"special report." fair, balanced, and unafraid. complete coverage of the gorsuch confirmation hearing tomorrow. shannon bream will here at 9:00. "the first 100 days" with martha starts right now. ♪ >> martha: breaking tonight, big fixes coming any minute now in the health care bill as the president now says he wants a face-to-face with all republicans in the house tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. that should be interesting, since you now more than ever, he needs a win on this bill that will be voted on on thursday. on a day with plenty of tense hearings for the white house, the president may have been happy to get out of d.c. he touched down in kentucky. we expect to hear some tough counter punching on the special story that was everywhere today, as well as a full throated endorsement of of the health ce fixes, those could be coming any hour. it is martha maccallum, this is day 60 of "the first

100 days." another potential won on a rough day, his supreme court pick him up neil gorsuch, we will tell you how they did as the dems decide how they will filibuster this nomination. the story you did not hear much about, the president met today with the leader of iraq and promised him that u.s. support in the fight against isis well "accelerate." what does he mean by that? we will talk about that, as well. but we begin with at wild hearing on capitol hill as the fbi, for the first time, confirmed an ongoing investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. it denies any wiretapping happened at trump tower and takes on the on substantiated allegations russian collusion potentially with the trump campaign. house intelligence committee member congressman peter king was there today. he was part of the questioning of the fbi director. he will join us in just a moment. plus, former house intelligence

committee pete hoekstra and marie harper will be here to respond on their thoughts. first, we go to catherine herridge, who is live on capitol hill with her report on what happened today and what we learned. >> thanks, martha. what the fbi director did in his testimony today is really extraordinary under any circumstances, confirming the counterintelligence investigation. these cases are among the most highly classified and sensitive and they are reserved for operations to disrupt spying by foreign nations and other hostile actors. the fbi director also testified that there simply is no evidence to support the president's wiretapping allegations. >> was the president's statement that obama had his wires tapped in trump tower a true statement? >> i have no information that supports those tweets. we have looked carefully inside the fbi. the department of justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the department of justice and all its components.

>> based on the fbi director's testimony today, here on capitol hill, we have quite an extraordinary set of circumstances as we look back to the summer of 2016. we now have confirmation that the nominee for the democratic party, hillary rodham clinton, was under criminal investigatio investigation, and we also have confirmation that associates with the trump campaign were also under investigation for their contact with the russians. in the meantime, the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee pressed the fbi director to see if democrats crossed the line with russia. >> if this committee or anybody else for that matter, someone from the public, comes with information to you about the hillary clinton campaign, or their associates or someone from the clinton foundation, will you add that you are investigation? >> people bring us information about what they think is improper lawful activity of any kind. we will evaluate it.

>> the white house spokesman held his ground today, saying that there is simply no public evidence of collusion between trump associates and russian intelligence. they cited the statement of former obama administration officials, the director of national intelligence james clapper, also just as recently as last week, the former acting director of the cia, mike morell, martha. >> martha: thank you very much. catherine herridge reporting. pete hoekstra's former chairman of the house intelligence committee and a former trump campaign national security advisor. paris harper's former cia officer and spokesperson and a fox news contributor. welcome to both of you today. the president tweeted quite a bit throughout the course of this about what he made of it. pete, taking a look at your thoughts on this, you think that this is much ado about nothing. why? >> we didn't learn much new today. the trump campaign under investigation, that has been out there, that has been talked about for a long time.

james clapper we thought put that to rest a few weeks ago. obviously, that did not happen. yet, we knew all about the leaks. there were some questions raised today. i think that what was leaked, who leaked it, is not criminal, is there investigation, those types of things. in terms of ground breaking news, no, i think the ground breaking news if anything, there is a lot more questions that need to be asked and that this committee will be looking to get the answers for, rather than breaking news that finally, we understand exactly what is happening. >> martha: a good point. i don't know -- there was a lot of drama and there today, marie. but i don't know that we have bounced a ball in any of these issues. did we? >> not to substitute into louis. i do think it is significant that you have the head of the fbi under oath confirm that the trump campaign is under investigation for its work are possible ties with the russians. nothing may come of this but the

