so isn't that better than getting somebody like sarah sanders.he doesn't really understand the role of what the press secretary is supposed to be. the press secretary works for the government and the american people and not just donald trump. >> david, sarah sanders has been caught lying from the podium a number of times. she is in the mueller reported a mitting when she said that countless members of the fbi had called her, and another statement in that same genre. is that -- is that going to be her legacy, lying repeatedly for this president? it's certainly sean spicer's legacy. >> yeah. >> and i don't know what he is doing for a job, but i would find it hard to believe that a major corporation or, you know, group would have sarah sanders as a spokesperson. >> so here's the problem. if you are the spokesperson for a habitual liar, it's like being fire marshall for a pyro maniac. it's not going to end well for you. and the fact of the matter is that i thought that she was a spectacular surrogate for donald trump in the campaign, but in this job,

the minute she stepped into that position there were lies from her mouth. >> sean expires and sarah sanderseing straight with the american people. >> we were the first hour to ban her. >> the american public deserved better. we did not trust what she said. sarah huckabee sanders definitely changed that white house briefing room. david: joining me now, former hillary campaign advisor antjuan sea grave. and madison. >> the way they continue to treat her as she is going to exit the white house. when you hear that comment we are not going to miss her. we were the first hour to ban her. i don't think that's something to be proud of. she was providing important information to the country. david: the comments were nasty. >> you can't call her nasty considering who is in the white house. she has no interest in having a relationship with the truth. we have seen that time and time again from the podium. we saw in the mueller report what she said and she tried to dispute that. what he saw sara do what she is supposed to do, defend her boss, the president. but that's not what the american people expect

president trump's press secretary, sarah sanders, is to leave the white house. departure, the president said she was a warrior and a special woman. for the past two years, ms sanders has had a combative relationship with the media, who have accused her of lying repeatedly. our north america correspondent chris buckler reports. for much of this presidency, sarah sanders has been the face of the white house. often the person left to defend the words of america's outspoken commander—in—chief. to defend the words of america's outspoken commander-in-chief. we've been through a lot together, and she is tough, but she is good. is the press secretary for a president who dismissed most of the media as fake news, or something worse, dismissed most of the media as fake news, orsomething worse, herjob was rarely easy. the president of the united states should not refer to us as the enemy of the people. particularly in the often hostile white house briefing room. particularly in the often hostile white house briefing roomi particularly in the often hostile white house briefi

sarah sanders is from a political family. for example. sarah sanders is from a politicalfamily.. sarah sanders is from a political family. her father was mike huckabee who was at one stage the governor of arkansas so she knows about the rough—and—tumble and she said today it was so honoured to have served the president. she wants to spend more time with her children going forward. the president did make a suggestion that perhaps she may wish to be the governor of arkansas going forward. in the meantime she says she will simply be a loyal and outspoken supporter of president trump. as for the person who is staying, that is kellyanne conway who has been decided by a government watchdog known as the office of the special consul. it keeps watch on other mint employees has what is known as the hatch act in mind. a set of ethical rules for government employees that say they should remain what non—partisan. they cannot show political favour to one party or the other. it describes kellyanne conway, an advisor to president trump, is a repeat offender of the mac three. on occasion she has

he says he hopes sarah sanders decides to run for the governor of arkansas.nt trump delivering remarks on a second chance hiring at the white house. we will be listening into the conversation he is currently having, and we will keep you abreast as to whether he says anything about the departure of his press secretary. taylor: i wanted to bring us breaking news blue apron. they have done a reverse stock split that will be effective tomorrow, june 14. the company saying while the shares are down 13%, but the company is saying that the river stock split between a one for five and one for 15 is to regain compliance with the new york stock exchange continued listing standards. over the last three months, off 30 per -- 36%. joe: you never want to have to do that. caroline: shares are off. we will keep you posted. a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. president trump says tim visited the white house today. he did not say why. the government is investigating apple and several other big tech companies for possible anticompetitive behavior. earlier this

