sarah huckabee sanders did make some news there when she talked about the debt ceiling.oints that you see where this president is ready to move forward on some things? >> first off, let me say you can cut away from me at any time for sarah. she is wonderful and i am so impressed with the jobs he is doing. she was around working for us for the campaign and she is just great. the president wants to move forward on a lot of fronts and he wants bipartisan support. he is a dealmaker and that's one of the reasons the american public elected him. because he's a successful businessman and a dealmaker pretty wants to get things done. congress needs to want to get to work. when you see these things like obamacare, repealing obamacare, which so many republicans ran on for years and raise money on, now up republicans under came out a few days ago and said we need to hold the meetings, some committees and find out the problems. you had seven years to do that. at the time to act is now at the president said, his pen is ready, he is ready to act. what really needs to happen, the only l

sarah huckabee sanders did not go so far as to say that. but did confirm again, all options are on the table. hallie jackson, eli soculs and nick comfosorian. hallie, let's start with you. sarah huckabee sanders trying to push back saying that the president certainly department dictate the statement. hallie, she confirmed that he was involved. that's not what their original story was. >> that's not what the outside counsel's statement was. jay sekulow said the president did not draft it. the white house could have referred questions to outside counsel as they have done over the last 24 hours or so since it story broke, 18 hours or so, or you could have ended up seeing what you ended up seeing from sarah huckabee sanders which is her clearly having something prepar prepared, having oppo on hillary clinton. in that, you're right, was the confirmation that the president did weigh in as a father wanted to do, as any dad would do and i'm paraphrasing here with this interaction. it is a little bit of a conflicting message. it is a conflicting mess

sarah huckabee sanders went out today and basically conceded that the trump team and his lawyer didn'tave the truth in the initial telling of this. remember when sarah huckabee sanders first spoke about this, she didn't know. she didn't know if the president weighed in, she would find out and get back to us. today, she says he weighed in, "the washington post" reports he dictated. the large question here is, someone should explain, and i truly don't understand this, why is the white house pursuing a strategy here of drip, drip, drip, instead of marshaling all the facts and coming out with a complete story to your point about "jaws." like, tell the entire point of this movie now so we don't learn something new every night and go back and say -- i think it's a significant problem. the other question i have is how did jared kushner allow president trump to dictate that statement? obviously, jared kushner's concerned about his own legal ramifications here. but how, since this entire thing started, with he and his legal team going back to discover the additional meeting with the russians, t

but press secretary sarah huckabee sanders today said the president, quote, weighed in as any father would. >>> meanwhile, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee now says confirmation of the president's involvement makes multiple russia investigations unfolding right now even more important. senator mark warner tells cnn it also means donald trump, jr., jared kushner, and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort who all attended that controversial meeting must appear before the senate intelligence committee. meanwhile, the white house says a legal review process is delaying the president from signing a sanctions bill punishing russia for its meddling in the u.s. election. the president has now had the bill for five days. >>> and there's more breaking news. secretary of state rex tillerson says the u.s. is willing to sit down for talks with north korea, adding and i'm quoting him now, we are not your enemy. his remarks are a sharp contrast to comments by senator lindsey graham today who says, military action is inevitable if north korea continues its aggressive driv

that's what sarah huckabee sanders was addressing this afternoon.r and sanders were saying this is no big deal but it means this conspiracy theory was right inside the west wing, that at least it was being talked about right inside the west wing. they say the president knew nothing about it and had no involvement in the story but we'll see how -- if this lawsuit progresses, if we learn more about what happened. >> you've read through the details of the story. >> i've looked at the details on this, and this is a key piece of what amounts to this russian collusion with the trump campaign. it actually goes back to the e-mails that were released on june 4 and about the donald trump jr. meeting on june 9 because if you recall, on that june 4 meeting, there was a promise of a whole bunch of russian documents that would be compromising on hillary clinton. for some reason, the press has seemed to drop this one and people have forgotten about it. but it's absolutely critical, because this came at a time two months after we know that the dnc was hacked and th

