it, i think a lot of them will lose their jobs. >> nbc's peter alexander is at the white house. garrett haake is at the white house. north korea is now saying essentially they believe the president has declared war on them. how the president responding? >> reporter: as expected, sarah huckabee sanders will be addressing these issues moments if now. one of those topics deals with national security, the white house yet to respond formally to the comments by the north korean minister. secretary of defense jim mattis was asked while traveling in india about the north koreans' threat that they might detonate a hydrogen bomb over the pacific. general mattis said that was a shocking example of recklessness. the white house has been ratcheting up not just the language but also the diplomatic sanctions on the north koreans in recent days, targeting some north korean individuals, the chinese central bank also instructing some of the chinese banks not to do business with north korea. nonetheless, while many analysts agree there are no good military options available to the u.s., the president and

said, adrian, i'm working on this initiative in the white house. do you have any friends who piling be interested working on this mission? so i'm in my office in denver and she's back in d.c. i said tell me more about the initiative. it was called the initiative for one america. and it was an outgrowth of president clinton's initiative on race, and had this wild and crazy idea, if we just talk to one another and listen we might realize we have a lot more in common than what supposedly divides us, after she told me this i did the same that that dick cheney did when the president bush canada him to find a vice president. my name went on the list i. worked in the clinton white house at the end of his second term. then after that it started this interest in food writing and that led to the publication of soul food and then this book. what i love that the roosevelt presidency i it encapsulate sod many themes in any become. one one is just the idea we have african-americans who are the celebrated culinary artists doing their best to make the president happy through food and the first fami

mattis did not mince words during a statement he made outside the white house this afternoon when he warned any north korean threats to the u.s. or its allies will be met with, quote, a massive military response. watch. >> we had a small group, national security meeting today with the president and the vice president about the latest provocation on the korean peninsula. way have many military options. the president wanted to be briefed on each one of them. we made clear that we have the ability to defend ourselves and our allies, south korea and japan, from any attack. and our commitments among the allies are ironclad. any threat to the united states or its territories including guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. kim jong un should take heed of the united nations' security council's voice. all members unanimously agreed on the threat north korea poses and they remain unanimous to the commitment to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. because we're not looking to the total annihilation of a country, nam

gone so far as secures the white house of stonewalling their efforts so what's the latest and what does it mean for the russian investigation we'll talk about that first with richard painter professor was at the university of minnesota he was the chief white house ethics lawyer in the george w. bush administration he's currently vice chair for citizens of responsibility and ethics in washington he joins us from brighton massachusetts what do you make of these charges about lack of cooperation between the top administration and congressional investigators richard. well it doesn't appear that they ministration wants the bacon added about the russian investigation number of officials and administration of not being candid about their own personal contacts with the russians the administration had different stories for the reason james comey was fired until the president pretty much admitted in front of the russian ambassador right there in the oval office as well as on the national television in the last or olivia that he fired me because of the russian investigators so the white house

%. yesterday general h.r. mcmaster held a news conference at the white house basically saying there is immense international pressure on the denuclearization of north korea. mcmaster, secretary of state rex tillerson both pointing out north korea is further isolating itself from the rest of the world by conducting these tests. what about further isolation with, let's say, china and russia agreeing to the toughest u.n. sanctions ever? would that actually lead to any resolution here? >> well, those sanctions that were adopted on the monday -- julie: right. >> -- which is resolution 2375, yes, they were the strictest of the nine set of sanctions, but they're certainly not strict enough. the real problem is enforcement. because we know that china has busted the first seven set of sakss, it's probably going -- sanctions, it's probably going to ignore the eighth and clearly the last one built really to be defeat by non-enforcement because they're just not enforceable with the mechanisms in place. so we've got to really be concerned that china's not going to help. we've got to also remembe

