our gloria borger reporting that former white house press secretary sean spicer has been interviewed by special prosecutor bob mueller. he is the third white house official in the past several yeex who has been interviewed, as part of this ongoing probe into russian meddling, in the 2016 election here. we are just getting this coming in, but interestingly, of course, sean spicer, the white house press secretary, were involved in many of those meetings as they were crafting the responses to this investigation. so certainly sean spicer has, you know, an inside window into what was going on inside some aspects of those meetings in the west wing. and wolf, we also know that he was a very diligent note taker. he was known from his time here in the white house and before that, in fact, of taking a lot of notes, detailed notes from this meeting here. so we do know that bob mueller has now interviewed sean spicer and this is, of course, is one more sign this investigation is just continuing. >> yeah, he's interviewed reince priebus, the former white house chief of staff. the interest is that

it's former press secretary sean spicer. ny high-level decisions. national correspondent jim sciutto joins us. >> this investigation is amusing beyond russian meddling in the election. sean spicer wasn't involved during the campaign. came on board after his election. so here's someone we know special counsel will be looking to ask can questions on the firing of the fbi director james comey, on meetings held in the oval office office and russian officials. we also know sean spicer took copious notes. that is a dream for lawyers and special counsel. those notes are not protected. that will certainly be part of the investigation. now, on the flip side, we should mention spicer not the closest to the president's advisers, not present in every meeting. would he have been there when key zrigsz always made? not necessarily. but someone involved in the

what possible exposure does sean spicer have, in this case subset question, is it a good thing or a badhing that the guy is known as a copious note taker? >> so, brian, you'll remember spicer didn't leave the white house under the best of circumstances. and there's nothing like having your former employee answer questions from the fbi to make cruwish you'd been a little bit nicer to him. so i think the questions from the special counsel involve some conclusion, but mainly, obstruction of justice. what did the president tell him about why he fired fbi director comey. and when trump famously created this false narrative about the meeting that donald junior had with the russian operative, trump was on air force one, putting the story together. what did he tell you, sean spicer, about why he was doing this cover up? what was he trying to hide? the notes are a gold mine. we could be pretty sure that the special council already has those notes, has combed through it with his crack team of fbi agents. he's just filling in the blanks asking spicer, what did you mean when you said this? >> shann

>> we're learning sean spicer was interviewed monday by mueller's team. n mind, spicer had a close relationship with the president, also known -- and this is important, could be important to the investigation -- temporary taking cope yas notes from the

special counsel investigators have interviewed former white house press secretary sean spicer. that according to a source close to the matter. spicer's meeting follows former white house chief of staff reince priebus who talked to investigators just last week. cnn correspondent jim sciutto joins us now. what are you learning about this meeting? >> what topics they would be likely interested in, one is the firing of former fbi director james comey. he's also known, and this is important, could be important to the investigation, for having taken copious notes for these meetings. you might expect the investigators looking into these decisions would be interested in seeing or having those notes described to him as well. in addition to reince priebus, which you mentioned, anderson, we also know earlier keith kaling, who briefly served when michael flynn was fired, he's also been interviewed now. >> there's also investigation in the senate intelligence investigation involving carter page. >> carter page he's been sort of the public face early on of this investigation because he was w

we also know sean spicer took copious notes. that is a dream for lawyers and special counsel. those notes are not protected. that will certainly be part of the investigation. now, on the flip side, we should mention spicer not the closest to the president's advisers, not present in every meeting. would he have been there when key zrigsz always made? not necessarily. but someone involved in the administration after the election. they are looking into it. >> they've issued a subpoena to cater page. >> he goes back to the campaign, not to the administration. the president identified him early in the campaign as a foreign policy adviser, but it was never clear how close he was has you noted. it's not even clear that cater page met with the president personally. he has been a very public face for some months of this investigation. he's binary willing to speak in open about it. we also know he did go to travel to russia. so he was definitely present there. not clear that he's a central focus of the investigation but we also know the senate intelligence committee often asks witnesses

