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>> that is how you do monday. invite kevin jackson on the couch. thank you for being here. 60 seconds left, i will say thank you, we will see you again tomorrow at noon eastern, now at "happening now" ." >> jenna: fox news earlier, we are awaiting a joint press conference between president donald trump empi minister justin trudeau. >> jon: they are expected to take questions from reporters. we're covering all of the news happening now. >> we are not blocking the appointment. >> jon: republicans disagree, insisting democrat members are slowing the cabinet picks ahead of more critical confirmation votes. >> we are going to be done legislative with response to this. >> jon: speaker paul ryan strikes an optimistic tone on repealing president obama's signature healthcare law despite new science there could be roadblocks ahead. and tear up above, it scared
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sparks mass evacuations for nearly 200,000 people living below america's taoist dam. it is all happening now. >> jenna: would be given a fox news earlier, president trump and canadian prime minister justin trudeau said to hold a press conference an hour from now, second hour of "happening now," i am jenna lee. >> jon: i am jon scott, president trump will take questions surrounding the future of his national security advisor michael flynn in his role in the administration. the future of president trump's temporary travel ban, president suggested he could roll out a new executive order as soon as today as well as the fate of multiple cabinet picks and his supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. mike emanuel is following those key confirmation votes on capitol hill, but we begin with the white house. >> following the very successful series of meetings with japanese prime ministers abe over the weekend where the two men apparently hit it off quite
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famously, some slightly larger questions are now looming about today's series of meetings with canadian pay minister justin trudeau. the two leaders come from very different ends of the political spectrum, one example is while trump has been calling for extreme vetting of syrian refugees and other refugees from six designated terrorist countries, prime minister trudeau has repeatedly said that canada's diversity is its strength again recently welcome 40,000 refugees from syria to his country and treated at the time "for those living persecution, terror and war, canadians will commute regardless of your faith, diversity is our strength welcome to canada. big questions also surround the question of free trade between the countries. it is no secret that president trump is a big proponent of the north american free-trade agreement of which canada is a key part. >> nafta has been a catastrophee for our country, our workers, they are leaving our country, i want to change it.
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maybe we do it, maybe we do a new nafta and put an extra f and they are, you know what it is for? "free and fair" trade, not just free-trade. because it is very unfair. >> complicating free and fair trade with canada is the fact that canada was the united states largest export market in the year 2015. the u.s. exported $280 billion worth of goods that year, way up from pre-nafta days since 1993, u.s. exports to canada are up 179%. and canada is the united states second largest supplier of imports in the year 2015. one area of certain mutual interest that the two will strike common ground today is the roundtable discussion going on right now on women entrepreneurs, this meeting is the brainchild of ivanka trump, she orchestrated it, invited the algebra nor is it made a key to advance her cause of maternal leave and child care. after today's series of
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meetings, we are expecting a bilateral press availability at 2:00 with the two leaders, then at 3:00, justin trudeau has up to capitol hill to have meetings at 3:00 with house speaker paul ryan 3:40 with majority leader mitch mcconnell before getting back to canada, ottawa at 6:00 tonight. very busy day today. >> jon: very busy, doug mckelway, thank you. >> jenna: the president's cabinet continues to take shape with the senate voting on two of the nominees later today. steven mnuchin as treasury secretary and david shulkin to run the department of veterans affairs paid the vote on mnuchin is expected to be much closer as credits take aim at his ties to wall street and it pick for the supreme court will also make the rounds today as he did last week, judge neil gorsuch meeting from senators from both sides of the aisle to try to make his case for confirmation. for all of this, our chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. >> good afternoon. this week should be off to a fast start with two senate
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confirmations this evening and then one tomorrow for small business administration. the senate has been back in session for about an hour or so this week, all democrats so far complaining about steven mnuchin to be the next treasury secretary, expect republicans to get up in support of his nomination later this afternoon. this in a democratic leader took aim a short time ago. >> this slate of nominees we will soon consider including steven mnuchin for treasury, andrew puzder for labor, mick mulvaney for omb show that yawning gap between the president's audacious promises to working america and the practical reality of his administration. >> also today, judge neil gorsuch, supreme court nominee continues making the rounds here on capitol hill. south carolina republican senator lindsey graham on fox business today predicted gorsuch will get more than 60 votes because he is so well-qualified. today, judge gorsuch will meet
