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

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

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

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,

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

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.

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

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

>> abby philip at the white house. kaitlin collins, you're also a white house correspondent just, i don't know, half hour, 45 minutes ago, you reported that white house aides were starting to back way from their confidence of the president, or assurances that the president would sign this. do you think that that reporting prompted mitch mcconnell to take action and get this done? >> i think it's hard to overstate what a roller coaster today has been. earlier today, the president was calling his allies on capitol hill, saying he didn't know if he was going to sign this bill, venting about the parts of it that he didn't like. white house aides earlier this week were telling us behind the scenes -- they wouldn't say on record but behind the scenes that the president was going to likely sign this bill and we would avoid a shutdown. aides were no longer saying that, were increasaying it was increasingly looking like he wasn't going to sign it. and then they interrupted and said the president said he would sign it and declar

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

>> 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

in the case of the shutdown, he was at the white house. >> he was at the white house. part of that is because the appearance factor, the optics. the government is shut down. you have 800,000 or so federal workers who are eerither not getting paid, have to work and not get paid, others not getting paid at all and that sort of thing. it would not look for good for the president of the united states to be jetting off to his palatial estate in sunny florida. that's one thing the white house had in mind during the shutdown. the second thing is that presidents are president wherever they go. they travel with a scaled-down staff, all the communications equipment they need to do the job, to get on the phone with whatever foreign leader or national security official they need to, to handle whatever comes up. yes, there have been complaints that he's traveling too much. if you compare to barack obama, obama didn't have a second home. he basically only traveled during christmas. he went back home to hawaii for 2, 2 1/2 weeks. during the summer, he'd go to martha's vineyard for ab

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

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

it can't force the white house to issue sanctions. it can't even force the white house to issue a report on something like that if it doesn't want to. the trump administration is saying the same thing that in this case we're not going to do it. legally it holds up, but look at the way it looks when you have the cia determining that the saudi crown prince ordered this murder, when you have the senate voting unanimously to condemn the crown prince for this murder, but then you have the white house not even willing to say whether or not they believe he was involved, it raises a lot of questions. they're not willing to say that he was not involved in this murder or ordered it or behind it and they're not willing to say that he was >> thank you. right now we are wait to go hear what happened inside president trump's annual physical. our chief medical correspondent is with me next from the white house about whether he followed orders to change his diet and start exercising. this is a very difficult job. failure is not an option.a. more than

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

axios says there is a chaos at the white house. the anger in the white house has not been this bad since the anonymous "new york times" op-ed. >> i take chris's point there, i think this one took a lot of people by surprise that so much material was leaked relating to this broader schedule. about 388 people have access to that schedule. so if you're looking for a leaker, right? narrow it down to that pool. but that said the white house is defending the president's use of executive time saying it allows for a more creative way for the president to be thinking and conducting his leadership style to help him be more productive. we heard from another white house aide as well that said this is how the president works, we know the president in executive time tweets and watches tv. how do we know that? because he watches tv, tweets about it, and we see his twitter. and they say he is also making phone calls to people you don't see. like to world leaders. he is speaking to trump al lili as well. sometimes it is pad time so he is not late t

the house, senate and white house came ton an agreement. any sanctions required under the act we should actually impose under that fact. whether it's friends or enemies, we should respond on basic human rights. >> if the administration fails, will the u.s. senate therefore hold saudi arabia accountable? >> i think the first step is you have a lot of senators step up to the administration and say follow through on the law and put pressure on them. you will see it in hearings coming up in the days ahead. every time mike pompeo is here where is that response, that information. you will see a slowdown on items the administration is looking for dealing with state department until we get the information. but the goal is, again, this is not to hurt the administration. this is to get the facts and details that we hold people accountable worldwide. >> senator, thank you for joining us. >> you bet. glad to be with you in things can. >>> most americans say they want to see a mueller report. president trump's former lawyer doesn't think there will be o

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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

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

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

white house is confirming the president's going to sign the bill. the deal you all worked on, but he thought it was aer so he's going to declare a national emergency to try to get that wall money. >> there's a few concerns with the president's announcement this ooempk. there are in who have said they oppose the president's use of an emergency declaration. number two, this is fraught with legal challenges. and number three, the president is trying to circumvent not just the congress, but also the american people. when you look at the will, that's been clear coming across america. he's trying to say hey, when mexico was going to pay for this, remember when the president promised that, now hehe wants to put this on the backs o f the american taxpayer. again, i just can't understand why the president just can't let go. let's work together in a bipartisan way, make smart, modern investments when it comes to our border security. >> so nancy pelosi, i mentioned she and chuck schumer said this was an abuse of power, lawless and she is you know, threatening

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

sanjay, you've got the statement from the white house. this is the statement from sean connolly, the physician of the president. >> yeah, basically saying president trump had a second periodic physical examination, took four hours. dr. connolly saw him. there were 11 different specialists involved. he's happy to announce the president of the united states is a very good health and will anticipate he will remain so during his presidency and beyond. he did not undergo any procedures where he needed sedation. if you remember, president bush had to sign an oath. there's going to be more coming out in the next several days in terms of the specific blood results and diagnostic tests, but the last line, he's happy to announce the president is in very good health and will remain so. >> during the duration of his presidency. normally after the president undergoes a physical at walter reed, there's a briefing and someone at the white house tells us about the blood pressure and count. hopefully we'll get it. right now there's not much we could asses

