>> the star of the agility kpe teug at the westminster dog show was not the winner but she won our hearts. mia the beagle doing everything possible. she practically just lost interest at some point. that's me trying to get things done. that was adorable. >> knicks at madison square garden. happy valentine's day. >> bill: we gotta run. bye-bye. >> less than a month into his administration, president trump is looking for a new national security adviser. michael flynn tendering his resignation conceding he misled vice president pence about the nature of his conversations with the russian ambassador in late december. good morning to you. welcome to happening now. i'm jon scott. >> jenna: i'm jenna lee. he provided inkrebg information to the white house about the phone calls in which he offered to relax sanctions posed on

russia. we do not know the content of the calls. there's a big question about who does. those calls taking place before mr. trump's inauguration and before flynn was apparently authorized to discuss such things. all of this raising new questions about the president's ties to russia. our chief white house correspondent john roberts has the latest from the white house. john? >> reporter: jenna, good morning. departure of the lieutenant general michael flynn not a tough decision for the president to make because you have to protect the presidency. simply a tough thing for him to do. michael flynn was one of his most loyal and trusted lieutenants. i was at campaign events across the country for months and months during the primary and general election. many times general flynn would introduce donald trump on stage. sunday night it looked like he might survive, skate through this is what one administration official put to me. but when all of the bad news came out yesterday morning, it pretty much sealed the deal. flynn was just collecting too much baggage to possibly survive

this position. the official reason for his departure, not the conversations that he had with the russian ambassador and what the content of those conversations might be. but the fact that he had given misleading information to vice president mike pence and then went on a sunday morning show who repeated that information which appeared to be incorrect. listen to what kellyanne conway said this morning. >> he was having any number of calls and that in the end he felt he had misled or misrepresented all the facts to the president and vice president. for that he was enormously and deeply sorry. and that really was the lynch pin here. he either forgot, couldn't fully recall or outwardly misled the vice president and others. >> reporter: so who are the possible candidates to replace flynn? robert f. harward. spent a lot of time in special forces in iraq and afghanistan. said to be solid as a rock. you look at his face. this is a guy who looked like he was chiselled out of rock.

david petraeus and keith kellogg overseeing the national security council now that flynn is gone. don't know the possibilities of kellogg getting the final job. but he's in the running. there's no question about that. white house now trying to change the narrative, particularly after news that the former acting attorney general had warned the white house that flynn could be the target of russian blackmail focusing attention on the leak of intercepts with the russian ambassador that brought this all out in public. here's what the president tweeted. quote, the real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of washington? will these leaks be happening on north korea, etc? leaking the contents of a foreign wire tap is serious business. first of all, any americans caught in these foreign wire taps, their identity is supposed to be shielded. so somebody somewhere along the way, might have been during the obama administration, made the decision to identify lieutenant general michael flynn. also all of this goes through a

court. proceedings of which are extremely classified. very classified information being leaked. rod johnson chairman of the senate homeland security committee said that this is the sort of thing that the president, these leak, really needs to nip in the bud. listen here. >> that's something this president's going to have to come to grips with. he's going to have to get control over. but it will be an enormous challenge. you have the entrenched bureaucracy, whether it's in the intelligence communit the state department, throughout government, that is going to be opposed to somebody who's really coming to change. >> reporter: congressman nunez, chairman of the house intelligence committee, said he might want to look into this. the problem is though, jenna, this white house is that the president is vastly outnumbered by, you know, career civil servants who are in the national security council, the cia, fbi, state department, office of the director of national intelligence. they don't particularly like him. they don't particularly like what he's doing. they seem only too willing to leak out some highly classified stuff.

jenna? >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: peter baker joining us from the new york times. also a guy who knows russia well, having spent a significant amount of time there. peter, read a line from general flynn's resignation letter. he wrote, i inadvertently briefed the vice president elect and others with incompletion information regarding my phone calls the the russian ambassador. is that why he's out? >> well, certainly one reason. it's really hard to mislead the vice president of the united states and then not suffer consequences. i think what we're told, obviously, is that mike pence was pretty upset about this, didn't think that -- not only did he not appreciate being misled because he went o and never made this information public on television. he didn't think general flynn i think was regretful once he did, in fact, acknowledge that his briefing hadn't been fully forthcoming. so i think that's not a good thing. they don't know where this will

go. the fbi obviously is involved. at this point certainly on the outside, we don't have a sense of whether this is going any further. >> jon: he apologized to pence and the vice president accepted his apology. >> he did accept the apology according to the letter, but that doesn't necessarily mean he wanted to keep working with him. there was a feeling inside the white house that this was a situation that was getting out of control. president was reported to be upset at the continuing swirling controversy about it. seemed to be from the beginning a rivally between the chief strategist and general flynn for control over the national security and foreign policy apparatus in the white house. so all these factors played into what we saw last night in a pretty dramatic moment. >> jon: donald trump is a guy who values loyalty. but the top advisers in the white house are said to have distrusted flynn. here's how kellyanne conway, who is still in the president's inner circle, characterized it this morning on fox and friends.

