a million dollars claiming her friends can't go on vacation with her because they are broke. really? that wraps it for today: "fox & friends" starts right now. bye. >> i think it's very, very unfair what's happened to general flynn and the documents and papers that were illegally, i stress that, illegally leaked. >> totally unacceptable for anyone within government to be doing this. >> navy vice admiral harward is the man expected to be the new national security advisor. >> another record setting day on wall street. biggest boom in the early part of an administration since lbj. lbj. >> president andrew buzzner withdrawn his name from nomination. >> better looking than the movies. >> fair man who benefit from the best defense in the world carried the necessary cost to defend freedom. >> i would like to see you

hold back on settlements for a little bit. >> doesn't sound too optimistic. good negotiator. >> that's the art of the deal. [laughter] ♪ free world ♪ keep on rocking in a free world ♪ keep on roc rockin' in a free world. steve: white house to our house. welcome aboard folks, live in studio e here in the heart of midtown manhattan, "fox & friends" for a very busy thursday. john mccain is right everybody always looks better in the movie. brian: talking about ashton kutcher he is slavery. ainsley: did he say better in personal or in person?

brian: in person. ainsley: i think he was talking about the movies. brian: i think he is attractive man ashton kutcher. steve: you are on record. brian: there you go. the intelligence community might be holding back intelligence from the president of the united states. this rivalry is getting ugly. steve: it is. what they are suggesting is that apparently there are people in the intel community who are worried that donald trump and his people can't keep a secret. brian: unbelievable. steve: what they are doing is apparently admitting the sources and methods and the intel community has done this in the past but never because of trustworthiness according to the "wall street journal." what they're worried about and here is that word you are going to hear again russia. they are worried about the russian influence. after donald trump won and shocked the world, the democrats had to come up with a reason why they lost. so they said russia hacked the election. and so with all these stories,

their friends in the mainstream media pushing this stuff, michael flynn because because of his contacts with russians. not true. the russians hacked the election. how many times have we heard that it's part of the narrative that they are trying to stack up against this guy. ainsley: they don't get a say in what they do and do not tell the president. they are supposed to tell him everything. all the information so he can make executive decisions based on all the facts and information. he is so sick of this and he was railing against all of these leaks and what's happening and the information is he not going and people going to the press that shouldn't be. this is classified information being leaked to the press. listen to what he said yesterday. >> i think it's really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. i think in addition to that from intelligence, papers are being leaked. things are being leaked. it's criminal action. criminal act. and it's been going on for a long time, before me. but now it's really going on. and people are trying to cover

up for a terrible loss that that the democrats had under hillary clinton i think it's very, very unfair what's happened to general flynn, the way he was treated and the documents and papers that were illegally, i stress that, illegally leaked. brian: and who gave permission to listen in on michael flynn's phone calls to the ambassador over in -- i wanted to say soviet union. that's also key. why would the intelligence agency want to go monitor the national security advisor before he was actually had a president sworn in. on top of that, too. let's be honest, the allegation is that there were four trump campaign aides. they had contact with russia. so they want to find out, even republicans on the hill. let's find out. there is nothing there. there is no issue. that isn't the reason why and i don't think many people believe that aren't partisan why donald trump won. but they do want to unfold and find out what the connection is. steve: right. brian: it's not going to help either that donald trump is

laying out because is he tired of this. today in the "new york times" it turns out that steven feinberg, one of the co-founders of sebris who used to own among other things chrysler, is he going to be analyzing the intelligence community how they get their information and how they are relaying their information. he is going to have an office in the white house. they have got to somehow, mike pompeo, running the cia, national intelligence director. in and the intelligence community has got to decide if you're not on board and you can't go along, have you to quit. ainsley: donald trump he is saying there is definitely going to be an investigation. we heard jason chaffetz say that last night it sounds like donald trump is saying it is criminal. this is a criminal act. so if you are caught leaking this information. steve: it's classified information. ainsley: absolutely. there will be a trial. steve: all these stories in the main he stream media it's pushing this russia thing, right? because as donald trump we just heard him yesterday.

ainsley: it's calling him -- steve: is he talking about after that big loss they had to come up with an excuse dr. sebastian gorka who used to be on this show a lot now he works at the white house. he said the democrats had problems with russia as well. he said this last night on hannity. listen to this. >> it's ironic, isn't it, that the last administration that whispered to medvedev that had their own re-set button that hillary clinton approved the sale of 20% of our uranium to russia that they are not the ones that created the problem but we are? brian: if all of a sudden vladimir putin says i'm pulling out of georgia. i'm pulling out of the ukraine. if you want us out of syria, we will leave. then you could say wow, what's going on here? if you look at the way russia is behaving, they are worse than ever. if donald trump cut a secret deal with russia, it's the worst deal he ever cut. look here fighter jets buzzing our destroyer yesterday. we don't have video but still pictures of how close they got. people in the military

community say this is flat out unprofessional and provocative and, again, we have to be the mature people in the room and not take retaliatory action and buzz their ships because we don't do that. so, please show me how russia's behavior has changed under donald trump? i haven't seen it. steve: when it comes to unprofessional, obviously the president feels that somebody inside the intel or law enforcement community being very unprofessional in leaking this stuff to try to discredit the administration. so the good news up on capitol hill, jason chaffetz the chair of the house oversight and government reform community along with bob goodlat sent a letter to the inspector general of the department of justice and said hey, there seems to be some leaks of national security secrets going on. can you please look into it. and so with any luck, they will look into it and figure out who. because it's just a small circle of people who had this information. who did it, why they didn't d. it. ainsley: don't like president trump. he says they are pasting out

these leaks like candy. calling in favors to the media do negative stories about donald trump. steve: did you see the media? brian: many are talking about the press conference yesterday about benjamin netanyahu the synergy between donald trump when he was a businessman and now the prime minister of israel. clearly happy to be working with each other today. i saw jonah goldberg last night saying it was the second best day he became president since announcing the judge you saw synergy and saw a game plan coming forward with middle east peace. when it came to taking questions, many in the media were upset about the choices that donald trump or the staff made in who would ask the questions. one was cbn reporter. one was not a cnn reporter. that really upset the cnn reporter. listen. >> when the last three news conferences all of the questions to the american news media have been handled by conservative press. and i think, wolf, there is no other way to describe it but

the fix is in. steve: that's funny, the way it works when a foreign leader comes, in the american press gets two questions and visiting press gets two questions. the two questions were one from the cbn reporter. ainsley: chris broadcasting network. steve: here's the thing. there are a lot of egos in the white house press pool. if you don't get to ask the question you are not on tv and your feelings are hurt. none the less, when you look at some of the questions asked by the hard hitting investigators at the white house, from the mainstream media of barack obama, you realize maybe those hard questions weren't so hard. watch. >> you racked up a lot of wins in the last few weeks, that a lot of people thought would be difficult to come by, are you ready to call yourself the come back kid? >> in this fatherless world, where did you learn to love? >> political question you want to duck but how does your golf game hold up next to tiger's? >> during 100 days what has surprised you most about this

office? enchanted you the most about serving in this office? humbled you the most? >> let me write this down. [laughter] steve: yeah. they were hard. listen,th two questions asked by the person from cbn and also town hall, they were good questions. had to do about stuff in the news. they didn't ask about enchantment or anything. ainsley: he is not answering the question from the establishment. he was elected for being an antiestablishment guy. steve: is he disrupter. ainsley: if he wants to answer the question from the christian broadcasting network he has the right to do that. brian: war with the media is going to continue and rage. the "new york times," "new york post," cnn, msnbc. i'm wondering if he wants to get to his agenda if there is a deal to be cut there that, you know, i'm going to do things my way but i understand maybe for four years it will work in our best interest if somehow we have somewhat of a truce. steve: you know that will be great but you know the reality is they want to destroy him. no one from the mainstream

media predicted or wanted donald trump to won. he won, ha ha. he would go, and, now, look, it's the state of journalism today. brian: israel unbelievable news. general mattis had a great message nato responding already and the economy is beginning to roar. all those messages they have to do a better job getting out there. is a positive story to tell. steve: there is, indeed. so, anyway, we have a busy, as you can see, thursday. we start right now with news. and it sounds, heather i like there is a manhunt or women hunt going on. heather: in a sense. talking about secretary of alicia. the search for new secretary labor nominee taking center stage andrew buzzner now taking his name out of running after serious concerns from numerous republican senators. president trump already working to replace him. touch candidates include national labor relation board members peter and alex annual der and along with south carolina putting expwrean

minute netanyahu about israeli settlements. >> about settlements, i would like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit. b.b. and i have known each other a long time. smart man, strong negotiator. it will be a great deal. even a bigger deal people understand. >> it's a start. >> that doesn't sound too optimistic. [laughter] good negotiator. >> that's the after the deal. heather: there you go. the president appeared to be willing to break with the two state solution palestinian contact. unlikely bromance on capitol hill. john mccain shared a moment with ashton kutcher. >> i also want to think lisa and ashton. ashton, you are better looking in the movies. anyway.

