but if it involves relationships within the white house, discussions with others in the white house,ng that priebus can testify to. >> let's talk about the president's statement today on the iran nuclear deal. from your perspective and you're a former defense secretary, former cia director, what other repercussions of the president's decision to not certify that the iranians are complying with the nuclear deal? >> well, i worry very much, wolf, that it's going to damage the united states' position in the world. it's going to weaken our world leadership at a very dangerous time. it raises questions about whether we will stick to our word, whether we're credible, and it really raises questions about our going it alone in the world and not working with our allies and working with others to try to make sure that we try to get iran to address these other concerns. i just -- i just think it creates a very dangerous example of a president who is anxious to blow up agreements but doesn't quite have a strategy as to where we're going once he does that. >> i want you to listen to what the chai

the white house is also said that there is no transcript or recording of that conversation, and the whiteouse also seems to be suggesting, sort of take john kelly's word for it. but, you know, you hope for these families that they are able to get out of the spotlight in this way. it must be hard for them being the subject of these conversations and the back and forth with this president. >> you know, david chalian, the president did tweet right after this congresswoman spoke out, democratic congresswoman. totally fabricated what i said to the wife of a soldier who died in action and i have proof. sad. listen to what sarah huckabee sanders, the white house press secretary, said today when the whole issue of general kelly, john kelly, the white house chief of staff who lost a son in afghanistan back in 2010. listen to how she framed this. >> i think that general kelly is disgusted by the way that this has been politicized and that the focus has become on the process and not the fact that american lives were lost. i think he's disgusted and frustrated by that. if he has any anger, it's towar

do with the white house.white house is messaging before an initial statement that today has zero to do with the wlohite house. the problem with that argument, manafort and the president kept talking, far beyond after he left, until their own lawyers said, you have to keep talking. and these dates, 2006 to 2017, that's beyond his work with ukraine. >> right. and, you know, it -- i do think it's important to point out, in fairness to what the white house is saying, is that the individual crimes charged, the making a false statements to the department of justice, the making of false statements to the treasury department do not refer at all to the trump campaign. however, he is -- both manafort and gates are charged with a conspiracy, together with others, unnamed, to defraud the united states, a conspiracy that took place while manafort was the campaign chairman for donald trump, while gates was working for donald trump. and that's a problem. and what contacts manafort and gates had with the trump campaign and t

i covered the reagan white house and the bush white house, george herbert walker bush white house. i have interviewed several presidents. this presidency changes what we have seen in many ways. trump was a disruptive candidate and is a disruptive president. and some of the challenges to covering the white hou . >> he's certainly a disruptive president. some of the challenges to covering the white house, the president's criticisms on the media, on news, what he calls fake news have also been news and have shaped things as well. i'm sure we'll touch on that this evening as well. >> for us, our work every day really is about doing our jobs day in and day out. but there are moments in a presidency when it's also about assessing where we've been, where we're going and whether anything really has changed and how. >> our panel will join us in just a moment. we're going to start by asking a question on a different topic of each member of the panel. then we'll open it up for a broader conversation. we will open it up for your questions later in the evening as well. so this is a real discussi

when you have the white house, keep in mind the campaign is over, the election is over, when the white house is suggesting that there is collusion, that there was collusion going on between a defeated rival, political opponent and a foreign government as this white house is doing. that's one thing for one campaign to say it about another. but this is the white house saying that. that's why i tried to ask the question, multi part question, why is it that the president thought to be involved in this u ran um one deal to try to have that gag order lifted on the key informant in the fbi investigation. no real answer there. although kellyanne conway spoke to that earlier this morning on cnn. then also the president tweeted that the only collision that existed in the election was between hillary clinton and russians. when i asked for evidence of that, there was no evidence presented this. this white house has not presented any evidence of that. president has not. so once again you have the inappropriate political behavior on the part of the white house going on during the course of that camp

