arthel: president trump getting ready to take the stage this hour for a rally in florida. mr. trump's campaign paying for the event at the orlando melbourne airport where he held a campaign rally before the election last year. i'm arthel neville. eric: i'm eric shawn, welcome. trump's campaign rally taking place as he continues to assault the media. criticizing some news outlets in

a series of tweets, even go so far as calling the fake news mediate enemy of the people. arthel: kristin fisher is near the mar-a-lago estate. but we begin with steve harrigan. reporter: that theme of attacking the media is under way as we await president trump's remarks. the crowd is chanting anti-media slogans. they are packed into this hangar in melbourne, florida. the lines this beginning began at 4:00 in the morning. 13 hours before the speech. if you walked from beginning to end, it people out here to show their support for the president. when you talk to people in line, you hear a sense of frustration, not with the president, but how he's being portrayed in the

media. >> we see a lot of negative fake news out there, and we are not seeing people supporting i am every day. like we see all these people here and we have so many supporters for him, we want to show him we are there and we are so thankful he's looking out for the american people. reporter: it's not clear if the president wants to push any single issue or if it will be something like we saw during a campaign rally. it is being sponsored by the campaign committee to re-elect president trump. arthel: steve harrigan in melbourne, florida awaiting president trump's arrival. eric: the president will choose a new security advisor after flynn's resignation earlier this

week. general pef tray us is said to be out of the -- general petreaus is said to be out of the running. but there are more interviews set in mar-a-lago. kristin, what can we expect for the three contenders come? >> a new name has emerged for the list of kfds for national security advisor. sean spicer says president trump will be meeting with this candidate tomorrow. lieutenant general robert kaslan. the other people he will be meeting with is keith kellogg. john bolton. h.r. mcmaster and potentially more according to spicer. he said one name we can definitely controls off the list. sean spicer said he is out. president trump will be holding

phone calls with three more world leaders and huddling with some of his senior staff with tom price to discuss their strategy going forward to repeal and replace obamacare. one of the questions press secretary sean spicer was asked about, did president trump police gavel do? he wouldn't answer that but we captured some video of him playing golf. last week he played with japan's prime minister shinzo abe. and right now vice president mike pence overseas in germany for the music? security conference. and he delivered the first major foreign policy speech of the trump administration. he said clearly he's speaking on behalf of president trump. and he reminded everybody there that president trump remains committed to the nato alliance.

>> today on behalf of president trump i bring you this assurance. the united states of america strongly supports nato and will be unwaiver -- unwavering in our commitment to this transatlantic alliance. reporter: next week one of the big things on the table will likely be a brand-new executive order on immigration. president trump said that would be coming possibly next week at that big press conference he gave last week. we heard the same thing last week from president obama. so we'll see fit happens this week. one thing is for sure, he's planning a new executive order on extreme vetting and immigration. eric: john bolton has been with us for the last 10 years on the fox news channel. sphe won't be with us tomorrow because you will be under going a different type of interview at mar-a-lago.

later none this hour we'll discuss president trump's ongoing battle with the media and the upcoming rally. what we can expect and what he will say. arthel: meanwhile, congressional republicans are beginning to flesh out their plans to replace obamacare which focused heavily on tax credits and changes to medicaid funding. those changes the topic of discussion for aca advocates at the 22nd annual families action conference. garrett joins us with more from washington. reporter: the good news for republicans is there is still consensus they will repeal and replace obamacare. but they have not reached consensus on how to do it or how to pay for it. they are laying out the next step in what their goals are. republicans plan to introduce

repeal and replace legislation as soon as they get back from reset a week -- from recess a week from monday. at the same time they say they will continue to work on plans for how to replace the affordable care act, what to replace it with and how to pay for it. those discussions and debates are expected to take weeks if not months. house speaker paul ryan says he remains optimistic and ultimately they will be able to get it done by the end of the quarter. >> we need to replace it with a true patient-centered system that means more choices and lower costs. it means real protections and peace. mind, and it means returning your care to your control. >> they have been banging to the moon for 7 years about the affordable care act and haven't couple with a plan yet.

they haven't had anything that -- they had scored by the cbo or whatever. they are still find among themselves. reporter: the democrats have delayed the process by delaying the confirmation of president trump's secretary of health and human services. and they save they plan to do everything they can to prevent the republicans from repeeling and replacing the affordable care act. eric. six people were killed and hundreds injured during the 1993 terror act. the man known as the blinds sheikh is dead. he died at a federal prison in

north carolina. reporter: he died this morning while serving a life sentence in north carolina. omar abdel rahman became known as the blinds sheikh. bin laden once credited the blinds sheikh as inspiration for the september 11 attacked. he's linked to the bombing of the 1993 bomb attack at world trade center. while not convicted for the attack directly. prosecutors say he inspired the men to carried out the bombing. he was known for his radical sermons at a mosque in new jersey and new york city. he was found guilty in 1995 of conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks in the u.s.,

including blowing up the united nations headquarters, a tunnel and a bridge in new york city as well as conspiring to assassinate alfonse d'mato. he was the head of a terrorist organization that campaigned for his release. the blind sheikh's imprisonment became a rallying cry for jihadists everywhere. egypt's newly elected president mohammad morsi promised to press the obama administration to free the blind sheikh. one of rahman's sons called to confirm the blind sheikh's death. he died of coronary artery disease.

he was 78. eric: 1993, the first terrorist attack in our country. the assassin was part of the cell rahman headed up. they went on to conduct the bombing plot, now the blind sheikh is dead. arthel: a powerful storm ripping through california, killing at least two people and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. all that rain causing a giant sinkhole to open up in los angeles. swallowing two cars. fire crews helping a woman escape one of the cars. will carr is live from studio

city. >> the treat opened up that created a sinkhole that took two cars along with it. a woman was driving along in her mercedes. she was injured. but she was able to crawl on to her trunk. a short time later a van who did not have a driver inside ended up going into the hole as well. thankfully everybody was okay ultimately. we spoke to one resident who lived nearby. >> to have a hole that big and that deep and cars fell in it. hopefully they are strapped in. because that probably saved them from being seriously injured. reporter: we got a shot of the her mercedes and it's pretty much totaled.

they are putting four steel walls on the inside to stabilize the hole. we spoke to a city engineer. take a listen to what he had to say. >> something compromised it to allow the soil to go into the sewer. then the cars came in and damaged the sewer. but we are glad everyone is okay. reporter: this was in large part due to the fact the sewage pipe under the streets is 80 years old. but it wasn't just in the l.a. area. there was so a lot of bad weather up north. santa barbara airport had to be shut down when the runway flood. 80,000 people were without power. right now the sun is out a little bit and that's good news for these crews as they continue to try to get everything under control with this sinkhole.

