>> shannon: the first part of monday is over. you made it through. >> bill: thank you. see you tomorrow everybody, here is "happening now." good-bye. ♪ >> jon: the white house taking on the news media, the very first weekend as president trump works his way through a very busy monday. welcome to "happening now," i am jon scott. >> jenna: hello, everyone. i am jenna lee. and tonight he carries out an aggressive policy agenda. after the weekend that saw skirmishes in the news media and millions of protesters across the country, let's get the word from our wide white house correspondent. >> it's going to be a major priority for this administration as the president takes aim at

the trans-pacific partnership and nasa, their free trade agreement. part of a very busy or stay here for president trump. he did have a chance to meet with some business leaders. pretty interesting look to how that meeting might go. we were able to get in there and take some pictures. he said, look, my agenda is simple. i'm going to keep your -- jobs in america, and i'm going to fight for fair trade. if that is something that we do not have right now. >> we want to start making our products again. we don't want to bring them in, we want to make them here. that does not mean that we do not trade, we do trade. but we need to make our products here. >> meanwhile, the president will also today in addition to the business leaders meeting, he will speak with congressional leaders talking about the affordable care act. he has also going to talk about executive actions on trade. a meeting this week with production administrator, and

expected renegotiation as i pointed out. also the issue of filling out the cabinets, that has not been easy so far. a secretary of state nominee rex tillerson has been criticized for his ties with moscow. but it looks like he has enough support to secure the post. within the hour we saw that marco rubio, senator of florida has joined john mccain and lindsey graham saying that he will throw his support behind the nomination of rex tillerson. again, we are expecting the president to do some finding today, talking about taking the united states off of the list providing in -- we are looking for the briefing coming forward this afternoon. i will be there for it. and we'll talk about that as well. for now, back to you. >> jenna: kevin, thank you. >> jon: as trump nominates his days in office. they begin with a showdown between the news media over the size of the crowd at his inauguration.

but right now the white house is moving full speed ahead on the ambitiously -- ambitious policy agenda. focusing on health care, trade. we will bring in brett, one of the biggest victories for the administration came half an hour ago or so when senator marco rubio announced that he will be voting for rex tillerson to be secretary of state. >> yes, that is a big deal, jon. he is saying that there is no upside and standing against the nominee. john mccain and lindsey graham saying that rex tillerson will also get their vote. that was one of the questions about if there were any republicans that were going to vote against their nominees, and two that takes this off the table. that will move rex tillerson forward quickly. and then if you have the cia director, state department, secretary of state, you will likely see the dominoes start to fall. democrats just don't have the votes, because as we talked

about the democrats in 2013 making the vote for cabinet nominees 50 plus one instead of the 60 usually needed. >> jon: they talk about through the questioning of -- he was dubious about him being secretary of state. here is the statement from the center of her, given the uncertainty of the foreign policy, it would be act against the national interest to have the confirmation unnecessarily delayed or embroiled in controversy. therefore despite my reservations i will support the nomination in committee and in the full senate. the thinking was that even in the full senate to there were enough votes that should he have voted against him, it would not have probably mattered. getting his name out of committee has made it a lot easier with senator rubio support. >> yes, and i think that there were people that were won over. especially the ones that i

talked to on capitol hill about his abilities, capabilities, listing running exxonmobil is like running a country. there is a lot of interaction that he dated in that role with countries around the globe, and he has connections and ties and relationships with a lot of people. >> jon: given the way this administration got things started with the protests on saturday and the statement of the media and so forth with sean spicer. donald trump ran an unconventional campaign, and it appears that he will run an unconventional administration. at least by the standards we are accustomed to. >> you are right. i said on "fox news sunday," for all of the people that thought there was going to be this dramatic shift when he got into office, just like they thought there was going to be undramatic to fit when he won the nomination, i don't think that is going to happen. this is donald trump. and he has promised a number of

