After calling together those lawmakers and expressing support for their efforts to pass a reform bill. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts joins us from the north lawn with our top story tonight. Good evening, john. Bret, good evening to you. Its been an entire week of arm twisting and angry rhetoric. Lawmakers appear no closer to fixing the problem on the border than they were when the week started. President trump sought to change the subject today, shifting the focus from the plight of Illegal Immigrants on the border to americans who have lost a loved one at the hands of a criminal illegal alien. Where is the media outrage over the catch and release policies that allow deadly drugs to pour into our country . Where is the condemnation of the democrats sanctuary cities that release violent criminals into our communities and then protect them. President trump has met several times with socalled angel families. Had them as frequent guests at campaign rallies. Engaging them to
To admit to fox news that Michael Cohen helped him with the Stormy Daniels situation. All of that on this day. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts falling all the developments as he does from the north lawn of the white house. Good evening, john. Bret, good evening to you. Lets start first of all with dr. Ronnie jackson. To hear the white house tell it democrats were out to destroy the career of a good man. The democrats say the president should have known better than to send them a nominee that would never be confirmed. Upshot of all of this dr. Ronny jackson has withdrawn his name from consideration. And the president is now looking for a new nominee to be v. A. Secretary. Lets go. We are going to the oval office. Signing autographs for children on take your kids to work today, President Trump today unlewded on critics who forced Veterans Affairs nominee dr. Ronny jackson to withdraw. Hes a great man and he got treated very, very unfairly. He got treated really unfairly. In
correspondent of the washington examiner. fred barnes executive he had are to of the. marla liasson national public radio and mort mort real clear politics. mort, welcome back. hi. bret: what about this immigration stance and whether congress is moving or not moving or what the president is doing in this process. look, from the get, trump has been demonizing mexicans as rapists and murderer hes, he ran on xenophobia, he won on xenophobe i can t. he could have had a deal with chuck schumer last year. he would have gotten his wall. the daca kids would have been legalized. he probably now should add we won t separate families anymore but we will put ankle bracelets on people that we want to keep from melting into the population. he blew up the last deal by insisting that legal immigration be cut in half,
marla liasson national public radio and joe digenova former u.s. attorney. catherine, first to you, you have covered this for a long time. what stuck out with you. the amazing exchange to me is when you had director comey confirm that he shared those memos documenting conversations with the president with three other people so the columbia professor, that s what he testified to also what he described as his personal attorney patrick fitzgerald and then this other attorney. what s key here is that he told you, bret, that those memos were returned to the fbi after they found classified information. he can call it whatever he wants. that is a classified spill of information. doesn t matter whether they have clearances. they didn t have the ability to secure that information. bret: joe? i was amazed i thought it was breath-taking duplicity. america s dirty cop continues to amaze me with the destruction of the institution that he used to lead. and what catherine has just said is s