in the west wing lobby. are you on your phone or working on things or you just making puppy eyes at anybody who walks by you. are you really going for trying to capture someone's attention why you are sitting in the west wing lobby. or are you doing your own thing. i'm trying not to be noticed. in your trying not to be noticed because it's embarrassing. the clock goes. and it goes beyond your appointment. and then they try to say can i get you anything. can you do this. and then there was the issue of going to the bathroom you can wander almost everywhere i have sat in that west wing lobby. where is the bathroom that you can get to on x corded. when you walk in the door on the left you go through the door again it was the thing. and as you said before you don't have a press pass you have the blue appointment be in her which i guess it gives you some other kind of access to the bathroom. i had been wondering as someone who is in the media yourself who is been your favorite press secretary. i have only really

steve bannon is the smartest person in the west wing. steve bannon is the one who is the true believer, who has an agenda, who wants to push the president to do what he thinks he should do. steve bannon is smarter than jarvanka, smarter than priebus, smarter that spicer, smarter than everybody. bannon's gone. are you surprised, given the way he comes off -- i mean, he comes off as someone who really thinks he's smarter than he really is. are you surprised that he is no longer there? and not just no longer there, like, excommunicated. the mercers have even left him. >> i think that i saw steve come -- i do think steve is smart. and, again -- >> was he qualified to be in that job? >> excuse me? >> was he qualified to be in that job that he had? >> well, you know, steve is 64 years old and has never worked in politics or government before so i would say in no conventional terms was he qualified for this job. nevertheless, he had at least read a few books, so he's coming in -- the bar is very low here. [ laughter ] >> all right. i'm going to

speaking of immorality so you're sitting there in the west wing lobby, for hours on end -- and if u you've ever sat in the west we think lobby, you know that people are are walking through. back and forth, staffers are walking through. meetings that people who have meetings with senior staffs are coming in. it's one 689 of the ways various ways for west wing upstairs for the door anyway you pack is an easy pass through. now you -- were hoping that someone would take pity on you, and see you and take care of you. but sitting in that lobby, you see and hear an awful lot of hinges wool you're waiting everything. did you hear them talking about -- policy? just in general? policy? and then i'll hone in. >> yes. yes. and were they speaking about policy in any kind of substantive way? and what were they talking about? >> it's more -- i think the most riveting thing i heard -- most like oh, my god. is i heard tony blair and jared kushner talking about the problems of the middle east. and i heard jared kushner say, let me get this right. damn it we can solve this problem. [laughter] okay. and what

this is a ban on the west wing, you know, plenty of white house staffers can walk out of west wing any time and go to the pete's coffee down street and make a phone call or send a text message. i will point out this is a must different white house today in some ways -- okay, in some ways it's much different than even six months ago. there's no more bannon, priebus, spicer. a number of people will be giving their resignations at the one year mark if they have not already, like we've seen gina powell leave and omarosa step away. it is going to be different in year two. but of course the one consistency is president trump. he will remain the president. he sets the tone. and so i think things will change like use of cell phones and the personnel. obviously some very major things will stay the same. >> susan page what continues to strike me about the whole thing is, granted, they're railing against the author of the book today, but here was a guy who was allowed inside the white house for, again what appears to be the better part of 200 days, talks to hundreds, conducted on the record inter

visitors from using personal cell phones within the west wing.owever, the entirety of the administration is not contained within the west wing. people have wires, they go out to lunch. there are still other ways to call sources in this city and simply telling white house staffers who work within the west wing that they're not able to use cell phones will not ever necessarily stop leaking. so, this is a step in a direction they would have to take but it's not at all clear tonight whether or not this step will get them to where they want to be. >> and fitz some would say the writing has already been on the wall for a long time. remember sean spicer asking people to show them their phones and go through the phones and see who was leaking the information. this has been a long time coming and apparently kelly wanted this instituted awhile back. >> chief of staff john kelly. >> and it hasn't happened and they're saying next week will be the day. still there aren't any rules as to how this will exactly play out. will it stop the leaks? >> reporter: well

