Is Briefing Senate leaders on a matter of great importance. Blown away. Watch as the huge gusts sweeps the little girl off of her feet as she clings to a screen door in ohio. Your house is rocking dont stop knocking. Come on in. Steve it looks funny. Imsure the parents that saw that video. She is so lucky. She has quite a grip a kung fu grip there. Abby all the guys are laughing. The women their mouths are wide open. Im just impressed. Steve that is quite a funny image. Up, up and away. Ainsley strong you were arm strength. Steve we will tell you more about the storm system coming up. Peter good morning to you. Pete great to be here. Brian brian is out and about. He. Pete my mom and steve doocy call peter. Ainsley he has one of his own. Steve ohio call peter. Some people call him pete. Whats your middle name. When i use your first and middle name you are in trouble. Peter brian go to the couch. Ainsley whats your peters middle name. Steve peter james. Ainsley the fight to repeal and replace big hurdle. Paul ryan now selling the proposal. Steve thats right. They held a bowling and pizza party at the white house yesterday on capitol hill. Paul ryan gave a power point presentation. Its people voting on it to vote their way. Pete Doug Mckelway live at the white house. I dont know the last time the white house bowling hell was used for anything. Some of the trump grand children prior to the inauguration. But it was set up by president truman just after world war ii. Frequently used by president nixon who liked to bowl a lot who moved it to the executive Office Building next door to the white house. I dont know of any time it was used in any official capacity as it was last night for this pizza and bowling summit it may have been less important than the earlier meeting of the day where budget director Mick Mulvaney and jim jordan met with the president. And they pressed him to roll back obamacares Medicaid Expansion sooner than the healthcare bill currently calls for. Thats in 2020. That according to published reports out this morning. More importantly, trump apparently sent very strong signals that he is willing to do that, that he is on board for it this all points out the differences between mainstream republicans and the conservative wing of the party who are calling for an open amendment process as this bill wins its way through congress. Here is jim jordan. God bless the speaker but thats not how the legislative process is supposed to work. If you have an idea that you get to the floor, bring the amendment to the floor, lets have an adia bait and offer your best shot and see what happens. Thats how its supposed to be worked. Its not supposed to be closed off. Yesterday speaker ryan offered this power point presentation of the three pronged g. O. P. Plan to repeal and replace. He urged republicans to stick together for this once in a lifetime opportunity to do what they see is imploding obamacare. We as republicans have been waiting seven years to do this. This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. The time is here. The time is now. This bill obviously may have a harder time in the senate. Dead on arrival is how rand paul has described it. Now one house member dave brat of virginia is calling on Mitch Mcconnell to go full nuclear to use a simple majority vote to get this repeal and replace vote back in the senate. Back to you. Steve Doug Mckelway north lawn of the white house. He included some of the images of paul ryan yesterday doing the power point. Note to the house leadership. You should have started there. It was very good. Because, you know, a lot of people have questions. If you watched his half an hour presentation yesterday, you will have understood everything they are trying to do and, you know, we were saying yesterday, since when was it three phases . Well, as it turns out and the bottom what they are at right now is phase one, reconciliation. Budget reconciliation. Phase ii regulation they change things behind the scenes. Number three is new legislation. They may actually start to roll out some of the new legislation, phase three this next month. Pete answer of conservatives is to move more quickly. In the past have you heard promises this is going to come later. And it never comes. As long as it comes quickly on the heels of this bill like buying Health Insurance across state line. Steve phase three. Ainsley mike pence laid it all out last night he was on bret baier in exclusive interview right here on fox. He talked with the new repeal and replace he wants to give you more choices. He wants states to have more freedom to provide medicaid. He said he wants you to be able to buy across state lines like your Car Insurance and life insurance. He wants to give you that flexibility. This is more of what he had to say. We are really beginning from a position of consensus on what we need to accomplish. But, in an open legislative process, we are working through how to get there. But the president made it very clear, literally the day after the election, to the leadership of the house and senate, that he wanted to make repealing obamacare the top priority, but he wanted to repeal and replace obamacare at the same time. And the legislation introduced this week in the house begins that process. Were open and talking about ways we can improve that bill. Steve one of the ways they are trying to improve the bill apparently is they are