and the air force one trip, sean spicer was on that trip. it's our understanding he wasn't in the front cabin when the president was apparently working with staff on the statement that don junior ended up putting out. but he was on the plane. so he had proximity, and i'm sure that mr. mueller would want to ask him questions about that. in addition, people are going to go, like jim sciutto mentioned, hope hicks, don mcgahn, the white house counsel. >> i was respectfully silent when dana was speaking. [ laughter ] >> both spicer and reince priebus were pushed out. do you think they'll be loyal to him? >> i assume they'll tell the truth, speaking to the fbi. you can get in trouble for lying, so i assume they'll tell the truth. i think john's right, the contemporaneous notes are important. two quick points. ultimately, mueller is going to talk to trump. i'm not a lawyer, but this strikes me as getting close to the time. if you are doing the white house communications director and the former chief of staff, we're just weeks or a month or two away

sean spicer facing questions from robert mueller's team. more on that when the 11th hour continues. >>> and when trump famously created this false narrative about the meeting that donald jr. had with the russian operative, trump was on air force one, he's just filling in the blanks asking spicer, what did you mean when you said this? >> shannon petty piece. bloomberg today those to zero in on one of the names we just mentioned. not well known outside west wing circles and military circles where he's very well known, and that's general kellogg, why is that? >> i think he could be really -- even more valuable to mueller than sean spicer, even though sean had a front row seat to a lot of the events going on in the white house. i know, because i spent many nights standing outside his office during the firing of flynn, comey, trying to get answers and watching the lawyers and senior advisers go in and out of his office. keith kellogg was more behind the scenes, he's the chief of you feel that's a exposure danger for carter page, tell us why? >>

sean spicer unceremoniously rejected for the wild, flamboyant and very wealthy scaramucci. t hours and in spicer's case, shared volumes of notebooks about their time in the trump white house. >> you could expand that to what he said about mccain in 2015 and how that came back to haunt him later on. most people in management know that if you have to fire someone, fire them really nicely because -- >> because you never know where they're going to turn up and when they might be your boss. so it's a kind of management -- >> sort of a breakup maxim, too. >> his chief selling point to the american public here was a guy who knew how to manage a business, was itself the central fraud of the campaign because anyone who knew about trump's methods of running businesses knew that that contention was a grave mistake. it's kind of, from a shotten freud perspective, it's coming back to haunt him from those who were incredible loyalists and would have walked on coils for the president if only he'd kept them ashd. it's almost like out of macbeth. your character ends up haunting you. >> i've

and sean spicer a p pa re ntly of the white house.t of monday, reince priebus for a day last week. and you see it is getting closer and closer and closer. of course everyone is closer and closer and closer. of course everyone is getting ready to defend their position, the official line from the attorney generaljeff sessions, he wants bob mueller to continue his enquiry and for it to be successful, to be wrapped up very quickly. but i would imagine in the white house there is a good deal of oui’ white house there is a good deal of our knees as it gets closer and closer to the oval office. and this is something that is on a slow burning fuse, but has not gone away. it has not been extinguished. it may not be in the headlines in the way it was six months ago when it felt like a baby drama, but this is still going on. -- daily drama. thank you very much. and we had a picture there sean spicer scribbling in a notebook. he did take copious notes when he was in the job and you would think that is a dream for an investigator. but there is thi

and the air force one trip, sean spicer was on that trip. it's our understanding he wasn't in the front cabin when the president was apparently working with staff on the statement that don junior ended up putting out. but he was on the plane. so he had proximity. and i'm sure that mr. mueller would want to ask him questions about that in addition to people that we would know jim sciutto mentioned, hope hicks who was there. >> maybe it was a throat clear -- >> i cleared. >> i was respectfully silent when dana was speaking. >> both priebus and spicer was pushed out. do you think they're going to be loyal? >> whether or not you're under oath, speaking to the fbi, you could get in trouble for lying. so i assume they will tell the truth. i think the contemporaneous notes are important. two quick points. i think ultimately mueller is going to talk to trump. i'm not a lawyer on the other end of these investigations, but this strikes me as getting close to the ties. your the former chief of staff, the white house communications director, i suspect i

sean spicer the latest big name to appear, tonight what they might have asked, what he might have said, all of it as the 11th hour gets underway. >>> good evening, day 271 of the trump administration. has the president keeping gold star families in the middle of a nasty conversation. and a fight with a senator who spent five plus years as a prisoner of war, was tortured and injured for life. first off, it was during a radio interview earlier today, president trump was asked again about his false claim that president obama did not call the families of u.s. service members killed in action. >> do you want to clarify anything there? >> there's nothing to clarify, if you look at my -- this was fake news, cnn, they're a bunch of fakers, they asked me that question, and for the most part, to the best of my knowledge, i think i've called every family of somebody that's died. and it's the hardest call to make. the hardest thing for me to do is do that. as far as other representatives, i don't know. you could ask general kelly, did he get a call from obama? >> about general kelly, the washingto

