they say to show the back of your hand instead, see like that. >> can be the do a peace sign anymore. >> i would be very impressed. they can have whatever i have. >> take it. thanks for joining us. "fox & friends" starts right now . >> one more alarm clock, guys. january 12th, 2017, this is what's happening on "fox & friends". >> donald trump holds first news conference of the summer this as he calls, quote, completely unverified reports about allegations involving russia. >> not you. >> can you give us a chance? you're attacking -- can you give us a question. >> i'm not going to give you a question. you are fake news. >> they haven't the slightest idea how to deal with donald trump and you know why, because they haven't any experience dealing with real people. >> mr. costa owes the president

elect an apology for childish and inappropriate behavior. >> day two of the hearings for senator jeff sessions of alabama and something unprecedented is about to happen. >> in the choice between standing with senate norm or standing up, i will always chose conscious and country. >> let me ask you this question, is vladimir putin a war criminal? >> i would not use that term. the question is is that the most effective way to have progress continue to be made, there seems to be some misunderstanding that somehow i see the world through a different lens and i do not. ♪ ♪ ♪ steve: so that's where we start today. thursday. live from studio e, you know b yesterday we knew that president-elect donald trump was going to give his first press conference in a very long time and he made about a dozen headlines, for instance, he layed out how he's going to

sever ties with his company, russia did try to interfere with the election probably and he's going to donate all of the income from foreign governments to the federal treasury, that's great. yet, it is a couple of news outlets that publish things in the last 48 hours that was inaccurate that really got him going. ainsley: yesterday no one is talking about that, really, everybody is focused on his press conference and the news that allegedly came out of russia about dirt on donald trump, he's saying it's not true and it's fake news and he went after some of the networks. brian: from the intelligence community to the president, sitting president of the united states to the president elect, so cnn runs with this story but not the 35 page, what they said it's a two-page addendum about compromising information that russia may have about donald trump. when that came out, donald trump doesn't agree with the assessment and doesn't agree with buzzfeed 35 pages that they

released which they ended by the way this was not verified. when it was time to get questions, it wasn't the list of reporters that was in front of the president or the president elect and he would call order, okay whose hand is up, creating a free-for-all atmosphere. here is donald trump trying to get to the next question when cnn's reporter john or jim acosta? ainsley: watch john roberts. watch the exchange between donald trump and that reporter from cnn who he is furious with. >> since you're attacking us can you give us a question? >> go ahead, go ahead. >> since you are attacking us -- >> not you, not you, your organization is terrible. >> you're attack our news organization. can you give us a chance to ask the question, sir? >> quiet, quiet. she's asking a question, don't be rude.

don't be rude. no, i'm not going to give you a question. >> can is that state -- >> you are fake news. >> sir. >> you can watch sean spicer's face getting redder by listening to this. >> can't believe that he would treat the press like that. think about it. who is in charge of the white house, is it the white house press corp. rush limbaugh loves this donald trump. >> can you give us a question. >> what you are watching is donald trump and his team fighting back and refusing to accept the lay of the land as it's always been, knot the republicans, donald trump. donald trump is showing everybody in the republican party how it's done.

i mean, you can't be called anything worst than what they've tried to call donald trump. you can't be accused of much worse than what they've accused trump of being and doing and has it affected him, is he cowarding him in the corner, is he whining, no, he's cutting them down to size. it's a beautiful thing to watch and that's why people all over the country when they see these things are standing up and cheering. >> what do you think that went, i don't remember it happening to president obama, i don't remember it happening to president bush, i don't remember it happening to president clinton. but you never see something like this with someone of this high office in this country. >> we want to know what you think because donald trump looked at jim acosta, jim acosta was saying, are you going to answer my question, no, i'm not going to answer your question. steve: you're fake news. ainsley: he kept going on,

you're being rude. what do you think, was he being rude or jim acosta should donald trump have answered some acosta's questions? >> and the reason donald trump says cnn was fake news and brian touched on this a while ago, monday night cnn reported that during briefing on friday donald trump was presented with a two-page addendum, kind of a summary of this -- a compilation of dociay and trump was never given the summary. the papers were included in the package to show trump. this stuff right here, this is verified. this is unverified. so that's how it all came about. the beating that the press took yesterday does not make any reporter's job easier. the people love it and the intel community hates it and caused the director of national

intelligence, mr. clapper, to pick up the phone last night and he called donald trump and then put out this statement. ainsley: this evening i had the opportunity to speak with president-elect trump to discuss media reports about our briefing last friday. i expressed my profound dismay of the los angeles that have been appearing at the press and we both agreed that they are extremely corrosive and damaging to the national security. whatever discussed in the meetings, something needs to be kept a secret. they are national -- steve: clapper said that the los -- leaks did not come from the intelligence community. ainsley: donald trump said they might have. steve: where would they have come from? ainsley: someone within that room. brian: he said this is a big block on intelligence community. donald trump says i know who was in the room.

i talked to him. he ran a mini test, somehow this stuff is leaking out. now, if it is true that the intelligence community is mad at him for calling them out three weeks ago something with the russian hacks and they're trying to get back at him, it blew up in their face to the point where barack obama's national nid has picked up the phone and trying to explain to donald trump it was not us. so he blasts the report in particular about what was in the buzz can have feed. >> i'm a germaphobe. i won't shake people's hands. new york posts nails it when it talks about journalism. you can google it from there. it turns out that wall street

journal found the investigator that was with mi5 that did the report, released back to mysterious vendor who happened to be an opponent of donald trump sometime between june and december and he was so concerned about the results he handed over to the fbi, john mccain got a hand over to fbi and that's how the unverified report was given to in some way shape or form to donald trump. >> look, buzz feed never should have printed it because it was wrong, inaccurate and cnn got in trouble because some of their information was wrong. trump, however, himself thought it went will because he tweeted out last night, we had had a great news conference in trump tower today. a couple of fake news organizations were there, but the people truly get what's going on. brian: also, by the way, obamacare might be history. ainsian that's right. steve: that's her lead story. brian: ultimately you decide.

>> that would be interesting. while you were sleeping republicans did get one step close the other repealing obamacare after seven hours, senate approving budget package to move forward, they were totally shut down. >> health care should not be only for the wealthy. >> on behalf of the -- >> the senate will be in order. >> kudos to senate for taking first step to replace, repeal and replace obamacare, now it's the house's turn to get the job done. #promise keeping business, #make america great again. well, the house votes on that measure, that is storm. in another round of heated senate confirmation schedules on capitol hill for today including our first look at senator of

defense -- secretary of defense general mad dog mattis, ben carson and senator mike pompeo, mr. trump's pick to run the cia also have hearings today. and this after marco rubio grilled defense secretary nominee rex tillerson over his relationship with russia. take a listen. >> is vladimir putin a war criminal? >> i would not use that term. >> you are still not prepared to say that vladimir putin and military have violated rules of war and have conducted war crimes in aleppo? >> those are very, very serious charges to make and i would want to have much more information before reaching a conclusion. ainsley: rex tillerson will have second hearing in just a few hours. congressman who rehung the painting of police depicted as pigs on capitol hill throwing another punch in the fierce fight to democrat lacy clay rehung picture and now demanding action from speaker paul ryan

sending a letter saying this, if you don't like a painting in a display, you simply move on to the next one, you don't take it down. lacy filed theft charges against congressman hunter after he took the picture down. the painting is still hanging. there's this first lady michelle obama is moving out of the white house in just eight days but still be on hand to help the lady taking her job. >> we are going to be supportive to the trump administration as much as we can be, i'm available for melania, for ivanka for anyone to give advice that they get through this thing whole and healthy. >> she already spoke to melania trump about creating safe spaces about protecting sense of family. >> that was so great and credited the bush's for making the job easier and transition. ainsley: nice thing to hear when it seems so divided.

>> very nice of her. steve: thank you, abby. ainsley: they have to stick together. coming up, more on the russia rumors, is the intelligence community trying or hurt the president elect. next guest is former cia officer and he has information that you have not heard before. >> sarah palin is in the headlines, she has a big secret and can't wait to reveal. steve: i can't wait to hear afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine.

