greg: true. you didn t hear a lot of scuttlebutt but that is because a reporter would have been ostracized by her peers. if the white house were a bowl of soup the press was a ladle in the spoon never stopped. [laughter] that is a mixed metaphor and it s a terrible metaphor. now you have the press chasing down every hot more so let s be honest, there are a lot of them because it comes white house is the most transparent thing since brian seltzer s hair all right, i think we have a flash forward ever since we iran reginald add s popularity is skyrocketing. let s take a look at the numbers. it s only been a few minutes but we have undecided, 2%, oprah and liz are tied at zero and reginald is at 90%. that s a testament to the power of the show.
neil mcfarland reported in the new york times there is no evidence it was even tied to russian intelligence. and mcfarland says it s unlikely that it was because it was such a clumsy essentially commercial operation. now, are we really going to endanger the american presidency and our relations with russia with what is not truly so far as we can see, hard intelligence? factual, but scuttlebutt? i mean let me ask, david, the sort of central question, i imagine, th that mueller s looking at is some of the release of this data, the hillary clinton e-mails and such was in some way coordinate with the trump campaign. it seems to me that s where you get at the issue of not the russian interference but also the issue of whether there was some connection or collusion with the trump campaign. that s a very good question, fareed. i think the president was initially quite happy with the indictment because he looked at
security clearance file would not be completed by the deadline today. that there were still some outstanding issues that required further investigation but we are told tonight from white house officials that jared kushner still maintains his interim security clearance. bret? bret: you heard the president saying general kelly will make that call. the chief of staff. all the talk about whether general kelly is staying or going, what is the inside scuttlebutt? the inside scuttlebutt is that his job is safe. you know, one person told me a while ago that you have a player who stays out until 4:00 in the morning and you bench him and that player were to be tom brady, that player would not get benched and i m told that arnold here, john kelly is tom brady. bret: good analogy. thank you. a passenger vehicle struck a security barrier at the white house this afternoon. the secret service tweets the vehicle did not breach the security barrier of the white house complex.
walmart and disappointing sales and earnings that maybe the momentum that a lot of people thought the company would get might not be happening. what happens now? keep in mind, tax cuts for whom a lot of americans, a majority, seem to be favoring them. let s go to charles payne on his take on all of this. you know, this interrupted a six-session winning streak. what do you make of it? this sell-off began friday at 12:35. that s when the scuttlebutt about the mueller indictment was going around. as it turned out, it didn t implicate the white house so we had some equilibrium. we had an amazing week last week. a very frightening the week the week before that. and a couple things came through. you mentioned walmart. that is a company specific
yeah. he makes his own rules. absolutely. jake, you re on capitol hill. you talk to lawmakers. what does this sound like, this idea that the president might not sit down with robert mueller? what s the scuttlebutt where you are? reporter: well, paul ryan has been extraordinarily clear on this issue, specifically. he thinks the president should participate. i don t know if he said he should participate, but he said that mueller s investigation should go forward unabated. it shouldn t be blocked. people should respect it. people should participate in it. and this morning, again, he told reporters that the memo has nothing to do with mueller s investigation. he s noonlacknowledged that. of course, some people on capitol hill, many republicans want to conflate the two issues, for political purposes and practical purposes. but i don t think you mentioned at the top that the base would be the issue. the base would stick with donald trump if he weren t to sit down with robert mueller.