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>> good morning. steve: sabotage the president is a strong phrase you say that's what's going on. >> it certainly seems like it. the intelligence community has a long history of doing it they leaked information damaging to bill clinton, george bush and barack obama when it served their interest. donald trump is no different. they don't think they work for the president. the president see seemingly works for some of them. it's not all the intelligence community there do appear to be democratic loyalists very upset that he wants to roll back the iran deal. steve: that doesn't seem the way folks are supposed to work. people are in the trump administration at these various intel community agencies and so they are supposed to be working for the greater gooftd united states and not a political vendetta. >> very much so you will. >> the left as well in this country and democrats want to capitalize on grievances for the next four years and continue to trot out rumors and allegations. every single report that has come out has said there is no evidence of collaboration between anybody on trump's

staff and the russians. you think now they would have found that collaboration did it existed. they have to keep these stories alive in order to give people a grievance. steve: that goes tote story where president trump said in the east room yesterday, talked about they woke up it next day after the big loss and trump won and they needed an explanation and so they developed the narrative oh, russia hacked the election. and in all these stories in the "new york times," "the washington post, russia, russia, russia, even though there is not a scintilla of evidence that we have seen so far that nobody broke any laws other than people in the intel community who leaked the stuff. >> right. a buddy of mine noted in the federalist, his website, that this is becoming the new birtherrism. this is the way the left is explaining this. a grand conspiracy theory. there is no evidence of it, none. this is their vision of birtherrism, beautyism is what the left is believing. so many of the mainstream media are of the left they are

giving more credibility to this than they ever gave to the birther nanny nonsense. steve: members of the mainstream media we gave a sound bite to the guy at cnn jim accosta. he says the fix is in because yesterday the president called on cbn and town hall and not him. >> listen, i like jim accosta a lot. they shouldn't be disparaging very tough media that haven't asked tough questions of the president. just noit the questions the mainstream media has wanted. i can't blame the president when so many people in the media are invested of pushing the nazi narrative against him. steve: nazi narrative you are absolutely right. thank you for joining us today. so early on this hours morning. >> thank you u. steve: thank you, sir. meanwhile, in other news, two years after deadly isis attack in capital city isis crawling across the borders.

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you have etna saying obamacare is in a death spiral and what does this mean for folks who i obamacare and want to enroll. >> by poor design and poor implementation it's been on this death spiral. the truth is it's been on a self-you want destructing course since before this administration took office so, what we are needing to do right now is kind of put the band-aid on it so it doesn't completely implode before we have a more robust sustainable replacement option. by narrowing the enrollment period and reducing. so mandates on the coverage what president trump is doing at this point is saying let's stop taking advantage of the system. the way insurance works you need to be preemptively paying premiums for something. unfortunately we live in a society based on instant gratification. big insurance companies are having massive financial losses because of unbalanced risk pool. ainsley: band-aid president trump is putting on this now i

don't want insurance companies to drop out like humana and etna have done. let's shorten the enrollment period so you don't have as long to enroll. that actually -- that is going to help the big insurance company but what about the people who need to enroll? >> what we are seeing is unfortunately people were enrolling when something would happen. now all of a sudden they need coverage and they weren't preemptively paying premium. insurance companies taking massive losses because they aren't having the healthy people paying premiums. that's how insurance workers. >> decrease advertising funding. and say nothing more after this year in 2018 they are dropping out completely. >> right. that's already happening. so what president trump is trying to do right now is trying to put a stay fix on things so the people with coverage aren't left without coverage until we can fix this mess. ainsley: when will we see a fix do you think? >> i know they are working on it right now. a lot of things have to undergo careful consideration. medicaid expansion. trying to figure o what to do. i think we will see it soon.

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here is the photo here. it says a great discussion with two world leaders about the importance of women having a seat at the table. did you notice something in odd in that photo? can we zoom in the bottom right-hand corner? [laughter] steve: was that through the window? >> she is not in the woods she is in the bushes now. steve: stay out of bushes. come on. ainsley: i want in. i want in. brian: the thing is though, jimmy fallon i watch every day. i'm obsessed with the late night shows watch them in the morning. stephen colbert beat him again this week and doing it just by hitting on trump. now watch fallon slam trump nonstop. colbert slams trump his ratings rise. fallon goes fair and balanced his ratings are losing. steve: so far. brian: okay wondering if fallon gets hard on trump now. steve: stephen colbert has had a rough slog at cbs.

is he enjoying some the want to ratings rather than in the basement which is good for everybody, right? brian: heather nauert you have the latest news. heather: i do. good morning to all of you. president trump says he will be back with the people this presidents' day weekends. is he holding a rally in melbourne florida this saturday. that's where he is expected to talk about his administration's fast moving agenda. the president expected to unveil future plans. it's his first campaign style rally since his thank you tour in some of the states he won since november. we will watch that one over the weekend. a grand father killed in a horrifying car crash. police say that the other driver was a drunk unlicensed illegal immigrant. david crenne a father and manager of a restaurant was driving home after work when he was hit from behind. the force of the impact flipped his car over. this woman elizabeth vargas hernandez was arrested at the scene. ice has placed immigration hold on hernandez.

we will follow that story as it develops. what a tragedy though. student under fire for recording his professor calling president trump's election an act of terrorism. watch this. >> our nation is divided. we have been assaulted. it's an act of terrorism. one of the most frightening things for me and most people in my life is that the people committing the assault are among us. heather: man behind the camera 189-year-old o'neil has been suspended for the rest of the semester at orange coast college for secretly taking that video. he also has to write an apology letter and three-pages say on the incident. really? his attorney has filed an appeal calling it unconstitutional. that teacher by the way has not been disciplined. what a story that is. we will definitely follow up on that one. that's for sure. talk about a close call. a texas police officer narrowly escaping a powerful tornado redheaded right for him. security cameras catching the officer speeding in elementary school parking lot and then

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brain scans. researchers correctly diagnose the condition in babies. parents don't usually notice symptoms until their child is between 12 and 18 months old. guys listen up there is a new test to determine if you're going to be balgd some day. ainsley: no way. >> yep. see a lot of this. >> oh, god. steve: research detected a specific hormone specifically possible for hormone loss. too much of it causes your hair to fall out. they also blame pelosi of it on your genes. that's health news. brian: let's talk law. president trump accepting the resignation of national security advisor retired lieutenant general michael flynn and immediately blasting the leaks that brought the general down. >> papers are being leaked. things are being leaked. it's criminal action. criminal act. and it's been going on for a long time before me.

but now it's really going on. i think it's very, very unfair what's happened to general flynn the way he was treated and the documents and papers that were illegally, i stress that, illegally leaked. ainsley: criminal. it's illegal. what are the potential consequences for those people who are responsible for the leaks? here to discuss is fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew nawnt. >> very, very unhappy state of affairs in the federal government right now. so here is the back ground. general flynn, his last job in the military was the head of the defense intelligence agency. military spies. general flynn's career was spying. he knew when he was on the phone with the russian ambassador that american spies were listening to everything he said. he knew it, it was absolutely standard operating procedure. but he thought he was being listened to by patriots. he didn't think he was being listened to by people who would try to undermine the presidency of donald trump. and destroy the most important

person in his national security entourage by leaking to the public or leaking to enough people in the government exactly what they heard. so, we now have a state of affairs where we have professional spies in the intelligence community who can turn on or off information to the president of the united states, who can decide what to give him and what to keep from him. decide what to reveal and what to keep secret and basically are a shadow government in an effort to control and frustrate the president. what the president just said about those illegal leaks is 100 percent correct. they are illegal. they are immoral. they are criminal. will we ever find those people? absolutely not. they are the best stealers of secrets, keepers of secrets and leakers of secrets on the planet. they are the same people that concocted that stuff and leaked it about the president supposedly in a motel room in moscow. steve: sure. i was reading andrew mccarthy in the national review and he said because, you know, the

leak came out that flynn had discussed sanctions or whatever it was with the russians. and they were very specific about what they leaked out he says release the entire tape so people can see that. >> that would be very good. and is he correct to cece how harmless it was. here is the picture. barack obama imposes sanctions on the russians around christmas time. he has less than a month to go in his president and donald trump's soon to be national security advisor michael flynn calls up the russian ambassador and says we will probably look at this differently in another month. what the heck is wrong with that? that is good diplomacy what the general said if that's what he said. to andy's point and your point we haven't seen the transcript we have only heard parts of it. in my view it is not illegal. ainsley: the problem was misleading. he said he did not talk about

sanctions he told the vice president that the vice president goes on national tv and says he did not talk about sanctions. it turns out he did. >> i do not buy the fact that mike flynn was asked to leave because of telling a white lie to mike pence. first of all mike pence knew exactly what mike flynn said. the president knew what mike flynn said. ainsley: of course they talked about sanctions, right? >> of course think did. donald trump wanted a better relationship with russia. he didn't want the russians so think that barack obama's tail end of his presidency would taint that. brian: what's your theory? >> my theory is that the people intesmtion community feared mike flynn because he was one of them. he knew about them and knew too much about them and knew about their sources. guess what they're getting a guy just as tough. not as steeped in the spy craft but just as tough and just as loyal. ainsley: if they want to figure out who is leaking can't the president meet with one person in the intelligence community that he trusts to

get all this information versus five-day forecast 50 or whatever. >> it's more complex. members of the intelligence community say they don't trust the president of the united states. you know what? if you don't trust your boss and you can't work for your boss, get another job we have one president. the intelligence community works for him they do not work for each other. brian: find out in the "wall street journal" that the intel community is not being candid with the president. how can that happen? >> how dangerous is that? how will the president know what they are not telling him? how will he be able to make executive decision based on if he doesn't have all the facts? >> these are all questions that are going to the president probably at this very moment. he has the courage and stamina to address this but some heads have to roll. brian: guess what? national intelligence director not confirmed yet. mike pompeo has only had the job for a week slowness which

the president's nominees are being confirmed. much of it is the attitude in the intelligence community that the president doesn't control them. they control him. and that is not consistent with the constitution or the laws or what the people of the united states are entitled to. steve: sure. what the "wall street journal" says they can't trust the president, somebody in the intel community and so they are not giving him all the information because they're worried that somebody is going to leak it to the russians. there is that russian narrative again. >> correct. the biggest leakers are those who want to harm the president by selectively releasing information to make him to look bad or separate him from a good and decent experienced patriot like general flynn. brian: president did get good news. fox news poll shows that most of the american people are for the nomination and expect gorsuch to get through as the next supreme court justice. >> judge gorsuch is really impressing even democrats, some of whom are struggling for ways to vote against limb and they can't there of any reason to do that. brian: confident. 49% for it.

