house as well as inside the white house. and you actually have to make sure that the president is served with the challenge in time to meet the thj so when a decision is made, it is relevant, and not irrelevant. >> charlie, it's also-- it's also tough because one of the chief roles of the chief of staff is to make sure that the president is hearing all the voices that he needs to hear, that he-- that he's getting all the -- >> to be an honest broker. >> to be an honest broker. to be a very honest broker. and also, as part of that role, honestly, to tell the president no when he needs to be told no, and that's not easy. >> rose: that's not easy for anybody, is it? >> for anybody. >> particularly in this white house. ( laughter ) with a president who doesn't like to be told no. >> rose: a person who didn't come up in the political give-and-take and compromise of the political world. >> it can be brutal, but it's also a tremendous honor to do it. and having, you know, done a lot of different jobs over the course of my life, it'

at dinner, at the white house, but now the white house is disputing at least part of that deal. president trump has been falsely reported to have made a deal with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi to extend the debt ceiling and fund the government for three months. the false part of the report is that it was a deal. it was a surrender by donald trump. he did not make a deal. he simply accepted what chuck schumer and nancy pelosi offered. that's not a deal. if you walk into mcdonald's and the price of a big mac is $5.30 and you buy it for $5.30, you did not make a deal on a big mac. if you buy it for five bucks then maybe you made a deal. there's a word in washington for what happened in donald trump's meeting with chuck summer and nancy pelosi. and mitch mcconnell and paul ryan about the debt ceiling and the budget. and that term is rolled. donald trump got rolled by chuck summer and nancy pelosi. that's what they call it in washington when you go into a meeting with the other side and the other side gets everything they want and you get nothing. donald trump had another meeting wi

there are walls between the white house and doj. what she's doing is making an end run by making statements to the press suggesting that he should be charged with a crime. knowing that the press is going to report on those. and that people from doj are going to read those reports. it's absolutely inappropriate. >> carrie, do you agree on that? >> i absolutely do, certainly. there's been procedures in place for a long time. and my understanding is that these procedures are still in place under attorney general sessions. that there's not supposed to be certain contacts between the white house and the department of justice regarding ongoing investigations. if the white house press secretary stands up in public and says there should be an investigation of something, then they're bypassing the direction of the attorney general. so really she needs to not talk about investigations and not suggest that investigations take place. it goes to the heart of our rule of law. it goes to the heart of our justice system. that there's not supposed t

what does this do to a white house especially a white house with a busy september ahead? >> well, they already had very damaged credibility with regards to russia. and they're shifting explanations for the comey firing. and whatever remains of that credibility has just been shredded with the stories today. and people inside know that. they know that. i mean, like it is a damning chronology. you have a president of the united states sitting at home in his golf club with his son-in-law and daughter, and a 31-year-old aide drafting this letter, presenting it to his team, including the vice president on the monday, and then they all come out with this phoney line about they were acting on rosenstein's recommendation. this chronology is just being completely blown up. trump had blown it up with his interview with lester holt and other things he said. but the fact that pence was in the room in the oval that is what we call a bad fact. i don't know about the legality about this and the shifting because no one does because it's been kept very quiet. we can see who mueller is hiri

you in the white house. the west wing. when your administration was under scrutiny, a legal scrutiny, a special prosecutor, et cetera, ever a moment you started to wonder if your colleagues were wearing a wire at -- >> no, that is incredible. we'll pull that up and put it on air. >> that's the most incredible piece of this. >> there is reporting that white house staffers -- let me get you to weigh in on this. there is new reporting as john points out that white house staffers are now worried that even in their own private conversations with colleagues that someone may be wearing a wire. >> that's true. they don't trust anybody and that's why there continue to be these wauld off factions within the white house and a lot of them don't trust the lawyers or some of the lawyers out there. so there's so much mistrust. that's -- >> and paranoia. you look at -- >> let's defend him on that, on the paranoia. so fun to have you here. please come back early and often. we're just hitting pause. just getting started here. when we come b

