that. >> we'll see you tomorrow. happening now starts right now. >> jenna: we start a fox news alert. the senate intelligence committee holding their first hearing. we'll also hear from house speaker ryan when he gives his weekly briefing. it should be a battle for the microphone. >> ed: i met henry and for jon scott. meanwhile, president trump is moving on to tax reform and says both the democrats and republicans and the freedom caucus better get on board or else. both factions could have a big fight on their hands. >> jenna: we have fox news live coverage.

we begin with the restaurant investigation. peter? >> this morning, they met behind closed doors and we talk to the top democrat, adam schiff, on his way out of the room during a break to go and vote. congressman schiff told us that he still has not seen the evidence that makes the committee's chairman, devin nunes, so sure that president trump or members of the transition team were inappropriately spied on. >> did he see something that rose to the level of the action he took? >> i can't speak for what he sa saw. he hasn't shared it with the committee, so it's really hard for me to comment. >> ranking member schiff also told us he plans to meet with chairman nunes today. that would be the first time

since he went public. schiff says the goal of today's meeting is to make sure the house is investigating and that that can continue. that comment comes amid questions about why chairman nunez went to white house grounds. the intel committee is having its first public hearing of a process that may not even be done by the 2018 midterm that they hope will result in a bipartisan report. >> if we politicize this process, our efforts were most likely fail. the public deserves to hear the truth about possible russian involvement in our elections, how they came to be involved, how we may have failed to prevent that involvement, what actions were taken in response, if any, and what we plan to do to ensure the integrity of future free elections. >> amid all of the talk of russian intentions in the run-up to the november election, nobody

in an official capacity has come forward with any evidence or drawn any conclusion officially about anybody from the trump team having any kind of bad intention or involvement with that. >> jenna: both sides waiting for facts. thank you. >> ed: meanwhile, the president today lashing out to members of his own party saying that the freedom caucus is as much an enemy of the agenda as democrats. john roberts joins us from the north lawn. >> you cover this place long enough to know that a developer like this is rather a stunning one. there's no question that president trump and many republicans are frustrated, even angry with the house freedom congress saying they "bought the health care appeal and replacement" when it comes to obamacare. the president this morning all but declaring war. he tweeted, "the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. we must fight them, & dems, in 2018!"

it only took about a half a heartbeat for member to tweet back "it didn't take long for the swamp to drain donald trump. "jim jordan who is one of the founders of the freedom caucus was more diplomatic this morning saying the white house should in panic. listen to what he said a short time ago. >> this is our best chance, but not this build. it was just a postponement. people are acting like the sky is falling and the world is going to end. this guy came up today, it will again tomorrow. let's take time to get this three thing right. >> a lot of issues on the table that the president made a big part of his campaign, things

like the trade deficit that exist between the united states in china. china's current demon relation, the north korea -- on the campaign trail, you'll remember that president clinton won against china if they didn't play fairly. that he used some pretty charged language against china. listen here. >> we can't continue to allow china to rape our country, and that's what they're doing. >> the language is expected to be far more diplomatic. the chinese government did not want to have this meeting, i get to know you kind of thing. they wanted to take it to florida where they can look at the atlantic ocean.

>> ed: quite beautiful there. it white house briefing and a of hours. we've just gotten congressman a mosh on camera, we're trying to get video from him. meanwhile, the term presidency off to a bumpy start with bickering over his nominees, challenges to his travel ban, and the failure of the health care bill. to his credit, the president is overseeing economy who is still revving up. "president trump acting more in keeping with his free-floating reflexes to take care of people as expressed in interviews will push the health bill to the left. so far, and has not followed the logic of his own policy in dealing with congress."

i wonder what you think about first of all, this news breaking out this morning, the president taking this a shot at the freedom caucus days after both sides are trying to put behind them. now you have individual members of saying that president bully. >> it's no secret that the president is really frustrated with the freedom caucus, and some in his white house are angry with what happened last week, that's obvious. what's not clear here, congress doesn't like to be bullied. it's not clear that that tactic is going to work, particularly when you look at the tweet this morning. he's alienating the freedom caucus and he's alienating democrats when he's try to get the coalition to get some of his legislative priorities through. the white house is looking to engage democrats to back some of what he would like to do.

