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 says not against anyone but is for the anthem. players, coaches and owners answered the president by kneeling or locking arms at the start of weekend games. >>> deck loration of war, won't around much longer. north korea says that gives the right to shoot down u.s. bombers. >>> scorecard protesters rally against the latest gop health bill and scramble for votes. waiting a cost estimate scorecard. will be that the final blow to the bill that's in trouble? >>> and trouble jared kushner used a private email account to conduct white house business. his attorney says fewer than 100 emails were involved. is kushner now in more trouble? i'm wolf blitzer here in "the situation room". >>> breaking white house strongly talking about the national anthem saying he's not against anyone but is for the anthem and the flag. players, coaches, and even owners answer the president by kneeling or linking arms or staying in the locker room during the weekend opening ceremonies. some of those owners were big donors to the president festivities inaugura

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

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

you covered the bush white house, i covered the obama white house. and i don't recall someone leaving this position really causing a whole lot of attention on the issue, but this is different, right? >> exactexactly. this is really part of the president's inner circle, part of his pos is se. the posse from the business world to now. most presidents feel the white house tends to be a lonely place and they rely on people who are sort of familiar to them. by all accounts, keith schiller has been one of those people for president trump, has really been kind of a source of a connection to the outside world, not just by getting him in touch with people from the outside world but as a reminder of somebody from his past. so that is why, if keith schiller does go ahead with, again, what we are told he is telling people and leave the white house, it could potentially and will potentially be sort of another feeling of potentially being isolated for president trump at a time where he's already chafing at this new system that he wanted in place by putting john ke

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 are 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 aware of the crime to lie and to federal investigators and anybody in this anybody could benefit. from legal advice 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 beli

the white house council thought it was problematic. so, it has a lot of people wondering if this new information is pointing to where the investigation goes from here. >>> also, the futures of 800,000 young undocumented immigrants decided by the president next week. his decision on the dreamers program is coming on tuesday. he's not giving any hint, yet. >> worried? >> we love the dreamers. we love everybody. >> let's start with the aftermath of harvey. this morning, the death toll is at 50. let's go to cnn's george howell, live in houston at the george r. brown convention center. good morning to you. i assume people are starting to wake up, 6:00 local time there. what's happening and going to happen on the day ahead? >> reporter: victor, we are starting to see more people out and about after another nights sleep here, this home away from home. many people who don't have a home left to turn to. we are seeing the numbers diminish here. the latest estimate we got from the red cross, somewhere between 1200, her happens, people that are st

house, decided to leave the white house. one week later, friday, august 25th, deputy assistant to the president sebastian gore, sound, expressing his dissatisfaction with the trump administration. friday was not the only cord cutting day. embattled white house national security advisor michael flynn resigned, that was a monday, for reference, after he misled administration officials about his contact with the russian ambassador to the u.s. senior white house aide katie walsh abruptly left to run a pro trump group on the outside. fbi director james comey was fired may 9th ostensibly for his handling of the hillary clinton email investigation. mike tab key tendered his resignation the first communications director to leave. he was not the last. that would be anthony scaramucci, who was shown the door on july 31st, just ten days after he walked in the door. >> sandra: we remember. trace, thank you. you set it up so well for us. now here to explain the latest shake-up, fox and fox news politics editor chris stirewalt. chris, hap

this is all just white house. last night "the new york times" broke the news that on the day robert mueller was appointed special counsel, president trump reportedly lost his mind at the attorney general jeff sessions because sessions had recused himself from anything related to russia. quote, when the phone call informing him about the muller appointment ended, white house counsel don mcgahn relaid the news to the president and his aids. almost immediately mr. trump lobbied a volley of insults at mr. sessions. telling him the attorney general it was his fault they were in the current situation. he did resign. he wrote a resignation letter to the president but the president would not accept it quote. trump ended up rejecting sessions' resignation letter after senior members of his administration dismissing the ag would create more problems for a president who already fired an fbi director and national security advisor. senior advisors told him that accepting mr. sessions' resignation would sow more kew s inside ad

