. >> we just heard from kellyanne conway. we want to talk about the president's statement at the cia. it drew some fire from former cia director john brennan. she fired right back and said it was remarkable. >> here's what i would say to stand on sacred ground, the wall which commemorates cia agents who gave their lives to the country and then talk about what he talked about was so, so wrong. president trump ought to realize. he's not campaigning anymore. he's president. and instead of talking about how many people showed up at his inauguration, he ought to be talking about how many people are going to stay in the middle class and move into the middle class. >> what did you make of his inaugural speech? kellyanne conway say it was unifying. >> it was not at all. he spoke only to his supporters. the theme is to reach out to people who didn't vote for you. and of course, the majority of people didn't vote for donald trump. instead, he just spoke to his supporters. the other thing that bothered me, as much as the narrowness of i

to sanction kellyanne conway for comments that we re kellyanne conway for comments that were basically in line with what the president himself had just as many as are of the opinion, say ‘aye'. to the contrary, ‘no'.. as are of the opinion, say 'aye'. to the contrary, 'no'.. presumably there is no chance of donald trump being sanctioned 7 there is no chance of donald trump being sanctioned? —— the president himself had just tweeted. no, the president cannot be sanction, but there could be an adverse action towards a specific company, so opened himself up to lawsuits. the curious thing is kellyanne conway, the with these comments, and it kind of came off as a joking aside at the end of the interview, but with these comments everyone all of a sudden is speaking about kellyanne conway, from democrats, to good government people, to republicans, so she is catching the heat that the president was just yesterday. imagine a destroyer pulling up between an incoming torpedo and aircraft carrier. she sacrifices herself but the main ship survives. all right, taking one for the team. here i

[cheers] kellyanne conway: i am kellyanne conway. [cheers] kellyanne conway: i am a wife, a mother, a catholic -- [applause] kellyanne conway: counselor to the president of the united states of america -- [cheers] kellyanne conway: and yes, i am pro-life. [cheers] kellyanne conway: it is such an honor to stand with the vice president of the united states -- [cheers] kellyanne conway: and with so many leaders, families, and students from places near and far to defend the unborn. [cheers] kellyanne conway: your courage, your conviction, your resolve, and your faith are impressive. and consequential. this is a new day, a new dawn for life. [cheers] kellyanne conway: why are we here? what does it mean to stand together to be part of this incredible movement? to face criticism, ridicule, laws and lawmakers that diminish and erode our most basic rights and the bedrock of our society? it means to protect and to promote the most precious gift in the world, the gift of life. [cheers] kellyanne conway: it means to stand up, stand tall, and sta

so who is kellyanne conway? i spoke to the aide to the president on the morning of the inauguration. on her 50th birthday, kellyanne conway also began a new job. now arguably one of the most powerful women in donald trump's washington. on a personal level, what are you feeling right now? >> first of all, i feel incredibly humble to be here at this moment. it's a time of change, opportunity, fresh blood. it's more than a fresh coat of paint for america, it's a gut-wrenching nomination, if you will. >> a career as a poster and political adviser that began in the mid-'90s. >> history looks at our presidents very differently. we're not nominating a chief happiness officer here. >> sticks and stones may break my bones. what bothers people is that there is a germ of truth in this. >> conway started the 2016 presidential race backing donald trump's biggest rival, helping to run a super pac that helped support ted cruz, conway was critical of trump. >> he says he's for the little guy but he's built his business on the b

i've known kellyanne conway for a long time. we're not best friends or anything but i've known her professionally, she is smart. she knows what she is doing, she moes there is a difference between buzz feed and cnn. she knows that. the fact she kept conflating them intentionally. and particularly dangerous, this is a person who will be senior adviser to the president of the united states in about five minutes who is now claiming that reporters should be fired for writing a story that was critical of her boss even though she was unable to name a single thing wrong with that story. every time she came back about you, it was about buzz feed, had nothing to do with cnn's reporting. this is not the government's job to be telling news organizations who they should be hiring and firing. if she doesn't like cnn's polling, it's not any different than the polling she was doing for donald trump because donald trump didn't think he would win. >> jim acosta you were at the press conference today. donald trump did not allow you to ask a quest

