all of this and he was okay with it. what only forced him back weeks later is when it became >> and the transcripts. you wanted to see them. raised the concern they were problematic because they were illegally released? >> whether -- whatever the leak investigation finds out in terms of who leaked forms about what flynn said, that's one thing. but nothing in that should prevent the congress doing its investigation from finding out exactly what was said in that conversation. again, i can't go into any of the specifics about how that conversation may or may not have been recorded. but i would not leap to any conclusion that there's -- there was ill legality involved on behalf of the intelligence agencies. again, whether it was leaked or not leaked doesn't inhibit us

from doing the necessary investigation we have to do. >> earlier you said the committee can't do the work of the fbi. so are you investigating the fbi's investigation? if that is the case, why wouldn't you wait until the fbi finished this investigation? >> first of all, we can't do everything the fbi is doing. we don't have the resources. we shouldn't attempt to do everything the fbi is doing. when we look at the intelligence community's analysis of the russian hacking, we're not going to be starting from scratch. we're going to look at the conclusions they reach, the raw intelligence they look at. among other things, we're going to try to determine, did each of the conclusions they reach, were they supported by the actual intelligence. we'll go beyond that. that is certainly an important part of what we're going to do. why shouldn't we wait until the fbi is finished?

we have our own responsibility to the public to investigate what the russians did, what impact it had, whether there are u.s. persons involved and we ought to conduct our investigation if the fbi is still doing one contemporaneous with what they're doing. we won't say until you've concluded, run down every lead. but we should as a way of making our own investigation far more efficient, find out what has already been done. >> aren't you concerned if there's an ongoing investigation, which appears criminal in nature that it could potentially influence the serious work of the law enforcement agency to continually brief your oversight? not to say you should have oversight, but if on going, leads change, they're giving you

updates, wouldn't that be the same problem that comey ran in into when he talked about the e-mail stuff with hillary clinton? >> yes. if i was in the bureau right now, from our perspective to prosecute people, is congress going to be leaking information and saying things that are going to inhibit our ability to do our investigation or bring in witnesses that will contradict what the witnesses told us. i understand that's concern. congress can help by not talking about the facts as we learn them. the fbi has a responsibility to do their investigation for the criminal justice purposes. we have our responsibility in the congress to do our investigation for the purposes of determining how do we protect our democracy. to do we defend our country. those can and will have to be done contemporaneously. i'm sure that that is part of the concern driving the fbi.

we need to be mindful of it. we had the same dilemma when the house is involving ethics issues, involving justices doing their investigations. sometimes they give the fbi more thyme to finish the work and sometimes they don't. here congress cannot afford to wait in my view. yes. >> you said the community lacks all of the resources they need or doesn't have as many resources as other national security committees. doesn't that handicap the investigation from the start given the complexities of this matter? secondly, what is the stated reasons as to why the senate won't join with the house committee to do this investigation? >> first of all, does it pose a handicap to us? the answer is yes. on a bipartisan basis we're

trying to remedy that in part. as i mentioned, the chair around i have asked for more resources for our committee. those are resources that we would need in the absence of this investigation. when you consider the size of the agencies we oversee and the level of staff to begin with, it's paltry in comparison to other national security committees. in the absence of the investigation, we need more resources. with this investigation added on, it's more challenging for us. which is why i feel that it would be much more efficient for us to be working jointly with the senate. in terms of the senate's perspective on it, you know, i would have to imagine one of the concerns -- i'm speculating here -- that the senate may have is if they feel that their investigation is proceeding on a bipartisan fashion and their concerned that the house isn't, they may have concerns about combining the two. i would hope that both investigations can be done in a

bipartisan way. again, getting back to your question earlier, eli. we're going to be bringing in a lot of the same witnesses. for those that are in the intelligence, it's not as if the day job has gone away either. they only have so many resources to do counter intelligence. near going to be spending a lot of resources coming in to brief us. it would also make their job a bit easier if we did it jointly rather than separately. >> congressman, you said that you and chairman nunes had meeting with people from the intelligence committee. from those meetings he seems to have reached a conclusion that there's nothing there. you want to pursue an investigation. what have you learned from the meeting that makes you want to pursue an investigation,

