trouble grappling with this and the administration and sarah huckabee sanders is having trouble with what s going on here. what steve said about whether we re having a less free press. we slipped to 45th in the world as a free press. i think we should be ashamed about that. the questions about dr. ronny jackson turned out to be legitimate since he just withdrew from the nomination. the 24th nominee from president trump that has had to withdraw before going to committee hearings. so there are important concerns there. i think the jim accost to and his relationship with the administration is tenuous at best and i understand the accusation of it being whiney and all of that is legitimate. but at the end of the day sarah huckabee sanders doesn t want to take questions about issues that are difficult for her and difficult to answer in light of decisions that the president has made. rick: again the tone of the questions. steve, the president this
questions at killing daca at president trump color with his son and a group of young children at the white house easter egg roll yesterday. take a listen. president trump: the democrats have really let them down. they ve really let them down. they had this great opportunity. the democrats have really let them down. it s a shame. now people are taking advantage of daca. that s a shame. heather: let s bring in howie kurtz fox news media analyst and host of media buzz. thank you for joining us. it s an easter egg kids and the easter bunny. i m all for shouted questions but jim accost to crossed a line in this setting. he got an answer and why reporters do it. it s no accident that he did this on daca, an issue in which he is an advocate. last year white house briefing
but it did to some extent dominate the sunday talk shows there is the potential the president could be asked about that. as i was saying at the top of this, when you have two questions of the u.s. press, two questions of the japanese press, it does limit the possibilities there is big breaking news of the day to tackle that is that heartbreaking situation down in texas, michael. exactly. jim, thank you so much. jim acosta in that room there waiting for that news conference. we ll check in with you a little bit later. and we ll bring viewers that news conference once it gets under way. president trump and prime minister abe, they re in general agreement on ting a tough line against nth korea. their language on the issue markedly different as jim accost was just saying there. it s outwardly a friendly relationship. you saw that on display during a game of golf on sunday. but when it comes to things like north korea, when it comes to
he gave himself space to bring people onboard. deficit savings definitely gave him space to throw more money around. if i wake up tomorrow and see a couple senators have been asw p assuaged and more millions for opioid funding and can go home and vote yes, that s not going to be beyond explanation, because of the way mcconnell sort of maneuvered and set this up to sort of change at the last minute and try to bring people onboard. true, look at a number of defectors, you just don t see how they can get it over the finish line, and dinner with pence is not going to change things. goodies like i m talking about where people can go home, say the bill was bad but i got it better. so, errol, our jim accost is speaking from the white house said we re right on the threshold of losing health care and acknowledged if they can t get the votes there this week they ll move on. the white house will move on to tax reform.
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