none of them can tell you what sebastian gorka does. in fact, it's been reported that sebastian gorka doesn't even have a security clearance precluding him from sitting in on any of these sort of national security meetings. president trump sarcastic or not earlier this week thanked president putin for cutting down the u.s. government payroll. there seem to be about 155,000 reasons for letting sebastian gorka go from the white house in addition to the fact that he seems to do very little for our national security. >> in addition, you then have this memo. really quickly on this memo from an nsc official who was fired because of it.

sebastian gorka did get a phd in political science.astian gorka friend is an adviser on his dissertation which he says was competent. he calls some of the criticism partisan. >> he is knowledgeable, i would not call him an expert on terrorism. >> sloan says he didn't anticipate his huge rise in the white house. >> his level of expertise doesn't match the level where he stands in the white house. >> sebastian gorka's work in the u.s. began when he sat up think tanks along with his wife whose family runs an iron company in pennsylvania, and sebastian gorka began to offer himself on islamic terror, even writing a book called "defeating jihad," and was a favored guest on fox tv. his own resume includes teaching at the fbi, but his company's contract was not renewed. he submitted a brief in the boston bottoming federal terrorist case but was never called to testify. and yes, he was a professor at georgetown university, although he was not a fully tenured member of the faculty. >> he seems on paper to have a pretty good resume. but when it c

sebastian gorka will be here on this program on monday night. stay with the fox news channel tonight. all weekend long. continuing breaking news of the hurricane. our prayers for everybody out there. we will see you back on monday. >> good evening, 11:00 p.m. on the east coast. at 10:00 p.m. in corpus christi, texas. you are looking live as hurricane harvey, a massive category 4 storm bears down on the lone star state. literally do do to make landfal any minute now. fox news has a live team coverage. we will take you to the area where the eye of the big storm has been hitting hard for several hours. update on harvey's path and what we should expect in the next few hours. fox news meteorologist joining us now. >> this is the eye of that storm. just crossing over that barrier island right there. when it's right in the middle of the eye, to get the crossover -- look like what's going to be here any second. we are going to see the most intense wins for the last hour, we have seen rockport move through that area. we are talking consistently up to 130

your reaction to sebastian gorka being pushed out so the white house says. they say he did not resign. gorka has been associated with what a lot of people call alt-right. the trumpist wing right now of the republican party. gorka says he thinks the ascendent group inside the white house is this more -- what some people consider more moderate wing. do you think that assessment is an accurate assessment and does that concern you? >> it's a captain obvious statement. there are no conservatives in significant positions of influence within the white house itself. you have scorick perry at energ but not in the white house. i really don't know much about gorka. i never really understood why he was there in the first place. but i will say that on the more general point, the white house is not peopled with conservatives at this point. they're just not there in positions of influence. >> we could go down the roster, but i do think your opinion of that is certainly significant in and of itself as someone that worked as part of the party as long as uyou have. i'm not arg

what's interesting, sebastian gorka said that he resigned his position. those within the white house do not concur with that, they just say that he is no longer part of the administration. so you've got to wonder what kind of machinations were going on behind the scenes, perhaps that general kelly was the one who was calling the shots on that. heidi, with regard to the pardoning power here, how is this perhaps a trial balloon of sorts to test the limit of the president's pardoning power relative to russia? >> well, that is the big question. any pardons that would come in the russia investigation would be way down the line, but a lot of the smart conservatives, and i will say this is not a liberal democratic position, these are conservatives who are now coming out and making statements on twitter and elsewhere, that this could be some kind of a precedent setting, also a message to those in the russia investigation that, hey, if you want to not cooperate with mueller, this is the extent to which i'm willing to go to make sure that you are taken care of, tha

and sebastian gorka is out tonight. we will have the latest on this very busy night of breaking news. right here on cnn. again, thank you for staying with us. thank you for joining uh us. our reporters are in the middle of the storm along the texas coast. cnn chad myers in hurricane headquarters. so, we get to chad in a moment. cnn's martin savage is in corpus christi, texas. martin, understand you are in full frontal assault. what is happening where you are? >> you are right. seems that every hour i keep telling people that they is, couldn't get worse. and yet, every hour it does seem to get worse. and now, it's, about the wereest we have seen so far. the way -- weather is not just howelling, not blowing, it is blasting. it is like standing in, in behind a 747 and trying to remain on your feet as a struggle. the rain that comes at you is coming at you horizontally. it stings on every part of your exposed skin. visibility has been reduced. obviously by darkness. outside of the immediate lights here. all along the water

