they built a formidable alliance. >> stephen miller quickly becomes a go-between. is setting up happy hour meetings between breitbart staffers and the staffers in sessions' office. and breitbart really elevates sessions with its coverage. he becomes a kind of standard bearer for this part of the far right. >> "sessions: immigration bill will 'hammer' americans." "sessions comes out swinging against secretive house immigration push." "sessions: breitbart doing 'great work' getting truth out about immigration bill." >> it was very clear that steve and breitbart, with stephen miller, were playing a very hands-on role in trying to advise senator sessions. >> republicans in washington are not on the same page as their voters. >> narrator: populist anger in the g.o.p. base boiled over. >> liberal republicans need to be punished and they need to be... >> all of a sudden, republicans who thought they wanted to pass this thing were getting phone calls and getting picketed by furious constituents that say, "how can you be doing this? you have to stop." >> immigration reform i

stephen miller, the architect of the muslim ban, is supposed to be the speech writer helping to craft the words delivered tomorrow. if that statement is accurate, is that a huge evolution for the president? >> certainly. on the campaign trail he had no love for islam. he's america first president on his first international trip. part of this trip is diplomacy which is, to put it mildly, not his strongest suit, let's say. so part of this, yes, mending fences, because they have a lot of common interests, not only on trade as recently managed but in fighting isis and containing iran and fighting terrorism in syria. a lot of shared interest. steefrp miller has been known on capitol hill for years as an abrasive guy, not a politically correct guy. stephen miller used to work in the office of now attorney general jeff sessions when he was a senator for alabama. every time we wrote an immigration story and referred to undocumented immigrants and he would say why aren't you calling them illegal aliens. he's not a pc guy. for him to write the speech raised a lot of eye bras. if that's the leak

one more interesting note, thomas, one of the key authors of the speech, stephen miller, is the same person who authored the travel ban, which impacts those from predominantly muslim countries. the president is putting his final tweaks on the final version. >> i want to talk about the phrase, radical islamic terrorism. general mcmaster has not been a fan of that terminology. take a listen to what he said here and i'll ask you about it on the other side. >> i think the president listens to people. he listens to people in the region. this isn't america just on transmit here in the middle east. this is the president asking questions, listening, learning. of course the president will call it whatever he wants to call it. >> we know, correct me if i'm wrong, general mcmaster has spoken out being against that term in the past. has he had any sway in how miller is drafting this speech? >> reporter: well, i think you really captured the fact there is this internal divide in the white house about what language and policies should be enacted. there is no doubt h.r. mcmaster will have weighed i

not only is this speech largely being written by stephen miller, you also have a president who, during the campaign, told our own anderson cooper, islam hates us and who called, of course, for a ban on all immigration from muslim countries during the campaign. so it is a tall order for him to try to communicate this message to the arab world, to the muslim world, of working together. we know he's likely to talk about the need for arab leaders to promote a religion of peace. but it is going to be a tough audience potentially for this first stop on this big, high stakes trip. brooke? >> pretty blue skies, look at that, over maryland. wheels up time, about eight minutes from now. athena, thank you so much. the president's rationale for firing james comey coming under more scrutiny today. in his second visit to capitol hill in two days, rod rosenstein told house members today that he knew president trump was going to fire james comey a full day before rosenstein then wrote that memo. remember, this was a letter that he sent to the president to highlight jim comey's behavior and recommend n

stephen miller is going to be drafting the president's speeches. his speeches during the campaign. he was behind at least a portion of the travel ban. what's your reaction to him being so heavily involved in making what would be considered diplomatically sensitive remarks? >> well, steve clemens indicated this is a president that has surrounded himself with a team of advisers, many of whom -- there's no other way to really describe it -- an islamic view of islam, an alarmist view of islam not just in the middle east but in terms of muslims in the united states and migrants and refugees that come to the united states. so this is sort of a high stakes, high risk, high reward moment for the administration. they had the opportunity to lay out a view of the politics of the region, you know, in a way that maybe could present a slightly different face from the one they have presented so far through their policies, but there's no reason to believe that's what they'll actually do given the people around the president whispering in his ear about what islam s

