sarah: the white house again, that travel wouldn't have gone through the white house for approval. i couldn't speak to that. reporter: two immigration-related questions. do you anticipate a refugee announcement in the next couple of days? on both the cap on refugees from the president which has to happen before the end of the fiscal year, end of this week, and if, so you know, will that -- can you give us some sense of what that's going to be and look like? are there going to be restrictions built? second on daca, there's been word now for a while of the set of principles that the president and the white house wants to put out to sort of describe the way forward for a legislative deal. is that something that you can give us some guidance on? sarah: on the first question, i expect something will happen relatively soon. and when we have those details and it's appropriate, we'll be happy to share them. again, i think it will be soon and we'll let you know when that's been finalized. in terms of your second question -- yes. on responsible immigration reform. we will be putting out spec

busy day here at the white house. on the economic front this week the president will continue his push to secure tax relief for hard-working american families. we are pleased to announce that the president will be traveling to indianapolis, indiana, on wednesday. while there he will deliver remarks on the historic tax cuts and reforms that he has been, woing on with members of congress. during his remarks the president will discuss new details on the framework for these cuts and reforms. these details will include specific proposed rates for individuals, small businesses and corporations and he will also discuss the elimination of loopholes that have rigged the current tax code in favor of the wealthy and well connect. as the president has said before we will give our workers the level playing field they deserve and they will win because if the fight is fair, no one on earth can beat the american worker. these cuts and reforms will deliver massive job creation and economic growth and we are confident that the american

there were eight house democrats and five house republicans invited to the white house to meet with the president today. out of those 13 members of congress, two of them are about to be on our broadcast. congresswoman stephanie murphy, democrat from central florida. she was there. congressman tom read, republican from upstate new york. he was there. an area we affectionateel refer to as the southern tier of new york along the pennsylvania border. thank you so much for joining us. congresswoman, beginning with you, why do you think you were invited to the white house today? >> well, i've always said that i am committed to working on behalf of my constituents in central florida to get things done and to move this country forward, and so that's the way that i've been operating in congress. and i'm really looking for ways to advance the agenda on maf of the american people. and so i think that's the reputation that led to my being invited today. >> congressman reed, if indeed the president has back tracked on daca, which is part of the story people are fussing and fighting over tonight. isn

house discussions about james comey's fire to any white house documents about mike flynn talking to the russians about the presidential election. 13 categories about which the white house fielded requests from the special counsel office. but cnn reports tonight that robert mueller's investigators may be about to start interviewing current and former white house staff right away as soon as this week. and the sheer breath of topics and incidents that robert mueller is asking about ensures that wiare a lot of trump white house staffers that are about to get questioned by the prosecutors and if you've done nothing wrong, you have to be c aware of the crime to lie and anybody could benefit. well, today the "daily beast" was the first to report that sean spicer is the latest trump administration official to have to hire a high-powered criminal defense attorney on the russia issue. on that long list of requests for documents and information that the muller inquiry has reportedly given to the white house, two of the 13 items we believe robert mueller asked about, 2 of the 13 are specificall

who sally yates met with at the white house on january 26 when she went up to the white house to give them the mike flynn warning to which they didn't respond. so, maybe that's what mueller wants to interview them about. in terms of the other names on the list, we know that sean spicer sold the white house line that mike flynn didn't at all talk to the russians about sanctions. remember sean spicer said that mike flynn contacted the russian ambassador to offer his holiday greetings. of course it wasn't sanctions. so if the special counsel is starting to look at white house personnel who concocted misleading public statements intended to cover up real contacts with russians, then sean spicer may indeed be in the hot seat. and because we now know misleading comments were concocted by the white house to disguise the true nature of the trump tower russia meeting during the campaign, that may also explain why hope hicks and josh raffle are on the list of people the special counsel intends to interview. hope hicks and josh raffle, they were both reportedly on board air force one and they we

