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What was it like inside i actually took a message back from montanans. there were some difficulty that montanans have had with medicare and getting communication out of medicare. he assured me hed go to work on that and make sure the problem was solved. i also talked about the hiring freeze as it applied to veterans benefits. also congratulating him on his presidential order of the lobbyist ban. i thought that was heading in the right direction and told hum i would be more than happy to work wit...

Concerns being raised after a top white house adviser used a national tv interview to plug the trump brand, even touting it as free publicity. heres kellyanne conway earlier this morning on fox. >> go by ivankas stuff. im going to get -- i hate shopping. im going to get some myself today. its a wonderful line. i own some of it. im going to give a free commercial here. go buy it today, everybody. you can find it online. >> top democrat on the house oversight committee now calling for disciplinary...

Our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is with us. our senior congressional reporter manu raju is with us. jim, the president not backing away at all. we just heard him at the end of that photo opportunity, not backing away at all saying that what senator blumenthal was saying was distorting the words of the supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. >> thats right, wolf. youll notice the president made those comments as he was sitting at the table with some senate democrats there. senator hei...

White house. and he is now, of course, the attorney general of the united states. evan perez is our justice correspondent. evan, are we going to be hearing from the new attorney general? >> wolf, we dont expect to hear from him. there were several dozen employees there to greet him warmly as you heard from that applause. there was really a low key, much more low-key entrance than the one eric hold eer had back in 2009, at risk of igniting a crowd size controversy with president trump. i will say...

Nominee before he further embarrasses this administration and further exposes the hypocrisy of president trump in saying one thing to the workers of america and then doing another. >> so manu, how is all this playing out on capitol hill? >> wolf, i can tell you top republicans are telling me they expect this nomination perhaps to be the toughest of any of donald trumps nominees so far. and no small part because a lot of these same republican senators who took a beating from supporting betsy devo...

Public employees cannot endorse brands to benefit or help their friends and family. that is the takeaway. its very clear. but the experts that ive spoken to all morning long say two things. one, this white house doesnt seem to care whether it is violating these conflicts of interest rules. and, two, enforcement officials will most likely not pursue this. but one thing is very clear, wolf. this will add fuel to the argument that there is no separation between the trump white house and trump org. ...

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Ban. updatous the latest. >> thats right. attorney general jeff sessions was over here at the white house earlier this morning. he was sworn in. he made some comments about immigration. this is an issue that senator sessions and now attorney general sessions we should call him, talked about frequently up on capitol hill. he was a fierce critic of illegal immigration and he brought it up again earlier this morning after he was sworn in along with the president. heres what he had to say earlier th...

Democratic senator that gorsuch spoke to and made those comments. talking about senator blumenthal of connecticut. the president saying blumenthal misrepresented the conversation. even though gorsuchs own white house appointed spokesperson confirms that, yes, he uttered those words. here to talk about that, republican senator john barrasso of wyoming. a member of the foreign relations committee. senator, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> pretty extraordinary. i dont know if you know ron...

On two different days, spicer referenced a terror attack in atlanta that never happened. he now says he was referring to orlando. these are very, very difficult jobs and weve got to have sympathy for whoever is up at that podium. but at the same time hes working for the american people. th in spicer is being treated like a punch line. as we saw a little bit earlier, president trump welcomed a group of u.s. senators to the white house for a working lunch. among them were democrats, including jon ...