14% haven't made up their mind yet. >> i think the confirmation hearings will sound like a lesson in constitutional law and i think he will be confirmed very shortly thereafter. steve: although all the democrats will probably vote against him, right? >> i don't think so. i think some democrats are saying is he a good and decent man. i may not agree with him on everything. this is the type of incident length actual honesty and political indifference. he accident care about the political outcome because is he not in the political branches of the government. brian: they want 60 votes because they don't want the president to be the nuclear option because the president will do whatever it takes. steve: mitch mcconnell thinks i has 59 so they think they will get the 60th. steve: straight ahead as the president moves forward with the plan to slash taxes and create jobs the democrats are pulling his labor pick and nomination. are their priorities out of ordinary again? stuart varney is going to weigh in on this coming up in the next hour. ainsley: are stores dropping ivanka's plan.

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♪ brian: one thing to attack the president. the next guest says the latest attacks on ivanka and first lady reveal just how antiwoman the so-called feminist movement has really become. joining us now exiewns contributor radio talk show host family bruce. tammy, in what way is feminism hypocritical? >> it's been moving this way for a number of years. i was the president the of now in los angeles for a number of years. i pushed that cart. it was about improving every woman's life.

opening up every door so we could make whatever decisions best suited us. has now become a can yo dividin. you become allegiance or the other. it's not enough to just not belong you must be punished. the attacks on the first lady, ivanka, and even tiffany who is perfectly lovely young woman being shunned at new york fashion week dynamic. the left has turned into bullies. brian: i didn't even know about tiffany. she went with her mom marla maples to fashion week. no one would sit by her. >> that's ridiculous. brian: does she have a political agenda. >> no. brian: ivanka getting ridiculed on exercise class and jetblue plane and pulled out of department stores. >> great conversation with the judge a few moments ago here. there is multiple fronts on the delegitimize and destroy

the individuals entire trump family for daring to not conform and daring to change the system. the attacks on the women is also important. because their style, their nature moderate women, both ivanka and melania, modern politics is an attempt to make sure that the president does not benefit from the nate of their yle and grace. brian: into the "new york times" a reporter gets reprimanded for calling melania a hooker. >> you can't believe this is happening in 2017. the reporter that did that is the son of carl bernstein and nora evidenc efron. when when a young man speaks about the first lady designed my lynn i can't ago to dismiss and disparage women who don't conform and is he doing it right now. brian they don't deserve what they're getting. tammy bruce, thank you for coming on. >> thank you.

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>> i think it's very, very unfair what's happened to general flynn and the documents and papers that were illegally, i stress that, illegally leaked. >> will we ever find those people? absolutely not. they are the best stealers of secrets, keepers of secrets, and leakers of secrets on the planet. >> navy vice admiral harward expected to be new advisor. brian: rex tillerson making first overseas trip landing in germany last night. >> president wants nominee labor secretary andrew puzder has just withdrawn his

nomination. >> hold back on settlements a little bit. >> that's a start. >> that doesn't sound optimistic. >> it's the art of the deal. >> carried the necessary cost to defend freedom. >> ashton, you're be looking in the movies. [laughter] ♪ your kiss ♪ because your kiss ♪ your kiss ♪ is on my list ♪ because your kiss is on my list ♪ as the best thing in life ♪ because your kiss. steve: i wonder if when hall and oaths some day in the future a tv show is going to play kiss is on your list regarding a senator from arizona and one of tinseltown's hottest talent ashton kutcher the bureau man. brian: they did have an image

of this. ainsley: senator mccain says you are better looking in person. >> he blows him a kiss. brian: is that show two and a half men still on? steve: i don't know. never watch it. brian: definitely better look than charlie sheen. ainsley: in your opinion. brian: if you have a different opinion please weigh in. steve: what is this mr. america pageant? brian: may be. steve: let's talk about what's going on in the news. someone in the intelligence community or law enforcement community has leaked a bunch of classified secrets to some members of the mainstream media to make donald trump look very bad. and now congres is actually payg attention because jason chaffetz, the chairman of the house oversight committee and bob goodlat the chairman of the house judiciary committee have sent a letter to the inspector general at the department of justice michael horowitz and said you know what? there are a bunch of classified leaks out there that have grave effects on our national security you please

look into it because we would like to know who is pulling the strings. brian: like to get to it quickly. the "wall street journal" shows and white house is pushing back on it, they don't think it's true. that the president, i don't know how he would know, is not getting in all the intelligence that he possibly could because the intelligence community doesn't trust him. ainsley: i knows this information because the u.s. intelligence officials are telling the "wall street journal" we're not giving him all of the information. brian: white house says they are pushing back on that story. ainsley: white house says nothing leads them believe this is accurate. steve: what they say in the "wall street journal" item is that they are giving him the information not just the sources and methods how we get it because they say we can't necessarily trust him or his presidential posse because they have got all these connections to russia which is part of the narrative that the big newspapers are pushing. ainsley: the president is really upset about all of this. is he railing against the leaks say it is criminal. listen. >> i think it's really a sad

thing that he was treaty sod badly. i think in addition to that from intelligence papers are being leaked. things are being leaked. it's criminal action, criminal act. and it's been going on for a long time before me coming up tailor loss that the democrats had under hillary clinton. i think it's very, very unfair what's hapg happened to general flynn, the way he was treated and the documents and papers that were illegally i stress that illegally leaked. steve: and they were selectively leaked as well. we talked earlier about how andy mccarthy on national review says if you look -- and he doesn't know because he hasn't seen it but probably, if you look at what all of flynn said to the russian ambassador. probably not so bad but because it was very selective in the leak for maximum damage

that's what they leaked. then if you go around and say hey, intel community we like to see exactly the whole transcript or the whole tape they go oh, we can't do that because it's classified. brian: they are going to have to with this investigation right now. so far the administration is not slowing down. we have a problem had the intel community. steven feinberg, one of the co-founders of sebris he is going to do a broad agency review. you can imagine there was a feeling in the intelligence agency they said you are not going to do that. we are not going to allow that and steve bannon and president trump saying no, no. we are doing that so these guys are at war with each other and guess who is paying the snris us in our security. ainsley: i was asking judge napolitano when he was on i said why can't the president just get the briefing from one person in the intelligence community that way we will know it is not being leaked. he said these are 60,000 agents. they know how to get information and they can leak it very hard to find those nine individuals or seven individuals leaking the information.

eric erickson was on our show earlier and he said a lot of these people in the intelligence community, especially the ones leaking they forget they work for the president of the united states. listen. >> they don't think they work for the president. the president seemingly works for some of them. and it's not all the intelligence community community. most of the intelligence community is very good. there do appear to be democratic loyalists very upset that he wants to roll back the iran deal. democrats want to capitalize on grievances for the next four years. every single report come out has said no collaboration of anybody on trump's staff and the russians. you would think by the now they would have found that collaboration if it existed. they have to keep these stories alive to give people a grievance. brian: clapper and brennan gave somebody the green light to listen in on flynn's phone calls at which time they tell trump before he becomes president. at which time for some reason if you believe the story line that's out there, the lieutenant general isn't

candid to the vice president who goes out there and says there was no talk of sanction relief. finds out donald trump finds out six days later. tells the vice president last thursday and then on tuesday on monday night we have an ousted national security advisor and a new one coming in. steve: you know, ultimately, what is the victim here is the fact that russia knows despite their security we can listen in on their ambassador and the phone calls and as judge napolitano said a little while ago look, michael flynn who used the run the whole spy department in the defense department he knew the u.s. was taping him and probably the ambassador as well through the fisa which tapes all that stuff. ainsley: surely they both assume they are being recorded. steve: absolutely. ainsley: when they were talking about what's happening in the hotel room first of all i don't like germs second of all i know i'm being recorded in russia.

