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FOXNEWSW Happening Now February 23, 2017

It is all happening now. Leland at 1 00 eastern, we are awaiting a large, secretary of state Rex Tillerson in mexico and also for remarks from two of President Trumps top advisors peer this is where conservatives hold their annual conference, the cpac convention down in maryland, second hour of happening now busier than the first, i am Leland Vittert info jon scott. Jenna i am jenna lee. The president chief strategist steve bannon and chief of staff Reince Preibus both participating in an upcoming panel, you can see right there. Sit down happening as rumors swirl about a contentious relationship between the two, but admittedly, those rumors have swirled for a long time including during the campaign. It will be interesting to see how they interact with each other. The president himself will speak at the conservative conference tomorrow, so a lot to watch there. Associate editor for the wall street journal, nsb mentioned, we have live news event we are waiting in mexico, so a lot going on this hour. Appreciate your time. What are you going to be watching for when we see these two key players in the white house come together on this stage today . What do they say and how they make up and how they defined themselves as conservatives. The conservative Political Action conference where they are speaking is primarily made up of the social conservatives. Trump did not even go to the meeting last year. They have a straw poll every year saying, who are you going to vote for for president . Last year, ted cruz won by 40 , trump was a distant third at 15 15 . He is seen by this conference is not quite the conservative, more of a populist leader, and yet they realize that the best opportunity that they have now to advance the conservative agenda with both Republican House and Republican Senate is with this man who is now president of the United States. They have not entirely got along in the past. Jenna very interesting as you point out, Reince Preibus head of the Republican Party, traditional republican if you will. Steve bannon, preibus i dont know if he would appreciate the term republican as much as he would appreciate the term conservative. You can see their marriage inside the white house. There have been rumors about whether or not they have got along. What have you heard, what can you report to the viewers, how much effect do you think is behind the plate up hype of drama that quite frankly so many like in any white house . I think theres plenty of chirping and the white house at the moment not just between preibus and bannon, people with the president s ear, bannon particularly, but other players and with that same sort of chirping that got Michael Flynn in trouble, former National Security advisor. It will be very interesting to hear bannon today. How much of a conservative is he, how much of a creature of the albright, which this particular conference does not necessarily embrace. It sees itself as more of a traditional conservative group. It looks at President Trump and says, great on his porch against regulation, great on his pledge to lower taxes, not so great that in the past, he has supported abortion, and he supported gay rights but has a different you on that now, how do you reconcile all of that . What is bannon going to say . Is he going to be sounding the nationalist, protectionist tone that he has helped engender with President Trump, or is he going to take a more moderate role and sound more conservative . Jenna interesting as you are talking, i realize how little we have heard from steve bannon in his own words. He has been described from outsiders a myriad of different ways, so we encourage our viewers to stay with us so they can actually hear from him, but he things on certain issues. Exactly, its going to be one of the most interesting things about this conference. Exactly right, we have not heard from him, he is not out front. Kellyanne conway has claimed that role, priebus is playing that role on saturday and sunday talk shows. Steve bannon is perhaps next to President Trump may be the most important person in the white house, save his family because he is the ideological push behind President Trump. He has been there in the writing of a lot of those executive orders. He now has a position on the National Security council which a political figure had not had before. It will be fascinating to hear this person out in public articulating his views and the views of the president for the first time that i can remember. Jenna yet we hear time and time again that the president is his unmanned, makes his own decisions, sometimes does not share all of his opinions with his team and decides when hes going to announce her and things as well, very independent. That will be also very interesting to see not only steve bannon today but the president tomorrow. I would be remiss in not mentioning, and i want to keep up the life history of the cpac, but we have two other life events dimension, Mitch Mcconnell speaking to his local constituents in representing, if you welcome another story we are watching which is all these lawmakers from congress back in their home districts and getting some pushback on issues like obamacare, that is happening. At the same time, were also watching mexico to see Rex Tillerson, and our new secretary of state really stepped to the microphone for one of the first times in a foreign country and answer some questions from the press. Perhaps on all sorts of issues. So these two events are happening at the same time, and they all flow back to the white house and what does the Republican Party look like today, what are the main issues that republicans are grappling with and how does that defined the party and the presidency really . In the weeks and months to come, what do you think rises to the surface of all this we are watching . Is a Republican Party, conservative party, what do those terms mean today . Is it a nationalist party, it has a nationalist president. Is it a protectionist party. Republicans have not been protectionist in the past. How do they reconcile the president s trade which are protectionist with the traditional views of conservatives, of republicans . I think a lot of these terms that have guided us in the past are not at all antiquated, but they are up for some redefinition. I think that we are going to see some of that redefinition happening in the days to come certainly, but also at this conference, the language that is used to articulate the worldview of the presidency and quite frankly, you are to point out the Rex Tillerson event, we have not heard from him either. This is a bit of a coming out for Rex Tillerson in a very difficult position of a fraught relationship between the United States and mexico which for the last couple decades has been a strong ally. Jenna it will be very interesting to watch. Here we are talking about the limits of language as well as the importance of word choice. That sort of sums up the sensitive position of some of the topics we are talking about. Great to have you, glad to see your perspective, we will be watching the live events. Here we are looking at mexico city where we expect that secretary of state and secretary of Department Homeland security. Leland not ready as we continue to look at mexico