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>> jon: i can see why. >> jenna: we can end on puppies. >> jon: thank you for joining us today. >> jenna: "america's news hq" starts right now. >> melissa: president trump in michigan to speak on the auto industry. i am melissa francis. he is expected to address environmental regulations on automakers. we're going to bring you those remarks when they happen. in the meantime, we are watching wall street and possible action by the federal reserve today. right now the dow jones industrial is checking in at above 44 points right there. the fed is expected to raise interest rates by a quarter point. that is the expectation. what does it mean for you though? let's bring in jerry willis for fox business network. so the folks at home that sounds like a lot of gobbly gook.
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>> it means a lot to your wallet. according to wallet hub, it will cost $1.6 billion over the course of the next year. these are added fees because of this rate hike which could be 25 basis points. that's a lot of money. if you have any variable rate debt, whether it's -- >> melissa: wait. we are hearing it is a quarter point hike. federal reserve is raising their rate by a quarter point. i didn't mean to cut you off. what does that mean to folks at home. they just watched their credit card debt go up. >> the big deal, you want to pay down that credit card. we may get two more rate hikes this year. that just means your debt gets more and more expensive. you wonder about mortgage rates. that's one question everybody asks me about. we have already seen a bumpup in mortgage rates. let me tell you, if we have more strong economic news, melissa, you'll see more of those hikes,
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mortgage rates higher. if you're a saver, interest bearing accounts, good news for folks, seniors, people on fixed income trying to make money by saving it, this will help you. >> melissa: we saw that initial bump in the stock market. remember we said at the beginning the dow was up 44 point. it signals that the fed had confidence in the economy, that they feel like they can raise rates. that's one reason why the market might read it as good news. we're coming back a little bit off that because of course it does give the economy overall a head wind when you raise interest rates. for the reasons you just mentioned. because people might think twice before they buy more stuff. >> used to be that the market would sell off on any hint that there might be a rate hike. we thought maybe the fed was backing away. now, it's all about, hey, this economy is growing, maybe trump will get the kind of tax plan that he wants. maybe we're going to see reduced regulation. so you see the numbers go up
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here. i have to tell you, lending will probably improve. we'll probably get more loans out there as the rates continue to go higher. money market accounts. if you are a saver, this is a good day for you. >> melissa: terrific. president trump touching down in michigan for a speech on the auto industry. he's expected to announce plans to begin rolling back environmental rules from the obama administration. white house correspondent heather fork is following the president west of detroit right now. what can you tell us about the president's call for a full review of these standards? >> reporter: i got to tell you, it is certainly music to the ears of automakers here in michigan and all around the country. the president expected to talk ab jobs, but all his administration's plans to potentially decrease fuel economy standards. as you pointed out, that would be huge. even though they are cleaner, there's no question about that, there are other things that go along with those additional fuel standards imposed by the obama
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administration. these cars are more complicated to make. they do generally carry higher prices. the president tweeting, we will be going to detroit, michigan. love. they really like that around here. today for a big meeting on bringing back car production to states and u.s. he goes on to add already happening. now, that tweet comes on a day when gm announced plans to retain or add about 900 jobs to three michigan plants over the next 12 months. many of those, about 680, may be filled by the thousands lai laif from delta's lansing plant. the united autoworkers are quick to point out that some of those are not related to something the president has done. they go back to a 2015 contract. keep in mind, they want to continue this narrative. trump equals jobs. if they can do that and the message resonates, that's certainly a win for the white
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house. >> melissa: kevin, we're gonna wait for president trump's remarks. in the meantime, let me come back to you. kevin touched on it for a second. he said it's good news for workers that we roll back these fuel standards. talk to me ab that. >> first of all the industry is saying it could cost 1 million jobs. that would roll the cost back ab five months on the job gains we've seen so far in the economy. that's not good news. b, the cost of a car would rise. i does cost a lot to make these cars that have the improved fuel standard. >> melissa: with the higher standards. >> if the higher standards went into effect -- >> melissa: we would lose the jobs and all see the price go up. without them, better news. >> it's 3,000 to $3800 per vehicle. this hurts consumers. it looks like, if the president gets his way, that's not gonna
