president for giving us all of this time, poor "happening now" is going to have to give up its time but thank you, president trump. >> right, "happening now" starts now. >> fox news alert, we are minutes away from president trump's remarks at a boeing plant in south carolina. >> jon: you can tell that mr. bolton is a diplomat, he is there for the debut of a new g minor edition. we are covering all of the news "happening now." >> this administration is running like a fine-tuned machine. despite the fact that i cannot get my cabinet approved. >> jon: another cabinet pick nearing a vote despite democratic attempts to delay the process. >> why do they want to rush through the cabinet? they are ashamed of them! >> jon: plus, the latest battle in the war between the president and the media. >> the media is trying to attack our administration. >> jon: how the administration may now be trying to get the

mainstream media in line. and... just what this dam did not need, more rain. it is all "happening now." ♪ >> jon: we begin our second hour with the presidents a trip to south carolina. he is meeting with the ceo of boeing, a company that could greatly be affected by the president "america first" strategy. welcome to "happening now" on this friday, i am jon scott. >> i am abby in for jenna lee. during that facility today, he will also speak at the debut of the new aircraft production. >> jon: ahead of the trip, the president tweeted: "going to charleston, south carolina, in order to spend time with boeing and talk jobs! look forward to it." chief white house correspondent john roberts live in north charleston for us now. >> you would love to be here as they roll out the new version of the 787, it is the ten version,

18 feet longer than the last iteration, and they have not found one yet so they are looking forward to seeing it left off from the airstrip just outside the hangar where we are. interesting to note that just on wednesday, some 3,000 eligible voters, employees rather here at boeing voted 74% in favor of not joining a union, even though their union members in washington can make the same plane according to them, they make 34% less, they are in a right-to-work state and want to keep their status. president trump trying to fill out another position in his administration, national security advisor after the vice admiral robert harward said he did not want the job here president trump tweeted this morning: "general keith kellogg, who i have known for a long time, is very much in play for nsa -- as are three others." keith kellogg is currently acting national security advisor. david petraeus, former general we all know so well is also in

the running as is, i am told, steve hadley who is a national security advisor under president bush. and someone that has not been named yet. we are trying to find out who the fourth person is according to white house officials on the air force one on the way down here to south carolina, president trump may meet with some candidates for the national security advisor this weekend at mar-a-lago. people are still talking about the press conference yesterday, one of the most significant things i thought and was really curious to learn about is what evidence he weighed in determining that his national security advisor michael flynn did not do anything wrong when talking to the russian ambassador. i asked a question of the president, and here's what he told me in response, listen. >> when i first heard about it, i said, that doesn't sound wrong. my counsel came, down again, white house counsel, and he told me, i asked him, and he can speak very well for himself. he said he doesn't think anything is wrong.

>> i asked the president if he had seen the transcripts of the electronic intercepts of general flynn's communications with the russian ambassador, he did not answer. i did more digging and after the department of justice notified the white house there was a problem with those phone calls, in fact anyway 26, the white house counsel office launched an investigation while the president did not see the actual transcript, he was given a summary of what the content of those phone calls were outside of the white house in they briefed them. i'm also told under questioning by the white house counsel and others, general flynn eventually came to a full recollection of what he had talked about in his conversations. you will probably remember he said, i might have talked about sections, might not, not 100% sure. i'm told 100% that he is sure what he talked about. the other big news of yesterday was that he has tests that the parent of justice with a criminal investigation into leaks of classified information, a lot of it is edited out above

the fold and is a and newspapers across the country. here's what the president said in response to my question about that. >> i've got to all of the folks in charge of the various agencies and where i have actually called the justice department to look into the leaks. those are criminal they are put out by people either in agencies -- i think you will see it stopping because now we have our people in. >> so the president is getting out and about, i guess you could say, yesterday for 70 some odd minutes, he held a press conference, freewheeling back and forth with the media the way he used to do during the campaign. has this big event at boeing this afternoon then tomorrow he will be in melbourne, florida, for what is called a campaign rally. not going to have to run for reelection for a while, so really think this is just an exercise in getting in front of some friendly people after all of the bad news that has been dogging his administration for the last three and a half weeks, just a sort of remind himself of what it was like to be out there

