>> i would hike to see sean spicer on the dance floor. >> sean spicer and mooch on the dance floor. >> you know that would be the first. >> if he did compete, that would be the song. >>> we're going to start this half hour with the investigation into the russian meddling, and it appears to be entering a new phase. >> abc news has confirmed that special counsel robert mueller has empaneled a grand jury in washington and there are reports that subpoenas have gone out in connection with donald trump jr.'s meeting with a russian lawyer. >> now president trump held another rally last night, where he doubled down, denying that there was any collusion that >> reporter: president trump returned to friendly territory here in west virginia. but in between the talk of coal and jobs, the president trained his focus on the russia investigation. as the russia probe seems to be entering a new phase, the president came out swinging against allegations that his campaign colluded with the russians during the 2016 election, take a listen. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. most people know ther

we just heard sean spicer talking about cracking down. there's a civil lawsuit that was settled a month ago in the amount of $1 million. the federal government paid the family of cruise velazquez in that amount. there was no admission of guilt. the federal government wrote a check for $1 million and said he they did nothing wrong. the trump administration is adding another 5000 border patrol agents and another 10,000 ice agents. and security dhs at the border to be upfront on the front line of defense. we are increasing the size of our forces at the border with and very little of a reprimand structure. these two agents involved in this particular incident on video were never reprimanded. they were on the job the very next day even though they didn't follow their own procedure and a 16-year-old boy died. amy: we will do part two of this discussion and post it on democracynow.org. john carlos, thank you for joining us. that does it for our show. to democracynow.org. democracy now! is produced by mike burke, deena guzder, nermeen shaikh, car

but if you listen to what ed butowski says, sean spicer knew about it. >> no, ed butowski said sean spicer didn't know about it. he just took the meeting as a friendly gesture because he knew them. >> let me say -- >> and there was presumably nothing else going on that day in the white house for mr. spicer. >> there's room for speculation. this is not the first time we have heard about a white house official taking a meeting they say they didn't know anything about but went to anyway, but this is not the court of public opinion. in a court of law you only know what you show. you have to demonstrate what sean spicer if you're going to include the white house in a concocted scheme, you have to show they knew about it and wanted to advance it and there's merit to the suggestion that the president of the united states had seen the article and wanted it advanced. do you have any proof to do any of that? >> we just filed the lawsuit as you know on the 1st, and defendants are entitled to answer and then we will proceed to discovery and we will obtain that information that we believe is out there

now, sean spicer started off as incompetent, but i gotta admit-- he's totally changed his game. i mean, he's still incompetent, but now... but now he does exactly what trump wants, which is to show complete distain for the media. - you don't get to just yell out questions. we're gonna raise our hand like big boys and girls. i'm actually asking cecilia's question, if you could be as polite as to not to interrupt her. this isn't a sit around and play patty-cake kind of conversation. can you stop interrupting other people's questions? hold on, hold on. hold on, hold on, lemme-- i'm trying to answer your question. jonathan, thanks. i'll let kristen talk. we've covered this like ten times. at some point, it's not just about me. it's about you. the answer continues to be no. - you know... [laughter] he looks less like a press secretary and more like an overworked kindergarten teacher, you know? he's like, "hey, no! hey, hey, hey, hey! hey!" [upbeat music] last week, ben carson was confirmed as the new secretary of housing and urban development, or, as president trump calls him, [as tr

sean spicer was a very nice guy. he and ed mainly did the talking. i explained to him where i was with my investigation. i was hoping that maybe the white house or the justice department could assist the d.c. police department with technical support, things like that, resources. and sean said, well, rod, i'm not sure what we can do but i'll definitely put you in touch with somebody at the justice department and maybe you can have them meet with the d.c. police and maybe they can get some support and that's how we left it. >> and the statement that you read from sean spicer and what ed butowsky is now saying is they sort of had this meeting and they had no agenda. it's incredible that suddenly ed butowsky walks into the white house with no agenda? and in fact there are actual messages between ed and rod about briefing sean spicer about this investigation because sean spicer wanted to know about it. >> the last time i heard about a meeting with no agenda, it was between don junior and a russian lawyer. >> seems to be a trend. >> all right. gentlemen, t