the white house didn't mention it. it was only after russian state media started reporting that it had already happened, avenue the meeting happened, then the white house sent out this belated press release announcing that oh, yeah, the president met the new russian ambassador. now, if we want to know what trump told the new ambassador about the fbi's russia investigation or about one of our ally's code word classified intelligence things, presumably we'll have to wait for that to turn up on "russia today" or sputnik and then we can find out what happened. sure enough late friday night it was the russian embassy that produced the picture of the meeting. on their twitter feed. next time a senior russian official is going to be in the oval office maybe just insisting on that. or maybe with this new administration that will always be something that moscow knows about before we're allowed to. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> you're just saying that because you're t

david duke doesn't work in the white house. when you're impugning the character of these white house staffers calling them white supremacists, that's just wrong. everybody has the right to free speech but you have to face the congress sequences of your speech. in her case, espn reprimanded her. i will say this. i think if she had said something on the other end of the political spectrum, if she said something conservatives were in agreement with, i think espn would have fired her immediate immediately. the fact that she tended to say something that liberals agree with -- ask linda cohn what happens when you're not on the liberal line over there. i think she has a right to speak, but there have to be consequences in the free market when you possibly are driving eye balls away from your employer. >> okay. i appreciate both of you very much. thank you on all things jamel hill. >>> still to come here, new reporting in to cnn on meddling in the u.s. election. just how extensive russia's use of facebook really was. stay with us. ♪

this was a big fight going inside the white house. taking these private fights and make them public. this is very damaging for gary cohn, this seems like he was in to have someone as prominent as bannon on the outside criticizing him and turning trump against him. >> donald trump cannot quite criticize himself. not necessarily shy. i guess i should have made that point. but if we look at the bigger picture, and we got the wall street journal yesterday suggesting gary cohn is no and as ae favorite result of those comments in charlottesville, do you think maybe it is the case that president trump will hold it against him? >> keeping with trump us his character and is past, punishing people who he feels like are insufficiently loyal to him, not only did he criticize him, but his aides or allies went to reporters after charlottesville to explain how uncomfortable he was in a way that really aggrandized him at trump's expense and for my sources in the white house, that is something that upset trump and for now, maybeth he has fallen out of

house discussions about james comey's fire to any white house documents about mike flynn talking to the russians about the presidential election. 13 categories about which the white house fielded requests from the special counsel office. but cnn reports tonight that robert mueller's investigators may be about to start interviewing current and former white house staff right away as soon as this week. and the sheer breath of topics and incidents that robert mueller is asking about ensures that are a lot of trump white house staffers that are about to get questioned by the prosecutors and if you've done nothing wrong, you have to be aware of the crime to lie and to federal investigators and anybody in this anybody could benefit. from legal advice well, today the "daily beast" was the first to report that sean spicer is the latest trump administration official to have to hire a high-powered criminal defense attorney on the russia issue. on that long list of requests for documents and information that the muller inquiry has reportedly given to the white house, two of the 13 items we beli

with me on set here associated white house -- associated press white house reporter jonathan lemire. the white house briefing just ended, sarah huckabee sanders was asked numerous times about dreamers and when that decision from the white house would come down. she said tuesday. but she was asked what the president defines as having heart when it comes to how he's going to treat those dreamers that are in this country but she couldn't quite define that. >> yeah. i mean, sarah huckabee sanders is having a difficult time explaining what the president's decision is before the president has made it because clearly the president is playing for time. this is a president that in the last three hours first said maybe this decision would come as soon as today, maybe over the weekend, then another photo spray with reporters at that point it was shifted back to monday. then we just heard from sarah huckabee sanders saying it's going to be tuesday. listen to how she said and the way she put it in terms of what the president's guideposts on this would be. >> the president's priorities on immigrat

being teared down from in the white house >> fox 5 asked for a white house response of norman's comments they said, quote, well, 63 million people feel differently because they voted for him to be the president. tony? >>> just when you thought the tension between the united states and north korea couldn't get higher, it has ratcheted up. it's every this tweet from president trump. just heard foreign minister speak at u.n. if he echos thoughts of little rocket man they won't be longer. the foreign minister said that tweet means the united states declared war. he didn't on to say since the united states declared war, north korea has right to defend itself and that includes shooting down any u.s. military aircraft that flies near the peninsula even in the planes are in international waters. this afternoon, sarah hackabee-sanders denied the u.s. is at war with north korea. >>> to the after math of maria, it's been five days since maria hit. people have trouble reaching outside. the power is out to most island, flights leaving puerto rico are infrequent. president trump tweeted the puerto ric

