. >> breaking news anna fox at this hour, sarah sanders is step to take the lectern inside the white house press briefing room, this is the first on camera briefing since august the second, and there is a lot of ground to cover, we will go to the white house in just a momen moment. >> harris: also breaking and developing right now, police at the scene of an active shooter situation in a downtown charleston, south carolina, officers are surrounding an area near a restaurant, a gunman reportedly was there, we are live with the latest. >> a restaurant on king street, called virginia's, an african-american man in his 50s came out with a gun and said "there is a new sheriff in town, some said he also said i am the new king of charleston, there are eyewitness reports that the man opened fire on another employee, and just moments ago, police confirmed that one person has been shot and taken to the hospital, his condition right now is unknown, police say at least one other person is being held inside the restaurant as a hostage, there may be more, there is no word on demands or if the police

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

. >> sean: that was sarah huckabee sanders. during a white house press briefing. listing a few of the economic accomplishments of the president. she is the hardest job in the country. earlier tonight we had a chance to speak with her. of course on her father's birthday. sarah sanders, now, i just had your dad on. you wished him a happy birthday today. good thing you did. he would have been pretty angry. you know, i went through this today too. i didn't even know you were going to address it. i'm preparing the chauffeur today. i just was like nobody ever talks about his accomplishments and things he does, what he's done on his own. you guys got to get your act together, republicans. create a sense of urgency to get things done. as a conservative, i can't appeal to the democrats. they don't care what i think. i'm just disappointed they haven't moved further. what's going to happen in the next three months? >> we have a very aggressive and big fall agenda. we have to focus on it. we are going to need the senate and house to come together and get something done. they

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

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your kit now at ancestrydna.com. >> shepard: just heard from the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sandersfirst on-camera briefing of the month. it comes after different speeches in president trump and a series of tweets taking to republicans. let's go to josh gershstein from politco. sarah says the relations are fine between the president and mitch mcconnell. is that true? >> that's not true. the last conversation they had was a shouting match and disagreement from the president over the senate's failure to pass the obamacare legislation and even the fact there's investigations underway in congress and the president and his campaign's alleged connections to russia. so there's a lot of anger. it seemed like the white house's strategy was to paper it over. saying we're going to work together, cumbaya and bang, this morning another flurry of three tweets attacking mitch mcconnell and dragging into it paul ryan. >> shepard: it seems the president believes that republicans on the hill are to protect him from the investigation regarding russia. where did he get this idea and what kind of protec

at the white house press briefing a little whale ago the white house press secretary sarah sanders said as it relates to the debt ceiling the onus is squarely on congress. >> look, it is our job to inform congress of the debt ceiling and 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. we're committed to making sure that gets raised. >> reporter: earlier this today house speaker paul ryan didn't say anything about the mess related to the debt ceiling when i spoke at a town hall at a boeing plant in the state of washington. >> this is about paying bills we racked up we pay our debts. we pay our debts in this country. we'll continue to do so. i'm not going to worry that will get done because it is going to get done. >> reporter: cheryl, sarah sanders gave a twofold defense as it relates to the border wall and funding. president said he would be okay with the government shut down if he doesn't get funding for that wall. two parts, one, sanders saying this is something he fought for, something

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

. >> reporter: sarah sanders took over from shaen spicer. everyone including the president's daughter and son-in-law will now report to the chief of staff. >> general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to him. >> reporter: scaramucci made a point of saying he reported only to the president. president trump tweeted monday, a great day at the white house. kendis, diane? >>> and jeff sessions is no longer in the doghouse. >> sessions sat right across as he convened his full cabinet. just last week the president refused to say if he planned to fire the attorney general, but when asked about reports that sessions may be replaced, press secretary sarah sanders had this to say. >> there are no conversations about any cabinet members moving in any capacity, and the president has 100% confidence in all members of his cabinet. >> the president had expressed anger over sessions decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. >> abc news has learned last week that some senior white house ai

the category of a fishing -- i think falls into the category of a fishing tale, but you saw sarah huckabee sandersto defend this. and what was really interesting with sarah on this, if you are attuned to the nuances of this stuff is like sean spicer before her, she a couple of weeks ago probably would have come out and blasted this thing out of the water. today she was much more circumspect. she realizes this is a marathon, not a sprint and the president will say more stuff that's questionable and she better hold her fire. >> she did say that this phone call never happened. for a group of people -- i wouldn't put sarah in this category, but there are a lot of people around donald trump who took it upon themselves to prosecute bill clinton's parsing during the time of his impeachment. that's the crowd that donald trump surrounds himself with, in and out of the white house. but it is at best a parsing to say that it wasn't a lie when donald trump suggested that somebody called him to tell him it was the best speech they had ever heard, again to a crowd full of 12 to 18-year-old teenage boys. >> yeah

