say things around them you q just don't trans you know transmit that automatically anyone else paula white has led a life that has had lots of ups and downs i think she was expressing look the president changed the whole equation last week on the pro-life movement if you believe as i do that the killing of babies and abortion is a devastating evil then you are really upset as she was about it you say things that were i would have said it that way but here's the thing she's someone who has the right to say i thought that we're talking about and she's someone who's had a life that's had other sons for her right to get up there and say something great every right she's going to do that i'm not going to i'm not going to bait that but what i will say is this and i'll kind of finish it with this here's the thing that gets me at the end of the day i think we're seeing way too much politics coming out of religion meaning that i think we're seeing way too many churches across this country who are getting on the pulpit and telling people who to vote for how to vote for what cause you know what polit

start i want to in keeping with the spirit of the separation of church and state televangelist paula white is really going to have less present from spiritual advisor who recently while praying before a follower of stated and i quote in the name of jesus we command all state tannic pregnancies to miscarry right now we declare that anything that has been conceived in state to have a woman as the little miss carry it will not be able to carry forth any plan of destruction any plan to harm now she is currently working inside the white house in the office of public liaison to advise on faith and opportunity should we be concerned especially when it comes to that idea of separation of church and state which i do believe is what the constitution lays out doesn't mean that we can persecute religions but we do want to keep them from involved being involved in the workings of government. well but wait that's on the way i don't know we were ever so jealous of somebody working in the white house so that you have a circle 1st of all if you've been doing evangelical churches and you hear people pray ab

his favorite form of communication, want to bring in paula reid at the white house. paula a record day online yesterday and this morning he's kept it up. >> reporter: absolutely. i was actually with the president yesterday on air force one, norah, it was interesting all the tvs were tuned to fox news, fox news carried the trial pretty much uninterrupted. interesting the graphics on the bottom of the screen they were tweeting other democrats something that could not have pleased the president which is why we saw that record breaking twitter day. today he is also been tweeting mostly quoting people on cable news who have been defending him. i'm told by folks close to his impeachment team is frustrated he does not believe his side of the story has been heard. but they are confident once the president's attorneys make their arguments that the president will believe that he's gotten a fair shake in the senate something he did not get in the house. and his team hopes that once he sees these arguments he will back off of these requests for witnesses. >> o'donnell: all right,

i want to bring in paula reid. she's a white house encounter down in mar-a-lago where the president has been at his resort. paula, no us official has come out on the record in front of the cameras and described what happened. this is the very first description we have heard. there's been a lot of concern that this growing tension between the u.s. and iran is boiling other and that this strike escalated things f president trump seemed to be trying to tamp that down. >> exactly and he also said margaret that he believes this strike should have been done long ago. one of the reasons the previous administration had not taken this action, it's not clear exactll noclear hoiran wo s remarks, the president noticed the attacks against us interest and earlier this week, president trump put iran on notion, any additional threats or attacks against us interests would prompt escalated american involvement in the region. then he subsequently, he tried to walk that back, margaret. he said on new year's eve he didn't want war. he believed that

paula reid posed the tough questions today at the white house. >> reporter: president trump today revealed most-specific details yet about the imminent threats the u.s. said prompted the killing of iranian general qassem soleimani. >> i can reveal that i believe it would have been four embassies. >> reporter: but just last night, secretary of state mike pompeo said the administration did not have precise information about the threat. >> we don't know precisely when, and we don't know precisely where, but it was real. >> reporter: can you clarify, did you have specific information about an imminent threat? and did it have anything to do with our embassies? >> we had specific information on an imminent threat, and those threats included attacks on u.s. embassies. period. full stop. >> reporter: so you were mistaken when you said you didn't know precisely when and you didn't know precisely where? >> no, completely true. those are consistent thoughts. we don't exactly which minute. we don't know exactly which day it would have been executed. but it's very clear-- qassem soleimani himself was p

