put in promo code fox and you'll save $29 for the limited time. >> sorry to keep your family waiting. i hope they thought it was worth it. >> it was great. very much. >> and if you have to run from the tv run to the radio. >> shannon: this is a fox news alert as we hit crunch time on the effort to repeal obamacare as president trump delivers a stern warning saying pass the bill or risk losing your job. i'm shannon bream live in "america's newsroom." tough words. >> good to see you after covering the hearings in washington. i'm eric shawn. bill and martha are out this morning. it's the final stop before the full vote on the house floor which can come as early as tomorrow. president trump told house

republicans last night the end of obamacare is finally in reach. >> it's time it get busy, get to work and to get the job done. that legislative effort begins with thursday's crucial vote and it really is a crucial for the republican party and for the people of our country. to repeal and replace the disaster known as obamacare. >> shannon: as the president deals with health care more concerns on russian connections. the associated press reporting paul manafort once had ties and they're now responding to fox news. >> john roberts is on the front lawn of the white house with more. >> the former campaign manager

had connections to the russian oligarch was no surprise. it was widely known the two had a business relationship between 2005 and 2009. what's new in the associated press report is manafort was doing work to greatly benefit the russian government and vladamir putin and he wrote we are now with the belief this model can greatly benefit the putin government if employed at the correct level with the appropriate levels of success reporting the company was paid $10 million a year in consulting fees. according to court filings in the caymon islands we a statement. he said i worked with him almost a decade ago representing him in

personal and business matters and my work for deripaska did not involved russian interests and some saying he wanted extend his work with manafort and the work was public and nothing secret. a senior white house official who worked for the trump campaign said the revelations are new to them. they didn't know about his previous work and had many discussions during the course of the campaign and afterwards about what manafort was doing during the campaign and the subject never came up which, eric, it's kind of curious because in 2014 he took manafort to court seeking to get back some of the $26 million in an

investment and the documents should have been easy to find by the white house if they were looking to vet an official. >> complicated issues here. meanwhile up on the hill tough words from the president on the health care bill saying he'll go after those who are wavering. what does he plan to do for the expected vote? >> time is running out to pass the bill. mark meadows head of the freedom caucus said he has 21 votes against it. that would leave the president with 216 which is just enough to pass it but there are other republicans who are saying, well, we're not convinced yet either. the president went up there yesterday to capitol hill warning the house republican congress they can lose control of congress in 2018 if they don't get it through and last night in a speak to the republican campaign committee saying you need to get this done. here's the president. >> the house bill ends the

obamacare nightmare and gives health care decisions back to the states and back to the american people. these are the conservative solutions we campaigned on. and this is what the american people asked us to deliver. >> they're trying to find a way forward and meeting with members of the congressional black caucus but i'll take a wild guess and say the president unlikely to change any minds. >> eric: we'll cover it as we preview the vote. shannon. >> shannon: some republicans still not sold on the health care bill after prodding and jim jordan says he remains opposed because of what he says the plan doesn't do. >> let's be honest, does the plan repeal obamacare, no, it

doesn't. does it bring down premiums? no, it doesn't and cbo said it didn't every major organization is against it and many in the house and senate are opposed. i think opposition among freedom caucus members are very strong. >> shannon: me now editor chris stirewalt. good to see you. >> good morning. >> shannon: sounds like more stick than carrot in that meeting yesterday. >> well, look, the problem here is nobody likes the bill. the people who made the bill don't like it. nobody likes it. the argument on behalf of the bill is pass it so we can do the other things we want to do. the president doesn't really talk about what's in the bill. he talks about i want to do tax reform and do my stimulus spending project. i want to do other things he wants to do later that are important that his backers care

more about. this is treated as you have to eat your vegetables first. unfortunately this is not the serving of vegetables most conservative members want to take up because they're ready to do the hard thing and think this is a cop out. >> shannon: the president said if you don't vote for this you risk losing your in 2018 and others saying if we pass something not good we own it and they believe that can cost them 2018 as well. >> the problem for republicans they spent seven years talking about what was wrong with obamacare and did not develop consensus with which to replace it. they put this together with chewing gum and bailing wire and shoved it out and said shut up, shut up, we have to pass this or you can't have the other goodie. these conservatives have spent their lives fighting moderate republicans on this.

this is who they are and their definitional struggle in their lives and hardly think at the end they'll go, well, otherwise we might lose. remember, these are the people who shut down the government before when everybody told them they'd lose. if you think they'll be scared of that at the, no way. >> shannon: so congressman mark meadows with the freedom caucus said he doesn't care if his no-vote sends him home he viewed this job as temporary. any chance the white house pulls it from the floor or lets it go thursday with uncertainty. that would be epically bad from the pr standpoint for the white house. >> if they yank this after the president said this is me, this is my agenda, you must pass this, i hereby command you that's better than going down to defeat. if you pull it back you say, fine, we'll re-do.

if they put it on the floor and it goes down is huge and if they say we'll try something else if they don't have the votes it's an epic vote. >> shannon: with the game of chicken who veers off first, the conservatives or the white house? >> i think in the end what has to happen here is the conservatives have to be willing to pay the price. i think they are and in that case i think what you'll see is the white house drive the car right off the edge of the cliff. they'll have to see what happens here. >> shannon: all right. chris stirewalt, thank you so much. >> you bet. >> eric: and overseas, north korea is at it again raising concerns over belligerent actions. they tried to launch another missile along the sea of japan and it failed and the missile blowing up within seconds as

we're awaiting secretary of state rex tiller son who has branded north korea as an imminent threat and set to hold a summit on isis and the democrats with 70 countries will be held for the strategy. we kristen is live at the state department with more. >> this will be the trump administration's first meeting of the global coalition to defight isis. while these meetings have been happening for some time. this one is a big deal because it's the first time over two years because it's the first time many will be meeting for the first time and there's a new administration in time and secretary of state, rex tillerson fresh off his trip to