pro, sean spicer can now start looking for a less stressful job. con, like heart surgeon or bomb diffuser. [ laughter and applause ] he didn't have an easy job. pro, the bar is set very low. con, the bar is also where you'll end up after every press briefing. well, that's -- >> steve: oh. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: and finally, pro, anthony scaramucci has a clear message for the american people when it comes to russia. con, "don't worry about it." there you go. [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: hey! >> jimmy: that's pros and cons. we're playing charades when we come back. stick around, everybody. come on! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ (boy) and these are the lungs. (class) ewwww! (boy) sorry. (dad) don't worry about it. (mom) honey, honey, honey, honey! (vo) at our house, we need things that are built to last. that's why we got a subaru. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. get 0% apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 legacys. ends august 31st. when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. i just snapped

when contacted by vice news, sean spicer said, while i won't comment on materials we share with the president, this is not accurate on several levels.

. >> the sean spicer meeting. > i had a meeting with sean spicer. i brought rod chile r wheeler along. it was about this audio recording that cy hersh of cy hersh saying there's a mirror copy of the hard drive of seth rich's at the cart division at the i don't know if. >> you know hersh says you got his reporting wrong, right? he says you took two and two and made 45 out of it. >> you know what? cy hersh, maybe that's his math but the reality is i'm not saying anything. listen to it and listen to his own words. i'm not concluding anything at all, chris. >> i'm just saying when the source of the material says that your conclusion about it was wrong it should be out there in public space. >> what's my conclusion? i don't have a conclusion. >> you saw it as something important enough to take to spicer. did he know why you wanted to meet with him? >> no. >> so he just took a meeting. >> i said had i something to talk to him about. rod wheeler was a tag along. at the last minute, i said why don't you join me and kind of get to know shaup and meet and so

the sean spicer meeting? >> i had a meeting with sean spicer and brought rod wheeler along. and it was about this audio recording that of -- saying there is a mirror copy of the hard drive of seth rich's at the cart division at the fbi. >> you know he says you got his reporting wrong. you took two and two and made 45 out of it. >> maybe that's his math. i'm not saying anything. listen to it. i'm not con cluzing anything at all. >> when the source of the material says your conclusion about it is wrong -- >> it's not my conclusion. what is my conclusion? >> you saw it as something that was important enough to bring it to sean spicer. he just took a meeting? >> yeah, i said i was going to be in town. and rod wheeler was a tag along because at the last minute i thought why don't you join me. and get to know sean and meet and so on. my conversation with sean about this recording lasted about one minute. he said, ed, i don't know anything about it and i don't want to know anything about it. and we ened up talking with other things believe it or not because we get our shirts at the

they would like to depose people like sean spicer. back when spicer had a meeting with wheeler and the got donor at the white house where they talked about this. the theory that has hurt the slain dnc staffer's family so much. it creates a sense that maybe there's more to the story. but there's lot we don't know. and we don't know how much evidence he has to back up his assertion. >> so there will be that eventuality. but the it only thing we do know for sure at this point is that the family is devastated by this controversy and conspiracy theories. their statement is hopefully this will be an end to the investigation of our son and his death. there's no proof rich was connected to the wikileaks. >> that's right. the police believe this was an armed robbery attempt gone wrong one year ago in washington. out of that one fact, there's been a mountain of lies and m mistruths and conspiracies all designed to show it wasn't russia that hacked the dnc. it wasn't designed to help trump. it was actually maybe this kid that sent it to wikileak

and sean spicer told me last night that he took the meeting as a courtesy, that butowsky was a friend from republican circles and that he was happy to give him an ear for a brief meeting. butowsky says it wasn't really a meeting about that at all, he was simply trying the help wheeler see if he could find a job, something both wheeler and spicer say is not true, but what is clear is from the e-mails and voice mails and texts an other materials subsequently is that butowsky invokes the white house, invokes powerful people and, yes, even inadvocates the idea that president trump has read drafts of the fox story before it goes to fox news' site and on the air. while that's not been proven, but it's certainly the pressure point from butowsky that wheeler believes is true. >> brown: to bring it up to date. butowsky now says to you some of those texts or the claim of a connection to the white house was a joke or was a put on or he was overplaying it. and the white house, as i said today, says there is nothing to that. nothing to the connection with president trump. >> you know, butowsky in

