rosen: thank you.hat, i thinkess that, it turns out that it is possible -- one big question i think about the constitution is to what extent does it have a meaning that is possible to discern. one way to figure it out is by hearing both sides, about people's different views about what it provides. and these debates are a wonderful opportunity for people to do that. and i think everybody, including the debaters, find that they learn things from them about the constitution and that enables them to make judgments, not on the basis of what they would like the constitution to mean, but on the basis of arguments about what it actually means. and i think it will not work, the constitution will not work if people are just deciding, i really like this result and therefore i am going to conclude the constitution says that. the civil,t having vigorous, energetic discussion about what it actually says is in a sense just central to the whole enterprise of having constitutional government. mr. rosen: that is beautif

rosen field says most of the city's 6,000 users have gone through online training and there are support teams to help navigate the complicated system. >> we're getting about 300 help desk tickets a day. >> reporter: rosen field says that's about normal for a massive new program like this. though workers in some city agencies are apparently having trouble making purchases, saying they need more training. in may abc7 news reported the city's aging fleet of police cars are breaking down more frequently and to make matters worse there is a shortage of new cars to replace them. many are here at the city central repair shop towed here for maintenance and repairs. police union president marty hal ran is concerned that issues with the new financial system may exacerbate the existing problem. >> we have upwards of 50 cars that are sitting at central shops that are waiting -- some are waiting for parts and until those parts can be ordered those cars are going to sit there idle. >> reporter: rosen field is confident with more hands-on experience, city workers will become more comfortable with the

speaking of the constitution center, our podcast is with james rosen -- jeffrey rosen. he is the president and ceo. jeffrey rosen is the president and ceo of the constitution center in philadelphia and we talk about our founders and the words that really shaped america. it can be heard on our website at www.c-span.org, c-span radio app and your apple podcast. we will open our phone lines. for democrats. democrats.-8000 for (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8002 for independents. >> live today, author, journalist and history professor herb boyd is our guest. >> i often draw parallels between new york and the short. look at the 1863 draft riots, a nice comparison between what was happening in new york at what was happening here in detroit, all for the same reasons. we talk about the black and irish community at each other's throats in terms of jobs and housing. 1943, onedown to the in parliament in 1943. go down tonight is extended, same kind of ink. and for the same conditions. -- go down into 1968 and the same kind of thing. crook says latest is "black detroit."

james rosen in washington.ence will be on capitol hill meeting with small business owners concerned about health care reform. tucker carlson pressed the vice president on the white house's goals. >> what we want is a health care system that works for all of the american people. >> what does that mean? cheaper coverage? a larger percentage of the population covered? better health care outcomes? if you could name the primary goals of the replaced part of the deal. but would it be? >> the primary goal first is to give people freedom over their own health care choices. >> earlier, the senate rejected the repeal of obamacare as the congressional budget office scored a skinny repeal bill and found it would strip 16 million people. james rosen in washington. now, back to "hannity." >> tonight, i am back in the center of the american heartland, far away from the washington swamp. to spend time with thousands of true american patriots. i'm here this evening to cut through the fake news filter and to speak straight to th

jeffrey rosen, let's go back to where greg craig was a moment ago.oes the president have the power to pardon himself? >> this is an open constitutional question of the highest moment. and people disagree. some say that the president does not have the power to pardon himself. that was what the office of legal counsel advised when president nixon was contemplating it. on the other hand, during the clinton impeachment representative bob goodlatte assumed that the president could pardon himself. the idea no person should be the judge of his own case. and neither the kingdom or a anyone tried that. the pardon power stands except for cases of impeachment. basically it would be tested after the president left office. that when he would be criminally prosecuted. he would have issued a prospective that said don't prosecute me and then it would go up to the sitting court as to whether a sitting president could pardon himself. >> a very quick answer for time constraints, are we headed for a constitutional crisis? greg craig, you and then jeffrey rosen. >> all t

. >> jeffrey rosen, what happens if sessions leaves? either he resigns or he's fired, a new ag comes in, one who has not recused himself from the mueller probe and seeks to fire mueller. could he do so? >> yes, he has the constitutional legal authority to do so. the special prosecutor statute says the prosecutor has to be fired by the attorney general but the question is would he do it or be like elliott richardson, nixon's attorney general who resigned rather than firing the special prosecutor and then it was turtles all the way down until robert bourque carried out the act. if the new attorney general did fire mueller, would that be an impeachable offense, basically would the congress conclude that the president had ordered the attorney general to fire the special prosecutor with the corrupt motive of obstructing justice which is an impeachable offense and that would be up to congress to decide. >> greg craig, there was talk according to published reports of pardon powers within the white house. that seems to have been reported with a

