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Act. Plus, the trump temper and they h called Jeff Sessions an idiot. Why sessions is not the First Official to face the fury. Lets begin with the terror in london. The citys mayor said a manhunt for suspects is under way after a homemade bomb blue up on a busy commuter train during morning rush hour. Police and hospital Officials Say at least 22 people were injured and most of the injuries appear to be flash burns and are not lifethreatening. A British Security source said authorities are learning details about the device used in the attack. Lets go live to the Senior Correspondent in the area of london where the attack took place. The police are learning about the device. Reporter yes, we understand from greatish Security Source that is a timer was found. This bucket looks extraordinarily crude. Definitely the execution was pretty amateur, but really our sources are concerned about the ambition behind the execution when you see a timer. It leads them to the assumption that the intend was to cause much more mayhem and exact a bigger toll than thankfully it did. You can imagine what could have happened given this was peak commuter time. If this timer had worked and had gone off in the center of london and while Police Believe this was not necessarily or particularly the work of a skilled bomb maker, there clearly was a lot of ambition going into this. Wolf . Its an amazing moment right now that they are all obviously trying to find the suspect. I assume there is a lot of closed circuit in london and theyre reviewing all the video to see if they can get a sense of who may have brought that bucket on the train. Absolutely. Especially given that this is a city that is on high alert. They are at the second highest Terror Threat level which is when authorities believe an attack is highly likely. We heard this morning from the mayor of london and he acknowledged what they are dealing with is a shift in terms of the way that terrorists are approaching carrying out these operations as they lose their territorial footprint as the u. S. And uk are exacting successes. They are getting supporters through propaganda through the execution of an attack like this to exact a greater toll in the capitals. London is second only to an attack in a u. S. City in terms of the propeganta gold that isis and supporters would seek to exact. Reporting live from london for us. We will stay in touch. The London Attack is likely to come up in the press briefing set to begin any minute now. The National Security adviser to the president , general hr mcmaster and ambassador to the United Nations, nikki haley will be in the Briefing Room with the press secretary, Sarah Sanders coming up. The president took to twitter earlier today to contend with the London Attack and tweeted this. Another attack by a loser terrorist. These are sick and demented people in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive. Its not clear what the president meant by the words in the sights of Scotland Yard. Jeff is joining us now from the white house Briefing Room. Jeff, how are officials in the uk first of all reacting to the president s tweets . Officials in the United Kingdom are not reacting well to the tweets from the president this morning. This is not the first time the president has gotten ahead of an investigation, but teresa may, the british Prime Minister who the president spoke with earlier today had pretty strong words for the american president. She said this. It is never helpful for anyone to speculate on an Ongoing Investigation. Also a Police Spokesman in london had some similarly harsh words. He said that the president s comments were pure speculation given that we dont know who is involved. Any speculation that police said is unhelpful. Clearly a bit of a rebuke taking issue with what the president was saying. It is unclear if they know more than they are releasing, but clearly for their own reasons, they did not release that. That did not stop him from answering the questions and going out on social media today. He was tweeting a lot and President Trump is also defending his outreach to the Democratic Congressional leadership. How does he explain cutting deals with Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi while republicans are getting sidelined . Its interesting because we are ending a second week where the president has indeed reached a deal or the beginnings of what could be a deal with democrats. It is the sign of a clear new strategy by this president who wants to get something done and learned the lesson of health care. Of course there was not an accomplishment. When he was flying back to washington from florida, he explained the new governing style that now includes democrats. I guess we dont have that clip. What he said was i guess we dont have the sound. He tried to work with republicans on issues and that is his preference. He said im a republican through and through and he will bring democrats in to try to get legislation moving. Of course, wolf, its an open question. The president on dreamers want something to happen on the 700 or so thousand undocumented immigrants, but Border Security will be at issue here. I will stand by for the press briefing to begin. The ambassador to the United Nations and the press secretary will be briefing reporters fairly soon. The briefing will focus in part on Major International issues as the president gets ready to address the United Nationss General Assembly for the first time Tuesday Morning. The president s tweets and comments are in stark contrast to what he said last month after the violence in charlottesville, virginia. Listen. You dont make statements that direct unless you know the facts. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still dont know the facts. Its a very, very important process to me. Its a very personality statement. I dont want to make a statement for the sake of making a political statement. I want to know the facts. Lets discuss all of this with our panel. Gloria borger and our military diplomatic analyst john kishy and our cnn analyst and congressional reporter for the washington post. Thanks as we await the start of this briefing. The president seems to jump into these getting Immediate Reaction to this terrorist attack in london even before all the information is apparently out there. He does. This is a president who is always looking for someone to blame about something. In this case he is tweeting that the terrorist is a loser which is obviously true, but also that this was on the radar of the british and thats something obviously that he probably should not be talking about. He has to sort of say, well, maybe the british should have had a handle on this before they did. Its a little bit like looking for Jeff Sessions to blame in the wake of his own firing of jim comey which he would never look at himself and say i shouldnt have fired jim comey. He blames Jeff Sessions for betraying him by recusing himself which led to the appointment of the special council. Its all part of the personality. I want to you listen to what teresa may said about the president s Quick Reaction to what happened in london. Listen to this. I never think its helpful for anybody to speculate in an Ongoing Investigation. As i just said, the police and Security Services are working to discover the full circumstances of this cowardly attack and identify those responsible. Not every day you hear the british Prime Minister criticizing the president of the United States. She is right to do that. Its never good when an Ongoing Investigation is happening in the few first hours to speculate about the cause and the intent and the circumstances surrounding it. It doesnt do anybody any favors to criticize Law Enforcement and those bodies in london trying to figure this out. To piggy back on that, he is acute to jump in when he thinks its muslimbased terrorists. Thats when he jumps in. If there is no evidence of that and there is no evidence right now, he pulls back. Charlottesville is a perfect example. How are congressional leaders reacting to all the Late Breaking Developments . This is a very Late Breaking Development in terms of congresss reaction. They have been watching from afar and in terms of the way they responded to the president is to urge the same caution as you have seen World Leaders do. Thats to say they are still looking for facts and looking for details about whats going to happen. You heard many lawmakers from both sides say the president has a twitter problem and he is too quick with his thumbs and that causes more problems than it helps solve. And he likes to tweet early in the morning. Yes, he does. I will read a couple of these tweets from this morning. This at 6 42. Another attack by a loser terrorist. These are sick and demented people in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive. 6 48. Loser terrorist must be dealt with in a much tougher manner. The internet is the main recruitment tool. He goes one step further. The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific, but stupidly that would not be politically correct. Two things. One, he does this Early Morning tweeting because he watches television and live blogs television on his phone. As someone who does that myself, thats what he is doing. He is watching shows which he said he doesnt watch usually and he is reacting to interviews and things he sees. He is also putting out facts that are not factual. To glorias point, anything that confirms his already existing world view, he will leap on it. Remember the robbery he described as a terrorist attack because it fit the donald trump world view narrative that this would be a terrorist attack and we need to stop these people. Something happened in london and is being investigated in london. See, i was right and the travel ban. Because he wants it to be true. In the same way gloria mentioned charlottesville and doesnt as we know from yesterday want the charlottesville thing to be White Supremacists and neonazis. This is not a both sides did it thing. He doesnt want that to be true and he will wait for the facts. There is an added element that i think when you see these things happen in europe because trump has been in a little bit of arm wrestling match with europe. To be able to have a situation where its not only fitting with the world view about the perpetrators, but how the allies deal with the situations. He is trying to assert his view on the allies and that caused another tension to rise up. This is basically a two for. He attacked the london mayor in the past for saying this in terms of what he said in response to a terrorist terrorist incident. You can presume a president who gets briefed every day on these kinds of things and gets briefed early one would presume unless he is watching television. He would know a little bit more about what he is talking about here. Today i dont know whether this was informed speculation about the british and whether this person was on the