Transcripts For FBC The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan

Turns out he can. We have found a way to save american taxpayers up to 180 billion. Well show you how the president can do this without the swamp. Bizarre turn of events in the United Airline story. Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee says the entire fiasco happened because of racism. She claims the passenger targeted her because she is africanamerican. More on that later in the hour. First blake burman on the breaking news story on health care. Blake, fill us in. Reporter trish, there is a couple different messages from the white house on health care on the way forward. You remember the tweet yesterday potentially he could work with democrats and republicans on way forward with health care to come up with a new plan. However a white house official telling fox moments ago that the white house is also considering an executive order that would allow the department of health and human service, hhs, the department of labor, to look into rewriting the rules so that obamacare mandates would go, essentially allowing it to be cheaper to buy health care plans. That executive order could come in january. So on one hand while the president is touting potentially working with democrats. The administration signaling he is ready to get his pen ready on health care to sign executives orders as soon as next month. Speaking of messaging, the president has been very clear and consistent with his message on the fbi. That is, he is disappointed with that agency especially, especially with some of the most highranking members past and present. The president tweeting out yesterday that he thinks the dossier that was compiled against him is a pile of garbage as he put it. That was used against the trump campaign. It has been a similar sentiment been echoed by many republicans up on capitol hill. One of them, for example, congressman Francis Rooney who suggested yesterday there should be a purge of someone the fbi and the department of justice. Lets listen here. I would like to see the directors of those agencies purge it, say, look we have a lot of great agents, a lot of great lawyers here. Those are the American People i want them to see the good works, not those people kind of the deep state. Reporter when asked what he meant by the purge to specify it, he specifically, rooney did, singled out peter strzok who is the fbi agent removed from rob but muellers special counsel when he was strzok was, loads of antitrump text messages. Rooney claims this has nothing to do with trying to discredit the russia investigation. Trish. Trish thank you so much, blake burman. Joining me none other than than the congressman from florida, Francis Rooney himself. Youre making lots of news, sir. Thanks for having me on. Trish when you say purges the fbi, define that for us. I was overwhelmed and fearful i saw the kind of conduct mr. Strzok and mr. Ohr and Deputy Attorney general mccabe were engaged in, i just feel that for an agency that has so much influence over americans lives they have to be purer than pure. This is, what i read was very disturbing. I dont think they should be working there. Trish i hear you on some of it anyway but you know what someone might say back at you about this, well it is natural, people have their own opinions and they will have their own political beliefs. Can you not have a political belief and be part of the fbi . Everyone is entitled to their own political, religious, beliefs, that is what our constitution protects but i think the email discussions on the dossier went further than that oh, weve got insurance to make sure the president cant get elected. That is going pretty far. I would like to see congressional committees run all that stuff to ground to find out what they were doing and why . What did they do with that dossier . Trish here is one of the emails from peter strzok. He says i want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in andys office there is no way he gets elected but im afraid we cant take that risk. It is like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before youre 40. Wow pretty out there. Trish deep state this, is what theyre talking about. This is the fear that somehow, you know, people within government are trying to control the outcomes of the American People. In other words, they want to make sure that President Trump is not elected even if the American People want them there. And this is a scary thought. Very scary. This is just the last chapter in about seven or eight years worth of ends justifying the means behavior. I just they got used to doing what they want to do. Strobe is one that told director comey to down play Hillary Clintons email problems from negligence to carelessness. The guy shows up everywhere. Trish bruce ohr the top doj official at the time and he had contacts with that dossier firm back in 2016. And then of course we learned his wife worked for fusion gps. Exactly. Trish the come that came up with that whole dirty dossier referred to and largely discredited. I guess what i find extremely troubling, representative, is the idea that somehow our government may have used that, may have used that in order to get fisa warrants to go after people in the trump campaign. Thatthat is a scary thought to. Because it sound like the russians were feeding chris fear steele, the spy all this misinformation going back to fusion gps, which may have been going back to the fbi . Yeah. Where does this ohrs guys Job Description enable him to go meet with that chris steele guy during a campaign . Talk about getting into an election. I think there are laws against that. Trish what do you think needs to happen now. When you say purge the fbi figure out where the biases are and what people did with these biases . I think for the people that