there was a time when white house pet messed up the plans for the white house cook.this involved a dog name links. he was a setter that was on the scene. according to white house reports, on the morning of marcf fried eggs and ham set out for the resident staff. the white house cook made this and stepped away to do something else. when they returned they were all gone. they realize this was because lynx had helped himself to a nice hearty meal. the press had a lot of fun with it and staged a photo of links eating ham and eggs off the plate. the cook was upset so soon after it was announced that lynx was leaving the white house to spend more time with his family. and that paved the way for the more familiar dog. one thing that was interesting is i find overtime these cooks fit into three boxes. they were culinary artists who are celebrated in their time. if you know anything about the food reputation of the fdr web white house is not great. people would have second thoughts of weather to come to a state dinner. i would have to admit i was engaging in race pry because

>> and in the background, this like every word from the white house comes under investigation, the white house under the specter of russia. >> while i hope the white house is not worried about any of the investigations they should be focusing on helping the president do his job. and that is the discipline that should be at the white house. let the russia investigation take the path that it's going to take. everybody who is working at the white house, unless they're engaged in something that the special counsel is paying attention to they should be focusing on helping the president and let the chips fall where they may in this investigation. >> i have one more question on this statement, only because it's so unusual. aren't you curious in this chain, where it came from, the names, mcmasters, and pompeo? >> if they have not been part of the communications chain -- >> our remarks at the top of the broadcast, when you hear us we hear every night the president at 8:55 a.m., said this on twitter, it reversed and caused this to happen, do you have your arms around this quite yet? >> i don't thi

the more people who work with the white house -- >> they're not working with the white house!was a chance for a revisit, that to me is a signal from a president saying i sat down with my advisors, a pros and cons, they've come one the position that maybe a new type of agreement needs to step forward and let's work with the community as a whole, whether it's local, state, or state? >> you can't negotiate with yourself. trump has said basically it took 25 years for nations to come together and now he wants to start something on his own. nobody wouldn't to do that. in fact, he has created the biggest power vacuum on the planet by calling that press conference and now you see china rushing forward, california rushing forward, and what he's actually done is give a tremendous gift to his opponents. you see the emerge engs of what you can call a green growth alliance where cities and states and businesses and tribes and governments are coming together, going around the president of the united states. he gave away power. the one thing nobody's talked about is that he also threw his ow

nicole wallace said that women in this white house should not find this acceptable. i think that's a really important point here. >> listen, thanks to all of you. appreciate your thoughts tonight. up next house investigators threaten to subpoena the white house in the russia investigation as susan rice agrees to testify. top democrat of the intelligence committee is my guest. >> and the secretary of state's frustrations with the white house coming out in a very public way. we will tell you exactly what happened. ...it starts a chain reaction... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that's the power of and. when you're close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with

wolf. >> jim acosta reporting from the white house. let's get more from congressman jeffries from new york is joining us, a member of the judiciary committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for being here, wolf. >> i want to get your thoughts on the president's climate decision in a few moments but first let me get your reaction to news that the white house it is consideration blocking testimony from the formerer fbi direct orlt james comey by invoking executive privilege. they would likely node a court order to do that. are you worried that the white house will try to prevent comey from giving his account? >> it would not surprise me if the white house attempted to invokes executive privilege. this is a white house who has specialized in obstruction, obfuscation and trying to keep information away from the american people but i think there is no basis for executive privilege to be invoked and no threat of a court actually agreeing with the white house for one simple reason, that the executive privilege has been waived t

comes from a white house under investigation, a white house under the specter of russia. >> well i'm hoping the white house isn't worried about any of the investigations. they should be focusing on helping the president do his job. and that's the discipline that i think should be at the white house. let the russian investigation take the path it's going to take. everybody working at the white house, unless they were engaged in something that the special counsel is paying attention to, they should be focusing on helping the president and let the chips fall where they may in the investigation. >> one more question on the statement, only because it's so unusual. aren't you curious in the chain who signed off on this? where it came from, namesic like mcmaster wab o, mattis and pompeo. >> if they haven't been part of the communications chain hopefully they were part of the message chain even before the communication went out. yes, i can't imagine that there would be a memo like this that hadn't been vetted by the state department, the defense department, the intelligence community, be