city, fox news alert awaiting those remarks in mexico city. The press comments between secretary of state Rex Tillerson and his mexican counterpart was supposed to take place last hour. We were told by the pool that travels with the secretary of state that things ran a little bit long in that meeting. What to read into that if anything . Rich edson live in mexico city with how this visit is going so far. Hi, rich. Good afternoon. Boy are these two countries waiting to hear what these men have to say. They are putting out secretary of state Rex Tillersons first bilateral trip to a foreign country, flooding out the importance of the relationship between the United States and mexico. The white house yesterday said the ties between the two countries are phenomenal. We have heard from the Mexican Government of late something a little different especially when it comes to the specifics about what the Trump Administration has put forward on the policy that potentially the United States could be dropping off and mexico nonmexico migrants into the country to leave that government of mexico to deal with peer to that, the Mexican Foreign minister said essentially that no country can dictate to mexico unilateral policy. On top of that, there is the history between President Trump and president Henrique Pena Nieto here in mexico. The mexican president was scheduled or going to schedule to come to the United States in visit washington and visit President Trump, those two had a falling out. That trip was canceled because of the comments from President Trump that the u. S. Is going to build a border wall in mexico was going to pay for it. That remains an issue here. We have not really heard much from the u. S. About all of this ever since, of course, the statement that we got a few weeks ago that they have agreed to disagree. So there are an awful lot of issues that the two secretaries, secretary of state Rex Tillerson and secretary of Homeland Security john kelly meeting with their counterparts in mexico today. We expect them to come out within the next few minutes here and hopefully give us a little bit more into what that relationship holds. There is also issues on the trade front and a number of bilateral issues that that you are expected to discuss. Leland, back to you. Leland a lot to talk about as they already have, rich edson live in mexico city, thank you. Jenna . Jenna republican lawmakers are facing a sea of angry constituents at town halls this weekend, bill cassidy dealing with a raucous crowd yesterday in new orleans. That accomplishes the president s goals. [crowd shouting] jenna constituents or attendees creating these issues confronting lawmakers about obamacare and the environment, et cetera. It is a long list, quite if you think they have issues with. Very simple way to do it, you did it perfectly. What is interesting is that voter anger is what fueled the republican rise to power, not just for President Donald Trump but also they have the house in the senate and as you suggest, maybe now it is boomer ringing on republicans. Largely about obamacare, one of the latest examples we see is senator tom cotton, the republican from arkansas. Had a very contentious town hall last night, hundreds and hundreds of people turning out, many of them talking about obamacare, pushing back on the senator and suggested that the benefit to obamacare is so strong that they are concerned about republicans talking about repealing and replacing it, watch. Everyone in this room has been hurt more than theyve been helped. Obamacare changed my life and saved it, senator. Nobody here has not been affected by obamacare. Yes, because it saved my life, senator. You hear that women say that obamacare saved my life, but there is a lot of skepticism among the president s supporters about whether or not these stories are true, whether people are reading groups at these town hall. Look at this video of some of the recent protests around trump tower and elsewhere around the country, the president s supporters say look at the scripts being distributed, the fact that many of these signs have the Service Employees International Union on it, they idea the left is hiring people to get out there and manufacture this anger, something that sean spicer said at the white house podium yesterday and it sounds similar to something from the obama days. I think some people are clearly upset, but there is a bit of a professional protester manufactured base in there. I think what you have seen is they have they have bragged about manufacturing to some degree that anger. Robert gibbs back there in 2009 saying the anger was manufactured. That of course a reference to the tea party. Remember the Obama White House sort of underestimated the anger across the country. Trump white house in washington should not make this a mistake. Jenna we will watch that, thank you. Leland right now, we are waiting for some rare public remarks. Secretary of state john and mexico, but all eyes right now, National Harbor maryland, chief strategist Stephen Bannon and white house chief of staff Reince Priebus expected to take the stage at cpac any minute. A fascinating conversation, lots to watch for, as important as what they say is how they say it. Life from cpac when we come bac back. Did you make that . I did. Nt. Hey, come look what lisa made. Wow. You grilled that chicken . Yup i did. Nt. Smartmade frozen meals. Real ingredients, grilled and roasted. 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This is ahead of the secretaries and meeting with the mexican president and it is our understanding that the meeting has been for the last several hours and has produced some interesting thoughts on issues of the day. We are awaiting they are a little bit late which might tell us something about the meeting, but we are awaiting secretary of state Rex Tillerson to step to the microphone momentarily. When he does, we will take you back there. Leland in the meantime, fox news alert as tempers are flaring and protests erupting in california. This after an offduty l. A. P. D. Police officer clashed with a group of teens. Hundreds now are protesting in the streets of anaheim just hours after video surfaced showing the officer tussling with the teenagers before pulling his weapon and then firing it. There is video of that event as well. Jonathan hunt and our west coast bureau with more on this. Press, the little later, right . Yes, later this afternoon. So far the video we have seen does not show the beginning of this incident, but according to police, it seems to have stemmed from the offduty officer getting fed up with teens crossing his lawn. He then grabs one of them, accusing that tenet of threatening to shoot him. I did not see that, i didnt say that. [bleep]. Get your hands off me then. Students gather around them then to other teens charged due to my challenge then charge the officer, knocking him down here he gets up and we see clearly ae reaches into his waistband, pulls out a gun and fires it, the teens scatter at that point, no one was hurt, Police Arrived a few minutes later. That video was widely viewed on social media yesterday and several hundred protesters then showed up outside the officers home last night, some windows were smashed nearby and around two dozen arrests were made. 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