. were they do something get this a lot of people he every saying that maybe health care is off its deathbed people are talking about doing something again, the president made a different conversation last night he is talking about a

bipartisan way forward, i am not sure specifically what that is going to do for people like freedom caucus others said was not conservative enough everybody greece something has to be done 1986 treechl bipartisan with every you you bipartisan there is a way fared each thought going to move on talking about positivesity of making, a deal, with the democrat making it quickly. >> kind of. >> here we are, shockingly it is semi bipartisan. a lot of people showed up weren't expecting -- a very good thing this is a very, very good thing. . [applause] . >> and i know that we are going to make a deal on health care that is such an easy one so i have no doubt that is going to happen quickly i think it had will actually i think going to happen. because we have with all been promising democrat republican

we have all been promising that to american people so i think we are going to have very good relationships right chuck? i see chuck hello chuck. iodine really think that will happen. >> one -- >> maybe -- >> talking about chuck schumer. >> authentic talked in a few months. >> in november after president trump won, suddenly chuck schumer and president talking on the phone what half a dozen times something like that since the president has referred to him as the head clown of the k democratic party not much talking about but interesting president should allude to health care after what happened last week he had a number of big democrats up on capitol hill yesterday talking about we are willing to work with republicans to do something to fix health care. >> obamacare not repeal. >> the repeal thing wouldn't fly with them maybe there is something going to be going on with tort reform across state lines things barack obama when president. >> what is the difference in -- is it the same thing if you

repeal it or you just take obamacare and fix. >> it huge difference. >> repeal just mean, to o. >> wipe it out start over freedom caucus, it is gone. >> still calling it obamacare just going to fix the problem. >> the problem that they want to fix death spiral stuff like that republicans many say a bad idea, good intentions perhaps let's start from scratch. >> a big difference. >> i don't think truly sorry. >> start over again. >> just want to say democrat that stepped forward, because, new york city bipartisan state joe of new york said i am at table ready to negotiate had no to abandon the purely political tax and obamacare that the -- republicans are obsessed with, blurred like canvass have a red state expand medicare for state not going to make freedom caucus

happy a lot of republican governors want free money. >> in kansas sam brownback is going to go ahead and veto that president interest of notched a win kept another campaign promise, the war on coal effectively over what he did was ordered epa to direct a review of the clean power plan which last year, the supreme court said wait a minute, obama administration, you can't do that, about essentially what it was doing was it was going to force states to retire plants early could cost a trillion dollars lost input 125,000 jobs donald trump signing executive order right there want coal miners back to work signing that he did it. >> okay, sorry. >> miners told me about attacks on jobs livelihoods told me about the efforts to shut down their mines.

the communities and their very way of life. i made them this promise. we will put our miners back to work. my administration, is putting an end to the war on coal i am taking historic steps to lift restrictions on american energy, to reversing government intrusion and to cancel, job killing regulations. . >> miners so excited about this, reminded me of i read about this this morning, reminded me of that image when hillary clinton was sitting there in coal miner pushed picture across to her remember at table can when she was running for president in fact when you say composureing to close coal mining industry this is who you are affects a picture might have family. >> thought this isn't going well are there cameraed here yes? by the way, they say if they really want to do a job get -- america he energy independence

reverse the unblacklist the carbon dioxide as prudently world has not been heating up since 1998 on hiatus democrats rallied around at a president moore says donald trump has begun extension of mankind jones says the president signed a death warrant for the planet i sense not onboard with this. >> what obama administration did with clean power plan change to the point it wasn't going to make a big difference in co2, in "the wall street journal" today they say, by the year 2025 all of our changes that the obama administration regulations would have done would have been offset by the chinese he emissions of three weeks, in other words,, we -- it is such an incremental change compared to polluteer that is china. >> seven minutes after the hour, i have to use one word

to, describe devin nunes unflappable, he is walking into a storm, and as if in the library just walking around saying anybody have any books i can borrow listen i got information, about the possible monitoring of -- of trump officials during the transition phase or was it during the election process? by -- given to him by whistle-blower he cannot get pacemaker delivered nsa holding it up can't give details did not stop him from having to absorb a lot of calls to step aside recuse himself from this investigation. >> -- recuse you yourself from this investigation. >> i still don't know why if you give me a reason to recuse myself i might consider it. >> cites say you are too close to the trump administration to lead this investigation. >> i don't i don't know they actually said that but -- >> will you share your source

--? >> we will never -- >> even to you have another big committee. >> no. >> interesting "the wall street journal" lead editorial said governor nunes should not real estate sign doing a good job adam schiff hyper bipartisan spread innuendo across airwaves without evidence. >> "the wall street journal" suggests perhaps it sounds like the trump the recognition team could have been targeted by something called reverse targeting, in other words,, got a fisa order to watch the russian ambassador just to see who in trump transformation team might have -- >> they don't want recuse them a republican walter jonz from rth carolina calling for him to -- recuse not going to do it. >> jones says, the fly into the face of his party, all the

time. especially, over, intelligence military issues. >> adam -- >> detract party. >> -- yes. >> adam housely foxnews.com,on airwaves as well an item about how fbi now is being scrutinized by the senate gyre committee. >> yeah. >> apparently what they are looking into remember that so-called dirty dossier. >> you said it i don't think the dirty dossier. >> you say better than i do embarrassing stuff a lot of it apparently unprovable, gathered by a former british spy fusion gps chuck grassley senators want to know why if fbi would socially hire somebody, that had put together a bunch of opposition reach on behalf of republicans and democrats occurring the campaign. and then, they kept paying them to dig up dirt, just extraordinary, so looks like, the senate now is investigating, the -- >> good is any not being

investigated by somebody who is investigating other people? >> i can't keep them straight. >> i did a background check abby huntsman -- a lot of stuff needs to be gaitsdz nothing i can share if you want to interview me i will walk down the hall with a microphone. >> a dossier. >> we had a report in the south dossier dossier. >> headlines this morning this one, system people detained questions overnight, after an ambush attack on two miami police officers detectives undercovered in this unmarked van we are told investigating gang activity when a group of approached, 20 pounds at officers incredible pictures showing that van riddled with bullet holes wright hospitalized in stable condition woods has been released. and three -- tracking a powerful system blasting through south, all driving toward a twister east of lubbock, texas when cars collided investigators say one

driver ran a stop sign at intersection all that is left of cars are two happiness mangled metal unfortunately no one survived. >> dhs secretary kelly will meet to discuss a sanctuary cities some launched new initiatives to undermine the trump administration's threats to cut funding, mayor of new york city demanding ice agents say off school grounds unless a warrant massachusetts estate representative using facebook to tip a killegals off to ice raid. >> chris christie set to play a role in white house effort to tackle the nation's opioid epidemic the first step, into filling a xaib promise addressing that crisis, the task force will make recommendations on funding treatment and laws surrounding addiction governor christie live right here on couch on "fox & friends," in the next hour drug addiction continues

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obama era regulations on climate policies and as you heard restoring american jobs. brian: here to react because it's his job, too, he ryan zinke, a. how significant was gha announcement? >> it was great. i think on the coal, three points. one, it is better to produce energy here under reasonable regulation than watch it get produced overseas with no regulation. as a former seal, i can tell you i have seen a lot of countries and i have seen what happens in the middle east and africa when there is no regulation. so environmentally it is better to produce energy here and export our cleaner coal. china is moving from nuclear to coal fired generation plants. south korea is also heavily dependent on coal. our coal is cleaner. so environmentally it is better to export cleaner coal. ainsley: that makes sense so we are in charge of the regulations and making sure that everything is done in a cleaner way. what's your message to the michael moores out there.

the folks that are worried about the environment that think this is the end of the world? well, he is wrong. is he wrong across the board and not the first time. i look at it as a stuart of the public land i want to do the right thing. we care about clean air and clean water and also care about jobs. there is a social cost of not having jobs in the economy. we have to manufacture low energy costs are part of that equation. and lastly, national defense. you know, a strong america ensures a safer world. and the strength of america, largely depend on our military and our ability to export and be energy independent and not be held hostage by foreign entities. brian: so, mr. secretary, as you know, the republican president, who is on mount rushmore, teddy roosevelt is a responsible for a lot of your job. a lot of national parks are his idea. can you be environmentally responsible and be pro-coal? >> absolutely. and my intention is to be a

stuart or the majesty of our public land and make sure we can create wealth and jobs on some of it. and i understand the difference between mirror and pen show. but a lot of our public land are multiple use and they are not in conflict on recreation and using our assets wily. we should be boy scouts. leave the camp fire in good or better condition than we found it. ainsley: absolutely. what about the coal miners? i heard earlier they were so emotional yesterday. you were there. what did some of them say? >> well, when you look at how bad it's been. they are making, you know, trying to make a livelihood for their families. a lot of these communities have been hollowed out. to have a breath of hope by a president who took action, i think was a great moment. brian: mr. secretary, thanks so much. congratulations on the job. i will see you soon. thanks, look forward to it. brian: they are not looking for free money just want an opportunity to work for money. ainsley: they just want work. brian: one of his signature

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signing off as you see there allowing negotiations to begin this morning. britain now has two years to completely remove itself from the european union. now we're going to hand it over to steve. steve: indeed, ainsley, thank you. we all know what president trump wants to do with that swamp thing. >> we are going to drain the swamp of government corruption in washington, d.c. [cheers and applause] >> and we are going to keep our promises, all of the promises that would made. steve: here's the question. is the swamp too deep to drain? our next guest doesn't think so. here with his strategy is fox news contributor and the host of the new show the next revolution with steve hilton, mr. steve hilton. by the way, steve is also the former director of strategy for prime minister david cameron. of course, out on the campaign, then candidate donald trump started talking about drain the swamp, i think initially he thought it was kind of a corny expression but it really has resonated with people.

