and it was it was also amazing that it was just it was so hard to hear her. you know, we could have very easily taken two more steps and wouldn t be able to hear her at all. joining us from montecito, california, gadi schwartz. videos of images coming out of there, unbelievable to see and see that girl pulled out as that guy said and so unscathed from it. what are you seeing on the ground there, gadi? reporter: yeah, such a remarkable rescue. that 14-year-old girl thought she had died when they pulled her out. all of his hit around 3:45 in the morning. most people were sleeping in houses like this. they wake up, their neighbors, alarms going off, they re surrounded by what, they get in the car, try to hunker down in their home. and this was the type of debris this is what happens. we ll talk to bill karins about that in a little bit. gadi schwartz, thank you. in a rare public event president trump put in full display the bipartisan negotiation over a deal to protect thousand of undocumented immigrants. reporters were in the room as the president promised to sign a bill to extend the daca program if congress was able to reach an agreement. nbc news peter alexander has more. reporter: inside the west wing if you don t have the world, you cannot have security. reporter: for merely an hour. you have created an opportunity here, mr. president. and you need to close the deal. reporter: a remarkable televised negotiating session. what about a clean daca bill now? we don t want to be back here two years later. we have to have security. reporter: president trump seemingly taking nearly over controversial position he s had on immigration, even giving democrats what they want, a bill he said exactly as he did in that room, let s work together. our thanks to peter alexander. president trump promised to be a dealmaker president and he told the bipartisan gathering yesterday. take a listen. our system lends itself to not getting things done. i hear about earmarks, the old earmarks system how there was a great friendliness with earmarks. maybe all of you should start thinking about going back to a form of earmarks. because this system this system no, then he should do it. and that s another big story that s playing out on capitol hill. senator dianne feinstein, the top democrat on the judiciary committee defied republicans when she decided to release the august testimony of fusion gps chairman simpson. we know the firm hired christopher steele to do research on trump which became the infamous steele dossier. among the takeaways from the testimony, simpson said he was interested in finding out information about trump s business activities. testifying that trump had, quote, made a number of trips to russia and talked about doing a number of business deals but never actually did one and that struck me as a little bit odd in calling for an explanation. so in june or may of 2006, simpson said he hired steele who he described as, quote, a lead russianist for the british secret service. according to simpson s testimony in september 2016, steele told an fbi contact that he believed donald trump was enthralled with russian intelligence. and that he believed russian intelligence was cooperating with the campaign. steele passed the information on to the fbi more than a year ago. and according toe simpson, the bureau said it had already heard something along those lines. we now know the information that the fbi heard came from an australian diplomat who according to the the new york times told the fbi that he had drinks with trump campaign aide george papadopoulos and that papadopoulos had e-mails that would of course hillary clinton. now, to the process of how this information became public, a spokesman for chairman grassley told totally confounding would release the testimony unilaterally, claiming it would jeopardize the judiciary committee. here s senator feinstein defending her actions. reporter: why did you decide to that? because, i think people are entitled to know what was said. and the lawyers also, i snee problem with releasing it. but senator feinstein, senator grassley said you jeopardized getting certain witnesses like kushner. your reaction? i don t think so. that s been difficult. why do you think they referred steele to the justice department, potential investigation? to my view, to my knowledge, there has not been a single fact in that report that has been proven to be incorrect. that it s really the muddying of waters that create a problem. you know, steele brought this information out to the fbi. and it s quite amazing that we get punished for providing information. that sounding very forthcoming there. yeah. while grassley is blasting the decision, there are republicans on the committee who support finestein s moves. senator john cornyn said he thinks it s a good idea, adding, quote, i respect senator grassley. but i think it s important. what i do want is for the public to see. meanwhile the president s lawyer michael kohn is now using buzzfeed over that. we ll have more on that. breitbart announced that bannon would step down. in the controversy that sparked backlash from the president. the new york times reports that bannon was and bannon s position at breitbart grew untenable as associates described him as unable to grasp the severity of the fallout at the white house. over the weekend, bannon had backtracked on his reported comments telling his radio show listeners that he expected to stay on at the news site. and that he supports the trump agenda. now, bannon is leaving breitbart, but not expected to leave politics. citing a washington post report, bannon has told associates that he plans on creating a 2018 political operation. and a source close to bannon tells nbc news that bannon believes president trump is transactional, and that they will have a relationship once again. joining us is deputy news editor for axios, dave waller. give us what you think is there do progress, with the sticking points with the president saying i ll take the heat for it, if we want to make changes here. what are your take-aways? two big takeaways, first, president trump is in a really good place in terms of his rhetoric. he said he wants a bill of love. that s not something you d expect from a president who ran on a hard line immigration policy. he also wants to have a deal on daca. you take that aside, you think, okay, maybe we re in a position to get a deal. the problem is there s four big issues outstanding on immigration alone in terms of border security. chain migration, visas and then daca. we re not really any closer on those four issues and we re coming up on a deadline january 19th for a government shutdown. democrats say we can get deals by then. that seems like a long way to go in just a short period of time. dave, let me ask you something that came up yesterday in the meeting because the president that actually brought this up and kind of struck people. the idea of bringing back ear marx or pork barrel spending as it s pejoratively known. what are the pros and cons of bringing this type back into legislation, or dealmaking? yeah, this is something that was being discussed in kind of hushed voices, right. president trump, that s not his strategy. it s a politically toxic issue. the idea that members could have little giveaways for them, in order to get their votes on a bill. it s something that voters have kind of, obviously, turned on. it feels like the swamp, something that president trump wouldn t necessarily support. although it does make close votes a little bit easier to pass. and we ve had a lot of close votes under trump. so, there is a case to be made that maybe you could pass more bills if you re able to give these little perks. there are certainly some audible reactions in the room when the president brought up the idea of bringing back earmarks, that is for sure. for sure. i think it s a controversial issue, dave lawler, we ll check back in a bit. le following the diplomatic talks between north and south korea, and why president trump is actually getting some of the credit. and arizona ex-sheriff joe arpaio announcing a run. we ll check on that story and others when we come back. from the very beginning . it was always our singular focus. to do whatever it takes, use every possible resource. to fight cancer. and never lose sight of the patients we re fighting for. our cancer treatment specialists share the same vision. experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. and these are the specialists we re proud to call our own. expert medicine works here. learn more at cancercenter.com appointments available now. and sometimes, i don t eat the way i should. so, i drink boost. boost high protein nutritional drink has 15 grams of protein to help maintain muscle and 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d. boost high protein be up for it we are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. we also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual check-up. so go, know, and take control of your health. it could save your life. cigna. together, all the way. it could save your life. nahelps protect eyes fromue damaging blue light, filtering it out to help you continue enjoying your screens. or. you could just put your phones down and talk to each other. 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lavished praise on himself several times this week for his role. we will have a live report from seoul. and a earthquake struck the coast of honduras before 10:00 p.m. eastern time. on the coasts of mexico and central america, but no tsunami actually materialized. there were also no reports of earlier reports of serious damages or casualties on land after the quake struck. last night s earthquake was one of the largest, believe it or not to hit the caribbean in history. the 2010 earthquake, the magnitude of 7.0. let s get a check of weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, we had gadi schwartz on from california. he saw the power of the mudslides. is there more rain on the way? well, they ve dried out. here the worst fire in history for total achae a acreages burne only had one fate targllty. you saw trees just the inkrenn force of that water raging through that region. again, recovery today. that was just tossed there in the middle of that wash. the storm itself has now moved into arizona. it s providing a little bit of rain. it s still a threat to the inner mountain west. ski areas are getting snow at higher elevations. it s going to plague all of us, some areas getting rain, some snow and some ice. for today, tomorrow and tomorrow, winter storm watches for minneapolis, omaha. so the central plains today into tonight that we get some of this snow. not a huge ordeal. it looks to be 1 to 3 inches across the area. this area of blue, could be as much as 6. rochester, virginia, maybe ames gets more than that. a lot of snow in iowa, you will be plowing or shoveling come tomorrow morning at this time. as far as the snowfall forecast through thursday, and then as far as the ice goes, this is going to be thursday afternoon. into friday. and this looks like the possibility of an ice storm, quarter inch to a half inch, all of the ohio valley, kentucky. even portions of tennessee, back to pittsburgh, guys. a messy storm. hey, california, it s going to head all the way to the east coast as we go throughout the weekend. bill, it s not record rainfall, or abnormally high inches of rain that s falling, right? it s the combination, that you re saying, fire, and the mud and everything that was beforehand with that? well, it was the combination of the late fire. that fire almost never do we get fires this huge in december. and then the vegetation had no time to re-establish itself. re-establish the roots. right. you know, someone was making the comparison to like, you know, a late season or hurricane or even an early season hurricane. it just happened kind of out of season that fire. and then with the huge wet weather, big storm behind it. this was a big storm. san francisco had one of its top 20 rainiest days in history. yeah, it was a big storm on the heels the fire. and that combination. thanks for that, bill. still ahead, with the college football national championships in the books, the focus turn to the hardwood. one of the stars breaking records 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what really drives me to- to save lives. welcome back. time now for sports. last night, the college football season ended. now, let s focus on some college basketball, because march maddingness is on our door step. number 21 kentucky up by one with four seconds misses the free throw. texas a&m with a chance. but the ball is thrown out of bounds. a controversial no call with the kentucky hold. kentucky escapes this one with the win. moving to number five, purdue in danger of being upset by michigan. a missed free throw again. michigan is unable to connect for deep three. purdue hangs on 70-69. right now to 9112, kansas squaring off against iowa state. kansas up by three. the jayhawks steal the ball. malik newman with the slam. and an alley-oop kansas wins. number two west virginia up by three, baylor inbounds. the court there, open shot, no good. the mountaineers survive that one 57-54. seton hall was the only top-25 team who played last night who did not escape. they lost handily 84-64 to big east rival marquette, thanks to marquette senior andrew rousey. let s switch gears going to the nfl and the head coaching carousel. the oakland raiders roll out the black carpet to the new and returning coach jon gruden. gruden coached the raiders 1968 to 71. and then for the buccaneers. gruden was let go by the bucs in 2008. he s not coached next. he s worked as a broadcaster for monday night football. i m sure he ll be missed there. he s reported to have signed a ten-year contract with the black. mikaela shiffrin is making history with a victory in last night s slalom event in austria. the 22-year-old is now the first skier to win five straight world cup races. shiffrin matches the record of most world cup wins before turning 23 earning her first victory. shiffrin is favored to win three gold medals for team usa in pyeongchang. guys, i cannot believe she s not even 23 years old. yeah, a lot of interest building around her and the u.s. team in south korea. for sure. that s 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the testimony of fusion gps glenn simpson. and chris stouffer steele to do opposition research on donald trump which later became the infamous dossier. grassley is blasting the decision. other republicans on the committee are supporting finestein s move. meanwhile, donald trump s personal attorney michael kohn has filed two separate defamation lawsuits, one against phusion gps and other against buzzfeed for public issue willing the document. one claimed that his wife is russian and that her father is a leading property developer in russia which allows that relationship with the russian government. the lawsuit said cohen s wife is ukrainian. and that her father has only been to russia once. buzzfeed published it last january and says it plans to fight the lawsuit. ben smith the editor-in-chief will speak live with joe and mika later this morning. the fallout from steve bannon s comments in a new book exposing the chaos inside the trump presidency is worried that he s leaving his post at breitbart news. it s the twist in a stunning week of what has caused the president to get elected. hallie jackson has more. reporter: a breitbart bombshell for steve bannon, stepping down less than 48 hours after trying to defuse his verbal grenades published in a tell-all book. his explosive comments slamming the president and president s son-in-law, igniting responses from donors and from his former boss, the president himself nicknaming him sloppy steve. who breitbart part ways with steve bannon after the comments in the books? i certainly think it s something they should look at. reporter: bannon left the white house in a sudden shake-up this summer, resumed his role as the breitbart chairman said i m proud of what the breitbart team has accomplished in such a short period of time building that news platform. it s a controversial platform, too. with bannon, the lightning rod telling 60 minutes i m a street fighter. reporter: he s also the enemy of established republicans who were nearly gleeful after his fall from grace in the eyes of the president. and in the eyes of some conservatives who did not back bannon s preferred pick in the alabama senate race. he has presided over the freak show wing of the republican party. and that legacy of his is one that will continue forward. reporter: bannon, self-styled as a shadowy mastermind, keeper of the nationalist fling. but sources close to him telling nbc news tonight he s ready to move more into politics. hallie jackson, the white house. president trump had to clarify his position on what is the signature issue of the 2016 campaign, you may recall the border wall with mexico that mexico pays for. after an hour-long on-camera bipartisan meeting where both republicans and democrats tested the president on what would be his core issue, trump said he would accept their recommendations, watch this. what about a clean daca bill now? i have no problem. we re going to come up with daca. we re going to do daca. went we ll start immediately on phase two which would be comprehensive. you need to be clear, i think what senator feinstein is asking, when you talk be daca, we have to have security as the secretary would tell you? i think that s what she s saying. what do you think i m saying? i m thinking you re saying daca without security. you know, i would vote for the path to citizenship which isn t very easy for me, but i would do it just as an effort. but there s certain things that we ve got to guarantee that we re going to do. that s got to be brought up. i really believe that will be brought up of part of what we re talking about. it s incentive for people to do a good job, if you want to know the truth. that whole path would be incentive for people to work hard and do a good job. that could very well be brought up. it seems to me not much has actually changed here in terms of your positions? i think it s changed i think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up. i m very much reliant on the people in this room. i have a lot of respect for the people on both sides. and my position is going to be what the people in this room come to me with. i have great confidence if they come to me with things i m not in love with, i m going to do it, because i respect them. republican surrogates went out to re-establish their policy demands to go along with daca. and then the president tweeted about his top priority, quote, as i made very clear today, our country needs the security of the wall on the southern border which must be part of any daca approval. but president trump set an expiration deadline for daca of march 5th. democrats have set a different day for action next friday, january 19th. this is the need to process applications with the expiration dates. according to homeland security secretary, they must take place. ace federal district court judge in northern california ruled that the department of homeland security mutt resume accepting applications which the trump administration halted. the judge ruled that dhs does not have to consider new applications and called the government s defense to halt the program arbitrary and capricious. switching to politics, former arizona sheriff joe arpaio has announced his bid to run for jeff