the freedom caucus has frustration towards not just the president, but president obama and republican leadership for some time. no one has really taken them on and pushed back. >> ed: the focus or interest that would translate his populism into a real legislative agenda. how does the president cover a lot of the white houses ebbs and flows of being in trouble or on top of the world, how does he translate this into getting his agenda back on track? >> it's a really difficult thing to do and particularly in this partisan environment in washington, where you have democrats and republicans dug in and in their corners and they have been for some time. there is also a lot of bitterness particularly among democrats or republicans

obstructive president obama's agenda and their view for 8 years. now they're looking to have them come on board and help them with something. there's a lot of history here, there's a lot of difficulty in terms of a president -- if you step back and look at his agenda, there are elements of it that have very strong republican support, such as wanting to build a wall on the border, erase obamacare. at the same time, he has other parts of agenda where he meets democrats for things like infrastructure, tax reform, trade policy cuts in weird ways in terms of is not clear what the coalition will be. it's a really tricky thing and what you're dealing with in the white house is something that doesn't have a lot of folks inside they don't have experience in governing so they're figuring it out and there are a lot of hiccups along the way. >> ed: was unknown the presidents style.

they went to some swing states and asked how the president is doing. some of the words used on the positive side are winter, huge, and change. obviously, he will like that idea of change as president. on the negative side, impulsive, arrogant, rush, and unsettling. how does he calm the public to make them think beyond these lawmakers, but get the public on his side that he's not rushed and unsettled? >> you've seen some effort to do that, particularly we talk about the president's use of twitter, but that's something that comes up when you have people who don't like him and you see some efforts to do that. the other thing, the white house now has a space to try to sort this out and deal with this

negative thing you just mentioned. there is a real crisis and that's what should matter. >> ed: there will be a real crisis of the government shuts down. >> you have a republican leadership or if the government were to shut down with republicans in the house and senate and white house all in control, it would be really bad for them. it will be very hard to blame democrats for it. >> ed: exactly. thank you, good to see you this morning. we do president trump once a sweeping on the tax code. history may not be on his side. right now, house minority leader, nancy pelosi, delivering a briefing. speaker ryan is expected to address many topics to the next

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>> obviously were driving the train on this, but we are going to work with congress on this, but i think the president as you've heard through multiple times, the president has been very clear, this is a huge priority for him. something he feels very passionate about. >> ed: that's second sean spicer, saying president trump will take the lead on tax reform, but he doesn't seem to have history on his side. joining us now, charlie hurt, richard fowler, both fox news contributors. i want to start with you, we're just talking to john roberts a moment ago about this back and forth of the freedom caucus. i understand the president, his feelings are hurt, he's upset about the health care style because of the freedom caucus, but doesn't he need these folks

to help him on tax reform? >> absolutely. i think it's an unwise strategy for the president to go after the freedom caucus. the freedom caucus, they opposed the trauma care, ryan carrabelle for valid reasons. i think they will pay the price at home in a future election for having opposed it. i think a far smarter strategy is for the president to go after democrats because the democrats were also sitting on the sidelines, refusing to go along with any of this, refusing to lift a finger to fix the disaster that obamacare has become. without any kind of fix whatsoever, the blame is going to revert to democrats who gave us obamacare in the first place. >> ed: i want to get to you on that very point. the republicans said they were going to repeal and replace it,

let's see how they do that. you have to admit there needs to be fixes to obamacare. even bernie sanders knows that. nancy pelosi is having a news conference live right now and the first 5 minutes, she just railed against the republican leaders on the hill, railing against president trump, is reporting just going to sit on the sidelines and throw stones or are you going to get in the fight here and actually cut taxes to help the american people? >> if donald trump want to talk to democrats, he needs to call on leader pelosi and figure out what they can do together. what you can't do is blame democrats for the problem. if you're never correctly, for the last years of the obama and administration, republicans had on their hands. trump has a house, the senate, and the white house. if he wants to get something done, he needs work with republicans to get it done. what we've seen from his tweet this morning isn't violating one