>> yes, in fact in that post i said the white house is bragging on the gdp report as any white house would do. so i completely cop to that. but, the point just underscores my basic point here, which is if the economy is generating solid growth rates, and it is, i don't think trump's fingerprints are on them right away, presidents claim it all the time, but so be it, put that aside, what is the motivation for transferring a couple of trillion dollars from our revenue coffers to those at the high end of the income scale, to multinational corporations, to hedge funds, to other wealthy businesses, while the middle class is still trying to kind of catch a buzz from this expansion? so again, the economic evidence suggests that this is exactly the wrong time for a big wasteful regressive tax cut like this. >> so what about depressed areas? do they see growth coming? >> well, yes, but it's slow and it's taking too long. and that means that we're going to really need thoughtful public policies that will reach places that have been left behind. and it's pretty remarkable. we have a 4.2% unempl

to thekage that was sent white house arrived on thursday of last week. white house military office confirmed the contents of that package on monday. the letters had been drafted over the weekend. once the confirmation was completed, calls were scheduled monday to be made on tuesday. >> why did he not make a look remarks -- public remarks? is the president satisfy he has learned everything he wants to know about situation at self? -- itself? mission, a low risk big surprise. no air cover. whether or not these military personals arrived or not. he knows everything he needs to know about this particular race, rules of engagement, everything else. >> i don't think the president can never be satisfied when there is loss of life from men and women in uniform. >> i cannot get into specifics. i can't get into the specifics of details at this point. i don't think you can ever use the word satisfied with the process when there is a loss of life for someone in the military. i will come back. is the administration looking at the atf? does the president think that co

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obviously they covered what we thought they would, the reaction the president and the white house wouldave to the indictment of paul manafort and his business associate. joining me on set, a congressman who serves on the house foreign affairs committee. you said is something that made an impression on me. in the indictments are a good thing, why? >> in order to finish and wrap up all the special counsel work, i don't think you want to wait another year or two for manafort and gates to get in trouble for what they've done over the course of the last decade. they get their day in court, they may end up ultimately owing their debt to society, these are serious allegations but you don't want the special counsel work going on for two years with this big cloud when you are working on something like this. it's good to get it off the table. >> harris: you heard sarah sanders, the president had no reaction to this, this doesn't have anything to do with the white house. >> that's correct, reading the indictment, this isn't about about the president. they are not talking about the trump campaign,

is the white house hiding something?amily expecting a check for a fallen soldier. >>> spies pitting against each other. >>> the breaking news tonight, a major charge against president trump's white house tonight. senator john mccain accusing the trurpg "u"

trying to determine how and when johnson became separated from his fellow soldiers. >>> and the white house says that a remarkable speech by former president george w. bush rebuking the trump presidency wasn't about president trump at all. mr. bush condemned bigotry, white supremacy, anti-immigrant nativism, and more in his remarks but never named president trump, but were clearly a takedown of his policies and actions. white house press secretary sarah sanders told reporters, quoting her now, our understanding is those comments were not directed toward president trump. we're covering all of that. much more this hour with our guests, including congressman eric swalwell of the house intelligence committee and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. but first let's get straight to the breaking news. the white house defending false comments by the chief of staff john kelly. our white house correspondent sara murray is joining us. sara, new twists in this now four-day-hold controversy. >> that's right, wolf. nearly everyone who has been involved in this controversy has expresse

tom barrack clearly heard fra the white house on this. from the president directly but i'm sure he will. and created a problem for him and he felt like the chief of staff did today that he had to get out there and explain himself. as you see, he worked very hard to try to make it clear how much he admires the president and how the president cares about words and all the rest of it. >> but the spin on everything, nobody's been fired from the white house, all in his words matriculated. everything is -- everything that the president is successful and anything -- fired is a harsh word. >> it's a little "alice in wonderland" but tom barrack is ultimately loyal to the president and sometimes the president demands that he can see that loyalty. he was particularly upset about the headline in "the washington post" which was he's better than that. and i think that stuck in the craw over at the white house. and we've all covered white houses in which they have to do cleanup. i think this was a day of cleanup. >> david? does seem that the interview i