the group hearing shortly from white house adviser kellyanne conway. and earlier, they heard from former virginia senator and governor george allen and former house speaker newt gingrich. you can find all of today's speakers online. we have them in the video library at c-span.org. also, american history tv this week is prime time with our original series "landmark cases." tonight, marbury versus madison, establishing the constitution as the supreme law of the united states. and again, american history tv prime time starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. and then join us friday. we spoke with transportation secretary elaine chao. she talked about her goals for her department and her marriage to the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. that will be 8:00 p.m. eastern friday over on c-span. live coverage continuing shortly from the national conservative student conference, hearing from white house adviser kellyanne conway next. >>> again, you're watching live coverage from the national conservative student conference meeting in washington, d.c.

this just carries through and kellyanne conway did it, but she is subject to the laws. if they don't get what's going on or why this is important then they're going to continue to do it and for us to just trust them that she's being counselled doesn't give a lot of faith. >> is there anything we could draw upon or any ramification on this? >> i think there's a 0% chance that kellyanne conway didn't know there could be ramify indicatio - -- -- ramifications of this. but she's willing to take the reprimand and i'm sure made her boss very, very happy. he loves his daughter and very protective of her, i think she will perhaps get a slap on the wrist, and possibly harder after that. but. >> misstating sean spicer, saying atlanta, i think three times when he meant orlando, it's not been a good week. >> no, i think folks have watched how the president has quickly moved on these orders and now the spokesman and the president really getting tripped up on their words i think a lot of republicans are watching this and distancing themselves we have seen this today on jason chaffetz

maybe at 4:00 he told kellyanne conway, i have full confidence in flynn. then maybe he spoke to vice president pence, i am just making this up, who knows, maybe he had another conversation with somebody which made him take it back. i mean, that's a perfectly plausible explanation. and it also gives you a window into why this white house is having such a difficult time. i think it goes right to the top. >> there is almost like a thunderous silence from the president himself. he didn't take questions about it at friday's news conference or today's news conference when he was asked aboard air force one about flynn. i don't know anything about it. i'll look into it. blah, blah, blah. i don't hear him saying i have full confidence. certainly hasn't tweeted his support for general flynn. >> he is now acting as a politician here, allowing his aides to step in front and take the arrows. to gloria's point, it shows you the dysfunctionality within the white house, certainly within the west wing, of trying to please the president, always trying to get out in front of

kellyanne conway. what powerful political woman is mocked for her clothes, depicted as haggard, called a witch and the "b" word. what's your reaction to this being in the new york tiesms saying you are unfairly attacked. >> i was asked about that before i read the article. i'm heartened by the article. i did not participate tonight. but a number of well-known prominent democratic women we know who worked very hardtop elect hillary clinton who i commend as obviously very good consultants and political oh own spent, they came to the defense of why a woman would be talked about in these terms. a lot of these comments come from women. i turn off a lot of it. if i don't read most of the praise and criticism, it keeps you in balance. howie: that's a good strategy for survival. >> i'm there to serve the president and serve the american people. how report infamous photo of you taking a picture on the oval office couch. and democratic koangman said -- congressman cedric richmond made a comment. >> i'm pro-life.

conway. >> kellyanne has been counselled. she has been counselled on that subject. that's it. >> sean has had a tough week. >> he has had a tough week. she had a tough week. the administration's had a tough week. it is so -- it's a young administration. it is typical to get your wheels up and running. their message and their boss and they can't seem to get out of their way. >> we are seeing what it is like for a family ceo who had one great job all his life transition too a very different stage. spicer has had the worst week a press secretary can have. it has been three weeks in for him. see what happens in week four. hopefully melissa will not be on snl this weekend. he is trying to spin and dodge because of the president's issues. you look at the situation overnight with the travel ban ruling and gorsuch and questions about what he said and how he said it involving trump's attacks on judges. these days seem to get worse for spicer. it is not just about him, but what is happening world trade center happening with the adminis