brian: has to get a request listening in on flynn. if the intelligence agency wants to listen in on film, ideally they have to go to the nsa and say i have to listen in on the phone call. question is who asked? who gave permission? steve: see the way fisa is set up is if you have communications with somebody internationally you are fair game. but the american citizen's identity has to be masked and that's the problem because somebody in the intel community unmasked and took the little tape off of michael flynn's name so everybody knows it. judge napolitano says look, this sudden not surprise anybody who understands how this works because there is a shadow government out there trying to mess with president trump. >> we now have a state of affairs where we have professional spies in the intelligence community who can turn on or off information to the president of the united states. who can decide what to give him and what to keep from him. decide what to reveal and keep secret. and basically are a shadow government in an effort to

control and frustrate the president. what the president just said about those illegal leaks is 100 percent correct. they are illegal. they are immoral. they are criminal. steve: okay. so, while judge napolitano wonders whether or not they will eventually catch the leakers, donald trump in the last minute has just tweeted out, the spotlight has finally been put on the low life leakers. they will be caught. so far, came out at 7:02 i should say. so far 1500. ainsley: does that mean the spotlight has been put on low-life leakers. does that mean he knows more about it who these leakers are? steve: forget about the larger story about flynn and stuff like that. turn our attention to where this stuff come from. it came from the leakers. who are they? the president says we are going to catch them. >> brian: obviously people not on board with his business plan and his candidacy and his presidency, so he has got to get his national intelligence

director in place pressure schumer to do that. that's what he should be talking about in orlando this weekend. got to get my nominees out there. shape my own agencies. everybody in the cia, dia, wherever you are, if you do not want to work there anymore, don't spend your time trying to detroit person government. ainsley: right. brian: it's hurting the country. focus on enemies. i don't know if you have noticed or not. we have a lot of enemies. steve: sure. is he looking for the leakers. we just told you about how the department of justice is going to be looking for the leakers aside from that and the flynn stuff which is coul dying down. he had a really good day yesterday bringing b.b. netanyahu into the east room there at the white house. ainsley: much different, right? steve: completely. ainsley: arms around each other. steve: israel has a friend in the white house again is what kutcher said yesterday. brian: kutcher leading the peace talks with the palestinians. known benjamin netanyahu since he was a kid. ainsley: really?

jewish comes from very powerful family. brian. >> steve: anyway. that's some the stuff going on in the news today. now it's 7/11. let's turn to heather who has scary stuff from the airport. heather: exactly. we have had bird strikes on airplanes this takes it to a whole new level. there was a plan forced to make an emergency landing after it hit a deer during takeoff. the pilot of the american airlines flight had to immediately turn around and look at this mess right here. landed back safely at the airport in charlotte, north carolina. plane 50 passengers on board then leaking fuel. >> we started back. i got a little nervous. and then when we scooped down to near ground and went back up, i really thought we were -- ainsley: wow. well, no one was hurt in that incident. unbelievable. and a win for gun owners. a bill reversing a role that president obama was able to sneak through right before he left office is now headed to president trump's desk. the senate joining the house,

voting to repeal mr. obama's last ditch effort to take guns away from some social security beneficiaries. right now people who receive disability benefits can't legally own a gun due to fears of mental instability. that is going to the president's desk now. immigrants nationwide protesting president trump by giving themselves a day off work today. students not going to school, employees don't plan on showing up to work and some businesses are shutting down their stores all together. the boycott is called a day without immigrants. it's in response to president trump's pledge to crackdown on illegal immigration. what do you think about that? and get this. a woman who won more than a million dollars wanted to suit lottery for ruining her life. this gal in scotland was just 17 years old when she bought the lottery ticket. she was considering filing a lawsuit for negligence claiming that she was sick of shopping for designer brands. ainsley, listen to this. look at that purple range recovery she has there.

she was struggling to find a genuine boyfriend and sick of her trips to snooty resorts. also burdened with the stress of being a billionairesque after backlash she has decided not to sue. those are your headlines. that poor little thing. steve: she is a poor little thing now because she only won a million dollars. and it looks like she spent all the dough. brian: when you are rich how do you find true love? answer that one at home. all the millio millionaires wri. ainsley: cry me a river. shame pain probes. steve: democrats determined to undermine the real president and this fake tv president, too. >> you really believe i should step down? >> i do. >> you may be right. but for now i'm all you got. steve: what is the democrats'

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steve: well the president's secretary pick andrew pudzer has withdrawn his name from nomination. ainsley: this as the president focuses on tax reform and creating better business opportunities for everyone. isn't that where our focus should somebody in here to weigh in on this is the host of varney and company on fbn stuart varney. >> yes, that is where our focus should be. unfortunately you have a political firestorm surrounding the white house and this administration. heaven forbid that that bleeds over and interferes with the president's growth policy. cut taxes reerks form obamacare, growth economy. if this firestorm bleeds over and interferes with that. we have all got a problem. brian: we have some momentum going on the economy because the president of the united states has got some people believing a lot of money that he is going to turn the economy and put a burner underneath of it. in fact he just tweeted this

out. stock market hits new high with longest winning streak in decades. great level of optimism even before the tax plan rollout. >> that is all accurate. it is all correct. you have just seen the most explosive rally on -- look, i have been doing this for 40 years. i have never seen anything like this. the dow jones industrial average the big denominator is here up 2100 points since election day. steve: guy auto zone meeting with president trump yesterday like never before. >> issue in the retail industry personally for 22 years. to my knowledge, the retail industry has never been to the white house to have an opportunity to meet with the administration and key members of his team and we had that opportunity today and we're grateful for that opportunity. >> we as retailers provide 42 million jobs. we look forward to carrying on the conversation with the

president and business tea and e look to continue the interest of our industry, our employees and most importantly the consumers, the hard-working american consumers that we all serve. steve: what an endorsement. >> the president has a pro-business policy, period. that's what's going on here. ainsley: tax reform, will we see it any time soon or get obamacare out of the way first? >> you will see the blueprint for tax reform fairly soon. i don't know when. but you do have to reform obamacare first and then you can put tax reform in front of congress. brian: humana and etna bailing out of the exchange it could blow up. >> it's got to be reformed quickly. brian: watch 9 to noon on the fox business network. >> thank you so much, brian. steve: meanwhile, it's worse than watergate, they say. if you listen to the mainstream media, the president is in really big trouble. is that debate fair? we're going to have a debate next. ainsley: plus.

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memorial bridge in washington, d.c. and finally 60. that's how many new planets astronomers have discovered 60 of them. one of them described as a super hot earth. it has a rocky surface andor bits the star closest to our solar system. ainsley: incredible evidence about the president and russia isn't stopping democrats and the liberal media from ruthless attacks. listen. >> day one of what is arguably the biggest presidential scandal involving a foreign government since iran contra. >> did he and trump actually cook up this whole thing after the russians did not respond harshly to the eviction of spies and democrats. >> if members of the organization are conspiring with russia either through the campaign earlier or russia itself that's the definition of treason. ainsley: here to debate this is fox news contributor and washington examiner contributor lies is a booth and fox news contributor richard fowler.

good morning to both of you. >> hi, ainsley. >> lisa, i will start with you. president trump says the media is hyper ventilating over all of this. he says the big issue is these leaks. what's your opinion? >> i would agree with him. >> illegal leak is information. there has not been anything connecting president trump to anything nefarious in relation to russia. it was actually the "new york times" back in october that reported about the fbi and the fact that they had been investigating potential ties and they were unable to find anything. it's also the "new york times" who ran a story about the unsubstantiated dossier. but threaten wrote a story about somehow how this unverified report was going to hurt president trump. and, yet, we have seen the left and the media up in arms almost to the point of craziness, i mean thomas friedman of the "new york times" has said that, you know, there was 9/11 and now there is november 8th. have you people like dan rather saying this is worse than watergate. yet, there is no information there.

there is no credible information there pointing to any wrongdoing. so and have you got elizabeth warren tweeting that there is a serious cyber attacks from russia. no there wasn't. that's a load of crap. you know, it's just not true. so i mean there is just this insanity that is happening right now in the country and it's really wrong. ainsley: richard, what is your response? because lisa is right nothing here is illegally what is happening between president trump and russia. >> here is what we know is true. general flynn resigned. trump accepted his resignation because there was some -- something went wrong. we don't know what it. ainsley: he mislead the vice president. he didn't till the truth to the vice president. >> but he also engage new conversations with russia. ainsley: that's not illegal of course he is going to do that. >> i'm not saying that's i will or not illegal. this leak, leak, leak, drip, drip, drip. never a good thing learned it from the hillary clinton campaign. i would advise president trump to release whatever transcript existed between flynn and

russia classified and let congress say there is nothing here and move on. president trump needs political capital to get his tax plan done to. get transportation reform done. to get his inel from a structure bill done and this is tapping away at that political capital. he has got to stop this drip, drip, drip. instead of being focused on fake news he should be focused on getting leakers to stop leaking in his administration. ainsley: the mainstream media is so focused on this. and if you listen to congressman steve king, he says where was all this concern when hillary clinton was doing far worse? listen to what he said. >> someone who either was embedded within the fbi or another component of the intelligence community that willfully leaked this to the "new york times" and "the washington post. and now we have a nation of leftists that are hyperventilating over what they -- actually now are rumors because we don't have the transcript of those telephone calls. we don't have a single phrase that we know with confidence

is accurately quoted that was transmitted. ainsley: lisa, what's your response. >> where was the outrage over benghazi or fast and furious or irs targeting conservatives or president obama telling russia more flexibility after the election? i disagree with richard in the sense that conversations with foreign leaders need to stay private. there has been already leaks regarding with president trump and foreign leaders that have been proven to be untrue. have you got the spokesperson for mexico's president saying that there was no threat. even though it was reported that somehow president trump made a threat against the president of mexico. you also have a prime minister return it bull saying that vice president trump never hung up on him even though it was reported that he hung up on him. that's a big problem for these private conversations to be made public. and, you know, so i think that is a concern. so i disagree with richard in the sense that these conversations that are supposed to be private somehow that they should be made public there needs to be able to have that level of trust in these conversations that are

happening. ainsley: does that concern you, the leaks? >> i think the leaks are concerning, right? that's on donald trump's leadership to make sure these leaks stop. i'm not saying they should be release to the public. i'm saying they should be release to the intelligence community classified so our elected leaders can look over these transcripts and say there is or there isn't wrongdoing. if president trump doesn't do that the media is going to continue to say that there is smoke here so there has got to be a fire. donald trump can put this fire out very easily. release the transcripts to the senate. release the transcript to the house. let our elected leaders on the intelligence community look over them and move on. if he continues to say fake news and blah blah blah which is normal talking points, we will continue talking about it and we shouldn't be. ainsley: lisa, richard, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you. ainsley: underarmor under pressure latest to cave under the anti-trump movement. why is it so bad to support our president? plus, making a splash in the latest "sports illustrated" swimsuit issue.