arthel: thank you very much. eric: when can those on the pacific coast expect some relief? >> we heard the good news. beginning to get a break. but unfortunately more rain is on the way to the west coast. here is the current at -- the current satellite-radar. the future radar who show it clearing off the rest of the day. but early tomorrow we begin to see more rain running back on to the coast by the oroville dam which is beginning to put itself back together. we are seeing all this rain continue to pile up throughout the day sunday into early monday morning. ann heavy rain stretching down to southern california as well. this will be a big system as a result we see several storm warnings.

we have flood warning in northern california. flood warnings stretching down into southern california. as it runs into higher elevation it will turn into snow. here are the forecast precipitation levels. you see these deep colors. reds and purples. easy getting up to 6 or 8 inches. parter to the south lighter rain with the second round targeting san francisco up toward san francisco and farther to the north. perhaps you noticed besides that rain, it's been a beautiful day. oroville, california. here are your chances for rain. then the forecast for the rest of the country is incredibly warm. we are looking at high numbers. 80 degrees in dallas. it is a very warp one across the country but we'll be paying attention in the next couple

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>> the press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the american people. tremendous disservice. where are you from? >> bbc. >> there is another beauty. >> a good line, impartial, free and fair. >> sure. just like cnn. tomorrow they will say donald trump rants and raves at the press. i'm not ranting and raving, i'm just telling you, they are dishonest people.

eric: he slam offed the news outlets for spreading what he calls fake news. a new poll shows voters trust the president more than reporters. bob, let's start what what we'll see in a few moments. we'll show you live the campaign rally in melbourne, until airport. he has thousands as a receptive audience. >> the chances are 99% chance he will attack the media it works for him. some people say the campaign is over, why is he doing these rallies. president trump did this as well. now he's campaigning for his agenda. he likes doing this. and he has moved the story off

of the firing of michael flynn with this press conference and now this rally this evening. eric: president trump didn't attack the media the way president trump does. james rosen. our james rosen perhaps one of the exceptions. what's your view on what when said during that news conference. it's our role to get powerful and hold institutions of power to account. it's part of a free and fair nation. that's what we represent. >> absolutely. also what trump said, some reporters he does respect. but there are some reporters who said he wouldn't get in the race. there is no way he can win the primary or the general. now he's president. and there are some parts of the media that have been after him and they continue to be after him. he's a counter puncher and he does go after them. i think he should be talking

about this agenda. march will be a big month for the republican party. i don't think he will be stopping -- this will be a staple of the presidency, attacking the media. eric: how does this continue through the next four years or more? >> i think we'll have very combative relationships, reporters using their first amendment rights fire right back at the president. i think we'll see this combative type of relationship with the press, and i don't think that will stop. does that translate into success with his agenda? i'm not so sure. we'll see. the congress has gotten off to a bit of a slow start. march, repeal of obamacare is next on the agenda. they have to get some major things done next month. eric: do the tweets distract from the official business at hand?

>> some of them do. mitch mcconnell says he's not fond of his tweeting, especially when he's tweeting about nordstrom. it's a good thing the president treats because you can see his line of thinking. that's what reporters want to get at. but when you are tweeting about your he general today that's a good thing. but when you are tweeting about nordstrom, that can be a distraction. here are spot of reporters' tweets. an attack on a free press by a sitting u.s. president is a slap in the face to democracy, our country's founders and the american people. here is one from the committee to protect if journalists. in the past 25 years, 1,230

journalists were killed worldwide in relation to their work. they are most definitely not the enemy. trump calls press enemies of the people which is what my reporter parents were called in soest run hungary and they were jailed. dark times. what are the lessons of history and what can we learn as these attack tweets continue? >> enemy is a strong word. but president obama is not subtle. reporters, some of them can be thin skinned. if you are going to dish it, you have to take it. that's the beauty of the first amendment. they can attack the president and the president can attack back. this is part of what trump is doing to washington. we have never seen anything like this. his press conference was unusual. but was it unusual for trump? not so much.

he's shaking you have washington -- he's shake up washington. and part of it is rattling the correspondents. if he's spending half his time going after the press, he will be judged on his platform. when the trump presidency is over we won't be looking at his treats about the press, we'll look at what did he accomplish. eric: the donald trump i saw is the one i have known for 30 years. i covered him as a new york reporter. i have seen that donald trump in his office at trump tower. he can get fired up about something. we'll not remember the tweets, we'll remember the substance of the policy. and you will see the policy with the issues dealing with russia and nato and what vice president mike pence said over the weekend, some of it diverged from what the president said in

the past. policy-wise where is the president going. >> major decisions still are not being made on the repeal and specific live the replacement 7 years after obamacare was signed into law. so congressional leaders said this is not a 100-day agenda, this is a -- a 200-day ageneral today. but he needs to be putting you have wins and needs to be getting things to his desk. he's going after regulations. he had a signing ceremony this week and that plays well with the base. but these things are difficult to do, repealing and replacing obamacare will be very difficult of the problem is the republican party -- we mentioned john mccain. he has been attacking trump. the republican party, mitch

mcconnell and paul ryan say you have to get unified. eric: what would you advise he does next week when he gets back to washington? get you have on the hill, get some legislation going so we can get a win on capitol hill? >> i think the communication with capitol hill could be improved. republican lawmakers think that. but at the same time he don't have his team in place, he doesn't have his full cabinet. these are the tough decisions we are going to face on tax reform. on obamacare. let's come up with one plan we all agree with. trump is good at selling ideas. but they haven't moved forward point major pieces of their agenda. if we get into april-may and we don't have a big win. that will and problem. trump will be proposing his budget in the coming weeks. that will be one of the most

fascinating budget proposals we have seen in a long time. arthel: you stead trump is great on selling ideas as we wait in melbourne, florida. what ideas do you think they want to hear? >> they want -- trump was elected as a deal maker. he wrote "the art of the deal." they don't mind if he's striking deals with democrats. but they want to see his agenda, what he campaigned on, that includes the wall and repealing and replacing obamacare. we have seen mixed messages about when this replacement plan is coming. as far as transportation there are conservatives nervous about a $1 trillion stimulus. it could divide the republican party. but they want to see things he campaigned on and regulations is

one of them, and they have been doing that. they need to make the decisions, then sell it to the american public at rallies like this. another win for trump is when he nominated neil gorsuch. gorsuch in all likelihood will get through and i don't think the democrats can sustain a filibuster against him. arthel: do you have think this crowd will be looking for more. he versus policy? >> i think a combination. because they don't have a bill they are pushing on healthcare or tax reform justeth, i think you will see more -- tax reform just yet, i think you will see more. he than policy. there are a least democrats who voted against 75% of his nominees, if not 85%. it's been a slow process. and republicans point out

president trump had a lot of his cabinet in by now and trump is still assembling his team. he didn't have an attorney general and the immigration executive order was full bold because they didn't have their full team of out there and they kind of rushed it. i think he will go after democrats for that reason. but he knows he will need democrat support on some issues if he does pursue, and i think he will, some type of big transportation bill. eric: we are talking to bob kusach, editor-in-chief of "the hill." eric: we'll see a campaign rally, the trump campaign is paying for this. something reminiscent of all those rallies we saw in hangars across the country. there in the corner in the

little box, there are also protesters. those are rally organizers and protesters down the street from this rally which is a constant staple of these kinds of presidential events. when you talk about what we'll see in a few moments. he has another speech coming up later in the month. it's called the state of the union. that's the chance and the opportunity for him to lay out the policies he sees. will we see something on the wall? will he announce something about russia and dealing with isis and perhaps the bombardment and attack on raqqa and mosul. specific issues that americans want to see action on and voted for. >> that will be the biggest speech in history, his speech to congress on the 28.

