sarah sanders is talking over and over again about the credibility of bob woodward. they're simply reinforcing this very unpleasant fact, which is that the president of the united states right now doesn't have credibility with the american public. >> yeah. i know you wanted to jump in here, max, but i got to get to the break. we'll hear from you on the other side. i do have to say -- it comes out at midnight, right? i wonder if they're assigning chapters. you do chapter one through ten. you do 10 through 30 and what have you to get ahead of it for tomorrow. but when knows. >>> when we come back, the white house using its first press conference since august 22nd, okay -- since august 22nd. it's september 10th right now -- to call for an investigation into the identity of an anonymous op-ed writer. but is this just another white house which hunt? whoever came up with the term "small business", never owned a business. are your hours small? what about your reputation? is that small? owning your own thing is huge. your partnerships, even bigger. with dell small business t

so sarah sanders says they're ruling it out. is the president ruling it out? we know that rand paul, senator rand paul suggested this idea. so we'll see if this is as done of an opportunity as not. but the question, anderson, will the president stop talking about all of this? we'll find out. >> yeah. especially as bob woodward continues to do interviews, really, he's just getting going. jeff zeleny, thanks very much. joining me now is former adviser to four presidents, david gergen, trump biographer, michael d'antonio, whose new book, "the shadow president: the truth about mike pence" is out now, and jennifer roernlgers, a former federal prosecutor, now at columbia law school. so david, waging these attacks on bob woodward, they may play well with the president's base, do they get the white house anything beyond that? >> no, this is -- they've embraced a communications strategy that is a loser. it's coming back to haunt them now. the fact that the president's personal approval among americans would go down six points since last month, a sharp drop among indepe

so sarah sanders says they're ruling it out. is the president ruling it out?e know senator rand paul suggested this idea. so we'll see if this is as done an opportunity or not. the question, anderson, will the president stop talking about all this, we'll find out. >> especially as bob woodward continues to do interviews. and joining me now is former advisors for presidents, david gergen and michael d'antonio whose new book is out now. and jennifer rogers. they may play well with the president's base, but do they get the white house beyond that. >> they've embraced the communications strategy that is loser and coming back to haunt them now. the fact the president's personal approval among americans has gone down 6 points in the past month, a sharp drop. all of that says they haven't handled this well. we're in the sixth day, the sixth day of obsessing with who the this person was, who the anonymous writer was. they should have closed this down and basically say, listen, we have some unorthodox ways of doing things in the white house but look at the results, the

quite literally they dusted it off before sarah sanders entered the briefing room. she blasted bob woodward and the writer of the anonymous "new york times" op-ed. but she did say this. she said, people here at the white house are focused on things that actually matter. wi but the president may not have gotten that memo. he's been fuming about all of it for days. the white house tonight trying to move beyond a war within its own walls. >> it's frankly i think sad and pathetic that a gutless, anonymous source could receive so much attention. >> reporter: it's been 19 days since white house press secretary sarah sanders had appeared at the podium. aides had been cleaning it before she took questions in the briefing room for the first time since august 22. she wasted little time, blasting bob woodward and his new book. "fear" that chronicles deep dysfunction inside the west wing. >> to not even take the time to get a $10 fact-checker to call around and verify that some of these quotes happened when no effort was made it seems like a careless and reckless way to write a

here's what sarah sanders tweeted.you asking for the identity of the anonymous coward -- it's longer. she directed them to call the opinion desk of the failing noshlg tim new york times. it's a quote. then she gave out the phone number. is this a misuse of her position? >> it is a gros misuse of her position. we have an ethics rule about this. misuse, abuse of position. and it's in 5 cfr 2635. the idea of it is, you can't -- it's a big problem. the trump administration has violated this rule again and again. you can't use your public office to benefit a private party or to hurt a private party because the government has so much power, they can abuse it in so many different ways. and sarah sanders did that, don. it's not just an ethics problem. it's a first amendment problem because she's clogged the phone lines over there at "the new york times." she's instructed people to using her government pulpit to interfere with the operations of a private business and a media outlet. the first amendment prohibits that. so i thin