in the campaign. >> jon: the expression used to be what is good for general motors is good for the nation, but boeing, i think, still the nation's largest exporter, certainly top three, so you could also say what is good for boeing is good for america these days. >> in the president trying also to craft some deals with boeing. remember the cost of replacing the air force one fleet is only two aircraft for $4 billion, but he sat down with the ceo of boeing, the president did, and cut a new deal to save american taxpayers a lot of money. >> jon: left to get on that plane come too. john roberts there at that boeing factory in north charleston, thank you. >> abby: want to get this fox news alert, something else we are watching various closely, the congress voting now to confirm scott pruitt as head of epa. this comes as some controversy about his ties to the oil and gas industry, oklahoma judge ordering him to release thousands of emails that he exchanged with energy company

executive spiritual congressional correspondent mike emanuel has more from capitol hill where there are mai believe. >> good afternoon to you, that is correct. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is accusing his democratic colleagues of unprecedented obstruction and confirmation of the trump cabinet. as you mentioned, senators are voting this hour on scott pruitt's nomination to be the administrator of the environmental protection agency, but after an all-nighter on the senate floor by protesting democrats that forced lawmakers to burn another 30 hours on this nomination. >> it is pretty clear what is happening. they want to move them as slowly as possible, and on the ones have deemed controversial, they want to give their left-wing agitators enough time to get up and get organized. >> scott pruitt, the nominee for epa administrator has the political left fired up with criticism that he has no record of protecting the environment.

two democrats voted with republicans yesterday to pass a procedural vote on his nomination, 54-46, so there should be enough votes for confirmation. top democrats are accusing republicans of not allowing proper scrutiny. >> what is happening with pruitt as a metaphor for the whole cabinet. rushed it through! no daylight! the disinfectant of sunlight might bring most of these cabinet members down. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell took to the podium right after chuck schumer and said that democrats are looking for any excuse to block the president from moving forward on his agenda. abby? >> abby: never a dull moment. we'll keep a close eye on this one, thank you. >> jon: for more on this, let's bring in john mccormack senior writer for "the weekly standard." the pruitt nomination has been controversial among democrats, but is there any chance they can block him? >> it doesn't seem like it.

the vote is happening right now, but the only republican who announced opposition was susan collins of maine, two democrats already said they were going to vote for pruitt, so it seems like a done deal and we will know soon enough. >> jon: what does it mean for president trump's agenda to put in someone like scott pruitt at epa? >> it means he's going to take a very different position from president obama, the opposite position on the issues. a lot of concerns where conservatives accuse the epa of overstepping constitutional authority, and preventing regulations and rules they don't have power to. you will see trump's epa administrator reversed a lot of those, and we see employees of the epa openly protesting their likely new boss. it is really unprecedented peer there is a history of congressional studies that spoke to the near times he said he had never seen anything like this. it really does bring up some problematic concerns here because there are three branches of government, not four, but a

lot of people for bureaucracy are acting like a separate branch of government because they have civil protections to make it difficult for the president and the cabinet to fire them. >> jon: whatever the guy at the top says, the epa secretary in this case, he's going to need people under him to actually implement the policies he is calling for. so if epa employees are in any way resistant to change or a new direction, we could be in for a long fight. >> you could peer the former epa administrator kristian todd whitten said this is setting things up for a bloodbath inside the epa. i think that doesn't sound like that is what could be happening. epa employees, they can do their jobs if they are asked to do anything unlawful or unethical, they should not, but if they are simply trying to undermine a new administration because they disagree with the policies, they should not be doing that. they should be resigning in protest. that is the option they have. but the idea they are simply