his * sebastian gorka resigned from the white house.s the afghanistan policy have something to do with that? (keyboard sounds) dear freshpet, tank was overweight and had no energy. until freshpet... put the puppy back in my dog. lisa: sebastian gorka is out as deputy assistant to president trump. i want to talk about afghanistan as well as sebastian gorka. he's critical of president trump. i want to read your quote and get your thoughts on that. he says the peach removed i mention of radical islam or radical islamic terrorism. what were your thoughts on the president's speech and what were your thoughts on gorka's statements about it? >> i think the president has proven time and time again that he recognizes the role militant islamic terrorism plays. but there is as foundational ideology fueling that throughout the middle east and europe and pockets of the united states. so the president understands that. i thought not having that in the speech was more because he was focusing on the military strategy. i think it its concerning with som

soils. >> cnn has tried for month to get answers from gorka and the white house on sebastian gorka's ties and level of security clearance and an in-depth interview with gorka. the white house's press office and gorka himself have refused. what's the sense of gorka's job is? >> yeah, i keep on watching my e-mail to see if happens. he's on thin ice and a if it hooped. there is a nervous feeling within the white house given the number of changes made in the past few weeks. officials say it's not so much about bannon as it is the overall stability. no hard evidence but the official speculated that sebastian gorka may be the next person to go down. that is a quote from a senior administration official speaking on condition of anonimity, and i did speak to one source, have you been fired or offered a resignation? no response. no response at all from this guy. >> all right. that is as of now. drew griffin, thank you very, very much. >>> coming up, changing hearts and minds in charlottesville. the mayor reverses courses and now says he wants confederate statues moved from downtown. i'm going

curt, i have to ask about sebastian gorka. source told cnn gorka submitted his resignation today after it was clear he wouldn't have a role going forward. but another official disputed gor gorka did not resign. also he's walking a fine line now that gorka is gone and bannon is gone. he's got to be really careful about that base. >> and i think you're seeing gorka had that letter written the minute steve left the white house. i think it was clear he was not going to survive. i'm sure all of us are expecting that announcement that gorka will be going back to breitbart just as bannon did. i think the real challenge for this white house for president trump that's really concerning is he keeps hemorrhaging staff and never replacing anybody. and so who's actually in place to take care of the business of the federal government particularly at a time when you have a major disaster happening and unfolding before our very eyes? who's actually doing something for this government? >> i've got to ask you something but i've got to get to th

president trump's deputy assistant, sebastian gorka, has resigned.s letter of resignation the national security expert said people in the white house were undermining the president's policies. mr gorka was closely aligned to the nationalist steve bannon who was ousted earlier this month. a man has been shot and killed by security forces in brussels after attacking two soldiers with a knife. the man, a belgian of somali origin, shouted "allahu akbar" or " allah is the greatest." prosecutors said they were treating the incident as a terrorist attack. the soldiers were slightly wounded. two police officers in london have been slightly wounded tackling an armed man outside buckingham palace. a man in his 20s has been arrested. the metropolitan police said it was too early to speculate on a motive. stay with us here on bbc news. still to come. we'll have the latest from vegas and one of the most hyped contests in boxing history. now, they were small businesses that found themselves in trouble, during the financial crisis. but instead of helping them their

if stephen miller, has a long-standing history of being a racist, and we have sebastian gorka and hise katharine gorka him who are very much anti-islam. anti-islam in but general. it does that surprised me we were the only organization that was focused on countering far right extremism that was cut from the program. in fact, we're the only organization in the western hemisphere that focuses on disengaging far right extremists. with views held like the gorkas have, it does not surprise me at all. it is disheartening because i think it is going to hurt our ability to be able to tackle probably the biggest problem we're facing right now in america, which is white domestic terrorism. amy: another participant in the white supremacist rally in charlottesville was a man named peter tefft, who was outed by yes, you'regroup , racist, which had been posting screenshots of participants in an effort to expose them. the site posted a picture along with the tweet, "this charming nazi is pete tefft of fargo, nd." on monday, pearce tefft publicly denounced his white supremacist son, peter, in an open

