of the show. [crowd noise] >> johnny thank you very much. see you back here tomorrow. go big east. >> bill: good morning, everybody. there was a marathon session to repeal and replace obamacare underway right now on capitol hill finally scoring in the first fight to deliver on the party signature promise to peel back obamacare. i'm bill hemmer. a big show how are you doing. >> shannon: there are coffee runs. i'm shannon bream in for mar that mac callum. they're going to hold a series of meetings with republicans this hour as conservatives continue to sound the alarm saying more changes are needed.

>> the president is proud of the product we have produced. we're out in full sell mode around the country talking about how we think this is the best way to solve the problem the american people face. >> let's do what we told the voters we'd do. we told them we'd repeal it and replace it with a plan that's patient-centered. we don't think it will bring down the cost of premiums. >> i'm afraid the situation continues to get worse and they admit as much because they put in $100 billion to bail out the insurance companies. >> we're keeping our promise and excited about this and defederalizing it and to the other we're replacing it with a conservative republican tax policy. it's nothing but a win for conservatives. >> bill: you think the story's getting hot, stand by. there's another story. the fbi is on the hunt for a cia leaker launching a criminal

investigation how wikileaks got documents. we're at white house for the two big stories. katie pavlich standing by with analysis but we start where the action is peter doocy live on capitol hill. good morning. >> though republican lawmakers are not on board yet with the republican-leadership backed replacement bill the house majority leader kevin mccarthy predicted it will move to the senate. last night the speaker of the house paul ryan said if things seem disjointed on the right it's just because leaders here are still getting used to seeing a friendly face down at the white house. >> so we are going through what i would call the typical growing pains from being an opposition party fighting barack obama and nancy pelosi and harry reid to an outspoken party.

>> the speaker of the house has not been up front with the president about the number of votes the measure has now. senator rand paul breitbart, paul ryan i think is selling it to the white house and telling the white house it's a piece of cake. it's a done deal. i don't think that's an accurate depiction of things. at the white house they're using the presidential bowling alley to pick up support for the replacement measure. mick mulvaney is inviting skeptical caucus members to bowl and eat pizza tuesday and many plan to attend but across the aisle many are surprised many republicans are still not on the same page about the american health care act. >> they have a chance to put something forward in the dark of nights. you think in seven years they would have come up with something better than what they've done. >> the marathon mark-up sessions on the hill continue.

committees are going line by line. ways and means started at 10:30 am yesterday and went to 4:00 am this morning. the energy and commerce committee also started at 10:30 am yesterday and they're still going right now. >> bill: word by word. peter doocy setting the stable on the hill. >> shannon: the trump administration making a major push to get the bill over the finish line. chief white house correspondent john robertson is live. >> the president continues to put the hard sell meeting with conservative groups who stand in staunch opposition to it. people like the heritage action group, freedom works, the club for growth and a number of other groups. tea party patriots, americans for prosperity. those groups are critical of the ahca calling it obamacare lite a warmed over substitute and ryan care and saying it's bad policy. the health secretary tom price

this morning saying, well, you know, some of the things those groups are worried about not being in the bill things like the ability to negotiate for lower drug prices, the ability to sell insurance across state lines are now in what he calls phase one of the bill because it's a reconciliation bill can only do with taxing and spending and what they're dealing with now. he said those things will come further down the road and believes the conservatives will come onboard with it. listen here. >> i believe it's going to pass. i do. we're trying to address the concerns they have. i've had meetings in the past two weeks and got more meetings this week and today. met with the governors the last weekend when they were in town. so we're trying to address all of those issues in a positive way again so when we get to patient-centered health care. >> the health secretary said he'll be at the bowling party tuesday mick mulvaney is holding for the freedom caucus a clear indication in additional to the

budget which is what mulvaney called the bowling party for they'll be talking health care as well. meantime on the other big story, the theft of cyber spying tools from the cia the white house continues to not talk about this at all, not confirming whether or not the hack happened but yesterday at the briefing sean spicer saying the president remains very concerned about the leaks of classified information he said could harm national security. the press secretary also appeared to contradict himself asked if the president was the target of a wiretapping separation. spicer at first said that's what they want the intelligence committees to hand out and after handed a note by an aide appeared to do a 180 on the whole thing. watch how it unfolded. >> that's what we need to find out. there's obviously a lot of concern. there's no reason to believe that he's the target of any investigation. i think that's very important

point to make. and so -- what i'm saying hold on. the one question dealt with whether or not the tweet dealt with wiretapping and the other is an investigation. there are two separate issues. there is no reason to believe there is any type of investigation with respect to the department of justice. >> one former advisor from the trump campaign involved in a couple meetings last year think he may have connected some dots. carter paige sent some letters saying because of his peaceful relationship with the russians he was the target of wiretapping around because his office was in trump tower and often in trump tower it may explain what the president was talking about in terms of wiretaps at trump tower. >> shannon: thank you. >> bill: katie pavlich a fox news contributor.

good morning to you. >> good morning. >> bill: starting on the cia leaks where does this go if anywhere? >> the wall street journal said they'll look to contractors rather than government staff. specifically they're looking for edward snowden 2.0 and he left the country so this could be a saga to come and sure it will be. in terms of what the white house is saying on the issue as john roberts reported they're not specifically commenting on whether this is a valid leak. whether it's an authentic leak however, they're saying the leakers will be pursued and criminally prosecuted which means they're taking a hard stance now to prevent it in the future. >> bill: what are you suggesting not an authentic leak? what other possibility would there be? >> there isn't really any other possibility but the white house has been careful not to validate

