errol louis and sarah westwood back bwith us. r this book and what may or may not be revealed? >> i think we just don't have any idea what james comey is looking forward to put forward in this book. i think any account of his public service would be incomplete if he didn't include some details how the 2016 unfolded and his final days with the fbi before he was dismissed by president trump. we are willing if he is going to include his juicy details from his time in office particularly the last two years he will receive an enormous pay-out for that book. i think it will be an instant best-seller and i'll want to read it if he includes some of those very interesting and still unknown details from those last very controversial couple of years of his service. so this is going to be one of those rare book that kind of unites washington. everybody wants to read it. one of those potentially explosive accounts. we just don't know how much he is allowed to or willing to include in it. >> errol, do books like this, tell-alls may be it, reall

but in terms of where that comes it's hard to see at this point. >> eli stokels and sarah westwood. striking picture, the president alongside -- excuse me. these pictures taken moments ago, alongside president macron as these two prepare to meet, first time on french soil. our team here will stick around. also today another big day on the hill. senate republicans are releasing their latest version of a health care bill. does this latest bill have a chance of passing? we'll break that down on the other side of this break. think again. this is the new new york. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new university partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov i'm ryan and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried to quit cold turkey. i tried to quit with the patch; that didn't work. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. for me, chantix worked. it reduced my urge to smoke. compared to the nicotine patch, cha

sarah westwood white house correspond with the washington examiner.ou for talking with us. >>> let's take a break to break down what's going on in mother nature's crazy world, torrential maryland and virginia dc, - >> gwen standing by with a look at what we can expect tonight and this weekend. >> we'll not get much of a break until the early hours of sunday at least. so let's take a look where we stand right now, because some dangerous situations out there with all this rising water. as heavy rain fall continues to hit our area, take a look at this widespread rain across the midatlantic. a lot of cloud to ground lightening to the south, thunderstorms that are causing heavier areas of rainfall, some moving its way towardsin george's and maryland as well as into delmarva. of we still do have an aerial flood warning, right to midnight, the alexandria, the district, prince george's and montgomery county as well. turn around don't drown as we say, this is dangerous. already, we've had anywhere from one to three inches in some neighborhoods and we're lookin

sarah westwood with us. thanks for sticking around.e wanted to ask you, do you believe that president trump is going to bring up the meddling allegations. you wonder if there is going to be a consequence for the president if he doesn't take a harder line. >> the fresh hold question for me would be, are we going to know all of what happens in whatever meeting occurs? even a sideline meeting, there can be a transcript. i would advise the white house that would be the best way to quell any fears that there is something untoward going on. something as close to full transparency be achieved so we know exactly what is said. there will be some real outcries if we don't hear our president say, you cannot p be involved in our elections. donald trump has said, it is fake news and nothing to see here. that would be odd for him to take a different approach. i'm not expecting to hear anything. the key is transparency. >> if the president called russia on it, took a harder line, would it in any way dilute this notion russia was working on his behalf

let's talk about this with julian zeleny, cnn political analyst and sarah westwood, white house correspondenton examiner." there were similar efforts to curb president obama's national security powers we should point out including blocking the closure of the u.s. military prison in guantanamo bay, rolling back surveillance authorities. so, julian, what is the role of congress when it comes to national security? >> well, very often, their role is to do exactly what you're seeing. their role is not simply to support the president or to just give a blank check, but to start to raise questions or put pressure on the president to move in a different direction. it's often very hard to do this. often a lot of what they do is symbolic and take votes on amendments and hold hearings about issues and propose legislation that might not pass but the point is to make a statement as they are doing on russia sanctions, for example, that the president is not moving in the right direction. this is a vital role for congress historically. >> is there any way that congress could be successful, sarah, in trying to

joining us now, sarah westwood, white house correspondent for the washington examiner, and ken vogel from "the new york times." sar sarah, what's the word you're hearing in terms of the president preparing for not only the overall gathering at the summit, but his specific meeting with vladamir putin? >> reporter: the white house recognizes that they will be under an enormous amount of pressure to confront putin about the election meddling. it's clear that if for no other reason than to avoid the backlash back home that would occur if trump did not bring up election meddling, i think the white house is trying to find a way to inject election meddling without acknowledging the seriousness of the hacks in a way that would satisfy democratic critics. president trump continues to believe a politically motivated witch hunt. he has not fully embraced russia's role in the election hacks. so this is a difficult path for the white house to walk. but everyone recognizes they are going to face a serious controversy if they don't bring up election meddling. >> the president did not admit to russia

