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he is personally asking people do you think reince priebus is doing good job and asking before the health care debacle who said it was priebus' fault. they both come from wisconsin. so that's a state of play and i will say this, it's an interesting story in "the new york times" today where trump asks both jared kushner and steve bannon to work things out. it shows you the nativity. steve bannon, believes in tax cuts and closing the border and jared kushner who is a moderate to liberal democrat. it's fascinating watching the ideological struggle. neil: your sources are telling you that there might be a shake-up, something, something is going to happen? charlie: we only say this is what we are saying and you to watch it. here is the thing that reince priebus is fighting for his job and jared kushner is the power center. steve bannon probably will remain but clearly in a much more diminished role and that's what we have right now. neil: we are always fighting for our jobs, if you think about it. charlie: well, i think some are fighting more than others an reince is fighting more now. [laught

and sources say that reince priebus in that meeting told the other advisors, listen, we've got to work this out and if you can't work it out, you've got to move on. the idea being according to the sources telling us from the chief of staff's comments, we've had a great week, he said, with the supreme court nomination, for example, getting confirmed in the senate. that's what we should be talking about, thomas, not who's up, who's down? >> isthat what they're tacklg this week? gorsuch being sworn in on monday? >> reporter: that's the big headline tomorrow. any other week this would be our number one story. the fact that there will be a new sitting supreme court justice on the court making it nine members for the first time in months. this is something that is going to be a major headline. you will see this swearing in happening at the rose garden tomorrow morning. this is something that was foundational not just for president trump on the campaign trail but frankly for a lot of republican candidates talking about the need to put somebody on the supreme court they say that would uphold t

yesterday, reince priebus may have been out.s one of trump's best advocates on the hill and deep relationship there. reince priebus not being apart of the administration would be a mistake. here is a big problem, fredricka, we just came off the best week of trump as a president and his response to syria was positive and bipartisan bases and going under the radar was the neil gorsuch nomination confirmation which was a huge thing for conservatives. that maybe because he brought in some outside help with kelly ayotte and others who were really pros working on this. he had a really good week. >> so doug, momentum is key. we remember being in this place before meaning of the trump's white house was celebrating after his address to members of congress and there is the momentum felt by the waist side. how does this white house keep it together? >> that's the problem they had not all along so far on the administration but going back to the campaign as well where he had this injury. syria and trump's reaction to syria is going to domina

. >> patently falls that reince priebus is in trouble or that reince priebus was ever in trouble. the only reason i'm a little animated here this early in the morning is the reporting was just so wrong. maybe bannon leaking it about priebus to get the attention off him. he's going nowhere. steve bannon probably going somewhere or he will do what kellyanne conway did and sort of slip into the woodwork of the white house and never be seen again. >> there's a lot of chaos in the white house and one of the things reince priebus does well is get things up and running, people, relations with the hill. that's badly needed. there are a lot of people in the white house who see he's doing that work and that needs to be done. all of this, the personnel stuff, obviously is important and it's interesting to people. they have to decide what they are going to do now. a two-week congressional recess. legislative agenda. what are they going to do about health care, what are they going to be about taxes. that is the big question how people like jared kushner, steve bannon, still there today. how do

reince priebus has a really tough job.and the most important thing is to control the calendar, the clock, the schedules for the president. you want to make sure that the president never makes an easy decision that he makes brutally tough decisions, he doesn't get monolithic counsel, and nobody bullies the president into a decision. you want him to make an informed decision and make it in time. you also want to make sure the space in the president's head is focused on -- >> would that include the media? because it sounds to me, and it's not just that one for the benefit of, there are multiple quotes saying what is important to donald trump, what is in his head, what kind of headlines will i get? what kind of headlines. >> well, almost every president that has been president during my lifetime has worried about the press and the coverage and what they do about it -- >> primarily? >> well, their big job is to pay attention to the responsibilities, the oath of offers. >> before you had the job, what were you? >> deputy chief o

tonight, sources say the power trio held a long meeting, kushner, bannon, and reince priebus, accordingources they now claim to be on the same page. >> that was nbc's kelly o'donnell reporting. now the meeting was organized by reince priebus, chief of staff lasting about an hour, senior officials say the president was aware of the meeting and was placed with how it meant. >>> and in sweden, we learned that the device was found in the truck that barrelled in stockholm yesterday into a crowd. investigators are not saying whether the device was a bomb or anything flammable. four were killed, 15 injured ten of them still in the hospital tonight. a 39-year-old from uzbekistan was arrested. >>> and marking a grim anniversary, the 75 anniversary of this grim ordeal, the ceremony took place, during the infamous baton death march, u.s. soldiers and filipino soldiers were forced to march 60 miles to a jungle where a prisoner of war camp was, many different make it out alive, those who did remembered the cruelty and desperation. >> the sun was hitting us very hard. and we were not allowed to get a

