sarah sanders does her first press briefing in 42 days.ngs are going to be asked, and yet, this is what we get. >> yeah. it gives the impression of a press secretary who is forced to go up and basically issue absurd denials, because she's got nothing. because she can't even trust the president's own word. i mean, the president tweeted that. why not say, well, the president has spoken. she's concerned that actually, that might not be true. we see that over and over again. it's one of the worst jobs in america. >> she didn't say, the president said what he said, and that's the facts. she said, i refer you to the house oversight committee, who is supposed to investigate who's lying. >> over and over again, it's, don't believe what you're saying, don't believe what you've heard, and as little as exposure as possible, because too often the white house press secretary's job is being a paid liar to support the president who's lying. she's only as good as the information she gets and she knows it's bad. she's got a bad job. >> why she is asked for

>> reporter: as for the president's comment, democrats hate jewish people, press secretary sarah sanders implied the president condemned steve king for his remarks praising white supremacy but the president has never done that publicly. sanders said she was referring to her own comments about congressman king. wolf, as we both know, that's not the same of a statement of condemnation coming directly from the president. there just hasn't been one in reference to congressman king. >> jim acosta at the white house. thank you. >>> the wife of former trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos was up on capitol hill today interviewed by lawmakers behind closed doors. our political correspondent sara murray joining us with details. sara, her husband went to jail for lying about his contacts with russians during the 2016 presidential campaign. what did the senate intelligence committee hope to learn from simona papadopoulos today? >> first of all, they're not saying. they don't talk about what they talk about with the witnesses they bring in, but what we expect is they wanted to talk to her about

joining me is white house press secretary sarah sanders. morning. i was thinking you, as one of the people who did have to answer questions to the mueller team, what was your first response when you read what william barr had to write? >> i think everyone here, and everyone frankly across america was happy. even some in the media which, frankly, i was surprised by, have said this is a good thing for america that they found that absolutely no american citizen, including the president, including everyone on his team had anything to do with interfering in the election in 2016. it was another great reminder that the reason the president is the president and sitting behind me in this building behind me right now is he was the best candidate. had the best message and the best vision for this country and outworked his opponent. he delivered on -- in 2016, and he's been delivering every single day since he was elected. yesterday was another great reminder of exactly why he's president, why he's had such historic success. >> is it a great reminder a

sarah sanders did not have an answer for that. also asked if the president asked gary cohn to intervene in the time warner and at&t merger, and also cohen's $35,000 check. she does not have an answer for that either. >> halie jackson is back. hello to you. all of you in there were trying to get answers from sarah sanders on a number of topics that we have been hearing for quite some time? >> yes. >> i think you summed up the highlights of what we heard in this briefing. listen, this is again the first time in 42 days she has answered questions for members of the press. it was a reminder to, maybe a lot of folks who are watching of all different topics have come up over the last 42 days, everything from secretary acosta and to the issue of manafort and michael cohen and people have been in president trump's inner circles that we have been covering the ins and outs on there. >> there are a couple of different pieces, yes, it is budget day, it is important for the white house to come out. they want to come out and hit their budget me

sarah sanders got asked about this. are you going to dial down the rhetoric going into the 2020 election? she said essentially no. this was a press conference where that issue came up. it was prominent at the press conference. it was a press conference in which no news was made. if you had not had a situation where we have not had a press conference for more than six weeks, you wouldn't have noticed anything having changed. there was discussion of china, of appointments that have been delayed and a variety of other issues including this one, which is rhetoric, statements that he made about democrats. it was nothing new. just -- more sort of elevated rhetoric from sarah sanders as well about, you know, democrats being to blame for everything that the president was faulted for. >> trace: a couple of fascinating things. $8.5 billion for the border wall. the welfare to work requirements. what do make of these? is this a rehash of something or did you find something novel in this part of the budget? >> a lot of these issues

