starting tomorrow, i will be in sin city, washington, d.c., for president-elect donald trump's inauguration. we hope you will tune in. as always, thank you for being with us. we will sfair, balanced, and un. "the first 100 days" with martha starts right now. ♪ >> martha: breaking tonight, live it from our nations capital ball, washington, d.c., prepares, some might say races for the historic inauguration of president-elect donald trump and just under 48 hours from now. welcome to the first "the first 100 days," i i'm martha maccal. at the top of mr. trump's agenda is repealing and replacing obamacare, which he has dubbed the "un-affordable care act." this struggle takes it back to the passionate and heated town house that we remember from 2009. america's health care system is still just as contentious, now, beginning to spell out and

protest across the nation. the incoming trump white house has repeatedly assured americans that coverage will not fall away during any transition. today, just hours ago, tom price, the man mr. trump has tasked with overseeing the repeal and replace effort, faced the music just blocks from where i said. the president-elect's nominee to lead health and human services faces what was at times a competitive hearing today. drawing the all europe some top democrats. watch. >> we shouldn't harm people by doing things that would increase their costs, correct? >> i think we need to drive down the cost for everybody. >> we shouldn't harm people by creating an anxiety about the most important thing in their lives, their health care, and health care of their families. we shouldn't be doing that in congress, should be? >> one of my goals in his entire debate, i appreciate you bringing this up, is to lower the temperature about what we are talking about. >> can we lower the temperature in russia at the same time? no rug is going to be pulled out from under. >> do you believe that

health care is a right of all americans, whether they are rich or they are poor? >> we are a compassionate society. >> no, we are not a compassionate society. >> i look forward to working with you to make sure that every single american has access to the highest quality care of coverage that is possible. >> i have access to buying a $10 million home, i don't have the money to do that. >> i'm just acting a question, did you propose to cut more than a trillion dollars out of medicaid? >> you have the numbers before you? >> is that a "yes"? >> is that he has? i will take it as a "yes." >> can you assure this committee that you will not cost one dollar from either medicare or medicaid, should you be confirmed to this position? >> senator, i believe the metric out to be that the care that the patients are receiving praise >> i will take that as a "no." >> martha: just a sampling, folks. former spokesperson to president george w. bush. farmers spokesperson for hillara

fox news contributor. welcome. this is just the beginning, what we saw today. i listened to tim kane talk about the fear that people might have of having something taken away from them, that it might cost more, my immediate thought is that people have the fear of watching their premiums go up. they have the fear of losing their doctor, which already happened to so many of these people. what fear is he talking about? >> just yesterday, the nonpartisan budget office came out with a report that said repealing parts of obamacare and leaving other parts, which is kind of what a number of republicans are talking about, would cost 18 million people to lose their health care in the first year, up to -- >> martha: that does not include judgment on the repeal plan. they only looked at what would happen if you take it away. they didn't say replacing it with x, y, z. >> the problem is, it also said that people's premiums would double. the problem is, right now, there isn't a replace plan.

we see this even within the republican party right now, over whether the goal should be to repeal or repeal and replace. can you repeal it before your place? president-elect has said he wants to do both simultaneously. but the plan still isn't out there. >> martha: what do you think? >> i think that trump will drive the train. he has made it very clear to congress that it is repeal and replace simultaneously. i think that is what they are going to push for a . where the republicans need to be clear is, if they are going to do this quickly, they better make sure that the replacement plan is not going to leave these people in the cold. especially, those who have gotten health insurance. i think that tom price made it very clear in this hearing today that he is not going to do that. they are going to sure that they phase and whatever the next replacement plan is. with that being said, price himself introduced legislation, which included refundable tax credits, which i think it's going to be the blueprint that you will see moving forward in this replacement.