mark short, the white house legislative director, he joined me here in "the situation room" last week and i asked him about your investigation. listen to this exchange i had with him. >> sure. >> house oversight committee asked you to explain why some white house officials, they use their government e-mail, but they also have private e-mail accounts and the white house and covered employees, you wrote back to them, "endeavor to comply with all relevant laws." is that the best you could do in the explanation? >> i think that that's a fair -- >> because you didn't satisfy a lot of these members. democratic members and republican members. and remember all the controversy about hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. so what is the rule right now for white house officials like you and others about using private e-mail? >> we're not supposed to be doing government business on private e-mail. i think that there's a public records act that makes that clear and i think the white house is cooperating with each and every investigation. >> all right, congressman, from your perspective

kelly o'donnell joins us from the white house. and chief white house correspondent peter baker. peter, let me start with you. what i felt like was a very hostile tone set by the white house press secretary today. and this almost surreal capacity to blame the five-day treatment of this story on the people covering it, not the people creating events with their comments and responses. the president and the chief of staff. >> well, that's the usual script. it's always the media's fault. it's never the president's fault. it's not the chief of staff's fault. it's not even appropriate to ask questions of a four-star general she said today. it's highly inappropriate to question a four-star general. this is not, obviously, a story that has gone away, but it hasn't gone away because of the actions of the president and his chief of staff and the congresswoman pressing back. the media simply covering what's -- this back and forth and they are important issues here. for one thing, the issue of describing things accurately. general kelly did not describe accurately this ceremony he was talkin

susan: the white house lawn today is beautifully landscaped. what was it like when the house is being constructed? mr. seale: it was pretty torn up, but orderly. they built houses for the workman and it would 12 by 12 -- and there were 12 by 12 little cottages in rows. they did not have to pay to have those. whereas andrew jackson across the street, the carpenters lodge where the carpet is worked, and -- where the carpenters work, and half the churches in town were founded there and the masonic order, all the stone people were masons. many others as well. capital lodge number one still exists there. it was like a village. there were gardens, different families, a few wise were accumulated. -- wives were accumulated. sometimes they came with the workmen. they had markets, where the park is now on pennsylvania avenue. that became a real event on saturdays. they had horse races, lots of gambling. it was a whole village that disappeared when the house was finished. susan: how many years was it altogether? mr. seale: let's say, 1792 to about 1800. th

of the buildings at the time and there are no reports of injuries. >>> back to politics, and the white houseing optimistic about its timeline for tax reform. here's what omb director mick mulvaney said in an interview moments ago. >> we're hearing now that the house may go ahead and either take the senate amendments or move very quickly to accept the senate amendments and we may save as many as 10 or 12 legislative days, a big deal, sounds like not much when you're here the end of october, but in the congressional calendar, that's a long time and it really does buy us more time and more opportunity to get this done before the end of the year. >> okay. and let's go to the controversy that started with president trump's condolence call to a gold star widow earlier this week. and joining me now, republican strategist robert trainer and marjorie clifton, welcome to you both. robb robert, you first here, would you say the president got off on the wrong foot with this call to start la david johnson's family? >> these are tough calls. clearly the family is grieving. they frankly some as i read, the

but she covered the clinton white house really broadly and deeply. she also covered the regan administration and george h.w. bush and david valdez and dianna walker both are actively involved in our program here that briscoe center. >> what do you think viewers will take away after twhauchg interviews? >> the importance of news photographers, documentary photographers, they go by various names. they're all photographers. but the value of their work, not only for the news, illustrating the news but as historical evidence. these photographs capture and document an amazing array of extremely important processes and events and personalities. so i hope the public appreciates the work that they do. they see their work every day on television and newspapers and so forth. i hope that they would do more than just appreciate the photograph but appreciate the photographers themselves. >> don carlton is the executive director of the university of texas at austin's briscoe center at american history. thanks for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> next an oral histo

