>> really, as sarah huckabee sanders usually goes the other way. but on a bipartisan basis, presidents typically are trying to contain information in the executive branch. that's the usual behavior. so for the president to be encouraging this. and, look, there is a difference between him saying this is what he would like to see and giving a direct order. >> saying do it. >> that's right. and this is not crossed into that territory. nonetheless, when you are over in doj you know what the president wants, and you undoubtedly if it's plausible and reasonable to do t it's one more item on the scale in favor of that transparency. so i would note that going forward this kind of transparency is an expectation now that the trump administration is setting. so in it's first year of its first term, i think it's pretty noteworthy to see this sort of position being taken by the president. >> and you nodded on the transparency note. what do you think of what ken just said? >> well, i think that the president simply does not seem to understand the boundaries betw

david: as we wait, sir huckabee's sanders coming out -- sarah huckabee sanders coming out. we'll bring you heard remarks as soon as she starts on bloomberg television. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ this is bloomberg markets, balance of power. the whiteomments from house secretary. there is the briefing room. sarah huckabee sanders expected to come out to talk about what we learned today. that will be the focus, these two indictments we learned about. --erts -- robert mueller's the implications of policy agenda could be catastrophic. he is still with us to talk about the fate and future of president trump's agenda. this is a tape -- tight timeline. this is a condensed calendar. how much does an event like this , and we are still learning what will happen as a result, does it affect how finely tuned things are on the white house -- on the white house? >> how many phone calls do you get on repatriation? >> probably none. >> of course it will distract. leadership have come out that say -- saying tax reform is a priority. if i was a republican member of congress, i would be thinkin

you saw sarah huckabee sanders do it the day before general kelly did. and then general kelly comes out to attack the representative's credibility. i think he's not done himself any good because most of what he says what just plain wrong. he, in his statement, it's almost like he seems to be relishing these attacks on the congresswoman. essentially said stunned about something that never happened, right? she was stunned that she stood up and said things, but none of that ever happened. he always seemed to missed the fact that she was given a standing ovation after she finished speaking. you saw the white house today saying he wasn't talking about necessarily that speech. he was talking about other things she had where she appeared to be grandstanding. but again, if you look at what he said from the podium of the white he was talking that spe. but it's really puzzling that he misremembered this entire event, and you had sanders saying you can't question what he i think the white house should have questioned him before he went out there. he should have gon

. >> and sarah huckabee sanders making case today as she did yesterday that none of this has anything to do with the president and the campaign. i think it would be easier for them to make a case if there hadn't been more than the manafort gates part of the story revealed yesterday. but after the papadopoulos revelations, and after the revelations of his emails with key members of the president's campaign, and after revelations that perhaps this person was wired or has been corroborating with prosecutors, i don't see how you can actually she that yesterday proves that this has nothing to do with the trump campaign. because what papadopoulos did was take this inside the trump campaign. and that was the importance of his testimony. >> and not only that, you can hear the reporters kept coming back to the sam clovis point. what of the key contact within the campaign, i think the campaign supervisor was how he was dubbed in the email exchange with papadopoulos. and this is an individual who the white house wants to be serving as deputy of agriculture chief scientist, right. and the questio

we should see sarah huckabee sanders any moment now. but let's talk about what we know will be brought up including the president wanted gag order lifted that prohibited this informant at the time of talking about a fbi investigation into russian efforts to gain efforts in uranium industry in 2010. with me is czechoslovakia republic, ethics. so ambassador eisen, always a pleasure, welcome back to the show. first, your thoughts on this reporting. we know that the gag order was lifted. that this was the doj's call. but what do you make of just the fact that the president wanted to influence doj to do this? >> brooke, thanks for having me back. and it's pretty extraordinary to have a president make his wishes known when you have a criminal matter of this kind going on in doj. there are rules in the white house and in the doj that are designed to protect political influence. i never heard of a case like this when i was policing this type of thing in the white house for obama. it's extraordinary. and of course it raises the specter that the

sarah huckabee sanders. >> yesterday three u.s. servicemembers and one partner nation member were killed while providing assistance to counterterror operations. as many of you are aware u.s. forces are in the country to provide training and security assistance to the local armed forces. in their efforts to counterviolent extremist organizations. additionally two u.s. servicemembers were injured and evacuated in stable condition to germany. names are being withheld at this time as part of the next of kin notification process. our thoughts and prayers with the families and friends of fallen servicemembers who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedoms we hold so dear. the let also visited las vegas yesterday to offer his support to the incredible people there. he met with law enforcement, first-responders, medical trauma teams, all who did incredible work under dire circumstances and visited with survivors and their families. the president was deeply touched by the spirit of people in las vegas. in one particularly stirring m

