as i said, this is now the 12th record in a row. [closing bell rings] last time we saw that, 30 years ago, january 20th of 1987. that is also a record for the s&p 500. the trump boost continues. of course the atlanta fed he predicted that the gdp for q1 will come in at 2.5%. so, david and melissa, decent news here. david: we have new record. melissa: there you go. whoo-hoo. the dow ending the day at at brand new high. 12th day in a row, most consecutive records in 30 years. one more and we make history. new close for the s&p 500 as well. all major averages ending higher. welcome, everyone, i'm melissa francis. david: it was 120 years, that's when the dow jones industrial average became the dji a, and tomorrow we may break that record for 120 years. we'll need lot more confetti.

glad you could join us on this obamacare with key governors and america's largest health insurers today. >> the new plan will be a great plan for the patients, for the people, and hopefully for the companies. be a very competitive plan. david: the president slamming past government squandering of taxpayer dollars, unveiling his new plans for his budget including an historic increase for defense. where all of that money will be coming from. melissa: the trump rally rolls on. another record close for the dow and s&p 500, but we didn't start the day that way. adam shapiro on the floor of the new york stock exchange. adam, who were the biggest winners today? >> the biggest winners are those that liked what they heard from president trump talking about the big infrastructure spending. caterpillar is up today.

they're driving the dow closer to 21,000. caterpillar, chevron was up. unitedhealthcare group hit all-time high as of boeing. boeing is all-time high what is it, four of the last trading sessions so they are on a tear. as you were saying this is the 12th straight record close. it is the most consecutive record close in 30 years. we're tied with '87. the 14th since president trump was inaugurated. melissa. melissa: wow, adam, good stuff. thank you. david? david: all the major indices trading back and forth but the bulls winning out. joining me fox news contributor steve cortez and liz peek of the "fiscal times." liz, we had charlie gasparino say it is about tax cuts. i agree with him and it is. so far we haven't heard the president except for here and there, put the hardcore press on the way he has done with the media. if he did the same thing for tax cuts as with the bad he will with the media, i don't think

there would be a doubt that market would be higher, do you? >> i think tax cuts are essential for this market going higher and earnings going higher. it makes tomorrow night's speech very, very important. again trump is going to the people. yes, he is speaking to the congress. this will be a much-watched address. if he lays out an agenda includes tax cuts and obamacare repair, it will be hard for congress to dig in their heels. it is complicated, we can't make it happen. david: steve, he has this terrific people to go above the heads of whether it is the mainstream media or intelligent is a or congress, dirtly to the pele, if his able to do that tomorrow, speak directly to the marketers, could he affect the markets in a very positive way? >> david, i think he could. i totally concur with liz. when he had the very contentious press conference couple years ago, the mainstream media was aghast because the room was contentious. i don't think he was speaking to

that room. he was speaking to the american people who happened to agree with him and don't trust the mainstream media. david: can he get people to buy into this market more than they already have? >> yes. to answer your question. tomorrow night he is not really speaking to congress. he will speak to the american people. you gave me a mandate to come here to change washington in consequential ways, not tinker around edges and part of that repealing obamacare and huge part is tax reform. if we deliver on both of those which i believe the administration will, that the stock market is anticipating. if he does that well tomorrow night which i hope and believe he will, i think the stock market actually flies from here. melissa: president trump meeting with ceos from the top u.s. health insurance providers today. giving them a chance to weigh in on fixing the policy that has been killing their bottom lines. fox business's blake burman is at the white house with the latest on this one. blake? reporter: melissa we've dean

drumbeat of ceos and today it was the health insurers turn. a dozen ceos came here and the biggest leaders of health insurance industry. among them, leaders of aetna, cigna, anthem. this is one of the main theme. this and the budget at white house, repealing and replacing the affordable care act is the first big ticket item that the white house is hoping to roll out hire in the up coming weeks. earlier today the president also met with the nation's governors as well. it was a big topic, obamacare then as well. take a listen to president trump on his promise, what he told insurers earlier today. >> i'm asking secretary price to work with you to stablize the insurance markets and to ensure a smooth transition to the new plan. the new plan will be a great plan for the patients, for the people and hopefully for the companies. costs will come down. i think the health care will go up very, very substantially

