sarah huckabee sanders. should we keep going, sarah? we'll go. i don't care. just means we get home a little later in the evening, right? yeah, go ahead, sure. go ahead. >> hi, mr. president. >> how are you? >> welcome to the country. i hope you enjoyed our food. >> beautiful country. i did. >> i just wanted to find out, you describe this as a process. what is the next step. on-going dialogue? >> we're getting together next week to go into the details. secretary pompeo, next week with john bolton, the entire team to go over the details and get this stuff done. we want to get it done, he wants to get it done. we're also working very much with south korea, working with japan. we're working with china. to a lesser extent, but we're working with china. >> coming back to singapore? >> i would come back gladly. your prime minister was fantastic. we were with him yesterday, he has done a great job, very welcoming. probably made a difference actually. great place. thank you very much. yes, ma'am. >> thank you, mr. president. what was it about that first interaction wi

sarah huckabee sanders -- >> that was sarcasm. >> sarah huckabee sanders buried this lead yesterday saying it was inappropriate and no one defended it. this was a chance for the president to say it was wrong. you have to remember, if you point fingers, you got to point some back at yourself. this president has said things that people have been offended by. i'm thinking of several examples, the pochahontas thing. the charlottesville thing and then listening to david duke about how he should handle it. this president should not, as there is racial tension, we are not a post racial society, he needs to listen to america. not just his base, not just roseanne who wants to get the neighborhood right. what does her neighborhood look like? baltimore, chicago, l.a. i'm not talking about in indiana or iowa or north dakota. i'm talking about all america, we the people who are still forming an imperfect union. this president has a moment, it's still not too late to come out there and condemn what she said. he can said she's my friend, but i condemn it. >> not going to happen. you're wasting your breat

sarah sanders out. because the history of kicking people out of restaurants or not serving them is usually something done by people who have intolerance. she was trying, the owner, making it a progressive statement. kicking out sarah sanders because i don't like what is happening on the u.s./mexico border. in the end, she looks small and made sarahnders a bit of a martyr. >> and david, the president told sarah sanders to lead with this at the briefing today. and it definitely has the opposite impact that who ever these people are yelling shame or kicking her out of a restaurant. we should have a difference of opinion without attempting to accost people in public life. >> absolutely. nobody was happier about these developments than donald trump. he was gleeful it allowed him to depict his people as victims. even though he has encouraged crowds to attack reporters. and saying he wanted to punch a protester in the face. every single attack on an opponent is laced with some nasty personal incivility. so but this was an opportunity for him to turn the tables. and he seized it and he sent her out there to say it. despite the obvious point that he and she frankly are in no point to lecture on this, i make this point not because i am trying to defend the trump administration, but because i am trying to defend civility as a value in our

trish: completely unnecessary and disgusting what they're doing to the dhs employees or to sarah sarah huckabee sanders and people getting up and going to work every day and yes maybe they have a different set of beliefs they interpret policy different than the other side but they do not deserve to be treated as poorly as inhumanely as people are doing right now. >> well i believe that anyone whose willing to go to washington and work for the american people should live in the county, should live in the state, should appreciate the people and listen to what they have to say and that's what i've been doing. i listen to my farmers and listen to my latino communities and listen to my police officers and everyone involved in ventura county and doing exactly what they want me to do and i'll continue to do that but first and foremost put god first and i ask him for his guidance. listen, i was put here for a reason and it's an exciting journey in my life and i appreciate everything but it hasn't been easy but i think like i said i think we've got to keep fighting for our flag. trish: you really got black list

. >> sarah sanders, as you approach the one-year mark, what is the biggest challenge? sarahders: being away from my family, that is the hardest thing, the job is 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and never stops. that is tough, i have three young kids and a husband who still like me, which is a good thing. they want to be around me more often than i get to be there. for me, that is the hardest part of the job. >> in terms of how you get your information, how you prepare for the briefing, what is the process right now? sarah sanders: a number of things that play into the prep process. the most important is talking directly to the president and being able to do my best to

so i don't know it's up to the legendary sarah huckabee sanders should we keep going sarah ok we'll go well i don't care hey you know it just means we get home a little later in the evening right yeah go ahead sure but i'm at the present now we you and i sit and i society type of thing or welcome to the country thank you very much enjoyed beautiful country i did i just have a high about you describe it as a process what is the next ongoing dialogue yes oh we're getting together next week to go into the details at the secretary pompei oh yeah next week with john bolton and our entire team to go over the details and to get this stuff done we want to get it done he wants to get it done. we're also working very much with south korea we're working with japan we're working with china to a lesser extent but we're working with china. and. i would come back ledley your prime minister was fantastic we're with him yesterday he's done a great job it was very welcoming and really probably had it probably made a difference actually it's a great place thank you very much yes ma'am and thank you. what

sarah sanders not allowed to eat. the owner asked her to leave. we will discuss this. saraheemed prepared to send out her story on h heher owe -- her official white house twitter account. that is the answer to the situation? i don't want to lose sight. as far as we know, there are 2,000 children separated from parents living in shelters across the country this morning. when will they get home? do not lose sight of them. it is unclear what the timeline is to get them back to the parents. wherever you are on the immigration discussion and debate, everyone should want clarity on that. everyone should want clarity on your hair, dave briggs. >> i'll leave it this way, j.b. i think we have something. michelle gave me a new look. >> the carefully tussled look. >> john, the stories with sanders and fallon are the perfect stories for where we are as a society in 2018. probably not a positive reflection. >> next it will be kids cartoons. >> agree with everything dave says, but i cannot take him seriously. >> we will go to commercial break in a moment. i have a comb. thank you, john. t

