the trump white house has showed us something we've never seen before from any white house. today it was the silence from donald trump and his administration after a white house official, kelly sadler, mocked senator john mccain's brain cancer saying that mccain's opposition to trump's nominee to lead the cia "doesn't matter, he's dying anyway." there was strong rejection of sadler's comments but not a single word of it came from donald trump or the trump white house. in a normal white house, mocking a veteran over a cancer diagnose would get you a public apology or get someone fired but the trump white house is not a normal white house so we got this. >> reporter: does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks? >> again, i'm not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. >> are you saying she didn't say this? >> again, i'm not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or another. >> why not just apologize to senator john mccain? >> i won't get into a back and forth because people want to create is

an empty barrel told me more about john kelly than anything else he has done or said in the trump white house has not redeemed himself one bit since his vicious, lying attack on congresswoman frederica wilson. the tragic truth of john kelly is that no one working in the trump white house has publicly demonstrated a closer moral resemblance to donald trump himself than john kelly. the nbc news report about kelly calling trump an idiot indicates that john kelly believes his job is to make donald trump even crueller to immigrants, especially young immigrants whose future depends on the daca program that the president has tried to kill. this is from the nbc news report. he doesn't even understand what daca is. he is an idiot, kelly said in one meeting, according to two officials who were president. we've got to save him from himself. john kelly gloats in that report and takes pride in having prevented the president from entering a perfectly reasonable agreement on daca with democrats. white house insiders in that report say that john kelly only has one goal now, and that is staying in the job unt

so the leaks from the trump white house are fake but donald trump thinks that leakers, white house leakers are traitors and cowards and he's trying to find out who they are. and while he is busy trying to find out who they are, 22 of those traitors and cowards teamed up to supply "the washington post" with its latest story based entirely on leaks the president is trying to stop. about a day in the life of the president under investigation. the president vents to associates about the fbi raids on his personal attorney michael cohen, as often as 20 times a day in the estimation of one confidant. and they frequently listen in silence, knowing little they say will soothe him. trump gripes that he needs better tv lawyers to defend him on cable news. he plots his battle plans with former new york mayor rudolph q. giuliani, his new legal consigliere. 20 times a day. the white house staff who the president now calls traitors and cowards also told "the washington post" quote they privately express worries that the probe may yet ensnare more figures in trump's orbit, including family members. there

>> that's sort of the big question for the trump white house. not the administration and the way that it works. there is something that i heard a lot, particularly in the beginning of the white house when i first started covering in january and march. for a lot of people, this sentiment that i heard from one , i've beensource asking the question of what the policy will be on this or where we will move or go on this particular policy move. this person would say -- well, we are planning on doing this. we talked about this in this meeting and with this president, quoting "you never know." this is a senior official at the time at the white house. working closely with the president. this was a common refrain and something that you still here. nobody now really knows what the president is really thinking. partnk that that is in what has sort of engendered a sense of chaos within the white house. without that clear sense among the staff and the advisors of whose job it is to provide the president with options to move forward on the president's has creat

president's personal attorney, michael cohen, who doesn't work in the white house, was cashing checks in exchange for access and influence into the trump white house. michael cohen's pay to play scheme is a stark reminder of the glaring need to take real action. not just rhetoric, but action, with actual teeth. to bring accountability and transparency to washington. so, the question becomes, what are democrats going to do about it? as leader pelosi mentioned, as my colleagues will detail, the american people deserve a better deal for our democracy and democrats plan to make that happen. you've heard from us since last july about our bold, sharp-edged economic agenda. put simply, real progress can actually -- in actually -- and actually delivering for the hardworking men and women of this country won't come until we're able to finally loosen the vice grip that special interests have over washington republicans and the trump administration. we need to strengthen our nation's ethics laws because the needs of middle class and working class families in america shouldn't be put on the back burner while those who paid millions of dollars to t

