sarah huckabee sanders came out . . said this was inappropriate. the white house correspondents dinner knew what they were getting into. howie: do you see the same selective outrage and commentary? imagine when barack obama were under a special counsel investigation. when we see conservatives and liberals switching sides and some of the outrage or defense of the president that they have expressed. >> we know for a fact they will switch side. we saw that with president clinton. they said it's just sex, it didn't hurt anybody. now we are seeing the same talking points on each side except they are flipped. howie: "saturday night live" did a stormy daniels skit and did not use an actress. >> it's just an act. >> i work in adult films, we are not known for our acting. howie: should we remove any last pretense this program is virulently anti-trump and not about comedy. kat: it's not as funny because of it because we know where the jokes are going. the punch line is going to be the president is an idiot, the president is a liar. the people watching it and

these allegations. >> so amber, no knowledge of any payments either the president lied to sarah huckabee sanders or sarah huckabee sanders lied to america right there and the white house rudy giuliani knows that and was willing to eat it with this appearance overnight. fascinating. >> and you have the president being disingenuous to reporters like julie on air force one. they are -- whatever is happening with the michael cohen raid, they are in such a backed up in such a tight corner they have no choice but to completely and clearly contradict everything they've been saying for months about the president knowing about this payment because, likely, there's some kind of legal issue that they're trying to get out in front of. >> the politics of it when it comes to the president's most ardient supporters, the facts are that there is an alleged affair that the porn star involved in it was paid off hush money by the president's lawyers, the president reimbursed his lawyer for that and it seems to have been a reimbursement that was made while he was sitting president and this is today as the president

comedienne michelle wolf doubling down on her routine where she took potshots at press secretary sarah huckabee sanders at the white house correspondents' dinner. it was uncomfortable to watch. fortunately i was not there. i had many things to do, like organizing the sock drawer. we're minutes away from sarah's first press briefing since the verbal attack when wolf joked, joked, that sanders burns fat and uses the ashes to create a perfect smokey eyeliner. sanders will get asked about a leaked list of questions that special counsel robert mueller wants to ask president trump. "the new york times" publishing four dozen questions covering motivations for firing james comey and contacts between the russian. so disgraceful that the russia witch-hunt were leaked to media. you have a made-up phony crime, collusion never existed and investigation began with illegally leaked classified information, nice, exclamation point. joining me with his thoughts on all of it, former campaign official cory lewandoski. good stow sue. were you in the room? >> you missed it. we were in washington, michigan. the president cal

publicly compared to what we've been finding out has been happening behind closed doors with sarah huckabee sanders and her staff. >> reporter: yesterday during the white house briefing sarah huckabee sanders refused to acknowledge of that incident and said that the remarks were meant to cause discourse. sarah sanders according to this report told the group, i'm sure this conversation is going to leak, too. leak it did. jonathan swan cited five sources saying that sarah sanders was more than the comment was leaked rather than it was said. and mercedes schlapp said "i stand with kelly sadler." a source confirms she does stand with sadler. that aside, the comment, the white house defense of it, takes us yet across another threshold of what used to be established lines of acceptable political behavior. david? >> i look at that axios piece and what they report in that art call is that sarah huckabee sanders is serious on a day that there was what the white house saw as good news, so much of the news cycle was consumed with talking about this, with the remark made behind closed doors. i want to ask you

joining today's white house press briefing sarah huckabee sanders.he sick agile -- that is scheduled for 2:32. -- 2:30. until then, a segment from washington journal. at our table this morning, michael, you were supposed to be in

peeking around the corner next si -- ainsley: april ryan accused of sarah huckabee sanders not making pecan pie. yesterday april ryan was taunting the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders accusing heller of playing street politics. listen to this and we will get your reaction. >> you said yourself you were blind sided. >> i actually didn't use that term. >> i said it but you were blind sided what you said. >> with all due respect you don't know much about me in terms of what i feel and what i don't. >> what it shows me is that she was feeling that she was in a vice of sorts. she'll went straight to me to say something like, you know, you don't know me. in certain sectors of this nation, people understand what you don't know me means. it is very street. and it leads to a fight. a physical fight. so i'm not there to fight. i'm there to ask questions. ainsley: in a vice of sorts. and if it says you don't knee me that means you are going to get in a street fight? >> april approached me at a post white house correspondents dinner event i won't disclose that conversation becau

sarah huckabee sanders with a statement. emmet flood will represent the president and the administration against the russia witch hunt.

