So help you god. Shannon that was mike pompeo sworn in last night by Vice President mike pence. At about the same time the president was meeting with top congressional leaders from both parties. Bill a lot to get to. Peter doocy is watching a busy day on capitol hill and byron york has analysis but we begin with john roberts. Set the stage for this meeting today with automakers, what is going the happen . Today the focus will be on jobs for the first part of the day meeting with leaders of the Automotive Industry and the ceos of the big four. He will sign another executive order this morning at 11 00. We dont know what it is. Were trying to dig up the contents of it. There are a number of executive orders he will sign over the next week that have to do with jobs. 1 00 this afternoon hell meet with his new c. I. A. Director mike pompeo, confirmed and sworn in. President trump wanted to have pompeo in place on friday. The democrats decided they wouldnt hold a vote on his confirmation which prompted an Interesting Exchange that were just learning about now between senator tom cotton of arkansas and senator schumer where cotton confronted him to say you promised you were going to hold this vote. You didnt hold it. Schumer said back to him where were you eight years ago when we were trying to get through all of president obamas nominees . To which cotton replied, quote, eight years ago i was getting my rhymes with grass shot at in afghanistan. So dont talk to me about where i was eight years ago. As i mentioned a number other executive orders coming this week, bill. He may sign what is called a trigger executive order which would indicate his intention to renegotiate the north American Free trade agreement and hearing from sources on the hill and mild confirmation from folks at the white house that he may sign executive orders that would take the keystone xcel and Dakota Access pipeline out of moth balls. President trump looks like he will try to resurrect those. He believes though are both part of the future of energy or at least Americas Energy industry. Bill seems like it would fit based on what he said so far. He met with Business Leaders yesterday. Union leaders were there as well and they talked quite a bit, john. They talked for more than an hour yesterday morning talking with the Business Leaders. Spent the same amount of time with the Union Leaders. We should point out the unions represented yesterday were all from the Construction Trade industry. But he met with them in the roosevelt room first of all for a while. Had a meeting about what they needed in order to grow the economy and create more jobs. Then he brought them over to the oval office for a photo op which it looked like they all really appreciated. The fact the president took time to bring them over and show them the seat of power in the United States. Afterwards Sean Mcgarvey had this to say. We just had probably the most incredible meeting of our careers with the president , the Vice President and the senior staff. When the president laid out his plans about how he is going to handle trade, how he will invest in our infrastructure and level the Playing Field for construction workers and all americans across this country. Good things coming from the union leader. Well, you may say thats obvious because trump has been building buildings around the world. But richard trum ka gave him props for taking the United States out of tpp and pledging to renegotiate nafta. It looks like the president is building a Good Relationship with the trade unions. Bill from the grass on the north lawn. Shannon rhymes with . Mike pompeo was sworn in as c. I. A. Director last night and tillersons vote will come next week. Seven nomination votes today and cabinet hearings getting underway today. Peter doocy is live on capitol hill with more. Do we expect much action on the hill today . It depends how much leaders want to get done on their last full days in the office. Last full day in the office for the week because after today for the rest of the week senate and House Republicans will be in philadelphia for a retreat. That will chew up three days of the work week it does sound like the full senate vote to confirm the secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson will probably get pushed to sometime early next week. So our most recent guidance is some of the president s nominees are believed to be easier to confirm like elaine choi and nikki haley could be squeezed in next. Democrats are set to talk amongst themselves at a lunch today who they want to let the current president get confirmed. However, there is no signal here that the new Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer plans to let up on his pledge to make eight of the president s nominees wait a really long time, weeks or months to get confirmed. Shannon. Shannon the fight continues over those nominees. In the meantime they have other stuff to do. Any guidance on when republicans plan to roll out their replacement plan for obamacare . We may not get many more details now until the middle of february. Thats when we would expect the confirmation hearing for congressman price to become the hhs secretary price and the confirmation hearing as well for the new head of centers for medicare and medicaid services. Price is going to be in front of the Senate Finance committee for another round of questioning that is expected to get heated as democrats here try to protect the last president s legacy legislation obamacare, shannon. Shannon peter doocy on the hill. Bill analysis with our Political Correspondent byron. Good day to you. The resident psychiatrist in all this stuff. Score day one monday, day two already underway. I think what youre seeing in both days is donald trump really trying to keep his eye on the ball for his top campaign priority, which is jobs. Keeping american jobs in the United States. Working on trade agreements to do that. The meeting with the Union Leaders is very important because it is such an example of bipartisanship. These represent unions that supported Hillary Clinton. They gave money to Hillary Clinton. And now they are talking with donald trump. And supporting some sort of big Infrastructure Project on capitol hill that will be opposed by a number of republicans, supported by a lot of democrats. Could really, i think, give the president a lot of bipartisan street credibility. Bill well talk about that in a moment here. A lot of other topics, too. You mentioned the union leader. Here is the united brotherhood of carpenters during the meeting. It is my understanding the cameras left the room and mr. Trump called them back in and said the following. Watch. The address on friday was a great middle class address. It hit home for the people that have been hurting. You said it, the people here in washington have made elite. The working class people had to hear Something Like that and at that venue being up there at your inauguration and laying it down. Bill what does that do for the characterization of how you begin your term when youve got Democratic Leaders there on the same day and Union Leaders, as you pointed out . They were out there for Hillary Clinton. And before that they were out there for president obama for years, byron. I think it does show a different sort of presidency. And yes, that union leader began to say that trump called the press back in and said hey, hey, watch