tortoriello so -- reporter: governors were here around health insurers around paul ryan and mitch mcconnell walked into a meeting with president trump. obamacare and the budget gets sorted out as president trump makes a big speech before congress. paul ryan was asked about entitlement reform and whether that might be in the budget, his response repealing and replacing obamacare is a form of entitlement reform. melissa: sure is. i hope they brought their scientific calculators there is a lot of math to be done, blake. thank you so much for that. steve and liz are back with us, speaking of the math this is what scares me, because you have insurance companies ceo's, they're losing money and getting out of different markets. but at the same time everybody out there in the audience says wait a second, my premiums are higher, deductibles are higher and i'm buying insurance not insuring me everything. that is a big mess when everyone

is losing money. how is it possible? >> having insurance coverage doesn't mean you have health care. if you can't afford the enormous deductions with obamacare you're not going to the doctor. that is where this plan fails. amazing to me the democrats are so absolutely dug in on protecting the affordable care act when they know it is not affordable. many of them campaigned against it, not only in 2016 but 2014. look the insurers have to be part of the solution. president trump spoke this morning with the governors and said look this has to come before tax reform. they're working through reconciliation approach to this issue. melissa: yeah. >> so, trump i think said something like it is very complicated. who knew? everyone really did know but it is now everything sort of hinges on getting this right and i'm delighted to see the leadership of congress in the white house today because he needs to lock

them in a room and say fix this. melissa: let's do this. >> yeah. melissa: steve the ideas floated so far is create a risk pool, creating everybody who is consuming the most health insurance, and directing federal funds at that. even if there aren't enough federal fund because that is expensive group of people, maybe we should reinsure that group, the same way with storm crises and that expensive stuff. what do you think about that? >> melissa, i think that makes a lot of sense. i will tell you as a veteran of the trump campaign, former spokesman for the campaign nothing did more in my opinion to get us elected was obamacare. the fact premiums came out in october. melissa: now tough deliver. >> literally just the sticker shock. helped get us in. now deliver. to your point, let's concede this, some people, not very many some people were helped by obamacare. kind of people you're talking about where lifetime limit is serious issue and preexisting

conditions are serious issue. thankfully that is relatively small group of people, if we take care of the people, i think we absolutely can, for rest of us it can look a lot like auto insurance. it doesn't have to be -- don't take my word for it. ceo of aetna is death cycle obamacare. we can break out of this and we will. melissa: all right. david: talk about the budget for a second. the white house unveiling the president's first budget proposal. president trump delivering on campaign promise to leave social security and medicare alone and caller for $54 billion increase in defense spending. that is a lot of money. peter barnes with the details. go ahead, peter. reporter: the president giving us a head's up a preview of his address to congress tomorrow night. not technically a state of the union. president's budget officials telling porters today that his spending blueprint will ask congress for $54 billion more in funding for the pentagon for

fiscal 2018 which begins this october. a 10% hike they say. >> my first budget will be submitted to the congress next month. this budget will be a public safety and national security budget. very much based on those two, with plenty of other things but very strong. it will include a historic increase in defense spending to rebuild the depleted military of the united states of america at a time we most need it. [applause] reporter: the president is trying to balance a lot of his campaign promise in his first budget. aides saying for more meant gone spending will be paid for cuts in discretionary spending like foreign aid. he confirmed he will not touch entitlement spending so cuts for social security and medicare. spending for veterans and law enforcement will be spared the enough as well. look for very deep cuts elsewhere in the government

likely double-digit cuts, david? david: question is how does he do it? peter, thank you very much. steve cortes, liz peek are next. the man responsible for the gritty details, paul winfrey. i'm sure you know. he is director of budget policy at omb he will put together the cuts. luckily he already did a blueprint for that when he worked for the heritage foundation. he put together a blueprint for $100 billion a savings a year. he has gone to each department and found a little ways to cut is. is $100 billion savings, if he uses the blueprint going to be enough. >> right, david i think it is enough as long as our economy start growing the way it can of the not static. we cut it from here. if our economy grows at 3, 4%, i think is absolutely possible with the regulatory reform already taking place, with tax reform that is going to happen. then its actually more than enough.