we know the president has been working on this speech with stephen miller, the man behind the travel ban. and advisers tell us tomorrow's speech will take a softer tone. >>> now tonight, we follow the president on his trip to the middle east. several damaging stories back home. ousted fbi director james comey will testify before congress after memorial day, this amid emerging reports that the president called mr. comey, quote, a nutjob. that federal probe zeroing in on the white house itself. abc's jon karl also in riyadh for us tonight. >> reporter: shortly before president trump landed in saudi arabia, word of a coming showdown back home. james comey has agreed to testify after memorial day, in public before the senate intelligence committee. the questions surrounding comey's firing are mounting. >> well, i certainly would like to know the circumstances that led up to his dismissal, and particularly those conversations, direct conversations with the president of the united states. >> reporter: president trump's meeting with top russian diplomats the day after he fired comey is cast

>> it is difficult to imagine what a stephen miller authored speech in saudi arabia might look like.sibility that they will try to play the role with islam and try to make an outreach to a u.s. ally in a speech could lead to a lot trouble. it's a very, very difficult topic to get right. >> what is he dealing with in terms of relations that point with saudi arabia? i mean he said in the past islam hates us. if you're going in with that comment, what does he have to do there to refirm up relations? >> so saudi arabia is a u.s. ally. they have been for a long time. and i think that wouldn't change because of something that was said on the campaign trail. but there is certainly, i think, a lot of tension about what might be said on this trip, particularly if president trump goes off script and if he says anything like that, i this i that could cause a great deal of trouble on this trip. and then there's this secondary question of what will actually be in the script for this speech. and i think that there are a lot of questions about that particularly because steven miller is rumored to h

he is expected to deliver a speech to call on the muslim world to stop terrorism written by stephen millerho was behind trump's travel ban. >>> a drug task force in philadelphia is making recommendations to help reduce the number of overdose deaths in the city. one controversial proposal involves safe injection sites where drug users can inject heroin under the supervisionful a doctor. mayor kenny and governor wolf outlined the details. >> to turn this epidemic around many observations have to do their part. i'm asking doctors, nonprofits and businesses and residents of the philadelphia to read the report and see what you can do to help combat this crisis. >> experts predict opioid deaths in philadelphia this year will exceed the numbers in 2016 reaching nearly 1200 deaths. >>> it is now 9:09 a.m., this weekend a special event being held in honor of delaware state trooper corporal stephen ballard who was shot and killed in the wawa parking lot in bear on april 26. a true to blue memorial fest will be held in smyrna. that event will include music and kid-friendly festivities and food and mo

david:david: there will be meeting and greeting of leaders on this trip -- they're also be stephen miller, the senior white house adviser renting a number of the big ones. and a lot ofhes countries. what can we expect from these speeches? >> but could possibly go wrong? sure he doesn't make any fundamental mistakes that cause a controversy. to establish his presidential credentials to get away from the cacophony of washington daily news coverage, and to change the narrative, make the more comfortable with him as president than they have shown in the last 100 days. >> how prepared is the president for this? from parties describing and not sleeping in his own bed, something he does not like to do. what could go wrong? >> this trip is fraught with peril. speech in riyadh is on moderate islam, the place and holds on the fight against radical terrorism that he has been such a huge -- has been an issue for him. to be able to strike the right -- right notes is a fine line. if we are looking at possible catastrophe, particularly we see certainly envoy -- come up with the other thing that's much,

stephen miller in the white house said your behavior was reckless, err responsible, former attorney general political move by what appears to be louisiana ambitious holdover official. >> was it a political move. >> i was doing my job. >> politics had nothing to do with it. >> allen dershowitz said you're a terrific public servant but quote irving she made a serious mechanic scherr. holdover hero i. spo easy ton hero innot appoint fwhid president. he says you went on to make a political decision and not a legal one. >> i struggled over the decision whether to resign or whether to direct the department of justice not to defend. >> you thought about resigning. >> i went back and forth. >> because two former attorney generalless william bahr say you should have resigned if you disagree with the order and that essentially you were grand standing to looking in for a way to get out to is the get for you to for a political year. >> i think it's a fair question to ask why didn't you just resign that is something i grappled with during that time. sort of the bottom line is that i felt like resigning

