the street, wn across the street to blair house his e spent the bulk of presidency living there, not in the white house, but blair were there for four and a half years. this is really the biggest appears, since then, that was about 75 years ago. host: we have time for a couple viewers have it on the renovation project or the history of renovations at the house. paul brandos, a great person to ask for the history, somebody who knows it well. republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. atinder of what is happening the white house. new air conditioning and heating million price tag total for the upgrades here. there is an upgrade going on of portico steps, new cable and wiring, new carpet and paint. picture you don't see very often, the oval office floor, carpet on the without anything on the walls, a nayson of om jeff euters of what that renovation looks like. it was reported by gulf magazine the white house a dump, the president denied he used that term to describe the house, but how much was president trump involved in hese most recent renovations, is this some

the president and the white house, they were debating how and when to dismiss steve bannon but now we have confirmed. he will no longer be the chief strategist over at the white house. steve bannon, 63 years old, is out. let's go to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. covering the president up in bedminster, new jersey. this is major news. a very significant development and it comes on the heels of several other senior officials leaving. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and i'm hearing from one white house official in the last couple of minutes here that it is believed that steve bannon resigned, but it is also believed that he may have been given the option to resign. so sounds like, wolf from a source i'm talking to in the last couple of minutes here that he was essentially forced out of this position, as chief strategist at the white house, and one of the big reasons why and we've heard it time and again, from people close to the president. the president does not like other people inside the white house stealing the limelight. you saw this happen time and again. steve

house has had the bill since friday afternoon. the white house insists the president will sign it. the vice-president today traveling in a georgia, he said the president will sign it as well, but still no sense of when that will be. now, wolf, we know the president and the white house indeed were not supportive of the sanctions bill. they tried to slow walk it through the house of representatives and essentially this bill handcuffs him in, you know, releasing and freeing sanctions in the future. it puts most of the control of that in the hands of congress, which this white house didn't want. but again, he said he would sign it on friday. he still hasn't yet. sarah huckabee sanders, the white house spokeswoman, said this today. >> he has not, but as we put out a statement earlier this week, he will and we'll let you know when the details and final plan on that -- >> what's the delay, what's the dlat here? you have had this since friday. what's holding him back? >> there's nothing holding him back. there is a review process, a legal process.

they'll say he no longer works at the white house. we'll have that back and forth as we have with other members of the senior staff that left of the white house. this is clear as he said in his resignation letter that brian indicated. sebastian gorka felt that make america great policies will no longer be implemented with this white house. we saw this when steve bannon left. he was concerned about what the chief of staff kelly and the breitbart wing of the old white house refers to them as democrats in the west wing, and concerned about policies they would implement. based on what sebastian gorka wrote, he says he didn't feel like policies he stood for and people that he knew supported donald trump stood for were going to continue to be implemented. >> i just got a thank you note written by sheriff joe arpaio to the president of the united states. let me read it outlo loud. it says thank you @real donald trump for seeing my conviction for what it is. a political witch-hunt by holdovers in the obama administration. i look forward to put

, worked in the white house, been an adviser to white houses. myself have covered presidents going back many years. what about the president's comment to the golf magazine of sports illustrated that the white house is, quote, a real dump, explaining why he's spent so much time at his other properties on weekends. you most recently worked inside the white house. >> i can't imagine a situation where anybody would call that a dump. it is a privilege. it is a privilege to serve the country. in the white house. period. end of story. >> and, george, you and i both were involved in different capacities in the reagan years. i was a reporter, young reporter. every time i would walk through the gates i would feel a sense of awe that i was somehow, you know, representing the american people by covering this white house. ronald reagan used to put on his suit coat before walk ing into the oval office just to show respect. some of his predecessors and successors did not. >> ronald reagan had his personally imposed dress code to counteract what he thought was t

house away from the president. no other white house chief of staff has ever had the job of deciding whether to revoke the president's son-in-law's security clearance, which the son-in-law lied to obtain. that's john kelly's job now. john kelly is now the commander of a ship of fools. the challenge that he faces now is unlike any challenge he has ever faced. tomorrow's challenge and the challenge for the day after that and the day after that will be which fool did he control or get rid of that day. joining us now, chris whipple, the author of the gate keepers. max boot, a former foreign policy adviser to presidential campaigns of john mccain, mitt romney, and marco rubio. also with us, jeremy bash, a former chief of staff at the cia and defense department. jeremy, i want to start with you because you know general kelly, have worked with him, and i want to get your sense of what he's going to be able to accomplish going forward. first of all, in this leak patrol that the president very much wants him to be the leader of. >> i think