listen to how sarah huckabee sanders answered those questions. >> kristen i'm sorry. it look likeby we don't have that sound. let's talk more. it soundashough sarah huckabee sanders was essentially trying to make a whole long list of other cebriti who had, you know, said negative thing about the president and essentially hold them up as equal to what roseanne bahr beated; is that right? >> that's right. that's how we responded from a question from kellio done when pressed about why president trump didn't take this chance to speak out against race im. sarah huckabee sanders saying there is a double standard. a number of celebrities have made disparaging comments about the president and his supporters and the white house hasn't gotten al apology. important to point out a number of those who have been punished. including kathy griffin who lost her stint at cnn. so there have been actions taken against some of those clibts. one other question of interest here. a youngster offed a question about gun violence. >> we recently had a, lodown drill. one thing that affects mine a

sarah huckabee sanders clarifying that the remark itself was meant specifically for ms-13 gang members. sarah sanders appearing to read what was clearly a prepared response there to that particular question. also, at the beginning of the back and forth with reporters, also addressing something we heard about here. yesterday i believe it was. president trump or maybe it was this morning actually. president trump asserting that there had been some sort of fbi infiltration into his campaign that was actually yesterday. i want to bring in robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post," and our man peter a lexen der is getting hooked up in the briefing room. for folks who have not been following that part of all of this closely, bob costa, walk us through the president's assertion. >> his assertion in terms of the investigation, in the witch hunt? >> no, no, this fbi agent infiltrating his campaign. >> there's -- what "the washington post" has reported in the last couple of weeks and others have followed up in some respect is there's a lot of questions about the origin

his latest piece sarah huckabee sanders just basically blamed trump for misleading her. g about today is fascinating the last 24 hours. the press briefing was fascinating for those ever us who watch it all the time. sarah huckabee sanders started using a phrase over and over again which she does and it was all about, i give you the best information i have at the time and that's what i will continue to do. in other words, when reporters are saying why did you lie to us, she kept on saying, it is an the best information i had and finally admit that had she didn't know about this until last night when everybody else found out. >> right. and this is not a quote that she is new to today. she's actually said this before. most recently after the rob porter fiasco in which the white house offered a number of contradictory statements about what had just happened, i think the difference in this case, though, is that in rob porter she was talking about other white house aides. in this case she was clearly talking about information that had been provided to her by the president. she

anthony: that's a good question, because yesterday sarah huckabee sanders told reporters that he was extremely focused on other things like north korea and he was not going to weigh in on it. i think he just couldn't resist and wanted to make the story about him and his perceived disrespect that the media is treating him with. sarah huckabee sanders went on during the press conference to air grievances and list the things that abc should have apologized to donald trump for. this is a tactic that trump and the white house do regularly. they deflect onto the media and change the story about the media and make it them and not donald trump. jane: he has gone after his poor old attorney general, jeff sessions, again, saying he would never had appointed him if he had known he was going to recuse himself from the russia investigation. why the latest assault? anthony: you have to look at what the trigger is. the trigger was a "new york times" story that said trump pressure jeff sessions even after he recused himself to effectively unrecuse himself. he considers that of a trail. he thinks tha

