the latest from the white house. did sarah sanders say in the briefing when asked directly and repeatedly about the sadler comments?

everybody in the obama white house is more important than i was. [laughter] so i included a lower perspective from someone like me but you realize i was a privilege that anyone could ever have so literally the morning after the electionni i realized this is something that i want to do and also my mom told me at least weekly you need to be keeping a journal and i never kept a journal. so this is a way to process what we had all just gone through because i didn't have a grasp on it. i went back to d.c. before president trump was inaugurated so it has been a whirlwind of persons leaving the whitevi house but finding out what i had just gone through and the blank page was very intimidating. >> i actually didn't know that about keeping a journal so how doou you remember everything? >> i will just say the book reminded me of a lot of other stories i had forgotten about. so what did you do?n' >> i had to ask a number of people. i probably send him at least one text every day. and i went through old e-mails and funny emails from our account to jog our memor

the other thing resulting from today's white house press briefing is the way in which the white house is trying the dig itself out of this five-day firestorm surrounding this kelly sadler scandal. the white house still not issuing a formal public apology in many of the ways in a the mccain family and lawmakers of both parties have requested, have demanded. raj shaw would only say it's being treated as an internal issue. look at this exchange between shaw and peter alexander earlier. >> do you agree she is a bit of a victim here? and why? >> again, the matter is going to be addressed -- has been addressed internally. what i will say is when you work in any work environment, you with your colleagues at nbc or elsewhere, if you don't -- if you aren't able in internal meetings to speak your mind or convey thoughts or say anything that you feel without feeling like your colleagues will betray you that creates a very difficult work environment. i think anybody who works anywhere could recognize that. >> is there any environment where conveying that thought would be viewed as appropriate? >>

the group also included a white woman. tedly didn't mention her, making reference to only the black people. in dover township, pennsylvania, a group of african-american women say the grand view golf club called police twice because they were, quote, golfing too slow. the co-owner says the women weren't meeting the time guidelines, delaying tee times for other golfers. and then there is the infamous starbucks incident in philadelphia last month where two black men were led out of the business in handcuffs. the coffee chain closed thousands of stores for a day to educate employees about racial bias. all right, joining me right now to discuss all of this is our guest, global opinion editor for "the washington post." karen, good to see you. you wrote a piece for "the washington post" titled "calling the police on black people isn't a starbucks problem, it's an america problem." where you argue, and i'm quoting now, black people in america can be physically eliminated at any time, at any place, for little reason. so these videos

i had no idea what to do after leaving the white house. i was in a position that was my first job out of college and i started 2010 and somehow they just let me stay on till the end and then i was ill prepared to enter the real world, so i thought how can i put that off as long as possible, so a year before i thought about what i wanted to do and i love to write, so i thought about a different kind of fight .-full-stop because the white house meant so much to me sort of a look at the white house from a lower-level people's perspectives, but still it wasn't calling into anything real or meaningful until the 2016 election and at that point i thought okay i can see what this can look like and why it might be valuable and somehow memorialize our time in the white house because i know a number of people are writing books more important than i was at the white house, so i want to also include a lower-level perspective from someone like me who just fell into the job and realized along the way this is the greatest privilege anyone could have. so af

praise of the white house, of course, and also this. ons have brought an avalanche of donations to his campaign. according to "the washington examiner" $2.25 million in 6 weeks, jake. >> all right. tom foreman, thanks so much. president trump abruptly cancelling the highly anticipated nuclear summit with kim jong-un. is there still a chance it could happen? stay with us. for all the eyes that get itchy and watery near pollen. there's flonase sensimist. it relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. and all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist. ways to lthe northern belly fat. percussion massage. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool. coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells. with little or no downtime. and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some rare side effects include temporary numbness, discomfort, and swelling. ask your doctor if coolsculpting is right for you. and visit coolsculpting.com today for your chance to

the white house is focused on how her comment was leaked to the press.mes as jeff zeleny has new details about how far the white house is going to try to prevent any more leaks. >> reporter: outside of the capitol, president trump paying respect to slain law enforcement officers. >> you are the greatest, you are our heroes. >> reporter: but inside of the capitol, it is the lack of respect the white house is showing to senator john mccain that is enraging fellow republicans. >> i don't understand it. why you don't just apologize and move on. >> that would be he's -- easier to do. >> reporter: inform an aide said it doesn't matter what john mccain thinks about jean as haspel because he's dying any way. the president weighing in. not to condemn the remark but to blast who leaked it. the so-called leaks oust white house are a massive overexaggeration to make us look as bad as possible, he tweeted. adding, leakers are traitors and crow ards and we'll find out who they are. in the halls of the west wing, that hunt is underway. months after the white house bann

