the key scene in the book is between john mccarthy and the professor over whether the computer could e a judge. mccarthy was like of course as long as it is programmed correctly. so that is where it was an obscene idea. she interviewed minority students in the early '80s and they were very encouraging of the idea. the judges are harsh and it was when the computers could be a separate entities and then you cut to ten years later and basically it's being this garbage information what's it going to learn and how will it be any different. so a long way of saying they are good or bad but they are not going to be any better than our society. it's a product of the portal and i think that the quote that was a carryover in the book is a lot of the problems they think they are so great at math but they should solve justice or write a poem, that is hard. so thinking you were good at programming math in the society we know how hard it is to fix the society is a fundamental problem i would say. does technology have any role to play in terms of correcting these issues? >> there was a famous court c

meeting at the white house with then president barack obama with speaker of the house john boehner, leader mccarthynd others, senator mcconnell of course and the president was prepared to do something he a threat to do but we actually asked him not to do. and that is to try to take unilateral executive action to deal with the issue of these young adults who came with her parents when they were children into the united states in violation of our immigration laws. and we said please, president obama, give us a chance to work with you and come up with a solution. and he listened, said no. i'm going to do, i'm going to sign an executive order or action and a going to go this alone. unfortunately for the young people who were the beneficiaries of this daca executive order, the court struck it down and so they were left in doubt and in some jeopardy wondering whether now that they n been granted a deferred action or against deportation by president obama, what the future would look like. and so president trump at, upon the advice of general kelly who was then secretary of homeland security said give the

not a lot of schools or streets named for joe mccarthy. john roberts is live at the white house with the latest. john, there are a lot of opinions out there about what should happen with this memo. >> no shortage of opinions in washington the charm of this place. we're waiting to hear whether the memo and accompanying letter that states the president has no objection to the declassification of this memo will be transmitted to the intelligence committee. sources have said they have not received it. it will likely be headed their way in a little while. the president has been silent about this all week with the exception of the open mic moment saying 100% he wants to release that memo. the president now with the release of the memo being imminent weighing in full throated on twitter saying the top leadership and investigators of the f.b.i. and justice department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of democrats and against republicans. something which would have been unthinkable a short time ago. rank and file are great peopl

questions here is on the short list of possible replacements for chief of staff john kelly, the current house majority leader mccarthy, how will he handle this, not to mention paul ryan. we're watching that closely. let's begin at the white house with the story breaking machine kaitlan collins. >> reporter: that's a very significant comment we heard from trey gowdy. he was raising a lot of questions not just about how rob porter was working in this white house with classified information but how anyone with those kind of credible allegations in their past had a job anywhere, especially one in the west wing. he's raising a lot of questions that reporters have been asking of the white house for the last week or so, a lot of questions we have not gotten answers to or gotten conflicting answers to. the person who is taking a lot of heat for that is the chief of staff john kelly, because a lot of aides inside the white house believe that he is really bungled the response here to the rob porter scandal, to the fallout here, not only has he said we could have done a better job like white house spokesmen have said, but that

senate majority leader john cornyn, house majority whip steve scalise -- again, steve. thank you. house majority leader kevin mccarthyir john fun and kathy rogers -- did they forget your name, john? they did not put his name up, but that is ok. that is the first time that has ever happened. hey john, that will never happen again. [laughter] president trump: working together, we have a couple sticks for an very things for the american people over the last year. i believe this is just the beginning. paul ryan called me the other day, and i do not know if i'm supposed to say this, but i will say that he said to me he has never, ever seen the republican , so much in like with each other, but literally, the word united was the word he used. it was the most united he has ever seen the party, and i see it too. i have so many friends in this group, and there is a great i do notgether that think either party has seen for many, many years. right? that is good. i was hoping he would not deny that. he did, he called me and i thought it was very nice, so thank you paul, very much. day, we are empowering our citizens to follow the

john cornyn, great job. house majority whip steve scalice again, steve. [applause] thank you. kevin mccarthy. thank you. use] cathy mcmorris rodgers. [applause] did they forget your name, john? i don't know. what is going on here? john cornyn, everybody knows. they didn't put his name up, but that's ok. that is the first time that has ever happened. that will never happen again. [laughter] working together, we have accomplished extraordinary things for the american people over the last year. i really believe this is just the beginning. paul ryan called me the other day. i don't know if i am supposed to say this, but he said to me he has never, ever seen the republican party so united, so much in like with each other, but literally the word "united" was the word he used, the most united he has seen the party. i see it, too. i have so many friends in this group. there is a uniting i don't think many people haven't seen in many years. that's good. i was hoping he wouldn't deny that. he did. he called me. i thought it was very nice. paul, thank you very much. every day, we are removing government burdens and

