freedom and justice." that is it for this "special report" from kansas. fair, balanced, and unafraid. "the first 100 days" with martha maccallum starts right now. ♪ >> martha: breaking tonight, two weeks into a donald trump presidency and we are already seeing signs of a new world order. enemies and allies alike on edge as the disruptor channels the art of the deal on the international stage. this is what day 14 look like, everybody. good evening, i'm martha maccallum. late today, the white house taking aim at a ron. slamming them with sanctions set to take effect as early as tomorrow, most likely, and retaliation for a recent ballistic missile test. day 14 began with leaked excerpts of a call to the australian prime minister. not usually a newsmaking event for the president was upset over and a bomb of a deal to take in some refugees that originally wanted to go to australia. he let the prime minister know

it, according to accounts. just moments ago, top trump aides met with the australian ambassador and apparently smoothed things over. additionally, a phone call with the president of mexico also because of international ripples. again, we might not be hearing the entire story on this. while earlier reports of the trump administration was easing sanctions on russia, turned out to be false, u.s. ambassadors. united nation nikki haley employed some tough talks on the floor of the u.n. today, regarding the former soviet union's recent intrusion into ukraine. there is a few things on the plate for you. let's bring in marc thiessen, juan williams, and pete hoekstra, all here on mr. tripp's rewriting of the international orders. let's go to john roberts. good evening, john. >> good evening to you. a lot to unpack tonight. let's start with the sanctions on iran. that medium-range mental test was on sunday. the white house came out and said that iran was being put on notice, the national security advisor that said that.

we had a briefing later on that day with senior administration officials that said they were mulling over how to respond. here is how they're going to respond. as soon as tomorrow, they will impose sanctions on more than 20 iranian entities. they say that they are being sanctioned for terrorist related or missile related activity. the white house needs to be creative here with the application of sanctions, so as itself, to not violate the iran nuclear agreement. the white house likely does not need to go through congress to impose sanctions but it does have a lot of support on capitol hill for punishing iran. listen. >> i would be in favor of additional sanctions on iran. i would like to put as much toothpaste back in the tube as possible. i think the last administration appeased iran far too much. i think they went too far with iran. as a result, iran is far more active than it otherwise would be. >> if you have ever tried to put toothpaste back in a tube, you know how difficult it is. the president finding less

support on capitol hill for his recent dealings with australia, mentioning at the top, the president is upset about this deal that the obama administration cut back in november for the united states to take in more than 1200 refugees currently being held by australia and offshore detention facilities. according to white house officials, the president had a frank phone call with prime minister malcom turnbull about it. so much so that senator john mccain felt that he needed to call the ambassador to apologize on behalf of the united states. you mentioned that the ambassador came in and they talked him through that whole thing. the prayer breakfast this morning at the washington hilton, the president did not dissuade as of the notion that that phone call was very tough. listen. >> when you hear about the telephone calls i'm having, don't worry about it. just don't worry about it. they are tough. we have to be tough. it is time we have to be tough, folks. we are taking advantage of by every nation in the world virtually. it's not going to happen anymore. >> the president did say he would honor that agreement with a caveat, though, that all of those refugees would be subject

to extreme vetting. here's another headline for you. we just got a statement from the press secretary. president trump has shifted his position slightly on settlement in israel, sending a note to prime minister benjamin netanyahu, to say, "while we don't believe the existence of settlements as an impediment to be scum of the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving that goal. something else to chew over tonight. martha. >> martha: there is a lot. john, thank you very much for sorting out so much of this. the spring in marc thiessen, former chief speechwriter for president george w. bush. and juan williams, cohost of "the five." pete hoekstra, former trump campaign national security advisor. gentlemen, a lot on the plate as we have said. marc, let me start with you. the breaking news that john roberts just mentioned, a pretty strong statement that comes from the president on settlements in israel. >> sure, absolutely. the president said in that