white house staff meeting. in reaction to senator mccain's announcement that he opposed the nomination of gina haspel as the next cia director, she said, it doesn't matter he's dieing anyway. the trumpy to the top of the white house and issued a statement to john mccain. but she was doing a version of donald trump's 2015 comments about senator mccain. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured, okay. i like to tell you. >> a supporting guest this morning on the fox business channel said he wasn't surprised at john mccain's opposition to the nomination for the cia director. and then the guest lied to the fox audience by claiming that when john mccain was a prisoner of war in vietnam, he cooperated with his captors by giving them information that they wanted to know. this is, of course, a vile lie. john mccain was a prisoner of war for 5 1/2 years. when offered early release by the north vietnamese, john mccain refused unless every prisoner of war captured before him was also released. john mccain was brutally tortured and returned to the united states with injuries that left him personal innocemanentl of raising his arms above his head. the fox pr

so this could be the white house without the white house chief of staff at some point. >> donald trump doesn't need a chief of staff he has his insecure phone he can call sean hannity, apparently sean hannity is his chief of staff. the more you try to reign in him and discipline, he doesn't like you. he gets like a toddler that gets mad. you tell him to sit down he gets mad. he gets angry with the people who discipline him. so the best bet as chief of staff is let him to do what he wants, so you're not necessary. >> do what he wants is the john kelly motto now. i'm not sure on the first day but it seems to have become his motto for a long time now. >> that presumes that john kelly has some control. i don't think he has any control. he's not letting the president do anything. the president is just doing it. i go back to my little rule of thumb when it comes to this white house. i do not think of the trump white house or -- as a presidency. i think of it as a crime family. like in the "god father" he is the godfather. when you think of it that way, it makes sense that he wouldn't replace

administration compared to many others is that most of the people in the white house do not have a long history with donald trump white houses certainly in the first two years are populated by people who had gone through a campaign, who had developed a bond among themselves, who had developed a loyalty to the candidate and then the president. that is absent in this administration and in this white house and i think that contributes to it. >> and we've seen 40% or higher turnover already in this administration which is unprecedented. and the dysfunction, the backbiting i think is a big reason for it. >> still to come, a historic moment for the president and korea. that was overshadowed by everything we were just talking about. plus i'm going to talk with congressman joaquin castro who sits on the less than functional house intelligence committee. >>> and as we go to break, a quick note from the sports pages vladimir putin scored five goals in his annual exhibition hockey game. that's down from seven goals last year. could the 65-year-old forward be losing a step? "kasie d.c." back after this. ahh... summer is com

the truch white house is showing us something we've never seen before from nee white house. today the deafening silence from donald trump and the administration after the white house official kelly saddler mocked senator john mccain's brain cancer saying mccain's opposition to the trump nominee to lead the cray doesn't matter. he is dying anyway. there was strong rejection of kelly saddler's compensates but not a single word from donald trump or the trump white house. in a normal white house mocking a veteran over a cancer diagnosis piet get you fired at the very least there would be a public apology. but the trump white house is not a normal would you say. so instead we got this. >> does the white house not think you need to condemn the remarks. >> i'm not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. >> are you saying she didn't say it. >> i'm not validating a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or another. >> why not apologize to mccain. >> i'm not getting into a back and forth people want to create issues of leaked staff meeting. >> does kelly stadleer work at the white ho

and a white house official tells cnn that president trump will visit her today and perhaps in the next hour. she is the first, first lady to undergo such a serious medical procedure while also in the white house since first lady nancy reagan had a mastectomy in 1987. we have a team of reporters -- kate bannon broke the story. and dr. sanjay gupta is on hand before the procedure and kaitlin collins is at the white house. i want to start with kate bennett. was this planned or emergency procedure, what can you tell us? >> reporter: i don't believe it was an emergency procedure. i would imagine that this is planned, of course the white house has not said that but all indications point this to not being an emergency. i'm going to read the statement from the first lady office so we're all on the same page. this morning first lady melania trump underwent an embolization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. the procedure was successful and there were no complications. mrs. trump is at walter reed national military medical center and will likely remain there for the duration of the wee