he's seen some of his juice disappear in the white house. and it's a triumph for the attorney general. jeff sessions, of course, said from the beginning that he did not believe the justice department could defend this or would defend this order. he believed it would fail in the courts. it's something he's been against throughout his career, and this is his, in some ways, reward for putting up with the rather remarkable public rebuke that he took from the president a few weeks ago. he stayed the course, he kept his head down, and he was the leading voice on this issue. >> so allen, what do you think the resistance, the opposition looks like, and how big is it from here on out? >> i think what we've seen on the streets today is only going to be the beginning. because this is another one of these situation where is the president has laid in congress' lap an incredibly controversial, difficult thing to pass. and without really giving them much guidance. so now for these next six months, he's given them this deadline and a clear timeline on when

when you become an official white house photographer, do you like, join a club? mr. draper: not until it is over. because there is so much work involved in doing the job, that you do not get a chance to come up for air. you are kind of in this bubble. you will see your colleagues, looking at the window, but for my experience, there was so much work involved and so much focus on the job that until i got out, you kind of realize that i am in an exclusive company. you realize how special the job was. even more so. it is great to be in such a tight knit club. not a lot of photographers have done this. reporter: we did a talk with you and some of the other official white house photographers. you obviously have been on the other side, being an ap reporter. what is the difference, if any, between what you were doing as a member of the ap versus the official white house photographer? mr. draper: very different. i think as a journalist, working for the media, you are there -- you are on assignment, your focus is to illustrate what is presented in front of you. either an event

it is not very far from the white house. they are very influential and you know, you have michael flynn's son. he was perpetuating conspiracies like pizza gate during the campaign. this was somebody really doing everything he could to go after the democrats. even using conspiracy theories being perpetuated by the furthest of far right people. but i think the whole thing now, all the news today, it really proves that trump cannot get away from this. there is a drip, drip of even if he fires somebody, it doesn't really matter when you're talking about a federal investigation. this is going to continue to follow him and continue to be a problem for him. and i think he will be increasingly agitated by it as he tries to get something done legislatively. >> the question is whether the drip, drip is coming from donald trump's water bottle. he is the one who was basically obsessing over the flynn inquiry before the public or other people had any sense really how far it went of the take listen to him with lester holt. this is a diffe

this is all just white house. last night "the new york times" broke the news that on the day robert mueller was appointed special counsel, president trump reportedly lost his mind at the attorney general jeff sessions because sessions had recused himself from anything related to russia. quote, when the phone call informing him about the muller appointment ended, white house counsel don mcgahn relaid the news to the president and his aids. almost immediately mr. trump lobbied a volley of insults at mr. sessions. telling him the attorney general it was his fault they were in the current situation. he did resign. he wrote a resignation letter to the president but the president would not accept it quote. trump ended up rejecting sessions' resignation letter after senior members of his administration dismissing the ag would create more problems for a president who already fired an fbi director and national security advisor. senior advisors told him that accepting mr. sessions' resignation would sow more kew s inside ad

white house? >> keith schiller, who now serves as director of oval operations, he has told people that he intends to leave the white house. that is according to three sources with knowledge of this. they told me and colleagues jeremy gray and noah diamond. the primary reason keith schiller is telling people he is going to leave is financial. but it is also noteworthy, given what sara was reporting about general kelly, the new chief of staff, and the way he has clamped down on access to the oval office, access to the president. we're also told schiller has expressed frustration with that process, especially since he is somebody who has had unfettered access to donald trump for decades. he has been a constant presence with trump, jim, since he was a businessman, during the campaign and so forth. we, of course, remember that he is somebody who delivered perhaps the most consequential letter, he handed james comey his letter firing him. we don't talk about the white house oval office director, operati