we have can have our cake and eat it too. david: that brings us full circle all the way back to the tax cuts. we need the tax cuts to grow, not only cuts, $100 billion is a lot of cuts a year, but we have $500 billion deficit. we need to cut a lot more than that or need to grow a lot more than that, and you need tax cuts. >> that historically happened. every time we cut taxes revenues increase against all expectations on the left. that is exactly what will happen here, if in fact we get this done. look, it is pretty hard to come up with $54 billion in tax, sorry in savings in the other part of the discretionary budget. but, there are plenty of places to look in a 4 trillion-dollar budget for cost savings. and for years now, everyone resisted idea we could federal spending. two things are in place. one we have president who really don't owe anyone anything. he can go after a lot of

cherished programs. things in the farm budget all of us wince about no one does anything about. and secondly, he is intent on doing it. so, i'm optimistic that they will find those places where they should cut. i wish they wouldn't take entitlement reform off the table because there are parts of social security like the disability program which clearly should be fon over with a fine-tooth comb. david: paul winfrey, who is going to be the guy to put together this thing for the chief of omb, director of omb, he already found $100 billion. it was $97 billion, how much he saved going through the budget every step of the way. again you will need more than that. even if you get $100 billion which is significant, you will need more than that, that is where the growth target comes in. you have to have a growth target. how committed to the president is going over the heads of congress and going overheads of people even in his own administration who may not believe in tax cuts? >> david, i think he is committed.

he will go to the mattresses on this to use a "godfather" term. he will fight to the death politically when it comes to this. he owes this to the american people. he must deliver it. you're exactly right by the way, the math doesn't work. we can't cut enough without touching entitlements. we can't cut enough to make the math work unless we start growing the way we should be growing. because of that, what he said on campaign trail, this president, i call him president promise keeper so far. he is keeping his promises. he is going to keep his promises on taxes. he has to. he will. we can grow again and then the math does work. >> david, i don't think there are too many people in this administration who don't believe in tax cuts. i think that would be kind of a definite hurdle can you -- david: there are some people who have said we need to get the budget balanced before we have the tax cuts. that is what concerns me, liz. that is the only thing. >> not happening. david: we have to leave it at that. thank you very much. great discussion. appreciate it. melissa: president trump preparing for one of the biggest

speeches of his presidency, his first address to the joint sessions of congress tomorrow night. more details on his topics come from the white house within the so what is he putting on the table? some answers coming up. melissa: press secretary sean spicer just responding to questions over the president's plan to add $54 billion to defense spending. some are saying that isn't enough. >> i would just suggest to you this is the first step in making sure we make the commitment to a military, especially through the sequester the last few years has not gotten funding it needs to get off of life-support.

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melissa: new strategy to defeat isis. defense secretary james mattis presenting a new draft to quote, radically defeat the terror group. a plan that could lead to more u.s. ground troops in syria. here is chris harmer, institute for study of war senior naval analyst. what do you think they're proposing? >> i don't know what they're proposing until they publicize that, probably not wise to comment on it other than to say over last three years we've been fighting isis using proxies and surrogates in iraq, particularly iraqi security forces. they have gradually done a better job to the int where isis lost a significant amount of territory in iraq. we think they will continue lose that territory. eventually isis as governing entity will fail. it will most probably morph back

