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A judge will rule today on whether CNN reporter Jim Acosta's White House press pass was legally revoked after the media outlet filed a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump

 U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly heard arguments Wednesday afternoon from lawyers representing CNN and the Justice Department

 CNN and Acosta say the suspension of his White House press pass violates the First and Fifth Amendments

  Theodore Boutrous, an attorney representing CNN, said there 'never will there be more evidence of facial discrimination and animus against an individual reporter' than in this case

  The news network is seeking an immediate restraining order that would force the White House to return Acosta's credentials - which grant reporters as-needed access to the 18-acre complex

Kelly will announce his decision this afternoon.Acosta has repeatedly clashed with Trump and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in briefings over the last two years

  But the dynamic devolved into a near-shouting match during a combative press conference last week following midterm elections in which Republicans lost control of the House

Acosta refused to give up a microphone when the president said he didn't want to hear anything more from him

Trump called Acosta a 'rude, terrible person.'The White House quickly announced that Acosta's White House access would be revoked

Share this article Share The CNN lawsuit calls the revocation 'an unabashed attempt to censor the press and exclude reporters from the White House who challenge and dispute the President's point of view

'Thirteen news organizations, including Fox News, filed an amicus brief Wednesday in support of CNN

'Secret Service passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized,' said a statement by Fox News President Jay Wallace

'While we don't condone the growing antagonistic tone by both the President and the press at recent media avails, we do support a free press, access and open exchanges for the American people

'On Wednesday, Justice Department lawyer James Burnham argued that Acosta was guilty of 'inappropriate grandstanding' and deserved to lose his access over 'his refusal to comply with the general standards of a press conference

'Burnham also pointed out that CNN has dozens of other staffers with White House credentials, so excluding Acosta would not harm the network's coverage

The network's lawyer, Theodore Boutrous, contended that Acosta was being singled out for his coverage of the White House, not his alleged rudeness during a press conference

'The White House has made very clear that they don't like the content of the reporting by CNN and Jim Acosta,' Boutrous said

'Rudeness really is a code word for `I don't like you being an aggressive reporter

''Prior to Wednesday's hearing, the White House had maintained that it has 'broad discretion' to regulate press access to the White House

A pre-hearing legal filing argued, 'The President and his designees in the White House Press Office have exercised their discretion not to engage with him and, by extension, to no longer grant him on-demand access to the White House complex so that he can attempt to interact with the President or White House officials

'Trump himself, in an interview published Wednesday, was uncertain how the court fight would end, saying: 'We'll see how the court rules

Is it freedom of the press when somebody comes in and starts screaming questions and won't sit down?' Trump told The Daily Caller that 'guys like Acosta' were 'bad for the country

. He's just an average guy who's a grandstander who's got the guts to stand up and shout

'The White House's explanations for why it seized Acosta's credentials have shifted over the last week

Sanders initially explained the decision by accusing Acosta of making improper physical contact with the intern seeking to grab the microphone

But that rationale disappeared after witnesses backed Acosta's account that he was just trying to keep the mic, and Sanders distributed a doctored video that made it appear Acosta was more aggressive than he actually was

On Tuesday, Sanders accused Acosta of being unprofessional by trying to dominate the questioning at the news conference

Both Sanders and Trump are named as defendants in the CNN suit, along with Chief of Staff John Kelly and Randolph Alles, director of the Secret Service

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BREAKING! Putin: I'll Have A Serious Talk With Trump At G20 Summit In Argentina - Duration: 3:01.

Please

Mr President, you said that you had a brief discussion with [US] Vice President Pence.

Perhaps, you can share with us some details about this exchange. Did you talk about preparing a meeting with President Trump?

I have one more question on this subject.

In light of the threat of the Americans imposing the second wave of sanctions in connection with the Skripal case,

could they in any way affect the preparations for your meeting with President Trump in Buenos Aires and mutual visits next year?

All unfriendly moves affect in some way the work schedule and the schedule of our meetings.

We were ready to meet in Paris,

but we already mentioned that we did not want to be in the way of the big event organised by the government and the President of France.

