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jason miller, first to you. help us understand the number 100. is it a good thing or a bad thing?cause during the campaign, then candidate trump promised how much he would get done in the first 100 days, elect me because of what i'm going to do in the first 100 days. yet now, moments' he tweeted "no matter how much i accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days -- and it has been a lot -- media will kill!" so, it is important or is it a ridiculous standard? >> john and poppy, good morning and thank you very much for having me on. before i go into the 100 days, i'd be remiss if i didn't say congratulations to the administration for helping negotiate the release of these political prisoners from egypt last night. an egyptian american woman as well as her husband, relief workers who were kept for three years. now, with specific regard to the first 100 days, regardless of what folks say about, you know, is it arbitrary, is it not arbitrary, i think this administration has come out very strong right out of the gate. you look at the key messages, the key focus has rea

senior political reporter and politics managing editor for "the huffington post" and bring back jason milleret me start with you. we know that just last week we learned from the gsa that all was well as it relates to the president and the trump hotel there in d.c., some reorganization happening to make sure that the president wasn't profiting from the hotel while he's in office. we know that ivanka trump will keep her stake in that hotel. why shouldn't she do the same thing to avoid any conflict of interest potentially from foreign dignitaries coming to the hotel trying to curry favor with the administration, just defer that income while she's working for the president? >> well, i think it's pretty silly to say that -- or to think that somehow someone staying at a hotel's going to influence decisions for an administration. but there are a couple things i think are really important for people at home to realize is that for jared and ivanka, not only have they been working with the office of government ethics, the white house general council, they've also been working with jamie gorlich, forme

. >>> joining us now, david gergen, jason miller, in terms of general flynn's request for immunity, isre a potential strange his legal team may be using? they're not the ones -- we don't know who leaked the story and made it public, they did send out a statement confirming that clearly they were looking for some sort of immunity. is there an alternative strategy for making something public like this? >> that is the bizarre part of this. i have never heard of a case in 50 years of practice where the defense publicly states that it is actively seeking immunity. normally these negotiations occur behind closed doors. there are offers of information, proffers, and then negotiations occur. and then the prosecution decides whether to grant immunity. now, the defendant has no choice, he can't accept or reject immunity, he has to testify if he is given immunity. and the thing that people are forgetting is the oliver north case. the senate and the prosecution can have their cake and eat it. they can wait a while, have more information, put it in a lock box, and time stamp it. and eventually give

that was in march, and then in august they say you're an informal adviser and then a month later jason miller says you're not an adviser and you made no contribution to the campaign. you are saying you were sending policy papers to the campaign as far back as in march. >> i never met jason. i think he joined kind of mid-summer and was -- >> did you write policy papers and send them to the campaign? >> i don't like talking about specifics of -- >> you told "new york times" you did on march 25th. >> that's fair enough. >> so ambig youty over a meeting. regardless there, you heard jason miller mention at the end of the interview there. miller was a senior communication's adviser for the trump campaign. >> he sat down with anderson cooper a few hours ago and spoke about whether he had ever direct contact with carter page. >> you never met carter page? >> no. >> and candidate trump did name him as one of five advisors at the time. at a time when the candidate was under pressure to name, to name some advisors. he named carter page phd. did, to your knowledge, carter page really have any role? did h

. >> let's try to get answers from jason miller, former spokesman to president-elect trump. you. you heard numbers there. majority of americans, pl want see the tax returns made public. why aren't they? >> the president said going back to the campaign his taxes are under routine audit and he'll put taxes out and if this were a big vote determinative issue, the president wouldn't have received 306 electoral votes this past november, and i think a broader picture tom foreman hit the nail on the head. what this is really about is elizabeth warren and move on partisan democrats that are -- >> 51% of republicans want to see the returns. >> and the president has said that as soon as his routine audit is completed, he'll put that out. silly to go on any tax lawyer or tax accountant would tell you would be silly to put those out now in the midst of an audit. this is about politics and quite frankly what folks should be talking about if they're out there protesting, which it is a great day here in washington, is the fact if you look at the 300,000 jobs created since president trump t