it after the fact. >> she also told jake tapper she doesn't believe the white house has a credibility crisis. >>> president trump's pick to run the cia is offering to withdraw her nomination after some white house officials raised concerns of gina haspel's ability to get confirmed. the acting cia director offered to step aside if it would make it easier for the white house. later friday, she received a visit from press secretary sarah sanders and director mark short and the tension cooled. on sunday, the white house was still in her corner saying haspel's nomination will not be derailed by critics on how to keep the americans safe. >> before the meeting, former cia director michael hayden had nothing but praise for her. >> with the president who does not attach decisions to the real world and data and evidence, gina haspel is the one woman i want in the room when you are saying, you are right, boss. gina won't. >> haspel faces a confirmation hearings on wednesday. the nomination would be in jeopardy if she loses support from republicans. republicans hold a 51-49 majority. >>> the top democrat on the house intellig

white house. are there any parallels? if frank rizzo were alive today, would he feel comfortable in donald trump hoss white house? trump's white house? dr. lombardo: i think so, but i would not be the first to make that comparison. meeral people reached out to during the election. they had a very similar style, sort of unpolished campaign style. at one point, i say people who talk about trump, one of the things they say they like about him is he tells it like it is. he follows a very similar script. in fact, his son, donald trump, jr. had campaign stops and des calling hisept father a blue-collar billionaire. jerry falwell said the same thing at the republican national convention. the same thing. blue-collar in this instance has nothing to do with wealth. it has to do with cultural identity. donald trump was very, very good at using those -- at least in the campaign. his policies have not really followed through on that, but the way he talks about coal mining. famous picture of him in the truck outside of the white house. when he talks about jobs, he's talking about manufacturing jobs. he's talking about blue-coll

fairness the president has made issue and talked about it, but it sounds like you agree with the trump white houset the coverage is often not terribly substantive? >> yeah, i mean, i would hesitate to say that that's the essence of the trump white house media criticism. howie: part of it. they tell me this all of the time. >> well, i do think that there is, indeed, valid point that we tend to cover kind of the political side of president trump and we don't adequately cover the action that is he takes especially from the field but above all, we essentially cover the political agenda and president trump's agenda and i think progressives like myself too often let him drive that. howie: you say you talked about trump on date nights with your wife, enjoy your next date. >> good to be with you, howie. howie: after the break, "the new york times" discusses mike pompeo and winds up with egg on his . . howie: after president trump pulled out of the iran deal "the new york times" ran piece of mike pompeo headline at a key moment trump's diplomatic thousands of files away, that's true, he was winning the rel

the trump white house remember that book caused a lot of alarm within the trump white house detailing salacious claims about trump calling his behavior ratting scribing vicious infighting the best seller calls an explosive angry reaction from trump of his team when it was about to be published meantime the former u.s. deputy coordinator for the iran nuclear deal told r.t. direct that the u.s. president's decision shows a disregard for europe in fact he talks at length on sunday's worlds apart show about how he thinks trumps riding roughshod over his allies efforts. after all the bonhomie of the meeting after the supposedly improved atmosphere in the merkel meeting and then he actually treated his intention to make this announcement and sort of telegraphed where it was going while foreign secretary boris johnson was actually in washington trying to convince vice president pence and secretary of state to continue the negotiations that whether or not he was intending to be rude whether he was trying to send a message this clearly isn't the way allies

. >> and those constantly in war with the trump white house with the trump white house on this one. >i think that will help on the hill, too, and the hill recently in the last few days have ramped up their republican campaign on blaf of je behalf of gina haspel. now that pompeo is done and ronny jackson has withdrawn his nomination, they're clearly focusing and doing all they can to ramp up the public relations campaign, and i think it's helping a little bit. >> let's do the math. you saw a bunch of democrats who were looking at it, and as of today barring a setback at the hearing, several of those democrats up on top there. you have heidi heidkamp of west virginia, bill nelson on the ballot in florida, joe manchin of west virginia, senator joe donnelly of indiana, senator clair mccaskill of missouri, senator angus king of maine, senator doug jones. can you get the flip side on the democrats? >> it's essential to watch, but one thing we learned in the pompeo confirmation, rand paul will likely support this president. i mean, he has raised objections but it seems like he is coming down