flake s position. the 85-year-old was pardoned by president trump last year after being convicted of federal misdemeanor criminal contempt. he tells nbc news that age is not a concern. revealing, quote, i ll gun anybody. arpaio adds, quote, it s time to get fresh blood in washington. arpaia who was maricopa county sheriff for years. flake and arpaio have been open about their mutual dislike of each other and yesterday, flame responsibilitied with this. i d be much more concerned if he s in it for the long haul. i don t think he is. there has not been one election cycle since the early 90s where joe arpaio has said he s thinking about running statewide. you re not taking it seriously? no, i don t think he s in it for the long haul. i think by this time next month, he may not be in the race. i cannot see supporting joe arpaio. i don t think he ll get very far. and kelly ward who announced her candidacy, who said in an august statement, she woks arpaio into the race. and the editor for axios dave lawler, as we heard from flake, interesting words from arpaio, not necessarily taking the bid seriously. and arpaio saying he wants fresh blood in washington. he ll outgun anybody. yes, but he s yes years old. not necessarily seen as flesh blood. do you think the senate bill has the potential to revive the republican party, kind of in the same way roy moore s did? the potential is there. i think we need to be a bit more kau cautious, because i personally would not predict that joe arpaio be the republican nominee in arizona. he ll be running in a pretty crowded field. but he s going to have a platform because he s known nationwide. you know, it s hard to imagine a more toxic candidate, well, other than roy moore, perhaps. and so, you know, the more he gets up in front of the camera, the more he s going to make mitch mcconnell and people who are trying to keep the republican majority in the senate nervous. but, you know, let s talk in a year and see if we re waiting on arpaio. i think the more he gets in front of the camera, the more he s likely to make controversial remarks that will put more media and spotlight on him. let s switch gears, your colleagues have been reporting on a number of gerrymandering cases being heard by the supreme courts. very important decisions in front of them and federal courts. tell us about those and the potential impact in 2018. a big decision last night in north carolina. a federal judge ruled that the map there, the controversial map drawn by republicans was overly partisan and unconstitutional. and threw it out. so they re going to have to draw new districts. there is a case going in front of the supreme court dealing with wisconsin, and that could really be the big one. because if the supreme court decides that wisconsin s map is overly partisan, they could set new guidelines for how you determine what is a fair congressional map. and if that happens that would be a landmark decision. and it would change what we re looking at in terms of even balance of power going forward because we have a whole new district map in several states, probably. incredible. dave lawler live for us in washington, d.c. thanks for that. and president trump has weighed in on the possibility of oprah winfrey jumping into the 2020 presidential race. take a listen. yeah, i ll beat oprah. i know her very well. i did one of her last shows. this is before politics, her last week, she had donald trump and my family. it was very nice. no i like oprah. i don t think she s going to run. however, the treatments of the 2020 matchup between trump and winfrey may be short-lived. on monday, a source close to winfrey told nbc news she has no intention of running. now, this isn t the first time that trump has praised winfrey, trump quoted her name in 2009 and 2015 as a potential pick. i heard from cbs the other, she said that oprah is inintrigued by the idea of running for president. there s mixed messages in there. he seems confident he can win. still ahead, while the trump administration strikes a deal with one state over the fight to drill off of its waters. president trump planning to meet the world s elite economic leaders. it s taking place in switzerland. this story and much more. bill karins is back with us, with a check on the forecast, when we return. i work overtime when i can get it. i need my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. tresiba® ready tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i need to cut my a1c. tresiba® ready tresiba® works like my body s insulin. releases slow and steady. providing powerful a1c reduction. my week? hectic. my weekends? my time. tresiba® ready i can 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nothing even half as bad as what we already experienced but this storm is moving across the area with snow and ice and a lot of rain, returning to cold mind it. there goes the storm. spinning into the snow in the four corner regions. this comes into the plains. 10 million people under wind advisory, winter storm watches. again, it s going to be a minor event in the plains, one, two, three inches of snow. here s how we re going to time it out, 10:00 a.m., snow through rapid city, billings. one to two inches, nuisance type stuff. tomorrow morning, rochester, minnesota, minneapolis, by 6:00 p.m. thursday, this is where the storm gets messy, the backside cold air is going to wrap in. freezing rain in missouri. freezing rain breaking outside towards illinois tuesday evening and a band of snow. all rain ahead of it. and a lot of fog ahead of it, too. as far as the snowfall accumulations, i mentioned bun to two inches. the snowfall in higher elevations in jackson hole, you ll pick up 6 to 12. here s the nasty stuff into friday. here s the ice forecast. quarter inch of ice, half inch, ohio valley, illinois, as star south as tennessee, possibly west virginia and pittsburgh, too. one of the problems with this big fall, you guys, falling ice from skyscrapers. you have seen the pictures from soho and lower manhattan yesterday? this is from 20 stories high. big chunk of ice crushed the roof of that suv. no injuries reported with that. with fire escapes on buildings, i ve seen those as well. got to watch out. not only that, you have to worry about slippery, but look up and make sure you don t get hit. the white house as announced that president trump is planning to attend the economic forum in davos, switzerland. sarah sanders made that announcement yesterday saying in part the president looks forward to promoting his policies to strengthen american business its and workers. representatives have gone to davos, with presidents often declining to attend. the decision marks a shift for president trump who tap into anti-global sentiment to win the white house. the economic forum in davos is seen as an economic gathering of globalists, financial elite. but an official tells nbc that the president was always more moderate than given credit for. adding almost everything with exceptions that he s willing to deal. maybe he s willing do a little skiing there in switzerland. maybe that s the reason he s going. still ahead, could a meeting between the leaders of north and south korea be on the horizon following this week s high-level talks? 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the next step for house intel is to either except the president s decisions, make changes and send it back to the white house or they can try to override the president in a secret session of the house. there has been only six of those in history. very rare. regardless of how they do it the bottom line. we re told the democratic memo does not dispute the key point of nunes s memo. f.b.i. and d.o.j. personnel got the fisa warrant to spy on correct? the information about the procedure and manner in which a warrant is obtained. that information should not have been released to the american public but it was beneficial to donald trump and he released it notwithstanding a public statement from the f.b.i. and the department of justice not to release it. john, let s go to this. there is also word about a second dossier that is out there. tell us what you know about that? in the summer of 2016 there was another pipeline of clinton-related information coming into the state department and to christopher steele and to the f.b.i. it comes through two guys that we ve heard from the past in the old clinton years in the 90s. tony sheer, a private eye, sidney blumenthal. their eye spy inside the campaign. they put the information in and tracks close to what steele had. all this information coming in. i predict all four sources of the information the f.b.i. used the launch the investigation against donald trump every one will have a connection to the clinton campaign. one of the concerns that s out there politico is reporting tonight that steve bannon may have been picked up on some of these surveillances. how does that strike you? right in the heart of the campaign and they ve also got now steve bannon according to politico that they were spying on as well? jason, we know two things right now despite that interesting little opening by leo there. we know that the obama team spied on the trump team. that s not in dispute. how it happened may be in dispute. we know that happened. what we also know is we know because there are court transcripts, okay? there is an actual record of this that no democrat can run from and no democrat will have plausible denyability on. the bulk of the material that went in front of the fisa court judges was provided by, in fact, the dossier, a dossier that came from two sources, substantiateed the fisa warrant came from the australian ambassador who hears papadopoulos in the bar drunk and having conversation with him. i think we ll learn about that ambassador and his loyalties. i think you ll find out four out of four things the f.b.i. used to start listening on the trump campaign comes back to the clinton family. leo, does any of this does any of this concern you? and i have to ask you give look right in the cam rand tell us, if donald trump had done this against a democrat, you can t tell me that you would just be sitting idly by saying the f.b.i. just acted perfectly in this instance. i m looking you and the american public now and leaning forward. donald trump is basically attacking every institution in the american government that he controls. the cia, f.b.i., department of justice. you want me to drink that kool-aid and believe the entire governmental security agencies are against donald trump? you want me to drink that kool-aid today on national today? do you believe the entire secret service and the f.b.i. and department of justice, everyone? come on. leo, it s amazing. you do this liberals do this all the time. they never address what you say. they go on to something else. he never addressed at all the substance of what i said. we know for a fact the obama team spied on the trump team. we know the information was provided by steele through the russians and know the information was provided through clinton i know because one of them wrote an op-ed in the washington post admitting to it and another one went on a weekend news show and admitted to it, too. go on about the russians again. that s what they do. i ll play your game. therefore, what? 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you know, jason. sometimes it s not the crime, it s the cover-up. that s the problem here. it was who knew what and when and why or in this case why wasn t something done about it? we do know that kelly knew about this in the fall. we do know that this information was out there in the white house to the president s attorney back a year ago. and yet there was still not a thorough investigation, nothing was done and they were still going forward-looking into possible high-level security clearance for porter for this individual. that s very troubling. further troubling for me, jason, as a woman is that the president today wished an alleged accused abuser of women well and said nothing about the alleged victims. that s very troublesome for me. jason: what was your reaction to it when you saw this story and how the white house dealt with it? first of all think issues of domestic violence are serious. we can agree on that. simply because i voted for donald trump. i think we can all also all agree that this was simply a bad situation that the white house has already admitted they mishandled and it was a bad situation that people who work for the president should be held accountable for. however, i also think that it is completely dishonest and a little hypocritical of the liberal media to issue an indictment on the entire administration and presidency for mishandling the situation in the same way it was an indictment on the entirety of the clinton campaign when she covered up for the sexually harassing advisor in 2008. it is not an indictment on trump s entire presidency. i find the hypocrisy from some members of the liberal media to be a little tired and very dishonest. jason: even hillary clinton after the fact came back and said even though she had a report from her campaign manager there was sexual harassment problems she would not have fired that person. did you speak out against that or are you just speaking out against donald trump? i m glad you asked me, jason. you can google it. yes, i did here on fox on television on my radio show, on my column, on twitter and all other social media. i as a woman, a feminist and woman first before my party, i have to say i was appalled by this, absolutely appalled by this. i was very open and verbal about that and i wasn t the only person on the left. jason: good for you. not the only democrat that is just a woman that felt that way. the problem that i have when we talk about hypocrisy. i m glad you did that. i want to speak out on this, too. if the white house knew about this they have a problem and i think they have to also have an accounting. i think the chief of staff should get a list of everybody that is working in the white house who has passed a security background check who has question marks and who has failed. i saw this as a oversight chairman when i was the oversight chairman. i saw part of this in the obama administrations. allegations. i m trying to say their equal but security clearances with the people in close proximity to the president is problematic. i want to ask you and come over to you, alley. leslie, when you have somebody who denies it and there is an accusation, what is the right thing to do? do you let them keep their job, have proximity to the president? what should happen? well, first of all you read my mind because that s what i was about to say. to talk about. i have a problem here with the hypocrisy. let me use as an example senator al franken. although we had a photo, there were other allegations by not only the woman in the photos but others against the senator. he said i didn t do this. these claims are false. yet he stepped down and there was pressure among his own party and the president said negative things. he didn t say he denies it. roy moore, the president says he denies it. porter the president says he denies it. i feel that the president, jason, made it worse with his remarks again today not mentioning the women. what should be done? in this climate where we have so many allegations of sexual abuse, sexual harassment, the me too movement, i think it would be wise for any administration left or right to have to remove these individuals because it will be a stain on their administration. ali, what s the right thing to do. he said/she said, there is a disagreement. what s the right thing to do? we can only run on hypotheticals and all this is. like leslie said, we don t know who knew what when. we know what the white house is telling us. what the white house is telling us is that mike pence and president trump only found out about these allegations this week. apparently general kelly knew the full extent of the allegations last week and porter submitted his rest ignition and it was accepted. mike pence has even said you know what? i think we could have handled this a little more appropriately, which i took as taking responsibility. so at the end of the day i think the right thing happened. porter resigned, he is no longer in the white house where i personally think that he belongs. is not in the white house. jason: thank you both. my personal take on it is if there is any question about the people closest to the president of the united states, today we re out here with some big news. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill proven to both significantly reduce the chance of dying from a cardiovascular event in adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease. .and lower your a1c. wow. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. this may cause you to feel dizzy, faint, or lightheaded, or weak upon standing. ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that may be fatal. symptoms include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness, and trouble breathing. stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of ketoacidosis or an allergic reaction. symptoms of an allergic reaction include rash, swelling, and difficulty breathing or swallowing. do not take jardiance if you are on dialysis or have severe kidney problems. other side effects are sudden kidney problems, genital yeast infections, increased bad cholesterol, and urinary tract infections, which may be serious. taking jardiance with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you have any medical conditions. what do you think? 