white lies in the trump white house. that's next. >>> and today jared kushner praised president trump's choice to manage the reelection campaign. it is the same aide who ran the trump digital operation in 2016. and yes, he has already been interviewed in the russia investigation. >>> white lies. "the new york times" is reporting tonight that hope hicks told the house intelligence committee today that she believes her job in the white house working for president trump requires her to lie. she called them white lies. and in the trump white house, of course, everything white is good. white is the way the world is supposed to be in the trump white house. and so white lies are good lies. but there is no color of lying that is acceptable under oath, which hope hicks is finding out the hard way. this morning, just before 8:00 a.m., the president delivered his most economical tweet ever, two words and one exclamation point. there it is, "witch-hunt!" he apparently decide head no longer needs to bothered with verbs or adjectives t

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white house students who continued their protest wednesday were united in their opposition to guns we will continue to try to get gun legislation until congress listens to what the white house was. trump said during his meeting with shooting survivors that this was no longer the time for just talk as in the past but elected by a pro-gun base and backed by the powerful gun lobby it remains to be seen just health far trouble go to bring meaningful reform heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington now in florida where last week's shooting took place deputy sheriffs who patrol school grounds have now been told to carry rifles the state is at the center of a big a student mobilization against gun violence known cheese day thousands of them gathered outside the republican controlled legislature in the state capital tallahassee to demand change and was that. the survivors of last week's school shooting in parkland would not alone when they came to florida state capital chants of no more guns and never again rang out as crowd swells. many of these students have spent the past few days attending funerals of forming classmates that determination to change u.s. gun laws is a rallying call for activi

some estimates indicate as many as 40 people in the trump white house do not have the security clearanceis required for their jobs. and now the security clearance process has completely undone the trump white house for the last week. we know that white house staffer rob porter was accused of beating both of his former wives and a former girlfriend only because of the fbi background investigation, an investigation that was supposed to clear rob porter for the security clearance that he was never able to obtain. here is what the trump administration's director of national intelligence said about this process today. >> i think sometimes it is necessary to have some type of preliminary clearance in order to fill a slot. but i have publicly stated if that is the case, the access has to be limited in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive or not receive. so i think that's something that we have to do as part of our security clearance review. the process is broken. it needs to be reformed. >> joining our squugs ndiscussi john mclaughlin, an msnbc national security

have expressed that anger at a meeting with president donald trump at the white house now trump had been told to take out tanks into changing gun ownership laws i'm very angry that this happened because it keeps happening nine eleven happened once and they fixed everything how many schools how many children have to get shot it stops here with this administration and me it's i'm not going to i'm not going to sleep until it's fixed trump says he supports the idea of arming teachers and school staff this would only be obviously for people that are very adept at handling a gun and it would be it's called concealed carry where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them they'd go for special training and they would. be there and you would no longer have a gun free zone gun free zone to a maniac because they're all cowards the gun free zone is let's go in and let's attack because bullets aren't coming back at us now the head of the u.n. has called for an immediate halt to attacks on syria's eastern ghouta saying that civilians the a living in hell on earth syrian and russian air raids have ki

have president donald trump to improve gun laws during a meeting at the white house trump their pleas for reform and responded.

the white house students who continued their protest wednesday were united in their opposition to guns we will continue to try to get legislation until congress listens to what the white house. trump said during his meeting with shooting survivors that this was no longer the time for just talk as in the past but elected by a pro-gun base and backed by the powerful gun lobby it remains to be seen just health far trouble go to bring meaningful reform heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators of shut down the center of this capitol protests as well the president rushed crystal certain measures today suppose. the funds are all going off site is completely blocked by thousands of people that are gathered to protest against the government president of. station i've been told by a labor union leader the most powerful labor union leader in the country. he's the leader of the truck drivers union that has around two hundred thousand affiliates and the reason why he's so powerful is because people are told almost everything that runs on will the country from grain trucks to the mail among others things. i know at this point is being investigate

