director gina haspel the president went out of his way to praise the courage of house intel chair devin nunes for shedding light on all of these stories. this weekend he said obama officials like sally is in john brennan are just trying to divert attention from the real story. in his words, a bright red line was crossed when it appears the fbi infiltrated the trump campaign to spy on it. the president raising more doubts about robert mueller s probe as he met with deputy attorney general rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray demanding a new investigation into how all of this started. the president got some concrete action after that meeting. sarah sanders telling us based on the meeting with the president the department of justice has asked the inspector general to expand its current investigation to include any irregularities with the federal bureau of investigation or the department of justices tactics concerning the trump camp. it was also agreed white house chief of staff k
the pentagon says it s kept congress regularly informed, pointing to a letter trump sent hill leaders in june, saying the were there 945 troops in niger and cameroon performing counterterrorism duties. i didn t know there were 1,000 troops in niger. john mccain is right to tell the military because this is an endless war without boundaries, no limitation on time and geography. you ve got to tell us more. reporter: some say it s the responsibility of members of congress to know what is happening in the region. i recoiled a little bit at that, truthfully. they re conducting five named operations, which i m sure the senate armed service committee should know about. reporter: now, on thursday, the senate armed service committee will get its own briefing. a closed briefing when members of the pentagon will come and explain what they know what happened. one question that dunford said he could not answer today is exactly how sergeant la david johnson s body apparently was a mile away
corker was truly dedicated to cutting taxes just as he campaigned on when he ran two times before, we would see him working with the administration, working with other hill leaders to get this done. he is popping off at the president. i don t think it s help. . we need a conservative jason miller, bill crystal, a spirited debate between both of you. thanks for being here. the swamp fights back coming to theaters near you. swamp thing 2, elect boubaloo. you know who likes to be in control? this guy. check it out! self-appendectomy! oh, that s really attached. that s why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. which makes me one smooth operator.
and on capitol hill, the gop leaders were in the black book he is talking about. we saw something interesting happen where there were a couple reports about him meeting with the freedom caucus conservatives who are ticked off at paul ryan for the lack of accomplishments and who can replace the speaker. john boehner would do the same for paul ryan and that had the total reverse of that bannon and the conservative would want it to have. it would make the republicans rally around ryan who said it was premature. they are ticked at republican leadership and more upset with trump because of the deal from last week. ryan seems to be okay, but hill leaders will have an issue with bannon. maybe he can raise more money because he had the platform in the white house position. it s not like breitbart has not done it before. they supported mitch mcconnell s challenger and it didn t happen.
congressman john yarmuth from kentucky. he joins us right now. congressman, it s going to come back to the house again. after the senate says basically no, we don t like it, it will come back to the speaker. the speaker will then perhaps reach out to you and say help me get the votes so i can pass something through. what are you going to ask from him? what do you want from him in order to support what he might do? what we d like to have is more reasonable spending levels. the levels we ll be voting on decimate many programs across our districts. as we know from sequestration, docking military pay, killing headstart programs and meals on wheels programs. so we re going to ask for a higher level of spending to more adequately fund these very vital programs. there s also the president. he s going to be holding a meeting with hill leaders next week we are hearing. in the past these sort of