>> jon: we are back in an hour. >> jenna: "outnumbered" starts now. >> fox news alert, jeff sessions recusing himself. the attorney general calling his past conversations with the crimmins ambassador hyped and unfair. president trump is calling all of this a total witch hunt. this is outnumbered. i'm sandra smith coming here today, harris faulkner, meghan mccain, cohost of after the bell, melissa francis, and today's #oneluckyguy, juan williams is here and he is outnumbered. >> juan: nice to be with you. >> harris: you're happy today.

>> juan: i love fridays, i'm happy about them, although it's a cold day. the heat wave is coming. i'm ready for it. >> sandra: let's get started, we begin with attorney general jeff sessions recusing himself from any russia or campaign related probes. this as he's facing a storm of criticism from democrats who claim he lied about his contacts with russia's ambassador during his confirmation hearing. sessions denies any wrongdoing and is slamming his critics. >> i think it was hyped beyond reason and i think it was unfair. i don't believe anybody that was in that meeting would have seen or believed i said one thing that was improper or unwise, and it was really a sad thing to be attacked like that, but i think we've explained it and we intend to move forward. >> sandra: president trump is also backing sessions saying he has total confidence in his attorney general and then

tweeted "jeff sessions is an honest man. he did not say anything wrong. he could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional. this whole narrative is a way of saving face for democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win. the democrats are overplaying their hand. they lost the election, and now they have lost their grip on reality. the real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. it is a total 'witch hunt!'" meantime, democrats say sessions recusal is not enough and want him to resign, as others are demanding he returned to capitol hill to explain his testimony. watch. >> i found his explanation simply not credible. you don't, i think, treat a visit in your office by the russian ambassador as a something casual, something not memorable. >> the attorney general should be back to the judiciary committee so we can know why he,

apparently falsely denied that he had meetings with the russians. >> it is clear that the recusal is not enough. this is a top law enforcement officer of the nation. >> he was under oath and when new line under oath, that's called perjury and you go to jail for doing that. >> sandra: juan, i know we'll have some strong thoughts on this, but let's go first back to how jeff sessions is firing back here, calling the criticism hyped and unfair and then has a president backing him up saying this is a total witch hunt. >> juan: i think they're politicizing, and i understand it. a witch hunt? that's what he witch hunt is, you're going after somebody with no basis or justification, and i think that's what they're trying to suggest, that this is all about politics. in fact, in the president's tweet, he refers to the electio election. he still can't believe -- they still can't believe they lost the election. that's why i say it's

politicized, because i don't believe there's any debate. it's very clear and has a statement yesterday before he came to the cameras and he felt he had made a mistake. he felt he had could have beene forthcoming. he had met with the russian ambassador and the fact that he then has to come forward and say yeah, i had two meetings in fact, that doesn't look right for the man who is in the top. >> sandra: do you think recusal is enough? >> i think he did a great favor to president trump because he added to the integrity of whatever findings come from the fbi. i think he said, i am standing by the recommendations of my own staff, so he has made it very clear that he is doing the right thing, but the politics of it are large, because i think there's so many on the right specifically who say it where's the evidence? what is this about? >> harris: wait a minute. there's some people on the left too. adam schiff comes out of that same meeting yesterday with the

chair. they come out of the same meeting and one says no, we don't have the evidence, we need the whistleblowers. nunes, the chair. at that guy on your side of the political aisle says i can't really talk about what is there, that would be talking about an investigation. if you have evidence, all i have to say is yes or no. i'm curious to see what evidence there looking at. >> juan: i have a different readout from that meeting. >> harris: why isn't it enough for him to recuse himself? >> juan: i'm saying i thought it was enough, but i'm saying i understand people who want a -- i think people who feel that especially now, when you have a critical issue confronting our top law enforcement officer, for him to put himself in a position where his credibility might be questioned, because he wasn't forthcoming. he wasn't telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth and his confirmation hearing, it opens the door to politics and