host: that's kellyanne conway. when it comes to her role in delivering that message, she does more to help, 28% said that. 40% said that she does more to hurt the president delivering that message. 24 people said they weren't familiar with kellyanne conway. when it comes to delivering a message and effectiveness, what do you think these key people that the president has employed? we'll start offline for democrats, duchess county, new york, rob you are first. what do you think? caller: thank you for c-span. good morning. horribly ineffective these people. they're horrible. kelly ann. -- kellyanne conway. i can't imagine the president wouldn't have more smarts to find people that are better, more down to earth, more verbal, more able to -- unfortunately more able to defend him in such a way, whereas to hide his frailties. his insecurities, his gaffes. they should be able to cover for him and speak to the issues -- we've had, even over the years i don't remember all the name going back obama, george w. bush they had s

conway, counselor to the president, hey steve. >> hey kate, that's right, kellyanne conway will be joining us. good afternoon, everybody, live here in new york. i'm steve kornacki on day 25 of the first 100 days. topping our agenda, like i just mentioned, we're going to go inside the white house at the start of what is the fourth week of donald trump's presidency. counselor to the president, kellyanne conway is our guest, that is just ahead. obviously a lot to get to with her. also on the agenda, very serious questions about national security advisor michael flynn. did he have conversations with the russian ambassador before taking office about those sanctions that the obama administration opposed? no answers today from president trump, the question in fact didn't even come up at his press conference, but we will ask our guest about that in just a minute. also, on our agenda, stocks closing out record highs, once again today, is it the trump effect? our own stephanie rule is going to come back to join me and explain what is it that wall street seems to like about the way things are going r

no answer to that from kellyanne conway. third, all senators consider these allegations serious enough to merit investigation. a probe among them. among them senator john mccain, who passed on a copy to the fbi directly. these are people who don't waste time. i know the intelligence community does not waste time of the president-elect unless they consider that information if not substantiated at least germane to the conversation. we spoke to numerous, as you noted, thank you, multiple times in that interview, more than a dozen of the highest ranking officials here. they have no incentive to make things up. nor do we. i have three kids. i do this job because i take it serious hi. and my team, they take it seriously as do many of the other people at cnn who contributed to this reporting. again, what facts in this story are they contesting? that's not clear to me. there's a lot of misdirection, the problem of using unnamed sources. but as we noted in the story, the reason these high ranking officials were not quoted by name is

. >> comments also from kellyanne conway from earlier this week. this is not what she was counciled about but something she said to cnn earlier this week is that is it president doesn't comment on everything, so i want to contrast the statements about nordstrom with the lack of comments about some other things including for example the attack on quebec mosque and other similar environments. why is the president when he chooses -- >> you just brought that up. i opened a briefing a couple of days ago about the president and his condolences i literally opened the briefing about it. why are you asking why he didn't do it when i literally stood here and -- >> kellyanne's comments were that the president doesn't have time to tweet about everything. >> right. >> he's not tweeting about this. >> i came out and -- >> you're akwequating me with a tweet -- thank you you've asked your question, thank you. >> does that not diminish the language that you're using? >> go ahead. >> -- by republicans was his executive use of orders, and the president signed three m

plus kellyanne conway is counseled for what she said was free commercial for ivanka trump's brand. and twitter attacks on richard blumenthal and john mccain. is white house running wild or is there a method to the madness? we'll discuss all of this. pamela brown, mark preston. laura coates. alan dershowitz, f. michael higgin both am at university of baltimore and constitutional attorn attorney paige potaaid joins as well. super uber panel. you've been digging into the court documents. complete repudiation of the travel ban. >> it certainly is. big blow to the trump administration and three judges repudiated the travel ban saying in 29-page opinion that the government failed to provide enough evidence to support why this travel ban was necessary for national security, the urgency of national security as we've heard from the government and president trump specifically saying this is about national security. that's why we had to roll this out quickly. talked about the fact the government failed to show why the seven countries listed in the travel ban pose such a threat. and at one poi

him at awesome let's talk to kellyanne conway. she is the counselor to the president of the united states. she joins us from our nation's capital on this monday of thanksgiving week. kellyanne conway good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: so the president tweeted out yesterday, hey, congress, don't disappoint the american people on tax reform. how close are we to finally getting a tax cut? >> we feel very confident, but it is up to those legislators for years have been promising their constituents they are going to get meaningful tax cuts and tax overhaul. and we are very happy that the house and senate have come up with what i call trump speed not swamp speed in getting their bills to the floor fairly quickly. we feel really great that both bills adhere to the president's four core principles for tax cuts and tax relief, relief, simplification, middle class tax cut and reducing that corporate cut tax rate so we're below the average for developed countries instead of the highest. we feel great. my colleagues have been travel

