beyond. >> liz: good direction for all our investor viewers, markets do finish today in the red, but the dow bouncing between small gains and losses for the week. that will do it for the "claman countdown" but we need you to stay tuned to after the bell there's more news breaking. melissa: fears of retaliation slamming wall street all three major averages ending the day in the red on escalating tensions in the middle east after a u.s. air strike killed a top iranian commander the dow ending down 239 points there, on the session we were down as much as 368 earlier in the day, know the too bad. i'm melissa francis happy friday >> i'm jackie deangelis in for connell mcshane this is after the bell. the s&p 500 and the nasdac also ending in negative territory today, the major averages down more than 1% at today's lows, but president trump is currently making his way to an event with supporters in miami after addressing the developing situation with iran we're going

to bring you any comments from the president this hour. melissa: we have fox business team coverage blake burman is live at the white house, christina partsinevelos on the floor of the new york stock exchange, phil flynn from the cm e, with the latest on oil and gold, but blake, we'll kick it off with you. >> blake: melissa after that sudden strike last night against iran's top military leader qassem soleimani, the president, the vice president, and the secretary of state throughout differing points all defended the decision by saying that soleimani was planning imminent attacks against u.s. interest. senior officials over at the state department say that includes attacks he was planning in spots like syria, lebanon and iraq against military personnel, diplomat and facilities those senior state department official s say that potentially hundreds of americans could have been killed. here was the commander-in-chief just a little while ago explain ing his decision. president trump: soleimani was

plots imminent attacks on american diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him. we took action last night to stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. >> blake: president trump also said the u.s. isn't pushing for a regime change within iran. those air strikes of course against soleimani actually took place inside of iraq where soleimani was at the time. during those comments just a little while ago before the president left mar-a-lago, he warned iran that potentially there could be more strikes down the line if the deescalation does not occur at some point, the president is saying at one point, "if americans are threatened we will have all of those targets already fully identified, and i am ready and prepared to take whatever action is necessary and that in particular refers to iran."

melissa and jackie we should also note that 3,000 u.s. troops right now are headed to kuwait, kuwait is on the southern border of iraq, a little while ago the department of defense described that as a "appropriate and precautionary action." back to you. melissa: blake thank you. stock closing in the red but it is green for the week let's go to christina partsinevelos with more. kristina: you're right, they are closing for the red but if you take the bigger picture none of the indices actually close 1% lower they are all a little bit less than that still seeing strength i was speaking to traders saying we talk about buying it and honestly there wasn't a 500 point drop we've seen in the past. there is still a looming threat there could be retaliation not tomorrow, not the next day, not next week but in the near future so that is an overhang on the markets and of course, when we're talking about the intraday we did get the manufacturing numbers that came in lower for december showing a further contraction in the u.s. manufacturing sector, so that added to some a little bit of a sell-off midday or around 10 a.m. but for the week, since

you brought that up we're talking about all of the indices nasdac, s&p 500, and the dow, they are up for the week the dow and the nasdac are on pace for the fourth straight week of gains, and then you've got the s&p 500 coming in even stronger, sixth straight week of gains so often in these times of escalation you're trying to see what are some avenues that you can find value and what stocks should you be buying and often you think okay it's regular defense contractors, those did very well, energy companies because with the possible disruption of supply but alphabet, it hit an all-time high today, and that as the parent company of google and facebook even though they are red right now, facebook, $208 is the highest we've seen in 52 weeks and i'd just like to end on this note, google. there was a note from canaccord genuity upgrading the stock, from a hold to a buy so you're seeing a lot of strength from analysts there that believe there's still room to grow. back to you guys. melissa: christina thank you. >> jackie: so is this just a