i think you will see a lot on combating isis, the need to get rid of obamacare from the republican and point. it will be a difficult speech for democrats. we have been asking democrats if they are going to boycott that speech. they said they will bring in immigration activists and others who would have been affected by the executive order. no president delivers on all his promises. he did eliminate the tpp which is something obama failed to get over the finish line partially because of president trump on the campaign trail. you will see all those issues. trade, immigration. there are investigation on that. that republicans on capitol hill saying that's a distraction. they are worried that could blow up when we learn more about that.

overall, though, you are going to see that speech packed with a lot of policy on the last day of this month. eric: the majority of americans did not vote for the president. you talk about the investigation. how far do you think that will go. what will end up with that. >> james comey was on the hill briefing members. they were kind of grim coming out, according to reporters who were there. the house and intelligence committees are doing their own research. but republican leaders say that's unnecessary. the intel committees can do it by themselves. i don't know where that's going to go. real danger spharlts agenda is if president trump is -- the

real danger as far as his agenda, if president trump is not getting what he wants, he can governor congress like sean hannity has gone after congress for the first couple months of the year as well as mate drunk o -- at wellas matt drudge of te report." eric: we are going to pause for a moment to let our fox stations join us. this is fox news coverage of president trump's campaign rally about to begin in mel morning, florida. we are waiting for the president to descend from air force one. there is a crowd of thousands at the hangar. this is build as a campaign rally because it's being paid

for by the trump campaign. this will be a chance for mr. trump to get some of the energy back from the supporters that put him in the white house. we expect him to touch on many of the themes he has been dealing with in the white house from russia to immigration and crime and his attacks on what he calls the fake news and the news media. >> we see a large crowd awaiting the president to step off that awesome plane. air force one. the crowd has been there waiting all afternoon. there are several protesters amidst the crowd as well. in a separate area griff jenkins is covering that story. if i can get a brief description from you. i may interrupt you as soon as we see president trump step off

that plane. reporter: if you can see me now, that's the hangar where president trump has landed and we are waiting for that speech. free speech, first amendment. there are a couple protesters. the orlando chapter [inaudible] >> the way he's tweeting our weakest and most vulnerable is disgraceful. i'm here because i'm afraid of our president and what he has done. women, gaze, everyone. -- gays, everyone.

to stay here. arthel: as we wait to see president donald j. trump step off air force one in melbourne, florida. eric: bob kusack is joining us from "the hill." there will be a huge anticipated cheer from the supporters in the hangar. what do you expect him to say over the next hour or so. he's quite a showman. he feeds off crowd.

we saw that on the campaign trail in 2016. this is a state on november 8 that he won. that was the first indication, wow, hillary clinton may not be the next president. when we won florida it was the beginning of the end of hillary clinton's attempt to win the presidency. i think he's coming back to a state that backs him and wants to hear from him. it's good for presidents to get out of the washington bubble. especially donald trump. because he won as an outsider. i think you will see hip give one of his traditional speeches to get the crowd going. >> the year of the outsider, but after this energy feed that the president will no doubt get from his supporters. will the president be able to take that back inside d.c. to accomplish the items on his agenda? >> that's a great question.

and it remains to be seen. i think once he has made major decisions on policy and they are pushing specific legislation. i can see president trump going outside the washington beltway and going into the states of -- red states, conservative states he won where democratic senators are up for reelection in 2018, and apply pressure on them to back his agenda. we haven't seen some of it base hasn't yet addressed congress which he will at the end of this month. but this type of cally, kellyanne conway said -- this type of rally, kellyanne conway says he loved these kinds of rallies. he did multiple rallies in a day. eric: your publication "the hill" had a recent article about 10 seats that could flip.

democratic house seats. at the moment, what do you forecast. you are saying the president basically starting some say a campaign for 2020 with this rally. but others pointing towards the mid-terms. >> the senate map is friendly to the gop in 2018. a lot of democrats are up for reelection. 10 in states that trump won. five of them by double digits. joe manchin in west virginia. claire mccaskill. republicans will be targeting red state democrats. unless they support his -- his agenda, he will go after them. and that could be painful in those states. president trump wants to keep the senate and house in republican hands. so these rallies will continue throughout this year and

definitely into next year. arthel: 75 degrees in melbourne, florida, and 75% humidity as the crowd waits for the president to step off pair force one d step off air -- step off air force one. let's listen as the president and the first lady step off air force one 9/11 ladies and gentlemen, please well d. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the united states and the first lady of the united states. [♪]

♪ i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free ♪ ♪ and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me ♪ ♪ i gladly stand up next to you ♪ ♪ there ain't no doubt i love this land ♪ ♪ god bless the u.s.a. ♪ i'm proud to be an american where at least i have know i'm free ♪ ♪ and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me ♪ ♪ and i'll gladly stand up next to you still today ♪

♪ there ain't no doubt i love this land ♪ ♪ god bless the u.s.a. eric: there is a pool report saying he expects at this rally to say quote my message will be unity. he says with small exceptions. we'll have to see what that is when the president begins his remarks. his first time he's back out at a rally-type location to address so many of the supporters who supported him for the campaign but now seeing fans with "make america great" hat. we see him without a tie in the 75 degree heat for the first time since he became president.

they willpresident. arthel: as they entered the hangar. lee greenwood's "god bless the u.s.a." the theme of make america great again. and there is president obama in his element, face to face with the crowd. we anticipate whatever message the president might deliver tonight. eric: it does have some reminders of the campaign. you see the hillary for prison sign. there are other similar-type signs. you keep them and bring them out when the president comes back out. arthel: he won, he's the president, no more hillary clinton. women for trump. i'm sure a welcome sight for mr. trump as well. let's listen to the first delayedy.

