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FOXNEWSW Americas News HQ January 31, 2017

House where press Secretary Sean Spicer has wrapped up his Daily Briefing. Some calling it entertaining. Others might say it was a bit contentious. Reporter entertaining. One persons entertaining is another persons contentious. I think there was a lot of good information in the briefing there as well. And youre right, the decision that President Trump is going to make today on who the nominee will be to replace Justice Scalia on the u. S. Supreme court will be a big one that will affect the court for years because the two main candidates being looked at, tom has hardeman from the 3rd kreur kit court are 49 and 51 years old. They will be on this court most likely for a couple of decades, if not longer. Could be even three decades when you look at the age of justices on the Supreme Court right now. Sean spicer, during his briefing saying which ever nominee the president announces tonight, he believes they will get swift confirmation on capitol hill. Heres what spicer said. I can assure you this individual will make those voters and every american very, very proud. Whomever the president selects will be a worthy successor to the brilliant legal minds and constitutional dedication of Justice Scalia. Reporter terms of reading the tea leaves as to who he is going to pick, some sources in washington are leaning toward judge gorcich. They believe he is a pure mold of judge scalia. That said, President Trump is going to make this decision. He could go the other way. Many people are arguing that Thomas Hardeman could get an easier confirmation. When he was confirmed back in 2007, 18 of the Democratic Senators who voted for him then are still in the senate, six of them are up for reelection in 2017 in states that donald trump won. So theres a chance they believe that hardeman could get the easier ride in confirmation. I think a lot of conservatives are leaning in the other direction. That countdown clock is on as you can see. Less than six hours left. John, what about this idea that the rollout of the extreme vetting order was not known about by the head of Homeland Security, who we heard from earlier today . Reporter lot of push back on that today, sandra, both at the white house and the department of Homeland Security with general john kelly. The secretary held a press briefing. He praised the order on extreme vetting saying that it was long overdue. Saying that another football analogy. We get so many of those when youre talking about government and National Security. Saying its much easier to play defense on the 50 yard line than it is on the 1 yard line. Kelly insisting that he knew that this was coming. Sean spicer during the briefing today said that general kelly was briefed on it several times, saw the language, at least the draft language, of the proposed executive order on extreme vetting and then, in fact, his staff made some edits which they then sent back to the white house. Heres what spicer said this afternoon. Secretary kelly, alongside other officials, just recently concluded a briefing on the operational implementation of the president s executive order. I think its pretty clear from the secretarys press conference that this executive order was enacted with the proper preparation and coordination between the white house and dhs. And that implementation will continue and proceed as planned. Reporter so, the white house is saying all of this was known about by the appropriate agencies. All of it was rolled out well. But speaker of the house paul ryan said earlier today that he supports the measure on extreme vetting, think its the right thing to do, although he said the rollout was, quote, confusing. Sandra . Thank you, john roberts. Meanwhile elaine chao confirmed as transportation secretary a short while ago. Meanwhile the senate Scheduling Committee votes for six of the president s cabinet nominees. But defiant democrats are making a last ditch effort to block two of them. Mike emanuel is live on capitol hill for us. Mike, whats the latest on democrats boycotting nominations in the Senate Finance committee . Reporter well, sandra, republicans thought they had a deal to vote on two critical nominations today but today democrats slammed on the brakes on Steve Mnuchins nomination and dr. Tom price to be the next secretary of health and Human Services. Republicans on the finance committee are calling this unprecedented and Top Republicans are accusing democrats of throwing an hissy fit. I think theyre dragging their feet. Theyre going to delay as long as they possibly can. Then theyre gonna complain the Trump Administration cant govern. Reporter also in a bit of limbo, senator Jeff Sessions nomination to be our next attorney general. The Judiciary Committee will try again tomorrow morning. There is some suggestion that President Trump firing of the acting attorney general has made democrats here on capitol hill a little feisty. What are democrats saying about these delay tactics . We just heard from sean spicer. He said Senate Democrats are trying to stall Core Functions of our government. What are the dems saying . Reporter democrats are essentially recognizing they dont appear to have the votes to defeat any of these cabinet nominees so their strategy appears to be to delay. A