assigned to the white house. upon his nomination to the veterans affairs department of veterans affairs secretary, acting dr. was put in his place. he will remain there. >> why not bring him back in that role? >> again, the other doctor reddy assumed the role but after debts and continues to be an active duty navy dr. assigned here at the white house. where there are a number of doctors that are part of the white house medical unit. >> and what about the response of the declaration of the defamation suit filed by stormy daniels? >> i don't have anything on that. -- >> as standard operating procedure for new president, the white house medical unit took possession of the presidents medical records. >> it was characterized -- the dr. seemed to be pretty upset. >> no, that is not my understanding. [inaudible question] >> the president has tweeted about it. he has talked about how none of these questions relate to collusion. but that is not true. over a dozen of them do. we have talked about accuracy in the past. why i

there was much chaos in the white house. because trump had -- i don't think that he -- might warrant can answer this, but i bet most of the people, a high percentage of the people that work in the trump dide for trump, not know them beforehand and still might not know that now. hase is chaos there, which led to what is in his eyes, i'm not trying to dump on trump, i think he's done a very good job policy wise and getting things past that are important, but on the other hand leaking to the degree that goes on in the white greaterday is so much than i've ever seen before, and i've covered the white house back to gerald ford. a very nice man, by the way. bush 41. worked in there were some leaking, but nothing like this. when there is this much leaking, it is poison. trump says he's going to stop it. other presidents when there was less leaking so that they would stop it. they all failed and i am afraid that trump will, too. ? white house watch? >> it's why i look so tired and exhausted. >> how much did they stab each other in th

there remains chaos in the white house. because trump -- mike can answer this, but i bet most of the people, a high percentage of people who work in the white house for trump, trump did not know before hand and maybe still does not know now. there is chaos. i am not trying to dump on trump. i think he has actually done a very good job policy wise and getting things passed that are important. on the other hand, the leaking to the degree that goes on at the white house today is so much greater than i have ever seen before, and i have covered white house going back to gerald ford, a very nice man, by the way. and you worked with bush 41, and there was nothing like this. when there is this much leaking, it is poison, and trump said he is going to stop it. other presidents said they were going to stop it, they all failed. and i am afraid trump will, too. bill: mike probably covers the white house more than anyone, writing for the daily. what is it like to deal with them? how much do they stab each other in the back? why is there

and i see how they are exploiting the amateur hour in the white house. oiting the narcissism, the egotism, the arrogance in the white house. and i understand they're not exploiting it to the credit of the united states. they're exploiting it to the credit of their own countries. and it worries me because what it's turning out to be is the u.s. isolated, the u.s. increasingly alone, and the u.s. having to stand up for itself making america great again, if you will, in the sense that we're really making america weak again and divorcing ourselves from all the things post world war ii, policies, both security and foreign, that made us strong in the first place. >> trita, netanyahu's presentation today centered on the basic idea, it went like third-quarter the iranian regime has been deceptive and lied about the intents of their nuclear program in the past-b what they were doing with it, they've always maintained it was purely peaceful, there's evidence that's not the case and ergo, because they are deceptive and because we can document this, they are not a re

the white house would like us to believe this falls under spygate. let's hear what lindsey graham had to say about spygate. >> should the president use the term "spygate"? >> i don't know. probably not. i didn't go to the meeting. i don't think he's a spy. i don't know who this person was. >> i don't know who this person was, probably not. how did we get to this point? you characterize it as an inflexion point, the way the white house has framed this. >> this is a whole line of attacks on robert mueller that has been percolated on the right, especially places like fox news, sean hannity and talk radio. over the couples of weeks, they've gone there and it dovetails with the hiring of rudy giuliani as his outside lawyer. according to trump there was no russian collusion, that the fbi and cia apparently to this conspiracy planted informants inside the trump campaign to entrap trump advisers like george papadopoulos and others into claiming they maybe were looking for russian help so that after the fact that this is i know long winded but stay with me but