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according to the same reports, the trump white house reviewed cia message logs that quote - made it clear just how accepting she had been of sins disavowed iointerrogation techniques. the fact is, so far as the record indicates, the only action ms. haspel has taken with regard to us torture practices has been to do her best to cover it up. why relitigate the choices that were made during those days after 9/11? because this matter. especially with a president like donald trump. as a candidate, donald trump said he was quote - bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. because even quote - if it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway. and as president, donald trump pulled back from his plan to reinstate the use of secret cia prisons overseas only after overwhelming bipartisan outreach. the stakes are high. the use of torture is one of the darkest chapters in our nations modern history. we cannot give this president any reason to drag this country back. we cannot allow any room for that mistake to occur again. gina haspel has spent 33 years at the cia. she has a decorated career and

it's yet another signal that the trump white house is going on the offensive against the special counsel'sinvestigation ty cobb was the good cop on trump's legal team who wanted to cooperate with the special counsel was counseling don't trump against tweeting mean things about the investigation and so on however we know that flood is apparently no friend off the special counsel he says according to insider sources to the washington post this is all part of a rejigging of the trump legal team that really began in early april the april raid of trump's personal lawyer in manhattan it seems troublous position is really hardened against the special counsel so first of all in rudy giuliani another attack dog type figure and now we have a flood so we expect this to mean a much more aggressive stance and also about a new phase in the fight against a special counsel investigation. said one trump insider was great during the you know the evidence the discovery process giving documents and so on now you need a wartime concealed carry as the trump white house faces the possibility of the special couns

white house won't apologize for what was a pretty egregio egregious remark? >> i think it is instructive to reset a bit and look at the book ends. the week ban with malania trump releasing a campaign to encourage kids to put kindness first in their lives and ending with the white house digging in heels over this crass remark of a communications staffer made about john mccain. now to your question, a source familiar says the white house has been reluctant to punish kelly sadler or maybe a public apology in part because the president himself zparnlgdispar john mccain in a way that are degrees worse than what kelly sadler said. take a look at this interaction between white house deputy spokesperson hogan gidly and the personalities on fox and friends. as you watch this remember fox news is trump friendly tv. >> do you think that was kind? >> look, i wasn't in the meeting. >> you heard the comment now. pardon me. was it kind? >> yeah, but -- i don't know if the comment was even made or not. i cant confirm it. >> so you're denying she said it? >> i'm saying i wasn't in the meeting. i can't talk about that. it was a private meeting in the white house. >> she came to

contrast that with donald trump, who in the people's white house, where every president has lived sinceeilly last year, o'reilly said putin is a killer, and donald trump replied, what makes you think that we americans are not killers, too? what makes you think we're so innocent? i never thought i'd live to see the day when i saw a president say such a thing. >> jon meacham, same question. >> i think president bush, whose father received the same award, actually, and it was an award from the atlantic council about diplomacy. it's funny to think back ten years or so when people would not have thought that possible, when the cool conventional wisdom was that bush had torn up our alliances and that sort of thing. we now see that perhaps it was far more complicated, more nuanced than we think. i was thinking today because of the mccain comment and because of the pulling out of the iran deal about an observation of president johnson's, who michael spent so much time listening to and transcribing those diaries so wonderfully in which he said that nothing tests or shows us a man's conscience mo

white house leaks. one of the reasons this hit is always so much fun and cable has so much to work with trump is there'ste house than you might see in a year of a presidency. and so swan had the clever idea to call up some of the most p prolific leakers. so many said it was about score settling. making sure they're killing ideas or tamping down people who might be on the rise because they don't like the ideas or don't like those people. i think part of that tone is set at the top of the trump white house. the other thing is they do worry sometimes about ideas that are making it up to the boss that might get out. so there's a lot of leaking that's done to try to terminate those ideas before they become a reality. that's one of the defining qualities of this presidency because you have this lens into a white house that's very unusual. if you look back at previous presidencies, rarely did this many people tell you in realtime what's actually happening, especially the ugly stuff. usually they're spinning what a great leader there is and how everyone gets along. this white house a lot of transparency for goo