john, thank you. great job. house majority whip steve scalise again, steve. thank you. house majority leader kevin mccarthy. ohn thune and house conference chair kathy mcmorris rogers. did they forget your name, john? i don't know. what's going on here? john cornyn, everybody knows. i didn't put his name up but that's okay. >> senate majority whip john cornyn. john, thank you. great job. >> president didn't do much there to back up his very frequent claim of having "one of the great memories of all time." >> i don't have teleprompters here, folks. i don't need teleprompters. it's called like up here and it's called memory and it's called other things. >> i have a good memory and all that stuff, like a great memory. >> i have a really good memory. >> i have a good memory like a great memory. >> i have a great memory. >> i'm blessed with a great memory. >> one of the great memories of all time. >>> just to step back a bit here, it's worth saying in a single sentence what's happening. we have the president of the united states now having issued to the american public a memo that the director of the fbi says is

john cornyn. thank you. and house majority whip steve scalise. thank you. and house majority leader kevin mccarthy. kevin. red john thune and house conference chair. kathy mcmars rogers. did they forget your name, john? what is going on here? john cornyn, everybody knows. they didn't put his name up, but that is okay. >> senate majority whip john cornyn. thank you. great job. >> the president didn't do much to back up his claim of having one of the quote greatest memories of all time. >> i don't have teleprompters here folks. i don't need teleprompters. it is called up here and it is called memory and it is called other things. >> have a good mem ory. a great miaemory. >> and i have a good mem ory, i have a great memory. >> i'm blessed with a great m memory. >> one of the greatest memories of all time. ♪ that you'll ever need ♪ staying ahead isn't about waiting for a chance. it's about the one bold choice you make, that moves you forward. ( ♪ ) the one and only cadillac escalade. come in now for this exceptional offer on the cadillac escalade. get this low-mileage lease on this 2018 cadillac escalade from

john, thank you. great job. house majority whip steve scalise again. steve, thank you. house majority leader kevin mccarthy. se conference chair kathy mcmorris rogers. did they forget your name, john? what's going on here? john cornyn everybody knows. they didn't put his name up but that's okay. that's the first time that's ever happened. hey, john, that will never happen again. working together we have accomplished extraordinary things for the american people over the last year, and i really believe this is just the beginning. you know, paul ryan called me the other day, and i don't know if i'm supposed to say this, but i will say that he said to me he has never, ever seen the republican party so united, so much in like with each other, but literally the word united was the word he used. it's the most united he's ever seen the party, and i see it, too. i have so many friends in this group, and there is a great coming together that i don't think either party has seen for many, many years. right? that's good. i was hoping he wouldn't deny that. he did, he called me, and i thought it was very nice. thank you,

john. great job. house majority whip, steve scalise. again, steve, thank you. house majority leader kevin mccarthy. leader kevin mccarthy. kevin. air john thune and house conference chair cathy mcmorris rogers. did they forget your name, john? i don't know. what's going on here? john cornyn, everybody knows. they didn't put his name up but that's okay. that's the first time that's ever happened. hey, john, that will never happen again. working together, we've accomplished extraordinary things for the american people over the last year. i really believe this is just the beginning. paul ryan called me the other day. i don't know if i'm supposed to say this, but i will say that he said to me, he has never, ever seen the republican party so united, so much in like with each other, but literally the word united was the word he used. it's most united he's ever seen the party. and i see it too. i have so many friends in this group. and there is a great coming together. that i don't think either party has seen for many, many years so -- right? yes, that's good. i was hoping he wouldn't deny that, but -- he did, he called me. i thought i

mccarthy and john cornyn and dick durbin. >> i do want to ask you about that. this plays into what the chief of staff john kelly said about daca recipients. it was quite eyebrow raising. listen to this moment. >> the difference between 690 and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say they were too lazy to get off their asses, but they didn't sign up. >> what did you think of those comments? >> i wasn't too happy. he said people would say. he didn't say he said it. >> but what's the difference, congressman? to insert that into the conversation that some of the recipients would be too lazy to get off their asses. what's the point of putting that in? >> you'd have to ask general kelly. what i want to focus on is the effort to come to an agreement on this asap. i think we have a lot of young people who are extraordinary young people, not lazy at all, very motivated. college students, high school students, people who are working, people who have served in the military, people making a difference in our communities.

