freedoms to pick who covers them. outlets in the united states, because he doesn't like that they are still using "gulf of mexico" instead of using his "gulf of america." have an agenda that's against trump, as others but the whca is for everyone, no matter your agenda, right? that's right. as far as i know, no news organisation was ever turned away if they applied for the pool because of ideology. this isjust a red herring here. the whca controlled access to the pool because we who regularly do pool duty. is saying and inviting ones that are. that's not hypothetical. because it was the press corps and the whca that blocked house coverage altogether. so, bern, we've spoken before in the podcast, you've been doing. but since this was a

democratic senator chris murphy b blasting the white house's handling of negotiations. >> now the white houseas become an arm of the kremlin. >> reporter: meanwhile, vice president vance's ski trip to vermont drawing hundreds of demonstrators, some holding ukrainian flags in support of the country. americans now also fractured over the path forward as some congressional republicans increasingly question zelenskyy. >> either he needs to come to his senses and come back to the table in gratitude, or someone else needs to lead the country to do that. >> vaughn hillyard is joining us near the president's mar-a-lago home in florida. all of this comes as the president prepares for a big speech to the nation this week? >> reporter: hallie, that's right. we expect the expect to address the war during that speech to congress, but his own national security advisor just today expressed skepticism that the u.s. could get russia and ukraine both back to the negotiating table. hallie. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you. >>> to the fallout tonight t from the president's push to slasthe federal workforce and a ne

of the white house could be good. we don't have them in time for legislation. the timesim when the party controls the white housend both chambers of congress are prettyng fleeting. there's a few months to do it. and they are in the mid terms and usually they lose one of the chambers. so they know they are on the clock and they want to hit the ground running and this is the first chance to speak directly to the american people after the election picklist check back in with peter. >> the formers beaker ripping up the speech of president trump during his first term in this last address to congress at state of the union. it reminds you of cnn catching up of the former speaker nancy pelosi she recalled tearing up present donald trump speech in 2020 after state of the union address. but she told him quote hopefully he won't live so much this time it was a manifesto of lies as i said at the time. there is a quote from the former ahead of us tonight speech by president trump the first of his second term. you were talking about do these speeches make a difference? will they impact poll numbers? let's take a look at where

little boy he did adopt uh no proposes to use as a ticket to enter it, to the white house on the influence of the white house box on the face of it. an ending of intelligence cooperation. and it is reported here that trump has banned britain from using in giving intelligence do green intelligence, which has been obtained under the 5 eyes arrangement on the face of it not brings the war to an end, because you simply can't fight the war without american intelligence. from these a 1000 or more us after lights that are in the sky over the battlefield. in quite a dramatic turn of events. george, the german defense ministry, said it's reached at the limit of its ability to transfer weapons from his arsenal . so to ukraine, i want to play a clip 1st. let's take a listen to that. a 0 sum does this, as you know, that there have already been deliveries from the bundles of air to ukraine. but their natural limit has been reached after all, in the context of the new framework conditions, we need to increase our own european defense capability. so george, this comes as germany's chancellor to be, is calling for europe in

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of this administration. i also got a reaction from the white house that is not thrilled with this story, but they said the white house will always amplify the accomplishments across the trump administration, including the consequential work of attorney general pam bondi, who is working to bring transparency and integrity back to the justice department. this is a welcome change to the previous administration, whose justice department took over the pr strategy of the dnc. >> elliot, as someone who once worked for the justice department, how unusual is it for the white house to be this involved? >> it's incredibly. >> unusual. >> and i think people. >> have a. >> hard. >> time with this. and even guests on this network have mixed this up, this idea that because the president appoints the attorney general and the and the justice department is within the executive branch, that somehow the president has the thumb on the scale of what happens in the justice department. that could not be further from the truth. going back to watergate, there has been a clear separation between the day to day workings of the justice departmen