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the floor with little to no ballet skills. steve: several dads daunting tutus while doing pirouettes. they have nearly 10 million views on facebook. ainsley: would you all do that? steve: i will doo tell you this. our town always has this dad and daughter dance and generally it was square dancing. ainsley: right but not ballet dancing. steve: harvard to go wrong with square dancing. ainsley: my husband said he would never do that so shy. they do not look forward to the daughter/daddy dance in april comes up here in the northeast. would you do it. brian: i would do it if they had a tutu my size. ainsley: i can arrange that. in fact, cue the music. we actually have someone in the hallway coming out to -- just kidding. brian: my kids don't do the ballet thing and if they felt it would enhance their experience as children i would do it.

steve: all in the name of fun. ainsley: really funny to see brian do it. brian: i would probably pull something. heather: some of the dads i know would be happy to do that for their daughters because they are suckers for their little girls. steve: square dancing. ballet not so much. heather: had school lunch yesterday. good morning. [broken audio] alliance with israel. and putting prime minister benjamin netanyahu on the spot about israeli settlements, listen to this. >> i would like to see you hold back on settlements a little bit. b.b. and i have known each other a long time. a smart man, great negotiator. and i think we're going to make a deal. it might be a bigger and better deal than people in this room even understand. >> it's a start. >> doesn't sound too optimistic. [laughter] good negotiator. >> that's the art of the deal.

heather: there you go. frick and frac right there. the president appeared to be willing to break with the decades old policy to the two state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict. dnc has a lot to focus on after loss in november. what is on next agenda. voting to condemn the tv show designated survivor? >> you really believe i should step down? >> i do. >> you may be right. but for now i'm all you got. heather: here's the story the dnc describes the show as being focused on fictional fbi director blackmailed into confess ago crime he did not commit they then criticized fbi director james comeyying hee recent 2016 election that he does not need to be blackmailed to engage in legal partisan action. so the dnc upset about that and want to condemn them. underarmor ceo after high paid athletes turn on him for supporting president trump.

>> to have such a pro-business president is something that's a real asset to this country. i think people should grab that opportunity. heather: what's wrong with that? kevin flank is now caving to the anti-trump movement clarifying those statements saying, quote, we are publicly opposing the travel ban. we are taking other public positions on legislation around the country in support of the interests of our teammates whenever policy conflicts with human rights. and is it too late for justin bieber to say he's sorry? ♪ is it too late now to say sorry ♪ yeah, i know all that i let you down. heather: you saw the clip there, the singer now facing possible assault charges for his involvement in this fight that was caught on camera last summer. bieber accused of grabbing a man's sunglasses and punching him after a cleveland cavalier's game the victim suffering a concussion. those are your headlines. steve: oh, biebs. brian: we will stay up on his life because ours is so boring.

making a splash on the 2017 swimsuit edition. she can take you in a fight i know she could take me. ainsley: rookie class winner of 2017 model search me a steve: walk in, first client is "sports illustrated." >> i lucked out. steve: hired you on the spot first job. >> i lucked out. brian: how did they find you. >> they only meet girls once a year to capture the issue. and it was that time of year. and sen sent me in. and the rest is history. brian: so your background is not traditional path. you are really a t thai fighter. >> when i'm not in new york i'm in thailand training. steve: holy cow.

that's crazy. which are you more comfortable with modeling or kick boxing? >> funny enough they are both equally important to me. two worlds that do not complement each other and don't go together but i will do both. i succeed in both. ainsley: i'm very impressed. i'm looking at these pictures i heard it's not as glamorous as it looks. i heard it's freezing weather. freezing cold water. >> this is true. not just naturally rolling around in the sand looking amazing. for example one of my shots i was half submerged in water what the picture doesn't show that water was filled with fish that were biting me. brian: what? ainsley: ains. ainsley: how long. >> fish eating at me as this was happening. brian: you are the only one tough enough to be able to handle it. >> i was kicking and punching under the water they were afraid. brian: you are 28 years old. born in hong kong. one of your parents is south korean and one is british.

were they good parents. >> yes, they were. yeah. i love my parents. steve: let me ask you this. regarding the fact that you grew up in hong kong, growing up in hong kong did you know what the "sports illustrated" swimsuit model edition was? >> i did. i definitely did. steve: it's a big deal here. ainsley: huge, yeah. >> i don't think i understood how much of an iconic brand it was until i moved to america. because it really is just a phenomenal establishment. but i was aware, yeah. brian: what i also think is inspirational to you you didn't grow up where everyone was fawning all over you and you weren't necessarily the most popular kid in the class. >> no, i wasn't. i actually grew up as obese child and very, very bullied in school. and while i was losing the weight i actually had to cover tyra banks on the cover of "sports illustrated" polka dot bikini on my wall as inspiration of ultimate beautiful woman. if anyone told me i would be in the magazine gracing the pages alongside some of the

most phenomenal women in the world. ainsley: there is a country song that says "how do you like me now"? you should send that song and issues to all the bullies. >> all the bullies out there. brian: people want to follow your career how do they find out about your first fight? >> i will keep you all posted on that. steve: what's your twitter handle. >> my twitter handle is @ miss mmi awmpletia kang. steve: as soon as the sesame street characters came. >> in dream come true. hey, elmo. steve: we will see who she is talking to in a moment thank you very much. brian: congratulations. brian: next guest is a democrat and cia operative who says there ising so great about the president's travel ban. hear this one. not going to hear it anywhere else. now meet elmo.

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brian: the state department says about 60,000 people had their u.s. visas revoked under president trump's travel ban. but amid the protest and controversy former cia officer thinks there is something great about the stalled executive order. brian dean wright joins us to explain. brian, have you seen the worse. you know we are in battle on war on terror and ideologies. what do you like about the ban as it was proposed and rejected by the ninth circuit? >> if you look at the very beginning of this executive order, it talks about something really important, that's fundamentally about values, right? president trump said, listen, we need to talk about what kinds of immigrants we want

into this country, specifically we don't want folks who are going to discriminate against folks who are gay or folks women or based on their race. that's an important conversation to have in this country and it's one that ought to be reflected in our immigration policies. brian: and if that was communicated effectively, perhaps the american people would have understood it more. >> sure. let me give you an example. in saudi arabia a woman arrested for daring to take off her head covering, her hijab, right? we should be asking the question do we want her and people like her in this country or do you want doo we want the people that jailed her, that created those laws in saud saudi arabia. that's the part that's missing in this whole conversation about american values. we need to have that debate. brian: not only that we are not talking about somebody asset in block party. we are talking about somebody that might try to turn and kill you because it's about security.

so also honor killings are also another issue here. don't you believe on some level donald trump is seeing what we're seeing in europe, especially, germany and a lot of it within the sunni community is uncompromising most part tastes? >> yes. i absolutely agree. where i would tweak this order and where i think they went a little bit wrong is this way, saudi arabia is producing this radical version of islam. why wasn't saudi arabia on this ban? second, we need to be talking about the ideology itself. that ideology exists in places like germany where there are 10,000 of these. that conversation about values and type of ideology, that's what needs to be a focus. brian: look at belgium, france and germany and tell those citizens that security is not an issue. next, you're other expertise is intelligence. you see what's going on right now where the cia is not or the intelligence agencies are not fully briefing the current president. how dangerous is this?

>> here's my concern out for watching this the last couple of weeks there ought to be fun and mental law between military and intelligence folks and politics. when that wall starts to crack you start going down this very, very slippery slope that i have seen abroad which is basically a police state. the folks that are my former colleagues need to remind themselves that they serve the president and more importantly they serve the american people. their job is to do their job. it's not to leak the classified information that they worked so hard to collect. our job is not to play politics. brian: but they are. and so far the american people are bystanders. ultimately we will pay the price. >> that's my fear. brian: thanks so much, brian. >> you bet. brian: interesting perspective see if they rejitione rejigger r and put it out again. brian dean wright, thank you. >> you bet. brian: hottest around. sesame street life on tour. i'm talking about elmo and

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ladies and gentlemen. elmo and grover. brian: always in a good mood. how does that happen? >> they put a smile on everybody's face whether you are a child or grandparent. steve: that little guy right there has a smile. one of the things about your show and i took my kids to it when they were that age is there is interactive part where after they are done on the stage they go out in the audience and shake hands with kids like that one right there. >> extremely interactive. ainsley: you can buy the package called the sunny seats. >> sunny seats. meet and greet elmo and grover. >> free shoat meet and greet with elmo and friends. a lot of fun. get to play hopscotch with elmo before the show. steve: kids react like that. >> that's exactly what they do brian brian how do you explain the way every generation seems to know one thing. they love sesame street. >> exactly. something great about our show includes some of the classic sesame street theme songs as well as new parodies like hot

and cold and moves like jagger. steve: going to be at madison square garden through the 26th of february. would you like to do a sunny days grover and elmo? >> yes. steve: let's get out of way. >> yeah. [laughter] ♪ sunny day ♪ keeping the clouds away ♪ on my way ♪ to where the air is sweet ♪ can you tell me how to get ♪ how to get to sesame street ♪ can you tell me how to get ♪ yeah ♪ can you tell me how to get. [laughter] >> come on ♪ sunny days ♪ keeping the clouds away ♪ on my way ♪ to where the air is sweet ♪ can you tell me how to get ♪ how to get to sesame street ♪ can you tell me how to get ♪ can you tell me how to get

♪ [laughter] steve: all right. very nice. thank you very much. ainsley: excellent job. and if folks want to go see it around the country it's not just here in new york. >> no. started yesterday through the 26th. get tickets at sesame street.com or box office at the theater at madison square garden. ainsley: how many cities are you going to. >> a lot. we will be on the road until june. ainsley: you said tickets are very affordable. >> yes. brian: good to travel with the cast that doesn't wreck the hotel room. >> they are very well behaved. they do dance a lot. steve: you are thinking of bon jovi. thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: always a sunny day on sesame street. meanwhile mainstream media is whining because they don't get called on by the president. remember hard hitting questions for president obama? >> in this fatherless world, where did you learn to love? >> political question you want to duck, how does your golf game hold up?

