forward. >> great to see you matt roddey of rockland trust. guys you're witnessing history not just for the dow here but mostly there. the largest number of record closes in a single calendar year at 70 but all these indexes, they've all hit new record highs >> history is made on wall street the dow closing in a brand new record high for the 70th time this year. and the year ain't over this is the most record closes for the dow in a single year ever. stocks soaring across-the-board today of course the hope was that we are going to get a big fat juicy beautiful tax cut. that's what raised the value of stocks so much today we're glad you could join us i'm david asman. melissa: i'm melissa francis, first here is what else we are covering in this very busy hour. the fbi and the ntsb are on the ground investigating the cause of this deadly train derailment in washington state.

at least six people are dead after several cars derailed falling on to a freeway in the inaugural runoff a new high speed amtrak route. the washington governor declaring a state of emergency we have a lot more on this ahead and it's a critical week for the white house and republican lawmakers as they inch toward their first legislative win the senate in session the house rules committee meeting in about an hour to setup the final house vote on the tax bill tomorrow. we are going to tell you where things stand right now. and protecting the american people our homeland and our way of life president trump unveiling his national security strategy. the key details from the speech this afternoon. david: meanwhile, stocks are surging to new highs on optimism the house and the senate will indeed pass this tax reform this week, nicole petallides is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole how much longer do trader s think this can go up? >> they're very optimistic they think it's going to 25,000 they've already made the hats

and they don't really see any stumbling blocks ahead. today is a historic day on wall street. i was excited for dow 10,000, 20,000 this is an exciting day. the 70th record close for the dow jones industrial average. we have not ever in history had 70 record closes in a calendar year, so we go down in history today dow gaining 141 points record closes for the dow, the nasdac, the s & p and also some of the other indices we've talked about the russel and the transport. we've seen plenty of winners on wall street, so many of which are hitting all-time highs. take a look at the leaders, intel, dow, dupont, caterpillar, apple, home depot, dow components apple, visa, microsoft, goldman sachs, american express, mcdonald's, boeing, all hit all-time highs today and then bitcoin, whose in and out? less than a thousand bucks as we start at the beginning of the year and now we know obviously it's getting now more widespread as it moves to multiple

exchanges including the cme and the cboe, you could see right now 19, 100. this one should be taken with caution. david: [laughter] right big caution. nicole thank you very much. melissa? melissa: it's crunch time for congress as both the house and senate are prepared to vote this week on the highly anticipated tax reform bill. let's go straight to adam shapiro to break down the timetable for voting. adam? let us have it. >> reporter: let me give you some of the breaking news within the last 30 minutes you have mike lee the senator from utah who actually finally said he's finished reading the bill, the tax cuts and jobs act and he will vote yes, so the senator from utah says he will proudly vote yes for this because it is a jobs building bill and a tax cutting bill and he's in favor of it so the timing of all of this, tomorrow in the house most likely around 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon, it is expected to pass although there are republican members of the house of representatives who say they will vote no, darrel issa

from california, mr. z ex lden from new york, they will vote no and then possibly this could be up for a vote late tuesday night in the senate remember there's 10,000 of debate in the senate once it passes the house but republicans can give back their five hours of debate time, democrats realizing this is going to pass could give back their time and it could pass tomorrow night delivering on president trump's promise to cut taxes for the middle class and the entire country. here was the president about two hours ago on where we stand. president trump: as the world watches and the world is indeed watching, we are days away from passing historic tax cuts for american families and businesses it will be the biggest tax cut and tax reform in the history of our country. there are two senators who may not be here for the vote there's john mccain and thad cochran from mississippi. both of them different medical

issues but if senator mccain who actually went back to arizona. he is expected he says to come back to the senate in january. he will not be here for the vote but he did put out a tweet in which he said thanks to everyone for your support and ones of encouragement. i'm feeling well and looking forward to returning to work after the holidays but to wrap this up for you melissa and david this train has left the station and we expect the house to pass, yes tomorrow and possibly the senate tuesday evening, late. if not wednesday. melissa: we will see from your lips, adam thank you. david: here now is republican senator chuck grassley from iowa on the joint committee. getting very exciting isn't it senator? >> senator: from this standpoint , not only is this bill good for the economy, but it finally shows that republican s can work together and get something done after we failed on other things earlier this year. david: now even without senator mccain and of course we all wish

