huckabee sanders: good afternoon. mark the last day of made in america week this afternoon the president will welcome several living survivors of the attack on u.s.s. arizona at pearl harbor and their families. other events this week have focused mainly on products and goods bearing the highly esteemed made in america label. truly the most prized thing to have come out of our country have been the brave men and women who have risked their lives protecting the freedom of americans and our allies around the globe. just a few minutes ago at 2:00 the president signed an executive order that will ensure the men and women of the greatest military in the world have the ships, aircraft, vehicles, and other supplies they will need to keep us safe in the years ahead. this order commissions the first ever whole government assessment of america's industrial base, marking the first time since president eisenhower that an american president is investing personal attention into the health of the united states defense industrial base

deputy huckabee-sanders: i will not speak for sean in detail. i can say that he understands wanted toresident bring in and adds new people to the team, and shawn felt like it sean felt like- it would be best for the team to start with a totally mean slate. i will at: anthony said, and i think it speaks to who he is at and -- i will speak to what anthony said, i think it speaks volumes as to who he is. we will continue to serve the president loyally. he will stay on for a couple of weeks through the transition and will be happy to answer some of those questions directly. >> first of all, congratulations on the job. can you clarify where the president stands on the issue of pardons? is he considering that in the russia investigations? does he believe he has the power to pardon himself? deputy huckabee-sanders: i will refer you to comments made by the outside counsel in terms of their actions. the president maintains pardon powers like any president would come but there are no plan announcements on that front whatsoever. >> do you believe he has th

huckabee sanders: i have no reason to believe otherwise. reporter: the intelligence committees are already looking to financial data from the treasury department. is there anything the white house can do to stop that? missi could be sanders: the president's point is he does not want the white house to move beyond -- ms. huckabee sanders: the president's point is that he does not want the white house to move beyond -- i think we have been extremely clear on that. reporter: it became apparent in the house on the first go around that it was going to fail. it was pulled in the last hour or two. when you look at their appeal and replace potential and the repeal only potential, the numbers suggest they do not have the votes and it is set up to fail. why does the white house believe a vote should proceed? ms. huckabee sanders: we continue to be focused on repealing and replacing obamacare, and we will not until we get that done. not only have we wanted to commit to that, but a lot of the members of the senate and the house have not only committed,

huckabee sanders: thank you. reporter: can you clarify where the president stands on the issue of pardons? is he considering pardons in the issue of the russian investigation and does the president believe he has the power to pardon himself? ms. huckabee sanders: i refer you to the comments already made by the outside counsel in terms of their actions. the president maintains pardon powers like any president would. but there are no announcements or planned announcements on that front whatsoever. reporter: does he believe he has the power to pardon himself? ms. huckabee sanders: i don't have anything to add to what was already said. reporter: according to the "new york times" you raised questions about robert mueller. do you endorse the legal team's efforts to undermine robert mueller's credibility? ms. huckabee sanders: the president has absolutely nothing to do with any of the allegations being made. i think he's maintained that. he wants them to completel tross esas quickly -- complete their process as quickly

what did sarah huckabee sanders call it, the russia fever? all this kind of stuff and stephanie and i were very frustrated because we're economics journalists. we'd love tow been talking about made in america week, but in fact we get did he railed by this russia stuff because the president is going after bob mueller and his team and talks about jeff sessions and all that kind of stuff. it is kind of frustrating because you have business to do on capitol hill and the mesh public is getting more and more frustrated with the fact that basic business isn't getting done. and i think all plam goes to the white house at this point. >> yeah, you mentioned russia. look, if i were the -- if i were in the white house, my advice to the president would be here is your answer on russia every single time. oh, i've done nothing wrong. director mueller is investigating the situation and we'll be cleared when his investigation is complete. next question. that should be the answer, but because, i know, the president then will intervene in some way or interfere,

in another move it was revealed that sarah huckabee sanders would take over for sean spicer. announcement came directly from mr. scaramucci when he was announced at today's white house briefing. >> finally i would like to read a statement on the resignation of press secretary sean spicer. i am grateful for sean's work on the american people. i wish and continued success as he pursues new opportunities. anthony has been a great supporter and will help implement key aspects of our agenda violating the communications team. we have accomplished so much and being given credit for so little. the good news is that the people get it even if the media doesn't. i will be back after that to answer any follow-up questions. mr. scaramucci: thank you. i will be very brief, i will make my remarks in formal and take questions. i would like to announce formally that sarah huckabee sanders, you cannot hear me, i am sorry. sarah huckabee sanders will be the press secretary so you can congratulate her -- still can't hear me? no sound? better now? i will start over. you guys heard me in the front

