he was trashing shawn spicer privately throughout the week. i would not be surprised if he left -- if you let both of them go in the near future. host: jonathan swann in the white house briefing room. he is the national clinical support -- reporter for axios. but get you some callers. first, ryan on the line for independents. caller: good morning. thank you for my call. a lot of people have been comparing the trump and nixon administration, and while i think that is somewhat accurate, i do not think it does us any justice. i think it would do is a much morer service if we drew a historical parallel with the administration which is historically renowned as the worst presidency we have ever had. fact ofnto account the foreign policy and the state department that is almost toothless and a presidential cabinet that has a multibillion-dollar net worth, it has provided for a environment of political corruption at the highest levels. the same things could've been said about the buchanan administration. this may sound hyperbolic, but proliferation of

you know shawn spicer. he is a wonderful human being. >> is he your press secretary today and tomorrow? will he be tomorrow? >> he's doing a good job, but he gets beat up. >> will he be there tomorrow? >> he gets beat up from the beginning. >> what do you think about the assessment of the communications team? >> there's a disconnect. if you want to be successful, you have to be someone that he wants to spend a little bit of time with. you got to insist about being able to get in front and talk to him and have five, six minutes with him before you go out there, otherwise you are driving blind. >> are they not getting that alone time they need? >> you hear sean spicer saying, the president is busy. it has to be a close relationship where there is trust there, there's inherent loyalty, somebody he knows that's been with him from the beginning, et cetera. that's very important. >> is the chief of staff, is he supposed to be the one that's controlling these meetings where they can get in front of each other? >>

see less of him and more of huk by sanders moving president has been out of country and so has shawn spicer everybody is talking about spicer didn't get to see the pope. wondering why the president chose to not let him see the pope. big catholic as you know. >> today would have been president john f. kennedy 100 birthday and u.s. postal service celebrated life and legacy by dead kaiingt a new postage tam is in massachusetts and wreath laying to honor 35 president at grave site at arlington national cemetery. >> royalty for former president obama meeting with prince harry in london and invited former president over to like wr we're on first name bias witness harry, barack, come on over to discuss military veterans and mental health issues and former president offered condolences for those injured in the manchester terror attack. back to the jfk story. i used used to live in boston and jfk library fascinating plate it's excellent and eye opening. back after this back after this. >> this is a holiday weekend tradition and it continues as thousands of motorcycle around the country road bikes in

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immediately assumed they were immigrants and as a result they immediately i assume theyrapist >> shawn spicer weighed in after the high school immigrants were accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on campus. defense attorneys called the case a circus and always maintained the second in the school bathroom was consensual. the montgomery state's attorney's office says that's in fact what happened >> we have concluded the facts do not support the original charges filed. >> reporter: rape and sexual assault charges against 17-year-old jose montano were dropped and prosecutors are in the process of dropping those henry sanchez. >> after a complete and thorough assessment, our duty is to determine whether sufficient evidence exists to support criminal violations in violation of maryland law regardless of public opinion or political pressure. >> reporter: mccarthy said the decision was made due to a lack of corroboration. substantial inconsistencies and a review of footage from school security cameras, witness interviews and text messages exchanged between the girl and the defendants. but now those e

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he's been attacked, everyone around him, kelly and shawn spicer.around the president even the media is attacked. let me go to help vicious the scott, doing this week in a vile, vicious rent on "cbs news" by stephen colbert. >> john dickerson has way too much dignity to trade insults with the president of united states to his face. i, sir, and no john dickerson. [cheers and applause] mr. president, i call it disgrace the nation. you attract more skinheads than free rogaine. you have more people marching against you than cancer. your talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head. >> sean: at first i can't imagine any conservative or any comedy show saying this with that vicious or that of vile about president obama if he was president. by the way, colbert probably should be kissing the presidency you know what to because if personally single-handedly resurrected what was a failing career for him and his 500 writers that worked for him, he was dying on the vine until he went hard, harsh, vile left. >> you're exactly right. if this had happ

foundation and the covler funneled that brought together members of the administration including shawn spicer, kellyanne conway and journalists from axios, cnn, brightbart, msnbc. again, you won't hear that pairing everywhere. "the new york times" and many other platforms to discuss relations between the media and the administration and how perhaps we might do better. david was our leadoff speaker and bob sheefer, one of the wise men of washington journalism gave a wonderful conclusion. we were covered by more than a dozen networks and hundreds of thousands of people viewed our symposium online. our hand will, #trumpinthepress was a leading topic on twitter thoroughly crushing #nationalgrilledcheese day. as you can tell, one of the things i'm most proud of about the newseum is our nonpartisan approach to the contentious issues of the day. in a polarized city in a hyper partisan town, it is hard to be vehemently nonpartisan. many organizations, frankly, face the temptation to drift left or right as the basis and funding move further from the center. however, we believe that the only way to adv