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with senators kennedy of louisiana, wyoming, young from indiana and iowa, all of today's expected meetings are with republicans in the senate, but he has made a lot of outreach to both republicans and democrats here on capitol hill. >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: joining us now for more on all this, chris, deputy online editor for "the weekly standard" and political reporter for "the daily beach." we are waiting for this news conference between justin trudeau, canadian prime minister, and president trump and just about an hour, betsy. these two are political opposites, but they seem to be on the same page and a lot of areas, at least for this visit. >> that united states relationship with canada is one of the consistently good parts of our foreign policy, extreme a noncontroversial, canada's economy is an extra complete link to the u.s. economy, millions of canadian jobs rely on their relationship with the u.s. come upwards of 400,000
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people legally cross the border between the u.s. and canada every day. it's not a major source of tension for that said, prime minister trudeau did needle trump subtly back in january about a week before his inauguration where he suggested that canada has some values and priorities the u.s. does not share, then he mentioned that he identifies as a feminist and supports immigration, he's a person who thinks canadian muslims are integral to their society, so he has not been completely restrained when it comes to needling trump but all told, this is an amicable relationship and it will be surprising if any tension comes out. >> jon: he sent the tweet we just heard about from the white house january 28th, justin trudeau, prime minister trudeau talking about canadians welcoming people from oppressed lands and so forth. shortly after that, he sent this tweet, this included a photo of him welcoming a syrian refugees and at one of canada's airports for the photo was from 2015, but he made the point on genuine 28 of this year, sending that photo
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out. he's apparently trying to make a point to the new president of the united states. >> thank goodness that diplomacy was conducted over twitter and not in person because like betsy said, i don't that we will see the fireworks we might see on social media today. i think we saw this with shinzo abe but, the japanese prime minister, very cordial introduction between them, and abe faced a lot of opposition at home for some of the thing trump has done that the japanese people do not share the values of the travel ban and such, but he did not really talk about that when he came to the united states. he wanted to focus on things where they can find common ground and we should expect the same thing from justin trudeau today, especially with the female business leaders council and ivanka trump's event that's going to cater well to someone like trudeau who is founded in feminism and quite proud of it even though he's on the opposite side of the political spectrum from donald trump as we have seen.
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>> jon: it is no surprise this women's roundtable is a big part of their meeting today then. >> trudeau made a big deal highlighting the fact that half of his cabinet is women, he said this should be the norm because half the population is female, why would his top advisors also be women? trump throughout the course of the campaign had a lot of trouble when it came to some gender issues, some of the most notorious moments of the 2015 presidential campaign were tied to those general questions for him, but that said, i think this roundtable is indicative that perhaps ivanka trump has a growing public role in the white house, she has been there to broker a friendly and warm interaction between trump and trudeau at least in terms of their disposition, their rhetoric, they could not be more different. it suggests that she is going to be a bridge builder for many politicians who trump might otherwise have a lot of trouble relating to, and not just on the left, on capitol hill, they had a meeting with some republicans several months ago who i spoke
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to after that said there was more applause in the room for ivanka trump, she is really well-liked universally, and that makes her a huge political asset for her dad. >> jon: we are also looking forward to the confirmation hearings for steven mnuchin to be treasury secretary, chris. it is kind of interesting that despite candidate trump's criticisms of wall street, he is staffing his finance positions in his cabinet with a lot of wall street veterans. speak i think the immediate perspective that we have heard is that it is not the worst thing in the world to have knowledge of the system that steven mnuchin has given his past associations and past work. something else that is interesting about him is he is kind of a political wild card. we saw during some of the confirmation hearings, just giving some examples, he was skeptical of the idea of auditing the federal reserve, very libertarian backed idea to -- >> jon: let me interrupt for a second just to tell our viewers what we're seeing. this is video that just came