the white house defended the president as he tries to silence this tell-all book that portrays his west wing as meyered in dysfunction and in fighting. his personal lawyer just issued this letter to fire and if you're. t fury. the letter is against steve bannon. quoted throughout the book blasting the president's family and belittling, he, bannon was the one running the show. earlier the president dropped the curtain on that contention. >> did steve bannon be tray you, mr. president? any words about steve bannon? >> i don't know. he called me a great man last night, so he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. thank you all very much. thank you. i don't talk to him. i don't talk to him. that's just a misnomer. thank you. >> then just a couple minutes ago, white house press secretary rejected the book's accuracy big time especially condemning the assertion the president did not want to win the election. and calling for breitbart to think about firing steve bannon as chief executive. >> but there are numerous examples of falsehoods that take place in the book. i'll give you one just because

by michael wolff, he reports what he says he saw inside the white house nearly a year inside the west wing doing reporting he says he saw white house that was aimless and clueless, beset by feuds and really with senior staffers mocking the president. >> remember, this is on top of those quotes yesterday attributed to steve bannon, that left the president furious and disgusted, those words from the white house, going after the president's family, calling the meetings between donald trump, jr., paul manafort, jared kushner and russians unpatriotic and treasonous. today the president's former chief strategist is clearly trying to mend fences. listen. a. >> by the way, nothing will ever come between us and president trump and his agenda. don't worry about that. >> kaitlan collins at the white house. i'm not sure the president sees it that way, but what else can you tell us? >> yeah. especially after the president issued a very lengthy statement yesterday saying that steve bannon had lost his mind. poppy and john, the excerpts are continuing to dominate the news cycle and this book has not even

however, michael wolff did have a lot of access to get into the offices here at the west wing and had opportunities to speak with people in the president's inner circle. that's what he lays out in his book. he also talks about things like the president lacking curiosity and a willingness to read some of the materials that are prepared for him. that too seemed to be a part of why the president wanted to defend himself with his academic and business and tv career record as a counterweight to what people are hearing about, reading about and all the buzz that has emanated from this book, which certainly hit the newsstands and the bookstores and online with a particular fire and fury, to play on the book's title. so the president pushing back hard. also talking about some of the policy and political goals for the year ahead with the midterm races in just a matter of months now and those will be heated contests. he says more republicans are needed in congress at the same time. he said he wants to work with democrats on issues that range from infrastructure to immigration and that will be di

west wing dram a. president trump said to be furious over a new book detailing the chaos in the white house. new revelations and new responses. plus the president's lawyers telling his vired adviser steve bannon to stop talking and the publisher to stop production. this as the white house also bans staff and visitors from using personal cell phones. we will get new information. and fools, that's how president trump is describing those criticizing his rhetoric against north korea and now takes credit for north korea and south korea beginning to talk. we start with an unsettled white house reacting to bombshells in a new book new book with friendly senators calling foreign leaders and cracking down on cell phones in the west wing of the white house. our senior is in the briefing room and scheduled to talk in about a half hour and the approximate president's attorneys are fighting back against the book and the author of the book and steve bannon. tell our viewers what they have done. >> they certainly are

the truth of the matter is i was in the west wing and he wasn't in the west wing.dit that he wrote a salacious and fictionalised book that he characterised as non—fiction and he got himself to the top of the best—seller list. whatever your view... he made himself some money. let me tell you what he did. to be your view of michael wolff... he hurt you, stephen. he hurt me? yes, because you are a credible, honourable journalist and he is in your community. you went down in flames, having come into the office and indeed, you told a bbc colleague of mine that, you know, you were sick of the backstabbing. you said, "where i come from, i am a front stabber", implying that you would be straight, you would not indulge in the leaks, you saw those coming from priebus and bannon, all of those around you. and yet within days, you are making a late—night phone call to a new yorker reporter, and you were saying the most extraordinary things about your colleagues in the white house. let me stop you right there. you think i wouldn't say those things to those people directly? hold