>> he didn't really love the phrase but the idea which is washington, d.c. isn't working. it's all controlled by lobbyists and donors and officials who have been there forever. that's why change isn't happening. that's what drain the swamp the idea meant. once people heard the phrase they really understood the kind of changes that the president wanted to bring. steve: let's talk about how to drain the swamp. first step washington, d.c. by the way when people refer to the swamp back in the old days the national mall where they built that was actually a swamp. so that's where the expression comes from. >> so, steve, the first thing we have got to think about something actually the president deal with the lobbyists. here are the lobbyists. they are concentrated in this area. there is a street called k street. steve: in the middle. >> through there. that's where they all live and work and hang out and do their deals. all the things that people think of when they think about the swamp. the lobbyists are the heart of it the president has already announced executive order to

clamp down on lobbying. that's good news but. the swamp is more than just lobbying. have you federal bureaucracy. big federal agencies are based on pennsylvania avenue between the capitol and white house. >> thrive angle right there. >> exactly. >> next steps from draining the swamp. steve: push that x one more time. >> here we are. the next steps. steve: there we go. technology. the next step after dealing with the lobbyists is the federal bureaucracy. officials been in their positions year after year after year, they have got their own agenda. actually, if you want to really bring change, he has got to change those agencies. that's not enough to just say do this, not that. steve: right. >> in my experience trying to work in government.

the only way to deal with it is you just have to get rid of those people. have you to fire them. that is not easy. because there is lots of rules there is the unions. there is all sorts of things that they need to get over. then the final thing in terms of draining the swamp. the next step is here, is actually thinking about what goes on in congress. the fact that so many of the decisions there are really controlled by the donors, the big donors that trump spoke about in the campaign. remember how he talked about they're puppets of the donors. he has got to do something like that too. steve: tell congress to ignore the donors. the donors are where they get the money and run for reelection every two years they need the donors. >> the president is not going to succeed in draining the swamp unless he does something about the way that big money controls politics. it's a really tough battle. there are the three steps. lobbyists, getting rid of the bureaucrats. doing something about the donors in congress. that's draining the swamp. steve: look at that you make it sound so easy but daunting. steve hilton, thank you very

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brian: that's seth meyers. is he still on. believe it or not for a change he is taking shots at the president. i had no idea. steve: hillary made the same joke last night at that appearance. ainsley: she is out of the wood. steve: only one job she would prefer and it would be in the white house. ainsley: speaking of jobs. steve: lots of them. jobs, jobs, jobs. brian: ford continues to expand their preference in america at the cost of the presence in u.k. expand in three different locates in michigan at the cost of 1.2 billion-dollar. that's how much they are going to invest in these new plants. brian: 130 jobs. engine plant in romeo, spend about 150-million-dollar to expand capacity there. ainsley: romeo sound dreamy. brian: it does sound dreamy and i don't understand the pun. ford says 200 million to spend new advanced data center in flat rock. that's good news for michigan. steve: absolutely. jobs going in, rather than going out. meanwhile the folks over at forbes have got brand new personal dream index.

what this shows is this shows where things are going up and where things are going down. look at, as you can see right there, the majority of states in the united states are green. that is positive. brian: 33 in all. steve: upticks in manufacturing, employment, building permits. meanwhile the red states, those are things where things are static or going down. declines in bankruptcies have fallen since the beginning of the year. so when you take a look at the trend since donald trump became president of the united states, the american dream is actually turning around. brian: if you do -- just trump ones that didn't vote for donald trump, president trump, have not changed much except florida. and the ones that did, 33 and a cup -- 31 and a couple more are liking what they see so far. ainsley: it k. we put that graph back up. this is since donald trump has been elected. you can see the right-hand of the screen how it's ticking up. steve: right, the low point. see where the little red dot is? that was the month of december.

then can you see january when he took office and it is going up. ainsley: that means more people feel like the american dream is attainable for them. they are more optimistic. brian: thanks, russia, for giving us the american dream back. ainsley: back to russia. brian put it on dressing. steve: heading over. ainsley: i like russian dressing. steve me too. ains now on my mind thanks to sean spicer. brian: thousand islands the difference is relish or pickles? steve: relish constitutes the thousand island. brian: what does relish have to do because we like it? steve: there are dot. abby: thousand island there are pieces of relish represent island. brian: if i walk into a calf tieria, fuddruckers let's say. ainsley: that's not a cafeteria. brian: seems like it because you walk with a tray.

if they stare at me i will say thousand island. ainsley: if i have to turn on the news one more time and talk about russian dressing. can we please move on. abby: does not have to do with russian dressing. hillary clinton is making her way out of the wood and urging people to resist. >> i am thrilled to be out of the wood. [laughter] [applause] >> there is no place i would rather be than here with you, other than the white house. [laughter] >> i mean, it's not like i didn't know all the nasty things they were saying about me. [laughter] some of them were actually quite creative, resist, insist, persist, enlist. about. ainsley: in a speech to business women in san francisco, the failed candidate also slammed the g.o.p.'s healthcare bill calling its failure a victory for all americans. and also in this morning, horror on the tarmac, a

passenger plane bursts into flames after a rocky landing with 141 people on board that flight. smoke seen billow from the peruvian airlines flight shortly after land go ahead in peru. the plane turned off the runway after landing and believedth right wing scraping the runway like thely started that blaze. luckily no one was seriously hurt. and does this ever happen to you when you go out to eat? >> hey, thanks, seeing my therapist. take a walk. you want a happy meal sphwhee will get you one of those happy meals. get you a happy meal? abby: we have all been there fine restaurant in north carolina wants to make sure that does not happen on their watch. banning children 5 and under after the owner says crying screaming and. getting backlash online. abby: america is on the edge of its seat waiting to find

out whic which crayon is disappearing forever ♪ fun to create with crayola ♪ you can make a purple lake, fish bold and fat. >> a plumb, and an orchid. abby: crayola will make the big announcement on times square on friday national crayon day. first crayon to ever retire from the 24-count box. which color is it going to be is the question. brian: i don't know if i can sleep tonight until i find out the answer. steve, you were one of the first. ever go to crayola land in pennsylvania? you sent me there. steve: yes, i'm trying to remember of the town. just over the border between new jersey and pennsylvania. brian: big spring break locate. steve: it's great and swells like crayon. he. brian: smells like break. steve: at the between canada and the united states. now i know the rest of the story. now it's time for the weather.

adam: you guys teach me so much every morning. thank you for all that knowledge. here is what i know it's about the forecast. beginning to feel more spring like here in new york city. but across the country spring like weather means big storms. that's what we're seeing stretching down into texas and oklahoma. even farther up to the north now on the east side of dallas these are severe storms that did bring storms overnight hours. continuing to see that storm push off along the eastern side of oklahoma city as well. this entire system is going to shift later today. as we heat into the afternoon still looking at area of severe weather switching from louisiana to-mile-an-hour. including areas of arkansas as well. wouldn't be surprised if before today is over we are tracking more tornadic activity. this is one day of it tomorrow things are looking even worse. this is thursday. severe weather threat and you see an area where we are looking at moderate chances of severe weather.

that's a pretty good chance. this system is going to shift off toward the east. we are paying very close attention to throughout really into thursday and friday as well. steve: absolutely with the possibility of tornadoes keeping an eye on the sky. adam: yes, we are. steve: adam, thank you. ainsley: president trump expects to make a deal on healthcare. next guest going to explain it. steve: known as great white shark. legendary greg norman is here this morning. he joins us with a huge announcement. coming up shortly on "fox & friends." brian: i hope he brought some wine. ♪ swing, swing ♪ my heart is stretched whoa, this thing is crazy.

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about 30 days in international waters. illegal drugs have estimated street value of over 1 billion-dollar. and a dramatic rescue caught on camera as firefighters pull an elderly man trapped in a burning apartment to safety. a rookie firefighter carrying the 82-year-old down on his shoulder as flames ripped through the boston complex. the man was badly burned. but is expected to survive. wow. brian: house republicans, steve, meeting yesterday for the first time since the withdraw of their bill to repeal and replace obamacare. now there are signs the effort might not be dead yet. >> i don't want us to become a factual lied majority. i want us to become a unified majority. and that means we're going to sit down and talk things out until we get there and that's exactly what we're doing. and we saw good overture overtum those members from different parts of our conference to get there. because we all share these goals and we're just going to have to figure out how to get it done. brian: meantime president

trump is also hoping to get to work on tax reform. what need to happen? joining us now is casey mulligan. is he the nor of this book side effects. the economic consequences of healthcare reform. which is a great title for this segment. first off, what are the side effects of the influx of obamacare over the last 8 years and why is it so hard to unwind? >> well, obamacare or the aca created a lot of new entitle. s for people, regardless or maybe especially if they don't work. and as a result, we had new set of penalties on work on top of penalties on work we used to have. and surprise, surprise, employment remains low nine years after recession. g.d.p. isn't growing like we're used to. and these are standard consequences of putting extra taxes, whether they be hidden or above board taxes on the economy. brian: that weighing down was

looking to be eliminated. then when you come to people's healthcare, nothing gets more personal. when you tell people i'm taking this away and no you are no longer going to have, this politically, that's suicide, correct? >> it's difficult, now, what's interesting with obamacare, it's a little bit ier because the people who are benefiting from the program don't actually like it that much. in fact, some of them who are eligible for free stuff don't sign up say i would rather pay the penalty than be involved with this. have you a little bit of advantage in this case that the product that the government is offering is pretty i couldn't know desirable. brian: right, and you write too whatever problems you saw with the ryan plan, it would have saved a trillion-dollar over 10 years. and would have set the table for -- made it ier for tax reform. but now have you got to somehow counter that trillion dollars, which is still in the system, with some type of -- you know, some type of trillion-dollar savings. how is that going to happen?

