homeland security secretary general john kelly. - kelly's in, previous chief of staff reince priebust. the question is, though, why did he get the ax? - the final straw for president trump with priebus was the fact that that healthcare vote went down in defeat last week. this is a big priority for the president. reince priebus's selling point was he said he was the person to get healthcare over the finish line, to overhaul obamacare, that he had all of these relationships on capitol hill, and of course, it didn't get done. - really? healthcare failed because of reince? like, why do they keep bringing in new people as if we don't all know what the real problem is? it's like donald trump is a tornado and the white house keeps hiring new maids. "why isn't this place ever clean? "it's so dirty, what's happening? i'm just gonna neaten up. i'm just gonna neaten up." like, what was even worse was how poor reince got the news. - ashley parker, a "washington post" reporter, tweeted, "when air force one touched down friday afternoon at andrews air force base, priebus, senior policy adviser ste

interview with a reporter at the new yorker" he uses vulgar terms to describe the chief of staff, reince priebus, the chief strategist steve bannon. we know initially the president was okay with this. he didn't mind it the shots across the bow particularly on priebus. buts in a president mindful of the media coverage. we know in the days following he grew less and less happy with the negative tone of the coverage of this. so did important people around him including ivanka, jared kushner, steve bannon. when john kelly named chief of staff right from that moment it was very clear that scaramucci -- was mot going to continue to have this sort of access to the president and then as of today no access to the president at all. and at least not in his white house job. >> so vivian, is it fair to judge the administration of chief of staff kelly by looking to see what happens or not tomorrow morning between, say, 7 and 10:00 a.m.? if twitter is silent, if america is safe and if it's a quiet morning, quiet tuesday, midsummer morning in america, do you think there will have been change enacted. >> well, j

forwarded the e-mail exchange about sanctions to six other trump advisers, including, drum roll, reince priebus. so reince was reportedly on that e-mail chain about michael flynn calling the russian ambassador to talk about sanctions when it happened. keep that in mind as you watch this clip of reince priebus from february when he went on "meet the press" with an intricate story claiming he and others at the white house knew nothing. >> some time after january 27th, it was -- our legal counsel got a heads up from sally yates that something wasn't adding up with his story. we started thinking about whether or not michael flynn was being straight with us. and that's when we started asking a lot of question withes and sort of deposing michael flynn and figuring out what he knew or what he didn't know. he maintained the fact that he never talked to the russian ambassador about sanctions, but still something wasn't adding up. and eventually, we determined that he did in fact talk about the sanctions, even though we didn't believe that it was illegal, the fact was that it turned more or less into a c

they go on, reince priebus, to me, on "meet the press."pence to chris wallace on "fox news sunday" both deny it. left out of the -- according to this document, he is talking to people in the transition. either pence and priebus were left out, highly possible. >> right. >> or they're lying. >> yeah. i mean -- and either one of those things could potentially be really useful to mueller in his investigation. right? he can leverage either. whichever of those things is true. it is great leverage. over mike flynn and potentially over other people. and presumably all of those people involved know exactly how that next step is likely to play out. >> mike pence is one of the only experienced public servants in this room. i find it very unlikely that he deliberately went on television and lied about something this important. i don't buy. >> it and somebody else, second most unlikely person to make a mistake like this, reince priebus. >> been around town. >> and knows, know how to, like, not say anything. right? but to do -- something other than -- >

but he doesn't micromanager, other than picking reince priebus as the chief of staff, reince, you go fill out the government the way you want to. and i think that's a fair way to manage. >> there is an incredible moment in the book, it's after the "access hollywood" tape, reince priebus has come up for a meeting, he does end up going to the meeting. reince priebus says, you have two choices. either you're going to have the biggest loss in history, or you get out of the race. and the president says to him, look, i'm not going to get out of the race, but i'll tell you, if -- you know, if -- i don't want to misquote him, essentially saying, i'll bring the republican party down before i, you know, if i go, i'm going to bring the whole republican party down. that's pretty stunning for a guy who's the candidate of the republican party. >> look, anderson, it was such a unique time, right? the campaign was in triage at that moment. and this candidate, donald trump, unequivocally knew. and he went around the room, and we write about it in the book, what do you think the odds of me still winni

