From over. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts begins our coverage another busy day as the president and his team try to formulate a plan to save his extreme vetting executive order. At the same time, hundreds of people at the white house for another visit of a foreign leader. At the white house today, a warm embrace for japans Prime Minister shinzo abe, not long after President Trump took a flamethrower to the ninth Circuit Court of appeals on twitter, calling their ruling last night, a disgraceful decision. Thank you very much. In a press conference with abe, saying he will not be deterred from his prime directive to keep the country safe. We are going to keep the country safe, we are going to do whatever is necessary to keep the country safe. Sources stated white house might give up on the idea of lifting the temporary restraining order and may not appeal the case. Instead, the white house will work to get to the constitutionality of the band. We will be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional security for our country. You will be seeing that sometime next week. In addition, we will continue to go through the court process. And ultimately community i have no doubt we will win that case. Also writing a new executive order that would create specific carveouts for permanent legal residents and possibly visa holders that would allow them to come and go. There are other executive orders in the works, including one that would keep the Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay open indefinitely. But the president appears confident he can put in place strict measures to screen immigrants. I feel totally confident that we will have tremendous security for the people of the United States. We will be extreme vetting, which is a term that i developed early in my campaign because i saw what was happening. The court case was a distraction as the present welcome to second foreign leader to the white house. Security and trade were at the top of the agenda for the meeting with shinzo abe. President trump making a veiled reference to one of his pet peeves, americas 70 billion trade deficit with japan paid on the economy, we will seek a trading relationship that is free, fair, and reciprocal. Benefiting both of our countrie countries. Abe, who spent the last 30 years in government and politics, praised President Trumps uphill battle to win the election. Translator i would like to cd congratulate the president. The president reciprocated, saying after the meeting in trump tower, the two had become best friends. The president offering abe the rare opportunity to travel with him aboard marine one and then air force one, working Weekend Getaway at the president s maralago club. The chocolate leaders will conduct much of their diplomacy on the golf course, shinzo abe said he would love to come back and play golf with President Trump. The trickle of them will get together for trickle rounds of golf, a lot of golf course diplomacy. One round at the Trump National course on jupiter island, another one out at the Trump International course in west palm beach. We are just hearing another developer and now in this whole case of the temporary restraining order. One judge from the ninth Circuit Court of appeals has asked the court to vote on whether or not the temporary restraining order should be voted on or at least heard by the court. An 11 judge panel, they have asked both parties, that would be washington state, minnesota, and the white house to submit briefs on whether or not should this should be heard. This thing keeps developing moment by moment. John, in a new cycle that never ends, i understand that President Trump is still talking about voter fraud in the november election. What can you tell us about that . The other day, he had a number of senators over to the white house for a session on discussing the Supreme Court nominee judge neal gore such paid kelly ayotte, the former senator from New Hampshire who lost her bid for another term back in november, is shepherding him around, she was here at the white house, according to sources, the president said she would have won her seat in New Hampshire, again, had people not voted illegally from outofstate. So the president keeping this controversy alive. We still havent heard yet about an investigation been lost into the registration of voter fraud, we should hear that so now that sender Jeff Sessions has been sworn in senator Jeff Sessions has been sworn in. I imagine that friends will come down soon. Chris jeff roberts reporting on another busy day. John, thank you. John, one of the problem the president is facing is a flood f leaks from within his own administration. Fox news media analyst howard kurtz is here to talk about that tonight. Are these leaks just embarrassing or are some of them doing serious damage to the president and his team . They are taking a toll. Washington post reporting that Michael Flynn discussed u. N. Sanctions with the Russian Ambassador before President Trump took office. Interpreted by some officials as inappropriate and potentially illegal. Yesterday writers quoted sources saying the russian leader raise the question of a new theory. According to errico, trump paused to ask his aides with the treaty was. Such information is so closely held, clear that some are trying to embarrass this president. Chris it seems that many of these leaks are not only targeting the president but also Top White House officials. Take sean spicer after Melissa Mccarthy played him as a hothead on saturday night live. There were a spate of stories questioning whether he might be on trouble, a white house official tells me it President Trump has given his white house secretary positive feedback. Some of this, chris, being fueled by the search for a Communications