asia and he the host for the two-day conference. this will be the first time he's meeting most of these diplomats and the first time they'll have a chance to size him up in person. he'll be delivering a welcome speech in about an hour and expected to say something along the lines of defeating isis is the united states' number one priority in the region. this comes two days after president trump's oval office meeting with the prime minister of iraq and said he was given assurances the u.s. will continue its support and accelerate its support. the question for diplomat what's does accelerate mean and what is the plan to defeat isis and is it more of the same or a shift in policy. this comes at a critical moment for both the fight against isis they've been on their heels in

recent months and it comes as a key point for the trump administration and the first big test for rex tillerson. >> eric: shannon. >> shannon: yet another failed missile launch in north korea. how should the trump administration deal with the rogue nation we'll speak to former ambassador john bolton. >> eric: and neil gorsuch will face day two of more intense questions as democrats decide if they'll filibuster and the big question will democrats go nuclear? >> shannon: and a crucial test over the health care plan amid growing questions whether the bill if it makes it through the house would be dead on arrival in the senate. senator john thune will join us as mike lee says the house should cancel the vote because it doesn't have what it takes. >> what we've been promising is

if republicans were given the chance to govern we'd repeal obamacare root and branch. that's not what the bill does and that's what we need to do and i'm holding out for a vote that fulfills that promise.

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president trump is urging skeptical conservatives to get on board but there are still significant holdouts. >> i think they should cancel the vote because they don't have the vote. i've been trying to tell them that for many days and so far that hasn't been been heeded. the fact remains they don't have the votes to pass this so they need to bring in conservatives and let them express what their concerns are with the bill. we can still fix this. >> shannon: south dakota john thune, senator. do you think the bill as it stands currently in the house and that could be possibly some tweaks in the house rules committee is there enough to get votes in the current format? >> yes. >> shannon: ok. with that in mind i want to talk through what some of your fellow gop senators are saying. you heard your friend mike lee

this is what he tweeted i promised the people i would do everything to repeal obamacare. the house bill doesn't do that. i am a no. and rand paul it's still obamacare light . how do you get to the math? >> in the end, shannon, it's a legislative process. what you're seeing how it's not pretty sometimes but gineding -- grinding it out and the house has to get to 218 or maybe the number's 216 now in the house of represents but when it comes to the senate we'll have an opportunity to work on it. there's a number of senators that think would improve the bill to help it pass it's the beginning of the process not the end of the process and it's about building the coalition and

making it broad enough to get the necessary votes in the house and the 50 votes in the senate with mike pence and the chair and then something signable by the president. we have a long way to go but we made a commitment to the american people and the status quo is unacceptable. the american people have made it clear the skyrocket premiums and out-of-pocket costs they can't live with. >> shannon: that's what you campaigned on since 2010 you now have the house, white house and senate and still a schism on whether what you're doing and one said you promised to repeal this and replace it. when have you house members not convinced that passing this bill

is doing what you campaigned on how do you square that? >> i agree with the sentiment the goal is to reduce costs and allow the forces of competition and give people more choices. that drives down cost. that's the end state we're headed towards. obviously we have procedures to deal with to get the bill across the finish line through the house and senate. remember, this is a multi-pronged approach and there's actions to be taken by the secretary of the health and human services and a second vehicle later this year will address the issue. people have to understand, yes, we have to get there and we made the commitment and we're focussed on what we can do to reduce costs and create a more open market and give people more choices and options and thereby get the costs down and that's the goal and you have 240 republicans in the house and 52

in the senate all of whom have different ideas how to get it done but we have to stay focussed and get it across the finish line and we made the commitment to the american people. >> shannon: you have neil gorsuch sitting down for another round of questions and democrats have said they're continually hinting at a filibuster you need eight democrats to come with you. gop leadership he'll get confirmed no matter what. will they use the nuclear option to lower the votes to 51? >> we'll do what is necessary to confirm judge gorsuch on the supreme court. by the way, i think the democrats trying to attack him in my view in the last couple days of the hearings they've not laid a glove on him. he's conducted himself in a masterful way and will get an affirmative vote. >> shannon: thank you for your time. >> you bet. >> eric: a rape case involving

an undocumented high-schooler is reigniting the debate over illegal immigration. >> there's a lot people that don't belong here. they haven't been checked out and i need to know --

>> shannon: dramatic video as the battle for mosul rages on. iraqi troops battling isis in the streets as they try to take back iraq's largest city from the terror army nearly 6,000 civilians reportly remain trapped and we may hear more about this when rex tillerson speaks at the state department next hour.

>> eric: the white house usually does not weigh in on local crimes but the alleged rape, sodomy and sexual assault in a high school boys' bathroom at the hands of classmates is making headlines. one suspect confirmed to be an illegal immigrant. he's press secretary sean spicer. >> the reason illegal immigration has become such a big deal is tragedies like this is the crimes this girl had he's crimes inflicted on her and people are victims of these crimes in terms of the economic piece and immigration pays its toll on our people. >> eric: and doug is at the high school in maryland. tell us about the meeting last night that was held at the

school. >> well, the school district fiercely protective of its reputation did not invite the media we were told because the auditorium didn't allow that many people but a fox reporter with her cell phone camera indicated there were empty seats. the meeting was not confrontational and parents expressing the same concerns from protesters we heard last night as the meeting was ongoing. >> if the country enforced the laws on the books those two young men would not have been here and this horrendous rape would not have occurred. >> i'm a life long resident. >> if you're 20 years old come on in and go to high school with a 14-year-old. >> in an earlier press conference before last night's meeting the school superintendent told reporters the two suspects were never in