>> martha: president-elect trump wanted by january 27, that is what he asked for. will he have it? >> congress better put their big boy pants on. these republicans. one thing about donald trump, he is going to drive congress, he wants to see a plan. at the same time, you are going to see price and donald trump have their own ideas, work together with congress to make sure that they move forward. we know something about congress. mo knows this as well. congress moves very slowly. >> martha: it's like -- i mean, people are used to things just to turning, like molasses on the hill. i think i'm a one of the things we saw in this election, i did all they are going to get it, they wanted someone to say, no, i don't want things done that way. let's snap it up here, folks. >> but this is completed. as you just said, without having a replacement plan in place, 18 million people could lose their insurance. >> martha: we have to have a by january 27th.

>> that's right. if they don't, it is complicated. it has taken, every democratic president since harry truman has tried to get this passed through. republicans have been attacking it for the past eight years. what has been interesting to me, during this transition. matt, they look at they have been scrambling on the hill to figure out what to do. >> martha: i'm running out of time, but i want to play this sound bite from chuck schumer. it is emblematic of so much of what we have heard on the hill in these hearings. it goes to people's pocketbooks, primarily, the people who are trying to get positions in this cabinet. watch. >> this is a swamp cabinet full of bankers and billionaires. a swamp camp and into full of billionaires. >> martha: can't you see the t-shirt now? swamp cabinet full of bankers and billionaires. is it wrong, and this country, mo, to have been financially successful? >> no, not at all. i think what you are saying

here, you have got a president-elect who campaigned on that phrase, draining the swamp, he made that phrase very famous. saying that he wants to do things differently, he wants to break down that revolving door that connects lobbyists and the government. and the people that he has brought on, after attacking goldman sachs for the better part of two years, half of the goldman sachs executives are in his cabinet. tom price himself is embroiled in a little bit of a brouhaha right now over whether or not he was financially benefiting from a health care company -- >> here's the deal, draining the swamp, betsy devos is willing to take on the unions. draining the swamp is bringing in rex tillerson, who was the ceo of a major corporation, donald trump is bringing in talented, high skilled individuals who are willing to take on the bloated bureaucracy. i think that is the change we will see in washington. >> martha: thank you very much. happy inaugural week. good to see you in d.c.

straight ahead, donald trump has vowed to rollback any of the obama executive orders that he deems unconstitutional. so, which will be the first to go? he's got a very long list and he's getting to work on friday. judge andrew napolitano just met with the president-elect yesterday. here's some with the juicy inside scoop of what he heard her in there and what we may see in the first hours of a trump presidency. plus, president obama going out on a controversial note, cutting the sentence short of a known terrorist. we will tell you more about that move and if there is anything that president-elect trump can or will do about that. who is that man in the car? we will tell you about that. >> and treated as if they are heroes. what we hear is, that oscar lopez didn't get to know his family. well, neither did my

>> martha: breaking tonight, after a vote in november that many argued was a sound rejection of his legacy, president barack obama took to the white house podium today to defend his eight years in office and to address the possibility that president-elect trump could begin to dismantle some of that legacy when he takes office on friday. >> i have offered my best advice, counsel, about certain

issues, both foreign and domestic. and my working assumption is that having won and election opposed to a number of my initiatives and certain aspects of my vision for what the country needs to do, it is appropriate for him to go forward with his vision and his values. it may be that on certain issues, once he comes into office, and he looks at the complexities of how to in fact provide health care for everybody, something he says he wants to do, or wants to make sure that he is encouraging job creation and wage growth in this country, that that may lead him to some of the same conclusions that i arrived at once i got

here. >> martha: that was this afternoon. president obama went on to promise that in areas where he sees fit, he will speak up in his post-presidency life. a very different situation that has predecessor took on when he left office and went home to texas and lived a fairly quiet life. here now is fox news a senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. so, judge, executive orders, we understand there will be several that are likely to be signed on friday. which ones do you think will be top priority for then-president donald trump? >> probably things like immigration, for the president obama by executive orders, directed the government not to deport people who are here unlawfully if they had children while they are here. probably clean air, where president obama reduced the amount of pollutant parts per billion before the federal government's enforcement powers