a real quick one regarding sean spicer. will you be in the administration in any way now that anthony scaramucci announced that he will not be a part of the trump administration? i amm not of anywhere -- not aware of any changes on that front. >> my second one is this. 10 days ago, anthony scaramucci was introduced as new white house press -- communications director. 10 days later, he is out of a job. the president announced on twitter there is no chaos at the white house. how would you describe what has happened over the past 10 days? of course you will agree with your boss that there is no chaos. how do you explain that not to be the case? >> i have said it before, come to my house if you want to see chaos with three preschoolers. this does not hold a candle to that. just to be clear, that is not an open invitation to come to my house. [laughter] if you want to schedule babysitting time, i will be happy to work that out. >> does the president regret hiring anthony scaramucci? >> i'm not going to get into anything beyond w

sean spicer admits that. and what we see, actually, is that sean spicer says the meeting had no agenda. they just sort of arrived at the white house, and they had no agenda. that makes no sense. and then yesterday, we saw the spokesperson for president trump say that, well, it's not really that abnormal for the spokesperson to speak to a member of the press, which might be true, but don't forget that rod wheeler and ed butowsky weren't writing this article. malia zimmerman of fox news was. >> let me get some of the news out there. you've suggested, i believe, that as part of the lawsuit, you wanted to pose both president trump and the former press secretary, sean spicer. first of all, do you think that's realistic? do you think that might happen? >> we're going to treat this case the way we treat any other case. we're going to seek to take testimony in terms of getting documents that might be relevant and then we're going to seek to take depositions and the president might -- through his counsel, try and get

and that things now is the time to stop doing that and that no one should hire sean spicer now of course the media didn't like spacers and they hated the new president out of the gate and spacers job was to defend him so naturally the press would hate spicer too but suggesting that the man never work is. again is pretty extreme i mean i'm not saying politicians or other washington scum should go on to get more money or fabulous jobs after sucking so badly i'm just of course the media ignores this phenomenon when it happens to politicians they like but god forbid it happen to sean spicer who they hate the passion it wasn't like spicer was the first problematic press secretary either according to rich noyes from the media research center lots of press secretaries were forced to lie or equivocate for their boss of late when bill clinton was president so it's not like spicer did anything worse than any other poor schmuck who had to lie for their presidential boss the only thing new here is that it's sean spicer and president trump the really old thing here then is that it is just another key

we don't know whether sean spicer went to the president and told him. sean spicer then in may denied knowing about the story after it was published. in fact, he did know about it because he was told about it in april. but the president's involvement, still unclear. >> and glen flush, that was just real wick quickly what you were trying to get for the bottom of yesterday in the briefing, right? >> that's right. so sarah -- yeah. it was a two-part question. did the president know about it and did the president influence the story. sarah unequivocally in the first answer answered no, the president didn't know about it. and she was broader in her response saying no one in the white house sought to influence it. but here is the question, we're going to see visit or logs at some point in time. we're going to potentially see e-mails through the process of discovery. i think the answer that she gave yesterday, we'll see if it holds up over the next couple of months. >> all right. thank you very much for spending some time with us. we will be right back. ♪ you

let's check in on global markets, we're playing it for sean spicer, who won't be dancing sadly. futures indicating a higher start. s&p up 4.5 dow futures up 45. nasdaq futures are up 9 points reversing some declines we saw in yesterday's session for the nasdaq and s&p the russell 2000 index of small caps lower by 1% it's been the dow that's been the stand-out. it's a price-weighted index. closed at an eighth straight high yesterday that would make 32 record closes for 2017 ten-year treasury yield, the bopd m bond market has been stuck around the 2.30 level. we'll see where that goes after jobs look for wages, look for improvement on the sector breakdown when it comes to where the jobs are being added we'll see if treasury yields tick higher on the sign of an ill proving economy. >> we've been waiting for wages for such a long time they've been moving, but there hasn't been anything dramatic. we have not seen the wage inflation pick up. >> especially because economists say we're at the end of the cycle. unemployment rate at 4.3% that could be close to full employment so people lo