so reince priebus would see the deliberations over the sanctions.een the firing of comey, the pressure that donald trump put on comey to, you know, not prosecute or go after michael flynn. he would have also been around when the russians were in the oval office, and it's alleged that the president was leaking national security secrets and also talking about the great relief that he had. he has seen a lot. hopefully he is just truthful. that's all we have. >> if he is not, isn't he under the danger of a perjury? it's one thing to be loyal. but if you perjure yourself to protect a president, you can't count on an arpaio-style pardon to clear things up, can you? >> no you can't. but reince seems like someone who has been around a lot. i don't have any reason to question why he wouldn't be truthful. he wasn't with the trump team. i think the niam the family who have been around a lot, that's where the loyalty is going to be the strongest and the hardest to pierce. hopefully if he saw something, he'll say something. >> it's like that slogan here in new y

reince priebus told us about this. an it is false. >> i'm comfortable with my sources. the kind of quizzical thing that reince priebus said was that i never reached out to him for comment. that's false. i sent him two e-mails and left a message at his office asking for comment. i don't know why he's saying that. but look, the reality is -- it's amazing how many times we go back and revisit that episode about the "access hollywood" tape. that moment was one of tremendous political upheaval. republicans were calling on trump to drop out. pence made clear to the rnc, that he was ready to make trump's place. and reince priebus said that pence and condoleezza rice were ready to step in as the new ticket. that didn't happen. and it is remarkable to think that trump was able to push past that and just four weeks later, be elected president. that says a lot about where we are as a country. >> mckay, frank, i'm here five nights a week. >>> when we come back, the president once said there's nobody that has more respect for women than i do. 1 of the 13 women accusing him of inappr

sean spicer and reince priebus, we now know, had been notified otherwise. had been notified of the truth of the matter when they made those false public statements about flynn and russia. why did they then lie about it publicly? and when it came to the vice president, either he was lying too just like sean spicer and reen apprecia reince priebus were, which is possible. the vice president's assertion that's he was telling the truth on that matter as far as he knew, i think those assertions should no longer be taken at face value. when it comes to the vice president, there are really only two options, and neither of them are the white house story about what happened. either mike pence like reince priebus, like sean spicer, lied about flynn and russia, he knew the real story and he just told a fake story to the public, or he thought he was telling the truth. but if he thought he was telling the truth, he wasn't just lied to by mike flynn. he was lied to by mike flynn and k.t. mcfarland and tom bossert and steve bannon and sean spicer and reince appreciateus a

people like reince priebus. people about flynn and his discussions with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. if mueller can determine that flynn was directed to discuss sanctions and that he was directed to lie to the fbi and then if he was directed to then lie to pence, that can be used in this possible obstruction case against the president. >> you covered a lot of generals who rise to political prominence both through their successes on the battlefield and their political acumen. does mike flynn seem like a rogue actor? >> he seems very much like a rogue actor. and he seems like a pressure point. the minute that he flipped, now every single one of these interviews with everybody who is in the inner circle in the white house has to worry that he's going to contradict him. he has someone to help capitol -- contradict him. >> do you think inside the white house he would have acted alone? >> this story was interesting but to me it's not surprising. it would be criminal if mueller was not asking these questions

he calls reince priebus. of people inkinds it kelly can't control those conversations. in fairness to bill clinton's chiefs, i don't think is possible to really police bill clinton in that way. difficult, that scandal. get clintono through that time. i know it was painful for bowls. for the white house staff. they felt betrayed by clinton. mike is calling from missouri on the republican line. caller: good morning. staff isn'ted the wearing heavy sunshade so they're not minded by your brilliance. is, you areto you typical of many of the lemmings i see on c-span. all you do is criticize. if you had come up with something that would be helpful, while you apply to be chief of staff? with your political savvy i'm sure you would really help. why don't you run for political office? let me respond. let me go way out on a limb here and just suggest that you probably haven't read the book. i don'td realize that have all the answers and i don't pretend to. to be very evenhanded between democrats and republicans. i have decided democrat and republican as two people i think were the

