sarah sanders said i don't know. i didn't know he had the president's cell phone number. >> i'm sure he can call him. text him, talk to him any time the president doesn't sleep that much. i'm sure he will be awaiting a chat this evening if steve bannon feels like it. going back to what i said initially to kristin's point here. the president of the united states of america starts all of this. i understand he's a counter puncher. he's in complete control here. if he behaves presidential, he will be treated with a little more respect by the press and maybe he can talk about some things on his agenda like the big beautiful wall and whatever other goodies we're going to be getting in the next three years. >> trace: the big beautiful wall that he wants to go along with the daca funding. jessica, kristin, we'll be talking more about this. thanks for joining us. we have more breaking news. minutes ago, fox news confirmed reports of a fire on bill and hillary clinton's property outside new york city. we'll tell you what we kn

the towards sarah sanders used we don't think there's a conflict at all. he has a great deal of understanding. we weren't confused, she said. when asked about the fact that the president tweeted these tweets over the course of a couple hours this morning before the house was to vote on that foreign intelligence surveillance act today, section 702, the intelligence community really cracked down on its efforts to surveil potential foreign terrorists. sarah sanders says it had nothing to do with the fact the president is a fan of "fox & friends" waging this morning and just so happened to be top of mind. people can draw their own conclusions if that's believable. that's the assessment in the eyes of the white house. >> when hallie asked what to make of it, sarah sanders said the premise of your question is entirely ridiculous. interesting stories. peter, leigh ann on capitol hill, raul reyes, nbc.com contributor, we'll talk about fisa in a moment. covering the mixed signals the president ditched out earlier today on the surveillance big. the house so you're u

thank you. >> as we wait for sarah sanders to start that briefing there, let's talk.oining me now cnn abby phillip with the cold outside of washington. and nice and cozy inside chris our politics. >> never braving the cold. with a face like this. >> abby. >> i'm jealous. >> i'm starting with you. because you are the tough one standing out there. listen, this book, fire and fury, it confirms what we have witnessed for the past year, that there is this overwhelming level of chaos and dis function that's been involving the white house. we heard all of this on the periphery for the last 12 months but the difference this time this picture that he paints comes from one of the chief insiders. >> reporter: that's right. and i think that it's also different because the white house by all accounts participated in this book. they allowed michael woll to ha wolff to hang out in the building for nearly a year. whether that was led by chief strategies steve bannon or not, clearly others participated in this, that's why it's hard to push back on the narrative. the white house is als

. >> a stunning moment if you watched the white house briefing with sarah sanders. one reporter said if this whole thing is a hoax, which the president has repeatedly called the mueller investigation, why doesn't this lead to mueller being fired? why doesn't the president just fire mueller. here is what sarah sanders said. >> i think we all know what everybody in this room would do if the president did that. i don't think that's helpful to the process. >> oh, my, bianna, you're a journalist. she's saying part of the reason is because of how you guys, the press, would respond. >> we've been talking about this and speculating for months now as to whether he would or wouldn't fire mueller. i think a lot of people were surprised by hearing that mueller interviewed sessions and will be potentially interviewing the president in the next few weeks, how far along mueller has gone in this investigation and how many people he has actually interviewed, he and his prosecutors, over the past few months which maybe gives you a sense that mueller possibly thinks he's on borrowed t

sarah sanders just came to the podium. let's listen. >> -- director of legislative affairs mark short on capitol hill participating in ongoing budget negotiations with congressional leaders. the president urges democrats to adhere to the so-called schumer rule and not hold the government hostage in an attempt to advance erratical political agenda. we must fully fund our military and ensure our brave men and women in the uniform have the resources they need. they're always there for our country and we must not let partisan bickering get in the way of the government taking care of them. the president wants a clean funding bill that fulfilling or obligations, takes care of our military and keeps our people safe. and with that, i'll take your questions. cecilia? >> sarah, the president says when steve bannon was fired he lost his job and his mind. does he feel betrayed by steve bannon? does he regret hiring him? >> i think the president's statement is extremely clear what his position on mr. bannon is. pretty lengthy and detai

