Carter page as part of their investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. The question now, why postpone it . This is outnumbered, im harris faulkner. Here today, sandra smith, meghan mccain, marie hart, and todays oneluckyguy, bill bennett is here. Now he cheers the conservative leaders and hosts a podcast. Welcome, youre outnumbered. Bill pleasure to be here. Harris cant wait to get your thoughts. Carter page was a former Foreign Policy advisor to trump during the campaign. He has said he is an open book and that he wants to tell the story after the feds started monitoring his medications last summer. Eyebrows are raised when fox news learned yesterday, democrats have requested that his testimony before congress be postponed indefinitely. President trump unleashed his response on social media. He tweeted this, so now it is reported that the democrats, who have excoriated part of page about russia, dont want him to testify. He pulls away their case against him and now wants to clear his name by showing the false or misleading testimony by james comey, john brennan. Witch hunt your thoughts . Bill one thing thats interesting about donald trump, we know what the president thinks. I kind of like it. I would prefer some of them didnt make it out, but for the most part, i think its quite good for the American People to hear directly from their president. You had an interesting lead and that you were reading. You said as part of the investigation, carter page will not testify. When does a person not testify as part of the investigation . If hes got some sunlight to bring to this, lets see it, lets have it. Why would you not want to hear from this witness about which, about whom the Washington Post in the New York Times have been writing incessantly how important he is much market hes important, lets hear from him. Harris its a new generation of interest from the democrats, which weve talked about. The whole idea of it, so why not bring that disinfectant and brighten the room . Meghan i think mr. Bennett brings up a very important point, he has something that democrats want to hear. He said im an open book. Compared to the lives a defined me. It doesnt sound like egg guilty man to me from that quote. Marie my democratic friends said they do want him to testify, they are trying to figure out what that looks like. Is it open, closed, is it after other people testify, there been reports that mueller may want to talk to witnesses first. When im hearing from my friends on the hill is that they want to hear from him, they want to hear from a lot of people and hopefully we will. Harris may be a little disingenuous among some of them. I dont know who your sources are, but the word indefinitely speaks out. If you want to postpone based on more evidence, thats one thing, but youre also dealing with something, not a drip has come out as evidence. If you think you can get some from someone, why would you postponed indefinitely . Sandra democrats have controlled the narrative when it comes to russia. This white house has fought back hard, but still, now that the president s home, from what was viewed as a very successful first foreign trip, russia is back in the headlines. What can they do to get that out of their so they can get back to policymaking coming back to the president s agenda . Bill i learned in washington you are an or defens defense. The president needs to go on offense on this. I dont see how you control the narrative, particularly the narrative on russia by saying we wont hear from this witness. Ive heard the argument about mueller, and obviously, his wishes have to be respected here, but i imagine if mueller had said no, we want to get to him first or wait, we would have heard that. One thing that is a possibility is that we will hear from him, perhaps not in a hearing in the house, but if you have something to say, then by all means, lets hear from him. The president continues to challenge, once they are . I dont know how long we can keep scraping. Harris he can talk anytime he wants. Weve seen others in the past. Look at ben rhodes. They said no hes not going to testify, but he gave all sorts of media. He could the president could talk. Bill he could be on outnumbered. He has the opportunity to speak in the right to speak. It would be interesting to hear what he has to say. Wouldnt people be more interested to hear what he has to say . Harris this idea of lets get to that they are there which is where you have been for a while now. If there is a something, lets get to it. Meghan this may blow your mind, but i talk to people who dont work in the media quite often. Its good for me to talk to people. People in my life dont care about russia. They care about repealing a place and they care about tax reform and they would like the media to move off of this. Unless theres concrete evidence. I dont like sitting in this phantom zone. There is a smoke here, and understand. Let carter page testify, for the love of god, can we move on if they cant find anything . Harris the house until Committee Chairman speaking on this, lets watch. The democrats dont want an investigation in russia. They want an independent commission because they want to continue the narrative that Vladimir Putin and donald