. >> shawn spicer was asked about her in february.part of what he had to say. >> what the attorney general didn't come in and -- the acting attorney general come in and say that there was an issue. she said we wanted to give you heads up that there may be information. she could not confirm there was an investigation. and so it would be unbelievably shortsighted and wrong to go in and dismiss someone immediately. >> what do you think is more likely or do you think she'll have some counterpoint to what sean spicer said? he was clearly minimizing what she told the white house, saying it wasn't even a warning. ises that's the biggest question about today's hearing. if she comes in and says she warned the white house, not just that there was information about mike flynn that they might need to know, but if she warns them that he was potentially compromised and subject to blackmail by russian intelligence, and the white house did nothing about it, it raises great questions about their judgment and actions at the time and it raises questions

take a listen to what he said about white house press secretary shawn mi secretary sean spicer in his interview on fox, watch. >> are you moving so quickly that your communication department cannot keep up? >> yes, that's true. >> what do we do about that? >> we don't have press conferences. >> you don't mean that. >> we don't have them unless i do it myself every two week. >> i think it is a good idea. >> first of all, you have a level of hostility and it is incredible. s sarah hucklebee is a lovely young woman. you knowshon supervisor, he- ses a wonderful man. >> will he be there tomorrow? >> well, he's been there since the beginning. you hear the president not answering a direct question of the future of his press secretary. overall it is been a tough week and keep in mind while we are talking about this. they're not talking about pushing this healthcare repeal or this tax over haul. >> on the agenda, it seems to be installed at this point. what is happening in those tweets of the one presidents suggested that there could be tapes of his conversations, what impact is this happening

the president was trashing shawn spicer privately throughout the week. if hedn't be surprised lets one or both of them go at some point in the near -- near future. he is a national political reporter. good morning. ryan: jonathan, i have a big question i have been dying to bounce off of somebody like me -- you. a lot of people are comparing the trump and nixon administrations. i'll think that does it any justice. i think it is a lot worse than that. letting it would do a much better service if we drew a parallel with the james buchanan administration. if you look at the trump administration's incompetence, it is astounding and taking into account the fact that foreign and state department are all but toothless and a presidential candidate that has a multibillion-dollar net worth, it can only be a house in environment. becky was be said about the buchanan administration. this may sound hyperbolic but with regard to the proslavery and the precipitation of the beil war, i know that may kind of dark and morbid but there is a silver lining and this is what le

she's in conversations with the white house to replace shawne spicer as press secretary.s it's one of a number of press office jobs she's talk to the administration about. she also says if it's offered she'll take it. she's one of the host of fox news show the five. >>> in the district now police spent most of the night at the scene of where officers shot and killed a woman yesterday this happened in the 100 block of juliet industry street southwest it happened yesterday evening. that's right near a rec center. police got call for woman in a car with a gun. it's unclear exactly what led to two officers opening fire. they're now on administrative leave. >>> it's a late show legend david letterman just announced the latest recipient of the mark twain award for humor. coming up later his response to the press teaches prize. >> bringing the crown back to the d.c. for the second year in a row. miss usa kyra mccullough join us live to talk about the big win and what's next for her. >> as we head to break we are revealing our next zip trip location. i'll tell you who to you resp

. >> and shawn spicer abruptly ended the white house briefing after a question about a possible staff shakeup. leaving reporters stunned. it's another key wide figure who is actually leading. >> mike is a pro and long term strategic thinker. this white house is on hyper drive in terms of making news and it's hard to plan in environment like this. >> har to plan and this is a president who is used to calling his own shots. and even this morning reports that trump had given his personal cellphone number to a number of world leaders and unusually move by a president who defies convention. >> and associated president trump has given mobile number to the leaders of canada, mevrming coand france. security experts say those private mobile phone calls can be spied on. and now as for cryptic tweet we know a light of people had fun coming up for their own meanings. if you check social media and wouldn't whaer the heck the word is now you know thank us at "fox5" nor that and merriam webster tweeter whoever is responsible for their page this morning weighing in and saying here that went to check

