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. >>> josh ernest spoke to reporters today about trade promotion authority and the president's strategy against isis and cuba. he was also asked about legal challenges to the health care law. this briefing is an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. nice to see you all. don't have any announcements at the top, right to your questions. >> the president is doing this round of local interviews today. it looks like the areas where the interview ss -- i'm wondering if the point of the interviews is to give cover and support to these democrats who are already with him? >> that's a keen political observation. it's true in some instances but not in all of them. some of these are places where there are members of congress who have not yet publicly committed to supporting trade legislation. more broadly, the goal of these interviews is to make the case in these communities that passing the most progressive trade promotion authority that the senate has ever passed would expand significantly economic opportunity for middle class families, not just in those communitieses, but also all across the countr

. >> reporter: yesterday josh ernest said they're working on. >> it's a daunting challenge and it doesrequire the federal government to be nimble, something that's difficult when you're talking about an organization that's this large. >> some cia personnel information is stored at opm, but sources say covert operatives information is protected. investigators acknowledge that it will take time to determine the full extent of the attacks damage. for "cbs this morning: saturday," jeff pegues washington. >>> today is a big day for supporters of hillary clinton's 2016 bid for democratic nomination, and for clinton herself it's even big e sheechl speak today at a campaign kickoff rally here in new york city. nancy cordes is at the campaign sight on roosevelt island. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is where we're going to hear her fully articulate why she's running for president it's true we've heard a lot from her over the last couple of months but typically that was in more simple roundtable settings a ramp-up phase where clinton did as much listening as she did talking. today

. >> you don't see josh ernest just bubbling over with enthusiasm and delight.s is the administration's idea of accountability to reassign officials to another department or job after they screw up where they can screw up in a brand new role and place. it's just about impossible to get fired in this administration. the obama administration's lack of accountability is pervasive in operation fast and furious. not a single person fired over the gun-running operation that led to the death of border patrol agent brian terry and 200 mexican citizens. the head of the atf was reassigned. following the 2012 benghazi attack four state department employees responsible for security were placed on administrative leave. by the way, that did not include the secretary of state at the time one hillary clinton. they were not fired. they were reassigned. the irs targeting scandal, one employee was reassigned while lois lerner was allowed to retire receiving her full government pension and avoiding the consequences all together of criminal contempt charges thanks to attorney genera

. >> later on monday the white house press secretary josh ernest was asked if the president regrets using the word and ernest made it clear that he does. >> he does not. >> okay, maybe i heard that wrong. i will go to you first. >> yes. >> because i hold the record for most uses of the n-word in a cable news segment. i hold that record, me personally. >> i would love to break it. >> good google that. i implore you. >> well, the president has used it now, so maybe does that mean we can all use it? rob long please use the n-word. i will not say one damn thing until camille talks. >> say any word that starts with n please. >> no. >> control room, can you bleep everything after n? >> is it shocking -- the only thing shocking is the politician is speaking honestly. what a bunch of dopes we are. >> because we are a nation of fourth graders. you use a dirty word in context in a completely innocuous way and suddenly that is news. the other 59 minutes of content in that pod cast which was admittedly pretty forgettable is completely ignored. >> it reminds me of a few months ago when we had the draw

here's josh ernest speaking about it earlier. >> i'm confident that secretary kerry will continue toe an important part of this effort, whether he's going to spend every day of the next four weeks in europe phosphates to face with his counterpart, it seems like he'll be able to do that. but i'm confident in whatever capacity he's able to part that secretary will be able to play a critically important role in that effort. david: melissa, over to you. sandra: trying to raise as much money as her gop rival. here is scott brown, former massachusetts and fox business contributor, along with fox news analyst senator. i want to start with you. because any time we hear the clintons crying, i'm deeply suspicious of this story. do you believe this. >> no. i don't believe it right now as we know she's the front runner. she's got two -- bernie sanders is running, he doesn't know if he's an independent, a democratic, or a republican, but he votes with the democrats 99% of the time. you have o'malley who is running as well. no competition. she's going to get all the money she takes. the numbers ar