of ronald reagan's fundamental rules, republicans never attack republicans. paul ryan is a wounded deer, donald trump is going to have some problems getting tax reform through. >> ed: i hear you that republicans have the senate, the white house. repelling and set on their hands for the last six years of the obama administration, democrats are sitting on their hands now. >> that's not what i'm saying, if donald trump reached out and said i'm willing to work with you. there's things we agree on, i think we agree on and for structural reform. he won't have a problem getting democrats on board with infrastructure. any infrastructure bill, along with any tax bill, both of those will explode the deficit to epic proportions and donald trump

doesn't know how he's going to pay for it. >> ed: you mentioned this piece by rich lowry a moment ago. another point he made is that ultimately, whether it's a democrat or republican president, it's ideas that matter. if you failed to bring those ideas to the table and articulate them effectively to the american people, you simple he can't govern. >> that's right and of course, that's why donald trump won, he won the battle of ideas in the last election. he be republicans and democrats. this notion that democrats can't be blamed for obamacare, that boggles my mind. if nothing happens to fix obamacare, to salvage obamacare, and we go into the next election, you can't blame anyone but democrats for the disaster. >> ed: last point, richard. we talked about the epic failure for republicans to actually repeal and replace it, but on

the other hand, you can't say republicans are blamed for spiking 160% in arizona. >> here's the thing, there's problems with the affordable care act, we can all agree on that. but republicans now have a chance to fix it. for 7 years, they campaigned repeal, repeal, repeal, then it turned into repeal and replace, now i think were at some place and repair. either way, republicans are in control, they hate this law so much, they had a chance repeal it, they failed. now i think it's about time for the wounded deer speaker of the house, paul ryan, reach across the aisle to democrats and say how to repair this? >> your solution of the problem with obamacare is we need more obamacare. that's insane. we've tried it. >> ed: will wind up with a deer in headlights. have a good day guys. >> jenna: wounded deer. is there an emoji for that? we are awaiting speaker ryan by the way.

the senate intelligence committee holding its first meeting addressing the alleged meddling in the election. they are also seeking answers from the nsa, some of whom had connections to russian officials. any report saying that the obama administration made this all possible. as mentioned, i'm not going to repeat it. there is a podium in washington. nancy pelosi, the house minority leader is making her own remarks on capitol hill. he will step to the mic shortly and we will bring you there when he does.

>> jenna: a fox news alert as we continue to monitor the hearing addressing russian

meddling. we are also awaiting a new investigation. the nsa is expected to turn over some vital information as early this week. they want to know exactly who viewed foreign intelligence unmasking the identities of some americans. according to a new report, the number of officials with the ability to be those documents grew under the obama administration. last night, sean hannity discussed that. >> the story that we broke today, if you're a republican or democrat, independent, you should be really concerned how easy it is today that large numbers -- members of the government at a really low threshold, could you unmask his name because we are trying to understand this intelligence. it used to be that was a really rare moment. when you look at the rules that obama changed in 2011 through 2017, it's very easy now for the intelligence committee to get some americans names. >> jenna: joining me now, former fbi agent specializing in

intelligence. she's been in the system, so she knows it better than anybody. great to have you back on the program. i'm curious what you think about what the reporter just had to say that in recent years, it becomes easier to share some of the surveillance. >> he said a lot of different things. one concern unmasking the identity of somebody who is caught up in surveillance on a foreign target. that's processed by which the communication has to meet a certain standard in order to reveal the identity of the person that's in there. fairly a few number of people can make that determination. the second thing is who can then see that communication once it's been unmasked? that's a dissemination issue in terms of how broadly it circulated within the intelligence community.

>> jenna: he left the fbi in 2005. the assertion is that something happened in recent years to allow that unmasking of that information to be spread more easily, just as the reporter said. if that is the case, what do you think are some of the risks involved with that and who do you think would actually have the ability to look at the paper and say ed henry, he's talking to russia. >> let's take this back, just a little bit. in 2008, congress expanded fisa. that basically allowed the nsa to start collecting information on foreign targets that are reasonably located outside of the united states. in the course of doing that and in the course of targeting foreign officials that might be in the united states through the pfizer process, people can get caught up in those

communications and americans and u.s. persons can get caught up and these are called incidental communications. what that means is these people are not targets of the actual surveillance, but they are in communication with targets that the government is surveilling. >> jenna: is it fair for example, president trump gets elected, we know he's having these conversations with foreign leaders. is it fair to assume, without revealing classified information, that the foreign leaders that are calling president trump to congratulate him are being surveilled and because of that, the person on the other end, obviously president trump would be picked up and this communication? >> yes. this is really at the heart of our national security. we have to know what other countries are up to. we have to make our decisions,