back with me to talk about it, carl bernstein, lynn sweet, tara palmieri and jason miller.tara, you were saying before the break you get a lot of feedback about your stories. politico hasn't had an interview with the president since inauguration day. >> we had an interview with the president to talk about how the team was getting along. >> do you find him to be accessible overall? >> he's definitely a very accessible president. you can tell that the past week he's been motivated by the news coverage of 100 days prior to what he said that he doesn't care, but he is very much driven by the press. he's decided to make these last-minute impulsive moves so that the press is kept chasing after him. he planned to announce at the rally yesterday that he was pulling out of nafta. that would have been the biggest story of the day. he's very masterful when it comes to manipulating the press. but from what i've heard internally from sources who are obviously willing to help us, they are happy to give us the real story, some people inside of the administration, but they say that sometim

jason miller, paul bagala. >>> coming up, aaron hernandez found dead hanging from a bed sheet in hisprison cell. look as his rise and fall from grace. what happened next. ♪ ♪i'ma wade, i'ma wave through the waters♪ ♪tell the tide, "don't move" ♪freedom! freedom! i can't move ♪freedom, cut me loose! ♪freedom! freedom! where are you?♪ ♪cause i need freedom too! ♪freedom! freedom! freedom! freedom!♪ ♪what you want from me? ♪is it truth you seek? oh father can you hear meee...ooow?♪ >>> it's an abrupt end to a short life. the violence and tragedy convicted murder er aaron hernandez found hanged in his prison cell. he hanged himself with a bed sheet. he was just 27 years old. >> reporter: they got it wrong. that's all aaron hernandez had to say as he began his life sentence without parole for murder. that was april 2015. it was a stunning fall from grace for a player with so much promise. trouble started early on. when he was 16, the future nfler's father died from complications following a hernia operation. hernandez began to rebel against authority. still, in high school in bristol, con

let's get right to jason miller, david rhodes, julia kaianne, and colonel laden. listen first. >> well, there's a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. absolutely. >> so colonel, how do you interpret what the president is saying there? is he talking about u.s. military engagement? >> well, i think he is, don, but the issue here is, you know, what kind of a message is he trying to send. and i am somewhat puzzled that he would phrase it in that way because the minute that he talks about this possibility, the likelihood of it happening could potential increase. that's something that he wants to avoid. i don't think that was his intent, but the fact that he talked about it as if he is a dispassionate observer gives me a lot of concern. >> how do you suppose north korea will respond to the president's remarks? >> well, i think they might just ratchet it up on their side as well. they may in essence say, bring it in on, in their version of that. in th-- if they do that, tensio on the korean peninsula will get higher than they are.

. >> here to discuss jason miller, jeanpier jeanpierre, and bacarri sellers, and andre power. so listen, the president said -- i'll start with jason because you know him very well. he didn't the presidency would be so hard. what do you think of that? >> that's an honest answer. >> most people would say, my gosh, i don't want that job because it is hard. it is so hard. i can't imagine anything that's harder. >> it's a tough job. i would be surprised if there's something different at any - point, but as we've seen so far, i think the president has done a good job of stepping up and filling the role and doing a good job. but it is tough. you know, one of the things i'd be remiss if i didn't make the comment if the republicans on capitol hill would get their acts together, maybe it would be a little easier. maybe we could see speaker ryan step up and get this health care bill done. >> governing is hard and being the party of no is skrjust not working when you have the house, the senate, and, by the way, the presidency. donald trump is learning that health care is economy kacompli.

. >> let's bring in jason miller, the senior communications advisor for the trump campaign.ure he delights in the details of this book. and cnn political contributor hillary rosen. hillary, i want to start with you. i know this will pain you, this autopsy of looking back and they have all of these sources unnamed and named about what went wrong with hillary clinton's campaign. let me just read one little passage from it and then get your response. they say the campaign was an unholy mess fraught with petty jealousies, disported priorities and no sense of greater purpose. no one was in charge and no one has figured out how to make the campaign bigger than hillary. do you agree with any of that, hillary? >> i think that every campaign goes through its sort of -- every losing campaign, its back fighting about staff and dysfunction and organization and all those things about process. but i think what was most interesting to me about this book was the conversations, for instance, that they had after hillary lost the michigan primary to bernie sanders and there was a conversation