the white house students who continued their protest wednesday were united in their opposition to guns we will continue to try to get gun legislation until congress which is why the white house was trump said during his meeting with shooting survivors that this was no longer the time for just talk as in the past but elected by a pro-gun base and backed by the powerful gun lobby it remains to be seen just health far trouble go to bring meaningful reform heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington and florida over last week's shooting took place deputy sheriffs who patrol the school grounds have now been told to carry rifles the state has at the center of a big student mobilization against gun violence on tuesday thousands of them gathered outside the republican controlled legislature in the state capital tallahassee to demand change and it was their. the survivors of last week's school shooting in parkland would not alone when they came to florida state capital chants of no more guns and never again rung out as crowd swells. many of these students have spent the past few days attending funerals of form and classmates that determination to change u.s. gun laws is a rallying call for activist

president trump calling for a ban on those so-called bump stocks, tougher background checks and today at the white house, president trump meets with students and teachers that have been affected by this issue. a lot can happen in three hours, so bulk up and get ready. "varney & company" is about to

that's the trump white house position on why no one has to worry about hope hicks because she's stronger than the women rob porter victimized. here's colby holderness's answer to kellyanne conway and the trump white house, the people who believed she just wasn't strong enough and that's why rob porter punched her, she wrote being strong with excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts does not inoculate a person against abuse. it doesn't prevent her from entering a into a relationship with an abuser. abuse often doesn't manifest itself early on, only later when you're in deep and behind closed doors. the really ugly side of rob's abuse only came out after we married, following three years of dating. hope hicks has always gotten very special treatment from donald trump and the trump family and from the trump campaign press and from the trump white house press corp. watch this very unusual moment in the white house press briefing room in the first week of the trump presidency with hope hicks. you've never seen that happen with sarah huckabee-sanders. in fact, i have never seen social kissin

it looks like chaos. first year of the donald trump white house. year of the donald trump white house. it looks like chaos. ido first year of the donald trump white house. it looks like chaos. i do not agree with that. some did not serve the president well. steve bannon blew up the president himself and has only himself to blame. a man who lied about his meetings with the russians? no, his actions were legal. he lied to the fbi agent. we will get to something which hangs like a very dark shadow over the whole of the donald trump presidency, that is the special counsel investigation into allegations of collusion during the election campaign between the donald trump campaign and the russians to interfere with and directly influence that election. yes, a fairy tale, a falsehood, meaningful co—ordination, conspiring, collusion with the russians, there has never been any evidence of it produced either by the house or the senate committee. you speak with such confidence. you could not possibly know. we would have read about it by now. there is an investig

white house. president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser appears to be butting heads with the white house chiefstaff. the issue in this case, access to classified information. under a new policy that the chief of the staff john kelly announced last week, the white house will no longer allow employees with interim security clearances dating back to last june have access to top secret information. this affects staffers whose background checks have been pending before last june. staffers including jared kushner. the policy comes in the wake of the rob porter scandal. he's the former top white house aide that stepped down after accusations of abuse from two of his ex-wives. kelly facing criticism over what he knew and when he knew it. of course, we're still without real answers to either of those questions. according to the reporting of "the new york times," jared kushner says the policy is personally directed at him. since then, kelly is insisting he keeps his current access. that apparently includes reviewing the highly sensitive daily briefing that the president is to receive. kelly released a s

and sources inside the white house are telling me that this is all about chief of staff john kelly. >> yep. >> not about rob porter. not about president trump. the chief of staff, kelly, and white house counsel don mcgahn, knew the full story about the allegations about porter, but that it was kelly who knowingly signed off on sarah huckabee sanders' press briefing statements, saying the exact opposite. >> unbelievable. >> and while the president may have his back, kelly is losing the white house staff he is supposed to be leading. all of this is fueling growing dissent inside the white house against kelly. and while there has been no official search for a new chief of staff, the former general is growing more and more isolated by the day. and now congress is getting involved. >> so what i want to know from chris wray is, what specificity did you learn? when did you learn it? and with whom did you share it? and when did you share it? >> just so i'm clear, will the oversight committee be launching an investigation into this? >> we did last night. >> well, there you have it. now we are learning that congressman sent letters to director wray a

