Scaramucci here. Does he see this as winning . Plus President Trumps education secretary says the commission, tasked with keeping your kids safe at school wont be looking into the role of guns. What . Lets call it the eagle debacle. Facts first. The white house says the president is standing up for the National Anthem. But not one single eagle in protest during the National Anthem during the regular season. Not one. And yet, President Trump disinvited the whole team from coming to the white house today. Had a celebrating america ceremony instead. Military there, alleged eagle fans. Some of whom were told couldnt name the teams quarterback. Then accused the eagles of pulling a political stunt. Another tangled web from the white house . Another play at dividing the country . Maybe anthony scan help us figure this out how this its good politics. Former White House Communications director, friend of show. Congratulations on the show. Godbless. Wish you great success. Appreciate it. Do you
Also, there was the sword dance. Look at him groove. It was quite a trip. And for the Trump Administration it had to be a really nice distraction because just days before that trip and that sword dance Robert Mueller had been appointed special counsel to take over the russia investigation and to look into trumps firing of the fbi director, jim comey, earlier that month. But it turned out the trump trip to the middle east and the Mueller Investigation were on a collision course. Shortly after trump got back from that trip to saudi arabia he completely upended his u. S. Foreign policy in the middle east by a tweet, by backing an aggressive move by saudi arabia against the nation of qatar, a staunch american ally that hosts a giant American Military base. And for many months that whole weird Foreign Policy shakeup remained just that, strange, kind of inexplicable, but solely a Foreign Policy issue. And then our understanding of the entire affair suddenly changed radically. What had been a
Sadler said in a white house meeting, quote, it doesnt matter, hes dying anyway. Well, this morning only after this has become public, sadler is apologizing. The administration is trying to clean up this mess, while not denying the comments were made or even apologizing with a white house statement. Abby philip joins us outside the white house with more. No official apology from the white house, but condemnation from both sides of the aisle this morning in congress and among the American Public. Reporter thats right. Kelly sadler, a white house aide, is under fire this morning from both parties for her comments in a communications this week about john mccain. She was referring to mccains opposition to President Trumps cia nominee, gina haspel, in which sadler said that mccains comments basically dont matter because hes dying anyway. The white house in response to these reports didnt deny sadler said that in this meeting but did issue this statement in response saying we respect senator
We hope so. Senator john mccain is an american patriot, war hero, survived torture. And even if he wasnt any of that, he is a human being battling brain cancer. His wife tweeted may i remind you, my husband has a family, seven children, and five grandchildren. Megan mccain said dont feel bad for her or her family. Her father is doing well right now which we are very glad to hear. One thing she says she doesnt understand. I dont understand what kind of environment you are working in where that would be acceptable and come to work the next day and still have a job. At the white house today multiple reporters tried to ask this multiple times. Does she still have a job . I am not going to comment. Does the white house think you should not have to condemn these remarks. I am not going to validate a leak one way or another. Are you saying she doesnt say this . I am not going to validate. Does she still work in the white house . Yes, she does. No condemnation of the remarks and no acknowledge
Mccains service to our nation and he and his family are in our prayers during this difficult time. Now, we know that this is causing quite a bit of blowback here to the administration. There are many members of congress including senator lindsey graham, very close with senator mccain who said there is no one on capitol hill who is laughing about these comments. And we know that sadler herself did reach out to Meghan Mccain, the daughter of john mccain, to apologize for her comments and try to mend the fences. But at this point, the mccain family is still very upset over this. Let me read for you the tweet put out by cindy mccain directed at kelly sadler. I remind you my husband has a family, seven children and five grandchildren. John mccain is still recovering from that brain tumor and the subsequent treatment as a result of it. Lindsey graham said yesterday that he visited with mccain recently and that he is improving, hes continuing to fight and he still hopes to be back in the sena