>> jason miller, i know you want to weigh in. here is your chance. >> thanks, don, well, i think today's interview with susan rice and andrea mitchell was a complete disaster, i couldn't believe how unprepared she was, about whether or not she would be willing to testify. a couple of weeks ago she said she knew nothing about the unmasking of names and it was not generality, very specific, she said she knew nothing. >> that was today, today was a generality, the other was she knew nothing about unmasking. but listen -- >> hold on, she doesn't know the information that devin nunes has so how would she know especially what he is talking about? >> but it goes from well, i know nothing, to sometimes it was necessary as if she looked down and magically unmasked this document that would routinely get pinned to her lapel on her jacket before she left the house on a wintry morning. it was so absurd today, she was quick to say she was not doing any of the unmasking or the administration was not doing any of the unmasking for political purp

joining us now to discuss is jason miller. president trump's former campaign adviser.okey. former obama white house communications director. great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> jen, let's bring up president obama's watch if you look at spicer's logic. forced out by the obama administration. they had concerns of him. in october of 2014, he is warned by government officials against accepting foreign payments from russia. in december of 2015, he goes to russia and is paid to speak at the russian tv event. there is video of that. here is the moment that spicer is hanging his hat on. spring of 2016. michael flynn's security clearance is renewed. why is that not on the obama administration? >> alisyn. it is important for people to remember that michael flynn was fired by president obama for doing a terrible job at d.i.a. later on, for president trump when he was the nominee, considered him as a vice presidential running mate. to go back to the facts of how security clearance works. this is not done by political appointee or career officials at agencies. what we d

jason miller was going to be white house communications director. then nope. the nominee for deputy secretary of commerce, todd rickets. he with drew his name just last week. monica crowley was going to be national security advisor. nope. mcfar land, she did get to be security advisor for a while but she's soon to be out now as well. the digital advisor, hello, we barely knew you. bye bye. boris, i have to say it has been a secret delight to me that the white house has had on the communications staff, a russian guy named boris during this whole controversy over the trump campaign's russia connections but boris they let go last month. deputy white house chief of staff is a huge job. katie walsh deputy white house chief of staff. she fled in march as well. and there are more. the washington post started this week with a rundown of the top 15 trumpists who did not survive the first 100 days. and throughout this week since they published that even into tonight there's more reporting on more people who might be on the way out from the new administration. it is an u

jason miller, paul bagala. >>> coming up, aaron hernandez found dead hanging from a bed sheet in his prison cell. look as his rise and fall from grace. what happened next. jack be nimble, jack be quick, jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting... ...and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. because all his belongings went up in flames. jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. visit geico.com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. >>> it's an abilirupt end to a short life. aaron hernandez found hanged in his prison cell. he hanged himself with a bed sheet. he was just 27 years old. >> reporter: they got it wrong. that's all aaron hernandez had to say as he began his life sentence without parole for murder. that was april 2015. it was a stunning fall from grace for a player with so much promise. trouble started early on. when he was 16, the future nfler's father died from complications following a hernia operation. hernandez bega

jason miller. this morning, on day 93 of his administration, president trump tweeted this. no matter how much i accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days and it has been a lot including s.c., media will kill." but this is what he said on the campaign trail just three days before the election. watch this. >> just think about what we can accomplish in the first 100 days of a trump administration. we're going to have the biggest tax cut since ronald reagan, even bigger. she's going to raise your taxes. we will eliminate every unnecessary job killing regulation, such a big thing, such a big thing. cancel every illegal obama executive order. we are going to protect religious liberty and take care of our great veteran. we will provide school choice and put an end to common core. we bring our education local. we will support the men and women of law enforcement. we are going to save our second amendment. >> is he done? he set the standard there. how many things of that has he done? >> he also said at the very beginning that he will start putting these things

nor had he met people like jason miller and those of us in the communications side. he did not know the strategy people. and so, for the fbi to even be investigating him is odd to me but i can tell you in terms of his proximity to donald trump or his proximity to the decision makers or the inner circle, there was absolutely none. >> david, does that matter, whether he met someone or not, or because the president did mention him? >> yeah. look. at that point in time, as jeff pointed out in the last segment, i think president trump then candidate trump was throwing out names. he had an assortment of people in there who really are not key figures and someone he didn't name, same clovis and the fact that carter page on the radar, the fact that carter page continues to come up, i do think that this is something that the administration -- they have to have a better way of explaining what the contacts were all about. as we move forward. and shift away from maybe the syria story and back toward this investigation in the coming weeks. >> david, quickly, again, the president a