the fact these are tactics in order to try to put a band-aid on the world and americans knowing what our tactics are using smartphones and smart tvs to listen in and the saying they do not use those tactics against americans and with snowden id caused investigations into what the tactics were and what the process were to make sure americans aren't the target of unauthorized warrantless investigations. >> bill: you asked sean spicer yesterday, what is nonnegotiable for president trump. what was the answer? >> secretary price was in the briefing room saying the obamacare on the table behind him was a starting point and president trump had some conservative leaders and ted cruz had dinner with him which

means there's going to be a lot of negotiation around moving forward it will happen in three parts. the beginning bill we may look different than the end bill. president trump is a negotiator. he's out to sell this thing to the american people and to those on capitol hill who are skeptical however, is open to new ideas to get it through. i want to emphasize the tea party movement is still alive and well in the sense they worked very hard for many many years knocking on doors, getting candidates that can win to repeal obamacare. and they are not going to sit down and take it and take this lightly. they have a rally next week in washington, d.c. and will hold republicans accountable to make sure it cut costs and repeals obamacare in full. >> bill: the pushback is real. very real as you have said. katie pavlich for her analysis.

later at 3:00 mike pompeo will meet with the president and on the agenda, immigration and the leaks. >> shannon: to be a fly on the wall in that meeting. we're not going to get read from that i don't think not much. all right. well, this is a top story of the day, house lawmakers burning the midnight oil and a marathon session continuing on capitol hill starting at 10:30 am yesterday and a republican working on the bill just stepped out to join us. house majority whip steve scalise is next. >> bill: and a new report that the number of those illegally entering the u.s. is dropping and dropping fast. we'll tell you what we know about that. >> shannon: and marines officially on the ground in syria as the trump administration ramps up efforts

and retired general king is here. >> we'll work with our allies to extinguish this vile enemy from our planet.

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>> people, families, have the freedom to choose the health care plan they like. that's the ultimate freedom in health care. maybe some people don't view that as freedom because they don't think people should be able to make that choice for

themselves and there's clearly a philosophical difference we have but if those are the two definitions of freedom i'm on the side of giving families the freedom to choose their own plan not going through a democrat. >> bill: that's steve scalise and all-nighters still going on now and many conservatives still balking saying it doesn't bring down costs and louisiana congressman steve scalise popped out of the meeting and joining us now. thank you for making time. we want viewers to know what happened. what happens overnight with s substance. >> good morning. it's been almost 24 hours we're battling on obamacare look at the battle we've had 2:00 in the morning, 3:00 in the morning,

4:00 in the morning. every democratic is against the bill because they acknowledge it gets rid of obamacare. that's what's at stake. we're going to get it done but look at what obamacare has done to destroy health care in america. there's been a lot of revisionist history from my democrat colleagues who act like it's lowered costs. we had to remind everybody what this law's done to real families and raised premiums and skyrocketing costs. families paying over $10,000. >> bill: you may not get democratic support and you're getting pushback from the freedom caucus and mark meadows said the following and i want you to answer next. watch. >> if you look at the bill text

the first paragraph said it amends the affordable care act. it doesn't repeal it. the american people want us to repeal it and replace it with something different. >> bill: what are you saying to them? >> that's similar text and we put a bill on the desk to modify obamacare and passed a full repeal bill to the senate multiple times. they've never b the votes to pass it so we're going through the budget reconciliation process with 51 votes you can get the bill to the president's desk and we got a bill to barack obama's desk that gutted the law. we're going to move through a similar process, do some of those same things and by the way we also defund groups like planned parenthood that use taxpayer money to provide abortion. >> bill: is this phase one then? when the hearing breaks what will you have officially

accomplished? >> we'll have moved a bill through the energy and commerce committee and ways and means committee that starts the unravelling of obamacare. we zero out the individual on the mandate and on the employer mandate and expand health savings accounts, give real freedom to families to choose their doctor. they don't have to go through washington and an elected bureaucrat and give states the ability and flexibility to run their program and control costs in medicaid. that's going to save hundreds of billions to the taxpayer. there are dramatic things in here, a great conservative win and we're still talking to all of our members. i was talking to mark meadows yesterday. we have a few caucus members on the committee and voting with us to move the bill forward. >> bill: mitch mcconnell is talking this morning in washington and said you will know the cost and impact of the plan by monday.

does that sound right to you? >> i would expect by monday or tuesday before the bill go through the budget committee next week we'll have a cdo score. keep in mind, cbo they've said a lot of things wrong about obamacare but at the end of the day we're not going to wait on them. we started moving the bill because we made a commitment to the american people we're going to get the bill through the house and senate onto president trump's desk. >> speaking of the president, last question, did you say to your members last night are you with president trump or with nancy pelosi? >> what i said nancy pelosi by the way is attacking the bill. president trump wants the bill on his desk and at the end of the day when the bill's on the house floor we'll have all of our negotiations but there'll be a binary choice you'll have the bill to gut obamacare and vote with nancy pelosi because she'll

vote no or vote question to debt on his desk. at the end of the day they'll have to make a choice to vote with nancy pelosi or support president trump to get the bill to his desk. >> bill: steve, thank you for making time. >> great to be with you. >> shannon: budget cuts putting a huge strain on a major u.s. base. a fox news exclusive coming up on how years of neglect can impact our safety. also, the u.s. says all options are on the table. when responding to north korea's latest provocation. general jack king said we're on a collision course. >> we haven't seen good will coming from north korea. i appreciate my counterparts wanting to talk about talks and negotiations. we're not dealing with a

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>> u.s. marines are on the ground in syria. fox news confirming they have arrived outside the capital of raqqah. they're provide posts as they try to retake from issa control. jack keane is chairman of the institute for the study of warm and a fox news military analyst. general, good to see you today. >> good to see you, shannon. >> shannon: it seems like a change in posture. you'd expect that with the administration. how much is president trump or general mattis or a combination. >> the president asked for a plan in 30 days to defeat isis.