>> in the end, it really was the misleading or the forgetfulness about characterizing that conversation that i think was the lynch pin here. look, i just want to say to everyone that general flynn has a three decade plus record of service as an intelligence officer, as a military official that should not be overlooked. in this particular case, there was an incident or so that just became unsustainable for him to carry on in that role. that was a decision he made. the president accepted his resignation and is moving on with general keith kellogg, who worked with the team very well and for a very long time. and then he'll all be entertaining perhaps former navy seal mr. harward and also general petraeus, who is known to everyone. >> jon: general flynn was still in the national security briefing yesterday. he was front and center for that

meeting with canada's prime minister. what happened? >> well, exactly right. we're still trying to piece together exactly how the day was playing out. remember, of course, he was there at the news conference with prime minister trudeau. you would have thought all was right with the world, nothing seemed out of sorts in a visual sense. but as the day kept going on, his position kept crumbling underneath him. kellyanne conway had said midday yesterday that the president still has full support and faith in general flynn but within an hour or so, sean spicer came out and told reporters that wasn't necessarily the case. the president was reviewing the situation and they would put out a statement later. seemed to be the longer this played out, the more the president thought about it, the more general flynn thought about it, the more they decided this wasn't a tenable situation going forward for the long term. >> jon: justice department apparently warned the white

house that general flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail on the basis of what he said in those phone conversations with the russian? >> yes. well, the idea is if you told the vice president of the united states that you had not talked about sanctions but there was evidence that you had, the russians would know that you had, that would leave you open to, in theory, some extortion or blackmail kind of thing. the white house knew ab this weeks ago. wasn't enough to convince the president to make a change here. so that was not the deciding factor in that sense. but it was made public. we confirmed our reporters did and others as well. that may have contributed to the public's sense of a bureau that was not sustainable. the white house already knew ab this warning from sally yates. the president fired sally yates who was an acting attorney general left over from the obama administration in a fight over whether to defend the travel ban in court. they obviously didn't think it was enough at that time. but it didn't obviously help the general when it became public

yesterday. >> jon: not a good thing to happen less than a month into a new administration. peter baker, new york times, thank you peter. >> jenna: back to capitol hill where we're watching voting for another cabinet appointee for president trump. this is for the person that would head the small business administration. linda mcmahon. you'll recognize that last name. former wrestling executive. all former senate candidate. and now we expect her to be confirmed in the senate as voting is taking place. peter ducey is live with more on what's happening. >> reporter: the cabinet confirmation process that democrats have slowed to a crawl does continue right now and this afternoon. we know dr. david schulkin is going to be sworn in by the vice president this afternoon. the person the trump white house hopes will head up the small business administration, linda mcmahon is up for a vote by the full senate. we should know what happens with

that vote, whether she is confirmed or not within the next few minutes. next up will be congressman nick mulvaney. because democrats used the full 30 hours of debate allowed between confirmations twaoefrben though senator ben carton admitted they won be able to stop any of them. mulvaney can't be sworn in for two days. >> representative mulvaney is unfortunately an example of a cabinet member that is too far compromised by potential conflict of interest and other ethics challenges. >> reporter: that kind of talk is not swaying republican senators. mitch mcconnell is imploring his democratic counter part chuck shumer to realize that and change the way he's been doing business for the first three and a half weeks of the trump administration. >> beginning with representative mulvaney, we can get each of

these nominees confirmed soon. with cooperation from across the aisle, we can put them to work for the american people even sooner. >> reporter: we also got word today that house republicans are stuck. they have not yet decided what they want to replace obama care with. because repealing and replacing obama care is at the top of the agenda in the senate and house, some of those republicans are getting nervous at the delay. jenna? >> jenna: peter, thank you. >> jon: fox news alert. fresh tape just in to the fox news room of the president participating in a parent/teacher conference listening session, if you will. his new secretary of education, betsy devos, at his side. here it is. >> betsy devos, who has gone through our education secretary. she went through an interesting moment. i know you would have done it if you had to do it again, right?

