this issue of tax cut and tax reform, will we get anything this year? that's the subject of debate. that is what investors want to know. s that it from us. my colleague neil cavuto, sir, it's yours. neil: thank you very much, stuart. in the meantime, imagine that, imagine this, a president still warring with the media that he really doesn't trust on the same day we learn a pioneer who challenged that media has leftç this world. roger ailes, the founder of this place, and fox news, is latest and most personal of obituaries i have to report on in the news. now is not the time to refresh controversy. so much i don't know know as i really didn't know back then. i do know this for sure. whatever else you might think of the messenger, never doubt roger ailes's message. he forever changed the way you think of the media and what has become the sameness of the media. i was with him from the

beginning here at fox, among the first recruits from cnbc. i had a better toupee back then. i really entered the witness protection program. i had. i was part of a ragtag, deservedly unassuming team of journalists not remotely ready for prime time or anytime for that matter. our mission, roger's mission was simple, change the world. this was our only directive. be fair, be balanced. assume nothing. report everything. now as crazy as it might seem now, that was a pretty risky concept back then. assuming not everyone with money was evil or everyone who prayed was nuts, that capitalism certainly had the flaws offered far more opportunities, roger used to say being a good journalist and patriot was not compatible. forgetting they're linked is unthinkable. you can't have one without the other. he offered viewers both. soon they wanted no other. it was fox an only fox not just

for a few minutes a day. fox viewers had us on all day all the time. >> i had to launch fox news. we had no studios, control rooms, stars, programs or anything else. but we did have an idea, and we knew there was an audience and we knew how to do it. neil: did he say that he had no stars? anyway, anyway, he really did change the debate as revolutionized the country. that's why i leave with his passing today. the lasting enriching legacy that makes all other news seems like noise today because if you think about it, the populist who is raging in the white house today owes his very unlikely trajectory to the power that, well, roger ailes first unleashed more than two decades ago today. with me to ponder the significance, some of those early roger picks, including my friend brian kilmeade,

david asman, last but not least, ainsley earhardt. welcome to all of you. we'll read other statements coming out since his sad passing. you were remembering a lot of message he would have for you, right? explain that. >> when i came in to interview i already it was my birthday weekend. it was 2006 in september. i was so excited because roger was giving me a chance for all my dreams to come true, to move to new york to be at national level. i came with fox. i met with some executives. i wasn't re if i was getting job. you either have the feeling or you don't. i wasn't convinced. i had a meeting with roger. i walked into the office, he asked only questions about me. who were my leaders? who i wanted to look up to. i wanted to know about me and my family. i wanted to say roger, i'm meeting with a legend, i want to know about you. you might not hire me but tell me more about yourself and what advice for me but he wanted to know about me. that is what they say about

great leaders. they direct the conversation to the other person. so you walk out and you feel like you were loved. and he just had that effect on me. every time i met with him, he wanted to hear about me. he really cared about what was going on with my family. i remember when i was pregnant i got promoted. i worried about taking off so much times. four months. neil: kilmeade tried that. >> didn't work. i got a note. >> ainsley you will always be a part of the fox family. i will always take care of your family. neil: we always see things through prism of controversies last year. how could you look back brian. >> he pictured himself a blue-collar guy. when i write my biography which i will be on the cover with lunch box. he had a lunch box in ohio he flipped open almost in the 1950s movies. he always envisioned himself for the little guy.

he didn't believe it, iea before i got her, you are the message, for better or wors you're perfect example of this, if you don't like neil cavuto on television you will not like him in room life. you are the message. better for worse, be yourself on air i will back you. and he did because i don't know if you googled me i made a few mistakes. i don't want you to do that, david. i always thought one thing that is clear. i thought to myself how will he handle it if we become number one? we are used to be underdog. we came number one. nobody believes this. we don't believe they can stay here. the world is still against us. that motivated people. neil: he had a different view, seem almost silly to go what would be big thing espouses virtues of capitalism, that rich guys are not all evil, prayer is okay but back than that was a pretty weird thing. >> so that point, his opening line to people who came here from outside, i don't know if he gave it to you two, you're

taking on status quo. nobody will like you. if you want to be liked go somewhere else or, in roger's sense of humor, had a kind of sense of humor if you want to be liked die,ç when you're dead-en worst enemy will say nice things. sure enough this morning competitive channels were saying fulsome praise. neil: i couldn't believe it, yeah. >> the idea that you don't go into journalism, you don't start a television network with the idea of being liked by everybody and getting awards. we wanted to take on the status quo. we think there is something wrong. ol' phrase, speak truth to power. that power, status quo that controls most of theedia in the world, is from a different perspective. we're going to be fair and balanced. we'll present both sides. that is not done elsewhere e i have to say something personal. ainsley brought this to mind.

my wife had a stroke 13 years ago. i heard from you anding roger immediately after a stroke. he said, david who do you work for? i work for you, roger. i have tell you what to do. you stay in london, because she had it in britain. the you stay in london until your wife is well enough to come home. if that is month, a year, two years, you stay there. and, that attitude wasn't just toward on-air talent, camera people, tech insurance. he had the ability to make sure he would focus on people's problems and help them if he could. and that is something that particularly in light of what's happened over the past year been totally overlooked. neil: did that with everybody. i used think just me did it for. >> we know suzie a makeup artist here. >> great story. >> she was in the cleaning service here at fox. we all know the story. she was emptying his trash. she looked so beautiful. and he said, your makeup is so pretty, suzie. i want to a mcupartist.

he said you do? sit down and talk to me. they talked for a little while. i will send you to the best makeup school in new york. i will change yur fe now she make as real good salary and has children. neil: see diamonds in the rough, male, female, those who came from great schools, those who didn't, those came from very promising market, those who didn't. he would see great poe earnings. you were saying brian, touched me, i remember a idea, people find this hard to believe, you twice are exactly the same way you are off the air as you are on. >> better or worse. neil: we joked about that. we've been at places where, read the news. like whoa. but he didn't like that. >> that little thing is pretty much mocking way i deliver the news. that hurts my feelings. that is true. he is not natural. totally different. but, in the big picture he gave a lot of us great opportunities, look at bill o'reilly became this megastar. he wasn't when he got here. neil: not at all. >> sean hannity talked this

morning, one of the most successful people in all the media, nobody even knew who he was coming out a short time ago. people think because it has been 20 years it always has been that way. easy to take a star put him on the team but not easy to make a star to allow him to play his way. neil: he found something in everybody, the way you looked at business and he your life, your sense of humor. he has a quick wit. his wife is out with a statement. elizabeth ailes. i'm profoundly sad and heartbroken that my husband roger ailes passed away this morning surround by his beautiful family. he w my best friend and loving husbandndfather to our son chary. he was a loyal end friend to so many many. a patriot grateful to live in country that gave him opportunity to work hard, to work, to give rise and give back during a career that stretched over more than five decades.