sarah huckabee sanders came out. dana, you've been in that position before where there's been a national tragedy. as press secretary, you come out and respond to it. it only took a second question before the issue of gun control came up again and sarah batted that back a couple times to say, look, this is not the time for policy discussions. this is the time for mourning and consoling the victims and the survivors of that horrible shooting last night. president issuing a proclamation in honor of the victims of last night's shooting. 58 in total now. ordering all flags at the white house and federal buildings, military installations and ships at sea be lowered to half staff or half-mast as the case may be in terms of the ships until october 6th. then there will be a moment of silence on the south lawn of the white house in about 17 or 18 minutes time. the president this morning in his address to the nation, this was put together haeuftly in the diplomatic reception room, obviously condemning the person who perpetrated

we are still waiting for the daily press briefing from sarah huckabee sanders. as soon as she takes the podium we'll go there live. maybe she'll answer what the president was talking about last night about, we'll see, the calm before the storm, who knows. up next though, when it first came out many thought that the steele dossier, remember that? they thought it was a crock, but bob mueller continues to dig through it and met with the man behind it. now we have new information about who he might meet with next. is there any truth to the dossier after all, or is mueller just crossing it off his list? their experience is coveted. their leadership is instinctive. they're experts in things you haven't heard of - researchers of technologies that one day, you will. some call them the best of the best. some call them veterans. we call them our team. (bell ringing) so, i was at mom and dad's and found this. cds, baseball cards. your old magic set? (sigh) and this wrestling ticket. which you still owe me for. seriously? $25? i didn't even want to go. ahh, your diary! "mom

sarah huckabee sanders in which you disagree with our decision to air, is providing disinformation. what hope is there? what do the rest of us do? >> he used the word statemen, saying you guys need to step up and be statesmen. >> okay, so? >> as you said, he's talking to the republican caucus and saying, you know what? you have to look at your conscience, you have to look at your children and your grandchildren and say, can i in good conscience abide by what that coarse western in the white house. >> and senator corker i personally believe is so moved to speak out because he's worried about the looming threat of north korea and that donald trump's twitter handle specifically is escalating the threat. so he sees that as something that is ratcheting up the threat level, that's completely dangerous coming from the commander in chief. >> one of the things that sarah said that was not wrong, was when she was asked does the president ever reflect when he's getting criticized from every direction, does he ever step back and think, maybe i'm doing it wrong? her answer was no. she's right ab

sarah huckabee sanders saying his statement stands as i explained a moment ago. ali? >> yeah, although the average person hearing that would say the statement can't stand, because they're acknowledging in a way, a very round-about way as this white house tends to do that that wasn't accurate. garrett haake, at capitol hill. general mattis is now i believe in senator john mccain's office. mccain's been talking a few days about the fact that the military and the white house do not seem to be forthcoming about the situation in niger. i think you saw mattis on the way in? >> i did. actually had a chance to speak with him on his way to mccain's office. stopped to visit some of the service chief liaison offices, starting with marine and navy, working his way through and saying hi to folks before he came back up. i asked was there anything else he could tell us about the investigation, anything update, anything new today? the same john mccain does, turned the question around and said why would i tell you anything more if i don't know anything more. he's very much in the fact

sarah huckabee sanders at the white house. >> good afternoon. happy halloween. >> thank you. >> i thought for sure i would see some costumes today. >> dressed as reporters. >> that's not nearly as exciting as what you could have come but we'll let it slide for today. today i'm once again pleased to talk about the topic that we and more importantly the american people are excited about. tax cuts. we are approaching the release of legislation based on the tax reform framework the president supports. fl no matter how great the plan is for the hard working families, democrats are expectsed to criticize the tax cuts as they've done in recent years. while arguing over president reagan 1981 tax cuts, democrats claim it would only benefit the rich. the democrats speaker of the house at the time, tip o'neil, called them royal tax cuts because he claimed they favored the wealthiest americans. what really happened was 14 million new jobs were created over five years, incomes grew by over 22% for the next seven years, and the economy grew by over 3.5% on av