we'll put this up on screen from josh ernest. we call on the senate to ensure this irresponsible lapse in authorities is as short-lived as possible on a matter as critical as our national security individual senators must put aside their partisan motivations and act krift swiftly. >> that is the bulk phone data collection roving taps for terrorism suspects who may change cell phones a lot and lone wolf provision, that is basically about these lone wolves that may be out there that are not connected to terrorism investigation, but they want to keep track of them anyway t. white house warned all last week there was no plan b if fleems were to expire the counterterrorism officials explain investigators may have work-arounds to continue pursuing these suspects an investigation that had begun before a lapse on these programs. cases that are potentially opened today could be affected guys. that's the danger. >> jim, thanks so much for all that background. we want to talk both the political and the national security aspect of this move

whether or not he needed to say the war out loud but white house press secretary, there he is, josh ernest said president obama was not trying to be provocative but having a casualty conversation and making an important point. more on that in just a bit. >>> meanwhile president obama will go to south carolina he will give eulogy at reverend pinckney's funeral on friday. he was pastor of emmanuel ame church where nine people were shot and killed inside that church. governor of the south carolina nicki haley joined the confederate flag debate and called for the piece of history to be remove to the ground from the state capitol. calls come in the wake of of course last week deadly shooting. police say 21 year-old dylann roof opened fire during a bible study killing nine people. >> fifteen years ago after much contentious debate south carolina came together in the bipartisan way to move the flag from atop the capitol dome. today, we are here in a moment of unity in our state without ill will to say it is time to move the frag from the capitol grounds. >> it is not just lawmakers taking a stand

. >> you don't see josh ernest just bubbling over with enthusiasm and delight. this is the administration's idea of accountability to reassign officials to another department or job after they screw up where they can screw up in a brand new role and place. it's just about impossible to get fired in this administration. the obama administration's lack of accountability is pervasive in operation fast and furious. not a single person fired over the gun-running operation that led to the death of border patrol agent brian terry and 200 mexican citizens. the head of the atf was reassigned. following the 2012 benghazi attack four state department employees responsible for security were placed on administrative leave. by the way, that did not include the secretary of state at the time, one hillary clinton. they were not fired. they were reassigned. the irs targeting scandal, one employee was reassigned while lois lerner was allowed to retire, receiving her full government pension and avoiding the consequences all together of criminal contempt charges thanks to attorney

josh ernest was in the middle of answering a question in the middle of the briefing when shortly after 2:00 p.m. a secret service officer interrupted him shouting all press come with me please everyone then was rushed out of the room we now know it was a bomb threat called in over the phone, that prompted officers to tell journalists to high tail it out of the briefing room. that was the second major threat targeting washington, d.c., just today. congressman, staffers reporters alike, rushed out of a hearing earlier today. police clearing the third floor of the dirkson senate office building. let's get to michelle kosinski. correspondents rushed out, the cameras were covered, but then one big question it doesn't appear that president obama in the west wing just feet away from the briefing room was moved. >> right, there are a lot of questions still here. many were referred to the press secretary he referred them to the secret service. we know the president was in the complex somewhere, we don't know exactly where. but we know he was not moved. he was just left alone. the press secretar

. >> josh ernest tried to answer for him in the form of mr.ave heartfelt speech at a jewish synagogue in washington where he expressed the kind of common bond and common values embodied in his administration that are advocated by the jewish community. wasn't that the white house advance and? >> what does that mean is specifically? no one else would say that because he would be pilloried. >> not even that, it goes back to the president's arrogance that he can give a speech like he did to the muslim world and keel with his words. i gave a speech, wasn't my speech good enough? >> i am always flabbergasted when famous people make all about themselves. give me a break. the second thing i find fascinating about this is where the information came from. i know david axelrod has a book out. maybe they have a pact where i can say what i need to say to sell book but this was really behind-the-scenes, almost -- next to me of something they might not have agreed upon. out of context this does not make the president look smart. this does not make the presid