sarah sanders is stepping down as white house press secretary at the end of the month. she's been a fierce defender of the president. ben tracy reports. >> she's a special person, a very, very fine woman. >> reporter: president trump spoke warmly about one of the longest serving advisors. >> i want to thank you for an outstanding job. thank you. thank you. >> reporter: the president called sarah sanders a warrior perhaps because dug her two years as press secretary, she not only spoke for him. she often spoke a lot like him, too. >> it's frankly, i think sad and pathetic that a gutless anonymous source could receive so much attention from the media. she could be combative. she rarely hid her feelings from the press corps. >> everybody in this room is only trying to do their job. >> i disagree completely. >> during her tenure, the podium in the briefing room gathered dust. sanders ended the traditional of holding daily white house press briefings. it's been 90 days since the last one. sanders truthfulness has also been questioned. when president trump fired james comey,

you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders, a dogged defender of president trump, even after dropping regular press briefings will be leaving the white house. president trump announced the long-expected move saying sanders should run for governor of her native arkansas. meantime, the president is defending his extraordinary statement that he'd accept foreign help in 2020 and wouldn't necessarily tell the fbi about offers of dirt. a senior gop source calls the remark really, really bad and says it would be an impeachable act. >>> also breaking tonight -- the united states is directly blaming iran for attacks that set two oil tankers ablaze in the gulf of oman. secretary of state mike pompeo says that assessment is based on intelligence but offers no direct evidence. the incident comes amid spiraling tensions between the united states and iran. i'll speak with the saudi minister of state for foreign affairs. and with congressman ro khana. and our correspondents and analysts will have full coverage of the day's stories. >>> first

but the way they have gone after sarah sanders, it's like nothing i've ever seen before.y turned off a hole, new sector of people who will not pay any more attention to any of the news, so called news out of washington. >> jason: now allie beth, when i see that i think they are showing their true colors. here is a woman who sacrificed a lot and she is serving the president of the united states, but allie beth, why do this when going out the door and announcing you are leaving at the end of the month? >> allie beth: look, i understand it. they are celebrating right now. if i were an anti-trump journalists, i too would be excited about sarah sanders leaving because she is so good at her job. she did not let anyone in the press run unfair or untrue narrative. that is extremely intimidating coming from a strong press secretary. so i totally get it. i get their attitudes and i get why they are excited. they think they will have someone come in that will not be as strong as sarah sanders and they are excited to see her go. i probably would be too if i were them. >> jason: this

we're also learning simultaneously that sarah sanders is leaving the white house as press secretary. esident tweeting out after 3 1/2 years, i assume might go back longer, our sarah huckabee sanders will be leaving the white house at the end of the month and going home to the great state of arkansas. she's a special person with extraordinary talents. i hope she decides to run for governor. sarah, thank you for a job well-done. quick reaction to all of these developments with beverly and david. david, i late to hit all of you with these breaking news developments that you haven't had a chance to digest. is it your sense that this was inevitable? >> i mean, i'm surprised. i think anyone that joins the trump administration is and works in the cauldron of the white house of the trump administration, president trump -- working with president trump is not easy. he's very demanding and changes his mind frequently. people that are close to him end up becoming separated from him. so she actually survived longer than many of her colleagues, many of her cohorts. it's not unexpected. nobody lasts

press secretary sarah sanders is out in the coming weeks. what the president said late today, why leave, why now? >>> also breaking tonight, actor cuba gooding jr. in handcuffs here in new york city late today, turning himself into police. what the oscar winner is accused of. >>> bracing for possible protests at this hour after the deadly shooting of an armed suspect. u.s. marshals opening fire.ith e police. at least 36 officers hurt. >>> two oil tankers attacked overseas. the u.s. tonight blaming iran. and with tensions mounting, martha raddatz is live tonight, what does this all mean? >>> potentially dangerous thunderstorms sweeping into the northeast tonight. d.c. to philly, new york to boston. and word that two have been hit by lightning outside pittsburgh. rob marciano standing by with the track. >>> jessica biel on vaccines tonight. the actress now clarifying her position after meeting with ant anti- vaccinativaccination advo >>> and after our exclusive tour of notre dame kathie d tonight. you'll want to hear this. >>> good evening. it