tomorrow is the highly anticipated address to the muslim world, a speech drafted by stephen miller, thehite house adviser, behind the controversial muslim ban. while the president is focused on diplomacy, the controversies he left behind here in the u.s. continue to generate headlines, including that jim comey will testify before the senate intelligence committee after memorial day. >>> before that, the president has a foreign trip to get through with plenty of diplomatic headlines. the president and his team hit the ground running. president trump signing a nearly $1 $110 billion in arms deals with saudi arabia effective immediately. plus, another 350 billion over the next ten years. take a listen to this. >> it was a tremendous day. i just want to thank everybody. but tremendous investments to the united states and our military community is very happy and we want to thank you. hundreds of billions of dollars into the united states and jobs, jobs, jobs. >> nbc's kristen welker is traveling with the president. thank you so much for joining us. we didn't hear a lot from president trump t

and i'm sure the speech will strike just the right tone because it's being drafted by stephen miller, who played a key role in creating the administration's travel ban on citizens from muslim countries. ( booing ) and, i've just been told the speech has been blocked by a federal judge. oh, well. oh, well. so close! so close! after the president's done uniting the muslim world with one speech, it's off to israel to smooth over that little kerfuffle with the palestinians. should be a breeze. he's got this one in the bag. we all remember how confident mideast conflict. >> let's see if we can find the solution. it's, uh, something that i think is, frankly, uh, maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years. >> stephen: obviously, not as difficult. "have you tried unplugging the west bank and plugging it back in? just jiggle it. just jiggle the gaza strip. one of these." but the israeli visit might get a little tense at times, too, since it came out this week that israel is the source of the secret intelligence trump gave to the russians. but i'm sure it'll be fine. it's not

>> the man who wrote those words for donald trump is his senior policy adviser, stephen miller. such hits as the muslim travel ban, is writing the speech trump will give tomorrow in saudi arabia. an address on islam, directed to the muslim world. what could go wrong? >> ted cruz also introduced an amendment to double the number of muslim migrants coming into this country. a 200% increase. he had no regard, no concern for how that amendment would affect the security of you and your family. he was happy to replicate here in the united states the same conditions we have in germany and belgium and across europe, with uncontrolled migration from the middle east. >>> joining me now is naveed jamali, nbc contributor, nieera hack and rosa brooks. rosa, h.r. mcmaster said the following of the speech that's coming. he said it's going to be an inspiring, jet direct speech on the need to confront radical ideology and the president's hope for a peaceful vision of islam to dominate across the world. hopeful about that? >> well, i'm watching with interest, as i'm sure is the rest of the world.

give a speech about islam, which is being written by the islamaphobic white house senior advisor stephen miller. miller was the architect of trump's muslim first travel ban, which sought to block all refugees and citizens from seven majority muslim nations from entering the united states. miller also get a series of vehemently islamic dish, phobic speeches after trump visits to heal had to israel and then the vatican. u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning celebrated her first steps of freedom wednesday, tweeting a photograph of her shoes as she walked out of fort leavenworth prison in kansas as a free woman. manning spent seven years behind bars, much of it in solitary confinement. president obama commuted the remainder of her 35-year prison sentence shortly before he left office. the obama administration prosecuted manning under the espionage act after she revealed secrets of the u.s. state department and pentagon, including evidence of war crimes and support for u.s. allies committing torture. in puerto rico, a federal court in san juan opened bankruptcy proceedings wednesday as the island

across the muslim world with a speech that reportedly is being written by presidential advisor stephen millerho was instrumental in write the first travel ban targeting majority muslim countries. the president will be joined in the saudi capital by none other than country star toby keith, who will be performing at a men-only concert while trump is in town. from saudi arabia, trump will travel to jerusalem where he's reportedly scheduled to spend no longer than 15 minutes at a memorial to the victims of the holocaust. he will not, however, be making a previously scheduled stop at an ancient mountain fortress. trump's team was told they could not land his helicopter on top of the world heritage site. now, that is all before the president es to vatican ci, belgium and italy, a trip that will put him out of the country during the burgeoning scandal threatening to consume his presidency. today there's some remarkable news on the key part of that scandal, in fact the central question of this controversy. that's next. >>> today denied there's been any inclusion wean his campaign and russia and that