sarah sanders. >> i think that sarah sanders is increasingly having a more and more difficult time in that role. i think that she has made clear to people outside the building that -- and inside the building that she doesn't know she's going to do it forever but i don't know if that means before the midterms or not. i think the midterms will be the demarcation point you'll see many people leaving. she may leave before, but time will tell. >> on north korea, one of the things we were thinking about during the summit while we were in singapore is would the president be surprised at some of the criticism of the agreement that was signed. does he think, does he really think that he got something new, new concessions from north korea, or is he just trying to make a big show of it? >> no, i think that he has told himself that this is actually something real and this will lead to something even further. when he feels like he is not getting proper praise, that's when you see the tweet that there's no more nuclear threat, which is obviously not true. but that is what he wants people to perceive it as. i believe it was very frustrating for him to get back to the u.s. and see the coverage of this summit and recognize it was not quite on par with what in his mind it should be. >> look, we have to go, but also, maggie, since you know i like to do a little arm chair analysis, when you talks about kim jong-un and how impressive he is and how much respect he has because of what he was able to take over from his father in his 20s and 1 in 10,000 -- >> actually it was 1 in 1. there was not a request for proposals to take over for the dictatorship, there was just one person. >> thank you for doing the math, for crunching the numbers on that for us. >>> much more on the justice department's inspector general report into hillary clinton e-mail situation. what does it mean for the mueller probe? 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those decisions to give that news conference, the decision to release that letter to congress in the days before the election, do you feel that was unfair to hillary clinton? >> i think it was unfair to the american people that james comey repeatedly violated fbi procedures and that the protocols and processes that we rely upon for the most extraordinary of circumstances like the investigation of a presidential candidate weren't followed. look, i think that that was bad for all of us. hillary, trump, the entire campaign and the country. >> did that hurt the clinton campaign in the days before the election? >> you know, so many things happen in a presidential election, it's very difficult to engage in the histrionics but if peter strzok had not prioritized the russian investigation, the timetable seems to indicate anthony weiner's e-mail would have come out in september rather than october and maybe that could have worked its way through the political die jest i've system. >> so you think the fact that this was held back actually may have hurt hillary clinton when all it all comes out? >> i think what i said is there's so many alternate causalities in a presidential election, but that was not a good thing for hillary clinton, wasn't good for donald trump and wasn't good for the country. >> let me tell you what james comey said about the delay there. he said the fbi had all the information it needed on september 29th to obtain the search warrant and it did not seek until more than a month later. the neglect had far-reaching consequences. comey told the inspector general had he known about the laptop in the beginning of october and thought the e-mail review could have been completed before the election, it may have affected his decision to notify congress. in other words, he wouldn't have told congress, the public may never have known that the e-mail investigation was reopened, so perhaps that may have hurt hillary clinton. >> it may have. again, it's a presidential elecon and a loes on. but i that it's a bad thing when the inspector general says that the lead agent in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, who then becomes the lead agent in the trump russia investigation when he is utilizing and accessing bias to pri prioritize one over the other. they said it wasn't political bias that led peter strzok but that threw off the entire timeline and began ann an illegitimate russia investigation. it was only six days before he was talking with his girlfriend about an insurance policy against the trump presidency. that was as good an evidence of bias that you could have in a case. >> to be completely fair, he said we did not have confidence that the decision to prioritize the russia investigation was free from bias. he doesn't say they found there was bias, he said we didn't have confidence that there was no bias. >> that's as bad as it gets in an i.g. report. >> i'm just saying out there what was said. >> yeah, but they don't have confidence that there wasn't bias, that necessarily means that bias was present. >> i'm just reading you the language the i.g. used so the american people can hear what it is and make that judgment for themselves. they also said, by the way, when it comes to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, we found no evidence that the conclusions by the prosecutors were affected by bias. those are the two different ways that "bias" is used as a word in this. i keep asking about the hillary clinton e-mail probe in this case because it does seem that you are open to the possibility that the net impact of all these decisions were made, it's possible, you're leaving open the possibility that it did have a negative impact on the clinton campaign. >> i just don't know. i just don't know. >> you're not ruling it out. >> yeah. it's a presidential election. >> we agree that you're not ruling it out. yet you were out here every day saying that the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and those involved in it were out to get then candidate trump. it just doesn't seem as if those two things could be happening at the same time. >> no. look, if you look at the text messages between the people who were the senior folks on the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, they're doing everything they can to pave a yellow brick road for her. >> no, no, no, no. hang on, hang on. you don't know -- you say everything that they did. everything that they did. but they said, they said -- hang on. we're judging the things that they said. they absolutely said the things that they said and we now have that from this inspector general report. >> they were for hillary, they were against trump. >> in terms of the things that they did, what they could have done was leak the fact that president trump, the candidate, was under -- his campaign was being investigated, they were looking into the possibility of russian collusion. they did not do that. in terms of what they did, that was something that didn't happen, correct? >> i don't think that we give the fbi a gold star for not leaking. that's their job. you don't get extra credit for doing your job. here you saw persistent examples of the very people who should have been holding hillary clinton accountable demonstrating their bias in favor of hillary clinton. it's a different question whether or not -- >> where, where -- >> hold on. let me finish my answer. so whether or not they were effective in helping hillary clinton is a different question as to whether or not they wanted to help hillary clinton. i think that likely peter strzok believed that delaying on the weiner laptops was helping hillary and in the end it may have ended up hurting her. that's why the processes are so important and we should follow them in any circumstance so we don't have to monday morning quarterback those decisions. >> no argument here. that's clearly what this report says, that james comey had a choice whether or not to give that july 5th press conference. he chose to do it and that was the wrong choice. he had a choice whether to deliver the letter to congress, he did and that was the wrong choice. you keep on suggesting that there was some conspiracy to get donald trump and that's just not in this i.g. report. you say that these agents were trying to help hillary clinton. where's the evidence they were trying to help hillary clinton before james comey gave that july 5th news conference? >> well, the fact that they were texting one another repeatedly saying they thought hillary clinton should win the election 100 million to 0 is likely they didn't just hold that opinion at one time, that it was pervasive throughout the decision-making process these people were engaged in. >> look, you don't -- you don't know -- >> being dismissive of the trump movement to their peril. >> there's no argument that those texts are deeply troubling. the fact that there are five people is now being looked into, there is no question about that. but in terms of helping hillary clinton during the clinton e-mail probe, that's not here. in fact it says the exact opposite. >> of course it is. >> it says the opposite. >> no. >> it says we found no evidence that the conclusions by the prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations. >> so they acknowledge that bias existed, but they don't find the connection between the boyias a investigative decisions. i think that's a decision the american people can make and particularly the e-mail from andrew mccabe to the washington office is instructive. andrew mccabe rips this case away from the jurisdiction of the washington field office so a bunch of people at the head shed at the fbi can cook the investigation and that's precisely what happened. if we would have followed our normal processes, you would have had the front line prosecutors, investigators in the washington, d.c., field office and this is why so many retired fbi agents and current fbi agents were livid with james comey and were e-mailing him after his really bad announcement saying if they had done the very same things they would have been fired and possibly prosecuted for it and shows the double standard for it. if you don't think there's evidence of that, you need to reread chapter 12. it's pretty clear on the manifestation of that bias as it comes to opening up trump and russia. >> there's a separate i.g. investigation into that. >> well, it mentions russia too. >> it does come up, but it doesn't reach any conclusions about the russia investigation. >> it concludes that you can't exclude bias as a factor in prioritizing the russia investigation. that's one hell of a conclusion. [ overlapping speakers ] >> but at the same time it opens up the possibility that that actually helped donald trump. again, all i'm saying -- >> it helped donald trump to open up on russia and prioritize this. >> hang on, hang on, congressman. i let you make your case here. in this case where it talks about the fact it could not say with confidence that peter strzok did not act with bias when he delayed that aspect of the clinton investigation, it opens up the possibility that it helped candidate trump and not hillary clinton. all i'm saying is if there was a conspiracy, which you have suggested, to help hillary clinton, there is no evidence here. >> no. just because the conspiracy didn't work doesn't mean it didn't exist. again, the conspiracy is ongoing. >> do you feel -- last question, last question. do you feel the same way about the trump tower meeting between donald trump jr. and russians promising dirt on hillary clinton? just because the conspiracy didn't work, it doesn't mean it didn't exist? >> no, that's different. >> does the same logic apply there? >> no, because there was not an accepted offer. donald trump jr. did not accept the offer of assistance. >> he absolutely did. he said if that's true, that's great. >> no, no, no, he did not accept any assistance or collude. these are people making an offer that wasn't accepted and they were engaged on their own for their own purposes and own reasons. at the end of the day we should not have a russia investigation ongoing. it was only nine days before peter strzok said we'll stop him that he opened on papadopoulos and only six days after that that she's talking about his insurance policy against the trump presidency. it's one of the reasons why more than half the country believes this is a politically motivated investigation and that number is about to skyrocket. >> we'll have you on to talk about it as the days go on. great to have you with us, sir. >> thank you. >> good thing you read that report. there were a lot of citations in there. wow, good job. >>> attorney general jeff sessions is using the bible to justify separating children from parents at the border. as house republicans circulate a new draft of their new immigration bill that they claim could fix all this. what do democrats have to say about it? joaquin castro of texas joins us live. having it problems? ask a business advisor how to get on demand tech support for as little as $15 a month. this week get boise case paper for only $29.99 at office depot office max. you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia's add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. add-on advantage. heartburn and gas? ♪ now fight both fast new tums chewy bites with gas relief all in one relief of heartburn and gas ♪ ♪ tum tum tum tums new tums chewy bites with gas relief i think, keep going, and make a difference. at some point, we are going to be able to beat als. because life is amazing. so i am hoping for a cure. i want this, to uh, to be a reality. um, yeah. 