bottom line, sarah huckabee sanders has definitely changed that white house briefing room. n in that white house for 22 years, seen various press secretaries from clinton until now. this press -- these last two, sean and sarah, the two s's, "s" scared, have been the worst press secretaries in my tenure at the white house and i would say basically anywhere else and not only that people talk about mccarthyism. what those two did, particularly sarah, if you can't trust what comes out of that white house who can you trust? it's about what happens to people. >> yeah. that's got to be the last word. our time is short. we will no doubt discuss this further. thank you michael and april. we'll be right back. he "best of" sweepstakes and i get to be in this geico commercial? let's do the eyebrows first, just tease it a little. slather it all over, don't hold back. well, the squirrels followed me all the way out to california! and there's a very strange badger staring at me... no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. uh-huh, where'

donald trump says sarah sanders will leave the job at the end of the month. erful sarah huckabee sanders will be leaving the white house at the end of the month and going home to the great state of arkansas. she is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incrediblejob! i hope she decides to run for governor of arkansas — she would be fantastic. sarah, thank you for a job well done!" anthony zurcherjoins us from washington. anthony, i'm guessing there was a time when spokesperson moving on would not be a big story around the world but sarah sanders has become a big figure in the trump story. she absolutely has, her predecessors sean spicer as well, commanded a very large stage, just because of the way donald trump dominates the news. they have to remember however that sarah huckabee sanders has been doing this recently —— recently not from the podium in the white house, but through goggles with reporters at the dry at the white house and interviews with fox news, she hasn't held a formal press briefing since march of this year, and the

just first, your thoughts on sarah sanders leaving?gacy as a spokesperson. >> well, look, i thought in the campaign, she was probably the most effective spokesperson as a surrogate that donald trump had. but, you know, here's the deal. if you make yourself -- if you accept a position as a spokesman for someone who habitually doesn't tell the truth, you sacrifice your own credibility. and that's what happened to her in this job. and that will be her legacy as the white house press secretary. she has been loyal to the president. she has not been faithful to the truth. i do think that that doesn't mean she can't go back to arkansas and run for public office and do very well. as you remember, her father was governor of that state. and my guess is that her fidelity to donald trump, if not the truth, would be a political asset back in arkansas. >> let's turn to the bigger story, what president trump said about taking information, dirt, on opponents from foreign governments. you've worked on presidential campaigns for a long time. were you or

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sarah sanders lies, kellyanne conway, blatantly ignoring the law. and the president of the united states flat out telling foreign powers he'd be open to accepting illegal dirt on his political rivals. he's hanging out an open for business sign for russia. and let's not forget, according to him, he's meeting with vladimir putin in two weeks. and the president's strategy is to do all of this out loud, in plain sight, he's done it again and again. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it i said to myself i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. >> your campaign this time added foreigners, if russia, if china, if someone else offer it is information on an opponent, should they accept it or call the fbi. >> i think maybe you do both. i think you might want to listen. there's nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called from a country, norway, we have i

i wonder whoever succeeds him, if they can be successful any more than sarah sanders. >> yes. sarah sanders her reputation josc took his biggest hit over happen after james comey was fired. and she told reporters that she heard from countless members of the fbi that they are grateful for the presence decision. she later told the investigators it wasn't true. it was a slip of the tongue, heat of the moment. and she got beat up by the press for not expressing. >> i will give her a point she's had a tough job. a prisoner whose created his own news, he's on twitter and she's the briefing room and happened simultaneously so it's tough. i think the white house can have improvement in the job if they decide to go back to daily press briefings. telling the truth number one. and number two more portly, really figuring out how this president will communicate with the white house press corps being that there is a press briefing room. are you just going to get rid of press briefings altogether or just have them shop every day and say no briefing. >> we see how he communicates, on the run,