-- the first lady. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you. let us pray. our taught early who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name, thy kingdom done, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our stress pass as we forgive those who stress fast against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the

kingdom, pant power and the glory forever and ever, amen. [cheers and applause] it is my honor and great pleasure to stand here before you as the first lady of the united states. [cheers and applause] he's a president to work for all americans and all americans can work and succeed. a nation committed to great civility and unity between people from all sides of the political divide. i will say stay true to myself and be truthful to you no matter

what is being said about me. i will act if the best interests of all of you. i'm committed to creating and supporting that dear to my heart that will have an impact on women and children all around the world. my husband is creating a country of great safety and prosperity. ladies and gentlemen, i'm proud to introduce the president of the united states, donald trump. [cheers and applause]

>> thank you, everybody. thank you. i didn't know that melania was going to be saying the lord's prayer. but i thought that was very beautiful. thank you, thank you. it's so great to be here in florida, my second home with you. this is a state i truly love. this is a state where we all had great victory together. thank you. it's now been one month since my inauguration. and i am here to tell you about

our incredible progress in making america great again. and i am also here to tell you about our plans for the future. and they are big and they are bold and it's what our country is all about. believe me. i am here because i want to be among my friends and among the people. this was a great movement. a movement like has never been seen before in our country or probably anywhere else. this was a truly great movement and i want to be here with you, and i will always be with you. i promise you that. [cheers and applause] i want to be in a room filled with hard-working american patriots who love their country,

who salute their flag, and who pray for a better future. [cheers and applause] i also want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news. the dishonest media which has published one false story after another with no sources, even though they pretend they have them, they make them up in. cases. they just don't want to report the truth, and they have been calling us wrong now for two years. they don't get. but they are starting to get it, i can tell you that. they have become a big part of

the problem. they are part of the corrupt system. thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, and abraham lincoln and many of our greatest presidents fought with the media and called them out, oftentimes on their lies. when the media lies to people, i will never ever let them get away with it. i will do whatever i can that they don't get away with it. they have their own agenda, and their agenda is not your agenda. in fact thomas jefferson said, nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself he said becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. that was june 14 -- my

birthday -- 1807. but despite all their lies, misrepresentations, and false stories, they could not defeat us in the primaries, and they could not defeat us in the general election, and we'll continue to expose them for what they are as most importantly we will continue to win, win, win! [cheers and applause] we are not going to let the fake news tell us what to do, how to live, or what to believe. we are free and independent people and we'll make our own choices. we are here today to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. i hear your demands. i hear your voices, and i promise you i will deliver. i promise that.

and by the way, you have seen what we accomplished in a very short period of time. the white house is running so smoothly. so smoothly. and believe me, i and we inherited one big mess. that i can tell you. but i know that you want safe neighborhoods where the streets belong to families and community, not gang members and drug dealers who are right now as i speak being thrown out of the country and they will not be let back in. we'll have strong borders again. [cheers and applause] and i mean that. and you have seen it on television. you have seen it on television.

general kelly how secretary kelly, he's really doing the job. you are seeing the gang members. bad, bad people. i said it day one. they are going out or being put in prison. but for the most part, get them the hell out of here and bring them back to where they came from. the fact is one want great schools for your children, you want good high-paying jobs for you're 70s and for your d -- for your loved ones and future of your families. you want a healthcare system, and by the way, we are going to be submitting in a couple of weeks a great healthcare plan that's going to take the place of the disaster known as obamacare. it will be repealed and replace. for those people, the people

that are put into rooms where republicans are talking about the plan, and it wouldn't better they say, for those people, just so you understand, our plan will be much better healthcare at a much lower cost. okay? nothing to complain about. obamacare remember, it's a disaster. you want low cost american alsog the restrictions on oil, on shale, on natural gas, and on clean, very clean coal. we are going to put the miners back to work. the miners go back to work! you want us to enforce our immigration laws. and to defend our borders. you want fair trade deals and a level playing field. we don't have a level playing filed. because you understand that what

american workers win, america as a country wins and wins big. and every country over the last long period of time has been taking advantage of the stupid tif our politicians. it's not going -- the stupidity of our politicians. it's not going to hatch any longer. you want lower taxes, less regulations, millions of new joshs and more products staffed with those beautiful words, "made in the u.s.a.." you want to make it easier for companies to do business in america and harder for companies to leave. we don't want companies saying everybody is fired. we are moving to another country. we are going to make the product, accept it across the border. and isn't that wonderful? not going to happen anymore.

when they want to sell that product back across our border they will may a 35% tax and they are going going to leave. and you have seen that because i have already displayed it for the last two months. even before i got into office.

we are going to end it. [applause] within a few days of taking the oath of office, i had have taken steps to begin the construction of the keystone and the dakota

access pipeline. [applause] anywhere from 30 to 40,000 jobs and very importantly as i was about to sign it, i said makes the pipe? who makes the pipe? something this audience understands very well, right? a simple question to the lawyers put this very complex document in front of me and i said who makes the pipe? they said sarah can be made anywhere. i said not anymore so i put a little clause in the bottom, the pipe is to be made in the united states of america if we are going to have a pipeline. [applause] we believe in two simple rules i can tell you everybody in this massive -- this is a massive

hangar. this is for the big planes and by the way do you think that one media group back there, that one network will show this crowd? not one. not one. they won't show the crowd. you know, coming in on the plane and that plane represents so much and just so you know, they were close to signing a $4.2 billion deal for air force one. can you believe this? i said no way. i said i refuse to fly in a $4.2 billion airplane. i refuse. so i got boeing and a lot of people don't know the air force one project is actually two planes. why they need to planes we will have to talk about that but they have to planes. but we have got that price down

by over a billion dollars and i probably haven't spoken to be honest with you for more than an hour on the project. but i got the generals and who are fantastic. we got boeing in but i told boeing it's not good enough. on the f-35 fighter jets, we were hundreds of billions of dollars over budget, seven years later. a great plane, lockheed-martin, a great plains of think of it. it's seven years late and there are hundreds of billions of dollars over budget. other than that by the way the project is going extremely well. and i got the folks in from lockheed-martin who are terrific people and a terrific products by the way. i also got going and i said do me a favor coming give me a competing offer and now they are

competing and fighting and we have gotten hundreds of billions of dollars off the price of a plane that was going to be ordered. in other words if my opponent got in there would have been no calls made to lockheed and boeing. they would have signed contracts so they are going to make plenty of money but it will be a lot less than they would have made with trump, that i can tell you and you might as well know about it. there's nobody talking and by the way that is for fighter jets, one of the biggest orders in the history of aviation the order for the f-35. it was a disaster under the last administration, a disaster and now we have it running beautifully. in fact when the prime minister of japan mr. r. bay hill is a great guy, when he came over he said thank you. i said why? you saved us many many millions

of dollars on the f-35 fighter jet because when i negotiated i took our allies into the same negotiation. so the first thing he did was he thanked me for saving them money and that's good, okay? that's good. [applause] i know the media will never think me so at least japan is thinking me. [applause] but we believe into simple rules , by american and higher american. we believe that. we have just issued a new order which requires that for every one new regulation to old regulations must be eliminated. [applause] and by the way a new director was just approved. can you imagine the length of time it has taken the democrats? i actually think it's an embarrassment to them that this

is getting to be record-setting territory. these are incredible people. scott pruitt was just approved, just now approved for the environmental protection agency. he will do so good. he will do so good. but he won't have projects going 10 in 12 years and then getting did, and they may be rejected but they will be rejected quickly. for the most part they are going to be except did. they are going to be environmentally friendly and he is going to be a great secretary he will be amazing so we are very happy. that's it place yesterday. that's going to be a big difference because they were clogging up the veins of our country with the environmental impact statements and all of the rules and regulations and it was impossible to navigate for companies. what did it really mean? forget about the companies. what did it mean?

