so for sean spicer to stand there at the podium talking to the american people, talking to the world sean hannity and he makes a reference to something that judge andrew nap ole tanno said, he's one of their pundits over there. how the british intelligence service was providing some of the wiretapping services for president obama through the services they have over there, that the judge was talking about that the british -- they sent it to me and jim sciutto that this is nonsense and should be ignored. you have the white house peddling fake news. >> yeah, and so -- i don't think sean or big o'reilly, they're opinion news shows. even fox news, they don't see them as journalists, right? they see them as opinion. >> entertainment. >> it's under their entertainment banner. mike, i have to ask you. and how do you guys sit there, how do you know what to believe and not to believe coming from that podium, which is, you know, of course, that's what they do, they're going to -- everyone who works for the president, they're going to try to spin it the president's way. how do you guys know what

just waiting for sean spicer. quick break. we'll be right back. >>> i spoke with the president about a half hour ago. i speak to him pretty much every single day. spoke to him twice yesterday. so we are working hand in glove on this. we are working extremely close, i gh i've got to tell you i am very pleased and excited and got to tell you something i haven't seen in a long time. this president is getting deeply involved. he is bridging gaps in our conference, he is helping us get to a resolution to get consensus on how to repeal and replace obamacare, it's been very helpful so we are working hand in glove. >> speaker ryan saying we're all on the same page, all in sync. >> today, especially in the exchange with manu are jeraju y noted the shift in tone because he was praising the president for being willing to negotiate. >> right because negotiate was not even something that ryan was wanting to talk about. he wanted to make it very clear, this is the bill and the outline of the bill that is going to stay. not only was it inter

so, it's still his belief system, as sean spicer even said to me in a back and forth on this very topic, that this is the case, but it speaks to a broader issue with this white house. one that spicer and i got into it on just a couple of days ago, which is, this idea of what's phoney and what's a fact. we were asking them the complaint they made on this topic was -- was more broadly about some of the other issues related to jobs, right? they said it was addition it was phoney during the time but now they say it's a fact, according to president trump himself. so how can we decide, how can we understand, how can we interpret when the president is joke organize it's fact? >> there are so many topics to discuss in there. we've got health care, the budget. i wonder whether we'll get past this. we'll watch you very closely. kelly o'donnell, what have you got at the capitol? >> reporter: just grabbed the gop majority leader, asked him about this. he said he's going to look at it and nodded in the affirmation about the significance of this. so this word is spreading on capitol hill. we're in a

for sean spicer to stand there at podium talking to american people and world and quoting sean hannity another reference to something judge andrew knapp ol tanno said on fox news. one of the pundits over there, talking about the british providing wiretapping services through sources over there that he was talking about. british government sent us a statement tonight, to me and my colleague jim sciutto saying it was nonsense and should be ignored. you have the white house press secretary essentially peddling fake news to justify what the president said. >> after complained about it. and sean or bill o'reilly. those are opinion news shows. even fox news, don't see them as journalist but opinion -- >> entertainment. >> it's under the entertainment banner. mike, i have to ask you. how do you guys sit there and know what to believe and what not to believe, coming from that podium which is -- of course that's what they do. everyone who works for president will try to spin it president's way. but how do you know what to believe every day? >> it's hard to know what to believe. to your point ea

howard. >> what sean spicer just did was fake news, the truth is. trump -- this is trump's career, in the new york real estate business. never give up, never admit you're wrong. say whatever you want and try to get away with it. it doesn't work. this is a different game. here is the problem. may be that katon and you are correct and people -- trump's loyalists will stand tight. richard nixon had a 29% approval rating the day he resigned from the white house in disgrace. there will always be some percentage there will believe trump no matter what. the truth is he is not telling the truth. the press corps knows it. i learned do not lie to the press. they're deeply offended by that because you're essentially lying to the american people. that's what sean spicer is doing on behalf of the president. it's not helping the president. trump got elected with 46% of the vote. not all of those are die-hard trump people. he can't go a lot lower and win reelection. he'll have trouble getting the health care bill through. he needs those people supporting him. they