house to trying to make sure that operations are streamlined here at the white house. so you're seeing the administration, the president on down, really rally behind him in the wake of these new reports that we're getting. >> i know you have other responsibilities. thank you so much for spending a little bit of time this hour. mark, let me bring this to you. you see the president getting behind jared kushner but if not jared kushner and ivanka, then who else? sort of an obvious person for the president to display his loyalty towards. >> well yeah. it's unclear if he is disemploying displayin displaying -- it sounds like the people leaking the stuff about the lawyers suggesting that jared kushner leaf the white house probably -- if you want to be kremlinologist about this, this is coming from the bannon camp, another in the longer chapter of bannon v kushner playing out for many months now going back to when bannon was in the white house. again, it is unclear -- i was listening to sarah sanders' comments earlier and they really did throw the kitchen sink at comey before

white house? >> keith schiller, who now serves as director of oval operations, he has told people that he intends to leave the white house. that is according to three sources with knowledge of this. they told me and colleagues jeremy gray and noah diamond. the primary reason keith schiller is telling people he is going to leave is financial. but it is also noteworthy, given what sara was reporting about general kelly, the new chief of staff, and the way he has clamped down on access to the oval office, access to the president. we're also told schiller has expressed frustration with that process, especially since he is somebody who has had unfettered access to donald trump for decades. he has been a constant presence with trump, jim, since he was a businessman, during the campaign and so forth. we, of course, remember that he is somebody who delivered perhaps the most consequential letter, he handed james comey his letter firing him. we don't talk about the white house oval office director, operati

and today, the white house under fire, too. >> to be clear, also, the white house does not have a role on the front end of approving private charter flights at the agencies, and that's something that we're certainly looking into. >> and cecilia vega joining us tonight from our studio back in new york. and cecilia, one top republican is now delivering a stern warning to president trump? >> reporter: exactly, david. the powerful chairman, chuck grassley, wrote a letter to the president, saying i'm urging you to emphasize to cabinet secretaries the necessity of using reasonable and cost effective modes of travel. david? >> reporter: cecilia vega, thank you. >>> the white house also asked tonight about the president's response to the growing humanitarian crisis in puerto rico. tonight, the president has now sent a three-star army general to command the relief operation. amid images of thousands of cargo containers sitting there, full of supplies, but not delivered. more than a week now after the hurricane. nearly 3.5 million american citizens live on the island. millions without power and

howie: the white house says denouncing the president as a white sum * i -- awhite white supremacist is a firing offense. the president has chuck and nancy over for dinner to discuss immigration. >> we are not look at citizenship, we are not look at amnesty. we are looking at allowing people to stay here. we are working with republicans and democrats. howie: "breitbart" posted a headline that became a trending hashtag, amnesty done. shannon pettypiece, katie pavlich, and joe trippi, democratic strategist and fox news contributor. shannon, the mainstream media says he's figuring out the job and growing in office. is this what happens when a rookie president moves towards the democrats. katie: remember when the president said he could go out on fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose a vote. but this week he learned he has to build that wall if he wants to keep the conservative media on his side. has he pivoted? i will only believe a change or pivot when i see it. i think the media cover tends to twinge overreaction. but the president is feeling out this turf and bringing in a

"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> it's 4:00. at this point, who doesn't want trump impeached tweeted ann coulter. dinner and a deal with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer on the fate of the 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers currently living in the united states. in return, funding for massive border security was assured by the democratic leaders. notably the wall was not part of the deal, but trump scrambled to reassure his unhinged base that the wall would still be built just not as part of this pact. let's show you some of the dramatic developments. last night after dining on chinese food, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer released this joint statement. we had a very productive meeting at the white house with the president. the discussion focused on daca. we agreed to enshrine the protections of daca into law quickly and to work out a package of border security excluding the wall that's acceptable to both sides. the president this morning essentially confirming his commitment to that agreement. >> well, we're working on a plan subject to gettin

having said that, this white house staff, or anybody working in the white house right now, accusing this legal team of being rather jv might want to the look in the mirror as you were pointing out earlier. like people and senior officials around president trump being incompetent isn't exactly breaking news. >> there's also the added layer of the fact that now everybody -- everyone is lawyered up, including white house counsel, don mcgahn who has his own lawyer for this inquest, you have layers of legal representation. and there is this kind of prisoner's dilemma kind of dynamic you have to imagine that people have the interest of the president of the united states, who they work for, the executive branch in a constitutional sense but their own interest in terms of how they're going to come out in this. >> certainly. i think the latter probably matters a lot to most of the people in the white house, more than any other point. there's a type of person that works for donald trump they tend to be out for themselves, further their own careers, further their own reputations, and i think we can

