what sarah sanders said today clearly doesn't make any sense. she needs to come out herself and apologize for what she said. >> i'll say just one more thing on this. the thing that gives the u.s. military an edge, unlike a lot of other militaries in the world where you're not allowed to question the generals, there is a culture in our military of holding responsible people for their actions and their words. of taking accountability. of learning from mistakes. evolving and adapting. that's what makes our military special. so when sarah sanders suggests that you have to just take as given anything that someone like john kelly says, she's talking about not the first rate military of the united states, but third rate militaries of other countries. >> stand by, jake. we have more to discuss. there are other developments unfolding right now. we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back. when you're close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chanc

you heard sarah sanders say he still has the president's support. we've got an ace team in place to walk us through this news-packed friday. we have to start this hour over at the white house because hallie was inside that briefing asking some of the questions, and i have no better understanding right now, hallie jackson, than i did last night when i first heard it what the president means by "calm before the storm." i do know that for a lot of people who were listening, it seemed pretty ominous. sarah sanders sort of just almost being dismissive of it but not rejecting it as something that was teasing the press. >> reporter: right. listen, chris, if it was cryptic 18 hours ago, it is still cryptic at this moment in time. sarah sanders did nothing to shed any light on what the president was talking about and that was very intentional. she had plenty of opportunities to and said repeatedly -- and this is a line we have heard from the podium before, that the president doesn't want to foreshadow actions that he may take. the question is why the preside

>> well, anderson, sarah sanders sort of hinted at the fact that he didn't.own further and found that general kelly and other staffers in the white house were really caught off guard when president trump originally brought general kelly and the story of his son who was killed in afghanistan into this mix. remember, trump said you can ask my chief of staff. you can ask kelly about how he never got a phone call from obama. and as you pointed out, kelly has taken great pains to kind of keep the story of his son and his son's death a private issue. so a number of people over here at the white house were surprised to see the president come out and talk about it publicly like that, particularly in this context. >> and earlier today politico reported that the white house drafted a statement for the president to give expressing condolences almost immediately after the four service members were killed but he never issued the statement and chose to make no comments forth 125 days. what is the white house saying about that. >> one of the perplexing is the president's si

what did you think about what sarah sanders said today? of the facts of course, and we heard this in the briefing that kelly had asserted yesterday turned ought not to be true. >> i'm a little confounded by sarah sanders' answers today because she knows better than this. the white house, when she said that kelly's appearance should have been the end of the story, first of all, the white house doesn't get to determine when stories end or begin or how they get covered. the that's our job in the press. and she knows that. the second of all how can she possibly say with a straight face that general kelly's appearance in the briefing room should be the final word on this when those words we now know to be inaccurate. and when then the president of the united states tweeted last night an inaccurate tweet, once again about the congresswoman. see it up there on your screen, calling her whacky, saying the fake news is growing crazy with whacky congresswoman wilson who gave a total lie on content. see the time many stamp? that was 10:53 p.m. that wa

>> that goes back to what sarah sanders was saying, this has knock to do with us as a campaign. >> it may have nothing to do with the campaign. but it has everything to do with the campaign. again, you have to look at this in light of the plea today, what they're trying to do is put paul manafort in a position, where he's going to be subject to many years in prison, and he's got only two choices here, he can go to trial, be convicted and go away for a long period of time, or he can cooperate with the government and tell them everything i knows about that june 9th meeting at trump tower. about his dealings with roger stone, who recommended him to be the campaign manager. he can tell him what he knows about the efforts to get e-mails from the russians. those are his choices, it's not going to do him any good to be pardoned by donald trump either. the way this indictment is set up, it's money laundering, which is a new york state crime many so if donald trump came in here and pardoned him, he would have a choice, it's either rikers island or federal prison? which would you take? >> we ha

and press secretary sarah sanders calls it highly inappropriate to question kelly because he's a four-star general. a mile away, new details tonight about the deadly ambush of u.s. troops at the heart of the kelly controversy. cnn has lern learned that one of the american soldiers killed was found a mile from the scene of the attack. lawmakers are now pressing for more information. are they satisfied with what defense secretary james mattis told them today? >>> rushing off bush. the white house faces new questions about the sharp rebuke of the trump presidency by former president george w. bush. he denounced many of president trump's policies and behaviors without mentioning him by name. why does the white house now say the former president wasn't talking about the current one? >>> and laughing it off. how speaker paul ryan roasts president trump, making light of controversies he usually doesn't address, including the president's insults, his twitter habits, and more. was ryan revealing his true feelings under the guise of humor? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and