so i asked sarah sanders about that, and she quickly tried to move off of that. she said, there are not going to be lie detectors. so what they're trying to do is say, we're focusing on the matter at hand. they're trying to get the president to focus on substance, like the economy and other matters. but he privately, we're told, is still seething and consumed by all of this, from the woodward book at the beginning of last week to the op-ed at the end of the book. and all of this will start over again when the book is released tomorrow. and there are even more details in the book that we have not yet reported on. >> listening to you, jeff, and kaitlan, over to you. the president is tweeting on one hand, the white house is a smooth-running machine, yet p r paranoia with a capital "p." >> reporter: there are not many inside the white house who would agree it's a smooth-running machine, even though who are the most optimistic. this is the first meeting we've had in 19 days. following up on what jeff said about the lie detector test, sarah sanders essentially ruled th

article that has even her critics coming to her defense. >> the new yorker published an article on sarah sanders promoted that article by tweeting quote, sarah huckabee sanders attends a dc church that is an affiliate of hills long, the global mega-church that teaches creationism and intelligent design. sanders asked if she shared these views, said i believe in the bible. some on social media slamming the article for focusing on her faith. james says whatever you think of her, where she worships is her business. duane on facebook says that is what the new yorker things, disgusting. ricardo rights i don't hold the same beliefs but this is hardly news. a deep dive into her life before she became press secretary. it heather: we talked about the emmys, not really a hit, amiss. >> the emmys slipped down 11% to about 10.2 million viewers. some folks taking aim at comments like this one. >> my mother is not watching. she said she doesn't like watching white award shows because you guys don't think jesus enough. >> that's true. the only white people that think jesus are republicans -- >> deal the man sa

. >>> white house press secretary sarah sanders in the middle of all this joins us on "gma." thank you for coming in this morning. let's start out with rod rosenstein this morning. the president spoke with him on the phone yesterday. did he tell mr. rosenstein that he wants had him to stay on the job? >> they had an extended conversation and decided to continue it and they're going to do that on thursday and both agree that it was best to have a conversation like that in person and that's what they're going to do in two days. >> does the president have confidence in mr. rosenstein? >> the president has confidence in the system. >> that's not what i asked. >> well, again, i'm not going to get ahead of the conversation that's going to take place. certainly he wants things to take place. there have been a number of incidents that have caused a great deal of concern. not just the president, but to americans all over the country, people like bruce ohr, mccabe and others who have been dishonest and not played the role that they were meant to play through the fbi and through the dep

the check to the system. >> here is what sarah sanders said about the 25th amendment. talked about it this week. here is what the press secretary says. >> the fact that it is actually honestly discussed is ridiculous and frankly insulting to the nearly 62 million people that came out and overwhelmingly supported this president. voted for him and supported his agenda and are watching and cheering on as he successfully implements that agenda every single day. >> there could be a risk on the left for those saying 25th amendment. remove the president from office for basically mental inn capacity. that could be -- incapacity. that could be a risk for the left? >> this is the cabinet moving to get rid of the president because they are not fit for office. now all of a sudden you have president pence. the fear for democrats is that is going too far. rely on other mechanisms like midterms or impeachment depending on the mueller report. with the poll numbers we are seeing, if they are accurate, a lot of the public is not far off from the discussions we are seeing. >> that is for

secretary, sarah sanders, late today. she says this. she said, "the individual behind this piece has chosen to deceive rather than support the dually elected president of the united states. he is not putting country first, but put himself and his ego ahead of the will of the american people. this coward should do the right

secretary sarah sanders and i'm going to quote her, this book is nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees told to make the president look bad. while it is not always pretty and rare that the press actually covers it, president trump has broken through the bureaucratic process to deliver unprecedented successes for the american people, sometimes it is unconventional, but he always gets results. democrats and their allies in the media understand the president's policies are working and with success like this, no one can beat him in 2020, not

he released a statement with sarah sanders' statement, it says the idea that i ever called the president an idiot is not true. as i stated back in may and still firmly stand behind, i spend more time with the president than anyone else. we have an incredibly candid and strong relation sh hypothetical. he always knows where i stand and he and i both know this story is total bs in his words. i'm committed to the president, his agenda and our country. this is another pathetic attempt to smear people close to

anything. >> in the middle of all this, we have the new yorker dropping a pretty big profile on sarah sanderswho is a very well known christian, was about how she reconciles her own religious believes with her support for donald trump, man who committed adu adultry, here is what she said, kwoe quote, i'm not going to my office expecting it to be my church. if people of faith don't get involved in the dirty process then you're missing the point of what we're supposed to do. you have to go onto stage where they are not. she went on, uch you have to ta that message into the darkest, dirtiest and most tainted oo ee dysfunctional places. she later said she was speaking broadly about her duty. she wasn't referring to the white house. as someone who works there every day, what is your reaction? >> sarah sanders is echoing the reaction of a lot of e janua evangelicals. he can still be someone who puts forth policies that can help people's lives. this idea that you have going into the darkness with this message, there are people around the president who think can i can come and get his ear and talk ab