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happen. >> melissa: yeah. of course, i mean, the higher fuel standards, better for the environment, although you always wonder, we all share the same environment. i don't know. >> and also this is like a 39-year-old law, these cafe standards. they go back to when they were trying to reduce our reliance on oil from other countries. that's not the issue any more, right? instead we're talking about greenhouse emissions. we're talking about the environment. this thing is in shanghai by the left. >> melissa: auto industry very much liking donald trump these days. >> love love love. i think they're going to rename the lincoln bedroom after him. >> melissa: i was trying to get you to say that. we were joke about that before the show. thank you for joining us. you're terrific. fox news alert. the doj announcing first round of charges for the massive yahoo! breach affecting 500 million accounts. the indictment for the 2014 hack is against four people,
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including two russian spies. the acting attorney general spoke out just moments ago. listen. >> with these charges the department of justice is continuing to send a powerful message that we will not allow individuals, groups, nation states or a combination of them to compromise the privacy of our citizens, the economic interest of our companies or the security of our country. >> melissa: this is the first u.s. criminal cyber indictment ever against russian government officials. charges include hacking, wire fraud, trade secrets, theft, and economic espionage. new developments from the house intelligence committee revealing it has found no evidence to support president trump's allegations that former president obama had trump tower wiretapped. this amid the on going investigate eight of russian ties to the trump campaign. fbi director james comey said
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he'll testify before the committee monday regarding russian interference in the u.s. election. katherine herridge joins us with the latest. >> reporter: the leadership of the house intelligence committee held a news conference this morning saying they saw no evidence to support the president's tweets ab wiretapping trump tower. they also indicated that it may be nor nuance. he wants more information about whether the trump team communications were picked up by the intelligence community as they tracked foreign nationals. >> the reality is i don't think they have the fogiest idea what was behind the president's claim except maybe something you're watching on tv. >> president obama doesn't do wiretapping just like president trump can't do wiretapping. it's the whole premise of the statement is wrong. then you to figure out, did he mean it literally or did he not? that's the question that we have here. >> reporter: the congressman sent a letter to the cia
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director, fbi director james comey and the head of the nsa with a friday deadline asking how many americans phone calls were picked up during this foreign intelligence surveillance and whether the rules for identifying american citizens were followed in this case, melissa. >> melissa: that's a big question. and there's also more intrigue about a trump adviser, right? >> adam schiff said he wants to know more about roger stone. he said he had contact with the head of wiki leaks as well as gucifer 2.0. that's the entity that spilled the damaging e-mails from the democratic national committee and then was later found to be tied to russia. >> these two platforms were used to publish documents damaging to secretary clinton and helpful to donald trump. that concerns me a great deal. >> reporter: the nsa director mike rogers whose agency
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collects electronic information have confirmed that they will testify publicly monday next week on their russia investigation. three former obama administration officials are tentatively scheduled to testify the following week on march 28th, melissa. >> melissa: great reporting. thank you. fox news alert. the senate voting moments ago to confirm former indiana senator dan coats as director of national intelligence. coats will oversee 16 other intelligence agencies that have at times been criticized by president trump. coats would also be a key player in the government's on going investigation into russia's interference in the 2016 election. coats will replace james clapper who retired at the end of the obama administration. okay. we are standing by for president trump, who is set to speak in michigan. he is checking out american made
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cars today. he is expected to make an announcement that could mean a shake-up for the auto industry. plus, after last night's drama surrounding a report on president trump's taxes, what do these people have in common? sounded like this. >> i'll find out how to tell you this. we saw another wall in there. all right. we'll be right back after these commercial messages. >> geraldo hasn't aged a day, as he joins me now to talk about this. you don't let anything keep you sidelined.