and today, the white house under fire, too. >> to be clear, also, the white house does not have a role on the front end of approving private charter flights at the agencies, and that's something that we're certainly looking into. >> and cecilia vega joining us tonight from our studio back in new york. and cecilia, one top republican is now delivering a stern warning to president trump? >> reporter: exactly, david. the powerful chairman, chuck grassley, wrote a letter to the president, saying i'm urging you to emphasize to cabinet secretaries the necessity of using reasonable and cost effective modes of travel. david? >> reporter: cecilia vega, thank you. >>> the white house also asked tonight about the president's response to the growing humanitarian crisis in puerto rico. tonight, the president has now sent a three-star army general to command the relief operation. amid images of thousands of cargo containers sitting there, full of supplies, but not delivered. more than a week now after the hurricane. nearly 3.5 million american citizens live on the island. millions without power and

"going to the white house was a great honor until you showed up." the n.f.l. players' union and many players themselves rushed to defend what they see as free speech: >> sports has not been an escape from politics for a good, long time. >> reporter: professor lee eag cell with new york university's tisch institute for sports. >> in terms of talking to athletes, there are managers who are about to instruct them on what they can do. there are coaches who will do the same. but they're not all that great about letting other people tell them what to do. >> reporter: late today, steph curry's golden state warriors send the president's decision to withdraw a white house invitation, saying the team will instead visit washington to equality, diversity, andcebrat ienclusion. reena. >> ninan: and, tony, there's another team that's decided not to go to the white house. >> reporter: the men's n.c.a.a. champion tar heels will not go to the white house either, but they're citing a scheduling conflict. >> ninan: thank you, tony. eight surviving member of the little rock nine

house correspondent and msnbc political analyst peter baker and npr white house correspondent tamron keith and ap white house reporter and msnbc analyst john lamir, the reverend al sharpton of "politics nation" and the president of the national action network. and joining this program, at least with me hosting for the first time, republican congressman charlie dent. thank you for being here. kelsey, do you have an answer to the question. does john mccain pave the way for other republicans who are uncomfortable with the graham/cassidy legislation? >> i think it's very likely that he does. so right now we know for sure that mccain is a no and we know that senator rand paul is also a no. he went on a tweet storm earlier today reminding people why he wouldn't vote for this. he says it's not a full repeal of obamacare. then we have senator susan collins who we count as being a likely no. she's leaning no but hasn't really said yet. she's waiting for the official score, official report of how many people would likely lose coverage and how much this would cost. if she comes out as a no, tha

john roberts standing by at the white house. we begin with mike emanuel who is currently live on capitol hill. mike, the framework is public now, so where do lawmakers go from here on tax reform? >> reporter: well, sandra, house speaker paul ryan is among those out selling this tax proposal, saying it will help those who deserve it. >> our plan lowers taxes for small family owned businesses. their top tax rate will go down to 25% which is much lower than they pay today. this will revitalize main streets all across america. it will mean more jobs, fairer taxes and bigger pay checks. >> reporter: today chuck shumer is attack one of president trump's key advisers, accusing him of using funny math. >> the chief economic adviser to president trump, gary cohn, said the administration believes it, quote, can pay for the entire tax cut through growth, unquote, by using a dynamic scoring model. gary cohn comes from goldman sach. if he used that funny math there he would have been kicked out of that firm a long time ago. >> reporter: expe

owners but as a consolation prize he got the white house. what do you make of the players and their actions i know your friend tom brady did not support it and he was a supporter of trouble but my god there's a lot of people supporting it including the league as support of the players yeah that's been pretty surprising i mean i think especially since a lot of the you know the owners have been big supporters of trump both financially and i've known him over the years roger goodell himself is a republican he's the son of a republican senator charles goodell and you know people like tom brady who's about as on a political as it gets even he today i guess i'm interview he called you know president trump's comments divisive you didn't agree with them he was part of a pretty large demonstration by the patriots and by a lot of teams you're locking arms or kneeling during the storm spangled banner yesterday and that seem to have the support of the teams and most of the teams at least and the league i think the real question is how in the long term w