how does sarah huckabee sanders spin this or defend it? proven pretty decent at this job. >> verbal gymnastics. >> and my approach would be, if i were in her shoes, the president heard what he heard and the president's hearing, as you know, is terrific, it's the best hearing. and i'm going to take my next question. i don't know. perhaps she will say that a message came from somebody and it wasn't this particular call. i think that's possible. i wish that the president would be precise about what he's saying. that is not his style. that's not what people voted for but even when you're not lying, being precise is a virtue, especially when you're president of the united states. >> can we talk about -- i just wanted to move on before we run out of time. about the mooch. i know the mooch is gone. but there was, he actually did talk to the "huffington post" and he's dropping hints about his next move. let me read for all of us this part of the interview he did with the "huffington post." this is quoting. "the president told me he knows i have hi

what do you think about the president's comments about roughing up people -- >> sarah huckabee sandersd it from the -- >> i'm asking you what you think. why do you keep quoting sanders? >> i felt the comment was out of line. she said it was a joke. and i said no one is laughing. i don't think it's funny. i don't think he should joke about these things. >> john, how does the president keep ending up in these situations in front of groups largely inclined to like him where the groups end up having to rebuke him? >> he does not adhere to the norms of the presidency. we heard versions of this speech on the campaign. he would like similar comments that you could interpret as a joke, or not. and he continues to did that now that he is in office. perhaps not fully grasping that his words carry far more weight now. he still does not have a filter. he is still espousing the old-world view, whether from the '60s or '80s when he became a national figure for the first time in new york, a city at the time that was high crime, ravaged by the drug epidemic that set in his mind black and white definit

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we'll take you live when sarah huckabee sanders steps live to the podium. all of this as the dow is hitting another milestone, 22,000 today. exactly two hours left in what looks like to be another record close. hello, everybody, i'm cheryl casone, i'm in for trish regan today. we would like to welcome you to "the intelligence report." president trump promising bold tax cuts and a new era of american prosperity. yet again the democrats are refusing to work with republicans to bring real relief to american taxpayers. what is next for tax reform? we are on it for you. >>> president trump unveiling a new immigration reform bill. aimed at awarding green cards based on merit. he promise this is will save taxpayers billions of dollars while protecting american jobs. so will this get bipartisan support? we are going to debate that story as well. >>> first, want to go to our own adam shapiro standing by at the white house for latest on tax reform and where everybody stands. adam, good to see you. >> good to see you, cheryl. tax reform is front and center although so

in kentucky and people don't talk about monuments or statues, they talk about those issues sarah huckabee sanders mentioned. heather: we would like to hear more. sarah huckabee sanders will be live on "fox and friends" at 7:30 a.m. this morning, lots of questions for her. in the meantime, they found the bodies of two sailors killed when the uss john mccain crashed into an oil tanker, identified as 22-year-old kenneth smith and 26-year-old dustin dorian, electronics technicians. eight remain missing, more divers and agreement overnight helping with that search inside flooding compartments on the destroyer. the us trying -- a new isis propaganda video speaking fluent english and claiming he is an american. introduces himself and says he moved to syria two years ago with his mother, claims his father is a us soldier but for me with intelligence official says the boy's story doesn't match up. rob: terrorists stand no chance against the us military, strong message from our top general in afghanistan and vowing to annihilate isis and al qaeda with renewed support from the white house. >> this new polic

