house to the new white house counsel to tell the new white house counsel that the brand new president's brand-new national security advisor is compromised by a hostile foreign power and they needed to act in whatever way they felt was appropriate to act in response to that information. >> we believed that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. to state the obvious, you don't want your national security advisor compromised with the russians. we knew that was not a good s situati situation, which is why we wanted to let the white house know about it. >> it's been a persistent mystery about mike flynn and the trump administration and the president and this white house ever since sally yates gave us that information. all right. how is it, why is it that after the white house received that hair on fire warning from the justice department the attorney general coming in person to the white house to say hey, the national security advisor is compromised by a foreign government, there is an intelligence operation that has been run by the russian government that has resulted i

house that outranks the white house counsel's office. it's sort of the last place you go. you get some of the policy folks to brief you on substance. you deal with the actors if it involves different cabinet officials. you go to the counsel's office last. what would your theory be about how the story changed from the counsel's office to the podium? >> i think the important context here is remember that sally yates went over to the white house counsel's office before all this unfolded. before spicer even made a public statement. and said you have a problem on your hands with michael flynn. we're worried about his contacts with the russians. this wasn't a new event for the white house. mcgahn essentially blew her off. he said i'll take this under advisement. he went back into the white house. as far as we know, the white house took no action after that other than she got fired shortly after that for refusing to enforce the president's muslim ban. so none of this should have taken them by surprise. and i think it's amazing given what mcgahn

white house?" i was just stunned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inhe

he was at the white house for the shutdown. guest: he was at the white house but part of it was the optics. the government is shut down, you 800,000 or so federal workers who are either not getting paid, have to work and not get paid. others not getting paid in. it did not look very good for the president to be jetting off to his palatial estate in florida. that is one thing the white house had in mind. that's why he did not travel at all during that time. presidents are presidents wherever they go. with a scaled-down staff and all the communications equipment they need to do the job to get on the phone with whatever foreign later or national security official they need to handle whatever comes up. that have been complaints he has been traveling too much. compared to obama, obama did not have a second home. he basically only travel during christmas, he went home to hawaii for two weeks. summer he would go to martha's vineyard for two or two and a half weeks. this president, it has been his long-standing practice to spend weeken

the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? >> vladimir putin is coming to -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. that's going to be special. >> that happened in real time on live television, and remarks like those back in july may serve as evidence that president trump and his director of national intelligence dan coats haven't always been on the same page. and tonight a "washington post" story that happens to be co-written by shane harris who's still with us has this headline. "trump grows frustrated with coats, leading some to fear he might be fired. post reports that after coats appeared to contradict trump in congressional testimony just last month trump grew enraged and felt undermined. privately the president has continued to fume, and this weekend he told the adviser that coats, a former republican senator from indiana, is not loyal and he's not on the team." back with us the aforementioned shane and clint. gentlemen, thank you for sticking around. and shane, i have to -- i have to ask, it app

just said white house and then the president cut out. >> he was white house. >> you personified the white house. because you personfied the white house and you know presidents, did you see a future president beto o'rourke? >> i saw a future candidate for president. beto o'rourke ran a great campaign in texas that he lost and then wandered into the wilderness. it was weird. there were people who were wondering what he was up to. >> he was soul searching. >> you generally don't do soul searching if you are a candidate on instagram. last night offered a unique opportunity for him to stand side by side with the president, offer a different vision, speak in front of a big crowd. he was talking last night like someone who is about to get in the race. i think it would have been weird if a mile from the president he announced. he should do it on his own terms. he was given an opportunity to sort of get back in this. he took it. he succeeded. i think he'll be in the race by the end of the month. >> you have covered a bunch of the races. he looked like a guy who wanted to run. jeff zeleny asked him

white house is --white houses. to a certain extent, some of us have an an extent that the use of that list has become a no new taxes pledge. i would be interested in your thoughts on whether that has become something that will simply be, politically important if not necessary for all republican candidates to use in some form or another, going forward. r. mcgahn: time will tell. when you say that no new taxes thing, i think of the 92 election. mr. mcgahn: the difference here is that president trump didn't break his pledge. he delivered on everything he said when it came to judges. now, it has become a standard thing for tax pledges that people sign from the house candidates to governors, to everybody. it would be wonderful if it did become a standard kind of thing. if people had a power to appoint judges and which judges they would appoint. i think it would be great. i'm not sure it really happens. there are very political consultants who see the drop of the political industrial complex of d.c. who think it will be