the words that came out of sarah huckabee sanders. listen to this. >> i've had conversations with the president about this and as i outlid earlier that this case had already been won in arbitration and that there was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he's denied all of these allegations. >> so what are we dealing with here? >> look, the date on that was march 7th. so today is march 3rd -- may -- today. >> we're going back in time. >> but on march 7th it's okay to answer the questions about the case. she doesn't want to answer it so she's throwing out the issue of ongoing litigation. put aside the fact that she already engaged on the issue two months ago as you guys just showed, give me a break. this white house is going to turn to the ongoing litigation issue. president trump comments on everything, like the idea that there's going to be restrained because it's ongoing litigation so it's a sensitive matter is beelined on the fact that president trump has already commented himself. i just don't see how much longer tha

was great, tell me why that in your worldview is funny. >> i didn't think the stuff with sarah huckabee sanders was funny because sarah was seated seated right there, laura, and i thought it made everyone in the room uncomfortable. matt can tell you, i think everybody visibly was worriedd that sarah might cry or get up and walk out. it just made for a huge fuehrer at a time when that was unnecessary because it had a sense of she was kind of on the hot seat while the camera was on her. but in general, i don't understand that you see this as evidence of liberal media bias. when the president -- when president trump says horrible things about a conservative, the attractiveness of carly fiorino or heidi cruz, i don't see people saying, that is evidencee of right-wing bias against women, because he won thee nomination even after he saidce those things. in fact, when you look at the comments that came from michelle wolf, a lot of them were darts right at the media saying, you know what, you guys are profiting from trump, you guys make money off of trump, and you should --it >> laura: what she was doi

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is that sarah sanders, is it sarah huckabee sanders, is it because in huckabee, is it anti-huckabee sanders? but what is uncle tom but for white women who disappoint other white women? >> sean: by the way, sarah, kelly and, they took it with incredible grace, especially sa. a so-called performance was so bad, so mean-spirited, even the association's president regrets over wolf's remark and some of the mainstream media even they called out this so-called comedian. take a look. >> i think the comedian crossed a line. this one from poking fun to being mean-spirited. it was very uncomfortable. i think that sarah sanders handled herself very well. >> the dinner is supposed to be a journalism and not the red carpet, not the mean-spirited joke that we saw last night, some of those i really thought were inappropriate. >> this dinner has had a lot of bad moments. thinking back, as i was watching this cringeworthy performance in some respects going after the appearance of sarah sanders, which i thought was inappropriate. >> i really thought the pain of the people on stage, when sarah huckabee sanders

>> yeah, and danny cevalos, let me bring you in, sarah huckabee sanders saying rudy giuliani didn't hurtdent legally or any other way with those comments last night. what's your sense of that question? >> if sarah huckabee sanders is adopting the rudy giuliani view of this case, from what i can tell last night, rudy giuliani is essentially retreating into the position that the payment that trump made, that he concededly apparently made, whether funneled through intermediaries or not, is not a campaign finance issue at all. it's a personal payment for personal reasons which is a valid defense to campaign finance law allegations. however, the -- there are a number circumstantial evidence. not the least as which the payment close to the election. that kind of circumstantial evidence could overcome direct evidence that it simply had nothing to do with the election. >> philip rucker, what did you make of the press briefing? >> well, clearly sarah's on the defensive over these statements. she gave misstatements for the record as did the president about this payment and about the affair, the al

and then you've got this leak, the five people talking about the axios meeting, sarah huckabee sanders not vociferously apologizing for what was said about john mccain. >> the president says apologies are signs of weakness. we heard that sarah huckabee sanders saying she's not going to talk about a leak. we've seen this from this administration, not focusing on the substantial but on the fact that it became leaked and became a public affairs problem for the white house. it not only sustainable to -- clearly not only allies of the president but opponents of the president said this is beyond the pale, you don't insult a war hero on his death bed and basically has a few more weeks or months to live. it not something you should be doing as a white house official. that's why this administration is really struggling to figure out how to contain the damage and hope it blows over and hopes something else takes over the news cycle. one controversy start and before you can even really process it, something else comes out. >> ron, it's not lost on me that comity and civility is something that joh