he was able to get sean spicer's ear. sean spicer said to his knowledge, there was nothing like that. the fact that we're in doubt about it is astonishing, what we know -- the best case scenario, fox news is not defending the accusation that it put words in the mouth of one of its key sources for great political intrigue. >> are they saying this wasn't a partisan effort? >> they're saying their news reporting didn't meet their standards and that's why they took the story down. >> david, thank you so much for this reporting. appreciate it, phil rucker, thank you as well for your great reporting, and hallie jackson. we are still waiting for the white house press briefing to begin. once it starts live, we'll take you to it. we're keeping an eye on capitol hill, where the senate has just started debating the nomination of chris ray, president trump's pick for fbi director. the senate is expected to vote on that confirmation later today. did donald trump put himself in legal jeopardy, if it's true he drafted that statement for

one of which it seems from the moment sean spicer went out, the first hours of the administration to mislead the public about crowd sizes that truth was not going to be a priority, in fact, was almost discouraged. and the second thing is that, you know, we have seen the press corps at times react with an intensity of coverage and an intensity of tone as they are covering this most unconventional administration. >> look, i think -- here is the thing. does the boy scouts lie? it's like -- >> why are you doing this? >> it's silly. on one hand, i remember i had this back and forth with kelly an during the infamous alternative facts thing when she goes why did you -- you're saying -- i felt ridiculous that we were -- that we felt like we had to -- why are you misleading us on crowd sizes? and it seems silly, but if you're misleading us on that, what else -- >> that's the dilemma we face, and we have to draw a line somewhere. >> i think you hold things accountable. you do it in the moment and you do it for the record. you do it so people know that the first six months of this administratio

the time. >> sean spicer and this donor and this fox news contributor are talking about a conspiracy theory involving the dnc? >> actually it was interesting was when fox news published the story and sean spicer was asked about it, he said he didn't know anything about this democratic staffer and he needed to get updates on them. but previously he had been briefed on the investigation purposely by the private investigator investigating seth rich's death. >> he told you it was no big deal and there was no follow-up. the lawsuit alleges that there was followup. let's put up a quote from the story, butowsky -- the suit alleges that butowsky was doing this under the watchful eye of the white house. so what evidence is there actually that the white house had anything to do with this, other than that one sean spicer meeting? >> well, there's a voicemail from butowsky, left from rod wheeler the private investigator, saying that we have the white house's full attention. and apparently after he sent the voicemail, he sent rod wheeler a text message saying that the president had personally rev

. >> and yet another meeting that the white house official took, sean spicer, he didn't know anything about the meeting, only lasted ten minutes and immediately turned from what this was about to their assurance. >> david gregory, we're out of time. we're so sorry. we owe you a response. >> this is outrageous. >> fake news. >> on that note, seth rich's family spokesperson will be here with their response to these revelations. >>> the mooch, gone but not forgotten. comedian mario cantone doing one dead-on impression of the fired white house chief. >> i want to say i owe the american people nothing, but they're going to get an explanation because that's how i roll. >> the rest of the story according to mario mooch next. my hygienist told me to try... ...a mouthwash. so i tried crest. it does so much more than give me fresh breath. crest pro-health mouthwash provides all... ...of these benefits to help you get better dental check-ups. go pro with crest mouthwash. checkup? nailed it on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've

sean spicer at the end of every day, when he was press secretary, would sit across from the president and give hmm a download of what happened that day. so the notion that the president was, you know, tactfully moving in and out of the edits of don jr.'s statement instead of dictating it, we don't know what went down as far as the narrative, but it doesn't comport with his behavior in the past, taking full control of this stuff himself. >> and also before you all go, all of you have either covered the white house, worked in the white house, been an adviser to white houses. i myself have covered presidents going back many years. what about the president's comment to the golf magazine of sports illustrated that the white house is, quote, a real dump, explaining why he's spent so much time at his other properties on weekends. you most recently worked inside the white house. >> i can't imagine a situation where anybody would call that a dump. it is a privilege. it is a privilege to serve the country. in the white house. period. end of story. >> and, george, you and i both were involved in

