again. jim, tell us about the cleanup efforts on the calls, including the meeting with the australian ambassador. reporter: right. aides say the australian ambassador paid a visit to the white house. white house officials say the ambassador met with the chief of staff and the chief strategist over here, steve bannon who conveyed according to white house the president s admiration for the australian people. but keep in mind this meeting did not include the secretary of state, rex tillerson, or michael flynn, but did include steve bannon which is a big sign as to how much influence he has in the white house. thank you very much. it s become the question to ask after so much reports lately. is this the norm or are we in unchartered territory? why are we hearing so many normally closely guarded inside details soming out of what seems to be the white house. karl bernstein and jeffrey lord
president of the united states, mrs. clinton, when i criticize islam, get the sense that media in the west is almost working under shariah law right now. nod ending with muslims in the u.s. but cautions about all immigrants. looked other way on this legal immigration that s overwhelmed the country. 20% of the country is immigrants, is that not a massive problem? a problem as he sees it and something the white house where he holds position of influence has wasted no time in addressing. gary tuckman, cnn, atlanta. joining now tim o brien. obviously just heard bannon s comments on immigrants, muslims, islam. sean spicer the other day said the views of bannon and president are different when it
after russia invaded ukraine and took crimea, there was a certain amount of pressure and it was possible to put some kind of measures in. people start drifting away. they want to do business with russia. it s the u.s. maintaining sanctions with germany. the fact that she spoke out will be important in keeping that coalition. we ll see if we hear more from the white house. we heard from mike flynn on iran and did not hear from the white house directly. interesting to see. fareed, thanks very much. fallout from a pair of calls between president trump and two close allies and the controversy following president trump s remarks at a prayer breakfast. we ll talk to two people who were there. ds. here. here. or here. today, there s another option. drug-free aleve direct therapy. a tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors offices. its wireless remote lets you control the intensity, and helps you get back to things like this. this.
three to five million people voted illegally. he tweeted about it as well. take a look at this to refresh your memory. he said i will be asking for a major investigation into voter fraud. including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even those who registered to vote are dead and many for a long time. depending on results, we ll strengthen up voting procedures. that was supposed to be followed by an executive order or memorandum calling on the justice department to investigate it. it hasn t happened yet. we asked today why that is. did they say anything? well, a senior administration official told me that, look, it s not the president s priority at this time. and looking into it a little bit further talking to some other people, many republicans here at the white house and capitol hill have been urging the president to stop talking about this and change the subject. they think it s a waste of money and they think he won t find
on settlements for seven, eight administrations is opposed to settlement. trump s statement was in that simply consistent with the continuity of american foreign policy. right. in terms of iran. there is a white house advisor on jake tapper s show saying look, there is a new sheriff in town and we heard from mike flynn yesterday that the u.s. is putting iran on notice and now leaning toward new sanctions. it s an odd series of events because iran has not done something dramatically new. it s important to remember the missiles are not part of the nuclear deal. the nuclear deal is the word implies, about the nuclear program. iran is a country. it has, you know, it has a military program and defense budget and develops missiles. we don t like that but there is no consensus this is so far out the pail that iron would be sanctioned for it. the sanctions were all about the nuclear program. this is iran having a