she said, don't you want to be in the white house? forget it, you are out. he said president trump's team ransacked his office, two days after the doctor told "new york times" that he prescribed president trump that hair growth medicine. the president's former doctor says he never received an authorization form, to put papers, allowing him -- hipaa papers, allowing that to be released. >> don't forget that dr. bornstein said he had given a letter to dr. ronnie jackson who was then the president's personal physician, authorizing the transfer of the records to the white house medical unit. sarah huckabee sanders this afternoon, the briefing saying, there's nothing really to see here, it's standard operating procedure. >> as a standard operating procedure for the new president, the white house medical unit took possession of the president's medical records. >> it was characterized as a raid. is that what happened in your understanding? >> that is not my understanding. >> we did not get an opportunity to ask that, if in the past the records had been trust dominic

the white house still not apologizing for the comments made by a white house staffer about john mccaine so-called leaks coming out of the white house are a massive overexaggeration. he goes on to say, leakers are traitors and cowards and we will find out who they are. let's discuss with cnn political analyst john avlon and alex burns. first of all, there's a lot of leakers including the president, so it's an interesting reaction. did we have any insight into why he's going after them over this? >> well, i think the president's natural instinct is to divide everything into us against them, including leaking, which he does a lot of them. rarely have we had a president do so much leaking and that create acetone coming from the top situation. so if he calls them traitors and cowards, you know -- >> it's also kellyanne conway who talks about pernicious the leaking is. this is how she described it. >> some leaks exist to hurt colleagues. some leaks against with the policies being put forth. but none of them are helpful. and i will tell you something else that's gone on in this white house bu

and the white house isn't offering condolences. 're not offering any sort of heart-felt comments on the loss of life in jerusalem and in the gaza -- i'm sorry, in the gaza strip. instead saying it is a propaganda attempt. you asked if the white house's policy was for israel to kill it. >> this was part of the conversation with raj shaw. i thought it was strike region just hours after the president's only public comments, at least by twitter, were congratulations oen this great day for the people of israel that this white house hasn't said anything in terms of sympathy for the palestinian people. now dozens, 51-plus, by some measure, already killed on this day. in fact, the white house's public statements now indicate that they believe this is exclusively to be blamed on hamas, as you described it, an unfortunate propaganda attempt, as raj -- a grievous, i think he said, propaganda attempt, as indicated by raj shaw here just a short time ago. the reason this matters -- and it shouldn't come as any surprise -- that the president is er

and why wasn't it at the white house? and prison reform, can you give us more about the prison reform? we understand that is working its way and there is a big push from the white house. also on sadler, where does decency and morality come to play in the workplace? she still has a job and made that statement about an american hero, no matter what political feelings about him. he was overseas for the freedom of this country. to say those things, i mean -- >> again, that is an internal matter and it's been addressed internally. you mention prison reform. we are pleased to see last week the house markup with a broad bipartisan vote. prison reform legislation that the white house is supportive of that particularly jared kushner has been involved with. we believe that, you know, that legislation can help reduce the cost of prisons and improve quality. we hope to see it, you know, looked at, at the house floor. and then eventually pass the senate. with respect to james shaw, you know, it was a conversation that the president ask

, but the white house, the way it works. i heard a lot particularly at the beginning of the white house when i started covering it. sentiment,ople, this and i heard it from one particular source in this framing, which is ask a question what is the policy going to be on this or where are we going to go on this particular policy move, and this person would say, well, we are planning on doing this. we talked about this in this meeting, but with this president, and this is important here, with this president, you never know. this is someone who works as a senior official at the white house, closely with the president, and this was a common refrain and one that you still here, which is that nobody knew or really knows what the president is really thinking, and that, i think, is, in part, sort of what has engendered a sense of chaos in the white without thatis clear sense among the staff, among the advisors, whose job it is to provide the present with options to move -- provide the president with options to move forward on with po

what are they saying there at the white house? >> good afternoon, to you. first, let me give you background on the questions that fox news has obtained. they were first given yesterday to the "new york times." these were questions that were developed in early march in negotiations between the special counsel's office and president trump's outside legal team. i'm told that mueller's office never really handed a legal team a sheet of questions. more it was a conversation back and forth and the questions were written down. but they fall in four broad categories. michael flynn and the circumstances surrounding his departure as well as james comey, the circumstances surrounding his departure. jeff sessions and his recusal from the russia investigation. and the june 9, 2016, meeting that donald trump jr. had in trump tower with the russian attorney natalia veselnitskaya. put up on the screen a few questions that we thought perhaps were most pertinent. what is yournage of calls that general flynn made with kislyak? that is sergey kislyak, the russian ambassador to