paula, silence from the white house so far. what do we know? >> reporter: exactly, margaret. we have heard nothing from the president or the white house. earlier this week, though, the president threatened iran. he specifically said if there were any additional attacks against u.s. interests, that could prompt additional u.s. .nvolvemenin tont egi r the president kind of walk that back. he insisted he did not want war, but if there was going to be any conflict, he believed iran would not last long. now, the president is, of course, up for reelection later this year. he has campaigned on a promise to pull u.s. troops out of foreign entanglements. he knows that any sort of escalation in u.s. involvement, particularly in the middle east, could hurt his chances for reelection. and right now it is unclear if we will hear from the president at all this evening. >> reporter: we do know that more u.s. troops have been sent to the middle east, some 14,000 since the month of may. so if there is further escalation, the u.s. does appear to be preparing for it. former housing secretary we

to before the strikes or if he sees an opportunity to perhaps cool things down a bit. >> paula reid at the whitee pentagon. here comes the president now. >> mike pompeo and vice president pence, mark milley, joint chiefs of staff general. he's there. other advisers. still awaiting the president. >> secretary of defense mark esper standing there. >> still awaiting the president. this will be the first time we see president trump publicly since last night's attack on two military bases in iraq, both of which host u.s. troops and allies. >> it's interesting that he has not been on twitter all morning. the only thing we saw last night where he basically said so far, so good, all is well. it's interesting. i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall this morning while they were having the conversation last night and this morning about what the united states response will be. is it a one and done, will the u.s. escalate or will they take action from the attack. >> he said iran took and concluded -- concluded key word there -- proportion ate measures in self-defense. >> the supreme leader said th

paula reid is at the white house with this story. >> reporter: there is new evidence tonight of the president's.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. the recording of a private dinner at the trump hotel in april, 2018, reviewed by abc news, reveals mr. trump telling former white house aide, john destefano, to "get rid of her. get her out tomorrow. take her out," a full year before yovanovitch was removed. the dinner party included lev parnas and igor fruman, two now- indicted associates of rudy giuliani, who told the president yovanovitch was criticizing him to colleagues in kyiv and stood in the way of their desired investigations of the bidens. >> our opinion, that she is bad- mouthing him, and his reaction was he looked at me, got very angry, and basically turned around to john destefano and said,, fire her." >> i don't know them. >> reporter: the president has repeatedly denied knowing parnas or fruman, despite appearing in multiple pictures alongside them. this afternoon, he also denied discussing yovanovitch's firing at the dinner and defended her removal. >> i have a right to hire

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paula reed is at the white house for us. why are they so angry. >> reporter: good morning.hey talked about the justification for the strikes and it did not go well. one said it prompted him to align with democrats to limit the president's war powers. today, the white house is under fire for lack of transparency in terms of strategy on iran. >> i believe we are safer today than before president trump ordered our military to take out qassem soleimani. >> reporter: in last night's interview on the cbs evening news with norah o'donnell, vice president mike pence showed no regrets over the killing of iranian general qassem soleimani. >> what the president did was restore the credibility of our military deterrence. >> reporter: after administration officials briefed lawmakers on iran wednesday one ardent supporter emerged furious with the administration's approach. >> it is probably the worst briefing i have seen at least on a military issue in the nine years i served in the united states senate. >> reporter: utah senator mike lee said officials tried to quash any debate over the

white's shoes as she filled in for long-time host pat sajak. >> maggie sajak made her letter-turning debut. they sat down with paulaaris opening up about the moment of his health scare. >> pat sajak and vanna white! >> reporter: for nearly four decades, fortune has been on pat sajak's side. never more so than when he suffered a life-threatening intestinal blockage last year, forcing the 73-year-old to momentarily step aside from his hosting responsibilities. by his side when he collapsed in excruciating pain was his daughter maggie. how did you know something was really wrong? >> he's not a big complainer, i guess. i could tell he was taking it seriously. we don't usually go into the emergency room for little things. >> i think the fetal position gave me away. >> yeah. >> reporter: speaking out for the first time since watching the game show host wheeled in for emergency surgery, maggie helping her father on the road to recovery. >> once i got home, she became nurse ratchet. i was not -- to this day i don't think i'm allowed to pick up anything heavier than a pillow. >> yes, i'm a very strict nurse. >> you probably