huckabee sanders: how could he have? considering the fact that most of the people that are declaring war today were the very ones begging forakin director comey to be fired. if hillary clinton had won the election, and thing god she didn't, but she would have been in the same position. she would have been fired. this same people -- the same people criticizing today would be dancing in the streets celebrating. >> there is a report in israel that indicates the president has made a decision -- has he made a decision? sec. huckabee sanders: the president has not made a decision yet. he is the reviewing it. >> i have a follow-up. president erdogan in his speeches morning, warned the president. did that warning and other leaders play arab into his decision-making? sec. huckabee sanders: i will mock it into the decision-making process, but he is still reviewing it. two questions, both related to the selection of the successor of director comey. when president carter chosen fbi director, he had a blue-ribbon panel advising him.

huckabee sanders: yes, he does. is it appropriate for the white house to be directing the fbi what to do in any investigation they are currently investigating? sec. huckabee sanders: that was not the nature or intent of my comment. we are fully compliant in helping the process move along. we would like to see it completed so that all of us can move on and focus on things care, earlier like health infrastructure. those are big programs and priorities for this administration. it is not fbi investigations by things that affect the american voter and taxpayers every single day. >> what came before the meeting on monday. come outonday meeting of a longer process of consideration? sec. huckabee sanders: the department of justice officials were here for business. the topic came up and they asked to speak with the president. not that i am aware of. >> did he talk about rosenstein? sec. huckabee sanders: not that i am aware of. about he talk to comey being investigated? who asked for that? about -- the president seems to be

huckabee sanders: no. charlie? >> [inaudible] thinkuckabee sanders: i that is probably one of the many factors. it you can't deny it. it was one of the many reasons why he didn't have the confidence of the president or the rest of the fbi. sec. huckabee sanders: should we expect -- >> should we expect more firings from the justice department? sec. huckabee sanders: not that i'm aware of today. want thehe president department of justice to shut down the investigation? sec. huckabee sanders: he wants them to continue doing what they see as appropriate. continuing any ongoing investigations. any investigation happening on monday is still happening today. that hasn't changed. behind us andit see exactly what we've been saying for nearly a year. there is no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. we would love for that to be completed so we can all move on and focus on the things that most americans are concerned with. >> even if it's a waste of taxpayer money, he wanted to continue? sec. huckabee s

huckabee sanders: no. >> went did you make that decision? he madekabee sanders: the final decision yesterday, but i know he has been contemplating it for a while. you explain what dianne feinstein said, that the president told her that he was concerned with the fbi and the justice department? i can'tkabee sanders: speak for senator feinstein, but i spoke directly to the president and heard directly from him that he had been considering letting director since theretty much day that he took office, but that there was no request by him >> was the reason for the firing -- was that what he did it? sarah: that was the final piece that moved the question make that decisive action yesterday. >> with the evening in the liturgy wrote informing comey he was being fired? on three separate occasions comey told him i am not under investigation. what were the stre -- what were the three occasions? sarah: i will not get into the specifics of the conversation, but director comey relay that information to the president. areo the president asterisk comey if he

we heard that from sarah huckabee sanders yesterday. we know it's the opposite. they've asked for more resources. they've issued grand jury subpoenas. the white house said repeatedly no evidence of collusion. in fact, senator burr and senator warner, i reached out to both of them yesterday. both of them said that is still an open question. >> and today the deputy attorney general called it a highly significant investigation. that's not a small thing. and what was interesting to me is the president continuing to ask the fbi director whether he's under investigation. three times. >> and the president, you heard him say in this new nbc news interview that he totally stands by what he wrote in this letter firing comey and he wrote, while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. and in this new sbinterview the president gave some specifics about how that conversation was saying that he sp

that's the point that i asked sarah huckabee sanders about. listen here. >> democrats clearly didn't like james comey too much after the pronouncement that he was reopening the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. their point is that the timing is different. that this was in the middle of an investigation. do they have a point? >> not at all. mr. mccabe made that point far better than i could today when he said there's been no impediment to the investigation. as i said before, any investigation that was taking place on monday is still taking place today. >> so the white house is insisting, shep, that this investigation is still on going. doesn't matter who is running the fbi. the people who are at the fbi, the public servants are looking into this. even some republicans are agreeing with democrats that the timing of all of this looks bat. justin amash, the republican of michigan, is joining elijah cummings in calling for an independent commission to be struck to look into this and take it out of the hands of the fbi. >> shepard: thank