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press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about scaramucci's the perch are -- departure? what happened, sarah? [laughter] >> how long will you yell? is anthony scaramucci still in the admin station, does he have another role outside of can medications director? can you talk a little bit about the circumstances of his departure? sarah: he does not have a role at this time in the administration to we put out a statement earlier, announcing that, and i don't have much else to say beyond that. >> did general kelly asked him to leave, or did the president? did he volunteered his resignation or how did that come about? into thewill not get process. as we said, several tens before, what matters most to us is not who is employed in the white house, who is employed in the rest of the country. we are focused on the president's agenda of growing the economy, creating jobs, and that is what we're going to be focused on. >> was at the chain of command issue, because karen witchy, said that he had a direct line of communications -- anthony scaramucci headset that he had a direct line of

sarah huckabee sanders just finished the briefing that katie was presiding over just a few minutes ago. here's what sarah huckabee sanders had to say about it. >> look, the statement that don jr. issued is true. there's no inaccuracy in the statement. the president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information that he had. this is all discussion of no consequence. there was no follow-up. it was disclosed to the proper parties which is how the washington post found out about it. the democrats want to use it as a pr stunt and are doing everything to keep the story alive and in the papers. the president, the american people, they voted america first, not russia first and that's the focus of our administration. >> let's start with one of the journalists who broke this story. tom hamburger. how do you respond to this? when the story came out we sought response from various people who said this is fake news, it's inkreblt reporting, it's wrong and then we find out it's not fake news, it's not incorrect reporting and that the president's own lawyer was dishonest when he said

sarah huckabee sanders has repeated that today. us is npr white house correspondent tamara keith and glenn thrush, also an msnbc analyst. around whom i could have built today's rundown. i keep coming up with explanations to make parallels to children, but i don't even know that a child would be to rewrite history to suggest that there was no mixed reception to a speech where he talked about the hottest people in new york being at cocktail parties, staggering off yachts. i guess to the broader point we heard a clip from mcmaster and this is day eight of the white house podium being used to beat down reviews over a speech the president gave to boy scouts a week ago. what is going on? >> what's going on is i think somebody put lsd in my wheaties every morning before i go into work. the split screen is incredible. trump -- i wouldn't compare him to the kid. i'd compare him to donald trump. i think he's become the point of comparison. you can compare your kid to donald trump. i think he -- you know, that -- this particular sin which i g

lauren: or statement from sarah huckabee sanders on tax reform. the president had month of tax reform listening sessions one with the real estate industry of the american people vote with their wallets, and they want a tax cut. why don't we hear more of that in that press briefing? >> i'm not sure. look it, media has agenda to push, there is a lot of reporters in that room, kind of pushing that in another direction. they want to focus on russia and some missteps in the white house. i understand why the question didn't get asked. the administration wants to pivot to tax reform -- lauren: they want to get something done. >> they want to get something done. i got real excited earlier when i saw senator thune talk about tax reform. we'll go after all these things, 1986 style. mcconnell dashed it away that we'll get something done between now and end of the year because we can't get help from the other side of the aisle. lauren: senator thune said tax reform will create economic growth as we saw. senator ba as he sew, republican from -- barrasso, resis

we are 15 minutes away from the start of a briefing with sarah huckabee sanders. expected to update reporters on the federal response and recovery efforts. she will also comment on the ap story that congress is gearing up for a vote on eight for victims of hurricane harvey. starts, we will have it for you live on c-span.

we heard what sarah huckabee sanders said. did the president dictate the words? >> the president said he waited in the way any father would on the statement. he wasn't part of the email chain for the meeting. nothing came of the meeting. there was no attempt to collude. jared kushner last week did a masterful job of making a statement and sharing what he knew behind closed doors. he had texted in the system and said this meeting is bass. find a way to get me out. i know that russia, the coverage has been lessening because i think people understand there is no evidence of collusion. we were promised watergate. we got water nothing and we now see that the big russia story is the fusion gps getting money from the russian government to assemble a dossier to try to hurt canada trump. that will be investigated. when we think of russia, we think of hillary clinton giving up 20% uranium. bill clinton getting half a million dollars in speaking fees. i think bloomberg did a great job. 6% of americans said russia is important. there's a huge disconnect between what people f

. >> dickerson: white spokesman sarah huckabee sanders has just issued a statement. "the president said he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred, including white supremacist, kkk, neonazi and all supremacist groups, he

