few minutes announcing that alex azar is the new pick for the health and human services agency. he was the former deputy secretary under george w. bush. since then, he s been running a big pharmaceutical company. the hhs slot opened up when tom price stepped down. you could say, resigned in disgrace after this scandal about his private and charter and government air travel. i know you remember that, that unfolded over the course of a couple weeks. president trump ultimately accepting tom price s resignation. now it looks like alex azar is the guy to replace price if he makes it through the confirmation process. it is interesting, just to give you a little context here, i think 10:00 or 11:00 at night here in manila. it is not when you would expect to see president trump tweeting. he likes the morning tweets. he s had a busy day at the asean summit. not typical to see the president announce a new cabinet secretary
hey, chin up there, dale. lots of bikers also drive cars. in fact, you can save big if you bundle them both with progressive. i d like that. great. whoo. you ve got soft hands. he uses my moisturizer. see you, dale. bye, rob. the president versus nfl players kicks off the hour. the president defending his remarks from friday. players taking the knee, with so much else going on. it s topic a of a town hall this time tomorrow night. it s where we begin with jeff zeleny at the white house. can you walk us through the latest in the back and forth between the president and the nfl? it started with morning tweets, right? reporter: it did start as things often do at the white house, with a round of early-morning tweets, about the monday night football game that was last night.
in a tornado of morning tweets, the commander in chief gave himself his own report card, in his view, achievements from every corner of the administration, stock market higher, jobs booming, security tighter, regulations slashed. on some of those issues, like the supreme court nominee, he certainly does get an a. on others you might say the president is grading himself on a curve. today at the 200-day mark, he signed over one major legislative item into law. a russia sanctions bill he never wanted to reach his desk in the first place, calling it seriously flawed. now it was just one week ago that the new white house chief of staff entered the west wing with a mission to inject some military discipline into a chaotic administration. the dysfunction permeating the white house had no doubt contributed to the president s poll numbers at historic lows, along with the nagging russia investigation. the president routinely
transgender individuals serving in the united states military. the announcement came in a series of morning tweets. after consultation with my generals and military exefforts, please be advised that the united states government will not accept transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. our military must be focused on decisive an overwhelming military. thank you. those details from the president this morning. barbara starr at the pentagon live. i thought that the secretary wanted six more months to think this through? there was a memo from secretary james mattis just a few days ago about having this delay and spending a lot six months thinking about how this will work. already there is some bipartisan criticism on the senate.
and if i can use trade as a method to get china, because i happen to think that china does have reasonably good powers over north korea. now, maybe not, you know, ultimate, but pretty good powers. now if china can help us with north korea and can solve that problem, that s worth making not as good a trade deal for the united states. excuse me. right? reporter: this is something that will be looking for more details in the days ahead. rick? garrett tenney in washington. thank you. from foreign affairs to domestic policy, on the president s to-do list for the next 100 days, a second crack at health care reform. during a flurry of morning tweets, the president wrote the president also explained