white house students who continued their protest wednesday were united in their opposition to guns we will continue to try to get gun legislation until congress listens to what the white house was. trump said during his meeting with shooting survivors that this was no longer the time for just talk as in the past but elected by a pro-gun base and backed by the powerful gun lobby it remains to be seen just how far trump will go to bring meaningful reform heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington david burnette is the former president of students for concealed carry that's a pro-gun advocacy group and he says it's a right for president to consider arming teachers certainly with the requisite training i think that arming teachers or at least allowing certain teachers to be armed is a state lucian that should be on the table i mean look our government is one that says they talk about the solution and see something say something and that didn't work in this case because the government did not do anything people reported this guy to the authorities and the government didn't step in the red flags were screaming that this person had a murderous intent those school children had it as a joke amongs

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the white house students who continued their protest wednesday were united in their opposition to guns we will continue to try to get gun legislation until congress listens to the white house was. trump said during his meeting with shooting survivors that this was no longer the time for just talk as in the past but elected by a pro-gun base and backed by the powerful gun lobby it remains to be seen just health far trump will go to bring meaningful reform. castro al-jazeera washington we're going to level to come here at al-jazeera including a suicide attack and tell his a u.s. embassy in montenegro it will be live in the capital with the latest plus. what are we going to have this stops of this. new case of missing schoolgirls in nigeria it's fear that dozens have been abducted by boko haram. the stormy weather continues across central parts of the mediterranean apply the cloud swirling away haversine some heavy showers into italy in particular cross the balkans some big down poles here thundery showers as well fam out of snow in the northern flank of that the snow extends away towards gary a little bit of cloud there up into ukraine cold enough in moscow minus ten celsius the high h

white house students who continued their protest wednesday were united in their opposition to guns we will continue to try to get gun legislation until congress listens to what the white house was. trump said during his meeting with shooting survivors that this was no longer the time for just talk as in the past but elected by a pro-gun base and backed by the powerful gun lobby it remains to be seen just health far trouble go to bring meaningful reform heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. so to come here at al-jazeera venezuela's president nicolas maduro announces a mega election that could have him control of the only branch of government that remains in the hands of the opposition. or on the divided island of cyprus where gas revenue is proving to be a further wedge between greek and turkish communities. hello the real cold start of the winter olympics is going away now although the air is still as you might expect subzero it's not the extremes of recent weeks in fact the temperature in seoul is plus seven you can usually drop of a release photographs given up in the mountains so just about iran's leader much of the time with some snow to come significant snow isn't in the foreca

apparently been in contact with both state and local officials but we also heard from the white house donald trump expressed his condolences via twitter and white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that trump has offered financial assistance to florida if needed but according to every town for gun safety a gun control advocacy group the u.s. has seen eighteen school shootings in the first forty five days of twenty so these horrific sophistic could absolutely reflect a greater societal issue. the suspects in the florida shooting is nineteen year old nicholas cruz a former student at the school who'd been expelled over his behavior he's now in custody after being arrested without an. and police say the suspect was heavily armed. but one freshman student was tweeting out of the school as the incident was unfolding these are pictures from a classroom west students were hiding from the shooter we've been discussing the possible reasons with some guests overnight. so over three hundred million guns this is enough for every person in the united states to have a gun it's insane and you know