president trump had nothing but praise for outgoing press secretary sarah huckabee sanders who announcedhe would leave during the end of tmonth. the president called her "a warrior." and urged her to run for governor of her home state of arkansas. sarah huckabee sanders, press secrary, what's her legacy? ashley? ashley: i mean, her key legacy is that she effectively ended the white house briefing. i think today is the 95th day when we've not had a briefing. does that mean it won't be reinstated again? i don't know. it seems less likely under a trump presidency. robert: did that hurt the press's ability to report? ashley: two things. i believss that the p briefing is important. there was lots of chatter about should reporters boycott them? i always think when up a chance to shoup and ask someone in power questions there's a lot of importance in nafments i think all the reporting we're proud of and told something happened behind the scenes. robert: what about what she said in may of 2017 that she had all these pieces of information coming in from f.b.i. agents, former employees and then sh

same thing with the stormy academies case, sarah sanders in the briefing room having to answer questions about why false information, inaccurate information, had been given to the american people prior to some revelations happening in the stormy daniels case, and as sarah was saying in the briefing room, i'm just giving you the best information i have at the time. as we later found out in the mueller report, there was one instance where sarah sanders admitted to federal investigators that she essentially gave false information as to why james comey, the fired fbi director, was let go. she had said that he had lost the faith and the confidence of multiple fbi agents. she admitted to federal investigators that was not entirely accurate. and so there have been episodes issuing think, where they've been caught giving the american people false information. my sense is that they realized that was not an asset, that was a liable and now we have situation where sarah sanders or other top officials will go out under the north lawn of the white house to where the life positions take place on pebbl

what is the legacy of sarah sanders going to be? >> well, it's not going to be pleasant.short-term, erin. but injury the real question is where does the responsibility rest here in the sarah sanders case? there is no question that sarah sanders has opened the door to massive amount of lying in whus and does closed the door to regular day to day briefing important to the democracy. but who is responsible to that? i would tell you i think she is marching under the orders from on high. do i think she should have press briefings on a more regular basis if her boss would permit or encourage yes she with. would she be telling the truth more often if any encouraged that? yes she would. i think the responsibility rests there. but, you know, does it -- does it matter that much whether she leaves -- one fundamental sense, no bus she quit the job months ago. she hasn't been doing the job for a long time. >> that's true. >> on the other hand, it's so important to understand why we have a press office answering questions like this in our democracy. in a parliament -- in a parliamentar

i understand, jim, some of the president's advisers are taking issue with how sarah sanders handled all of this, correct? >> reporter: that's right. there was some grumbling going on inside the white house among some of the president's political advisers as to whether or not the outgoing white house press secretary simply granted too much access to the president during the course of this interview and put him in a position where he made these kinds of comments. now, of course it was the president's decision to do the interview and also make those remarks so you can't blame too much of this on sarah sanders but there was some finger pointing going on inside the white house and among the president's political advisers and it just goes to show you, john, that there was concern as to what the president said. otherwise they wouldn't be pointing fingers at one another. >> so the people you're talking to jim, do they think these comments will hurt him with supporters at all? >> reporter: when the president makes these sorts of remarks it's kind of incredible how much teflon coating he has when

sarah sanders probably isn't going to go and get a job on television.networks that would be willing to hire her. that's a result of this sense there was a lot of misinformation and falsehoods that were spread through this white house press office. gut you do see some white house aides leave, write books. they go very pro-trump route or the very critical route. it's these two paths people choose. i think we'll keep seeing that in the next couple years. >> sarah sanders is leaving on her own terms and with the president's very friendly blessing. >> pretty rare. >> we know what her book would look like. >> exactly. >>> coming up next, president trump now says he would call the fbi if he got foreign intelligence on a 2020 opponent, but he would still take a look at it. is that going to quiet the criticism? >>> but first, an update on an incredible cnn hero. magnus mcfarland barrow feeds children in 18 countries through his nonprofit, and it's called -- and now mary's meals is getting celebrity attention. >> the privilege of doing this work is meeting those

