michael, you know, the questions on russia, sarah huckabee sanders didn't take. anthony didn't take. but then somebody asked a question about whether he's got, you know, faith in the hr mcmaster and sarah's answer was i have no reason to believe he doesn't. so we're not even getting the most basic of responses still. >> well, the interesting thing on russia was that he seemed like he'd be more likely to address issues about the investigation, what the white house had said a few months ago or np recent weeks was that they weren't going to deal with any of the russia questions and that they had to go to the outside question. he seemed to be interested more in addressing the issue. i was struck by the fact that scaramucci clearly speaks trump's language. you could clearly tell the personal connection, as josh pointed out. but he als just sort of gets the things trump likes. he talks about how trump could throw a football through a hole and swishing basketball shots. it was clearly stuff that trump likes and clearly said, look, everyone loves the president and maybe t

i would like to announce formally that sarah huckabee sanders, you cannot hear me, i am sorry. sarah huckabee sanders will be the press secretary so you can congratulate her -- still can't hear me? no sound? better now? i will start over. you guys heard me in the front though. sarah will be the press secretary, right? so congratulations to you, sarah. >> [applause] >> we will show you the rest of that white house briefing a little later. first we will hear from white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, who sat down with us to talk about her family life and background. later tonight we will show you president trump at the white house service members of the uss arizona, who survived the 1941 attack on harvard. -- attack on pearl harbor. >> c-span's "washington journal," live with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, with the news of sean spicer's resignation, the weekly standard will join us to talk about that, and his recent article looking at the history of the relationship between presidents and the washington press corps. center for bre

that sean spicer is doing, that will be done by sean spicer‘s deputy, so we will see more of sarah huckabee sanderson her plate, with having to react to donald trump's tweets, for example. the thing about sarah huckabee sanders is she has been filling in recently for sean spicer and there has been a lot of criticism that the white house hasn't been holding regular on camera briefings. but in recent weeks when they have been on camera it has been sarah huckabee sanders doing those. what i thought was interesting about watching anthony scaramucci in the briefing room is, as gavin says, he is slick and polished and he was trying to almost reset the relationship with the media. he said when he spoke to journalists, and going to take every question i can. when asked whether he would reinstate the regular daily on camera briefings he said, i will ask the president and ask sarah huckabee sanders, but i will try and do that. it seemed like he was a good operator on camera and if president trump was watching that one wonders whether he will be making more of an appearance on camera because he was a very rob

sarah: keep up the good work and hang in there. >> sarah huckabee sanders, thank you for your time. rah: thank you. >> at today's white house briefing, it was revealed that sarah huckabee sanders would be taking over for white house press secretary sean spicer, who is stepping away from the trump administration sometime next month. the announcement comes as new york financier anthony scaramucci was named the new white house communications director. this on-camera briefing was the first to happen since late june. it is just under one hour. sarah: slow news day. quiet crowd. good afternoon. mark the last day of made in america week this afternoon, the president will welcome several living survivors of the attack on u.s.s. arizona at pearl harbor and their families. other events this week have focused mainly on products and goods bearing the highly esteemed made in america label.

let me tell you about your exclusive interview with sarah huckabee sanders and the drama that was causedrs would have seen while you were talking at the top of this hour with sarah huckabee sanders. a line of reporters that had not been getting calls and emails returned from top white house aides for reaction to anthony scaramucci, strong comments in the new yorker magazine interview, lined up a few feet from where i am trying to grab it sarah huckabee sanders right after she finished with you. once the interview ended, she looked at her phone, said give me a couple of minutes. wanted to find out if anything else had dropped in the last couple of moments. was there any new white house strategy to react? as to the report is to walk on the driveway. they did that. they waited for her, and she said much the same that she told you that they are going to be distracted by all this. i will note, remember on a similar occasion when sean spicer was practically hiding in the bushes on the driveway, in contrast sarah huckabee sanders faced the music and took the heat from reporters and tried tonigh

sarah huckabee sanders has proven herself very adept in these briefings. because scaramucci is taking over, he may have someone else in mind. perhaps it will be announced, we will find out when there is a rare on camera briefing today later this afternoon. it's not just a question of sean spicer leaving, there will be a rethink of the whole relationship with the media. in light of the fact the president gave that interview where he took a shot at jeff sessions with the failing "new york times" as he calls it. perhaps it doesn't need to be is constantly contentious relationship between the president and the media. we will see what scaramucci has in mind. >> heather: more resignations as a result? >> it's always dangerous to predict resignations as chris wallace mentioned. sean spicer was reince priebus' guy and didn't have the previous relationship with president trump. i don't know whether there will be a full-scale shakeup. i know the president is always reporting, this one is out, this one is out, but at the very least we will see a retooling of the comm

deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders appearing in an off camera briefing last hourpresident prepares to leave tonight for france. sanders telling reporters trump and his son have spoken recently but once again the president failed to fill in the blanks about his own involvement at large. >> i'm not sure about specific communications. and the nature of those conversations. i know that they have spoken at least some point over the last few days but beyond that i don't have further details. >> president trump did appear for an interview with the christian broadcasting network and he has not touched on the

the cameras had been turned off from the daily briefings welfare huckabee sanders was doing those -- while sarahuckabee sanders was doing those. it seems he resigns just minutes after this announcement was made. brent: anthony scaramucci against the house of bannon. what do we know about this communications director anthony scaramucci and why he's such a big problem for sean spicer? correspondent: the cause of the strife within the whitehouse over anthony scaramucci we do not know. he is cut from the same cloth as donald trump. it seems that trump really admired him because a mere two weeks ago anthony scaramucci was the subject of a cnn article alleging he had close ties to agents close to the russian government. anthony scaramucci was a big fundraiser for trial during the campaign -- for trump during the campaign. these allegations of being close to russia were not good for anthony scaramucci. that story into being retracted and this three journalists retired. brent: our washington correspopondent on the story. thank you very much. now to be middle east, palestinian president mahmoud abbas say

as we know, sarah huckabee sanders may take that role.t's a huge role and one that affects the day-to-day relations coming out of that white house. >> it is an important role, it's somewhat diminished by their decision not to hold televised briefings every day. as we all know, it got good ratings, millions of people were tuning in every day on all of the cable news channels to see reince priebus or sarah huckabee sanders take on the press and now that they've basically, to a large degree, ended the televised briefings, that diminishes the role of the press secretary to some degree, but it's still a big role and it's important, you have to figure sarah huckabee sanders has the inside track on that. as of about 9:00 this morning and things do change in this white house, and they like the way she engages and pushes back on the press, so we'll have to wait and see what happens and we'll see if scaramucci has some say. >> harris: that's an excellent point. one of the criticisms were anybody who stepped up to that lectern, whether it be spicer

>> shepard: we just got a statement from the new communications director, sarah huckabee sanders and i'll read that for you. from the press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders. she writes, "anthony scaramucci will be leaving his role as white house communications director. mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give the chief of staff, john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. we wish him all the best." so they sent him to the wishing well. his own people, his own supporters, the president's own supporters -- there's general kelly there as we wait for this medal of honor ceremony. it's his own supporters none other than the editorial board of the "wall street journal" saying this isn't a communications problem, this is a presidential problem. are they addressing that at all, john? >> the only thing we've heard on that front, you have to let trump be trump. anybody that tries to make the president something other than he is going to fail and fail miserably and likely won't have a very long tenure here at the white house. we know that john kelly's work at dhs, the senior

that's not a joking matter. >> that was sarah huckabee sanders giving the white house press briefing, the first such briefing since the latest massive shake-up, the shake-up of the shake-up, if you will. sarah huckabee sanders commenting on the sudden departure of former white house communications director anthony scaramucci says president trump found scare huamucscaramucci's that foul-mouthed interview inappropriate. she wouldn't go into what was inappropriate about it. president trump is known to employ salty language time and again. here in the studios with me, kaitlyn collins. zeleny, let me go to you first. more on the major exit in the west wing. correct me if i'm wrong, wasn't sh she saying last week after that new yorker interview came out that essentially it wasn't any big deal at all? >> she was, jake, and that shows you what's changed, and the one thing that's changed is the man who has the office in the corner of the west wing, john kelly, the new chief of staff. that is the thing that led to anthony scaramucci's dismissal from the white house. but jake, i think -- i was s