things to his supporters suppo. and this is the completion of the takeover of the republican party from his point of view. not a hostile takeover, because people wanted to be there and a part of its because of the actions of the obama administration and the inaction of republicans, and that has given him the lane to operate as he will. if so, it is going to be unique. it will be different. i think the briefing at 1:30 will be the one to watch. and i do think that this president since going to operate in a way that takes down the traditional book of the establishment way washington works. if he can get things across the finish line quickly in congress and with regulations rolling back and executive orders, i think that will give him a lot of breathing room to operate a little bit more freely in washington. >> jon: he has had the critics even within his own party, marco

rubio has come around to support the secretary of state nominee. but it's getting an awful lot done if they can all get on the same train. it is not entirely clear that everybody is on the trump train yet, or are they? >> they are in that you talk to speaker, ryan. he feels like a giant cloud has been lifted. they have been a party in minority. in other words getting things through, but blocks by the oval office. now you have a person in the oval office who is willing to sign what you put on his desk. you have to figure out how to work and get the specifics across the finish line, but they feel like they have the possibility to knock a lot of things out. i would look for a massive tax bill and rollout soon, after you get over the obamacare replacement sticky issue.

>> jon: special report is going to be fun to watch, brought to bear is the reporter of that program. thank you very much. >> jenna: we are going to bring you over to the hospital news conference, given by the doctors providing treatment and services to president george h.w. bush and his wife barbara. the eight -- we understand that mrs. bush has seen, and he will be moved out of the icu soon. we will listen and then see what we have heard about the condition. >> the friday discharge might be a little bit optimistic, but friday or over the weekend, it's literally a moving target. it is fluid on him in terms of left over residual inflammation in his of bronchial tubes, in his lungs. and that's influences his oxygen, his coughing. can we essentially get him improved to an extent that we

can manage things with a home regimen of breathing medication and et cetera? >> reporter: [indistinguishable] >> everything is proceeding nicely. he had the roughly 48 hour need for that support with the tube down the throat. he was hooked up to a ventilator. and once we were able to clear out the airway and identified the bacteria, we caught back up on the inflammation and congestion there. essentially we turn down the ventilator to a low setting. about as close to breathing on your own as you can with a tube still in your throat. and looking at the numbers and the oxygen and at what we call

the mechanics of breathing, sort of the strength of breathing, and if all that looks well, looks encouraging then working with the icu team here, we were able to remove the tube. obviously we continue some oxygen through the nose. but he has done very well in that regard. we did not see a rebound of difficulty breathing or of tiring out. the x-rays continued to improve. so there is no obvious real accumulation of cereal in the airways that would then again put him behind the eight ball. >> do you understand the underlying health issues dealing with this now? >> right.

>> sure, absolutely i agree. anytime you hear of a 92-year-old gentleman with a pneumonia requiring hospitalization. it is a serious issue. we never really know how the patients are going to do at that point. the fact that he is doing so well just five days after the event that caused him to be intubated, i think it is a testament to the team that has been taking care of him. our nurses and icu staff, but also to him. he is a really strong person. he is not your average 92-year-old. [laughter] >> reporter: [indistinguishable question] >> well, unfortunately the

patients that most frequently have the complications are older patients, so we are both very versed in taking care of 80-year-olds and 90-year-olds that are facing pneumonia. really you just have to, like you said you take extra precautions. you have to adjust medications accordingly. you just take into consideration that the baseline strength is not the same of somebody who is 40 years old or 50 years old when you are trying to get them off the ventilator. so like they were mentioning, they were looking at the mechanics. as he also mentioned, he has done quite well. >> reporter: [indistinguishable question] >> he has not really been talking about it much. you watch the tv, but he was

making, oh, look there. and commenting on seeing his son there. he has not made any political statements or anything like tha that. >> no insight to the opinion or thought process that he shared to us. >> we were talking about it yesterday and wondering if it would be difficult to contact him and talk about the relationship. >> yes, well, i just left the bedside before our conference here, and actually i had gone out to the floor where she has been -- she was already out of the room. she was in intensive care sitting right next to him watching tv and interacting with him. >> yes, they truly do have such an amazing love for each other. and that really came across here. like i said, part of why she