enemy of the white house. but most reporters want to be fair and accurate and they tri-very hard just to be that. >> that's exactly right, anderson. if you're talking about the press briefing or the back and forth with donald trump's own relationship with the press, there is a healthy giving back -- give back and forth with the press. they always want more access, say, when you're in the white house, you're never going to give them as many press conferences but the reality here is that if he was at 55% approval rating and had just passed a tax reform package and a health care bill and was traveling around the country raising money for republican candidates, there would probably be good press coverage. there's a reason why there's not good press coverage. it's because there isn't good news to cover and that's how the media works and that's pretty simple. >> there's also fbi investigations and special counsel and numerous congressional investigations as well. >> yes. >> which is not made up by the press. these t

pet messed up plans with a dog named weeks on the scene in according to white house reports the morning of march march 1930 for friday san ham were set up for the resident staff and then the coach stepped away to do something else when they returned there were all gone then they realized because weeks have helped themselves to a nice meal actually the press had a lot of fun with this and staged a photo but the white house cook was very upset soon afterwards a was announced he was leaving the white house to spend more time with his family. [laughter] and then came the more familiar dog. so one thing that was interesting is that over time they fit into three boxes as a culinary artist so if you know, anything about the fdr white house it was not great people would discuss if they should come to a state dinner so to engaging in race pride i am thinking they're all african-americans on staffre's t but the blade was john henry data into lillian parks inhe her diary sheds light that the african-americans who are the cooks would do their of baying and henry had that would come but behi

we've covered the white house. there have been many, many times where there have been off-camera briefings. that's okay. but not at the expense of and in lieu pretty much across the board of on-camera briefings. it's not about whining, it's been television production. it is about transparency, end of story. >> your reaction, eugene? >> yeah. my first thought is that many of the questions that journalists ask the trump administration in these brief regulars questions that the american people asking them. they've contacted us directly via social media. we get questions all the time in our tweets, ask this, ask that. we have an administration led by a man who said he enjoys social media because it allows him to get directly to the voters. this press briefing is another opportunity to get directly to the voters. him not allowing us to show people who are watching, hoping to hear from his administration what he has to say about all of these issues we were hear about today harms him more than it helps him. >> it does com

and a strong personality in the white house, it is a team, and it is a team of rivals in every white ouse, because they are very competent staffers who are legitimately hired because they have great expertise, many of them have type a personalities and they think they are the only person with great expertise and you have to manage that process and make sure that the playing field is in fact level and not skewed one way because a dominant staffer is bullying the process. so -- but the last word i found the president would frequently seek me out it is a last word, but it wasn't so much about the decision, it was the process by the way the decision was being made by the president. and i would be able to say, sallie mae have been a little too aggressive in that meeting and jane was ready to speak up but she was intimidated by sally. you might want to call jane. >> rose: right. >> you know, mcdonough tells me the story in the book about the walk they would think. >> rose: i was thinking about that. >> at the end of every day at 5:00 o'clock or later they would take a walk around the south

in the white house.esn't exist for any other agency, and certainly that will likely get used. you can tell the attitude of the va has changed so much because they want people to tell them what's wrong. they want to do something about it, and that's the change in culture. >> sandra: as the president said when he was signing this legislation, he said we owe this to our veterans, we owe everything to our veterans for the blood, sweat, and tears in what they do to protect this country. you hope it brings that necessary. i know it is near and dear to you to your cart to my car. if i may ask at this moment in time, we're waiting to get feedback from the white house press briefing that was off-camera today. just a status of things come up morale in the military, how are things going in your opinion right now as far as progress of this president is making? >> the funding for the military really hasn't hit the military edge, and i think many of us are disappointed by the presidents fiscal year '18 budget because

myself as a white house correspondent, seven years as white house correspondent.ays saying, you have to go ask the president, he hasn't taken questions from the news media in weeks. only statements we have from him those on climate change, statements he tweeted a few years ago, climate change is a hoax. given the sensitivity of this issue, are they doing themselves white house officials a disservice by not simply answering that question? >> yeah. wolf, on this issue at least, i don't think he is doing himself a disservice for this reason. in the gallup daily tracking poll, he is around 40%. give or take a point or two. which is not very far off where he has been for his entire presidency. what that says to me is that president trump is playing to his base. his base is fine with this. it is a disservice if he is trying to reach beyond the base and right now they are playing to the base. kaitlyn is right, the president hasn't changed his position much since the 2012 tweet. he has changed his position, wolf, since 2009 when he and a bunch of other ceos took out a ful