blip in the rally here to discuss it carol roth future file legacy planning system create or and doug flynn, great to see you both. carol let's start with you. the fact of the matter is we don't know where this is going on how iran is going to retaliate. i would expect on this kind of news a steeper drop today, seems that the markets were pretty measured. >> yeah i think it was a very muted response especially since the markets were up 300 points yesterday and going into a weekend, you didn't get that big dip that you might have expected like we saw when we had the saudi arabia situation, a few months back, but i was actually even more surprised we didn't see a bigger sell-off not just because of the iran situation, but because of the ism numbers. this was the lowest read that we've had since june 2009 and shows significant weakness in the manufacturing sector, which i think is a bigger threat at this point in time for the markets. melissa: oil prices speaking following the death of iran's top general. phil? we saw a significant runup. in fact the highest price since

last april in crude oil even higher than when iran attacked the saudi oil facilities. a lot of concern in the marketplace, but we did pullback off of the highs. why? mainly because we don't know what is next. is it going to be a sign of an escalation, in the oil regions or spike against oil or act as a deterrent? that's the big debate right now but there is no debate on the gold market. it's a safe haven just absolutely surged today, even higher than the prices we saw in april after the saudi attack, in fact the highest since last september, so really, what we're seeing here is a lot of risk on trading when it comes to the oil prices. now, we've got another report from the department of energy, and this is also supported prices a big drawdown in crude oil inventories over 11 million- barrels week over week and the only thing that tempered that is we did see a big increase in products. one of the concerns is the stock s that could reflect some of the slow down that we saw in

the manufacturing data and so that may have tempered the rally right now but it's going to be very interesting weekend, oil traders on pins and needles back to you. melissa: definitely phil thank you for that. carol and doug back to react. doug what strikes me is that we are in a much better position facing any sort of insecurity in the middle east than we used to be before we had so much domestic production and before the fracking revolution. >> yeah, energy independence will do that to you. we certainly rely a lot lesson what goes on over there, which i think is part of why we have such low volatility in terms of the reaction to the markets. we've been in a low volatility situational of last year. we were only down not even 7% for the year and the average at some point during the year you're down 14%. we didn't even come half way through that and this continues that way. we would expect a little more of a reaction but it's much more muted so we have that lower volatility environment which shows you that these kinds of things aren't having the

reaction that everyone thinks they should have, and so you can't really trade it like you might want to. melissa: carol what do you think about that? you were talking about the manufacturing data the oil market is more focused on that probably than what's going on in the middle east. >> potentially it may be. if you think about it we're producing somewhere around 12 million-barrels a day which is just a staggering turn from where we were only a decade ago and as i said before i really think that the manufacturing issue in terms of the effect on the economy in the market will have a much bigger effect than what happens here because if you look at the saudi arabia situation, they got that back online so quickly, so i think people are really taking a tempered response. >> jackie: a bright spot in the sea of red today tesla speaking to record territory after the electric car company reported deliveries, that the wall street expectations, carol you look at tesla and you wonder if the upward momentum is going to last here or is elon musk going to do something to mess it up? >> oh, i think that a lot of the upward momentum you saw today was the tremendous amount

of short sellers having to cover once they saw those delivery numbers and if you look at the valuation from tesla, even though i appreciate the fact that they have the ability to deliver, i still think the valuation is so completely out of whack, compare it to something like a gm, that trades at like .3 times sales they're trading at 3.26 or 3.3 times sales just from a stock ownership perspective, so a very very risky trade, and one that i'm not sure makes a lot of sense. >> over to you, you know you look at this kind of stock in a market today, specifically, when the stock market is down, and you see tesla get a top like this as investors are looking for places to put capital, stock s to buy, would you be a buyer? >> i don't think i could support buying tesla at these prices. i did like it when there was a 200 handle on it and the 3 hundreds i would say how do you keep buying it with a 400-plus number on it i don't know.

if you don't already own it how you chase that. i think you have to look at the things that have a little bit less volatility. i think you look at the things that maybe are in the areas that didn't perform well last year, such as healthcare, other areas although tech is still going to do well, this one is tough to follow. that's the mistake a lot of people make they wait until it's up 100% and they want to get inverse us finding something that really hasn't moved with the market move that we had in the last year, that would be where i'd be looking. >> great to see you, thank you. >> absolutely. melissa: more on the escalating tensions between the u.s. and iran. president trump defending the air strike that killed the top iranian commander as thousands of u.s. troops deployed to the middle east. this as iran vows retaliation. >> jackie: plus president trump set to arrive in miami as the high tax exodus from states like new york and california is helping the president in the sunshine state, we're breaking down the details with steve forbes, forbes media chairman this hour. melissa: and a campaign promise