watching and waiting for the news conference and for sarah sanders to take questions. meantime, another major story we're following. investigators have recover ed te flight data and voice recorders from the ethiopian crash that killed all on board. while multiple airlines have grounded the popular boeing plane involved, southwest and american airlines say they will continue flying this aircraft. the pilot report eed technical difficulties on sunday and one witness says the plane was smoking and swerving before the crash. among the victims, eight americans and 21 united nations staffers. this is the second time in five months that a a boeing 737 max 8 model has crashed minutes into the flight. the very same thing happened to a flight back in october. but despite the similarities there, boeing is not planning to issue new guidance on the plane models. so richard guest is our cnn aviation correspondent, so first of all, obviously everyone's wondering my gosh, how many of these types of planes are being flown here in the u.s. so a, that's my question for you and why is is

thank you so much. >>> sarah sanders holding a press briefing for the first time in 42 days. just mentioned that. she wouldn't or couldn't answer a lot of questions about the russia investigation. so, we'll have the answers next. bookers book now and ask their boss later.. [do you want breakfast or no?] [definitely breakfast.] be a booker at booking.com the latest inisn't just a store.ty it's a save more with a new kind of wireless network store. it's a look what your wifi can do now store. a get your questions answered by awesome experts store. it's a now there's one store that connects your life like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. >>> so, sarah sanders danced around questions today about president trump's claim that his fixer, his former fixer, michael cohen, directly asked him for a pardon. i want to bring in now neal katyal to discuss. good to see you. thank you, sir, for coming on. so here's what the press secretary, sarah sanders, had to say when she was asked about the president's claim that cohen asked for a pardon. here

sarah sanders:"that's a question frankly i think you should ask democrats."orting. most congressional democrats are not pushing impeachment for now. they say it's too early to talk about that - but they want to focus on house investigations and oversight of the white house. (grant) "empire" actor jussie smollett appeared in a chicago courtroom today. this is video of the santa rosa native leaving court after a brief appearance. a grand jury indicted the 36- year-old last week on 16 felony counts. he is accused of lying to police about being the victim of a racist and homophobic at not allow cameras in the courts but state judges ácaná allow them if they feel the cases are in the public interest. in this case -- the judge granted smollett's request. (grant) kim kardashian west is helping a man struggling to get his life together. the reality t- worth of rent for matthew charles. charles was at president trump's state of the dress last month. trump highlighted him as a benefactor of the first step act -- a new law that allows judges to release inmates convicted

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conway: she will answer your questions afterwards. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders also spoke to reporters outside the white house, calling the mueller investigation complete and total exoneration of president trump. ms. sander: i thought for sure kelly would have an answer to all of your questions and no one would be here. reporter: [indiscernible] ms. sanders: well, i frankly disagree with you and so does the attorney general and deputy attorney general. the report said unable to make a decision that went over to the department of justice where they did make a decision. the attorney general followed the legal process, he worked with deputy attorney general who has been involved since the very beginning of this two-year absurdity and they made a decision that there was no obstruction, so that makes it a complete and total exoneration. i don't know any other way to look at it when the whole purpose of this investigation was to determine whether or not there was collusion and there wasn't, they were incredibly clear in the report that there was no collusion, not just not b

i'm seeing the latest tweet from sarah sanders here.ays that the special counsel did not find any collusion and did not find any obstruction, attorney general bar and rosenstein further determined there was no obstruction. you can see this on the screen, the findings of the department ofjustice are a total and complete exoneration of the president of the united states. like you said, jerry nagler is not happy with this, he is he's going to call the attorney general bar, he wa nts call the attorney general bar, he wants him to face questions and to a nswer wants him to face questions and to answer the questions about how that conclusion could have been arrived at. it apoliticaltown. he is doing hisjob. what at. it apoliticaltown. he is doing his job. what we've got is the headline summary, but headlines are what matter. how many people, even if the mueller report was published, hundreds and hundreds of pages, how many people in america would read it and base their judgment many people in america would read it and base theirjudgment on ho