sarah huckabee sanders was asked about that at the briefing this afternoon. here's how she responded. >> there's a difference between talking and putting diplomatic pressure. we still strongly support putting diplomatic pressure on north korea, which we're continuing to do. now is not the time to have conversations with north korea. we've encouraged all of our allies and partners to do more. we're going to keep all options on the table. >> that's the viewpoint from the white house. they don't believe that kim jong-un has backed up enough to warrant direct talks with north korea. they want to see him come to them to say okay, i'm willing to deal, shep. >> shepard: thanks, john. complete coverage this hour of the shooting in las vegas. ahead we'll go live to the las vegas strip with new details on the gunman, his background and the victims of this horrible american tragedy. ♪ if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. if other treatments haven't

sarah huckabee-sanders saying it's her sense this is winding down. you talked about the amount of money, the amount of time, the amount of pressure on mueller the last couple weeks. i always felt this was low-hanging fruit. in case of emergency break glass and it says manafort. where do they go from here? >> mr. manafort's guidelines are about 10 years. about 120 months. and they are going to go higher than that. maybe six months? city wouldn't want to spend six months in a jail. it's the other people that haven't been charged yet. every time a ford crown victoria drives by their house, they are having heart failure. ford: you are basically wholely squeezing someone else for another crime just to get something that may not actually be there. charles: john, where do you see it going from here? >> i think the big question is what does paul manafort know and what can he give robert mule per and his team. there is certainly going to be more indictments. we don't know who. i think there is more to come. the names we are seeing today are people in one case

sarah huckabee sanders saying that george papadopolos was an unpaid volunteer. she made the point, look, he only sat in on one key meeting there. of course, the reality is, if you look at the court papers, there were a number of e-mails exchanged between george papadopolos and campaign officials over several months. as it related to setting up a meeting with russian officials. now, of course, the court documents also stress that never happened. so sarah huckabee sanders sort of highlighting all of those points that i mapped out and when it comes to paul manafort and rick gates, she makes the case that all of these charges have to do with stuff that happened before the campaign. which is, of course, soon. you're going to see the white house hit that point over and observer again. she was asked, when was the last time president trump spoke to paul manafort? take a listen how she answered that question. >> as far as we can tell, we know they haven't spoken in several months. the last known conversation was back all the way to february. and as far as anything beyond

now sarah huckabee sanders asked if he should resign. she said that's up to corker and people of tennessee. but when asked about the president's and bob corker's differing accounts whether he asked foreign doorsment, sarah huckabee sanders said the president was telling the truth. that's something that's widely disputed by corker's office. because he maintained begged for his endorsement, and when the president did not grant it, decided to not run for election and decided to retire. now bob corker told that's not true. that he told him to run for re-election. and corker offered to endorse him if he did run. and even floated the idea of attending a rally in tennessee to support corker. so we see these very two different accounts coming out of the white house and capitol hill. and it's not likely that this battle will end. a white house official told us that the president is not finished with corker just yet, brooke. >> we'll see how that develops. we'll see you shortly as well as pittsburgh penguins, hang tight. let's talk about football.

sarah huckabee sanders has now taken the podium, so we're going to listen in. she's going to be asked a number of things. should be an interesting one. >> -- to defeat isis. with the stunning fall of mosul in june and now isis nearly eradicated from raqqah, it's clear isis is crumbling syria. this eminent victory by the global coalition and our brave service members comes at a high cost particularly to the syrian democratic forces who suffered many casualties fighting to liberate their own country from the liberation of isis. instead of caring for the humanitarian needs, isis utilized money stockpiled to finance terror attacks across the world including against many muslims. as coalition and our partner forces closed in around them, isis used civilians as human shields and killed those who attempted to flee. isis barbaric acts have left many scars across the region and we remain committed to supporting stabilization efforts and local security forces in liberated areas through a political transition in syria. unfortunately, the syrian regime and its supporters h

here is how sarah huckabee sanders answered those questions. >> can you clarify the president's comments? was he referring to military action when he said calm before the storm? >> as we've said many times before, i know the president has, as i have from this podium on quite a few occasions, we're never going to say in advance what the president's going to do. and as he said last night, in addition to those comments, you'll have to wait and see. >> but how seriously should the american public or american adversaries for that matter take these comments? is this a joke? was it serious? >> i think you can take the president protecting the american people always extremely serious. he's been very clear that that's his number one priority, and if he feels that action is necessary, he'll take it. >> you said the president wants to preserve an element of surprise, why would he dangle hints about his actions in the first place? >> i don't believe he did. >> all right. today's press briefing also touched on a question that hassling erred in the news this week amid nbc news reporting about the esca