why didn't you press sean spicer on those sources? >> well, because before i asked that question why are you quoting sean hannity, which is a bizarre question to ask during a briefing, by the way, sean spicer went through this long list of news articles and i guess posts on websites, obscure websites that would lead them to conclude that the president has some backing for his claim that he was wiretapped by former president obama. but by the way, one of those articles and i think you just mentioned this, that the white house is relying upon, was written by "the new york times." the president has called time and again the failing "new york times." on the face of it right there, they're leaning on information that they've questioned as not reputable in the past. add to that during that long list of sources he also cited sawn hannity and something that was said on his show and something that judge andrew napolitano said, another fox news contributor. as you and i both know, those are not nonbiased sources of information. they tend to be s

this time yesterday sean spicer was citing claims from this fox news contributor when pressed sean spicer started reading pages of media reports from the past two weeks. >> "the new york times" reported sean hannity went on fox days after the election, heat street, andy mccarthy, sara -- >> just to be clear the press secretary's job is to provide the media with information. not the other way around. let's go to cnn correspondent brian stelter. also political commentator, jason -- and served as advisor for the trump campaign. here the president talk to fox, talk to fox, you, sir have talked to fox, are they standing by the judge's comment in that clip? >> in one statement it says judge napolitano stands by his report on fox and friends. it's an opinion show and napolitano was a guest a few days talking about this idea. his exact quote was this he said three intersection sources have informed fox news that president obama went outside the chain of command and basically suggested the british were the ones spying on trump, he was saying these sources were telling fox news this information but

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this after sean spicer provided a dramatic reading of claims from a fox news commentator not a reporter, claiming that president obama used british intelligence to spy on donald trump. >> on fox news on march 14th, judge andrew nepapolitano made e following statement, president obama went outside the chain of command and didn't use the nsa or fbi or department of justice, he use the gchq, what is that? the initials for the british intelligence spying agency, by having two people say to them the president needs transcripts involving the conversations involving donald trump and he's able to get it and no american fingerprints on this. >> all right, well britain has reacted putting it mildly and we just got word that the u.s. has apologized to u.s. officials. the president could face questions on this with he holds first news conference and made his own evidence about wiretap claims and he'll be side by side with ang la merkel in a few hours. we have a lot to cover. let's begin with the overseas reaction in london, nic, quite a night. >> absolutely first we heard from gchq and i have to st

i usually don't know what sean spicer means. chuck ross at "the daily caller" broke the story on november 11th, this was going on. that mike flynn was working for this erdogan ally. but lobbying on behalf of turkey. so, the fact that -- and the politico wrote about it, too. the fact that donald trump -- his team, it didn't require intricate vetting to find this out. you can read the news stories on november 11th and find out this was going on. >> it's interesting because i guess they read certain news accounts and they want to believe they're fake or not. but alpha bank was reported november or december. and people are confirming it again. i'm wondering if it's just -- what is going on that they are not even listening to news accounts there? this has all been in the news before, as you said. >> and mike flynn also wrote a piece for "the hill," where he did not disclose he was being paid to say good things about erdogan and turkey and to attack their ennemies. and "the hill," just posted today, by the way, an update to that piece

about the report cited yesterday by press secretary sean spicer in the briefing room where he cited a report on fox news that claimed that british intelligence may have been behind the wiretapping of president trump as well during the campaign. the president trying to say there sean spicer was not endorsing the claims by even though he read them from the white house podium, of course, there have been calls for the national security adviser and sean spicer in the last couple of -- over the last 24 hours to say that would not happen again. i'm joined by jon karl who was there in the briefing room. i guess the most remarkable thing you saw there was i guess the president tripling down on his claims by suggesting that maybe he and angela merkel had something in common, a coded reference perhaps to the idea that we now know from the wikileaks revelations that angela merkel had been wiretapped under surveillance by the united states, the president suggesting might have happened to him as well. >> reporter: yeah, in fact, we know that angela merkel's cell phone was, in fact, listened to duri

for sean spicer, it is difficult enough to work for a boss that's never wrong. sean spicer was combative. >> so sean, despite the findings and the senate and intelligence committee. >> no, they are not findings. as you know who days ago, the department of justice asked for a week. the statement says at this time, they don't believe that. they have yet to go through the information. the department of justice as you know has not supplied this. >> today's briefings of sean spicer spent nearly 8 minutes reading from news clipping to attempt to backup the allegation. the source material he cited does not do that. >> we'll look at how this is unfolded. >> lets go through what we do know. okay? >> hold on. i am trying to answer your question, jonathan. if you can calm down. on march 3rd, the chief anchor -- and january 19th, new york times reported the fallen and numerous outlets reported on the fbi investigation into mr. trump's advisers and the revealing of multi agencies group coordinating the investigation. three intelligence sources have informed fox news. jim. >>