this puts an unnecessary risk to the american people and to the united states itself and spokesman josh ernest said essentially that some are trying to use this issue for political advantage. >> it's ironic to say the least that senator paul, blocked a piece of legislation that would have actually solved the problem that he was talking about. so, that may have been an effective campaign tactic, but it certainly wasn't in the best interests of the country. >> a preliminary vote last night in the senate was 77-17. that suggests there are plenty of votes to eventually pass this house compromise type bill. bottom line is not clear how long there will be a stoppage of of these programs. >> let's turn to michael singh now, former senior director of middle east affairs and national security council, now the manager director of the washington institute for near east policy which calls itself a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank. they can still do this stuff under a weird lieu from the president bush days. >> people shouldn't panic. this is likely to be brief. there are work, arounds that officials can

. >> reporter: white house press secretary josh ernest says the president has long advocated for flag's removal. >> he had shared his view that the confederate flag should be taken down, and place in the museum where it belongs. >> reporter: ernest says president is focused on how to avoid mass shootings like this in the future that could include another push for tighter gun control laws. >> there are common sense steps that can be taken that don't under mine critically important second amendment rights but would make our country safer. >> reporter: some republicans are accusing the president of taking rang of the tragedy. they claim act of evil will always take place regardless of the law. >> looking for the right legislative solution to make sure that it doesn't happen again, i think when there is that much evil in the heart it is hard to think of the right legislative solution for that problem. >> reporter: authorities say the a accused killer dylann roof said he wanted to start a new civil war. he is due back in court in october. in washington rich edson, "fox news". >>> some presid

. >> press secretary josh ernest says the president is focusing on how to avoid mass shooting in the future and that could include a new push for tighter gun control laws. >>> so california has had no rain for basically four years and new this wild fire season, it is off to a rough start in california w crews bat tolling put out fires all across the state at this point. >> one of the wild fires burning thousands of acres near popular resort area of lake tahoe as officials warn try conditions from historic drought will lead to more large fires this summer. here's kelly wright. >> reporter: crewness california are trying to get a handle on several wild fire burning across the state right now. just south of the lake tahoe the so-called washington fire has already burned nearly 10,000 acres of testimony ber and grass. >> still feel mother nature and power of fire and how devastating it can be. >> reporter: fire spark last week by lightening has forced some people visiting the popular resort area to leave but others are not taking a wait and see attitude. >> there is plenty of trees here.

josh ernest didn't hear comments from the iraqi leader. he will read them to you right now.nk this is failure on the part of the world, talking about the spreading of isis and the failure to stop that spread. there is a lot of talk about support for iraq. there is very little on the ground. are we helping or not? >> well, i don't think the united states or its allies are doing enough to stop isis but i do think, and maybe the prime minister didn't really intend this, i do think the united states withdrawal of all of its forces in 2011 and its toleration of the maliki, in fact its encouraging of the maliki government if 2010 is a a major factor in the collapse of trust with the kurds and sunni arabs and in the sunni territory led to the success of isis we've seen. i think iraq has ceased to exist as a state. i wouldn't do anything myself to help the baghdad government which i think functionally a satellite of the ayatollahs in iran but the prime minister is right in one thing. isis continues to expand. it has momentum. it is consolidating its control over what used to be iraq

. >> i mean is he ignoring history, when josh ernest comes out today and says the president's been a big supporter. >> a couple weeks ago he playsed police officers for the work they do. we need to work on breaking down poverty, and the issues that get us to more crimes. the president has to walk a very fine line between uplifting the cops and talking about what the department of justice is finding in cities across the country. >> has the department of justice ever gone into a police department and found they didn't have a pattern of discrimination under this president? has it ever once happened that they said you're good? we know what's happening here? >> they never will. there's always going to be a but after it. you're never going to hear barack obama talk about the many acts of congress every day. >> he does talk about that. >> he -- >> the question is whether it's only couched or too often couched with criticism. >> you didn't let me finish. that's right, you didn't let me finish. he never says that this is what these guys do day in and day out, without the butt. that's the prob