the white house declined to explain what the president meant. sean spicer, the former white house press secretary a few months back went through staffer's phones before he left. they wouldn't say if that is something they're planning to do now or whether the president was talking about a department of justice investigation. jeff sessions had said earlier this year that they had 27 leak investigations open but that referred to classified information and what we're talking about today is not classified information but gossip within the white house. >> jon: the irony here is john mccain is a navy veteran. during many discussions during the navy he heard comments far worse than this and probably wasn't offended by them. >> that's perhaps true. however, this is not been very good for this white house because first of all, kelly sadler has not apologized publicly as she was supposed to do reportedly after speaking with megan mccain and raj shah would not say from the podium whether or not this white house thinks that it's inappropriate the comments th

down earlier in the session. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders will address the media first time since the controversial correspondents' dinner, the one i'm glad i missed. i would rather be doing anything else, like organizing my sock drawer. this as the white house pulls back on the pressure on our trading partners giving them more time to renegotiate the deals before the new tariffs kick in. i'm trish regan. welcome to "the intelligence report." president trump awarding several countries, a last minute one month delay for steel and aluminum tariffs take effect. what happens now? former labor secretary nominee andy puzder is here. he will weigh in and talk about his new book. >>> florida senator marco rubio says there is no evidence whatsoever that proves the republican tax bill helped any american workers. hmmm. what's he talking about? isn't this the guy actually liked tax cuts? doesn't evidence take a little while to show up in the economy? we'll have my intel. stocks selling off. we're just down 1

is the white house comment iingn this? his epa administrator, but it's not clear if he was aware of this latest scandal. a previously undisclose d dinne in rome with a top vatican official under investigation for child sexual abuse. documents reveal scott pruitt designed with a continroversial vatican figure along with over a dozen other church leaders at a five star restaurant during his trip to italy last year. even though his public schedule says he was simply having a private dinner with staff. >> sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly fool ish. >> the guest of honor was a known climate denier. >> are there any long-term benefits from the schemes to combat global warm iing, apart from extra text revenue frs the government. >> pel is also the highest ranking member of the catholic church to be charged with child sex abuse. decades of allegations are now going court in australia. he has pleaded not guilty and while the dinner took place before he was forfamally charge he was under investigation while he

the president remained back here at the white house. and now the president tweeting again about this chinese phone company that was under a ban for seve -- for seven years buying any american products, something a point of contention after the president tweeted he would help bring this company back after it was penalized by the united states and the trump administration. for selling technology to north korea and iran. now the president tweeting again saying the large chinese phone company buys a big percentage of individual parts from companies and this is reflective of the larger trade deal we're negotiating with china and my personal relationship with president xi after there is bipartisan pushback to the president's tweet on sunday about helping this company out and something people said flew in the face of his america first campaign promise. now people are raising questions about it does appear the president is tweeting once again about this phone company. it is still unclear into f he's on the way to walter reed or remains here back

let's talk about this effort by the white house. the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, now walking back that statement, saying maybe he didn't get that completely right. so, david, this underscores a real difficulty now in trying to distinguish the difference between rudy giuliani, the white house, trump, especially when trump has some historical reference as being critical against the merger of at&t and time warner. so how does one distinguish a difference in opinions and statements here? >> good morning, fred. so, yeah, i don't know how you distinguish. let's talk a step back for the second time in two weeks. mayor giuliani has gone out in public, in an interview, and tried to cover up one unfavorable narrative for the white house with another narrative that turned out to be just unfavorable. he was telling sean hannity last week, no, no, no, he was try make payments to repay michael cohen. and then everybody, including sean hannity says wait a minute, the president said he didn't know anything about it. now we have a situation. c

this is from the white house. se moments where they say we're going to round up and fire the leakers. that hasn't really happened. it certainly hasn't stopped the leaks. to add to jonathan's point, i remember during the campaign this happened where there was one former trump campaign staffer who would use phrases that corey lewandowski, then the campaign manager used, so he could give quotes that sounded like corey. >> no one's playing a violin for corey lewandowski. i want to show ykellyanne conwa warning of fallout from this. >> there is all kinds of leaks. some leaks because they disagree with the policies put forth, but none of them are helpful. >> do you expect personnel changes as a result? >> yes, i do, actually. yes, i do. >> some of the stories that kellyanne conway and her colleagues have called fake news have blamed on leakers have turned out to be true. there was a "new york times" report about emmett flood joining the president's legal time. we reported that hr mcmaster would be out of his job as natio