two weeks after that deadly ambush, sarah sanders was expected to have some details. she didn't. >> is the president satisfied he's learned everything he wanted to know about this situation itself in niger. >> i believe they're still looking into the details of that, but i don't think the president can ever be satisfied when there's loss of life from men and women in uniform. >> and the questions continued, including whether the niger operation is looking anything like benghazi. >> she says that is the president's benghazi. what say you about that? >> i'm not going to get into the details of that action at this time. >> this comes as cnn is learning a private contractor called barry aviation was used to evacuate the troops after the ambush. we start with barbara at the pentagon. at this point with the deadliest combat loss in the trump administration so far, what do we know? >> good evening. tonight we don't know a lot more than we knew two weeks ago when it all unfolded and that is making james mattis not very happy according to several senior officials i've talked t

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>> well anderson, sarah sanders hinted at the fact that he didn't. and my colleague ran this down further and found that general kelly and other staffers in the white house were caught off guard when president trump originally brought general kelly and the story of his son. he was killed in afghanistan into this mix. remember, trump said you can ask my chief of staff, you can ask kelly about how he never got a phone call from obama. as you pointed out, kelly have taken great pains at trying to keep his son's death a private issue. a lot of members were surprised to see the president come out and talk in public about it like that. >> a statement was drafted for the president to give a statement after the four sergeants were killed. what's the white house saying about that? >> one of the perplexing things about this anderson, has been the president's silence, why he waited two weeks and had to be asked about it before making a comment on this. when talking to white house officials about this they said look they got the information from the nfc, they tr

the e-mails contradict that. >> more from sarah sanders in the briefing. i want to get back to papadopoulos in a moment, but what are you hearing about paul manafort and rick gates. >> both pleaded not guilty in those cases yesterday. the terms is that they are restrictive and quite extensive. they are both under house arrest. they cannot leave the house unless it's to meet with attorneys or court appearances or medical appointments. the terms of their bond. it's a secured bond. if they violate the terms of home arrest, they have to pay it. manafort's is $10 million and gates is $5 million. these are restrictive and not what you see in a typical white collar criminal crime as alleged hereof. >> evan, you have been doing a lot of reporting on this. the transcript of the hearing on october 5th when papadopoulos pleaded guilty. he was arrested actually in july. pleaded guilty october 5th. at the time and if you read all the transcript with this federal judge, randolph moss, very interesting because they told the judge and the prosecutors i want you to unseal

so today sarah sanders said there were other comments.randstanding elsewhere of the she mentioned the funneleding elsewhere. we wnt to the white house and asked a number of aides whether they could provide those records, whether they had any records of those so far. nothing from the white house. we are still waiting to hear. john. >> all right. thanks so much. joining us now, cnn military analyst -- general hurt ling, can we start with you. first of all, can i ask you permission to ask you a question as a retired -- is it okay that i ask you something? >> i just wanted to say, john, i don't mean to be flip, but are you sure you want to get into a debate with me because i think i have most of the facts. >> what about that? what about the notion and sarah sanders said it today and president trump, you know, implied it in the interview with fox news that because he's a four star general, anything he says should not be questioned. >> well, first of all, like him, i am also a retired general, and it puts him in the same cats gory as i am, whic

and as sarah sanders pointed out, they did not take action.get the papadopoulos information today, same time we are getting the revelations may signal that someone out there that there is potentially still a connection that is not exactly what manafort and gates are facing. >> dana: one thing that papadopoulos is facing, he thought the russians had access to thousands of emails. there's two different sets of emails, right? the hillary clinton email, that were deleted from her private server event additional thousands of emails that get hacked from the dnc. including the podesta thanks. do you know what they are talking about? 's lawyer says, they are looking forward to telling the whole story. >> for the purposes, they are not going to do that, but eventually they do look forward to outlining what happened. i do think at some point, we are going to get clarification on this. he has pleaded guilty. he will be facing a sentencing, and that makes people very cooperative at times. we will see, but because the attorneys are saying, we look forward