pa that's passed the senate and now passed the house to keep the government open, the white house says the president will also in addition to that simultaneously declare an emergency, a national emergency. so he can raid military funds essentially to build a wall on his own despite the wishes of congress. now, grain of salt here. the white house says that's what the president is going to do, right? they say that he's going to sign the bill that has now passed the house and the senate. they say that he is also going to declare the national emergency, but with this presidency, honestly, is that actually going to happen? we don't know. the white house says it's going to happen, but in this presidency, is anything really done and dusted before "fox & friends" says it's done and dusted? i mean, we never know exactly what the president is going to do. whether or not the white house has announced some purported plan. but of course just the prospect, just the threat of president trump trying to do this wall thing with a declaration of emergency powers, just that threat in recent weeks has led,

i worked in a white house. presidents are debriefed on all terror plots unless he's dispatched all of whiz white house advisers which, i didn't read in your paper. and he said it would be two hours from now. can you fill anything in on that for us? >> he said two hours would be the final briefing. i can't imagine a world that he didn't know this happened until he was just asked. and two points to button this up, one, joe de-jen va, just on that clip talking about war, was actually somebody trump nearly hired as his personal attorney in the mueller investigation, so keep that in mind. number two, if it weren't who hallie jackson asking those questions, we still wouldn't have heard anything from president trump. he did not voluntarily make this comment or condemn that action. he only said so in response to her question. so good on hallie for that. >> always good on hallie but especially good today. thank you for making those points, phil rucker, and thank you for spending so much of the hour with us. >>> after th

let's begin with the white house. the white house going all out in defense of president trump's national emergency declaration. it is the opening roar of what's sure to be a prolonged battle over border funding. hundreds of protests nationwide. they're aimed at stopping what's called trump's dangerous power grab. >> working with at least six other states in a lawsuit to try and stop the declaration. they say it's going to be filed imminently. white house aide and immigration hawk steven miller insisted the "american ninja warrior usa versus the world" is real. chris wallace pushed back with government statistics that show otherwise. this was his response. >> that's like saying you apprehend the contraband there because that's where you have the people, that's where you have the screeners. i assure you if we had people across every single inch and mile across the southern border you'd have more drugs interdicted in those areas. >> mueller also seemed to struggle on a presitant for funding that congress seemed to deny.

house or future white houses. to a certain extent, at least observing it, some of us have the sense that the use of that list has become kind of like a no new taxes pledge. i'd be interested in your thoughts on whether that has become something that is simply going to be politically important if not necessary for all republican candidates to use in some form or another going. >> you know, time will tell. when you say no new taxes, i think of the 1992 election. the difference there is president trump actually did not break his pledge, he delivered on everything he said when it came to judges. i take what you say is that now it has become a standard thing for tax pledges that people sign. it becomes a standard thing. it would be wonderful if it did become a standard kind of thing. if people have the power to appoint judges, what kind of judges they appoint. it becomes an issue that people can hear about and decide. i think it would be great. i'm not sure it really happens, there are experienced political consultants

i mean, this is the white house all over it. >> but do you know for a fact that this is the white house? >> well, from my own sources that i have had and other documents that i'm aware of, it gives every indication, and i firmly believe, that this is president trump, giving instructions to the campaign, to take action. i mean, the lawyers for the campaign, from what i understand exists out there, have made it very clear that they are representing not donald j. trump, candidate, or donald trump, running for president again in 2020, they represent president donald j. trump. that's the government. >> because, cliff, the focus of your book is the time in the white house and what you saw in the administration. >> well, that's right. and actually, in the arbitration complaint that they sent to us, every single thing that they listed was something from my time in the white house. and so, what our suit is really getting at is that, as a federal government employee, i served donald trump, i've served him faithfully, but ultimately, i work for the american people. and so this private entity canno