into what it started out as transnational terrorist organization, like the al qaeda model but more dangerous. short term continuation of strategy in iraq. heavy on air power. heavy on precision-guided munitions. heavy on using iraqi security forces as proxy. in syria there is still not a clear way forward how to defeat isis. melissa: let me stop you there. syria is the real dicey spot. if we go in and dare partner with russia or assad, after what assad has done to his own people, even doing it in the name of defeating isis, it just, seems like it's, what would be the right approach there? >> well, so war makes very strange bedfellows. think back to world war ii, winston churchill said he would ally with the devil himself to defeat adolf hitler. western allies, great britain, north america, we allied with the soviet union in order to defeat nazi germany. you have some transactional

alliances out there possible. i think with syria that is probably a bridge too far because the assad regime in syria is listed as state sponsor of terror continuously since 1979. it is difficult for me how we would philosophically approach a al islands with syria and i don't think how that would help in the long term. melissa: news of the day, president trump defense spending increase to $54 billion. some say that is not enough. what do you think of that. >> holistically from 2010 to 2016, relevant certain years daughter, we lost 100 bill dollars out of the department of defense. the budget in 2016 was $100 billion less than 2010 but the missions the military was being given were not reduced at all. really we're talking about restoring some of the cuts, not growing. from year to year, yes, increase of $56 billion or whatever the

number turns out to be, longer year period restoring some of the cuts. look at the state of the military. yes it is easy to say we have a huge military budget. we do. we have the biggest, most capable military in the world. we're stretched a mile wide and inch deep. everywhere we go in the world, u.s. military is asked to do something for

s try reporting accurately and fairly. who do you think wins in this >>onald trump. because "the new york times" runs a left-wing, look the american people don't like their president attacked this way. "the new york times" runs this kind of, really underhanded, schneid attack on the president during the academy awards no less. talk about speaking to the choir when you're doing something like that. and the public sees that. donald trump, what that does justify donald trump. next time he slaps "new york times" on the head, people will remember this was the newspaper who took that shot at donald trump. david: the trump administration did slap a group of the media in the head last week, when they tried to exclude a group of people. of course the obama administration tried to do the same with fox news back about eight years ago.

the regular media got together and helped fox news against that attack. in this time, fox news is joining together with the media that was excluded from a particular presser last week. do you think that's the end of it? or is the trump administration trying to push the same way obama did? >> well, i think it is apples and oranges. i don't think you should equate fox news with cnn in this instance. fox news was not hostile to barack obama. fox news didn't run story after story after story on their mobile devices where i have counted up to eight anti-trump stories in a row. fox news didn't do that. cnn has been openly hostile to donald trump. so i think that the president has every right to say, if you're coming here as a reporter, you should report. if you're coming in here as the opposition part, you don't need to come here. i don't have a problem with what he did. david: brent bozell. great to see you, brent. appreciate you coming in. >> thank you, david.

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melissa: here we go again. a dozen straight days of records for the dow. it is the longest record streak in 30 years. if we get one more we're going to make history. the dow and s&p 500 both ending at new records. the dow now less than 200 points from 21,000 already, david. david: the house intelligence committee chairman deven nunes is denying there is any evidence of serious crimes with regard to contact between officials in the trump campaign and russian operatives. catherine herridge has all of the details surrounding this situation. a lot of situations, catherine. go ahead. reporter: thank you, david. just a short time ago on capitol hill we heard from the senior democrat on the house intelligence committee who said it was impossible to reach conclusions about the president's team and their contact with russian intelligence because he said lawmakers don't have the full picture. the house intelligence committee investigation has expanded beyond the president's close associates.