the other sarah sanders not ruling out today the suing bob woodward over this book. what is clear tonight, the president wants to punish the people who are criticizing him. >> the president's threatened to sue a lot of newspapers, those never happened. thanks very much for taking the time tonight. >> when you look at both the woodward book and you look at the new york times op ed there is one consistent message here a dysfunction in the white house, let me ask you straight up, you worked in the white house for months. did you witness any of this dysfunction when you were there. >> there's no doubt this white house operates different fan any in the past. if you look at what the record of achievements are, not just on the economy, also with the president's promises that have been delivered from moving the embassy to jerusalem, to making assurances on iran, as well as the regulatory front. this administration has enormous achievements, and at some point i think that many people cover the white house, need to recognize what's been accomplished. many people elected presid

so, again, press secretary sarah sanders was asked exactly what crime would they be investigating?sn't this protect under the first amendment? she said this. someone actively trying to undermine the duly elected president and the entire executive branch of government, that seems quite problematic to me and something they should take a look at. but, again, no specific mention of a crime he's asking the doj to investigate. jim. >> they can't say who done it and which laws were broken. thank you very much. we will have more on cnn's exclusive new poll numbers on the president. let's turned to the russian spy accused of trying to influence american politics. let's bring in sara murray. tell us what happened in the courtroom. this is interesting. >> it was pretty interesting. the judge says she needs to stay incarcerated, awaiting trial. they believe she is a flight risk, but the judge decided to slap defense orders with a gag order. the judge said she believes in specific her attorney, robert driscoll, has overstepped with all of his television apurnss, and this is after driscoll has b

. >> you have been listening to sarah huckabee sanders. good afternoon, i'm ali velshi. a joke, a scam. president trump is definitely reacting before the official release of bob woodward's new book "fear" tomorrow. it's a smooth-running machine, but bob woodward, who helped oust president nixon in the watergate scandal, is standing by his reporting even as the president attempts to paint him as a liar and a dem operative. >> you look at the operation of this white house and you have to say, let's hope to god we don't have a crisis. this has not been treated seriously enough. some of the things trump did and does jeopardize the real national security. i've never seen an instance when the president is so detached from the reality of what's going on. if you don't think it's risky for somebody to answer the questions and give the real details, it is and they're willing to take that risk because, as gary cohn said, got to protect the country. >> as the president and his aides have been publicly slamming the excerpts, they continue to slam the author of the anonymous op-ed. si

i asked sarah sanders this question. >> do you know if the president believes these denials from theop advisers or does he believe it is someone from within? does he believe that lie detector test should be issued as the vice president volunteered to do? >> no lie detectors are used for talked about or looked at as a possibility. frankly, the white house and the staff here are focused on doing our jobs. not deal with cowards that refuse to put their names on an anonymous letter. >> reporter: the white house is trying to put the name on the mystery rather than the substance behind the anonymous accounts. substance of the fact that top aides are trying to keep the president from harming the country in some respects through strange impulses that he has had. clearly the white house is trying to turn the page beyond this, but the president has fueled it himself. we will see if that continues. the president will fly to shanksville, pennsylvania, for a brief stop to mark 9/11 and coming back to the white house having a meeting as well about hurricane planning and preparation. it is still th

and i think there is a lot of reasons why one can understand why sarah huckabee sanders would not want to have to answer questions for what donald trump is doing every single day. but to your point about what they're doing, are they too busy? there is an administration. this goes back to the trump versus the trump administration idea, right? trump is busy doing the things that trump does. he spent more than half of his days over the last few months either visiting a trump property or holding a campaign rally. he gets up in the morning and watches fox news and tweets about it. that's how hep spends a lot of his time. and then his staff, the omarosa tape that nbc just showed today says that he occupies his staff's time with that stuff, too. so yes, i do think that the white house is spending a lot of time doing a lot of things that it doesn't want to do. but those things are the result of -- >> it's not the result of the press, it's the result of the president himself, who's tweeting about these things and keeping them alive. and as you said, interrupting staff meetings to wax poetic abo