his work in entertainment and politics and the news affected the lives of many millions. he devoted to them throughout all this stuff. you always think, with all the controversies that have developed since, that well, if any, it was all true, that would not be the case. >> he lived by one rule. this is something else i think that bled through the camera there into people's homes. he was so positive. even when bad things happened in his own life or in the country's life, he was so positive. neil: he dealt with a lot of illnesses. >> famously he said negative people make positive people sick. he would say that over and over again. neil: i was sick of hearing that. >> when we started the network, when he started the network he put the sign up because cnn, drawing a blank -- >> ted turner. >> ted turner said we'll schwab squash you like a bug, fox news. he put it up on big poster board down in the newsroom. neil: i remember that, rupert murdoch our ultimate boss put

out a statement. roger ailes a brilliant broadcaster. roger played a huge role shaping america's media over the past few years. he will be remembered by many of the people both sides of the camera we furtherterred. roger was a great patriot who never ceased fighting for his beliefs. 2 fox we'll always be enormously grateful for the great business he built. our thoughts and prayers are with his wife elizabeth and his son. >> can i say one thing about the business angle o this thing. when they started, nobody, not many people gave them a chance. that is when msnbc started. some other networks were starting back then. i was working, working for "the wall street journal" but i was also moonlighting working for john malone who had a little tv show. john malone is a great business leader. he canceled the show when he heard about fox news being started because he said those two guys, rupert murdoch and roger ailes are going to be unbeatable. you have the best deal maker in

best manager in the world, roger ailes. between the two of them they will knock out the competition. again it was several years before that happened but visionaries like john malone could see it was going to happen. >> people said wait a second he is genius what do you mean by that? the simplicity which he delivered things. most complex situations he would put a statement summarizing those situations in a way that makes you thought why didn't i think that? why haven't i been thinking it that way? seems to me if we're doing, if they're doing this, that is not where the country should be heading. why are we not bringing these questions? why are lawmakers not being asked these type of topics. you leave saying i'm an idiot. why didn't i think of that. he could take a complicated situation and knock it down to two or three sentences. neil: main people media, overworn phrase you would think they imitate their success. roger would famously said it wasn't in their dna to do that.

he would go at a business than make some adjustments or pivot to what was the vast majority of people in this country. >> they tried and they boiled it down into their narrow frame of reference which was, okay, there are more conservatives on fox. therefore if we put more conservatives on our network we'll be a successful as they. they tried that format and they didn't get it because what you were talking about, what we're all talking about, we're just who we are on camera. that came through. it was the notion, roger notion that you had to be you on camera for people to see through it if you're not. neil: always biased on the right, if you're biased on the left nobody cites that. >> what is sad about this whole story, roger influenced so many people. thousands of people are here in building. neil: that's right. >> he did all of this for all of us. he provided a college for my daughter. i will forever be grateful. i am sad to see the controversy that both of you have mentioned because sean hannity in his statement said, all have fallen

short, all have sinned, cast the first stone. we all know the scriptures. alec baldwin wrote on twitter, alec baldwin wrote this. don't dance on ailes's grave. he has children. all men come to the same end. we're forgiven. you can hate the sin but love the sinner. you have to already he was an individual, he was human, had his vices. and they came, they got the best of him. neil: we all do. >> people were hurt and might be watching. neil: we're not minimizing anything. >> no, we're not. >> there is reason why when you walk the hauls on 17 and 18 we get along. he picked the right type people. i'm listening to this. we're not all the same. i'm a lot nicer, better looking than everybody else here -- besides that -- >> we're humble. >> we're just humble. i don't display it often beuse there are no holes in me. we get along. what other group could put together, david asman, neil cavuto and geraldo rivera?

neil: i want to thank you all. very tough on a day like this. we should get the good out because it is out there. i will never forget. he and his wife providing opportunities for me because only in america as my dad used to say can i be on tv giving financial advice. is this a great country or what? roger ailes gone way too soon at 77. ok, let's call his agent. i'm coming over right now.

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neil: we're getting word multiple pedestrians struck by a car in times square. a vehicle drove against the traffic, on to the sidewalk striking pedestrians, right in the middle of times square. there are report of some injuries. that is all we know. this is live shot coming courtesy wabc. this car went the wrong way deliberately. then mowed down a number of people, up to a dozen. but again i can't confirm that number. if we find out anything more, we'll pass it along. meanile 're learning that the koch brotherses are learning that they don't want those tax cut opportunities to slip away. so they're putting their money, muscle and manpower behind an effort to keep people reminded of the fact, no matter what you think of the president, his

economic agenda, his tax cutting agenda is sound working through groups like americans for prosperity. leading the charge behind this new campaign. tim what is this all about? >> we want to make sure tax reform gets done if at all possible this year, neil. it is important for the economy. the trump plan is a good one. so we're announcing a multimillion-dollar effort. it will include digital media, broader advertising, grassroots. we have full-time staff. tens of thousands of volunteers in 36 states. neil, we want to keep focus much as possible on issues. no issue bigger than tax reform. neil: are you worried it could be slipping away? because even some republicans are saying if it slips back to late this year, god forbid next year, it is not happening? >> it is tougher to do in 28 teen an election year. it is important to note. in 1986, reagan at height of his powers, took over 300 days to get tax reform that year wrapped

up with congress. neil: very true. you're right about that. this is challenging issue. it can be done. republicans have high expectations from folks across this country who you put him in power. they have the outline of a good plan, neil. corporate rate cuts. simplification of the individual rates. we're committed to pushing merits of their plan and the economic growth it will surely bring. neil: to what? pushing merits of the plan through advertisinging is it what are you going to do? >> digital ads in key distributes members and move forward quickly on this. neil: gotcha. >> more broader television advertising. grassroots muscle. you've seen that element of our network for many years. we'll be urging them, let's clear aw some of the clutter. focus onse of tax reform which is the biggest opportunity to get this economy going again. neil: we'll watch closely. tim phillips, thanks for taking the time. >> you bet. neil: as tim and i were speaking want to update you what appears

to be a really bizarre incident in new york city's times square, so-called crossroads of the world, a driver going the wrong way plowed down number of pedestrians, 10 to a dozen. don't know much from that whether deliberate or not. we have a former nypd sergeant. manny, we know of one person in custody but do we know much more than that? >> neil, we believe it is a red honda accord, like you said there is somebody in custody. we don't know the motive yet or not too much about the person, but, there are numbers i'm on the street right now. numbers of vehicles, tow trucks, fire department, ems. they're all rushing to the san being this happened a few minutes ago. neil: now do we know, a lot of this area is cordoned off. they have big large dividers, big cement dividers fixed structures. you can't get past even if you want to. >> right. neil: there are probably pockets