he has a sense of urgency about it and there's 2,000 forces of additional commitment as high as 12,000 which would include conventional ground forces, artillery units. you're seeing one being deployed right now. apache helicopters and additional special operation forces. the president has to make a decision about all that and i'm certain once that operation truly commences he'll begin to talk about it to the american people but likely not before that. >> shannon: there's been criticism that president trump has micromanaged and done smaller efforts. do you think it goes bigger and broader with the military moves. >> he is using the right terms to defeat isis and wants to do it quickly. president obama since the invasion of iraq isis conducted in january of 2014 it took us nine months to respond to that

invasion, by the way. we have made 12 troop incremental changes from the summer of 2014 to the present. that's not the way to conduct a campaign. what the president has asked for as commander-in-chief he said bring me a campaign plan to defeat isis not just in iraq and syria but entirely. that's what military planning is truly all about. >> shannon: well, and you know there's always a conversation when troops are sent closer to the front lines, u.s. troops there's always skittishness with the american people something the last administration was incredibly sensitive to but if you're going to defeat a group like isis how involved will we have to get with boots on the ground and a bigger commitment in the region. >> those are choice the president has to make and clearly knows the american people are supporting defeating isis and as quickly as possible.

after all, isis has radicalized people in the united states who have killed americans and obviously killing citizens in europe, our fellow allies and others in the region. there's no doubt, i believe, the american people will support the president's efforts and he explains the situation. why we need x number of troops, why it's going to take this amount of time to do it and gives them a sense of what the end-state is i think they'll support him. >> shannon: let's talk about north korea and missile launches and saber rattling and what nikki hayes had to say in response. >> we have to see a positive action taken by north korea. they've given us enough reason to think they're irresponsible and we're not dealing with a rational person. >> shannon: china also saying the military exercises with south korea are provoking north

korea and asking us to stop that. how much can we lean on china at all to be a help in dealing with north korea. i know you think a number of presidents have tried and not done so successfully. is this different? >> we've tried with three presidents for twenty-plus years now they're building a weaponization capability to put weapons on intercontinental ballistic missiles to reach the united states. that's 20 years of behavior. we've not curbed the behavior. i believe we're on a collision course with north korea because we cannot permit tem -- them to weaponize an icbm to reach the united states. it means we have to conduct a preemptive attack using cyber attack or an kinetic airstrike or missile strike to defeat that system before it would ever be launched. we need to make certain the

chinese understand that we are willful and intend to do this because we're not going to put americans in danger. i think once they begin to understand how serious we are then possibly this time with this president we may be able to finally curb north korea's aggressive behavior. the alternative, shannon, if we have to conduct a preemptive strike they can go to the south and have an all-out war or strikes on seoul as well. it's a dangerous situation. >> shannon: it is and ambassador haley said all options are on the table. thank you for breaking it down. good to see you. >> bill: 9:30 in washington in moments the hill starts to discuss russia interfering with democracy and james comey back in the spotlight.

some accusing of him using his power like none other and a top official slamming wikileaks saying the website is basically an asset to the kremlin. mike huckabee addresses that next. >> the idea we're having ongoing disclosures of security and classified information should be something everybody is outraged in this country. this is the kind of disclosure that undermines our security and well being.

>> bill: 9:34. president trump will meet with he head of homeland securition kelly and the white house is making progress on immigration saying those illegally crossing the southern border has dropped 40% in the first months of president trump's presidency.

jonathan. >> the trump administration says the new figures "america's newsroom" it's tough on immigration policies are working and the figures in the report appear to back up the claim. now february usually sees an uptick in the number of illegal immigrants crossing from mexico into the u.s. but this year there was a drop of 40% from the previous month measured by the number of people apprehended at the border. in january according to customs and immigration more than 1,000 illegal immigrants were stopped at the border. in february the figure dropped to under 19,000 and administration officials say it's a sign that far less people are trying to cross the border at the time of year that usually sees an uptick in the number. in a statement homeland security secretary john kelly said the

trump positions are working and that the immigration enforcement can make an impact. now the cvp report said the fees charged by human smugglers also known as coyotes are increasing to $8,000 in some mountainous parts of the border and cvp said it's another sign new policies are making it harder for would-be illegal immigrants and their guides. historically a number of factors affect the flow of immigrants including the economy and the weather but experts generally agtion policies are the single biggest driving factor and deterrent. those experts also point out tough words have to be followed up by tough acts or the flow might pick up as it did in the reagan years after his 1986 amnesty. >> bill: interesting developing.

jonathan hunt following that from l.a. thank you, sir. >> shannon: house foreign affairs committee hearing on russia said to get underway at the top of the hour as washington grapples with the fallout from the latest wikileaks dump suggesting a contractor may may have alleged to be sensitive cia documents. some have a reason to believe moscow had a hand in it as well. >> i don't know the russians committed the test. this may be what wikileaks said it was, an insider. but with regard to the timing, look, i'm not close to the position that wikileaks is acting as an arm or agent of the russian federation. >> shannon: governor mike huckabee, a fox news contributor. >> good morning. >> shannon: various agency have been talking about morale has

being battered and the cia saying we're fot using this on americans we use it on bad guys but yet a public discussion about things they probably wanted to keep private. >> well, it certainly is but there's things we need to know about american citizens particularly if it violates rights americans have. if our government is spying on us, if our government is holding back secrets about us and stealing things from us in the way of information something is rotten not just in denmark but d.c. and we have to get to the bottom other wise we don't have this great republic most believe we have. that's why this is terrible. i think this thing stinks bigger than the hog barn at the iowa state fair. even when michael hayden talks he says they might have. here's what we know.