. >> miss rosen. >> thank you, i have an amendment on the table. exit the clerk went distribute the amendment. without objection, the amendment is considered as read and the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. i urge my colleagues to support increase to add cyber workforce capabilities. secretary mattis said, we have to bring in more troops. with you something to expand where we already have gaps and cannot simply repair our way out of it. i propose the cyber scholarship program for five by dollars. students receiving the funding will owe dod time when they are to wait to pay back the country for investment in their education. the second the is cyber training $15 million. greatadvances will pay events and help to ensure our readiness. programs consisting of a cyberlio called the product line which provides cyber capabilities and directly supports command. a rapidlysupports developing operations-ready cyberspace capability from laboratories, industry, and academia. short, as general dunford stated before the committee, we need t

that is irene rosen. she was sitting outside her florida home with her 99-year-old husband, louis, when they were apporached by a man saying he was staying at a home nearby and asked for salt to cook with. irene says that's when the man pulled out a gun and a knife and demanded 50-thousand dollars. police say it was this man-- leonard benitez-- who took the couple hostage. the couple didn't want to elaborate on all of what transpired but say they were held hostage for hours irene-- who is much more mobile than her husband-- was eventually able to run out of the house to get help. (irene rosen/held hostage): "that was the only time. i was frantic. i was all the way down the block and i was worried about him." a swat team finally was able to take benitez into custody. at some point, louis was pistol- whipped in the head. the 99-year-old was left with staples in his head, but alive. (justine) this time of year firefighters are in high demand. in the whittier, they had to hike up a canyon through nearly inacc

reporter: but rosen says his officers did nothing wrong. >> we gave mr.ibson-- before the police dog even went upstairs. we told him four different times, we yelled, "police dog, police dog, come out." >> reporter: the harris county constable says they have body camera video that backs up their side of the story but they have not released it yet. anthony. >> mason: omar villafranca. thank you very much, omar. coming up next on the cbs evening news, a death aboard a cruise ship following a domestic dispute. and later, a computer helps find just the right puppy for a very special job. special job. steve was born to move. over the course of 9 days he walks 26.2 miles, that's a marathon. because he chooses to walk whenever he can. and he does it with support from dr. scholl's. only dr. scholl's has massaging gel insoles that provide all-day comfort to keep him feeling more energized. so he even has the energy to take the long way home. keep it up, steve! dr. scholl's. born to move. ditching the cover-up for good? that's cool. showing off my arms? that's cool.

hilary rosen, i want to talk about a separate subject on russia. we'll get into it but democratic lawmakers writing this letter asking to know whether ivanka trump's security clearance is valid and whether she filled out the forms correctly. do you think this is overreach? going down a list of trump family members trying to probe every which one? >> i do think this question of can this white house, can these people be trusted with the secrets of the nation is a legitimate question to ask. you know, i would focus more on jared and on the president and others who were known to be in these meetings with russians so i'm less concerns about this. there are other issues with ivanka trump. but i find the problem here really is a bigger picture problem which is that this president doesn't feel account to believe the american people. in the most astounding ways. so the fact that he doesn't even want to discuss why he might have had a conversation with vladimir putin for an hour, that he doesn't think anyone is entitled to know, that's the more troubling thi

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as deputy a g rosen stein said, it is it time to do the right thing. it is past time.on of the evening from henry kissinger. corrupt pomititions make the other ten percent look bad. we're coming right back. president trump has been six months in office and the economy is thriving and country is moving. >> americans are going back to work in construction site and mines across the country. >> lou: we'll give the president a report card. and assistant attorney general tony sa eq joins me. and these are not the regular bike ride. you don't want to missing it. stay stap. we'll be back with that and much more. >> lou: it has been six months since president trump took office. and the economy is booming and markets are flying and nasdaq at an all- time high. major since inauguration day. 4 trillion in market cap. almost 900000 jobs have been created under president trump. and the unemployment rate dropped 4- 10ths down to.4 percent. that is not a bad six months. ed rolins didn't want to give him a grade. i give him a plus. there is still work to do. no down the about it. the t

