Closer to war with north korea. Then, fire and fury hits washington with bombshell obligations. Steve bannons attack on the trump family leave the president to distance himself from the former top advisor. Will sit down with the First Campaign manager who continues to be a close advisor to the president. A Fox News Sunday exclusive. I knew reports the fbi is investigating the Clinton Foundation. And that mr. Trump tried to head off the russian probe. Everything they do is proper. Will ask our panel which side is a more legal jeopardy. Our power play of the week, getting to know the nations for my entire life ive tried to use the gifts that god gave me to improve health. All, right now on Fox News Sunday. Hello again from fox news in washington. Resident trump the Republican Leaders met at camp david this weekend to plan the legislative agenda for 2018. That was overshadowed by a new book about the president. The report that some of the top advisers dont think is out for the job. Well get reaction from corriveau and oski, he remains in close contact with trump. Then mike pompeo joins us. Lets start with the book, the author, michael wolf reports that almost everybody on the president s team, in his cabinet, question whether the president has weather the president has the mental and emotional fitness to be the commanderinchief. They say he is a moron, an idiot. This man does not read, does not listen. Hes like the pinball, just shooting off the side. A cia director, you give the president his daily intelligence brief almost every morning. What you see . The statements are absurd. Your fantasy. Eyes with the president yesterday, with the most every day. We talk about some serious matters facing america and the world. The president is engaged. He understands the complexity. He asked difficult questions of our team so he can make an informed policy decisions. I watch and take information that the intelligent Link Committee delivers and put that into policies for america. These conversations are frankly beneath the conversation. These are the conversation. Only because you made it so. Chris while because michael wolf has. Fitness to be president. Completely fit. I pause because its a ludicrous question. These are from people have not yet accepted the fact that President Trump is the United States president. Were gonna move on with our mission. Were focused on keeping americans safe. Things like this book are passing moments in history. Well get on and america will appreciate the good work that we do. Chris the author quotes an email that was representative of the view of one of the president s top economic advisers, gary. Trump wont read anything. Not one page memos, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with World Leaders because his board. Back in may, youre quoted saying one way to keep the president engaged in your Intelligence Briefings is with killer graphics. Absolutely. I love killer graphics and so you chris. Its how you convey information. This president reads material we provide to him. He listens closely to the president. The former president did not take a daily briefing. President is an avid consumer and we do our best to convey that to him nearly every day. A year ago highest the president elect what was he was only taken an intelligence briefing only once a week. This is what he said. Im a smart person. I dont have to be told the same thing every single day for the next eight years. I dont need that. Yesterday morning, he fired back at questions regarding his Mental Fitness with this. Throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being smart. Not smart, but genius and a very stable genius. I say this respectfully. I understand your impatience with dealing this but cia do psychological profiles a World Leaders return the. What would you say about a world leader who refuse to himself as a very stable genius. I will not dignify that question with response. Some in his lead in the United States of america and engages with the Intelligence Community in ways that are sophisticated. He deals with complex issues and i have great admiration and respect for him keeping america safe. And President Trump is completely capable of working alongside of us. Chris by raising questions about the president s fitness in a sense the president became a part of it, making the big topic this week, has this book weekend our country and our standing around the world . No. Okay, lets move on lets turn to the protests in iran. Against the government. The revolutionary guard says this morning there put these demonstrations down. Is that true . And what you make of the fact that our closest ear pain allies failed to support us when we tried to rally around the protesters . This issue is very real. The Economic Conditions are not good. Thats what caused the people to take to the streets. President trump made very clear that we support the iranian people i want them to have a voice and better economic and living conditions. The Iranian Regime threatens violence and waste their monies in places like lebanon, syria, and yemen, making them the Worlds Largest state sponsor of terror. Its a backward looking regime. Instead of a regime looking forward to making the lives of our people better. Honey crushed violet revolts, or others, or the ayatollah, each themselves as running a bureaucracy. You see the iranian people revolt. Have the authorities of the reigning regime, have they put on the protests . Theres still going on in the low level. There has been a violence, these protests are not behind us. Chris the Iranian State prosecutor said this is the work of the cia. He talked specifically about your top man on the iran desk. False. This was the reigning people started and created and continued by them. Demanding Better Living conditions in a break from the racine. You have been very clear in your statements about the regime. President trump has been clear about it. Why is that our top european allies failed to support us. In france joined with russia and china and said this is not a fit subject to bring up. My sense is that were in the same position. When i talked to my counterparts in europe there with us in working to figure out