information was being shared from the obama administration to the clinton campaign. we learned that on tuesday on "fox & friends" and it tells us information being collected was being given to the private citizen hillary clinton and a political campaign on the democratic side. that ought to be looked and investigated. i think we'll find donald trump will be vindicated and the obama administration will be vilified when the facts come out. >> shannon: there's a number of investigations on capitol hill and letters out yet asking for information on wiretapping and we'll hopefully get answers. i also want to talk about fbi director james comey he's in the middle of the conversations and a piece in the new york post says comey is a master at leaking information, making inferences and implications when

it works for him to his advantage. here's part of what he said, comey's aggressive self-righteousness makes him bigger than the institution he leads and everybody in washington knows crossing him could be dangerous to your career. what do you make of it? >> he's right. james comey has assumed a position no one else should assume. there was a time when they pressures politicians to get what they wanted. that's dangerous. this is how other countries work that are totalitarian and if he is going to use both sides and play politics and use information he has to leverage for power then i think it's time for him to go. >> shannon: here's what he said yesterday about whether he'll stay or go. he was speaking and touched on that. >> you're stuck with me for about another six and a half years so i'd love to be invited

back again. you can ask me about anything. i'm slippery. i'll avoid talking about things i don't want to talk about. >> shannon: he says he's not going anywhere. >> he's very slippery on that i'll agree, he has been. something has happened to james comey from the person people new. it's unfortunate but it's time for him to go. i don't care what he says. >> shannon: governor, it's our time to go but always good to see. thanks for dropping in. >> thank you. >> bill: 19 minutes before the hour. are democrats using russia to sabotage the administration? that's the allegation from the former house speaker. we'll investigate those charges next. >> a similar pattern we're seeing whether it's leaking or wiretapping or it is in a right of other collusions between the deep state bureaucracy and the deep state media. the things he

reports he saw were zero evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russians which makes you think why is this still an issue besides the democrats are desperate to do anything to slow donald trump. >> bill: strong allegation the democrats making claims intentional. and we have fox news contributors. good important. doug, he essentially fired that shot your way. go ahead and start. is he right? >> i don't think he's right. look, it's undeniable the democrats are using the russian issue to try to undermine the republicans but it's a much bigger issue, bill.

the russians are trying to undermine our democracy. you have republican cabinet members and legislators and the like not being forthcoming about what they did and did not say to russians when they said it and these are big issues. we need to get to the bottom of it. >> bill: doug, even after the election this stuff was dropped on the ground like bread crumbs. do you believe there is no effort to slow down this administration with these charges? >> no, i'm saying there is some effort but part of a larger russian effort to destroy our influence around the world and undermine our democracy. that to me is a big issue. it's part of global politics -- >> bill: i get it but you can't separate the two do you understand? >> i'm not the two are linked. >> bill: you have this rumor or you have perhaps some sort of fact at some point not yet discovered that you can use effectively against this administration. >> well, you have the fact that

jeff sessions was not fully candid and mike flynn was not fully candid and we know the russians were hacking. those are big issues. we have to get to the bottom of it and recognize russia is our geopolitical foe around the two are linked. >> russia is trying to do everything they can to undermine our democracy but they've been doing that for decades for a long time. it's nothing new. what is new is the degree to which not only the media and democrats have gone to to use this issue to slow down donald trump but to also have a former administration and then you have this massive bureaucracy and these are people donald trump has tapped to work for him but the problem and it go to what a massive unwielding breaking news

he's got people working for him to undermine his agenda and him and democrats -- >> bill: i think sometimes you can kiss it off as politics but so much of this smells like bad patriotism. did you see o'reilly last night with bob woodward. let me play the clip and you tell me if something's there. >> you still don't know why it was put out or what agency put it out. >> wait a minute, come on, that's b.s. >> do you bob woodward know who taped that call? do you know? >> i do not know. >> bill: so doug, you is a that. is there a dare there? >> let me be clear, i agree with charlie we have a problem with the deep state and the media

being complicit to undermine trump. that's going on separately and distinct from anything the russians are doing or democrats are doing. that scares me because if we have a president who is infeebled because of the media and deep state the winner is the guy on the screen on the right vladamir putin. >> bill: that's right. charlie? >> when i look back at the past administration in terms of failures in standing up to the russian government we've never seen anything in decades like president obama's failures to advance america's agenda against russia. we haven't seen any of that from the current president. all we've seen is all this smoke and democrats doing everything they can to politicize what historically has been something that politics is supposed to end at our borders and shores. >> bill: gentlemen, thank you both of you.

charlie hurt and doug schoen. talk to you again real soon. >> shannon: the fbi now officially searching for the source of who leaked vital information from the cia straight to wikileaks. california congressmen duncan hunter will join us to talk about the investigation. also, one of the army's premier bases falling into disrepair. fox news traveled for an exclusive report on that military base.

>> bill: opening bell on wall street and we once bottomed at 6400 and now we're trading at

21,000. the second longest bull run in history and the s&p is up 254% over that stretch. longest sustained bull market, nine and a half year starting back in the 1990s so wow. >> shannon: a u.s. army base at home becoming the poster child for the depletion of our military. budget cuts taking a toll on fort cambell and could make it difficult to respond to a real emergency. good morning, jennifer. >> we carried out a number of exclusive investigations looking at readiness issues. at fort cambell we found the problem is different from the air force and marines but equally it's home to the 101st airborne division general dwight

eisenhower used and they deepened to enemy territory and they may not be able to conduct those same operations after six years of budget cuts. >> we have aviation brigade here. >> if you had to move out tomorrow and do a brigade level assault could you do it? >> we could not. >> the army cut one of fort cambell's two airiation brigades in 2015 and they forced the fort cambell brigade to deploy without their maintenance crews. 1,000 highly-trained helicopter mechanics lost nearly a year of training and they're skills atrophied and now it takes twice as long to fix helicopters. >> our maine -- maintainers

didn't have a fleet to work on. >> they had to pay contractors in afghanistan to do the work of the mechanics and it's not just the shortage of experience. the world war ii era equipment are crumbling leading to more inefficiencies. >> to even look at the ceiling you can see where the water damage is causing the wood itself to begin to dry rot out. >> for the last two years there's been a fresno on spending on any money on building maintenance on the army bases. we'll have more throughout the day, shannon. >> shannon: jennifer, thank you. >> bill: who was behind the hack of thousand of vital cia documents? the white house launching a full investigation into a possible mole at the central intelligence agency. we'll tell you what we know about that at the top of the hour on "america's newsroom."

