that did not stop reporters from asking john spicer to -- asking john spicer -- asking sean justify the media blackout. he went on to say that some days we will have televised briefings, and some days we will not. on c-span, we will show you the televised briefings as we get them. this is just something to show you the media side of the back or from the white house. let's go to stan in michigan on the republican line. caller: hello. a couple of points. whati am in support of inublicans are trying to do the health care rain. the other thing is that -- in the health care ring. the other thing is that, the previous caller ancient letting the aca fail. i'm afraid what will happen then will berepublicans charged with letting it fail. it will not lead onto the -- bleed onto the democrats. the previous caller said health care is not a right. i somewhat believe in that. and that, elective health care -- in that, elective health care is not a right, what health care -- right, but health care beyond that is a human right. having health insurance is not having health care. insurance does not neces

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we are still waiting for sean spicer, h john spicer himself seemed to have notice of selfies. you can tell the criticism of the time gets to him. he kind of lashed out at the reporters little bit as he talked about openly his own future. listen. >> you can keep taking her selfies. [laughter] look, it's no secret, we've had a couple vacancies including our communication director for a while. women seeking input from individuals as far as ideas tha. we been seeking people who may be of service to this admission should be of no surprise. we are always looking for ways to do a better job articulate the president's agenda and message. we will continue to have those discussions personally and internally. we have answers come we will let know. >> continues to be a speculation here in washington, who will be the new white house press secretary. lauren green keeps popping up. also john roberts. lauren says she's not, but may be in a senior role. and sarah huckabee sanders, as you can see at the role at the podium a lot, she is the deputy press secretary, and she could step up and out.

here's what john spicer said about that. >> you look at the number of questions i get asked over and over just so a supporter can get a clip of themselves saying something or yelling. i think it not only makes it repetitive but there's a mix. i think cameras are fine and there's an opportunity for that but you can equally, on days when the president is speaking, have an off-camera briefing with an engagement on policy issue. to suggest that it's not on television is nonsensical. many of these reporters use anonymous sources and write up things and yet i can make an equal argument that that doesn't sound like news to me. we engage with the press corps very robustly from early in the morning to late at night. it's one small part of what this staff does to engage the media. eric: what's the position in the white house? you want transparency, you want accountability, we pay the salaries. does he have a point. >> putting my white house correspondent association hat on, it is our view and what we are advocating for that briefings need to be televised because it's in the interest of transpa

john spicer is standing a few feet away from that, but they're only allowed to pick up audio, and then they cannot use it until after he is done, and he has explained the reason that he has want to be in camera for these anymore. basically, he thinks reporters, some from some outlets are grandstanding too much in the briefing is televised. he thinks that if you do it like this where i can see is a logo, and hear the audio, they can get deeper into administration goals and policies, because they're not competing with some reporter for the molar memorable sound bites. the sound bites will come up whenever sean spicer is done, we just walked by. it looks exactly i got normal briefing, just no head on camera shot. we will hear what was said a few minutes from now, but we will never see sean spicer saying that. it's doing okay. peter doocy, thank you very muc much. a major announcement from the supreme court this morning and a victory for the trump administration is the high court ruled to reinstate most of the presidents travel ban. at least for now. the court also promising to do delve in

roberts reports spicer is preparing to take on a new role. according to a senior official to john roberts, it will be a promotion with spicer overseeing the white house communications team, including the press office and his replacement as press secretary. spicer faced plenty of criticism in the white house. some reportedly from the president himself. reports indicate the president has at times been unset with spicer's style and anger over melissa mccarthy's portrayal over him. mike dubke resigned last month. politco and others is reporting a larger shakeup of his communications team. the president has not yet decided who would replace sean spicer, but the official also says that the president is very fond of the deputy press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders at the podium. she's occasionally filled in for sean spicer. so are there any others? ed henry is live. what about that? i've heard some names. >> laura ingram, the fox news contributor, radio talk show host. her name has been bantered about. we heard she's not interested in that but maybe a more senior role in the administra

