whether or not you think he did a good job you have to admit john spicer had a really tough job at a really tough time in history defending a president to a media that had gone absolutely rabbit so now that he's no longer the white house press secretary spicer is moving on to other things but according to c.n.n. no one should hire him at all ever that's how rabid they've gotten recently l.a. times columnist jackie comes went on c.n.n. to have one of those genius partisan panel discussion and they were talking about on space there counts noted that c.n.n. had already said that it's not interested in hiring spicer and then she went on to suggest that other networks should do this say in other words the c.n.n. panelist suggested on national t.v. that the old white house press secretary should be blackballed by news organizations completely she said washington is the kind of place where we all criticize it for no matter what someone does no matter how little credibility they have they're going to find a big job they're going to make even more money than they were and you know maybe it's

con, scary spicer, baby spicer, sporty spicer. >> steve: oh. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: andtastic. the spicer girls. >> steve: spicer girls. >> jimmy: yeah. pro, the position was filled with a fast turnaround. con, fast turnaround is also what melania does when she sees her husband down the hall. >> steve: really? [ laughter and applause ] hi. >> jimmy: oh, hi. >> steve: oh! >> jimmy: oh, hi. >> steve: hi. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: i didn't even see you're coming in the hall. [ laughter ] >> steve: that's not how you talk? >> jimmy: i know. pro, anthony "the mooch" scaramucci is the new white house communications director. con, somehow a guy named tony the mooch isn't even close to being the most untrustworthy person in the white house. [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: hey! >> jimmy: big don. pauly the weasel. pro, sean spicer can now start looking for a less stressful job. con, like heart surgeon or bomb diffuser. [ laughter and applause ] he didn't have an easy job. pro, the bar is set very low. con, the bar is also where you'll end up after every press briefing. wel

but according to a new report on spicer's departure, his problems also included food storage."wall street journal" explained, "less than a month into his new job, white house press secretary sean spicer needed to keep his food and drink cold. he wanted a mini-fridge. he dispatched a top aide to a nearby executive office building where junior research employees are crammed into a room. 'mr. spicer wants your ice box,' the aide said. [ light laughter ] they refused to give it up. [ laughter ] so mr. spicer waited until sundown after his young staffers had left to take matters into his own hands. [ light laughter ] he was spotted by a fellow white house official lugging the ice box down the white house driveway after 8:00 p.m." [ laughter ] man, working for trump is like doing crack cocaine. at first, it must be an amazing high. but eventually, your life falls apart and you start stealing appliances. [ laughter ] so who would fill the void left by spicer's absence, not to mention his presence? enter -- the mooch! >> we won the presidency because of donald j. trump. he is a unbeli

spicer wants your ice box,' the aide s they refused to give it up. [ laughter ] so mr.waited until sundown after his young staffers had left to take matters into his own hands. [ light laughter ] he was spotted by a fellow white house official lugging the ice box down the white house driveway after 8:00 p.m." [ laughter ] man, working for trump is like doing crack cocaine. at first, it must be an amazing high. but eventually, your life falls apart and you start stealing appliances. [ laughter ] so who would fill the void left by spicer's absence, not to mention his presence? enter -- the mooch! >> we won the presidency because of donald j. trump. he is a unbelievable politician. >> seth: that's right, trump's new communication director is wall street financier anthony scaramucci. now we're talking! i mean, look at this guy. he is a human pinkie ring. [ laughter ] he is the human embodiment of a double-parked bmw. [ light laughter ] he looks like the guy who leaves a doo-wop group over creative differences. [ laughter ] he looks like the only magician you could get on sh

i reached out to spicer and to sarah sanders and asked them if spicer has, in fact, filed this noticedid start taking meetings over a week ago and they did not respond to me for comment so it's unclear if he has actually gone forward and asked to be recused from his day-to-day duties. >> and obviously the big question is, what the heck does he do next. i have a feeling we'll see him pop up somewhere. let me ask you, tara, about the, you know, six major administration members have, you know, resigned or been fired since february. you see them on the screen. noticeably absent from this picture is a woman. you know, you think of the women at the white house, huckabee sanders, kelleyanne conway, hope hicks, omarosa, ivanka trump, and i read a piece by your colleague who noticed this and wrote about this. why do you think it is the women who have survived so far? >> well, the women have been survivors for sure, but they figured out how to not be the co-stars in the donald trump show. and that is an issue that, you know, steve bannon has run into when he was on the cover of "time" magazine,