john, thank you. great job. house majority whip steve scali scalise. >> house majority leader kevin mccarthy. ohn thune and house conference chair kathy mcmorris rodgers. did they forget your name, john? i don't know, what's going on here? john cornyn, everybody knows, they didn't put his name up, but that's okay. senate majority whip john cornyn. john, thank you. great job. >> willie, is the white house doctor would say, the mind of a 14-year-old. at the peak of life. >> i love -- he throws a speechwriter under the bus. they didn't put your name in there, for god's sakes. he talks a lot, there are a lot of words, it's hard to remember them all. >> a lot of big words, some of the best words. >> president trump thanking members of the republican leadership in some cases twice, at the republican retreat in white sulfur springs, west virginia, touting his view of republicans and their view of him. >> a very spectacular man, orrin hatch. where's orrin? orrin? orrin is -- i love listening to him speak. he said once i'm the single greatest president in his lifetime. and he actually once said i'm the

majority whip john cornyn, john, thank you, great job. [ applause ] house majority whip steve scalise. again, steve, thank you. [ applause ] house majority leader kevin mccarthy [ applause ] chair john thune and house conference chair, cathy mcmorris rodgers. did they forget your name, john? i don't know. [ laughter ] what's going on here? john cornyn everybody, now, they didn't put his name up, but that's okay. that's the first time that's ever happened. >> seth: do you mean that's the first time that's never happened? [ laughter ] you just said his name. do you not remember. you looked right at him. [ laughter ] makes sense trump has the memory of a goldfish since he also has the mouth of one. [ cheers and applause ] this is starting to feel like the last season of a long-running tv show where the writers decide to have the main character fall off a horse, and get amnesia. hi, i'm donald. hi donald, i'm john. who's donald? [ laughter ] trump, of course, was there to crow about his state of the union address, and bask in the adoration of his fellow republicans. trump even suggested that after a slow first few months in office he's gone above, and beyond what

john kelly's fault. i'm not sure -- those names you pointed out, cohen, mulvaney, mccarthy, these are people that at the moment have their stars risen in donald trump's universe. john kelly was one of those people once, too. i think mike touched on it earlier. the most important thing to remember here is that donald trump is extremely difficult to work for. it doesn't matter who the chief of staff is. anyone who believed that john kelly was fundamentally going to alter donald trump after reince priebus couldn't, is probably going to believe, if we just got mull vane any in there, everything would be okay. the spoint the principle, not the chief of staff. could he make a change? sure. but don't expect him fundamentally to change. >> change doesn't create change. 34% of their staff has turned over, mostly not for good reason. >> including a lot of senior staff in that, it's not junior people. it's senior level people. >> chris cillizza, mike bender, thank you very much. >>> we have breaking news to report. >> right now you're looking at live aerials, from cnn affiliate, wjla. this is one of the secure gate

been calling friends to complain about john kelli's management of this and other issues and asking about possible replacements including gary cohn, kevin mccarthyis word from mike pence today very deliberately setting the tone that john kelly is here for now, if not permanently getting that endorsement from the vice president of the united states. and that does it for this e edition. a busy valentine's day. remember the show online, facebook and twitter. peter alexander is here. you have a lot on your plate. >> thank you, andrea. good afternoon to you. it's afternoon already. what a day it's been so far. i'm in washington. it's peter alexander in for craig melvin. follow the money. the six had-digit payment made weeks before the election and now the president's long had-time lawyer telling nbc news he used his own money to facilitate a payment to the porn star who report ed to have claimed she had a sexual encounter with president trump. >>> and blame and isolation for john kelly inside the white house in the wake of a domestic abuse scandal involving two aids. >>> also today, a new deal. a group of bipartisan senators say that e we could is ha