. >> sandra: breaking fuse from the white house. fox news now confirming the departure of chief strategist steve bannon. hello, everyone. i'm sandra smith. let's get right to it and bring in our chief white house correspondent who has followed bannon from the very beginning. john roberts. john, how did this all go down? >> reporter: sandra, good afternoon to you. it did not all go down this morning. it wasn't something that suddenly happened today. this has been in the works for some time. we have heard, via "the new york times" that steve bannon may have tendered his resignation as early on as august 6th. i'm told that that timeline might be a little bit aggressive. but that this has been going on for at least a few days. we do know the chief of staff john kelly has been reviewing, evaluating a lot of the positions at the west wing. steve bannon's was among them. i'm also told by an administration official that the interview that bannon did with the american prospect, quote, didn't help his case, in terms of staying on at the white

i'm hearing inside the white house now is that there's a lot of nervousness now. not so much that steve bannon was fired, but the overall stability right now of the white house, seeing so many people have been let go. and this one senior administration official told me that without any knowledge, speculated, that gorka, the deputy assistant to be the next to go and in addition to that concern amongst conservatives on capitol hill now about who do they work with? talk to, and talking about this today, in the white house on the staff level? right now if you look at who the top advisers are, centrist republicans at best, wolf. concern amongst conservatives. a lot will fall on the shoulders, i think, in the short term on mike pence who really has a strong, strong ties to the conservative party. >> and reince priebus, and steve bannon, they have a good, strong personal relationship? i thought there was tension, at least early on? >> a lot of tension barck to jue and july but realized they needed each other. they went to the white house and actually got along in a friend

steve bannon out at the white house, the controversial white house advisor leaving after what could be called a controversial week. an explosive ber view where he seemed to contradict many policy positions and then just a few days ago a very lukewarm endorsement from president trump where he referred to a mr. bannon several times and characterized him as a late comer to the campaign. >> mr. bannon came on very bad later than that. he is a good man, i think, he is not a racist. he gets unfair press in that regard, but we'll see what happens with mr. bannon, but he is a good person and i think the press treats him very unfairly. >> so we start with our reporting on this, as i was watching this unfold and thinking about this, when there has been a shake up, that changes things internally inside that west wing, is it your sense that this is a high of relief. have so many things just happened in this white house in a compressed period of months that is just business as usual. >> i had a text from a top source that gajust gave me that one word. before we were able to fully confirm it and rep

. >>> why can't the white house tell the whole truth? so the white house press secretary has a stunning defense of the president tonight, who reportedly dictated his son's misleading statement on his meeting with a russian lawyer. now, that statement read in part, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. we now know that not even is that not the whole story. it doesn't even represent what the story is about. but that did not stop sarah huckabee sanders from saying this today. >> the statement that don junior issued is true. there is no inaccuracy in the statement. >> okay. well, that's not true. from donald trump jr.'s only e-mails, we know this. his own e-mails show trump jr. was promised, just in case you have forgotten, documents that would incriminate hillary and be useful to your father. it was part of russia's government support for trump. the meeting was set up with the promise of dirt coming from the russian government, the russian government which supported trump's support for presidency. they say

>> no the president is not going to change that would require the mayhem to calm down in the white house. that's not going to happen. steve bannon is a story, it will probably be a story down the road when he attacks the president or people within the white house. until the president decides that he really wants to have a real agenda and move forward, the more he wants to go off the cuff the more chaos he will create. >> philip you got bannon in an interview saying or predicting, i don't know, taunting trump saying he is going to go establishment now. will you get an establishment republican agenda on taxes, he is saying a typical republican tax program. is that right? do you think something will emerge of the tax plan we would have gotten from president cruz, from president rubio? is that going to happen? >> i think what we should keep in mind, donald trump came to the presidency the campaign with no previous plans, he was produced of the policy he had promised andy enacted as president. you know the white house ownership over it. clearly they didn't, donald trump, he's a policy guy, he

