raises the doubt. ultimately obstruction, even if it s not a criminal action is always an impeachable offense. you do not need an impeachable offense to be a crime at all. these are thing that special counsel is going to look at, especially with the shadow of obstruction hanging over this. jeff ben it in let s show our home work since you and i work for the same news organization. we have a broadcast, don and dustin it was in and written in our lead story was after this legal case pending the president s lawyer against the porn star to the tune of $20 million. i had written something to say at the top of the evening like, we have made it through a friday night with no further personnel changes and jeff, here we are, sir. and here we are. i ll tell you based on our conversations in the white house booth with white house officials they couldn t tell us for sure if anyone would be fired by the end of the day or who that
and people liked him because he was maybe being blunt and bold. but when you go out there and you really don t know what you re going to say, it s bad enough if you are a campaign you don t know what your candidates are talking about or what messaging you are trying to work on donald trump does not know what he s going to say when he gets onstage. this was not planned. i promise this will not be the last blunder by a guy that his instant thing he always does is insults anyone that questions him, everyone s stupid everyone s dumb everyone s poor no one s as rich as i am. he s not a smart man. he s not a smart guy. we have heard that multiple times from donald trump about all the other candidates. when that is what your campaign s about, you are going to have big screw-ups like this one today. i promise you this will not be the last one. there s that old saying all publicity is good publicity and maybe that s his philosophy here. who knows. but mark jeff ben, we could go on and on. the
there was anything particularly wrong with her or frankly that we wasn t here at the white house. so this statement was really our first indication that she had some medical issue and she was being treated for it. we will continue to monitor the situation. we will find out about this. we will repeat the white house statement that fis the first lady underwent an embowlization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. the procedure was successful and there were no complications. as jeff said, the first lady is at walter reed medical center and will likely remain there for the do you remembering aof the week. we ll stay on top of that story for you. okay. coming up next, it seems every week there is another major leak from the white house. it s more times than not it s not what was leaked that matters to the president but the fact that there was a leak. moments ago principal deputy white house press secretary raj shaw addressed just that when pushed on the leak of kelly sadler s d
desire for privacy. we will see how updated they keep us on his condition. we will be reaching out to them to see how it s going. at the very least they are saying his progress and prognosis goo. he is still on the younger side. there is a sense that he may have the chance to fight this successfully. let us hope so. we will hope and pray. kasie hunt on capitol hill for us. breaking this afternoon, the first lady is recovering from a procedure, according to the white house. she is expected to remain in the hospital for the rest of the week. jeff ben it joins me again from the white house that have just come out from the white house. ali, yes, we have a statement from the white house communications director. and i ll read from the statement because it describes what we know to be the medical condition of the first lady. it says this morning first lady underwent an imbowlization procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. there were no complications. she is at walter reed national
this issue. jeff ben set live at the white house. thank you for joining us this afternoon. what s the latest with the troop deployments? reporter: texas is the first state to heed the president s call following his surprise announcement this week to deploy up to 4,000 national guard troops to the border to help crack down on crime and illegal immigration. texas has sent 250 guardsmen, arizona is sending another 150. new mexico also says it s on board with the president s plan. those are three border states all led by republican governors. california, the other border state led by democratic governor jerry brown, california hasn t made a decision about all of this yet. and you read the president s tweet which he sent in the last hour or so where he says the dems have been a disaster on this very important issue. something we should point out, i spoke with someone familiar with the president s thinking in terms of politics as we approach this midterm election year. and this person sai