. >> reporter: press secretary sarah sanders saying the findings of the department of justice are a total and complete

it shouldn't be put in a watered down resolution. >> well, keeping them honest, neither sarah sanders nor the president are alone in criticizing the house resolution. nor have some of the statements from democrats, including on this program, been the full throated condemnation of congresswoman omar's remarks that some in both parties would prefer. however, listen to the very next thing we heard in today's press conference, because it's here that the president's spokesperson leaves the world of the factual or even, to be generous, the arguable, behind. >> it should be done the way the republicans did it when steve king made terrible comments. we called it out by name, we stripped him of his committee memberships and we'd like to see democrats follow suit. >> steve king, the republican congressman from iowa, is the defender of white nationalism. when sarah sanders uses the pronoun we, in conjunction with condemning the congressman, she is, quite simply, not telling the truth, as was pointed out to her today. >> you mentioned steve king, the president, correct me if i'm wrong, has not co

the white house press secretary sarah sanders, the special counsel did not find any collusion and did not find any obstruction, attorney general barr and rosenstein further determined there was no obstruction, the findings of the department of justice are total and complete exoneration of the president of the united states.

i want to underscor something that sarah sanders said, they have not been briefed on this. so essentially we were told, and ld and some of the officials were alerted just before we were. i want to go back to the discussion you were just having, how much of the report will be released p one of the big inside the white house, i can tell you based on my conversations not only today buthe past several days and weeks, is that there will be information released that's damaging about an individual who hasn't necessarily been charged with a crime. so if, in fact, barr does decide to release some of the information you can bet that the white house will try to be very careful aboutpe whatfically is released and they'll try to have a say in that undoubtedly because that is a concern here for the administration. it doesst come aga the backdrop of talk of impeachment within the democratic noparty. house speaker nancy pelosi said that it's way too early for that. she is not in favor of the impeachment and she kept urging her caucus toff hold on that type of discussion until this report w

sarah sanders won't rule out the president pardoning paul manafort and won't say if the president believes democrats hates jews. nancy pelosi says she is not in favor of impeachment because it is so divisive. then adds he's just not worth it. and why this week promises to tell us so much about the status of the mueller investigation starting with the document that came out tonight as the 11th hour gets underway on a monday evening. good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 781 of the trump administration and we are launching into what could be an important week in terms of what we learn about the status of this mueller investigation. and at the same time the speaker of the house is making waves about her comments about the potential for impeachment. late today nancy pelosi told the washington post magazine what she sees as the standard for impeachment. i'm not for impeachment. this is news. i haven't said this to any press person before. impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there is something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan i don't thi

this is the statement from sarah sanders.rongly condemns the attack in constitutional right church. our thoughts a christchurch. we stand in solidarity with the people of new zealand and their government against this vicious act of hate. joining us now is julia kiam, and josh campbell former fbi special agent who worked counterterrorism investigations in australia and new zealand. juliet, the white house is calling in a vicious act of hate, that statement from sarah sanders, that's crystal clear here. i'm curious, though, pouring through this manifesto, looking at the language this killer used, you see invasion, you see references to replacement, which is what people in charlottesville were protesting and crying as they were marching through the streets there. this killer even says he looks at president trump as a symbol of white identity. why? why do you think there are people self-proclaimed white supremacists around the world who see our president in this way? >> well, i think what they do is they are given credence, and i

sarah sanders very forcefully answering. >> it sure is. and it gives you a sense that the white house is, you know, as i said before, fully defiant and fully aggressive. there is no sort of sense of maybe we should have done x, y or z things differently. it is that mueller, in their minds as the president tweeted, totally exonerated him and they are going to go ahead and prosecute the case. they are not going to apologize for all of the president's tweets and the way in many ways he went to war against his own justice department. now, reasonable people can disagree with that, but as of now, this is the defiant stance we're going to see from them and there is no real indication they are letting up. the interesting question to me is they are threatening investigations. they are threatening holding people accountable. is this, again, just sort of this victorious talk in the wake of what we learned over the weekend about the mueller report? or are they really preparing a strategy to go after individual members of the media, individual members

eric white house first secretary satirist sarah sanders says trump has no concerns whatsoever and won't michael cohen's testimony should he have no concerns from a court of public opinion he should have concerns digging into his personal life and as a candidate in the past decade of his services towards donald trump but as it pertains to whether a clue with the russians a lot of those were debunked today even by michael cohen so you know i'm i'm really hesitant to say this is going to be effective in terms of what the original investigation was supposed to be about which was russia collusion but it will be effective in the court of public opinion and all presidents and all elected officials should be concerned about those kind of occurrences brian can we compare our. john dean. i was very interested. to well to get back to the first question i think that republicans should be very concerned with what michael cohen brought to his testimony today when you have a man on the witness stand who has worked with this president for ten years worked with him for a decade and he is calling the pre

