pictures kite surfing. plain skids off of the runway in amsterdam, the landing gear broke sxauf a passenger on board tweeted this >> it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 at the white house. the trump administration has unilaterally cut journalists out of the loop. ahead, what this means for freedom of the press in america after the president gave reporters of blistering scolding. >> a few days ago, i gave the fake news the enemy of the people. it's time for americans to get off of welfare. get back to work. you're going to love it. >> that was just for starters. president trump aiming twitter fire at his own fbi blasting the

bureau for leaks. we'll show you what may have set him off. why john boehner says washington will never repeal and replace obama care. live looks with the president there at the white house. and the peruvian leader with him. news is breaking now. let's get to it. >> shepard: first from the fox news deck, the white house is just frozen out media organizations that president trump has blasted as fake news. instead of holding the daily press briefing today, the press secretary sean spicer called what is called a gaggle with reporters behind closed doors. he would answer questions off camera. and he hand-picked which news organizations could attend. that is highly unusual. not included were "the new york times" newspaper, cnn and the website politico. that prompted boycotts.

"time" magazine refused to attend the gaggle. the times editor says "nothing like this has ever happened at the white house in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties." free media access to a transparent government is of crucial national interest. the head of the white house correspondent's association has responded with a statement that reads, with whca board is protesting about how today's gaggle is being handled by the white house. we encourage the organizations allowed in to share the information with others." this all came to a head after a series of events. first, cnn reported extensively on trump campaign officials communications with russia. and then cnn reports the white house chief of staff said administration officials talked to reporters off the record urging them to knock down the trump campaign in russia

reports. this morning president trump called the fake news people the enemy of the people and railed against fake news. >> i want you all to know that we're fighting the fake news. it's phony, fake. [applause] a few days ago, i called the fake news the enemy of the people. they are. they're the enemy of the people. because they have no sources. they just make them up when there are none. >> he later said he was referring to the washington who said they had nine sources on its report. the president said he doesn't believe them. for the report, fake news refers to stories that are created by entities pretended to be news organizations and based on nothing of substance. fake news is made up nonsense delivered for financial gain. cnn's reporting was not fake

news. its journalistics followed the same standards that other organizations including fox news adhere. the public needs to be informed of what our government is doing off the record. just as cnn reports, they're free to report on the trump-russia information. john roberts reporting live at the white house. was the president freezing out organizations they don't like? >> that's for the white house to answer about it. we asked sean spicer. he said there were a certain number of slots that weren't available. it was initially called a pool event. the pool is a 13-member group of people that represent the five networks, represents the wire services, represents the print organizations as well. the pool was at the core of this. the pool's duty is to report on what happens in a pool event and

disseminate that to the rest of the price. so everybody would find out what happened in that meeting with sean spicer. in addition to the pool, sean spicer and the white house press office also invited several other news organizations. fox news was among them, nbc, cbs was there. i didn't take note of anybody from abc. i don't know that they were excluded from this. there were other organizations excluded as well. when spicer was asked about that, he said we have 3,000 credentialed people that are part of the white house press corps. there was only room for a certain number. we invited those, the people that we thought we wanted to have in the room and everybody couldn't be there. you can speculate there might be some extenuating circumstances as to why those people were not invited. we're going to look into that further. the white house correspondent's association, as you noted, is

filing a complaint. the five network pool is filing a complaint and fox news is supportive of that complaint. >> what about this back and forth between reince priebus and the fbi? >> it was a story in "the new york times" that there were intercepts of the trump campaign last year and people connected to russian intelligence. turns out the initial tip-off on all that came from deputy director of the fbi who approached the chief of staff in a meeting last week. he was there as part of a group of intelligence people that were briefing white house staff. andrew mccabe came up to reince priebus and said can i have five minutes of your time. he said i want to tell you this story in "the new york times" is b.s., using the actual words. reince priebus said is there something we can do about it.

correct the record. priebus called him back when he was at the fbi. he said no, there's nothing the fbi can do. we don't get into calling balls and strikes here. priebus talked to the director of the fbi, james comey who said the same thing. so priebus said can i go out and said what you told me? comey said we'll sign off on that. here's what reince priebus said on "fox and friends." >> what i told you, the highest levels of the intelligence communities have told me. it's an inaccurate and grossly overstated story. it's not true. >> the white house says it was absolutely appropriate for priebus to talk to the fbi about this because this was about a news story and not an investigation. we get into a gray area here, shep. the story was about an investigation. could those two things be linked? there's no laws broken here. might run up against guidelines.