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>> i saw the information, it's all fake news. it's phoney stuff. it didn't happen and it was gotten by opponents of ours as you know because you reported it and so did many of the other people, it was a group of opponents that got together, sick people and they put that crap together. steve: what crap is he talking about? president-elect trump pointing the finger on a number of organizations, why were unverified rumors included in a brief that supposedly he got and apparently he didn't get? former cia officer brian dean,

good morning to you. cnn got in trouble because they said on friday trump was given two-page intel report regarding the 35 page dossier. trump was never given the summary. however, it was mentioned in passing. what say what the intel community did was unprecedented. >> it sure is. what the intelligence community is supposed to do is give facts with reasonable analysis, higher, degrees of confidence, you do not give unvarnished rumors to a president elect. in this case, we think, just to pass this along, you might be a russian spy. it is unprecedented. this doesn't happen. it's not suppose to happen. steve: think about it if the cia thought the president elect was a spy, he would be the last person you would tell, we are onto you. >> you would think. steve: yeah. >> even if it was in passing, two-page memo. by the way there's this floating

around. >> you don't do that. >> we are trained never to do those kinds of things. it's wickedly inappropriate and there ought to be severe consequence who did this or thought this was a good idea. steve: you have a problem with them telling trump because it was about trump. do you have a problem telling the current president. >> it shouldn't haven't included anywhere. until you have verified information which frankly should go to fbi, absent that, you don't brief it. you don't brief rumors. how many rumors are in washington, d.c. about every politician. it's ridiculous. steve: there was a leak. the question is where did the leak come from? clapper said, well, you know, this thing has been circulated on capitol hill as to pin it on members of congress. there were two parties in the room over at trump tower on friday, the trump people and the intel community. >> yeah. steve: somebody blabbed. >> this is a challenge that the government, intelligence community faces all of the time,

leaks happen frequently and usually within the administration or the hill, as a general rule. >> we are talking about national security. the person who did the leaking, should they go to jail? >> absolutely specially accusing the the president of being a spy. steve: under this administration maybe not get in trouble because it clearly was meant to discredit donald trump but donald trump is going to get the keys to air force one in eight days. >> sure. the intelligence community owes an apology to the american people because this denigrates who we are and talking to some of my former colleagues we are gasped, we cannot believe this is happening. steve: thank you very much. coming up, pain killers, are drug companies intentionally profiting off of addiction in the country? details coming up next.

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meanwhile -- ainsley: thanks, brian. opioids are the main contributor of deaths from drug overdoses, over 33,000 people died from opioid use. new jersey's governor chris christie join pped us yesterday and spoke about new jersey's own struggle with drug addiction, listen to what he said. >> last year in new jersey four times the number of people died of drug overdosed than were murdered. three times as many people died of overdoes than died in automobile accident. this is epidemic and we need to understand that this is a disease, it's not a moral failing, it's a disease. ainsley: new jersey is among many states dealing with this epidemic, so could drug firms and drug companies be to blame for this problem? here to weigh in dr. nicole. >> good morning. ainsley: for folks at home that doesn't know what opioids, what are examples?

>> vicodin, there's a number of painkillers. ainsley: is christie spot on? >> he hit the nail on the head. without a doubt, we are in the midst of unprecedented opioid epidemic nationally. as we mentioned, 33,000 people in 2015 died alone during to opioid-related overdoses and that's four times what we were seeing in 2000. there's definitely a crisis. we are in the middle of it and it would be remiss for us to keep ignoring it. ainsley: what about his solution for the problem? he wants to tell doctors not to write many prescriptions for the problems? >> less than 20% of people who overdoes are those appropriately taking, cancer pain, relentless pain that people need medications for for their quality of life. my concern is if we take away prescribing rights, then these

patients will have decrease quality of life and decrease life expectancy. ainsley: if you are addicted to pain killers, it leads to heroin. we can put up statickics, -- statistics, 580 people. >> they were originally on prescription pain pills. about 80% of those, 75 to 80% were not using own appropriate prescriptions. they were using someone else's. so patients are getting prescriptions but other people are abusing them, they are getting them to the wrong hands. what we need to do is stop that. we need to make sure that this doesn't take place. ainsley: who is to blame for this? the drug companies are, they are trying to profit off of people's addictions. >> sure, to say the drug

companies are to blame would be a small narrow vision. a lot of people. those are few and far between. it's very complex, it's not as easy just throwing pain medication. we need to make sure that patients once they have medication if there is anything left over, that they have the appropriate way to dispose of it so it's not hanging out in the house. heroin, all of the illegal alternatives that people are turning to, that's coming from the southwest border. we need strict border control so it's not easy to access alternatives. ainsley: some people aren't responsible. >> absolutely. by restricting doctor's rights, they are doing just that. ainsley: coming up taliban releasing a brand-new video of american hostage desperately begging for president-elect

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brian: obama left behind the set the trump's grandkid views but trump turns him down. trump said i will be building a bigger, better swingset and will make the kids pay for it.

they will reimburse him later. >> give me your allowance money. >> you all the swingset? i understand michelle obama bill the stonewall around her garden to keep it in place. could be a sandbox. >> regarding the wall, mexico wants to talk to trump about security, mexico built a wall. >> they will pay for it. be change they are great to deal with so far. they want to renegotiate it. ainsley: donald trump said when he was dealing with vladimir putin do you really believe hillary would do a better job dealing with fighting vladimir putin than i would? >> i don't know. when i first -- i shouldn't like

her but i am not sure i will like her. warming up a little bit. ainsley: the taliban releasing chilling video of these two professors begging for president-elect trump to save them. first time we have seen kevin king who is an american and timothy weeks from australia they were taken hostage in august. king is pleading for mister trump to put pressure to arrange and exchange with the terror group. a congressman collapsing during a houseboat, florida representative john rutherford taken from the cloakroom on a stretcher, rushed to the hospital, putting out a statement saying this. congressman rutherford is conscious, alert and in good spirits, he did not suffer a heart attack but continues to be evaluated by doctors. sarah palin a plotting mister

trump's exchange with a reporter at yesterday's press conference. >> not you, not you. your organization. >> calling him a fearless leader and a long facebook post she says it was vindication and validation for those without a microphone, hinting at what is to come saying stay tuned for the next step in shooing away the pesky numbskulls in what was once mainstream media. i am going to do my part. president-elect trump getting an upgraded car to keep him safe, cadillac one, the limo that gets the president around getting new support, not talking about more cupholders, the presidential limo has a teargas cannon to go along with the armor plating it already has. it comes with kevlar reinforced wheels that are shard resistant.

steve: they call it the beast and the doors 800 pounds. >> why doesn't it have tinted windows? >> the windows -- >> to see who is in their. >> the president is inside. if it is outside that is janet steen. >> did you call me a been? after the forecast i delivered for you it feels like springtime. >> it is a beauty, not a beast. let's look at the maps. that is not to say other parts of the country don't feel springlike. we have cold air to the north of us and warm, incredibly springlike temperatures ahead of

this boundary. that will cause problems in the next 48 to 72 hours. let's look at the west, big issues, over a foot of rainfall as well as feet, 100 inches of snow, 120 inches across the sea air with the past storm system that inundated the west with heavy rain, mountain snow, fred for mudslide and avalanche danger continue even though that will taper off but this is the concern. starting today across the central us, central plains toward the mid-atlantic, ice storm starting tonight through sunday, this boundary in place, warm air and golf moisture writing over a very cold layer of air at the surface and that would mean a bad situation from texas towards the ohio valley and the mid-atlantic. back inside. california panicking. >> a new show called star making it debut and sleepy hollow is returning for a fourth season.

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judge andrew napolitano? can't wait to get his take on it. we live in a pick and choose world.

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start ordering it. january 26th. >> oil bubbling around it. it looks delicious. that's get to the judge. in a big press conference yesterday donald trump distanced himself from the trump organization. >> my two sons, don and eric, going to be running the company and in a professional manner. they will not discuss it with me. i could run the trump organization, could run the company, i don't want to do that. >> still not satisfied.

the senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano, lock up the hotel. he was talking about he didn't have to do that. let's start at the beginning. the president invites -- can never have by statute conflict of interest. judge napolitano: a united states senator and his family owned a hotel room, could not receive the profits from a foreign government that rented the hotel room whether it was a ballroom or overnight room but the president of the united states can because when they and acted this statute prohibiting all people that work for the federal government from receiving money directly or indirectly from foreign governments they exempted the president and the vice president. similarly when they prohibited members of congress from operating business enterprises they exempted the president and vice president.

the simple question, did donald trump do enough yesterday? he didn't have to do anything. everything he did was to give him the opportunity to focus 100% on being president of the united states, did not have to worry about running his businesses. legally could he run the business as? of course. personally could hear the businesses? he loves running those businesses. >> they said we won't do any business with any other country, keep us right here in america the next four years which are you happy with this? judge napolitano: i am. what i thought was spectacular is profits from hotels like the one that is not far from the white house that money will go to the federal treasury. i do not know of an example in american history where the president of the united states said i am lawfully turning this money but i will send it to the treasury anyway. i don't want anyone thinking i'm making decisions to increase

profitability of this hotel. >> to watch television at night, tucker carlson is not happy with it. he said donald trump should take his name off everything if you want to do this on the up and up. judge napolitano: i disagree. with the president-elect disagreed -- let's talk about it. ivana's last name is trump. can she market the name? it is her name. billy beer, billy carter, market his last name, the same as this. >> i was in college at the time, the beer was not that bad. judge napolitano: i was just old enough to drink. >> secretary of state nominee rex tillerson had an intense grilling, cory gardner will be there asking questions and will join us live coming up next.