laugh at it like sean spicer did and move on, dude. to defend it. >> we're going to keep adding jobs to the economy. this is the jobs president. that's why things are going to continue to get better. >> that's going to be great if that happens. >> if his re-elected in 2020. >> it would be great if he added more jobs. if he starts adding more jobs, i think that would be great for the entire country for everyone involved. i'm sure bill can agree with that as well. >>> thank you, gentlemen. our time is short. have a great weekend. >>> when we come back, not exactly smooth sailing for the gop's health care plan. nobody even wants their name on the thing. y28cny ywty like finding new ways to be taken care of. home, car, life insurance obviously, ohhh... but with added touches you can't get everywhere else, like claim free rewards... or safe driving bonus checks. oh yes.... even a claim satisfaction guaranteeeeeeeeeee! in means protection plus unique extras only from an expert allstate agent. it's good to be in, good hands. bounty is more ab

he has no facts to back up the saturday tweet storm because in the white house briefing, sean spicer read a long lead of media reports that back up the president's claims. media reports. sean hannity, heat street, the "new york times," the paper that the president of the united states referred to as failing and fake. >> sean hannity went on and made the following statement. on november 11th days after the election, heat street hospitaled january 19th, the "new york times" reported. >> you know the president has no facts because he was on fox news last night and explained where he got the alleged information that led him to tweet the unsubstantiated allegations against the former president. >> i have been reading about things. i read i think it was january 20th where they were talking about wire tapping. there was an article and they used that exact term. i read other things and i watched your friend brett the day previous where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening. and wire tapping. i said wait a minute, there is a lot of wire tapping being talked about.

sean spicer will be stepping up to the lectern fairly soon.r chief political analyst gloria borger with us, mark preston, and david gregory, author of "how's your faith?" thanks very much. how significant is the political fallout so far we have seen over the republican health care plan as a result of the congressional budget office report? >> it's very significant, wolf. i don't know how many ways you can divide up the factions. but not only do you have the democrats having new talking points about 24 million uninsured over the next ten years. but you have republican moderates who are upset about the loss of medicaid coverage. you have conservatives who are upset, saying why are we committing political suicide for something that's obamacare lite? you have the ryan wing of the party trying to keep it together. you have a house bill and a senate that is saying we're not going to accept this house bill. and you have donald trump against paul ryan, is this trumpism or is this ryanism? so there isn't any way to say this other than the fact that thi

during the briefing, as you went over, white house secretary sean spicer didn't confirm that. he danced around the question and did not confirm whether these two white house officials mentioned in "the new york times" were in fact devin nunes' sources for all of this. what he did say is that the white house has sent over a letter to both intelligence committee, both the house and senate, inviting them to look at information that the white house believes is very helpful and i should point out i just talked to a source with one of the intelligence committees over in the house, the house intelligence committee that they have received that letter at this point they are not elaborating as to what's in the letter but they have received it and so this is certainly a work in progress on a day where there's a lot of turmoil over here at the white house. there was a staff shakeup announced earlier today where it was announced that the deputy chief of staff katie walsh is leaving the white house for an outside group helping promote the president's agenda. no question about it, that news

has been a bit disappointing, i have to say, because it first of all popped up as something that sean spicer read out from fox news and fox news may have got it from r.t., so that raises a number of questions about whether there was some russian hand in it. but then after that, spicer made a comment which suggested it had some substance to it. then the story ran. it looked like after nimble diplomacy by people in the nsc and the british government that it would die but then it came up again during the press conference that the president gave with chancellor merkel. he declined to say that the story was not valid and sean spicer, again, then said, if anybody has anything to say, they should talk to fox news, and so on. so as a result of it, you got this, in my judgment, ludicrous but members of the british government which i'm not a member, of course, have said in a nonsensical and ridiculous pretty tough language, accusation, that the british intelligence agencies were invited by the president -- sorry, by the previous president -- to bug donald trump's phones. so it's a little bit sad. it's