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kellyanne conway is facing an ethics review tonight. she's b she's accused of violating the hatch act during a tv news interview, she said roy moore's rival wants to raise taxes and is weak on crime and borders. we have more with our guests, correspondents and specialists. let's begin with the president's thanksgiving eve tie prapd jeff zelleny is in florida with the president. we have seen tweet storms like these from mr. trump before when he's visited his mar-a-lago report, but this one this morning particularly angry. >> reporter: indeed we have, jim. it's dinner hour now at mar-a-lago go, but this twitter storm began early today, before sunrise with the president setting a tone for the day. reviving many old agree venss on twitter. in a week of thankfulness, this morning the president did anything but. >> president trump back at mar-a-lago for the first time since april. hid thanksgiving break opening another season at his private club in palm beach, even though he went to great lengths to discuss he's not on vacation. but as republ

i find it interesting that kellyanne conway was going on tv making. you massacres. but it's being used in memes and protest signs all over the country. howie: i think many journalistsv from personally offended by this because they have gone the on planes to cover this stuff. >> that defense is work for trump again. they pushed back so hard. let us show you all the time we covered. i'm sitting at home thinking, man, that's a lot of attacks. if they back off and say we did. >> a kernel of a concept that was worthy of more discussion that maybe we don't cover foreign policy and national security enough. was he wrong in what he said? yes. did media organizations push back as they should have? yes. in 2014, there were tons of isis beheading. then there was a discussion that maybe we shouldn't give isis that much publicity. howie: the debate was whether we give isis too much coverage. it's a hard dilemma to resolve. here is the president saying they are not covering some of these attacks adequately and they have their reasons. >> there are political reasons why the obama

this is what kellyanne conway said on fox and friends. we'll listen to the moment. >> they're using the most prominent woman in donald trump's -- women in power, women in the, would place to get to him. i think people can see through that. go buy ivanka's stuff. i hate shopping and i'm going to go get some myself today. >> this after the president using the potus twitter account from the white house presumably, slamming nordstrom for dropping that line. here is what nordstrom said. they said they maefd this decision based on performance, it was a business decision. as we know, retailers are not rolling in the dough right now. if a line is doing very well, they keep it. they say over the past year, particularly in the last half of 2016 sales of the brand have steadily declined to the point where it didn't make good business sense for us to continue with the line for now. that is the statement there and the company said they had told ivanka this in january. the question is, is where is ivanka trump in all this? did her dad get defensive and

kellyanne conway can get out of anything by shifting blame. she should be bill cosby's lawyer. 15 minute trial and the jury will be angry at mariah careyy's sound guy. ( laughter ) i know a lot of you are, like, i could never do this and you are right because you have a soul. but kellyanne, she doesn't. she's my no-soulmate. so move your hate aside, once you start hating you can appreciate the art industry. another one of her moves, fake truth, real problem. you make up a lie and before anyone can refute it, cloud the discussion about real facts about a devastating unrelated issue. >> then pena nieto canceled his visit this week -- >> that was mutual. the president suggested it first on twitter. >> that he had a meeting scheduled for tuesday? do you think that's good? >> it's great they spoke for an hour. it's not great we have a $60 billion trade deficit with mexico. there is no border or respect of our sovereignty. i want fox news to interview all parents who lost parents to opiate abuse. ( laughter ) >> come on! i see your canceled meeting

we saw comments made by kellyanne conway. what are they saying tonight? >> well, normally, anderson by now we have an official white house statement from the press secretary responding to what happened at the ninth circuit court of appeals. we haven't got such statement at this point but had the president go to reporters in the hallway shortly after the decision was announced. he called this decision political and said the nation's security is at steak and he expects administration to prevail. i had a chance to catch up with the counselor to the president, kellyanne conway who echoed the comments but said she hopes the merits of the case will be considered at the next level, whatever level that might be. here is what she had to say. do you see this as a setback? >> he sees it as a statute provides the president of this case with great latitude and authority to protect the citizens and the nation's national security. this was not argued on the merits. we'll have an opportunity to argue on the merits and look forward to doing that and prevailing. i think hi

