white house revoke his security clearance? they're trying to push back on that. still, a tough story for the trump right, mark. big implications for capitol hill on the fallout over health care reform. there's a six-figure ad buy that gets under way today, targeting house republicans who voted in favor of the bill to repeal and replace obamacare. it's by an advocacy group, save my care. they're launching the tv and digital ads against 24 republicans. joining the conversation, caitlin owens, health care reporter for axiose. mark murray is still with us. let's start with the numbers. because you're so good at that. democrats would need to gain 24 seats to take back the house, and the new york times is reporting democrats think the best way to do that is to target 23 republican districts hillary clinton won and dozens more where trump is now deeply unpopular. tell us a little more about this strategy. >> yeah, chris. normally, a midterm environment is where the party that's out of power is on the offensive. you end up just looking at history, where if you control the white house and congress, you are

on television particularly, you will see white house cor respond ent deliver a report and then the trump white house said and then there is a smug smile, ich is the correspondent undermining what the white house says and there may be grounds for that, but it should be reported and it should be straight. i remember vividly the story when carl bernstein and i were working on watergate, the fall of 1972 when nixon had a landslide re-election and tracing money and activity to the nexton white house to the re-election campaign and wrote his campaign manager, the same way, some of the way these people get close to presidents. he was number one, the way david axelrod was to owe bam bah bauma. nd he financed watergate and other activities and before your time at the "the post" with a little campaign where you can get candy bars and a couple of coffee -- >> you have told me what the price of coffee was? >> 10 cents and it wasn't even worth 10 cents, but carl puts a dime in and carl is probably somebody's best instimpings of any journalists that i have ever known and he jumps and turns around and

white house staff of another possible train wreck at the white house. "trainwreck" is the term that one unnamed official gave to the former campaign manager and former deputy trump campaign manager possibly coming to work in the white house, one unnamed source said it would only add to the toxicity of the white house. another said, i gagged. axios reports that they have had discussions about the crisis communication war room that president trump wants to set up to go to war with the news media over the russia investigation. david who was the man who filed the successful lawsuit that led to the citizens united supreme court decision was asked on fox news this morning if he's going to join the white house staff. >> so, they've talked to, you know, many people, including me. >> is that a yes. have you been asked? >> no. i'm not going to say that there's -- that something sitting on the table for me to pick. that would be a little -- i think that's -- it's an on going conversation. i think that's a fair way to put it. >> joining us now, josh, former white house press secretary for president obama. he's also msnbc political analyst, so, josh, a guy i've never heard o

comey also giving testimony to a house committee looking to alleged links between the donald trump campaign during the fight for the whiteussia and certain diplomats. president trump's first national security adviser michael flynn had to resign for not being truthful about his contact with the russian officials primarily, the russian officials primarily, the russian ambassador to the us, this after he was confirmed as the national security adviser so lots to talk about concerning this decision might president trump to fire james comey, the head of the fbi. this is supposed to be a non—partisan position and they usually serve around ten years in office. he was appointed by president obama but he did have several years to run off his term as head of the fbi. let's talk to daniel from the politico website. this is a shock? it is a com plete website. this is a shock? it is a complete huge surprise. comey it is probably the most surprised because he thought he would stay in office and repair his reputation, holding trump accountable in the investigation. now he is out of a job and he will not be able to redefine his legacy af

white house. president trump asked fbi director james comey to drop the investigation into former national securityiser michael flynn. this according to a memo written by james comey before he was fired. >> the white house denies the charge, but after the credibility problems, can you believe the denial? if donald trump tried to influence an investigation into links with the campaign and russia, that could be obstruction of justice. both sides of the political aisle are saying at minimum, they need to get to the bottom of the facts. some democrats are going further saying this could be ground for impeachment. let's start with joe johns at the white house. >> reporter: chris, the concern here is whether the president tried to influence an fbi investigation and then fire the man who was ultimately responsible for that investigation. as you said, the white house denying the conversation ever happened. if it did, this memo could be a big problem for president trump. another bombshell in 24 hours. the besieged trump white house facing allegations of obstruction of justice that could lead to impeachment