him the best, but he is not going to be here for the vote, but even without him, can you guarantee you have enough votes to pass the tax bill? >> i think we would know from people like you if we didn't have, so let's say there's 51 republicans now with mccain gone you could lose two and still win 49-48 so i don't think there's any doubt, if your question is are we going to get a bill to the president of the united states with the biggest tax cuts in the history of the country and tax simplification for the first time in 30 years, the answer is yes. he will be signing a bill before the end of the week. david: now senator i'm for any tax cut. i think the more we starve the beast the better but to say it's the biggest tax cut in history, i remember the reagan tax cuts. they were tremendous and they also simplified the number of brackets from i think 11 down to 3. you have the same number of brackets can you really say it's more simplified than what reagan

did? >> i will give you my definition of simplification. it's increasing the standard deduction from 12,000 to 24,000 so as a result instead of having 35% of the people make out the long form, you're probably only going to have 10-15% of the people making out the long form, so for those extra 20% of the people plus the 65 that make the short form anyway, there's great deal of tax simplification. david: if it passes in the house and the senate and the president signs it this week, he says and i'm sure you've heard him talk about the americans will see it in their paychecks by february. the senate plan first passing the house and it went to the senate. the senate wanted to delay the corporate side until 2019. i guess the delayers lost am i right in that? because otherwise you wouldn't get bigger paycheck in february. >> well first of all, i think you've got to be talking about

the individual workers deal with the individual income tax and you just asked me a question about that. david: that's true i was mixing things but is any of it going to be delayed? >> that's entirely up to the irs , if they can get everything so that the employers on the first paycheck in february can do the proper withholding they should see benefits in their first paycheck in february. david: senator i want to switch gears if i may because there's something that you have been investigating as diligently as anybody in the senate and that's what happened at the justice department with fusion gps, the organization that was hired by the democratic national committee that manufactured the infamous trump dossier, bruce ohr, a guy at the justice department very high up at justice was meeting with fusion gps officials and his wife worked for fusion gps. he was supposed to give

testimony behind closed doors to a senate committee today. he didn't. do you know why not? >> i do not but it was not my committee or i would know why not. it was intelligence committee of one of the houses and i don't have an answer. i'm sorry i can't tell you but i'm very interested that as you said, we started the investigation way back early, way earlier this year when we got wind of the fact that the steel thing and fusion gps was involved and there was possible democratic party involvement in it and hillary clinton involvement in it. that's why we got involved in it very early on. david: well now we know for a fact that the dnc and the hillary campaign paid in part at least millions of dollars for that trump dossier. what we don't know is whether the fbi or anybody at justice whether it was bruce ohr or this guy patrick or strzok with the

fbi who we heard a lot about last week whether they paid for it. do we have any more information about whether anybody at justice or the fbi helped pay for the trump dossier? >> i think in classified information, there's some evidence of some but i have not been privy to that but here is where i think we have to be real certain what we are talking about. the president has a right to de classify and all this tends to be raising questions about whether or not he was involved with russia and his campaign. the president could de classify this stuff and we would know for sure exactly what the situation is. david: and you really want him to do that. any response from the white house quickly? >> i have talked to the white house maybe six weeks ago on this subject. i'm not going to tell you who i

talked to but i raised the possibility of why it seems so simple. there's all these questions out there. why not get the questions answered? why not have more transparency because transparency brings about accountability. david: americans want answers. absolutely senator grassley thank you for looking into this. we all thank you for that. appreciate you coming on today. >> goodbye. thank you. melanin vest it gages is underway to determine the cause of this morning's amtrak train derailment on to an interstate in washington state that killed at least six people and injured more than 50 people. joining us now on the phone is russ quinby, former national transportation safety board investigator. boy we are looking at just an image of that pileup of train cars. what do you think caused this what goes through your mind? >> well, when you look at the video of the wreckage and the way its distributed, first let me say, this looks like a push/ pull operation where you had a locomotive unit on both