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says she's confident congress will raise the debt it in time. sarah huckabee sanders/white house press secretary"it's our job to inform congress of the debt ceiling and it's their job to raise it. and congress and the previous administration have obligated trillions in spending and we need to make sure we pay our debts." the president also upping the ante in his own ongoing feud with mcconnell for failing to pass the obamacare repeal legislation last month -- tweeting "the only problem i have with mcconnell is that, after hearing repeal and replace for 7 years, he failed. that should never have happened!" their relationship soured after a tense phone call following the healthcare vote.but trump also complained that the majority leader wasn't doing enough to protect the president in the various russia investigations. for his part mcconnell is still refusing to publicly address the feud saying the senate is a tough place to get things done.. sen. mitch mcconnell/(r) majority leader "i'm often asked what is being the majority leader of t

. >> straight statement from sarah huckabee sanders. one problem.t completely contradicts what has been said from the white house from the beginning on this. they had their attorneys going out and saying the president had no role in crafting that initial misleading statement on don junior's meeting with russians at trump tower. now they're changing their story. let's bring back the panel, chris cillizza, david gregory, john avlon. relevance. >> sarah huckabee sanders is trying to build back a credibility gap that she undermined yesterday. we know the statement don junior put out was fundamentally false. we also know the spin around it and the fact that the president apparently dictated it was contradicted by jay sekulow, the president's lawyer, on cnn and other outlets. there's no place to go. instead, they're trying to call anyone who is asking questions a russia phobe. >> chris cillizza, here are the repercussions according to senator lindsey graham why this matters. >> one, he put his son in jeopardy. now we have to wonder about what don junior's

to start within the next ten seconds because there is sarah huckabee sanders. >> good afternoon. i know most of you and more importantly the american people have many questions relate to hurricane harvey and as you all know, the president was in corpus christi and austin earlier this week and today at the president's direction the vice president, mrs. pence and five cabinet secretaries are back in texas meeting with local officials and storm survivors and thanking many of the first responders and other volunteers. the president's team here has been working around the clock to support state and local authorities following the storm. and now i want to bring up tom bossert, the president's homeland security adviser to pri an update on the administration wide effort to support the recovery and relief efforts in the wake of hurricane harvey. he'll make a few opening remarks and then stay to take questions specific to the storm and what the administration is doing to help the state and local authorities and the people of texas and louisiana. and as always, after tom speaks and takes yo

sarah huckabee sanders said the president had indeed weighed in. sanders went on to say his statement was true and was not inaccurate. that of course as you said is false. donald trump jr.'s initial statement left out the e-mails indicating the russian were prepared to hand over damaging information on hillary clinton. now, that misleading statement from trump jr. said the meeting with the russians would be about adoptions. that story, we should point out, is the same narrative the president pushed repeatedly last month. he also said this to reporters on air force one as well as a news conference in france with the president of that country. the president's involvement in the drafting of that misleading statement for his son, donald trump jr., would, quote, further implicate him in this russia investigation, so lots of new questions being raised by all of this. but one person we have not heard from at this point is jay sec low, the president's attorney who said time and again the president was not involved in drafting that statement. we have reached

i would suspect that it is about to start within the next ten seconds because there is sarah huckabee sanders. >> good afternoon. i know most of you and more importantly the american people have many questions relate to hurricane harvey and as you all know, the president was in corpus christi and austin earlier this week and today at

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about mr. scaramucci's departure during monday's white house briefing. >> [crowd chatter] >> what happened? >> how long will you yell? >> does anthony scaramucci have a role besides communications director? and can you talk a little about the circumstances this morning? sec. sanders: he does not have a role at this time. we put out a statement earlier announcing that. not at this time. >> did general kelly asked him to leave, or did the president asking to leave? did he volunteer his resignation? how did that come about? sec. sanders: i'm not going to get into the process. as we have said several times before, what matters most as is not who is employed in the white house but who is employed in the rest of the country. we are focused on the president's agenda of growing the economy, creating jobs, and that is what we are going to do. that is what we're going to be focused on. john. >> was it a chain of command issue? because scaramucci said that he had a direct line of communication to the pres