sessions' recusal is in charge of the investigation, he would have to tell rosen stein to do it. rosen stein might refuse, quit, get fired, and they would have to work their way through the chain of command in the justice department, but it's not a frivolous concern on the part of mr. blumenthal. today is the day that the new fbi director nominee is going to have his confirmation hearings, and i know that several democratic senators are going to ask him about whether there will be independence in this investigation which, of course, also involves the fbi. so that's one clue to watch what's going on. >> we will have them on and we will ask them about that. >> there's a lesson for both sides. for the president and the republicans, don't call it a witch hunt. it clearly isn't. the president's own son just proved that. and on the democrats' side, don't go flying down the road of how bad the implications are. let the facts lead the way. republican operatives, some are scrambling to defend donald trump jr. others are staying quiet. the plan, listen to this, is to reportedly dig up dirt

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rosen: mr. chairman, i rise in support of my amendment to strip funding for defense nuclear west disposal and return this money to the treasury in order to reduce the deficit. the $30 million allocated under the appropriation bill being considered here tonight has the potential to be used to expand yucca mountain so it can be used to store defense waste in addition to civilian nuclear waste. if there's one issue the majority of nevadans agree on, it's that we whole heartedly oppose becoming the nation's dumping ground for nuclear waste. in 1987, congress amended the nuclear waste policy act and targeted yucca mountain, located less than 100 miles northwest of las vegas, as the sole site for our nation's geologic repository. it's a fancy way of choosing nevada as their nuclear dump. for over 30 year the state of nevada and local communities have rejected this misguided project on safety, public health and environmental grounds and in fact we have filed 218 contentions against the department of en

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. >> reporter: alan rosen said gibson left because of an outstanding misdemeanor assault warrant. >> when originally stopped and questioned by the officer, that's why he really didn't want to say who he was. >> reporter: constables came to his house later that day. gibson recorded that too. the 20-year-old said constables broke down his door, tased him and sicced a k-9 on him, leaving him with bite marks on his arm. >> i can't lift certain stuff no more. my arm is still numb in certain spots. >> reporter: but rosen says his officers did nothing wrong. >> we gave mr. gibson, before the police dog even went upstairs, we told him four different times -- we yelled "police dog, police dog, come out." >> reporter: the harris county constable says they have body camera video that backs up their side of the story, but they have not released it yet. anthony? >> omar villafranca, thank you very much. >>> coming up next, a death aboard a cruise ship following a domestic dispute. >>> and later, a computer helps find just the right puppy for a very special job. there's a new essence in new herbal

[laughter] >> i also want to congratulate chairman pai and rosen weapon worcel. i-- rosenworcel. i currently have the privilege of serving as the general council of the fcc. it's not the first job i've had at the agency, however, i've joined the commission as staffer during the obama administration. i worked in the office of general counsel. i then had the chance to work on some of the same issues with commissioner pai my passion for technology started well before i joined the agency. in fact, i went to law school 15 years ago now specifically for the purpose of studying telecommunications law and policy. after graduating i worked in a law firm and accepted a clerkship with a judge which helped spark my interest in public service. now, looking back i learned a lot in the past dozen years working in communications. i've come to know and admire the fcc staff. they are passionate about delivering for the public interest. i've come to understand the importance of bipartisan consensus and working towards common ground and if confirmed, i will certainly work in that spirit as a commiss

washington correspondent, james rosen. they are all standing by. those of the all-stars right there. we're going to start with chief white house correspondent and also an all star, john roberts. john, huge day. it's. >> melissa, good afternoon to you. it's been 22 days since we've had in on camera briefing and longer than that simply been been in this briefing. doing lab reports. we understand the anthony scaramucci will be coming out to greet the press. sarah huckabee sanders will actually conducting the meeting but anthony scaramucci is no stranger to people who watch fox business network. as well, he took some time off to work the transition when he worked with the trump transition to try and get things up and running. he was bringing in a lot of special guest. he was bringing in a lot of members to meet the cabinet including betray to mack -- want to come back to the white house to look like he had a big job that might've been akin to the job in the administration. that didn't happen. he went into the white house and went to the bank and now he

