President. This is outnumbered, i am sandra smith and yeartodate harris faulkner, former deputy spokesperson for the state department marie harf, the editor of townhall. Com katie and todays unlucky guy Political Editor of townhall. Com, guy benson is here and it is good to have you. It is great to be back, beautiful new set, beautiful new studio. Is looking good. New car smell. Sandra lets get going. A secretary of state to others in nbc report and defending President Trump. I think its the most important to reof firm my commitment that this role that President Trump, that to dispel this notion that i have ever considered this notion. I have denied that repeatedly and it continues to be misreported. There has never been a consideration in my mind to leave. I serve at the appointment of the president and im here for as long as the president feels i can be useful to achieving his objectives. Sandra then a reporter asked him this. Addressed the main headline of this story that you call the president a moron and if not, where do you think these reports im not going to do with petty stuff like that. This is what i dont understand about washington. I am not from this place. But the places i come from, we dont deal with that kind of petty nonsense. It is intended to do nothing but divide people. Im just not going to be part of this effort to divide this administration. Sandra President Trump tweeting this. Nbc news is fake news and the more dishonest than even cnn. They are a disgrace to good reporting. No wonder their news ratings are way down p are he also tweeted this, the nbc news story has been totally refuted by secretary tillerson and Vice President pence. It is fake news. They should issue an apology to america. The nbc report had claimed Vice President pence intervened to talk to others and out of resigning and to ease tensions. But i want even direct my question, this all just happening moments ago. What you make of it all came back guy i think this is an audience of one, but the secretary of state was speaking to and thats the president. He took what was sort of an interesting gossipy story and blew it up into a much bigger story by calling a News Conference to talk about it. And the reason he did it is because i think he wanted to signal directly to the president that he is loyal and he is on board and that these whispers are at least misleading and want to punch at the media, which is something that the president loves. Sandra let me get this out of the way. He did not directly address the use of that particular word and say no, i did not say that. He just said he would not address these petty things. Harris the guys point, you can make the argument that he is managing up. Thats what i hear you saying. But the one thing he didnt do was manage acrosstheboard with no i didnt say that, which would completely refute whether or not it was actually said. Now its up to nbc and these others to try to prove it. We will see. I dont know what thats going to look like, but the bigger point of all this is that he and the president are on the same page. He called it nonsense. He is not from d. C. He had all of the president talking points on the fact that i dont come from here. We dont deal with is nonsense. Sandra i dont think you can say theyre on the same page does from that News Conference because you when i talk about it this morning as far as the thoughts on Foreign Policy are concerned, they have been accused of having mixed messaging coming out of this white house. Marie and just this week, we saw him publicly in a tweet sort of criticized Rex Tillerson for diplomacy with north korea saying its not going to work, dont even try. They have been multiple news reports that they have been at odds on certain issues. I do not think he can deny that he said that from what ive heard. Multiple sources are saying he did. And keep in mind, if youre a cabinet official any of up a press conference to say that you are still a supporter of the president and youre not quitting especially for one sandra this is media acting in a way that is extremely biased towards us president. Marie let me just answer that and then ill come to you. Especially because Rex Tillerson doesnt speak a lot publicly, guy is right pretty took a gossipy story and i think the president wanted him to come out and basically pledge his allegiance to this minute administration. Katie i think is trying to address that is issue of these petty stories constantly being in the news and being a distraction to the governing agenda of the administration at every single level. Look at the way he broke down his statement. He reestablished his commitment to the president. He reestablished why exactly he took the job in the first place, mentioning he didnt know the president before he took the job, that listed a number of serious accomplishments from his team at the state department all the way to nikki haley to really show that this is a very petty issue. Sandra the report cites three administration officials. This wasnt just one source. Katie went as far as to say that the Vice President mike pence had to intervene to prevent him from quitting. Which he outright denied. Never considered resigning. Sandra one thing i want to address real quickly is the issue of the president allegedly not being on the same page as Rex Tillerson. They were on the same page, theyre just working in different ways. Just because they are having differences, doesnt mean theyre at odds just because they have different messages publicly doesnt mean theyre not on the same page privately. Harris so tillers and said i never had to be persuaded to say because i never considered leaving. So he did refute that. Lets move on. Fox news alert now. The arrival of President Trump in las vegas. The president is headed to the city gates after a gunman opened fire, as you know, on that huge crowd of concertgoers pretty he killed 