now, this makes its way to the white house and i want to read from the unidentified white house aide. media and congressional reaction to the numbers will be huge. the impact to epa and defense departments will be extremely painful. we can't seem to get them at hhs to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be. what has happened since then? >> so there has been, well, first of all, the study has not come out. nothing has happened on the administration's front. the e-mails indicate there had been some reluctance at the hhs agency to reveal all of the information. this agency is known for being very slow but there already strong indications there was pressure exerted on the agency not to release the study in a timely manner. in the time since we've reported this though, there's been strong reaction on capitol hill. these compounds are in pretty much every american's blood and there are known could be tam nations of water supplies. a lot of military bases, it was used in firefighter foam by the miller and near factories and plants where these things were produce

>> i think the white house should apologize. i do. number one, because i think it is the right thing to do and we created an unfair or an unneeded narrative out there. number two, i think this story should not be five days old which i think it is right now. and i should say also this, will the mainstream media apologize for continuing to focus on a mid level staffer, and by the way, i really like her, so i don't mean to demean her. a mid level staffer that 99% of people never heard of and ignore the good news and hyperfocus on one crass statement or poorly worded joke from one mid level white house staffer. >> if it is so meaningless, why not do the decent human thing? you say they should. i don't understand, is it that the president believes apologizing is weakness and that message has been sent to the white house? does he believe that you don't get credit for apologizing to your enemies anyway so what is the point? >> listen, you can ask my wife, i probably apologize four times a day. >> i am a huge apologizer as well. we are on the

why did the white house rush to congratulate him? >>> i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >>> the white house says president trump views rudy giuliani as added value to his legal team. despite giuliani's stunning blunders in a round of news media appearances and hints the president could ignore a possible special counsel subpoena or even plead the fifth amendment. i'll speak with congressman joaquin castro of the intelligence and foreign affairs committee. and or correspondents are standing by. right to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. rudy giuliani keeps creating problems for the white house. >> reporter: that is right. last week the president said rudy giuliani couldn't get his facts straight. so today the white house said he adds value to the president's legal team. the white house of course shied away from questions about the president's legal troubles and the stormy daniels case and the russia investigation as we saw earlier today. aides to the president have gotten burned in the past with statemen

it was before i worked at the white house. the president used to come in , what wasaseball going on during the day. doing one of the confirmations, he would call it off. the guy was intensely interested in what was happening. she would jump around the bureaucracy. he wouldwith people in the field. what i find interesting about president nixon in retrospect is he thought about what he would do. he had access to all the intelligence information. you thought about what he would do if he became president and then having lost to jack had in that in 1960, 48 years he thought about what he would do if he ever got back into power. i think he woke up every single morning during his presidency eager to get on with it, eager to get things done. he was not waiting for her ideas, he was calling this in a direction that he wanted this to go. he knew what he wanted to do. he always followed through. i think i was a tremendous example of leadership. i am biased. the president had church services. this is a picture in the east room. this happen

cayenne tales so the rest of the evening i had white high and wet tales. [laughter] there are so many stories like that people shared with me i did get some fabulous stories about nancy and reese gorbachev. >> the now you should share one little tidbit about the cold) ladies you will appreciate. >> normally waivers president and the spouse go out to the south lawn with a diplomatic reception and await the arrival of the state visitors and the gorbachev were coming and it was so cold that they basically moved everyone who was part of the welcoming ceremony indoors into the reception you know the room it is as big as this stage maybe a little bigger so nancy notices immediately that her pantyhose had collapsed and he noticed and he watched it happen nobody else thought that she went over and check her by the arm and said come with me and took her around the corner to the ladies and everything was fixed and nobody was the wiser that he felt she had done for the u.s. soviet relations than anyone else ever could have but still she was very commit

in the white house's response on this remark, the white house didn't apology, didn't deny the remark but simply said they were praying for mccain's family. the question is what are they going to do about it having this staffer here. this is another self-made crisis by this white house. this is something that any other white house this person would likely be fired within a matter of hours, but the question is is this something that would get the president's attention. the president has also made disparaging remarks about senator mccain before, certainly about his time when he was a prisoner of war saying he preferred people who did not get captured. a lot of things do stem from the top. that's a question here. i'm told from people inside the white house is the comment isn't really the subject of discussion behind closed doors. this morning they cancelled the morning meeting so there was no discussion about that remark. that was the same meeting that she made this remark in a few days ago when they were discussing his opposition to gi gina haspel being the next cia director. now the wh

