ms. sanders: none at all. reporter: he doesn't have the security clearance? ms. sanders: i will not comment clearance.individual someone has written president trump at least twice in reference to chicago and guns and you said you will continue conversations about guns. why wouldn't you bring someone to the table because he is on the ground with gangs and dealing with guns. chicago as well. ms. sanders: i would have to look into that? . i'm not aware of the individual or the letters. so i would have check into that. reporter: does the president believe we should take guns away from people before due process? ms. sanders: we need to expedite the process and if somebody is potentially harmful to themselves or other people, that we have the ability to expedite that process. certainly want to have due process and want to make sure it's not tied up for months and months and months and someone who could be potentially dangerous is allowed someone to have a gun. reporter: attorney michael cohen had trouble reaching him to talk him about the $130,000 to stephanie clifford.

ms. sanders: not at all. as i said, this has been an ongoing campaign that has been ongoing for over a year. of thecause of some individuals were not involved in the conversation doesn't mean the appropriate parties weren't in the room and want a part of that discussion. >> the president came in here to the briefing room before reaching out to the president of china. is that appropriate? should he have not reached out to international partners first? ms. sanders: we have had ongoing conversations with leaders across the world. the president simply said there would be an announcement. the president had conversations with world leaders last night and today. >> [indiscernible] ms. sanders: the president had conversations with a few world leaders, last night and today. this is something all of these countries have been working together on and something we will continue to work with. >> [indiscernible] ms. sanders: the secretary of state's deputy was in the room at a time these conversations went on. it is absurd

ms. sanders: not that i know of. >> how about jared kushner? ms. sanders: no. >> is he becoming a distraction given the controversies that he's been at the center of in recent days? ms. sanders: jared is still a valued member of the administration and he'll continue to focus the work that he's been doing and we'll continue pushing forward on that front, as well. >> is there a conflict of interest given those meetings that he had with executives from companies that gave his family business millions of dollars? ms. sanders: i would refer you to the statement that was put out by his attorney. >> you aren't concerned about this? ms. sanders: again, i will refer you back to the statement put out by his attorney. >> back on the tariff announcement, is the president concerned about the impact that this may have on america's allies like canada, the uk and the eu? ms. sanders: the president's biggest concern is making sure that we're doing everything we can to protect american workers and that was what his announcement on his intentions next week are specifi

ms. sanders: i am sorry. i cannot hear the last part. >> when the president goes to california, will it be war or peace? ms. sanders: i think if anybody's stepping out of bounds here it is somebody who is refusing to follow federal law, which is certainly not the president. we are going for what we hope to be an incredible he positive trip. the president is going to look at prototypes along the border and also meet with and speak to the members of our armed services. he will be speaking with members of all five branches of the military. i don't think that could be anything but a positive thing. >> thank you, sarah. two reef questions. -- two brief questions. stating the date coming up and who might be helping the president or who is expected to help them, would be assume then that general mcmaster would remain national security adviser throughout the duration of the negotiations? ms. sanders: no reason to believe otherwise. >> it could be later but it could still be on there? ms. sanders: i don't have a cryst

ms. sanders: i'm not sure. reporter: this administration's now imposed sanctions on north korea after concluding that kim jong-un's government assassinated his half brother. now we have authorities in britain announced a nerve agent was used to try to kill a former russian double agent and his wife. obviously moscow, the prime suspect. what does this administration have to say about this attempted assassination in the u.k. and are sanctions against russia likely as they were in the case of the north koreans? ms. sanders: this is currently under review and i'll keep you posted as we have further information and developments. reporter: quick clarifying question on the cha tweet. is there any chance that it if china did respond on that reduction plan that that could aswadge or effect the shaping of the tariff plan? in other words, is china's piece of this tariff thing negotiable? or are we only talking about canada and mexico and e.u. countries? ms. sanders: let me address that. the president's been clear that he

ms. sanders: the proclamation yes or said there were two countries that were specifically excluded, and there would be the opportunity for us to negotiate on matters of national security with other countries, and we will be doing that with a number of different countries. >> does the president think that kim jong-un is sincere about talking about denuclearization? ms. sanders: the president is hopeful that we can make continued progress with what we know is a maximum pressure campaign. it has been effective and we know it has put a tremendous amount of pressure on north korea. they have made some of major promises, promises to denuclearize. they have made promises to us -- stop nuclear and missile