>> i mean, definitely, if you're going to spend a lot, say, on healthcare, it makes it tougher to cut taxes because the spending need to be supported and taxes is pretty much the only way we can do that. brian: then did you go on to say when it comes to the economic situation. this border tax brings in the revenue that will allow other tax cuts to be paid for. but many people, even on the right, are saying we can't do this border tax, including senator tom cotton. >> yeah. that's a type of tax i think we are rushing in to it. may be a good idea. but i think it need more analysis. it's pretty complicated. the proponents of a promise that the exchange rates will move a certain way to make everything work out. that's a pretty complicated promise. might not even be true. we certainly needed time to reflect on it it's not something i would try to rush through at this time. brian: right, casey, of course, if you look back at the programs that have worked in the past.

86 tax reform bipartisan. social security bipartisan even though every year we are trying to rescue it. is there a bipartisan way forward? i know you are a numbers person and big picture person. can you see a formula for success? >> there is definitely aspects of the obamacare and the corporate tax that both democrats and republicans don't like and would like to fix i would hope that the democrats would, especially those interested in getting reelected would say these are bad features. it's okay to team up with trump and republicans to fix some genuinely bad things. for example the corporate tax that we have n. america is nowhere close to what's going on elsewhere in the world. the other countries have cut their tax and we have just sat there both parties understand that that can't persist. and the obamacare has all these kind of strange rules about 29 hours. and 49 employees.

too neither party thinks those sharp lines are a good idea. brian: i have been told that's the work of a politician not a business person because they know those numbers will have a rack in the business world. they just didn't figure that when they were writing this up. casey mulligan you figured it all out, university of chicago economics professor and author of side effects and complications the economic consequences of healthcare reform. thanks, casey. >> you're welcome. brian: straight ahead, he has turned his talent on the golf course into thriving business ernesto surprise in so many ways. this morning greg norman has a huge announcement. he is telling steve. hopefully they will both tell us. ♪ saturday night be in the spot ♪ don't believe me just watch ♪ don't believe me just watch ♪ can i get some help. watch his head. ♪

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♪ steve: well, this should be fun. he was the number one golfer in the world for 331 consecutive weeks second only to a guy who actually is his neighbor by the name of tiger woods. greg norman. >> he actually lives in between you and i. brian: really? ainsley: you are the mediator. steve: greg joins us right now. in addition to being a world class golfer, you are also a big businessman. what do you make of president trump fulfilling campaign promises to roll back as many regulations to make it ier for guys like new business to do business? >> it's about bloody time i can say that quiet honestly. in small business we are the backbone of the business in small ways. we have 14. joint venture to licensing. and nocht regulations we even see it more dramatically in golf course design business in the united states.

as we roll these things back, as he rolls them back, it's actually going to open up business. to this day i can say we have seen updick already an uptick of enthusiasm toward the golf industry. steve: since the electric. >> since the electric. brian: you are not just about golf. you are about wine and apparel. >> consumer products. brian: overall internationally you also have a sense of what the corporate tax rubbing would be. would that play a role with you? do you think that will be and in what way will it help? >> irving. we're already seeing not to the magnitude of 2 trillion-dollar coming rushing back in. we're seeing the magnitude of smaller amount of money coming back into the country wanting to be invested back into the united states. i'm personally seeing that it's a really surprising. it's happening so quickly but it needed to happen in this country for sure. ainsley: what does the american dream mean for you? >> >> i was very lucky because i wanted to come to the united states because i was making $28 a week as an assistant pro. america opened my opportunity

to be an entrepreneur and be able to take on these different platforms have. a partnership and have this dream of chasing something. australia yes, australia 24 million people. united states is 300 million people. a business like mine is huge. steve: you teamed up with investor. tell us what you are doing. >> well, look, from the golf industry standpoint, the last 10 years, golf has gone down from 30 million players down to 24 to 25 million. so it's been a dramatic dropoff. so why? obviously gfc has done a lot to do with it teamed up with investor to bring technology and innovation to the game. a space sitting there virgin. nobody has capital lied or identified it attracting a new audience. making the golfer's experience on the golf course a lot more enjoyable through connectivity. brian: you already have the beer cart. [laughter] >> we run out of beer when we play with you. brian: absolutely, yeah.

i got nothing else to do. i can't find my ball. ainsley: bring out the wine. you have designed golf courses what else? >> beef, wine, golf courses, real estate, clothing. ainsley: everything a man likes. steve: investor deal. is that going to be an app. we can use. >> i'm not going to disclose. it goes to market the first of october. but it's a fantastic partnership. investor's iop platform is unbelievable. innovation center is unbelievable. we want to build smart golf courses what i mean by that steve, shame on us in a lot of ways because to maintain a golf course on an annual basis can be north of a million bucks, right? if we can make these golf courses smart through iot that verizon has, bring that in, we save energy. we manage the golf course and it becomes more of a cost-efficient place to go. steve: fantastic. come back in october. >> i will do. happy to come back. ainsley: great to see you.

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the country illegally, which is breaking the law. it was law under obama. it is law under trump. >> the days that i got here until whatever, there is no quick. you've got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight. somehow that's a russian quick. ♪ this is how we roll ♪ we hanging around ♪ singing everything on the radio ♪ brian: anyone up? because there was a big party last night. after a big party oftentimes you sleep in. steve: sure, knowing the president of the united states, is he probably up. don't you think? ainsley: probably. there was a big reception at the white house. he invited people from both side of the aisle. the men and women. if you are a congresswoman you got to bring your husband. if you are a congressman you got to bring your wife. steve: it was bipartisan and trump told -- president trump told the senators and their spouses nobody ever told me that politics was going to be so much fun. brian: he is really enjoying himself so far. not much has happened.

steve: listen, he is having fun because is he winning. in the first hour and with greg norman just a moment ago we talked about how president trump through executive order is rolling back a number of onerous regulations on businesses. and just a couple days ago, his attorney general jeff sessions announced what they were doing at the department of justice regarding sanctuary cities. if you don't follow the ice rules, you might actually not get some federal grant money or the federal government might actually claw back some of the grant money that the department of justice has already meted out. ainsley: secretary john kelly is interested to see what mayors think so he is sitting down with them today to ask the mayor what is do you think about the immigration laws? brian: they are going to unload on him. a lot of them are left wing mayors who want to protect people they call immigrants. others say they are legal immigrants. it's not immigrant. we know we are a nation of immigrant. it's an insult to say we're not a nation of immigrants and show black and white footages of people coming off the boat.

that's not the type of immigration we are talking about. ainsley: the ones committing crimes. brian: not the ones here illegally if they don't have a documents or phony social security numbers and there is no criminal background there is not going to be any legal ache. steve: sure, if ice is looking for you and you are in this country illegally, have you done something really, really wrong. dana loesch was on last night and talked a little bit about the money involved. kind of dangling out in front of sanctuary cities. do they want the money? they are going to have to follow the rules. >> this is about people who entered the country illegally, which is breaking the law. and furthermore, all of these mayors, and yourself, robert, i don't recall a single point in history where you guys credit sighed former president obama, who said this exact same thing one year ago, nobody had any criticisms when it was obama's law but apparently now that trump is wanting to enforce, this now everybody has a problem? you are talking about protecting illegal entry. this is a crime. if you do not want to do the

time, you don't do the crime. if you want to receive federal funding, then you need to comply with federal law. it's very y to understand all of this. this is our law. it was law under obama. it is law under trump. and we need to do something. steve: and, in fact, jeff sessions the other day said the authority given to him to do this was actually started a year ago during the obama administration. brian: just back to our original point. when the president says it's fun. he does not mind turbulence and angst where he has lived his whole life having this bank against this bank to get this bid on a level i personally don't understand. but if you think about everything that's been rolled out from the six nation ban, because we can't understand who these people are, that's been a problem. from the roll out of the e.p.a. it's a positive for others but two third of the country or a third of the country is in tears because they think the earth is going to blow up. then have you something that seems so logic call illegals here who are committed crimes were going to empower ice to

work with local officials to oust you. now all of a sudden you are anti-immigrant and anti-hispanic. then whether you have representatives like in massachusetts. when they are actually instead of siding with the president they are actually giving advice for those who are here illegally. ainsley: yeah there is a representative there in massachusetts. her name is michelle d dubuois. she posted this on facebook when when she heard ice was going door to door. i got the following information from my friend. i have message for the immigrant community brockton please be careful wednesday 29th. ice will be in brockton on that day. steve: we don't know whether or not isis is going to be there that day. ainsley: i don't know if they are really going door to door. she heard they were going to be there and she posted it. that has not been confirmed whether or not they are planning to go there. steve: there was a reporter in the massachusetts qulear who confronted her about that warning and here is the interchange. watch this. >> she was spreading a rumor.