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

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says it's in some sort of legal review.se provocative actions from russia, why the deafening silence? we have admiral john kirby. what do you see in this? >> it could be something nefarious. it could be that he's reticent come out publicly against putin, or it could be that they're relying on the rest of the cabinet and the officials like vice president pence, secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, to carry that language forward and allow the president to be the good cop while they're the bad cops while they try to negotiate better bilateral relations with russia. it's hard to know exactly what their reasoning is behind this, chris. i agree it's troubling. i think it is concerning that our own president simply cannot and will not and has not, frankly, over the last six months, brought himself to directly criticism president putin. >> what is the material difference when you look at potential mall factors. look how heavy handed he is with china, much bolder. north korea, all options on the table. venezuela, there are big imp

what sarah sanders was just talking about, the continued briefings. the president tweeted out picture of the briefing saying he is staying up-to-date. >> the white house is determined not to repeat the mistakes the bush administration made in 2005. the president had an oval office briefing about 10:00 this morning, here is the tweet he just mentioned. the president is also in touch with leaders on the ground in the area in the cross hairs, saying "i have spoken of governor abbott of texas, closely monitoring hurricane harvey development and here to assist as needed." iowa senator chuck grassley urged the president to stand top of the situation, tweeting up this morning "keep an eye or keep on top of hurricane harvey, don't make the same mistakes president bush made with katrin katrina. i spoke to an administration official at the short time ago. he told me the highest priority is on saving and sustaining lives in the impacted areas and protecting first responders. the loudest message on the white house this afternoon is for people in the path of the s

washington post" reported with more detail that the president was indeed involved in the drafting, sarah sanders, press secretary, conceded it. let's listen. >> the president weighed in, as any father would, based on the limited information that he had. this is all discussion, frankly, of no consequence. >> two very different answers in the space of two weeks there, kellyanne. >> the most important thing that press secretary sarah sanders said there, which is completely true, there is no consequence to any of these meetings. the president weighed in as a father. he did not dictate the statement. >> but first the white house and the president's lawyers said he wasn't involved at all. they didn't tell the truth. >> george, you know, i know there's this whole thing about everybody wants to take this taco owe. >> telling the truth. >> let's talk about -- no. okay. let's talk about telling the truth. let's talk about a president looking americans in the eye who are still suffering eight years later who were lied to. if you liked your plan, you could keep your plan. if you like your doctor, you could

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when sarah huckabee sanders came out, she made it sound like a lot more of a firing. the president was upset about the language that scaramucci used in that interview with the new yorker. it sounded more like he was pushed out, and frankly, it was confusing about whether or not he was going to go back to the export import bank, which was where he was before he came in asking occasions director, because sarah huckabee sanders said, he does not have a role in the administration right now. so, maybe the door is open after the dust settles for him to go back to the export import bank, but even if he does that, that as a whole lot different than the job he was boasting about ten days ago, saying i have access to the oval office. i report directly to the president. things have changed, and they have changed directly. >> jesse: and now for someone who was very sad to see scaramucci go, juan williams. >> juan: i am still not clear on sequence of events. as i understand, the president over the weekend, scoured on scaramucci and the profanity laden tirade to the new yorker. but

sarah huckabee sanders was pressed on that during the briefing today. she fielded a lot of questions about all of these inconsistencies, and of course, she maintains that the president did nothing wrong. the bottom line is, nicolle, i think there is some frustration about the fact that not only was the president involved in this statement and dictating this statement but this is not completely out of the ordinary that he wants to be hands-on when it comes to this type of messaging. >> kristen, what kinds of staffers -- so we know that the kinds of staffers who were overruled at a strategic level were press staffers. we know what kinds of staffers were on the plane. i think we have video of everyone who got on the plane in hamburg and everyone who got off the plane when they landed in washington. his national security advisers were on board, senior staffers were on board. some who are no longer with the white house. family members were on board. what kinds of staffers would have been the president's partners in overruling strategic advice from press staf

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

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

sanders: yes, they are. >> thank you, sarah. two very brief questions. is there any chance you will just leave the job of communications director alone, people whoto -- two held it leave rather abruptly. sec. sanders: we will let you know when we have any personnel announcements on that front. >> the other thing i wanted to ask was one the president made his speech to police officers on friday, almost within minutes, statements came from police chief's across the country, criticizing his remarks that seemed to endorse the use of force by police in certain arrests. was the president joking when he said this or that he checked his -- did he checked his remarks out with the international association of police chiefs or maybe the attorney general? sec. sanders: i believe he was making a joke. >> was scaramucci fired by the president? press secretary sanders: i will not get anything -- into anything done what i have said on that. >> you said this was a back-and-forth conversation. press secretary sanders: i think he wants to work with general kelly and a commu