the president's chief of staff reince priebus ensaid and i -- even said and i quote, neil gorsuch represents the type of judge that has the vision of donald trump, closed quote. there was certainly no political subtlety in that evaluation. after judge gorsuch' nomination was announced, a dark money machine shifted into gear. a national campaign costing at least $10 million was launched to support the gorsuch nomination. because it's dark money, there's no disclosure about who's bank rolling this effort. but it's a safe bet that the suppliers of dark money have at least a passing interest in cases before the united states supreme court. despite this unprecedented and unsettling process that led to judge gorsuch's nomination, the democrats on the senate judiciary committee gave judge gorsuch a courtesy that republicans denied to judge grland -- garland. a hearing and a vote. why? because the senate democrats take the constitution seriously. we don't turn our backs on the constitutional responsibility of advice and consent, even though that's exactly what our republican colleagues did when it c

i talked to reince priebus about this a short while ago, about what the president has said about openinglaws. and we heard priebus say this is something they're still looking into. in other words, giving the president the ability to sue "the new york times" or other news organizations for coverage he doesn't like. can we agree that that is not a good idea? >> i can answer that very quickly. i have always thought there should be a pure truth falsity standard and a limit on damages. i do want to agree with the professor on universities ought to be places where i'm not the only conservative most institutes will hear in four years of college. what this shows, the whole incident shows this radical insulated left on the college campuses. and the entire left wing, including president obama and bill maher on the other side and what useless institutions our universities are. the prices are up 3,000% since the '70s. is the education better? no. it's worse. the lefties are on the side of the thugs. they've taken over the universities. i don't think anyone learns anything about college anymore. it's

now he's blaming someone like reince priebus for not passing the health care bill. i still don't know what donald trump actually wanted to get out of that and that's really what's concerning about what's going on today. >> yeah, i take -- i want to stay on this point, though, of -- >> okay. >> -- hillary clinton and the election for this reason. i think it's important going forward how a party processes a defeat in the presidential election. are the lessons that they learn from it more like, hey, we failed in this area, we were blind to this, we need to change in this way? or are the lessons more, hey, we mostly did the right things and we kind of got screwed here. i'm just saying when i listened to hillary clinton last year and i've seen a lot of commentary from democrats that suggests theyeel that maybe the story of the election are these are the things that happened to us, not the things we did wrong. is that something you're seeing and is that -- is the balance they're striking the right balance? >> it -- you know, there's certainly the things that happened and

per that reporting, bannon chief of staff reince priebus could be on the way out.esponding to that report calling it a completely false story. all this possible internal strife coming at the same time president trump faces his biggest test on the world stage. with me susan, cef congressional correspondent for the examiner, senior politics writer for u.s. news and world report. let's go first, susan to the question whether there is going to be a shake up and bannon and reince priebus on the way out. i always look at these things through my own eyes. i once read three days after i signed a contract with my former employer i was on my way out. i was locked in for a long time. >> we've been hearing about a possible shake up since the oath was taken and president trump took office. factions and shake ups and infighting are really common in presidential administrations. we can talk about any president going back decades. there is always infighting. look atment lincoln with his team of rivals, everybody at each other's throats. i think in this instance, you see a dividing

she's an excellent choice to go do that. >> have you seen reince priebus's hands on anything that the president has actually established so far? do you like at something and say, that has reince written all over it? >> well, of course, absolutely. he's the chief of staff. so first of all, it's a team. he worked with steve bannon and jared kushner. we have the cabinet, the transition was run smoothly. we have the excellent cabinet that has come in. look at the executive orders, he's slashed regulations. if you look where wall street is right now, the manufacturers just came in. the white house said they have a tremendously high incompetence index across manufacturers because we are creating manufacturing jobs. it's not covered as much as it should be, but there's been a tremendous amount of success in the first 60 days. reince is a good piece of that success in creating confidence a i among investors and want the economy to move in the right direction. the economy is moving in the right direction because of poll cities policies in this country. so reince priebus, steve bannon, jared ku