>> no, i don't. it's information in my community. >> do you see how this could be also construed as fear mongering. >> no. >> if you didn't have it confirmed. >> no. >> why not? >> i just don't. i have read my statement. steve: she has read her statement and also put out of a list of things to do essentially stay in your house. and if you get in trouble, fight back. get a good attorney. brian: all right. now let's talk about something that also brings up a lot of angst with people. and i guess this country and everyone has got an opinion. the chairman of the house intelligence committee. was prior to the last three weeks one of the most respected people on both side. devin nunes and it's known to be a committee where politics pc really take as backseat if that's indeed possible in today's climate. devin nunes made his way over to we believe the eisenhower building to take a look at top secret information that might have revealed. nothing to do with russia. might have revealed that the trump organization when he was a candidate and during the transition was spied on.

and maybe there was some unmasking. go over there and check it out. and then he told the president and cia. didn't tell the ranking member. he said i should have told the ranking member. ever since then he has been under siege by every news organization and television channel. to step down. ainsley: now democrats are saying he should recuse himself from the investigation. one republican, too, on board with that walter jones from north carolina. and he is saying i'm not recusing myself. listen to this. >> why not recuse yourself from this investigation? >> i still don't know why. you guys give me a reason to recuse myself. i might consider it. >> your critics say you are too close to the trump administration to lead this investigation. >> yeah. i don't know that they have actually said that. >> and will you share your source, reveal your source -- committee. >> we will never reveal sources and methods. >> even to the other members of the committee. >> no, never. >> ainsley: i love that he said i don't think they said that.

ainsley: critics would say. i would say. brian: can you say anything else after your critics would say. steve: democrats are steamed at him because he is raying the issue that they would like to avoid. and that is the fact that it looks like the u.s. intelligence community surveilled innocent americans. and then somebody, unmasked some names, we don't know how many names, exactly. and then that information, which is supposed to be top secret, super secret spies and high ranking government officials, they are the only ones who can see this stuff. apparently it was widely distributed throughout the government to do as much damage as possible. so, the democrats don't like that brought up. and every time mr. nunez has said something. adam schiff from california. the ranking member from the other side he is going well, there is still no proof that barack obama wiretapped president trump. brian: this whole thing started on thursday.

one of the typest talk show hosts in the country. "the washington post," "new york times," daily times off the top of my head have gone over and talked about surveillance being done. steve: wiretapped. brian: wiretapping being done. these are reports out there cited by donald trump the next day, picked up by driven organizations. and the next thing you know everything hit the fan. well, who are those people that had those sources that said that that story was true? steve: it's all a good question. and so we don't know exactly how that particular committee is going to continue. but we do know over on the senate side, apparently according to adam housing report at fox news, senate judiciary committee is investigating whether the fbi properly included political opposition research. remember. ainsley: the dirty dossier. steve: thank you very much. by a former british spy initially. he was hired by republicans to dig up dirt on trump. then he was hired by democrats to dig up dirt on trump. and then extraordinarily, the

fbi started paying them to dig up dirt on trump. charles grassley want to know why would we get in bed as a government with this opo research outfit. brian: we're not really sure. on the dirt theme. this is the muddiest investigation with everyone investigating everyone. ainsley: it really is i was going to say, can you keep it straight? what do you think about all this russia collusion and this investigation? it just continues to snow ball. steve: it's so simple at its core. did the federal government break the rule for political advantage as the obama administration going out to damage the trump administration. that is what they are trying to figure out. and you know what? we all want to know. brian: when you went upstairs with steve hilton, we did a background check on abby huntsman. when we toss over to abby this is what i got. take it away. abby: let's get right to extreme weather this morning.

three storm chasers are dead after their cars collided while tracking a powerful storm system blasting through the south. it happened east of la buck, texas. one driver ran a stop sign. now all that's left of those cars mangled metal. despite last week's collapse of the gop healthcare bill. president trump says there will be -- soon be a new plan on the table. the commander-in-chief telling a bipartisan group of senators at the white house a deal is coming. >> i know that we're all going to make a deal on healthcare. that's such an easy one. solve ni have no doubt that's gg to happen. we have all been prom mys, democrat, republican, we have all been promising that to the american people. abby: time line for that deal is still unknown. and the president's revised immigration order is back in court today. a federal judge in ohio will hear arguments about extending its temporary block on the order. judge derek watson made that ruling two weeks ago. hawaii argues the president's ache discriminates against

muslims. the trump administration says it's necessary for national security. brian: i got nothing. i got a lot of printouts. there is nothing there. you have not done anything wrong yet. nothing wrong with abby huntsman. thanks, abby. ainsley: thanks, abby. brian: 12 minutes after the hour. ainsley: president trump is fulfilling a campaign promise ending the war on coal. >> you're going back to work. [applause] >> you're going back to work. are you ready? >> we're ready. ainsley: ready, set, go. our next guest was standing right beside the president for that very moment at the e.p.a. the president of the ohio coal association is coming up next. brian: and, is that a kangaroo? on the streets of detroit? >> the man has a kangaroo on a leash. what? what the --

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hurt struggling coal industry. steve: here to discuss is somebody right there with the president. in that picture the president of the ohio coal association christian. good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: this essentially is what the people of ohio voted for on november 8th, you told one of our producers yesterday because with the stroke of that pen donald trump saved 130,000 coal jobs nationwide and 30,000 in your state alone. >> absolutely. it's a terrific day for ohio coal miners. expects exactly why ohio coal country overwhelmingly supported the president. it's why the president won the electric. he never made it any secret that he was going to support of the industry. and yesterday was a great day. it's an important step in -- it see our coal miners welcomed into the e.p.a. building by three cabinet secretary, the vice president of the united states and the president of the united states was something that was a long time coming and really shows a change in leadership that we're excited to see. ainsley: christian, of course everyone is so excited that it's bringing jobs back to our country and to the coal

minuting industry. people are concerned about the environment. we don't want to breathe in air that's going to cause us to get sick down the road. what do you say so the nay sayers and environmentalists concerned. >> we all want clean air and water. we have that in this country. the most up to date technologies that make our energy grid the cleanest and safest that the world has to offer. these aren't mutually exclusive issues. we can have clean energy and we can also have a clean environment and use coal. and that's something that we have been able to perfect in this country and we're proud of. it doesn't mean we need to sacrifice you mentioned 30,000 jobs in our states or hundred of thousand of jobs nationally or the affordable energy that families get to enjoy every single day in this country that other countries simply don't have. they are not mutually exclusive and we're happy to work with the president to protect the environment and provide the energy that coal works to provide every day. brian: what has it been like for you that your industry is

a dying industry and you should have gotten out anyway and all of a sudden somebody wakes you back up to life. what's these last few years been like for a you? >> i can't lie. it's been tough. the renewed sense of optimism that we saw starting on november 9th. it was unbelievable. it was fantastic to see and ogo underground to coal miners and have them high fiving and get to work. it's been great. the optimism is something that we needed in this industry. and we have a president of the united states that stands with us and we thank president trump for that. steve: sure, christian, you are from the state of ohio, every politician running for president wants to win ohio. trump did. but you have seen historically politicians come in and make promises that they could never keep. how surreal was it for you to be in that room with him yesterday after actually keeping the campaign promise that caused to you vote for him? >> i think it's one of the main reasons that president trump won the state of ohio is people wanting to see someone that was going to do what he

says and stick to his word. and yesterday president trump stuck to his word. we have the vice president of the united states stood in the building of the e.p.a. and said the war on coal is over. it was great. president trump is a man of ache. and our coal miners up on stage with him couldn't have been more excited to join him and be a part of honoring his pledge to america. brian: everything is going good in ohio now. cleveland indians are one of the top teams. browns on right track. fracking and coal back. thanks a lot, christian. >> that's a strong statement on the browns. the indians are coming for the cubs. coming back. brian: cavaliers, i forgot about the cavs. steve: kind of a big deal out there. as mayors of sanctuary cities continue to fight the trump administration's immigration policies, we talked to the mother son illegals. these are slap in the face of every tax paying citizen.

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if the president signs it. internet service providers will be able to sell your browser and app. usage without your consent to get more advertisers. think about that. number one, that's us. fox news channel our network just had the highest. [cheers] steve: ratest quarter ever in cable news history for the first three month of 2017 we were the most watched on both basic cable and prime time and total day viewers as well. thanks to all of you for watching. thanks, folks. ainsley: thank you, steve. and thank you at home. attorney general jeff sessions threatening too take away federal funding from those cities who choose to be a sanctuary city for criminal illegals. >> failure to remedy violations could result in withholding grants. termination of grants. i strongly urge our nation states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm

they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws and to rethink these policies. ainsley: now, big city mayors like rahm emanuel an blasio here in new york are firing back, vowing to press on and shield illegals. joining me now is mary ann mendosa mother of sergeant brandon mendosa killed by illegal immigrant. good morning. thank you for being with us. >> good morning. thank you. ainsley: we have had you on and know your story. there are some people that might be joining us for the very first time and don't know what happened to your son. will you tell us? >> on may 12th, 2014, he was on his way home from duty and was hit head on by an illegal immigrant in this country who had been shown leniency and released back out on to our streets. and he was three times the legal limit drunk, high on meth and driven 35 miles the wrong way on four different

freeways in phoenix before slamming into my son. ainsley: what do you say to senator chuck schumer who says he is going to shield illegal immigrants and won't even use the word illegal? >> it sickens me and i don't know where this turn has happened to where our elected officials, these politicians who are elected by american citizens have now taken such an interest in protecting illegals. it's almost like a war is being brought against americans by these very elected officials. and, you know, they are using taxpayer money to pull this off. i'm stunned. and i have talked to so many of the parents who have lost loved ones, killed by illegals. and none of us understand the importance of protecting illegals. you have de blasio now stating that they are going into new york schools. and teaching them to resist ice agents when they come in. now we have elected officials going into our schools, teaching our children it's

okay to defy the law. shut your mouth. hide illegals. where is this country going? ainsley: you even have this massachusetts state representative who is posting on her facebook page for anyone in her area if you are here illegally don't open your door because ice is going to be in our community today. and then listen to this. this is a san francisco mayor. this is what he tweeted out. this is where kate steinle was killed. he said san francisco knows that sanctuary cities are safer, more productive, healthier places to live. we work for all of our residents. san francisco stands as one. what's your reaction to that? >> i think if they would put sanctuary city status up for vote with the taxpayers, i think they would be pretty surprised of the results of those votes. and, you know, this is not only a slap in american faces. but it's a slap in legal immigrants. and they are starting to speak out now because they are tired of being grouped in with these politicians who are talking about our immigrants. these are illegal aliens who

have invaded our country. and illegal alien equals criminal. so don't keep calling them immigrants in our immigrant communities because that isn't what they are. once have you committed a crime, you have killed an american citizen, there are 18 to 25 americans killed a day in our country by illegals. there are hundreds more affected by illegal crime. there is a rape epidemic going on in north carolina on children by illegals. and if the news stations would take the time to bring forward all of these crimes committed by illegals on a daily basis, it would probably take up the first five to 10 minutes of local news stations. ainsley: maybe that's why fox is number one as steve was just saying. we are telling your story. we are giving you a chance to talk about those statistics. the mainstream media is not talking about it at all. why is that? >> because they want to keep the issue of police brutality. racist, hate crimes. all of this stuff. that's the stuff they want to keep in the forefront. to keep this country in an

uproar. and if americans really knew what was happening behind the scenes by our very elected politicians. and how they are hiding this information from us, and releasing dangerous criminals back out into the streets of their communities, this is why i support trump, we have to defund sanctuary cities. we have to secure our border. and we have to start releasing these statistics to let people know the jurisdictions that are releasing these dangerous criminals back out to live among us. ainsley: thank you. mary ann mendosa, thank you so much. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. governor chris christie back in the headlines this morning. teeming up with the white house to opioid addiction. the presidential candidate is going to join to us talk about those issues and others. does this girl look like a threat to you? she was just suspended from school. wait until you hear why ♪ young american ♪ young american