press secretary sarah sanders said it's too early to consider that, but as to the prospect of firing special counsel robert mueller sanders wasn't offering any iron-clad commitments saying the president, quote, has no intention or plan to make any changes. wolf, that does not sound like a guarantee. >> jim acosta at the white house, thanks very much. let bring in our chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff, we've seen two major moves today, a pair of indictments and a guilty plea. which is the most damning? >> the papadopoulos case, because for one thing it's a guilty plea. the case is over, but if you look halt what he admitted to and the e-mails described, there are explicit references to thousands of e-mails, hillary clinton e-mails, that will apparently in the possession of the russians. this is the first time that we know that there is any direct or indirect connection between the trump campaign and the eat mails which turned out to be so important in this case that. alone is extremely provocative information that -- that certainly investigators are following up on. >> yes, they

i want to play more of the exchange between the cbs reporter today and sarah sanders. he was pointing out that not only did wilson talk about funding when it came to the building, but that the funding was secured before she was even in congress, so she really didn't have anything to do with it. here's part of that. >> wrong yesterday in talking about getting the money. >> if you want to go after general kelly, that's up to you. but i think if you want to get into a debate with a four star marine general, i think that's something highly inappropriate. >> april, it was a stunning moment. i used the words military dictatorsh dictatorship. it was a stunning thing to say. >> it is stunning. it's stunning on the part where sarah says if you want to go after the general, if you want to get into a debate with him. it's not getting into a debate or it's not going after him. it's just a search for answers to what he stated that may have been a misspeak. and you know, the issue is it's inappropriate to ask him questions or question him about it. he was just in the briefing room t

hiring sarah huckabee sanders.e last 2a hours, this is causing a certain amount of heartburn over there, isn't it? of course. any time you have an individual turn themselves into the fbi, one of our top law enforcement agencies here in the us, who is the president's campaign manager, that's going to because of heartburn. from a legal perspective, these indictments, in my view, show that the fbi and of course the special counsel office are probably going to try to flip these two individuals. they will try to find a way to find someone they will try to find a way to find someone further up the chain, much closer to president trump, than these two. so yes, if i were a lawyer associated with the president 01’ lawyer associated with the president or his white house staff, i might be having a tough go of it today. let's pull out a couple of bits from the papadopoulos indictments, because sarah sanders they're saying there was no connection to the campaign. 0ne was no connection to the campaign. one of the most interestin

i asked sarah sanders the question, does the president value the first amendment as much as he valueshe second amendment because he did put out that tweet earlier this morning suggesting the senate intelligence committee investigate news outlets, on the hunt for fake news, as the president likes to call it. i think what sarah sanders did at this point was used that as an opportunity to tout some of the news they feel like we don't talk about enough, the economy is doing well, the stock market is doing well and so on. but i did try to ask a followup question which was very simply, should congress investigate news outlets. it sounded to me like she said no, but then she did call on another reporter in the room named noah. we didn't get a clear answer on that. it took one of our other colleagues later in the briefing to follow up on that. i think sarah sanders sort of answered the question where she said i don't think that's what we're talking about here, something along those lines. but not really definitively answering this question, not definitively closing the door on this. we should

>> it's high. >> at the briefing, sarah sanders said it was all a joke. insisted the president still has full confidence in the secretary of state. anthony. >> margaret brennan with the iq wars at the white house. >> overseas, isis has been losing its grip on syria. raqqa, isis so-called capital, may be liberated by u.s. backed forces within days. and there is a surge of volunteers aching to fin, off the terror group. holly williams reports from northern syria. >> as isis faces defeat in raqqa, the syrian men have volunteered to finish them off. the new recruits learned to detect explosives today, on roads. inside houses. and detonated by a control. after 15 days of training they will head straight for the front line. america's closest allies on the ground here in syria, shop keepers, truck drivers, tailors and construction workers. we asked them how many had loss family members to isis. they have killed my relatives, cousins, and neighbors, said ahmed, a butcher until he signed up. they're driven by revenge and hungry for american help. u.s. special oper