ways to counter irans behavior throughout the world. We are working together with them in that effort. Chris the president faces some deadlines in the next ten days weather not to stay in the iran dealer reimpose sanctions. Congress is working on legislation. Could they do something that would make it sensible and reasonable to stay in . They could. This is not my lane directly. They could take some of the weaknesses from the agreement from the joint comprehensive agreement, extend deadlines, put sanctions in place were could really happen. And ultimately the president would have to make a decision to remain in. Chris we talk about changes, one would be supposedly they would say the Firm Deadlines of what we could do it. We could remove some timelines and say if they meet certain thresholds the sanctions go back in place. The agreement itself covered only a set of behaviors, other things present were real threats that help wee that we can countr together. Chris north created south korean officials will hold their First Official tocsin two years to discuss Relations Just ahead of the winter olympics. This was the initial negative reaction to nikki haley. We will not take the talk seriously if they dont do something to ban all Nuclear Weapons and north korea. Chris are these talks a good thing, or do you see them as an effort and what would be north korea trying to drive a wedge between south korea and the United States. The North Koreans are in a tough spot. President trump has made very clear that they want denuclearization of the peninsula. So the original trying to find space and come up for air whether being strangled. Their behaviors unacceptable. This is part of that will see how the talks go. And what they can resolve with respect to the olympics. The american position is unchanged. You sound as if you have grave skepticism as to how sincere north korea is. North koreans are behaving around of fear. There being concerned that america is serious about denuclearize in the peninsula. Theyre trying to find a place to reach out. Well have to wait and see how it goes. Chris kim jongun and the head of the regime industry used a statement when he reached out talked about the fact that he had a Nuclear Button on his desk and President Trump responded with the street. Will someone from his depleted of food starve regime please inform him that i too have a new clear button but it is a much bigger and powerful one than his. I my butt works. How is that helpful to get in this backandforth taunts with the leader from whom youd judge is unstable. Is the first time in a long time that its consistent. That tweet is consistent what were trying to communicate. Unlike before, were intent on resolving it. Its our conviction that resolving this diplomatically is the answer. Vote were willing to do what it takes to make sure people in this country are not at risk from kim jongun having a weapon. Chris how do you respond to people who are critical of the tweet and say, it lowers the threshold and trivializes the possibility of a clear royal war . We disagree. 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If you like trump youll dismiss that book. But not since the vietnamese monk for gasoline on himself and 63 lit a match, have we seen someone immolate himself as steve bannon did. Its clear this was based on a large number of interviews taped was steve bannon. Including chapter 21 were all these ugly things he says about trumps family are dinner with wolf in his apartment in arlington and theres clearly a tape recorder running. The biggest victim of the book and by the book is steve bannon. His hopes of organizing a movement, raising millions of dollars unpacking candidates i may be running himself for president in 2020 if trump didnt run, all these desires and dreams are up in smoke. Chris briefly, banning, whatever you think you think hes a rational guy, why would he do this . Because he is a gigantic ego. The problem for the president s not this book. Its his own quotes. It is not the book, its his behavior. Going out and tweeting and saying im a very stable genius and like, really smart is not helpful. It to more attention to the book and dominated the conversation when theres better thanks for him to talk about. When you Say Something like that you wonder why youre so defensive about it. Chris this book comes out just as the president was riding high with the passage of the tax bill, with a long list of good economic news. How much is the book and the reaction to it from off their game as they prepare for a tough month with the government running out of money and 12 days the challenging Midterm Election. It overshadowed everything republicans had hope to spend this week talking about. No serious effort made by the white house to sell the public on the tax overhaul which is on popular right now. There is no effort to lay the groundwork publicly on a spending bill. Little public conversation about immigration and daca. This book, based on the content of it was always going to be news. It wouldve reach this level of the president ankle after steve bannon. So much of the coverage is driven by the president s actions. Thats within his control. He cannot avoid a fight. If he feels like somebodys going after him he has to mix it up. He does not feel like he is above wobbling with the former advisor. Not to mention his his lawyers threatened to sue steve bannon and the publisher and the author, which was just like, thank you. The first key government deadline is to find a way to keep the government funded otherwise well have a shutdown. Democrats say no deal on spending unless there is a deal on the dreamers. Yesterday President Trump laid out his conditions for that. We want the wall and this can happen or will have nothing. We want to get rid of chain migration and the lottery syst system. Chris democrats say we can go for Border Security but not for a while. We found out the cost of the wall for the first phase would be 18 billion over ten years. How can they make an agreement to keep the government funded when you have these questions. I think everybody is asking the same questions. Democrats want this done before they agree to a longterm budget