former trump campaign manager paul manafort, former political advisor roger stone and businessman jeff carter. the democratic congressman says the fbi does not routinely comment on pending investigations and then he singled out fbi director comey for his public statement last july about hillary clinton's emails. why the director recommended against prosecution. congressman said the fbi director set a precedent. this should apply to the trump administration. >> with respect to the clinton investigation that policy was departed from and violated in the extreme as we got closer to the election. so among other things i think it is in support for bureau to take a position. we can't talk about that. we can't talk about any investigation involving the trump campaign. that will not be sustainable. reporter: mentioned earlier today, republican congressman chairman of the house intelligence committee he has seen no evidence to support media reports there had been contact between trump's close associates, mr. trump's close associates, pardon me and russian intelligence. >> as of right now, as of right

now we have no evidence but we will continue to ask for evidence and continue to look for evidence, not only on three americans named in that story but any other american that has any contact with russian officials. reporter: reference to the "new york times" that first indicated that that there had been some contact between the three associates and russian intelligence and that was being scrutinized by the fbi, you can look for more on this tomorrow because we're going to have the confirmation hearing for director of national intelligence, head of the u.s. intelligence community. we can expect a lot of pointed questions about russia as well. david. david: we'll have more on this tomorrow in congress, many democrats are looking to rattle him during it, trolling him. among invitees, house minority leader pelosi she will bring an immigrant who could face deportation. jessica tarlov, and kirsten

haglund, conservative political commentator. jessica, trolling trump is a dangerous thing. you can get crushed in the undertow. is this a smart move? >> i think it's a smart move because i think that the democrat are at this point frankly desperate to continue to make their point that trump's travel ban and initial iteration was un-american and it was targeting muslim-americans. what i.c.e. is doing in terms of deportation is not business as usual. it was different how obama's policies work and would love to see him explode. the real challenge whether donald trump can read his teleprompter throughout the entire thing and not pay attention to what is going on around him. david: it is an -- melissa: it is an interesting question how he approaches it if he reads teleprompter and doesn't react to anything around him. that is not trumping or what he does, but at same time some would think a huge victory,

brought everyone up a big kumbayah moment. that would alienate his base. what should he do. >> if he in fact responds, base will cheer him on and democrats will love they provoked a response. melissa: great point. >> what will be so interesting here to see the memo that went around in circulation about his talking points, obamacare, taxes, regulation, that is all normal. however what was included about something about work place policies which ivanka trump is part of the roundtables with prime minister justin trudeau and woman in the workforce and human trafficking. these are areas that republicans and democrats can work together. democrats might look coming in for a fight, donald trump is saying hey, try to find common ground. that is not his normal style. that -- >> that memo was very bipaisan. when i read talking points, okay, there was emphasis consistently about all americans. was not saying this is about republicans or democrats, black, white, none of it. i am now the president of the united states of america.

i've got to get to work for them. i would say if he does talk about the work place issues, there are plenty of arguments against the plans that he has put out there, that ivanka played a critical role in, i think she is supposed to be the daughter, where it doesn't go far enough frankly. melissa: that is response, you're trying to do this but not enough. >> exactly. what the response is on everything. want to spend a trillion on infrastructure. what about two trillion. that will happen here. eventually americans will have to win out they want both sides to work together. donald trump was elected president. this is four years. >> at the end of the day also these democrats are posturing say we'll bring dreamers which president trump said they are not included in deportation. others they're bringing from very safe states. california, new york, new jersey. all states not necessarily in play come the 2018 midterms. some democrats know they have to play it safe politically. melissa: you say americans want everybody to work together. i'm not sure that is true on either side right now. president trump was elected by

people who were sick of the system, don't want him playing nicely with republicans much less democrats. democrats feel like right now the only thing to do is to resist. i'm actually not sure while it is logical to have people work together. i'm not sure that what either side wants and they lose but doing that. >> i'm not sure about that i have seen polling throughout the years and obama administration, overwhelming numbers americans want things to get done in washington. maybe if you phrased it in that way feels different than if you said please work with donald trump. polling is very complicated on phrasing. you can get it to say whatever you want. >> how it looks right? it can definitely look like both sides will be tough and stay strong in their convictions. what happens in those meetings behind closed doors a lot different how people posture in front of the media. >> best example, paul ryan and patty murray, got together on the budget during a time hugely

