Transcripts For FBC The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan

FBC The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan May 26, 2017

Im trish regan. Welcome everyone, to the intelligence report. British Prime Minister theresa may, shes upset, understandably, over u. S. Intelligence leaks. You can blame her . Now donald trump is calling for an investigation promising to get to the bottom of it, but are these leaks undermining the president . Weve got the intel straight ahead. Liberals are outraged after secretary ben carson told a radio host that, quote, poverty is a state of mind. Isnt it . Right . A little bit . If you got a positive attitude and a good work ethic, shouldnt you be empowered . Cant you get out of poverty . Isnt that the American Dream . More on all of that coming up. And Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg calling for universal basic income. Thats the government issuing a paycheck to every Single Person in the United States, just for being american is that really the best way to spend taxpayer dollars . Were breaking it down. Back to our own top story, blake burman live in sicily where President Trump is attending his very first g7 summit. Blake, fill us in. Reporter hi there, trish. President trump and british Prime Minister theresa may met one on one at the g7 summit. Sources tell fox it was last night in brussels that that nato dinner there when may and President Trump spoke about the need to keep intelligence sharing secured. Theresa may was asked about this just a little while ago in sicily and she said she was given assurances by the president that the uk can trust the u. S. Intelligence agencies. If i did raise the issue of leaks, of information that are being shared by the police with the fbi with President Trump, he has made clear that that was unacceptable. The metropolitan police, as i understand it, received assurances from the fbi and are now have restarted the process of sharing information with them. Reporter there was also a mea culpa from the secretary of state rex tillerson. He met with his counterpart in london earlier today and apologized for that leak. Certainly, we condemn that. The president has been very strong in his condemnation and has called for immediate investigation and prosecution of those who are found to have been responsible. Reporter trish, may did reiterate in sicily that the relationship between the United States and the uk as she put it, is a, quote, special one. Trish, back to you. Trish thank you so much, blake burman. Joining me is the author of the president will see you now. Former executive assistant to president Ronald Reagan. Peggy grande. Good to have you here. Thank you so much for having me. Trish whats happening, whats been transpiring with all these intelligence leaks, help us put this in perspective, historically, when you look back at for example, president reagan, did he have to deal with anything at all that was similar . No president likes leaks, and no president should tolerate leaks, so i have to imagine that Ronald Reagan would have taken a firm and decisive stand, and also would have been very diligent about determining what was fact and what was fiction, and i think thats what President Trump is going to have to do here. Of course, President Trumps challenge now is that its a 24 7 news cycle. Back in the day, if there were leaks during the reagan era, it covered on the three networks at night or in the morning paper the next day. So it was just a very different time. Trish do you think that there are people, within the white house, within government, that are deliberately trying to conspire against him . Well, i certainly cant comment on that. And i wouldnt attempt to put words in president reagans mouth. I do know every president faces their own challenge, and with the speed of information and the availability of global information, i think that a leak that ordinarily could have been tamped down easily during a Reagan White House time goes viral. Trish whole different situation. Whether or not its true. Trish heres a picture of you and president reagan together. You know, think about the political struggles that he faced, right . I can remember at the time, people kept saying, you know, he was going to be the worst possible thing for the country, and they made fun of his wife, for example, because she apparently consulted astrologers, the media piled on with president reagan and he survived just fine. You know what . He grew our economy. Thats what mattered. He helped us with our military, he made us safe both economically and internationally. So how did he get through some of that blatant bias directed against him, peggy . Some of it is just the luxury of time and looking back, and in 1984, he won in a landslide, but some of us forget that in 1976 he was not the partys choice. We went with gerald ford, and in 1980, the party was very split, who wanted george bush and who wanted Ronald Reagan. We have the gift of perspective looking back now that we didnt have at the time. I hope people will give President Trump the time he needs to do the things he wants to do and intends to do and well give him the gift of time also to look back and hopefully we he will have great accomplishments. Trish hes not really getting at right now. No, hes not. Trish i ask you whether or not you thought people were conspiring against him. I think that, in fact, is part of the issue here, there are