fact that there is in an fbi investigation that they feel like they have enough to investigate, is significant. it is also worth noting that this is a topic that multiple trump administration officials have repeatedly not been truthful about. mike flynn got fired for not being truthful about it. we'll see what comes from this. every day come of this is a story, every day trump tweets and says things that aren't true, it takes away from all the other things i know he wants to accomplish. this is not going away and that is what i take away from today. >> martha: it does go on, and that goes on in part because in some ways, pete, the president keeps tweeting about it. that has kept us alive. politically, that may be something that he wants to reconsider. he has stuck up for his tweeting quite a bit in the past ten days or so but one of the tweets that he sent out today, the first one we have here, -- the fbi

director said, no, that is not what we have said it today. your thoughts? >> what they did say was that there is no evidence that vote tallies in any states like the state that i come from, michigan, were affected, which was a toss of state. the parsing or how president trump phrased it or how the tweets came out wasn't an exact reflection of what the director said today. i think there is other interesting questions that come up today. it is interesting that the fbi director saying this investigation has been going on since july. if there is an investigation going on, you would think that there would be surveillance of the trump campaign and other folks associated with the candidates, the president-elect, at that time. at the same time that the fbi director is saying, there was no surveillance going on. these are the kinds of confusing issues that people are looking out and saying, let's dig down

into this. at the leaks. was the information that was leaked on michael flynn, was it collected illegally, was it distributed appropriately, and obviously, when it was leaked, that was illegal. these are the kind of questions we will be hearing about probably four months. >> martha: it is not going anywhere. marie, thank you very much. pete, thank you. here now with more on this, one of the lawmakers in the room today, republican congressman peter king. good to have you here, congressman. a lot of questions that came up during the course of this today. trey gowdy was very forceful in his questioning. he wanted to know specifically if anybody could tell him who may have leaked that information on michael flynn. to be nsa director said there is only about between 12 and 20 individuals who have the potential or the ability to unmask someone. that seems to make it pretty

clear that this is an intentional move to do a hit job on him, to take him down. it worked. >> i think what a log of the media become the so-called mainstream media, was missing today, during the questioning, he said how serious these leaks are. he said it is unprecedented. he has never seen such a volume of serious leaks in such a brief period of time. obviously, with general flynn, no matter what he said or didn't say, it was a legal and a felony that anyone should disclose a transcript, without even his name, that is under a fisa warrant and the courts, that it is almost is almost sacrosanct. you cannot expose that. also, for instance with the dossier, as far as i know, four people in the room. brendan, clapper, director comey, admiral rogers. they met with donald trump. at the end of the meeting, reportedly, director, gave him a copy of the dossier. >> martha: him meaning brennan? >> actually, comey.

director comey gave him the dossier. >> martha: gave who the dossier? >> president-elect trump. he gave in the dossier to look at. within a matter of outdoors, that was all leaked out. >> martha: it went to "the washington post." do you think we will find out who we leaked it from that very small, highly placed group? >> if there is any group, such a small number of people, they may have had one or two aids in there, the code and have been more than six to eight people. that was disgraceful, doing that to a president-elect. that what that was doing, that gave the rest of the media the excuse to leak the dossier, which they would have been able to do otherwise. this is disgraceful. >> martha: a lot of attention has been given to the wiretapping issue and it was put to rest a couple of times by the heads of the intel committees. now, by fbi director comey, as well. as the president need to address this, to put it to rest? >> i think he should. i think he overshot the mark. but he could have said, there

was obvious surveillance going on through investigations, which may or may not have been legal. but somebody was misusing that information. leaking it to the media, leaking it to democratic opposition, which we saw all these news reports talking about the reports and transcripts and conversations being held that could only happen done with a legal leaks. the president said he was so angry, i assume it was a wiretap. the fact is, i'm sure they were people in the trump camper came under some kind of surveillance because the investigation happens, as pete hoekstra said,. >> martha: he could potentially clarify it, but not discount the underlying sentiment of what he thinks has been going on here. >> there is clear illegal conduct. felonies have been committed against the president of united states. he overshot it and by doing it he took the spotlight of what the serious crimes being committed against them. >> martha: thank you so much.