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melissa: fox business alert let's take another look at the markets stocks mixed for the week the dow closing slightly in

the red, the s&p 500 snapping a five-week winning streak but the nasdac ending in the green for the week that is. jackie? >> jackie: vowing forceful revenge iran promising retaliation for the killing of a top general, as more than 3,000 u.s. troops are deploying to the middle east, fox news is in jordan with more. trey? >> reporter: jackie good afternoon. reaction is pouring in from around the region, to the assassination overnight by the united states of iran's top military commander, qassem soleimani. now all of this extremely important to the region of tension about what happened last night and what it means for the future of the middle east. last night outside of baghdad's international airport, a u.s. drone targeting the car that soleimani was in killing him and a number of other top officials and iran's revolutionary guard today iranian president calling this a heinous crime by the united states and adding they will seek revenge as a country on behalf of the death of this senior

military commander. additionally, iran's supreme leader meeting with the family today of soleimani saying that his country will indeed respond, iranian protesters taking to the streets calling on the regime to have a harsh response against the united states, and as you noted, 3,000 additional troops from the 82nd airborne are headed to a military base in kuwait to support american efforts in the region as president trump did make a statement earlier saying he is not looking to take the region towards war, we also heard from iran's foreign minister who reactedded to what happened. take a listen. >> america's action without any doubt is an act of terrorism in violation of iraq sovereignty which is murdering persons who dedicated their entire lives to fighting oppression, terror, and extremeism. >> reporter: the israelis are taking extra precautions as a key u.s. allie in the region moving some additional troops to the northern part of their country and there are concerns

iranian proxies in places like lebanon specifically hezbollah could target u.s. and israel and benjamin netanyahu making a statement on his way back today he was in greece on a visit and he says the united states has a right to defend itself supporting president trump's decision to take out this senior leader in iran's revolutionary guard. jackie? >> trey, thank you. melissa: here is john hannah, thank you so much for joining us >> thank you, melissa. melissa: so i heard opponents of the president saying today this is the equivalent of taking out mike pompeo, when he's outside of the country, that this was his lead military commander. how would you respond to people who say things like that? >> well, i mean, it's true on the one hand. this is a huge blow to the iranian government, because this guy was the equivalent of a secretary of defense, a secretary of state and a cia director, all rolled into one. the problem was his business as

an official of the iranian government was to have terror, chaos and violence across the middle east, from one battlefield to the next, specifically targeting americans , israelis and arabs. he was a source of massive in stability and massive destruction harm to american interests. this guy has so much blood on his hands he was very much in the sights of america properly legally a man who had done massive destruction to american interests and american lives, and who was planning obviously to do much more in the future, so this is entirely within the lane of proper american self- defense. melissa: what do you think it does in terms of does it bring us closer to war and closer to more blood shed or does it make that less likely, i've heard both arguments that you can

either try and bribe iran and various terror states with money or you can stand up to them that this is obviously the second of the two. do you think that it gets us closer to some sort of peaceful resolution or less violence or does it get closer to more violence? >> my entire insurance with the islamic republic since the 1979 revolution is that the only thing that iran understands is when america is willing to stand up and use overwhelming power, whether it's diplomatic, economic, and military power combined to demonstrate to them, that whatever pain they think that they can inflict on the united states, they will get 10 times worse, that happened several times during the reagan administration, when we sent their, half their navy to the bottom of the persian gulf, and all of a sudden they were prepared to end the iran/iraq war. it happened in 2003 when

president george bush invaded iraq and the iranians immediately stood down and froze their nuclear program for a period of several years, so this is the only thing the iranians understand, unfortunately, which is not to mean that they can't make a miss calculation here, overreach, and again, push things too far, to a point where the americans as we did yesterday, and the day before, when we hit that iraqi malitia, we've got to respond and demonstrate to the iranians that we're prepared to stand up to them. melissa: john hannah thank you so much i wish we had more time. we'll have you back soon. thank you. jackie: missing the money mark senator elizabeth warren training behind her democrat opponents for the fourth quarter what this means for the upcoming primaries. plus new riveting details emerging from former nissan ceo carlos ghosn speaking house arrest in japan. >> he's escaped japan, he's now