and i never am really sure what to call sarah huckabee sanders. you know, is it sarah sanders? t sarah huckabee sanders? what is uncle tom but for white women who disappoint other white women? oh, i know," there. >> tucker: fox news national correspondent ed henry was among many, including president of the white house correspondents association. he was in the position of running this dinner, hiring the entertainment. youte want on saturday. what was your response? >> i was appalled. among other things, we invited sarah sanders to be our guest for dinner, in our home. we being the correspondence. and she was insulted by this comedian. it went further than that. it was very personal. she seemed to be taking it very emotionally. you know, in terms of these attacks. she was struggling to keep her composure. i thinkep sarah sanders, she was consoled by a bunch of correspondence afterwards because itau was so negative and nasty. it went beyond that. there were jokes about abortion. i kid you not to. there was a joke along the lines of, don't knock it till you try it, i saw people sort

sarah sanders. listen to what she had to say. >> you know nominated my best friend sarah huckabee sanders tweeted anyo support women's empowerment and our national security but opposes her nomination is a total hypocrite. well, if anyone is an expert on hypocrite it's sarah huckabee sanders. and for the record, that was not a looks-based joke. that was about her ugly personality. she has the mario batali of permanent. personality. brian: i guess a chef who has had some trouble. if you meet sarah huckabee sanders, which she did. she is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. pete: of course. she really is. is that funny? >> i like funny, i will laugh. i'm a very generous laugher. i wish that was remotely funny. ainsley: how did you feel about all the attention you got after the white house correspondents dinner? i think it's awful. if people hated what i did at the dinner they are really going to hate my show. brian: here's an example. number one, i think we broke news that pete considers himself a good laugher. pete: generous laugher. brian: jillian, add that to your newscast. jillian: i'll do t

sure what toreally call sarah huckabee sanders. t sarah sanders, as it sarah huckabee sanders, is a cousin huckabee, is it nancy huckabee sanders? like what has uncle tom done for white women who disappoint other white women? i know. ann coulter. we have our friends at cnn here. welcome, guys, it is great to have you. you guys love breaking news, and you did it. you broke it. good work. the most useful information on bourdainen anthony tells me where to eat noodles. fox news is here, you know what that means, ladies? cover your drink. seriously. people want me to make fun of sean hannity tonight but i cannot do that. this dinner is for journalists. [applause] we have msnbc here. msnbc's new slogan is, this is who we are. it is not a good slogan. this is who we are is what your mom thinks the sad show on nbc is called. did you watch "this is who we are this week? week?s someone left on a crockpot and everybody died. we now know that mika and joe are now engaged. congratulations, you guys. it is like when me too works out. we cannot f

minute now, we'll hear from president trump and in just 30 minutes, from press secretary sarah huckabee sanders on what is increasingly becoming just another typical day at this white house, escalating chaos overshadowing what the administration is trying to get done. today, they want to talk about lowering drug prices, a promise the president made before he took office, naming a clear culprit. >> we have to get our drug industry coming back, our drug industry has been disastrous. they're leaving left and right. the other thing we have to do is create new bidding procedures for the drug industry because they're getting away with murder. pharma, pharma has a lot of lobbies, a lot of lobbyists, a lot of power. >> the thing is, the rest of washington is only talking about one drug company, novartis. a company that paid the president's personal attorney $1.2 million. a senior official at novartis telling nbc that cohen promised access to the administration. also today, news that the million plus amount is almost four times what the company paid any outside lobbyist at the time. well, a novartis spo

what do you say to sarah huckabee sanders?last time i checked, being complicit in torture was not an agenda item for either women's empowerment or our national security. this is a much bigger issue. it is really about the soul of america, what do we believe as a nation. and we come down on the side of not torturing people. >> who would you suggest then from your perspective should take that place if she does again retract the nomination is removed, is pulled back? >> i don't know. but i'm sure there are a number of other people who would be qualified for this position who did not run a torture facility or engage in destruction of videotapes. >> thank you, representative of course for reacting to this breaking news that came in from the "washington post." >>> we originally said, let's talk together today, not for that reason but we know that you can turn on a dime with us as the news often is on a weekend, on a saturday and sunday. >>> i want to switch to this, representative. will the president -- you've heard discussion so fa