let's bring in white house press secretary sarah sanders this morning. sarah, thanks for joining us and saw that tweet about judge kavanaugh's condition. we saw that tweet about judge kavanaugh's testimony. what did you think of dr. ford's testimony? >> look, i think dr. ford's testimony like most americans knelt it was very compelling. but it also lacked any evidence. it didn't have any corroboration and i think that's one of the big differences that you saw between dr. ford's testimony and dr. -- and judge kavanaugh. while i believe something bad happened to this woman and i think it is absolutely awful and horrific, not what she went through just 36 years ago but also what she had to go through yesterday, and i think that it is absolutely disgraceful the way that the democrats have used and exploited this process and i think they frankly owe an apology to both dr. ford and judge kavanaugh, but i think yesterday was a great contrast of two individuals coming forth laying out their cases, both compelling, but one had a big difference and that was it was

press secretary sarah sanders will respond to reporters' questions. scheduled for 2:00 p.m. eastern, just a few minutes from now. again, we'll have it live when it starts here on c-span. later, a discussion about ongoing trade talks between the u.s., canada, and mexico as the trump administration moves ahead with changes to the nafta trade agreement. live coverage of that discussion from johns hopkins school of advanced studies. starts at 5:00 p.m. eastern. every fourth january, c-span camps out in iowa for presidential politics. we are pleased to be back in des moines during a warm season. this is part of the 50 capitals tour and joining us on the c-span bus is the iowa state senate president charles schneider. thank you for being with us. how is trump doing from your vantage point in iowa? well, i would say, a couple of things. the economy is doing well. and that is due in large part to what is going on with the tax program. that trump and congress have passed. it also has something to do with what we have enabled to a, which at the state level. that being said, there is a

at last check when i spoke to sarah sanders, she said no response yet. they're trying to get something out to the press. so they're scrambling. they're trying to figure this out as well, chuck. no indication as to whether the president has been briefed on this. he's about to hold an event with sheriffs. in fact i'm told he just entered and so we'll try to get more questions to him about all of this. but this is unprecedented, as you say, the fact we have someone inside sounding the alarm like that. that's what it is, someone sounding the alarm. >> the call is coming from inside the house. by the way, i should make a point, no press briefing today, no press briefing yesterday. how many -- are we up to -- how many press briefings have we had in the last six weeks? >> we haven't had one in two weeks and we had less this summer. i think then it's typical, for the record. so it's becoming sort of the diminishing press briefing. now, they would argue, hey, look, you had four different chances to ask the president questions today. that is true, and we'll take i

have a problem with. >> the new yorker published a profile on sanders and promoted the article by tweeting a quote from it which says harris sarah a dc church that is an affiliate that teaches creationism and intelligent design. sanders asked if she shared these views, said i believe in the bible. folks on social media slamming the article for focusing on her faith, a lot of questions over it, she goes to a church that teaches about god, hard-hitting journalism. eric white, doesn't she have freedom of religion? richard says like 1 billion other americans, can't stand sanders, but her and her ilk, don't share these beliefs, but this is a weird headline. this racked up hundreds of comments and a lot were critical. people were wondering if they picked that quote to criticize her faith. >> brotherly love or not. >> a new campaign ad attacking wisconsin. democratic congressional campaign, the surprising thing is that campaign ad and the person attacking him is his brother, watch. >> that hits close to home. someone who has shown contempt. >> james bryce throwing his support behind his brother's political opponent brian style, he said

white house press secretary sarah sanders is here live.irst, let's go to senior national correspondent terry moran at the supreme court. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. the gloves are off on both sides and it's only likely to get tougher. judge kavanaugh now taking this unprecedented step of going in front of the public defending his good name. democrats are saying there are more allegations that need to be investigated. republicans are talking about a vote this weekend to put kavanaugh on the court. it is just a bare-knuckled fight right now to define the character of one man in the court of public opinion. >> what do you think is happening? >> reporter: judge brett kavanaugh with his wife at his side and emotion in his voice telling fox news he never sexually assaulted anyone, period. >> i know i'm telling the truth. i know my lifelong record and i'm not going to let false accusations drive me out of this process. >> reporter: on thursday it will be kavanaugh's word against the testimony of dr. christine blasey fo

