on the fox news channel. up next, eric bolling hosting a special "o'reilly factor," the trump agenda with special guest kellyanne conway and senator rand paul, treat me your thoughts on the show, don't chae the channel. ♪ >> eric: hi, i am eric bolling and for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching this special edition of "the factor," the trump agenda, president trump's first 50 days, it has been a whirlwind start for the administration, to say the least, and with us now, counselor to the president, kellyanne conway. let's start, he said depressing think of the week was the obamacare bill, what's going on, where do you see it, what is the president see it? >> the president is very confident that he will repeal and replace obamacare, i love

the fact that this is the first major legislative action while he's been president, most executive in nature. we really see donald trump the negotiator and the decision-maker, the dealmaker, the great listener, sending senators into the oval office and the white house, working the phones with them, vice president pans on the help you much every day, secretary price, it's been a full court press, also really a house and senate bill. we know it is going to, three-pronged, we want people to know it will be a much improved, getting rid of this mandate, penalty, et cetera. >> eric: i think the big question is, is he willing to negotiate with the freedom caucus? need the freedom caucus to get that bill through the house and onto the senate. will he negotiate? paul ryan seems to be fairly rigid on, this is it, take it or leave it. >> the president is a great negotiator and leader.

he has been very open this week to listening to people's concerns and considerations, their best practices, he has been incredibly open-minded and in giving an olive branch to all of them. i would point out to you, eric, we are really heartened by the fact that in energy and commerce and ways and means, 54 republicans including some house freedom caucus members, when they had to actually put it to a vote and not on tv or twitter, they are supportive of it. we also point out that this has been an entitlement for seven years, some people live under it and like it, promised to them that they maybe can continue with the exchanges as they are, but for the vast majority of americans, they want something more patient-centric. they want the penalties gone, which will happen in prong three, getting the drug pricing under control, they want the interstate mobility of health

care, everything he has promised to do is part of this. >> eric: we want to get to this. we can go on for hours on all the stuff. but the the trump power wireta, now, this has been all over the board. first we said there were no wiretaps, then they say they were wiretaps, then they say it wasn't ordered by a former president obama, where is the administration right now? >> what president trump has asked for and received is for the house intelligence senate committee to add to their investigation, this piece of it, and they have agreed to do that. we will wait until that oversight and investigations are complete. >> eric: look, i remember a "new york times" front page on january 20th using the word wiretaps about the trump tower, someone at the trump tower, sending that information back to president obama. >> we know there are many ways to surveilled people now, had reports about just this week. i would note because the really

frustrating part are all the leaks coming from intelligence security sources, that is really the frustration here that the president talks about, the day after his widely heralded session, they ran a story the next day talking about how members of the obama administration rushed to preserve and sprinkle around for government fees intelligence information. that is not a partisan issue. that is about national security intelligence and it affects all of us. the president has had that very much on his mind. when it comes to this particular issue, he has called for an investigation. it seems like that will be underway, and we will await the findings. >> eric: turns out valerie jarrett may have been the one to suggest that it might be a good idea. what is the difference if it is valerie chert or president obama, it still came from the upper levels of the

obama administration? >> i don't want to answer hypotheticals and i don't want to get people's names involved in hypotheticals. let me just say, kevin lewis is a spokesman for president obama, said last saturday that it was a cardinal rule that the president and people in the white house never interfered in the department of justice investigations. okay. let's take that as fact for the moment. but what about the rest of the government? even when director clapper said nothing under my purview. he couldn't close the door on everything. director comey almost a week ago it said what he said almost a week ago now to make a statement announcing this, if he has something to say, we're willing to hear it. we just haven't seen it. we have seen reports of it. >> eric: a little bit of a controversy the last couple of weeks. president trump gave the communications department a c- .