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into the fox news room for moments ago of president trump and prime minister trudeau walking from the women's roundtable event to lunch at the white house. once again, we are expecting a joint news conference from the two of them about 50 minutes from now. go ahead, chris, finish up. >> making the overall point that mnuchin is a bit of a political wild card, a lot of opposition we have seen to him was espoused by cory booker quite well after betsy devos is a vote last week that like booker does not really want to be ceding any ground whatsoever to trump right now, it's more of a blanket opposition. when you see the types of criticisms of mnuchin, he is rich, entrenched inside of wall street, it is not quite as policy-based, it is associate based, based on what he has done in his past work. i think that is why we will see some ally him be able to sneak past the confirmation process, maybe a closer vote here, but it's not going to be for lack of
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policy chops or credentials or qualification, just some political opposition from the left because of associations moving forward. >> jon: interesting, too, prime minister trudeau has had kind of a rocky few months at home. he has been criticized in the press there, and he is meeting with a new president who may be his political opposite, but both men have taken some slings and arrows from observers in the media. >> both of them certainly have had better approval ratings, trudeau's below 50% for the first time since he became prime minister in january, and he was on a bit of a to z that doctrine for a while after fidel castro died, he appeared to gloss over his notorious and despicable human rights record, so trudeau has had a bit of a bumpy ride over the last few months, and for him, going into this meeting with donald trump is particularly complicated because there are so much on the line. one big thing to keep an eye on over the next couple days as
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more conversation comes out is talking about defense spending paid canada as a member of nato, they spend less than 1% of their budget on defense meanwhile trump has been pressuring america's nato allies to dramatically increase how much they spent. this is the goal that all of them will spend about 2% on defense, but the u.s. spends much more, canada does not, so that is a subtext to the meeting and something that i think trudeau may need to address at some point, maybe not this meeting but when he is dealing with the new type of relationship canada has with the u.s. >> jon: we will find out more, we expect we will when they take microphones in the east room about 45 minutes from now. betsy and chris, thank you both. >> jenna: immigrations and customs enforcement carrying out a series of raids across the country as president trump could be revising his travel been with a new executive order. our panel debates the containing battle over protecting our borders next. also brand-new development surrounding the controversy over national security advisor michael flynn in his phone calls apparently to the russian
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ambassador. what he just told vice president pence and what fox's learning now about his future in the administration. >> i don't know about it, i have not seen it. what report is that? [indistinct question] >> i've not seen it. your insurance company won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says, "you picked the wrong insurance plan." no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. liberty mutual insurance.
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yesterday and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new u.s. sanctions against russia or the expulsion of diplomats. >> jenna: national security correspondent is going to sort this out for us, she is live at the pentagon with more. >> a senior west wing source tells me national security advisor mike flynn met with vice president mike pence this morning and apologized for telling him that sanctions were not discussed in a phone call with the russian ambassador in december that coincided, of course, with the expulsion of 35 russian spies and the imposition of sanctions in the wake of russia's interference with the u.s. election. according to the source, the vice president accepted flynn's apology appeared and asked about members he would be gone by the end of the week, this source said wrong, and said they would strongly push back on that member describing it as gossip and all squawked. the president had a two hour meeting with flynn this money were he asked his advice on
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various national security issues, i am told. this west wing official told me the president and vice president were not happy, but he is not going to be gone by the end of the week. there was not much public support from white house officials this weekend, feeling the notion that flynn's job could be on the line. >> that is a question for the president and chief of staff, general flynn has served his country admirably, three-star general, headed the defense intelligence agency and i look forward to having more discussions about this in the future. >> flynn was supposed to be the keynote speaker tonight at a special operations banquet. he canceled his appearance on sunday. there west wing source i spoke to said flynn was with the president all weekend at mar-a-lago overseeing the visit of the japanese prime minister and the response to north korea. "flynn was at the president side all weekend" this source told me. if the inner circle is four people in the white house, he is in the inner circle. >> jenna: we will continue to watch the story and expect the president will likely be asked