john cornyn, great guy, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, kevin mccarthy are hopefully going to work on some legislation. they started already. john s legislation, we are going to strengthen it and make it more pertinent to what we're discussing. he's already started the proces process. the other thing, we need hardened sites. just concluding, we have tremendous things happening. the country is doing well, we have a setback like this that's so heart-wrenching. we have two clean it up. we have to straighten it out. it's wonderful that we are setting records. black unemployment at an all-time, historical low. hispanic unemployment at a historical low. women unemployment at an 18 year low. 18 years. actually i did very well with women during the election. nobody wants to give me credit for it, as you know. i'm very proud of it. to me these are incredible statistics and very importantly our companies are doing well, the fundamentals are beyond what anybody's ever seen. there were bubbles in the past, these companies were valued and nobody understood. where's the money? these are really strong co

mccarthy. republican congress chairwoman cathy mcmorris rodgers. senator john cornyn. and senator john thune. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and the speaker of the house, paul ryan. [applause] sen. mcconnell: we have talked a lot about 2017 being the most consequential year for conservatism in the last three decades. but of that's what happened for the president of the united states. president, we thank you for neil gorsuch. we thank you for the 13 new circuit judges. for 15k you congressional review ask, and most of all, we thank you for comprehensive tax reform. [applause] sen. mcconnell: mr. speaker. speaker ryan: let me add to the fact that because of this -- placee put in price that america is back. a 17 year highat of economic confidence and a 17 year low of unemployment. the fact thatjoy we had one of the best foreign-policy teams from our conference this morning? we are on the cusp of giving our military the tools they need to do their work. america is going to be a safer country, a more prosperous country, the more confident

john cornyn. thank you. great job. house majority west, steve soliz. again, steve. thank you. kevin mccarthy. ce chair, kathy rogers. do they forget your name, john? i don't know, what's going on here? they did not put his name out, but that's okay. that's the first time that has ever happened. hey, john, that will never happen again. working together, we have accomplished extraordinary things for the american people over the last year, and i really believe that this is just the beginning. paul ryan called me the other day, and i don't know if i am supposed to say this, but he said to me, he has never, ever seen the republican party so united, so much and like with each other. literally, the word united was the words that he used. the most united he has ever seen the party, and i see it too. i have so many friends in this group, there is a great coming together that i don't think either party has seen for many, many years. right? that is good. i was hoping he would not deny that. he did, he called me, i thought it was very nice. every day, we are removing government burdens and empowering our

john, grade job. [applause] house majority whip steve scalise. steve, thank you. [applause] house majority leader, kevin mccarthy. [applause] kevin. air john thune and house conference chair cathy mcmorris rodgers. [applause] did they forget your name, john? what is going on here? john cornyn, everybody knows. didn't put his name up, that is okay. first time that ever happened. hey, john, that will never happen again. working together we've accomplished extraordinary things for the american people over the last year. and i really believe this is just the beginning. you know paul ryan called me the other day, i don't know if i'm supposed to say this, but i will say, he said to me, he has never, ever seen the republican party so united, so much in like with each other but literally the word united was the word he used. it is the most united he has ever seen the party. i see it too. i have so many friend in this group. and there is a great coming together that i don't think either party has seen for many, many years. so, right? >> yep. >> that's food. [applause] -- good. i was hoping he wouldn't deny that. he did call me and i thought

john cornyn, a great guy, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, and kevin mccarthy are going to work on some legislation. they started already. john has legislation, we're going to strengthen it, make it more pertinent to what we are discussing. he has already started the process. the other thing, we need hardened sites. just in concluding, we have tremendous things happening. the country is doing well. then we have a setback like this that is so heart-wrenching. to clean it up. we have to straighten it out. it is wonderful we are setting records in the economy. anck unemployment at all-time historical low. hispanic unemployment at a historical low. women unemployment at an 18 year low. 18 years. i did very well with women during the election. nobody wants to give me credit for that. i'm very proud of that. these are incredible statistics. our companies are doing well. the fundamentals are beyond what anybody has ever seen. this isn't a bubble. past were bubbles in the because these companies were valued and nobody understood, where is the money? these are really strong companies we are building. we hav