apparently been in contact with both state and local officials but we also heard from the white house donald trump expressed his condolences via twitter and white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that trump has offered financial assistance to florida if needed but according to every town for gun safety a gun control advocacy group the u.s. has seen eighteen school shootings in the first forty five days of twenty so these horrific sophistic could absolutely reflect a greater societal issue. the students at the high school in paul clinton have been describing the suspect as troubled others even said they were afraid of him stressing the t.v. changed recently we've been discussing some of the. underlying issues behind yet another gun related mass killing in the us. so over three hundred million guns is enough for every person in the united states to have a gun it's unseen and you know we license cars you can't just get in a car and drive it but you can get a gun and shoot it you don't need any training you don't need any licensing. and a lot of states now you can carry them. undercov

white house standing by him. but we are told that hope hicks did not tell president trump of her final decision to leave the whitese until today. they met this morning, i'll told, by sources inside the white house after president trump returned from capitol hill for the late reverend billy graham is that's when she told the president she was leaving the white house. it comes after she acknowledged in the course of her work, she told little white lies. so the timing of this is very, very suspicious. >> it raised the eyebrows of a lot of people. to hear home hicks admit it, particularly under this investigation about russia, was very stunning. she said she never lied about anything substantive. she's supposed to be the person all of cuss trust to hear from the white house what their stance is and that cast a lot of doubt on the messages she's bringing to the public and the journal the i haves. just think if nicole wallace had come out and said from time to time i tell a white lie. it speaks to the characterization that she may have been over her head from day one. this was someone very loyal to the president. she h

looking at two of the most pressing angles that are basically haunting the trump white house. een reporting on this, first he was looking at the implications of this new yorker reporting from roan and pharaoh about trump's alleged affair in 2006, suggesting trump had a whole system for paying hush money to keep these things quiet. shape examines that and explains why that's a much bigger story than just personal conduct, it suggests that trump has a willingness to pay to keep embarrassing secrets from going public which has russia implications. and trump is also making new rounds on attacks on barack obama for russia interference, given that trump even encouraged that interference and asked them to hack emails. attacks on obama brings to mind that classic 1999 -- no, 1995 film "heat" in the scene where deniro, the fbi chief at the end of this cat and mouse game they actually sit down to talk. >> right. i am never going back. >> then don't take down scores. >> i do what i do best. i take scores. you do what you do best. try and stop guys like me. >> and that's someone who does w

employees in the white house were working under some kind of interim security clearance ten months into the presidency. among them some of the president's top advisers including ivanka trump, jared kushner, white house council don mccab and sarah huckabee sanders doesn't have the right one as well as ten officials on the national security council and many others. this comes after trump's director of national intelligence washed minimal access toes information should be granted to those with temporary cure the clearances. >> if that is the case, the access has to be himmed in terms of the kind of information they can be in a position to receive or not receive. >> there's a serious public official. it's unclear what prevented so many from obtaining permanent clearances for so long and not clear how much access they've had to sensitive materials. i'm joined by carol lee, and chris lu, director of the obama transition, also assistant to the former president in the white house. thank you both for joining us. what are the reasons why there's such sloppiness and lack of safety precautions so many top people don't have the right clearances? >> we don't fully know because the proc

small things and seeing glimpses of his anger. >> white house officials saying last night rob porter misled the west wing. but maybe that's the best the trump white house and its top employees can do. president trump himself faces allegations of sexual misconduct all of which he denies despite bragging on tape about grabbing women by the genitals which is assaulting women. the president has praised neonazis, supported the candidacy of roy moore, a man who also faced credible allegations of child sexual assault. so what kind of behavior exactly is unacceptable to the white house and the people who run it? will trump fire kelly? not right now according to sources who spoke to the president today. so we have two big breaking news stories tonight to talk about. the rob porter scandal at the white house and we stand just hours away from the federal government's shutting down again. i want to get right now to our cnn congressional correspondent. sh this is a very big news night. the government is preparing for a shutdown at midnight. what happened and what is going on right now? >> to put it plainly, the government will shut down in two hours. th