you want to just create a stocking machine you already have sean spicer john lamb and ryan lochte see hootie and three out of the four blowfish nancy pelosi all lot you've got it you've got a lot to choose from for a stocking machine but in terms of a c o two sucking machine choices are far more limited. but this is great this machine will suck the carbon out of the air climate change will be solved and we can all go back to driving home or while wearing single use wife beaters eating big macs and farting afridi. the american dream is alive and well so how much c o two can these things grab the developers say the plant will capture about nine hundred tons of c o two annually or the approximate level released from two hundred cars and then pipe that gas to help grow vegetables two hundred cars. i'm not mistaken. there are were. two hundred cars on the planet. at sea as of twenty eight and there were one point zero one five million motor vehicles in use in the world i think we're gonna did some more shocking pushing. climb work says if venture is a first step in their goal to capture on

in an e-mail to members of the association, mason said he met with white house press secretary john spicer and deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders to discuss the issue of the briefings. the white house said increasingly change the daily briefing, either not having them on certain days, making them short or hosting off-camera briefings. sometimes even not allowing the use of audio from the briefings. you can read portions of the letter and the rest of the story at politico.com. >> u.s. trade representative robert light kaiser on the trump administration trade policy agenda including renegotiating nafta, opening markets for u.s. exports, and lowering the nations trade deficit. he testified yesterday before the house ways and means committee. >> the committee will come to order. good morning. today our committee is honored to

. >> trish: breaking right now, a big change coming for sean spicer's job at the white house. john roberts has the breaking news for you. hey, john. >> good afternoon. this is something that's been in the works for quite a while, a number of weeks, really since the time that james comey was fired and the president believes his communication guy fell down on the job. the president was considering this over the course of his recent foreign trip to saudi arabia, israel and italy. looks like it's really well in the works. that is that sean spicer will that to a new position. they don't know what to call it yet. it will be at the level of a deputy chief of staff and will oversee the communications and the press office. this as the president believes as sean spicer and reince priebus plays to sean spicer's strength. when he was on the capitol hill, he was on the behind-the-scenes player working on strategy instead of ducking the arrows of the media as they question him. so he will move in the near future to a full time behind-the-scenes role even though the president would like to see hi

unnecessarily recusing himself from the russia inquiry but monday morning quarterbacking other decio john spicer refusing to confidence in sessions. >> i have not had a discussion with him about that. >> reporter: there are multimillion reports jeff sessions offered to resign after this relationship with the president grew increasingly tense. "the new york times" reports sessions told the president he needed freedom to do his job. department of jusces refusing to comment. >> peter alexander at the white house. peter, thank you. >> let's bring in chuck todd. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we have another report of trump allegedly saying to an official in the government in this case the director of national intelligence lay off the russia investigation. something that they -- that the director doesn't acknowledge happened. he said he never felt pressured to do that. what does itted a up to when you add in the pressure and the tension with the attorney general? consumed the president on every level. the report about the director of national intelligence was more than just -- he wanted him

in an e-mail to members of the association, mason said he met with white house press secretary john spicer and deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders to discuss the issue of the briefings. the white house said increasingly change the daily briefing, either not having them on certain days, making them short or hosting off-camera briefings. sometimes even not allowing the use of audio from the briefings. you can read portions of the letter and the rest of the story at politico.com. >> u.s. trade representative robert light kaiser on the trump administration trade policy agenda including renegotiating nafta, opening markets for u.s. exports, and lowering the nations trade deficit. he testified yesterday before the house ways and means committee. >> the committee will come to order. good morning. today our committee is honored to welcome robert. he is discussing the trade agenda. thank you for joining us. we look forward to your testimony. as a former deputy under president reagan, the trade negotiator, you understand the u.s. leadership and participation in a rules -based trading syste