we just heard sean spicer talking about cracking down. there's a civil lawsuit that was settled a month ago in the amount of $1 million. the federal government paid the family of cruise velazquez in that amount. there was no admission of guilt. the federal government wrote a check for $1 million and said he they did nothing wrong. the trump administration is adding another 5000 border patrol agents and another 10,000 ice agents. and security dhs at the border to be upfront on the front line of defense. we are increasing the size of our forces at the border with and very little of a reprimand structure. these two agents involved in this particular incident on video were never reprimanded. they were on the job the very next day even though they didn't follow their own procedure and a 16-year-old boy died. amy: we will do part two of this discussion and post it on democracynow.org. john carlos, thank you for joining us. that does it for our show. to democracynow.org. democracy now! is produced by mike burke, deena guzder, nermeen shaikh, car

but if you listen to what ed butowski says, sean spicer knew about it. >> no, ed butowski said sean spicern't know about it. he just took the meeting as a friendly gesture because he knew them. >> let me say -- >> and there was presumably nothing else going on that day in the white house for mr. spicer. >> there's room for speculation. this is not the first time we have heard about a white house official taking a meeting they say they didn't know anything about but went to anyway, but this is not the court of public opinion. in a court of law you only know what you show. you have to demonstrate what sean spicer if you're going to include the white house in a concocted scheme, you have to show they knew about it and wanted to advance it and there's merit to the suggestion that the president of the united states had seen the article and wanted it advanced. do you have any proof to do any of that? >> we just filed the lawsuit as you know on the 1st, and defendants are entitled to answer and then we will proceed to discovery and we will obtain that information that we believe is out there and

>> i would hike to see sean spicer on the dance floor. >> sean spicer and mooch on the dance floor. >> you know that would be the first. >> if he did compete, that would be the song. >>> we're going to start this half hour with the investigation into the russian meddling, and it appears to be entering a new phase. >> abc news has confirmed that special counsel robert mueller has empaneled a grand jury in washington and there are reports that subpoenas have gone out in connection with donald trump jr.'s meeting with a russian lawyer. >> now president trump held another rally last night, where he doubled down, denying that there was any collusion that >> reporter: president trump returned to friendly territory here in west virginia. but in between the talk of coal and jobs, the president trained his focus on the russia investigation. as the russia probe seems to be entering a new phase, the president came out swinging against allegations that his campaign colluded with the russians during the 2016 election, take a listen. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. most people know ther

now of course the media didn't like spacers and they hated the new president out of the gate and spicer's job was to defend him so naturally the press would hate spicer too but suggesting that the man never work in his field again is pretty extreme i mean i'm not saying politicians or other washington scum should go on to get more money or fabulous jobs after sucking so badly i'm just saying of course the media ignores this phenomenon when it happens to politicians they like but god forbid it happen to sean spicer who they hate the passion it wasn't like spicer was the first problematic press secretary either according to rich noyes from the media research center lots of press secretaries were forced to lie or equivocate for their boss of late when bill clinton was president so it's not like spicer did anything worse than any other poor schmuck who had to lie for their presidential boss the only thing new here is that it's sean spicer and president trump the really old thing here then is that it is just another case of the media flaunting their liberal bias. i . i i there are no welcome t

i apologize. >> did it happen. >> the sean spicer meeting. > i had a meeting with sean spicer.i brought rod chile r wheeler along. it was about this audio recording that cy hersh of cy hersh saying there's a mirror copy of the hard drive of seth rich's at the cart division at the i don't know if. >> you know hersh says you got his reporting wrong, right? he says you took two and two and made 45 out of it. >> you know what? cy hersh, maybe that's his math but the reality is i'm not saying anything. listen to it and listen to his own words. i'm not concluding anything at all, chris. >> i'm just saying when the source of the material says that your conclusion about it was wrong it should be out there in public space. >> what's my conclusion? i don't have a conclusion. >> you saw it as something important enough to take to spicer. did he know why you wanted to meet with him? >> no. >> so he just took a meeting. >> i said had i something to talk to him about. rod wheeler was a tag along. at the last minute, i said why don't you join me and kind of get to know shaup and meet and so o

