reform at the white house. and so in the wake of what we have seen with healthcare reform, it has stumbled, it has fallen. by all accounts it was dead earlier this week. there was an attempt to revive it when the president and, frankly, reince priebus decided to call the gop senators to the president. you have to get this done. this is what we campaigned on. it's what you all campaigned on for the past seven years. but the background to that, andrea, was the sense that reince priebus' standing could be hanging in the balance if healthcare couldn't get done. i think there's a lot at stake and this certainly complicates the equation for reince priebus. no word, though, on what specifically this might mean for him. >> let's just also talk about anthony scaramucci, he doesn't have the background of any public service or political engagement. i guess this is what the president wants now. but how does he fit into the mix? >> reporter: i think the president sees anthony scaramucci as someone who is a great messenger, a

believe it or not the white house executive chef has often been in charge of feeding the animals at themaking special recipes for the dogs and other things but there was a time the white house messed up plans for the white house cook and this involved a dog named winks. winks was a setter on the scene, according to white house reports on the morning of march 1934, there was a 12 set of fried eggs and ham set out for the resident's staff. the white house cook had made this and stepped away to do something else. when the white house cook returned all of them are gone. they realized this was because winks had helped himself to a nice hearty meal. the press had a lot of fun with this, they staged a photo of winks eating ham and eggs, the white house cook was upset about this, what winks was leaving the white house to spend more time with his family, that paved the way for the more familiar dog. one thing interesting about these cooks is over time, this plays out in the roosevelt administration, send them to three boxes, they were culinary artists who were celebrated in their time. if you kn

. >> reince is doing a fantastic job at the white house. and i believe he has the president's confidence. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. >> that war of priebus and anth scaramucci ending very well for mr. scaramucci. >> i'm beginning to believe that scaramucci was brought in for a purpose, and that was to humiliate reince. >> he was called "reincy" by the president as if he was a pet and not the chief of staff. >> the president has confidence in general kelly. he has to have a person around him that he has confidence in. >> at no turn has this white house demonstrated functionality. i don't think introducing one competent person is going to change that. >> they should have approved health care last night. you can't have everything. boy, oh, boy. they have been working on that for seven years. can you believe this? >> the credit goes to a lot of people. at the top of the list are the three who showed amazing courage to resist the pressure and do what's good for the country. >> at the end of the worst week for the

the white house only going public after they were asked about the discussion. white house also acknowledging the only witness to this one-on-one chat with russia's translator. just russia's translator. the u.s. translator at the dinner only spoke japanese. >> the conversation raising some big questions about what exactly was discussed and why the meeting was never disclosed. president trump responding to coverage of the revelation with a fiery series of tweets. our reporting begins with sara murray at the white house. >> reporter: good morning. another meeting between president trump and vladimir putin coming to light yesterday. this one was after they held their formal bilateral meeting at the g-20. later there was a dinner for world leaders and their spouses. a senior white house official says that president trump and president putin spoke for nearly an hour and trump is already chafing at the coverage. he took to twitter calling the coverage sick and saying the fake news is becoming more and more dishonest. even a dinner arranged for top 20 leaders is made to

>> we know the white house will be releasing an official statement soon. t me give you the lay of the land. what you're seeing on the left side of your screen. thus the white house press gathered at the door and there also inside the lower press office. there waiting to go upstairs. a number of us were upstairs and there is a meeting going on and sean spicer's office with the enteric indication staff, including anthony scaramucci. we heard some laughter from time to time coming from the room, which would seem to be contradictory, given the news that we are hearing and we were all asked by one of the deputy press secretary's, please go downstairs while they work on an official statement. that's what everybody's crowd around the door for now. they're not waiting for somebody to come out, there waiting to be let upstairs or someone will come to the door and say we just put out a statement, check your email, whatever. one thing i can tell you, again, this is to add -- it's scorching hot out here today. forgive me. this is to add to the "game of thrones" intrigu

