being contained is a threat again, if the middle east is under the influence of vladimir putin. if all of these things have happened, is there something that can be done? is there a plan that could work besides going to erdogan and saying, hey, would you stop? well, syrian forces, along with their russian advisers were already moved in to some of these areas. you re not going to get the syrians and russians to pull out of those areas. yes, there s the concern about isis regenerating as a result of what s happened here, but there s a lot of moving parts that we now by absenting ourself from that area, we ve creed the territory as well as the political influence to the russians, the syrians, the iranians and it s come at the cost of our national security analysts. white house press secretary hogan gibbly was asked this morning about whether or not erdogan was still going to come and visit the white house. can we play what he said this morning. will erdogan visit the white
but of course you do that. you couldn t have that happen with our country. nobody is going to say bad things to me. they know i am a very straight player. they know one thing about me, i love this country more than anything. i love this country. this is all happening as there is a certain amount of upheaval in the white house communications office. press secretary sarah sanders is leaving at the end of the month perhaps to run for governor back home in arkansas. nbc news reports some of the top contenders to replace her include stephanie grisham, communications director for the first lady, hogan gibbly the current white house deputy press secretary and steve cortez a former trump campaign official who these days appears on cnn to defend the president pretty much regardless of the topic. reporter annie carney of the new york times who will join us in a moment notes the white house is now thinking about bringing back the daily briefing. it s been 95 days since the last one. she write
nobody is going to say bad things to me. they know i am a very straight player. they know one thing about me, i love this country more than anything. i love this country. this is all happening as there is a certain amount of upheaval in the white house communications office. press secretary sarah sanders is leaving at the end of the month perhaps to run for governor back home in arkansas. nbc news reports some of the top contenders to replace her include stephanie grisham, communications director for the first lady, hogan gibbly the current white house deputy press secretary and steve cortez a former trump campaign official who these days appears on cnn to defend the president pretty much regardless of the topic. reporter annie carney of the new york times who will join us in a moment notes the white house is now thinking about bringing back the daily briefing. it s been 95 days since the last one. she writes, quote, some white house officials have argued the daily briefing is a po
that is why the president, unlike last weekend where he went on the twitter tirade, this weekend so far is staying silent, ken dis. is there sort of a war room set up at the white house or at least at the winter white house as they call it in mar-a-lago, to try to counter whatever comes out of this report? reporter: right. you do i imagine have a war room of sorts. traveling with the president you have the white house counsel, you also have nick mulvaney, the acting white house chief of staff. sarah sanders, the press secretary and her deputy, hogan gibbly. that s a lot of white house staffers for just a quick jaunt to mar-a-lago for the weekend. that s done to help respond to the news of the weekend. it s also done because the president when he s not attended to, sends to be, shall we say, reckless on twitter. part of this has to do with keeping the plan and strategy they have in place on track.
difficult for president trump, leaving few options here. mike: steven, how alarmed do you think folks at the white house were to the reaction from some republican senators who signaled they were willing to vote yes on anything to reopen the government? right. so those votes were seen as pivotal here. there were six republicans who flaked off on one of the measures in the senate. two other republicans flaked off on another. up until then, there had been appearance of real republican unity. president trump had said this repeatedly. eight republican senators ditching the party line was remarkable. and that is presumably contributing to president trump s decision yesterday to reopen the government temporarily. mike: the one big weapon in president trump s pocket is declaring it a national emergency. here s hogan gibbly on that this morning. all those options remain on the table. the president has taken nothing off the table. and the fact that he made that point yesterday in the rose