the same classroom or class space as the alleged victim and as to why the 18-year-old was designated as a freshman he said there was no educational track record of this person and he'd recently come to the united states. there were no credits to his reputation and they had nothing to base that on and as is standard procedure the montgomery school system designated such students and there many of them as freshmen. >> eric: and montgomery county is not a sanctuary jurisdiction. >> typically it's not a jurisdiction of that sort and the police chief and county council say after an illegal alien has been arrested they turn the person over to federal authorities but many maintain the county cast a blind eye to

illegal immigration and after donald trump's inauguration they issued a joint statement and i'm quoting, police do not enforce federal immigration law and the statement added understanding, tolerance and respect are hallmarks of the montgomery county way and justice for all is what we strive to achieve and the school superintendent also said the county is required by law and by supreme court precedent to accept any student who comes to the county regardless of citizenship. >> we're a public school system and we serve all of our students when they come to us. when we look at that it's not only the right thing to do and the good thing to do and benefits the student and our community and our state it's also the law of the land. >> the problem occurs because county officials and police do

not inquire of immigration status when they make traffic stocks and job application. that's at the heart of the problem. >> eric: it's a vivid and very disturbing example of the controversy. shannon. >> shannon: north korea's at it again. another banned missile test. it's vowing to accelerate its weapons program. what the u.s. has to do to deal with the rogue nation. former ambassador john bolton will join us. >> eric: and we just saw judge gorsuch arrive in capitol hill in the hallway and they're gathering for day two of more intense questioning from the senators. would you want to go through that to get the job? what we can expect as the confirmation process continues. >> if it were a fight they would have stopped it. the democrats got knocked out about halfway through yesterday. the bottom line is he's the most qualified person president trump could have chosen.

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>> shannon: president trump supreme court nominee neil gorsuch set to face another grilling round of questioning from senators. yesterday he answered a lot of tough questions by hammering his decision he believes in an independent judiciary. >> in the interview did he ever ask you to overrule roe v. wade. >> no, sir. >> what would you have done? >> i would have walked out the door. not what judge do. i don't do it at that end of pennsylvania avenue and shouldn't do it on this end respectfully. >> shannon: good morning, peter. how are democrats trying to drive a wedge between judge gorsuch and president trump as

they ask questions. >> they tried to get judge gorsuch to go on the record about president trump's past criticism and neil gorsuch didn't want to weigh in on that but insists over and over at every chance he had he would operate independently if he's on the supreme court from the white house. >> when anyone criticize the honesty or integrity of the motives of a federal judge i find that disheartening and demoralizing because i know the truth. >> anyone including the president of the united states? >> anyone is anyone. >> and judge gorsuch had a lot of nice things to say about merrick garland and refuse to say whether he got a fair shake and another thing they focussed on was an allegation by a former

law student who claimed the judge in ferred to -- inferred to a class of women that women take advantage of maternity leave and employers should be able to ask during a hiring process if they plan to get pregnant. a lot of people have come forward saying that did not happen and he's defending himself insisting that exchange was from a law school textbook. >> do you believe there's situation where's the cost to an employer of mat -- maternity leave can ask about it. >> that was not the question. >> they all get 20 minutes of questions a piece down from a half an hour each yesterday. >> shannon: not everyone stuck around.

the chair said he had to be in bed by 9:00 and he was. peter doocy, thank you. >> eric: new reaction after north korea tests yet other missile. kim jong-un's regime tested it along the sea of japan and the test reportedly failed the missile blowing up five seconds after it was launched. it comes days after president trump warned about north korea's continuing behavior. >> north korea is acting very badly. thank you, folks. >> eric: can the regime be reined in? john bolt is a senior fellow at the american institute and fox news territory he has been defiant and shows no

shines -- signs of backing down what do we do? >> and irrational. though the test failed rocket scientists said when our jupiter launches were successes because of their failure and there's no doubt north korea has made progress in its objective of creating deliverable weapons and their ability to do that could occur very soon. some people have estimated next year. we're running out of time here. the administration is reviewing its options and some have spoken about sanctions and many are in favor and i don't think it's nearly enough. i think the risk is palpable and i think the only long-term solution which is reunification we may be running out of time

while we don't appear to be raising it with china which has unique leverage over the north. i'm extremely worried. i'm worried not just about north korea but iran too. how long would it take for iran to take a deliverable weapon? one day after north korea gets it. >> eric: and they're apparently working together. do you think the chinese will finally play ball? they've not done enough. the president's been critical of them. 90% of the foreign trade including the oil they did suspend the coal but they can turn the lights off in pyongyang if they want to and haven't. >> and chinese have been playing a double game on this for 25 years saying we want negotiation also saying they don't want north korea to have a nuclear weapons capability because it would destabilize forth east asia but they have failed to do what they alone have the capability of doing which is the real objective in bringing the regime down in a way that leads

to a sensible reunification of the peninsula. people say the chinese will never accept ta because they don't want american troops on the river and it's true they don't want american troops on the border and we don't want to be there either. there's a way to work this out but not to talk about restraining the nuke loor -- nuclear program but ending it through china, united states, korea. >> eric: they just want us to not have military exercises in exchange for a freeze. what type of deal is that? >> forget it. that's no deal at all. that's why we've made mistakes the past 25 years. we've tried to negotiate with north korea and promised them economic advantages and under the clinton administration promised nuclear reactors. none of it has worked and no evidence that year 26 would bring different results and

secretary tillerson is right to say negotiation is not the answer. negotiation with north korea. we have to get to china and have a limited amount of time and i'd underline what north korea can do in two or three years iran can do. >> eric: looking at the belligerent language from kim jong-un. >> eric: so finally, ambassador it seems their view of us occupying korea with 28,000 troops that could potentially be in danger. >> it goes to the irrationality of the regime. this is second nature to them and they have playbooks and next

we'll hear about a sea of fire across the peninsula. at some point the irrationality kicks in when we don't expect it. the longer this regime is in place that threatens the innocent civilians in south korea it's a danger world. >> shannon: the former campaign manager pushing hard about his ties to russia. and we're halfway through the president's first 100 days and martha maccallum is checking in with key voters and hosting a town hall at 7:00 p.m. eastern and the trump team and clinton team will be there you don't want to miss it. 7:00 p.m.