This was indeed a major event attended by 90 heads of state and government, so it was fairly difficult to schedule a full-fledged meeting.

We agreed to meet in Buenos Aires. On our part, we are willing to do so.

The Vice President said that the United States is also getting ready for this meeting. Let's see what comes out of it.

Indeed, we had things to discuss during a working lunch in Paris. It was a general and quite intense discussion.

President Trump and I were able to participate in this general discussion quite substantively.

We spoke about security issues, economic growth and regional issues. The Vice President of the United States and I touched upon the same issues here.

Of course, strategic stability is one of the key issues, as we need to understand what will become of the New START Treaty and how the events will unfold with the INF Treaty.

There are other issues, including those related to bilateral economic relations, which are fairly limited but include promising areas that are of interest for the United States and Russia.

Finally, we talked about the hotbeds of tension, such as Syria, the North Korean nuclear programme,

and our relations with Iran under the JCPOA – all these and other issues in which the United States and Russia are involved.

Of course, we need a dialogue at the highest level and at the expert level. We are ready to restore full-scale work to the extent that our US partners are ready to match.

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Elvis, Babe Ruth, And The Rest Of Trump's Medal Of Freedom Winners - Duration: 2:20.

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Recounts in Florida, Michelle Obama vs. Melania Trump & Inclusive Ballet Shoes | The Daily Show - Duration: 4:03.

Florida.

(laughter)

It's a state so laid back

that their elections are still going on.

NEWSWOMAN: Florida's secretary of state has ordered recounts

in both the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races

after both unofficial results fell within the margin

that triggers a recount by law.

NEWSWOMAN: In the governor's race,

Republican DeSantis has a shrinking lead

over Democrat Andrew Gillum.

NEWSMAN: Andrew Gillum has rescinded his concession,

which he made on election night.

I am... replacing, uh, my words of concession

with an uncompromised and unapologetic call

that we count every single vote.

-(cheering, shouts) -Okay, this...

this is just... this is just ridiculous.

Like, what is it with Florida and their elections?

Both the governor's race and the Senate races

have to be recounted.

And if the recount... if the recount can't find a winner,

then of course, under American law,

the Russians decide the winner. That's how it works.

And now, because more votes are coming in,

Andrew Gillum has done the right thing.

But you have to admit,

un-conceding is a pretty strange idea, right?

It's almost like someone taps out in an MMA fight,

and then three weeks later just pops out in the parking lot

like, "I un-concede! I un-concede!"

If anything, Gillum has inspired me,

because I would like to un-break up

with my high school girlfriend.

I, uh... I still think about you, Sandra.

Andrew Gillum says we can make it work.

By the way, wherever she is right now,

I'll bet Hillary's like, "Can anyone un-concede?"

♪ ♪

Moving on.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is back in the news--

-(cheering, applause) -yes, back in the news--

and she's promoting her new book.

And in interviews, she's throwing more shade

than an Amazon rain forest.

NEWSWOMAN: The former First Lady

also referencing the current one,

and how, when they met after the 2016 election,

Obama told Melania Trump she's just a phone call away.

-Has she reached out to you and asked for any help? -No.

No, she-she hasn't.

(laughter)

(whooping, applause)

You-you saw that look, right?

Yeah. She went instantly from First Lady to First Meme,

just like that.

That was dope.

(laughter)

But, like...

but let's be honest here, like, did Michelle really think

that Melania would call her for advice?

Like, what advice is she gonna give her other than, "Run."

She's not a divorce attorney.

In other news, ballet-- and this is good news.

Ballet is something that was invented

several hundred years ago

by dancers who didn't want to disturb

the downstairs neighbors.

And recently, it got even more considerate.

Nearly 200 years after the invention of pointe ballet shoes

one of the world's oldest dance shoe manufacturers

is becoming more diverse.

Britain's oldest manufacturer

of pointe shoes, Freed of London,

is not only selling the traditional pink slipper,

in October they introduced two new styles:

brown and bronze for dancers of color.

Until this point, dancers had to use makeup

or even paint to match their skin tone.