especially on the issue of contacts between campaign officials? are you moving based on the news reports or something you learned from the conversations? >> first of all, i can't go into the contents of any discussions i've had with the i.c. the basic point is this. this is a committee investigation. it's not an individual inquiry being done by myself or the chair or senator burr or senator warner. these are committee investigations. thus far the committee has heard no evidence, we've had no witnesses, received no documents in house, at least on our side. i don't know. maybe the same on the senate side. we're trying to even get possession of the documents. it is well premature to make any conclusion. on the basis of my discussions, i'm not prepared to draw any conclusion about the voracity or lack of voracity of any newspaper article. i think we need to do the investigation that we're charged

to do and ought to be thorough and we ought to follow the evidence where it leads. we have to make sure those words are more than rhetoric, that they're serious. and i never began an investigation when i was an assistant u.s. attorney starting out -- >> adam schiff of california discussing the investigation into the trump team idealing with the russians. this is shepard smith reporting on a monday afternoon. good day to you. president trump has given a preview of his plans for america's budget. obamacare, taxes and infrastructure. one day before he delivers a major speech before the joint session of congre he can still his mind off of russia. the president said he will submit a budget proposal next month and will include a historic spending increase to rebuild our nation's depleted

military. here's what the president told a meeting of the nation's governors at the white house. >> we have to win. we have to start winning wars again. when i was young in high school and college, everybody used to say we never lost a war. we never lost a war. you remember. some of you were there with me. you remember, we never lost a war. america never lost. now we never win a war. >> shepard: the pentagon might disagree. the white house will ask congress for an additional $54 billion for the u.s. military. jennifer griffin reports, that would raise military spending to just more than $600 billion. she reports that only 3% increase from what president obama had requested. the u.s. puts far more money towards military spending than any other nation on the planet. more than twice as much as china and russia combined. the "wall street journal" newspaper reports the president will not make cuts to social

security or medicare in an attempt to pay for spending increase. those two programs and other entitlements account for the vast majority of federal budget. according to "the new york times" reporting, president trump will ask for deep cuts to other areas of the government with targets including environmental protection agency and the state department. we'll have much more on the president's proposals including his plans for obama care. first, there is more news on the investigation into russia's influence on the united states presidential election. president trump just tweeted yesterday russia or russia talk is fake news put out by the dems and played up by the media in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks. that is not true. the president has repeatedly lashed out over his team's ties to russia. he blamed the negative coverage on fake news and leaks from anonymous sources. the president says the leaks are real, the news is fake. he used that cover-up claim

before as well, by he still hasn't provided any evidence likely because none exists. now one top republican is splitting from the president and the vast majority of his party over the russian matter. congressman darrell isa said a prosecutor should investigate russia and the leaks. u.s. intelligence officials say russian hackers targeted the democrats to help donald trump win the office. "the new york times" has reported people close to donald trump had repeated contact with russian intelligence officials during the campaign. michael flynn spoke with the russian ambassador on the same day the obama administration placed sanctions on russia for its interference. the president has not answered questions on specifics of his campaign's contact. specifically, were the russian sanctions discussed? were promises made? did general mike flynn lie to

the fbi about those discussions? transcripts of those discussions are available. democrats want them published. they're not public. did trump campaign manager paul manfort have direct contact with the russians? do the russians have information or videotape that compromises the president of the united states or his team? what is the extent of president trump's business ties with russia? his tax returns would likely answer that question. the president has refused to release them. the house intelligence and senate intelligence committees are investigating russia's influence in the election. the heads of the panels have denied the times reporting. devin nunes spoke with reporters about whether the government should appoint a special prosecutor. >> why are we going to get a special prosecutor? to chase news stories? at some point, if we have serious crimes that have been