jake sullivan, our senior policy adviser, laura rosen burger with the foreign campaign never met with the russians. we met with others. but those were what's going on in the campaign. what are you predicting. how is it going kind of meetings we weren't getting information from them about donald trump. we didn't ask for it and i don't think it would be okay to receive it. . >> you're obviously the center of all this. you are the person in some ways the victim of the most egregious , with private correspondences and personal correspondences. what do you think happened to you? >> i think what happened to me is straight forward. russian forces got into my account. gave them to julian assange at wikileaks who tried to maximize damage to our campaign by 30 minutes following release of the access hollywood tape. began releasing them everyday for approximately 30 days of the campaign. so i think they, as the 17 u.s. intelligence agencies ended up putting out a statement, and concluded, they tried to do what they could to interfere with the u.s. election in order to help donald trump get elect

chief washington correspondent james rosen joins us. how general kelly will discharge his duties. we begin with john roberts and the changing white house staff on a monday. >> good evening. ten days ago press secretary sean spicer stepped down in order to clear the decks for anthony scaramucci to build a new communications team. today the white house cleared the decks again. it ranks among the shortest ten years and white house history after ten days on the job, anthony scaramucci is out as white house communications director. general john kelly, new white house chief of staff, asked for scaramucci to go after an interview scaramucci thought was off the record. >> the president felt anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person that position. and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. >> scaramucci's removal sharp indicator of how much power john kelly will have. president trump lavishing praise on him after his swearing in this morning. >> i predict general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever

<(irene rosen/held hostage): "that was the only time. i was frantic. i was all the way down the block and i was worried about him."( james ) a swat team finally was able to take benitez into custody. at some point, louis was pistol-whipped in the head. the 99-year-old was left with staples in his head, but alive. (tiffany) law enforcement may soon have a new tool to use in their fight against the national opiod crisis. the state of new jersey is considering giving police and law enforcement officials access to its prescription drug monitoring database without a court order. senator robert singer introduced the legislation last week. singer says the it will help officials target physicians who are illigally prescribing drugs. the legislation faces powerfull opponents. most notably governor chris christie who site privacy concerns. states across the country are grappling with how much leeway to give officials when it comes to examining the databases. (tiffany) doctors in london are receiving death threats over their care for a dying 11-month old baby. th

also note that the winner will either play rosen borg of norway 01’...ern ireland golfer has ever won the open at birkdale .. but there's real hope that could change at the weekend.. one of the contenders is local lad tommy fleetwood. last september he was ranked one hundred and 88th in the world. now he's up to fourteenth thanks to some outstanding performances including a fourth place finish at the us open. 0ur correpondent andy swiss went to birkdale to meet him.. the players are fine tune in their preparations now. fleetwood grew up a tee shot away from here. he's had a tee shot away from here. he's had a career 14th in the world rankings. he is the person everyone here is talking about. i caught up with him on the first fairway. it will be an experience i have never had before. it's the strength of the home crowd. i know i don't live here any more but i was born and bred here, 25 yea rs. but i was born and bred here, 25 years. what are your earliest memory is? i used to sneak on. i can't go back on my word now. it's the main standout pause at the to

>> bill: james rosen in washington tonight. there is any report that fraud rate on government funded cell phone service is as high as 65%. the government accountability office says that having for-profit film companies in charge of screening applicants is a major weakness in the system. at 65% fraud right to make rates, it makes the obama phone made to make the most fraud written entitlement program they are elevating tax liens and civil disputes from the reports of 12 million americans. those changes coming after the consumer finance protection bureau said companies were not doing enough to fix the errors. estimates say that some people's score could go up by 20 points. critics of the moves say that will make good moves for scores, but it may make them lower by comparison. stocks were mixed at the end of the week, snp was up four, the nasdaq lost four points. for the week, the dow was to tense down a prevented point, the s&p fell by two percentage points. earlier this month, residents of puerto rico voted overwhelmingly to bec

let's turn to james rosen. has liked, in the past, to fire off things on the fourth of july. different holidays, mother's day. but this one was different. according to people in the region and experts have been looking at this, it's not only the range of the missile but also how it was fired. stiglitz important for our viewers to stand. with the range to strike all of alaska. first such test by north korea that employed a mobile launcher. instead of using a fixed position they can load this icbm onto a more or less a truck, like a flatbed, move it around, undercover if you will end this makes it much harder for the united states to attract such a test when it's about to be launched and disrupted prior to launch. frightening development. a professor at san angelo university in one of the reigning experts on the kim jong-un regime wrote "this is the big story we've all been waiting for. all of the paradigms have changed. not just because of an icbm but also because of the mobile launcher." one final point, presid