. >> you heard kellyanne conway say, they have to come to the table. >> on january 4th, they passed this reconciliation bill that said, we don't want democrats. we have sent ten letters saying, sit down with us. we can improve obamacare. if you stop doing this repeal, which is trump care, highly unpopular with the american people, we'll sit down with you and make it better. last week, i asked mitch mcconnell, let democrats and republicans all together, all 100 of us, let's meet in the old senate chamber and discuss it. no. they want to try it themselves. if they fail, they'll hopefully stop sabotaging obamacare and sit with us and hopefully make it better. >> are they going to pass the bill? >> i think it's 50-50. as democrats, we're doing everything we can to fight this bill. it's so devastating to the middle class. i think they have, at best, a 50-50 chance of passing this bill. to get three senators to vote no. you can probably say yes, you can say no, it's probably 50-50. but the bill is just devastating. that's what's making it so hard for them to pass it. here's what it does. it ki

he said that kellyanne conway has been counseled about this incident. that word choice not sitting well the president trump. a senior administration official says he hated that word choice that sean spicer used talking about this specific incident. >> sunlen, great reporting. let's talk about this. joining us is our panel, jennifer granholm former governor of michigan and jeffrey lord cnn political commentator and contributing editor at "american spectator." >> good morning, poppy. >> good friday morning. lots of news. >> yes. >> do you think, jeffrey, that kellyanne conway owed an apology to the president for that? >> i'm sure she probably felt that way. to be candid, i think this whole thing is ridiculous. >> why is it ridiculous, jeffrey? jason chaffetz, a republican along with democrats on the house oversight committee sent a letter to the government ethics office saying this is a clear violation of the ethics code. >> i understand. poppy, this is emblematic of an anti private sector feeling that has control of washington, sometimes frankly in both

i think kellyanne conway did not slip accidently. i don't know if she was asked to go out there and say that, but this is clearly the position of the white house. it is certainly the case that were moore to win there is is group of republicans in the senate that would move to quickly expel him from the senate, which would essentially start the process over again in alabama, meaning there would be another republican a senator. but that's a whole thought process, it wouldn't necessarily come to fruition. >> do you think robert v. burd, a member of the ku klux klan and a racist should be expelled from -- what about ted kennedy? >> i'm going to ask something more relevant to today? >> but these are allegations from 40 years ago and -- >> i'm going to ask -- we're going to talk about charlie rose in a second. eight women came forward today and said he was serial crim. al franken, a second woman came forward today and said he touched her on her rear end during a photo-op. did these make ittize yr for roy moore to defend himself? >> well, i

steve bannon credits kellyanne conway with saving trump. in so doing, by the way, implicitly admitting they thought they were going to lose, which they say they didn't think but they clearly did. bannon says if kellyanne had not been there when the firestorm hit, i don't know if we would have made it. the article says bannon says it was kellyanne's presence that led wavering women and conservative voters to think if she could still support trump, i can too. >> there might be some fuel to that. if you remember back in august when she took the position, she was heralded by many of us and still is, you know, to a certain extent as somebody who kind of understood the establishment, understood politics as usual and not the -- >> came from working with -- >> not chaotic, you know, as donald trump was. also the campaign manager at a time when he was getting hit with these allegations of really having a bad relationship -- quite frankly, back to the ak says hollywood tape, need i say more. >> to which she is referring. >> to have a woman leading th