radar or not on the radar. You also expect that a president after he is briefed would exhibit a little bit of restraint in terms of what you tell the public so as not to impede the investigation abroad. Not that i want to give him too much credit for strategery, but i think we will hear nikki haley and mcmaster talk about how they will focus on Counter Terrorism and immigration issues which are plaguing all of our allies and partners. This tweet although it was just a storm, certainly fits into the narrative they will push in new york. I tend to be in the happy coincidence camp when to the point there is a strategic element to it. I think he often maybe not always, about you he often sees things or hears things or is told something and reacts to the reaction. Its how he approached his life before running for office. He brags in the art of the deal and doesnt have a plan. He sees what comes to him. I think there is some of that. That doesnt mean you cant have it dove tail and say wait a minute. This is a good thing. He did that in the campaign. He would happen upon issues or lines or lock her up or who is going to build a wall. Mexico. He would see this works. Im going to use this more. He is an acute reader of how what he said is interpreted and receives. Before he talks, he is engaging in that strategic thinking. 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Priority you as we await the press briefing, lets get the latest information as far as north korea is concerned. New outrage after the rogue nation launched another missile despite President Trumps threats and attentions against north korea. Just a little while from now, the council will get ready to hold another emergency session to discuss the second Ballistic Missile over japan in less than a month and traveled more than 2,000 mile, the furthest a missile has gone. That number is important because its roughly the distance between north korea and the territory of guam where 162,000 u. S. Citizens live and there is a Major Air Force base as well. In japan, you can hear the sirens as residents on the island awoke to the sirens for the second time in a month. That hasnt happened since world war ii. South korea responded with their own live fire drill and launched a missile of their own which the military said was capable of striking koreas rocket site. He is tracking this important story for us. Jim, there are lots of developments here and the potential for escalation is enormous. No question. It is five weeks since President Trumps famous fire and fury comments, but vowing to north korea if they were to attack guam, the u. S. Would respond with fire and fury. To any threats, if that was intended to make north korea back down and you look at the activity since then, it hasnt played out that way. Since the comments, huh two missile launches including last night. Both of them over treaty ally japan that the u. S. Is sworn by treat tow defend. Another test and not just any, but this one, the 6th by north korea and the strongest by far. Six times as strong as the previous test and more than 100 times as strong as the bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki. The White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders started the briefing and we are seeing the National Security adviser debrief on sensitive issues. Our thoughts and prayers are with those injured and wish them a speedy and full recovery. We are aware of the arrests that took place in paris following the attack on a Counter Terrorism soldier and we are relieved the soldier was not injured. France is one of the oldest and best allies and we will provide any support to the investigation they request. Looking ahead to the next week, the president and key members of his Foreign Policy team will be in new york city for the United Nations General Assembly. Here today are National Security adviser hr mcmaster and representative to the un, nikki haley. They will walk you through and take your questions. I will be up afterwards to answer questions unless of course you guys want to give me a free pass since its friday. With that i will turn it over. Thanks. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to begin by acknowledging the attacks in europe. The United States of course stands in solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom and france. We will continue to work tirelessly with our partners to prevent attacks and of course the United States remains committed to defeating terrorist organizations as well as their evil ideology. The president has been unambiguousuous a uouand callin muslim majority nations to combat extremism and end financing of terrorist organizations. We will defend our people and values against these attacks and we will always stand with countries around the world that do the same. I want to turn to President Trumps trip next week to attend the 72nd United Nations General Assembly. His message throughout the week want to emphasize three goals common to all nations. First to promote peace. Second to promote prosperity and third, to uphold sovereignty and accountability. A Peaceful World depends on the contributions of all nations. We must share responsibility for interNational Security while each country protects the security of its own people. Prosperity is also a shared responsibility. The president looks forward to furthering economic cooperation, Investment Opportunities and new business ties with other governments and businesses across the world. As always this administrations