to change president trump or the white house's messaging. here is what they told mike last night. >> the president did the absolutely right thing in firing steve banyan. he cannot have a staff person in the administration undermining the president of the policy of the united states and his cabinet. banyan had to go. >> do you believe that jewish members of this cabinet should resign in row test, particularly given that breitbart is signaling they're coming for them? >> yes. i think they have to. i think people of conscious can't pretend that this president is something that they had hoped he would be. .i think that this is the beginning of the end of republicans being able to hide behind some imaginary donald trump that doesn't exist any more. >> the problem is him and his inability to focus his continuing attacks on everyone who disagrees with him. >> the naacp echoing that in a statement saying ousting one key staffer cannot erase the words used by president trump in this week of defense of domestic terrorists, neo-nazis and white extremis

preservation in the trump white house. 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.

it's duck and cover fridays in the trump white house. it's really important to understand that this doesn't happen quickly. this wasn't a knee jerk reaction to charlottesville. it's really important not to give them that much credit. bannon had sewn so much animosity among his west wing colleagues, not just through the war with h.r. mcmaster but having his own operation. it's completely unprecedented for a member of the senior staff to have his own personal staff. he did. he had his own press staff and policy folks and no portfolio. what were they there for? they were there to advance the nationalist cause. he was not there to serve -- the fact he and the president agreed on an ideology is not the same thing as being in the west wing to support the president's agenda. >> i would pick up on that, that's exactly right. i don't think donald trump has an underlying governing philosophy. you're going to see steve bannon's lack of influence will be dramatic. the problem with steve bannon is no loyalty to a person. he supported ted cruz all dur

this shows fox news has become the media article of the trump white house. and ed butowsky, the wealthy trump surrogate, financed this apparent fake news story that he then as this lawsuit alleges, coached them how to frame the story and push it out the fox's viewers. so this is an inside look. this lawsuit. the allegations within it provide an inside look into how a fake news story gets created. >> is this butowsky ever going to face a lie detector or cross-examination so they can get some of the truth out of him? somebody can make up a story. when you're a kid, you make up stories. it is called story telling. but you have to be held to account when you're maliciously smearing someone who is dead this lawsuit says that this was fabricated. as you said, it was a stunning lawsuit -- >> who rewrote it? who came out with new quotes in. >> wheeler alleges that butowsky and zimmerman were the ones who created this. and wheeler even has recordings of a phone conversation between himself and the fox reporter where she seems to acknowledge that he did not actually s

white house bid. he wrote, i will get putin on this program and we will get donald elected. meaning elegislatived president. that e-mail sent by felix sater, with known mob ties. he was behind the trump's soho project in new york city. the recipient of the e-mail, michael cohen, president's long time lawyer and executive of the trump organization. in the wake of russia's interference in the trump administration and amid collusion in the trump campaign the president himself insisted he had no russian ties to compromise it. >> i had no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia.

this is all coming to a head tonight for the trump white house. we have obtained a voice mailer from wheeler. this is a may 14th voice mail. a message left by that man. this just to put it in context day and a half before that story first appeared on fox news. here is a portion of the audio. >> hey, rod, it's ed. a couple minutes ago i got a note that we have the full, uh, attention of the white house on this. and, tomorrow, let's close this deal. whatever we've got to do, but you can feel free to say that the white house is onto this now. >> "the white house is onto this now." jonathan capehart opinion writer for the washington post and msnbc contributor. jonathan, if the president or his staff were involved in this as mr. butowsky asserted, what does that mean and where does this story go from here? >> it means that the administration from the president on down, that complaints constantlabout fake news was involved in peetting and proliferating actual fake news. this lawsuit is incredibly damaging. even the allegations, the audio that you just p

as a situation that has frustrated the trump white house from day one. the leaks and somewhat sensitive u.s. secrets pouring out of the administration. a short while ago, attorney general jeff sessions thing these leakers are endangering national security and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> this nation must end this