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russian government. manafort issuing this statement: >> shannon: let's talk about it with joe trippi a former campaign manager and fox news contributor and blad blakeman former deep out assistant to president george w. bush. now the a.p. has a lengthy writeup with documentation tying him to a close russian ally. >> he was a campaign operative and he ceased employment with the trump campaign far in advance of the election. the election was held, trump one. manafort is not in the

government nor was he anticipated to be in the trump government. what is there to see. >> shannon: perception is reality for a lot of folks and there's so much combustible material floating around with regard to russia the way this looks and sounds is not something the white house wants to deal with. >> that's true but he has denied the allegations and in this country he is presumed innocent until proven guilty. the fbi said there's a continuing investigation. let that run its course. >> shannon: i want to play what brit hume had to say about that he said listen, these investigations are continuing and ongoing but if anybody is looking for a smoking gun regarding collusion so far it's not been proven. >> if the democrats refuse the hearing to lay out this case for this investigation and the fact there may be collusion wen the russians and trump campaign.

if you listen to it all it sounds impressive when you lay them out but when you examine them one by one none of them lead up to evidence of collusion. there's evidence of contacts and russian intention to try to torpedo hillary clinton. >> shannon: multiple investigations and the fbi director said no evidence of collusion. >> no one respects brit hume more than i do he's been a fair observer and he's correct in the end it's as brad said wait until the investigation's over. this has been going on since july according to comey. that's several months ago and we're now nearly a year into what the russian intent was and he said any connection between the trump campaign and possible

collusion. so the democrats are going to press that. that's going to be pressed to get to the bottom of it and why a lot of people think an independent investigation would be good i think for the trump administration. it would be better if there's nothing there have an independent investigation and have it cleared and move on. instead you see these distractions, the president throwing people off with his wiretapping claims that comey said is not true and that's just sort of i think putting more fuel on the fire and pushing the story making it bigger. >> shannon: let me bring brad back in because while director comey wouldn't say there's illegal leaks like the one that led to michael flynn's name surfacing. how does that strike you? >> as a lawyer people in charge and who have custody of

classified information that suddenly gets released to the press there's a way that happens and that's faen affirmative act of releasing classified information with the intent to do so. my suggestion is if the fbi can find brady's super bowl jersey they should be able to find the leaker of classified information. the jersey was found in mexico. >> shannon: it's important to all americans regardless much party. good to see you both. >> eric: shannon, gun rights activists are making a bold push to change the laws in several states along with new efforts on the national level. coming up we'll look at if the tide is turning in the battle over gun rights. when it's between the baby soothing power of a duracell c-cell and the tips on how to calm a baby from your mother-in-law that always seem to involve a fair amount of brandy, go with c-cell.

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>> shannon: that of course the famous theme song to the dating game and a sad news its creator chuck barris has died. the created the newlywed game and gong show. at one time he had 27 hours a week of entertainment think about that when there's only three networks and he had claimed he was a cia man and he died in his home of natural causes. he was 87 years old. have more on his life in the next hour but man, eric, i remember watching the gong show as and loved it. it was so corny. it was wonderful. >> eric: and remember jim lang bringing the people down and

he'd be goofy and embarrassed. new questions being raised whether the tide could be turning on the second amendment with the trump administration in office. we are live in denver with more. what is the impact of the trump presidency when it comes to gun rights? >> hi, eric. the second amendment foundation has new bills in house and senate. if passed it would allow gun owners with concealed carry licenses to carry in other states. >> you're rights don't end at your state border. it should be across the country and other states would be recognizes the permit same way they recognize your driver's license if i drive my car to a neighboring state my license is good and same to carry a firearm for protection.

it should be good all over. >> some are calling this a nightmare for americans claiming states with stronger gun laws would be beholden to the state's lowest common denominator to get a license. >> it's dangerous legislation and we'll work hard to help it fail. the nra and congress have presented this in the past and it's been killed and there's no reason we can't do that again if we use our voices and votes to stop this legislation. >> president trump received more than $10.5 million from the nra as a candidate and add a rally in louisville he reaffirmed his commitment to protect the second amendment. >> shannon: and the repeal to replace obamacare up next will they rally around the bill?

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>> shannon: the next chapter in the repeal and replace saga is getting underway with a rules committee hearing on the republican health care bill expected to go well into the night. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm shannon bream. good to see you this morning. >> eric: good to see you, this morning, as always. good to see you i'm eric shawn. bill and martha are out today. the rules committee is the final stop. the committee will decide what if any changes there'll be in the bill and senator thune appeared here on "america's newsroom." >> you have 240 republicans in the house and 52 in the senate all of whom who are different ideas how to get it done but that's why we have to stay focussed. we have to get it across the finish line. we made the promise to the american people and one we have to honor.

>> shannon: mike is live on capitol hill what's the process today? >> we're starting a critical session this morning in the rules committee where they prepare for the vote on the house floor as soon as tomorrow. you can expect lawmakers to offer amendments to improve the bill and some believe they're getting there. we heard lawmakers make the case while the bill may not be everything they want they believe it gets conservative victories across the finish line so expect the rules committee session to go all day and see if they can find the sweet spot so to speak to get it across the finish line. >> shannon: so where do we think we are right now on the tally on the gop votes? how close is this going to be? >> different head counts. they're getting closer and mick mulvaney will do more outreach and try to reach conservatives and he's a former house