eco system changed so much and part of this, we heard that the white house, the trump administration now is saying they would like to choose who is in the white house pool. and explain what the white house pool is, it's not a place you could swim anymore. >> built on top of the pool though. >> my work space is underground with the rats in the pools, or the mice, the mice. and just curious to your reaction to this news. what it means for the white house to single out and say, this radio reporter, this wire reporter, this tv reporter covering the president in that sense. >> so, my first briefing, jen's first briefing, my last briefing, one of the things that we talked about is the importance of the freedom of the press, the importance of having that healthy back and forth and we-- the president wanted to bring that back. wanted to bring that back and we were able to do that. my last press briefing, i talked about how we did more than 500 briefings. i did more than 300 briefings and talked about in a real way, in a data-based way and also, just kind of the history of the democracy, the importance of the cornerstone of our democracy, and the freedom of

believe and try to live up to the past that he laid for me and if i do that the rest of it whether in the white house, my housethe governor's manchin is really simple after that. i'm so proud of what we've been able to do and glad i got to do it alongside amazing people and the planet. >> you're going to make me cry. sarah would get up every time we would go into her office she would have her scripture open every day that's what guided you every day. >> otherwise i'm not sure. >> i would come in with my holy water the protestant, the catholic were all in it together. i just want to get this question and really quick. it's been a phenomenon in federal government but you had three. >> we started some and then we call them arkansas forward it was a project to look at government efficiency waste fraud and abuse within the first six months we are the identified at least $300 billion in savings which is big for arkansas our budget is $6 billion so for us to identify that level of savings that we are implementing and some of it was basic as getting rid of old phone and fax lines i have not been in use in years we wil

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white house press. >> pool will be determined by. >> the white. >> house press team. a select group. >> ofournalists should no longer have. a monopoly. >> over the privilege. >> of press access at the white house. all journalists. outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table. >> so by deciding. >> which outlets make. >> up. >> the limited press. pool on a day to day basis, the white house will be restoring power back to the american. people who president trump was elected. >> to serve. >> so the. >> white house. >> press pool is a small. group of seasoned. journalists based in the nation's capital, who report on the president's daily schedule. handpicking, which outlets get intimate access to the president, would give the administration more control over how it is covered historically. the members of the white house press pool had been chosen on a rotating basis by the white house correspondents association, a century. >> old. >> group representing the journalists on the white house beat. the responded to the change in a statement, writing in part, this move tears at the

taking a tumble yesterday bitcoin continues to come down ahead of the first-ever white house crypto summit coming up this friday at the white house. european markets are also lower on the heels of the big selloff on wall street, the dax index in germany is down 494 points almost a 2.1% lower on the dax. s&p 100 and monday down 28, the cat con 101 and a quarter percent. in asia overnight markets finish mostly lower take a look at the asian embassies were the worst performer overnight, japan, nikkei average downward into quarter% back at home the house and senate sending a letter to the treasury secretary scott bessent demanded the vice chairman for supervision be filled at the fed after my exclusive reporting that the federal reserve chairman jay powell is lobbying to exhort the rule a trump administration expected new bank supervisor we will get to the latest. all morning long wealth advisor president chris mcmahon the federalist correspondent and fox business cheryl casone. "mornings with maria" is live right now. let's kick it off with a hot topic of the hour. president trump following through on the tariff promise yesterday as

>> well, once again, republicans have control of the house, the senate and the white house. think the majority of voters put republicans in charge. and i think they're looking to see whether republicans can govern or not. if you recall, last year when we did not have control of the house, but we did have control of the senate and the white house. there were many times when republican republicans could not govern and everything would have shut down because of republicans inability to govern, but because we shared government responsibility, we did come in and save them even when they broke the deal that they made, which i think the majority of americans believe. if you make a deal, you should keep your word. i think now we're in a situation where voters put republicans into office and the house, the senate and the white house, they have the responsibility to govern. let's see if they can do it. if they can't, then they should understand it has to be a bipartisan agreement. we're not going to help them rip programs and services and institutions like the department of education o

