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Each year, but theyre consistent over two administrations. the idea theres some outlier here is absurd. >> absurd. jeffrey prescott, thanks for coming in. appreciate it. >> thank you. still ahead, republican congressman jim jordan facing reporters, answering questions and defiant as ever, denying he turned a blind eye years ago to sex abuse and never reporting it when he was a wrestling coach at ohio state. we will have an update on that coming up.

Environment and climate change to benefit all of us including our children. so i would urge you to resign before scandals push you out. >> she joins us now on the telephone. i would like to ask you what your reaction is to scott pruitts departure? >>ly. originally unrestrained glee, because that was what i wanted him to dochlt and followed immediately of course by the realization that trump now gets to appoints somebody else. and we see its andrew wheeler coal lobbyist. so clearly the agenda i...

For long range planning because hes doing it every day. >> i think thats true on communications. but would we are seeing on other policy issues having a functioning staff and process matters. if you look at the implementation of this family separation border at the border. clearly no plan to roll it back, right. thats why you still have 3,000 kids without their parents. >> exactly. >> and you are right, you would think that -- you are right. its governing matters and this administration in this ...

Agreement, you said maybe it takes two, three, four, five meetings. you were open to going as fast or slow as he wanted. >> president trump: we got all y wrong better than i assumed. we gotlo a lot more done than i ever thought possible. hes going back. he is headed back. i think hes going back to get this done. he wants to get it done. you hear the whole thing about his father and other administrations, or his grandfather, the fact o is, he brings that up. they werent dealing with me.er they we...

>> trace: give me a letter grade, how so far do you grade this thing a, b, c, d, f? hows it going? >> i dont love giving grades but i dont want to deflect your question. i think all of the administrations, not just the trump administration, are getting low grades. we havent seen progress. i do think it was good to try diplomacy, to have the summit. i wasnt basking in the administration for making that attempt. but we shouldnt mistake diplomacy for denuclearization. theyre not doing any better or...

He was dismissed. he resigned quickly. i would have liked the shorter leash. it opened up trump to attacks. i didnt like. that i think it should have been a shorter leash on pruitt. he got a longer leash because of what he was doing to implement policy. what we need to remember, everybody is expendable if youre detrimental to the president, you need to be gone sooner than later. we want an approach, we arent doing business as usual, we will have the right approach how we govern. i want to say so...

All that coming up on "the daily briefing." >> melissa: fox news alert, questions about whether president trump can help flip a key senate seat, he just boarded air force one heading to montana for a rally. he is expected to take aim at jon tester, one of the most vulnerable democrats in the senate. the president will be campaigning for his republican challenger, who tells fox business he expects the president to bring up testers role in the nomination of the va secretary. >> he literally destro...

The ones approving your interview with the president. typically the communications director is doing longer term strategy, trying to figure out what the message should be not just a couple weeks out but a couple of months out. theyre really thinking over the horizon. the day-to-day back and forth, thats typically the press secretary. now, its varied in different administrations. even within the obama administration, initially the press secretary had to direct report to the chief of staff. then t...

On capitol hill, yes, they hold their nose on some of the things president trump has done, particularly with tariffs and going the other way on free trade. weve most recently seen that with the tiff and back and forth with the chamber of commerce, a core long-standing republican group. but conservatives always tend to praise trump on two things. number one, neil gorsuch, and now potentially a second supreme court nominee. two, the dismantling of the regulatory state. youve seen that with some of...

From the united states. theyve said repeatedly through state media and discussions ive had, they want an end to a hostile part on the part of the united states. the suspension of joint military exercises was a big win and a big concession by president trump because those were things previous administrations had failed to do. so the -- what else is the united states willing to give? and the big question, what are the north koreans going to do in return? as of right now, yes, there hasnt been a mi...