i am ready to work with anybody who will help advance the president s agenda and advance the security, prosperity of the american people. do you believe steve bannon does that? i believe that everyone who works in the white house, who has the privilege, the great privilege every day, of serving their nation, should be motivated by that goal. wow. following those notable non-answers, tonight there s new reporting on bannon s future at the white house. and trump allies foreshadowing of a shake-up. and that is thing 2. in 60 seconds. i go with anoro. go your own way copd tries to say, go this way. i say, i ll go my own way with anoro. go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma . it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma.
you can have the best communications machine in the world, but when the principal is doing what he wants to do, he can meet with the new york times, meet with anyone, brian stelter, with you, but when he continues to defeat himself, there within lies the problem. you can spin, you can send a message out, but when you continue to do the same thing over and over again, you defeat yourself. brian? i think april would make a great communications director. i think a lot of reporters have this same sense. sitting in the brief room every day, feeling frustrated by the non-answers and by the spin and the nonsense. i think a lot of reporters are wondering, can it improve with sarah sanders at the podium and scaramucci behind the scenes? i m very skeptical. skeptical this can cause improvement to the message. can i ask you and april something? we all knew sean spicer. we all interviewed him.
providing non-answers to questions that you re not sure the president has an answer to yet and you re stuck. you know you re stuck. anthony scaramucci suggested and we know the president feels this way, if somebody could get the messaging straight, it woultd be better with the public or kbleemedia. there s a lot of people who say the messaging is not the problem. maybe it s a bit off and to paul s point could be more effective and more koorcoordina but even that doesn t solve the problem. yeah, there s a lot of friction in this white house. all these competing power centers. maybe with anthony scaramucci this place, what if they streamline the office of the white house and communication shop and get people more on one page kind of. we have a lot of former rnc
in the growth of health care costs, that s a much longer discussion we ll undertake here in the next couple weeks. people need to look up two things for themselves. one, what was the rate increase before the aca and what is it now. individual market. but all the different markets matter. that s how you determine overall cost. senator, thank you formakering the case, as always. have a good day. the white house refuses to answer simple questions from reporters. what s behind the constant string of non-answers to the plez president s thinking? david objectionle rod is next. z. . . . . .
president is not under investigation. then he all but admitted he can t be sure. you don t know whether no one you don t know whether he s under investigation or not. reporter: a contradiction he repeated on cnn. why you haven t picked up the phone to find out is a little odd. if i hired you i d want you to make that phone call. well, you haven t hired us because we represent the president of the united states. reporter: the stonewalling continued in the white house briefing room, which was the scene of an off-camera no audio briefing where press secretary sean spicer provided more non-answers. can the president fire special counsel robert mueller? spicer, i think the broader point here is that everyone who serves the president serves at the pleasure of the president. does the president have recordings of his conversations at the white house? spicer, i will tell you i believe the president commented in the next couple of weeks. it is possible we have an answer on t