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And he did a good thing. >> youre saying the office of government ethics that referred the presidents payment. i have another question about that disclosure form the president signed today. which disclosed a year late that payment. it also says i think the trump hotels brought in about $40 million in the past year. is it problematic to you that the president and the republican party use and promote this hotel, the president is so clearly benefiting from? >> well, absolutely. and you know, questi...

Watched with dismay as the republicans failed to pass obamacare. do you think this is as good as we can expect on any sort of reform on healthcare at this point? >> i think youll see continued efforts like this from president trump. look, from the beginning, president trump was laser focused on repealing obamacare because it doesnt work. also, hes focused on lowering costs for families and giving families real choice for their healthcare. you see the move hes taken today. hes helping small busin...

Also -- >> let me interrupt for a second. a lot of economists cite that as wishful thinking. but let me get to the executive order that the president signed today. federal agencies should buy american. so lets say they buy u.s.-made steel and its a lot more expensive than imported steel. thats simply going to raise the deficit. its going to cost the u.s. more for that kind of steel, right? >> well, listen, i want to make sure i have a vibrant u.s. steel try and if i have other countries that are...

Candidates in the past. is he and sean spicer seen at a different level now theyre in charge of government? >> indeed. thats what were seeing, kind of the extension of a campaign but they have to move more into governing mode. sean is used to a political world at the rnc. there will be questions to be had on policy and various things a and hes not going to have the time or space to devote to politics. he has to kind of try to explain himself and try to explain where the president is come from. f...

Place? whats the issue now, facing the two parties. michaels party and your party. whats the issue? >> equal pay and equal treatment. and thats exactly all the women expect to be treated equitably and fairly and they need to get that pay. even though weve had that law, i didnt get the equal pay. and i didnt know. i didnt know, i didnt have a way to know. with that executive order that the president signed today, that would have allowed me to find out exactly how i was paid. and i wouldnt have st...

>> what is the current issue in terms of equality at the work place? whats the issue now, facing the two parties. michaels party and your party. whats the issue? >> equal pay and equal treatment. and thats exactly all the women expect to be treated equitably and fairly and they need to get that pay. even though weve had that law, i didnt get the equal pay. and i didnt know. i didnt know, i didnt have a way to know. with that executive order that the president signed today, that would have allowe...

Jay carney about gender pay and equity. i responded at the top there, the white house sent man to podium, right? what i was trying to point out is if im going to be attacked that i cant ask fair questions about pay equity because im a man, im surprised that the white house thinks they can have a man on the other side of the podium explaining this to us. men and women realize theres an issue here. how the president and the congress is going to fix it is another thing and whether or not what the p...

Town where everything is viewed through the lens of who wins, who loss, how fast, by what margin. you know, look, a disservice was done, an apology is owed. thats what we have done. this administration has never looked at -- if you go back into the campaign, never looked at a scoreboard at the end of each day to figure out where we stood. >> reporter: the financial regulations the president signed today, he said reform would bring certainty to the business community. but we have business groups,...

Statement that the president signed today. instead a lot of the language mirrored what we have seen from united states and north korea. now, of course, there was language about security assurances being provided to the north koreans should they commit to denuclearization. and that is how the president brought up the fact that he wants nose drills between the south koreans and u.s. military to stop, something he called war games. thats language from pyongyang, not from the united states of americ...

With politico. i think everybody agrees that its good to keep the shutdown to five or six hours overnight while most people are sleeping. but it is a relevant document the president signed today, especially when you think of what he campaigned on, saying in eight years im going to get rid of the national debt. and to think you have a republican house, republican congress and republican senate. normally you would never dream of getting this through the congress. >> its pretty remarkable that the ...