after kellyanne conway, there have been plenty of lawyers gone on tv and not necessarily told the truth all the time. why go after her >> going after kellyanne conway is a response to the fact that she has the loudist mega phone at the moment and she has the greatest responsibility. it's one thing for a lawyer to say something in private. it's quite another to go into the public arena and speak dishonestly and we think that principle is so important it has been enforced and it's not always enforced for sure but in this kind of a situation, with all of the, that is riding on everything she says these days, it is incredibly important, particularly in a world of alternative facts when we, as a profession want to be remind our students, colleagues at the bar, judges and everyone else, that we have special standards that apply to lawyers and they even when you're a public citizen? what is it you're hoping comes out of this letter? you know, perhaps disbarment but what can happen to her when it comes to punishment via the white house? >> she is suspended because she hasn't paid her bar dues.

what kellyanne conway said about just doing good reporting. i've been in media relations a long time, it can be very frustrating. the thing is also this, human beings are always going to try to get sugar first. if you give them something to cover, a tweet that seems a little off, they will cover it. they will always do that. if you can just serve the meat and potatoes, message discipline, you won't have so much of the sugar, because everyone is on a sugar high. >> it's important to note thoug though, she spoke about how it's not like other policies. on friday the president signed the order and refugees. it took two hours for the white house to give us the order. it took several more hours to get to the list of countries to them to actually impact, and another full day to get an actual briefing. we are desperate to cover the policies that this president has implemented. they have not been letting us do that. >> chris: let me bring chuck into the spirit of politicians, and i just said complain about bad press all the time. is this different? >>

kellyanne conway. [applause] mercedes: what drives you? kellyanne: first of all, everything you just said is an absolute blessing. women in the country work so hard, and not all of them get their shot. and i feel like i worked hard and got my opportunity which puts me in a different category of blessings. i was raised in a house, i call it south jersey's version of golden girls. nobody ever had a single political conversation. my mom, her mom, two of her sisters, but my father left while i was very young. but i was raised to be a very strong and independent woman. we just were taught to be freethinking, independent, and look at your goals, and that old saying, you can never go home, it was never true in my community. we always felt we could go home. i believe donald trump is someone who is not fully understood for how compassionate and what a great boss is to women. he has been promoting and elevating women in the trump corporation, in the trump campaign, in the trump's cabinet, in the trump white house, it is a very natural affinity for h

kellyanne conway is a special adviser to donald trump. it was she who referred to the bowling green massacre, something which didn't exist, and she also came out yesterday afternoon to say michael flynn, the former national security adviser, enjoy the full support of president trump, only for him to resign if you hours later for the white house has said that kellyanne conway has been counselled about her comment regarding ivanka trump's products and we will wait to see what punishment if any is given to her. another one to watch. thank you for that. the united nations says it's willing to use further force against militia in the central african republic to prevent the country sliding back into anarchy. thousands of un peacekeepers have been deployed amid fears of genocide. rival christian and muslim militias began fighting in the car more than three years ago. one fragile un red line is around the town of bambari, where thousands of civilians have sought shelter. from there our special correspondent fergal keane reports. out in the countr

. >> coming up next on cnn kellyanne conway defending that ban and the quote unquote mass consider in kentucky, the issue is it never happened. so what the heck was she talking about? and howard stern thinks being president will be detrimental to donald trump's health? why you ask? good question. we'll find out. >>> welcome back you're watching cnn i'm brooke waubaldwin, the famous museum will reopen after a knife attack. a man with a machete in an underground plaza attacked people, he was shouting god is great in arabic, he was injured the stomach with five shots, the photo shows where the attack was thwarted. about 250 individuals were inside. they were escorted out. >>> trump's senior advisor is now walking back. kellyanne conway made the absolutely false claim that the non-existent quote terror mass consider caused president obama to -- iraqis, so much attack happened and because no such ban ever took place. >> here is conway. >> these are very narrowly prescribed and temporary, i bet there was very little coverage. i bet it's brand new information that president obama had a six-m

that was an hour after kellyanne conway had said on msnbc that the president had confidence in general flynn. but clearly, this report that has since broken that sally yates, the former acting attorney general, had warned general flynn and members of the white house top team several weeks ago that there was a risk the russians could be blackmailing general flynn with information about communications with general flynn that he had not reported accurately to his colleagues. brian? >> andrea, for folks just tuning in who haven't followed this story as you and i have today, let me see if i get this right. new sanctions come out in the waning days and hours, really, of the obama administration -- >> correct. >> -- and we expect russia and putin to react, react angrily as they usually do, but they don't. and the absence of a negative reaction causes american intel officials to look back through the intel that they take in all the time, that both sides know they take in all the time. buried in that intel is a conversation between mike flynn, who is poised to be the national security adviser t