>> shannon: the hunt is on as the fbi tries to track down the mole or hacker who leaked thousand of cia documents to wikileaks. exposing methods and tactics and right now wikileaks founder juliana assange is talking live about it. i'm shannon bream in for martha maccallum. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. it's playing out in the spotlight but it's cloak-and-dagger after being called the largest hack in cia history. here's sean spicer white house press secretary about it yesterday. >> the president is extremely concerned about this. make no mistake the president has talked before anybody who leaks classified information will be held to the highest degree of law. >> bill: chief intelligence correspondent katherine is live in live on this.

>> an official saying the fbi has opened a criminal investigation and three scenarios are under investigation a cyber breach or insider and they're checking on which employees had access. the phone records come from different parts of the cyber unit including administrative briefing line and block charts some of which were stored online. it suggests multiple breaches or feeds. the secrets have been spilled by wikileaks. the same group that posted former nsa contractor edward snowden's stolen records. russia recently extended snowden's asile -- asylum. >> there's four or five bad actors, russia, china or a large organized group but this is a

sophisticated actor. two important eyes of the intelligence community have been degraded and we have to refocus and continue to rebuild and be able to understand what our adversaries are trying to hide from us. >> this morning we're getting a better sense of timing for contact. a former intelligence official said some contacts were from last fall and saying it may have stopped at that point. >> bill: juliana assange is talking about the haven't. >> based on the event juliana assange has told reporters the cia lost control and the whe whereabouts and who has them is a question and there's 8,000 documents released are just a fraction of what's coming and here's part of the tweet that reads in part, wikileaks has

released less than 1% of the bulk in reference to the cia documents in the part one publication of yesterday of zero year. he alleged cia lost control of the highly sensitive cyber spying tools and who has control of them now is a valid question. >> bill: catherine herridge in washington. >> shannon: bret baier. good to see you this morning. >> good morning, shannon. >> shannon: how is this playing out in washington and folks on the hill feel. the intel community to be dealing with the leak is not what they want to be doing. >> it looks like it go back to as catherine mentioned 2016. the fact this is so deep and that these secrets are now out there you talk to any intel official and they say it's a really big deal. how big, i think we don't have

our head around yet and whether it's an inside contractor, whether -- we don't know exactly the extent. but we do know there are intelligence officials with their hair on fire about this being out there. >> shannon: last night i talked to dr. james mitcher a former cia official about this and here's what he said about the leaks and situation. >> one thing we've done in the country that disturbs me a little bit is we romanticize the subculture of hackers to the point they've become a tribe, cult heroes and the cool thing to do is get into the hard places to get into and sort of give people a peak into their underwear drawer so to speak, right. >> shannon: he said so many of these people have become glorified and become cult heroes and have their own fans and following. some of them think they're doing a great service for the country, for the world by taking this on. >> well, i'll just say we've

been seeing a lot of government underwear drawers lately because this is happening increasingly almost every day the government is under a barrage of attacks and actors independent of state hacking who have a glorified notion of getting where they can't get and this may not be a hack. it may be an inside breach from a contractor much like edward snowden was or bradley manning helped wikileaks with the transfer of data back then. >> shannon: i talked to governor huckabee about this last hour and he talked about the fact it's good americans should know about this hearing what the cia is capable and wikileaks said it wanted a public conversation about this. first of all the cia is not commenting on the authenticity shutting it down saying you

expect us to have tools like this to go after the bad guys. we don't use them on americans. how much does this exposure convince americans we're not watching you from your smart tv when you get out of the shower? >> people hear the story and then turn to their wall and say, what's happening here. the internet of things if it's not someone it could be some hacker who gets into these different devices and it is real. it can happen. so it is a story that i think permeates for that reason but the cia and the intelligence community is saying they do not focus internally. they are looking externally at the bad guys. we're going to ask about this today. i have an interview with vice president pence on capitol hill and he'll talk to us on special report not only about all the different elements with the leaks and the investigations into the alleged russia ties,

the new breaking news with micha michael flynn and his push on capitol hill to get people to sign on to the new bill. >> shannon: it should be fascinating. he's a very busy man. thank you. >> bill: news made on that one and interesting on the location they choose because it gives you an idea how the administration is trig to shepherd the bill through. >> shannon: and it's a full-court press and there's a bowling summit. >> bill: are we going? >> shannon: our invite is lost in the mail. we don't have to be lobbied on health care. >> bill: polish the shoes. here we go to the west. hawaii the first state to file a legal challenge against the president's revised immigration travel ban arguing the order has the same legal problems as the first one. >> we would love it if the president could come up with an order that protects our borders, and protects our national security in a way that doesn't

discriminate against people based upon their nation of origin or their religion. that's unconstitutional and that's the reason. >> bill: adam is up early in the west coast. how has hawaii expanded on that complaint thus far? >> you heard from the attorney general in hawaii. we'll hear more in a second. they filed a complaint against the order in honolulu making them the first to do so and they filed a complaint on the last order back in january. theirs was never heard because washington's went forward. they've been someone to go against the trump travel restrictions both times now twice. they argue a couple things. saying it's a re-do as you put it of the last travel restriction the president put in. they claim it will damage hawaii's institution, harm its economy and erode its sovereign interest maintaining separation