we know that his speechwriter is stoov stephen miller who shares the views. what did yesterday's performance tell you? >> i think, stephanie, it was the least effective american presidential summit meeting with nato leaders since the beginning of nato 68 years ago in 1949. here's what he didn't do. he did not reaffirm the core collective defense commitment at the heart of the nato alliance that an tack on one of us is an attack on all. at a time of real threat in eastern europe. number, two did he not speak clearly about the american comm commitment to help them contain russian power in eastern europe. and number three, a lot of people have commented on this, he seemed to be much more comfortable with leaders. showed great defrifference and respect to the king of saudi arabia who is not a democrat and yet he didn't show that same respect to democratically elected leaders in europe. so in my view, stephanie, every american president since truman has been the leader of the west. right now i think most people would say that angela merkel is the leader of the wes

this is not a mike flynn, this is not a sean spicer or stephen miller, steve bannon, reince priebus or he has a unique status that is names challenging for donald trump and challenging for us to try to figure out what donald trump does. >> what i want to know is did the president-elect in early december know what mike flynn and jared kushner were doing. hold that thought. we're going to take a quick break, and we'll resume this excellent conversation right after this. ready, go. ahhhhhhhh! shake! shake! shake! shake! shake! done! you gotta shake it! i shake it! glad i had a v8. the original way to fuel your day. so you miss the big city? i don't miss much... definitely not the traffic. excuse me, doctor... the genomic data came in. thank you. you can do that kind of analysis? yeah, watson. i can quickly analyze millions of clinical and scientific reports to help you tailor treatment options for the patient's genomic profile. you can do that? even way out here? yes. even way out here. and it's also a story mail aabout people even way out here? and while we make more e-commerce deliverie

long list of top advisers, including jared kushner, ivanka trump, reprobus, steve bannon and stephen miller. now, at his first stop in saudi arabia, the president is set to deliver a major speech on islam aimed as, as he put it, it encouraging muslim leaders to fight hatred and extremism. a harsh move for a president who has had harsh words for muslims and steve miller who wrote the travel ban has a long history of anti-muslim rhetoric. wolf in. >> athena jones reporting for us, thank you. up on capitol hill, reaction is one of shock and dismay. let's got to our congressional correspondent phil mattingly. what the are you hearing? >> the blowback swift. republicans not real responding yet, but when it comes to democratic lawmakers in both the house and the senate, you get a mix of reaction, wolf. those who are just stunned to those who believe that this is evidence of obstruction. take a listen to an interview i just had with congressman dan kildee of michigan. >> it's -- it's dumbfounding. i mean, just when we think this president has gone as far as he could possibly go, we hear this sort

it was written by stephen miller, paula, the same aide who helped on that travel ban. >> and that speechs expected to preach religious tolerance. i have to ask you about that visual. first lady melania is drawing attention for not wearing a head scarf. >> yeah, and that is an example of the microscope the president and first lady are under under a trip like this but she is following in the michelle obama who did not wear a head scarf during her visit hugely controversial back then seen as a sign of disrespect in this religiously conservative country. among the people who criticized michelle obama back then, donald trump. >> yes, cecilia, thanks for your reporting. we know you'll be there for every step of the wayan 0 the trip. here at home there's been no break from the controversy surround the investigation into possible russian collusion as well as the firing of fbi director james comey. >> so for more on the fast-moving developments to abc's gloria riviera covering it all in washington. gloria, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. no break in these controversi

. >> rebecca, the president's policy adviser, stephen miller, is writing that speech. the one behind the travel ban. >> it's an opportune time and i'm going to be looking for the president to set the right tone. let's also remember, saudi arabia is a military ally. the saudis have been fighting alongside us in syria, the saudi air force participated in the relief of the siege of kobani back in 2014. this is a long relationship between military allies. i'll expect to hear trump acknowledge the work of the kingdom and some of the other gcc states in taking on the islamic terrorist threat and isil up in syria. i'll expect him to set a particular tone and i think we'll hear more, too, about the recently concluded arms deals. those are all set to strengthen ballistic missile defense and other aspects of security in the gulf, all things that need to be done. >> lisa, let me ask you about that arms deal. the president, we've heard him today, emphasizing the business aspects of it. but we're still talking about arms to saudi arabia. it is obviously political as well. what's be

