killing terrorists says poetess and one of his most more forceful best lines of address the washington post white house bureau chief philip brucker also heaped praise on the trump tweeting tonight as a new president from big knowledge ing of flip flop and take them talking about gravity of office history and substance. but despite the the cheerleading and back patting going on around capitol hill today now that president trump has firmly committed himself to the joys of the military industrial complex let's leave it to former congressman ron paul out of texas to cut through the fog of war and state would be jake tapper's and lindsey graham's of the world refuse to believe that more killing is not the road to peace. so just what road are we at let's find out and start watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the body. like you know that i got. this. week. was over on the watching the hard science i robot the dogs out of the wall it right oh great but are going to do something and afghanistan are killing terrorists killing terrorists i mean i'm sorry and as we know it you know what year is it two

killing terrorists says poetess in one of his most more forceful best lines of address the washington post white house bureau chief philip brucker also heaped praise on the trump tweeting tonight as a new president from big knowledge ing of flip flop and take them talking about gravity of office history and substance but. despite the the cheerleading and back patting going on around capitol hill today now that president trump has firmly committed himself to the joys of the military industrial complex let's leave it to former congressman ron paul out of texas to cut through the fog of war and state will be jake tapper's and lindsey graham's of the world refuse to believe that more killing is not the road to peace. so just what road are we. let's find out and start watching the hawks. get the. real deal with. the blood of. like you know what i got. this. week. was over on the watching the hard science i rolled but my dad's out of the wallet right oh great but we're going to do something and i've got a standard killing terrorists killing terrorists i mean i'm sorry and as we know it you know what year is

with us, michael steele, due to the president's travel to new york, washington post white house reporter ashley parker is able to join us here in the studio for the first time ever this evening. also political reporter and moderator of washington week on pbs, robert costa. ashley, this falls into a pattern in that while the words today may be junled more egregious than most, than all. the president says something that creates a hubbub. maybe the next day, sign og f a staff intervention, he says something to clear it up. and then on a rare occasion you get what we get today. no one can argue that donald trump that we heard from today. >> u was struck by something that the vice president in argentina said. this was president trump off teleprompter in an area where he's most comfortable, the lobby of his gilded tower doing what he does -- i don't want to say best because that implies a positive connotation. but riffing and speaking his mind unfiltered. >> and if you ask him, he'll say that's what got me this job, that's what got me to the dance. >> he will say that. that's one of the reason

according to sources at the "washington post," white house staff members are trying to build a case that

according to sources at the "washington post," white house staff members are trying to build a case thatef of staff reince priebus, is the administration leaker by building a diagram to show president trump that he'll understand. here's that diagram. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] "so what are you trying to say?" [ light laughter ] first lady melania trump announced today that her first solo international trip will be to toronto, canada. the purpose of her trip hasn't been announced. but i'm guessing, sanctuary? [ laughter and applause ] the publisher of hillary clinton's upcoming memoir announced today that the title of her book will be the statement "what happened?" [ light laughter ] well that's the censored version. [ cheers and applause ] in a recent interview, canadian prime minister justin trudeau, revealed that the he watched clips from the popular tv show "the west wing" to prepare for debates. [ light laughter ] while donald trump prepared for debates by watching "friday the 13th." [ laughter ] >> that was the -- the slot that the obamacare -- ♪ [ laughter and applause ]

white house. steve bannon had been on with trump officially for just about a year before his exit today. for more on the bannon era and exit, i'm joined by "washington postwhite house reporter ashley parker. she's also an msnbc contributor. ashley, talk to me about whose decision this was, because it sounds like he was fired at the request of general kelly with a sign off by the president. then he said he resigned and then some people reported and then there was talk that this was a mutually agreed upon thing. what happened? >> so to be clear, nothing happens in this white house without president trump signing off on it, so it was approved by president trump. but this was at its core a general kelly decision. i think it's an open question how successful he will be. we saw tuesday's news conference as an example of some of the challenges he still faces. but this was a clear sign of his power, his authority. he came in. his mandate and his mission was to staunch sort of white house infighting and factionization. bannon was one of the people he was particularly frustrated with. he didn't have any personal an mouse towards him, but bannon repeatedly refused