people who are highly critical of him. >> sandra: there was an omission from the president himself that he could've made his statement more accurately. a sort of a confession coming from him, as that going to be enough? >> meghan: i think this is why transparency is so important and all administrations, why you have to have an absolute cracker jack communications team working for you. i think it is a communications from more than anything else. i was shocked, i was like wait, he's coming to address this, he is met with many senators. he came under an obama state department project. that's why this ambassador was present at the speech. if you're going to accuse jeff sessions to step down, come out, accused him of being a mall between russia and the campaign. you have no evidence. at this point, my biggest problem is, i've talked to about

this at length. for those of us with actual problems of vladimir putin, the fact that he was bombing hospitals in aleppo, the politicization of this takes away from real concerns about russia and again, if you're going to go after jeff sessions this way, you have to go full-blown and accuse him of being able flip from campaign, but you have no evidence and that's why you're not doing it. if you have a problem with russian ambassadors being present, don't invite him to speak in front of our president at the biggest speech of his presidency that far. the >> melissa: i was trying to dig down deeper and deeper and see what it's that they are there. at the end of the day when we continue make those connections, what is it that we are after? are we looking for evidence of a you do this, i'll do that. what are we looking for and how in gods name, if it's there, have we not not found are they

at? everyone's been working on this for so long. >> harris: someone i've known her whole political rear is senator claire mccaskill. when you look at her career, she is not a woman who is not known for remembering big events, yet she tweeted about meeting with the very russian ambassador. when she was asked about it, she said it wasn't like we had set up a meeting. it wasn't like he had reached out to me. i don't know how it came together. >> juan: the distinction she made was that she didn't have a one-on-one meeting with the ambassador. let's agree on one fact. ambassador came to the senator's office. >> sandra: let me get in here and say there's no proof of

intention. he could have made as a statement more accurately and clearly to the public, but there's no proof or any evidence of intention to mislead the public. >> juan: just give me a second, megan. my point was when you have people who are for some reason, not owning up to these meetings, it creates some suspicion. why is mike flynn not telling us he had meetings and suddenly we discovered it? why is he deceiving the vice president? why is jeff sessions having meetings and then coming for the congress and not saying? what's he hiding? >> meghan: the problem for me again is, this man is allowed to be present with all of our elected officials to listen to our president speak, he can't be that nefarious of an individual. having jeff sessions be with him after democrats and our former president have also met with him, what is nefarious? >> sandra: only bring this

back to the politicization. our democrats are replaying their hand here? >> juan: i think they are, because recusal really was sufficient. there is some argument that he might be guilty of perjury. the >> melissa: that's what nancy pelosi said in a written statement. >> juan: the president to jeff sessions had said he should have handled it differently. allow me to finish this point, when you hear people say, what's the evidence? what are we going after? i think you have to remember, melissa, my point is gone, jeff sessions and all this controversy, carter pages on tv last night, he said yes, i had meetings with russian officials. now you get things like jared kushner, the president's son-in-law saying yeah, i was in

one of the meetings with mike flynn. remember, the cia, the national security agency, fbi have put their name and stamp on a report that said russia was out to undermined democracy, damage hillary clinton and they favor donald trump. >> sandra: what a great preview of what's coming up on odd-numbered. >> juan: oh, my gosh, is a heat wave. >> sandra: be sure to tune into special report, rep barrel base begin to house speaker paul ryan. they will discuss all the big issues going on right now, including the recusal of attorney general jeff sessions. russian interference in the election, and the push to repeal obamacare. that is at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox news channel. new fall outcome as white house prepares to release its latest travel ban. european leaders pushing to make it tougher for american visitors, travelers, to visit, but is there proposal aimed at getting back a president trump?