WOMAN: Not knocking tradition and everything like that,

but times are changing,

and we need to see people who look like us,

and in doing that we need brown tights, brown shoes.

Yeah, this is great news.

This is really, really great news

for ballet dancers of color, because now,

because of the brown shoes, their skin looks natural

while they contort their bodies

into the most freaky-ass, unnatural ways.

And I think representation shouldn't just stop at ballet,

because you may not realize it if you're white,

but there's a lot of stuff

that's fun that black people can't wear.

Like how come there's no black people novelty aprons? Huh?

Yeah. Don't black people deserve

to look ridiculous, too? Don't they?

And what about condoms?

It's about time we start getting brown-skin colored condoms.

Yeah. I don't want to clash when I smash.

Why are you judging me?

Make my penis look like it's got vitiligo.

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Trump Is Depressed After the Midterms: A Closer Look - Duration: 10:42.

President Trump is in a post-election funk

as the blue wave that put Democrats in charge of the House

keeps getting bigger.

For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look."

♪♪

As bad as things looked for Republicans

going into last week's midterms,

Trump himself was apparently optimistic on election night.

"Vanity Fair" reported

that about 100 friends and allies

gathered at the White House for a party

to watch the midterm election results.

Trump was in high spirits as the first polls closed,

thinking that perhaps he'd defied

the laws of political gravity once again.

"His mood was great,"

one Republican who spoke with Trump said.

"But that was before everything went bad."

And you do not want to be at a party with Donald Trump

when things go bad.

I bet Trump's the kind of guy who would start the night

at the blender making margaritas and singing Cardi B...

and, at the end of the night, crying in the bathtub

eating burgers with the wrappers still on.

"Why can't you vote, hamburger?"

Of course, early on, it seemed like Trump

might have good reason to be in high spirits,

because the narrative about what was happening

got set very early by the media, which declared unequivocally

that the election was definitely not a blue wave.

-When you look at what's going on here tonight,

this is not a blue wave.

-This is not a blue wave. -It is not a blue wave.

-It's nothing like a blue wave or a tidal wave.

-It's not a blue wave.

-So we haven't seen the blue wave.

-There is not a blue wave.

-That was like two hours in.

Can you imagine if these guys

had been calling the 1980 Olympics?

-Do you believe in miracles?!

No!

[ Laughter ]

The media rushed to set a narrative

before most of the results were actually in,

but now in the week since the elections,

it's become clear that this was, in fact, a blue wave.

In fact, just to give you an idea

of how wrong the media narrative turned out to be,

take South Carolina, a deep-red state Trump won by 14 points.

Trump intervened in the GOP primary

for a South Carolina Congressional seat

to campaign against the sitting Republican, Mark Sanford,

a Trump critic.

Sanford famously had an affair while he was governor,

and when he disappeared, his initial excuse

was that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Trump repeatedly mocked Sanford for that but got the name wrong.

-Never liked him too much. I wasn't a big fan.

The Tallahassee Trail. Must be a beautiful place.

Unfortunately, he didn't go there.

-No, he didn't, because...

there's no such thing.

Tallahassee Trail sounds like something you'd see

on the price list at a Florida waxing salon.

[ Laughter ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

So...

So, Trump helped push Sanford out in favor of Katie Arrington,

a Republican who ran as a staunch Trump ally.

Now, remember, this is a seat

that has been held by Republicans since the '80s.

Let's see how Trump's

handpicked Republican candidate did.

-The Democratic candidate, Joe Cunningham,

defeated Republican Katie Arrington.

It's a surprising upset in a district

that favored President Trump by double digits in 2016.

And it's a seat held by a Republican for four decades.

-Damn! No wonder Trump's depressed.

When he heard that, he probably stormed out of the White House

screaming, "If anyone needs me,

I'll be hiking the Tallahassee Trail!"

[ Cheers and applause ]

Trump couldn't even get a close ally elected in a district

that's been held by Republicans for four decades

in a deep-red state he won by 14 points.

And as the reality of the blue wave

has come into focus over the last week,

Trump has apparently been in a post-election funk.