>> really, as sarah huckabee sanders usually goes the other way. but on a bipartisan basis, presidents typically are trying to contain information in the executive branch. that's the usual behavior. so for the president to be encouraging this. and, look, there is a difference between him saying this is what he would like to see and giving a direct order. >> saying do it. >> that's right. and this is not crossed into that territory. nonetheless, when you are over in doj you know what the president wants, and you undoubtedly if it's plausible and reasonable to do t it's one more item on the scale in favor of that transparency. so i would note that going forward this kind of transparency is an expectation now that the trump administration is setting. so in it's first year of its first term, i think it's pretty noteworthy to see this sort of position being taken by the president. >> and you nodded on the transparency note. what do you think of what ken just said? >> well, i think that the president simply does not seem to understand the boundaries betw

that was sarah huckabee sanders concluding a press briefing at the white house. ficial comment we got from the white house aside from the tweets from the that was sarah huckabee sanders concluding a press briefing at the white house. president this morning about the indictments we learned about earlier today. sarah huckabee sanders beginning by talking about tax reform using a tortured metaphor about beers and taxes. the key headline i think, the president has given no thecation that he will fire special counsel. he expects the probe to conclude soon. has gottenouse indications that the probe is going to end soon. let me bring in marty shanker -- mart. we expect to get some comments perhaps from paul manafort later today. let me start with you. the first time that we have gotten official comments from the white house about what happened today. struck by the comments about george papadopoulos. stressing time and time again he was operating in a voluntary capacity. that seems to give them from distance from what he did. >> they clearly are trying to distance themsel

your take on what we heard from sarah sanders? >> i think, chris, you outlined the overall strategy that we're seeing here, at the white house. which is to try to distance the president, his campaign from these indictments and from the actions of george papadopoulos, who has now plead guilty to misleading and not giving the fbi and the special council forthcoming information, so just to tick through some of the top lines here, you're right, she effectively said, look, papadopoulos was someone who was unpaid, who didn't have a whole lot of significance on the campaign. but, of course, the reality is, we know he did send a number of e-mails to top officials for several months running, chris, during that campaign as he was trying to set up potential meetings with russian officials. in the case of paul manafort, their strategy is to say, look, all of these actions that are under a micro scope right now occurred prior to the campaign. but you heard her get pressed on what this means about the president's judgment, and about how much th

that's the white house press secretary sarah sanders earlier today explaining why the millions of collars spent by the clinton campaign on the dnc, fake russian trump news i salacious dossier they bought and paid for by hillary and by the dnc. now we find out obama. joining us now former deputy assistant to the president sebastian gorka, fox news legal analyst. we will get to his column which is blockbuster in a minute gregg jarrett. all right. sebastian gorka, sara is

trump dossier later shared with the f.b.i. >> bill: joining me now white house press secretary sarah sanderscoming back here and good morning, sarah. >> great to be back. >> bill: i heard the president say a number of things with regard to the latest revelations here. he said he is arguing it is full vindication. does he believe now that this reporting from tuesday night gets him off the hook? >> i don't think he ever felt like he was on the hook. he has known all along that the accusations were a huge hoax as we like to refer to it at the white house. one of the greatest political witch hunts of all time. i think this further proves if there was anyone that was colluding with the russians to influence the elections look no further than the clintons and dnc. hypocrisy at the highest level and a new low in politics. everything the clinton campaign and dnc were falsely accusing the president of doing the past year they were doing it themselves. it turns out it is a major scandal for the democrats. >> bill: one matter has to do with the russian dossier. the other matter is the uranium deal from

that is on behalf of the campaign whether sarah sanders likes it or not. it's clear as day in the plea agreement. >> and the russians today, lavrov, the foreign minister, denying this, denying the social interaction which we'll get to coming up. the fact is, who were these russians, the mysterious professor, some of the other contacts that papadopoulos was in touch with? >> i don't know the mysterious professor. i just read about him yesterday. he's not someone well known in my circles in london. i do know the alleged organization that they contacted, riac, the russian international affairs committee, i believe is what that acronym is. i know them well. i used to deal with them as ambassador. i'm not prepared to say this was a conspiracy because it all seems kind of unprofessional to me, to be honest. it's really striking to me that they're poking around in strange places. if you're trying to set up a meeting between vladimir putin and candidate trump, that's not the place i would go, but the smoking gun here is the word dirt. when they floated that, we ha

