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Hour? >> they do change very quickly, brian. we standby our reporting that the president made a decision he want to remove h.r. mcmaster. figures out how to execute this decision which is to try to preserve humility and wants to make sure there is somebody in place to take his seat when he vacates it. we were told by sever senior officials he decided to make this and they have been talking about this decision as being final in their conversations inside the west wing. so that's our reporting at this hour. we standby it. >> phil, how is dangling a departure for long -- this is a

The president now says, he says this was not the language used despite the fact that the white house did not deny it to you or anyone over night and now every news organization is massively reporting. >> i will standby reporting yesterday, we took the comments that we want to report directly to the white house and told them what we are going to say and we did not get a denial, we confirmed it multiple places and multiple outlets and cnn confirmed it as well. this comes 15 hours later, the president obviously has the right to express his opinion on this story as he has on twitter. we standby re...

The face of the strong white house denial is do you standby your reporting? >> we do. my colleague setout three months ago to write a story that sort of chronicled president trump's efforts on immigration. how that effort had evolved from the time he was a candidate and through the first year of the presidency. and as part of that reporting we began to hear about this meeting from multiple people. and, you know, we heard different stories, and as a reporter you put it together the best you can from both people that were in the meeting, people that had talked to folks who were in the meeting. a...

How many people had come into the united states from those countries. and that's when he made sort of derogatory comments first about the haitians and then about the nigerians and others. so we're confident. we standby our sourcing and we're confident that story is true. the white house did push back very aggressive late last night and early this morning saying many of the cabinet secretaries that were in the meeting at the time saying it didn't happen. not saying the meeting didn't happen but the inflammatory comments weren't said. i encourage people to look at the entire story because there ...

Point. >> it's related to this. i understand you're not going to speak about some of the swirl surround iing this issue. does the white house believe that he can still lead an impartial investigation? or would the money strags support some of the calls for an undependent committee to investigate this? >> first of all, i would question what this is. because as i have mentioned countless times from this podium, there's two issues at hand. there's multiple. number one, there's any action with respect to russia itself and every sung l person that's been briefed by director comey in particular and ...