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of donald trump sort of predictable bluster that we have been now so accustomed to again the white house press briefing set to begin about fifteen minutes ago it's often delayed but i can tell you that not only is the rhetoric continuing to escalate but also the activity here at the white house in terms of consultations with the president we spotted leaving the white house after a meeting not just the secretary of defense general james mattis but also the chairman of the joint chiefs general dunford also leaving with the secretary of defense so certainly the president continues to consult with top military advisers as well as foreign policy advisers this is in addition to consulting with world leaders like the french president as well as the british prime minister it appears from what the press secretary said on tuesday sarah sanders that this is an effort to try and coordinate the response with international partners and allies but in terms of what this might look like in terms of the proportion in terms of whether this is designed to in some way encourage deterrence in the future we simply a

it strike on syria was imminent with the white house spokesperson doing little to dispel the mystery parties came up and has more. now the daily white house press briefing took place and sarah huckabee sanders the white house spokesperson came out and took questions from the press now in response to trump's tweets the press had quite a few questions they asked when where would this strike be being carried out this potential strike or unleashing the missiles they asked would russian positions be hit in syria as there are russian forces on the ground there would they be hit in a potential strike furthermore they asked the question what kind of missiles would be used and what kind of weapons would be used however every time a question was asked sarah how could you sanders gave the same very vague answer or maintaining that we have a number of options and once again all options are on the table he has a number of other options as well the president has not laid out a timetable and still leaving a number of other options there are you say options on the table when it comes to russia as diplomacy. that's an option as i said all options are on the tab

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the white house press secretary claims for the very first time today that the president has mueller? the white house press secretary claims for the very first time today that the president has been advised that he has the authority to do so. also breaking tonight, a new york times reveals that donald trump wanted mueller out back in december. it's the second time that we know of that the president sought to shut down the investigation. one of the reporters who proek that sto -- broke that story is here. plus reports that stormy daniels is now cooperating with the feds, just one day after the fbi raided the office of trump's attorney. michael avenatti, stormy daniels' lawyer joins us live. "the 11th hour" begins right now. >>> good evening. i'm nicole wallace. in early december, president trump furious over news reports that a first round of subpoenas told visitors in no uncertain terms that mr. mueller's investigation had to be shut down. the president's anger was fuelled by reports of the subpoenas were for obtaining information about his business dealings with deutsche bank. accordi

all options are on the table is the only answer given by the white house press secretary to war questions on syria donald trump fires off a series of contradictory tweets first threatening and then conciliatory towards russia. and british media reports prime minister reason may is preparing for action ordering the u.k. submarines within range of syria. another news arm and police vehicles have moved in to break up an eco camp in western france on what was the third straight day of protest offices be met with violence from activists. london's metropolitan police release a statement by the daughter of a russian former spy surrogate script power exposed with her father to nerve agent last month in it she says she doesn't need the russian embassies help nor does she want to get in touch with their relative for the time being. very good evening to you my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international. get ready russia that was the message sent out by u.s. president donald trump in a seven am tweets he promised quote nice and new and smart missiles would be fired at syria in response to the all

so many things to talk to the white house press secretary. this is just one of them. syria, the border, so many other questions that the white house has yet to answer, brooke. >> on syria because, of course, it all started with the president's speech in ohio a week ago, right? he surprised the pentagon in saying i want the troops, 2,000 or so american troops in syria to withdraw, leading to questions this as the pentagon was planning to send more troops over to seara. he met with national security advisers yesterday at the why house, expressed his interest in withdrawing. yet what was his decision out of that meeting? >> certainly the president is eager to withdraw at some time. there was a big discussion here yesterday at the white house. it's not exactly what the president was hoping for, at least in terms of the swift timing of this. traordinary watching the global envoy say essential the exact opposite of what the president was saying. it speaks to the fact that the president has a lot of advisers, some are outside the government. he's fo