at the white house press briefing earlier this afternoon, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said the president weighed in. she said like any father would. new questions tonight for the white house over president trump's hands-on role crafting an explanation of his son's russia meeting during the heat of the 2016 election. >> the president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information that he had. >> reporter: the white house acknowledging for the first time the president helped write a statement about a meeting that his son, donald trump jr., son-in-law jared kushner and campaign chairman paul manafort had with the russian lawyer and four others in trump tower. sarah huckabee sanders responding to a "washington post" report saying that the president dictated that report. >> he certainly didn't dictate, but he weighed in like any forwould do. >> reporter: but those words directly contradict the president's lawyer, saying he didn't write the statement, that the meeting was about russian adoption, with no acceptance of dirt on hillary clinton's campaign

wheeler argues that was true and the white house was involved in the retracted story. t was not true, it would help the white house but not fox news. that's one side of the case. fox is fighting this case today and denying all of these allegations saying quote, the accusation that fox news.com published a story to help defrakt tr coverage of russia collusion iss erroneous. the white house said this today. >> did the president know about the story pre-publication and did he have an influence? the president had no knowledge of the story and it's untrue that he or the white house involvement in this story. >> i want to be clear as we proceed. there's two sides to this story. we hear at the beat have invited the white house on this show the e happen rate an open invitation this week. tonight we have another side of this story. rob wheeler, the plaintiff in the case and his attorney. rod, what are you claiming and when did this entire incident change for you because initially you were voluntarily involved? >> that's right. i was asked to get involved this conducting an inves

the white house a dump. featured in golf.com, sports illustrated. he apparently told friends the reason he comes to his course in new jersey is quote the white house is a real dump. the spokesperson denied the president said that. we wanted a take a closer look at the iconic building. mcwilliams condo resale division is here to sell us something, no, he's not here to sell us something. >> first thing is first. i mean, you know, is the white house a dump? >> absolutely not. for me, as a kid, w here from communist afghanistan with family many moons ago at this point, 1600 pennsylvania avenue has always been so much more than just a prestigious address. for me and my family and so many others like me. the white house has always been this rich enduring symbol of american leadership, of american ideals, and principles, rooted in our notions of democracy and freedom. >> take the emotion out of it and look at it as a real estate professional. >> absolutely. you know, if the -- the gravtas of the white house symbolis

regan stormed out of the white house. when he got home, he notified the white house he no longer needed the secret service or a car. this morning, the white house sent a car to pick him up anyway. regan rejected it and drove his own car in. >> no, thank you, i can drive myself. white house infighting and shake ups are as old as the presidency itself. but what we've seen in the past few weeks from the current white house is raising the bar for infighting and shake ups. today we learned the white house communications director, anthony scaramucci, is out after less than a week on the job. his firing came at the hands of the new white house chief of staff, john kelly, apparently in his first official act on the job. axios reports, shortly after he was sworn in this morning, he brought scaramucci into his office and said he had to go. scaramucci's dismissal comes a week after his told ryan lizza in an obscenity-filled rant that he wanted everybody on the communications staff out. beating even john koehler, the guy who served in

that he came onto the white house. obviously he has been a lightning rod since the very first day that president trump announced him as the chief strategist. he's someone whose linked to the alt right movement and breitbart news. the republican establishment from the very beginning was skeptical of him and obviously a lot of democrats were very indicate cal when president trump made this announcement but craig, we can't underscore this enough in the wake of charlottesville. the calls for him to go were growing louder by the day. the fact you had president trump drawing a parallel between white supremacists and counterprotesters, a lot of people felt that was very bannon-esque and calling for him to go. >> nicole, is that why steve bannon is out? charlottesville? >> listen, i trust kristen welker's reporting. if that was a factor, i'm sure thafbs the case but it would have been the factor in chief of staff kelly's mind. the window into donald trump's -- lays there in his twitter feed and indiscernible from steve bannon's

here's the official statement from the white house that came out today, saying that the white house chiefutually agreed today would be steve's last day we are grateful for his services and wish him the best. so the white house portraying this as a john kelly decision, not naming president trump in that statement and then take a look at this graphic, to give you a sense of the astonishing amount of turnover that we have had in this white house, just over 200 days in. and look at all the names that have departed from this white house, whether they've been fired, ousted, resigned, or what have you bannon today, scaramucci, priebus, spicer, dubke, walsh and flynn all out over the course of the past 200 days. and when you look at that list, kelly. you see people from every one of the president's many fanctions inside this white house who have been forced out or left for one reason or another. this isn't just one wing of the president's inner circle, dominating over another wing you see members of the rnc-linked establishment group here, as well as people who are more familiar from the alt-righ

almost all the senior staffers have now left the white house. d to the constant upheaval to the white house? let's bring in the roundtable. >>> voice of the republican party. we'll start with you. obviously there's a soap opera quality. a symbolic role he plays and a lot of speculation. it is a big story. in terms of what we'll be talking about a month from now, is this a big moment the say something changed in the trump white house, the trump administration? or will we be talking about the same stories? >> no. the president is not going to change. that's what would require the mayhem to calm down in the white house. steve bannon will probably be the story down the road when he starts attack president or people within the white house. until the president are decides to have a real agenda, the more chaos he'll create. they're maybe taunting him saying you'll get a establishment agenda. is that right? do you think something will emerge that is tax plan we would have gotten why cruz or rubio? >> i think we should keep in mind is that donald trump ca