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♪ >> harris: a fine friday, glad you're with us as we await president trump's revised troubled land that is expected come next week. potential backlash is perceived. they europe's parliament calls to and visa free travel because the ban includes five countries. "while the request is unlikely to change e.u. policy, reflects hostility among some politicians to the trump administration." the vote comes after the ban -- melissa, and coming to you first on this. you've traveled a lot in europe, what does this mean for the big picture? a >> melissa: i think i think the opposite point of view of this. everybody's going to start cracking down on having ids and using visas, that's a good thing.

they're saying this is a backlash against charm, probably true, probably against his policy, but maybe it's time for everybody to have a little bit more identification to know who is traveling from one country to the max. we have seen some awful things go on around the world. we are almost immune to it at this point, when we see someone barrel through traffic -- i understand. i hear people yelling at the screen saying it's not always about some new crossing borders so much as homegrown. okay, so let's protect against what we can. >> harris: even the homegrown nature of it all, what we learn from the things that were carried out from people living in belgium and how they were easily going to paris and other places after they had gone in and out of syria, that's a bigger issue. if you're going to track people, maybe this gives you a better way to do that, particularly in a part of the world that has done it well.

>> sandra: one, what is your opinion that it reflects hostility toward the trump administration? >> juan: i think it's exactly right. i heard what melissa said, but i think for the moment, just in isolation, what you have is a political blowback coming from other countries saying you think you're the only one who can act to limit who comes and goes in your country, but if that's what you want to do, hey, guess what, summer is coming, all these american tourists are coming, and they're going to feel a little bit of this tension too. they're intending to punish donald trump. right now, we talked about the heat waves and cold days, right now, on the stove, you have the trump administration really stuck on its band, the bama they had on refugees and people coming from countries previously identified as hosts of terrorists, and the term people

are still struggling >> melissa: i think the reason their distinct is not the majority muslim countries. >> juan: i'm saying, it's widely perceived as a muslim man, especially in europe. all i'm doing is dealing with the political reality, i think it's with "the wall street journal" is picking up on, but also, part of this, i think the reason for the continued delay is that the trump administration is still struggling to find the trigger to justify it. as you know, there are reports out there that say people who have committed acts of terrorism do not come for those countries. >> harris: the majority of them have come from places like saudi arabia. >> juan: and now you're really saying things you shouldn't be saying. >> meghan: i think it's really sad that 27.4 million u.s.

citizens visited europe last year, 8% increase, i'm with you, i don't have a problem with visas coming into places. i think if you are in europe right now, especially in germany, you're probably not against having stricter immigration plants. but the fact that it's in a backlash to president trump, diplomacy is important all the way around and we're still diplomatic, western civilizations need to band together in times like this, especially when isis is on the rise. i don't like the breakdown with europe. >> harris: where the democrats on this issue? i know that pre-election, you didn't have a lot of democrats wanting to talk about this type -- this is not new material from the president. i'm wondering going forward, notwithstanding all the attorneys that are waiting on airports again, where are people in your party on this issue? >> juan: i think what you see is concerned that there is a violation in terms of if it's a muslim man. the perception -- rudy giuliani

-- i think the president has the right answer, that this is a national security issue. this is not an about discrimination. he just needs to justify it. he can just say it, he needs to explain it, make the case to the american people. >> harris: you get the last word. more contacts between trump associates and ambassadors are surfacing. who is in touch with that same ambassador and whether anybody really did anything wrong. reports that barack obama is making a comeback and his new d.c. home will be a nerve center, not my words, for the insurgency against president trump. you don't want to miss this

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>> sandra: on the heels of attorney general jeff sessions recusing himself, more contacts between trump associates in the kremlin's and bassett to light. fox news confirming the presidents son-in-law joined michael flynn when he met with the russian ambassador in december. they said it was a ten minute introductory meeting to set up a line of communication. in the meantime, cnn is reporting three other men who are serving as national security advisors to mr. trump also met with the russian ambassador during the republican national convention in july. reportedly, there were other meetings that took place with those inside the trump world. your thoughts? >> juan: melissa was asking earlier, what's the heart and soul? the heart and soul of the investigation would be if the fbi agents could find out if