and donald trump's white house who might be trying to further the president's agenda. bannon is going back to breitbart news with a lot of enemies still out there including in congress and including in the white house and you know, what i think what we're seeing with president trump's tweets is trying to keep bannon at least right now on his side. >> storm night, lynn, it will be an important night for the president and he'll give his first major prime time address to the nation. how critical of a moment is this and do you see his new chief of staff, general john kelly's hand perhaps in this? >> we'll see, depending if trump lays out his strategy. that's what congress wants to hear as much as the people of the united states. it's expected that we have some 8,400 troops there and there's a report he'll ask for more. the thing to listen for is if he says he'd be open to using private contractors to replace troops. that would be very, very controversial and as much as afghanistan is very important in this speech, everyone will be listening to say what he wants to say abou

business leaders and others denounced trump's white house. the president to dismiss bannon and any other aides who have connections of any kind to the white nationalist movement. bannon was known to clash with white house colleagues, including hr mcmaster and economic advise zer, gary cohen. rules of it accelerated with john kelly as the chief of staff and bring order to the west wing. according to reports, it may have been a book that decided bannon's fate. the devil's bargain on bannon's role and paving the way for the trump campaign. listen to the response when asked about bannon earlier this week. >> i like mr. bannon. he's a friend of mine. mr. bannon came on very late, you know that. i went through 17 senators, governors and i won all the primaries. mr. bannon came on very much later than that and i like him. he's a good man, but, we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. >> buzz feed reports he said that fing steve bannon taking credit for my election. he told the weekly standard, i feel jacked up. now i'm free. i have my hands back on m

what do you do if you work in the trump white house? i don't work in the trump white house. i didn't endorse the man because i felt he was a person of division. and i've been hoping and i've been restrained in wanting him to be better. the presidency is being reduced to another ceo job. the presidency is the most important job in the country. there is a bitterness setting and that may not be able to be removed. i want him to do well. i want donald trump to understand it's not about winning the argument, it's about bringing the country together. it's not about having some argument try to justify these people on the left who went to a sweet town like charlottesville for purposes of bringing violence. this and fix republicans have to speak out. who cares what party you are in? host: mary from south carolina , theoned heather heyer 32-year-old woman who died in the violence intro it's will -- in charlottesville. says she will not talk to president trump here's the story from "the new york times." thisuote that she gave was -- another tweet here -- let's go to mount pleasant, tex

well, so much for self preservation in the trump white house. 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. that is the same sean spicer who lied for donald trump repeatedly during the campaign and disgraced the white house press briefing room by lying the very first time he publicly spoke in that room when he tried to convince the world that president trump's inauguration crowd was way bigger than it so obviously was. the only defense of the propaganda document in the vice report came from one former republican national committee official who said maybe it's good for the country that president is in a good mood in the morning. president obama's press secretary josh earnest will join us with his reaction next. when you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, the unpredictability of a flare may weigh on your mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go, and how to work around your uc. that's how i thought it had to be. but then i talked

the white house is reacting to this include something strong words from president trump. fox5's melanie alnwick live at the white house this morning with the story morning, guys, yeah, the fbi certainly does appear to be ratcheting up its investigation into whether russia helped put president trump into the white house. meanwhile, the president headed west to perhaps a bit friendlier audience. in west virginia yesterday president trump stood next to a new ally, governor jim jennings who just flipped parties from republican to democrat. they cheered good economic news for the region but the shadow of the russia investigation is always nea nearby. >> story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the great of the loss in the history of american politics t that's what it is. [cheers and applause] >>> it just makes them feel better when they have nothing else to talk about. >> reporter: but there is something to talk about the "wall street journal" reports special prosecutor robert mueller has impaneled a grand jury and says i issued subpoenaes for documents and testim

white house, almost entirely from unnamed sources within the white trump white house or within the world, i would like to get a sense from you of what your guess is about the special prosecutors ability to find the sources that have been speaking, without their names in "the washington post" and in the new york times. and i'm not talking about you going anywhere near those sources but just the extent to which you sense they are available to talk and willing and or eager to talk. >> well, as just said, prosecutors and subpoena power have an awful lot levers to work to get people to testify. providing information about other people who then are brought under oath and then challenged with the information they've already been gotten and so forth. i don't think it is that hard for prosecutors to find people to testify against things like this. i think the harder thing for the prosecutor is to figure out what is going on with the russians. remember, there isn't a particular scandal, this isn't a particular thing we have seen in the past. this involves intelligence, another culture, another lan