time the white house has continued to say the president has continued to say even as recently as on tuesday that he would like to have a positive relationship with russia at the white house press secretary confirming in fact there's been a telephone call in recent weeks between the russian president and the u.s. president where there has been an invitation to washington potentially at the white house so we're seeing on one hand very strong action but at the same time the u.s. president saying he would like to have that dialogue with the man responsible for so many actions that the u.s. is condemning all right thank you very much kelly how could a white house correspondent. now south korea's former president has been sentenced to twenty four years in jail and ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines she was found guilty on sixteen of eighteen charges of abuse of power bribery and coercion in an influence peddling scandal that shocked the nation kathy novak has more from seoul. this is a scandal that has gripped south korea since twenty sixteen and the nation watched the climax live on television but park in haiti boycotted the trial and wasn't in court to learn her fate but

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white house briefing room today. your reaction to the white house press secretary saying that it's her belief that the president has the authority to fire robert mueller. and then i want to read you something from mike's colleagues, julie davis and mag day haberman, who report that inside the white house, mr. trump furious after the fbi raided his longtime personal lawyer michael cohen, spent much of the day brooding and fearful and what people described as a meltdown. >> nicolle, in terms of the president's fury, i think it's not principled. it's not like he's offended of the notion of somebody looking into his lawyer's files. he's scared. he's scared they will find evidence of a crime that implicates him. i think he's lashing out because he worries that for the first time, investigators, federal investigators might have their hands on e-mails, on phone records, on files that show that he worked with michael cohen to undertake illegal acts, whether it was bank fraud, lying to the bank about the nature of the payments to stormy daniels, or whatever it is, and we know that michael cohen has many files on donald trump's

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white house principal deputy white house press secretary raj shah as part of our profile interview series with trump administration officials. in this half-hour interview, he talks about his life growing up in connecticut, his interest in politics, and what it is like working for the president. the principals deputy white house press secretary. we are seeing you behind the podium on occasion. for that? prepare mr. shah: we have a preparation process i used to oversee the previous role for that? mr. shah: here. -- oversee in a previous role here. our staff have to produce our answers, and we will have a briefing prep session with the person that goes behind the podium. usually that is sarah. &a before things get revisited one more time, and prepare the book the individual gets sent out with. usually it is her, so it is her voice. when i do it, i am reflected in the talking points and answers we have. >> our most of the questions you anticipate usually asked? mr. shah: most of the questions we anticipate are not asked. do anticipate most of the questions. we create a big universe of potenti

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we're joined by white house press secretary sarah sanders. good morning to you. how was the dinner last night? >> it was spectacular. the first lady could not have done a more amazing job. she played a big role and had a hand in every single detail. and thank goodness she did. it was done to absolute perfection. and i don't think it could have gone any better. everybody seemed to have a great time and it was a great testament to the friendship the president, president trump has with president macron and the relationship that we have with france, one of our oldest allies. >> bill: everything looked beautiful. congratulations on that front. let's get to the meat. on iran. is the president ready to rework this deal or scrap it, sarah? >> look, i won't get ahead of the president's announcement. as he said yesterday, we'll see what happens. but the president has been very clear that he thinks this deal has not been a good deal from the very beginning. he has been very outspoken about that. that has not changed. he wants to see a good deal made and we'll see if that's

former white house press secretary ari fleischer with us. there has been drama at the white house and he'll talk about that. hogan gidley here talking and house homeland security committee mike mccall as well. lots of stuff for all three of those guys. >> sandra: ari will be good to chat with and get perspective working in previous administration. the perspective sending the national guard to the border. you're seeing an uproar over it but it is nothing new. >> president obama did it and george w. bush did it. having troops on the border goes back to the 1800s. it isn't a new phenomenon. you listen to certain people on the left they seem quite aghast at it. >> sandra: update from the white house on a busy day important as well. another big story we're watching. another california city sides with the trump administration on immigration. >> if i can do it every single person that's a dreamer in this room can do it. every person that's undocumented in this room, they could do it, too. >> sandra: where this was and what comes next in the battle o