white house press secretary josh ernest explained, the president is continuing to involve himself inof the house of representatives, making the case why they should support this bill. the president trying to get the bill done. republicans have been a big part of the issues the last few years, seven years into his presidency he has so little leverage even with the members of his own party, this should be a wakeup call to whoever our next president is. if you want to get anything done, have you to work with congress. it isn't easy like anything in life, the key is developing relationships, trust and not demonize the other side. it's a long term game, but in the end that's what it takes to be effective. that's what this country is aching for. that does it for "the cycle." "now with alex wagner" starts right now. >>> there's a major development in the search for two convicts who broke out of jail. >>> and emotional testimony in the trial of james holmes. >>> mitt romney is hosting the 2016 republican field. jeb bush's time as governor is coming back to haunt him, even while he's in polan

. >> earlier today, i spoke with white house press secretary, josh ernest and asked him about the president's reaction when he first heard about the supreme court decision. >> well, chris, this morning the president was receiving the presidential daily briefing in the oval office at 10:00 a.m. and shortly after the top of the hour, a handful of the president's aides, including the president's lawyer, came in the room and informed him that the supreme court had announced their decision on king v. burwell and that they had ruled in the favor of the united states government 6-3. and so, the president was very pleased to learn of the decision. >> now, i know that the official position of the president and the white house is, the supreme court never should have taken the case and we were confident that we would -- that the correct decision would be reached. but you guys had to be sweating it. there had to have been meetings happening about what you were going to do, day one, if the subsidies were struck down. i mean, there must have been a certain amount of stress and actual labor being done to pr

the vote means for president obama and his legacy, we're joined by white house press secretary josh ernest there a deal to be made here on highways infrastructure jobs, something that whets the appetite of the democrats to go for something the president wants, a trade bill? >> well listen chris, i actually think this is a president good day for the president. the reason for that is we got a piece of business done that a lot of people were pretty skeptical about. there was a sense all across this town that democrats and republicans could never successfully work with the president so pass trade promotion authority legislation. yet that's exactly what happened in the house of representatives today. there was a lot of skepticism about how many democrats we could convince to support trade promotion authority. the white house will be lucky to get 15 17 18 democrats to vote for it. we got 28 to vote for it. from that standpoint we overperformed. now it's also true that we haven't gotten everything we wanted yet. what we're going to spend time doing is making the case to democrats that this is the

it's going to be interesting going forward how they respond to this because we heard poor josh ernestg to find a way to work the se manmantics to their favor. there is no strategy as of yet. at least not a definitive one. >> over the start of the century there was a great fear that we'd have repeat of an iraq disaster. there's a big difference this time. this is played out slowly. everyone is fully aware of the threats involved and perhaps most crucially the iraqi government welcomes more involvement. are are we slowly heading toward military deployment? >> the iraqi government welcomes a lot of things. u.s. assistance and help from teheran as well. the biggest grumble is look how quickly the americans came in and were able to do shock and awe in a few days and take baghdad and here we are almost a year later and these air strikes are not as effective as they promised they would be. we're only just now seeing the weapons we needed. we don't need more advisors. you have a conflicting narrative and for the obama administration in particular when we talk about who is conducting these air

right now press secretary josh ernest is briefing from the podium.e said the white house is not willing to say it was chaina. they reached out to the foreign ministry can here and here's what the spokes said. stiber attack is hard to trace back. i just got off the phone with the former head of cyber for the fbi in new york. the deeper you dig, the more muck you find. if there was a vulnerability known to one group of hackers and one nation stayed or service, it may have been known and exploited by others. there might be more than one country involved according to austin. he served decades as a special forces officer. he heads up defensive homeland security work as the heritage foundation. good to have you with us. how concerned should we be about this? the penetration forred at management that has all the records of employees. that bothers people like me because i'm a former government employees, but it is possible they are in the other databases in the government or private sector. >> i want to jump in as well. we are not sure whether or not it is c