the state of israel with the impunity provided by the white house consecutive white house is actually a consistent registrations. has made a habit of breaking it agreements and using a brutal genocidal power to impose its expansion as colonial agenda upon the people that gets occupies. whether it was about didn't use the syrians or the liberties base. love with dialogue and cooperation. that is the message of moscow music festival is trying to promote the voice of saint nicholas is supported by the tale and russian chamber of commerce. and his president hoped that he can be a step towards reviving relations between rome and moscow. post monthly position. we're going to see it paid. so if you look, i have lived in russia for 30 years. i lived in italy for practically half my life, and i've been living in russia for half my life except for basically my childhood. i was born and lived in italy for 7 years, then spent 30 years in russia and then 30 years in italy. there was never a moment where there was no desire to return to work in russia, and it should be noted that at 1st in years 20

of a visit, perhaps, by king charles to the us, to come to the white house. can one administration permanently contain the narrowest of margin exists in the house of representativeslative change, there's going to need to be some backwards and forwards between the two parties. but they don't really have a leader at the moment. we've seen the california governor, gavin newsom, put his hand up and say, "i lead the resistance," as he calls it. this so—called debt break. in other words, there is, as part of the german constitution, a restriction on the amount of money he can borrow and spend. and so i think although his party was saying they wouldn't do it in the run—up to this election, they're going to have to change the rules so that they can spend more on things that people are really caring about, and also, crucially, on defence. i mean, that's going to be a big issue for him, isn't it? i mean, in the run—up to the nato summit, he's got to come up with some bigger figure than germany is spending at the moment, hasn't he? defence is something that the germans will have to invest in heavily. and of course, this comes at a time where president trump has completely r

of u.s. in ukraine gets heated before it properly begins. the trump administration tells a lot years when ski to leave the white house -- tells volodymyr zelenskyy to leave the white houses of a bilateral peace deal with russia. ♪ welcome to world news america. i'm helena humphrey. it was billed as a meeting which would spur efforts to end russia's invasion of ukraine. on friday, talks between u.s. president donald trump and ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy instead turned into anger in front of reporters and the swift exit of the ukrainian leader from the white house. during the meeting, mr. zelenskyy pushed for u.s. security guarantees against russian aggression, arguing there should be no compromises with russian president vladimir putin. president trump said kyiv have to make concessions to reach a peace deal and that a cease-fire was fairly close. meeting took a turn when the u.s. president and his vice president clashed with president zelenskyy, angrily telling him to be thank the for u.s. military support while accusing him of gambling with a third world or. >> what kind of diplomacy should the u.s. be involved? what do you mean? >> i am talking about the kin

white house fellowship. part of it was my deputy brigade commander was also a former white house fellow. vid: after you finish the white house fellowship, what did you do? gov. moore: i went to citi. i spent close to five years working for citi doing investment banking, m&a and also doing technology. david: you did that a number of years and then organization came along called robin hood and they said we want you to head it up. what is robin hood and why did you take the job? gov. moore: it's one of the nation's largest poverty fighting organizations. it started over 30 years ago and it started with an initial idea of saying what if you could take analytics and data, the same way we take analytics and data when we are making trading decisions and we are buying companies, and put that toward the poverty fight? david: after four years at robin hood, you decide to run for governor of maryland never having run for anything else before. did you think you had a chance? gov. moore: the data didn't show i had a chance. i was pulling 1% in our first pole. it is true. literally i am not voting was

of talking. your country is in big trouble. i know you're not. you're not winning this last the white house and more of the fight house k i'll be sends on the over office as a meeting. that's fine. and the way forward for you trade ends in a shouting match a deal in the rent as minerals a parent lead down to the trash a democracy on the fire. shoot out a rob.