of the white house. which as we know, and as you've been discussing, everything is blown out about the way white house's are organized with donald trump in the oval office and this is part of that. it's hard to plan communications strategy with donald trump as president because he'll say something or do something that changes in 15 minutes. so that's why the notion of a traditional communications director is different in this case, and then the last thing that this person said is, to get a sense of how important the -- anthony scaramucci will be to the president is, see where his office is. real estate is everything in any white house nap is one area where this is similar to others. >> key point. real estate matters inside the west wing at the white house. look at the pictures. there will be an on-camera briefing at 2:00 p.m. say with cnn. we'll bring you thrive. the question, who will be at the podium? sarah huckabee sanders or an her to -- anthony scaramucci? and jeff zeleny, often compared to shakespea

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gets his job in the white house. anthony scaramucci is waiting for the completion of the sale of his investment company to a chinese company before he officially goes on the white house payroll. the sale of his company to a chinese company must be approved by the committee on foreign investment in the united states. the members of that committee are all trump cabinet members. secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin, attorney general jeff sessions, homeland security secretary john kelly, wilbur ross, james tillis, rex tillerson, rick perry, and robert lighthizer. the head of the office and science technology -- but that job is vacant in the trump administration. normally the work of that committee is done entirely by staff, all done at the staff level. very little about these cases ever come to the attention of the cabinet members. but this one is different. this is now the highest profile person in the trump white house, and so the case should be given extra scrutiny to make sure that anthony scaramucci is not being p

jim accosta at the white house. while we heard the president lavish praise on his new white house chief of staff, john kelly apparently has had a serious disagreement with the president. we have some exclusive new cnn reporting on that. let's go do our justice correspondent pamela brown. what are you learning, pamela? >> reporter: well, wolf, my colleagues and i have learned incoming white house chief of staff john kelly was so upset with the way donald trump handled the firing of fbi director james comey he called comey shortly after he was terminated to tell him how upset and angry he was. this is according to two sources familiar with the conversation between kelly and comey. and at the time kelly was secretary of homeland security. apparently he was so angry that he even told comey that he was contemplating resigning from his position as secretary of homeland security in a showing of solidarity. comey apparently responded in this phone conversation by telling him, not to resign. now, both sources caution that it

reporter: a major shakeup at the white house. the homeland security secretary is his replacement. he will officially start monday. two white house sources telling fox that priebus secretly resigned yesterday. the president tweeted i am pleads into form you i just named general john kelly as

this is the white house, the united states of america. e serving the president. >> that clean slate phrase made a reappear answer today. the white house press secretary's office released a statement saying, quote, anthony scaramucci will be leaving his role as white house director. mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. we wish him all the best. we are back with more "mtp daily" and more white house chaos in just 60 seconds. showing off my arms? that's cool. being comfortable without a shirt? that's cool. getting the body you want without surgery, needles, or downtime? that's coolsculpting. coolsculpting is the only fda-cleared non-invasive treatment that targets and freezes away stubborn fat cells. visit coolsculpting.com today and register for a chance to win a free treatment. atmore than one flavor, oruch texture, or color.ing. a good clean salad is so much more than green. and with panera catering, more for your event. panera. food as it should be. >>> welc

there is a lot of incoming that comes into the white house. ident is a winner and we are going to win. lou: we take up today's developments in the white house. horseheadswivellychair.com it could be the next big thing i should totally get that domain name... get your great idea online too... get your domain today, and get... ...a free trial of gocentral from godaddy sfx: loud poorly played electric guitar that sounds awful but a lot better than last week ♪rock guitar music ♪we weren't born to follow lou: in our poll last night we asked, do you believe president trump will fire senator jeff sessions. 73% of you said no. we haven't seen much of democratic national committee chairman tom perez and perhaps with good reason. the latest fec filings show the dnc is going broke. rnc is debt free, $45 million cash on hand. tom perez just goes around using vulgar language swearing at everybody. the dems are finding out it doesn't work too well with most of people, particularly the people they raise money from. matthew dowd said this, what is funny, trump