>> trump has been sounding people out about alternatives to reince priebus. it doesn't sound like he wants to make a move before that 100-day marker, lest it completely subsume court and jury j -- coverage of that. i typically have not thought about foreign policy sending off missiles in terms of public opinion. yes, of course there is an element to that. but typically from the white house podium that is not what press secretaries speak about. but today he said this was widely praised domestically and internationally, and it was widely praised in terms of its popularity. >> shane, have you ever seen leaking like this, i know it's great for our business and coverage, but have you ever seen anything like it on a per capita white house basic? >> trump is historic in every sense of the word. >> all right, we'll take your word for it. and just out about a story we have been chronicling, and it reads for the next few days, trump will not be supervised by jared kushner, he will observe passover until wednesday evening. that is kind of like what the coverage has been

we had a meeting tonight, myself and a number of my colleagues with reince priebus.e made a point of saying that the president is showing reasonableness on the wall, he surprised democrats by doing that. he thinks -- nancy pelosi, reince priebus saying the democrats will have to manufacture some fake controversy if they want to shutdown the government and blamed thehe democrats. what the president has really done here is he's laid out the table. $30 billion in defense spendingp and a lot of money for border protection. in that money for border protection, he hadf $1.55 billion. now? he has shifted that saying i need something on the border in terms of structure. what about repairing and replacing some fencing that is there? they have some fences inin california, just outside of san diego. they are falling apart. he could rebuild those. and then kick back over actual bricks and mortar.r. that will start in september. >> we are going to take it around the table. bob will kick us off. >> rush limbaugh, if trump caves -- trump is realizing one thing. he has all these sup

>> trump has been sounding people out about alternatives to reince priebus. i doesn't sound like he wants to make a move before that 100 day marker lest it completely subsume coverage of that i want to bring up the missile strikes. what was striking today at the white house briefing that sean spicer gave was how many times he kept siding that these were widely praised attacks, widely praised moves. i typically hadn't thought about foreign policy sending off missiles in terms of public opinion. typically from the podium that's not what press secretaries speak about. three or four times he said this has been widely praised domestically and internationally. and it was a interesting frame of a major foreign policy decision in terms of its popularity. >> shane, have you ever seen leaking like this? i know it's great for you and for our business, and for covering this place, but have you ever seen anything like it on a per capita white house aide base? >> trump is historic in every possible measurement. >> all right. we'll take that as your answer as we got break.

then you have the reince priebus argue. he likes to surround himself with people who have different points of view. different things they can bring to the table that comes back to his business mind set. the problem is you get people with very different policy points of view obviously there is going to be some friction. he says you guys figure it out. you guy get in a room and figure out how to move forward. pete: first he wants to surround himself with the best. we see that on the military side h.r. mcmaster and general mattis. that's why i think the military strikes were so successful and targeted and tailored. he obviously values hisson jared kushner and steve bannon as chief strategist. he wants those voices. a family voice, a trusted voice. core of america first populism. dishadn't ling the state. you have to work it out and-to-work together because i need you both in different dynamics. early white house there is shuffle ling around on that. the media is going to run around and say everyone's harrison fire. more likely

there was a meeting though between steve bannon, jared kushner that reince priebus was moderating, iss. can you resolve those ideological differences? is that possible? >> no, not on -- i mean it is a matter of can you get along well enough to serve the president though. can you put certain things aside? >> what if you don't know where the president stands? >> well, that's the key here. >> but there is something that is worth noting, is that the president had the same point of view as jared kushner up to 20 months ago. >> yeah. >> so he is more aligned there. but what you also have to ask yourself the question if you're in the white house right now is do you want steve bannon on the inside and with you or do you want him on the outside running a media empire. >> to that point, there was a report that brightbart was told not to run any negative articles about jared kushner. >> right. >> there's certainly questions about how powerful he might be with this brightbart connection, and you make a good point about whether you want him as part of your tent or not. but i think the more profou

. >> tough questions ahead for white house chief of staff reince priebus. and -- will democrats try to block trump's agenda or seek compromise? leader nancy pelosi. >>> plus -- [ chanting ] >> all: usa, usa! >> battle at berkeley. is free speech being silenced? robert reich and ann coulter are here. >>> good morning. washington is a town obsessed with milestones. all week, it's been all about president trump's first 100 days. but for all the hype around that, as it turned out, day 100 of donald trump's presidency looked and sounded a lot like day one. there was the president delivering a hard-edged america first speech. his tone and his message as dark and foreboding as his inaugural address. >> if you tried to illegally enter the united states, you will be caught, detained, deported, or put in p it will happen. >> and just as they did on day one, protesters filled the streets of the capital. this time, demanding action on climate change. the 100-day marker has been an on segs of those in power and those writing about power since that pole yoen's days ended