there's a couple of interesting aspects of this to consider. why did mccabe approach priebus in the first place? who leaked this? the circle was small. it was reince priebus and director of the fbi, james comey. what was the leaker there? the white house would like to know. >> shepard: who is the president blaming? >> he's not blaming anybody in particular but lashing out against the fbi on twitter tweeting out this morning when all of this blew up in the white house's face, "the fbi is unable to top the national security leakers that have permeated our government. they can't even find the leakers within the fbi itself. classified information." this wasn't classified. he says "classified information is being given to the media that could have a devastating effect on the united states. find now." so not directly blaming the top echelon of the fbi for putting out the story about priebus.

he's leaning in that direction, shep. >> shepard: before you go, a new executive order today? >> yeah, this one about regulatory reform. the president signed an executive order. it was called the two for one order that for every new regulation that is promulgated, two have to be rescinded. he's sent out guidance to the departments and agencies that they have to create task forces to look into burdensome regulations. a bullet point as to what the actions are and see as he's surrounded by prominent ceos. establishes task forces in each department and agency, focuses on eliminating costly and unnecessary regulations. the agencies are directed to measure and report progress in achieving the president's directive. so the president is putting this out there. wants to hear back from all of the departments and agencies about what they're doing to try to streamline what he

burdensome regulatory agency in the united states. >> shepard: cnn has just responded saying this is an unacceptable development by the trump white house. apparently this is how they retaliate when you report facts they don't like. we will keep reporting. that's from cnn. ahead, president trump has made it clear he doesn't like certain members of the media. this is obvious. more coming up from the fox news desk on this friday.

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>> shepard: president trump intensified his attacks on what he calls the fake news media at the cpac today. he said that fake news outlets are the enemy of the people. let's bring in dan henninger for the "wall street journal." how dangerous is this? >> well, you know, this is something that presidents have always complained about. when donald trump talks about fake news, essentially what he means is spin and bias. anti-republican bias. it goes back to ronald reagan. >> shepard: it does. he's not saying all of these people that are reporting facts with sources. he says the sources are not true, which they are. he is trying to demonize the news media so his message can go forward so it has substance or

not. >> it can be a battle of messaging. he's trying to get his message out. all presidents have complaint about this sort of thing. president trump is plowing the sea by fighting with the press. it's not going to go away. similarly with leaks. every president has complained about leaks. they're very hard to stop. i don't think it's hurting him with the country. a lot of people out there have always wanted a president to crackback at the white house press corps. that's not hurting him. the question is he elevating it to an issue so large that it gets in the rest of the way of his agenda. i don't think people elected donald trump to watch a smack down with the white house press corps. they elected him for other reasons. >> attacks on the news media are fine with his base. the 39%. that said, in your estimation, is this is an estimation to shore up the base? >> i think like the cpac speak was a campaign speech that trump is indeed trying to shore up his

base. the rally in melbourne, floor. he likes these people to support him. he needs the love. when he will really need the love and support from the base, the independents, is when it's crunch time over votes in congress, over reform of obamacare or especially over the tax reform bill, a big lift. he will need the support of all the country. the white house has to calculate a little bit whether getting into a interminable fight with the news media will make people nervous in congress about where the president's focus is. >> shepard: thought number six here. we at fox news have had a history of this. there was a time when president obama tried to keep us out of the briefing room for a brief moment. everybody rounded up. this level is news. listen. >> somebody said a poll came

out, and i say what network is it? they'll said a certain -- let's not mentioned names, right? shall we? well, you have a lot of them. the clinton news network is one. >> setting up a war of sorts with the news organization, getting good sources and making reports that are later verified, that doesn't hurt? >> it hurts him to the extend that he's constantly fighting with him about the voracity of these reports. presidents have always been hit hard by the news media. i remember george w. bush, the attacks on bush were vicious. but most people in political light eventually develop a thick skin. donald trump doesn't have a thin skin. >> donald trump doesn't have a