probably the most preposterous hiring in the west wing?preposterous hiring in the west wing? i know what he wrote about me, god bless him. the truth was i was in the west wing and he wasn't. this guy is a terrible journalist. i and he wasn't. this guy is a terriblejournalist. i give him credit that he wrote a salacious and fictionalised book that he characterised as nonfiction. and he got himself to the top of the bestseller list. he made himself some money. he hurt you, stephen. he heard me? yes, because you are a credible journalist and he heard me? yes, because you are a crediblejournalist and he is in your community. you went down in flames having come into the office and indeed, you told a bbc colleague of mine that you were sick of the backstabbing. he said, where i come from, iam a backstabbing. he said, where i come from, i am a front stabber and implying that you would be straight, you would not indulge in the leaks, you would not indulge in the leaks, you saw those coming from previous and steve bannon, all of those around you ——

there are not reporters hanging around the west wing. so this makes it quite remarkable. it seems like the impression is wolf was just hanging out with bannon around the west wing. and then bannon was his escort for the hours at a time. >> matt, i hear you chuckling there, but i want to get to something broader. you mentioned three words critical to when you were in the white house. you said, respect, regard and trust. do you think based on what you're seeing from this book that people inside donald trump's west wing have respect, regard and trust for this president? >> certainly not in the way michael wolf writes about it. that is going to be the question of how credible the sources are. and savannah guthrie pressed him on his recordings and so forth. i think shannon's got it right about how you conduct an interview in the white house. but in our case. and just talking to other people close to president bush and president obama, there's a respect in align wmt the president and what he's trying to do, sure. there are dix agreements and you may say things constructively of

but first, the hurricane that blew through the west wing today. steve bannon turning on this white house, turning on the president's family. president trump's one-time chief strategist and close friend now calling that meeting at trump tower with don jr., jared kushner and that russian lawyer, quote, treasonous. tonight, the president is now firing back. abc's senior white house correspondent cecilia vega leading us off. >> reporter: former white house chief strategist steve bannon tonight out with bombshellac cue sagss about that now infamous trump tower meeting. donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort and a russian lawyer whom they were told had dirt on hillary clinton. in an explosive new book, bannon calls the sitdown treasonous, unpatriotic, and he says team trump, quote, should have called the fbi immediately. don jr. has downplayed the meeting. >> in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. for me, this was opposition research. >> reporter: his father has defended him. >> i think from a practical standpoint

west wing dram a.resident trump said to be furious over a new book detailing the chaos in the white house. new revelations and new responses. plus the president's lawyers telling his vired adviser steve bannon to stop talking and the publisher to stop production. this as the white house also bans staff and visitors from using personal cell phones. we will get new information. and

most of the people in the west wing actually didn't know who michael wolff was.didn't know his background and it's just like, i now, we are now learning that reince priebus took copious notes. there is not a chief of staff in the white house that wouldn't put their hand on an aid and say, hey, don't take notes. we've all heard that for the past 20, 25 years. so i'm hearing that reince priebus like a good student is taking copious notes in the white house. that's white house 101, you don't take copious notes for a variety of reasons and so they're letting michael wolff just hang in the west wing for months is, it means it's just amateur hour at the white house. nobody knows nothing in there. even about basic facts about media members. i could never figure out, i talked to michael wolff in this book, what? oh, yeah, they're letting me hang out and talking to steve. what? why? it's shocking that they were so ignorant about the fact that this guy wasn't going to write a puff piece on donald trump. >> joe, you put our finger and to many people the biggest unanswered q