going to not do their jobs or do their jobs poorly or try to undermine the administration under matters of policy, that undermines the whole idea of civil for service for the civil service was put into effect to prevent the sort of spoils system or unqualified people getting jobs handed out as patronage. but if the supposedly apolitical employees are acting political, you're going to have to see a reevaluation of the way we structure these civil service protections. >> jon: donald trump famously campaigned on a slogan of draining the swap in washington, is this the kind of resistance he was talking about? >> i think so. i think this is a good example where a lot of people, even critics of trump can agree why exactly are we spending this much money on all of these different agencies, and what are they doing, why are they acting as if they were somehow elected into this position when they were not to? >> jon: a lot of farmers obviously are going to be appreciative of a lighter touch from the epa, if that is in fact

what is coming. some of the rules on wetlands, the amount of water that can sit on your land without being designated as protected space has really ruffled a lot of feathers. >> sure, and that plays right into president trump's base. he won in large part due to an overwhelming amount of support in rural areas in wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania, so they have been heard by these regulations not only in terms of wetlands, on issues like coal production, i think this is politically a real winner for donald trump in the states that gave him the presidency. >> jon: we noted earlier that the nominee to be epa had, scott pruitt has been ordered by a judge to release thousands of pages of emails that he had, correspondence he had while he attorney general and the state of oklahoma. is there likely anything in there that could derail this process or derail his

nomination? >> i would not speculate on that, but coming back to our earlier point, this is the way the government is established, there are three branches of government. the judiciary working against the executive board checking the executive, that is exact way how it is supposed to be. i don't think it is like civil service where these epa employees are trying to undermine the executive. i think that is a really problematic for people committing to constitutional government. >> jon: they are getting some of the introductions out of the way at the boeing plant, the president will be stepping up to the microphone shortly. we are going to take you back there when he does. john mccormick from "the weekly standard," thank you very much. >> abby: as you mentioned, we are awaiting the president's comments in north charleston, south carolina, currently touring the boeing plant, we will get you there as soon as he takes the stage. plus a rainy forecast putting dozens of people on edge, live pictures of what marred downpours could meet for the damaged working dam coming up.

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>> jon: fox news alert, and in advance of president trump's remarks at the boeing factory in north charleston, south carolina, they are rolling back the hanger doors, and they are on the right, you see the

incredible new aircraft, the extended version of the boeing 787 dreamliner, this one as john roberts told you earlier is 18 feet longer than the original dreamliner, 787 -- ten, brand-new, the boeing company has literally staked its future on this aircraft, and some of the modern technologies used to construct it. they are on the left, you see the old standby of the boeing fleet, the boeing 747, this one obviously decked out in the presidential colors as air force one, so a little bit of older boeing and newer boeing theory. you can see that everybody assembled there at the factory where they build the thing is taking pictures of the rollout. this, we understand, is the very first 787-10 president trump has taken a tour of the factory end of the plane, we understand. he will be speaking about that experience momentarily.

>> abby: president trump taking aim as one of his favorite targets yesterday, the media. he slammed outlets for "fake news and a barrage of narrative coverage." take a look. >> there is no one i have more respect for -- maybe a little, then reporters, good reporters. especially in this position. it is very important. i don't mind bad stories. i can handle bad stories better than anybody. as long as it is true. i am not okay when it is fake. i watch cnn, it is so much anger and hatred and just the hatred. you have a lower approval rate than congress. >> abby: fox news media analyst howard kurtz writing that's about it. "it was the most extraordinary news conference ever held by a president of the united states, also the harshest indictment of the media ever delivered in the white house, and it was riveting, you could not turn away. trump unplugged." howard kurtz dreads me not to talk more about all of this, good to see you.