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>> melissa: we are waiting comments from president trump. we are expecting some news on the auto industry. we'll bring you that as soon as it happens. a bombshell about president trump's taxes proving to be a dud. rachel maddow getting all wound up hyping the big reveal. >> you may have heard we've got some significant breaking news tonight. donal' donald trump's tax return, a portion of donald trump's past tax return. >> melissa: it was two pages from 2005 showing mr. trump paid a tax rate of 25% which was higher than he paid in 2015. washington post calling it a nothing burger. joining me is an expert on getting the audience very excited. fox news correspondent geraldo
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rivera. >> stand by. this is shocking. >> melissa: everyone on twitter, including myself, was doing jokes about al capone. for anyone who doesn't remember, he has a video and we can play it for you when you famously opened up al capone's vault. i love it. i remember i snuck out of bed and watched it. others were critical. >> everybody was watching. we found the gangsters vault. we thought it had bodies in it, guns, gold, cash. turns out i had an empty gin bottle and a 1926 stop sign. >> melissa: what did that feel like? >> i knew the whole world was watching. it was my first big eupbd pen den production following 15 years at abc news. i knew everybody had tuned in. i wanted to bury myself in a hole when i found nothing. i tell you what i did find was ratings. i think rachel maddow will all
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find the ratings inside the empty vault. i think because when she made fun of me when i said i maybe had some trump tapes and then i did not deliver, she made fun of me and said it was al capone's vault. i submit rachel now has the mantle of the al capone vault. >> melissa: you didn't know what was inside the vault. while she was doing all the hyping, she knew what was in the tax returns. she knew she wasn't really revealing anything. he paid $38 million in taxes. look at his effective tax rate 25.3%. he was paying a higher rate than president obama, 18.7%. comcast, the big corporation, paid a tax rate of 24%. even bernie sanders 13.5%. what did you think of what was inside her vault? meaningful, not meaningful? >> no, i thought it was very meaningful. i thought first of all that president trump should get a new tax attorney because he's playing twice the rate mitt
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romney paid. it was so favorable to the president that i thought for a second that maybe he planted it. rachel maddow would do this big reveal. that's why she was so tentative in her delivery because she knew the bottom line was, it belied every notion that msnbc has been promulgating that trump is a tax dodger. >> melissa: or he's not rich. >> or that he's not rich. >> melissa: the trump administration said it was ridiculous, that they were behind this. lot of people speculated because it turned out so well for him and it was embarrassing for msnbc. he said that's not true. it did end up on a pr front being a very good night for him. do you think for you, i mean, you got blockbuster ratings. there was a happy ending to that story, obviously. a career boom. >> i was the most famous unemployed person in america.
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that's why i took that job to open al capone's vault. i found nothing. i had 22 job offers the next day. who knows what happens to rachel maddow. msnbc is doing its job. rachel, i know, is a fine broadcaster. but there is no doubt that this favored donald trump. took the obamacare debate off the front pages for awhile, the whole russian hacking business was, at least for the day, put to the side. listen, i would love to be in the situation where i paid $38 million in taxes. >> melissa: me, too. you mentioned the hacking. i want to take you to the other big story of the day. first ever criminal case brought against russian government officials. what's your reaction to that? we're talking about deja vu. >> although people may be
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getting sick of russia, this is a landmark story. why? according to the department of justice this is a case of state sponsored hacking. yahoo! and the breach of privacy, billion people, was done in part by officials of the russian government. that's a big deal. if they would do that, what else are they doing? what else are they hacking? i think it fuels the whole effort by lindsay graham and the others to probe into exactly the nuts and bolts of what russia did and to whom did they do it? i think senator graham is on the right track, finding out whether or not there is a foreign intelligence surveillance court warrant. if there is a warrant, there's probable cause of something. i think that this yahoo! story now with this indictment which means there's probable cause that this crime was committed. i think this opens up a whole can of worms. we will, to our distress, find out how these neo commies have
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been infiltrating our government and businesses. >> melissa: when mitt romney thought russia was a big threat. here we are. ended up being right. >> just shows how he was so -- the president, so smug, so smart, but in a way, so naive. he was wrong on russia. wrong on the middle east. >> melissa: thank you for coming on. we appreciate it. i'm a huge fan. all right. president trump is in michigan meeting with key auto industry and business leaders and due to speak any minute. he's expected to announce a review of obama era fuel emission rules. mike pence rallied for support for the american health act, as the chambers struggle to get the votes needed to pass. we are live with that story.
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>> melissa: we are awaiting remarks from president trump in michigan. he is posed to talk about a big announcement in the auto industry. there is a battle over health care. there is also the intelligence committee saying all the stories swirling around him. will he address them. we'll see. stay tuned. vice president pence meeting with the conservative block of republicans in the house today amid concerns the claim better is struggling to get votes needed to pass the american health care act. mike emanuel is joining me live on capitol hill. mike, what is the latest on the effort to rally support for the
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plan? >> reporter: vice president pence who served 12 years in the house of representatives early in his career is back on capitol hill, trying to address concerns of members. those who have met with the vice president say lot of it's the pep talk trying to say the white house is engaged in the process on capitol hill. some members have said the bill is not perfect and they're hoping changes can be made. one republican due to meet with mr. pence told us what bothers him. >> i have a variety of concerns. i want to make sure that the cost increases for seniors as we've seen are taken up. i think that's very problematic. >> reporter: that's the revelation that older americans could see their premiums increase under this republican plan. so he is one of many lawmakers expressing that concern to the vp today. >> melissa: what are the latest on the changes to the republican plan.