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. >>> sarah huckabee sanders is deputy white house press secretary and is joining us now. sarah, good morning to you. >> good morning, great to be with you this morning. >> good to be with you. let's clear one thing up right here and now, is it still the position of the white house and the president that james comey's firing had absolutely nothing to do with russia and his investigation into possible collusion? >> absolutely. look, savannah, it's real simple, any investigation that was taking place on monday is still taking place today. that doesn't change because director comey isn't there. so this absolutely has nothing to do with any investigation into russia. >> do you understand why some people are frankly suspicious? i mean, the president tweeted on tuesday that this was a taxpayer funded charade and a hoax, and he fires the fbi director the very same day. it also is reported that it happened just as congress said comey was asking for more resources for the russia investigation. subpoenas were being issued. do you understand why people are thinking, hey, there is smo

so we listened to sarah huckabee sanders there. david chalian, let me begin with you here as we walk through some of this. the and still the big question everyone is wondering is the why now. why now, if we just heard from sarah huckabee sanders challenging the president wasn't so sure about the fbi director essentially from day one, why did it take him several months to fire him. >>> >> i think the time line here is what really became new in this briefing. it's quite different from what was portrayed last night from the white house after they released those letters. the point is back last july was when director comely went around the chain of command as sarah huckabee sanders said it, at doj and decided to announce the recommendation instead of lowing the attorney general to make that announcement there would be no prosecution against hillary clinton. at that moment, apparently donald trump had a problem with that. that's last july. he called that a catalyst. well, a catalyst starts a reaction. so obviously january 20th is when do

now, as you said that would possibly be filled by sara huckabee sander its the deputy press secretaryit's definitely the talk inside the white house press briefings, what's going on. so, we are asking people what do you just think about the possibility of a new press secretary? we're live at old ebbitt. let's check in over here. what do you think about the possibility of a new press secretary? >> i sure will miss the snl skits. they are something else. let's come over here. we have two ladies over here. what do you think about the possibility of a new press secretary. >> definitely a good idea 'cause there's way too much attention on him than on the stories that he's actually trying put out. >> reporter: he is a news maker. >> yeah. >> so we think it's a good idea. >> reporter: well, he definitely makes news in those briefings. come on back here. we have some brave souls over here. what is your name in caleb schultz. >> reporter: where are you from. >> colorado. >> reporter: colorado, that's where my husband's from. great state. okay, let's talk about the news. let's talk about what a

sarah huckabee sanders said she had not walked the the president. did vice president pence tell an inaccurate version to reporters without speaking to the president? and here's the question. who told both of them if it is the same person, that version of events. >> what role did the very stellar testimony, effective testimony of sally yates, who was fired as acting attorney general, before the senate the other day, what power did that have to play in trump's decision to fire comey? do we know the tick tock? >> i think trump feels cornered. our reporting showed that he entered in a very sour state of mind. and one of the things he really hated, what sounds to be sort of a precipitating spark, was comey saying that he felt, quote, slightly nauseous at the prospect that the fbi would have swung the election to donald trump. he took really personally. as with everything, it is a combination of personal motives. everything is personal to this president and his own interests in this investigation. >> thank you very much. you're doing a fantastic job. for

sarah huckabee is a lovely young woman. you know sean spicer. he is a wonderful human being.e's a nice man. howard: joining us now from new york to talk about way this story's being covered is kellyanne conway, the president's counselor. thanks for coming in. >> hi, howie. howard: would you recommend as his counselor that the white house press briefings be abolished? >> i'm very happy that the president gave three big interviews this week. it goes with what jeff mason said at the dinner a couple of weeks ago which is that the press has access to this white house. the president gave interviews to nbc, fox news and time magazine this week. so there's not a mystery about a what he thinks on everything. i would go to the other point of what the president said to judge jeanine pirro. he said the level of hostility to the people who work for him is really something. and do you see what some in the media are doing while sean spicer or sarah huckabee sanders are giving their press briefings, they're live streaming them. how many people are talking about health care reform today? did

>> well, the first thing i think is sarah huckabee sanders did quite a good job here. this was her first time briefing here in the briefing room on camera while sean spicer of course is off doing reservist duty. i think among the things that happened in this room today, the administration once again weighing in on the idea of health care and giving us that public point of view that they have changed to over the last several days, probably the last week, and that is we are not going to put a calendar on this thing. we are not going to say when this thing is supposed to come through. we just want to get it right. that's something they want to send to the senate because it is likely to take a very long time. one of the other things i think was very interesting is the question of the president in new jersey. this is his first trip up to the new york area since he became president. he's been to mar-a-lago in florida, his golf course there, multiple times but now back in new york. the president tweeted about that, saying he was saving taxpayers money and i would like you to