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we just got a statement from the white house press secretary, sarah sanders. it reads this way.s had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his victorious 2016 presidential campaign. it is totally unrelated. what she's speaking to there of course is that the charges have to do with manafort's work before he voijoined the campaig. look, it's clear that the president hired someone, a campaign chairman, who according to the court documents who through at least up until 2016 was committing crimes, laundering money through, as the court documents point out, scores of corporations. so, again, we've seen the white house try to rationalize, try to minimize the president's connection to people who have been ensnared by the russia probe calling george papadopoulos a coffee boy, who while we of course know he was a trump campaign foreign adviser, and so as daniel goldman pointed out, yes, manafort worked for the campaign for some five months the president says he worked for him just a short period of time. >> he didn't vjust work for the campaign, he was the campaign chair. he was

this afternoon, white house staffers cleaned off the press secretary's forum before sarah sanders held the first briefing in nearly three weeks. 19 days. sanders this afternoon doubling down on the president's request that department of justice investigate who wrote the anonymous op-ed. and wouldn't rule out the possibility the president potentially suing bob woodward over his new book. let's go right now to the panel. let's start with these numbers here. dave urban, you look at these figures, they're not good for the president. i mean, look at independents there, too. among independents, down 16 points since august. 31%. we're heading into an important midterm election. how should the president be viewing these numbers? >> good thing the president is not on the ballot, right? >> but is he not? >> no, he's really not on the ballot. historically -- >> historically the president's approval -- >> the trend is not good, right? george bush in his -- his midterm election, not the first go-round, right? second go-round. his numbers were terrible and ended up losing both the house and senate.

sarah huckabee sanders expected to take questions. omarosa still standing by.ontents of this tape on our website. if you were a journalist in the briefing room today, what would you be asking sarah sanders? >> the first question is can president trump acknowledge that he was inappropriate in having these discussions and does he understand the magnitude of discussing these sensitive matters with junior staffers. does he understand this information impacts lives throughout our country and the world. when he started things, to me, i believe he was making them up, or he got them some sensitive information he should not have been sharing in a comms meeting. >> for folks who aren't familia. >> communication teams made up of people like me. sarah huckabee sanders was in room and kellyanne conway. >> no one said maybe we shouldn't -- >> they thought it was funny. you could hear them laughing along and this was no laughing matter. >> the folks who have tapes from inside the white house, can you characterize what's on those tapes or do you know ? >> i wasn't the only one

sarah sanders white house press secretary on gma moments ago talking about these new accusations in "the new yorker" made by debbie ramirez who says that brett kavanaugh put his genitals in her face when she was at yale. listen to what sarah sanders just said about her. >> you've said that everybody's voices should be heard. does the president want ms. ram are ez to appear before the senate judiciary committee as well. >> certainly we would be open to that and that process could take place on thursday. again, the president has been clear, let them speak, but let's also let brett kavanaugh speak and let's let him tell his side of the story before we allow allegations to determine his entire future. >> now, unclear to me whether that's an official new position. jeffrey your eyebrows are up. is it the white house position that debbie ramirez should testify before the senate on thursday? >> i have the same reaction, that is a new position and it's certainly not the position as far as i'm aware of charles grassley, the chairman of the judiciary committee and the republicans who run that co

sarah sanders say in that briefing that the white house is moving on.ecause it doesn't appear as though he is moving on. >> right. as we were talking about in the last segment i think that's having an impact on everything. i mean, the president could be talking nonstop about the economy and instead he's talking somewhat at least partially about bob woodward. >> how do you want him to move on when the book comes on today? there could be more bombshells in the book. maybe we've heard the worst of it but there could be more bombshells coming out in the book. >> i've read the book, it has a lot of delicious anecdotes maybe which have been published, there's more to dig into there certainly, but i think the white house should not be as consumed by this. there is the business of governing. do they have a problem on their hand that's been detailed in reporting in this book and the op-ed? hell yes. you can't spin your way out of that. but they should really focus more on the art of governing. what they tend to do now is say, look, don't pay attention to what th

i don't know. >> reporter: sarah sanders trying to dismiss the sources as we reported. bob woodward telling nbc news he certainly stands by his reporting and has hundreds of hours of interviews with former and current administration officials as well as others within the trump orbit. of course, he didn't talk to the president himself, although he says he asked six different people, brian, for an interview with president trump and we heard that stunning phone call that he had with the president after his book was finished, in which he sort of fak chct checke president in realtime. i put in requests with lindsey graham and the president saying actually he did ask me if i wanted to do an interview for your book. the white house paying close attention what's happening on capitol hill and one more point. a little development in the russia pat o'brien according to bob woodward at times paralyzed this white house. some movement in terms of a potential interview with president trump and special counsel robert mueller pi mueller's team submitting their latest proposal for that i

