They try to call it a middleclass tax cut. And yet 86 million middle class families in the life of this bill will be paying more taxes. Laura well bring in an interpret ter w next time. Et democrats are so desperate they have sued trump campaign. Wikileaks and russian over Hillary Clinton loss in 2016. Donald trump has been saying for a year plus it is because you lost an election. What says that better than the Democratic National committee suing them. Saying you lost us this election. It is like david hasel half saying it is a waste of i time d resources. Laura the democrats cant agree on a political strategy. Tom perez and the dnc are Filing Lawsuits and other prominent liberals are shaking their heads. Threating over election prospects. Some trouble. They took out 1. 7 million loan in february. Soru theyre fundraising, a good measure of Voter Excitement is pathetic. Meanwhile the republican National Committee took in a whopping 39 million in the First Quarter alone. You think that might be because of the president . Well, of course the president has some work to do. T still has to grow the poppulous movement. Take his message to unfriendly territory and sell it. That means even in states he didnt win, grow his base. While the democrats are in perpetual tear down and resistance mode. Trump should be perceived a doer. A leader that will always defy and drain the swamp will not be defeated by it. Thats whyt he was elected in te first place. All the president needs to do is stay focused on what matters growing the economy. Returning more power to the people. Fighting corruption along the way and refusing to be
distracted or deterred by the constant and Tedious Demonization Game Of Washington And Thehe seemingly endless, pointless investigation. I know thats easier said than done. But he needs to do that. Listen all of the naysayers you want. Trump reelection prospects and those of his party are on more solid ground than the media or his critics would have you believe. Thats the angle. Joining me for reaction in new york is Monica Crawly at the London Center for policy research with juan williams, cohost of the five. Es great to see both of you. Juan, i want to start with you. If you wrote a column that just came out for the hill about the g. O. P. Disunity and you sighted senator thom tillis of North Carolina and lindsey graham, who are trying to protect bob muller from any type of firing or adverse action by the Executive Branch by the president e specifically. But s Tom Holiday Tillis never d President Trump. Hes terrible on the issue of immigration and on the trade issue. Why are we surprised that thom tillis and lindsey graham, who are not poppulous conservatives are doing this mueller dill. It should be. Thom tillis votes with the president 96 of the time. It is not just thom tillis and lindsey graham, you have to recall that thehe chairman of te Judiciary Committee is josh grassley. Iowa, a longtime trump supporter. He says he plans to bring this to a vote this week in his committee, no matter what donald trump has to say. No matter what the Senate Majority leader has to say. He thinks this isness. What tillis said speaking to other Trump Supporters and evidencing a crack finally in
the uniform stone wall that republicans have given trump, and made the Republican Party into the party of trump. Tillis saidth if Hillary Clinton was in the white house, and some talk about firing a special prosecutor. Laura theres no talking about. This is a big fantasy. Laura this is a big fantasy. This is what the liberals have been begging for donald trump to fire bob mull mueller. It is a story line pushing for months. Monica jump in thom tillis says courage is doing something that would anger your base. They would be angry if it was directed at protecting special council looking into Hillary Clinton. I believe the executive actually has the authority to fire someone in the Executive Branch. Im not saying it would be politically wise, but the ideas that congress can insulate an executive Branch Member by
firing from the Chief Executive is unconstitutional. Yankee mike lee is right. It is ridiculous. Not whether it is politically wise. It is not a constitutional in my view. Thats right. Were talking about the separation of powers a issue, tt frankly is all of the conservative happening in the media and washington, d. C. The same swamp that donald trump ran on draining and actually won on draining. If you go into the country, as you and i do, and juan does as well. The American People are not talking about this. Theyre not talking about russia and bob mueller and this insane neverending investigation. Theyre talking about the state of thedi economy. Theyre talking about the effect of the tax bill. Theyre talking about jobs, increase wages. Theyre talking about illegal immigration and the necessity for Thehe Trump Wall to be buil. Theyre talking about increased national security. Given the fact that this president refuses to appease americans enemies. Theyre talking about the whole range of issues that directly affect them and their families lives. Theyre notnd talking about thee kinds of issues at all. And for the republicans in the senate and the house, and so on, theyre real profiles in courage. Still, at this point running away from the president who is the leader of their own party. Laura the gallup poll shows the following. The president had 86 Approval Rating a among republicans a year ago. He has 86 Approval Rating now. To me, thats thats pretty good. I guess you could have 96 . That would be great. 