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license, we re in a situation where we have a dilapidated military. planes that can t fly. we give our military a mission to accomplish but not the resources to accomplish the mission. the sequester has crushed our ability to defend ourselves. we have threats of china, north korea, iran. we passed a bill out of the house that was conservative. i supported the bill. as you know all too well and your listeners hear this quite a bit. when our bill went to the senate. you can t pass it with just republican votes. schumer extracted additional spending. we had a choice in the house. do we take the deal that chuck schumer threw more spending into which gets our military back on track to address the needs that we have in the world, or do we say no and keep these really horrible budget caps on the military that don t let them accomplish their mission. for me i don t like the spending in the bill but i also want to make sure our military men and women can defend us and accomplish the mission we give them. jason: garland, if you were in congress how would you you have voted? would you have voted against it? i would have been pushing to hold out for daca from the left side. but my feeling is this, i think that my opinion i think there are some reductions we could do in the military and we could have done that by bringing troops home from afghanistan. but additionally i think it s disingenuous to say you came up with the bill and shocked to find out there was another party in congress that you were going to have to go through. i don t remember in my lifetime when one party had super majorities in both houses and the white house and didn t have to bargain for something. jason: think back in 2009 and 2010 in obamacare. a super majority in the senate and shoved dodd-frank and obamacare down our throats. jason: why didn t the democrats unanimously vote for this? nothing was cut of any substance and it supported our military, something i thought democrats were supportive of. and i understand the need to do daca. i don t think you go any further than what president trump, speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell have done saying we fled to address it. by the way, barack obama was president for eight years and never addressed the immigration issue. i wish they would have addressed it when they had the majorities of the house and they didn t. we are where we are now. now the people that didn t go for it, the democrats don t have leverage or daca. they threw that out and may not get anything. i think the democrats that held out wasn t because of the budget. it was for other reasons. we can t fall into the trap of thinking the democrats are supporting the military. they ve been using the military as leverage to get other spending. we could have addressed this issue months ago and given the military the resources they need to accomplish the mission. to come on here and say they actually are supporters of the military, they haven t been. there was they want to see military spending depleted and they want us to pull out of very rough regions of the world iraq or afghanistan. we saw how well it worked. it was the rise of isis when barack obama pulled out and left a vacuum and you had people burning their enemies and beheading people. we have to be smart about our pollz. cutting the military is not smart policy with the rising threats in the world. jason: how do you answer the question that rand paul was out there saying look, republicans were opposed to these deficits when president obama was in place. now that they re donald trump we seem to be okay with a trillion dollar deficit next year. first of all you use growth numbers that are obama growth numbers and you use trump growth numbers those deficits won t be that big. again, that s the problem when chuck schumer is a big spender and leveraging the military for additional spending in non-military discretionary spending. that s the deal that had to be made. again, for me this is a tough vote but i side i had with the military. that s the most immediate threat. one last point. if we want to deal with that you have to deal with entitlements. they re the key to reducing the massive outflow in the government. until you get to that you won t address the massive deficit and debts. jason: thank you, i ll give you the last word, paul ryan the speaker said he wants to address the entitlement reform. is that something that you or the democrats think could get behind and support? 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i was hanging out texting friends back home and two hours, three hours into the trip a heard a gunshot and breaking glass. i kind of put my head up. i wasn t sure if that s what i heard or not. i couldn t exactly define it at the time. and while i was thinking about that the train ran kind of past us, away from the noise and so that woke them up and we looked back to see what he was running from. a shirtless man with an ak47. we got behind the seats. spencer, get him and he took off. spencer, you take off down the middle of this train. what made you run at him? it was just we just wanted the live and pure survival. i caught a moment down the aisle where i saw him maybe either jam the gun or maybe the safety was on. all i knew he hadn t started shooting yet. i just saw it as a window of opportunity. it is either now or never. we are going to die either way. my motivator was them being life long friends of mine that it shut down my brain process and it was like once they jump into action i had to go help at that point. it was all in or nothing type situation. spencer, you grabbed this guy, a member of an isis cell with an ik47. that is not all he had. what happened when you tackled him? i was trying to grab the ak from him a little bit and practicing jujitsu at the time. we both stood up and put him in a choke and slammed myself against a window. he is on top of me at this point and pulled out a pistol. he tries to shoot me with that. there was no ammunition knit. alec runs up. gets the pistol. as soon as that pistol gets out of his hand he grabs a box cutter and starts cutting the back of my neck trying to slit my throat and comes across and slices my left thumb to the bone and servers my tendon and nerve. i saw the knife and him flailing around. i screamed he has a knife and kicked him off me and we all punched and kicked him and the fight went on. do you believe, alec, there was a divine hand in all of this in the way the events transpired? if you add up the odds of us being in the time and place and the circumstances that put us there and went towards us surviving it, that will be in the movie, too. but it is just to me too astronomical to be coincidence. if all this wasn t terrifying enough, anthony, you all decide we are going to approach clint eastwood with our book and story. he decides to do this film and casts you all as yourselves. this had to be a little intimidating having never acted before. you didn t do theater. never a school play or nothing. if he picked up the picture he wants to do our story, we thought that was great. three weeks before we start shooting we thought we were meeting the actors playing us and he is like do you mind reenacting things for us on camera. he says it again and he said what do you mean? you sound like you are asking us to be in the movie. sure, why not. why don t you just do it? you spent a lot of time with him on the set. we spent a lot of time with him on set. he worked longer days than we did and we spent time with him hanging out getting food, getting drinks. we even would work out with him from time to time. that s one of my favorite memories of him. spencer and i were talking smack to each other about how many dips we do could do and clint comes in that s nothing. when i was 75 i could do 25 dips. we re like all right. let s see what you have now. he is 87. he hops up on the dip bar and knocks out 10 body weight dips like nothing. he still has it. he is a tough guy. he gave us a lot more jams and showed us a lot more about the industry and process than he had to to make the picture. we all want to continue to pursue acting for sure. you will continue this? absolutely. he blessed us with a great opportunity and like anthony was saying kind of raised us up in this world a little bit and we want to see what else we can do with it. what do you want people to take away from this experience given that isis has proven itself that this is the kind of attacks they plan on enacting on the public from now on. even those these two were off duty servicemen at the time. we were three ordinary guys in that ordinary people will watch the film. we don t have anything special. us three it s we were put in an extraordinary situation and hope people take that theme from the movie. if they find themselves in a situation with a terrorist or maybe any obstacle they re facing in their life that they have the ability to do something extraordinary themselves. if they do it together. most definitely. thanks for being here. pleasure. that s an amazing story. i love it when ordinary americans do extraordinary things. 15:17 to paris opens nationwide today. up next strange encounters at the olympic opening ceremonies. vice president pence comes awkwardly close to the sister of north korea s kim jong-un. of north khow do you win -un. at business? 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what does that really mean and what is he trying to signal to north korea? well, the geography is the south korea s president box at the opening ceremony arranged by the south koreans. they wanted to highlight the fact that north korea was participating with them. i think this whole thing has been a propaganda charade by north korea but that s not the view of the south korean president. in the first row he was sitting next to vice president pence and on pence s left with abe of japan. you the south korea, united states and japan. i think the vice president was correct not to shake the hand of the dictator s representatives from north korea. they didn t seem to want to press the point. so much the better. it is awkward and happens a lot at the u.n. i think the vice president handled it correctly. on his comments about doing what s necessary to protect the united states and our allies, i think that s extremely important. it leaves open the possibility of preemptive military force against the north s nuclear weapons program. we aren t looking to do that. i wish we didn t even have to consider it as an option. 25 years of failure to stop north korea has brought us to the point where it has to be looked at very seriously. jason: what is the significance of kim jong-un s sister. what is her role and the significance of her presence in south korea? well, she and the president of north korea, nominally the highest official in the government, constitute a pretty high-level delegation and the fact that she is related to kim jong-un, i think is intended to show the seriousness of north korea s effort to accommodate the south. this is all blue smoke and mirrors. and i think it is something that the north koreans have done before in prior olympics. not in south korea itself. but while all this is going on, their nuclear program, their ballistic missile program are continuing. it is a misdirection play to get people to focus on how nice it is that the north and south korean s women hockey team are playing as one team. nothing to do to stop north korea s efforts to bring reconciliation between the two koreas. i think the vice president this is a very delicate, difficult diplomatic assignment he has. to show solidarity with south korea and japan. not to give the north koreans an untrammeled propaganda field at the pyeongchang olympics and i think he carried it out well. there is a report this evening while the opening ceremony was going on, what you ve just showed on the screen there, somebody was hacking the servers of the south korean organizers of the pyeongchang games. who do you think that might have been? this is the kind of fooling around the north korea does all the time. it may seem sort of silly and childish but when you are talking about a country ruled by this bizarre regime striving to get nuclear weapons that strange behavior is worth worrying about. jason: thank you, ambassador. we appreciate it. bret baier made a huge splash at one of the biggest golf tournaments of the year. . and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. before we go, a big shout out to bret baier who was red hot at the links at the pro-am golf tournament at pebble beach. he is paired with pro russell henry and lighting up the course. amazing shots from bret. he hits a shot. ends up on the deck and he takes it. he doesn t take the penalty, he takes the shot. puts it in the bunker. he is up, down, he actually makes it unbelievable shot right out of something like the movie of tin cup. they are tidy think it s for fifth place at this point. bret who played college golf is really good. his team is in contention and we wish him nothing but the best. it s been an honor and privilege to host this show. i thank laura ingraham fo [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem]
the gunman. president trump calls to arm nation s teachers and also slams the deputy who was on duty. what he did, he trained his whole life. there s an example. when it came time to get in there and do something, he didn t have the courage or something happened, but he certainly did a poor job. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. a lot of news today. thanks for joining us. breaking news, another bombshell in special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. a source familiar with the proceedings telling us that former trump campaign aide rick gates is expected to plead guilty today, an indication gates is cooperating with the special counsel. this comes a day after robert mueller filed a 32-count indictment against both gates and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, charging both men with additional crimes, number of counts, some limited conduct that would vastly reduce his prison exposure. we believe this plea is happening in washington, d.c. as you mentioned, there was another indictment handed down in the case yesterday in virginia that charged a raft of new bank and tax fraud charges against both gates and manafort. those could be waived under any kind of plea deal as would typically happen. the real significance of this is that robert mueller seems to be approaching this like he would prosecuting the gambino crime family. he s trying to flip people up the chain. it appears he s flipped mr. gates, who was paul manafort s right hand man and this puts enormous pressure on paul manafort, who is already facing 15 years in prison under the existing indictment under federal sentencing guidelines. he s 68 years old. the pressure on manafort now to consider a guilty plea would seem to be enormous. peter baker, rick gates is a central figure here. he actually was part of the campaign for a longer period than manafort. and when we get the outlines of gates agreement and what he might be able to contribute to this case? it s likely incredibly significant. there are two questions we have to know the answer to that we obviously don t but bob mueller will know at least one. the first is what can rick gates say about paul manafort and his exposure. we know paul manafort obviously has a great deal of legal exposure. we have seen it now in two indictments. he s now looking at not just a paper case but a cooperating witness, not just any cooperating witness, but a cooperating witness who is his closest aide and confidant. the second question is what does paul manafort know that he can tell bob mueller about the president and others close to the president. the white house has tried to claim as you heard peter baker say, that these charges are completely unrelated to the campaign, to the white house, to the overall russia investigation. we don t yet know if that s true. we don t know why paul manafort came and joined the campaign in early 2016, at no salary, at a time that he was massively financially leveraged, and in debt to a russian oligarch, a russian oligarch he later promised private briefings during the campaign. we don t know that answer. it s certainly one bob mueller is trying to find out. ken, when we talk about paul manafort, paul manafort had no political connection since the 70s, really, when he was involved in being a delegate hunter in the 76 campaign, he had no recent political experience. all of his experience was in representing russian interests in ukraine and other arguably bad actors, regimes around the world. so one wonders whether if you are getting into all the finances of paul manafort, you are getting into russia and oligarchs. it s a great point. matt just made a fantastic point which is that this new indictment paints a picture that paul manafort was really in financial trouble when he joined the trump campaign. he had made tens of millions of dollars with his relationship with this russian-backed ukrainian oligarch for years consulting and according to the government, illegally lobbying the united states. by the time he got to the trump campaign, the spigot of cash had been turned off and manafort and gates had turned to basically scamming the banks and evading taxes in a way to generate cash. it really puts a different spin on the question of why did paul manafort end up with the trump campaign, why was he offering those private briefings with that russian oligarch, what does he know about potential relationships with russians. it s a very important question. and as we are building this pressure, this case, chuck rosenberg, clearly it would be to try to squeeze manafort and try to get a plea agreement from him. is there the potential, this has been speculated about a lot, potential that he would resist a plea because he knows by some fashion that he might be pardoned? if he knows he s going to be pardoned, and we don t know whether he knows he s going to be pardoned, sure. that makes a lot of sense. if you take a step back and put the pardon aside for a minute, most defendants plead guilty. the overwhelming number plead guilty. so first we shouldn t be surprised that rick gates is going to plead guilty. of those who don t plead guilty, the overwhelming majority are convicted at trial. so pardon aside, one way or the other, manafort is in a world of hurt. while we have all been reporting this out, the president spent nearly an hour, maybe more than an hour, at the conservative political action committee. it was a rally, he went off script, he barely touched on the advanced text that had been released where there was serious business he was going to be announcing sanctions against north korea. peter baker, i wanted to play some of the clips from that speech, where he went after hillary clinton, john mccain without naming him, but it will be very clear from this, barack obama, this was just some of the highlights from this speech at the conservative political action committee. we have a very crooked media. we had a crooked candidate, too, by the way. but we have a very, very crooked manafort was in against a woman opponent. right. to say nothing that he s encouraging the crowd to chant lock her up on the day his deputy campaign manager is pleading guilty to a serious crime. irony aside, what is pretty transparent here is his polite ki stratepolite political strategy has not changed. his base are the only friends he has. that doesn t mean his friends are only in the republican party. it means he wants to have these fights not only over what he s done, but what his political opponents have done that he knows ends up charging up his crowd. that s why he invokes the names of people like barack obama and hillary clinton and john kerry. it s also why he cites the famous maverick john mccain and this is the thing that plays well for him politically in the moment. the problem really, though, is if you just think two steps ahead here, this does not play well politically necessarily for most congressional republicans and they are the people that are on the ballot here later this year, not president trump. matt, as a former justice department aide, i saw you cringing when you heard the president s comments about that deputy sheriff in florida. i thought that was a really disgraceful comment from the president. he said it before he left the white house. he criticized him again from the speech. look, whatever mistakes this deputy sheriff made, it does seem like he made serious mistakes, it is so graceless and undignified for the president of the united states, the most powerful man in the world, to be attacking a deputy sheriff who yes, made a mistake. the president should be above the fray. should not be weighing in. josh made an important point before we came on the air. this president dodged the draft four times, he s never put himself in the line of fire, and now is criticizing someone else who was on the scene at the school. i thought it was a really undignified moment for the president. this from a president who said, promised during the campaign he would have the back of our men and women in law enforcement and who got a lot of political mileage out of unfairly criticizing his political opponents, including president obama, in situations in which he felt like president obama had been insufficiently supportive of our men and women in law enforcement. but to stand in front of a bunch of reporters on the south lawn of the white house and