it meant no jobs. manned companies leaving our country and going to foreign countries to do business they would rather do here so we are going to have a whole big situation. we are going to unfreeze all of those companies. they are going to have freedom. they are going to be able to build what they want to build. it will be environmentally friendly and we are going to start producing jobs like you have never seen before. that's going to happen. we are standing up for the incredible men and women always of law enforcement. [applause] and i can tell you the military and law enforcement, i am the messenger, folks. i am the messenger. they stood up for us in this last election. we have numbers that nobody believe are possible from law enforcement and from military.

basically people that wear uniforms like us. isn't that nice? i saw this on television just now. i just saw him on television. he said i love trump. to let trump do what he has to do. that's my guy, right there. [applause] come here. come here. i'm coming in. that's okay, let him up. i'm not worried about him. i'm only worried he's going to give me a kiss. i'm not worried about anything else. this guy is so great. he was one of many people interviewing people in the line and i have to say there's a tiny group of protesters out there and they were giving publicity as this massive room of people here. come on up here. come on up here. hop over the fence. he can do it. the guy is in good shape. look at this guy. come on.

this guy is great. don't worry about him. come on up. [applause] this guy, so he has been all over television and i see him standing. say a couple of words. [applause] the mr. president, thank you sir. we the people is the reason why our president of the united states is standing here in front of us today. [applause] when president trump during the

election promised all these things that he was going to do for us, i knew he was going to do this for us. [applause] >> a star is born. [applause] that's fine. [chanting] usa, usa, usa. i wouldn't say that the secret service was thrilled with that but we know our people. we know our people. a great guy and i see some others that are being interviewed. i see them over here. they started and they came at

4:00 in the morning. the media will give them no credit. the media as i told you they won't show this crowd. look at that all the way outside and this is as big a hang her as you can get. all the way outside way back to the fences. i want to thank you but i want to thank everybody. so i have directed the department of justice to take a firm, firm stand to protect our cops, sheriffs and police arm crimes and violence against them. [applause] we will work with our police not against our police. our police do a great job and they have never been troubled like they are troubled now. it's very unfair what's happening so we want to cherish our law enforcement and we will always protect those who protect us.

[applause] we have direct did the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in america including our inner cities. we are going to make our inner city safe again. look at what's going on. look at what's happening in chicago. hundreds of children, hundreds of deaths. i will tell you what's happening in chicago. and many other places. safety is a civil right and we will fight to make america totally safe again. [applause] i have ordered the department of homeland security and the department of justice to coordinate on a plan to destroy transnational criminal cartel which are all over the united states and we are going to stop

them from pouring into your country, into your community, into your cities and poisoning our youth. we are stopping it. we are stopping it. we have taken historic action to secure the southern border and i have ordered the construction of a gray border wall which will start very shortly. [applause] and i have taken decisive action to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. [applause] so, you probably read where we want to enforce the laws and so

we signed an order a couple of weeks ago and it was taken over by a court, by a judge. [booing] >> it's very sad and you know the reason is for protection and the. so the statute is so plain and so clear. i said last week i was speaking to a group of sheriffs, the sheriffs group in washington and i said if you have a college education it's understanding and if you are a bad student in high school you can understand it, and i was told, i will check but i found it hard to believe that's in an over 30 page

decision by the appellate court, three judges and you can tell by the way do were reacting because it was broadcast on television. everything we do there are a lot of people watching. so you could tell by the way that phonecall went it wasn't looking good and when they wrote the decision as i understand it, maybe i'm wrong but they didn't write the statute they were making the decision about because every word of the statute is a total kill for the other side. so i told them i would read it and here's what it says. this is what it says. whenever the president at the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens into the united states, okay so essentially whenever somebody comes into the united states, right, if it

would be detrimental to the interests of the united states, now you know the countries we are talking about and these were countries picked by obama. they were picked by obama. the president made by proclamation and for such period as he shall deem necessary. it should have said he or she, right? they were not politically correct. in fact that's the only thing that was actually wrong with it. he or she but i don't think the women care too much about that, right? i don't think so. by the way we did very well with women. [applause] you know my wife said when some of these phony polls were put out you know the "cnn" poll was so far off.

they are phony polls but she said what's wrong with you and women? we did very nicely with women. we did nicely with a of groups. i guess we had to. that's why we we are all here tonight, right? and for such period as shall be necessary suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. so basically it says the president has the right to keep people out if he feels it's not in the best interest of our country, right? [applause] unbelievable and i listen to

these judges talk and talk and talk. we will be doing something over the next couple of days. we never give up. we have courts that i disagree with. i disagree with that big league and by the way when you read it or watch it on television when other lawyers come on many of them can't even understand. they say how do you come up with that decision? they don't even quote it because you can't because it's too obvious. we will do something next week i think you'll be impressed with. here's the bottom line. we have got to keep our country safe. look at what's happening. we have got to keep our country safe. [applause]

you look at what's happening in germany, you look at what's happening last night in sweden. sweden, who would believe this? sweden, they took in large numbers and they are having problems like they never thought possible. you look at what's happening in brussels. you look at what's happening all over the world. take a look at paris. we have allowed thousands and thousands of people into our country and there was no way to set those people. there was no documentation. there was no nothing. so we are going to keep our country safe. [applause] and we all have hearts by the way and what i want to do is build safe zones in syria and other places.

so they can stay there and live safely until their cities and their country, the mess that i was left by obama and everybody else plus we were left a mess like you wouldn't believe. we are going to build safe zones. we are going to have those safe zones. you know we do have $20 trillion so we will have to pay for those safe zones. we are going to do it that way instead of taking massive numbers, tens of thousands of people into our country and we don't know anything about those people. we want people to come into our country but we want people that love us. we want people that can cherish us and the traditions of our country. we want people that are going to be great for our country. we don't want people with bad, bad ideas.

we don't want them. i have also directed the defense community had died general, you know, he said it. he said it. and now secretary mad dog mattis. [applause] to develop a plan to totally destroy isis. [applause] i have ordered the department defense to begin plans for the great rebuilding of the united states military. [applause] we will pursue peace through strength. our military is badly depleted. you have planes in the military or the father flew them and now the sun is supplying them. they are so old. we make the best equipment anywhere in the world. we are going to start using our best and most modern equipment.

and we are going to make sure that our veterans have the care they need when they come home. [applause] we love our veterans. we are going to do a great job for our veterans. our veterans have been very very sadly treated, these are great great people. we owe them so much. our veterans are going to be taken care of once and for all. our system and our country has let down our veterans. we are not going to let that go on any further. you wait until you see what we are going to be doing for our great veterans. thank you veterans. who is he or? who is a veteran? we are going to take care of our veterans. [applause] we are going to downsize the bloated bureaucracy and make government accountable.