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sarah sanders has been the face of the white house at times and the voice of the president. sometimes that can be a difficult role, given that president trump can be more vocal and outspoken than many of his predecessors and there have been times when you've seen at the podium during those white house press briefings, they were once more common than they are now, standing there and struggling with what she needed to say, like that time there was the family separation policy for immigrants coming to the border and pa rents immigrants coming to the border and parents being separated from their children. she did struggle with that at times and during the mueller report, see said she had lied at one time when fbi agents supported the president in his action removing the fbi directorjames kony but she says she is leaving to pursue other roles outside of the white house to spend some time with her own children and actually the president has been very supportive of her commerce describing her as a warrior. while she is going, someone else‘s staying despite being controversial. kell

of the fbi that say very different things. >> those comments were not founded on anything, so sarah sanders the special counsel. yet sanders has been a powerful woman in washington. she worked hard to stay in the good graces of the most powerful man in washington. when she was asked about women accusing president trump of sexual misconduct, here was her response. >> reporter: 16 women accused the president last week, during a press conference in the rose garden, the president called these accusations fake news. is the official white house position that all of these women have been lying? >> yeah, we've been clear on that from the beginning. >> she was no stranger to criticism. here is michelle wolfe at the 2018 white house correspondents dinner, jock joking about her use of eye makeup. take a listen. >> i actually really like sarah. i think she's very resourceful. like she burns facts, and then uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. like maybe she's born with it, maybe it's lies. >> the sarcasm kept coming. even after her resignation, look at this piece, dubbing her the queen of gasli

white house press secretary sarah sanders is stepping down from her job at the end of the month. it was emotional in the east room when sarah sanders made the announcement, alongside president trump. she took a very different tone from her predecessor, john spicer. according to some analyst, it was a better fit for the style of president trump. >> i think that sarah sanders was really quite a rare find that clicked with his personality. he has an adversarial attitude toward the press. so she picked up on that. >> sarah sanders will be remembered for getting d for why she is leaving. >>> firefighters are getting ready for fire season. they have been holding wild fire preparedness exercises for the week. and today is the last day for the drills. >>> all right. time is 6:09. a warning. if you plan to spend time around rivers and streams this summer. the role the wet winter is now playing. and how the snow is melting in the sierra. >>> southwest airlines canceling more flights because of grounded 711 max 8 jets. what you need ton. >>> good morning. we have traffic that is mostly good

sarah sanders mentioned the last call was put in -- putin there. host: on kellyanne conway, are we anticipating any congressional hearings or follow up on the findings of the office of special counsel robert mueller, overseeing the hatch act, in her alleged violations of the hatch act? guest: i have not heard anything to that degree. its whatever mines we how congress functions, to add to stephen's point -- where we can ask them various questions. it tends to offer some transparency in the middle of things. let me go back to the caller's question briefly and add that there are members of the emaciation who are more trusted on capitol hill -- mike pompeo does have some clout with members there and lend some veracity to these claims, with the caveat that all of this needs to be taken with just a dose of skepticism to make sure that everything is accurate as we move forward. int: independent line, bill florida. hello. caller: good morning. my question is this -- how come the iranians do not have a nuclear weapon? in other words, we developed a nuclear

those are some of sarah sanders's greatest hits, back when she use to give press daily givings. since the last one. trump announced sanders' departure on thursday marking a press secretary who have bended all traditional norms of the role. according to the mueller report, by just flat out lying. joining me now is tiffany cross of the bcd and terra adele. and eric dagans and laurie watki watkins. terrance, you are the newest member here, why don't we start with you. the new york times has this quote here. others argued that mr. trump never liked the daily briefing as a form to dissimileminate messages of the day. do you think we witness the end of having a white house press secretary? >> absolutely. absolutely. trump wants to speak directly to people he knows he dan use his twitter account to do so. one of the things that made syr sarah huckabee sanders last so long was he was looking for someone like trump. he was looking for someone that's combative and someone that's going to lie shamelessly. if you notice what she does is she double downs on the lie once she is called o ut on

sarah sanders lied again and again and again. it's not my opinion, those are the facts. >> the hold for does it matter that she's leaving? again not really part. >> she has changed fundamentally the press briefing in a negative way. >> per tenure has been blocked with, lies, and videotape. >> now, what you just heard there reveals much more about the pettiness of those people then anything about sarah sanders. the give-and-take between the house and this ministration has been one of the defining features of this presidency with all of the very serious people telling us that this combative relationship is a stain, as stain on our democracy. >> the president is engaged in a war on the prosperity give their starting a little warrior withth the press that they think is entirely to donald trump's advantage. >> it's danger is not just for international security but for journalists in the rest of the world. >> it is so dangerous because he's calling on the enemies it is dangerous to democracy. it is dangerous to democracy to denigrate j