ends of the train. in between you had this unique and i say relatively speaking unique equipment that's tilt type of equipment designed to basically keep the passengers level when you go through curves if you look at the top right where you see the ground alongside interstate 5, that looks like the lead locomotive. if you track the curve it looks like it derailed straight off the curve and to the outside of the curve and that would indicate high speed. excessive speed. this curve was a 30-mile an hour curve although the general track in the area was rated for 79 miles an hour and the other thing is that the track is relatively undisturbed. in fact if you look at it, you

don't see the track broken up in any way. melissa: so do you think that argues against the idea people are immediately yelling this is our crumbeling infrastructure we need to spend money that not enough was spent on the safety here. to me that sounds like what you're saying is operational error versus infrastructure. >> yeah, this is not infrastructure. the railroads in the united states are owned by private railroads for the most part. indirectly you've got some like amtrak track between washington d.c. and boston and the northeast corridor that's indirectly owned by amtrak but help paid for by the taxpayers, so if this is not a case of infrastructure. this is a case i believe of operational error. this track had just been brought up to 79-mile an hour speed limit before this particular service and to be honest with

you looking at it from the video it looks very good. melissa: so it was the first time they were running on this route with this, they had spent so much money, there was so much pr. if it was operational error how could they not have the best person whose best trained to do this when it was going to have so much attention and now this is such a disaster? >> well i'm not sure this is a personal thing. you don't gain anything for public safety by blaming an individual, but there could be all kinds of reasons. we've had some recent accidents where people have gone, the engineers have gone asleep or in attention. this may be a case of in attention. if there was somebody else up there in the cab with him on his inaugural run which i would expect could be inattention. melissa: wow russ thank you. we appreciate your time. we'll have a live report from the site of the crash later on in this hour to bring us updates a lot of lives lost there. david: fascinating he noticed

that the tracks were undisturbed you had a fast train, really fast train on a not so fast-track and that's a deadly combination. melissa: in the meantime president trump says he has no plans to fire robert mueller, but there is growing criticism of the special counsel's move to gain access to thousands of e-mails sent and received by trump officials before the inauguration. coming up former trump campaign manager sounds off. david: giving hezbollah the terrorists organization a free pass, a shocking new report alleging the obama administration protected a terrorists drug ring within the u.s. run by hezbollah in order to secure the iran nuclear deal. this is a bombshell. no other word for it. melissa: putting america first president trump unveiling his national security strategy this afternoon. the key takeaways and reaction from retired four star general jack keane. president trump: we will stand up for ourselves and we will stand up for our country like we

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david: an american first national security strategy the commander-in-chief issuing his vision for the safety of the u.s. ranging from economic to cyber strength calling out russia and china. here with more from the white house is blake burman. >> hi there david and there was a big economic component to this national security strategy a 55 page document rolled out today by the president and the administration essentially how they see the world and how they feel they could protect america 's interests within it. for example, that strategy calls for a redoing of many of the trade deals that the president has talked about that he thinks have been working against this country not only for years but for decades. the bottom line on the economic

front from the president today was this. he feels that economic security is national security. president trump: gdp growth which is way ahead of schedule under my administration will be one of mesh's truly greatest weapons. >> now the president also argued that cooperation with russia could go forward on certain issues like combating terrorism. in fact he gave an example of how the cia was able to help flax a terrorists attack in st. petersburg, russia one in which could have saved thousands of lives but the president also saying the partnership with " rival powers" as he put it like russia but also china would only go forward as long as it is in the national interest. president trump: our rivals are tough, tenacious and committed to the long term but so are we. >> now david the president also used this speech to pitch the