i'm sorry you feel that way. >> sarah huckabee sanders is the mother of three. as you saw, she became emotional as she sympathized with bengie. tomorrow, trump plans to meet with victims of the school shooting in santa fe, texas. >> keeping up with president trump in the oval office, reality tv star kim kardashian visited the white house for a meeting with senior adviser jared kushner. kushner is working to overhaul the country's prison system. lastee, she tweeted an article about her imprisonment. now kim kardashian is urging president trump to pardon johnson. one step closer to allowing last call a little bit later. that bill to extend alcohol sales cleared another hurdle. today the senate ruled cities are allowed but not required to extend the sale of alcohol and bars and restaurants to as late as 4:00 in the morning. the bill was authored by scott weiner and applied to seven major california cities including san francisco, oakland, sacramento and los angeles. that bill now to the assembly. it was certainly blustery outside and a lot cooler. >> we will keep c

i don't -- sarah huckabee sanders is doing a job. it is a very difficult job.t of the loop. it is not uncommon to have press people kind of kept in the dark. it happened to me before because you don't want them to have to go out and necessarily be able to admit to certain things. that is a strategy. but it is -- it is just every single time she goes out there and, again, i don't call her out individually. i call out the podium if you will, who ever is behind it with this administration. >> okay. i'm glad howard is back. i think his ifb is plugged back in. i want you both to take a listen to adam schiff. he's giving his take on the potential implications of all of this a bit earlier today. listen up. >> what kellyanne conway and sarah huckabee sanders and before her sean spicer are doing in taking these abundant falsehoods that come out of the white house and trying to weave them into some alternate truth is enormously corrosive of our democracy, apart from the president's legal jeopardy, he can lie to the public, and he can't be charged with lying to the public

and i am sure what to call sarah huckabee sanders you know is it fair sanders is it sarah huckabee sanders is it cousin huckabee is it anti have to be sanders like what uncle tom but for white women who disappoint other white women the law calls or the i mean we've heard disgraceful disgusting brain brutally honest reactions as polarized as american politics so i will washington bureau chief alexander phenomena she had a seat at the dinner saturday nights she joins me now a probably with a case of heartburn alexandra when the roasting was happening what did you think. well it was the first time for me to watch michele wolf live so the first thing i thought was well what's going on with her voice and then i thought that she clearly didn't pull her punches so some of it's was really funny for example when she talked about us in the media being obsessed with still no extreme and some instances she seems to have crossed a line for a number of people when she attacked members of the trump administration and her a new phase or when she joked about abortion and that's made some people cringe and

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might have been involved as well eamon javers with the latest >> reporter: that's right, sarah huckabee sandersthe briefing in the last couple hours this afternoon, and really, the central focus was the credibility of the president of the united states and credibility of sarah huckabee sanders herself, asked a number of times about the admission from rudy guiliani last night that the president did, in fact, repay his lawyer, michael cohen, $130,000 plus for payments made to stormy daniels. line from the white house is the president made those payments to michael cohen to daniels but did not realize what they were about until the last couple weeks after denying it on air force 1 talking to reporters saying he did not know what the payments were about orhave information on them. sarah huckabee sanders was asked how that makes sense in terms of the president of the united states here's what she said as mayor guiliani stated and referring back to the comments, this was information the president did not know at the time but eventually learned. >> reporter: she was also asked about her denials on all