>> with this white house in particular it is a bit unorthodox. the white house is being operated in a different way. change as a result of uncertainty? departing andnon unclear what effect that will have. you still have this rift between the white house and congress, even the president's own party. --that's a really impressed really important point. it's a necessary requirement for policy changes. there is a challenge between what is going on in the white house. unitys a huge amount of in the republican party. economistsds of surveyed by bloomberg believe there will be some sort of tax planor part of a tax passed by the end of this year. do you fall into that camp? >> when you make the question sufficiently open like some sort of something, then it increases the chance of it happening. it is tax reform, legitimate tax reform to overhaul the admittedly very complex task system is unlikely to happen in very -- in any material way. i think they come up show for it because -- come up short because of the lack. it, would take a run at come up short and do

he's been inside the white house for the last eight months. the rhetoric and what's going to happen as a result of him coming out of the white house. >> james, recently breitbart waged a campaign to try to get national security advisor mcmaster fired. there's no military solution to north korea in that he said because he didn't see a playbook yet that didn't have the decimations of millions of south koreanss there. with bannon gone, do you think we should be more concerned about military action against north korea? >> no. mcmaster actually also understands that there are very limited options when it comes to north korea. i don't think anyone is interested in going to nuclear war. people might talk a big game, there's any way -- it doesn't seem like that situation would be resolved that way. what's interesting to think about bannon's role in this, is that, bannon is into this sort of antiglobalist rhetoric. he tries to be very consistent about that across his economic -- across his economic ideology and his foreign policy ideology. so at the en

that's very much the position at the white house. they were not saying this was a decision by the president himself. the white house likes to say the president took a position. in this case it's between the white house and saek. >> what u the staff. what dow owe now about the people that are staicking aaround. >> that's a good point you don't know if that's a has cleaning ore an atamt to change news cycle we're also learning from politico that riengs prebessie all star sometimes when you read up a top official, you have to go with it. >> stay with us because we're going to get more news conferences. we spend every august saying how these are the slow days of august nogg noggin that's when the government locked up the nil ceiling. as not a calm edmonton. >> not since 1997. >> take me back to fundamentalsing michael. how them then. this an over reach of whether he's been getting things done. when you do look a. tell economy. the market very full dwrily priced things are energy looks lake it could be getting ready for a bit of a rebound

t: the white house gets a lot of wear and tear. if a lot of people are coming into the home, it will get worn out very quickly. reported president trump said the white house was a "dump." people going back to the mid-19th century complained about the white house being somewhat dingy. abraham lincoln complained the foundation wasn't enough it was nearly torn down after the civil war for security reasons they wanted to move the president's house. i mentioned the coolidge edition and the 20's and harry truman rebuilding. it was a massive inside out project. some of the things we're talking about. once a generation things have to be done because there is a lot of wear and tear. there are hundreds of people work within the complex. the heating and air-conditioning system was really only installed about 30 years ago, 27 years ago, i think. because it is used heavily it has beenlock -- used for almost 80 years. we're talking about a facility that gets a ton of around-the-clock use. a ton of visitors every day. of course the wear and tear w

and is now going to be totally unleashed outside of the white house. so the one place i might depart from steve schmidt is that, you know, to the extent that you find steve bannon objectionable and want him out of the white house, it doesn't necessarily mean that when he is out of the white house, that the public's fear will become more civil. so it it really better for america to have him out of the white house? it dependsment i think it's going to be a lot noisier in the public sphere than it has already because breitbart is going to be re-radicalized after a period without bannon, and they're going to become hysterical and shouty again under steve bannon and they're going to pick a much bigger fight with the white house and with the president. and i think we're looking at a period of extreme chaos. >> gentlemen, my executive producer says that there are too many bald guys on tv right now, so i have to say good night to wil hylton and steve schmidt. >>> coming up, a west wing expert on what john kelly a next move should be after ousting steve bannon.