between first and state and welcoming people into the fabric of its society. the state budgeted $150,000 to hire an outside law firm to help with the lawsuit. they hired former solicitor general for president obama cutshaw and saying federal judge watson in hawaii said an oral argument at 9:30 am march 15, see you in court. the federal judge was appointed by president obama. his name is derek watson set the case to be heard next wednesday. he said he'll be hearing the argument that the order will harm the state's muslim population and foreign students. again that comes from the argument that this will be heard next wednesday. let's listen to the attorney general. >> i think what happens if he locked himself into a muslim ban and certain countries you can't let go and if he wants to do

extreme vetting and make it more difficult for people to come into the country he has that ability to do so. >> there's a lot in the complaint. also in there is saying president trump's comments during the election and prior to the process could harm and cause a problem with the travel ban. there's a lot to go through and you have to believe the hearing on wednesday will be interesting. >> bill: it will. what have you heard from the white house? president trump saying anything about this? >> we're on tweet watch haven't gotten that yet. i will say we have heard from jeff session. he said -- the attorney general defending the order saying quotas a lawful and proper exercise of presidential authority consistent with the core principles of the constitution. the trump administration has until noon eastern to file a reply for the wednesday hearing.

there's a lot it go between now and wednesday. we await response from the president via twitter or officially and we await for what they'll file on monday. >> bill: adam houseley watching that for us. >> shannon: 24 hours and counting and they're still hammering out the obamacare replacement bill trying to make good on the promise. >> tonight i'm also calling on the congress to repeal and replace obamacare. >> shannon: will the battle between the republican party derail the effort. we'll talk to power couple matt and mercedes schlapp. >> bill: and serious allegations russia violated a deal with a missile test. >> shannon: plus, an exclusive interview of the family of an american now jailed in iran.

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>> shannon: in washington yet another press conference. right now the democrats on the senate side actually you're seeing the senator independent but often votes with the democrat holding their own independent event and on the

other side of your screen it's been almost 24 hours and the house energy committee continues debates on the bill and the house ways and means approved the bill this morning and republican senator rand paul telling breitbart news i think speaker ryan is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the press and what he said earlier today on "fox & friends." >> i don't think it's going to be an easy passage with the obamacare lite provisions in it. i think every time the speaker go on television and saying it's a slam dunk we have to the votes. i don't think that's accurate. there's a great deal of dissense on replacement and repeal and we need to think it through and get it right. >> shannon: chairman of the american conservative union mercedes schlapp is a fox news contributor and they're the

conservative power couple and good to see you both. >> great to see you. >> great to be with you. >> shannon: mercedes, i want to start with the comments from senator paul who said would be a full repeal of the whole thing not a replacement. he is saying it's not fair for the speaker to go to the president and tell him quote, it's a done deal. a piece of cake. there are not only conservatives who don't like the bill and others who have objections to it numbering to the 60s and 80s. they can only lose like 21? >> absolutely. but i believe speaker ryan with president trump recognize the critical moment which is now to repeal and replace obamacare. speaker ryan has had his better way provisions in place for years. this comes to no surprise to republicans. of course this is just the beginning of the legislative process and they're being vocal

and why you have to let it go through the process. there'll be amendments to the bill and as well as what we're seeing for example with say the republicans study committee. they're conservative and saying look, if you freeze medicaid and do a partial refundable tax credit we could agree to this. i think you'll see a lot of room for compromise but i think this is a time everyone should voice their opinions and you have to realize shannon they have to get the process moving. they have to get it done because time is so limited. >> shannon: matt, some say why not wait for the cbo score from the congressional office we expect probably monday but it's critical to find out what will happen to coverage and how much it will cost. those are important things before people vote on it. >> it's a fair concern for people to say i don't want to vote until i know what it costs. i think speaker ryan and his team are very confident the cbo

score will show this republican alternative costs much less money but the fundamental philosophical question republicans are wrestling with is the following, is it about the health care that's the best on the globe that's affordable or about a health insurance program that covers all americans. i think most republicans are concerned about affordable that's the best on the globe and obamacare is threatening that. if they try to cover as many people as obamacare did it won't be much. cheaper and violates what is the message from the voter is we want a different path and the idea of repealing obamacare make sense and having a replacement and now we're having a debate on what that will look like. >> shannon: last hour house majority whip steve scalise spoke with bill hemmer and

talked about a choice. here's what he said. >> at the end of the day when this bill's on the house floor we'll have all of our negotiations but there's going to be a binary choice. you'll either have the bill to gut obamacare and vote with either nancy pelosi against the bill because she'll vote no or do what president trump wants and vote yes to it gets on his desk. >> shannon: mercedes some feel there's pushback saying that's not the choice i want unless there's substantive changes in this don't put me on the corner. >> republicans have been running their campaign based on repealing and replacing obamacare close to seven years. it's their moment. it's their time now to get it right. i think while the bill is not perfect as push forth as the best way but is a grueling process to make shire amendments

are passed and they implement conservative suggestions because otherwise it could get stuck. i believe it has a better chance of passing in the house and in the senate it runs into a bit of a problem. it really may not be perfect i believe they need to move because you'll lose -- >> at the end of the day they have to pass an obamacare replacement. i want the most conservative version, the most free market version that can possibly pass. the conservatives pushing back are doing the right thing. they've got to improve this big so we can have a good replacement. >> shannon: final word to matt, a beautiful wife and five daughters at home. you got the last word today. >> bill: 21 past the hour. the feds want to know how an iraqi fighter got to the united states and slipped through the vetting process. that's underway now.