while sarah huckabee sanders was doing those.t seems he resigns just minutes after this announcement was made. brent: anthony scaramucci against the house of bannon. what do we know about this communications director anthony scaramucci and why he's such a big problem for sean spicer? correspondent: the cause of the strife within the whitehouse over anthony scaramucci we do not know. he is cut from the same cloth as donald trump. it seems that trump really admired him because a mere two weeks ago anthony scaramucci was the subject of a cnn article alleging he had close ties to agents close to the russian government. anthony scaramucci was a big fundraiser for trial during the campaign -- for trump during the campaign. these allegations of being close to russia were not good for anthony scaramucci. that story into being retracted and this three journalists retired. brent: our washington correspopondent on the story. thank you very much. now to be middle east, palestinian president mahmoud abbas says that the palestinian leadership

host: walk us through a typical day for sarah huckabee sanders.arah: i don't know if there is a typical day. it usually starts pretty early at 5 a.m.. it starts early 5:00 a.m. i only have one early riser. my three year old, i usually spend time visiting with him in the morning before i leave, and get to the office early enough to try to read through and catch up on any news that to place before i went to bed. then we start with a series of meetings around 7:15 talking about the news of the day, prepping for what we want the message of the day to look like and responding to any stories that might be coming up. from there, every day is a little different than the one before, which is why i love what we do. no two days are alike and every day presents new challenges and gives us a new way to be part of the administration. host: wendy you get home? sarah: it varies -- it can be 7:00 to 10:00 at night. >> if you take on this job -- sean spicer has made a couple changes. how do you approach the job of deputy press secretary, and approach relations with

. >> i would like to announce formally that sarah huckabee secretaryll be the -- -- press secretary so you can , youatulate her after still cannot hear me, no sound? better now? i will start over. you guys heard me in the front. what did i say, sarah will be the press secretary, right? congratulations. [applause] >> you can see sean spicer's final on camera briefing one month ago in the video library. incoming white house secretary sarah huckabee sanders said down for profile interview with c-span in which she discussed her personal and professional life. he for decision to join the presidential campaign and described her approach to a current -- her current position. this is under half hour. -- a half hour. >> what was it like growing up with a political family? junkiei was a political at effort -- an early age, it is something i love to be part of and even better than that, i had the chance to do something i and and do that with my dad i cannot think of any better experience growing up and to me it was a privilege and an honor and something that helped prepare me for life that i am l

as we know, sarah huckabee sanders may take that role.t's a huge role and one that affects the day-to-day relations coming out of that white house. >> it is an important role, it's somewhat diminished by their decision not to hold televised briefings every day. as we all know, it got good ratings, millions of people were tuning in every day on all of the cable news channels to see reince priebus or sarah huckabee sanders take on the press and now that they've basically, to a large degree, ended the televised briefings, that diminishes the role of the press secretary to some degree, but it's still a big role and it's important, you have to figure sarah huckabee sanders has the inside track on that. as of about 9:00 this morning and things do change in this white house, and they like the way she engages and pushes back on the press, so we'll have to wait and see what happens and we'll see if scaramucci has some say. >> harris: that's an excellent point. one of the criticisms were anybody who stepped up to that lectern, whether it be spicer

but in recent weeks when they have been on camera it has been sarah huckabee sanders doing those.teresting about watching anthony scaramucci in the briefing room is, as gavin says, he is slick and polished and he was trying to almost reset the relationship with the media. he said when he spoke to journalists, and going to take every question i can. when asked whether he would reinstate the regular daily on camera briefings he said, i will ask the president and ask sarah huckabee sanders, but i will try and do that. it seemed like he was a good operator on camera and if president trump was watching that one wonders whether he will be making more of an appearance on camera because he was a very robust defender of the president. in that report he said, i love the president. i've been very loyal to him. it seems those are the most important characteristics you need if you want to stay in the white house. thank you very much. a bbc investigation has found evidence of children as young as nine being groomed on the live streaming app periscope. launched just two years ago the app allows

during mina, has press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. good evening to you. never a dull moment at the white house. i think everybody who has had a chance to read through these comments from a conversation that anthony scaramucci had with ryan at the new yorker, it's a jaw dropper. the language in there is unbelievable. >> i'm sorry, martha, just the last second. can you repeat the question? >> martha: absolute. the article that came out that came out in the new yorker that detailed his conversation with anthony scaramucci who is going to be the communications director at the white house, has language in it that the that thickest jaw-dropping and really and really shocked a lot of people. he's put out a statement about that. what's your response to a? >> i think he put out a statement just moments ago, and stated that this is a guy who sometimes uses colorful and in many circles probably not appropriate language. he's very passionate about the president and the president's agenda, and i think he may let the cap best of them. >> martha: i just want to put up o