the role of the white house press secretary will be changing soon, according to john roberts. mr. spicer would be getting a promotion overseeing all white house medications. eric, we we had governor huckae on our program last week and you asked about the likelihood of sarah huckabee. >> eric: she has been doing a great job. they moved sean a little bit away from the day-to-day press news. is this such a -- it's such a hot seat. is this something you want? >> kat: i would not want that job. it's a very, very hard job. not just because of president trump but the media, it's a hostile relationship. >> eboni: onto global news, fox news reports that otto warmbier has died. the family issued a statement. here is a portion. "surrounded by his loving family, otto died today at 2:20 p.m. it would be easy at a moment like this to focus on all that we lost -- future time that won't be spent with a warm, engaging, brilliant young man whose curiosity and enthusiasm for life knew no bounds. but we choose to focus on the time we were given to be with this remarkable person." statement from his parents.

john, hang on. let's move on and talk about what's happening with the white house. white house press secretary sean spicer will not say if president trump believes russia interfered in the 2016 election. cnn's joe johns is live at the white house with more. joe johns, how have they never spoken about this? >> reporter: pretty hard to believe, brooke. press secretary sean spicer in front of the cameras for the first tienl in more than a week. he certainly left big questions unanswered, including one seemingly settled question about the role of russia in the last election, a question that could come up on capitol hill as early as today in a hearing featuring the former homeland security secretary. as far as this administration goes, five months in now, sean spicer can't or won't say where the president stands. white house press secretary sean spicer refusing to say whether president trump believes russia interfered in the 2016 election. >> i think -- i have not sat down and talked to him about that specific thing. >> reporter: dismissing the unified assessment of the nation's intelligence community. >> it's

yeah, we have seen that from time to time, even again this morning after that comment from sean spicer. joe johns at the white house, thanks so much. we have major developments on capitol hill. the house intelligence committee has issued subpoenas to michael flynn and michael cohen has part of its probe into the russian election meddling. >> of these seven subpoenas that have been issued so far, three have come directly from the man you see on your screen. that is devin nunes and those three subpoenas are seeking information about unmasking requests by the obama administration. now, nunes supposedly stepped totally aside from all things russia investigations. on capitol hill with more. so if he stepped aside from all things russia, how is he justifying issuing these subpoenas? >> well, he is simply saying, as he has said before, this is a temporary thing that he temporarily stepped aside. that he did not officially recuse himself. that is not something that's going very well over with democrats. but as you had mentioned before, what we are seeing here is a committee that cannot even agree on what

it was heated with john acosta really pressing sean spicer on why there are no cameras, at one point other reporters jumped in as well. >> i thiet be dhate to be a deb but we're not getting many answers to the questions ne. they are saying the words probably, and that others could be involved. the answers are not as full and complete as we might have liked. kristin welker, thank you very much. >>> more on the president's acknowledge about about russia and the election, after the break. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, it helps pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you in out-of-

. >> juan: sean spicer said that that, john kelly over at the department of homeland security said oh, no, the president isn't talking about a ban. >> jesse: the president's words against him on this. then ruth bader ginsburg, she was scared of she was going to be president. she would move to new zealand. >> juan: you can say that about anybody. hold on, hold on, give me a shot here. what should we have said about antonin scalia? it's a public act. >> jesse: >> greg: juan, respons this. whether or not ginsburg should have to recuse herself -- >> if she were a federal trial judge and had said about the president what she did, she would be compelled by a higher court not to sit on a case in which the president was personally involved. if she sits in the case and her animus towards him as a person and human being is manifest in the questioning or the decision of the case and will damage the representative representation of the court. >> juan: by justice scalia that favored a conservative point of view -- nobody thought that. you asked me, what is the analogous situation and i'm telling y