blood thinner eliquis. >> did someone at the white house blow the cover of a cia operative after her husband criticized the run up to the war? >> the white houseas certainly been thrown on the defensive as a result of this issue, but it does have the real scandal on its hands. >> the plame affair did not follow the usual scandal playbook. flame's downfall was not caused by her own flaws or mistakes. no, she was a woman just doing her job until she ran up against the hubris and egos of several men. so when you joined the cia, i understand your mom was worried. >> as every mother would be. >> the central intelligence agency needs men and women with backgrounds in computer and physical sciences. to you, we say these are times to put your training and ability to work where it really counts. at the cia. >> so this is the 1980s. and why would you want to join the cia? like, how did that just because it was the reagan era and patriotism was part of it. >> that was part. >> of it. >> i come from a family of public service. so there was this idea in my family of quiet patriotism. not to mention it sounded like it was a lot more interesting than what an

hoover] a heavy hitter on the left being introduced to the white house press corp is kevin hassett, the newly appointed director of the white house national economic council. his job is to advise the president on economic policy. - the president has told us to prioritize fighting inflation, and he had to do that because, as you know, president biden let inflation get completely out of control. - hassett also served in the first trump administration as chairman of the white house council of economic advisers. i interviewed him in september, before the election, when he was being considered for a bigger role in a possible second trump administration. when you talk to trump next, what will you tell him? - i'll answer his questions. (laughs) you know, he's a very inquisitive person who loves to talk about the economy. he might say, you know, how are things going? are we in a recession? that's the kind of conversation i would have with him. - are we in a recession? - i think it's close. i think it's close. - [hoover] a phd known for his traditional free-market approach, hassett is now working for a president who favors tariffs and oth

that had one of the things that is interesting that i have learned what this office does is when folks say disasters that seem to keep happening, i talked to the white house and the white housethat part of the white house when there are disasters that do tend to happen the iga office reaches out to counties, mayors, the governor's team and say what's going on on the ground and we report that and make sure they are informed what is going on and also what can we do to help? we think this will be a disaster declaration, an individual declaration continuing that workflow so this is something where there is flooding in our county, we need divers, there are proper channels but we make sure if it is 2:00 in the morning and we need to wake the president, i've got bad news and making sure we are getting things signed to get the information we need. that's our office that communicates in a lot of different fronts but making sure we have a good working relationship so when disaster sows to use - does seem to happen our first phone call is not my name is alex and i'm from the iga office and i don't know what that means, i don't want to talk to the white house right now but you've got ou

not seem to be concerned about moscow being very happy with the rhetoric coming out of the white house. but the white housearly very happy with how that meeting went, with the blowup, with all of the attention that it generated, because, if they weren't happy with it, we would have seen president trump. we would have seen him over the weekend. we would have seen him today. but, instead, he has been quiet. he has not wanted to step on that news cycle. and then what you have seen is republican allies of the president going on sunday shows, otherwise going out and backing him. and there's a reason for this in part. the public has gradually over the last several years, in part because of trump and other republicans, and in part because russia has done a decent job of getting its views into the american bloodstream, the american public has really soured on ukraine in this war. geoff: amy, on that point, i mean, the same partisan attacks that sought to rehabilitate the january 6 rioters, you could argue, could also tear down president zelenskyy. how fixed are americans' views on the war in ukraine? amy: well, i

the hard way acting like a spoiled black isn't tolerated in the white house that runs on diet coke instead of the regular one last white housen. [laughter] or my fellow comedian in a minute what i meant to say was welcome to fox news saturday night. [cheering and applauding] for real, surreal experience for me because i'm standing here covering major world events on the biggest channel on the planet but right now my son lincoln is at his first high school prom right now. right? thank you. i don't know if you have to clap but you never forget your first unless it was so costly. [laughter] so silly, jimmy. someone said on radio, a chip off the old block so i've got to ask, are you buying your kid beer tonight? he's a junior in high school. [laughter] i was that age, i was trying to quit drinking. [laughter] i grew up on long island. a rough childhood doing a dry january and middle school. [laughter] lincoln was in a pickle this week, but his prom date would have to work tonight but it turns out she's got a bunch of time off now so -- [laughter] be nice to kirby puckett, he was great on the twins. [laughter] and kidding. it was