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i think sarah huckabee sanders will be pressed on that over the course of this day. more details will be asked about those conversations that the president had. i know we heard from matthew miller on that topic about it being a canard that focus has always been on the campaign more than the president himself but he will be pressed on those three occasions that the president insists existed that private conversation they had over the course of a dinner and two phone calls that took place. all these things sort of blurring this timeline, making it a little bit yet more confusing than it was at the white house story about the way this all came to be continues to evolve. andrea? >> and "morning joe" anchor joe scarborough is joining us by phone, peter. joe, you've seen the first part of lester holt's interview and the conflicting explanations but those that are coming from the president himself raising a lot of questions right now? >> well, raising a lot of questions and once again, donald trump not only makes his staff look like liars, not only makes sarah huckabee sand

and sarah huckabee sanders, deputy press secretary to the president, acknowledged that the president asked the justice department to put the recommendation in writing. why was attorney general sessions involved in this decision at all? remember, attorney general sessions was forced to recuse himself from the investigation of russian collusion with the trump administration because of his close connections with the trump campaign and communications he himself had with mr. kislyak and other russian officials. when they made the decision to fire director comey, was the white house aware that director comey had reportedly just asked the justice department for more resources for an adequate investigation? and perhaps the most important question of all: when will republicans in congress agree to support a special prosecutor and an independent commission to get to the bottom of this russian collusion in our last presidential election? mr. president, december 8, 2016, is a day that will live in cyber infamy. it was that election that the russians set out to change the results. it is the first

let's start with white house spoke welcome sara huckabee sanders 24 hours ago. >> the president accepted remove james comey from his position. >> today, when president donald trump took the anywherive and said no. >> regardless, i was going to fire him. >> reporter: today she took the fall for that one, saying she made the remarks before asking the president. also up for debate tonight, why did the fbi director get the ax again. we go back to the white house spokes welcome. >> the file of the fbi had lost confidence in their director. >> this time it was not the president's contradicting her but the guy stepping up to his job temporarily who said, han. >> we have a diversity of opinions about many things, uhm, but i can confidently tell you that majority of fbi employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to director coy. house tonight, two new executive orders, first centering on cyber security, stepping it up, and the cabinet secretary will be responsible if an attack happens to their department. second, a commission on election integrity. the president promised this after claiming

huckabee sanders was facing quite a few questions there from reporters. now, if i do say-so myself, i think her dad mike huckabee would be pretty proud because she ndled that very much well grace, and it cerinly is a high pressure situation. democrats are calling for an independent investigation into the trump campaign ties into russian while republicans worry what exactly this is going to mean for the ability to move forward on the very important economic policies we need. like tax reform. like health care reform. now, the white house says the president has lost total confidence in comey over the last few months. let's face it. both sides had lost confidence in james comey over the last few months. joining me right now founder adam johnson, former democratic party chairman scott, as well as mark. good to have all of these guys here. we're going to start with you, adam, we do get to the market in a second and what investors think of all of this. but right now, i mean, isn't this in some way serving as a giant sideshow, taking us away from the important po

. >> today at the white house deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says the president's with comey's performance had been growing for some time and suggested his testimony before congress last week was the last straw. >> lost confidence in director comey and frankly he had been considering letting comey go since the day he was elected. >> accusing comey of using the department to create atrocities. >> in having that conversation that outlined the basic just atrocities in circumventing the department of justice. any person of legal mind and authority knows what a big deal that is. >> now members of both parties not capitol hill are raising serious concerns about the timing of the dismissal. and white house officials, many caught off guard by the move, and the blow back, are scrambling to explain it. insisting it had nothing to do with the fact that comey was leading the investigation into possible collusion between trump associates and russian officials during the presidential campaign. >> this had nothing to do with russia as much as somebody must be getting $50 every time th