michael wolff spent a year inside the west wing, and pretty stunning observations attributed to senior advisers to the president, and saying the president is like a child. >> and calling meetings between donald trump, jr., and russians, unpatriotic and treasonous. >> there you heard it. kaitlan collins at the white house. every hour that passes we get more from michael wolff about his time in the white house, these new revelations about how things operated or frankly didn't inside the west wing. >> the book has not been published and it's continuing to dominate the news cycle, with more excerpts coming out, and only six months in one quote from bannon quoted by michael wolff saying the daughter will bring down the father. as you know, bannon and ivanka trump were part of two very different factions here in the white house, and john and poppy, we are seeing the fallout continue to happen with the excerpts released in the book where the president's lawyers sending a cease and desist letter, and he was quoted as saying that he thought that meeting was treesenious. when the president has f

i've been on that couch in the west wing lobby. but i never really stayed kwropbtd my invitation. i was always escorted out at the end of the day. that was -- it is unusual certainly the access that he had. i'm really not aware that anybody has challenged the voracity of his reporting. and it's a devastating, detailed look at what has been an open secret since the beginning, which is that this white house is completely dysfunctional with a president who doesn't read and, you know, who is really intellectually and temperamentally unfit for the office, which makes kelly's job all the more important. >> i want to get to one particularly explosive comment from steve bannon discuss the meeting with the russian lawyer. he says even if you thought this was not treasonous, unpatriot or bad, and there's an expletive, i happen to think it's all of that, you should have called the fbi immediately. what is he trying to do here? >> look, i think it is another example of bannon, he really doesn't pull his punches. he's a pretty straight shooter about a lot of this stuff despite his relationship

jared meeting with russians treasonous, an explosive new account of what's happening inside the west wing and the reaction, total melt down. "the 11th hour" begins right now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news het quarters here in new york. i'm nicolle wallace sitting in for brian williams. day 349 of the trump administration, a day in which donald trump and steve bannon face-off in a war of harsh words and accusations. bannon one of the architects of trump's populous agenda during last year's campaign went onto serve as chief white house strategist before being dismissed in august of 2017. he's leveling stunning charges in a new book by michael wolf called "fire and fury." the author's account based on more than 200 interviews and a visit to the white house. among them is this quote from bannon about that trump tower meeting between donald trump, jr., jared kushner, paul manafort and several foreign russian nationals promising dirt on hillary clinton. quote, the three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside trump tower in

around noon, vince foster returned to his office in the west wing. he was seen by white house counsel bernard nussbaum and three assistants, including one whose part of the greater story wouldn't become clear for five years, a woman named linda tripp. tripp would later tell investigators foster seemed preoccupied. before leaving the building, without his briefcase, he said i'll be back. the events of the next 12 hours may forever be clouded in history but the catalyst that would lead from the whitewater land deal to one of the wildest political stories of all-time. been jimmy's longest. jimmy (shouting): james! he's survived record rain and a supplier that went belly up. so while he's proud to have helped put a roof over the heads of hundreds of families, he's most proud of the one he's kept over his own. brand vo: get the most out of your money, whether you're using quickbooks smart invoicing to get paid twice as fast or automatically tracking your mileage. smarter business tools for the world's hardest workers. quickbooks. backing you. ♪ ♪ohhhh, ou

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shell shocked white house is honkering down, banning the use of personal cell phones within the west wing, citing security concerns. but multiple sources say it's about limiting leaks to reporters. >>> and with the special counsel already under attack, two conservative republican congressman are calling on jeff sessions to step down. saying he's lost control of the justice department and the russia investigation. i'll speak with democratic senator richard bloomen that will of the judiciary committth. >> the publisher doesn't seem nervous, just moved up the release of the book to tomorrow. >> reporter: president trump sounds like a man who couldn't care less about steve bannon. >> did steve bannon betray you? >> i don't know, he called me a great man last night, he obviously changed his tune pretty quick. >> reporter: but the president's lawyers are sending a different message to bannon threatening to sue the former white house chief strategist over his comments in michael wolff's book fire and fury saying legal action is eminent. add that to the cease and desist letter to the editor. publ