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>> rex tillerson under scrutiny over his relationship with vladimir putin. day one of his confirmation hearings on capitol hill.

>> russia poses a danger but it is not unpredictable in advancing its own interests. and invaded the ukraine, the taking of crimea, syrian forces that enforce the laws of war. our allies are right. in the absence of american leadership this door was left open and unintended signals were sent. >> they will be friends with russia, and it is due to a bruised ego which came from this administration. cordy gardner is a member of the senate and their at the hearing, joins us with his reaction. were you impressed with the rex tillerson you met yesterday? >> here is a guy not from washington or the political world, without a briefing or a

pen and paper, made it clear the last eight years of leadership by barack obama has weakened this country, emboldened leaders to have no fear of the united states when it comes to illegal annexation of crimea. brian: he donated to your campaign, wants to be clear on this. we are curious to -- and marco rubio, let's share with the american public. >> vladimir putin -- a worker? >> i would not use that term. >> so much information out there, would not be hard to say vladimir fitness military conducted war crimes in aleppo.

>> i am not willing to make conclusions on what is publicly available. >> none of this is classified. political opponents -- >> your question is people directly responsible for that. i'm not disputing people are dead. steve: what is your view on the exchange? foes on the same issue? >> comments back and forth, a third round of questioning, the issue of moral clarity over human rights and responsibility, the same field is harder hitting by marco rubio, but the bottom line, when bob corker, foreign relations committee, came back and tried to clarify, the answer was simply this. once he has the information, reviewed this in the state department, he is not afraid to call it what it is. that is a war criminal and i look forward to that

information. steve: he says i would give them weapons to defend themselves. >> that is more than we haven't of this administration that gave them blankets. steve: on climate change he says there's a lot out there not related to the imminent threat, that is different, on cuba he doesn't think we got enough of what they got. >> if you look at cuba we had a hearing after the policy announcement, there were more people in civil society jailed in cuba after the change in relationship than there were 4. fidel castro is enriched and that is what mister tillerson is expressing and that is a welcome sign we will be tough on those people we need to be tough finance can't let people get away with actions. steve: the yes column.

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♪ steve: get up, everybody. it is thursday, january, 12th. this is what is happening today on "fox & friends." >> the mr. president-elect, mr. president-elect are you attacking our news organization can you give us a chance. can you give us a question. can you give us a question. >> i'm not going to give you a question. you are fake news. >> they haven't the slightest idea to deal with donald trump. you know why? because they haven't had any experience dealing with real people. >> mr. acosta owes the president-elect apology for his child an inappropriate behavior. >> day two of hearings for senator jeff sessions of alabama

and something unprecedented is about to happen. >> in the choice between standing with senate norms or standing up, i will always choose conscience and country. >> rex tillerson on hot seat, nominee should be secretary of state for donald trump. >> let me ask you a question. is vladmir putin a war criminal. >> i would not use that term, whether you question or label someone, the question is that the most effective way to have progress continue to be made. there seems to be some misunderstanding somehow i see the world through a different lens and i do not. ♪ brian: i didn't know what rex tillerson sounded like. i read his resume'. to sit there for 500 hours straight with probing questions, is impressive. steve: that buy has good hair. rudy giuliani joins us live. it started five or six days. >> last week, the president-elect decided that he

wanted to bring in on regular basis the people in the private sector, the corporate leaders, in particular and thought leaders in the private sector who are working on security for cyber because we're so far behind and it's his belief, which i share, that a lot of the solutions are out there, we're not sharing them. like cancer, there is cancer research going on all over the place. you all wish they get together in one room, maybe we find a cure. my belief as always the answer to cybersecurity will be found in the private sector. that is where we have the great creativity. that's where we have the huge amount of money and that's where we have these great companies, the greatest in the world. the idea is here to bring together corporate leaders and their technological people, president will meet with them on an ongoing basis as well as anybody else in the administration. steve: who will head this up? >> i coordinate the whole thing.

make sure the meeting takes place. make sure think get information from the private sector. first of all, government will have all the information available in the private sector. number two, it will form a little more connection between these people who are doing cybersecurity so they can work each other. some if you put one and two together you could end up with six. i go to israel for example. tremendous research in cyberdefense in el alam. don't get benefit of that here. we go there and also the other allies that do cyberdefense. rex tillerson was exactly right. he are probably says anything as a texan says anything, he is i like him, a direct guy. we don't have a cyberdefense. that is ridiculous. there are cyberdefenses. brian: recap, 10:15 formal

announcement takes place, you head up a committee in the white house. >> right. brian: are you guys on a timeline to produce something? >> basically having meetings with him and produce for him what they're doing. so that he and the people in his administration get to see what the private sector is doing in an organized way. steve: sure. >> there is secret part of it too. i don't mean secret like top secret. the other benefits from this get them together, competent them in the same room because i know if i can get them in the same room because i work with some of them and they start talking to each, they will come up with even better solutions. here is what happened to us. our acquisition of information got way ahead of our ability to defend it. steve: yep. >> think of it as a football game. our offense is here. our defense is here. we have to do what the giants did, invest in our defense to catch up. we may not make the super bowl in one year but may be there

next year. steve: just don't give up a hail mary. brian: watch the back up of end zone. >> i forgot that one. ainsley: you're talking about the press conference today. yesterday he had a press conference at trump tower. 250 journalists in the room. cnn reporting what he calls fake news. this is hem with one of the cnn reporters. >> since you're attacking us can you give us a question. mr. president, mr. president-elect -- >> go ahead. >> no the you. not you. >> can you give us a chance. >> your organization is terrible. your organization is terrell. >> let us ask a question sir. >> quiet. quiet. >> mr. president-elect, can you say category, can you give us a question. >> don't be rude. i'm not going to give you a question. i'm not going to give you a question. >> can you state categorically -- >> you are fake news. steve: the reason he said they are fake news, trump was given two-page intel report on friday.

trump was never given the two-page report. apparently mentioned in passing. >> clearly the report is garbage. the guy they have in prague is the wrong guy. the guy they had in prague was -- steve: different cohen, accusing him of awful stuff. >> the man who i happen to know really well, he is a great guy and great lawyer, was with his son doing a baseball tryout. his son is very good baseball player. >> usc. >> he was doing a baseball tryout. they said he was in prague. not only wasn't he in prague, you look at his passport he was not in prague. the thing was a total phony. the piece of paper was total phony. the reporting leaked out of what is supposed to be surrounded by top security. it was never part of it. so i don't snow how you can describe it a totally phony story intended to malign him and

to make it look like somehow the moscow has stuff on him they can extort him with. first of all i can tell you something about donald trump. you can't extort him. i don't care what you write about him, what you will say about him, he will do what he believes is right. this is ridiculous what these news organizations are doing. cnn for quite some time has been way off the charts. brian: especially since he got elected. >> way off the charts. look, the press may be a little sensitive about that, i would feel the same way if they did that to my reputation. steve: here's the thing. cnn said he was given a two-page intel report. he was not. the information, many have connected the dots, obviously came from the intel community. last night james clapper, the guy who is director of national intelligence actually talked to trump on the phone. spoke with president-elect trump to discuss recent media reports about our briefing last friday. i expressed my profound dismay at leaks that have been

appearing in the press. we both agreed they are extremely corrosive, damaging to national security. >> president obama was concerned about the leaks from national security. remember all the investigations? this isn't like a big surprise that there are leaks from the national security community, or may be. we've had it before. president trump is not the first one to complain about it. steve: it's a crime. >> it's a serious crime. what he has to do, what he is going to do is, in a few days, there will be new leadership. i think you see that thing straightened out. with proper leadership this doesn't happen. brian: if coats and pompeo get through and in charge. >> i know dan coats really well. pompeo is tough as nails. it isn't going to happen under donald trump. brian: mr. mayor, a lot of people believe, the leaks, got to be the trump organization or got to be white house. there is sense, coming, indications were that donald trump believes it is coming from barack obama's intelligence unit and maybe that

was, i feel bad that it is coming from our guys conversation. what do you think? >> i think a lot of interpretation here. here's the thing. shouldn't come out. steve: still a crime. >> shouldn't come out. it is a crime. not only that, it shouldn't come out if it was true, it which would be terrible for mr. trump, it is not true. it is totally phony, made-up plant that somebody in our intelligence community didn't bother to investigate. they didn't bother to figure out if it was the right mr. cohen or not. that has got to tell you something about competence. brian: "wall street journal" says it is a guy named chris diehl, who can't be caught up to. one of the people that looked at the dossier. ainsley: the dirty dossier. brian: who looked at it, said if the cia had this would know it is fault. it is too perfect. if someone made it up. >> somebody did make it up. steve: released it before the big day of the press conference. do you think timing had a lot to