. >> this morning on "gma," white house express secretary sarah sanders is talking about the controversy. >> we're still a country where you're innocent until proven guilty, except when you're a conservative republican. it's absolutely shameful what the democrats have done. dianne feinstein could have done this in a much more structured process and instead waited until the 11th hour and is playing political games with people's lives and i find that to be disgraceful and disgusting and she certainly needs to shoulder a lot of the blame. >> the third accuser gets ready to come forward some time in the next two days. the woman is expected to describe sexual misconduct involving kavanaugh in the '80s. the other two accusers are dr. christine blasey ford and deborah ramirez. kgo spoke to kavanaugh's freshman at yale who said kavanaugh was a heavy drinker who became aggressive and belligerent when drunk. kavanaugh addresses the issues on fox news. we'll have much more on that coming up at 6:30. the kavanaugh controversy has created a push. >> the stanford law professor laurnlg the a new politi

sarah sanders characterizeed it as warm. trying to set up another meeting. good thing?uld want this process to lead to a successful outcome. the dance going on between the two leaders and then you go backwards with the real facts on the ground in between. it is moving in the right direction. you get optimistic signs. we should be pleased. one last thing on the bolton speech, it was a deeper argument not just about this court but the importance of an institution that are democratically accountable. we have allowed too much power to them. >> bret: sounds like a brexit argument. when we come back a homecoming queen becomes a football star. if you're waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cost you your life. it's time to get out of line with upmc. at upmc, living-donor transplants put you first. so you don't die waiting. upmc does more living-donor liver transplants than any other center in the nation. find out more and get out of line today. you might or joints.hing for your heart... but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discov

sarah sanders wrapping up the daily briefing. we're live at the white house with what the press secretary had to say about the quote, gutless source. >>> states of emergency on the east coast. where millions of people in the path after life-threatening hurricane. latest on the mon store storm's path and when it is expected to make landfall. david: nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. we should mention, nicole, the s&p was positive. that is a much broader index of stocks. >> that's a great point, right? 500 of the s&p versus the dow jones industrial average which is just 30, weighing down by travelers. we're seeing insurers to the downside in light of florins coming up the coast. look at broader market. dow, s&p and nasdaq you have somewhat of a mixed bag today focused on republican tax cuts rather than tariffs maybe. we did see nike as a leader, bouncing back on positive comments. here is look at tesla. interestingly enough elon musk was talking again, we're about to have the most amazing quarter in our hist

. >> shepard: press secretary sarah huckabee sanders wrapping up today's briefing, i'm shepard smith in new york. the white house continues to deal with the fallout from a one-two punch. there is the "new york times" op-ed that a mystery senior administration official wrote about a resistance inside the administration. and now a new accusation from the journalist, bob woodward, whose book comes out tomorrow. it quotes defense secretary james mattis on the left here saying that president trump has an understanding of a fifth or sixth grader and the white house chief of staff john kelly on the right here calling the president an idiot. they have both denied that they made those statements. today bob woodward responded. >> they are not telling the truth. >> that's lying. >> look, what's going on here and my old boss at "the washington post" ben bradley, the great editor, used to say truth emerges. sometimes it takes time. these people, these are political statements to protect their jobs. >> shepard: well, president trump has called woodward's book a work of fix. now, the president says

press secretary sarah sanders. >> seems like a reckless way to write a book. >> woodward defending his book on "today." >> it is mostly anonymous sources in here. why should people trust you? >> but the incidents are not anonymous. it gives a date. it gives a time. who participates. >> reporter: in fear, woodward details anecdotes that include chief of staff john kelly calling the president an idiot and defense secretary james mattis saying mr. trump has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader. >> john kelly aggressively pushed back in this. general mattias aggressively pushing back. >> are they lying? >> they are not telling the truth. >> reporter: woodward's book echoes that op ed "the new york times" with a top trump official saying they at times work against the president for the good of the country. more than two dozen officials denied writing it so will they have to take a lie detector test? >> no lie detectors are being used or talked about or looked at as a possibility. >> reporter: and the white house is trying to crack down on leaks rolling out a policy that prevents sta