sarah sanders? >> sorry, tough to hear. the debrief from that very brief briefing from sarah huckabee sanders. getting a lot of questions about north korea, not surprisingly and frankly not revealing too much other than the meeting was productive. that is something that a top official told myself and kristen welker on the driveway a couple minutes ago. they believe it was a productive meeting. not much else on what the president learned from that and no guidance on this when it singapore summit may happen or when the president might decide whether he'll go or not. lots on north korea. some on this department of justice situation unfolding the last couple of days. you heard sarah sanders say there will be a meeting. devin nunes, trey gowdy, the fbi, the doj, will be conducting and doing this review of some highly classified, highly sensitive material. chief of staff john kelly will not be there. that's interesting, because he's the one who put it together. and when the white house was asked about this, why broker a deal if kelly is not going to be there, sanders seemed to take exception to the

and a happy mother's day. >> sarah huckabee sanders ending her press briefing. she started with the health and human services secretary on prescription drugs, then she want to questions saying about the comments made -- reportedly made about john mccain she is not going to comment on an internal meeting. she took a few questions on that and swatted down any ability to get a real answer from it and said that they respect all americans in the white house. did not specifically offer any apology, clarity, or embrace of john mccain. kristen welker trying to get to the bottom of not only whether it was set or what the general tone is, how the tone is set in the the white house. tell me about the exchange you had with sarah? >> first to the big question, ali, which is does selly sadler, the staffer here, who made those comments, essential saying john mccain's vote, he is quote, dying anyway. does she still have a job? one of my colleagues asked that question. sanders dodged initially. i went back and asked again. she was brief. she said yes. then i asked her, basically

you go all of these things cannot be true. >> and that's what we have seen this week. >> sarah huckabee sanders saying one thing. the president saying one thing. you have his lawyer talking about north korean hostages freed on television and then sarah huckabee sanders saying we can't confirm that rudy giuliani is saying these hostages are going to be free. the united states cannot confirm. the number of stories you go through in a period of 36 to 48 hours are head spinning. >> or 36 to 48 minutes. >> in particularly on the stormy daniels part. we have seen so many different stories. >> the legal questions will continue. a few words from your colleague, does it bother anyone? it should. that is the credibility crisis. we will see where the legal questions take us. the trump effect on this week's big primaries and unemployment report. and for politicians say the darnedest things the woman who you might say is the eye of the storm. >> i work in adult films. we are not really known for our acting. >> what do you need for this to all go away? >> a resignation. >> being president is like doing porn.

and sarah huckabee sanders is furious where the leaks surrounding the comments. these were leaked to the press. jeff is joining us with the strategy here. there is the comment, reprehensible, not to engage with that instead of focusing on the meeting first reported by axios, the at news service. it is whyhighly likely the leak occurred. why won't the white house apologize for the egregious remark? >> it may be smart to look at the week unveiling of melania trump of the be best campaign encouraging kouds ids to put kis first in their lives. and this comes after a crass remark was said about john mccain from the white house. and many are asking kelly sadler to say she's sorry, but many words from donald trump have been worse than what kelly sadler said. given the handling of the incident, take a look at the intersection between the white house deputy spokesperson hodeley gutly. listen to this interview on fox news. >> i didn't hear the comment. >> you heard it now. >> i can't say i was in the meeting. >> it sounds like she said it. was it kind? >> whether the comme

i remember a interview with sarah huckabee sanders, he is the point person. he is not supposed to be ex-pounding on foreign policy. >> the president was so excited when he brought on giuliani a few weeks ago. he was tired of the talk he couldn't bring on a big name lay lawyer. he wanted someone to be the answer to stormy daniels' lawyer and allowed a critical voice from the president -- of the president and trump said, i want someone like that. he didn't get a cabinet position. he was still in trump's circles. and that became his choice. he was very excited about it initially. that faded some. he still likes the idea of giuliani being out there, being aggressive, fighting with the media and so on. he likes a lot less how he's done it and how this has gone. he really muddled the waters on a number of issues. what michael cohen did with the lobbying firm. he was weighing in about the release of the north korean hostages day before the u.s. government secured their release. he's been talking about iran and so on. the president has grown sort of frustrated with g

at this point, i will be joining sarah huckabee sanders for the press briefing this afternoon and i will be up at the take questions to provide more detailed information of all of the elements of the president's plan. thank you very much. [applause] pres. trump: thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain your seats until the president has departed.