many people out there that did not want him to win. As you point out, were in a 24 7 news cycle and people in the white house holdovers from the obama years and theyre directing their anger very much at time and trying actively to take him down. Yeah, i completely agree with that. I love what hes doing now where hes getting out into the world. Meeting with World Leaders. Ronald reagan did that brilliantly. And his form of politics and diplomacy was very personal and very relationship based. We saw that during the post presidency years when i worked for him when there was a parade of World Leaders all over the globe to visit with him in his office in century city. They didnt have to do that for protocol or diplomatic reasons, they wanted to, they liked him. They had a relationship, so how much more can be accomplished politically if we focus on the personal aspect and the relationship . And i think thats fantastic what President Trump is doing this week to meet with people. Trish peggy grande, thank you very much. Just to update our viewers, Jared Kushner is now allegedly part of the focus of this investigation, though we have heard from kushners office he has not been, has not been approached by members of the fbi, et cetera. Its unclear. You know, the problem with this story, and i keep saying this, is there is so much innuendo out there. We dont really know whats going on . Perhaps this is good, right . You get this investigation going, and the hope here really, for the countrys sake, and im not saying this from any partisan point of view, but for the countrys sake, is no kind of actual trouble, and you can move on. But right now, as all these leaks are coming forward and people are making innuendos about this or that, it really becomes a very challenging environment for him politically and certainly for the country, because we got a whole lot of things we need to get done. In the meantime, internationally we are struggling here. Its isis and egypt today. At least 28 people are dead after gunmen attacked a bus filled with christians on their way to a monastery in the southern part of the country. Fox news conor powell is standing by in jerusalem with the latest. Reporter trish, this was actually a caravan of christian pilgrims traveling from cairo down south, about 158 or so miles. They were attacked according to eyewitnesses and survivors by up to as many as ten militants using weapons, guns, attacked two different buses. The attackers had militarystyle uniforms and wereearingasks, up to 28 people have been killed. That number has been steadily increasing the last few hours and very well could continue to go up. The christian victims on their way to the monastery of saint samuel the confessor. The Coptic Christian Community make up 9 of egypts 92 million people. They have seen a wave of attacks primarily from isisrelated groups. No group claimed responsibility for todays attack, but on palm sunday, there were multiple churches that were blown up and attacked by isis, isis carried out several attacks in december as well. Weve seen isis launch attacks on the Coptic Christian Community in egypt. Now president sisi who came to power in the summer of 2015 made his name trying clean up the security situation in egypt, but under his watch, the situation has not improved at all, really, and the Coptic Community which is an extremely strong supporter of him during military coup to take power in 2015 is specifically the targeting of the community in egypt. They are looking increasingly for ways to get out of the country, not only to protect churches but the overall overwhelming Large Community well as well. There is a lot of anger at the sisi government particularly by the Coptic Community, who is routinely seeing these attacks on a regular basis, trish. Trish thank you very much. Joining me with perspective on all of it, Lieutenant Colonel tony shaffer. Have you christians target the over and over again. Over and over, right. Trish egypt, incident brewing in the philippines, obviously what we saw in manchester. Is anybody going to start sticking up for christians here . They better, and as you point out, this is a pattern, the syrian christians in syria, and the christians in iraq and all those groups. The yazidi. We do know this has been an Ongoing Campaign of isis and other radical islam to take these folks out. Its aansing if you will. And in egypt, as much as is bad, its worse other places. President elsisi has done a job to defend the christians. Last year when one of the churches were attacked and bombed, he ordered the Egyptian Army to repair it. The operations where the guys are in military uniform are designed to do what were facing, trying to drive a wedge between the christians and the government. President sisi said publicly, the islamic faith must rid itself of violence. Hes one of our allies in the fight. We have to do more. One of the things that president obama did which has made the situation worse and the momentum of that bad decision now felt now, president obama refused to arm the Egyptian Army with apache helicopters and other means to defeat the radicalism. We need to help the egyptians be successful in going after isis. Theyre the front line against isis, and we need to realize that. Trish so the egyptians need help. What about the europeans right now . Donald trump called on nato saying look, you got to pay up, right . Pay up and reorganize. Trish not paying the required 2 they agreed to pay. They need to pay up, as general keane said to me over and over again, colonel, they need to have will, they have not shown any will. Precisely. I wrote an editorial for fox news opinion talking about nato 2. 