do with it. >> had a lot to do with it. thing is no other news organization went with it. only cnn went with it. everyone said no, this is garbage. steve: "new york times" said no. "washington post." >> they don't like him very much. brian: cnn does a farewell address, first show comes on good-bye, barack obama. let's talk about the donald trump story. they put aside the president's farewell address to talk about this. ainsley: everything happened yesterday with congress, they were grilling jeff sessions. they have been doing that the last two days. yesterday, cory booker, fellow senator said positive things about him, worked together with him in the past, he said this, he was grilling him. listen to this. >> some of my many colleagues aren't happy i'm breaking with sinatra digs, to testify on the nomination of one of my colleagues, but i believe, like perhaps all of my colleagues in the senate, that in the choice between standing with senate

norms or standing up for what my conscience tells me is best for our country, i will always choose conscience and country. >> senator sessions has not demonstrated a commitment to a central rec with sis of the job, to aggressively pursue the congressional mandate of civil rights, equal rights and justice for all of our citizens. brian: he is for unequal rights and no justice. >> i know a lot more about jeff sessions than he does. he doesn't even know him. jeff sessions was u.s. attorney when i was associate attorney general. whenever we would appear with donald trump he would introduce him as his boss. i was his boss 2 1/2 years in the justice department, third ranking official in the reagan justice department. he is talking about the wrong guy. jeff sessions is fair, he is open-minded. this is a man who prosecuted klan members. this is a man who sought death penalty for a klan member. i don't know if cory booker did that. steve: cory booker is being political. >> there is nothing prejudiced,

racist, if you want to fair apdecent man you will not find a better person than jeff sessions. >> this never happened before. >> he has proven his bonefides by prosecutions including desegregation cases. i don't know what they want from the guy. maybe the fact he has a southern accent this is prejudice, what they're doing to him is prejudice of the worst kind. ainsley: why would cory booker do this? >> he wants to run for president. i see it as a complete political act. there is, look, i supported then was very disappointed, i supported loretta lynch on the theory that the president should get the attorney general he wants and she was a competent u.s. attorney and i knew her as a u.s. attorney. didn't know she was going to meet with president clinton on airplane. wouldn't have if i knew that. you give the president choice unless they're bad people.

this guy is far from a bad person. this incident talking about jokes, some which didn't happen and happened 20, 30 years ago, and in between he has a prosecutorial record anybody would be proud of including civil rights leader. steve: we know where you come down on him. >> tillerson did a great job. steve: he will head up a cybersecurity group for president-elect soon to be president of the united states. thank you very much, rudy. >> you guys are great. ainsley: thank you. steve: we would agree. >> your friends. ainsley: welcome anytime here too. coming up while you were sleeping republicans took the first step to repeal and replace obamacare. what did they do and what happens next? we will explain. steve: donald trump tweets to the country, but what happens when he tweets you personally? one woman just found out. that story next. ♪ before fibromyalgia,

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>> debate is not allowed. brian: wow. ainsley: while you were sleeping republicans got one step closer to repealing obamacare. steve: what exactly happened earlier? rob schmitt with breaking details. reporter: guys, the senate passed a budget blueprint, calling repeal resolution after debate raged on for seven hours. it sets blueprint how the republicans plan to repeal and replace obamacare by stripping health care law of its funding. democrats say a repeal will be disaster for millions of americans. >> up to 30 million americans will lose their health care with many thousands dying as a result. because you have no health insurance and you can't go to a doctor or a hospital you die. reporter: fiery debate, the senate votes 51-48 along party lines to approve the measure. only republican holdout senator

rand paul who wants to see a replacement in place before a repeal. the vote coming after president-elect trump promise ad quick replacement plan. >> you will be very proud of what we put forth, having to do with health care. obamacare is a complete and total disaster. we're going to be submitting as soon as our secretary is approved, almost simultaneously obamacare is the democrats problem. we are going to take problem off the shelves for them. we're doing them a tremendous service by doing it. we could sit back and let them hang with it. we are doing the democrats a great service. so as soon as our secretary is approved, and gets into the office we'll be filing a plan. reporter: vp-elect mike pence

tweeted, kudos to senate to take the first step to repeal and replace obamacare. now it is the house's turn to get the job done. #promise keeping business, #make america great again. they vote on this tomorrow. brian: get used to this pace. starting to build a wall at the same time. good job, rob. steve: #rob schmitt. ainsley: rand paul only one that voted against it because he says there is not a plan to replace it. brian: donald trump felt the same way. called them last week. apparently one fairwell celebration wasn't enough for president obama. wait until you hear what he is planning for round two. steve: great. l.l. bean facing backlash and boycotts after a single board member donated to the trump campaign. linda bean from the l.l. bean family here to respond to her critics. >> linda, i love your bags. ♪

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♪ brian: time for a quick like at the nfl headlines. this is big news. fox sports taking fans on the field for super bowl xxxv 1. we're talking about a new 360-degree camera experience. giving you place from the player's perspective. 38 cameras from the nrg stadium. another nfl team heading to hollywood. san diego chargers set to announce they're moving to los angeles for the 2017 season as early as today, after 55 years in san diego. they will split a stadium with the rams yet to be built. they will play in the coliseum

in the short term. steve: in other news, all american company we all love l.l. bean, is being blacklisted because one much its 50 plus board members supported donald trump with some cash to his super-pac. brian: wow. meanwhile the website, grab your wallet, calling for customers to boycott the beloved retailer more than 70 other businesses who support trump or carry trump products. >> now the family-owned l.l. bean is fighting back. here to explain that is linda bean. she is the granddaughter of the founder, leon wood bean and a member of the board of directors who supported president-elect donald trump. good morning to you, linda. steve: now we know what l.l. bean stands for. ainsley: that was your grandfather. >> yes it was. brian: how do you feel what is going on very now? >> i think it is very much a case of bullying. it is bullying me and bullying the company i own and bullying i

am partly on, the l.l. bean company since i owned i was a child. my grandfather gave me the first share of stock the day i was born. steve: that is awesome. >> i've been on the board for decades. i think i have done a good jobs for the employees. they're the victims. the company's employees, if the would i scott succeed in these cases, we're not the only one. steve: here's the thing be linda, four years ago your cousin and coo of l.l. bean gave a lot of money to barack obama. tell me about the boycotts and outrage then. >> there was none. steve: there was none. >> no, definitely a double standard. both these guys won. obama won and trump won. my cousin's candidate, my candidate but i'm the one being targeted and vilified, and asked to be taken off the board. they demanded, that is the demand i leave the board. we have a 10-member board. steve: because heyou donated to the president. >> because i personally gave

money to the campaign through this maine effort, put up signs in maine and put our governor's wife on tv to endorse trump for president in the last week. steve: are you going to resign from board? >> absolutely not. steve: good. >> your cousin with one of the eight largest donors to president obama. you gave $25,000 to president elects trump and they want you off the board and people are boycotting your company? mine thought donald trump won. more people will support him than against your company. you might see a revenue hike because of this. are you getting anymore business? >> that is interesting thing i heard from my son, vice chairman of the board, there is slight uptick in our business this week. this happened on monday. a day we announced creation of new jobs in maine to make the bean boot. it is very popular right you no. i'm very proud of the company. brian: you're adding jobs which is going to make donald trump happy.

it has been misreported about your donation. you gave $15,000 in august and $10,000 in october to making maine great pac. it did not donate illegally. >> that is correct. steve: a lot of people are taking a stand donating to your candidate and not bullied by this boycott outfit, grab your wallet. people will like you took part in the america process. they will buy duck boots. >> i had a lot of emails and good messages. thank you everybody. it is great. brian: you're not one to back down? >> i never back down. if i feel i'm right. i feel they're bull i also. that is all they are are, small hardcore bullies on the left coast in california, to control what we do, what we buy, what we sell in maine. steve: they're trying to shut you down so that all those people who work up in maine lose their jobs. that is un-american. >> definitely the wrong way to go.

we need to create jobs in this country. brian: that means barbra streisand won't shop there. >> she said she would leave america. what happened about that? these threats are very interesting to me. steve: linda bean from l.l. bean, thank you very much. ainsley: thank you on behalf of america provide best bean bag. >> my dad designed that. steve: is that right? >> 1946 spring catalogs. ainsley: one of my go-to gifts. you can monogram it. my daughter has a bunch of. >> what about duck boots? >> my grandfather did that. the first 400 pairs fell apart. he made it good. he not only returned the boots but said i will always return. money back guaranty. ainsley: customer is always right. >> right. steve: they fell apart so they started using duct tape. >> the stitching came apart. steve: got it all figured out. all right.

>> grateful for the new surge in sales. steve: all right, linda bean from l.l. bean. >> i didn't come to represent the company. i came because i have been attacked. steve: thank you very much. >> thank you. brian: coming up straight ahead -- steve see mainstream media going with the story that russia has dirt on donald trump. apparently not true. you should they have to apologize? the man set to become white house press secretary sean spicer on deck coming up. brian: speaking of the president-elect, he fired a new warning shot against american companies planning to move jobs overseas. stuart varney used to be overseas but he took the nina and pinta over here. ♪ eels to see your numbers go up, despite your best efforts. but what if you could turn things around?