i feel for sarah huckabee sanders because maybe he tells her one thing and she goes out there and says the next day he says something else. she's got to be the one to decide if she wants to do this. all she says is talk to the president's lawyers. talk to rudy giuliani. why didn't she stand up there and apologize that rudy giuliani actually compared this country to nazi germany when he said the justice department acted like stormtroopers. i'm stunned at that from a man who pulled us together after 9/11. this is a sick situation. >> even trivial matters, i've been slightly obsessed with the doctor situation, ronnie jackson comes out and gives this glowing account of the president's health. the previous account with dr. bornstein, it was dictated by the president. the astonishingly healthy letter. how do you navigate thinking about this white house having to assume that they are lying all the time? >> everybody who works for anymore knows in other words to keep him happy you have to lie. you have to do whatever story he's telling at the moment. part of the problem is he knows the base he

but kelly should have immediately told sarah sanders -- sarah huckabee sanders, to go out and repudiateand story over. move on. i think it's another example of how john kelly is out of his depth politically. the other fascinating example of that was kelly's interview with npr. you know, he, every time he opens his mouth, he puts his foot in it. and in this case, not only with outrageous comments about immigration, but i found fascinating what he had to say about the fact that he thought the white house press corps was out to get him. to take him down personally. that's ludicrous. it's absurd. so john kelly has gone from sort of the angry get off my lawn guy, who attacked representative wilson, to a kind of one-man pity party. you know complaining that he had to take a pay cut to do the job. it's really not pretty to watch. >> i'm curious, eddie, why you think we are hearing about this comment about john mccain's health. al who do you explain these incidents getting leaked? >> somebody in the white house is not the ivanka story that michael talked about. it's really a sense that someone

. >>> press secretary sarah huckabee sanders added her voice to the saga that the trump, kim summit may or may not be on. >> we expect it to take place but we'll see what happens. we're going to be prepared, if it takes place on june 12th, we'll be prepared. if it takes place at a later date, we'll be prepared as well. denuclearization has to be on the table and the focus of the meeting. >> while denuclearization may be a goal, it may not be realistic, according to a cia assessment that states north korea has no intention of giving up nuclear weapons any time soon. three national security officials tell nbc news that however not all is lost. the report says that kim may consider opening a western style burger franchise as a sign of goodwill. a u.s. delegation continues to meet with north korean officials in the dmz, and separate team taking meetings also in singapore. the white house says president trump will meet with shinzo abe in washington june 7th, less than a week before that possible june 12th trump, kim summit. the white house says secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with t

brian: she says she has a ugly personality meaning sarah huckabee sanders. >> not even -- i hardly saw that all you can talk about is sarah. i love working with her every single day here at the white house. she does a wonderful job representing the president and speaking to america on what is a very fast moving agenda here. the shear velocity and volume that goes on in this white house that the president was to work on we just reviewed them this morning. i hate to dignify it i would say generally speaking not about that woman but generally speaking i'm old enough to remember when comedians were funny.

also reported that sarah huckabee sanders and said that was uncomfortable. was also reported to have said i'm sure the conversation will leak too. i thank you you all. the new yorker ends the career of the new york attorney general. up next, the first lady steps into the media spotlight. are the media fair to the first lady? >>> the first lady too accident step to the forfront for an initiative. >> i would like toth kate our children about harassment and balanced life. >> there was some straightforward coverage. some journalist picked up on a washington post report saying the first lasteddy and husband lead separate lives. >> the washington post amongst many things reported there are rumors. mrs. trump doesn't live-in the white house and lives with her parents somewhere in the suburbs. what do you make of those rue rumors? >> i make of the fact that the washington post can't get things anymore wrong they do. that's an outrageous claim. >> i spoke earlier with a reporter from fox news 24/7 headlines. >> the rumor is reported in the 57th paragraph followed by