we are currently awaiting remarks from president trump. he is such a take the stage at about 7:42 nights. you can see the crowd has gathered and no doubt he will want to take advantage to speak to the people and the nation at large about all these big stories. we will bring you there as soon as the stories get underway. up next, more from the fiery james, hearing today over just how the leaks on the intel community came to life, who leaked, we were talking about this with pete king. why is it taking so long to uncover the people? it is a very small universe of individuals who had access to that information. former house speaker newt gingrich joins us of his reaction to all of that. plus, day one of supreme court confirmation hearings for judge neil gorsuch is over. about three more to go for this gentleman. some democrats claimed that he is nothing more than the pick of interest groups. do they really want to expand put political capital on the gorsuch fight or not?

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>> martha: life look at the president taking the stage soon in louisville, kentucky. we will bring you that as soon as it gets underway. first, more from the intel house committee today, some heated exchanges. congressman trey gowdy is always

expected a few of those. he talked to jim conway about the rash of intelligence leaks that ended up in the media. watch this. >> would director brennan have access to an unmask u.s. citizens name? >> in some circumstances, yes. think of national security advisor susan rice have access to an unmasked u.s. citizens name? >> yes, in general, any other national security advisor board. >> do you agree much of what is learned from these programs is classified or otherwise legally protected? >> all fisa applications reviewed by the court collection by us pursuant to our fisa authority is classified. >> the dissemination of us which is a felony of 210 years in prison? >> unauthorized dissemination of classified or otherwise legally protected material punishable by a felony of up to ten years in federal prison? >> yes, as it should be.

>> martha: former speaker of the house newt gingrich is here with his reaction to all of what we saw today. he is also a fox news contributor and author of the book "treason." good to see you. >> it is good to be here, although, it is very disturbing to look at the lack of fbi aggressiveness and when you are having so many secrets that are leaked. are they dangerous to american national security. >> martha: that is your take away. when you look at -- >> absolutely. >> martha: the scope of what we saw today, the wiretapping which was debunked, the president tweeted about it. part of the story, to be sure. how he should address that in the coming days. you have this issue of how michael flynn's name got out, which is a very serious matter, as you just heard from jim comey. then, the issue that was pressed by democrats today, that there was a nefarious relationship between the trump campaign and russia that was all designed to create a win for him. which one do you want to take on

first? >> some of it is so idiotic, you have to wonder what is going on. for example, two of the people that they cite his campaign people actually had letters written to them by campaign lawyers that were seized and desist letters that said, you are not a part of this campaign, do not say you are part of this campaign. we are bringing legal sanction against you. yet, you listen to the news media and the democrats, they described them as though they weren't part of it. remember, hillary's campaign chairman's brother is a registered foreign lobbyist who was representing one of the biggest banks in russia. you don't hear and talk about that and that is certainly not a problem and nobody would have any suggestion that the poet dressed her brothers were in any way tainted by russian money. now, let's talk about allegations that are baloney. 97% of the donations in the justice department went to hillary clinton. that is an institution filled with people who are liberal lawyers who hate donald trump.

they are not doing their job. comey's answers today were pathetic. >> martha: in what way? >> of course we want to -- you'll notice, when he is asked why trey gowdy about susan rice, he promptly puts in, "and other national security advisors would also have that ability." that is not what he was asked. he asked about a specific person in the obama administration. we are not talking what other people. but there is this constant effort. i find the performance by the fbi director very, very disappointing. frankly, a little alarming. he has too much be as politically clever as he is. >> martha: do you think you should not be talking about any of this? he was asked to come to this hearing. he was forthcoming -- >> the fact that he can say -- no. what he said, i am allowed to tell you there is an ongoing investigation about the russians and the trump campaign. i'm not allowed to tell you about any investigations about

americans who are committing felonies, leaking secret information. how come he could tell us the one but not tell us the other? it makes no sense. i think comey's performance today was incomprehensible as a matter of law enforcement, but pretty good as a matter of political hatchet job on behalf of the democrats. >> martha: that is outside of the equation. what about president trump? he has stirred up a lot of this controversy on his own. he has got a ton of agenda items going on right now. he is meeting with the iraqi prime minister today, nobody will barely mention it because of all of the overshadowing by these accusations. he kept going at it today on twitter. good or bad? >> first of all, i think he sometimes taught her's is on message. i think everybody ought to go back and read his speech at the hermitage and nashville last week where he talked about the parallels between him and andrew jackson. one of the most revealing speeches trump has given.