sarah huckabee sanders said at the briefing today that the president was just joking about that. i tried to ask, as sarah huckabee sanders was leaving the room, how could the president of the united states joke about police brutality. she did not answer that one. >> she is saying steve bannon and other white house officials want to go speak and the president said all white house staff will answer to john kelly. >> that will be contested in the next couple weeks, not only because jared kushner and ivanka trump are part of the president's families and have sort of walk-in privileges as adviser that can walk into the oval office without going to the chief of staff. obviously this is something reince priebus did not have control on when he was the chief of staff here at the white house, wolf. various officials could simply go around reince priebus and meet with the president without the chief of staff having any knowledge of that. obviously retired general kelly wants to put a stop to that and have the staff report directly to him. but as you know, even with anthony scaramucci steppin

at did they tell sarah: keep up the good work and hang in there. >> sarah huckabee sanders, thank you for your time. sarah: thank you. house coming white medications director anthony scaramucci announced that sarah sanders will be white house press secretary. mr. scaramucci: i will make my remarks in formal and take questions. i would like to announce formally that sarah huckabee sanders is going to be -- you cannot hear me, better question mark huckabee sanders will be the press secretary so you can congratulate her after -- still can hear me, no sound? ok. better? better now? i will start over. you guys heard me in the front. sarah is going to be the press secretary. so congratulations. >> there is an interview with sarah sanders tonight. she sat -- pledged to do her best as press secretary. we will show you that briefing now.

. >> reporter: scaramucci announced that deputy press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, will move into the role. sarah is going to be the press secretary, right? congratulations to you, sarah. >> reporter: president trump asked spicer to remain on staff, according to a white house official, but spicer decided to step down instead, a move that shocked white house staffers. the president has been pushing to add scaramucci to the staff for some time, but spicer opposed the move since scaramucci isn't a washington insider. scaramucci is known as a wall street wheeler and dealer who started his career at goldman sachs. he denied any problems with spicer and chief of staff reince priebus. >> i don't have any friction with sean, i don't have any friction with reince. >> reporter: he pledged to advance his role with the advancement the white house is making that the media hasn't given any credit for. >> we talked about letting him be himself, letting him express his identity. >> before i get to the news of the day, i think i'd like to cover the news of the last 24 hours. >> reporter: sean spic

>> on-camera briefing with sarah huckabee sanders, that's not to say that they won't potentially bringmucci in because sometimes they'll just say as it's been recently off camera, sarah huckabee sanders and she'll bring in somebody else. all we know that the point is sarah huckabee sanders will be there on camera and remains to be seen potentially, if we get our first glimpse of anthony scaramucci at white house. neil: are we to read anything in just that? that it's going to be an on-camera briefing, change in posture, whether this is the first directive from anthony scaramucci or, what do you think? >> this is -- this will be the first on-camera briefing since june 29th. that's 22 days. neil: wow. how the heck did you know that? you've been working a little too hard. >> reporter: one of the random stats we got from somewhere. but, look, i think they gotta do this, right? waiting on the statement. they haven't put a statement out there. so many different narratives as to how this all played out. if indeed it is anthony scaramucci, it's the first test. if, a big if we hear from him. it'

an hour and a half before this press briefing, sarah huckabee sanders -- what's happening?meghan: how do you stop the bleeding at this point? >> ari: it's controlled mad chaos. that's what it is. meetings began on time and ended on time. you want to take the podium, but you keep getting more stuff coming into you. what do you do? i don't think the white house press secretary is calling donald trump, jr., and saying tell me all the facts because he is not a white house staffer and they probably shouldn't do that anyway. it's going to be a miserable briefing because the press secretary doesn't have a lot of knowledge. >> harris: sarah huckabee sanders standard answer in the past as i have not talked to the president about that. hopefully she's talking to the president about those. those questions are going to come. >> ari: it's a legitimate question. >> sandra: much more in our top story brick in a and plus an attorney for president trump now says a fired fbi director james comey appears to have broken the law. this amid growing questions of whether or not comey's menus conta

eastern by sarah huckabee sanders.nge, not focusing necessarily on policy or rules were speculation regarding the russian probe. today it's breaking news in the communications department itself -- sean spicer has stepped down and anthony scaramucci, former principal at sky bridge is said to be taking over very shortly. we have comments from sean spicer. kevin: sean spicer just tweeted his first tweet since he announced his regular nation. it's been an honor and a privilege to serve. i will continue my service. this is bloomberg. ♪ julia: the white house press briefing has been filling up over the last 30 minutes or so. we are going to be getting a briefing at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, sarah huckabee sanders we assume discussing sean spicer stepping down at anthony scaramucci formally set to take over. what does this mean in terms of future strategy going forward? and the relationships within the white house administration, and the intrigue their? i'm texting with my trump sources throughout the show, and i can tell you t