speech this morning that we got to get tough because the world is in trouble. he's absolutely right that we need to get tough because the world is in trouble because barack obama projected weakness into the world and the consequences have been disastrous. we need to get tough on our enemies and start supporting our allies. that is what he is doing when it comes to israel. he is making a statement of support. he needs to realize that australia has an ally, too. we need to support them and focus our toughness on our enemies. quite frankly, he is doing that, too. you look at what is happening in iran, he is imposing sanctions for ballistic missile tests, a far cry from barack obama sending unmarked bills on secret planes to tehran. he is getting tough on al qaeda. if you look at that, barack obama was sending drones to take out these guys. donald trump just sent a special operations team to capture these guys alive and get intelligence. they weren't successful. they got a lot of intelligence. it would have been blown up with a drone. he is getting tough on our enemies. he is going to be backing our allies. so, i think he is after a pretty

good start. >> martha: juan, does any of this disturb you today? >> what we have just seen in terms of the statement on president netanyahu and israel, trump walking back, i think of the campaign mode is able to say, we are israel's ally. i don't know that we weren't ever israel's ally, martha. >> martha: many people felt that under president obama it wasn't always that open and warm, big, warm embrace. >> no -- i think they didn't get along personally because i think president obama represented the united states of america is interested in making sure that there are some kind of lasting peace in the middle east and not encouraging the very settlements that trump at one point he seemed to want to allow. >> martha: now, he is saying no new settlements. >> that's right. you can see he is starting to walk back as he faces the reality of dealing with a very tense world. i think that even in terms of the kind of reaction that you are seeing from foreign leaders who are, as you put it, i agree, on edge with trump, you are

seeing a manhattan real estate developer who is used to exerting dominance at the start of relationships, alpha male behavior. but you can't do that with people who have to be our allies, negotiating partners, people that you want to be on your side when bad times come. >> martha: why not? why can't you? >> why can't you act like that? >> because you need to allies. for example, australia, they have this saying, australia as part of a very parched select group of people, countries, that we trust with our most sensitive intelligence, martha. for us to suddenly be badgering malcom turnbull to suggest that malcom turnbull, this is a bad , we don't understand, to cut him off, i think that is insulting. we need to rely on him. >> martha: i think everyone needs to take a selective deep breath here. we need to look at what is actually happening.

tonight, it appears that the s3 of the situation, prime minister -- let's bring in pete hoekstra on this. they said it was a cordial conversation, it was fine. when president trump looked at this deal, he said, these are 1250 people who tried to get into australia from the seven countries that we are now banning people from industrial he wouldn't let them in. australia has had a horrific p.r. situation over the people stuck on papa new guinea on this island. they want to deal with this problem. apparently, got president obama to agree. they will take this problem off their hands, we will bring them into the united states. president trump looked at this and said, i don't know if this is such a great arrangement. >> that's exactly right. i think that is what -- marc had to stop at the beginning of the segment. he is talking about donald trump is saying, we have serious issues that need to be dealt with. i am sending a clear message to nato. you need to pay up and you need to be relevant or it is gone.

we need to make nato relevant and make it be effective or it doesn't serve its purpose. with our ally and australia, he is saying, this is a terrible deal. the bottom line is, we need to get serious with refugees. we need to get serious between us, australia, and europeans. we need to resolve the issues of the middle east. we need to resolve the problem of isis. the problem is exerting strong leadership. what he now needs as he needs his team in place. he needs his cabinet in place. he needs his ambassadors in place. he needs these other positions filled on the national security scene, so, we can put a full-court press to put these priorities in place. actually, i think the kinds of things that john mccain did today are very, very helpful. i think john mccain agrees with the overall strategy and plan of where donald trump is going, may disagree, but him calling the australian ambassador and reinforcing the importance of this relationship is absolutely helpful. >> martha: i'm not sure

john mccain wanted to be in on that partnership that is the role he played today in the end. quite interesting. thank you so much, gentleman. great to talk to you. >> thank you. >> martha: still had come a two weeks into donald trump's presidency and some media outlets are already drawing some comparisons. they are comparing donald trump to former president nixon. is that fair, is that right? we will by end when we come back in our media conflict segment tonight. plus, violent protests erupted at a college campus at uc berkeley. you might ask yourself, what gets people so fired up that they broke windows, these protesters? we will show you what happened and why when dave shapiro and richard fowler join us on the follow-through we come right back.

