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FOXNEWSW Outnumbered January 17, 2017

Analyst, eboni williams, and todays oneluckyguy, fox news digital politics editor, chris stirewalt, you are outnumbered. Harris you know what ive decided . You are worthy of your own emoji and i want one. That look, right there. Chris the bacon sizzling is actually my imo g, that one is dedicated to me. Harris but i love that look. Good to have you. Chris it is so good to be here, i would love to see you guys. Right now, at least 46 House Democrats or close to 24 in their caucus boycotting president elect Donald Trumps inauguration, that number up sharply from 28 yesterday after mr. Trump blasted congressman john lewis for challenging his legitimacy to be the next president. But despite the rancor and bitterness, the Incoming Administration is offering an olive branch. We hope that these democratic members of congress reconsider, they are certainly welcome to the inauguration if they want to contact any of us they are welcome to did i would note that it was government governor pence of indiana who was the only republican governor to go, he went to president obamas inauguration, may maybe previeg the platform for himself, and he went to show respect and honor. Meantime, new jersey senator cory booker, who made waves by testifying against attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions lastly, said he will attend the inauguration but will fight mr. Trumps agenda every step of the way. So im obvious to going to you first, chris. Congressman lewis boycotted president bushs nomination as well. Chris he said he wasnt legitimate either. Meghan what you make of the rising above democrats boycotting . Chris i think they are allowing themselves to be controlled by donald trump to be to a shocking degree. I think their inability to control their feelings and focus on the work of government and focus on things at hand put them in, whether they like it or not, a supplicant position. Donald trump is driving the discussion and agenda, he is calling the tune, and they are dancing to it, and it is a political miscalculation. But its also, i think this is more important, its not healthy for the country. People boycotted bush, somebody boycotted obama, this will escalate. This will escalate. It will just get worse and worse, and these institutions cant withstand nonparticipatio nonparticipation. Harris sunday night we had 20, and we were up to 28, and now we are at 46. 13 out of all the House Democrats giving the inauguration are from california, so the list grows. I would just point out, while you want to get cozy and understand, especially if you are a democrat this type are round, how the Electoral College works. Those are people who were supposed to go and vote, those electors, according to what they were tasked to do. We only saw, that i have seen confirmed, one faithless electric, and that was for Hillary Clinton, that person wanted to vote for somebody other than Hillary Clinton. Chris there were five for hillary, one for donald trump. Hillary clinton had a strategy that said we will be faithless ourselves and hope that we can convince people to vote against rome, and the trump electors stayed, and Hillary Clinton ended up being this effort that the democrats undertook on her behalf diminished her instead of diminishing donald trump, and now they are doing it again. To harris my point of all of this is that legitimate voters pass these electors with what they needed to go to after what was put in place. So the legitimacy as per the voter ship. Chris read, and the legitimacy is the president of the United States, you heard joe biden when he brought the gavel down and said, its over. The democrats are protesting in the house, and he said its over. Get on with it. And because democrats cant get on with it, they continue to be spinning their wheels, spinning their wheels, and relitigating this election over and over again. Why did donald trump win . Well, i can the come about 50 reasonably good reasons that we could discuss right now. Democrats dont like some of them. Republicans dont like some of them right now. Big deal. Meghan, did you havesound of . I thought that was super telling of him saying that these democrats giving the inauguration is not a good sign. Can we listen . Its a sign of the sort of loosening of the threads of our sort of constitutional system. Its a minor one, but it does show the trust in institutions has declined radically. Since the second world war. About the only remaining one that is trusted is the military. And this is not a good sign. I thought that was really telling him i was going to bounce back to you, because he went on to say that lewis is a genuine hero, but he should be cognizant of the moral weight that he carries. Listen, i think Charles Krauthammer is brilliant, and i completely echo what he just said. I keep thinking about congressman lewis, because as we now know he boycotted george w. Bush, he had accused my father of being like george wallace, he attacked mitt romney, earning up racebaiting issues, now he is attacking trump. And the problem with democrats now is that if all of republicans are evil and none of us are evil. And they are not picking their battles. All of us is george wallace, which is not my words, that is congressman lewis words, you lose your ammunition to ever actually criticize any policy you disagree with coming up in this administration, and they are really putting them selves in a corner because they just look like partisan hacks. Also, i thought you could at least find one person in your this trick that voted for donald trump, how do you think they feel with their congressman boycotting the inauguration . I think its a bad look all around. I totally do not agree with the boycott, i actually think cory booker is really sounding more reasonable