phil rucker is the "washington post" white house bureau chief. steve schmidt not in utah today, he is in the building, a republican strategist, and joel bennenson, a senior advisor to the hillary clinton campaign. all three lucky enough msnbc political analysts. steve, we've got to start with you. president trump didn't weigh in, he did weigh in, and even if he did, no biggie. >> it reminds me of the ward cleaver episode of the beaver, when the beaver met with the russian intelligence operatives and got caught in a scandal with a special prosecutor and like any dad, ward -- listen, once again -- >> who's eddie haskell in this? >> right? once again we have -- we have a lie that unravels on national television from the white house. so we have all these discussions about general kelly and his ability to impose order on the staff and the white house. certainly they could use a healthy dose of fear, discipline from a retired four-star general, but the main issue that he's got to get a handle on is the nonstop lying, which is abnormal in the extreme in

"the washington post" reports that white house advisers now worry that the president's direct involvement leaves him needlessly vulnerable to allegations of a coverup. >> i wasn't involved in the statement drafting at all, nor was the president. i'm assuming that was between mr. donald trump jr., between don jr. and his lawyer. >> reporter: after vehemently denying that president trump was involved last month, one of the president's private attorneys refutes "the washington post" report in a statement saying, "apart from being of no consequence, the corkizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent." these stunning revelations coming after the president vowed there was no chaos at the white house, tweeting that it was a great day, despite another major shakeup. >> i have no doubt that he will be an absolutely superb chief of staff. >> reporter: communications director anthony scaramucci ousted by the new chief of staff general john kelly, after only days on the job. scaramucci's brief tenure marred by a vulgar tirade about his white house colleagues and amplified in a bizarre in

they probably would have anyway but no request came from the white house to ask the washington post to not publish. it's a strange circumstance when someone from the white house is not asking for the conversation to be off included innd its the things being complained that it was a breach of trust when the journalist reported the conversation. there are things the administration can do, right question mark they can body search people attending meetings. is noan make sure there electronics in the rooms. they can make sure that people don't take notes on things. there is a lot the administration could be doing. is an fbi task force the right way curing this disease? >> it's a tool and it's probably meant as a warning as jeff sessions said, don't do it because you may get indicted. administration was also very concerned about leaking. they too took a strong stance against it but an aggressive to truly the inability stop the flow of information from people who have it is a very difficult thing. a task force or any other method is probably not going to be particularly effective. it really c

major breaking news from the white house tonight. "the washington post" is reporting that president trump asked attorney general jeff sessions about closing the case against political ali, sheriff joe arpaio, the man the president pardoned last evening. >>> at first the disaster in texas, and dire warnings of potential floods to come. tropical storm stalled on shore within range of the flood-prone city of houston. up to two feet of rain in some areas before this all over. the monster storm has already left behind a wide swath of destruction in rock port, texas. some homes and businesses are piles of debris now and more severe weather is expected soon. this video shows a large funnel cloud rolling through a neighborhood in cyprus, texas. new reaction from president trump tweeting wonderful coordination between federal, state and local governments in the great stephie texas, team work. record setting rainfall, unquote. we checked with the weather center, no records set just yet. 75% of the rain is yet to come. let's get started with our special coverage of

chris cillizza, cnn politics reporter, abby phillips, white house reporter for the "washington post" and cnn white house reporter jeremy diamond is with us as well. chris, it looks like that speech last night, very disciplined, very organized. you can criticize it, praise it, but it does seem to have the influence of his new white house chief of staff, general john kelly? >> well, john kelly has been in the job for about three weeks now. we've seen a lot of undisciplined donald trump between then and now. including his comments about charlottesville. >> but the speech was disciplined? >> it was. he stayed on message, on prompter. odd if he went way off prompter. usually off prompter when interacting with folks as oppose to just giving a speech. what we've seen, though, with donald trump is a series of false starts. a series of theoretical reset buttons pushed only to have a day later, two days later, a week later, either via twitter or a rally, him return back to sort of who we know him to be as a candidate, which is he likes to play with the crowd. he likes to throw red meat to his b

