. >> host: we have seen the public interaction between you and sarah huckabee sanders and you and the president. is a different privately between you and the administration? >> guest: know. this is unfortunate, that i have had a great relationship with everyone i have worked with in the administration, we try to reach that but as long as sarah huckabee sanders is performing for an audience of one, her boss, her daddy boss, i call the president of the united states, she will never have a kind word to say to me or a friendly way to treat me. it is bad. it is really bad. what i try to do is keep my head up and do my job. it's not about me. it's about the story and the issues, not about me. >> host: your first book was presidency in black and white, this one is "under fire: reporting from the front lines of the trump white house". similarities or differences between the two books? >> big differences. this book was tougher to write because it is about me. as a journalist you are not supposed to be the story and i had to take you inside to the fight, the real fight, the argument, the name-c

he has since said this is not true, sarah sanders huckabee on a gaggle on the driveway reiterated that. certainly there's a sense in the white house of real fear of what this is, and more than that, sans of the unknown. this is probably one of those matters that only two people, perhaps, donald trump and michael cohen know and the white house is scrambling to get their hands around it. >> this idea of fear in his inner circle is something i first picked up after helsinki, that even people closest to him said the same thing, listen, i don't know what he had keen off doing for him. it's not like there were staff meetings and everyone asked to do some sort of dark operation, traded notes about, you know, serving donald trump. let me read a little bit more from the story that may fall in that category. trump also supported a plan set up by cohen to visit russia during the presidential campaign in order to personally meet president vladimir putin and jump-start the tower negotiations. make it happen, the sources said trump told cohen. but two law enforcement agents said he had at least ten

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that it was a constructive meeting tweeting they listened to one another and both have a good understanding what the other wants. a group of new house members went to the senate floor looking for senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to discuss the shutdown with him but couldn't find him. >> okay, guys, we went to mitch mcconnell's office where we went to the senate. hash tag where's mitch? >> according to an analysis by the "new york times" the 800,000 federal workers that hadn't been paid during the shutdown have missed on average more than $5,000 in wages so far. combined that's more than $200 million per work day and while the median federal salary is $77,000 about one fifth of the workers make less than 50,000. many said they have less than a month's worth of savings. here's how widespread the hardships have become for

sarah huckabee sanders says that's still on the table. give me from your legal expertise, and as michael steele pointed out, this could be an off ramp, a safe way out for the president. do you think that's right? >> i think it's damaging for the president to be rebuked as i think he would be in attempting to exercise these emergency powers. i think everything he has done throughout this entire period has undercut his ability to go before the courts and defend that claim. i don't take it lightly. maybe a political ploy. i think it will be seen as such by the courts. it's damaging to the presidency and the president. it's another example of where raw political self-interest drives so much of his decision making. >> you were with the obama administration when that administration was making moves related to immigration and critics at the time said that what president obama was doing was an abuse of power basically. that is the charge that is now being levelled at president trump if he were to go ahead with the national emergency. explain why

let's watch sarah sanders telling data you tracked down because you're a bad reporter but this had to be at sarah huckabee sanders disposal when she told these lies yesterday on fox news. let's watch. >> we know that roughly nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come in to our country illegally, and we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern border. >> wait, i know the statistics, i didn't know if you would use it but i studied up on this. you know where those 4,000 people are captured, airports. >> not always. >> the statement department said there has not been any terrorists they found coming across the southern border. >> it's by air, by land and by sea, all of the above. >> but they're not coming across the southern borders, sarah. they're coming and being stopped at airports. >> they're coming a number of ways. i'm not disagree they're coming through airports. eye saying they come by air, by land and sea. >> i think that's a motto for disneyland, they come by air and land and sea. take me through everything that's wrong with that statement. do you think donald trump will