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

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

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

of course, nothing is final until the white house says so. but as our hill team have been noting, the senate and the house were getting ready to vote on this today. now some of those republicans who have been lobbying the president intensely to sign this spending bill are going to be waiting to see exactly what it is that the president is going to say. so right now they're waiting for the president to give a final determination on this, but right now, inside the white house, aides are not confident that the president is going to sign this spending bill. >> wow. thank you, kaitlan collins, manu raju is there on capitol hill for us, our senior congressional correspondent. we just heard the reporting from kaitlan, manu, that republicans are having a little bit of cold feet. are they waiting for the president's decision or are they moving forward without him? >> no, they are waiting. that's one of the reasons why there has not been a vote yet. republicans are eager, democrats, too, to have a vote this afternoon. they're going to leave town for a

i mean this is the white house all over it. >> 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 am 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 runniru running again in 2020. they represent president trump. that's the precedent. >> the focus of your book is the time at the white house and what you saw in the administration? >> that's right. in the arbitration complaint that they sent to us every single thing they listed was something from my time in the white house. so what our suit is really getting i served donald trump, but ultimately i work for the american people. so, this private entity can't keep me from talking about unclassified things that i experienced when i was working for the american people. >> is this something you actually think

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

they had mechanisms outside of the white house that were working with the white house. this white house has been thread bear staff in so many aspects including at the end. laugh year the white house counsel's office. that's changed recently and i think that will help them. but i think that the president who is not familiar with congress the way that other elected officials have been didn't really understand the depth of this. >> and you've got reporting, maggie, on how they are people in the white house who have been concerned about this and have been trying to get prepared for this moment. >> absolutely. there are a number of -- first of all, there's a number of attorneys who are now working in the white house counsel's office. they've hired, as i understand it, a spokesperson just to deal with their stuff who is actual lay a lawy actually a lawyer and understands the stuff. then they have private attorneys. they don't need those in the same way for congressional hearings in terms of dealing with the special counsel's office. but there are people who don't wa want to b

our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, we're just, what, over 24 hours away now from the president's state of the union address. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. he's been getting ready. the president spent another day behind closed doors as he gears up for tomorrow's state of the union address. he did make one big announcement as you said in selecting the acting interior secretary and former oil lobbyist david bernhardt to take on that job permanently but the president's schedule has become part of the news lately with the white house pushing back on a report that he's spending too much time on something called executive time. look bing to get the administration back on track after a costly government shutdown, aides say president trump will try something different in tuesday's state of the union speech. appeal for bipartisanship. >> this president is going to call for an end to the politics of resistance, retribution, and call for more comity, c-o-m c-o-m-i-ty. >> reporter: doesn't know why they want to impeach him

after, he left the white house, he no longer had to do that. i had the honor and pleasure to encounter him a few times. i used to teach at texas a&m. he would come to my classes. he always struck me as one of the most decent individuals to occupy the white house. thisi have no idea he had sense of humor, this capacity for humor. it was not long after he left the white house, and about the time his presidential library was opening, and the school was opening at texas a&m, he gave a closed-door address to students, the press was not allowed. one of the things presidents often have a hard time with, and he had this problem, was when the press was around, you had to act as a dental. -- presidential. lyndon johnson had the same problem. when there were no reporters in the room, or cameras, he could let himself go. imitation of dana carvey imitating himself. i have to tell you, this audience of students, undergraduates, they had no particular opinion of george bush one way or the other but they were almost literally rolling in the aisles. barbara bus

this is what one white house official says. the california governor acknowledged this costs too much. in light of the recognition, the trump administration as a responsibility to cancel the financial support for this boondoggle. here's the issue. of course, it's the timing. this announcement came just one day after california led the charge, those 16 states that filed suit against the president's emergency declaration. the optics, the timing undercutting the white house's argument that this isn't some form of retribution. broader picture, this is just the latest in an ongoing back and forth between the trump administration and california. they feuded over everything from the emergency declaration to the border wall to the environment and other issues. >> i think about -- thank you. i'll see you there in a bit. i think about the fact that the president went after california after the wildfires, for example. and california, politicians there like to fight with the president. >> the president also said he was going to strip fundin

give us the senate, give us the white house. they realize that while the president did take the blunt of the blame for the last shutdown, 35 days. they were not -- they were not spared either. he took a bigger hit than they did. everyone looks bad in a shutdown. the economy really can't afford it right now, and a shutdown is just bad politics. >> jill forgive me if this calls for conjecture based on your experience watching this guy. how is he likely to spin it to his base if he comes back way short of $5.7 billion and with a come perably tiny bar yes, somewhere along the southwestern border. >> the president's going to need a deal that allows him to tell his supporters that he did everything he could to fight for this campaign promise of a border wall. and he's going to be able to point to elements of this legislation that show he is able to build something. that he can start -- send shovels down, send crews down to start constructing this. what we're hearing now, is that the president is taking a wait and see approach. we've s