and once again, so far, unless the white house reverses itself, the white house is not allowing liveameras. the american public won't be able to see it or hear it live, only after the briefing is concluded, according to white house rules. will the networks, cable and broadcasts be able to air the audio-only of the briefing. no video. won't be able to see the questions and answers. we'll hear them, but only after the briefing is concluded. i bring in our senior media and politics reporter dylan byers. the past two weeks we've seen what two live news briefinging at the white house with the press secretaries. what's the new strategy for the rouse about? >> avoid being seen on camera taking questions they don't want to answer, in fact, can't answer, oftentimes because they don't have the go-ahead from the president of the united states himself. it's a lot easier to do that off camera, and not be under the scrutiny of the american people watching at home, but it's twofold as well. a second part to this strategy. an tall ntagonize us, the media. the lack of transparency and access act, the

they're not at the white house to celebrate the passage of the senate republican health care bill. may recall, president trump did with the house version. republican senators are there to meet with white house officials and try to search for some way forward, given senate republicans right now do not have the votes needed to pass their

. >> folks in the white house but look at u.s.igence agencies ironies are the folks in the white house they very often report was kremlin has been saying. it's interesting while america remains target number one and number one enemy and 24/7 russian propaganda keep pounding the united states. donald trump is excluded from -- from the broad criticism. somehow he is being seen as -- did as a man who has been trying desperately trying to bring relations but the deep state prevented him from doing it. >> one of the things president putin said he said blaming russian for already blaming the american election anti-semitism blame willings jews. >> it's a witch hunt if -- if they caught doing something illegal they crying foul. it's a witch hunt, it's some like an anti-semitism he can say whatever he wants he doesn't care. as long as he sees his tactic works he can go with it even being blamed and then he will deny it. he tried to do it in france the failed by the way. he tried to do many other european countries. he is -- he sincerely be

, but not at the white house. we will have live coverage of that. the private statement from the president's outside attorney reacting to this really explosive testimony today from the former fbi director james comey. also a member of the house of representatives mark maeadows will be joining me live. we'll get his reaction to two and a half hours of testimony. one very interesting part is when comey said that he deliberately had his memos leaked to the new york times because he wanted to generate some pressure for the appointment of a special counsel. listen to this. >> the president tweeted on friday after i got fired that i better hope there's not tapes. i woke up in the middle of night on monday night because it didn't dawn on me originally that there might be c corroboration for a conversation, there might be a tape. my judgment was i need to get that out into the public square and so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. i didn't do it myself but i asked him to because i t

i think every white house is under attack. i was there during the financial crisis. i was there when we lost the house and lost the senate. there are certainly moments where you feel under attack but that doesn't mean that you launch them a misogynist attack. there's a difference between that and going out and stating it publicly. so, yes, i would say that the white house is a tough place because the spotlight is on you. you're speaking on behalf of the president. the american people are watching the president. you have to be tough. you have to be working together as a team. and this kind of response, there's really no place for it. >> one of the things, jeff, i talked to mayor michael bloomberg about, the organization that he had as mayor and that he set up in business and this white house's organization, though he was very careful not to criticize the president because he feels like he's under enough pressure as it is. he talked about the importance as a leader in supporting the people who are under you and you're putting a great team together and supporting those p

the white house says they're routine diplomatic meetings.hen they happened in december, jared kushner is a transition official and would be allowed to meet with foreign officials. >> shepard: on the matter of james comey, there's a lot of hype about this testimony coming up. it's hard to imagine him going too far off the memo. you expecting big news there? >> we don't know. james comey has made a habit of making news at congressional hearings like this. back in 2007 he described this hospital incident where he intervening to stop the authorization and reauthorization of this surveillance program. i don't expect him to reveal any nitty gritty details of the criminal investigation, which that would be huge news. i do expect he will reveal more details about his conversations with the president, including more details about this occasion when president trump apparently asked him -- this is by james comey's account -- apparently asked him to shut down the investigation into mike flynn. i think the question is how many new details will he reveal

