Transcripts For WTXF Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace 2017

WTXF Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace April 23, 2017

Time in washington, d. C. Chris senator James Lankford on g. O. P. Criticism of mr. Trump and his call for the president to release his tax returns. Plus. Everywhere you look if theres trouble in the regent, you find iran. Chris we will ask our sunday panel about the administrations bold policy agenda on iran, north korea and syria. And the power player of the week. Jane goodalls Relentless Mission to protect the planet. All right now on fox news sunday. And hello again from fox news in washington. The Nations Capital seems headed for a major logjam this week as President Trump tries to put points on the board before he reaches 100 days in office next saturday. The president is talking about getting a bill through the house to repeal and replace obamacare and he says he will unveil a plan for massive tax cuts. Lawmakers returning from a twoweek break face a more urgent deadline, keeping the government open. In a moment we will speak with white house budget director Mick Mulvaney. First, lets bring in Kristin Fisher at the white house with a look at the president s look for a big win ahead of that symbolic 100 day mark. Reporter theres really only took a for President Trump to score big legislative win before his first 100 days are up. He can either get funding for his portable included in the spending bill or he can convince House Republicans to vote on the revised plan to replace obamacare. The problem is, democrats say funding for the border wall is a deal breaker and House Speaker paul ryan says he doesnt have the votes or the time to Pass Health Care reform by friday. In a Conference Call with House Republicans yesterday, speaker ryan said his top priority this week is avoiding a Government Shutdown. Negotiations now hinge on if President Trump will insist that the spending bill include 1 billion down payment on a border wall. When asked on friday if you would sign the bill without it, President Trump said i dont know yet. People want the border wall, my base definitely wants the border wall. But his Homeland Security secretary who toured the border last week told cnn this morning that he believes the president will not sign a bill that doesnt include funding for his most Famous Campaign promise. It goes without saying that the president has been pretty straightforward about his desire and the need for a border wall, so i would suspect he will do the right thing for sure. I suspect he will be insistent on the funding. Reporter President Trump is now adding tax reform to next weeks todo list. If treasury officials are racing to finalize his plans for massive tax cuts in time for wednesdays announcement, a deadline that is selfimposed by President Trump. Chris Kristin Fisher reporting from the white house. Thanks for that. Now lets bring in the director of the office of management and budget, nick mulvaney. Welcome to fox news sunday. President trump has talked about a number of items that he would like to see in this government funding bill, which are so important that hes willing to see the Government Shutdown if he doesnt get them . Director mulvaney i dont think anybody is trying to get to a shutdown. Shutdown is not desired and its not a tool, its not something we want to have. We want our priorities funded and one of the biggest priorities during the campaign was border security, keeping americans safe and part of that was a border wall. I dont understand why the democrats are so wholeheartedly against it. I voted for it in 2006, senator obama voted for it, senator schumer voted for, senator clinton. I dont understand why democrats apply in politics just because donald trump is in office. Chris will he sign a government funding bill that does not include funding for the border wall . Director mulvaney i think you saw his answer in your lead in, dont know yet. We are asking for our priorities and importantly we are offering to give democrats some of their priorities as well. He made it very clear that they want these costsharing reduction payments as part of obamacare. We dont like those very much but we have offered to open the discussions to get the democrats something they want in order to get something we want. Chris let me pick up on that because on friday you did offer democrats a trade, funding for the border wall in return for continuing subsidies, the subsidies that already exist, continuing subsidies to Insurance Companies to help pay for lower income people who get Health Insurance. We would offer them 1 of csr payments for 1 of wasp payments. Thats the offer was given to our democratic colleagues. Chris democrats say that is a nonstarter and what you are in effect doing with that trait is that you are holding hostage Health Insurance for millions of lower income americans. Director mulvaney what i would say is that they are holding hostage National Security. Something theyve supported in the recent past when president obama was in the senate. If we dont understand why this is breaking down like this, and we are worried that this is sending a message that this is going to be the next four years, that Justice Gorsuch was not just a oneoff thing, the democrats will oppose everything this president wants to do, which is starting to us, especially when we are offering them something they want in return. Chris how