. >> juan: sean spicer said. that, johnelly over at the department of homeland security said oh, no, the president isn't talking about a ban. he says it's a band. i don't know how you argue with that. >> jesse: you're using the president's words against him on this. then ruth bader ginsburg, she was scared if he was going to be president. she would move to new zealand. he has such a big ego. >> juan: you can say that about anybody. hold on, hold on, give me a shot here. what should we have said about antonin scalia? golfing with dick cheney? it's a public act. >> greg: juan, respond to this. whether or not ginsburg should have to recuse herself -- this is judge napolitano talking about whether she should have to recuse herself. roll it. >> if she were a federal trial judge and had said about thea president what she did, she would be compelled by a higher court not to sit on a case in which the president was personally involved. if she sits in the case and herd animus towards him as a person and human being is manifest in th

according to fox news's john roberts, the white house is indicating spicer is getting a promotion to on the same left as deputy chief of staff. as soon as we get more on this, we will let you know. >>> the dow at session highs right now. actually we were up a little bit higher earlier, up 135 right now investors are looking to beat the market. how are they doing that, nicole. >> people say there this is a good time to buy. they're updating the list. market volatility being low as you noted. chief equity strategist is dumping out of the tech giants such as facebook auto zone, discover, hp, intel, to maximize returns on this group. this group has low volatility but higher potential for rewards and returns. this is the element. all of the names today, liz, with up arrows. liz: we'll take it, nicole. big moves. about to see records for the dow and s&p. the secular bull market is currently in its ninth year. some investors are nervous. they think the bull run is getting long in the tooth and gray around the temples. the ceo of is saying the bull run has 16 more years? >> secular markets c

. >> harris: already, john roberts, thank you very much. sean spicer is also anticipating to talk about the arrest of a suspected government leader. she is a 25-year-old named reality winner. she's intelligent correspondence, katherine harris does not live from washington. catherine, who is this woman? >> will thank you. quite an effort the 25-year-old works in augustine georgia, and removed the holocaust fight is a document about hacking given it to reporters. physical review led directly to reality winner. six individuals printed this recording forward documented. "america's news reality winner e individuals. reality winner had email contact with the news outlet. practice today, the chairman of the house oversight committee said that reality winner had concerns, there were better options. >> if you want to be a quote unquote with whistleblower. you can approach congress or go to a committee at the oversight committee. that's the appropriate way to do it. to have legal rights you can protect yourself, but to connect you unilaterally as 25-year-old tha

to john's point. sean spicer it's so hard to fill a position like communications director at the white house. sean has an impossible task. he is asked to defend things that the president then goes on twitter or goes into interviews and basically undermines. and in response, and sean spicer's whole dream was to meet the pope and he publicly was snubbed and wasn't able to meet the pope. he takes the slings and arrows and the thing he would be rewarded for is not there. >> one more point to make. this is not just about the president's personality foibles. the personnel operation at the white house is clearly not munni running as maximum capacity. if it were they would be able to fill the jobs that can make careers in many cases. the fact that they haven't been able to put good people in says a lot about the operation that runs personnel. >> thank you for joining. we are just getting started here on "the point." >>> in the next hour. trump's tactic in london and why he is catching treat in the london mayor. and a pre

. >>> sean spicer and john pruitt. >> i'm going to try keep this relatively short on his hand. >> well's good to be with you this afternoon. and i wanted to first begin by saying that the president made a very courageous decision yesterday. on behalf of america. he put america's interests first with respect to environmental agreements and international discussions. i appreciate his fortitude. i really appreciate his leadership in this matter. the decision over the last several weeks has been one of a thoughtful deliberation, he heard many voices. voices across a wide spectrum of advantage points, and the president made a very informed, and i think thoughtful and important decision for rt country's benefit. what we have to remember when it comes to environmental agreements and international agreements with respect to things like the paris agreement is we have nothing to be apologetic about as a country. we have reduced our co 2 footprint to levels of the early 1990s, in fact from 2000 to 2014 we reduced to up over 18%. and that's been largely accomplished through innovation and technolo

joe johns live at the white house. sean spicer saying, i haven't had a conversation with the president about his confidence in jeff sessions. a nonanswer that volumes. >> reporter: that's right. we're hoping to hear more today about the president's views on the attorney general. it paints a picture of a president who is furious after losing control of the russia investigation, and it happened after one of his most fervent political supporters has hand picked attorney general removed himself from all things related to russia, setting off a chain reaction that led to the appointment of special counsel. amid a series of heated exchanges in recent weeks again president trump and attorney general jeff sessions, sources tell cnn that jeff sessions threatened to resign if the president no longer wanted him in the position. >> how would you describe the president's level of confidence in jeff sessions. >> sean spicer declining to answer. >> i have not had a discussion with him about that. i'm answering a question, which is i have not had

