Good morning. Its monday, july 24th. Well, President Trump spent much of his weekend putting his message out on twitter sending 19 tweets from his personal account alone and among them ten he sent before 8 30 on saturday morning was this one. While all agree the u. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is leaks against us. Fake news. The president s lawyers had denied any discussion says of pardons as nonsense after the Washington Post reported trump had asked advisors about pardoning powers. Now, a member of trumps outside legal team, continued to make that argument yesterday, but his new Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said the president had actually discussed the issue with him. We have not and continue to not have conversations with the president of the United States regarding pardons. Pardons have not been discussed, and pardons are not on the table. Im in the oval office of the president last week. Were talking about th
The rescue on the east river here in new york city. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a friday night. We begin with the shakeup in the white house, sean spicer is out after six months on the job. Our correspondent was inside the west wing as this was happening. Tonight, who is now in charge of delivering the president s message . Jonathan karl leading us off. Reporter today, just six months into the job, President Trumps embattled press secretary called it quits. Sean spicers brief tenure got off to a bad start. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe. Reporter spicers debut made nobody happy. The president didnt like his look, including the illfitting suit, and others criticized his inaccuracies, or, as another aide called them alternative facts. Reporter at his first briefing, i asked a basic question. Is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium . And will you pledge never to knowingly S
Justice correspondent evan perez is here. Cnn contributor john dean, the author of conservatives without conscious, and intelligence analyst, bob bear. 21 laws for assassins author. Another blockbuster report from the Washington Post. They are reporting that south korean attorney general sessions discussed the campaign with russian officials. Russias ambassador to washington said he discussed campaign related matters, including policy issues important to moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 president ial race. Contrary to public assertions by the em bbattled attorney genera. What does this mean for the attorney general . Can he stay in his job . You know, don, i think when you have an attorney general with the word embattled in front of his name, its always a bad sign. I think thats what we have here. The attorney general, i think, is already, frankly, on thin ice. We dont know how much longer he can last, given the fact that the president this week told the New York Times that i
Charge of this so i want to make sure that im linked to him and sink pat sin copated with him in a way that he likes but i dont want to waste his time and sit in the oval office unnecessarily. Thank you. Thank you, anthony. Thank you. Obviously, i would have been happy for him to stay up here all day and continue to exhaust all of your questions, but one, i figure i probably should answer a couple today, and also, the president has an event here shortly, so i want to try to work through as many as i can. And with that, im going to start with jeff mason since i believe it is maybe your last day and my first, so with that, jeff, take it away. Thank you, sarah. Can you talk just a little bit about how this was how this will affect this change will affect the press office and can you speak a little bit for sean about how hes feeling and how he took this news and how he made the decision to resign. You know, im not going to speak for sean in detail. I can say that he understood that the pre
Lets go back to what the purpose of the investigation was, russian interference in our election. Sessions should have never recused himself. I have the honor of serving as attorney general, and i plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate. Chris well discuss the latest developments on russia with republican senator john thune and democratic senator ben carden. Plus, the president s legislative goals are stalled as repeal and replace creates a log jam in congress. Well ask our sunday panel if Senate Republicans can bring their Health Care Bill back from the dead. All right now on fox news sunday. Chris and hello again from fox news in washington. President trump has hit the six month mark with his push to repeal and replace obamacare stalled in the senate and informations expanding investigations expanding into possible links with the russians. Little wonder then the president has decided to shake up his white house staff. Joining me now to discuss the trump agenda moving