deal. The president wants something that theyre not going to be able to approver vote for. We heard the two Senate Republicans in the Bipartisan Working Group who they thought would come up with a bipartisan deal walked away from the deal. James tillerson, they left because they said democrats are not willing to give on Border Security. The president is doubling down on his rhetoric demanding the wall. Im skeptical democrats will take this to a shutdown because i had a chance to in december and they blinked. Im skeptical theyll hold the line. Chris so the immigration people and hispanics are saying, this is your time for leverage. You have to get this. Youre suggesting the democrats will not do that. They said they were do that before christmas that they would not support a spending deal or agreement before the holiday break. Yet a number did vote for shortterm spending bill. Many republicans thought this is what the democrats would die on. The sense im getting this and maybe they can put it off and deal with it later in march. Chris theres a split within the republican party. House speaker ryan pushes for welfare reform the reports are that the President Senate leader mcconnell have cooled on the i want to lead with infrastructure. To have any sense of the order and priorities. What are the chances for any serious legislation this year . A better chance for democrats to hop on board the spending reformer welfare reform. When i was talking to Top Republican sources theres an were doing the tax cut and that we need fiscal discipline. I was skeptical saying the president s appetite for the seems limited. He came out on the campaign trail hard against reform. Will he really followup a tax bill with welfare reform. Hes backing off of that with Mitch Mcconnell being his conduit talking about infrastructure spending. Chris the first Midterm Election for the party with the president in office is always tough with the exception of you in 2002 with george w. Bush, how much trouble are republicans and as they head toward the midterm. Big trouble. The president s approval is very low. I think well see two republican agendas in 18. The unified republican agenda the which will focus on infrastructure and maybe a daca deal. And then an agenda where they tackle things like policy and welfare reform. So they can say we pass to come i voted for and now its in the senate. Theres always been tension between the house and senate. This year they will use that tension to say were working, theyre not, but for me. In the seneca go to heck. Im legislated up that way. We will see you in a little bit. When we come back, President Trumps First Campaign manager in the top outside advisor on the controversial new book. Mom, i have to tell you something. Dad, one second i was driving and then the next. They just didnt stop and then. Im really sorry. I wrecked the subaru. I wrecked it. Youre ok. Thats all that matters. vo a lifetime commitment to getting them home safely. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Chris a look outside the beltway at savannah, georgia after the heaviest snowfall in three decades. Back to the fallout from michael wolfs book on the Trump Presidency joining us from new hampshire, President Trumps First Campaign manager christo chief strategist for America First action. Corey, what you think of the book and how accurate is it . Well happy new year. This is a book of fiction. Not only is it not accurate, so many misrepresentations its not be taken seriously. Look at the critics of the author, clearly not people who have been friendly or supportive of this president or the administration, they called into question the simple fact that this is inaccurate. Mr. Rove claimed at the beginning looks like they have taken liberties to put things in the book that may not have happened. But he lets the leade reader de. Chris here is what i certain of the book where michael wolf describes your relationship with the president s two sons, don junior and eric and also jared kushner. It says you regarded both predators in the brotherinlaw with rolling on the floor content. Not only were don junior and eric stupid, and jerry, but nobody knew what about politics. The fact is, you do not think much of don junior who help for cialis campaign manager. Its important, mr. Wolf and i never spoke about this book. Where he comes up with these assertions are completely made up. Ive never spoken to him about this. The, contact better my book. I think eric and don are advocates for their father. I will close working relationship with chair kushner. I respect what hes done by leaving his business and coming to government service. These are made up accusations from a person who never spoke to me. Chris okay. One could argue your views some of these people were known to others. Have a lot of respect to but your lack of given your views is not one of the things i agree with. Honestly, did you ever refer to jarrett as the butler . Up never done that. That is such speculation. Schneider been printed. Like i heard on the chapter of the see pack of income he never called anybody to talk about it. I never sat down. So for him to say that i called anybody anything without talking to me is the injustice about publishing a book. The guys a liar. Ive been very clear, i dont think i should been fired by the Trump Campaign after happens to him through 38 primaries and caucuses but the family made a decision to having moved out in june of 16. And we now live with that. But i never spoke to wall. Was i disappointed in june of 2016 . You bet. But i did everything humanly possible to make sure the agenda moves forward i have. You also think if you had not been fired trump wouldve won more than 306 votes. I love to say that i couldve delivered new hampshire. I wanted to see him when my home state. It was amazing victory that he gets all the credit for. I think there couldve been a role for me at the campaign. Michael wolf basically says all the people around the president question his fitness to be the commanderinchief. The one description that everyone gave. Everyone has in common. They all say, he is like a child. And what they mean by that is, he has a need for immediate