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if he's ashamed of his own policy and trying to claim that it's the democrats, why are they doing this? >> well, i'll give you one reason i think they're doing it. i think he does a lot of stuff for policy leverage later on. so, for example, here he's creating a humanitarian crisis so then paul ryan and the republicans in congress can -- and he can try to fix it and use fixing that crisis as leverage to get other concessions from folks in congress. and you see that with the bills that they have laid out for next week. >> okay, let's talk about that. so if this is just a tactic in order to get leverage, and i hear your theory on that, here's what the republicans have brought to the table in this draft bill on immigration, okay. so let me just lay it out. $25 billion for border security, including the border wall. we know that's long been one of the president's top priorities. ending the diversity visa lottery. cuts to family-based visas. path to citizenship for daca recipients, so i assume that you would be please wed that portion of it, and they will address this issue that is happening right now at the border of family separation, children from parents. so what do you see here? would you go along with this? >> well, it's a 300-page bill so i'm still going through it. all of us will go through it over the weekend and into next week. again, they're building the wall. $25 billion wall which is hugely unpopular with the american people, at least the majority of people don't support it. most texans don't support it. they're also using this humanitarian crisis they created as leverage to put in a bunch of other bad stuff while solving the crisis that they created. >> so you're saying that if you don't go along with it, help me understand the logic. if democrats don't go along with it, then can the president say, look, we had a fix. republicans suggested a fix. democrats won't go along with it. that's what's happening at the border. >> that's absolutely what he'll do. he did a similar thing with north korea, for example. he got credit -- he and kim jong-un got credit for taking us away from the brink of war. but the fact is, you all know that president trump was the one who was agitating on twitter and press releases and press conferences creating these hostilities, bringing us to the brink of war, and then going over to north korea and getting credit for taking us away from the brink of war. it's the same thing he does over and over. >> if you don't go along with this as democrats, then what happens to these families at the border? >> you're right. it puts us and people in congress in a very difficult position because i think this administration will continue to get more brutal. >> what does that mean? >> i think that they'll continue with this inhumane policy and i think that it will get worse. i can't tell you exactly how it gets worse, but my sense is with these guys, it will get worse. >> you're just saying that's your fear? >> yeah. and so far, you know, i think a lot of these fears have come true. >> so democrats are powerless to keep these families together or to stop babies and children being separated from their parents right now and being held. we've heard from some who have gone down to the border in pens. right now the government is trying to come up with better, less inhumane accommodations, but they're still going to separate the families. >> i wouldn't say that we're powerless. we're pushing legislation. there were -- people have been doing everything that they can to raise this issue. that's why you're seeing so much attention to it now. so we can never give up hope and we can never stop trying because if you do that, you really shouldn't be in this place. also the american people are not powerless. the american people can do something to change what this government and what their president is doing in their name. >> senator -- attorney general jeff sessions says that the bible dictates this. the bible suggests that we obey the laws of the government because god has ordained the government for his purposes. your response? >> that's a perversion of the bible that attorney general jeff sessions -- his interpretation. >> congressman joaquin castro, thank you very much for being here with your perspective on all of this. >> thank you. >>> president trump talking to the media just moments ago about immigration, about this very subject. also the inspector general report. we'll talk about all of this with van jones coming up next in our bottom line. >>> first, we have some incredible people who are changing the world for better. here is a preview of our special series "champions for change." >> all next week, a special cnn series. our anchors profile "champions for change." >> we travel the globe telling stories of change makers. >> this time we're joining their mission to make a difference. >> giving time to the causes that are dear to our hearts. >> and sharing the stories of the champions leading the charge. >> it was for a great cause. that's motivating. >> we had to help them in a way that lets them see this is not how your life has to be. >> this is an opportunity to pay it forward. >> to do something that is going to be meaningful. >> they are the kinds of students any community would be blessed to have. >> it just warms your heart that you could help someone with f d food. >> join the journalists of cnn as we work alongside champions for change, all next week. presented by charles schwab. hi.i just wanted to tell you that chevy won a j.d.power dependability award for its midsize car-the chevy malibu. i forgot. chevy also won a j.d. power dependability award for its light-duty truck the chevy silverado. oh, and since the chevy equinox and traverse also won chevy is the only brand to earn the j.d. power dependability award across cars, trucks and suvs-three years in a row. phew. third time's the charm... [ drum roll ] ...emily lapier from ames, iowa. this is emily's third nomination and first win. um...so, just...wow! um, first of all, to my fellow nominees, it is an honor sharing the road with you. and of course, to the progressive snapshot app for giving good drivers the discounts -- no, i have to say it -- for giving good drivers the discounts they deserve. safe driving! >>> we do have some breaking news. president trump talking to the press just moments ago outside the white house. he spoke about a range of topics, including the inspector general report about the fbi's handling of the clinton e-mail investigation. he also spoke about immigration. cnn's van jones here with the bottom line. i guess let's listen to just what he said because we were on tv. i want to get a take on this. >> i say that the i.g. blew it at the very end with that statement because when you read the report, it was almost like comey. he goes point after point about how guilty hillary is and then he said, but we're not going to do anything about it. the report, the i.g. report, was a horror show. i thought that one sentence of conclusion was ridiculous. >> what he's talking about there is the i.g. put out a report that said we found no evidence that the conclusions by the prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper consideration. so we have this 500-page i.g. report where there's a lot in it the president likes, but he decides to dispute the conclusion there, van. >> well, there's nothing there that nobody should like, let's just be honest. when you have people who are supposed to be doing a professional job and they're having side conversations. but you know what, that actually happens in real life. i've been in hospitals where, you know, doctors and nurses are having negative side conversations about patients or families. that doesn't mean they then go into the surgery and botch it on purpose. it doesn't mean the nurse is not giving the pills properly. people can have opinions. maybe they shouldn't have them. maybe they're catty or petty, but it doesn't mean they're not doing their job properly. at the end of the day it seems to be what they founding. people had catty, personal opinions but you can't find evidence that those opinions actually changed the outcome of these investigations. and both facts are important. both facts. >> we were just talking about immigration. as you know, there are children who are being separated from their parents under this new zero tolerance policy that's being implemented by attorney general jeff sessions. i think the president just addressed that. we think that what he said was that there is this immigration draft of a new bill from the republicans and it has, you know, various tenets, most of them pretty hard line or will assuage conservatives' feelings more than democrats. it does include a path for dreamers and says it will be a fix for this separating parents from children but it sounds like the president will not vote for this republican bill. >> he says that he will not sign what he calls the more moderate agreement. you can disagree about whether it is moderate or conservative, but he will not sign this agreement that the house speaker and others helped forge with the moderates in that. this essentially blows up the republican deal that they just made. van, there is urgency here to solve the problem of separating these parents from children. >> beyond urgency. i mean this is not a zero tolerance policy. this is a zero humanity policy, it's a zero dignity policy, it's a zero human rights policy. there is no country on planet earth that when refugees show up on the border fleeing violence, fleeing gang activity, running for their lives, that rip babies away from mothers and jail the mothers, incarcerate the mothers and the children too. that is -- it's unprecedented on the planet. has it happened in narrow cases in the u.s. befe? yes, with good cause. but a blank wholesale attack on every single person coming here, even people who say these people are breaking the law. some of these people are following the letter of our asylum laws. >> absolutely. >> to the letter and having their children ripped away. >> they must be protected when they show up on our shores seeking asylum. >> because of the human rights law the united states pioneered and brought the world into requires that. not only our own laws but global hum ranit human rights laws. by the way, if you're a conservative, if you're a republican, pro family, pro baby, pro choice, all these things about the innocent and so frustrated with the democratic party for not understanding your argument, that whatever the parents did or didn't do, that child in the womb is innocent and shouldn't be punished based on what the parents decide. apply that to the border. don't punish babies. don't punish children because of the choices of the parents. where is the republican party? where are my conservative friends? where are my fellow people of faith and christians on the abuse of children on our own borders? the silence has been appalling. i hope it breaks this weekend. >> where is the president? let's listen to the sound from the white house just moments ago. >> i certainly wouldn't sign the more moderate one. i need a bill that gives this country tremendous border security. i have to have that. >> i want to bring in david chalian. the president just said it, he would not sign the more moderate bill. david, and i say this with the utmost respect. i'm not sure he understands what he just said. i think what he was just saying is he's not going to accept the deal that was reached within the republican caucus. if that's the case, he just blew up the party's immigration plans again. >> and you're saying that, john, because the more moderate version, that deal, the goodlatte bill is what we would analyze as the more moderate version. but here's the thing. the other thing that the president said there was, yes, they need to fix this legislatively. he likes to blame the democrats, assayer a saraharate the children from their families. my ears perked up too when i heard him say that because it sounds like he's not willing to sign at this point the bill that the republican house majority is crafting as a compromise deal, yet he still says he wants a legislative fix. right now that seems to be the only one that potentially has the possibility of getting enough votes to actually be a legislative fix. >> van, you said where are my fellow -- my friends, the conservatives, where are the evangelicals. franklin graham arguably best known evangelical christian in the country, he said that this is unconscionable. i'm paraphrasing, but that was basically the message that he sent to the white house. and he said this is because of 20 or 30 years of bad policy and lack of leadership, which is also true. but we need sharper statements from our conservative christian friends. this is a no-brainer. this is not hard. you can say i want the most secure borders ever, but i don't want to scar child