of talk in your country is in big trouble. i know you're not, you're not winning this last the white house and more of the fight house. okay. i'll be sends on the over office as a meeting. that's fine. and the way forward for you trade ends in a shouting match, a deal in the rent as minerals a parent lead down to the trash a democracy on the fire. shoot out a rob at the folding station, a number of cars we are leaving 3 people. when did you including one of the attack us the about we're continuing our coverage of the latest trend shaping the world right now . this is our, the international. i have mike called portrait. now ukrainian forces have attempted to attack the parts of the tug stream pipeline. in southern vos, you 3 drones west set to have been shut down and as moscow card to exact, it's influence on key of to prevent such attacks. hungry describe the incident, i found an attack on its silver d. the dirt stream pipeline is the guarantee of the security of the hun, gary in natural gas supply. so the possible in operability of the pipeline would seriously endanger our energy security. however, energy security is a mat

of course, the president promised to tell it like it is, quote, unquote. joining us now from the white house. cnn's chief white house correspondent, anchor of the source with kaitlan collins. kaitlan collins. caitlin, what are we expecting to hear from president trump tonight? >> yeah. >> jake. >> right. >> now he's. >> putting the finishing touches on that speech. he's been reviewing it. >> this afternoon. >> with senior aides. >> as he. >> personally likes to get involved. >> with a big. >> speech like tonight, where he mostly stays on the prompter. >> as. >> he's addressing one of the. biggest audiences that any president gets when they are in office, when they are speaking on capitol hill, certainly this white house and this president, who knows his ratings well, is aware of. >> that, as he'll. >> be up there on capitol hill, speaking to the lawmakers in the room. but also to americans. back at home who have been watching the last six weeks of his presidency. >> he'll tout what he. >> has done so far. what they believe are. >> his biggest accomplishments. >> but. also what he wants to do with the next four years

white house corps. we can explain what the white house pool is, it's not a place you can swim anymore. karine: built on top of a pool, though, president nixon. brittany: my office was underground with the rats of the pool -- mice. mice. what's your reaction to the news and what does it mean for the white house to single out and say this radio reporter, this wire reporter, this tv reporter covering the president to the masses. karine: my first briefing, jen's last briefing, my first briefing was we talked about the importance of the freedom of the press and the important of having that healthy back and forth. the president wanted to bring that back, and we were able to do that. my last press briefing, i talked about how we did more than 500 briefings. i did mosch 300 briefings and talked about in a real way, in a data-based way, and also the history of the democracy, the cornerstone of our democracy and freedom of the press, the press going the fourth of state, if you think with it, keeping us accountable. i talked about that. and i said one of the things i said, i hoped it continued in my last press briefing.

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of congress on tuesday. cnn's senior white house producer, betsy klein, is with me now. the first month and a half of trump's second term has been a whirlwind, as the white house and congressional republicans move swiftly to implement the president's agenda. so what sort of tone might we see in tuesday's speech? >> well, i think whirlwind is absolutely the right adjective, fredricka, as we prepare for the speech, we'll be watching his tone and tenor quite closely. but as you mentioned, the first six weeks of president trump's term, we have seen him expand and reimagine the use of executive authority. we have seen him transform the size and scope of the federal government, and we have seen him change the role of the u.s. in the world, as well as his approach to key alliances. but so far, we are starting to see how americans are viewing those changes he is making to the federal government in his new role as a second term, according to a brand new cnn polling out just a few hours ago, a narrow majority of americans disapprove of how trump is handling his job as president so far in his second term, 48% approve of trump, while 52% disapprove of the president. and we've learned that