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♪ >> martha: the first 14 days in office has seen a president trump of bucking conventions and moving at a blistering pace. in the process, he has created a essentially months of stories in just a matter of a couple of weeks. perhaps caught by surprise and mud, the drawing some provocative conclusions about his presidency so far. consider these headlines. drawing comparison to

richard nixon. "a besieged trump." the latest cover of the economist characterizes his presence in the white house as in insurgents. time magazine features a villainous looking steve bannon on the cover with as they deem him, the "great manipulator" for a joined now howard kurtz and ari fleischer. welcome, good to have you here. it is fair to say that the media is drowning and a sea of stories that is sometimes hard for all of us to keep up with, so much coming down the pipeline. in terms of those headlines, ari, as the press secretary, would you be okay with those headlines are what you push back? >> the insurgent headline is probably a pretty good one. i don't think donald trump would mind being called an insurgents in washington, d.c. i compare this to the way barack obama came into the d.c., the soft, easy, loving press. reporters wanted to him. but donald trump, they don't like them, they don't want to believe in him.

they leap on every little thing that goes on and try to magnify it or exaggerated or get it wrong with the martin luther king bust being removed from the oval office, to say he is doing things that are terrible and they have to correct themselves. it's a pattern. >> martha: howie, he is going at such a rapid pace, this president, that in some ways, people say, you can't make the next a comparison, and it's only been a few weeks. it is like dog years. it is been to occur in some ways. perhaps it is justified based on the activity. what do you think lexmark president trump is overloading the circuits. already, the press is going good nixon card. comparing him to nixon and saying he has a fortress mentality perhaps, on the basis of one canceled trip to milwaukee is an absurd stretch. all the comparisons when president trump fire the acting attorney general for not carrying out his order, controversial, to be sure, on the travel temporary ban, comparing it to nixon saturday

night max during watergate, a criminal investigation of the white house, not involving a previous administration's holdover, also totally erroneous. we have to remember, president trump has declared war on the press. it is almost as if the news outlets are using that as an excuse or a reason to throw the kitchen sink at him. >> martha: he is giving them plenty to work with and they are giving back plenty to work with and it seems like the relationship has been like that through the campaign, as well. i want to go back to this "time magazine" cover that has steve been in on the cover looking villainous. people are digging into everything that he said and all of his bright bright years and they do see a lot of what we are seeing from president trump in the writings and what they have set over the years about immigrants and the like. is this fair? are you concerned about the role that he place of the white house? >> i don't know steve bannon. i've never heard of him until he became famous for going to work with donald trump.

when he went to the white house, to the campaign, all the coverage about islam a phobia, misogynistic, anti-semitic, sometimes, when you hear that everything is wrong with someone, you check yourself and go, there is something else going on here. they just don't like him for some reason and they are getting up at him. merit or no merit. i think that is the case with steve bannon, best i can tell. particularly, anti-semitic, that attack, there is no evidence, nothing that supports it. they make it anyway. this is what i just find, the price going too far to paint people they don't like negative. they did similar things to karl rove. they never did that to valerie jarrett or david axelrod. they were hands off of president obama. >> martha: valerie jarrett got a fair amount of negative attention, i would say. in many cases, these people are very quiet and keep to themselves because of their role and they don't want to be the person in the press. i think that allows the press to read things into their behavior that may or may not be true.

howie, i want to ask you about the leakers in the store they got out today by the president on the phone with the prime minister of australia. what you think is going on? >> this is a revolt by the government against president trump. some fairly senior officials, perhaps the state department, other white house, we don't know, gave to "the washington post" and the ap, either detailed accounts or leaked partial transcripts of these tough calls with the leaders mexico and australia. it is stunning to me that that kind of confidential conversation involving a president would be leaked. i would publish it, too, it's a fascinating story. it means that the president can't have an expectation of privacy when he is having these high-level secret talks. that's addressed to me that the bureaucracy is rising up against him. one quick point, martha, during the campaign that press completely messed of the anger and frustration among these trump supporters. i fear we are in danger of doing that again. >> martha: thank you, howie.