committed, it would be something we could consider. the only serious crimes are leaks that have come out of our government through the press and others. >> the leaks are not the news. the substance is the news. president trump has order a crackdown on the leaks and last week he said news outlets should not be allowed to use anonymous sources. still officials in president trump's own white house regularly ask to remain anonymous. while saying reporters should not use anonymous sources, the white house offers anonymous sources to reporter. a senior unnamed official confirms to fox news that sean spicer last week called staffers into his office and checked their cell phones for apps that they could use to send encrypted messages to reporters. in other words white house leaked news of his effort to crack down on white house leaks. the last republican president of the united states is pushing

back. here's what former president george w. bush told "the today show" this morning. >> i consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. that we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. power can be very addictive. can it be corrosive. it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power. whether it be here or elsewhere. >> former president bush said he spent a lot of time trying to convince the russian president vladimir putin to accept the idea of an independent press. he said it's hard to tell others to have a free press when we're not willing to have one ourselves. former president bush said we all need answers when it comes to the russian matter. he doesn't say whether he believes this needs a special prosecutor. live at the white house with this next.

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>> shepard: president trump's plans for the u.s. budget, obama care and other issues and the administration's push-back and leaks and reports of russia. john roberts at the white house now. john, the budget first and more money for the military. but not specifically on how to pay for it. >> exactly, shep. running through the numbers here. the president will ask for a $54 billion in defense spending for next year that will put the budget for the defense department at about $603 billion. that will mean that for the rest of discretionary spending, he

will have about a 12% cut, which will be difficult to do across the government. what you see on the screen is a preview of the president's speech. increase defense spending. he will talk about cuts to other agencies. better veteran's care. under the heading of economic opportunity, the president will talk about tax reform, regulatory reform. education and job training and healthcare reform as well. one of the big problems that the president has had, one of the big concerns, you saw jennifer griffin's reporting on how we're having to cannibalize like f-16s and f-18s to find spare parts and the shrinking size of the navy. the president wants the best military in the world and why he's asking for the extra funding -- >> shepard: excuse me, john.

paul ryan is speaking live at the white house. listen. >> step in and prevent obama care from getting worse, from collapsing and we will replace it with a law that is better, durable and lowers costs to more affordable plans. more importantly, we're not going to force people something they don't want to buy. you have to have choice and freedom. that's one of the reasons why we must repeal and replace obamacare. that's top of our list this spring. >> maybe more important than what the insurance companies think is what bill clinton called it during the election last year. he said obamacare was the craziecrazy est thing he had seen. eight out of ten americans want it change. the status quo is not an option. what we're doing is not the status quo. >> an independent prosecutor has

been called for the russian interference in the election. should there be a special prosecutor? >> i couldn't speak to that part, the attorney general. the proper place in my opinion is the intelligence committees. they have access to methods of intelligence gathering. this is sensitive information that involves how we collect intelligence. that's why we have a committee. they are conducting an investigation. both of our intelligence committees have been investigating these issues. that's the proper place for that investigation. >> do you have a problem with the white house reaching out and knocking down stories on this? >> the white house should be talking with our members on a daily basis. the intelligence committees have been looking at this. the. the dni over the obama administration did a government wide search on what happened with the russians. we know that russia meddled in the election. nobody is disputing with that.