sarah huckabee sanders has proven herself very adept in these briefings. because scaramucci is taking over, he may have someone else in mind. perhaps it will be announced, we will find out when there is a rare on camera briefing today later this afternoon. it's not just a question of sean spicer leaving, there will be a rethink of the whole relationship with the media. in light of the fact the president gave that interview where he took a shot at jeff sessions with the failing "new york times" as he calls it. perhaps it doesn't need to be is constantly contentious relationship between the president and the media. we will see what scaramucci has in mind. >> heather: more resignations as a result? >> it's always dangerous to predict resignations as chris wallace mentioned. sean spicer was reince priebus' guy and didn't have the previous relationship with president trump. i don't know whether there will be a full-scale shakeup. i know the president is always reporting, this one is out, this one is out, but at the very least we will see a retooling of the comm

we're still waiting for an off-camera white house press briefing with sarah huckabee sanders. we'll bring you any news as we get it. plus, one trump ally describes the situation in the white house to my friends fill rucker and ashley parker at the "washington post" as a category 5 hurricane after news broke hf that meeting between donald trump junior and a kremlin linked lawyer. this as president trump tweeted stowed that the white house is functioning, quote, can perfectly. up next, we'll take a look at a timeline of events leading up to that meeting as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle continue to weigh? zbloop fundamentally americans are supposed to decide american elections, and the american people and anybody running for office knows that you don't take foreign campaign contributions either monetary or of another sort. so obviously there's lots of reasons to be concerned. noo introducing the easiest way to get gillette blades text "blades" to gillette on demand text to reorder blades with gillette on demand... ...and get $3 off your first order going somewhere? whoooo.

. >> we have sarah huckabee sanders at the podium. we're going to listen in. thanks so much, jeff. >> sure. >> waiting for you. good afternoon, everyone. before i start, i'd like to bring up national security adviser general h.r. mcmaster and treasury secretary steve mnuchin to discuss the administration's response to the maduro regime's recent democratic actions in venezuela. they will each make opening remarks and then take your questions on the topic at hand, and then as always, your favorite time of day, i'll come back up and take your questions. thank you. >> hi, good afternoon, everyone. i thought it might be best just to read the president's statement. since president trump's inauguration, the trump administration has called on maduro's regime to respect the constitution, to respect the national assembly, hold free and fair elections, address the humanitarian needs of the venezuelan people, release political prisoners and st stop opressing its great people. the regime has refused to heed this call, and the recent actions culminating in yesterday's outra

sarah huckabee sanders said at the briefing today that the president was just joking about that. i tried to ask, as sarah huckabee sanders was leaving the room, how could the president of the united states joke about police brutality. she did not answer that one. >> she is saying steve bannon and other white house officials want to go speak and the president said all white house staff will answer to john kelly. >> that will be contested in the next couple weeks, not only because jared kushner and ivanka trump are part of the president's families and have sort of walk-in privileges as adviser that can walk into the oval office without going to the chief of staff. obviously this is something reince priebus did not have control on when he was the chief of staff here at the white house, wolf. various officials could simply go around reince priebus and meet with the president without the chief of staff having any knowledge of that. obviously retired general kelly wants to put a stop to that and have the staff report directly to him. but as you know, even with anthony scaramucci steppi

you heard sarah huckabee sanders defer on that. but one thing i have heard from sources outside the white house and inside, it's difficult to bring somebody on board when they do not have the assurances that they can have their own people in place. that has been a refrain that i have heard again and again from people who have had conversations around this in recent weeks. so it would make sense for that to have been something that general kelly came in and made clear before taking the job. because that autonomy issue is one that has come up in the west wing before. again, this is clearly a statement from kelly it's his show now. at least on the one level below the president. we keep saying this, nicolle but it's true. it may be the start of a new era and a new leader and it's still the same boss and still president trump in the oval office. >> the day started as many do with the president sharing his inner monologue with the world on twitter, talking about how the white house is not in chaos and ramping up a war of words with china