are triggered. probably guns because president obama sent a horrific executive order directing the bureau of alcohol to your send explosives to deem a single sale of a gun from you to me, from you to a nephew or niece, as making you a dealer, thereby imposing upon you some of the most burdensome onerous regulations and all of the government. donald trump, undo all of that with a stroke of a pen. he cannot undo things like pardons, commutations, people otherwise is set free from military or civilian jails, including gitmo. those things are done deals. he can't touch them. >> martha: we could dig into each one of those. let me ask you this. in her conversations with the president-elect, hugh you haven very critical of president obama for going too far with executive actions, we remember him talking about having a pen, a phone. what is donald trump's philosophy in terms of executive action, given the fact that he is starting out here with 56

democratic congressmen and women not showing up for his inauguration? >> you know, when i saw him, the number was about five. now, it is up to 66. i saw him two days ago. he said, okay, five, ten, 15. now, a few hundred more tickets if these people have a spouse's. so, he is trying to look at of the positive side played on the executive orders, he told me he expected to be signing 200 orders on monday. he will decide what he needed to sign on friday. there are certain things he must sign on friday. in those things are the commissions authorizing the secretary of state and the attorney general to take their posts, presumably, they will be confirmed by then. they executive orders, he will wait until monday. he didn't tell me what they were. but martha, 200 is a lot. so, to your question, his philosophy, level the playing field, get rid of all of the lawmaking that barack obama did

by his executive orders, level the playing field, asked congress to change laws that need to be change. what he will do if congress doesn't give him what he wants, i don't know. he is probably going to get a lion's share of what he wants because he has a lot of goodwill and the republican control of both houses. >> martha: we will see on immigration. he has said he wants to start with people who are criminals in this country. so, overturning what president obama did on that might open up another can of worms that he may have to deal with or regular folks who have been brought in here under the age of 16. a judge, thank you very much. great to see you tonight. >> pleasure, good to see you. >> martha: coming up tonight, a michigan elementary school teacher is not going to allow his students to watch the presidential inauguration speech when it comes on on noon and school. chris stirewalt joins us with his thoughts on that. plus, president obama sets up controversy by granting early release to a member of a far left puerto rican militant grou group.

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♪ >> martha: developing tonight, we are learning more about the designated terrorist or will soon be a free man, thanks to president obama's decision to shorten his prison sentence. oscar lopez rivera is a former leader of puerto rican nationalist group known as the faln, responsible for more than 140 bombings on u.s. soil in the 1970s and 1980s.

tonight, lopez's controversial past is coming into question for bread for more on that, we go to trace gallagher. >> hi, martha. oscar lopez rivera is a puerto rican nationalist to move to chicago when he was 14 and later became convinced that puerto rico was a u.s. colony. he then became a leader of faln, a spanish acronym that translates to armed forces of national liberation, a table group that fought for the independence of puerto rico and overthrown the u.s. government. in the '70s in '80s, faln was behind more than 140 bombings attacking government buildings, financial institutions, and corporations, new york, chicago, and d.c. the attacks killed six, wounding more than 100, including several police officers. lopez rivera was never convicted of killing or injuring anyone but explosives were found in an apartment and linked to him. as of last year, he is still believed in his cause, telling npr, "there were resolutions of

the united nations pointing out very, very clearly that colonialism was a crime against humanity and that colonized people have the right to self-determination and independence and to achieve it by any means necessary, including the use of force. "advocates including jimmy carter and pope francis have long pushed for his release, and upon the news of his commutation, celebrities cheered on social media. lin manuel-miranda, the creator of the broadway musical, "hamlin, tweeted, "sobbing with gratitude here in london. oscar lopez rivera is coming home, thank you, potus." but the families of faln victims see no cause for celebration. watch. >> >> the enemies are a country being rewarded. and treated as if they are heroes." we hear is that oscar lopez didn't get to know his family. well, neither did my father.