she had no doubt that final night waiting for the vote, so i just want to congratulate you. you showed toughness and genius. as i said many times in my campaign, we want every child in america to have the opportunity to climb the ladder to success. i want every child also to have a safe community. we're gonna do that. we will be helping you a lot. a great school and some day to get a really well paying job, or better. or better. own their own company. lot of people are looking at that. but it all begins with education. that's why we are here this morning. i'm here also to celebrate a little bit with betsy. we started this journey a long time ago, having to do with choice and so many other good things with education. i'm so happy that that all worked out. right now too many of our children don't have the opportunity to get that education that we all talk

about. millions of poor, disadvantaged students are trapped in failing schools, and this crisis, and it is a crisis of education and communities working together. but not working out. we're gonna change it around. especially for the african-american communities. it's been very, very tough and unfair. i know that's a priority. it's certainly a priority of mine. that's why i want every single disadvantaged child in america, no matter what their background or where they live, to have a choice about where they go to school. it's worked out so well in some communities where it's been properly run and properly done. and it's a terrific thing. charter schools in particular have demonstrated -- >> jon: so the president and his administration trying to turn the page a bit, turning their attention to education after the flat over michael flynn national security adviser who resigned yesterday after admitting he

misled the vice president. the president did not answer questions about general flynn. back with more happening now in just a moment. my 60's.

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to control water levels at the lake oroville dam. the water is receding. more storms are forecast. nearly 200,000 people were evacuated because of fears the lake could overflow its banks because the spillway there is eroded. the oroville dam about 75 miles north of sacramento is the tallest in the nation. claudia cohen is live there with the latest. >> reporter: jon, we are at the top of oroville dam. you can get a look of what we are talking about. you can see the spray that is gushing down the main spillway there and into the feather river. to the right of that, you see the reservoir itself. that is lake oroville behind the dam. over here, over my left shoulder, this heavy lifting and construction work is happening around the clock. these construction crews moving around these huge boulders to bag them up and move them over to the dam's emergency spill

way. that is the spillway where we have seen so much trouble. that was teetering on the brink of collapse. state water officials spent much of yesterday literally in the trenches as dump trucks and several blackhawk helicopters dropped their heavy loads into a hole that broke open sunday afternoon. layers of rocks should help prevent further erosion to what is a ravine that had never been used as an emergency spillway before. years ago environmental groups sounded the alarm, telling federal and state regulators that that spillway needed to be reinforced with concrete but officials balked at the cost. now one california congressman predicts the repair job will sky rocket. listen. >> this is one of the great could have, should have, but didn't. so that issue is still out there. i will tell you going forward, we're going to spend $725 million on this fixing the real

spillway and the emergency spillway. >> reporter: officials have doubled water releases on that main spillway. even though it is damaged, too, water levels down to 890 feet. that's well below the rim. dropping 4 inches an hour. now take a look. this drone video taken by state water officials as they look at the next storm moving ahead. it's expected to be a colder system which means less rain and less runoff. but the challenge is to make room in the reservoir not just for the rain coming this week, but in the weeks ahead. not to mention the snow run off president spring. nearly 190,000 people have been evacuated are waiting for any word on when they can come back home. those evacuation orders probably will not be lifted until that emergency spillway is significantly reinforced. jon? >> jon: lot of people still on edge there. claudia cowan, thank you. >> jenna: general mike flynn resigning last night. now one leading lawmaker wants

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>> jenna: here's news of the day. national security adviser michael flynn resigning saying he gave vice president pence incomplete information ab conversations with the russian ambassador before president trump took office. the house intelligence commissioner asking the fbi for more details about the situation. congressman nunez also questioning who leaked the information about flynn's communication to the media. >> this is just unprecedented number of leaks that we're having. if you look at the leaks of transcripts that the president of the united states is having with other foreign leaders, it's just totally unacceptable.