conservative. last night you had vice president mike pence meeting face to face with mark meadows who let's the freedom caucus of north carolina and still there are skeptics. >> i have concerns on the medicaid piece. i heard from some of the republican governors needing greater flexibility and resources to help them implement any medicaid changes. i've also suggested too the tax credit piece while there's been improvement there needs to be more defined. >> they'll try to get the necessary votes to cross the finish line as soon as tomorrow. >> shannon: it sounds like some members of the freedom caucus may be going to the white house today. mike emmanuel thank you very much. >> eric: some are calling for a no-vote on the bill even with

the changes and they still remain optimistic about the chances. >> we made positive steps forward so i don't want to rule anything out but i feel good about this where it stands now and the more members meet with the president the more they understand how important this is to the overall agenda we're seeking to pass. >> eric: are members changing their minds? michael needham joins us ceo of heritage action for america. why are you against the bill? >> everybody wants to support this and fully repeal and replace obamacare the problem is it doesn't replace obamacare. it's title 1 of the bill that takes private insurance that used to exist and turns it into something more closely resembling a regulated public

utility and we want to continue to make additions to the bill and changes and get it to support. >> eric: you have less than 24 hours and we heard mike emmanuel spoke about it. >> let's take the public utility the democrats talked about creating and go back to trusting markets and allowing insurance companies to provide people product they want to buy not they're mandated to buy or taxed to buy. let's go and rip out the title 1 infrastructure of obamacare. if you make that simple change to the bill it would be a repeal and replace bill that would have overwhelming support in the house. >> eric: do you think the administration and president is trying to rush this? >> i think when you played the quote from sean spicer earlier he said they're still open alterations. i was at the white house yesterday and spoke to people open to alterations. it's an ongoing process. we all want to support the bill

but it's critical if we don't repeal obamacare and get to the regulatory infrastructure it's important to get it right. >> eric: what are people telling you? >> they're open to conversation and trying to get to different aspects and i think there's a way to support a bill that repeels -- repeals and replaces obamacare. republicans know that private health insurance and patients and doctors being empowered is a way to get at that and the infrastructure is critical to get people onboard. >> eric: there's still a lot of work to do and the clock is ticking. we'll see what happens if there is that vote tomorrow. >> thanks for having me. >> shannon: on the other side of the argument joining me georgia

congressman doug collins. the framework in place is taking a bite at it but not ripping out the roots. your response? >> the thing is we have to a memory of how we got to where we got and we had a package that went with 60 votes. we're putting together as much as we can into the reconciliation package so when it goes to the senate they come back to us. we listened and made improvements and bring ig it to the floor the issue is the senate still has a role to play. they can't simply say we want everything here and it's not as simple as saying if we take out certain parts we'll have the votes. and they said here's things we'd like to see it does exactly what the president said and that is

repeal and replace with a smooth transition we can make sure people do not have the safe nets jerked out but move to a conservative solution. i think we all want to get to yes. the question is are we willing to do what it takes to get there to help the american people get rid of what is a failure which is obamacare. >> shannon: what do you say to colleagues that say if we get this wrong we own it, republicans own it. you can point to the failures of obamacare and if you pass it with the criticism and skeptics who say it's not buttoned up yet it will be on the republicans in 2018 if it doesn't go well. >> what you have to understand is we are making it and getting it ready for the floor vote tomorrow. we are getting charged. nobody will buy the argument we'll let obamacare fail and the republicans will get the blame. i'd like to see somebody say republicans will not catch the blame. it's time for republicans to

lead and put things into action. if we do that we'll move forward and take them to the voters in 2018. the president is behind this and the directs and he wants to make it work and the administration is making it work and we'll make the case and move forward. >> shannon: by all accounts you don't have the votes yet. it's said the to go to the floor tomorrow. and conservatives have complained they haven't been able to do substantive changes or amendments. do you think there'll be enough to happen in that room to get the votes you need or does it get pulled from the floor? >> i look forward to us moving forward. the changes are addressing concerns. there's a difference in listening and saying i'm not being listened to and doing what you want. sometimes we can listen and agree but because of the way the bill's structured or what we have to deal with with the senate we can't make the changes we'd like to see here. i welcome senators on the other

side on the republican side that want to make changes. they'll have their opportunities and we'll move forward on passing the bill and between now and then and the arguments that could be made there's ways people can come behind it and say it's rebuilding the market and putting people first. >> shannon: next 24 to 36 hours crit cam -- critical for the bill. thank you. >> take care. >> eric: do the president and house speaker paul ryan have the votes to pass the bill the magic 216? what happens if they do not. later we'll sit down with house speaker ryan in four hours from now on 2:00 p.m. eastern on "america's news headquarters." >> shannon: day two for supreme court nominee neil gorsuch and no democrat has voiced their support publicly. republicans need many of them to get to the 60 vote threshold.

>> if judge gorsuch can't achieve 60 votes in the senate could any judge appointed by a republican president? >> shannon: will senate republicans have to go nuclear to get judge gorsuch on the bench. >> eric: and we'll show you dramatic dash cam video of an attack on a police officer and the good samaritan who's came to his rescue. that ahead. and a powerful storm cutting off a swath of destruction across the south sadly with deadly results. >> we got a call around 9:30 a tree fell on a house and we had powerful storms come through earlier tonight and this is just a result of those powerful storms.

