Transcripts For FOXNEWSW The Daily Briefing With Dana Perino

FOXNEWSW The Daily Briefing With Dana Perino February 7, 2018

Increase the debt ceiling through march 2019 and provide Disaster Relief funding for hurricane and wild fire victims. Republican leaders are celebrating a significant boost in military spending. The compromised weve reached will ensure that for the first time in years, our armed forces will have more of the resources they need to keep america safe. It will help us serve the veterans who bravely served us. Reporter the Senate Democratic leader is celebrating a significant boost in domestic spending and notes its a compromise. Dana mike, im sorry. I was thinking about senator schumer and what he must be feeling that he got something out of this. Mcconnell thinks he got something out of this. But whats happening on the house side . I know minority leader pelosi, shes not happy. Reporter no question about that, dana. I should note the house leaders were also involved in these bipartisan talks. But bottom line, house leader nancy pelosi is on the house floor, has been for the past few hours arguing for the socalled dreamers, those young people brought to this country illegally by their parents. She says she supports the substance of this spending cap deal, but wants a guarantee from speaker ryan. Unless we can get the same commitment that Mitch Mcconnell gave the Bipartisan Group of legislators who asked for it in the senate, we would like that same response to our Bipartisan Group. Reporter ashley strong, a spokeswoman for paul ryan said, quote, speaker ryan has already repeatedly stated we intend to do a daca and Immigration Reform bill, one that the president supports. So at this moment the house side of the capital seems a little more uncertainty. Dana can i just ask you on the timing. This really does need to get done by tonight or tomorrow. Reporter the senate would go first. All indications are the senate should have the votes. They could go as soon as later today, perhaps early tomorrow. Then the government due to run out of money late tomorrow night. So the house would have to act pretty swiftly. Theyre up against a deadline. They need to act pretty quickly. Dana all right, mike. Thank you. Reporter sure. Dana we are getting our first look at a new batch of Text Messages between peter strzok and lisa page. Griff general kins is reporting live from washington. What do these texts reveal . Reporter i have been reading them all afternoon. Theyre shocking and raising questions following release by senator johnson and his staff on homeland security. Start with this one. Second 2, 2016. Page writes strzok. Two months after the fbi closed the clinton email case and two months into the russia probe saying, potus wants to know everything were doing. Potus there is president obama. Johnsons report suggests it raises questions about obamas personal involvement in either case, although these texts do not indicate one or the other, if president obama has since disavowed any knowledge and any investigation. Then in another exchange, the text of emails on Anthony Weiners emails. Hundreds of thousands of emails turned over to Southern District courthouse spouse. Sending them up to review. This will never end. It wasnt still a few month later october 28, that cummings informs congress he is reopening the clinton investigation, begging the question why it took so long for cummings Investigative Team to inform them of the discovery. Other texts reveal President Trump on election day and admiration for james comey during his congressional testimony. And this final message leaves us wondering what happened june 25, 2015. Please dont ever text me again, says page. Not sure what that means. Dana either there was a breakup or they knew their messages were going to be vealed. They were talking about this on government phone, which just continues to blow me away. But, griff, also wanted to know what senator johnson is saying ab this. Reporter well, johnson was asked in the hallways just a few hours ago ab this new report and these revelations and he said it raises concerns dating back to the clinton investigation days. His confidence now in leadership with the fbi. Heres what he said. I have questions about some top level managers in those departments carryovers probably from the previous administration. Why didnt the fbi, why didnt they recover those texts when they were under request from the special gentle man in the senate . Reporter so, heres the deal, dana. What johnsons getting at is that it took months to delete these messages but only weeks for them to find them once they were pressed. Theres about 1500 in this last batch. We know the inspector dodge at the doj has more. Well find out what they are, im sure tphrbg due time. Dana all right. Thank you. Joining us for more on this is california congressman John Garamendi on the infrastructure kpheultty. Take a listen to senator mcconnell for a moment. This bill is the product of extensive negotiations among congressional leaders and the white house. No one would suggest it is perfect. But we worked hard to find Common Ground and stay focused on serving the american people. Dana congressman, we were just talking to mike emanuel. The question now is what is the house going to do with this . Hopefully, we do the same thing, that we reach a compromise in