it's fine, it's new. even my own family says sometimes i am a pain in the u-no-what. have something to say, nace, mean, it doesn't matter. >> martha: college readiness swap or a steve bennett put it, deconstructing the administrative state, but make no mistake, there is no language being spoken in d.c. on day 56 of the first 100. it goes like this. >> this administration tends to change course, soft power budget to a hard power budget, a message that our adversaries and allies would like to take. >> martha: welcome, i am martha maccallum, this is "the first 100 days." today, the new director of the office of management and budget, make mulvaney, said he literally looked at the president promises one by one and he wrote a budget for them. >> i'm going to cut spending big. >> a simple message, by the way.

i put myself in the shoes of that steelworker and ohio. the coalminer, the coal mining family in west virginia. the mother of two in detroit. and i really go to those folks, look them in the audience a come i want to take money from you and give them to corporation for public broadcasting. >> i will cut the wasteful government spending. >> the president is beholding to none of that. the president has drafted a budget for the entire nation. >> and my first budget report to congress, i'm going to ask for the elimination of the defense sequester. >> we had america first and america first candidate. we now have an america first president and it shouldn't be surprising that we have an america first budget. >> martha: can they make that happen? first, chief white house correspondent john roberts takes us through this today. >> good evening. the new budget of the president released today could be described in this way.

big increases in hard power, big cuts to soft power. let's take a first look at some of those big ticket hard power items. $54 billion increase in defense spending, that breaks down into 52 billion for the pentagon and 2 billion to be given to other agencies who are involved in defense. homeland security ops the budget by $3 billion, veterans affairs gets a little more than $4 billion. also, $1.5 billion for beginning construction of the wall, as well. massive cuts on the other side to some of the most important apartments we have. state department gets a 28% decrease in funding. a $10 billion cost. epa will see a 31% decrease in its funding, that will cover the elimination of some 3200 positions. hhs, 17.9% decrease and restructuring and the national institutes of health. how it gets a 13.2% decrease. in that, about $6 billion in

total. and matt, a cut to the $3 billion community block grant cuts. one of the things the community block grant does is that it staf which goes to fund programs like meals on wheels. make mulvaney, the budget director says he can't burden taxpayers with that sort of spending. listen. >> we can't do that anymore. we can spend money on programs just because they sound good. meals on wheels sounds great. a state decision to find that particular portion, to take the federal money and give it to the states and say, we want to give you money for programs that don't work. i can defend that anymore. >> he also said it wouldn't speak compassionate to take money on the other end for people who are struggling to make ends meet and give it to programs that just aren't working. he says that in order to craft a budget, martha, he listened to literally everything the president set on the campaign trail over the months and crafted a budget policy item for just about everything the president said and that is what we sell released today.

>> martha: interesting. it was also interesting, john, the explosive white house briefing today, especially for sean spicer. he doubled down on president trump's claims that he was wiretapped by his predecessor, president obama. those claims persisting despite both the house and today, the senate intelligence leadership coming out and saying that there is no evidence that that happened. watch. >> hold on -- no, i understand that. where was your passion and where was your concern when they all said that there was no connection to russia? where was it then? crickets are from you guys prayed at the end of the day -- no, hold on. hold on. let me -- i am trying to answer your question, jonathan if you can calm down. >> you have done plenty of reporting on all of this. >> you want to cherry pick one commentary. >> that has all been looked at. >> how do you know all this? how do you seem to be such an expert in this?

i call the questions. if you don't want to answer a question, call on someone else. thank you. >> martha: back to john roberts at the white house. what was that like today? >> it was the craziest thing i had seen at the white house since the president's press conference a few weeks back. every day, something else happens. let me give you the back story. about 15 minutes before the spicy racing -- spicer briefiny said they didn't see any evidence for the wiretapping. the president and his staff googled everything they possibly could so they could come out with a lot of ammunition. spicer had basically a sermon that he wanted to deliver from the podium. we knew he was going to get the question when my colleague from abc asked him, he went on for 7 minutes. he wanted to get out everything they had googled the previous hour. he did, then, got content just