you saw sarah huckabee sanders do it the day before general kelly did. and then so general kelly comes out to use his credibility to attack the representative's credibility. and i think he has not done himself any good because most of what he says was just plain wrong. he in his statement and in some ways he seemed to be relishing these attacks on the congresswoman. essentially was saying he was stunned about something that never happened, right. he was stunned that she stood up and said things, but none of that ever really happened. he also seemed to miss the enact that she was given a standing ovation after she finished speaking. you saw the white house today say well, he wasn't really talking about necessarily that speech. he was talking about other things she had done where she appeared to be grandstanding. but again, if you look at what he said from the podium of the white house, he was talking about that speech. so, i mean, it's really puzzling, i mean, that he miss remembered this entire event, you know, and you had sanders there saying well, you

it's the cake analogy, nice job by sarah sanders.t. >> that's pretty clever. >>> the senate killing a rule making it easier for consumers to sue banks. it's a major wall street win under the trump administration. the vice president, mike pence, cast the tie-breaking vote last night. gone now is a consumer financial protection bureau rule that would ban forced arbitration clauses. this is the fine print, right? the banks, credit cards and other financial companies tuck into their contracts so when you use their credit card, you give away your right to sue them. it forces you to resolve disputes outside of the court system. it blocks you from banding together with other people who are aggrieved by their credit card company or bank in class-action lawsuits. republicans called the rule an overstep but richard cordry, a president obama appointee, and the white house is trying to undo anything he does. the financial lobby claims class-actions benefit trial lawyers not consumers but consumer advocates disagree. they say arbitration favors t

we will bring you back, sarah sanders of the white house press briefing, let's watch together. >> secretaryanders: i'd like to start the briefing by addressing a topic i know all of you are preparing to ask me about. that's tax reform. the initial house tax reform will be here on wednesday by the ways and means committee. it is now going through an open process in the house. the committee plans to mark up the bill next week starting on monday. the house is likely to consider the bill the week of november 13th. in order to stay on pace to have it passed by thanksgiving. this is a very aggressive timeline but one that will help us get tax cuts this year so families and businesses can plan for 2018. we look forward to the details of the tax bill being released on wednesday but today i want to take a step back and explain what we are working to do using an anecdote we can all understand. this story has been floating around of the internet for a while. keep in mind that the numbers are not exact and i'm not encouraging any drinking so file that away. mostly for my parents. i think you will enjoy

i'll be doing a special feature with sarah sanders. mitch mcconnell joining me.have a lot to talk about in a week where he passed a budget. i hope you tune in. thanks for joining us. i'm dana. here's shep. >> the white house marking a big victory. senators narrowly pass a budget deal that could steal the way for tax reform. and the president in an interview with maria bartiromo. >> i call it tax cuts. the biggest ever in the history of this country. >> there's a few obstacles that could knock the plan off track. we'll show you what they're watching. plus, an attack in niger killed four american soldiers. we're seeing the spot where it happened as we learn more about exactly how it unfolded. from when it began t the delay may have let militants plot thr

liz: well, press secretary sarah sanders has not yet come out. we expected her to come out about seven minutes ago, she's close. obviously, having to deal with, you could call it a surprise announcement. it was not a surprise to our charlie gasparino who had heard all kinds of rumors from his sources that this would happen. charlie joins us along with former north dakota senator byron dorgan. to you, charlie, really quickly, this seems like it could be an easy thing for her to handle because she will come out swinging as she was expected to about senator bob corker, the republican from tennessee? >> she's very good at this job and good in an understated way. what she won't get into and the real question is the republican party. you ever hear the saying, if you break it, you own it? well, he's breaking it, and will he own it? now will kelli ward be able to win in arizona? i'm not quite sure what type of general election candidate she is. will judge roy moore be able to win in alabama? not sure what general election candidate he is. these are the t

sarah sanders getting ready to answer questions. let's see if she shows up with any other white house officials and maybe legal advisers because there will be a ton of questions on all of this. also we are expecting to see paul manafort and rick gates make their first court appearance momentarily. special coverage continues after this. >>> there she is. sarah sanders beginning the briefing. >> i would like to start by addressing a topic i know all of you are preparing to ask me about. that's tax reform. a couple of you got it. the initial house tax reform bill will be introduced on wednesday by the ways and means committee. this is the product of months of work and is going through an open process in the house. the committee plans to mark up the bill next week starting on monday. the house is likely to consider the bill week of november 13th. to stay on pace, we want to see it passed by thanksgiving. this is aggressive timeline, but one that will help us get tax cuts this year so families and businesses can plan for 2018. we look fo