house as well as inside the white house. and you actually have to make sure that the president is served with the challenge in time to meet the thj so when a decision is made, it is relevant, and not irrelevant. >> charlie, it's also-- it's also tough because one of the chief roles of the chief of staff is to make sure that the president is hearing all the voices that he needs to hear, that he-- that he's getting all the -- >> to be an honest broker. >> to be an honest broker. to be a very honest broker. and also, as part of that role, honestly, to tell the president no when he needs to be told no, and that's not easy. >> rose: that's not easy for anybody, is it? >> for anybody. >> particularly in this white house. ( laughter ) with a president who doesn't like to be told no. >> rose: a person who didn't come up in the political give-and-take and compromise of the political world. >> it can be brutal, but it's also a tremendous honor to do it. and having, you know, done a lot of different jobs over the course of my life, it'

the white house executive chef has been in charge of feeding the animals at the white house. making special recipes for the dogs. there was a time when white house pet messed up the plans for the cook. this involved a dog named links. he was so well and set her on the scene. according to reports, on the morning of march 1934, there are 12 sets of friday and hamm set out for the resident staff. the white house cook made this and stepped away to do something else. when they returned all of them are gone. they realize this is because links have helped himself to a nice hearty meal. the press had a lot of fun with it. they staged a photo of links eating ham and eggs off a plate. the cook was upset and soon afterwards it was and now that links was leaving the white house to more time with his family. and that paved the way for more familiar dog, paula. one thing interesting about the cooks my friend over time these cooks food into three boxes. one they were culinary artists celebrated in their time. if you know anything about the food reputation of fdr white house it was not great

house-led because it has to be the white house. we've got to coordinate with dod and fema and the other agencies. and we were so hands-on. gene sperling was calling through to find gas stations open in new jersey to plot out how gas trucks would make it to new york city. that's how hands-on the white house has to be and it's got to come from the top. but he is sending the signal that is doesn't matter. >> there's a growing sense they know this is a problem but the president himself is -- >> what kind of problem? a political and press problem or humanitarian crisis? >> i think among senior staff, both. but the president, only in recent days, has become personally engaged on this issue. unlike texas and florida -- >> why? >> i think some of the reasons discussed at this table could potentially be valid. we always hear about his base and who he -- states he won. he won texas and florida. these are places he's much more familiar with than puerto rico. able to grasp that idea. up until the last 48 hours, most of his private discussions

when you become an official white house photographer, is it like joining a club? mr. draper: not until it is over. because there is so much work involved in doing the job that you do not get a chance to come up for air. you are kind of in this bubble. and you will see your colleagues out, looking out the window over a motorcade or something. but for my experience, there was so much work involved and so much focus on the job that until i got out, you kind of realize that i am in really exclusive company. and you realize how special the job was. even more so. so yeah, it is great to be in such a tight knit club. because not a lot of photographers have done this. reporter: we did a talk with you and some of the other official white house photographers. and you obviously have been on the other side, being an ap reporter. what is the difference, if any, between what you were doing as a member of the ap versus being the official white house photographer? mr. draper: very different. i think as a journalist, working for the media, you are there -- you are on assignment. your

with you we did a talk and some of the other official white house photographers. you obviously have been on the other side, being an ap reporter. what is the difference, if any, between what you were doing as a member of the ap versus the official white house photographer? mr. draper: very different. i think as a journalist, working for the media, you are there -- you are on assignment, your focus is to illustrate what is presented in front of you. either an event, or if you do to aaccess behind-the-scenes moment, you record it and you put it out there. it is so limited. when you are an official photographer, it is like, a whole another world. you have so much access and there is so many stories to see and to follow, it is almost overwhelming at times because there is so much access. but the focus is the president. at the same time, you are working for the president. so it is not like when you are with a media organization, you represent that organization. but when you're working for the president, you are serving the president. background,nging my the way i make