hallie jackson, you're speaking from a room where sean spicer used to brief everyone. reporting coming in tonight fresh in our newsroom that he is now the next person on the list who spoke to mueller's team. we're seeing former officials like reince and spiecer talking. what do you know? >> nbc news has not confirmed that reporting that you're talking about regarding sean spicer. we've reached out to both the former press secretary as well as his attorney to get information but it does come on the heels, as you noted there, reince priebus, the former chief of staff had just been in for his interview, his lawyer confirmed at the end of last week, took a long time. these things aren't quick. you're a lawyer, you know how these things go. when you talk to folks who are familiar with this investigation and the special counsel's inquiry they will say it is a sign that the pace seems to be moving forward now. this is what you would expect. of course what's next are some of the staffers currently inside the white house. to our knowledge only one has been interviewed. we're ke

josh, you know, if you look back at sean spicer, he sort of -- the credibility of that podium was gone the first day, literally the first day when he lied to penal what they had seen with their own eyes the day before the inauguration. kelly, though, was repository of some kind of reputation capital and credibility that i feel as a journalist almost is just gone after that performance. >> look, chris, he certainly did give up lot of his integrity. when he launched his personal attack at the florida congresswoman. aside from sort of the basic fact that he criticized her for listening in on the call when general kelly did exactly the same thing, he was listening in on the call himself. so it was a pretty good example, chris. i think where there can be a situation particularly in that briefing room, where emotions are fraught, where the stakes are high, where you might be seized with the zeal and the determination to defend your boss. and that is clearly what general kelly entered that room to do, to go and defend his boss. >> all reporting indicates he wanted to go throughout. he was not

didn't want him there. >> first of all, i only was at trump tower during the campaign once and i saw sean spicer there in the conference room working. spicer was actively on the campaign heavily in the messaging. i don't know if you can read into him meeting with him as proof positive that it's past the campaign. once we knew that nomination happened at the convention -- >> but he and reince priebus was were obviously working for the rnc until he was the candidate. >> right. but my point is -- we don't know what this is about. we're speculating. but i would say paul put his finger on it. i would change the metaphor. i've said before i think mueller is a zombie lawyer. he's going to keep searching until he finds someone to devour. and he is going to search, and notes and all these things. if it's not about russian collusion, which is what jim says, then what's it about? and you can go forever and find something wrong, and i think this is a kind of witch-hunt in search of a witch and i think it's a disservice to the country. >> thank you, i was trying to. >> you've been in the white house where th

politico.com reported sean spicer spent much of the day speaking with mueller's team today. i have to tell you, that really is as much as we know on that story. just to give you the totally level with you, to give you the god's honest truth about reporting ob robert mueller andspecial council's investigation, his process, his team of prosecutors and the special officer, they are opaque as all get out. anybody who tells you that they know what's going on inside the mueller investigation, that person is either a part of the mueller investigation or that person is a lying deal. they really don't leak. so we don't really know anything about what robert mueller is up to for real. we den know at what point he has reached in his investigation. but i will tell you, there are two prevailing theories inside the news business as to what it means that white house chief of staff reince priebus and spokesman sean spires had their interviews. one theory is that maybe robert mueller is getting to the end of his planned interviews, because in a strategic sense, at least in an abstract strate

that includes sean spicer and that includes, we think, hope hicks. and the investigators are going to ask them very detailed questions about how that statement came to be and then compare that to the statements that other people make. >> a lot more to talk about, including the president's decision to decertify the iran nuclear deal, and essentially put the next move in the hands of congress. we're going to be joined next by the former director of national intelligence, james clapper. >>> also later, kids taken from central africa and sold to american families. sold. who thought they were actually adopting orphans. how could this happen? it's part two of our exclusive cnn investigation. directv has been rated #1 in customer satisfaction over cable for 17 years running. but some people still like cable. just like some people like banging their head on a low ceiling. drinking spoiled milk. camping in poison ivy. getting a papercut. and having their arm trapped in a vending machine. but for everyone else, there's directv. for #1 rated customer satisfacti