sean spicer and reince priebus had been notified otherwise. had been notified of the truth of the matter when they made false public statements about flynn and russia. why did they lie about it publicly? when it came to the vice president, he was lying, too, which is possible and that possibility shouldn't be discounted. it's fair to say assertionins should no longer be taken at face value. when it comes to the vice president, there are only two options and neither of them are the white house story what happened. either mike pence like priebus and sean spicer lied about flynn and russia. he few tknew the real story and a fake story to the public or he thought he was telling the truth but if he thought he was telling the truth, he wasn't just lied to by mike flynn. he was lied to by k.t. mcelderry c mcelderfarland and who knows wh else. all of whom stood by and let the vice president make all these false statements about it multiple times on national television, on different networks with different interviewers over and over and over again fals

reince priebus is in the discussion according to "new york times" reporting.saying, did the president know, did the president-elect know. what point was what known. your reaction? >> well, i want to be clear some of us, including ken and i for months have been suspicious of this idea that general flynn was some kind of rogue actor making up foreign policy on his own. think about the context. they're in the transition. they're trying to figure out who is who on the team. this is a major piece of diplomacy he is going to do. i always found it inconceivable he would do that without some coordination with the people he is about to join in the white house. i worked on the transition in 2008 with president-elect obama and you were always looping in more and more people to do tiny little things because you were trying to figure out who had what responsibility. and what we learned today is just more evidence to that fact. what we don't know is exactly who is looped in, was it the vice president. remember, he was the head of the transition. or was it the president-elec

she bucked reince priebus. and she devil bucked general kelly. salary of $180,000. >> what? >> she was a friend of president trump. yes. she was awe friend of president trump. he cherished that friendship. she used to have walk-in access. and that is where the problem begins. >> okay. first of all -- >> parameters to keep the president focused. >> april, you're giving us a lot of information. she actually did have some cobbled together role. and $180,000 is a huge salary for someone who you can't say what their job description is. some of this is tongue in cheek. >> taxpayer money. >> there is drama surrounding omarosa. tell us your reporting. was there some sort of blowup at the white house holiday party with her? >> some sort is an understatement. so apparently, according to my sources, my credible sources, at the christmas party, one of the two christmas parties that night. it was actually election night. that night, you know, general kelly approached omarosa. he said i need to talk to you. she said, sure, i want to have full access again. mea

you have the appointed chief of staff in reince priebus. you have the shadow transition official on all things national security and foreign affairs, unofficially with jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, and then u tyou have the president. no one else. that's it. as national sdurt adviser r. it kushner, it pence, and it the president. i don't think he would have believed that reince priebus is someone who could have directed him. >> let me ask one more question. what rome -- >> i think sessions wasn't that involved because he was concentrating on the job that he wanted. there was talk of dhs and then the justice department. but let's not forget why we're here. i said this earlier. bob mueller has a job because the president of the united states was so concerned about protecting mike flynn. so this is -- when he went to james comey asking comey to see if he could see his way clear of this flynn investigation. this is why this is such a bad day for the white house, why they themselves are admitting that, because there's not many dots l

scaramucci's arrival in many ways led to reince priebus' departure, and therefore, more importantly, john kelly's arrival. we have seen people we talked to in the white house say, that was a significant moment, an inflection point for this administration. after scaramucci's departure, the sense of morale was lower in the building. now with john kelly, there is a sense of a flow of purpose. he is gathering the flow of information. he is reining in the legislative process. defeating health care, as you said, but from there lessons learned how to involve the president, how to involve the legislative staff leads to a victory in the tax bill. but it's deeper than that. that same period we saw, perhaps, the irredeemable rift between the president and two key members of his cabinet. it was where rex tillerson and defense secretary mattis and others took to school why a robust american presence was needed around the globe, pointing out its impact on businesses, including the trump organization. after that meeting is when rex tillerson is reported to have called the president a moron. also du