gratification. Its all about him. Chris your reaction . I spent 18 hours a day seven days a week next to canada trump. Ive had the privilege of continuing to speak to him as he assumed the office. Never have i seen this. Michael has not spent any time with the candidate. He wasnt with us on the campaign trail. Look at what this man has achieved throughout his lifetime, its not instant gratification. Longterm success. Weather books, television are running for office. Two years ago three years ago this week i joined the Trump Organization and team to start planning that run for president. Thats not instant gratification. What he achieved was unparalleled success. It took too long years of dedication and hard work by canada trump to do something nobody thought he could do. Have talked long time too. Weve talked often since then. Ive read your book and clearly your admiration for admiration is there. And in no way do you question his fitness. Quite the contrary. You say hes kind of a genius. I dont know if you use those words or not. He also talked about some behavior that is questionable. I want to discuss that. You say the four major food groups on the air force one were mcdonalds, kentucky fried chicken, pizza and diet coke. This is what you say about what happens when he with the system. The mode he switches into when things are not going his way can feel like an allout assault. It would break most hard men and women into little pieces. Because getting your face ripped out. You talked about instance when he gets upset his in a helicopter and he orders the pilot to fly down so low that he can get Cell Phone Service to chew out paul manafort. Have in your face ripped off as the president is because we feel that the staff. He woke up every day who put 18 or 20 hours a day in. When something didnt go right is because he wasnt given the effort. The staff failed him. The microphone didnt work properly, something we should of had done for him didnt work. He expects and deserves the best. When i feel that the campaign manager. He let me know. I didnt take it personally. I wanted to work harder. I took that as a level of professionalism the first me to be better. You have to remember, at the significant earlystage therefore five people against the republican juggernauts. They had hundreds of people. Were doing this with a smaller team. We had to be perfect every day. When we werent he held us accountable. Lets talk about accountability. Steve bannon. You have generally gotten along with him. How do you explain him accusing don junior and jared of treason for their meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower and suggesting so may have been involved with moneylaundering. Theres no justification for that. I know don junior and jerry questioner. They both love their country. They have given up so much. Contact rusty. Why would he do that. I cannot justify what he said. If thats what he said then he owes the entire trump family an apology if thats what he said. And if thats what he said, shame on him. So otto bound to accuse someone of treason. So out of character for garlic steve bannon. If thats what he said, shame on him. Thats outline. Chris he was the president at camp david yesterday about the author michael wolf and steve bannon. I never interviewed with him in the white house. He was never in the oval office. We did not have an interview. Sloppy steve was in the white house quite a bit thats why is now looking for a job. He said he and bannon are done, the billionaire backers have drummer dealings with him. Thirty seconds, what is Steve Bannons place republican politics now . The only one ahead of the presidenrepublican party is dond trump. They did not vote for bannon or anybody else. They voted for trump. If bannon wants to get on the trump team and join with the president to make sure we hold the house in 18 or expand our majority, then hes welcome to do that. If you want to run an agenda antithetical to the president s theres no place for you. Donald trump is the head of our country and hes the agenda the American People voted for. Chris thank you. Thanks for get into the snow new hampshire. Thank you very much. Chris President Trump tonights he did anything wrong in trying to stop Jeff Sessions for recusing himself in the rush investigation. Patrick woke up with a sore back. But hes got work to do. So he took aleve this morning. If hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping for more pills right now. Only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Tylenol cant do that. Aleve. All day strong. All day long. And for pain relief and a good nights rest, try aleve pm for a better am. I just want to find a used car start at the new carfax. Com show me used trucks with one owner. Pretty cool. [laughs] ah. Ahem. Show me the carfax. Start your used car search at the allnew carfax. Com. Everything of dennis 100 proper. Found after a year there has been no collusion. Localism between us and the russians. There has been collusion between Hillary Clinton, the d c of the russians. Leland the president. Chris the press and take an obvious pleasure and reports that the fbi is still investigating Hillary Clinton. Lets start with the news that the fbi resumed its investigation of the Clinton Foundation and allegations of pay to play more than a year ago. Now gop senators want them to take a look at possible criminal investigation, Christopher Steele who is behind the russian dossier. It looks like Hillary Clinton is back as a possible target of fbi investigations. I was still point there is some evidence that he may have lied to federal officials in the fbi. If you did that, that would be a crime. Chris understand if youre going to go after George Papadopoulos on michael flynn. This if its a problem for trumpet should be a problem for anyone else. For mrs. Clinton what youll hear is this is going back relitigating an old site. The president is having tantrums on twitter of the Justice Department is responding in a political way. Republicans will says there were allegations in 2016 reported by cnn there fbi agents and offices looking into the Clinton Foundations. Those efforts were squashed by obama era Justice