president trump s new chief of staff will face. one of the issues will be, of course, the continuing issue has been the president s family around him in key positions. that is a particular challenge that this president has invited on himself. yes, he has his daughter and son-in-law serving as senior officials in the west wing staff. i think mick mulvaney understands that challenge. i don t think it s going to prevent him from doing the job that he thinks needs to be done as long as ivanka and jared and the president respect mick mulvaney and how he has to do the job. i would hope the president wants a chief of staff to succeed. if a chief of staff succeeds, chances are the president will succeed. i hope that jared and ivanka understand that as well. the pictures of the president at arlington. he s there for national wreath day. great to see him, you would say, wouldn t you, paying respects to the military in a way that perhaps he s been criticized in the past?
tornillo down. what we re learning about the final hours of the 7-year-old girl who died in border patrol custody and why it took so long for her to get medical care that could have saved her life. we begin this afternoon with another staff shakeup at the white house. the president announcing that interior secretary ryan zinke will step down at the end of the year. zinke s time in office has been mired in scandal, the subject of more than a dozen government investigations, ranging from improper spending on private charter flights to a question development deal with an oil executive. one investigation is moving its way up the justice department. zinke adds to a growing list of cabinet members but this isn t the worst of trump s headaches. michael cohen putting him directly in the pracrosshairs o the russia probe. nothing in the trump organization was ever done unless it was done through mr. trump. he directed me to make the
they attempt to influence american policy in the trump administration, not only getting the president elected but what happened in the days of the transition and into the first days of the administration? we have ivanka, we have jared kushner to be looking at, and i think michael flynn s cooperation agreement has provided the mueller team with quite a bit of understanding of what other i don t want to interrupt. of what other characters we could see. we have to wrap up. i just wanted to add that trump came out of business in 1990s and that kind of this very little influences that he can pick here and there in the middle east and russia, it seems like it s still operating on the russian side for sure, that kind of great chaotic capitalism of 1990s and that s how he runs his white house. all right, nina, erin, thank you both very much. protests breaking out today after a 7-year-old girl died in border patrol custody. what we re learning about her death and the medical car
barbara, president trump there talking about a highly respected judge. is that right? well, i don t know. he s a judge, so i think he deserves all the respect that our independent judiciary should get. but regardless of that, president trump s position on this has been that we just want to get rid of obamacare but instead we ll replace it with a new program that covers pre-existing conditions. what it seems like president trump really wants is the affordable care act but not called obamacare. sorry to interrupt you, but what the president said there was we re going to get great, great health care. van, just don t pick that for us. is that accurate? well, it remains to be seen just how great health care can be, if you dismantle all these pieces of an existing law. again, people like having their pre-existing conditions covered. we know that the uninsured rate has gone down pretty
ask your doctor about eliquis. from russia to the middle east, evidence connecting the president to foreign influence seems to mount daily. on thursday suspected russian spy maria butina who tried to infiltrate conservative political groups pleaded guilty to conspiring to influence u.s. policy. that same day the new york times reports federal prosecutors are investigating whether foreigners illegally fund donations to president trump s inaugural committee in hopes of buying influence over american policy. and now the first member of president trump s administration set to be sentenced after lying about conversations he had with russia s ambassador. let s bring in our panel. nina, professor of international affairs and also erin banko, national security reporter at