if you look at what's leaked out about general flynn, the national security adviser's conversations that he was having with the russian ambassador. i have just never seen anything like it. i can understand for the life of me why people aren't up in arms saying what's going on with our national security in this country? and how can there be this many leaks that are doing so much damage to president trump and his new administration. >> jenna: joining me technology editor and, patrick, clearly the leaks have driven this story. there seems to be a lot that we still don't know about the story and those seem to be very central facts. for example, the content of the calls. what do you think are some of the unknowns here that we need to pay attention to? >> there are a ton of unknowns. it's almost like an onion situation. there are a variety of different layers. the public is only really at the very surface level of what's going on here. the concept of those calls, it's natural for the national

security administration, they have a mandate to do foreign intelligence collection, to listen in on the phone calls of the russian ambassador. that's something we actually want them to do. but keep in mind also that this is an investigation effort into how much the kremlin is aseplting to influence u.s. policy. that's an effort with the fbi, also with the cia, the nsa. there are foreign agencies that help us as well that are part of the five i's, gchq. they have contributed to this. they contribute their findings to lawmakers and to a variety of different sources. for a lot of folks, the question is how much is there more to know? how do we organize this intelligence collection in a way that actually serves the public interest? i think that's something a few folks on capitol hill are worki worki working towards. they would like a process that's a little bit more ordered.

what we have now is very messy. there's a reason to be concerned about leaks making their way into the press. there's also concern about what we don't know. that's what a lot of folks in langley, out in the intelligence community, this is something that, a story they're trying to tell the best that they can. they've got a lot of information that they are still keeping from the public. lot of it they have to. they're looking for a clear process by which that can be given to the parties that need it most to make better decisions. >> jenna: what kind of information? >> sorry? what kind of information? well, could be all sorts of things. we know for instance there's a pattern that's emerged that's pretty remarkable. carter paige, a trump campaign person asked to resign after some suspicious ties between him and russia emerged. paul manafort all had to resign after suspicious ties between him and russia e verged.

you've got also what the entire intelligence community concluded was a concerted effort by russian intelligence to just sort of meddle in our election. what's best is for folks to agree that we're not going to have a new election. the election is settled. there was no link between russian interference and the actual outcome. but this is a national security issue that we are clearly facing. lot of folks that i talk to in the intelligence community, we are faced with an adversary that's interested in stealing information in a way the public can't fully perceive. >> jenna: it's difficult to know who to trust. john roberts brought up something interesting at the beginning of the show. yes, we do know there's surveillance of an ambassador. but when that surveillance is taking place, the identity of an american citizen, that person on the other side of the call, a private american citizen, is

classified. in this case it was actually leaked. so one has to ask the question as some of this investigate eight was taking place during the obama administration, amongst people that were also political appointees, what sort of politics are also at play? your point's well taken that the public needs to know what's going on, but i just wonder what role politics is playing as well. >> yes. there is political dimension to this that really adds to a lot of the uncertainty in the public. it doesn't help intelligence professionals either. i think that there's a reason that for instance john mccain is interested in a more transparent special investigation process. we can move this out of the realm of politic. what were sally yates motivations? did john brennan have political motivations? we can get back to talking about what they find and why it

matters. >> jenna: the fact that mike flynn was really up against the institution of government. many folks have been in government a long time. there is also personality at play. all these questions are relative because quite frankly we don't know still so much. you say more is potentially coming. where do you think this goes from here? >> i think there's going to be more calls for a special investigation into exactly what the kremlin is attempting to do to influence our policy, what outcome they can have. more importantly, lot of people i talked to are frustrated that the administration hasn't reassured allies around the world, members of the intelligence community and conservative lawmakers that are concerned about russian influence that he wants to hold a firm line. that might be, i theurb as a tangent to this, a first step. the entire contents of this conversation, talking about rolling back russian santions. some of which were put in place

in 2014 for illegally invading another country. folks i talk to in the pentagon very nonpolitical. they say maintaining those sanctions is very important if the trump administration wants to take a firm line, that would be reassuring. >> jenna: thank you very much. more happening now in a moment. tomorrow's the day we'll play something besides video games. every day is a gift. especially for people with heart failure. but today there's entresto... a breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait his first hook. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. if you've had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, don't take entresto. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure,

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mcmahon. she just passed senate confirmation. a former wrestling entertainment executive. also former senate candidate. she's been involved in business and politics. now she will be head of the small business administration. we'll con to watch cabinet confirmations as they come in and keep you posted as we get more. jon? >> jon: not all smooth sailing for this administration. there's been a lot of action on president trump's cabinet with steve mnuchin sworn in after the senate confirmed him. only one democratic senator supported his nomination. as we just reported the senate just confirmed the nomination of former wwe executive linda mcmahon to head up the small business administration. that may not be the case for nominee nor labor secretary. andrew posner has four republican senators who are expressing reservations about him. only three would have to join democrats to block his confirmation.

joining us now, the go pack chairman and attorney and democratic commentator. thanks, both of you, for being here. >> good morning. >> jon: david, is andy posner in trouble? >> no. andy posner will be confirmed as the next secretary of labor. jon, imagine the benefit of today's workers to have a labor secretary who is actually at one time worked for the prevailing minimum wage which andy posner did when he worked for $1 an hour scooping ice cream early in his career. he bill on that to ultimately go on and work his way up to become ceo of cke restaurants and will work to improve federal guideline and federal labor laws so that employees have a better chance to get higher wages and have the ability to have careers that they get more control of and that they can continue.