it is so interesting because the president warned us, today the meeting would be -- meeting would be ranting and raving, and he was right, people talked about being totally unhinged and chaotic, but if i compare ts of americans that watched the same press conference, probably saying to themselves, yes, this is exactly the man that i voted for, such a disconnect between the two. >> i really divided america. sifting through the mainstream media reviews, appalling, frightening, all of that. but for a lot of people, roughly half the country that supports this president, it resonates when he goes after the press. they don't trust their press. they trust this president much more than the press. so sure, at times he was rambling and self-indulgent, got a couple things wrong, but this is the same in-your-face style that got him elected, that the present said would never get him elected, so went he feels like he is in a little bit of trouble or has lost control of the narrative, he goes right back to

it. >> abby: i want to take everyone out to president trump who looks like he is taking the stage, just taking a tour of the boeing plant, introducing the 787-10 dreamliner expect to be implied by 2018, beautiful new plane. you can see it behind him. first time back in south carolina since they won the election, so he's been there for about the past hour. i think the ceo of boeing is introducing him right now, i want to bring you back in this conversation as we wait for it president trump to take that stage. just talking about the media again, is this a permanent state of war, you think, between president trump in the media? if so, what impact is that going to have on his agenda getting anything done? >> i'm starting to get that impression because you thought maybe after he was elected that the press would ease up on the relentlessly negative tones. the president did have a couple of branches, went to visit "the new york times," but he is using words like "hatred." he used that word with me in a couple campaign interviews, but

now as commander-in-chief, he's decided the only way he's going to break through what he views as the negative media narrative is to go out and essentially discredit the press. i don't know if the constant attacks on the media, as we saw and the 77 minutes yesterday, helped him get infrastructure build, tax cuts, replacement for obamacare through capitol hill. it may be a diversion. but it is something that keeps his base fired up. of course, he needs more than that to be able to successfully govern. >> abby: i want to bring more people into this conversation, this is exactly what the president campaign on, bringing jobs back to the country, keeping jobs, and as you mention, boeing is the number one export in the country. this is a tour that has been on the book for months now for him to do. >> jon: voters did not put him in office to make nice with the press. they put them in office because he promised them jobs. that is why michigan, wisconsin, ohio, states like that voted for this man. >> i also think that voters put

him in office to shake things u up. the first month that we all in the press, many of us have described as chaotic, messy, a bit out of control, what a lot of voters see, in the country clearly is divided, is a guy who is taking on the established power centers, also see the bureaucracy battling back against this president in the form of leaks, sometimes illegal leaks of classified information as the president pointed out. what the beltway press is used to things being tied tidy, scripted press conferences, commissions and everything takes time, this guy is trying to shake things up in a hurry. his fans love it. >> abby: we just got the two-minute warning for president trump to speak. chris wallace said this yesterday, one of the goals of the press conference was to take back control of the narrative for president trump to regain control. did he do that? >> i would say yes because everything we were talking about was that firing of national security advisor michael flynn which came up at the news conference, but we're not

talking about that now, not talking about the fact his other labor secretary nominee had to withdraw. not talking about whether reince preibus has control of the white house, we are talking about trump come he loves to be at the center of the narrative, i said throughout that when he gets negative press calm he still wins because he is controlling the dialogue. him getting out there in south carolina, florida tomorro tomorrow, an effort to extend the story line and his favor, get out of the white house bubble. >> abby: i'm going to have to interrupt you, let's listen in on president trump. [cheers and applause] >> president trump: usa. thank you, dennis. i have to say i love south carolina. i love it. [cheers and applause] >> president trump: remember we came down altogether. we came down, and this was going to be a place that was tough to win, and we won and a landslide.

this was a good one. i want to thank the people of south carolina. your governor, tremendous guy. he supported us right from the beginning. i would like to think the governor for the incredible job, he is here someplace, thank you very much. you have been fantastic. i have to say also, that is one beautiful airplane. [cheers and applause] >> president trump: congratulations to the men and women here who have built it. what an amazing piece of art. what an amazing piece of work. thank you, dennis, for the invitation to be with you today. you know of the old days when i made this speech, i got paid a lot of money. now i have to do it for nothing. not a good deal, but that is okay, we love it. it is wonderful to be back in south carolina, especially with

your new governor. where is henry? he's around here someplace. where is he? stand up, henry. proud of you. he helped us so much. and i want to also thank your former governor nikki haley he was doing an awfully good job for us. she is representing america very well as our ambassador to the united nations. she is doing a spectacular job. it is early, but she has just been really great. we are here today to celebrate american engineering and american manufacturing. we are also here today to celebrate jobs, jobs. this plane, as you know, was built right here in the great state of south carolina. our goal as a nation must be to rely less on imports and more on products made here in the usa.