sean spicer had a bit of a difficult time. does sean spicer have the president's full confidence? >> yes, he does, and he told his colleagues that he would give himself a a on the issues, and we should, but jobs created including in manufacturing, construction, and unemployment at 4.7%, economic markets pulses presidency. give himself that a a, and 8c n the communication. he says he thinks he can do a better job. i think that meaning we all could. i think donald trump is his own best spokesperson. we all agree when he gets out there and as a spokes conference and he addresses a joint session of congress, when he does cpac, is the best way to communicate with people directly. i've never seen a more brilliant communicator than donald trump, i think it is in large part how they got connected.

in the white house, i have been the loudest voice for having gotten the president and vice president of the more, cabinet secretary, sean spicer does a daily briefing, i think he does a tremendous job, when the president is commending the job he's doing, we all know that we are also representing the president and we all know that the media can be rough on the president. we think they are often unfair and often incomplete in their coverage. but it is a two-way street and we hope it improves. i am very pro-press, i hope it improves because we need to be fair and free press, but we also need the president of the united states to be showing respect. >> eric: i'd like to comment on the travel ban, the new executive order for the travel ban. it looks like it is going to be again pushed back, several states look like they're going to mount a challenge to it, your thoughts? >> we expected it would be challenge, but this will pass legal muster. a new effective date of

march 16th, next week, and iraq is no longer on the list, and i think it is great on how to get yourself all the list, six countries on the list, countries that either harbor, trained, or experts terrorists. they cannot prove that they are not written by terrorists, but all of them will put on a list earlier by president obama and congress, and i think that secretary of state rex tillerson and secretary kelly and others have worked with, as i understand, have worked with iraq to find a way to get a better policy moving forward in reporting and putting so that iraq is off the list. the editing the executive order does is make very clear that legal permanent residents, those who have proper travel and visa documentation, are not covered by this trouble holds. they are fine. >> eric: that was the one that the ninth circuit was hung up on. >> it was always true that they

were exempt from this but it and wasn't made clear perhaps. also, syrian refugees are treated, along with all refugees, instead of there being nonreligious persecution, anyone can apply. >> eric: we have got good news, kelly kellyanne is goingo stick around. we will be back with kellyanne. sit there, sit tight, be sure to stick around for that. next, on this "o'reilly factor" special, congress duking it out over replacing and repealing obamacare. senator rand paul joins us with his predictions on the final outcome moments away. you can't predict the market. but through good times and bad... ...at t. rowe price... ...we've helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. you need one of these. you wouldn't put up with an umbrella

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>> eric: in the "impact" segment tonight, the fight over health care, mounting resistance

from the left and even some conservatives on how to do it. today, president trump is making clear he stands in the battle. >> i want every american to know that action on obamacare is an urgent necessity. house republicans have put forward a plan that gets rid of this terrible law and replaces it with reforms that empower states and consumers. the house plan follows the guidelines are laid out in my recent address to congress. expanding choice, lowering costs, and providing health care access for all. >> eric: joining us with reaction from washington, senator rand paul of kentucky. thanks for joining us on a big night. you heard that address that president trump laid out. he said that the houseplant lays out his plan as well. now, i understand you spoke to the president recently. can you tell us about that? >> you know, i've been out there

saying t plan is obamacare light, and the president called and wanted to discuss that with me. i got very much the impression or sort of a different impression from the present and i'm getting from paul ryan. paul ryan give a 45 minute press conference during which he said the choices are binary, which basically means you can either take what he is offering or keep the status quo. i think from the president i am hearing that he is much more open to negotiation. conservatives across the land do not like paul ryan's proposal because it is obamacare light. it keeps the subsidies, keeps the taxes, keeps the mandate, and has an insurance company bailout in it. we don't like it, we never have liked obamacare, obamacare is a disaster. the only thing that has read the united as overtime is repealed. if obamacare lite as a replacement, conservatives are not going to accept it.