reince priebus may soon be replaced as white house chief of staff? who is on the short list? what is going on? we have jamie gangel on that. >>> and the senate confirming the next supreme court justice, neil gorsuch. his official swearing in not until monday. we'll take you live to capitol hill coming up. >>> behind the scenes of president trump's first military strike against a foreign government here, the white house releasing this photo, this sort of makeshift situation room down at mar-a-lago where the president oversaw the offensive against the syrians. one of those people sitting around the table who may or may not be sitting there for much longer. jamie gangel has some intel for us. who are we talking about and what are you hearing? >> so let's just say this may happen to start, that it's under consideration and everyone likes reince priebus a lot as a person but we've all known that there's been a lot of dysfunction, chaos is the word we've been using about the way that the white house is running. so what i've been told is is that there's a short list of four people w

it. >> reince priebus is saying they want it.'m saying in house. the next wave of this guy is out or this woman is out. the function is who told me who went out and side this will happen next week when it would never happen. that takes us to the 100-day mark. >> that's what i'm saying. that's the bottom line. they like the significant moments. you know, a seven-year anniversary. they felt they would repeal and replace. now the 100-day mark. they like the dates. when it falls. it make a bigger pronouncement that you fail. they may need to pull back on the big pronouncement days. >> trump likes the sell. he likes the expectation. >> he likes the made for tv moment. i think the tax reform announcement is a perfect example of the opportunities they have, but presidethe troub get into because they want to go grand. the president says we are coming out with the tax reform plan next week. we get a couple days and find out it is wednesday, then wednesday or thursday. then mick mulvaney said over the weekend, we don't know if we're going

top sources that reince priebus could be ob his way out. there was a full screen graphic with four faces who could potential ly replace him. what's the word an that end? >> that's a great example of rumors taking on lives all to themselves. reince is kind of the glue that holds it all together. he's the person that worked with every different section or faction of our party bringing them all together in the general election. he's close friends with speaker ryan. he works well with steve bannon. if you remember early on, there were issues that priebus and bannon had issues. at the end of the day, he's starting to be the constant of it all, if you will. he's the one that makes the engines and trains run on time. >> what about gary cohen? this is jared kushner's economic adviser. registered democrat, former executive. apparently he's tight with jared kushner and the president of the united states. how does that make you feel? >> he's called globalist gary and has a counterpart, as i understand it, now in a prominent ogs. that's dena paul. i th

how gary cohn was going replace reince priebus as chief of staff. every single day. the ability for a west wing to operating function valuely, not only is everybody talking about changes coming it's coming from inside the west wing. that's difficult in terms of an environment to work when you have all of these huge issues. >> it's so what, who cares if you're getting things done. you're getting things done and the president likes it this way, whatever. the obama repeal and replace effort failed. no tax reform on paper. they keep talking about infrastructure but they don't have a plan to go before congress. they have these ideological fights on capitol hill. the president calls his friends what do you think of my team, how are they doing. do you have any suggestions. they are still talk. the white house the others night said know the president told these guys get it together. will there be a shake up? white house says no. listen to kellyanne conway, president's counsel. >> is bannon there to stay? is reince priebus there to stay? >> i would assume so

steve bannon, reince priebus or both at any moment. big winner, hawkish son-in-law, jared kushner and h.r. mcmaster. big loser, america first steve bannon. first those 60 tomahawk missiles trump sent flying last night were a direct target at the bromance with putin. syria's reported chemical weapon attack earlier this week. according to oechingss, last night's target was the same military airfield that was used to launch those deadly chemical weapons attack. u.s. officials tell nbc the strike destroyed aircraft, infrastructure, like fuel pumps. syria claims at least six people are dead. it all unfolded as president trump hosted the chinese president at the mar-a-lago club in palm beach. shortly after the missiles were launched, president trump gathered again with his national security team to be briefed in a makeshift situation room. roughly 30 minutes later, the president delivered his remarks on the strike, which he said served the national security interests of us. >> it is in the vital national security interest of the united state

so the notion of the president asking people, and my sources tell me he will ask how is reince priebus doing, that may, to those on the outside or those within the circles of influence in the trump world, both in the white house and outside, play raise the question about whether priebus or any other top official is in some kind of jeopardy for their position. that may or may not be where the president's head is on this. the president does have kind of a manner, according to sources, of checking on how each of his top advisers are perceived by those that the president trusts or the outside world. certainly jared kushner who is the son-in-law has kind of a special place at the table and bannon has brought a lot of the populist energy to the president, and there's some trust there. we'll have to see how it plays out. very different factions that need to work together. running a white house is one of the tough eflt jobs. priebus is seeing that bolkt from the inside and having to take some of the criticisms playing out in the national conversation. >> we know the president has been honest a