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here we go again. ♪ ♪ brian: no doubt about it governor chris christie has been all over this election. first as a candidate then as a trump supporter. even during the transition phase. now we find out that governor christie finally might have a position that he is really intrigued enough to take. steve: joining us right now from the white house is chris christie the governor of the great state of new jersey where i live. governor, good morning to you. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning, cint duesy. how are you? steve and the other two people. i will tell you about that pothole in front of my house later on. >> we are all over it, buddy. steve: governor, let's talk a little bit about what's going on at the white house today. i know the president is going to have a listening session to talk about the trouble with opioid in this country. tell us about the task force that you apparently are going to be on and whether or not

the president is going to sign an executive order on opioids. >> i look forward to sharing chg this task force for the president. it's an issue that he cares passionately about and so do i. steve, you know the scope of this problem. in new jersey, for instance, this last year, four times the number of people died of drug overdoses than died of murder. three times the number of people died of drug overdoses than died in automobile accidents. this is an epidemic in our country. and what this task force hopes to do is look at the issue of prevention, obviously interdiction of drugs before they come to our country. also, very importantly, the issue of treatment. addiction is a disease. and we need to treat it that way and get the people the help that they need to renew their lives and become productive members of society and their families. we're going to be looking at all those things at the federal government level and what the states are doing and come back to the president with recommendations about how to address this problem and give some hope to families who are being torn apart by this

problem across the country. brian: i know that's your number one issue in your final years as governor and now it's going to be for the nation. governor, this dovetails with the other major issue and that's healthcare. how do you give people who need treatment, and off times very expensive, don't have the best insurance, the treatment that it's going to keep them out of prison and out of the funeral home? where does the money from that come from? >> well, listen. i think right now the biggest problem is that we don't have enough beds. it's less about money than it is about getting access to this care and produce the type of facilities that we need to treat people in a way that will be both aggressive and effective. we're going to look at a number of those issues as we go through this, brian. i think we're going to come back with some recommendations. we are doing things in new jersey now that are really helping this problem. i want to bring some of those solutions and other ones from other parts of the country to the entire country and make those recommendations to the president. i have confidence that the president will be able to tackle this problem. like i said, cares about this personally. he heard about it not only in

the campaign trail, but since he has been president. ainsley: i know that you care about it from a personal standpoint, too. i know this hit home. i remember when you were on the campaign trail you talked about your college friend. why is this issue the opioid issue, why is that near and dear to your heart? >> because i know that addiction is a disease. and i -- i'm pro-life. and i believe in the sanctity of evidence life and i believe that every individual life is a gift from god. and so no life is disposable. and the person who addicted to heroin, opiates, other drugs, and their lives are falling apart, we have an obligation to save that life, too. to give them a second chance. so i think if you are pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life. and that's what moa motivates me to be on the front lines of this issue. steve: good luck with that i know that's later today. let's talk about something that if you watch the other channels, governor, you know it's all about russia. what do you make of the russia thing that you see on all the

channels and calls for devin nunes to quit and all that other stuff. >> i have said this morning that congressman nunes is fully capable of making up his own mind on whether or not he can run an objective investigation. the way we have set up intelligent committees overtime ensures that any investigation be conducted be bipartisan. quite frankly my view on this is that people expect congress to do the appropriate time of oversight. i think they will. but i think they are much more concerned about issues like reforming a tax system that's unfair, creating jobs, rebuilding infrastructure in this country. and all those things there r. things that the president is focused on. and i believe is he going to bring, real, real change to our country in that regard. so the people in the american -- the american people all across the country care a great deal about that and let congress, you know, conduct their oversight as they see fit. ainsley: department of homeland security director, secretary john kelly, who is also a general, he is going to be sitting down with mayors from different cities. i know the l.a. mayor is going to be there, sanctuary city,

to talk about the sanctuary city issue. what are your thoughts on that? >> listen, i have said very consistently that i believe that everyone who takes an oath of office has an obligation to enforce the law. that's what we promised to do when we put our hands on the bible and take an oath of a public office. and so i'm glad that the president is putting the focus on the fact that some people are just ignoring the law because they don't like it. that's not the way it's supposed to be. as a former prosecutor i wasn't allowed to ignore the laws i didn't agree with my job was to enforce all the laws as governor i did the same thing. i'm glad we finally have a federal government who is going to say to these folks have you to enforce the law. if you don't like it, come to washington, get it changed. absent that you need to enforce the law. that's what the president is going to do i'm glad that he started work on that. ainsley: if they don't, should they lose their federal funding? >> yes. brian: governor, can we talk a little bit about the structure of this white house? you have done it at the governor level. have you been governor so much longer than president trump, do you believe that he has the

right people in place and are they serving him well? >> only the president can make that determination because, listen, brian, i'm not there every day. i don't know exactly what he is being advised and when he is being advised. i have confidence in know that the president knows whether he is being served or not and the president will make decisions based on that decision. i have absolute confidence in him and his decision-making ability and his ability to evaluate folks. i don't think that's something that people from the outside can effectively evaluate. that's only something that the president of the united states knows and i have confidence in him. brian: how do you evaluate his first 60-plus day? >> busy. let me tell you. we're working hard. and getting a lot of things teed up for the american people. the american people voted for change. steve: yeah. >> they he wanted washington to change. they wanted the white house to change. and they have certainly gotten that i have confidence in this president's ability to bring great energy and vision and leadership for the changes that need to be made in this country. that's what he is doing.

listen, when that happens, you are going to have some good days and you are going to have some tough days. i have had those in seven and a half years as governor. i know it personally. the fact is he has the resolve and belief in our country and its greatness to make sure he is going to do the job that need to be done to make america great again. that's what he talked about in the campaign. that's what he is working on every day in that building behind my. steve: governor, one of those bad days was last week when it looked like the republicans who for the last seven years have been saying let's repeal and replace obamacare. they had the chance to do something and they didn't do anything. people are scratching their heads saying what's up with the republicans? >> listen, steve, i have to tell you, i think people with shorter attention spans get less and less patience every day. the most important thing about this is that we do it right. listen, last week was not a good week. you can't sugar coat it and i don't think anybody tried to. but the fact is that it took barack obama 15 months to get obamacare passed. no one should have expected that we were going to get it

repealed and replaced in 60 days. so i think everybody needs to take a deep breath and understand that this is a tough issue. it's an issue the american people care about. and i'm convinced that republicans, both in congress and in the white house are going to get it right and get it done. there's nine weeks down in this administration. 19 weeks t1199 to go. take a breath and relax. stuff will get done. brian: tough to deal with democrats on anything. steve: good advice. >> sure, absolutely. steve: governor, thank you for joining us live today from nation's capitol. >> cin constituent doocy thank u very much. ainsley: there is other folks. >> you vote somewhere else. brian: queens on monday. >> getting ready. brian: straight ahead, a veteran is making a big business out of making the american flag in a way you have never seen. alicia acuna has his

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only his craftsmanship but heart felt belief that the flag does not represent one person more than the other. it belongs to us all. >> for anyone ever bothered by the use of the american flag as a political symbol, take heart. a man who served this country for 14 years is toiling away in utah, shining up those stars and stripes without partisanship, only pride. >> every time i make them, i learn something new. >> air force veteran josh vanderbrink launched his business after poked flag. >> super cheesy one the plastic ones. he made one out of steel. >> i knew i had swung and hit something. >> orders started coming. in the next week, josh had what he describes as a seizure. >> i just couldn't remember how i made them. >> when he came to, the man who served in 21 deployments had to spend the next three months relearning thousand make old glory. customers had prepaid.