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leaving and getting away with murder, and if our politicians had what it takes they would have done this years ago, and you would have millions more workers right now in the united states. brian: but would we have cheap prices? steve: donald trump making his message crystal lear and warning companies thinking about moving jobs out of the u.s. of a. ainsley: also talking about giving hotel profits to the treasury at his first press conference as president-elect. brian: this is almost too much for stuart varney to digest. he is host of "varney & company." make press of that press conference from the business perspective. >> from the business perspective, donald trump, president-elect trump using that press conference as bully pulpit. he was wielding a big stick. you keep those manufacturing jobs. you keep your headquarters jobs. keep them in america, keep them here or else. he was wagging that big stick right at drug companies. look, we are the biggest market

for drugs in the world but you would make a lot of them over there. some of you are moving over there. stop it. don't do it now. that is wielding the big stick. the immediate result was a plummet in drug stocks across the board. steve: pharmaceuticals. boom. brian: how much? >> $60 billion wiped off the drug companies market value like that. steve: this was one thing running for president but haven't heard him since saying the same stuff. >> participate of successful effort so far to reverse the trend for a generation we've seen jobs, manufacturing jobs in america drift overseas. mr. trump wants to stop that, reverse it, keep them here and bring them back. ainsley: how is he going to do that? make it cheaper to make products here in america because if you own a business -- >> carrot and stick. here is the carrot. i give you tax cuts and deregulate industry but you keep

the job here. if you doesn't, we'll hit you with a border tax trying to bring your stuff back in. brian: stuart, traditionally republicans are free traders, prices down everyone competes. are they comfortable with this, are you comfortable with this? >> a lot of people are not comfortable with this. what happens if he does impose a border tax on products coming in from mexico or products coming from china? the price of those things goes up. around you could be in a trade war. not everybody is happy with the carrot-and-stick approach. steve: we'll watch you over on fox business here in about an hour 1/2. >> very good. thank you very much indeed. brian: wears same outfit. it isn't going to change. steve: be a bip has news. >> good morning, guys. headlines to get to, starting with this one, the taliban releasing chilling video of these two professors begging for president-elect trump to save them. first time kevin king, who is an

american and timothy weeks from australia since they were taken back in august. mr. king pleading with mr. trump putting pressure on government to arrange a exchange with the terror group. they were kidnapped outside american university in kabul. florida representative john rutherford, taken out from the cloakroom on a stretcher, rushed to the hospital. the newly-sworn in congressman's offices says rutherford is in good spirits. he did not suffer a heart attack but still being evaluated by the doctors. if you thought tuesday's farewell address was the president's final good-bye, think again. >> thank you, god bless you. may god continue to bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause] >> president obama will make his final appearance as commander-in-chief on "60 minutes" this sunday. the hour-long interview is expected to touch on eight years in office and president-elect trump. the president-elect is

criticized for use of twitter but both mr. trump and his team say it's a great way to connect with the american people. this morning is proof with that. one lucky woman in south carolina tweeting the next commander-in-chief and in her shock she got a response. tweeting this, morning in america again. thank you, president-elect donald trump so proud of you. mr. trump responding back, saying thanks. i wish i could have seen her response. steve: how crazy is that? >> it is awesome. he connects with the people on twitter. ainsley: thanks, abby. steve: on tuesday telecast, mainstream media went with the story that russia has dirt on donald trump should they now apologize because it is not accurate? the man set to become white house press secretary sean spicer on that, coming up next right here live from new york city. ♪

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you gave up drinking, gave up partying, gave up drugs to dedicate your life to god and making films. brian: you kicked big show in the face. >> i kicked almost everybody in the face. eventually that is going to happen. doesn't matter how close you are to me. ainsley: brian, you're next. >> seems like i kick everybody eventually. i experienced with a great deal of worldly success as they say, but, came very late in life for me after screwing up my life quite a bit in wrestling. ainsley: how did it happen? >> my goodness, give you as quick of a version as i can, as i always tell the lord sent me that woman. that woman you gave me, met a young lady. got married very quickly. we started a family and i held that little guy for the first time, i realized that you know, i was not, you know who i was was not a decent man, not a decent husband and father. brian: you became a better father? >> i did. i went running to cornerstone church. somebody help me out.

once they realized i wasn't there to rob the place, they, you know embraced. steve: or kick anybody in the place. ainsley: great church in san antonio. brian: so many wrestlers going to acting success. latest one is the rock. in this you have to real little act in this. not just like you're beating people up. you have to come in here and be a guy, it is a great movie. >> i appreciate that. that is what is so fun about it. it is pretty, not, you know, it is not any stretch for someone to put us in action adventure to fight, but this was a real stretch, was real emotion. there was some depth to this. clearly a phenomenal script. and i guess i sort of wanted my first movie to be something with a little substance to it. and this was. i was thrilled about that. brian: how do you explain it? the, this is the resurrection of gavin stone. >> yes. brian: gavin stone is big-time actor. gets in a lot of trouble.

has to do 200 hours of community service. back in your house in his small town and runs into other people -- >> when he tries to get out of his community service there at the church by jumping into the play, there is chris mat pageant putting on. brian: he will play jesus. >> he is doing it all to get some cover and get out of this, take the easy way out. in that, process, he runs across some wonderful people, and people that, love him and accept him and embrace him, in spite of everything that he's done and even his motives. that has effect on him. then of course, playing the role of jesus also has an eat effect on him as well. it is a, i believe romantic inspirational comedy. steve: you know what? opens on easy day. open on inauguration, day on january 20th. >> thank y'all so much. i appreciate it. steve: god bless you. coming up on this thursday mainstream media going with the

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♪ steve: it is heated exchange everybody is talking about. cnn reporter slammed as fake news by donald trump yesterday at his press conference. here's what that reporter is saying now. >> during that news conference sawn spicer said to me if i were to continue to persist to try to ask a question i would be thrown out of that news conference. aaron, keep in mind i have covered four presidential campaigns, i covered president obama at white house.

i never had a press secretary to threaten throw me out of a news conference. that is a first. not a good sign of things to come. brian: cnn -- incoming press secretary sean spicer joins us right now. sean, did you actually do that? say next "time" i'ms toking you? >> i think jim acosta has a very, very false recollection of the facts. here is what happened during the press conference, he verbally went after the president of the united states, was aggressive with him, inappropriate, rude, disrespectful to say the least. he shouted down a well-respected long time journalist who was asking a question. he wouldn't stop interrupting president-elect and maura from asking her question. once he did, toward the end of the press conference he did it again. after the press conference i went up to him, explained to him that his behavior was unbecoming

disrespectful, rude inappropriate unbecoming of someone addressing the president or president-elect the united states. if it happened again in the future yes i would remove him. but i tried to remove him during a pros conference is patently false. i think he owes an apology to the president-elect, to his fellow members of the press corps and to maura aliason doing her job to ask question in respectful, polite manner. ainsley: here is the thing. 250 journalists in the room. everyone wants to get a question. cnn had a question. he answered it. another cnn report, jim acosta tried to get the get the question in. can i can ask a question. mr. trump said you can't. can i ask a question, can i ask a question? mr. trump said no you can't and he was giving someone else a chance. >> 450 reporters by the time all said and done made it in there. the idea somehow he feels entighted it ask a question is bit preposterous.

that aside a lot of folks wanted to ask a question i understand that whether republican democrat i would be here saying same thing, if someone addressed president obama or president clinton or any president that way. it is disrespectful rude, childish, unacceptable for anybody to treat -- ainsley: especially for the highest honor president of the united states. >> that's right. so i think that at some point, this should be a lesson there were plenty of journalists, majority of which who act with respect and a normal protocol and decorum, that is how it should be. the idea he feels entitle ited to acts in a way unbecoming, frankly doesn't represent the press corps respectfully. i know many journalists feel the same way. steve: going forward, buzzfeed and cnn are going to be in the briefing room for the president of the united states to answer questions. is he ever going to answer questions from either of those news outlets? he had a problem with both of these yesterday? >> i think he did answer a question yesterday from cnn the president-elect will take

anybody on. he is committed to an agenda that will move this country forward. steve: sean, is really mad at buzzfeed for printing -- is he going to punish them by not answering their questions? >> no. i don't know, if you look how quick buzzfeed's failing i'm not sure they will be around by the time we take office next week. their trajectory downward is going rather quick. that being the case should they end upcoming to the briefing room the president-elect doesn't stand down anybody. he will take any question. he is committed to this country, moving it forward, lifting up people out of poverty and spurring economic growth. there is nobody, whether member about press or business leader, you have seen this from the second he got elected. he doesn't take no for an answer and he fights to win. brian: i get that sense. meanwhile donald trump just tweeted this out. james clapper called me, national intelligence director to denounce the false report illegally circulated.