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what is going to be in it is not entirely clear but some house republican leadership types are showing willingness to do fine tuning. >> we're working out some final details to make the bill even better. there's some great conservative wins already in this bill. also the most important thing is it achieves the goals that both president trump and house republicans have been talking about for years. >> reporter: as some are already trying to play the blame game on this house republican package to address our health care in this country. speaker paul ryan today noted that the president and the white house has been involved from the very beginning. he's saying they're all in it together. melissa? >> melissa: thank you. isis troops forced their way into a key neighborhood in mosul, iraq. the main government compound and a slew of neighborhoods on the
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west side of the city. fight in tripoli. libya has been split into two competing governments since 2011's civil war. as we said, we are awaiting president trump's remarks on the auto industry and his plans to change regulations on fuel efficiency. his speech is due to start any moment. plus, the president's revied travel ban is set to take effect hours from now even as the last minute challenges from more than half a dozen states. ♪ (vo) do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light. do not go gentle into that good night.
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new york state is filled with bright minds like lisa's. to find the companies and talent of tomorrow, search for our page, jobsinnewyorkstate on linkedin. >> melissa: fox news alert. we are minutes from president trump's big speech in michigan. he is expected to take aim at obama era regulation on fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles. jeff flock is live in've lansing michigan, where the president will speak. what can you tell us, jeff? >> reporter: everybody who's anybody in the auto industry is here, melissa. we've got the heads of the big auto companies, gm, mark fields of ford, sergio marhioni of fiat. the president has brought along scott pruitt because he is going to talk about fuel economy standards. take a look at what the automakers are supposed to achieve by 2025.
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according to the obama administration, 54.5 miles per gallon. they're not on target to do that. why is that? that's but a the american public wants cars now that are more powerful, little less fuel efficient perhaps. that's why sales of vehicles like ford's expedition are up double digits last month. big time. and sales of their small fuel economic vehicles like the ford focus are way down. they want those standards to be adjusted. president is not going to adjust them today. he doesn't have that power. what he will do is take those regulations that were set in stone or in concrete by the obama administration before they left office, he'll reopen the consideration of those regulations and perhaps lower them. here's the one problem, melissa. that is if he does that, states like california have the ability to opt out of that. they could keep the tougher standards. that would force automakers to
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make two different kinds of cars. that would not be very efficient for them. they don't want that to happen. they're here today. can't wait to hear what they figured out. >> melissa: jeff flock, thank you very much. president trump's revied travel ban facing multiple tests in court rooms across the country. just hours to go before it goes into effect. right now seven states are involved in litigation against travel ban 2.0. hawaii is leading the fight with another 13 other states filing friend of the court motions. william langeness is joining me live from honolulu, hawaii. william, how do things stand this time around at this hour? >> reporter: right now all it takes is one judge in one court to impose a nationwide injunction basically stopping donald trump on one of his seul signature issues. discriminates the ban against
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nationality. can't do that. violates criteria that congress set up to bar potential terrorists from entry. number three, discriminates because only muslim nations are involved. four, that it would hurt hawaii tourism and the economy here. five, that it denied the state's 5,000 muslims the right to see their families. >> the concern about the executive order is they even though it's for 120 days, it can be easily renewed. it can be renewed for another 120 days and just become permanent or perpetual. >> reporter: so the latest eo suspends immigration for 90 days from six failed states or sponsors of terrorism and 120 days all ref few skwreus and reduces their number from 10,000 to 50. from reading the three motions, the issue on trial here is not the ban as much as it's donald
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trump. every controversial statement he made as a candidate against muslims is being retried in the court in all three states. >> melissa: so what is the trump administration's response or argument in court today? >> reporter: well, number one, they say those previous statements as a candidate don't matter. they also say the ban is legal. they've addressed concerns addressed by the court of appeals. and that everything comes within the president's executive authority. that number one the countries involved are chosen not based on nationality, but because they can provide documents for a decent or reliable background check. secondly 90% of the world's muslims are not affected. hawaii's claims that it violates the al oha statement is ineffective. only seven were admitted to hawaii. finally, that this plaintiff, that his mother-in-law has not been to visit for 12 years and another 90 days doesn't represent emotional harm. she has not been denied a visa.