apparently been in contact with both state and local officials but we also heard from the white house donald trump expressed his condolences via twitter and a white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that trump has offered financial assistance to florida if needed but a. according to every town for gun safety a gun control advocacy group the u.s. has seen eighteen school shootings in the first forty five days of twenty so these horrific sophistic could absolutely reflect a greater societal issue or to use american force of the now police have the taint of the suspected gunman and identified him as nicholas cruz he is a nineteen year old former student of the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons now this is the latest video we have of the suspect nicholas cruz you can see him being taken out of a police car wearing a hospital gown he is being led into the police station presumably for questioning . now there was a high school freshman at the school tweeting out of the school as the incident was unfolding on imaginable circumstances take a look. that last message and love

white house. she said people constantly want to stab her in the back and she would, you know, try to advise president trump was stopped in a bit of a power struggle. we've heard so many reports about how this white house is very dramatic, how there's competing factions, so while i think she is being shrewd and i think she's definitely very much stirring the pot in trying to get that publicity, i think she's validating a lot of the drama that we've heard coming out of there. >> jill, what is your take? do you think she's validating this drama? >> i think that she, her performance here definitely kind of underscores the kind of sense that people have that this is really a white house in which there are different factions in which people are out for their own interests. i also remember she gave an interesting interview right after she departed the white house in which she also talked about her position as the only black woman in the president's inner circle there, and discussed some of the race relations issues and i thought that was really interesting and perspective that we hadn't heard coming from the whit

because of the trump white house.vents that intervene, the florida shooting, there are things, but day after day after day this white house is making news, often bad for themselves. often self-inflicted wounds. >> this does explain the tweets wrote against sessions today. >> let's pretend we knew that trump influence that hope would leave. what trump wants is a john mitchell. nixon's attorney general who later managed his campaign and covered up for nixon, and later went to jail and became the first one ever to go to prison. i think that trump wants a protector. someone to stop the russia investigation. now he is losing people. the indictments are mounting. the tide is turning against him and he is rapidly losing control. >> i want to go through all the communication directors we've lost. jason miller, mike dubke, sean spicer, anthony scaramucci, hope hicks filled in aft scaramucci's departure. that's a lot of communications directors in one year plus. >> truly unfortunate. the job of white house communications direct

news, federal investigators looking into whether paul manafort promised a banker a job in the trump white house in return for millions of dollars in loans. >>> and remembering billy graham, president trump, his predecessors and many others mourning the passing of an iconic evangelist. >>> good morning, everyone. i am ayman moyheldin along same yasmin vossoughian. we begin at the white house where president trump hosted survivors of family members in search of solutions. here is some of what was said. >> i'm only 15 years old. i'm a sophomore. 19 years ago, the first school shooting at columbine high school happened. and i was born into a world where i never got to experience safety and peace. there needs to be a significant change in this country because this has to never happen again. people should be able to feel when they go to school they can be safe. >> i'm very angry that this happened because it keeps happening. 9/11.happened once and they fixed everything. how many schools, how many children have to get shot? it stops here with this administration and me, all the school shootings. it do

now we also heard from the white house donald trump expressed his condolences via twitter and white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that trump has offered financial assistance to florida needed but according to every town for gun safety a gun control advocacy group the u.s. has seen eighteen school shootings in the first forty five days of twenty eighteen so these horrific sophistic skid absolutely reflect a greater societal issue around our troops american force they're seeing across the story thanks for that now as you mentioned there police have determined detained of the suspected gunman and identified him as nicholas cruz he is a one thousand year old former student of the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons now this is the latest video that we have of the suspect nicholas crusoe he was wearing a hospital gown. and he was being taken out of a police car you can see the images there by officers and then taken in to the police station presumably for questioning. there was a high school freshman at the school tweeting out the incident as it was unfolding t