where you can get around them. it is hard to be kind of accidentally going the wrong way, isn't it? >> absolutely. there is no accident about it. that being said, those big concrete blocks and other sorts of security measures are in place to protect the people in the pedestrian walkways. as you kno when you're crossing the street in times square, there could be dozens of people crossing the street simultaneously which makes for easy target for somebody that wants to -- [inaudible] neil: a lot of new yorkers, crossing a one-way street, larry look other way for example, yet quite a few fatalities are recorded in this city and other cities every year. so when you heard that this happened, you zoom to have your doubts about it being accidental? >> yeah, i didn't think it was an accident. i thought it was some sort of nefarious act. at very least being drunk or

intoxicated or worst fears copycat what is happening in europe. this just happened a few minutes ago. investigation is [inaudible]. actually looks like it was done with bad intentions. neil: all right. we are hearing from local fire officials that 13 patients were taken to area hospitals. i don't know their various conditions. you're right to point out, sergeant, i'm glad you reminded me, we saw in nice, france, we've seenç it in belgium and paris where they go into open-air places where people congregate. times square of course in this country in this city is obviously, you know a bull's-eye for that sort of thing. this will give people pause. the kind of thing invariably does. any advice from folks? >> to be careful, to be alert. vigilance is the order of the day. not only if you see something, say something, which is a phrase that we been saying for years in terms of abandoned packages,

suspicious people, et cetera, butbviously not crossing the street. of course a society that is always buried our hands in our mobile devices, et cetera, and if this is our worst fear which is terrorist act, we have to be careful for a copycat. and so, even if we're crossing the street we have to be vigilant, have to be aware of our surroundings. neil: well-said, good reminder all the time. no matter how often we hear it, as well as see something, say something. in this city almost anything you can see would warrant saying something. it is a good reminder. thank you, sergeant. >> thank you very much, neil. neil: all right. we'll have more after this.

neil: bring you up-to-date on incident that new york law enforcement are yet calling any sort of terror incident. these are live pictures coming in from times square.

reports of a pleading car that plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in times square. we're getting a report from the "new york post" at least one person was killed, another 10 maybe as 13 others injured. the driver is in police custody, but that t$ smoking vehicle, looks like a maroon honda wedged up against a poll on the sidewalk. photos showing pedestrians lying on the street. there are still some on the street now as a matter of fact. but this car did pick up speed, we're told before it jumped a number of barriers. you can see one it landed on, before it started, you know, hitting people. but obviously picking up speed. if this sound familiar to you, why this whole terroris thing comes up again, kind of same modus operandi play out in nice, france, more than a week ago, of course in belgium. we've seen variations play out in paris. former homicide detective rod wheeler on the phone with us

now. rod, what would you be looking for now to patch some of this together? >> exactly. good afternoon, to you, neil. the main thing right now, the main priority for law enforcement, trying to find out as much as they can that driver, who was that driver? who was his associates? what prompted him to do what he did? is this a medical emergency? we don't know that yet. these are several type of questions of law enforcement investigators are trying to determine now. was this a planned attack? was there any type of bomb or bomb-making material in the trunk of the car? were there any other vehicles staged around the area? those are types of things we would be looking for. we want to make sure there is no one working along with this person because we don't know yet obviously who is planning maybe a second follow-up attack. so those are kind of questions law enforcement is aggressively pursuing right now. neil: we do know that driver is

in custody or his even her condition. so i'm not going to get consistent read on their gender. but this does seem like kind of thing we've seen abroad but not that often here, unless it is accidental, someone you know who picks up speed or going the wrong way or someone with a heart attack behind the wheel and plows people down on sidewalks, that sadly has happened often enough in new york. so what are you looking for, you are there, arrive on the scene what do you look for? >> one of the fst questionss an investigator i would have for the eyewitnesses, in a case like this, neil, the eyewitnesses are going to be key, i want to know first, was this person trying to get away? once they did strike the other pedestrians? did the person stop the car eventually and get out to try to render assistance? those types of things i would be looking for. the primary goal right now is to find out as much information

about this individual, why did he do what he did, if it's a guy and whether or not there is anyone else, associates of his that could be working with him? and if that vehicle booby-trapped? i don't know, i don't have the tv in front of me but i don't know if they have the searched vehicle. that is kind of thing we would look for, extremely cautious in a situation like this, as time goes by, neil, the more we learn about this person, his or her motives we'll obviously have answers to these questions. neil: we're now hearing it was indeed an elderly man behind the wheel, taken into police custody, apparently alone in that car. what do you make of that? >> well, that goes back to what i initially said, was this a medical emergency? because we sometimes see that with seniors, for whatever reason, believe it or not these types of accidents occur more

with seniors. what happens their body weight falls on their foot and that causes the car to accelerate. when we first started chatting could this have been a medical emergency. you have to look at that but again you have to rule everything else out as well. neil: what is interesting, rod, you always indulge my fakization with markets, you always shake your head, i can't see you on the phone, interesting stocks recover a little bit, media reports, our own included, cbs, couple others, "new york post," this might not be connected to terrorism, that word got out this was elderly man, could be a medical related incident where he might have had an incident that prompted him to speed up or jump barriers and obviously plow through these individuals. it wasn't terrorism. stocks doubled what they had been doing. that tells you need to know about the times we live in, huh?

>> that is unfortunate. that is the reality. we know we're dealing with that these days. real quickly going back to the fact sounds like he could have been an elderly man with a medical emergency, like i said these types of accidents are not uncommon, and speeding up. if you recall earlier i said the guy tried to get away. if he tried to get away that could suggest something else. but doesn't sound like that was the case here. let's hope it wasn't a terrorist attack. but at the same time from law enforcement perspective we have to rule this out as we go along with the investigation. neil: rod, thank you very much. rod wheeler on this incident in new york that again, too soon to judge either way whether accident or terrorist-related. since this was elderly male might have had a medical incident to jump dividers. that is cordoned off in times square, virtually completely open to just passenger traffic. no vehicular traffic. they have these huge metal and