later, sarah sanders, the white house press secretary, said the president was only joking. was? >> i think i believe that it's donald trump's way of punching back, and we heard it all during the campaign. he did it about his republican opponents. he said i have a higher iq than my republican opponents. he picked out rick perry in particular, who i might point out also now works for him, saying that he had a higher iq than rick perry. you know, this is a president who is childish and he has to kind of punch back. he always has to believe that he ends every conversation on top. so what he doesn't understand is that he might feel a personal slight from -- from rex tillerson, who apparently called him a moron, and anyone would feel that, but this isn't about his personal slight, this is about the secretary of state of this country, and why would he be demeaning the person who is negotiating for this country on all kinds of issues? it's -- it's -- he doesn't understand, this isn't the trump organization, this is the united states. >> and he wants to drag on his feud with senator

>> reporter: of course as you were saying, earlier today sarah sanders was pressed on this comment from the president that was reported in forbes that he challenged essentially the secretary of state, rex tillerson, to an iq test, that they should compare their iq tests. this was of course after tillerson called the president a moron. when sarah sanders was pressed on that during the briefing, she said it was all a joke, that the president's comment about taking an iq test was a joke and that the white house press should have a sense of humor. now, i did talk to a source this evening, anderson, who was close to the white house who says, no, the president was not joking when he made that comment. this is the quote that was given to me from the source. they knew he was pissed that people found out tillerson called him a moron, and he spouted off about the iq test because he was mad. this white house knows it was not a joke. and speaking of not being amused by all of this, heather nowart, the state department spokesperson, was asked about all this earlier today, and she insisted that tille

press secretary sarah sanders weighed in on that. >> i think that's a decision for senator corker andf tennessee, not for us to decide. >> the president resorting to insults on twitter. shocking. failing new york times, little liddle bob corker by recording his conversation was made to found a fool and that's what i am dealing with. that claim by the president is false. by the way, it was not a setup. the audio shows senator corker actually encouraged the times to record the interview and he told them back he too was recording it. liddle is not a word. >> sources in the white house say he's going to keep doing that. he's going to keep making the name calling because they think it works. >> because bob corker is short. we get it. he's 5'7". >> time for an early start on your money. president trump promised health insurance options would improve. exact details of what's in the order are not yet known by the president says he'll likely sign this in the week. in the past trump has said he'd like to make it easier for small businesses to buy coverage by joining together. so what will we ex

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. >> so while sarah huckabee sanders was speaking, the markets did lose a few points, since regaining. and, of course, this idea of whether or not corporate taxes will be phased in or not is one that many investors are focused on. getting town to that 20% rate by 2022. trish: deirdre, thank you. liz, over to you. liz: trish, of course, i was listening right alongside you and deirdre as sarah sanders said donald trump did not collude with the russians to throw the election. we know that the cold war is long gone, but the old soviet art of espionage is alive and kicking online. who let it happen? at this hour the big trifecta of social media goliaths under fire on capitol hill. facebook, google and twitter fending off questions from lawmakers on just exactly how russia was able to push thousands of political ads and bogus election articles in front of hundreds of millions of american users. former kgb spy turned american patriot jack daughter can-- jack bar sky might know, he spent ten years hiding in plain sight in the u.s. as a soviet spy. he is about to reveal russia's propaganda tec

what about the notion as sarah sanders said today?nd president trump implied because he's a four-star general anything he says should not be questioned. >> well, first of all like him i'm also a retired general and it puts him in the same category which that i am which is retired. even when he was in active duty he was being questioned by congress. so that philosophy is down the drain, it's ridiculous. what i'm concerned about john, we're using this general officer, my general, my military to continue the deviciveness that's within the government today. this is about misdemeanor, table manners. how do you treat one another sitting around the table? is it continual insults, continuing to find fault with someone else for what they did? are we trying as a nation to address some of the key issues that face us today. so long we caught up in this craziness, and it is craziness we're not going to solve problems and come together and do some things leaders do and pull all sides together. >> general kelly said some meaningful thing for sacrifi