and now just days later he, too, is out of the trump white house. kaye, cnn, new york. >> joining me now is our panel. jeff, does this decision getting rid of priebus, and bringing in kelly, solve any of the dysfunction in the white house? >> i think it may. anderson, i don't want to do a news bulletin, but you may have heard i'm a fan of president reagan's? >> yes. i've heard that. >> i have to tell you, i was there in the iran-contra situation in which president reagan fired don leaguen at his chief of staff. i got to tell you, that was really ugly. donald regan heard it in his office from cnn, and dictated immediately an angry one-sentence note that said mr. president, i hereby resign as chief of staff to the president of the united states. signed donald t. regan and left the building and never returned and was bitter forever about this. this is not what's happened here. president trump's situation is infinitely better than that. >> wait a minute. jeff, you have the director of the white house communications team go on cnn and call the chief of st

where is the white house on this? we heard a lot on the sunday shows yesterday, particularly when it comes to jared kushner and with this meeting. what is the strategy to address this issue? have heard,what i they are still coming up with a strategy in terms of dealing with the path. they have attorneys handling the day-to-day. i am hearing the idea that they are political me a fights and the reason don jr. met with them was because of a lack of knowledge of the rules, pure ignorance, and that there was really no malicious intent or intent to collude. of course, they are going to push back. it is just harder for them to get it on the record on tv, because you see the stories keep changing and the information given on tuesday is different from information on friday. you saw sean hannity take that and heew with don jr., put his own credibility on the line having him on the show. i just think, you know, how much longer can they rely on these big-name tv hosts to give them that when days later the hosts feeling burned? it

we have cameras at the white house as well. if you want to go in front of the camera, we welcome you to do so. it wouldn't be unusual for him to call in and say, here's what's going on. >> i think it's you from the situation room calling the white house. >> he has undergone a lot of drama the last few weeks. being overruled by the scaramucci hire. the last few days, this public feud of scaramucci attacking him so viciously. no one has heard from this guy, non knows his side of the story here. he has aides and advisers he uses to get a sense of what's going on with him, but he's just been silent. >> what would you like to hear from reince priebus? let's say he does call us. >> i would really like to hear his thoughts on what it was like inside these last six months now that he is free to talk. but looking at that video of him walking with dan scovino that you just played, wolf, we heard from the pool reporters there, they got in the same car in the motorcade, and then dan scovino and other aide left that car because it became cle

problem is when the obama white house leaks, when the clinton white house was leaking, when the george bush white house was leaking, the minor leaks like who had dinner with whom, no one cared about that. no one went nuts. no one said they were going to stick the fbi after the leakers. that's -- you know, there's wheat and then there's substance that's leaked. you don't want national security stuff leaked, i get that. that's a crime. and as a journalist, i wouldn't want to publish something of an american soldier or spy. i get that. but these sort of insignificant leaks that people go nuts over really shows a degree of intempence that i can't describe here. so getting back to kelly, he needs to be empowered where he basically puts all of the children in the room and say listen to me. here's the way it goes. and you only do that if the president empowers you to do that. liz: uncle? >> i don't know. he has a very linearly -- remember the first thing anthony scaramucci said when he got the job? i report to the president. >> no. that was absolutely the case, and that's what scaramucci priz

i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house. ak-in occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon lidy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> they thought they were james bond. we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> prosecutor earl silbert read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >>

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and i think that this is a good appointment for the white house. and i think the general will do a great job. >> when was the first inking that you had that your time as the white house chief of staff was up. >> i'm not going to get into that, wolf. i have a very close relationship with the president. i'm going to continue to have a close relationship with the president. and out of respect for him, i'm not going to get into our own private conversations. but i think change is good. he wanted to go a different direction. i support him in that. and i look forward to working with general kelly over the next couple weeks. >> i know you met with your senior staff earlier this morning before you went up with the president up to long island. did you tell your staff that you were leaving? >> no. we were doing a business meeting in the morning. everyone gave their reports, and then we were off to long island in new york to talk about ms-13. >> what was the impact -- the new white house communications director, anthony scaramucci he wanted in the "new yorker"