pardoning joe arpaio, it certainly keeps the base happy, but was there a strategy to ousting sebastian gorkas just say for the record, gorka himself says he actually resigned but the white house is not confirming that, so we're going to say ousting at this point. any strategy to it? >> i think the important context to view the ouster of gorka under is chief of staff john kelly. remember, john kelly's been -- has been in the white house for about a month now and since his a rival, we've seen the departure of three of the most controversial white house figures within president trump's orbit. we've seen former communications director anthony scarmucci get shown the door and probably most significantly former chief strategist steve bannon and now gorka so i think what this signals is kelly has been given broad latitude to kind of clean house in what has been an extremely tumultuous white house. the question now that i'm hearing from gop operatives that are to the white house is, you know, this doesn't necessarily, just because kelly has been given the authority to impose order on white house sta

none of them can tell you what sebastian gorka does. in fact, it's been reported that sebastian gorka doesn't even have a security clearance precluding him from sitting in on any of these sort of national security meetings. president trump sarcastic or not earlier this week thanked president putin for cutting down the u.s. government payroll. there seem to be about 155,000 reasons for letting sebastian gorka go from the white house in addition to the fact that he seems to do very little for our national security. >> in addition, you then have this memo. really quickly on this memo from an nsc official who was fired because of it. rich higgins talking about marxists and deep state actors. that is what's going into donald trump's brain. >> he read the memo after donald trump jr. sent it to him. >> who shouldn't have had it. >> just in terms of gorka, if this had been any other administration, rex tillerson would be calling the president and saying, i want that guy out, and he would be fired. it's kind of peculiar to me that tillerson is p

sebastian gorka says, wearing is merely ai medal tribute to his late father.dn't dad have a favorite thai? really? i don't about you, but i don't particularly where my father's neo-nazi metals. amy: and steve bannon? >> here is the politics have in the white house. president trump is clearly afraid to fire steve bannon because president trump probably wonders what else steve bannon -- he is destroying the country. amy: let me play what president trump had to say about him interesting that steve bannon is not a racist. pres. trump: i like mr. bannon. he is a friend of mine. it mr. bannon came on very lata. i went through 17 senators, governors, and i want all of the primaries. mr. bannon came on much later than that. he's a good man. .e is not a racist he actually gets a very unfair present that regard. we will see what happens with mr. bannon. he is a good person. i think the press treatats them ununfairly. >> donald trump really is the expert on saying whether someone is racist? give me a break. come on. i am intrigued by that clip. we had heather heyer die o

white house aide sebastian gorka out.d president trump pardons joe arpaio, tweeting i have just pardoned 85-year-old american patriot sheriff joe arpaio. he kept america safe. reaction to the president's pardon of sheriff arpaio has been swift. till us about it. >> swift. >> swift and growing condemnation on both sides. we should note that right out of the gate, the justice department and others are making it clear that this was distinctly president trump's decision. this was a call by him. this was a personal pardon by the president. a spokesman saying we respect his decision. a source telling cnn, this is the president's pardon. joe arpaio was a staunch supporter of president trump's during the campaign. i was the sur garogate on the campaign trail. he was convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to stop racially pro pilifiling latinos. there was a lot of speculation as to whether the president would be announcing a part at the rally. that speculation because the president's approval has narrowed. he has played more

sebastian gorka in washington, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen.t to begin with something you just said five days ago, you said, "the atmosphere here in the white house is absolutely wonderful. we've got a new broom sweeping through the communications shop in anthony scaramucci and we are humming along on all cylinders." plenty has happened since then. what's the atmosphere in the white house like today? fabulous. i literally just left the oval office, where we swore in general kelly as the president's new chief of staff. it was like a family gathering, great, great, great mood, lots of press interest, so we are very excited about recent developments. are you? quite interesting, this is a heck of a family you're living in, at the moment. mr scaramucci, who you so warmly welcomed last week, with his words to the new yorker has surely throwing a bomb into the building behind you, the white house. not at all. i know that's what our colleagues on the hill on the left and in the chattering classes of the leftist media would want people to believe, but i