. >> let me bring in now jason miller and cnn political commentator and former adviser, and cnn politicalr and senior adviser to mitt romney's presidential campaign and matt bennett, he's the democratic strategist and former clinton administration official. thank you very much for being here. we'll wait to hear from the president because we could learn more about what he's looking for, but kevin, it sounds on the surface if you're watching this at home, it sounds innocuous. the president wants a review of what presidential power there is to designate land as protected or not, i guess, in this case, but this is a big deal out west. what are the politics behind this? >> yeah, you're right. >> it doesn't sound innocuous if you've been fighting on this on either side of the issue for 20 years in the 11 western states where so many of these battles take place. 52% of the land out in 11 of those western states is owned by the federal government and it's an issue that's fought pretty close to home out there, but i think the politics of this are that many of the state and local leaders out there

right now we're joined by jason miller.fice, being in office is a lot different than being a civilian and reading about this stuff in the paper or even as a candidate. when you hear people asking that wag the dog theory, what do you think? >> well, the first thing i tell them is let's take a step back and recognize that president trump passed his first test on the world stage. i think he had excellent results. now, when we talk about the previous comments he had made, i would say that what he's faced with here is a humanitarian crisis and had to send a message that no longer are we going to lead from the back when it comes to chemical weapons and lead from assad. talk about north korea, i think kim jung-un was sent a message that president trump is not to be trifled with a message. the u.s. will go it alone and get it done themselves amch. >> it is, though, a change in policy essentially from what donald trump talked about during the campaign. he was asked about humanitarian interventions. just recently he said i'm not the

. >> jason miller, appreciate it. maria. >>> last night's missile strike in syria came six years into the syrian crisis. we will show you how we got to this point, the history of the crisis. >>> the last american ambassador in syria and his encounters with assad shortly before the carnage began. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... which adds fuel to my bottom line. what's in your wallet? dad likare you going to weeks be using my car? until my insurance claim goes through this is our car. mr. parker, my parents have allstate. they have this claim satisfaction guarantee. really? their claim experience is fast, fair, and hassle-free or they get their, like, money back. saraaah!!! come to prom with me!! no. -hey mr. parker. claim satisfaction guarantee, only from allstate. it's good be in good hands. energy is amazing. how we use

jason blair, et cetera, judith miller. think that election coverage in general, we all were way too reliant on polling that was faulty. there is a reason for the public to have skepticism in the media, and i think we need to -- i think, by the way, that twitter, i'm not absolving myself of this, i think twitter in some cases has been fantastic for the media and other cases it's been bad. i think there are a lot of reasons the media still has work to do. when we do reports on president trump, or any president, every word and every letter needs to be right. we need to be 100% right. we need to make sure we give the administration ample time to respond to the story. i think it is a perilous time. we need to rise to the occasion. >> we need to also moderate ourselves, making sure we are not being alarmist about everything. it is more than rebuilding trust. it is more like trying to teach a 17-year-old to read. or four, i don't know, i have kids. >> it is close enough. >> we should be teaching journalism in school, really makin

jason blair, etc. judith miller. i think election coverage in general, we all were way too reliant on polling that was faulty. there is a reason for the public to have skepticism in the media and i think we need -- i think by the way that twitter, i'm not be a solving myself of this, i think -- i'm not absolving myself of this, i think twitter has been good and bad. if you have a machine that allows to you convey every emotion, every moment you have one, i don't think it's good for when president trump gives into that impulse and i don't think it's good when reporters give into that impulse. so i think there are a lot of reasons why the media still has a lot of work to do. and we need to make sure that when we do reports on president trump and his administration or anyone, but especially him, because he's so targeted, that we need every word, every letter needs to be right. we need to be 100% right. we need to have made sure that we gave the administration ample time to respond to the story. i think it's just a very

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