beyond troubling statement from the white house press secretary and the president's allies in the media, president trump has publicly mused about the firing of the special counsel, so while i appreciate that the majority leader believes the president would be wrong to fire the special counsel, i believe it's a real mistake not to pass legislation to protect the investigation, and i sincerely hope leader mcconnell considers, reconsiders his refusal to entertain bringing such a bill to the floor. it's a bipartisan bill. i have talked to members on both sides of the aisle who were worried of a constitutional crisis, and we all know the consequences of presidential interference in the russian probe and how dire it would be for the rule of law fundamental to our democracy, and the constitutional crisis that it would create should be avoided at all costs. unfortunately, there are substantial evidence that the president has thought about firing the special counsel more than once in the past and may do so well in the future. the bipartisan legislation introduced by senators graham, coons, tilli

the white house is keeping its options open. press secretary sarah sanders was asked about the challenges. >> we are evaluating the concerns and we are expecting him to answer for them. we will keep you posted. >> pruitt's backers like tom cole questioning his decision to reject the white house after of help to prep for highly charged hearings. >>> the senate is expected to confoirm mike pompeo. mike pompeo has enough support with every republican senator and four democratic senators backing him. >>> michael cohen taking the fifth in the hush money case. the long-time lawyer of the president cannot testify because of the raid on his home, office and hotel room for the president. the fact he is under criminal investigation by the fbi and federal prosecutor in manhattan. cohen is trying to put the star's civil suit on hold. >>> rudy giuliani, the newest member of the legal team of the president meeting face-to-face with robert mueller. discussing a possible interview with the president by the special counsel. both sides agreeing negotia

made that have kind of shocked some women in the white house, particularly he'll say something like, women are more emotional than men, their white house press office said, you know, one of them said, frankly they believe women are more emotional than men, so they really didn't make much of that. and then there's -- there were these meetings about immigration that happened in recent months where kelly was questioning the president's grasp on the issue of immigration and then after a bipartisan deal fell apart that kelly was not hard line enough. according to part parents in the meeting, he had saved trump from cutting a really bad deal. and the white house saying that didn't happen. so there are a number of things they are saying that he didn't necessarily say or a do, if he ever said something like i'm the one saving the country, perhaps he said it in jest, so there's push back on that as well. >> again, what we're hearing, is there's sort of a bill of goods being given to you from different sources, is part of their agenda here they want him gone, they have an ax to grind against him, is that part of the formula here? >> we spoke to a numb

some say wolf went too far, specifically jokes of the white house press secretary. >> i'm never really sure what to call sarah huckabee sanders, you know, is it sarah sanders, is it sarah huckabee sanders, is it cousin huckabee, is it auntie huckabee sanders? what's uncle tom but for white women who disappoint other white women? oh, i know, ann coulter. >> former white house press secretary sean spicer called the d dinner a disgrace on twitter. c-span stopped broadcasting her performance halfway out of an abundance of caution about what she might say next. wolf said at the beginning of her speech she was here to make jokes and had no agenda. president trump did not attend that dinner for the second straight year. >>> okay. we're going to turn our attention now to the weather. rob, no controversy here, we like what we're seeing. >> yeah, the seven-day forecast, if you like summer-like temperatures, you'll be fine by about friday. in the meantime, it's breezy and cool outside. and as you're about to see, still snow around parts of the sierra. right now san francisco, it's more the wind t

the white house press secretary sarah sanders standing by live. ainsley: she is very important. good morning. >> good morning. great to be with you guys. steve: have you big guests today coming in. france's president macron. why this is aallegiance important to us? >> this sour country's oldest ally. they have been a great partner. the president and president macron have had a great relationship since the very beginning. we have a lot of the things we can work with. one of the biggest trading partners we have in europe. we are really excited about this visit. the first lady has been incredible throughout this process. she has done this all on her own without bringing in an outside consultant. been very hands on. and this is going to be a spectacular couple of days. brian: sarah, a couple of things, one thing that's pretty clear is he desperately, france and germany desperately wants to stay in the iranian deal. has the president gone over the framework that would get him interested in staying in it? >> look. we certainly expect this to be a topic that comes up both at this visit