deputy attorney general rosen stein. the president is not happy with rosen stein. but he could do something by executive order. moving rosenstein out and bring someone else else and he could look at firing rosenstein and bring in number three person, rached brand, who is a support he of president trump and would possibly reign in mueller as they say he has kbon beyond the scope. >> that would be an incredible investigation swirling around the whole investigation. you talked about this earlier. didn't you write about it as well. what's going on here? >> last time i was on your show, two days ago, we were quaintly and innocently talking about the wall street journal editorial calling for radical transparency and even thoen it was clear we were looking at radical transparency through the rearview mirror that something had happened. i know how these cases unfold. especially as these ones that implicate international and national security issues. that firing mueller while an option is really messy, and i think actually the pardon option and presidential pardon option wa

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier. as america prepares to commemorate its 241st birthday, president trump continues lighting up the mainstream news media on the 21st century battlefield we call social media. the president's twitter finger was active all weekend and this morning, including his posting of a video in which he appears to wrestle to the ground a man with a cnn logo superimposed over his face. kevin corke is at the white house with the fallout. good evening. >> it's called trolling, that's when you take to an online platform and post something with the express intention of getting a reaction. sometimes an angry reaction from someone else. and of the latest tweets from the president of the united states. those tweets were either humorous or horrifying depending on your point of view. call it the new bully pulpit, social media. 24/7 platform or even the president of the united states can entertain his supporters and enrage his detractors all in the span of 140 characters. case in point, tweet over the weekend

james rosen in washington., back to "hannity." >> tonight, i am back in the center of the american heartland, far away from the washington swamp. to spend time with thousands of true american patriots. i'm here this evening to cut through the fake news filter and to speak straight to the american people. >> sean: that was the president on offense by passing the big news media taking his message directly to the american people. we continue with fox news contributor and author of the eight weeks in a row bestseller, "understanding trump," congratulations mr. speaker. i've a a hard time understanding something. maybe i'm just a simple guy. if i was under subpoena to hand over emails that end up having classified top secret special access program information on a secret server, if i deleted 33,000 of them and some of them were in that category -- i think it would be in trouble. they subpoenaed my blackberry and iphone's and i smash them with a hammer, a lot of them? i think i would be in trouble. if i acid washed m

rosens rosenstein said when property is owners will receive notice of their rights within 45 which is the quickest under law. does that make you more comfortable? whatsoever. it is window addressing. serious reform, hundreds, if not documented abuses. ere officials, including department of justice officials disciplined in any way? s far as i know, the answer is no. they are serious about protecting innocent peep when e will they start disciplining people who commit the abuses. the number of officials civil ined for abusing forfeiture is close to zero. you been setting this and why did you get into this? studying civil n asset forfeiture for five years. me angry when i see the government stealing property from innocent people. happen. i use the word stealing intentionally. diminishesematic, it public respect for law enforcement when people think, times, this is about policing for profit, that is what is go og much of the to stop.needs host: baltimore, maryland, line ahead.mocrats, go caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. attorney general has brought this back, i was wonde

fox's james rosen has the latest >>reporter: the arm cyst that ended the korean war brought an uneasy truss. a stallion isabella dictatorship recommended ever since by coumadin ticketed event. president clipt on launched negotiations. new york agreed to freeze it's program in exchange for fuel and economic aidan the construction of two light water actors. this agreement is good for the united states. it's good for our alleys. in time, however, us intelligence have discovered that aq can was running a nuclear bizarre for bush states. the regem admitted it. the under secretary of state for arms control at the time was john bolton. when the negotiates were con fronted on this reality and the absurdity of giving north korea light reactors they had believed that a the north korean regem had collapsed before they got the nuclear weapon. with russia and china participating then secretary of state conned lisa rice believed they had dismissed the apparatus again in exchange for the aid. we're going to get out of the business producing nuclear weapons. a nuclear complex seemed like a good measu