sarah huckabee sanders just a short while ago addressed this as well. this is speaker pelosi addressing that and why this all happened in the first place. take a listen. >> the fact that they would leak the commercial -- that we were flying commercial is a danger not only to us but to other people flying commercially. so it's very irresponsible on the part of the president. >> do you view this as retaliation for your letter? >> i would hope not. i don't think the president would be that petty, do you? >> i think she might have been a little sarcastic about that. >> reporter: they have been saying the president is exactly that, petty. steny hoyer calling what he's done beneath the office. there's two things it underscores. the leak allegation is very serious. the white house has denied it. it just underscores that the government's still shut down and these are the people that are supposed to be talking and figuring a way out of this and it just seems that everybody is further apart and not moving. they believe their winning the political fight and believ

s sarah huckabee sanders was on another network this morning lying. let's just call it what it is, lying about saying there were 4,000 terrorists, some of whom cape across the southern border -- >> we might have that tape. do we have that? we're going to try to pull that up. i know exactly what you're talking about. >> she was saying, just as ben is suggesting, there are all these nefarious things happening across the border as if heroin is coming across the border. you talk to border patrol agents, they don't want -- when you talk to conservative think thanks, they don't want a wall. >> sarah huckabee sanders -- in fact, this was sarah sanders earlier today. this is tantamount to the kind of argument the white house would have to make about a national emergency. here you go. >> we know that roughly nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally, and we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern border. >> i know is this statistic, i studied up on this. do you know those 4,000 people, where they're capt

lot the week before, started to fact-check that a little bit, chris wallace fact-checked sarah sanders huckabee a week ago saying it wasn't 4,000 terrorists crossing the border but actually 6. but all of that means that they did pivot on the argument. we saw with the president's address, here's why we need a wall, it's humanitarian. but that falls apart too, kasie. if there's a humanitarian cry circumstance it's because there are asylum-seekers trying to flee violence and poverty and come to the united states. asylum seekers come here and that does nothing about a wall. we had higher numbers of undocumented immigrants coming to our southern border in the obama administration and far higher in the early 2000s. the only thing that changed is asylum seekers. the other allegation is a nuance to cover and i like getting into that but the wall nullifies it all because you get down to one symbol and both sides polarized. >> that's exactly what it seems this fight has become. it hasn't really sitting in the white house officials, vice president came up to capitol hill and said they're talking about nit

president trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with russia here's his press secretary sarah huckabee sanders speaking earlier that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today those categorically false that one statement those two words sum it up better than anything anybody else can say and that is categorically false. well buzz feed is sticking by its story the editor in chief ben smith tweeted that he stands by their reporting and the sources who informed it he has called on the special counsel to make clear exactly which fact it's disputing. all right some soccer news now and defending bonus league champions byron munich travel to hoffenheim on friday to kick off the second half of the season byron trail league leaders dortmund and had lost on their last two trips to hoffenheim let's see what happened this time. hoffenheim had beaten by on here in both of the most recent attempts and the hosts were hoping to make it three home victories in a row against the champions but by and had a point to prove in the t

trump for his part has repeatedly denied any collusion with russia here's his press secretary sarah huckabee sanders speaking earlier that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today those categorically false that one statement those two words sum it up better than anything anybody else can say and that is categorically false. buzz feed is sticking by its story the editor in chief ben smith tweeted that he stands by their reporting and the sources who informed it he's called on the special counsel to make clear exactly which facts it's disputing. and staying in the u.s. president trump is set to meet the north korean leader kim jong un for a second summit the white house has confirmed at the meeting is scheduled to take place later next month trump and kim jong un held their first historic summit in june of last year it focused on denuclearization of the korean peninsula but there's been little sign of progress on that process since news of the second summit follows a visit from north korean envoy kim jong il to the o

sarah huckabee sanders says i'm not an attorney. here's what else she said earlier this morning on cnn. >> i know the charges are about whether or not he gave false statements. that's on that individual. that has nothing to do with the president. those are the charges they have brought against this individual when you want to get into specific questions, you'll have to talk to the president's outside counsel on that. >> and the president's outside counsel, rudy giuliani, is, in fact, echoing the white house. he told kristen welker this is a false statement case. the white house is taking the posture this has nothing to do with president trump. but that's a harder argument to make in light of the latest indictment. >> jeff, i want to go to julia. let me read you a piece from the indictment. we talked about some of it. a section says on or about october 7th, 2016, wikileaks released the first set of e-mails stolen from the clinton campaign chairman. shortly after that release the indictment says an associate of the high ranking trump