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about this at the joint press conference at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. jennifer, thank you. >> jon: we lost a true american hero late last week with the death of retired lieutenant general moore, he is best known for having served most of it fiercest enough in the vietnam war despite being outnumbered 10-1. hollywood took notice of his bravery. mel gibson portrayed him in the lead role in the film "we were soldiers," he would have been 9. five children have all gathered near their alabama home ahead of the milestone and had a private family party just the day before he died. once again, retired lieutenant general howell moore, american hero passed away at the age of 94. >> jenna: the battle over immigration rages on, president trump considering a new executive order after his first one was halted in federal court paid federal agents across the country arresting hundreds
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>> jenna: right now the battle over protecting our country's borders playing out on two fronts, one inside the white house and one on the streets. first we are awaiting the possibility of a new executive order on the travel ban. according to several published reports, i could come as soon as today. also on the second topic of immigration and customs enforcement curing out a series of raids last week, federal officials say more than 600 people were arrested and at least 11 states, i.c.e. officials called these grades routine. they said there were no different than the ones carried under president obama, but there might be a difference of note, let's bring in our panel, michael, immigration attorney and former federal prosecutor,
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and hans become a senior legal fella, great to have you both back. you were both with us on wednesday of last week, and ite, doesn't it? when you really think about it. we ended our conversation, mike, last week with talking about if donald trump decided to issue another executive order, that might solve some of the controversy around the first when he put forward. now we are getting some indication that could be the case, what with the new executive order have to have ended so it doesn't do what the last executive order did? >> thank you again for having me on. taking the president at his word that he is after extreme vetting, what the government will do this time will carve out national permanent residence, we all agree the privilege of equal protection stops at emory shores bay there is no entitlement that foreign nationals have here, no
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constitutional right they have, but long-term visa holders, individuals who have significant ties, green card holders, people with applications pending. i have an iranian surgeon who is conducting surgery in italy on an emergency basis who was approved for a green card, stopped from coming back in the last two weeks. bottom line, they are going to come out with a new order, the litigation will continue, no doubt there will be arguments that it is the same skin, the breach of the establishment clause, all the other constitutional grounds still stands. i take the president at his word, but when it comes to these raids, this is a rerun, this is "back to the future," so 1990s. i went on a raid when i was a federal prosecutor, president bush, president clinton, 2017, we need to be more proactive. we need to get immigration right we know the president has this authority, but we have to be judicious in how we exacted on u.s. soil.
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>> jenna: i'm going to get to this in that moment because these stories obviously intersect, talking about immigration on two different fronts, but i'm curious what you thought about what michael said about the executive order because you thought the first one was quite frankly going to eventually be okay legally but we saw there was some obstacles to that peer based on michael's description, are there a few simple fixes, do you expect that from the trump administration, what do you think the effects are of that? >> i agree with michael that it's a carve out of permanent legal aliens, that's going to take away the ability for example of the ninth circuit to say there was a problem with the order. we should make it clear, the white house counsel, went the issue first came up, they said this order would not a applied to permanent resident aliens, the ninth circuit refused to accept that from the white house counsel's office. clearly a revised order that does that is going to take away, like i said, the ability of the ninth circuit to stop the order because of it.
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the raids that have been going on, all they are doing is enforcing our immigration laws. i should point out there are almost a million on enforced deportation orders sitting in a file cabinet at the department of homeland security. we should be enforcing those and taking people out of the country who have been ordered deported. >> jenna: i'm curious on the legal expertise of both of you on this topic paired michael, i've seen you have the report out of mexico that there is now an ad campaign encouraging those that are living in our country illegally to use our ows against us and you basically backlog our own courts, fight their deportation and they campaign in mexico is run by, in part, a former foreign minister, saying this is a way you will be able to stay in the country longer. is that possible, could that happen? >> our court system will be tremendously bogged it down. quite honestly, the president