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sarah huck abee sanders saying o oh, gosh, that was a joke. >> the president certainly never inplied the secretary of state was incredibly intelligent. he made a joke, nothing more than that. he has full confidence in the secretary of state. >> new reporting here, he wasn't making a joke. this issue of full confidence, is this what full confidence looks like? here's the president's recent tweets on secretary tillerson. here's this one. i told rex tillerson, our wonderful secretary of state, that he's wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man. the president continuing to make it clear tillerson's strategy was a loser, tweeting, save your energy, rex. we'll do what has to be done. trump's humiliation of tillerson even as the secretary of state came to the white house today for lunch. minutes before he arrived, trump spoke to the cameras. >> did you undercut the secretary of state today with the iq comment? >> no. i didn't undercut anybody. i don't believe in undercutting people. >> okay. never mind his insults to his secretary of state. here's trump undercutting a few

we heard from sarah sanders not long ago. she said this as far as the administration's view of a possible ban. >> our focus, as we said the last couple days, has been on healing and uniting the country. the investigation still continues to be in very early stages. we know that both members of both parties in multiple organizations are planning to take a look at bump stocks and related devices. we welcome that. >> got to do it. have to take a very close look at it. we'll see how quickly congressional lawmakers can unpack something like that, shepard. >> shepard: kevin, the white house weighing in on the report that secretary of state rex tillerson threatened to resign and called the president a moron. the reporting is from carroll lee from nbc news. at a conference yesterday, secretary tillerson never considered quitting but he didn't defly he called the president a moron. he deny it a few hours later through a spokesman. here's the exchange. >> was the president upset that his secretary of state didn't deny calling him a moro

regardless, sarah sanders said getting in a debate was highly inappropriate because he's a retired four-stareneral. >> as to the exchange that jessica was jut referring to here's what was said between sarah sanders and cbs correspondent chip reid. >> could we talk about this -- >> i think he addressed that pretty thoroughly yesterday. if you want to go after general kelly, that's up to you. if you want to get into a debate with a four star marine general that is something highly appropriate. >> sarah sanders has written as follows, of course everyone can be questioned but after witnessing general kelly's heartfelt and somber account we should agree on impugning his credibility is not appropriate. mr. trump also saying this in an interview on fox business. listen. >> he was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call. so were other people. and the call was a very nice call. he was so offended that a woman would be -- that somebody would be listening to that call. he was -- he actually couldn't believe it. actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not

the first statements will come from sarah sanders. we are trying to get something on the record. i wouldn't be surprised to hear her reiterate that argument that sean spicer first made, that manafort's connection to the campaign were limited. but also what you have been talking about there, hallie, the fact that there is nothing directly in the indictment that links the activities to the trump campaign. that is the messaging i'm anticipating if i read between the lines. let me read you the statement we have from the top white house official we were talking to earlier today who says, the white house has been saying for weeks that the council is moving quickly. and the people are reporting that the fact that the special counsel is performing its duties does not come as a surprise to the white house. and it is counter to what we saw from the president himself over the weekend. he was trying to redirect the conversation back from his former rival, hillary clinton. saying she should be under investigation for a whole range of issues, including the fact that she and the dnc funded rese

white house press secretary sarah sanders displayed him as having little role with the campaign. but trump described him as a heavier roll in an interview last year. >> george papadopoulos he's an oil and energy consultant. he's a group of some of the people we're dealing with. we have many other people in different aspects of what we do. >> how can you describe mr. papadopoulos as having a limited role when there's a photograph of mr. papadopoulos sitting -- >> the campaign had thousands of photographs with millions of people. >> how is it not collusion when george papadopoulos is in kak with various people who are promising dirt on hillary clinton? a series of events that closely mirrors what occurred with the president's own son. how is that not collusion? >> this vinl was the member of a voluntary add vizry counsel that met one time, and he was part of the list that read out "the washington pos" i'd hardly call that a regular advisor or you want to push he's a senior member of the staff. he was not paid by the campaigns. >> sanders also mischaracterized the extent of papadopo