need for infrastructure as you know, when tax reform potentially or likely really gets done at the end of this week the next big item for the administration going forward is infrastructure. david? david: just say that again. tax reform likely to get done. so nice, it's a nice phrase. i love the way it sounds. >> feeling good about it here i'll tell you that. david: thank you very much. melissa? melissa: here to respond to the president's speech is jack keane retired four star general and fox news contributor. thank you so much for joining us you know, i heard you say earlier today that this was one of the first times that you heard economics mentioned within a foreign policy speech that the president or economic security is part of our national security and you didn't get to say why that was interesting to you or why that was different and what difference it makes. tell us? >> well, i think it's not that it was that was mentioned for the first time but to the degree that it's mentioned, it's a

considerable contribution it's at a 55 pages and i think when the president looks at the problems that he inherited in terms of significant trade imbalances and unfair competition around the world and all of our money overseas and the desire to bring that back through tax reform, gdp growth et cetera, he looks at that as a major part of the national security strategy and his secretary of defense actually agrees with him that we cannot have a solid national security strategy without an economic component of that. that must be significant and must be strong because our economy needs that kind of vitality to it so yeah, that i think is very different. i mean clearly, his four pillars protecting the homeland to the degree that that is in there also i think is somewhat unusual in terms of the amount of space that occupies and then the third and fourth pillar or peace through strength is certainly

about strengthening and rebuilding our military. we've got to remove the sequestration budget caps for that to happen despite the legislation he just signed and advancing america's influence is a pretty obvious one. melissa: it also seems like he connects and isn't embarrassed about the fact that money is power and that by you can negotiate with china on what they really care about which is trade in order to pressure them to do something about what we care about which is north korea and their nukes, and he gets that correction and understands that leverage and isn't embarrassed about using it. >> no and that story is true and a great point. the doctrine that he's referring to aspirins people realism and i think that it really comes from the president because it was in his campaign and certainly is in everything he's been doing for the last 11 months and that is looking at the world the way it truly is, not the way you want it to be, but the way it is and he says we're in a very competitive world.

people are trampling on our interest both geo-political and economic interests and we've got to stand up for ourselves and pushback clearly and i think that also is a dose of reality that's very very welcome in the strategy. melissa: meantime this other huge story i have to ask you about soft on terrorists. obama officials reportedly were easing up on hezbollah the iranian-backed terrorists organization, doubling as a international crime syndicate in an effort to complete the 2015 iranian nuclear deal according to an article in politico that was titled the secret back story of how obama let hezbollah off the hook. general, i mean this is amazing they had uncovered this billion dollar ring where hezbollah was selling smuggling drugs into the u.s. and then laundering the money by buying cars here in the u.s. and shipping them to africa for resale. this is like the plot of narco

or something you'd see and when they got close to shoving down this ring reportedly according to political the obama administration made them back off and said this would jeopardize our nuclear deal with iran if we blew up this money that hezbollah was getting selling drugs to the u.s. and laundering the money. what do you think about that? >> i'll tell you melissa. it's a stunning revelation. i'm shocked by it but it does fall into a pattern. first of all on hezbollah itself we do know the facts on hezbollah that they operate at the nexus of global terrorism and drug trafficking and organized crime and operate not just across the middle east but they're in south america and latin america and very close to us in mexico operating with drug cartells. remember they were trying to kill the saudi ambassador a number of years ago in washington d.c. at one of our restaurants and they were operating that with the drug cartell to make that happen so that we knew but the fact that law enforcement was all over

them and wanted to break them up and had gone into the department of justice seeking the authorities to get after this thing and then being denied that , that is absolutely outrageous. here is the pattern melissa. we pulled out of iraq because the iranians wanted us to go and president obama really had no stomach for the strategic value of iraq and we didn't assist the syrian moderates because the obama administration did not want to put at risk the nuclear deal with iran because the iranians were supporting asad, so this does fall into that pattern. melissa: same pattern we got to go general thank you so much, so much good stuff covered we appreciate it. >> good talking to you melissa. david: unbelievable story meanwhile investigators are searching for answers from today 's fatal train derailment in washington, the state of washington. we've got a live update from the scene coming up and also former demoted justice department official bruce ohr was expected to testify in front of the senate intel committee today but