but both he and sean spicer have admitted that the meeting took place.ve three different versions of what happened in that meeting. spicer's account is that butowsky asked for a meeting with no specified topic and the white house had nothing to do with this story. butowski's version is they did talk about the story, but the topic only lasted 30 seconds. when he suggested that the white house get the fbi involved, spicer told him, i know it doesn't work that way, but i don't know how it works and i can't do anything. and here is rod wheeler's account of that meeting as related to msnbc stephanie rule earlier today. >> sean spicer was very nice guy. he and ed mainly did the talking. i explained to him where i was with my investigation. and i was hoping that maybe the white house or the justice department could assist the d.c. police department with technical support, things like that, resources. and sean said, well, i'm not sure what we can do. but he said i'll definitely put you in touch with somebody at the justice department. >> so according to spicer i

now, sean spicer started off as incompetent, but i gotta admit-- he's totally changed his game. mean, he's still incompetent, but now... but now he does exactly what trump wants, which is to show complete distain for the media. - you don't get to just yell out questions. we're gonna raise our hand like big boys and girls. i'm actually asking cecilia's question, if you could be as polite as to not to interrupt her. this isn't a sit around and play patty-cake kind of conversation. can you stop interrupting other people's questions? hold on, hold on. hold on, hold on, lemme-- i'm trying to answer your question. jonathan, thanks. i'll let kristen talk. we've covered this like ten times. at some point, it's not just about me. it's about you. the answer continues to be no. - you know... [laughter] he looks less like a press secretary and more like an overworked kindergarten teacher, you know? he's like, "hey, no! hey, hey, hey, hey! hey!" [upbeat music] last week, ben carson was confirmed as the new secretary of housing and urban development, or, as president trump calls him, [as trum

sean spicer was a very nice guy. he and ed mainly did the talking. to him where i was with my investigation. i was hoping that maybe the white house or the justice department could assist the d.c. police department with technical support, things like that, resources. and sean said, well, rod, i'm not sure what we can do but i'll definitely put you in touch with somebody at the justice department and maybe you can have them meet with the d.c. police and maybe they can get some support and that's how we left it. >> and the statement that you read from sean spicer and what ed butowsky is now saying is they sort of had this meeting and they had no agenda. it's incredible that suddenly ed butowsky walks into the white house with no agenda? and in fact there are actual messages between ed and rod about briefing sean spicer about this investigation because sean spicer wanted to know about it. >> the last time i heard about a meeting with no agenda, it was between don junior and a russian lawyer. >> seems to be a trend. >> all right. gentlemen, thank you so,

so spicer has since confirmed. they were, quote, informing me of the fox story is how spicer put it. and that lawsuit brought by a former homicide detect stif who was tasked with investigating the death. the white house says those charges are absolutely untrue. finally, consider this, in an interview that president trump gave to the wall street journal last week he feels pressed about the controversial speech he gave to the boy scouts which later prompted them to apologize on the president's behalf. mr. trump boasted to the jurm, quote, i got a call from the head of the boy scouts said it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them. the reaction from the boy scouts, we are unaware of any such call. as chris carter might say, come on, man. and these are just the tip of the iceberg. folks, the common question i get from folks in the white house from all levels is how do we improve our roim in the press? my answer, not like this. if they're going to potentially mislead us about everything from crowd sizes to ca

they would like to depose people like sean spicer.wheeler and the got donor at the white house where they talked about this. the theory that has hurt the slain dnc staffer's family so much. it creates a sense that maybe there's more to the story. but there's lot we don't know. and we don't know how much evidence he has to back up his assertion. >> so there will be that eventuality. but the it only thing we do know for sure at this point is that the family is devastated by this controversy and conspiracy theories. their statement is hopefully this will be an end to the investigation of our son and his death. there's no proof rich was connected to the wikileaks. >> that's right. the police believe this was an armed robbery attempt gone wrong one year ago in washington. out of that one fact, there's been a mountain of lies and m mistruths and conspiracies all designed to show it wasn't russia that hacked the dnc. it wasn't designed to help trump. it was actually maybe this kid that sent it to wikileaks. the family has been devastated by

and sean spicer told me last night that he took the meeting as a courtesy, that butowsky was a friend from republican circles and that he was happy to give him an ear for a brief meeting. butowsky says it wasn't really a meeting about that at all, he was simply trying the help wheeler see if he could find a job, something both wheeler and spicer say is not true, but what is clear is from the e-mails and voice mails and texts an other materials subsequently is that butowsky invokes the white house, invokes powerful people and, yes, even inadvocates the idea that president trump has read drafts of the fox story before it goes to fox news' site and on the air. while that's not been proven, but it's certainly the pressure point from butowsky that wheeler believes is true. >> brown: to bring it up to date. butowsky now says to you some of those texts or the claim of a connection to the white house was a joke or was a put on or he was overplaying it. and the white house, as i said today, says there is nothing to that. nothing to the connection with president trump. >> you know, butowsky in