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has not gone to congress and ask for an expenditure, we only have 300 immigration judges in the entire nation. right now, there will be people hauled off, not enough airplane airplanes, trucks, beds to remove people, so they will go to the courts, this will take years. >> jenna: they could have their date not even as an american citizen. >> they are given special privileges, also have to make sure we are thoughtful when we send people out that we do not send them back to their own deaths. the conventions against torture, political asylum, believe it or not, in our office has been a successful getting asylum through friendly nations, countries that have good business deals with the united states where there are untoward operations going on. this could get worse before it gets better. while hans believes this is normal business or should have been done already, the truth is that this is not the way that we should operate in 2017. >> jenna: how should we operate? >> we should be judicious about
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getting extreme criminals out, not everyone with a long rap sheet will be able to remain on u.s. soil, and i can tell you the good people that are calling me should be sleeping at night, green card holders are coming in and going crazy trying to apply for citizenship. they should have no fears of being in the united states. people who are not puritanical who may have committed inadvertent things are now and a ramped up priority list. the president has expanded their priority list to people who are messing with medicare, individuals who came in fraudulently and people who are accused of crimes. mind you, he may be well intended, and i believe in my heart he is a patriot, but america does not operate in the gestapo-like environment, it is unconscionable. >> jenna: hans, argument against that is when you break a law, you break a law. >> i am sorry. it is outrageous to say that the government is using gestapo-like tactics. that is outrageous. what is happening is an individual who has been ordered
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deported after having extensive hearings, before immigration judges, they are the ones being kicked out along with criminals, individuals who have committed other crimes, to say that is a gestapo tactic is outrageous. >> that is not what is happening, my clients have called me. i practice in midtown manhattan, we have offices throughout the nation. i'm getting phone calls from people on subway platforms, typically they present warrants, but anyone within the zone, if they come into a restaurant looking for somebody, immigration protocol would be to look at everyone in the restaurant including the patrons. that is a gestapo-like tactic. it is not what the president says is happening here. >> now, what is happening is they are picking up individuals who are in the united states illegally, many of them have deportation orders saying that they should be deported, and they are prioritized and going after criminals. >> jenna: here's the debate, some say black and white, others say there are shades of gray, that's going to be a
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conversation we continue to have. mexico say they may not accept people without proof they are actually mexican, which would slow down the process further. really interesting, look forward to having you both back next week, let's do it, why not. we will be right back with more. , a talented workforce, and world-class innovations. like in plattsburgh, where the most advanced transportation is already en route. and in corning, where the future is materializing. let us help grow your company's tomorrow - today at esd.ny.gov
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finishing a working lunch. we have no idea what is on the menu but they are surely talking about the news cycle having to do with national security, trade and otherwise. we will take you later to the east room of the white house when the joint news conference begins but first we get to some other news today as well. >> jon: this fox news alert on the dangerous situation unfolding in northern california. nearly 200,000 people now under evacuation orders, in the races on to repair the damage to the nation's tallest dam before the next round of storms it's the area. meteorologist adam klotz live at the fox weather center with a look at prospects. >> we are tracking oroville dam good news for the time being, this is our satellite and radar loop, things are clear, so we are getting a little break from the rain, can back you out a little bit to show where this is a northern california, just up the road from sacramento. want to take you into the future, this is a future forecast. good through monday, good through tuesday but if i run far
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enough out here in the future forecast, we begin to see another major system beginning to batter the west coast. this is going to be happening wednesday evening running into thursday morning. again, i would not be surprised if areas sought to inches or up to 4 inches of rain at higher elevations they could get snow. this is going to fill the lake once again. this is going to be an issue for folks on the west coast. i think you all the way across the country, here on the east coast we have had a big system t will lift a little further to the north, areas of boston and portland, maine, farther to the north area seeing some of that snow but even if you're not in an area where you are seeing heavy snow, everyone on the backside of this is getting very strong winds paid look at some of these numbers, 46-mile an hour gusts in atlantic city, 37 in new york. areas up to 45 miles an hour winds, it is a raw, nasty day in the northeast, definitely want to bundle up and we will be tracking what is happening out west as well. >> jon: just got where they will be a news conference on that an hour and a half from nasa we will bring you the latest information then.