sarah huckabee sanders. should we keep going, sarah? okay. we'll go. i don't care. hey, you know, just means we get home a little later in the evening, right? go ahead. sure, go ahead. go ahead. >> hi, mr. president. how are you? from the "times" of singapore, welcome to the country. >> thank you very much. >> i hope you enjoyed our food. >> beautiful country, i did. >> i wanted to find out, you describe this as a process. what is the immediate next step? is there some ongoing dialogue? >> yes, we're getting together next week to go into the details. secretary pompeo -- yeah, next week with john bolton and our entire team to go over the details and to get this stuff done. we want to get it done. he wants to get it done. we're also working very much with south korea. we're working with japan, we're working with china to a lesser extent, but we're working with china. >> you're coming back to singapore? >> i would come back gladly. your prime minister was fantastic. we were with him yesterday, he did a great job, very welcoming. it probablefence actually. a great place

. >> did the decision to ask sarah sanders to leave, do you feel as though it was appropriate? >> i feel sarahhas reaped what she has sowed. she has stood in front of that podium for months on end, support, the supreme court decision saying they didn't have to bake wedding cakes. i was sure this stings to feel what it's like to have someone say you can't come into my establishment. you can't have it both ways. you can't stand up there and support a president and policies that says it's okay for a baker to say this group, this protected class, can't get service from us and then you two in a restaurant and asked to leave and cry crocodile tears. this woman in the restaurant had to make a stand and did. sarah, look what you're doing every day. you have created this environment. you've planted these seeds. now you are responsible. >> ben? >> yeah. two things, one, she wasn't crying about it. secondly, the supreme court said the baker in an overwhelming decision hadded right to refuse service based on religious grounds. >> no. hang on, ben. i wanted to give you full time. just to be clear what the