ahead, three former white house chiefs of staff weigh in on what's going on in presidentt trump's west wing. jack watson, andy card, and john podesta. >> this white house is lacking a disciplined message, a disciplined process, the tweeting constantly, daily, morning, noon and night is not hypothesis because it's putting out inconsistent and, indeed, contradictory messages, where the president is disyaeg not only with himself-- something he said earlier-- or the secretary of state or somebody else. >> the president has to invite others to be part of the solution and build bridges and invite people to be part of the success or share the blame for failure. and we haven't seen as much of that out of this white house as other presidents have done. >> in some level, i think that president trump's success has been in sewing chaos, and i think he thought that would work for him as president. >> rose: we'll have that story and more on what happened and what might happen. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news a

former white house officials about, among other things, the president firing james comey. now we know from washington post and "new york times" reporting last week that robert mueller special counsel investigation sought information from the trump whit houe house on a long long list of actions related to the russia investigation and potentially obstructing justice by trying to impede the russia investigation. we know that the main lawyer in the white house handling the russia investigation divided robert mueller's requests into 13 different categories. we think we know what those 13 categories of requests are now, again, based mostly on reporting from "the washington post" and "new york times" and according to the reporting from those papers, the request from the special counsel, the stuff they are asking the white house about ranges from anything related to paul manafort, which is the last one there, to any white 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 t

those photographers who cover the white house, congress, politics and so forth. it was obvious to us who the leading photographers have been in the post-world war ii era that has been covering politics. that was one of the criteria we used. we selected and picked and chose really who we thought were the best. >> what prompted you to videotape the interviews you did with the photographers? >> we did a major exhibition 3-4 yearss to history ago. that exhibit showcased every one of the photographers whose work is with us. we brought the photographers too often resorted a --photographers to austin for a reunion. we took the opportunity to do video interviews with the photographers. >> photojournalist send most of their -- spend most of their lives behind the camera. >> every photograph has a back story. the best person to tell that ookry is the person who t the photograph. the photographer. one of the things i was interested in was to give the stories of the photographs they thought were the most important. we are also interested in capturing their thoughts about ofir work and the value pres

. tonight the legal and political implications for donald trump and this white house. plus john mccain calls trump poorly informed and impulsive and tells his colleagues we are not his subordinates. we don't answer to him. the "11th hour" on a friday night begins now. >>> good evening. once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm ali velshi for brian williams. day 225 of the trump administration, bringing new insight into how the president decided to fire former fbi director james comey. "the new york times" was first to report special counsel robert mueller has an early draft of a trump letter detailing his reasons for firing comey. the report says, quote, the letter drafted in may was met with opposition from donald mcgahn, the white house counsel who believed the angry tone was problematic, according to interviews with a dozen administration officials and others briefed on the matter. the letter was reportedly drafted while the president was on a long weekend at his golf club in new jersey. it was never sent but it was apparently saved. and now robert mueller has a copy

portion of the grounds. the white house sits on 18 acres of land, much -- too much of it for his purposes are green. either way, well done frank. nice note to end on. that is our broadcast for a friday night and for this week. thank you for being here with us. the fis one which is often called a firing, but it wasn't, it was a resignation. s first one came 24 days into the new administration. three and a half weeks in and they were already shedding their first senior staff. february 13th, trump national security adviser mike flynn resigned from the white house. that was in february then in march the deputy chief of staff, then in april it was the deputy national security adviser, then in may it was the white house communications director number one, he was out in may. then in june, it was the vice president's chief of staff, stick a pin in that one, vice president chief of staff. then in july, july ended up being quite busy. i swear they saved it up for when i went on vation in part of july. they lost the deputy chief of staff of the national security council which is a breitbart

which broke the story, trips cost american taxpayers more than a million dollars. 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 pri

trump plans his second visit to the disaster zone. the white house is expected to request the first $6 billion in emergency funding. that is likely just a fraction of what the federal government will have to pay to help the region recover. >>> the next threat? a powerful new storm is churning across the atlantic and could pose a major danger to the u.s. is hurricane irma on the way? >>> and the real reason the special counsel has a copy of a letter president trump drafted before firing fbi director james comey, according to a report from the "new york times." does the letter reveal the real reason the president fired comey? could special counsel robert mueller use it to make an obstruction of justice case against the president? >>> wolf blitzer is off. i'm jim chusciutto, and you are the situation room. >>> the breaking news, one week after hurricane harvey first made landfall in the state, the texas governor said some areas remain, quote, deadly dangerous with rivers there still rising. president trump is poised to make his second trip to the disaster zone. this time he will visit