white house press secretary sarah sanders joins us. thank you for joining us. let's begin with the ad right there. is it appropriate for the president to say the democrats could be complicit in murder? >> look, the president's number one job as commander-in-chief and as the president is national security. and we cannot protect american citizens. we cannot protect this country if we don't secure our border. that's the point the president is trying to make. it's the same point that he's made since he first started running for office and certainly since he was sworn in as president. it's absolutely appropriate for the commander-in-chief of this country to do everything he can to make sure he's protecting our citizens. >> might make it more difficult to get the negotiations with the democrats going. does the president support a guaranteed vote on daca in the senate, in the house, in return for the extension of government funding? >> look, the president's focus is making sure we get the government reopened. it's outrageous that democrats are holding our national sec

moments ago white house press secretary sarah sanders denied the president's tweets contradicted each other. watch. >> secretary sanders: we don't think there was a conflict at all. the president fully supports the 702. and was happy to see that it passed the house today. but he does have overall concern with the fisa program more generally. the president doesn't feel that we should have to choose between protecting american citizens and protecting their civil liberties, he wants to do both, what he's going to do. >> the you a lay lous to spy on a foreign government even without warrants when they hun kate with americans within the united states. critics say it is a major invasion of privacy, federal investigator say it is a powerful tool to fight extremism. john roberts is live at the white house. >> trace, good afternoon. a real oops moment from the president this morning. the reason why, national security team led by the homeland security visor tom bossert have been selling members on congress on the need to renew the 072 authority saying it's a critical tool. the heads of all of t

. >> sandra: joining us now is white house press secretary sarah sanders. a busy morning for the president and capitol hill. what can you tell us about the state of things at this moment ahead of that noon vote today? >> look, we're still hopeful the democrats will quit holding our military and military families and vulnerable children across this country hostage. pass the funding bill to move forward and have the conversation they want to have. there is legislation on the floor that they don't disagree with. it is absolutely mind-boggling that they can't figure out how to vote yes on something that they agree with across the board so that they can have the conversation they want to have. it doesn't seem like it takes a rocket scientist to figure it out. they are throwing a 2-year-old temper tantrum. hopefully they will get over that and move on and have the conversation on immigration reform after they reopen the government. >> sandra: does the president have any assurances that the votes needed are there for this procedural vote at noon >> we're still wor

sarah sanders has arrived.> our thoughts and prayers are with the families in marshall county. for more updates before we bring up a couple of special guests, i'd like to leave no doubted where the white house stands on the flake-graham agreement on immigration reform. in a bipartisan meeting, we outlined a path forward on four fourer -- four serious issues. unfortunately, the flake-graham-durbin agreement does not meet the benchmarks. it would not security our border and retain the visa lottery system. in short, it's totally unacceptable to the president and should be declared dead on arrival. the president has been consistent on the immigration and what his priorities are. his views are shared by the vast majority of the american people and have bipartisan support in the u.s. senate and the house of representatives. moving along, we have incredible economic news to share today. j.p. morgan chase announced this morning that because of the trump tax cuts, they will raise wages for 22,000 of their employees, cre

earlier tonight, sarah sanders tweeted democrats can't shut down the booming trump economy. are they now so desperate they'll shut down the government instead. you heard this from the president, he thinks the luck of the tax cuts is part of the reason you get into the shutdown. he may have a point if the shutdown goes for some time. for example, at the irs, almost 56% of irs employees would be sent home as nonessential. now, this is an irs that is trying to transition to the new tax law that is going to be bombarded by questions from taxpayers around the country. tax filing season starts in less than two weeks. if the shutdown continues for several days it becomes an issue on the tax front. >> shannon: and people's lives trying to get answers and move forward. what did you think today's politico had a piece the white house was trying to distant the president from this, sending out mick mulvaney, and others, attempts to make sure the president is not tarred and feathered with this. it is what happens on capitol hill as we watch the conversations in the back and forth and the