we will hear from the incoming press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders. press briefing life here on c-span. it should get underway before too long. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> live, at the white house, waiting for sarah huckabee sanders. while we wait for the briefing, we will show you senate democrats earlier today as they unveiled a proposal they say will make the trade system work for american workers rather than corporations and lobbyists. >> go-ahead. >> well, good morning. thanks very much for being here today. we are here today because we believe in an america, where people work hard every day, need to know that someone has there back in a global economy. if you are working in a factory or in a farm or on your phone, you should have the confidence that our country works for you, and that our trade laws work for you. you should have the confidence that we are exporting our products a

sarah huckabee sanders didn't speak directly to that. only saying the president's is committed to building the wall and that's what he intends to do. shep? >> shepard: john one day after president trump talked to veterans about unity and love, we're getting a new look at white house guidelines for his proposed ban on trans-gender troops. this comes a month after the president called for a ban in a series of tweets. fox news has confirmed a white house memo would tell the pentagon to stop admitting trans-gender people into the military and paying for medical treatments for those already serving. this was first reported by the "wall street journal." this would be up to the defense secretary jim mattis whether those troops could stay in the military based on what the memo calls other deployability or their deployability, the ability to serve in a war zone. secretary mattis would have six months to implement the ban. back to john roberts at the white house. the white house hasn't sent this to the pentagon yet? what is the story? >> we unders

>> today sarah huckabee sanders was asked about that.s to say. >> was the president joking when he said this, or did he check his remarks out with the international association of police chiefs or maybe the attorney general? >> i believe he was making a joke at the time. >> back now with the panel. a lot of police organizations have come out and said we're not -- we don't rough up suspects and it's not a good idea. >> i have to say he's a new yorker standing in front of new yorkers. my whole family is from there. that's the way they talk. that's a new york -- >> eric gardner was from new york, too. he was choked to death by an illegal chokehold. police brutality is not funny. can you draw a line anywhere. >> we need to loosen up here a little bit. >> why? >> why? because we are becoming a humorless society. totally, totally -- >> jeffrey, i agree with that, and i think there's too much political correctness and -- >> that's the problem. >> i don't think this is somebody you joke about. >> you heard him. you heard the tone in his voice. >

. >> reporter: sarah huckabee sanders lashed out. >> i think that's a ridiculous and outrageous claim and doesn't dignify a response from this podium. >> reporter: now for the moment the president's atalks have yet to backfire inside the gop. poll after poll shows that while some support is slipping, conservatives are sticking with the president proving once again the gop is hardly the party of paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. it's the party of trump. wolf. >> jim acosta reporting from the white house, thank you. president trump meanwhile is stepping up his attacks on republican congressional leaders even as he warns of a government shutdown, tieing into funding for his border wall with mexico. let's turn to our senior congressional reporter. how do republican leaders plan to get anything of substance done when this feud with the president seems to be escalating? >> well, it seems to me base on the talking to republicans on capitol hill that the way they're going to go about it is to work in spite of the republican, in spite of the republican president. trying to get things done even de

sarah huckabee sanders said no one in the senior staff will leave immediately.ne outstanding question is sean spicer's future. he quit 10 days ago, the same day anthony scaramucci started his job. we wonder now whether sean spicer might return to some kind of a role in the white house, maybe communications director. that job is open. emily: we have yet to hear anything from scaramucci. any word on his view of how this went down? >> no. you will remember last week, the new yorker published an really inflammatory interview with scaramucci in which he profanely criticized both reince priebus and steve bannon. that interview didn't go over well in the white house. since then, he has been quiet. he hasn't returned our calls or our emails and text messages. you haven't seen him on television. before that interview, he was a big advocate for the president on television. he has gone radio silent since then, and he is not talking to day. emily: i have his twitter account up. i will let you know if anything changes. alex wayne in washington, thanks so much for the update.