from the press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders. she writes, "anthony scaramucci will be leaving his role as white house communications director. mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give the chief of staff, john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. we wish him all the best." so they sent him to the wishing well. his own people, his own supporters, the president's own supporters -- there's general kelly there as we wait for this medal of honor ceremony. it's his own supporters none other than the editorial board of the "wall street journal" saying this isn't a communications problem, this is a presidential problem. are they addressing that at all, john? >> the only thing we've heard on that front, you have to let trump be trump. anybody that tries to make the president something other than he is going to fail and fail miserably and likely won't have a very long tenure here at the white house. we know that john kelly's work at dhs, the senior military adviser to leon gates and from the marine corps is one tough co

an hour and a half before this press briefing, sarah huckabee sanders -- what's happening?meghan: how do you stop the bleeding at this point? >> ari: it's controlled mad chaos. that's what it is. meetings began on time and ended on time. you want to take the podium, but you keep getting more stuff coming into you. what do you do? i don't think the white house press secretary is calling donald trump, jr., and saying tell me all the facts because he is not a white house staffer and they probably shouldn't do that anyway. it's going to be a miserable briefing because the press secretary doesn't have a lot of knowledge. >> harris: sarah huckabee sanders standard answer in the past as i have not talked to the president about that. hopefully she's talking to the president about those. those questions are going to come. >> ari: it's a legitimate question. >> sandra: much more in our top story brick in a and plus an attorney for president trump now says a fired fbi director james comey appears to have broken the law. this amid growing questions of whether or not comey's menus conta

eastern by sarah huckabee sanders.nge, not focusing necessarily on policy or rules were speculation regarding the russian probe. today it's breaking news in the communications department itself -- sean spicer has stepped down and anthony scaramucci, former principal at sky bridge is said to be taking over very shortly. we have comments from sean spicer. kevin: sean spicer just tweeted his first tweet since he announced his regular nation. it's been an honor and a privilege to serve. i will continue my service. this is bloomberg. ♪ julia: the white house press briefing has been filling up over the last 30 minutes or so. we are going to be getting a briefing at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, sarah huckabee sanders we assume discussing sean spicer stepping down at anthony scaramucci formally set to take over. what does this mean in terms of future strategy going forward? and the relationships within the white house administration, and the intrigue their? i'm texting with my trump sources throughout the show, and i can tell you t

my hats off to sarah huckabee sanders, i'm real happy for her. i think it's a great fit.ue to see folks that work with the president to get his message out there. right now his best message is not getting out there like it needs to be. >> one thing about sarah huckabee sanders, we should point out, she is the first female white house press secretary since dana perino. congratulations to her. one thing that was very interesting about scaramucci's appearance today, there were more preservations of love than you hear on the not rock channel in an hour. he was very pro-use of the word. >> he is generally a wonderful human being, and i think as members of congress get to know him better and get comfortable with him, they're going to led him lead them to the right things for the american people. >> first off, karma takes place in the next life. without getting into that, is this going to work? >> this is part of the gig when you work for president trump, you have to do some of that. i think also when he had that disagreement with him and called him names on fox business in the

we're told that sarah huckabee sanders will be giving one in about an hour from now.ch it closely. in the meantime, blake burman at the white house on the fast moving developments. blake? >> reporter: and neil, the update from the white house at this moment is there is going to be an on-camera briefing here at the white house, 2:00. sarah huckabee sanders, in which they will sort of spell everything out or what they want to spell out as to how everything plays. we will see if anthony scaramucci is involved with that briefing. as you know, recently, the white house has been bringing several cabinet members. top principals to the briefings to spell out whatever the topic du jour is and turn it over to sarah sanders. to take it from there, we don't know if scaramucci will be brought in or sarah sanders doing the briefing, either way, the white house will spell out in about an hour how all of this played out and how communications shop will work going forward? this has all developed within the last few hours, and what have you at the white house right now, neil, is a comm

there was sarah huckabee sanders there. really two main topics that dominated discussion there, one being what's going on still with the president publicly belittling, over twitter, his current a.g. and then two, what is the deal with these tweets from the president today, which really blind sided even the department of defense when it comes to reinstating this ban on transgender individuals serving in the u.s. military. so david, let me just open this up to you, beginning on the sessions issue, and i think the news that was made there was hearing sarah huckabee sanders saying the president can be disappointed in someone but still want him on the job and saying that they hadn't talked at least in the last week. disappointed, still wants him in the job. how do you reconcile that. >> it's hard to do so because that sort of now begs the question with every one of attorney general session's actions serving in president trump's cabinet, are now still disappointed with that, sir? are you still disappointed with that? it's a very