>> in a white house as powerless as this one, is it possible for a white house adviser to actually be more powerful at a website? >> i want to get stuff done. i'm leaving the white house. sarah palin approach to governing alaska. >> there we are. thank you. >> thank you. >>> senator bob corker chooses his words very, very carefully. he had several days to decide what he was going to say when the trump attack on him finally came. and that attack came yesterday. and bob corker hit back much harder than the president hit him. >> we could be heading towards world war ii with these kind of comments that he's making. >> could be the calm before the storm. >> what storm, mr. president? >> you'll find out. >> he's just putting on an act. >> essentially saying the emperor has no clothes. >> calling the trump white house a reality show and an adult day care center. >> the entire interview demonstrates he questions his fitness as commander in chief. >> he is a valued member of the republican conference and turning to the budget next week. he will be a big help in helping us get it passed. >> and

white house press briefing spreads slower than tweets. change throughob this year in order to respond more precisely and accurately to what trump takes when it comes white house briefing? sarah: i think that was a question for you guys. is howt: the question does it change the way we do our job. air every hour. i am frequently updating. i have four different alerts for when he tweets, so i am covered on every front to make sure i do not miss it. as soon as he tweets, we put out a blast to the network. it is like a running commentary almost. particularly in the sometimes changeable way he goes about his tweets and the topics he flips back and forth on. we stay on top of it. is something that pops up, we make the call to sarah to get some confirmation. covfefe? is said something. he says i watch it and i tweet. remember when albert brooks is talking about. he picks up the phone. william hurt says it. the president looks at twitter very much the same way. for him, it is like a typewriter. he types it on his smartphone and best think he knows

or i should say what was the response when you reached out to the white house for a response from your reporting of these documents in the form of e-mails? >> they gave me a statement, but it didn't reflect the reality of the e-mails. the react is as i reported, that they -- that the white house aides realized that they needed to get the story straight asap and that the story that the president had told on tuesday was not entirely straight. >> john donnelly, of roll call. thanks so much for your time and reporting. >> thanks so much. >>> we'll be right back. you nervous? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> all right. despite his very public firing this summer steve bannon is fiercely defending president trump's ideals to the establishment. he delivered a blistering attack on former president bush. >> president bush to me embarrassed himself. speech writer wrote a speech. it's clear he didn't understand anything he was talking about. he was no idea whether he's coming or going. just like it was when he was president of the united states. is there has not been a more destrikative pressy than george bush's.

he was in the white house. so the story will continue, but i don't think an indictment -- an indictment does not -- we don't know who it is, so therefore, we don't know what impact this will have on trump. i think finally, the other thing, and i've been saying this throughout, we do have to be prepared that trump, president trump will view that his only move is to fire mueller. and i don't know what we do then, but i just think we have to brace ourselves for that now. i don't see what moves trump has left if this ends up being an indictment of someone very close to him. >> what you say often comes to fruition, so let's just see. let's hope that that doesn't happen because then that would take us into a whole different space. susan, i want to bring you in now. mueller has broad authority and we don't know what the charges are. they're under seal by the grand jury, right? so what does this mean for this -- these types of charges or this type of charge? what could we end up seeing? >> right. so we're in an incredi

stepping up its white house credentialing.y had a battle with the white house correspondents association about whether they qualify and should be able to have passes. in the meantime, what they have been doing is getting temporary credentials for four reporters to go in. and so i watched charlie training people, breitbart people, on how to kind of navigate the internal politics of the white house reefing room. -- briefing room. so i thought, maybe this story is all about the white house briefing room and the correspondents association and things like that, but through this interloper who has this enormous power. at least at that point, i thought, if breitbart has this unique quality of being both sides of the white house podium, steve bannon and others. julia, sebastian, have moved into the west wing as employees and now there were going to be five reporters as their representatives. brian: we want to show some video of the man that started it. now deceased, but the fellow who started it first off. [video clip] >> i have a web