the >> jason: i think sarah huckabee sanders is a doing a fabulous job and she does make a valid point. i would not advocate "going to war" with an investigator who has authority. if you convince people and literally show the openness and transparency, much the way jared kushner and donald trump jr. did and say, i've got emails, i won't use a hammer on my stuff, here's exact they would happen. >> harris: it took them a couple times to get on the record. >> jason: look at the conclusion of what they did. i think that openness and transparency, is what america wants to see. i don't think there's been any evidence, i don't think there should be a special counsel, but again, that was a fundamental, huge mistake, but is there. >> harris: do you think there would be less of a favor getting behind the president if there were established republicans who would chime in every now and again? >> elizabeth: you're right. there's there's a group of republicans who seem to be opposed to president trump, but on a visceral level. even if they deny it, the president has said things that cause grudge mat

earlier tonight, we spoke with health secretary sarah huckabee sanders. sarah, great to see you, i really do believe, we do a pretty good job of calling out the lies, misinformation, lack of priorities, absolute bias and ideology of the media. you are with them every single day. i don't know how you do this job, you've got to help us out. >> you think i have one of the toughest jobs in america, i think i have one of the most fun jobs in america. i get to work for the president of the united states prayed he has had an incredible first six months in office, he is going to have an incredible seven and a half years, it is an honor and a privilege to come out and share his message with the american people every day. i am excited to be here and be part of his team. >> sean: i want to ask you this, lately, the white house, yourself, steve miller, sebastian gorka, kellyanne conway, you seem willing to go out and say, we are going to call you out on air to your face. i doubt cnn is going to run the exchange with stephen miller today. speak out they may run an edit

. >> sarah huckabee sanders finishing off a press conference. the first white house brief briefing in three weeks. it started much later than expected. this is normally katy terr's turf. but let's talk about what we just heard. garrett headache has been listening kafrlful with me. he's taking a break from his time on capitol hill. where is gather retd headache today? he is right next to me in the newsroom here in new york. kristen welker is in that briefing room in the white house. she's getting ready to join us right now. garrett, what did you take away from that conversation? i mean, there were a lot of interesting things because we haven't had one for a while. there was a question about the relationship between plut and key members of coming. thashs been a lot of reporting the last few days about how he's feuding with all of them. >> sarah huckabee sanders answered a question about the president's relationship about mitch mcconnell by saying he was fine. and all i could think about the theme of the dog and the burning house saying this is fin

now, sarah huckabee sanders is confirming that the president weighed in, in her words, but that's int contradiction to what the president's own lawyers said. so now we are left to wonder, is the president's lawyer -- is he accurate when he is saying the president had no part of writing that statement? or is his spokeswoman, his new press secretary accurate, while saying the president weighed in. so, again, i mean, i think that this press briefing here, which certainly raised more questions than it cleared up over all this, is going to do one thing. it puts the white house back on defense on the entire russia matter. and you can just sense the members of congress, senators, senator lindsey graham, others are already saying, brooke, that their patience is wearing a bit thin on this. and if you don't believe the president on this, it is leaking into other things in terms of their credibility. so, on day two here, when there was somewhat of a reset with the new chief of staff, you know, with the ousting of anthony scaramucci, it's a reminder that all of the baggage, quite frankly, that w

we'll hear from press secretary sarah huckabee sanders here again in the next hour and will keep youated on anything she says. like you said, jake, this is the first natural disaster test for this administration, and as you know, this can be a defining moment for a lot of presidencies, as it was with george w. bush. we'll keep you updated on anything the white house has to say as the storm progresses. >> kaitlan collins at the white house. thanks so much. >>> what is the opposite of a gold standard when it comes to dealing with natural disasters? perhaps the brown standard, or browny standard. take a look. >> again, i want to thank you all for, and browny, you're doing a heck of a job. the fema director is working 24 -- [ applause ] >> yeah. he was not doing a heck of a job. that was not how you would describe the job he was doing. president george w. bush a few days after hurricane katrina struck the gulf coast. referring to his fema director michael brown, doing an incredibly bad job. especially in the wake of the failure of the levee sim in new orleans. wondering for months how pr