our point here is that sarah huckabee sanders is in a pickle. yesterday she said eone thing, this morning the president said something entirely opposite. what will she say today? the minute she says it, we'll get it to you. we know there are lots of theories as to why comey was reisdeand now there are all kinsd of versions on who decided to fire him. the confusion continues because the president says the rank and file in the fbi did not trust ng.ector comey. i t then the new acting director of the fbi said the opposite in recrn testimony this morning. >> i can tell you also that director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi. that the majority, the vast ot drity of fbi employees enjoyed a deep positive connection to director comey. >> and this storyessentially 48 hours old. we've heard different versions about any kind of thing. again, sarah huckabee sanders is at the white house. we'll monitor that. when she explains the new version of what is going on, be we'll get it to you. sam. and stt, being thank you very much. likourse every single

and today's #oneluckyguy, the former governor of the great state of arkansas, mike huckabe mike huckabee. >> mike: i love it. great to be back, thank you. >> harris: we have lots of guests in studio. you come and people follow you. it's amazing. >> mike: that's great, because they want to see if i'll do something stupid. who knows is going to happen? i may give you one before the day is over, it will go viral, i guarantee you. >> harris: yes, it will. let's start with the news now. we'll begin with president trump not holding back in his criticism of the appointment of a special counsel during a news conference at the white house yesterday. >> i respect it, but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. it the country. we have a very divided country because of that and other things, so i can tell you that we want to bring this great country of ours together. >> harris: amid the allegations of collusion, the present was adamant and never happen. >> there was no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can always speak for myself and the russians. zero. even my enemies have s

instagram and facebook than he'll ever reach in any press conference or before sean spicer and mike huckabee's daughter, sarah, i mean, and go directly to the american people? and don't do any more interviews with lester holt which then is sent over their cable channel and cnn so they can rip it apart every way and side ways. >> right, right. yep, now, look, my advice would be to use the white house press room with no press. and every day to have someone come in, whether spicer or -- and by the way, i think that sarah has done a very good job under very tough circumstances. >> sean: so has spicer. >> sean, i guess -- is he back today from his military duty?

we will be asking mike huckabee in the house and joins me in a few. first, let's get back to top story. president trump will be embarking on first foreign trip any minute now. i want to go to blake berman with the latest, hi, blake. blake: the president should be leaving any moment now and andrew's air force base and 9-day trip. countries visited saudi arabia, israel and then meets with the pope at the vatican, off to brussels with a meeting with nato leaders and off to sicily with meeting in the g7. at the beginning part of this meeting with world leaders of the three major religions, three of the major religions across the world and after that you have the nato g7 component as well. all nine days. the president will take this trip, though, at least on the beginning portion of it without having officially named an fbi nomination to become the director of that agency. white house officials telling me multiple officials earlier on this day that the decision is not coming on this day from the president. as you'll remember yesterday, the president himsel

it was interesting to see sarah huckabee sanders try to sort of address this today. she basically said, look, we didn't try to pin this decision on rod rosenstein. that's obviously a very different tone from what we heard from a number of white house officials in the past two days, who said, really, that the president made this decision to fire james comey at the recommendation of rod rosenstein, that this was a key part of the decision making process. this is how the president arrived a this the conclusion. obviously, we heard something very different from the president himself today, when he said that he had already made the decision to fire to james comey. another thing interesting, sarah sanders said she believes the president wants this russian investigation to continue. that she wants it to reach its completion. and i asked her why you would then fire the person who is overseeing that russian investigation if you want it to move along speedily. she said a number of other people are working on it. but as you've seen from a number of our colleagues reporting here

now sara huckabee gets up and says she's getting calls from countless fbi agents.here's a level of honesty here and questionable honesty that needs to be addressed. who are these countless fbi agents who are calling up the white house to say comey did a great job? >> does it make sense that countless fbi agents would be randomly be calling the white house and they would get referred to sara huckabee? >> no. >> if we can say, we have a lot of these folks who live around here some who are not with the fbi. anecdotally in the last ten month, phil noted, he put forth two points. they're not mutually exclusive. that doesn't mean you keep him. with the bipartisan consensus to be rid of him, the real question becomes, this isn't an illegitimate question, this is one of timing. i would add to it method process and so forth. but it's still substantively the right decision. >> i just asked the question about whether is sara huckabee sanders the one that it would be directed to? >> here's the big thing. fbi is a big organization. no question after comey's performance last jul