because a lot of people thought he was stonewalling. i think the reality is, martha, i know that some people aren't going to want to hear this. the evidence to back of the president's assertion that there was wiretapping or some sort of surveillance specifically of trump tower is exceedingly thin. it may be that there were some incidental surveillance of people who may have been coming in and out of trump tower because they have transcripts, apparently, of lieutenant general michael flynn speaking on the telephone with the russian ambassador. that had to come from somewhere. they are other people who were loosely connected to the trump campaign over the course of probably the first part of last year who have said to me they think they were being surveilled and their cell phone was in and out of trump tower a few times during the course of the year. we may find that out. any direct development, knoche proof yet. >> martha: the big question is whether it is based on the reports. sean spicer read them, president reference to them in the

interview he did with tucker. then he said, over the next couple of weeks, you will hear interesting things. that is the bucket that hasn't been filled yet. i know you want top of all of that. john, thank you. >> i got to point out that every intelligence official who has been asked had said there is no evidence that that happens. maybe news reports i said that but nobody from intel has. >> martha: thank you. let's bring in our panel on what has been a very busy day. chris stirewalt, richard fowler, and charles hurt. gentlemen, welcome. it was a very spicy news briefing today, we could say. i want to start with this budget. there was a lot in there. you can pick it apart, it leaves the overall budget the same, even though they talk about cuts. chris, let me start with you. there was language and a way of looking at spending in terms of taking it from the taxpayer and giving it to someone else that we don't really hear put that way quite often. >> absolutely.

if conservatives were lukewarm or even upset about trauma care and the health insurance plan and all of that jazz, this is something that will make them stand up and cheer. this is the most conservative, conceptually conservative -- i think you nailed it. it is not about the dollars, the concept of what the scope and role and appropriate place for the federal government is in american life. this is the most conservative, by those standards, the most conservative budgets ever put forward by chief executives. >> martha: we are talking about slashing programs, 28, 30%. richard, the argument that was made, you know what, we don't have the money for all this stuff, folks. we just don't. we need to figure out where it will come from. i know you feel strongly that they are taking it from the wrong place. >> i do think they are taking it from the wrong place. bolstering up our defense department when our defense department is pretty muscular as it is is not the right move. here's the silver lining in this cloud, martha. trump says he is the guy who is

the art of the deal. maybe he is creating a budget that is absolutely, positively so toxic that he knows it won't get to the hill and he can get the thing more like what he wants without much movement. maybe that's it. but if not, i find this budget to be really, really heartrending for the seniors who depend on meals on wheels every day to get their dinner or the kids that wake up and watch sesame street or the african nations that depend upon the united states for their -- to be able to eat. all of those -- the other point i want to make here, i spent a month in africa with foreign service officers who do the work of maintaining peace every day when our military isn't there. 31% cut or over 30% cut to the state department and our diplomacy by far is one of the worst things we can do in the world. >> martha: i hear you. let me break and charlie hurt. interesting things happen when companies are told that they have to cut by 25%. they find places to cut the

money and find ways to make money. >> the notion that a company can have a $20 trillion debt on their books and not have to cut things dramatically at every department is absolutely unheard of in the private sector. so, for donald trump to step in here and do that and to make these dramatic cuts, i think is exactly right. the most conservative budget that i have ever seen in my time in washington. politicians, they love to give stuff away. it doesn't matter if it is their money or someone else's. in fact -- it does matter. they prefer to be other people's money. they love to give it away. they think that spending it on cartoons or shrimp jogging on treadmills or silent shakespeare productions, they think it is a great expenditure. >> martha: sometimes better than audible ones, by the way. no, i love shakespeare. this whole concept that it's

wrong to take something from a single mother of two in the form of taxes or a minor who is trying to put food on his table, in order to give it to a program that is failing as i think somewhat a revolutionary thought. not the kind of language we hear spoken in washington every day. >> not even failing. you are just taking the money from the mother come with a single mother with a child, in order to give it to some program may be as a break, great program. it is still something we have to say, is this right? >> martha: i want to circle back. i want to get your thoughts on the other part of the briefing, which was combustible. something else. what did you think? >> we see this side of trump that gives hope for his supporters. this is going to work, this budget, maybe he is doing deals, selling the health care plan. then, the stuff that we are reminded of the troubles he had when he was running for president when he gets stuck on something or when he first came into office. there is 5 million secret votes,