0. Not only pay up, they have to reorganize. And one of the things they have to do is hey, under attack by global islamic terror why, dont you treat that like the existential threat it actually is. During my first undercover assignments in europe in the mid 80s chasing the raf, the red i cant remember the exact acronym, they were terrorists designed by the russians to work in germany. Nato went after them and defeated them. We need to do the same thing now. Look how we were able to have nato as effective counterterror organization. Get the allies to pay up. Get them to refocus on the targets and one of the things we can safely say, Police Forces are limiting their ability to protect the people. You need to bring in the military to track the individuals through the region, and for goodness sakes, use special Operations Forces to kill these guys in advance to doing an attack. We need to be on the offensive. Nato needs to look at doing it. Trish colonel, one of the things i find so frustrating about all of this, there is a la lackadaisical approach. Exactly. Trish members on the left feel this is the cost of doing business, this is the new reality we live in, and if you look at it statistically, well, its not so bad. Someone on the right said something similar to that. Theresa may said we have to get used to this. The left driving the idea of open borders and nothing to see here. Cost of that is what we saw in egypt today and the attack in manchester, which, by the way, is on its way here if we dont protect our own borders and prevent these networks, and i would argue and the evidence is there already, trish, that the bomber in manchester was part of a larger network. Military grade explosives, probably obtained in libya. This was a military operation. We have to treat it with a great deal of here, and stop it from coming here and defeat it in europe and the middle east. Trish i take it you are for extreme vetting. You disagree with the 4th Circuit Court . I completely disagree. The president is working within legal rights and by the way, the legislation approved and put into law, and the idea theres a religious test is insane. Libya is one of the countries who identified this individual who conducted the attack in manchester traveled to libya thats why were trying to get a handle on this. This is not science fiction, this is science fact. Im tired of the courts exercising trying interfere with the Foreign Policy clear dominance and right of the executive branch, the president , to do his job. Theyre interfering from him doing his job and keeping us safe. Trish good to have you. One would think that the president of the United States would know more about National Security than some of the judges on the courts. Anyway, i want to take a look at markets hugging the flatline right now. Dow off about 2 points, s p and nasdaq, they did hit records today, and we still are slightly in positive territory. Plus, ben carson under fire for daring, daring to suggest that poverty is a, quote, state of mind, and it seems to me that attitude and that motivation might play a part in overcoming poverty. I think hes onto something, but you know what . The liberals who believe everybody is a victim, theyre furious at. This weve got more on both of these stories next. Will you be ready when the moment turns romantic . Cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. Tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. Do not drink alcohol in excess. To avoid longterm injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. 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Isnt this what were hearing . You talk to traders every day, you talk to ceos, i hear a positive vibe, along with good earnings, sending the market higher. Reporter absolutely, the whooping you heard, were coming on a threeday weekend, theyre excited. Volume is nonexistent, you can imagine the board here, everybody has eyes overseas watching the president and his visit with other foreign leaders at the g7 and someone said to me is the president returning home on tuesday because thats when we expect the fireworks to come back to this mark, but you mention the good earnings week had a good position on First Quarter gdp. Durable goods were strong, everything is moving in the right direction. Trish yeah, and lots of whoops. Looking good. Despite some of the good news out there, Jon Hilsenrath, there are concerns that were not seeing much in the way of inflation, right . And the fed has given every indication it wants to move forward with the Interest Rate hiking scenario, i dont know if they have as much room as they hoped to because were still kind of chugging along here . The fed is a part of the stock market story and the signal we got from the fed this week when they released minutes of the last meeting was that theyre going to go ahead and keep raising rates and the market rallied on that because the market sees in that optimism from the fed that the economy is going to stay on track, unemployment is low. Trish i can jump in . Does that surprise you at all . The Federal Reserve, jon, you and i both know, no offense to them, they are generally late. Always late. A

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