it >> president clinton tried to commute the sentence in 1999, but lopez were rivera rejected the offer because some of his comrades would have remained in prison. martha. >> martha: thank you. joining me now with more on this, publisher of the "federalist" and richard fowler, the new leaders counts counselr federal. it has been a couple of days. thank you. nice to be on the side with you. you're usually in a little box. you are taller than i think you are in person. what do you think about all of this? >> i think is the president goes out, doing these last-minute pardons, commutations, a hard thing to do. when i thought about the oscar lopez case, i understand why a lot of people in america are furious by it. going back to our founders, the boston tea party, the british government at the time that was a terrorist act because we were fighting for the same freedom that he was fighting for puerto rico. so, i do know if i would have made the same decision, but i

understand why their the presit that and i think it is in line with what our offenders fought for. >> been. >> my family is puerto rican, this is very important to me. my family was there when -- they have been active there in the politics for the decades since, and i care deeply about it. oscar lopez rivera is nothing more than a terrorist. the worst, he is an unrepentant terrorist. simple fact is is that he is never repented, never backed off, never pushed back on any of the tactics that he used at the time, or publicly denounced a regret of them. your colleague, trace, reported, some reports have it, is that rivera was unwilling to sign on to the conditional clemency that president clinton was willing to grant them, rejected by the senates, 95-2 because his fellow colleagues would be there. the conditional clemency would have required to give up the use of force and terrorism is a justifiable approach to his cause. the fact is, there is an app on

mike independent movement in puerto rico, there has been for a long time, they are active, they have engaged in a lot of court in mccall, criminal activity. i think it is unconscionable that president obama should exit, enabling someone who is an unrepentant terrorist, who would never apologize for his actions, to the victims of the people, to the victims he enabled to kill, to the people he helped frame. >> john adams -- >> do you dare to compare oscar lopez rivera, a socialist who went bad after living for years in chicago, oh, yes -- oscar lopez rivera -- >> lopez made bombs -- >> what was the boston tea party? >> you compared the heroes of the boston tea party to oscar lopez rivera? a socialist? half of a communist plot -- >> martha: hold on. i take your point.

richard, one of the bigger issues that i see in this, when i look at the sympathy that president obama has for this person's case, and i think about the cause celeb element of him that he does feel drawn to those sorts of things. and we have spent a fair amount of time interviewing the families of some of these peopl people, i've talked to the family of that person, they lost all of their life times with their loved ones, too. why is it his inclination to feel more sympathetic towards the terrorist who built the bomb than for families of those who lost their loved ones, who were, in most cases, law enforcement? >> here's the thing. when you look at commutations and you look at pardons, for example, george w. bush pardons the vice president chief of staff who revealed the cia secret operative, his life was not ruined. he is walking free.

that is void and the founders wrote the constitution, they gave the president the ability to make these decisions. we can question them all we want to. >> richard, he didn't do that. as a matter of fact, he didn't do that. the fact is that john adams and benjamin franklin have nothing in common with oscar lopez rivera. >> they are revolutionary fighters, just like people would argue the castro revolutionaries. you would argue that nelson mandela is a revolutionary fighter. >> oscar lopez rivera has nothing in common -- this is ridiculous. that is not true at all. nelson mandela -- at the time, called them terrorists, the same name that he is being called. >> it is a history at best. >> i think you know what i'm talking about. >> no, you don't. >> martha: thank you very much much. the march goes on. thank you very much. as the obama administration

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address as we lead the world's globally. >> it is hard for some people to grasp it. but what we -- you -- are doing here right now, it is of equal importance because it has the ability to literally save life on the planet itself. >> martha: as you just heard, what are the main tenants of the outgoing administration has been the attempt to put climate change on equal footing with the scourge of global terror, a position that could soon be coming to an end. reports out today suggest that under a trump administration, the state department would be reworked, there would be a renewed effort on stamping out terror around the globe, an idea that mr. trump picked for secretary of state highlighted. here is rex tillerson. >> there are competing -- but they must not distract from our utmost mission of defeating isi isis. because when everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