trump, opposed the deal. when he came into office, there were questions whether he would try to interfere. the white house denied that. so did the justice department. when the government did sue to block the deal, the doj said, no way trump was involved. this was a decision made by career officials working for what was best for consumers. there's been a denial trump was involved. now rudy giuliani comes along and tells huffington post, the president denied the merger. why is he doing that? he is trying to say, michael cohen, got money from companies, but cohen didn't do anything. he wasn't able to influence the president because the president denied the merger. that contradicts everything we have been told. >> let me read what the huffington post says he said. whatever lobbying didn't reach the president offering as proof the fact that at&t proposed merger with time warner has not gone through. he did drain the swamp, the president denied the merger. they didn't get the result that they wanted. you were in that courtroom every single day. you have lived and breathed this stor story. doesn't this contradic

government, did the trump white house ask for that particular favor from ukraine? did the trump white house, did president trump, did the trump administration say hey, ukraine, stop helping mueller. maybe you'll get your missiles? i don't know. that seems nuts, right? but everything does seem nuts now. and so it's probably at least time to ask so we can at least get an answer on the record now to compare with whatever the later answer will be down the road once we get further reporting that explains the situation. spiking the cooperation with mueller. that's one thing there is a bigger revelation, though, in this new reporting today that has even bigger implications for what the president here is about to face here in this country next, and that's our next story. stay with us. s, bipolar i disorder can make you feel unstoppable. but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by asking about your treatment options. vraylar is approved for the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes of bi

but today, today we have an example of behavior from the trump white house and from people aligned with donald trump that's worth hitting the pause button for. it's worth noting what our politics now permit or even encourage. this woman, kelly sadler, is a commissioned officer in the white house with a rank of special assistant to the president. i'm old enough to remember when that used to mean something. being a commissioned officer means that your name is preceded by the words, the honorable. now, this is important. sadler's official title as a commissioned officer in the white house is the honorable kelly sadler. but the dishonor she has brought to the white house, to the president and the country with these comments is staggering. sadler reportedly said of senator john mccain, who is waging a valiant battle against cancer, quote, it doesn't matter. he's dying anyway. the context of those remarks, john mccain's refusal to support trump's cia nominee gina haspel over her support for the enhanced interrogation program. mccain, who was held as a prisoner of war and survived torture hims

government, did the trump white house ask for that particular favor from ukraine? did the trump white house, did president trump, did the trump administration say, hey, ukraine, stop helping mueller. maybe you'll get your missiles? i don't know. that seems nuts, right? but everything does seem nuts now. and so, it's probably at least time to ask so we can at least get an answer on the record now to compare with whatever the later answer will be down the road once we get further reporting that explicates the real situation. spiking the manafort investigations. spiking the cooperation with mueller. that's one thing. there is a bigger revelation, though, in this new reporting today, that has even bigger implications for what the president here is about to face here in this country next. and that's our next story. stay with us. [whistling] hello. give me an hour in tanning room 3. cheers! that's confident. but it's not kayak confident. kayak searches hundreds of travel sites to help me plan the best trip. so i'm more than confident. forgot me goggles. kayak. search one

of state rex tillerson was ousted in march after a number of policy disputes, but white house officials also say mr. trump never got over reports that tillerson called the president a moron, so is kelly the second chief of staff leaving any time soon? several white house officials say that's really anyone's guess, but there is broad agreement that kelly's standing has been diminished. lester? >> kristen welker at the white house, thank you. >>> and while that drama plays out behind the scenes, president trump went in front of the cameras today with delicate negotiations over nuclear programs hanging in the balance on two fronts, iran and north korea. the president rejecting the notion his threats to leave the iran nuclear deal could somehow jeopardize talks with north korea, and citing evidence offered by israel today he's been "100% right about iran." nbc chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has that story. >> iran lied. >> reporter: showing off slides and speaking in english, the israeli prime minister today addressing an audience of one, president trump. >> here's the warhead. here's the bomb

at the trump white house our mistakes live forever, right? i think those, just like -- that's the problem here, isn't it in the media protect each other oh, well they corrected it. they said they were sore. >> excuse me even after saturday night i told people those are seeking mercy and instant absolution ought to demonstrate the capacity to offer some over the last 16 months. brian: it's not axios. it's playbook that tells you, kellyanne, you now have an expanded role temporarily taking a more active role in communications strategy at the white house. would you say that's true? >> what i would say is i'm very happy to help in that regard. and i want to say something about the communications job here. there are and the press job. there are dozens of men and women who work incredibly hard who are not household names. who aren't part of the public of this duration. they are here every day working hard to advance the president's agenda. the shear volume and velocity of issues that this president puts forward, he is a man of action in a town of t

