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

the president reportedly began reading from a document given to him by domestic policy advisor stephen miller that listed how many immigrants received u.s. visas in 2017. and according to one of the officials who attended the meeting the document read, haiti had sent 15,000 people. the president then added they quote, all have aides, end quote. the article then said, quote, 40,000 had come from nigeria. trump then added once they had seen the united states, they would never, quote, go back to their huts in africa. in the last hour i spoke with one of the "the new york times" reporters who broke this story. >> right, thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. my colleague both cover the white house, and we spent the last several months actually working on a very long piece about the president's immigration policy throughout the entire year. we tried to trace from the beginning of the year which started with it travel ban all the way through a lot of the different pieces of imgragsz policy that the president has tried to implement, a lot of which has been aimed at securing the borders, making su

now, stephen miller, we haven't seen him for a while, trump's lead immigration policy advisor, insists that these moves will directly benefit american workers. here he is in august selling the idea. >> we've seen significant reductions in wages for blue collar workers. massive displacement of african-american and hispanic workers as well as the displacement of immigrant workers from previous years who oftentimes compete directly against new arrivals who are being paid even less. >> for facts sake, is he right? president trump rescinding future protection for 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers in september and his vacillating since is part of a larger plan to rework the immigration system as we know it. the president wants to cut the number of legal immigrants coming in by half and only admit those with high-level skills. that's because the administration argues low-skilled immigrants flood the labor market and drive wages down. stephen miller cites an economist that studied the large influx of cuban immigrants into south florida during 1980. local wages dropped as much as 30% among high school drop

with the secretary of state rex tillerson , then homeland security chief john kelly, and advisor stephen miller. several people were present at the time but did not recall the president using those words. the white house press secretary strongly denies trump made the remarks, telling abc news in a is both sad and telling the new york times would spread the lies from a norm -- from anonymous sources. trump remained silent on the report. coming up, the controversy rocking the miss america organization. the email scandal behind the pageant. and 7 on your side with possible package delays. surprisents get a big days before christmas, and they have their teacher to thank. whoa! and you won't want to stop for anything else. [ barks ] ho! lease the cla250 for $329 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. kellye: a somber ceremony in california, saying goodbye to a firefighter who died battling a massive wildfire. son was killed fighting the thomas wildfire, the largest in state history. the fir

: where is stephen miller?bout his victory in the economy.: it hasn't been like this and really trashing his predecessors. he said for instance he's making the economy a national security priority for the first time. that's been going on some 40 years that has been a key plank of the speeches that are given, every president gives. there was a little trump-ism there but i think it wasy generally quite subdued. >> jeanine: yes. what did you think, dan? >> patriotism. pride.ht america first. judge, these are things for eight years that we frankly did not hear pronounced loudly from barack obama. it was an international apology tour. i will never forget after that speech where he said american exceptionalism. we are exceptional, just like the greeks are exceptional. >> he was saying that they were exceptional about their own nation, which they do. >> jess, listen, that's a scam. that's nonsense. here's the deal on this. i love the greeks, i'm a christian, i believe we are alln children of god, but the greek system

wil: he worked for him right after stephen miller, who is in the white house now.n the west wing, young guy. we saw him in july tangling with jim acosta over the statue of liberty and whether the poem attached to the statue of liberty should be considered part of the statue of liberty and silly things like that. stephen miller had been on larry elder's program expanding on his objection to immigration in california as a teenager, as a high school student couple of years ahead of alex. and so as a teenager, alex, living in los angeles, was listening to this radio program and thinking this kid is on fire. he is hyped up about these things. there was part of alex, i think, in a way was just a rebellious kid. and like, he went to a fancy prep school. harvard westlake prepatory school. i think he has a sense that everybody agreed about everything, everybody was left of center, everybody wanted to recycle within an inch of their lives. and i think there is a lot of this, i think, among young conservatives. they start out kind of rebelling against the general leftward thr

force one touched down friday afternoon at andrews air force base, priebus, senior policy adviser stephen miller media director dan scavino all loaded into a suburban, but moments later, miller and scavino hopped out of that vehicle, and as word trickled out about the chief of staff's ouster, reporters inched close to snap photos of priebus, who sat alone on the rain-soaked tarmac. - aw, shame. poor reince. what's really sad about this is that none of these imaginary scenarios we can come up with for reince are as humiliating as the ones that trump came up with for him in real life. - his final departure was a humiliating coda for what had been a largely demeaning tenure during which priebus endured regular belittling and emasculation from rival advisers and even, at times, the president himself. the "post" story recounts one vignette when the president asked priebus to kill a fly that was bothering trump in the oval office. - president trump, that's just wrong. you don't call reince priebus in to kill a fly; you call melania. she's an expert in swatting pests. ♪ it's a good, good, good ♪ time t

