White house. The Communications Director Michael Dubke tendered his resignation on may 18th. No date yet on when hes leaving but its an important position inside the west wing and were hearing a lot of talk, a lot of buzz about perhaps a return of some old faces from the campaign. Corey lewandowski, david bossi, former Deputy Campaign manager. They were spotted outside the white house and theyve been talked about in terms of being part of this war room Rapid Response team thats being propped up both inside the white house and among the president s outside supporters. A lot to discuss for sean spicer and just going by the way things have been going, he may get a note in the mid dedle of the briefing advising him that there are other things to discuss. I was on that foreign trip for eight or nine days. We didnt get a president ial news conference. Got very few briefings by top officials and those briefings that we did get were off camera. So its comforting to see this white house put som
On russia, hacking and leaks. Bill team fox coverage for you today. Catherine herridge inside the hearing room on the hill. Christ stirewalt standing by and we begin with doug mcelway. What can we report about the president s new nominee . Announcement came by twitter at 7 45 this morning saying i will be nominating Christopher Wray to be the new director of f. B. I. , details to follow. He is a partner in the law firm of king and spalding where he specializes in white collar crime. He graduated from Yale University in 1989 and yale law in 1992. 1997 joined the u. S. Attorneys office in the Northern District of georgia. In 2001 he was appointed by president george w. Bush to associate attorney general under john ashcroft. He spearheaded the prosecution of the first ceo to be tried under the oxley. They lied, they cooked the books and filed false Financial Statements with the sec. He has brought experience in private practice and department of justice but no experience in the f. B. I. ,
It does seem very close to confession of obstruction of justice. Not proof, not charges, but evidence has to be put together in a mosaic. This is who the American Public elected, they elected someone who is outrageous. You have to wonder what is going on inside the head of donald trump. Theres nothing there to impeach. This is the democrats getting ahead of themselves. Good morning to you at 8 00 on a saturday. I am christi paul. I know we look different today. Good morning, Martin Savidge, in for victor blackwell. Great to be with you. Breaking news this morning, President Trump receiving royal welcome in riyadh. Saudi arabia rolling out the red carpet as it hopes for a reset with the new administration. This is all coming as the white house is dogged by crises, theyre hoping to reset. This morning, the president and saudi king are holding bilateral meetings. This was earlier, the first lady and his staff sitting down with top saudi leaders at the welcoming ceremony. King salman prese
He is pushing back hard against his decision to fire director james comey. The entire thing has been a witch hunt. There is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign. I hate to see anything that divides. Im fine with whatever people want to do but we have to get back to running this country really, really well. Bill lets get to it on a friday morning. Team fox coverage starts it off. Benjamin hall live in riyadh, saudi arabia and Chris Stirewalt standing by. We start with kevin corke at the white house. Even as the president prepares to travel abroad as you can well imagine were following a number of major story lines at home. Among them the continuing controversy of his firing of then f. B. I. Director jim comey people wondering why he came to this decision and what happens now as the president tries to move forward with a replacement. Yesterday a joint News Conference he was asked again by his decision to sack the f. B. I. Director. Comey critics say was out of line when
Getting a deal on health care and with the president floating an entirely new strategy. Repeal obamacare without a replacement. Two major stories but what is issue is the white house still scrambles to clean up, the demeaning comments to Mika Brzezinski. Do you regret the tweet that you said. No response from the president on whether he will apologize for these tweets here where he called mika low i. Q. And crazy and said he saw her on new years eve bleeding badly from a facelift. She said she is fine personally but concerned for the country. Will the president respond . Some have suggested that maybe it is time pr the president to have another News Conference and perhaps answer these questions himself rather than subject spokes people such as you and sean to questions about recent kmcontroversy. Is he having a News Conference . Peter alexander is at the white house. Theres very few republicans who have come out in defense of the president. Theres been a few. Sarah huckabee sanders. Th