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would you go through that grueling process of a confirmation hearing? well, they have to do it. he is popular among republicans but senate minority leader chuck schumer said gorsuch will need 60 votes to get past a democratic filibuster. eight democrats need to vote yes but so far not one has voiced support. here's al franken taking aim over a past ruling. >> it is absurd to say this company is in its rights to fire him because he made the choice of possibly dying from freezing to death or causing other people to die possibly by driving an unsafe vehicle. that's absurd. now, i had a career in identifying absurdity.

i know it when i see it. and it makes me question your judgment. >> eric: and he was trucking an employment case. marc thiessen is here a fellow at the enterprise institute and columnist at "the washington post" and if a jurist like gorsuch get support he's raising the question no one can. >> he's right. there's no reason for any senator to vote against judge gorsuch he's shown his record he will judge impartially and there's nothing on which to hang a no vote but they know he's a conservative vote and you look at the question the democrats keep asking him it's all about

outcomes. senator feinstein asking him will you fight for the little guy. the judge's job is to make sure there's equal protection and rule against who is wrong. so democrats are all about outcomes. they're goal is to use the law to enact a social justice agenda by coming out with the outcome they want and finding a legal reasoning to get it and that's not what judges are supposed to do. judge gorsuch made clear sometimes you'll make ruling you disagree with and have to uphold laws you disagree with and i don't know how anyone can disagree with. >> eric: he's not taken the bait so far specifically the roe v. wade question saying if it was brought up he would have walked out of the room. >> absolutely. this is again the difference between liberals and conservatives when they come up. so a liberal judge like justice

ginsburg came up before the court and was asked about roe v. wade and she said it's an absolute right of women to have an abortion and was confirmed by a ridiculous notion. can you imagine if a conservative judge came before the senate and said the opposite that roe v. wade were wrongly decided. it'd be a nuclear war. because they're outcome base liberals can say what the outcome they want with is fine but a conservative judge can't do that and they have to stand back and say i can't say until a case comes before me and they have to give cryptic answers. it's unfortunate because what happens is liberal judge always vote liberally and it's a harder job to get a conservative judge on the court. >> eric: we were just looking at dianne feinstein question him. what will the democrats say when

they give their speeches against him? >> they'll say he's for corporations and against the little guy and he's going to repeal roe v. wade though he didn't say he would repeal roe v. wade and come up with justifications because they're view of the court is different than that of conservatives. their view is are the outcomes and finding a legal reasoning to justify the outcome and judge gorsuch isn't giving them the answers they want so they'll oppose him. >> eric: he said his role model is byron white also from colorado, the first justice from his own state, gorsuch's state. the judges in the appellate court in denver named after him and he was a clerk for him and he was appointed in 1962 by j.f.k. and more of a conservative voice. do you think he could potentially play that role in the upcoming court? >> i hope he does. i hope he's a reliable

conservative. in the last three decades the democrats have appointed four justices to the supreme court and every one of them has voted reliably for the liberal block. the republicans have appointed seven judge and half have gone to the other side so they're not even batting .500. we don't know what we're getting because we're not outcome based. we don't know what we're getting when we put a judge on the court the democrats always do so i hope he's a reliable conservative who rules in the tradition of antonin scalia. >> eric: we'll see. marc thiessen thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> shannon: well, los angeles is defying the feds. the city saying it will fight the federal government's stand on sanctuary cities and the sanctions put in place now. >> eric: and a maryland teenager raped in her high school. at least one attacker we're told an illegal immigrant.

that's fueling the debate on whether the state should get sanctuary status. >> the student that committed the crime is primarily responsible. i'm responsible. all the people who work in montgomery public schools are respon responsible. we all take responsibility for it. why do we put so much effort into engineering the can-am defender? because a job worth doing, is worth doing right. can-am defender. tough, capable, clever. get a 3-year brp limited warranty plus a $1,500 cash rebate on 2016 defender models.

>> eric: deadly storms have been tearing through the south and one person was killed winds up to 60 miles an hour toppled a tree into a home. people in atlanta report golf-ball sized hail and in tennessee powerful winds damage an elementary school outside of nashville tearing off a large portion of the roof. >> the children stayed calm. it was a blessing no one was hurt and i think it was because

people did their job and followed procedures. >> eric: luckily as you heard no one was injured. >> shannon: los angeles resisting the federal government saying it's going to go ahead and expand protections for immigrants whether they're here legally or not. mayor eric garcetti signing an executive order now banning airport police and fire department from asking anyone about their immigration status. the personnel will now follow the same policies as the lapd. how do they stack up against the rest of the country. >> you have cities and states going in different directions and many like l.a. are defiantly telling the president they can telling them they can care less about their priorities and they prohibit from asking legal status and last night the city

made it official instead of asking for help in identifying illegal immigrants they're defining themselves as a sanctuary. >> in los angeles we don't demonize our hard-working neighbors because they speak a different language or come from a different country. that's unamerican. >> they reported that many are reporting less crimes for fears of being deported. >> shannon: there's roughly 30 jurisdictions that don't cooperate with ice or federal authorities to turn over why they would report illegal immigrants. >> and they have refuse to tell us when they'd do that but several states are attempting to leverage the power of the first

to cooperate with ice. lawmakers in florida, iowa, kansas, kentucky, wisconsin, virginia and texas have introduced bill to penalize sanctuary cities. yet mississippi became the first state to actually do so and the governor said he is going to sign that bill. by contrast, california lawmakers are passing legislation to prohibit cops and jails from even talking to ice. critics say that's a clear violation of federal law and a swipe at the president. you can see the country is going in very different directions. >> shannon: thank you very much. >> eric: the senate committee hearing is now underway on our nation's military readiness. the star witness defense secretary james mattis will give his take on the nation's military current condition. >> shannon: and the godfather of

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readiness crisis facing the military. we visited bases across the country and we found 70% of the marine corps f-18 cannot fly and helicopters are also grounded. half the navy's f-18s can fly due to parts shortages. same for the b-1 bomber fleet. the crisis is so bad air force mechanics have cannibalized museum aircraft for parts and we traveled to the 101st airborne division and the aviation brigade told me budget cuts have gutted his fleet. >> we use to have two aviation brigades, over 200 aircraft and we're down to one and slightly over 100 aircraft. >> an example of how readiness impacts our overseas on the

korean peninsula two bombers were supposed to patrol and only one was able to take off only one scrubbed due to maintenance issues amid tensions with korea and minutes ago fox news learns the chinese military issued a warning to the lone b-1 bomber as it it approached an island saying it was flying in chinese air space. >> shannon: we know there's a big meeting in washington talking about the next steps against isis. what can you tell us about that? >> officials from 68 countries are meet at the state department right now. secretary of state rex tillerson and iraq's prime minister will make opening remarks. those are begun. defense secretary jim mattis will later attend and some have expressed concern rex tillerson

is not calling for a second meeting since he will not attend the meeting in brussel the first time a secretary of state has missed such a meeting in 2004 and the under secretary of state will attend. >> shannon: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. good to see you. >> eric: can the isis summit achieve results? will officials go home with a unified strategy to try and take apart the radical islamic group and we have a fox news strategic nat ralph peters. what can come from the summit? >> as far as destroying the c cca cal -- caliphate you'll see an increase in velocity. isis on the ground in syria and iraq is on the way to defeat.