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>> i think it's very, very unfair what happened to general flynn and the documents and papers that were illegally -- stress that. illegally leaked. >> the intelligence community don't think they work for the president. the president seemingly works for some of them. >> if you don't trust your boss, and you don't work for your boss, get another job. >> navy harward is now the man expected to be the new national security adviser. >> i've been doing this for 40 years. i've never seen anything like this. the dow jones is up 2,200 points since election day. >> i would like to see you hold back on settlements for a

little bit. >> i'll try. >> doesn't sound very optimistic. >> that's the art of the deal. >> rex tillerson making his first overseas trip landing in germany overnight. >> this week ivanka trump tweeted a show showing her at the oval office desk. ♪ ♪ ainsley: doesn't get better than that. the american flag. the avenue of americas shooting right up into the central park. we are located on that street this thursday. brian: we solute the news flag and the american flag right there. steve: listen, as we take a look at what's going on in the news, the president has reacted this morning to the

fact that you know that there have been these stories in the mainstream media about the sleeks that have come out. essentially they're targeted to make donald trump look bad by insinuating he's in the sack with the russians. none of the papers have proven that any laws have been broken. but nonetheless, the boom, boom, boom, the constant drive of the mainstream media to make them look bad, which we knew they were going to do it. ainsley: president trump is saying this is criminal, all of these leaks. whoever's leaking this information, that is illegal. brian: yeah, bob woodward came out and said, look, you have to tell everybody what these four people did or didn't do when they talked to russian officials. paul manafort came out and said i had no contact with russian officials and michael flynn who has since left. but it doesn't say anything

happened when he was president-elect through the nomination process. but it doesn't gives fuel to the fire that people don't understand how donald trump won. steve: they contained classified information. maybe the newspaper have seen them, but they're not supposed to. donald trump tweeted two tweets in the last hour or so. illegal leaking has been a big problem in pennsylvania for years. he also said the spotlight has finally been put on the low-life leakers. they will be caught. ainsley: and if anyone out there think so the united states -- this is my understanding. the united states is not in bed if russia. if they were, they would not be sending their spy ships to the west coast or airships over number one. and number two if you're the president of the united states, don't you need to have

relationships with other countries so that you can have conversations with them about -- steve: you can't be too cozy. that's what they're saying. brian: just such animus between john brennon and some of the obama loyalists still there at the cia, the dia, are they the ones leaking this out? judge napolitano was with us, and he sees nothing good about this. >> we now have a state of affairs where we have professional spies in the intelligence community who can turn on or off information to the president of the united states who can decide what to give him, what to keep from him. what to reveal and what to keep secret. and basically rashad owe government in an effort to control and frustrate the president. what the president just said about those illegal leaks is 100% correct. they're illegal, they're immoral, they're criminal. brian: true and the washington journal has today that the intelligence agencies are not telling the president everything.

maybe practices, the way they got information, or maybe information in particular because i essentially think there's distrust in between the two. maybe it poisons the well, maybe it straightens out the well. also putting another layer in the white house asking the cofounder of to see what programs are effective. that is causing a huge uproar because no one wants that oversight. steve: well, here's the thing. if that's going to help drain the swamp, which is what donald trump wants to do, then good luck because you've got -- keep in mind the intel community is part of the washington establishment. and they don't want to change things. and if there are partisans in there who are leaking these things to make the president look bad, that's one thing. but people up on capitol hill have not want to investigate the russian thing. don't worry about that. the fbi's already on it. so i think they got it. but the house oversight committee have both

writtenlers to the inspector general of the department of justice and said, hey, these leaks are a big problem. check it out. while donald trump says we're going to catch the low level leakers. judge napolitano made a great point. these are super spies who know what they're doing, and they know how to stay under the radar and never get caught. brian: and if you're donald trump, and you do tax cuts, and you get rid of obamacare, and you want to do all of these things and if you're all gummed up with intelligence and answering questions about would be scandal and when you have the media who can't wait for you to mess up, it's not a good conversation. so somehow they have to get ahead of this. ainsley: all right. yesterday benjamin netanyahu was meeting with president trump. when he ran for office, president trump said i am pro israel. and he has a very good relationship with benjamin netanyahu. they've been friends for a very long time, and it looks a lot different than the obama administration. they were hugging each other, arms around each other, and this is what they had to say

yesterday at their press briefing. >> very, very unfair. as far as settlements, i would like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit? we'll work something out, but i would like to see a deal be made. i think a deal will be made, and i think we're going to make a deal. it might be a bigger and better deal than people in this room even understand. that's a possibility. so let's see what we do. >> let's try. >> doesn't sound too optimistic. [laughter] good negotiator. >> that's the art of the deal. brian: so they're going to get away from the two-state solution that has been governing our policy for a long time. they say they might be working on something bigger. and don't be surprised if it has something to do with the rest of the arab world. not israel. iran. and there's beginning to be a sunni unification and sunni alliance who quietly because it's not popular yet are dealing with israel because we abandoned israel over the last eight years. they've been forced to look elsewhere for alliances, and

it has kind of worked out. steve: sure. benjamin netanyahu made it very clear yesterday that the people of israel have a great friend in donald trump. you can't handle the truth is the headline today in the new york post talking about how donald trump vows better peace deal than people even understand in the next four years. brian: i wonder if israel will help us find out through their intelligence agencies who's leaking here. steve: that would be great. brian: some of the best. it's scary but it's true. steve: but you would think we would be able to do it here. ainsley: right. the judge was saying these are the best of the best. why can't he find out these leakers? because these are spies. they can find out this information without having to be in the meetings of donald trump. 60,000 of these spies that he said that work in this country. brian: does he know the judges? seems to know so much about this community. steve: we think we are a million people are spyingous right now. ainsley: don't remind us of that.

you get a little nervous. >> and speaking of spraying, brian, put your clothes on. good morning to all of you, i hope you're off to a great day so far. first one coming off north carolina there was a plane that was forced to make an emergency landing after it hit a dear during take off. the pilot of this american airlines flight immediately turning around, and they were able to land safely back at the airport in charlotte. that plane packed with nearly 50 passengers started leaking fuel. >> we started back. i got a little nervous and then when we went down to near ground and went back up, i really thought we were gone. >> a little strange. i don't know how the dear got on the runway. that, i would like to know. >> those deer go a lot of places. fortunately no one was hurt. immigrants nationwide by giving themself the day off today. some students won't be going to school.

employees plan not showing up to work and some businesses shutting down their stores. the boycott is called a day without immigrants and in response to donald trump's pledge to crack down on illegal immigration. well, president trump says he'll go back to the people this weekend. holding a rally in melbourne, florida this saturday where he's expected to talk about his administration staff moving agenda. the president also expected to unveil fans. it's the first campaign rally of some of the states he won in november. and an unlikely bromance blossoms on capitol hill. >> ashton, you were better looking in the movies. anyway. i want to -- >> better looking in the movies. well, the room bursted into laughter when ashton blows the senator a kiss. was there to talk about human

trafficking and those are your headlines i guess i think he said we're better looking in the movies. what movie has he been in? ainsley: he was trying to say you're better looking in person than in the movies. steve: heather, thank you. an illegal with no driver's license accused of drunk driving and killing a granddaughter. how does that happen? we're going to talk about that. ainsley: and andrew withdrawals his nomination for labor secretary. so who's in the running? next. i never miss an early morning market. but with my back pain i couldn't sleep or get up in time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back!