58 people and himself and injured hundreds more. In las vegas, they are remembering those killed by the gunman just days ago and praying for the hundreds who were wounded. The white house says the president s visit wont get into the politics of the situation, so you can read between the lines pretty will be talking about what the democrats want to talk about, dont gun control. Instead, he will focus on those hurt by this tragedy and those affected most. He will meet first with the patients and the people for whom medical services are caring before he goes to see the many heroes who jumped into the action amid all the chaos and fear sunday night. The president said this earlier. Is a very sad thing. We are going to pay our respects and to see the police who have done really a fantastic job in a very short time, and they are learning a lot more, and that will be announced at the appropriate time. Its a very, very sad day for me personally. Thank you. Harris a story never gets any easier in the facts keep building. Where are we in all of this . Katie i think the president again is here with a very humbling moment. These are some of the hardest things that the president of the United States has to go through. I think watching him today talking to people who were helping that day is going to really be the story here. This morning, sandor had on a marine who helped bring people to the hospital. His girlfriend had broken vertebrae and a broken rib and was still throwing people over a fence to get them to help. This is a story of humanity and americans helping each other literally under fire and i think hes going to be able to highlight about that today in a way thats uniting a nonpolitical which is what we really need right now. Harris as you were talking with that maria and weve seen so many people their stories that have been replicated throughout just surviving the worstcase scenario, i just cant get past that Human Element to even move on. Sandra this is such an opportunity for this president to put the focus back on them, to put the focus back on the victims, the First Responders, the people that werent First Responders that ended up being that help to save so many lives that night. Guy i think its exactly right for the white house to say this is going to be a politics free zone at least today. We know when we are going to talk about it later in the show, guns are a huge issue, gun control is being hotly debated, people are at each others throats over the politics of this, but for the president to visit this site for the first time, to comfort people who are grieving and the bulk of people who are really heroic in their actions and their behavior under extreme duress, that is precisely what the country needs and i think thats what las vegas needs. I hope the white house maintains the nonpolitical posture because there will be pressure for them to get political. Theyre going to get questions that are political in nature, and i think the president s instinct here is correct to say none of that, not there, not today. Harris marie, you and i have talked about this offcamera and its one of those things where its not even bipartisan, its nonpartisan to come together today. The president doing this backtobacktoback, he was just in puerto rico yesterday being consoler in chief. Marie as katie said, its the toughest job he has, its a very hard one. And i want to hear exactly what guy said the president goes to las vegas today. I also hope theres not not more tweets. I understand why he did it, but i really want the focus for the rest of the day to be on those First Responders upon the survivors, and on the victims. Katie i who would hope that the media would also take a break and focus on the survivors to and not criticize every little thing that the president does today. He happens to say one word. Harris we saw a lot of that yesterday. Marie i think that well see how its covered and i dont think the president was perfect yesterday and i think its fair to say heres what he did did well and heres what people were looking at a little differently. Harris i wish theyd said it so gracefully. Marie thank you. Guy we just on the screen, we put up on our big board photos of the victims and i think what sometimes happened, and is natural especially, though they are. So much mystery surrounding the motives of this monster and what he did and why he did it and there is a journalistic instinct to go after that, but he is a despicable piece of garbage who stole those peoples lives. And focusing on the lives that they lead and the realities that were shattered of those around them, that is newsworthy just as much if not more so than coming after and finding out more about this horrible person. Harris one of the things we havent talked about much as you talk about the lives lost, the lives changed forever, some of those injuries. One of our members here, Fox News Contributor was telling me its like a bomb goes off inside the body when youre hit from that distance, high velocity bullet travels through. It doesnt just go in and out pretty he says it becomes shrapnel in the body. Theyre going to survive but there changed forever. Katie the mental aspect of going through Something Like this is just horrific. Many of the people who are there will have serious ptsd as a result of this and thats just a shame because like you said, their lives have been changed forever as a result of one monster who none of us can relate to. Harris big job by the president today, hes been doing it consistently. We will watch and cover that live here on Fox News Channel. As he touches down in las vegas. President trump is facing some Big Questions as well as he is headed to las vegas to comfort those victims of sundays concert massacre. While the white house attempt to keep the focus there, democrats are stepping up pressure on the president to work with them on gun control. You