nancy: not long after, spicer denied any knowledge of the fox news story. >> i'm not aware. updates on don't get former dnc staffers. nancy: today spicer admitted he did have the meeting at the white house with the investigator, calling the donor a longtime supporter of the president's agenda. the investigator claims there was more from the white house. days after the story aired, the donor left a voicemail, sing the white house was on board with the story. >> i got a note that we have the full attention of the white house on this. and deal. nancy: then a follow-up text about the fox news article before was published. to add pressure, but the president just read the article. he wants the article out immediately." the donor said he had never even spoken to the president before. >> i was being sloppy with my words. nancy: late today, the white house was pressed about the story. the press secretary said the president had no knowledge of the story, that neither the nor the white house were involved. out,han: an annual night designed to connect police officers with their communit

. >> he's the spicer/sarah huckabee -- >> yeah. he said this isn't news. it was going to automatically expect law with or without the president's signature. it tells you that the kremlin is watching very closely what's happening inside the beltway. it knows -- it can see it, and the other thing is and we have talked about this, i believe the kremlin still believes that it has a friend in president trump and what i mean is somebody who does want to change the relationship with russia. whether -- but he's surrounded by people who don't want that. what i'm interested to see is whether at some point that changes. that position in moscow changes and they decide they no longer have an ally in trump. as we discussed, everything is interconnected. if the u.s. takes action in north korea and you saw that in president trump's statement, talking about russia and north korea and china being pushed closer together if the u.s. took action in north korea you might see russia at that point decide, okay, game over. we know that no longer -- we no longer think that presiden

the sean spicer meeting? >> i had a meeting with sean spicer and brought rod wheeler along. and it was about this audio recording that of -- saying there is a mirror copy of the hard drive of seth rich's at the cart division at the fbi. >> you know he says you got his reporting wrong. you took two and two and made 45 out of it. >> maybe that's his math. i'm not saying anything. listen to it. i'm not con cluzing anything at all. >> when the source of the material says your conclusion about it is wrong -- >> it's not my conclusion. what is my conclusion? >> you saw it as something that was important enough to bring it to sean spicer. he just took a meeting? >> yeah, i said i was going to be in town. and rod wheeler was a tag along because at the last minute i thought why don't you join me. and get to know sean and meet and so on. my conversation with sean about this recording lasted about one minute. he said, ed, i don't know anything about it and i don't want to know anything about it. and we ened up talking with other things believe it or not because we get our shirts at the

when contacted by vice news, sean spicer said, while i won't comment on materials we share with the president, this is not accurate on several levels.

shortly after spicer denied any knowledge o late tuesday spicer admitted he did have that meeting at the white house with wheeler and a well connected republican donor. the donor - ed butowsky then sent a text message to wheeler saying the president read the article and wanted it out immediately. white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders said the president had no knowledge of the story - and that neither the president nor the white house were involved in the story. new developments in the health care debate. a bi-partisan effort now getting underway in the senate. republican "lamar alexander" and democrat "patty muray" have announced plans to work together to try and stabalize health care markets. th after last week's dramatic collapse of the g-o-p repeal effort. president trump has threatened to cut off critical payments to health insurance companies in hopes of forcing democrats to make concessions. lawmakers from both parties say the affordable care act does need some improvements. maryland governor larry hogan- being sued this morning- over facebook! the a-c-l-u says th

the seats that spicer has. those are great seats. spicer does say in his twitter bio that he is red sox/patriots fan. when the patriots visited the white house he offered a little help. workers are replacing the hvac system at the white house, but else are they doing there, ronica cleary. >>reporter: i am back at the white house to check on the the repairs that we can see. i'm here a little bit earlier today seems to be more action. let's take a look around. was a little busierier today with the renovations and construction that'soi back out there to do my next hit . just use your imagination. just say the word and i'll re place christie and give you a folder of good news. who is sleeping soundly and who is toss ing and turning. after this . . >> sowngd asleep tonight, not many on a day where flo nubbings es made the headlines. there has been praise showered about the united secreta climate change is real and she's called out the president important tweeting about what turned out to be classified information. but as tom rogue and wro