there was sarah huckabee sanders there. really two main topics that dominated discussion there, one being what's going on still with the president publicly belittling, over twitter, his current a.g. and then two, what is the deal with these tweets from the president today, which really blind sided even the department of defense when it comes to reinstating this ban on transgender individuals serving in the u.s. military. so david, let me just open this up to you, beginning on the sessions issue, and i think the news that was made there was hearing sarah huckabee sanders saying the president can be disappointed in someone but still want him on the job and saying that they hadn't talked at least in the last week. disappointed, still wants him in the job. how do you reconcile that. >> it's hard to do so because that sort of now begs the question with every one of attorney general session's actions serving in president trump's cabinet, are now still disappointed with that, sir? are you still disappointed with that? it's a very

you heard sarah huckabee sanders defer on that. but one thing i have heard from sources outside the white house and inside, it's difficult to bring somebody on board when they do not have the assurances that they can have their own people in place. that has been a refrain that i have heard again and again from people who have had conversations around this in recent weeks. so it would make sense for that to have been something that general kelly came in and made clear before taking the job. because that autonomy issue is one that has come up in the west wing before. again, this is clearly a statement from kelly it's his show now. at least on the one level below the president. we keep saying this, nicolle but it's true. it may be the start of a new era and a new leader and it's still the same boss and still president trump in the oval office. >> the day started as many do with the president sharing his inner monologue with the world on twitter, talking about how the white house is not in chaos and ramping up a war of words with china

we talked to sarah huckabee sanders about what it is like.ere is a bit of what you will see tonight. >> when did you say to yourself that you are going to work for donald trump? after my dad got out of the race, even during the campaign, i noticed there were a lot of similarities in the rhetoric between my father and donald trump. populist,an economic so i found a lot of similarity in that. frankly, one of the things i loved about my dad is that even though he had been in politics, he was an outsider particularly to washington. i felt like that was something we desperately needed. i saw that same thing in donald trump, even when my dad was still in the race. i was able tout, get on board pretty quickly with now president trump. i felt like he was not only the right person to shake up washington, and i wanted to be a part of that. -- what dida juicy you see? >> i spent a lot of time talking to people in south carolina, iowa, new hampshire, arkansas, and everything in between, and they were hungry for change, for somebody to really come in and

the spokesperson will be sarah huckabee sanders. i spoke to anthony several times. he says what so many of us in the white house say. we'll do what the president needs to us do. and everybody takes different skill sets into the west wing. it's the president who decides what combination are best. anthony has that new york swagger. when we hear his life story, he's a very generous humble person that i have known to be that way. it reminds me of the campaign shakeup a year ago. you want to put the people in place who can help the leader be who he is and help him succeed. judge jeanine: there are reports that reince priebus and bannon were dead set against it and over my dead body with scaramucci coming in. what happens to reince priebus now and those people who were so opposed to scaramucci coming in, and scaramucci to his credit never lost his cool, he stayed on course, and it makes me a believer he's going to be able to deliver for the president. what about priebus, are these days numbered? kellyanne: we have been hearing that since day won. he was down in norfolk to

but during this briefing sarah huckabee sanders went a little bit further suggesting to reporters that she's under the impression he didn't learn about it until the last couple of days. >> so peter, what we heard from sarah huckabee sanders is essentially that everybody does this. right, this is basically politics as usual. is it? >> well, you know, democratic and republican campaign operatives have made it clear to us, this not standard procedure. this not business as usual. 's normal to meet -- it's normal to meet with individuals to give you research on an opponent in the campaign but more likely that would be a party chair from the opposite party in a state you're competing in that may know something about the principal. in this case about hillary clinton. but they suggest it's a very different deal when you're dealing with a foreign entity. someone who may represent or simply be a foreign national. there is the fear some suggest the potential that this would be violating federal criminal statutes that preclude anybody, that ban anybody from soliciting or accepting anything of valu

what did sarah huckabee sanders say about that?> reporter: jared kushner has come under a fair amount of scrutiny over the last couple of days after it was he vealreveal also attended that meeting at trump tower last summer with the russian lawyer who promised to have incriminating information on hillary clinton. so sarah huckabee sanders was asked today about jared kushner's future in the white house, and his security clearance. take a listen to what she said. >> some congressional leaders, particularly democrats, are very concerned about the trust factor when it comes to jared kushner, and his security clearance. and also still remaining in the job. what does the president have to say about his son-in-law right now in the midst of this storm with the fact that more information continues to come out after he gave his initial statements? and they're concerned about the trust factor when he has a critical piece of security clearance that deals with issues of trust. is the president considering allowing him to stay on leave? and shou