you look at that leaked story, the white house that it did not come from them. it came from outside the white house. very few people in the room. the australian said it didn't come from them. someone, as you point out, is trying to make the president look bad. truthfully or untruthfully, it appears that's what happened. we will see where it goes. ari fleischer, thank you so much. howie, great to see you. it was one of president trump's most famous campaign promises. tonight, we are learning to the southern border wall could come to fruition as donald trump likes to do, the president, way ahead of schedule. perhaps, under budget. we will show you the exclusive timeline from his new secretary of homeland security in an exclusive interview coming up ahead. plus, shocking violence at uc berkeley reignite the debate about free speech on college campuses today. does it exist? venture per euro, himself a target of this behavior, and richard fowler come away and on this, coming up next.

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canceled at uc berkeley because they had a enormously violent protests that broke out hours before he was scheduled to apper last night. in moments, we will be joined by ben shapiro, who is also been the subject of this kind of shutdown on college campuses when he is going to speak there. and richard fowler to discuss with paul out tonight. first, let's go to trace gallagher. hey, trace. >> 1500 or so protests are that gathered on campus hours before the speech of milo yiannopoulos were mostly peaceful and the violence was caused by 150 agitators dressed in black wearing masks. along with tearing down metal barriers, setting fires, and damaging buildings, watch what happened to a woman wearing a trump hat. >> are you surprised? >> that was pepper spray. amid the chaos, milo yiannopoulos was extorted off

the campus and said this. >> this is a threat by the idea that a conservative speaker might be persuasive and interesting and funny and might take some people with him. they just have to shut it down at all costs. >> uc berkeley countered that saying it went to great lengths to work with campus republicans who arrange and secure the speech saying "while we have made clear our believes that the inflamed rhetoric and provocations of mr. yiannopoulos were in marked opposition to the basic values of the university, we respected his right to come to campus and speak." president trump also waited, tweeting "if uc berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view, no federal funds!" berkley reportedly get some $350 million a year and federal funds. experts say because of the various grant programs and funding mechanisms, it would be next to impossible for trump to cut that money.

california democratic congresswoman barbara lee, whose district includes berkeley, claims president trump is trying to bully the university into silence. we should note part of the reason milo yiannopoulos was speaking at berkeley was to start a push to limit federal funding for the university of california system because of its sanctuary campus policy did not cooperate with the feds concerning undocumented students. martha. >> martha: trace, thank you. here with mark, ben schapiro and richard fowler. good to have both of you here. let me start with you on this, richard. free speech, as we do this, let's put up an image that shows 1964 berkeley, which is considered the home of the free speech movement, as we headed into work, berkeley, 2017 on the right-hand side of your screen, a pretty shocking dichotomy. richard. >> i think what we saw last night was devastating. as much as i don't agree with milo or what he stands for, what

he believes in, i think he has a right to speak at berkeley. i think the university believes the same thing. i think to go one step further, they don't represent the broader progressive movement. it's a mistake to lump them and with those progressives like myself who are saying we are going to peacefully protest and obstruct. we don't like these views, given to the right by the constitution. >> martha: ben, what do you think? >> what a lot of what richard is saying is true. i think there is a mentality that is on a lot of college campuses. there is a mentality that suggests that speech that you don't like it some sort of violence. micro-aggressions being met with macro aggression. when you start with the premise that it's okay to punch and then you say, everyone is a nazi, then, it is easy to see things break down. that is why i have had riots at cal state los angeles, we had a near riot at penn state last year. it is becoming a lot less uncommon than you would hope would be, certainly.