he has left the capital, gone to the white house. ecting a statement at the very least outside the white house from jared kushner at 1:15 eastern time. we will bring it to live when that happens. we will be right back on >> made thanks to stephen hayes for joining us. good to be here. >> keep it right here, because you are expecting a statement from us before outside the house after answering questions from the senate intelligence committee. that could be big news. steger on the fox news channel. we are going to do "outnumbered" overtime. "happening now" right now. >> melissa: we are awaiting remarks from jared kushner at the white house. that is expected and just a minute. >> jon: that is after the son-in-law met with the senate intelligence committee investigators to answer questions about the russian meddling and the presidential election. we are covering all the news "happening now." >> we want to know several of the meetings that have taken place. >> jon: digging deep into the russia investigation. the son-in-law on capitol hill,

reporter: a major shakeup at the white house. general john kelly, the homeland security secretary is his replacement. he will officially start monday. two white house sources telling fox that priebus secretly resigned yesterday. the president tweeted i am pleads into form you i just named general john kelly as white house chief of staff. he is a grate american. i would like to thank reince priebus for his service and dedication to his country. we accomplished a lot together, and i am proud of him. when asked about the move, the president praised both men. >> general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, and respending by everybody. a great american. reince priebus a good man. thank you very much. reporter: priebus issuing this statement, saying it' it's beene of the greatest honors of my life to serve the president and this country. i will continue to serve as a strong supporter of the president's agenda and policies. i can't think of a better person than general john kelly to succeed me. i wish him god's blessin

we have new reaction today on the white house shakeup. some republicans say they were shocked by the president's tweets and the recent profanity-laced attack from new white house communications chief anthony scaramucci. here's what gop congressman charlie dent told me earlier. >> i'd be less than honest with you if i didn't say to you that a lot of my republican colleagues are very concerned about this. we clearly -- we want to get on with the business of this country. and like some of us right now, we are actually talking about doing things in a bipartisan nature on health care coming up with some ideas that will probably be announced on monday. so we have a lot going on, but it's hard to break through on those types of issues if we're talking about the latest -- the latest drama in the white house. >>> meanwhile, there are reports that the ousting of reince priebus and the installation of general john kelly as chief of staff may be part of a bigger plan. >> republicans and conservatives that came to jeff sessions' defense this week all s

>> i would try to enforce a rule for the president and everyone else in the white house-- taste your before you spit them out-- or tweet them out. because the president's words make a big difference. they make a difference on the white house staff, the bureaucracy in the executive branch of government; congress, and the world. so i would want discipline around the word that are spoken by the president and subordinately, anybody by the white house staff which actually gives more discipline over "don't leak. of. >> i think probably the first thing i'd like would be to take his phone away from him. so he can't-- yeah, look, i think this is a chaotic structure. it has been from the very beginning. i think that reince preibus went into the white house knowing that it would be somewhat chaotic, because you had steve bannon coming off the campaign. you had jared kushner, his son-in-law coming into the white house playing an important role. you went through a succession with the national security adviser within a month of the administration. but i think at some level that president trump's su

just to give you an example, when i was the chief white house correspondent in the reagan white house for nbc, the communications director would call the nbc booth at about 5:00, this is back in the early '80s when the evening news was a lot more than they do now. they wanted to know what story you were doing and to the degree we were willing to share what the plans on the story were and maybe try to turn that around a little bit. there were a lot of things that i communications director does. >> jon: he was a good one, if i recall. >> he served in a different role in the clinton administration. he served nixon as a speechwriter. he was a good or communications director because he had a very good, strategic sense and also sense of the media. an understanding of what they are going to buy and what they are not going to buy. it is over-the-top in terms of trying to sell your argument. >> jon: now that there is an incoming white house communications director we know you need some time to go update your role. >> i do, and to try to get a new desk guest for sunday. >> jon: we appreciate yo