commitment to free, fair, and reciprocal trade and access to markets will be the bedrock of our economic talks. Sovereignty and accountability are the essential foundations of peace and prosperity. America respects of sovereignty of other countries and urges all governments to be accountable to their citizens. That accountability is broken down in places such as venezuela and syria. We also see today revisionist powers who are threatening the sovereignty in the greater middle east and eastern and Southern Europe and east asia. Let me run through the president s schedule. The president will join Senior Leadership and the leaders of more than 120 other nations to discuss reforming the institution. The president will express support for secretary general gutierrezs reform efforts, the United Nations holes tremendous potential to realize the founding ideals. Only if its run more efficiently and effectively. The president will also meet with the leaders of france and isra israel, two of americas closest allies. While the conversations will be wide ranging, we expect the destabilizing behavior including the violation of the sovereignty of nations across the middle east to be a major focus. Monday evening the president will host a working dinner with latin american leaders and looking forward to discussing the crisis in venezuela as well as the strong ek nconomic ties extraordinary success of like minded latin american nations in recent decades. The president s Tuesday Morning speech to the General Assembly will emphasize the need for states to promote peace and prosperity while upholding sovereignty and accountability. Foundations of them to come to address dangers that threaten us all. If nations meet the challenges, opportunity lies before us. Later that day, the president will have lunch with Antonio Gutierrez and meet with the president from slovakia and meet with them in the evening. He will host a traditional reaccepting. The president will meet with the leaders jordan and the Palestinian Authority and egypt. He will host a luncheon with African Leaders to discuss how the United States can help develop their economies address urgent challenges and strengthen security relationships and economic relationships between our nations. Finally on thursday, the president will meet with the leaders of turkey, afghanistan and ukraine. The latter two in particular have suffered direct and persistent attacks on sovereignty in recent years. He will also host a lunch with the leaders of south korea and japan as kim jung uns most recent launch demonstrates, this is one of the worlds most urgent and dangerous security problems. Its vital that all nations Work Together to do the utmost to solve that problem. I will turn it over to Ambassador Haley. Thank you very much. I will tell you that next week is not going to be short on topics. I think first of all we can all say it is a new day at the un. The un has shifted over the past several months. Its not just about talking. Its about action. They get used to acting resolutions whether with the un reform or Peace Keeping. They are all anxious and the Vice President and the secretary of state. And to show the strength that we have in the world. The first time that the president has addressed the General Assembly and he will make quite an impact in terms of the issues that we are dealing with. We have three events that will be extremely important. The president will highlight the reform of it. We have a massive reform package being led by the secretary general and stream lines not just the processes, but the budget as it goes forward and makes the un much more effective. We have the president headlining theest that would support the secretary general and the impressive part is we asked them to sign on to the supportive reform and 120 countries have signed on and will be in attendance. The Vice President will be doing two very important briefings. One on Human Rights Council and now more than ever, human rights matters. We say all the time if a government doesnt take care of its people, bad things will happen. We are seeing that in multiple places and all the reason why the Human Rights Council needs to be effective. The Vice President will support the reform and need to be drawsed when it am cans to human rights. The second is on Peace Keeping. They have taken every mandate and changed it. Basically we have saved a half billion. Before anyone thinks its a travesty, if there was a challenged area, they would throw more troops at them. Now we are making sure they are trained and arm and making sure we are more effective so its smarter and it cut half a billion and in some cases we have to increase and decrease. Having the Vice President talk about the importance of the Peace Keeping being effective is very important. As i said, there are no shortage of issues with north coares being front and center. Terrorism efforts and how we counter that is a huge topic on what we are dealing with. The humanitarian issues we face from around the world. The General Assembly will be active and i think the u. S. Is going to be strong next week and we look forward to a good week. Thank you, general. The biggest Foreign Policy challenge. About a month ago the president issued a threat to north korea for fire and fury. As you know at the un Security Council, you imposed tougher sanctions on north korea. Both are not changing. Is that something that you are contemplating. You can weigh on this as well. What was important is that we try to push through