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One word, truth. >> if jim wants to be heard, jim will be heard. >> reporter: new jersey governor appeared to blame the recent woes on the white house staff. >> listen, ive been -- i think ive said a number of times publicly before, that i think the president has been underserved by his staff. >> reporter: but at this moipt it seems no staff shake-up will quite the calls for a special prosecutor. >> clearly where we are now is in my view we need a special prosecutor to conduct an independent inv...

Clark is taking an assistant secretary position at the department of homeland security. i want to read you a couple of his tweets that ive noticed over the year. before long black lies matter will join forces with isis to bring down our legal constituted republic. you heard it first here and then heres another one. its incredible that our institutions of government, white house, congress, department of justice, big media are corrupt and all we do is bitch. pitch forks and kamala harris calls his...

Hes nominated, you can be sure there will be confirmation fireworks. >> dooirn, i waiane, one thing o is talk to trump and hillary supporters to find how things are playing with them. this last week, i dont know if its been a tipping point, but certainly an unusual week for president trump in terms of firing the fbi director and everything that came after that and all the other stories, sharing classified information with the russians. >> it was a long list. >> and then, of course, this comey me...

Comey uneasy. it is well known inside the justice department that comey had a penchant for keeping records. e-mails leaked to the "new york times" in 2009 show comey wrote to then attorney general alberto gonzalez four years earlier arguing that torture tactics were a bad idea and that justice officials would regret being pushed by the george w. bush white house to approve them. last week when president trump suggested there might be tapes of his january 27thth meeting with james comey, the form...

Think he -- again, it goes backing to what i said a few minutes ago. he needs to let the justice system roll. we have a -- its not perfect, but its the best one ive seen. >> congressman elijah cummings, thank you so much for your time, sir. appreciate in. >> thank you. he was one of the most divisive and controversial trump supporters on the campaign trail calling the black lives matter group terrorists, but now milwaukee county sheriff david clark is heading to the department of homeland secu...

Continues to distract from what they are trying to do on capitol hill. even trump loyalists are asking the white house to get things back on track, and this comes as republicans are demanding more answers to their questions and as well as some republicans say they will not -- they do not trust president trumps handling of classified intelligence. republicans on capitol hill are nearing their breaking point with president trump, raising new concerns today over the latest bombshell, that the presi...

In the white house have strongly resisted. >> i think its time that we look amount the idea of whether its an independent commission or special prosecutor. >> reporter: at a private meeting, house speaker paul ryan urged his party not to lead to judgment as the investigations take shape. >> there are some people out there who want to harm the president, but we have an obligation to carry out our oversight regardless of which party is in the white house. >> reporter: and comey may have a chance t...

Jake. >> orrin, another issue that might have some sort of role in the coverage of president trumps visit. administration officials are now telling cnn that president trump will not, at least not now, make the decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. >> reporter: and that speculation was growing here that trump would indeed not most embassy. one of his biggest campaign promises and one of the biggest promises he almost immediately walked back after his inauguration. it seems...

Inclined to believe the white house denial? >> reporter: well, i dont really -- i cant think of any reason to question james comeys honesty. he is -- his long history of service to our country, a man of high integrity, so i wouldnt question that at all. i mean, i havent agreed with all of the decisions and the handling of the 2016-case, but i look forward to reading the memo, and i wouldnt just assume that what im reading is false by any means. >> so let me ask you a question because thats inter...

Think the story is yet to be totally unfolded. >> reporter: are you concerned about this latest comey memo? >> of course. i want to get the facts. thats what we need to do. >> reporter: congress was already reeling over allegations that trump may have revealed classified intelligence to russian officials last week. some republicans like ted cruz would not say if they believe the president could be trusted with classified material. do you have confidence in the president right now? >> he is our p...