john cornyn, great guy, senator. mitch mcconnell, paul ryan and kevin mccarthy will hopefully work on some legislation. i hope you guys -- they started already. in fact, john has legislation in. we will strengthen in and make it more prtent in ertinent to we discussing but he already started the process. we have already started it. and the other thing, we need hardened sites. we have to have hardened sites. so just in concluding, we have tremendous things happening. the country is doing well and we have a setback like this that is so heart wrenching. so heart wrenching. we have to clean it up. we are setting records on the economy. setting records. black unemployment at an a all-time historical low. unemployment at a historical low. women unemployment at an 18-year low. 18 years. and actually, i did very well with women during the election. no one wants to give me credit for that, as you know. and i'm very proud of that. to me these are incredible statistics. hour companies are doing well. fundamentals are beyond what, literally beyond what anyone has ever seen. there were bubbles in the past because co

and john cornyn, great guy, senator, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, and kevin mccarthy hopefully are going to work on some legislation. i hope you guys -- they started already. in fact, john has legislation in. we're going to strengthen it. we're going to make it more pertinent to what we're discussing. but he's already started the process. we've already started it. and the other thing, we need hardened sites. so just in concluding, we have tremendous things happening. the country is doing well. then we have a setback like this that's so heart wrenching. so heart wrenching. and we have to -- we have to clean it up. we have to straighten it out. it's wonderful that we're setting records on the economy. we're setting records. black unemployment at an all-time historical low. hispanic unemployment at a historical low. women unemployment at an 18-year low. 18 years. actually, i did very well with women during the election. nobody wants to give me credit for that, as you know. but -- and i'm very proud of that. to me, these are incredible statistics. and very importantly, we're doing -- our com

mccarthy, the house majority leader. we've heard gary cohn and nick mulvaney. those are the names you hear most often when this comes up, sometimes from the president. why those three? >> well, john, there's no question the president is trying to feel people out. they're trial balloons, if you will. float these names and see what the reaction is. house speaker, kevin mccarthy, without question has developed a close relationship with the president. he was asked this morning on capitol hill if he's up for the job. watch what he said. >> i understand you've had some conversations with the president recently. wondering if you can confirm that you've talked to him about exploring the opportunity for chief of staff. are you interested in that position at all if he offers it, and would you serve him if you are asked? >> he got called on just because of the jacket. >> first of all, i have not spoken to the president about anything about a job and i never have. there is no job opening. >> so making clear there is no job opening, saying he's not spoken to the president about the job, but we do know kevin mccarthy is close to the president, and he has worked on a close relationship, even gi

john kelly is to be replaced. gary cohn, congressman kevin mccarthy who is house majority leader and star bursts color. >> only the reds and the pinks. >> if that isn't a credential for chief of staff, i don't know what is. and mick mulvaney, who already has two jobs, but okay. he can take on a third. >> in this white house in particular, being of chief of staff makes you incredibly vulnerable to controversy, to being undermined because of the president you're working for. whatever people think about john kelly, mistakes he may have made, controversial statements he's made, working for this president is incredibly difficult. because you're working for a president who, among other things, is going to undermine you by putting toxins in the water and spreading information about you. he is so transparent that way. you know, if you take a step back on this, any organization dealing with something like this would benefit from being both fair and more transparent than they have been. i think it's fair to say people in the white house had awe blind spot for rob porter just like a lot of people who know him do. who know hi

senator,yn, great guy mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, and kevin mccarthy will hopefully work on some legislation. they started already. johnas legislation and we will strengthen it and make it more pertinent to what we are discussing, but he has already started the process. we have already started. the other thing is that we need hard insights. just in concluding, we have tremendous things happening. the country is doing well and then we have a setback like this that's so har heart wrenching. so heart-wrenching. we have to clean it up. we have to straighten it out. it is wonderful that we are setting records in the economy. we are setting records. black unemployment at an all-time historical low. hispanic unemployment at a historical low. women unemployment at an 18 year low. 18 years. actually i did very well with women during the election. nobody wants to give me credit for that as you know. and i'm very proud of that coul t. to me these are credible statistics. vonnie: you have been listening to some of president trump's comments. he is speaking with the nation's governors and will be heading into some meetings. this is

and john cornyn -- great guy -- senator, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, and kevin mccarthy hopefully are going to work on some legislation. i hope you guys -- they started already. in fact, john has legislation in. we're going to strengthen it, we're going to make it more pertinent to what we're discussing, but he's already started the process. we've already started it. and the other thing -- we need hardened sites. we have to have hardened sites. so just in concluding, we have tremendous things happening. the country is doing well, and then we have a setback like this that's so heart-wrenching. it's so heart-wrenching. and we have to -- e have to clean it up. we have to straighten it out. you know, it's wonderful that we're setting records on the economy. we're setting records. black unemployment at an all-time historical low. hispanic unemployment at a historical low. women unemployment at an 18-year low -- 18 years. and actually, i did very well with women during the election. nobody wants to give me credit for that, as you know. but -- and i'm very proud of that. to me, these are inc