john ossoff has 48.1%. white house press secretary sean spicer briefed reporters on camera tuesday something he hasn't donen. but there are still some questions spicer just won't answer. cnn jeff zeleny reports. >> reporter: the white house was hoping to change the subject today from the lingering cloud of the russia investigation. >> good afternoon. >> but during his first tfzed briefing in eight days sean spicer didn't help with this. >> just very plainly a yes or no answer. does president trump believe that the russian government interfered in the 2016 elections? >> i think i have not sat down and talked to him about that specific thing obviously we've been dealing with a lot of other issues i'd be glad to touch base. >> spieser gave the same answer later. >> i have not asked about a specific reaction to him i'd be glad to touch base. >> keeping them honest the u.s. intelligence community says russia did interfere with the election. and the president's reluctance to acknowledge it has confounded his allies and armed critics. it's helped fuel the investigation on capitol hill and by a special counsel. me

he appeared to predict john podesta would be targeted weeks before wick pkileaks posted his hacked any collusion with russia. >>> sean spicer says if mr. assad conduct the another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price. nikki haley says that was meant for a wider audience. >> the goal at this point is not just to send assad a message but to send russia and iran a message, that if this happens again, we are putting you on notice. >> a new video shows basheer al-assad climbing into a cockpit of a plane. a russian official calls the white house's statement a provocation. >>> dozens are recovering from injuries after a subway train went offer the tracks toward the end of the morning rush hour in upper manhattan. in the dark tunnels with smoke from a fire that was ignited by sparks from the derailment. the transit authority says the cause appears to be an extra piece of rail on the tracks. >> the train bucked forward, bucked backward, and in the process of doing that, two of the cars derailed. they scraped the side of the wall. >> the derailment not only damaged the cars but the tra

politico reporting that spicer and priebus had discussions with laura ingram. john, dry creek, west virginia. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a couple of -- i was a coal miner. i was retired coal miner. during my coal mining years, i realized that it has ups and downs. when it's up it's great. when it's down, it's bad. i got my teaching degree while i was working. when i -- when they shut down, i started teaching high school and when went high school shut down, i taught grade school. my problem is, are colleges, we know our education system is down. our colleges, for the most part, for teacher, their teaching and want to teach if we paid attention in high school. they're not teaching them how to teach. i feel like when we need more training in our young teachers just coming out of college. maybe instead of one semester student teaching, maybe pay them partial pay and let them stay a full year with an experienced teacher. another problem with that is, every three or four years, most states, i live in west virginia, we changed our way of testing

lauren: nine minutes ago sean spicer wrapped up the daily press briefing, and john roberts asked him a question, donald trump is tweeting and tweeting and tweeting, ed rollins. is he tweeting to put pressure on the mainstream media who he says opportunity interpret what he is doing correctly? is he hurting himself? >> i've been around a long time, worked for four presidents in a couple white houses. i can't predict what this president's going to do. the first rule you always said with a candidate -- or an incumbent, don't think out loud. this president has a tendency to do that. you know what he's thinking every morning at 5:30 in the morning. lauren. or at night. >> the critical thing is it does step in the way of selling your package. we'd much rather deal with the mainstream media, they'd much rather deal with the tweets. the key thing is he's got get some stuff gng pretty quickly here. he's got the republicans over there today, so he should have a better feel of what can get done and get it done. lauren: rich, do you think that the tweets put pressure on lawmakers and appeal to h

spicer: i think he's going to testify. we are aware of it. john. reporter: just to follow on that the president seemed to indicate he thought it was a mistake for jeff sessions to recuse himself from the russia investigation. he said it would be to the contrary on camera. what does the president think of the fact that sessions will be testifying tomorrow? and according to the department of justice wanted to testify in an open session rather than closed classified session? mr. spicer: i think the president was clear last week in the rose garden he believes the sooner we can get this addressed and dealt with, that there's been no collusion, he wants this to get investigated as soon as possible and be done it so we can continue with the business of the american people. reporter: if i could ask you about the other headline. the state of maryland, the district of columbia filing a lawsuit against the president seeking rulings on two points in the emoluments clause in the constitution. the r.n.c. thinks this is bogus lawsuit. what does the president, wha