sean spicer was there earlier, posing for pictures. he resigned from his position less than a month ago. >>> another former white house employee back scaramucca. he's on saturday night live this week. >> he got his head stuck inside a peanut butter jar this weekend. is someone trying to face time us right now? really? it's anthony. are you serious? i guess we should take it. yo. >> he kind of looks like him. he's being played by a former cast member and actor. it was on the debut of saturday night live weekend update, a spin off of the popular show. he'll be here on wusa, fired will be with stephen colbert. he's scheduled to be on the late show monday night right after the news here at 11. >>> consumer news this evening, the company that owns applebee's and ihop says it's closing 160 restaurants. the struggling company is trying to cut costs down. casual dining has taken a hit by customers over faster and sometimes more health conscious places like panera or chipotle. the locations of the closings has not been released. >>> if you thin

about sean spicer's next steps. so, what has he been up to? i understand he still has that big fancy press office and i'm sure sarah huckabee sanders is eyeing that mighty closely. >> right. i spoke to some aides this morning who said it's just awkward that he's staying for three more weeks. she's not even in her office and they feel like they're kind of in this deadlock where they can't really move forward. you know, spicer is living his best life right now. he's not really engaging with the press in the same way that he used to. he's attending tax reform meetings, talking about how to roll that out. he's just, like, popping in and out of ceremonies, like the swearing in of the new chief of staff, general kelly. he went to a medal of honor ceremony for a vietnam veteran. and he's taking his family on tours of white house and just kind of hanging out. but it's for three weeks. and you know, i spoke with an -- a former office -- sorry, government of affairs ethics officer and he said that there needs to be a recusal notice filed by spicer to th

you saw the domino effect where sean spicer was gone. bannon hung on for a while. but you have seen a lot of push back from some of the people close to the president suggesting that -- again, go back to april when he was first feuding with kushner, this idea that he -- trump has always chased that. but bannon is very clearly framing it that way, that he was the key driver, that if these things don't happen it is because of his absence. in reality a lot of these thing wills be pretty heavy lift. i do think steve bannon is correct in making the case that he was the person who had really driven the president early in moves like the travel ban. >> great to hear from you. a lot more to come on this. really appreciate it. the man who conducted that controversial issue with bannon that a white house official says left president trump furious. he is the co-editor of the american prospect and mark preston to digest more of this. did you get the sense at the time that what bannon was telling you could bring him down? >> well, i got the sense of somebody who was very full of

we know he did meet with sean spicer. it's not just any random guy's voice mail. here is sean spicer when asked about that around that time. >> can we get a white house reaction or the president's reaction to the report that said rich was e-mailing wikileaks before his murder? >> i'm not aware of -- generally, i don't get updates on dnc, former dnc staffers. i don't know the status of it in terms of d.c. it would be highly inappropriate to do that. >> that's what we call a generalized denial. the most interesting part is him acknowledging that kind of thing would be inappropriate. >> in this particular administration, with this particular president, we know they traffic in lies and chaos and collusion. this, if this were any other president this story would last a week, a month, it would be on every single front page. with this president we have jared testifying in front ot senate committees. the president making out landish comments to middle schoolboys. he's going to long island saying comments that the police should collude and harm suspects. every day there's

press secretary sean spicer, gone. chief of staff reince priebus, gone. and finally today, steve bannon. >> juan: ticket that her idea of how the political class in washington, bret baier. is this a reset moment for the white house? >> good evening, guys. i think greg was right, if this is going to be some major pivot for president trump, they've been looking for it for a long time. it's likely not going to be. president trump is going to be president trump. that said, it's an eye-opener. the word was that he was on his way out and the administration, the president had made that the decision with general kelly's guidance a couple of weeks ago. bannon is telling people that he offered his resignation august 7th. and that today was going to be the last day. it's a change. it doesn't take away the uniqueness of this president or the firepower of steve bannon, who now in his words, has a lot more weapons in his old job as the executive of breitbart news. >> juan: i heard you say you thought this was the worst week in the trump presidency. is that right? >> i

you will remember when scaramucci was brought in, sean spicer said he was leaving. get rid of scaramucci, despite all the turn over, president said everything is going great, before news of his firing he tweeted, let be honest, highest stock market ever, unemployment lowest 17 year, wages rising, no white house chaos, then the president wrote a great day at the white house. ok. during today's white house briefing sarah hackabee-sanders also tried to down play the scaramucci as well as some of the other staff shake-ups >> what matters most to us is not who's employed in the white house but the rest of the crown we're focused on the president's said it before if we want to see chaos come to my house with three preschoolers. >> as you can imagine the internet didn't waste any time. these are some of the tweets. there's great creativity out there. the transcribe has spoken, the new york post put out the white house white house coverage. we saw that one going out. by the way i loved the had aing the mooch was trend. >>> so much drama on the tell-off special as i reunite