having said that, this white house staff, or anybody working in the white house right now, accusing this legal team of being rather jv might want to the look in the mirror as you were pointing out earlier. like people and senior officials around president trump being incompetent isn't exactly breaking news. >> there's also the added layer of the fact that now everybody -- everyone is lawyered up, including white house counsel, don mcgahn who has his own lawyer for this inquest, you have layers of legal representation. and there is this kind of prisoner's dilemma kind of dynamic you have to imagine that people have the interest of the president of the united states, who they work for, the executive branch in a constitutional sense but their own interest in terms of how they're going to come out in this. >> certainly. i think the latter probably matters a lot to most of the people in the white house, more than any other point. there's a type of person that works for donald trump they tend to be out for themselves, further their own careers, further their own reputations, and i think we can

john roberts at the white house. the other thing the president mentioned there at the end of his discussion and briefing was daca. deferred action on childhood arrivals, this is about kids that they came over to the united states as kids, some cases very young kids with their parents. they lived here, gone to school here, pay taxes here and in some cases they're in the military here. the president wants action on daca, he says. now it sounds like there may be movement on that matter. we'll go to mike emanuel with breaking details in just a moment. >> shepard: the top two lawmakers in the house of representatives also crossing the political aisle to speak with the president. speaker paul ryan and minority leader nancy pelosi are set to meet in a couple hours to talk about the dreamers. last week president trump said he was ending the program that protects some 800,000 immigrants whose parents brought them to the united states illegally or without documents as children. he gave congress six months to save the program.

the differences between house, senate and white house are substantial. without presidential leadership to bring the different factions of republicans together, it is possible it could fail with the way health care did. >> we showed a focus group, nbc focus group this week in pittsburgh, in pennsylvania, that had five trump voters in it out after a dozen people. those five trump voters were all disappointed. they all said disappointed. none of them offered anything -- any positive descriptions of the president. the only neutral one was the word "unique." but they said things like crazy. they said the kind of words you hear from clinton supporters, talking about trump at this point. >> they were supposed to be bulldozers on the ground. there are supposed to be things being built. there was supposed to be a ti e tightening of the job market, especially blue collar men. things are supposed to be different from the way they were in the past. one of the things we all now know how the trump story went. remember for a lot of people, for whom politics is somethin

the white house we will aware of it. and based on my reporting, that's part of why you have this very vigorous internal debate that's going on right now inside the white house. let me switch to another obviously very politically thorny issue. the border wall. eric eric son said this, the conservative blogger, who i foresee happening is president trump will of demand congress fund both disaster relief and the wall or the government shuts down. then president trump can blame congressional republicans for failing to both take care of texas and secure our border. that is a pretty skeptical view of what might happen and this republican president. what do you make of that assessment? >> well, first of all, i hope that there will be bipartisan support to help the people of texas and louisiana, who desperately need it. so the last thing you want to have the president do is be a party to some game that would cause the aid not to be there when that part of the country desperately it needs it and our economy needs it. we have to do

by their own lawyers. >>> also, the dinner tonight at the white house. the president hosting six senators, three from each party, as the speculation begins about the deal he's trying to make. >>> and we'll get a late live update tonight on the destruction still being unearthed from the sweeping fach natural disaster, all of it as kt the 11th hour" gets under way. >>> good evening once again from nbc headquarters in new york. before we turn to the coverage of this day in presidential politics we want to begin tonight with a late live update of the damage from hurricane irma and remember, entire islands in the caribbean, entire islands in the florida keys, have been cut off. even though this was a weekend event, we are still uncovering, discovering and unearthing the damage and human suffering going on there. nbc news correspondent gadi schwartz was out in it from the start of the storm. he has made his way to key west, florida, tonight. gadi, i know it's quite literally true, everywhere you look, you discover something new. bring us up to date tonight on

house. >> yeah. >> that tells you how crazy this white house has become. and i mean, he is right. a horrible decision. it doesn't necessarily mean there's not going to be an independent counsel absent the firing of comey and should have been before that. you said that. i said that. others said that. as a practical, political matter, bannon has a point. this is what turned the temperature up and forced rosenstein to do it and people who might be reluctant to go ahead and support this. there's no question it backfired badly because this is kind of typical of trump's m.o. which is to do the first thing to think of like a petulent little child and in this case the consequences are pretty serious because he has robert mueller, this incorruptible former fbi director, digging around in the financial transactions and dealings with russia and i very much doubt that the record is -- will stand up to that kind of scrutiny but as bannon said and he is right, trump has nobody to blame except for himself with the fine mess. >> bannon is trying to give jared kushner some