thin skin? >> he has an awfully thin skin. very thin skin. the question is whether over time this will hurt him or come back initially, sure. a lot of people wanted to see this sort of fighting with the press. i have to wonder whether over the long run this is really where the american people want to see their president in this daily almost semi daily fight with the american press corps. >> shepard: thought number 5, he's gathering his supporters, the 39%, gathering them and holding them tightly. >> these are unbelievable people who have not been treated fairly. hillary called them deplorable. they're not deplorable. [chanting]. who would have thought that a

word was going to play so badly? that's the problem in politics. one wrong word and it's over. >> shepard: he's still campaigning. >> he's still campaigning. there's a point at which he's got to stop being the campaigner, which he enjoys, which a lot of the people in his base enjoy and start becoming the president. we're going to find out next tuesday night. that's not a cpac speech. that's a speech before a joint session of congress and the democrats have vowed to bring in proxies for the protesters to sit out there in front of him and the president of the united states will give this speech. will it be a presidential speech or a campaign speech? you know, remains to be seen. i would help and expect it will be a presidential speech, not like the one he gave at cpac, which is basically pitching to much of his base. >> shepard: thought number 4, he's ramping up the fear factor. listen. thousand number 4. >> so let me state this as

clearly as i can. we are going to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. >> this is not a problem that we really had. not that we want some day, but this line is it helpful with his base? >> i think so. you know, we all have to get used to some extent donald trump's rhetoric. it's simply not going to change. i hope it changes next tuesday night or becomes more presidential. he will always talk like this. the question is, what are the policies behind that. that's what we in the media have to focus on. extreme vetting means trying to take a closer look at the most dangerous people in the country coming in. deportations. are we talking about deporting criminals and felons or does that include people that have jobs and are in the country illegally? that i think is what the press and the media should be focused

on and not getting so upset by the things that donald trump says. let's watch what he does. >> shepard: the president with the peruvian leader in the white house. the president had some very interesting things to say. the white house pool is playing this for us. it will begin right now. listen in. >> thank you, everybody. a great honor to have the peruvian president with us. peru has been a fantastic neighbor. we've had great relationships. better now than ever before. i have known him for quite a while through reading about the work that he's done and i believe he's here to get an award at princeton. an award for what? explain, please. >> for being an alumnus who did okay, i guess. >> did very okay. your daughter goes to -- >> my daughter, susie. >> that's right. >> she wants to study medicine.

>> and i assume she's proud of you. >> yes. and alex went to columbia. >> that's great. good students. good children. so a very special man. it's an honor to have him in washington at the white house. we're going to talk some business, i understand. they're going to be buying quite a bit of our military -- some of our military vehicles. they're great vehicles. i just looked at it. we're approving it and use them well. use them well. if you'd like to say something, mr. president, please. >> i'm happy to be in washington. i lived here for a while. i lived in new york. we greatly respect the u.s. we have excellent relations. and latin america needs to grow more. we're going to talk about how to do that. maybe you have a few ideas. >> i guess i do. i guess i do. we have a problem with

venezuela. they're doing very poorly. so we'll be talking about a lot of things. thank you for being here. thank you. >> dan henninger here with us from the "wall street journal." interesting venezuela reference there. >> yeah, it is. the president, i think, has an interest in venezuela and what's going on in venezuela. just suffered terribly down there. much more so than i think the obama administration. the trump presidency expects to try to do simpling to help the people of venezuela who have been struggling with a government that will not hold an election or the referendum down there, trying to get rid of the government that is subjecting a lot of people to virtual starvation. so it's striking. some of these things donald trump gets in his head, fixed ideas. venezuela is one of them. that would be a good one. >> shepard: thought number 2. this is a tried and true

conservative line. this president is riding it to the bank. listen. >> it's time for all americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. you're going to love it. >> shepard: talk is cheap on that matter. >> donald trump has made a lot of promises. promises on the wall, jobs and the military. that will be the measure of his success. if he doesn't deliver on many of those things by the end of the year, one of the other things he said in that cpac he said bernie sanders petered out. bernie didn't peter out. you'll have a vote for the democratic national chairman today. >> the sanders -- >> the sanderistas. if donald trump is not succeeding by the end of the year, those highly organized

democrats will move forward to win elections from two years from now. he has to put some numbers on the table so far it's talk. i expect him to try to prosecute some of these policies, but he's promised so much. he's got to deliver on a lot of that. >> shepard: you have to get past government in washington to get anything done. others will tell you that ain't easy. dan henninger, thank you. >> shepard: more on president trump's deepening rift with the intelligence community. as we reported, president trump went on a twitter tirade this morning after reports surfaced against a closed-door conversation between reince priebus and a top fbi official. let's bring in emily gooden. the managing editor for realclearpolitics.com. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> shepard: he was railing on news organizations for using off-the-record services and then