governor mike huckabee. a profile interview begins friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. earlier today on capitol hill, south carolina republican senator lindsey graham was joined by illinois democrat and minority whip dick durbin. they talked about an immigration initiative they're spearheading. this is about 25 minutes. mr. durbin: i want to thank my colleague, senator graham, for joining me as we reintroduce the dream act. we'll be joined by senator schumer and senator flake as co-sponsors. i have introduced this bill over many years. started 16 years ago. it has two basic premises. two basic reasons. first, we don't belief that young people should be held responsible for the errors or the illegal actions of their parents. number two, we believe that those who were brought to the united states as children, have grown up in this country, have no criminal record, who are prepared to serve this country in a variety of ways, should be given that chance to make america a better nation. over the years we have

sarah huckabee sanders will take over in august. holding the first on camera press briefing since june. talking about reports of friction from the white house. >> he decided it would be better to go. >> sean felt like it would be best for that team to be able to start with a totally clean slate. reince and i have been friends for six years. i like the team. i love the mission that the president has. >> loyalty counts in the white house. spicer leaving after 182 days. there were clashes with reporter. there were saturday night live sketches. there were reports president trump was unhappy with his performance and then there were no more on camera briefings. >> the cameras are back. will you commit now to holding regular on camera briefings, sir? >> if she supplies hair and makeup, i will consider it. i need a lot of hair and makeup. i don't know. maybe. the answer is we may. i have to talk to the president about it. >> the staffing changes coming two hours after two bombshell reports about whether the president's lawyers are trying to

the spokesperson will be sarah huckabee sanders. i spoke to anthony several times. he says what so many of us in the white house say. we'll do what the president needs to us do. and everybody takes different skill sets into the west wing. it's the president who decides what combination are best. anthony has that new york swagger. when we hear his life story, he's a very generous humble person that i have known to be that way. it reminds me of the campaign shakeup a year ago. you want to put the people in place who can help the leader be who he is and help him succeed. judge jeanine: there are reports that reince priebus and bannon were dead set against it and over my dead body with scaramucci coming in. what happens to reince priebus now and those people who were so opposed to scaramucci coming in, and scaramucci to his credit never lost his cool, he stayed on course, and it makes me a believer he's going to be able to deliver for the president. what about priebus, are these days numbered? kellyanne: we have been hearing that since day won. he was down in norfolk to

we talked to sarah huckabee sanders about what it is like.ere is a bit of what you will see tonight. >> when did you say to yourself that you are going to work for donald trump? after my dad got out of the race, even during the campaign, i noticed there were a lot of similarities in the rhetoric between my father and donald trump. populist,an economic so i found a lot of similarity in that. frankly, one of the things i loved about my dad is that even though he had been in politics, he was an outsider particularly to washington. i felt like that was something we desperately needed. i saw that same thing in donald trump, even when my dad was still in the race. i was able tout, get on board pretty quickly with now president trump. i felt like he was not only the right person to shake up washington, and i wanted to be a part of that. -- what dida juicy you see? >> i spent a lot of time talking to people in south carolina, iowa, new hampshire, arkansas, and everything in between, and they were hungry for change, for somebody to really come in and

here's sarah huckabee sanders in her own words a short time ago. >> don jr. took a very short meeting from which there was absolutely no follow-up. frankly, i think sometimes that may make sense just looking at the democratic national committee coordinated opposition research directly with the ukrainian embassy. this is not an accusation, but an on the record action they took. if you're looking for an example of a campaign coordinatoring with -- coordinating with a foreign country or a foreign source look no further than the dnc who actually coordinated opposition research with the ukrainian embassy and nobody had a big problem with that. the only thing i see inappropriate about the meeting was the people that leaked the information on the meeting after it was voluntarily disclosed. >> one other new detail that came out, we had heard that the president's son and from the president's outside counsel both agree that president trump was not aware of that meeting that he didn't participate in that meeting in june of 2016. but during this briefing sarah huckabee s

obviously sarah huckabee sanders did not want to move beyond any of the language that president trump has already said about a.g. sessions. we've learned that they did not talk at all this week. that much was clear, and that she would keep us posted if indeed they do. i also thought it was interesting that she said the president wants the attorney general to focus on his duties as attorney general. now, i would imagine jeff sessions would say, that's exactly what i've been doing and by the way, that's what i was doing when i recused myself from the russia investigation. >> right. >> was to stay focused on my duties as attorney general. and ones where i won't have a conflict of interest. it is odd to have the president have his attorney general twisting in the wind the way he is but say, i want him to focus on his job. i want him to do his job and even though i'm disappointed in him, he can do his job. this story's not over, brooke. they're going to have to, as anthony scaramucci has said, they're going to have to resolve this in some way between the two of them. >> number one on sessi