. >> you mention josh ernest, i think you were referring to this: >> there are rules of engagement thathed for the strikes and we are cautious of making sure no civilian cashualties. reported that an attack carried out resulted in the death of innocent people in syria and we are working hard to minimize that. >> he is saying those are the rules they setup. if you want to win this war, you have to have people in place that can make your fighters affective and we don't have that. so if we don't have that and accept that what does that say about the content? >> it is phony. obama is trying to look like he is doing something serious. if you don't have the -- an air campaign alone is not going to destroy the launch no matter how violent we wage. without eyes on the ground, skilled personal calling airstrikes, will continue to have the planes going back to base without doing their job. >> you are arguing the united states is not at war with isis but isis is clearly at war with us. >> that sums it up very well. we are not taking this threat seriously. again i don't want civilian deaths. but if

could be china which then issued a statement "see this is not be assessed up to " cut skeptical and josh ernestpecifically blame china and friday's press briefing. >> reporter: recitation is continuing and artist did say cedras security bases but in all the threat. "computer systems special government are risk is not news we understand there is a persistent risk out there and arrest by the way that is shared" federal >> reporter: workers worry about their information get new crop reports and check their financial statements as government works to find out who knows more about those workers than they should. >> reporter: will please say at a and 10 militants charged with trying to kill and active as actually acquitted of the crime months ago of. initial reports say that all the men convicted sentence letter present and stunning announcement made public yesterday by deputy police chief impact pakistan the rest of asia given to why this information was not released sooner why authorities failed to correct the facts that police say there was enough evidence to convict all the men at the closed-door

white house press secretary josh ernest said yesterday the president does not regret using the "n" wordident's use of the word and the reason he used the word could not be more apparent from the context of his discussion on podcast. the president made clear that it's not possible to judge race issues based solely on an evaluation of our country's manners. i woulding a only in the way that the president designed his argument in this scenario is more provocative and i don't think there is anybody here that's surprised that this is something that's getting a little bit more attention. >> so you saw the interview the president did where he used the "n" word. is it possible he didn't think about it? he must have thought about it before he used it correct? >> i think there is no way. no other way. >> no way. so why do you think he did it? >> i think he was making a dramatic point. >> what's the point? >> the point is that the use of that word is not the measure of racial progress. >> that is not the accurate measure. so we can pat ourselves on the back to say, oh less people are using that wo

as josh ernest said in that clip you just played the president and secretary very very clear that iftom lines met here, if there is not a final agreement that lines up with the parameters we agreed to in april, we will fought get a deal. it meets the bottom lines and the two months i have been doing these negotiations absolutely. >> what is the red line for the united states government in terms of access to these nuclear sites, inspecting them what will we insist on? if we don't get them we'll walk away? >> reporter: well, we are talking two different sites here. we had agreements about the kind of continuous monitoring. those are things like iraq when it comes to other sites we at the iaea might think is happening at we need access to we need to have access to wherever and whenever we need to get it. there is a process here we are negotiating right now to make sure we get the assurances we need that indeed we will get the access we feed going forward at any site we think might have something going on there we need to see more of. >> the supreme leader said the united states will not

at the white house today, press secretary josh ernest answers questions about the trade bill in congress, combating isis and the 2016 presidential campaign. mr. earnest: good afternoon, everybody. i feel like i'm interrupting a party or something. >> a private party. mr. earnest: well played. i'm just disappointed i wasn't invited. let's move on. [laughter] the federal emergency management administration through its regional office in denton, texas, has mobilized personnel to texas and oklahoma in response to flooding. this is something that you all covered quite extensively last month. those personnel are in place as well to respond to tropical storm bill, which we know has already begun to bring heavy rainfall strong winds and a potential of tornadoes to portions of texas and oklahoma today. fema remains in close coordination with managers and officials as well as our federal partners at the national weather service as they make their forecasts. so these fema personnel will remain deployed to texas and oklahoma in preparation for these storms. as of now there are no unmet needs that ha