this guy, listen to this. This is a president a republican who won ohio, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. He won those rust belt states that have been very, very difficult, if not impossible for republicans to win in the recent decades. This is a very, very big deal. Of course, donald trump is going to be working and meeting with Republican Leaders a lot on repeal of obamacare, on tax cuts. The democrats are going to oppose. Im not suggesting this is a love fest. But there are going to be issues like infrastructure, construction sort of work that trump will definitely cooperate and work with democrats on. Bill sean spicer getting decent reviews based on the briefing yesterday. Well see him later today. Thank you, byron. Dr. York. See, shannon . You live in washington, d. C. And them i come to new york and its like down there. Shannon a lot of excitement and interesting to see the president will be in his element again with these Business Leaders but also in meeting with folks on capitol hill. We heard that criticism a lot in washington president obama didnt meet with his own party. Bill that went on and on. Shannon interesting to see if trump keeps up this. Bill do you miss your washington, d. C. Life . Shannon only my pillow. My husband is here this week so nothing to miss much. The president is sitting down with congressional leaders, so how did it go . He started the meeting with i thought was the right tone. He said look, america is tired of washington not solving problems. Shannon will they be able to Work Together and what happens with obamacare . Its a big question and House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy has more on that. Bill we have this fox news alert. 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Kevin mccarthy, House Majority leader. Welcome back here to americas newsroom. Start with the meeting last night. How did it go . What happened . Shannon i thought it was a good meeting. His first day on the job on a monday. He is bringing the leaders from the house and senate, republicans and democrats together to talk about to get to know one another from his perspective. And to talk about healthcare, taxes, infrastructure knowing that well disagree sometimes. But these are the items to get america moving and he started the meeting with i thought was the right tone. He said look, america is tired of washington not solving problems. And he wants to solve some things and one was healthcare, taxes and infrastructure. Bill these are big topics. I want to push through those as we go along here. Its been reported that he suggested that illegal voters cost him the popular vote. Did you hear that . Did he say that . We were bantering about the election going on back and forth on different things. The real topic was about how we move forward, about healthcare and he said president obama sent him a beautiful letter. He didnt give us the details but stipulated one item. If we had a better Healthcare Plan and we showed that it was, that he could support it. Thats when we got into healthcare where even the democrats said if we had a better Healthcare Plan. Bill it seems a lot of these conversations he talks a lot about the election and outcome. It has come up repeatedly. On obamacare, Senate Republicans just yesterday put together a replacement idea. They put it forward. Bill cassidy and susan collins. Is there wide support for it . They have one idea. There are a lot of ideas out there. What needs to happen and where the senate needs to start moving and part of the discussion we had yesterday was senator Chuck Schumer. We need the cabinet in place because in obamacare there is so much power that rests with the health and Human Service secretary. So tom price has to be in place before you do anything with obamacare so you have the understanding of what can and cannot happen. So when bill do you think tom price will be approved . I do. And i believe he will do a very good job. Bill the idea from this obamacare replacement yesterday was to establish these medical savings accounts and in short what senator cassidy believes is when americans know what they are spending, theykeep the and thats how you bring the costs down. Is this something republicans can support or not, sir . Yes, i think its a big element. Ive always believed in that. That is one element as you go forward. Also a tax credit so those who cant afford could be into the marketplace to have greater choice. There are many elements in it to have a better Healthcare Plan but i think Health Savings accounts is one idea that has always been a strong idea. Bill lets talk about infrastructure spending. You say all spending begins in the house. Youre correct on that. Senate democrats want to put forward a trillion dollar spending idea on infrastructure. The president has talked about this as well. During the campaign and since then. Is this something that can get through a Republicanled Congress . There would be a couple questions. It would have to be paid for. We cant continue to borrow with the amount and size of our debt. Secondly, you cannot put forward an infrastructure plan that takes another 20 years before you build something. You need to have reforms. These problems when you go forward and pass a bill but then you study it for another 20 years before you can build something is arcane in the process. You have to have reforms in the process but it has to be paid for. I believe there is a way to get an infrastructure built. Bill that would be significant. Tax reform. You say this is the biggest difference maker to the american economy. President trump talked about massive tax cuts for the middle class and businesses across the country. When will this happen . Were starting on it now. You have to have growth in this economy. This is the number one thing to happen. Growth will solve so many of our problems when you talk about infrastructure and Everything Else. Tax reform is a great ability for us to do it. It puts us on a better Playing Field and brings jobs back to america. Think of all that money structure dictates behavior. I say it so many times. Our tax structure today pushes companies out of america. The profits they make in other countries keeps it in other countries instead of bringing it back to america. It will bring back growth into this country in a different level and it will be a fairer process in so many different ways. Bill i understand the argument you are making. This is weeks or months away . Months away. It is not an easy process to get done but i will tell you it will get done this year. Bill thank you for your time. Well speak again. Thank you so much. Shannon Rex Tillerson moving forward in his bid to become secretary of state. A Senate Committee approving his nomination just barely. Lawmakers still raising questions about the former exxon ceos ties to russia. What are his priorities . Former u. N. Ambassador to the u. N. Joins us live to talk about it. White House Press Secretary sean spicer accusing the media of piling on President Trump. Reaction from our Political Panel just ahead. Sitting here every time and being told no, we dont think he can do that. Hell never accomplish that. The narrative is always negative and its demoralizing. I wanted to know who i am and where i came from. I did my ancestrydna and i couldnt wait to get my pie chart. 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