sarah huckabee sanders got to do what conservative white women love most, speak with a manager ughter ] the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in ay virginia on frecause she works for the trump administration, which is weird because usually people who work for the trump administration are asked to leave the trump administration. [ laughter and applause ] president trump today attacked the restaurant that asked white house press secretary sarahkee sanders to leave over the weend and tweeted, quote, "i always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside." "i have a similar rule," said e bert mueller. [ cheers and appla president trump criticized the media's coverage of his immigration policies, tweeting, quote, "we have done a far better job in that our facilities are cleaner and better run than were the facilities under obama." added trump, "plus, attendance is wer up!" [ laugnd applause ] first lady melania trump spoke at a conference yesterday and told kids that kindness, compassion, and positivity are very important traits in life. and then she put on w jacket and never looked back. [ laughter and alause ] officials in arizona are warning residents to use caution when handling pool noodles after a family found a rattlesnake inside one. [ audience oohs ] on the plus side, timmy was un crowned thsputed winner of the noodle fight. [ laughter and applause ] abc has announced that a spinoff of

think she's referring to sarah sanders. >> the president yesterday is attacking -- he started his campaign, calling mexicans rapists. he yesterday is attacking democrats. sarah attacks on n pelosi. ms-13 gang members. i think that's the challenge here, which is really this week has been a particularly tough week in that the trump administration has a policy which most americans don't think is a policy debate, but is frankly immoral. >> so i want to get reaction to that. because it's true, governor mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas, tweeted something that said, it's an -- it's an image of what appears to be a latino gang and says nancy pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the house. >> yes, disgusting, really, when you look at this mentality, and what -- how he tweeted that picture. and also just with regard to sarah. she used her government account for taking on this private restaurant, a private business. so i personally think she should be referred to the office of government ethics. >> you think that's unethical. >> yeah, if you use a government account to attack a private business on personal time, that's not right. >> y

republican side with the way that nielsen's getting treated, with the way sarah sanders is getting treated. republicans love sarahcrats may not like her. they may not be able to stand her. republicans think of her as a sweetheart. she's fighting for donald trump every day. the reason we're in this situation is because the policy beforehand was 20 days in a detention sender for a family, -- center for a family, you're released. this can't stand. whether or not the republicans get something passed, it's not going to change the fact that the republicans will win in the midterms. >> leland: garland, you get the final word. >> if we recall back to 2010, under obama, the democrats had a majority in both houses and they weren't able to produce as much as most people who hav would ha. they kind of have taken a beating. the republicans are talking a lot. they've got the majority. if they don't produce, they'll pay. >> leland: do you worry the kind of rhetoric we're seeing now pushes sort of moderate or undecided republicans back to being hard core republicans when they see how people are being treated? >> i do believe tha

sarah huckabee sanders. and said this. >> sarah huckabee sanders, your press secretary. >> yeah. >> she -- she took a lot of heat yesterday from the people behind you. there were some suggestion that maybe she'd be leaving the white house. >> i don't think so. you know, look, at a certain point everyone sort of leaves. you have to leave. i'm sort of just staying like a ship, just keep going, bing bing.>> sh: that analogy doesn' mean what you think it means. if people are jumping off a ship, that means the ship is sinking.hinkg of a bus. "i'm like a ship and everyone is jumping off the side of the ship which is a shame because this ship is headed for the most beautiful place, ice mountain." now, yesterday was father's day. and on father's day trump did what all dads do on father's day. he got up bright and early to tweet unhinged things about the ongoing criminal investigation of his presidential campaign. >> the president sunday on the attack tweeting, "witch hunt! there was no russian collusion. oh, i see there was no russian collusion, so now they look for obstruction on the no russian collusion. the phony russian collusion was a made up hoax.o bad they didn' crooked hillary like this. double standard!" >> seth: why does trump write his tweets like a thought occurred to him in the middle of it? [ laughter ] we're like a week away from trump tweeting every single thought that occurs to him. "there was no russian collusion. oh, i see, there was no russian collusion, so now they look for obstruction. send tweet. oh, i'm so hungry. i want a cheeseburger so badly, but i can't have one because of the democrats' witch hunt. ooh, tummy rumbling, hungry, i hate this job so much. i am so bad at it. someone get me a cheeseburger, golf. cheeseburger, golf. cheeseburger, have no more thoughts brain empty. must watch fox news and refill." [ cheers and applause ] trump's outburst came amid a major development in the russia investigation. his former campaign chairman paul manafort who is awaiting trial on 23 different counts was sent to jail on friday for allegedly attempting to interfere in the investigation by contacting witnesses. >> paul manafort is going to jail. the judge, amy berman jackson, said that manafort's repeated attempts to contact witnesses constituted a danger to the integrity of the court. >> manafort called person d1. on person d1's cellular phone. person d1 sought to avoid manafort. so person d1 ended the call. manafort also sent person d1 a text message on an encrypted application stating, "this is paul." [ laughter ] >> seth: paul manafort tried to contact witnesses, which is a crime, to lie about his other alleged crimes. and he literally wrote in a text message, "this is paul." [ laughter ] even your weed dealer knows enough not to text the word, "weed." also, did you think robert mueller wouldn't be watching? look at him. the man doesn't even blink. he won a staring contest with the lincoln memorial. [ laughter ] in a tweet, trump says sending manafort to jail was a tough sentence and called it very unfair. so trump has sympathy for his former campaign chairman accused of conspiracy against the united states and sent to jail for alleged witness tampering. buviolce and seeking asywiyou. trump has much less sympathy for them. >> your numbers today from the department of homeland security show the impact of the administration's new crackdown on illegal immigti over a six-week period nearly separated from nearly as many adults. >> seth: now, if this policy strikes you as monstrous, an inhumane, and cruel then, you're a decent person. in other words, you are not attorney general jeff sessions. last week sessions defended the policy by citing the bible. >> illegal entry into the united states is a crime. it should be and must be if you're going to have a legal system and have any limits whatsoever. persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution. if you violate the law, you subject yourself to prosecution. i would cite you the apostle paul and his clear and wise companion romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because god has ordained the government for his purposes. >> seth: oh, look at sessions' face. have you seen a creepier smile? he cites the bible like a guy challenging someone else's word in scrabble. "well, i'm sorry, but mr. dictionary doesn't see your word. it's just not in here." also, you know who's gotta be really pissed right now? the apostle paul. you never hear anything about that dude, and then all of a sudden he gets blamed for this i know he is an apostle so he doesn't swear, but seriously. it's hard not to believe he's up there right now saying, "dude, leave me the [ bleep ] out of this, i don't --" [ light laughter ] white house press secretary sarahee sanders was asked how the white house could possibly defend that comment and she immediately doubled down in a tense exchange with a reporter. >> i'm not aware of the attorney general's comments or what he would be referencing. i can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. >> seth: i should note, it's also very biblical to stone people to death, to sleep with 600 concubines, to have conversations with flaming bushes and to believe a 500 yeard old man built a giant boat and put giraffes on it. [ laughter ] and it got even worse from there. >> that is actually repeated a number of times throughout the bible. however -- [ inaudible ] hold on, jim. if you'll let me finish. again, i'm not going to comment on the attorney's specific comments that i haven't seen. >> you just said it's in the bible to follow the law. >> that's not what i said. and i know it's hard for you to understand even short sentences, i guess. [ audience ohs ] >> seth: he can't understand short sentences? tru

sarah sanders. and she did something that's well within her rights and politely asked sarah to leave. it depends on what you think about those policies. i think sarah' response to that i naught was very unusual, using her official white house twitter account, to talk about this woman, and talk about the restaurant. and i haven't seen press secretaries blast out a civilian who they had a run in with in a private space, sort of blast them using their official twitter account, i frankly found that somewhat -- as someone who covers government officials i found that curious and somewhat objectionable. >> sarah sanders seemed to have gotten the brunt of some of this anti-white house sentiment. and now she's kicked out of this restaurant in front of her family is this taking a personal toll on white house staff? >> i do think it's taking a personaling toll on a lot of white house staffers, but i would say folk's forcing them to be there, they're there of their own volition, but i do think it raises a broader question, this restaurant owner is perfectly within their rights to ask sarah to leave, and sarah did so peaceably, it doesn't seem like it was a par