phony pacts, period, too bad, exclamation point. james clapper realized he had to make a call looks like these leaks are eminating from the intelligence community because those were the unnamed sources that cnn named. so sean, seems to be a problem there, correct? and he is acknowledging that by picking up the phone, that right? >> well, i think he just wanted to be very clear this document that was circulated by buzzfeed and others, that attempted to look like a an intelligence document was in fact and director of intelligence in his statement last night made it very clear it was not an intelligence document. so for folks in the media and others to run with it, as if it is gospel truth is patently inappropriate. it was a, it was just, a document that had been circulated around the internet as the director notes in his statement. that had been out there for months. brian: moving on to the confirmation hearings, rex tillerson was somebody on, was out there yesterday for quite a long time. first time in the public setting

that we know, certainly going for the secretary of state job. marco rubio seems really on the fence about voting for him, in this post interviews. will donald trump pick up the phone to talk to the senator? >> we'll have to see going forward but i would commend anybody to watch that hearing yesterday. rex tillerson did a phenomenal job. shows why the president-elect was correct in chooses him. he is unbelievably carve qualified for this post. he will do phenomenal job as secretary of state. his command of geopolitical situation and landscape we have will be huge benefit to america reasserting ourself around the globe. i hope senator rubio, frankly the entire senate, whether you're republican or democrat realize what an asset the president-elect chosen to lead our foreign policy. ainsley: sean, we had rudy giuliani, former mayor of new york, he broke news to us that there will be cybersecurity team and he will lead that team and interest donald trump will be talking about it today. what can you add to that.

>> president-elect trump met with the foreign intelligence chief, saying he wants a 90 day plan, to increase our cyberdefense, governmental institutions associations, businesses. we have to do a better job preventing hacking what the dnc was subject to during the election cycle and empower the institutions to with the tools to protect themselves. mayor giuliani is unbelievably qualified to lead this through his work since 9/11 in the cyber world, in the national security world. so he's going to lead and spearhead this effort to make sure that our country benefit from his knowledge and expertise steve: official announcement comes up in about three hours. sean, thanks for dropping by. >> thanks, guys. steve: have a great day. meanwhile it was up and then it was down and now it is backs up and down again. we're talking about the painting depicting cops as pigs on capitol hill. there is very latest that is huge development. ainsley: huge guest list for the last hour. herman cain, senators jo manchin

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ainsley: good morning. today is thursday, it's january 12th, this is what's happening on fox and friends. >> mr. president-elect. >> go ahead. no, not you. not you. >> you are attacking our -- can you give us a question? >> no, i'm not going to give you a question. >> can you state categoricalally? >> cnn for quite some time has been off the charts. i would feel the same if they did that to my reputation. >> an physiology his childish and inappropriate behavior. >> day two of the hearings for senator jeff sessions of alabama and something

unprecedented is about to happen. >> in the choice of standing with senate norms or standing up, i will always choose conscious and country. >> it should not be hard to say that vladimir putin is a war criminal. >> those are very, very serious charges to make. >> he believes that once he has these charges, he's not afraid to call it what it is. steve: the lady in red is live, good morning to you. >> i lost my cowboy hat, though. steve: but you do have a background in professional wrestling. >> i think it's probably a sign some of things to come, and it's going to be a combative relationship from the beginning. but we all knew that. trump wasn't going to change

his view of fair reporting, what he considers fair reporting. and they're going to go on the offense. they're not going to be back on their heels when the press comes out with a story that they think is unfair. they're going to go right for the -- i mean, they're going to go right for the juggler. steve: my hunch is he was playing it somewhat coy, they've turned on him to a degree. so who can he trust until he gets his own people in there? >> and remember, capitol hill is briefed on this stuff as well. i mean, you have to think of who has the motivate to release this information? there are a lot of senators on capitol hill. we saw some of this yesterday. i'm not accusing anyone. i'm just saying we're speculating here. a lot of people could have motivate for. steve: sure. >> making trump seem more vulnerable on these issues. ainsley: lawmakers are briefed too? >> there are five who are more in the know top leaders of national security and i don't really believe it's someone from the defense or

intelligence community. it's always someone down the chain a little bit, whether congressional staffer who learned about it or senator. who knows. but trump i think was -- he was putting out a little -- steve: sure. by the way, josh earnest seem to answer the questions, some might speculate that this is pay back with the whole birther problem with donald trump about unsubstantiated. >> yeah. when you go back and look at all the rumors about obama. i went and did some searches yesterday like washington post. the most ridiculous rumors ever about trump -- about obama, and they just batted them away. this was an unseemly and unfortunate over the last 48 hours. but i think what we learned is trump team is not going to be a punching bag and the media isn't going to be a punching bag. this is going to be a back-and-forth that i think in the end is going to be

healthy. and donald trump is going to answer questions from cnn and as it points out, he did. ainsley: for folks who haven't seen it. cnn already asked a question, he answered it. and then he wanted another question and even though there were 450 more journalists there. steve: right donald trump was mad at cnn because cnn said, look, donald trump got this two-page thing about the dirt in russia. that was not true. ainsley: and despite being mad at them, he already answered a question. this was the second question trying to be asked. listen to this. >> since you're attacking us, can you give us a question? mr. president-elect. since you are -- >> no, not you. not you. your organization is terrible. your organization is terrible. >> sir, can you state -- >> quiet. quiet. don't be rude. don't be rude. no, i'm not going to give you a question. >> can you state -- >> you are fake news.

steve: what do you make of the volume of mr. acosta? >> everybody is posturing. there are a lot of alpha males or would be alpha males in the room. but evan wants to stick their chest out and say i'm here, and i demand to be heard. but i remember that moment in the rose garden with that rather the some years ago and do you remember when he was shouting a question at barack obama. steve: daily caller. >> yeah, daily caller. and the entire media just piled on that guy. so i think if this were barack obama and a reporter from national review kept going after him and demanding an answer, there's no president here for the president of the united states. there's no respect for the president. i think a lot of the elites would have had a problem with that. brian: so then jim costa comes out and says i was yelled out

and spicer says, he was on with us a short auto time ago, he says this would have happened. >> the idea that he feels entitled to ask a question is a bit perfec pro. i think whether it's rapport democrat, if someone had addressed president obama or president clinton or any president that way, it is disrespectful, rude, childish, and unacceptable for anybody. >> the press has a terrible reputation. let's face it. most of them got this wrong. they were not tuned in to the pulse of american people. most thought they were rooting for hillary. and i think they have a lot to prove for the public that they're going to cover this presidency fairly. i mean, it should be a check on any president. anyone in power who is running the executive branch or congress or you cover the

courts, that's fine. but to me yesterday, it was a little much. steve: well, and you have all the letters to, the alpha males and the females. but buzzfeed made every one of their jobs heard. >> i think so and, again, buzzfeed is trying to get clicks. i get that but it was reprehensible. >> but you need to keep in mind too is that the president-elect has done one thing that most people would take note of and get an angle on the story and that's the people that got working class american in the midwest and the people that are getting jobs are getting back are the people staying there. they're not the billionaires or the rich people. that's a story line that nobody is writing or talking about. >> those people are going to look for one thing over the next year. on the first 100 days. is america getting better? is the economy growing? do we have more faith that america is going to be the place that we grew up in. not that we don't advance or change. but the bedrock principles,

patriotism as reagan talking aboutalked about it in his farewell address. i think in the end after four years or eight years of donald trump, race relations in the united states will be improved. they will be improved. and that will be a shock for a lot of people in the media. brian: have to fulfill his promise for inner workers? he has to go to the inner city and get that ability for them. >> sell the message to the people who have been harmed by this worship of globalization. and if he does that, and he does that consistently, i think trump will -- you'll -- people are going to -- heads are going to spin around how much better things are going to get. brian: i talk to jim brown a lot, he says he's never been more convinced that this president is going to help out the african-american community more than -- >> how about building the wall? use the labor of people who

have not had jobs to actually build the wall. use construction workers from the inner city, detroit, south-central l.a. they don't have jobs. make it part of the american experience. mexico is going to be better off if we have a real border. so will the united states. we're going to celebrate that. ainsley: let's talk about the confirmation hearings yesterday. marco rubio was talking with rex tillerson -- steve: grilling. ainsley: grilling him. we're going to play you a sound byte and get your reaction. >> is vladimir putin a war criminal? >> i would not use that term. >> there's so much information out there. it should not be hard to say that vladimir putin's military has conducted war crimes in aleppo. >> i am not willing to make conclusions on what is only publicly available. >> none of this is classified, mr. tillerson. >> your question is people who are directly responsible for that. i'm not disputing these people are dead. steve: so why was marco rubio -- >> wanting a headline because

i'm not in washington. this is marco's revenge. steve: for what? >> he feels he was wronged during the campaign by donald trump. i have no doubt that marco rubio, you know, would probably like to take the verge of war over -- i don't know lithuania or whatever he thinks we should be fighting russia over. but to question tillerson who is going to be secretary of state and make him demand at that moment to declare putin a war criminal, saudi arabia rights violator. to what end? how is that going to make him a better secretary of state to represent america's interest when he's going to have to work with these countries? we want better relationships with these countries, but we want to have a clear eyed view of what russia is for sure, what saudi arabia does. but is more about marco rubio reasserting himself as the neoconservative force on capitol hill than it was about rex tillerson. i think it was obvious. we had the volume down in our radio studio upstairs and my

producer and i were watching it and i said rubio's going after tillerson. and he said how do you know? look at his face. steve: ultimate wanted the diplomatic answer. great to see you. >> thank you very much. brian: abby, you're going to tell us something important, i'm sure. >> we have some headlines to get to from tillerson to another round of hearing set today, including our first look of secretary of defense nominee dr. ben carson. nominee to run the department of housing and urban development and mr. trump's pick to run the cia also in the hot seat today. and republicans moving one step closer to repealing obamacare. the senate approving a budget package. democrats trying to stop the passage they were shut down. >> health care should not just be for the healthy and the wealthy. >> on behalf of the 1.2 --