there was coordination between the chum campaign and these russian agencies in an effort to influence the outcome of the election. so far, we know nothing at this point. >> melissa: this is what i don't get. you sent ambassadors to meet with people. is that why you send an ambassador to a foreign country? >> juan: if i knew something, i'd be in better shape. you might say, if you are a human being, why -- >> melissa: he's an ambassador, that's what they do. >> juan: jeff sessions would have just said oh, yeah, i met with an ambassador. the >> meghan: of trump wouldn't have tried to normalize everything with potent, you guys

wouldn't have had these problems so maybe you should have taken prudent seriously. this is your problem that you guys made and i have no sympathy for democrats right now who all of a sudden come i care about and care about putin. >> sandra: going back to the original question, is any meeting okay? as you guys are pointing out, he is an ambassador. take a look at this photo, this is the ambassador at the joint session this week. >> harris: i did a little look into the ambassador. the meeting took place, he is one of the most direct links to the obama administration on a time when a war of words over crimea had plunged relations between washington and moscow. they were in very tight contact. he's an ambassador, as melissa has pointed out. again, ask for the evidence on behalf of anybody would like the truth, what evidence is there

that meeting with the man who is sitting among democrats, what's wrong with meeting with him? >> juan: i don't think that's the argument. i don't think there's anything wrong on the face of it, the problem is, i think kim jong-un six was putting us out, he's got his own history and the russians have their own history of recruiting everyone. people are suspicious, when you suddenly appear with him and he don't admit that you had the meeting. there's a whole section of ambassadors of the meetings. >> harris: the thing that jeff sessions is guilty of as he didn't extrapolate out the facts. he should have mentioned, yes, as a senior member of the armed services committee, i did meet with so-and-so. why do you believe one and not

the other is my question? >> meghan: it's why transparency is important, is why having open communication is important. going forward, if this man is nefarious, if you are implying some kind of agent between the united states in america, he has no business sitting with democrats, meeting people left and right. this is by him to take hardlines on issues. when you let it fly, they haven't done anything wrong. >> sandra: let's go back to normal dealings and what is not, fox news has confirmed that jared kushner, the presidents son-in-law and a top aide, did joined michael flynn, who is now ousted when he met with the kremlin's ambassador. we know that happen. it was a ten minute discussion, is that a normal dealings? >> juan: is not abnormal for people to meet ambassadors.

especially if you are an end coming and administration and you're trying to develop lines of contact. what's abnormal, when you read the introductions, how many of the trump inner circle has had regular contact with russian officials that we never knew about until now? wait, what's going on here? >> meghan: i'm starting to think maybe he was the one lucky guy at some point. >> juan: i'm not a spy. >> harris: that really puts a fine point on the fact, if they had succumbed to that end in a more traditionally, some of this might have been avoided. >> meghan: 100%, it's a communications problem. we are going to move on. a former president barack obama -- his new home in d.c. is reportedly being set up as the nerve center of the mounting resistance against donald trump according to daily mail, obama's

longtime confidant valerie jarrett has moved into the mansion to pay for the effort. they set obama's goal is to oust trump from the presidency, either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment. eric holder reportedly says mr. obama is getting ready to make a public reappearance into politics by helping to fight g.o.p. so more democrats are elected. he was quoted as a saying he's coming and he's ready to roll. it president obama will be a more visible part of the effort. there's a lot to unpack here. is it weird that valerie jarrett is moving in with them? [laughter] >> harris: if grown people want to live together, that's none of my business. where do you want me to take that? >> meghan: she was in the white house as well living in the white house for a period of time.

the point is, she has president obama's most trusted confidant for decades. clearly this will be a home base, ground zero for the resistance, but if your resistance didn't work against hillary clinton, why is going to work now? >> harris: it's an interesting question about what their goals are, because it is a resistant totally or they also trying to redefine themselves as so many who was of the people, for the people? i think when you have obama for america as her group and then you lose a thousand feet since you took president across state houses and the congress and the presidency, it gets to the point where i need some redefinition here. it could be resistance, it could also be that. >> juan: remember, he is most prominent democrat in the country at this moment. he was behind comprises entry last weekend. i don't think there's any question that he is going to