>> to that point that sarah huckabee sanders was making.t for the magnitsky sanctions is remarkably, remarkably strong. the magnitsky act something to steer clear of. thank you, hans, good tasee you. >>> i want to bring in aaron blake. thank you for being with us. we have a story that you've written that you've outlined six potential defenses that donald trump jr. could use or has used for his meeting. i want to just put that up on the screen to show you that donald trump jr. is young. he's inexperienced. the secret service didn't stop it, even though it happened at trump tower. that loretta lynch let the russian lawyer into the u.s. issued her visa, which is just odd because that's not generally something done by an attorney general. it's not collusion unless it's extensive or planned and veselitskaya was the lawywas ju lobbyist not a government lawyer. >> the big take away is an ever-evolving list of these things. many of them implausible. the secret service one offered by president trump's lawyer is questionable given donald trump jr. wa

what did sarah huckabee sanders say about that?> reporter: jared kushner has come under a fair amount of scrutiny over the last couple of days after it was he vealreveal also attended that meeting at trump tower last summer with the russian lawyer who promised to have incriminating information on hillary clinton. so sarah huckabee sanders was asked today about jared kushner's future in the white house, and his security clearance. take a listen to what she said. >> some congressional leaders, particularly democrats, are very concerned about the trust factor when it comes to jared kushner, and his security clearance. and also still remaining in the job. what does the president have to say about his son-in-law right now in the midst of this storm with the fact that more information continues to come out after he gave his initial statements? and they're concerned about the trust factor when he has a critical piece of security clearance that deals with issues of trust. is the president considering allowing him to stay on leave? and shou

sarah huckabee sanders picked up just moments ago.ker is at the white house where she has been listening. in kristen, what did you hear so far? >> well,ic speak to what mark short, the legislative afarce director has been talking about. we know that lawmakers, senators are going to be meeting on capitol hill tonight. they're going to try to get some traction toward moving forward with a repeal and replace plan for obamacare. of course, initially when this day started, the thinking was that republicans would focus on repealing obamacare only and then replacing it some time down the road. but after that lunch with the president, obviously the plan seemed to shift a little bit. so i think there's going to be an attempt to get on the same page. so mark short was pressed on this about the fact that the president seems to be shifting and changing his strategy. he pushed back against that characterization and said, look, there's nothing inconsistent about wanting to repeal and replace obamacare. but acknowledged that that might not be possib

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jim sciutto, you heard from sarah huckabee sanders there. this is certainly probably the biggest development in this russian -- alleged russian coconclusic collusion story that we have seen this far. >> we've been covering the story since the very beginning. the senate and house intelligence committees have been digging on this question for weeks, months now. fbi, now the special counsel. that collusion question, and it's still a question, has been based purely on the fact that meetings took place. a number of meetings, a frequency that caught the notice, we have reported, of the sbenls community and law enforcement, particularly the fact that it was with so many russians, both here in the u.s. and conversations and meetings in europe as well. this is the first time we have the substance of the meeting. the impetus behind that meeting, what, in fact, was offered for the son of the president to take that meeting and very explicitly, in black and white, damaging information to the hillary clinton from the russian government with the intention

sarah huckabee sanders, the lady in read today. and there is anthony scaramucci, communications director at the white house officially. >> the president will welcome several living survivors of the attack on the u.s.s. arizona at pearl harbor and their families. truly the most prized thing have come out of our country have been the brave men and women that risked their lives protecting the freedom of americans and allies around the globe. at 2:00 the president signed an executive order near will ensure the men and women of the greatest military in the world have the ships, aircraft, vehicles, and other supplies they need to keep us safe in the years today. this is the first ever whole assessment of the home defense industrial base. marks the first time that an american president is investing personal attention into the united states defense health. he is supporting our nation's heros for decades to come. next week we will be highlighting american heros like the world war ii veterans, the first responders that keep our community saf

you saw sara huckabee sanders. and the fact that they would say to you, well, you know, he's taking over, really doing two jobs, so he can't do them both. there weren't very many people who really bought that explanation. >> no one bought it. >> reporter: nobody bought that explanation. and i do think also you had a situation where -- and i think, again, i think it was michael who brought this up. people were stunned. and when i say people, i mean not just people within the press shop, but people within the press, who have obviously sparred heartily with sean spicer who would say to you privately they felt terrible for him. a devout catholic. when they met the pope, he was deliberately left out of the group of people that got to meet pope francis. so there were all these signals along the way. i also think it's worth noting, the discomfort that i think is going to follow this. because for reince priebus and sean spicer and anybody over the course of the last many years, and i worked with both of them over the cours