then word came that trump's controversial white house advisor sebastian gorka was no longer working thereand that was followed up by another major headline, as the president signed a directive banning transgender military recruits. cnn white house correspondent athena jones joins us now to walk through all of these developments and the storm of controversy that these moves seem to be causing. athena. >> reporter: hi, fred. well, when it comes to pardoning sheriff joe arpaio, this is something that the president hinted or suggested he would do in an interview, an exclusive interview with fox news earlier this month from his bedminster golf course. at that point he said arpaio had done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration. we heard him on tuesday night hint at that rally in phoenix that sheriff arpaio is going to be just fine but kind of joking with the crowd saying he didn't want to make this announcement that night to sort of avoid controversy. well, now last night we got the official statement from the white house at 8:00 p.m. on this pardoning, this decision to pardon sheriff

last week, sebastian gorka made a statement that we criticize white supremacist too much. seeing very clearly and we should be demanding a course direction from every single member of congress should be standing up and saying, you know what, maybe we were asleep at the switch but today let's prove at least david duke makes this a turning point for the court, not in the way he meant but where we get our senses back and recognize what we are supposed to be, what we are supposed to stand for and we become uncompromising on that including with this president. >> there were attacks on members of the clergy, physical attacks, people who had bats and brass knuckles. what do you make on the attacks on the members of the religious community today? >> yes. so the clergy knew what was going to happen and they were not armed and came prepared for their faith and to the extent they came to injure them or harm them, what's what we want to hear, his preparedness to fully investigate those who came to do violence against peaceful protesters. what we wanted to hear was the president say, i

he kept arizona safe" around the same time reports started to surface saying sebastian gorka

house gave the statement sebastian gorka has not resigned but i can acknowledge he no long every works at the white house. deresign did he resign or was he fired? >> to have a whenly official in the comms shop basically lie about how i left the white house, that disappointing. it's disturbing. the fact of the matter as was reported in the federalist and elsewhere after the afghan speech and i decided it's time to resign and support the president from the outside more effectively. i told general kelly, i requested a meeting with him. i informed him both over the phone and via e-mail on friday that as of that day i am

sebastian gorka out of the administration. ere has been a tussle because he returned to "breitbart." he had a stinging resignation letter saying make america great people have been undermined. but there are report that gorka was forced out. emily: the white house says he was forced out. they didn't say he was fired. and gorka said he resigned. but i think there was sloppiness on the coverage friday night. howie: his main job at the white house was to be a cable news surrogate sticking it to the pundits. erin: i think steve bannon and sebastian gorka and others can still be effective trump surrogates from outside the white house. but it's fascinating the white house went so far as to try to clarify this. usually the white house want to keep a lid on this staff drama. i thought it was interesting. this is a little bit off that topic. but how the white house is handling things because in the middle of the week the white house put out a statement saying the president and mitch mcconnell are actually on the same page about things. t

sebastian gorka and his resignation level to the president wrote the about the afghanistan speech. the fact that those drafted and approved the speech removed any mention of radical islamic terrorism proves that a crucial element of your presidential campaign has been lost. is gorka right? >> i think he's completely wrong. it shows a lack of understanding of the president's broader policy when it comes to protecting americans at home and abroad with all terrorism. terrorism has manifested itself in many types of organizations. the president has charged us of developing policies and practices to attack terrorism wherever it exists in the world or where there wherever it would pose a threat to america's. we need to develop techniques that are global in their nature. we want to ensure terrorist do not have the capability to organize and carry out attacks. >> chris: what you make of this vision between america first and these globalist. >> i don't see a division. i think it's a question of tactics and how you achieve those. the present was clear that we are not undertaking nationbuildi

it's being reported that president trump's deputy assistant, sebastian gorka, has resigned.the controversial former arizona sheriff, joe arpaio. we are speaking out to a staff writer with politico magazine. another resignation from the white house, explain why this is significant? in many ways, it is not especially significant. sebastian gorka was a national security adviser who seems to have never been given a security clearance. he was never really on the national security council wants mcmaster took over from security council wants mcmaster took overfrom michael flynn. he was not based in the white house but was based in the white house but was based next door in the office complex that is next door —— once. he was under the protection of steve bannon, he was not really doing much in hisjob and now bannon, he was not really doing much in his job and now that steve bannon is gone, sebastian gorka is leaving as well. in terms of this other announcement, a former arizona sheriff, that is going to be controversial, isn't it? pardoning of this man? yes, the share of had been c