>> eric: paul ryan is "trying to pull the wool over their eyes." why do you think the speaker is largely president? >> i wouldn't put it that he is lying. i would put it that paul ryan has presented something that is a slam dunk, my plan, everybody loves it. paul keeps telling us all, and we ran on it, but i didn't run on paul ryan's plan of obamacare lite. i think most conservatives across the country didn't run on obamacare lite. i think that is misrepresenting it to the president. i think that there is a lot we agree on. we agree on repeal, but we do not agree on replays, that is why i keep saying, why don't we separate repealed from replace, then let's vote on replacement, same-day, just a different feel. >> eric: let's talk about that. let's say you to get the house, then the senate, to repeal and replace, doesn't that leave the lot of people in the lurch?

>> the only reason i'm saying separate them, i don't think all republicans agree on replacement, i don't think democrats and republicans agree on replacements. let's vote on paul ryan's obamacare lite, let's vote on the conservative version, which would be market repeal or market reforms, and much love the democrats have a proposal as well. maybe we have four or five different replacements, we come to some coalition or coalescing where some replacement can pass. i am still foreboding about on the same day, i just think they need to be in a separate bill. >> eric: i am confused. if you do repealed and you basically come to a agreement on the replacement, don't you risk many, many months perhaps before a replacement bill is actually acceptable to everyone? the freedom caucus and the more establishment republicans? >> no, i think the debates can occur simultaneously. i really think the votes can occur simultaneously.

for example, debate along time on replacement, let's debate. let's bring them to the floor, let's have amendments, let's have votes, and let's vote on the final passage on vote repeal and replace it on the same day. republicans have some great ideas on replacement. some of these i agree with paul ryan on. for example, letting individuals join a co-op or a buying group or what we call an association health plan. this will guarantee issue, meaning that you won't be excluded if you are already sick or have a pre-existing condition, but it does something that no other plan does so far. it gives you leverage to get a cheaper price. right now, my fear is if you pass the obamacare lite proposal, the individual price of insurance premiums is going to continue to skyrocket. that is my fear. i don't want any part of obamacare, so i'm not going to vote for obamacare lite, i thik it still allows the prices to continue to rise. >> eric: senator paul, thank you for joining us

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>> eric: in the "factor followup" segment tonight, reaction to the other side of our interviews with kellyanne conway and senator rand paul. joining us, representative brad sherman, welcome, congressman. did you listen to these interviews, and your thoughts, especially -- let's talk a little bit about the health care and what you're hearing from rand paul, from the freedom caucus, saying, i'm not so sure i made it to sign onto paul ryan's >> well, it sounds like

what rand paul wants to do is repeal and not replaced. he is saying the republicans can't agree on what to replace obamacare with. if they can't, they're not going to be getting democratic votes for repeal and replace program. if they don't agree on a replacement and they go ahead with repeal, that's repeal in repeal. i'd like to seal the back seat repeal and republish or not repeal at all. >> eric: may be those on the left are hoping obamacare sticks around for a while. >> absolutely. what we have seen since obamacare was adopted is 16 million new private sector jobs in a time when employers were required to provide health coverage. now under the proposals, employers don't have to provide health coverage and many of them won't. what you saw before obamacare was fewer and fewer employers were providing health care coverage, most americans get their health coverage through their health care employer. >> eric: the only problem with

that theory, not just a theory going forward, obamacare literally is collapsing from within itself, they backloaded some of the costs so it didn't look so expensive up front. some of these bills are coming due. this year, next year, 2019-2020. >> obamacare is working quite well. you have the majority of americans getting their health coverage from their employer because employers are required to provide it. >> eric: but employers are pulling out of the system. next are there could be, i don't know, five or six states with only one insurer and then maybe down the road they may be no one to ensure these people. >> the majority of americans get their policies through their employer, and the employers have dozens of choices. >> eric: 15 to 20 million people they say are covered who don't get insurance from their employer. saying, we can't afford to do this anymore, you are going to have no health care for those people. >> certainly under the