sarah sanders the white house press secretary joins us from the nation's capitol. good morning, sarah. >> great to be with you guys. hope you had a wonderful easter. steve: thank you very much. the president made it clear with a series of tweets he feel the democrats blew it regarding daca, explain. >> look the president made multiple offers on daca. he wanted to see something get done and democrats refused to put something on the table or work with the president to get anything done. they wanted to use daca recipients as political pawns. i think what happened here is incredibly sad. hopefully democrats will stop playing political games and show up to do what they were elected to do and improve things for people in this country and improve the process that we're going through. the president wanted to make a deal. he made two incredibly generous offers went far and above even what previous administrations had done on daca. democrats still refused to make a deal. i think it is we're getting close to to an election. they don't want the president to win like ephas the

the podium means that we are awaiting the white house press conference, sure to be a fiery one on this day as james comey's book is about to come out. i'm melissa francis in today for harris faulkner. have a great weekend. >> dana: a fox news alert. the white house briefing is scheduled for a half hour from now as sarah sanders sure to take questions about newly released excerpts from former fbi director's james comey's book. hello, everyone, i'm dana perino. and this is the daily briefing. ♪ ♪ >> dana: there is also breaking news with president trump issuing a pardon to scooter libby just a short time ago. libby, who was vice president's dick cheney's chief of staff who had been crickeconvicted of lying to the fbi in 2007. chris stirewalt is standing by. but let's begin with chief intelligence correspondent kathleen herrige. kathleen, you spoke to scooter. what did he have to say? >> yeah, within the last hour i was able to have a very brief conversation with scooter libby. i want to be respectful of him and his privacy. but he did authorize me to report that he is very pleased as he

backed down after white house counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the president's directives. what are you hearing about don mcgahn's role now that the white house press secretary has escalated -- this is the white house press secretary, not known as a rogue actor, taking to the podium and saying she has been advised by people at the justice department and other legal voices -- we have to think big there and assume they may have appeared on fox news -- that they now have legal advice saying they can do just what don mcgahn basically threatened to quit over. >> yeah. let's also remember that president trump's lawyers ty cobb in particular, his top white house lawyer, has been advising him from the beginning that this is a terrible idea, that you do not want to fire mueller. the dominos that will fall after that, you know, can really get this thing out of control. what's interesting is that whenever we have reported things like the story you just read or when other news outlets have reported things along those lines, the response from the white house has been, that's preposterous, this is only in the media is anybody talking about firing bob mueller. an

. >>> moments from now, the white house press secretary will have a briefing.bombarded about the raids into the office, the home and hotel room of the president's personal attorney. we'll have live coverage of that, so stand by. but there is other critical news. we're following what's going on in syria. the president promised a very tough response to that suspected chemical attack in syria. right now president trump is weighing what that response will be. he said a decision would come within the next 24 hours or so, and as the president rallies u.s. allies, meeting with his military leadership, syria is taking direct aim at both the united states and israel. the government of bashar al-assad striking the air base this weekend. al-assad also denies a chemical agent attack killing women and children. they are taking action as to whether he has the authority to carry out an attack. listen to what republican senator bob corker told our manu raju. >> i think we need to take some surgical military action in syria, yes. >> what does that mean? >> what i just said. >>