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sean spicer is the latest trump administration official to appear before special counsel investigators. robert mueller's team questioned the former white house press secretary on monday.. in connection with the russia probe. investigators grilled spicer about the firing of former f-b-i director james comey, and his statements regarding the firing. spicer declined to comment after the meeting. happening today-- nfl owners will meet again, after sitting down with players yesterday. the nfl commissioner revealing that owners -- did not ask to stand during the national anthem. adrianne bankert has more. there is much more ahead are you working on? fallen soldiers fallout. president trump stirring up new controversy. the overnight phone call to a grieving widow. plus - a frost advisory as you wake up. stormwatch seven is tracking the brief taste of fall. and it's the countdown to tipoff! we're live at captial one arena.. as the wizards get ready to start the eason. good morning washington. toss to vj frost advisory: most of the area until 9am this morning taste of fall this week, milder wee

former white house press secretary sean spicer met with mueller's team for much of today according to politico, grilled about the firing of james comey. msnbc intelligence analyst, former federal prosecutor renato. i've been intrigued by this smith smith story. strange for many reasons. after smith basically talked to a reporter he committed suicide a few weeks later. and it was an effort, a very clear effort, to try to get those deleted e-mails from russian hackers. there's a question about how related it is to the campaign. what is the significance of tate being interviewed by muler? >> it tells us a couple of things. first of all, it tells us that mueller is interested in this whole line of inquiry. so mueller is not interviewing tate because he has something to say about obstruction of justice, regarding the comey firing, or what happened in trump tower. tate specifically knows about this specific set of facts. and you know, if you read that story, one piece of it i thought was very interesting is where he talks about this nonprofit that was set up with a number -- with the names

let me just talk about sean spicer. getting out of him and what do you think they got out of spicer in these interviews with him? >> well, it was a day-long thing, about seven hours, is what i was told. and they grilled him about the firing of fbi director, former fbi director, james comey, his statements afterwards, the drafting of the don jr. statement about his meeting at trump tower with the russian officials aboard air force one, and what else. there was a few other things -- oh, and there was also some questions about the timeline surrounding michael flynn's exit. >> let's talk to both of you. you start. who's in the room when trump's first president, the first couple of months, when he's sitting around there like politicians do. they're blue skying it. they're thinking about what they should do. they're thinking out loud, including about stuff that's tricky. who was in the room? spicer wasn't in the room that much. reince must have been in there a lot, but he shooed him out when something tricky got going. who wa

that's why you need people like hope hicks, sean spicer, who were involved apparently in crafting thatly who made the decision to put out a false story if, in fact, a false story was put out. >> julie, you cover the white house. i assume when white house officials hear this, that somebody like reince priebus, for example, was called to testify to answer questions or at least be interviewed by the special counsel and his legal team. that gets folks, i assume, nervous over there. >> i think so. i think folks were nervous to begin with. it's been clear for some time that many people at the white house are going to be at least looked at in this investigation. whether they're interviewed or not is another question. but for several months now it's been the case that everyone's been on sort of pins and needles to figure out, are they going to want to talk to me, and what are they going to want to talk to me about? is that going to mean i need to get a lawyer. now reince priebus does not work at the white house anymore. there are people that are still there, who are still dealing with the pres

me that she wouldn't be here today if it weren't from a phone call from former press secretary sean spicer. sean and i had worked together at the rnc so i had spent a year with him. he is actually the reason that i am standing here today. that call from sean spicer changed her live and now she works closely beside sanders. i spent the morning on you how she handles the job and the press at just 28 years old. >> age is just a number. it was never something soggy thought about it. you should want to be seated at the table because you're the most qualified individual, regardless of your gender, your age, where you're from many you should want to be there because you deserve the seat at the tablement she's yet to fill in for sanders behind the podium, but she's becoming a regular at handling briefings with the white house press corp aboard air force one. >> i am a studdier. i like to night where a team here most people will never meet are an incredible asset to us, behind the scene silent voices when you get up there air force and i'm about to address the press gag l , you're equipped. >> is t

i was stunned that we learned allegedly topics and questions during their session with sean spicer, but i always ask you, knowing what you know, where do you think we are? >> i think we're proceeding at a good clip and that we're going to have to be patient. everyone keeps asking me why is it taking so long? and i keep pointing out it's only been five months since mueller was appointed and it takes a long time to develop a case. as you just said, we don't know everything that mueller knows. we don't know what angles he's pursuing because witness a may have said something that he wants to confirm with lewandowski or with sean spicer. and so we just have to be patient to find out how all of the pieces fit together in this puzzle. and that's what it's going to take is all of the pieces being put together, because you really need a strong case if you're going to proceed against the president. and you don't want to leave any piece out of place. >> point of personal privilege. i want to show our audience how cagey a lawyer jill wine-banks is. beneath her unaassuming gold pin tonight is a flag