sarah sanders is expected to several to lecture and shortly as the president's attorneys are now trying to stop the publication of michael wolff's new book "fire and fury." in it, steve bannon slams that 2016 2016 trump tower meeting with russians as treasonous. last night and this morning, steve bannon seemed to backtrack on his criticism. here's president trump. >> did steve bannon betray you, mr. president ? >> he called me a great man last night, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you very much. i don't know, i don't know. >> harris: an important day to get word from the white house, that coming up in a moment but let's first go to white house correspondent kevin corke, joining us live from the briefing room which will be a hot spot about 45 minutes. >> bottom of the hour we are expecting sarah sanders to come out and address reporters. if you know anything about the white house, it probably won't happen at the bottom of the hour but it will happen nonetheless. very interesting, i think i should point this out, harris. the president's lawyers are pushing back very for

you know what, sarah huckabee sanders just took the podium. i'm going to have to go straight to her. richard painter, thank you very much. >>> the president's economic agenda of lower taxes, less regulation and more opportunity for all is already paying off and american families and workers are the big winners. with that in mind, we have a message from a special guest that i'd like to share with you. i'll ask you to tune in to the screens and then i'll continue from there. >> thank you for being with us today. the historic tax cut eye signed into law just two weeks ago before christmas is already delivering major economic gains. hundreds of thousands of americans are seeing larger paychecks, bigger bonuses and higher pension contributions and it's all because of the tax cuts and the tax reform. and i want to thank all of the companies that worked so hard to do it. workers at at&t, bank of america, comcast, southwest airlines, american airlines and many other companies are receiving bonuses of $1,000 or more. aflac and others are investing more

just a few minutes ago, white house press secretary sarah sanders attacked the author michael wolff's reputation for accuracy. >> i think you have to look also at this author's track record in which he's had a real problem with this in the past, and i think that that is something that is certainly layed a foundation for us to make the assumption that he is definitely, this is a practice that he is used to doing. >> yeah, but the time to make that assumption was before you agreed to cooperate with him. it's worth pointing out, michael wolff spent months listening and taking notes and recording and watching from west wing couches at the invitation or at the very least he says the nondisapproval of president trump himself. white house staffers cooperated. they're quoted all over the book. it's worth noting that the president's attorney is also threatening to sue steve bannon, the former confidant to whom wolff attributes much of his most scathing quotes. now the third fact here about this letter, based on the president's track record, this threat of a lawsuit is almost certainly nothing

later today, the white house briefing from sarah sanders -- press secretary sarah sanders scheduled for 3:30 p.m. eastern. senior history producer shares some background the upcoming series. >> by popular demand, it is returning. listen to the collars this morning, they are talking about -- callers this morning, they , thealking about race powers of the constitution, and so what we have for season two is seven landmark cases that took -- take you through the history of the country. we had a very long set of cases and what we wanted to do was take cases that have a human interest story to them. beingsases affect human across the country. the cases came down, did they change the country in their time and how relevant are they today? all of them are relevant. the first case, is the power of congress to write laws that can overrule the states. 1886 thatse in anthony kennedy has mentioned many times and that is all about immigration. guestsave two very good in washington and we have a video journalist that will go out around the country to tell the story of those cases. we will go to san fra

my colleague cecilia vega asked sarah sanders about that and affectively sarah sanders said, look, he doesn't have a habit of asking people who work in this administration how they voted. at the same time she couldn't specifically speak to whether he had asked andrew mccabe how he voted. take a look at that exchange. okay. and apparently we don't have that exchange. but when cecilia pressed sarah sanders on whether she had asked andrew mccabe how he voted, sanders said she wasn't sure. that she hadn't spoken to the president about it and so she couldn't answer the question. then on a separate topic, our exclusive reporting from today from our colleague cara lee who said that former national security adviser michael flynn didn't tell the president when he was interviewed here at the white house by the fbi. i asked sarah sanders what the president's reaction was to that. take a look. and apparently we don't have that sound bite either, but bottom line sarah sanders said that she referred us to the attorney here who works on all things related to russia. and then i went back to the issue

those are the questions that sarah sanders was ask about. that is a ridiculous accusation and one that i'm pretty sure we had addressed many times from here before and that's in reference to comments made refer you back to the once he made previously on 60 minutes where he called the collusion with russia about this president a total farce. i think i would look back at that if anybody has been inconsistent. it's been him. it certainly hasn't been the president or this administration. there is great many questions this was front and center but you have the meeting on capitol hill. the north korea reports are that they are getting ready for another missile test. exactly. and in the old way people would say rise above it or don't dignify it with any kind of comments the president came out with this very sharply worded statement and it makes you really realize that when steve bannon called president trump son tracy is this an unpatriotic who may have have some dirt on hillary clinton on the same side here. summit reveals that president trump did