ms. sanders: thank you. hasuse it's friday and sent asked a weekend, i'm sure you all have very exciting plans. we will take a few questions and then let everybody get out of here. >> an attorney for the poor and star -- an attorney for the porn star known us stormy daniels said she was physically threatened to stay silent about her relationship with president trump. i wonder if he has any knowledge of that. : obviously, we take the safety and security of any person seriously. we would not condemn anyone threatening an individual, but i have no knowledge of the situation and would refer you to the president's outside attorney. >> does the president have anything to say about it? >> i have not spoken with him on it. >> has the president or chief of staff made any kind of assurances about what is to come ? ms. sanders: we spoke to a number of staff this morning, reassuring them that there were personnel changes. no immediate personnel changes at this time, that people should not be concerned, we should do exac

ms. sanders: the president will not have the meeting without concrete steps andon cete action take place by north korea. jane: tit for tat on trade -- how harley davidson could be caught in the crosshairs of retaliation over tariffs. and the american aviator whodi ppeared without a trace. do we finally know what happened to amelia earhart? jane: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. it is perhapthe most startling announcement from president trump so far. he has agreed to meet north korean leader kim jong-un after months of tension and name-calling. it will be the first time a sitting u.s. president has ever met with a north korean leader. but already there are mixed messages coming from the white house about whatonditions need to be met before the meeting can take place. our north america correspondent nick bryant starts our coverage. nick: like the kid who couldn't quite keep the secret, donaldtr ump slipped into the white house press room and told reporterto expect a huge statement on a big subject. and sure enough, a delegation from south korea s

ms. sanders? we're confident in the outcome were that to take place. >> stormy daniels's story is she had sex with donald trump, she described that in some detail in the in touch interview. donald trump, to my knowledge, has never contradicted stormy daniels. he's never attacked her. this is the one person, the one w woman who has come out and stood in donald trump's way, for some reason he seems to be afraid of her. can you give us any insight as to why donald trump remains absolutely silent about stormy daniels? this is the one woman he refuses to attack. >> the truth hurts. and i think really that's what it comes down to. this is a search for the truth. and quite honestly, if he doesn't have anything to hide, i don't understand what the issue is. that old saying that people that have nothing to hide, hide nothing. >> let's talk about some of the things the signed agreement was trying to hide. one of the things it specifies is that stormy daniels was agreeing to completely divest herself and it

ms. sanders: good afternoon. let me start by saying what a meaningful experience it was to attend yesterday's

ms. sanders and i'm sure that ms. sanders was not told the truth before she stood at the podium today and made the representation that she did, but we find her statement that president trump has already, quote, won, close quote, this arbitration to be absolutely bogus and baseless. >> but if they were able to get a temporary restraining order, wouldn't that indicate that they had won that round of arbitration? >> well, who is they? according to mr. cohen, this was pursued on behalf of e.c., not d.d. or president trump. and if there is one thing we know of the last four to six weeks, it's that mr. cohen and others close to the trump administration have made it clear that e.c. is not president trump. >> your client did agree to arbitration at the time she signed the agreement, didn't she? >> she agreed to arbitration, but that agreement fell by the wayside when a party to that agreement, namely, mr. trump at the time, did not sign it. that agreement is null and void. it doesn't mean anything. >> can you tell us about thi

ms. sanders: i don't have any updates on that at this point. reporter: the white house has created a working group on north korea to prepare for the summit. can you tell us what agency are involved in the working group, who is carrying it out? sarah: we are continuing to move forward in this process but no updates to provide today. reporter: the president has until tomorrow tore sign the act to allow u.s. officials to travel to taiwan. does the president plan to sign this act or veto it or allow it to become law? sarah: the final decision hasn't become made. reporter: h.r. mcmaster had strong words for russia and iran. how much influence did trump have on the words of mcmaster and the current relationship between the president and his national security advisor. sarah: they are putting pressure on russia to do the right thing. you can see what the administration's view point is by the actions we took today by placing new sanctions on russia. reporter: the president has said numerous times about mccabe. is the president concerned. i know you said

ms. sanders.hat my client wants. >> our chief legal analyst -- are you wear of any other women who signed contracts with president trump? >> we are not aware of any other women, but in my experience, the way this was handled and the document, quite honestly, this was amateur hour. very sloppy, very messy. shocking something of this magnitude was handled in this way. >> i have a lot of respect for mr. cohen, i think he is a good attorney in a lot of ways. i don't know the exact circumstances of what happened here. but this is not how something this important should have been handled in my opinion. >> ms. clifford is not accusing president trump of any sexual misconduct. >> that is correct. >> finally where does this go from here procedurally. do you have any sense of what the time frame is? >> defendants in the case have 30 days to respond in court. hopefully they will expedite it. again, i think it is pretty simple. did the president know about the negotiation, the terms, the payment of the money