it seems to be leaking even more than it was under reince priebus. the chaos continues. nothing seems to have changed in the way it operates. >> well, he has changed the personnel. he helped get rid of steve bannon, sebastian gorka. i think it's kind of like trying to bring in a consultant to fix santa's workshop by getting rid of troublesome elves you. still have president donald trump and there is no changing him there has been no sign that kelly has brought discipline to the man at the top no matter what he has done to make the internal operation more efficient. i think he said something very interesting in his last appearance in the briefing roof room. he said i was brought in to control nothing but the information flow to the president. not the president himself. and that message was directed at the president, reassuring him he wasn't trying to control him. but it was also sort of a tacit admission that there is no controlling or changing the behavior of donald trump. and because of what that behavior is, that's a significant problem for this white house. >> daniel

others at that meeting include reince priebus, steve bannon and kellyanne conway. according to flynn, the transition officials did not want russia to escalate the situation. so flynn immediately called kislyak asking russia not to overreact to sanctions that the u.s. government imposed on russia that day. flynn called mcfarland back and grievf e briefed her on the phone call. vice president pence stated on national television in january the next month, sanctions were not discussed with kislyak. now we're learning that administration officials beyond flynn knew that and knew that was a lie. also today, another interaction flynn had with the russian ambassador was revealed. on december 22, a senior trump transition official, who we now know is jared kushner -- and to learn where each government stood on the resolution, and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. so anderson, today the government said flynn lied about those conversations with kislyak in his fbi interviews. >> so how did mueller and his team of investigators get flynn

so reince priebus stepped up and helped donald trump get ready for these debates. assistance in debate prep for st. louis and for the third debate in las vegas. without that, i don't know that things would have gone as well. the president stepped up on the stage and delivered a masterful performance in both. some of that was the preparation. >> martha: i want to play real quick 20 seconds or something of an interview that i did with president trump on election day. when i put myself back in that moment, you remember that thought hillary clinton was going to win based on the polls, right? the polls have always worked before, basically. i asked him -- everybody asked him if he was going to concede. is he concede or fight this thing? right? play this little clip. then i want to get corey's response. >> if you do lose tonight what is your next move? >> i'm going to have to see under what circumstances. it's largely a rigged system. and you see it at the polling booths, too. >> martha: are you saying you believe this will not be over tonight, mr. trump? >> no, i'm not s

i health departme i should say this is something that reince priebus now denies. this is according to somebody present at the meeting. >> this vice president who talks very openly about his faith who often makes appearances before religious groups or in religious settings, how has he been able to reconcile his loyalty to a president who just today again endorsed an alleged child molester? >> this is why i think this story of mike pence is important because it is really the story of millions of conservative christians in this country. i have a part of this story where i talk to an expert on religion in this country. he says that there has been a sea change in especially vangelical political ethics that has made it so that the group formerly known as value voters look for candidates with sterling kwarkt. they look for candidates who will support them on issues like abortion and religious freedom. donald trump said the right things during the campaign and he convinced an overwhelming number of white evangelicals and conservative christians to support him. mike pence

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trump brings in reince priebus, his chief of staff. a guy who was a party functionary, before that a term or so in the wisconsin legislature. i want to remind you, whenever you see reince although he is out of politics right now, always keep y in mind reince priebus is without the vowels, rncprbs. [laughter]. do not like at him without thinking about that. [laughter]. then you bring in steve bannon andin steve miller as your top actors. then you bring into your cabinet goldman sachs executives and business types who never served in governmentwh before. then with the 600 or so top policy positions, senate confirmable, that matter, deputy secretaries undersecretary is assistant secretaries heads of bureaus and heads of agencies, a year into the presidency more half unfilled, not even nominated for positions, including key ambassadorships. when you have a president who goes to asia with the threat of a nuclear conflict with north korea, and we do not have an i am ambassador in south korea, and you don't trust anybody else, that is cacocrac