says there's nothing to be concerned about five learn anything listening to sarah sanders over the last two years it's that usually anything she says is more often than not the opposite of what's true you cannot listen to that testimony and not be very very concerned when you could clone does john dean the former white house counsel and his testimony about nixon. i think it's hard to these people that trump surrounds himself with i think it's hard to compare them to anybody because to me what we're going through here is just with all these comparisons to nixon and various other comparisons i just i think what we're going through here today is completely unprecedented because what i'm picking up from cohen now one thing i will agree with with many republicans is i don't know if that there's really any smoking gun or slam dunk that there was collusion between trump himself and the russians but what we learn. through almost every one of these hearings is that at the very least he surrounded himself on all sides by people who are either too incompetent to know what they're doing or are dire

sarah sanders, white house press secretary: "president trump's 2020 budget was released today"...butt was quickly overshadowed after sarah sanders refused to deny a report claiming trump told a room of republican donors that democrats hateewish people "you didn't say yes or no. does he rally believe democrats hate jewish people, i'm just trying to get a sense of that?"sarah sanders, white house press secretary: "i think that's a question you ought to ask the democrats." instead, the press secretary hitting democrats for not going far enough to rebuke their own members...sarah sanders, white house press secretary: "democrats have had a number of opportunities to condemn specific comments and have refused to do that..." ...and pointing to republicans calling congressman steve king out by name for his racist commentssarah sanders, white house press secretary: "we called it out by name. we stripped him of his committee memberships, and i'd like to see democrats follow suit."but the president never condemned king"i haven't been following it. i really haven't been following it."the back an

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according to sarah huckabee sanders, it has been 100% contained. acting dod secretary shanahan traveling with president trump, briefing him on this, he's also traveling with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, they briefed him on this development. i was with the president on the south lawn earlier this week when he signaled there was going to be a big announcement related to isis, clearly this is what it is and the president will want to talk about it. this is something he campaigned on, something he's been talking about for quite some time. important to point out, though, it doesn't mean isis is no longer a threat, it doesn't mean it's been wiped out completely but that territorily it has been eliminated from syria. >> these are live pictures as the president is headed to mar-a-lago. let me get reaction to this statement by sarah huckabee sanders, ambassador mcfaul. >> it's an achievement. we want to eliminate territorially the caliphate of isis. the effort to do so has been a success, started by the obama administration, just to remind your list

conway: she will answer your questions afterwards. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders also spoke to reporters outside the white house, calling the mueller investigation complete and total exoneration of president trump. ms. sander: i thought for sure kelly would have an answer to all of your questions and no one would be here. reporter: [indiscernible] ms. sanders: well, i frankly disagree with you and so does the attorney general and deputy attorney general. the report said unable to make a decision that went over to the department of justice where they did make a decision. the attorney general followed

sarah sanders, white house press secretary: "president trump's 2020 budget was released today"...butwas quickly overshadowed after sarah sanders refused to deny a report claiming trump told a room of republican donors that democrats hate jewish people "you didn't say yes or no. does he rally believe democrats hate jewish people, i'm just trying to get a sense of that?"sarah sanders, white house press secretary: "i think that's a question you ought to ask the democrats." instead, the press secretary hitting democrats for not going far enough to rebuke their own members...sarah sanders, white house press secretary: "democrats have had a number of opportunities to condemn specific comments and have refused to do that..." ...and pointing to republicans calling congressman steve king out by name for his racist commentssarah sanders, white house press secretary: "we called it out by name. we stripped him of his committee memberships, and i'd like to see democrats follow suit."but the president never condemned king"i haven't been following it. i really haven't been following it."the back an