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it, how prewired we are to worries about this sort of stuff. looks like not the worry we thought. we have a relief, what do you think? >> right. neil, we hate to reduce every tragedy in the markets, there is interplay here, remember past terrorist attacks, particularly overseas, when we saw them, homegrown, san bernanadino, we didn't see market selloffs or volatility it off the event, we see some here, tell how anxiety filled the markets are, not terrorism broadly, but what is going on with the president, russian investigation, markets are really worried about the health of this country right now. which do have a special prosecutor. talking to congressional democrats and republicans, even

doing that in vegas, investors, investors, top investors are here, you know, they're relieved there is a special prosecutor that you know someone is in charge, and get to the bottom of what happened between president trump, general flynn, comey, firing, you name it, we're going to, at least there will be some sort of independent analysis of this. that said, markets and investors are rolly, really worried about the trump agenda right now whether it gets through. not only that, economic agenda of tax cuts and regulatory reform, not only that, is there an existential threat to his presidency? that is clearly what people are talking about right now. here and in washington, and the markets reflecting that sort of anxiety. everything is now, everything is getting looked at in the markets through prism of potential instability. if you talk to people here, a lot of people here would tell

you, these are top investors, mark mobius is here, you name it, topç guys, president pence would not be worst thing for investing. we would get some sanity, less tweeting. get some stability. that is what people are reflecting here. if something like that did happen, as you know he, we're a long way off. neil: right. >> you might get a relief rally. neil: what happened today, prior to this reported new york incident, that again does not appear to be terrorist-related, we're hearing from a number of news sources, cbs in new york, "new york post," "new york daily news," reporting at the scene do not think this is terrorism incident, that it was a case of an elderlily jent than who might have had a medical incident, flip flipped over some dividers, plowed into a crowd of better than a dozen, killed one person, injured three severely, but that

would not be a terrorism incident. prior to this, charlie, stocks moved up after futures were down in excess of 100 points. what happened? better than expected news out of walmart? a feeling that all right, trump might be in trouble, that a republican will still be in the white house? we're going to extremes here but what do you make of it? >> yeah. those are not extremes. that is exactly what is going on. plus steve mnuchin is on capitol hill. talking about tax cuts. neil: treasury secretary? >> treasury secretary. back to the agenda that gave us dow 21,000 were the tax cuts, regulatory reform and there seems to be at least the notion that okay, doubling down on fiscal agenda where there is some agreement on we need to get done for the economy. so that is why you saw somewhat of a relief rally. wasn't quite the relief rally that i'm sure, that white house wanted, neil.

up 50 points, after nearly 400 point decline, is not exactly that great. but it was a relief rally. at least, bounced off, futures bounced back. that's where we are right now. neil, the markets are on tenterhooks. every news item will move stocks. if you're a small investor i would not play the headline. have a long-term outlook. wait to see what comes out of washington with these tax cuts and regulatory reform, if nothing that is negative for the market. if something, that is huge positive for the market. comes down to pretty simple stuff. neil: all right, buddy. >> why you have us here. i'm a simpleton. neil: i said that many times. you know what's wild, this conference ended days ago but you're still in vague gas. i find that uncanny, we're still getting your business expenses. >> i came back from the craps tables. what can i tell you. put on a tie, now i'm here. neil: you're the best, buddy. charlie gasparino. very funny guy. sense of humor, with he need it these days, don't we?

a lot of republicans are looking for something to laugh at or something to ease their concerns that they're getting some panic attacks about their agenda, whether all of this fixation comey what he said, special counsel looking into this whole fbi russia miss. this could drag on like forever. and their agenda is gone like forever. the read from the head of rnc after this.

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republican national committee. very good to have you. the speaker is optimistic they're plowing forward, moving forward here. are you optimistic you can get done, do distractions delay the timetable? >> i'm absolutely optimistic that the president is laser focused on commitments he made to the american people. he knows people are hurting. they need jobs. they need wages to go up. they need washington to be fighting for them and speaker ryan spoke about that today. we will work together to get health care repealed and replaced, obamacare repealed and replaced. tax reform and infrastructure, we will not let distractions and witch-hunt and democrats and media put forward to distract us from the jobs we need to do for the american people. neil: i know you're certainly working hard. someone might want to relay it to the president, because when he came out with a tweet this morning, talking about the single greatest witch-hunt of a politician in american history, wasn't he leading that

distraction? >> no. he has been focused on american people since day one. he signed 26 pieces of legislation. 2executive orders. vice president pence 3world leaders -- neil: no doubt on any of that. obviously angry about escalating role in russian investigation. that wasn't run by him or his attorney general. and there are concerns here that is on agenda even to top him within his own ranks. what do you think? >> the american people want him to get his work done in washington. democrat do everything they can to obstruct that. put witch-hunt in place to distract politicians from getting meaningful health care reform, tax reform. i'll tell you what, time for republicans to rally around our president. we need to support our president. neil: what senator mccain says this is something of a scale ever watergate or justin amash

is saying, he had his druthers between trusting what comey is saying, white house is saying he trusts comey, what do you think is going on here? >> i say republicans need to rally around the president. they need to rally around our captain and leader of our party who millions of voters elected because they know he is coming to washington to fight for them. they should not get caught up in the distraction being put before them by the media and democrats. all they want to do is obstruct us and prevent us getting things done. when american people see us focus on policies and wages back to their states, and focusing on manufacturing, and on, building homes and all the things that we need to do as a country, they will recognize that republicans are here to fight for them. don't get distracted by what the democrats and media are trying to do. neil: a lot of both are focusing on comments apparently that house majority leader kevin

mccarthy made last summer he was just joking about vladmir putin paying off donald trump. but, they're not letting go of it. and many arenvinced it wasn't a joke. how do you feel aut the dust-up over that? >> it is a joke and they're pushing everything they can to try to prevent from republicans getting agenda passed to help the american people. he said it was a joke. democrats know it was a joke. the american people know it was a joke. democrats came to washington to obstruct and resist, anything from getting done. we have to keep focused why we're here. i'm from michigan. i know that people sent president trump here because they're hurting. the obama economy failed them. and they need meaningful change in their lives. and they are expecting this president and republican leadership to help them in states across this country. neil: all right. rona, very good catching up with you. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me, neil. neil: we're getting a few more

details on the incident in times square. bear with me on this. the nypd is investigating another incident passing along to our julie banderas, police were chasing someone committed a robbery, may have been intoxicated. the guy was trying to get away. notç 100% that in gotting away period or the chase that this elderly male was then hit a divider, flipped over the divider that crashed into a crowd. this might have have been in a police pursuit. he was driving northbound on 7th avenue. going the opposite way of traffic. that is when the vehicle crashed. this might have have been after a roby. and police were chasing him. wt they do seem to know for sure is, increasingly indicating for sure, as bizarre this might increasingly seem is not a terrorist incident but it was a weird one. more after this.