republican plan you're not going to have many insurance companies, probably none, because people aren't required to have the insurance until they get their cancer diagnosis. who is going to sell insurance at any reasonable price to a pool like that? obamacare is working well. we have an all-time high level of coverage, and the vast majority of people are getting that coverage through their employer. if you take away the employer mandate, they're not going to have that coverage. talk about tens and tens of millions of people. >> eric: take it to kellyanne conway's interview. talk about the leaks in the investigations going on. more thoughts from the left on what is going on? october, november, december time frame. >> this wiretap charge comes out of thin air. it is part of the trump approach of ready, shoot, aim. he announces and declares that obama is sick or bad because

obama had trump tower bug and then says, i don't have any evidence that it was booked at all but let's have an investigation. that's absurd. >> eric: someone tapped trump tower, someone was going after information from the trump tower. >> if you read breitbart, yeah. >> eric: i read "the new york times," that's where i read it, january 20th, clearly, on the front page. they said there was a wiretap in that president obama was notified of it. >> i certainly haven't heard that. so when you know the author of that piece? michael schmidt, the same guy from hillary clinton's private email server. >> you can cite an individual article, the fact is that if trump had proof that the obama administration had bugged him, he would produce that proof. instead, first he makes the charge, then he calls for the investigation. what we need is a special counsel or special prosecutor to look as to whether there was coordination between the trump

campaign in russia. >> eric: the democrats aside, there is proof that the russians coordinated with donald trump. i haven't seen proof of that either and i am hearing a lot of that accusation as well. >> that is why you need the investigation. if you want an investigation of both charges, fine. let a special counsel to investigate both trump's charge -- the thing is, in real life, when you see somebody benefit from a theft, they usually had something to do with the thief. there is a reason to do the investigation pick let's have an investigation. >> eric: i think that is what donald trump, president trump, is calling for. an investigation on both of these charges. >> it has got to be independent, got to be a special counsel. >> eric: leave it there, thank you for being with us tonight. president trump versus the deep state bureaucracy in washington. by the president believes stay tuned.

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the agenda of the previous administration. i don't think it should come as any surprise that there are people that burrowed into government during eight years of the last administration and may have believed in that agenda wanted to continue it. >> eric: and join us now to analyze from paul springs, california, root canal, from ambassador for the spokesperson to the u.n., and from washington, former state department official, david tafuri. we know there are a lot of hangovers in the trump administration, but is it a concerted concert remix conspiracy effort? >> book, whatever you want to call it, the media try to make this mocking term, the simple fact is that donald trump campaigned on a policy difference from where the direction of the government was going. i think that democracy no demands that he must implement

exactly what he promised. anyone who is trying to subvert donald trump's policy positions at this point, who is also employed by the federal government, is really the one who is trying to subvert democracy. theying to stand in the way of what the american people voted for. it was president barack obama who famously said elections have consequences. i don't think americans mean to be mean-spirited. just trying to push people out. no one should be surprised that an obama political appointee doesn't get to work for a change for government and a change for direction and policy. >> eric: let me cut you off a little here. david, here's the issue. a lot of leaks coming out of d.c. right now, it goes beyond just being a deep state undermining campaign to, could be illegal. first of all, wikileaks has got their hands on thousands of documents that are very damaging. that came from a leak, not from

wikileaks. so only that to them. >> there are certainly holdovers into this administration, and some of them may not agree with donald trump and suggest that there is some sort of deep state conspiracy that they are organizing together, pure paranoia. we shouldn't be talking about that, there is absolutely no evidence. really, really unconstructive. the statement the trump administration has made so far have been their fault. >> eric: who is leaking? who is leaking the alleged trump dossier, the cia leaks to wikileaks, the wiretap to the trump tower. who is our old leaks that have occurred. >> came from a british former intelligence agent, didn't come from the u.s. government. there are leaks in every administration. >> eric: not like this. >> wikileaks has been a provocateur and agent of russia which the trump administration,