he has been tied directly to several internal personnel battles inside the trump white house. a self-described economic nationalist, he had a white board in his office with all of the promises candidate trump made on the campaign trail, pledge pledging to keep white house policy to those promises. he was even economically portrayed as the grim reaper. the political harbor jerry of

white house, almost entirely from unnamed sources within the white trump white house or within the world, i would like to get a sense from you of what your guess is about the special prosecutors ability to find the sources that have been speaking, without their names in "the washington post" and in the new york times. and i'm not talking about you going anywhere near those sources but just the extent to which you sense they are available to talk and willing and or eager to talk. >> well, as just said, prosecutors and subpoena power have an awful lot of relievelevk to get people to testify. providing information about other people who then are brought under oath and then challenged with the information they've already been gotten and so forth. i don't think it is that hard for prosecutors to find people to testify against things like this. i think the harder thing for the prosecutor is to figure out what is going on with the russians. remember, there isn't a particular scandal, this isn't a particular thing we have seen in the past. this involves intelligence, another culture, another lan

white house. first michael flynn, he was fired for misleading officials about the nature of his contact with russian, then it was press secretary sean spicer. he jumped ship when the president made the decision to hire anthony scaramucci. then reince priebus was forced out after a turf war with scaramucci, who, of course, was soon fired, himself. but the departure today of trump's top strategist could have long-term ramification, especially now with the other big news steve bannon is already back at breitbart news the headline late tonight reads this, populist hero steve k bannon returns home. he could make a strong allie or a very dangerous foe for this white house. a bannon friend says breitbart is ramping up for war against trump, it's now a democrat white house the source says, axios says they told me they would go term mo nuclear against globalists that bannon and his friends believe are moving the administration. he pushed back and told bloomberg, quote, if there's any confusion out there le

trump accepts that the white house problem isn't mr. priebus, it's him. that's from can conservative "wall street journal" editorial page. do you agree that president trump and how disciplined he has been or not been is part of the problem? >> i think that's part of who he is. i think if you're the chief of staff, you need to understand the style of the principle, the approach of the principle. and you have to make a structure that works for that. what i said before was the three-person structure doesn't work. and that's not just an aside. that's the key to it. now you have one person, the president said who is in charge from the staff perspective. and i think the big key for general kelly is not only to have that empowerment from the president, which he now seems to have, but also jim baker said it very well. he said this to me during the transition when i interviewed him. and he said it again recently. the chief of staff has to remember to be staff and not chief. so you have to work with your staff. you have to make them comfortable and let everybody kn

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. >>> president trump's chief white house strategist, steve bannon is out. president trump speaking on the matter this morning taking to twitter to thank bannon for his service and adding, he came to the campaign during my run against crooked hillary clinton. it was great. meanwhile, congress is weighing in on whether the oust will do much to change president trump or the white house's messaging. here's what they told colleagues last night. >> the president did absolutely the right thing in firing steve bannon. we cannot have a staff person in an administration undermining the policy of the president of the united states and his cabinet. so bannon had to go. >> do you believe that jewish members of this cabinet should resign in protest, particularly giving that breitbart is signaling their coming for them? >> yes. i think they have to. i think people of conscience can't pretend that this president is something that they had hoped he would be, and i think this is the beginning of the end of republicans being able to hide behind some imaginary donald trump tha

that is not happening in the trump white house. and so what paul ryan sees is this opening, an opening to show he is the polar opposite to the president of the united states. he is someone through his own actions, shows by example how one, how a leader is supposed to lead. be an example for the american people and particularly for children. and he's also sitting there talking about tax reform or tax cuts, however you want to talk about it, but usually it's the president of the united states who goes before a town hall audiences like that and talks about policies, specific things he wants to do. president trump isn't doing that. speaker paul ryan is. >> charlie sykes, you know paul ryan well, and i want to get to what he's up to here. i'm trying to think of previous speakers of the house doing events like this and i can count them on one hand. i don't think i use all my fingers. and most speakers of the house nver did events like this. he's got three kids at home as you know in wisconsin he presumably wants to spend as much time wit