partisan and climactic, people were largely supportive of it, because things got done in washington. melissa: good ideas from both of you. fox business will have special coverage tomorrow night bringing president trump's speech to you live tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. eastern. david? david: some bipartisan action here in fox business. i like that. meanwhile the push to end leaks to the press is on. press secretary sean spicer cracking down on leaks that are coming out of the white house. new details on the efforts to find out who is responsible and how to stop the leaks. former u.s. attorney joe degeneva, once impanel ad grand jury on leaks. what to expect from president trump's first major congressional address tomorrow night. we'll ask the crisis management experts on what he should do.

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david: the white house is very

serious about cracking down on internal leaks. press secretary sean spicer looking into his own staff, checking their cell phones for any evidence of any leaks to the press. spicer firing back saying the white house is not looking into internal leaks. take a listen. >> is there internal leaks inquiry right now. >> not that i'm aware of. david: not that he is aware of. here is jodie genova, u.s. attorney and former federal prosecutor. what is your experience? >> i've investigated leaks from the federal government, from employees who had classified information. i've impaneled federal gra want to find out who leaked all the information about intercepts of signals intelligence involving the president and

other people, you have to impanel a grand jury. in those days when i was doing it, we had only telephone records. now you have phone records, cell records, emails. none of that email stuff existed back in the 1980s. david: you have great sense and personal experience wit. what is your sense now? is there enough smoke that a grand jury should be impaneled? >> there is no question that attorney general sessions should and may very well have already impanel ad grand jury to issue subpoenas to all the people who had access to those phone conversations. that would enconclude everybody from john brennan, ben rhodes, a host of other people. that is about, it is a relatively small number. you get them in for questioning. you put them in the grand jury. david: primarily, isn't not, the holdovers from the obama administration, right? >> right now that is exactly who would be the prime suspects in any investigation like this. david: all right. let's switch to what the leaks were about, that is if there was any connection between russia

and the trump administration. we had darrell issa, top republican, one of the senior members of the judiciary committee speaking about whether or not the february by is sufficient to investigate what is going on there. let's play the tape what darrell issa said. >> you can not have somebody, a friend of mine, jeff sessions who was on the campaign, who was an appointee. you are will need to use the special prosecutor's statute and office to take, not just to recuse -- david: so isis says you need a special prosecutor. you say? >> that is nonsense. first of all he says use special prosecutor statute. that statute was repealed 10 years ago. there is a regulation in the justice department that allows for the appointment of special counsel to investigate matters if there is a conflict of interest in the department of justice but right now, we don't have any evidence that any crimes have been committed. there is no reason to have a grand jury. the fbi is doing counterintelligence investigations of various intercepts but at this point,

according to published reports and everything we know, there is no evidence that anybody, anywhere in any country has committed a crime. certainly no americans have committed a crime involving anything we're aware of. no one in this administration, no one in the campaign. so calling for a special prosecutor is ludicrous. by the way if you're interested having a public discussion of it, you can't have that when there is special prosecutor, because everything is secret. david: everything is tied up for years, some of these cases. >> my, goodness, yes. david: joe, grade to see you. appreciate it. >> thank you, david. melissa: president trump still working with an incomplete cabinet. tonight he he is expected to get his commerce secretary wilbur ross. the senate voting to confirm him 7:00 p.m. tonight. they will move ahead in the confirmation process for ryan zinke to become secretary of the interior. might have for cabinet positions remain vacant after that. david: gee, taking a a long tim.

david: blockbuster blunder. the company responsible for the biggest mistake in oscar history. can they save their reputation, what is left of it? we'll ask the crisis management expert bruce turkel is coming next. ♪