>> senate will be in order. >> debate is not allowed. >> and just a short time ago, vice president elect taking this kudos for senate to repeal obamacare. now it's the house's turn #promise keeping business. #make america great again. and icy conditions causing miami heat basketball team, luckily no one was hurt there. and near lake tahoe, california, a massive avalanche that was actually planned ended up going very wrong. just take a look at this. the snow going right through the door of this house and other areas of the state west mountains with sprain destructive flooding. this woman, you can see her kayaking through her home. listen to this. she says she needed to save an old bottle of brandy. i love that. the things we'll do for alcohol. steve: she has her priorities. >> right. what matters. brian: that's why i have a kayak. have to go through the living room.

>> that poor lady in their houses. steve: straight ahead, democratic senator cory booker breaking decades of tradition to disrupt the confirmation process and slam a fellow senator, in this case sessions, on race. >> if one is to be attorney general, they must be willing to continue the hallow condition of our country for fighting for justice for all. senator sessions record does not speak to that desire, intention, or will. steve: really? former presidential candidate herman cane has a few things to say that. herman, you're next. ainsley: we still have a huge show, senator cruz and lindsey graham. stick around. you wouldn't believe what's in this kiester. a farmer's market. a fire truck. even a marching band. and if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester,

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and not just some of us. >> senator sessions has advanced an agenda that will do great harm to african-american citizens and communities. ainsley: senate democrats going hard after attorney general nominee jeff sessions and his background on civil rights. steve: fox news contributor and 2012 presidential candidate joins us right now. herman, a number of democrats yesterday essentially said, look, jeff sessions is a racist, and he has, you know, i'm generalizing but the image was, you know, that he would be unfair. you know jeff sessions. is that the man you know? >> no. this is peer political theater number one. secondly, you notice the three clips were all black men? why? because they wouldn't try out a white democrat to call him racist. no, let's go bet black democrats to call him racist. secondly, his actions speak

much louder than this accusations. all i needed to know was he convicted a kkk leader. secondly, he led an effort to desegregate the schools in alabama. and the accusations have been shown to be false. this is pure political theater on the part of the democrats. ainsley: what about cory booker for the first time a fellow senator speaking out against another senator. >> cory booker was auditioning to run for president of the united states. steve: looked like it. >> that's what that was about. oh, yeah. now, it was his job to do something unprecedented in order to get some unprecedented media coverage. why? i believe he has some aspirations to maybe run for office. you see, the democrats have to problem. they don't have anybody in the pipeline to run for president and cory booker maybe the candidate down the road. that's my interpretation of why he did what he did. steve: look, the democrats

also don't have the votes. jeff sessions from what we've seen is going to be our next attorney general. >> yes. he's going to be our next attorney general and that phony statement about he has not shown that he represents justice for all, that's simply not true. it's an accusation, and it's a false one that they're trying to get to stick. make stick. here's one other thing. the democrats are doing this because they are trying to send a message to their supporters that they're not going to go down without a fight. no matter how few. that's all it is. they want to show we're going to go down fighting, even though they're looking bad in the process. ainsley: mr. herman cane. thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> happy to be with you. thanks. steve: coming up on this thursday, we are about to start our initial dissent into iran? a first for the country just happened. we have breaking details straight ahead.

ainsley: also, ed henry knows what it's like to go up against a president. so is donald trump's behavior over the top? we're going to ask ed. that's next. steve: hello, eddie. ainsley: hi, ed. taking a holiday in britain, are ya doll?

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ainsley: breaking news overseas, american soldiers rolling into russia's backyard on tanks. president obama deploying nearly 4,000 troops to poland in response to russian president vladimir putin's promise to strength jeanettes missile program. and moments ago, airbus -- this airbus touching down in iran. this morning the first of 100 brand-new planes landing in the country's capitol. iran finalized the 18 billion-dollar deal last month, thanks to the white house lifting sanctions in the

nuclear deal. steve: meanwhile, let's switch gears on fox and friends. he knows a little bit about pressing the president for answers. look at this. >> i understand it's a tough job and god forbid there's another terrorist attack. it's going to be extremely difficult to be in the oval office. >> i took it on. >> my question is do you have any personal regrets? steve: that was back in 2013. we were kids then. that was between obama and our own national white house correspondent ed henry, and he joins us now. ed, we just want to get your perspective. did you ever call out for president bush or obama any company when you were there called on? >> and we had some back and forth, so i understand where jim is coming from. i think he's a tough but fair reporter. he went a little far. it went on and on and on, at

some point you have to say i made my point, he's not going to answer it, let's move on. but what i find particularly interesting is if you remember i had one exchange as soon as i got to fox the first time i asked president obama a because he was something about iran, and i quoted mitt romney criticizing him, which happens all the time at white house press conferences. your opponent -- harry reid says you're the worst person in the world. respond. and instead he immediately said i didn't know you were the spokesman for mitt romney. that was not just an attack on me. he was very clearly trying to attack fox. and this was not about me. it was eight years as you know attacking fox. james, a whole line of people. so any point is all of a sudden in the last 24 hours, going, oh, my gosh why is donald trump beating up on cnn? i just didn't hear very much of that. maybe i have to open up my ear. i didn't hear the cheerleading behind me previously when this was going on. and here was jim acosta yesterday going back and forth. steve: roll tape.

>> since you're attacking us, give us a question. mr. president-elect. mr. president-elect. >> no. not you. not you. >> can you give us a chance? >> your organization's terrible. your organization's terrible. >> sir. can you state -- >> quiet. quiet. >> mr. president-elect. >> don't be rude. don't be rude. don't be rude. >> can you give us a question? >> i'm not going to give you a question. >> can you state -- >> you are fake news. sir, go ahead. ainsley: two things here. >> yeah. ainsley: he said, first of all, he wants to defend cnn. donald trump had already given cnn a question, so he did allow them to ask a question. the second thing is he was trying to defend cnn. and i understand that if someone said something about fox, i would want to defend fox if we were correct. these were wrong reports. >> you got at the point i wanted to make. the real issue here is not the

back and forth at a news conference. i felt that heat many times. i felt the critics were going after me. and that's not the point. the point is the substance of what this this story about donald trump true or not? and at this moment, there's still some holes, still some back and forth. some parts of it appear to be true, other parts are really still being challenged which troubles should have all been there 110% before it ever went to air or the web. here's one other quick point when have spicer on. i want to reveal a nugget a couple of years ago when neil monroe of the daily caller interrupted president obama years ago at the rose garden. that went too far. the point is white house officials at the time because he was the correspondent revising notice revoke his press credentials. saying how dare he interrupt the president? and i didn't because i didn't

feel it was my place or our place as reporters to revoke people's credentials because they're doing their job. even if they go a little far. so the bottom line here is you're hearing a lot of hypocrisy. sean spicer, why is he attacking? this white house was going after neil monroe also. the shoe's on the other foot now. steve: you know, ed, i think we might have gotten a preview of what the administration is going to be like with the press, though. the last two administrations, the president have gone up and had a list. number one question goes to cnn. number two, stuff like that. yesterday, it was a free for all. >> yeah. you, you, you. and he just kept going. and that's great. as i recall when i look at video tape, that's what jfk did. let's do this, let's do that. and you know another thing donald trump does is answers or doesn't answer the question. president obama gives an answer for nine minutes, and it's a long filibuster. and we're all sitting in the room i want to get in here. and you forgot what the question was. you forgot what he said six

minutes ago that you want to challenge. so it was sort of keep the ball. and in this case, he's throwing the ball. steve: you have to get to the point where you eliminate everything down on a page. wouldn't that eliminate a lot of the chaos? >> no. he has ripped up the rules. who cares. i think that's part of the thing. the reporters go we want it done a certain way. i think the public goes we're not at charge. we have a seat at the table but he's the president of the united states. it doesn't mean he can't do whatever he wants and there should be rules of the corium, and sometimes he goes a little far saying you're fake news. yeah, you have to calm some of that down. but at the end of the day, we don't have it written down that we have to have it a certain way. it's not about us. ainsley: and at the end of the day, he's spicing it up and more people are interested in politics than ever before because they like to watch his press conferences. good to see you, ed. steve: he's spicing it up.