this last government gave us that information. no one is alleging that some american was in on it beforehand. >> mr. speaker, do you have about the top line budget numbers. >> we just heard the budget numbers this afternoon. the new omb director, just gave us the numbers today. we just processed them. we haven't even processed them yet. with a new president coming in, you get top lines and then you get the budget later on. this is exactly how the system is supposed to work. we're very excited that they're giving us the numbers this early in the process so we can move forward with processing our budgets. >> speaker ryan -- listen, you talked about the need for entitlement reform in the past. the president has made clear he doesn't want to touch entitlements. >> repealing and replacing obamacare is entitlement reform. >> is there an opportunity with this president for bipartisan relations and to pass gridlock? >> we haven't seen much of it in

the senate yet. i'm hopeful the fever is about to break. we'll confirm the secretary of commerce today with a bipartisan vote. we'll begin to moving in the direction of some semblance of normalcy. thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: mitch mcconnell, paul ryan speaking after a meeting with the president live at the white house. john roberts is on the north lawn. two matters for follow up, john. one on obama care on repeal and replace. that was a popular line in the campaign. there's been push back from middle america. people that are concerned they don't won't have health insurance. >> the president says he wants to replace after he repeals. maybe it's done within the first week. an extraordinairy complicated process. millions that do rely on obamacare for medicare care for whatever degree they have. they're worried if they repeal obamacare, they're not going to find anything to replace it with. the president has promised he'll

have his initial plan out in the mid, the end of march. but actually getting that through congress is going to take many more months after that. he was telling bill o'reilly, maybe not until the beginning of next year. he wants it done quickly because he can't do his tax reform program until obamacare is done. the other thing he heard talking about, whether or not there should be an independent prosecutor assigned to investigate contacts between the trump campaign and the white house, mike flynn and the russians. the speaker of the house said he believes the appropriate place for that is in the intelligence committees. sean spicer earlier today said how many more people do you need to have say that theres no evidence of any connection between campaign officials and russian authorities before you say there's no there, there. but to democrats, as you saw with adam schiff continue to push this, so there's a lot of pressure for this investigation to go on in congress. >> shepard: a republican as well. john, thanks. for more on that, let's go to aaron from the "wall street journal" live in the washington

newsroom. thank you. >> hi, shep. >> shepard: there's transcripts of discussions between mike flynn. from those transcripts, we could know if there was a quid pro quo on sanctions. we could find out if mike flynn lied to the fbi. we can know about the details of anything that the russians might have on the president compromising information, if you will, or otherwise. there's no way to get to that information yet. the question is, do you leave it in the committees or do you get a special prosecutor? >> that's right. or in addition to a special prosecutor, another option is to take it out of the intelligence committees and create an independent panel. either a house senate panel or something like a 9-11 commission. what if you had someone like a colon powell, someone with a bipartisan sheen, take this over. the republican leaders want to leave it where it is, you heard the speaker of the house, paul ryan, say that's the appropriate place. they can handle sensitive matters. the more people doing the

investigation, the head of house intelligence committee and the senate intelligence committee speaking publicly saying there is no crime found yet, the more they're open to accusations that they prejudged their investigation. >> shepard: a few things are indisputable as paul ryan just said. the russians attempted to interfere in our election, they attempted to president trump. at the same time, members of president trump's were on the phone with russian hirer-ups. were there discussions about the sanctions? first we were told now. then we realized an untruth had been told to the president. now the question is there a quid pro quo. further, exactly what was the content of those discussions and whether the russians and team trump working together? these are matters that we cannot get specifics. there's answers. they're not made available. does the american public not deserve to know the answers to the questions? >> everyone would say the american public is deserves answers. the debate is how to get there.

the people to watch are on the republican side. ultimately going to mitch mcconnell who has the power to create a different kind of panel other than the intel committees. as you said, we saul darrell isa. he's the only elected republican who has said we need a special prosecutor or an inveries -- investigative process. there's signs. president bush is pushing towards let's have robust investigation. you have susan collins, a republican senator and marco rubio, a republican senator. not saying we need to change the way we're looking but implicitly criticizing the intelligence committee saying this needs to be bipartisan. it needs to be immune that there's any partisanship.

