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press secretary sarah huckabee sanders did make one thing very clear at the press briefing yesterday saying that scaramucci is good conversation with a reporter at the new yorker did him in. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession as i think we've made clear a few times over the course of the last couple of days to several of the individuals but general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to hi him. >> former press secretary sean spicer is set to leave the white house next month. he resigned 12 days ago because of the president's decision to hire scaramucci. sanders says that plan has not changed, but the administration is ready to move on from all of the talk about staff shakeups. >> what matters most to us does not who is employed in the white house, but who is employed in the rest of the country and we are focused on the president's agenda of growing the economy, creating jobs, that's wha

. >> straight statement from sarah huckabee sanders. one problem.t completely contradicts what has been said from the white house from the beginning on this. they had their attorneys going out and saying the president had no role in crafting that initial misleading statement on don junior's meeting with russians at trump tower. now they're changing their story. let's bring back the panel, chris cillizza, david gregory, john avlon. relevance. >> sarah huckabee sanders is trying to build back a credibility gap that she undermined yesterday. we know the statement don junior put out was fundamentally false. we also know the spin around it and the fact that the president apparently dictated it was contradicted by jay sekulow, the president's lawyer, on cnn and other outlets. there's no place to go. instead, they're trying to call anyone who is asking questions a russia phobe. >> chris cillizza, here are the repercussions according to senator lindsey graham why this matters. >> one, he put his son in jeopardy. now we have to wonder about what don junior's

to start within the next ten seconds because there is sarah huckabee sanders. >> good afternoon. i know most of you and more importantly the american people have many questions relate to hurricane harvey and as you all know, the president was in corpus christi and austin earlier this week and today at the president's direction the vice president, mrs. pence and five cabinet secretaries are back in texas meeting with local officials and storm survivors and thanking many of the first responders and other volunteers. the president's team here has been working around the clock to support state and local authorities following the storm. and now i want to bring up tom bossert, the president's homeland security adviser to pri an update on the administration wide effort to support the recovery and relief efforts in the wake of hurricane harvey. he'll make a few opening remarks and then stay to take questions specific to the storm and what the administration is doing to help the state and local authorities and the people of texas and louisiana. and as always, after tom speaks and takes yo

i would suspect that it is about to start within the next ten seconds because there is sarah huckabee sanders. >> good afternoon. i know most of you and more importantly the american people have many questions relate to hurricane harvey and as you all know, the president was in corpus christi and austin earlier this week and today at

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says she's confident congress will raise the debt time. sarah huckabee sanders/white house press secretary"it's our job to inform congress of the debt ceiling and it's their job to raise it. and congress and the previous administration have obligated trillions in spending and we need to make sure we pay our debts." the president also upping the ante in his own ongoing feud with mcconnell for failing to pass the obamacare repeal legislation last month -- tweeting "the only problem i have with mcconnell is that, after hearing repeal and replace for 7 years, he failed. that should never have happened!" their relationship soured after a tense phone call following the healthcare vote.but trump also complained that the majority leader wasn't doing enough to protect the president in the various russia investigations. for his part mcconnell is still refusing to publicly address the feud saying the senate is a tough place to get things done.. sen. mitch mcconnell/(r) majority leader "i'm often asked what is being the majority leader of the se

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about mr. scaramucci's departure during monday's white house briefing. >> does anthony scaramucci have a role besides communications director? >> he does not have a role besides communications director. we put out a statement earlier announcing that. not at this time. >> did general kelly asked him to leave for the president? did he volunteer his resignation? how did that come about? >> i'm not going to get into the process. as we have said several times before, what matters most as is not who is employed in the white house but who is employed in the rest of the country. we are focused on the president's agenda of growing the economy, creating jobs, and that is what we are going to do. >> was it a chain of command issue? said that hemucci had a direct line of communication to the president. there has been some speculation that general kelly may try to tighten up input the president has. was it something about the chain of command or have anything to do with the interview scaramucci left? >> the

