We will leave the ceremony at the white house to go to todays White House Press briefing by treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Principle Deputy sar Sarah Huckabee sanders just getting underway. Thank you. Today the Trump Administration is continuing its efforts against the government of north korea. Despite multiple u. N. Security council resolutions, imposing international sanctions, the government of north korea continues its nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs. Today treasurys Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has found the bank of dandong to be a Foreign Financial Institution of primary Money Laundering concern under section 311 of the usa patriot act. This bank has served as a gateway for north korea facilitating millions of transactions for Companies Involved in north Koreas Nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs. The United States will not stand for such action. This will require u. S. Banks to ensure that the bank of dandong does not access the u. S. Financial system d
2 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Alicia shep todays media and ethics expert. Thank you for being here to talk about the relationship between this white house and the media. Let me begin by how you would define it right now. Guest i would define it as nothing weve ever seen before and as not productive in the least. I mean, theres always been tension, always, always, with the white house and the press. In fact, i did write a book about watergate and back then, the press were like hand servants to the white house, and watergate changed all that. It was contentious then. Its always going to be. This is like nothing ive ever seen. Its just so counterproductive to the American People for the president to misunderstand, to confuse people that the role of the media is to be a surrogate for the people under the constitution. And theyre not the enemy. They are there to do their jobs. Its just very, very frustrating, discoura
2 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Alicia shep todays media and ethics expert. Thank you for being here to talk about the relationship between this white house and the media. Let me begin by how you would define it right now. Guest i would define it as nothing weve ever seen before and as not productive in the least. I mean, theres always been tension, always, always, with the white house and the press. In fact, i did write a book about watergate and back then, the press were like hand servants to the white house, and watergate changed all that. It was contentious then. Its always going to be. This is like nothing ive ever seen. Its just so counterproductive to the American People for the president to misunderstand, to confuse people that the role of the media is to be a surrogate for the people under the constitution. And theyre not the enemy. They are there to do their jobs. Its just very, very frustrating, discoura
We will hope to get more guidance whats next for tax reform and whats next for Health Care Reform. Here is the question. If health care doesnt happen in time, if it doesnt happen by tomorrow, and doesnt look like it really is going to move forward in a way that it wants, can tax reform still get done . That is what he will have to tell reporters right now when he speaks. Meanwhile, were asking a question that was proposed by an op ed in the wall street journal today, very interesting one, whether or not it is time for President Trump to abandon the republican party. In other words you have holdouts in the party not doing him any good at all. Maybe he needs to think about cutting them loose. President trump to make good on Campaign Promise to put National Security first. In parts of President Trumps travel order will go into effect a all of this as house votes on two key bills aimed at keeping Illegal Immigrants out of america, keeping americans safe. Back to our top story right now, ma
The press were like hand servants to the white house, and watergate changed all that. It was contentious then. Its always going to be. This is like nothing ive ever seen. Its just so counterproductive to the American People for the president to misunderstand, to confuse people that the role of the media is to be a surrogate for the people under the constitution. And theyre not the enemy. They are there to do their jobs. Its just very, very frustrating, discouraging. Host who is responsible for this the condition of the relationship . Guest wow. I guess that depends on who you ask. Im sure if you ask President Trump he would be very clear that it is the media. You know, i think that the white house is showing such great signs of disrespect towards the press that i would say that its become an adversarial relationship in the way it shouldnt be and maybe the press gets really frustrated and responds at the lack of respect towards the media. I mean, i dont think the media does the job for