and now that steve bannon has gone, sebastian gorka has gone as well.t, this former arizona sheriff, that will be controversial, the pardoning of this man. that is correct. he was convicted of co nte m pt of correct. he was convicted of contempt of court. a federaljudge had ordered him to stop a practice of racial profiling of hispanics in his attempt to crack down on immigration. 0bviously, donald trump was elected on a promise of cracking down on immigration. arpaio supported donald trump in 2015. this is on message for donald trump. but obviously this is going to be controversial. now, it is friday evening on the east coast of the united states, and a natural disaster, we think, possibly in the making with hurricane harvey. yes. donald trump his earlier this week ata donald trump his earlier this week at a rally in arizona that he was likely to pardon arpaio. he said it was perhaps too controversial to do it at that time. but this hurricane has given him a window. thousands of residents in texas have been told to evacuate their homes as hurricane har

sebastian gorka, wore the medal of a nazi organization.ng paid by the taxpayer in the government of donald trump. >> and national security adviser h.r. mcmaster asked about working with gorka and bannon. take a listen to this. >> this gentleman by the name of sebastian gorka. what's his role in the national security council? >> he is not in the national security council. what we have -- >> seems to represent himself as a spokesman on the national security. why is that? >> the scheduling people for the media and spokespeople is not my area of responsibility. >> can you and steve bannon still work together in this white house or not? >> i get to work together with a broad range of talented people. it is a privilege every day to enable the national security team. >> you didn't answer. can you and steve bannon work in that same white house. >> i am ready to work with anybody who will help advance the president's agenda. >> dancing around those questions. isn't he? reverend? with me all hour, and howard dean, richard painter, former white house

last week, sebastian gorka said that we criticize too much.rly and what we should be demanding is a course direction. not from us but from the president of the united states and from every single member of congress should be standing up and saying, you know what, we were asleep at the switch but today let's prove that this is a turning point for this country. not in the way he meant but where we get our senses back and recognize what we're supposed to be and what we're supposed to stand for and become uncompromising on that, including with this president. >> and lastly, you know, there was also a march that frightened people inside of a church and there were attacks on members of the clergy, physical attacks, people who had bats and brass knuckles. what do you make of the attacks on members of the religious community today? >> the clergy was there and they knew what was going to happen and they were not armed and came prepared with their faith and people came with the extent to harm them in some way. that's the kind of thing we want to hear fr

the secret service stating joc, joint operations center, please notified officers, do not admit sebastian gorka executive office of the president blue pass holder. he is do not admit and his pass deactivated. in a follow-up e-mail sent at 7. :14 p.m. mr. gorka is likely still in position of his piv and white house pass as dna status was performed without him being on complex. we spoke with two former white house staff members who said an e-mail like this is not remotely normal saying they had never seen a direct ef like this for an employee voluntarily departing. this does not prove he was fired but he is definitely not allowed back. it seems the era of sub gorka at white house is over. >>> police have now charged three more people after violent attacks against counter protesters in charlottesville a little over two weeks ago. daniel patrick gourden and alex michael have been charged with the brutal beating of deandre hair. the attack spread on social media. another incident caught on tape went unnoticed until the aclu found footage and gave it to the fbi. showing a white supremacist yelling th

the president might get a reprieve from him legally speaking. >> well, i want to ask you about sebastian gorka was bannon, now it's gorka. they're both from that nationalist thought process. what do you make of the fact that they're now both gone? >> some of it had to do with the fact that they were running kind of a rogue operation within the white house, right? sebastian gorka, i remember being on multiple programs where he would talk scornfully and sarcastically and making pronounce innocents about national security but he wasn't on the national security council. he had a vague undefined role. he would criticize other members of the administration apparently including the secretary of state which i think was the last straw that saw him get thrown out of there. steve bannon was kind of the same. they were so busy playing politics within the administration, so busy trying to sort of fight for the president's attention and undo their ideological enemies within the white house that, whether their view was going to prevail or not, the style with which they conducted this internal warfare was jus