the house. There is an issue thats outstand. You see it on the house floor with leader pelosi reading letters from daca students, or daca, all across the nation. The senate has reached an agreement to fully bring to the floor open debate on immigration. That would include daca. No such agreement has been reached in the house. Leader pelosi would like to have that same open debate and votes on the house floor. I think that should be done. That gives us the opportunity not only to deal with the budget, all of the issues of funding the military and other domestic programs like homeland security, Border Agents and all the rest. And i think we can do it. Its very close. All that really needs to be done here is for speaker ryan to say, yes, we will have a vote on daca and related issues on the house floor. That has never happened in the house over all these many seven, eight years now, and we really need to do that. Dana i know youre on the transportation and infrastructure committee. Monday the president will reveal his budget request. What do you anticipate there . This budget deal youre voting on today would be separate obviously from that. Are you anticipating something that you will be able to sort of be happy ab when it comes to the infrastructure proposal theyre going to put forward . Im certainly happy that it will be dealt with. Its been long in the process. We need to get to it. However, what we have seen thus far really concerns me. That is the 200 billion of federal money is not new. Its existing money and various programs. It appears, at least from information weve received thus far, is that it is a repackaging of those programs and a particular problem for urban centers because it appears as though the funding for public transportation, buses, rail and so forth would be removed and put back into this new packaging. How that works, we dont know. Maybe well find out next week. In any case, we absolutely have to get to the transportation tprubg issues. A major, major opportunity for america to grow and to be ready for the future. Dana if i could turn to the other news. We just had Cliff Jenkins on. Additional Text Messages have been revealed from the two fbi investigators or employees. Strzok and page. The other thing we learned is that president obama had asked for them to come up and brief him fully on whatever was going on in terms of the email investigation. Its not a clear text. I dont know what the context is. What are your thoughts on it . Well, my thoughts are that the e in email stands for evidence. What we have right now are pieces. Will they all come together and show anything, or do they simply show that theres some back and forth between various members . And i suspect that far too many people in the fbi and certainly here in congress are using email in ways that they will in the future regret. Dana yeah. Its always astounded me that these two were having an affair and talking about it on a government phone. Unbelievable. Yeah. Not a good idea to do either of those things. Dana do you think that the democrat, theyre trying to position themselves as the ones who have the better argument ab these Text Messages, the investigation, the nunes memo, all of that. Then this Additional Information that president obama said that he wanted to be briefed on all that they were doing. Does that hurt the democrats message . Well, first of all, back to the memos. The nunes memo was said to be a nothing burger. Thats probably a correct way of describing it. The democratic memo is probably going to be made available, hopefully in its fullness so that we have both sides of this to give the public. With regard to what the president was doing back in 2016, first of all, he was the president. He was undoubtedly briefs about what was going on with the intelligence, with the russian probe into it. We do know the fbi said nothing during the entire course of the campaign publicly or about the on going investigation in the trump campaign. But certainly said a great deal about the Clinton Campaign and many people would say that the fbis investigation in the summer right before the Democratic Convention and the announcement of the investigation. And then again ten days before the election had a profound negative effect on her campaign. Dana that was one of my thoughts. If president obama wanted to interfere and stop them from hurting hillary clinton, he didnt do a very good job. Comey opened that ten days before. He also said nothing about what he knew about the on going russian investigation. Dana yeah. Welsh maybe well find out in the wash somewhere down the way. Congressman John Garamendi, appreciate you being here. Thank you. Dana a top aide of President Trump resigning. Well tell you what thats about. Plus how wall street is bouncing back after that historic plunge monday and how President Trump is responding to the volatility. Its time for the ultimate sleep number event on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort your sleep number setting. And snoring . Does your bed do that . 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This as we get new polling from quinipiac on the copy. 48 of voters giving credit to President Trump over president obama. 