when donald trump had the "access hollywood" tape come out, he was disgusted and told reince priebusump off the ticket. >> today he's living through something else and that is blake farenthold announcing he's going to retire but not right now. this push/pull of resign or retire? he came under serious allegations. cnn reported new details of vulgar and abusive behavior. you had descriptions in this piece in "the new york times" about what they called his frat house on the hill. fridge filled with beer, women talking with male lobbyists, talking about which ones had texted them pictures of their genitals. both men and women would talk about strip clubs and whether fo fox news anchors had breast implants. congressman fairrenthold was asd about this walking to his car. listen to this. >> do you deny the latest allegations against you? >> there have been so many, i don't know what all is going on. >> why not resign right away? >> he said there have been so many allegations, i don't know what all is going on. >> but he didn't -- but he didn't deny anything. he didn't deny it. so that's the

steve bannon, roy moore, mitch mcconnell, and -- sean spicer, reince priebus, anthony scaramucci, andot least. >> donald trump started the year at 47%, 48% approval, the best he had been. he ends the year at 35 at the best, 31, 32 at the worst. did get the tax plan through. but i think problematic more broadly speaking. the guy's got big problems with the base, problems in the country. big problems within the republican party. ste steve bannon and roy moore together. steve bannon's big moment was supposed to be the alabama special election. he had been with roy moore from the start. trump endorsement is strange. he stays with him, stays with him, stays with him through all of the allegations. roy moore loses. steve bannon suddenly is persona non grata. at least more persona non grata for some folks than others. i put reince priebus and sean spicer together because they were the establishment -- hard to remember, you go to the beginning of the year. remember, it was trump has a piece of the establishment within his inner circle. chairman of the rnc and rnc communications director. it w

the vice president and the incoming chief-of-staff reince priebus both went on television shows, one of them was mine on sunday and said that mike flynn did not discuss sanctions in there. so either they lied or flynn and somebody else is keeping stuff om and that's possible. there may be people that know stuff and people that kept out of the loop and if you're intentionally keeping people out of the loop you have a conspiracy. >>> to keep you in the loop in this investigation, "meet the press" airs sunday morning at 10:30 on news4. >>> breaking news now. any minute the senate is expected to vote on the massive republican tax plan. i want to show you a live look at the senate floor. bob corker is the only senator to say he will vote against the $1.4 trillion tax bill. this will temporarily cut individual tax rates. there are no guarantees that everybody in the middle class will see their taxes go down. it would slash the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20% and add some tax breaks while eliminating other popular ones. earlier tonight democrats mocked the late delivery of this hefty mas

but his former white house chief of staff, reince priebus, made some remarkable comments in an eventast night. he spoke about going into the oval office, while he was chief of staff, to try to prevent the president from tweeting and then he said this. quote, i know the tweets you haven't seen. for every tweet you've seen, there's another nine you >> it's hard to imagine what is worse than what we're seeing. 90% is getting screened out. i think not withstanding sort of cia director mike pompeo saying there's national security benefits to this tweeds, we have seen that these tweets have both legal implications for him and for this administration, and also have national security implications. really, i think the reaction to that is one of fear. right? it's disturbing to think that, hey, we are one -- we are one wrong tweet getting away. one john kelly not managing to intercept a tweet away from having really substantial consequences. >> jeff, he's posted thousands of tweets. he's got 44 million followers on twitter. all of those tweets now for the first time, i believe ever, he and the

happened in the last few weeks, jake, we've had multiple officials from the white house, meaning reince priebus, former officials in the white house and current white house who have gone in for interviews with the special counsel. they've all been testifying on this. we know recently from our reporting that jared kushner was brought in and that he was asked about michael flynn and we expect that this is one of the questions that was being asked. so what we're hearing in the past hour or so is a bit of spin from people close to the white house, people who tell us that essentially kushner wasn't alone here. that at least, according to the testimony that has been given, priebus, bannon, flynn and jared kushner were all involved in this effort on the u.n. vote. so what this means, jake, and this is an important part of this, is now the prosecutors are going to be able to look at multiple pieces of testimony and decide whether or not anybody has told a falsehood in addition to the falsehoods that we know that flynn has given. so i think there is a lot more investigation here by the special prosecuto

