the obama white house tried to designate fox news, not a real news outlet, and exclude them from somes one of the reasons that one of the most vocal outlets when it comes to this is fox news. and kudos to them, by the way, for returning the favour, because it was the press corps and the whca that blocked the obama administration effort to kick them out of white house coverage altogether. so, bernard, we've spoken before in the podcast, when you've been pulling for president trump and all the wild and wonderful and interesting things you've been doing. but since this was announced by the press secretary, has it had an impact on the workings in the press briefing room and how information is is coming out? at least when i got there in the morning, there was a lot of discussion about how does this work? am i still on pool duty? who's going to send the reports? i mean, is the listserv still working? and then plus, you know, logistical questions about in the future, for example, how do some of these new media outlets that the trump administration has, you know...? there's a cost associated

even though he is not a candidate for president, he's looking for a role in the obama white house.emerge as a vice presidential candidate or, uh, attorney general, but right at that moment, still has rielle and the kid over there, trying to keep this at bay. if you were involved in a heated political scandal, the best thing to do is admit it, confess, and move on with your life. john edwards didn't do that. someone someday will have to explain to me how a man can cheat on his cancer-stricken wife, have a baby with his girlfriend, and somehow think he can still be vice president or attorney general. a month after edwards dropped out of the race, rielle gave birth to their daughter in california without him. john was still trying to keep his growing secret in hiding, but the "enquirer" was watching his every move. levine: big tip came in that john was gonna meet rielle and their daughter at the beverly hilton. we were subsequently able to obtain a spy photo of john holding his child. [camera shutter clicks] and as john was leaving the hotel, our reporters sprang up to him and said, "

the obama white house and survive through majorities in both chambers for the first trump administration. the biden administration. it has really been congress and credit president trump at his first term and president biden for not looking to major disruptive things. it has allowed t us to get as fr as wee have. we have been through it how many shutdowns during that time period? and yetou we have seen this progression because of that constancy. congress ispr really a lead on they deserve a lot of credit for keeping the focus. quick did not want to put you on the spot on this topic. do you think of marching in step betweenn congress and the administration will see that going forward is at a time work maybe it's any opportunity why things should continue the way they are? why they should change or do you feel like that's not necessarily what we will see it's a continuation of theua past, that kind of a line item. >> i think you already see people were generally thrilled to help the civil space a destination and its inaugural address. but, what you saw it from the hill almostha immediate f

be a day where this president will will be used in a way that the trump white house might not want it to. i remember during the obamaen they tried to keep fox out of a press pool event, and the other reporters, all of us said, no, that's not right, and basically forced the obama people to back down and say, if you're going to invite, you know, all of us and you have to invite all of us, you can't make a distinction based on an organization that you just don't like. and so i think you're right. they don't seem to understand that they want to be able to pick who asked the president questions. that goes against decades and decades of tradition. >> and the press office trying to sell this as an act of populism, giving power back to the people. and of course, as peter says, it just gives power to the administration to control the message. >> our next guest says right wing media is working to convince americans president trump is doing a good job, but a large part of the country remains unconvinced about that. the washington post's philip boehm joins us next with his latest reporting. morning joe latest reporting. morning

been going on for hours finally i don't know who, but someone the white house found out where where wen was and the conference room. obama goes, you know, blasting out of the out of the room. i'm them and mike froman, the counterpart in the white house, was there and hillary clinton was there. and few others. and we we get to this conference room and there are cameramen and reporters and and video cameras and and security all around in front of the room. and they were completely it turned out it wasn't just wen jiabao. wen jiabao and the presidents were premiers of of india, south africa, india, south and i'm blanking out india, africa and brazil and and so the cameras were swinging around. it's complete pandemonium. and obama, who's always kind of like cool hand luke, sort of opens the door a little and says, you guys ready for me now? should i wait a little bit? and are all like, bug eyed because they don't have any idea that americans even know where they are. so everybody scrambles around and and around this table, you see it on the cover. there's obama clearly talking. he's got hillary clinton next to it, next to hi

obama in 2012. i was a white house reporter at the time. that's how it looked from where i was sitting. emerging to challenge obama, and it sounds like that's what you guys were thinking, too. right? next thing you know, we've got the tea party, and sanford is the man. [cheering] he had become a darling for fiscal conservatives. i met people who had moved to south carolina just kind of quietly to begin forming what was going to be potentially a national-level bid for him. [cheering] you know, if mark sanford is a stock, like, in spring of 2009, you're buying, right? anybody who knows anything about politics or about republican politics, you're buying mark sanford's stock in spring of 2009. then father's day weekend of 2009 was when everything started to fall apart. because the governor disappeared. it was honestly one of the most bizarre things i have covered in 20 years of journalism. he left. he was gone from the state and didn't leave anybody else in charge. it seemed totally out of character, but his constituents would soon learn that they did not know the real mark sanford at all.

