and correspondent sarah westwood.ood morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> i want to start with what jessica talked about, this fox news report. and what appears to be a pattern what the president watches almost exclusively on fox news and then what he tweets or does. let's watch this. >> the violence in chicago getting worse, if you can believe it. first 23 days of this year, 42 homicides in the windy city, up 24% from last year. an unbelievable 228 people have been shot in chicago in 23 days. i don't know another word besides carnage to describe the devastation that's been taking place. >> roughly an hour later, president trump tweeted, if chicago doesn't fix the horrible carnage going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings up 24% from 2016, i will send in the feds. >> there's an absolute surge in both gun violence and rape in sweden once they began this open door policy. >> you look at what's happening last night in sweden, sweden. who would believe this? sweden. they took in large numbers, they're having

my panel is back with me, josh rogen, david farrenhold and sarah westwood.h sessions at mar-a-lago. apparently he was a last-minute add, what do you make of that? >> it seems like a strong public show of support from the president to his attorney general. let's remember that president trump was resisting calls for jeff sessions to recuse himself only hours before he recused himself. this is simply the president wrapping his arms around jeff sessions and saying he's still a big part of the team. they happen to discuss the immigration executive order. that's why dhs secretary john kelly is there. the white house i think knows that it sort of has to sort of take a stand against and stick to its positioning, which is now to defend the practice of meeting with the russian ambassador and to make this argument that just meeting with the russian ambassador is not in and of itself anything, any indication of wrong doing and i think that's one they're going to stay and i think no matter how many meetings we find with the russian ambassador and trump administration off

cnn political commentator, errol louis and kpous correspondent for "the washington examiner," sarah westwood welcome to you both. >> good morning. >> sarah, what do you make of president trump's twitter exchange with senate minority leader chuck schumer? >> it was interesting because it sort of underscores the defense that republicans seized on early in the day when these allegations first came out, which is that the underlying meetings with the russian ambassador were not the problem. that's the issue attorney general jeff sessions was facing. the underlying meeting with sergey kislyak is not a problem, that's something senators do in the course of their duties. the problem is the responses during his confirmation hearing. trump's attack, it's accurate that schumer and pelosi met with the russian ambassador but doesn't get at the heart of this entire problem which is jeff sessions should have been more clear when he responded to the senate judiciary committee. it's a good step for him to amend his testimony after the fact to that congressional committee so that the inaccurate and see isn't

political anchor there, aerial lewis, and white house correspondent for the washington examiner, sarah westwood, and michael moore, and he knew boupwur raw raw persona. why require the president to fire him? >> well, he is a dedicated prosecutor and has great respect of the department, and he is -- my guess is i may be in the middle of some investigations, and i am not going to go step down and advocate that responsibility and let those investigations come to a stall, and that's probably the reason he would say, look, i am not just going to resign. >> he's described as a showman, a big personality. how much of this is about his image, his personality, and he was not going to go without some noise? >> we don't know with a kind of conversations took place behind the scenes. remember, this is a u.s. attorney who was very publicly asked to say onboard in the trump administration. it was a rare moment of bipartisanship during the transition when he was asked to say in the trump administration. it was a move applauded by democrats and republicans alike, and now his firing is creating bipartisanship a

. >> for more on this work joined with sarah westwood, sarah, thanks for joining us this afternoon. i want to keep in mind with what kristen was reporting a moment ago. reporting a moment ago. it's important to know that president trump made these tweets without any proof that they were bugging his phones. these allegations are very explosive. we understand the white house expect to provide some details on why he sent these out which could happen today or tomorrow, have you heard anything from your sources about this. >> my sources are silent with this as well. were waiting on the white house to put together a response. it's not in the administration's interest to let a sensational claim like this hangout too long. it give trumps opponents to find the narrative and call this a conspiracy theory and get out in front of it, debunking it before he has a chance to back it up. we have no idea whether there is evidence to support this or if this is based off of the breitbart post that kristen mentioned. were waiting to hear what the back story is. it's in their interest to get that out as

talk more about this joining me now, sarah westwood, the white house correspondent for the washingtonner, lynn and tom fuentes. good to see you. says the proof of wiretapping mb provided. that got the wall rolling, is this kind of passing the buck as long as president trump is able to evade giving up the evidence? where did this come from? >> one that he is not -- enough to the facts. at a time when his administration was finally getting into a position where they could put this behind them. mike flynn had been dismissed so his ties no longer posed a serious liability. we had jeff sessions, the attorney general recused himself from potential campaign related investigations, that eliminate and be a conflict of interest and we have james clapper, formform er tor of national toup january 20th, with russians, but trump is guaranteeing now this russian controversy will see these congressional hearingings and his own making. >> so, is it your belief that the white house keeping this alive by not giving up the goods, there by continues to erode this is a question with an answer. there is a p

sarah westwood with the washington examiner. i don't know if this could be an i told you so moment for donald trump. he kind of hinted about it. what do you make of it? >> this supports part of the president's claim that he was wiretapped. he's tried to identify that as any kind of surveillance, not just a traditional wiretap. it doesn't support that president obama was involved in the surveillance, but there might have been impropriety the way the surveillance was disseminated across the federal government. if an american citizen has their communications swept up in what we call incidental collection through surveillance of a foreign national, their identities are supposed to be kept secret. what happened in this case according to chairman nunes, several members of the trump's transition team and the president himself had their identities reveals in reports that were spread widely across the federal government. >> neil: what is odds here, i don't know whether to give a gold star to nunes, because a little more than 48 hours ago