we are going to drain the swamp in washington d.c.. [applause] [chanting] >> drain the swamp. drain the swamp. drain the swamp. >> i have already imposed, i'm not sure they are too happy about it, a five-year lobbying ban on the executive branch officials and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government. [applause] and there is another major promise i have capped to the american people. i have nominated a fantastic justice to replace the late

great justice scalia. [applause] his name is judge neil or such. gorsuch and he comes from a list of very highly qualified judges. he is incredible and he has incredible resume. he is respected by all. his education is as good as it can get. his writings are truly amazing. he will be a true defender of our constitution, so let's tell the senate democrats to support his nomination for the good of the country because what is happening with the democrats, no matter -- no wonder they are doing so badly. take a look. race after race, i just want to

tell you in case you didn't read it, of course you are reading the fake news but the democrats were supposed to win the presidency. that didn't happen. they were supposed to take over the senate. that didn't happen and they were supposed to take over potentially even the house. we are going to be four weeks out the greatest defeat in modern history of american politics. but it was for the democrats, not for the republicans. [applause] so we have to tell the democrats because they are doing the wrong thing for the american people to stop their tech digs of delay and obstruction and destruction. they have got to get on with it. my administration is also pushing ahead strongly with very

historic tax reform. we are working to lower taxes for the middle class, to reduce tax rates big leak on people and make our tax code very fair and very simple for all american so it's understandable by everyone. [applause] senate democrats should work with us to lower taxes and bring back our jobs but the democrats want to increase your taxes vary substantially. we are not going to let that happen. it's also time for the senate democrats to take responsibility for obamacare and to work with us to replace it with new reforms and reverse this nationwide health care tragedy. it's a tragedy. you look at some states, arizona up 116% and the deductibles have

gotten so high that we could never use it. obamacare does not work. it has become totally unaffordable. remember they said the health care, it's unaffordable. it doesn't work. and i said to the republicans, i said do you want to do something great politically? don't do anything. sit back for two years and let it explode. the democrats will come and beg for us to do something but we can't do that to the american people. we have to fix fix it and we wi. [applause] leaning members of both parties to join hands and work with us to pass a 1 trillion-dollar infrastructure plan to build new roads and bridges and airports and tunnels and highways and railways all across our great nation. you are all part of this incredible movement.

this movement that we talk about so much has been written about on the cover of every magazine all over the world. it's a movement that is just sweeping. it's sweeping across our country it's sweeping frankly across the globe. look at wrecks it. look at brexit. much smaller example but is still something where you say look people want to take back control of their government and they want to take back control of their lives and the lives of their families. [applause] the nation-state from remains the best model and the greatest symbol of liberty and freedom and justice on the face of god's earth.

and now we have spirit like we have never had before. it's now that we have our sacred duty and we have no choice and we want this choice to defend our country to protect its values and to serve its great, great citizens. [applause] erasing national borders does not make people safer or it undermines democracy and trades away prosperity. we are getting it away. the so-called global elite have done very well for themselves but have left working families was shrinking wages, i mean really they are shrinking. many of you in this room made more money working one job than you are making right now making two and three jobs.

[applause] instead of peace we have seen wars that never end and conflicts that never seem to go away. we don't like to win. we fight politically correct wars. we don't win anymore. we don't win in trade. we don't win in any capacity. we don't win anymore. we are going to start winning again, believe me. [applause] and we have the chance now working together to deliver change for the ages. this will be change for the ages , change like never before to pursue real peace, real civility and real prosperity. we want to secure our borders and protect our workers to rebuild our military and their structure to fix our schools and restore safety to our

neighborhood to bring hope and opportunity to our inner cities, to ensure a level playing field for all women in the workforce. [applause] to reform our tax code and remove the regulations that undermine growth and innovation and to replace distrust with new bridges of opportunity" operation. we must ignore the tired echoes of yesterday's fights were fighting battles no longer help us. we are fighting battles that other people are treating us fairly in the fight. i am a nato fan but many of the countries in nato, many of the countries that we protect, many of these countries are very rich countries. they are not paying their bills.

they are not paying their bills. they have to help us. no longer are we change down by the discredited approaches of the past. no longer must we listen to those who have nothing to brag about but failure. new circumstances demand new solutions. americans have fought and won wars together. our heroes have shed their blood together and lost their lives. our citizens have raised their children together, fought for justice together and shared common hopes and dreams from one generation to the next, stretching back to the first day of our american independence. this is our legacy. it belongs to all of you and itd child in our nation.

[applause] now is the time to call upon these peak times. let us move past the differences of party and find a new loyalty rooted deeply in our country. we are all brothers and all sisters. we share one home, one destiny and one glorious american plan. [applause] we are united together by history and brye providence. we will make america strong again, i promise. we will make america proud again we will make america safe again. and we will make america great again, greater than ever before.

may god bless you and may god loves the united states of america. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ >> you have been watching president trump hold a campaign style rally. there is the crowd of 7600 people. he was listing some of his accomplishments of the last four weeks a new plan to replace obamacare and bringing jobs to our country with a border tax and attacking the mainstream news media and the federal judiciary over the travel ban. he said he will have the gulf states pay for safe zones for the refugees in syria and probably one of the highlights he pulled one guy out of the crowd.

he had him address the crowd. certainly an unorthodox move from a pretty unorthodox commander in chief who was seen there with melania trump who opened the rally with the lord's prayer. stay tuned to the "fox news" channel and this fox station for continuing coverage i'm eric shawn along with arthel neville on "fox news." arthel: continuing on the "fox news" channel with live at fox team coverage on all of this is near the presidents mar-a-lago estate in palm beach. we begin with steve harrigan live there at the rally in melbourne, florida. steve. reporter: the rally is just wrapping up right now. donald trump said he wanted to be among friends and among people who stood for the flag and who work hard and he certainly was among friends here in melbourne. about 9000 people packed into this hallway.