we have to know what they're thinking, are they going to be meeting with other leaders, et cetera. we need this information. yes, it can be expected that they are going to be under surveillance and if you are in contact with them that you're going to get caught up. that doesn't make you a target and to the extent possible, because the government knows it's going to pick up all kinds of people. there are a lot of procedures in place to basically reduce the names of these people getting into the intelligence community. >> jenna: we are going to hear in reporting, political espionage. names aren't necessarily unmasked, but it's obvious who the person is on the other end. i'm just wondering what you think about the risk for political espionage. the aclu in response to hearing that some american names may be shared more easily.

this was back in january. it raises concerns that agencies have responsibilities such as communicating crimes, forcing immigration laws, will now have access to a wealth of personal information that could be misused. what do you think the real risk is of that? >> i think the risk is pretty low and there's a lot of internal oversight within the executive branch, regarding privacy and civil rights, civil liberties oversight board, as well as techs put in place by congress. these are three branches they're looking at that process pretty carefully. could there be some buddy who abuses at? yes, but you can't trace it back to someone who abuses their authority pretty easily since this is all tightly controlled information and those people can get sanctioned for abusing that. >> jenna: following the premise, if everyone is

surveilled, it means people who are doing the surveilling are being surveilled. one would hope, i don't know. great to have you back on the program. >> i think that it's important to note that the only people who are entering the intelligence community report are people with the information and has foreign intelligence value. if you are not doing anything that foreign intelligence value, even from a person that's talking to you, that's going to eventually be discarded from the intelligence system. you wouldn't be in there. >> jenna: great to have you, thank you very much. >> ed: a congregation in morning today after a deadly crash takes the lives of 13 seniors on a church retreat. the latest on the investigation and the morning next. plus another attempt to put pressure on some century cities. but ice is doing now and whether it will be effective. that's coming up

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unelected bureaucrats running our laws. they dictate the rules we have to live under an rest of the government goes along with it. now we are turning power from washington back to states and communities to the elected branch of government. we are giving people more control and more of a say in the decisions that are made in their classrooms, other businesses, on their lands. this is good progress and were going to make more in years to come. [inaudible question] >> i understand the president's frustration, i share the frustration. about 90% of our conferences for this bill to repeal and replace obamacare. about 10% are not. we are close. what i encourage our members to do is to keep talking to each other until we get the consensus to pass this bill.

it's very understandable that the president is frustrated that we haven't gotten to where we need to go because this is something that we also we would do. he's especially his frustration, you all know he does that in various forms, including twitte twitter. i understand his frustration. >> reporter: they are moving forward with their russia investigation, exposing the real immediate danger that russia poses to americans democracy. the house committee seems to be drawn down in politics more than the president's tweets. >> i want the house committee to have a full and bipartisan investigation. get everything out there, follow the facts wherever they go, and get to the truth. that's going to take some time and i'm confident that they're going to do that. i think you're right that it's got a little political. let's take a pause and let's get all of the evidence, all the documents in front of what happened. what i'm worried about with russia is it you got elections coming online in europe. this year.

the russians clearly are trying to meddle in other countries elections. we have to help our allies prevent that from happening and uncover it. we have to find out what they try to do here, we have to make sure to get to the bottom of that and wherever the facts go. then we also in my opinion need to do more to help our allies guard against this invasion from russia. >> reporter: a number of her popping as i spoke to this week say that you need the $880 billion from medicaid savings to the health care bill in order to lower the revenue to achieve significant -- >> it's the revenue. you know how this works. you're a budget guy. >> reporter: there is a direct correlation. >> that's not correct. somebody's misunderstanding how baselines work around here. medicaid savings have nothing to do with tax reform.