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>> we're not just obstructing president trump. we are really witnessing an obstruction of the american people and the very electoral system that elected president trump. >> melissa: okay, william. thank you very much for that. we want to take you to an event that we promised to bring you to. this is donald trump, president donald trump, taking the stage. >> it is really great to be back here in michigan. [ applause ] great. and it's also wonderful to be here with the leaders, worker, engineers, and suppliers of for and fiat chrysler and general motors and many others. we have so many leaders that we just met. all of the leaders of the major car companies and the -- really the automobile business. it's a great business. a wonderful business. it's been hurt here. it's not going to be hurt for
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long. that i can tell you. that i can tell you. i'm sure you've all heard the big news that we're going to work on the cafe standards so you can make cars in america again. [ applause ] we're gonna help the companies and they're gonna help you. there is no more beautiful sight than an american made car. no more beautiful. i love this state. i love the people of this state. and you did me a big favor 'cause you gave me a victory, and that victory hasn't been won by a republican in a long time. long time. and you're gonna be very happy, believe me. you're gonna be very, very happy. during the campaign, i came to michigan again and again, and i made this promise.
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that i am going to fight for your jobs and fight very very hard. i'm going to fight for michigan workers. i'm going to fight to keep the automobile production in the united states of america. not outside. in the united states. and by the way, for those that have any doubt, many other industries, too. that's okay, too, right? so we're here not simply to honor the past, but to devote ourselves to a new future of america automotive leadership. we want to be the car capital of the world again. we will be. and it won't be long, believe me. and by the way, we're going to have a very big announcement next week having to do with your
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industry. very very big. very important. everybody's saying, what is it? let's keep them -- let's keep them guessing back there. you've heard me say the word, and i'll repeat them, right now. buy american and hire american. [ applause ] it's not just an motto. it's a pledge. it's a pledge to the working people of this country. the era of economic surrender for the united states is over. it's over. and you see what's already been happening. plants are coming back. other plans that were expected to be built in other countries are not being built. i just want to tell the leaders they made some very wise decisions. very wise. very wise.
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some plants that were announced are not gonna be built. they're smart. we're going to stand up to foreign cheating. we're going to crack down on currency manipulation. and, yes, we're going to use the full economic power of our country to protect our workers and to protect our jobs. let me also say how important it is for me that we have every segment of this great american industry represented in our audience today. we have everybody. to succeed as a country, we have to work together. we have to fight side by side to protect our industry and to stop the jobs from leaving our country. it's not going to happen any more, folks. we've gone through it for many years, decades. not going to happen. if it is, there's consequences to pay for the companies that
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desert us and fire our employees. there are consequences. [ applause ] already we're seeing jobs coming back. since my election, ford has announced 700 new jobs coming back to their plant in flat rock, michigan. fiat chrysler announced they will create 2,000 new jobs in michigan and ohio. and just today, breaking news, general motors announced that they're adding or keeping 900 jobs right here in michigan. that's going to be over the next 12 months. that's just the beginning, folks. i told them, that's peanuts. that's peanuts. they're going to have a lot more. they're going to be building new plants, expanding their plans. my administration will work tirelessly to eliminate the industry killing regulations, to
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lower the job crushing taxes and to ensure a level playing field for all american companies and workers. before nafta went into effect, by the way, nafta, a total disaster. there were 280,000 autoworkers in michigan. today that number is roughly 165,000. and would have been heading down big league if i didn't get elected. plenty of things were stopped in their tracks. they were stopped in their tracks. lot of bad things were going to happen. lot of places that were going to get built aren't going to get built in other location. number of auto plants in the state has been cut by a third. motor city. once set the standard of living for the nation. now it has suffered under the decades of failed economic decisions that have stripped our
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country of its jobs and of its wealth. the transpacific partnership, another disaster r threatened states like michigan, wisconsin, ohio, pennsylvania and so many others with the loss of countless more jobs. that is why i'm proud to say i followed through on my promise and, by the way, many other promises. you've seen what's happened. many. and immediately withdrew the united states from the tpp. i kept my word. the assault on the american auto industry, believe me, is over. it's over. not gonna have it anymore. we're setting up a task force in every federal agency to remove any regulation that under minds american auto production and any
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other kind of production, including the production of high end, low end, big, small, every form of automobile and truck. during my first week in office, i brought american auto companies to the white house. mary barrow is here, mark fields is here, sergio is here. and others. and none of them ever got to see the oval office before. because nobody took them into the oval office, our president. they employ tens of thousands of people, but i brought them into the oval office because they're gonna be expanding their companies. [ applause ] but they all told me the same thing. they explained that the previous administration promised you so
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called midterm review of the federal fuel efficiency standards. it was necessary because the standards were set far into the future. way, way into the future. if the standards threaten auto jobs, then commonsense changes could have been, should have been made. just days before my inauguration the previous administration cut short the promise midterm review in an 11th hour executive action. today i am announcing that we are going to cancel that executive action -- [ applause ] we are going to restore the originally scheduled mid term review. and we are going to ensure that any regulations we have protect and defend your jobs, your factories. we're going to be fair.
