successful, and it is something this administration wants to push as well. i want to bring up something a former colleague of yours, sean spicer, had to say this morning on another network. listen to what he had to say. okay. i don t see how you get a deal done that doesn t include the wall. because that s been a major priority of this president. so he s going to get the best deal he can and negotiate, that s what he s always done, and i think at the end of the day, he s going to make sure his priorities are part of a deal that gets made. so spicer says he doesn t see a deal that doesn t include a wall. is he wrong? we, the administration, has consistently said the need for a wall. obviously, that was an important part of the president s campaign. we want the wall. it s important to remember, hallie, that in 2006 the secure fence act passed the senate by a vote of 80-19 that authorized 700 miles of wall along the southwest border. chuck schumer voted for that bill. the proble
but in the clinton administration george stephanopoulos began briefing the press in that role although i think dee-dee myers actually held the title and at some point they decided this wasn t working and pulled him off and gave him the title i think of senior adviser. i think he was there till june. so spicer has already outlasted but my point was i think george felt humiliated needle needlessly because it s a similar situation is it the right role here. and i have to say, outside of washington and media folks the only people who we re the only people who care about this. out in america they care about who the president is but the staff, they couldn t care less. charles, does i mean, does the president have anyone but himself to blame if he s unhappy with the message that s getting out? of course not. what these people are being asked to do is an impossible thing to do. you cannot deliver truth to the press if the man who s delivering the truth to you is lying. an
oversee the communications and the press office. this as the president believes as sean spicer and reince priebus plays to sean spicer s strength. when he was on the capitol hill, he was on the behind-the-scenes player working on strategy instead of ducking the arrows of the media as they question him. so he will move in the near future to a full time behind-the-scenes role even though the president would like to see him come out every once in a while. he may do that. likely that we ll see sarah huckabee sanders move into the full time press secretary job and be there more often and a communications director as well. so spicer will be the overseer, a deputy chief of staff level over the press shop and the communications shop. so for spicer, it s a promotion that a lot of people are looking at this as earlier at least before this plan came out as spicer being shoved aside. i can tell you that s not the case. he s moving into a more elevated
we re following breaking news. president trump this afternoon declaring the process of picking a new fbi director is moving rapidly. let s get the insights of our political specialists starting with nia-malika henderson. the white house continues to dodge questions on president s tweet about tapes. he used that word, tapes, that the president may or may not have involving conversations with the fired fbi director james comey. listen to the press secretary sean spicer today. i think i made it clear last week that the president has nothing further on that. i was very clear. i made it clear what the president s position was. i think the president owes position has been very clear. the president has made it clear what his position is. i have answered the question over and over again the same way. so spicer said repeatedly president trump s position is clear, but we still don t know what that position is. aren t they going to need to come clean at some point and say
good morning. i want to starl you re watching cnn. the most trusted name in news. with you, kyle. february 14th the day after then national security adviser michael flynn resigned. this is how white house press secretary sean spicer characterized what sally yates told them. just to be clear the acting attorney general informed the white house counsel that they wanted to give, quote, a headup to us on some comments that may have seemed in conflict with what the he had sent the vice president out in particular. the white house counsel informed the president immediately. the president asked him to conduct a review whether there was a legal situation there. that was immediately determined that there wasn t. so spicer characterizes this as a heads-up but sources tell cnn that yates s warning was more than a heads-up, kyle. it seems a little more severe from that. from what we are hearing she didn t outright tell the white house that michael flynn could be fired but strongly implied