. >> this is how ashley park errand philip rucker write in "washington post," trump seems most comfortablecating at slight remove, with a stage or screen, television, twitter phone, intermediary, undiluted with little risk. >> i agree to a agree but i think there's a risk every time donald trump gets in front of a microphone. you really can't know what to expect and i think we're seeing the death of the press conference as we know it. that's been a sacred bit in american presidential history in the 20th and 21st century. i think donald trump add people to the conference, movement to the side and try to beat up on the establishment press and use twit are and retweets to get message across. >> to richard's point, didn't see it as press conference but him beating up on the press. so aggressive with people. says he says it like he means it but he won't take a tough question. gets upset with a tough question. >> i don't know the origins of it but he may have been -- he uses press when it works in his advantage, acidiously. whenever you interview him, has every magazine cover of every time donal

philip rucker appreciate it. >> thank you. >> the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening.good evening, chris. thanks for joining us, we have a big show tonight. our guest tonight for the interview until recently was the secretary of labor in the obama administration, he is now a leading candidate to be the next chair of the democratic party. tom perez is going to be here live in person tonight, very much looking forward to that. this will be his first appearance on the rachel maddow show ever so we're soupy -- super -- soupy happey happy to h here tonight. also we're sort of soupy, but that's a totally different thing. >>> we're going to start tonight in july of last year, this past july, summer, 2016. on a day when we as a nation were very distracted. we had our own mess to think about, we had our own politics to focus on, we were really not noticing anything else going on in the world. july 21 last year, that was the day that the man who is now our new president gave his big speech at the republican convention. that's the night he accepted the nomination of the republica

philip rucker appreciate it. >> thank you. >> the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening. >> good evening, chris. thanks for joining us, we have a big show tonight. our guest tonight for the interview until recently was the secretary of labor in the obama administration, he is now a leading candidate to be the next chair of the democratic party. tom perez is going to be here live in person tonight, very much looking forward to that. this will be his first appearance on the rachel maddow show ever so we're soupy -- super -- soupy happen y happy tm here tonight. also we're sort of soupy, but that's a totally different thing. >>> we're going to start tonight in july of last year, this past july, summer, 2016. on a day when we as a nation were very distracted. we had our own mess to think about, we had our own politics to focus on, we were really not noticing anything else going on in the world. july 21 last year, that was the day that the man who is now our new president gave his big speech at the republican convention. that's the night he accepted the nomination of the repub

joining me now from washington, philip rucker us white house bureau chief and damian paletta for "the wall street journal" and joining us later from the white house, margaret brennan, foreign affairs and white house correspondent for cbs news and jonathan karl chief white house correspondent for abc news. i'm pleased to have all of them here it fill rucker, tell me about t how it played. >> there are basically two sean spicers. the sean spicer who gave that statement a couple of days ago on saturday was defiant and angry and basically yelling at the press and using falsehoods, telling things that were not true. sean today was much more comfortable. he was taking questions left and right, stayed up there for well over an hour, talked fluently about a range of policy matters. an when he was asked about the mistruths he stated over the weekend about the inauguration crowd size, he effectively apologized. he said i always try to come here with truthful information and i will endeavor to do that in the future. and talked a little bit about how donald trump is really cheafing at what he see

philip rucker appreciate it. >> thank you. >> the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening.ng, chris. thanks for joining us, we have a big show tonight. our guest tonight for the interview until recently was the secretary of labor in the obama administration, he is now a leading candidate to be the next chair of the democratic party. tom perez is going to be here live in person tonight, very much looking forward to that. this will be his first appearance on the rachel maddow show ever so we're soupy -- super -- soupy happen y happy tm here tonight. also we're sort of soupy, but that's a totally diffe

coming up monday morning, white house bureau chief philip rucker will discuss what president trump is expected to do his first day in week in the white obama specifically which executive orders he could reverse. then, randy cap's from the migration policy institute will talk about president trump's possible actions on immigration. todd harrison from the center for strategic and international studies will join us to discuss what approach president trump might take when it comes to the defense department budget. watch washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >> on wednesday, british prime minister theresa may discussed a variety of domestic issues, largely centered on her brexit speech from the previous day. the prime minister also answered questions on unemployment status for u.k. citizens in e.u. countries and improving the uk's universal health care system. this is 45 minutes. >> water. questions to the prime minister. for the prime minister? hopkins. >> mister speaker. >> i have meetings with ministerial colleagues, i will have furthered such