heard guys say it. What can we expect from either side on this day . And b are Just Moments Away from a senate panel update on their investigation into russian meddling the 2016 president ial election. We will have the details. Stay close. Okay folks lets get the lady of the house back on her feet. And help her feel more strength and energy in just two weeks. Yaaay the complete balanced nutrition of ensure with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. Ensure. Always be you. Sandra fox news alert right now. We are awaiting Senate IntelligenceCommittee Chairman richard burr and vice chairman mark warner. With an update on their probe into russian meddling in the election. The senators are expected to largely endorse an Intelligence Report that moscow did interfere in the election and to warn that states should prepare for similar meddling attempts in the Midterm Election next year. So we are waiting on that update and i know you have some strong thoughts on this. Guy i think theres so much to discussion about the dysfunction of washington and a lot of it is merited and true, but i think that the Senate Intelligence committee deserves a shout out for going about this process in a professional, bipartisan manner. I think we are going to see some findings that ought to disturb and concern every single american because if, and it seemed like when, we find out for certain if the russians attempted to interfere in our election, that is not saying that Hillary Clinton should have one. That is not a shot at donald trump read that is simply grappling with a very worrisome fact that an enemy of ours or at least an adversary is trying to mess with us and our electoral system, which is the bedrock of what we do in this country. Sandra i see a lot of agreement at the end of the couch. Guy are going to get me in trouble. Marie on the one its going to get in trouble. Adding a couple of weeks ago, the department of Homeland Security sent 21 states notices that there election systems were attempted to get hacked into. No votes were changed, no one was successful but the most important thing we need to do with this report is prevented from happening again. I want this administration to take seriously the threat because it made him not be democrats to get hacked, it may be republicans. They need to look at these findings and say this is only going to get worse, how do we prevent this . Katie thats going to be the big question moving forward is what is going to get done as a result of these findings, i would hope that it isnt just about political actions versus Real Solutions to preventing the russians from interfering in the future. The administration from the beginning of the trumpet ministrations goals has said that they want to seriously address the cyber war that we are in. This is not surprising. The russians dont just attract u. S. Elections but they also attack election over the world. So moving forward, we will have to see and accept the reality that this is a world we are living in and would better be prepared for it next time by putting those things aside. One more point. At the end of this, there is going to have to be reconciliation on the fax between the special counsel investigation, the house intelligence investigation, and the Senate Intelligence committee investigation, and i think there will be a lot more perspective on what actually happened once we can see all those reports together. Harris if one side isnt looking to indict the other, it would really be helpful because no one has argued that the 17 agencies werent at least in part that something happened. The president wasnt wrong when he was questioning whether or not there had been some votes that mightve been attempted to. You bring up a beautiful point in those states, its not that the votes were flipped but something was going on in those elections. Every member when he alluded to that. Is it possible that we can go forth with out one side or the forth with out one side or the other gearing the maca getting sophisticated lady, it doesnt mean that it would flip the vote. It doesnt mean that at all. What it means is we better walks or six. Guy i think thats right, i think the other point that im ruminating on this, we have not heard a single peep or leak but theres going to be any bombshell coming out of this committee on the seaboard collusion. We were all about collusion, collusion. It doesnt sound i think we would know. We would have an inkling that there was Something Big about to drop if they had something on that. My guess, just a hunch. Harris by that, you think would leak. It hasnt liked and i think we are going to get some good information on some important information. I dont think theres going to be some sort of smoking gun proving time for the trumpet will because im not sure that a smoking gun exists. Marie rob muller has a lot more to do. Sandra many in the Mainstream Media pushing hard for gun control in the wake of what happened in las vegas. One host even saying the nra should be branded a terrorist organization. As is more pc politics and is it wrong to push an agenda at this time . And as weve been telling you, President Trump visiting las vegas. The gun debate is raging. Whether both sides can ever reach a compromise. For free. Which means everyone has access to our real reviews that we actually verify. And we can also verify that what goes down, [ splash, toilet flush ] doesnt always come back up. Find a great plumber at angies list. Join today for free. Sandra update by the Senate Intel Committee on the probe into but russian meddling in the election. Lets listen. Because the investigation of this unbelievable act. We are here to update you about you and the American People about the investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 election. When we started this investigation on 23 january of this year, we had a very clear focus. W