>> martha: you look at the protest, the picture we showed, the civil rights movement, the vietnam war, based in such deeply held beliefs. in some of these cases, richard, you just have to wonder, when you have students who have been taught that the require safe spaces around them, that hearing the viewpoint of someone who is different than them is not an education, it's an offense. i think that we have to make sure that universities -- i get uc berkeley credit, in this case, they did come forward and say that they gave him a forum to speak in. it wasn't their fault. donald trump, the president's tweet, may have been misplaced. richard appeared to >> i think it was misplaced by the university did everything in their power. these rioters don't go to uc berkeley. i think the students can protest. we can disagree with them. and milo's case, the writings show that he is part of the altar right, a code word for white supremacy. i don't subscribe to his belief. i am against his beliefs. i think he has the right to

speak. i think that is what we have, we have to make this distinction. to lump everyone an end say that we don't want to hear the voices of conservative views, i think that is wrong. we have proven the opposite. whether it be harvard, uc berkeley, yale. >> martha: ben, what do you think? >> there is another problem here. does the administration do what it is supposed to do in terms of giving the police on its campus the ability to shutdown violent protests? i think the answer is no. we have seen that a california state l.a. where i was. a situation where the administration told the police to stand down and allow protesters. last night, we saw this go ahead. there is a difference between barricades at having officers. >> they have officers in riot gear, just looking at those videos. >> did they move on the people who were smashing the windows? did they move on the people who were spray painting "kill trump"? >> we weren't on the ground two's know what the police were

doing. the university did everything in its power to make sure that mr. milo was safe. they probably don't go to uc berkeley, they are agitators, we are talking about the story. at the universities are places of intellectualism. they are laboratories of intellectualism's. any university, the job of the conservative speakers is to speak their views and our job is to oppose them. >> martha: let law enforcement do what they need to do to prevent criminals, which is what these people are, who are destroying property and injuring people. one man was there to protect the right of free speech and got his nose broken. we can't allow that. that has to be cracked down on, as well. thank you very much. richard fowler, ben schapiro, good to see you both tonight. it was arnold schwarzenegger that produce the most headlines from the national prayer breakfast this morning. it was a policy trump said he would "destroy" that is probably the biggest news of the event this morning. governor mike huckabee joins us coming up on match.

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potential deadline for his agency. watch this. >> i think it will be built where it is needed most first and then filled in. that is what i am looking at. >> what is the timeline? when do you want to see this completed? >> we have the authority to build it. now, we are looking at the money aspect. >> what is your target date to complete the wall? >> i would like to see it done right away. but i am not so sure right now we have the construction capacity on the border to do it. i would save my desire would be right away. >> within the next two years? >> i would hope hope to have it done within the next two years. >> martha: joining me now, lisa boothe is a republican strategist, robert zimmerman as a democratic strategist. great to have both of you with us. anybody who lives in this area and saw that, under budget, ahead of schedule. that is no doubt what president trump is pushing for

here, robert. >> i don't think an ice-skating rink in new york city or in atlantic city allows construction that donald trump did is really the model we are looking for. let's understand, while i have great respect for jenna rudd kelly, when talking about the budget, donald trump said he it would cost between eight and $12 billion. now, 15 and $20 billion. for donald trump, or someone who studied math at trump university, that is on budget. in terms of construction, let's be realistic about it. it's a situation where you find taxes members of congress from a border state are now criticizing this as expensive and ineffective. >> martha: there's a lot of things he could criticize president trump for. but my guess is that this is something that he probably can't wait to have done and show off. lisa? >> general kelly is the right guy for this project. he was most recently the head of u.s. southern commands. he was a guy he was faced a lot of the same problems that he

faced at the home of homeland security. further, the irony of all of this is the fact that the wall that president trump is actually using it as a law that many democratic support it in 2006 to come of the secure fence act, including the minority leader senator chuck schumer as well as dianne feinstein diane feinstein quoted," of her, saying that democrats are solidly behind th. obviously --dash -- >> that is exactly right. 650 miles of fence is built on the 700-mile border. as a matter of fact, more mexicans are leaving the united states and coming in. but the point is, what we most object about the wall is that it is a weak solution, it is ineffectual. the conference of immigration bill that john mccain and chuck schumer did, that included border patrols, drones. it included fiber technology, a whole range of devices to make the border more secure. >> martha: they are talking about employing all those things.

in fact -- the border patrol is very enthusiastic, apparently come about this leadership. they are very happy about it. i think one of the things that may be a weakness in the overall program is that so many people are coming in and overstaying. that is one of the biggest problems we have. >> of course, general kelly mentioned the fact that it is more complicated than just that. why not have a deterrent to like the wall? we are a sovereign nation, we have the right to protect our borders. they have been reports by customs and border patrols of apprehending individuals at the southern border that are connected to terrorist organizations. we are facing new threats, many more threats than we did in 2006. why not protect our borders? if you want to talk about money, look at the monday that president obama wasted with things like the green energy cable $100 billion on wasteful spending. the irony of it is hilarious.

