Live from the white house. What more are you learned . Reporter hi. Despite the fact that Sarah Sanders hasnt criticized the Public Comments made by kelly sadler about mccain. In private, at least, among staffers, hes apparently called them inappropriate. One source indicates the nature of the meeting with the communications staffers had more to do with sanders that the leak was put out. She chided them, taking exception to the idea that leaked the information to hurt kelly sadler in public. We should point out that sanders sort of carried a similar tone when she spoke publicly about the comments being upset about the leak saying she wouldnt validate that sort of talk, and going as far as to say the white house would not apologize for this remark. Listen to this from Sarah Sanders at the podium yesterday. Certainly there is not a tone set here. We have a respect for all americans, and that is what we try to put forward in everything we do both in word and in action. Reporter why not apologize to senator mccain . Im not going to get into a back and forth, because people want to create issues of leaked staff meetings. Reporter the budget director was asked about kelly sadler, how he felt about the comment that she made. He essentially said that it was an inappropriate joke, but that sadler should have the right to speak candidly when shes in a private meeting and she shouldnt be fired for making the statement. Heres mulvaney. I think the remarks are awful, but lets look at this in context. That was said in a private meeting. Inside the white house. Its not like you might Say Something nasty about me off the air, and it doesnt have that much impact. You come on air and say it officially, thats a problem. This is a private meeting inside the white house. It was a joke. It was a badly considered joke, an awful joke, that she said fell flat. And i get that. Do you think thats right, proper . I dont. I honestly dont. You have to have freedom to speak candidly. Weve all said things in smaller groups we work with that we would never see publicly. I think shes handled it appropriately. And fred, we should point out another thing weve heard from multiple sources is that in light of this comment, sadlers job is not at risk. It appears she will remain on in her current role. All right. Boris sanchez, thank you. All right. All of this as the pack and forth continues between trumps outspoken lawyer and Rudy Giuliani, and the escalating white house chaos and confusion. This morning Rudy Giuliani once again backtracking on his comments that directly contradicted the white house, this time on the at t and time warner merger. Time warner is a Parent Company of cnn. Rudy giuliani originally saying trump personally denied the deal. The white house jumping in to damage control mode this morning saying not the case. One hour later Rudy Giuliani is scrambling to clarify his original comments. Cnn politics reporter jeremy hur joining us now. So, jeremy, what is going on . Yeah, Rudy Giuliani has the white house back on the defensive over his comments last night when he told them President Trump denied the at t time warner merger. I was trying to argue that Michael Cohens work for at t did not have any impact on the merger or on swaying trump, but he also contradicted with the white house had been saying for months and Sarah Huckabee sanders today had to clarify saying the doj was the ones who denied the deal, and then an hour later Rudy Giuliani called cnn abash to walk back the comment, basically said the president told Rudy Giuliani that he was in the directly involved in denying the deal. So the white house has said for months that the Justice Department is the one that was behind this, but the president on the campaign trail and in the time in the white house, he the president has been opposed, or has expressed his opposition to the merger. I wonder does this latest round kind of highlight that the white house isnt always in step with what the president may be conveying to his personal representation, or does this underscore that there is a communication problem between the president and his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani . Yeah. I think its clear that theyre not on the same page. This is the latest in a number of instances where Rudy Giuliani has been out on his own and contradicted what weve heard from the white house. You had the Stormy Daniels payment. You had his talk about the north korean hostages. And so its its unclear to see whether rudy is the mouthpiece here for the president , kind of channelling what he really thinks, or if hes just kind of out freelancing on his own and making the missteps. Either way, its the white house who has to clean up after this as we saw this morning with the latest statement. Its certainly putting them into a difficult position. All right. Thank you so much. Jeremy, appreciate it. Lets talk further with alisyn stewart and keith boykin. Good to see you both. Hi. Hi. Alisyn, is there a disconnect between the white house and the messaging from an agreement between trump and Rudy Giuliani, or is there a problem in the messaging between the president and giuliani . It is a problem, fred. I think someone needs to pull the mouthpiece aside and tell him to shut his mouth until he gets the facts straight. Look, from a communications standpoint, even under the best of circumstances, if all the trains are running on time, with the story, whether it be tax cuts or immigration, everything is great as long as everyone is on the same page. The problems come up with when you have conflicting stories and one person is saying one thing and another person saying something else, and it throws the entire message off course. Here we have Rudy Giuliani not just with this case saying that the president denied the merger, didnt interfere, he knew about the Stormy Daniels payment before he denied it. These are problems that can be corrected or avoided if he would get his facts straight on the front end and stop talking out of school or about information he has absolutely no knowledge about. I wonder, keith, because i feel like this is a broken record, because if its not Rudy Giuliani, then theres somebody elsewhere it seems to be catching the blame on the messaging problem, but whats consistent is there are mixed messages. What is the president really feeling . What does he really think . Whats the action really . Whats really the problem here . Donald trump. A fish rots from the head. Theres never been so much chaos and miscommunication in a modern white house in my recollection. And it all stems from donald trump. He is inconsistent in his own messaging. He cant stay on message whatever the message is for the day. And so its not a surprise that you have press secretaries and Communications Directors and lawyers and Staff Members and cabinet members consistently in conflict with what donald trump says or on occasion, theyre consistent with trump on one day and the next day he changes his position. Its impossible to keep up with where he is. The man is a reflection of conflict and contradiction. The problem, though, larger problem