>> to that point that sarah huckabee sanders was making.t for the magnitsky sanctions is remarkably, remarkably strong. the magnitsky act something to steer clear of. thank you, hans, good tasee you. >>> i want to bring in aaron blake. thank you for being with us. we have a story that you've written that you've outlined six potential defenses that donald trump jr. could use or has used for his meeting. i want to just put that up on the screen to show you that donald trump jr. is young. he's inexperienced. the secret service didn't stop it, even though it happened at trump tower. that loretta lynch let the russian lawyer into the u.s. issued her visa, which is just odd because that's not generally something done by an attorney general. it's not collusion unless it's extensive or planned and veselitskaya was the lawywas ju lobbyist not a government lawyer. >> the big take away is an ever-evolving list of these things. many of them implausible. the secret service one offered by president trump's lawyer is questionable given donald trump jr. wa

obviously sarah huckabee sanders did not want to move beyond any of the language that president trump has already said about a.g. sessions. we've learned that they did not talk at all this week. that much was clear, and that she would keep us posted if indeed they do. i also thought it was interesting that she said the president wants the attorney general to focus on his duties as attorney general. now, i would imagine jeff sessions would say, that's exactly what i've been doing and by the way, that's what i was doing when i recused myself from the russia investigation. >> right. >> was to stay focused on my duties as attorney general. and ones where i won't have a conflict of interest. it is odd to have the president have his attorney general twisting in the wind the way he is but say, i want him to focus on his job. i want him to do his job and even though i'm disappointed in him, he can do his job. this story's not over, brooke. they're going to have to, as anthony scaramucci has said, they're going to have to resolve this in some way between the two of them. >> number one on sessi

sarah huckabee sanders, the president's nonstop twitter attacks. chances are, the last time you got a home loan, you got robbed. i know-- i got a loan 20 years ago, and i got robbed. that's why i started lendingtree-- the only place you can compare up to 5 real offers side by side, for free. it's like shopping for hotels online, but our average customer can save twenty thousand dollars. at lendingtree, you know you're getting the best deal. so take the power back and come to lendingtree.com, because at lendingtree when banks compete, you win. >>> check it out, this is a live look at the press briefing room, are standing by for sarah huckabee sanders who will be taking questions from reporters. we'll have that for you when it happens. the president has not let up on attacks against jeff sessions. after he made a statement about it at the white house news conference yesterday. >> he should not have recused himself immediately after taking office. he was going to recuse himself, i would have quite simply picked somebody else. i think that is a bad thi

i would like to announce formally that sarah huckabee sanders is going to be -- sorry, can't here me? sarah huckabee sander wills be the press secretary, you can congratulate her after -- you still can't hear me? no sound? okay? better now? better now. i'll start over. you heard me in the front though right what did i say? sarah is going to be the press secretary, right, so congratulations to you, sarah. so i want to make a couple statements. the first thing i want to say is i want to thank personally sean spicer. not only on behalf of myself, the president, she a patriot, an american serviceman, he has done an amazing job. this is a difficult situation to be in, i applaud his efforts, i love the guy, i wish him well, and i hope he goes on to make a tremendous amount of money. as it relates to me in this position, i will spend a couple weeks getting to know the people here. and i'm going to be as coordinated as i can with the people in the west wing. there has been speculation in the press about me and reince to i want to talk about that very quickly. reince and i have been personal f

jim sciutto, you heard from sarah huckabee sanders there. this is certainly probably the biggest development in this russian -- alleged russian coconclusic collusion story that we have seen this far. >> we've been covering the story since the very beginning. the senate and house intelligence committees have been digging on this question for weeks, months now. fbi, now the special counsel. that collusion question, and it's still a question, has been based purely on the fact that meetings took place. a number of meetings, a frequency that caught the notice, we have reported, of the sbenls community and law enforcement, particularly the fact that it was with so many russians, both here in the u.s. and conversations and meetings in europe as well. this is the first time we have the substance of the meeting. the impetus behind that meeting, what, in fact, was offered for the son of the president to take that meeting and very explicitly, in black and white, damaging information to the hillary clinton from the russian government with the intention