know better than i, they don't happen willy nilly. >> we're going to cut now to the white house where white house press secretary sarah sanders has been giving her brief. >> president trump will remain in the united states to oversee the american response to syria and monitor developments around the world. looking ahead to this afternoon, the president's pleas to welcome to the alabama crimson tide football team to the white house in celebration of their 17th national championship. i'm pretty sure that was written by somebody from alabama. coach saban and the team captains will meet with president trump in the oval office and the group will join the rest of the team and hundreds of tide fans out on the south lawn and that event will of course be open to the press. with that, i will take your questions. because it is her birthday, nadia, i'll go with you and happy birthday. >> reporter: thank you, sarah. the president authorized the use of military force last year after they used chemical weapons but this didn't deter him. the president talks of a very serious account now. how will he hold president ass

sean spicer, former white house press secretary on the red carpet at the white house correspondents' dinner. cnn's special coverage, again, begins in less than an hour. we'll keep an eye on the happenings there. >>> meantime, white an extraordinary, historic past few days for the people of both north and south korea. that monumental moment when the leaders of both countries shook hands at their border, walked over it together, and then promised to get rid of all nuclear weapons and formally finally end their long war. president trump sharing in the positivity, tweeted this morning, just had a very -- a long and very good talk with president moon of south korea. things are going very well. time and location of meeting with north korea is being set. our correspondent will ripley is in seoul, south korea, right now. will, i'm sure the people there of south korea are still trying to process the past 48 hours or so. they'd have good reason to be skeptical after so many decades of tension and distrust, but is there optimism there today? >> reporter: there is. i mean, people saw something a

a sentiment echoed by white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. >> a sovereign nation that defend its borders will no longer be a sovereign nation. you have broken the law. we are committed to doing everything we can to secure our nation, need congress to do their job and pass legislation to close the legal loopholes. >> reporter: the caravan peaked at 1500 people but has shrunk under pressure from mexican authorities without to -- the right to stay in mexico from those who do not and the pres.'s call for the national guard to secure the border. >> it has brought awareness to other people what they can or can't do. members of the dangerous ms 13 gang convicted of murder, a boston jury founding salvador perez vasquez and hector guilty in the shooting death of a rival gang member in 2014. also found guilty of racketeering, sentencing is expected in july. border patrol agents in texas napping 56 illegal immigrants. and they tipped off suspicious activity in laredo, texas. from guatemala, mexico and hunter us and they have all been turned over to ice. the time is 16 minutes aft

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follows up a series of contradictory tweets first threatening russia but later toning it down the white house press secretary has a hard job to pin down the president's message our maintaining that we have a number of options and all of those options are still on the table what is certainly means i think there's a lot there that you can read from but at the same time the president has a number of options a statement through british police he says she will refrain from media contact refused help from the russian embassy and relatives at least for now we explore the facts behind the poisoning. if this was a variety of the new drugs a single drop is enough to kill people ten people within minutes. and saudi arabia's crown prince mohamed wins over the french president on his whirlwind tour of europe with president a crumb now asking critics of the saudi had to give him a chance. in the news team here at all to h.q. in moscow might have called him brain just turned two in the afternoon stories this hour as the u.s. and its allies most strikes against syria tension between america and russia continues to

the white house press corps had its moment to really look graceful. president looked like the little guy who wouldn't come and take his shots. they really missed their opportunity. they just went into the gutter. >> i mean, look, the journalists involved in the white house correspondent's association said they didn't know what she was going to say. giving free reign and letting her have creative expression. >> alisyn, a little bit of me has sympathy is for them. i put on cpac with our board. it is not an easy thing to do. ive give them grace for that. and i applaud them for the fact when it bombs and it's off target and mean when you're trying to be funny, it's the right thing to do is to stand up and take ownership for it. so i give them credit for doing that. and i think there is a real moment to figure out whether this dinner is serving a purpose or not. >>. >> matt, what part was it about the jokes about sarah sanders? did you think she was going after sarah sanders looks? >> i think the smoky eye thing, definitely. there was this whole conversati