ended up in the hospital was because even though she was ill, she was trying to be by his bedside all the time. she was not able to get the care that she needed. when we put her in the hospital, the hospital has been very great about giving her her breathing treatments down there. trying to make sure that they are together. but other than sleeping in separate rooms, they pretty much have been -- she has been sitting at his bedside most of the time getting most of her medications. her nurses are bringing it down to her. things like that. >> they are essentially therapy for each other. they help and are compliant. in terms of when one of them doesn't need to take the breathing treatments, the other says get on that. it helps our cause. >> moving forward, how has it progressed, if she going to do

that? >> i believe that if she hasn't yet, she is going to shortly. she has some things to take care of at home. she is coming back to spend the afternoon with him as a visitor, not as a patient. >> just to define the terms of the same fiber-optic technology that is used for colonoscopies and such, we have similar technology for the lungs. it is obviously a lot smaller. we can go down and take a look around the bronchial tree, suction and remove, we can fix secretions. may be a 90-year-old is having difficulty bringing those up. expect a rating or getting rid of, and unfortunately that plugs up the bronchial tubes and contributes to even further difficulty breathing.

we did perform a bronchoscopy. we were successfully clearing the material out of the airway. >> down in the icu even one he still had their breathing tube and, he gave us the thumbs up. again, that is a testament to his fortitude. i sure would want to be knocked out if i have a tube down my throat. if so, remarkably great attitude. >> yes, he asked me today when he gets to go home. i said that he gets to be out of icu today. and he said, i don't think i need to be here. can i just go home? and we talked about a possible discharge. that was about what i told him. and he said he is excited to get home. he is feeling well. well enough that he does not feel like he needs to be in the

hospital. >> i believe the statement was prior to the intensive care unit to stay, i think that the missus commented to me, you need to get us out of here and tuned up, we have to host the super bowl. >> that's right. like dr. said, they truly are therapy for each other. when she is not there, he is looking for her. when she cannot be down there she is hurry up, let's get the antibiotic done, she wants to be out of there. so as -- additionally they get after each other. if somebody is being noncompliant, then the other one says, no, no, you need to do that. so, they just take care of each other. it is very obvious how much they mean to each other. >> is there any problem among the other patients? >> no, sir.

>> he is recovering from -- >> he has a really strong person. the doctor says that he is not your average 92-year-old. that is a headline coming from the hospital in houston where president george h.w. bush and his wife, barbara bush have been for the last several days. the headlines here are as followed, barbara bush is expected to be discharged from the hospital if she has not already. and president bush will be moved out of the icu if he has not already. that is expected to happen today. it did underscore a news conference seriousness, we did find out that he had to be incubated and he was on a ventilator for several -- it sounds like -- intubated, excuse me. because of pneumonia. the former first lady having bronchitis. they both had breathing issues. it looks like they are on the path to healing. that is a great thing.

joining us now, mcbride, former assistant to george w. bush. and chief of staff for laura bush. you know these folks well. you have been in touch with people on the ground there in houston, what have you learned? what is your reaction? >> well, first of all, my reaction to this is we are so blessed to know that he is doing better. of course, absolutely, he is not your average 92-year-old. all of us who know and love him are praying for him. they mean a lot to all of us. i am thrilled to see that news. speak to what was described to us about the first lady coming to sit by his bedside, is that a lot of what you have been hearing? >> absolutely, she is so devoted to him. they really spend all of their time together. and they just love being with each other. can you imagine 72 years

married? it is just an extraordinary example of a loving marriage. they have great devotion. i was just with the bushes in the end of november. at the library. and it is just remarkable to see them together all the time. they have the love that they show for each other and their entire family. it is very, very special relationship. >> jenna: there seems to be a lot of lessons there for all of us. casey stegall reported to us on saturday nights that they are the longest married presidential couple in american history. so that as part of the history books that they hold. so, we are glad to hear it again. it looks much better, president george h.w. bush will remain in the hospital, but barbara bush has some things to do. [laughter] we understand. >> host the super bowl. >> jenna: we want to talk up about what it is like to be in