as many Diplomatic Options that we have. If you look at the resolutions that passed in the last month, they cut 30 of the oil and they banned the laborers and 90 of the exports. They ban joint ventures. They have taken in the words of north korea, they have strangled that and that will take time and it started to take effect. They continue to be provocative and reckless. At that point there is not a whole lot the Security Council will be able to do when you cut 90 of the trade and 30 of the oil. Having said that, i have no problem ticking it to general mattis. He has plenty of options. The point that these sanctions are just now taking effect. What is important is rigorous enforcement so we can let the economic actions and diplomacy progress as best we can. We ought to make clear what is different about this approach. We are out of time. As haley said before, we have been kick the can down the road and we are out of road. For those who have commented about the lack of a military option, there is a military option. Its not what we prefer to do. What we have to do is call on all nations, call on everyone to do everything we can to address the global problem short of war. That is implementing now the significant sanctions that have gone into place and convincing everyone to do everything they can. Its in their interest to do it. Whats different about this approach to north korea is worth noting. First of all, there is consensus among all key nations that denuclearization of the peninsula is the only acceptable objective. The second thing is this is not an issue between the United States and north korea. This is an issue between the world and north korea. The third recognition is there is a lot we can do about it together. We need time obviously for any strategy to work. It is a sound approach to a difficult problem. We will see if it succeeds. Ambassador haley, at a conference call, jonathan from the senate and International Studies said next weeks unga will be just as much the world taking it. They said its like speed dating from hell and a sophisticated dance that neither secretary of state tillerson or the president have a strong point on. What would you say to people who are wondering how the u. S. Will do. There is a lot of interest of how they will do. We will be solid and strong and if you look at the meetings the Security Team has, these are important meetings. This is going to talk about the issues and the issue in burma and venezuela and nobody will grip and grin. The United States is going to work. With all of the challenges, the community will see that. This is a time for us to be serious and talk out the challenges and make sure action follows it. In addition what we do and we have been criticized for not being involved too much. Especially by the third. When you go to new york, in addition, how are you going to address the criticism . We had led humanitarian efforts and human rights in general is important. Thats something we have been loud on which is the fact that you have to protect the humanitarian side and the democratic republic of congo. The fact that we are trying to deal with burma and find out ways to get access in there. Yemen is something that the United States has been working very closely with the saudis on to make sure you get access. We have been as active and vocal in leading the charge on access in all of these areas. We are making a difference. Just in syria, we had over 3 billion we have given in terms of helping that situation. Venezuela, you saw what we did with the sanctions. We are making sure they get that. We are taking that seriously and thats of utmost importance that we get front and center of that one. You mentioned the terror incident overseas in london. The president tweeted that it was sick and demented people in the sights of Scotland Yard. Prime minister may said that was not helpful. Did the president share information that he was not suppose to and why was he speculating . He was communicating that obviously all of our Law Enforcement is focused on the threat for years. Scotland yard has been a leader as our fbi has been a leader. If there was a terrorist attack here, god forbid, they were in the sights of the fbi. He didnt mean anything beyond that. Im not clear. Generally terrorists are a focus or in a specific incident they knew this was coming . I think he means generally this activity is what we are trying to prevent. These organizations that we are responsible for and whatever comes out remains to be seen. It is likely that Law Enforcement had been working on that problem. Were you on the call with Prime Minister may . I was not on the call. More un action that could be taken, are you hopeful that there is any chance for a full oil embargo as they wanted or at what point he said this was a small step in the last vote. Disagreeing with you, but secretary tillerson agreed with him. At what point do they put tougher sanctions on china to put pressure on south korea. They talked about wa a sanction this was. The first was a billion dollars. And just imagine in this happened to the United States. A 55 reduction in diesel and oil. Overall ban of natural gas. Overall ban of any substitutes and textiles and stopping the program that is modern day slavery. Stopping all joint ventures so Foreign Investment goes in there. We have cutoff 90 of trade going into north korea. They are saying that this was whether some believe its big or small, what the president is saying this is just the beginning of what we can