number two, remember the trump white house, jay sekulow and donald trump essentially said, look, i don't know anything about this. i was clueless about this meeting. i wasn't there, didn't know anything about it. they now say he weighed in. that's a tough term to figure out. what does weighed in mean? does it mean he looked at it, edited it, dictated it as "the washington post" reported? regardless, he had a hand in the statement. that statement was very carefully crafted in that there's nothing -- if you look at it, there is nothing that is factually definitely wrong. it was primarily about russian adoptions. we don't have evidence to suggest if it was 20 minutes, 11 of the minutes were about russian adoption. okay. it was not a campaign issue. that's true. russian adoptions weren't a campaign issue. what's left out of it, though, is massive about why did the meeting take place? who was going to be there? if donald trump knew limited information according to sarah huckabee sanders, that's a pretty carefully worded statement for someone who doesn't know much about it. that's what really

well, so much for self preservation in the trump white house. 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. that is the same sean spicer who lied for donald trump repeatedly during the campaign and disgraced the white house press briefing room by lying the very first time he publicly spoke in that room when he tried to convince the world that president trump's inauguration crowd was way bigger than it so obviously was. the only defense of the propaganda document in the vice report came from one former republican national committee official who said maybe it's good for the country that president is in a good mood in the morning. president obama's press secretary josh earnest will join us with his reaction next. stay with me, mr. parker. when a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. stay with me, mr. parker. the at&t network is helping first responders connect with medical teams in near real time... st

in the white house are over. that from a source close to the trump white house. if you don't believe it, just ask anthony scaramucci. his tenure as communications director ending before it really ever began. scaramucci lasting exactly 11 days. a white house statement say, "mr. scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff john kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team." >> sources kay kelly delivered the news -- say kelly delivered the news in a meeting with scaramucci after being sworn in. they say the retired marine journal thought scaramucci lacked discipline and severely damaged his credibility after a profanity-laced tirade in "the new yorker." president trump apparently agreed. >> look, the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. i don't think that it's complicated to understand that the president felt the comments were inappropriate. i can't explain it any further. i'm not sure what's hard. >> sarah huckabee sanders telling reporters that all white house staff will now report t

and, you know, for those who -- i don't think trump is growing in the white house. i'm not sure he understands all the arguments but i have to say, if it is the way it's being presented he deserves some credit for making the decision. >> i heard today that the strategy was to put in front of the president an issue -- the gravity of which would consume him and distract him from cable and twitter and there's nothing more grave than the debate about taking a country to war or increasing the number of troops there. but that there was an acknowledgment that they needed to change the conversation today. >> i think that that's right. this is the media camp -- camp david was part of this. suggesting to the grown-ups in the room, this is important. the air strikes a few months ago was a matter of national interest. this is even more so. this is the idea of sending american lives into harm's way. there's also a recognition in the white house that this has been a tough stretch for this president and in particular, coming off of what we saw last week in charlottesville. we had

the investigation of the trump white house and russia. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> president trump awarded the to jameshonor mccloughan, a medic in the vietnam war. he is credited with saving 10 men from his platoon and a battle that lasted 10 days. this ceremony is 20 minutes. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the .resident of the united states ♪ >> let us gather in these sacred words. no one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friend. let us pray. almighty god, we thank you for the gift of this day, of this time, and for all living, lives devoted in service to you, and to our country. our hearts are especially grateful today for the courage, honor, and extraordinary service of specialist james mccloughan, whose repeated acts of bravery convey to us a true understanding of the value of life. as his service demonstrates your faithfulness in unconditional love, for all humanity, we ask you, lord, continue to inspire and guide others to th

so there's other reporting about the trump white house using friendly media outlets and that's why this suit got so much attention this week. >> what is unusual to some extent is that in this case, you have sean hannity and the former president of fox news, bill shine, and others dining with the president on a regular basis is, it seems like and then you have sean hannity giving advice to the president of the united states and you have matt drudge in the white house. so the level of collusion with conservative media to get these messages out and discredit main stream outlets like cnn and the "new york times" is something i don't think we have seen before. >> one other fan of trump, ed bolling has found out that he's suspended. >> some attacks yesterday after this broke and i didn't get a rep reply, and i don't think we received a reply from his lawyer. >> the lawyer says it's untrue and unfair but they will cooperate with the investigation because they want to get eric back on television. >> right after this broke on friday night, another person had come forward on the record saying she