and as donald trump has been president, where he got the idea that nato is obsolete he got from stephen miller. that's miller's world view coming through on the stage. now to say it as the leaders are standing there -- these are live pictures, by the way, at the g7 in italy right now. but to make that speech and give those campaign-style comments in the presence of those leaders where he had a chance to be presidential to say, yes, we are committed to this. we are committed to the concept -- >> by the way, 20 little girls got blown up going to a concert in europe earlier this week. that terrorism could have been the center of it. not the 2% -- by the way, i agree with him. i couldn't agree with him more. barney frank and i -- the one think barney frank and i always agreed on when on the floor of congress and afterwards was we shouldn't carry europe on our back, they should pay their 2%. they should carry their load. they don't get to escape from history. i agree with that. but do not call them out. the entire world is watching and, of course, most importantly vladimir putin is watching. it see

going to assume -- we'll assume that says happy birthday. [ laughter ] white house senior adviser stephen millerd, "i hope it got the lotion i sent, and i hope it is putting the lotion on its body, or else it gets the hose." [ audience ohs ] [ light laughter ] amnesty international posted, "need help?" [ light laughter ] ben carson posted, "merry christmas." [ laughter and applause ] bill o'reilly posted "today is your day, sweet cheeks." [ laughter ] the nypd posted, "did you get our card? it's a bill for $60 million." [ cheers and applause ] for whenever, whenever you find the time to chip in. and finally, donald trump posted, "happy birthday to my beautiful, current wife, melania." [ light laughter ] happy birthday, melania. a third grade class in new jersey recently found a boa constrictor in the back of their classroom. even scarier, they didn't find billy. [ audience ohs ] [ light laughter ] a jeweler is selling a darth vader mask made of solid gold for $1.4 million. though if you love "star wars" that much, i doubt you'll get to tell someone you're their father. [ audience ohs ] [ laughte

speech to the muslim community, a lot of anticipation build around that that's being written by stephen millerof trump's speeches throughout his 2016 campaign. he's also someone who has been an adviser on one of trump's more controversial policy decisions that was the immigration travel executive order that some calling the muslim ban, something that carried out a campaign promise of his from 2016 that was eventually tweaked throughout the 2016 campaign cycle but it's initial form was banning all muslims until we can figure out what's going on. so a temporary muslim ban was initially in that campaign platform. a lot of people here looking to see what is this new speech going to bring to the table in terms of how trump sees, of course, koernt terrorism in the region, how he plans to work with our muslim allies in the region. a lot of anticipation about that speech in particular. but the administration's looking at this as a reset of, of course, lots of political controversy swirling in washington. trump is getting some physical distance from that on this trip but of course a lot of those same q

stephen miller went out on tv the day the second revised travel ban was rolled out and said this is atally the same policy, a watered down travel is still a travel ban. >> glenn, you have 20 seconds. they're wrapping me in my ear. i don't know what that means so why don't you talk? >> the constitution is clear in giving to the president extraordinary and clearly articulated powers to control borders. >> right, that's their argument. all right. >>> up next, the chilling warning from the former director of national intelligence who says american institutions are under attack and our very democracy may be at risk, after this. more people than ever are making the move to nissan. because of rogue, the best selling suv in america. titan, with america's best truck warranty. and the most advanced safety features on alitma and our best selling models. that's why we're america's fastest-growing auto brand. get 0% financing for up to 72 months on 11 models. ♪ i am totally blind. i lost my sight in afghanistan. if you're totally blind, you may also be struggling with non-24. calling 844-844-2424.