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neil: all right, he gets curiouser and curiouser what is happening in times square. one person that come up to 10 others injured. we do know that connell mcshane knows more than we know it you'll update us with what he knows. connell: i'm not sure about that come in meal. we are trying to piece together information on the scene for the last 20 minutes or so and have a chance to speak to a couple of live witnesses.

a couple things are emerging. number one, this vehicle that we see up on this site is in the heart of times square posted the 42nd street that we are. we've been pushed back by the police to about 47th st., four or five block away. we know the car was driving the wrong way on a one-way street of broadway and a number of witnesses sought as it crashed in two highly trafficked pedestrian area and struck a number of pedestrians as they did so after striking pedestrians, many of which were left lying on the ground. they started smoking or partially caught on fire. they thought the driver of that car or get out and get running. police officers tackling a man

wearing a backpack and running away from police and then was taken down by the police and prison taken into custody. i'm careful to tell you at this point we have no confirmation that the briefing as to whether his her recollection is accurate. we will be confirming some of those details. one person was killed. confirmed by a number of different sources. we will keep it going around here and talk to as many people as we possibly can. we are looking for information and if it was the same person moments ago who saw been tackled by police officers. neil: that could change the original story we were getting. connell mcshane, thank you very, very much. when it looked like and i stress look like this is my terrorism and tobacco stocks trending down suddenly reversed losses and

turn into about 41-point again, 42-point again to right now. a lot of that has to do with the notion of people thought we had yesterday, 372 points yesterday, the dow in about 2.5% and the nasdaq with a little bit of overkill that the president's agenda is not necessarily stymied. blake burman with the lates on how much of that is true. >> hi there,eil. incredibly interesting to follow the reaction from this white house to the special counsel that has been set up. it was first reported last night when this all came down. the president and his staff huddled in the oval office. top advisers put together this three sentence statement in which the president essentially said there was no collusion and he quote looks forward to the matter concluded quickly. earlier today the president took a knife to the statement with 22 east first thing in the morning to which it was vintage president johnson in the following thing quoting with all of the illegal packs that to

place in the clinton campaign and obama administration, there is never a special counsel appointed and then he goes on to right, this is the single greatest witch hunt as a politician in american history. you might remember the speech the president gave yesterday at the coast guard graduation ceremony in which he told the graduates that things aren't going your way, you got to put your head down and fight, fight, fight. it appears the president listened appears the president listened to his own advice when it came to the reaction of the special counsel. another story emerging out of the white house on this day relates to the press briefings. according to a senior white house official, get used to seeing fewer and fewer then. senior officials telling fox that not only might there be fewer and fewer of them, which is always the plan for the beginning not to necessarily have a daily press briefing as they are called, but also in the range meant, that being sarah huckbee standers in front of the camera mor

sean spicer, the current press secretary away from the camera more and more behind the scenes. as you now, when he was one of the top deputies at the republican national committee, he was more a behind-the-scenes guy come and strategy guide and his like are spicer returns to the role. you will see him in front of the camera, but we are also being told it is suspected of both more likely be more sarah huckabee standers going forward than sean spicer. trade today should make it like professional wrestling and have a new bill in -- i guess that's getting ahead of myself. thank you very much. not a professional wrestling fan. in the meantime, all the behind staff -- behind-the-scenes at this alluded to. secretary mnuchin on capitol hill. yesterday they were talking to democrats and republicans. let's get a read of what they want to do to gerri willis at the latest. reporter: that's right, neil. the president's tax reform front and center benefit for a big

topic. treasury secretary steve mnuchin. senator kristen holland of americans said the republicans are doing more to protect the wealthy benefit lower and middle income americans. take a listen. >> what it's been interesting about this health care debate is that you got this major tax change masquerading under the cover of health care. why is there a big tax cut in a health care bill? that tax was hurting investment and jobs in this country and again, that was part of the health care repeal. it flatly contradicts your statement is no absolute tax cuts for the upper class. as the black contradiction. >> lots of contentious exchanges just like that. mnuchin said they will have huge rewards for the tax plan because it strips away major deductions by the well-to

working out the details of the president's plan and that he expects treasury to come up with his own score of the impact on the economy. no relying on cbo here. responding to withering criticism, the network overseen by charles koch is launching a multimillion dollars campaign to drive the tax plan through congress. koch is congressional support for plans to overhaul the tax scores. one tax blueprint is still remember from last month includes plans to slash the corporate tax rate and simplify the tax code reduce the number of tax brackets for individuals from seven to three. as i toss it back to you, senator elizabeth warren got into a contentious exchange over glass-steagall. she favors of course breaking up the investment banks from conventional banks and of course the treasury secretary not a big

fan of that. neil: office of the same time and thank you very much. we are learning from sort of like the chief counsel on the whole mess to get to the bottom. you know the whole scores here. he's a stickler for detail and taking his time. what's the fallout from not to rasmussen political analyst at "the wall street journal." glenn hall and rose cliff, ceo managing partner mike murphy. amy, a lot of time could mean in the city where it often is difficult to walk and chew gum at the same time. even i tried it here but that is going to delay action. >> at may. two of my former colleagues, bill hoagland quoted in "the new york times" saying look, you can only take so much pressure before things really start to slow down. washington is about political capital. there are two forces working against each other as the investigation stops political capital, slows down legislation.

i would warn republicans that passing legislation builds political capital. they need to move forward and paul graham said he intends to do so. neil: it apparently took ronald reagan 300 days from idea to execution to passage to get the second big tax cut, the big one and 86 block. he was a popular president. this one is not. he also had a coalition to work with. this one does not yet. it could change. what are you hearing? >> the challenges are great. he's got to work with congress and working on taxes at the same time with all of these other distractions around him. i nowpeak orrite nthing is going to press ahead in the legislative branch w continue. the president's team needs to get on their message and focus driving the message home. >> that is if they had it to get it home. >> at the point. if you look at the market has

reacted, after a big run-up to all-time highs, they are the selloff yesterday. they got a little bit nasty towards the end of the day. today you are seeing the nasdaq, the big leaders where there is growth starting to rebound. neil: what if they don't get this? we built an assumption that we'll get this by the end of the year. >> i think the market can begin to selloff. a 10%, possibly 50% correction in the market. i look at it and say it's too early to make the assumption. right now we're going to get a rate hike in june. as glenn mentions, we are going to get the president and his team back on point. if we get data, earnings -- neil: i don't know. that might be -- >> you know, the tweets have been changed. neil: i catch you in the morning a lot. he does get distracted. i don't mean that to the disparaging the president, but he gets in his own way. >> for sure. it's about people shooting at

him that he doesn't need any self-inflicted wounds. the streets have caused problems. >> i would say slow it down. you want to go over the media and in a message out to the masses. taking shots at people i don't think it's been anywhere. >> if my family didn't have that, we'd have nothing. does you rethink certain a bipartisan, but he's going to have problem with his own party where there is a lot of wiggle room. mitch mcconnell argues keeping the revenue mutual. some people building to die. others like john mccain who have been saying this whole thing with comey is the scale of watergate, there's not a lot of wiggle room for more support. >> way. politicians are going to put their finger to the wind to see

