spicer: i have michael anton with me of the national security committee.intend to have a readout later. hopefully we can gather with the

i have michael anton with me of the national security committee. we intend to have a readout later.efully we can gather with the pool at least. we will see what the rest of the day looks like while trying to get back over here, as well. i want to provide a little bit on the president's action. i know there's been a lot of interest in this. we can take a few questions. with respect to the actions the president took in syria, and the questions regarding the timeline, we will walk you through it. on tuesday at about 10:30 the morning, the president was

spicer: i have michael anton with me of the national security committee. we intend to have a readout later. hopefully we can gather with the pool at least. we will see what the rest of the day looks like while trying to get back over here, as well. i want to provide a little bit on the president's action. i know there's been a lot of interest in this. we can take a few questions. with respect to the actions the president took in syria, and the questions regarding the timeline, we will walk you through it. on tuesday at about 10:30 the morning, the president was informed through the course of his daily briefing about the actions in syria. at that time, he asked the team for additional information and updates. he and his team developed a response. about 8:00 tuesday night, there was a restricted committee meeting on the situation. preliminary options were presented and refined. on tuesday night, there was a deputies meeting at the white house where options were presented and refined. wednesday morning, a restricted principals meeting was conducted, and there

. >> mikel ca michael anton said best supporting analysis for the united states. >> bret: what is tehranaying about all of this, james. >> nothing in direct response to this news conference. we reached out to the iranian mission, but didn't hear back. president trump comment about not living up to the spirit of the deal, drew rebuck from the foreign minister. we'll see if the u.s. lives up to the jcpoa, let alone spirit. saying should i use my highlighter again, the yellow highlighting to outline saying the u.s. is breaching the agreement. >> bret: more on this with the panel. james, thank you. >>> after a week dominated by foreign policy challenges, president trump is preparing for a major domestic policy focus next week. as lawmakers return from spring break. on the agenda, health care, tax reform, and coming up with the money to keep the government open. kwo quite a list. john roberts is here from the north lawn. >> reporter: good evening, bret. as the first 100 days draw to a close -- at assigning ser rown -- ceremony today, tax and financial regulations, president trump said hold on

there was a great article by a guy named michael anton who talked about san francisco values and thelitical left has coopted many of the people in silicon valley whose instincts are much -- could be much more developed into a pro-american, prosecurity directive. instead silicon valley is laning in the libertarian direction where they don't want to be interact with the government, they think the government has too many problems and it's too bureaucratic. i think that there needs to be some -- some outreach. i know that the cia has its technology unit in silicon valley, the pentagon has innovation center there too. i think that the challenges is really to try to get them to contribute to this battle against foreign information warfare threats. i think if the leaders of silicon valley and the social media companies and the titans out there were educated to some of the things that i'm writing about, i think it would change their view on how to deal with the problems. >> host: do you think that this is an opportunity for this administration to invite members of companies that are leading

congress is doing to speak up about the fact that you not only have bannon and steven miller and michael antonorco affiliated with the nazi organization and also jeff sessions agrees with steve bannon 100% on immigration, there's nothing the congress can do about them being there, but have you heard a cry from other members that they're meeting with these people in the room? >> you're absolutely seeing a reaction from the american people. we have an amazing womens march, march for science today, you have people pushing back. it's very clear to me that there's a huge reaction to the racism and bigotry coming out of the white house. >> and i want to show you had a large town hall and of course you used -- you're one of our favorites in terms of twitter, you're great on twitter. and you trolled donald trump as you want to do and said this is a bigly crowd at my town hall last night. what was the biggest issue for people as they were standing up and talking to you at this town hall? >> everything. they were very concerned about the environment. they were concerned about the repeal of the affordabl

but what happens if you cover the white house is you go to sean spicer or michael anton or any of the administration's designated talkers and you say, so how is is the relationship with china. and they say it's fabulous it is a lot better than it was under that dope obama. two problems, these guys don't know anything. and second, they lie all the time. it would be helpful, now that's not your beat. >> glor: don't pull any punches, david. >> if you say to the chinese or japanese, so how is the relationship, you might get a different answer. and they have, i suspect the chinese have a much more practicing mat-- pragmatic and instrumental view of their relationship with the trump administration. remember they tried to do that $400 million dollar rescue of the jared kushner's troubled interest in an office building in new york. remember how they have given donald trump a lot of licenses in dhiena-- kleina a lot of copyrights-- trademarks i should say that he has been seeking for a decade without success. notice the huge increase of purchases in goods branded to ivanka trump ??? china and