Director, crazy for spicer to do both jobs. Chris who else has been on the receiving end . A gusher of leaks about steve bannon supposedly with too much influence and Reince Priebus and Michael FlynnMichael Flynn allegedly annoying the president and others questioning the clout of jared kushner. Many of these stories seem to be driven by, lets say, conflicting agendas. Chris you and i have been around this town quite a bit. Does it seem, of course, only three weeks into this presidency, to be a big problem inside the trump white house. Sure, these leaks are par for the course, but usually authorized leaks that make the president look good. A frontpage piece which trump dismissed as fiction, painted him as a lonely figure, a telling detail about him wandering around in his bathrob bathrobe. That went viral when spicer said, the president doesnt wear a bathrobe. Some of this descends to the level of silliness. Chris how we, im going to keep you here, we are awaiting a feed, talking about a new cycle that never ends, President Trump, we saw in john roberts report, was on air force one. He apparently took his wife, melania, on a tour, because she had never been on air force one. She was taking a tour of the plane. It is pretty impressive, having been on it once myself. Took her all the way back to the rear of the plane which is where the press sits and basically conducted a press conference, a Mini Press Conference about a number of the issues that came up in his press conference with Prime Minister abe and that have come up on the number of other issues over the last few days. We are awaiting that feed. We think it is going to come in a matter of moments. Your thoughts about that as we wait for this feed of a press gaggle that went on Onboard Air Force one just a short time ago. In his press availability with the japanese Prime Minister, trump seemed diplomatic, unusually restrained, as he was with theresa may. I have the feeling he had more to say about these issues. Next opportunity he gets, on the plane, doesnt usually talk to reporters, didnt this case. I think he wanted to address this question of the decision, perhaps not to appeal the appellate ruling on the travel ban. Chris again, we are awaiting a feed. Coming off air force one. The president landed in florida a short time ago. Here is the president and the first lady. Are you comfortable . What . [indistinct speech] you spoke about, going to win this court battle. President trump the unfortunate part is, it takes time, but well win that battle. We also have a lot of other options, including an brandnew order. Could very well be. But id like to surprise you. We need speed for reasons of security. It could very well be that we d do. Reporter what are some of the changes . President trump very little. In honor of the decision, we will perhaps do that. Monday or tuesday. Reporter new security measures, is that separate from potential late speed it we are going to have very, very strong vetting, people that want to be here for good reasons. Reporter what do you think about reports that Michael Flynn was in contact with russian officials before President Trump i havent seen it, what report is that . Reporter [indistinct question] President Trump better be careful. Thank you. Thank you very much. Chris a little difficult to hear all of that, but we had gotten a read out beforehand. Let me briefly recap what President Trump was saying aboard air force one. After taking that tour with his wife, melania, turning into a mini News Conference. He was asked what he is going to do with the executive order, he said they are considering whether to write a new one. He wants to have extreme vetting. Also deciding whether or not he is going to pursue the case in court or just write a new executive order and start from scratch on that. He was asked about a washington report that we are going to tell you about in a few moments that despite his earlier announcements, Michael Flynn may have talked to the Russian Ambassador before taking office in december just as president obama was issuing tougher sanctions against russia because of its interference in the election. It now turns out that apparently Michael Flynn did talk, despite his earlier denials to the, to e Russian Ambassador. The last thing he was asked about were questions by the iranian president that iran would defend itself, and he said, theyd better be careful. So he was firing back at any kind of implied threat from the iranian president. As i say, youve got to be working fulltime to cover this president. Speaking of which, President Trumps pick to oversee the repeal and replacing of obamacare is now on the job. Former congressman tom price was sworn in today as health and Human Services secretary after an earlymorning senate confirmation. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel tells us tonight that health care is one of several big challenges this year, and the clock is ticking. Republicans have promised to repeal and replace obamacare, finish tax reform, and confirm a Supreme Court justice, all bigticket items when russias y polarized. We will have an incentivebased policy much more so than we have right now. We are working with congress, working with paul ryan, working with mitch mcconnell, and i think people are going to be very, very impressed. The ayes are 42, the nays are 57. 