sarah huckabee sanders has just taken to the podium. do you want to go to her now? michael, you answer. >> real quick, i think this is part of the problem. they should have been in this space long before now and should have said something and to draw the bright line and push back on the administration. president feels these guys are pushovers and can tweet and say whatever he wants and get away with it. this is an environment that they have created. >> and i'm going to squeeze one more in. did you read the forbes article? was your take away that this president cares more about himself than he does about governing or is that the wrong reading of it? >> has been true from day one going back to the moment he came down the escalator to this very moment. i'm surprised people are just now surprised to find that out. >> we will go to sarah huckabee sanders at the podium at the white house press briefing. it should be an interesting one. stay with us. >> in puerto rico fema is hosting a jobs fair to hire 1,200 to help with relief efforts and boost the local economy. the roa

that was sarah huckabee sanders. on twitter, author naomi klein wrote -- "don't talk about guns after a massacre. or climate change after storms. or austerity after firetrap buildings burn. talk when no one listens." meanwhile, a tweet by country guitarist lee tweeter, member of the josh abbott band, went viral after he tweeted his change of heart over gun control. his band performed at the route 91 harvest festival sunday afternoon, hours before the mass shooting around 10 p.m. amy: afterward, keeter posted a lengthy response to the attack, writing -- "i've been a proponent of the 2nd amendment my entire life. until the events of last night. i cannot express how wrong i was. we actually have members of our crew with, and legal firearms on the bus. they were useless. we couldn't touch them for fear police might think we were part of the massacre and shoot us. a small group where one man laid waste to a city with dedicated, fearless police officers desperately trying to help, because of access to an insane amount of f

sarah huckabee sanders said of the congresswoman's language that it was appalling and disgusting. she said the president was respectful that he was sympathetic and used the word "disgraced" to describe the characterization much in her idea, her words, by the media and sort of the way this story has been presented. they say the president as she insisted, general john kelly sort of a character witness to the president being there saying that the president was completely appropriate in the way he handled it. that he was respectful and did the best job he could in that circumstance. i also asked huckabee sanders weth the president's chief of staff john kelly was aware that he would invoke kelly's own son who died in afghanistan in 2010 before the president invoked his name, general kelly's son's name in what that become a political fight. he said the president and chief of staff kelly have spoken multiple times in the course of the last 48 hours. it wasn't entirely clear whether in fact general kelly had signed off on that. he's been very private about his son's death in the past, but

this is what we are waiting for, the official statement from sarah huckabee sanders this afternoon. >> thank you so much, kristen. let's go to nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, bring us up to speed on what stood out to you and what to expect with the court appearance from paul manafort. >> reporter: stepping back here to summarize it, i think you can get lost in the weeds of what the actual counts are, but the theory of the indictment is that manafort engaged to earn millions of dollars in fees from politicians in ukraine and lobbied for the government in the u.s. lobbied members of congress, lobbied the administration for ten years, but it says they failed to register as foreign agents if they were representing a foreign government. and failed to report millions of dollars to the irs. instead, they funneled the money to offshore accounts. they put $7 million through and he spent $3 million. there's nothing in the charges directionally act the russians or last year's election. and another interesting thing i think is that robert mueller was appointed special counsel in ma

sarah huckabee sanders for the first time addressed that this afternoon. let's listen here. >> if the spirit of which those comments were intended were misunderstood, that's very unfortunate. as the president has said, as general kelly said who i think has a very deep understanding of what that individual would be going through, his comments were very sympathetic, very respectful and that was the spirit in which the president intended them. if they were taken another way, that is unfortunate. >> one thing the white house has stopped doing, trace is arguing the did not say what it's alleged he said in the telephone. they're saying his remarks about the fact that johnson knew what he was getting into and kelly went through all that yesterday. may have been misconstrued. sarah huckabee sanders saying today that she's surprised this thing is still going. we should point out discrepancy with what general kelly remembered and said yesterday and appeared to actually happen of the dedication of the fbi people is what has been driving the coverage today, trace. >>

trish: sarah huckabee sanders speaking now. let's listen. >> see some of the costumes. >> just as reporters. >> that is not nearly as exciting what you could have come but we'll let it slide for today. today i'm once again pleased to talk about the topic that we and more importantly the american people are all very excited about, tax cuts. we're approaching the release of legislation based on the tax reform framework that the president supports. unfortunately no matter how great the plan is for the hard-working families, democrats are expected to criticize the tax cuts as they have done in recent years, putting partisan politics ahead of their constituents pocketbooks. arguing over president reagan's 1981 tax cuts, democrats claimed it would only benefit the rich. democrat speaker of the house tip o'neill, he caught them royal tax cuts because he claimed they favored most wealthy americans. what happened, 14 million new jobs were created five years, incomes grew over 22% for next seven years and economy grew by over 3.5% on ave