john cornyn, great guy, senator, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan and kevin mccarthy hopefully will work ongislation. i hope you guys they started already. in fact, john has legislation in. we'll strengthen it and make it more pertinent to what we're discussing. but he has already started the process. >> bill: mike emanuel watching this on the hill. good day to you there. where are republican leaders at this stage? >> bill, as we await house republican leaders the senior gop notes steps the house has taken prior to the parkland, florida attack passing mental health, tightening up the nics background checks and reviewing bump stocks in the same legislation. they're calling on house republican speaker paul ryan to hold a vote on the background checks bill by itself. last year it was attached to a conceal/carry provision and didn't go anywhere in the senate. a key republican talked about his priorities. >> i don't mind expanding background checks. i'm for eliminating the bump stocks. i'm not going to focus on the gun. i want to focus on the mental health side of it. there is a common theme in

john kelly into trouble. how does this change things, we'll still see. this morning i heard he's looking for replacements for chief of staff. possibly kevin mccarthy, mark meadows. while the administration publicly is saying the president has confidence in him, we should point out he has confidence in john kelly until he doesn't. >> how much determinism does the president have of who his chief of staff is going to be. john kelly was brought to the president's attention. they didn't have a history with each other beforehand. they had one meeting before he was picked to head homeland security. is that a decision the president is going to be make? >> the people who want bring into that position probably couldn't get through a vetting process, his close friend tom barrack, has a lot of foreign investments that would approximate make the financial disclosures impossible to get the job. corey lewandowski, this is another ally from the campaign trump likes to have around. they probably would have trouble getting into the white house, so most likely you would see possibly people bringing someone to trump like mick mulvaney or mark meadows who could get th

and john cornyn, great guy, senator, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan and kevin mccarthy hopefully are going to work on some legislation. i hope you guys -- they started already. in fact john has legislation in. we're going to strengthen it. we're going to make it more pertinent to with we're discussing but he already started the process. we've already started it. and the other thing, we need hardened sites. we have to have hardened sites. so just in concluding, we have tremendous things happening. the country is doing well. and then we have a setback like this. that is so heart-wrenching, it is so heart-wrenching and we have to, we have to clean it up. we have to straighten it out. it is wonderful we're setting records on the economy. we're setting records. black unemployment at an all-time historical low. hispanic unemployment, at a historical low. women unemployment at, an 18-year low. 18 years. and actually i did very well with women during the election. nobody wants to give me credit for that, as you know. but, 8 -- i'm very proud of that. these are incredible statistics and very import

mccarthy, mulvaney. but to be clear, it is too early to say john kelly is a goner. but it is notable he is the center of heightened scrutiny. >> so jeff bennett at the white house. thank you, jeff. >>> so you've got john kelly here. but julia ansly, we have reporting you've been doing on what would be a typical traditional process for security clearances. we don't know still what happened inside that west wing when it came to security clearance of rob porter but we do know what may traditionally and typically happen. and typically and traditionally the white house counsel would have heard about something like these allegations, right? >> that's right. we've been looking that for a while. this is not the first time the questions about the way security clearances have been processed in this white house have come up. of course we have the same questions around jared kushner. the way it is typically supposed to go for someone working in the white house as a white house official is the fbi would review the information. pass that on to this white house security office. th

mccarthy places body in front of president reagan and took the bullet himself as john hinckley .ired at president reagan one bullet ricocheted and hit president reagan. those are only a few examples of the time when the women and men of the secret service placed themselves in the line of fire to protect presidential families and others. you might just think about last year. the multiple presidential candidates, 17 i think, at one point. they protected the pope as he toured washington and new england. they protected countless others. multiple foreign trips with the president and the vice president. president trump is a large extended family, the protection of the president's homes and offices in new york and florida as well as the other continuing to invest -- investigative duties. asked by thei was aputy director to access couple of major projects. give me an opportunity to go back and work with the event leadership. one of the outcomes of that, in addition to some important the changeson, was we made outside and inside the government. .nside, the fbi and cia they were the best publi