57. Dr. Tom price delete health and Human Services. Next week will start with an agreement on steven mnuchin, Linda Mcmahon to head the Small Business administration. There is nothing, nothing, and mr. Mnuchins records to suggest he could stand up to wall street. Our friends are trying to slow walkers. Clearly, we should have a cabinet in place by now. Under normal circumstances, we would. That would allow us to be back on the legislative calendar. Among the other deadlines, the debt ceiling due to expire in midmarch but can have some flexibility. Government funding is due to run out february 28, congress will need to pass another continuing resolution for the remaining bills. Then there is reauthorization of the federal Aviation Administration come up, must be signed into law with another goal of moving toward a nextgeneration Aviation System added to it. And individual members of congress have their own priorities as well. There are a lot of things we want to work with the administration on, we want to work with them on tax reform. I want to work with them on a bilateral trade agreement with the united kingdom. The calendar gets tighter with recesses and work. Creates when lawmakers are back in their home states. There is also an awareness that if republicans falter, democrats will be ready to pounce. The incoming election doesnt generally farewell for them. There is a lot for us to be excited for looking forward. Called one party controlled a onceinalifetime opportunity, but that does not mean it is easy. Chris . Chris mike emanuel reporting from capitol hill. Lets take a closer look at some of the challenges President Trump faces and pushing his policy agenda. We have Fox Team Coverage tonight, trish ragan and new york on what tax reform might look like. First, the hurry up on obamacare. Good evening, carl. Hi, chris. This really is a milestone. The Trump Administration has a new leader in their push to dismantled the Affordable Care act. Congratulations. After the new health and Human Services secretary was sworn in, the president suggested the repeal and replacement of obamacare is accelerating. We finally have our secretary, now we get down to the final strokes. Second price as a colossal task ahead. He made these two promises. Document working with you and every Single Member of congress to make sure we have the highest level Quality Health care and every single american has access. We will commit to making certain they dont lose coverage under whatever replacement plan comes forward. As a republican congressman, price was one of many to offer a Replacement Health care plan. So far, his former house colleagues have failed to find a consensus. Paul ryan has also indicated another big step will come in less than seven weeks. We want to be moving that by the end of the first quarter. Some g. O. P. Senators have argued no appeal should advance without a simultaneous and superior replacement. No one is talking about repealing anything until there is a concrete, practical alternative to offer americans in its place. Huge part of the replacement revolves around medicare and medicaid. President trump addressed block granting so services could be tailored at a more local level. Price back to that too. Democrats say block granting medicaid is a dangerous application of federal responsibility. Price had an answer for that too. Our commitment is to make it so that they have that coverage or greater. That is the commitment you are making . That is the commitment. Heading the center for medicare and medicaid services. Her confirmation hearing is next week. And pushing obamacare, the last commitment, if you like your doctor, thats not kept. Republicans aware of that and struggling not to overpromise nor under deliver. Chris . Chris karl, thank you. Then there is what we can expect from the president s selfdescribed bigleague repor report. Trish regan is a new york knicks. I want to talk to you because there has been some fear in the markets that tax cuts could take a backseat to other issues like immigration. Does the market believe President Trump will follow through on his process . I bring this up because markets clearly love this idea this week. Record closes all around today, the dow gained 97, the s p 500 was up 8, the dow was up one percentage point, the s p 500 gained eight tenths. Nasdaq jumped one and a fifth. How confident are the markets that trump tax reform is going to happen . Very optimistic rig now. This is why you have seen upside, especially over today and yesterday, because donald trump has described these tax cuts that should be coming forward. The plan, anyway, as phenomenal, big league as he mentioned. A hope among traders that it really will surface. In other words, you will see something significant. They wanted it forever. They have wanted this for a long time. There has been some help with the Obama Administration that at least there would be some agreement among both sides that you could get a Corporate Tax cut through. It didnt happen, and so now the expectation is that donald trump will be able to push this through. Corporate tax cuts, individual tax cut, he is promising the whole shebang, and wall street really wants it. Chris that lays out the big question. Trump wants it, republicans in congress wanted, but to get it through the senate, you will need some democratic buyin. Well, will be followed the president s lead . Its going to be tough. You will have the elizabeth warrens out there that will say, lining the pockets of fat cats that dont need to be lied. The other thing that needs to be kept in mind, you may not see all of the republicans fall in line because you have traditional conservatives who dont like the idea of spending money. Even tax cuts, to a certain extent in the here and now, are effectively a bit of a spend because the government is not going to get as much revenue in its pocket immediately. They are going to be looking for concessions in terms of other things you can cut from the budget. Right now, donald trump, he has indicated he wants to do some pretty significant spending. That wall is going to cost a lot of money, chris. The infrastructure that he is looking to enact, going to be rather significant. When you combine that along with the tax cuts, he may see