white house doing about this? >> well, allison, the president said prevail and he stands by that particularly as president-elect, that he would be concerned about anybody sbefrg in our democracy. we saw a lot of people interfering with our democracy by saying he couldn't win here at home. >> you were asked whether the president believes russia interfered with the 2016 election because he hasn't had a had a chance to have the conversation i'm wondering if you had the conversation and if the president is concerned about the interference. >> i have. thank you. and the only point that i would make as a point of clarification. he commented i think it was january fifth or 17th like that on that at the time and he said i -- russia probably interfered but maybe some other countries did as well. >> i think it was russia but i think we also get hacked by other countries and other people. >> there you go. thank you. >> does he stand by that is he concern about that. >> of course he is concerned about any country or any actor

it's not an easy answer for the white house..t's politically somewhat treacherous. .for now, they're keeping mum. dara. >> kelly o'donnell live for u in washington. thanks, kelly. >>> now to the headlines and take a look at this incredible video taken near calvary, canada, where a tornado touched down yesterday evening. no one was injured, but there was some property damage. joining me now, kelly cass. kelly, what is happening this weekend across the country? >> hey there, dara. we're going to have to watch out for some travel downpours in parts of the south, especially along the gulf coast. but it's nice to see the rain in florida, where we so desperately needed. sometimes too much of a good thing can lead to flooding on the streets out there. speaking of flooding, dallas put under a flash flood watch. up towards the midwest, we're talking severe storms a possibility. parts of wisconsin, the upper peninsula. tornado threat not running all that high. tomorrow, that severe threat will shift more to the east and even parts of new y

but because the trump white house is the leakiest white house in history, we know tonight that the president is thinking about firing special prosecutor robert mueller. and the first wave of commentary that you may have heard about this included many people repeating the phrase "can't imagine." as in can't imagine that the president would actually fire the special prosecutor. if you can't imagine that, you have not been paying attention. to president donald trump. >> trump and the people around him are not acting like people who have nothing to hide. >> it's jeff sessions' turn to answer questions from the senate intelligence committee about russia. >> the last time he was here, he testified and gave false testimony. >> i did not have communications with the russians. >> we got a lot of questions we want to ask him. >> he violated his own recusal. >> if the president okay testifying in this setting tomorrow? >> i think he is going to testify. we're aware of it and go from there. >> i think what republicans ought to focus on is closing down the independent counsel. >> could the president fire

>> more like the white house.ss the press >> shepard: they need a foil. >> the desire to build a wall around the white house to limit inquiry and you have a chance to criticize the press, cnn ran a story, they retracted it. >> shepard: on the website. >> they apologized for it. >> shepard: and they said, because i want to make sure they get this right. they said they did not go through their procedures. it did not go through standards and practices, and it did not make through editorial checking. afterwards, three people were fired. >> this is what you want to have happen. you want a news organization where they got something that she did not go through the process properly. they retracted, and made a public statement. we made a mistake. >> shepard: dessie the example of how to do it. journalism 101. you make a mistake, you admit it, and you take action. >> you have all those actions and procedures and editor panels. this one, it did not go through. they apologized. >> shepard: this is what we are talking about. t

the white house is saying oh, no, no. this was a very diplomat jared kushner at work. >> yeah, it's very odd. and it is -- that's curious. it's one thing to have representatives of a new administration coming in, meet with accredited diplomats. that's normal. that happens. but to meet with the head of a sanctioned bank, a bank that we're not allowed to do business with under american law at the moment, that raises questions. what was that about? how did they get connected? what was the purpose of the meeting? what was discussed at the meeting? what was the goal of jared kushner when he met with his bank, what did he bring away from that meeting? and we don't know the answer to that. in russia basically, people like the head of bank are agents of putin's kremlin. they're not free actors. they're not independent player there's. what was going on there, we don't know. again, we don't want to draw too large inferences from a sketchy amount of fax. but it certainly raise as lot of questions. >> joy, it's awfully easy to constr

they served their time in the white house and the american people. k you, i appreciate it. >>> when we come back, senate republicans' health bill still polling low, really low. and my next guest, a top gop congressman who voted for the house version of the bill, says if they can't repeal all of obamacare, hey, that's democracy. introducing the new sleep number 360 smart bed. the only bed smart enough to change sleep as we know it. it senses your every move and automatically adjusts on both sides to keep you comfortable. and snoring.... does your bed do that? right now save on sleep number 360 smart beds. plus, it's the lowest prices of the season with savings of $500 on our most popular p5 bed. ends saturday. >>> president trump promising what he calls a big surprise on health care one day after senate republicans put off voting on their bill after the july 4th recess. >> i think we're going to get it over the line. it was a great, great feeling in that room yesterday. and what also came out is the fact that this health care would be so good, would be