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we're going to be fair. this is an issue of deep importance to me. for decades, i have raised on unfair foreign trade practices that have robbed communities of their wealth an robbed our people of their ability to provide for their families. they've stolen our jobs. they've stolen our companies. and our politicians sat back and watched. hopeless. not any more. as a private citizen, i looked really with sadness as massiveshipments of foreign cars have been dumped onto our shores while those same countries have shut their borders to our cars. we take down come on in folks. we make cars. they don't take us.
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since nafta was approved, we have lost nearly one third of our manufacturing jobs in the united states. since china entered the world trade organization, we've lost 60,000 factories. hard to believe. our trade deficit last year reached nearly $800 billion. who's making these deals? i can take anybody in the audience. you'll do better. believe me. statistics really should have shaken up washington into action, but nothing happened. but somethingdy happen. happened on november 8th. believe me it happened. happened for you. [ applause ] but the politicians made excuses. they set these chronic said deficit, they said they helped us win friends abroad.
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i don't want friends abroad if that's what it's gonna take. we don't need friends abroad. you hear where they say it's good for us because people like us abroad. they don't like us. they think we're stupid people. but no friendship is strengthened t abuse. because we have been abused. and no country can long lead the free world if it does not protect its industries. and care for its people and protect its borders. [ applause ] america will be respected again. and you, as workers, will be respected again. believe me. you will be respected again. soon. now. i think it's already happened. our great presidents from washington to jefferson to jackson to lincoln all understood that a great nation must protect its manufacture.
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must protect itself from the outside. today i will be visiting the home of andrew jackson on the 250th anniversary of his birth. and they say my election was most similar to his. 1828. a long time ago. usually they go back to this one or that one, 12 years ago, 16. in 1828. that's a long way. that's a long time ago. in supporting tariffs, jackson said, i look at the tariff with an eye to the proper distribution and to revenue. and with a view to discharge our national debt. we owe $20 trillion. $20 trillion. with our policies. america cannot be a wealthy country if special interests gave the system to profit from the exodus of our companies and
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from the exodus of our jobs. we must embrace a new economic model. let's call it the american model. [ applause ] under this system, we will reduce burdens on our companies and on our businesses. in exchange, companies must hire and grow in america. they have to hire and grow in our country. that is how we will succeed and grow together. american workers and american industries side by side. nobody can beat us, folks. nobody can beat us. [ applause ] 'cause whether we are rich or poor, young or old, black or brown or white, we all bleed the
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same red blood of patriots. [ applause ] great americans of all backgrounds built the arsenal of democracy, including the legendary rosy the riveter who worked here at willow run. you know that. [ applause ] 75 years ago during the second world war, thousands of american workers filled this very building to build the great new airplanes, the b-24 liberator. at peak production, listen to this. not the country that we've been watching over the last 40 years. they were building one b-24
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every single hour. [ applause ] we don't hear that. we don't hear that any more, do we? we'll be back. we'll be back soon. most amazing people. and while that's incredible, it's a tribute really to the team work, determination and patriotism that lives on today in each and every one of you. great people. you're great people. now, these hundreds of acres that defended our democracy are going to help build the cars and cities of the future. so i ask you -- that's fine 'cause you're right. so i ask you today to join me in daring to believe that this facility, this city, and this nation, will once again shine with industrial might. phrauz phrau -- [ applause ]
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i'm asking you to place your faith in the american worker and these great american companies. [ applause ] i'm also asking you to respect and place your faith in companies from foreign lands that come here to build their product. we love them, too. right? we love them, too. i'm asking all of the companies here today to join us in this new industrial revolution. let us put american workers, american families and american dreams first once again. may god bless the american
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worker. may god bless the motor city. and may god bless the united states of america! thank you. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> melissa: that was president donald trump in east lansing, michigan, talking about the auto industry there, announcing that gm is adding or keeping 900 jobs here in the u.s. talking a lot about the great american auto industry and the american worker. also saying that they welcome foreign companies that want to come here in order to build their cars and sell them. talked about a new industrial revolution that he sees kicking off here in the united states to provide high quality jobs. chris plan is a syndicated radio talk show host, richard fowler is a fox news contributor and radio talk show host. what did you hear there? >> a classic campaign speech.