in any case, though, sarah huckabee sanders's attempt to shift blame begins to come unglued when you look at who is on record about what she is about to blame democrats for. i quote, republican senators in 2018 change the rules now to 51%. our country needs a good shutdown in september to fix mess. that is the president back in may, and here is sarah sanders being confronted with that today. >> he just said the president certainly doesn't want to shut down. last year he tweeted a shutdown would be a good thing. so -- >> he said politics. look, it's never been a preference of this administration. it wasn't then, it isn't now. and, again, if that does happen, the blame, the fault will all lie at one place because we would like to see a budget deal happen. >> sarah sanders saying what the president meant back then was that a shutdown would be good politics. that's not what he said, though. again, in may, quote, our country needs a good shutdown. the country needs it. and now, according to sanders, that's not what he meant at all. >> it's never been a preference of this administration. i

sarah huckabee sanders, glad to have you here with us.ter yiefer achievement to describe to the nation in his first state of the union. >> we had an historic year. the economy is booming. isis is on the run. we are remaking the judiciary. america is getting better and better understood the leadership of this president. i think the president has a great story to tell in the first year and a great plan forward to talk about the things we are going to do the next 7 years. lou: the economy reacting to his leadership and the progress he made in driving the markets and the economy, bringing jobs back. we are talking over 2 million jobs in the first year of his presidency. going forward we are also talking about immigration. he has moved that to the forefront of his agenda. why so, and what do you expect? >> i think it's been no secret this is something the president talked about repeatedly on the campaign trail. he knows how important it is securing our border and reforming our immigration system. he laid out something that brings toarve the ta

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it's remarkable what sarah sanders said. she did say, yes, the president has been applying pressure. she said the only thing the president applied pressure to is to get it resolved so you guys and everyone else can focus on things americans care about -- making sure everybody gets the russia fever out of their system once and for all. that's an acknowledgment that the president has applied pressure. she didn't say there hasn't been pressure. that would have been lying. he's tweeted about the fbi director. there are reports including from cnn that he wanted to fire special counsel robert mueller and so on. that's a pretty interesting acknowledgment from sarah sanders. what she was trying to say and the way she was spinning it is the reason the president is doing this is there is nothing to see here with the russia investigation. we wanted to get it done as soon as possible. that's not how law enforcement investigations work. that's not how special counsel investigations work. there isn't really much you can do as the presiden

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sarah sanders insists the view has not changed but believes federal laws must be enforced and when sarah sanders introduces trump via video screen and delivered a speech touting the wall street numbers. you know this from your time at the white house. it's like 200 steps from the oval office, but the president did not appear in person. instead, they taped him and then played it. >> 200 steps, if you have a small stride. thank you so much. >> reporter: correct. >> hallie jackson, thank you so much. we want to bring our panel in now. annie carney is a white house reporter for politico. a national correspondent for the "washington post," and former assistant attorney general and a civil rights division under the nixon and ford administration. involve ared in the watergate investigation, and full disclosure, stan's son works in the trump administration on asian policy. great to see you all. stanley, start with you, because this letter, the cease and desist letter and all of the talk about whether or not people sign non-disclosure agreements and sarah huckabee sanders didn't want to go into d

. >> coming up live coverage of today's white house briefing with press secretary sarah sanders. scheduled to begin in about 10 minutes. 1:15 p.m. eastern time. at the white house earlier today president trump swore in his new secretary of health and human services. former drug company executive alex aczar in the roosevelt room. we'll look at this. bout 10 minutes. president trump: very special day for me because we have been looking for this day for a long time. i'm thrilled to be here to administer the oath of office to america's new secretary of health and human services, mr. alex aczar. -- azar. going to get those prescription drug prices way down as a little bit of extra, right? it's going to come rocketing down. alex is joined today by his father, alex, thank you. congratulations. of course i'll only say congratulations if he does a great job, right? which i know he will. which i know he will. we have no doubt. you're right. i don't, either. his wife, jennifer, his daughter, claire. his son alex, sister stacey and her family. and his sister-in-law beth and her husband and n