. >> sandra: sean spicer wrapping up an off-camera briefing just a short time ago. chief white house correspondent john john, is a white house ain't anything about the response claiming that the president is under investigation? >> if they are not, and one of the reasons it is. there are two reasons really. one, sean spicer was not asked about it today, but the reason he was not asked, it was because if anyone asked a question about it or jay sekulow are the russian investigation, sean spicer would've directed those people to talk to the president outside legal team, because the white house is washing its hands of this and relying on statements coming from legal operations. don't forget, jay sekulow who is the person who goes out there and as a spokesperson for the legal team did four television shows on sunday morning in a couple morning show today. he is saying that to the best of their nouns, the president is not under investigation, and not only do they not believe he is under investigation, they don't believe he did anything wrong. the president was acting partially and firing james comey under th

secretary sean spicer will not say if president trump believes that russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election saying he hasn't talked to him about it yet. how's that possible? joe johns live at the white house with more. joe, how is that possible? >> reporter: anybody's guess, quite frankly, brooke. sean spicer, well, he was back in front of the cameras for the first time in eight days but lacking on some of the answers, including to one subtle question about russia's involvement and interference in the last election. sean spicer now five months into this administration still can't say where the president stands. white house press secretary sean spicer refusing to say whether president trump believes russia interfered in the 2016 election. >> i think i have not sat down and talked to him about it specifically. >> reporter: dismissing the unified assessment of the nation's intelligence community. >> it's very disturbing because this was a serious attack on our democracy and at the top of the united states government there ought to be a level of concern. >> reporter: spicer's refusal to answer this basic question adding to the mounting credibility issues facing the pre

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sean spicer doesn't give straight answers often when asked about the president's beliefs on controversial issues, specifically russia's interference and hacking in the 2016 election. cnn's joe johns live at the white house with more. we haven't talked about it, is now a magical phrase. >> reporter: that's for sure, chris. sean spicer back in front of the cameras just yesterday, but leaving a lot of questions unanswered including a seemingly subtle question about the role of russia in the last election, the type of subject matter likely to come up on capitol hill in a hearing today featuring last homeland security jeh johnson. five months in now the president's spokesman can't or won't say where the president stands. white house press secretary sean spicer refusing to say whether president trump believes russia interfered in the 2016 election. >> i think -- i have not sat down and talked to him about that specific thing. >> reporter: dismissing the unified assessment of the nation's intelligence community. >> it's very disturbing because this was a serious attack on our democracy, and at the top of the united states government, there ought to be a level of concern. >> reporter: sp

john roberts has the latest. good evening. >> fox news has learned in recent hours that sean spicer, press secretary, will be getting a new position at the white house pray he will be promoted to be the equivalent of the deputy chief of staff for white house to medications. it's a reflection of the torn attic flow of information here, and his new role, spicer will oversee the press office and communications shop and the new press secretary and new director of communications will report to him. no word on who will replace ms press secretary but the president is said to be very fond of sarah huckabee sanders and likes her performance behind the podium. they go somewhere else for the press secretary. one area that will remain outside sean spicer's jurisdiction is the russian investigation. that will remain the purview of the president's outside counsel. >> meeting with panama's president today, president trump ignored shouted questions about the russian investigation. >> are you under investigation? >> the public face of the legal team, jay sekulow was saying plenty. declaring the president is not under investigation and that he did