some political pushback. Hes got work to do. Its the one trish regan from the fox business network. Have a good weekend. Up next, why some Congressional Republicans are being soured with booze at town hall chris the early returns on President Trump are not encouraging for Many Republican lawmakers taking a break from d. C. Our correspondent shows us what happened with one of them met with his constituents. A town hall meeting went sideways in concert of your top or fifth term republican chavez. Jason chaffetz. A Political Science professor at byu tried to attend but couldnt get in. I think it was a combination of things. I think a number of people were there specifically trying to pressure Jason Chaffetz to put more pressure on donald trump. There is angst in chaffetzs district. Despite his move to seek disciplinary action for trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, there was concern whether as chair of the g. O. P. House oversight committee, chaffetz will investigate potentially questionable dealings in the Trump Administration. The town hall took place and reliably democratic salt lake city. A contrast from earlier in the week when chaffetz met facetoface with President Trump. It was an honor to meet with the president. Doesnt happen every day. First time i have been in the oval office. The republican from utah is not alone in finding frustration at home paid california g. O. P. Congressman Tom Mcclintock had to be escorted out of a town hall meeting recently. Rowdy protesters furious over his support for the travel ban. This is a long, long way away from any other kind of kumbaya out moment. The polarization, the political dysfunction, they are all going to continue. If all this looks and sounds familiar, think back to the election of president obama in 2008. Shortly after, came the birth of the tea party movement. Furious voters managed to replace republicans in washington with more conservative ones. Chris . Chris alicia, thank you. Betsy devos made her First Official visit to a public school, jefferson middle here in d. C. , but she had to deal with several dozen protesters, including some who physically blocked her path. She eventually made it inside. Devos says while she respects peaceful protests, she will not be deterred from doing her job. President Trumps National security advisor could be in trouble over a phone call he made before he was on the white house payroll. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has the latest on what the white house says was discussed in that phone call and why democrats want an investigation. The white house is walking back a previous denial with prior to the inauguration, the National Security advisor, former Lieutenant General mike flynn, spoke to the Russian Ambassador about sanctions imposed by the Obama White House as punishment for russian interference in the u. S. Election. The telephone call in question took place on december 29th, the sandy that president obama struck back at russia and expelled 35 russian diplomats. At the time, flynn told mike pence that he had not spoken about sanctions or the easing of sanctions with the Russian Ambassador. In turn, Vice President pence denied publicly trump team had spoken with the russian envoy about easing sanctions which, if true, could have been a violation of the logan act. I talked to general flynn yesterday, and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u. S. Sanctions. Against russia or the expulsion of diplomats. Today, the white house changed its tune about the denial. Flynn, indicated he had no recollection of discussing sanctions, but he can to be certain it never came up. The revised statement came after multiple news outlets reported the fbi has a transcript of the phone call and that current and former intelligence officials say, according to that transcript, flynn may have indicated the trump team would release those sanctions months in office. If they were talking about that, i say they will be a violent reaction in the congress. Ranking democrats have called for the white house to immediately suspend National Security advisor flynn and revoke access to classified information until the situation is fully investigated. Sources close to flynn told me moments ago that he does not remember talking about sanctions with the Russian Ambassador. If the conversation about sanctions did occur, flynn didnt bring it up and made no commitments either way. What concerns the more is this information, which should be classified, is leaking out. Chris . Chris jennifer, thank you. Four people in custody in france accused of plotting what a top official calls an imminent attack on french soil. Three men and a 16yearold girl were taken into custody in southern france. Police uncovered a makeshift laboratory with explosives and other ingredients for making a bomb. One official says it is believed the group was planning a suicide attack, but there is no word yet on a specific target. China was one of president trum President Trumps favorite punching bags on the campaign trail, et cetera beijing offbalance right after the election. But correspondent saying tonight that things seem to be straightened out, at least for now. And one phone call, President Trump diffuse mounting animosity between his administration and china, and all he did was reaffirm the policy the u. S. Has employed for more than 40 years. I had a very, very good conversation, as most of you know, yesterday with the president of china. I think we are on the process of getting along very well. The white house says, the two leaders discussed numerous topics and President Trump agreed at the request of president xi to honor the polic policy. Establish relations with communist china, the United States recognized one government for china and taiwan. The one in beijing. As