white house press secretary sarah sanders tweeted, "the president will discuss the u.n.ng as well as other news at 5:00 p.m. eastern time." no word if that will include details on his meeting thursday with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein or supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh's hearing on sexual assault allegations. >>> meanwhile, the trump administration is using the u.n. spotlight to take aim at iran. >> if you cross us, our allies or our partners, if you harm our citizens, yes, there will indeed be hell to pay. >> national security adviser john bolton issuing a fiery warning at an anti-iran conference in new york. at the same event secretary of state mike pompeo labeled iran as the number one state sponsor of terrorism. earlier in the day president trump called for more sanctions against the nation and defended his decision to abandon the nuclear deal. iranian president hassan rouhani later fired back, dubbing the sanctions economic terrorism and accusing the united states of trying to overthrow his government. >>> first mom made history, and now her baby has

weijia jiang is at the white house. >> reporter: white house press secretary sarah sanders announced kim jong-un wrote president trump asking for a second meeting, which she says is in the works. >> it was a very warm, very positive letter. >> reporter: but just over two weeks ago, the president canceled what would have been secretary of state mike pompeo's fourth trip to north korea, fighting a lack of progress in the effort to denuclearize pyongyang. u.s. intelligence suggests north korea still has the ability to oroduce five to eight nuclear weapons a year. eaer the weekend, north korea marked the 70th anniversary of its founding, without any intercontinental ballistic missiles in its military parade. what signs of progress warrant this new optimism from president trump? adethe most recent parade this weekend, one of the first times i believe that we-- they have hd parades similar where they weren't highlighting their nuclear arsenal. we consider that a sign of good faith. oodreporter: sanders spent much of the briefing slamming bob woodward's new book, depicting a dysfunctional a

sarah sanders tried to turn the corner yesterday. >> yeah. >> i was talking about it with abby. think she did? >> no. she did not. what basically happened is that sarah basically put the point on the fact that they believe this white house believes that someone did do it. it's not a myth. someone did it, and they're calling them a coward. you know, for the vice president to even say or allude to the fact that there could be, you know, he would take a lie detector test, is saying something by itself, all unto itself. the trump brand has been hit. this is not a good thing. when you have a book like bob woodward, a man who was there and broke watergate, and it's the same thing happening now. it's cyclical, where a white house would knock the reporter. that's what happened during the nixon time in watergate. now this administration is doing the same exact thing. i mean, you have a lot of books out, to include omarosa's, to include mine, that talk about dysfunction and also the distractions of this administration. this president's brand is taking a hit. and the american public is fee

erica: apparently sarah sanders was glaring at him. mark: and he said i think i'm going to give sarah a nervous breakdown. yamiche: there are also republicans on social media thae attacking john mccain after he died so you have to almost think out in the country there are people are at least echoing and repeati some of the things that president trump is saying. and echoing his behavior. so we have a country,lso, when you have someone who maybe you didn't agree with but who was a certified hero -- five years in capture isom nothing you can just dust up. that's not something you can are about. and people online were still attacking him so not only was th president somewhat problematic in his responses, there are americans out there that are problematic, too.th roberte's a difference in how people approach these issues. you talked about president think-- i continue to back to that moment in 2016 where the president, then as a candidate, went after senator mccain, about his service in vietna and it raised alarms then but it didn't destroy

sarah sanders was dodging the question.d the briefings are fewer and fashth between. if we're talking about unity, it is important that we practice what we preach and hand the mike over if someone isn't getting their question answered. >> there was another extraordinary moment that followed your question where april ryan was trying to fight her way in and normally there's all this yelling over each other. there was a moment where it is like the seas parted. everyone stops talking so april ryan could actually get through. sxfg they refused to answer her question. i've never seen that before. where everyone got out of the way and let her have her moment. is this a recent decision that's happening among the group? >> you know, i don't think it is a conscious decision where we all get together in a big group and decide, you know, this is the time we'll do it. but i think a lot of reporters have seen how the briefings are going and have seen times when people are shouting over each other, people not getting their questions answe