86 w is pretty darn good. I think most republicans know the juice and the excitement is not what thom tillis. He wouldnt get arrested. No one knows who he is. The juice and excitement is with trump. For all of the tweets they like the fact that hes fighting for the average person. Thats why Theth Democrats Dont Know where to go. Bernie sanders says the Business Model if you like for the t Democratic Party for last5 years has s been a failure. People sometimes dont see that, because there was a charismatic individual name barack obama. His point is without obama, wheree are the democrats . I think theyre fine. The thing that you missed there in that calculation is that you have fewer people identifying as republicans. They become swing voters, independents and alike with donald trump in the white house. Right now it is the case that donald trump is about, i think in the clear politics average 41 approval. Ov54 disapprove. Thats a real wake in the mid terms. Laura thats about the numbers he was before the election. It hasnt got much better. Laura before the election. You mean the 2016 election . , laura . Laura before the election he was about 39 approval. Overall Approval Rating of all voters. I dont know how much it means. It is about 50 in the daily tracking. Poles are polls. I would say look at the averages and the clear politics. Hes clearly way under water. Laura temy point is you thik Bernie Sanders is wrong . Hes making a point that the workingclass voters have been left behind by the democrat party. Hes trying to speak to the Working Classak voters. Hes a democrat, laura . Hes looking to appeal to people and offer a populous appeal that has a lot. Laura they went with the clintons. They went with the clintons. The demic party. Im talking about a populous appeal to the Working Class. By the way, when you ask the American People, should Robert Muller be allowed to complete his probe it is 70 . Laura i think the president wants had him to complete the probe. If thats the case, Why Dont The Republicans say the will of the people let it come to an end. Laura it is not the will of the people. Go ahead. This is not the will of the people to have this president endlessly. Laura undoing an election. The president talk on the Campaign Trail about the forgotten man and woman. The Working Class and the disaffected democrats. Itep was disaffected democrats n the 10 key swing states that elected donald trump. He has been delivering for them. He poses an extensionial threat to the swamp and media and establishment on both sides of the aisle. Thats why they have endlessly tried to attack and destroy him. When the collusion falls apart, they will try to find something else. This is a president who puts on a suit of armor every day and keeps plowing through. Delivering for the country. Theres not one election, not
one election since 2016 where you say, oh, you know what republicans have overperformed, because of donald trump. Donald trump is p actually an albatross. Laura mark the tape. From alabama, to virginia. Laura we have to go. Were way over. Great segment. Markyo the tame. I want that sound byte. Im going to use that on radio. Rememberea the fear mongers ward President Trump would isolate us from the world. Instead we witness growing alliances such as french leaders with macron and is the first guest. With hogan w standingg up late. How are you . Im great, how are you. Laura hogan has an actually journal. I love that. Ct you have an actually book. Not like a laptop. Youre writing down a real oldschool someone preparing. I love that. Got to take notes. Laura hope taking notes on the angle. Tell me about the macron relationship. They were trashing trump, would offend the world. Now the world wants to meet him. They thought the barack obama apology tour was the way to go get friends and allies were feared again. Were respected again. Hest growing the relationships france has been with us, forever, as you h know. One of the actually first trade deals we ever did quite frankly was after we signed the declaration of independence. It was with france, but he has onlyce gone to make this bigger and better. They are Close Friends it. They talk all of the time. Their relationship couldnt be better. Laura this is the Huffington Post headline in november. You will love this. Tit only took trump one year to trash americas global reputation. L. A. Times. France election proves that, america is now example of what not to do. Laura no one ever calls these peopleno on this stuff. The ongoing. Yeah, that max who wrote that. Never a trumper. Former republican, now a liberal. Ro another self logging republican. Laura they are not republican. They never were. The socalled experts were wrong before the election and here they are good and the gigs in the columns in the New York Times the relation with maccron. Hes an interesting cat for trump to be a pal with. Hes putting the stop signal up for the move in france to put expedited Process On Removal Deportation in france. Hes not on board with that hes not a poppulous like trump is. Hes more of a globalist and a moderate globalist in europe. How do the two have this personal relationship, period . Lthere are some similarities you heard macron make france