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♪ >> jenna: welcome back to "happening now," back with mcbride, former chief of staff to laura bush, and a veteran of three administrations. adjust the person to talk to on a day like this. you have been through this several times. of the first day of work, first day of school. what is it like? >> it is combination of a lot of emotions. you are exhilarated, euphoric, excited. we really do not have any time to focus on the exhaustion that you feel. remember, this has been a long campaign. a very busy transition, and they have gone to work almost immediately since that parade

was over on friday afternoon. so it is a crazy pace. people are finding their way around their offices, but they are getting a lot of things done quickly. so, i can imagine that it is just a sense of real excitement about what is in front of them. >> jenna: what is the most challenging part of it all? >> the most challenging part for new people coming into the white house is just understanding how some of the system works. they will be rewriting the rules there for sure. every new administration puts their stamp and their brand on how they want to manage the white house. but if they have a full complement of staff in place, that is going to make it a lot easier. i do not know if all of the positions that are needed have been filled. but it is all hands on deck. at the white house, 24/7. there never seems to be enough time to get everything done. you just keep plugging away. >> jenna: it sounds like a lot of really long hours.

>> well, i remember the transition of 2001, i had a three month old and a 3-year-old. we were working till 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. we were just transmissive the dash transitioning everyone and credit comes with the territory. to the white house is an extremely special place to be. you feel the weight of the responsibility of the challenge and the opportunity of what you can get done. >> jenna: you remind us that to these folks are moving their whole families, children included to washington, d.c. trying to get ready in their own offices regardless of what party you are a part of, we can appreciate how challenging that might be. what piece of advice would you like to pass on to the folks that are part of the new administration on how to get things working quickly and efficiently? >> i think they have a lot of great things on their plates, they already started with the business medium. this shows the focus of the agenda. and focusing on the priority.

of course, try to enjoy everything that is in front of you. even on your toughest day, look around you and remember where you are. that is the best piece of advice that i can give anyone going into the wonderful opportunity. i have done it three times. i never regret any minute of it. >> jenna: it sounds like a good piece of advice for all of us, even if we are not in the white house. it's great to have you on the program. thank you very much. we are talking a little bit about etiquette, few moments stand out from this weekend, one of them forever frozen in time due to the internet, the arrival of president-elect trump greeting president obama at the white house bread but it was the first lady who got more attention, because of michelle obama's reaction. the news has led this moment as awkward. at the new york time writing this, the gift arrival seems unexpected. an awkward moment as mrs. obama tried to figure out what to do with it. so we decided to do a little bit of research to see if the first

lady has ever given a gift at this exact moment before. and it turns out that michelle obama did. she gave it to laura bush in 2009. with further research we realize that michelle obama might be the first incoming -- lady who received it at this moment before. her so she was following her cue and at the same thing. within the box, we are still looking into that. we are doing some deep research. we have no facts to share at this time. >> jon: we have a hint from the color of the box. >> jenna: yes, tiffany is, of course. we would all like to receive a president like that. >> jon: right there at trump tower, made the shopping easy. we will let you know. white house press secretary making headlines for the comments he made in front of reporters on sunday. already strained relations with the media getting even worse

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jonathan. >> hello, looking at the distraction here we get an idea of the power of the winds that came through the rural neighborhood. you can see the steps leading up to what was once a family mobile home. of the mobile home just carried off of the cement block location. a scattering all of the contents. we can overhear, you can see a pastor here. checking on the horses that miraculously survive the twister as it came through this neighborhood. they are now securing the horses and taking care of them as well as two farm dogs that have been wandering around the area. all of their parts of georgia were not so lucky. governor nathan deal has set a state of emergency including cook county where i am right now. elsewhere in cook county and a parent twister went through a mobile home park damaging about 20 of those mobile homes. destroying them and claiming at

least seven lives. as we come back to the live shot out in the rural area of cook county, you can see the remnants of a another mobile home. you can see the kitchen area. not much left of this mobile home here. although there is a slight rain, a gentle rain right now. forecasters say that conditions are clearing up. this is allowing property owners to come back and inspect the damage. as you can see, they certainly have their work cut out for them. >> jon: there could be other casualties, it sounds like when they get the searching done. >> that is right. as we speak, police have been giving door to door and checking on the residence. it is possible as they go through the other damaged areas that they will, unfortunately, find more mortalities. >> jon: what a terrifying weekend. thank you. >> jenna: white house press secretary sean spicer holding