it's a very controversial moment for the trump white house. i think the amount of chaos coming out of this white house, the number of contradictions, in particular when it comes to the russia story, is pretty astounding. you are seeing reports that there is considerations of a shakeup in the white house, with sean spicer might be out of a job. the way the trump white house is communicating with the public about its promises is very interesting. one of the things that you heard from the president this week was, well, i can't possibly be accurate because there's so much going on, so many actions being taken by my white house, we can't possibly be accurate. i think it must be something -- if it's not your full-time job to be covering these things, it is certainly a confusing time. host: the deputy attorney general has agreed to read the whole briefing. what do you think the questions will be on the minds of democrats in particular? guest: what happened in the meeting between deputy attender general rosenstein, the ag, and donald trump, immediately

so if i were the trump white house -- >> let him finish. >> if i were the trump white house, part of compartmentalizing this means marshaling those people that put him in the white house to demand that washington compartmentalize this. sure, let's have an investigation. let's get the facts. but let's not let it get in the way of the message that was sent in november, which is, we don't want to have policy incrementalism. we have to have change -- >> april, you know this white house well. are they able to compartmentalize, at this point? >> no, not at all. they -- there is a big learning curve. we talk about that all the time. they're trying to deflect on a lot of issues. they're also trying to put things forward. they're trying to deal with aca, they're trying to deal with the wall. but this is an albatross around their neck. and paul and i were at the white house together at the time of the ken starr investigation. and paul, as a reporter, i remember that this president, at the time, bill clinton, could not really push a lot of the initiatives through, because that was really hanging

white house. president trump just as of this morning was tweeting that michael flynn was vetted by the obama white house essentially saying it's the obama administration's fault. that is something that we heard from sean spicer during a briefing here a couple of weeks ago. but the problem all of that is now you have this revelation that president obama on november 10th, two days after donald trump was elected president of the united states, was warning president-elect trump that he should stay away from michael flynn and i suppose this is just one of those stories. what we're hearing beginning of this now, if we were to get behind the scenes of the meeting the president-elect had at that time, the details from that conversation would be fascinating. >> you're right. every time we learn something in this story is takes us a new wrinkle. let's bring it inside the room. we're going to get to the testimony in a minute, but the idea that president obama leaned over during his private meeting with the president-elect and said look, don't hire this guy. we don't know how specific he was. we know that he

television particularly you will see white house correspondents deliver a report and then the trump white house said and then there's a kind of smug smile, which is the correspondence undermining what the white house says and there may be grounds for that, but it should be reported. it should be straight. i remember vividly the story when carl bernstein and i were working on watergate, the fall of 72 before nixon had this massive landslide reelection and we were tracing money and activity to the nixon white house, the reelection campaign and we wrote about nixon's closest aide, john mitchell who had been the attorney general, his campaign manager, you know, the same way some of these people get close to presidents, i mean, he was never one, may be sort of the way david axelrod was to obama. we said michel controlled the secret fund and it financed watergate and other activities. before your time at the post on the fifth floor with a little canteen where you can get candy bars and a couple coffee and carl and-- host: you told me what the price of a couple coffee was. guest: yes, 10 cents.

say it is because he is investigating -- and he just recently said he was investment in the trump white housesible collusion with russia around the election -- and today, president trump is meeting with the russian foreign minister in the white house, with lavrov. >> as a journalist and a citizen, this is part of what has bothered me about this whole scandal from the beginning. i thing know chomsky was on your show last week or the week before and made this point well which is, unfortunately with this kennel has done, it has anen what ought to be aspiration that we all share as americans, which is to find a way to improve relations with this incredibly powerful nuclear armed state with whom we have a history of decades of animosity with, and we have almost come the civil war -- to nuclear war, and hope -- and look at better ofations, not as indicia loyalty or treason, but something we ought to support. what this kennel has done is pressured trump to prove he is not a lackey of the kremlin by ratcheting up tensions between moscow and washington. and i think people are telling the truth when th

now, i asked the trump white house about this. i spoke to a number of officials here. they're downplaying this conversation, but they're not denying the fact that this conversation occurred. one official made the point that president-elect trump wasn't particularly surprised that then-president obama was warning him about mike flynn given that flynn had been out on the campaign trail making the case against hillary clinton and frankly against the obama white house. another official made the case that the comments about mike flynn seemed to be light-hearted at the time. they didn't seem to, at least from the perspective of president-elect trump, to be based in substance. then yet another official made this point, andrea. if former president obama was so concerned about mike flynn, why didn't he revoke his security clearance? we know, of course, he was fired from the obama administration. so there were some concerns there. but this all creates the very heated backdrop against which sally yates is preparing to testify, to tell the senate committee what she knows and what s