did things like were talking about here that go far beyond personal political beliefs, attorney general sessions and our congressional oversight committees need to subpoena some people, get them up there and run all this stuff to ground. Dont like, dont let mccabe or rosenstein stonewall them. Trish you know, critic, got to get both sides in here, critics would say this is all being orchestrated by the trump administration. Somehow theyre trying to create this shiny object over here which is the big, bad, fbi, deep state, et cetera to detract what is really going on with the Mueller Investigation. How do you respond to those criticisms, congressman . First can you imagine a Republican Justice Department and fbi working with a Republican National committee, created and funded dossier to go after a democratic candidate . This would make watergate look like nothing. So what i say is, the Mueller Investigation needs to focus on what it was set up to do, to find out if russia succeeded efforts to alter the election. If there is any evidence of collusion with between russia and the administration which there has been any educed to date. Trish what else can be done in addition to that in your view . Well i think, i think again, attorney general sessions owes the American People to dig in to how many strzoks types there are around there and possibly get rid of them. Trish you dont think the Inspector General will do enough on that . You want to see him tagteam on sessions . He is the first step, right . He delivers his report. Then the attorney general has to act on it. Trish all right. I think, thank you. Trish so good to have you here, congressman. Good luck wit. Remember samuel adams said were a nation of laws, not men. That independent bureaucracy which was set up after Andrew Jackson to avoid excesses like this is one of the hallmark institutions of our american success. Trish you cant have that going on for sure. Well find out more information very soon i would imagine. Congressman rooney, thank you very much. Good to see you. Thanks for coming on the show. Thanks again, trish. Trish former president barack obama taking a subtle swipe at President Trumps social Media Presence in newlyreleased interview with britains prince harry. Take a listen. All of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet. The dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They could be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. Trish okay. So to be mayor, right, lawmakers do have large audiences and they should tweet responsibly but that goes for he have one, right, both sides here . That criticism just cant be leveled at President Trump because look at what the left is doing. Here is congresswoman Maxine Waters calling the president deplorable while engaging in hyperbole. What about congressman ted lew getting in a twitter slap fight with press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders. There was this one before the election. What about the time Hillary Clinton told trump to delete his account . Nothing biased about that, right . Here to discuss hypocrisy, Media Research Center Vice President dan gainor. Dan, were in titfortat. That is part of the problem here. It is not onesided. Part of the reality of free speech. The left controls speech for a long time. If you look at obamas interview he laments the days when there were just three anchors. Oh, when we only had cronkite. Cronkite basically said the vietnam war was unwinnable right after we won it. Et by the way was workinging in kong junction with democrats conjunction with democrats working to encourage Robert Kennedy to run for president. The there good old days are the good ol days for democrats that doesnt like everybody having their own speech. Trish there has been just a revolution really underway. You know, i get it. Some people dont like it. Some of it is good and some isnt so good but reality is the consumer of these Media Products has more control over what they see. And the truth is, there are biases, everywhere, right . Walter cronkite wasnt able to entirely put his biases to the side. None of the journalists are able to do that. So, you know, as we look at this new environment that were in i think part of the responsibility also comes down to the consumer of news media that you want to make sure youre always getting both sides. Maybe its a little this way. Maybe its a little that way. You want to be sure youre seeking out the truth, dan. Also ridiculous for obama who got better press coverage than any human being in the history of the mankind to go out and complain here he is talking about traditional journalism and being interviewed by a royal, not a journalist, somebody tossing him softball questions which tv show he likes. By the way, if you answered the wrong one, you didnt answer the one for his future wife. And then this is obama also who was interviewed by glozell, who was famous on youtube, bathing in cereal and milk in a bathtub and he did an interview with her. Somehow he is the voice we need to be responsible and rely on traditional journalism is just a joke. Trish youre so right. He kind of broke the mold anyway, going out there doing interviews with people, actors, as you point out royals, or just, youtube crazies out there that he, he started that in many ways. So i hear you on that, dan. Well, you know, we are living in a different day and age. There are lots of difficult viewpoints out there. I would argue that is healthy thing for americans. They should have the opportunity to hear all sides. Dan gainor, thank you. Thank you very much. Trish no. Like i say the real point is, they dont like trump tweeting because the press cant sensor what he says. He can reach people without them. Trish you know what . He can put up his cell phone and he can broadcast to them as well which