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to the washington examiner's white house reporter, sarah westwood. it's all hands on deck. get some kind of unity, right? >> exactly. because it's house conservatives that are the immediate hurdle to this bill getting passed into law, the trump administration the negotiating hardest with these house conservatives. they're wielding a lot of power. the last things republicans want is to look disunified on phase one of a three-face plan. what we're hearing is the white house is working with congressional leadership to get this management amendment passed. it's a way up for the leadership in the house to make sure that this isn't a free-for-all. that this isn't members all kinds of amendments, some getting voting up, some down. this is a way to ensure there's an orderly behind-the-scenes process where the players knock out what they want to change about the american healthcare act, add the amendment at the last minute before it heads to the floor and pass cleanly on to the senate without a lot of debate playing out on c span. >> who is giving way here, i should say? is it the c

former chairman of the washington, dc democratic party, sarah westwood a white house correspondent for the examiner and then jeffrey toobin lorde. >> there were no democrats on board with this piece of legislation. it was the first of the three pronged strategy but keep in mind that the republicans were never counting on democrats voting for this bill. in fact, the entire strategy was built around the assumption that no democrats were going to get on board with this piece of legislation and that's precisely structured in a way that angered conservatives and left out some of the substantive policy changes because they intended to push it through budget reconciliation and had to comply with strict rules in the senate that meant they could only be certain things in the bill and not convinced faeds tphase two e would go to fruition and conservatives are the ones who killed this bill. >> jeffrey, the president's message right now is health care going to explode. just watch and wait but don't worry because we'll fix it. if you're a voter struggling to pay high premiums, many say there's thin

joining me, tom lobianco, sarah westwood, and with me here in new york, timothy naftali, cnn presidential historian and former director of the nixon presidential library. sarah, i talked to congressman mike quigley, a democrat on the house committee holding monday's hearing. let's listen to a portion of what he told me. >> and the bottom line, when you look at all this, the president's sign on his desk probably should now say, "the buck stops anywhere but here," instead of addressing the fact that he tweeted something he shouldn't have tweeted, he won't take responsibility. when there's a problem with a raid in yemen, it's the generals' fault. the day after he speaks to congress, he blames his senior staff or it's the democrats' fault or president obama or the republicans. anyone but himself. >> so does the buck stop at the white house? or does it stop anywhere but, sarah? >> the white house has been in a really tough position, trying to substantiate this tweet. there doesn't seem to be any evidence that backs this up. this week the white house seemed to task house intelligence chairman d

sarah westwood. i want to get the read from davis on this, the co-author of the great roth kemp tax cuts that inspired ronald reagan and set the stage for what was arguably the biggest tax cut in human history. that was then, this is now. david, you say time is wasting. >> i do. it would be crazy to go back to the poisoned well a second time. there's 52 senators in the republicans in the senate is very narrow. >> neil: i don't get it, david. >> you know what i'm calling for? donald trump needs to do the equivalent a big landing. the conflict between north korea and the united nations under general mcarthur hill a stalemate. like the house of representatives and the republican party. mcarthur went north in a bold move and scored amazing victory. i think that donald trump needs to go bipartisan and almost in a radical way. that's almost how yes did the 86 tax reform. he can't just offer, you know, a rhetorical suggestion, oh, we should be bipartisan. give them a plan that has not only the things that r

let's talk it all over with cnn political contributor and sarah westwood, white house correspondent to the washington examiner. what does poe's resignation signal and are you expecting more to follow site? >> poe's resignation certainly signals that the fractions within the republican party, between the freedom caucus, between the tuesday group and all the members in between are still very real. when president trump won the white house and when republicans retained the senate, when there was an expectation that neither of those things would happen, i think that the divisions in the republican that were very evident at the beginning of the 2016 primary were sort of fortin in the heat of republican victory, but this letting tiff battle is just a powerful reminder for republicans that passing the health care act will only be passed when all sides are satisfied. it was clear that there was not necessarily on the front end to appeal to the freedom caucus, because those divisions were laying below the radar for so long and now we're seeing it is going to be a challenge and needs to be consid

i want to bring back sarah westwood, white house correspondent, and tom, a politics reporter. is significant, tom, because one of the changes they are talking about is deleting iraq from the list. why is that so important and what would it make any difference? >> they need to narrow the scope of this thing. you don't want to go back and have the same problems that you had the first time because, remember, when they rolled it out the first time this got in the way of everything else. they are trying to narrow the scope of this thing and trying to learn lessons from the fumbles rollout, and trying to keep moving with their overall agenda here. >> sarah, let's talk about the timing of this. he was supposed to sign it on wednesday, and then they wanted the joint address to congress to breathe a little bit because it was so successful, and they wanted the executive order to have its own moment, and do you think it will happen this week? >> i think the trump administration would welcome a change of conversation now with the scrutiny of the attorney general, jeff sessions. they will

. >> jon: sarah westwood and adam from the national journal, thank you. >> thank you. >> heather: nowo a fox news alert on the presidents wiretapping claims with the chair and ranking member of the house intelligence committee both saying that they have seen no evidence that president obama ordered wiretaps on trump tower during the campaign. there committee is of us getting the wiretapping angle as part of this probe into russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. fbi director james comey will testify to the house intel community on monday, we learned that today, but he's also expected to comment about all of this today. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live for us in washington. bring us up to speed with the latest on the investigation. >> the issue is coming to a head with three senators now saying they could get an answer from fbi director james comey as early as today. a short time ago, the leadership of the house intelligence committee held a news conference on capitol hill saying they want to know whether intelligence collection on russian ta

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