trump are best friends. Harris best friends with putin. Whatever the situation, you still need evidence if youre going to investigate someone. Bill you sure do. It is in a little odd that the president is strengthening nato when he is best friends with russia . Lets remember why nato was created, to defend against russia. I agree with the republican sid side. Democrat citizens and republican citizens who like to get off of the subject and get to the real issue. Harris hearkening back to president reagans white house, what lesson would you draw from there and maybe give to President Trump in terms of gaining the narrative, going on the offense as you say in moving forward . Bill i spoke to president reagan. I said they dont want you to just apologize and explain. He said, i will tell the truth. I will say what we did wasnt right and will get back to business. One thing i learned as a secretary of education is if you make a mistake, say so. That gives your opposition very little. Im not sure what the mistake was here with russia, because i still dont think theres any there they are. Harris ive heard you say and it was that nebulous area of whether or not they were friends in the very beginning. Meghan i never liked the language surrounding putin, but im very hard line on russia. I think the travel ban has come back to bite the administration. If you move forward and tweet about repealing a players and tax reform, tweet about jobs, talk about things, i believeabo. I think that would help the narrative. Sandra to get back to your points, people are over with russia, they are done with this considering there is absolutely no evidence and they want to focus on tax reform, they want to focus on the president s agenda, but does it slow things down . What about tax reform by the end of the year . And that even happen . Bill sure, it slows things down. The democrats are doing it and their friends in the press. That is the name of the game that the president he has to get organized on a couple of issues and push them through. Sandra where is obstruction historically . Bill the worst think i ever saw was quail. This is unprecedented in its viciousness. Harris obstruction and leaking. Ive heard you say tax reform if we dont see that by the end of the year. 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The president weeded out as much this morning that he would be making the decision in the coming days. Where are we right now . A couple sources tell fox news of the president is expected to withdraw the United States from the paris claimant accord, there might be a different decision coming forward where you split the paris claimant accord, you withdraw from the Green Climate fund, which the United States has committed to, but you stay within the framework of the agreement. Not sure how doing that would address the central question that the president is worried about and thats by adhering to the strict protocols of the 2015 paris claimant accord, the president believes the u. S. Will begin to suffer and start to fall behind countries like china and india. Thats something at the president just wont stand for. He made a commitment during the Election Campaign to bring back manufacturing in the United States to bring back more jobs. If he sees something being a threat to that Campaign Promise, he will find a way to get out of it. Not sure if thats going to fly with the president. I think its probably safe to say that he has come to a tentative decision, but it has not yet fully comfortable with it and once a little more time deliberating on what could happen before he goes and pulls the trigger. Last week, he spent a lot of time with our allies in europe and in japan, Climate Change was a big topic of discussion at the g7. The president was said to have evolved on his thinking, that according to gary cohn, but again, coming out of this basic idea that he does not want to sacrifice american competitiveness, particularly when it comes to job creation and that will be foremost in his mind when he makes a decision on what to do about whether or not to pull the u. S. Out of the accord. Sandra thank you for not reporting. Live from the white house. Bill bennett, lets go with the reporting have on this and that the president may be leaning towards pulling out of the paris claimant accord. What with the impact of that be a question mark bill hell get a lot of criticism he was good and criticism for this when he was in europe. He was being protest on these grounds by the europeans. The right decision is to pull out and not to try hell be criticized either way. He should be clean and make it clear that this is a work of fiction, that these goals are fictional. The chinese promised to deliver by the year 2030 is the same as if they did nothing. What he should point to instead is what the United States has done, not by signing an accord. Hydraulic fracking has reduced reduced sandra you would say stick on that message . Bill as i said earlier, stay on offense. Look at what weve done. We are better than almost any other country in terms of that particular record. Sandra is stirred things up last week when he postponed this decision. Now that we await this decision and nor the president may be leaning. Meghan first and