do. Its going to be by the time we get going on this if we have to go further, this will look small. It was a massive sanctions bill. The fact that we had a 150 record and china and russia on board, that is important. We cut 30 of the oil. Is there more you can do . There is always more you can do. You get into the humanitarian aspect of it. At what point are you going and hurting down to the people of north korea. We will always explore all options. Today turkey, russia and iran agreed to deploy 1500 monitors. Does that leave the u. S. Behind and what exactly will the focus be when you talk about syria . In general, you said the meeting between the Prime Minister and the president , how much of that will take place in that meet something. The efforts have been remarkable and to see how we bulldozed through isis shows how strong the u. S. Has been in partnership with them. We are also looking at post isis. What does that look like . Iran is not going to be in charge and not going to have any leadership in that situation where they can do more harm. Syria will always be a topic and we continue to be strong with no chemical weapons and making sure we are looking at the humanitarian situation. The u. S. Is a strong person in the resolution for syria and will be until everything is stable. I think we are not going to be satisfied until we see a solid and stable syria. That is not with assad in place. We will continue to be very effective and be a part of that process to get to a resolution. I will say that of course the president will talk about the prospects for lasting peace among a broad range of issues with really all of the leaders he is meeting during the week. Eye quick question. The first is the fact that president putin and president xi will be there and general, you have been insisting a lot on the respect of sovereignty. Wo wouldnt an investment be part of getting involved and having this stronger impact . I think its going to be strong and have an impact. You have two very strong foreign minsters that will be there and the idea that we will be talking about syria and north korea and iran and all of the other things, it will be serious discussions and the fact that president xi and putin could not be there will not change the talks. Thats their choice to not show up. I want to say that the assembly is not a substitute for bilateral relations. The president has been working very closely with president xi on this common problem. The discussions will continue and continue in the context of multilateral conversations. They avoided certain World Leaders and problem avoided will they speak to the president while he was there. The United States designated them after he victimized his own people and denied their rights under his own constitution and i think the president made clear, he is willing to talk at some point in the future and it would have to be after rights are restored to the venezuelan people. The future of india and Security Council with this issue. The reform is still being talked about and its something that india wants. We will have to wait and see. Education right now, the sanctions will work towards north korea. You have to look at how much has been cutoff. They started to feel it and they are getting ready to feel 90 of their exports going away. 30 of the oil, imagine what that would do to the United States. It was a fullscale blockade suffocating the state and the people. Pursue and thailand dropped ties. Get rid of either the ambassadors or the ties. How they choose to respond, this is totally in their hands. I was wondering and we talked about the president and the speech they will deliver on tuesday. I wonder if you can talk in more detail now. Will he send messages about iran and north korea in the speech and are there more specific themes. On the question of un funding. Thats an important part and as a candidate they talked about the reach and the import pointed at longterm as president. Is the u. S. Committed both to fulfilling its obligations and what does it say in terms of voluntary funding. To start off with the speech that the president gives, you can see it for yourself. I think he slaps and hugs the right people and comes out with the u. S. Being strong in the end. I have seen it, yes. The second part of it is, the un when i originally spoke with the president , what i said is we will see what we can make of it. Thats the thing. We are creating an opportunity and making the most of it and changing the way peace keaping is done and bringing up human rights and what i appreciate is they stopped focusing on the commas and the periods and we are acting and seeing strong things happening. He believes there is Great Potential in the United Nations, but the world is seeing it. It is becoming more effective. Did it articulate his attention to funding at all levels . You will have to wait and see. Thank you very much. Thank you Ambassador Haley and general mcmaster. I figured you guys would rather take questions from them since you see me every day. I let that go on for a little bit longer. We will be tight on time so i will try to get through things quickly. Before i take your questions, i wanted to make a quick comment about our new friend frank that many of you got to see here today. We welcomed frank to the white house this morning. Frank is an inspiring 11yearold young man from virginia who starred a law mowing business and wrote the president a letter that i read about his admire samile an houration he loved go getters like