white house. quote, senior white house officials did appear to recognize quickly that trump had overstepped and moved to contain the potential fallout. the assistant to the president for counter terror placed calls to the directors of cia and nsa, services most involved in the intel sharing arrangement with the partner. one of the subordinates called for the discussion to be stricken from internal memos, and for the full transcript to be limited to a small circle of recipients, to prevent details from being disseminated further. david, your thought on that. >> well, look, if this is code word protected information, which means a very small set of people have access to it, then you could see a circumstance where you would try to limit the distribution of the memo of the meeting with the russians so that people who did not have access to that information didn't read it in the write-up, or the write-up doesn't mention it. it does tend to corroborate the story. but, again, the white house needs to explain what happened there, what was said, and this distinction between sources and methods, which seem to

white house to be out of. i think there's only one person in the white house. and that's donald trump. i've been told by sources close to him, that he's been complaining an awful lot about his white house counsel, don mcgahn. i don't know what the reason is, maybe it's because he -- the president felt he was out of this loop. i just, you know, i don't have any idea, but it's hard for me to think of any other white house in which, you know, she would go down to the white house, tell the white house counsel these issues that she had with the national security adviser, you know, being subject potentially to blackmail and that a white house wouldn't act on that very, very quickly. it's stunning. >> it is incredible, though, to have the president of the united states, you know, basically seeming to blame all the people around him constantly without any self-realization that at a certain point, it's not everybody around you who is making errors. >> is the president also -- i mean, when it comes to flynn, i think gloria's right, he might have been the loop. he likes this guy, he seemed investe

trump's critics hoped he would be a saving grace for this inexperienced white house. nstead, he's now a prominent member of president trump's cleanup crew. in a stunning op-ped for politico, pulitzer prize winning journalist thomas ricks now calling on him to step down. begging, save your reputation while you still can. tom ricks is with us now. thanks nr being with us. i've been a fan and reader of your work for a very long time and i have to say, this was disturbing. i guess that's the best word. i want to read you the part that bravemy chills, i keep reading it to everyone that walks in. "i don't see mcmaster improving trump. what i've seen so far is trump degrading mcmaster. in fact, nothing seems to change trump. he continues to stumble through his foreign policy embracing autocrats, alienating allies and embarrassing americans who understand that nato has helped keep peace in europe for more than 65 years." have you talked to your friend, h.r. mcmaster, about the piece? >> i have not, no. >> do you think you'll hear from him him? >> i wovuldn't call h.r. a friend

white house adviser and son-in-law of trump.t involves a controversial sales pitch by his sister in china at a u.s. visa program that allows the big money contributors to get fast tracked u.s. visas. senior investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden has details. >> reporter: it was the pitch heard around the world. jared kushner's sister nicole kushner meyer delivering a sales pitch in beijing on friday urging wealthy chinese to invest in a new kushner company's venture. and in turn, fast track their immigration to the a trust that he, his wife and his children are not beneficiaries of. >> he divested a very small chunk of the business. he's still the beneficiary of the vast majority of the business. but the problem has clearly not been solved. >> reporter: the kushners used the visa program to help fund a prior project with the trump organization. they're not alone, there were 10,000 such visas issued last year. over three-quarters of them to the chinese. and lester, mr. kushner said he won't involve himself in the talks abou

i think ultimately to me, flynn is a cancer on the trump white house. oyal he was during the campaign and how important he was to trump. they haven't found any collusion. we do know that russia meddled. but we know that flynn is the source of all of these stories that causes trump so much heart burn, apparently. and i leave you with this in that part of the problem for donald trump has been his problematic posture toward russia going back to the beginning of his campaign, all of which began to change after flynn was fired. now he takes a harder line with russia as it relates to the ukraine and the middle east. getting rid of flynn solved a ton of problems. >> but he is still the president of the united states. whether or not this is russia trying to meddle in the election. and you have to ask the question of whether or not flynn is a cancer or is he a symptom of a disease that that administration has. >> thanks for the bottom line. great to talk to you. >> all right. you have been watching the stock market. apple surging an all-new high. why? what could