i see no sign reince priebus is anything like jim baker in that respect.then? >> this has bent most dysfunctional white house in modern history. if you oppose everything trump stands for, this is the white house staff for you. this is the system you want it's broken. no competent white house chief would allow an executive order on immigration to go out into the world without being vetted. i can't imagine jim baker or leon panetta deciding to go down the repeal and replace on obamacare when the voats weren't there. and even if you passed it it would come back to bite you because so many would loss their support. they will very does priebus -- i don't want to say, have what it takes, will he make the grade to pass? >> i don't want to be unfair to priebus. i have been tough on him. funds amount alley that depends on donald trump. will he learn what what every other president learns the hard way? it took jimmy carter 2 1/2 years to figure out he needed a wh house chief. it took bill clinton a year and a half to figure out he needed to replace his white house c

also with us is a famous local resident, the pride of kenosha, reince priebus. my chief of staff. eince? where is he? what a good man. there he is. [applause] in fact, we flew over his house on the way up, and he got all excited taking pictures of it. reince went to school right here just about a mile away where he took his wife sally to the prom, and that was a match made in heaven. very nice. i also want to thank treasury secretary steve mnuchin for being with us today. secretary mnuchin is working to put together a tax reform plan to make our industry more competitive and also to provide a level playing field for our workers. we don't have a level playing field, believe me. you're going to have one very soon. and our tax reform and tax plan is coming along very well. it's going to be out very soon. we're working on health care, and we're going to get that done too. our education secretary betsy devos is a where is betsy? she's around here some place. stand up. thank you, betsy. [applause] secretary devos is working to ensure that our workers are trained for the skilled, technica

you saw reince priebus at the table, secretary tillerson at the table.non. we are told the closer you are to donald trump physically, the better your chances are of having influence. the other thing that's important to keep in mind, fredricka, steve bannon is someone that doesn't back down. if the president is looking for a certain level of softening with some of the positions that he promised during the campaign, there's a chance that steve bannon may not be willing to go along with some of those ideas. >> ryan nobody else, thank you so much. let's talk more about this potential shakeup with our political expert, ryan lizza, washington correspondent for the new yorker magazine. jane small contributor for time magazine. let's look at it again. it's one thing to be at the table. it's a another to be in the room. steve bannon customarily is at the table. is he looking on as you see jared kushner, and of course, reince priebus at the table with president trump as was just spelled out. first, can you read the tea leaves there? is there a great indicator from

. >>> house minority leader, nancy pelosi, and white house chief of staff, reince priebus, and marco rubio will discuss the president's first 100 days on nbc's "meet the press." join moderator chuck todd this morning right here on nbc10 at 10:30. >>> and then a man fell while working on the stage at the museum. he is listed at stable condition. >>> more road closures are set to go into effect for tomorrow just for the start of the workweek. matt delucia shows us that and how the draft will affect philadelphia. he's live on the ben franklin parkway for us. >> reporter: the work continues behind me and if you talk to people that work and live around here, and some are happy, and they are thrilled that the nfl draft is coming later this week and you have others that are a little concerned and they are just tired of all the traffic detou detours. you can see some of the orange barrels there, and in the city, they are hoping this is the biggest and best draft yet, and even if it meets what chicago managed to do it will be big, because the windy city had 200,000 fans come, and that generat

many of us thought it was going to be reince priebus versus steve bannon.bannon and priebus may be aligned with one another against jared kushner and some of the others who will have a very, very different view of this. some of these reports that suggest that steve bannon has been calling jared kushner behind his back a cuck and a globalist really raise the stakes for what's going on in the white house right now. >> we've been talking about that today. charlie, how about the timing and optics of the military strikes. do you think president trump's meeting with president xi was part of his calculation? >> it's hard to say. i mean if he wanted to project decisiveness and strength, it was good timing. but there's two big questions, why now and what now. why did he decide to change his position, radically different from what he has said in the past. children have been killed by chemical weapons in syria before and he was adamantly opposed to it. then he saw these pictures and decided to act this quickly so that's the first question, why now, what changed. of co