>> bret: james rosen in washington. james, thank you.he man who runs the suez canal says that egyptian ports cannot ban qatari ships. they accuse the nation of continuing to support terrorism and extremism, which qatar denies. the head of the suez canal says international treaties do not allow qatari ships being barred from using the package. iran and turkey have been assisting qatar as the standoff continues. china is among a group of nations calling for a more open global economy at the g20 summit, but the u.s. relationship with china appears to be deteriorating tonight. mainly, over north korea. correspondent rich edson reports from the state department that president trump will try to do something about that in a few hours. >> president trump and chinese president -- since then, the relationship has yielded disappointment. china is a centerpiece of what they call its pressure campaign, to force it to abandon its nuclear missile programs. the result? north korea has continued developing its weapons programs. successfully testing for t

let's check in with chief washington correspondent james rosen. trump is the latest in a long line of american presidents to be confronted with north korea's nuclear threat. >> this is true, and the choices made by american presidents across both parties and across the decades dating back to the clinton administration have left the current president donald trump with exceedingly few options for handling the north korean threat in any satisfactory way. because the military option which we are always told remains on the table would involve perhaps escalatory action by north korea involving its ballistic missile capability, also its conventional artillery capability that would be leveled at the residence of seoul, south korea, and likely cause tens of thousands of casualties. as for right now what the trump administration appears to be doing is focusing, in addition to the military maneuvers, some diplomatic maneuvers. they have requested an emergency open meeting of the u.n. security council that will likely take place in new york tomorrow afternoon

stein didn't do it, you would fire rosen stein and get somebody who could. another cor use thing, imagine he wants jeff sessions gone, then the new attorney general would go through a confirmation hearing. in pushback from republicans on the hill. senator grassley tweeted there is no more room on the docket this year for any more coffin makings of attorney generals. in other words a brushback saying you can't get rid of your attorney general because we won't confirm a new one, and whoever that would be confirmed, even if sterling of character, would have to make so many assurances they wouldn't fire mueller that the president would get out of the fix by hiring a new attorney general. so the end game is opaque here and hard to sort of figure out. >> rose: and then there's brushback from the military because the president in a tweet announces what he feels about transgender in the military, and the military basically says, well, we're going to continue doing what we're doing now and let that come up through the right channels. >> that's right. and the presiden

the way in which rod rosen steen has set up this investigation makes it hard for him to do that.that the president thinks about ways in which he can put an end to the investigation. >> so you got into a bit of a twitter spat with the vpd and you said there's real evil in the epidemic rate of lying when they're talking about health care. real evil, that language that you stand by? >> listen, it's strong language. i don't deny it. but here is my point. the vice president is a very smart person. he went out and gave a prepared set of remarks in which he claimed that the republican healthcare bill strength end and secured medicaid for the moet vulnerable in america. he knows that's not true. i mean, there is zero basis for that claim given the fact that 15 million of the most vulnerable americans will lose their medicaid coverage and want be able to afford anything else because of this bill. and so i use that word because this looks like a knowing, intentional fabrication, swup that -- >> evil, though? evil? >> listen, it is not just -- it's not just the line that's coming from the v

thank you so much, alon rosen of oppenheimer, for talking to us about some earnings coming out.o much. still ahead, the senate is expected to vote in minutes on mitch mcconnell's proposal for a straight repeal of obamacare. what investors need to know as washington tries to move forward with its policy agenda, next. scarlet: from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ mark: it is time for first word news. illinois democratic senator tammy duckworth a double amputee veteran of the iraq war is flaming president trump's ban on transgender americans serving in the military. she said in a statement when her helicopter was shot down, she did not care "if the americans risking their lives to save me were gay, straight, transgender or anything else. all that mattered was they did not leave me behind." an arizona republican, john mccain, his story of torture and survival as a prisoner of war in vietnam has come to define heroism, released a statement slamming the president, saying his tweets were unclear and "any american that meets current medical in readiness standards should be allowed to c

so it's rod rosen stiep, the deputy attorney general who has the power. if sessions refused, the president could fire him. it shouldn't be any surprise that been sas spoke out against the president because he was never a trum per during campaign. freshman who is making his name heard along on capital hill along with lindsay gram. with all the reported fighting at least there is someone who seems happy. former secretary sean spicer, he resigned but he's still saying on until august. >> look at him. he is relaxed, smiling. you could see pebble beach networks behind him. he was the the center of attention spicer reportedly resigned because he disagreed with the decision to higher scaramucci. he's been doing so far. >> he has a clean slate and i'm going to the let him do that. >> did he get a new haircut, too a. he would not respond to questions about reports that dancing with the stars reached out to hip and wanted him to do the show. >> this was a strange one when it came across our feeds today. politico reported this, the first democratic candidate to anno