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 i've known him over the years roger goodell himself is a republican he's the son of a republican senator charles goodell and you know people like tom brady who's about as on a political 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 term w

john roberts at the white house. the other thing the president mentioned there at the end of his discussion and briefing was daca. deferred action on childhood arrivals, this is about kids that they came over to the united states as kids, some cases very young kids with their parents. they lived here, gone to school here, pay taxes here and in some cases they're in the military here. the president wants action on daca, he says. now it sounds like there may be movement on that matter. we'll go to mike emanuel with breaking details in just a moment. >> shepard: the top two lawmakers in the house of representatives also crossing the political aisle to speak with the president. speaker paul ryan and minority leader nancy pelosi are set to meet in a couple hours to talk about the dreamers. last week president trump said he was ending the program that protects some 800,000 immigrants whose parents brought them to the united states illegally or without documents as children. he gave congress six months to save the program.

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

. >> white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan is here with us. first to the cleanup which continues this morning across the southeastern united states in the wake of hurricane irma. president trump and first lady melania trump expected to travel to florida tomorrow see the damage firsthand. 54 deaths have been blamed on irma and 12 in florida and 5 million homes remain without electricity. the battered florida keys there is a stubborn riesilience among the people. fema estimate 1 in 4 homes have been destroyed by the home and the number climbs to 90% in homes damaged. getting power back take a month with 200 utility poles alone that broke and littered streets and waterways alike and those are people's entire businesses. it could take a week for historic floodwaters to recede. the local sheriff's office says their department has rescued more than 350 people but the worst damage is being seen in the caribbean where the storm wiped out homes and leaving thousands desperate for food, water, and other supplies. france's president macron visited a isla

the differences between house, senate and white house are substantial. without presidential leadership to bring the different factions of republicans together, it is possible it could fail with the way health care did. >> we showed a focus group, nbc focus group this week in pittsburgh, in pennsylvania, that had five trump voters in it out after a dozen people. those five trump voters were all disappointed. they all said disappointed. none of them offered anything -- 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 you hear from clinton supporters, talking about trump at this point. >> they were supposed to be bulldozers on the ground. there are supposed to be things being built. there was supposed to be a ti e tightening of the job market, especially blue collar men. things are supposed to be different from the way they were in the past. one of the things we all now know how the trump story went. remember for a lot of people, for whom politics is somethin

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 engel coffee i'm sorry i. missed them we hope to have campbell back soon thanks to both of them for the time today we'll be back with more politicking right after the break. about your sudden passing i found the just learnt 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 . but then my feeling started change you talked about more like it was a campaign still some marched on to

the white house is also operating with all hands on deck. democrats opposed to the republican plan spoke late into the evening tonight, adjourning just before we came on to the air tonight. here with us, jeremy peters, new york times political reporter, our own pro from doer on this subject. a man who knows the hill and this issue well. jeremy, what is the chance that democrats emerge from an ikea like fever dream where they're putting the pieces of their party back together in two or three weeks and say, my goodness, this is real, this is a real effort to repeal and replace in the senate? >> i think it is indeed very real, brian. and lindsey graham and bill cassidy are two very well respected senators who have reputations for reaching consensus with their colleagues. i wouldn't, though, under estimate just how difficult it will be to get to that 50th vote because you can have mike pence cast the tie-breaking vote. crucially john mccain hasn't said how he'll cast a vote. >> he says arizona's governor seems to be behind it, and that would rea

>> it's interesting that the white house approved it. but it's something that would have never been approved in most administrations. i would have never thought of taking a military flight or a charter flight when at commercial option was available at a cost reduction. the money should be spent on protecting the health and human services that the department offers, not on flying the secretary even to essential meetings. >> what do you make of the offer to sort of reimburse for 11% of the total cost of those domestic travel flights, after defending them as essential? >> i would say it's too little and too late. the cost of the flight is not the cost of his seat. the costs are the pilot, gas, use of the plane, and it doesn't matter whether the pilot flies one person or ten. and he can't pay for just one person when the entire airplane went somewhere. so that isn't, to me, a very acceptable offer. he ought to reimburse for the full price of what he paid, particularly on the domestic flights where he did not have white house approval. and th