he's in the white house.he is a political operative and he can be questioned even though sarah huckabee sanders says i wouldn't question hum. if you want to get into a debate or go after a four star general of the what does that mean? >> the whole bit about how empty barrels dishonor troops and turn it on themselves. i mean, this whole week has been about president trump unnecessarily taking something that was about honoring troops and making it all about himself. and, you know, i think it all in a sense distracts us from a larger point, which is that the real way a president dishonors troops is by recklessly or unnecessarily putting them in harm's way. and i think that that may be the greater legacy of what president trump is doing. >> down south, empty barrel, that means you're stupid and that's essentially what he was saying about the congresswoman. the whole controversy started about the death of four servicemen in niger and today senator lindsey graham told americans things there may just be getting star

jim acosta at the white house, thank you. let's get more on all of this from democratic senator jim himes, a key member of the house intelligence committee. let's start in north korea. you heard the white house chief of staff john kelly say, and i'm quoting him now, let's hope diplomacy works. president trump, you know, he told the secretary of state rex tillerson who was engaged in diplomacy with north korea, don't waste your time. he seems to have abandoned diplomacy. does that concern you? >> well, part of what concerns me is just the fact that we hear one thing from the president and in any number of tweets he has said that the time for diplomacy is up. he contradicted his secretary of state and after threatening the united nations to threaten the country entirely, you know, was making additional threats. he did that with iran, too. there's only one way to deal with this. so his people, and in this is ka, somebody who actually understands what it means to go into combat, what it means to actually lose troops, what it means

kelly, is the white house still mum? i know the president returned less than an hour ago from a day at his virginia golf club. >> yes, and i heard back from a senior white house official that there's still no specific comment on the reports, including nbc news that there will be an indictment expected as early as monday. they're not weighing in because of all of the unknowns that exist, who will be the target of the indictment, will it be one person or more? what are the charges? are they somehow directly related to the campaign or other types of offenses like making false statements would be an kpa example of that. it's going to have a huge political fall-out. it will be measured as to how close those who are the subject of this are to the president or the campaign. the president is heading into a very big week. at the end of the week, he begins a huge asia trip where he'll be on the world stage, and this is the kind of issue that has sort of dogged him throughout his time in office, and if it flames up right before he

-- that could have leaked to the white house or not, i don't know. it leaked to cnn, maybe it could have leaked to the white house. obviously, i don't know. how big a deal is this? it depends on who was indicted and what the charges are. if donald trump is indicted for obstruction of justice, pretty big deal obviously. i don't think anyone thinks that's what's going on here. if it's the most likely person, the person we have the most public information on that he was close to being indicted, paul manafort, depends on what the charges are. of course, being indicted does not mean that one committed a crime. there's a long process after this. >> carl bernstein, though, it does make real something that at this point has been sort of intangible. the existence -- people have known the existence of robert mueller, but it's been sort of this guy off in the shadows with his team. you knew he was out there, clearly the white house was concerned about it. all of a sudden, it's now in the headlines, it's very real. >> it's the first visible public move, and it w

we wait for the white house briefing.o you expect is going to be the biggest question from the press? we threw the question will probably be was there -- did donald trump have any knowledge whatsoever that paul manafort was involved with dealing with russia and their ukrainian allies, which is who they were working for, they were all working for putin. the key that i think there is going to say is as long as we are dealing with not only looking at where the republicans were involved with russia but also whether fusion gps was involved in russia, whether they uranium one deal was involved directly in russia manipulation during the united states, it's all fair game in terms of russia trying to screw up our democratic system. that's what they've been interested in doing from the get-go and that's what all these things indicate to me. >> sandra: following the indictment of paul manafort, what you expect the messaging of the white house to be in a few minutes? >> katie: i want to address the questions i might come from reporte