white house. until recently, he was the head of a powerful new york real estate empire, and just to make you feel extra bad, here are his abs. yeah. overachiever. but most importantly, jared kushner is donald trump's son-in-law and husband to ivanka trump. and i bet when they were getting married back in 2009 jared probably never expected it would lead to a job in high-stakes international diplomacy. - tonight, president trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, is at the center of another high-profile diplomatic mission-- meeting with the iraqi prime minister in baghdad. - the president's son-in-law and senior advisor met with the iraqi prime minister to discuss the fight against isis and get a first-hand look at the situation on the ground. - wait. he has to fight isis? i mean, it's crazy, but to be fair, maybe this isn't the worst idea, you know? if anyone could drive isis crazy, it's a new york landlord. that's true...yeah. [with accent] "you are saying if we want to move into iraq "we have to pay a

white house? >> well, it really is. talk about your news dump fridays, right? look, i was with joe arpaio in his office in phoenix when he was still maricopa county sheriff last year on his birthday. arpaio, i was doing a podcast with him, arpaio was sulking for an hour because trump hadn't sent him a birthday message. these two men have a personal, i guess you could say on some level, a co-dependence. they see the world in a very similar way. arpaio, we know all of the issues involving his sort of treatment of prisoners, throwing them out into the desert in 100-degree weather, feeding them minimal meals, making them wear pink underwear, obviously very zealously pursuing immigrants, both legal and illegal. but what arpaio really represents, ari, is the alpha trump voter. he is from pennsylvania. he is 85 years old. he went south as so many snow birds did, white working class people, to kind of move away what they thought was a change in the northeast. it's very important to understand that that's

it could also mean war between breitbart and the trump white house. what's hard for me to square that interpretation is that it seems like bannon is going to continue fighting to the benefit of the president in some way, shape, or form. i talked to another senior administration official today who said that bannon can be very helpful to trump outside of the white house. so, you know, it's hard -- i wouldn't anticipate that all of a sudden trump is going to lose the backing of breitbart entirely. i sure -- i definitely think this puts him on shakier ground, though. breitbart could turn against trump and could be more apt to do so in light of the fact that their man bannon is no longer in the west wing. >> dylan byers, thank you. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, i'll be joined live by a veteran running for congress as a democrat. hear why she is going directly after the president in a new ad. >> someone needs to be willing to say that the emperor has no clothes. too many politicians haven't had the guts to say that. it's time they did. these days families

former white house communications director anthony scaramucci seen in the oval office as president trump meets with new chief of staff general kelly. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about mr. scaramucci's departure during monday's white house briefing. >> does anthony scaramucci have a role besides communications director? >> he does not have a role besides communications director. we put out a statement earlier announcing that. not at this time. >> did general kelly asked him to leave for the president? did he volunteer his resignation? how did that come about? >> i'm not going to get into the process. as we have said several times before, what matters most as is not who is employed in the white house but who is employed in the rest of the country. we are focused on the president's agenda of growing the economy, creating jobs, and that is what we are going to do. >> was it a chain of command issue? said that hemucci had a direct line of communication to the president. there has been some speculation that general kelly may try to tighten up input the presiden

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he joined the trump the white house one year ago, it was when hejoined the trump campaign last august and bringing with them people like kellyanne conway and the support of robert massara the major financier and his daughter that donald trump seemed like he was moving towards the white house. so his legacy in the white house is bringing trump in and now we will see him back in this bomb throwing roll that he adopted last night and he was so comfortable in before he went to the white house. —— robert mercer. —— robert mercer. so what is happening at the white house, we have seen steve bannon getting fired, is this the doing of president trump or is this new chief of staff taking over? we have this marine general taking over and adding order to the place. one of my collea g u es adding order to the place. one of my colleagues pointed out thatjohn kerry may have his hand on the switchboard but president trump has a cellphone and steve bannon knows that number. it is an ongoing question and we will learn as we go. we have to report the speculation but steve bannon is someone who h