>> shannon: federal lawmakers are investigating how a former iraqi insurgent fighter got through. the suspect claimed to have participated in attacks against american troops but at some point he entered the u.s. through a refugee program while using a fake name. sour -- sources say it shows the difficulty in vetting through countries where there's no formal documents. >> bill: the tenth anniversary since retired agent robert leaveson went missing in iran saying the family has suffered in his absence. each and every day but

especially day our hearts are with the levinson family. we will not rest until the case is resolved. and 46-year-old robin chaheni was sentenced to years and has a charge his family denies. after this exclusive interview his family spoke with fox news' senior correspondent joining us live in new york from what he learned. >> it's believed there are five american citizens being held in iran. a former unicef official and businessman among them. one family says they have a plea for help. the 46-year-old san diego ph.d. student for a plea for us all. he was charged in aiding a hostile government, the u.s.,

because they said he criticized the tehran government on facebook. his family said he's now on a hunger strike in prison hoping to be released or will die behind bars. >> after changing the condition between iran and the united states they did worse to my brother. >> shahini went to iran to visit his mother suffering from alzheimer's. he writes, quote, the iranian government intended to commit the wrong against me for political purpose. i ask of you, please do not let iranian government use me. his girlfriend did not want her face shown for fear of retribution. >> i would ask the administration to help because i don't think he's going to last long. >> and the editor of the website the foreign desk who has followed the flight said iranian

authorities intended for his incarceration to serve as a warning. >> it's a threat for those abod not to get involved in political activity and want iranians to know they're being watched. >> the press secretary sean spicer said they're aware of the flight and it's a top priority and issued a travel warning with the risk of possible arrest and detention to u.s. citizens who do visit iran. >> bill: eric shawn. thank you. good reporting from new york. >> shannon: right now, russian meddling taking center stage on capitol hill as the fbi's hunt for the cia leaks continues and the committee continues on the undermining. >> we'll go after people who

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>> bill: stories causing intrigue in our nation's capital. the house foreign affairs committee holding a hearing on russia's interference and attempts on western democracies as there's an investigation how the cia gained access on electronic devices and duncan hunter is my get now on the hill. we have a lot of to get through. good morning to you. what do you think the administration is deal willing now. let's start there? >> they're deal with sadicious people within the department of justice and fbi and department of interior and cia. there's people that don't approve of the trump presidency

and trying to take him down from the inside. it sounds like a conspiracy but he hasn't just had his phone calls leaked but intercepted now. i think he's probably right about that. the cia thing is scary for one big reason for me that's not on u.s. citizens, that's on our enemies across the world and how we find out what they're going to do and stop them before something bad happens and that's one main reason bad stuff hasn't happened here but i'd like to see our stuff here our electronics and samsungs and tvs i'd like to see them secure so our government can't spy on us with everything connected we're less free and more tied into the big data system than we've of been in the country. there's no way to get away from that unless these technology providers we buy all of our stuff from are able to secure our phones not just against our

own government and foreign governments too because if the cia can do it the russians can do it. >> bill: a fundamental question here why do you think this is happening? why do you think this started this way with the administration? >> i think have you people within the government what you called the deep state, bureaucrats, obama appointees that hate donald trump. it's that simple. >> bill: does that go back to his criticism of the intelligence community? you remember the chuck schumer comment from two weeks ago you mess with the intelligence community they'll get you six ways to sunday. you believe that? >> i believe it has to do with his brand of politics. people don't like him but you have eight years of obe -- obama and people hate trump and you see them with their signs and

anger and people at berkeley rioting throwing molotov cocktails and i don't know what triggered it. >> bill: you have to bring the temperature down we'd all agree on that if that's the case. a couple things i need to get through. julia juliana assange is talking about the cia having incompetence with their system and saying they'll share technology with companies about the cia hacking. that might solve some problems. >> number one, it is bad the cia servers were hacked. they were not secure. the reality anything online can be hacked. if you want to keep stuff safe, write it on a piece of paper that's the only way anymore and number two i don't have a problem with companies that

provide electronics that are unhackable and we need to keep big government out of our stuff and they need to secure us. we can have some privacy when we make phone calls, text or e-mail. >> bill: very important stuff. last point here and it may sound obscure but you're pushing for production of what's considered rare earth metals in the u.s. and they can be used in high tech defense. what do you think we should be doing -- >> not just high tech defense, bill everything from satellites to space launches to weapon systems, missiles, computer chips. they all rely and rocket fuel they all rely on earth metals that are rare like chromium

plichloride and china are the ones that mine them and produce them and in many cases they then sell them to us. when we talk about talking to china if they cut off the supply we're done and at the base level and not just a tanker and airplane but stuff used in the tanks and airplanes to maintain our technological advantage. that's what we're trying to do. we need to create the market and reopen the mines to have americans producing he's rare metals used in all of our defense stuff. >> bill: duncan hunter the republican congressmen from california and to read more go to foxnews.com/opinion. >> shannon: a convoy of marines arriving in syria joining the fight to put isis out of raqqah

and an airstrike west of raqqah cutting off a key supply route. we have live in our middle east bureau with more. connor, is america's involvement in syria growing? what's it mean? >> without a doubt that's what we're beginning to see. we're increasingly seeing more and more troops sent to syria to help support the anti-isis groups there and to battle isis as this battle for raqqah is set to begin in the next couple weeks. we're seeing more and more conventional troops not just special forces troops. several hundred marines from the 11th marine expedition air unit are arriving to provide support and we're seeing the deployment of army rangers there. we're seeing more and more of them and the trump administration is also weighing the possibility of sending even

more u.s. troops conventional and special forces as the battle for raqqah is set to begin in the next several weeks. >> shannon: connor, any signs the u.s. may be increasing corporation with russia in syria? >> this week we saw the heads of the u.s. military, russian military and turkish military meeting to not only discuss cooperation between the three countries to battle isis and to help smooth out some problems we're seeing. there's a fight brewing in syria between several u.s. allies there, the kurdish rebels and the turkish military are at odds over who should battle isis. the kurds and the turks view each other as enemies but they're both valuable u.s. allies and so both u.s. and russia are trying to lean on the two groups to try to smooth over some of the concerns they have about working with each other in this fight against isis. the u.s. and russia are trying to focus the energy on battling isis and putting aside

differences. >> shannon: thank you for the update. >> bill: it was billed a way to support women's rights but wait until you hear who was behind the operation. a $250 million behind it too. >> shannon: and a terrifying ordeal for a family on a waterfront as a cruise ship heads right for their house.