around noon, vince foster returned to his office in the west wing. by white house counsel bernard nussbaum and by three assistants, including one whose part in the greater story wouldn't become clear for another five years, a woman named linda tripp. tripp would later tell investigators that foster seemed preoccupied. she brought him lunch in his office, and before leaving the office, without his briefcase, he said, "i'll be back." the events of the next 12 hours may forever be clouded in mystery, but they are the catalyst that would lead from the whitewater land deal to one of the wildest political stories of all time. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,... ...isn't it time to let the real you shine through? maybe it's time for otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months,... ...with reduced redness,... ...thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has... ...no requiremen

week, the use of all personal devices for both guests and staff will no longer be allowed in the west wing.

. >> there are a few koipss circus lating in the west wing. when this comes out tomorrow, they'll be responding to more revelations. >> we mentioned at the top of the broadcast. the headline, obstruction inquiry shows trump's struggle to keep grip on russia investigation. one of the reporters joins us now. what have you learned? >> i would like to say that this is primarily mike schmidt, my colleague's reporting. he came up with very detailed reporting about how mike mcgann went to the attorney general and asked him not to recuse from the rush probe which we know jeff sessions did without telling the president in advance. made him very angry and set up a chain reaction. the idea that mcgann would go do this knowing it was problematic is striking. when he was going to recuse himself, the president was very angry. felt that he needed to be between himself and the, a g. bobby kennedy protected kennedy. the timing is quite notable. >> wait a minute. >> i want to you repeat that. four days before comey was fired an aide of sessions? >> yes. looking

he had his plan for when he got out of the west wing. he was going to run these insurgent far right candidates throughout the primaries and then say he had dreams of coming back and harboring trump's re-election campaign. there has been an act two none resolved around being in the white house. it did revolve around having president trump near his side. so now without him and some of the financial support, we're looking to see what happens next for steve bannon. >> i do want to ask for another new development, this time concerning hillary clinton. jeff, we have the justice department relaunching an investigation into whether the clinton foundation send donations, this in exchange for favors when clinton was secretary of state. trump called for an investigation into clinton, the parades the foundation, all of it. did he have an impact if reopening this inquiry, do you think? >> reporter: it's hard to say. that as you can do with any investigation is look at the facts. the facts are that president trump has called repeatedly for the justice

and how the author of fire and fury worked his way into donald trump's west wing. we will talk to the reporter who first broke these details as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. and good evening once bane from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 363 of the trump administration and the former white house chief strategist steve bannon remains in the news as the man they want to talk to in the russia matter. one day after mueller subpoenaed bannon to appear before a grand jury a source close to him said he is cooperating with the special counsel and will be interviewed by mueller's team instead of testifying before a grand jury per se. the date has yet to be determined. steve bannon spent nearly 10 hours in a closed door hearing in the house intelligence

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greg: they can no longer make calls from within the west wing walls. [laughter] according to a memo issued by a chief of staff john kelly, personal cell phones will be and within the west wing of the white house. the ban intends to protect classified information and to keep staffers from using personal phones for official business. something that historically has caused problems for some people. [laughter] she always gets applause wherever she goes. the very clever media suspicious of the timing and asked sarah sanders if that michael will look at anything to do with john kelly's new edict. >> do response to revelations in this book? >> absolutely not. that's an absolute ridiculous characterization. greg: do they think anyone leaking info is stupid enough to call from the west wing as opposed to their house or starbucks? the bathroom? anyway, don't worry the media the leaking probably won't stop and leave the nation's classified information will be more secure or insecure as this. >> do you want to come in? oh my god. he is nibbling. >> lock the door.