erin: february 2017, white house senior policy adviser stephen miller says president trump lost new hampshire because of voter fraud. factcheck.org spoke to former new hampshire attorney general thomas rath, a republican, and the former head of the republican party in the state. rob: and both of them told us that this is a baseless and false claim, and preposterous in the words of one of them. erin: april 2017, border wall promises. donald trump: the wall's going to get built, folks, just in case anybody has any question. the wall's going to get built. erin: the president tells the associated press it will be built for $10 billion or less. eugene: the estimate of $10 billion or less, though, is contrary to what estimates are out there right now from his own department of homeland security, and some independent studies that we looked at. erin: the homeland security department's estimated cost is $21.6 billion. may 2017, president trump fires fbi director james comey on the ninth, and defends his decision during an interview with lester holt days later. donald: he's a showboat, he's a grandstan

then homeland security chief john kelly and adviser, stephen miller. several participants in the meeting told the times they did not recall the president using those words and did not think he had. today white house press secretary sarah sanders strongly denies trump made the remarks, telling abc news in a statement, "it's both sad and telling the 'new york times' would print the lies of their anonymous 'sources.'" tonight, trump is silent on the report, but launching a twitter attack on andrew mccabe on new reports that he is retiring in march. the president tweeting that mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. fbi insiders thought mccabe would leave soon after the firing of fbi director james comey. mccabe has been the target of the president alleging bias and obstruction of justice. >> turning back to that report about trump's remarks about immigrants, the white house not only blasting "the times," but also several officials in the room deny it ever happened? >> reporter: that's right. sarah sanders says a number of officials were i

top trump aide stephen miller told the washington examiner that if media coverage was fair, there wouldt the unstoppable momentum of the oval office. it's the same thing that they did to my old boss, ronald reagan. they branded him a dottering old actor while trying to sabotage his agenda. these are the same people that got the election wrong, said the stock market would tank once trump got elected and now trying to revive their own reputations by defaming the president and they hope they remove him from office. that's what the crazy talk is about. frankly i think that is crazy. that's the angle. joining us now to discuss what is really going on, molly hemingway and garland nixon, a radio talk show host. garland, that's quite a montage of people in politics and the media declaring donald trump basically either has dementia or mentally unsound. >> you know, i think they may be out of line making a scientific diagnosis. i don't think it's unreasonable when the president tweets out something that could literally start world war iii one day and the next day he's in a twitter war with a coll

cabinet, the president was furious after he began reading a document that was prepared for him by stephen miller that detailed a number of visas that were given in 2017. the president specifically read off certain portions, again, according to sources that were either in this meeting or briefed on it. in one portion he speaks specifically billion haitians and the president is quoted as saying haiti had sent 15,000 people. they all have aids, he grum belled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there. here again from "the times," "40,000 came from nigeria. once they had seen the united states, they would never, quote, go back to their huts in africa, recalled the two officials who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive conversation in the oval office." sarah sanders says the president did not make these statements. she writes, "general kelly, general mcmaster, secretary tillerson, secretary neilson and all other senior staff in the meeting deny these outrageous claims and it is both sad and telling "the new yo

president had just finished reading a document that was prepared for him by domestic policy adviser stephen miller that detailed the visas granted to people of different nationalities and according to the sources that they had in that meeting and those that were briefed on that meeting, the president said the following about haitians. again, this is from "the new york times." "haiti has sent 15,000 people and they all have aids, he grumbled." and the report details the president's reaction to the number of nigerians granted visas from the united states. "40,000 come from nigeria. once they had seen the united states, they would never go back to their huts in africa, recalled the two officials who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the oval office." cnn reached out to the white house on comments on this bombshell report and sarah sanders gave an identical statement that she did to "the new york times." "general kelly, general mcmaster, secretary tillerson, secretary niel sechltsen deny t claims and it's sad that "the new york times" would print the lies of their anonymous so

it cites that the president was reading from a policy memo from stephen miller who has been one of the architects of the president's views and policies related to immigration, hard liner would be a way to describe him that i think even he would can acknowledge, and suggests in the meet tlg is a back and forth between these top level advisers, including cabinet level officials, this is before john kelly was chief of staff in his time at the department of homeland security. and it says that the president used these in send dairy comments referencing immigrants from countries like afghanistan and haiti in language that is widely considered offensive. quotes that are attributed to anonymous sources. so we don't know what all of the context of this meeting is, but it does reflect the president's broader anger about issues he's not been able to affect some of the immigration policy changes that he campaigned on and believed in and has found there have been court attempts to stop his travel ban and so forth. so the white house response is that, naming the specific official, cabinet level that

