Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting 20170116 :

FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting January 16, 2017

Deck this monday afternoon, four days left until donald trump becomes our nations commanderinchief. Hes not backing down from his battles with u. S. Intelligence officials and the media and others. The president elect is revealing more details about his plan to replace obamacare. He tells the Washington Post that were going to have insurance for everybody. That is a quote. Republicans have for decades fought to lift government involvement in the healthcare system. But recently theyre talking about providing universal access to health insurance. President elect trump says tells the post that there was a philosophy in some circles that if you cant pay for it, you dont get it. Thats not going to happen with us. He says the plan is nearly finished and he will unveil it soon alongside paul ryan and the Senate Majority leader. The president elect tells the post that his plan will not cut medicare benefits too Older Americans and he says he will drive down drug prices by forcing pharmaceutical companies to negotiate with the government. Under the current law or the current medicare law, Insurance Companies negotiate drug prices for the government. More on that in just a moment. President elect trump over the weekend made news on several other topics. They include tweets targeting the c. I. A. Director john brennan and one of americas most prominent civil rights leaders, john lewis from georgia. The president elect today marks Martin Luther king day by meeting with civil rights icons oldest son, Martin Luther king iii. John lewis is live at the trump tower for us. Hi, john. Shep, good afternoon. Weve been tipped that when donald trump finished his meeting with Martin Luther king iii, he was going to come to the microphones and talk about m. L. K. Day and what was going on. When the doors to the golden elevator opened and he face add barrage of questions about john lewis, he thought it wasnt the best idea and he shook hands with Martin Luther king iii and retreated upstairs. The photo op of him shaking hands was meant as a Counter Point ever since he went off on lewis on twitter saying he was all talk, no action. Trump was responding to john lewis friday saying that trump was not the legitimately elected president because russia got him elected. Martin luther king iii said, like my father said, cant we all just get along . Listen. I would say john lewis has demonstrated actions. Things get said on both sides in the heat of emotions. At some point, this nation, we have to move forward. Earlier in the day, avlida king, Martin Luther king jr. s niece, said on fox and friends that john lewis could better help his country if he would work with president elect trump rather than saying things against him. Shep . Theres a trickle of information about the Healthcare Plan that donald trump says hes working on. Youll remember at the press Conference Last Week at trump tower, he said it should happen simultaneously, the repeal and replacement of obamacare. Now we heard that the plan is almost cooked. What donald trump is waiting for is for his hhs secretary, dr. Tom price, to be confirmed and then theyll release the plan. Donald trump tipped his hand, as you suggested, saying he wants healthcare for everyone. To a lot of people, healthcare for a lot of people that is code language for single payer system, which conservatives across the country will tell you theyre not in favor of. This morning on fox and friends sean spicer said its not a single payer system that trump is proposing. His goal is insurance for everybody through marketplace solutions, competition, bringing costs down, negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, allowing competition over state lines. Now, you heard about negotiating with pharmaceutical companies. Shep, you mentioned at the beginning, trump planning on twisting arms, forcing the Big Companies to negotiate with the government for prices. So hes laying down some markers early. Shepard john roberts at trump tower. More now on president elects promise to provide insurance for everybody as part of his plan to replace obama care. Kimberly atkins is the chief washington correspondent and columnist for tthe boston heral herald. Good to see you. Insurance for everyone. How is that possible . We dont know what that means yet. As you mentioned, the plan is not fully revealed. President elect trump says that its done and everyone will be covered, but that in itself is already a divergent from what Republican Leaders have been talking about, having universal access to healthcare, not necessarily universal coverage. Trying to reign in government involvement in healthcare, but it sounds like the president elect wants to have a lot of government involvement in healthcare. So it will be remains to be seen how he will cover everybody. Shepard conservatives have been against that idea in concept over time. Is anyone changing his or her mind or that or is opposition boili boiling . Well see. Donald trump made clear that he plans to use twitter as a governing tool and just the same way as his tweets and from democrats as well, sort of embarrassed congressional leaders into backing off of a plan, for example, to sort of nix the congressional ethics office. They backed off that amid backlash. Donald trump