that -- her ameliorat e-mail iso sean spicer, reince priebus and two days later michael flynn has another conversation with kislyak and he himself briefs senior men's of the transition team about that conversation and again about sanctions, so it begs the question if sean spicer priebus and bannon all new that he was talking to the russian ambassador about sanctions, who was being left in the dark? >> sreenivasan: so what do these e-mails show? is it a matter of impropriety, going against the wishes of the obama administration or is there something illegal about having these sorts of conversations? >> no there isn't any -- the obama administration at any time want them to have these conversations right? they had asked them you know please don't subvert u.s. policy, there can only be one president at a time, if you are going to have conversations with foreign officials, and stakeholders that's fine but bring along a state department person so there's a record of that. and none of that happened. >> sreenivasan: all right, sharon lafraniere one of the team of reporters who worked on this tha

democrat congressman from baltimore, and pushed for the job by then-white house chief of staff reince priebus. this is an example of the president appointing establishment republicans who did not vote for him, and do not have his back. i fear the extent to which he has surrounded himself with people who did not support him and are not loyal to him. i am a loyal supporter of the president, and i am concerned about some of the people he has, perhaps inadvertently, put around him. >> you said you do not believe he should fire mueller. should he fire rosenstein? stone: the reason i believe he should not fire mueller is because i think the democrats realize that they have lost the upper hand in this particular struggle, and therefore i think they are trying to go him into this. congresswoman spier saying that there are rumors that the president will firing mueller. the only rumors are the ones you are starting, congresswoman. they believed if the president fired mr. mueller on, say, new year's eve or christmas day, that they would have the obvious analogies to the saturday night massacre and there

hairy if the white house counsel, don mccann, says i did tell you guys he lied to the fbi and reince priebus will say no, you didn't. that will get hairy because mcgahn and priebus right now have the same lawyer representing them both on the russia investigation. that is instantly awkward if the two of them are telling factu factually inconsistent,factual ly conflicting accounts. more prodly, lbroadly, if they these senior officials in terms of what they are saying about mike flynn and whether or not the president should be on the hook for obstructing justice in the flynn case, the counsel will stand against the rest of the white house on this, that's a big, big deal. not unprecedented. john dean was the single most important witness against nixon in watergate but nixon fired john dean in watergate. before john dean started singing his own tune. don mcgahn still works at the white house so if he's handing stuff over to muller that says the president is legally on the hook for obstruction of justice, it's going to have a bigfect e on the president's future. it's weird he's still working there

we've seen other high-profile staffers, you know, reince priebus, sean spicer, exit this year. we've seen a lot of high-profile exits, more than you usually see from a white house in its first year in office. >> sean sullivan, gabby, please stick around. we have more to discuss. >>> new protests and questions after the president's controversial announcement about jerusalem. plus, what it's like to get caught up in the middle of a clash. >> okay, you don't need to push. all right. we found ourselves directly in the middle here. s: it's 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. and at our factory in boston, 1,200 workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. today we're bringing you america's number one shave at lower prices every day. putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. as one of those workers, i'm proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. gillette - the best a man can get. the markets change... at t. rowe price... ou

certainly there was a wave this summer when the previous chief of staff, reince priebus, and sean spicerretary left. and we've seen sort of drips of other staff leaving in and out. what i've heard from a lot of sources with ties to the white house is that a lot of folks are waiting to get through that first year point. >> so they can be over with it? this is not a positive thing. this is a negative thing. >> well, i'm not going to say whether it's positive or negative. i'm just going to say what people are expecting. and that is that people came in, wanted to serve for a year, and then sort of see what happens next. certainly is unusual to have as much turnover as this administration has had. >> we have less than two minutes. sorry to cut you off. erin, what i wanted to talk to you about is the winners and losers of the alabama senate race. obviously doug jones won. you also wrote the "me too" campaign you think was a winner. a lot of people think it was a winner. that may, in fact, call for more chorus for all this to come back to president trump. my question, does this whole "me too" s