the white house has called his statement absurd. it's never appropriate for a country to shoot down another country's aircraft when it's over international waters. our goal is still the same, we continue to seek the peaceful denuclearise asian of the peaceful denuclearise asian of the korean peninsular, that's our focus. doing that through both the maximum economic and diplomatic pressures as possible at this point. there is concern among many at the un that the belligerent tone between the two seems to be heading from hostile to actively threatening. even during the height of the cold war, including the soviet union, they have never threatened to use nuclear weapons unless they are attacked by nuclear weapons. north korea has blatantly threatened to strike the un i do the switch nuclear weapons. we have never seen this kind of threat. the us said they flew fighter jets close to north korea at the weekend, they said a demonstration of their nuclear capabilities. donald trump said the us would hopefully destroy north korea if it was

jeff zeleny joins me now live from the white house. take us inside the president's reaction and what comes next. >> reporter: john, those two words you just said sum it up succinctly there. the president doesn't like to lose. he's not used to losing in special elections. he's also getting a taste of what president obama got, as well. it is difficult for a sitting president to campaign for anyone and hope their supporters follow along. voters time and time again do what they want to do. there's no question though the president is very upset about this. he was flying back to washington last evening after doing an rnc fund-raiser, some $5 million there. he was watching these returns come in. and was frustrated. venting at everyone, of course, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, blaming pretty much everyone, john, except himself. that is one thing i do not hear at the white house this morning talking to a variety of people, other republicans close to the white house blaming the president himself. he has not accepted much blame for

by their own lawyers. >>> also, the dinner tonight at the white house. the president hosting six senators, three from each party, as the speculation begins about the deal he's trying to make. >>> and we'll get a late live update tonight on the destruction still being unearthed from the sweeping natural disaster, all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way. >>> good evening once again from nbc headquarters in new york. before we turn to the coverage of this day in presidential politics, we want to begin tonight with a late live update of the damage from hurricane irma and remember, entire islands in the caribbean, entire islands in the florida keys, have been cut off. even though this was a weekend event, we are still uncovering, discovering and unearthing the damage and human suffering going on there. nbc news correspondent gadi schwartz was out in it from the start of the storm. he has made his way to key west, florida, tonight. gadi, i know it's quite literally true, everywhere you look, you discover something new. bring us up to date tonight on the ex

carter never had an official white house for target for. --official white house photographer. he has the images we would have normally got through a white .ouse photographer and we have a two-time pulitzer prize winner. he is a proud graduate of the university of texas at austin. for 27 years he was a staff photographer for the washington post. he won the pulitzer prize for covering three generations of poverty in washington dc and the refugee situation in kosovo. we have david all caps, he was -- david valdez, he was george w. bush's white house photographer. and we have diana walker, a time magazine photographer for 20 years. she is known for her work covering hillary clinton. she covered the clinton white house really broadly and deeply. she also cover the reagan administration and george h.w. bush. valadez and diana walker are actively involved in our program. they both belong to our advisory council. >> what you hope viewers will take away? >> the importance of photojournalists and new documentary -- news documentarians. the value of their work, not only for the news but

earlier white house tried to downplay its role. >> to be clear, white house doesn't have role on the front end of approving private charter flights. that's agencies and something we're looking into from this point forward and asked a halt to be put particularly at ahs on any charter flights moving forward. >> white house may not approve but played a role in travel costs overall. approved the use of military aircraft for price's trips to africa, europe and asia to tune of half a million dollars. adding to the cost. price reimbursing government about $52,000. inspector general is investigating whole mess but in case of private jets, anyone can figure out how outrageous the travel costs were. $300 to fly commercial from washington to nashville. he took a private plane at more than $17,000. at least 20 trips. including a flight from washington to philadelphia, can drive in 2 1/2 hours or train for $72. this is just the spending that price railed against under the obama administration. in particular spending on private planes for congressman. nancy pelosi. >> what i want to say to the spe

but he did keep the white house informed of his contacts with the white house, particularly as they related to the organization of the executive branch. there were not-so-subtle hints hoover wanted to be back at work dismantling the new deal. initially, eisenhower did not disappoint the former president. the legislation establishing the new commission was passed by congress and signed into law after eisenhower took office. as is with the practice with the first commission, the legislation called for the president and the leaders to appoint members to the second hoover commission. hoover had been appointed to the first commission by house republicans. this time, his appointment came from the white house. although ike did not have the power to appoint hoover as chairman, it was clear they expected hoover would be in charge. that the former president had high expectations is without question. hoover succeeded in soliciting substantial cooperation from truman in response to recommendations from the first commission. truman was a partisan democrat. hoover can only speculate how much more he coul

of course, hoover did keep the white house informed of his contacts with the white house, particularly as they related to the organization of the executive branch. these early communications were not-so-subtle hints hoover wanted to be back at work dismantling the new deal. initially, eisenhower did not disappoint the former president. the legislation establishing the new commission was passed by the congress and signed into law after eisenhower took office. as is with the practice with the first commission, the legislation called for the president and the leaders to appoint members to the second hoover commission. hoover had been appointed to the first commission by house republicans. this time, his appointment came from the white house. although ike did not have the power to appoint hoover as chairman, it was clear they expected hoover would be in charge. that the former president had high expectations is without question. hoover had succeeded in soliciting substantial cooperation from truman in response to recommendations from the first commission. truman was a partisan democrat. ho