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talking about very real issues that affect very real americans. talking about jobs, talking about industry. talking about some of deals we've cut, nafta. talking about bad deals for americans and american employers. honestly, given the audience, hitting all the right notes i think. >> melissa: yeah. richard fowler, this was back to basics for donald trump, how he got elected. right? >> i think this was a very good speech. will his actions match his rhetoric. you talk to the american autoworkers they've been crying out for years looking for answers. the question is will donald trump not on work with the corporations but will he bring labor unions and workers to the table as part of the conversation to put michigan and detroit back on track? >> melissa: yeah. chris, i mean, he definitely separates the workers from the union in terms of his thinking.
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i mean, he feels like the unions have not done a good job representing the workers based on where they stand right now. and you know that message got through to a lot of people who were working in these jobs. no? >> i think absolutely. i think people with those jobs recognize that the union leadership very often is self-interested rather than interested in the welfare and the benefit of the union members. president trump, as he said, has brought them into the -- course not. they're huge donors to the democratic party. >> that's not why at all. >> he's brought them into the oval office which is more than barack obama had done. >> he didn't bring the workers to the oval office. if you would talk to the worker, they would tell you it was their union that went to barack obama after the bailout. if barack obama wasn't bold an brave enough to put some skin in the game to protect america's auto industry, it would have been decimated. >> that's not true.
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that's not true. >> melissa: before we go down this road -- hang on. i want to bring in an attorney and legal analyst. we are running out of time here and i don't want to leave without getting your reaction to the new travel ban. we were talking about that right before the president began. will this one be more effective? we outline the challenges. >> very quickly, donald trump needed to make this new travel ban bulletproof and he did that. of course, there's going to be litigation because donald trump cannot sneeze without inciting legal activity. we will not see another ban of the ban. >> melissa: chris, real quick, what do you think? >> well, i hope that's right. we're seeing maryland and aclu and other lawsuits. there will be efforts to stop it. and once it gets into the courts, who knows? i certainly hope that's the case. >> melissa: richard? >> donald trump has no credibility on this travel ban. his economic adviser said this is pretty much the same thing. if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
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i think the courts will knock it down again. >> melissa: the argument they used last time in a lot of ways was about the rhetoric on the campaign trail. they're saying that again. will it work again? >> it's completely irrelevant. look, this is a ban for national security, folks. somebody's grandma can't come and visit for 90 days? that's really too bad. this is far larger than that. existing visa holders can still get in. he changed the refugees so there's not a life time ban on refugees. he fixed the problem. >> i don't know about that. >> we'll have to see. >> melissa: that was the same time last time though, right? there was the same thought about whrorpb the campaign rhetoric made sense or should be brought in. they did bring it in anyway. >> i know. but the courts should get rid of it. it doesn't matter. 1182usc is what matters. we followed that law. >> melissa: last words chris? >> like i said, fit looks like a duck, quacks like a duck. trump has no credibility when it comes to a ban. >> it's not a duck.
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it's a ban. >> melissa: thanks to all three of you. we appreciate you hanging out with us. it was jam packed. i'm melissa francis. right now is shepard smith. >> shepard: trump's wiretapping claim is not true. that is the conclusion today of republican and democratic lawmakers that came together this afternoon to knock down president trump's claim that his predecessor spied on him. >> i don't think there was an actual tap of trump tower. to date, i see no evidence that supports the claim that president trump made that his predecessor had wire taped his and his associates at trump tower. we've seen no basis for that whatsoever. >> shepard: but the questioning will go on. the two say they plan to ask james comey what if anything he knows. we're also watching a hearing underway now about russia's influence on our election. in addition,
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