so, i really did win the popular vote. the problem is, his defenders have enough work to do defending him on substantive matters. when they have to devote their time, effort, energy, do defending the president on this stuff, this pointless stuff that is matters of pride, when you do that, you are burning energy and burning capital that is desperately needed to advance an agenda that is the most ambitious i'd ever seen. >> martha: gumming up the gears. they are wasting 7 minutes recounting all of this today. as tucker said last night, charlie, why didn't you wait until you had the evidence and then presented? rather than spilling all the stuff all over the place and making everybody talk about it in the press briefing when you would rather have them talk about your budget. >> absolutely. a lot of people have gotten hung up on the word wiretapping and the trump tower. the bottom line does remain, though, there have been a lot of reports about surveillance of either the campaign or people around the campaign, off a

political opponent of the sitting president. those are serious charges. there has been reporting to at least suggest that there may be something there. that is alarming. >> martha: if there was something there, we will see it when it comes out. i got to go. thank you. richard, you will get the first word next time. good to see you all. stella had come a first lady melania trump the victim of two separate attacks from a wrapper and a liberal cable host. governor huckabee and lisa boothe sound off on the double standard. plus, could the american health care act be turning a corner? with the president voicing his continued support last night in nashville and signaling that he wants folks to come together, is it off? we will see. that does not include house freedom caucus mark meadows. he is up next and he will tell us what he thinks the whole thing should be scrapped. >> it is something i haven't seen in a long time. this president is getting deeply involved, the president is the

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get rid of obamacare and make health care better for you and for your family. >> martha: that was last night and nashville. president trump at a rally saying that he hopes to bring everyone together and to hammer out this republican health care bill. he believes it can get done. with the future of obamacare repeal at stake, summer's suggesting that perhaps the replacement legislation could b. maybe they can get this done. in the moments, we will talk to mark meadows, who says that he thinks there's a lot of work that needs to be done. not too crazy about her. we begin with mike emanuel live on capitol hill. hi, mike. >> good evening. house speaker paul ryan said his focuses on finding the votes to pass this health care replacement plan in the house. >> we constantly get feedback, we constantly get suggestions for members. we are working on bridging these gaps to make improvements in the bill so that we have a bell that

can pass. and we feel like we are making great strides and great progress on getting a bill that can pass because it incorporates the kind of feedbacks for members from all walks of life in our conference. >> idaho conservative congressman raul labrador took a swipe at the speaker today, saying he should try to play on offense, "i don't think we are talking anything about leadership issues but he does need to figure out what it means to have a majority. i have to be honest, sometimes i give credit to nancy pelosi that she knew what it meant to have a majority." today, they both take another step, passing the budget committee on 919-17 vote. three conservatives doll black conservatives with democrats against the g.o.p. plan. palmer pushed for tightening up medicaid soon. >> the affordable care act led to the exclusion of the program into a permanent welfare benefit for anyone including the able bodied and childless. the medicaid expansion has created a perverse incentive for

states to provide things to adults. >> the democrats continued attacking this bill. nancy pelosi suggested that paul ryan may force his critics to walk the plank. >> all of the evidence addressed at this bill will worsen every aspect of our health care system. and return us to a time before the ata when coverage was neither accessible nor affordable. the burden is on the trump administration to prove otherwise. >> ryan said the president is being helpful trying to rally support. martha. >> thank you. two republicans, senator ted cruz and house freedom caucus met marcos -- mark meadows, where they argued that the house g.o.p. plan simply doesn't go far enough to achieve the goals. congressman rado strides with us. >> good evening, great to be with you.