we have to remember the clinton white house with just as much turmoil in their first six months. i remember a front page washington postthe white house advance team taking marine one, the president's helicopter to congressional country club to play a rountd of golf. it's only six months in. the president still has three and a half years of his agenda. that's a lot of time. he can regain momentum, put in place a team that can get things done to make america great again. >> i have to say to coin a phrase that the clinton white house was a well-oiled machine kpar compared to the first six months of this administration. as far as leaks are concerned, the truth is leaks are inevitable. national security leaks are obviously unfortunate and can be danger out b dangerous but the way you minimize is pretty simple. you tell the truth and run a functional competent white house staff that engenders loyalty instead of fear. the you don't do it by strapping people to polygraphs. >> also for kids by the way. >> thi ichkk across the board. chris, thank you for the truly reminder. >>> 22,000, never before seen dow territory. will we se

that is the story the washington post has reported. the white housended saying it not accurate. this is the response. the statement that donjunior issued is true, there is no inaccuracy in it. the president weighed in at any father would based on the limited information he had and this is all discussion frankly of no consequence. just to remind you, the explanation we were given at the time by donald trumpjunior was explanation we were given at the time by donald trump junior was that he had met this woman in trump tower to discuss a ban on us adoptions in russia. that version did not last long and the press were already on to the real story so donald trump junior released this string of e—mails. it showed as he was offered damaging information about hillary clinton and said it was part of the russian effort to support the trump campaign. president trump has always maintained that would be a normal thing to do to try to get dirt on your opponents so how damaging is this washington post report? we can bring in our correspondent. it seems to me that the

white house. frances? >> wow, thank you so much. tracy potts for us in washington, d.c. >>> breaking news is bringing more legal scrutiny on the white house this morning, after "the washington post" reported that it was the president who dictated his son's misleading first statement on that controversial meeting with a russian lawer in 2016. keeping track of us nbc's ron allen. >> reporter: what's most important about this story is that it raises the question whether president trump himself tried to mislead the public and investigators about that meeting and whether the president is involved in a coverup. the meeting happened during the height of the campaign. several russians with times to the kremlin. and a statement released by donald trump, jr. first said -- >> reporter: according to "the washington post," president trump personally dictated that statement. a claim not independently confirmed by nbc news. in july, the president's lawyer said mr. trump had nothing to do with it. >> let me say this, the president -- i do want to be clear, the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. it came from donald trump, jr. >> reporter:

communications message that the new white house chief of staff, john kelly, seems to be controlling tonight, the white house is referring all questions about "the washington post" article to the outside lawyers, who are defending the president and his son and his son-in-law in the special prosecutor's investigation. we can only wonder how the white house communications team would have responded if anthony scaramucci was still in charge of white house communications even though he had never actually been hired by the white house. he was the only white house communications director who was in charge of all the communications without having been hired. friday night on this program, i said that the incoming white house chief of staff would face a very clear challenge on monday, today. >> i think we have a test for general kelly on day one, and that is exactly how many minutes does it take him to yank those white house credentials off the neck of anthony scaramucci because if scaramucci works in that white house, by definition general kelly has failed to control that white house. >> and he passed. general kelly passed that test today. it was the easiest test that a

public because of the white house whistle blowers the transcripts of phone calls between president trump and two world leaders have been the leaks and published by the washington post i've never seen a white house leak as much against itself as this the latest and most explosive leak conversation transcripts between trump and the leaders of mexico when australia seems to have been the final straw provoking our region even among critics who say a line has been crossed is not shared this president. in terms of the leaks with the large present trump or not no president can do business with their phone calls from the leak to the washington post terribly damaging to our country not just to donald trump politically who i don't support but to our country that it does is it crimps conversations with foreign leaders all the way down the chain where we saw the leaks like this under the obama administration and we saw only one or two when they were related to the iraq war in the bush administration so clearly the press leaks only what they want to leak because i refuse to believe these are the only times that they've ever had some do gooder and them something that they think

so the washington post says that the white house doesn't have enough capable experts on russia and a more compared to reagan times what do you think are people who are behind the russian foreign policy in washington misinformed well i'd like to be. tactful about this but i do think we have a lack of such things at least recently we did recently much more recently. no i don't think right now that we have i don't like the word expert but i mean people who really know you and who know the language who know your history and who feel your history i don't feel we have very many like that right now in official positions now when you start working with president reagan he actually reached out to you because you wanted to work with people that weren't part of his inner self circle washington experts right do you think the current administration is ready to make an effort like that.