what has turned out to be a busy friday night. the white house announced president trump will give us his decision about young people brought here illegally as children to remain in the united states. there is also new reporting on the russia investigation. special counsel robert mueller obtaining a letter drafted by the president and by his senior aide steven miller in may explaining the president's rational for firing james comey the fbi director t. letter was never sent, the white house counsel believed it was quote problematic. according to "new york times" which broke the story quote a different letter, written by the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein and focused on mr. comey's handling of the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server was sent the day before he was fired t. multi-page letter enumerated trump's long-simmering complaints with comey, including comey was unwilling to say personally trump was not under investigation in the fbi inquiry into the russian meddleing in the 2016 election t. letter quote did not dwell on russia. also today, president t

diesel needed to operate basic medical equipment. reporter mola lenghi is live at the white house with the very latest on the relief effort. >> reporter: liz, the president has defended the white house's response to puerto rico, but people on the island and in the halls of congress here in washington are calling on the white house to do more. hurricane maria was the third strongest storm to ever make landfall in the u.s. and its neighboring territories. scene days later the mayor of san juan says basic knepp sis it is like food and water are -- necessities like food and water are scarce and there's no gasoline to run hospital life support systems. >> this is the time for action. let's not talk about the debt, the fricking debt. >> reporter: monday night president trump tweeted texas and florida are doing great, but puerto rico which was already suffering from broken infrastructure and massive debt is in deep trouble. 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 a

was there -- it's a total and complete farce. russian collusion is a farce. >> former white house chief strategist sep refusing to concede that russia interfered with the 2016 election in our country. he sat down, as you saw, with charlie rose of "60 minutes" for his first on camera interview since leaving the administration. president trump has likewise declined to acknowledge that russia meddled in the election. that's despite intelligence showing the kremlin tried to influence the outcome. since leaving the trump administration, bannon has vowed to go to war for the president. he's using his position at "breitbart news" to further that end. but he hasn't refrained from taking his former boss to task over a few things, one of the more notable moments from the "60 minutes" interview has to do with the fired former fbi director james comey. >> someone said to me that you described the firing of james comey, you're a student of history, as the biggest mistake in political history. >> that would be probably be too bombastic even for me, but maybe modern political history. >> the white hou

. 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 corp rate 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 tonit. >>> 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 late today to the american taxpayers. tom price apologizing for spending moneys of thousands of dollars on luxury flights. 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

right now? also this hour, the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is scheduled to take the podium. we'll bring that to you live as soon as it happens. but first, guess who is coming to dinner tonight? senator chuck schumer and democratic leader nancy pelosi take their turn at wheeling and dealing one day after president trump hosted three democratic senators at the white house. daca is on the menu tonight. and, in about 45 minutes trump will sit down with nine house dems to discuss everything from tax reform to infrastructure. this all comes one week after president trump undercut gop leaders by siding with chuck and nancy, schumer and pelosi, on the debt ceiling. so the question is how long will this spirit of kumbaya last? >> confirmed a bipartisan group of lawmakers heading to the white house today as president trump's administration is ramping up efforts to push tax reform. >> it was a very in depth conversation. went into detail and president basically back and forth what we can do, exciting things that can happen, how we can work together. >> he needs to reac

. "the new york times" reporting that white house attorney ty cobb was overheard talking publicly about the probe and disputes within the legal team about how much to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller. cobb reportedly suggested that white house counsel don mcgahn was withholding documents that were locked in a safe. also saying colleagues may be wearing wires to record conversations for mueller. i'll get that and more from republican congressman will heard, a member of the intelligence and homeland security committees. our correspondents and specialists are standing by. let's go to our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny outside trump tower in new york city. jeff, the president will be staying there tonight as he prepares for his major speech before the u.n. tomorrow. >> reporter: wolf, president trump has been here at home at trump tower working on that speech, i am told, throughout the afternoon. aides describe it as one of the most important speeches he will give. of course it is going to fill in some of the blanks on the trump doctrine on iran and most urg