. >> sean spicer quit because of anthony scaramucci forced out priebus replaced by kelly who forced out scaramucci. >> the president felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. >> the president will find a spot for him somewhere. >> up to this point president trump has been the communications director, right? >> the president doesn't need to be controlled, the greatest communicator we've ever had. >> misleading four sentence statement was personally dictated by the president. >> a misleading statement the younger trump had to clarify mul times. >> when you get caught in a lie about one thing, it makes it hard to say let the other stuff go. >> everything he's doing, leads someone a casual observer to say what's going on here? >> i'm very concerned about where the party is going. >> we didn't create him. the american people chose him. >> i want somebody to start fighting for him. how much weight does he have to carry by himself? >> john kelly's second day as white house chief of staff begins with another leak, this as he tries to restore order. >> the "w

we have our website, w >> i'm sure your little bit disappointed sean spicer is leaving because spicy flavor would have been perfect >> there is a mix we're thinking about the mooch mix but only around for ten days. >> love that one, limited edition. >> thanks for coming in. >> thanks so much? appreciate it. thank you guys. >> that's going to wrap it up >> other than you let the record reflect, tripping >> i will see you later on tonight. i'll see you on the find 5:00 at 11:30. >> night. harvey: this is weird. caitlyn jenner is not letting donald trump's transgender ban get in the way of making america great again. >> she was out in malibu driving a sports car, wearing the make america great again hat. >> which matches the car. harvey: you don't go into your closet and get all of that. >> you don't know. >> ryan reynolds, his trainer for "deadpool 2" posted this photo of him throwing some shade at josh brolin. josh brolin is 49 years old and it says josh, you have more work to do. does it make you guys feel bad? these guys are in their 40's. step it up, man. harvey: jennifer lopez, do

his abrupt removal comes just 10 days af to replace former press secretary sean spicer. the volatile spokesman, also known as "the mooch", made waves last week after going on a profanity laced tirade about several members of the president's staff. good morning washington. toss to veronica seasonably warm around 90 next few days slight rise in humidity this week isolated t-storm chances today: mostly sunny to partly sunny, isolated pm t-shower can't be ruled out (20%), warm highs: upper 80s winds: nw 5 mph tonight: partly cloudy lows: 66-74 winds: light wednesday: partly cloudy, isolated pm thunderstorms 30% highs: around 90 winds: south 5-8 mph an update on the russia situation and a report by the washington post that president trump dictated his son's statement about his meeting with a russian lawyer. according to the post - white house advisers fear the explanation, which has been corrected several times, puts the president in legal trouble. the june 20-16 meeting was organized to discuss potentially damaging information from the russian government about hillary clinto

he's treating priebus, sean spicer like they're gary busey or littejohn. we do have real life issues. we do have north korea. we do have to wonder what is china going to do in our efforts to help cure tail north korea getting a nuclear weapon. we have relife issues. looking at this white house, this is more than chaos. for me sometimes on twitter and social media, you get a good chuckle out of it. you see the irony in scaramucci talking big one day and 11 days later being fired. we see all these things. when you take a step back, it's embarrassing to everyone who looks at us as a global leader. it lower our global standing. i think someone needs to and hopefully it's general kelly. i don't think it can be because this is the way trump operates. hopefully someone can reign him in. one of the things general kelly will not be able to do, he won't be able to control this out of control temperament that the 45th president has. no one has been able to do it. the only people who can talk to him are his family. general kelly is not that. godspeed. we need someone