but trump is trump. when he gets in a fire to like this, he sticks at it, he doesn't back off like this, a lesson he learned to dealing with page six in new york. interestingly, it also doesn't seem to bother him. as you point out, he meets with the german chancellor, the iraqi prime minister, they are trying to pass the health care bill, he is doing a lot of stuff. it is the news media that seems myopic. >> martha: he is giving them the opportunity to be, in some cases. thank you very much, newt. good to see you. thanks for being here. coming up next, judge neil gorsuch, another big story today. he faces the judiciary committee with partisan politics quickly taking center stage. chris stirewalt, matt bennett, and david wall all here on whether or not this aggressive stance is a wise move from senate democrats. plus, as we wait president trump's next speech, no doubt he is chomping at the vet to get to that microphone and say what he thinks about what happened today. all of us as republicans start to make changes that are quite

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>> martha: you are looking at the stage in louisville, kentucky. the president has landed there a little while ago. he will get to the podium is speaking just a few minutes, as soon as he does, we will take you there live. earlier today on capitol hill, the supreme court confirmation was the talk of the town for judge neil gorsuch, as he came in, made his opening statements, quite eloquent, talked about his family, his grandparents, parents. everyone wonders a partisan politics will enter this soon or if there will be some hesitation. for more than that, we both turned to shannon bream, who joins us from washington. >> hello martha. you know the last time that judge neil gorsuch based senate confirmation back in 2006, not a single democrat objected to him. that was that, this is now. many of the democrats who opposed zero concerns in 2006

are slated to vote again. several of them now questioning his fitness for the bench. a number of democrats spent their speaking time today blasting republicans for not allowing president obama's nominee to get to this point. >> of the senate republicans made a big show last year about respecting the voice of the american people in this process. now, they are arguing for the senate should rubber-stamp a nominee selected by extreme interest groups and no money to buy a president who lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. >> gorsuch seem to be in good spirits, taking it all in stride and joking with the dozens of photographers who swarmed at massey took his seat. he mostly kept a poker face during both the praise and criticism today, often taking notes. to close the day, he was sworn and i made a statement of his own framing, justice scalia, and his philosophy that decisions are supposed to be only about

what the text of the law says and not what a judge may wanted to say. >> for a judge that likes every outcome he reaches is probably a pretty good judge, stretching for policy he results he prefers rather than those the law compels. >> the first round of questioning starts at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, i pulled by one of the members of the white house team who has been helping gorsuch to prepare is looking forward to getting this whole grilling behind him. i can imagine, martha. >> martha: no doubt. thank you very much. here with more on this, chris stirewalt, matt bennett and david wohl, gentlemen, welcome. good to have you here. matt, let me start with you. what would be your objection to this judge? do you think the democrats will go that road? >> i don't know that there will be objections after the hearings are over. don't forget, a couple of days ago, going into the hearings

about president trump's cabinet appointments, no one would have guessed that rex tillerson would have a relatively easy time of getting confirmed and betsy devos would come within a hair of not being confirmed. these hearings really matter. they get the opportunity to hear from these nominees themselves, ask him tubbs questions, really get a lot of things in the open. we don't really know what is going to happen with judge gorsuch. he is capable, intelligent, qualified, no question. we don't know what we are going to hear in the next three days and we don't know what objections will be. >> martha: what did you read in the tea leaves today? we get opening statements, it will get tougher. what did you see so far? >> i saw a lot of posturing. i think for democrats to put focus as they did on the stolen seat pieces, the idea that this belongs to merrick garland, they weren't going after gorsuch, they weren't going after gorsuch's judicial philosophy, they were just blaming

republicans for what they did in blocking the previous president's nominee. i think this is setting up for democrat letting gorsuch go because they don't want to have a larger fight at stake here, which is to deploy the nuclear option and republicans would move to lower the threshold for supreme court nominations to 51. gorsuch is a pretty good pick for democrats in essence that he is a mainstream conservative. i think they want to take them and not have that larger fight. >> martha: that's what it comes down to, david. one way or another, he will likely get through because mitch mcconnell can employ that 60 vote threshold and go the nuclear option, as chris points out. if he wants to do that and change that rule. >> i love that his opening statement, he said, i am a faithful servant of the constitution, and otherwise, it is the master, etched in stone. my decisions will be based in the black letters of the constitution. if you want a living, breathing document, you have to get an amendment.