ms. sanders: good afternoon. the president has three events today that are open to the press pool, and there's a lot to cover, soy wanted to make sure you have the most updated information on the omnibus. this bill is so important on many fronts, from school safety and troop funding to opioids and veterans care. togive you an update best give your rundown and answer questions, we have mick mulvaney short.k short -- marc at the conclusion of their q&a, our press team is around, as always, to answer questions you may have on news of the day. thanks very much, you guys. >> thanks, sarah. we're just going to make a brief opening statement because i know the questions are probably what you want to get to anyway. let's cut right to the chase -- is the president going to sign the bill? the answer is yes. why? because it funds his priorities. we talked for the last 3, 4, 5, 6 months about trying to get the president's priorities funded, and this omnibus bill does that. you heard sarah mention it gives troops the increase

ms. sanders: this is an intense place as is every white house, and it is not abnormal that you have people come and go, but we are continuing to do great work and focus on the president's agenda and that is what we are all here to do. jane: for more on the latest of departure, i was joined a short time ago by reid wilson of "the hill." sarah sanders says there is nothing abnormal about this, but i've never seen anything like this. have you? reid: there's nothing abnormal about people leavinghe white house. there is something very abnormal about so many high-level people leaving in the space of the year. the white house is a pressure filled p administration has some churn and burn, and people do a couple yrs and they leave or they, back. everybody needs a break from the pressure. but the fact is there is so much pressure on this white house vethat they ad a turnover rate unprecedented in modern history. by the way, the president has excluded so many typical republicans from his administration because they have been critical of him that it is not entirely clear that there are aaft of bodies

ms. sanders: good afternoon. happy friday.

ms. sanders is in a very difficult situation here.awrence, the first thing that you should do when you're speaking on behalf of the president of the united states and you know that you're talking about something that's very important and knowing that it's something that he himself cares personally about, you should go talk to him about it. that's the thing that's particularly peculiar about all of this, lawrence, is that everybody in washington is talking about this story. journalists are asking the white house press secretary on live television asking her to talk about this story, but there are two people in washington, d.c., that are not talking about this story, that's the president of the united states and his spokesperson. and that's a problem. i had a trick for this when i first started as a spokesperson for the president in the white house. when i was the deputy press secretary, i often traveled with the president which meant that i would brief reporters on the back of air force one. i would often travel with the president on t

ms. sanders having the information and providing it, she later tweeted that there is a deficit in goods onlyerall trade. you count everything, especially if talking to another world leader and making it clear you're counting everything. but that is if that conversation even actually took place as the president claimed. and since we're now fully in the weeds and perhaps down a rabbit hole, it's worth noting something else the president said, talking about the difficulty of selling american cars in japan, he talked about one vehicle that met all requirements except for one. and he said they were ready to prove it. and they said, no, no. we have to do one more test. it's called the bowling ball test. the president explained. that's where they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air and drop it on the hood of the car. if the hood dents it doesn't qualify. you know where he's going with this, i think. guess what, the roof dented an a little bit and they said no, this car doesn't qualify. it's horrible the way we're treated, yes, it's horrible. keeping him honest, nobody can figure out what

ms. sanders?why the trump administration is implicated in the stormy daniels coverup, and why the second lawyer in addition nigs to michael cohen has been implicated? she's been dodging that question all week. so that is a story i want to know more about. >> michael steele, if you were in that briefing room and you got a question, what would you can ask? >> sarah huckabee sanders would be well served to draw a line and not answer any questions about potential personal scandals from the white house podium. that podium should be for policy, for the nation's business, not talking about pornographic film actresses and payoffs. >> we'll leave it there. michael steele, thank you. selena maxwell, you as well. we'll bring it to you live. in the msnbc. thank you so much. thank you! so we're a go? yes! we got a yes! what does that mean for purchasing? purchase. let's do this. got it. book the flights! hai! si! si! ya! ya! ya! what does that mean for us? we can get stuff. what's it mean for shipping? ship th

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ms. sanders. i think she has a near impossible job.ny claim by the administration that donald trump won in arbitration is no different than me claiming that i won the super bowl a few weeks ago. it's complete hooey. >> hooey, god, i love anyone who can get in a hooey reference. attempts to shoot down questions about the president's alleged affair with a porn star. but sanders only added fuel to the fire basically confirming trump's involvement in the situation. here's what she said. >> look, the president has addressed these directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true. this case has already been won in arbitration. >> you said that there is arbitration that's already been won by whom and when? >> by the president's personal attorneys and for details on that i would refer you to them. >> but you're aware of them. what more can you share with us? >> i can share that arbitration was won in the president's favor. >> i don't know that she meant to do that, but by telling us that the case has been won in arbitra

ms. sanders: good afternoon.