. >> stephen miller wrote this, and he's not incompetent. >> he understand article 5.l through the campaign, president trump, the candidate trump, disparaged nato said we were paying too much, said he didn't know if it -- it was an obsolete alliance. i'm having a hard time just giving him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't mean to be saying these things that he was saying. i think he meant a lot of them. i don't know that he knows what the ramifications are going to be. i have to end by saying, he defeated the first woman president, but he's now made a woman a leader of the free world. it's angela merkel right now. >> before we leave i want to get your take on the new scrutiny on jared kushner. he is under fire over reports he may have set up back channel communications between the kremlin and the trump transition team. in your years of experience how unusual is that? >> well, the way it's done, the context of it, is very unusual. i mean, look, we have a historically weak state department right now. we have a senior adviser who's historically inexperienced. we hav

. >> well, he's given a speech there written by stephen miller, who is a person who has come out against calls radical islamic terror repeatedly. the president uses those words. so, how will a speech about islam, which we understand the president will give inside saudi arabia, what are the risks-rewards there? >> i think that it's good for him to do it. i hope it's confrontational in the sense that i think these -- you know, you need to speak truth to power in the sense that this is the place where it all began. this is the place that's still, as i say, is a huge vehicle and funder of a lot of this stuff. the danger, frankly, is that you get played. the saudis have for 25 years now assuaged american presidents by saying, oh, of course, we don't like terrorism, we're going to set up, you know, a center to counter it, re-education programs, oh, and by the way, we'll buy lots of american arms. >> yeah. >> those are -- the saudis always do that. and the question is, how do you make sure that this time it's for real, that you're not getting played? >> you write about this and you talk about o

>> the man who wrote those words for donald trump is his senior policy adviser, stephen miller. this up today, because miller, who also brought you such hits as the muslim travel ban, is writing the speech trump will give tomorrow in saudi arabia. an address on islam, directed to the muslim world. what could go wrong? >> ted cruz also introduced an amendment to double the number of muslim migrants coming into this country. a 200% increase. he had no regard, no concern for how that amendment would affect the security of you and your family. he was happy to replicate here in the united states the same conditions we have in germany and belgium and across europe, with uncontrolled migration from the middle east. >>> joining me now is naveed jamali, nbc contributor, nieera hack and rosa brooks. rosa, h.r. mcmaster said the following of the speech that's coming. he said it's going to be an inspiring, yet direct speech on the need to confront radical ideology and the president's hope for a peaceful vision of islam to dominate across the world. hopeful about that? >> well, i'm watching

the fact that stephen miller wrote this is extraordinary, and i agree about the broader problem in thewright has a story today about how tens of thousands of people across the middle east don't have electricity, major cities have blackouts, go for 12 hour periods where they don't have electricity. these are regimes and governments and economies most importantly that are not functioning. so selling a bunch of weapons to saudi arabia on top of the weapons president obama already sold doesn't improve the lives of average people in the region. isis uses that frustration, the view of corrupt, ineffectual governments that can't deliver basic services to recruit people and they use the fear that the islam baiting that president trump used during the campaign as a recruitment tool also. his words matter an enormous amount during the campaign and matter even more in the speech he will give tomorrow? and tim, at any moment now, we do understand that the secretary of state and foreign minister of saudi arabia will be walking into the room. when that happens we will go there live. what is the goal

you've seen reportsel that stephen miller is heavily involved in some of these speeches which additioneign policy. so, going to a country like saudi arabia and giving a speech on islam, its probably not advisable that you have an adviser who's never studied islam in a serious way. like peter said, this is a nine-day trip. there is -- he gets tired. he doesn't like being away from his own bed. there's a huge risk but a lot of opportunity if he takes advantage of it. >> stephen miller, also, though wrote this speech for the president before congress. he pushed back a lot of people that were trying to put carnage language in there. i guess it all depends on what his boss wants. does donald trump and does jared kushner, do they want the president to be more measured as he moves around and actually move towards what they consider to be their greatest prize, a middle east peace deal? >> so, they are very confident going into this trip that, as you say, there's this unique opportunity because the israelis and sunni arab states are more aligned and because they believe in the power of the pres

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story is by sa miller and stephen dinan who knows that the budget calls for a total of $4.1 trillion,p about $50 billion compared to this year. thanks to a rising economy and growing revenue, mr. trump and visions that deficit shrinking and steadily decreasing until the budget produces a surplus in 2027. cutting nondefense spending by 2% each year and predicted 3% economic growth, that analysts say will be tough to sustain. his top lieutenants will be headed to capitol hill today to talk through some of these budget plans and answer questions from those who control the purse strings, beginning with omb director mick mulvaney. you can watch it on c-span3 or c-span.org, or listen to it on c-span radio. education secretary betsy devos headed to capitol hill 11:00 this morning to talk about the education budget before the house appropriations, labor, and education subcommittee. we are showing that online at c-span.org. steve mnuchin will be on capitol hill before the house ways and means committee. also showing that online at c-span.org at 2:00 p.m. at 3:00, the homeland security secretar