the question of numbers in the crowd here and if you did walk out for hours before the doors opened it actually stretched the line of people to come in here, stretched about one mile. not everyone could get in. there were several statements that president trump made on the campaign trail in one of biggest rounds of applause he got was once again right off the top attacking fake news. here's president trump. ♪ ♪ there were two lines here that got tremendous applause from the audience. first when president trump attacked fake news, attacked the media and that got a huge roar

from the crowd and then said jefferson and abe lincoln said the same thing about the press. he quoted jefferson another huge round of applause and cheers came when he said we are going to get rid of radical islamic terrorists. we are going to get them the hell out of here so the two big rounds of applause came from attacking the mainstream media and radical islamic terrorists. that got the cheers. a trump supporter was actually brought up on stage during his speech. president trump recognized someone from a tv report by his shirt. the guy who got here first was interviewed by many people including "fox news." he got here at 4:00 in the morning and he wants to be first in line. trump pulled them up on stage. we talked to him earlier and here's what he had to say. >> we see a lot of negative fake

news out there and we are not seeing people supporting him every day like we see all these people here and we are lightweight we have so many supporters for him and we want to come out and show him that we are so thankful that he is there and looking out for the american people. reporter: other presidents have done out sooner after their election for rallies but often in the past it's been to push a single issue president george w. bush trying to push tax cuts and president obama trying to push the affordable care act but there is no single issue president trump was trying to push and it sounded much like a campaign rally. this was sponsored by his committee. you really gave it that feel. the nation is uncertain but it was definitely a show of force on both sides. the president speaking before a huge crowd loved him and the crowd energized after couple of

rough weeks of coverage of president trump coming in here without any filters from the man so many admire. back to you in new york. arthel: a great display of democracy and handed melbourne florida and behind you we were seeing your live shot months ago with crowds peacefully dispersing there we are told according to police estimates. the crowd size at the hanger back grew to 9000, very crowd -- large crowd. it is also a fraction of that number. you had roughly 3000 protesters who organized the protest who were told to leave early before the rally wrapped up so they could avoid any potential conflicts conflicts. there we have a peaceful display of democracy on hand there. what can you tell us about what you saw? reporter: you are right it was peaceful and well organized. this certainly is trump country.

he said he wanted to be among friends and he was among friends with 9000 hear pat dan. a lot of people were dropping because of the heat and the blood of elderly here. it's a big area for military retirees. the number is a fraction of the people who came. when you walk the line it went off to a mild soap more than 20,000 people outside unable to get in. certainly the president wanted to show the numbers and the ratings in the crowd. he picked a place where he could certainly do it tonight. arthel: very much president trump style. another pleaser for those there would be first lady melania trump opening up with her remarks. she started out with the lord's prayer and pledged her plan to work on initiatives that would impact women and children.

very beautiful i might add in a lovely red dress. what can you tell us about the reaction in first lady melania trump took the stage? reporter: president trump himself said he was surprised by melania. i think the contrast between the two, a married couple the president and first lady could not have been greater. you have really a sense of stability and prayer and a calm voice followed by really a tiger, someone who roared through 40 minutes of his speech on the attack so i think the contrast was really stunning. arthel: very good, followed by a tiger. that would be the lady and the tiger. very good steve harrigan for your coverage in florida as the president's rally of 9000 attended wraps up and by the way tomorrow president trump will be meeting with at least three contenders for the post of national security advisor after

michael flynn gave as recognition earlier this week in a second pic by admiral robert haar were turned down the offer and david petraeus is also out of the running. live from west palm beach with more. what can you tell us in terms of the list, krysta? reporter: hey arthel. over the last hour we have a new name, last two hours i should say a new name is added to the shortlist of candidates to replace general michael flynn. i just want to run you through it right now because white house press secretary sean spicer said president trump is going to be meeting with a lot of them that mar-a-lago tomorrow. the top of list the list you have west point superintendent lieutenant general robert kaplan. he's good to meet with residents along with acting national security advisor general keith kellogg former u.n. ambassador john bolton and lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster and spicer says there may be more

meetings and more candidates in the pipeline but for now those are the four candidates that he is going to be meeting with. one candidate definitely out, general david petraeus. the word sean spicer used was he is out. tomorrow in addition to all of these meetings president trump's going to be holding calls with three more foreign leaders. he is also going to be holding meetings with his senior staff and his health secretary tom price to talk about the administration strategy to appeal and replace obamacare. while all of this is going on vice president mike pence on a very important trip overseas is actually in germany as he was earlier today speaking at the munich security conference in germany. this is one of the first major foreign-policy addresses at the trump administration. he said he was speaking on behalf of president trump and he said president trump remains committed to the nato alliance. listen. c today on behalf of president

trump they bring you this assurance. the united states of america strongly supports nato and will be unwavering in our commitment to this transatlantic alliance. reporter: looking ahead to next week's president trump says he's going to be rolling out likely a new executive order on immigration and extreme vetting likely next week. we did hear that last week so it could be the second week in a row we are hearing that this is happening so whether it's this week or next week in new executive order on immigration most deadly in the pipeline. arthel: kristin fisher, thanks kristen. eric: you are the president promised to rebuild the nation's military. this as kristen told that the vice president was in munich today. we are pre-affirming america's commitment to nato which as you recall the president called obsolete. the vice president they are reassuring allies that russia

will be held accountable for its aggressive actions. this is the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is firing back saying the west dominance in world affairs in his view is ending. >> now this, the united states will continue to hold russia accountable even as we search for new common ground which as you know president trump believes we have found. >> the whole history states post-cold war order has come to an end. we are convinced by the failure to apply the cold war institutions to the new reality. the world world became neither west oriented nor more secure and stable. it is obviously if we look at the results of the democratization in the middle east region and in north africa and not only there. eric: sergei lavrov the u.n. used to call him the georgian

hamilton because he was u.n. ambassador for russia for decades. special forces lieutenant colonel mitch hardback joins us now. russia has deployed a new cruise missiles that the u.s. says violates the treaty. their aircraft has been buzzing our ships. we had a spy ship off the coast of connecticut now going down and telling virginia take keep in mind on our naval forces as well as a submarine base. how do we reign them in? are they testing the president? >> i think yes, eric and they certainly are but i think those days are numbered. what lavrov said in munich is actually i think a demonstration of the concern russia has because now because of the post-westworld. what he also didn't say is there are over 20 countries in nato that it said okay we are going to start paying our gdp bill on

defense. that means for russia 20 countries are going to increase defense spending. 20 countries of 28 of the alliance are going to build up their military. of course lavrov is calling for a post-west alliance in russia and putin are concerned about the progress in nato. eric: what you said is they are increasing their defense spending. there are 28 members of nato and four have been putting up to -- 4% of gdp to pay for it. you are saying they are doing that and that's result is the president's calls? >> i think the way he previously called obsolete and what we are seeing from secretary mattis as well as vice president pence assuring nato on the other hand that we are going to be there for you and the german defense minister just this week said we in germany need to step up. they are the strongest economy

in europe and they are not even paying 2% of their gdp on defense. the countries are going to step up and i think with the diplomatic pressure and united states russia is going to see a stronger nato alliance aligned with themselves and at necessary against russia. eric: did you see the rally and did you hear some other presidents comments? let me zero in on one thing. he said there will be safe zones in syria that will be established and he said the gulf states will pay for them. he said we are $22 trillion in the hole and it's about time the old states will pony up and pay. how is he going to be able to do that and how can he accomplish that if at all? >> diplomacy starts with a great team of diplomats to have a cultural awareness and the sensitivity and that arabic word meaning influence. we need people in the middle east to go over and set this up. i think we have got some of the

right people and the country certainly have the money to do that eric. eric: may have the money but are they going to part with it? the arab allies have forces in the region like more than 2 million soldiers and some of them have but they haven't fully engaged in the fight against isis. it seems to be potentially on the verge of taking mosul at some point and there have been sacrifices that they have not ponied up completely and look at the picture on the left the top russian general and the joint chiefs of staff chairman joseph dunford. they are going to be meeting next week as we understand in azerbaijan. that's pretty significant because that hasn't happened in the last two years or two where the top military heads will meet what do you think about that and any type of new at understanding?