jones act, that's been a lot of attention the last 72 hours. critics say the white house should have moved more quickly in waiving the jones act. lawmakers among them. why is that an unfounded complaint? >> okay. it is an unfounded complaint. here's why. the jones act briefly stated is a rule that favors flagged vessels, u.s. flagged vessels. if there are not enough u.s. flagged vessels, the capacity in other words to meet the needs, then we waive the jones act. in this particular case, we had enough capacity of u.s. flagged vessels to take more than or to exceed the requirement and need of diesel fuel and other commodities to puerto rico. what happened is i think almost 17 or 18 days of backlogged diesel fuel need to the island. it was misreported that we had a capacity problem and had to waive the jones act. not the case. the idea is we provided as many commodities as necessary to the island. the challenge was land-based distribution. however, last night the governor called me a little after 8:00 and said at this point to ensure that the additional needs are met as we move forward,

deep. white house defends president trump's attacks on nfl players who silently protested during the national anthem. the white house says not against anyone but is for the anthem. players, coaches and owners answered the president by kneeling or locking arms at the start of weekend games. >>> deck loration of war, won't around much longer. north korea says that gives the right to shoot down u.s. bombers. >>> scorecard protesters rally against the latest gop health bill and scramble for votes. waiting a cost estimate scorecard. will be that the final blow to the bill that's in trouble? >>> and trouble jared kushner used a private email account to conduct white house business. his attorney says fewer than 100 emails were involved. is kushner now in more trouble? i'm wolf blitzer here in "the situation room". >>> breaking white house strongly talking about the national anthem saying he's not against anyone but is for the anthem and the flag. players, coaches, and even owners answer the president by kneeling or linking arms or staying in the locker room during the weekend opening ceremo

the white house briefing. once that gets under way. until then, part of today's "washington journal." >> "washin" continues. host: two reporters joining us for a conversation about all things political. kelsey snell is from "the washington post." annie karni joins us from "politico." kelsey, let's start with you. the potential for some type of bill having to repeal and replace the affordable care act. when does it -- how was that? >> we saw a new version of the bill leaking on capitol hill last night. the idea is that they want to make some changes to appeal to , kind of smoothing things out >> all of this available online at cspan.org. just look under seize for -- series for "washington journal." we'll day you can -- take you love to the white house now with press secretary sara sanders. >> ms. sanders: he'll deliver remarks on the historic tax cuts and reforms he has been working on with members of congress. during his remarks, the president will discuss new details on the framework for hese cuts and reforms. these details will include specific proposed rates for individuals, smal

>>> thanks for joining me on this monday. i'm pamela brown in for brooke bolduan. the white house today in damage control once again. it seems this time after president trump triples down on his attack on the nfl, blasting players who kneel during the anthem as, quote, s.o.b.s and urging team owners to fire them. press secretary sarah sanders was pressed on the president's comments moments ago. >> did the president go too far in referring to these players as s.o.b.s who should be fired? >> i think that it's always appropriate for the president of the united states to defend our flag, to defend the national apth sxem to defend the men and women who fought and died to defend it. >> does the president believe there are very fine people who kneeled yesterday watching those games or are they all s.o.b.s? >> think you're trying to conflate different things here and we are certainly traying to respect the rights people have and we're trying to focus. this isn't about the president trying to be against something. this is about the president trying to be for something. >> the response is the lat

, but not including a border wall. arriving at the white house the president said an agreement on the dreamers would come first and the wall later. he stresses an agreement would not include citizenship or amnesty. the president is facing a revolt on the far right right now with some declaring that he has destroyed his base. but the president says many republicans agree with what he is doing. and following north korea's recent nuclear test. there is violent new rhetoric from kim jong-un's regime which talks of reducing the u.s. mainland to, quote, ashes and darkness and threatens to sink japan into the sea with a nuclear bomb. democratic congressman joaquin castro of the intelligence committee and correspondent specialist and guest, they are all standing by with full coverage. president trump now back at the white house after visiting the florida disaster zone. let's begin with our senior white house correspondent jeff zelny. the president used his trip back to the white house to create even more controversy on multiple fronts. >> reporter: the republican senator of south carolina, th