few weeks of the white house, the muslim ban, it was jar who defended individual medley namie, stephen millercannot be questioned. he defended and pushed for flynn to the point where he was crazy. you couldn't talk to him. he pushed giuliani. i know a number of people who talked to him about russia and said the russia thing is a problem. he would not listen. by the way chris christie is not in the white house because of jared, because of family issues with jared. jared didn't want it. chris christie might have been able to make a difference in there, because he at least understands the law. and he has an ability to stand up for himself. maybe not everything is attached to jared but i think he's been overplayed as a moderating force when he's attached to some pretty serious developments. >> everything is attached to donald trump. everything starts and ends with donald trump. what we have found is donald trump has set up a white house just like a business where he has five or six people around that are constantly viewing for his attention. and all six of those, including jared, bannon, you name

. >> are looking ahead to speech today, pointing out it was written by stephen miller, the architecting to push for the country to take a stronger role in the battle against islamic terrorism. that will be crucial. we finished the day up with a twitter convention. that's also not to be scoffed at because that the way the president has reached out and engage with the people. not just the leaders, the right to them. i run brett there will be participating in that convention. a lot to look forward to, not least of that speech. pete: a fascinating page to be there. we appreciate that. pete: that's been a gop presidential candidate mike huckabee whose lives in jerusalem. this morning always focusing riyadh in saudi arabia. thank you very much. before we get your reaction, we've got an excerpt that has just come out with persons at this beach that we believe the president is going to be giving today just a couple hours. one that stuck out to us that this is not a battle between different faith,. this is barbaric criminals who seem to obliterate human life and decent people of all regions w

mark: stephen ingles speaking earlier with matt miller. matt is joining us now live from frank for. saw todayfigures we from the trading business, does it make sure to -- does it make sense to flow it or tied off -- tie it off? matt: you would think they would want to keep that trading business, because it helped them beat estimates so handily. stephan telleards me there, this really is a back to normal process for this business. it had fallen off in 2016 it, but the reason they want to sell it is not so much the weakness in the business sporadically, but the complication in it. they are really trying to simplify, and that is what this restructuring is all about. a focus on corporate and private clients and to get away from the more complicated businesses like the fc. vonnie: why are they on the lookout then for acquisition? matt: that is all about building their client base. this is where investors could have questions. he did have 151,000 new clients in the first quarter, and they want to add in more by the end of the decade. they are not necessarily making money off of those clie

miller, over to you in frankfurt. matt: thank you. i'm here with the steel so stephen engle -- cfo stephen engle.than 30% year-to-date, outperforming the stoxx 600 bank index by at least one third. what do you think is behind that? is this turnaround really kicking in now? >> i think the basic believe is that the strategy that we have announced at the end of last year is the right thing to do. i think q1 was a good start into the year. the strategy, at least, is on track so far and that obviously is convincing. matt: the result you put out levelsit beat on some the highest estimate of the range. not just beating the street, but convincingly beating the street. a lot of that due to growth in the trading business, which is something you're looking to scale back in the restructuring. would you rethink that scaling back decision, or does it just make this unit look better in a possible sale? >> i do agree to a certain extent, but it is obvious that andmillion operating profit net profit are well above estimates. but that is mainly driven by .valuation that we have seen even if you take that off and c

stephen moore. also, a panel debates the effect taxes, programs, and land-use restrictions can have on low income americans. this event was hosted by the heritage foundation. mr. miller: good morning and welcome to the heritage foundation. my name is terry miller. i am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform here at the heritage foundation. i would ask for you please, those in the audience, to make the last check of your cell phones to make sure they won't interrupt the proceedings today. we will get started right now. the event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called big government policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. the united states is a very compassionate country, and we have a lot of government activities that affect poor members of our population in one way or the other. welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another, that add up to well over a trillion dollars these days. that can be things like health ofe, direct income support one kind or another. we are not here to talk about those policies today. we want to talk about another set of government polici