>> martha: rex tillerson saying when everything is a priority, nothing is a priority and that he believes the fight against isis needs to be the top of the list. ben collins, former special forces officer, larry forbes, gentlemen, welcome. what do you think about this? >> well, i think, what he needs to do is give the state department borrow money. the state department and the eight i.d. budget is 50 billion, less than 10% of the department of defenses. if you take a look at where they spend it, they spend $20 billion on combating terrorism, less than a billion on climate change. so, if you want to do more, you are going to have to give them our money. >> martha: the amount of money that it is attributed to something, whether or not the focus is on it. ben is shaking his head. why? >> not a function of more money. if we look at what the state department has spent money on. let's look at two things. number one, they gave a couple million dollars, $1.5 million to afghanistan to create a tv show in afghanistan to try to

convince people not to join a terrorist movement. i have been to afghanistan and i can tell you that there are not many people that afford to have tb's event environment. or, we do things like the state department issued a travel warning against lebanon because of suicide bombers on the rise of isis. yet, we spend $2 million trying to convince the tourism, convincing people to actually to go to lebanon and raise their tourist profiles. it is not a function of what we are spending, it is how we are spending it. it is the money. >> they are spending 20 billion of the 50 on combating terrorism. now, we can get into, you know, specifics. for example, the defense business part at the pentagon has $125 billion. the fact of the matter is, you have less people in the foreign service then you do in the army. you want them to do more? you are going to have to get more people to do it. 50 billion is not just the state department, it is also aid.

they have been unfunded. if they want to do it, i'm all for it. but as i say, if you look at the total budget, which i did before coming, less than a billion is going to climate change. >> martha: i can't help but say, people listen to that, they say, it's not about moving money around. every department in the city that is full of city blocks full of agencies, if they only had a little bit more money, g, whether they be able to solve the problem. i want to play this sound bite from president obama on decembe. watch this. >> over the past eight years, no foreign terrorist organization have successfully executed an attack on our homeland that was directed from overseas. >> martha: all right. as the president talking about the fact that he believes that no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed an attack on foreign soil. this is been a narrative. >> on u.s. -- >> martha: the words are so carefully selected. everyone sees through that. you see what happened in florida, san bernardino.

of course we are facing this right here. >> this is an ideology that has to be stamped out. if you are going to play word to gymnastics, orlando, isis inspired. san bernardino, isis inspired. if you are isis, what do you want? you want to send men over here and weapons or do you want to use a local population and tie into them and have them conduct operations on their own? that is what they are doing. like you said, he chose his words specifically. that was completely disingenuous. >> martha: this is about ideology, it's about calling a spade a spade. >> there is no doubt you are not going to enact this battle. we have taken it back about 60% of the territory that isis had. >> martha: so you can end this in six weeks? >> but do you want to stamp out the ideology unless you convince people that this is not the wave of the future for the middle east or for the islamic world. and that is what we need to be spending money on, in terms of dealing with that.

>> we spend a trillion dollars almost in afghanistan. we lost almost 2500 lives. today, the taliban hold more territory than they did after 9/11. i have watched a town that we took three times, three times, at the cost of american lives, go back to the caliban. again and again and again. can we be more efficient with our money? yes. can we start to beat in this world once again? that is what we have to do. i'm sorry but look. the white house, the pentagon, the state department have never been on the same page. in all the time i was in combat, they finally have the chance to get on the same page. that is what i'm hoping for in the trump administration. >> martha: we will see what happens. coming up, at least 68 democrats at last count, we keep adding pictures to this pretty picture on your screen that say they will not attend the inauguration of donald trump. that is their choice. now, there's a classroom in michigan where students are being told that they should not watch the president-elect's remarks. we will talk about that. plus, could we see a new power