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so tonight it is the white house communications director proving that this is the way this white house operates. this is how the president -- the kind of folks that the president likes to surround himself with. this is the kind of environment he likes to create around him, a working environment. these comments tonight from the white house communications director, these are just the latest iteration of this, though, which i think is worth appreciating. before this stuff tonight from the communications director, it was the president's then personal lawyer and top political adviser michael cohen. i remember that, him threatening a reporter at the daily beast on the record. remember that, quote, i'm going to mess up your life for as long as you're on this freakin' planet. you eefl never know how to get out from underneath it. rest assured you'll suffer the consequences. you want to ruin your life at age 20, you do that. i'll be happy to serve it up to you. i will make sure you and i meet one day while we're in the white house andly take you for every pen new you don't have and i will come

the white house press secretary sean spicer has resigned. the move included a bottleneck of reporters and moves inside the briefing room. it left many white house staffers shocked. a short time ago we heard from sean spicer on twitter saying, it's been an honor and a privilege to serve potus and this amazing country. i will continue my service through august. this comes as president trump announces he hired anthony scaramucci who made his debut from the podium as white house communications director. >> ic think there's been at tims a disconnect between how we see the president and love the president, and how you see the president. >> times have changed since the days when donald trump railed against scaramucci's old job and he came back with words of his own for his future boss. take a look at this. >> another hack politician. >> you called him a hack politician? >> another hack politician. he's got a big mouth and he's afraid he'll light them up on fox news and other places. but i'm not a politician. your inherited money due from queens coun

>> well, the person in the white house that is the liaison to capitol hill at this point. the answer is vice president mike pence, he is the one who the white house has been sending to capitol hill to these policy luncheons to work with lawmakers. he's a former legislator, so he does have that experience when it comes to that, when you talk about whether or not we will get anything done, we will see congress get anything done the rest of this year, certainly reince priebus, he wasn't a law maker or work on capitol hill per se, he had been the republican national committee chair. he was close to house speaker powell ryan. he was going to be critical to getting packs reform passed this year. >> so now we also are going to be facing confirmation hearings for a replacement for general kelly in the midst of all this chaos, how will that work? >> it's a good yes question, there are several nominations that will be coming up on the floor, now, after that, the senate is been for three weeks, it's highly unlikely they will confirm a nom nyeem, we don't have one yet, and send them to

one thing we know there's no chaos at the white house. we got that assurance from the president's twitter this morning. john roberts is live with more. >> they're clearing the decks here at the white house. they've probably got the cleanest decks politically at least. anthony scaramucci out as the communications director. the way it went down, the way john kelly came in, he wanted his own chain of command and team in place. sources tell fox news that scaramucci said, i understand, if he wants to bring in his new team. sean spicer said a little more than a week ago he understands the president wants to bring in scaramucci as the communications director. so scaramucci requested to go back to his position at the export import bank, which apparently sources say the president aseeded to those witches. what we don't know, will scaramucci still be in line for the ambassadorship to the organization for economic cooperation and development. looked like he was going to paris. now what happens to sean spicer? spicer said to me as early as this mornin

chaos in the white house. that seems akin to denying that the sky is blue. obviously the chaos is here at the white house. she said if you want to see cha chaos, you can come see how my kids play at the house. my suspicion, jake, is perhaps her children behave better than some of the officials do inside this white house when they're engaging in some of the factual bickering we see all the time. another thing that was interesting here, this was very much a briefing where i think the white house was making it clear they are showing anthony scaramucci the door. she was asked during this briefing whether scaramucci will be working at the export/import bank, and she said no. that is not the expectation here at the white house. and jake, i can tell you, i talked to a friend of anthony scaramucci who said he had spoken with scaramucci earlier this afternoon who said the mooch had intended to show up for work at the export/import bank promptly at 9:00 tomorrow morning. evidently that is no longer going to be necessary.