the only reason we know about these stories is the trump white house has been plagued by incessant leaksnd judging by his tweets the president has had enough. >> president trump on twitter, the so-called leaks coming out to have white house are an exaggeration put out by the foxe news media to make us look as bad as possible and are tray torse and cowards and we'll find out who they are. >> trevor: if i understand, trump says there is no problem and the people responsible for the problem he will personally disemboweled. you can't say there's no problem and you're solving it. everything works down there! then why are you popping viagra? i like the taste, minty! ( laughter ) president trump is made about this leak because it made the white house look worse than usual. >> a crude joke that turned out to be no laughing madder. kelly sadler set off a fire storm with an innocencive remark about john mccain. >> sadler was in a white house meeting last week when john mccain's opposition to c.i.a. nominee gina haspel came up. according to a white house source sadler joked about the 81-year-old se

this is donald trump's white house. le are behaving like donald trump. >> she apologized, bill. >> she didn't do it publicly. >> it feeds a perception. that's the thing how this dove tails into what members of the clergy will be at the jerusalem thing today. you wind up picking two things that are really offensive to other christians and nonchristians. yet they get picked to be the face of america's holy men at this jerusalem embassy. why pick people who are controversial this way, matt? it seems to accepted a message about what's okay and should be at odds with what the administration wants to predict. >> you and i are catholics and we have great disagreements with what they have said about my faith. this thing about we have theological differences has been going on 2,000 years. but we also have a kinship. the capital city, jerusalem, should house our embassy. and i'm happy that they're there. i think people of all faiths who agree they are a special city, it is the city most special to so many of our faiths, that they

benefitted from the delays of the russian sanctions implementation that had been ongoing with this trump white housei don't think the answer to this question, but the fact i can even ask that question shows how interconnected the trump empire is and that michael cohen does not just represent the stormy daniels side of the problems for donald trump but the whole mess. the russian, the money and the sex scandals. so this is a big story that i think we're -- i mean, let me say this. to the extent the story has changed so much in just 24 hours, the extent of how much money michael cohen was making, i think this story is going to be ongoing for the next couple of days. >> so seth, cohen has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. it ranges from u.s. health care policies, understanding the new administration and legal advice. i mean that's a wide range of topics for one man to be an expert on. do you think he's qualified to provide all these services? >> right, so hares an accountant, a doctor and a real estate broker all at the same time. you know, what i -- what my reporting has shown is that i'm no

continue and that they will also keep to the iran's nuclear deal the deal that was discarded by the trump white house. it's good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has canceled a highly anticipated summit with north korea's leader kim jong on trump blame the decision today on quote open hostility from pyongyang but the collapse of the talks will also will likely raise questions about the hawkish stance from within the white house stance which was seized upon by kim jong un in the meantime trump is conceding that an opportunity for peace may have been missed. on the recent statement of north korea decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore in june twelfth. while many things can happen and a great opportunity lies ahead potentially i believe that this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. before this suggests trump informed the world and north korea's leadership of his decision in a letter quite unusual for a president more accustomed to making major announcements on twitter this time he needed more than one hundred forty characters to convey

lou: do you know the other problem chris is we talk about the trump white house. he doesn't have a great political mind beyond his own, in that white house. he doesn't have people with guts , with passion, and point of fact what he's got a bunch of leakers he calls them traders and i think appropriately so. he has a group of people who are representing the establishment, the globalist elite he is beset from every quarter both there smirking smug confidences offering nothing but a very friendly couple of poison that will destroy the america first agenda that he has run so successfully on, which has animated his policies in the first year and a half to unprecedented historic achievement, and you know, a special place in hell is reserved for every one of those people in his white house. >> who are the president's friends and what have they done for him? lou: we don't even have to say lately. chris, thanks so much. chris farrell. thanks, lou. lou: the great thing about chris farrell and judicial watch we know what they're doing late lay and it's a lot for this country.