question that deputy who obviously did make some mistakes, it s disgusting. we re not defending the deputy and we see the president s returning by helicopter from that speech going back to the white house, where very shortly, i think he is quite a bit behind schedule, that lengthy speech has held up or maybe it s momentarily the arrival of the australian prime minister, which is another whole interesting story because the australian prime minister had one of the most notably difficult conversations with the president of the united states shortly after president trump was elected. that s right. wosworn in, i should say. their disagreement was about an arrangement between the united states and australia to try to resolve the cases of a number of refugees and so again, this is a difficult political challenge for president trump and look, australia is one of our closest allies. we rely on them particularly when it comes to our presence in asia and this is a relationship that president trump will need to work on, both for his own benefit but also more importantly for the benefit of the country. all hang in here because we will be back in a moment on call to arms. president trump riling up that crowd at cpac calling for more guns in the schools. this as the australian prime minister is about to arrive and australia had a very different approach after a school shooting. we will talk about that when we come back. oh! there s one. manatees in novelty ts? surprising. believe the health we aof our water sourcesany is essential to the 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teachers love their students. and these teachers are talented with weaponry and with guns and they feel safe, and i would rather have somebody that loves their students and wants to protect their students than somebody standing outside that doesn t know anybody and doesn t know the students and frankly, for whatever reason, decided not to go in. peter baker, chuck rosenberg, josh earnest still with us. peter baker, the teachers i have spoken with are not in sync with the president. neither are the ones i have seen from florida. i don t know what you are hearing but most educators do not want this responsibility or this challenge. this isn t their role. the president was suggesting yesterday giving them some sort of bonus pay for doing the training to become armed. yeah. most teachers have a lot on their plate already. they have to worry about textbooks and supplies, about the latest curriculum, about, you know, multiple kids and their own individual problems and how they can bring them to class and make sure they are paying attention and connect with them in a real way, and the idea that suddenly they will be part-time security guards when the full-time security guard wasn t, you know, able to handle the situation, that seems perplexing to a lot of teachers. you re right, the ones i have talked to certainly are not eager for that responsibility. what the president is saying is i m not talking about all teachers, talking about a select number who might have military or some other kind of experience. i don t know the statistics on that. i don t know how many teachers actually are former marines and soldiers and whether they have that kind of experience. but clearly, this is an idea that hasn t been fully explored in a real way in the white house that has no paper on it, there s no trade-offs recognized, no cost estimates, no serious analysis of whether this might be useful, whether teachers might actually be up to it or want the kind of responsibility he s talking about. peter, yesterday we had fred guttenberg whose daughter jamie, 14 years old, was gunned down. he said from the way he s been briefed about the hallway video, what the security cameras picked up, it was chaos. in that kind of situation you would have innocent people shot by a teacher or anyone else who was in there with a gun, just because it was just mass panic with people running in the corridors in and out of classrooms. well, you can imagine what the law enforcement officers responding to the situation would think if there were suddenly more people with guns on the scene, people with guns they don t want to shoot, but they don t know who s on which side at that point. you re right, that would only in some ways, you could imagine adding to an already chaotic scene if there were you know, you understand the appeal. this is why the president says it, because he is in fact a supporter of the second amendment, a supporter of the nra, and so he s looking for something to combat the problem. to many of his people in that audience today at the conservative political action committee, sounds like a good solution. why not have more good guys with guns, as they say, rather than bad guys with guns. it s an appealing idea to a certain select part of his base. again, it s not a proposal that s been thought through or analyzed in a serious way to look at how it would actually work in a reality situation. there were also attacks from the president and his ally, wayne lapierre, on the intelligence communities, on the fbi, on others in law enforcement. despicable. it s hard for me to even process that, andrea, to tell you the truth, and i don t tend to get overwrought or emotional, but when i hear folks who purport to be leaders at least of certain parts of our communities attacking law enforcement, calling them out, disparaging their work, disparaging their motives, it s despicable. josh earnest, from your experience in the white house, and if we can try not to be partisan in this, there does seem to be a lack of process. peter baker said these are not thought out policies. in the white houses i have covered from reagan on up, when policies were proposed, no matter what the president s individual personal feelings were, it went through a process, a domestic policy council, then was vetted, the chief of staff would weigh in, decisions were made. obviously the president has the final say but this seems to be an emotional reaction to do something. it does, and i can t tell you how many meetings i sat in with lawyers from the department of justice and other agencies in the federal government, examining what kind of steps the president could take using his executive authority to try to make progress on this issue, to make it harder for people who shouldn t have guns from being able to get their hands on them, and in some ways, the challenge here is we are talking around the problem. the problem is that congress has failed in their basic responsibility to pass common sense legislation that would enhance public safety. that is the basic that is the basic failure here. until that changes, i don t think that s going to change until we change the composition of congress, but until that changes, we will find an executive branch, whether democrat or republican, struggling mightily to try to address this problem. gentlemen, pete williams is in our newsroom with breaking news on that gates plea which we expect to be later this afternoon. pete, what are you seeing? 2:00 this afternoon, andrea. we now know what charges he has agreed to plead guilty to, and as i look through this 25-page document, the government basically re-alleges a lot of the violations that they say he was responsible for committing when he was working with paul manafort was a lobbyist for the government of ukraine. they say that he took a lot of that income, millions of dollars, and through a series of putting it in overseas accounts, using other financial manipulations, tried to hide it from federal regulators, to basically evade having to pay taxes on it and also to evade having to register as a foreign lobbyist. now, the key to it is that when he was charged in late october, he and manafort together, this is just richard gates plea now, we don t know anything about paul manafort, when he was charged in october, it was a long raft of charges. just yesterday, robert mueller s team added even more in a separate criminal case just across the river here in alexandria, virginia involving bank fraud in virginia. now, though, there are just two counts, two charges in this revised document that he s agreed to plea to, lying to federal agents and also a general conspiracy charge. the maximum penalty on both of those counts, now, chuck rosenberg is sitting right next to you and he knows this better than i do, but my quick look at the u.s. code indicates the maximum on both is five years. so at one time, on what he was originally charged with, richard gates was looking at several decades potentially in prison. now he s looking at a maximum of five years, and more significantly, if he agrees to cooperate with robert mueller s investigators now, and talk more about what was going on during the campaign which is, after all, what the mueller investigation is really all about, that could result in an even lesser sentence. so five years is the maximum. he has no prior criminal history and if he cooperates with mueller, he could be looking at even less time than that. so this is a big he gets a lot out of this, it seems to me, by agreeing to plead guilty and potentially robert mueller s people do, too. they must think they do, because they have knocked so many of the charges out of this. they must think that it s important to get his cooperation. as you recall, paul manafort was briefly the campaign chairman for donald trump s campaign and manafort was his deputy campaign chairman and continued to advise the campaign even after paul manafort left. so we will know more details here when he appears in court, rich gates, at 2:00 to actually formally enter the plea. but we now know what he will be pleading guilty to. pete, that s an excellent setup for chuck rosenberg, who is sitting right here. this obviously, if it were to be five years, potentially, depending on the plea when we see it at 2:00, this is a very big deal and it is a real insider, bigger fish than papadopolous and the others, carter page, even more peripheral, who is intimately knowledgeable about the campaign itself. if you just read the indictments and take those allegations as true, you can see that mr. gates has a ton of information on mr. manafort, at least. one thing i think is worth explaining, andrea, it looks like he s pleading guilty to two separate counts, each count carries a maximum statutory penalty of five years. they could be concurrent, though. they could. in theory, he has ten years of exposure. but in reality, sentences are determined not by the statutory max, but by the sentencing guidelines. so what prosecutors routinely do is have someone plead to enough counts with enough statutory time that if everything goes bad and they don t cooperate and they lie and they mislead, you can still give them a large, or recommend a large sentence at the end. but if they cooperate and with no criminal history, they have a relatively small sentencing guideline exposure. that s all you need. that s all you need here. the carrot and stick approach. there s a very big carrot there, if you like carrots. there s a big carrot and a big stick, but this is a well formulated plea. it holds mr. gates feet to the fire and mueller will be able to obtain his cooperation. josh, you have been intimately involved in campaigns. to have the deputy campaign manager, campaign chairman, manafort s deputy, cooperating with the prosecutor, no matter how the white house says this does not affect donald trump, it affects the trump campaign or anything that it potentially did. if you are sitting in the white house right now you have to be deeply concerned by this development in the case. some of the reporting indicates that mr. gates actually traveled extensively with then candidate trump on the campaign, even after manafort had left the campaign so through the fall. this is when mr. trump himself was campaigning five, six, sometimes seven days a week. he spent a lot of time on that airplane. this is the setting in which having spent a lot of time in these kind of campaign airplanes, this is when you are having informal conversations with the candidate and with the team. he can certainly speak to mr. trump s state of mind. he can certainly speak to mr. trump s motivations at particular times. and he certainly would have been in a position where, if they were doing conference calls or engaging in other planning, he would have been looped into that as a senior official on the plane to make sure mr. trump was aware of what was happening back in his campaign headquarters. people in those kind of positions often serve as a relay point for people who are on the ground, not traveling with the candidate. so it does put mr. gates at the nexus of a lot of communication that can be valuable to a prosecutor. thank you for your valuable insights, josh, chuck. pete williams, when we talk about this going forward, what is the process that we are likely to see? i know it s outside the court because it s federal court so you won t have anyone inside with a camera, but you will see the arrival presumably of rick gates, of his attorney, who is tom green, and at this point, he s going to face will he be facing a federal judge and explaining that he understands the charges and is pleading guilty to them? oh, yes. when you want to change your plea, you have to do it in person, like they say, you must be present to win. he has to be in court to actually stand up and enter the plea. and the court in the meantime wants to get a number of guarantees from him. so if you plead guilty in federal court, you basically have to tell the judge i know what i m doing here, i m doing this willingly, i m doing this knowingly. i understand what i m doing. i understand the consequences. i know i m giving up my rights to appeal this conviction. i know that i can t have a trial. i know that if i did have a trial, i would have the ability to confront my accusers in court. he has to tell the judge he on purpose waives all that and that s basically designed so that after a guilty plea, you can t come back and say wait a minute, i changed my mind, i didn t realize what i was doing, i was taking medications, all that stuff. so that s basically how these hearings go. they are very similar. i just sat through one earlier this week when alex van der zwaan entered his guilty plea. so i can tell you exactly how it goes and how it will be before this judge. so that s basically it. now, the government will probably get up and say a little bit about what they are alleging here and summarize the charges. now, the other thing that s important, i think the two things that are important to note about this, one is just to be clear, this is about richard gates and paul manafort s personal finances beginning six or seven years ago when they started lobbying for the government of ukraine. it s not related to the campaign. this is a side issue to the central task that robert mueller has, which is to investigate whether anybody in the u.s. was helping the russians meddle in the election. by the way, paul manafort has a companion civil case pending in court saying you know, he never should have been able to bring these charges, these are outside of robert mueller s task and so you should throw the whole thing out. not much of a chance of success there, but nonetheless, that is a separate case. that s the first thing to think about. the fact that this is not related directly to the campaign. the second thing is that probably in the plea agreement, when we see the actual documents later, all we have seen so far is the revised slimmed-down charges as a result of this agreement, almost certainly there will be some language in there that says that mr. gates agrees to cooperate with the mueller team and that ultimately, his sentence will depend on the degree of his cooperation. that s fairly standard, too. but we won t, for example, hear what it is he s prepared to say about paul manafort or anything else. that s down the road. matt miller is with us again. matt, as pete was just pointing out, this is not about the campaign. this is about their past work, manafort and gates past work on behalf of ukraine and obviously, the russian oligarchs who were involved which could overlap with the russian oligarchs who were indicted last week by robert mueller. that s exactly right. this isn t exactly about his work on the campaign. it s about their work in ukraine. but their work in ukraine was for a pro-putin government. a pro-putin despot, really, and he worked very closely with deraposhka. reminder of who that is? another wealthy russian oligarch who is very close to president putin and the kremlin, does a great deal of business with and for the kremlin at times. paul manafort had a long business relationship with him that eventually went sour and at the time manafort joined the trump campaign, he was in millions of dollars of debt to him. i want to point out one thing from this criminal information that s been filed which i have been trying to read quickly. what gates is going to apparently admit to is a false statement made to mueller s investigators on february 1st of this year. extremely odd. that would seem to be when he went in and made his proffer, he went in and had this queen for the day interview where you go in as a defendant, tell the government everything you know. nothing you say in that interview can be used against you unless you lie. the allegation he was lying when he was making his making his plea deal. went in, had this interview, lied about a meeting he had with an unnamed lobbyist and an unnamed member of congress in 2013. didn t tell the truth about that meeting to bob mueller s investigators on the day he was making his first kind of doing his first interview with them that would lead to a plea deal. remarkable thing for gates to have done. does that perhaps explain why he changed attorneys? attorneys who were representing him that day are no longer with him. it could be. that is shrouded in mystery. everything about gates behavior in the last few months has been strange. he had one set of attorneys, those attorneys withdrew from the case. we still don t know why. there have been long hearings behind closed doors. he has this other hearing now, there have been reports he was going to change, another attorney now, there are reports he was going to change to even a third set of attorneys. he apparently was going in to make a plea deal, lied in the plea deal, then gets hit with other charges, then pleads guilty the next day. nothing about gates behavior over the last month and a half has been usual in the way these cases proceed. pete williams, more information on this? well, andrea, precisely on the question you just asked, we have always been wondering why some of the gates lawyers wanted to withdraw and you have seen a lot of speculation elsewhere that perhaps it s because they disagreed about the plea. we think it can t possibly have been that, because the lawyers job is to represent the clients interest. one thing we always suspected is did the lawyers think at some point he said something that wasn t true, which would put them in a tough spot. we think that it may be one of the reasons in addition to perhaps what lawyers and clients disagree about generally is how much they are going to pay the lawyers, and the fee issue, we have always suspected that is a possibility for why the lawyers wanted out. we may know more about that after 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our commitment to our maximum pressure campaign to ensure that [ inaudible wbr id= wbr26355 /> ]. joining me is ambassador wendy sherman, former /b> undersecretary of state for