frank and invited him to spend the morning with a grounds crew. He did a great job cutting the grass and spent time in the oval office with the president. The president believes its our duty to keep the American Dream alive for kids like frank and it was an honor for all of us to host him here at the white house. Thank you, frank, for coming. We will try to get through as many questions as we can. The followup on something Ambassador Haley said. She went through with secretary mattis and should americans be concerned about the possibility of war and how much time are you willing to give china to implement the resolutions that the Security Council agreed on. As we said many times before, we will not lay out a time table of what that will look like. We will push forward with a time right now and as general master and Ambassador Haley stated, woe are working on putting the pressure on north korea and denuclearization on the korean peninsula. We will keep pushing forward and at the same time we will keep our options on reporter what will the president say to the leaders he meets with next week that are eager with talks with north korea . I know the president how will he address that with the europeans and any other leaders . Im not going to get ahead of the conversations the president will have. Well provide readouts of the conversations, but the president will be clear putting extreme pressure on north korea is very important. Reporter sarah, thank you. The president today tweeted out that he wants to see espn apologize for what he called untruths. By him saying that, though, does that mean that hes willing to apologize for claims that he had called on for years . I think the president made plenty of comments on that front. I think the point is that espn has been hypocritical. They should hold anchors to a fair and consistent standard. Espn suspended a longtime anchor, linda cohn, not too long ago for expressing a political viewpoint. The editor says theres a perception that espn has become political and that has harmed the network. This is clearly a political statement. They should be consistent in whatever guidelines they have set themselves in that front. John . Guys, im sorry, i need to keep moving to cover as much ground as possible. John, go ahead. Reporter do you still stand by your statement of the other day when you said what jamil hill did was a fireball . I do. Reporter is the president aware that the british Prime Minister said that his speculation was not helpful . What was his reaction . I know the president and the Prime Minister spoke. And will offer a readout on the call later today. I believe it did. I understand it may have come up. Reporter the president tweeted that the chain migration could not be a part of any migration bill, what did he mean by that . The president is focused on making sure that in the efforts of these ongoing conversations between both democrats and republicans, that we deliver on responsible immigration reform. He wants to help American Workers and families. No deal has been final reached on this process. He supports making an agreement on daca, but that would have to include massive Border Security. And interior enforcements. The president continues to push for those things. He still is 100 committed to the wall. And were going to be laying out what our specific priorities and principles are in that front over the next seven to ten days. And well make sure that you guys are all part of that. David . You laid out chin migration, this is referring to the idea that people given status in a bill could not then sponsor relatives later for immigration status. Has he drawn a red line on that . As you know, this president doesnt use the term red line, but well lay out specific priorities what that looks like over the next seven to ten days. David . Reporter several times mentioned by the president and one of your deputies, the white house does not support the immigration bill and deals with amnesty. How would you define amnesty . And as a path to citizenship . The president supports daca and supporting a deal on that, but that has to include the Border Security. Reporter does that include the path to citizenship . The daca refers to deportation. The whole definition says deferred. So i think that takes away the idea of the permanent piece. When the idea of daca is literally the definition of it is deferred action, meaning it is not a permanent process. Reporter so you dont support that, is that what youre saying . Again, we will have the conversations and lay out exactly what the principles look like over the next seven to ten days. Right now our goal, our focus is making sure that the program gets taken care of with also coupling that with massive Border Security, interior enforcement, some of the specific things we probably would like to see into sanctuary cities, expedited removal, more immigration judges, supporting things like the raise act, those are things youll see us focus on and talk more about in the coming days. Hallie . Reporter the president said today he wanted the travel ban to be larger and more specific. Why is he fighting for it if its, in fact, too small, not tough enough and too broad . Its a step in the right direction. The president s travel executive order is motivated by National Security. And every step we can take to protecting people in this country is a step were going to take. And we continue to push forward. John decker. Reporter did he give you comments about a private company here at the white