eugene scott, sarah westwood, thank you for sticking with us. eugene, you hear the end of the piece there, admit nothing, deny everything. set to testify before the house intelligence committee. what do you expect from the testimony? >> well, hopefully expecting consistency, but that's not what he's shown us. many of the things roger stone has said he's gone back on, like, just in the last six months. reality is, people wonder how much to expect from this testimony to be honest and for him to stand by as he increasingly gets questioned and as investigations move forward. >> it is going to be a colossianed door hearing, though, roger stone, himself,mentes it open, wants to give his version of the events. based on everything we know about stone's history, a self-professed dirty trickster, what is he going to tell the house intelligence committee? >> i have no idea. he's the underside of republican politics. he's been involved since nixon in many campaignsing nope for hitting hard, but i don't know that he goes in front of the committee and says th

richard painter, sarah westwood, so grateful to have both of you here this morning.nk you. >> thank you. >>> all right, just beyond six months into the trump administration, we check in with several supporters who voted for him. next, you'll hear why most of them still back him and what they say needs to change. i found the perfect stone for your ring. come in this afternoon. oh. no. no! when the unexpected strikes... don't worry we've got you covered. the hartford strikes back. we demand a lot from our eyes every day. i should know. i have chronic dry eye caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation. so i use restasis multidose. it helps me make more of my own tears, with continued use, twice a day, every day. it's also what i prescribe to my patients who have this condition. restasis multidose helps increase your eyes' natural ability to produce tears, which may be reduced by inflammation due to chronic dry eye. restasis multidose did not increase tear production in patients using anti-inflammatory eye drops or tear duct plugs. to help avoid eye injury and

. >>> joining us, sarah westwood, white house correspondent for "the washington examiner." nice to see you. i want to listen to the president from yesterday's press conference in paris with emmanuel macron. he was asked about his son, this meeting, that e-mail setting up this meeting. this is how the president defended his son -- >> as far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer. not a government lawyer but a russian lawyer. it was a meeting that went very, very quickly, very fast. i think from a practical standpoint, most people would have take than meeting. it's called opposition research. >> most people would not have taken that meeting. that is the consensus in washington. and the president taking a different tax than his son who -- tack than his son who said in hindsight he wouldn't have done it. >> reporter: the fact that donald trump jr. is the one irc -- one who's implicated in the mess, has made the russia investigation difficult for the white house. they're not able to distance themselves from the president'

also alan smith, politics writer, and sarah westwood, all three. let's start with you, allan. you heard all of the statements and we, of course, are taking excerpts from the five interviews that came from jay sekolow. some of the defense he's made is this parallel to ukraine, right, and supposed aide of hillary clinton. >> yeah, absolutely. so, you know, first off we've seen in recent days that the trump defense teams defense is collusion, what laws are broken, it's gone from no collusion happened to collusion is not illegal, if this specific meeting took place, if what they are describing is what happened. and then the teams also trying to connect it to this politico story from january about how a dnc operative met with members of the ukrainian embassy to get information on paul manafort. they are saying this had an effect on what happened to paul manafort later in the campaign when he was eventually ousted based on that ukrainian ledger, so they are making an argument the dnc did this, they are falling again on the campaign and really trying to sort of muddy the waters on ne

jillian melche melcher, and washington examiner white house correspondent sarah westwood.ou are with me. is this a real problem? does this have traction? you would think from reaction from the left it would be the end of western civilization, it is important? >> i think it is ethically, he should have gone to the fbi with the information, what sip resting about this, if it was collusion it was incompetent collusion. the lawyer he was meeting with was lobbying him about russian sanctions. very unusual, campaign would send don jr. gerri: i can't imagine the last time a politician did something classy. call me crazy. this is a legal issue or maybe we should not have done that? so many say, not a real legal issue? >> well, as a political consultant, who has done races for 30 years, this is nothing new. intelligence comes at you all of the time, from all sorts of places, i must confess this appearance does not look that hot. but it is not collusion, thi this is illusion. what is important to look on other side, a woman named chalupa did the same thing in marketing dirt on the t

sarah westwood and forward o'connell. it feels as if they put these deadlines out then they miss them. are they really going off on recess when there is important stuff that needs to happen? >> congress needs to do its job. if they are not label to get it done in the next 13 days, they should stay through the august recess. if they stay through the august recess and still can't get it done, they should be repealing the individual and employer mandate. that's what's hurting jobs and growth in this country. trish: dave is it going to happen? >> it's common sense approach for those senators on the republican side that want to keep part of obamacare and all the regulations, they can do that. but individuals can opt out and get a cheaper, more suitable health insurance for them. it's something that would make the senate bill really effective. trish: the president saying you have got a job to do. i would argue americans sent them there specifically to do that job. they sent them to the house, they sent them to the senate and th