much leverage do you have, i wonder, what youre saying is give us what we want and if you dont we will call funding that would provide Health Insurance for millions of lower income americans. Are you willing to take that political hit . Director mulvaney we are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income americans against folks who arent supposed to be here. If the National Security chris are you willing to cut off the funding . Director mulvaney we are willing to talk about the things thats how this is a post work and used to work on up until the recent past. Chris your agency has told federal departments as you have to do, the office of management and budget has told the government to prepare for a shutdown. You have to get ready for it. What would stop, what services that all of us have would and if we have a shutdown next saturday . Director mulvaney its hypothetical. We have to have that phone call on friday, its the law, even if we believe that appropriations expending will will be passed. Youve seen these things before, nonessential services will check on. The essential services would continue, Social Security checks would still go out, medicare payments would still be funded. National defense. Again, i dont think anybody foresees or expects or wants a shutdown next week. Chris for you are holding open i dont want to press it too hard, itll get funding for the border wall i dont understand. The president is saying, as you say, this is where we will set the marker for the next four years, can he backed down on the border wall given the fact that you have set this up . Director mulvaney lamy put it to be this way, id like you and i thought you a couple times, im not going to negotiate with you on national television. We will negotiate with the democrats. We think weve given them a reasonable set of choices, things that they want in exchange for things that we want, thats how its supposed to work in the democrats obstruction is not working. Chris lets talk about the president s 100th date which coincidentally would also happen on saturday, the day you might get a shutdown. On friday, the president tweeted this, no matter how much i accomplished during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, invented by the lot. Media will kill. If mr. Trump who has been talking since the transition about the 100 day mark. He is just a sample. Perez mack today i would like to provide the American People with the update on the white house transition and our policy plansr the first 100 days. I got it done in the first 100 days. I dont think that there is a president ial period of time in the first 100 days were anybody has done nearly what weve been able to do. Chris is that by the president is in such a rush to get the Obamacare Repeal and replace, we will talk about that in a moment, past this week to unveil his big tax cut because he wants to have more to show for his first 100 days . Director mulvaney you look at that week, it says regardless of what we would do would still be downplayed by the media, some media, not all. I think is right about that. What folks dont realize is we find more legislation into law in the first 100 days and anybody in the last 50 years, we put up more executive orders than any Previous Administration in the last 50 years and importantly, these are not creating laws, most of these are laws regulations getting rid of of other regulations. We are doing so on truly historic basis. You add Justice Gorsuch, no president has ever had a Supreme Court justice confirmed in 100 days, historic accomplishment by this administration in the first 100 days, but all anybody wants to talk about his health care. Chris well, i will talk about something other than health care. The president shot most of washington on friday when he is going to unveil his tax plan on wednesday. Take a look. We will be having a big announcement on wednesday having to do with tax reform, the process has begun long ago, but it really begins on wednesday. Take a look. Chris im trying to get more of the sense of this, will be announced the size of the tax cut, will he announce whether or not hes going to play for it or how he will pay for it . Will it be revenue or will it add to the document director mulvaney what you will see on one state is some specific governing principles, some indication of what the rates are going to be. I dont think anybody expects us to rollout bill language on wednesday. We dont want to do that, you will see on wednesday for the first time is up here is principles are, as the ideas that we like, some of the ideas we dont like. Some of the rates where talking about. Chris you dont know whether will be revenueneutral or add to the debt . Director mulvaney a small tax cut that is permanent or a large tax cut that is shortterm. I dont think we decided that, but you will have more on wednesday. Chris you said the other day you dont think youll see a real plan, specifics, meet on the bone until june. Director mulvaney i think that still probably fair. We want to heavily start working with the committees in the house and the senate as we try and build some momentum for the tax cut. Chris lets turn to repeal and replace, the thing everybody wants to talk about. All you have is this one piece of paper. It is an outline, there is no legislation, there is no legislative language yet in terms of what this new twopoint zero health care will be. Whether more or fewer people