who is communicating with, releasing information that was intended to interfere with the election. what i think we should all take a deep breath, there have been some mistakes by the trump administration, but the mistakes are at their own for instance -- >> eric: david, let me -- >> that's not true at all. no one should be surprised that the bureaucracy is liberal. i have never heard anyone argue that the washington, d.c., federal government bureaucracy is not liberal. david would be the first person who has ever argued in front of favor of that. but all political appointees is quite another issue. if you are a political appointee of barack obama, it is not mean-spirited to say that you are done on the day donald trump comes into office. that shouldn't be a problem for anyone. by the way, the media are not going to help us, because they benefit from the leaks from the

liberal bureaucracy. again, we are not trained to be mean-spirited, were trying to face reality. donald trump won. elections have consequences paid political appointees should all be from donald trump and conservative -- >> eric: stay with you for a second. what are they still doing there? donald trump famously saying, saying, get out of there, get out of there. >> any appointees that are still there are still there because the trump administration has not replaced them. the trump administration will replace them. >> eric: most of the political appointees have been removed. most of the top echelon of people under secretary of state rex tillerson been removed. what i said is that they are not engaged in a deep conspiracy to oppose our government, and for you to say otherwise it's really misleading. i don't think the american people -- to go in, you're in

appointee, and for you to take those types of views into government -- >> dial backpack. no one is saying these individuals are meeting together. those are your words. that is conspiracy theory. what we are saying, innately liberal, and it thickens the trump administration, that is not new news. >> eric: thank you, david. thank you, ric. when this special edition of "the o'reilly factor" continues, bill clinton coming out of seclusion and to take a shot at president trump, and later, will have much more with counselor to the president of kellyanne conway. don't miss it. remember when you said men are superior drivers? yeah... yeah, then how'd i get this... ...allstate safe driving bonus check? ...only allstate sends you a bonus check

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a rare public appearance yesterday and taking what sounds like a not so thinly veiled shot at president trump. >> people who claim to want the nationstate are actually trying to have a pan- national movement to institutionalize said separam within the world. looks like we are all having an identity crisis at once, and it is the inevitable consequence of the economic and social changes which have occurred at an increasingly rapid pace. 's point joining us with reaction from washington, kristen soltis anderson along with simon rosenberg, president of the centerleft think tank. we will start with you. you listen to that, first of all, deconstruct that for us, would you? >> the last piece of what he said where he talks a lot about how there has been economic and cultural change and that is what

is causing a lot of this friction and division, oddly enough, the most correct piece of what he said, and explains much more than some kind of pan-national attempted a movement to divide people to explain why people are feeling the way they are feeling. if you have been someone really cool, say, holds evangelical beliefs, you often told that your beliefs need to get with the times, you are a relic of the past. if you work your blue-collar job, you've been told, you are a relic of the past and didn't get with the times. donald trump said, you don't need to get with the times, times need to get with you. i think that is what has been causing frustration, not just here in the u.s. but around the world where people are frustrated with elites, and that anxiety is leading to leaders to say things kind of similar. >> eric: this nationalism, the ethnic cleansing of the class, i think the trump administration has pointed out that that is what they are talking about, the

financial, the economic nationalism, that is what they are going for. >> i think it is important to realize that part of the whole story of america was that virtuous war that we fought in world war ii, the world that we build afterwards, what came before world war ii was a period of rising nationalism in europe. >> eric: that is the prior type of nationalism and pointing out. >> i don't agree with what you're saying. i don't agree with what you're saying. the distinction doesn't really exist. there is nationalism -- i know you're trying to create a distinction. i don't see it that way. >> eric: part of anti-globalism crow nationalism? >> it was. to make this distinction, all that bill clinton was saying, and i think it is reasonable, the last time the western through a period where many people were leading towards nationalism, led to the greatest world war in human history and tens of millions of deaths. i think this is a fair