resigned, --spicer now that anthony scaramucci has resigned, that is also a clean slate. has this slate been totally cleaned at this point question mark or should we expect anymore staff shakeup? [laughter] >> yes. [laughter] >> to brief questions. is there any chance that he will just leave -- you will just leave the chance of community -- the job of community -- any chance he will leave the job off khamenei case is director alone? if we have you know any announcement to make on that. was a speech to police officers on friday, and almost within minutes, statement came from the police officer criticizing his remarks that seemed to endorse the use of force by police. in certain arrest. what the president joking when checkedthis, or did he his remarks out with the international association of police chief am a or maybe the attorney general? >> i believe he was making a joke at the time. clear, the statement said that anthony scaramucci is no longer with the admin decision. was he fired by the president, or was he asked to resign? >> again, i will not get into anything beyon

spicer reportedly said it was due to a quote overwhelmingly number of commitments in the fall.mment on the report. about a week ago rumors started circulating the network approached spicy and also rulers they had approached the mooch. rick perry did it last year, and >> we know how that ended. >> ended up as energy secretary. >> what are you trying to say >> it was a spring board to something else. carlton from the fresh prince of bel air ended up being host of the >> i wonder how much cash that is >> that's not a job where you make a lot. you leave the government to go make more money. that's what happens >>> former president barack obama celebrating 56th birthday. it's his first since leaving office in january. obamas are reportedly returning to their favorite vacation spot in martha's v to celebrate. and here's a tweet from former first lady saying another year older but the same phenomenonal guy i married nearly 25 years ago. happy birthday, barack we love you so much. >>> we're talking popcorn and politics, go hand-in-hand >> i can't wait to see what this represent >> we'l

let's check in on global markets, we're playing it for sean spicer, who won't be dancing sadly.ndicating a higher start. s&p up 4.5 dow futures up 45. nasdaq futures are up 9 points reversing some declines we saw in yesterday's session for the nasdaq and s&p the russell 2000 index of small caps lower by 1% it's been the dow that's been the stand-out. it's a price-weighted index. closed at an eighth straight high yesterday that would make 32 record closes for 2017 ten-year treasury yield, the bopd m bond market has been stuck around the 2.30 level. we'll see where that goes after jobs look for wages, look for improvement on the sector breakdown when it comes to where the jobs are being added we'll see if treasury yields tick higher on the sign of an ill proving economy. >> we've been waiting for wages for such a long time they've been moving, but there hasn't been anything dramatic. we have not seen the wage inflation pick up. >> especially because economists say we're at the end of the cycle. unemployment rate at 4.3% that could be close to full employment so people looking for

>>reporter: spicer says it was just a ten-minute courtesy meeting. but the suit claims spicer asked to be kept abreast of developments. as for fox it calls the accusation "completely erroneous." >> our next guest was a target of russia's meddling in the u.s. election when his e-mails were hacked and leaked. john was the conscious-nangs very much for being here. >> good morning. >> what do you think of this surreal and terribly sad story about the murder of seth rich and this new development in h this lawsuit that connects the white house with this story, rod wheeler, who has filed a lawsuit. he was the former d.c. homicide detective who says that the white house is very interested in h deflicting away from the russia investigation and trying to basically pin it on seth rich leaking this. >> well, couple things. the first of all, i think it was despicable that fox news was peddling that and i think what's really amazing is this now connection possibly between the white house -- reknow that sean spicer was at least informed. we know he went to the same

spicer, mooch, priebus. president trump was asked about his new chief of staff general john kelly. >> i think that general kelly has brought, he put something very special to the office, chief, i call him chief. he is a respected man. four star from the marines. he carries himself like a four star for the marines and he is my friend, which vice important you know who else is a friend of the president? mike pence. earlier this week pence slammed new york times story that suggested he was putting himself in the position to run in 2020 if the president doesn't. this is what the president had to say, if he thought pence had plans for 2020. >> i don't think so, no, i don't think so at all. he is a good guy. he has left for columbia and various other places. he has been terrific. he has been a great alley and great friend of >> nikki haley behind him people are saying she's in a good position to run in 2024, of course, mike pence undoubted looking to doing that himself. pence set to leave sunday for a trip to sout