will be out in august, and anthony scaramucci has been appointed as the coms director and sarah huckabee sanders will be taking sean's job as press secretary. let's talk to paul begala, cnn political commentator, and democratic strategist and a former adviser to president clinton. also with me, matthew whittaker, cnn legal commentator and executive director of the foundation for accountability and civic trust and last but not least, david, media critic for "the baltimore sun." gentlemen, my goodness. we thought we'd be talking about "the washington post" and the "new york times" reporting. to watch scaramucci, paul begala, your impressions and just you knowing the inner workings of a white house, what's his biggest uphill battle? >> well, a white house is a living organism, especially -- it's only been going six months but still in six mojnths, it forms us own ecosystem. now you're transplanting an organ into that. the body's going to want to reject it. i don't know scaramucci well. i've met him a couple of times. he has a great conference investment group and paid me, smart enough to pa

read today by white house deputy press secretary sarah huckabee. the president called his son a high-quality person and said he applauds trump junior is transparency. trump junior also posted emails regarding his meeting with a russian attorney. senate republicans will unveil the latest version of the revised health care bill thursday with a vote planned for next week. that'according to mitch mcconnell, who said he would delay the upper chambers august research -- recessed for two weeks. advisorydent's fraud committee is suspending its request for state voter information. that is after 44 states refused to hand another. it will wait for a federal judge to rule whether those requests violate privacy laws. thousands packed a bronx, new york church in honor of a slain new york city police officer. she was shot to death while sitting in a police vehicle. she was posthumously promoted to detect if. -- detective. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm alisa parenti. this is "bloomberg

host: yes, sarah huckabee sanders. caller: yes, she will be different than him. there will be a change, i think it will be subtle and not much. whenhing that struck me anthony scaramucci -- that statement that you just showed, he revealed what he believes, having a successful life is all about, he hoped sean spicer would make tremendous amounts of money. i believe this anthony fellow is a wall street banker and i am sure he made tremendous amounts of money. the problem with the united states right now is that the people who are leading the united states are serving mammon, you cannot serve god and mammon, you have to choose, if you are serving mammon, you are going down a road probably that will lead you to hell. host: the politico writing about that a sympathetic to sean spicer said he had an impossible job, difficult to respond to donald trump's and the statements without contradicting him and no communications plan to stay on track because of the twitter of the president and the warring factions of the white house made it impossible to ever know exactly what w

sarah huckabee sanders is in it. and anthony scaramucci will now lead the white house communications team. spencer resigned after the president appointed scaramucci to the post. he gave his interview to sean hannity. it will air in an hour from now. at 10:00 p.m. eastern. we have some previews. >> from what i understand, all of the reports are, the president did not want you to go. tell us what happened. >> he didn't. >> he has been very gracious throughout the process wanted to bring some new folks in to rev up the communications operation. and after reflection, my decision was to recommend to the president that i gave anthony and sarah a clean slate to start from so that they can talk about the president's agenda and help move it forward. and he after some back and forth understood that the offer that i was making was something that was in the best interest of the administration. i thanked him for the opportunity. i'm looking forward to watching anthony and sarah do a tremendous job. >> kimberly: a lot of nice thin

sarah huckabee sanders or an her to -- anthony scaramucci? and jeff zeleny, often compared to shakespearean, others used "house of cards." you have information how it played out internally, the decision to bring anthony scaramucci in, leading sean spicer to say it's time to get out. take us behind the curtain? >> reporter: indeed, john. interesting as we learn more about this. one white house official explained to me more of the process that went into this and there were some pretty big voices in the west wingo posed to this decision. one of them is steve bannon. of course, the chief strat jit -strategist, largely responsible or in part responsible for the president's populist rise but has not been very visible as of late and he was, i'm told, left -- essentially left out of this decision because the president knew he was opposed to it. steve bannon i am told has been trying to block mr. scaramucci from other jobs. he had, you know, hope he would not work inside the west wing here and he was not pleased about this at all, but i am also told t