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white house officials telling cnn the president is not finished with sneert bob corker. >> white houseoubling down on vice president's walkout from the nfl game. >> at least ten dead after wildfires roar across california, mandatory evacuations and curfews in effect as firefighters struggle to contain the blazes, wine country. good morning, and welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> nice to be here i'm christine romans, it is 5:00 a.m. let's begin this morning with the new details on the president's feud with a leading member of his own party. a person of course republican senator bob corker. now former white house strategist steve bannon calling for him to step down. >> establishment globalist click on capitol hill have to go. if we need anymore proof about what they think you heard it tonight. if bob corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign immediately. >> ban non demanding that senator corker resign for his open skepticism of president trump's fitness to lead. that expressed in an interview with the "new york times." we now have audio. let's listen. >> i do worry t

our senior white house correspondent is joining us from the white house. >> reporter: it's still mostly cloudy at the white house where official not offer much in the way of an explanation for the president's bizarre warning that the u.s. is in the middle of the calm before the storm. only that the remarks are serious. the comments are baffling much of washington where they're placing bets on the future of rex tillerson. president trump warns there's a storm brewing but the white house won't say what it is or when it will hit. >> i know the president will not say in advance what the president is going to do. and as he said last night you have to wait and see. >> reporter: the president refused to explain comments the president made next to military leaders and their family last night. a photo op that was made hastily at the end of the day. >> what storm, mr. president? >> we have the world's great military people. i'll tell you that. thank you all for coming. >> what storm, mr. president? >> you'll find out. >> reporter: asked again today what he meant, the president winked. >> you'll f

despite white house attempts to down play. he was e-mailing with a campaign manager. >> the revelation this papadoupolos is cooperating with the fbi is heightening the unne unneu unease. >> good morning, christine and alec. monday's charges show the mueller investigation is zeroing in on collusion. george papadoupolos, a former foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign pleaded guilty on october 5 to making fault statements to the fbi about his contacts with russia, and according to records undealed monday, the fbi alleges he falsely described his interactions with a certain foreign contact who discussed dirt related e-mails concerning hillary clinton. one. court documents describes an emt sent by papadoupolos to a high-ranking campaign official who a source says is paul manafort. request for -- it went on to say russia was eager to meet with the candidate and had been reaching out. the documents allege he forwarded that e-mail toe another official, rick gates. that said we need someone to commune date dt is not doing these

to the white house today. they'll love trick or treating in the executive office building and i'll look forward to taking questions maybe from the kids today. a couple of things to note. as you all so yesterday was an important fight yesterday by opioid by decoration of public health emergency to address the opioid crisis, the president is mobilizing his entire administration to confront this issue. the president's stirring remarks yesterday which included a powerful story of how addiction impacted his family set the stage for the country to unite behind this fight to save lives. in the wake of the announcement, several cabinet members and agency heads are traveling around the country to events to the opioid events. among those are sessions, acting secretary har begin and acting i.c.e. director of homeland. this means the president has made this issue administration wide priority. on the economic front the u.s. economy grew at 3% despite the damage from this year's hurricane season. unemployment is at 16 year

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i covered the reagan white house and the bush white house, george herbert walker bush white house. i have interviewed several presidents. this presidency changes what we have seen in many ways. trump was a disruptive candidate and is a disruptive president. and some of the challenges to covering the white house, criticisms on the fake news. i have also in news and shaped things of well. we will touch on that as well. marget: our work every day is about doing our job day in and day out. there are moments in a presidency, and tonight is one of those moments when it is about assessing where we have been, where we are going, and whether anything has changed and how. frank: our panel will join us in a moment. we will ask a question on a different topic of each member of the panel. then we will open it up for a broader conversation. we will open it up for your questions later in the evening as well. this is a real discussion. marget: when that point in the night comes there will be microphones. you can spend the next hour thinking about what questions you would like to ask and we will gi

it was not released, we're told, and the white house opted instead for the white house press secretary to make a statement from the podium, and they thought here that would somehow be more powerful. meanwhile, we continue to follow the multiple threads of the multiple gold-star families and their interactions with the president of the united states. in fact, the family of army corps corporal, findin out the $25,000 death benefit would only go to the mother, the president offered to write a $25,000 check of his own to the father of balldride. still, they think the family says they think the president handled the situation very well. >> it was amazing, not knowing what to expect. he was, again, very genuine. genuinely thankful for my son and his service, and very encouraging. he expressed, you know, a sincere gratitude and it was very, very nice. >> meanwhile the family of murphy, a soldier that died in syria earlier this year says they never received a call from the president at all. they talked to cnn on "new day" this morning. >> it's not about me. it's about my child. and all the oth