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melissa: fox business alert moments ago president trump landing in miami following the u.s. straik that killed a top iranian general as 2020 democrat s were quick to criticize the move, edward lawrence is in washington with the details. edward? >> reporter: the reaction has been swift about this strike but you can imagine very different from republicans to democrats specifically from the democrats who want to be president, we've seen a range of responses, where they are focused in on the escalation of the drone strike, could cause. this was very clearly an act of war by this president without any authorization of declaration of war from congress clearly violating the constitution. >> on the campaign trail today

former vice president joe biden walking a line, he's not condemning the drone strike, but trying to highlight that he thinks the president was wreckless about going about how he did it. >> he deserves to be brought to justice for his crimes, but no matter how he was, in the west. and this is all happening on the back drop of a region on the edge of another major war. >> senator elizabeth warren and bernie sanders echoing those comments and warren adding that the goal should be to avoid another war, and mayor pete buttigieg wants to know the process the president went through to make this call, and he's asking who was consulted, and like other democratic hopefuls, they have not condemned the attack, but are just upset it seemed about being left out of that circle of information. back to you guys. melissa: edward, thank you.

jackie: a dip in fundraising for elizabeth warren 's fourth quarter the democratic candidate raising $21.2 million beating her personal goal, but falling short , versus her opponents here now is brad blakeman, former bush 43 senior staffer. great to see you. she's the lowest, the last candidate in terms of the fundraising rankings. this is going to be a problem for elizabeth warren i imagine. >> it is and it doesn't bode well as we approach the first primaries and caucuses, in iowa, new hampshire, nevada and now is the time that the wind should be at our back and we're seeing her falling not only in popular support but also in fundraising and the tale will be at the poll s when people actually go in and have to push a button to vote or to meet in a meeting in a caucus and we'll find out where her support is but this does not bode well the fundraising numbers and also the polling. she seems to be slipping. >> she put pete buttigieg down for his wine cave activity

fundraising event if you will, and when she's sort of going for that grassroots approach, but at the same time, you know, you need a certain amount of millionaires and billionaires to contribute to your fundraising efforts while the grassroots is important as well. >> there's no doubt about it. her support has to come from every level of the party. let's remember, she has a huge machine that needs to be fed, and if we start seeing layoffs in her staff or a reduction in her footprint in these battleground states, as they come up to super tuesday, in south carolina, she will be in real trouble, and not only that but i think democrats are either reluctant to support her $40 trillion price tag for some of her most generous programs like medicare for all. >> yeah and you look at bernie sanders numbers there, 34.5 million, he is even out fundraisering her which is an interesting thing to see. she commented on this and she

was saying that she was grateful to everyone who pitched in the $15 whatever they could, but some way, one way or another, she has to step up those efforts >> there's no doubt about it and like i said going into the first battleground states is going to be important because democrats could have a different winner in each of those states. she has to be in the top tier in one of those states and if that doesn't happen going into super tuesday, you're going to see a lot of people start dropping out of this race because they just don't have the funds to sustain a campaign footprint as they move on to one primary after another. >> even if you compare sanders who is the top fundraiser to president trump, 46 million he still doesn't seem to have enough. well donald trump doesn't have an opponent and the fact he's doing so well when he doesn't have a primary contest will tell you what likely is the scenario when there is a democrat select ed. i think the fundraising is going to be robust to be conservative. >> great to see you brad, thank

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jackie: fox business alert president trump is currently making his way to an evangelical coalition launch event in miami and phil keating is at the scene awaiting the president.