this morning a lot of conversation, i will be speaking with white house sarah huckabee sanders at 8:00 a.m. eastern, we will get the white house's response all developed last night. first top story this half hour taking the case to the american public, president trump gave his first oval office address last night describing importance of increased border security including the wall on the southern border. >> there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at a southern border, every day customs and border patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country, we are out of space to hold them and we have no way to promptly return them back home to their country. over the years thousands of americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country and thousands more lives will be lost if we don't act right now. this is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul. the only solution is for democrats to pass the spending bill that defends our borders and reopens the government. this situation can be solved in 4

spot on sarah sarah huckabee sanders.he deserves. jillian: she is popular. people want to know what she has to say. rob: we should take care of our planet and we should do the right thing. i don't know if it's that dramatic but i'm not a scientist. jillian: 12 years, countdown on. rob: i hope the world doesn't end in 12 years. jillian: me too. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> the stage is set for dueling votes on tuesday for reopening the government. >> physical barriers are part of the solution. >> you don't share nancy pelosi's view walls are immoral. >> that's not what a wall is used for if it's moral or immoral. if it's protecting people it's moral. >> the mainstream media they rush to judgment as they often do. >> why do we keep making the same mistake? >> because we are desperate to get trump out of office. [laughter] >> do you kno do you owe anybodn apology? >> as far as standing there i had every right to do so. >> students are clucking for change at the university of georgia. an environmental group is urgin

sarah huckabee sanders says the president will meet with those on the frontlines of the national securitynd humanitarian crisis. house democrats are expected to wrap up pressure on republicans this week to end the standoff over border wall funding. they will vote as early as wednesday on spending bills that would reopen the national park service, internal revenue service, and other agencies. senate republicans have said the measures are dead on arrival unless they include the money the president wants for the border wall. the white house may try to block portions of robert mueller's final report from being shared with congress and the public. democrats have said they will demand the justice department hand over the report on russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. sources tell bloomberg the white house may assert executive privilege to prevent key findings from being turned over. the fight could end up before the super court. the trump administration is optimistic it can reach what it calls a reasonable trade deal with china. talks began today in beijing. the chinese presi

exactly wall's the press secretary sarah huckabee sanders has been maintaining this line that the white house has been parroting throughout everything that's been happening all of the people who have been peripherally or directly associated with the trump campaign who have now all been dragged into court and arrested they say. this is nothing to do with the president this is nothing to do with the white house these are people who the president didn't know who he had no association with and these people are all being arrested on charges that have nothing to do with anything that went on during the trump campaign now he's not completely wrong the white house isn't completely wrong when they say things like back some of this is not in fact directly related to the campaign the thing is roger stone has been a very close associate of donald trump dating back decades and even though he was only an official member of the trump campaign for a few months in two thousand and fifteen he remained a very close confidant an unofficial counselor to the campaign throughout two thousand and sixteen up un

where i took questions, and took more questions from a gaggle of reporters. >> (stephen as sarah huckabee sanders questions never stop. even when i look in the mirror, it's, 'sarah, how do you live with yourself? and, sarah, how can you ever explain this to your children and grandchildren? and sarah, and sarah, will people believe it if your resume says: '2016-2019: worked at quiznos?'" but don't worry. hucka-sands will be back soon-- at least according to white house spokesman hogan gidley. >> we came to expect the afternoon briefings, press briefings from the white house, every day, almost. there has not been one held this year, hogan. are there any plans to start that back up again, or see sarah sanders back at the podium? >> she will come back when she finds a reason to do that. >> but no definitive date on that. >> i'm sorry? >> but no definitive date on that beginning? >> no, it's not that they ever stopped. >> stephen: yeah, just because they're mean the press briefings ever stopped. they're just not happening anymore. it's like, we're not dead. we're just not going to waste time with that