Department officials. There might be something there that was not fully investigated properly. Chart defenders would say this is legitimate. Chris under heavy pressure from republicans the fbi has agreed to turned over documents and allow witnesses to testify in the fbis conduct of the clinton and trump investigations. They met with House Speaker ryan and he demanded they cooperate with these investigations. Justice Department Officials went to talk with ryan about witnessing cruise to bring them to capitol hill. They didnt want to turn them over but paul ryan stuck with the chairman and said we need this information. Its congresses duty to oversee the executive branch. I think it was a tentative truth just two days later we saw Lindsey Graham and grassley come after the fbi and say they should be investigating the author of the dossier that triggered this russian scandal. Thats not small potatoes. Grassley and graham are not seen as partisan hacks. Their oversight to a lot of people on both sides of the aisle people respect. We also saw mark matos and jim jordan said they want Jeff Sessions to step aside because they dont like the way its being handled. This will continue. The five between the fbi republicans on the hill will get uglier. Chris the democrats who had no love lost for sessions say yes to stay there because they dont want to see anything interfere with a special counsel. On this week that the white house lobbied sessions not to recuse himself in march of 2017 when this was coming out that he had on disclose meetings. When you look at the lobbying in the firing of james comey, when you look at the president s role in helping to write that air force one statement that turned out to not be true about the meeting with don junior. How close are you getting to a case of obstruction of justice . On the first two i dont think they have any problems. Most lawyers i talked to say that ocr case could be made unless theres an underlying criminal intent. The question of the statement being drafted, everyone involved in drafting that will have to answer questions to the fbi and if they go with earlier statements they made about it. Lets be clear, in 1978 but Congress Passed an ethics law 7e members were still fresh in specific rows were required by that law for recloser. As a result known for the Justice Department should participate in this with any personal organization involved in the time it subject to the investigation. That means a close identification with an elected official or candidate arising for personal advisor. Sessions was the first one worse may disagree, but i read that and say he had no other course except to recuse himself. Chris the presence lawyer has been saying this is an going to go away. Then they said it will go away early in 2018. They say the president is completely in the clear. As this continues to come out other quite so confident . They remain confident in the president not having done anything wrong conclusion, is firing are pushing sessions to not recuse himself. Theyre less confident this is not investigation ramping up because the targets and the deadlines they keep saying have passed. The president gets frustrated with that. If you lawyers are telling you its it wrapping up and it doesnt, it becomes quite frustrating. They expect their be living with this for some other time. Realistically when you talk to learners that other time they expect this to be a lengthy investigation. Two years of the Trump Administration that could be tied up in the complex investigation. Chris anyone i have talked with so theres never a timeline they can take whatever time they need. The only thing i can figure is to keep the president controlled sandra a few more weeks. When you put a few deadlines on there, the calendar turned and you know that thanksgiving and christmas has passed. One thing to watch the sheer is how the president responds to the realization that more people will be called in to talk to mueller. Stay focused on your job. Compartmentalize it. Stir focused on your mission until be expected its wrap up soon or quickly. To the degree that you keep focusing on it the president is not serving himself or the people of america well. 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In the 60s luther perry warned about the dangers of smoking and in the 80s c everett bought political opposition to inform the country about eight. Lets stop rumors and misinformation about eight. Chris sometimes in your job science bumps up against politics, how do you balance those . Science has got to be the key for the Surgeon General. There is a saying, chris. People need to know you care before they care what you know. Chris adams please instead of those zerosum game where one side wins and the other loses, Public Health is about Building Partnerships on climate change. We know the science says that man is having an impact on the climate but we also know that people are dying from not having jobs and not been able to see their families. Chris whether gun violence is a Public Health issue. Gun control, i think, in and of itself, is a term that turns people off. Im interested as Surgeon General and gun safety. Chris most pressing problem is the opioid crisis. Ninetyone people a day die from overdoses. The nations Life Expectancy declining for the second year in a row. Back in october president to declare it a Public Health emergency. We will defeat this opioid epidemic. It will be defeated. Chris but so far the Trump Administration has not kept his promise to ask congress for more funding. Drug addiction is personal for you. Your brother is in prison. My younger brother, philip suffers from addiction. It is painful to share but it helps people understand that if this can happen to the Surgeon General and his brother can happen to everybody. Chris vicepresident pence did adams as Indiana Health commissioner as governor. Jerome adams led from the front. Chris and he saw how the doctor dealt with an outbreak of hiv in a deeply conservative rural county. The Exchange Program is extremely politically controversial. Chris adams convinced the lawn postman in business community. 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