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the most influence on the incoming president. chief national correspondent ed henry has been reporting on that for us. he joins us tonight. hi, there, ed. >> it was president obama who declared today that news conference the job is of such a magnitude you cannot do it yourself, which is why the struggle for president-elect donald trump's ear is real. it is well-known the last person to get to mr. trump at any key issue can carry a lot of weight in his decision. there are power centers already emerging, some obvious, and some not so obvious. insiders tell me are developing quietly behind the scenes. the most important people in that inner circle, of course, jared kushner, stephen bannon, kellyanne conway, reince priebus. but i am told, keep an eye on

gary cohen, a very adventurous former coo of goldman sachs was running the irrational national economic conference, insiders say he is already taking charge of much more than just the economy. interesting, because the early policy about potential fights only got more attention today when reince priebus was highlighted suggesting that top republicans want him to bring stability to mr. trump. this idea that he needs a grown up minding him is not likely to set up well with the president-elect, who has already been teasing priebus and private about his loyalty, by reminding people that the former rnc chair urged mr. trump to drop out of the race after the access hollywood tape emerge. another big story that is just breaking, just confirmed with the senior transition source, we expect tomorrow, sonny purdue, the former republican governor of georgia will be nominated as agriculture secretary.

john roberts. i'm not told by a senior transition source, we can it be expect him to named tomorrow. he is the last person the cabinet picked. they are pushing hard in the trump transition to get all these people confirm. remember, on day one, barack obama had republicans confirm seven of his cabinet picks. they don't think they will reach that number this time. the trump transition team making a lot of noise about that and pointing the finger at chuck schumer, the senate democratic leader. martha. >> martha: we just had a graphic, ed, that had the people floating around donald trump's head. jockeying for influence, which is not at all unusual in the white house. you mention: , and economic advisor. which side of the fence does he follow him? who does he get along well with, and who would be wanting to be on his side in that group? >> stephen bannon, remember, came from the goldman sachs world. people will be watching that to see if there is an alliance. let me give you an example of how this stuff plays out quietly behind the scenes. insiders are telling me that gary cohen's name to that

economic post, and it wasn't clear that he was going to be at the president-elect's senior staff meeting every morning at trump tower and the transition offices in d.c. basically, gary cohen started showing up and made it clear that his voice will be heard, not just on economic issues, but a wide portfolio. you have someone coming out of the goldman sachs world, sharp elbows, not afraid to speak their mind. that is the kind of person who might stand out inside a trump white house. martha prayed >> martha: fascinating. ed, thank you very much. our next guest is also fascinating. he helped mr. trump win the election. knowing that they weren't going to turn out to vote. now, he is part of a new effort to help mr. trump succeed but he is doing it from the outside. joining me now exclusively is brad parcell, who served as the campaign's digital director, he

said, we will get 305 305 elecl votes. i spoke to him that day of the election, he sounded like he was a little bit nervous, although, you are saying to him, it is going to be okay. >> i felt like we were going to win multiple states of the people thought we were worried we were going to lose. i felt very comfortable that day. i was also nervous. you got to say, it was a nerve-racking thing to have all those months come. all of a set in, it is they are. all the data by showing us, we were in a very good position. >> martha: you had never done anything like this before in your life. >> never, never, no. not even close. everything i had done previously was similar, a data operation, but for the consumer world. i believe the family saw in me a skill set that could come over from the consumer world and help in the political world. i had a lot of great political experts, stephen bannon, jared kushner, reince priebus, these people steering the direction. they are geniuses at that.

but my job was to take what where they wanted to go on target that, as exact as possible. >> martha: the other day, these approval numbers for donald trump. everybody is saying, we reported it here, a 40% approval number and the country. it is the lowest of any incoming president ever. donald trump said that number is rigged. it's not true. >> you go back to the polling numbers before the campaign, everyone was telling me i was going to lose and mr. trump was going to lose horribly. i think that pollsters and people have a lot of reasons why they put things the way they do. my job is not to look at those numbers, so, i can tell you where those things are in my own numbers. >> martha: will you be doing this is a new entity? you don't want a white house job. you don't want to be rotating around. what will you be doing on the outside? >> we're in the second phase. the first phase with the campaign. we started a grassroots movement that was just amazing, it took down to every person, that