no answers from the white house on that. the complete failure of health care in the united states senate on the core promise of the republican party for sefrm enyears, this was a week that really exposed a white house not working. it ended with this soap opera drama inside, well done, ryan, inside the west wing between anthony scaramucci and reince priebus. and now on a friday evening the president announces via twitter that he is changing it up and putting a new team in place. the question is what will actually change? will this -- will the president who has not shown a real adept nature at changing who he is throughout his entire presidency, is he going to change in such a way to allow general kelly to come in and actually instill discipline that has not been there in this west wing. i think that's a big question. i don't think just the announcement of the new white house chief of staff should give everyone comfort that this will run smoothly now because donald trump has proven to govern by impulse, by twitter, by looking a

and i think that it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it's healthy. >> priebus will be replaced by homeland security secretary and retired general john kelly. and he will certainly have his hands full. aside from the investigations involving the white house, this week was punctuated by senate republicans' failure to repeal and replace obamacare. well, today the president is tweeting a major criticisms against gop lawmakers. a misunderstanding about how the vote failed? more on that in a moment. but first, let's talk about this major staffing change within the executive branch. reince priebus is the sixth member of the trump administration to resign or be fired since february. i'm joined now by cnn white house reporter kaitlan collins live on the floor. kaitlan, what more are we learning about priebus' relocation. >> reporter: the shortest serving chief of staff with the exception of chief of staffs who are interim that the u.s. has ever seen. and as we know reince priebus did his first interview with cnn last night with wolf blitz

if you arejust coming into that is at the white house. re just coming into the bbc, that is at the white house. if you arejust coming into the bbc, we that is at the white house. if you are just coming into the bbc, we are expecting to see from president trump, not about this particular issue but he will be there to mark the day that his new chief of staff, the day that his new chief of staff, the former generaljohn kelly, is being sworn in as his chief of staff. i understand this is a medal of honour event that president trump will be attending in the white house. if we see anyone interesting there, particularly president trump, we will be straight back to the white house to the live feed. i want to get some reaction from the republican party. rich galen is a republican strategist, whojoins me now via webcam from washington. what is your reaction to the head of communications at the white house being removed from his post after just ten days for the second clean slate in 14 days? it is the third if you include reince priebus, who left on

cnn sara murray is live at the white house. the president is no doubt trying to send a message to the attorney general. just what is it? >> reporter: a great question, john. certainly hard to believe the white house's line last week, the president still has confidence in his attorney general. so far he stopped short of flat out calling on sessions to tender his resignation. he was asked about this. the president, earlier today, in a photo op with interns. he had classic trump facial expressions in response. take a look. i guess we don't have that video for you, but the president did not respond to a question about whether he wants jeff sessions to resign. he did offer a pretty significant eye roll, though, before moving on. i think obviously the thing to remember, the relationship between jeff sessions and the president deteriorated significantly. sessions was one of president trump's closest allies one of the first senators to endorse him, but ever since he recused himself the president puts the blame on the fact there is a spe

have his pitches being received in the white house and on capitol hill. and joshua green, the author of "devil's bargain" on tensions between individuals in the white house as well as between trump and jeff sessions. republicans promised to demolish obamacare but are heading to more of a bare-bones change to eliminate just a few pieces of the law but there is no certainty that the skinny repeal will get enough votes. here now with the latest is margaret talev at the white house. josh green also joins us, the author of the new book "devil's bargain." margaret, the get us up to speed on what is going on on capitol hill. the majority leader promising a late night on capitol hill tonight, where do things stand the bigpoint margaret: news was supposed to be the action on the hill with the zvonareva scheduled. the future of the health care tax predicts the future of reform, other items, but a large degree of that has been superseded by this bombshell interview that the communications director at the white house, anthony scaramucci gave on cnn this morning, which