replaced by sarah huckabee sanders.was demoted after the bizarre briefing by the white house bushes in the dark. the administration has been under intense fire for the contradiction accounts for the firing of james comey. the downward spiral for retailers. weak consumer spending at the start of the year. experts expected a rebound, but it won't help traditional stores. they are losing the battles online. amazon sales jumped 23% during the same time period. and as brick and mortar stores sales fall, macy's fell 17%. kohl's, jc penney and sears dropping between 7% and 10%. really we you look at the hemorrhage of the retail jobs, it is a far greater number of jobs than coal or other industries the president has campaigned on. >> hard to imagine turning that tide since the sales in your opinion are going digital. >> a lot. >> tough news. >>> stephen colbert taking on trump after the president takes aim at the late night host. >> oh, no. oh, no. please. oh, please. don't make me trend on twitter again. >> more of colbert's t

sarah huckabee is a lovely young woman. you know sean spicer.but he gets beat up. >> will he be there tomorrow? abby: it wasn't a resounding, yes, he will be here for the indefinite future. the media is playing with this, snl. clayton: last night making fun of the fact that sarah huckabee sanders was in the podium. peter: because he was serving his country. clayton: this is their take on sean spicer. >> okay, good morning, guys, it's an honor to be here today for those who don't me yet my father is mike huckabee and my mother is a big southern hamburger. and yes, of course i'm hilarious like my daddy. i'm filling in for sean today a you know he's fulfilling duty as officer in the naval reserve and that's why he cannot be here. >> i'm pretty sure i can see him hiding in those bushes. [cheers and applause] >> i believe that's a naval exercise he's trying to blend in with surroundings. are there any more questions? abby: i know sarah huckabee sanders, she's a nice woman but also a tough woman and she knows how to give it right back to the media. pe

>> yes. >> which huckabee? >> which huckabee? i can't distinguish between the two of them. this guy in the middle. >> i know. i will try to save you a little bit. also, she asked president trump about his controversial firing of james comey including a report that the president asked comey for a loyalty pledge. >> people suggest that the question that the new york times is selling that you asked comey whether or not you had his loyalty was possibly inappropriate. could you see how they think that? >> i don't think it's inappropriate. >> did you ask that question? >> no, i didn't. but it wouldn't be a bad question. loyalty to the country, to the united states is important. number one. number two, i don't know how that got there. i didn't ask that question. >> what about the idea that in a tweet you said that there might be tape recordings? >> i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest. i hope he will be. i'm sure he will be, i hope. >> what do you make of this? the report of the allegation is that the president was requesting or hoping for a loyalty pledge

. >> sara huckabee sanders abruptly ending the session. a quite different style for those who watch sean spicer with any degree of regularity. we are joined here in the studio by ari melber and katy tur who have been following the president. we are learning that the president lost confidence in director comey pretty much day one. >> which is unbelievable since he had a meeting with director comey and said, you're even smarter than me, and blew him a kiss. as late as last week, donald trump a few days ago said that hillary clinton should thank james comey because he gave her an excuse to why she lost. this is an about-face from this administration. we had not been hearing that donald trump, the president of the united states, did not have confidence in his fbi director until yesterday when we were told that he was fired. we got a little more of a timeline, though. sara huckabee sanders said the president had a fourth conversation or some kind of oral conversation on monday where the deputy ag expressed his concern with fbi director comey. t

made up his mind to fire comey before receiving rosenstein's memo, deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders answered unequivocally. >> isn't it true that the president had already decided to fire james comey, and he asked the justice department to put together the rationale for that fire something. >> no. >> when did he make the decision? >> he made the decision for the final decision to move forward with it was yesterday. >> okay. that was yesterday in the press briefing. today, in an interview with nbc's lester holt, the president revealed the exact opposite to be true. contrary to what his numerous spokespeople said, the president was already dead set on getting rid of james comey. >> look, he's a showboat. he's a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. you know that. i know that. everybody knows that. you take a look at the fbi a year ago. it was in virtual turmoil less than a year ago. it hasn't recovered from that. >> monday you met with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> right. >> did you ask for a recommendation? >> what i did is i was going to fire comey. my

