become much more public about that and his concerns about privatization at the va. he s trying to find somebody in the interim who can be aligned with his goals which is to privatize and move away from the system as it currently is. and then the revolving door at the white house there are more questions being raised about scott pruitt after that backlash over his expensive travel habits, his sweetheart housing deal. paying $50 to stay in a townhouse in d.c. tied to a lobbyist. here is chris christie s take on that. the president has been ill served by this. if mr. pruitt is going to go, he should have never been there in the first place. i don t know how you survive this one. if he has to go, it s because he never should have been there in the first place. what s the word in d.c.? how much trouble is pruitt in? the drip, drip, drip on secretary pruitt and his problems, kind of public facing problems has been going on for weeks. we ve been covering it extensively all over politi
would win. but that s not the goal. the goal is to get free, fair and reciprocal trade and hope that other countries will join in. and paul ryan is practically pleading with the president to reverse course on this. are you saying that there s no way he s going to reverse course on this? the president said today that he wasn t backing down, but in terms of the specifics of what it looks like, i m not going to get into that right now because those things are being finalized. so it s possible some of the details may change? we haven t fully rolled out all of the details and so, therefore, it would be hard for me to say that they re going to change. but the top line, he said 25% tariff on steel imports, 10% tariff on aluminum imports that would apply to everybody. are those details going to change? i m not going go any further than the comments he s already made. any other details we ll let you know when we re ready. ashley. we re already talked about secretary shulkin but se
and reciprocal trade and hope that other countries will join in. paul ryan is practically pleading with the president to reverse course on this. are you saying there s no way he s going to reverse course on this? the president said today that he wasn t backing down. in terms of the specifics of what it looks like, i m not going to get into that. those things are being finalized. it s possible the details we haven t fully rolled out all of the details. so it would be hard for me to say they re going to change them. the top line, he said 25% tariff on steel imports, 10% tariff on aluminum imports that would apply to everybody. are those i m not going any further than the comments he made and any other details we ll let you know when ready. ashley? we talked about secretary shulkin but secretary pruitt is under scrutiny and secretary carson is under scrutiny for the
and reciprocal trade and hope that other countries will join him. and paul ryan is practically pleading with the president to reverse course on this. are you saying that there is no way he s going to reverse course on this? the president said today that he wasn t backing down. but in terms of the specifics of what it looks like, i m not going to get into that because those things are being finalized. so it is possible the details may change. well we haven t fully rolled out all of the details so it is hard to say they re going to change since we haven t put them all out. but at the top sign he said 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminum imports aplieg app to everybody. again, i m not going further than comments he s made and any other details, we ll let you know when we re ready. secretary pruitt is under scrutiny for his first class travel and secretary carson is
you mentioned the background checks, the house passed bill includes conceal/carry reciprocity. is that a provision the president would consider in the aftermath of this tragedy? i haven t spoken to him about that specific procedure. i know he spoke with senator cornyn on friday. the senate version is a little bit different. and he is generally supportive of that. but we re going to continue those conversations. separately, last week lthere was some news made by secretary pruitt and secretary shulkin. they both have their private travel and use of first-class flights and federal resources. do both of them still have the confidence ott preside of the president? i have no reason to believe otherwise. as we ve said many times before, if someone no longer has the confidence of the president, you guys will know. and the chief of staff on friday, those with interim security clearances by the end of this week that have been outstanding since june of last year would lose their access t