you have provoked a response from the white house. with your reporting today, the white house which cannot beca believed about anything, ever, issued this statement saying the president replaced the old system that was there, he paid for the new one, including installation personally. he hasst no used it since its be installed. in fact, that means we have no idea who paid for it, we have no idea how much he uses it, because there is not a person in that press office who can be believed about anything. >> well, one part that have we were able to check that, indeed, president obama president obama did have one of these things it was a less sophisticated version than what trump installed trump has the top of the line. that did turn out to be true we checked that. another part i have the white house's word on and that is it. >> this is coming at a point where people have been wondering how did he survive the 35-day shutdown not being able to go to his golf courses every weekend. we now have reason to suspect that he was able to work on hi

has to veto in his tenure at the white house. host: if we get as far down that line as a veto, where do we stand on overriding that? guest: i do not know that anybody has done the math on that. the senate vote in december was 58, i think. they would need two thirds, 67. we will see. next,maggie is up georgette, republican. go ahead. georgia, republican. go ahead. caller: why are the immigrants doing this? are they trying to kill seniors by draining social security? spent onon now border security, all of the illegals coming in? what about the american people. the poor people working to get this money, and they keep taking this money. this is our money, not theirs to play with. we need a wall. host: the president is going to el paso and is expected to talk about these issues. what do you want the president to say? killingapproving babies, what is it, the elderly next? is this their way of the populating? host: that was maggie in georgia. john bennett on some of the sentiments she brought up? guest: i think the president will talk a

the white house says the president will sign it. he will also declare a national emergency to fund his border wall. also breaking, there's a new boss for the mueller investigation as the former fbi acting director is speaking out about the russia probe. let's go to pamela brown. william barr, he was sworn in as the attorney general in the midst of drama at the justice department. >> quite a day to be sworn in. the former fbi director andy mccabe revealing for the first time how seriously he took conversations about rod rosenstein wearing a wire with the president and how much invoking the 25th amendment was considered among top doj officials in the aftermath of comey's firing. for the first time, former acting fbi director and drew mccabe, the man who took over after president trump fired james comey, talking about his former boss. >> i was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency. and won the election for the presidency. and who might have done so with the aid of the government of russia, our most formidable adversar

however white house press secretary sara sanders said earlier today the white house is ready for any legal challenges. that bill on its way to the white house right now. 1159 pages, president trump's team will be working all night and he will sign it in the morning. >> tammy: it takes a village to read bills. joining us is the host of this program, laura ingraham, laura, welcome to your program. thank you for calling in for us. >> laura: hey tammy i'm winding my way through the mountains of colorado. if i go in-and-out, sorry about that. i just got off if the phone with a white house source and he said that, and this is their point, they were really in a no win situation here. they had to sign this because if they didn't, you know, pain inflicted on the american public, pain inflicted in the way we saw unfold before. a lot of frustration, however, from the white house about these provisions that were slipped in, in the writing process of this legislation. remember it only lasts, this only is good until the end of september, the end of this fiscal year. this is not a forever thing. bu

house. >> did you talk to any white house personnel before you were hired, anyone at the white house? >> congressman -- >> that's an easy one. did you talk to anyone at the white house? is the answer no? >> congressman, i had previously been at the white house when i was a private citizen to talk about a different position. >> i understand, but did you talk to anyone at the white house about your views on mueller, anyone at the white house at all before you assumed the position? let me just go forward. here's the issue. when you became the attorney general, since becoming the attorney general, you said that you have been briefed on the special counsel. did you use anyone else to have communications -- did you do anything to make sure that the white house might have learned some of what you learned in those briefings? could it be that somebody else on your staff might have spoken to someone at the white house since you told us you didn't? >> congressman, i'm not aware of that happening. >> how many people were in those briefings with you when you were briefed about the mueller investi