it's the revenue baseline. it's the obamacare taxes that affect tax reform. here's the way the math works. if we repeal the obamacare taxe taxes, then that is a revenue baseline that we don't have to put into tax reform. if we don't repeal the obamacare taxes, it is my position that we have to leave those taxes over there with obamacare and reform the rest of the irs tax bill. it does make tax reform harder. and as nothing to do with that. reporter mack asked when this idea of not wanting the president to work -- chris collins, a big trump ally saying the next time the freedom caucus calls, they should hang up the phone. they won't deal with health care again until 2019. you say we're close, washington will believe it. >> about 90% of our commerce is

there and 10% are not. that's why i say we're close because we are. here's the point i'm making here. the democrats aren't for repealing obamacare, we are. we were with democrats all the time. patty murray and i did a big-budget agreement. we have long histories of working with democrats, but i don't think it's a stretch of the mind to suggest that the democrats disagree with us on repealing obamacare. they're not going to help us repeal obamacare, that's my point. if we are going to do what we said we would do, which is repeal and replace obamacare and save the american health care system, something tells me the democrats are going to help us repeal obamacare. they're the ones i created it in the first place. >> reporter: will you send a bill on the house, will it fund of the wall? >> the bill hasn't been completed yet, they are still negotiating.

we've already done dod's. the question is is it one bill, two bills, i think that's one for the senate to decide how they're going to package the bill. it's about their calendar and how they work. our goal is to work on the rest of the bill and that's what we are negotiating. those negotiations aren't done, so would be premature to get into the content of those bills. >> reporter: then you'll have a spending wrap-up. >> reporter: how should house republicans approach the lawsuit on the affordable care act, given the law takes those reductions away? >> are you all right over there? i think the answer is yes on that last part. the lawsuit will take some time. this is a separation of powers

issue. i think it goes until may if we end up going to court. it could take us months. it's currently an unresolved issue. >> reporter: payments should be continued. >> while the lawsuit is being litigated, the new administration funds. that's how they've been doing it and i don't see any changes in that. >> reporter: you just said that the $7 billion at this would stabilize if this lawsuit is successful, why not drop the lawsuit? >> we do want to drop the lawsuit because we believe in separation of powers. we believe in congress and its lawmaking power. this lawsuit hasn't run its full course. while this lawsuit is running its course, the administer ration is exercising. our plan a here is to repeal and replace obamacare and have that transition occur where these markets are stabilized and that's what we hope to achieve.

>> reporter: this house bill seems be in limbo. will you commit that there will be another vote on this bill or similar bill? >> i won't commit to when and where it is going to look like. it's my job to make sure that house republicans can come together and dry consensus. what i'm encouraging numbers to do is figure out what solutions get us to a bill that everybody can vote for and passed. that's the kind of conversations that are occurring. this is too big of an issue to knock it right. i'm not going to put some kind of artificial deadline on saving the american health care system from an oncoming collapse. i think it's too important. let's forget about everything else and talk about the families that are hurting, there are families that are not getting the kind of health care they double digits, plans are pulling out of market places, nobody has a choice in about a third of

american counties. this is a problem. insurance conveys are telling us this is going to get worse. it's really important that we do something to fix this problem and that's going to take us to continue to work to get consensus. i'm not putting a timeline on it because i want to make sure we get this done right. thank you very much everybody. i appreciate it. >> jenna: paul ryan with his weekly address. a number of different things we should underscore. it wasn't that long ago that the president tweeted out something negative about the freedom caucus. speaker ryan commented on that saying that the president is just expressing his frustration and he understands it. also interesting to note that the fact that republicans didn't move obamacare repeal forward. it's about tax reform. we talked about medicaid, speaker ryan saying it's about the obamacare taxes that can be difficult to maneuver.

>> ed: the revenue for that to help pay for tax reform. interesting because you mentioned, the speaker tried to sidestep this controversy with the president taking a shot on twitter at the freedom caucus. one member of the freedom caucus, took the bait. >> is this a negotiating tactic by the president? >> it's constructive and fifth-grade. >> ed: it's constructive and fifth-grade and i don't give into bullies. more quickly, he needs the republicans on tax reform. >> jenna: we are all together, we need to be stronger than ever and thursday, maybe not.