political affairs in kerry s state department and msnbc news global affairs contributor. ambassador, thank you very much for joining us. the actions taken today are not technically against russia or china, who are allegedly the big perpetrators here, evading the sanctions, going offshore and refueling, restocking these north korean ships. most recently this week alone, japan claims that it saw such action involving a chinese ship and north korea. right. china is on the list along with hong kong and panama, marshall islands, taiwan, couple of other countries, but not russia. i think this is quite significant since we have already said that they have against sanctions allowed a transfer at sea. this is a little bit like whack-a-mole. these are useful sanctions that have been put on, but there are thousands of ships flagged by any number of countries that travel around the world and you have to have relationships with countries all over the world. ambassadors that you are working with in countries all over the world, and we don t have still 40% of our ambassadors in place around the world, to say to a country if one of these ships arrives and we can provide you with some information that says they are carrying illicit trade or they are taking oil or coal that they are not supposed to under sanctions and you ought to inspect them and stop them, you have got to build a relationship. so enforcement of this is quite tough and that russia is not in here is quite notable. the coincidence, if you will, of ivanka trump is arriving, she is going to take the place of the vice president, what he did at the opening ceremony, she will be at the closing ceremony so she will most likely be seated very close proximity to the north korean delegation. we now know subsequent to the vice president s trip, he was prepared to meet with kim jong-un s sister and with another high-ranking regime leader, and that they stiffed him, stood him up at the last minute. they claim because of his tough rhetoric, because he had taken such a hard line, it s hard to say. what is your take as to whether the vice president was appropriate in calling them out for their outrageous behavior, for their violations, for their human rights abuses, for the otto warmbier treatment and death, or whether we have missed an opportunity for direct talks? well, look perhaps impossible to tell? i think it s a little hard to tell. one would have expected that this had been all well choreographed with the south koreans but it appears that it was not. of course we always call out north korea for its horrible human rights abuses, for the awful death of otto warmbier, for what they do to their own people. that s all very appropriate. it s all about sequencing, all about choreography and i actually think it was a mistake to send ivanka trump, because they called kim jong-un s sister, the north korean ivanka trump and now we will have a direct comparison. north korea is sending the head of the vice-chair of their workers central party, who really was the mastermind in 2010 incident that killed 46 koreans. there s been a lot of protest in south korea. so they have a lot at stake. they have opposition in their own country. i wouldn t expect there to be any discussion between ivanka trump and kim yong choi who is representing the north koreans at these closing ceremonies. this is a very tough time. pressure is important but it should be one piece of a coordinated, very well orchestrated effort forward and we need to be shoulder to shoulder with south korea in this effort and it s not clear that we are. in fact, are we now in sort of a different place with south korea, with south korea proceeding, they say, with direct talks with the north after the olympics are over, and we are now taking a harder line. those are two different messages. they are two different messages. one can put them together but it s not clear, as i said, that there s been choreography here with the country that should be our closest ally. we have 28,000 american troops in south korea. we have on any given day probably a couple hundred thousand other americans over either living, working or visiting south korea. so the risk for us is quite great as we take these very appears to be unscripted steps forward with our close ally. wendy sherman, ambassador, thank you very much. thanks as always. today is also the day that chief of staff john kelly was issuing his new rules on security clearances and they are set to go into effect today, the rules that were actually distributed last week. potentially putting him on a collision course with the president s son-in-law, jared kushner. kushner, a diplomatic newcomer assigned to help negotiate middle east peace, is resisting kelly s efforts to restrict his access to highly classified secrets, including of course the president s daily intelligence brief, because kushner has not yet passed a complete fbi background check. in a battle between kushner and kelly, who is going to win? joining me is nbc political contributor, yamiche alcindor, msnbc contributor charlie sikes, conservative radio host and chris whipple, author of the gate keepers, how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency and susan page, washington bureau chief for usa today . well, yamiche, first, to your reporting on this possible showdown between chief of staff kelly and jared kushner, who wins, do they both win, do they finesse this? what do you think is going on behind the scenes? if it comes down between jared kushner and john kelly, the answer is simply jared kushner has the relationship with president trump. he s someone who the president really, really trusts. he s loyal to him. at the end of the day he will t going to be the person the president believes in and picks over his own chief of staff. but the sources i ve been talking to tell me that the president and chief of staff john kelly want this issue to go away. john kelly does not want to be going back and worth with jared kushner and he wants him to have this clearance so he can be out of his hair. chris, you wrote the gatekeepers. we ve seen what happened with reince priebus, what a bad start that was for this administration as far as them parting ways. kelly was brought in to clean house, to shut the door to the oval office so people like omarosa could not be wandering in and out. he restored order but could not control the tweets or clearly did not control or choose to control the security clearance process. no question about it. even by the very narrow definition of the job, his definition of the job, which was making the trains run on time in the west wing, he s really failed in my view. the porter scandal shows that the trains are flying off the track. but more importantly, i think kelly has failed in the much larger sense. that the organizing the west wing is the easy part. the hard part of the job wbr id= wbr30847 /> i don t want to let me interrupt you briefly. listen to the president with australian prime minister andrew turnbull. and we have a luncheon set up also, and we have all of our representatives surrounding us and a lot of good things will come out of this visit. so mr. prime minister, we very much appreciate you being here. thank you so much. thank you. i just say thank you and melania for your hospitality and your friendship. it s 100 years that we re celebrating this year. 100 years ago. for the first time australians /b> and american soldiers went into the battle together, on july the 4th, 1918. and we have been fighting side by side in freedom s cause ever since. so 100 years of mateship and 100 more years to come. thank you all very much. thank you, press. thank you very much. thank you, press. i would. we will be there. great place. cutting a deal with mueller? thank you, press. thank you very much. chris whipple, i interrupted wbr-id= wbr31626 /> you. now you can see why. all those questions about gates, about everything else. couldn t hear all of them. but what s interesting is the first ladies were at that photo opportunity. perhaps a defensive measure to mitigate any questions being asked. there will be a press conference at 2:00. exactly at the time that rick gates is supposed to go into federal court. we re talking about the chief of staff and the ability of a chief of staff of any chief of staff to handle donald trump. this unusual president. and expectations were so high for kelly when he came in. he was going to be the grown-up in the room. the moderating force who would smooth the rough edges off of donald trump. and i think exactly the opposite has happened. i think that john kelly has reinforced all of donald trump s worst partisan instincts. i think today s appearance by trump, the red meat rally, is more evidence that john kelly s been unable to sit donald trump down and tell him hard truths, which is, among others, that governing is very different from campaigning. donald trump knows how to do one thing and one thing only. that s divide and demonize and disrupt. it s kelly s job to show him he can actually govern. and susan page, you ve been following this house and we ve watched this president at campaign rallies. that was a campaign rally today. that was him in his element, right? he talked for we thought he was going to make a big announcement about north korea sanctions. he talk forward more than an hour before he even mentioned them. he never got to the text until the end. he talked about his core issues. talked about the wall. talked about protecting the second amendment. those were the things that got big reactions from his crowd. quite at odds with the tone he struck with that very touching meeting he had with victims of school shootings and their parents. he talked about the midterm elections, about getting voter turnout. he is very focused on the midterm election and on his re-election campaign, which he also mentioned. when we talk about all of that, you clearly were also looking at this rick gates plea deal because that is going to be this huge shadow overhanging this white house going forward. and this president really wants to get the russia cloud away from his away from the white house. as robert mueller does this really tick by tick, really slow walk of indictments, he is showing his cards and we re learning that robert mueller is really taking his time to look at witnesses, to figure out who were the best people to essentially flip and then to figure out who should plead guilty first. this is a president that surrounded himself with people with complex financial issues and paul manafort, according to the newest dirgets had all these issues going on with his finances. so i think we re just going to see more of this and the president is not going to be able to escape it. charlie sikes joining us as well. the midterm elections. how is this red meat that was displayed at cpac today and the calls to arm teachers and deal with school violence that way, how is that going to play out in the midwest. well, you know, again, i think this administration has been focused on the red meat for the base. they speak to the base, and i think to a certain xenextent, t are succeeding in getting republicans to rally around trump. what you saw there was not just a regular campaign rally. you really see the transformation of the conservative movement. i was at cpac two years ago. and donald trump just two years ago was afraid to show up there and was very anti-trump. and you can see that he owns the conservative movement, and he is certainly rallying the base to get that base to turn out in big numbers in the midterms. charlie sikes and chris whipple, susan page, yamiche, thanks to all of you for quite an extraordinary day of breaking news on all fronts. we ll 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she s cool on the show. i like all of your opinions. keep tweeting me. shannon bream is up next. shannon has lindsey graham on friday will be a great show, as always. shannon? shannon: he spent the day with the president. he will fill us in on that, laura. thank you very much. let s get you caught up on three breaking stories tonight. the inspector general at the justice department is starting an investigation into what republicans contend is bias at the doj and fbi and the russia collision investigation and those fisa warrants. we are learning that president trump has fired his veterans affairs secretary dr. david shulkin. senior north and south korean officials are just launching high-level talks to set up a planned summit in april with president trump. team coverage tonight, tomlinson standing by at the pentagon with why dr. david shulkin was locked up into his let s go. we begin tonight with chief national correspondent ed henry following the new pressure on the fbi. good evening. white house dr. ronny jackson to replace the shulkin, a navy rear admiral, a surprise choice to lead this sick government second largest department. he has served as white house physician over the past three administrations. recently jackson has been criticized by some after giving a glowing report on the president s health. some people have great genes, i would tell the president that he could love to be 200 years old. the president has heart disease. those numbers qualify him to have heart disease. it clearly needs a planted dry and prevent heart problems down the road. in a statement, president trump said admiral jackson is highly trained and qualified. one of the first g.o.p. lawmakers to call for shulkin s ouster applauded the move. dr. shulkin came from within the v.a. and did nothing to clean up the culture of bureaucratic incompetence that is to find a leadership at the v.a. i am convinced that only someone from outside the v.a. can clean up the v.a. the president named robert wilkie, the pentagon s undersecretary of defense for personal and readiness, to serve as the acting v.a. secretary until admiral jackson is confirmed. expect senate democrats to put up a fight. shannon? shannon: lucas tomlinson from the pentagon. thank you. kim jong un s secretive meeting with chinese president has left many in the u.s. wondering what will happen next. what it could mean for a future meeting with president trump. leland vittert joins us live with more on that. hey. good evening, shannon. lots of news but very few answers to the core questions here. when and where does the trump, summit take place, one with the ground rules, and what does the north koreans really want for their nukes? one thing is sure. the chinese made it clear with this visit that they play a front and center wall when it comes to dealing with the kim regime. the president paid respect to his chinese counterpart to that effect today tweeting, received a message last night from xi jingping of china that he had a meeting with him drunk on and it went very well and kim looks forward to his meeting with me. in the meantime, and unfortunately, maximum sanctions and pressure must be maintained at all costs. despite their freeze on my cell a nuclear custom of the north koreans appear to be moving forward at all costs and a breakneck speed with her nuclear program. no photo show another reactor, the north claims that is for peaceful electric generation. intelligence reports it is also capable of throwing off plutonium for more bombs. if the white house or u.s. intelligence community knew about the chinese summit, they didn t say anything, nor did they seem particularly surprised. the chinese official state media it reiterated the offer by kim jong un of face-to-face with president trump. certainly, we are going to be cautiously optimistic, but we feel like things are moving in the right direction, and that the meeting yesterday was a good indication that the maximum pressure campaign has been working. you saw him leave for the first president trump and as yet undisclosed location. he is also rumored to be considering a sit down with russians vladimir putin, while one of its doctor s critics, japanese prime minister shinzo abe says he is ready for a meeting too. what is drawing him out of hermit kingdom all of a set on? let s talk about it with a republican senator from south carolina lindsey graham, a member of the senate armed committee. that is a stunning overview. if you told me a year ago that the north korean leader would be meeting with president trump, potentially there russians and the japanese, i wouldn t believe it, and hats off to president trump and his team for making this a reality. maximum pressure has worked. shannon: let s talk about china. i read an account today that said for six years, he s been pushing china to have an official meeting with him. they weren t interested, and never happen, they held him at arm s length. as soon as it s becoming apparent that he will meet with president trump, china says, hey, come for a visit. they obviously have different interests in the region that we do. there are some similar but there are differences. a piece says that beijing is concerned with any concessions that north korea might make toward the u.s. in exchange for u.s. security guarantee or a settlement that could lead to the unification of the korean peninsula by absorption and the emergence of a unified korea as an american military ally on china s border i think that s a pretty good analysis of what they fear. here was with a hope. they hope that north korea will stop being a pain in the rear for them. the north korean nuclear program destabilizes the entire world. i hope that kim jong un was told by the chinese president, we stand with america. you need to give up your nukes. i would tell her chinese, our goal is not to reunify south korea and north korea. i would tell them that north korea needs to give up their nuclear weapons to protect the world at large. help us there. shannon: do you think it will? the messages were relayed after their meetings that they are open to denuclearizing the peninsula, plenty of skeptics who aren t buying math or wonder what kind of agreement we can gr as rigorous, legitimate inspection. we have seen this movie before. in 1994, they gave up their nuclear program for food. they took the food and kept their nukes. the one thing i would tell china and north korea, the worst mistake you can make is meet with president trump personally, have a discussion about what to do, and try to play him. if that happens, that s the end of north korea. i met with the president today. he doesn t want a wife. he is hopeful that this can resolve in ending the north korea nuclear threat, stabilizing that part of the world. i think he is ready to go big. the korean war is still it s never been ended been ended. shannon: technically. but i would like to see happen as a peace treaty between south korea, north korea, china, the united states. north korea would give up their weapons. japan and south korea doesn t have them. we ll give them insurance that we won t need north korea, we ll tell the chinese we are not trying to unify the korean peninsula, but we are insisting that kim jong un give up his nuclear program. there is a chance for a deal. this is the last, best chance to avoid a war. the worst thing that can happen is that the north korea tries to play donald trump. shannon: you said that the damage from a war with north korea would be worth it in terms of long-term stability and national security. that scares a lot of people. i don t want to minimize the damage would be great. worth it. it s all about bad choices. if there is a war between north korea and us, south korea and japan will get hit, hit hard. thousands of people could die. that is not lost upon me. but if we allow them to get an icbm, they can hit america with a nuclear tipped missile. the names of americans are at risk and he will sell anything he develops. he sold to syria, tried to help iraq. so north korea proliferates nuclear materials. so you got to go bad choices. to me, it is worth it to stop him from getting a big nuclear arsenal because he will give it our selected people who would use it if he would not to. shannon: let s talk about russia. interesting because the president took the steps obviously in tandem with a number of european allies to expel a number of russian personality, intelligence officers, and response to this poisoning on british soil that russians are now saying the u.k. did had made it look like the russians did it. i am no security expert or professional envoys and so i won t comment on that. a couple of people stepping up in the mainstream media to praise the president, david singer from the new york times saying , it s getting harder to make the argument that the president has not gotten tough with putin. the daily beast income of this is big, it deserves credit. 