let's go out to hallie jackson in the white house briefing room where sarah huckabee sanders has juste headlines? >> two of them, chris, on the topics we're focused on all day -- health care and russia. sanders was asked about that conversation -- private conversation between presidents trump and putin at the g20 a couple of weeks ago from germany and what you heard on the record is what the white house said. this was simply a social occasion and sanders said she hasn't spoken directly with the president about what was said in this conversation. that said, she didn't expect she said it to be of the nature of particularly sensitive. i asked her about that new "washington post" reporting that the trump administration is now shutting down a program that armed anti-assad rebels in syria. this was significant, it was something that moscow had been asking for for a while. this would be seen as a concession to russia if "the post" is accurate here. she would not confirm that reporting. here's what she said. >> can you kind of explain a little bit -- the president said today, as the bill stan

sarah huckabee sanders came up and gave the same answers. 't get these briefings all that much. is the messenger the problem? >> that's a great question. as you mentioned, sarah huckabee sanders has been doing some of the briefings. she will continue to. this is first televised briefings since june. sean spicer was giving them for a number of months and they were televi televised. i don't think sarah huckabee sanders will draw the same kind of crowd and numbers that sean spicer did. she does do it every day and does it in a televised way. she doesn't answer many questions. they're not very useful just like spicer's briefings weren't useful. if anthony scaramucci were briefing every day, maybe we would have a whole different scenario. maybe they will roll him out once a week or something. i think he did a pretty good job today, all things considered. he has a much different relationship with the president. that clearly helped. he has more confidence up there because he and the president like each other. spicer did not have that kind of relatio

will be out in august, and anthony scaramucci has been appointed as the coms director and sarah huckabee sanders will be taking sean's job as press secretary. let's talk to paul begala, cnn political commentator, and democratic strategist and a former adviser to president clinton. also with me, matthew whittaker, cnn legal commentator and executive director of the foundation for accountability and civic trust and last but not least, david, media critic for "the baltimore sun." gentlemen, my goodness. we thought we'd be talking about "the washington post" and the "new york times" reporting. to watch scaramucci, paul begala, your impressions and just you knowing the inner workings of a white house, what's his biggest uphill battle? >> well, a white house is a living organism, especially -- it's only been going six months but still in six mojnths, it forms us own ecosystem. now you're transplanting an organ into that. the body's going to want to reject it. i don't know scaramucci well. i've met him a couple of times. he has a great conference investment group and paid me, smart enough to pay know g

the press team is not just sean spicer and sarah huckabee sanders. entire group of spokespeople very loyal to sean and sarah is also very loyal to sean. what that means in terms of whether, as john asked earlier. a really strategic shake-up or whether people just exit because of something like this happening? that's something that will have ramifications further down the line as well. >> and they still don't have, i guess, talk that, sarah huckabee sanders, replace sean spicer? she might not even want that job. or on-camera now? haven't been on-camera? we'll see what happens. you asked the question, a reset? doubling down? a new strategy? i think betting on resets from this white house is seemingly a losing proposition pretty often. >> i mean, the good lord is communications director can't help you if the principal brings the "new york times" into the oval office and trashes his own attorney general, number two at the justice department and special counsel investigation. sorry. this is -- these are the president choices. perfectly entitled to make the

and so this is going to be a critical day for the white house and sarah huckabee sanders to explain all this. the press secretary, sean spicer, won't be in the room. as you know, anderson, we've been seeing sarah huckabee sanders taking these hard questions in the briefing room. >> hard questions, yet not on camera. it's amazing to me that on a day which is so critical for this white house in this ever-evolving story, a story the explanations of which coming from donald trump jr. have changed day after day since the story was first broken by "the new york times," they're not going to go on camera talking about it. >> reporter: that's right, anderson. and you know, i think, at the last second here, it would be extraordinary, and i think it would be very much welcomed by the people in this room if the white house were to announce all of a sudden that this briefing were going to be on camera. i think this is one of those critical days in the timeline of this story where obviously an on-camera response from this white house would be important. but anderson, as you know, for the last several