it was only a week ago house republicans gathered with president trump at the white house to celebrateal of the health caring a. james comey threatened to de rail the house agaenda house republicans are demanding an independent investigation. take a look. >> in view of that repeat revelations and the firing of comey, are you about ready to call for an independent counsel and, if fought, what will it take? >> right now, i don't think we need and independent count sell. there has been zero shred of everyday that the president, that there has been any collusion with russia. >> well, do you advocate for a special prosecutor to investigate trump's ties to russia? >> yeah, we have oversight committees in the house, in the senate. they're working their force. >> we need a bipartisan select committee to investigate this. when are you going to open your eyes? we all see it. why -- you don't see what's going on? you don't see it? when are you going to decide to be an american and not a politician? >> speaking to reporters in wisconsin today, house speaker paul ryan was asked to comment on the pr

white house. >> reporter: the white house will be waking up today to the bomb shell that president trump delivered by firing fbi director james comey late tuesday night. it is something that the white house under estimated the fallout of. the top officials worked throughout the night to reshape the narrative that got away from them in the firing of the fbi director. now the letter, the very brief letter that the president sent to the fbi director thanked director comey for his service but also had some very unusual language. let's take a look at that. it said this. while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i'm not under investigation, i never the less encourage the judgment of the department of justice that you're not able to effectively lead the bureau. so essentially in that one paragraph there president trump, all but confirmed that russia was on his mind. that the russia investigation that the fbi is leading was on his mind. now going forward here the president did not speak about this on tuesday evening. white house officials tell me he has no plans to addre

obama administration holdover today revealing what she told the white house for first time publicly and putting a spotlight again on the trump team connections to russia. >> to state the obvious, you don't want your compromised with russians. >> reporter: yates said she warned the white house counsel that flynn had misled vice president pence and other officials about his conversations with russia's ambassador to the u.s. and the russians knew. >> that created a compromise situation. a situation where the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. >> reporter: yates says she gave the information to the white house so they could take action. but she was fired by president trump days later for refusing to enforce his controversial travel ban. flynn kept his job for nearly three more weeks. this morning, president trump defending his decision to hire flynn by blaming the obama administration saying they gave flynn the highest security clearance. even after his firing flynn did retain his clearance. it was renewed in 2016. multiple u.s. officials tell nbc news at the time, flynn never revealed he

the trump white house lawyers then says to sally yates -- by the way, she was -- she goes to see him.ays, what difference does it make if you have to go white house officials lying to each other? the russians could use this against our national security advisor. sally yates says no, we want you to know. >> it discourages you from public service. why would anyone put themselves through hearings that are so grueling? it is like watching a turtle knit a sweater. being stuck in a bank line behind a really slow, older person trying to explain something to you and impatient -- trying to change $100 in change. i kind of like the fact that donald trump is tweeting this because he's like a guy that shouts from his car when somebody cuts him off. it feels good and then he forgets about it but everyone else remembers it. is this guy shouting at his car? >> do you do that? >> yes, i do it all the time. we need cliff notes from these sort of things. do you remember cliff notes? obama warned them about flynn. but if you judge obama's expertise on hiring, his vetting isn't so inspiring so maybe when

interference with our 2016 election and the trump team's connections to these efforts, we need to get to the bottom of this. so i thank chairman graham is our ranking white house members for these hearings. i just had a number of town hall meetings and hundreds of people came. and believe me, they care that we get to the bottom of this. the trump administration blames president obama for failing to suspend general flynn's clearance. in a press conference today, sean spicer said, quote, every one in the gov goes through the same process and quote, he said, quote, there's no difference of a security clearance once it is issued. and basically as far as this administration is kerneled, nothing more needed to be done by them regarding general flynn's clearance. director clapper, isn't it true the fbi has a separate vetting process for national security council appointees? and they reported that he never completed process. can you enlighten us? >> i can't speak to specifics to how it was done with general flynn. i know what i the went through as a political appointee twice, in a republican and democratic administration. and the vetting process for either a political