sarah sanders this morning made a number of appearances including on cnn. she basically said that this was all so unfair to the 63 million people who voted for president trump in the 2016 election. they claim to have actual evidence. they said it was true and they lied. they didn't just lie on tv. they lied to the american people and they tried to take something away from the 63 million americans that voted for this president. it's outrage skps i hope that they will stand up and say how wrong they were throughout this process. >> reporter: so some of this is an argument about politics that goes towards the president's case to the american people for 2020. it's also an argument to undermine investigations of democrats on capitol hill might want to launch as a result of this trying to dig deeper into what the mueller report found. but there are also some outstanding questions for president trump. does he want the full report to be released. sarah sanders says he is all for transparency but wants to protect the interest of people involved in the report and als

sarah sanders:"i am not going to comment on a potentially leaked comment. i can tell you ..."e think that democrats hate jewish people?" sarah sanders:"that's a question frankly i think you should ask democrats." ( james ) that was joe johns reporting. president trump has not responded to house speaker nancy pelosi's comments about not impeaching him. ( darya ) a big story this morning. brothers from northern california were among the people killed in a plane crash in ethiopia. mel and bennett riffel were from redding.elementary school have started placing flowers at the base of a bell tower in the brothers' memory. they were on an adventure before mel's daughter is born in may. their parents say they appreciate the outpouring of love and support and they are asking for prayers. ( james ) the planes involved in that crash ... have been taken out of the skies by countries around the world. and senator dianne feinstein is asking the federal aviation administration to ground those planes here in the u-s.( darya ) kron 4's will tran is joining us now live from sfo with more. ( jam

sarah sanders says we should release the report to the public.hat is exactly what should happen next so we can evaluate whether ag barr's letter is fair and objective. my believe is the president likely engaged in sketchy or illegal activities, but the attorney general was unwilling to say so. now what we have to do is look at the totality of the report and mccarran analysis. -- make our own analysis. n -- jen, pretty good weekend for the gop. what do you make of the reaction? >> i think it was a great week and for the gop and for america, particularly the findings that no american took russia up on its offer to collude in an effort to meddle in our elections, so i think that was a good thing that both sides can be proud of. waspublic opinion definitely not going any democrats' favor here. if democrats are smart, the party will listen to what the polling tells us. going into the final weekend of the molar report, 50% of americans were believing that president trump was actually a victim of this witch hunt, and that phrase was actually used in the

and we're going to act like it. >> so sarah sanders has just come out with a statement tonight. congressman lieu. and she describes this investigation as disgraceful and abusive. your allegations as tired and false, that have already been investigated by the special counsel. so obviously taking issue with your description of it as being narrow. and she references committees in both chambers. she calls it a fishing expedition. what's your response to the press secretary? >> many of these issues we're look into have not been investigated by the special counsel because it's not within his mission. and if you look at what happened in watergate, nixon was impeached not because he did the substantive crime of stealing from the dnc. he was impeached for the cover-up. a totally separate offense. and that's what we want to know. did donald trump engage in corruption, abuse of power or obstruction of justice? and want to take the facts wherever it may lead us. and we hope to get these documents soon. >> so when sarah sanders says the democrats are not after the truth, they are after the p

>> dana: that was sarah sanders doing a briefing there, first one since january 28th.here was a lot of pent up demand in the briefing room. started with the budget that the president is releasing, but questions ranged across the board. i have with me now a former communications director for the dnc, and guy benson from townhall.com and co-host of fox radio benson and hart. thank you both for being here. i'm waiting on trying to get some sound from the beginning. i just think this will be -- you'll see this question, guy, about comments apparently the president made at a private event on saturday night in which he said the democrats are now anti-jewish party. sarah sanders asked to expand on that and she declined to do so, but pointed back to representative ilhan omar and the resolution from last week. let me give you a chance to comment here. >> sure, dana. well, i mean, i think the response from the white house there was you have to ask the questions about whether they hate jews. i don't think that's the best answer. maybe that's the best answer she had available to h