foremost, im curious about the internal politics with this because its been reported that jared and ivanka want him to stay in the Paris Agreement. Stephen bannon wants him to pull out of this. This is a Campaign Promise that he ran on. He thinks Climate Change is a hoax, snow and should be surprised that he more than likely will end up pulling out of this. The United States is the largest Carbon Dioxide emitter behind china. Chinas involvement in this, 2030 ill be old in 2030. The idea that anything will be done by 2030 i always thought it was a nice allusion of actually getting things done when it comes to fighting Climate Change. Im not a doomsday person when it comes to this. Im somewhere in the middle. I wish it was a little clearer. Sandra even though he called it a hoax, he put in place, Rex Tillerson who acknowledged it as a Climate Change. Marie he argued to stay in. The head of exxon wrote President Trump a personal letter asking to stay in the agreement. The Oil Companies support this. The u. S. Made you anchor the rest of the world, 200 countries. Sandra america first. Marie what does that mean . That the statement, thats not a policy. The rest of the world is looking to us and 200 countries, the other countries who didnt sign on it were and nicaragua. Harris the rest of the world doesnt have our economy. It may work out for the private sector to step out and if it benefits them, theyll figure this out. Its called a free market. Bill back to the point about carbon emissions, they are down 2 . Marie because of our policies that we put in place in the Obama Administration. Sandra no. Bill this country got cleaner in the last 20 years, way before obama. In terms of your point of second behind china, every country did what we have done over the last 12 years, the room will be better. Meghan that was ultimately what the deal is. Sandra a massive explosion in afghanistan, dozens of People Killed and the worst attack couple has seen since three years ago. Is it time for President Trump to send more troops to keep the region safe . Plus the was conducting a successful Missile Defense test as a threat from north korea is growing. What the u. S. Has more leverage now and the message it sends to north korea and iran. Fun in art class. Come close, come close. I like that. [ music stops suddenly ] ah. When your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. Awww. Try this. For minor arthritis pain, only aleve can stop pain for up to 12 straight hours with just one pill. Thank you. Come on everybody. You cant quit, neither should your pain reliever. Stay all day strong with 12 hour aleve. Meghan 11 american citizens were hurt in a bombing in kabul. At least 90 people are dead, hundreds more injured including those 11 u. S. Citizens. Most of the casualties were civilians. So far, no group has claimed responsibility, but it was one of the worst attacks on the Afghan Capital since the drawdown at the end of 2014. And it comes as President Trump is weighing whether to send more troops to the region to reinforce the afghan army. Ill start with you mr. Bennett. Sending more troops and, its a very complicated issue, but when you hear that the city of kabul, which is supposed to be the most safe in afghanistan has such a huge explosion, what do you think . Bill first of all, i talked to jim mattis. We dont have enough people in afghanistan. It has to be explained to the American People. Americans are tired of this. They dont get tired of our military operating. I have noticed the presence of afghan police, Afghan Military and all these instances. I think this is why youre seeing more incidents. I hope he makes a decision. Were really starting to squeeze these guys all over the globe. Not just to control, but to annihilate them and i hope he keeps up. Sandra its a great point to make. Harris how important do you think it is that we have a president that is so closely listen to, but works with generals . We see generals not even be considered for cabinet positions. Very different from what we saw with president obama. I think mattis and kelly are terrific. Kelly has been tremendous. You have civilian control of the military, thats something that is underscored and it means the final decision is made by civilians. In terms of assessing the situation, you want mattis or kelly. Meghan marie, whats your reaction . Marie these are horrific attacks, and you have isis who can still do this, its very problematic. I would say that if we decide to send more troops, we need a very clear articulation of what the mission is. Its now the longest war and our nations history. If we keep sending american men and women out there, we owe it to them, to their families, and to all of us to say is the goal to defeat the taliban . That wont happen. We need to see that. Talk to mattis, talk to military commanders because if we send more troops without that, thats a problem. Harris now youre putting it on republicans, for the last eight years, was the plan for democrats . Youre looking for this administration to say whats the endgame . Then its more fair to ask where has it been . Marie the bush and Obama Administrations spent a lot of time setting that aside, the Obama Administration plan in afghanistan was to refocus our resour