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FOXNEWSW Happening Now January 23, 2017

Nuclear weapons at an unprecedented pace. And Severe Weather causing devastation across the country. The flooding and at least rhymes translating entire communities to be destroyed. It is all happening now. Spacing we begin with President Trump diving into his first full week signing three executive orders as the new press secretary gets ready to face the media again. Welcome to the second hour of happening now, we will expect that press briefing, i am jon scott. Jenna im jenna lee. Sean spicer is such a kick that off about a half hour from now, after the aggressive First Encounter with the press this weekend over the size of the crowd at mr. Trumps inauguration among other things but President Trump is moving along with a very busy schedule including meetings with foreign leaders and executive orders to withdraw from the Transpacific Partnership and a federal hiring freeze. All of this as his cabinet begins to firm up. Jon we look at the latest from john roberts, john . Good afternoon. We are expecting sean spicers First Official briefing today to be less of a lecture and tongue lashing that we got on saturday, but who knows . We will see how it goes. The president very busy this morning, President Trump signing three executive orders, one as you mentioned withdrawing the United States on the Transpacific Partnership which is immediately making good on one of his Central Campaign promises as he signs the executive order that takes the u. S. Out of that negotiation. He said he was doing this for the American Worker. Also signing an order implementing a federal hiring freeze except for the military. He hopes to reduce the size of the federal workforce through attrition which will also free salaries as well, and he reinstated the mexico city policy, this prohibits access to u. S. Familyplanning dollars that support ngos that support abortion peer this thing has gone back and forth over the decades, Ronald Reagan implemented it in 1984, president clinton rescinded it, bush reinstated it, obama rescinded it and you can say that President Trump is reinstating it again. Also focus on the Economy Today with business meetings in the roosevelt room as he did on occasion during the campaign, and again during the transition, he allowed some wiggle room and his Corporate Tax cuts saying that he would like to take it to 15 , but it may end up just a little higher than that. Listen to what he said. Now what we are doing is we are going to be cutting taxes massively for both the middle class and for companies, and that is massively. We are trying to get it down to anywhere from 1520 . 1520 , 20 would bring him right in line with the paul ryan tax plan. I talked to some sources on the hill who said what the president is saying here indicates he has a willingness to negotiate with Congressional Republicans over what the appropriate Corporate Tax rate would be. Still to come today, possibility of another executive order, this one regarding north american freetrade agreement but unlike this mornings executive orders come he could not just pull the United States out of nafta, he might indicate he wants to review. Yesterday in the east room, he said he would soon be meeting with the president of mexico and with the Prime Minister of canada Justin Trudeau to begin the process of renegotiating nafta, listen to what he said yesterday. We are going to start renegotiating on nafta, immigration, and our security at the border. Mexico has been terrific, actually, terrific. The president has been really very amazing, and i think were going to have a very good result for mexico, for the United States, for everybody involved. Later on today, congressional leadership will be talking about obamacare among other things, that is the first big legislative agenda item, Obamacare Repeal and replacement has to be done before he tackles tax cuts because there is a whole flowthrough that happens with obamacare. Watch for that to be his first big legislative agenda item. Jon you have some new digs there at the white house. Are you going to be able to keep them is the question, write . I tell you, we are going to hang onto them tooth and nail as hard as we can. Weve had some discussions with the white house to say would it be the appropriate thing to do to kick the press out of the white house, we need to be here to be the american publics eyes and ears on what is going hot on here at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. One thing i would like to do is get out of this torrential downpour we are experiencing. Jon i will stop asking questions so you can do that. Thank you. Jenna fair point. 1 30 eastern time is when we expect the press briefing. In the meantime, President Trump telling the Intelligence Community they have his full support during a trip, after facing criticism for spending much of the time going after the media. Lets put that aside, lost in the controversy is the significance of the setting where he made those remarks, at the wall honoring fallen cia officers. We wanted to take a closer look at this somber memorial etched in marble. Right now, there are 117 stars carved into that wall, honoring those who gave their lives for our country since the agency was first founded 70 years ago. We only know the names of 84 people these stars represent. The identities of the other officers remain a secret even in death, their wishes often too sensitive to reveal. Not every fallen employee receives a star. In order to