many of us also witnessed agency timothy mccarthy place his body in front of president reagan, take the bullet himself, as john hinckley fired at president reagan and one of those bullets ricocheted and hit president reagan. those are only a few examples of the times when the women and men of the secret service have placed themselves in the line of fire to protect presidential families and others. you might think about last year, the multiple presidential candidates, 17, i think, at one point that protected the pope as he toured washington and new england and president obama and vice-president biden and countless others. multiple foreign trips for the president and the vice-president. the protection challenges now for president trump and his large extended family and offices in new york and florida, as well as all of the other continuing investigative duties, during 2016 i was asked about the former deputy director to assist on a couple of major projects. i did so. i said, if i could be assured of total privacy and total an nonanymorety, i would not take a time. it gave me an opportunity to go back and work wi

the president is not high on john kelly, has lost a lot of confidence in him, and that he has mused about different people including nic mulvaney, including kevin mccarthy, to others. there are a lot of people pushing gary cohn to the president. but i don't know directly that i'd be able to corroborate how the president himself feels to that idea. >> what he's talking about is the trump caveat, that affects everything until decisions are done, dusted and signed onto. so robert, having said that, we heard nicolle wallace quoting a source familiar with the president's thinking and familiar with the west wing, saying that kelly and his assistant now secretary of the department of homeland security were sanctimonious upon arrival. they forced a lot of people, some of them trump favorites out of the orbit. they broke some glassware in kind of bringing their regime and discipline to the west wing. and as i mentioned in our first segment when the long knives come out in washington, it is a sight to behold. they are sharp, and it can be gruesome. >> and some of those people wielding those knives tonight are some former trump advisers, the friends of president t

to answer president mccarthy, you know the number of permits coming into planning department, i did have conversation with director john ram, and he did say their permit is slow down for the major project. >> so major would be -- yeah, how big? 100? 50. >> he did not mention the size, but you know, consider maybe -- 100 units. >> and what would the interpretation be of that? >> that means we need to pay ourselves. we are already near the peak now. that's why you can see the amount big project -- right now, the revenue's good because wherever those hill project come in still under construction on the -- you know, the arena and other. >> yeah. >> but still, they are talking about some of the major project in other -- hopefully, treasure island will come up every few years, and other -- like the candlestick is kicking up. >> have you any inclination of the percentage of the drop-down from large project snz. >> i don't have the number right now for this. 1% is 1% job. >> 1%. okay. commissioner gilman? >> i was going to say on the financial sheet, it said the devaluation of permitting fees based on that valuation. looked at

john kelly had told the president if you want me to resign, i will. that's different than tendering your resignation. i've also heard that kevin mccarthythe congressman from california, member of leadership, could be the leading choice among some people to replace him. what i don't understand about the strategy this week is when all this became known, they chose to die on a hill that had already been abandoned. rob porter was either fired or resigned. we don't know the time line exactly because they never issued a time line, which was a mistake. then they went and tried to die on a hill that they had already abandoned. i don't understand it. then the president came out today -- >> when you say die on a hill -- >> the porter hill. porter hill has been abandoned. he was gone. they should have said what he did was terrible. it's clear to me, too, he knew this was coming. he tried to pressure one of the women into -- >> jennie willoughby -- >> there are reports coming out of the white house that he was misleading people in the white house about what happened. we don't know what he told the fbi. this was not someone worth defending before o

john kelly had told the president if you want me to resign, i will. that's different than tendering your resignation. i've also heard that kevin mccarthye congressman from california, member of leadership, could be the leading choice among some people to replace him. what i don't understand about the strategy this week is when all this became known, they chose to die on a hill that had already been abandoned. rob porter was either fired or resigned. we don't know the time line exactly because they never issued a time line, which was a mistake. then they went and tried to die on a hill that they had already abandoned. i don't understand it. then the president came out today -- >> when you say die on a hill -- >> the porter hill. porter hill has been abandoned. he was gone. they should have said what he did was terrible. he knew this was coming. he tried to pressure one of the women into -- >> jennie willoughby -- >> there are reports coming out of the white house that he was misleading people in the white house about what happened. we don't know what he told the fbi. this was not someone worth defending before or after the information b