we saw the president saying that sarah huckabee sanders doesn't come out and do press briefings any more because he doesn't like the way that the media treats her. they cover her so rudely and inaccurately but actually based on our reporting that we've done with nearly a dozen former or current officials inside the trump white house or advisers to the president outside the white house, there's a big communications problem here at the white house that's being really highlighted by the government shutdown. we talked to several officials over the last several days who feel frustrated because they don't feel the white house communications team and that's shown in those polls that show more american are holding the president responsible for the shutdown than they are democrats and that really speaks to a larger problem that's existed inside the walls of the west wing for some time now and that is a power struggle for someone to lead the communications team. based on our reporting and several meetings the president attends whether it's a hurricane briefing or interview with reporters from news

white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders tweeted that he will use the visit to "meet with those on the front lines of the national security and humanitarian crisis."the administration is also at least talking about declaring trumove forward othe ong ì5.6 billion he wantin the meantime, hundredthousands o federalface payas the drags througthird it's a disturbing story you can't unsee. police in salinas are now looking for this man who was caught on camera gtting intimate with a for three hours. (vicki) after the break... new limits could soon be put on paper receipts. why lawmakers say they contain chemicals harmful to the environment. most notably c-v-s-- are known for their ridiculously long receipts-- even if you just buy one thing. but-- california could become the first state to put an end to that. (grant) san francisco assemblyman phil ting introduced legislation today that would require businesses to offer electronic receipts-- unless customers ask for a paper copy. many businesses are already moving toward e-receipts-- but ting says a law is still needed. he says many peo

sarah huckabee sanders in response to that reporting coming from the "washington post."ommon is what people are asking, would a president of the united states have such high-level meetings and want to keep them secret from his high-level staff and therefore the question goes back to this again. is he an agent of another country? the accusation. >> it's absolutely extraordinary and may be a violation of the presidential -- potential to destroy any relations. compromised in a 1984, for the first time a member of the russian mafia meets with donald trump, and buys five condos, and as i've said before and it's in my book, that was the first time we have a sense that the russian mafia is using trump real estate to launder money. this continues over the years, and it's really important to understand that as trump tower becomes sort of a dormitory for the russian mafia for a 30-year period, the russian mafia is unlike the italian-america mafia. . it is a state author. when i interviewed head of counterintelligence he said the russian mafia is just part of the kgb. to have those

white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders tweeted today that president trump will travel to southern border on thursday. and what do you know? mexico finally started building that wall. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] that's all it took. newly elected representative alexandria ocasio cortez was mocked on social media this weekend after video resurfaced of her dancing in college. take a look. ♪ >> seth: first of all, this looks less like a college video and more like the opening to "blossom." [ laughter ] and second, is this what we're supposed to be worried about? let me remind you, we have been through worse! [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> seth: according to reuters, google moved $22.7 billion to bermuda in 2017 through a dutch shell company to avoid taxes. while over at bing, you're no longer allowed to flush if it's just pee. [ laughter ] [ applause ] i'm not -- i wasn't waiting for the applause. [ laughter ] the nypd is looking for a man who recently broke into an apple store and stole $75,000 worth of products. that is crazy? why would anyone need five iphone cables?

while white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders would not say if such talks were off the table. >>> has the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone? >> i'm not aware of that. haven't had any conversations regarding that matter. >> will you discuss that with him and leapt us know. >> i won't get into that at this point. >> does that mean he hasn't ruled out a pardon. >> i'm not aware of any conversation regarding that or any for it. >> to follow up, can you guarantee that the president won't pardon roger stone. >> i'm not is going to talk about hypotheticals that are ridiculous. >> here's a reminder from november. trump told the "new york post" that a pardon for paul manafort was never discussed but i wouldn't take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? in that same interview trump mentioned flipping and the resistance of manafort, jerome corsi and roger stone. >>> adam schiff announced yesterday that michael cohen will appear before the panel on february 8th. he was originally scheduled to testify on february 7th but that was delayed after cohen cited threats