reince priebus told the president the same thing. a gop operative tells fox news there needs to be better coordination on communication. when the white house is in a political knife fight, it needs air cover from the rnc. one source said the rnc is a disaster. the president needs to dump that place and start over. republicans fear a bloodbath next november unless something is done to change out the strategy. gregg: president trump blasting the fake news media tore failing to talk about many of his accomplishments in his first year in office. he has a partial list. the president repealing the obamacare individual mandate, opening up arctic drilling. a record stock market, rollback of obama regulations. 1.7 million new jobs created. the gorsuch con fish nation, the travel ban is now in place. the keystone pipeline and veterans affairs reform. joining me, the former republican congressman from utah, jason chaffetz, now a fox news contributor. you think he exceeded expectations. does that mean he exceeded low expectations or went beyond

just ask sean spicer or communications director anthony scaramucci or reince priebus or steve bannonrse -- >> why do you believe you were fired? >> i take his word that i was fired because of the russia investigation. >> he had more than a dozen resignations, firings and reassignments in his first year. the me too movement ushered in an era of accountability ending careers and launching a battle for moral high ground. allegations that roy moore assaulted teen girls led alabama voters to elect the first democratic senator in 25 years. >> i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office. >> fellow democrats forced al franken to announce his resignation after several women said he acted inappropriately. >> he mashes his mouth to my lips. >> several others in congress including trent franks and red,white,and blue and blake farenthold announced retirements after accusations of their own. in response about the president's past actions? the white house was defiant. >> that's the big news here. the russian interference this in our e

reince priebus is calling the story 100% false. joining me, peter he -- peter suderman.e having some nighttime construction in times square. getting ready for a new year's eve. i love this story so much because $800 any is so much money. it's funny that it was presented to donald trump and he said no i will pass. >> i don't know he was ever presented with the $800 million. it's an incredible amount of money. it's twice as much as the entire trump campaign cost and more than the hillary clinton campaign cost. the presidential election was $2.4 billion in 2016. $800 million, that's how scared some republican donors were after the access hollywood tape came out. and i think that that feeling was shared not by the entire republican party, but by a lot of republicans at that time who thought this is a lost cause. what that tells you, what the amount tells you, is that those republican donors saw basically and viewed his as an opportunity basically that they shot they were better off buying an entirely new campaign that probably would lose if you have the top guy step off the

one last note of the e-mail were forwarded to six other advisers including steve bannon and reince priebus and sean spicer so for the white house to claim that they had no idea is now becoming more dubious, an a. the clock is ticking. >> lets get straight to our panel. >> also with us, former prosecutor and with me here in new york, tim neftali. on january 24th, flynn had the interview with the fbi. he lied of his call in that interview. three days later, this is a live image right now with the president just coming back from his trip to new york landing there at the white house. we'll keep that up in case he makes a comment. back to the time line about who knew what and when. we know when the president invited the fbi james comey and asked for comey to pledge loyalty happening after flynn went and testify before the fbi. a couple of weeks later on february 13th after the public learned flynn discussed sanctions, trump fired flynn. the next day on the 14th. trump asked comey to let the investigation into flynn go. rinaldo, my first question to you, is that obstruction of justice if trump k

the top aides including kellyanne conway and steve bannon and reince priebus and steven miller and hopeicks. also michael flynn received contact to the russian sergei kislyak. current president obama announces new sanctions against russia for meddling in the u.s. election. the top national security aide kt farland received a call from flynn regarding what he should say about the sanctions. flynn then called kislyak and urged a muted response. he called farland back to fill her in. trumps huddled to plan a response to the new sanctions. it's unclear whether trump was involved in those conversations. just after 6:00 p.m., trump said i will meet with leaders of the community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation. here now to talk about this is cnn white house reporter abby philipp and criminal defense attorney. let's start with you. you are traveling with the president and has the white house said how deeply involved the president was in any of these deliberations? did he expect them to? >> those meetings that you discussed would have happened down the street from