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ainsley: the search for secretary of labor now in full swing. brian: yeah, just hours after andrew took his name out of running, president trump already working hard on a replacement. steve: who, though? let's go live to capitol hill with some of the candidates

that have been made public. >> and we're learning now about everything that went down yesterday. we're told about a dozen republican senators reached out to republican leadership that said they were not ready to back andy puzzner as the labor secretary nominee. so mitch mcconnell had to call down the street to the white house and said i don't think we have enough votes to get your labor secretary through. we're told that the biggest problem with the fast food ceo was his one-time hiring of an undocumented housekeeper, especially since he was trying to be the labor department secretary. but even with all of that said, they were very surprised he pulled out before having a hearing. one senator i spoke to said he learned about a with a smartphone news alert. he also said that all 52 gop senators had lunch together yesterday and puzder problems never came up. four names being considered are katherine templeton,

joseph guzman, who teaches about labor relations and peter and alexander who once sat on the labor board. mr. acosta and guzman already met last night about the job. so president trump not trying to waste any time as he puts another nominee forward as democrats trying to make this process to take as much time as possible. steve: of course they do. peter, before you go, we showed that clip yesterday where john mccain said of ashton kutcher we're better looking in the movies. and i said what movie was he in, and you just sent me the text with the answer. >> it's wedding crashers. he's in wedding crashers for one second. and i remember hearing that and watching the movie and not seeing him. but that's the beauty of google images. he shake somebody's hands at one of the weddings. ainsley: that's a real picture.

earlier was in the movie? steve: wedding crashers. ainsley: so maybe he did say we're. steve: that's what he's talking about. ainsley: that was great. the bigger request he is how do you have his cell phone number? steve: peter ducey? ainsley: yeah. steve: we met once at some party somewhere. brian: you kept it. you know his mom very well. steve: i do know his mom very well. ainsley: well, a college professor caught on camera calling the election an act of terrorism. >> one of the most frightening things for me and most people in my life is that the people -- ainsley: and guess what? the story just got even more outrageous. brian: and texas becoming the first state to stand up for the presidential immigration order. yep the man behind it all texas attorney general ken paxton joins us next. ♪ nexium 24hr... shuts down your stomach's active acid pumps... to stop the burn of frequent heartburn... all day and night.

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ainsley: a quick look at headlines for you. a new video of secretary of state rex tillerson in making his first overseas trip in germany. america's top diplomat is meeting with g20 leaders assuring nato allies that we've got their backs. meeting with russian, foreign -- the russian and foreign minister. and the joke was on her. one of the women accused of murdering kim jong-un's brother was wearing an lol shirt. he was poisoned at the airport. three women wearing the lol shirt was behind bars. and now banning immigrant majority neighborhoods. parliament's concern that the refugees entering the country will overpow danish communities. steve. steve: thanks, ainsley. president trump to uphold the

travel ban just gained an ally down in the great state of texas as the lone star state becomes the first in the nation for back the president's executive order. texas attorney general joins us today. good morning today, mr. attorney general. >> good morning from dallas. steve: thank you very much. so we know the courts have said, no, we have to put that travel ban on hold until we figure it ally out. you are coming to happen's defense saying what? >> well, we're saying basically the court didn't consider the law as written. there's a statute giving the president authority to block any class of aliens that's why might be detrimental to the united states, put restrictions on them, and do it as long as he wants. and so we want the court to actually consider the law as written instead of extraneous information. steve: but you've been listening to the mainstream media. you know they say, well, it's the muslim ban. but the ban is not based on religion.

it's based on nationality, isn't it? >> that's absolutely true. the seven countries that we're all aware of, 88% of the muslim people are still eligible to come to this country. it only relates to seven of the so-called 50 muslim countries. so, you know, that's a red herring. the real issue here is the safety and security of our citizens. steve: it is the safety and security of our citizens and the sovereignty of our nations. and is that the court's decision or is that the decision of the executive branch? because we got three branches of government going. >> well, in this case, you know, there's a clear statute. so that's our argument that the court didn't consider the law as written. they based this on giving due process to nonresident aliens, which we've never seen before. so we think they took a wrong track, and we're really hoping now -- this was a three-judge panel. we're hoping the entire court will hear this and consider the law as written.

steve: you know, mr. attorney general, you just mentioned something that has kind of gotten locked in the last week or so. we're talking about noncitizens. and noncitizens under our constitution, what sort of rights do they have, exactly? >> well, those are noncitizens who are not here. they're not in the country. they have no constitutional rights. and that's what's really interesting about what the court did. this court said they had due process rights. well, that's pretty unheard of for people that are not even in this country. steve: so what do you think ultimately is going to happen? do you think donald trump is going to -- you know, because he's a guy who likes to get stuff done quickly. and for it to go through the court systems, and you know this. you've spent your life in the law. that could take a very long time. whereas if he just prints up a new executive order that's a little bit more targeted, perhaps that would be a faster way to get this thing going. >> you know, i don't know what he's going to do. but we were trying to send the message that we don't think there's anything wrong with this executive order as it stands and that it is perfectly lawful for the president of the united states

to both constitutionally and statutorily do this. this is something that the last administration when they were bringing refugees, and we had no idea who they were, they weren't vetted, and we had serious concerns about the safety and security of our citizens. so i'm happy the president took this stance. steve: we'll see what happens. kim paxton, thank you for joining us from the dallas fort worth metroplex. >> have a great day. steve: you as well. on this thursday, imagine picking up the phone and being told that your child has been kidnapped. the urgent warning about a disgusting new scam that every parent needs to hear because it's simply not true. and the new york times says covering the president is just like covering oj simpson. not kidding. you know rochelle has a lot to say about that. she joins us live coming up next. ♪

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>> this week ivanka trump tweeted a picture sitting at the oval office desk with her father president trump and justin trudeau. it says the importance of having a seat at the table. did you notice something in that foreign? the bottom right hand corner? ainsley: let me in. michelle, she came out of the woods. now she's in the bushes. >> that's right. ainsley: michelle joins us this morning, senior editor of conservative. what were you going to say? >> i should have said they

would have photoshoped her squealing with a beer mug. i love that one. brian: she got a standing ovation while in the audience. steve: might have been cats. love it was better than cats. mike pence gets a lecture. she gets a standing ovation. all right. let me ask you about this. we know there's a mainstream media bias against generally conservatives. you've been talking about this for years. but the new york times has compared president trump to oj simpson. they wrote this. the white house drama has begun to resemble a kind of oj simpson trial for politics. gripping the nation and minting unlikely celebrities. what do you think? is that fair? >> it's obnoxious and offensive. i tell you what is fair, though. i'm glad that these people are showing themselves as clowns.

the fact that these people have woken up the sleeping beauties are finally energized. i love how in the new york times article they quoted david of the new yorker saying that he feels like a 29-year-old again starting his career anew. because, you know, if there were enough scandals, blood-tainted scandals during the last eight years of theobamm to cover and wake up to. disgusting. brian: right. they've got -- steve: they really didn't uncover any scandals. was anybody looking for scandals during the obama years? >> no. they weren't. it was a full employment act for me over the last eight years. not only did culture corruption come out within the first seven months of the administration, but of course i could have written an entire encyclopedia series with all the columns i did reporting on all of those scandals. and the white wash that continues with these people pretending as if the obama administration even in its

first 100 days wasn't a complete hot mess, i did a column this week comparing the first 100 days with the obama administration and trump. the idea of the chaos going on now. where were these people in the first 100 days in obama where there were four withdrawals of obama nominees based on everything from tax problems to national security problems. obama had nominated a national intelligence head who was a saudi-funded shill. where were they? brian: and you had two major programs. you had the stimulus program, and you had obamacare. you can keep your doctor and keep your plan. you couldn't do either. there was just no interest in following up. the investigation to the irs, he made that comment. i found out about news reports, i'm going to look into it. nobody looked into it after that. >> that's right. brian: and the benghazi investigation where it went. >> and you know what? "the new york times," which i call the fish wrap of record was at the heart of this white

wash conspiracy. steve bannon is absolutely right. the media is the opposition party. i've got to get that on a bumper sticker. ainsley: all right. michelle, let's talk about immigration. we had a reporter a few days ago showing the numbers and the number of people who have been deported in our country in the past week were actually criminals. 75% of them. but if you're talking about the mainstream media, they're talking about ripping families apart. there's an immigration lawyer his name is robert who said that president trump has a heart when it comes to children. this is what he wrote in the daily mail. president trump in two weeks has already done more for unaccompanied refugee children than obama did in two years. democrats were horrified at trump. could allow president obama to act in the most unlawful way out of any president i have seen in my lifetime. do you agree? >> yeah. what he is referring to is a memorandum that deprioritizes the deportation of unaccompanied minors. and that certainly goes

against the open borders narrative that somehow trump is this so-called fascist who's doing everything he can to rip apart families, et cetera, et cetera. and the open borders lobby of course has been focusing on the deportation of a young man who is according to ice a self-described gang member in seattle. and this is to point fingers at all of the deportations that are now going on of so-called daca dreamers. but it's interesting somebody in the lawyers lobby is trying to defend president trump. and i'm glad for that kind of fairness. you certainly don't get that in a open borders media. brian: yeah, he said children are being put in the back of the line to be scheduled for cases. and they're putting everybody else up there, therefore showing compassion for the kids and families. that's not going to get out there. i think then later after he secures the border, and after he gets rid of the criminals, then we're going to deal with

the people here and haven't violated any laws. we may little by little get confirmation immigration reform. >> you always hear this platitude of ripping families apart. and the bottom line question there is who's responsibility is it for the families ripped apart? there are parents making this conscious decision on the other side of the border either to send their kids over here and have us take care of them. or for them to come here illegally, then have those children. who bears the burden of that? american taxpayers and the government? or those parents themselves who put their own children at risk? steve: sure. great point. also, we've been talking a lot about refugees given the fact that many from seven different nations as well as immigrants under the temporary travel ban not allowed into the country. when it comes to refugees, apparently there's a story out there according to the united

nations, refugees can easily spend a third of their disposable income on staying connected. they want more free stuff. they want wi-fi, connectivity, stuff like that so that they can -- they're refugees, but they have to update their facebook page. >> that's right. give me your poo given you're poor, give me a wi-fi connection. it's no joke. over in europe billions of dollars are being spent on welfare places like sweden and poor angela merkel should have realized this and oops. we should have taken acare of our own people first. and it's not only happening in europe. it's happening on our own shores where refugees when they come here have super high rates of food stamp usage. and the problems that are inherit in refugees who are exploiting their so-called political and economic persecution status. you've got refugees from