reporter: anytime a warrior meets with another warrior there's a bond and even though it's an american and a russian i think this this is a good sign. i once remind everybody remember president reagan and secretary gorbachev, they got along well. how we -- the cold war. i think president trump's engagement with president putin is not a bad thing as long as we as a nation in nato continued with two but russia -- pressure on russia. eric: bottom line the investigations of the repeated contact alleged that the top members of the trump campaign alleged to have had recording those phonecalls they denied any wrongdoing. do you think putin will get the message because many people don't see putin backing down. >> he is going to get the message eric and i hope there's a call from the white house to the kremlin that says hey these airshows over our ships are going to stop.

eventually an order is going to come from the white house down to the navy to do something ab ca demonstration of aircraft capability. i think i will put a whole new perspective on putin and russia. eric: you talk about perspective what about that cruise missile? they have deployed a nuclear-tipped cruise missile medium range. we are told they can hit london and paris. what do we do about that? this is what he said in terms of what the obama administration did not do. he said quote russia initially filed the treaty tested during barack obama's presidency. despite becoming aware of this apparent violation of the obama is did not take any action to merrily sending vladimir putin and letter of concern in 2014. the obama administration was less than corn -- forthcoming.

we are told as i said it can hit the european capitals and yet it's apparently been deployed. how do we stop it and what can we do? >> general dunford right now, i don't know what the generals talking about the secretary but i'm sure that's going to come up globally there's a new sheriff in town in russia's going to get the idea. putin understands strength and he understands threats and it's time we take off a little bit of the diplomatic plug-in treat rush in a different way. they are going to get the message just like they got the message during the cold war, eric. eric: maybe perhaps that will begin once general dunford sits down with is russia counterpart. thank you very much. always good to see you. arthel: president trump taking his message to the voters this evening at a campaign rally in melbourne, florida. the president firing back at the

media early on in his speech pledging not to let news outlets get away with spreading what he called quote fake news. >> the dishonest media which has published one false story after another with no sources even though they pretend they have them. they make them up in many cases. they just don't want to report the truth and they have been calling us wrong now for two years. they don't get it but they are starting to get it, i can tell you. arthel: joining me now is editor-in-chief of daily caller. howdy how do your sponsor the claimed that the news media -- make up their sources? >> oppresses been tough on him. both sides are both sides of taking this very personally and i think the idea that he would go out and again make this attack in front of that crowd was an effort to try and convince the american news watching audience that there is

a huge receptive crowd in that line of attack and it's not just we saw at the end of the week where he was being attacked and assailed by members of the press. it's going to be warmly received. remember donald trump is trusted more than the american news media and i think he took advantage that because he needs to basically reframe the argument that all these attacks on him have i think weather cam a little bit. he went out there to not only recharge himself but to recharge his faith and thousands of people will show up and accept his message. arthel: the president did seem to breathe free charge at the rally and of course presidents are usually in campaign mode on some level or another. would he make a president trump holding a huge campaign rally just about a month into his presidency? >> from a public relations standpoint it's exactly what he needed. granted they are doing the campaign event as an official matter but it's a practical effect is when it comes to governance of not just what he

does within the west wing. it actually is a public relations campaign and he realizes this is sort of a brand. when you see people lined up around the block you say all writes a pretty good product to donald trump wanted to bring thousands of people and demonstrate that he does have broad support. i think the numbers bear that out and the polling on this is clear. his right track wrong track numbers are higher than president obama's ever were and i think that surprises a lot of people especially the mainstream press. arthel: let me play a spontaneous moment that happened at the rally and we will talk about that. >> do you feel like you need a boost right now? >> i don't think he needs a boost. you know what a boost is when he came off air force one. we the people that's what's going to fire him. that's why he won.

he loves us. arthel: that was mr. jean hubbard who actually got called on by the president out of the crowd at the rally and he was invited on stage alongside the president. he had positive things to say about the president and the job he is done so far and how is keeping his campaign promise to his supporters. again you had almost 9000 people at that hangar and 75 degrees and 75% humidity out point out. there may -- may be the flipside some people who may question how much time does the presidency have, does the president have on his hands to hold the nearly 45 minute speech of the campaign rally just one month into his presidency that he has items on his agenda that he needs to check off, work to do in other words. >> i think he is explained that.

this event was different than any campaign event we have seen because he is a track record behind him as record behind them as president of the united states. think about the number of times he saw his speech after the election was over and he constantly recited this is stump speech. right now is talking about policies. the supreme court moving on the keystone pipeline throwing gang members out of the country. item by item he went down and said here's what i'm working on for you but i think that was the whole point of this that he wanted to get out there basically have an unfiltered attempt to explain to the american people that he's busting his tail right now trying to advance his agenda. my sense is that he's probably going to benefit from doing this and not have a negative impact on the campaign. arthel: how do you think it will go over with congress when he goes back to d.c.? seem if that's an essential question. my suspicion is that we have

seen this week especially as he referred to the press being the enemy of the american people he started to see republican members of congress publicly and privately mumbling that things are out of control. my sense is that every politician respects in you see as a man energy from the american voter and that got to believe there were members of congress who are watching today's rally and thinking to themselves or got to remember it isn't just about donald trump and president of the united states at the fact that he's a delegate for millions of americans who put him there. they definitely are much more -- arthel: when you talk about congress watching what about the people inside of the president's own party watching this very rally that we just witnessed? what do you think they will take away from that? >> ultimately they are going to see this and they are waffling

my sense is this pushes them into the wind column for donald trump rally's for now. the president for a bunch of reasons one is that "fox news" in a poll showed that 71% of americans think that the person needs to be more careful about what he says. 71% is alive and that includes trump supporter's. what that means is he needs to come out and show credibly that he can be presidential. arthel: did he do that today? >> he played the hits but he listed out what he's done so far in his presidency and that's quite a lot in a months time. i think that was an effective way of saying hey i'm being presidential. arthel: the way we graded in the old days how would you rate the presidents speech? >> you are putting me on the spot. i hate to as the journals give them an a but i do think he deserves it. arthel: we will leave it there.

vince coglianese editor-in-chief of the daily caller. thank you very much. eric: of point and beach florida florida -- arthel: a star is born. eric: back tomorrow at 12 noon thread here. julie: the president takes his message directed to the people of the campaign rally in florida. i am laura engel in for julie banderas and this is the fox report. quite the spectacle as the president with sup the crowd in melbourne, florida. look at this. they pulled air force one ride to the crowd. we are told some 9000 people turned out to show their support. many of them spent the entire day waiting in line to get the security. when the president got to the podium he repeated his attacks on the media and vowed to keep jobs in america. >> you want low-cost american ener