One administration official said

the President has lashed out at several aides,

from junior press assistants to senior officials.

He's also fighting with American allies

like French President Emmanuel Macron.

For two years, Trump has been desperate to be Macron's friend,

at one point even brushing dandruff off of his shoulder.

-We do have a very special relationship.

In fact, I'll get that little piece of dandruff off.

It'll be... We have to make him perfect.

He is perfect.

-Dude. Play it cool.

You can tell Trump has never had adult friends.

Because as soon as he finds one,

he starts grooming him like a capuchin monkey.

"You want to eat a bug from my hair?"

Well, after the midterms,

their budding bromance immediately started to cool off

when an angry and sullen Trump

decided to lash out at France over trade,

specifically targeting one of France's most iconic exports.

-This is what he said. He said on trade,

"France makes excellent wine, but so does the U.S.

The problem is that France

makes it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wines into France

and charges big tariffs,

whereas the U.S. makes it easy for French wines

and charges very small tariffs.

Not fair. Must change."

-"Not fair. Must change."

You know, it's very hard to come off as an expert on wine

when you talk like Frankenstein.

"Aroma good.

Body full.

Fire bad."

And, dude, you're picking a fight with France over wine?

We have no chance.

One of their most famous wines is a Bordeaux,

called Grand Cru Classé,

made by a vineyard called the Chateau Latour.

One of our most famous wines

is a box with a spout sticking out of it.

[ Laughter, cheers, applause ]

So, why --

Why is Trump lashing out at everyone?

Well, in particular, that he --

I'm sorry. So, why --

So, why is Trump lashing out at everyone, question mark?

Wally just pointed at the question mark for me.

[ Laughter ]

Do you want to -- Wally, you want to bring

the card around and show everybody

how squeezed up that question mark is?

Show them. Come on, Wally.

Bring me the card. [ Laughter ]

Come on. [ Applause ]

You wonder why I got that wrong. Look at Wally.

Look where Wally put that question mark.

[ Laughter and applause ]

[ Laughter continues ]

Just use another card.

[ Laughter ]

So, why is Trump lashing out at everyone?

[ Laughter, cheers, applause ]

In your defense, Wally,

the "why" should've given it away, as well.

[ Laughter ]

Well, in particular, he's depressed over the prospect

that Democrats will now use their subpoena power

in the House to investigate everything from his tax returns

to his bank records.

He's spent two years making enemies

in the Democratic caucus,

and now, those enemies will have tremendous power.

Just take California Congresswoman Maxine Waters,

who has been the subject of Trump's racist insults

for months and especially in the closing days of the election.

-I watch this Maxine Waters.

You ever seen Maxine Waters?

[ Audience murmuring ]

A low I.Q. individual.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Low I.Q.

Many of these Democrat politicians

who are really disciples

of a very low I.Q. person, Maxine Waters.

Your new de facto leader of the Democrat party,

the legendary Maxine Waters.

Legendary?

Leave it to Trump to think he's insulting someone

by giving them a kick-ass nickname.

[ Laughter ]

"The Legendary Maxine Waters" sounds like something

Angela Bassett would win an Oscar for.

[ Laughter and applause ] Trump decided --

Trump decided to spend two years

making Maxine Waters his arch nemesis.

And now it looks like that decision

has come back to bite him.

But I mean, really, how bad could it be?

What's the worst that Maxine Waters could do to Trump?

-Maxine Waters, who won re-election Tuesday,

will likely take over as the chairperson

of the House Financial Services committee.

Waters, a vocal critic of Trump,

could have power to subpoena the president's tax returns.

-Damn! [ Cheers and applause ]

Damn. She can subpoena his tax returns, his bank records.

Hell, she can subpoena the results of his I.Q. test.

[ Laughter ]

Trump has probably been calling her every day for a week

like a sleazy Hollywood agent

trying to make it up with a client.

"Maxine, baby, this is all one big misunderstanding.

When I said low I.Q., I meant high I.Q.

And when I said I.Q., I meant "iconic queen."

You are an iconic queen.

Slay. Slay, Queen, slay."