his first official news conference over the weekend, the news conference, some say white house statement because he did not take any questions. challenging media reports about the inauguration. president trump also commenting on this. to take a listen. >> the president is committed to unifying the country, that was the focus of the inaugural address. this kind of dishonesty in the media, the challenging of bringing our nation together is making it more difficult. there's been a lot of talk in the media about the responsibility to hold donald trump accountable. i'm here to tell you that it goes two ways. we will hold the press accountable as well. the american people deserve better. >> i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. [cheering and applauding] >> jenna: joining me, he was not talking about us, was he? he was talking about the other people. what is your observation?

>> obviously, we are at war. that's what the president says. where the white house debated the size of the inaugural crowd, and then upping the rhetorical and take against the press. it is in in the missed opportu. i took it off of his speech and paying respect to the cia, he drew a big crowd. he had big ratings. who cares if it was smaller than barack obama's. it just seemed to give the media something to focus on that did not have to do with the substance of the new administration. >> jenna: one thing you talk about is that it took attention off of the martyrs. they were anti-term, so is it a wash? >> we saw it again and again in the campaign where he would attack the media or pick fights on twitter. a huge media raid where did he go too far, get too much press? he would drive the news agenda. he would dominate the airwaves.

that is what is happening here, and by sunday morning all of the shows were leading with exactly what we are talking about and not the fact that hundreds of thousands of women's turned out in washington. i have to add that sean spicer is a pro. he has been dealing with reporters for years. he had to go scold the press. he had a fairly weak case. and it was on i wish you issue with that in the grand scheme of things is not going to seem big. >> jenna: what does it have to do about facts, real facts and alternative facts, a term that's kellyanne conway used. and a huge exchange before the media yesterday. a lot of headlines between chuck todd and kellyanne conway over the size of the crowd. we are going to add a little bit more to this. but i want to tell our viewers what we are talking about. >> i am curious why president trump chose yesterday to send out his press secretary to essentially litigate a

falsehood when it comes to a small and petty thing like inaugural crowd size. >> maybe this is a pollster number. i don't think you can prove those numbers. if there is no way to quantify a crowd, we all know that. >> jenna: we actually called the national park service. they oversee the national mall, i wanted to confirm that nobody has official attendance numbers. this is what they told me. due to the difficulty to accurately predict the crowd events, following 1,995,000,000 man march. they no longer provide the service. we make internal estimates for staffing, emergency response service, it is left at the discretion of the organizers to make a prediction of the event attendance. this is all coming out because of the photos used, whose inauguration looks bigger, do

you think that they media needs to be more clear that nobody has numbers for any inauguration since 1995? >> there is no official count as you say. i think that the news reports use other metrics, like how many people rode the metro system. this is not about the crowd size. and priebus hinted at this on sunday. the trump white house believes that this is an effort by the media to delegitimize the trump presidency. i'm not saying i agree with that. >> jenna: but if we do not have numbers, do they have a point to that? you have somebody like chuck todd going after kellyanne conway for this, and he does not -- here's a photo. we can all see it for what it is 100%. but he does not have the number numbers. >> it's got to really personal in that interview. i think what you are seeing here is news media, many of whose members are skeptical or hostile

towards president trump. and a trump administration that does not trust the press and supporters do not support the press. trump says that the media does not know what they are talking about. they side with her guy. but does this skirmishing, whether it is a war or battle, does all of this help the president on jobs, trade, immigration? or is it just the way of laying down the marker against the press? i agree, there is no definitive answer, but i think this was our proxy war in which the two sides were shouting over each other with an issue that is not important. >> jenna: it is consistent of what we have seen over the last 18 months. it is not necessarily new. it is not a headline that president trump does not trust the press. i am interested in what you are expecting of the press briefing, just a short time from now. >> i am getting my popcorn. i think it will be quite a show. it will be contentious, because

there is a lot of resentment among reporters for the scolding that sean spicer gave. he did not take questions on saturday. and i think there will be some pestering on both sides. i am ultimately hopeful that both sides will work out a working relationship where it is not a permanent state of war, but this is going to be around one or around two. we will see it in the briefing this afternoon. >> jenna: we would like to thank them for scheduling the briefing during our hour. during the 1:00 hour. we will take the viewers their life. thank you as always. >> jon: well, the republican plan to replace obamacare. will congress approved the patient freedom act of 2017? what is in it? our panel please in.