she was very much engaged in all these events at the white house. the postmortem of the staff to see a something could have been done better but she had a tremendous impact on the white arhouse and over the course of my research with this book i came to have a distinct appreciation for what she had done she was like the white house curator established the committee which was a group of artist who : the country try to get the furnishings back to the white house with a were originally placed and then she was the hostess that evening and on that night restored to the administration for those that were actually purchased by monroe and launch the white house historical association and then gave the tour of the white house ebs the first woman, she gotten any law -- in any for the presentation but the first woman to be featured in a documentary on television.hm that was a great accomplishment for mrs. kennedy in terms of her work with the white house and this dinner as well. the most controversial people at dinner robert oppenheimer there were people picket

what's the white house's response to that? >> there are a number of issues we're constantly having conversations, zte is one of those. this is something the president has asked commerce to look into and he's outlined some possible actions against zte by commercial but at this point they're still in cushion and there's nothing else to add beyond what the president already said this morning. >> did he respond to their criticism of what they have said on capitol hill? >> like i said before, senator humor is probably not somebody this without will and certainly i think his weakness when it comes to china, we finally have a president who is actually calling out china on their unfair trade practices and not just calling them utility but actually doing something about it and aggressively pushing forward in negotiations, something that we haven't seen in decades and so senator schumer is probably the last person we would call and ask for on how to make a deal. >> anita. >> i wanted to change top, what reporters were barred from going t

to the white house we go. jeff zeleny, first and foremost, the questions did include collusion. there is within the realm of possibility that whoever leaked this could have been someone on the trump team. >> reporter: certainly, brooke. that's a very big possibility. this was not a verbatim list from bob mueller's lawyers handing it over. it was a compilation of a conversation that the trump lawyers had over the last several weeks and months. it's very possible this was leaked from someone on the trump's side. the special counsel's office very rarely leaked. it essentially showed this is a deep, broad investigation that's still very much alive, that is still very much going on. we are going to be hearing from the president just to really shortly here, the press pool was just called into the oval office and he was meeting with folks in there, the passengers and pilot of that southwest flight from that accident a month ago. as we stand by for that. of course this is a central focus here on those questions. so we are going to hear from sa sarah sanders. is the president going to an

why is this being initiated by the white house? the reality is that, all too often when the department of justice and fbi have capitulated and shared information with the gop members of congress, it has ended up being published on fox news or through "the washington examiner" or other outlets of choice for the committee republicans. after all, the whole point of this is two-fold. it's to share the information with the president's defense team, as giuliani made to abundantly clear, but it is also to pick a fight with the justice department, to make a series of escalating demands, so that when ultimately the department is forced to refuse, as rod rosenstein said that the department cannot be extorted, then the president has the pretext that he wants and needs to fire people. so, we need to be aware of this. ultimately, there's only one remedy, and i know people are saying, you know, as the minority, what can you do? at the end of the day, there is only one remedy, and that is to make sure the party of power is not the minority is to t

but that has nothing to do with us here at the white house. g along and cooperating in every way possible. >> the president tweeted no questions on collusion. in fact, if you look at the new york times article with all of the questions that mueller wants to ask the president, one of them is what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including by paul manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign. i know you're not going to comment on legal matters, but as a matter of fact, this is a question about collusion, is it not? >> well here is the deal, jake and you've set me up for what i've got to say and you saw the briefing with sara sanders, out of respect for the special counsel i have to turn you back over to the president's attorney, jay sekulow and rudy ji giuliani. >> and the president said he would be willing to sit down with the special counsel. would he be willing to do that. >> i was in the room when he made that claim and he turned around and said to the group of reporters in general kelly's office, i'm w