Top Senate Democrat essentially said theyre using the rules of the senate at their risk. Ultimately there will be votes on these cabinet nominees. The pace of the votes and the political environment depend on the white house. Reporter all this maneuvering, all this fighting back and forth over cabinet nominee, and we have not even gotten to the confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee. Sandra . Mike em you. Reporter sure. Press Secretary Sean Spicer just wrapped up that energetic Daily Briefing where he addressed a number of topics including the president s forth coming announcement of a Supreme Court nominee. Meanwhile, were learning senior Staff Members in Congress Helped the white house draft this order to temporarily ban immigrants from u. S. Shore. The white house hitting back hard at allegations that Republican Leadership wassen informed about that work. Richard fowler radio talk show host. Matt, reports were that department of Homeland Security was blindsided by this executive order. But you just heard from sean spicer who said multiple occasions the department of Homeland Security and secretary kelly were briefed. They saw the language. Staffers made edits. This went through a very extensive staffing process, he said. Yeah. I think that its clear that the secretary was aware of it. Sometimes on these orders, theres a larger interagency staffing process that can take awhile. I think what President Trump and his senior advisers felt if they went too deep into the bureaucracy with this executive order language, that it would immediately get leaked in an attempt to stop it. When you have an acting attorney general who clearly would have been somebody who would try to stop it. You can see what she tried to do by not enforcing it. You cant blame them for wanting to be discrete. I just shared with you the white house response and what sean spicer said. Richard, we just heard from secretary kelly, who said he knew about it, his department knew the order was coming, and that Homeland Security staffers were involved in drafting it, in his words. Well, listen, ill take the secretary at his word, but i mean, even though that is the case, i agree with matt a little bit. The bureaucracy and the folks who have to implement this law did not know. Thats why there was so much i wouldnt say confusion, but heart break at americas airports. Once again this administration failed to really communicate to its staff what needs to be done. Donald trump is a business man who owns a multibillion dollar company. He should know how to do this. What we saw this weekend is he doesnt. Was there a missed tune here, matt, for this to have been rolled out pwer . What does donald trump, what does the president do as he looks back at this . Look, having served in a white house for four years, you learn with everything you do what you can do better. Certainly there are things they could have done better. Lets be honest. The cry from across the press corps over the weekend was somewhat manufactured on all these horror cases. Now, there were people, i agree, who got caught up in the system because there was confusion. And i think that is regrettable. But the other piece of this is a disagreement on policy. There are seven counties that are enriched with terrorists. They call them the t7 in commercial language. You dont do business with these countries by and large. You really dont have any reason to travel there via commercial interest. And this policy is a threemonth review to make sure that these folks are vetting. Do you know what . The American People are going to be with donald trump on this policy because it will help to keep us safe. Secretary kelly went to that point. He said this isnt a travel ban. He actually addressed the wording and the language thats being used and certainly he said this is not a ban on muslims which has caused chaos over the weekend. He said this is not, i repeat, not a ban on muslims, religious liberty is a fundamental treasured value. In the secretarys words. I think those are just words. 100 opinion of those individuals caught up at american airports this weekend and continue to not be able to travel to this country, whether they work for google or they work for cocacola, whether they are track stars, they are all muslim which is why they are not being allowed back in the u. S. All jihadists are muslim. Im glad you brought that back. Finish your thought. Im glad he brought that up. Lot of countries missing from the list that should be on the list, if donald trump really cared about stopping terrorism. Saudi arabia should be on the list. Thats where bin laden was from. Thats where al qaeda started. I think its all about upholding our constitutional principles. One of those is the fact that we get to determine who can come into america legally and who cant. And its okay for us as a country to recognize the fact that we have a huge global problem with radical islamic tear orrists. When they use our freedoms against us, we are less secure. We have to strike a balance. I think policy will. This is about as contentious as that White House Briefing was. Oh, come on. I say that in the best possible way. It was constructive. There were certainly some questions answered. The clock is ticking on obama care. The latest on President Trumps effort to repeal and replace. And