robert: this was the first week for the new white house chief of staff jon kelley. he retired four-star general was hired to bring some military discipline to this white house. and dan, everyone's asking in washington, can general kelly actually change the culture of a place that has been driven by derision? dan: it's an unanswerable question right now. he's been very effective at managing down. which is to say he's set down marching orders for the staff that works for president trump and now for him. he has created lines of authority day that did not exist under reince priebus. if he is able to continue, that that will bring a significant change to the operation of the white house. the question is will he be effective managing up? there's no particular sign that he's closing off the twitter account of the united states. if anything, we've seen more tweets this week than in the past. we know that the president has a particular style. an operating style, a temperament, a personality that no one has been able to tame and that can continue to get into the way of an effe

it infuriated the white house. and the white house wanted them to change that language. congress wouldn't do it. and it got such an overwhelming support that the white house, the president knew that if the president were to veto the legislation that congress had enough votes to override that veto. so he was boxed in. that's why you see him lashing out in that way. it's something we might talk about as well tonight on the campaign trail, ali. >> kristen, good to see you. thanks very much. we'll obviously be watching for that campaign style event in west virginia tonight. that always provides us with lots of interesting stuff to discuss. let's go to london. following this story for us. good to see you. russian prime minister medvedev who at one point was the russia president took to facebook to talk about this, talk about donald trump having signed those sanctions. he said the trump administration, the u.s. president signing of the package of new sanctions ends hope for improving our reegsz. the trump administration has shown its total weakness by handing over executive pow

inside the white house, it's a different ball game. he may not have the same handcuffs as it relates to individuals inside the white house, who he doesn't believe carries the president's agenda wholeheartedly. >> kimberly: you have my full attention. good to have you here tonight. coming up, more reaction to tonight's breaking news. steve bannon is out as white house chief strategist. that and much more on the special edition of "hannity" as we continued. d 6 is greater tha. flonase changes everything. so you miss the big city? i don't miss much... definitely not the traffic. excuse me, doctor... the genomic data came in. thank you. you can do that kind of analysis? yeah, watson. i can quickly analyze millions of clinical and scientific reports to help you tailor treatment options for the patient's genomic profile. you can do that? even way out here? yes. even way out here. even way out here? for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you

>> mostly people in the white house. cials who are looking for change. , thatare people hoping this will happen. only people inside the white house will have any idea what is going to happen. david: the spotlight remains firmly fixed on the white house. thank you both very much. bloomberg markets, we will have more on the white house, saying today that the van and, it is his last day. got you outnumbered. the dinosaurs' extinction... don't listen to them. not appropriate. now i'm mashing these potatoes with my stick of butter... why don't you sit over here. find your awesome with the xfinity stream app. included with xfinity tv. more to stream to every screen. 3 p.m. in new york, 11 a.m. in san francisco, i am lisa in for scarlet fu. julie vang and i'm julie hyman -- julie: and i'm julie hyman. welcome to bloomberg markets. we are alive and bloomberg world headquarters in new york over the next hour. here are the top stories we're covering on the bloomberg and around the world. stever personnel shakeup, shannon is out as

steve bannon leaving the white house. se chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon mutually agreed it would be steve's last day. welcome to "the intelligence report." bannon has been somewhat controversial figure in the white house. he often clashed with other white house advisors as well as members of president trump's cabinet, including the new chief of staff, john kelly. while this sort of hard-nosed conservative, very

today the white house cleared the decks again. it ranks among the shortest ten years and white house history after ten days on the job, anthony scaramucci is out as white house communications director. general john kelly, new white house chief of staff, asked for scaramucci to go after an interview scaramucci thought was off the record. >> the president felt anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person that position. and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. >> scaramucci's removal sharp indicator of how much power john kelly will have. president trump lavishing praise on him after his swearing in this morning. >> i predict general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. >> as the senior military assistant to robert gates and leon panetta, kelly is well versed in the ways of washingto washington. president trump is banking that kelly's military discipline can bring some order to a west wing riven by competing power centers. >> what he's done in