but that was probably more questions taken by kim jong-un than sarah sanders has taken from the white house press corps in some time. and so the juxtaposition, the comparison there, i don't think is -- serves them very well over here. >> as favorable. jim, maggi, thank you both. much appreciated. quick break here, and then why sean hannity might find himself being grilled by congress. and hbo being sued by michael jackson's estate. headlines rocking the media world, next. ♪ t-mobile will do the math for you. right now, when you join t-mobile, you get two lines of unlimited with two of the latest phones included for just one hundred bucks a month. when it comes to reducing the evsugar in your family's diet,m. coke, dr pepper and pepsi hear you. we're working together to do just that. bringing you more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all. smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels and reminders to think balance. because we know mom wants what's best. more beverage choices, smaller portions, less sugar. balanceus.org thanksmrs. murphy. unitedhealthcare, hi, i need

that is according to the press secretary sarah sanders. her words are coming after intense fighting to win back control of the islamic state's last stronghold. a spokesman for the u.s. forces says that fighters of isis are hiding in caves and trenches, and they are our concerns that other isis fighters have scattered, if they are still there and able to carry out attacks wherever they are. benjamin hall is with us from syria tonight. >> hello, and yes, not only has president trump talked about this, but there are people speaking to us from on the ground. the territorial caliphate is gone. the final offensive is done in the external operation. preparations are beginning for the announcement for the formal end of the caliphate. there are a few outside the town and we had a spokesman earlier that said that they had been surrounded and surrendered. however, what we are hearing is that this is the end of the caliphate. and it could not have happened without heavy lifting. they were the spearhead of the front who did all the work on the ground.

in a rare briefing yesterday, press second sarah sanders was asked about the possibility of a pardon.> why hasn't the president ruled out a pardon for paul manafort? >> the president has made his decision on that clear. he'll make a decision when he's ready. >> former cia director john brennan says he has no doubt president trump will pardon manafort. manafort is facing another sentencing for other crimes, including failing to register as a foreign agent. >>> president trump has unveiled his 2020 budget proposal. the $4.7 trillion spending blueprint includes billions for a border wall and sets up a new showdown with congress. mola lenghi reports from capitol hill. >> reporter: president trump delivered his 2020 budget proposal to congress monday asking for $8.6 billion in new funding for his long-promised border wall. >> he thinks it's important to secure the country as one of its most basic constitutional responsibilities. >> reporter: the funds would go toward building 700 million miles of barriers along the border. >> we need to continue to secure the country. we need to continue t

. >> reporter: in a statement, white house press secretary sarah sanders said, "the white house has not received or been briefed on the report." the president's attorneys said they were pleased mueller had delivered his report and said attorney general barr will determine appropriate next steps. according to the law, it's up to barr to decide how much of the report to make public. earlier this week, the president said he should release the whole thing. >> let it come out. let people see it. >> reporter: but before congress, barr has only promised to follow the law. >> my goal will be to provide as much transparencys i c consistent with the law. >> reporter: democratic house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer said in a statement, "it is imperative for mr. barr to make a full report public and the white house must not be allowed to interfere." and 2020 presidential candidates took to twitter to demand the report be released now. the president's attorneys have been working on their own report to rebut mueller's findings. they have been working on this report for

to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, he was in the room and had this change with sarah sanders on that point. >> just to get back to john and the question about the president's comments about democrats and jewish people. isn't that kind of rhetoric sort of beneath everybody and do you think that the president has thought at all going into this 20 campaign that the rhetoric just needs to be lowered? whether it's talking about democrats, the media, immigrants or should we just plan on hear ing the president use the same kind of language we heard in 2016 and all through the first couple of years of this administration? >> look, i think that the real shame in this is that democrats are capable of coming together and agree on the fact they're comfortable with ripping babies from mother's wombs but they have a hard time condemning comments from congresswoman o r mar. i think that's the great shame. the president has been clear on his position. and beyond that, i don't have anything. >> just sort of drags down the rhetoric of the debate. when you're saying something that just is paten