house . I have not heard anything about a private individual. John decker . Reporter the issue on daca, is it a deal reached between the president as the top republican, president along with the speaker of the house and the majority leader in the senate, and democrats wont leave the president alone . We certainly hope that its a bipartisan bill that has both republicans and democrats coming together to really focus on responsible immigration reform. I think already a lot of people on both sides that want to see this happen. We have had a lot of conversations with both republicans and democrats over the past week. And were going to continue to do that and push forward. Francesca . Reporter a question but a quick clarification on the espn matter. You had said it was a fireball offense that is her saying she should be fired. Are you or the president saying she should be fired . That is not a decision i want to make. That is something for espn to decide. I think it is a fireable offense based on the standard that espn has set themselves by saying that people that go too far and make political comments have been suspended from their own network. I think that that is a consistency they should probably focus on. Margaret . Hallie, i have already taken a question from you. Reporter i appreciate that. I am asking you to be respectful of your colleagues. Reporter you have not answered it. Could you . Go ahead. This will be the last question since we are tight on time. Reporter i want to call on a clarification because you said you dont have advice for a private company, yet youre giving advice to espn. It is not my decision to make for a private company. I was asked specific about that individual. I made a comment. I stand by it. I think espn needs to stand by the standard that they have set in the own actions that they have taken about previous employees. I really dont have much else to add on that front. Margaret . Reporter for scheduling purposes, the u. N. Stuff starts monday. And that briefing is over, but can you walk us through the president s schedule . Is there anything that hell talk of this afternoon, whether hes doing anything of kind of policyrelated or anything in the events over the weekend, anything else they didnt go over the schedule for next week involving the first lady or anyone else in the administration, just to get our heads around for the next week . The first lady has a couple events. Well get the details of those out for next week. Shell be participating in the activities and some of the meetings at the United Nations General Assembly next week. The president will be spending most of his weekend preparing for the meetings and the speech that will be taking place next week. As you can hear, the president s getting ready to depart. With that, well end. Hope you guys have a great weekend. See you on monday. Thank you, sarah. Sarah huckabee sanders, the White House Press secretary, quickly wrapping up a briefing. A briefing that included the United States ambassador to the United Nations, nikki haley and the president s National Security advisor. Well get quick analysis. First of all, iran, john kirby, h. R. Mcmaster said theres a military option. It is not what we prefer to do. Is that realistic that there is a military option . Because the assumption has always been the north koreans would slaugter a lot of people in south korea if theres a preemptive military strike. It would be foolish for them not to be thinking through what the military options could be available to them, but i think they have made clear and did today that diplomacy is the lead effort. The Defense Department is in support of the diplomacy and it is important they are focusing on this. On domestic issues, she said, Sarah Sanders, the president supports daca, but the president was tweeting this morning he doesnt want chain immigration, meaning those who are allowed to stay could bring their parents or their other siblings into the United States. Which if theres a path to citizenship, you heard her also harper on the deferral. That could be the law, that preserves daca, but isnt the dream act. Everybody was hoping the legislative solution would look like, whether it could move alone or in concert with other enforcement. You heard on the london terror attack earlier in the subway in london, the president tweeted this morning, these are sickened people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. That resulted in a very negative reaction from the british Prime Minister, theresa may. You heard what h. R. Mcmaster, how he tried to finesse that. I was going to say it is virtualliment possible but well change it to a virtually impossible situation to be put in. H. R. Macmaster tried to talk about terrorism in the same way Scotland Yard is watching just like if it was in the United States, the fbi would be aware of it. It seems that you are stretching the 140 characters to take that from it. If you read that, you show that to 100 people outside, 99 or 100 of them is going to think, oh, Scotland Yard was away of these specific people who committed the act. And apparently according to h. R. Mcmaster, that is not what President Trump was saying. The president will address the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday Morning. Nikki haley, the u. N. Ambassador, said it is a new u. N. Right now, all of a sudden they are doing things they never used to. She said, the u. N. Security Council Sanctions are a result of 30 reduction in oil, shipments to north korea,