75 of voters describing their Economic Situation as excellent or good. Deidre fulton is here with the latest. What are we seeing today . Today is a new day. We had red on the screen for the previous four. It seems like we are turning a page. Little hurrah for that. The economic underpinnings are strong. Unemployment is at a 17 year low, 4. 1 . Wage growth was stagnant for almost a decade. Even people who had jobs were like, i havent gotten a raise in forever, cranky. Dana cant get ahead. Last month we saw a quick shootup which means that employees can get paid more. Corporate america. All the earnings that weve seen as of late, 85 roughly have actually surprised to the upside. That is to say reported either sales or earnings that had exceeded analyst forecasts. So thats a pretty strong looking for a new job, is this the market for you . I think it looks good especially if you have one of these stem skill sets. It seems if you can go in with strong leverage. Dana what are we looking for the rest of the week . The rest of the week, the big thing was the looming shutdown of the government. It seems as if theres going to be progress made on that. But trade. China is actually kicking back against some of the tariffs that the u. S. Said it wanted to impose. Chinas gone to the wto, world trade organization, and filed a complaint asking for damages from the u. S. So i think a lot of market watchers will be paying attention to that. Dana i guess well sleep easier. Thank you. Very much appreciated. President trump saying he likes republicans chances in this years midterms, but is a trend at the state level telling a different story . We will explain. Plus democrats talking about a post pelosi future. Are big changes in store if the party okay folks lets team up to get the lady of the house back on her feet. 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Or do you feel like theres something more going on here. Obama had the ultimate lonely victory. He was able to win election and reelection. But the Democratic Party never lost so much. They lost their majority in congress and they lost an unprecedented number of state house seats. So i do think republicans probably hold on to a few more seats in the house and state houses and state Senate Chambers across the country than the numbers would tend to demonstrate. I think some losses here are fine. Its also important to remember that republicans have won the special election for all the house seats, obviously there was a big special in alabama. I think the picture is much more rosy for republicans than maybe one seat in missouri demonstrates. Dana jessica, democrats were very happy. Dlcc put a staple out saying mike revis victory will undoubtedly send another shock wave through the gop as we continue to run the best candidates, focus on addressing local issues and improving their quality of life. I wanted to know from you in case you know, is the play book from the democrats to really get local and not talk about President Trump or are they talking about President Trump trying to basically win on his unpopularity in their particular area . I think it cuts both ways. I would say the majority move here is to move to local issues. If you look at danica romes campaign, the transgender woman who won against the transgender hater in chief. She went all local. She was talking about pot holes. Thats what happened in missouri here. Conner lamb is running an increasingly local campaign and has spoken out against nancy pelosi. That will be a trend we will see with these young progressive candidates. Local politics wins. Thats what people care about. And i think that theres so many interesting right issues on the National Level that they can pick and choose from. If immigration is a hot point for their local community, they can take that and message about donald trump, but i think it shouldnt be the on thing going on there. Dana im glad you brought up speaker pelosi. Listen to what President Trump said monday. I want to ask you about it. So nancy pelosi again said thats crumbs. Well, shes a rich woman who lives in a big Beautiful House in california. Wants to give all of your money away. Shes our secret weapon. No, shes our secret weapon. I just hope they dont change her. There are a lot of people that want to run her out. Shes really out. Im supposed to make a deal with her . Dana matt, all of the leaders, they end up having a high unpopularity number just because they are the target. Many of them, daschle, reed, mcconnell, ryan, pelosi. Pelosi seems to be one thats just a lightning rod. Earlier today i taped a pod cast with Chris Stirewalt. He said if pelosi wants to help the democrats, she should resign and step aside around july 4th of this midterm year. Yeah. Well, i dont disagree with chris very often. Let me tell ya commitment from leader mcconnell, this package does not have my support nor does it have the support of a large number of members of our caucus. Dana sorry, matt. Nancy pelosi speaking in our ear. Excuse me, madam speaker. Can i have two minutes . Dana shell yield back the floor to you. I dont disagree with Chris Stirewalt too often. Heres one thing i know. The republican pollsteres i talk to tell me the number one enemy, democratic enemy of republican an conservative voters is nancy pelosi. Although she has done an admirable job of staying in front of the resistance, i give her credit for her longevity. But it comes at a price. That price is that when re

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