white house saying hicks will stay on the job for the next few weeks. she was as close to anyone in this white house and out of this white house to president trump. she was with him since june 15, 2015, the day the president announced he would be running for president. the president said hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years. she is as smart and thoughtful as they come, a truly great person. the announcement comes a day after she gave lengthy testimony before the house intelligence committee. according to reports during that testimony hicks says on occasion she needs to tell white lies for the president. sarah sanders said this announcement had nothing to do with her test moan quli from yesterday. this has been the most of volatile job within the first year-plus of the trump administration. the president and the president's team. sean spicer was passed to mike duffy and anthony scaramucci, then hope hicks. they will have to hire out a fifth person. one person to keep an eye on, mercedes schlapp, he's a top deputy weren't communications apparatus at the white house. sources say she is someone who should be considered

apparently been in contact with both state and local officials now we also heard from the white house donald trump expressed his condolences via twitter and white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that trump has offered financial assistance to florida needed but according to every town for gun safety a gun control advocacy group the u.s. has seen eighteen school shootings in the first forty five days of twenty teen so these horrific says his six could absolutely reflect a greater societal issue right now.

white house. she has been very devoted to president trump, his personal life, professional life, business prior to this. now serving in the white house. >> dana: it's interesting. several reasons one might go into the white house. it is really hard to leave the white house. this is a decision no one makes lightly. you make it reluctantly usually. especially if you want to go out in the middle of a really important year after a lot of accomplishments that the administration finished out the year-round. i think going out on her own terms is really good. she has an incredibly bright future in front of her. she is leaving on good terms with everybody inside the white house, based on the report john roberts just put forward. she is a young woman with a lot of experience that she got in a short. of time. it's an amazing pressure cooker. when you add an investigation to a staff, it is so intense. if the focus 24/7 on the job you have while at the same time you have to make time to meet with your lawyers and go to the the l and meet with the house intelligence committee. that won't end because she is leav

trump our president, aeraa letter containing a substance. we'll bring you anything right away. the news room is working the story. meanwhile white house says president trump has full confidence in john kelly. despite the firestorm on the abuse allegations against a white house aide. democrats are demanding to find out when kelly found out about accusations and whether his job was in jeopardy. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is going to bring it to the floor. they're going after democrats saying they don't want to fix for dreamers and whether congress can get a deal. >> this president is the only one trying to find a long lasting solution to the daca problem. the immigration system is broken. the president knows it. it is so dangerous to the american people to have the loopholes in the immigration system. you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs... you're like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls... and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement™, we'll pay

addressing state governors at the white house, trump said he would have rushed inside the murder he government -- inside the high school and fought off the attacker. come declared he is willing to take on the national rifle the national- rifle association. pres. trump: half of you are so afraid of the nra. there is nothing to be afraid of. we have to fight them every once in a while. that is ok. they are doing what they think is right. i will tell you they are doing what they think is right. sometimes, we are going to have to be tough and fight them. we need strong background checks. for a long time, people resisted that. for more, philip crowther is in washington, where he said trump's stance on guns remains ambiguous. almost two weeks on from the mass shooting at the high school in florida, it is still not entirely clear with u.s. president stands when it comes to changing the gun laws here in the united states. donald trump again o omonday criticized thehe law enforcement response, saying he in fact would have rushed in unanarmed into that school. we now know the immediate response from the

this just in, multiple white house officials tell nbc news president trump has read the controversial fisa memo, as delivered to the white house. remember, there's questions about the memo that was delivered to the white house and the one the house intel committee are not exactly the same. >> right. >> it's been altered since they last took a look at it. msnbc's garrett haake joins us in west virginia from the gop retreat with the latest. there you are at the greenbriar, a beautiful west virginia resort. it wasn't a beautiful scene yesterday in charlottesville. that's where everyone has come from. now, they're focused on business. president trump and his memo. >> reporter: yeah. well, stephanie, you hit the highlights here. we know the president has reviewed this memo. white house reporters are saying that they have heard that from several sources, that he has taken a look at it as delivered to the white house. there is that open question, whether the memo he read is, in some way, substantively different or the same as the one cleared out of the house intelligence committee a few days