he talked about off-the-record services. it's comical but serious. >> yes. hugely serious. this is nothing new. but what is happening now, it's typical something that a president has to get used to and develop a thick skin as they say to get used to it. >> shepard: well, he's complaining about the same thing that he's delivering. you get these off-the-report services. "the washington post" had nine sources on a report about russian activities. the president says they made them up trying to demean and diminish the news organizations. along the way, there's a certain percentage of the population that has chosen to believe him even though he's wrong. >> yeah. president trump really wants to be seen as the definitive source on the news and all things trump and all things everything. he wants people reading his twitter and paying attention to him. that's why he's going after the

media and select different outlets and keep people out of the briefing like he did today. >> shepard: you think there's -- was that a trial balloon? they played it off that this is a smaller group. but he let a lot of conservative organizations in the room but didn't allow "the new york times," politco and cnn. >> yeah. we hope it's not a trial balloon. we saw press get banned during the campaign. sean spicer, when he was white house press secretary, vowed that press organizations wouldn't be banned and now we're seeing this today. what i also find interesting, we heard president trump say this morning in his cpac speech that these news stories don't bother him. if they don't bother him, why is he banning the news organizations that reported him. >> shepard: is this an attack of the president on his on fbi? not a new line. is that unprecedented or unusual in recent presidencies? >> absolutely. it's highly unusual. when fbi director comey released

the letter about hillary, you didn't see president obama coming out railing against him. you stand by your agencies. for donald trump to go out like this, it just shows part of a pattern that we've seen with this president. he's very good at turning a story he doesn't like into something else. he's very good at distracting. >> shepard: emily goodin. thanks to see you. >> thanks. >> shepard: tension getting so tough at town hall meetings, they're being called off by many. more ahead as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news on american's news on cable.

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repeal and replace obamacare. >> all of this went on in november and december and january about repeal, repeal, repeal. we'll do replace, replace. i start laughing. if you pass repeal without replace, first, anything that happens is your fault. you broke it. shouldn't have called it repeal and replace. they're basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. >> shepard: boehner has been a long-time critic of obamacare but he said he doubts the gop will come up with a replacement. boehner says republicans were never able to agree on any healthcare proposal. a top issue in the debate is what to do about medicaid. medicaid expanded under the affordable care act and replenishing it could slash medicare funding or medicaid

funding for state. peter doocy has more. how much support is there for shrinking medicaid. >> not much. many want the program to stay in place. that's according to a new poll by the kaiser family foundation. more than half of the people that got new coverage under obamacare got it through medicaid expansion. some democratic governors are now starting to complain that less federal money would mean they're going to be on the hook to fund more medicaid programs. some republicans are just pleading for more flexibility. >> give me the opportunity to work on healthcare in my state. don't give me the federal rules. if the federal government wants to be involved in what they want covered, give me the money and see if i can do it better. >> we do expect an announcement on the hill about the

replacement bill at some point shortly after they return from recess. >> shepard: so on rolling back medicaid programs, what do democrats say? >> rolling back medicaid programs and getting rid of the individual mandate that requires people to buy insurance could have specific consequences according to one of the aca's architects, dr. zeke emanuel. >> it would be a disaster. 18 million would lose healthcare. by 2026, insurance premiums would double. >> still, there's little that democratic lawmakers can do to stop a obama care repeal on paper because they don't have the votes. although speaker boehner thinks differently. >> shepard: peter doocy, thank you. republican lawmakers taking more heat at town halls across

america. overflow crowds packing in to confront republicans on obamacare and immigration and the president. a couple days ago, the new jersey gop congressman leonard lamb faced off with passionate constituents of his own. >> push back against this man when he makes delusional statements. >> shepard: while some of his colleagues are avoiding town halls, congressman lamb is having another one tomorrow. congressman lantz is here with us now. thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. >> shepard: your audience in new jersey, presumably constituents, there was polling done. they weren't paid at all, were