recently as december, then thenpresident elect trump questioned the decision. I fully understand the one china policy, but i dont understand why we have to do that unless we make a deal with china having to do with other things, enclosing trade. He accused china of taking care of taking advantage of the United States and, as its ally, refusing to address an increasingly aggressive north korea. When china doesnt want to fix the problem in north korea, we say, youve got to fix it. Cant continue to allow china to rape our country. Saying they will only recognize the Chinese Government in beijing and the two countries can begin discussing their differences. Has always been the political basis for a sound, healthy chinau. S. Relationship. Now that the call has been made that the president reinforced the one china policy, he has cleared out the major issue that the chinese had with them, now the chinese have to respect him and offer something in return. There are direct military concerns as china builds uncontested islands of the south china sea. And the u. S. Navy is also operating in that region, and the day before the two president s spoke, also think that a Chinese MilitarySurveillance Aircraft crossed within 1,000 feet of a u. S. Navy reconnaissance plane. The pentagon says they believe that the incident was unintentional. The white house is also saying that President Trump, this afternoon, has reaffirmed the administrations claim into a u. S. Japan defense treaty, one they made clear includes east china sea. Chris thanks. President trump vows to keep the country safe despite yesterdays Court Setback blocking his travel ban. Well talk it over with the panel when we come right we will be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional security for our country. Youll be seeing that sometime next week. In addition, we will continue to go through the court process, and ultimately, i have no doubt we will win that particular case. President trump in a News Conference today with japans Prime Minister taking a much more subdued tone and reacting t court of appeals decision last night blocking his travel ban. Time to bring in our panel. Tim farley of sirius xm radio, a contributor for the hill, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. We were all struck by this, President Trump was very careful and much more subdued today, saying he is going to take new action next week to protect the homeland, not telling us what it is, also going to pursue his Legal Options in this travel ban case, but there was no talk about socalled judges, no talk about disgraceful rulings. Two questions. Your thoughts about his tone down rhetoric and what he might do next week. And electrical parts about that. They are taking their time. He has got a lot of different ways he can go on this travel timeout. And he is going to have a lot of innings in this game to go as well. On the legal challenge alone, there are several different paths they can take. What i want to see is this white house have the legal teamwork with the National Security team, and the Communications Team to really roll out wealthy next day. The next step. This issue, the issue of immigration and terrorism, this is going to be the issue of the trump presidency. It got to get it right. Chris the president seems to indicate on air force one that he might not pursue the case, to some degree, that might seem to be the best way to handle it. May be not just appeal this particular ruling, maybe go through the district level come up maybe this gets solved by the Supreme Court and may be, like you were saying, they come up with additional executive orders. They are going to be on this issue for the next four years. Charles, you said last night, as we were covering the ruling, you thought that the president needed to get off this subject, in your column today, you called his travel ban stupid but legal. So is he taking your advice . He never does. It would surprise me if he did this time. The point i wanted to make in the column was, there is the moratorium and there is the vetting. The vetting forget the support. It doesnt depend on a moratorium. The fact is, they have lost the case and the most liberal circuit in the country, at the district level, for now, the Supreme Court is deadlocked. It is likely to return. In other words, the state cases stacked against him. By playing a losing hand . Needs to do, think its exactly right, either rewrite the order or have a new one. A different playing field. Youve gotten a sense of feedback of the ninth circuit, you know what will pass muster mode. For example, from the beginning, you exclude the holders of green cards, and then what you do is, you slow the appeals case and you best walk denomination of gorsuch. There is no hurry unappealing this ruling. Put out something else, accelerate the vetting process, announce new procedures. There is a way to keep at people in these countries simply by the vetting process. You essentially have no central government. No information. So you can write the vetting process anyway that will honor the moratorium, even without calling a moratorium, and get the other justice on the court so that if it ever gets bumped up to the Supreme Court again, hell win. Chris i am sure they are sitting there in the white house right now taking notes. You did speak a little fast. That is why they have stenographers. Chris they can also just replay the tape. Lets turn to Kellyanne Conway, this continues to be a controversy going out on television yesterday from the White House Briefing room, counselor to the president , saying people should go out and buy ivana trump products, some Department Stores were dropping her lines. Sean spicer said that she had been counseled he wouldnt ask them what that meant. Within a short time, Kellyanne Conway