at dinner, at the white house, but now the white house is disputing at least part of that deal. president trump has been falsely reported to have made a deal with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi to extend the debt ceiling and fund the government for three months. the false part of the report is that it was a deal. it was a surrender by donald trump. he did not make a deal. he simply accepted what chuck schumer and nancy pelosi offered. that's not a deal. if you walk into mcdonald's and the price of a big mac is $5.30 and you buy it for $5.30, you did not make a deal on a big mac. if you buy it for five bucks then maybe you made a deal. there's a word in washington for what happened in donald trump's meeting with chuck summer and nancy pelosi. and mitch mcconnell and paul ryan about the debt ceiling and the budget. and that term is rolled. donald trump got rolled by chuck summer and nancy pelosi. that's what they call it in washington when you go into a meeting with the other side and the other side gets everything they want and you get nothing. donald trump had another meeting wi

there are walls between the white house and doj. what she's doing is making an end run by making statements to the press suggesting that he should be charged with a crime. knowing that the press is going to report on those. and that people from doj are going to read those reports. it's absolutely inappropriate. >> carrie, do you agree on that? >> i absolutely do, certainly. there's been procedures in place for a long time. and my understanding is that these procedures are still in place under attorney general sessions. that there's not supposed to be certain contacts between the white house and the department of justice regarding ongoing investigations. if the white house press secretary stands up in public and says there should be an investigation of something, then they're bypassing the direction of the attorney general. so really she needs to not talk about investigations and not suggest that investigations take place. it goes to the heart of our rule of law. it goes to the heart of our justice system. that there's not supposed t

i went to the white house. by the time i got there, people were running out of the white house. it was being evacuated. i have lots and lots of memories of those days. i do remember -- there's a line -- i hadn't read that story for a long time until you sent it to me tonight. there's a line i remember. michael gerson, remember, bush's speechwriter, wonderful speechwriter. there's a line where the president says, "all of this happened to us and it came upon us in a single day and night fell on a different world." and that's exactly what happened. i remember jill abramson who was then the washington bureau chief of the "times," we assembled in the conference room of the bureau on september 11th and later in the afternoon, and she said to all of us assembled there, "this is what we will do now." 16 years later, she's right. that's what we did. that's what we are doing right now. >> to her point and to yours, i would argue september 10th, 2001, was the last normal day, period. elisabeth bumiller, robert costa, jill wine-banks. thanks for being with us, the three of you. we'll take o

the assistant white house press secretary of state, the white house chief of staff, another white house communications director, mr. scaramucci. the senior director for intelligence at the national centre court counsel, the white house chief strategist, steve bannon, also the special adviser to the president on regulatory reform, high professional deputy assistant to the president who nobody really knew what he did, remember sebastian gorka? nobody knew what he did. but he was deputy assistant to the president. we also lost the vice president's press secretary and now today the secretary of health and human services. everything okay, you guys? sorry we couldn't keep all your heads the same size. i mean, i realize, barack obama, new president, losing his green jobs adviser in the first year, i mean, that was something that was of grave concern to like fox news, for not just weeks, but months. but what's happened at the trump administration, this is an order of magnitude different. we've never seen anything like this. this latest departure tonight from the trump administration is notable

but president trump seems to be torn the white house wavered on when the white house would make a decision. >> a decision on daca? >> sometime today or over the weekend. >> should dreamers be worried? >> we love the dreamers. we love everybody. thank you very much. thank you. >> we'll be releasing on daca sometime over the weekend. probably sunday, saturday. the latest will be monday. >> i just spoke with the president. and we're in the process of finalizing that decision. and those details. and we're going to make that announcement on tuesday of next week. >> all right. there's really only one major constituency that favors kicking out the dreamers, resingleding dakota la and that is base. represented by stephen miller and jeff sessions. in contrast to fighting to keep the program are an array of people including basically every democratic politician, the dreamers themselves the most stake in it, cias, and senator orrin hatch tweeted his disagreement even paul ryan. >> there is a lot in the news right now that the president might be looking at pulling back daca. the dreamer's act. >> yeah