right here in the usa. it is amazing to think that a little over 113 years ago next door, north carolina, orville wright was the first man to sail the skies in a very little airplane. the 1903 wright flyer was made of mostly wood and cloth. it was so small that orval's brother wilbur could not join him on the flight. it was summer he was always very upset about. the flight lasted all of 12 seconds. but it was incredible. that flight was a testament to the american spirit. i see that same spirit everywhere i travel in the country. i saw that spirit all throughout the campaign. we have the greatest people anywhere in the world. we have the greatest spirit, and

you just look at what is going on today in our country. you look at what is happening with jobs. you look at what is happening with plans moving back into our country all of a sudden. they are coming back. and they are going to be very happy about it, believe me. they are going to be very, very happy. as your president, i'm going to do everything i can to unleash the power of the american spirit and to put our great people back to work. this is our mantra " "buy american, hire american." we want products made in america, made by american hands. you probably saw the keystone pipeline i approved recently and the dakota. and i am getting ready to sign the bill, i said where is the

pipe made? they told me, not here. i said, that is good, add a little sentence that you have to buy american steel. and you know what? that is the way it is. that is the way it is going to be. we are going to fight for every last american job. we have come a long way since the wright brothers and their first flight more than a century ago. your plane is made of carbon fiber. it seats 330 passengers. it is 18 feet longer than the previous version of the 787, and this airplane can fly for half a day before it touches the ground. the name says it all "dreamliner," great name. our country is all about making dreams come true. over the last number of years, that has not been necessarily the case, but we are going to make it the case again.

[cheers and applause] >> president trump: that is what we do in america. we dream of things and then we build them. we turned vision into reality, and we will be doing a lot more of that, believe me, in the months and years to come. [cheers and applause] >> president trump: i also want to say a word to all of the members of the armed forces who are here with us today in this record crowd. south carolina has a long, very, very proud military tradition and history. we salute all south carolina military families, and we salute all of the men and women who wear the uniform.

we are going to fully rebuild our military -- by the way, do you care if we use the f-18 super hornet or do you only care about -- what do you think? well -- i thought that was a super horn. we are looking seriously at a big order. and we will see how that -- the problem is that dennis is a very, very tough negotiator. but i think we may get there. we are also working on the air force one project which was a difficult project for previous administrations, but it looks like we are getting closer and closer. and we are going to ensure that our great service members have the tools, equipment, training,

and resources they need to get the job done. as george washington said, "being prepared for war is the best way to prevent it." that is really what it is. the best way to prevent war, being prepared. peace through strength. we build a military might so great, and we are going to do that, that none will dare to challenge it, none. we will ensure our men and women in uniform have the latest, the most cutting edge systems in their arsenal. right now, it is not that way. it will be that way very, very soon, believe me. you will be an important player in this effort. boeing has built many important aircraft including, as i said, the f-18 super hornet, the f-18

strike eagle, and the apache helicopter, just to name a few. and i am being very, very serious, the new air force one, that plane, as beautiful as it looks, is 30 years old. can you believe it? what can look so beautiful at 30? and airplane. i don't know. which one do we like better, folks, tell me. on every front, we are going to work for the american people. nowhere -- and i mean this so strongly, our focus has to be so strong, but my focus has been all about jobs, and jobs is one

of the primary reasons i am standing here today as your president. i will never, ever disappoint you, believe me. i will not disappoint you. i campaigned on the promise that i will do everything in my power to bring those jobs back into america. we wanted to make much easier -- it has to be much easier to manufacture in our country and much harder to leave. i don't want companies leaving our country. making their product, selling it back, no tax, no nothing, firing everybody in our country. we that happen anymore, folks, believe me. there will be a very substantial penalty to be paid when they fire their people and move to another country, make the product and think they are going to sell it back over what will soon be a very, very strong