sarah huckabee sanders has taken his place. osting the news on twitter yesterday writing simply, the tv cameras are back on. sarah huckabee sanders later added there would be a mix of on and off camera. >> harris: oh, my gosh, they made that boo-boo on this story? >> sandra: right away, there is a question of the messaging. >> eric: i'm not sure when the briefings will come back, my guess is they'll come back on camera. anthony scaramucci, it's important to note, he's a good friend of mine for a very long time. i think he's going to clean up the shop, they need a lot of cleaning up, but he reports directly to president trump and that is very important, spicer didn't, other directors have been, he will, but he's also catapulted into this very powerful position. he is now firing people. it's as senior advisor role to the president as well, he's the right guy. >> sandra: going back to these on camera briefings, this has been a very important element of the white house and transparency for whoever is in the white house and we haven'

sarah huckabee sanders is in it. and anthony scaramucci will now lead the white house communications team. spencer resigned after the president appointed scaramucci to the post. he gave his interview to sean hannity. it will air in an hour from now. at 10:00 p.m. eastern. we have some previews. >> from what i understand, all of the reports are, the president did not want you to go. tell us what happened. >> he didn't. >> he has been very gracious throughout the process wanted to bring some new folks in to rev up the communications operation. and after reflection, my decision was to recommend to the president that i gave anthony and sarah a clean slate to start from so that they can talk about the president's agenda and help move it forward. and he after some back and forth understood that the offer that i was making was something that was in the best interest of the administration. i thanked him for the opportunity. i'm looking forward to watching anthony and sarah do a tremendous job. >> kimberly: a lot of nice thin

here is how sarah huckabee sanders responded to those claims.

we'll tell you what sarah huckabee sanders is saying as she says it. we'll have live updates when she starts and then play back the sound when it's over as i mentioned. first president trump is defending his oldest son and lashing out at the news media for its coverage with a russian lawyer. donald trump jr. told hannity he went for the meeting as a courtesy for an acquaintance. his own e-mails show "i love it" after a middleman told him a russian lawyer had information that was part of russia's effort to help candidate trump. donald trump jr. in that interview described the meeting as nothing. he said he doesn't think his sirens went up because it was all pre-russia mania. >> in retrospect, i would have done things differently, this is before the russia mania. this is before they were building it in the press. this is opposition research. they had something, maybe concrete evidence to the stories i had been hearing about, that were probably been reported for years, not just during the campaign. i wanted to hear it out. really, it went nowhere and was

you've got anthony scaramucci as to medications director, you've got sarah huckabee sanders as press cretary, they are working together to achieve what? what is the primary goal? >> that's something i've been thinking about, because you obviously have to congratulate sarah huckabee sanders picture with the third woman to be white house press secretary. a job that immediately changes her life forever. sometimes you might feel like it changes it for the worse, but it is for the better. i loved that job. i was glad it had an end date. for instance curmudgeon, he comes of the clean slate. he heard sean spicer being very gracious and saying look, if the president wants a new look and feel of the press office, he should have that fully and graciously stepped away. head sounds. that's great. now anthony scaramucci, he gets in there, he has a lot on his plate already. truthfully, even though it looks like what you see of the job is something always on television, for communications director and especially the press secretary, 90% of what they do is behind the scenes and not public. he has to

yesterday sarah huckabee sanders said the same thing. she said the president had only learned of this meeting in the last couple days. shepard? >> shepard: ellison, thank you. more ahead on donald trump jr.'s e-mail. we'll speak with a reporter who has been investigating the trump team's connections to russia. we'll hear more from the lawmakers about today's development. we're expecting further comments from capitol hill. that's coming up from the fox news deck on this very busy tuesday afternoon. ♪ binders, done. super-cool notebooks, done. that's mom taking care of business. but who takes care of mom? office depot/office max. this week, get this ream of paper for just one cent after rewards. ♪ taking care of business. fitting into my skinny jeans ♪again? that's cool. feeling good in slim fit? that's cool. looking fabulous in my little black dress? that's cool. getting the body you want without surgery, needles, or downtime? that's coolsculpting. coolsculpting is the only fda-cleared non-invasive treatment that targets and freezes away

and we have just received the first comments from the president through his spokesperson, sarah huckabee sanders. quote, myon is a high-quality