play a role, and it's not news, by the way, that he and eric holder, the former attorney general say they want to do something about the tremendous success replicas of had across the country. the next lines will be drawn for congress and he wants to play a role. speed and i thought he was on richard branson's island kite surfing. i can't believe that he wants to get back involved so quickly. the only reason i can think of is preservation of the legacy, that he sees things being dismantled honey want to get involved and try to do some thing about it. setting up in his castle with valerie jarrett -- >> sandra: going back to her last words, you don't think there's anything illegitimate about that? about a former president just out of office setting up a nerve center for trump resistance, to

against the current president after he promised a peaceful transition of power and he will give the guy a shot? >> juan: i think he did have a peaceful transition of power. your point is, about the politics. coming back to your point, president obama, during his era, democrats lost a lot of seats. speed on it's about a general level of respect for the president. >> juan: until he does something disrespectful, let's see it. >> harris: this conversation was brought up around inauguration within one hour, you'd see a repeal and replace him obamacare. remember what he told his political party of the time, don't rescue the republicans. don't help them. you're going to need everybody on board in order to make it better for the american people, but you've got a former president saying to his party,

don't participate in a positive way. that's disrespectful. >> juan: do you think so? was it disrespectful when he didn't have any republicans participating and trying to craft and approve obamacare? >> harris: you dead. >> juan: i don't like there was a republican vote and subsequence of that, when obamacare had its, no republicans came up to say we think this whole thing has to be gutted. now, look at yourselves now, baby. >> harris: the executive order their way through it. he couldn't even lead on his own party. we can talk after a period >> meghan: there is power in silence. look at how powerful george w. bush's recent statements have been in the last week when he is -- he's made international news, he had a very interesting interactive views on what it's like to be both in and out of power. i feel at the next president do what is going to do, sit back

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♪ >> harris: new questions about whether some officials are openly defying president trump on immigration. let's start in oregon. a judge is under investigation after allegedly helping an illegal immigrant escape i.c.e. agents. when the court staff noticed i.c.e. agents in the hallway, they said the judge allowed the suspect to leave it to her private entrance. the suspect was later nabbed, the u.s. attorney for oregon is outraged. watch. >> i felt that it was

inappropriate and it delegitimize is the work of i.c.e. agents who are out there doing their jobs. now it's to my stomach >> harris: immigration officials must present a warrant before entering school grounds. the governor says any release, president trump's long-standing immigration policies have led to fear and uncertainty in many of our communities. my demonstration remains committed to provide each and every pupil with an education regardless of immigration status. >> juan: the donald trump order people into schools question work i must have missed that. i don't think that's true. i agree with governor mccullough, in virginia, they have an agreement to educate all

children, i think that's honorable. i know there's a lot of fear out there, a lot of concern, was not overhyped it. i haven't heard that president trump was ordering people into schools. i've heard about airports, i prayed about a kid being stopped and questioned. i want to stay grounded. >> melissa: when we look at the school thing, what bothers me about that is the idea that if you're not here illegally and are not paying taxes and you're not part of the system, i don't know why you're drawing on it, and it doesn't seem like -- we can't have a social welfare state and have an open border. it doesn't work. we are so deeply in debt as it is. if you want to go to school here, and to become a citizen, you have to register, you have to have ideas. as part of the organization. we're all here paying our taxes, doing our duties, that's the way it goes.

the >> harris: center, what i said in that intro, there are some who are openly defying the president. you have a situation where it might not be defying the president. houston has opted out to use its local police as immigration gathering, which is something the president said he wants. san francisco did the same thing this morning, we won't use our police department to help in the immigration process. >> sandra: this is an instance where immigration laws are being defied and ignored and gone against. i think right now, we're looking for some sort of trend. are we seeing a trend like that? >> juan: what we know is there has been an increase in numbers of people being deported who are not guilty of committing any felonies and crimes. under president obama, he went after people who are lawbreakers. president trump came after people and said we will go after people who are committing

crimes. at 25%, to be somewhat hyperbolic, things like parking tickets, traffic violations. >> harris: being here illegally means you've already broken the law. >> juan: that's why i was listening to melissa. >> melissa: i was talking about the fact that from an economic point of view, more people -- i know that's an unpopular point of view. i don't want people to go home, i want them to pay taxes. when you're talking about people who are here illegally, they're being paid in cash. >> juan: no, no, no. they have a phony social security numbers. i think a lot of them have phony ids. >> melissa: from the system, pay into it, then draw on it.