whether it's blowing and it helps them in their reelection chances to be supportive of the president were to slow it down. we saw that mitch mcconnell of the senate majority leader but a bit pessimistic about moving forward on the tax agenda. i wonder if there wasn't some irrational exuberance when it comes to the stock market but they were betting on and thinking on. neil: even yesterday they reversed the draw. >> absolutely. there is still the hope out there. one thing we haven't talked about is the helpful has to get through the senate. a total of their political capital that needs to be spent. the 52 majority is not enough. neil: you think that was the crucible to die on because it looks like they are going to start from scratch in the senate. without even touching the tax. >> that was a tough call starting with health care. where does this leave? >> it takes a lot of energy and momentum out of getting tax reform plan because they got to

get one or others. culture is further along, but also a tougher battle in the senate. >> we have this conversation a lot. the administration just got rolling. mr. tromsø on postal or -- poster wrote a review saying the republicans should tackle economic issues, taxes, cutting taxes to build a political capital for the build up momentum, to infrastructure to by pricing by an. >> president trump came into a really tough situation. he was going to drain the swamp. he was going after republicans than democrats. the fact that we are here and the economy, forget about stock market or second. this improved growth, not the 2% we've seen over the last eight years. we have housing. neil: wal-mart is beating estimates of amazon.

industrial production surprises, maybe you could make an argument. i don't agree with that. what is the rush? >> to spur the economy a little bit more and as paul ryan mentioned yesterday to rewrite a code that's been out there for 30 plus years to simplify that would help rich, poor, black him away. neil: it isn't done this year. it's next to impossible next year. >> it gets harder when you have midterms in there. and the hard-fought election battle. he gets much more difficult. >> we also are seen regulatory reform which is obviously a great start to the economy and something that people are cheering. neil: do when you do worry about is set the expectation that do trump will stabilize? i thought to a prominent democrat who said we don't want to go rushing en masse because the prospect of president penn could complicate things for us.

isn't that crazy? >> i don't see that being a complication. it's getting way ahead of it. >> it's hard to go there. >> i don't think any republicans want an impeached president. >> sooner that it happens, god forbid it happens rather than the midterms. >> i think it's a little too early to be going down that road. >> democrats are jumping the gun on this. [inaudible] they would not have a country. >> mcclatchy just reported they are putting together focus groups to find out if this is good or bad for the democratic party. >> i feel as if they've been trying to scalp of president trump and now this really caught some traction. people seem to have latched in

and now they are running with it. >> challenge race here is you've got all of these investigations going on and they will continue and they will be there for a long time to come. at this point we have not seen any charges brought forward to anyone so far. neil: think of thi the appointntas an event run by jeff sessions of the president. >> jeff sessions was recused. >> i understand. >> resisting public politics politics had gotten 25. the agency at doj would have revocation of damage and he felt he had to do something. neil: we will see. guys come in thank you very, very much. we have a lot more coming up here. more details. 19 injured in times square. one that. they are still saying this might've been a case of a failed

robbery attempt in the guy was running away. and then, pop some dividers, got caught if you can see there. the whole time square surrounded by these things. and that is what happened. they are saying not a terrorism incident that doesn't mitigate what was done. maybe just provide the latest update. more after this. you always pay

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neil: i don't know if you've been following the headlines in general media coverage for the special counsel on this whole fbi investigation about who knew what and when the trump campaign and the russians come et cetera. a lot of people saying it will saying it would lead tolcers of revelations and democrats and the mainstrea media going so far as using the i word, impeachment. i want to get a read on this and what it does mean when we have the council getting involved in this system. the prosecutor may be systematic to the former director bill gavin at the fbi. what does this mean? why discretion to get what he wants from whom he once even if it all the way up to the president? >> easter egg dyes, neil. the political momentum to an

appointee was overtaken -- overtook normal facts and conclusions as you should reach with the normal investigation by the professional people in the fbi. bob is the exact candidate for this job. he's independent. he is the longest ranking fbi director other than jay edgar hoover. he did 12 years. they had to go to congress to get an authorized to do beyond his tenure turn. silly as a a whole bunch of experience in doing this kind of work in terms of credibility. maybe, just maybe it will take some of the political hysteria and return washington to what washington should be about. bob is an outstanding candidate. i think the basic part in the good part about this is the fact that you are not going to hear what he is doing, when he is doing that, how he is doing it.

that's been a problem in the past. tiny leaks about what has gone on and what hasn't gone on has been a problem. they won't be a problem with bob mueller. he can only get out for people above him. of all get out to him with the staff he has to work with. neil: but. neil: but that includes ben, bill, investigating the charge that comey had a memo that the president was trying to get him to back off? >> i don't know if that's going to fit into this equation. i'm sure that it will come up, but there are other entities trying to get ahold of the member rate now. we'll have to see how that plays out. it's not going to come out through bob mueller. that just won't have been. neil: how long do you think this whole thing takes? >> that's a real head scratcher. i just don't know. it'll take as long as it has to take for bob to be convinced that he's arrived at the right

conclusion and hopefully, just hopefully both sides of the aisle will agree with whatever conclusion comes out of this and there will the name calling. neil: i think there will, though. that's why was asking. i know how it went certainly when it comey. when it's information that's harmful to hillary clinton, republicans. they love you and then whenever versus they hate you and the democrats start liking it. someone is going to be ticked off here. he'soing to need irrefutable documentation. but then it got to reveal that. or does he? >> it's absolutely true. somewhere along the line, there will be a revelation, maybe not in all the detail that he found, but enough to convince the public. going back to somebody is going to get their feelings hurt and we will take a different point of view.

but when you have a number of people, particularly the minority leader in the senate saying this is the right guy, it is real hard to turn your back if he comes out with another decision. neil: we do have this thing called tape. the fact that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein didn't give the administration a heads up, i can see jeff sessions from the attorney general supposedly recused himself from all of this. do you read anything into that? >> no. the president is kind of the object of the inquiry to begin with. there's no reason to go to them. as you say, the attorney general's recused themselves. rob rosen is in a tough position, but it's a tough guy that can handle this. i think he's done the right thing even though it goes against what has been done in the past in a situation like this. as i said, clinical events have

overtaken common than in what we actually know. neil: you are right about that. though gavin, former fbi u.s. assistant director. >> my pleasure. il: savvy as we've been reporting, the guy who got this place going, fox news up and going, roger ailes died. we remember him well. >> how much of "nightline" in the problems for the problem of not getting fair and balanced. >> to be taken in national poll, the american people will tell you they don't think the news is all that fair and balanced. you seem to think we are and we are doing quite well because of it. they believe that's it. in the end, the consumer decide in the watch what they want to watch because they believe in it. neil: roger ailes is gone and 77. he died this morning. about of the controversies and things you've heard over the past year, the fact of the

matter is that he single-handedly change the landscape of tv news from reporting things one way and only one way to entertaining possibilities that capitalism not necessarily being dead or priest not necessarily being. those who pray not necessarily being freaks. that type of coverage started with roger ailes and rupert murdoch. roger ailes gone and 77.