that's the number sarah huckabee sanders was referring. the ags says most of these individuals are trying to enter the united states by air, but we must be focused on stopping those who try to get in by land. oneching that the president might talk about, dane, a this is something the days -- dana the president talked about it off the record briefing, the united states wants to make a change to the asylum appeal process. right now, in order to claim asylum to get into the united states you have to do it at a port of entry. the united states. the white house would like to change those rules so that people in their home countries, honduras, el salvador, somewhere else can go to an american embassy in their home country and make that asylum claim. the white house believes that may deter people from giving in to the, you know, the coyotes who entice these people to make these long trips through mexico up to the united states border. >> john, we'll keep in touch with you all day, i know you will be there through the night. >> thank you. >> dana:

amy: that is chris wallace of fox news challenging sarah huckabee sanders, the white house spokesperson. republican tennessee governor bill haslam granted full clemency to cyntoia brown monday after sheerved 15 years in prison after months of intense public pressure and outrage over her case. brown was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder for shooting her rapist as a teenager. she was sexually trafficked and repeatedly abused and drugged. the shooting happened when brown was just 16 years old but she was tried as an adult. she is now 30 years old and set to be released in august. in thailand saudi teenager who , a says she is fleeing her abusive family has been permitted to temporarily remain in the country. 18-year-old rahaf mohammed al-qunun landed in thailand over the weekend, on her way to australia where she planned on requesting asylum. saudi and thai officials initially said the teenager would be sent back to kuwait, where her family is. she reportedly had her passport confiscated by saudi agents before being brought to a guarded hotel room. on

white house press secretary a sarah huckabee sanders says the president will make remarks regarding thenment shutdown. we will bring you that live here on bloomberg television. it's expected to begin moments from now. former trump advisor roger stone says he believes his arrest in the special counsel's russia probe was politically motivated. he says he will not plead guilty and will fight the charges. stone spoke to reporters after he was released from a florida courthouse today as protesters tried to drown him out with chants of "lock him up." accused ofsely making false statements during my testimony to the house intelligence committee. that is incorrect. any error i made in my testimony would be both immaterial and without intent. i find it disturbing that the special counsel's office released a press release prior to informing my attorneys

large down payment" for his promised border wall.the statement from white house spokeswoman sarah huckabee sanders on thursday came as senate republican leader mitch mcconnell and senate democratic leader chuck schumer were meeting to try to hash out a solution.earlier thursday, the senate rejected competing democratic and republican proposals for ending the 34-day partial government shutdown, which is the longest in the nation's history.sanders says the senate leaders are trying to see "whether or not they can work out of the deadlock." but she says a three-week continuing resolution "would only work if there is a large down payment on the wall." speaker nancy pelosi says she's willing to meet with president donald trump "anytime" to discuss ending the partial government shutdown.pelosi told reporters she's "still optimistic" senate republicans will vote thursday for the democratic bill that would temporarily reopen government while talks are held over trump's demand for $5.7 billion to build the border wall.the speaker said house democrats are putting together a new border security package that

it is absolutely not the duty of reporters in the white house to tell off sarah huckabee sanders.further more, she's doing a fine job all by herself of showing who she is. >> thanks everybody so much. one more thank you to everyone. steve almond, signing area one. sarah, the view from fly overcountry. and david johnston, it's even worse than you think, i will tell all of you if you think journalism is a valuable thing, support it. thanks for being here. [inaudible conversation] >> did you know that all book tv events from the past 20 years are available to watch on-line at book tv.org? in april james comey discussed his biography, particularly the issues he faced as director of the fbi. it's the third most watched book event of 2018.

. >> goon >> reporter: sarah huckabee sanders reassured americans the president does not want anothery democrats would take these next three weeks to negotiate in good faith as they've indicated >> reporter: but the president is not taking the option off the table as he continues to push for $5 billion for his border wall. at one point telling "the wall street journal" he believes there's less than a 50% chance a deal will happen. >> the government will either shut down on february 15th again or i will use the powers afforded to me >> reporter: this as hundreds of thousands of federal workers went back to work for the first time in over a month and now we're learning the cost of that five-week partial government shutdown is far greater than expected. $11 billion in total. the first of the negotiation talks are set for wednesday. five days after the president reopened the government. both sides will meet in public. then continue their talks in private. mo that he abdi, abc news, washington. >> many federal employees returned to work today. others like tsa workers stayed on the job duri