cnn white house correspondent athena jones joining us from the white house. how likely is it that president trump would try to invoke this executive privilege to prevent or block comey from testifying? >> hi, fred. that is the big question of the moment. there is some reporting both in "the new york times" and "washington post" indicating quoting officials as saying that president is not going to invoke executive privilege, but there's always the caveat that he could change his mind. and the white house hasn't yet said definitively on the record what the president plans to do. white house press secretary sean spicer was asked about this yesterday and yesterday's briefing and he said, the hearing had only just been announced and that it had to be reviewed. he also said that he hadn't yet spoken with white house counsel and didn't know how the administration was going to proceed. there is some big questions attached to this debate over whether the president will or should or could successfully exert executive privilege. one is that if you do -- if he does so it

when you are to hire a lawyer as a white house staffer, the white house doesn't pay for it. you pay for it. if you're a young staffer, you get a credit card, put it on a line out credit. if you've been in and out of the private sector, you pay for it out of your assets. talk about life inside this white house today when they're in the situation of hiring private attorneys then they see the president on twitter saying one thing, and saying another about being under investigation, himself. >> of course. well, i think it's sort of -- i don't want to say the final straw, but it's certainly a late in the game straw, and as you know, the white house is a cool place to work, in theory. that's how a lot of these staffers, especially mid-level ones who maybe president trump was not their first, second, or even 12th choice for president were drawn into this administration, but then you have a situation where there's, you know, leaks to the media, you know, just about every single day. there's staff infighting and these aides having to sort of watch their own backs every day. you have

now the white house is conceding it's on the threshold of losing the health care battle. >>> the white house says syria will pay a heavy price if it launches another chemical attack. what prompted this warning out of seemingly nowhere from the administration? >>> and the administration is preparing yet another rollout of its travel ban after the supreme court agreed to take up the issue next term. what changes will happen, and how soon? >>> good morning, and welcome to "early start." i'm alison kosik in for k christine romans, another day or two of vacation for her. >> i'm dave briggs. june 27th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. >>> new in the health care battle, majority leader mitch mcconnell still pushing for a vote on obamacare repeal and replace this week. that despite developments that leave the senate health care bill hanging by a thread. two senior gop aides telling cnn mcconnell wants that vote but plans to assess sentiment today at a senate republican lunch. they say he could change his plans depending on feedback from senate republican leaders. >> the reason the gop bill is barely han

so we're at a point where the white house counsel and the legal team at the white house can look at the options of executive privilege, which is intended to shield a president from having to have internal conversations, advice given to him, deliberations from becoming public. it's been used by past presidents. the real difference here is that even though the fbi would fall under the executive branch, comey has been fired. he's already been testifying in public on issues related to the russia investigation. and most notably, president trump himself has talked about his conversations with comey in an interview with our own lester holt. he's tweeted about it. so he has not been trying to protect that from public view. that could make the case for executive privilege very tough. but you'll see how white house officials are not willing to take any options off the table. here's a moment where kellyanne conway and george stephanopolous put this question to her and you'll see how she responded. >> will the president invoke executive privilege or does he want former director comey to testify bef

why does no one at the white house have an answer to that? >>> anticipation builds for the coming week. former fbi director james comey set to testify. will the president try to stop him? >>> and new details on that megyn kelly one-on-one exclusive interview with vladimir putin. what is he saying about whether the trump administration wanted to lift sanctions? those details next. >>> but we begin with live pictures of new york and washington, d.c. that is where demonstrators have gathered for the so-called march for truth. the demonstrations are being held in more than 130 cities here in the u.s. as well as around the world. they're a ramp-up of calls for an independent commission to investigate russia's meddling in the u.s. election and its ties to the trump campaign. now today's event coming on the heels of russian president vladimir putin once pushing back on allegations that russia meddled in the u.s. election. in fact here's what he told my colleague, megyn kelly, on the subject of sanctions during an economic forum in st. petersburg yes

those two were spotted at the white house. they are looking outside to potentially steer messaging as they enter into what will be a complicated next several weeks. >> robert, can you think of anyone that you and i worked with over the years in republican politics who would take a job in a donald trump war room? >> no. no one at all. >> really? >> no. can you? >> no. no, i can't. what legal exposure would there be? >> it would be terrible. you would have a client who wouldn't follow your direction. he would be tweeting and you would be telling him not to tweet. you tell him not to. >> he would bang it out. >> for would be a nightmare. donald trump has a reputation in the legal community in new york that he doesn't pay his bills. he stiffs lawyers like he does contractors. >> if his lawyers can't take his phone away from him tomorrow while comey is testifying, they should get malpractice. republicans say a lot of this damage, they have to accept it's coming right from him. putting your kids out there, you have done crisis work.