and reince priebus was going to be the policy walk. did that power sharing arrangement, i take it, didn't necessarily withstand the tes of time >> but i think steve bannon is still seen to some extent, the keeper of the flame for real did i hard trump supporters. the problem is that coalition isn't big enough to win reelection so you need to reach beyond that and bannon isn't the person perceived to do that >> he doesn't want to distance himself too much, he's a big part of the base, but looking at how there's been controversy in the white house with jared kushner and steve bannon, do you think that plays into this a lot. trump very much feels his family or advisors, ivanka got a place over there as well now. do you think that that played into this as well? >> very much so, one of the things people do say and is reflected in my own report you can't cross president trump's family, and that's something that corey and that's not good. >> how much. steve bannon's stature and declining status is based on the fact that you had a lot of polit

he has a chief of staff, reince priebus.hief strategist steve bannon never been in politics before. these are the two guys guiding the inexperienced president. he blows two opportunities. >> what about the cabinet? mcmasters. >> if you have a staff who is not guiding you, the cabinet cannot clean up the mess. >> you're president of the united states. and the thing that would scare me, you know, sometimes i wonder what to do next when i'm on a project. what's next? should i do more research? should i do some polishing? should i catch up with this? presidents have to decide what to do with every minute of their day and relax sometime, do something to get it out of their heads to make the big decisions so they can sleep properly. harry hopkins was a troubleshooter. jim baker was a great organizer of a wild mind. very focussed. what's the job of a reince priebus? i mean, how do they even tell them who to meet? what to do everyday? >> a president has to set direction. i don't think they can fully tell him what to do. in the end h

reince priebus from my sources that i've spoken to in the last 24 hours, reince priebus does seem to be set in his job. he has to keep the trains moving. someone has to in the white house. steve bannon in an interview with the "new york post," the president said that steve bannon is not all that important to him. he ran a whole campaign without him and he's not -- basically seems to indicate that he's not critical to the president's success. that's not something that you want to hear the president say if you're steve bannon. the other thing that raised eyebrows in the republican circumstances, president told bannon to take care of the drama or trump will take care of it for him. that is an ominous message and ominous thing for the president to say. >> jon: asked about steve bannon, the president said i like steve, but -- and went on to say that he had kind of run his own campaign and that steve bannon came on late in the campaign. not words you want to hear from the guy who is running the show. >> no. and i would never want my employer to say i like jake, but -- that's not -- i would

somebody, maybe reince priebus, because this was obviously his agenda. go out and tell them to do it next week. >> or maybe he 240e7told them i wanted that. >> that is totally legit. that is not how trump thinks. he doesn't think he knows how the legs islation things. that's why he needs these guys. if they say, go strong on this next week. now he is made to look like he couldn't deliver. >> this is a hideous example of crisis management. this is major public policy that effects real people's lives. millions of people. you are willy nilly. we will deny coverage. you have to work this through. look at obamacare. they took their time with it. it is horrible management. whoever is responsible. i think that he does outsource a lot. this is why he is in trouble. the chaotic management and then the potential of losing again. let me tell you something, this is a failure of leadership. we can't stand up to him or won't stand up and say we need discipline if we will change major aspects of how the country is run. >> i hate to interrupt. that is something that is

add to that, criticism aimed at chief of staff reince priebus after sources say the president peppered allies seeking to assign blame over the health care failure, rumors of a reshuffling, but tonight the power trio held a long meeting. according to sources familiar with the conversation, they claim to be on the same page. i'm told the friday afternoon meeting was organized by reince priebus as they bury the hatchet session. they could still hash it out but needed to end the back biting that has driven stories at the white house of who's up and who's down. the president was aware of this meeting and is pleased with the outcome thank you. >>> after the strike in syria, some of president trump's most ardent supporters are asking what happened to one of the president's core princip principals, the corner stone of his campaign. >> it is going to be america first, remember that. >> reporter: for president trump a two word world view. >> america first. america first, america first. >> reporter: clear on the campaign trail as he railed against intervention and then came his syrian strike and

is reince priebus there to stay? >> i would assume so. that's up to donald trump.ther words, i have heard -- i've heard nothing but rumors and inwnuendos and press report that would make any of us believe that anything other than the shake up is that donald trump is coming in as a disrupt or. >> a pivot as they say but one born of experience. i assume so and that's um up to donald trump. >> and she came out there and said i'm going to be there for a long time, i would start to pack my bags. it's not a predictable situation. what's interesting is you talk about policy. that's what at the heart of this. not just personality. policy. steve bannon lost last week on syria. he doesn't think the united states should be more involved in that war there. that's part of i think a larger trend right now in which he has not been winning some of the battles he wants to win. >> he was on the cover of time as essentially the president. how minimized? you mention he gets knocked off his principle seat at the national security council. in terms of the syria strikes, not america firs