people are saying there's not a lot there there is not giving some people confidence that they will run an impartial inquiry. >> shepard: and there's questions about the president's business ties. those questions have remained for quite some time. he's not spoken to anybody in russia for ten years. but he had a miss universe pageant over there. there's dealings. we don't know what they are. a release of his tax returns would -- could potentially answer those questions. the president has refused to issue those tax returns and using an excuse that is invalid. >> watch something in the house tomorrow hahn this point. a democratic resolution, an unusual resolution that is coming up for a vote. it would require the fbi to disgorge a wide amount of material on trump's alleged conflicts of interest, his business dealings and on any alleged connections, contacts with russia. it would be original source

material. this is coming up for a vote in the house judiciary committee. it will fail. but on that committee are darrell isa that just called for a special prosecutor, jason chaffetz who got an earful from people that wanted him to investigate the president. so this measure will fail. it will be interested to see if it gives an indication of republicans leaning toward doing more than is being done right now. >> shepard: thanks, aaron. >> thanks. >> shepard: and more politics ahead. why the president's address tomorrow needs to reach three key audiences. and the president's plan to wipe out the islamic state. why the military money won't go far enough. that's on the fox news desk at the bottom of the hour.

>> i'm lea gabrielle with the fox report. an update on anti-semitic events across the u.s. it comes as the jewish community center of america says facilities in 11 states have reported bomb threats today. no bombs were found. the organization issued a statement asking to speak louder than words. members of our community have to be swift and capture the perpetrator or perpetrators. separately in philadelphia, police say they're trying to find down who knocked down 100 head cemeteriecemeteries. earlier, the ann franks center says this has to be stopped. we beg you, president trump. the fbi is investigating. the new continues with shepard

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>> shepard: the top democrat in the u.s. senate responding to president trump's address to a joint session of congress before it's even written. >> his speech tomorrow will mean nothing if he continues to do what he's done the first few weeks. breaking promises to working people and putting an even great greater burden on their backs while making it easier to be wealthy and connected in america. >> shepard: chuck schumer said the president has not gone through on his promise to create more jobs. that's one of the topics that nancy pelosi talked about in the pre buttle to the president's address tomorrow. this happens under all the presidency. it's funny. mike emanuel, what else did they mention? >> they said president trump

gives a good speech but doesn't back it up. theyment with a pre-buttle trying to get ahead of the prime time address with a huge audience watching. chuck schumer said so far the president has been a lot of bluster and bling. >> the first month of a trump presidency is less of a bang and more of a whimper. not much impact. but what he's done so far has shifted the burden off of the special interests and the wealthy and on to working families. >> these democratic leaders are expected the president to speak like he did in the campaign fighting for average americans but he needs action to back it up. >> shepard: republicans looking ahead to the speech as well. >> that's right. sometimes with a new president, you get laying out a legislative agenda, trying to set that agenda right there in the house chamber. sometimes there may be a landry list. the white house press secretary give us a preview.

>> in his speech, the president will lay out and optimistic vision for the country crossing lines of party, race and socioeconomic status. how can we make sure that every american needs a better job get one, how can we get kids trapped in failing schools in better ones. >> a number of republicans are certainly hoping that president trump will spend a fair amount of time on the future of healthcare. shep? >> shepard: thanks. let's turn to kimberly atkins now, chief washington correspondent for "the boston herald." hi, kim. >> hi, shep. >> shepard: what are you expecting in big pushes? >> the president in his style, he had to address three different audiences. he has to talk to the congressional republicans who we heard the republican leadership sort of speak on the same page as the president. but there's a lot of lawsuit makers, particularly conservatives, that want to know how the president plans to pay for all of these big proposals.