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pedestrians gathered there. what we're learning according to information from police sources the nypd has a man in custody a 26-year-old here in new york. a name of richard rojas. has at least two priors. both for dwi, one in 2008 we're told. another in 2015 i believe. we're waiting for more details to be filled in at a news conference he which the mayor of new york city will be among  along with police commissioner jimmy o'neill taking a place a few blocks from here any minute. this works right along with what eyewitnesses telling us on the scene after a short time this incident took place, told us, one man i spoke to a few moments ago was walking into times square with his father. he saw the car driving right in the middle of times square, for whatever reason suddenly veered into such a heavily trafficked pedestrian area. he saw that car strike a number of pedestrians, many of them

going down in a heap. he and his dad ran over to see what they could do. there was not much they could do, police, so many are stationed here in and around times square, mitt town south precinct were so quick on the scene, just left. what he did say a short time later he saw a gentleman in handcuffs being taken away by the police taken into custody. a woman from the united kingdom when we spoke to earlier when we arrived, described pretty much the same thing, a man running from the scene in her description, a man caught by police taken into handcuffs. it is our working assumption that is the man identify by police sources as 26-year-old richard rojas. if that is correct, his driving today caused the death of one and injuries of 19 others. we're moved significant number of blocks from the scene. i'm standing on broadway where the incident took place but 47, and 48th street. the car you're looking up on its side is on 45th street

thereabouts. the police sources told us reason for that as abundance of caution. they're not sure what is in the car. they're worried about any devices may or may not be attached to it. until they're able to clear the scene, they're moving us media and pedestrians that make times square one of the busiest places in the world back from the scene. that is what they're doing right now. neil: connell mcshane is in very busy times square. we're getting a news after us air strikes hitting pro-assad you forces in syria. that is not necessarily to mean syrian army members, but according to a senior u.s. defense official per our jennifer griffin the pro-heir strikes targeted -- this was a show of force to try to stop regime forces that was ignored earlier, and they upped the ante a little bit, coalition commander at the site had said this is well-established deconfliction zone that we are

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you shouldn't be here. we concentrate on health care and move to tax reform and pro-growth tax reform. things that allow people to look at our economy, robust and dynamic, we'll get people back to work. they will have higher wages, more importantly than anything else, we'll compete globally, that is where the market is. you have to the highest tax rate and more regulations you can possibly shake a stick at, you better look what is holding you back. neil: are you troubled about the fixation fbi stuff and comey stuff all that? >> no, relentless pursuit of the president by the left. we'll continue to see this. only thing that bothers me if we take our eye off the ball, think that is the most important thing we have to face today, it is not. it is economy that never recovered. working families have never ever reached where they should reach. they have ha declining incomes for so many years. concentrate taking care of people that sent us here to fix it. that is why they elected trump trump they didn't elect him because of some possible fbi investigation.

they elected him because they thought he was answer to make the economy better and do it quickly and that's what we'll concentrate on. neil: were you surprised after the president, not tweeting for a little while this morning said, the single greatest witch-hunt of a politician in american history, that he might have maybe deliberately, inadvertently extended this sort of distraction. >> no, i don't think so. this is a president who is private sector guy. i know back home where i'm at, if somebody punches you hit them twice as hard. for him, it's a distraction from what his mission is. he knows what his mission is. it is hard to sit back and take that okay, i will brush it off. here is what i think. we concentrate on improving our economy. again a dynamic, robust economy will get us our focus back on what is the most important thing for the american people because it funds everything, neil. every single program, rebuilds our defense and rebuilds our ability to go ahead to keep commitments to our friends and allies around the world. that is the most important thing we can do. neil: yesterday, sir, i know, gary cohn, national economic

council chair and treasury secretary mnuchin were up on capitol hill meeting, you were part of the groups of the tax cut strategy. a number of democrats there as well. do you envision democrats will be part of this attempt to overhaul the tax code? >> if we're concentrating on policy and not politics, yes. if we'll use this as way to bash each other no. my commitment is to, quite frankly listen to the people of pennsylvania's third congressional district. there are 705,687 of them. if i can't work for them, do the right things for them they shouldn't send me back here. i would caution all my colleagues do what we were sent to do, get this economy back on track and let's see if people's raises rise again. that is what fixes everything. we have to concentrate on that. we can't be distracted a by a political message that continues to divide us. that is the worst thing we can do as elected representatives of our people. neil: there does seem to be a little bit of a difference

between our house colleagues, congressman, and in the senate where mitch mcconnell has made it clear that he wants whatever you guys come up with to be revenue neutral, tax cuts to be revenue neutral. some interpreted that as change in position. he always had that his staff tells me but it worries some that the prime the pump thing that the president talks about with the economists isn't there. that the tax cuts by definition can't be that big because, they wouldn't be revenue neutral. what do you say? and i talked about this before. if which don't have a turnaround plan, we have to have a plan shows going forward it is okay to be in a deficit position for a while but not forever. this year we'll have the greatest revenues we ever had. we'll not even be able to smell the fact we can pay for what we're spending there. is something wrong with that i look what already happened. when president bush left office we were in 10 there will trillion dollars in debt. when president obama left as, we're $20 trillion int. my question what was the money

spent for? was it spent on infrastructure and getting us back on world stage and done tax reform in 2009 and 2010, wanted to boost the economy, could have done it. they concentrated on health care and they stopped there. this is myç commitment. my commitment to every single person in pennsylvania's third district, people around our country, it is up to this congress right now to work with people on both sides of the aisle to fix a broken tax code for all of them, not just corporate people by the way, but individuals. that is our mission. we have to stay focused on that. if we allow any distractions to come in the way, shame on us. if you know where you're going, better yet if you don't know where you're going any road will get you there. we know where we're going and the route to get us there. it is getting tax reform and stopping regulation and getting our people to work. it is terrible we allowed to have happen to middle income people an lower income people it is so stagnant for so long it is not fair for them. neil: congressman, thank you for taking the time. we appreciate it. >> thank you, neil. neil: we always hear about a shake-up in the white house, it