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sarah huckabee sanders saying it's just going through a review process. though it does seem to be a lengthy review process. but she is she guesting they want to make sure the is are dotted and the ts are crossed. i have seen cases where the president gets a bill one minute and the next minute it's signed into law. not sure what the hold-up is here, jon. >> what about north korea? what are we hearing from the white house there? >> a good cop bad cop going on here as we have the past few months. rex tillerson, the secretary of state today saying he was open to talking to north korea. the united states is "not your enemy." it mirrors talk that he had a few weeks ago that he said we're not out for regime change. we just want to reign in the nuclear program. the president with tougher talk in the last few days and the last few months saying we will handle this, we're going to handle it, we always handle everything. the president wants to put down a market on kim jong-un that the united states won't sit back and watch them develop a nuclear warhead. the time fo

this is donald trump attorney and sarah huckabee sanders at one of the audio briefings. let's play that. >> so he didn't have anything to do with the statement that don jr. put out that was being worked on with his team? >> no, the statement that don jr. put out, are you talking about yesterday's, chris? >> no that was written by donald trump jr. and i'm sure in consultation with his lawyer. >> the "new york times" is reporting that president donald trump okayed the statement. >> has president trump had any conversation with his son, donald trump jr. the last several days and was he involved in helping donald trump jr. craft his statement over the weekend on air force one as was reported in the "new york times"? >> i'm not sure about the specific communications and the nature of those conversations, i know they have spoken at at least at some point in the last few days. >> you don't have a response? >> i'm just not sure. >> is that not try? >> i don't know the answer, i'll have to check and let you know. >> jeff toobin, let's start off with you, just legally, does this p

press secretary sarah huckabee sanders did make one thing very clear at the press briefing yesterday saying that scaramucci is good conversation with a reporter at the new yorker did him in. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession as i think we've made clear a few times over the course of the last couple of days to several of the individuals but general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to hi him. >> former press secretary sean spicer is set to leave the white house next month. he resigned 12 days ago because of the president's decision to hire scaramucci. sanders says that plan has not changed, but the administration is ready to move on from all of the talk about staff shakeups. >> what matters most to us does not who is employed in the white house, but who is employed in the rest of the country and we are focused on the president's agenda of growing the economy, creating jobs, that's wha

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and sarah huckabee sanders from the podium took issue with the idea of a dictation but did acknowledge was a misleading statement. but sarah huckabee sanders said it wasn't. here is the president's lawyer, jay sekulow, talking before the story came out about whether or not president trump had a hand in it. >> the president didn't sign off on anything. he's coming back from the g20. the statement that was released on saturday was released by donald trump jr., and i'm sure in consultation with his lawyers. the president wasn't involved in that. i wasn't involved in the statement drafting at all, nor was the president. but i'm assuming that was between mr. donald trump jr., between don jr. and his lawyer. i'm sure his lawyer was involved, that's how you do it. i want to be clear the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. >> i mean, obviously jay sekulow was either not telling the truth or, i think more likely, had not been told the truth. >> and i think it's important to note that on some of those occasions, he volunteered that the pre

today white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders told reporters the president, quote, weighed in as any father would, closed quote. that undercuts repeated denials from the president's personal attorney and raises serious questions about whether members of the trump team and even potentially the president himself could be in some sort of legal jeopardy. the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, senator mark warner, is complaining that even though the administration keeps saying there is nothing to the russian story, they don't act that way at all. senator warner tells cnn it seems a bit strange, he says, that the president of the united states helped draft the statement that, quote, intentionally deceived the american people. we're following all of the conflicting stories also coming out of north korea right now. senator lindsey graham says president trump told him war with north korea may be inevitable. graham also says the president told him that if thousands are going to die, it will be, quote, over there. but just this afternoon during an extremely rare news c