sarah huckabee sanders, obviously she has her famous dad. can you ask her what it's like to have a socialist for a father who lost horribly to hillary who cheated him out of the nomination? >> no, i don't think so. i did talk to her a little bit about her dad. >> bernie. >> i know who you are talking about. >> well, answer the question. why are you evading the question >> my gosh... i'm feeling a lot like ed henry right now. >> boo! >> dana showing off her press secretary skills by deflecting. [laughter] >> kimberly, please help us here. we need help. >> greg has lost his turn. i'm really excited about you hosting this weekend. excited about -- i know you really wanted to get the interview with sarah sanders, that's going be really compelling to see you sit down and discuss having had the job and her in a decision. >> you should stand! don't sit down. >> what else do you have in store? what's in the run down this sunday? >> this is pretty exciting. i am doing this for one week only. chris wallace will be back and they will probably never let

he wasn't just operating as lone ranger, as sarah huckabee sanders seemed to be suggesting the white house briefing. he was consulting with top campaign officials about his meetings with these russians and efforts to coordinate. we know that was going on, but the document is silent on whether he conveyed this offer of dirt from the russians to the trump campaign. >> and kristen welker at the white house, following their reaction today. again, when we got the news for people who weren't watching the second-by-second developments this morning, the thing that struck me in terms of the president's reaction, we initially got the news of manafort and gates. former campaign chairman and his deputy. then donald trump, when that news came out basically tweeted out, look, this is old stuff. didn't have anything to do with the campaign. no collusion. then, after that, you had the papadopoulos news, all of these implications we're discussing here. is there any indication that is affecting at all how the white house is going to be responding to this given that the papadopoulos stuff is a 14-page

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sarah huckabee sanders can say look away, all she wants. you and i know that's not the case. >> the bottom line is we're having the veil pulled back by the chief of staff john kelly in a new interview with fox news overnight describing the president in terms of this russia investigation as being very distracted. he said of course he would be very distracted if he were being investigated for something. he says russia is a topic they have multiple conversations about each day. generally in the morning before they get to the business of the day. we are hearing from the president himself on twert thit this morning. some of his tweets during the course of the day. he writes, the fake news is working overtime as paul manafort's lawyer said, there was no collusion and events mentioned took place long before he came to the campaign. few people knew the young low level volunteer named george who has already proven to be a dili, check the dems. it was president trump himself who in march of last year was amok those who certainly knew george papadopou

. >> reporter: sarah huckabee sanders calling the comments petty. >> when he gets hit, he's going to hit back. >> senator flake will sit down for a live morning on the "today" show. you can watch it starting at 7:00 right after news4 today. >>> meanwhile, new revelations tonight after that controversial dossier detailing possible connections between the trump campaign and russia. nbc news confirms what the "washington post" reported, that hillary clinton and her campaign and the national democratic committee helped fund the research that went into it. it's not clear if any information in that dossier was actually shared with the clinton camp or the dnc. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders tweeted tonight, calling this the real russia scandal. >>> well, we saw a pretty nice afternoon. one more nice afternoon today. a temperature of 73 degrees in the d.c. area, 73 hagerstown. but look at the highs in the west tonight. only in the 50 wait until you see thursday. tracking our next system, it's going to bring some rain just in time for the weekend. i'll tell you when to exp

does sarah huckabee sanders know what the president was talking about when the president said this is the calm before the storm? does anybody likely know what the president was talking about? >> nobody i talked to today knows what the president of talking about. i think the president was trying to correct two things, number one, he has the power to create a storm. each likes to he likes to remind people of his powers. number two, he was a raeality show producer for years. he wants you to tune in tomorrow for the next episode and he doesn't want you to change the channel. i think he might be playing this out a little bit for that effect. we could all be surprised this weekend. there could be some sort of military action, i don't know. certainly things are tense in a um number number of areas in the world but there's no indication that anything is planned. >> he's the master of tease. as some want to know, is there going to be a friday night resignation. most people assume she was asking about rex tillerson. >> i think that's certainly who she was asking about but i think a lot of peopl