"the new york times" sources, white house counsel don mcgahn managed to prevent the president from sending the screed to fbi director james comey. mcgahn believed that the trump and miller co-authored letter was problematic. mr. mcgahn and others on the white house staff were alarmed that the president made the decision on the unprecedented action of firing the fbi director after consulting only his daughter, his son-in-law, and the 31-year-old steven miller, who has no legal training and, like the president's daughter and son-in-law, has absolutely no experience that would earn him a senior position in any white house other than the most out of control, most incompetent white house in history. mr. mcgahn identified several passages in the trump/miller letter that he wanted deleted. mr. mcgahn then arranged for the president to meet with attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to discuss firing james comey. during that meeting with the president, mr. rosenstein was given a copy of the trump/miller screed. mr. rosenstein agreed to write his own memo

. >>> this morning the president is facing an avalanche of criticism as the white house fights back a barrage of questions over the gop's long awaited plan to overhaul the tax code. and as white house officials struggle to explain the proposal, and the president's promised benefits for middle class families, democrats are pouncing claiming the plan is just a gift to the rich including the president. nbc's peter alexander has the details. >> reporter: fresh off branding a tax plan, a win for everyday americs >> reporter: now growing middle class americans get a tax cut? doubts fuel to say that is true. >> i guarantee that. you can find me someone in the country their taxes may not go down. >> reporter: democrats today pouncing. >> the president and his parade of millionaires are executing a middle class con job. >> reporter: experts say a guarantee is not possible because the details are limited. the plan increases the standard deduction and keeps mortgage interest and charitable deductions, but appears to get rid of many others. >> what there are are eliminations of deductions that mi

evening, rachel. i have the joint statement about their dinner at the white house tonight. would you like to hear it? >> please. >> help me try to figure it out. >> sure. >> we had a productive meeting with the president at the white house. the discussion on daca and enshrining the protections of daca in law and work out a package of border security excludeing the wall that's acceptable to both sides. we also urged the president to make permanent the cost sharing reduction payments a enthose discussions will continue. of course, the last line refers to the affordable care act but it reads there as if the president agreed to an enshrining daca in law along with some border security but not the wall. the president according to this caved on the wall. >> they said -- and the phrasing there is we came to an agreement? >> yes! an agreement. worth going over again. okay? we had a very productive meeting at the white house with the president. the discussion focused on da kra. we agreed to enshrine the protections of daca in law quickly and a package of security excludeing the wall. >> hmm.

door of the white house. gorka is out. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. why did the president of the united states fire a former fbi director james comey. that's the question that's the heart of the investigation being led by special counsel robert mueller. whether the president himself committed criminal obstruction of citizens. today we learned for the first time the president himself wrote down his reasons for firing comey in a letter he planned to send him on the day of the firing. a letter drafted with the help from white house aide be steven miller. that letter was never sent to comey he has frequently failed to restrict the president from his impulses found contents of this letter to be so problematic he convinced him not to send it. that letter is now reportedly in the hands of the special counsel robert muellerer. what i says, we don't know for sure. according to the "wall street journal," they wanted him to state that he, donald trump, was not personally under investigation. the administration official paraphrasing says you've you told us three times i'm no

fresh tweets about steph curry's white house invitation. pointed reactions spreading with speed and force. >>> the fate of the latest gop health care bill. a vote is expected soon but are there now too many republican defectors? >> it's the last thing searchers needed. hundreds of miles from mexico city. >> this time out sidest beltway. nfl players like colin kaepernick for taking a knees apart of the effort to bring awareness to racial inequality. here's what the president said at a political rally in alabama last night. >> we love to see one of the nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a. [ beep ] off the field right now. out, he's fired! when people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they're playing our great national anthem -- [ boos ] >> well, roger goodell released a statement this morning saying divisive comments like these demonstrate unfortunate lack of respect for the nfl, our great game and oall of our players an failure to understand the overwhelming force for good that our players and clubs rep