he has been tied directly to several internal personnel battles inside the trump white house. a self-described economic nationalist, he had a white board in his office with all of the promises candidate trump made on the campaign trail, pledge pledging to keep white house policy to those promises. he was even economically portrayed as the grim reaper. the political harbor jerry of death. tonight steve bannon is out. bannon and chief of staff john kelly had agreed today would be bannon's last day. let's start off with two of the reporters intimately connected to what's going on at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. joining me tonight chief white house correspondent john roberts and chief national correspondent ed henry. john, first to you. what do we know about the time line, the tick tock of how this all went down? >> well, a couple of competing narratives going on here, bret. first of all, white house sources have told me that this has been going on for several days now. that john kelly, the new chief of staff has been evaluating a lot of the people who are employed at the white house

and updates on the investigation of the trump white house and russia. he sure to watch c-span's washington journal this morning. join the discussion. >> sunday night on q&a -- >> i had never heard of them. i wanted to know how this manhood been told by the time he was -- from the time he was theg child could have found courage and determination to find a way out of slavery. i was intrigued. i cannot stop reading about him. a looking at the life of slave who escaped bondage during the civil war and went on to become a member of congress. >> he served five terms in the house of representatives. there was a bribery charge against him at one point in his grand he never fully recovered. that is one of the reasons he is not better known today, in my opinion. >> now, a look at the threat of lone wolf terrorism. the director of the center for security studies at georgetown university will talk about the motivations and tactics of lone wolf terrorists, and the challenges facing law enforcement officials. from the washington institute of near east policy, they ho

for the first time from the special counsel investigating the trump white house. according to the "new york times," investigators want the white house to hand over paperwork related to michael flynn's financial dealings with the government of turkey. especially during the final months of last year's presidential campaign. flynn, of course, is the former army general who served as trump's national security kurec adviser for 24 days. boris sanchez is joining us. this isn't directly related to russia's election meddling but what is the connection here and why are they interested in the money michael flynn might have gotten from turkey? >> right, ana. first, the connection. the "new york times" is reporting robert mueller's investigative team is now looking into alleged secret payments between the russian or rather the turkish government and the former national security adviser. allegedly for his lobbying against a political opponent of the turkish president, erdogan. from what we understand, according to the "new york times," they have requested, the special counsel

that is not happening in the trump white house. and so what paul ryan sees is this opening, an opening to show he is the polar opposite to the president of the united states. he is someone through his own acti actions, shows by example how one, how a leader is supposed to lead. be an example for the american people and particularly for children. and he's also sitting there talking about tax reform or tax cuts, however you want to talk about it, but usually it's the president of the united states who goes before a town hall audiences like that and talks about policies, specific things he wants to do. president trump isn't doing that. speaker paul ryan is. >> charlie sykes, you know paul ryan well, and i want to get to what he's up to here. i'm trying to think of previous speakers of the house doing events like this and i can count them on one hand. i don't think i use all my fingers. and most speakers of the house never did events like this. he's got three kids at home as yuan you know in wisconsin he presumably wants to spend as mu

white house. >> take him back to hell. >> steve bannon was the heart of darkness of the white house. >> controversial from the very beginning. >> you know, i can run a little hot on occasions. >> the entire senior staff had basically turned against him. and frankly the president had turned against him. >> we'll see what happens with mr. bannon. >> tonight he is already back in charge of breitbart news. >> he says, quote, the trump presidency that we fought for and won is over. >> it's almost laboratory test designed to enrage donald trump. >> every day it is going to be a fight, and that is what i'm proudest about donald trump. >> the problem here isn't bannon. the problem is trump. >> this man does not seem to me to have what we would normally think of as a soul. he has an open sore. >> i think he's in a position right now where he is much more isolated than he realizes. >> general kelly can change the people in the white house, but that's not going to change the president's instincts. >> he is t

