The latest. Reporter the president and the Senate Majority leader spoke over the phone on this weekend and now having lunch with Vice President mike pence here at the white house. And this lunch comes as tensions between these two men have really hit an alltime high in recent weeks. The president has publicly attacked and blamed Mitch Mcconnell for failure to repeal and replace the obamacare. There was a screaming match of the two going a period of time without speaking to each other and the lunch today doesnt mean that they have entirely patched things up but goes to show theyre so desperate for a legislative accomplishment that both of these men really realize they need each other as tax reform kind of hangs in the balance here. Now, senator Lindsey Graham is a target of the president and played golf with the president this weekend. Heres what he had to say about how important getting tax reform win truly is to republicans. You can get tax reform done . Yeah. If we dont, were dead. I
Remarkably candid comments by chief of staff john kelly. The general made rare comments in the Briefing Room where he said despite reports of tension and turmoil inside the west wing, hes not quitting, hes not getting fired and hes not frustrated. He added that his job is not to control President Trump. Also breaking this hour, the death toll has climbed again in the wildfires blackening large swaths of Northern California. Officials say 27 people have been killed and hundreds are still reported missing. Entire towns have been evacuated. And tonight, the Weather Forecast is ominous. Strong winds expected to return to the area. White house chief of staff john kelly, meanwhile, is defending President Trumps tweets on another disaster. The hurricane that devastated puerto rico. Mr. Trump is blaming the island for its own Financial Difficulties and hes adding, and im quoting him now, we cannot keep fema and the First Responders in puerto rico forever. Kelly says the president s tweets are
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Again on social media. After that tax rally in pennsylvania, as hes making his way to the white house, hes tweeting again, talking about what he was talking about earlier, about fake news, as he often does, but shes escalating that, going after the idea of network licenses, broadcast licenses, which, of course, are the purview of the public air waves. This is what he said in a tweet. Lets lack at this, with anderson. He says this. Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public. Anderson, this has echoes of the nixon administration, when similar things were tried in the nixon white house, with some local licenses of tv stations owned by the Washington Post at the time, that was breaking all of those stories. Of course, this is difficult to do. The president is largely just venting frustration. His aides said earlier. But, again, extraordinary for a president to go after network tv licenses. Preside
Nbc had taped interviews with a number of weinsteins victims. They had weinstein himself confessing to grope ago model caught on audiotape during a nypd sting operation. Nbc had Harvey Weinstein cold, busted. No honest editor in america would have passed on that story. And, yet, nbc news chief noah on pen heim did pass. He claimed there still wasnt enough evidence to run. So the network killed it. Nbc standards for what is news have changed quite a bit in a short period. Just a year ago, that network leaked the now famous access Hollywood Tape to the the Washington Post on the eve of a president ial debate. Apparently hoping to influence the outcome. Nbc could not air that tape itself due to legal concerns. But its executives had no qualms about secretly passing that story to another news outlet and then repeatedly lying about it noah ope openheims. Classmate in college in harvard. They worked together on the school newspaper, reportedly they were friends. Now nbc News Executives have