he has a humble appreciative approach. he has a reputation, both personally and professionally, beyond reproach. he is a fisherman. he eats his catch apparently. ask christopher how important and that is. >> martha: he's a fisherman. >> he's a judicial version of ward cleaver. >> martha: who would want that? i'm sure the man is not perfect, although, we haven't heard anything to the contrary. what do you make of that? he's a fisherman! what are you going to do? you gotta bring him in. >> i guess we should just call off the hearings because that is an ironclad take. no question. [laughter] >> martha: >> martha: all fished black robes. a picture to prove it. that is him with entenmann's glia. >> let us make a point that came of earlier. it is true that they voted for him unanimously to join the tenth circuit. that is very common. it was true also, justice sotomayor, she was nominated and passed unanimously for the lower courts. the supreme court is different.

they really have to have searching hearings for the kind that they are going to have the course of the next three days, so we can understand who will sit in this unbelievably important seat. >> martha: chris, 30 seconds, what is the toughest line of questioning coming his way tomorrow? >> it will come down to basically, well he look out for the little guys? democrats will say do you care for the small people are powerful people? they will cast this as class warfare and try to put gorsuch as a friend of the big corporations. i think he will probably -- >> martha: it turns out he is not that friendly to little fish. we will see. [laughter] go to see you all. breaking tonight, at any moment now, 11th hour changes to the health care bill. this is very interesting. while they make changes before the president speech or after the president's speech? leadership will weigh in and the freedom caucus, of course, a big element in all of this out of thursday's boat. congressman sean duffy and mo

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>> martha: we have the president for you in louisville, kentucky. he has just taken the stage. 7:37. he has been running a little bit later for these events over the past couple of weeks but as we said, it was kind of a rough day in washington, d.c. he has had a lot on his agenda. we do expect some health care changes to the bill and fascinating that he will sit down with all of the republican members of the house at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, be back in washington, no doubt, he wants face to face time with them.

perhaps arm-twisting with members of the more conservative branches of the republican party who have pushed for changes. we also know that they will get word on some of those changes tonight. what will they be? we will scrutinize them as soon as they come out. this is what president donald trump loves to do. he loves to get out and speak with the people, do these rallies, it is not lost on anyone that this is the home of rand paul, who has pushed back very hard against this bill and a number of ways. he has had a had a lot of conversations with the president camo to something that a lot of people find refreshing. he has talked to people who are opposed to him and tried to bring him around. rand paul said earlier today in a discussion with neil cavuto that he thinks these discussions with the freedom caucus in the house, they have 21 votes. let's see withnt has to say tonight on a big day in d.c. he is now in louisville, kentucky. let's listen.

[cheers and applause] >> president trump: thank you. thank you, everybody. i am thrilled to be here in the great state of kentucky and the beautiful city of louisville! this place is packed. there are a lot of people outside who aren't good again but that's all right. we love them, too, right? we love them. we are the heartland of america and there is no place i would rather be then here with you tonight. our first republican president, abraham lincoln, was born right

here in kentucky. that's not bad. the legendary pioneer daniel boone helped settle the kentucky frontier. and the great 19th century american statesman henry clay represented kentucky in the united states congress. henry clay believed in what he called the american system and proposed tariffs to protect american industry and finance american infrastructure. i am honored to be here today with many of your tremendous modern day leaders. we are joined tonight, and i

want you to give them a nice hand, because he is on our side, got to take good care of our people, right? and he's got a lot of power for the people of kentucky. by our senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, where is he? come here, mitch. thank you, mitch. how are you doing, mitch? are we going to be okay? everything good? that health care is looking good? good. thanks, mitch. and we are also very lucky to have in my cabinet, our secretary of transportation, the wonderful elaine chao. working with secretary chao, we are going to rebuild the crumbling infrastructure of the

united states. it is time, right? it is time. it is time. after spending trillions and trillions of dollars overseas, it is indeed the time. are going to start taking care of our country. also with us this evening as you are a great matt bevin. where is matt? thanks, matt. congressman andy barr and congressman jamie comber. the state motto of kentucky is "united we stand, divided we fall, we are united."