qualify, the death must either be heroic or inspirational while in the line of duty. Jon the white house moves forward after a contentious weekend including battles with the press and millions of protesters marching in cities across the country. Today, President Trump is hard at work and telling Business Leaders that tax cuts and regulation rollback is coming. Now what we are doing is we are going to be cutting taxes massively for both the middle class and for companies, and that is massively. We are going to be cutting regulation massively. We are going to have regulation, and it will be just as strong and just as good and just as protective of the people as the regulations we have right now. Jon Jonah Goldberg is Senior Editor at National Review and a fox news contributor, david is a senior Political Correspondent for the washington examiner. Welcome. It was a fairly dizzying weekend, what stands out to you about the Trump Administration and their first days in office . I think it was, i am sure, particularly sean spicer would just love a doover. The images we just saw, the reports about the pulling back on these regulations, tpp, opening up nafta for negotiation, i may disagree with some of the policies, but politically, those are good stories for donald trump, that should have been the first story about the Trump Administration coming out of the inauguration with the possible exception of the speech at the cia which i thought in principle was a good idea, but the problem was bragging about crowd size and all of that that the administration after a very bad start particularly with the press, that is why i think they would love to get a doover. Jon he did seem to get, sticking with you come he got a pretty warm reception there at cia. He did, and there is this effort by some people and the media to say those were just the Campaign People he brought over with them, the Administration People he brought over with them. I kind of doubt that. I think a lot of rankandfile people in the cia probably like donald trump but also a lot who were probably worried about donald trump because the guy, by his own admission, is a disruptor. Jon sean spicer said from the podium on saturday in that news briefing that they are going to push back. They are aggressively going to push back at what they see as media disinformation, give us your take on that sean spicer appearance. It was a baghdad bob moment, and i do not think it is something he wants to repeat. Ive dealt with in a number of years, always straight with me, never made me look bad by lying to me or spinning me to aggressively without any support for the facts of analysis that i am dealing with. I think this is what donald trump did in the campaign that was so successful, he countered every piece of information he did not like, whether it was true or not true, and in that way, he was able to keep his partners and supporters with him and never doubting him. I do think in the position of presidency, they need to be more careful and where and how fate fight back with things like Kellyanne Conway referring to them as alternative facts, because now we are dealing with things donald trump is actually doing as president , not that his opponents are thinking or saying he will do, but what the Trump Administration wants to be able to do is tell a story about its achievements and efforts, and things are about to get very difficult here. Not just because it is donald trump, a republican white house, but because when you want to repeal and replace obamacare or overhaul the tax system or change immigration system, these are some of the biggest things any president could ever do, and they are going to try to do them all essentially at the same time. There is going to be a lot of politics involved in be very difficult. Jon also a hiring freeze and the federal government except for the military, i guess essential personnel. What do you make overall of the executive orders he has issued, the way the first few days have gone . I think most of them with the exception of the tpp thing are sort of standard fare, what you would expect from a republican president coming in, going aback the funding for abortion overseas, that kind of thing. They are good, i agree with them in principle, but i also agree with david that you only have so much Political Capital in so many fights you can fight. There is nothing in the constitution that says if you had a smaller crowd at your inauguration then the previous president therefore you do not get as many votes in congress or you dont have as much power. There is nothing that wasnt served by picking this fight, and instead, they should be deploying their resources political and otherwise toward defending the policies that they want to get across peer this was a very rocky start for a guy who during his president elect phase did not do a lot to win over critics, so we have these very low Approval Ratings already, lowest in recorded history, and i think he needs to start worrying about how he seems to people who did not vote for him. Jon we are going to have to leave the discussion there appeared Jonah Goldberg, david drucker, thank you gentlemen. Jenna we will see what happens 20 minutes from now when we expect a press briefing. In the meantime, press of california seeing record rainfall but it is not all good news, why the rain is now causing problems of its own. Also, a beacon of hope following a miraculous rescue at the sight of a terrible avalanche. We will explain these pictures. 