sean spicer has done a good job. tough circumstance.seen a particular of the past week he's become more comfortable behind the podium and has good command of what the job entails and how to advocate for this administration. >> you have been staying in touch with spicer and other aids, right b welcome. >> i catch up with folks and i'm still a strong support er. >> how has that relationship going? it's been all sorts of press stories. some of these cases you call it unreliable. i think his performance behind the podium and the job that he's done communicating the message has been good lately. >> just you and me talking, president trump wakes up and posts a bunch of tweets about wiretapping. are you secretly happy that you're not working at the white house? >> big supporter of the administration. the one thing i don't miss are the hours. >> we came away tr tuesday and the president saw what total messaging victory looks like. when he gives a speech, there's no reason to step on it. he had fantastic news coverage. that's it really put us in

trump's accusation, white house spokesman sean spicer says, he stands by it, mr. trump would be wiser to say he fired the tweet in anger and walk it back. an apology can be good for the soul and a presidency. >> no, absolutely, look, this is a week in which his own ambassador to the united nations appearing on the "today" program yesterday, very outspoken in her new role, nikki haley criticizing the russians relentlessly when pressed by matt lauer as to whether when she says those things she is reflecting the president's thinking says, oh, i don't know. i don't know about that. so, what's -- >> what does that mean? nikki haley did that. >> what's the international government supposed to deduce from that. when the u.s. ambassador to the united nations speaks, she does not necessarily reflect the thinking of the man who sent her there. >> thank you, ken, simon and joy. up next, rex tillerson says diplomacy with north korea failed. is he toup the job he's supposed to be doing? that's ahead. ( ♪ ) it's off to work we go! woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projec

quick break, we're back with sean spicer after this. . okay, as we wait on the press secretary for the trump administration along with the head of the omb, i'm joined by ashley webster, gerri willis, ford o'connell, capri cafaro, and couple big stories going on in the news today. one of which is this budget we've been talking about and the challenges he'll face in terms of making the cost cuts, and the second is the travel ban. hawaii coming out just last night, a judge saying this was unconstitutional. that is part of the 9th circuit, the good old 9th circt. ford, how would you sum up the 9th circuit?they are more inter pushing their political agenda, as presidential appointees than being constitutionalists and interpreting the law the way it should be done, and it's hurting america. trish: there's a growing tendency, get in the shot. there we go, a growing tendency and i would say this is quite recent ashley for the attorneys and judges to really, you think about law schools, right? and how liberal the law schools are and graduate the a

after that, sean spicer said, look, we didn't apologize. the apology hung out for hours today. the president sort of stuck by this that sean spicer said we are not apologizing for this. this is ending tonight with the british government saying we have no more comment on this but it certainly didn't help matters. in fact the end of the day seems to me to be even more ruptured than at the beginning of the tay and the british government understandably was furious. >> jeff zeleny, thank very much. back to our panel. not like britain is a longtime ally of the united states or anything, fought with us or anything. >> not true? >> i haven't gone insane. this seems to be top of the list given to your point all the important things this administration is doing and wants to do and achieve for them now to be embroiled, upsetting, you know -- you have angela merkel who didn't look very pleased today and president trump clearly looks like contentious meetings. now britain's upset. >> again, to the point i was making, before these are crises of their own making. there is work the administrat

well sean spicer was reading from piece after piece that relied on anonymous sources.and suddenly, they say they are. >> and it wasn't from a journalist at fox news it was from a contributor judge napolitano making the assertion which the white house read publicly before the whole world. >> funny thing, we shouldn't be surprised. it happened throughout the campaign and since he was inaugurated. go back to the false and multiple times debunked claim of 2-3 million illegal voeters, an the promise into an investigation, just as this that has been denied everybody republican and democrat, it's a pattern, worry some pattern that follows the election. i will echo christiane because i was just in europe, it greatly concerns them because they're on the front lines with regard to russia, do madison speak for the u.s., or does donald trump? because often times you hear two things and they don't know the answer to that >> stay with us breaking news in just a few minutes the president of the united states the chancellor of germany angela merkel will both be making statements to th