a former police officer arrested at the white house. the arsenal that secret service officers say they found in his car. >>> then the players versus the president. >> black and white. it's about what we're being faced with >> protests during national anthem and the white house isn't backing down >> this is about the president and millions of americans being for something. >>> plus, virginia task force one returns after weeks of rescue missions in hurricane disaster zones. and new details about the swine flu outbreaks at county fairs. your news starts now. >>> off the top tonight, loaded handguns a

they held the wedding at the white house. he was a high profile secretary of the treasury to say the least. so so mcadoo is the son-in-law of the former president. he himself is a former treasury secretary. he is a senator. he's very rich. he's got ties both to the west and to the south. he had within the vice chairman of the democratic party. he was very very very well connected. mcadoo had one ace in the hole. a secret weapon which was that he also had the klan. this was 1924, ku klux klan was absolutely accendent in that part of the 1920. the racist film "birth of a nation" came out in 1915 and swept the nation helped the klan. the klan got more wind in their sails when they became one of the major powers pushing for prohibition. looking back on prohibition it seems like one of the more unlikely things in american history that we ever would have decided. to ban alcohol as a country, really, we decided that? but an unsung but important part of why that happened was the klan supporting prohibition. and by the time the democr

>> it's interesting that the white house approved it. but it's something that would have never been approved in most administrations. i would have never thought of taking a military flight or a charter flight when at commercial option was available at a cost reduction. the money should be spent on protecting the health and human services that the department offers, not on flying the secretary even to essential meetings. >> what do you make of the offer to sort of reimburse for 11% of the total cost of those domestic travel flights, after defending them as essential? >> i would say it's too little and too late. the cost of the flight is not the cost of his seat. the costs are the pilot, gas, use of the plane, and it doesn't matter whether the pilot flies one person or ten. and he can't pay for just one person when the entire airplane went somewhere. so that isn't, to me, a very acceptable offer. he ought to reimburse for the full price of what he paid, particularly on the domestic flights where he did not have white house approval. and th

jeff zeleny joins me now live from the white house. take us inside the president's reaction and what comes next. >> reporter: john, those two words you just said sum it up succinctly there. the president doesn't like to lose. he's not used to losing in special elections. he's also getting a taste of what president obama got, as well. it is difficult for a sitting president to campaign for anyone and hope their supporters follow along. voters time and time again do what they want to do. there's no question though the president is very upset about this. he was flying back to washington last evening after doing an rnc fund-raiser, some $5 million there. he was watching these returns come in. and was frustrated. venting at everyone, of course, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, blaming pretty much everyone, john, except himself. that is one thing i do not hear at the white house this morning talking to a variety of people, other republicans close to the white house blaming the president himself. he has not accepted much blame for

house and try to get himself out of the ditch while he's in the white house? >> there are processes of what he does control and who what he doesn't control. but that is an open question. we need to hear at some point from jared kushner how he's not expos exposed, how he's not vulnerable here if he is in that financial state. >> i'm jared kushner and i'm at the white house, here's my number, 456-1414. the united states white house. he calls around the the chinese and the russians asking for money. isn't that a conflict of interest? you need to reach me? i work at the white house. all of the foreign governments think here's a way to buy the government. bail this guy out. >> it's not only a conflict of interest, a problem for him, his businesses and president trump, he's the most valuable thing he has. he's got a security clearance. so when people call him, they're not asking to invest in his businesses. they're asking him to reveal or give hints about information that would endanger him and this entire administration. he's sitting on a gold mine. >> what makes y