phil? >> reporter: good morning its been a very festive afternoon, several thousands of evangelical s are here, and that's of course a very key part of the core of president trump's base and of course his 2020 re-election efforts. this all came about about two weeks ago a couple of days after the christianity today, criticized the president, calling him immoral and suggesting he should be removed from office, and at the time, president trump issued a couple of tweets reacting to that and here is what they were. thank you to franklin graham for stating his father billy graham voted for me in the 2016 election. i know how pleased you are with the work we've done together and regarding that editorial by christianity today, i guess the magazine christianity today is looking for elizabeth warren, bernie sanders or those of the socialistic communist to guard their religion. how about sleepy joe and the fact that no president has ever done what i have done for

evangelicals or religion itself and president trump was supposed to take the stage around 5:00 this afternoon eastern time, but because of that in scheduled statement that he made in front of the cameras at mar-a-lago talking about the situation in iran, and the drone strike that killed its top general, he is running a little late however marine one has land ed at the nearby airport, and the president will come in here, and also the white house spiritual advisor, she is going to be introducing them up on the stage, and the church itself, the international ministry is a very large place and it's up to 5,000 people and it has a little bit of criticism that perhaps this campaign event was violat ing the tax exempt status of the irs, so this place is not partisan, non-political, and

we'll have more when the president gets here. >> phil thank you so much for that. melissa: congressional shakeups expected in the president's new homes, florida and texas, are projected to gain seats in the house of representatives after the 2020 census, because of district changes, while new york and california are expected to lose a seat, as the populations decline, over high taxes, and this is according to a new study by election data services, and here now is steve forbes, forbes media chairman, and it's only a couple of seats but you can see which way the tide is going, steve? >> yes and what you're seeing in new york a high tax state for decades losing their power in the country and they once had 47 electoral votes and after this next they will be under census they will be under 30. california for the first time in u.s. history since they become a state is going to lose congressional representation instead of gaining it, and so these tax consequences, bad

economic policies they have real consequences. melissa: but it's interesting so if florida gets two seats and texas gets three seats, you automatically think that that's strength for republicans but it isn't necessarily because the folks going that way are coming from liberal states. we don't necessarily know how they are going to vote. yes it's amazing they vote high tax policies when they move to the low tax states you saw the same thing when you had a migration years ago from what was then taxed in the southern new hampshire, they didn't like massachusetts but they voted more liberal, more democrat than in new hampshire than the state down in the past, so the republicans have to remind these folks why they came there and don't want to go the path that california and new york has done which is turn prosperity into states that are economically more and more outside of silicon valley stagnating. melissa: yeah i don't know if they are into self-punishment or just short-term memories we'll see. steve you wrote an op-ed today

on president trump's economic success so far, and how it can be even greater if he takes a few specific steps to handle health care and taxes. what did you mean by that? well he should continue what he's doing on the tax side. he's not going to do a flat tax sadly but they are talking about reducing tax rates for the middle class and do it across-the-board that way they can get back some of the suburban votes because of the loss of local tax deduction, reduce tax rates across-the-board that's good for the economy, capital gains reduce that that gets more investment a stronger economy and also reduce the payroll tax, temporarily as we did several years ago take off two points so that everyone regardless of their of course, they earn $1 and getting a tax cut they keep more of what they earn. melissa: yeah, the payroll taxes definitely a great idea. what about the healthcare side? >> on the healthcare side, they should continue to push transparency and apply to what they call pbm, pharmaceutical benefit managers, these are the middle people that nobody seems to know about that is 40-50% of

the cost to the drugs that you pay for. we need real transparency there that will help for drug prices, get rid of what i call cons. certificates of need and 35 states in the district of columbia, you want to setup a healthcare facility, a hospital or expand your current facilit ies you have to get permission from the state. now does starbucks need permission iffy wants to setup a store next to dunkin' donuts, does mcdonald's need permission if it wants to setup a store near burger king, no. let the free markets operate there. so moves like that on the healthcare side giving more control to patients and removing all of these crazy restrictions in health savings accounts. you should be able to use your h sa, as they call them, health savings accounts to buy drugs over-the-counter not just prescription drugs, and remove the restrictions, or raise them on terms of contributions you want to make your hsa, and be allowed melissa to buy a hsa, set one up even if you don't have a health insurance policy, or if you don't like what your