we will hear from the incoming press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders. press briefing life here on c-span. it should get underway before too long. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> live, at the white house, waiting for sarah huckabee sanders. while we wait for the briefing, we will show you senate democrats earlier today as they unveiled a proposal they say will make the trade system work for american workers rather than corporations and lobbyists. >> go-ahead. >> well, good morning. thanks very much for being here today. we are here today because we believe in an america, where people work hard every day, need to know that someone has there back in a global economy. if you are working in a factory or in a farm or on your phone, you should have the confidence that our country works for you, and that our trade laws work for you. you should have the confidence that we are exporting our products a

sarah huckabee sanders didn't speak directly to that. only saying the president's is committed to building the wall and that's what he intends to do. shep? >> shepard: john one day after president trump talked to veterans about unity and love, we're getting a new look at white house guidelines for his proposed ban on trans-gender troops. this comes a month after the president called for a ban in a series of tweets. fox news has confirmed a white house memo would tell the pentagon to stop admitting trans-gender people into the military and paying for medical treatments for those already serving. this was first reported by the "wall street journal." this would be up to the defense secretary jim mattis whether those troops could stay in the military based on what the memo calls other deployability or their deployability, the ability to serve in a war zone. secretary mattis would have six months to implement the ban. back to john roberts at the white house. the white house hasn't sent this to the pentagon yet? what is the story? >> we unders

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says she's confident congress will raise the debtmit in time. sarah huckabee sanders/white house press secretary"it's our job to inform congress of the debt ceiling and it's their job to raise it. and congress and the previous administration have obligated trillions in spending and we need to make sure we pay our debts." the president also upping the ante in his own ongoing feud with mcconnell for failing to pass the obamacare repeal legislation last month -- tweeting "the only problem i have with mcconnell is that, after hearing repeal and replace for 7 years, he failed. that should never have happened!" their relationship soured after a tense phone call following the healthcare vote.but trump also complained that the majority leader wasn't doing enough to protect the president in the various russia investigations. for his part mcconnell is still refusing to publicly address the feud saying the senate is a tough place to get things done.. sen. mitch mcconnell/(r) majority leader "i'm often asked what is being the majority leader of

today white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders told reporters the president, quote, weighed in as any father would, closed quote. that undercuts repeated denials from the president's personal attorney and raises serious questions about whether members of the trump team and even potentially the president himself could be in some sort of legal jeopardy. the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, senator mark warner, is complaining that even though the administration keeps saying there is nothing to the russian story, they don't act that way at all. senator warner tells cnn it seems a bit strange, he says, that the president of the united states helped draft the statement that, quote, intentionally deceived the american people. we're following all of the conflicting stories also coming out of north korea right now. senator lindsey graham says president trump told him war with north korea may be inevitable. graham also says the president told him that if thousands are going to die, it will be, quote, over there. but just this afternoon during an extremely rare news c

governor mike huckabee join us, former republican candidate. director of the georgetown institute for politics and public service. both are fox news contributors. gentlemen, welcome, good to have you here with us. governor huckabee as i said, you're a long-time supporter of president trump. he's getting a lot of heat for his reaction to this. how do you think -- what did you think of his response? >> his statement monday, martha, was as clear as it could be. he specifically called out the despicable acts of the kkk, white supremacists. he called them out by name. and somehow it wasn't enough, it wasn't good enough. i'll be the first to the tell you, i thought the tuesday press conference was not his best moment. not because he repudiated anything he had said before when he called out these hideous groups that i find disgusting and despicable. i'm a southerner and a white male. but i can't stand the kkk. they repulse me. i think jonld trump did a good job on monday of making that very clear as well. as well as he did on saturday before we knew w

sarah huckabee is coming in live now. >> national security adviser up to discuss the new financial sanctions on the dictatorship that the president imposed today. they will take your questions on your topic. after that tom bossert will give an update and take your questions on hurricane harvey. the administration has been closely monitoring the situation. we want to make sure the american people are fully briefed on this important news of the day. finally after all of the three of them wrap up i'll be back up here to take a few of your questions on other topics, thanks. >> good afternoon everybody. this order demonstrates more clearly than ever that the united states will not allow on illegitimate dictatorship to take hold at the expense of its people. through the president's strong action the united states will target the means which the dictatorship to enrich the corrupt regime insiders and perpetuate this repressive behavior. several million voted overwhelmingly against the regime's plants to convene an assembly that the people of venezuela never requested. the united states and the regio