as a logical construction, it makes no sense what sarah huckabee sanders is saying. she's trying to get past the question essentially. not so much a lie or not a lie. it's an evasion of the question with a bunch of words constructed to distract from what the real issue is. that's the case in a lot of these instances. the interesting question on the question of the world stage, is that for a lot of world leaders and a lot of diplomats around the world, just as for a lot of republicans, democrats in the country, the notion that there's daylight between trump and his cabinet is what they're clinging to. a sense of security. it's like the -- it's not like if they were all in perfect alignment, people would be terrified. instead you have bob corker speaking the fundamental truth which is the notion these people are keeping the country from falling into chaos at the hands of the president. that's what bob corker thinks. he's finally said it. that's what most republican establishmentarians and leaders think. we wouldn't want them to be in perfect alignment with president tr

these statements that -- ken di lanian has already proven false something sarah huckabee sanders said from the posium. how dangerous for these aides to be making statements knowing there was someone from inside the campaign cooperating with special counsel bob mueller since july? >> the justice department and prosecutors have a history of looking ining at what people s publicly about indictments, plea deals and convictions. if you try to manipulate the public record about the truth, the justice department will basically think of that as an effort to obstruct justice and to lie. to your point about the way the white house crafted that statement about the don junior e-mail, that goes directly to it. it's important to say that the biggest issue in the mueller investigation was not implicated by any of these revelations today. that's the obstruction of justice matter, about whether the justice headand his inner most aides fired comey with russia on the brain. whether that violated the law, we don't know. we haven't gotten any indcaution from today's events. >> he did that in an interview

the white house and sarah huckabee sanders that they have done nothing wrong that papadopoulos was the one this the wrong. the white house was the one that handed over the e-mails that papadopoulos was sending to campaign officials. and they are the ones that enabled special counsel probe to continue and for these e-mails and this information to come to light. with that, it is the end of my time here at msnbc for this hour only. not forever. ali very well she. >> good you corrected that i would have had tweets. i do come in here early just to spend time with you, not the take your air time. i don't know how much you remember about this but i remember when i first learned that george papadopoulos was among a whole bunch of names named to trump's advisory team, i remember thinking there was very little known about this guy. >> i spoke to barry bennett who was on the carson campaign before he was with trump. and i asked him how he brought him on. he said papadopoulos e-mailed him, had his cv out, he was somebody who had worked with the hudson institute. bennett called his contact there, g

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when you look at the questions that sarah huckabee sanders got. remember, this was the first briefing since the sort of weekend of headlines, you could say on not just rex tillerson but bob corker as well. the press secretary taking questions on both of that. let's start with tillerson. that is significant. both had come from a lunch. the secretary had just come in. we saw him leave as well. here's what sarah huckabee sanders says about the comment that president made to forbes magazine about potentially having an iq test with his secretary of state and alluding to who he thinks would win. listen. >> the president certainly never implied that the secretary of state was not incredibly intelligent. he made a joke. nothing more than that he has full confidence -- he has full confidence in the secretary of state of they had a great visit earlier today and they are working hand in hand to move the president's agenda forward. >> this is important because it's not just about permits here. it's also about the poll see. you heard one of the questions sarah

this afternoon, the press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about nbc's reporting that tillerson insulted the president. let's watch. >> was the president upset that his secretary of state didn't deny calling him a moron in his public remarks yesterday? >> look, as the secretary of state said, this is a petty, ridiculous accusation and frankly, i think it's beneath the secretary of state to weigh in on every rumor out there. his spokesperson, however, did come out and clarified that the secretary of state had never used those words. >> and what's your response to those who say the president has undercut the secretary of state? sara, just quickly? >> i think the premise of that question is absolutely ridiculous. the president can't undercut his own cabinet. the president is the leader of the cabinet. he sets the tone. he sets the agenda. >> for more, i'm joined by nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, also joining me, "the new york times," glenn tlush, former republican national committee share, michael steele, and "the washington post's" ann garrett. it seem

but the thing that was interesting about the press conference today was how sarah huckabee sanders basically, was trying so hard to put this distance between themselves and mueller's actions. they would have been able to do that in some ways if it had been manafort and gates. if it had just been the first things we had learned this morning. when the papadopoulos plea comes out, it changes that equation, it makes making that argument that manafort and gates were businessmen off on their own, doing their own thing. it wasn't part of the campaign, that would have been an easier sell, even though they did run the campaign, being the campaign chairman and deputy. the papadopoulos thing gives us a whole new chapter into development in this story, where we learn more about how interested the trump campaign was in trying to get stuff from russia, this is the third instance about where we learned they tried to do this. it seems the documents that were unsealed, the campaign officials knew about this, they knew what was going on at the time. that's what really changes today and puts the white house in