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melissa: breaking news on tax reform, senator susan collins is going to support this tax bill that is big news. david: it is. melissa: coming moments after senator mike lee also stated that he supports the bill as well. we will keep you updated on all things taxes throughout the hour david: the ducks are lining up meanwhile demoted doj official bruce ohr was supposed to have testified today before the senate intel committee about secret meetings he had around election time with the fusion gps group. this is the same group that developed that trump dossier which was funded by the democratic national committee but fox news has discovered that ohr's testimony never happened. why? joining me now is tom finton, tom thanks for being here. i had senator grassley on earlier. he didn't know why.

he's not on the intel committee but he's not sure why ohr didn't show up do you know why? >> i don't but unfortunately it's par for the course from the justice department and the fbi in terms of cooperating with congress. you may remember andrew mccabe had to reschedule his interviews last week and to have this key official not show up is just in credible. the justice department has been very aggressive in protecting those in its agency and those in the fbi who have been implicated in conflicts of interest scandal s. david: and you say implicated. that's the right word to use and it comes not just from our reporting but from the testimony of fusion gps founder himself, glenn simpson who had an affidavit he put out and i'll read from that. he said fusion contracted with n ellie ohr, the wife of the man who was suppose to testify bruce ohr, former government official expert in russian matters. we could put the testimony up on the screen, to help our company with its research and analysis

of mr. trump. i met with bruce ohr, this is again, glenn simpson talking, at his request, after the november 2016 election to discuss our findings regarding russia and the election. so you have bruce ohr, he was i think the number three or four guy at the justice department meeting with fusion gps, the trump dossier folks funded by the dnc. you have peter strzok that fbi official who we heard about last week in some of his e-mails with his lover inside the justice department and he was out to get trump and he was working with christopher steel one of the sources for the trump dossier. it looks like we're beginning to see a conspiracy here. >> well, certainly the key issue here in terms of the collusion isn't the russia collusion because there's no evidence the trump campaign colluded with russia to steel the election which is what mueller in theory is supposed to be looking at. the collusion is between the clinton campaign, the dnc, its dossier operation, fusion gps,

the fbi and the justice department and maybe even mueller's operation which supposedly is still investigat ing the dossier. we need to know all the issues there, figure out who knew what and when and how much money was paid for what and when. david: exactly it's the money issue. we follow the money here and it is the money issue, the question is whether the fbi itself or some other folks at justice actually helped to pay for and distribute and get out in the public the trump dossier as a method to prevent trump from becoming president. that's the conspiracy that has been post you lated and it's looking more and more like that's the way it happened go ahead last word. david, we're asking for document s about these payments and the justice department and fbi won't even confirm or deny the dossier and payment-related information exists. that's how deep the stonewalling goes. david: it's an incredible story thank you very much tom. by the way, you know there was one thing peter strzok and the fbi guy talked in his e-mail exchange with that woman he was having an affair with.

he's talked about an insurance policy they had to prevent trump from becoming president. you wonder whether the trump dossier was that insurance policy. melissa: maybe i hope we know some day. president trump says robert mueller isn't going anywhere, even though his team is accusing them of illegally grabbing his transition team's e-mail. former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski is coming up to talk about that. david: plus congress is getting closer to putting a tax bill on the president's desk congresswoman dianne black gives us the details on the upcoming house tax vote coming up next.