reince priebus was often on the receiving end, so was sean spicer. i think those were two people they would have to be concerned about, it doesn't mean either of them would do something that would threaten the president. look, the president has always demanded a lot of loyalty and has not shown it in turn from people he demand it from. i think it's too soon to say we don't know what priebus said to mueller. we don't know what the investigator asked or what he's going to be asked to be spoken to again. i do think there needs to be a concern about the president in general. he's got a lot of aids facing -- go in and don't tell the truth and be seen as loyal or go in and tell the truth and be seen as disloyal. again, does not mean there's criminality here. people are going to have to take their own lives into account. >> maggie, one thing that all these lawyers are going to tell their clients is you better tell the truth. >> i'm aware. >> because -- >> that's not lost on me jeffrey i'm just saying. >> i know but these are not statements under oath. the f

but you're interviewing reince priebus, sean spicer and others.t implies you are looking at actions taken in office which would imply that the president is at least in the broad scope of the investigation. if he looks straight ahead at what special counsel has been doing, it tells you he is looking at the president. >> he also may not know. there is no reason for bob mueller to pick up the phone and tell anything. >> look, to be clear, these are separate investigations. there may be some communication between the committees. there was that sort of cat at the canary gaze. it could be a lovely washington game. >> so the president issuing uranium one. all the money. the disclosure that the government was aware that there was all of this money going into the clinton foundation. >> two owners ago. >> but there is fertile ground. on the do's a, i don't get it. you have the stronger minds. how is hillary clinton tkpwplt or any word you want to put, responsible for collusion which of course doesn't exist in the law but would for a high crime of misdemeano

about special counsel mueller's team which interviewed former white house communications director sean spiceral hours on monday? you have politico reporting that spicer was asked about the comey firing. anything for the president's legal team to be concerned about there? >> i think they have to expect that the mueller -- that mueller's team is going to talk to basically everyone who had any contact whatsoever with any of the decisions that were made related to comey's firing and anything relating to russia in anyway. they're all going to be interviewed. so one of the things that was interesting to me is the fact that he wasn't put directly into the grand jury. so this was an interview, it's a little bit more informal. he hasn't certainly been charged with anything. and he hasn't been put into the grand jury yet. he might be still put into the grand jury. but he's being talked to as a potential witness. it seems to me it's probably a case of they're not quite sure what information he has. whether it would be relevant or use fol to them or not. they probably didn't know until they talked to him

. >> did you ask her about the previous boss, sean spicer? one thing i asked her, what was it like when you became the press secretary? i think some people, if they think they want to have this job one day, they imagine when you get the job, it's like some big, fabulous thing where the stars come out, there is a band, it's this beautiful cinderella story. my story wasn't like that. certainly hers was not because she said that was about four hours between thinking that sean spicer was a press secretary and her finding out it was going to be her. she really appreciated that sean was here for another six weeks or so and it helped with the transition. >> dana, we are looking forward to watching you where we know you are going to be doing great. >> thanks. and i will be back on monday. yay! >> be sure to catch her interview with sarah sanders. facebook friday is coming up next, so don't go anywhere. when you really want to save big on a hotel just go to priceline. they add thousands of new deals every day at up to 60% off. that's how kaley and i g

we learned sean spicer was interviewed by robert mueller and request whether the trump campaign was in on it. "politico" was first to report that spicer spent, quote, much of the day speaking with mueller's team today, and, you know, i have to tell you, that really is as much as we know on the story. just to level with you, god's honest truth, about my reporting on the mueller mueller's special counsel investigation, his process they are oh make as all get out. anyone who says they know what's going on inside the mueller investigati investigation, that person is part of the mueller investigation or that person is lying to you. they really don't leak. so we don't really know anything about what he's up to, but i will tell you, there are two prevailing theories inside the news business as to what it means that white house chief of staff and sean spicer have now had their mueller interviews. one theory is that maybe this means robert mueller is close to the end of the planned interviews. because in a strategic sense, at least in an abstract sense, if anybody's expected to telltales about