i think what the trump campaign or the trump white house has wanted the public to believe is that donald trump jr. proactively takes the meeting by himself. jared kushner and paul manafort barely know why they're there. does donald trump sr. dictating the statement that his son is going to give destroy the narrative? if so, is the white house worried they have now destroyed their own narrative and incriminated potentially the son and the father? >> well, the question of incrimination is an interesting one. i thought what the u.s. attorney you had on just now had to say was interesting. i think that you're absolutely right that this damages the narrative that the white house has been putting out. i mean, the whole idea behind this was that this was kind of an innocent, innocent misguided thing that happened, kind of a comedy of errors, right, that donald trump jr. kind of had this meeting, that it went awry, people wanted to get out as quickly as possible. that the president had nothing to do with it, didn't even know about it. this news that he was dictating a statement doesn't necessari

for the first time, it's clear who's running the show at the trump white house. the president's new chief of staff, former general john kelly was given full authority. all white house staffers will report to him and in a head spinning turn kelly had the new head communications fired. the white house is not in turmo turmoil. >> today begins the first full day of a new west wing. a new chief of staff is in. the man who was a new communications director is 67777dy out and the white house says mr. trump has 100% confidence in all of his cabinet members. a great day at the white house. that's how president trump described via evening what was certainly an active day at the white house, one that began with a hiring and ended with a firing. it started with the swearing in of new chief of staff general john kelly who says he wants more structure, less game of thrones. >> i predict that general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. >> one of kelly's first acts as chief of staff pushing out anthony scaramucci. on the job for

i think what the trump campaign or the trump white house has wanted the public to believe is that donald trump jr. proactively takes the meeting by himself. jared kushner and paul manafort barely know why they're there. does donald trump sr. dictating the statement that his son is going to give destroy the narrati narrative? >> well the question of incrimination is an interesting one. i thought what the u.s. attorney you had on just now had to say was interesting. i think that you're absolutely right that this damages the narrative that the white house has been putting out. i mean, the whole idea behind this was that this was kind of an innocent, innocent misguided thing that happened, kind of a comedy of errors, right, that donald trump jr. kind of had this meeting, that it wasn't awry, people wanted to get out as quickly as possible. that the president had nothing to do with it, didn't even know about it. this news that he was dictating a statement doesn't necessarily mean that he did know about the meeting back when it was happening. what it does mean is that he was actively engaged i

donald trump in the white house has emboldened white supremacistsm donald trump in the white house has emboldened white supremacists. it is important for us to call these people what they are, white supremacist. i don't understand why thatis supremacist. i don't understand why that is difficult. that is what they are. they are not hiding this behind the statue, they did not come here because of a statue, they came here to fulfil the promise of president trump and take their country back. calm has been restored for now, giving the city time to remember those who lost their lives while challenging hate and trying to keep the peace. laura bicker, charlottesville. jon sopel our north america editor is in washington... what do you make of the political reaction to all of this not least from president trump himself?m reaction to all of this not least from president trump himself? it is interesting. all throughout the presidential election campaign donald trump as fears in his criticism of hillary clinton and barack 0bama for not saying the word radical islamic terrorism after a terrorist att

>>> there is growing distrust of the trump white house. new polling with a stark reality for the president. >>> and north korea not agencies new u.n. sanctions lightly saying the u.s. is pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, and it will make america pay if it takes action. harsh words. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> good morning, i'm miguel marquez in for dave briggs. tuse, august 8 -- tuesday, august 8th. 4:00 a.m. on the east coast. president trump has a problem, the american people don't trust him. that's a key finding in one new cnn poll showing the president with his approval rating at just 38%. its lowest point in cnn polling. only one other newly elected president has held an approval rating below 50% at the six-month mark since the modern polling era began. that was bill clinton. still well ahead of president trump at 44%. >> this trust issue is telling. fewer than one american in four says they trust most of what they hear from the white house. and 60%, 60% say they don't trust the co

for the first time, it's clear who's running the show at the trump white house. the president's new chief of staff, former general john kelly was given full authority. all white house staffers will report to him and in a head spinning turn kelly had the new head communications fired. the white house is not in turmo turmoil. >> today begins the first full day of a new west wing. a new chief of staff is in. the man who was a new communications director is 67777dy out and the white house says mr. trump has 100% confidence in all of his cabinet members. a great day at the white house. that's how president trump described via twitter monday evening what was certainly an active day at the white house, one that began with a hiring and ended with a firing. it started with the swearing in of new chief of staff general john kelly who says he wants more structure, less game of thrones. >> i predict that general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff, one of the great ever. >> one of kelly's first acts as chief of staff pushing out anthony scaramucci.