is your husband part of the white house, nixon white house? [laughter] no, dear. he is the chief justice of the supreme court. [laughter] smiles, pleasantly and drifts away. [laughter] the next selection takes place in november of 1969. at that time, demonstrations against the vietnam war are growing in size and becoming a nationwide movement. the scene begins with the launch of the apollo 12 mission to the moon at cape canaveral florida, which our family attended along with -- as guests of nasa. this chapter is called, shade of gray. slowly,et moves struggling to gain the tremendous course and needs to break free. when the sound catches up with us, the powerful for causes the grandstand -- powerful roar causes the grandstand to rumble. on the launchpad, the scaffolding collapses, and apollo 12 climbs upward. -- a deepnto a deep rumble as it is swallowed up by storm clouds. soon, only a dual glow is left. launches for bob and john -- they leave to join the president on air force one for the return flight to washington. they are concerned about the peace march that

. ♪ charlie: the position of white house chief of staff had been called the toughest job in the whitese. the man currently holding the job is reince priebus. ofis getting the lions share criticism of the chaotic nature of the trump white house and the slow pace of their administrative agenda and personnel. to put into context are three men who upheld the job . jack watson served from june, 1980 until january 1981 as president carter's last chief of staff. john podesta was resident clinton's chief of staff until 2001. and andy carter was chief of staff from -- for george w. bush until april of 2006. joining me is chris whipple, and author of a new history of the white house chiefs of staff --"the gatekeepers: how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency." i am pleased to have all of them at this table. is it the toughest job, second to the presidency, in washington? it is the toughest job because you are helping the president do the real toughest job. which means you have to have discipline, and bring order to chaos. you also have to pay attention to what is happening ou

after that warning, on multiple occasions, the white house officials, including don mcgahn, the whitemichael flynn continued to serve in that capacity for 18 days, going to classified briefings, so the democrats want to know why that happened. they're asking for records from the white house about the decisions that went into that, and they're saying it could have been a violation of very clear practices and regulations. >> and now there are specific questions about the cia director, mike pompeo, what did he know about mike flynn at the time. >> as we know from that 18-day period, mike pompeo, the cia director, did appear in some of those chasified settings with michael flynn and the president was not told specifically that from mike pompeo that he had any concerns about mr. flynn appearing with the president in the classified briefings, despite that warning from sally yates. it's unclear whether or not pompeo knew of the concerns raised by sally yates or didn't share those concerns. the cia did not comment about that story. people here on capitol hill still don't have an answer. >> in

it's energy week at the white house. but again with the press briefings not consistently being on camera, it seems like it's a missed opportunity for this white house to talk about those things that they want to get accomplishe accomplished. >> sarah huckabee sanders came into the briefing room today. she slammed the news media and said if we didn't have these immigration officials who came into the briefing room today by surprise, you would have never covered them. but at the same time, because they did not have the cameras on, those officials received less coverage. there were some pretty illuminating moments. just for a second here, the acting i.c.e. director came out and essentially acknowledged that there are only 11 to 12 undocumented immigrants in this country. president trump when he was a candidate on the campaign trail said there were 30 million undocumented people in this country. another example of fake news. so, you know, there was one other moment where the acting i.c.e. director talked about the fact undoc

dan at the white house. dan, the question if the president will assert executive privilege to prevent the former fbi director from testifying. what is the executive privilege and how can the president use it to stop the testimony? >> reporter: executive privilege is almost a nixon era rule that came about during the nixon watergate investigation to allow the president to keep his conversations private in the executive branch. there are some who say he waived executive privilege rights because he talked about conversations with james comey on twitter and interviews. the white house so far is saying they don't know whether he will invoke executive privilege and leaving it up to white house counsel. there are a number of reasons he may not want to as well. it is a p.r. problem. the white house wants a full investigation into the russian ties and they want the investigation to go on. that is undercut if president trump says i don't want james comey to testify in front of congress. see what sean spicer and kellya