listening to members of the Freedom Caucus and whatnot. The Freedom Caucus has said we are not so crazy about the Republican Leadership plan. Donald trump apparently behind the scenes is telling these people who are going bowling and over tote east room for lunch and stuff like that, im 100 percent behind getting rid of the Affordable Care act. But, i am open to some negotiation. And the Freedom Caucus just wants to know hey, are you listening to us over here . He is in listening mode right now. He was listening to ted cruz the other day when he invited his wife and his children over. And he was in a listening mode last night with bowling shoes on. Pete thats going to be party of the process. Give and take. Knows how to negotiate. Other thing he has emphasized very well he has been a man of his word from the very beginning. He ran on the campaign trail to replace. This it doesnt mean you run headlong into explosion where you repeal it without a plan to follow up. Takes time. You have got to have alternative. Critically important he does listen to the voices. Otherwise talk radio and other places he could clearly run into road blocks. Ainsley if you listen to rand paul is he saying it is semantics. It is like obamacare. You are not going to be penalized if you do not pay. In at least thats what the people are saying. Steve not required. Ainsley if you listen to rand paul he says no you will be penalized in other ways. They have changed the semantics of all. We have to see. I hope they are able to work together. Pizza, bowling, a little beer that might help. Im sure did the power point come after the bowling . Are they like oh i want to get back to bowling . Steve it was before. Pete it had to be before, yes. Steve keep in mind they were supposed to do that next tuesday or wednesday night. They decided to roll it for our five days earlier. I think they invited 100 people. Pete because there is so much misinformation. Steve people on the republican side is this the best we have got . Pete what is phase ii and phase 3 and when is it happening . People are concerned. If thats the only thing you are getting state lines is not in phase one its got to come quick. Steve over on cbs there is a comedy show i have never seen it is starring samantha bee. Apparently samantha bee sent her correspondent michael ruby bins out to cpac and we have got a little bit of some of his observations about Young Conservatives who went to cpac. Listen to this. The conference has long celebrated traditional small government conservatism. Just last year cpac was dominated by ted cruz supporters. Cpac. And. And sharpy little [bleep] bow ties. This year bow ties were gone. Replaced by nazi hair. Nazi hair. Nazi hair. Steve that last young man right there in that image where the reporter refers to him as having nazi hair, his sister went out on twitter and said hey, by the way, my brother with nazi hair he actually has stage 4 brain cancer. Pete oops. Turns out maybe you should do research before you point things like that out. Ainsley this is a new hairstyle i guess its been around like the nice year or. So. Pete its apparently a thing. Ainsley shave the sides of the head. Its okay to call it nazi hair until they learn that he has stage 4 cancer. Its just inappropriate. Make fun of anyone. Pete i used to say all the time the first person that uses nazi in an argument loses automatically. The left reflexively uses it to associate with President Trump trump in every turn. Here in comedy they do it oops they picked the wrong person. Ainsley they did apologize and donate 1,000 to his go fund me page. This is their response, actually. We deeply apologize for offending you. And that kyle which is the guy who they offended saying he had nazi hair. We only learned of his condition today and have removed him from the piece. So they took him out of that piece of hair. Steve im sorry if you feel that we offended you. Not much to it. He does apparently have a go fund me page. Because this is in a very aggressive form of brain cancer. It is right there. I think they have raised under 10,000 i 10,000 if you are intd in helping this young man who is going to be on the program this morning. If you go to our web page foxandfriends. Com we will link to his go fund me page if you would like to help his family. Ainsley when i was reading the story this morning my gosh my heart goes out to his family. Is he so young. The operative word is young, steve, as you were describing him. Stage 4 cancer. Prayers out for him this morning. Pete going to cpac. Ainsley still getting involved in the political process. Steve once again his name is kyle codington. He will be with us shortly. Pete awesome. Steve 6 11 in new york city. Abby im so glad you are bringing him on here. Ainsley 7 20 this morning. Abby we do have headlines starting with a fox news alert. Horror and blood shed when a man jumps off a train and starts slashing people with a an ax. Rushing inside as passengers run for their lives. At least seven people including two officers and 13yearold girl are hurt this morning. The suspect, who police say has Mental Health problems, was arrested after jumping off a bridge trying to escape. Authorities do not believe that this was terrorrelated. A showdown intensifying between wikileaks. Julian assange is siding with google and apple who were allegedly exploited by the cia for spying purposes. Listen. We have decided