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sarah huckabee sanders. should we keep going, sarah? just means we get home a little later in the evening. >> i hope you enjoyed it. have one -- you describe the process. what is the next step? is there ongoing dialogue? >> yes. next week, with john bolton. our entire team to go over the details and get the stuff done. we are working with south korea, to a less extent. i would come back, gladly. your prime minister was fantastic. we were with him yesterday. he was very welcoming. it probably made a difference. a great place. >> thank you. what was it about the first interaction with chairman kim that made you decide not to walk away after you said that you would know within the first minute. >> i have said that about relationships, about people. i was generous, i said five seconds. in the first second, in some cases. sometimes. -- sometimes it doesn't work out, but sometimes it does. we did not just come in and start talking about these very complex subjects that been going on for 70 years. we have been discussing this for months. stops

white house press secretary sarah sanders has refused to correct her statement that donald trumpid not dictate a statement for don junior. he did that statement. and on tuesday, sarah for pushing the issue. >> i work every day to give you information. i'm going to continue to do that. frankly, i think my credibility is probably higher than the media's. and i think in large part, thatause you guys spend more of your time focused on attacking the president instead of reportingnews. >> back with our panel now. for more sarah sanders. people were laughing in the briefing room. we don't have polling on sarah s w comes to her credibility. but we have the numbersf the president's credibility, compared to the three cabndou t three news cable networks more than donald trump. at the end of the day, what does this have to do with sanders' refusal to set the record straight? >> she is the president's mouthpiece. that's her job. if people don't trust the president, they're not going to trust anything she says, either. that's where she gets in trouble. she's the voice of the president. >> w wouldn't correct the >> i don't think we can explain her mow titives at this point. it wa

initially her story removed from the restaurant was bubbled up and sarah sanders confirmed it on twitter. walter schwab is saying by having sarah call out the restaurant by name she is violating part of the ethics rules that government employees agreed to work by. he says it's the same as if an atf agent pulled out his badge when a restaurant tried to throw him or her out. this will be debated as well. i don't know how likely it is we are going to see an ethics violation on something like this but it is worth keep in mind when you're the press secretary or some other public official and you use your public government twitter account to call out a restaurant or to speak out about something, there certainly are ethics laws or ethics policy that could come into play. >> we have seen in the past when there have been violations of ethics laws. >> kellyanne conway, for example. >> yes. they have been counseling from the president so we will see if that happens here. >> right. >> thanks, stelter. >> thanks. >> stay tuned. he'll be back at 11:00 for "reliable sources" right here on cnn. >>> so you know for decades, women in saudi arabi

to your public day and a beginning to your private life because sarah sanders was out to dinner and you now know this morning that sarahders will get secret service detail for protection after this. how do you see it? >> it's interesting because i agree with errol that this has been going on for a long time and it's part of our kind of culture, but i think you have to point to the last few years, really and look at the way in which this president specifically has helpe to exacerbate tensions, and a lot of times intentionally, right? he has seen ways to stoke division as a way to rally up certain parts of his base, and so we're seeing that now especially in the context of a midterm election year. you're right. talking about policy, talking about press releases or, you know, messages. don't animate people the way that other types of -- >> especially in the age of social media. especially when clips like that go viral and these are people's instagram. i'm stunned at the amount of political press releases i still get in my inbox. errol, you probably get a ton. >> very true. ome on, there is another way to tell the story. l

. >> reporter: the red hen owner asked sarah huckabee sanders to leave because of her politics. sarah responded yesterday. >> we are allowed to disagree and should be allowed to do it freely and without fear of harm. this goes for all people regardless of politics. >> reporter: the resident -- restaurant has become the center of scorn from trump supporters. kristin nielsen was forced to leave a dc restaurant last week. protester showed up outside of her home. california representative maxine waters defended her call for more public confrontations. >> this is a democracy and you get the right to protest. peaceful protest is the simple way to do it. >> reporter: it is a tactic that some of her disavow. >> no one should call for the harassment of political opponents. that is not right and it is not american. >> reporter: immigrants have pointed to the president incendiary language. yesterday he tweeted about waters, calling her an extraordinarily low iq person. >> reporter: this is not a legal question most of the time. most people generally have the right to go and protest. it is really

sarah sanders. we're going to play it. >> i actually really like sarah. i think she's very resourceful. like, she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. like maybe she's born with it. maybe it's lies. it's probably lies. >> do you think that was a look-ous thing? >> i think that was one of those jokes that tricks you into exposing how you feel about the subject matter. which is one of the most dangerous jokes in comedy, because it's a joke that relies on you to define it in many ways, and so if you read the words of that joke, and you don't know who sarah huckabee sanders is, all the joke is saying is, somebody knows how to turn facts into lies. and applies them as makeup. and that can be used -- >> i agree. i thought it was really unfair, this criticism she got, because i read the whole thing. >> right. >> i saw interviews of her. but i was there when stephen colbert did his in 2006. again, the people in the room had no idea how to laugh at themselves. what does that tell you? >> here's something with comedy that's different and difficult. the white house correspondents' association is an interesting room in that in many ways in my opinion it has become too close to the people that it covers. so sometimes you blow the lines. i actually think it's good donald trump doesn't attend. i don't think it's supposed to be that type of event. i think it's strange for the press to become chummy with the people that they're reporting on. i think it's strange for people to build relationships. as a journalist, you don't require access to do your j

visible member of the administration outside of the president himself is press secretary sarah sanders and she is here. sarah, it's good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i respect you taking the opportunity. >> thank you. thanks for being in d.c. >> well, i came for you. what do you think about this as a positive pivot? let's take a look at this situation and see if we can get to a place, mutual respect, both sides think credibility counts, and we move forward. what do you say? >> all right. we'll give it a shot. >> all right. where's the sticking point? this meeting matters, you know it does. i understand the reference to counsel. i get it. not just because i'm an attorney, but you don't want to answer for the lawyers, you done want to answer for an operation that you're not a part of. i get it. but you can answer for what you said. you don't have to refer to counsel for that. sekulow is not your lawyer, he's the president's lawyer. you're saying, he didn't dictate this, he did what any father would do. that turns out not to be true. you agree with that? >> once again, i know i answered this question on m