here is what sarah sanders happy to say yesterday. asthe president weighed in any sun would on the limited information he had and this is all discussion of no consequence. there was no follow-up. to the propered parties which is how the new york times found out about it. the democrats want to use this as a pr stunt and continues to keep in this story alive every day. the president, the american people voted on america first and now russia first and that is the focus of our administration. john? dictate but like i said, he weighed in and offer suggestion like any father would. >> did he not know? was he aware at the time that don jr. had a meeting that he would be promised information that would be negative of hillary clinton when he set the meeting was primarily about russian adoption? >> a statement issued was true and not inaccurate. what the bigger question is, everybody wants to make it a story about misleading, the only misleading is the year's worth of story fueling this false narrowness of russian collusion based on anonymous s

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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

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.

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

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

so undoubtedly 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 ab

. >> 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

as we await today's white house press briefing by sarah huckabee sanders, i'm joined by annie, all ofthe men in the white house are the drama queens. >> it certainly seems like that. we hear about reince priebus and steve bannon. they had to take their fake buddy comedy on the road, and prove to us that it was best friends. jared kushner and steve bannon for fighting so badly that trump had to tell them to work it out. deanna powell, the person considered for chief of staff, sarah sanders has risen, kellyanne conway, she is in it for the long haul. >> she really moved in, she's not going anywhere. >> some were saying that these women were not in the most high profile jobs of the white house, not in the hot seat jobs, but sarah huckabee sanders has taken on one of those jobs. is that potentially problematic for her, is she in it for the long haul? >> it is potentially problematic. part of the problem is the women have not had the top jobs in the administration. five of the top 22 highest paid staffers are white house women. now that sarah is in the media spotlight every day like we're

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

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

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

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

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 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 reache

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about mr. scaramucci's departure during monday's white house briefing. >> does anthony scaramucci have a role besides communications director? >> he does not have a role besides communications director. we put out a statement earlier announcing that. not at this time. >> did general kelly asked him to leave for the president? did he volunteer his resignation? how did that come about? >> 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. >> was it a chain of command issue? said that hemucci had a direct line of communication to the president. there has been some speculation that general kelly may try to tighten up input the president has. was it something about the chain of command or have anything to do with the interview scaramucci left? >> the

sarah sanders, trump really likes her but who knows how long that will last?she never really had an affection for sean spicer, so i think she's started on better footing. kellyanne conway sometimes knows she needs to take a step away from the press and keep a low profile. you have to sort of stay behind the scenes and i think the women have been able to handle that. you don't see amirosa on television. men like reince priebus, they basically had to defend him all the time. people like that aren't going to last long. >> i'm sure people realize they're not the biggest, biggest jobs in the white house, but at the same time we'll be watching the women in the white house. >>> i want to just take a quick moment to honor the cnn's heroes. she is dedicated to helping the homeless youth. >> to be homeless, it's very lonely. when you don't have your family, you'll always have a black hole. i know exactly what they're going through. i want children to breathe, i want them to feel alive, i want them to feel secure. i want them to feel like they can be hugged and they will

>> 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.

. >> reporter: sarah sanders calling this whole thing a p.r. stunt and a phony, false narrative.ry. >> the white house saying the president was involved but still denies that he actually helped craft the statement like abc sources suggest. >> that's exactly right. sarah sanders said today that he did weigh in on the statement like any father would do but she also said he quote, certainly did not dictate anything which contradicts what both abc sources and the washington report say. >> this story far from over. thank you. >>> the senate voted to confirm christopher rap as the new fbi director. he places comey who was fired by trump in may. >>> an e-mail prankster seems to have fooled sop white house officials. he posed as jared kushner and communicated with homeland security advisor. he said he posed as president trump's son eric and reince prix bus. they said they are being looked into. >>> the u.s. air force is planning another intercontinue nenal biblic aal ballistic miss. this latest test is said to happen between 12:01 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. this year's tests have come

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

the allegation is it was on air force one, which sarah sanders was on back from the g-20 summit. listen to what she had to say. >> he didn't have anything to do with the statement? >> the statement don jr. put out -- >> the one over the weekend. >> that was written by donald trump jr. with consolidation with his lawyer. >>reporter: kate that was the statement from trump attorney jay sekulow. he said not once but twice. sekulow was reached out to after the post report came out. we are going to put that statement on screen about what he had to say saying apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate and not pertinent. there's controversy in his statements about how the statement was crafted and whether the president played a role. what i was referencing earlier with sarah huckabee sanders, she didn't know the president had a role in it. she couldn't comment. we never heard back from her on that. we don't have an official white house statement on whether or not the president plays a role in crafting donald trump jr.'s misleading statement abou