they? >> not to my knowledge. this is the 41st town hall meeting i've held. i have never experienced paid protesters and i don't think that was true the other night. >> shepard: this was a rowdy affair. you knew it was coming. why did you go ahead with it? >> it's important to reach out to constituents and it's important for my constituents to hear from me. perhaps the majority were not those that had voted for me previously. but i try to represent everybody, shep. not only republicans but democrats as well. >> shepard: we hear questions and no answers. the woman whose sound bite we heard said when are you going to confront this president for his delusional statements? what is the answer to that? >> i have spoke out against what i think is wrong policy regarding the immigration executive order. i think it went too far. i think the new one will be more

narrowly tailored. i don't like criticism of the judiciary not being legitimate. i may disagree with a decision but that's why we have an appellate process. that's why we should recognize the separation of power. >> shepard: how do you think president trump would think about your words? >> i support the republican ticket and we have to do a better job in healthcare. >> shepard: repeal and replace? >> i said repair as well. i don't think we're going to repeal obamacare without a replacement in place. >> shepard: that's obamacare by another name. that's lipstick on a pig. >> no, that needs significant repair. >> shepard: so did the democrats.

>> for example, the exchanges are failing. new jersey had five. we now have two. some states have one. some democrats want to do nothing. we have to make serious repair. >> shepard: what about the mandate? >> we're going to do away with the forced mandates. >> shepard: how do you pay for it? >> we pay for it through making sure that there's competition and people have choices and i favor the medicaid expansion. that will be a tough issue in washington. 32 states or so expanded medicaid, 18 did not. the federal match is going to be 90%. i think that federal match will have to be reduced to a modest extent because some states don't have -- haven't expanded the program. >> shepard: there was a belief before the election happened that the president has said we'll make this pivot and stop

the campaigning. your sense of that. >> it's been better in the national security arena with the appointment of the new national security advisor. there's other areas where the president is still in campaign mode. i think president obama was in campaign mode quite a bit at the time. i would prefer in this year, 2017 in a nonelection year for governance and not campaigning. >> shepard: and this war with the media. your thoughts on that. >> i believe in a free and unfetterred media. i repeat it here to you, shep. i welcome all media outlets to any town hall i have. may agree or disagree with the coverage but i'm a firm believer in the first amendment.

i'm proud of the free press. >> shepard: this is part of a calculus going on here. a method to the madness. most people know what it is. your thoughts on that. >> i try to be plain speaking and my personality is my personality. each of us has their own personality. i hope the president would reach out to those that may not support him because he's president of all of us. i do think that he was elected to shake up washington and to try to help create through the private second -- sector. >> shepard: are you concerned about his rhetoric? >> his rhetoric has not been appropriate. >> shepard: which rhetoric? >> criticism of john mccain, criticism of a federal judge based on ancestry and more recently of a federal judge that ruled against him on the

immigration order. i would not have engaged in that rhetoric. >> shepard: and he shouldn't have. >> he shouldn't have. >> shepard: should other republicans have to speak out? >> i try to lead by example. i hope to continue to be able to do that. >> shepard: what do you expect to happen at your town hall tomorrow in new jersey? >> i would imagine it would be similar to the one i had wednesday evening. we may have as many as 1,000 people. but i welcome a dialogue with constituents some of whom do not support the president. i want to reach out to all of my constituents because i try to represent everybody. not only republicans and independents, but democrats who may not have supported me. >> shepard: you're a rarity these days. i understand why that is. nobody wants to have the video. has there been pressure from the white house or the party as a hole to stand down from these events? >> none whatever. i don't think the president would do that. i don't think his white house would do that. i know the committee on which i

serve in congress would not do that. our leadership would not do that. paul ryan would not do that. i think those in washington probably are pleased that we meet voters. that's what we should be doing. interacting with this constituency across america. >> shepard: what is your biggest concern for our nation today? >> on the fiscal front, we're $20 trillion in debt. we have to get a handle on that. on the international favor, i favor our relationship with nato and we should be distrustful of russia. i think vladimir putin is a bad actor. i do not think he has the best interests of the world at heart. i agree with the late president reagan, trust but verify regarding the soviet union. >> shepard: congressman leonard lance. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> shepard: civil rights laters demanding information about hundreds of people caught up in president trump's travel ban.

those attorneys and the feds in court today. we'll have a live update next from the courthouse.

