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Remarks carry and i dont think hes all that concerned. what weve learned is that when the president feels attacked, he doesnt care if its a gold star family who lost a son or sauter fighting in a war. he doesnt care if its a commander who served for decades in harms way. all the president cares about is that he was attacked. the interesting thing that i with a say an observer on the mccraven issue and the criticism, look, as the president and all presidents before him, he can be critical with hi...

Down about the acosta case. >> a federal judge who you appointed has just ruled that you must give cnn reporter jim acosta his press pass back. your reaction to the ruling? >> its fine. its not a big deal. what they said though is that we have to create rules and regulations for conduct, et cetera. were doing that. were going to write it up right now. its not a big deal. if he misbehaves well throw him out or stop the news conference. >> laura: he doesnt seem in any way flabbergasted or upset. i...

The past that the white house correspondents association determines who sits in the room. >> mike: thats tradition, its not law. >> true. >> mike: if there was a desire to give other journalists an opportunity to do it, because i think some people see the same folks in there and say, how come they get to do it? im sure theres broadcasters and print reporters all across the country who would love t to ask the president questions and probably wouldnt talk at him and ask him to t stop. >> i think t...

>> thats tradition. its not law. ? true. >> and so if there was a desire to give other journalists an opportunity to do it, because i think some people see these same folks in there every day and they say, how come they get to do it? im sure theres broadcasters who would love to ask the president questions. >> i think thats certainly an option to explore and maybe we will in this white house. i know the president is one of the most accessible presidents probably ever but certainly in modern hist...

Case. >> a federal judge who you appointed has just ruled that you must give cnn reporter acosta his press pass back. your reaction to the ruling? >> its fine. its not a big deal. what they said though is that we have to create rules and regulations for conduct, et cetera. were doing that. were going to write it up right now. its not a big deal. if he misbehaves well throw him out or stop the news conference. >> laura: he doesnt seem flabbergasted or upset. i think he has taken so many aggressiv...

>> thats tradition. its not law. ? true. >> and so if there was a desire to give other journalists an opportunity to do it, because i think some people see these same folks in there every day and they say, how come they get to do it? im sure theres broadcasters who would love to ask the president questions. >> i think thats certainly an option to explore and maybe we will in this white house. i know the president is one of the most accessible presidents probably ever but certainly in modern hist...

After he was roundly criticized for canceling a planned visit to an american military cemetery in france on saturday. he canceled it due to the rain. and doing nothing to mark veterans day on monday. hes also a commander in chief who has not yet made a trip to visit troops stationed overseas, as his predecessors have done. so today he and the first lady dropped by the marine barracks in washington to meet with dozens of marines. and then the president addressed veterans and their families at the...

To say that the president hasnt threatened the special counsel is not only logically dubious. its just dead wrong and untrue. >> so he blocked the vote. yesterday senator mitch mcconnell blocked a vote on the latest attempt to protect the investigation. so president trump is also doing some damage control with veterans. after he was roundly criticized for cancelling a planned visit to an american military cemetery in france on saturday, he canceled it due to the rain. and doing nothing to mark v...

For devoss personal security. she was granted the protection in 2017 a few days after she was heckled and blocked by a handful of protesters outside a washington, d.c. public middle school. its not clear who requested the protection for devos. a spokeswoman for the education department said devos did not personally request the heightened security. she said it should be obvious that the threats devos faces are significant. devoss predecessors in the job did not receive anything close to this leve...

Lady be weighing in on a national security adviser even if she is a paper pusher? >> a couple points. one on jens point about definition. because melania trump is more reserved than many of her predecessors, everything she does in the public has more weight in defining whatever you may view as her, you know, brand, you if you will. here, i suspect that the public aspect of this was partly, i dont want to say to compensate, but because this was borne out of problems at a staff level, three differ...