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adam klotz, thank you. >> obamacare doesn't work, so we are putting in a wonderful plan. it is statutorily takes a long time to get, we will be putting it in very soon. yes, i would like to say by the end of the year, at least the rudiments, but we should have something within the year and the following year. >> the legislating is going to be done this year. we are going to be done legislative with respect to health care in obamacare this year. >> jenna: president trump and house speaker paul ryan laying out a possible time frame for replacing obamacare but a new report says they are working to shore up the holes in the current law appeared "new york times" writing in part after announcing the affordable care act as an abomination for seven years, republicans in congress working with the trump administration are urgently seeking ways to shore up health insurance market place is created by the law. president trump said as a candidate that obamacare collapsed under its own way, and republicans have different outcomes because the fate of the healthcare law is in their hands pay they could be blamed by
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consumers and democrats appeared for more on this, leslie marshall syndicated radio talk show host and david webb post of his own show unserious fm leave act xm radio and fox news contributor. great to have you both. what do you think about this? >> consider the source, "the new york times" writing this article, not very credible, but let's look at the reality, 18% of our gdp tied up in healthcare. we have the un-affordable care act which has raised rates for americans, caused problems with access to healthcare. insurance marketplaces are in turmoil. in order to think to fix this, it will be messy, and republicans have to stop worry about the poll tested responses are people who want to maintain a failed system and work to fix americans market-based solutions. >> jenna: why do you think they are worried about this? is it politics as usual? >> politicians, politicians are risk averse. here is the real solution. if you fix this for the american people, if market-based solutions are brought into bear,
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and you can buy insurance across state lines, true portability, deal with the access to care, pre-existing conditions, deal with other aspects and actually solve it, you will still have a mess here and there, but the majority of americans will look around and find out they are not paying expensive plans with $5,000 deductibles. >> jenna: interesting point that "new york times" brings up whether or not obamacare, think of the name, could actually be owned by the republicans. do you see that it could be the case, republicans now own the healthcare plan despite the law? >> this is when i need to be a psychic or go to vegas because this is exactly what i said. i said you watch, they are not going to repeal and replace it, they are going to tweak it, and they are going to keep, which there are many, valued elements of the plan because not only do they want to keep their job, they don't want to throw out those that have pre-existing conditions to be covered or kids staying under their health insurance of the parents until they are 26 years of age or to
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put millions of people out of a plan or for those that are happy with and find it affordable for them, they don't want to switch those. remember the insurance companies and sent a letter to congress saying please, don't repeal this unless you have something to replace it with because millions will be uninsured. >> leslie, and a macro sense, you cannot have a plan or an insurance marketplace where part of the population has another part of that population paying for it. it is not economically sound logic. the reality is the young and indestructible are not going to buy insurance coverage so they can pay for the aged and infirm, that is the failure point. also, people can write all the letters they want, but if we do not fix the problem, then insurance and the healthcare marketplace fails for everybody. that is not good for those. >> jenna: where is the line then? obamacare now, republicans do keep some of the parts of the law that seem to be good or
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popular, does it become trump care, they also on the victory but is there always the obamacare with the friction of branding about who owns this, and who benefits from it? >> i think it depends on his message you believe. certainly the president is very good at putting his name on things, he likes that, likes to take credit for things, but the reality is this again will not be a plan they get rid of and replace it with. david, to your earlier point, the reason we needed the reformation was not just economic, it was also for the health, literally, every nation peered the reason we have 70 hospitals closed is because we had so many people entering the emergency room, that was bankrupting the medical care system but also we did not have enough healthcare providers to take care of those people that were ill. as our senior population continues to grow -- >> obamacare does not replace any of that. >> they grow into the future. >> leslie, i am sorry. >> it was not going to be a full
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fix in the first implementation of legislation, anymore than the republican plan if we can ever see it when they come up with one will be a fix. >> jenna: we are going to have to leave it there but wonder if we will ever say trump obamacare, one big name. >> how about we say the end of the field affordable care act as we saw by the last jonathan kleeberg caught on tape or is it or ezekiel manual -- >> jenna: we don't know what the plan is. >> there are multiple plans written in congress. >> jenna: you point out no one is getting behind it publicly because there is a little bit of a fear, little risk aversion is something we have to talk more about. leslie and david, great to have you back. >> thank you. >> jon: the white house doubles down on claims of voter fraud, so what are the facts of the case? fox news investigates next.