to work with them, give them some exclusive access to additional Technical Details we have so the fixes can be developed and pushed out so people can be secured. Abby the fbi still trying to find the mole who gave wikileaks the classified data. Entering now to extreme weather. Millions in the northeast waking up in the path of a powerful storm expected to give snow and freezing rain in colorado. The state feeling intense wind gusts. Take a look at this. A semi truck flipping on to its side landing on top of a car. A 4yearold girl, you saw. This a 4yearold girl blown away by the wind. Huge gusts sweeping the girl off her feet as she clings to the door in ohio. Luckily she held on tight. She was not hurt. Can you believe that . Unbelievable. Kids they are going to go try to do that. Pete recreate it. Abby she has stroke arm. Ainsley flying through the air. Steve thank you very much, abby. Ainsley pretty impressive. Another bump. Stuart varney is here with another sign the economy is growing. Steve just ride that door all fired up advil pm combines the number one pain reliever with the number one sleep aid. Gentle, nonhabit forming advil pm. For a healing nights sleep. You realize the smartest investing idea, isnt just what you invest in, but who you invest with. Why do so many businesses rely on the u. S. Postal service . 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This is the result of the trump election on november the 8th. Since that date, in my opinion, the mood has changed. We have shifted to a more positive, upbeat expansionary mood in the country. Small Business Optimism at a 10year high. Consumer confidence at a 12year high. Numbers the other day that hiring is very, very strong. 300,000 new private sector jobs in the month of february. 60,000 construction jobs. 30,000plus manufacturing jobs. You are beginning to see the first green chutes of a much more economic expansion. It has started. Wait a second. Youre not going to hear much about it the media is not covering it. Steve of course not. Anything that looks favorably on President Trump goes unpublished these days but its happening. Steve whats interesting is ever since election day people who supported donald trump or liked his ideas you had a feeling but we are talking about Business People who are actually hiring people based on the metric of what they think is going to happen with the economy going forward. When optimism and confidence improve and go up the scale, manufacturers and people in business start to hire because they anticipate more demand for their product or service down the road. Thats exactly what is happening right now. Ainsley why is it . What has he brought to the table that has allowed Small Businesses to be more confident and consumers be more confident . Thats easy. Its the promise of growth. If we get tax cuts and deregulation we are going to see rapg rapid growth in our economy. We see that coming. That was obvious right after november the 8th and thought legislative process. You can see this coming and business responsive. Pete that sounds good. The obama folks are going to say wait this is 8 years of our policy. Why is this not the obama bump and. Thats nonsense. It precisely coincides. Explosion of confidence and optimism precisely coincides with the election of donald trump on november the 8th. Now, you could say that the economy grew, what, 2 plus or what for the last 8 years and that the stock market did go up over the last 8 years. In my opinion, thats largely the result of activity by the reserve, not obama. Steve 10 second answer what happens at 8 30 this morning . Big jobs report. Likely to confirm. 200,000 private sector jobs big deal. Pete we will be watching. Ainsley happy fry dancht yes, maam, thank you. Pete College Students are staging napins to have dreams of diversity. No kidding. What do americans who gave their life and limb think about a little napin. We will ask a marine veteran who risked his life next. Ainsley you heard it first. Reason to vote for democrats. This morning, we have major update for you. 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But for you, one pill a day may provide symptom relief. Ask your doctor about xeljanz xr. An unjection™. Steve we have got some quick friday Morning Headlines for you from overseas. First up. South koreas president is officially out of a job. The countrys Constitutional Court voting to remove her from office over a corruption scandal. Former president could Face Criminal Charges going forward. The ruling triggering a violent faceoff between police and president ial supporters. Two protesters are dead this morning. Isis is now handing out love advice. Isis publishing a marriage advice article in their propaganda magazine titled the flesh of your spouse is poisoning is poisonous that is to say. The disgusting guide to wedding bliss warns husbands that gossipping about their many wives shows a lack of manliness. So there you go. Guns and roses. Pete okay. Well, just when you thought College Campuses couldnt get more out of touch. Southern illinois students will have napins in the library. Yes, you heard that right. According to the school three week project will give students the space they need to express their dreams for the future in a diverse feature. Art provides public space for honest and open dialogue which helps foster imaginative hope for students concerned about diversity. So