border. it's going to be a lot different. it's going to be a lot differen different. already, american industry is roaring back. believe me, if we, not me, i am a messenger, if we did not have this victory, we would not even be talking about it. to achieve that goal, we are going to massively reduce job crushing regulations, already started come you have seen that. that sent our jobs to those of their countries. we are going to lower taxes on american business so it is cheaper and easier to produce product and beautiful things like airplanes right here in america. we are going to enforce very strongly enforce our trade rules and stop foreign cheating. tremendous cheating. tremendous cheating. we want products made by our

workers and our factories, stamped with those four magnificent words "made in the usa." since november, jobs have already begun to surge. we are seeing companies open up factories in america. we are seeing them keep jobs at home. ford, general motors, fiat chrysler just to name a very, very few, so many more already. they are keeping and ringing thousands of jobs in our country because the business climate they know has already changed. and arizona, intel announced it will open a new plant that will create 10,000 american jobs. they are spending billions of

dollars. we will see more and more of that across the country as we continue to work on reducing regulations, cutting taxes, including for the middle class, including for everyone, and including for business and creating a level playing field for our workers. when there is a level playing field, and i've been saying this for a long time, american workers will always, always, always win. but we do not have a level playing field. very shortly, you will have a level playing field again. because when american workers win, america as a country wins big league, wins. that is my message here today.

america is going to start winning again. winning like never, ever before. we are not going to let our country be taken advantage of anymore in any way, shape, or form. we left america, and we are going to protect america. we love our workers, and we are going to protect our workers. we are going to fight for our jobs. we are going to fight for our families. and we are going to fight to get more jobs and better paying jobs for the loyal citizens of our country. believe me. you have heard me say it before, and i will say it again. from now on, it is going to be america first.

working together as unit, there is nothing we cannot accomplish, no task to large, no dream to great, no goal beyond our reach. just like you built this incredible airplane behind me, both of them when you think about it, we are going to rebuild this country and ensure that every forgotten community has the bright future it deserves, and by the way, those communities are forgotten no longer. the election took care of that. and we will pass onto our children children the freedom and prosperity that is their american birthright. our children will inherit from us a nation that is strong, that is proud, and that is totally free. and each of you will be part of creating that new american

future. i want to thank you south carolina, i want to thank the great people of south carolina. god bless you. may god bless the united states of america. and god blessed boeing. thank you, everybody. thank you. >> jon: a stirring and patriotic speech there from the president, very well received by the crowd of boeing factory workers who built that plain that you see behind him, the first 787-10, the biggest of the 787 series, a plane that is touted as being 10% more efficient than anything else in the market because it is much lighter and has more fuel efficiency in its engine. at any rate, something the boeing company is very proud of, in the president giving them a tip of the head with his appearance they are in

south carolina. >> abby: for more on this, we want to branch chris was in, former poster and robin is a former regional field director for the obama campaign, look up to both of you, thank you for being here. so just off the top, i want to get your thoughts on what we just heard there. he was very much back in his campaign mode, seemed very comfortable talking about making america great, making it first, jobs first and foremost as he said there. as he often says, "buy american, hire american," what were your thoughts? >> abby, i will take this one. honestly, it sounded just like his campaign rallies. a lot of hot air, but what we want are the policies. i've been saying this all along on the campaign trail, and it is still the case now. where's the beef? where is the policy? all the things he talked about,

dakota access pipeline, great that creates five jobs, but he cannot usurp the law about the pipe going through tribal lands. he has issued 45 executive orders and memoranda, republicans would be screaming about executive overreach. but as far as laws go, he has only done three and one of them was just to give us the permission to have a general serve in his cabinet. the other two were superfluous. >> abby: you think about where we are, 3-4 weeks and come he's already talking about putting together a tax reform plan, also obamacare repealing it and putting forward another plan may be as soon as the beginning of march. so we are still very early here, and things he's talking about, the reason many people got out to vote for him was what you heard just they are, fighting jobs. >> that is exactly right. what we just heard from president trump is exactly why he is president trump, the kind of speech he gave and the ability to get outside