but if the president and his legal team used pardons, and i understand sarah huckabee sanders refused to rule out a pardon for paul manafort, that this question of pardons, these questions about very obvious efforts to obstruct the mueller probe, we may now have some answers about how they were viewed by the fbi, by investigators and to the degree they sort of spun them as process crimes, it's not clear that's how robert mueller sees them. >> i think that's an important point, nicolle. the anxiety, by the way, in the president's orbit extend beyond the conclusion of the mueller investigation because you have the separate sdny investigation and i think even more so because they have the democrats in congress who have shown a willingness in the last several weeks to take it to the president in an investigative way, to turn over every stone so to speak. and in terms of the president's focus on pardons, he actually introduced a new piece of information that we didn't know about last week. he said the president said on twitter michael cohen personally asked him for a pardon. we don't know

what you saw on friday evening was a brief statement by white house press secretary sarah sanders, where she does not say much. she ate knowledge is the report -- she acknowledges the report has gone to the justice department. we have not heard a lot from the president. that is because they are waiting to see what it says. when we know what it says, expect a lot of spin, a lot of talk about what they think this means. they are trying to get the president to not say much until then. know that is not easy. he often doesn't go this long without saying something. it is possible he might say something today. it is possible we may know a little about what is in that report. two: let me share with you tweets just a moment ago, the president saying good morning, have a great day. then he said, make america great again. what is going on in the president's mind right now? there was a lot of chatter last night that he had not tweeted. people were marking how many hours it had been. i saw interesting comments about what is the longest he has gone without tweeting. he did not break the record. tends

white house press secretary sarah sanders tweeted, "the next steps are up to attorney general barr, and forward to the next step taking its course. the white house has not been briefed on the special counsel's report." barr may provide congress with the conclusions as soon as this weekend. charges were filed against 37 defendants. seven have pleaded guilty and one was convicted. congressional leaders have also reacted. majority leader mitch mcconnell of the senate released a statement saying, and part, "i welcome the announcement that the special counsel has completed his investigation into russia'sforts -- into interference 2016 election. i hope it will inform and improve our efforts to protect our democracy." democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer released a joint statement that reads, "now that special counsel mueller has submitted his report to the attorney general, it is imperative for mr. barr to make the full report public and provide documentation to congress." say theement goes on to attorney general should not give president trump or his staff a sneak preview of the

. >> sarah sanders told nbc news quote, impeachment should never be on the table because the president is doing a great job. that's his spokesperson. speaker pelosi did tell the washington that trump is not fit to be president. what's powerful here is pelosi's statement about impeachment. it had had ts the sounds of bra. she's not just pumping them, she's slamming them. i'm joined now by democratic congresswoman of illinois. white house reporter for the lso angeles times. thank you for coming on tonight. i was shocked by pelosi's statement because it seemed to me it wasn't -- well we're not going to do it right away. we don't have enough stuff now. it was a statement of direction. we shouldn't be going toward looking to impeach this guy even though he have a lot of evidence already. your thoughts. >> well, i think that what she's saying is regardless of the information, regardless of how unfit he is, we're waiting for republican permission to go forward and hold him accountable for his crimes. i think if we let the american people see through hearings exactly how lawless he is, they wi

lou: have fun at cpac. >> up next, sarah sanders said that president trump refuses to make the same bad at president obama. it is a lot deeper than that, we'll have more next. stay with us. lou: congressman jim jordan and mark meadows asking the justice department to investigate michael cohen for perjury. >> they took a fake dossier and made an fbi investigation. now they are taking a fake witness, a guy who lied multiple times. perjured himself to congress and the irs to get impeachment started on the president. lou: the president cutting short the second summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. that's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. social media as far as diamond and silk and pastor robert jeffress among our guests tomorrow. we thank you for joining us tonight. good night from new york. we'll see you lauren: it is friday, march 1st. president trump back on u.s. soil after saying no deal to north korea. the rogue regime is pushing back with its own version of what went down. plus, why china should be on high alert after the failed talks in hanoi. tesla is touting

inside where all the white house officials press staff works they are huddled in press secretary sarah sanders's office right now likely trying to determine next steps and what the official reaction, official statement is going to be here from the white house. not clear that sarah's in that office right now, because i know she was traveling with the president, but bottom line, they are hashing through what their reaction is going to be here. and, again, president trump set to land here at the white house in just a short time from now, katy. he usually does not talk when he returns home from the weekend. i think you might see him sort of break that streak and come and speak with us. we have to wait and see. i haeanticipate he want to weig in. he has a campaign rally later in the week and undoubtedly will use this. i spoke to steve bannon the other day saying he's prepared to weaponize the mueller report. that tells usstaunchest supporters, they have meat on the bones to back it up. >> does this mean the president can use this to convince others that might have been on the fence about him. might n