joining us now, sarah westwood, white house correspondent for the "washington examiner" ." also, co-author of the book " "shattered." sarah, you first. what's the wagering on capitol hill about whether or not the senate is actually going to come up with a bill in time? >> the prospects for this bill are still very tenuous even though leadership working through the july 4th recess to build support for some kind of deal. senator ted cruz has proposed an amendment that does have the potential to break the jam and bring on some conservative know goes. what that amendment would do is allow insurance providers to sell plans that don't comply with obamacare regulations as long as they also sell plans that do. the cbo is currently scoring that amendment but even if it receives a favorable score, it doesn't do anything to bring on board some of the more moderate, centrist objectors. dean heller, susan collins, they are going to be more put off by a bill that further cuts regulations, so mitch mcconnell will probably be looking to conservatives to grab some concessions, like reducing

former bain capital partner, and the washington examiner's white house correspondent sarah westwood is joining us in just a second. ed, i talked to one of the democrats working on this earlier today. she said the policy behind it is apprenticeships. the other thing was the shovel-ready infrastructure jobs. the apprenticeship was something president trump was talking about. it makes a lot of sense. did a lot of great stuff in germany. but he was roundly ridiculed for coming up with that. >> they are a little bit late. when they started 8 years ago and unemployment was high it would have been a good idea. the idea we'll retrain people into new jobs -- >> it's the next generation coming up. people in school that aren't studying for the jobs that are out there, there are all these coding jobs, then there are other jobs, there is all kind of stuff where there is demand and not enough people. >> the teachers union supported by the democrats have stood in the way of changes trying to get to school choice, for example. it's been a tough road to who, - to hoe to get apprenticeships in school. t

white house correspondent sarah westwood is here. we talked about scar scaramuccit he's the guy on the way in. we'll look back at the best of sean spicer. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. shannon, you don't get to just yell out questions, we are going to raise our hands like big boys and girls. don't make me make the podium move. this is clearly word and you are asking me how to interpret it in any other way other than plain english. if the president puts russian dressing on his salad, somehow that's a russian connection. reporter: some people said it was only six months. maybe it's surprising he lasted the full six months. >> i'm shocked he lasted this long. it wasn't a natural fit for people who supported him. the president was up against the most of political of individual there could have been. and the president won. why he stacked the white house with the rnc traditional republicans is beyond me and ryan ireince priebus will be tht to go. reporter: sarah, what was that room like today at t

white house correspondent sarah westwood, what are you hearing? >> i think that democrats no longer feel like they own the failure of obamacare. that's clear in their statement today about how the republican attempt at repealing the affordable care act has failed. they're content as far as the democrats are concerned to let obamacare implode. they can keep proposing unworkable solutions like ek panning subsidies, expanding medicaid, doubling down on big government in healthcare they know will never attract republican votes. that allows them to claim that they're attempting to be bipartisan while pointing to republican rejection of those ideas as a factor and why the healthcare system is so bad. >> neil: what's winning in this silly little childish back and forth? you think about that, obviously there's a lot of stitishness over the affordable care act, then along come republicans with a variety of proposals that didn't catch on and got worse ratings than the affordable care act. but it's not as if neither are running away with popularity. >> repub

sarah westwood, former hillary clinton team minute, adrian elrod and hadley manning. hadley?e to talk about how the public is perceiving this. civility and politics. any threat of violence is inappropriate and people, left, right and center would condemn that. there's additional forms of protest that researchers at the university of toronto have found to be counter productive. >> neil: it scares people. it does scare people. adrian, i know you don't support this type of talk. it does feed a narrative that democrats some, not all by any means, are getting a little too zealous and presumptive that this will happen and further more that they're looking loan opportunityists. what do you think? >> violence should not be supported on either side. that includes donald trump's rallies where there's been a lot of violence. includes this lawmaker in maine making inappropriate comments. look, to your point and impeachment, most democrats withheld from doing or saying anything on this. brad sherman just filed and article of impeachment in congress because they want to wait for more facts