the president remained at the white house today. the first lady as her office says resting comfortably about the procedure appears to have gone well, however, i want to repeat, the first lady did have surgery today at walter reed. >> i think you have in your inbox the actual statement from the first lady's office, do you have it by chance? >> sure. >> this morning, first lady melania trump underwent an embowlization procedure to treat a benign kidney issue. she will likely remain there for the duration of the week, she looks forward to a full recovery. that is the full statement from her office, from the press office of the first lady, again, this is just breaking today. . this is something that happened this morning, when she went in again, it seems that the surgery went well. and it was a kidney surgery for a condition that is considered to be benign. >> and i want to -- >> she's resting comfortably. >> i'm going to have you stand by for a second while you talk to your sources. this comes as a surprise to us. so this statement that

again, i think the white house drags out the story.blic apology and she didn't. she announced that publicly. republican senators, at least ten of them, said this would happen. that's not the media focusing on john mccain's family's hurt feelings. that's people calling for an apology that are -- >> but the media is fixated on a story that no one in america cares about. >> then they can turn the channel. >> about a mid-level staffer saying something crass in a private meeting in the white house. >> i don't have an aversion to anyone here saying what america thinks. we're sitting here on west 58th street. what the hell do we know about what america thinks? >> you know why? because i lived in the midwest and i worked for the trump campaign, jeffrey toobin. i knew he was going to win when everyone at this table and everyone in washington, d.c., said he had no chance. i knew it because i saw the pain and anxiety that was out there in america, and i saw the way donald trump spoke to them. i know very well, actually. i might be the best person

the white house made it clear we know that the culture of the white house is that you're not allowed to apologize. president trump sees that as a sign of weakness and you will get in trouble if you apologize for anything without his approval. he has refused to honor and acknowledge john mccain's heroism from day one. >> there's bad blood. >> raj was forced to come out and use the word internal 12 times because they want to rebrand this episode as a leak matter. >> they're fundamentally misreading the problem. the outrage is not that there was a leak. that may be of an operational concern to them and that's their prerogative to deal with it. but the fundamental outrage is that a member of the white house staff dissed a senator dealing with a terminal cancer diagnosis who is an american hero of his own party. the reason they haven't apologized the benediction of the president in private. that's the outrage. the leaking problem is a separate operational issue to flip that script speaks to the disconnect between the white house and basic decency. >> this is actually kind of simple. you s

that also goes to the inexperience of the white house. >> what are the chances the white house offerse point? >> i doubt it, not any more, it has gone too far at this point. that time has passed. >> looking at new poll numbers, this is from the economist, found 75% of republicans consider robert mueller's investigation a witch hunt. only 13% see it as legitimate. on the flip side, 76% of democrats say it is legitimate. 10% see it as witch hunt. where do you stand? is robert mueller's investigation legit or a witch-hunt? >> to me? it is completely legitimate. these numbers show that donald trump has been effective in his team in basically trying to mislead the american public of the purpose of the mueller investigation. and no one fights back from mueller, he has his head down, keeps looking to do his job. i think part of the strategy is you know if you did something wrong or not, and the president probably does not want to make sure or rather wants to make sure whatever mueller says it won't be deemed credible. >> as we look in terms of length of time, don, thursday it is one year of

and we've been waiting for the white house briefing. here's sarah sanders. >> including scheduled u.s.-north korea summit. both leaders are committed to working together to accomplish the common goal of complete denuclearization of the peninsula. as you know, it's commencement season and the president and first lady would like to extend congratulations to bob barger. bob graduated from the university of toledo. this month after a review of his transcripts from the 1940s showed he completed enough courses to qualify for an associates degree. as the president said in his letter to bob, his hard work, diligence and passion to learn exemplified the greater generations commitment to excellence and the american spirit. the president took a number of questions earlier. we'll keep this short. i'll get started. >> do you agree with the south korean official that said there's a 99% chance that this summit will go on? >> the president addressed this earlier directly to you and said that we'll see what happens. we continue to prepare for the summit.

march 2017 in the white house. h times he wanted to know if there was a difference between p hiv and hpv and i was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other. >> both times. the president wanted to know the difference between hiv, the virus that causes aids and hpv the papilloma virus. then they meet again, a different time and he asked the same questions again. because, even though he was told the answer the first time. it is gone. he has to ask again. that was revealed last night. that tape of bill gatess on the "chris haze" show. even when it is explained to him personally, he can't remember. and the same president is doing something radical to end women's health care in this country. something he is on top of. the administration trying to cut off family funding for planning. std screenings and birth control, for any facility that provides abortion services or tells patients that they can go somewhere to get one. planned parenthood can say good-bye to federal funding. but in a telephone briefi