i think that the white house has a problem with leaks. i think it's the press establishment's job to do its job. i don't agree about the attacks about fake news, they're quoting nine sources at a time. i'll say this, larry connors, it's striking that nbc would not report ronan farrow's well-sourced about harvey weinstein and that's something to talk about. i think it's distraction when you have to have the white house chief of staff come out and talk about the leaks. it's a distraction away from the growth agenda. david: although a lot of people said they were glad to to see him, but the fact that he looked in command and reasserted his commitment to the trump administration and we should mention, by the way, it hasn't hurt the markets which are booming. the gdp had a great growth spurt as we saw in the last quarter, that may change because of the hurricanes. and consumer confidence are at record highs. go ahead. >> that all makes me happy and i hope it continues that way and i think it's a sure way to ensure it does is to make sure that

i do think as the reporting from the white house says, they're ready to pounce in the white house if it's simply about a manafort thing. i know legally, they could keep going from there. but that's going to be seen as a weak move. if, on the other hand, the charges come back and they involve something that could go up the line, could go all the way to the white house itself and involve the president, that is a very, very big deal. >> michael, given the level of experience of the prosecutors on mueller's team, to david gergen's point, they would be very well aware of how this would be perceived. would that be a concern? >> well, i suppose if they think about things in political terms. but again, as we talked about in the last hour, if you look at the whitewater case as an example, that was a case where the president clinton was under investigation for fraud in the dealings in whitewater. what happened in the start of the investigation was that there were several investigations about collateral matters, that brought indictments, and those people were charged. and then they tried to lev

i covered companies for a long time before this white house gig. i could not imagine a company handling crisis communication like this. you get your facts straight. if you're going to respond, if you're going to send someone out to respond, know it's going to fan the flames, it's going to drag the story on a day longer, and you have to have that statement sealed air tight. you can't come out and make a tiny -- even the tiniest error because it will fan the flames, it will exacerbate the story. so, you know, sarah sanders has been doing communications, politics, campaigns pretty much her whole life because of the work she did coming up with her father, but from a pr communications standpoint, if you talk to people who do corporate pr, they will tell you they have done everything wrong this week to make this story drag out for such a long period of time. >> philip rucker, you're the white house bureau chief for "the washington post," and when you hear from the podium the notion that a retired four-star marine general ought not to be questioned on som

over at the white house. the first dominos have fallen and the man who was cooperating with federal investigators is described as a small part of this much wider probe. here with us, some of the cnn journalists following the facts of the russia investigation since day one, they have been breaking a lot of the news along the way. our crime and justice reporter. our justice correspondent and our chief national security correspondent and our justice corresponde correspondent, evan perez. what more have we learned about the contacts and his relationships with the russians? >> it goes beyond the professor that nick robertson was describing. according to the court documents that the fbi and the special counsel have prepared, it appears that he was in touch with someone who he thought initially was a niece of vladimir putin and having communications and setting up meetings with the russian ambassador to the united kingdom. the fact today that the russian government is sort of dismissing this ask saying there was not

now the white house says the check is in the mail, send today.u just walk us through your reporting on this. when did the president call the father and what exactly did he tell him? how did this come about? >> sure. thanks for having me. in light of the president's comments on monday saying that he had called either all or very close to all gold star families from his era, we decided to reach out to these people. you know, it seems lining they were the missing element from this story. they had been through a lot. some of them would probably want to speak up. and this particular father in north carolina shared a story in which several weeks after his son's death the president called in july. the father was glad to hear from him. they had a discussion in which the father shared that he was frustrated that the death gra tu wit, financial benefit that goes with having fallen soldier in the family was going to his own ex-wife. the president said apparently shared some level of sympathy and said that he was going to cut the father a $25,000 check. >> a