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>> you have provided zero evidence that there was massive voter fraud come you have provided zero evidence. you have provided zero evidence of the president's claim that he would have won the popular vote if 3-5 million illegal immigrants had voted. zero evidence for your claim. >> 1% voting issue, the noncitizen voting issue is pervasive and widespread, we will protect our country. >> you can start by providing evidence to back up your claims, thank you for joining us. >> jon: i was white house advisor stephen miller doubling down on claims of voter fraud in the most recent election despite evidence there is nothing to support it, he mentioned new hampshire specifically as the reason both he and former senator kelly ayotte lost, claiming voters were brought in by the bust full from massachusetts. eric has been digging for that pack on this claim, he joins us with more. >> hello, we could not find one case brought by prosecutors of
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voter fraud, people who took a bus from massachusetts to new hampshire as alleged to vote illegally peered voter fraud does happen, but in the case of elected officials, it is isolated and sporadic, there are cases in the last election being investigated. it's been long believed that some of the out-of-state presidential campaign workers have voted in the states first in the nation primary, but that is legal because the state does not have a residency requirement. you can vote by declaring a domicile, state attorney foster insists it does not happen in the thousands, saying "simply put, the allegations by president trump are baseless. we know of no widespread voter fraud nor has any been brought to our attention, it is simply untrue." the state does have a photo i.d. law where if you do not have a photo i.d., election officials take your picture with a polaroid camera, you then fill out an affidavit and election officials follow up on all of that information. there is, though, one case of a man who did to drive from
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massachusetts to new hampshire to vote illegally but he drove his own car and did not take a bus. in 2014, schneider pled guilty to illegally voting in the 2008 presidential election, and again and the 2012 presidential primary and general election, mr. schneider as a result has lost his right to vote in the state. former new hampshire state republican chairman is offering a $1,000 reward to anybody who can prove that a massachusetts resident did take a bus to his estate to vote illegally. this afternoon, he told me that so far no one has called to collect the joe, as he put it, stephen miller's claim is "ridiculous and complete garbage." >> jon: we will see if anyone pays out on that reward. thank you. >> jenna: we are just a few minutes away from a joint news conference at the east room of the white house for president trump and canadian prime minister justin trudeau.
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you can see the press filing in there, getting their seats ready as they await both leaders. as you might recall, over the last few weeks as we have seen these joint press conferences, we have often seen two questions for each leader, that is normally that path we see after opening statements, so we will watch this very closely. in the meantime, last night's grammy awards got a little political, not so much but viewers hearing a lot more than just music. we will show you what you might have missed next. ♪ ♪ ♪
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will hold a joint press conference at the top of the hour. we will bring that to you live when it happens, plus new details on a phone call between national security advisor mike flynn and vice president mike pence, we will tell you what went down with that. in current and former tsc and airport employees indicted for smuggling and lots of drugs to the u.s. that story and more on "america's newsroom hq" ." >> jenna: some politics at the grammys with a handful of artists taking aim at president trump, jonathan is live from los angeles with more. >> on a night that is supposed to be all about music, politics was prominent. host james gordon setting the tone early on with the first trump reference of the night. >> president trump, we don't know what comes next. >> then we go to a series of politically charged performances and speeches, jennifer lopez calling for action, paris jackson appealing for opposition
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to the dakota access pipeline, katy perry referencing people power, but the most obviously political message was delivered by a tribe called quest. >> resist! resist! resist! >> on the flip side, singer joy villa made her support for the president a very obvious in this dress. musically, it was a battle between two superstars, beyonce and adele. with beyonce missing out as a british singer to come best song, best record and best album. although even adele herself seemed to think beyonce should have won. >> i am very humbled, and i'm very grateful and gracious, but my artist of my life is beyonce. this album to me, the "lemonade" album is so monumental, beyonce. so monumental.
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>> not everything went her way, she asked for a do-over after messing up the start of a tribute to the late george michael. but by the end of the night, it is safe to say that the grammys have made adele great again. >> jenna: jonathan, thank you. >> jon: fox news alert as we await that joint news conference in the east room of the white house, president donald trump and canadian prime minister justin trudeau participating. it is set to begin just minutes from now. we are back in a moment. look closely.
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but will they find common ground? we are about to find out. >> let's see what kind of statements they open with and what kind of questions they get. >> "america's news hq" starts now. >> a fox news alert. you are looking live at the east room of the white house where we are awaiting a join news conference with president trump and canadian prime minister justin trudeau. hello, everyone. i'm melissa francis. the news conference is set to begin any moment now. the president welcoming the canadian prime minister earlier today to the white house for their very first meeting. john robert, i don't think of these two as a match made heaven. what's it like there? >> reporter: their politics are definitely different. justin trudeau comes from a rich history of politics. his father was the
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