how the border wall is going to be paid for. Well get some insights from one lawmaker close to the issue. All finished. Umm. You wouldnt want your painter to quit part way. I think you missed a spot. So when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day . Aleve, live whole not part. Painter you want this color over the whole house . Sandra well, today is the final day to sign up for obama care. Democrats are delaying a vote on President Trumps nominee to head the health and Human Services department. Mean time a house subcommittee is holding a hearing right now looking into fraud waste and abuse under the Affordable Care act. As the midnight deadline approaches for anyone who wants to still sign up. All this as President Trump is working on repealing and replacing the law. Peter ducey is live from washington for us. What do we know, peter . Reporter well, we know the president s nominee to become the hhs secretary has been held up because democrats didnt show up to advance him today. We know republicans are starting to get a little tired of the stall tactics because sitting in this Committee Room today surrounded by 11 empty chairs of democrats who, again, did not come to the Committee Vote to advance these nominees, the chairman, orrin hatch, said this. I think they ought to stop posturing and acting like idiots. Stop holding News Conferences and come here and express yourself here, and then vote one way or the other. Id like to see somebody with courage on that other side. Reporter heres how the other side is explaining the ways they are going ab delaying the hhs secretary nomination and all the treasury secretary nominee steve mnuchin. Ron lieden said this. This morning the finance committee was scheduled to vote on nominees who held back information ab their background. But the longer it takes to confirm an hhs secretary the longer it is going to take to repeal and replace obama care. Sandra is there a precedent for this kind of delay in confirming cabinet members . Reporter not in recent history. We just looked at this. So far in january now that elaine chao has been confirmed President Trump has had three nominees confirmed for cabinet positions. In january obama had ten in 2009, george w. Bush had 13 in 2001 and bill clinton had 13 as well back in 1993. And the president is now complaining on twitter about democrats not giving him an attorney general, but he did swear one in to fill the gap between sally yates who he fired last night and Jeff Sessions who has yet to be confirmed. His vote was just delayed again. We know again that President Trump has new laws of the land that he wants to enforce, and to help him enforce them, he needs an attorney general. So thats important. Sandra thank you. Good to see you. All right. Lets talk jobs pitch directly to another group of business leaders. This time big pharma. Will he be able to force drug prices down . 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Its been touring the country telling folks about our heart healthy idaho potatoes, americas favorite potatoes, and donating to local charities along the way. But now its finally back home where it belongs. Aw man. Hey, wait up. Where you goin . Here we go again. Sandra President Trump calling for major change in the drug industry. Telling executives they need to lower prices and bring production back to america. But hes offering a carrot to help them along. U. S. Drug companies have produced Extraordinary Results for our country but the pricing has been astronomical for our country. New drugs have led to longer healthier lives. We all know that. But we have to do better if were going to be cutting regulations at a level nobody has ever seen before. Sandra i said i was so glad you were here when i saw you. Is it possible that he can have this bigger than impact on the industry, bringing prices down . This will be one of the easier industries to pull this one off. Listen, have you ever been to one of these plants where they make drugs . All of them is powder and pressing it into a pill. This is not about cheap labor. President trump talkeds about some of the other things involved. This is about, in part, regulations, tax policy and things like this. Things that he wanted to work on anyway. Think about this. You picked the top five countries that export drugs to america. Ireland, germany, switzerland. Again, were not talking cheap labor. Were talking about great tax policy. In ireland you set up a drug manufacturing company, you pay 12 tax. Thats pretty sandra hello. In our tax code, theres incentive for Drug Companies to off shore drug making. Sandra he did blast Foreign Countries in this meeting. He said they have been free loading on the United States with price controls that limb what their own citizens can be charged for medications. They have. Everyone plays the game a different way. And we know that people order drugs right now watching this show, they order medication from Different Countries because its significantly cheaper. And there are safety issues of course involved in that. But its inherently unfair. The idea that you get the government to negotiate these prices down, thats just being a good steward sandra how is pharma reacting . When they left, the ceo tpaoeuzer was the main spokes pers

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