you are hearing it all over the place because sarah huckabee sanders also opened that door. i hate that analogy, i've used it 12 times, opened the door just a slight bit. >> reporter: and the press briefing here, liz, at the white house with sarah huckabee sanders is currently ongoing, topic a, topic b, topic c, health care, health care, health care, and sarah huckabee sanders had to defend this comment trump made at the white house in regards to health care earlier today. >> we're probably in the position where we let obamacare fail. we're not going to own it, i'm not going to own it, i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. we'll let obamacare fail and the democrats are going to say how do we fix it? how do we fix it? or how do we come up with a new plan. >> reporter: at the briefing still ongoing, i asked sarah huckabee sanders why is it good policy to let obamacare fail? she responded saying it is the democrats to blame because they have not been involved in the process. they were the ones to put the health care system intact in the first place and she said

sarah huckabee sanders saying nothing about don jr.'s meeting was inappropriate. >> there was simply no collusion. they try to create that there was. >> reporter: kellyann conway coming to his defense. >> he had no idea who this person was until she entered the room. >> reporter: now that detail raising eyebrows. why donald jr. would agree to a meeting at trump tower with an unknown russian lawyer who has ties to the kremlin and invite two of the most powerful people

sarah huckabee sanders was taken more of the daily chores, mostly off camera with spicer in the rear-view mirror and promoted today for sarah huckabee sanders . is reince priebus the next friction point? would you buy that they are like brothers and they fight occasionally? >> what i buy and don't buy is really nobody cares but it's important what you heard anthony scaramucci say because at the end of the day, this is about president trump's message. so when blake berman, our correspondent who was asking questions asked anthony scaramucci why he would want this job, it always comes back to other questions like that. the president's message and anthony scaramucci feeling about what the president is trying to do. here is anthony scaramucci in his own words. >> i'm a business person and so what happens in business a lot of the times is you have rotation in personnel as you're making changes and you have lifestyle choices that people are also making. i would love to have sean here. sean decide that had he thought it would be better to go and for me it speaks volumes to who he is as a human be

sarah huckabee sanders relayed a statement from the president. high quality person and i applaud his transparency. that from donald trump through sarah huckabee sanders. next, we're back on the hill with how these e-mails could be a pivotal moment for members of congress. james mcgovern gives me his take after the break. we continue to keep an eye on today's audio only press briefing at the white house. we'll bring it to you as soon as it wraps up. no, please, please, oh! ♪ (shrieks in terror) (heavy breathing and snorting) no, no. the running of the bulldogs? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money aleia saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® great-granddaughter of benjamin rush.h he was actually the only medical doctor that signed the declaration of independence. i myself am a nurse, my daughter is going to physician's assistant school. we're passing on family traditions. ♪

sarah huckabee sanders saying something about don jr.'s meeting was inappropriate. >> there was simply no collusion, that they keep trying to create there was. his defense on g.m.a. >> he didn't know her name. he had no idea who she was until she entered the room. >> now that detail raising eyebrows. why donald jr. would agree to a woman at trump tower with an unknown russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin and invite two of the powerful people on campaign, paul manafort and jared kushner to join him. after first saying it was discussion russian adoption it's now to learn about the administration to hurt hillary clinton. trump -- learn about information to hurt hillary clinton.

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but i do want to point out one thing, jason, about sarah huckabee sanders. there has not been a female white house press secretary since the george w. bush administration, since dana perino. president obama went through three white house press secretaries, all of them were male so that is something noteworthy on a historical level. it's been a long time since there's been a female press secretary at the white house. there was an interesting moment when i think john carl, maybe john roberts, asked about a comment that mr. scaramucci had made about president trump in 2015 and whether or not he had talked about it with the president, and scaramucci humorously talked about how the president reminds it of him every 15 seconds. here's that clip. >> another hack politician. >> you called donald trump a hack? >> he's a hack politician. >> the politicians don't want to go at trump because he's got a big mouth and he's afraid he's going to lights them up on fox news and all these different places but i'm not a politician. bring it. >> why is he resonating? >> you're a

professional republican establishment factor who are running the trains day-to-day including sarah huckabee sanders in many ways. and then you have this other faction, the burr cats, intelligence folks, mind you, who are kind of over in their own little word. so you have that. the second thing is there is no real bond in the sense that if this was a ted cruz or marco rubio that had won, there would be the real strong bond of republicanism, this idea that there was shared values. donald trump is still not viewed by a lot of republicans certainly here in washington as being a true conservative, and they can't necessarily trust him. and that's what you're seeing. quite frankly, erin, it is unfair for the likes of reince priebus and those folks to be getting thrown under the bus all the time when the blame lays directly with the president