other note i found interesting as president trump was leaving the white house, somebody asked him if you spoken to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. he's told yes, i have. i am told in the speaker's case that's not true. there's been a lot of staff-level conversations, white house staff reaching out to hill staff and trying to calm them down a little bit but in terms of a one-on-one conversation between the speaker and president as of this morning that still hasn't happened. >> that is really important because this morning we heard him say as he departed for florida, mitch is on board, paul ryan is on board. so paul ryan is going to have to answer that this morning in his press conference in just a little bit. phil mattingly great reporting, thank you so much. back to john over in the florida keys. john? >> thanks so much, poppy. president trump due to arrive in florida any minute from now. this is his third trip in the last few weeks to a hurricane ravaged place. it gets to what so much of america has been deal with the last few weeks with the natural disasters.

and theory. trump versus manafort? the white house sounds ready to go to war. that got our attention today. teams for the two men appear to be engaged in a back and forth playing out in the papers. the piece cites last night's post report saying manafort offered to give a kremlin linked russian billionaire private briefings on the 16 campaign. investigators think his e-mails showed he want to profit from his role with the trump campaign. bloomberg politics reporter margaret tal spoke to trump's larry ty cobb who said, quote, it would be truly shocking if manafort tried to monetize his relationship with the president. and a manafort spokesman is quoted in tonight's journal story saying, it's unclear if paul manafort was the objective. perhaps the real objective was donald trump. tonight we also have a new bit of information from politico. it reports that mueller requested the phone records having to do with a flight on air force one. you may recall this, a flight to the u.s. coming home from that european summit. it was on that flight that a statement was crafted explaining

>> rose: welcome to the program, tonight as the white house turns to tax reform, we talk to senator joe manchin of west virginia. he talks about his dinner last night with president trump where they discussed immigration, infrastructure, tax reform and bipartisanship. >> i've had more engagement with this white house and this president in the six, seven months, eight months that they've been there than i did in the six years that i was with the previous administration. and so i, you know, i appreciate having my words heard and my thoughts. i've been involved in public service, i've been the governor of my state. so i've gone through all of these challenges. >> and i have a perspective and i can share my mistakes that i made, hopefully we don't repeat them and also see the opportunities that we have. i just think that he is doing exactly what needs to be done, engaging. >> rose: and we conclude this evening with part three of my interview with steve bannon the former white house chief strategist and current executive chairman of breitbart news. >> he doesn't put the russians up on so

: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00. hurricane irma is tearing through the bahamas as a category 4 storm the size of texas. after battering turns and caicos overnight and soaking the dominican republican and -- republic and haiti. and it's packing 155 miles per hour winds has left a trail of destruction since thursday. at least 17 people dead, over 100 wounded. florida now bracing for impact with over half a million people scrambling to evacuate. clogged highways, crowded gas stations, empty store shelves. this is the scene as the window to escape rapidly closes. the governor of florida urging his citizens to heed those evacuation orders. >> if you're told to evacuate, leave and get out quickly. the roads will fill up quickly so you need to go. i'm a dad and i'm a grandfather. i love my family. i can't imagine life without them. do not put yourself or your family's life at risk. we are running out of time. the storm is almost here. if you are in an evacuation zone you need to go now. this is a catastrophic storm that our state has never s

, she was the white house communications director. she was not the spokesperson at the podium on tv every day and -- she was working on communication strategy overall. she quit, april 21st 2009. word from the white house, it wasn't a good fit. did seem to be an amicable departure. she left the white house but what she did is move over where -- to the commerce department where she became chief of staff there and served happily for years. but she was the first. ellen moran became the first high profile departure of the obama administration. so from day one, january 20th, they made it two months and one day, to april 21st -- three months and one day. january, february, march, april. sorry, three months and one day. and nobody's saying that first terms are easy. particularly when it's a period who can't run anything at the federal level before, right? there's definitely a learning curve and you gotta figure out if you got the right people around you and there's going to be some turnover. so with the brand-new obama administration, that one-term u.s. senator coming in to be president for