trump added, i'm not under investigation. the white house has not denied this report. the second story was from the "washington post." quoting from that report, the law enforcement investigation into possible coordination between russia and the trump campaign has identified a current white house official as a significant person of interest showing that the probe is reaching into the highest levels of government according to people familiar with the matter. we also learn tonight we will be seeing this visual again. all 6'8" of james comey will rise and be sworn in at a public hearing before the senate intelligence committee at some point after memorial day during which, presumably, we will be able to hear a pin drop in the realm of nationally televised events of late. something to think about here. one of "new york times" reporters said tonight their sources are both political appointees and career government employees. but they are all people who witnessed something going on that they believed to be wrong. and something else to think about. while it's impossible to trac

but there came a day during just the second week of the trump presidency when she called the white house and asked the president's lawyer if they could meet. she said she had something important to tell him. now we know it was about president trump's national security adviser at the time, retired general michael flynn. sally yates told the president's lawyer that mike flynn was potentially vulnerable to blackmail and had been compromised by the russians. >> we began our meeting telling him that there had been press accounts of statements from the vice president and others that related conduct that mr. flynn had been involved in that we not to be the truth. the first thing we did was to explain to mr. mcgann that the underlying conduct was problemate it in and of itself. secondly, we told him we felt like the vice president and others were entitled to know that the information that they were conveying to the american people wasn't true. and additionally, that we weren't the only ones that knew all of this. that the russians also knew about what general flynn had done, and the russians als

you can cold call the trump white house and probably get somebody to leak something to you anonymouslyonald trump has something of a problem with various factions inside of the white house trying to get their story out at his expense. david: dan henninger, "wall street journal." good to see you. thank you very much. melissa. melissa: left up in arms over newly-crowned usa. why some of her answers are creating a political firestorm on social media. >>> plus, rising tensions with north korea. why the country's latest missile test may be the most concerning one yet. next, lieutenant colonel thomas mcinerney sound off. >> president of north korea continues to say he wants to hit the united states which is what my concern is, the capacity of this recent launch from yesterday could actually hit our troops and our bases in guam. ♪ are allergies holding you back? break through your allergies. try new flonase sensimist allergy relief instead of allergy pills. it's more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist experience you'll barely feel. using unique mistpro technology, new flonase sensimist

also today, live coverage of the white house briefing with press secretary sean spicer. it will be the first briefing since president trumps foreign trip. it's scheduled to start at 2:00 p.m. eastern. before that begins we will look at some of washington's genera general -- "washington journal". again, live coverage of the white house briefing with press secretary sean spicer is set to begin in just a few minutes. before that begins we will look at some of today's "washington journal". >> host: he is back at our desk and is the policy editor of the examiner and he is going to talk about the week ahead for the trump administration after the long holiday weekend.nt one decision we know that's coming is the decision on the paris climate deal. explain where we are on that,ng reports from over the holiday weekend that the president was leaning toward pulling out of the paris climate deal. >> guest: it would be much more consistent with what the president iran on, to pull out of the deal. basically a lot of his constituency is people whose industries have been adversely affected by environmental regulations, the president has no

a second. >> eboni: i think pat buchanan gave us a better explanation than we got from the white house. >> trump fired in may an individual schumer thought should be fired in october. why are you upset about the timing? >> it lacks all credibility. the trump white house has enough of a cloud overage. >> they are going to get a new fbi director. >> it backfired. >> kat: we have to move on. will americans faith in the fbi be restored after the firing of james comey? how the agency can shed its politically toxic reputation. they sure to follow us on social media @specialistsfnc on twitter and facebook. new bike? yeah, 'cause i got allstate. if you total your new bike, they replace it with a brand new one. that's cool. i got a new helmet. we know steve. it's good to be in (good hands). arbreak through your allergies. try new flonase sensimist instead of allergy pills. it's more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist you may not even notice. using unique mistpro technology, new flonase sensimist delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances that cause your symptoms. most alle

the trump white house is back in crisis mode as it reacts to yet another bombl.ashington post" that the president went off script when he revealed the specific isis plot. >> i was in the room. it didn't happen. >> reporter: president trump's national security adviser h.r. mcmaster pushed back against a "washington post" report monday claiming the president shared code-word level classified information about an isis terror threat with the russians last week. >> the president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats. at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed. >> reporter: the post report does not say sources or methods were disclosed but rather that a specific plot was discussed. current and former u.s. officials reportedly told the paper the president went off script and began describing details about an islamic state terrorist threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft. >> i think that the white house is playing word games here to that effect to try to impact of this story. >> reporter: one official tells cbs news