took credit for that. He said ill do the same thing to you if you dont move quickly on this repeal plan of this replacement plan along with the repeal to happen far more quickly than the 18 months to two years that Republican Leaders were talking about before. Shepard i havent heard the Republican Leaders talk about anything different from that. I think it was leaders in the house and senate that said this process will take a long time. Washington is a complicated place. Obama care took, gosh, 100 hearings and 18 months. Do they have a i hear trump saying things, but i dont see where that action is going to come from, unless something earth shattering happens. Its true, shep. Healthcare policy is complicated. Weve seen republicans working on a plan for years now and still they donte a finalized bill. Donald trump is saying that somehow he does. Somehow hes figured out the magic pill to not only be able to implement it quickly but be better, cheaper and cover everybody. Im dying to see this plan personally. A lot of reporters are. I have a feeling that it will be a lot more complicated than the president elect is describing it now. Shepard one of the things weve heard about in the past, not this time but the past, his idea of a single payer meaning the government dolls out insurance to everyone. A single payer in the government. That gives the government leverage to help cut down costs and control things. There are plenty of reasons to be against this. But that is one plan that there was a time when people seemed to think might work. That is not on the table . Is that right . Well, the members of the Trump Transition Team are saying this is not a singlepayer plan. But thats the idea around this suggestion that the president elect said, that the government negotiate with drug companies. Thats what single payer is. Right, for medicare and medicaid. He seems to think thats a good idea giving the government more control over that. That sounds more like a plan that might be floated by Bernie Sanders than a lot of Republican Leaders. They need to work that out for themselves what it is. They may put a different name on it to make it not seem like single payer. Seems like a lot of government control, exactly what republicans wanted to eliminate. Shepard he would make a lot of friends, i think, at least on that issue on that matter regarding healthcare from the far left in america, if he did that. I wonder if that sort of thing i mean, branding is his specialty. Maybe he can brand it in a way he can sell it. Very interesting to watch. 140 characters at a time, wont it . Yes, ill look out for the twitter hashtag. Shepard i will as well. Thank you. Nearly 30,000 officers and agents and officials will help protect everybody on inauguration day. Well show you how theyre getting ready and what is the greatest threat on what is scheduled now to be a 90 chance of rain throughout the day in our nations capitol. But not freezing. Thats good. Stay with us. If you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, and youre talking to your doctor about your medication. This is humira. 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Shepard thousands of intelligence agents and Law Enforcement officers are gearing up for the inauguration working to keep spectators safe. The head of Homeland Security says theres no known credible threats, but theyre preparing for anything that might happen. Catherine herridge is with us from washington. What is the difference from the last inauguration . Shep, the secret surface and the fbi said theyre very focused on drones being used as weapons or simply to frighten the crowd. Drones are banned in d. C. Airspace. During the inauguration, the fbi said agents can detect them even if theyre not flying and there will be consequences for simply bringing them. We do maintain capability to detect and defeat devices of that type. So a uav is in the air over the inauguration, can you effectively bring it down or shoot it down . Disable it . Im not going to get into specifics, but we do have capabilities in that regard and well have them available on an around that day. You can see, fox news went inside the command center with paula bates. They have a surge capacity. On the wall there, they have the ability to track agents on the ground in real time with gps technology. The fbis focus for this event is Counter Terrorism and pushing intelligence that they think is credible and specific, shep. Shepard which agency has the lead in the event does happen . A great question. Theres so many agencies involv involved. The secret service has the lead. They have the multiagency coordination center, the mac. Everybody has a seat at the table and the idea is they can share information faster. Well have representatives assigned in this command post. Well have the full complement of communications. The best thing about these command centers, everybody gets the information in realtime. If theres a even a utility problem, lights go out in one of the ball rooms, for example, everyone gets word of that immediately. We know who is going to respond to that. We worked out well in advance, even by name, who will come in to fix the lights. The other thing worth noting in that interview from the secret Service Director is that he talks about how they have special teams to deal with hacking. They had not seen any unusual activities surrounding the inauguration, but given where the news is these days, this is something that theyre mindful of, shep. Shepard catherine herridge, thank you. A battle fought on television and twitter. President elect donald trump versus the head of the c. I. A. The latest swipes in their public fight next. Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool . No sir, no sir, some nincompoop stole all my wool sweaters, smart tv and gaming system. Luckily, the Geico Insurance agency recently helped baa baa with renters insurance. Everything stolen was replaced. And the hooligan who lives down the lane was caught selling the stolen goods online. Visit geico. Com and see how easy it is to switch and save on renters insurance. 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A lasting reminder of mans final steps on the moon. Gene cernan dead at 82. President elect trump going after the head of the c. I. A. On twitter after john brennan told Fox News Sunday that trump doesnt have a good handled on whats going on with russia. I dont think he has a full appreciation of russian capabilities and intentions and actions that theyre undertaking in many parts of the work. Absolving russia of various actions that they have taken in the past number of years is a road that he, i think, needs to be very, very careful about moving down. Shepard so thats the c. I. A. Director. In response, trump talked about russia had compromising info on the president elect. He responded to a tweet from fox news about the interview writing john brennan blasts president elect trump on russian threat. Does not fully understand. Trump adds oh, really . Couldnt do much worse. Look at syria, crimea, the buildup of russian nukes. Not good. Was this the leaker of fake news . Man, you going after the c. I. A. Director. Theres nothing to suggest that this c. I. A. Director did i mean, nothing. No, theres nothing that trump has in terms of information that brennan did this. This just shows another example of when hes prodded or people question what he said on hacking or different things, he fights back very aggressively on twitter. Shepard you said classic trump behavior. Yes. The kind of thing weve never seen before because lets face it, the c. I. A. Has information on, well, donald trump. Absolutely, this is the bully pulpit for trump, its twitter. Its not talking about me or you or the press. He goes to the people. The issue is going to be, what does this mean when he takes the office . What does this mean for our allies and enemies . If he says some things off the cuff or going into question whether these people are on our side or not . Shepard then theres this matter of convincing the American People that the intelligence received in the white house, which might lead to major actions, anywhere around the world, that the American People would trust it after he has so denigrated the head of the c. I. A. . Youre already seeing republicans and democrats saying you need to back off on this. We need a unified front when it comes to the c. I. A. , fbi, intelligence. These are serious issues that have major ramifications. Shepard have any of trumps people said anything to i dont know take the sting out of this . Behind the scenes youre seeing people trying to calm people down. You saw some of the cabinet, meetings on the hill, the hearings where theres some breaks. You have the c. I. A. Director, pompeo that didnt go exactly where trump has said he is on russia hacking and things like that. So youre seeing some air in between where trump is and where some of the cabinet appointees are. Shepard a lot of air between what pompeo said. Pompeo said we need to find out what happened if russian is attempting to meddle in our elections, we need to know about it so our leaders can decide to take what actions. Trump hasnt been there at all. No. Thats whats interesting to see. If trump is here and his cabinet is here, what does that mean for International Policy . We dont know yet. That is one of the big concerns that youre having were hearing every day. Shepard this is the same man that tried to delegitimize the first black president by saying he wasnt born here. And now hes saying, i wonder if he leaked the fake news, which is a word that hes repositioned and using in a different way now. Is there any adult in washington that can go and say, youre killing us over here . I think what you saw is president obama on 60 minutes saying in a gentle way. When trump gets hit, he strikes back aggressively. Obama is trying to navigate that and say, listen, it would be better if you had a better relationship with the intel community. Shepard this will be interesting. Its going to be something to follow. Shepard thank you. If youre in the market for a mercedes or beamer, might want to hit the dealership soon. After going after american automakers, donald trump has a warning for the german car industry now. Wait till you hear how that is going over in europe. Z28cnz zwtz y28cny ywty im phil mickelson, pro golfer. My Psoriatic Arthritis caused joint pain. Just like my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. And i was worried about joint damage. My doctor said joint pain from ra. Can be a sign of existing joint damage. That could only get worse. He prescribed enbrel to help relieve pain and help stop further damage. Enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. 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