press secretary sarah sanders says that if rod rosenstein exits, however he exits, that could begin the end of the robert mueller investigation. what is the white house saying about that now? >> the president made the point yesterday that on thursday he will meet with the deputy attorney general, he met with the chief of staff at the white house, they participated in a meeting on other issues. some of the media are always surprised to learn that people come to the white house and justice does that routinely. the president and mr. rosenstein will have to make those decisions i guess on thursday. as for the mueller investigation -- that's up to the president, i have not heard that and i think yesterday was a terrible day for the media getting their information from twitter, from faulty sources, people who could not possibly have known what was going on. he's on the job today, he was on the job yesterday. the president wants to meet him in person on thursday. the department of justice, as run by the last administration, was rotten to the core at the top of the fbi. especially when it came

we'll askwhite house press secretary, sarah sanders . plus - - a supreme court confirmation battle in the age of #metoo. >> somebody could say 30 years ago, 25, 10 years ago, five years ago. he did a horrible thing to me. it's a very dangerous. in our country. >>chris: we will discuss what the showdown means for allegations of sexual assault, with - - the president of the women's national law center. then we will ask the sunday panel where the burden of proof lies these days. and our "power player of the week". a hollywood tighten on the rewards of giving back. >> what you going to do with what you have while you're here? >>chris: all right now on "fox news sunday". and hello again from fox news in washington. tomorrow, the supreme court opens its new term with eight justices on the bench. judge brett kavanaugh's nomination facing another week of uncertainty after president trump under pressure, ordered a new fbi background check into allegations of sexual misconduct or his nominee. all of this just five weeks before the 2018 midterm ele

that comes after sarah sanders, the press secretary, issued that surreal statement saying those who wanted to know the identity of the author should call "the new york times" and ask them because they were the ones, according to sarah, that were complicit in what she called a deceitful act. so these cabinet segitaries, these high ranking officials, they know the president needs to see these denials. they don't want the heat to be on them. it's not even that far fetched that whoever wrote this would issue a denial denying they wrote such words about the president calling him ineffective and ill-informed. the president is seeing them, his anger is still continuing to grow from that outburst that you saw yesterday that you just played there, when he was in east room with those sheriffs. it's likely only going to continue to grow because it's resurrecting this idea that the president had that there are people in this administration who are actively working against him. now, brooke, you have to wonder what's going to come next, what is the president going to suggest happening next. one of his b

business is down at the red hen restaurant in virginia the refused to serve sarah sanders, following g her to leave, other businesses struggling to stay afloat in that town. jillian: calling it quits. high school team turning in their uniforms two games into the season. they suffer two shutout losses. is this the message we want to send our kids, that it is okay to quit? our parent panel joins us, radio host kathy barnett, attorney and parent richard st. paul and adolescent family therapist fox, appreciate it. we were talking about this in the break. let's lay out the scenario. the first two games the team lost by a combined record of 102-0. that is pretty tough to swallow for a lot of kids. a lot of the articles haven't seen a decline in numbers of kids wanting to sign up and play football, do you think? >> as americans they have the right not to participate if they choose but on the other hand, administrators would be concerned with instilling this idea that when things get tough just quit. what i found out is according to us news and you will school ranking they have students betwe

there has been a statement from sarah sanders within the last few minutes, she says that the last few has chosen to deceive, rather than support the duly elected president of the united states. they are not putting their country first, but themselves first and the ego ahead of the american people and they say this coward should do the right thing and resign. is also worth saying that within literally the last few minutes, the president himself has been tweaked it and tweeted one word, the word treason with a passion mark after it. —— questioned mark. —— question mark. trying to dismiss this but also describing it as treason. this is a serious issue if indeed it is true that there is someone in the white house working to thwart the president and presumably, the new york times would not have published this unless it was pretty confident that this was genuine, that it was authentic. they make very clear that as far as the opinion department of the new york times goes, they are aware of who this individual is, that they are a senior member of leadership. in some ways, what makes this doub

. >> and the statements from sarah sanders and rudy joule ygiulian each other. this is sarah sanders, this had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his campaign, and the reason that the president did nothing wrong, and i will point out that the statement from giuliani is just reissued and revised in the last ten minutes or so, and the statement that we got from giuliani is that and paul manafort is going to tell the truth, and that is omitted in the correction, and the white house is careful to make the point that, it was paul manafort's work with the campaign and it is known that paul manafort was a known quantity before he was hired by the president, and it no secret that he made the personal fortune doing the lobbying work, and the consulting work in shady figures all around the world, and it is the reason that he was unemployable in domestic politics, and you heard him say this he worked for ronald reagan and bob dole, and president trump is that the large part of the work he did for the philippines and other countries in the world. and other point