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 any tonigme 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," 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. eli elisabeth, bumiller, robert costa, jill wine-banks. thanks for being with us, the three of you. w

house like every white house does that with reporters and they should do it if it's in defense of the president was 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 engel coffee i'm sorry i. missed them we hope to have campbell back soon thanks to both of them for the time today we'll be back with more politicking right after the break. about your sudden passing i found the just learnt 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 kid still some more fun to fee

the white house is anxious to do its now. the white house is pushing to get that out sooner. said everybody understands how slow the legislative process is. i'm not sure that is true in some of your colleagues on the white house. you have to go back to jimmy carter to find a staff that had fewer people who had passed a bill. you conceived the only ones on the original step ahead of her done that. how much has that led to the frustration that the clearly the president feels and how much has that made part of your job getting across to your colleagues and the president how the process works? say --ge, i guess when i i should mention everyone here understands the biggest best basis of congress. the first -- the frustration is born of what he has said several times. republicans promised 2010 that when given the opportunity to appeal obamacare, the restoration -- frustration was that we would get it done very quickly. i think there's been some commentary about the president's expectations. repeating --on of before the recess. when they give us that expectation i think the presiden

is john kelly getting control of the white house? do we know how much influence he truly has in terms of what's going on there? >> well, in some areas he has certainly exercised significant control over the flow of news to the president, over the president's interactions with various members of his cabinet, with various white house staffers, and also making sure that the president sticks to his message. i mean f you recall those images from the u.n. speech when the president went off script and started talking about rocket man in north korea, you could see the frustration on john kelly's face so i think there's definitely discipline that he's brought not only to the chain of command but also to the president's message. but as we all know, president trump is at the end of the day is going to do what he wants and say what he wants to say. so the president is always going to be unpredictable. >> all right. always good to have both of your voices in the conversation here. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> no food, no water, no power,

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

iesha, what are you hearing from the white house right now? what happened when the president had gathered all of his top people to discuss how they would respond and then after that as we all know here, we saw secretary mattis come forward? >> well, apparently, the president had asked to hear all of the military options that are on the table right now and what they can do militarily to deal with north korea. perhaps at this point the white house is saying that what has gone on so far has not worked. the sanctions and the diplomacy, and the tough talk about fire and fury has not elicited the response and of course, that would be incredibly deadly and incredibly consequential if you were to take any military action against north korea. >> i want to play again what secretary mattis had said about an hour and a half ago, for those just joining us and did not hear an excerpt from it so let's play a little bit of that. >> any threat to the united states or its territories including guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response and

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

white house press secretary sanders was asked about the comments. here's what she had to say. >> comey by his own self-admission leaked information. >> did the president encourage it the dodge to prosecute comey? >> that's not the president's role but the department of justice and something they should look at. i'm not sure about that specifically, but i think if there's ever a moment where we feel like someone's broken the law, particularly if they're the head of the fbi, i think that's something that should be looked at. >> so sanders suggesting the leaking was illegal, but unless there was classified information in those documents, and there's no indication there was, would that be an indication for the dodge to look into. >> it's funny that jim comey is now being suggested should be investigated for mishandling classified information. it's one of the more ironic things in american politics currently. >> i mean, john, sanders was responding to comments bannon made in the interview room. let's watch a clip and then we'll talk about it. >> someone

house -- your white house is like a poorly wrapped burrito. it's falling apart and we're all going to get e. coli. [ light laughter ] but since that ceremony, you've probably heard suspiciously little about the gop health care plan. and apparently, that's by design. >> it's the best-kept secret in washington right now, it appears. senate republicans under new pressure this morning to reveal their health care bill -- negotiated in secret, behind closed doors. >> no one has seen what they're coming up with or knows what they're doing. there have been no hearings, no amendments, no public decision on a bill that affects a sixth of the entire u.s. economy. >> who is pulling the strings? who is in charge? who knows what is in that bill? this is a political houdini act. >> seth: yes, it's like a houdini act. and like houdini, i wouldn't be surprised if trump started wearing a straitjacket. [ light laughter ] "this is definitely for a magic trick. and not because i'm fully insane." [ light laughter ] now, if you're curious why the senate would go to

