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Recused himself from overseeing the russia investigation last march. >> i want to ask you about chief of staff john kelly, kaitlan, making light in some i was of t ways of the dysfunction in the white house. >> reporter: john kelly just appeared at a department of h e homeland security event and he had something to say about what it is like in the west wing. listen to this. >> six months, the last thing i wanted to do is walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of h...

Grathman. theyre going to west virginia to the very well known large resort in the greenbrier, the biggest retreat in the state of west virginia, theyre stopped after this accident in charlottesville, virginia. >> we have robert pittinger saying hes okay. steve scalise is not on that train, but we are getting -- here is the good news. a lot of tweets and messages from peoples offices who say theyre okay. and theyre saying people around them seem to be okay and that people on the train seem to be...

But ifyo you dont think its ending a life, then there shouldnt be a stigma at all, right? >> its not one way or the other. i think it is a traumatic thing that women can go through. i think in a way its absolutely endingng a life went another wa, you are put in a "no" win situations because sometimes people dont have aer choice. >> tucker: you are probably in the mainstream view on that. then why the impulse to make light of it or as you said destigmatize it and comedy or put a billboard up enco...

So if you think -- but if you dont think its ending a life, shouldnt be a stigma at all, right? >> its not one way or the other. its a traumatic thing that women can go through. i think in a way its absolutely ending a life. in another way, youre put in a no-win situation because sometimes people have no other choice. >> tucker: okay. so why would you -- all of that -- youre probably in the mainstream of view on that. so why the impulse to make light of it or destigmatize it in comedy or put up ...

Mistake. the president making light of it. he was reminding folks, look whats been happening in the markets and the economy and look at this $5.5 trillion in tax cuts. we wonder where he got that figure. thats the gross total of tax cuts offset by about $4 trillion in revenue raisers. you get the $1.5 tax cut cost. it began in $5.5 trillion and the number raises to offset that prompted all of this. anyway, back with my guests, katie, did the president make good on just forcing that point across?...

Diligence that might be performed. jesse: cnn is fact checking the statement. they are doing a truth-o-meter. he was kind of making light of sexual harassment. but that wasnt the point. the point is hes taking direct preemptive action. i want to show you some video. a flight attendant got flamboyant doing the seat belt demonstration on board airlines. place it over your head, wrap that strap around your waist. your flight attendants are walking the walk to make sure your seat belt is securely fa...

Performed. jesse: cnn is fact checking the statement. they are doing a truth-o-meter. he was kind of making light of sexual harassment. but that wasnt the point. the point is hes taking direct preemptive action. i want to show you some video. a flight attendant got flamboyant doing the seat belt demonstration on board airlines. place it over your head, wrap that strap around your waist. your flight attendants are walking the walk to make sure your seat belt is securely fastened. and make sure al...

President trump making light of the temporary shutdown of his twitter account after a twitter employee briefly deactivated the presidents page last night. the president, you may have seen, responded this morning. he said, my twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. i guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. i thought about that one for a little bit. joining us now, nbc contributor sam sty. sam, first of all, the president right now en route to as...

Spicer making a cameo during one of the more memorable moments of the 69th prime-time emmy awards. some criticized that moment of making light of the white house press office that has been caught lying and exaggerating. i want to bring my panel back for reaction to this. we also laughed about it. when i watched it, i laughed about it too. coming up on the podium, melissa mccarthy-style. there is an argument to be made. sean spicer did get up there and lie. he lied about crowd size. the day after...

Down, and allegations that have come out of his right hand, long time friend and colleague woody fraser, a former fox executive told me that around the office, ailes would joke that woody was a quote, walking lawsuit. we have roger making light of the fact that woody frasers reputation and behavior, alleged behavior toward women was such that it was opening him up to litigation, and he even promoted him. i can empathize for those that worked at fox in this impossible position of wanting to pursu...