>> despite the medical stuff, i felt that i had an onus to them to get it done. >> his passion runs through each piece. and he refuses certain orders like flag tables. >> you don't eat on the flag. you don't stack anything on the flag. >> josh also makes state flags. collect this one out. what's really cool especially with the colorado flag all the color, he doesn't use ink answered doesn't use paint. it is a manipulation of rust, a combination of chemicals, vinegar and a little ingenuity. the flags are costly to create because they are so time-consuming. his team makes custom iron work and furniture for businesses like retired marine tactical gear and training company deliver i do knack micks. >> that attention to detail that you get from the military that makes you make sure you are doing stuff right carries through. >> vanderbrink feels our flag should be a symbol of a united america. >> i think it would be cool to come to a point where we can say hey, this represents all

of us. let's have mature and emotionally respectful conversation. >> each one comes with a george washington quote on the back about honesty. >> i hope that it being on the back of the flag maybe it inspires somebody to be better. >> part scientists. part artist. all-american. steve: that is cool. >> thank you. those flag flags are heavy. the most popular is 70 pounds. really seeing it in person -- it's hard to capture the beauty. with a lot of money and a lot of care. brian: he has this seizure out of nowhere has a seizure and blank out and didn't know how to make it anymore. >> he didn't know how to make it. people had placed orders and he felt he had to fulfill those orders. ainsley: so many deployments and now doing this for our country. amazing man. >> fantastic. steve: people watching want information how to buy one. >> iron mountain designs. josh vanderbrink in utah.

ainsley: or go to our site friends@foxnews.com. put a link on there. cost between 1500 and $3,000. >> depending on the size. smaller ones are less expensive. it takes him a long time. ainsley: absolutely beautiful. steve: thanks for traveling all this way. >> had a great time. steve: she also brought her own family. road trip. >> had to. road trip. brian: extremely well behaved. >> so far. ainsley: stop and look at this. 3-year-old boy showing support for police with a big adorable hug in the middle of a fast food restaurant. carley shimkus is here with the heart-warming moment and more other top trending stories. ♪ just the two of us ♪ just the two of us ♪ just the two of us ♪ building castles in the sky ♪ just the two of us ♪ you and i ♪ when i call usaa it was that voice asking me, "is your daughter ok?"

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♪ ♪ >> i said it from the day that i got here until whatever that there is no connection. you've got russia. if the president put russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a russian connection. steve: ah-ha. brian: sean spicer's salad spoof going viral this morning. what does social media have to say about it. ainsley: here is carley shimkus 24/7 reporter. >> a bottle of russian dressing. you never know what's going to come out of these white house press briefings. yesterday it was russian salad dressing. some are accusing sean spicer of making light of a potentially serious situation. others are using this as an opportunity to make jokes. steve: of course. >> of some of them. ivan on twitter says russian

dressing joke from sean spicer lettuce pray for him. everyone knows russian dressing goes on reuben sandwiches not salad. what kind of coverup is expires try obligor to pull. brian: exactly. >> i'm a ranch girl myself but i do like it on a sandwich. brian: debeat russian and thousand island dressing. steve: got to love thousand island. heart' warming video a mom posted of her child. >> so cute. mom's 3-year-old boy walks into mcdonald's and sees a police officer and wants to show his appreciation by giving him a hug. let's take a look at this. >> he wanted to give you a hug. >> you wanted to give me a hug? okay. [laughter] >> that little boy his mom says is very shy. is he not one to go up to strangers but he wanted to say thank you for your service. steve: how great is that?

brian: i understand he was morninmourning the loss of anotr officer he was upset. ainsley: the police officer gave him like a little sticker as a thank you in return. we do have really great comment on this sweet story. kevin says wow, this world needs more of this. i believe this young man is going to go just fine in life. to his parents, job well done. to all of our men and women in blue, prayers for a safe shift. james says makes me want to go out and shake hands with every officer i encounter and thank them for their service. brian: carley, how appropriate? yesterday the fraternal of police were at the white house and they actually got the respect they deserved. they are going to get the backing there speaking of the white house, we do know for sure the president had an opportunity to throw out the first pitch at the nationals game. he has declined. >> he has declined. social media is buzzing about this. some people are saying he is doing this because he might not want to see the boos. others are saying hey, listen, he is ogoing to be working. this is a work day. this is actually a really good thing.

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steve: have you seen the movie? brian: i've seen some of the movie, but i lost interest. steve: it's only about 90 minutes. ainsley: do you remember when he was on the curvy couch a few years ago, and he was on the show talking about his album, and it's a big x on the front of it, which is the roman numeral x and brian said tell me about your new album called x. brian: i think he called me a moron. >> yeah, he called you a moron. brian: thank you, joe. t. steve: but no hard feelings. we invited him back. brian: no, i have hard feelings. ainsley: we're going to ask him about it again. speaking of invitations, the president invited senators from both sides of the aisle for dinner last night and their spouse.

>> it's semi bipartisan. a lot of people showed up that people weren't expecting, which is a good thing. which is a very, very good thing. [applause] and i know we're all going to make a deal on health care. that's such an easy one. so i have no doubt that will happen very quickly, i think it will, actually. because we've all been promising, democrat, republican, we've all been promising to the american people. so i think we're going to have good relationships. right, chuck? i see chuck. hello, chuck. and i think that will happen. steve: of course that's chuck schumer who had been his phone of friend. they have not spoken since he's been president of the united states, although the president since the failure of repealing and replace the affordable care act last week, he has suggested he would need democrat help and, in fact, that's why he was talking about that.

yesterday chris coons who was senator, democrat from delaware, he wound up meeting general mcmaster and jarod kushner at this event last night, spent about ten minutes with each and said this is the sort of thing to help move us past pretty sharply-divided town in washington, dc. that's what the president feels he needs going forward. brian: well, i get it and senator coons, we love having him on because he's a reasonable guy who doesn't read off the talking point or the antirepublican talking points. what are you doing if you're democrat? and you're making so much money in fundraising for anticipate trump. do you pull back and do what's right for the country or say i can't even support judge gorsuch because i'm afraid of losing my seat. ainsley: you should always do what's right for the country. mr. smith goes to washington is what it's like. you also have to consider what your constituents want because there are so many blue states that voted for trump.

steve: and when you look at the list of people who want fixed for the country, i think affordable care act was less than 10% of the people. my governor was with about half an hour ago, and regardless of not doing anything, chris christie had this observation about what happened. >> the most important thing about this is that we do it right. now, listen, last week was not a good week. there's no way to sugar coat it, and i don't think anybody tried to. but the fact is it took barack obama 15 months to get obamacare passed. no one should have expected that we were going to get it repealed and replaced in 60 days. so i think everybody needs to take a deep breath and understand that this is a tough issue. this is an issue that the american people care about, and i'm convinced that republicans both in congress and in the white house are going to get it right and get it done. brian: they believe only thing is the back drain, and you know the arguments.

had plans to repeal and replace, you wouldn't think they would need 15 months. obviously they do. a democrat, says republicans and president trump honestly want to work with democrats in health care. you'll find a partner in democrats if you want to do it honestly. the problem is democrats don't want to hear repeal. they want it fixed. they don't want it repealed. so obviously, but if they could just work on the language a little bit and understand it needs to be revamped in a way that's affordable. because a lot of people i understand they were writing checks on a overdraft in order to keep up with the plan that's not functioning correctly. please tell me the calculus for this. steve: there are structural problems with this they have to figure out going forward. meanwhile the president of the united states did keep a campaign promise yesterday. he said he was going to try to save 13,000 coal jobs coast to coast, and he did. ainsley: he went to the epa and signed an executive order

to roll back president obama's epa plan. and folks were so excited. we interviewed a coal miner earlier, he said it was such an emotional time. he sat at the desk and they were all behind him as he signed that legislation. listen to what he had to say. >> the miners told me about the attacks on their jobs and their livelihoods. they told me about the efforts to shut down their mines. their communities and their very way of life. i made them this promise. we will put our miners back to work. [applause] my administration is putting an end to the war on coal. i am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on american energy to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations. [applause] >> it's a terrific day for ohio coal miners. it's exactly why ohio coal

country overwhelming supported the president and why he won the election. he made no secret he was going to support the industry. i can't lie, it's been tough. but the renewed since of optimism we saw on november november 9th was unbelievable. it was fantastic to see coal miners and have them high-fiving and say, yeah. let's get to work. it's been great. it's optimism we needed in this industry, and we have a president of the united states that stands with us, and we thank president trump for that. steve: here's what president trump signed yesterday to reveal the clean power act. and that would -- what it was doing was forcing states to retire coal plants early, apparently it was going to cost about a trillion dollars in output and 25,000 jocks. so now what they're going to do going forward is that epa is going to revisit it. of course, it's going to be tied up in the courts, and they expect this to be tied up in the courts for years but nonetheless for the 13,000 people who kept their jobs yesterday, it was a good day. brian: and the question is do

you take carbon dioxide off the blacklist or the unblacklist because that hamstrung the fossil fuel industry and a lot of people are calling on the epa director to do just that and go all the way out there. ainsley: it's wonderful news if you're in the coal mining industry. we remember the picture with hillary clinton in front of coal miners and their family members and the people that were going to lose their jobs. steve: all right. those are some of the things that people are talking about on this wednesday. now with the headlines, abby huntsman. abby: happy wednesday to all of you. we want to get to extreme weather out there. three storm chasers are dead after their cars collided while tracking a powerful system in the south. it all happened east of texas. investigators say one driver ran a stop sign now that's left of those cars, mangled metal. and a fox news alert, it's

official. brexit is underway. >> the british people, the united kingdom is leaving the european union. this is a historic moment from which there can be no turning back. we are going to make our own decisions and our own laws. abby: this happening just moments ago, british prime minister teresa may kick starting in parliament, britain has two years to complete the removal process from the european union. also chief mayors across the nation will meet with john kelly to discuss sanctuary cities and this as some start a initiative to cut funding. the mayor of new york city demanding that nypd keep ice agents off of school grounds unless they have a warrant. and the governor of vermont signing a new law limiting police involvement with the feds. and does this ever happen to you when you go out to eat? >> hey, thanks. are you my therapist? take a walk.

you want a happy meal? can we get a happy meal? will somebody get the kid a happy meal? >> we can all relate. well, fine dining restaurant wants to make sure that doesn't happen on their watch. banning children five and under after the owner says there's been too many young kids crying, screaming, and misbehaving. they're now getting mixed reaction, as you can imagine online. this has louvre talking this morning. one tweets i think it's great but the problem isn't the kids. it's the oblivious parents that continue to eat while kids scream and run around. it should be a family experience, not allowing kids ruins that. and another writes this. i'm a mother of four, and i like this. sometimes i need my peace. the early bird special, so we're constantly around kids. steve: we all have kids, so we get it. you want to take your kids out to eat but sometimes they act up and then you're bothering people at the other table.

brian: you want to know the answer? you have to get the children to unionize and agree as people and not disturb adults. act their age. ainsley: if you're the owner of the restaurant, you get to make the rules. if that's what they want to do, fine. you don't like it, don't go there. brian: kids stay home. steve: it could be better for business but then again, it could impact it. ainsley: most kids aren't going to take their kids to a fancy restaurant anyway. but apparently they do. they have a problem with it. brian: if you're a kid under 10, use snapchat. ainsley: it's under 5. brian: under 5. okay. straight ahead democrats vowing to block supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. but there could be at least one democratic vote. could joe mansion sign with republicans on this issue? he'll join us next. steve: and she's officially out of the woods and back in the spotlight. wait until you hear what hillary clinton just said about president trump. i never miss an early morning market.