>> today sarah huckabee sanders was asked about that.s to say. >> was the president joking when he said this, or did he check his remarks out with the international association of police chiefs or maybe the attorney general? >> i believe he was making a joke at the time. >> back now with the panel. a lot of police organizations have come out and said we're not -- we don't rough up suspects and it's not a good idea. >> i have to say he's a new yorker standing in front of new yorkers. my whole family is from there. that's the way they talk. that's a new york -- >> eric gardner was from new york, too. he was choked to death by an illegal chokehold. police brutality is not funny. can you draw a line anywhere. >> we need to loosen up here a little bit. >> why? >> why? because we are becoming a humorless society. totally, totally -- >> jeffrey, i agree with that, and i think there's too much political correctness and -- >> that's the problem. >> i don't think this is somebody you joke about. >> you heard him. you heard the tone in his voice. >

at sarah huckabee sanders said all options are on the table.ry of state says we do want regime change. >> harris: going to war basically is what they're talking about, leadership in the military are telling me that it's not a binary decision. we aren't there yet and that is absolutely not where you want to go. there is a lot of blood and treasure spilled in that region trying to protect south korea in particular. that's not what you want to see destroyed. there's got to be another way. and comes china, what are we doing? you see the president do some creative things to motivate china. when is he going to loose his patients? we understand it could be close. >> kennedy: china is the key here. >> sandra: leverages the big question. as far as going back to your comments, i'm trying to get what you're saying there. you say the u.s. should not be engaging in talks with kim jong-un? >> you're always trying to reach out. you have to be realistic about the likelihood of those conversations going somewhere and you have to be wary of previous conversation

. >> reporter: sarah huckabee sanders lashed out. >> i think that's a ridiculous and outrageous claim and doesn't dignify a response from this podium. >> reporter: now for the moment the president's atalks have yet to backfire inside the gop. poll after poll shows that while some support is slipping, conservatives are sticking with the president proving once again the gop is hardly the party of paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. it's the party of trump. wolf. >> jim acosta reporting from the white house, thank you. president trump meanwhile is stepping up his attacks on republican congressional leaders even as he warns of a government shutdown, tieing into funding for his border wall with mexico. let's turn to our senior congressional reporter. how do republican leaders plan to get anything of substance done when this feud with the president seems to be escalating? >> well, it seems to me base on the talking to republicans on capitol hill that the way they're going to go about it is to work in spite of the republican, in spite of the republican president. trying to get things done even de

the >> jason: i think sarah huckabee sanders is a doing a fabulous job and she does make a valid point. i would not advocate "going to war" with an investigator who has authority. if you convince people and literally show the openness and transparency, much the way jared kushner and donald trump jr. did and say, i've got emails, i won't use a hammer on my stuff, here's exact they would happen. >> harris: it took them a couple times to get on the record. >> jason: look at the conclusion of what they did. i think that openness and transparency, is what america wants to see. i don't think there's been any evidence, i don't think there should be a special counsel, but again, that was a fundamental, huge mistake, but is there. >> harris: do you think there would be less of a favor getting behind the president if there were established republicans who would chime in every now and again? >> elizabeth: you're right. there's there's a group of republicans who seem to be opposed to president trump, but on a visceral level. even if they deny it, the president has said things that cause grudge mat

sarah huckabee sanders said no one in the senior staff will leave immediately.ne outstanding question is sean spicer's future. he quit 10 days ago, the same day anthony scaramucci started his job. we wonder now whether sean spicer might return to some kind of a role in the white house, maybe communications director. that job is open. emily: we have yet to hear anything from scaramucci. any word on his view of how this went down? >> no. you will remember last week, the new yorker published an really inflammatory interview with scaramucci in which he profanely criticized both reince priebus and steve bannon. that interview didn't go over well in the white house. since then, he has been quiet. he hasn't returned our calls or our emails and text messages. you haven't seen him on television. before that interview, he was a big advocate for the president on television. he has gone radio silent since then, and he is not talking to day. emily: i have his twitter account up. i will let you know if anything changes. alex wayne in washington, thanks so much for the update.