sarah huckabee-sanders. we are learning more about tales of bravery sunday night, as a gunman rained down hundreds of bullets on innocent people. police learning more about that shooter, as people fight for their lives in hospitals. abc's marci gonzalez has more, from las vegas. more than 24 hours after the shooting, new details are emerging about the after the shooting, new details are emerging about the alleged shooter. relatives say stephen paddock, a retired accountant, had never shown any violent tendencies -- while law enforcement says he had kept a low profile -- with no record, besides what's said to be a minor citation several years ago. the 64-year-old was living in retirement community about 80 miles from las vegas with a woman, said to be his girlfriend. paddock's brother says he was a multimillionaire real-estate investor, who did not have ties to any extremist organisations. still-- they were unable to explain why paddock would open fire on thousands of innocent people. police say paddock's gir

you askedded sarah huckabee sanders a e question and i heard you quote the economy sucks. i thought ronica has gone rogue. then i realized you were quoting grover nor wits. >>reporter: i figure anything goes. the things that are said i did check with our boss if i could say that on air. i made hur to attribute it to grover. >> that was important. thank you, ronica. we've got two weeks to go until virginia and it go to the polls. we'll be right back. ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. narrator: they call him enron ed. because washington, dc lobbyist ed gillespie worst. lenders trying to keep student loan rates high. corporations sending jobs overseas. and of course the enron scandal. now, enron ed is lobbying for donald trump's agenda. like cuts to virginia school funding, and taking away healthcare from thousands of virginians. enron ed gillespie. he's not lobbying for you. do you look at the polls. obviously virginians want somebody to stand up to the poll ticketed events. we have a candidate that is nothing more than a wash

hiring sarah huckabee sanders. judging by the tweets over the last 2a hours, this is causing a certain amount of heartburn over there, isn't it? of course. any time you have an individual turn themselves into the fbi, one of our top law enforcement agencies here in the us, who is the president's campaign manager, that's going to because of heartburn. from a legal perspective, these indictments, in my view, show that the fbi and of course the special counsel office are probably going to try to flip these two individuals. they will try to find a way to find someone they will try to find a way to find someone further up the chain, much closer to president trump, than these two. so yes, if i were a lawyer associated with the president 01’ lawyer associated with the president or his white house staff, i might be having a tough go of it today. let's pull out a couple of bits from the papadopoulos indictments, because sarah sanders they're saying there was no connection to the campaign. 0ne was no connection to the camp

sarah huckabee sanders taking comments in the press briefing today as well. scarlet: yeah, about how trump's time with janet yellen is the reason he has warmed to her. it is a new phase in the relationship, perhaps. what does that suggest? [laughter] kevin: you can never tell the president -- who the president will like or not like. only if senator corker had as --h time, we might have charm, we might have a different story. this is coming down to the wire. president trump -- showed in the past couple of hours that he is considering having jerome powell , as well as john taylor in the fed chair and the vice fed chair positions. we do not know what combination we would get, but look. a lot of republicans on capitol hill -- janet yellen is the bottom of their list, but president trump, according to communications director -- press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, they did have a very positive meeting. julia: we'll have to keep the speculation going. [laughter] kevin: yes, it is fun. it is friday and it is fun. julia: exactly. kevin cirilli, chief washington co

i think we have a sound bite i can play for you from sarah huckabee sanders, so i'm going to toss to it and hope it runs. >> as we've said many times before, i know the president has, as i have from this podium on quite a few occasions, we're never going to say in advance what the president's going to do. and as he said last night in addition to those comments, you'll have to wait and see. i think you can take the president protecting the american people always extremely serious. he's been very clear that that's his number one priority, and if he feels that action is necessary, he'll take it. >> reporter: so that was sarah huckabee sanders on this idea of a calm before the storm military options, et cetera, what that meant. i think you have a number of other headlines coming out of today's briefing. chief among them is this contraception mandate rollback that the health and human services agency unfurled this morning. the press secretary took several questions about that saying essentially that the administration does not believe it's going to have a legal issue because the supreme c