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♪ >> jon: republicans are coming forward with a plan to replace obamacare, they are calling out to the patient freedom act of 2017.

bill cassidy and susan: collen introducing about the bill moments ago. we will talk about its with the senior editor for author of "digging in." and senator director of the democratic party and a former senior aide to hillary clinton. welcome to both of you. so, as i understand it is a redo of a bill that these two senators put forward in 2015. do we know what is in it? >> well, you have to read it. you have to pass it in order to know what is innate. that is a phrase i know from the past. no, but this sounds like something on the shelf that they can take off from the shelf to show to the public. listen, we do have a clue, and we are ready. >> jon: well, susan collins has said that she does not want to repeal obamacare without having something ready. we understand that there is more ability of the states to make their own rules when it comes to how their individual citizens

are covered under the plan. with a republican president and a republican legislator, does it stand a chance to pass? >> well, they are probably pushing it. i imagine that there is a good chance that something is going to pass. i think it is important to note that this is a bill, not to the bill to replace the affordable care act. and not to be at all partisan, but it seems that the trump administration in its early days, and certainly during the campaign was a little light on details. so now you are going to start to see a lot of members of congress, the members of the senate to push the bill forward and see what comes out after that. >> jon: he did say as of issue that obamacare was may be number one, number two behind building a wall. >> yes, trump's had a lots, the before him and in the caucuses

had a lots. trump was a little bit different. you recall that he criticized the ted cruz plan as heartless. he said that i am not going to let my people believed in the streets. i'm going to cover everyone, he said. so he made a big promise. he promised to repeal and replace, but also it is going to be much better. no one will be left out, and their comes a time to deliver. at that time should be fairly soon. >> i think it is important to note on that point that a lot of americans that benefits from the affordable care act are in red states, so his delivery is yes to the entire country, but also to a lot of the voters that supported. >> jon: over the weekend he signed one of the executive orders ordering federal agencies to essentially allow for or read the affordable care act, the existing law and the most or the

least onerous way possible. and other words to lead the law, when i read the language i did not sound like much. but the "washington post" says that he has thrown a bomb into the insurance marketplace. >> there is a question about how much discretion they have. and administrations to make a difference carrying out things, laws. that all makes a great difference. in the cliche is that elections have consequences. i think what the trump white house was trying to signal is that we are going to act, and we are getting the ball rolling this very day. >> one of the elements of the affordable care act is that you, mean, everybody has to have insurance paid if you do not get covered by your employer, you have to go into the marketplace and buy it for yourself. if you do not do that, you get fined. so potentially they could be saying, hey, we are not going to force that anymore. >> i think that is a very good chance that that will not be in

the future bills. one thing that i do think can be rolling and any future administration is taking it across the state border. i think if they do that -- >> it sounds almost republican. music to my ears. >> there are a lot of people that really do care about that. and even the other pieces, being able to stay with your parents insurance till 26, the pre-existing things that he would keep. if he keeps those and finds a way to keep costs down, and i think republicans are sort of fighting with themselves about spending measures, but if he can keep cost down's, then he can build traction. >> jon: they have had republicans, seven years to come up with a replacement, do they have one? >> well, the democrats have a taunt. there is some merit. the g.o.p. is like the dog that caught the car. now what? this they bear in mind,

obamacare was a great convulsive change in american life. it had to do with the sixth of the economy. and people do not like convulsing change. you have to handle reversing it with some care, otherwise people feel like there is whiplash. and i do think that the g.o.p. reputation is writing on how they handled this. are they going to govern successfully? the people, nonpartisan types, i am a very partisan type, but regular people will judge them like that. >> jon: we all want a system that works. that is the question. how do you come up with a system that works? again, the bill that the two senators have introduced, if it is something that makes the system better for people, then i imagine that it will be well received. >> the president said that himself, president obama, the former president. hard to adjust. the former president, president obama said that if you can come up with a better plan, we would all be for it. the truth is that we would too. but hillary clinton tried this for years, did not work prior to