better life. >> sandra: president trump making a surprise announcement on twitter revealing sarah sanders will be stepping down at the end of the month. sanders worked on the trump campaign before joining the administration as a communications aide. she was promoted to press secretary back in 2017. the president and sanders both taking a moment to reflect on that journey. >> president trump: she has done an incredible job. we've been through a lot together and she is tough. but she is good. >> i couldn't be prouder to have had the opportunity to serve my country and work for this president. i loved every minute, even the hard minutes, i've loved it. i love the president. i love the team i have had the opportunity to work for. >> sandra: we'll have a lot more on this later in the hour with the host of "media buzz" howard kurtz. he will be joining us. >> president trump: they're manipulating their currency lower and eventually it will hurt them badly. hundreds and even thousands of companies are moving out of china so they don't have to pay the tariffs. we had a deal with china and then the

sarah sanders broke the news.ite house press secretary, the office, if not the person, is an outgrowth of the idea that in a democracy, information matters and facts matter and while politicians and the press may tangle and tussle they are ultimately on the same team. megan says she rejected that idea. she clashed with jim acosta while refusing to say the press is not the enemy of the people. >> it's ironic, jim, that not only you and the media attack the president for his rhetoric when they frequently lower the level of conversation in this country. the media has attacked me personally on a number of occasions including your own netwo network, said i should be harassed as a life sentence, i should be echoked. you brought a median up to attack my appearance and called me a traitor to my own gender. >> the job is not what it was. and for that you can blame sanders and president trump who treated his outgoing press secretary to a rare public good bye. more nikki haley to rex tillerson. >> i'm going to continue to be

are in c chairwoman calling her a fighter tweeting sarah sanders has been a gladiator for the cause againstmainstream media. thank you for your service to america and the president. sanders time as pressing there has been marked by accusations of lying, the mueller report revealed she was not truthful when she said countless fbi agents supported the president's decision of firing james comey. former acting fbi director andrew mccabe happy to see her go. listen to this. >> i will not miss her. >> the first to ban her tape. i literally and figuratively will not miss her. >> he suffers from liabilities. her tenure has been fraught with sex, lies and videotape. >> i don't want to sound rude or flip but good riddance. heather: michigan congressman rashida tlaib posted a simple tweet, two words, bye-bye. heather: i can't imagine being in that position, the pressure. >> single hardest job in the administration. heather: three kids at home. carley: i am sure she is really looking forward to it. heather: townhall on fox news, bret baer and martha maccallum and julian castro asked by a woman in the a

there is also the news today of course that sarah sanders, the president's press secretary, sarah sanders, is going to leave office. that is something that is very much expected here at the white house. we've been expecting it for a long time. the president did make an announcement on twitter, saying she is going, her legacy is that she has been defending the president who has been very fact challenged over the course of his administration. back to you. >> joe johns for us at the white house. stand by. let us know if you hear from the president. we are waiting to hear if he will in fact follow the recommendations to fire kellyanne conway, although i won't bet on it. thanks, joe. >>> breaking overnight. king of the north, for the first time ever. a team outside the united states is the champion of the national basketball association. the toronto raptors dethroned the golden state warriors who ended the game with yet another superstar sidelined. andy scholes with all of the action in the bleacher report. >> the party still going in toronto this morning. what aer were for the raptors. last s

this is not the last you'll see of sarah sanders. let's move on.resident trump facing massive backlash after staying in an interview that he would be open to hearing dirt on his 2020 rivals from foreign governments. watch. >> your campaign, foreigners, if russia, china, someone else offers you information on an opponent, should they accept it or call the fbi? >> president trump: i think maybe you do both. i think you might want to listen. there's nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent. oh, i think i want to hear it. >> you want that kind of interference in our election? >> president trump: its noninterference. they have information. i think i would take it. if there was something wrong, i would go maybe to the fbi if i thought there was something wrong but with someone comes up with oppo research. they come up with oppo research. let's call the fbi? the fbi doesn't have enough agents to take care of it but you go and talk honestly to congressman, they'll do it. they always have,

