and to look, donald trump has weeded everybody else that isn t a small trump in essence. jeff sessions is one of those people. by the way, we got a quick update, and it looks like the president was meeting with speaker ryan first, and what he was doing is walking to the big room for the conference. to your point i think that can be certainly said for keirsten nielsen. i think it s one of the ways she s trying to ingratiate herself and get back into the ingoi the good graces for the president. jeff, you re there every day. what do you see? we don t have any reporting that matches that, but you can look at the fact that scott pruitt still exists as director of the epa, the fact he is there is one indication of the way in which john kelly has really lost
says and this comes after donald trump encouraged more espionage over the summer and continued to deny the hack, even happened at sunday s debate. the timing shows the statement says to you putin knows trump had a bad weekend and a bad debate. clearly here trying to deflect all of this on donald trump and vladimir putin, anderson, but note, major headline in this, but certainly shows how internal things are agreed upon. more importantly, the clinton campaign believes there s much more that could still be released in these wikileaks in the next 29 days. jeff zeleny, thanks very much. republican chairman reince priebus late today said there s no change in his relationship with the trump campaign. earlier today as we mentioned house speaker paul ryan said when it comes to his own relationship with trump, there certainly is. ryan telling fellow republicans he ll no longer defend the manor campaign for him. plenty of other republicans weighing in as well. not to mention weighing their a
chief political correspondent dana bash joins us now with more on that. so let s take speaker ryan first. what do you, first of all, how he arrived at this decision, what exactly it means for trump? you know, it s unclear what at the end of the day it s going to mean for trump because my understanding in talking to sources who are close to paul ryan is that he really felt that he didn t have any choice but to be in what is very much a gray area that effectively means he s sending some mixed messages because as you said, he told his rank and file today that he is not going to defend donald trump anymore, won t campaign with him, but he has endorsed donald trump and he s not taking that endorsement away. he s not rescinding that. so that did prompt some of the more conservative members, those in sort of ruby red districts who have a lot of trump supporters at home to say, wait a minute, how can you do this? by saying this, you re going to help defeat donald trump and help put hillary c