somalia who are in europe who are using their welfare cash to go back to their home countries that they claimed were persecuting them. this is insanity. brian: right. so when will we see the next investigative piece? >> i've got nine shows coming up on crtv.com, in fact, one of them is on the refugee crisis and the very unfortunate phenomenon that a lot of people don't want to talk about and that's the rape refugee crisis that's going on in europe. steve: and before you go, what do you make of what's going on in the feeding frenzy right now in washington d.c. starting with the stuff -- you know, the investigation into the russian hack, which didn't happen, you know, they didn't impact the election, according to the fbi, supposedly. and now the flynn fallout and the leashing and stuff like that. >> yeah, well, there's a lot of squirrels. squirrels that are distracting us from things that are really important. and with regard to leaks and national security, why aren't more people talking about these three muslim brothers in the house intelligence

democratic committee? brian: it guys. >> right. worship involved in all sorts of undermining of national security. don't want to talk about that. steve: excellent point. we'll try to cover it real soon. see you tomorrow. thank you, ma'am. ainsley: now let's hand it over to heather who has more headlines for us. >> i certainly do. good morning, everyone. an illegal immigrant is accused of killing a grandfather and a former missionary. was driving home to new york from indianapolis when the car was hit by this person. the car was hit so hard, it flipped over four times. elizabeth hernandez is accused of tearing that family apart. police say she was drunk, speeding, and illegal. we'll keep following this story for you. a teacher in indiana going on a disgusting rant about president trump. but it is the students who recorded the video who's actually in trouble. listen to the video.

>> our nation is divided. we have been assaulted. it's an act of terrorism. one of the most frightening things for me and most people in my life is that the people committing the assault are wrung them. >> an act of terrorism she says, that of the election of donald trump. 19-year-old caleb o'neal has now been suspend for the rest of the semester at orange coast college for secretly taking that video in class. and that is not all. he has to write an apology letter and a three-page essay on the incident. his attorney filing an appeal calling this unconstitutional. the teacher olga cox has not been disciplined. that coming out of california. we'll keep an eye on that story as well. and a terrifying passage to get parents to pay up. imagine answering your phone and then hearing a child, someone screaming that they've kidnapped your son or daughter. police in maryland say that scam artists are researching families online, calling parents, and then threatening to hurt their child if they don't pay a ransom. at least nine cases have been reported so far.

the fbi now warning parents not to wire money and to contact police immediately if this should happen to you. and a perk for parents who raised well-behaved children. a restaurant in italy is now giving an educated children discount. he got the idea after he watched five kids quietly color in books while their parents were sitting at the bar. he commented quote it's so unusual to see well-behaved children in a restaurant. that wouldn't happen in my family. it would add more. it certainly would. steve: we always have to leave extra tip because there's food always at the table. steve: any time a waiter brings in a guy in a hazmat suit after your kids have gone. >> yep. that's my daughter too. brian: let me tell you what's coming up straight ahead the last 19 minutes of the show.

the mainstream media in a frenzy after the president takes questions from conservative journalists first. are they forgetting the last eight years of president obama? ed henry has a live report from washington next. ainsley: and he can forecast the weather. but did you know meteorologist adam clot can also make a mean casserole? coming up, he's cooking with friends and his mom. steve: good morning, terry. ♪ ♪ americans - 83% try to eat healthy. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more. add one a day women's complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports bone health with calcium and vitamin d. one a day women's in gummies and tablets. start here. at fidelity, we let you know where you stand, so when it comes to your retirement plan,

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brian: some quick headlines. a bill reversing a rule president obama snuck through right before leaving office now heads to president trump's desk. the senate joining the house

voting to repeal that would take guns away from some social security beneficiaries who might be considered mentally unstable. and gun-free zones gone. lawmakers in florida proposing a bill that would allow people with concealed firearms in airports, public schools, and bars. and the move comes after a recent massacre at the pulse nightclub and the ft. lauderdale airport. government opening fire in crowds in both attacks. ainsley: journalists freaking freaking out when president trump takes questions from conservative outlets at his meetings. steve: some going so far as to saying it's not freedom of the press. brian: where he did that job for ten years. he's in washington d.c. with some personal perspective. ed. >> good to see you guys. yeah, it's interesting. i'm old enough to remember covering the obama white house for fox news and not always getting called on. in fact, often getting skipped

over by the president at these news conferences. and what we're seeing now is a reversal. all of a sudden people are lashing out and saying the president is ducking tough questions. why won't he call on me? and it's interesting because he has called on fox recently. fox business network as well. blake berman. and yesterday he called on town hall, katie, a conservative block blogger, and then also called on david brodie of conservative broadcast network. he has a fair audience. and. last night i had david brodie on while i was filling in for tucker, and he responded. >> the last three news conferences, all of the questions to the american news media have been handled by conservative press, and i think, wolf, there's no other way to describe it but the fix is in. >> that's insanely ridiculous. that's just not even -- even after cane that is ridiculous. but, look, this whole idea of the fix is in.

that's a question by the white house and what i mean by that is that if they're having this new day in dc, and they want to call on cbn and others, that's a question they can bring to the white house. >> well, it's interesting as well because cnn has another reporter. remember, he was at the new york times covering barack obama and look at this question after the first 100 days of the obama administration. >> during these first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office, enchanted you the most about serving you in this office? humbled you the most and troubled you the most? >> let me write this down. >> what enchanted you most about the first 100 days. the president got a bit of a fair pass in those eight years. free pass. and i didn't hear a lot of outrage about it. steve: ed, two things. one, you would say -- i heard the question from the town hall person and the cbn person.

they were good questions. but were you saying earlier that it was easier for you to get called on by president obama because you could at cnn. and then when you came to fox, it was harder t to get a question? >> it was definitely harder to get a question and to be fair, the president did call on me several times. but there were stretches where i would go news conference after news conference at fox and not get called on. and sometimes we would complain about it to be honest and fair about it, and we wanted to get called on and we would push back saying why aren't we getting called on? but it was easier when i was at cnn than when i was at fox. so now the shoe seems to be on the other foot, and you're hearing a lot of people express outrage. brian: what about your health care coverage at cnn compared to fox? >> it's so much better here. and just knowing, ainsley, it's so much better. steve: well, you know what the good news is, ed, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. >> that's exactly right. and i'll be filling in for tucker tonight. ainsley: great job last night. thank you. brian: coming up straight

ahead, we are cooking with meteorologist adam clots. he's making a mean casserole. steve: check out this people behind adam and his mom terry. some of our folks from montgomery, alabama. you're on fox and friends.

>> an across the board review of all intelligence agencies and not everyone is happy about that. we've got that and much more coming up at the top of the hour. i hope you'll join bill and me for america's newsroom.

steve, and ainsley. ainsley: he's normally tracking storms in the fox news weather center but right now he's cooking up a storm right here on set. here with his mom we have adam clot and the famous casserole. mom, terry, welcome. came here from indianapolis. >> i did. steve: you have to be proud of your boy. he's doing a good job. >> i am so proud of my boy. ainsley: and you were living in atlanta, and you couldn't see him. now you can see him; right? national news. >> i was able to stream him sometimes. brian: did you wonder how was he eating and was he cooking himself or eating out? >> i wasn't too worried about it. i thought he would take care of himself. >> not eating like this, i can tell you that. ainsley: tell us a little something about your son. >> great kid. he was really active.

no, he's a good kid. really active. brian: she's struggling. okay. tell us something about your mother. >> great mother. really active. steve: well, you graduated. great college. you start with this is going to be a chicken casserole with a little healthy stuff in there. you start with some cooked noodles and then what do you do? >> we start with pasta, but i was told i could have you do this. so we need to add some chicken. >> how much chicken? >> i think all of it. steve: she's been baking her whole life. >> i don't. make this. steve: stir. ainsley: and then what do we add, mom? cheese? >> yeah. three-fourths of that. and then aced some mozzarella. >> if mom wasn't here, we would be drinking beer and eating pizza. ainsley: are you italian? >> no. i am not.

>> and then we have some sun dried tomatoes. steve: stir. stir. pour. pour. ainsley: you can do the spinach. >> throw some spinach in there. >> it's amazing. sorry, mom. >> that's okay. that's okay. steve: a little too much? >> actually, it works, but you have to put it in there slowly. it definitely makes it healthier. we'll say that. steve: you're going to see the final product. we're going to step inside. more with adam and his mom terry after this. a lot of spinach. ♪ did you know 90% of couples disagree on mattress firmness? enter sleep number... she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. you can both adjust the bed for the best sleep of your life. save 50% on the ultimate limited edition bed,

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>> the casserole is delicious. brian put too much stuff in we banished him outside.

>> what's is name of your dance team? what kind of dance are you doing? >> ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop. >> stay out of trouble in the city. if you have any problems we have bail money. >> bill: good morning, everybody. is a war underway in washington two reports highlighting the growing battle between president trump and the intelligence community. this is the president going on the offensive today. promising to bring, quote, low life leakers to justice. his words from earlier today. it's a thursday. it's "america's newsroom," good morning to you. >> shannon: good to see you. i'm shannon bream in for martha maccallum. here is what's being reported. the "wall street journal" says intelligence officials withheld sensitive information from the president over concerns of trust. "the new york times" reports president trump may call for an investigation of the nation's intel agency. >> bill: the