on this. Look, im going to go and respect the inauguration of our new president. However, policy wise, i plan to fight him all the way. That makes sense. Chris, you brought up feelings, and i dont is agree with anything that has been set on the couch so far, but i want to go to somebody elses feelings, and those are the feelings of the president elect. I can tolerate a lot of things, but hypocrisy is not one of them. So when in our president elects been someone who for seven years put out questions about the legitimacy of a sitting president , i dont understand, you can do that, thats fine, everybody can do that, but youve got to ride with the consequences of that. So i dont understand why the president elect seems to be so in his feelings in this moment around somebody, john lewis in this case, questioning his legitimacy. All all right, meantime, New York Times policy columnist paul krugman not only defending john lewis for calling president elect trump legitimate, but calling it patriotic. He asks, is it okay morally and politically to declare the man about to move into the white house you legitimate . Yes, it is. In fact, its an act of patriotism. Patriotism means standing up for your countrys values, not pledging personal allegiance to dear leader. He goes on to explain why he thinks its important to question mr. Trumps power to my writing talking frankly about how mr. Trump gained power isnt just about truth telling, its up may also help to limit that power. Congress will be much more likely to stand up to a rogue woodbe authoritarian executive if its members realize that they will face a political price if they act as his enablers. Chris stirewalt, your thoughts . Chris well i think the problem that we have right now is we are misunderstanding, or a lot of people are misunderstanding, what legitimate nt legitimate means. Into harris point earlier, he needs the constitutional requirements, he meets them, he was elected, you may not like it but he is legitimately your president , paul krugman, legitimately the president for the whole country. So using the fact that russians hack to the dnc or what the fbi said about Hillary Clinton as a way to diminish his election, you can do that all you want, but you know what you want to . You wont stop him and his agenda. Right now, paul ryan, donald trump, mitch mcconnell, have got the football. And it looks like open field right in front of them, and the democrats are standing on the sideline saying they didnt really win the coin toss. They didnt really win it, because the heads wasnt really the heads and the tales wasnt really the tales and they are not blocking. Cory booker is right, if the democrats want to be viable they have to stop donald trump on issues and agenda items, not just go back and relitigate the election. Its a total red herring, it is so distracting for the democrats when they should be, as harris points out, real looking. Okay, obvious that we are doing something really wrong that this thing came down the way we didnt foresee it. It really could be taken the time to do that and were taken the time to reflect and think about 2018, a whole host of things that they should doing policywise to position them better than they are. Instead, spending all of this time relitigating is not helpful. After four years if all the number cuts can tell their constituents is that we formidably opposed to the president , that is a disservice to your district and to the american people. I have not been tasked with proselytizing, nobody expect me to do that, but i will say it is not an accident that one of the tenets of the bible is to get the stick out of your own eye before you look at your neighbor. I dont think the democrats are willing to do that right now, so they will stay focused in on this. You know what will happen monday . We found that out from the times of london interview with mr. Trump, he is going to start with his executive orders. They can either get on board or watch from afar, which i guess is what theyre going to do with the inauguration, because i havent heard anybody actually offering up their tickets. Chris i use the analogy of if you had a bowling ball in a net and you cut one strand, the weights on the other strands that are holding that ball of increases. When what we are doing now is cutting these threads around our institutions. As dr. Kay was saying, we are damaging these things, and the weight is shifting, and i promise you, if the institutions of this republic fail, it wont be one, and we will say that is too bad, but instead we could experience systematic problems. And democrats need to republicans need to, too. I think paul krugman is a moron and i dont know why any but he listens to anything he says, ever since he said donald trump was hoping for another 9 11, i dont think he should be allowed to write anymore, i Just Incorporated is a moron. How much more of his columns do we have to be subjected to . [laughter] in in the final days leading up to the inauguration, keep it right here, of course, and on friday you do not want to miss a single minute of coverage, Fox News Channel will bring you this historic day like no one else can. We are waiting, by the way, the very last White House Briefing under the Obama Administration. 