>> is the gate the white house press core uses to get to work. down a short driveway, past the green tents where tv reporters do live shots. >> where you come through the gates of the white house, it doesn't take you very long to walk right into the west wing. >> that regal portico is the gateway to the oval office. the office of the president of the united states. the man who constantly attacks. >> the world's most dishonest people. >> and tries to undermine the mainstream media. >> i call the fake news the enemy of the people. >> about 75 feet to the left is the door where the journalists he calls enemies enter the white house. the entrance leads directly into the briefing room. site of the much-watched -- >> and i'm trying to answer. >> -- much-talked-about daily briefings. >> frankly i think my credibility is probably higher than the media's. >> actually the briefings are no longer daily. but we're getting ahead of ourselves. >> all rise. >> it never gets boring. >> what is it about these white house press briefings that has become must-see t

i worked in the white house for six years, and i'm not sure what authority the white house has for appropriating funds for a border wall. >> there is an argument, we interviewed in the past legal experts who say there's an arguable case, anyway, the president can do this under the legislation that's currently on the books but it's not a slam dunk and it's definitely something a lot of other experts say is subject to challenge. it will depend on which judges take a look. if it gets in the supreme court, of course, right now there's a 5-4 split among conservative appoint e!s and liber-- appoint and if it comes to that, he could get authorization for it. it's too early to say. they had been looking and studying this. we don't know if there's a justice department olc, office of legal counsel, opinion on it. but white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders came out a few minutes ago and said they're prepared for any legal challenge that might be instituted against it. >> never the sign of a good rollout when you're prepared for a court fight. thank you, peter baker. we will keep an eye on your

host: the white house looks confident at this point? guest: yeah. they would like to pick off manchin or one or two others. they always want to get as many votes for these nominees, especially something like attorney general, especially given matthew whitaker's controversial testimony last week before the house judiciary committee. they want this to look as bipartisan as they can, even if it is just three or four .emocrats and expect the president server tok -- expect the president go back to us virginia and places like this and to tweet about joe manchin, who he likes a lot. i would expect to see attorney house, barr at the white either in the oval office or, weather permitting, in the rose garden this week with a ceremony with the president. host: plenty more to talk about. but let's take your calls. ed from georgia, republican. caller: good morning. what i do not understand is all of the politicians have all of these grandiose ideas, things they want to do, but we have a $21 trillion debt, and nobody seems to care about that. nobody talks about h

-- and i worked in a normal white house, is information. it does not necessarily affect your conduct. >> that's right. it prompts at most the negotiation of what they will talk about. if it's a miscue, it's because in tactics it gave whitaker, who obviously would prefer not to testify and excuse something to brandish. the questions that you quoted, and they gave him, were pretty cleverly crafted. they're general and open-ended and hard to simply assert executive privilege to. they would push him -- and this presumably is what he was practicing doing, pushing him a little farther down the line before he asserted. one more thing about executive privilege, it's a general balancing test and might be a harder battle for congress to win than for the special counsel. the nixon case suggests if mueller is iep the mueller is interested in talking to whitaker and asserts executive privilege, mueller should win. >> don mcgahn, whose name is invoked this hour, spent 30 hours with robert mueller. it seems like the debate of executive privilege has been

house. >> as you talk to any white house personnel before you were hired, anyone at the white house? >> congressman -- >> that's an easy one. did you talk to anyone at the white house? >> i had previously been at the white house when i was a private citizen. to talk about a different position. >> i understand. but you do talk to anyone of the white house about your views on mueller? any personnel at the white house at all, before you assumed the position? let me just go forward. because here's the issue -- when he became the attorney general, since becoming attorney generalt you have been briefed on the special counsel. did you use anyone else to have communications western mark did you do anything to make sure that the white house might have learned some of what you've learned in those briefings? could it be that someone else on your staff might have spoken to someone at the white house, since you said that you didn't? >> i'm not aware of that happening. >> who else customer county people were in those briefings with you when you were briefed about the mueller investigation? >> come

these are sometimes fungible numbers from the white house. just moments away the president to make this announcem. david gurgen, let me come back to you. who is the president's audience for this announcement? democrats are not going to be convinced. they are plotting how to turn this around against him. is he trying to convince anyone today? >> obviously, he wants to make sure that sean hannity on fox news are happy so they calm down although some of them won't. i think fundamentally, this is about politics of the base. he is going to go to the hill on that issue. he may be right in the long run. it comes at a considerable expense to our democratic norms and traditions. >> again, as you are watching here, the president just moments away, perhaps a moment away from making this announcement. that is a live picture of the rose garden there. you have reporters and members of administration, you have his newly confirmed attorney general sitting in the front row. you have women known as angel moms, mothers who lost children or alleged to have lost