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 . Search for survivors in italy after a Mountain Resort was buried in an avalanche. Here is why there is hope. Emergency crews today digging out three sheepdog puppies found in the boiler room area at the hotel. A discovery, as i am sure you understand is a welcome sight for rescue teams fighting against the clock still defined 42 people that are missing. They just started barking very softly. In fact, it was hard to find them right away because they were hidden. Then we heard this very tiny bark, and we saw them from a little hole that the firefighters had open and the wall p that we expanded the hole and pulled them out. Jenna what a moment, so far nine people have been rescued in the first survivors were released from a nearby hospital today. Officials have confirmed six deaths, now there is an Investigation Underway to see if authorities underestimated the threat facing the hotel and the hours before last wednesdays deadly avalanche. Trumps a big problems right now in this country, drought stricken areas of Southern California now getting too much rain from a winter storm. Flood watches and warnings in effect as high water washes out roadways in raises concern about mudslides and there is more rain in the forecast. Jonathan is live from topanga, california, with more. It is a mess across large swaths of Southern California right now after one of the biggest rainstorms we have seen in Something Like seven years. This is the result here in topanga, california, these huge boulders came crashing down yesterday as a result of the dry turf being suddenly soaked, and you take a look at this one. If i stayed up to look again, you can see just how big the boulder is. Nobody is traveling this road which blinks to 101 freeway where the famous beaches of malibu for several days probably until it gets cleared. Part of the problem is that in the fire stricken areas we have seen in so many areas of Southern California over the last five years, sand canyon, east of l. A. , there turf is tender dry, so then you get this downpour, you get mudslides. That is what they have been dealing with out there. It is literally one disaster after another. Listen here. The water came up over across the yard, everything flooded into the yard, pools, mud, like a big mud bath. And take a look at this pretty extraordinary video of a water rescue. Two people stuck in a pickup truck, rescuers had to get them out, they sent a light raft to them, they got in it one by one, thankfully, they both got out alive. The roads were a mess yesterday. I drove about two hours from delmar down south back to l. A. , and it was a very frightening drive, couple freeways in fact got so bad later yesterday afternoon that they had to be shut down completely. You know what they say about l. A. People driving in rain, it is not good at the best of times, yesterday it was just terrible. But it is not all bad news. If you are at skiing, it is one of the best seasons you have had in california for a very long time. Take a look at the pictures out at big bear, a huge snow dump, in the big picture there in terms of the snow is the snowmelt obviously is what fills the reservoirs in california, so the fiveyear drought we have been going through is at the very least going to be eased considerably by this. So there is a Silver Lining to every rain cloud. Jon good news and all of that. Jonathan hunt, thank you. Jenna the trump team is shape with two more picks on the fast track to confirmation, we are live from capitol hill with that. Plus, north korea issuing another threat, why the timing is especially ominous and our next guest says the danger has to be taken seriously. Jenna right now, the Trump Administration is facing a dire warning from north korea and its very first week. The North Koreans are threatening to for further misery on the u. S. And a warning coming 49 years after north korea captured a navy ship. The uss pueblo. This as south korea warns that the north is developing Nuclear Weapons at an unprecedented pace. Gordon changes in asia analyst and author of an aptly titled book, as we have pointed out often. What is notable as we have heard north korea off and on over the last several years, but why do you think this particular warning is notable . This comes at the beginning of the Trump Administration. The North Koreans obviously want to test what his intentions are toward them, and the other thing is that the chinese are helping the North Koreans. The chinese have provided new rear weapons technology, missile material, all sorts of plans for mobile missile launchers and other things, so basically, we are facing a challenge not just from them but beijing as well. Jenna in the best possible scenario when you look at the best possible response with such a threat or actual missile test, what would that look like . First of all, the u. S. Needs to support south korea that is going through an impeachment crisis right now, the strongest u. S. Support or is under fire, she probably will be removed from office, that jeopardizes plans for Missile Defense for south korea. I think the United States needs to warn china not only privately but also in public and we need to start sanctioning chinese banks because theyve been helping north korea, and we have been shying away from enforcing our own laws. These banks should be unplugged from the Global Financial system which would cause a shock but at least we would be showing beijing we are serious about protecting ourselves from north koreas missil

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