mosul will call this spring most likely. raqqah late spring early summer and then there will be a clean up job. what concerns me at this point is what comes after -- i call it the crisis after isis. there's so many rival factions. some of them fighting each other even while the struggle isis goes on. there's so many contentious priorities from different players the fall of the isis caliphate does not automatically bring peace. it means different people are fighting for different things. the middle east will continue to be turbulent and we have not found our place in it. everybody there is glad to have us fighting isis and using our military but once that's done there'll be squabbling among themselves and they don't see a role for us except sending more money. >> eric: you talk about a potentially military victory in the next year or so. what about the philosophy?

they'll still get recruits. how do we deal with that? >> there are hopeful signs. first of all, isis grew so incredibly swiftly because it was perceived as a winner and did score victories. everybody love a winner but people are less likely to volunteer for a failed organization. they'll still attract radical islamic recruits there will always be people who that appeals but you'll see other groups, islamic state or isis just won't have the broad appeal it's had in the past but yes it will certainly still be a problem because the middle east problems go so brutally deep on such longstanding historical proportions we can't fix it. it's questionable whether they can fix it. as long as the middle east is in turmoil, violent, corrupt, bigoted there's going to be some

sort of islamist most because some young people will see that as the only answer left. >> eric: and then it's such a shame. meanwhile the president has been critical of nato and dealing with the terrorist and we have the 68-member nation and there's questions on rex tillerson skipping the meeting because the chinese president is coming. does that send the wrong message especially when they announce at the same time talk about being off message you go to moscow. >> symbols matter. the symbology of our secretary of state blowing off his first nato ministerial something that hasn't happened since 2003 where a secretary of state hasn't attended blowing that off after all the negative things president trump said with nato and picking on germany and u.k. and non-nato allies like

australia it sends an utterly wrong message and the fact secretary tillerson is going to moscow and not meet third party somewhere, he's going to moscow. it sends absolutely the wrong signal to our allies. i know a lot of people have been knocking nato. i served in military units dedicated nato for half my military career and i can tell you nato is the biggest bargain the united states gets. peace is cheaper than war and nato keeps the peace. >> eric: they're serving along side us in afghanistan and the president will be meeting nato in may. >> let's hope he sticks to the script. >> shannon: there's a celebration of sorts in washington. you can see house minority leader nancy pelosi largely credited with getting obamacare

passed seven years ago and former president joe biden there and they're celebrating the seven-year anniversary since obamacare was signed into law as the affordable care act. >> eric: meanwhile there's newly-released dashcam footage showing a police officer being beaten by two suspects and we'll show you the video and what happened when good samaritans came to rescue. >> shannon: and the illegal immigrant rape case in maryland is drawing attention to controversial cities and states and policies and the president's plan to crackdown on illegal immigration. >> we'll use our resources to move these children out. the illegal immigrants out of our school systems and our communities. we'll have those resources to use in so many ways. >> i understand, thank you. >> it's so important.

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>> eric: dramatic video's been released from last month's assault on a michigan state trooper. the trooper was attempting to make a traffic stop when a motorcyclist led him on a chase and pulled him over but then the suspect went on an attack and the brother pulled over and stopped in and a couple that saw the incident stopped to help and the brothers were arrested at the scene and the trooper thankfully doing much better now and back on the job. >> shannon: the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom in a maryland high school drawing new attention to sanctuary policies. the suspects aged 17 and 18 are immigrants from central america. one henry sanchez-milian is here illegally and parent are

outraged and demanding change. >> governor hogan used the words i want to hear not the washed down language we heard from the last administration. >> what did he say? >> he used the word illegal immigrant. he wanted to know why these men were here with our children. that's the problem. >> shannon: matt schlapp is a former white house political director for george w. bush. both these men have been charged as adults with some serious offenses. it renews the conversation so passionate and heat. are you worried it gets sensationalized a little bit in the conversation? >> yeah, because this comes on the heels of knowing the state of maryland just voted or is passing legislation to make the

state a sanctuary state. i mean, it's repulsive to see how people -- liberals mostly across this country are saying it's ok to harbor criminals. i think the saddest thing of all is our country is great and strong because of its past record of accepting immigrants. i want it to continue to accept immigrants but that will not happen if we continue to have these horrific crimes that shock people to their core. >> shannon: congressman, to that point are you worried if there's not a tougher crackdown on these cases of a small percentage of people here illegally it harms those trying to come here legally and build a live and be contributing citizens. >> that's a good point. there's two things i'm concerned about here. first of all, we need a broader discussion in our society about violence and certainly about violence against women which rape is the most offensive kinds

of. and the second thing is there's i think what could be called a conservative principle, a sacred principle goes back to the days when the constitution was being formed, the tenth amendment gives rights to the states to give their own decision and we can't allow the big foot to come down on state and local governments. >> shannon: to protect the borders shouldn't they be able to say we have federal laws in place you can't just decide which ones you won't enforce. >> are federal laws are covered there are consequences for local communities. however, this is a deeper principle and the question is whether or not communities have the right to determine they can be sanctuary cities under state