mccarthy getting the job? gary cohn getting the job? right now, there's not a clear job opening, but there could be because the credibility of john kelly, to say it's in question, is an understatement. >> it is proved that he lied about fredricerica wilson. so the man is a liar. >> and saying immigrants are too lazy to get off the couch. remember when chuck schumer supposedly had that handshake with president trump on daca, it's john kelly and stephen miller who had these extreme views. i also learned it was john kelly when talking about those special visas, from people from disaster situations like el salvador, like haiti. it's john kelly's extreme-right views who said, let's not review those visas. >> yep. >> so even within the white house, you said the globalist faction, people are saying, this guy has gone over his skis. >> yep. >> and this is a clear other example. >> so let's walk through what we believe we know. the fact is, we don't have honest timelines, because the white house isn't being honest. but the timelines we have don't seem to mesh with each other. we learned last week, for instance, that white house counsel, don mcga

mccarthy might be tapped to fill that role. all this happening even while the house says -- sarah huckabee sanders told cnn this morning that the president still has confidence in john kelly. now, the john kelly rumors are not going away, in part because there's an expanding dispute over whether or not the white house told the truth about the timeline here. this all came to a head yesterday when the fbi director christopher wray was on the hill. he testified under oath and said he actually briefed the white house three separate times in 2017 about rob porter's file. we're going to put up a quick timeline here to show you how these accounts differ from the white house. the white house claimed that a lot of this came to a head in the last week, that they heard about it when the daily mail was about to publish the reports. according to christopher wray the fbi submitted a partial report on porter in march of 2017. they finished their investigation, submitted a final report in july of 2017. they were asked for more information, so they came back to the white house in november of 2017, and finally closed their file in january of 2018. meanwhile, in the last week john kel

john kelly, the chief of staff still has the support of the president. we also know that he's calling allies about possible replacements, we have been showing a graphic that shows the possibilities, including kevin mccarthy, among house republican leadership. how safe is his job right now? >> i think it's important to remember that the president is often calling allies and friends talking about people that he likes -- >> just throwing stuff against the wall kind of stuff? >> it's a common theme. he's been doing it since virtually the very beginning. that's one of the reasons why i talk to people in and around the white house, there's a lot of uncertainty what he's going to do because he's been known to have these conversations constantly and be dissatisfied constantly and not act for a very long period of time. i think that you can never really know as kaitlan just said, at this moment, his job might be safe but nobody knows what the president is going to wake up and want to do tomorrow and what is going to push him to do it. i will say this porter scandal happens to come right now, that and it's building on some dissatisfaction the president has had with the chief of staff for a while. but a lot of peop

california congressman kevin mccarthy is with a live in studio passes house intelligence chairman california congressman devin nunes. the american enterprise institute john bolton is joining us. secretary to the president and, mark water along with clayton chief strategist and stockbroker president, mark penn. don't miss a moment of it. taking action after the florida massacre, president trump to meet with the governor today to talk about ways to stem gun violence on school grounds as congress returns to work after a nine-day recess under pressure to act in the wake of the shooting. here's a president trump had to say about what he would like to see the potential legislation this weekend. >> we would have a section from a very section on mental illness. someone mentally ill should not have a weapon, should not have a gun and that would be covered in the background checks. the nra is going to be for it. this certainly should be bipartisan. >> in addition to expanded background checks, floating the idea tanning bump stocks and arming certain teachers. students in parkland began returning to the marjorie sutton and douglas high school which is a phased-in r

john kelly. the sense we have is that trump wants them to beg for the job. gary cohn, mick mulvaney, kevin mccarthythey're not going to do that because then they would have to take the job on trump's terms so they're in a bizarre situation which is reminiscent of every single day we've seen so farm in the trump administration where trump is trashing his top staff member to certain people, giving reassurance to other people and the new thing we've reported is in the last few days melania has weighed in on john kelly's behalf. >> really? >> yeah. >> she may have more authority right now. >> has she ever weighed in before? >> she weighed in very heavily against reince priebus. >> i heard throughout the campaign that -- from somebody that she didn't weigh in often but every time she weighed in her instincts were right and much better than a lot of the people around her so it wouldn't surprise me. again, i would guess maybe she has a little more, like you said, heft and authority today than maybe six weeks ago. so what about the question of which washington media has been obsessed with, the jared versus