jim acosta, you're our white house correspondent.s start with you, the president tweeting today expanding his criticism, this one this morning. the failing "new york times" writes false story after false story about me. they don't even call to verify the facts of the story. fake news joke. some of the fake news media like to say i'm not totally engaged in health care. wrong. i know the subject well and i want victory for u.s. apparently that was a response to the story from "the times" who complained at least one republican senator came away from the meeting with the president about doubts about the president's involvement in the health care bill. >> reporter: the president himself has been peddling fake news for some time now. he's one of the founding fathers of birtherism who indicated falsely that president obama wasn't born in the united states when he was born in hawaii. he alleged that millions of undocumented people were voting in the election and that drew the popular vote to hillary clinton. that was also fake news, wolf. he

i wish bob were going to be at the white house with me. asking for it fights. just follow the other ladies, he says. do it they do. i'm sure you won't be the only one there for the first time. dressed in white tie and tails -- bob leads first. the zipper in the back of my dress gets stuck and i have to ask the doorman at the hotel to zip me up. the white house car takes me to the south entrance of the white house, where we wait in a long line of government will most look exactly like our black mercury sedan. winter head. suddenlyy door was oned a uniformed white house socialite stepping -- stepping out of the car i simply repeat bob's words like a mantra. follow the ladies, do what they do, just follow the ladies. do what they do. swept up in a study stream of elegantly dressed women, i entered a diplomatic recession room, expecting to see others who were obviously here for the first time -- disappointed. no one looks lost. for a moment i feel terribly -- terribly alone. check my first golf -- and as i start to fashion, stairs to the entrance hall, a woman breez

it was an interesting with huckabee sanders with reporters in the white house packed in there, sayingwell, where is sean. he is back today. the continuation, if you will, information from the white hous white house. what are we anticipating to learn today that is top of mind. >> i think we are going to get a lot of questions about russia. that is always at the forefront of every press briefing. >> harris: and what would they deal with, you think? james call me coming up? there is no evidence? we still don't have any evidence. democrats are saying that. >> i think you are right that is rather frustrating that reporters and many members of the media do need to share and obsess over this winter hasn't been any solid truth or solid information that rested did hack the election. they weren't involved with members of the trauma team. i think all those are really frustrating, and would like to see really hard evidence if that is there. if it isn't there, i think reporters should change their tone. the way they have been asking question of the white house. >> harris: also, betsy, about 26 min

on behalf of the first family, welcome to the white house. and thanks to the leadership of president donald trump, welcome to the beginning of a new era for american infrastructure. you know, since the first day of this administration, worked tirelessly to keep the promises he made to the xhern people. our president's been putting jobs first. rolling back excess ive regulations, unleashing energy, ending unfair trade practices an working on repealing and replacing obamacare and thanks to donald trump, america is back. american businesses are growing and investing in america. more than 600,000 private sector jobs have been created under this president's leadership and unemployment hasn't been this low for 16 years. but if you haven't noticed -- >> we will continue to monitor the vice president along with the transportation secretary as we await president trump set to make some announcements here on infrastructure. specifically related to the faa. privatizing some parts of it if for air traffic control to try to make it work better. more of a n

the white house or the president. there is still time. today was the last day of pride month, though it seems unlikely. the photographer here, fa breeze owe bench from reuters. we appreciate you watches us for this hour on msnbc. right now more news with mie colleagues ally velsy and stephanie rhule. >> good morning, everybody. >> it's friday, june 30th. let's get started. >> president trump hosting the president of south korea. >> there will be a meeting again this morning. could not be a more serious time for our relionsp with south korea. >> but is it planning to take any questions at this point. >>> the first full day that a scaled back version of president trump's travel ban is in effect. the government is already made one change, fiances now count. >> if there isn't a combined repeal and replace plan i'm writing a letter to the president urging him to call on us to separate them. >> we're very confident here at the white house that health care gets done in quick succession by tax reform. >> we have a situation in capitol hill where