and by the way, rod said he gave notes to sean spicer. not true. that's a lie. rod's lies just continue to add up. and i know i'm on national television and i know what i'm saying and i know it's the truth. rod has a big, big problem with the truth. >> ed, this as you said is a complicated story. i appreciate you coming and gives k giving us your side of it. we'll talk to you again soon, i hope. >> absolutely. thanks again, ali. >> he had ba to you ski. part of a complicated story. after the break, a real problem with our correctional facilities that need to be addressed and an army general isn't the one to do it. you're watching msnbc. had to protect themselves. i have afib. even for a nurse, it's complicated... and it puts me at higher risk of stroke. that would be devastating. i had to learn all i could to help protect myself. once i got the facts, my doctor and i chose xarelto®. xarelto®... to help keep me protected. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner... ...significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a hea

spicer, reince priebus, deveney national security adviser mcfarland, and anthony scaramucci. at the time, the incoming committee cas medications direc. are you getting a sense that john kelly is getting people in line in the white house that he wants to have there? john: getting the west wing in line and getting these folks in line are two different things. you still have ivanka trump and her husband, jared kushner, they are one faction of the west wing. you still have stephen miller, who is his own entity now. he was somewhat in line with bannon, they had a lot of the same views and they worked together on a lot of the same things. but yeah, i think general kelly is taking the long view and is playing the long game with personnel. it will take a long time. you also have inner circle folks, the acting committee cases director, even though she is 28 years old and kind of still a newcomer, she could be the permanent vacation director permanentthe communications director and she has a straight line to the president. he thinks highly of her. kellyanne conway is still there. i thi

so, sean spicer met with this wealthy republican businessman and this fox news contributor and investigate rod wheeler. he just confirmed to us that they actually did talk about the seth rich case during that meeting but he characterized it as a ten-minute meeting and he did it out of respect for someone who goes on tv and defends the president quite a bit. and it's also worth noting, though, that fox is pushing back strongly on this, butowski is pushing back strongly. both of them say this lawsuit's not true and it's full of errors, but the claims are quite explosive. >> this is, david chalian, the definition of fake news, if you want to go there. if the allegations are correct. this, you know, the story's entirely false. this poor family has been saying to fox news -- fox retracted the story, but again, the allegations that this went as high as the white house, the push this false narrative out there. >> one of the allegations in this lawsuit is that the president reviewed copy of the fox news report before it was published. that is -- i don't know -- have you ever worked on a story that

sean put out a statement; he said it was just a brief meeting. he said the guy didn't know the president. the lawsuit alleges that the president knew about it and had an influence on the story. did the president know about the story, pre-publication, and did he have an influence on the way the story was written? sarah: the president had no knowledge of the story, and it's completely untrue that here at -- the white house involvement in the story. and beyond that, this is ongoing litigation, and i'd refer you to the actual parties involved, which aren't the white house. >> to follow up, does it disturb you that the press secretary, for the president of the united states -- you just gave this incredibly passionate pushback on us for focusing on russia. does it disturb you -- you just sped right past this -- does it disturb you that there's an allegation out there and a lawsuit, and sean spicer admitted meeting with these two individuals, that this was discussed in your white house? that this particular -- sarah: he met with members of the media. i

sean spicer gets to meet the pope. i'll see you at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. eat earn time and again tomorrow tonight. good night from nbc headquarters in new york. >>> this has been a an effort. again, we will see you soon. i will tell you, this is historic. it's epic, what happened. but, you know what, it happened in texas. and texas can handle anything. thank you all, folks. thank you. thank you. >>> the floodwaters are rising and so is the death toll in the wake of hurricane harvey. today, the storm is expected to track inland once more. >>> plus, president trump makes a stop in texas for a first hand look at some of the devastation and pledges a recovery better than any before. >>> and later, japan says t

three of them including press secretary sean spicer and chief of staff reince priebus stepped down in just the last week and a half. >> the president tweeting a great day at the white house. abc's kenneth moton is following the developments including the president's role in crafting that russia meeting statement. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, the mooch is out after he rubbed a number of white house staffers the wrong way. it appears that this was all the doing of the president's new chief of staff who wanted a clean slate day one. west wing chaos. the trump white house now dealing with the ousting of communications director anthony scaramucci. >> i love the president. >> reporter: the wealthy wall street financier lasting 11 days and they were rocky. day one, bad blood between scaramucci and now ex-chief of staff reince priebus and the profanity laced tirade to a reporter calling priebus a paranoid successphrenic. >> he felt his comments were inappropriate. >> reporter: president trump hoping to turn the page with this new chief of staff, former homeland security secre