i'm sure sarah sanders won't answer them.question about the russian probe. >> what will you listen for? >> i agree. not that long ago that sarah huckabee sanders call this had probe a hoax. usually investigations start on the periphery and move in toward -- >> smaller fish to larger fish. >> inner circles. not surprising that comey has spoken to mueller. sessions, we're sure he was questioned about obstruction of justice and the trump campaign's contacts with russia that he knew about throughout the campaign. >> that he didn't fess up to initially. >> and that mueller's team will want to talk to the president, presumably the next big news event here. how will that happen? when will it unfold? the president wants to do this over writing. prosecutors say mueller would never go for that. when and how that happens would obviously be of great interest and also a signal that this could be wrapping up as the president's lawyer said. >> what do we know about that, david chalian? >> not much. we don't have much insight of muchlt eller

that as well tonight when word of the development hit this afternoon, press secretary sarah sanders said, "we've been completely cooperative throughout this entire process. we're going to continue to be coopera cooperative." also claiming the legal right not to cooperate, as bannon did today. his testimony uncooperative enough to earn him a subpoena from the panel. that is only part of the picture. bannon also got subpoenaed by russia special counsel robert mueller, making him the first known member of president trump's past or present inner circle to receive a subpoena. we begin tonight with what he is saying, what he's not saying, and why he claims he does not have to talk. steve bannon, he's been in the house intelligence committee hearing now about ten hours. talk to me about what has been going on. >> this has been a rather contentious affair, anderson. after about 90 minutes this morning in which he was talking about his role during the campaign, he was asked about the transition period after president trump won the election last november, and he at that point, his lawyer interject

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sarah sanders there finishing things with questions about crime and the rest as you heard, wrapping up that briefing just now. the press secretary, sarah sanders, responding to questions about whether president trump would try to silence people in the russia investigation. >> look, i'm not going to walk through hypothetical conversations or negotiate with you guys. that's something that the attorneys will do. i can tell you the white house will remain and continue to be fully cooperative with the special counsel and allow them to work through their process. >> shepard: the russia investigation is the news today after we got word that president trump asked the fbi's deputy director who was acting director at the time which candidate he voted for in the 2016 election. that's according to "the washington post" newspaper. that said a senior trump administration official tells john roberts other people at the meeting say they don't remember that happening. more from john roberts in a moment. "the washington post" stands by its reporting. current and former u.s. officials tell the post that

so who's a liar, sarah sanders or the president? you know what i mean? >> that's ridiculous. the only liar here is steve bannon. >> okay. so let me just ask you about the steps you all are taking. you put the cease and desist letter out -- >> we didn't, that's the president's own personal attorneys, not us. >> the president's attorneys, team trump said cease and desist. they're not ceasing and desisting. in fact they have pushed the publish date up by four days. it's coming out tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. the publisher says we see it as an extraordinary contribution to our national discourse. what's your response to that? >> i'm no attorney so i'm going to leave the attorneys to litigate with the attorneys for the -- the spokes people for this piece of tabloid trash, but it's pretty obvious that if i were an attorney, there are plenty of accusations in that book that have already been disproven. there are plenty of accusations in that book that are not credible. and again, i'm not an attorney but it seems like i'd have a field day with that in a court of law. >> let me just take on

house doesn't know it, they should know it, but then the facts don't make much difference to sarah huckabee sandershe president for that matter. >> do you want an apology? >> you know, they owe me an apology, but frankly, it would be a wasted errand to ask for one. and if sarah huckabee sanders is going to have to give out apologies to everyone that she has criticized unfairly, she would be doing nothing else all day. >> i want to ask you today you briefed reporters and said there are additional witnesses who knew about that june 2016 trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton. who are these other individuals and are you going to be able to speak with them? >> well, there are individuals that were aware of the meeting and the purpose of the meeting that we would like to have come before our committee. we've requested they be brought before the committee and asked the majority to do so. they have not been willing to do that, and i don't think we can do a complete investigation unless we take that step. and a great many others. it's also important jake that we get p