michaelwolff given access to the west wing at all? michael wolff says he has.sting thing, having been to new york, is it is like donald trump is on the apprentice everyday. there is a new reality show and he is the star. he lost it. he says i went to a very —— from a very successful businessman to tv star and president on my first try. that would qualify as genius. the fact that he now knows that people are leaking stuff left right and centre in the white house and keynote that he is now saying that michael wolff didn‘t do the interviews and yet he has got so much evidence that he has gathered... you have a turnover of the very senior staff, what to expect? sloppy steve? this is something that every prime minister has to look at when they do a reshuffle. everybody who gets thrown out, they talk to the newspapers the next week. steve bannon has obviously been a influence behind this book. he thinks he created this president and is very angry. i think that as long as we are talking about him, donald does not mind. and when we have brexit coming up, this is the fr

has any war inside the west wing ever come anywhere close to this? >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. defying the advice of his aides and the generally accepted belief that giving a scandal more oxygen only serves to further ignite the flames, president trump is lighting up twitter today with a new line of attack against his former chief strategist steve bannon, whom he has now dubbed sloppy steve. the attempt to change the subject and mr. bannon's style and the president's unique gift for nasty branding does not, of course, erase the book, "fire and fury" by author michael wolff that has so upset the president. the book contains quotes from bannon assailing donald trump, junior as unpatriotic and treasonous for his meeting with the russian lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton. raising questions about what president trump was viewed by members of his own legal team as attempted to object justice and imperil his own presidency. "the new york times" today reports that president trump ordered white house lawyer don mcgahn to try to stop attorne

but never did the west wing staff turn on him or one another. i cannot imagine -- i cannot come up with an analogy in the bush era to the sort of politics of personal destruction among one another. and i cannot adequately articulate and many of the conversations were off the record but the reaction today. not one person called me and said donald trump deserves better. he should fire everyone. not one person. and the staffer in me sort of fumed at what steve is saying. who is looking out for the country? >> in donald trump, no one has loyalty to him, even those who are closest to him. at the end of the day, they have no loyalty. i think back to the george w. bush white house and even in the days of the leak investigation, the aftermath of hurricane katrina, everyone was so loyal to the mission, to the man, to the cause, to service. and there wasn't this back-fighting going on where literally knives are pulled out at the trump white house for everyone. and that's something that's captured in this book about how so many of these top advisers demean

he made repeated visits to the west wing.t does that tell you about just the administration allowing a writer to come in in these early days and have free access in the fact that they apparently believed he would write a glowing book about the administration. >> in the midst of the constant attacks on the fake news media he's in the west wing. >> i think it's arrogance to a great degree. i think it's inexperience probably to an even greater degree. >> it doesn't happen without the president. the president was his own communication strategist, right. >> he's a reality tv star, the more publicity the better. >> sara sanders tried to say that it wasn't believable, the president only spoke with a few minutes with the author of this book. but in reality they gave him unfettered access. >> they did. >> he spoke to a significant amount of people and he had first hand account of a lot of things there. >> i think they're lucky donald trump doesn't read books because if he were to read this book he would discover that people didn't res

wolff was given extraordinary access to the west wing early in the trump administration. >> we should note, while some of his reporting has been corroborated, some errors have been identified, but some of his details stunning and incriminating per tray the president as erratic, easily distracted and uninterested. overnight -- >> i authorized zero access to the white house, turned him down many times. for author of phony book i never spoke to him. look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and sloppy steve. that of court is a new nickname for steve bannon. the book quotes steve bannon saying some harsh things about trump's family and inner circle. >> sloppy steve stuck. secretary sanders called the book complete fantasy. she was forced to respond about the president's mental fitness. >> it's disgraceful and laughable. if he was unfit, he probably wouldn't be sitting there and wouldn't have defeated the most qualified group of candidates the republican party has ever seen. this is an incredibly strong and good leader. >> as for the book's direct quotes, from sloppy steve or s