. >> both sean spicer and hicks, that moment on the plane on air force one when the president and his aides are drafting an initial statement in response to reports that there had been this meeting with the russians where somebody came and said -- >> for donald trump jr. initially the people said no, he wasn't drafting it, it was donald trump jr.'s lawyers. >> and the meeting was just about adoption and it turned out it was about an offer to provide damaging information on hillary clinton. and so it's things like that where the investigators are going to back to the people who were on the plane who were with the president drafting that initial statement, that includes sean spicer, hope hicks. and the investigators are going to ask them very detailed questions about how that statement came to be and then compare that to the statements that other people made. >>> more to talk about including the decision to decertify the iran deal. >>> later, kids taken from central africa, sold to american families, sold, who thought they were adopting or fans. who could this happen? part two of our cn

you've got the chief of staff reince priebus, press secretary sean spicer, national security adviser michael flynn after only 28 days, white house communications director anthony scaramucci after ten days, steve bannon, secretary of health and human services tom price. he hasn't replaced john kelly who has elaine duke as the acting secretary at dhs, so he can't lose another cabinet, and this is the most important cabinet secretary, the one fourth in line for the presidency. >> reporter: and there is a concern, andrea, if there were any more ousters here within the administration that it would make it that much more difficult to get credible people to come in ask fill these very important positions. dhs secretary, hhs secretary. that's the key focus here, and as you point out, the position of secretary of state is perhaps the most important position here in the administration. so there is a real hesitancy to rock this boat even though there are these tensions that have been on display publicly and that, again, really bubbled up to the surface yesterday, andrea. the president is very a

having just met with sean spicer a week ago he met with reince priebus.t seems that jeff sessions may be coming. right now it seems that lindsey graham may be the next to ask a question. and it hasn't just been about the russia investigation. they've discussed criminal justice reform. they've discussed daca. you know, it's sort of gone across the board. you know, republicans giving jeff sessions the opportunity to tout much of what the department of justice has already done and democrats pressing him on it. and breaking right now, at the white house president trump is participating in a meeting with the senate finance committee. let's take a listen. >> thank you very much. i'm honored to welcome republican and democratic members of the senate finance committee to the white house. i'd especially like to thank committee chairman orrin hatch. thank you. and ranking member ron wyden for joining us today. thank you very much. thank you, ron. we're here to discuss our plan to deliver historic tax cuts for american families, businesses, workers. it will be the l

next thing you know he's hanging out with spicer. >> sean spicer. >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] sour idea? did you think of, "oh, someone should do a prequel." >> it was, oddly enough. well, no, i didn't. honestly, me and todd, my husband, and our producing partner, eric. we were talking about just general show ideas. and our producing partner, eric, was like, "anything that comes from your life is always so much more fertile ground. and it's true. and so we were looking at our families. we kind of talked about my mother and sister for a while. and then we -- my nephew is an 11-year-old in texas. very, very precocious and smart, not in the same way as sheldon, but he's just very particular and unique. and we thought that'd be good. and there's so many commonalities though between that and a young sheldon that i was like, "i have to tell chuck lorre. chuck produces "big bang." i was like, "i have to run this by him." 'cause number one, maybe there's the off chance he thinks it's a good idea to do a show like that. but if he doesn't, i'm going tell him we're going to steer this away

they include sean spicer. of course, the fierld spokesperson. they include the current communications director hope hicks, done mcgahn, and that's pistol just the first group of people close to the president that robert mueller wants to talk to people about again about these topics of the many questions facing thechl. firing of james comey, that crucial air force one meeting. these are all important lines of inquiry for the special counsel. >> yeah. what kind of an impact do you see this having on the white house now in its current make up? >> certainly it does the get the attention of everybody who is there. i think what's yet again exceptional about this time, i think of it as sort of a piano player where you have on the right hand there's new scandals. we've the health care and daca this week and meanwhile over the left hand there is this steady base beat of whatever mr. mueller is doing with his investigation and every single day -- or every week or so we have another sign of how dramatic it's going to be. i think people in the white house a