sarah sanders a bit of a martyr. >> and david, the president told sarah sanders to lead with this at the briefing today. and it definitely has the opposite impact that who ever these people are yelling shame or kicking her out of a restaurant. we should have a difference of opinion without attempting to accost people in public life. >> absolutely. nobody was happier than donald trump. it allowed him to depict his people as victims. even though he has encouraged crowds to attack reporters. and saying he wanted to punch a protester in the face. laced with some nasty personal incivility. so but this was an opportunity for him to turn the tables. and he seized it and he sent her out there to say it. despite the obvious point that he and she frankly are in no point to lecture on this, i make this point not because i am trying to defend the trump administration, but because i am trying to defend civility as a value in our democracy. and i think those who opposed president, have an obligation no the to try to follow him down in this race to the bottom, down the rabbit hole. >> we have seen gay people refused service at a baker, because of religious beliefs, i suppose the restaurant owner could say it is my religious belief that i oppose sarahdoesn't have the impact. >> it was a gauche move. if she had slow service for a while, sarah sanders could have walked out on her own. but by giving her the boot, she lost the moral high ground. what both david and i are saying, you need to keep the high ground. >> you historians are so cunning, i never thought of that. >> up next, president trump tweets again, his claim that president obama ordered wiretaps on his phone during the election. never proven of course. i will talk with judge mccasey next. you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed? let's get someone to say it with a really low voice. carl? lowest price guaranteed. what about the world's lowest limbo stick? how low can you go? nice one, carl. hey i've got an idea. just say, badda book. badda boom. badda book. badda boom. nice. always the lowest price, guaranteed. book now at choicehotels.com i saw my leg did not look right. i landed. i was just finishing a ride. i felt this awful pain in my chest. i had a pe b

sarah huckabee sanders and the "late night" press corps are here in our studio and ready to go. so without further ado it's time for the "late night white house press briefing." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: sarah, sarahs, over here. sarah, sarah, sarah, over here, yes, thank you. seth meyers with "late night with seth meyers." secretary sanders, when are you going to start telling us the truth? >> not today or tomorrow or at any point ever. [ light laughter ] >> seth: great. can you tell us a little bit about eric trump's birthday party? >> no one from the white house staff will attend. [ laughter ] >> seth: what did jared kushner say to donald trump during the election? >> i wish i could vote for you but i'm only 11. [ laughter ] >> seth: sarah, where do you see yourself in five years? >> further from the truth. [ audience ohs ] [ light laughter ] >> seth: president trump seems to be fairly unfriendly to angela merkel. was there ever a time when trump liked germany? >> from 1942 to 1945. [ audience ohs ] [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: why does president trump want to meet with vladimir putin? >> to accept the check. [ laughter ] >> seth: what did president trump tell his kids to do on mother's day

sarah huckabee sanders. fo howie: the vitriol being unleashed against sarah huckabee sanders is stung and sad. she and her family were kicked out of a restaurant called the red hen for moral reasons and so she left. she tweeted that her actions say more about her than me. the reaction by some trump-bashing pundits, yeah, right, she deserved it. >> you make choices in life. and there is a cost to being an accomplice to this cruel, deceitful administration. howie: msnbc contributor in the "washington post," it's natural and appropriate for decent human beings to shame and shun the practitioners of such a policy. if a barack obama spokesman had been booted from a restaurant. what's next. is it okay to picket people's houses like what happened friday at kirstjen nielsen's townhouse in virginia. should fedex not deliver packages? rachel maddow apologized at the end of her show when she had difficultyw about infants and toddlers being moved to new shelters. >> at least three -- put up the graphic of this. thank you. do we have it? no. three tender age shelters in texas. lawyers and medical providers -- i'm going have to hand this off. sorry. howie: whether or not you like rachel ma dough, i don't think she has anything to apologize for. we all struggle as broadcasters and sometimes we choke up. a banner flashed on the screen. man for the rrp pleads guilty to five charges of manslaughter. he hasn't pled guilty to anything. abc apologized saying there is no excuse for the mistake and i agree. anthony scaramucci on the immigration uproar and the president calling media outlets the country's biggest enemy. camping with my daughters was more than just a weekend. it was our time to unplug and be together. with my bladder leakage, i'm not doing that anymore. when i went hiking with the other product, it just didn't fit right and i was always readjusting it. so, now our camping trips are their camping trips. but with the new sizes of depend fit-flex, it feels like it was made for me. i'm ready to get back our time together. introducing more sizes for better comfort. new depend fit-flex underwear is guaranteed to be your best fit. get a free sample at depend.com howie: anthony scaramucci publicly broke with his former boss over the child separation issue. you say this administration policy of separating children from families at the border is inhumane. why did you speak out? anthony: i'm trying to be helpful to the president. the optics of this situation and the feeling it gives thage mayor canes not the feeling people want to feel. howie: he disagrees. you are criticizing his policy. anthony: it's not a difficult decision for me. i'm not taking on the president. i'm saying to the president, i wish other advisors would say this. and don't sit in the circle and just yes everybody. look at the optics of the situation, let's look at the spirit of the situation. let's stop arguing about it being legal. because we have had many laws that have not been right. we were segregating children 50 short years ago. we had jim crow laws. this law is inhumane. howie: you say the president is poorly advised. but isn't that a copout? he's making the decisions. and you are trying to tear him toward ways a more humane approach and one that won't be as damage. at the end of the day the president has to own his decision. but i'm basically saying this is a moment when you have a food fight going on among your advisors, a food fight going on among the parties. but you are a ceo, you are a business person. you have got great common sense. i know him personally, he's a great guy. howie: this is emotional and there has been criticism from both parties. i'm told the white house is not pleased with your position. have you had a chance to explain your thoughts to the president personally? anthony: i explained it. i'm explaining it here. and i have no problem with them being not pleased with me. but they should not be pleased with themselves. at the end of the day, you have got so many great things going on, the president is doing a great job. why do you need this in the news when we could be talking about the inspector general's report that comes out great for the president. the denuclearization of north korea. why make this the lead news story. i don't agree with it. i don't care if they are pleased with me or not. i have supported the guy for three years. i put hard money into his campaign. when they threw me out of the white house i stayed loyal to the president. so i'm here saying wake up. if you don't wake up on his issue why would you have an issue like this blind side so many of the good things going on in our administration. howie: when the president said he can't do anything unilaterally. the conflicting messages coming out of the white house -- anthony: read the tweet again. am i wrong about that? you can't have five or six different arguments going on at the same time. it's a black and white issue. there is a lot of gray in our society. this is a black and white issue for moms and dad. you want to look back on this thing in 10 years and say what were we doing? do you think the americans look back on the japanese interment camps and say it was a great idea? tell the truth to the president, tell the truth to the american people. this is very bad policy. and let's knock it off. it's just that simple. howie: the president's detractors are obviously piling on. but they are saying he launched a trade war, he picked a fight with canada. are there elements of truth to his or is this the media piling on and not giving the president the benefit of the doubt. >> there is a bell couldity of rhetoric related to the fact the trading system has been uneven for 7 years. and the president is trying to find a way to create a trade parody system and it hasn't been that way. the bellicosity of rhetoric is used as a twice. on the north korea situation, he has done a great job. you have to give him credit where credit is due. howie: the president tweeted the main real media is our country's biggest enemy. would you advise him not to use that kind of language. anthony: he hasser right to push back against unfair language. he's a natural counter puncher. but we have to deescalate the war with the press. you are sitting in a seat now where you are serving the american people. you are a temporary office holder and temporary hess dent in the white house. the system was designed so the free press could be in there to rigorously review what you are doing. howie: you want de-escalation? anthony: i do. but i want it on both side. why don't we knock off the nonsense on both side, take it down a notch. i think the president should get out of the corner he's in, go on your show. i was delighted to see him on george stephanopoulos. he's a television star. there is no need for him to be sticking to one network for a few anchors. let's go the full spectrum of people. there are a lot of moderates and independent who love what the president is doing in the country. and he need those people if he wins an electoral landslide. if he gets an electoral landslide in 2020. he'll have a larger mandate the next four years. he's totally capable of doing it. howie: i interviewed donald trump during the campaign. he has a standing invitation to come on this program. coming up, a look at our angry media culture from peter fonda's reprehensible comments about the first f howie: peter fonda may be a legendary actor, but his tweets about barron trump were unhinged. he said sarah sanders should have her children taken away, and kirstjen nielsen should be put in a cage naked and be whipped by passersby. these peter fonda tweets are so vulgar could it permanently mar his reputation? >> i think it could. and it's ammunition for people on the right, roseanne barr's show was canceled but this guys movie just came out despite the fact he tweets these things. howie: sony pictures called the remarks abhorrent and dangerous and they are still putting the movie out. >> you can imagine could this affect box office results? it could. half the country knows looking at the political landscape and you are isolating them with these tweets. howie: 21st century fox is planning to sell ets assets to disney. the creator of modern family says he's disgusted to work for a company that's associated with fox news. if every fox star and show runner said this show was evil and protested to the murdoch family, it would make a huge difference in this national debate. >> here, as you ment