the obama administration tried it. this is what we have now. it is not going to happen in a couple of days, the american people are going to have to be patient, but the legislators are also going to have to spend the time to get into the details and come out with a good comprehensive plan. >> jon: i know that the ohio governor who sparred a lot with donald trump during the campaign season was asked if he could promise. he was criticized for having added medicaid rolls in his state. sort of doing something that many republicans did not think was orthodox. anyway, he was asked whether he could promise that nobody would lose their health care under the new republican plan, and he said, look, i cannot promise anything. is that an approach that you have to take in a situation like this? >> that is pretty honest, especially from a politician. the usual thing to say, and i think it is kind of glib, but i say it anyway.

how about taking this to the states? the states figuring out what works for them. that is a standard republican response. it is a little bit easy, but i think it is a good one. and republicans always run up against this problem that people say that they are against big government until summer for a form them. then it doesn't seem so bad. they all have to face the voters. >> jon: spent some time in a place like new hampshire, the live free or die state. and you find the desire for government intervention or interference as a whole lot different in a place like california. >> that is absolutely right. look, we do it in new york with children's health care. we did that. we were very successful at that in new york. are there other things that have done and as well. i think the ways that republicans over the h-10 years have spent efforts working on the legislative getting people elected there. and the governorships.

losing quite a lot of seats in the last few years. what this means is that you are going to see a lot of activity in the states. even if there is uncertainty of what is happening in washington, d.c. there will be a tremendous amount of policy in the states. i think there will be a lot of conversation about republican orthodoxy in respect to regular c. >> jon: thank you both. >> jenna: and back to the white house, president trump entered into the oval office about 11:44 this morning. he took part in signing three executive orders that we have talked about. and when this happened, our white house pool goes into the oval office, and here's what we are seeing. we get playback of what transpired. that is the way we can bring this to you. if this is the first tape we have avoid tapping into the oval office, first on monday in his administration. sometimes some sound in the

studio, will we hear something here? we expect to. why don't we go ahead and listen in. >> all right, we are going to sign three memorandums right now. the first one is withdrawal of the united states from the trans-pacific partnership. >> everybody knows what that means, right? we have been talking about this for a long time. okay. great thing for the american worker, what we just stated. >> next is a federal employee government hiring freeze. >> except for the military. except for the military.

>> next is the policy in regard to mexico city. >> that's it. >> thank you very much. >> mr. president, reactions? >> thank you, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> jenna: we don't mind taking in a little bit more of the oval office even if the child is not on the president right now. this is ahead of the press briefing in a short time from now. we expect president trump to sign the orders, and you heard the three of them there. 12 talk about the big trade

deal, never ratified that it was a part of the plan to give up trade in newly emerging economies. but there was concern on both sides of the aisle about what that would mean for american workers. you heard right there suggesting that him stopping tpp through the action would be a great thing for american workers. also when it comes to jobs as well. a hiring freeze for the federal government with the exception to the military. those are the two headlines coming from the orders today. and president trump did say that he was going to get in and get to work. we have the video of it. >> jon: three executive orders already and works. and next hour on "happening now "happening now," across southern california, torrential rain. now evacuations are ordered in areas where wildfires have stripped the landscape bear. and that can bring real problems. plus united airlines is back in the air after a glitch that stopped much of the pleat.

we will take a look at what happened yesterday.

>> jon: we were just talking about it during the break, not gotten off to an on-time start and some of these things. we will see you back here and then hour. >> jenna: , that's right "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: we will begin with a fox news alert. moments ago donald trump signed three executive actions. including one to formally withdraw the united states from the trans-pacific partnership deal. when of his campaign promises. this is "outnumbered," i am harris faulkner. meghan mccain, host of "kennedy" ," and #oneluckyguy, the editor for "the washington times," charlie hurt is outnumbered. and all of what the breaking news coming out of the capital. >> charles: it is amazing. a new day in america, that's for sure. >> harris: and a new day of the week. let's get rolling.