why is the white house staying mum? >> well, they are violating the law, congressman dated a response. here i think they had some sympathy with the realists in the white house who understand that saudi arabia is an important ally of the united states, that the crown prince is not going anywhee as some people hoped he would, that he'd be pushed aside, that's not happening. and so it's very an eclectic moment. i think the white house and trump know very well what happened, but it's not for the relationship to go blip about it and some of the same people have to say who decry national interest quality of the trump white house are also decrying violence on khashoggi when, in fact, there are i think compelling national interest reasons for trump to keep his mouth shut on this one. >>> i want to pivot now to the acrimoney we saw, the testimony in washington. the acting attorney general, contentious might be the word of the day. someone called him snarky. it's tough to say the word snarky the question, was he credible, forthco

been, we're at the white house. for reporters covering this trial from day one, out here to hear about his recollection, the government's recollection. we're certainly going to bring that to you, but that is the verdict. guilty on ten counts that, but that's what we were trng. >> paul, the treasury department calls "el chapo" the most powerful drug trafficer in the world. what do you take as a message from an overwhelming guilty figure? >> this guilty finding i don't think is a surprise to anybody, although people were starting to get a little worried because the jury was out for so long. the jurors were asking very, very interesting questions about some of the subcounts that they had to decide. but in the end, the trial portrayed somebody who was involved in perhaps a multi-billion-dollar drug. it was really outstanding and unbelievable to most people. for instance, he even used a submarine to bring some drugs into the units, and as they described, evil. i don't think those documents come as a surprise to me. >>> i

a challenge for senator majority leader mitch mccollum and the white house. will they vote with the democrats to say you've ne too far on this one? it's going to be really close. if it passes the senate, they get a majority, the president can vote it. there's no way they're going to override the president but enough members of his own party will have brother-in-law with him and it will be a big political issue for him. robert: t pushback fr courts . pushback from the democrats. you have to wonder if there's going to be pushback from the people. the spending little -- bill includes funding for 55 mills -- miles ofew barriers. democrats made sure those barriers will not massive concrete walls. it also 3r50eu6eds provisions for more secity. uch as money for humane tanche aide. the trump administration is also eyeing billions i elsewherethe federal budgets for border barriers, such $600 billion for dealing with seized drugs and more than $3 billion from other military construction projects. garrett, will there be any counter insidest the admition about the use of

kaitlan collins is out front live of the white house. those were the headlines and now the president apparently complaining, i don't want to be so nice to democrats, what more are you learning about the speech? >> you have seen white house officials come out and say the president is going to call for unity, something they think could happen in washington. behind closed doors, they are not that optimistic after the president and senate minority leader chuck schumer spent the day firing back at each other before the president spoke upon capitol hill tonight. the president is going to try to find common ground, talking about opioids, lowering drug prices, infrastructure, but what the take away is the president focussing on his border wall, something as we know democrats have fierce ly resisted funding. he's going to lay out the days during the prime time address. the p tresident is skeptical he going to come to an agreement and that's evident in his actions, not just what he said about this but the fact that he met with contractors here at

andrew is back with us, white house reporter for politico. jeremy, which donald trump shows up in the chamber tomorrow night? maybe we should attack it that way. >> since the night of his election, president trump has been really unable to express any type of bipartisan sentiment, any type of ability to bring the nation together on that night he said i'm the president for all of america, not the president for just republicans. that, we saw, end pretty quickly because instantly, as soon as he started governing, as soon as he started actually selecting his cabinet during the transition process, we knew that was not the case. so there are republicans in the senior officials in the administration including vice president pence who are urging the president to offer some type of olive branch, some type of grace note in the speech, to nancy pelosi. he doesn't want to do it. we saw in the interview that he did with peter baker and maggie haberman where he said she's bad for the country. >> that's not a grace note. >> how do you go from bad to the cou