the nsa director hasn't in the last three weeks and this is what sean spicer said. has the president asked the fbi director or nsa or any other agencies involved to come to the white house and brief him on this new information or is it just the intel chair? if so, why not? >> well, jeff, it just happened. so it's a silly question to ask mely rally as i'm walking out here when the chairman was wrapping up an event saying that he is announcing that he's coming down here, not like we picked up the phone and called everyone else. the first step is to hear what he has to say and who else he's briefed, where he got the information from, and then we'll take the next steps. >> reporter: to answer the question about the next steps, it is an open situation. it's a day by day changing narrative. the president still says he stands behind and stands by the wiretapping allegation that has been debupged again today. so who know what is tomorrow might bring on this, but it is not over. new partisans fights. >> no doubt. jeff zeleny, thanks very much. connecticut congressman jim him

i'm sorry, not sean spicer, jay carney, former obama spokesperson who of sean spicer's claim that thenformation was above his pay grade says actually his pay grade is the highest possible in the white house, same as the chief of staff, national security, and other senior personnel. jay carney is not buying sean spicer's response. >> i don't believe that the president forgot he has president, but sometimes perhaps he doesn't lose sight of the fact that presidential pronouncements need to have a higher standard, particularly something this provocative where he may have read something online or seen something that was written and then jumped sloppily to a conclusion for which there isn't any evidence that anyone knows of including reportedly the fbi director. again, this is a headache for the white house that i think is distracting from important investigations, one of which at least, the president says is essentially important, and i agree with hemorrhages pertaining to the national security leaks, and now we have another one today, this one targeting the cia. >> jon: my point, joe and

sean spicer has made very clear.was asked directly today, book, if he knew the source of devin nunes' information? he said, no, he did not. but what this has all done. we saw a very deliberate, very purposeful effort of the top two members of the senate intelligence committee to let everybody know, all is well, we are moving forward. one of the primary reasons for that is because of what's happening over on the house side, because of what has happened with devin nunes. because that investigation has essentially devolved into nothingness over the course of the last couple of days. and in talking to both democrats and republicans on the kicommite over the last couple of days, there are republicans who are just as frustrated with democrats. and one of the primary reasons why is not just the white house visit, it's not just chairman nunes talking about the new information that he has, it's the state of the investigation. the canceled hearings, the whether one was going to be public, one was going to be private. whether i

i just want to point out, it is getting hard to take sean spicer's statements at face value. let me just say, when it comes to donald trump, he could have handled this in a completely different way. he could have sad, allegations of russian interference in our election are extremely serious. if some of my associates had contracts with russian officials or there are allegations to that effect, let's look into it. i want the american people to understand this has nothing to do with me. instead, he issues tweets that just dig himself deeper and deeper, and you see that his spokespeople can't bail him out. >> and andrea mitchell, the big question to you that may call for a judgment, are we any closer tonight to knowing the fundamental question, what's going on here? >> no. but i do think that the fact that jim comey briefed the big eight, the gang of eight, the top leaders in both parties in both houses on this makes it very clear, i think we can infer from that, i dare say, what happened tonight is that they have seen the evidence, the lack of evidence, supporting the president'

white house press secretary sean spicer said that today despite a lot of opposition that phil just laid out to this bill from republicans. the president is proud of this bill. spicer repeatedly slammed the cbo's estimates that 14 million people will be uninsured under the gop plan by next year, 24 million in a decade from now. basically saying that the cbo is better at crunching numbers and costs than they are people who are covered under any kind of health care system. but spicer did concede that scores of americans will go without insurance, perhaps millions, withothe republican proposal will address that shortfall with an improved system. here's what he had to say. >> the president's okay with -- >> no, he's not. >> -- millions of people who aren't -- >> no, the president's goal is to provide health care coverage to every american and right now they're not getting that. and by giving them more choices at a lower cost, more americans can buy health care for their family or themselves or in a lot of case for their business without paying a penalty which is a what a lot of them are doin

no on-camera briefings from sean spicer. off camera sessions with reporters. to control the message, to make it about trump and not about what spicer is saying from the podium. later today we'll see spicer on camera for a briefing for the first time in eight days. >> it's interesting. people assume that on-camera briefings have happened since thomas jefferson's press secretary. he didn't have one, but it's not as if -- these white house briefings haven't always been televised. >> relatively new development in the past couple of decades. now we take it for granted that almost every day we'll see the white house top spokesman on camera answering questions. the television networks rely on it. valuable for sound bites but spicer indicated he was going to pull back on the number of on-camera briefings. you get more accomplished and it's more productive when people aren't playing to the cameras. the counterargument is that even the visual of having it on camera is an accountable function for government. >> brian stelter for us. thanks very much. we'll wait and see se