admonition that as we move into this era, the last time we try to visit, it didn't work out so well. >> eric: kristin, do you think this is what this is all about, this new nationalism which, in the past, has meant something different from what it means today. >> there are a lot of folks in europe right now who are feeling very insecure, they are feeling very unsettled, and as simon pointed out, there have been times in human history where the population feels unsettled, feels unsafe, that can be channeled in a very negative direction. i don't think it has to necessarily be channeled in a negative direction. if you live in a country like france and using an awful lot of immigration, senior country take in an awful lot of refugees, you may think it would is a lovely thing, but it can create anxiety, this is a click to place i grew up. i think that anxiety can be channeled in ugly ways for sure, but i don't get necessarily has to mean that. if, instead, people are saying,

i want to feel a connection to other people in our country, the shared values and shared cultur culture. >> eric: simon, i cut you off their little short, i'm sorry about that. >> thank you, eric. >> eric: a crucial week, join us, impact on the president's agenda back in a moment. safe drivers who switch to esurance could save money on car insurance. you know, the kind of driver who always buckles up... comes to a complete stop... and looks both ways, no matter what. because esurance believes that's the kind of driver who deserves to save money on car insurance. in fact, safe drivers who switch from geico to esurance could save hundreds.

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♪ >> eric: in the second "factor followup" segment tonight, the biggest impacts stories of the week. from boston, to analyze, james pindell from "the boston globe," and eric mcpike. okay, eric, start with you. >> i have to admit that i was wrong last week when i thought it was going to be the

investigation into the russian investigation, bob cusack was with me, i think this rollout was a huge deal in part because we have seen a lot of chaos over the past two months coming from the white house, about more coordination between both the white house and house republicans on the rollout through the entire week. it also showed the fissures in the republican party, rolling back the medicaid expansion. we also saw the president try to woo those conservatives, try to make demands, and i think we saw them being a little more nimble on the messaging as they admitted later in the week that they had to do a better job communicating, even to rank and file republicans, and how the process would work. spun nimble on the messaging, i think that lines up with your story of the week. >> on one level, obviously, i don't disagree at all with what erin said. the health care bill was big as well as the revised travel ban. let's not lose sight of the

different donald trump that we saw this week. we have known him for decades as this loud and almost brash and blonde sort of person and personality and then a politician. began running for president, they liked him, he said things that was on their mind that they were too scared to save themselves. but this week, we saw a kinder and quieter donald trump. on monday, zero public appearances, he was very muc message, talking about jobs numbers or the international women's day, even, my goodness, praising rand paul. talking about the health care bill, he met privately with lindsey graham, marco rubio. kinder and quieter. >> eric: it kind of blows my mind a little bit, you guys. i'll start with erin. health care, travel ban, wire taps. i thought that was a big story.

>> i think that's right. throughout the weekend, he saw shaun spicer get very animated talking about health care. it was clear that that was supposed to be the message, didn't want to talk about much else. they brought out the obamacare bill, the 1800 pages or so, then 123 pages of the house republican bill. this was supposed to be the message of the week. i think they nailed it in terms of getting some of the stories they wanted. >> eric: what about it, james? >> the whole central, the way you framed this, goes to the central question about the early days of the trump presidency. will he be able to get out of his own way. obviously, last weekend, tried the distraction with the wiretapping. got out of his own way, was beginning to govern this week. i think it was an important moment in the trump presidency. >> eric: erin, how is spicer doing? >> i have known sean spicer for a long time, and i think he is

doing his best with a tough situation. what i was pointing out there, when there is a message he wants to drive, he is really good at that. when there are topics he doesn't want to talk about, he shies away. we've seen him deflect a lot, he says often, i will refer you to the department of the defense, we are seeing that spicer, like the president, was wanting to push those issues out to other parts of the administration. >> eric: james, former white house spokesperson said today that the media is too thin-skinned. do you believe with them? >> i think in a lot of ways, they are. also john roberts from fox saying, time to stop whining and do their jobs, and i think he is probably right. >> eric: you know what i'm looking for two, erin? next week when ongoing marco comes in the midst trump --