50 diplomats plus spies. the best thing that they can do is unite the world against russia s aggression, not just be the united states versus russia come but the entire world. look at what happened when we decided to expel russian diplomats and spies sprayed the entire world followed president trump. the best thing he can do in my view at home and abroad is to tell putin, i don t want to be your enemy but you are making me be your enemy and if you continue to disrupt the world, invade your neighbor, assassinate people, in foreign countries, then you were going to pay a price. if china excuse me, in france and germany would get behind trump s efforts to change business practices and trying to come i guess what, china would stop cheating if they had to pay a price. putin would stop us dropping the world if he paid a price. i can tell you this. putin will respond to weakness, aggression, he will respond to strength by backing off on president trump i ve got a moment in time here to really make putin pay a price. his economy is the size of italy. shannon: 15 seconds. he spent 90 minutes with the president. how did he seem? there s a lot of new swirling around him, much of it not positive. very, very focused, very upbeat. it feels like he s doing a good job. we have some historic moments coming in may when north korea and iran, tax cuts are working, the president was very upbeat and quite frankly, i think he s done a very good job as commander in chief. shannon: senator graham, always good to have you with us. thanks. the polish government signing off on a huge deal to buy the u.s. patriot to missile defense system. for nearly $5 billion. it is the largest arms procurement deal and poland s history and is also a major step in modernizing their forces, which analysts they do not sit well with the kremlin. the u.s. economy looks to be on stable footing. in the final quarter of 2017, marked the third quarter in a row with gdp close to or exceeding 3%. the pace that the drop administration set as a target. gross domestic product measures the value of every item produced in every service rendered in the u.s. president trump will buzz at northeast toast ohio tomorrow afternoon to present his proposed $1.5 trillion program to rebuild the country s aging infrastructure. economists argue that it won t add to the u.s. economy. the white house council of economic advisors says the plan will give a significant boost to the gdp over the next ten years, adding up to 400,000 new jobs. they are calling it a boomerang effect. what began as surveillance of a trump campaign turning into an investigation of the alleged fisa abuse by the fbi under the obama administration. what it all means for the special counsel probe next. plus no developments tonight on a breaking story. a new trump administration proposal aimed at making sure immigrants don t become dependent on government benefits if they want to attain legal status. also on tap, marching for our lives to marching for life. another group of students is trying to organize a nationwide school walkout. we look at the same kind of support? portion of the ball being built, adding, great briefing this afternoon on the start of our southern border wall. it becomes following are part of the drop administration seeking to her restrictive legal status for immigrants who rely on tax credits and government welfare programs. let s talk about with tonight s panel. radio host ethan berman. fox news contributor lisa boothe. the federalists mollie hemingway, also a fox news contributor. good to see you all tonight. hi, shannon. shannon: tell me more about this. this is what the dhs spokeswoman said. this is their proposal, apparently they say nothing is finalized yet. once it is approved, it will be released, have a comment. matt, the whole 9 yards. this is what she said. the administration is committed to enforcing existing immigration law which is clearly intended to protect the the amn taxpayer. mollie, they say this is a tackn attack on people who are trying to gain legal status. because this gets at the heart of the debate about kind of immigration should have. some people say should be random and lottery based on some people are pushing for a move to the more australian or canadian style where it s self-sufficiency playing a role. it doesn t play a role for people who have special needs or our refugee status or particular persecution. at in general, a lot of immigrants are coming to this country, american citizens are looking for people who can be self-sufficient and can contribute to the economy. a lot of immigrants do. this is a test to make sure that this is working out for current american citizens. shannon: reacting to this, the statement from dnc chair tom perez, it s another heartless attack on immigrants. donald trump should spend less time finding ways to punish hardworking families and more time standing up to the values of inclusion of opportunity that make america great. your response, lisa? i think mollie is right. this is consistent with what we have seen from the sweat has, a illegal immigration, that looks at what mollie discussed, and merit-based immigration approach, and something that president trump pushed for as well when he laid out what he would ideally like to see congress and address on the daca issue. also, i think this is very consistent with what we have seen from president trump wanting to bring people into this country that would benefit more economically, maybe not take as much public assistance. it would bring some sort of skill set to the workforce. shannon: ethan, the dhs says it s about making sure that u.s. tax to taxpayers are treated treated fairly. of course we want u.s. taxpayers to be treated fairly. the 1996 offer act and the immigration act of 1996 already addressed this issue. this is a very marginal number of people come illegal immigrants already over abundantly contribute to our economy. there are greater number of small business owners that need a foreign spy they work at a higher percentage than native-born s. they are higher education levels, they actually earn more than native-born americans. this is just meat to the base because it is such a tiny percentage of people that we are talking about. it is not billions of dollars that are being abused or wasted right now. shannon: okay. i want to make sure that this next topic, i get all three of you in. keep your interest relatively brief. ethan, i ll start with you. today the inspector general said he will look into these allegations about whether the fisa warrants were abused, whether the doj and fbi under the obama administration was fair and complied with the law. i think any time that there is an objective investigation by an inspector general, that is something we all need. we need to know that the process works. however, it sure seems to be a right-wing move that seems to think of the deep state is so embedded that the fbi is not able to function. we have a couple of bad apples who were caught red-handed and were removed from the process. but really, we have the new paul manafort connection to the russian intelligence and that is not what we are talking about. shannon: lisa? there are also bad actors that were helping to lead these investigations, that is where the concern boils down to. i do think to ethan s point, michael horowitz will be deemed as a more objective investigator. however he doesn t have the prosecutorial authority, which is why people like chairman county, members of the senate, calling for a second special counsel. shannon: mollie come as a top democrat on the judiciary committee saying it s a conspiracy theory that s been deprived and it s a waste of time and money. in the last year, you had committees on both sides of the senate and house looking into russian meddling, the inspector general looking into hillary clinton email probe. what everybody sits down, it s a violation of processes and serious problems of the department of justice and fbi. you ve had at least six, seven, eight people who were fired, demoted, moved around because of these problems. you have very serious issues with fisa abuse. these are secret courts, you can it s incumbent upon our government to make sure we are handling the surveillance authority well. we do need to restore the credibility of our federal law enforcement. this ig is a good step, a small step, though, because they can t compel testimony from people who have left fbi or doj. it also doesn t deal with the problems that we found that state, cia, and other places. we ll need a special prosecutor just so everyone can trust the fbi and doj. shannon: the calls for those continue. panel, what you were fabulous. stick around, we have more hot topics for you and just a minute. thank you. in the meantime, amazon founder jeff bezos is reportedly the richest man in the world but his network took a serious tumble today all because he s reportedly made one very powerful enemy. plus the news stories are so unbelievable, we have to remind you they are legit. the real news roundup coming up. eal. that s why there s otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it s a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, . with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don t use if you re allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. other side effects include upper respiratory tract infection and headache. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you re pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. shannon: in the wake of anti-gun student walkout, the california teacher was suspended for asking whether pro-life protesters could do the same thing. she wound up suspended. one of her students is fighting back. trace gallagher has all the details from the west coast. hey. i might come as we prepare the nationwide pro-life walkout is specifically meant to imitate protest except the goal this time is too shy to a bright light on the lives destroyed by. the event will also test if there s a double standard when it comes to allowing students to protest things that take lives. the walkout is being organized by 17-year-old brandon gillespie. a junior at rockland high school outside of sacramento. gillespie says he wants to honor the lives of aborted babies, raise awareness of what he calls the injustices of planned parenthood, and to protest the suspension of his history teacher, who was placed on leave when she brought up the double standard. here s the teacher. i open up the discussion for if schools, not only just our school and administration, but across the country, are going to allow one group of students to get up during class and walkout to protest one issue, would they still give the same courtesy to another group of students who wanted to get up and walk out to protest? i use the example of abortion. she s back teaching now and says the upcoming pro-life walkout will literally answer the double standard question. the event is now set for april 11th, and the students are asking for the very same 17 minutes given to students who protested gun violence. it remains unclear how schools across the country will respond. in the meantime, were getting a better idea of who participated in the march for our lives against gun violence. apparently, it wasn t mostly young people. a sociology professor at the university of maryland at her six person research team randomly surveyed hundreds of people who joined in the march and found 70% were women and quoting all the about 10% of the participants were under 18. the average age of the adults of the crowd was just under 49 years old. she also says 27% of the participants had never protested before and most of the new protesters were not motivated by gun-control but rather, by issues of peace. and of president trump. shannon. shannon: all right, trace. very interesting. thank you. tonight, the aclu is urging greyhounds not to let i.c.e. agents searches buses for illegal immigrants without a warrant. meanwhile, the acl use efforts against law enforcement and may have had unintended consequences. researchers are blaming tougher rules on police officers for chicago s huge spike in homicides. they are calling it the aclu effect. the aclu calling it junk science. senior correspondent mike tobin takes a look at the evidence from chicago tonight. the aclu is to blame for chicago s 2016 increase in violent crimes, that according to a new study from the university of utah. we have a collection of data that come together to make it clear that causation exists here. the study concludes that burdens placed on the city s police force have taken their toll. protest erupted in 2015 in response to a video of black teenager look juan mcdonald bank shot to 16 times by a chicago police officer. in the aftermath, the aide don t mock the aclu chicago police reach an agreement to address accusations of racial profiling. police officers were required to fill out elaborate cards after stop and frisk spray to take 15 to 20 minutes to complete. as a result, stops dropped by 82% in 2016. homicides jumped by 58%. chicago endured an additional 1100 gun crimes. the study examined other factors, from anger on the streets, to the opioid epidemic. it concluded that the aclu effect of the anomaly and cops are discouraged from checking suspicious people for weapons. criminals on the streets of chicago became emboldened to carry guns. the deterrent effect decreased. when there were more guns on the street, being carried by criminals, the predictable result is an increase in gun related crimes. the spike in blood shed is is undeniable. that and enhanced scrutiny of the police frequently gets attention from the president to. what the hell is going on in chicago? and aclu lawyer says you can t just look at the chronology and blame the contact cards. it make to makes claims thate thing caused another. the aclu claims that most of the entries on my contact cards are required by the chicago pd, not their organization. representatives challenge the objectivity of the researchers, who also authored a study in 2017 reaching the conclusion that miranda requirements for police effectiveness. shannon, back to you. shannon: time for a quick round up the of the real news out there. that was often derided by the mainstream media for being weak on russia or even colluding with president vladimir putin to influence the 2016 election, the new york times is crediting president trump with getting tough on russia after expelling 60 russian diplomats earlier this week. david sanger is the chief washington correspondent. he is getting harder to makee argument that the president has not got in touch with putin. this is certainly a tougher move, for example, then president obama took when he expelled 30 some odd diplomats after the election issue. shannon: president trump getting tough on portraits of government officials. 1 of 3 bills signed into law yesterday, eliminating government-funded oil painting act bars the use of taxpayer funds for partners of federal workers, like former epa administrator lisa jackson, former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld, and more. some of these portraits cost taxpayers $40,000 each. pennsylvania high school has a rifle team with equipment more than 40 years old. that is not the only problem facing the mountaineers. the school board if they are voted monday night to reject a $5,000 grant from the national rifle association meant to help them buy new gear and guns. the team put together a gofundme site with an appeal for help that says, let s put our political ideology aside and come together as a community in support of our rifle team. the night they nearly doubled their original goal after abouta dozen local businesses got together and decided to help fund the team. classic 90s tv show made its most anticipated return. as roseanne really representing trump voters? 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he talked about jobs, jackie. he said he d shake things up. this might come as a shock to you but we almost lost our house the way things are going. have you looked at the news? now things are worse. not on the real news. police! shannon: roseanne s debut scoring massive ratings in cities like new york and middle america, dominating states are president trump won like ohio. there is a debate about why. let s talk about it with the panel. i thought it was interesting, guys, it had monster ratings but not everybody agreed it was necessarily a good thing for conservatives because roseanne s character supports trump. ben shapiro writing, there is something else going on in roseanne that should disturb conservatives. the redefinition of trump supporters as blue-collar leftists rather than conservatives. the implication is that she s a good person because of ease-of-use but the real difference between trump voters and hillary voters are economic in nature, not cultural. lisa, what you make of that? i don t want to get into an argument with venture. because he s a smart guy. i also think that if you look at the trump coalition, it is sort of a hodgepodge of individuals in this country. i think that he certainly have people like roseanne barr, a trump supporter in real life, also an executive producer of this show that may be a little bit more socially liberal but voted on him for the economic issues. i also think you additionally have people that went for president trump because of these cultural wars. again, president trump sort of has this broad, hodgepodge of a coalition. i see a point, i think it s a smart point, but i don t 100% agree with the point he s making. shannon: ethan, what you make the monster ratings last night? i say congratulations to the show, the cast, i think they did a great job. i m not the biggest fan but i will tell you something, ben shapiro is totally wrong on this one. it s about love, it s not about hate. that is what roseanne is preaching and what she s been doing for many, many years. she led the way both the advocate and have come out in support of roseanne, not just the show but 24 years ago, but it was a groundbreaker in terms of the first kiss between two women on tv. that is a big deal for a lot of people because especially in light of for the president has been doing with some of the anti-lgbt moves, roseanne shows that you can love and support trump at the same time. shannon: i think that is ben s concern. it portrays trump voters as being ones who care about the economy but not the cultural issues. he doesn t think that s the case. we ll see. we love having been on. we want to make sure we get to our second topic. we ll start with you, mollie. a young student in california said he will do a pro-life walkout april 11th is the time mandate for that. he wants to test a couple of things. he says, along with being a movement commemorating the millions of children who are victims to abortion, the movement stands for all students rights to freedom of speech and assembly. he wants to test this theory about whether it will get the same kind of support that the anti-gun rally dead. it s interesting that the study came out showing that the people at this weekends barge, the average age was 50 and there weren t many children there. if you go to the march for life, held annually in d.c., also in the state capitals and other cities throughout the country, you are blown away by how many young people are there. high school students and younger. it s an issue, and he destruction of human life in the womb and violence in the womb and how that hurts women and their children is an issue that young people care deeply about and it is something that maybe have not done a very good job covering. it s a really interesting question to ask, whether schools will be supportive of this as they wear, actively colluding and trying to push this antigun rights march that they did. shannon: ethan, the student directly was a student of the teacher got suspended in california for asking this and having this conversation in her class. do you think that the two topics will be treated the same? what do you of this plan? i always support people to exercise their first amendment rights. there is a significant difference between an already existing march for life and antiabortion rally that goes on. into reaction by a lot of people by the way, i was at the march for our lives with my two children, while under the age of 50, i think we saw a lot of young people there. i don t think that study was somewhat nonscientific in d.c. only. but the point is, the kids in parkland at around the country are worried about the violence that took place at marjory stoneman douglas high school. abortions are not happening in high school classrooms. these are different topics and there are separate marches for that. shannon: we got to leave it there. we are out of time. thank you all. we ll see what happens. thanks, guys. facebook under fire. amazon stocks plummeting as a third news technology raises eyebrows with a controversial equipment. breaking on the tech headlines next. you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. 