. >> kellyanne conway this morning all but asking, what is this twitter you speak of. wouldn't it be nice if they ever said anything about how important twitter really is. it would be sure nice to get their take on it. >> donald trump's social media platforms are a very powerful way for him to connect directly with people. >> he has a following of 45 million people that follow him on social media that he can have a direct conversation. >> it's a very effective form of communication. i'm not unproud of it, to be honest with you. >> i like the fact that president-elect trump feels free to go and tweet and get his views out and talk directly to people. >> he's able to very quickly set the agenda. >> when he tweets, he gets results. >> i know some people don't want him to tweet, but i'm glad he does, because he does get the opportunity to get right out there and say what he feels. >> why wouldn't i use it? it's a great way to get a message out. >> so is presidential tweeting a great way to get the message out, a great way to set the agenda, a powerful way for him to commun

you saw my back and forth with kellyanne conway. i am the first person to say i don't care about crowd size either. we had these speeches yesterday that were just not factual. >> look, on his very first appearance in the briefing room, sean spicer went in and uttered at least three things that were demonstrably false. he left without taking a question. i have never seen a white house press secretary do that. that said, i think we need to be careful as reporters and as journalists not to take the bait and get into an end less discussion about issues that are trivial. how many people were there? the crowd size, not important. he had a huge crowd. >> telling the truth is important. >> especially from that podium. sean is not an rnc spokesperson. a campaign spokesperson. he's a spokesperson for the white house. credibility matters. >> in "the new york times" people suggesting donald trump thought sean spicer went too far. so already, you have his colleagues throwing him under the bus. >> it will be a tough job for the next four years to

conway earlier, essentially confirming the reporting and kellyanne conway was not only -- >> i have that. let me sort of explain what's happening here. at press conference donald trump and his spokesman tried to conflate cnn's reporting with bu buzzfeed's, they published a report cnn did not and kellyanne conway had this exchange. >> what cnn said was i quote, classified documents presented last week to president obama and president-elect trump included allegations that russian operatedives claimed to have compromising information about trump. >> and it's not true. >> anderson your sources are not correct. >> so you're saying in that intelligence briefing, there was no information in any of the documents that -- of that summary? >> dtwo things, we don't discus the classified information -- >> you just said it wasn't true. >> you want me to talk. i know cnn is feeling the heat. >> i think you guys are. >> what heat do we feel? you've got this raw information, this complete ridiculous fake news. >> so in light of what you know tonight -- >> not only wasn't true with you bent extra ste

we are waiting on kellyanne conway. laura ingle is in new jersey, where all of this is taking place. some of these meetings just wrapped up between the president and others. phyllis and, laura. >> hello, trish. there's a lot of excitement today as we were waiting for president trump to bring in this opioid crisis conference. everyone wanting to know about the situation that has been unfolding today with north kore north korea, and body language and tone tells us anything, that is setting the stage for what he is about to say on the issue. take a listen. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening. beyond a normal state. as i said, they will be met with fire, and fury, and frankly power. the world has never seen before. >> that comment came after a reporter queued up the question for him on north korea. he got down to business of what he was there to do, to discuss the opioid crisis. happening in ameri

kellyanne conway is the special counsel to the president of the united states. kellyanne you look -- obviously the obama people did not think that your guy was going to win. they were shocked. it looks to many like they hatched this plan hey, let's get all this secret stuff. we gathered in the final days of the campaign, spread it throughout the administration so that everybody is able to try to blow him up over the next couple of months, leak stuff to the press. it looks like a coordinated effort by a former president and his team on a scale we have never seen before. >> and what you just said are based on published reports. steve: yeah. >> in the last week that said exactly that. let's make it very clear today. it certainly contra convenience the earlier spirit of cooperation in having a peaceful transition of power. that would be very disappointing. and, again, this is about bureaucratic systematic leaks in the intelligence and security communities. i would say say respectfully to senator schumer, this is a very typical response to the democratic party these