puts some folks a little out of business. I get it. A whole new world. So good to see you as always. Happy holidays. Thanks. Trish take a quick look at markets up 13 after being down a touch earlier in the day. Dow jones industrial average trading higher, 24,759. A lot of expectations for good things ahead. President vowing 2018 will be another good year for the markets. Do investor agree . Well have a live report to the New York Stock Exchange after this. Building a website in under an hour is easy with gocentral. From godaddy in fact, 68 of people who have built their. Website using gocentral, did it in under an hour, and you can too. Build a better website in under an hour. With gocentral from godaddy. Trish market slightly up. More than 17 points here. I spoke too soon. S p turned into the green. Nasdaq composite turning into the green. Were on 25k watch on fox business. Consumer confidence report showing americans remain upbeat about the u. S. Economy. All this is happening as we get closer and closer to 25,000. When does the day happen. Joining me, gerri willis, live from the florida of the New York Stock Exchange, along with vision for fund Vice President , heather zumarriaga. What do those betting down there at exchange say . What do we hit 25k, gerri. They love to see it happen. Were so close. This time of year we look for the santa clause rally. The market goes up 76 of the time between christmas and new years. The expectation, get a little volume here we can propel the markets higher. Sentiment generally positive here. We like what theyre seeing, tax reform big boost what is going on the floor here. Theyre seeing some big benefit. Ironically what is going on with Consumer Confidence not so happy, edging back a little bit. Let me tell you this is a big year for Consumer Confidence. Weve hit new highs over and over again. The market as you know, what have we seen, the dow up 25 this year. The nasdaq up 29 this year. The s p up 20 . This is good news across the board for stock investors. What you see the new year hits more and more folks want to participate. Trish wow. There is nothing to complain about heather, you know, usually i keep saying this, ive pretty good at spotting when something is a little off or a little bit of a bubble going on. There is something, i was way ahead of the tech bubble. I was years ahead of the 2008 bubble. Sometimes i worry im a little too pessimistic but that said, i dont feel that worry right now. I dont feel concerns that, you know the fed is overdoing it as i was in past years. I feel as though if were going to get some fundamental growth, then 25k might actually be justifiable. What do you say . Yeah. I think that the Consumer Confidence data we got today is the only negative shortterm data point that weve had, trish over the long run, historically Consumer Confidence is still very high. So just because we had a modest pullback in that data, i think Going Forward and next year, that people who want to buy this market may get a chance in january trish. We might see a little bit of pullback an consolidation, we got tax reform passed. That might be seen as a buying opportunity. I think earnings have room to expand and grow because of tax reform and the Global Economy is expanding as well. Trish good stuff. I like it. Hopefully this rally continues. Good to see you both, jerry, heather. You got it. President trump taking different approach combating terrorism. Guess what . Its working. Top u. S. Military firms say isis lost 98 of its territory and it was during trumps presidency. Retired lieutenantgeneral jack keane is here. How the president won the war against isis. See you in two. Isis, syria, weve taken back all of virtually all of the caliphate, all of the land. Same thing in iraq and were making tremendous strides, that is the unwritten story right now. Trish President Trump praising the news that isis lost 98 of the territory it once held, with half of those victories coming since he took office. Just last year isis controlled area in iraq and syria the size of ohio. Look at that on the map. Take a good look at it. Well show you what exists today. This is the remaining strong holds that are there. A small area along the border. So big accomplishment. Now we need to get rid of all that red on the screen. Joining me fox news military analyst general jack keane. Good to see you again, general. How did he do it . Well, first of all they made the strategic decision to crush isis as quickly as possible. Thats number one. That stands in stark condition interests to the obama decision, even though they said isis is a top priority the truth is when isis rolled into iraq, trish, in january 2014, they grew from several hundred fighters in 18 months to over 30,000. It took them nine months to respond to malikis emergency request for air support before they fired the first shot. It took them 15 months before they did anything about the oil fields in syria which was isiss main source of revenue. Now the trump team looked at that. They said we got to do three things to change the situation on the ground, and they were all decisive. One is, change the rules of engagement to facilitate the use of military force more effectively. Number two, make sure were not micromanaging our commanders the way the Obama White House did. Get out of the tactical and operational decisions. Let our commanders make that. Then number three, give them the Additional Resources that the commanders have been asking for. We gave them significant amount of air power. We brought in artillery, apache hello adopters to assist them. Helicopters. We increased special forces advisors. The result . Caliphate destroyed and territory reclaimed. They have a right to take a bit of a victory lap. Trish you were push being for this during Barack Obamas presidency. You were calling for