when you have sarah huckabee sanders going on fox news saying we are actually apprehending terrorists at the border, that's not the case. it's not the border, as you said. it's at the airport. >> this is a bet first of all to try to claim some of the gravitas of the oval office in this setting. you saw his press conference this week. i was a disaster. it was a word salad. what they want to do is put him on a camera in the oval office with some prepared remarks to get on message and get back on their message which is there is a crisis here. you know, it's an important emergency. there are people coming through the border. watch out, be afraid. that's their message. but the issue they have here is that the crisis here is one they've created. the person who wants the wall the most is the president. he is saying i'm not going to move on your government until i get my wall. that's a losing proposition for his party in the long-term. >> what do you think, mark, the president is gaining by putting so much attention at the border and on this immigration crisis that he is saying it is, this im

political motivations of the prosecutor and now we have a response from the white house as well sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary has pointed out that the arrest and the indictment have nothing to do with the president now it appears that the f.b.i. may have tipped off c.n.n. about their planned arrest so they could be on the scene to record roger stone being taken away in handcuffs people see this is actually collusion between the f.b.i. and the media done for the purpose of trying to publicly humiliate roger stone a republican strategist and we have donald trump speaking up on twitter about the nature of the arrest. greatest witch hunt in the history of our country new pollution border coyote's drug dealers and human traffickers are treated better than who alerted c.n.n. to be there to arrest shows desperation on mueller's part i mean sending out two dozen f.b.i. men to arrest him. dickless show of force and and the indictment there's nothing in the indictment about collusion about russia about any of the things that mueller was this was supposed to be investigating but he's not

ainsley: we will talk to sarah huckabee sanders about that.tion slamming the president for not having as many press briefings or not many lately. brian: he said they are useless because i don't like the way they treat you. they don't wait for your answers and all one-sided. steve: we will talk to her coming up in 90 minutes. meantime our lead story for the last couple of days is what happened between those protesters on the lincoln memorial over the weekend. and the students from covington catholic high school in kentucky? that image right there, after it was widely circulated that kid in the maga hat and other kids behind him were mocking him. now we know the story and that's not accurate. nick sandmann, the young man in the red cap at the center of this storm is appearing this morning and says essentially that he was not disrespectful to mr. phillips, who is pounding the drum right in his face. he respects him. and he says this about what happened. >> as far as standing there i had every right to do so. my position inside i was not disrespec

. >> so elise jordan, sarah huckabee sanders, the president's spokesperson, caught lying on fox news. i think as troubling as that is and that's very troubling -- >> something we're used to. >> -- you have the person running the department of homeland security in the rose garden lying to the american people and the world about these 3,000, 4,000 people streaming across the southern border. again, she knows it's a lie. she knows that her own statistics prove it out to be a lie. so she's lying through her teeth for political purposes. what happens, elise, when we have a real crisis and the american people are trying to figure out whether she's telling the truth about what we need to do next or whether she's just lying through her teeth because she's a political sycophant? >> i'd argue we're already at a real crisis point because of all the lies, because there is so much absolute nonsense that has no basis in factual reality emanating from official government sources paid by the american people. i really think that we need to give chris wallace his due respect for studying up on the freq

political motivations of the prosecutor and now we have a response from the white house as well sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary has pointed out that the arrest and the indictment have nothing to do with the president and we have donald trump speaking up on twitter about the nature of the arrest and how it was carried out. greatest witch hunt in the history of our country new solution border coyote's drug dealers and human traffickers are treated better who let it sit ins it be that now this comes after a wave of similar sentiments expressed on social media with many trump supporters and others outraged about the fact that it appears that the f.b.i. may have tipped off c.n.n. about their planned arrest so they could be on the scene to record roger stone being taken away in handcuffs people see this is actually collusion between the f.b.i. and the media done for the purpose of trying to publicly humiliate roger stone a republican strategist so there are big divisions in the united states the special counsel investigation continues there is outrage on one side and joyful celebratio