the white house wasn't involved enough. as we watch these dramatic moments play out, culminating with the thumbs down. they couldn't agree on what health care policy should be for the republican party. that's the biggest take away here. the president responded last night, blaming the republicans and democrats for not moving forward. he's up tweeting this morning saying, quote, if republicans are going to pass great legislation in the senate, they must go to a 51-vote majority, not senseless 60. i want to break that down a little bit right now. republicans failed to pass health care because they weren't able to get even 50 votes, let alone 51. the republican process they were pursuing was the reconciliation that requires a simple majority. on top of that, mitch mcconnell made clear, he will not go nuclear on the legislative options. what the president is asking for wouldn't have helped. when it comes to why health care hasn't moved forward, republicans haven't been able to figure out how to do divides. the frustration of the

now here's what the white house says. there was no second meeting between president trump and president putin, just a brief conversation at the end of a dinner. the insinuation that the white house tried to hide a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd. it's not merely perfectly normal but part of the president's duties to interact with world leaders. the other story on the russian investigation in the united states, if you will, is the identification of the eighth person who is in another meeting. that meeting in 2016 with donald trump jr., at trump tower, where they were trying to find out dirt on hillary clinton. the eighth person in that meeting is a man named ike kaveladze. is he an american citizen, fluent russian speaker. also vice president of a real estate company owned by a billionaire whose family may have called for the meeting. the most interesting thing perhaps in his resume goes all the way back to the year 2000 when the general accountability office was looking into companies he owned and said those

i want to go straight to the white house. there's going to be an on-camera briefing there in the next hour. this is where we find cnn white house correspondent sara murray live for us. sara, what are you hearing about what led up to this resignation. >> reporter: obviously, this has been a whirlwind. we reported last night president trump was seriously considering offering anthony scaramucci, someone who worked on his transition and who came from new york, knows the president well, this job as white house communications director. we are told the president was considering this without his chief of staff reince priebus knowing or steve bannon, chief strategist realizing how close he was to this decision, without sean surpriser, the press secretary realizing the president essentially made up his mind. today president trump met with anthony scaramucci here at the white house. officially offered him the job. scaramucci accepted. we're told that after that, that is when sean spicer decided to tender his resignation essentially in pr

this j however, is the white house. example of any major company, if it was pepsi or something. the head of pepsi or the pr person would not tweet something out without finding out where it came from. once you send something out under the name of the institution, the institution kind of owns it. when you have the white house, which is the most prestigious institution in the country, then they should have a process where you're running through -- you know, that runs this through that and says look, where this came from. we don't want to use it. that the separate from the fact that he shouldn't do it in the first place regardless of where it came from, but in minimum, they should know where it came from. >> i think it's a different view. i think they're deliberate about that. i think they surf chat forums to see what's popular, what they like. it's not even like a dog whistle to his base, it's saying i'm one of you. i'm reading your threats and getting your content. he is saying, he essentially has an online troll army at

elizabeth: perhaps more pink slips at the white house. rthel: more background on secretary john kelly. he is a retired united states marine corps general who served in the military for four decades. he is the former commander of united states southern command and recipient of several awards including the defense superior service medal. general kelly spent the first six month of the trump administration as homeland security secretary and on monday kelly will replace reince priebus as chief of staff, priebus saying he couldn't have picked a better man for the job. >> i can think and if anyone better than john kelly who was a good, decent, tough guy, exactly the type of person the president needs. arthel: his son died in afghanistan in 2010 making general kelly the most senior member of the military to lose a son or daughter during the war in afghanistan and iraq. eric: the failure to repeal obamacare, a skinny measure, donald trump urging the chamber to change its rules to a simple majority to pass legislation, the president tweeting a quote

that was evident of the white house. did you decide to do this since during the campaign he said he would protect the rights of transgender individuals? having them better on the issue than hillary clinton. what - >> joining is now we have emily, commentary writer for the washington examiner and francesca chambers, white house correspondent for daily mail.com.whether you agree with this and i he knew there had to be a combination. and we talked about the campaign about fighting for the rights of the lgbtq community. >> yes and he understand social media and he knew this had to have an effect. >> people complained they were out of the loop on this. >> yes and it loving to massive store in a day where healthcare was probably foremost on the minds of most voters around the country. and in fact a lot of people. and that's what they were wondering about that they. >> francesca yes on this spectacle of supporters and sarah huckabee sanders in the breathing. have transgender people already having that would be expelled. and she