they have no idea a scheduled withing today at 1:00 sarah huckabee sanders. really big week until i am sure what they will say is many of the questions have to be answered by the attorneys and not the white house. we will see if they stick to that. long before 12 days, five countries, extremely grueling, 12-14 hours ahead depending on where he is. the biggest part of it is probably china here he will visit china at a time where north korea is extremely dangerous now. tests, and thele two presidents need to talk about what to do about that. the white house is telling us the big push will be president trump asking the chinese president to more to help curtail north korea. this is what the united states president always asks the president. here we are. we are still in the same boat. to figure out a way to get them on board and to do a bit more. he has a variety of other meetings. having toeconomics, summits. it is surprising he is going this long to this many places. go, youfore we let you mentioned the announcement of the fed chairman. stories in the paper that

and here's an exchange with sarah huckabee sanders that happened on friday. >> i think we are seeing now that if there was any collusion with russia, it was between the dnc and the clintons and certainly not our campaign. if any collusion took place, it would be between the dnc and the clintons. >> talking about evidence of collusion with hillary clinton, sara, no the president made a charge that hillary clinton -- >> i think i've addressed that pretty thoroughly. mike, go ahead. >> so are you saying? >> i'm saying that i'm calling on your colleague. >> reporter: so that back and forth and the sort of new line from the white house through sarah huckabee sanders the press secretary is about something many of viewers have heard about over these months, the steele dossier, christopher steele, a british operative, a dossier of unflattering opposition research about candidate donald trump. what has now been learned is that a conservative publication in washington that was in the never trump category paid a firm to begin the work on that and later it was the dnc and hillary clinton campaig

here's what sarah huckabee sanders said about it at a briefing here in the last hour. >> the president never implied that the secretary of state was not incredibly intelligent. he made a joke. nothing more than that. he has full confidence in the secretary of state. they had a great visit earlier today and they're working hand and hand to move the president's agenda forward. >> shepard: sanders suggested reporters should get a sense of humor. the president went after the tennessee senator bob corker who repeatedly blasted president trump in a "new york times" interview. the president tweeted, the failing "new york times" set little bob corker up by recording his conversation and was made to sound a fool. that's what i'm dealing with. it's common for news outlets to intervie interviews. corkers aides record it it and it was said on the reporting to "the new york times" by the senator, i hope you're recording this. he was. the chief white house correspondent, john roberts is live on the white house lawn. good to be back. >> good to be back. secretary of state was back at the white house

that was white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. talking about the tragic events in las vegas. avoiding any talk about what this will mean for future legislation as far as gun control. she cited the example of chicago and their stringent gun laws and effectat has not had the that they were hoping either. president trump going to las vegas on wednesday. will be a moment of silence later this hour. we will take that live when it happens. as u.s. stocks make new record highs there is an interesting dynamic at work. the number of companies coming to market is slowing down. bloomberg data shows that over the years a number of initial public offerings has been falling to about 127 so far this year. the numberrt shows of publicly traded companies on the nasdaq and new york stock exchange also on the decline. change from the early days of 2003. what does this say about our capital markets? we bring in david hunt. get your take on global stocks bleeding at record highs -- being at record highs. be a lot ofseem to fear a comforting those gain

politico says ultimately it was decided to have sarah huckabee sanders read a portion of the statement from the podium there, and she did say something the next day about the white house being sorry for the loss, but not the president himself. that the difference here. and, of course, it was only after this became very public and there were many public calls about the loss of these troops and success questions as to why president had not commented that the president finally did make comments in his name. >> all right. jim sciutto reporting that for us. thank you very much. >>> with us now, democratic senator chris coons of delaware. he's a member of the foreign relations and judiciary committees. senator, are you concerned how this niger mission unfolded? >> i am, wolf, and i'm asking for a classified briefing about exactly what happened in niger. we've got many american trooped deployed in the region who are part of a multinational effort against both boko haram and isis and aqim. i've got some concerns about the operational details of the incident as they've been reported publicly an

. >> his press secretary sarah huckabee sanders providing no clarity. >> we're never going to say in advance what the president's going to do. >> still unclear whether the president was previewing some new action in north korea or iran, where he's expected to announce next week that he'll begin to unravel the iran nuclear deal. or was he just joking, perhaps to deflect from the political storm swirling around the administration that the president was furious after learning his secretary of state, rex tillerson, called him a moron. white house aides say president trump still has confidence in america's top diplomat. and just to underscore the wide range of national security challenges on president trump and rex tillerson's plate, the pentagon has announced that in addition to three green berets, a fourth american soldier was killed in the west african nation of niger this week. he's not yet been identified. their special forces patrol was ambushed by islamic militants. one more region where americans serve every day, phillip, in harm's way. back to you. >> that's right. peter alexande