the other option that white house officials are weighing is this. the president accepts this agreement. he trashes it. but he also adds to it an executive action that would allow him to redirect unspent federal dollars and government reprogramming. he'd reprogram defense department money to build the unfinished parts of the wall he wants to build. the unfunded parts of the wall he wants to build. that, i'm told, is an option that white house officials are settling on. i understand miss mcconnell is speak right now. >> yes. let's listen in right here. >> the notion that congress shouldn't spend more than one dollar, one dollar on new border barriers and the idea that we should impose a hard statutory cap on ice detainees in the interior of our country which would require the release of criminals into the united states. fortunately, our democratic -- >> that is mitch mcconnell. obviously weighing in on the discussion, this agreement that's been talked about overnight. we heard him talking about this yesterday as law clermakers wer meeting to discuss.

erik: white house security clearances. an interesting personal that apparently they have a lot of information on whether that has been mishandled and we will see that investigation open up. as far as the core russia stuff they're letting the mother investigation proceed with keeping an eye on. the lawyer for president trump will be coming up to testify at some point and that will be a bit of a blockbuster. i believe it is next month. anita: i think it is friday. i think there are three committees that want him to testify. i think the couple are unknown. i believe it is behind closed doors. host: you want to talk a bit about how the white house is prepared to deal with subpoena issues? anita: it has been interesting. i wrote a story back before the election when we house might go quoting republicans were close to the white house saying they are not paying attention. they are doing other things and not preparing. a lot of ways when houses can chambers change parties and you know you going to have investigations and they need

but then came the first crack in the white house defense. in the summer of 1973, all of america was riveted by the senate watergate hearings. >> what did the president know, and when did he know it? >> as the country watched, white house counsel john dean turned on his president. >> i began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. >> dean testified that the watergate burglars were blackmailing white house aides. >> the white house was now being directly subject to blackmail, and i didn't know how to handle it. >> i told him i could only make an estimate that it might be high as a million dollars or more. he told me that that was no problem. >> it was john dean's word against the president of the united states. >> i have no comment. >> nothing less than richard nixon's presidency may ride on whether the public believes john dean or not. >> most republicans continued to stand by their president. >> raise your right hand. >> but then from a little-known white house aide, a dramatic twist. >> my name is alexand

the white house will strike a bipartisan tone tonight. so why is he attacking democrats on twitter right now? stay with us. ess by calling geio for help with our homeowners insurance. geico helps with homeowners insurance? they sure do. and they could save us a bundle of money too. i'm calling geico right now. cell phone? it's ringing. get to know geico and see how much you could save on homeowners and condo insurance. >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. >>> president trump delivers his state of the union address tonight and the white house is promising a message of unity and bipartis bipartisanship. but let's be real. there is anything but unity and bipartisanship in the nation's capitol when we're just days away from a possible government shutdown and the president's promise of a border wall. even if there are bipartisan moments tonight, it would be wise to question their shelf life. let's take a closer look at the moment. the biggest change tonight you will

thank you for being at the white house. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] thank you all. quick c-span's washington journal, live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, will preview the week ahead in washington post congressional reporters. then a discussion about the latest u.s.-china trade talks with robert daily. be sure to watch washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >> monday night, on the communicators, christopher shelton, president of the communications workers of america, talks about their opposition to the proposed t-mobile-sprint merger. he's joined by howard buskirk. >> we think it is a very bad idea. we think it will destroy about 30,000 jobs in the united states for a german, government owned company and a japanese billionaire company, and we don't see why the german governme

push that we'll see from this white house? not clear where they are going to go after the bothered wall that has really consaupold aumed all attention of this white house. we'll see if there's something other waiting in the wings, but it gets tougher and tougher getting into a presidential election year and cycle it gets tougher and tougher to do anything on capitol hill with democrats in control and speaker of the house nancy pelosi running the house of representatives, the type of legislation that could thread that political needle would be so very narrow and specific it seems unlikely that there's any big broad-based agenda i'm here from this white house that's going to get done between now and 2020 >> eamon, stand by, thanks for filling the time as the dow is close to the session highs, within 35% of a record from october 3'd, up 335 and the russell is above the december high got to go back to mid-november to find the russell at a higher level. kayla tausche, of course, has been covering the u.s.-china trade element in all