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they can to block the appointment of judge neil gorsuch. it's surprising getting him a spot on the supreme court. they already delayed it a week, except our next guest who is breaking party leadership and says deserves at least an up and down vote. joe mansion joins us right now from washington. first thing's first. after next week's delay, there's going to be a vote on gorsuch who i thought was pretty impressive on the hearing and the one-on-ones. what will you do? >> well, let me tell you what needs to be done. we need to come together as a body and save the country, save the bodies, which is a 60-vote rule, that's been a minority democrats and republicans what goes around comes around. we need to protect the integrity of the senate and that's the most important thing that i am working on. brian: right? >> neil gorsuch -- you know, neil gorsuch no matter whether you like the man or not, this is a good, decent human being. we should not eviscerate this person as a human being. if you agree or disagree with some of his findings, that's

one thing. but this is a good, moral standing family person who likes his country. so i'm going to look at it from that standpoint and make a decision after that. but i am most concerned about the 60-vote rule and that's a protection for democrats and republicans in the future. brian: right so if he doesn't get to 60, mitch mcconnell's going to use the nuclear option and pass it with 52. and with briar or anybody else retires, then that's the threshold. >> well, neil, when i say with neil gorsuch, justice gorsuch by all counts, this person is basically like merrick garland. should have got up-or-down vote. this gentleman deserves an up-or-down vote. that's the way i look at it. but i'm there to protect the 60-vote rule. they're going to have to come together. if the republicans would take off i'm going to do the nuclear option because harry reid did it.

harry reid was wrong. absolutely dead wrong. and i said that, and i'm the only one still standing that voted against what he did. but two wrongs don't make a right and my colleagues would take that off the table, maybe it would move us together. brian: okay. >> we just have to work on it. brian: we had a big get together at the white house, and you thought it was groundbreaking because democrats and republicans were talking to each other. but something else happened during the day. what happened for the coal miners tangible, what tangibly changed yet? >> let's talk about this first. this is the first president in my time that i can remember that has come out and really acknowledged and thanked the hard-working men and women in the coal mines and coal mining community that have done what they done and contributed to this country. president trump said thank you for what you've done. i haven't forgotten you, i'm going to help you all i can to help you get back to work. he took away the unnecessary rulings. we did not throw the environmental concerns out the window. we did not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

epa, army core of engineers, they're back in control. what they have always done. the thing about the obama administration, which i was upset about, they added another layer, through it back the office of surface mining, put another 2- 300 regulations on that were redundant and wore people out and basically people lost their jobs. we have a chance to stabilize the market, that's what president trump has done, and i have to add one more thing. brian: go ahead. tell me. >> mr. president, if you're watching. help us make the phone calls to my colleagues, my republican friends and colleagues and say let's pass the miners protection act, which guarantees their pension and their retirement, and their health care benefits, which they worked for and was produced from the coal they mine. those are the miners of the past, and their widows depend on it. >> a lot of times they sacrifice their health and families for this country, i have to be f senator joe mansion, thank you. >> always good to be with you. brian: meanwhile coming up straight ahead, two doctors survive a bullet and the only

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we have an obligation to save that life too, to give them a second chance. steve: 's first step in fulfilling a campaign promise addressing the drug crisis. and a massive shakeup to the dnc, newly elected chairman perez is asking all staffers to give them the letters of resignation immediately. he wants to rebuild the party after a rocky 2016 election season where hillary clinton lost. all right. ainsley. ainsley: thank you, steve. it is a true story about two medical missionaries who get caught in the ebola outbreak in west africa, remember that? and they end up with the deadly virus themselves. listen. >> the world's most dangerous virus. >> the disease is out of control in west africa. >> my phone rang and ken isaac said one of our daughters has ebola. >> david looked at me, and he said you too have ebola. >> there was a high likelihood

our team members were going to die. ainsley: wow the reverend franklin graham is executive producer doing movies now of facing darkness, and he joins us now to tell us more about the film and the message of faith. good morning to you, reverend. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, ainsley. ainsley: i remember this. we all remember this. the ebola, it was so scary. we were worried about people coming back to america that might have contracted it, and then we learned that a man who has given up so much of his free time to go and volunteer for your organization and help other people in liberia, that he gets this disease and so does the missionary, the female nurse. >> they both get it and, ainsley, there was nothing i could do to save their life. this is a story of god. god interfering and god moving people like a chess pawn to save their life. so we wanted to document what god did and give him the credit for it. but god brought a lot of people together, and this is the story of many people coming together and god moving them to save the lives of these two. and they're still with us today.

and this movie comes out thursday. then there's going to be a redo on the 10th of april. but if someone wants to see this, they can go to facing darkness movie.com, and they can put in their zip code, and it will show you where the theaters are in your area. 600 theaters across the country that are showing this. but it's a great story, and it's true, and these aren't actors. these are the real people. ainsley: you were following them through their diagnosis; right? >> well, we have people in -- we were always sending our cameras out when we have projects like this to record it. so we had this recorded, and we just had a mountain of this video, and we thought what are we going to do with it? and i felt and so did others, we need to show what god did. ainsley: do you see in the movie how they were diagnosed, did they -- they didn't have a prayer at that point; right? >> no. and i had -- i was working on a project up in alaska. and when i got the call, and i went back home from north carolina. and, you know, when you get ebola, you have about ten days if you're healthy. if you're not healthy, you may

have about four days to live. they were healthy, of course. but the time -- the clock was ticking. airlines wouldn't bring you back. we even had an insurance policy where a plane would go anywhere in the world to pick you up if you're sick. well, when we told them that they're going to liberia, and they had an ebola patient, they said no way. ainsley: no way. there's a chance the pilot would get it. when you get the phone call and someone is working for your organization, what went through your mind? >> it was probably the worst day of my life. and i told dr. brandtly when i got to be with him for about a month later, he said you're responsible for the worst week of my life. >> and he said my week wasn't much better. ainsley: i'm sure. let's talk about what god did in this situation. how did they survive? >> there was a drug called z map that had been sent -- this is just one dose that had been sent to dr. khan and the

lawyers said don't give it to him. he died. so they brought this experimental drug over, and it helped. they gave him one of these bags just out of a dose of three. just one. and he went into convolutions and after 30 minutes, he was dying, he went into convolutions and got up out of bed and went to the bathroom. he hadn't been out of bed for three days. ainsley: now he's living in fort worth, texas. he has a family, he's living in fort worth, texas. this is a story of the nurse who survived. >> wonderful lady. ainsley: i can't wait to see it. for more information, you can go to facingdarknessmovie.com. thank you so much. god bless you. >> god bless you. ainsley: thank you. next on the run down. does this little girl look like a threat to you? she was suspended from school and wait until you hear why. plus, she's officially out of

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kangaroo to a birthday party in that neighborhood. ainsley: who's walking whom here? brian: finally, if you're walking a kangaroo, do you hop like the kangaroo? steve: that guy didn't. brian: he didn't. he just tried to run, but he was bouncing a little. steve: kangaroo's name? darwin. ainsley: as in darwinism? steve: i don't know. maybe. probably. if it's against the law to own a kangaroo in the city of detroit. ainsley: it's the exotic animal law. steve: that's why marlin perkins relocated to omaha. brian: right. and that's why he does mostly jungle work. by the way, great insurance, great company, mutual omaha. let me just say this. if you are out there right now, and you have video of your kangaroo, we would like to share it because we obviously love kangaroo video because we've had it four times. ainsley: if you're in australia, send us your pictures. brian: zookeeper starring kevin james, he was brilliant

in that. ainsley: what's the next spot in line? brian: that's all that zoos talk about. ainsley: you want to talk about some jobs? jobs coming to america? in michigan, they're opening up three new ford plants, and it's going to bring a lot of jobs to that area. they're spending $1.2 billion. steve: that's right. they announced it yesterday and the good news is it sounds like they're going to use the money to help retrofit, for instance, the romeo michigan engine plant. it will also be used to help manufacture the bronco and the ranger. brian: and, by the way, one of the key states for president trump to become president trump, michigan, and it seems like there's a revitalization going on in that city where thought they had to get over the car industry, they don't, it doesn't seem yet. you know what's paying the price? other spots elsewhere. we hear ford is pulling a plant from uk. they say they rather build it in this country. steve: if they're going to be used in the united states,

that was donald trump's whole point. meanwhile forbes has started a new american dream index. adi. this is the premier version of it. and what it does is it shows that since he has taken the presidency, things in the united states have actually turned around. ainsley: yeah, look at this map. it's showing you the green states. it looks like things are turning upward in your state. if you're in one of the red states. steve: yeah. brian: yeah, but that's exactly like the election. so, to me, when you can get everything green when they start feeling that way. it just seems, to me, that shows a divided america in a way. ainsley: look at this one, brian. so since he's been elected or since he's been inaugurated, you can see the trends since december going up on the far right-hand side of your screen. it means people feel like the american dream, people are positive and optimistic about achieving their dream. brian: i like this this graph more than the other one. steve: you can see the point where he was inaugurated there

at the end of january, keep in mind it bottomed out at the end of december. the united states stock market took off for what? 11 weeks or something like that after donald trump was elected, and it showed a new kind of optimism. is it connected? don't know for sure but nonetheless, forbes is trying to figure out state by state this metric of the american dream, and it's all about how the people in the middle class are feeling life in the united states. brian: i want to see two graphs. i want to see the unemployment rates for america, the typical one we have, which is very low, and i want to see the other one, which is people who can work that can't find a job that drop off the workload, and i think we should work on both of those metrics. then i think you're going to get more optimism and less polarization. steve: you know what? how about those two graphs and a guy walking a kangaroo. brian: that is a show. ainsley: that's a positive show right there. brian: wouldn't be able to -- they would light a candle to that. they would actually give up and run yesterday's -- ainsley: oh, my lord.