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Bounty, the quicker picker upper let me break in with this breaking news, what we have been watching for, that is josh earnest on the left of your screen, the White House Press secretary and is very last press briefing to the White House Press corporate he is giving early personal thoughts at this point. This comes a day before president obama is set to give his final briefing before the press corps as well. We will go live now and wash this together, josh earnest, will they ask tough questions or what will this file . I have no relevant washington experience, i was sleeping on the floor of a College Buddies apartment that had a spare bedroom, and by spirit, i dont just mean it was an extra bedroom, it was an empty bedroom containing only the items that i had managed to load into my car when i moved here from texas. So its fair to say that there were too many other people on the tour that night who thought i would stand here in front of you as something other than a tourist. So its been an extraordinary journey, and this has been an extraordinary chapter. This is the 354th White House Daily briefing that i have led as the press secretary, mark can check me on that number. Not every briefing started exactly on time. [laughter] there might have been a briefing or two that might have gone longer than you would have preferred, but you have to admit there was a lot to discuss. We had plenty of shameless plugs for the Kansas City Royals to squeeze in. There was, of course, the freedom caucuses infamous tortilla gambit. There was congressman steve scalise, who compared himself favorably to david duke. There was the reintroduction of the word snafu into the political lexicon as we were working to pass. We discussed at length the various ways you could catch up zika, the various ways you could catch ebola, and the various reasons scientists recommend you vaccinate your kids or you dont catch the measles. Jon stewart lit me up as i struggled to expand to giancarlo why a couple of our political ambassadors for some reason had no idea what they are doing. At least the stewart segment. Some of my friends left. President elect trump, of course, took advantage of the opportunity to light me up as a foolish guy who makes even the good news sound bad. And i have to admit that even that one made me laugh. But it wasnt always fun and games around here. There was the time that i tingled with senator schumer about dhs funding for new york city. And the time that i tingled with senator schumer over the iran deal. And the time that i tingled with senator schumer over other legislation bread and the time i tingled with senator schumer over the wisdom of the passing of obamacare. In the time i tangled with him over other things. And the daily briefing, of course, is the most highprofile part of the press secretarys job, but not the only part that matters. The most important part, in many ways, is working with all of you and ensuring that the freedom of the press, and ensuring the freedom of the press that keeps this democracy vital. When i first entered this role i worked closely with the White House Travel Office in the department of defense to reform the billing process for your flights and military aircraft, including air force one, making large bills most transparent and smaller. In the last two and half years we have asked china, ethiopia, and cuba to host news conferences, allowing leaders of those countries and their citizens to see firsthand what it means for independent german journalist to hold those in power accountable. Of course it was the end of the year conference at the president convened in this room and tony 14 that got as much attention as any other, because president obama called on eight journalist, all women. And finally, everything about this final week makes me think of all the incredible people whom ive been blessed to work with these past eight years. I only have this opportunity because robert gibbs pulled me aside on election night, 2008, in chicago as the returns are coming into tell me that he wanted me to come work with him at the white house. Im only here because jay carney, Jennifer Palmeri and dan pfeiffer supported and encouraged me when i was the deputy, and advocated for me when jay stepped down. Ive also benefited from a Kitchen Cabinet of senior white house officials who got a lot of other important responsibilities who are part of their formal job descriptions. But stepped in to help me out every time i asked for it. That is people like Dennis Mcdonough and susan rice and jennifer saki, liz allen, jesse lee, cody keenan, and of course, ben rhodes. And ive only been able to do this job because i have an Incredible Team around me. My assistance over the years, jeff tiller, aunt annette ringel, now desiree barnes, all patiently supported a guy who, lets face it, sometimes isnt so easy to assist. The white house stenographers, dominique, beck dori stein, amy sanz, mike mccormick, kaitlin young, and their tireless leader, peggy, they work as hard as anybody in the white house and complain about it less than anybody in the white house. [applauding] i think the only team that may contend might be the Research Team at the white house led by alex and kristin. But i hope you will get a chance over the course of the next week test thank the stenographers for their important week work, because i know they make your lives easier, too. The same go for heater bells, brian gabriel, and sarah, who are at least as effective as any team of press wranglers that we have ever had. My colleagues at nsc, patiently explained to me the things that i didnt know, so that i could, in turn, explain them to you. My team at lower press, patrick, katie, and brenda, is as talented and dedicated as any press team in this town. I begged brandy to join this team when i first got this job, and her performance has far exceeded the skyhigh recommendations i got from people all over town after i interviewed her. They are all, katie, brandy, and patrick, as they say, going places. Eric schultz is simply the best deputy that anyone in any field could ask for. He shows up early, stays late, hes vast, that is an inside joke. He is always prepared, unfailingly loyal, his judgment is sought after throughout the halls of the white house not just by me, but by various members of the senior staff, and im sure that w

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