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it s definitely interesting to see, that s exactly what the reporting shows. really, the president, he is a 1950s man. he s a businessman before he was president. he kind of was nostalgic for the days that it used to be. and he is starting to see talking to steve s point, he thinks there s a lot of power in the hands of these text companies, and amazon in particular for its e-commerce aspect and what it s doing to mom-and-pop stores and other retailers that he sees it as a big threat to some of those smaller businesses. he s looking at perhaps taking some action. press secretary sarah sanders said there is nothing in the works right now but from what the sources have told axios is that he really is looking at antitrust regulations and some other tax treatment that they might be abusing. shannon: another tech company that has revolutionized the way we get entertainment, netflix has announced susan rice, former ambassador, former nsa under the obama administration, will join their board. a quick reaction for both of you. steve, first to you. i think there is nothing to be upset about except the fact that it is so typical, isn t it? people who serve in government and then basically cash in on their public service and get who burned up by these big companies. as happened forever, it is part of the swamp. that is the real story here rather than the politics of netflix. it s all about the swamp. this is how they work. shannon: alayna, there s been backlash and threats of a boycott because of the ambassador s role in the benghazi fiasco. how do you feel that plays out? a lot of people, on twitter and other forms of social media, say they will boycott netflix for putting susan rice on the board. we saw similar things happen when there was buzz that barack obama and michelle obama might also have a netflix series on netflix. so a lot of people believed, just like steve s point, it is the swamp coming to these big media outlets. a lot of people don t like that cross over from the political world in washington into some of the more tech companies and media companies that they see as their entertainment and ways of escaping all of that. shannon: a tough day for many in the text companies. a tough week in the markets. we ll see how they fare tomorrow with the next news cycle. stephen alayna, great to have both of you with us tonight. thank you. thanks, shannon. shannon: so many of you have reached out in the last few days after i put out a twitter plea for a young boy he was very ill and had one last wish. we ve got an update for you right after the break. w pneumococcal pneumonia is a potentially serious bacterial lung disease that in severe cases can lead to hospitalization. it may hit quickly, without warning, causing you to miss out on the things you enjoy most. prevnar 13® is not a treatment for pneumococcal pneumonia. it s a vaccine you can get to help protect against it. prevnar 13® is approved for adults to help prevent infections from 13 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumococcal pneumonia. you should not receive prevnar 13® if you have had a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine or its ingredients. if you have a weakened immune system, you may have a lower response to the vaccine. the most common side effects were pain, redness and swelling at the injection site, limited arm movement, fatigue, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, less appetite, vomiting, fever, chills, and rash. help protect yourself against pneumococcal pneumonia. ask your doctor or pharmacist about prevnar 13®. directv now gives you more for your thing. your letting go thing. your sorry not sorry thing. your out with the old in with the new, onto bigger and better thing. get the live tv you love. no bulky hardware. no satellite. no annual contract. try directv now for $10/mo for 3 months. more for your thing. that s our thing. visit directvnow dot com i lost a twitter campaign after getting the request from emilio s uncle. thanks to your tens of thousands of retweets, videos personalized for emilio poured in. today one of them was set to call him at the hospital but the 11-year-old cancer fighter did not make it. emilio s family started a foundation to help others. emilio wrote a book last year, and all the proceeds will help fund the foundation. if you want to help go to genesfoundation.com. emilio proved that social media can be an enormous force for good. strangers will often care and have compassion even when it will benefit them in no way. we have seen that happen over and over again since sunday.
pattern. plus the president is demanding that congress do something, keep their promises for once, build of the southern border wall. also tonight, the russia collision hoax continues to unravel. the house and talk house until committee chairman devin nunes is now saying there was never credible evidence for the fbi to even launch an investigation into drum camping associates. also brand-new tonight, more monumental setbacks for robert mueller s imploding witch hunt and new evidence that the doj is in fact installing it stonewalling even further. meeting with devin nunes and trey gowdy to review classified material is no longer happening tomorrow. it has been rescheduled for next week. mara obstructionism. another major win for the trump administration. the american hearer, gina haspel, secure the votes needed. she will become the new cia director and will call out the mainstream media s lies about what is happening between israel three american hostages out and he didn t have to send over cargo planes full of cash and other currencies like barack obama did with the mullahs. new satellite images are now showing north korea is already dismantling their nuclear test sites. as we have told you, kim jong un is inviting the western media to watch as he decommissioned that nuclear facility. also kim jong un, guess what, wow, he s no longer firing missiles i ll over japan, he is not affected in guam, he is not threatening the continental u.s. and the rest of the world. you saw it with your own eyes, little rocket man walked across the dmz to agree to south korea s president. what did president trump give up in return for all of this? thing. president trump is not naive, like bill clinton, barack obama. they tried to bribe these despots and dictators with billions and hundreds of billions of dollars. what we are seeing here is typical, quintessential reagan. trust but verify in action before your very eyes. kim jong un wants to come to the table, then fine. we know the secretary of state, mike pompeo, he has laid out all the details, all the terms for a possible agreement and that includes complete and total denuclearization of the korean peninsula. if little rocket man doesn t want to comply, well, then he has to face the consequences. president trump has made clear, north korea is not going to get away with threatening the world and he will never be able to fully develop a nuclear weapon. here s my prediction tonight. kim jong un, well, he s being a little petulant. he s posturing. he s doing a little saber rattling before he ultimately capitulates, goes to the table. even more breaking news to tell you about. president trump s attorney rudy giuliani, former new york city mayor, telling nbc news that he has spoken with mueller and of partisan team of witch hunters in the past 24 hours, and he is saying that a potential presidential interview is being put in a holding pattern, which is great news. mueller has no business ever questioning the president of the united states. there is no such thing as collusion. although there might be with mueller and that oligarch guy. i ll explain. the leaked special counsel question, asking trump what he thought, how he felt, how did you feel? there was are ridiculous questions. mueller is sending a perjury trap. no good lawyer without the president to be interviewed under those conditions. also the president is continuing to keep his promises to you, the american people, the forgotten men and women that the media never thought would show up in november of 2016. he s now calling on congress to do their job, secure the border, do it now. take a look. the first duty of government is to protect our citizens and the men and women of dhs are on the front lines of this incredible, heroic fight. that is why we are calling on congress to secure our borders, support our border agents, stop sanctuary cities, and shut down policies that release violent criminals back into our communities. we don t want it any longer. sean: no, we don t. we need to protect the american people. president trump, he has already accumulated an amazing record of accomplishments. for every republican if they are smart, they can run on a november, and this would be another key victory. look at the economy. record low levels of unemployment. optimism at 11 year high. the the presidents poll numberse highest he s had in his presidency. there is the promises that have kept on the iranian deal, on the embassy in jerusalem, tax cuts, killing the obamacare individual mandate. and there are positive results all over the place and by the way, it hasn t even been two years. also, this is major, the russia collision hoax is unraveling as we predicted right before our eyes. the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes is offering up a new proof that the entire thing has always been a witch hunt. chairman nunes is now saying that there was never any credible evidence for the fbi to begin probing the trump campaign. we know there was a spy supposedly on top of the fisa abuse. he never had any right to do this in the first place. take a look. we have yet to see any crab dolomite crab, credible evidence or intelligence that led to thee investigation. they should have opened counterintelligence investigations are very rarely do they happen, and when they do happen, you have to be very careful because you are using the tools of our intelligence services and relationships with other countries in order to spy on a political campaign, probably not a good idea. sean: the powerful tools of intelligence used to spy on an opposition party candidate and to those powerful tools used against americans, no, that can t happen here. so there was never any actual credible evidence to launch this investigation. of course rod rosenstein conflicted. this is a stunning statement by devin nunes. that is on top of of course the fbi, doj lying, misleading fisa judges, multiple times in order to get a fisa warrant to spy on a trump campaign associate in the weeks leading up to an election and for an entire year, four judges lied to, they never would have told the truth, they never were told it was a bought and paid brooklyn to dossier that was not verified, not cooperated. now there is a new dynamic to this massive scandal. now the possibility of an fbi mole that was inside the trump campaign? chairman nunes is now investigating this huge development. take a look. you had fusion gps that was hired by the democratic party and the clinton campaign to draw up a dossier on the president or when the president was running for president. what happened with that, in his testimony, he mentioned that there was a source within the campaign. glenn simpson runs fusion gps. glenn simpson said that enclosed testimony, now it became public, he confirmed he was telling congress the truth. we believe he was telling the truth. what we are trying to do is get the documents to figure out, did they actually have, what methods were used to open this counterintelligence investigation. sean: that is an amazing statement. we have been saying that this scandal is the biggest abuse of power scandal and corruption scandal in american history. we have been uncovering this, peeling back the onion, this is only the beginning. you got to sit tight and buckle up because everything that the media, the democrats have been telling you for well over a year is now getting flipped on its head, and all of it, as we told you at the beginning of this year, is boom ringing back on them. while the real russia scandal is expanding, robert mueller s witch hunt is crumbling. it s reaching embarrassing levels. let s run through some of the recent headlines. at muller s probes first trail, expect more bond to mike blunt what mike lectures from the bench. the judge already smashed down an epic it had to do with the recruiting and tax fraud from 2005. what does that have to do with trump and russia collision? mueller trying to justify his own existence and indict any russian. these court transcripts show robert mueller indicted a russian company . retiree, cia operative. his name is robert levinson for moran. he was being held hostage. now i m happy that he was working with a russian billionaire, the oligarch that he somehow convinced the oligarch to give him $27 million to help save an american being held hostage. i have no problem with that at all. the government should do everything possible in that situation. i will give mueller credit. it was the right thing to do. here s the issue. it s just a massive conflict of interest rate and that is what we are calling mueller s russia collusion here. you know what? if you are going to talk about a guy in the manafort case that you worked with, secured $24 million from, i think you need to reveal something like that. john solomon reporting that russian oligarch was one of the first people of the fbi interviewed when they began investigating the clinton bought and paid for dossier. as solomon and others are now exposing, the russian actually told the fbi the idea of russian collusion was false. so now the question is, did the because of deep state operatives at the upper echelon and the misdeeds that they did in all of those that we have now proven on this show. maybe, sally, you are forgetting you were emailing with mueller s pit bull, andrew weissmann, and yates is also one of the corrupt officials that signed off on at least one of the fisa warrants that was unverified, uncorroborated. so congratulations, sally. you ve done enough damage to the doj, more than any president ever could. one more thing tonight. trump hating former cia director john brennan is being called out by two of his former colleagues over his public statements about the clinton bought and paid for dossier. paul sperry reporting that two former top officials are actually contradicting his claim that the dossier did not play a role in the intelligence community s assessment of russian election meddling. sperry is pointing out that former nsa director mike rogers told congress for dossier did in fact play a role in the intel assessments. former director of national intelligence james clapper admitted something similar to cnn. we know clapper and john brennan are both lying. so it looks like brandon once again is caught flying. this isn t surprising from a guy who once voted for the communists for president of the united states. how he ever got that position is beyond any understanding i have. finally, lastly, president trump is on the verge of another huge victory. this is good news for all of us. gina haspel now has the votes to be the next cia director and the fact that it took this long, just a few weeks ago, democrats, for them to support her, now it s pretty disgraceful on their part. gina haspel was an american hero. she helped keep us safe after 9/11. she helped get the intelligence to find bin laden. here s another fact the left will never admit to. enhanced interrogation of the three people under medical supervision worked. it gave us the valuable intel, allowed us to get to the courier, which took us right to bin laden. democrats should have been praising her. actually they were at the time, sean: john solomon, let me go back to this russian oligarch story. i may surprise people. any effort to save an american hero being held hostage in iran, i m in favor of. robert mueller the fbi director was able to convince the russian oligarch to hand over $25 million in an effort to release this american hero, i applaud him for that. it is the hypocrisy, as this oligarch is at the center of this manafort case in many ways and this oligarch was not mentioned, nor was the connection mentioned. how important is that? there are three things that people are saying to me since the story broke. i think the first is, donald trump recently sanctioned oleg deripaska. and his day department, his treasury department, he was the man who helped the fbi, did they also tell him this was that mama tried to clear donald trump s name in september 2016 when he told the fbi there is no collusion between russia and donald trump. that is very important. second thing, you hit it in your monologue, did they tell the fisa court that they had a trusted russian source that was weaving them off collusion before they went and got the search warrant? the third and most interesting thing that intelligence people told me tonight, shawn. if deripaska had this interaction with the fbi, it is a must 100% certain he called russia and said, the fbi thinks you re colluding. that would give russian intelligence a chance to have fun with john brennan cia and treat them as information. that is something that a couple members of congress told me they are looking at. he did to deripaska to about the russians so they could feed the u.s. intelligence a false narrative and create doubt in our country? sean: we know they sowed discord but we also know that no votes were changed and we had a couple of reports confirming that. sara, i want to do on my cue to weigh in on that and update us, if you can, did the fbi have a spy on top of the fisa court abuses, and a selection cycle? i believe they did have an they opened a counterintelligence investigation, the special counsel, and remember, it was comey and rod rosenstein, the one that wrote the letter to president trump asking for comey to be fired. then he appoints a special counsel to investigate why comey was fired by president trump. a pattern here that i see sean: and he signed off on one of those fisa warrants. we constantly keep seeing set ups, right? we want to go to why they know who this sources, that is the reason why. i can tell you a little bit. it has to do with london. it has to do with george papadopoulos. although he is not i repeat and again he was not the mall. it does have to do with him. this is the reason we need all the answers. sean: one of the great myths was perpetuated by the new york times, was that papadopoulos bar conversation with an australian diplomat is what triggered sean: four way hearsay. is what triggered the trump-water collusion investigation by the fbi. no. the first in the series of events was the fbi meeting face-to-face in london with christopher steele, the author of this fictitious, fabricated dossier. sean: they told the courts they fired him. they never told that to the courts. they deceived the courts. they concealed evidence of that and other things. sean: we all give the last word to john solomon. we welcome you back. been missing in action, mr. solomon. we welcome you back to the show. thank you. you know, i think gregg has it on the money. the timeline undercuts the narrative we were fed during the campaign and after the campaign. george papadopoulos was after they had talked to christopher steele. you got it right. sean: you guys have been right from the beginning. march 7th, 2017, you guys broke the fisa story and everything has been proven true and more than we ever thought. thank you. great work. can t wait for the book. when we come back from a live report, north korea threatening to cancel the summit with the president. i have a mini monologue coming up. joe concha, dan bongino, so much more, stay with us. for leisure. so i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle - without starting any conversations- -or paying any upcharges. what can i say? 