. >> sarah huckabee sanders finishing off a press conference. the first white house brief briefing in three weeks. it started much later than expected. this is normally katy terr's turf. but let's talk about what we just heard. garrett headache has been listening kafrlful with me. he's taking a break from his time on capitol hill. where is gather retd headache today? he is right next to me in the newsroom here in new york. kristen welker is in that briefing room in the white house. she's getting ready to join us right now. garrett, what did you take away from that conversation? i mean, there were a lot of interesting things because we haven't had one for a while. there was a question about the relationship between plut and key members of coming. thashs been a lot of reporting the last few days about how he's feuding with all of them. >> sarah huckabee sanders answered a question about the president's relationship about mitch mcconnell by saying he was fine. and all i could think about the theme of the dog and the burning house saying this is fin

we'll hear from press secretary sarah huckabee sanders here again in the next hour and will keep youated on anything she says. like you said, jake, this is the first natural disaster test for this administration, and as you know, this can be a defining moment for a lot of presidencies, as it was with george w. bush. we'll keep you updated on anything the white house has to say as the storm progresses. >> kaitlan collins at the white house. thanks so much. >>> what is the opposite of a gold standard when it comes to dealing with natural disasters? perhaps the brown standard, or browny standard. take a look. >> again, i want to thank you all for, and browny, you're doing a heck of a job. the fema director is working 24 -- [ applause ] >> yeah. he was not doing a heck of a job. that was not how you would describe the job he was doing. president george w. bush a few days after hurricane katrina struck the gulf coast. referring to his fema director michael brown, doing an incredibly bad job. especially in the wake of the failure of the levee sim in new orleans. wondering for months how pr

now, sarah huckabee sanders is confirming that the president weighed in, in her words, but that's int contradiction to what the president's own lawyers said. so now we are left to wonder, is the president's lawyer -- is he accurate when he is saying the president had no part of writing that statement? or is his spokeswoman, his new press secretary accurate, while saying the president weighed in. so, again, i mean, i think that this press briefing here, which certainly raised more questions than it cleared up over all this, is going to do one thing. it puts the white house back on defense on the entire russia matter. and you can just sense the members of congress, senators, senator lindsey graham, others are already saying, brooke, that their patience is wearing a bit thin on this. and if you don't believe the president on this, it is leaking into other things in terms of their credibility. so, on day two here, when there was somewhat of a reset with the new chief of staff, you know, with the ousting of anthony scaramucci, it's a reminder that all of the baggage, quite frankly, that w

this is donald trump attorney and sarah huckabee sanders at one of the audio briefings. let's play that. >> so he didn't have anything to do with the statement that don jr. put out that was being worked on with his team? >> no, the statement that don jr. put out, are you talking about yesterday's, chris? >> no that was written by donald trump jr. and i'm sure in consultation with his lawyer. >> the "new york times" is reporting that president donald trump okayed the statement. >> has president trump had any conversation with his son, donald trump jr. the last several days and was he involved in helping donald trump jr. craft his statement over the weekend on air force one as was reported in the "new york times"? >> i'm not sure about the specific communications and the nature of those conversations, i know they have spoken at at least at some point in the last few days. >> you don't have a response? >> i'm just not sure. >> is that not try? >> i don't know the answer, i'll have to check and let you know. >> jeff toobin, let's start off with you, just legally, does this p

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sarah huckabee sanders saying it's just going through a review process. though it does seem to be a lengthy review process. but she is she guesting they want to make sure the is are dotted and the ts are crossed. i have seen cases where the president gets a bill one minute and the next minute it's signed into law. not sure what the hold-up is here, jon. >> what about north korea? what are we hearing from the white house there? >> a good cop bad cop going on here as we have the past few months. rex tillerson, the secretary of state today saying he was open to talking to north korea. the united states is "not your enemy." it mirrors talk that he had a few weeks ago that he said we're not out for regime change. we just want to reign in the nuclear program. the president with tougher talk in the last few days and the last few months saying we will handle this, we're going to handle it, we always handle everything. the president wants to put down a market on kim jong-un that the united states won't sit back and watch them develop a nuclear warhead. the time fo