eastern time, 9:00 sharp. "varney and company." we're on five days a week. monday and politics, that's what we cover. start tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. see you then. "the five" is next. >> hello. i'm eric with kimberly. juan williams, dana and it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." >> moments ago, president trump wrapped up a news conference with the nato secretary general addressing the crises in syria and stepping up pressure on russia to abandon support for bashar al-assad. hours before his secretary of state rex tillerson met face-to-face with vladimir putin in moscow. more on that in just a moment. the u.n. security council also tried to condemn syria's attack

on its own people but the vote failed because one member on the council veto's the resolution. remember, it takes only one permanent member to veto the vote. who vetoed the effort? it was russia. president trump stood by his decision to strike syria after assad gassed his own people. >> when you get to the gasses, especially that form, it's vicious and violent. everybody in this room saw it too many times over the last three or four days. young children dying, babies dying, fathers holding children in their arms that were dead, dead children. can't be a worse sight. it shouldn't be allowed. that's a butcher. that's a butcher. so i felt we had to do something about it. i have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing. >> president trump addressed the escalading tensions with moscow.

>> right now we're not getting along with russia at all. we may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with russia. this is built for a long period of time. we'll see what happens. i'll also see about putin over a period of time. it would be a fantastic thing if we got along with putin and russia. that could happen. it may not happen. may be just the opposite. i would love to get along with everybody. right now the world is a mess. i think by the time we finish, i think it's going to be a better place to live. >> a lot of foreign policy coming out of the nato address or press conference there he called assad a butcher and said that we're an all-time low in relations with russia. >> again, he's being very transparent and plain speaking. american people prefer to hear the truth and be a part of what's going on. this is something that's been

the subject of much dialogue and theorizing over a long time. and now he's calling it like he sees it. he says that assad is a butcher. he's right. this guy is an animal. he's right. he's seeing very clearly that it's a complicated relationship with russia that we have. it's not even that easy to try to get along with people even if you have some common interests because there's so many different things going on in the world with ukraine, a complicated mess there. in the middle east, in syria.ss. how does the united states fit into that puzzle piece in terms of trying to create positive partnerships with people that in many instances are playing for the wrong team and playing with our adverse enemies. >> what signal or symbolism is it that russia, one of the five security council members vetoed the sanction for assad? what message are they sending.

>> that they will never change. this is normal relations with russia. this is why the strikes, the strikes in syria, was a good thing. it really was first rung material. it's the minimum wage of responses. we hit only one facility. so there's all this room to move up. so we can now -- like this actually -- we may have to do it again. the next step may be two facilities or more of assad's military. there's enough room that we can keep responding without it turning into something ugly and testing putin instead of putin testing the reverse. i agree with kimberly. the best thing that you can see out of both trump and rex, or as i call them t-rex, the bluntness of the language is refreshing. it's sits nice that you kind of hear this stuff. it doesn't sound academic.

we went through eight years of academic language. we walked away going what just happened? here you know what is happening because they're telling you. >> there was another little innuendo in that u.n. vote. so russia said no. but china, interestingly, abstained from the vote meaning they didn't vote no. they have a whole situation going on between them and north korea right now. so maybe they condone some sort of action by the u.s. is that a fair -- >> that -- the meeting that president trump had last week with the president of china was probably more productive than -- there were concrete things that they could say, but apparently -- by the president's read-out when he told the president of china that look, i want to let you know over this chocolate cake that we just did this and china said -- >> they hacked the chocolate cake. >> and apparently the chinese president said, i understand why

you did it. that doesn't mean he's condoning it. he understands. and an abstention is good progress from that standpoint. i think the power of journalism cannot be underestimated. what president trump was talking about there were all of the pictures that moved him so much. the only way that you actually know what's going on on the ground is if you have journalists brave enough to get the information. it's not fake news. it's real. we owe them a debt of gratitude for being willing to be there and get that story as heart breaking as it is, we need to see the pictures. >> you want to great the president and the administration on a foreign policy day? >> the newsy thing that came out when the president said water not going to syria. he made it clear. so to me, this was an important step. i think he has to maintain political support here at home. republicans have supported him in terms of the air strikes, but the question is, what about

going forward. the polls say most people don't. when it comes to the crying children, the question of the rationale for this military action is, what about the fact that you have continued attacks in syria with conventional weapons? in fact, flying off of the same airstrip that we bombed. the question is what are you going to do now and what about hot spots in the world and what about the children when they're fleeing are treated with some degree of contempt in terms of our refugee policy. >> incomplete? >> he's abstaining like chain. >> i don't abstain. i want a policy. i'd like to know what the trump doctrine is in regard to syria. he said to president obama, don't do it. don't do it. now he's president. he's done it. there's lots of people including democrats from pelosi to hillary clinton that say it was the right thing to do. but people want to know where we go from here. what is the meeting. that's why it's important news

that he said today, we, the united states, are not going to syria. >> earlier we mentioned rex tillerson met with russian president vladimir putin as tensions rise between the two countries. they met with two hours along with tillerson's counter part, sergey lavrov. one thing was made clear. relations with russia are at an all-time low. >> i've expressed the view the current state of u.s. russia relations is at a low point. there's a low level of trust between our two countries. the world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship. the course of the past two years, a number of reciprocal actions have been taken to represent the dis satisfaction each country has with the other.