carter never had an official white house for target for. --official white house photographer. he has the images we would have normally got through a white .ouse photographer and we have a two-time pulitzer prize winner. he is a proud graduate of the university of texas at austin. for 27 years he was a staff photographer for the washington post. he won the pulitzer prize for covering three generations of poverty in washington dc and the refugee situation in kosovo. we have david all caps, he was -- david valdez, he was george w. bush's white house photographer. and we have diana walker, a time magazine photographer for 20 years. she is known for her work covering hillary clinton. she covered the clinton white house really broadly and deeply. she also cover the reagan administration and george h.w. bush. valadez and diana walker are actively involved in our program. they both belong to our advisory council. >> what you hope viewers will take away? >> the importance of photojournalists and new documentary -- news documentarians. the value of their work, not only for the news but

today at the white house mr. trump was briefed by puerto rico's governor. >> massive effort is underway and we have been really treated very, very nicely by the governor and by everybody else. they know how hard we're working and what a good job we're doing. >> reporter: earlier today president trump agreed to boost federal disaster aid to puerto rico and he's planning to visit the island next tuesday to get a firsthand look at the devastation. fema officials say more staff is on the way to the u.s. territory, but some lawmakers on capitol hill are getting impatient with the response. >> my concern is based on the behavior of our commander in chief, donald trump, and the tweets that he put it out. >> reporter: florida senator marco rubio said the federal government's response will not be conventional. >> too big of a storm and the logistical challenges of getting thing in to restore power will require kind of a different approach. >> reporter: access to the island has proven to be a major obstacle as only a handf

he tells anyone who will talk to him who is at the white house. he views him as a failed leader, low energy, somebody who can't deliver, who is passed his prime and trump has really enjoyed this whole rubbing it in his face. we know he's had a tense relationship with paul ryan for some time, but my sources said he was more irritated with mcconnell in that moment. and it really was an impulsive moment. he saw the opportunity for the deal and went against what they med outh previous day. so he's been enjoying this. he's loved, you know, just -- it wasn't even passive aggressive. just aggressive when he was on air force one and said i did this great deal with chuck and nancy. he's just enjoying watching them squirm. that's the reality of them. >> let's draw this string forward because the white house is now sort of -- i think the word i heard is euphoric. the president is essentially euphoric. but it's not like they cracked the nut on some difficult policy. it's not like they found a middle ground on immigration. it's not like they found a middle gro

earlier white house tried to downplay its role. >> to be clear, white house doesn't have role on the front end of approving private charter flights. that's agencies and something we're looking into from this point forward and asked a halt to be put particularly at ahs on any charter flights moving forward. >> white house may not approve but played a role in travel costs overall. approved the use of military aircraft for price's trips to africa, europe and asia to tune of half a million dollars. adding to the cost. price reimbursing government about $52,000. inspector general is investigating whole mess but in case of private jets, anyone can figure out how outrageous the travel costs were. $300 to fly commercial from washington to nashville. he took a private plane at more than $17,000. at least 20 trips. including a flight from washington to philadelphia, can drive in 2 1/2 hours or train for $72. this is just the spending that price railed against under the obama administration. in particular spending on private planes for congressman. nancy pelosi. >> what i want to say to the spe

but he did keep the white house informed of his contacts with the white house, particularly as they related to the organization of the executive branch. there were not-so-subtle hints hoover wanted to be back at work dismantling the new deal. initially, eisenhower did not disappoint the former president. the legislation establishing the new commission was passed by congress and signed into law after eisenhower took office. as is with the practice with the first commission, the legislation called for the president and the leaders to appoint members to the second hoover commission. hoover had been appointed to the first commission by house republicans. this time, his appointment came from the white house. although ike did not have the power to appoint hoover as chairman, it was clear they expected hoover would be in charge. that the former president had high expectations is without question. hoover succeeded in soliciting substantial cooperation from truman in response to recommendations from the first commission. truman was a partisan democrat. hoover can only speculate how much more he coul

i went to the white house. by the time i got there, people were running out of the white house. it was being evacuated. i have lots and lots of memories of those days. i do remember -- there's a line -- i hadn't read that story for a long time until you sent it to any tonigme tonight. there's a line i remember. michael gerson, remember, bush's speechwriter, wonderful speechwriter. there's a line where the president says, "all of this happened to us and it came upon us in a single day and night fell on a different world." and that's exactly what happened. i remember jill abramson who was then the washington bureau chief of the "times," assembled in the conference room of the bureau on september 11th and later in the afternoon, and she said to all of us assembled there, "this is what we will do now." 16 years later, she's right. that's what we did. that's what we are doing right now. >> to her point and to yours, i would argue september 10th, 2001, was the last normal day, period. eli elisabeth, bumiller, robert costa, jill wine-banks. thanks for being with us, the three of you. w