>> meghan: i was focusing on the judge helping an illegal immigrant escape i.c.e. i think there's a real problem in this country with a lot of people not understanding what their jobs are and what their role is. if you want to be a vigilante for illegal immigrants even if i don't think it's particularly epico, that's fine, but don't be a judge at the same time. if you want to be a commentator, don't go on tv and be a journalist at the same time. nothing really ever gets done when it's all muddled. i don't understand why you, as a judge, would be helping to actively break the law when your job -- >> harris: it also brings up the issue of jurisdiction, how far does that go? is it that you don't go after people, you are hiding them, or that you're letting them evade the law? he has repeatedly complained about overly negative news con

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>> meghan: more "outnumbered" in just a moment, but first, jon scott with what's coming up in the second hour of "happening now" ." >> jon: in the next hour, we are expecting peach from vice president mike pence. we will carry some of that line, assuming that happens on time. we'll also have more on the repeal and replace efforts on obamacare and why those plans are being kept under lock and key. all ahead, "happening now" ." >> meghan: looking forward to it. >> melissa: a new survey revealing some interesting stats. a nonpartisan independent media research firm collected data from top evening news shows starting on january 20th, which was the day that president trump took office. this went on through february 17th. the findings showing only 3% of news broadcasts about the president were considered

positive. 43% were considered negative and 54% were considered neutral. fox news was found to have the highest% of neutral news storie stories. juan williams, what do you think about that? >> juan: oftentimes, they say so many reporters in the country -- the question is, how do you measure the fact that in so many cases these days, they will give distorted visions of things and if the reporters call them on it, is that a negative story or is that a neutral story? people talk about scott kelly coming on cbs and saying oh, gosh, president trump held this today and he had so many distortions. is that appropriate or is in fact he giving the american audience of view of what's going on with this president?

>> sandra: i agree with a lot of what you just said and as i watched this report, i think why does this feel so negative? is a because they're reporting things where they feel he's been disingenuous or is that the language about it? one thing he said in an administration that seemed out of touch with reality, as opposed to saying we fact-check, that is an accurate, sometimes it's the language. >> harris: first of all, congratulations to bret baier for doing the great job that he does as a journalist. next point that i'd like to make, it's going to sound a little old school. news used to be a loss leader, meaning if they got ratings and help the network in some way and it made the money, great. they made their money off of their programming, their comedies, their whatever.

now the news is a ratings and revenue generator, and when you mix those two things together, it becomes difficult to then show value to just the fact gathering, which is why you can turn on some network and you'll see the bottom of the screen, things like we're doing a countdown until trump messes up again on twitter. how is that news exactly? if you want to cover what the president tweets, that's one thing. >> sandra: even more importantly, another stay this week by "the wall street journal," a poll found that the american people aren't suckers and the election as proof of that. in the face of all that negative media coverage, donald trump stole one. this poll found that roughly 51% of americans thought the press was too critical. the media can dish out whatever they want, but the american people largely are seeing

straight through that. >> juan: your point is, and i think the point of the poll is, people see the press as hypercritical of this president, but it's not the case if they dismiss with the press is reporting, because i think we had a poll last week that said between the president and the press, most people believe the press. americans still believe the press plays a very important role. at the question is one one of e become hostile? the infotainment angle that you're talking about. >> meghan: i was just going to say, i've been in this industry a long time, a virtual different places. when you're a republican, and a conservative analyst, not a journalist but like harris. there needs to be a clear differentiation between those things, but it's always nine liberals and then a token republican. i used to joke that i was a token republican on panels, and that's part of the problem. when you look at other networks and one republican gets one voice on a giant panel of people.

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