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Everythings fine, im not trying to control the president, when i make faces, thats just me thinking hard. so there this remarkable thing that has been happening, you know, every few days now where someone comes out and sort of says, no, the chaos thing that youre reading about isnt quite right. >> kind of like a cop in a traffic accident. nothing to see here, keep it moving. all right. jonathan, the "associated press" stock and trade is writing those instant leads on deadline that we, all of us ...

The briefing room, which is vale really uncommon for a chief of staff to come out into the briefing room to simply say everythings fine, im not trying to control the president, when i make faces, thats just me thinking hard. so there this remarkable thing that has been happening, you know, every few days now where someone comes out and sort of says, no, the chaos thing that youre reading about isnt quite right. >> kind of like a cop in a traffic accident. nothing to see here, keep it moving. all...

Those instant leads on deadline that we all of us news consumers get to see. what would your lead be about this event at the white house today? go. >> the lead would be something along the lines of the president who enjoys pairing with reporters attempts to control the narrative, attempts to push back, attempts to display that in improving his relationship with the senate majority leader that hes trying to get some things done. this is a white house that does not have much nft way of accomplishm...

Crisis that has to be attended to, and this is an area where the federal government has a responsibility and were acting on it. >> paul ryan responding to the tweet from the president about removing fema and first responders from thetune, tweetie wonderful people of puerto rico, with their unmatched spirit, know how bad things were before the hurricanes. i will always be with them. the speaker now on his way to the house to provide emergency funding for puerto rico. nbc news correspondent gabe g...

Porous the border was and still is. and we do need something. i was working in congress when the 2007 secure fence act was passed and only a couple hundred miles of that fencing was actually ever completed. this has been one of those political issues that -- >> this is a prototype. its similar to some of these, but go on. >> the thing about it is people have -- because of a lot of what happened under included, and obama with catch and release and people not showing up, you know, when you come cr...

Who was steeped in this knowledge. this is no what he did as a living. but the interesting thing here is that he breaks the rules and environments the treaties, essentially. when you hear bob corker worrying about the president starting a world war iii, you wonder if the republicans are worried about this. thats why bob corker is coming out that way. i dont take it lightly when he starts talking about messing with peoples licenses. hes been attacking the media and it is all rhetoric. >> he calle...

At this point. it depend what the white house wants to do on iran and north korea, but that is certainly an option. >> one gop source said, acknowledging the obvious, which is the president needs every vote he can get on tax reform. alienating bob corker is not going to help. ill tell you in private conversations with folks at the white house, theres not a lot of push-back. this is not an ideal situation for them moving forward on policy. >> remember, it was just one senator, senator john mccain...

Chief of staff john kelly, we heard the rumblings that he could be exiting. is that of his own accord? >> certainly one of the people on tillersons team. we know tillerson is there very often as a loner with not a lot of people there to back up what he is suggesting in terms of this administrations foreign policy agenda. if he exits, that could mean that kelly might be there by p himself. if he cannot get someone there to back him up with significant push back, he may not want to stay there long...

Phony story. it was made up. it was made up by nbc. they just made it up. thank you all. total confidence. i have total confidence. >> sandra: meanwhile, tillerson brushes side but did not deny questions that he used that term to describe the president prayed spokeswoman heather nauert says is not the kind of language her boss uses. stick with the secretary does not use that type of language. the secretary did not use the type of language to speak about the president of the united states. he doe...

D de deplo deplomacy pleasing the boss there but not at home. >> i think theres blame on both sides. >> the president speaks for himself. >> reporter: for his part, tillerson was frustrated when the president sided with saudi arabia against a key military ally, qatar. the final blow for the secretary of state, a former leader of the boy scouts almost came back in july when the president gave a widely criticized political speech to the scouts. >> we go to wisconsin and we had tremendous crowds. >...