joining me now is sarah westwood.new article out of "trump's tweets unnerve republican allies." we have more with republicans and democrats in policy and issues of trying to govern. we look at many controversies of the president launched via twitter, what do you make of these inside the republican tent? >> trump's tweets came at an inopportune time. not that there is ever a time to go after tv hosts. this is the week where republicans were trying to build support. they were looking to the white house to provide some air cover to push the legislation. now republicans are in the familiar position of having to distance from the inflammatory comments coming from the president at the same time they are trying to latch on to trump's health care legislation. his tweets this week threw some unnecessary chaos into the situation that was already very complex for senate republicans. >> meanwhile, because of the week mcconnell had, the president tweeted yesterday and this is a different approach. if republican senators are unable

let's bring in sarah westwood, washington correspondent, and dan dimon, health care reporter for politicon, what are they going to vote on, if they do vote on something this week? >> richard, they don't know what they are going to vote on, and whatever bill they end up picking doesn't have the votes. the republican health reform effort in the senate is kind of a shambling zombie at this point moving from week to week, but mcconnell, majority leader mcconnell, wants to hold the vote, because he thinks that a failure will be enough to get conservative groups to pressure those holdout senators and bring them back to the table. i'm not sure that's going to happen, but that feels like the only option they have left after weeks of negotiating and not coming to a deal. >> so we look at this, i guess, sarah, the white house, we're seeing the messaging coming from the vice president, seeing the messages coming from the president himself on this. is this aiding or pressuring mitch mcconnell to hold a vote that he may not otherwise do? >> well, it's clear that the president doesn't have a clear poli

joining me now white house correspondent for washington examiner sarah westwood and alex hamlin, so,is, i'll start with you. scaramucci doesn't have the experience spicer had, but he did look comfortable up there at the podium. he also is a showman just like the president, of course. he speaks with those big hand gestures. he even blew the president and the press corps a kiss at the end of the briefing. >> he clearly learned rule number one which is love donald trump. >> how big of a a deal is this with a white house that's had a messaging problem up until now? >> but not since -- have we had someone who loved his leader in the same way. donald trump had done 11 holes in one the last time he played golf. i don't know who this -- except for donald. but it is wrong to think of mooch as the new communication director of the white house because donald trump will always be the communications director in the white house. >> well, and we heard mooch, as he likes to be called affectionately. >> i'm trying. >> that is scaramucci's nickname and he embraces that. he has even said in this first

the republican congressman capri cafaro, sarah westwood, we got the two-minute warning from a spray thating from the white house gathering. sarah, what now? what you read into this? >> look, i don't know that it's such a contradiction saying he once helped her to fail, that he wants cleaner po because both approaches ultimately yield the same thing, which is obamacare is no longer in place, whether it collapses on its own chemistry qa by republicans and not for us as democrats to come to the table and work with republicans on replacement that is clear senate republicans don't have the vote to pass the replacement plan on their own. this is the same thing that happened and then house after the initial failure of the obamacare reform bill. then president trump said we should move on and paul ryan came back with what was then a surprise that your economy getting a bill passed the house. the same sort of pattern we see now that the first part of the bill is apparently dead. >> if that is the case as a former ohio state senate democrat to do come you have to wonder whether the president shoul

to the washington examiner white house correspondent sarah westwood and gabby marangeiello. >> i'm lessearing about the rumors how the entire series of events unfolded and what changes are going to happen under scaramucci as communications director is he going on tv as he has been to be a defender of the president and his agenda? is he going to be staffing up and hiring new people to bring into this white house? you know when sean spicer was named press secretary, he brought with him a number of individuals who worked at the republican national committee. are those folks staying on? and if not, who are going to replace them? i think that there are significant changes that are likely to occur under scaramucci's leadership in that top communications post and it will be interesting to see what those are and to hear from sarah huckabee sanders on those details. neil: you know, there is the possibility that nothing changes, that it's a different person, that this president won't change, he will still call the shots, he will still control that messaging. of course he will argue as he has in t

expect in the first face to face to face meete house correspondent for the washington examiner sarah westwood. >> good morning. maria: what should be spoken about in your view? >> president trump and president putin have a lot of topics to get to. clearly the situation in syria is begin to go boil over. it was just two weeks ago that the trump administration shot down a syrian government plane for the first time and russia threatened to shoot down u.s. and coalition plane ifs they wandered west, that was the greatest escalation of the american role in syria to date so clearly we are going to see some talk about russia support for the assad regime. president trump said so in his speech in warsaw yesterday. ukraine is another topic of discussion that we will see between putin and trump. german chancellor angela merkel brought to trump yesterday in talk trying to get trump to push putin to abide by agreements which was supposed to get russia out of crimea and that didn't work and obviously president trump is under tremendous pressure back here at home to bring up election meddling when he confro