>> i don't work with dr. -- with sebastian gorka.m a previous life and a previous career but i have not spoken with him about the comments he made. while we're on dprk, let's stick to that. any questions on dprk? okay. hi, rich. >> and this is in the diplomatic lane. talking about china, south china sea, freedom of navigation. china says the recent u.s. navigation operation harms chinese sovereignty. this is an issue in response to what we've seen before. do issues like freedom of navigation, some economic issues, do they make for a more difficult campaign on north korea with china? >> freedom of navigation operations happen all around the world. they tend to get the most attention when they happen in the south china sea. they happen off the coast of canada. they happen in the waters offshore of our major allies, friends, all around the world. that's why we're focusing on it right now. that's why you're asking me that question because of the issue of dprk. as you know, secretary tillerson coming back from the asean conference where t

or the white house is lying its teeth off about the fate of sebastian gorka. one of the two is correct and only one of them can be. >> i appreciate the logical line you're drawing. why do you think this president, who got famous pretending to fire people on a reality show, has such a difficult time closing the deal if he did it anything like his famous catch phrase in any public setting or had a clear and orderly process, there wouldn't be these constant recriminations, every friday night they force someone out. >> that's just trump's style. it's a cliche almost at this point to note that the president does not enjoy firing people. he prefers other people, when he's not in the context of reality tv, to do his dirty work for him. and in this case, as i reported at the daily beast a week ago to the day today, sebastian gorka's fate was extremely uncertain right after the ouster of steve bannon. gorka worked until bannon was forced out of the white house a week ago today as basically one of steve bannon's aides in the west wing. there were a bunch of people in th

the reds nation of adviser sebastian gorka.nd the signing of a transgender orlando of the military. >>> the drum beats of some who wish to repeal and replay the president. are they missing a crucial point? america's problems run much deeper than any one person, or at least so i'll argue. >>> and roberts lee was removed this week -- not the general's statue, but an espn broadcaster slated for next week's uva football game. is this political correctness one amok? i'll talk to the sports radio host who first exposed the story. >>> but first, on a hot august night with a major storm brewing it was big news from the white house. a hat trick of headlines. sheriff joe arpaio who was convicted of contempt of court because he would not stop racially profiling hispanics was pardoned by the president post steve bannon-ed advocate sebastian gorka was fired from the white house. and an order signed for transgenders in the military. all of that coming after 6:00 p.m., while the texas coast braced for the landing of a then category 4 hurrican

the man said white supremacists aren't the problem is sebastian gorka. you wonder what does he do to earn his $150,000 taxpayer funded salary. his title is deputy assistant to the president, worked with steve bannon, includes writing breitbart.com posts on national security. apparently has a problem with pajamas. >> the message i have, it is a simple one, bumper sticker, shawn, the era of the pajama boy is over january 20th, and the alpha males are back. >> poor pajama boy. he has a ph.d. from a questionable university in budapest, insists on being referred to as dr. gorka. considers himself a counterterrorism expert, most actual experts didn't know his name even a few years ago. tried to join national security council, was denied security clearance and has ties to ultra right groups in hungary, which is descended from actual nazis. here he is proudly wearing their pin. he denies ties to the group, said he wore it as a tribute to his dad. this is what he had to say about recent fire bombing of a mosque in minnesota. >> great rule. all initial reports are

also last night another resignation at the white house, sebastian gorka, a familiar face to fox news viewers. he submitted his letter of resignation. others say that he was fired. and in that letter, gorka wrote that people who reject the make america great again agenda are now ascendant at the white house, and he cited as evidence the president's speech at fort myer on afghanistan. he wrote, quote: the fact that those who drafted and approved this speech removed any mention of radical islam or radical islamic terrorism proves that a crucial element of your presidential campaign has been lost. gorka was also very close ally of steve bannon, a sign that the bannon wing of advisers is now no longer ascendant but is, rather, descending. mike, back to you. mike: doug mckelway live at the white house, many thanks. laura: and, mike, critics questioning the timing of these latest moves by the white house. some accusing the administration of using the hurricane as a distraction to avoid a lot of negative coverage. so let's bring in jamie weinstein, host of "the jamie weinstein show" podcast a