and senate and white house are substantial. and without presidential leadership to bring the different factions of the republicans together it's possible it could all fail the way health care reform failed. >> david, we showed a focus group, nbc focus group in pittsburgh, in pennsylvania, that had five -- five trump voters in it out of a dozen people. and those five trump voters were all disappointed. they all said disappointed. none of them offered anything in any positive descriptions of the president. the only neutral one was the word unique. but they said things like crazy, they said the kind of words that you hear from clinton supporters talking about trump at this point. >> they were supposed to be bulldozers in the ground. there were supposed to be things being built. there was supposed to be a tightening in the job market, especially for blue collar men. trp things were supposed to be more different from the way they were in the past. you know one of the things we all know how the trump story went. remember for a lot of

house. >> yeah. >> that tells you how crazy this white house has become. and i mean, he is right. a horrible decision. it doesn't necessarily mean there's not going to be an independent counsel absent the firing of comey and should have been before that. you said that. i said that. others said that. as a practical, political matter, bannon has a point. this is what turned the temperature up and forced rosenstein to do it and people who might be reluctant to go ahead and support this. there's no question it backfired badly because this is kind of typical of trump's m.o. which is to do the first thing to think of like a petulent little child and in this case the consequences are pretty serious because he has robert mueller, this incorruptible former fbi director, digging around in the financial transactions and dealings with russia and i very much doubt that the record is -- will stand up to that kind of scrutiny but as bannon said and he is right, trump has nobody to blame except for himself with the fine mess. >> bannon is trying to give jared kushner some

what does this do to a white house especially a white house with a busy september ahead? >> well, they already had very damaged credibility with regards to russia. and they're shifting explanations for the comey firing. and whatever remains of that credibility has just been shredded with the stories today. and people inside know that. they know that. i mean, like it is a damning chronology. you have a president of the united states sitting at home in his golf club with his son-in-law and daughter, and a 31-year-old aide drafting this letter, presenting it to his team, including the vice president on the monday, and then they all come out with this phoney line about they were acting on rosenstein's recommendation. this chronology is just being completely blown up. trump had blown it up with his interview with lester holt and other things he said. but the fact that pence was in the room in the oval that is what we call a bad fact. i don't know about the legality about this and the shifting because no one does because it's been kept very quiet. we can see who mueller is hiri

issued by the white house the night james comey was fired. "washington post" saying that mueller wants documents about the statement that sean spicer made about the comey firing on the night he was fired but "new york times" adds that, number nine, bob mueller also wants documents on a different statement sean spicer made a week before comey was fired an may 3rd. mueller looking for information on two different statements about the comey firing made by sean spicer, a week apart. sean spicer is not yet known to have a personal lawyer on the russia issue. this would imply that he should get one. number ten, reportedly demanded any documents relating to the meeting trump held in the oval office with the russian foreign minister and ambassador the day after comey was fired. that's the meeting where trump told them firing james comey quote relieved great pressure on him over russia. 11. all records related to the trump tower meeting. paul manafort, jared kushner, eldest son and clown car of putin connected russians. reportedly all documents relate

owners but as a consolation prize he got the white house. what do you make of the players and their actions i know your friend tom brady did not support it and he was a supporter of trouble but my god there's a lot of people supporting it including the league as support of the players yeah that's been pretty surprising i mean i think especially since a lot of the you know the owners have been big supporters of trump both financially and they've known him over the years roger goodell himself is a republican he's the thought of a republican senator charles goodell and you know people like tom brady who's about as an apolitical as it gets even he today i guess i'm interview he called you know president trump's comments divisive you didn't agree with them he was part of a pretty large demonstration by the patriots and by a lot of teams you're locking arms or kneeling during the storm spangled banner yesterday and that seem to have the support of the teams and most of the teams at least and the league i think the real question is how in the long

we are awaiting a white house press briefing. we're expecting to hear important updates on the recovery ef forts. tropical storm irma weakening, but the danger is far from over. its path still threatening floods, damaging winds and severe weather. meanwhile, folks in florida are searching for the road to recovery. >> we got really hit pretty hard. we've got lots of wind. lots of broken trees. a tree that fell on to our neighbor's roof and actually caved the roof in. in the middle of the storm he was running to our house to safety. it was pretty terrible. we don't have any water in our house, but all our neighbors around us do.