he has been a white house correspondent for breitbart since before the presidency. t under this administration, breitbart is stepping up. with the whitele house correspondents association about whether they qualify and should be able to have passes. in the meantime, what they have been doing is getting temporary credentials for for reporters to go in. breitbart trained people on how to navigate the internal politics of the white house briefing room. and i thought, maybe this story andbout the briefing room correspondents association, but through the lens of this man who has an arm is power. at that time, i thought of breitbart as having this quality of being on both sides of the white house podium. steve bannon, other breitbart intor staffers, had moved the west wing employees. now there were going to be reporters -- some videont to show that started it. >> i have a website, breitbart.com which is a news aggregation source. myself,t want to branch i was father-in-law said crazy not to do it in my name. i do not regret it. but what i wanted to do was create a news org

war for the white house?n filed if someone is arrested as early as monday, we will find out who that is number one. and if the person was someone connected to what part of the president's campaign. then it will put the focus back on the president and republicans. this is coming also added some of the white house was trying to divert attention about the story to the democrats. as you can see with the clip that you displayed. and also preparing for some major policies that they tried to get past fear number one, tax reform. the president is also expected to his choice for that share next week and going to -- >> imagine atomic grid it is interesting, the uranium one stories on somebody talking about the trump dossier. what is the main move there the white house? >> i think the white house was pleased as far as that particular story is concerned to put their attention on the trump dossier and looks as an aspect of that. but otherwise i think they are going full speed ahead on the policy issues that i was just des

that's exactly what happened. >> all right, ryan nobles in the white house. thank you so much. >>> let's talk about all of this now, joining us now cnn political commentator simone sanders and ben ferguson. good to see both of you. okay, just reading the text of these back and forth tweets, it's almost laughable. it's almost embarrassing, but it's happening in realtime. then just moments ago, adam schiff, ranking member of the house intel committee tweeted after all the scandals involving unnecessarily expensive travel by cabinet secretaries, how much taxpayer money was wasted on this stunt, meaning the vice president going to the indianapolis game and then sending out a tweet and making a statement about those who were kneeling. so, ben, where are you on what now appear to be the priorities of messaging today? >> yeah, i think it's a cheap shot. it's one -- >> which? >> one of the cheap shots in politics. the tweet you have on the scream of attacking the president. never attacked -- let me at least finish. >> i'm sorry. the cheap shot was adam schiff? no, do

the white house confirmed with cnn. when we asked about the delay, the white house says there was a process they had to go through, and deal with a number of different agencies but didn't explain what that process would be, what other agencies they had to work with. they did insist the president has followed up on this a number of times and wanted to make sure the money got to this individual. but again, not a lot of details from the white house. >> so, sarah they're saying its coincidental that the check is in the mail today the day if story broke? >> it is quite an coincidence. >> i think it's important to say out of all the families the white house was touch -- "the washington post" was in touch with they had different responses about why this outreach of the president mattered to them. >> we had several parents that were very happy to hear from the president. we had several that took exception to the fact that they didn't hear from the president. we had one who said they didn't hear from the president but didn't wan

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i had one foot in the white house and one foot out. i was telling my colleagues i was going to the prosecutors. the prosecutors suggested i wear a wire. i said i just can't do that. i didn't know that nixon was already wiring be everybody. it was irrelevant. >> i'll ask you just quickly because i have to go. proactive cooperate or. what does that mean? that's how this papadopoulos is described in these papers. >> well, that means somebody who is doing recordings, whether it was wearing a wire or making recorded phone calls. it's somebody who is actively going out and trying to get evidence. >> and john flarnry, they should be concerned, the white house about this. >> oh, absolutely. and there's another thing. we overlook the fact that there was a wire tap under the fisa for paul manafort. and no one knows what they got or didn't get in that. there have been some outlines of it. and there were two version of it. and one overlapped when the president was in the white house. >> thank you. appreciate it. >>> when we come back, two former c