that he wanted to meet with the black press and black white house press corps and members of the press corps were black. we want to get off the record with him. and i am shocked about it. we wanted it off the record. many of the mainstream journalists received off the record with the president, go into the oval office and talk with him and he knows who you are. i run into him in the hallway and say you need to call me by my name and he did. we needed those 1-on-1 like the abcs, major news organizations, he wanted to talk about his race initiative was floundering. we wanted off the record. you want to give us that. we are going to appeal to the senses, what he likes, soul food. it is true and he comes to me all the time. remember the show, the dinner we had? that is why i have a heart attack, that is not why you had your heart attack. i did a jesse jackson impersonation really well but i can't anymore. when you are around these people you get to know their rhythms or whatever. john kennedy junior's funeral, and it will throw things off the table. we didn't think we were going to have th

the white house repeatedly underlined the executive order was a tool to, quote, end sanctuary cities. after the executive order was issued the white house press office issued a press release saying donald trump signed an executive order to ensure that immigration laws are enforced throughout the united states including halting federal funding for sanctuary cities. jurisdictions like san francisco and santa clara were able to see for weeks from this coercion because we had the resources to do it but we see the executive order operate as intended on other local jurisdictions that had targeted policies. miami made the determination that it couldn't risk catastrophic defunding the president said was an issue when he said he going to risk ruin by continuing to provide the health and safety services to the tune of $5 million a day with these federal program funds? wasn't going to stop providing those services protecting its fifth but advocating public responsibility or was it going to abdicate its function in a different way by abandoning its local elected lawmakers, policies that had been adopted to protect law enforcement in the county. the injun

may have to tell him it's all over. >> welsh we know that he was huddling at the white house today with white house pressater on in the evening, there were other white house officials in the press office having meetings with him. certainly thereby people dealing with this at the white house. the last we heard from the white house on this topic was deputy press secretary raz shah saying they believe he deserves a hearing and herbal have the opportunity to defend himself. we know ronny jackson was on capitol hill this evening clearly trying to make the same case for lawmakers to move the ball forward here. but we're also hearing the white house say from shah and others that they are making preparations that he could withdraw his name. and of course that hearing he's supposed to have has been ed layed indefinitely at this point. there's no hearing on the books to speak at this point for him. >> i promise you, there will be no hearing. i hate to be the one to break it to the world, and to ronny jackson if he's watching. there will be no hearing. thank you very much for your reporting and for your questions.

event the college scholarship fund raiser celebrates the relationship between the media and the white house press secretaries sarah huckabee some of it is taking trump's place and can expect a grilling from comedian host in the show rules. brooke is following events for us from washington d.c. and of course the correspondents' dinner without the chief guest present for the second time said being quite a clear message to the press is that old that's right and actually the president sent a message to the press from michigan he said when he began his speech this evening that he'd much rather be in michigan than in washington attending this correspondents' dinner and you know the message is that he sees the press is an adversary a few months ago he said that the press was an enemy of the american people which is a rather sad statement to make and he's actually missing an opportunity by not being at this correspondents' dinner president's abuse of this dinner in the past to you know hope fun at the media but also to poke fun at themselves and it's a way of humanizing them it helps them connect with th

the suggestion being if anyone can change doldrums mind it's it's him having said that of the white house press briefing a short time ago the white house press secretary says he did want to get ahead of negotiations but don't want does continue to think this is a very bad deal we know that there have been the go under way between european powers and the state department on perhaps forging some sort of side agreement on various areas of concern that the trump administration has on iran's ballistic missile program on sunset clauses in the nuclear deal on having more aggressive and spectrums of iranian military sites but still to see how this all fits in to the iranian nuclear deal the joint a comprehensive plan of action because as background and the iranians say there is no plan b. this is the deal you signed on to not only that if america does walk away all messages like it to north korea and others in addition there are other parties other than the europeans and the u.s. in this in this deal notably at the the russians and the chinese we know that micron had a conversation with adam a putin ju