the secret service stating joc, joint operations center, please notified officers, do not admit sebastian gorkave office of the president blue pass holder. he is do not admit and his pass deactivated. in a follow-up e-mail sent at 7. :14 p.m. mr. gorka is likely still in position of his piv and white house pass as dna status was performed without him being on complex. we spoke with two former white house staff members who said an e-mail like this is not remotely normal saying they had never seen a direct ef like this for an employee voluntarily departing. this does not prove he was fired but he is definitely not allowed back. it seems the era of sub gorka at white house is over. iddle of th. hold on dad... liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. don't worry - i know what a lug wrench is, dad. is this a lug wrench? maybe? you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >>> police have now charged three more p

laura: sebastian gorka becoming the lat presidential adviser to leave the white house.ned while the white house says he is no longer there, but he did not resign. in a letter to the federalist, sebastian gorka wrote: given recent events, it is clear to me that forces that do not support the make america again promise are, for now, with the white house. as a result, the most effective way i can support you, mr. president, is from outside the people's house. joining me is dennis kucinich, former congressman from ohio and a fox news contributor, and tammy bruce, radio talk show he's and also a fox news contributor. welcome to you both. >> hi. >> good to see you. lauer aside from watching hurricane harvey approach texas, it was a massive news night at the white house. what was your first thought, tammy? >> not entirely surprising. when steve bannon left, mr. gorka, of course, was aligned with mr. bannon, and so that's not entirely surprising with the direction that the new chief of staff, john kelly, is going. at the same time, as i said to my listeners, i've been hearing f

sebastian gorka, white house staffer and deputy assistant to the president. the big surprise came when he pardoned former sheriff joe arpaio who was convicted of formally being biased against latinos. katie beck joins us from victoria. let's get back to you. clearly your picture is not all that clear, so our guests and our viewers can see exactly why it's hard to make sure we're going to keep you there. talk quickly. lots of water on the ground behind you. >> reporter: that's right, alex. most of these neighborhoods here in victoria are completely submerged, as you can see. front yards and streets under water at this time. i actually have a homeowner with me here. leslie werner, this is her home we're standing in front of. leslie, why did you choose to stay? >> there were several reasons i wanted to stay. the first was i have five dogs and a cat and what to do with them, and there's really nowhere to go. as you all know, san antonio is 15 inches and austin and houston is hitting really bad. toip i wanted to make sure i could stay. you can see from my yard i h

tonight also featuring the removal of sebastian gorka, a controversial adviser to the president., for his part, said he resigned while the white house said he is no longer with the administration. joining us now, nbc news white house reporter ali bit alley and kevin surrely, another welcome back. ladies first with you. is it odd that this change in military policy came in the form of a memorandum and not remarks that were made before the nation or at least at the pentagon in a big change in military policy. >> well, look, this was obviously something that was very controversial. it was abrupt when it was first announced last month when trump tweeted about this ban on transgender individuals being allowed in the military. and what this does is it still leaves in limbo those transgender individuals who are already serving. and so when we were reading through this memo and asking senior white house officials about what the implications of this were. they couldn't really say what would happen when general mattis does, in fact, weigh all of the different cite ear riteria thato outline

riday night news dump ,rump pardons joe arpaio sebastian gorka out.s a border security hawk and a birther who has repeatedly and publicly expressed doubt that president barack obama was born in the united states. after spending nearly a quarter of a century in office, the s sheriff spent his last five years in office investigating obama's purpose or to get authenticity. -- obama's birth certificate authenticity. a front-page story about joe arpaio. it picks up with this. grew outnal convention of a lawsuit filed a decade ago that the sheriff's office routinely violated the rights of latinos. let's take a listen to president trump who earlier this week during his rally in phoenix mentioned the fact that a pardon for sheriff joe could be forthcoming. [video clip] >> do the people in this room like sheriff joe? [applause] [applause] joe convictedriff for doing his job? [applause] he should have had a jury, will make a what i prediction come i think he will be just fine, ok? [applause] >> but, i won't do it tonight because i don't want to cause any contro

a lot of people have probably seen this interview but i want to remind you, sebastian gorka appearing network, when he was confronted about whether or not the president was going to speak out against the violence that was displayed at a mosque in minnesota where a bombing took place. take a look. >> i think that's a great rule, all initial reports are false. you have to check them. you have to find out who the perpetrators are. we've had a series of crimes committed, alleged hate crimes, by right wing individuals in the last six months that turned out to actually have been propagate bid the left. so let's wait and see. >> he says initial reports are false so based on that theory, gorka resigning is false. he was canned. but naveed, what does it mean, though, because there are so many people that wanted to see sebastian gorka leave, but maria teresa had brought up earlier, you know, in discussions about the friday deluge we got out of the white house, with the trans ban for the military, arpaio's pardon, is this one step forward and two giant leaps back ward when it comes to what peopl