>> tye cobb, the inside white house counsel, and the special counsel inside of the white house said theyntend to cooperate with this investigation, and they want it to be over as soon as possible, and have every intention of cooperating. the fact that mike flynn is being investigated is something that has been known at least on some level for a very long time. >> and what about the revelation of not one but two grand juries, seema, washington, d.c., and northern virginia inside of the white house, and what is the sense now that it is public news, and a sense of fear or defiance or how is that being read a? >> the public face of it is that it is the natural course of the investigation, but looking at president trump in the rally in west virginia, calling it a witch hunt, and trying to take away the victory that you voters gave to us, to me. and it is two different looks. >> and is there a concern about the blowback if they pursue the russia and not the kitchen table, and the health care and e e kconmy. >> we saw it in the 2016 presidential election and some special elections this year, wh

perhaps won't be on the white house itself and how he might effect trump or the people within the white house but how he's going to effect conservatism in general and the media coverage. so i think he's going to put the republican party to a test. they've been reluctant to distance themselves from trump, to directly condemn trump over many things but most recently his reaction to charlottesville and i think he's really going to put them to the test. do they want the alt-right to be the mouth of the republican party or do they want movement conservatism as we've known it for the last 30 or so years to be the republican party? >> where might this go with the culture wars? the statues and all that? what about the culture wars? >> i think we're going to have a very interesting situation coming up as some of these protests are going to continue going on, perhaps this week in boston. i think the thing to watch for is how donald trump responds to that. especially after the blowback he got with the pathetic response to charlottesville. if he calibrates it all and gives what people woul

he was in the white house. he's now out of the white house. tell you one thing, you have much more influence inside. he got fired, lost favor. that's it. we can move on. and i don't think it's going to -- i don't think this is going to matter that much in the end. >> brian? >> yeah. i think he's right. we know what the president's agenda is. it is a matter of getting all the staff moving forward in that. bannon inside or outside doesn't change the mandate. i think steve played a good role. he'll continue to play a good role from the outside. obviously you want to be near the center of influence, which is the oval office. had the circumstances been different, steve would have liked to stay on. but once you say kelly come in and right the ship, bannon being a good military officer in the past saw things were going and he decided to be a team player and move forward with everything. >> bannon, dan, also told the weekly standard he believes things are about to get worse for president trump. he said this, there is about to be a jailbreak of these m

what is the mood in the white house tonight? >> as it turns out, the mooch might have been a bit too much, you could say. as for the president's tweet there's no chaos going on here at the white house, this white house is the picture of chaos. that is where things stand right now. to have a communications director supposed to be in charge of messaging for the administration out after only ten days on the job breaks some speed records never seen here in washington before for a position of that type. so clearly, this is a problem for this white house. that is why he was very eager to bring in john kelley, retired general as his new chief of staff. we were told time and again not only by sara huckabee sanders at the podium but confidentially through white house sources kelly intends to bring order to this disorderly situation inside the white house, first and foremost, people won't be able to walk into the west wing, we're told and just start talking to the president. they have to go through john kelley. that is a privilege that rei

this bill does exactly the opposite of it. >> in fact, our white house correspondent jim acosta had thischange about this philosophy of what the country was founded on with stephen miller, one of the white house advisers. let me play a little portion of it for you. >> the statue of liberty -- >> jim, let me ask you a question -- >> hope for the world for people to send people to this country and they're not always going to speak english, jim, not always going to be highly skilled. >> jim, jim, jim. i appreciate your speech. so let's talk about this. >> there's this philosophy, right, dan, and then there are the numbers, the hard data. let me pull up a full screen for you and our viewers about what immigrants contribute to the economy. about 3 million foreign-born entrepreneurs -- there's all sorts of data that immigrants create small businesses. they generated $65.5 billion in 2014. that would obviously be decreased. immigrants represent 13% of the u.s. population, but make up 21% of all entrepreneurs in the country. so obviously doing more than their share. nearly 6 million workers empl

starting with nbc's kristen welker live at the white house. kristen, we need to star first, let's get to the bottom of this "washington post" report. the fact that the president says great day at the white house, this whole narrative, general kelly is here to clean up shop, tighten up the ship, 90 minutes later this puppy gets dropped. >> reporter: yet another russia headline roiling this administration, steph. let me just give you the top line here. "the washington post" reporting overnight that it was president trump who personally dictated the statement from his eldest son, donald trump jr., about that controversial russian meeting. here's what the post reports. "the president directed that trump jr.'s statement to "the times" describe the meeting as unimportant. he wanted the statement to say that the meeting had been initiated by the russian lawyer and primarily was abher pet issue, the adoption of russian children, in a forward cabin trump was busy working on his son's statement, that being air force one. the president dictated the statem