we know you have been talking to folks inside the white house. week had to have been one of the most difficult weeks for this young presidency, with the comey testimony, other matters out there. how is the president and his team doing? >> well, i think they came out of last week pretty good. i spoke to the president late last week, and i think he was pretty optimistic and things and happy that things -- i wouldn't say overly happy but i think he felt he had won a victory, that director comey's testimony once again proved there was no obstruction, the director doesn't want to describe what the president said to him as obstruction, there is no evidence of collusion. we have a special prosecutor, judy, who has been appointed here where there was never an allegation or evidence of a crime. this is a very highly unusual situation, but it's also, i think, politically driven, and i think that that's getting the president and a lot of his top aides concerned that there is an effort here to undermine his agenda in washington by people who want to focus on

mcconnell announced the delay president trump hosted republicans for a frank discussion at the white house don't assume though the senate bill is dead. after all, the house managed to pull back from the brink to rally and pass their health care bill in may. so what will it take to rescue the senate bill? we begin our coverage from capitol hill. >> reporter: well, it was what senate majority leader mitch mcconnell didn't want, having no vote on this week. this was the week they thought they needed to get health care done. this is the week they will not be getting health care done for one simple reality. the votes aren't there yet. they will be postponing. this is what the majority leader had to say. >> we're continuing to work on reaching an agreement that will involve continued discussion to the end of the week and we'll not be turning to the bill on the floor of the senate until a couple of weeks after. i think everybody around the table is interested in getting an outcome. because we know the status quo is simply unacceptable. it's a very complicated subject. i had hoped as you know, tha

can the white house afford to do that? we'll see. that's all for now. maybe this is the way mexico is paying for things. "for the record with greta" starts now. >> i never miss "meet the press" on sunday. i'm your loyal fan. >> thank you. >>> this is getting weirder. now we learn white house counsel and the president's personal lawyers were all on it. a simple yes or no is all that was needed. period. the president tweeted i did not make and do not have any such recordings. that just doesn't answer the question whether tapes exist or not. that tweet of his is a dodge. why the came? white house press secretary sean spicer was pressed for a complete answer and spicer said he believed an official response on anything related to tapes would come by close of business today. well, we're waiting. we're not the only ones waiting. the democrat and republican on russia investigation are demanding more. >> my view is there's no legal prohibition on prosecuting a president of the united states. the fact he threatened there were tapes is another element that may go

there is still business at the white house. how frustrating is this trying to push a message and you have a real issue to deal with in the legislative branch. a number of this investigation and this hearing. >> it's the nature of the white house after the democrats took over congress in 2006 when they won. the next two years were difficult for us in the white house because the democrats wanted to haul us up for hearings all the time and you try to continue an agenda. right now the president benefits from having republicans in the majority in the house and senate. it doesn't mean it will be easier. these are the cards you're dealt with at the white house and so i think that they're doing the right thing. they basically have several different things going on this week. they're talking about the fact that in the next eight weeks you can expect in the senate that a healthcare bill will be introduced and voted on. they said that yesterday. you'll have a debt ceiling bill. infrastructure week. we haven't seen too much of that because

, senator move of the white house? >> you know, i'm sure it's smart to bring them all together and -- but i don't think -- my understanding is president trump is not been that involved in the details of the bill so i'm not sure what he can tell them beyond a rah rah moment here. the key factor here is you have two blocks of senators, one block seeing too many medicaid cuts, particularly, and then one block who says there's too much of obamacare here, we want more of obamacare to be waived. what i think you'll see happen is that you'll probably see an appeal to those conservatives to try to waive more parts of obamacare, allow states more flexibility, and then make the bill sort of more conservative and that's where i think we'll go next and you'll see if the moderates take that and can still accept it or not. but i think the bill has to move to the right now. you should think about what happened in the house where the freedom caucus blocked the bill for a while and they eventually made some changes and signed on to it.

let me paint the picture for you don, you've been here at the white house before and sat in the white house booth with us here at cnn, when you walk through that briefing room you know when we have a press briefing at the white house and all the reporters are in the different spots and asking questions of sean spicer, that is almost actually what occurred in the briefing room. we had a briefing going on inside the white house with the exception of cameras and audio. we had the same thing that the press secretary does at any other time during a briefing except the warehouse says you can't record what is said in the briefing on video or on audio. what is shocking about this, not only is it the year 2017 but you have a lot of questions that need to be asked, like is the president under investigation. he tweeted he's under investigation. what about the recordings over here that the president floated this prospect of having. the white house, sean spicer said earlier today we might have an answer for that by the i know of the week. by the way, they said that last week, and on and on. don, i