reince priebus is donald trump's chief of staff. for sometime donald trump has been talking to friends of his outside the white house. venting about one of his favorite freezes he says i'm surrounded by geniuses. you see, i'm surrounded by geniuses mplts my gene rius rei and he doesn't mean that in a sincere way. he's been dem gra he resents the fact reince priebus told him to drop out after the access hollywood tape broke. it wouldn't take much more in terms of legislative failure for him to do a staff shakeup. beknow from donald trump's history that he's not afraid to make large and profound staff changes when he thinks it's necessary. >> yes, you are right. history would suggest that. jonathan, thank you so much. >>> president trump's senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner in iraq. u.s. official confirmed to nbc news. traveling with joint chief of staff. official says kushner was invited by the general. purpose of unannounced visit is unclear at this time. president has turned to kushner for various policy issues including p

here's how reince priebus put it.lishing i think a trump doctrine and setting certain lines where we're not going to allow people like an assad go. that's his take on what happened in sir wra about the question is about north korea given the stakes, millions of people who live just south of the demilitarized zone. the thousands of u.s. troops and south korean troops and the millions of people who live in seoul and in the suburbs. north korea saying it has conducted what it says is its largest military drills of all time and they put out a statement saying, this is kind of typical for north korea but it's getting even more muscular. this is short of lighting the fuse of a total war under the present touch and gun situation as the u.s. unsheathed the dagger to stifle the dprk at any cost. it goes on and on. we laugh sometimes about this because this is sometimes a very childish reem regime. it's an isolated regime but it's a regime that has tons of conventional artillery and some nuclear weapons. >> absolutely. i think

they were ordered to attend a meeting on friday with the chief of staff reince priebus, the president trump reportedly telling them we've got to work this out. a kind of battle to keep an iey on as we move forward. >>> top kept kt mcfarland who witnessed the ouster the mike flynn and current arrival to h.r. mcmaster, mcfarland says she will stay on, an o fshl says it appears to be months away. >>> chief justice roberts will administer the private oath and then the judicial oath at the white house rose garden at about 11:00. gorsuch clerked for justice kennedy and a first time that a former clerk is going to take the bench with his former boss. gorsuch was confirmed friday postally along party lines at republicans made a historic decision to go nuclear to get him confirmed by a simple majority votes and ending the filibuster. >>> so many stories to keep up with? >> that and any other administration it would be the top going on. >> the sexual aharassment claims against bill o riley, details next. harassment claims against bill o riley, details next. harassment claims against bill o rile

>> ron, you heard reince priebus in joe john's set up piece for us. look, this president is achieving things at a breakneck speed. is he talking about executive action? president trump has signed more executive actions. >> only to a point. he is right. there are two continuums you have to look at what president trump has accomplished and has not accomplished. the first is executive action and legislative. they are struggling with health care and tax reform with an uncertain future that will evolve into a tax cut. tax reform is revenue neutral. they have been able to get more done through executive action. legislative action is more lasting. and to david's point from a moment ago, the conventional republican agenda less regulation and spending and less taxes where they have been able to consolidate and support and move forward on the executive side and regulatory. then the distinctive trump items. the reconsidering nato and immigration. of those big agenda items, only immigration is moving forward in the way he said. china is a currency manipulator. th

reince priebus saying changes to the libel laws are easier to sue news outlets. moments ago jon karl asked priebus about it on "this week." >> is he really going to pursue that? is that something he wants to pursue? >> i think it's something we've looked at and how that gets executed and whether that goes anywhere is a different story. i think that newspapers and news agencies need to be more responsible with how they report the news. >> saturday night was all about the exercise of first amendment rights, both trump's and the media's. i'm wearing a pin that every member at the dinner received. that was last night. now it's sunday morning and there's a new chill in the air. joining me carl bernstein who spoke at the dinner last night. next to him, lynn sweet from "the chicago-sun times." jason miller, cnn political commentator. and tara palmieri, white house correspondent for plitt ka. we wa thanks for being here. on this comment from reince priebus, i think it's significant that he's saying, yes, we are looking at whether we can seek to change libel laws? >> this