washington peer he's a lot better outside washington that he is inside washington, and we heard from workers in south carolina, people who elected him, not just in south carolina, people who elected him in wisconsin, pennsylvania, iowa, ohio, states were republicans have not won and a long time voted for the donald trump we just saw. the donald trump who speaks to america first and talks about building products in the united states. it is a message that resonates. how he takes that message and uses the backdrop of the boeing airplane and grows that into what he is going to do moving forward and increasing the number of jobs, manufacturing and the united states is what makes the difference and what will translate into whether or not president trump is able to live up up to the promises mady candidate trump but events like this are a good start in that process. >> abby: we can look back and say he has done something with healthcare, tax reform or even infrastructure in four years, that's a lot more than we have seen in a long time. i think he can both agree with that. appreciate that. >> jon: the russian spy ship

still prowling off the u.s. coast. his mosque out testing the new administration? general jack keane joins us with his thoughts. or you could push that button. [dong] [rocket launching] skip the bank, skip the paperwork, and go completely online. securely share your financial info and confidently get an accurate mortgage solution in minutes. lift the burden of getting a home loan with rocket mortgage by quicken loans. [whisper: rocket]

♪ >> jon: a new round of provocations from russia putting the president promised to renew ties with moscow and the spotlight. u.s. officials say a russian spy ship is currently loitering off the coast of norfolk, virginia, home to the largest naval base in the world. this, after russian warplanes buzzed a u.s. navy ship in the black sea. and a pair of russian bombers also circled japan. joining us now with his thoughts on all of this, general jack keane, retired four-star general and chairman for the institute of the study of war and a fox news military analyst. that russian spy ship is getting a lot of attention right now,

but isn't this the kind of thing that goes on all of the time between both countries? >> absolutely. we use submarines to do the spying up because of the united states, the russians off the coast of russia and the united states. the fact they are using a surface ship and rarely ever do it is because they want all of the publicity. that is the reality of it. they want that publicity. the reason why they want the publicity is simply that they want to distract us from what they are doing in the ukraine. they are strengthening their military position in ukraine. they're also strengthening their position in the middle east. those are roles that are very different for russia. russia is trying to replace the united states as the most influential country in the middle east. that is serious business, and they have been doing that and trampling our interest in the middle east. >> jon: the president says he wants a better relationship with russia. it would hardly see mike this is the way for them to go about making that happen.

>> the russians are motivated by their national interest. and they have anti-american feelings ever since putin took over. he cannot stand the united states position in the world as a global power, what he believes at the expense of russia. every opportunity he has to humiliate us, embarrass us in front of our allies or take advantage of us in his national interest is what he is up to. >> jon: general jack keane, i wish we had more time to talk today, got truncated by the presidential news conference, but we appreciate it very much. we will be talking to you again soon. >> glad to talk to you. >> jon: thank you, general. we will be right back.

>> jon: nice to have you here. >> i will be back tomorrow all day long. >> jon: look for abby. thank you forus.

fox news alert. president trump moments ago wrapping up remarks at a boeing plant in south carolina trying to refocus attention on jobs and the economy, and our workers. hello everyone. i'm sandra smith. well, the president suggesting while standing in front of the latest boeing dream liner that he's getting closer to a deal on the new air force one. >> and i'm being very, very serious. the new air force one, that plane, as beautiful as it looks, is 30 years old. can you believe it? what can look so beautiful at 30? an airplane. i don't know. which one do we like better, folks? tell me. >> sandra: all right. chief white house correspondent john roberts traveling with the president, is in north charleston. as we understand it, he's still behind you, john. there he is. live pictures of the president, getting a tour of that dream liner. ande