let's give sarah huckabee sanders the benefit of the doubt.mething you want to be joking about. not at all. this is a very serious issue in this country. and as president in the united states, you want to understand that. it's not acceptable to lock the police forces around the country who have been dealing with this issue day in and day out. >> everybody, stand by. more breaking news we're following after north korea's most threatening missile test yet. president trump says it will be handled. but how? are upgrading their watere filter to zerowater. start with water that has a lot of dissolved solids... pour it through brita's two-stage filter... dissolved solids remain! what if we filter it over and over? oh dear. thank goodness zerowater's five-stage filter gets to all zeroes the first time. so maybe it's time to upgrade. get more out of your water. get zerowater. buried just under the surface, the answer to it all. ♪ we want to need each other. ♪ >>> president trump is claiming that north korea's missile threat will be, quote, handled. he'

this is sarah huckabee sanders giving the white house briefing today.et's listen in. >>> thanks, sarah. at what point did the president discuss with donald trump jr. that meeting? have you had a chance to get a sense of what he feels about this entire story as it continues to unfold? what's your sense on that? >> i have a quick statement that i will read from the president. "my son is a high quality person, and i applaud his transparency." and beyond that, i'm going to have to refer everything on this matter to john jr.'s counsel and outside counsel and won't have anything else to add beyond that today. >> is that the -- >> that's the end. i'm sorry. >> if i could follow up really quickly about the accident. how soon afterwards did the president learn about what happened? what was the tick tock in terms of that? did he get immediate word or did that sort of go through a concerted chain? >> i'm not sure on the exact process. i'll have to check. i know he was aware of the situation, briefed on the situation, and continued to get updates on it. but i don't

sarah huckabee sanders has taken his place.posting the news on twitter yesterday writing simply, the tv cameras are back on. sarah huckabee sanders later added there would be a mix of on and off camera. >> harris: oh, my gosh, they made that boo-boo on this story? >> sandra: right away, there is a question of the messaging. >> eric: i'm not sure when the briefings will come back, my guess is they'll come back on camera. anthony scaramucci, it's important to note, he's a good friend of mine for a very long time. i think he's going to clean up the shop, they need a lot of cleaning up, but he reports directly to president trump and that is very important, spicer didn't, other directors have been, he will, but he's also catapulted into this very powerful position. he is now firing people. it's as senior advisor role to the president as well, he's the right guy. >> sandra: going back to these on camera briefings, this has been a very important element of the white house and transparency for whoever is in the white house and we haven

first off, i'd like to announce formally that sarah huckabee sanders is going -- you can't hear me? i'm sorry. sarah huckabee sanders is going to be the press secretary, so you can congratulate her after the session. you still can't hear me? no sound? okay. better now? i'm going to start over. you guys heard me in the front, though, right? what did i say, john? sarah is going to be the press secretary, right? so congratulations to you, sarah. and so i want to make a couple statements. the first thing i want to say is i want to thank personally sean spicer not only on behalf of myself, the president, the administration but sean is a true american patriot. he's a military serviceman. he's got a great family, and he's done an amazing job. this is obviously a difficult situation to be in and i applaud his efforts here, and i love the guy and i wish him well, and i hope he goes on to make a tremendous amount of money. as it relates to me in this position, i'm going to spend a couple weeks getting to know the people here and i'm going to be as coordinated as i can with the people inside t

here is how sarah huckabee sanders responded to those claims.

that was sarah huckabee sanders there, the new press secretary.before that, of course, we heard from anthony scaramucci, who will formally be taking over as communications director. he said that there is a perception of donald trump, a disconnect of the perception of those around donald trump and those of the media and it is his job to close that spread, talking like the trader or businessman that he is. he also talked about his need to deal with fictions. one of the interesting things to talk about, how the relationships in the white house are going to change, and he did speak about his relationship with the chief of staff as well. he brought into the republican network some fascinating comments -- a grant performance. let's give it to him. the contrast with sean spicer is stark. shows what i have been texting tryingveral republicans to make sense of this. stylistically, at least from the response i have gotten from my sources, they feel that anthony scaramucci will stylistically be a much better fit for this white house, a better person behind t

in other news, deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders will take over for him. that announcement came directly from mr.'s aaron mucci when he was it -- mr. anthony scaramucci when he was introduced. >> finally, i would like to read a statement from the president. onm grateful for his work the health of my administration. i wish them continued success as he moves on to pursue new opportunities. just look at his great television ratings. sean will continue to serve the administration until august and the administration has also appointed anthony scaramucci as communications director. haveny is the person i great respect for and he will be an important addition to this administration. he has been a great supporter and will now help implement key aspects of our agenda while leading eco-medications team. we have accomplished so much and we are being given credit for so little. peopled news is that the get it even if the media doesn't. i would like to bring anthony up and answer some questions. as always i will be back after that to answer any follow-up questions. >>