the white house didn't mention it. it was only after russian state media started reporting that it had already happened after the meeting happened then the white house sent out a belated press release saying the president met the new russian ambassador. if we want the know what trump told the new ambassador about the fbi's russia investigation or about one of our allies code word classified intelligence things, presumably we have to wait for it to turn up on russia today or sputnik and find out what happened. sure enough, late friday night, the russian embassy produced the picture of the meeting. on their twitter feed. next time a senior russian official will be in the oval office i wonder if we could try insisting as americans maybe we get told when moscow gets told. maybe just insisting on that. or maybe with this new administration that will always be something that moscow knows about before we're allowed to. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> you're just sayi

david duke doesn't work in the white house. when you're impugning the character of these white house staffers calling them white supremacists, that's just wrong. everybody has the right to free speech but you have to face the congress sequences of your speech. in her case, espn reprimanded her. i will say this. i think if she had said something on the other end of the political spectrum, if she said something conservatives were in agreement with, i think espn would have fired her immediate immediately. the fact that she tended to say something that liberals agree with -- ask linda cohn what happens when you're not on the liberal line over there. i think she has a right to speak, but there have to be consequences in the free market when you possibly are driving eye balls away from your employer. >> okay. i appreciate both of you very much. thank you on all things jamel hill. >>> still to come here, new reporting in to cnn on meddling in the u.s. election. just how extensive russia's use of facebook really was. stay with us. ♪

he's probably the most well-known official in the white house. his behavior kind of shows how close something like this could get to the president. >> josh, good to talk to you. thank you for your reporting. josh dawsey. >> thanks for having me. >> or the complaints we hear, reporting of those who said jared and ivanka don't follow protocol, behave like they're royals. maybe it is things like this. you go. >> go ahead. >> you. >> stand by. we'll go to capitol hill for an update on obamacare. republicans revised the latest led legislation to get key votes. does the graham/cassidy bill have a chance of passing? . ith advanced manufacturing that brings big ideas to life. and cutting-edge transportation development to connect those ideas to the world. along with urban redevelopment projects worthy of the world's top talent. here and all across new york state, we're building the new new york. to grow your business with us in the southern tier, visit esd.ny.gov. to grow your business with us in the southern tier, but on the inside, i feel chronic, wide

house like every white house does that with reporters and they should do it if it's in defense of the president what's unusual here are the number of people within the president's inner circle on background without attribution quote leaking detrimental information about the president even though i opposed this president there's something called loyalty if you don't like working for president trump you ought to resign or get out you should be leaking detrimental information always great talking to lanny thanks thank you thank you engel coffee i'm sorry. mrs hope to have campbell back soon thanks to both of them for that time today we'll be back with more politicking right after the break. about your sudden passing i phone we just learned you worry yourself in taking your last turn. to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest this thing that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each spring. but then my feeling started change you talked about more like it was a case still some marched on to those

that should not be at the white house. that should be at department of labor. >> from the justice department. >> cohen is meeting with the u.n. world leader, people interested in his environmental platform, which isn't the president's platform. the president ought to have his team basically scrounging, pushing, twisting arms to get the tax bill through and if he doesn't do, that the rest of it doesn't matter. lou: following the two points and i think they're absolutely correct, following that, what is the chief of staff doing here? why is he permitting gary cohn, jared kushner to take on these initiatives as if the president worked in florida with the first lady meeting with the victims of hurricane irma, assessing damage. it's an extraordinary, to me at least, departure from what normally would be happening in a white house. >> look, the events of the last 24 hours do speak to some kind of a breakdown or a train wreck that i can't make sense of. i actually have been saying recently that trump i thought was doing really we