they got it all -- all of it from advisers to the white house. and as i said at the time, that sounded to me like lawyers representing people in the white house. and, to me, it specifically sounded like jared kushner's lawyers because that's who would have all of that information. those advisers to the white house are once again delivering information to "the new york times" that is harmful to the president while trying to cast jared kushner in a better light. the times reports that jared kushner, quote, met with mr. trump to discuss the issue, meaning that meeting with natalia veselnitskaya. according to advisers to the white house, around the time he updated his federal disclosure form to include ms. veselnitskaya's name on a list of foreign contacts that mr. kushner was required to submit to the fbi to obtain a security clearance. that is a direct contradiction of president trump's story. president trump's story has been that he didn't know anything about this meeting with natalia veselnitskaya until a couple of days ago, until basically last f

this is about the white house. and this is how you stop it. our vote. >> while senator mcgovern is out campaigning tirelessly, trying to get his message across to the people, president nixon is sitting in the white house and carrying out his presidential duties and leaving the hard campaigning to vice president agnew. >> people want to trust the king. people don't want to believe this about their president. >> pennsylvania decisively important state for the democrats drawn tonight to the republicans. kansas, connecticut, texas, michigan, delaware, arkansas and north dakota, those are the states that we show for president nixon. >> that was one of the greatest victories any president has ever had, carrying every state except massachusetts and the district of columbia. >> i think that the shadow on his victory is the watergate affair, and i believe a great many people very close to the president would like to have a move on that as one of the high priorities of his new administration. >> either have these people exonerated or get them out and per

a key job in the white house. we know the names of some of the former communications directors in the bush and obama years. dan pfeiffer, karen hughes. nicolle wallace, jennifer palmieri. visible on television back then and still today. it's a really crucial job helping shape a president's image. deciding when and where they'll give interviews, when they won't. this president believes its his own best p.r. person. he's a hedge fund guy, entrepreneur. appointment at the export/import bank. now moving into this job. unclear what it means for sean spicer. reported he'll stay in the white house. asked and spicer reportedly slammed the door in his face. we don't know if there will be a press briefing and if so, on camera or off. >> great to see you. >> a quick reaction on this? >> smart, super savvy. the president has ultimate faith and trust in him. he is a street fighter, as brian said. the goal of any com work, plan your work and work your plan. that's needed here. unfortunately the president is calling the shots by

a change in the white house. at the question will be what kind of authority has general kelly been given? my suspicion is he did not take that job without an understanding of what kind of authority he would have. the west wing is a very hard-working, fast-moving place. complicated in the best of times and can't be run without having a chief of staff who's got hiring and firing in the west wing and control over direct reports. the president should have people who can walk in and out of the oval but average of work for the chief of staff and a process that best serves the president. my sense is we are able to see that happen here with general kelly. >> bret: what about reince priebus and how this transpired? obviously, an amazing run with helping the campaign and then talk about his service as chief of staff. >> look, this has been a chaotic white house. white house is are an expression of the personality and the methods and leadership style of the president. you don't have a white house that's run distinctly differ

all responsibility to the white house chief of staff. that's not just the the staff who work their regina but it's also the cabinet secretarie. who are often used as a buffer the white house chief of staff that is between the president and those who might have different opinions? having someone go straight into the oval office straight to the president without having a boss or intermediary. is not only unprecedented but i think it's unwise the president needs that layer and that barrier from staff and now president trump. has someone who directly reports to him who does not have to do in iraq with the other staff and i think it's a bad combination and rot frankly with peril. well christy good to have you with us. let's take a look at some of the day's all the needs the united states has confirmed it will find its citizens from traveling to north korea. in the wake of the death of an american student who was imprisoned by pyongyang during the tourists visit. once in force americans he won't go to north korea need special permission. the un