the white house. what is it say? no star, no suit, no class. >> no respect. >> lou: a little fellow, it is any? this turn to nadler, speaking of no class. again, one of the chairman who is going after the president, at what point do you believe, or is there a point that the republican party will rise up and say, the hell with you, this stops and we may now. where is mitch mcconnell? where is your minority leader? is there anyone that has any kind of heart or soul? in the corporate owned republican party? >> i will tell you, i think we need more people with hearts and minds. i know today we fought jerry nadler, i went after him to look at what his resolution was doing. he wants to get power to basically subpoena would occur at any time. this is unprecedented. whitaker has agreed to come in and testify. >> the american people understand what a pigsty that committee is, and want an unfortunate character the chairman's. but, nonetheless, we understand their actions. what are you and what is your leaders in the republican

it's the trump white house. it's someone inside the administration revealing dozens and dozens of copies of the president's private daily schedule. they gave it to axios. the schedule shows the president spends most of his time, around 60%, that has been dubbed free time. that's the time he spends watching television, making phone calls, holding free meetings. axios took to twitter to blast how he spends his time and writing, what a disflgracedisgr breach of trust. this potus is working harder than anyone in recent history. >> there is a question why, if he is doing all these phone calls and meetings, why aren't they publicly advised in the first place? i think there is a critical transparency issue. the public should be aware of the types of meetings that the president, the commander in chief, is taking. a couple weeks ago i found out that the president had a private lunch with senator david perdue of georgia where they talked about a lot of issues. that was not on the public schedule. and later this week the p

do you think he wanted to be in the white house, be white house counsel or -- >> there must have been a part of him that was dreaming of a great job at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. but he's also the guy who not only knows where all the bodies are buried, he buried a lot of them himself. and that, ironically, disqualified him. >> reporter: maybe from working in the white house, but not from working with bob mueller and testifying before congress. and, wolf, when he was donald trump's defender, there was no great are defender. and now that he's donald trump's enemy, there may be no greater enemy for the president. >> and that hearing tomorrow is going to be explosive at 10 a.m. eastern. gloria, good work. much more on the breaks news right after this. liberty mutual accident forgiveness means they won't hike your rates over one mistake. see, liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty mutual i

chief white house correspondent john roberts has more tonight from the white house. >> reporter: in a statement, the press secretary saying he was taking the emergency action to insure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border. the president is once again delivering on his promise to build a wall, protect the border and secure our great country. in a joint statement, the speaker of the house and senator chuck schumer said: declaring a national emergency would be a lawless act, a gross abuse of the power of the presidency. >> the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the republicans. and, of course, we will respond accordingly when we review our options. first, we have to see what the president actually says. >> reporter: the way it all played out was exactly what south carolina senator lindsey graham suggested more than a month ago. >> there are some things in there that are good for border security, and relate him march toward -- let him march toward filling in the gaps by executive actio

in the white house. in a unitard he wore. it was weird. it got the message across. >> she chose television shows having good times with ellen. on her daytime show. >> all of those things put her in peoples living room. day after day. >> she was living her values. and letting the world see that. and it changed perception. >> not everyone was in favor of the effort to remove junk food from schools. some conservative media accused the first lady of wanting to turn america into a nanny state. >> we don't need the federal government applying projecting the standards upon us and michelle obama is so like the dutchess when she speaks. >> she's kind of annoying. >> she is. >> some attacks got personal. >> it doesn't look like michelle obama follows her dietary advice. we hear she's eating ribs. >> there were political cartoons. and memes that painted her as ape like. racist things. >> she appeared stoic. she admitted the hits were hurtful. >> what she's done her whole life is look past the naysayers and brush it off. to be certain of what you were