employer is offering, you should be able to setup your own. you do that and i think it's going to be a very popular program. melissa: free markets steve i love it thank you. >> thank you. jackie: the great escape criminal complaints filed against those helpful with carlos ghosn's get aways plus why you should stop abbreviating the dates on your checks. learn how to protect yourself and your money from scammers coming up, next. you don't use this old thing, do you? no! or how 'bout this dinosaur right here? nope! then why are you still using a laser printer? it's got expensive toner cartridges. but this... is the epson ecotank color printer. no more expensive cartridges! big ink tanks. lots of ink. if you don't think this printer's right for you, just pick up your phone... (chuckling) ...and give me a call. the epson ecotank. just fill and chill. available at...

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melissa: a new year and amazing new security scam, officials are warning consumers to watch how they fill out their checks, because abbreviating 2020 could leave you open to fraud. by writing only the last two digits of the year, scammers can easily alter documents by adding two remaining digits to become 2021 or any other year from this century. authorities say scammers could use this to establish unpaid debt, or cash an old check. >> wow. jackie: new reports about surveillance footage of carlos ghosn leaving the tokyo home where he was under house arrest alone backing up the auto executives claim his family did not help with his escape from

japan let's get the details of this great escape. grady? >> reporter: jackie maybe his family didn't help but there was certainly other people involved in this plot. the latest is that japanese state media reports surveillance video shows ghosn walking out of his house alone but then things get unusual. he was loaded into a private plane in a big black box that typically is used for carrying audio equipment and despite being under house arrest the former nissan ceo turned fugitive was allowed to come and go as he pleased which is apparently what he did in this case only this time, he broke his $14 million bail condition, fleeing the country, he then flew as you can see here from japan to turkey, and then turkey to lebanon. the company that provided the pro it vat plane for him, did they know he was on board their plane? >> they are saying they didn't and they are blaming all of this on a rogue employee, and that employee they say essentially

falsified flight records and they filed a criminal complaint and they say his name didn't appear on any documents related to the flights and this news comes after turkish police detained seven people including four pilots yesterday and five of those people have since reportedly been arrested. ghosn was awaiting trial on charges of fraud and other financial crimes and he claims he fled to avoid what he called a rigged justice system in japan but now interpol has put out a red notice for his arrest. our colleague liz claman spoke with bill browder, who faced the red notice himself about what's next for ghosn. some of the facts on the surface don't look too good for the japanese. the fact they have a 99% conviction rate doesn't stand up up up to scrutiny and the fact they refused him any contact with his wife, that's odd. the fact that he was in solitary confinement for 23 days when they first arrested him. none of these look good on the surface but we want to hear his

side of the story. >> reporter: jackie the country doesn't have to turn over that's lebanon they don't have to turn him back over to japan, and it doesn't look like they're going to. he's well-liked there and well- connected and he grew up and it's hard to say what's next but he is reportedly holding a press conference which is scheduled for some time next week. >> it sounds like if he stays there he's safe but if he goes anywhere else he could face problems. >> reporter: and that's what this interpol red notice is if he goes through any other border those countries police could turn him over, but again, that's a choice by those countries and lebanon as of right now, doesn't seem like it'll choose to turn him back over to january pan. melissa: pressure in the middle east, president trump set to make remarks any minute amid rising tensions with iran after u.s. air strikes killed a top iranian general so what are the next steps we can expect from the u.s. , who better to ask

than our own david asman. what is your take on this? david: my take is first of all what the president has already done, of course, nobody knew what was going to happen in iraq , with the iranians, they are a strange group of people it's hard to get inside their heads frankly i don't want to get inside their heads that's why it's so important to prepare for things that are unexpected, and there's one number that explains why we're prepared. $738 billion, that's the amount of money we're spending on defense now. it is a huge increase from what happened in the obama years a lot of people deficit hawks some of whom were my good friends who were quite worried about that $738 billion number, but frankly , right now, it's times like these that you're glad that the military is prepared because you never know where the challenge is going to come from, and i think that the iranians would have to be out of their minds when we are now prepared, so prepared. by the way i sent a note to a marine that i know and loved who you probably know, i don't want