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[ chuckles ] download the xfinity my account app and set a password you can easily remember. one more way comcast is working to fit into your life, not the other way around. sean: kim jong un, little rocket man, threatening to cancel his upcoming summit with president trump, is scheduled to take place next month in singapore. kristin fisher is with us. the president got a lot of concessions and i have a funny feeling he ll do that. we ll see, sean. a big shift in tone from the north koreans, just five days ago, president trump was thinking north korear kim jong n for releasing those three americans ahead of next month s big summit and now theth north koreans are threatening to cancel that summit because of joint ongoing military drills between the u.s. and the south koreans. these kinds of drills are very common, the state department said that the north koreans were well aware of and seemingly fine with these drills, so they are not sure what is changed. we have not heard anything from that government or the government of south korea to indicate that we would not continue conducting these exercises or that we would not continue planning for our meeting between president trump and kim jong un nextim month. all the u.s. has to go off as the statement from north korea s news agency, which questions the fate of the planned north korea-u.s.su summit in lit of this provocative military ruckus. that is what they are calling these ongoing joint military drills. w in response, all the white house has said is it is aware of that report, while the state department says it ishe continuing to go ahead, continuing to prepare and plan for next month s summit in singapore, sean. they still have about four weeks to work all this out. sean: thanks for that are part of the white house. meanwhile tonight, the new york daily news put out an outrageous cover featuring the first daughter ivanka trump that reads daddy s little gold, slamming her for being all smiles at the opening of the new u.s. embassy in jerusalem while they were deadly clashes going on in gaza. other members of the trump hating media also predictably chiming in, offering their displeasure about the u.s. embassy in jerusalem, will which so many other presidents promised and never delivered. tens of thousands of palestinians held angry demonstrations yesterday, furious after the u.s. embassy was moved to jerusalem. palestinians have been protesting here against their lack of freedom for weeks. but they are fury boiled over on monday when the u.s. embassy was officially moved to jerusalem with president trump s blessing. today there is a shock and sorrow and rage at that decision by president trump to move the embassy to jerusalem. it feels for the whole region like a fateful step. 55 people killed yesterday. 58. > 58. you had to split screen of what looked like a vip tent at the belmont stakes. they don t care. they just seemed totally oblivious to what was going on. when he announced to the move to the embassy, i said there will be blood b on his hands. not because he pulled the trigger, but because he destabilized the region, not having any clue about what he was doing. you cannot have peace and a peace process without palestinian involvement. you cannot have it. so if you choose a side and you say, this is what i m going to do, you re effectively saying, you are not going to work for peace. maybe they don t really want it. sean: time for a hannity tutorial. the media seems to have forgotten that those hamas inspired protesters that were hurling rocks and fire bombs at israeli soldiers, okay, this is the same hamas, they never report, that continues to call for the destruction of israel. oh, it s in their charter. they also pay the families of terrorists that literally kill israelis and inflict pain and suffering on the people of israel and americans come too. they use women and children as shields and hamas also receives support as thet world s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. they get support from cohen. here with reaction, and our atv contributor dan bongino and from the hill, dan joe concha. hamas charter calls for the destruction of israel. they were elected by the palestinians. they elected a terrorist organization supported by terrorists. the media is the propaganda arm here of hamas. it s disgusting. it makes me sick. sean, it s not a demonstration. it s not a protest when you show up with bombs. they were warned to stay away from the border fence and they decided to show up for the explosions. they were warned multiple times, anden then when the israelis engaged, to defend the border by the way, they established after they gave the land back to hama hamas, which they promptly used to shoot rockets into israel. they defended their borders. good for the israelis. the media should be ashamed and embarrassed. i m surprised it doesn t hamas doesn t have a desk in their newsroom. sean: i ve been to the gaza border. i ve been in the tunnels where theyy use is really cement and electricity, joe. i don t know many in the media that happened on that. i ve been to a town were 10,000 rockets were fired in ten years and kids can play outside. they have stronger playgrounds because there s not enough time from the border if the rocket is fired. 10,001 sued in three years. years. yet the daily news continues to be, ben shapiro said something similar, the propaganda arm for hamas. i have lived in new york city for a few decades and the new york daily news has always been seen as a joke to anybody who has objectivity and a brain. they were teetering on bankruptcy for years, and it t just leads to not only the fact that i know that media we say this many times is distrusted at record levels come on republicans, more than 90%. even among independents and democrats, a majority that don t that mistrusts the media. the problem is we are even out a loading stage of the media, like we have never seen before. blaming ivanka trump andha juxtaposing her with what is going on and gaza, as if she is smiling at death, it is pathetic and that s the only word i can apply here. sean: really well said. last word. sean, the israelis give the palestinians gaza back. they used it to launch rockets into israel. they told them, stay away from the border. they showed up with bombs. and how they are using the media to advance their own narrative. it s disgusting. sean: you both are so on target tonight. would we come back, rush limbaugh, incredible monologue exposingry the deep state forces that are trying to take down the president. also jesse watters, jessica tarlov, do not ever touch that dial, please, pretty please. baby boomers, it s hepatitis c. hep c can hide in the body for years without symptoms. left untreated it can lead to liver damage, even liver cancer. the only way to know if you have hep c is to ask your healthcare provider for the simple blood test. if you have hep c, it can be cured. for us, it s time to get tested. it s the only way to know for sure. firing squad, circular intel. if a they plant essentially what they want to be attributed to the trump administration, they planted in a peripheral trump foreign policy advisor, that may arrange a meeting for him with an australian ambassador who then hears this news, and we are off to thef races. none of it is real. none of it. and the collusion has fallen apart and the obstruction. there isn t any obstruction. the president cannot obstruct by doing his constitutional duties. so what we are left with here is look at the lengths to which these people have gone to prevent from winning and then after that, doing their best to get rid of him. sean: that was rushed on his show, rightly calling out fr corruption on the russia probe and explaining what this is really all about. thank god people. understand it. here with reaction, cohost of the five. he w has two shows. and the host of watters world , we live in it. jesse watters, and fox news contributor jessica tarlov. i will start with you tonight. rush is right. no. sean: tell jesse where he is wrong. i ll tell you both. he s wrong because the mueller probe is not over. anything you say after that is wrong. sean: come on. that is so unfair. there are 19 indictments, i know they are not no. the probe is focusing on three issue areas, russia collusion, obstruction of justice, and financial crimes. none of those have been settled. the only thing that trump obstructed was hillary getting into the white house. valerie had one mike, she would have fired comey on day one and we never would have heard about sean: the only obstruction was hillary getting in the white house. let me ask a question. mueller and i see certain companies, it turns out one wasn t even a company at the time. you never expect that would actually respond, and how they will have discovery, and i m predicting mueller would have to yank the indictments. okay, we ll go down to six, if my math is correct. sean: 13 will be gone. we had 19. 19 minus six sean: the drugs are talked about the 2005 tax case that had to do with ukraine, not russia,o squeeze and tighten the screws on manafort to turn on trump for a prosecution or impeachment, 2005 mueller has had more contact with russian oligarchs on trump. he had biased agents, peter strzok and lisa page. the rest of the team is all democrat donors. robert mueller himself is aer republican. rod rosenstein is a republican. he s a republican republican in name only. you don t even know what he is! he s a comey republican. he is not a republican. sean: you better swing back. this is the biggest debate win ever. you asked for food last week. trying to bribe the judge. is this in-n-out burger? it strict. it wouldn t have been good from thursday to today. sean: she got ten points back. > it s like 100 points plus 0 plus, i have never entered a chick-fil-a before. liberalsef hate their stuff. they said the chick-fil-a sauce is the right one. i m not feeling very confident about this. we must all come up for a hand signall for me. [laughter] sean: that was the best line ever. not even as great a sandwich can beat that. i went into chick-fil-a for the first time for you. it smelled good. they were delicious. you know what, she brought you a sandwich, let her win. give it to her. sean: okay. wait a minute, we don t give participation trophies. okay, i ll take the w. you give him conservative points every week. sean: as a person, it s jessica s world, but in terms of the debate, it s jesse, and you live at i had like 3 minutes. you can t do that to yourself. can weo go back to the probe? you really want to? speed when i got to go. it s over? sean: i m going to eat my sandwich. coming up, more on north korea s threats to cancel the summit with president trump. bret baier is next from special report. ok. who can beat the san francisco guy for governor? not the conservative guy, travis allen. what about this john cox? talks a big game. but what s he done? a chicago lawyer? huh? thirteen losing campaigns - seven in illinois? cox lost campaigns as a republican. and as a democrat. gave money to liberals. supported big tax increases. no wonder republicans say cox is unelectable in november. sanctions all work. take a listen. north korea best not to make any more threats to thee united states. they will be met with fire and fury, like the world has never seen. the united stateses has greatest strength and patience but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. this shouldn t be handled now but i i m going to handle it because we have to handle it. little rocket man, we are going to do it because we really have no choice. sean: what s amazing is the president s tough rhetoric towards north korea proves what ronald reagan spoke about in the 1980s concerning the evil empire, the soviet union, when he talked about peace through strength, trust but verify. watch this. there is one sign that the soviets can make that would be unmistakable. that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. general secretaryec gorbachev, f you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. sean: his own aides didn t want him to say those words. you can forget reagan s trust but verify approach towards the evil empire. take a look. we have listened to the wisdom and the old russian maxim, and i am sure that you are familiar with it. mr. general secretary, though my pronunciation may give you difficulty, the maximize [speaking russian] , trust but verify. sean: why this is significant, a brand-new book out, it say amazing. it s called three days in moscow: ronald reagan and the fall of the soviet empire. you know him well, the anchor of special report. bret baier. people say that we aren t friends. every newspaper has sections. and they have an editorial page. am i the editorial page? you are indeed. sean: and you are the news page. this is an amazing book because it is all a a to iran and north korea and the opening of the embassy in jerusalem. remember those times when reagan was speaking about the evil empire, the ash heap of history that communism would become aes joking at times, getting caught, the bombing will stop tomorrow, heads were exploding in washington at the time. sean: sound familiar? heads are exploding in washington. if june 12 holds on the summit in singapore happens, june 12th is historic. june 12th, 1987, is when reagan delivers the g brandenburg gate speech, tear down this wall, mr. gorbachev. and that changed the world. those summits on the connection of them. it changed our history. as possible. sean: look at what already the president without flying and cargo planes of cash and other currency like obama or clinton with the energy aid to kim jong un s father, kim jong il, this president talked to have come up at a military presence, also a relationship with the chinese president, and sanctions in place. didn t that really all contribute to kim jong un s decision here? i would think so. now the caveat is that north koreans don t have a great history living up to thes promises. so the president has said he s going to sit at the table and walk away if the deal is not right. sean:ay just like reykjavik. just like a wreck a bike. the really stark. some know my personalities are different. i don t know if reagan would like twitter. he did say those bold things that changed the paradigm. maybe the paradigm sean: they said that reagan was a california cowboy, that he would start world war iii, reaganomics would result in the collapse of the economy. 21 million new jobs were created. we doubled revenues to the federal government at head of the longest. mack of p s economic growth and history. do you see the similarities? i m no i m dragging into opinion but do you see similarities? i do. the last word of this book sean: i didn t get to that page yet. if you look at the words of big speeches of president trump, the speech in warsaw, poland, the speech in riyadh, the united nationsti speech, the ste of the union speech, they have phrases and terminology that you could actually hear reagan deliver. now i m not saying that president trump is president reagan. sean: very different personalities. but they have similar moments and challenges that they face. sean: peace through strength, trust but verify, tax cuts, now we have the trump tax cuts. originalist on the supreme court, securing the t border, i don t believe that this president is a nationalist populist, as some have said. i believe he is a reagan conservative. the things i mentioned, energy independence, all things that reagan believed in. am i wrong? you re not wrong. i also think there is a possibility that this president has the ability to reach out to democrats and make some deals that reagan would have made. sean: the book was fascinating. i m saying this not only is her friend, i really have always loved reagan. it s an amazing read and it is so relevant, ripped from today s headlines, so many similarities. great book. how much crap do you take for me being opinionated? on a scale from 1 to 10? sean: yes. may be a six. sean: tell everyone that you were news, i am opinion. every newspaper has a news section, sports section, hannity section. coming up, taking out an al qaeda terrorist. so i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle - without starting any conversations- -or paying any upcharges. what can i say? control suits me. go national. go like a pro. you don t have to say i m your best friend. that s okay. and i m the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it s great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i ve got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything s pretty much done. it s so much easier so now, we re ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get two months free.