for donald trump is that he continues to pick these people who are not good for him. He picked not only Rudy Giuliani, but before that he picked Michael Cohen as his lawyer. Hes paying off 130,000 to porn stars. He picked cobb having a meeting in a restaurant and overheard revealing the story to strategy. Donald trump said hes going to pick the best people. He picks the worst people. Hes not good at picking good people to represent him. We heard the report about the Communications Press secretary berating her staff over leaks. Namely about the white house aide who used some very offensive language in which to describe john mccain in his current state with the terminal illness. So, are is the anger being placed correctly. Mad that theres the leaks but then the white house is not necessarily conveying that its mad that this listening was used. You know . That hes dying. No, fred. Look, its bad when you have leaked stories about a leaked story. Thats where we have a problem at this administration. And in my view, the comments that were made about senator mccain were disgusting and despicable, and, look, its not a surprise that under the administration of president bone spur that people may have a cavalier attitude about a war hero like mccain. Its one thing to think something this hurtful. Its another to say it out loud. In my view, i cant imagine under any circumstances how someone couldnt apologize for this from an administration standpoint. The fact is clearly theyre standing by her and not going to back down. I would be more concerned about what was actually said than how it got out to the press. It seems whats being reported, keith, that anger is being conveyed. Anger at the leaks but not necessarily anger about the language used. Yeah. I mean, its not surprising. Donald trump himself doesnt apologize when he makes mistakes or errors. Instead, he blames the media and the leakers instead of taking account of why people are upset in the first place or why stories are being leaked. In this case, this could have been a oneday story, a fewhour story if someone had told this woman and the white house look, you need to apologize or we need to fire you. One or the other. That would have moved the story on. The white house she apologized to meghan no. The daughter. Not enough . No. I mean a public apology. And the white house needs to apo apologize itself. Im not a big fan of john mccain on his political views, but i would never Say Something like that about john mccain or another public figure. If i did, i should be held accountable for that, and im not even in the white house. The fact were holding the white house to a lower standard than others says a lot. Donald trump hasnt apologized still for five and a half years of lying about Barack Obamas birth certificate or lying about the central park five who he wrongly accused of raping a woman in central park. He has a history of doing bad things and not apologized. He said hes never sought forgiveness from god because he doesnt feel like he needs to do that. Thats part of Donald Trumps dna. Hes infected it into the white house as well. Keith, alice, thank you. Thank you. Next new details on the u. S. Intercepting russian bombers. A live report on the drama off alaskas coast straight ahead. 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New developments in drama that unfolded off alaska. U. S. Stealth fighter jets scrambled to intercept russian bombers in International Air space friday. The long range bombers flew into the air Defense Identification Zone which extends about 200 miles off alaskas coast. Cnn pentagon reporter ryan brown joins us with more on the developments. Ryan, what more can you tell us . This instance of bombers flying off the oklahoma coast has been a long time since the russians have done this. They do this as part of Training Exercises. The u. S. Monitors it closely. They monitored the bombers entering the zone and scrambled stealth jets to intercept. It was done in International Air space and professionally. Its been some time since the russians have conducted one of these probing flights. It was may of last year, 2017, was the last time the russians didid that. In that instance similar bombers flew staying in International Air space, and that was the fourth time in a period of about a month last year. So officials thought then it was sending a message to the United States that russia was flexing its military muscle off the east of alaska in u. S. Backyard. Part of a Training Exercise but very much a sending of a message. U. S. Officials now will be watching closely to see if russia attempting additional flights like this. If additional bombers make their way off the alaska coast. This is as tensions with russia remain high. All right. Ryan brown, thank you so much. Coming up, how Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein went from being a president ial favorite to a trump target. A bachelor. And thats how he intended to keep it. Then he met the love of his life. Who came with a three foot, two inch bonus. For this new stepdad, its promising to care for his daughter as if shes his own. 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The entire thing has been a witch hunt, and there is no collusion. Reporter rosenstein became the man in charge once the attorney general recused himself. So hes the one who hired the special counsel which leads him as the man in the middle. Between trump and any move to fire robert mueller. A precarious place. Oddly enough, rosenstein started out as a teachers pet. Hes highly respected. Good guy. Smart guy. The democrats like him. The republicans like him. This guy is a man of upstanding character and essentially the Gold Standard at the department of justice. Reporter rosensteins stock rose even higher when after just two weeks on the job he wrote a now infamous memo at the request of the president landbasting comey for mishandling the clinton investigation. If the president asks you to look at this and give me your thoughts, you cant say no. Reporter so he writes the memo. Writes the memo. Reporter and then . All hell breaks loose. Reporter the president loved it almost as much of he hated comey. He received it, released it, and fired comey all on the same day last may. This is cnn breaking news. All right. We have a major breaking news. The president of the United States has terminated the director of the fbi, james comey. Josh campbell, a close comey aide, was with him in los angeles when comey learned watching cnn, that he had been fired. They said we have a letter from the president that was dropped off at the Visitors Center at fbi head quarters. At the Visitors Center indicating youve been fired. They said theres something else. Theres something attached to the letter. Theres a lengthy explanation from the Deputy Attorney general laying out a case against you. Reporter was he surprised at rosenstein . He was very surprised. Not that they were friends or you would know what to expect, because none of this was telegraphed. Reporter do you think he knew it was going to be used by the president as the rationale, publicly, for fir