being teared down from in the white house >> fox 5 asked for a white house response of norman's comments they said, quote, well, 63 million people feel differently because they voted for him to be the president. tony? >>> just when you thought the tension between the united states and north korea couldn't get higher, it has ratcheted up. it's every this tweet from president trump. just heard foreign minister speak at u.n. if he echos thoughts of little rocket man they won't be longer. the foreign minister said that tweet means the united states declared war. he didn't on to say since the united states declared war, north korea has right to defend itself and that includes shooting down any u.s. military aircraft that flies near the peninsula even in the planes are in international waters. this afternoon, sarah hackabee-sanders denied the u.s. is at war with north korea. >>> to the after math of maria, it's been five days since maria hit. people have trouble reaching outside. the power is out to most island, flights leaving puerto rico are infrequent. president trump tweeted the puerto ric

this morning the white house is refusing to say. the president's top economic advisor insisting americans care much more about what's in their wall et cetera th wallets, than in his. philip, back to you. >> thank you. >> why personal e-mail among the president's staff including advisor ivanka. reince priebus and steve bannon. now the white house officials say they have launched an internal probe for the private e-mail accounts looking into their use. just as congressional investigators fume over the matter demanding answers. nbc's tracie potts joins us now with more. tracy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this was significant because it was a b it was a big deal during the campaign and now private e-mail told particularly . whether or not there is any communication about the russia investigation. of particular interest here, jared kushner and ivanka trump, their private e-mail domain, because of course they still work at the white house. some of the others who you saw there are former white house officials. and then the whi

my sources told me this week that at a white house meeting with lawmakers, gary cohn the white house economic adviser pointed to treasury secretary steve mnuchin and told the law maurks we're not going to benefit from any of this. and that was shocking to some of the lawmakers that were there because they know that those two guys are sold man sacks executives and are worth roughly 250 million and $300 million respectively. the tax policy center analyze is not exact lg precise because the proposal does not have all the details there. the legislation hasn't been written yet. so you can't do a perfect score on it. but these estimates show what anybody who looks at this can see, which is that there is a huge skew toward the wealthy getting most of the benefits from it. >> right. you just have to look at three things, the repeal of the amt, estate and tax for pass through corporations to understand that these are things that generally affect high earners more than low earners. let me ask you this, as heal jackson asked gary cone in the white house prosecutes conference yesterday, why not

joining me chief white house correspondent halle jackson at the white house t. washington post ashley parker, matt welch. matt, you have this story in the washington post again the "post" and the "times" reporting on this letter the letter that was not sent detailing the president's ratiall rational fo james comey. how much was this original letter aimed at comey and his investigation of trump and trump's world? was it a passing reference, do we know? was it more detailed than that? how much does this letter suggest that was on the president's mind? >> reporter: sure, so again, we haven't seen the letter. we have just spoken to people familiar with it. but our understanding is that this letter sort of laid out the president's frustrations and grievances with director comey. as we said, the story was very little explicitly focused on russia, other than e other than the language we actually saw in the final statement that the president put out, where he expressed frustration that comey had told him privately several times he was not the focus of the investigation,

cnn athena jones is live at the white house. begin with you, athena. what more are we hearing about the president's agenda today and this issue? >> reporter: hi, dprfred. we know the president's national security team is closely monitoring the issue, learned that from the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. you put up on the screen the people among the many officials the president is meeting with to discuss this issue. vice president mike pence, the president's national security adviser h.r. mcmaster, chief of staff john kelly, defense secretary james mattis, secretary of state rex tillerson and others meeting to discuss this very important issue. as you mentioned, this is north korea's sixth nuclear test. the first one during the presidency of president trump. we saw him take to twitter early this morning in a series of tweets condemning this action calling, saying that north korea's words and actions are very hostile and dangerous to the united states. saying that north korea is now presenting a great threat and embarrassment to china