. -- huckabee. >> you've been doing it for 100 years. you can't do that. >> there's never been action like this. this is crazy. they're getting higher ratings on the press conferences. >> would you seriously consider stopping these press sessions? >> we'll do it in a different way. >> how? >> we'll do it through a piece of paper with a perfectly accurate, beautiful answer. i'll give an example. >> in writing? >> they're asked 100 questions or 50 questions or 20 questions, if they get 1 out of 50, just a little bit off, 5%, 10%, 20%, it's -- the next day, it's a front-page story in every newspaper. >> right. right. so? >> press conferences weren't even covered for obama practically. they were on c-span and c-span 2. there was nothing going on. >> but will you put an end to them? >> just a minute, these press conferences are like the biggest thing on daytime television. >> they are. >> ok? you see the ratings. >> yes. >> they're blowing away everything on just about everything on daytime television. what i'd love to do is stop th them. >>

sarah huckabee sanders filling in for sean spicer has gone to great lengths to say james comey had lost the support of the people within the fbi. >> most importantly, the rank and file of the fbi had lost confidence in their director. >> i think it really came down, the bottom line was he'd lost the respect not only of the rank and file within the fbi, democrats and republicans alike. >> i've heard from countless members of the fbi that are grateful and thankful for the president's decision. >> the problem with that is the new interim director of the fbi, a 21-year veteran, appeared before congress today and was asked about the rank and file at the fbi. >> is it accurate that the rank and file no longer supported director comey? >> no. no, sir, that is not accurate. i can tell you also that director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi and still does to this day. i can confidently tell you that the majority -- the vast majority of fbi employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to director comey. >> let's bring in tonight's panel. white house bureau chief for "the washington

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but what do you make of how sean spicer and sarah huckabee-sanders, how are they doing this week?ly do think this is one of their sort of -- it's up there in the pantheon of public relations debacles so far in this young presidency. how are they doing? >> well, it's difficult to assess that. i would say that the president, president trump, is quite upset with how his communications team is doing, but i don't think that's really fair to pin it all on them. they're actually trying to take orders from him. they're kept in the dark about things until, you know, right before the news breaks. and then they have to, like, kind of put together a plan to explain the firing of the fbi director and that's difficult and they're not getting clear facts at the front end. i don't think they knew, frankly, tuesday night the reason comey was fired because the president, himself, for several days now decided he wanted to fire him. the explanation that they were given to go tell all of us was this was all because the deputy attorney general recommended it and trump followed on his recommendation and

again, sarah huckabee sanders will be the briefer.om time to time, has taken days off to pursue and fulfill his duty in the u.s. naval reserve. that duty has been carried out over at the pentagon. and here is today's white house briefing. >> quiet crowd. >> slow day today. >> that's what i heard. good afternoon, everybody. as most of you i think know, sean is on reserve duty for the rest of this week, so i will be briefing you today, and in the following days. i've got a few announcements here at the top before i take questions. i have an update on the tunnel collapse at the nuclear waste site in washington state. the incident is moving from the emergency phase towards the recovery phase. we remain confident at this point that there's been no indication of worker exposure or an airborne radiological release. personnel began taking steps to fill the hole last night. d we expect the efforts to be completed today. the site remains closed to nonessential personnel. dedicated experts on the ground are looking closely at what next steps sho

asked about that at the white house sarah huckabee sanders said we just beg to differ. i have talked to many she sa countless fbi agents who express concerns about comey. the news of today i think is the president telling leicester holds that he made the decision long ago and that he in fact asked the fbi director comey whether he was under investigation. once at a dinner where comey was making a case and two times on the phonecall. that is just interesting. it contradicts first of all the white house's initial story which is a rollout that clearly was bungled but it also gets to questions about whether he should have been asking that in the first place. kennedy: absolutely and if the fbi director should have engaged them in those conversations because that's what acting fbi director mccabe was saying today although he couldn't comment on the particulars of the conversations not being privy to them he could say that it was not standard procedure for an fbi director to comment on an investigation was someone who was at the center of that investigation. now you have two p

sarah huckabee is a lovely young woman. you know sean spicer. he is a wonderful human being.'s a nice man. >> is he your press secretary today and tomorrow? will he be tomorrow? >> he's doing a good job. he gets beat up. >> will he be there tomorrow? spicer scheduled to hold white house press briefing, so he will be there today. that brings to looks who's talking, rumors of a white house press team shake-up and own daughter replacing sean spicer. >> i don't think sean spicer anywhere and he shouldn't. he's doing an excellent job. it's an incredibly difficult job. i know sarah really likes sean, she respects him and enjoys working with him. they have a great chemistry between them, you know, this idea that who is going to go out and who is in, i think it's nonsense. you know, as i tweeted, every person who goes to that podium, it's like the person wearing a lady gaga meat dress stepping into the lion cage at the zoo. it's never going to be easy. heather: there you go. bill clinton using college commencement address to attack president trump's immigration policies. the former p