and i was on the board once on the white house correspondents association board for three years when barack obamaident. you know, there was a give and take, but i need to see this white house work with the association. they have not worked with them at the beginning when they said, we're going to change how we call on folks, they didn't talk to them about that, and they didn't talk to them about how they're going to do the pool. now, the white house needs to work with us and stop this. what is it? state one media type of atmosphere. it's got to change. >> this is what you call a slippery slope. thanks to both of you. it's great to see you both. april. ryan, always a pleasure to have you on the show. symone sanders, my colleague, the host of the weekend here on msnbc. thanks for staying late, symone. i know you've already had a long day. all right, another hour of velshi begins right now.

joining me now, jesse moore, democratic strategist and former white house speechwriter under president obama, along with brendan buck, former press secretary to house speaker john boehner. both are msnbc political analyst. welcome, guys. jesse, your initial thoughts on that meeting and this cooling off period, if you want to call it that, where the white house said can't continue the conversation right now, even though vladimir zelensky indicated he wanted to. >> well. >> initial thought. >> i think like a lot of people, it was just shock and embarrassment. i think. i think the first feeling i had was embarrassment, both globally, both as someone who's worked in government, as somebody who values the foundations of our democracy, i just it was it was incredibly hard to watch and painful to watch. so i guess that's not a partizan thing. that was just emotionally, i just couldn't believe what i was watching. i've stood in that office and felt kind of, you know, the honor of being in that office, the weight of that office, the history of that office. and now it i don't i don't mean this in a tr

white house. eye to eye. but there was absolutely no common understanding, the oval office today. to the president himself. jd vance. 0k? i don't know. they didn't respect obamaf a bomb drops on your head? but me, i didn't take it lightly. for reaction from kyiv tonight, here's our ukraine this was not minerals, purely minerals, no money. it was about trying to engage was about tryingta engage trump was abeut tryingte engage trump to try qggald trume further; te try te him qggald trume further; te try ta him to qggald trume further; ta tr- ta him to a get him to produce a deeper co—operation with that co—operation with ukraine that may amount to are called may amount to what are called security 7-—7 :_—:£ that could underpin j that could underpin any because 77 because the future ceasefire. because the belief here fundamentally is future ceasefire. because the belii without jndamentally is future ceasefire. because the belii without that, 1entally is future ceasefire. because the belii without that, without is that without that, without america's as a america's support as a safety net, any would barely net, any ceasefire would barely be worth the it is be wor

white house. i used to organize these kinds of meetings for president obama. it is unheard of that the vice president would speak ever in these meetings, let alone with the cameras rolling for as long as this happened. so i don't want to i don't know that to be true, but maybe it played well with their base, but it's not going to play well with the american people. and that's where i think trump needs to pump the brakes a bit. 81% of the american people in a poll just last week, said they do not trust putin. so think about how many times have you seen a poll where 80% of americans answer on the same side? that doesn't happen that often in our country today. and i think maybe they think this is good for their politics, but i think they may be wrong about that even as well. >> you know, ambassador, some of the shots that we're seeing on our screen include, if they pan out a little bit, there's a guy sitting on the couch next to jd vance. his name is secretary of state marco rubio, and he's conspicuously silent and saying nothing. his arms are folded. if you read

it simply renamed an office in the white house that was actually established by president obama in 2014 called the u.s. digital service. president trump can have elon musk into his oval office anytime he likes. i now recognize the chairman of the oversight committee, chairman james comer. chair comber: thank you for holding today's hearing to launch a war upon waste. president trump won in an electoral landslide and a clear mandate to eliminate washington waste and stop the theft of american tax dollars. and he is delivering on his promise. president trump has empowered elon musk with doge to conduct a governmentwide audit to curb waste and protect tax dollars. that's exactly what the provision of this committee is supposed to do and i'm glad my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have re-found interest in waste, fraud and abuse. with a staggering $37 trillion in national debt we have no time to lose. the key place to start is improper payment. the government has lost $2.7 trillion because of improper payment. fraudsters, organized criminals and even government employees have siph