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melissa: reputation at risk to say the least. pricewaterhousecoopers, the auditing company responsible for one of the biggest fiascoes in oscar history is in crisis mode after causing utter chaos at the academy awards. >> there is a mistake. "moonlight," you guys won best picture. "moonlight" won. >> this is not a joke. >> this is not a joke. i'm afraid they read the wrong thing. this is not a joke. "moonlight" has won best

picture. "moonlight.". melissa: i mean agonizes. can they salvage their reputation? only one man who can come in to fix a situation this much in crisis? that is brand management expert bruce turkel, turkel brands ceo. bruce, this is a doozy. drill down on the details, they're trying to blame one guy, name him in bunch of articles, standing on the sidelines with the envelope and handed the wrong envelope. they made such a bilge deal no one is allowed to touch the envelopes. they're under lock and key. rather than writing down the winners they memorize the winners so no one can cheat. with all that precision they crude up the thing that matters the most in the category everybody cares about the most. please help them, my friend. >> well, first of all, word to the wise. if you're going to screw up, don't do it on national television. melissa: right. >> but melissa, like we always talk about, when it happens, admit it, apologize, and prove

what you're going to do to make sure it wouldn't happen again. blaming someone, explaining you know what we always say, when you're explaining you're losing. stop it. apologize. fix it and move on. melissa: yeah. i mean i guess it was staggering to anyone who watched it, we all memorized their name. this is one of the branding problems. pricewaterhousecoopers, they make a big deal how they're safeguarding the envelope and blah, blah. like a commercial for them. of all the categories, you know, like the big one, at the very end, what a nightmare. let's move on to the next one that needs your help here. sticking to the message. president trump preparing to address a joint session of congress for the first time. so bruce, he is going to stand up and people, he will get trolled by the democrats. we talked about that earlier. they will bring some dreamers in. does he trump like trump or does he go out there and quote, unquote, be presidential? what should he do? >> well he is going to continue

what he has been doing along. bringing dreamers in no different when he brought women in debating hillary clinton. all these tricks have been tried before. the thing he does, you and i talk about this as well, we take about pick your lane, stay on message. but he doesn't do that. he keeps throwing out barbs and insults and subjects, half-truths. >> that is his brand. that's his brand. it is diversionary. >> always. melissa: he is throwing barbs to the side. media drive diving for it. and then over here he is doing something else. you're never talking about policy, he says the crowd was so big, oh, he said that, oh he is being mean to the media. talking about the media and they're not talking about policy. >> you said it perfectly on twitter. i read your feeds. potus talking about the media being incompetent jerks, no one is picking apart policy. that is exactly what he continues to do. when everything is important, nothing is important. melissa: so you think, stick to

your lane, go out and again just kind of troll the dems and throw out insults tomorrow night, that would be advice? >> afterwards, he is the president of everyone. let's face it everyone he has done to fire up his base and they respond in kind. melissa: bruce, thank you. appreciate your time. >> thank you, melissa. melissa: you have a crisis call bruce. that's it. that is only thing you can do. david: "usa today" put their finger on exactly the person responsible for the academy awards flub. check out the website. you might never hear the phrase you want fries with that at wendy's again. melissa: oh. ♪

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>> if you don't like human interaction while organized fast food, you're in luck. wendy's is installing 1,000 kiosks by the end of the year. >> i'm laughing, but this move

could be appealing to younger customers and cut down costs. if we have more of these doubling of minimum wages, you're going to have fewer people of hiring folks. >> that's why we have to get people into higher skilled jobs. >> bingo. >> risk and reward starts now. liz: we're just a day away from president trump's first speech to a joint session of congress congress as we bring you knew details tonight of democrats' plans to upstage and embarrass the president by inviting people to the speech they claim will be hurt by the president's policies. now, is this more misinformation. we're fact checking the democrats tonight. welcome to risk and reward. i'm elizabeth macdonald democrats many of whom skipped out on thenauguration they're now quote all in on embarrassing president trump tomorrow night. here's what's going on. they're allowed to invite guests to sit with them during