learned of that report that trump asked comey to stand down on the flynn investigation. >> the trump white houseunds. big question, will president trump's supporters continue to stand by their man and what can the white house do to turn things around? we'll get to that after this report from our chief national correspondent, tom llamas. good morning, tom. >> reporter: george, good morning. president trump campaigned on being the outsider that could fix washington but now his white house needs some fixing and the architect of all this trouble appears to be the president himself. this morning, the trump white house again facing an outbreak of damaging headlines. >> a report late today in "the new york times." >> the latest salvo against the president. >> reporter: after that bombshell revelation, the president allegedly asked then-fbi director, james comey, to back off that investigation into then-national security adviser, michael flynn. the latest firestorm to hit the west wing just this week. >> did you share classified intelligence information with the russians? >> thank you very much. >> repo

trump. end of story according to the white house. here are the problems according to those that are sceptical of this decision and this president. first, president trump shares exactly zero of rosensteins concerns about how unfair he was to hillary clinton. the only problem he ever had about comey's behavior was that he didn't charge her with a crime and president trump then citizen trump loved it when comey reopened the clinton case late in the campaign. it's as if we're expected to have all been blinded by that memory eraser thing from men in black and we wouldn't remember all the times that trump expressed concern that comey didn't charge hillary and then praised him. >> i respect the fact that director comey was able to come back after what he did. >> it took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had where they're trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. >> let's us not forget that the fbi is in the middle of investigationing whether anyone in the trump campaign orbit h

it comes from the heart of the justice dpept, not the trump white house. >> and the trump white house here, we're barely 90 minutes into knowing this. they got a little bit more warning than that but we don't yet have a formal response, which is a very significant thing. they have not decided what to say. >> and we're waiting for that. as jeff zeleny pointed out, sean spicer has been saying there's no need for a special counsel. >> as recently as monday. >> right. this isn't going to be welcome news at the white house. this means that this investigation is going to be long and deep and it's not going to be over quickly. and i think you can only look at donald trump for that. i agree with john avalon the that something happened with that comey memo that probably made rod rosensteining change his mind. on capitol hill now, i would also add that this does give everybody a little bit of breathing room here. that the democrats obviously applaud this, and the republicans who didn't -- weren't much interested in a special counsel can now say, well, this is being investigated by a special cou

person of interest that's been referenced. >> reporter: en route here, the white house did not deny another report that president trump told russian officials he fired f.b.i. director james comey because he was "a nut job," and that that dismissal took some of the pressure off the russian probe. white house fors hope revelations like that do not overshadow president trump's efforts to reassert american leadership, not just here in the sydney kingdom, but throughout the middle east. reena. >> ninan: major garrett traveling with the president in riyadh. also in saudi arabia today, secretary of state tillerson urged iran's newly reelected president to dismantle what he called iran's network of terrorism and to end ballistic missile tests. iran's presidential election was largely seen as a referendum on its nuclear deal with the u.s. and other world powers. elizabeth palmer is in the capital, tehran. >> reporter: a massive voter turnout clinched the election for the incumbent president and moderate, hassan rouhani. in his vectry speech on state television, he said iran had chosen a path of engagement with the world. rouha

white house counsel." but now we learned it wasn't just sally yates who warned the white house it was president obama who warned the white house, or president trump> apparently. and another thing you'll notice president trump was saying is, well, it was the obama administration that gave him a security clearance. it was president obama who fired michael flynn from the defense intelligence agency. so, you know, this attempt to put michael flynn on the obama administration suggests that trump is really feeling very uncomfortable about flynn, the suggest of flynn being raised. and again, it all goes back to this issue of whether flynn and other people involved in the trump campaign were working with russia to defeat hillary clinton. i mean, that question is what hangs over all these hearings. we don't know the answer to it, but there's more and more evidence that justifies further investigation. >> and with flynn, it was were sanctions, were relief of sanctions discussed or implied during conversations with russian officials. errol, as this was coming through, you're recalling that was that very important meeting everyone was waiting for between the