of american leaders following his exit. however, yesterday from the white house, he posted thanks to the white house, congress and so many others. these are, you know, some of the other thank yous that he has given to america over this three year war. listen. >> thank you so much, mr. president. >> of course. >> thanks. bipartisan support. >> thanks, congress. and and. thanks from our. just ordinary people. to your ordinary. >> people. >> americans. financial assistance is also. >> critically important. >> and i. >> would like to. thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> for both. >> financial packages. you have already provided us with, and. >> the ones. >> you may. be willing to decide on. your money. >> is not. >> charity. >> it's an. investment in the global. >> security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. first of all, thank you for your leadership. >> for. >> your support., and really. for this new package. >> it's great. >> thank you very much from our people. and i'm so happy that. >> you know. >> we have. >> so strong relations with our people. >> that our. >> people during. >> this, all t

what would you expect the news out of the oval office and the white house to look like on a day like today? at the start of this made for tv debacle at the white house today, where the president and vice president j.d. vance screamed at our ally vladimir zelensky and berated him with russian government talking points. when this happened today in washington, there's a couple of things that stuck out to me. first of all, at the very start of this photo op, they had all the press in the room. trump was asked right at the outset when he last spoke with vladimir putin. he said, quote, a couple of days ago, which was news because the us government had said nothing about donald trump speaking with vladimir putin a couple of days ago. so that's new. he used to say, i'm not allowed to talk about that. now he's admitting that he talks to putin all the time, even when the us government doesn't release any information about those calls like they do with all other foreign leaders. second was the truly bizarre revelation that russian state controlled media, for some reason, was in the oval office today when this scene happened with volodymyr zelensky. now, to be

of trying to call for unity. >> are gone. i'm in the white. >> house now. yeah, i think what was fascinating about the speech, frankly, is that it was the entire white house infrastructureident of the republican party. he's not president of the country. every single president, until this one has used the state of the union to talk about unifying the country. and i understand he's not a particularly unifying figure, but talking about representing the whole country. you know, george w bush, every other president would say, would think about policies that could bring the other side along. and what was clear in. >> the. >> speech is just that the president feels like democrats are the enemy. independents reacted. >> negatively to the speech. >> i mean, in every other speech, every. >> other state of the union. >> independents have had strong support, very strong support. this is the lowest support of any state of the union amongst independents. and i think they are really reacting to a president, a speech that's only for the republican base and not for the whole country. can i. >> quickly get your. >> reaction on the democratic response? we, of course, saw slotkin as the of

of days. >> with us now, cnbc's dominic chu and nbc news senior white house correspondent garrett hake. so, garrett, how is the white house defending the need for these tariffs at this particular time? >> well, jose, it sort of depends on who you talk to. different white house advisers have offered differing viewpoints about why these tariffs are important. the commerce secretary, howard lutnick, was on television this morning making the case that this is essentially about rightsizing america's trade relationships with the world and protecting u.s. industries. here's his viewpoint. >> tariffs do not do not, do not create inflation. printing money creates inflation. you have a balanced budget. there can't be inflation. it doesn't mean one product could be more expensive and one product could be less expensive. the fact is, we need to protect america. why does china tariff everything? and we give them a free ride back here and they subsidize the opioid production. >> a fact check on that. of course, we do not have a balanced budget in this country, and we don't know if these tariffs will raise prices, although i'm sure domi

the supreme court ruling against the white house in a closely divided decision ordering the white house to unfreeze $2 billion worth of foreign aid to usaid contractors, samuel alito writing i am stunned, today the court makes an unfortunate misstep that rewards an act of judicial hubris and imposes a $2 billion penalty on american taxpayers. peter morocco tasked to dismantle the agency, weighing criminal referrals over waste, fraud and abuse, arguing no one will argue with the nature of foreign assistance. is it the proper role of government to be in the business of philanthropy, if u.s. foreign aid is only reaching 10% of intended target and private sector is reaching the right people 87% of the time this is a fundamental age-old question, an internal memo shows an official saying this, the truth is, the american people have lost faith in foreign assistance. how can we not lose faith in foreign assistance when we saw the crazy things that this money was going to. >> scotus defenders will say this is only about the services already rendered, they have to pay that bill. and the fact is, congress can, should and probab