somebody from the fake committee of the other day asked me a question. they said, "how are the republicans going to finally get together? "i said, wait a minute. we won the presidency, we won the house, we won the senate. i mean... right? actually, he was a nice guy that asked the question but i was sort of thinking, that was an interesting question because we've just about never been on a streak like this. i think 1928, a long time ago, and we are going to get a lot of things done. then, we are going to get to truly one of my favorite things, it is called reducing taxes.

standing together as americans, we are going to deliver amazing things for the citizens of kentucky and the united states. most importantly, we are going to take power back from the political class in washington and return data power to you, the american people. it's happening. it's happening! it's happening. it started on november 8th. remember that beautiful, beautiful day? that beautiful day! we will give it back. that was a beautiful day. they weren't giving us a lot of chance, where they? remember? there is no path to 270.

remember the line, you know, for the republicans, the electoral college was very, very hard. very hard to won. do you the famous line, there is no path to 270? it was a path to 306, but maybe not to 270. but we have a lot of work to do. the fact is, we inherited a mes mess. it is a mess. i met with the prime minister today of iraq. i match with others, the middle east, north korea. north korea, i will tell you

what, what is happening there is disgraceful and not a smart, not smart at all. so many different problems. i will tell you, you see what is happening with the economy. we picked up $3 trillion in value and our companies are bringing people back to work. we have to take on every special interest that has profited -- and i don't mean like a little bit, i mean really terrible trade deals, horrible trade deals, last year, our country lost almost $800 billion in trade. not going to happen anymore, folks. not going to happen anymore. uncontrolled immigration, you

see what is going on there, that is happening quickly. got a little problem with the courts, not wanting to give us the decisions that could be given. but we are going to win it. and a financial system stacked against the american people. these entrenched interests will do anything they can to keep the broken system and please but they will fail and we will win because we are fighting on the side of our great american heritage! this place is packed. i mean, i don't want to say this, we could have been

watching a good basketball game tonight. what happened? what happened? that's all right. you have done a good job, right? done a good job. great team, great coach. it's all right. we are going to drain the swamp of government corruption in washington, d.c. and we are going to keep our promises, all of the promises that we made. we are going to massively reduce your taxes. we are going to reduce it very substantially rising crime and support the incredible men and women of law enforcement. we are going to bring accountability to the va and

take great care, finally, finally, finally, of our great veterans. and our secretary, you wouldn't believe it, because that i still don't have my cabinet. they won't approve my cabinet! there is a lot of division and a lot of bad stuff going on in this country but i will tell you, david, we love david. david got approved 100-0. can you believe it? had of the va. secretary of the va. and you watch what happens with the veterans. it is time we take care of our veterans. we are going to rebuild the

united states military, finally. i proposed a budget that calls for one of the largest increases in defense funding history and we need it. we need it. got a lot of bad actors out there, folks, right? it is also job is because we are going to make this equipment right here in the usa. and we believe in three crucial words. peace through strength. our great lieutenant governor, by the way. thank you, darling. thank you.

but we will spend our money wisely come out with just one negotiation, or one set of airplanes, i say, the taxpayers of our country over $700 million. and that is just one of many. one of many. we have also kept our promise to appoint a supreme court justice who will uphold and defend the constitution of the united states. judge neil gorsuch's hearing is now underway in the senate. and i urge members of both parties to swiftly approve his nomination. he is an outstanding man from an outstanding family with an

unbelievably wonderful wife. they should approve. if there is a another promise that is deeply important to me, and i know it is deeply important to you. we are going to put our coal miners back to work! they have not been treated well but they will be treated well now. clean coal, right? clean coal. i have already eliminated a devastating anti-coal regulation and that is just the beginning. you saw that we had got a lot of thank youse for my a lot of great people that worked very hard and want to keep working. a lot of people will be put back to work, a lot of coal miners are going back to work. as we speak, we are preparing new executive actions to save

our coal industry and to save our wonderful coal miners from continuing to be put out of wor work. the miners are coming back! our new epa administrator, scott pruitt, a kentucky native, will turn the epa, environmental, will turn the epa from a job killer into a job creator. you watch. since my inauguration, we have already added in nearly a half a million new jobs. and that is believe me, just the beginning. just at the beginning. and i don't know, it do you see those consumer confidence level?