>> jon: what's wrong with having him for labor secretary? >> there's nothing wrong with having someone who started with minimum wage. problem with him is he wants to keep the current labor force working at minimum wage. he's written numerous times that he believes that increasing the minimum wage is contrary to business practices that will grow businesses that ultimately business owners will look for other ways in order to make up the difference. so this is the person that we now have in charge of our labor force. so even though he may have started at $1, he seems at this point quite detached from what it is to be just a hard working average american citizen who wants to make a difference for their family. >> jon: what about it, david, in terms of the minimum wage? is opposition to raising the minimum wage an obvious road block for future labor secretary? >> having a government mandated minimum wage is one way to raise

wages. another is to have a thriving economy where employers have to compete for employees. and when that happens, wages get raised that way. and that's the economy that would be most beneficial to workers. but, jon, let's accept the fact that we are in the final day of the democrats using donald trump's cabinet nominees to raise money and start fake fights to appease the bernie sanders, elizabeth warren wing of the democratic party. >> jon: it was not always this way, monique. the 53-47 vote, for instance. the only democratic senator who crossed lines was joe manchin of west virginia. democrats seem to have decided that openly opposing as many of these nominees is good for them

politically. >> they may have made that decision but here's the real issue of why it wasn't always this way. we're dealing with the least experienced, most polarizing nominees that we have seen for cabinet positions in modern history. puzder is one example of that. we look at republicans having an identity crisis. they think the end justifies the means. here you have somebody accused of domestic violence by his former wife. you have someone who has promoted articles and ads for his own byes. here you have someone who is interested in things that seem contrary to what the gop used to stand for. we've got senate and house republicans going lock stock and barrel in favor of these nominees. you've got to think they feel trapped to do so. >> jon: the fact that we haven't had a treasury secretary until now, it's the longest gap in u.s. history, until the confirmation of mnuchin

yesterday. what does that tell you? >> jon, even senator al franken, who is no fan of this administration, said this weekend that it's time to let the trump cabinet selections do their job. that was in reference to those who tried to block secretary of education betsy devos from going into the school last week. and that's where we are. we're gonna get action by the democrats stopping to do what is ultimately inevitable. donald trump's nominees are all going to be approved and in many have been approved with bipartisan support. now it's time to let these men and women do the job they have been selected to do. >> jon: we'll have to leave the conversation there. we'll continue to watch the andy puzder nomination. >> jenna: northern california officials are working to avoid a major disaster. the collapse of the tallest dam. a california congressman who was there yesterday is here to talk about the events and what led to

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>> jenna: big story we've been following in northern california that's getting national attention. evacuation orders remain in effect for nearly 200,000 residents near the oroville dam as officials work to repair the spillway system there. they say the earth near the base of the concrete wall was rapidly eroding which could potentially cause the wall to collapse and send a wall of water into the valley. an issue environmentalists warned about ten years ago. joining me a congressman who was in oroville yesterday. had to come back to dc. i know these are folks you represent. what's the latest of your understanding of the situation? >> right. welsh about 150,000 of my constituents in marysville, yuma city, they are still evacuated

the situation i think is improving. water level dropped 10 to 12 feet. probably go down another five feet in the next 24 hours before the thursday storm arrives in california. the wall, the foundation is being reinforced with rock being brought in by helicopter and thousand pound bags. that's all to the good. there's much much more that needs to be done. it was a potential catastrophe. would have been a 30 foot wall of water cascading down that hill side and right into oroville where the water would have been 100 feet deep within an hour. so the evacuation was well called for. going forward, we have to pay attention to major infrastructure. this reservoir is the central piece of the california water system for los angeles, santa clara valley, silicon valley as well as for the san joaquim