but this white house is the leakiest white house we have ever seen. it almost seems like the trump staff does not need the warning to tell the truth about donald trump under oath because they seem to be telling the dark truths to "the new york times" and you guys and the "washington post" almost every day. >> yeah, that's right, lawrence. it's not just the leaking, it's also the infighting and there are concerns among the trump legal team that prosecutors and the special counsel will use these riffs and fissures between the staff that have been long been festering to essentially pit the staffers against each other and other trump associates against one another to use something they might get from someone staffer or one associate to leverage something more out of another associate. this, my sources tell me, has led to some dissent within trump's legal team object habou handle mithis. dissent about pace of document production. seeing the tensions play themselves out in a legal defense in a way that's extremely unhelpful for the president and his team. >

he says the white house responses like put lg lipstick on a pig. and that is how the 11th hour will get under way on a thursday night. >> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 252 of the trump administration and let's put it this way. just imagine these headlines during normal times. russia continues its attacks on the u.s. and a natural disaster has left over 3 million americans in peril over a week after the storm. those are some of the headlines in our news tonight. and on top of those stories, all of which we will discuss tonight, another story that will not go away for the trump white house. just got worse. tonight there's more news about private air flights taken by the secretary of health and human services, tom price. politico's new headline is this. price took military jets to europe, asia for over $5 hundred,000. they write, quote, the white house approved the use of military aircraft for multinational trips by price to after can and europe this spring and to asia in the summer at a cost of more than

house like every white house does that with reporters and they should do it if it's in defense of the president was 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 the just learnt 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 kid still some more fun to feel those

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

press briefing at the white house? >> you had jimmy kimmel who went on saying you'll never be president -- >> so a joke on jimmy kimmel is the same as the briefing room where policy is? >> don, you're still the -- >> you're making no sense. donald trump spent five 1/2 years spreading a racist lie about barack obama. donald trump wept on twitter and repeatedly called president obama a racist. and then somebody calls him a racist and he gets out raged about it and uses the white house staff to call for the firing of that person from a job. what hypocrisy that is. and for you to sit there and come up with these obvious. >> everybody, stop. >>> on the other side right after the break. >>> okay, back now with my panel. and so, panel, listen ben ferguson said let's keep this about sports. and people do get fired for tweets, but to say that sports is just about sports and has nothing to do with politics, it has nothing to do with the culture, i think, christine, is a bit disingenuous. especially if you look at jacky robinson

and that's not a good place for this white house to be. that looks like cover up, obstruction, stone walling. >> great to have you on, even in this dangerous area for the presidency. i want to thank ken vogel. heidi prez, who is now white house correspondent. >> right. >> we'll see you talking to sarah. robert mueller is pouring over facebook, they're going to facebook trying to find out who's paying for the adds, the money trail again, follow the money. and did the russian operatives get help from jared kushner, the micro analysis of the campaigning we're familiar with. who was telling the russians, how to find out the voters they needed to identify in states like michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania. who on our side was telling them? plus politics was front and center at last night's emmy awards. we'll see sean spicer joking around. i'm with him, get out there, make a full of yourself. another day, another nickname for trump. he's calling kim jong-un rocket man. wars started by name calling. it's like trump's on the campaign trail, i gue

and tax reform and the white house being on the same page. but, again, you talk about the republicans in the middle of this tax reform stuff and they really don't know what he's going to say. if he's going to stick with stuff on the framework piece of paper. from watching donald trump, you just never know what he's going to say when he's on stage and reacting to the crowd. because it's usually crowd reactions that drive what he says. >> our great thanks to our lead off panel for reacting to so many different topics. >>> we'll take our first break tonight. coming up, a late look at the numbers from this runoff in alabama tonight. what it means for the president and his party. >>> but up first roger stone takes the hill, sean spicer hires a lawyer, and it's just tuesday as "the 11th hour" plays out and rolls along. most american homeowners would be shocked if they knew just how rich they were. the average american home value has increased $40,000 over the last 5 years. but many don't know you can access that money without refinancing or selling

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