the white house now sending a three-star army general. and reports of thousands of shipping containers filled with supplies sitting there unloaded. >>> president trump's new tax plan. the winners and losers. tonight, the white house is pressed. how much will middle class americans save? and how much will wealthy americans and corpate america safe? >>> the nfl controversy tonight. some fans setting jerseys on fire. and the green bay packers, what they're asking their fans to do tonight. >>> and the president late today saying today, nfl owners are afraid of their own players. >>> the congressman's return to a standing ovation. >>> and actress julia louis-dreyfus and her very personal battle revealed. her new message tonight. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. and we begin with that rare and public apology letaxpayers. tom price apologizing for spending moneys of thousands ofl do it was just 24 hours ago when president trump was asked if price would keep his job. he answered, "we'll see." and it's not

iesha, what are you hearing from the white house right now? what happened when the president had gathered all of his top people to discuss how they would respond and then after that as we all know here, we saw secretary mattis come forward? >> well, apparently, the president had asked to hear all of the military options that are on the table right now and what they can do militarily to deal with north korea. perhaps at this point the white house is saying that what has gone on so far has not worked. the sanctions and the diplomacy, and the tough talk about fire and fury has not elicited the response and of course, that would be incredibly deadly and incredibly consequential if you were to take any military action against north korea. >> i want to play again what secretary mattis had said about an hour and a half ago, for those just joining us and did not hear an excerpt from it so let's play a little bit of that. >> any threat to the united states or its territories including guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response and

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things that came out of the white house yesterday. daca. we've heard today he seems to be willing to work with democrats on daca. on a daca fix. a d.r.e.a.m. bill, signing that. >> nancy pelosi tells him send a tweet and he says a tweet. >> and she's retweeted it. >> exactly. one question, too, what democrats are going to face as they start to work with donald trump, if they continue to work with him, because early on when people saw schumer seeming to have something of a cozy relationship with donald trump of a democratic base, they weren't happy with that. what is going to happen? >> you saw the picture through the oval office window. very cozy. very chummy with what he called chuck and nancy, his good friends. jeff zeleny is at the white house covering developments for us. getting ready for the news conference and in the east room, jeff. the president's son, eldest son, donald trump jr., he was up being interviewed before the senate judiciary committee today behind closed doors, and we're getting news out of that session. >> reporter: we

white house press secretary sanders was asked about the comments. here's what she had to say. >> comey by his own self-admission leaked information. >> did the president encourage it the dodge to prosecute comey? >> that's not the president's role but the department of justice and something they should look at. i'm not sure about that specifically, but i think if there's ever a moment where we feel like someone's broken the law, particularly if they're the head of the fbi, i think that's something that should be looked at. >> so sanders suggesting the leaking was illegal, but unless there was classified information in those documents, and there's no indication there was, would that be an indication for the dodge to look into. >> it's funny that jim comey is now being suggested should be investigated for mishandling classified information. it's one of the more ironic things in american politics currently. >> i mean, john, sanders was responding to comments bannon made in the interview room. let's watch a clip and then we'll talk about it. >> someone

he says the white house responses like put lg lipstick on a pig. and that is how the 11th hour will get under way on a thursday night. >> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 252 of the trump administration and let's put it this way. just imagine these headlines during normal times. russia continues its attacks on the u.s. and a natural disaster has left over 3 million americans in peril over a week after the storm. those are some of the headlines in our news tonight. and on top of those stories, all of which we will discuss tonight, another story that will not go away for the trump white house. just got worse. tonight there's more news about private air flights taken by the secretary of health and human services, tom price. politico's new headline is this. price took military jets to europe, asia for over $5 hundred,000. they write, quote, the white house approved the use of military aircraft for multinational trips by price to after can and europe this spring and to asia in the summer at a cost of more than