spicer, was asked if the president still has confidence in the deputy attorney general. the president said he has confidence in everybody that serves in his administration, as you heard john roberts say. and josh gerstein. clearly jay sekulow was sent out to do this. they had the narrative. why would that do this? >> it's a little baffling, shep. seems like the president's directive himself to simply have people out there, particularly on cable tv, which we know the president consumes a lot of, putting up a good fight for him and insisting their talking points are that he's not under investigation and he will slam them home as far as they can. even though how the white house would know what the contours of bob mueller's relatively new investigation is or are in this context is pretty hard to understand. >> it doesn't really matter from an investigative standpoint, be it criminal or congressional. would matter in politics and then to the base that you already have, right? >> right. and that goes to the collusion issue that you mentioned earlier. might possibly be the case that in the end, there's no evidence of collusion, even some democrats have said they don't think any

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john thing, thanks. i want to bring in the panel. david, as much as sean spicerwas basically down playing the importance of this, there's no doubt the white house is watching this closely. >> very closely. just look at the president's twitter feed over the last couple of days. he's clearly been focused on this race. if karen handel wins, i'm sure he'll take credit. he did some fund-raising for her, out there on his twitter machine supporting her. but sean spicer may be trying to down play, anderson, but honestly, the republicans hold this district, i think it's a very big boost for not just the president, but for mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. this will calm the waters to push on with health care and tax reform, the president's agenda. >> gloria, the flip side, if the democrat wins, it's a big loss for republicans, at least they'll spin it as that. >> of course. this is a district there shou shouldn't be a race in. since the carter years, it's been republican. and the impact would be for democrats that they would really be able to recruit candidates more easily,

melissa: breaking news, fox news just learning that sean spicer's role at the white house is about to change. let's go to john roberts in the briefing room with the details. john. >> good afternoon to you, melissa. this is in the works a long time. this started in ernest after james comey was fired by the president and president was unhappy with the message, communations shop,hey weren't given of time to be fair with them. talking with theresint out on the foreign trip. resulted in resignation of mike duffy who was his communications director. what they're basically doing is changing the entire structure of the communications shop here at white house. what you have got, a communications director and that job really is now because mike dubke's departure over seen by sean spicer. you have the press secretary's department. both of them had a flow chart from that. what they're looking to doing now, taking sean spicer in overseeing position he will be in charge of all white house communications. likely not retain the title of white house press secretary. that will go to someone else. but he will be probably more d

being able to turn the page on the russia story, as john says, this is something where they're choosing not to answer a lot of these questions. sean spicer continues to say, i haven't talked to the president about whether or not he actually believes in climate change, but i will. well, week after week, he still hasn't talked to him, right? it's not that long a path from his office back to the oval, and yet somehow he can't come up with the answer. they can't say whether there's a taping system in the oval office. you'd think that's something that sean spicer, who has a blue pass and works in the west wing, could figure out. so they're choosing not to be forthcoming with us and with the american people on a lot of topics. you can read into that what you will. it is difficult to be the messenger, the spokesperson for someone who is so unpredictable, changes their mind, gets himself into trouble and says things sometimes that are not necessarily defensible. i think that brings us around to why they're having such a hard time finding somebody else who is willing to stand up at that podium. they have looked to the ranks of cable news for peop

as john says this is something they can't even -- they're choosing not to answer a lot of the questions. sean spicer continues to say i haven't talked to the president about whether or not he actually believes in climate change. but i will. well week after week he hasn't talked to him. it's not that long a path from his office back to the oval. yet somehow he can't come up with the answer. they can't say whether there is a taping system you'd think that's something sthaen spicer works in the west woing could figure out they're choosing not to be forthcoming with us and the american people on a lot of topics. you can read into it what you will. it is difficult to be the messenger, the spokesperson person for someone so unpredictable changes mind gets himself into troublen a says things that are not defensible. i think that brings us around to why they are having such a hard time finding somebody else willing to stand up at that podium. they have loongd to the ranks of cable news for people. not been able to find someone there. they have talked to people who covered the campaign. they have talked to s