great again. With the flood of migrants fromh germany . The point is they were both former businessmen. Both no one thought they could win this election. They come in and win and try to do things differently. They dont agree on the Paris Climate Deal and the iran deal, the president is adamantly opposed. Laura the european tradetl deal, wis trump doesnt want. Theres some major differences, but they have a good relationship. Close, personal friends the president said were close, personal friend. Hes a good friend of mine. They have a great relationship. Laura macron wants the president to stay in syria longer until isis is crushed. The president instinct and what he campaigned on is that america is not going to stay bogged down in the places where we have no, real military solution. So will that relationship have an effect on the president s
ultimate decision to stay in syria . Everything we know about frances relationship and sending technology and so forth to russia and even its relationship with iran and the iran deal. Thats what folks are worried about here. I think a lot of people were worried when trump took over as president that this town, washington, d. C. Would shake donald trump. The exact opposite has happened. I think these relationships are similar. Everyone says what will trump do . County tao to foreign leaders hesve the best negotiator and comes to the table. Of course he wants to bring trump home and wants isis to be crushed and wants to create an environment to, which Isis Cannot Rear its ugly head again. And remember the lasted mitigation created isis. This president wants to intend. That was his instinct he was right. That omnibus was not trump negotiating that was paul ryan, thank you for being here. Up next, the latest on the driver who killed 10 pedestrians
in toronto and stunning new numbers punch a hole in the liberal myth that your tax dollars dont support legions of immigrants. Stay there. Show me the Billboard Music awards. Unbelieveable. Ive got my whole family up here. Look at my dad looking all sharp. With just the sound of your voice, xfinity x1 gives you a Front Row Seat to the Billboard Music awards, including throwback clips from some of your favorite artists. The 2018 Billboard Music awards, sunday, may 20th. Only on nbc. Laura this is the fox news alert. The laidest on the deadly rampage by the driver who mowed down pedestrians in toronto. The suspect is Alec Menasium they arrested him minutes after the carnage occurred. At the moment the Death Tole Stands at 10, with 15 others injured, some in critical condition. Police say based on witness accounts it was very clear the driverdr deliberately hit people driving a long the side of the road. For analysis lets bring in former lap dmark firmman and
eric cohen. Another day, another deadly attack on pedestrians. This time in toronto. Mark, i want to start with you first. The last name mescian is armenian. It is overwhelmingly a christian nation, so people jumping to islamic terror, we dont know a lotet more. Hes 25 years old. And witnesses describe the scene where he was deliberately driving into thoseas pedestrian. Your initial reaction . I would offer this. This is a terrorism act. They terrorized the defensive people. Walking shopping families. It is terrorism, just because we dont have a Computer Memory of the suspect contacts or a clear declarationn by isis, it doesnt mean it is not terrorism. This is terrorism. Possibly with a mental defect,
but what terrorist does not have a mental defect. Laura erin to you. Again, were waiting for more information from the authorities in toronto. This is just devastating. The men, who were interviewed on local toronto television. They were in tears from what they saw, including children, women, the elderly. Some could not speak at all. Yeah, i mean im going to partially agree with mark. Hes a master detective. Hes been around for a long time and theres definitely some prints here that closely resemble the mosaic of terrorism. I wouldnt go so far to directly stamp it as an Act Of Terror the way we look at israel, and the reason being i dont see a fundamental or a political or idealogical motivation yet. You said that the attacker had been reported that he was
armenian. I agree thats predominantly a christian country. They have been through a lot, but they are not directly associated with terror as we are in israel with mossad and the way we investigate terror. Theres no doubt this guy went to a specific place for a specific reason to do direct death and harm on a crowd of people in yoning gne and finch which is l a popular area of toronto. Ff what i did notice is the vehicle was rented a terror red flag. The fact that the individual came out of the car and, from what we heard was waiving some type of object. We dont know specifically if it is a gun or weapon. Thats another red flag. The way that you investigate terror, what im not seeing from the Toronto Police services here, the way you investigate this type of attack at the beginning really sets the tone
for a proper terror, quality investigation. If you dont treat it as an Act Of Terror early on. It effects the tone of the how the investigation is carried out. Thats what is concerning. Reluctant to call this terrorism. Where as in israel everything is a Terror Attack when it involves attacking a large crowd of people. Then you can dedeuce backwards. Thats where i come out. Laura lets listen to what the mayor of toronto john tory already talking inclusivety, before we know more. This is a time when this community should come together. I hope as a city we le remind o ourselves we are admired around the world for being inclusive and accepting and understanding and considerate. Laura Inclusivety Word pops up again. I dont think this i