[ Laughter ]

"Please don't subpoena my tax returns!"

[ Laughter, cheers, applause ]

But as much --

[ Cheers and applause ]

As much focus as there is on investigating Trump,

one of the keys to the Democrats' success

is that they ran on an agenda

focused on issues like healthcare.

And now they'll have the power to pass bills in the House,

like Medicare for all

and force Republicans to take positions on them.

And that has right-wing Fox News pundits

like Laura Ingraham freaking out.

-Fresh-faced congressional members

descended on the Capitol for orientation today.

Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar,

Ayanna Pressley, and Ocasio-Cortez,

they represent some of the most radical views in Congress.

Free college for all.

Free healthcare for all.

The abolishment of ICE.

A green new deal, where the U.S. depends entirely

on renewable energy.

-Wait. They're trying to scare us with free healthcare?

[ Laughter ]

You know an idea is popular

when even Fox News can't make it sound bad.

"What's next? These radical socialists

are proposing crazy new ideas like free pizza,

a trunk full of gold, 'Hamilton' tickets,

a kiss from Ryan Gosling!"

[ Cheers and applause ]

Trump knows that he'll be held accountable for his actions

for the first time in two years, and as a result, he's panicking.

A week after the midterms, it's clear that we saw

a blue wave and a national repudiation of his presidency,

with Democrats winning everywhere from the coast

to the Midwest to the...

-Tallahassee Trail.

-This has been "A Closer Look."

[ Cheers and applause ]

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Trump Calls for National Voter ID Laws, National Pickle Day - Monologue - Duration: 3:48.

-Let's get to the news.

In a new interview, President Trump called for

national voter I.D. laws that accuse people

of voting illegally saying, "They go around in circles.

Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat,

put on a different shirt, come in and vote again."

[ Laughter ]

Yeah, all you've got to do is put on a different hat

and nobody will know it's you.

[ Laughter ]

Just ask these two guys.

[ Laughter ]

I swear our president thinks in cartoons.

[ Laughter ]

He probably thinks the Village People is one guy.

[ Laughter ]

That's right.

President Trump accused people of voting illegally

by changing clothes in their cars and getting back in line

or, in Florida's case,

putting on a shirt and getting back in line.

[ Laughter ]

According to "The Washington Post,"

the deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel,

who First Lady Melania Trump has asked to be fired,

berates her colleagues in meetings,

spreads rumors about staff and yells at military aides.

Wow, she sounds like a total nightmare.

Can we see a photo?

[ Laughter ]

It's him.

It's definitely -- It's definitely him in a wig.

[ Laughter ]

According to the latest vote totals,

Democrats are now on pace to gain up to 40 seats in the House

and lose only one to two seats in the Senate.

Democrats reportedly celebrated by Googling how to celebrate.

[ Laughter ]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney was seen at the Capitol

today, which would explain the dress code.

[ Audience oohs ]

Remember?

[ Applause ]

Because he shot a guy once.

[ Laughter ]

And that used to be the craziest thing that ever happened.

And now it's like, aww.

[ Laughter ]

Today was National Pickle Day.

To celebrate, Trump is in one.

[ Laughter and applause ]

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

was hit with a lawsuit yesterday,

accusing her of failing to cancel student debt

owed by people whose for-profit college have shut down.

Said the bailiff, "Please raise your right hand.

No, your other right.

No, that's your foot. No, that's my hand.

All right, you know what? Just step down."

[ Laughter ]

According to a new study, 82% of parents

have persuaded their kids to do something

by offering them money or candy.

Said one kid, "Mom said she wants a divorce."

[ Laughter ]

"I did it!"

[ Laughter ]

A teacher in Missouri was suspended recently

after a student dressed up as a KKK member

as part of a history class presentation.

Because in Missouri, that's not history yet.

[ Audience oohs ]

[ Applause ]

NASA officials said yesterday it could take 25 years

to send a human to Mars.

Said one woman, "I'll wait."

[ Laughter ]

And finally, Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker

and Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin

have been named Major League Baseball's managers of the year.

Also named manager of the year, Sean Spicer.