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>> shannon: it looks like the engines are firing up but apparently there were people there that he started yelling someone's going to get fired and people on the boat were cheering and yelling because they were concerned too. >> bill: the house is ok though, right? the dock's ok? >> shannon: unless they cut off the video before it hit. >> bill: i know what i would have yelled, look out below. >> shannon: a new report finding george surros the activist billionaire gave millions to yesterday's day without a woman protest. let's talk about it. rachel campos-duffy is a fox news contributor and marjorie clifton a principle of clifton consulting. nice it see you both. >> nice to see you. >> shannon: does it matter when helped fund them? >> of course. and the march was not really about women's rights or equality

for women because if it was i think we would have seen the march move to the front of the saudi arabiian embassy. you have to ask yourself why a billionaire like george soros fund the organizations behind it. he's had a dream of a one-world government and redistributing wealth and the biggest threats to his advancement through the investment of president obama and in the hilary campaign which he didn't get a lot of and donald trump is the biggest threatened an advancing his idea of a one-world government. >> shannon: was the protest more anti-trump or pro women? some conservative women say for them it's not directly about promoting women it's more about

tearing down the president. your take. >> well, i think there's a lot of different reasons women showed up and frankly why men showed up for the marches and men like george soros understand equality and justice for women has to do with a lot of topics and impacts men george soros the man grew up a hungarian jew in nazi germany and watched millions murdered and why his life has been dedicated to equality and justice and his money go to causes as he perceives as equality and justice, equal pay, equality in health care and why people showed up are different reasons but contribute to the same message that internationally women matter. we contribute to the economy and that's what the day was about. >> shannon: rachel, we're blessed in this country because around the world there are women who can't contribute to the economy, they can't drive cars or vote or leave their house without a man.

do you feel we have enough of a spotlight on those issues as well because it was international women's day? >> absolutely and i would quibble withher biography of george soros some of the groups he's funded to the millions of dollars have been fighting and targeting people who have been fighting shari'a law and exposing how it hurts women through laws we know that promote genital mutilation and doesn't allow women to drive or leave their homes without male chaperones. i would quibble with his care on women and their rights. i would also mention action network fund a group managing the website and e-mail list for the women's march is a group their executive board is entirely made up of men and here's a march purportedly about

advancing women and the funder is a male, george soros and many groups are entirely led by men. >> and only 1% of ceos in the country are women. the economic fact is there are more men who have more access to money and it's imperative men are backing women as we make this push for equality in term of pay and everything else. women's issues are men's issues as well. so i find it refreshing and promising men are investing in women's rights. it's a wonderful and beautiful thing. >> shannon: would we have had this march if hillary clinton would have become president? >> absolutely. international women's day annually when hillary clinton was running and before has always been an important day about democracy and women

internationally and women demonstrating and feeling empowered is something we hope will it be and has given voice to women who didn't have one before. >> shannon: we're almost out of time and rachel, yes or no you think the march would have happened under a president hillary clinton? >> it would have and many participants that have been excluded from this including many prolife women's groups and feminist it goes to show it's not about equality and choices it's anti-trump march. >> shannon: rachel and marjorie good to see you both. >> bill: every day is women's day. >> shannon: in bill hemmer's world. >> bill: how you doing, john? what are you working on? >> same in my world too. major developments in repealing and replacing obamacare and we have coverage and karl rove and a senator and more here to talk

about the increasingly tense fight over what's in the bill. plus, the very latest on the allegations of russian meddling and the allegations of wiretapping. happening now. >> bill: see you in ten minutes. president trump continues his push against illegal immigrants and the spotlight on the court's backlogs and some strep for years.

>> bill: before president trump took office the immigration courts were drowning. now his crackdown on illegal immigration can push them further behind as enforcement ramps up.

how long's the wait and is it the same everywhere, casey? >> it's quite shocking for a lot of people places like texas, california, new york have the highest concentration of cases but nationally the average wait time just to get before an immigration judge in this country is approaching two years. can you believe that? 673 days. the data provided by a nonpartisan think tank out of the university of syracuse and a sitting judge of 36 years said it's like trying death penalty cases in a traffic court setting feeling rushed to get cases through the docket and it's now costing taxpayers even more. >> it's not judicially economic

and cases become steal and people lose track of witnesses they'd like to present on cases. if people are detained we don't want them detained for long period of time, it's expensive. >> the judge is asking for increased funding to be directed to the courts instead of allocating most the budget to law enforcement only side of things adding all parts of the system have to work together instead of various departments competing for the oh, so precious dollars. >> bill: what's being done to help her address the situation? >> twelve new immigration judges were recently sworn in. we're told 50 are currently in the pipeline to take the bench though a timetable for that has not been set. the executive office of immigration review is the division of the department of justice which oversees the immigration system and e.o.i.r.

is continuing to fulfill position and will announce new judges and there are currently 301 active judges on the bench now. roughly 73 vacancies across the country, bill. >> bill: casey stegall thank you for that. >> shannon: the cia doing damage control in the wake of the document dump as they lack for the source of the mole on the leak. the latest on the fallout just ahead.

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that's going to be filmed and shown online, giving those comedians some publicity. we need to go go cart racing. >> we're going bowling next wee week. >> "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: the republican plan to reshape how we pay for medical care for millions of americans crosses first hurdle in congress, the measure to replace obamacare approved by the committee with a second committee still going strong after more than 24 hours. are you glad you're not a congressman? the speed to the, energy, and commerce committee approving the plan. many republicans are not behind it. it can san