intelligence community community did say that you know try a putin want to trump in the white house trump and only trump let's take a listen to what the former f.b.i. director had to say about the. wouldn't hated secretary clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was she had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much. and it is true that in this database there is a number of tweets that are either supporting trump outright or just against hillary specifically but the opposite of that is also true you can find in the mixed tweets that are for hillary quoting her speech is encouraging people to go out and vote for her support for bernie sanders the other democratic candidate is in there as well along with attacks on trump himself so it's all sort of in there a mix of everything because there's a lot of them is it all about the election many are completely off topic having nothing to do with the election whatsoever so how those first meant to be swaying the election is up to anyone else's interpretation but there's tweets focusing on hard hitting top

for women. >> reporter: the president does stand by hope hicks, the white house communication director. she's been on his team since trump tower. hicks was known to be dating porter at the white house. trump said to be less than pleased with her handling of the porter situation. saturday he issued a statement saying hope is absolutely fantastic calling her smart, very talented and respected by all. now republicans aren't too happy about the president's comments either. they've been hoping that he would stick to the message about tax cuts and the economy. instead he's veering off and infuriating women voters. many republicans worry that's not going to help them at the midterms. cecilia and dan. >> david right, thank you. a lot to talk about. so let's bring in george stephanopoulos. he's going to be hosting "this week" later. is there some political calculation on the part of donald trump given the fact there are people in the country that believe me too has gone too far? he has he believes -- i believe he believes gained from wading into these sorts of things. >> no question about that. i don't understand his strategy her

president donald trump as he met with school shootings survivors listening session in the white house says demands for gun control grow louder following last week's florida massacre. also coming up the u.n. calls it hell on earth civilians. are trapped as the syrian government continues to rain mortars down on the rebel held end play hundreds are dead hospitals are struggling to cope. and it's decision day for diesel cars a german court is set to rule on whether to allow bans in major cities we'll go to our correspondent in stuttgart which is being sued over its air pollution. oh i'm sorry marchin good to have you with us. survivors of the florida school shooting have appealed to u.s. president donald trump to do more to stop gun violence in an emotionally charged meeting at the white house trump promised to take action even suggesting the possible arming of teachers lawmakers are making or facing a new push for gun control after last week's rampage that left seventeen people dead. it was called a listening session but president donald trump had plenty to say meeting at the white hous

trump administration. i'm not sure about the sub title when it comes to the white house. the white house chiefs of staff, we've had two, are they defining the trump presidency. >> i have to concede that. donald trump is one of a kind. he may be the only person defining his presidency. it's been the most dysfunctional white house in modern history. and what i learned in reporting this chapter in the paper back, it's a wild ride. the first thing reince priebus told me when we sat down to talk off the record and then i got it on the record, was take everything you know and multiply it by 50. he would hasen to note even john kelly said it's the most difficult job he's had. and he would note for every crazy thing that president trump tried, like the executive order on immigration, there was ten things he stopped. >> that's what i expected. when they get out of it they'll tell us the much worse things they stopped, including quite possibly a nuclear exchange with north korea. >> that's the thing. at the end of the day it does get lame to keep hearing over and over again, you wou

much bigger influence than this fisa warrant. >> you can't find anyone in the white house to say that as clearly as president trump has. i've yet to talk to anyone in the white house who believes this vindicates anything that's happening with the russia probe. to your point to some of the back story of the fisa warrant and some of the investigations into russia, page has been on intelligent agent's radar going back to 2013. we have a report up on the "the wall street journal". he's been -- they've been looking at him for years. well before he was involved with trump and he's been undersurveillance since the end of 2016 before the election but that warrant has been approved several times. it's been approved at least once by the justice official and all -- and the folks that the "the wall street journal" have talked to, all of the judges that have approved this have been republican pointees. >> one thing they're jum set about is, they think they went to court to get this warrant using the steele dossier, the washington free beacon and taken over by the clinton campaign, the democratic national committee paid for thi