bannon joining a string from the trump team leaving the white house. what you do make of his words as he exits? >> it is quite extraordinary. i think some people have thought it was coming for a while. the departure is very significant. i think there is a real concern about what he will do from breitbart. he is associated with the white nationalist and populist agenda. he has struggled to have that gain traction he wanted it to have in the white house. certainly john kelly's appointment as chief of staff threatens that. he will take it outside the white house. he said he wants to support trump and nationalist agenda. he will do this in part by launching an attack on several of the professionals of those supporting the president going forward. the key thing here that people are not talking about is what the president is going to do now. remember the buck stops with the president. as much as we like to associate things that have happened with steve bannon, he has been important and influential. he lost a lot of battles. it is really president trump that

politico running with the headline: "scaramucci's short, wild ride through trump's white house. " the business section of the times looks at the us currency being dragged down by what it calls white house chaos. the article claims the dollar has endured its worst run in six years. the financial times is leading with the fallout of brexit on banks. it follows the most detailed assessment on the sector by consulting firm oliver wyman which estimates cost increases of a% and a 30%jump in bank's capital needs. the guardian also reports that wholesale banking could lose a0,000 jobs. spotify has reached 60 million paying customers as the pioneer of music streaming prepares for public listing this year. this article in the companies and markets of the financial times saying spotify has added more than 20 million paid subscribers in the last year. beijing is the smartest city in china according to a report on the cashless society released on monday. the article in the china daily also highlights that 8a percent of respondents surveyed were comfortable going out with only

but i think that for trump, it is more tricky to do that from the white house. you have to be very careful when you start whipping people up -- using language like, "coup." that's a really serious charge and i think there will be people out there in his circle who are saying, hey, we need to take the temperature down on this and just let it play out. you heard that kind of sentiment from ty cobb this week in part because i think people recognize that. this can spin out of control quickly. >> you know, there's a legitimate debate on how far special counsel's, independent counsel's should go and what investigative byways and pathways they should be allowed to follow. looks like a fishing exercise on one side looks like a legitimate path to another. talk about ken starr. he was supposed to investigate a land deal in arkansas and went on to travelgate, paula jones and sending impeachment on monica lewinsky. democrats saying what's going on here? that's legitimate. what he came across. we're seeing a reverse now. >> and one of the reasons special counsel doesn't exis

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in the white house. meanwhile, trump traveled west to perhaps a bit friendlier audience in west virginia yesterday president trump stood next to a new ally, governor jim jennings who just flipped parties from democrat to republican. together they cheered good economic news for the region but the shadow of investigation is always nea nearby. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's what it is. [cheers and applause] >>> it just makes them feel better when they have nothing else to talk about. >> reporter: but there is something to talk about. the "wall street journal" reports special predominantly robert mueller has impaneled a grand jury and says it's already and issued subpoenaes for documents and testimony related to a june 2016 meeting that don jr. held at trump tower. now the president's personal lawyer told fox that he hopes that this grand jury means that this investigation will finally be coming to an end. mean

president trump is now clearly being bossed around by the new boss of the trump white house, former marine corps general john kelly, who has so far prevented the president from doing his customary share of utterly insane tweets. and john kelly has obviously ordered the president to stop attacking his own attorney general. now, you may think it a good thing that the president is now -- is not attacking his attorney general, but we know that he wants to. but now he's afraid to because he's weak and because general kelly ordered him not to do it. and so in the president's obedience to his new white house chief of staff, we once again see just how weak donald trump is. the president has a new boss to whom he weakly submits. the associated press is reporting tonight that john kelly in one of his first acts in his new post called attorney general jeff sessions to reassure him that his position was safe despite the recent onslaught of criticism he has taken from president donald trump. even before john kelly was sworn into his new job, he called jeff sessions to tell him, you don't have to worry