news, ben carson was a contributor, mercedes shlap, heather nauert is at the state department and nominee to be u.n. representative, john bolton was at fox news, scaramucci, mcfarland, sebastian, goehrkia, fill in the blank, i read he doesn t work there anymore. this is extraordinary. yeah, i used to think that fox news was the arm of the republican party. now i think the white house is a farm of fox news. and you know the white house is staffing up with people who were either contributors or ran the network, bill shine ran that network. and it s paying off for the president right now and it s paying off for fox news with ratings, but i think that the i think as we get into a 2020 election, i think it s going to be a very difficult spot for fox, especially post election, if they are still tied to this man and we re seeing whatever may happen with mueller or what
to this individual just a moment ago. yesterday, you asked kristin nielsen over and over where are these toddlers, where are these young girls? and why she has almost 12,000 children under her care, she didn t have an answer. what are the answers today? because we re here in texas and we re looking for them. stef, absolutely, i did speak with mercedes shlap just moments ago to start right there on what specifically the administration is going to do about this crisis and to reiterate the great points you have been making, this is a trump administration policy, that zero tolerance policy. i put that to mercedes shlap. i said, look, the president does have the authority to reverse this himself. she went back to her talking points, said, look, we want a broader solution to the immigration problem. take a listen to what she had to say. obviously this is a strong message that is being out there, which is if you re coming and we re simply enforcing the law. if you re coming illegally as a
puzzled by that. because that waunt pasn t part plan. kevin, i know you want to jump in on this. is there a sense of who will eventually get this position? well, there s been some rumored names. we have tony seaga and then you have mercedes shlap. you ve also got other folks and it s been interesting to watch the jockeying around the folks supporting president trump here in new york about who they think should have that role. kellyanne conway of course another one. but, you know, i think hope hicks role the title that she had i think maybe you could see jockeying over. but her role as a confidant, her role as a gate keeper, that s not going away. stay with us. we do have more to talk about. thank you. and why our next guest says the last place president trump s
replacement to hope hicks as white house which we knew. and that is fair. i think there is somebody to keep an eye on the west wing which is mercedes shlap. she is already kind of doing the job defacto. and let me make one final point on guns because this is important and you mentioned it in your open there, senator mitch mcconnell is now saying the fix nics bill to strengthen background checks is not going to come to the senate floor next week. which is fairly significant, sanders sort of staying out of that debate. talking about the importance of school safety. but interestingly, the president is going to have video game industry folks here next week. and this is something i was in in a one of the rooms for the pool with the president last week or a couple of days ago now and he talked about how he believes video games are violent and contributing to the cultural problem in america and now those folks are coming here. it shows that that debate is going nowhere. when it comes
guilty for doing that. so she didn t do that. so the question is that isn t enough to get your credibility back. no. and i think both things let s split the baby. maybe both things could be true. accumulated package. it could be true that after the disastrous statement yesterday that was then reported in new york times that she did get some type of legal advice, now is the time to bail and it could be true there was a longer term exit plan for her. i will note that within recent weeks the white house has brought in mercedes shlap who is a long time republican operative, very experienced and she s been conducting all long term communications so both could be true. but the very interesting questioning going forward is what lies has hope hicks already told. we know let s go back to no contacts. when dimitri peskov, the kremlin spokesperson said after the campaign that putin s officials had been in touch with trump s people, she said nothing there.