let's hand it over to abby, brian needs to take a break. abby: i don't even know where to go from here. good morning, guys. we can start with this. the lawyer defending the 18-year-old illegal immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old classmate. said the victim consented to it, and they had text messages. >> going to plead 100% innocent. evidence is going to show that this was a none forceable and consensual encounter. >> but investigators say they have a strong case against henry sanchez. he and another student are accused of forcing the victim into a high school bathroom in maryland. and hillary clinton is making her way out of the woods and urging people to resist. >> i am thrilled to be out of the woods. there is no place i would rather be than here with you, other than the white house. i mean, it's not like i didn't know all the nasty things they were saying about me.

some of them were actually quite cre resist, insist, persist, enlist. abby: a speech to business women in san francisco, also slammed the health care bail calling its failure a victory for all americans. and this little girl suspended for holding a stick that looks like a gun. a mother calling it outrageous saying the girl found the stick on the playground and was using her imagination. >> i was playing with my two friends chloe. chloe was the queen and was the princess. >> we know why it's bad because we watch the news. but then i have to tell my kid you're not allowed to play like that at school because people do bad things to kids your age.

>> the school said caitlyn was a threat to other students because she made a shooting motion. a violation of the school's policy. her mother is now demanding an apology. steve: well, the problem is the schools have those zero tolerance policies. brian: how does that work? i know but you can't have zero tolerance with kids. kids are born in a gray area, and they stay there. steve: she's just playing. she's five. does she understand? brian: yeah, and there's certain risks she can't go into. that was an earlier story. it's not easy being a kid. ainsley: next year she can, though. brian: yeah, next year she'll be 6. steve: the mainstream media seems obsessed with house intel community chair devon nunez trip to the white house. brian: you think so? steve: but where were the mainstream media when the man accused of being behind antitrump violence visited the white house when barack obama was president more than 300 times? we're going to talk about that next. brian: and things go a little off the rails when country

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steve: well, the mainstream ahead seems obsessed of house intel chair nunez trip to the white house last week. >> we have reported here devon nunez took to the white house before he shared it with his committee. >> revelations that he had a secret meeting on white house ground. >> democrats and at least one

republican are demanding devon nunez recuse himself because he has appeared to be coordinating with the white house. >> your critics say you're too close to the trump administration to lead this investigation. >> yeah. i don't know that they've actually said that. steve: but where was the outrage when the obama white house had controversial guests? some of them invited hundreds of times. let's talk to the white house correspondent with the daily call, joins us from our nation's capitol. good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: you know, conveniently what they leave out of that network news coverage is that the fact apparently devon nunez went to the white house last week to talk to a whistle-blower because he couldn't look at whatever secret information they had compiled, the intelligence committee where he worked or else, you know, everybody would have known that he was a whistle-blower. >> exactly. and devon nunez has said that he went to the white house to see these documents because he could not see them on capitol hill. steve: right? >> so he had to go to the white house. so we don't know what he saw.

we don't know what he looked at he has. steve: and of course this fascinating of the mainstream media of all things russian. but what's interesting is there's a complete double standard. for instance, let's put up a graphic. we've got a graphic of the russian ambassador to the united states. there he is. he visited the white house when barack obama was president at least 22 times, and i don't remember the outrage, caitlyn. >> exactly. this is the guy who jarod kushner is coming under fire for having met with. jeff sessions, mike flynn lost his job because he met with this guy and then misled the vice president about it. but it's worse pointing out that this guy was clearly welcome at the white house when barack obama was in office. now, it's worth noting that these logs are not perfect records because if someone's on the logs, it doesn't necessarily mean they showed up to the white house. but they do show that this russian ambassador was at the white house at least 22 times. and that's just when he was there when it was a meeting between him and other people.

there were at least a dozen or so more times when he was there at an event. but he was on the logs at least five times. so it is worth pointing out that there's push back with jeff sessions meeting with this guy when he was a senator but none when this guy was showing up to the white house a lot of times. steve: absolutely. mean what do i have we have the irs commissioner accused of targeting conservative groups. he went to the white house 161 times. of course no coordination, according to the white house. and bob cramer accused of insight violence on the trump rallies on the visitor log 342 times. and let's be honest. the reason why there's no outrage is because it looks like to a fair observer that they are working with the democrat party to just simply discredit donald trump's presidency. >> yeah. doug is a guy who led an agency that literally targeted conservative groups and bob cramer sent people to

donald trump rallies in the fall and during the campaign who faked and said they were sexually assaulted. so these are people that we should also be looking at. you know, let's not just point out that sergey kislack was at the white house a lot. there are also other questionable figures who were at the barack obama white house multiple times, and i think it's worth pointing out. steve: and we have done just that. all right. mission accomplished. caitlyn, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. steve: 12 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up country superstar trace atkins and president trump go way back. >> the winner of all-star celebrity apprentice is the very great trace atkins. steve: so what is the very great trace atkins think about how the president is doing so far? we're going to talk to him live next. but first, let's talk with bill hammer, who was never on the show because he was just born a professional.

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. steve: remember when president trump then a tv show host made this celebrity hire? >> the winner of all-star celebrity apprentice is the very great trace atkins.

brian: now that the american people have hired mr. trump, what does trace atkins think of donald trump? ainsley: joining us now is trace atkins. hi, trace. brian: so, trace, was that the easiest moment of your life? >> no. ainsley: what was? >> kids being born. okay. we have to go there first, of course. and then i don't know. when they made me a member of the grand ol grand grand ol' opry, that was cool. steve: and it has to be cool the president of the united states picking you. >> well, he wasn't the president when he did that. steve: but he is now. steve: tell us something that you don't know about donald trump that you saw in those many weeks filming celebrity apprentice. >> well, it seems like people seem to be surprised when they ask me what he's like, and i say he's exactly what he's like when he's on camera, you

know? if you've developed -- if you've made an opinion of him based on what you've seen on television when he's in front of a microphone, when he's on camera, you can feel pretty sure that that's how you really feel because that's what he's like. he doesn't turn an off and off for the camera. that's what he's like. ainsley: and people ask you what brian kilmeade is like, we know what you say about him. listen. steve: oops. >> oh, god. >> kilmeade was absent when they had roman numeral day. [laughter] brian: oh, excuse me. >> you're such an idiot. brian: did he just call me an idiot? >> i didn't mean that. i apologize for that. brian: no, you should not pathologist. it was very funny. i did not know the name of your album was tenth album, so you put the x on there, and i said your new album x, and you said you idiot. >> bless your heart.

he has never watched the super bowl knowing which one it was. brian: super bowl l. steve: so speaking of albums, you have a new one coming out friday. ainsley: should we let brian tell everyone what the name of the album is? >> i think he can get the name of this one. brian: something going on. why? >> there's a song in it called something's going on. and you look at all the songs in the album and say that's not going to work. but there's always something going on. i've always got something happening. either i'm touring or doing a movie or voice over or charity stuff. there's something always going on, so it seemed like it was right. steve: speaking of movies, you make a great cameo in deep water horizon. i saw it two weeks ago. you are so intense. >> that's because peter burg made me mad. steve: the director. >> yeah, i had done a couple of scenes with wahlberg and then peter came out and started poking me in the chest

with his finger and cussing me in front of all those people in the lobby of the hotel and embarrassed me and screamed action, and i grabbed wahlberg and slammed him against the wall, you know? but he was mad at me because i wasn't being rough enough with mark, and i didn't really want to be. steve: because you played the father of the missing person from the oil rig. >> right. and it was an actual -- and i got to talk to mike williams who wahlberg was portraying in the movie, and i asked him. did this scene actually happen? and he said, yeah, as a matter of fact, it happened right here in the lobby of this hotel. brian: you worked on a oil rig? >> yeah. i was really honored that they is asked me to be in that movie just for a little bit. and at first when they called, and said i want you to do a scene in this movie. i said i don't have time. and they said, well, you get to sling wahlberg around the lobby of a hotel. i said okay. brian: we have a little bit more with trace in two minutes. steve: he has a new album. when it's between the baby soothing power

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>> we just had the craziest conversation with trace adkins. log on to foxfriendfriends.com after. >> bill: good morning, everybody. where's the russia story headed there's more as democrats call for him to recuse himself from the russian investigation. this as the white house pushes back against allegations it tried to prevent former acting a.g. sally yates from appearing before the house committee. i'm bill hemmer split show live in new york. welcome to "america's newsroom" and good morning to you. >> shannon: i'm shannon bream in for martha maccallum. the house investigation into russia now on hold as chairman devin nunes is facing calls to step aside from his committee or resign altogether. meantime, the