they are through the roof. i don't even know. i think you are doing as well as kentucky but i know you don't like obamacare. great guy. we are working to remove regulations on our auto industry, so, we can make more cars right here in america, including more cars in kentucky. we've wiped out many, many unnecessary regulations and that is just the beginning. it is continuing on a weekly basis. we are getting rid of unnecessary regulations. we are going to be good for business and we are going to be good for the workers of america. we have also cleared the way for the keystone at the dakota access pipeline.

and as i was signing it, i said come away are they getting this deal? where? and i said, if people want to build pipelines in the united states, they should use american steel and if he show to build it and created right here. bagpipe is going to be manufactured right here. that was like a last minute, i am saying, where are they buying the stuff? like henry clay, we want to put our own people to work. we believe in two simple rules, buy american and hire american. so, as you folks all know, henry clay it was a legendary kentucky politician who became the eighth speaker of the house in 1811.

you know, they compared my campaign to jackson, president jackson, of 1828. i said, can you imagine having to go back that far? it may said, this was even more severe. we did a good job. did we do a great job together? 1828, that is a long time ago. oh, boy. he was a good president, right? he was a good president. clay was a fierce advocate for american manufacturing. he wanted it badly. he said very strongly, free-trade, which would throw wide open our ports to foreign

production, without duties, why all the errors remained closed to us. that was his quote. he knew all the way back, early 1800s, clay said the bad trade must be fair, equal, and reciprocal. he said, fair, equal, and reciprocal. i am talking about reciprocal trade. reciprocal. i mentioned that the other day to a group of my office, we will be doing some trade deals as soon as we get the health care finish. oh, i am looking forward to these trade deals. they are the ones. there is going to be no ambiguity. but i used the word reciprocal. you know, harley-davidson makes great motorcycles. they were in my office, they were in my office. they came in. i said, how are you doing?

great. how was business? great. how do you do overseas? well, it is tough. we have some countries that charge us a $100 import tax. i said, a 100 -- think of it. they want $100, i said, how are you doing? not so well, it's tough. they have other countries that charge a lot. we want reciprocal. so, if they are going to charge us 100%, we will charge them 100%, you know what is going to happen? they will bring their 100% down to nothing, like we charge. we can't allow them to happen. we can't allow that to happen. in explaining his american system, clay argued that the sole object of the tariff is to tax the produce and remember, to tax the produce of foreign

industry with their view of promoting american industry. for too long, our government has abandoned the american system. since nafta was improved in 1994, the worst trade deal ever made by any country i think in the world, america has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs. i do not worry. we are starting on nafta very soon. i have only been there for what, 52 days, right? somebody said to me, when are you starting on nafta? i said, wait a minute, i have knocked out unbelievable numbers of regulations, we are negotiating much better deals, these terrible deals that we are making, i have been here like 51 days. give me a chance. oh, i look forward -- we are doing -- we are going to do something with him after that you are going to be very, very impressed with. it will be an easy one, folks.

it will be an easy one. since china joined -- another beauty would come at the thousand one, the united states has lost many more than 60,000 factories. >> bill: you are watching a live rally in louisville, kentucky. the president is supposed to speak for a few more minutes, after which we will have "the factor" analysis. now, back to kentucky. >> president trump: ladies and gentlemen of kentucky, are over. is that okay? those days are over. it's crazy. you know what that is? much more than 60,000 factories. you know what that is? i said, if you have a map, how do you put that many dots on the map, more than 60,000 factories. but they are all coming back. you see them coming back. you see car companies that were going to build elsewhere and now, t