. "deadline: white house" begins right now. >>> hi, there. it's 4:00. i'm katy tur filling in for nicolle wallace on deadline today, "the new york times" reporting that robert mueller has received an early draft of donald trump's justification for firing james comey. a draft that according to "the times" was shot down by white house legal counsel because some thought its contents were too problematic. this memo is said to have preceded the justification drafted by deputy attorney general rosenstein that donald trump cited in the letter dismissing comey. the white house used that justification immediately after comey's dismissal to explain the president's action. but trump cast a cloud over what his motives were when he made these remarks to lester holt back in may. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. >> "the washington po

, today's white house briefly with sarah sanders. she took questions on tax reform, immigration, north kor korea. [inaudible] good afternoon. [inaudible] the president and the administration continue to monitor the situation in puerto rico. the united states, the virgin islands, florida, texas and all those areas affected by hurricanes or harvey and arma. fema's traveling to the areas today the president will be making a trip to florida on thursday. the president's action during these times demonstrate why he's a true leader who can bring the country together and get things done for the american people. he wants to continue building unity by working on more issue supported by both parties especially restoring fairness or broken tax code and cutting taxes for hard-working americans. last week north dakota she invited heidi high camp on stage to welcome her during the tax reform event. tonight he will host senator high camp and colleagues from both parties, senator steinle, hatch, manson, tim and julie to discuss working together to achieve real tax reform that allows americans to keep m

come to the white house. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> also coverage this afternoon, senate finance committee is meeting this afternoon. and the house democrats expressing their opposition to the f.a.a. extension package. the article in "the hill" at thehill.com, a measure on f.a.a. re-authorization likely to come later this week in the u.s. house. the house gaveling in for legislative work in about 15 minutes or so. at 3:00 eastern. we will have live coverage. until then, a look at the week ahead in congress and more from today's "washington journal." >>" continues. host: two reporters joining us for a conversation about all things political. kelsey snell is from "the washington post." annie karni joins us from "politico." kelsey, let's start with you. the potential for some type of bill having to repeal and replace the affordable care act. when does it -- how was that? >> we saw a new version of the bill leakin

on american tv former trump campaign chairman and senior white house strategist until recently steve bannon he told cbs news that donald trump firing nba director james comey was the biggest mistake in modern political history. because it led to the appointment of the special counsel robert mueller and expressed concern over the mueller investigation. the breadth of the mueller investigation led to a new round of senior white house personnel and former senior white house personnel getting their own lawyers to help them deal with muller's inquiry and signalled there are a half dozen or more white house officials on his list of people to interview. we'll have more on what that means coming up tonight including this weird development we learned of. nbc news confirmed where there are two white house officials who may very well have conflicting interest in this investigation, but the two of them have nevertheless hired the same lawyer. not just the same law firm which would be trouble enough but these two different white house officials have actually hired the same lawyer to represe

with mr. draper about his experience documenting white house activities, presidential travel, and major events including the 9/11 terrorist attacks. the briscoe center at the university of texas recorded the interview and archived his photo along with of those of several other nationally recognized photographers. this is just over 30 minutes. >> it is february 15, 2013. i'm here with eric draper. the reason we are here is because we are celebrating the opening of the exhibit. eric, we are here to get your perspective on the things that are on display as well as our photojournalism archives. i know that we can talk a lot about your background and your history as a reporter. given the time constraints, i want to jump into your photos of president bush. tell the story of how you became the official white house photographer. i love how you got the job. mr. draper: i would give you the long story because it is fascinating to me. i never planned on being the white house photographer. it was an opportunity that presented itself. back when i was a staff photographer at the ap and most of

childers, we are live at the white house just minutes from now we will hear from the president, just a day after his oval office meeting with congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle which happened right before the bipartisan deal was announced. right now as we await that senate vote on the bill on aid for harvey victims and funding the government for the next three months, we are hearing from house leadership. >> the president made a call yesterday that he thought was in our country's interest to have bipartisan support in a bipartisan package to deal with these ongoing hurricane disasters. >> we were lectured on the importance of missing the debt ceiling to the market and we know that. we know that. if wall street -- >> heather: mike emanuel is live for us on capitol hill, which team is he on? >> it should be a busy hour on the senate floor, $15 billion or so of hurricane relief money combined with the government funding extension and also an authorization to allow the government to continue to borrow more money. mitchell, made this pitch for support today. >> three issue