i know you are hearing about what's going on behind the scenes in the west wing.l us in. >> as you mentioned everything exploded about this time yesterday inside the white house because of the quotes that began to come out from that pretty intense book from steve bannon on the record talking about the president's children and specifically what he was -- what the president, we're told, was most upset about was with the quotes that had to do with russia. saying that what don junior, what jared kushner and paul manafort did, in taking the meeting that they did in trump tower, in june of 2016, was treasonous. and one of the reasons was that something that hit very raw nerve, ana, because we were already doing reporting, kevin, our white house producer and i, were already looking into why we -- people close to the president thought he had issued a series of really kind of unbelievable tweets, 16 in all in about a 24-hour span, that threatened national security and threatened global relationships and really went kind of over the top according to many people close to the

the picture it paints of life in the west wing is unsparing — allegations of marital strain, of tearsion and improvisation. and at the epicentre of every storm, donald j trump. i will tell you the one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common — they all say he is like a child. and what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification. it's all about him. and the gravest charge of all — wolff alleges that a number of his unnamed sources told him that the president was mentally unfit to remain in office, a charge that brought this response from the president's spokeswoman. it's disgraceful and laughable. if he was unfit, he probably wouldn't be sitting there and wouldn't have defeated the most qualified group of candidates that the republican party has ever seen. the president has been on twitter to rubbish the book saying: but that's not how michael wolff remembers it. i absolutely spoke to the president, whether he realised it was an interview or not, i don't know, but it certainly was not off the record. the author says he stands by every word. although wit

the president starts spending more time in the residents than the west wing.be himself and in a personal sense feels restrict bid john kelly. >> kaitlan collins, thank you very much. >>> breaking developments in not just one but two sexual harassment stories today. hillary clinton stepping in to save the job of a campaign staffer accused of sexual harassment and also the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley and reports she had an affair with the president. a place with 24-hour fvalet servicee and a boutique salon a place with all day arts and crafts it even has a day spa a place that's so much like home, because well... it is home home instead senior care when you need personalized care in the comfort of home. whhe's happy.im? your family's finally eating vegetables thanks to our birds eye voila skillet meals. and they only take 15 minutes to make. augh! (family giggling) oh my. birds eye voila! so veggie good. i'm the one clocking in when you're clocking out. sensing your every move and automatically adjusting to help you stay effortlessly comfortable. i c

officially the memo says this is about security in the west wing, but make no mistake about it, this is about cracking down on leaks. >> all right, nothing but pens and pad in the west wing from here on out. jon karl, thank you. >>> we turn next here to the battle over immigration and the dreamers, in particular. the nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought here as children by their parents. overnight, a federal judge preventing president trump from taking action to end protections for them, at least for now. 24 hours ago, the president inviting cameras in, signaling a willingness to work with democrats on the dreamers before anything else. but tonight, the white house with a major clarification on that. here's abc's mary bruce, up on the hill tonight. >> reporter: tonight, congressional negotiators say they're closing in on a deal to protect the nearly 800,000 dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. senator, are you making progress? >> yeah. feeling pretty good we're going to have a proposal. >> reporter: meeting with republicans and democrats, the p

looking at the comportment in this majestic place, the west wing of the white house, they couldn't be more vile than if they're monkeys hurling excrement at each other in a cage. >> "the new york times" reporting tonight comes after an article michael wolff published today explaining how he got access to the trump white house and adding some more detail about what he picked up there. and yet, it is -- one thing he wrote this morning i think is -- makes a lot more sense as you read "the new york times" article tonight when you see the president's reaction in "the new york times" article to his attacks on jeff sessions and so forth, what michael wolff wrote this morning, about people in the white house, no one expected him to survive mueller. whatever the substance of the russia collusion, trump in the estimation of his senior staff did not have the discipline to navigate a tough investigation, nor the credibility to attract the caliber of lawyers he would need to help him. and natasha, in the accounts of "the new york times" tonight, that is certainly someone who does not have the disc