jefferson at one point invites native american chiefs to the white house. typically that had happened before but he did something different. he invited the wives. many of the women in washington were insulted by that, the white women, because it put them on par with them. louisa is writing in her diary and says, what next, maybe the magnificent sally will make her appearance. >> oh. >> so there was a lot of bad blood between the two of them. >> wow. let me ask this question, and anybody jump in. can you tell us stories of first ladies who strongly influenced the flow of history, who had a huge impact on her husband's presidency and the direction that the country moved in her time? >> well, i could start with an influence that's a very interesting influence, elizaon son, the wife of andrew johnson, who is periodically listed as the worst -- or next to the worst president who ever lived. in the year that i wrote the little biography about him, he actually made it to being the worst, you know. so she taught him how to write. an jo andrewon s andrew johnson did

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that is the challenge for the white house. the president has to seize on that optimism about the economy and draft off it when it comes to talking about everything from the economy to national security. >> jonathan, i have 30 seconds. i want to get you in. final thought? >> i think some of his weaker numbers is sending a signal to other republicans. we are seeing in the last week or two, senator flake and kasich laying the ground work for 2020. we have the vice president denying reports that he's thinking about 2020. i think the anger in his denial was clearly to an audience to his boss in the white house. >>> just hours after blasting the media, many times, he says for using unnamed sources, the president, himself, chooses to retweet a story about north korea containing classified intelligence based on a named source. we'll give you all the details, next. a trip back to the dthe doctor's office, mean just for a shot. but why go back there, when you can stay home... ...with neulasta onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of se

today the white house said the president was involved but only to a point. the white house pushed back hard today against a report president trump personally dictated the initial statement responding to news of donald trump juniors meeting with russian attorney in june of 2016. >> the president waited as any father would based on the limited information he had. >> reporter: clarified the degree to which the president weighed in. >> he didn't dictate but he weyden, offered suggestion. >> the encounter was "a short introductory meeting primarily discussing the adoption of russian children." trump, jr., was -- an offer of information that would incriminate hillary in the dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders insisted there was nothing false or misleading in the initial statement. >> the statement that was issued was true and there were no inaccuracies in the statement. the only thing i see misleading as the years worth of stories that have been feeling a false narrative. a phony scandal b

there's no discipline in the white house what the message is. the lawyers are on one page, the staff is talking about another thing. the question going forward, can general kelly bring the kind of discipline to this white house that would at least get them all on the same page so these kinds of situations where they're providing information that's just flatly not true to the public. i mean that's what they've got to get a handle on. >> chris cillizza, for people waking up, lets reremind them that the initial statement was actually dictated by the president. here's what don jr. said july 8th about that meeting. "it was a short introductory meeting. i asked jared and paul manafort to stop by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago, and was since ended but the russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time, and there was no follow-up. i was asked to attend the meeting by an aquintance but not told the name of the person i would be meeting w

what's the atmosphere in the white house like today? fabulous. i literally just left the oval office where we swore in general kelly as the president's new chief of staff. it was like a family gathering, great, great, great mood, lots of press interest, so we are very excited about recent developments. are you? quite interesting, this is a heck of a family you're living in at the moment and mr scaramucci, who you so warmly welcomed last week, with his words to the new yorker has surely throwing a bomb into the building behind you, the white house. not at all. i know that's what our colleagues on the hill on the left and in the chattering classes of the leftist media would want people to believe, but it's not at all like that. we don't live in the rarefied bubble of pabulum and boilerplate and assessing about things that aren't real, such as the russia collusion delusion. we have a job to do. the president in the last six months has achieved things that most presidents to achieve in years, if you look at immigration, the economy. we broke an histor

inside the white house, it's a different ball game. he may not have the same handcuffs as it relates to individuals inside the white house, who he doesn't believe carries the president's agenda wholeheartedly. >> kimberly: you have my full attention. good to have you here tonight. coming up, more reaction to tonight's breaking news. steve bannon is out as white house chief strategist. that and much more on the special edition of "hannity" as we continued. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,... ...isn't it time to let the real you shine through? maybe it's time for otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months,... ...with reduced redness,... ...thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has... ...no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occ