wraps up this hour for me. thank you for watching. "deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00. safe to say that d.c. is now officially bob mueller's town and everyone else just lives in it. mueller's investigation growing in scope and intensity. nbc news breaking the story today that former national security adviser michael flynn's son is the subject in a federal investigation into russian meddling in the presidential election and possible collusion between moscow and the trump campaign. michael g. flynn, the son of mike flynn, has come under scrutiny at least in part for his work on behalf of flynn intel group, his father's firm. let's get right to carol lee, national political reporter and one of the bylines on the big scoop, as well as jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. now a national security analyst. carol, talk about your story. >> well, as you mentioned, we -- four current and former u.s. officials say that robert mueller is zeroing in on michael flynn's son and his work in particular with flynn intel

investigation and report on hurricane irma. big news, problems at white house caused by steve bannon, breaking silence in first tv interview sunday claiming he only wants to support the president. clearly doing that his own way. confirming in interview that trump firing jim comey was a historic mistake. >> someone said to me that you described the firing of james comey, you're a student of history, as the biggest mistake in political history. >> that would be probably too bombastic even for me, maybe modern political history. >> the firing of james comey was the biggest mistake in modern political history? >> if you're saying that's associated with me, i'll leave it at that. >> by leaving it at that, bannon ensured the critique would hit the white house today. at time when trump officials would like to push agenda on taxes or focus nation on hurricane relief, instead once again pressed to revisit the scene of the firing of jim comey, not by special counsel mueller or democratic critics. sarah huckabee sanders forced to because of steve bannon. >> do you have a reaction to steve bannon's commen

. >> bret: you are at the white house for the dinner last night. you're going for the dinner with senator schumer and nancy pelosi. what's your sense of where things stand between the administration and capitol hill on specifics? >> i've had the opportunity to work with the president for a long time on this. i worked with the campaign on this for him. since january, gary cohn and i have been meeting with the leadership of the house and senate. we are determined to get tax reform and tax cuts done this year. we are on track. we will be releasing the details very soon. we look forward to getting this to the president's desk this year to sign. >> bret: you thought august was going to be tax reform. maybe this year. are you confident it's going to be this year? >> obviously health care took longer than we expected, and we thought tax reform would be right behind it. we didn't want to do something during the august recess, so we are ready to go. i am optimistic we will get this done this year. this is about creating economic growth. it's about creating a business tax system that's competitive.

america [inaudible conversations] >> afternoon another busy day here at the white house on the economic front the president will continue his push to secure tax relief for hard-working american families for queer pleased to announce he will be traveling to indianapolis in vienna on wednesday to deliver remarks on the historic tax cuts he was working on with members of congress. to discuss new details of the framework to mclellan specific rates for individual small businesses and corporations and discuss the elimination of loopholes to raise the current tax code in favor of the wealthy and well-connected and give our workers the level playing field they deserve they will win because nobody can beat the american worker they will deliver a massive job creation and economic growth we are confident the people will be excited for what we are proposing will working to grow the economy the president will sign a river idem to ensure their power to succeed this means that technical college but more than half of the school's not currently offer courses in computer programming and 40% to not offer

obviously frustrated the white house on a week when the president thought he'd be taking the world stage, taking manhattan by storm with his displays of brute strength. he seems to be dodged by your paper and others relentless pursuit of the truth and facts in terms of these investigations into russian meddling. talk to us about where this investigation stands. your reporting yesterday that bob mueller is honing in specifically on the president's actions in those four instances we named at the top of the show. >> we've known for a while that bob mueller was looking at the president's firing of the fbi director james comey and does that amount to obstruction? was he trying to get ahead of the investigation? trying to shut it down? we now know that mueller is taking a much broader look at white house activities. some of the most controversial decisions, documents related to the flynn firing, to that -- those two very important meetings that sally yates the acting attorney general had when she went to the white house and said, look, flynn is compromised with the russians. they loorking at t