sarah huckabee sanders. ( applause ) because on friday night, sarah huckabee sanders was kicked out of the red hen restaurant in virginia on "moral grounds." ( applause ) applaud all you want but my heart really goes out to her. she was separated from her appetizer. she doesn't even know where it's being held! what if it's getting cold? ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheering ) >> stephen: here's what happened -- >> jon: you don't know. >> stephen: here's what happened -- huckasands went to out for dinner with husband and friends. the staff recognized her and called the owner, who gathered everyone in the back and allowed employees to vote on whether to boot huckabee sanders out of restaurant. oh, good, someone's getting due process. ( laughter ) ( applause ) it's nice. >> jon: oh! >> stephen: it's heart warming! when the owner quietly informed sanders that she made the staff uncomfortable, sanders left immediately and her group even offered to pay for their appetizers. but the owner did not charge sanders for the food the group had ordered and the cheese plates they had eaten. so, sweet new way for trump officials to get a free meal. ( laughter ) you know you're gonna get kicked out eventually, so go hog wild on the app order. "hi, we'll have an order of jalepeno poppers, the hummus plate, the twice-baked potato skins, and a filet mignon as a starter. you just recognized us? we'll take that to go." ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) ( applause ) but free cheese! free cheese! free cheese! yes! ( laughter ) but free cheese or no, sanders wasn't going to let this slide. the next day, from her official white house twitter account, she twote: "last night i was told by the owner of red hen in lexington, virginia to leave because i work for @potus and i politely left. her actions say far more about her than about me. i always do my best to treat people, including those i disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so." "for the record: i have always lied to the american public with nothing but respect." ( laughter ) ( applause ) totally. and what do you mean "you treat everybody with respect?" you work for donald trump-- you're not even treating yourself with respect. ( laughter ) i believe everyone should follow their own conscience, and i understand why some people might celebrate this restaurant owner, but denying service to people you don't agree with is a slippery slope. because pretty soon we would just have liberal-only restaurants, and conservative restaurants, and it'll be a nightmare finding a place where your whole family can eat ( laughter ) "honey, i found a moderate taco bell out by the airport that we can take your mother to. they promise me the chalupas have no position on import tariffs." ( laughter ) ( applause ) but there is a middle road. people love import tariff jokes. ( laughter ) but i believe there's a middle road. restaurant workers, you don't have to kick out sarah huckabee sanders. just treat her the same way she treats her customers: only take the order of the two people at the table that you like, then tell sanders "i'm not going to comment on whether this dish contains peanuts." and then when the food never arrives, just say, "i haven't talked to the chef about that yet, so i can't give you any new information, i'll be back at 2:45 tomorrow with a completely different menu you can't order from." ( cheers and applause ) we've got a great show for you tonight. jessica chastain is here. but when we come back, trump puts some new coins into circulation. they're very shiny! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) (music) [glass squeaking] [marker squeaking] (music) ♪ hershey's cookie layer crunch get layered ♪ ♪ don't juggle your home life and work life without it. business financing to help grow your business. another way we have your back. the powerful backing of american express. don't do business without it. ♪ charmin ultra soft! it's softer

sarah sanders did the right thing, and she left. host: so again, the back and forth that took place between the restaurant's owner, stephanie wilkinson and sarah sanders, goes as such, according to "the washington post," the restaurant owner saying at first i'm the owner, she goes on to say that i like you to come out to the patio with me for a word. again, they stepped outside into another small enclosure, at least out of the clouded restaurant. she went to say in telling "the washington post," i was babbling a little, but i got my point across in a polite and direct fashion. i explained the restaurant had certain standards that i felt it had to uphold, such ads honesty and compassion and cooperation. i said i'd like to ask to you leave. she also said that her response was immediate, telling the owner that's fine, i'll go. steven in kentucky, democrats line. hi. caller: yes, hello, pedro. i came to the conversation late, so i don't know if this was mentioned at all, so i'd like to say. i'd like to invoke the golden rule. do unto others as you want them to do unto you. it seems to me that ms. sanders is getting a dose of her own medicine. aren