. >>> former white house press secretary sean spicer can now say he has met pope francis.ou may remember he was left off the list of officials who received an audience with the pope when president trump visited the vatican in may. spicer was one of about 250 people greeted personally by the pontiff. you see the photo there. he was at the vatican as part of the annual meeting of the international catholic legislators, just a couple days ago. it's so sad that spicer, before the visit, he told reporter the the pope to bless and he didn't get to go. >> it's not sad anymore. he did get to see the pope. >>> when we come back, houston residents returning home to survey the damage of their homes. >> our cameras there as they walk through the doors. you're watching "world news now." being embarassed by her parents? stop this teen from nope. so let's be clear: clearasil works fast on teen acne, not so much on other teen ings. >>> that is some time lapse video showing how dramatically this garage flooded as harvey hit. >> yeah, you can see the water

a vatican spokesman confirms spicer attended a meeting with the pope.s for the message from the pontiff, the associated press reports it included his usual call for lawmakers to, quote, build bridges between different political perspectives. he impoured the gathered lawmakers to work for the poorest and most marginalized people in their countries. sean spicer gets to meet the pope. i'll see you at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. eat earn time and again tomorrow tonight. good night from nbc headquarters in new york. >>> this has been a an effort. again, we will see you soon. i will tell you, this is historic. it's epic, what happened. but, you know what, it happened in texas. and texas can handle anything. thank you all, folks. thank you. thank you. >>> the floodwaters are rising and so is the death toll in the wake of hurricane harvey. today, the storm is expected to track inland once more. >>> plus, president trump makes a stop in texas for a first hand look at some of the devastation and pledges a recovery better than any before. >>> and later, japan says t

yet just one month later, spicer denied having any knowledge the of story.an. >> i'm not aware of -- i generally, i don't get updates on dnc, former dnc staffers. i'm not aware of that. >> spicer now confirms that the meeting did take place. gabe? >> yeah. i was going to point that out, that again is another instance in which this white house has been caught in an apparent lie. and their denials have been completely debunked and we know from this lawsuit that ed butowsky and rod wheeler met with spicer and they allegedly discussed the status of the fake news story and how it might benefit the trump white house by distracting from the russia scandal. to me, as a report er covering all these stories, if they're being exposed on this detail, which other denials should we not take seriously in. >> he said butowsky e-mailed fox producers saying one of the big conclusions we need to draw from this is that the russians did not hack our computer systems and steal e-mails and there was to collusion like trump with the russians. and here's how fox reported the story t

sean spicer admits that. we see, actually, is that sean spicer says the meeting had no agenda. they just sort of arrived at the white house, and they had no agenda. that makes no sense. and then yesterday, we saw the spokesperson for president trump say that, well, it's not really that abnormal for the spokesperson to speak to a member of the press, which might be true, but don't forget that rod wheeler and ed butowsky weren't writing this article. malia zimmerman of fox news was. >> let me get some of the news out there. you've suggested, i believe, that as part of the lawsuit, you wanted to pose both president trump and the former press secretary, sean spicer. first of all, do you think that's realistic? do you think that might happen? >> we're going to treat this case the way we treat any other case. we're going to seek to take testimony in terms of getting documents that might be relevant and then we're going to seek to take depositions and the president might -- through his counsel, try and get a protect

a real quick one regarding sean spicer. will you be in the administration in any way now that anthony scaramucci announced that he will not be a part of the trump administration? i amm not of anywhere -- not aware of any changes on that front. >> my second one is this. 10 days ago, anthony scaramucci was introduced as new white house press -- communications director. 10 days later, he is out of a job. the president announced on twitter there is no chaos at the white house. how would you describe what has happened over the past 10 days? of course you will agree with your boss that there is no chaos. how do you explain that not to be the case? >> i have said it before, come to my house if you want to see chaos with three preschoolers. this does not hold a candle to that. just to be clear, that is not an open invitation to come to my house. [laughter] if you want to schedule babysitting time, i will be happy to work that out. >> does the president regret hiring anthony scaramucci? >> i'm not going to get into anything beyond w