valley. >> jenna: that is a very important question, a simple question that may not have an easy answer. why is this happening? is it faulty design of the dam? is it just the age of the structure? why is it happening? >> well, you said it. the design was in the 1950s and '60s. they thought the emergency spillway would never be used an therefore never have to provide concrete on the downside of that spillway. turns out that emergency spillway is for an emergency. it was simply a design problem. over the years it had been called to the attention of the state of california, department of water resources. most recently with the rely sensing of the facility itself by the environmental community. not a bunch of hard hats, but people concerned about the potential erosion that would occur if the spillway was ever used. well, it's one of those great would have, could have, should have. we should have, over the years, put the money into providing a

concrete apron below that spillway. didn't happen. very serious problem arose when the spillway became used in this most recent event sunday night. water was spilling over there. the erosion took place. evacuations followed. >> jenna: just imagining 100 feet deep of water in your own town. as you mentioned, catastrophic. beyond anything most of us could imagine. there's so much focus on infratruck khur in this country, whether it's a dam, road ways. i does feel these particular items that we rely on are crumbling. how do you see to fix it? do you see it reaching out with president trump and finding a way to help? >> down river from this reservoir on the west side the sutter and buke county agency

has spent over $700 million upgrading. then in marysville, together with the federal government, investments have been made. when you consider the potential catastrophe with the collapse of the emergency spillway, it just simply overwhelmed that. larger question across this nation we absolutely have to get the infrastructure. it is a critical issue. trump has talked about it. trillion dollars, mostly private investment. i don't know how that would work. certainly not in the situations of the levees and dams in california, except in a very limited way. so we really need both public and private investment, state, local, national. and we need to make choices. we're talking about choices that are critical. my role in congress. my other 534 of us are going to make choices of the expenditures of trillions on rearment of our nuclear weapons system versus building a wall versus repairing

our dams and roads. >> jenna: it's a long shopping list. >> yes, it is. >> jenna: when an emergency happens, no one cares where the money comes from, whether private or public, we have to fick it. hopefully with oroville, it will be fixed soon. we'll check back in with you to see how things are going. thanks for the time. >> thank you. >> jon: well the prime minister of israel now in washington ahead of his meeting with president trump tomorrow at the white house. what this visit could mean for relations between the two nations? did you know 90% of couples disagree on

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trump administration and the relationship with russia. stkpwhreuz rail's prime minister meets with president trump tomorrow. we'll ask a fox news contributor here for the first time. >> she's on the couch with our hash tag one lucky guy. "outnumbered" top of the hour. >> jenna: israel's prime minister arriving in washington for his first official visit with president trump. we have the latest on the sreus it from the state department. rich? >> reporter: good morning, jenna. prime minister benjamin netanyahu will have his first conversations this meeting. that's when he meets with rex tillerson here at the state department. netanyahu welcomed a change in administration in the white house. he left for washington saying that he is looking forward to a kwrert relationship with the united states. >> the alliance between israel

and america has always been extremely strong. it's about to get even stronger. president trump and i see eye to eye on the dangers emigrating from the region, but all on the opportunities. we'll talk about both, as well as upgrading the relations between israel and the united states and many, many fields. >> jon: there are questions what specifically trump administration policy will be in that region, whether the trump administration will fully support the long elusive two state solution where there's a state created for the palestinians. also what u.s. policy specifically will be fords settlement building. israeli settlement building in the west bank. as the israeli government has approved more settlements in the west bank, president trump speaking with an israeli news outlet said he wassen sure increased settlement building was good for peace. with that, netanyahu is all unpressure on that front in israel as the leader of the jewish home party reportedly

posted that the earth will shake if netanyahu even mentions the idea of a two-state solution of palestinian government. netanyahu and tillerson are also likely to discuss iran. prime minister benjamin netanyahu and then candidate trump or even before he was a candidate, president trump was against the iran nuclear deal. that's been in effect since 2015. only a couple weeks into the trump administration, the administration announced sanctions against iran. so iran a big topic and priority for the israelis. very likely to be discussed this evening and tomorrow at the white house. jenna? >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: actor hugh jackman under going more treatment for a common form of skin cancer. the x men star reveals doctors found another basel cell carcinoma, this time on his nose. a reminder to fans to wear sun screen. the australian actor has been treated for this type of skin

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>> jenna: all right. see you back here in an hour. "outnumbered" starts now. >> megan: flynn is out. president trump will have to find a new national security adviser following last night's stunning resignation of michael flynn. the retired lieutenant general stepping down after reports that he misled white house officials about his contacts with russia. this is "outnumbered. i'm sandra smith." here today harris faulkner, megan mccain is here and former deputy press secretary for the state department, marie hart is here. >> jumped the gun on me. happy valentine's day. >> host is outnumbered. good to have you. >>