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>> this is a rare instance where sarah sanders made a mistake. she's discipline from behind the podium and she's usually very controlled of what she said good at deflecting questions. here in a tense exchange of reporters, she slips something that did not come out right. her second statement made a lot more sense on the issue of gold star families of a lot of military heroes. general kelly, it would be inappropriate to question his authorities on that issue. it is clearly very appropriate to question the ver rhis statem other arena. a lot supported of general kelly's thought and the mention of -- he was questioning the motivations behind congresswoman wilson embarking on this media tour and giving every interview she could to publicize this controversy. she refers herself to a rock star for getting so many questions. then he took it one step too far by going after her of something that's easy fact checkable and under minding the rest of the statement. that was a bit of an error on general kelly's part. >> standing up to the gold star, saying that

we will hear from sarah huckabee sanders and you can bet she will be asked about this. >> do we know who brought papadopoulos into the campaign? was it a top national security adviser? >> papadopoulos actually was a former adviser to ben carson who of course is now serves in the trump administration and found his way into the campaign. he is part of a team led by jeff sessions, now the attorney general who refused himself from the russia investigation and interestingly, president trump does have a meeting set up today with his attorney general jeff sessions as well as vice president, mike pence set up beforehand. it has nothing to do with the russia investigation, but questions about this and the role of papadopoulos during the campaign may come up. >> i can only imagine. >> thanks very much. you are working your sources. the chief legal analyst. paul colin is with us. you are working your sources, pamela. and the papadopoulos acknowledgement and pleading guilt tow lying to the fbi that raises all sorts of headaches for the trump campaign. >> he is now cooperating as part of a plea d

and sarah sanders was asked about after sergeant johnson's body had been found. it was a 12 day period we did not hear from the president on this and he was very uncharacteristly silent. we hear from the president what's on his mind, whether in tweets or comments to reporters and the president did not comment until my colleague sara murray asked him about it in the rose garden and the president said he had written letters to the families of these soldiers and we heard from the white house once again during the press briefing on this just yesterday. they were asked if the president is satisfied with the level of information he knows about how this situation went so wrong and the press secretary sarah sanders said while she couldn't get into specifics, the president was never satisfied there was a loss of life but without a doubt the white house is going to be pressed on this issue here in the next hour. >> we'll be watching with you. caitlin collins at the white house. joining me now michael weiss, coauthor of "isis inside the army of terror" and steve warren, spo

sarah sanders, after seeing this tape, comes into the briefing room and says she's all hat, no kettle, which means she's useless and not real. and listen to sarah sanders saying, look, general kelly ended this. >> it should have ended yesterday after general kelly's comments. but it didn't. it continued. he thought it was important that people got a full and accurate picture of what took place. >> you can't stand at that podium with those words before you, the white house, that's the united states government speaking here. she's part of a legacy in history to say, get a full and accurate picture of what took place when he did not give a full and accurate picture of what took place. and now the congresswoman and her allies think, number one, they think it's sexist. she has herself raised the question about whether this is about race because she's an african-american woman down there. why can't they just come out there and say, look, general kelly's recollection is faulty. >> because the high road is not usually an option for this president. he had several opportunities this week to, yo

today, sarah sanders was asked about the comments on uranium. she said this is all in the interest of transparency, that is what this white house is pushing for, but obviously, this opens the president up to attacks, the notion he's using the oval office not only to settle old political vendettas, but that he's using it to try to instigate investigations that draw attention away from investigations into allegations of collusion between trump's presidential and russian officials. i mean, one of the things to remember when you're look ago @ president for instance weighing in on how the justice department should handle this issue of the fbi informant and the uranium case is that president was out here at the white house suggesting this was the next water gate, so in many way, even p if he is pushing for transparency, even if that's his goal, he's put his thumb on the scale of what he thinks the outcome is here. he thinks that is a scandal that took place under the obama administration and hillary clinton was at the state department. >> thank you ve

what are we to make of sarah sanders the press secretary news conference what eighteen hours ago now where she spent the first ten minutes of it talking about some sort of model for tax reform then she started answering questions but she wouldn't be drawn on the reality and when it comes to the papadopoulos individual you know if the word is not before the campaign surely the words should be because of the campaign because the indictment the timeline for the indictment actually straddles from before the campaign up to and including the beginning of the campaign. i think there are couple of things you have to take away from all of that the first thing is when it comes to sarah sanders and that story that preceded her press briefing on monday what's happening there and what we saw on of the president's tweet just in the last hour or so as well is when you're on the hot seat this is standard from the political playbook in washington that goes back many administrations when you're in trouble you try to divert attention and that's exactly what happened sarah sanders tried to focus on talk