expanding the military, big infrastructure, investments. without blowing up the deficit. also he will talk to democrats who are pegging this as just another populous session without any real substance. he also has to talk to the american people. for a month, we've seen the new administration, we've seen roll-outs of an immigration plan that hasn't gone well. we have the questions about russia. you have people wondering how obamacare will be fixed. he's going to have to talk directly to the people to allay some of their fears at a time where his favor ability numbers are low according to polls. >> shepard: the question is whether republicans in the house will remain in lock step with him as he poll numbers continue to go down. he's at 44% -- i should say 48%

unfavorab unfavorable. if they don't like you, the chances are they won't like us as well. he has to convince those people that he's going to do what he says he's going to do. >> he does. a lot of republicans are facing angry constituents back at home who want answers on things like obamacare and how these things are going to be fixed. they don't want a plan that is going to increase the debt. so he has to talk to them. through them to their constituents in order to bring everybody on board. >> shepard: is this another i hate the fake news media event or should we expect something more traditional in a joint session address? which would normally be a joint session address. go on. >> with this president, you never know. sometimes he does stick to script. it's being tagged as a big speech where he will lay out his

objectives and sounds like a scripted speech. if the democrats are jeering and not getting the response he wants, might he go off script? might he make it more of the style that we're used to seeing from president trump on the campaign trail and in office? we don't know yet. >> shepard: it would be interesting to remember president obama and the reception that he received being called a liar at one point. if you wonder if a president who is falling in misstatements to be kind, wonder how he might take to something like that. could be an interesting television moment. >> it would. president obama stayed cool when a congressman joe wilson did shout that out. donald trump is used to giving back as good as he gets. so the respond to something like that might be very different. >> shepard: on the substance, they said the details of the budget are not a tomorrow affair. what sort of substance is possible at this early stage? >> i think we'll see broad

strokes. that's what the white house is planning. we'll see more about -- like what the president said today. talking about the need for a strong military and to win wars. the need to back our federal law enforcement and the need for infrastructure. i don't think we'll see a lot of details. we usually don't see that by addresses from the president. usually they're filled in later. kimberly, great to see you. thanks. >> good to see you. >> shepard: at the request of president trump, the pentagon has come up with a preliminary plan to defeat the islamic state. the president asked for the plan. so what are the details on the plan to wipe out isis? that's next. hey, ready for the big meeting? yeah. >>uh, hello!? a meeting? it's a big one. too bad. we are double booked: diarrhea and abdominal pain. why don't you start without me?

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>> shepard: today's the day that president trump has set as a

deadline for military officials to set a plan to obliterate the islamic state. generals have come up with a plan but it's preliminary. the president gave military commanders 30 days to come up with a strategy. james mattis met with officials at the white house to go over the plan. last week the joint chiefs of staff chairman did not rule out sending more troops to the region. all of this as president trump is seeking to boost military spending. jennifer griffin from the pentagon. what do we know about the plan to beat isis? >> the 30-day deadline was today. we're told that secretary mattis is still over at the white house. the plan was delivered this morning. secretary mattis is staking part in a principle's meeting to discuss it. the pentagon says don't expect a big roll-out. the plan is classified. it's not just about iraq and

syria. it's likely to include more troops on the grounds, heavy weapons systems and the include of safe zones for refugees in syria for set fly zone. all of the options will be weighed by the president. the pentagon is lowering expectations. >> shepard: the president raving expectations in the increase in the defense budget. >> that's right, shep. the white house says the president wants to spend an additional $54 billion open defense, which sounds like a lot, but the hill says the $54 billion sounds like a big increase but a 3% rise from what president obama wanted for 2018. the chairman of the house and senate armed services committee had proposed $640 billion for fiscal year 2018 in order to rebuild the military and address

pressing readiness issues. that would include adding 82 more ships to the navy. during obama, military spending was cut 20% while the world grew more dangerous. we can and do more than this funding will allow. the administration will have to make clear which problems facing our military they're choosing not to fix. there's a real tug of war right now among republicans about how much to spend on defense. senator mccain has called president trump's omb budget director anti-defense. shep? >> thanks, jennifer griffin. the president said tomorrow night he will tell us more about his plans for the affordable care act or obamacare. the feeling on capitol hill seems to be repealing and replacing is easier said than done. as the president put it together, who knew healthcare would be so complicated.

what is holding up one of his main campaign promises next.