wanted to be a part of that, household and western pennsylvania, to people all across this country. a lot of people working tirelessly in the campaign to make sure mr. trump got into office. we want to continue that in the second phase. we have a lot of key people from a campaign that want to come across and help with that. >> martha: are you going to work and other people's campaigns, too? everybody is going to want to. >> i want to keep my day job. i think my wife likes us having a roof over our head. >> martha: i think you will have a roof over your head for a while. i hope you come back and talk to us as we move through this process of the first 100 days. you will have the finger on the pulse of a lot of it. we appreciate talking to you. >> thank you very very much. >> martha: brad parscale. coming up, while some democrats have made a voluntary decision not to attend the upcoming inaugural, some students in michigan are being told that they are not allowed to watch his speech because he might say something that their little ears can't handle hearing. chris stirewalt will tell us why coming up

>> martha: big day, developing tonight, 68 democrats have decided they will skip the president-elect's inauguration on friday. now, one michigan teacher is using similar reasoning to not allow his students to watch the speech. writing a letter, "i'm anxious about shoving his inaugural address. given has inflammatory comments, i am also uneasy about mr. trump's casual use of profanity." we reach out to the school for comment, they tell us they are aware of the letter but they will not comment on the issue for now. chris stirewalt well. fox news politics editor. what do you think? >> this is obviously baloney. the teacher is trying to make a political statement. he wants to get on the record that he thinks donald trump is mean to disabled people and women and minorities. he is using the kids as a vehicle to do it. he is creating outrage as an is

an opportunity to create politics. >> martha: i did this during ronald reagan's funeral, i asked my children's school, what you bring in a tv? have everyone watch history? it doesn't really matter with the teacher thinks about the president, who it is at all, if you are just watching a historic moment. >> looks, this guy is depriving these children of a chance, have a good civics lesson. we have an election, this is the outcome. fourth graders, i have a third grader, fourth graders are pretty sophisticated when it comes to talk about politics and civics. it is good for them to see it. i would also submit, this cat is demonstrating why democrats have had such a bad run. he is creating, do you think donald trump will use profanity in his inaugural address? do you think he is going to mock the disabled or women or minorities? of course he is not. this guy is creating an expectation. these kids aren't going to be able to watch it in class but they will watch it when they are

home because now it is the forbidden fruit. when they get home, they will watch it and go, oh, that was pretty good. it is the same thing that hillary clinton and donald trump did. they created a reputation that he was a monster, an ogre. then, they said he was okay. he couldn't live down to the low expectations. they set him up for success. >> martha: i think some of these children's parents will pull the kids out and bring them home to watch it. >> that's a tough call. as a parent, that's a tough call. do you yank them out of class? you put it on tape? >> i would say, this is the moment. i brought them home and i watched ronald reagan's funeral from home. i said every president that is loving is going to be there. it's a historic moment. it doesn't matter what you think and you will make up your own mind in the future. >> good for you. you are courageous mom. >> martha: thank you. i am sure your fourth-grader is very sophisticated. [laughter] thank you, chris. before we go tonight, we are sending prayers this evening to president george h.w. bush and his wife, barbara. tonight, the former first couple is in the hospital in houston,

eight days ago the former president was admitted with convocations for pneumonia. this morning, the former first lady was admitted for fatigue and coughing. the news comes as we learn that 41, as he has come to be known, sent a letter to president-elect trump. here's how it reads. "dear donald, barbara and i are so sorry we can't be there for your inauguration on january 20th. my doctor said if i sit outside in january, its likelihood it will put me 6 feet under. same for barbara. i guess we are stuck in texas. but we will be with you and the country in spirit. i want you to know that i wish you the very best as you begin this incredible journey of leading our great country. if i can ever be of help, please let me know. all the best, george bush." and that is the quote for the night. that goes out to 68 congress members who have decided to do just the opposite. a gracious gentleman who gives us all a very significant lesson with his letter. we hope he recovers quickly and we will see you back here

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