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neil: all right, you never know about these things. no planned white house press conference today. no briefing pranned today. what we will see president with leader of colombia, taking questions at joint event closer to 4:00 p.m. eastern time. this shake-up talk continues it might be a top to bottom shake-up of the senior staff. but will that do the trick? reaction from "politico" playbook, anna palmer. our own charlie gasparino still allegedly been on assignment in las vegas. anna, to you, whether a shake-up in the press office will do the trick or add discipline to the press message, what do you think? >> there have been rumblings about a potential shake up past several weeks t has gotten a little more louder in the last couple days, particularly looking at sean spicer whether or not he will continue at podium. the big question, even if there is a staff shake-up, it is principal is not going to have a

more disciplined, meaning if president trump will not be more disciplined, it doesn't really matter necessarily if it is a shifting ofç the deck chairs. neil: what do you think of that, charlie? all seemed well and good with the muller appointment. they released a statement that was tame enough. then the president follows up i with a tweet this mning. single greatest witch-hunt of a politician in american history. what do you think? >> hard to put that genie back in the bottle this is completely undisciplined president, unmoored. he basically, listen, i will tell you this, someone who covered white-collar crime, the last thing you do if you're the target of an investigation, obviously he is under scrutiny. i don't know if he is the target but one of many, his actions are part of this scrutiny, you last thing you do is start attacking the prosecutor. it never ends well. that is one thing of the other thing is this.

let's be real clear. this white house is dysfunctional because the president chose it to be dysfunctional. he has a management style that, you know, is sort of like antithesis what you're supposedd to do and major corporations do. neil: that is what got him elected, charlie. maybe it doesn't serve him well as president but it come him here? >> well, i don't think so. i think got him to be president last three weeks relentlessly focused listening to steve bannon and craig bossy and kellyanne conway focusing on states. he needs a real chief of staff, not just reince priebus with a names. you need somebody to direct traffic in there tell them what to do. i don't think donald trump will listen to anybody. he doesn't want that. he wants a degree of confusion where everybody fights each other. that is what he thinks management should b fighting each oth and best ideas come out. nei anna, you hear that from

all these, you know pundits, he has got to change. but can he change? what is your sense about that, anna? >> hard to see him changing. donald trump got to be in the white house by being donald trump, communicating directly with supporters on twitter. he thinks his best messenger, when he is given a grade how they have done so far, giving a press shop, a c, c-minus. i think he feels like he does a good job but the rest of his team isn't up to the task. the question is really going to be though, can he have reset moment on foreign trip? can they move on constant prodding on the russia, trump collusion or relationship and actually try to get some of this stuff done on health care, on tax reform, other things? there are major issues right now are completely by the wayside because all the oxygen on capitol hill is taken up by trump and russia. neil: what do you think, charlie?

because that same focus, when you talk to a lot of these meetings are still occurring in the background. mnuchin on capitol hill today, yesterday, with gary cohn, meeting with groups including democrats. so they seem to think full speed ahead. what do you think? >> well, they got to try to be full speed ahead because they have to try to change the narrative too. that is political necessity. maybe that is a good thing. but i will tell you this, there is desional aspect to donald trump here. here is t delusional aspect, somehow, what he is doing is good, tweeting, crazy stuff, all these big agenda items and somehow it is sean spicer's fault. i mean that is delusion. it gets back to the point that donald doesn't listen to anybody. nobody can tell donald what to do. his kids, a lot of people say ivanka can tell him what to do. that is baloney. jared kushner can't tell him what to do. you need someone to sit you

down, x, y, z. most good presidents listen to others and don't go off. neil: democrats are salivating all of this, politics after you will, this getting overkill. i want you to react and talking mentioning the "i" word. take a listen. >> i think this will put us a little further on our way what i've been calling for so long, that is impeachment. >> it may well produce impeachment proceedings although we're very far from that possibility. >> i rise today, mr. speaker, to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america. neil: you know, there is separate report out that democrats have been doing polling how pursuing impeachment or even mentioning it affects the party. republicans seized on news, you're more worried how it looks for you as a party than the nation. where is this going?

>> this is all politics at some point, right? neil: right. >> people looking to get reelected, if you're democrats trying to ke back control of either chamber. there is frostiness in terms of exciment and energy that democrats are putting towards impeachment but you have had, what is kind of interesting you had nancy pelosi, leader of the house democrats say, pump the brakes here on the impeachment talk. this is not the time for that right now. so i think this is going to be something you're going to see push-pull. but democrats see this as winning issue for them. they want with russia and trump, collusion in the headlines as much as possible and as long as possible. neil: got to watch it. republicans suffered fate with bill clinton and came back to bite their hieny. >> if democrats control the house, i get this from house republicans there are likely to move forward with some sort of impeachment. neil: no doubt. >> they have to get the house. there is no doubt about that. neil: we'll see what happens

guys. thank you both, very, very much. we're getting word the president will move little earlier apparently joint presser is with the colombia president. scheduled for 3:45 eastern time. closest thing to taking questions from the press we'll get. no planned briefing today. just this joint opportunity for the president to no doubt get picked apart on, well the comey stuff and now the specialç counselor stuff. a lot of stuff, after this. [vo] when it comes to investing, looking from a fresh perspective can make all the difference. it can provide what we call an unlock: a realization that often reveals a better path forward. at wells fargo, it's our expertise in finding this kind of insight that has lead us to become one of the largest investment and wealth management firms in the country. discover how we can help find your unlock.

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>> i love fox news. i understand where it fits in the world. and i want it to continue forever, and i want it to grow and be strong >> but you have no near term plans >> well, my near term plans are to put my competitor out of business completely neil: gotcha. >> so i get up every day figuring this is how we're going to do this, and i don't think about anything else. so, no, and i wouldn't recommend anybody for the job that didn't think that way. neil: the take no prisoners life of roger ailes, the founder of this network, the founder of fox news. gone. no less than george h.w. bush tweeting he wasn't perfect but roger ailes was my friend, and i loved him. not sure i would have been president without his loyal talent and great help. rest in peace. that is a collection of the reads you've had, whatever the controversies and questions over the last year, the fact of the matter is that roger

ailes changed the landscape of tv news as we know it. bean with hi not a left or right thing. just what are we leaving out thing? he got it then. rupert murdock got it then. the rest is history. roger ailes, dead. >> president trump will be addressing the media in a short while from now. this will be the first time the president comes face to face with reporters after news broke he allegedly asked james comey to end an investigation into michael flynn. let's take a look at these markets right now. you can see recovering after yesterday's losses. dow up 55 points nearly, s&p th. i am trish regan. welcome, everyone, to the intelligence report. we've got a whole lot going on. the news conference coming as the department appoints former fbi director robert muller as special counsel to oversee the russia investigation. president trump quickly firing back saying this