ms. sanders, i think she has a near impossible job. any claim by the administration that donald trump won in arbitration is no different than me claiming that i won the super bowl a few weeks ago. it's complete hooey. >> even if it's complete hooey, why is sarah huckabee sanders proactively talking about arbitration with somebody that donald trump is claiming he never had sexual relationship with. >> clearly she made a very big mistake. if he says he's not part of this at all, if his lawyers are lying and saying he's not part of it, why was he the beneficiary of a resolution in an arbitration? that was a big mistake. i think we have to look at a few other things, why is donald trump treating stormy daniels differently than the 18 other women who brought nonconsensual claims against him? he has not said anything as negative about her and has not attacked her, which suggests to me she does have something serious in terms of evidence against him. that's what we should be looking at, as well as remembering that this is hush money. hush mon

ms. clifford and her counsel. white house press secretary sarah sanders told reporters today that n an arbitration was won in the president's favor. but tonight stephanie clifford's attorney just said, first of all, it doesn't appear as if he was a party to the arbitration, referring to mr. trump. how can you win something you're not even a party of. secondly, claiming that mr. trump won at arbitration when there has been no hearing, no notice to ms. clifford, no opportunity given to her to respond and no decision on the merits is completely bogus. wolf? >> really tough exchange of words between these attorneys. drew griffin, thanks for that good report. let's get some more on the white house response to the lawsuit. joined by chief white house correspondent jim acosta. what is the white house saying about the new statement saying that sarah sanders is simply wrong. >> reporter: we went back to the white house press team in the last hour and asked about these new statements from stormy daniels' attorney, essentially alleging the president didn't winnie sort of arbitration procedure and also the daniels' lawyer that michael

sanders has those details. >> reporter: tonight noor salman leaving the courthouse without a word. >> it's a great day for ms. salman. >> reporter: her attorneys reacting to the not guilty verdicts. >> i think she was overwhelmed. i think we were all overwhelmed. >> reporter: but outside the pulse nightclub where salman's husband omar mateen launched his massacre killing 49 people, outrage from victims' families. >> she knew that her husband was doing what he was doing, and shame on her. >> i am in disbelief. i just feel like we've been slapped in the face. >> reporter: during the trial, prosecutors said this video showed mateen about to attack disney springs but was scared off by the presence of police. and they allege salman knew her husband's plans, that she'd been on an alleged scouting mission at the same disney location, that she joined him when he shopped for ammunition. at the center of their case, her statement, an fbi agent saying she admitted her husband was preparing for jihad. salman herself writing, i'm sorry for what happened. i wish i'd go back and tell his family and the police what he was go

ms. the white house continues to deny all the allegations. listen to what sarah huckabee sanders said. >> the president has addressed these direct. made clear none of these allegations are true. this case already been won in arbitration and anything beyond that, i would refer you to the president's outside counsel. >> reporter: if she does tell her story it's a big financial risk. there's a provision that calls for a million dollar penalty for every breach of the nda. i assume that would have include everybody she tells her story to. cost her millions of dollars. >> john roberts. thank you. >> another one. before that decision on tariffs, president trump plans to pit evoked -- video game executives to critics. between violent game and guns. this meeting in response to the parkland school massacre. let's bring in francesca chamber for the daily mail. this isn't the first time washington has tried to explore the link between violent video games and real life shootings. decade of research so far has failed to find the link between the two. what is the goal of today's meeting with vi

ms. warren: ok. so, the reason i ask about this is, the yemeni people are suffering and this is a humanitarian crisis. that's why i co-sponsored the sanders-lee resolution that directs president trump to stop our involvement in saudi military operations in yemen. unless congress provides specific authorization. the bill would allow our counterterrorism operations against al qaeda and its affiliates to continue. but it would ensure that the united states is not giving the saudis a blank check to bomb yemen and worsen the humanitarian crisis. i know that iran's sanctions against yemen are destabilizing. they're making the conflict worse and that's unacceptable. but we need to be clear about this. saudi arabia's the one receiving american weapons and american support and that means we bear some responsibility here. and that means we need to hold our partners and our allies accountable for how those resources are used. one other question i'd like to turn to, if i can. and that is, earlier this year secretary of state tillerson implied that u.s. troops would stay in syria indefinitely. in addition to our forces, hezbollah, russian forces, iran

ms. sanders: good afternoon, as you-all saw the president delivered remarks at the latina coalition summit this afternoon. the people in attend are proof that the american dream is back stronger and better. last year hispanic unemployment reached the lowest level in history.

ms. sanders: pulling out the big guns for friday. good afternoon. let me start by addressing the black hawk helicopter crash in iraq. at least from initial reporting, the crash does not appear to have been caused by enemy action, but the incident is under investigation. this tragic crash reminds us that all our courageous men and women take extraordinary risks every single day in service of our country. american troops alongside their coalition partners continue their efforts ef