law and whether states have the right under the tenth amendment. >> congressman, let's get down to the facts here which is what we're saying do i believe in the tenth amendment, yes, it should be big and strong and i think what's not immediately talked about in the constitution should be reserved to the states and to the people but the real question is this, we're talking about people who have committed heinous crimes. it's been demonstrated up to 40% -- almost 40% of those people who are committed some of the most flagrant crimes at the federal level are those here illegally and the fact a city or state would harbor someone who would harm our children must end. we must do something to protect our young women, our girls. this is disgusting. i know you're not for that, i wouldn't want to imply that but sanctuary cities result in more people harmed. >> matt raises a point when you talk about felonies i don't

think there is truly any sanctuary for a felon, however, we also have to look at local community and states under the constitution do have the ability to make their own policies and laws. so there's a conflict here and it's going to have to be resolved in the courts. >> shannon: congressman, how is there a conflict in not enforcing federal laws. >> it's in the broader policy of providing compassion and a sanctuary literally not to protect felons, particularly the violent ones who should be brought to justice and where violent crime is alleged to have been committed there has to be justice maintained but at the same time we have to remember the constitution permits states to make their own laws with respect to their people. >> shannon: but not on that

issue. matt, do you feel a case like this which is so gruesome and publicly people were not allowed in the meeting with local school official there's the superintendent at one point saying what he's watching out for now is making sure other immigrant students in the school there's not a backlash against them in the school system it seems there are a lot of crosswinds here people passionate about this. are you worried a case like this her than ing and shocking it coming together to find a solution to handle what is a massive problem in this country? >> first of all, we need to protect our young women and little girls when they want to use the restroom they need to be protected. i think it's right and as a republican i want to make sure we have an immigration policy that's welcoming but part as we've glossed over the huge problem with crime committed by people here illegally i'm

convinced until we take the appropriate steps to deport these folks and detain these folks and run over the mayors standing in the way we will not be able to get broader question of the bigger questions that dennis kucinich brings in on the immigration policy. until we take care of the criminal element we are stuck. >> i don't think we want to conclude however, that all undocumented persons are violent criminals. >> of course. >> shannon: nobody wants to suggest that. good point, congressman. we want to make that clear. good to see you both. thank you very much for the discussion. >> eric: and breaking news. parliament is in lock down. there's been some bangs we're told reported outside parliament in london. police are there and we'll have the latest on the new breaking news straight ahead.

>> shannon: we have breaking news we're following out of the u.k. apparently there's been some type of incident outside parliament there. eyewitnesses the wires are saying reported they heard something that sounded like gunfire. there's very much we don't know except there's a bit of chaos there. let's go to london following the story. what can you tell us, greg. >> the latest news seems to be some kind of gunman outside of the houses of parliament have been shot and the house of commons and the u.k. parliament was going on at the time. politicians inside the chamber heard one large blast maybe more outside. we got reports then of at least two people being injured maybe

as many as six in the vicinity of the westminster bridge that crosses the tienes and the helicopters above the area and police closing in on the individual the armed individual and it appears that he has been shot and he's being treated right now in parliament square which is across the street from the houses of parliament from i guess our american viewers would best know that as the tower of big ben next to the buildings where the u.s. government convene. it's on lockdown right now as is the office buildings surrounding this. imagine something happened across the street from the capitol and the office buildings of the house of representative members and as well as senators would be shut down. whatever is happening strikes at

the core of the government here in the u.s. again, we have no information about who is behind this, what the motivation is, whether it is somebody deranged or somebody with a mission. there's been no reports of anything shouted for example. in fact it's all quite sketchy. but that scene is on lockdown and inside and outside the building and we know security is very high as my colleague says boy, if you're going to pick something tricky or terroristic we don't know if it is or not that's the wrong place to do it because you have a lot of police and security and you have a lot of focus on that area but right now what we're hearing about is this, one more time, some kind of blast, some kind of fire. maybe something that sounds at least like gunshots heard outside the building of the houses of parliament and they're

on lockdown right now. several people according to reports injured. a possible gunman possibly injured. a police zeroing in on him now in the parliament square that is across the street from the building. again the very center of london. the very center of british government. a bit of a scene of chaos now. back to you, shannon. >> eric: as you say no indication yet. of course it's so early if indeed this is a terrorist attack. parliament as you know, westminster representative of the institutions of the west and london in a way this could echo the 2014 shooting attack in ottawa on the parliament there that was a radical islamic terrorist attack when a gunman got inside and had a fire fight with security officers.

>> there's no indication the gunman got inside the perimeter. all the activity seem to be outside. some of the focus seems to be on the bridge adjacent so the houses of parliament at westminster and it could be something happened inside the building and tried to flee and there were more gunshots but again police very quick to the scene. police on the scene on a d day-to-day basis and it appears the gunman involved in the treatment of police right now. back to you. >> shannon: greg palkot thank you. we'll listen into our sister network sky news as they report around the clock on the breaking news. >> chaos on the streets as people ran from it. separately there's also reports of something at westminster bridge where some reports say a car has run down a number of

people. those have not been confirmed yet by police but transport for london shut the underground station at the request from the police. >> to what extent a plan has been put in place in terms of a lockdown and what is a response to events we don't know. for instance in that context we learned the prime minister who of course had been at pmqs was in the division lobby voting when a plain-clothed police officer turned up and was brought to a car. >> the alleged assailant was shot by police. an ambulance is currently attending the scene to remove the casualties. there's reports of further violent incidents close to the house of westminster and

colleagues would think it's wrong of me to go into further detail until we have confirmation from the police and house security authorities about what is going on. i shall endeavor to the very best i can both at the dispatch box and by to ensure the numbers are kept to where it is happening. at the moment, the very clear advice from police and the director of security in the house is that we should remain under suspension and that the chamber should remain in lockdown until we receive advice that it is safe to go back to normal procedures. >> we are going to enter into into debate at this stage, i want to make sure people are informed why we are in here on why we are in lockdown.