>> it's really not. under president obama, if you want to go there, the economy was rebuilt. donald trump was enjoying it. on the issue of national security, let's understand, donald trump is doing nothing about the canadian border, where there are reported, literally, documented terrorist coming in. according to the pentagon, no example -- >> if you really want to protect the border, but you don't want to protect the southern part of hers. >> i say protective order more effectively by including drones and using other technology. as a matter of fact, it is not -- >> general kelly said during his testimony, talking about the fact that it has to be a larger plan. there is more dynamics to it. >> no price tag on its -- >> can i talk or will you filibuster me? as i mentioned before, the u.s. customs and border patrol said this has been fact-checked and true, the fact that they have identified individuals at the southern border, connected to terrorist organizations.

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political campaigning and language. watch this. >> it was a great thomas jefferson who said the god who gave us life gave us liberty. jefferson asked, can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of god? among those freedoms is the right to worship according to our own beliefs. that is why i will get rid of and totally destroy the johnson amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution. >> martha: joining me now, senator mike huckabee, fox news contributor. governor, great to see you tonight. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> martha: explain the johnson amendment and why he would have made such a point to bring this up and what it means.

>> back in 1954, lyndon johnson got this past as a senator. it essentially was targeted to some people who used political campaigns against them. it was never even thought of to be used against churches and nonprofit and 5o1c3 organizations. that is exactly what happened. so, since the 1950s, churches have had a chill put on them, fearing that the irs is going to come in and shut them down if they did anything that was deemed political. what do you have seen is a lot of churches, of all types and stripes, from left to right, have decided they wouldn't say anything that might be controversy all or speak to issues of the day. frankly, that is a complete trilling of the first amendment rights of these pastors and priests and rabbis. so, the johnson amendment, and its repeal, would really say, look, we have freedom of religion again. i think it is a remarkable thing that donald trump has identified it, that he recognizes the

impact of it, that he is going to get rid of it. it is something that may seem esoteric to a lot of people but it's not. >> martha: the fear is in some areas, some groups of people, lgbtq communities, who stake in what happens next for you have a religious hospital, an organization that might chill on hiring people who have certain elements of their life that they might object to. >> that has nothing to do with the johnson amendment. this is about whether or not nonprofit organizations can speak freely and pastors can speak freely from their pulpits. donald trump has made it very clear. he's the first presidential candidate that ever addressed to the issue of lesbian,, transgender rights at a national convention, which he did. i don't think he is rolling back anything for anyone. he believes in liberty for everybody. he doesn't believe that there should be special liberties for some and then, a squashing of liberties for others. if you are going to be in the united states of america,

everybody ought to have the same freedoms, the same capabilities. >> martha: the fact is, there are plenty of partisan groups he received tax-exempt status who are supposed to be impartial and bipartisan. right? last thought. >> that has been a real problem, some groups have ignored it. the truth is, and all these years, the irs has never revoked a church's tax-exempt status. not one time. they has been one interest in which they threatened but never followed through. it is really a paper tiger. the fact that it exists still causes pastors and churches to chill. we need to let them speak freely. >> martha: clearly, the president wants to think and be loyal to the evangelical voters who supported him. governor, thank you very much. >>sh thank you, martha. good to be here. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently.