we went through some complications to get her into the white house. the white house agreed. she's an amazing young lady going to university in the dallas area. she's going to be a social worker. she's a productive citizen of this country. the vast majority of the 800,000 fit into this category. we should not miss this opportunity. i think the president should do the right thing and approve the continuation of daca. >> regardless of what the president does, though, congress does have the power to protect these people, these undocumented immigrants. we've heard from several members on both sides of the aisle who say they want to do that. what do you see as the best way forward? >> well, i hope we can agree on both sides of the aisle that these 800,000 kids who came to this country by no choice of their own have the right to be here, have the right to become u.s. citizens. they're already participating in society. and i think that we need to be good human beings when we think about making this decision, coming up on daca. >> do you support the legislation that representative ka

he's seen some of his juice disappear in the white house. and it's a triumph for the attorney general. jeff sessions, of course, said from the beginning that he did not believe the justice department could defend this or would defend this order. he believed it would fail in the courts. it's something he's been against throughout his career, and this is his, in some ways, reward for putting up with the rather remarkable public rebuke that he took from the president a few weeks ago. he stayed the course, he kept his head down, and he was the leading voice on this issue. >> so allen, what do you think the resistance, the opposition looks like, and how big is it from here on out? >> i think what we've seen on the streets today is only going to be the beginning. because this is another one of these situation where is the president has laid in congress' lap an incredibly controversial, difficult thing to pass. and without really giving them much guidance. so now for these next six months, he's given them this deadline and a clear timeline on when

we don't know who this person is in the white house. we know he is someone who has talked very offensively about our communities. and in some ways, people are harping back to the idea of what he was talking back after charlotte. they're saying -- after charlottesville. saying, look, that's the same person and i don't trust this person. >> last week, he seemed to wash away the sting of the charlottesville thing by focusing on the hurricane, being the president of all the people, and then he had this deal last week, seemingly a deal this week. then he comes back and mentions the charlottesville all over again, taking the same position with senator scott. that reminds democrats that this is not somebody who has suddenly become one of them. >> and luis gutierrez made a point to me that, you know, trump has fallen out with so many people in his own administration, the people who backed him for president, and gutierrez said i'd feel a lot better if the dreamers were his daughters and sons and son-in-laws, because it's only trump's own relatio

white house. making it sure that they fail in the efforts to subvert the president's issues and enforce immigration law and epiact make america great again. >> we will only do it if we get extreme security and everything that goes along with surveillance and we have to have the wall. if we don't have the wall we are doing nothing. >> reporter: the president in surveying florida hurricane, said the wall would be built. and have daca had sparked a major fire storm back in washington. the associated press reported that democrats reported that there was a deal on daca and no wall. that was iowa republican who wrote. if ap- correct the base is blown up and no promise is credible. but the president said the apgot it wrong. massive border security would have to be collected. and tweeting. does anybody want to throw out good and accomplished young people and some serving in the military, really? party leaders had differing viewing on how the conversation played out on daca between trump and pelosi and sch

how did the white house respond to that? >> again, pam, just stunning that one of the focuses has been on the president's feud with nfl players when you have news like that coming out. north korea's foreign minister accusing president trump of declaring war on north korea and today sarah sanders dismissed that outright and the president didn't declare war on north korea and she called any suggestion of that absurd. >> sara murray from the white house, thanks so much. >> let's listen to what cleveland cavalier lebron james had to say about the president's comments? >> can we sit up here and say we're trying to make a difference because we know this is the greatest on country in the world. it's the land of the free, but we still have problems just like everybody else and when we have those problems we have to figure out a way to come together and be as great as we can be as a people because the people run this country, not one individual and damn sure not him. >> joshua dubois, cnn contributor and senior white house religious