. >> no, kellyanne, shawn spicer, it's becoming close. it's already there, actually. every time i hear him talk it's painful and it's usually not true. anyone disagree? >> they fired him, willie geist. why didn't they do anything? they got rid of him. barack obama, nice to see the 44th president of the united states back. you get the news yesterday morning, a source close to barack obama whose initials are bho say i warned him. told him not to hire him. >> come on. >> extraordinarily close to barack obama. probably the president himself. the question for the white house itself, given the fact that flynn was fired, given the fact that president obama spoke two days after the election to donald trump, given the fact that sally yates went and spoke to white -- >> how could they even -- >> why did it take them 18 days the time that sally yates warned him that he was ripe for black mail, what happened in 18 days? other than a washington post story. >> good god. >> other than the possibility that you have a president that's not a very good manager. i've hired a lot of peopl

but shawn spice esean spicer do that conversation that former president obama warned president-elect trump against hiring mike flynn. he essentially painted it as it's not a big surprise because mike flynn had been campaigning against the obama era policies. but they're going to have to continue to answer a number of tough questions why they were given that red flag and the president effectively ignored it. >> kristen, thank you very much. let's get a reality check from jeremy and matt. sean spicer saying you don't vet someone, when they have a security clearance, you don't need to vet them any longer. >> that's not accurate, katie. security clearance is a determination by the government that you are eligible for aess to sensitive informatio th there's a second piece. you have to have a need to know based on your job. to get vetted, he would have to go through the most vigorous vetting. that's where the trump transition dropped the ball. >> that begs the question, why would he have a security clearance if he should not be somebody who is get thing information? >> well, again, he only

spicer. two top aides tell nbc news the president is considering having his deputy play a larger role in briefings. >> this morning politico is reporting saying that shawn spilser will no longer be expected to do a daily briefing. he would be a dramatically diminished role for spicer who had become a household name. due to his combative press conferences lampooned almost weekly by "snl." mr. trump could name his choice as early as today. the front-runner former senator joe lieberman seen on wednesday. lieberman a former democrat turned independent previously served as connecticut's attorney general being elected to the senate. when asked the president responded yes, he is. >> to breaking news. police charged richard rojas, killing a young woman at times square. the suspect faces one count of second-degree murder, 20 counts of attempted murder and five counts of vehicular homicide. rojas allegedly steered his car on a sidewalk running through three blocks of times square then mowing down 23 pedestrians. the car eventually smashed into a steel barrier and came to rest with two right bhewheels in the air. two sources say rojas claims he was hearing voices.

and tweets and sean spicer is stuck there like how do i, you know, juggle all these questions from reporters like you? >> he tries his best to juggle these questions. and i'm sure shawn is watching right now because he has those tvs in his office and he listens to what he considers the chatters glass, the pundits, what is at issue is the fact we're looking for truth. the president talks to the public via his twitter rants for his twitter comments. and at issue, he has to deal with the fact this is under investigation. he is going to be restrained to a certain point but there are issues he could help us with. but the problem is for sean spicer he could say something and the president says something opposite. so he is frustrated. and that frustration comes back on us so as we are the enemy of the people trying to find the facts as to what has been happening. you have to remember these issues are real. the issue of collusion is not as tangible right now as the issue of possible obstruction of justice. these are real issues that we have got to get good answers too. today it will be the president at that press conference and reporters will be asking those questions. >> bu

shawn spafr. >> he doesn't have a mind of his own anymore so he couldn't say it's a bad idea. this is what trump does to people. look what he did to spicergun. >> i think he bullies people into submission. look at spicer. >> joe, i don't understand why they didn't trumpet the fact they got more defense spending. that should have been the only line they used yesterday. look, we're going to keep the country safer. that was a big part of his campaign narrative. instead obviously we've all been talking about what they have done and how unproductive. >> by the way, how many of you saw some of that air force -- >> it was painful. >> donald trump held those kids hostage basically to sit and watch a random political speech talking about how great he was. what he's going to do, willie, i bet you, there's going to be more and more reluctance for schools to let their teens come to the white house if they are going to be used as props. that was an embarrassment yesterday. >> they were there as a football team. they were there to talk about football. eventually the football coach came up. donald trump had those brave men and women in uniform stand be