yeah, we'vejust got what richard was talking about, that official reaction now we've had from sarah sanderspresident's press secretary, and they have been very reluctant to say a word until they had the detail of it and there was just a holding statement, all over the weekend. a very quiet weekend in terms of twitter out put from donald trump, but the official statement from sarah sanders says the special counsel did not find any collusion and did not find any obstruction. attorney general barr and deputy attorney general rosenstein further determined there was no obstruction. the findings of the department ofjustice are a total and complete exoneration of the president of the united states. i heard richard there, a critic of donald trump, saying this goes on, there may have been obstruction ofjustice, there needs to be further inestigation. i think in most american people's eyes they have a limited attention span, the headline they are going to hear today, is that the president is in the clear, and i think in real political terms, he is, and i think this is an enormous fillip for his presi

. >> as you reported sarah sanders declined to rule out a pardon today saying he will make a decision when he makes a decision. which therefore implies there is a decision to be made. most presidents would not think of interfering at this point by the use of pardon power in an ongoing base involving somebody so close to him. they would see that as being explosive politically at the very least. your pardon power is unchallenged in the constitutional sense. but a lot of critics would say if you use the pardon power for the purpose of impeding an investigation that reflects on you that could be something that a congress could look at if they chose to take up impeachment. of course nancy pelosi today seeming to throw cold water on that. we don't know where he is going with that. obviously, paul manafort, that is really going to be his best hope left to him after junk jackson issues her ruling this week. >> chris, a brief preview from you of what we could learn in the gates and flynn court matters later this week. >> so i would say that the rick gates sentencing memo -- sorry, the status u

white house press secretary sarah sanders reacted to the release, tweeting the next steps are up to attorney general barr and we look forward to the process taking its course. the white house has not been briefed on the special counsel's report. attorney general barr says he may provide congress the special counsel's principal conclusion as soon as this weekend. a justice department official described the report as comprehensive. charges were filed against 37 defendants. seven have pleaded guilty and one was convicted. several congressional leaders have also reacted to the news. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell released a statement saying "i welcome the announcement that the special counsel has finally completed the investigation into russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. many republicans have long believed russia poses a significant threat to american interests. i hope the special counsel's report will help inform and improve our efforts to protect our democracy." democratic leaders in the house and senate, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, released a joint statement that

what you heard was a brief statement by sarah sanders where she acknowledges that the report has gone to the department of justice and that they are waiting. they did not get a heads up. they don't have a copy. that was about it. theave not heard a lot from president's white house aides or political aides. for what itting says. when we know what it says, expect a lot of spin and talk about what they think this means. they are trying to get the president not to say much until then. you and i both know that it is hard for him to do that. he does not go this long often but he has gone this long before. it is possible he may say something today. it is also possible that we are going to know a little bit about what is in that report. one of those two things may happen a little bit later. host: let me share with you two treats. a moment ago at 8:01, the president saying good morning, have a great day. and then he said make america great again. read the tea leaves, what is going on in the president's mind right now? were -- was ahere lot of chatter that he had not tweeted. people were markin

we did just get a tweet from white house secretary sarah sanders.he next steps are up to attorney general barr. the white house has not received or been briefed on the special counsel report." bill, when will the white house be briefed on what is in this report? bill: the white house will be briefed when bill barr looks at it and determines what should be released and what should not be released. i assume probably something going to the potus maybe more than what comes to the public but i don't know that to be sure. bill barr is well versed in what the law is and he will absolutely do the right thing. he won't be persuaded by the by, orthe pressure of congress if there is any pressure by the white house. he will not be influenced by that. he will do the right thing. that is the kind of men bill barr is. emily: what makes you say that? he was appointed by president trump as this investigation is ongoing. we could assume president trump was looking for someone who would support him or at least hear him out. bill: here is the fallacy of most of these t