rick: jeff mason from reuters. we appreciate your time tonight. >> my pleasure.hington governor jay inslee taking a controversial stand on immigration enforcement. the government ordering state workers to stop cooperating with i.c.e. after learning the agency was getting help from the dmv to apmand undocumented immigrants. reporter: getting a driver's license in the state of washington does not require u.s. citizenship but the state did record where applicants were born. when democratic governor jay inslee learned the department of licensing was sharing information with customs and enforcement, he put up his own wall to block the cooperation. >> we believe the people we helped educate for decades deserve the protection we've given them. and most unfortunate the president and his i.c.e. is essentially threatening them with deportation. reporter: the dmv treating i.c.e. like every other law enforcement agency, providing collective information only when given a name and specific crime investigated. now i.c.e. alone has a much higher bar. >> stopped releasing informa

eric: in about five minutes will ask jeff mason at the white house press corps and what he expects by the end the week. thank you, arthel. arthel: the palestinian president calling president trump middle east peace plan a slap in the face. he says they will slap back. this comes after the president announced plans to move the us embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem. connor powell joined the from jerusalem for the latest. hello, connor. reporter: yeah, arthel, president trump recently threatened to cut us assistance to the palestinians after frustration at the slow start of restarting peace talks between israelis and palestinians. that looks closer to becoming a reality now. president trump making some comments here in the last few days that that could really happen and the measures looks like it could cut hundreds, if not tens of millions of dollars, but palestinian authority speaking out tonight in a fiery, fiery speech calling president trump middle east peace plan a slap in the face but also adding the palestinians will slap back as well. this is just the latest in the atte

obamacare covers very few people. >> jeff mason, he seems to get people and uses their ethnicity to turnthe worst case. he says, well, obama's got an african name, so he's from africa. he's got a guy cuban america, oh, he killed kennedy. he finds these little -- somebody's pocahontas. he plays every ethnic card he can play and turns it into the worst joke he can make, which he thinks is a joke. and by the way, his audience likes that stuff. they were laughing about obama being some sort of phantom who never really went though these schools. so he knows their button, jeff. >> i think it does sometimes resonate with people in his bait. but whether it resonates or not, our responsibility as journalists, whether you're a white house correspondent or an an anchor to call out either the president of the united states or anybody else in public life who has a loose relationship with the truth. and in many cases, that has been the case with candidate donald trump, with president donald trump, and it's our job to watch thatalexi, it's like when fox says, fair and balanced, they enjoy the joke, i t

joining us is reuters white house correspondent jeff mason. he interviewed president trump on this range of topics. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> set the seen for the atmospherics of this interview. >> a bunch of different headlines that came out. it was an interview with me and a few other white house colleagues. we talked to him about north korea, about immigration, about his exercise habits and about jerusalem. there are a lot of foreign policy headlines that came out of it. i think some of the standouts were what you were just mentioning on north korea. he believes russia is sort of offsetting any helping that china may be giving to the united states in terms of sanctions with north korea, basically by providing fuel which is annish yoo u that north korea struggles with and needs from foreign providers. >> let me tick through a couple of these. let me read for people who haven't read it yet. on that putin-russia moment, russia is not helping us at all with north korea, the president said. he, vladimir putin, can do a lot. but u

joining me now, caitlin huey burns and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. good morning to you both. i'm going to reach out to you first, the president is giving a speech with the lowest approval ratings of any president over the course of a first year. he has the cloud of the russia probe hanging over him. how does he negotiate all of this and look for success tuesday night? >> it has a lot to do with his tone and you may recall that last year after having given the first inaugural address, using dark themes talking about american carnage. he gave the equivalent of a state of the union address pretty well received. white house officials indicated he's going to do a similar month positive tone talking about the economy, talking about his accomplishments on tuesday night. the question as you rightly pose, how will that be received? republicans in the room will receive it well. when he starts talking about immigration and talks about his proposals on daca, the program for young immigrants brought to the united states illegally, that no doubt will not get appla

bring in our panel, josh barro, msnbc contributor and senior editor with "the business insider," jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters, and sarah westwood, white house correspondent for "the washington examiner." i want to go around the table before we get started and get everyone's reaction one by one. josh, since you're sitting here, i'll start with you. on steve bannon's apology today, if, in fact, that's what we can call it, and why now? >> i think it's interesting what's not in steve bannon's apology. this is basically an apology to donald trump and donald trump jr. and trying so to say when he talked about the meeting being treasonous it was referring to paul manafort, but he also talked about a money laundering issue to jared kushner and that that is the path robert mueller will follow to take down donald trump. and there's no apology in here to kushner, no retraction of those claims. and -- >> it was really just shifting the blame to paul manafort and taking it off of don june fior saying it was treasonous, the meeting in trump tower. >> and if he says he said mean thing

wall, no immigration deal, no daca, reiterating that during a wide-ranging interview with reuters, jeff mason white house correspondent was in the room and he joins me now. jeff, good to see you. thank you for being here. first of all, obviously since a week ago today we've been trying to figure out where the president stands on immigration and in that infamous meeting where he alleged to have used the s-hole term. what did he say about that in the interview are reuters. >> it is good to be with you. and he made it clear he's not in favor of the proposal at all. he said that was not in line with the themes that he had campaigned on as a candidate and also expressed the fact that he has lost confidence in the democrat in that case in senator durbin because he went out and talked about the words that the president had used. this is also a contrast, i think worth mentioning, what the president had said in that other extraordinary meeting last week with both democratic and republican lawmakers in which the media got to stay for -- nor nearly an hour in which he said in the meeting, you come up wi