i'll read the statement from sarah sanders, don. it says this, senate democrats own the schumer shutdown. tonight they put politics above our national security. military families, vulnerable children, and our country's ability to serve all americans. she goes on to say, we will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands. she goes on to say, this is the behavior of obstructionist losers. during this politically manufactured schumer shutdown, the president and his administration will fight for and protect the american people. don, we got the answer we've been waiting for here. what was the posture the white house is going to take. they're swinging, coming out fighting, blaming democrats entirely for this. let's unpack this a limb bit. it says we will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants. that of course means the daca legislation which the president supports, while democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands. that see

chris asked sarah sanders if the president read it. here is what she said. >> we've seen all along from day one that we want full transparency in this process. we haven't hidden that. at the same time we or still going to complete the legal and national security review before putting something out publicly. that's where we are right now. >> is there any chance that the president does not release the memo? >> i think there's always a chance. again, i don't know. i haven't seen the memo. >> he said 100% to congressman duncan last night when asked about it. he hasn't even read the memo yet. >> on tape. this is actually on tape. i have sympathy for anybody who has to go out and try to explain away anything the president -- >> not me. that's the job. you work for the american people. you're supposed to speak truth to power and address their concerns. i had the answer prepared. >> i've heard that. >> having said that, though, unfortunately she doesn't have the answer. she said the president hadn't read it before the state of the union speech

here's sarah sanders. >> that's part of this negotiation. something the president has committed to do but we don't want to do that without the other three components. it's like having a stool with two legs. doesn't work well. we want to address this more fully and in a responsible way so we're not just kicking the can down the road. >> mark short told me earlier today some progress is being made. both sides are beginning to give a little bit. it's interesting to point out, shep, the one thing the democrats want to see is citizenship for the hundreds of thousands of children that are covered -- older children now that are covered by the daca program. the white house will only go so far to say that its seeking a permanent solution but will not say the word "citizenship." >> shepard: john, some republicans are criticizing one of the president's chief advisers saying he's holding the government back. >> it's senator lindsey graham who was over here not quite two weeks ago with senator dick durbin on the democratic side trying to sell the preside

sarah sanders explains. >> the flake/graham/durbin agreement doesn't meet the benchmarks. in short, it is totally unacceptable to the president and should be declared dead on arrival. >> melissa: now president trump says without the wall there is no deal on daca. peter doocy joining me from capitol hill. peter, where do we go from here

where in a couple of minutes, we expect to get the latest from the white house with spokesman sarah sanders. we expect that to get underway in a moment here on c-span. ms. sanders: good afternoon. on capitol hill producer pitting an ongoing budget negotiations with congressional leaders.

. >> there you have it, sarah huckabee sanders there wrapping up the daily briefing.ore that we heard from the assistant general attorney talked about the merit based immigration system and numbers that had been disputed regarding international terrorism. but miss sanders making a bit of news on a number of fronts confirming a report that surfaced maybe an hour or two ago about steve bannon's testimony before that house intel committee yesterday. we know he toughed roughly ten hours. there was a report that during the course of that testimony, questions were being essentially relayed back to the white house and the white house telling the former top adviser to president trump not to answer those questions. sarah huckabee sanders confirming that it did in fact happen and that it could happen in the future as well. our chief white house correspondent was in the room. hallie jackson joining me now. that seemed to be a fairly significant admission there. >> reporter: there is a couple pieces at play as far as headlines. and i just got your audio, so i'm not sure, but i as

we're waiting for sarah sanders to show up, and w briefing. lots of sensitive questions, no doubt, will be asked. we'll see what the answers are. can house republicans in the meantime round up enough votes to keep the federal government from shutting down? the house speaker paul ryan was asked that question earlier today. wouldn't say if they have the votes necessary, but he blamed democrats for the threat of a shutdown. >> we've been very clear, we want to see a daca. but a daca solution has got to be a balanced solution. it has to be a solution that also not just treats the symptom, which daca is, but the root cause of the problem in the first place. look, i feel that it makes no sense for democrats to try and bring us to a shutdown, to try and cut off c.h.i.p. funding for the states running out of minnesota like minnesota and washington and kentucky and other states. so i think cool heads hopefully will prevail on this thing. >> democrats are hoping to back republican leaders into a corner by making it clear that a deal on daca could preven