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White House Fires Senior Adviser After First Lady Melania Trump Called For Her Removal(VIDEO)!!! - Duration: 10:31.

White House Fires Senior Adviser After First Lady Melania Trump Called For Her Removal

all right so moving on to the issue of mrs. Trump the first lady and her office

releasing this you know sort of really kind of unprecedented statement today

saying that with regard to the exit of Mira Ricard L who was a deputy for the

National Security Advisor John Bolton her office said it is the position of

the office of the first lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in

this White House referring to mr. Cordell is that unusual yeah very much

so and look I think one thing that you've

seen from the first lady is she chooses her causes her statements very

deliberately she when she speaks it's for a reason and I think that she gives

obviously as she mentioned that interview with David Muir that you

played she gives constant advice to her for her

husband she is an unbelievable political strategist and for her to come out

publicly and say this is really said something about the relationship that

this particular staffer clearly has with the East Wing and I would think that

this wasn't the first rodeo or encounter that they had you've got to really worn

out your welcome the first suggestion is that there was you know some

disagreement on the Africa trip so that makes that sound bite that we just

played from ABC particularly pertinent but also that this woman may have been

leaking stories about her this is the second person who's an aide to John

Bolton to exit the White House and apparently the defense secretary mattis

was also had some issues with some of these individuals so does that signal to

you that that matters this position is strengthened or that bolton's is

weakened I mean what we know what can we take away from this here's my take away

don't underestimate the first lady ever when she speaks take it seriously she's

got unbelievable political instincts her husband takes her counsel very seriously

she is very savvy when it comes to the media and the political strategy of her

husband so I would never in my life cross her and

idea that it came to a public statement tells you that this particular person

clearly didn't get the hint very very interesting okay Sean thank you so much

good to see you tonight unclear what if any role the first lady is playing in

the staff shake-up but despite her unambiguous statement yesterday about me

Ricardo of the National Security Council here is the statement it is the position

of the office of the first lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving

in the White House now a source tells Fox News the first lady was merely

expressing her opinion not calling on Ricardo to be fired that was a reported

falling out between the first lady's office and Ricardo over mrs. Trump's

recent trip to Africa the statement from the first lady's office came out while

Ricardo's boss National Security Advisor John Bolton was out of the country

adding to the chaos of such an unprecedent statement from the East Wing

from the West Wing this evening in the past 45 minutes me Ricardo will continue

to support the president as she departs the White House to transition to a new

role within the administration Martha unclear what that role is going to be if

this has you wondering whose job at the White House is safe you are not alone

among those even who work in the West Wing Leland thank you very much so join

now by ari fleischer former White House press secretary under President George W

Bush jason Chaffetz former House Oversight Committee chairman and Jessica

Tarlov director of research at bustled comm all our foxnews contributors all

right let me start with you you have worked in the West Wing what do you read

here on these tea leaves well let me make two points number one most

Americans don't know the names of anybody who works at the White House and

the President and the Vice President and they don't care they just care about the