election, president trump faulted the obama white house for not taking russian meddling more seriouslywhile the president made no effort to call out the russians after mueller's announcement, the white house insisted president trump has been far harder on russia then the obama administration ever was. >> helped push through 700 billion to rebuild the military. he has helped export energy to eastern europe. he has closed three diplomatic properties here in the united states. he has helped arm the ukrainians. there were is a number of places where obama was too weak and refused to put pressure on russia where this president has. >> president trump took a swing at the obama white house and his memoranda to the attorney general looking to ban bump stocks, pointing out the obama administration repeatedly concluded bump stocks were illegal to purchase and possess. >> bret: john roberts live on the north lawn. students from that south florida high school were 17 people were killed last week are heading to the state capitol tonight. they are using their sudden surge of fame to try to make chan

to them the goal of having trump in the white house is simply having trump in the white house.ll some day, not too far enough, not be enough. >>> today's usa today newspaper has a big story in the front page about how the voters of appalachia in eastern kentucky where robert kennedy visited and championed 50 years ago this month are now donald trump voters out there. so what happened? what happened is the people who care about hardship forgot that we're in this together, that the concerns of working people should be the politics of working people, all working people. bobby kennedy was one leader who championed the cause of waitresses and construction workers and police officers and other working people. unlike trump, he was a uniter. for that reason he had the look of someone who could actually deliver for all those working people. my book is called "bobby kennedy: a raging spirit." you can order it right now on amazon or barnes & noble. it will lift your spirit. it will remind you of what once looked possible, not trump. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "al

white house. what does this mean now? >> reporter: well, hope hicks is very close to the trump family, so her departure will certainly be felt. she is the fourth communications director to leave the white house. this is a job that hope hicks reluctantly took on after the sudden departure of anthony scaramucci. it is a challenging position in any white house, particularly this one, given that president trump believes he is his own best publicist. >> glor: a lot of turnover here from communications directors and others. is the white house concerned about all that turnover? >> well, there's no replacement yet for hope hicks, but chief of staff john kelly is trying to minimize any kind of disruption it could cause. now, we have seen, as you said, a lot of departures. there's always turnover at the end of the first year of an administration due to burnout. just yesterday we saw a close communications aide for jared kushner announce that he's leaving, but what's interesting about the churn in this white house is that so many scandals have surrounded the departures of others. for hope hicks, she is the 18th official to leave. >> gl

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trump administration could release that explosive devin nunes memo at any time. despite warnings from both the fbi and other intelligence officials that it would severely damage national security. white house officials tell nbc news president trump has read the memo as delivered to the white house but democrats say the version sent to the white house was quote, materially changed after it was approved by the committee. approved despite their objections. a claim nunes' spokesman has denied. joining me with the very latest developments, nbc white house correspondent kristen welker, nbc national security and justice reporter julia ainsley and "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker. what is the latest from the white house as to when this memo will be released and what redactions may or may not have been made? >> reporter: well, here's the latest that we know. as you just said, according to multiple white house officials, president trump has seen the memo. as for the timing, that seems to be up in the air a bit. overnight we were given indications that it could be released as early as today. now one senior administration official here cautions there's no guarantee that it'

they endorsed scott wagner, a state senator from york county , who is also endorsed by former trump white house strategies steve ban on, and for senate lou barleta, four term congressman from luzerne county, president trump has spoken well of barleta who co chaired president trump's 2016 campaign in pennsylvania. >>> president trump appears to be walking directly in the #me too debate. in the latest twit are storm the president defended the accused saying people are brought down by mere allegations. abc's david wright has latest from the white house. >> reporter: in the aftermath of the scandal that has cost two west wing staffers their jobs president trump tweeted a full on critique of the me too movement, peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation he said. some are true, or false. some are old and some are new. there is no recovery for someone falsely accused -- life and career are gone. is there no such thing any longer as due process? this one day after trump lavished praise on former white house staff secretary rob porter who resigned after two of his ex-wife's ac