. >> sean: i want to ask you this, lately, the white house, yourself, steve miller, sebastian gorka, kellyanne conway, you seem willing to go out and say, we are going to call you out on air to your face. i doubt cnn is going to run the exchange with stephen miller today. speak out they may run an edited version, but my guess it isn't the one where stephen miller puts him in his place. >> sean: he really does. at any point do you get frustrated. i have been in talk radio for 30 years, and there are times i met some people trying to get under your skin, i have built up immunities do you ever find yourself getting frustrated up there? >> every once in a while, of course there is a certain level of frustration. look, i know the american people, they did a poll not too long ago, they care about health care, they care about jobs, the economy, immigration. they don't care about russia. they don't care about who has a job in the white house. they care about who has a job at their house. those are the issues they were like for us to be able to talk about, and fortunately, we have a roomful o

he kept arizona safe" around the same time reports started to surface saying sebastian gorka was out at the white house, initial reports said gorka resigned in part because he did not aprove of the president's plans in afghanistan but white house officials told fox news gorka did not actually resign; however they did confirm that the national security advisor no longer works at the white house. all of this as weather officials watched hurricane harvey escalate to a category 4 hurricane. in a series of tweets democratic senator chuck schumer accused the president of using the hurricane as a cover to pardon arpaio, implement the transgender ban and avoid scrutiny. neil? >> neil: do we know in the case of gorka leaving, ellison that there are mixed reports as to whether chief of staff john kelly would let him talk to the president and tell him that and apparently refused? >> reporter: right we've heard reports of that here but what gorka has said in that statement that initially came out, he says he resigned we've heard from sources at the white house that he did not resign he was asked.

counterterrorism adviser sebastian gorka has left his position. but there have been mixed messages on whether he was fired or whether he resigned. >> so, we'll continue to look at those stories, the next hour. but we'll turn to the storm. our reporters are on the ground in the thick of it. and tracking the storm is martin savidge in corpus christi. martin, a category three, but quite dangerous. >> reporter: absolutely, a category 3 considered to be a major hurricane. remember, harvey was predicted to come ashore as a category 3 but it actually jumped up to a category 4 which is a monster of a storm. the wind speeds were projected to get as high possibly as 145 miles an hour. did not reach that, we don't believe. but still, you had some intense gusts, and we are still feeling the brunt of those winds. that's the thing, the storm has so slow to move. it is pushing away from here, but that only mean, it's pushing somewhere else. and it's remained remarkably organized. if it's still a category 3 that tells you about its size and about its power. and a

vo cesar -- el consejero de seguridad nacional de la casa blanca, "sebastian gorka", renunci hoy a suuncionario de la casa blanca afirm que gorka no haba renunciado pero que ya no trabajar para el presidente trump. -- "sebastian gorka", rechaz hablar sobre las razones por las que abandona la casa blanca. -- esta renuncia llega una semana despues de la salida de "steve bannon". vo cesar -- el presidente trump firm el indulto al exalguacil de arizona joe arpaio, quien habia sido condenado por desacato al desafiar la orden de un tribunal de poner fin a las practicas de detener inmigrantes, solo por su apariencia fisica. -- arpaio, que se autodenominaba "el sheriff mas duro de estados unidos", se hizo famoso por sus redadas en comunidades hispanas. cesar --el indulto al ex-alguacil del condado de maricopa "joe arpaio", mejor conocido como "el sheriff mas temido de america" arpaio", ya se esperaba... ---an as activistas se mostraron indignados que un alguacil que decidi no seguir una orden judicial, jams pasar un da tras las rejas... take 2 boxes --"paola morales" desde phoenix arizona con