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melissa: closing in on tax reform, the house rules committee meeting in about a half an hour to setup the parameters for a final house vote on the tax bill tomorrow. this as republicans scramble to avoid a government shutdown. here now is congresswoman dianne black, and member of the house ways and means committee thank you so much for joining us tonight. what do you think about this vote? i mean, it's starting to feel like it's inevitable. i hate to say i don't want jinx it. >> i'll tell you i'm very excited where we are. i've been here for seven years working on doing something about the tax code which is far too complicated for the last seven years on the ways and means committee and then this last year as the budget chairman and i'm very excited we are where we are today and that's because it's a good bill. look, no bill is perfect but this is a good bill that will

jolt our economy, get it moving unlike it has for the last eight to 10 years and give relief to the american people, so i'm very proud of this and i'm hoping that we get it passed in both the house and the senate and get it to the president's desk to give the american people a big bow on christmas day. melissa: speaking of the senate, did it make you feel nervous or secure that senator mccain went home? some people interpreted it as oh , no there goes a vote and other pep thought they must have the votes if he felt confident enough to go home. >> well first of all i want to say that senator mccain and his family are in our prayers at this very difficult time for his family, but i believe that we're going to be okay. we have enough other members in the send the they can holdup that vote and get it across the line. melissa: now the next thing is the government shutdown, emergency spending do democrats try and get their pound of flesh on that front after the tax bill goes through? >> look, we cannot allow the government to close down.

that does not do the country or the people any good at all and so we're working very hard on a continuing resolution where we can fund our military which is so important that we make sure the men and women that protect our country are funded and are given the kind of equipment and support they need in addition to that we have some other things that we want to make sure they continue like the children's health insurance program and we're going to get this over the line so that we can once again go home, come back after the first of the year, and deal with some of these really big issues in a way that will be more complete than just the continuing resolution. melissa: because i think a lot of people in our audience are thinking about the fact that everything we're talking about is spending and you know, spending is what needs to get under control. is there a plan, do you think and is there the political will to come back after the holiday and really attack that big and unpopular problem? >> well do you know what? we're going to have to deal with the budget again the 2019 budget will start after we get back after the first of the year and

as in what we tried to do in my budget committee, we have the most conservative budget in 20 years. we began changing the culture here in washington where we started talking about mandatory spending and it's the only way you can get your debt and deficit spending under control and so i'm excited to think that this year will be our year. this year will be our year to look at those reforms and to actually start digging in to the mandatory spending because look that's where it is. it's not in the discretionary it's in the mandatory and we've got to be strong enough to say there are programs that are old they need to be reformed and we can save money and save this country. melissa: absolutely amen to that congresswoman dianne black thank you for coming on. >> you're welcome thank you for having me. david: well the u.s. is vetoing a u.n. resolution that rejects jerusalem as the capitol of israel. president trump recognized jerusalem as the capitol earlier this month and the sun security council retaliated calling issue of the capitol unresolved.

u.s. ambassador nikki haley called the resolution an embarrassment to the rest of the security council. u.s. embassy will be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem in the near future. melissa: tragedy in washington state at least six people killed after an amtrak train derailed outside seattle. we'll take you live to dupont, washington, next.

david: national transportation safety board investigators and the fbi are now at the scene of today's deadly amtrak derailment in washington state, that left of course six people dead at least and dozens injured let's go to dan springer whose live at the scene of the crash. what's the latest, dan? >> reporter: yeah, david that number of six fatalities is being reported by associated press and it could certainly change, not only are numerous people up to 70 people injured, but also the authorities here on the scene from the ntsb although

they're not here yet but state patrol and the local sheriffs department have not confirmed the number of fatalities but when you look at the scene you have to wonder why more people were not killed. there is one silver lining here that passenger train you see dangling over that tressle over interstate 5 had 77 passengers and five crew members. capacity for that train is 250, so thankfully there were far fewer than capacity on that train but at 7:40 this morning it was barreling down southbound along this next to the interstate and then it takes a sharp turn left over the interstate on that trussel and that's when those train cars went over the tracks and over the trussel and on to interstate 5. there were 12 train cars and two engines and 13 of those units ended up leaving the track, many of them coming down on the freeway going into the wooded area that you see and also on to