i don't think sarah huckabee sanders had an answer. a lot of it is trying to understand or get in front of the possible crime that could have been committed. i think one thing a bottom line as we say at axios on this is all of these things swirling around michael cohen. this is the president's person attorney, this is someone who has been described as the man that knew secrets no one else knew. so as the investigators get closer to him, there's a lot they'll learn about that. some of the response could be driven by what michael cohen could know. >> shepard: if nbc is reporting it to be believed, it's not been denied, that there was a wiretap, they had to have probable cause for the wiretap. then they had to have an enormous amount of probable cause to raid michael cohen. now michael cohen faces -- a lot of prison time or he could flip, a lot of suggestion that he flipped. what is your reporting on that? >> we don't have reporting on that. two points you make are very good. there's no way that the justice department undertook a wiretap

. >> not sure what to call sarah huckabee sanders. ders, sarah huckabee sanders, what is uncle tom but for white women who disappoint other white women? my friend is also anti-choice, thinks abortion is murder, which first of all don't knock it till you try it. when you do try it, really knock it. you got to get that baby out of there. >> time for a new news roundup. america was treated to another spectacle between the white house and the white house press corps after a relatively obscure comedian devon to personal and voter attacks like you just heard was the reaction is so negative the press course trying to save face was years with publisher of usa today had to say quotemac what followed was not reflective of our highest ideals as journalist him only to undermine our credibility. amplified a growing dangerous narrative that the news media are biased and unworthy of the public's trust. our ethical code as journalist demand better of us. there in lies my conviction the white house correspondents dinner has lost its way. last night's p

i think he is playing the role that should be played by sarah huckabee sanders, who does a great job being nimble and not going too far, knowing that the president will come in with his own opinion that may be contradictory. she's figured out the scheme. >> communications director who they don't have right now maybe. >> do they need one? no one has lasted very long in that job. what that suggests is that it's not something that fits within the current structure of the current white house. they always say that president trump is his own best spokesman. to avoid mixed messages, just let the president speak for himself as much as possible. you've seen sarah huckabee sanders take that -- she has changed her strategy from when sean spicer was press secretary. you didn't see her yesterday, for example, when they asked about the mccain comments, she wouldn't condemn them or comment. >> or acknowledge them. we'll talk about that later on in the show. what do you think? >> i think it's canhaotic. i've never seen a lawyer -- let's not forget he is a lawyer hired to handle legal matters for thi

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at this point, i will be joining sarah huckabee sanders for the press briefing this afternoon and am able to take questions to provide more detailed information of all of the elements of the president's plan. thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until the president has departed. >> coming up on c-span, "washington journal" is next. and then a house hearing on the 2020 census. and then a discussion on the middle class and the economy. about an hour, national fair housing alliance president lisa rice on the housing policies of the trump administration. ethan epstein will discuss their cover story on the homeless population in seattle and how the city is responding. and a look at congressional efforts to open the yucca mountain nuclear storage waste site. our guest is jeremy dylan. ♪ with thesident trump, health and human services secretary, yesterday and the rose garden he laid out his broad principles and initiatives at lowering drug prices, calling it "the most sweeping action in history." welcome to "washington journal." will it be eno

sarah huckabee sanders was thronged by reporters who were asking her a ton of questions about giuliani'somments just in the last hour. >> reporter: and sarah huckabee sanders has been pressed over time to explain some of these issues and she is on the record from the briefing room always pushing back. so to give you an idea -- here is the difference between what she has been saying and pointing us in the direction of the former mayor of new york. >> i think it is fair to say there is ongoing litigation and the president's attorneys who have the greatest amount of visibility into this have spoken about this both at length last night, again this morning the president has put out multiple tweets on this this morning. >> was he surprised? >> i'm not going to be able to hto -- >> many came after he was president and president-elect. do you care to tell the american people what else -- >> i care to tell you what i can which is not a lot on this topic because of ongoing litigation i am not able to get into it. >> i will happily address all of you in a couple of hours. >> that's how the sausage