live picture from the white house briefing room where we are expecting white house rest secretary tara sanders to answer reporters questions. we are running a little bit late and will have it live for you here on c-span2 once it gets underway. >> .. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we are still a few minutes away with the white house press briefing with a number of items we could hear questions about the special election takes place tomorrow in pennsylvania, president trump held a rally there recently and a rally with the upcoming summit with reanimator kim jung-un and the stormy daniels matter the russian spy in the u.k. last week all of those we could hear could come up during the briefing that is expected to start in just a moment. live on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. sorry for the delay the white house rolled out the school safety plan this morning every student sh

was thrilled, and the rank and file in the fbi was very happy that he was let go, well, in fact, tara sanders is a person who has never worked in law enforcement before come tino the white house and only in pacs and campaigns and the statement is refuted in response to requests that over 100 pages that not one of them said they were glad that he is gone, and most of them said that they were devastated by comey's firing. >> there has been a pattern of dishonesty as document ed over the course of this presidency, so far. but when it comes to mccabe as an fbi official, i know that, james, you can talk about how important that honesty is in terms of the integrity of the institution, and that being said, we know that this president has worked very hard to undermine the justice department through his tweets and the comments and to call into question the integrity of the fbi, and he says that today is a great day for the men and women of the fbi and do you agree? >> i don't. recent surveys have shown that one of every two american citizens believes or has faith in favorability and high favorability

sanders. hello, everyone. good evening, welcome to the program. taraemployees at the department of interior have told cnn that the secretary ryan zinke have said on several occasions diversity is important or i don't care about diversity. what do you say? >> why are we surprised? i mean, this is the cast of characters that it's the c-team. this isn't exactly the cream of the crop here that's in this trump cabinet here. i mean, you know, you vote for a clown you're going to get the circus. this is what you get. ryan zenke, not only has he made comments like this, his spending habits and other things, the kanishiwa comment to an african-american congresswoman after they were talking about japanese internment camps. it's just a very -- trump supporters will say, you know it's not p.c. everyone is getting way too sensitive about these things. yes, there are some things you can take political correctness too far, but there is also a certain amount of professionalism that i think the american people expect from the cabinet members that they are not getting.

tara palmeri caught up with him. >> everybody's got to leave the white house at some point. >> are you going sooner or later? >> i'm doing my job. >> reporter: today press secretary sarah sanders specifically reassured mcmaster and insisted she was doing so at the president's behest. >> i spoke directly to the president last night, he asked me to pass that message along to general mcmaster. >> reporter: the president himself has been fueling speculation about a staff shakeup. >> i'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. >> reporter: in a week in which he fired secretary of state rex tillerson in a tweet, trump hinted at more bloodletting to come. >> there will always be change and i think you want to see change. and i want to also see different ideas. >> taking two sentences out of the thousands of remarks that the president makes and making it look like that's the entire focus of his administration. he just nominated two new people to be part of his cabinet so we are getting close. >> all right, david wright joins us now from the bhowhite house,d we heard mcmaster say, quote, everybody's got leave the white house