a vatican spokesman confirms spicer attended a meeting with the pope.from the pontiff, the associated press reports it included his usual call for lawmakers to, quote, build bridges between different political perspectives. he impoured the gathered lawmakers to work for the poorest and most marginalized people in their countries. sean spicer gets to meet the pope. i'll see you at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. eat earn time and again tomorrow tonight. good night from nbc headquarters in new york. >>> thanks for staying us with us this headquarter. this is a incredible time to have fat image like this, but this is real footage from 1935. lack at look at this. >> the streets of houston, texas, the whole city turned into a flood. people clinging to roofs and awnings. 100 residential blocks and 12 business streets inundated, raging flood waters 12 feet deep. suburbs like an inland sea, clinging to life by a tree, life saving by life both boat. like a rescue at sea, people taken out of windows. a hundred,000 acres influenced a score of lives lost. in the heart of

sean spicer gets to meet the pope. that is our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being with us.m going to see you back here at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. eastern time and then back here again tomorrow night. good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. >>> tonight -- >> we won't say congratulations. we don't want to do that. we don't want to congratulate. we'll congratulate each other when it is all finished. >> the president visits texas in the middle of the most extreme rain event in u.s. history. >> thank you, everybody. what a crowd. what a turnout. >> my guest, new jersey governor chris christie. >> we have a friendship for 15 years. >>> then the latest news on the russia investigation with the ranking member of the house intelligence committee. and a new case for the president's impeachment. >> the

spicer, he's grinning. there's the photo. >> i haven't seen that for a while. >> he doesn't work at the white house. >> he's not looking at the rearview mirror. >> he could return as spokesman. never know. >> who know. >> maybe he'll be in the next book we're discussing. >> david, john thank you. >> thank you. >>> up next facing an escalating threat from north korea, north korea says it's willing to talk to pyongyang. >>> plus, a lawsuits alleges fox news fabricates a story with oversight from the white house. the trump administration's response just ahead. kind never. we choose real ingredients like almonds, peanuts and a drizzle of dark chocolate. give kind a try. ♪ (hard exhalation) honey? can we do this tomorrow? (grunts of effort) can we do this tomorrow? if you have heart failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. but entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest heart failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital tha

>> i would like to see sean spicer on the dance floor. >> sean spicer and mooch on the dance floor. > >> abc news has confirmed that special counsel robert mueller has empaneled a grand jury in washington and there are reports that subpoenas have gone out in jr.'s meeting with a russian lawyer. >> now donald trump held a rally last night doubling down denying that there was any collusion with russia taking place. abc's arlette saenz was there. >> reporter: president trump returned to friendly territory here in west virginia. but in between the talk of coal and jobs, the president trained his focus on the russia investigation. as it seems to be entering a new phase, the president came out swinging against allegations that his campaign colluded with the russians during the 2016 election, take a listen. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. most people know there were no russians in our campaign. there never were. we didn't win because of russia. we won because of you. [cheers and applause] that i can tell you. have you seen any russians in west virginia? or ohio? or pennsylvania?

what they are talking about here, "dancing with the stars," sorry fans of the spicer u won't see mr. waltzing across the floor. turned down the show because of commitments in the fall. tmz quoted a source saying no explanation of what the entail.nts might another theory suggests spicer could be saving himself from humiliation, he's not a good dancer said the source from tmz, from rick learned perry his mistakes, perry, who is energy secretary, voted off week during cond his run on the show last year. a bit of flavor from the the ington post," from featured section there. florida, rom republican, you are on the air. host: did i get your name right, name?s your caller: cecil. host: i'm sorry, go ahead, cecil. caller: i'm calling, we get stuff made overseas and nothing country n. my opinion, i blame the union, i don't blame republicans, or although democrats are union people. the union is what it is. years old. o me, the '50's and '60s are the best years of our lives, i buying had two vehicles, snowmobiles, i lived in minnesota. times, now the best everything is made overseas, the reaso

sean spicer at the end of every day, when he was press secretary, would sit across from the presidentnd give hmm a download of what happened that day. so the notion that the president was, you know, tactfully moving in and out of the edits of don jr.'s statement instead of dictating it, we don't know what went down as far as the narrative, but it doesn't comport with his behavior in the past, taking full control of this stuff himself. >> and also before you all go, all of you have either covered the white house, worked in the white house, been an adviser to white houses. i myself have covered presidents going back many years. what about the president's comment to the golf magazine of sports illustrated that the white house is, quote, a real dump, explaining why he's spent so much time at his other properties on weekends. you most recently worked inside the white house. >> i can't imagine a situation where anybody would call that a dump. it is a privilege. it is a privilege to serve the country. in the white house. period. end of story. >> and, george, you and i both were involved in d

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