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sean spicer had and more ludicrous.ad a good reputation but is now looking more ludicrous. i am sure sean spicer would dispute that. when you look at his face it seems as though he knows this is ludicrous but he has a job to do. a shift in policy from soft power to hard power which is counting support for diplomacy and aid and instead boosting military spending. widely reported yesterday. this is a big pivot and it will encourage his base. the director of the office of management and budget says the reason no question that this is a hard budget. president trump says we do not win any more, we're spending too much money supporting other people and on nature and supporting countries who do not want to look after their defence so they are talking of expanding by over $50 billion of their defence budget. there will be an initial construction phase for the mexico wall. how he is usually important. the countries in the world that are seen as powerful do a lot of soft power were as donald trump sees it as weak as. it is the us

we have the white house and sean spicer standing by the plan. we have the president saying this will b a big fat beautiful health care plan, but no ideas. speaker ryan who is not budging on this, sort of like the ryan bill and hearing from the senate majority leader mitch mcdonnell saying that they will make changes to the bill but send it to the house bill. >> i also think the house is going to make changes from what it sounds like. i think they realize that they can't pass it and as shawn transpires was saying basically, that it is now or never ch you have -- you have to look to the numbers, and people are not going to be forced into biuying insurance. >> he also said ask paul ryan. >> right. but what was interesting to me about this, at the end he was asked does the president still want insurance for everybody? >> does he intend to stand by his promise. >> and he said yes, but his answer was to that was everyone should have a choice and a plan they can go to, so they're met r metr metric, everyone should have access, not everyone should be fo

april, you had a pretty testy exchange there with sean spicer.ant to replay it now and get your reaction to it in just a moment. >> i've said it from the day that i got here until whenever that there is no connection. you have got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a russian connection. but every single person -- i appreciate your agenda here but the reality is -- no, no, hold on. no. at some point report the facts. the facts are that every single person who has been briefed on this subject has come away with the same conclusion. republican, democrat. so i'm sorry that that disgusts you. you're shaking your head. i appreciate it. >> i'm listening. >> but understand this. at some point the facts are what they are and every single person who has been briefed on this situation with respect to the situation with russia,

last night we said if it looks like a walk back and it sounded that sean spicer was turning out a walk back. >> today, he seems to walk back which was unusual. >> he said the president was confident and right. >> the thing that was interesting about yesterday's walk back was that he claims when the president says in his tweet wiretapping, he did not mean president obama had the justice department listening to his calls or monitoring his calls. donald trump did say specifically that obama was "tapping my phone." >> he did not mean necessarily that obama was tapping his phone that there is a broad range potential surveillance and a hole host of surveillance. i asked him what would fall in that range. he directed me to a law enforcement agency rather than telling me specifically what the president was referring to. >> you asked it a few times. >> that press conference is the second most funnest time of my day other than this one. >> true reporter like you keep ongoing back at them. it becomes strange of the degree of which you evade of getting answers on these things. >> francesca on a le

>> well, you know, i don't envy sean spicer's job.e's got a president who condemned wikileaks when they released the chelsea manning documents which were very damaging, applauded wikileaks when they released documents that helped him in his campaign that were stolen from the clinton campaign by the russians. and now is back to condemning wikileaks. it's enough to give you whiplash. but while i don't envy sean spicer's job, i also don't condone the way he's conducting that job because [ inaudible ] yes, there is a difference between the hacking and the leaking through wikileaks during the campaign. but both were wrong. both were serious injuries to our national security. in the one case you had russia, a foreign adversarial power stealing documents and publishing them to help donald trump and to hurt hillary clinton. and donald trump applauded wikileaks for doing that, applauded them for being either a witting partner or as the russians would call a useful idiot in their campaign to undermine our democracy. that is one very serious vio