to say who it is on air but i was just saying i'm praying for him with everything going on in the world and he said it's an uncertain world. we will be fine. we will take the fight to them. the u.s. military is not a soft target any more. i can't say the same about the rest of us. that's the point we should worry about of the military. melissa: we can't wait for your program david asman now let's see president trump is coming out taking the stage, in miami, florida. we will listen to what he has to say here and he's speaking at an event for evangelicals in miami. i think we still have david with us as the president makes his way to the microphone what do you expect here today david? >> well this prayer is going to last for at least nine minutes. >> president trump these are some of your greatest faith leaders that would love to pray over you, pastor jensen is going

to start and we love you, everybody, to stretch our hands towards the president, before he gets up because we know that prayer makes a difference. >> [applause] melissa: as they get ready to put their hands and their heads together in prayer, we will move away from this for a second and bring you back to the president when he begins to take to the podium. the cost of medicare for all and bernie sanders won't reveal the high price of his progressive push. the impact this could have on your wallet, next. i had no idea why my mouth was constantly dry. it gave me bad breath. it was so embarrassing. now i take biotene dry mouth lozenges whenever i'm on the go, which is all the time. biotene dry mouth lozenges. freshen breath anytime, anywhere.

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evangelical supporters right now in miami. we are monitoring this event. we will bring you any headlines that come from the president. >> vermont senator bernie sanders is claiming this about his cost for medicare for all plan. the candidate telling the washington post, i don't give a number. i'll tell you why, it's a huge number and it's so complicated that if i gave a number to you, 50 other people would go through it and say zero. according to the post, he trailed off after that. but bring in policy director, independent women's forum. this is hilarious to me because on the one hand, he's being honest think i'm not going to give you a number because it's so cute what if i told you the number, you know i would be flying about the fact that it's possible to actually do this. >> it's very difficult to say with what accuracy the productions tell us. i will say he has said truthfully it's a huge number. $32 trillion, it hard for

everyday americans to understand that. >> we have to cut you off. >> if you are guhle religious, give it up your seat right now. [laughter] i'm thrilled to be here in miami, florida to officially launch one of the most importantly movements in american history. first evangelical for trump. [cheering] you know how we did, three years ago, hard to believe. almost three years. the numbers were phenomenal, greater than it's ever been. i would like to begin my remarks today by extending our profound thanks and gratitude to the extraordinary men and women of the united states military. [cheering] they are by far the best and greatest anywhere in the world,

nobody close in recent weeks. american warriors, the raid that killed the leader of isis. [cheering] a depraved butcher who will never again hurt another innocent person. last night, at my direction, the u.s. military executed a flawless strike that terminated during terrorist ringleader responsible for greatly wounding and murdering thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds, at least of americans. he's been killed and his bloodied rampage is now forever gone. [cheering] he was plotting attacks against americans but now we've endured

his atrocities, they've been stopped for good. i don't know if you know what was happening but he was planning a very major attack. and we got him. [cheering] we are a peaceloving nation in my administration remains committed to establishing peace and harmony among the nations in the world. we do not seek more nationbuilding. we do not seek regime change. i will never hesitate to defend the safety of the american people. [cheering] so let this be a warning to terrorists, if you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our citizens. [cheering] americans have many blessings but perhaps the greatest among them is the blessing of being

protected by the most exceptional and virtuous military on the face of god's earth. [cheering] this evening, we are delighted to be joined by many incredible faith leaders, including a terrific man that i've gotten to know and his wife, i think she might even be better than him. james and shirley, where are you james? got to know each other well. a friend of mine who was on television before i knew him, he kept saying you know, you might not know the bible as well as i do or as well as a lot of people but he's a leader and he loves god. he is a great christian. he said i love him and i want him to do a terrific job. and hopefully more than exceeded expectations. robert jeffers. i hope i have. thank you.