. >> sean spicer, of course, is gone.ng tall tales cost him any credibility in thing room but it did won him an emmy, i'm sorry, he was part of a joke about his ability or unwillingness to tell the truth. it is now the sara sanders room. the briefing room still a fact free zone. one current example the tape doesn't lie. john kelly'srection of a 2015 of speech by frederick wilson was faulty. kelly standing at the white house podium said the congresswoman said things that a tape of the event proved she did not say but no acknowledge.. just another effort at taxpayer expense to redefine truth. >> i don't believe that general kelly mischaracterized. he gave his account of what took place. eligible kelly and his family have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. i think he's led with honor and integrity. i think he's doing a great job of chief of staff and i don't think he has anything to correct or apologize for. >> general kelly served with distinction. he's an american hero. he's a gold star parent and had tragedy in

says the measure undercuts efforts to keep the nation >>> and former white house press secretary sean spicer has been interviewed by robert mueller's staff. he is known for his extensive note taking during his time in the white house, but it's not known whether he handed over any of those notes. >>> president trump's nominee for drug czar has withdrawn himself from consideration. the bill was passed by congress with unanimous consent and was signed into law by president obama on advice of his own dea administrator. the justice department may ask congress to repeal the law. >>> california firefighters are battling new fires in the bay area as wine country flames ease a little bit. southeast of oakland, the flames prompted evacuation orders. and a wildfire in santa cruz mountains. one structure was destroyed. firefighters do continue to make progress against the deadly fires in wine country. more people are heading back only to find this. their homes are gone. sadly, though, dozens are still missing. >> the nfl will not force players to stand during the national anthem. players met with owners

sean spicer and keith schiller, basically a friend, a body man to the president of the united states out there at the table in the pentagon? any reaction among the professionals? >> reporter: we have not. this story to put it in a little bit of context, it was such a small group and it was so, it's so tightly held that we don't know exactly, you know, we are efforting to learn little bit more about that. but we do know that at least the, as you mentioned, this is a gathering of the senior-most military advisers in the pentagon and they were taken aback by what the president said. i set the scene of the officials you mentioned, this july period is turning out to appear like a real inflexion point even more so if you knew, if you added everything up, you had this meeting that came after this afghanistan meeting that raised concerns among the president's advisers, at the same time, this is all happening when anthony scaramucci came in, when sean spicer was on his way out. when he gave the speech to the boyscouts widely criticized for being too political. he re-certified the iran deal af

i remember sitting in the briefing room when sean spicer said paul manafort played a limited role for the trump campaign. that is not true. paul manafort joined the campaign in the spring of 2016. was then promoted a couple months later and was crucial at the rnc when it came to all the delicate drama. tell me where the white house is this morning and what you expect from sarah sanders' briefing in a few hours from now. >> reporter: right. the first statements will come from sarah sanders. we are trying to get something on the record. i wouldn't be surprised to hear her reiterate that argument that sean spicer first made, that manafort's connection to the campaign were limited. but also what you have been talking about there, hallie, the fact that there is nothing directly in the indictment that links the activities to the trump campaign. that is the messaging i'm anticipating if i read between the lines. let me read you the statement we have from the top white house official we were talking to earlier today who says, the white house has been saying for weeks that the council is movin

people like reince priebus and sean spicer. soledad: the swamp!hua: members of the swamp and the republican party establishment. and almost immediately, you have the white house break out into warfare which inhibited anything from getting done. soledad: his new strategy of backing candidates and sounds to me like he is just trying to blow the established candidates out of the water. joshua: i think that is exactly right, and the reason for that is, i think that the big challenge that donald trump and steve bannon have is to explain away the failures of the trump presidency to accomplish what it was they said they were going to do. in order to explain that away, you need a bad guy. well, the bad guy can't be trump. hillary clinton is no longer on the scene, although republicans are constantly trying to pull her in. soledad: definitely trying. joshua: so the bad guy bannon has decided and trump has decided are the republican establishment. and the line that bannon sells repuand donald trump as their president. th. they are working behind the scenes

price, sean spicer, anthony scaramucci, steve bannon, reince priebus. i feel like i might be forgetting a couple people. and there are a couple of remaining cabinet advisers or top advisers who have been sort of under threat of will he/won't he, stay or go. how, other than the kind of political rapportage, how do you think that has actually affected the management of the executive branch in the process of governance in the early months of this white house? >> a great question. the first thing i'd like to do is i'd like to thank sarah for coming. i know it's very difficult to be kind of outnumbered. >> kind of outnumbered? >> incredibly cool that you would come here and submit herself to this sort of thing. >> it's just a conversation. >> you're setting it up to be real fine. >> no look, i think part of the problem with this white house in general has been the fact that they are learning on the job, so a lot of the disruption that we've referred to, and there's no question that the mood in the country or significant parts of the country is restive. peopl