i have reached this conclusion, i can't believe the trump administration let general flynn in the white house let alone in the situation room after the direct and clear warnings that president trump got from president obama and that white house council got from then acting attorney. this man put our national security at risk and i think there should be some consequences on his actions. >> what kind of consequences are you talking about? >> i think that is up to a court of law and criminal justice but with the reckless access he took, given the ways he misled the vice president or failed to file, i think there vein j rang of statutes which he might be run afoul. >> you see the current justice department under the current joe attorney general, jeff sessions, do that. >> i have a lot of respect for the department of justice and i believe the attorney general understands and respect the rule of law. if a recommendation comes up from the fbi or from line attorneys at the department of justice that form are national security adviser broke the law, i believe that they would proceed. >> would you be

the latest on these accusations from the trump white house from the trump white house sharing intelligencetions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the story that came out tonight, as reported, is false. i was in the room. it didn't happen. >> the white house with a full-throated denial after the president was accused of sharing classified information with the russians. what did he share? why does it matter? >> welcome to "early start," everybody. i'm dave briggs. serious accusations once again facing the white house. >> and i'm christine romans. another big story reverberating through washington and all over the world, really, as it just, the optics of the president's relationship with russia just get worse. the white house pushing back fiercely against reports the president shared highly classified information with russia's foreign minister and the ambassador to the u.s. in a white house meeting last week. cnn has now confirmed the key points of that story first reported by the "washington post." one official with knowledge telling the "post" that trump said, "i get great intel. i have people

what's clear so far from the trump white house, is that that donald trump has not empowered his white house chief priebus to execute his agenda. it's clear that priebus doesn't speak for the president. it's hard to tell who does. fundamentally that's really on donald trump. donald trump has to decide that he must empower a white house chief to be a kind of grown up in the room. host: you write in the book the white house chief translates the president agenda. when government works it is usually he understand the fabric of power threading the needle where politics converge. saying when government failed, it can be traced to the shortcomings of the chief. that seem like a big thing to have on one shoulder. guest: it's fundamental to every presidency. the pod modern history is littered with wreckage of presidency that didn't understand that. jimmy carter and rom reagan. he was train as nuclear engineer. ronald reagan maybe so the so much. this president has so far not understood. that is outsider president needs an insider to get things done. reagan found that person in the form of jim b

department officials were in charge of investigations that started to become a concern in president trump's white house. we heard on monday from sally yates haw she had informed the white house counsel office in january of this year that michael flynn had been compromised and could be blackmailed by the russians for lies that he had said publicly. president trump kept michael flynn on as national security advisor for 18 days after that express warning by the acting attorney general to the white house counsel. he only asked for his resignation hours after "the washington post" reported on general flynn's false statements about his russian communications. the president fired sally yates, the acting attorney generals on january 30, four days after she warned the white house about this connection between general flynn and this ambassador. and then there was preet bhara bharara, whom the president invited to trump tower to tell him he wanted him to stay on as state attorney for the southern district of new york. the president then in a sunda sunday -- in a sudden friday evening announcement on march 10 fire

is all the drama surrounding the trump white house finally rippling the markets? while many banks are making plans to move workers out of london, a canadian giant is planning to move in. we will speak to the head of pfp . a lot to get to in the next few hours. we are 30 minutes into the trading day. a lot of positivity in the market. julie: enough positivity for the s&p and nasdaq to put the met records again. -- to put them at records again. the doubt not quite making it there, but we see a bit of an uplift in the u.s. markets. all of the news around retail desk home depot is rising to a record after it's comparable sales rose by 5.5%. its earnings per share beat estimates for the 12th straight quarter. down 3.7% after that company's outlook trailed estimates. dick's sporting-goods plunging 10%. out with an outlook for the year that is worse than anticipated. a ripple effect across retail as well on the negative side. dick's the suppliers for like nike and under armour trending lower. we saw movement in the u.s. dollar. the bloomberg dollar index at the lowest si

the partisan distrust now in between the trump white house and democrats, and even in the wake of this, some republicans, is so intense that i think that almost anybody that the white house puts up is going to face a pretty intense confirmation hearing process. although, as you remember, they have now changed -- the senate has now changed the rules. you only need those 51 votes. thank you for walking us through it and we will talk more down the road. >> great, thanks so much. sen. grassley: start until a ranking member or members get here. in this particul