let's watch. >> arere you concerned about any of the former trump white house staffers? ow hope hicks, her name was thrown around and working with don, jr., on the statement about the trump tower meeting. are you worried about her statements? >> that would be cheap. >> laura: he's turning the screws on her. >> the justice department would have to step in and act. >> but listen, you have jim comey who told me he didn't know what this whole thing about michael flynn was. but lawmakers saying he told them that the fbi agents didn't believe that michael flynn was lying.g. yet, the screws were put on to michael flynn and he eventually pled guilty. it moved forward. so you can imagine the screws being put potentially to a lot of these other staffers who have done interviews. i think the politics of this is interesting. i can see the comfort that president trump has and rudy ruy being a fighter for him. michael horowitz may have a lot of details that have yet to be revealed. >> laura: your book, three days over moscow, the president, president regan, he goes to moscow in 1988. h

>> reporter: a new episode of president trump's white house version of "the apprentice." this time the presidential pardon edition. he is pardoning a darling to the far right, d s'souza and seem detached from reality. >> we are going dallas. we are going to houston. we are going to have a little fun today. >> reporter: president trump left washington for texas, sounded like he was contemplated a reality tv catch phrase, not you are fired, but you are pardoned. he started for a far right commentator, d'souza, accused of violating campaign laws. tweeting they tried to extinguish my american dream and destroy my faith in america. thank you, mr. trump, for restoring both. tweeting karma is a bitch, known for loading racial commentary. >> the white guy is not welcome at the multicultural picnic. >> this attack on barack and michelle obama. asked why he pardoned d'souza, he said i never met him. i called him last night, first time i spoke to him. i'm pardoning you. nobody asked me to do it. i read the newspapers, i saw him on television. former stars of the tv show "the apprent

what this leak did was reveal bad behavior in donald trump's white house and revealed behavior that, know, in any of our places of employment and in most white houses would be considered unacceptable but is apparently acceptable in the trump white house. that's what makes it so embarrassing. that's why they seem to be so much angrier about the leak and why the president reportedly wants to have the leaker fired, rather than ms. sadler who made the remark that started all this drama in the first place. >> jeremy, reporters are always asked, usually at social functions, how do you form a theory as to who the leakers are in a piece? and reporters have different answers. it has to do with figures of speech that may be familiar. some reporters adhere to the rule, anyone who was quoted on the record two paragraphs above is the off-the-record source two paragraphs below. forget your own work, of course. do you have any rules of the road in figuring out who leakers are in the news you read throughout the day? >> well, i think one of the more interesting developments of covering this administr

white house. and many are asking kelly sadler to say she's sorry, but many words from donald trump have been worse than what kelly sadler said. given the handling of the incident, take a look at the intersection between the white house deputy spokesperson hodeley gutly. listen to this interview on fox news. >> i didn't hear the comment. >> you heard it now. >> i can't say i was in the meeting. >> it sounds like she said it. was it kind? >> whether the comment was made, there are thing that is shouldn't be made public. >> reporter: we know, as you mentioned by the reporting from axios and our own reporting, that sarah huckabee sanders and like her smercedes said, megan her to apologize and sadler said she would. but she clearly hasn't. i reached out to megan mccain directly and she didn't want to share more than she said on "the view." heading into this coming week, keep an eye out for an apology and staffing changes in the white house. since the white house staffers came out with this comment -- >> what is the reaction to what has played out the last few days? >> reporter: the reaction across the

his communication staffer, kelly sadler, according to a white house official, she joked that the mccain's opposition to president trump'sick doesn't matter because he, this is a quote, is dying anyway. >> so far the white house has refused to apologize or acknowledge sadler's comment. abby phillip has the latest for us from washington. we want to be clear here, the white house has not denied that she said that, is that correct? >> reporter: they have not. they've really only characterized this whole incident as an unauthorized leak of private conversations that happened in the white house. what this means is that the white house isn't even denying that she said it. they're not addressing the sbants of her comments at all -- the substance of her comments at all. when asked whether or not this was a topdown issue, that president trump who has in the past criticized john mccain, accusing him of not being a war hero because he was captured during the vietnam war, whether the president himself is setting the tonight, listen to what -- the tone, listen to what sarah huckabee sanders said in response to that line of questionin

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