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brian: and that was donald trump yesterday. a little bit later on the senate sprang into action to repeal obamacare officially. joining us now is a democratic senator who will be the conduit between democrats and republicans if this demonstrate is going to work with the other side. senator joe mansion. senator, always good to see you. >> how all? brian: you're very firm in saying i don't want it repealed. i want it fixed. did anything happen yesterday to prevent donald trump from fixing it? >> well, let's set the stapling very quickly, brian. because in west virginia, 170,000 people got insurance for the first time. and basically we have hospitals depending on it. people with opioid addictions. everything basically trying to make it better or fix things or give people health care. with that, there needs to be changes. no doubt about it. i'm a centerrist, moderate democrats willing to work, wanting to work with this administration. wanting them to be successful. and i've reached out to them, and they've been very kind reaching out to me.

i'm counting on president-elect trump, vice president elect pence to make sure that we don't just throw the baby out with the bathwater until we have something to see how we're repairing it. ainsley: senator. [as there anyone that would want to repeal without replacing? i mean, donald trump ran on that saying he wants everyone to have health insurance. he wants you to be able to keep your doctor. at 26 years old and under, you can be on your parents. but he's saying he wants to just change it. he's not saying anyone out there who has obamacare going to all of a sudden not have it. >> well, i'm counting on that too. i'm counting on that procedure there to have something that repairs it, fixes some of the parts, basically we think they're very, very wrong and need to be fixed. but keeping the good parts, which he talked about through his campaign. yes, there is. we were going down a direction that they were saying we're going to vote to repeal it and maybe in one year wore years from now, we'll have a fix. well, you can't do that. you can't leave people in

limbo and say we're not going to throw anybody off. well, if you repeal the taxes that paid for obamacare, which is about 2 trillion over a ten-year period, you bust the budget cap and leave one heck of a hole. and that couldn't be done either. so i talked to president-elect trump about this. he's been very kind. we've talked back and forth. i think we've got a great rapport going on here. and also vice president pence i met yesterday. steve: yep. >> and they're showing me that they're going to have something in place, and it should be voted on immediately. simultaneously. that would be wonderful. at least we have some certainty to this and people aren't left in alert. steve: sure. that's great news. the last couple of minutes, chuck schumer, the leader of the democrats and the senate announced opposition to senator sessions for attorney general said, you know, i -- we just can't go on with that. how do you feel about jeff sessions? does he have your vote? >> jeff sessions has my vote. he's my friend. i've built relationships and friendships here. i don't care if their democrats, republicans, independents.

we were sent here to make america better. and jeff sessions, i've known him for six years, we've been friends, we talk about an array of things. i have never detected. never one ounce of detection that jeff sessions is what they have said. and with that, i think he handled himself well. i can only say how i know the person, and i'm voting for the person i know. now, some people say he's too conservative. some people are too liberal. the bottom line is president-elect trump won the election. he ought to have a right to put his staff go together. if he goes through the background check and nuns his financial disclosures, then that basically should allow him to put his team together. brian: how surreal was it to do cory booker to go behind the microphone and condemn him yesterday? >> you know, cory is a good person. i know coy, and that just didn't seem like it was the cory i knew. and cory would have to speak on why he felt compelled to do it.

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>> palin call the president-elect a fearless leader. she says it was vindication and validation with those without a microphone. palin even hinted at what's to come. stay tuned for the next step and finally shoeing away the mainstream media. part two is coming. and there's this video showing theter vying moment an avalanche nearly crushes a snow border. watch this. that is insane and inflatable backpack like a car air bag nearly that i give man's life. this man activated right before the snow started crackling. other family members chipping in to buy the backpack for a birthday present saying it was

worth every penny. steve: that's right. pull the rip cord. it expands. you find a way out. brian: we were just looking at a sarah palin story that was intriguing and vindication. ainsley: lots of reasons there. >> did you see that video of the avalanche? >> oh, my gosh that's terrifying and, unfortunately, across the west they're going to be dealing with avalanche danger. let's take a look at the weather because there are a couple of headlines. we have this boundary that's separating the cold air and the warm spring-like air, and we have a potential for a ice storm. and if you live anywhere from texas up towards the great lakes, you need to be prepared for a possible ice storm. real quick. what are your names? >> tim and libby. >> and where are you from? >> asheville, north carolina. >> and happy birthday. >> and you, sir. >> my name is joe. and i'm from new jersey. >> and you want to be an intern. >> yes. i do. >> how about helping brian kilmeade with his coffee and getting a weather report? >> well, that would be a true

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>> president-elect, since you are attacking our news organization. >> no. not you. not you. your organization's terrible. >> you are attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir? steve: the heated exchange serve talking about. the president-elect blasting the media after an intel memo filled with rumors it is leaked.

even rumored to be intel. ainsley: it's an accusation the national intelligence director denies having north dakota nig to do with. and here to react is senate armed service committee member. we have senator ted cruz and senator lindsey graham. good morning to both of you. thank you for being with us. >> good morning. ainsley: senator graham, i'll start with you because you're from the great state of south carolina. >> go tigers. ainsley: yeah. oh, i know. national champions. we're so proud of them. what did you make of that exchange yesterday with jim and donald trump? >> you know, at the end of the day, unseemly, i guess. and the president-elect will soon be president, i hope they have a better engagement. the media still doesn't get why he won, and he's got to realize he's president, the campaign's over. better days ahead is what i predict. steve: sure, well, the reason he was unhappy was the fact that buzzfeed published a 35-year -- 35-page document that who knows if any of it is true.

and cnn said that trump got a two-page document about some crazy stuff in russia, which apparently was not true. he did not get it. he heard about it in passing. but senator cruz, there's some insinuation that maybe these leaks, these security leaks are actually coming from our intel community and that's one of the reasons mr. clapper called donald trump last night. >> well, listen, i don't know if there's any way to think that's the case. you're right that a couple of so-called journalistic outlets ran with completely unsubstantiated internet rumors. i thought journalism was supposed to do better than that. steve: right? >> and, you know, it is not complicated that the media, most of the media is bias. they've got a political agenda, you know, lindsey and i both for the last couple of days have been at the confirmation hearings for jeff sessions nominated to be attorney general. during those hearings, there were a bunch of left-wing protesters that jumped up and began screaming, and i pointed out. i said, look, i notice that all the tv cameras, all the --

took pictures of and filmed the protesters yelling kkk. and i gave a challenge to every news network. i tell you what. if you're going to air that, and i'm willing to bet you're all going to air that. how about you also air a prosecutor jeff sessions helped put a clansman on death row for murdering a young african-american man, and he helped bankrupt the clan in alabama. and what you know? not a single one of the news networks carried those facts. but they all carried the left-wing protester. that's just the reality in life. the media has a political act. steve: yeah, there's so much going on, and i watched your endorsement of ricks tillerson too. and everyone was holding on tight to hear what was going to happen. and here's what he said. >> i hadn't heard lindsey graham was going to do that. lindsey graham. i've been competing with him for a long time, and he's going to crack that 1% barrier one day. i didn't realize lindsey graham's still at it. it's all right.

i think lindsey graham's a nice guy actually. >> so it ended strong. what do you think of that? >> well, i think i'm a nice guy too. i think i got 1%. donald, you beat me. you're the president. i'm the senator. i want to help you. let it go. let's move on, and we're going to make america great again. ainsley: you had to get a new cell phone, though; right? >> yeah. it's better than giving out my number. that's progress. steve: progress. from 1% to 100%. both of you guys are behind a bill to defund the united nations. if they do not reverse the antiisrael sanction. senator cruz, explain what you're talking about. >> well, you know, as you know, lindsey and i agree on just about everything. >> most everything. >> what brings us together today is an issue that i think really units republicans but it all to unite americans. and that's standing with israel. if you look in the last month what barack obama has done, i think it's been nothing short of shameful.

it has been striking out against israel. really showing his true beliefs and the united nations with his acquiescence passed a rabidly antiisrael, illegal and illegitimate. it declares the -- steve: sure so what do you want to do, senator? >> so lindsey and i today are filing legislation to end taxpayer funding for the united nation, end it all unless and until they reverse this antiisrael resolution. ainsley: all right. we'll be watching. thank you, senators for joining us this morning. we have more fox and friends straight ahead. steve: and they're coming together. back in a moment. (vo) maybe it was here,

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