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but how is the white house handling it? >> well, we should note that it is that very quote in this filing where they argue it was the president's personal preference, that he conceded it was his personal preference to have this wall built quicker, rather than an actual need here. the emergency's act of 1976 doesn't talk about authorities here. it doesn't say whether it has to be an emergency or it doesn't define that and say it has to be an unforeseen circumstance. it may come down to how the president is trying to spend these monies. in particular he's asking for wants to spend $3.6 billion from military construction projects. but to do that, according to stat statutes, he would have to demonstrate that the military is needed. so it remains to be seen. some of these suits could be thrown out. they will need to demonstrate that there is harm done to them, including to those states. they argue, among others, the environmental damage here. but the bottom line is the white house is putting out a series of tweets this morning.

nancy cook, white house reporter for "politico". elliott williams, former federal prosecutor, senior doj appointee under the obama administration. also notably a former assistant director of i.c.e.. good evening and welcome to you all. mr. costa, you are going to begin. so as the president is talking we have a member of congress on this network saying the president's wall didn't do too well, didn't fare too well in these talks where they have an agreement in principle. how does this all work? >> the breaking news tonight that's important is congressional appropriators, a bipartisan group, has come to an agreement for about 1.3 billion in new fencing. not new fencing but new repair for the existing fencing. conservatives on twitter, conservatives who are my sources are up in arms about this. they want more fencing. they also don't like the number of i.c.e. beds, a bed provided by the department of homeland security as part of the i.c.e. department are decreased as part of the deal. it is nowhere close to the 5.7 billion. also what to

we love our white house stories. we love stories of the jewish community interacting in the white house, so we have this from a white house hanukkah party. other items that are fun to document and help give a sense of the jewish community involved in all the branches of government. this box was used at the wedding for luci baines johnson. the cake box was produced by a local party store owner. she had a party business and she got a call one day asking if she could produce 750 cake boxes for a souvenir cake from a wedding. she said certainly, but i want to make sure someone could pay the bill. she was told the bride's father, president johnson, would be sure to pay the bill. she then ended up going to the white house and helping plan the wedding and subsequent wedding for the next daughter and other parties. we have a lot of stories, only in washington stories, where ordinary local business people are interacting with the federal government, or with agents of change in very different ways than you would see elsewhere.

eamon javers at the white house. let's bring in walter isaacson, former chairman of cnn always good to talk to you good morning >> good morning. good to be with you. thank you so much. >> what do you think of the story as much as we know now >> an amazing story. the thing i'm most interested in both in terms of technology and business is how did these texts and apparent pictures get out? is it a cell phone that was texted, could you have a government agency, our government or some other government do that that seems unlikely. and what type of applications were being used to transmit them did somebody get a hold of the phone? those are things i find interesting. is this a hacking story or is this somebody setting up jeff bezos. especially some government involvement, that would be wild. secondly, the relationship between american media and the "national enquirer" group and the trump white house has been under investigation for a long time so this really does have all of the elements of something that needs to be inves

you find the white house responds after you publish. they want to see it in its entirety. >> you gave them the details. >> we did. we gave them what we were planning to report. there was not response. >> let's talk a little, shimon, about the scope of all of this. is there concern at the white house right now -- the justice department for that matter, over the strength of mueller's overall obstruction case? >> i think overall, they have consistently been concerned about the mueller investigation. i think what mark's piece with "the new york times" lays out, the biggest concern i think right now for people on the trump team is the sdny. this is why i think he wanted burman to oversee this investigation. he was concerned that someone else would come in and start overseeing this investigation. that is where many people think most of the president's problems lie right now, is at the southern district of new york. and that investigation. we don't yet know where mueller stands on things, obviously. i think we're probably close to learning as

mike pompeo what will we -- will the white house today. the white house released a statement, saying russia has violated the nuclear forces treaty with impunity and building a prohibited missile system that poses a threat to our allies and troops abroad. the white house will suspend its obligations under the inf treaty part of their statement. thatc-span, we are life the inter-american dialogue in washington. puertocussion will be on rico infrastructure one year after hurricane maria. it should get underway shortly. [no dialogue] announcer: we are live waiting to start a discussion on peter -- on puerto rico, their infrastructure one year after hurricane maria. we mentioned mike pompeo announcing the u.s. is suspending its obligations under the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. he made that announcement this morning at the state department. this comes to weeks after the administration released its missile defense review. it came out a couple weeks ago. we will have a discussion on that, bringing a discussion on the senate for strat