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>> jenna: scientist making a discovery that could one day revolutionize how doctors repair damaged organs and edges, we are not just saying this, as actually mind-blowing. listen to this. they found a way to build a sort of patch using spinach. the veins of the spinach leaves are used like scaffolding and

heart cells grow around them. the idea is to use the veins of the leaves to provide oxygen and nutrients to the cells just like human veins. he is co-author of this study and he was beginning to tell me how he came up with this idea and it is crazy, and the best way. please tell our viewers where did this idea come from? >> we went to visit our colleagues and learned some of the neat things they were doing there with plants that we went to the university of wisconsin, madison where they have a really neat stem cell biology program. talked to our colleagues there. there we got back home and said how do we take advantage of all the plant biology has to offer to develop a patch for a heart? my graduate student and myself

have a lot of experience in taking cells out of the heart, believing the scaffold behind. we thought, wouldn't it be interesting if we could do that with plants? one day we were having lunch and there was some spinach there and we picked up a piece of spinach and we looked at it and said, i like this vane structure. let's give it a shot. my graduate student tried it and it worked. >> jenna: you're actually eating lunch and you're like, spinach, heart tissue. when you look back on that, that's amazing. what do you think? >> we like to try to develop a mindset in our students and get them to think outside the box. we like to practice what we preach. my graduate student and i started thinking, when we tissue engineer a scaffold, a patch, there is no exact existing vasr

system. when you look at spinach and hold it up to the light, you can see the veins and that spinach leaf. it kind of hit us, let's give it a shot. it worked. like you explained, we hope that this will one day be a treatment for heart attack victims or victims that need heart transplants. we can actually get cells to contract on that patch without scaffold that has a way to be perfused with blood. >> jenna: that's unbelievable. you didn't think about really delicate system that's needed to get blood from different parts of an organ. how delicate you need something to be to make sure it doesn't officially. you can easily pair spinach leaves. is that a risk? how do you mitigate that risk or is that how our bodies are?

>> we are delicate also. we don't have the capabilities to get down to the fine details that are heart muscle has in terms of the pipes in the veins, arteries in our veins. nature has already done that. the spinach leaf transports water just like our body transports blood. we're really glad we could take advantage of that. >> jenna: unbelievable, congratulations. i only have about 20 seconds here. what's your next step in all of this? >> what we want to stack a bunch of these leaves together and use the leaves to provide the blood flow and take them away and continued to develop these contracting patches and get them ready for the patients that need them. >> jenna: go get him. we can't wait to talk to you again and we appreciate your

time today. thank you very much. we'll be right back

>> ed: you part of it raining cats and dogs, but how about sharks? this picture of a bull shark found in a puddle sparking talk of a shark sharknado. the storm ripped off rooftops with windows high as six to miles per hour. also washing bulge ashore and leaving thousands without power. the storm later weekend as it moved out. >> jenna: ice releasing a report listing the cities and counties that don't honor his

detainee requests. william is live is los angeles with more. >> they say it's their right to decide which immigrants are deported and which can stay. a new report shows which cities of the worst violators. those that refuse to hold and detain an inmate to give ice time to pick them up. and one week, ice tried to pick up and deport. instead, ten sanctuary cities released 600 illegal immigrants. the worst, l.a., new york city, bakersfield, clark county, las vegas, and san diego. though the crimes include assault, domestic violence, burglary, robbery, dui, and drug possession, the mayor was defending letting them out.

>> we want ice to be focused on those violent criminals, not the grandmother who has overstayed her welcome or has too many parking tickets. >> because of that, some cities have a blanket policy not honoring ice detainers. that's what this is about. where do the cities draw the line? are you here illegally? did you get arrested? was it a felony or misdemeanor? right now, it's all over the place. the feds want a blanket policy around the country that everyone is judged on the same standard. >> jenna: thank you. >> ed: in the next hour of happening now, the investigation into russia's meddling in the 2016 election. russia's president, vladimir putin is commenting on the allegations. what does he have to say? here's why.

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here with us. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> sandra: what the house committee investigation stalled, the senate's g.o.p. chair says nothing is off-limits as a vow to steer clear of politics. this is outnumbered, i'm sandra smith coming here today, harris faulkner, meghan mccain meghan mccain, a couch first timer, republican strategist and former spokesperson for president george w. bush, mercedes schlapp, welcome. >> mercedes: i'm glad to be out of the swamp. >> sandra: of course today's #oneluckyguy, eric bolling. by the way, his new book goes on sale in june. welcome back. always good to have