but sarah sanders' words most views.ough the white house that steve bannon's lawyer is open question. bannon's lawyer represents two other people who are witnesses in this probe. one is reince priebus and one is don mcgahn. certain there is an appearance issue that a lot of people have raised a question with. >> do you think kelly does not know they are in contact with bannon. >> i think kelly knows and i suspect that he is parsing his language to make it steve bannon specific. >> john, this is reporting the bannon slip up. i'm wondering how significant you think that might be? >> well it could be considered one thing, a waiver of the privilege. you can't partially invoke executive privilege. more importantly he doesn't have a privilege to invoke at all. >> he doesn't? >> the president can't enforce him -- no he doesn't. i assure you nixon didn't want me testifying. i was going to testify. there is no injunction to stop a witness from testifying that i have ever heard of. so bannon could testify and he is obviously just

yet we have the white house secretary sarah huckabee sanders 2 plus 2 is not 4 and sky is not blue. that occasionally happens. we do have some confidence that white house said there is not a deal on daca. we also believe that to be the case because you hear from other members of that gang of six, like lindsey graham saying no we don't have a deal yet, working in that direction. and you heard sarah sanders at the tail end of this briefing they did have a meeting over here at the white house with bipartisan group of lawmakers where they appear to be manufacturing in that direction. but to d.r.e.a.m.ers out there wondering, they don't have a solution at this point. brooke. >> chief white house correspondent, forgive me, jim acosta, con gratgrats on that. >> thanks. >>> just bringing in my panel staying on the 2 plus 2 is 4 hand sky is blue notion. let me throw in another one of the same theme, whether phi say tweet this morning or what the president said at that news conference with norwegian prime minister when asked about whether he would sit down and do the mule tear interview, then

and of course sarah sanders was asked about the impact of this. and any response from the president what we heard her say was they would be very sad to see are inhatorrin hatch leave any direction who it would be his replacement. >> well, right. she was asked point-blank about romney who now lives in utah and eyeing very much this senate run if indeed hatch announced his retirement. so we expect mitt romney to be very eagerly involved incoming to a decision here about whether or not he's going to jump into this race now that this anticipated moment of hatch's retirement is out there. but you are right sarah huckabee sanders wanted to go no where near that. wanted to stick to the president's worst praising senator hatch both for the tax legislation that just passed that he oversaw in the congress, and for his four decade career up on capitol hill. so she did not want to delve into the politics of the replacement. what is clear, as you know, and a, is that donald trump and mitt romney are not best friends. fears es critics throughout 2015 and 2016 a

so moments ago the white house press secretary, sarah sanders, saying that the president was not at all part of mccabe's decision to step down or any part of that process over at the fbi. here is what sarah sanders said when our chief white house correspondent jim acosta asked about concerns over the pressuring top officials at doj, at the fbi. here she was. >> i would say what i've said probably 100 times before and continue to say i'm sure 100 times today that the white house has been fully cooperative and will continue to be fully cooperative. in fact we've gone above and beyond many times and certainly done everything that we could. the white house has provided over 20 witnesses and tens of thousands of pages of documents to the special counsel. we have done everything we can to be fully transparent and we'll continue to do that throughout the process. >> what about this notion that the president has been applying pressure for months? >> the only thing the president has applied pressure to is to make sure we get this resolved so that you guys and everyone else can focus on the thing

sarah sanders. the press secretary here at the white house summed it up like this. >> a lot of meetings the president has this week with leadership will help determine the best strategy on each those individual areas. those are welfare reform, infrastructure, responsible healthcare reform will be top priorities. reporter: orrin hatch intends to retire at the ends of his term. here what else sarah sanders said about that. sarah sanders saying the president has great and deep respect for orrin hatch. the president tweeted, congratulations to the senator orrin hatch on an absolutely incredible career. he has been a tremendous supporters and i will never forget the beyond kind the statements he made about me as president. he is my friends and he will be greatly missed in the united states senate. john: tammy bruce, deana borelli, and jonas, and gary b. smith. tammy, you lost two incredittible stalwarts in the republican party. you had a shoeser in that congressional seat since 1972. he passed the last m