was back with Martha Maccallum on fox news saying that, in fact, the president supported her and very much was unhappy with any suggestion that she had been counseled. Your thoughts about all of this . Is there an ethics problem in the white house . I dont know about the ethics problem itself. Even Jason Chaffetz and Elijah Cummings had signed a note on this one. The chair and the leader of the oversight and government reform committee, they were critical of what she had done. I think the bigger problem is, they dont have a Communications Director at the white house right now. This is one of the issues for them right now, whatever happens, they need to have a message and they need to be able to deliver it consistently. President trump has taken it on, doing it badly. They should put their heads together, came to the executive order, poorly rolled out. Whenever it comes to a lot of the news they had this week they wanted to get out there, whether it was the new intel factory in chandler, arizona, whether it was the faa, all of these things got lost in this over all of that got lost, they just need somebody to say, look, lets put our heads together, lets figure out what message we want to put across. There may not be a Communications Director, but a lot of communications, some would say too much. Leaks, there always leaks from the white house. You always get one faction trying to knife the other, quite frankly. But what astonishes me, you are getting leaks of phone calls between President Trump and foreign leaders. We are finding out what President Trump said to the australian Prime Minister. Now we are finding out what he said to vladimir putin. You always have leaks, youre right. You always have more junior white house staffers wanting to be in the know with reporters. But the leaks of these conversations, i think, are problematic. I dont know if that leak is coming for the Communications Team. I do think they have to tighten this up. This is not in the best interest of the president. I think he has had some great Foreign Policy successes, i think this weekend, the golf summit seems to be going swimmingly. Hearing these phone calls characterized, it underlines it, need to tighten it up quickly. Chris less than a minute, charles. I dont think that when youre talking about leaking private phone calls, sounds to me like it is people in the permanent government who dont approve of this president , trying to embarrass him. You wonder about sort of the preliminary stuff involving trump and the fbi, the cia, the battle he had with the intelligence agencies. And i have thought that some of these leaks are a way for the agencies to say, youre messing with the wrong bureaucracy. We are the keeper of the secret secrets. A classic case of that, of course, jackie hoover. He had something on everybody. Jay edgar hoover. This is the beginning, the feeling out, the beginning of the boxing match. I think he is right, this is really hurting the president. If you cant speak to a foreign leader without having the transcript on the front pages of the papers, then you really have it. Chris next up, the f f f f f lowering the overall tax burden on american businesses big league, that is coming along very well. We are way ahead of schedule, i believe, going to be announcing something, i would say, over the next two or three weeks that will be phenomenal. Chris President Trump talking up his plan, a white house meeting yesterday, we are back now with our panel for the friday lightning round. Let me start with you. G. O. P. Congressional leaders were, to put it mildly, surprised by the announcement yesterday. They thought they were going to be tackling Obamacare Repeal and replace first, all of a sudden tax reform is up on the front burner. What is your sense of the tax reform package that the president might put out there and the chances that congress will pass it . The problem he is going to have us the freedom clock. They dont want to see any increase in spending. Already talking about that. Plus the fact that he has an Infrastructure Project he would like to get done, how are you going to do that with tax reform. Devils in the details. Do your point, Affordable Care act has some details. Not sure they want to handle any kind of major tax reform unless they get the other things done first. The big, controversial aspect is this border adjustment tax, which taxes imports from other countries. That will probably be a casualty if they are able to get this done. The other thing, will the tax bill be paid for it like it was a 1986 or will it not be revenue neutral. I think the big news could become a navy theyre not going to worry so much, that could be a good thing. Chris but if you have that, you have to have that kind of growth. This is what george bush 43 realized with the first round of tax cuts, he didnt get the economic engine going, had to go back at it again. This has been one chance for a big bill that could have support from both sides of the aisle. We couldve had tax reform, particularly Corporate Tax or from under obama, but he stalle stalled. A lot of democrats agree, especially, that the Corporate Tax structure is utterly insane, worst in the world. Easily fixed. That, i think, is lowhanging fruit. The Washington Post had a story today that, contrary to previous denial, the National Security advisor, Michael Flynn, david, in fact, discuss sanctions in his conversations last december before he was in office with the Russian Ambassador just at the time that president obama was imposing sanctions on russia for its involvement in the election. General flynn had flatly denied it and so too relying on him, Vice President pens. Here he is. I talked to general flynn yesterday, the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u. S. Sanctions against russia or the