white house press secretary sarah sanders has announced her departure from the trump administration. she announced that she will step down at the end of the month and return to her home state of arkansas. sanders may not be done with politics, though. she says people have encouraged her to consid running for governor. >>> now president trump mustec selt a new press secretary, and he's doing sole w defending himself from criticism coming from both sides of the political aisle. >> this is all in responseto that abc news interview where the pet said he would -- the president said he would listen to a foreign power if it reached out to him promising information about an election rival. peter alexander joins us live from the white house with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. first more on sanders sawhite h secretary sarah sanders. you're right, it's been a contentious relationship. she's moving on, the president praising her, saying they've been through a lot together. they had a unique relationshi she wasn't just press secretary but one of his most trusted, yal, confid

now, white house press secretary sarah sanders says she is stepping down at the end of the month. and the president is now under pressure to find another top staffer. ktvu's doug luzader joins us now from washington, d.c., with the details on the latest drama in the west wing. doug? >> reporter: president trump is now faced with a number of personnel issues. >> reporter: two top administration officials, one headed for the door. and the other in the center of the controversy. >> and i want to thank you for an outstanding job. thank you. [ applause ] >> reporter: the long-serving press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, getting a fond sendoff from her boss after stepping down. >> worst greatest jobs i have ever loved. i loved every minute. even the hard minutes. >> she has presided over far fewer briefings. she said she wants to spend more time with her family. no replacement has been named. >> i think it's downright goofy. >> then there's top white house adviser, kellyanne conway, in trouble for making comments like that. an internal government watchdog says she should be fired fo

were today sarah sanders will be gone by the end of the month. nicole killian is live at the white house with the announcement.>> reporter: there had been some rumblings often on sarah sanders might eventually leave the white house. the president finally made it official by breaking the news on twitter this afternoon. he said after 3 1/2 years our wonderful sarah huckabee sanders will be leaving the white house at the end of the month and going home to the great state of arkansas. she is a very special person with extraordinary talents and even suggested she run for governor. then the president piled on more praise during a white house event. >> she has done an incredible job. we have been through a lot together. and she is tough. but she is good. >>> this is been the honor of a lifetime. the opportunity of a lifetime. i could not be prouder to have had the opportunity to serve my country and to work for this president.>> sanders told reporters she informed the president of her decision today and said he was supportive. she would not rule out's s

another big story that we are following, late today, sarah sanders said she's leaving the white house going home to arkansas. sanders has been a fierce defender of the president and often sparred with reporters. ben tracy is at the white house. >> she is a special person, a very, very fine woman. >> reporter: this afternoon, president trump spoke warmly about one of his longest serving advisers. >> and i want to thank you for an outstanding job. >> thank you, sir >> and thank you. ( applause ) >> reporter: the president called sarah huckabee sanders "a warrior," perhaps because during her two years as press secretary, she not only spoke for him... >> i've addressed your question. i'm not going to continue to engage with you. >> reporter: ...she often spoke a lot like him, too. >> it's, frankly, i think sad and pathetic that a gutless anonymous source could receive so much attention from the media. >> reporter: sanders could be combative and curt. she rarely hid her feelings for some members of the press corps and their questions. >> everybody in this room is only trying to do their jo

sarah sanders steps down after two years as press secretary. and he's talking about the future of kellyanne conway after a federal watch dog recommends she be fired. we've got a lot of people to break this down with. hans nichols is at the white house. gabby orr is joining us along with michael steele and former chairman of the republican national committee, and glen kirshner, nbc legal analyst. hans, there's a lot of adjectives you can use to describe the president's interview this morning as it relates to his comments on foreign interference. >> reporter: it was a 50 minute interview the president gave. it's part of the president's strategy of trying to dominate every news cycle. you remember, the week started off on monday with the president calling in to cnbc. on tuesday he had that rally out in iowa. he always finds time to talk to reporters. wednesday it seemed like we had more engagements than we could have imagined. he was trying to explain his evolution on what he would do if foreign intelligence handed him harmful information. and he