sean spicer did not answer any of those questions. the white house has told us that they simply do not intend to say who cleared him in, who escorted him in, who started all of this here. so this was a bit of an abbreviated briefing because the president is going over to the epa to sign an executive order, so the press secretary was not taking as many questions as he normally does. but they simply did not provide that follow-up information. back to the yates testimony for one second, yes the white house says we'd be happy to have her testify. that is not the feeling that we get here talking to people. she of course has -- her involvement in all of this, she has some information about, you know, the events leading up to the firing of michael flynn. she had conversations with the white house counsel's office. this is not something as i had they said the white house wants to talk about. so this is not the end it all, but the white house is aggressive pushback on that "washington post" report does not quite square with their through inten

to you so i can tell you if sean spicer is coming out. you made mention sean spicer was on the radio on conservative radio host laura ingraham's show and he said, quote, the president's been very clear. wiretapped to most americans doesn't mean actually as it did back in the '70s and '80s. when you would unscrew the bottom or top of a rotary phone and insert a device that would then monitor it. that's the days gone by when technological. that's how it occurred but i think the president was speaking very broadly. that's why it was in quotes.

when i pressed sean spicer on that, spicer said that the president was referring to progress being made in iraq in mosul and in the fight against isis overall. but of course, when you say that u.s. troops are fighting in iraq like never before, that, of course, completely disregards what was going on during the bush administration and part of the obama administration when u.s. soldiers were fighting and dying by going house to house and trying to beat back not only al qaeda in iraq but later on isis in iraq, wolf. >> jim, stand by. i want to go to manu up on the hill. we're expecting to hear from the two leaders of the senate intelligence committee in the next hour. what do we expect to hear from them? clearly there's much greater bipartisan cooperation in the senate intelligence committee than the house intelligence committee. >> it's an effort on the senate side to try to reassure the publicing that this committee on the senate side is conducting a credible and thorough investigation particularly aftering what happened in the house that that investigation bogged down in politics and n

sean spicer was asked about this during the briefing today. he was asked, do you have any more information to provide. yesterday, at the briefing, sean spicer indicated that there would be some more information coming at some point. he just did not answer the question when asked, well, who cleared devon nunes on to the grounds of the white house? that kind of information would potentially be in the white house visitor logs that are run by the u.s. secret service and maintained by the white house. potentially, that information would be accessible in the visitor logs. as of this point, this current administration is not making those visitor logs or that information available to the public even though we had access during the obama administration. no answers as to who cleared devon nunez on to the white house grounds. the white house and chairman staff are declining to answer the question. >> jim askost scosta, thank you much. let's have a big discussion on everything we have talked about. i have malia henderson standing by. michael morse, a form

sean spicer may yet at the media.aster didn't say prove we're wrong or use some other silly construct they use with us. isn't that the price of this? >> yeah. >> that's why words matter because now this is what people have been talking -- they say it's far fetched, you say it could lead to something. you just had one of your main allies, stop talking to us, had to put out a statement, stop talking about us. >> the bottom line is clear. the longer the administration plays the game with words where the danger is coming up where they are basically making accusations out there and putting things out there they can't defend, credibility goes down. credibility goes down. frafrpgly from the white house briefing podium it's all about credibility. >> when you have to make the case for something serious about national security, can the american people trust you? can your allies trust you to get on board with you? happy friday, thanks for coming in. >> happy st. patrick's day. >> little irish. >> nypd blasting the president over

sean spicer not giving an inch on that point. choosing his words very carefully and saying, look, this was a joint decision. we sat down with the speaker's office and determined that this was the smartest way to move forward. but, again, i think the tone was the bigs takeaway of this briefing, katy. you could see that this is tense for this white house. as they await or anticipate this vote. what they know is a critical test for this president, who has cast himself as a deal-maker, who ran on a platform of repealing and replacing obamacare. there's no way around it for this white house if this, in fact, does not pass, it's going to be a major defeat. katy? >> paul ryan who is meeting with president trump just a few minutes ago in the white house, has left the white house. he'll be returning to capitol hill. we hear that he had a pretty frank discussion with the president about where the votes stand. one last quick question to you, kristen. it sounds like they took every opportunity they could to not only blame the past administra