will have Health Insurance. House speaker ryan had a Conference Call with members yesterday and he said look, our sole priority this week to keep the government funded health care will have to wait. Are you okay with that . Director mulvaney a couple different things, we have a lot more than just that piece of paper. There is bill language, and i believe the Senate Budget committee, which is helping us write this language, delivered some language to the house last night, detailed. These are all tweaks to the bill that was taken up about discussed four weeks ago. I dont think its entirely fair to say that all we have is that piece of paper. Regarding whether or not it gets done this way, i think what you saw mr. Wright state, if they have the votes, they will vote. Chris he said our top priority is getting the government funded and he really didnt talk in any length at all about health care. Sounded very much like hes going to let that slip into the following week or later. We shoot we also realize that the house and senate might stay until saturday it would be great at allow things to get done this week. Dont think theres any structural reason that the house in the senate cannot do both things in a week. If we can have an agreement by the end of the day, and if the house at least can get a vote this week on health care, they can do that as well. Chris you set a great agreement about keeping the government funded today, why are they not gauche asians going on as we sit here and that offer has been on the table for a couple of weeks. We understand that the House Democrat leadership now wants to get involved, thats fine, thats part of the government as well. They were looking at some of the proposals last night. I sat in the office all day saturday and did this, the negotiations are ongoing and we can have an agreement as early as today. Chris finally, tens of thousands of people held a march for science in cities across the country, you can see the crowds were really quite striking. If one of the things they are protesting our big budget cuts that the president is proposing. The administration wants a 20 cut, almost 6 billion for the National Institutes of health, a 31 cut for the Environmental Protection agency. Can you guarantee those folks, those tens of thousands of people who were marching, that those cuts will have no effect on medical research or on protection of the error and water we have . Director mulvaney yes. The air that you breathe in that my kids drink will be just as clean. We targeted those agencies amongst others for duplication of process, things the government the epa is doing stuff not its not supposed to do. It would make sure that the epa will have enough money to perform its core function. Chris you are saying that the 6 billion that youre taking out of nih is going to have no impact on medical research . Director mulvaney it will certainly have some impact on medical researchers, but we dont think it will materially impact the quality of research coming out. Chris and if environmentalists say youre wrong . Director mulvaney a lot of people will say we are wrong and step back and talk about we did on the project, we reprioritize, defending the nation, including securing the southern border, is the primary function of this government, it should be a priority and funding for the National Institute of health needs to take a backseat for that. Chris ill give you 30 seconds to call out, one of your kids did something great yesterday. Youve missed it . What was it . Director mulvaney i missed it. My 17yearold son james had a walkoff grand slam last night to win his baseball game in south carolina. Pretty proud dad and thanks for letting me Say Something about it. Chris thank you. We will try to keep up with everything youre doing this week. It will be busy. Coming up, a growing list of g. O. P. Lawmakers are putting some distance between themselves and President Trump. We will ask for republican senator James Lankford why hes adding his name to that list. And administrative paperwork. 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Chris a look outside the beltway at Oklahoma City where they marked 22 years since the bombing of the alfred p mullah federal building. Republican lawmakers are facing tough crowds at town halls back home during their twoweek recess. Some distance themselves from President Trump. Joining us now from Oklahoma City, senator James Lankford, who this week called on the president to release his tax returns. Welcome back to fox news sunday. We just had be with you, chris. Chris lets start big picture, you were not a fan of this president during the campaign, although you did support him. How do you think hes done in his first 100 days . Senator lankford is try to out a lot of his agenda to get as much as he can legislatively, but i heard Mick Mulvaney earlier talk about the regulatory issues. With the more congressional review acts than any other time any presidency. Weve done about 15 of those, there was one total over the decades in the past and getting neil gorsuch on board. There are some fumbles out of the gate with trying to deal with the executive order on immigration and trying to get the language right and pulling it back and trying to go back again, some of those things and other statements, theyre getting their feet on the ground. Personally, the Biggest Issue that got us to ge

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