>> do you think they should scrap this and start over? >> there are some things that have been thought out with the speaker and putting forth us. we are not there yet. i can tell you, i made a promise to the product on my president to negotiate in good faith and make substantial changes. martha, the real barometer for all of this is that we have two lower we don't do this, then, we fail. >> martha: does not lower it by 10%? >> that is really calculating on increase or a decrease in terms of the younger population. so, older americans, those that are 40 and above, actually will see an increase over a 10-year period back. according to cbo, our seniors really have to be careful with this. we have to adjust this to make sure that not only those that that are getting protected with this, those that are not, actually get the protection. >> martha: there are specifics out there that conservatives are

pushing for, for instance, work requirements for medicaid for able-bodied recipients of medicaid. medicaid expansion that would end sooner, 2019 perhaps, rather than 2020. which things do you think -- i know you spoke to the president, no doubt he wants to get a deal done. what did you indicate he would be willing to do to get there? >> we have laid out a few items that we are willing to pray that op-ed you talked about that senator cruz and i actually put forth, talked about the fundamental aspect of this. those of the insurance regulations under obamacare. currently, you have to buy make a bronze, silver, gold, platinum plan. even when we go through this whole process, you are still going to have to buy those types of plans that are left in in terms of regulation. so, for us, it is looking at those regulations, repealing those, then, once we get to that, the rest of its become much easier to negotiate. >> martha: in a word, can this

past? can you get something through? >> not today but i am hopeful in the week to come, i know i am meeting with some of our tuesday group, the moderate members, defined some common ground. >> martha: thank you very much. good to see you. here with mark, dan hanh enter, "wall street journal" editor who just wrote a piece titled "the gop's obamacare choke," and juan williams. gentlemen, welcome. good to have both of you here. i want to read a little bit of the piece that you wrote. let's put that up. so we can share it with the viewers. "the wall street journal" this morning. dan writes "may be in politics, genes really our destiny. under pressure from a cbo score, the genetic disposition of republican politicians is to go wobbly. this movement conservatives is to get out the long knives and start carving up other conservatives." is that what you think he is doing? >> i don't think mr. maddow is doing that. at least not tonight. it is very interesting.

some others are doing that, people saying if they admire nancy pelosi, nancy pelosi never had anyone in her own party like raul labrador trying to carve up the speaker. mark met i was so interesting because he said i think we will get this worked out in the next week. it is a week. he said seven days. i think congressman meadow is not committed to the idea that through negotiation, they will be able to do some of the things he described in "the wall street journal" piece he wrote for us was ted cruz. it wasn't that major, martha. it was just as you said, moving to medicare expansion up about a year, expanding health savings accounts, these are the sorts of things that you would expect to be negotiated in a big piece of legislation. >> martha: paul ryan spoke very positively about the president. he said i am very impressed with his commitment to get this done. there is no doubt that mr. meadow is feeling pressure from the president. >> i think it is interesting to

watch president trump on this. i don't think he has bought into the plan. obviously, he is famous for his branding. you notice, it is not called trumpcare. he is holding up some distance because his top advisors are making -- i think i will wait a second, we are not sure this is going to take off. we don't want to feel like we are loaded down in terms of the trump brand if it doesn't go forward. i was taken by dance piece this morning and "the wall street journal," one of the first things i saw today. my feeling when i was reading it, yes, i think republicans are choking if, in fact, they have been, for seven years, condemning obamacare and now, they have a chance, i think it is 50 plus votes to repeal, they have a chance and they don't do something. that is the politics. i think your bottom line, dan, why would republicans vote for republicans in the future if they don't follow through on this? >> martha: it sounds crazy to say but so much of this feels about 2018. you can feel democrats

salivating. if they blow this, we will be in good shape. >> consider, we are doing real politics. this is the way legislation works. it hasn't worked this way for the last eight years. congressman meadow dean was elected to the house in 2012. this is his first big piece of legislation he and -- --dash go >> martha: it is so amazing. >> this is amazing. >> this is why politicians come to washington to do go negotiations like that. >> martha: i was listening to paul ryan, he said, it has to get there one committee, then, to the house, then, you have to have a conference, then, to the senate. i thought, this is a refresher's effects course because it has been so long since we have seen legislation passed, juan. obamacare. >> that's not true. what you are saying here is that republicans are now the governing party. they have to govern. that takes -- the result is, they have to compromise in your own ranks if you have a majority, as congressman