nobody can wander in to the white house on their own? is he going to post somebody outside the oval office? sarah: i don't think anybody can wander into the white house on their own without secret service stepping in. >> excuse me -- into the oval office. can his daughter? can his son-in-law? can steven bannon wander into the oval office without -- sarah: i don't think anybody just wanders into the oval office. look, this is the white house. he's the president of the united states of america, and there are processes -- >> but it's pretty informal here normally, right? i mean, people talk to him. they don't wait to get approval to talk to him. sarah: look, general kelly is going to work with the entire team as he's been doing over the last couple days. he's done a great job of sitting down and talking to individuals about the needs that they have, the conversations, and putting a structure in place. there's nothing abnormal about that. >> can top staff talk to the president without the approval of general kelly? sarah: i don't know that i

peering through the glass doors i see him seated on the red, white and blue striped couch in the living room. in front of him the white house phone and a faux marble replica of the washington monument sit side by side on a white glass top coffee table. i wave to the girls and go back to my reading. two hours later bob steps out blinking in the bright sunlight, he sits down on the shais next to me. what's the deal about this crazy break-in at the watergate i ask, without wasting any time. the whole thing is ridiculous, bob says. i can't imagine why anyone would want to bug the democratic headquarters. it's the last place in the world to get inside information. have you talked to the president, i ask. yeah, he and b.b. just got back. i don't think he knows about the break-in yet, unless he read it in the paper. bob stands and stretches and i suggest that we eat lunch by the pool. on the way out i toss this morning's paper into the kitchen wastebasket. frequently i find an article that i want to save, but today there's nothing special. little did i realize where this crazy break-in story would take us. the story did not go awa

kevin corke is at the white house for us. all right, i'm sorry. he is in bedminster new jersey, the operating white house while the president is there. kevin, tell us about the departure of steve bannon. >> we are very close to camp david, we've been following the president sort of bounced aroun around, we are in suburban maryland here not far from camp david, frankly not very far from the nation's capital where once again the center of the political world is focused. steve bannon is out, we have heard rumblings, you may have seen yesterday in that wide-ranging interview he really seemed to take some shots at not only some administration officials but certainly seem to depart from what the president was saying about north korea. we are not suggesting that that in and of itself was enough to move him out of the job but make no mistake about it, steve bannon's departure is in part driven by the fact that the president has never felt like he was somehow the puppet master. you may remember what "time" magazine called the great manipulator, it certainly

the east and we begin with a direct contradiction between president trump's personal lawyer and the white house over the president's role responding to his son's meeting with a russian lawyer. the white house now conceding the president did weigh in without getting into any further specifics. no matter how far weighed in goes, it flies in the face of what trump's lawyer said that he had no involvement. >> just the latest instance of trump aides and only after published rorltss forced them to acknowledge problems. in a lack of clarity not inspiring confidence on capitol hill. more when the white house. >> reporter: we're learning for the first time that president trump was involved in helping to shape the narrative about that meeting back at trump tower on june 9th, 2016. the white house acknowledged on tuesday for the very first time, the president in their words weighed in on that statement saying that that meeting was about a discussion about a russian adoption. it was not about anything else. as we learned of course it was about a russian operative trying to give dirt on the hillary clinton

would the white house be supportive of that alternative? sorry. >> would the white house be supportive of that option to destroy north korea's program and north korea itself. >> somebody lost? are those directions? i keep hearing somebody's phone talking or something. it's very distracting. >> the only military option against north korea is to destroy north korea's program and north korea itself. >> look, the president obviously has been very outspoken about how he feels about north korea. we're weighing all options, keeping all options on the table and as we've said many times before, we're not going to broadcast what we're going to do. and until that happens. >> so, destroying the country, like lindsey graham said, is an option? >> that's not what i'm saying. what i'm saying, the president has been very outspoken about the need to stop north korea, we've been focused on stopping the nuclear program, stopping the missiles, stopping the aggression. that still continues to be the focus and we're keeping all options on the table in order to d

steve bannon leaving the white house. whites who issuing a statement, i quote, white house chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon mutually agreed it would be steve's last day. welcome to "the intelligence report." bannon has been somewhat controversial figure in the white house. he often clashed with other white house advisors as well as members of president trump's cabinet, including the new chief of staff, john kelly. while this sort of hard-nosed conservative, very nationalistic economic agenda, earned him a lot of support from trump supporters it caused friction with more moderate aides think gary cohn for example. maybe steve mnuchin. family members like jared kushner and donald trump. i want to go to blake burman, standing by at the white house with the breaking news. as i said the market doesn't quite to know what to make of it. we're off a little bit because there is some concern they're still going through a lot of speed bumps here blake. reporter: this shows, trish, i think you could says influence of new chi