>> shepard: civil rights attorneys and the feds facing off in the court over immigration. this comes after the trump administration released a list of 700 people from the fed's detained or processed after a federal judge partially blocked that order. at issue here, how many of them made it into the united states. civil rights lawyers say they need more information from the government. our senior correspondent rick leventhal from the white house. what are attorneys say they were given? >> they said they were given first around last names by the government. they said they had no other information. so finding the people was like trying to establish a jigsaw puzzle. even though they say the government had the information available to it. so what they're arguing, they

need the information as soon as possible. remember, initially the white house said there were 109 people temporarily inconvenienced by the travel ban. last night, lawyers were handed a list of 746 people in the first 6 hours after the ban took effect. attorneys argued the list the government gave them was incomplete. they found ten more names overnight of people that were also banned from entering that were not on the government's list. >> what we're working with is like a 26-hour slice of a much larger problem, which begs the question of what the government is hiding and why they're hiding it. >> this morning in court, the judge instructed both sides to work together. u.s. attorneys said they would cooperate, shep. >> shepard: what do we know about the new executive order on the way, rick? >> what we're told, probably would affect this case in brooklyn because this case is

not about whether or not trump's executive order was legal or not but whether or not the 746 people that were turned around and sent how many should be allowed to come back. we're also told that the new executive order will legally allow people with visas to come in. that didn't stop attorneys from arguing they would oppose any executive order. >> we don't think new executive order will change the discriminatory intent. no matter what lawyerly revisions are added. we believe it's still going to be rooted in anti-muslim antimate. >> so they expect to have some kind of action on this soon. >> shepard: rick leventhal live in brooklyn. thank you. the two women accused of assassinating the north korean dictator's brother likely used a banned chemical weapon to do it. here's a surveyed lens video. the police chief confirmed that

investigators found vx on kim jong-nam's face and eyes. the nerve agent is so deadly, a tiny drop can kill you. it causes your muscles to spasm and impossible to breathe. vx is banned under the 1993 chemical weapons convention. but north korean scientists probably produced it in a sophisticated state weapon's lab. president trump's daughter, ivanka is taking part in many roles in the white house even though she has no formal role. so what exactly is the first daughter doing there? that's next.

>> the white house says the first daughter, ivanka trump, has no formal position in her father's administration. but she's spent a lot of time at

the white house since he became president. yesterday she sat in on two meetings. one with manufacturing ceos and this session with human trafficking. some analysts have compared ivanka trump's role to the first lady. garrett tenney has this live in dc. how much influence does ivanka trump have there? >> going back to the campaign, ivanka trump has been one of her father's closest advisors. we've seen she doesn't need a title to get things done. last week with justin trudeau in town, she launched an initiative to get more women involved in industry. show also talked about a child care detugs that she's pushing for in their tax plan.

sean spicer says she will continue play a role in a number of areas in the white house. >> there's a number of areas that she's cared very passionately for before her father came to the white house and now that her father is in the white house, she continues to seek a platform that helps empower and lift up women and give them opportunities. >> one of the big questions with all this influence, how effective will she be in getting changes made or policies passed. for that, we'll wait and see. >> shepard: it's my understanding, garrett, she's been involved in part at least in some of these executive orders. >> yeah, the white house hasn't come out publicly to confirm these reports. sources said at the request of ivanka and jared kushner, president trump removed criticism of the paris climate deal from an upcoming order. there were reports that the pair played a significant role in the administration's decision to uphold protections for lgbtq in the workplace that were enacted

by the obama white house. it's clear ivanka is more than a first daughter and will play a significant role in her father's administration. >> shepard: thank you, garrett. on this day in history, pig whiskers. and the top of the hour and the business news next.

>> shepard: on this day in 1938, the first nylon bristled toothbrushes went on sale. until then, people used sticks or ground-up oyster shells. they later used horse hair or pig whiskers. the first bristles were harsh on the gums. later versions were softer. the next leap forward came with the electric toothbrush in the 1960s after science first

revolutionized our morning routine 79 years ago today. electric toothbrushes. one more thing plugged in. things that aren't necessary. the dow recovered again. here's cavuto. >> neil: all right, shep. we have a lot to get into including this dust-up with white house. look here. we had a gain. why is that significant? it looked like a tenth session in a row for the dow winning streak, most of them one after the other, looked like it was going to stop. the last second, i don't know what checked in, but we got up there. the dow now up 11 straight sessions. that's good enough for a record. you can see, we poured a lot of money into this particular graphic. this tells the story. green arrow, green arrow.