labrador was saying. my problem with this, it is all about the politics. my difference with dan's, what about the american people? i think the problem is, the republican plan isn't adequate. i don't think it covers as many people as obamacare. i don't think it drives down premiums, as you heard from congressman meadows. older people, especially. >> martha: the proof will be in the pudding. if people are unsatisfied -- then, it turns out to be the truth that people are paying more and the coverage is less, believe me, republicans won't get reelected. >> the fox news poll today had 54% not approving. >> martha: gentlemen, thank you. a pleasure to have both of you. still ahead, of the revised version of president trump's travel ban. as you know, shot down once again at the 11th hour. with this latest decision, based solely on legal grounds, or is that political on the part of this judge?

that debate with katie pavlich and michele jawando coming up next. plus, 24 hours after many and the media panted president trump's address last night, our focus groups looked at the dials and watched what he said. fascinating to see what resonated with them and what resonated in a way with some democrats. we will show you the dials coming up. >> we are going to fight this terrible, we are going to take this case as far as it needs to go, including

♪ >> martha: developing tonight him a new reaction to the decision by two federal judges in hawaii and maryland to reject the revised version of the travel ban. president trump has vowed to fight on, even the supreme court, calling it a unprecedented judicial overreach. trace gallagher has details from the west coast newsroom. >> the only difference in these two federal rulings is the judge in maryland, thoedore chuang, only health of the travel ban from essex majority muslim countries. he left the refugee travel ban intact. judge derrick watson hawaii halted the entire executive order. install it of relying solely on what was in the executive order, both of these federal judges based their decisions on

statements donald trump made in the campaign trail, like this. watch. >> donald ray trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. until our countries representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> the judges said those types of statements supported claims by the states that this travel ban and mounted to religious discrimination. the judges take into account made by stephen miller, who said the new travel ban was fundamentally the same as the old travel ban. it now appears that president trump never wanted to rewrite his executive order to begin with. watch. >> this is a watered-down version of the first one. this is a watered down version. let me tell you something, i think we ought to go back to the first one and go all the way, which is what i wanted to do

with the first one. >> going all the way to the supreme court may now include a few more stops, including back to the ninth circuit court of appeals, which has ruled against the administration once and the fourth circuit court, which covers maryland. the doj says, the president's executive order falls squarely within his lawful authority in seeking to protect our nation security and the department will continue to defend this executive order in the courts. but while the doj wants the courts to focus on president's authority authority, so far, the courts have focused on whether the president's order is discriminatory. >> martha: a lot of questions. thank you. here with mark, katie pavlich, townhall.com editor. and michele jawando, the legal progress vice president at the center for american progress. thank you for being here. welcome, ladies. it struck me again when i listen to president trump last night, katie, i want to start with you. it was revealing her thought

that he said, i didn't want us to have a second order in the first place, i wanted to stick with a first order. he ends up in the same place, perhaps he was perturbed with someone who urged him, we have to rewrite this one, we have to try again. he wanted to stick with the original version. he wants this to go to the supreme court. >> after the first order was struck down, the administration repeatedly said from the white house that they were going to fight this and appeal the first decision. then, the advisors got involved and said we should just issue another one, the court fight, first for the reason of expanding past the 90 day temporary. mack. second, they thought that they would lose based on the arguments made in the first time. the second time around, they did tailor it to the complaints from the courts. when you look at the way these judges came up with their decisions, they are not basing them on constitutionality. they are basing them on campaign statements. as a law professor jonathan turley, who is not a conservative, said this morning,

there is a lot more caselaw to fall on the side of the president then there is to fall on the side of campaign statements. >> martha: michele, that stuck out to me. jonathan turley and alan dershowitz both look at this may say, there is a lot of emotion around these judges decisions. but it will stand up. the president does have the right to ban entry from countries if he deems limbs to be a national security risk. it is a 1952 law. >> i think i have -- my mother is a minister and my dad is an attorney. my entire life i have been guided by two things, the law and our values. and the constitution has made clear that this executive order is fundamentally un-american. i think no matter what law you refer to, that is why you see these judges saying so clearly, it is a violation of our constitutional values. and that is why, when we see