the freeway, toppling on top of five vehicles including a semi tractor that were on the freeway heading southbound i5. this is a brand new set of tracks, a new route that amtrak was taking, starting today that shaved about 15 minutes off of the travel time from seattle to portland and this was $180 million transportation project where this was the inaugural voyage down that set of train tracks. just a terrible tragedy. we can tell you there was a massive response by first responders and also people who were just stuck on the freeway behind this tragedy trying to get to the people who were inside those trains. many many survivors were pulled off of those trains and then taken to local hospitals. again five local hospitals received upwards of 77 passengers. the top speed of this train we are told was 79 miles per hour. i can tell you that if it was traveling that fast as it was

taking that curve going over that trussel it was going too fast. i would imagine that it has to slowdown quite a bit. there were lots of unconfirmed reports of other potential obstructions on the tracks, things like that but again unconformed so we'll let the ntsb get out there and start to arrive and they have ago team en route from washington d.c. and have their first boots on the ground here this afternoon and then this evening they should have their full team in place and they will look over everything every aspect of this tragedy to find out what caused this accident this morning here in dupont, washington david? david: for it to happen on the inaugural trip is just extraordinary just awful. what a tragedy dan springer good to see you dan thank you very much appreciate it. melissa: a major development in the mueller investigation. president trump's transition team leveling serious accusation s against special counselor mueller why they claim his investigators improperly obtained personal e-mails during the transition period into the white house. corey lewandowski former trump

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melissa: special counsel robert mueller is denying his team illegally got its hands-on some of president trump's transition teams e-mails for the russia investigation the president telling reporters yesterday the situation was not looking good. president trump: it's quite sad to see that so my people are very upset about it. i can't imagine there's anything on it frankly, because as we said there's no collusion. there's no collusion whatsoever, but a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad. melissa: but the president also told reporters he's not planning on firing mueller. let's bring in former trump

campaign manager corey lewandowski he's the author of the new book "let trump be trum" corey what do you think about this revelation that they grabbed the e-mails during the transition team's time? >> well what i think is very surprising is that this president and his team has said they've been willing and has been cooperating with bob mueller and any investigation that they've been involved with so if mueller didn't do this the way it should have been done, i'm a little surprised because this team has nothing to hide and they've been very willing and able to turnover all of the documents that the mueller team has requested so far. melissa: i want to ask you about this blockbuster report that started in the hill about lisa bloom this thing that we kind of a lot of us suspected that she was offering money, raising money from donors to pay women to come forward to make accusations against president trump and in some cases, offer ing to pay off one woman's mortgage, also selling the stories to various media outlets and then taking a commission for

herself, as media outlets paid these people to come forward and make accusations and offer pictures that this is a money making scheme for her when she talks about being pro bono, women's rights lawyer. what do you think about that? >> well, the amazing part is that the mainstream media never picked up on this and if it wasn't for you we wouldn't be talking about it today so the bottom line is one of these women was given the opportunity at $750,000 of which lisa was going to get one-third of that money or a quarter of a million dollars for working for pro bono i don't month can world you're from but $250,000 a year doesn't sound like pro bono to me and the dishonesty of the whole thing goes right to her credibility once again where she time and time again has not been an honest broker and she's profiting off people who are lying about the president. melissa: and it's the dishonesty that i don't think a lot of people out there understand. normally you'd make money when your client won and got damages and you get a percent of that that makes sense but this is

about raising undercover money to funnel to these people just for making the accusation and then also making money for media outlets and that's not something that she's above about or other lawyers who do the same thing. well she's never disclosed it. there is a lot of speculation the money was coming was from democrats and super donors to the democratic party to hurt the election of donald trump for president and now she's been making money off these women and asking them to lie to the american people, the mainstream media hasn't done a good job of vetting them, they were so excited about these women coming forward most of the mainstream media. that's what happened. melissa: we don't know if she's asking them to lie. with do know she's making money off everything they're doing and getting money from donors. it's very shady. corey lewandowski thank you for your time we appreciate it. david: she said she does it to pay the bills got to pay the rent right? melissa: then she's got to be a little more honest and up front and transparent about it. david: a tax cut bump. markets are surging the new

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