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>> the members have got angry. as one republican congress said, try to message a product when you have no product. so they decided to throw something down next week on the table. they want to push it through even though they're really at the margins there on the votes. they can't afford to lose republicans. around 22 in the house and two in the senate. they want to push something through and make people come around on the argument that you can't find something perfect. they had six years. they're losing traction. the program itself is getting worse with each passing month, a new threat of more insurers pulling out. it's more expensive with worse coverage for sicker people. so republicans are calling at this time now or never strategy. we have to get something going. you'll never really have what you want and you don't want to be the republican that says no to a repeal when you have president trump ready to sign it. the problem is they're not sure what president trump wants with

the promises he's made. >> shepard: seems clear that people want the program. they've showed up in mass across the country. they've called them paid protesters. they're not. people want the provisions within obama care. it sounds as if what they want is obamacare by another name. it's a branding problem. it's a messaging problem. obamacare has become the boogie man, but wow, the programs inside the affordable care act are awesome. >> it's not that people weren't disappointing with the advent of obamacare. they've been through upheaval six years ago and nervous about change. so they like the fact that someone with a pre-existing condition or an illness can't be banned from coverage by an insurance provider. they like the fact their kids can stay on until age 26 and on and on. so now that president trump is promised something that will be simpler, lost costly, it will have those protections. the republicans have a huge pie

to deliver. they want to cut costs. this incident, now that you have the public -- you can see the favorable going up and polling because they're worried about another upheaval in healthcare coverage. now they have some protection, they want it fixed. so the idea of repeal is making people that need the coverage nervous and of course it's a conservative prom that republicans have to keep. >> is one of the problems when does it become a political liability, i should say, a political liability that people have been made all these promises and yet they require an increase in budget and an increase in budgets means an increase in deficit, which is something that fiscal conservatives don't want at all? >> you've seen that today as you've seen with other correspondents talking about the budget. it doesn't look like it will cut a lot of spending but doing things -- the pentagon and the

entitlement programs are where we spend the most money. so spending more on the military is not fiscally prudent. with obamacare, they want to go after obamacare taxes to try to find some money. some of those are fine. the suntan bed -- the suntanning bed taxes, whatever it is. if you end the expanded medicaid coverage, that will impact a lot of people. places in states and districts that republicans cover, places like ohio where people are nervous about that. so as you search for the money, you'll squeeze the coverage. basically they're going to be offering less. people who have health concerns don't want to hear that they're going to be offered less. >> shepard: wonder what would happen if they called it romney care? just a thought. i have to go, a.b. americans held their breath for one of the first wars that

played out on live tv and finally ended in victory. we won the war on this day in history.

>> shepard: soon-to-be parents might want to think twice about choosing a baby name. the name can shape the way the kids look. really? lillian is here. >> a new study is out. they analyzes thousands of faces with names and found a computer could predict what somebody's name was by looking at their face. >> shepard: come on. >> yeah. prediction was usually around their eyes or their mouth area, which is areas in the face that are more easy to adjust. it's not necessarily that you're born with it but how it progresses. here's a diagram of female names. the study was done in israel. the heat map shows a lot.

they did this same thing for some male names. they found that people could predict this, too. so when given a face and a choice of five names, people were around 35% accurate. you'd think they'd be around 20%, which would make it random. cool. think twice when naming the kids. >> shepard: i guess. lillian, thank you. on this day in 1991, george h.w. bush announced the end of the first gulf war. came after a six-week fight to expel saddam's troops in kuwaits. in mid january, the u.s. and the allies launched operation desert storm. americans watched it all unfold live on television. the campaign lasted 42 days and

president bush announced a cease fire 26 years ago today. we won the war. breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world" with neil cavuto is next. >> neil: thank you, shep. i am neil cavuto. this is "your world." i hate to sound like a broken regard but we have another record. the 12th straight time that the dow broke record territory. and defense stocks are up as the president wants to increase defense spending. we've added $3 trillion in market wealth since his elect n election. try telling that to nancy pelosi. >> tomorrow, presiru