this as i continued to move through the many different district courts, appellate courts, potentially, the supreme court, we are going to hear people say this is unconstitutional. it is a violation of our american values. >> martha: reading from the law, the law says that it gives the president the power to suspend or impose restrictions on the entry of foreign nationals if it determines their entry would be detrimental to the interest of the united states. these are the same countries, a similar group, that obama deemed to be a national security threats. >> there is nothing unconstitutional about keeping the foreign nationals from failed states like yemen, syria, libya, somalia, where there is a very severe problem with terrorism and terrorist organization saying they will use refugees to get fighters through the united states. we have seen this happen in europe. there is nothing unconstitutional about the president using his authority, which is written in the u.s. code, to those people out. this is not permanent.

this is something that was temporary. i think of the justice department will appeal this. attorney general sessions has more in place now. they will fight it. i think it will come out on a positive side. >> martha: no doubt that campaign words can come back to haunt you. that is what has happened in the first couple of rounds. michele and katie, thank you very much. still ahead, a two separate incidents, both resulting in ugly attacks against first lady melania trump. we will show you the fallout. plus, after some of the media gave president trump's speech of some remarks last night, we will show you but they had to say. then, we will look at the dials with lee car

>> martha: last night, president trump gave a big speech in nashville and it was received differently from different aspects of the audience. many in the media panned of the president's remarks last night. here's a sampling of that. >> it with a campaign rally. they kind of which we sow over

and over again last year for donald trump. the only difference tonight was that reality has hit his politics, his pledges, his rhetoric. >> donald trump also said that the republican health care bill is not a finished product. in other words, donald trump now is committed to absolutely nothing in his own health care bill. >> he is quickly turning into president dog ate my homework, the buck stops somewhere over there. >> martha: that is what they thought. we asked the pollster leigh carter to commission a focus group to see how watchers and voters thought about it. watch the reactions of republicans on the redline, and dependence on the yellow line, and democrats on the blue line. watch how they move in response as the president talks. >> i want to get to taxes, i want to cut the hill out of taxes. but -- but before i can do that, i would have loved to have put

it first, i'll be honest. there is one more very important thing that we have to do. if we are going to repeal and replace horrible, disastrous, obamacare. >> martha: poster and communication strategist, leigh carter joins us now. it is fascinating to watch it move. what did you see? speak of republicans have not missed a beat. they are with donald trump the whole way. we are seeing independence is often just a little bit, not a lot. i think they are waiting to see action. democrats across the board have come -- they have never supported donald trump, they are not coming around. you can see that he is not even trying to get them around with these messages. i think the important thing to watch as the independents. >> martha: let's take a look at the next one, the travel ban, let's see how people reacted to that. >> this ruling makes us look weak. which, by the way, we know longer are, believe me. just look at our borders.

we are going to fight this terrible ruling. we are going to take the cases as far as that needs to go, including all the way up to the supreme court. we are going to win. we are going to keep our citizens safe. and regardless, we are going to keep our citizens safe. believe me. >> you can see come of republicans are so onboard with this travel ban. on the other hand, republicans are so on the other side. when you talk about it, republicans and independents, you can see, responding favorably. this is about national security, america first. democrats are think i'm a humanitarian issue. it is not about america first, it's about all people first. it is a totally divided issue. you cannot get democrats to move over no matter what republicans or independents think. >> martha: there was one area where it was a little bit closer. let's take a look. remember, one of the big thrusts last night was to talk about school choice, a very important

issue, go straight to the heart of how people feel about education. >> we will give our children the right to attend the school of their choice. wonder where they will be taught to love this country and this values. >> so, i was shocked last night. when he was talking about school choice, we saw republicans, of course, supporting it. independents, supporting it. democrats come across the board, said this is an issue they were optimistic about. something that historically and all throughout the election people have said that donald trump is and at what he is doing about education. they did not support the education secretary. here they are saying that choice is a good thing in education. also, during his speech, he said education is a civil rights issue. to something that is bringing people together, i think we see it here. >> martha: betsy devos is big on school choice. democrats seem to be on part of that. very interesting. lee, thank you so much. still i had, first lady melania