he made contact with the white house. e did not have a previous relationship with nixon and he didn't come up through the nixon campaign and all of that stuff. he only met nixon when nixon appointed him to run the irs. but thrower asked for a personal meeting with the president, contacted the white house and said he needed to talk to him. "in january 1971 mr. thrower requested a meeting with the president, hoping to warn president nixon personally about pressure that white house staff members had been placing on the irs, pressure on the irs to audit the tax returns of certain individuals, beginning with anti-war leaders and civil rights figures. the list had grown to include journalists and even members of congress." as irs commissioner randolph thrower says he had been directed by white house staff to audit every single democratic senator who was up for re-election in 1970. commissioner thrower was quite certain president nixon was unaware of this pressure. he was certain if he could just let the president know face to fa

now the white house continued to maintain that they're purely a humanitarian group and that they have no links to any extremist groups or the like but it's interesting they were founded by a former british army soldier a former master nouri by the name of james messire yeah and so it seems that with this latest pledge by the u.k. government to look into plugging that funding gap the links between britain and the white helmets looks set to continue we spoke to political analyst mike ryder you who's been to syria himself he told us the case against the white helmets is abundantly clear.

fascinating moments on monday here at the white house. when the deputy director of the department of justice, rod rosenstein, who is supervisinvi the russia probe, talked for an hour monday afternoon. the result of it is essentially the department of justice is going to at least look into the president's complaint there was a confidential source, he says inside the campaign who was providing information to the fbi which launched the investigation in more than a year and a half ago. there has been nothing to back that up or corroborate that. the inspector general at the department of justice is going to look into this. one thing came out of the meeting is john kelly will sit down with congressional leaders in the week to look over highly sensitive classified documents. that is something they have been trying to look into. at the root of all of this, it is a political fight over the russia investigation. the president wants the investigators to be investigated. the re-election committee is sending out a blast e-mail to fight the biggest scan

he joined the rest of the white house advisers. e president's message will be number one, we did it. welcome home. we now see some movement in the door way. and it's not over yet, as he looks ahead to these talks with kim jong-un. i think the president will take a beat to talk about this accomplishment, what he perceives clearly as an accomplishment.

today during prime minister's questions particular one about the white helmets came from the member of the labor party particularly asking the question because of course the us government to decided to cut their funding for the white helmets and so the question when what would the british government be looking to do to plug in fact gap now it's interesting that the us government has taken that decision because just a couple of months ago in march the white helmets and their senior leaders were in washington taking high level meetings with us government officials who were praising them for their work and praising them for their lifesaving activities as it's been put but not everybody is a fan of the white helmet so we've been repeated allegations that they have been. linked to al qaida tied groups and that they have been on the front lines where groups like al nusra have been present working hand in hand and also that some of their rescue missions have been nothing but stunts to try to win the world sympathy . now the white helmets continue to maintain that they're purely a humanitarian

so she does represent the white house. she represents the white house staff. to suggest otherwise is disingenuous and it was callous. that kind of tone is set from the top and we know this. donald trump has made multiple comments, disparaging comments about john mccain. he has no respect for john mccain's service. he is an american hero. i as a conservative have had my policy differences over the years, but unquestion his service and sacrifice to the country. donald trump is a coward and he doesn't have anywhere close to the level of courage. for this white house to dismiss a comment like that of something to disrespectful is indicative of how far we have fallen and it is shameful. and sarah sanders' response it is shameful. where is john kelly, he is a military guy. he should have fired her on the spot. he knows that level. then again, this is the same white house that defended a wife beater, they lied to cover for him. so why are we surprised. >> gloria. >> well, look, if the staffer herself felt it was important enough and she was right to do this to apologi

the white house and mr. trump and mr. giuliani came to the conclusion that sooner rather than later we were going to get the information and the evidence in order to make this case to the american people. or the attorneys from the southern district of new york, it was going to come to light in connection with that investigation. they made an effort by way of mr. giuliani's comments last night and this morning on a friendly news network to get out in front of this, to try to put their own spin on it. but the problem is that you have the last two to three months since february when the "wall street journal" broke the story, you have two to three months of repeated lies, misrepresentations, half truths, carried out by michael cohen, michael cohen's lawyers, miss sanders, others in the white house, and donald trump on air force one. i mean enough is enough. i'm tired of hearing people sugar coat this. let's call it what it is. an absolute lie. >> what's the end game then? if this ends up in a place where the president is basic