. >> reporter: february 2017, white house senior policy advisor stephen miller says president trump lostse of voter fraud. fact check.org spoke to former new hampshire attorney former head of the republican party in the state. >> both of them told us that this is a baseless and false claim and preposterous in the words of one of them. >> reporter: april 2017, border wall promises. >> the wall can get built, folks. in case anybody has any question, the wall is going to get built. >> reporter: the president tells the associated press it will be built for $10 billion or less. >> the estimate of $10 million or less, though, is contrary to what estimates are out there right now. from his own department of homeland security and some independent studies that we looked at. >> reporter: the homeland security department's estimated cost is $21.6 billion. may 2017, president trump fires fbi director james comey on the 9th and defends his decision during an interview with lester holt days later. >> he's a showboat. he's a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. you know that, i know that, everybo

but there's this idea that the administration through stephen miller does not want that.y also have to give in on border security issues. the democrats don't want a lot of internal enforcement because essentially there are a lot of mixed status families. parents who might still be undocumented while their kids are d.r.e.a.m.ers and family back home they want to bring over. there's this idea republicans really want to crack down on that. and deportations, even if the d.r.e.a.m.ers get to stay here and get a path towards citizenship, if the republicans have their way, their parents might be deported and democrats might be in a tough situation to try to argue about whether or not that's the case. >> in addition to daca, garrett, lawmakers have just a few weeks to once again reach an agreement to keep the government open long term. do you expect an agreement or just another short-term fix like the one we saw passed yesterday? >> it's tough to say, craig. while we were waiting to start this segment we got a note that the house is going to delay returning from their christmas b

trump has said he's going to fire comey and he and stephen miller, i can't wait to see the miller showdown at some point. but he and miller sit down and write this letter. it's so problematic that don megan, the white house counsel, says that letter cannot see the light of day. i think there's reasonable speculation or some implication that it may have talked about the russian investigation as the reason why he's firing comey. there is a draft of that letter somewhere, in a database somewhere and mueller will be able to see that letter and in fact it laid out the trump and russia investigation as a reason to fire. keep in mind many other people participated in that letter. jared kushner allegedly participated. vice president pence allegedly heard that letter. they're also implicated in aiding and abetting to obstruct justice. so there are many more people who might tell the story to save themselves from that liability. then a day after trump fires comey on may 9th, on may 10th in the oval office trump says to kislyak and lavrov, two russian officials. he says i just fired the head of the f

of things to come, that this is the heart of the republican party represented steve bannon and stephen miller, i will leave that train soon. from myit is too early position to say this is done. i hope that more people who have a different view of what the party of lincoln should be and what conservatism is will fight for it. but i don't know that people who have my view will prevail. i don't know that by any means at all. there is a way that trump has of the ugliest instincts and the darkest impulses of people, which is horrifying. it can't be denied. it also willing to say that was much wider spread than i imagined. i may be suffering from my own -- i may have been suffering from my own confirmation bias, i do not know. but if you had asked me five or 10 years ago if this was what the republican party represents or if it would produce donald trump as the nominee, i would've said, that is not the republican party that i know and those are not the republicans i know. that party produced him and i think it's a travesty. >> my uncle was a republican leader of the minnesota senate and the author

he told me he couldn't think of anybody else for that part, and i just feel like george miller lied to me. >> stephenuld have told you. >> he should have told me. >> stephwh >> stephen: who was the he was the krill with the abs. >> so that would have been you or jon. >> stephen: i think jon is vegan sow has the abs. >> okay. wow. >> stephen: i'm sorry. >> so the kids have seen that, yes. they have seen that and i did an animated movie called spirit about a horse about 20 years ago. these are children who have now grown up, you know, 20 years later, but so my kids have seen that as well. >> stephen: wonderful, wonderful. and are they impressed with you or snig like that. >> not a a all. >> stephen: do they have an awareness of any of the rest it. >> they are starting to. i have a 19 year old who obviously has seen a lot of stuff. but she is obviously old enough she can do whatever she wants. >> stephen: sure, you let her out. >> yes. way too old for roy moore, yeah, 19. (applause). >> stephen: it's true. >> thank god next three. >> stephen: he calls that a mature honey. >> that's right, no, no, that i

but to me you will always be gordon miller from "room service. >> you saw that! >> stephen the roundabout theater, direct by alan arkin. he had all his second city buddies i idolized for years. i just don't want to start in. they were all fantastic. >> stephen: i was a senior in college and i had come to new york to actually interview to be an intern on david letterman's show, and a friend of mine said, "i can get us a job as ushers for one night to see this play." and i said, sure, that will be fun. and i walked in, and you were on the stage doing the groucho mark. >> the critics came in thinking i would play the innocent midwestern playwright-- "golee. i have never been in the city before." and instead was a sleazy gordon miller. they were shocked. plut of plus it didn't look like me. i had pants up to here, a half jar of pomaid and the brilliantine mistash, and people said that's not mark. that's gordon miller. that's why whati like about character actors. if in voiceovers they cast with the ears and not the eyes and you get a lot of parts you wouldn't get on camera. >>