white house. >> tells me no matter whether you like the president, he still turns out a show and it's a production with him. >> sandra: let's talk ab these white house leaks. this latest "washington posting the transcripts of trump's phone calls with foreign leaders. arguably very dangerous not just for this white house but for the country. >> absolutely. this is one of the things democrats shouldn't get behind. it's one of the things republicans are upset about. >> sandra: democrats shouldn't get behind. they shouldn't go after the leakers. >> no, no. democrats should not support leaking of this type. it's hurtful -- >> sandra: that's the question, right, guy? is anybody ever going to be found accountable for this. we know jeff session will be announcing a major crackdown on leaking tomorrow. there's pressure on him to get something done. >> people ought to be held accountable. what's interesting here is a lot of people in the press, i think, and on the democratic side sort of roll their eyes when the president sounds off about leaks. but here you have private candid conversations between world leaders with no real news value aside from maybe embarrassing the president getting leaked

of trump properties jonathan o'connell writes in the "washington post" trump international hotel in washington, d.c. has quickly become a white house annex since the election. "trump as leader of the republican party has showcased the hotel as a destination of choice for gop loyalists. ." the post spent every single day in the month of may and reporters saw a range of events hosted by foreign groups with policy priorities to republicans. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i sort of have a heart for the marriott across the street and the willard hotel down the block. it must it be really difficult for them top compete and this would be the same as if there was an obama hotel four years ago and before that a bush country club. it's really challenging for anyone in any of those businesses in these locales to do business as well as trump does. this is why we alwaned full disclosure of his holdings and ongoing disclosure of his financial condition. it's -- i recall the time that he appeared with all those file folders piled on a table and we all knew that most of them were empty. we still are waiting for good information about the r

in the public because of the white house whistle blowers the transcripts of phone calls between president trump and two world leaders have been published by the washington post i've never seen a white house leak as much against it so the latest and most explosive leak conversation transcripts between trump and the leaders of mexico and seems to have been the final straw provoking outrage even among critics who say a line has been crossed. this proves. in terms of the leaks. on the train well we saw in a leaks like this under the obama administration and we saw only one or two when they were related to the iraq war in the bush administration so clearly the press leaks only what they want to leak because i refuse to believe these are the only times that they've ever had some do gooder and them something that they think should be published so in the sense that the press is selective i think that they have risen to the level of you being able to demonstrate malice being that they are not others and if they can show malice they should be held responsible absolutely despite the reported risks to national security in this leaking pipe of information continues to dr

washington post reporting quote experts say that washington would be the appropriate place to convene a grand jury to examine actions taken by trump since he became president and took up residence at the white house. many of the potential crimes mueller's teams are investigating would have occurred in the district, such as allegations that trump aides or advisers made false statements in disclosure records or lied to federal agents. tonight lawyers if are the president have been united in their response. three members have responded to the news with versions of the same statement saying quote, we have no reason to believe that president trump is under investigation. joining us now is one of the reporters that broke this story, dell weber and he covers the white house for "the wall street journal." congratulations on your scoop and thanks for being here. let's go through a few of the things that you brought out in this piece. the first one is the idea that the fact of this separate grand jury in d.c. means that mueller's team has dug in for the long haul, if you could explain. >> yeah, they had already been, as you said, using a grand jury out of the eastern district of virginia that was investiga

white house did not push back or ask them not to publish. and did not have any problem, apparently, at least, after they checked with the white house, according to "the washington post." >> that's right. but as you pointed out, even trump's most ardent critics have condemned this because they do say, you know, it has the potential to chill private conversations. it's hard to defend. but there have been a number of other leaks of classified information that have revealed important information about the russian investigation. we know that the white house didn't act after sally yates went to them rising concerns about michael flynn until a leak to "the washington post" about intercepted conversations. classified leaks have played an important role in bringing to light, you know, public information. the other thing i'd say, it's significant we learned today that the justice department has tripled the number of leak investigations since the obama administration. recall, obama was heavily criticized for going after leakers. i'm not convinced it was an obama policy. it just so happened a lot of cases landed at that time and they prosecuted a number of people for leaking. u

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