had a lot to do with directing overall campaign for republicans and he's closely connected to reince priebus and sean spicer, wisconsin mates from way back. any reporting that you can bring that paul ryan may be asked questions about his involvement and whether guccifer 2.0 intersected with him? >> he did oversee entire operation. as you mentioned, he never responded to the letter from democrats asking why the republicans are using all this stolen information. that's a question mueller will want to ask him, why he didn't put a stop it. spokesperson said just because he didn't answer this letter doesn't mean he's for russian interference or republicans using this hacked material. but you have to question why he hasn't come out more strongly about this conduct. >> was any of this material collected used against republicans? >> no. rnc itself was hacked and none of the information from the rnc was released. >> very interesting. you're breaking a lot, you should follow her on twitter. >>> much more to come tonight. what appears to be a big change in president's strategy toward one of his earlies

trump said he was making john kelly his new chief of staff replacing reince priebus. the following monday anthony scaramucci was fired. one of the co-authors of the extensive a.p.p., the trump white house's crucible joins me now. why was this such an important period? >> we found that this is obviously a white house that has produced no shortage of headlines but for these 13 days not only was it frenzied but the news that came out still is having consequences today. the white house was shaped, nearly broken, by these 13 days between july 19th and 31st but really changed. the people we talked to in the white house say there was some good and bad. >> how has it changed? >> certainly, first of all, senior staff first changes. the new chief of staff, john kelly who has clamped down on some of the in fighting in the west wing, who has controlled the change of flow of information to the president. who has put together some sort of structure -- >> he still dvrs -- >> he does. they have said he doesn't believe twitter is part of his job. >> or television watching. it does see

reince priebus, when he was rnc chair he made a lot of good recommendations at the time about reaching out to hispanics in particular, and we have gone in the wrong direction on that score. the president's campaign was directed more as solidifying the base, and appealing more to older white voters. you alienate a lot of hispanic voters with his comments on mexicans and latinos and the charlottesville situation, and there are comments about muslims, and so i think that has hurt us that we're not expanding the base. i always said politics and getting elected is an exercise in inclusion and not exclusion and addition and not subtraction. this is not a club where you want to keep people out but there is where you try to get people into the tent and not put them out. >> but it worked for the president, right? it worked for the president to win the electoral college this time around, however when you look forward to 2020 there's a fascinating analysis in the "washington post" by jennifer ruben, and she wrote this, if democrats go far left lining up behind senator bernie sanders the void in t

. >> pence and reince priebus. >> is the president? >> the president is in that list as well. it would explains if they were in the know and explain why he was so reluctant to fire flynn. why at the time the president was not upset that flynn had lied, but only that the press found out. that is consistent with a president who knew this all along. >> the core allegations involved here, shortly after flynn was interviewed by the fbi, i believe on the terror24th. sa sally yates warned him that he lied and he asked the fbi director to end the investigation. is that obstruction? the investigations, i asked the question yesterday whether they instructed the him to take any action what he considered him into the russian investigation. all of this ought to be of profound disturbance to us. about conversations with u.s. sanctions on russia. president obama opposed four russian interference with the election. is there something illegal about the president-elect trump at that time telling a foreign power that the sanctions imposed by the current president of the united states, this is so

reince priebus and steve bannon and mike flynn. the list goes on and on. i don't want to read the names. what do you make of the first year of apparently chaos or at least turn over at the white house. >> it's not unusual for your average chief of staff to spend about a year there and switch. granted we have gone through a few. trump came in as a disruptor and not a lot of political allegiances. we didn't come in with an established crew. it's not unusual. this happens in all white houses and in mooch's case, he got fired essentially because he thought he was off the record and he was on the record with a reporter who burned him. the president had no choice but to fire him. there is so much speculation about rex tillerson gone and it's just the fact is that everyone likes covering this white house, but this happens in every white house. per are does this happen at every white house? >> no. it's important to separate two things. there is absolute always turn over in the white house and a learning curve. people said in a different branch of the government it