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the white house have very powerful positions working alongside the president. this is a new graphic that was just created by "time" magazine, it shows the layout of the offices which is extremely important in d.c. and elsewhere. you get the idea. you see the folks and where they are in their power positions. earlier this week, i had a chance to speak with three of those women about their new lives at the white house. take a look. >> martha: talk to about what it is like to be in the trump administration. >> and some ways, it feels like being one of the men, being one of the women, meaning, we are all treated the same way president trump. there is a special responsibility. i do feel like i have a vaulted platform, if you welcome a special responsibility to america's women, particularly those who write to me, right to me, call me, text to me, jusr standing up for women and standing up to other women and other people who are trying to

diminish the president of the united states. >> martha: what is it like working at the white house? >> it is the greatest honor you could ever have to be able to work in the white house. when you step onto the grounds every day, see where you work, see the change in impacts that are taking place, it is a pretty incredible moment and very humbling at the same time. >> martha: in terms of what it's like to be a woman in the trump west wing, we all saw the protests and we have heard, follow that story throughout, but what is the reality? what is it like for you in the white house? >> there's quite a few of us actually. for everybody that says, tries to make a knock on the president, he is surrounded by women and a very strong women, as you know, people like kellyanne conway, k.t. mcfarland. very outspoken, strong women. they like to make their opinions known. i think he likes to hearing from those people. one of the things that i think was one of the biggest

misconceptions during the campaign cycle was that women weren't supporting donald trump and weren't supporting the president. the things that keep me up at night, i'm a working mom. it is whether or not my kids will have a good education, whether they will grow up in a safe country, whether they will be able to get a job. those of the things is a woman and a mom that i care about. there is no better person and no person i feel more comfortable with and donald trump being in the white house. >> martha: you worked in the right has a long time ago. now, you find yourself back there. what is that like for you? >> martha, it is so serendipitous. this is the word. i started in 1970. i was a freshman at george washington university. i had to pay my way through school. i got a part-time job as the night shift secretary and henry kissinger's office on the national security council. i went to class during the day, went to the white house at night. and i typed. i did that for a number of years. i got to work my way up the food chain and the national security council. when i think of today, the

office i went into on inauguration day, that was about 20 steps from where i started and 1970. if you had told me in 1970 that a woman would have the kind of power looked on my policymaking position at any administration, i wouldn't have believed it. yet, when i walked in my office on january 20th, 2017, i wasn't the first woman to sit at that desk. there had been other women before me who had had senior roles in previous administrations. for me, it was an achievement of a lifetime, i for a moment as a woman who have gone through the stages of one women didn't have those jobs. >> martha: how do you feel as someone who is in a leadership role and a woman in the trump administration? what is that like? >> as a woman, in the past, people say they are women's issues and nonwomen issues. i think everything is a woman's issue. national security, to me, is the most important women's issue. i know not a lot of women have been in this field. but women are not military officers, one of my senior

assistance as a woman who is a military officer and she is a helicopter pilot. when i look at the issues of the day and what is going to keep america safe, what is going to guarantee to my daughters and my granddaughters a life that they can be proud of, where they can live in a country that is thriving and succeeding, as a leader on the world stage, has rights for women and others, i am really honored and happy to be a part of it. as far as the women who don't think we are up to that job, hey, give us a chance. >> martha: good stuff earlier, we showed you part of the general kelly interview, but there was a personal exchange with him that we want to share with you. much has been said of the disruption of the early days of the trump presidency but he has been steadfast in his support of the military and that applies to the people that he has surrounded himself with the high level positions. as you may know, general john hadley sadly is the highest drinking military officer to lose a child in combat. his 29-year-old son, robert michael kelly, killed in combat in afghanistan in 2010. when asked to serve the trump

administration, here is how recounted his wife karen's reaction. it is a report of the night. she said "take it, your whole life, our whole life, the kelly family is a life of service." we thank them for that. good night. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" from l.a. is on tonight. >> president trump taking to twitter this morning, asking the question, "no federal fronts"" if uc berkeley does not allow free speech. >> more violence against free speech, this time in berkeley, california, . and president trump is tweeting, "if this doesn't stop, there'll be federal action." we will tell you what is going on. >> the world is in trouble. but we are going to straighten it out. okay? that is what i do. >> bill: the controversy over the president's anti-terror policies continues. "talking points" will laid out for you tonight. >> what would you like build to ask the president? >> i would like to ask