anytime there's a three-day stretch of good news there's a revelation that comes out. >> sarah huckabee sanders is coming up. do you feel some sort of way about them? >> it's much better being a viewer than a briefer. >> i bet. there is your old podium, that empty podium. we expect sarah huckabee sanders to hit that podium any moment now. we expect she will be asked about other things, among those things, rather, mr. mccabe stepping down, number two at the fbi. in a new interview president trump explains why he does not consider himself a feminist. we'll look at that. oh, you brought butch. yeah! (butch growls at man) he's looking at me right now, isn't he? yup. (butch barks at man) butch is like an old soul that just hates my guts. (laughs) (vo) you can never have too many faithful companions. that's why i got a subaru crosstrek. love is out there. find it in a subaru crosstrek. you know what's not awesome? gig-speed internet. when only certain people can get it. let's fix that. let's give this guy gig- really? and these kids, and these guys, him, ah. oh hello. that lady, these houses! yes, ye

this was that moment for sarah huckabee sanders. >> to the extent she's had a moment it was. i don't know it's going to get nearly the amount of attention the inaugural cloud proclamation got. it was a hostile exchange with hallie. there were a number of questions earlier where sarah just insisted that the president wasn't confused and he was delivering the same message, had the same position on both of those tweets. anybody reading those tweets can see that the meaning is different. and, clearly there was a cleanup effort in the white house and it wasn't just journalists who were alarmed by this. you saw members of congress expressing genuine alarm at what the president was doing. >> ken dilanian, let me play one of the president's favorite national security advisers, his cia director mike pompeo, on this very topic, and we'll talk about it on the other side. >> the incredible importance of section 702. we think about in the ct environment because that's what it was created for. but it's very important. we talked about stopping north korean coal shipments. our capacity to in

so, christen, tell us more about this impromptu sarah sanders that happened on the white house driveway. >> well, hallie, this deepens. sarah sanders pointing the finger at democrats saying if the government shuts down they will bear responsibility. and just to remind our viewers, the reason the case that the white house is making is, look, they do need democrat votes in order to get along term spending deal done. and democrats are saying we are not going to agree to any deal if we don't get a fix for daca first. now, we know that some within the president's inner circle are concerned that this could hurt him with his base. and so that's playing into the president's calculation as well whether he looks at that bipartisan deal that dick durbin was just talking about. but take a listen to what sarah sanders had to say earlier today. >> worried that democrats unwillingness to actually put the country ahead of their party is what is stalling things from moving forward, whether it's the budget or whether it's a deal on daca. >> democrats are definitely using lt thursday comments as leverage.

earlier tonight, sarah sanders tweeted democrats can't shut down the booming trump economy. are they now so desperate they'll shut down the government instead. you heard this from the president, he thinks the luck of the tax cuts is part of the reason you get into the shutdown. he may have a point if the shutdown goes for some time. for example, at the irs, almost 56% of irs employees would be sent home as nonessential. now, this is an irs that is trying to transition to the new tax law that is going to be bombarded by questions from taxpayers around the country. tax filing season starts in less than two weeks. if the shutdown continues for several days it becomes an issue on the tax front. >> shannon: and people's lives trying to get answers and move forward. what did you think today's politico had a piece the white house was trying to distant the president from this, sending out mick mulvaney, and others, attempts to make sure the president is not tarred and feathered with this. it is what happens on capitol hill as we watch the conversations in the back and forth and the

earlier tonight, sarah sanders tweeted democrats can't shut down the booming trump economy. are they now so desperate they'll shut down the government instead. you heard this from the president, he thinks the luck of the tax cuts is part of the reason you get into the shutdown. he may have a point if the shutdown goes for some time. for example, at the irs, almost 56% of irs employees would be sent home as nonessential. now, this is an irs that is trying to transition to the new tax law that is going to be bombarded by questions from taxpayers around the country. tax filing season starts in less than two weeks. if the shutdown continues for several days it becomes an issue on the tax front. >> shannon: and people's lives trying to get answers and move forward. what did you think today's politico had a piece the white house was trying to distant the president from this, sending out mick mulvaney, and others, attempts to make sure the president is not tarred and feathered with this. it is what happens on capitol hill as we watch the conversations in the back and forth and the