expulsion of diplomats. Chris but now, flynn says he cant be sure the subject didnt come up. How they get a deal is that . Channeling harold baker, what did you know, what did he say, i can only imagine mike pence would be livid if mike flynn was lying. I think there is another problem here, that some republicans, john mccain, lindsey graham, marco rubio, have introduced legislation to cut back on the president s ability to lessen sanctions on russia. This is an issue that could divide republicans. It is key moving forward here, going to have to straighten out what is going on at home before they can go further. Lindsey graham said today, if it turns out that mike flynn was talking about using sanctions at a time when president obama was imposing them, it is going to b. December after the election, the fact that the top advisor was talking to ambassadors and people in foreign governments, im okay with. I think the logan act charges ridiculous. I think they always come at folks on this. And i think mike flynn has a target on his back. And i think he is a good and honorable man and he will weather this storm. Chris charles . Go back to the water kit analogy, classic kate in my case of the coverup worse than the crime. There is no crime. If he dated and you are right, thats not good. But what did he do . Spoke to the russians about sanctions . That is his job, he should be talking to russians. Why they wanted to hide it is beyond me. Never, ever been invoked and it makes no sense whatsoever. Chris we are beginning to run out of town. I want a lightning lightning round. President trump made a pivot to asia commence with the Prime Minister of japan, him, perhaps more finally talked for the First Time Since he became president , with president xi and whether we would honor the one china policy. The question is, what did he get for it, if anything, other than that, he needs to get something going with japan and other countries because without the tpp, which has already said he is undoing, that was the question, what is in return if anything in his conversation with xi jinping. A great week, avoided a trade war with china, relations are thawing, and a very important visit with our most important ally in the region. A great week. He is expecting a reward from china for reaffirming a policy that has been unchanged for half a century, and he is barking up the wrong tree. I think simply playing golf with the leader of japan is enough to send a message to the chinese. We have got allies in the region, we are going to watch her carefully. And you had better watch out when you militarize the south china sea. We have got allies. New mexico one you dont think he got any kind of concession for acknowledging the policy . When he talked to me in december, indicated he was going to use this as a bargaining chip. He doesnt have a leg to bargain on. If we were stronger and the chinese were weaker on the ground, on the sea, then we could impose and threaten a change in the one china policy. But the reverse has happened. The chinese have tremendous military capacity. Ours have declined. We are in no position to dictate a change. Nothing offered to the chinese, nothing given away, we didnt have the power to do it. Chris next step, the panel takes its winners and losers for this week. Chris and were back now with our panel to get their winners and losers of this very busy week. Tim, start us off. Actually in a counter intuitive way i believe donald trump was the winner. Why . Because they got three cabinet members passed including one that required a tiebreaking vote. He also got some executive orders taken care of that didnt get challenged. In the ninth circuit, god forbid something happens, but he has cover in case something does happen because he can say i tried to keep the country safe. Chris and your loser . The loser is the democratic party. Their retreat is exactly that. They are united in opposition but no strategy in moving forward. They are moving forward to the left. They were more to the center when they had control in 2009. Moving in a direction thats not going to be helpful right now. Chris matt . The winner leonard leo and Federalist Society brilliant approach to trumps Supreme Court and kneel gorsuch. Chris loser . Harry reid. Only harry reid would have delivered the most conservative cabinet in 30 years only take as simple majority to get these folks through. Thank you, harry reid for tom price. Chris we should note for all the talk of Nuclear Option harry reid did it in 20. Speaker for cabinet week. Stressful week all animal winners and losers. Winner of the week sunny the red panda who escaped from the nor ford virginia zoo and living in freedom two and a half weeks. The loser and i say this with sadness is ollie the bobcat who escaped from the national zoo in d. C. And showed up two and a half days later looking rather sheep oirn. Chris a warm and fuzzy winner and loser . Turned herself in. Chris thats it for special report tonight. Im Chris Wallace in juanita. Join me for Fox News Sunday when i will sit down with Steven Miller to discuss the president s agenda. I will also talk with a top democrat on the Senate Foreign relations committee, ben card continue. Al sean welcome to hannity, tonight i have a message for all the liberals and the members of the media who are cheering about the ninth Circuit Courts decision to uphold the suspension of President Trumps temporary travel ban, its time to put petty politics aside and start caring about the safety and security of the american people. This is a wakeup call and thats tonight opening monologue. As of this very moment, refugees and other travelers from iraq, iran, syria, sudan, somalia, libya, and yemen are still allowed to enter the United States blocking President Trump plan for extreme bedding. Our guard