. >>> coming up, former press secretary sean spicer is back meeting with robert mueller's investigators as another trump associate has to be subpoenaed to testify. the latest on the russia investigation. >>> but first, we are finally hearing from the mandalay bay security guard who first encountered gunman stephen paddock. the night of the mass shooting in vegas. he opens up to ellen today to tell his harrowing story. >> i heard rapid fire and at first i took cover. i felt a burning sensation. >> he shot through this door, right? >> from behind the door. i don't know how he was shooting, but he shot out. we s plit it equally. except for one of us. i write them a poem instead. and one for each of you too. thats actually yours. that one. yeah. regardless, we're stuck with the bill. to many, words are the most valuable currency. last i checked, stores don't take "words." some do. not everyone can be that poetic voice of a generation. i know right? such a burden. the bank of america mobile banking app. the fast, secure and simple way to send money. (cheering) a triangle solo? surprising. wh

job -- well , after a series of other jobs, but it basically all start ed with a phone call from sean spicer she was working for a governor and that put her in a role at the rnc that eventually handed her a job here at the white house. she hasn't filled in behind that podium yet. in can pennsylvania, no one has filled in for sarah a huckabee sanders just yet, but she has handled the white house press core aboard air force one. she gave us a little insight into her site. it's like prepping for a test but she doesn't do it alone. take a listen. for me permanently i am a studdier. i book at night. review the materials that a team here that most people will never meet most people have put in a tremendous amount of time are an incredible who are the silent voices to ensure when you get up there on air force and i'm about to address the press gag l that i'm equipped with everything i need she's going to be beside sarah sanders on the the president's trip toation. she will be taking that trip with her work ing side-by-side with her handling press inquiries. we just wanted to take you inside and giv

sean spicer went goodbye, anthony scaramucci went goodbye. priebus left.nd there are also developments in the congressional investigations into russia's meddling in the election. former un ambassador samantha powers met with members of the house intelligence committee. powers made requests to identify americans whose names came up in foreign intelligence reporting or you probably heard the term many times unmasking those reports that power was into doing this almost daily. some republicans have questioned the motives behind the unmasking. >> ccan't go into the numbers i can just tell you there's no evidence she did anything improper. >> did she do anything improper. >> not going to comment on that. >> this comes as lawmakers look at reacting the issue is that the agency also ends up collecting data of an unknown number of americans so lawmakers have to get something done on that specific section of fisa before the end of the year. >> the bill contains new accountability and transparency requirements to address the unmasking of u.s. person identities which

told robert hasn't mueller's team interviewed sean spicer on monday. use at the end of august after reince priebus was forced out. president schultz latest travel ban has been blocked in may the again. why the judge issued a restraining order on wednesday. the essential question will be animosity towards muslims is a reason for the order. we're told officials are ready by december sewed trade talks can begin as soon as a decision is preceded to make. russell saying the u.k. has still not enough details. twitter will introduce new measures -- she used the site to name and shame allege sexual offenders. will -- twocy former executives have been chart fraud over the place -- allege -- accountinglow standards and company policies to accurately record assets. he says is no truth to the allegations. ofs a great to pay a fine $36 million. a fineas agreed to pay of $36 million. >> thank you. today, monumental speech for president trump in china coming up in about half an hour. japan.seeing here >> we're seeing japanese stocks reach that. we do have some skeptic

sources say special investigators have interviewed sean spicer. the former white house press secretary is latest official, investigators have spoken to in this case, special council robert mueller is reportedly reviewing the dismissal of fbi director james comey and national security advisor michael flynn. lawyers for spicer have no comment. >>> well, white house is blasting a federal judge's decision to block latest version of its travel ban. the ban was set to go in effect and apply to sit sense of chad, iran, libya, north korea, somalia, syria and yemen as well as some governmental official from his venezuela. trump administration says decision under cuts the president's efforts to keep the american people safe. the judge said the ban is dangerously flawed. >>> the pennsylvania house of representatives, has passed a bill that realize on borrowing to close the state budget as $2.2 billion short fall. the plan, also includes one time fund transfers and other accounting maneuvering, oppose by democratic governor tom wolf. wolf has demanded more re