you had a strong exchange with sarah huckabee sanders. in the contradictory statements from members of the administration including the vice president and the president today. i want to play part of that and get your take. >> vice president pence yesterday said the firing was based on the recommendation of the attorney general and deputy attorney general. we know now that's not true. was the vice president misled again or did he mislead the american people? >> i believe i've answered that question. >> if you have, i don't think i caught it. the vice president said yesterday that the president chose to accept and support the decision of the deputy attorney general and attorney general. >> he certainly accepted the deputy -- that doesn't mean that he wouldn't still accept his recommendation. i mean, they're on the same page. why are we arguing about the smanltics of whether or not he second it? they agreed. i'm not sure how he didn't accept the deputy attorney general's recommendation when they agreed with one another. >> the simple fact is

robby, i want to get your reaction to sarah huckabee sanders. would hillary clinton have fired james comey? >> you know, hillary clinton wasn't elected president of the united states, donald trump was. i think this is a classic example of how the trump administration is trying to get us to debate, you know, what would hillary have done. let's go back to 2016 and relitigate the campaign and not keep the focus on the choice that donald trump made here. >> we're going to do that, but i'm not part of the trump campaign. this is me asking you. would hillary clinton have fired james comey? >> i honestly have no clue. you know, we were running a campaign, we were focused on winning votes, and this discussion never came up and never -- we never frankly had the opportunity because she wasn't elected to even make these sorts of considerations. you know what, frankly, it doesn't matter. what's concerning here today is that the same day that subpoenas were coming out in the fbi probe into russia, all of a sudden donald trump decides to fire james comey. and

>> greg: which huckabee? >> bob: which huckabee? >> greg: yes. >> bob: i can't distinguish the two of them. always put the youngest guy in the middle. >> kimberly: bob, i'm going to try to save you just a little bit. judge jeanine asked president trump about his controversial firing of f.b.i. director james comey including a report from the "new york times" that the president asked comey for a loyalty pledge. >> people suggest that the question that apparently the "new york times" is selling that you asked comey whether or not you had his loyalty was possibly inappropriate. did you see how they would say that? >> i read that article. i don't think that was inappropriate at all. >> did you ask that question? >> no. no, i didn't. i don't think that would be a bad question to ask. i think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the united states is important, it depends on how you define loyalty. number one. number two, i don't know how that got there because i didn't ask that question. >> what about the idea that in a tweet you said that t

the deputy press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders will be doing the briefing. spicer is doing his naval reserve duty at the pentagon, three days. he could have easily rescheduled that, but for some reason he decided he wanted to go forward with that and let sarah huckabee sanders do this briefing. >> i would do it too rather than face the questions. because the white house has an enormous credibility problem, from its top officials and from the president. there is a rationale for why comey should be fired, and i think senator paul is right it's one shared by democrats and republicans, but you have to get to the what and the why and the when. the what is, the head of the fbi at the time of a major investigation by russia was fired. during that time and the president, if he was so worried about what happened to hillary clinton and how comey handled himself could have fired him right after the election. is this a revelation that comey overstepped his bounds? no, there's so much heat from this investigation, maybe not enough emphasis on investigating the leaks that

deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders daughter of mike huckabee shamed on saturday night live> sarah huckabee sanders said james comey had committed basic atrocities while he was head of fbi like reopeningopening the hillary clinton investigation. that's not a basic atrocity. basic atrocity is where sarah huckabee sanders gets herded. wardrobe. to help protect what you've earned and ensure it lasts. introducing brighthouse financial. a new company established by metlife to specialize in annuities & life insurance. talk to your advisor about a brighter financial future. will you be ready when the moment turns romantic? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or l

it was sarah huckabee sanders who was in for sean spicer. apparently he's still on navy reswrrsest duty from the pentagon. but here's a piece of information. the white house official siz officials at the highest levels including the president are monitoring sarah huckabee's performance this weekend in place of sean spicer in the briefing room. two white house officials were sharply critical of the press shots handling of the comey news last night. it was, an embarrassment. another official said it was a disaster. and another thought it was handled poorly. o that coming in from our own jim acosta. jeff zeleny, let's get back to you. >> reporter: a little bit of context to jim acosta's reporting there. he's watching sarah sanders like he does with every briefing, the president. and they believe sarah sanders is a good communicator, a good spokeswoman. but there's also a good bit of blame to go directorly to the oval office. you can blame a lot of things on sean spicer, the white house press secretary, but last night's reaction to this is proba