also with us is a famous local resident, the pride of kenosha, reince priebus, my chief of staff. e is reince? where is he? what a good man. there he is. in fact, we flew over his house and he got all excited. reince went to school right here just about a mile away where he took his wife sally to the prom and that was a match made in heaven. very nice. i also want to thank treasury secretary steve mnuchin for being with us today. secretary mnuchin is working together to put together a tax reform plan to make our industry more competitive and also to provide a level-playing field for our workers. we don't have a level playing field, believe me. you're going to have one very soon. and our tax reform and tax plan is coming along very well. it's going to be out very soon. we're working on health care and we'll get that done, too. our education secretary, betsy devos, is also here. where is betsy? stand up. thank you, betsy. [ applause ] secretary devos is working to ensure that our workers are trained for the skilled technical jobs that will, in the future, power our country. i'm excit

you have reince priebus, the establishment republican. steve bannon, the fiery alt-right nationalist. and jared kushner, a democrat. and has supported democrats in the past. as donald trump has. and so the stakes here are very, very high. it's not just a personal nalty clash. it's about the direction of the white house. >> will they be able to work it out? as we saw in alex marquardt's piece, a few moments ago, you sat down with secretary of state rex tillerson. let's listen to more. >> it sounds like from what you're saying right now, there is no real change in the united states military stance toward syria from what it was last week. >> that's correct, george. this strike, i think the president was very clear in his message to the american people, this strike was related solely to the most recent, horrific use of chemical weapons against women, children, and as the president said, even small babies. we're calling on bashir al assad to stop using the chemical weapons. >> nikki haley is talking about regime change. >> she's saying we hope

. >> this idea of a meeting on friday with steve bannon, jared kushner within reince priebus, seams likettled. >> there's an effort of that friday get together to say guy, let's knock that off. there's not a personality tensions here. in fact these gentlemen tend to get along on a human level. they disagree on fundamental issues. jared kushner was a democrat in new york and bannon is a hard right republican who has a nationalist agenda. those two dorn't agree. >> i'll see you in a bit. thank you. i want to bring in someone who knows all about the first 100 days of an administration. andy carr is joining us. how important is the 100 days really? >> it's important because everybody said it's important. i'm not sure it's important in and of itself but we have an expectation that the first 100 days will give definition. with regard to the white house, i actually favor a white house climate that allows people to express different views, even strongly and allow the president to benefit by a debate and then make a tough decision. so i do want to white house to function well, which means you nee

the bannon/jared, ivanka, reince priebus contest. what do you make of it and how concerned are you? >> i am a bit concerned. i read the new york post where the president said i love steve but, i like steve but, he has to stop taking credit for my p strategy and victory. and top these internal wars or he is gone. that was brutally frank and blunt. it would be a mistake for the president to follow-through on a threat, lou. bannon represents and deals with popullist national america first wing of the trump coalition. if he goes, the base will be looking hard at who is left behind and who got him. >> lou: they are tricky times. he could get broad sided. the folks, the president has relied upon here and they include obviously speaker paul ryan. what he did in congress and simply misjudging or misy representing the vote any way you look at it. that is malfesans of a high order. i don't know what would happen with the programs given the leadership from the the house. bannon, he may be a tough go, but he among other people and stefan miller, these are the people who are the heart and soul o

i think the real problem is not kushner, bannon, reince priebus, kellyanne conway. it's not anyone.d trump. they are trolling about because at the core of the white house there is no core. donald trump has gone back and forth on many key policies. health care, tax reform, abortion, middle east, you know military action. because he doesn't give strong directions about ideas because he doesn't have is a lot of ideas and because it's never about his ideas, it's just about him, he leads -- you know, it leads to this sort of battleground where anybody who gets him on the right day or shows him the right video image can win a policy argument. that raises the stakes and creates a lot more chaos. we saw in the health care fight it doesn't tend to work. >> jonathan swan, the seen here of the president saying to priebus and bannon, work this out, not saying that to jared kushner -- is there any indication in any of your reporting that the president is putting any pressure on jared kushner to find the solution to this relationship? >> my understanding is he has told them to cut it out. he's si

capitol hill, i think the only one who will really bring pause to lawmakers especially is if reince priebusmehow shown the door. they see him as a critical component in getting the legislative agenda passed that the president wants and republicans want because he is one of the few who can really speak as an equal or someone who understands congress in that way. >> and with connections to the house speaker paul ryan. >> to freeze frame it this morning and that's a risky hinge to do it feels to me at least reince priebus has managed to implement a truth between kushner and bannon, how long this truce holds is anybody's guess, a week, maybe two. and the reason it is going to be hard to hold is some of it is about tactics and some is just ideology. this is a white house with a broad spectrum of views ranging there bannon and the sort of isolate -- nationalist view on the right to jared kushner and gary coen if they are not moderate democrats they certainly are ideological that is half of the political spec sprum and that is more than jim baker and ted meets, it is a big gulf, and they won't be