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here's sean spicer. >> good afternoon.ch everyone up who wausn't able to make the briefing last night on the executive orders on the trade -- executive orders the president will be signing. the first directs the department of commerce and the office of the u.s. trade representative to examine every form of trade of use in none reciprocal practice that contributing to the large trade deficit which the largest major nation in 2016 at $500 billion. within 90 days the department of commerce and the u.s. trade representative will submit a comprehensive report to the president on the causes of our unduly large trade deficit. it's the first time in modern history that an american president has called for such an investigation. it's our findings will allow us to make smarter decisions on behalf of the american people about our trade policy of our country going forward. that's why the afl/cio, the united steelworkers, and the aerospace workers all came out to applaud the order. the second order addresses the current lack of was inm

we have been pressing sean spicer on this for days. specifically we wanted to know what signed him into the white house and who briefed him. we have not gotten an answer on either of the counts but we will try again today. we know the white house, i'm told, working on getting us an answer to some of the thorny questions that could raise real ethical rconcerns. but what we do now, mounting calls for devin nunez to recuse himself from the investigation. >> and the republicans on that committee are now rallying around devin nunez, so there is no rebellion on the house republican side. it is republicans in the senate and certainly democrats that are criticizing him. >> he was asked if devin nunez should rescues himself. and ultimately this investigation should be allowed to move forward, and they have faith in what has been a bipartisan investigation, but pressure is mounting. >> kristin welker, right in the front seat ready to go when spicer comes in. meanwhile tim kaine, the former vice president candidate, thank you for joining me. >> g

sean spicer says i can't tell you for sure. that demonstrates the position they're in right now where there's been a lack of sufficient vetting even from an administration that claims they want extreme vetting with this new travel ban. it comes as it is house intelligence committee has now sent a letter to the department of justice, the assistant attorney general, to james comey asking for any new information about russian interference. so, these all sort of, i think, intersect in some form in terms of who it is ultimately that's advising this president and how well they've been vetted. >> we trust people, is what sean spicer said. david, a whole lot of smoke, every day a little more smoke. they keep getting caught in these circumstances where some might say they're lying, others might be a little more friendly and say they're defying the truth. what are we seeing here? weave jeff sessions, who is not being entirely truthful. we have michael flynn who wasn't being entirely truthful. we have an administration that says they were

. >> reporter: and we will get that information, two days now in a row from that podium sean spicer is trying to de-emphasize what that will be. >> to his credit. >> i don't know if it will have a huge success for him because as you know from covering this for years, the ceo is the sort of referee where all the pack an forth is going on between the two parties, they come in and put a number on it. that number appears in everybody's talking point and each side tries to spin it but it is the neutral arbiter to say this is how many people are going to be covered and how much it will cost and people are taking that to the bank. >> for the alphabet soup in washington, republicans who the president aptnd the g.o.p. leadership care very much about the cost they haven't seen yet. >> sure, they do, but we also have voters right republicans so far if you luook at the polls support donald trump something like 90% and a lot of voter to voted for him although he was promises big ticket items, promised not to touch entitlement at all. it's going to be interesting what people like laura ingraham, rus

it will be interesting to see how president trump and sean spicer responds to the later report. they pointed out that clapper didn't see conclusionive intelligence. he clarified he was referring to before january 20th and that's still ongoing. >> a week and a half ago, sean spicer said we will have nothing further to say. he was talking about the president's allegation and surveillance against him. either as a candidate or during the transition. the two things have been tethered together and spicer has continued to comment on it. including today where he read a litany of allegations and related facts about the clintons. the election is over. at a certain point it will be hard for the white house to pivot to either the candidate or the media is out to get us. they are either going to have to say to carl's point the president has not expressed much concern or worry that a foreign entity did meddle according to the intelligence community in the election he won. he sees it as delegitimizing, but there is a broader problem and the white house has been undisciplined about this and had

. >> sean spicer played baghdad bob -- >> the president said clearly when he roughered to wiretapping, it was surveillance. >> i'm not going to go justify every tweet. i don't pay that much attention to it. >>> we now know that most people in the national news media do not watch fox news. and that is good because fox news is an organ of the trump administration. they compete viciously for who can be donald trump's best tv friend. we know that the national news media doesn't watch fox news because if they did they would not be asking so many questions like this today. >> so sean, you were extremely confident that the house and senate intelligence committees would vindicate the president's allegation that trump tower was wiretapped and i'm sure now you have seen they see no indications that trump tower was the subject of surveillance. that seems to be a blanket statement, what's your reaction? >> a good, solid question. and i would play you sean spicer's answer if it was anything other than the usual study of double talk that goes on and on and on and it would eat up the whole segment.