angela merkel calms and meets president trump. i'm looking forward to that. >> i hope so too. situation where the german press will get two questions, the american press will get two questions. it went out to be a very involved press conference, but we did have a reporter asked sean spicer earlier in the week if donald trump would do a separate press conference like he did a couple of weeks ago because, as james mentioned, we haven't heard very much from the president. >> eric: james, last thoughts, about 20 seconds, go. >> is going to have a big rally next week in nashville. i think the quiet will be over for a little bit. sport let's not forget, vice president mike pence goes to kentucky, going to see if they can get the health care bill done. james, erin, thank you very much. straight ahead, counselor to president trump kellyanne conway rejoins us in the "no spin zone." don't go away.

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>> eric: in the "back of the book" segment tonight, rejoining us now, counselor to the president, kelly and kellyanne conway. angela merkel, meeting set for tuesday, but is that all about. >> going to be very exciting to welcome her to the white house. two leaders that will get to know each other, forge a positive relationship, perhaps talk about nato, talk about what they can do together as two nations that have many common interests around the globe. >> eric: going to talk about immigration, perhaps? >> they might. >> eric: that is the elephant in the room is that angela merkel allowed up to 1 million refugees, and now she may have regrets about that. maybe she can give president trump a little advice on not going so aggressive about that. >> or vice versa. and president trump has stated

his position on mud publicly in the past. but i'll leave it to these two leaders whether they will talk about that publicly or address but privately. obviously, will have a press conference as well. >> eric: you mentioned nato. germany is one of the nato countries may be underperforming on their financial obligations to nato. >> some people may see it that way. we said earlier today and everything to the press, a senior administration official indicated the president is heartened to hear he can discuss that issue surrounding nato. anyway, we're very, very excited that she's coming, excited for this visit, since he's been president, obviously has spoken to dozens of others. these bilateral visits are very important, and he has talked about trade deals, talked about how important it is to have bilateral trade deals. he took this country out of tpp, to the pleasure of many american workers who felt like it was a bad deal for them.

>> eric: so it is friday. tomorrow is saturday. what happens on saturday? at 11:30 eastern? the "snl," the people are wondering, what is your reaction to the "snl" skits? >> i see some of them. there they are. i'm usually asleep by the time they are on. i think most of them are good-humored. what is my reaction about me? i thought that the kellyanne conway's day off was truly funny and spectacular in its accuracy in terms of how i try to -- how everywoman who is out there who has got kids tries to squeeze in every moment, kids in the backyard, grocery store, anyway, we know what we're doing in the white house. the difference between fact and fiction. i think the ones that are good-humored and good-natured are great. i think the ones that are little

more dark are inaccurate. >> eric: does the president see them? does he get a kick out of them? >> he has stated what he thinks of them. i'm really happy that someone 15 years younger than me is playing me. thank you, kate mckinnon. perhaps we will meet at some point. >> eric: and sean spicer? >> if you work in this white house, you are of good humor when you need to be. sean spicer, he is a guy who is very comfortable with himself and the job he is doing his press secretary, as we are. we all know how to laugh, we all know how to take a joke. >> eric: kellyanne, we'll leave it right there. thank you for joining us for two big segments tonight. a quick reminder, check out a contributing factor podcast up-to-date focusing on the threat from the brutal central american gang ms-13. donald that on itunes. and don't forget to catch my job "catching

"cashin' in." thanks for watching this special edition of "the o'reilly factor," the trump agenda, i and eric bolling in for bill o'reilly who will be back on monday, please remember, the spin stops right here, we are looking out for you. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," a wild week in the news, republicans already in a near civil war, the president has accused his predecessor of spying on him, perhaps illegally, and wikileaks embarrassed the cia. one story will open with tonight. the effort to kill obamacare is not the only contentious part of the new republican health care bill. the health care act would also cut off federal funding for planned parenthood that amounts to more than $500 million here, but 40% of its budget. planned parenthood is the nation's largest abortion provider by