her guest, counselor to the president, kellyanne conway. that is up next. >> martha: breaking tonight, we are awaiting the very first reaction from the white house. kellyanne conway about to join us after her ongoing meeting with the president and the white house right now. we will also get remarks in the governor of washington state after the ninth circuit court of appeals rejects national security warnings from the president and rules against the white house for the first showdown between president trump and the courts, which has happened just 21 days into his still young presidency. i am martha maccallum entasis "the first 100 days" with a lot of breaking news tonight. so, moments ago, the judges that you heard debating my case live here handed down the highly anticipated disaster and against the president. they will not allow the president's executive orders on the extreme vetting, the controversial and serious campaign promises to go forward for now. the decision nearly guarantees that despite it will go to the supreme court most likel

trump kellyanne conway on the north lawn. good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: the president is on air force one right now heading back to the united states. what is the headline from his trip to paris? >> the headline is france and the united states deepen oldest and very strong alliance. clearly the two presidents and their wives had a wonderful exchanges while they were there, bilateral meeting. the president was very honored to have the united states of america as the guest of the country of france for the 100th anniversary of the u.s. entering world war i. and of course to be there on bastille day. and i said this during his first foreign trip. i will keep saying it president trump really enjoys visiting countries around the world and heads of state and finds sitting down and finding out a way that we can work together. even countries where we don't necessarily agree on most issues. to sit down and figure out how to approach and tackle and perhaps solve the vexing issues of the day. and, of course, he did that with president macron. i'm just really s

kellyanne conway's husband george who tweeted something. you had a breitbart staffer fired for a tweet. we have had some journalists recently fired for tweets. i think we cannot underestimate what twitter is doing to politics right now. it really is the modern day statement. and you cannot dismiss it as social media. it is the way you communicate today. >> since you brought up kellyanne conway's husband had, who was up for a justice department position, withdrew his nomination, he tweeted out this. they may make people feel better, but it won't help the office get five votes in the supreme court. sad. from a legal view here, could trump's tweets impact this executive order? this travel ban? >> it's a good question. i can only imagine the level of exasperation among the president's lawyers at the justice department. which he directs and where they serve. he is making an increasingly already difficult case increasingly difficult to defend. lawyers sometimes have defiant unruly clients who are their own worst enemies, but it has to be special

would you keep at the least putting kellyanne conway out front? the president picked up the phone and called her and said get on tv. he picked her to do that this morning. >> i think credibility is more important than loyalty. and your job as an adviser to any president is to tell them when the strategy is off, tell them when something isn't going well, even if it involves you. i don't know if that's happening inside the white house. it doesn't seem like it is. but this is much larger than one individual adviser. the problem here is that there's a president who's not driving a strategy. it's not clear what their priorities are. they're not selling anything. so therefore there's a big focus on staff stories and who's up and who's down, and that's a huge problem for any white house because that creates the "game of thrones" environment that you were talking about earlier in your program. >> jen, on that front, right, this is what sources are telling us, top officials at the white house, so you talk about the ones we always hear about, sean spicer an

eastern kellyanne conway says the president has full confidence with flynn. then the press secretary sean spicer says the president is evaluating the situation. no repeat of the words full confidence. and then they put out another statement saying that that is the operative statement, that's what the president wants the public to know, that the situation is being evaluated? >> this is the first three weeks of a new administration, but it suggests they haven't gotten their sea legs. and there is a keystone aspect to their operation. having concern on the message on such an important issue on whether the national security adviser retains the president's confidence or is being reviewsed, is a message control issue and i think that this frankly does not reflect well on the trump administration. >> we heard on the democratic leader, chuck schumer, he wants an independent investigation of flynn, conversations he had with the russian ambassador to the united states and in the meantime he wants flynn's national security clearances to be revoked. do you agree with him