. >> the white house press correspondents dinner where he made a fool of him. >> yeah, exactly. the success of his administration over the eight years, the fact that obama made fun of him or clowned him at the press club meeting, right, has made him the object of trump's scorn. in other words, everything that obama is trump desires to be. so he projects his failures. >> i look at the outer aspects of what you might envy in barack obama. he's a cool guy. cool in a senate trat, positive sinatra way unlike trump which is the bad sinatra. is he cool. he's got a very successful marriage, great kids. first marriage, no disasters there. a great marriage all these years, real partnership. ivy league education, a real one with a harvard degree, harvard law degree. are those the things that trump despite his claim to billions, is that what he really wants that barack obama has? is that your suggestion? >> in part, chris, i should just be as explicit as i can be. there seems to me, and i may be wrong here, there's a bit of obama is this uppity black person we need to put in his place. >> r

white house press secretary sarah sanders will be previewing the french president's visit during her white house briefing. it is scheduled to start at 1:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, on landmark cases. a case about student free speech. in 1965, 5 students from iowa wore black armbands to school to protest the vietnam war. violating local school policies. the students, and the four siblings challenged the school boards free speech restrictions and the revolting -- resulting decision establishing that the students keep their first amendment rights on school grounds. our guests to discuss our mary beth tinker, one of the five students. she was 13 at the time. after two decades as a nurse she began working as a free speech advocate for students. an independent federal litigator with the experience at the supreme court on more than 100 cases. tonight atark cases 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. join the conversation. follow us at c-span caret we span. ♪

the white house is being very gung ho about him, defending him in interviews after the president first made those remarks in a press conference. but people who work inside the white house think that dr. jackson is doomed, they do not think he has a chance of being confirmed as the next veterans affair secretary. they think the white house instead of pulling his nomination, they're dragging him out by defending him. >> i also want to get to this contentious moment exchange involving freedom of the press. ladies, let's watch. >> are you trying to say this administration is a champion of a free press? >> i certainly think as astati d a moment ago, we support a free press but we also support a fair press. i think those things should go hand in hand and there's a certainly responsibility by the press to report accurate information. i think a number of people in this room do that every single day, they do their very best to provide fair and accurate information, certainly support that. that's within of the reasons i'm standing here taking your questions. and a lot of times taking your questions in a tone that's completel

the white house press had a real opportunity. the president is skipping the dinner. the chance at that point, not you, but the white house correspondents, can show you can rally around the first amendment. instead they got right in the gutter, and what they did is exactly why the american people hate what they view as a left wing press, because they think they mock their beliefs, mock abortions? that's crazy. >> matt, i know you're being critical of michelle wolf, and maybe she deserves that criticism, but i've heard you have that same level of criticism for the president. when he has mocked a disabled reporter before, he's gone after the appearance of his political opponents. he does this on a regular basis. he did this last night. >> you don't know because you and i haven't had those interviews, and throughout the campaign there were all kinds of moments where i said i would have done something much different. the difference is this. if the president is sitting on that stage, i think all of it is is fair game. but for sarah sanders, who is not the president of the

white house correspondents' dinner for the second year running faster child became the first president in thirty six years to skip the event a college scholarship fund raiser celebrates the relationship between the media and white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says taking trump's place instead attended a campaign rally in michigan turned out for the event in the east in an eastern rural county trump told the crowd he thinks he'll meet kim jong north korea's kim jong un very soon. i think we'll have a meeting over the next three or four weeks are going to be a very important meeting the d. nuclearization of the korean peninsula thank you thank you thank you thank you but we'll see how it go and again whatever happens happens look i may go when. i leave i'm not going to be john kerry who makes that horrible. thank you. trump and his south in the south korean president moon j.n. have agreed to a summit between the u.s. and north korea they say it needs to happen soon the leader spoke on the phone late saturday with trump praising moon and kim jong un for reaffirming the goal of complete nuclearization on the peninsula as are the headlines counting the cost is next keep it here on al-jazeera. we understand the d