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♪ >> martha: developing tonight, first lady melania trump becomes the subject of two attacks. the first set up by a deserving music video from snoop dogg depicting the shooting of a man and a clown suit. an offensive tweet that said this. read this stuff. it is about his wife, it is about her work, it is just repulsive. that is that. the second, less incendiary attack was from msnbc host rachel maddow, who in defending a report, suggest that the reason it was so squeaky clean, which was somewhat of a surprise to her, must have been because it was the year of melania trump's citizenship status, when she was trying to attain med. jointed now by mike huckabee and lisa boothe. welcome to both of you. good evening. it is usually understood, you

don't go after first ladies, you don't go after families. this has been happening on a fairly regular basis to most members of the family for the trumps. what do you think, governor huckabee? >> it is been historical that we don't let people just go off on the families. they are not on the ballot. they didn't ask for this. melania trump is a beautiful, classy lady. the attacks on her are just obscene. some of them, frankly, our felonies. when you start specifically talking about violent acts and misogynist kind of activities toward a person of a prominent position, it is just disgusting. this guy, bow wow, what a bad dog. take away all the bones, make it go underground. what a goober. for him to go out and think he is an important entity has a right to say that. it's just disgusting. >> martha: it is the crude, crass world we live in, this guy -- i looked them up on twitter,

he has 3 million followers. that is how many people saw that repulsive and disrespectful and every other adjective you can think of things that he put out there. i wonder how he would feel if that was that about a number of his family, lisa. >> there is a clear -- it is not just a reflection of what society looks like now. as a reflection of the double standard that exists. if you remember back in 2014, a republican staffer, who wrote on her facebook page, something critical about president obama's daughter, mainly surrounding the way she was dressed. she was hounded by news reporters, she had to resign, she was made into an international news story. there were tv cameras outside of her house. what have we seen done to the te trump? the comments from bowwow, snoop dogg literally shooting the trump and a music video. madonna talking about blowing up the white house. the "snl" writer writing something horrible about barron trump, who was only ten years old. yet, these comments are

completely excused because it is about president trump as opposed to president obama. >> martha: i just want to talk about the '05 tax return, which rachel maddow has had to do a dance with because it didn't turn out the way she anticipated it would. she said, 2005 is the year mr. trump remarried his lovely wife, melania. their first jointly filed tax return as a married couple. she noted that mrs. trump was not a u.s. citizen but a green card holder. she goes on to say it was an important piece of evidence in that process. that is a lot of reading into that tax return, governor huckabee. >> the great philosopher ron white says you can't fix stupid. that is just stupid. to think that donald trump paid $38 million just so that his wife could get citizenship, donald trump is about stupid but rachel maddow is for saying it. if you don't like donald trump wanted to spend money just to grease the pathway, he could have probably done the

old-fashioned way and just made a few political contributions and that would have taken care of it. you don't pay $38 million, that is the dumbest thing i've ever heard. good grief, that is off the rails. >> martha: lisa come away and before we go. >> i think she is trying desperately to excuse the embarrassment that happened last night. all we found out this president trump is very rich and he is paying more than the average person. >> martha: thank you, guys. go ... ... ...

>> martha: relieve you on the st. patrick's eve with this from the president, the quote of the night. watch. >> always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue, but never forget to remember those that have stuck by you. we know that. politically speaking. a lot of us know that. we know it well. >> martha: can't make it up, right? tomorrow is apparently germany

day at the white house because angela merkel is coming to town. have a good night tonight, everybody. thanks for being with us. bill o'reilly is up next. we will see you tomorrow night at 7:00 for "the first 100 days." have a great ♪ >> tom: welcome to "red eye," hello everyone, i am tom shillue. let's check in with tvs at andy levy over at at the "red " tease deck. >> andy: coming up on the big show, attorney general jeff sessions wants to return to the "just say no" approach to fighting drugs. i think it's bad enough that hollywood keeps rebooting things. plus, buzz aldrin really wants people to go to mars. shouldn't we start by actually sending someone to the moon first? finally, these mama genes are being called a sign of the