ashley: and sarah huckabee sanders was asked many questions along those lines. why would you shut the u.s. government down if mexico is going to pay for the border? what's your thoughts on the border wall and the comments on the president that, look, if i don't get the funding on this thing, i'll let the government shut down. >> well, real quickly, he's supporting so much wasted money in afghanistan that he could save some of that money by not sending our troops over there and start spending the money here on the american people. >> all right. but that's not going to happen. that's not going to happen. i agree with you. >> well, the wall itself is going to cost roughly the preliminary estimate is $23 billion, and we're talking about raising the debt ceiling. how are we going to pay for it? if you wanted to do those kinds of things, you probably need to raise taxes. >> well, -- go ahead. >> he's correct about this. the expenditure of that money on a border wall is simply a waste for a wall that isn't going to serve its purpose. clearly, we're wasting a lot of mon

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says she's confident congress will raise the debt time. sarah huckabee sanders/white house press secretary"it's our job to inform congress of the debt ceiling and it's their job to raise it. and congress and the previous administration have obligated trillions in spending and we need to make sure we pay our debts." the president also upping the ante in his own ongoing feud with mcconnell for failing to pass the obamacare repeal legislation last month -- tweeting "the only problem i have with mcconnell is that, after hearing repeal and replace for 7 years, he failed. that should never have happened!" their relationship soured after a tense phone call following the healthcare vote.but trump also complained that the majority leader wasn't doing enough to protect the president in the various russia investigations. for his part mcconnell is still refusing to publicly address the feud saying the senate is a tough place to get things done.. sen. mitch mcconnell/(r) majority leader "i'm often asked what is being the majority leader of the sen

jason, sarah huckabee sanders saying corker's statements were ridiculous and outrageous. the comments came from a sitting republican senator in the white house. >> i wish they had picked a bigger fight here today. this really goes to the culture war that i think helps sweep president trump into office, where you have the washington elites on one side and the rest of the country on the other side. look, in washington, if they don't like the way that you talk or act, or you don't sit around all day studying roberts rule handbook of order, they start launching these vicious attacks against you. i'm not saying president trump is immune from criticism, not at all. but they're attacking the stability or competence, or comments like fitness, this is making it a personal attack well above and beyond. i think these -- it's important to keep in mind that president trump, not only defeated the democratic establishment in the general election, he also beat the republican establishment in the primary. so this really sets up what's going on here. now, we do have to bring it together be

sarah sanders will get another round of questions about this today. we're still waiting to get details on when she's going to brief. steph. >> a quick message to sarah huckabee sanders, my father, frank ruhle, would not do that. i want to bring in my panel because it's an awesome one today. phil rucker is the "washington post" white house bureau chief. steve schmidt not in utah today, he is in the building, a republican strategist, and joel bennenson, a senior advisor to the hillary clinton campaign. all three lucky enough msnbc political analysts. steve, we've got to start with you. president trump didn't weigh in, he did weigh in, and even if he did, no biggie. >> it reminds me of the ward cleaver episode of the beaver, when the beaver met with the russian intelligence operatives and got caught in a scandal with a special prosecutor and like any dad, ward -- listen, once again -- >> who's eddie haskell in this? >> right? once again we have -- we have a lie that unravels on national television from the white house. so we have all these discussions about general kelly and his ability to impose order on the staff and the white house. certainly they could use

sarah huckabee sanders told cnn this evening.perts consulted by cnn say the incidents are illustrative of how vulnerable americans, even those in the highest reaches of power, the trump white house, remain to the potential threat of what is called spear phishing. that's the process through which officials are duped by hackers and expose government computers and systems to various cyberthreats you. might remember happening to hillary clinton campaign chair john podesta. nobody clicked any links making them or their computers vulnerable. and the prankster is motived by mischief. the prankster told cnn try and keep it on the humorous side of things. i'm not looking for the keys to the vault. the severity should not be overstated, but spear fischers often begin the process by possibly posing as a friend or associate before asking them take further action. another exchange appears to have played a role in the exchange between anthony scaramucci and reince priebus. masquerading as priebus, the prankster e-mailed the official e-mail acc