jill colvin with the associated press, jeff mason, lorraine woolard.l, let me start with you and have you take us back to a year ago today. this happened later in the day. we saw these protests kick off pretty shortly afterward. how flat footed was the white house caught when this executive order was signed? >> part of the reason they did this executive order was to kind of have this huge impact. they described it as the shock and awe campaign of the president really asserting himself in office. so it was designed to surprise people, but nonetheless, i mean the chaos that we saw at the airports that day, on friday, i think all of us can remember exactly where we were when we found out it had dropped. it really set this tone of absolute chaos. also continuing to paint the picture, we had reince priebus as chief of staff, sean spicer as press secretary. we had basically an entirely different group of people around president trump, including chief strategist steve bannon. >> jeff mason, as this makes its way to the supreme court, how much has that travel

. >> joining me is jeff mason, white house correspondent at reuters. i just want to say, if erin mcpike is able to join the conversation, we'll bring her in too. i want to start with more reaction to the fallout of the president's alleged s-hole comment. here's senator jeff flake this morning. >> well, all i can say is i was in a meeting directly afterwards where those who had presented to the president our proposal spoke about the meeting. and they said those words were used before those words went public. so that's all i can tell you. >> that's interesting, the timing there. and of course, we're hearing this big disagreement about what happened in that meeting now. what senator flake says, though, is that he was told in direct contrast with senator perdue's statement, so how does all that impact the conversation surrounding this? >> it's a great question, and it's hard to say. it's hard to determine what was said when different people are giving differing accounts. it's also, you know, either way, though, it's been very damaging. it's been damaging b

joining me now, a senior political correspondent and jeff mason white house correspondent for reuters. good saturday morning to you both. i'll start with you, here, jeff what do you make of the president's response? was he better off not reacting and might he even sounded more intelligent had he not written the comma like comma in that tweet? right there you think that's not good grammar, right there. >> reporter: i am actually going to borrow a page out of the white house handbook and say the tweets sort of speak for themselves. i think they do. i think the fact that he decided to weigh in on this at all suggests again that he is spending plenty of time watching cable news, that he is upset by these reports and that he feels the need to comment on his own mental acuity, just suggests what a topic it has been and the fact that the questions are getting to him and are dominating conversation both in the white house and outside the white house. >> but, aaron, questioning the president's mental fitness, that's not anything new, wright? the temperament came under scrutiny. he still won, w

i think white house correspondent jeff mason would agree and i'm sure it would pass muster if the duchess didn't approve. if the prince can afford to go bald, maybe there's hope for the rest of us. that's all for tonight. maybe i shouldn't be so scared of that. ari? >> for now, chuck, for now. >>> thank you, chuck todd, we have several developing stories tonight including why authorities are probing did russia help donald trump win the election. and the exclusive aid to paul manafort who says he could go to jail all because of his desperate need for relevance, we'll get an inside account. but we begin with these stories in washington right now. we are now entering the eve of the deadline for a government shutdown. although it seemed unlikely after last month's republican victory, but now republican infighting could take the republican party to a tremendous failure tomorrow night. and according to congressional sources, donald trump's own misunderstanding of the plan they're pushing. we're looking here of course at some live images of the house where the debate continues. the key vote comi

i think white house correspondent jeff mason would agree and i'm sure it would pass muster if the duchesst approve. if the prince can afford to go bald, maybe there's hope for the rest of us. that's all for tonight. maybe i shouldn't be so scared of that. ari? >> for now, chuck, for now. >>> thank you, chuck todd, we have several developing stories tonight including why authorities are probing did russia help donald trump win the election. and the exclusive aid to paul manafort who says he could go to jail all because of his desperate need for relevance, we'll get an inside account. but we begin with these stories in washington right now. we are now entering the eve of the deadline for a government shutdown. although it seemed unlikely after last

and we want to bring in the former rnc chairman michael steele and the panel, writer for reuters, jeff mason, and liz goodman from "the boston globe." out this morning on fox, they said the president didn't, in fact, say these comments. she admits she was not in the room. dick durbin was and dick durbin said this happened. he was on the record, on camera saying this happened. you have the fallout from allies like botswana seriously inquiring to the u.s. ambassador if botswana is in the s-hole category also. asking that question. there's obviously real-world fallout and impact to this, michael. >> there is. particularly for most of the countries on the continent of africa who have had over the years a very good relationship with the united states. certainly going back to the b h bush bubush era where all this work is now called into question. is this how you feel about our people that come from our continent to yours? that's one level. i think, though, on a broader level, just to put it on the street, the fact is, why are we walking around so shocked and awed by this? this is who the man is.

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joining me now frank figurelussy and direct your for counter intelligence at the fbi and jeff yard at george mason university and adviser to bob corker. frank, i'll start with you. this phrase bad for our country came up today, do you think as we look at the mueller investigation, that that quote from the president bad for our country applies here? >> you know, what i think looks bad for our country is when the president continues to bash the institutions that we hold dear. the department of justice, the fbi, when he implies that the rule of law and the fact that a free and open democracy is allowed to investigate its leaders and he doesn't like that, i think that is what really begins to look bad for our country. not that we're adhering to our laws and our way of government. >> jamil, there is a senior official told nbc that multiple staff pressured jeff sessions to recuse himself. we've talked about collusion and obstruction, is this evidence of cob instruction at th-- of on construction at this point. >> i don't think so. whether he recused him san francisco or not and so does the white house c

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