but it would be understandable if a white house counsel did not want to be serving in the white house anyone who was under investigation. >> does the white house counsel enjoy attorney/client privilege with donald trump? can he be made to talk to robert mueller himself? >> no. you've got different circuit courts going different ways on this, but my understanding always was every lawyer for the united states has only one client and that client is the united states. so that the president is not the white house counsel's client. the united states of america is his client. and that's true of all the lawyers in the government. so there may be other kind of privileges at the margin, but not attorney/client privilege. >> what does it say to you that you now have this reporting that bob mueller's team is now interviewing white house staffers and that even mike pence might have already talked to bob mueller and been interviewed over the summer? does that tell you that this is heading toward some sort of outcome that could involve indictments? >> well, you know, we'll find out. i think we may o

it is not very far from the white house. they are very influential and you know, you have michael flynn's son. he was perpetuating conspiracies like pizza gate during the campaign. this was somebody really doing everything he could to go after the democrats. even using conspiracy theories being perpetuated by the furthest of far right people. but i think the whole thing now, all the news today, it really proves that trump cannot get away from this. there is a drip, drip of even if he fires somebody, it doesn't really matter when you're talking about a federal investigation. this is going to continue to follow him and continue to be a problem for him. and i think he will be increasingly agitated by it as he tries to get something done legislatively. >> the question is whether the drip, drip is coming from donald trump's water bottle. he is the one who was basically obsessing over the flynn inquiry before the public or other people had any sense really how far it went of the take listen to him with lester holt. this is a diffe

house leaks like nobody has ever seen a white house leak. and you have in fact said no administration in the history has been so divided among itself about the direction, about where it should go. what is the divide? >> the divide is first off president trump and the way president trump has always run his organizations. he will always take diverge ent views, right, he learns by the-- he questions by the sock rattic method, he talks to a wide range of people. there are always going to be diverge ent views and quite frankly i think that is healthy. because i think-- now the one thing i disagree with, is that i think there has been a divide in this administration from the beginning, it's quite obvious. there's one group of people that on the campaign, by the way t is basically the campaign, came on, said all you have to do is do what you said you were going to do in these major areas, let's punch out one thing after the other. will you keep your coalition together and we're going to add to it over time as you are successful. there is another gr

i'm not in that white house. ask that question of general kelly. >> you speak to him more than i do. you should have ask him that. >> who has been in power, ask him that question. but you know, i think this issue that we're trying to -- i watch monday night football. i thought it was handled very, very well by both teams, by the nfl. they went out, they showed unity with all their players, took a knee, but not during the national anthem. not to denigrate our country and our flag. i just think it's outrageous. there are plenty of ways that you can call into question some of the racism that may still exist in this country. but that's the wrong way to do it. you don't denigrate -- the one thing that used to, and i hope it still will, unify us is that we're all americans. i think identity politics is really bad, david. and i know we play it and you play it. and i think that's one of the problems that's affecting our policy. we ought to get away from identity politics. we're all americans. >> it isn't part of the -- i

is there a white house component? is anyone -- >> for hhs specifically, they're conducting an internal review as well as an i.g. review. the white house is looking at more of an overall not specific to that department because there's already two reviews taking place there. >> the president said he would donate personal funds to harvey relief. did he make any donation to puerto rico? >> i haven't talked to him specifically about that. he didn't make a donation to harvey relief. he made a donation to relief organizations. the red cross and many others that are a part of all of the hurricanes that we've experienced the last several weeks. so those organizations are not limited to a specific, nor are the donation as specific storm. they go to those organizations that are helping aggressively and intensely in the recovery efforts in the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico as well. >> we saw steve scalise with that emotional remarks in the house chamber today. did the president speak to him to welcome him back? >> i know th