decisions that are made second point this is one chaotic White

House and I have never in my life as much as I've gotten used to the chaos at

the Trump White House seen a first lady have to go public and issue a statement

and I'm just stunned that this wasn't handled privately that it reached the

boiling point where she felt the need to go out issue something publicly yes she

has from the first first lady re who has

expressed her displeasure Hillary fired entire travel team and there are other

examples what she just did it and she it was it was not as she put out a press

statement urging for it to be done and and that back not Hillary my point is

here first ladies have tremendous power they have the power of talking to the

president and then the president makes that power felt in this instance I don't

know why she had to go public it tells me she went to the president he didn't

do it and yet you still have to go public

that's chaotic Jason well look I I'm with the first lady on this one it's

rare to none that the first lady says much of anything and it must have been

awfully bad I think it also is very telling that this comes roughly a month

after she took this trip into Africa and it may be more about the aftermath I

mean they may be swabbing about a seat on an airplane was one of the reports

but how that went down and what did and did not happen if somebody wasn't

truthful if somebody was maybe exaggerating what happened or changing

their story you very quickly in a small office like

the the West Wing you start to understand that maybe that gets out of

the skin of somebody so I I think Melania Trump I think she has earned the

trust of so many of us because she does speak so infrequently to make this hard

stand and make such a statement is very compelling and I think it's probably

best that they separate and go different ways for some of these reports Jessica

like she may have been speaking for other people as well there were reports

that this woman Mira was you know sort of bullying people talking down to them

and as Leyland rightly pointed out in his intro here sometimes there are

stories that get out there because other people want other people to be fired so

they start saying I'll see things about them and you know time will tell

absolutely will you certainly know about leaking in this White House for a

certain purpose and to Jason's point we don't really know what happened aboard

that's lighter on that two-week trip but obviously the first lady was extremely

displeased with her interactions with this woman

Bloomberg is also reporting this evening that she had a bad reputation for being

inflexible within the West Wing and when you think about how chaotic and

kind of fly by the seat of their pants this administration is for kind of more

George Bush type approach to working in the West Wing that's where she came from

originally two years back with the re I guess it

might not have fit in with the vibe of this White House generally and not if

not just been a problem that Melania had with her I want to play somebody from my

interview a couple weeks ago with Christian Nielsen watch this ambassador

Boehm has a big job to do he and I work very closely together so you don't think

that John Bolton is in the president's ear saying we're not tough enough on the

border you got to make a change at homeland I do not think he does know so

the big question here you know for America as already pointed out most

people don't care about the deckchairs when they move around on the deck but

they do care about Homeland Security and they do care about who's running the

country Jason so when you look at this administration and you look at the

cabinet do you do you think changes need to be made or is this not appropriate

well the president's taking a very tough stance on immigration and you know when

you talk to people kind of within the bowels of the organization there's a lot

of frustration that maybe secretary Nielsen has not moved things fast enough

move them aggressive aggressively and on I mean Congress really has to make these

changes oh yeah he's not gonna pay for the wall

trying to build the wall herself Congress needs to make these changes I

don't know how much more she could have done what do you think she should have

done Jason but I'd also think that secretary just have to go to Congress

and help make that case and have them understand what's going on and not going

on at the border in the imperative that she needs yeah look I'm very supporter

on the outside but behind the scenes there's obviously something that's

bothering the president because it's not moving fast enough what do you think Ari

well I think the president is perfectly entitled to make whatever changes he

wants it's part of the tradition of midterms but here's my advice if you

make a change have the replacement ready to go the same day you make the

announcement because otherwise you create these vacuums and in Washington

the vacuum was filled by nothing but nastiness and negativity but if you

announce X's out Y is in you've now created a debate over the qualifications

of Y typically that's a stronger better debate for you to be involved in so make

whatever moves you want to make but then have those names ready to roll

same day yeah great point and everybody obviously does the things

serve at the pleasure of the president and it's my experience that when you

watch these changes happen it's the big dust-up for about 24 hours and then

everybody gets used to the new person and that person steps in front of the

microphone and everyone accepts that person as as the new one that they are

hearing from Jessica and yet I hear you know all across many other media outlets

every third day pretty much that there is complete meltdown that the White

House is melting down that is practically not functioning and yet it

seems to go on it does seem to go on but that might just be in meltdown mode and

they might be really good at handling it to your question that you posed to Jason

about what else she could have done I think that the president has not enjoyed

some of her media appearances like with our own Chris Wallace where he really

pressured her about the caravan talking about the women and the babies who are

in there and the president's language that these are ms-13 members gang

members there were drug trafficking they're bringing an infestation etc she

also struggled during the family separation policy not her first outing

but when she had to come out again and face the press on this issue he

apparently refers to her as bushy he has problems with members of the George W

Bush administration and I think that he might be looking at someone like Chris

Kobach and if i pronouncing that properly from kansas who didn't win his

race someone that's a hardliner an immigration who also shares his point of

view about voter fraud which has been debunked

so I think that he is looking for someone who is more hardline if he was

going to be replacing her all right thanks everybody great to see you

tonight thank you thank you god bless you and God bless america

you