we need to make progress on the greatest issues to the importance of both of us. >> after a two-hour meeting he comes out and seas we're at an all-time lose in relations. >> you have the compare briefing rooms. how grim is that room compared to ours? reminds you of a cross between a dmv and a military panel that is ju judging parades. there's no water there for anybody. it's bad. >> or vodka. >> i like -- this is not tillerson's first plate of caviar. this is not a date arranged by match.com. his face is stoneyer. he's out russianing the russians. i'm a 52-year-old man and i'm convinced that tillerson could send me to my room without dinner. that voice. i don't think like -- what was the guy's name?

lavrov. he didn't even -- i don't think he took it seriously. tillerson went straight ahead. i think he had the right tone, the right seriousness in that grim room. >> chris wallace described lavrov of being firm and stern and maybe out -- >> he very aggressive. that's just a tactic for lavrov. what i liked about what tillerson did, he said there's a low level of trust and not on camera, but he said the reason he needed to go, we needed to at least find the areas of disagreement. to me that's how a ceo of a major company would approach a problem, which is to say, let's figure out what are the issues we actually have on the table and figure out what they are. at least if we can agree with the russians, these are areas of disagreement and he -- this is a baseline to go from. in his confirmation hearing, he was praised as somebody to

bringing people together and negotiate and -- not a deal maker but an example is the boy scouts and the big controversy he had. he was the chairman of the board. he was able to keep that together. people involved in that said they have never seen anybody so good at figuring out the problem and figuring out a way to bring it to resolution in a calm way like greg said. >> can you give president trump credit for picking the right secretary of state? >> no, i can't. >> i think the whole relationship he has with the press has been difficult. he does not communicate well. nobody knows what's going on or the people at the state department feel like they're being held at arm's length. that's difficult. that means he's not doing a good job running the department. >> can i ask you, what -- i would rather him have a stronger relationship with our adversary

than with the press. isn't one more important than the other? >> i think it's all part of the deal. if you're secretary of state, you're public figure. part of it is selling american foreign policy her at home and overseas. >> i think if you're asking about today, stand up to lavrov and stand up to putin. president trump says they're the ones backing the monster in syria and they're making a mistake. i'm imagine he's conveying the president's message. i agree with that message. i'm for it. i just want to know what they're doing. seems like to me -- >> they're telling you. >> he's unfamiliar with that r tar -- territory. >> but i think they're telling us. there's a transparency. they're open. tillerson is not going to give me flowery rhetoric to sing me to sleep. no problem. i'd rather have steely determination and focus and an understanding of the issues.

get it done. he went in there and he took it straight to but pin. he said this is the man that will be prosecuted for war crimes, the reign of the as sad family is coming to an end. he brought up the ukraine as well. i have zero problem with that. that is a man that knows the opponent across the table, knows what they're capable of and is willing to meets it head on. he didn't pull back at all. that's why the relationship right now with russia and the united states is referenced by the president is at an all-time low because we got in their face. it's enough already. >> the best part it is, can you imagine tillerson bringing james taylor along? >> right. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> can you imagine putin and rex tillerson staring each other dies? an icy room. and sergey lavrov prior to that press conference said that the u.s. action in syria is called illegal. >> putin would need to stand on a box. >> so would i.

>> and they want to blame extremists hiding behind this phony story that it's somebody else and poor assad was being framed. >> we have to go. much more to come on "the five." hear the president tear apart susan rice and her shady explanation for unmasking. that's next.

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>> a big new development on the trump team surveillance controversy. one of the president's former campaign advisors was monitored by the fbi. they obtained a fisa warrant to monitor carter page to see if he was acting as a russian spy. here's more with the requests of national security advisor, susan rice. >> when you look at susan rice and so many people are saying you are right that when you said that. perhaps i didn't know how right

i was. >> were you referring to susan rice? >> it was "wiretapped" in quotes. she said she didn't do it -- >> nobody believe that. even the people that try to protect her in the news media. it's such a big story and i'm sure it will continue forward. what they did is horrible. >> the susan rice aspect is something we have covered for ten days. as soon as congress gets back, i'm sure they will call her in to testify. in addition, we found out in a story that broke in "the washington post," there was a fisa warrant for carter page. and both said have looked at the documents that senator nunes said and said there was nothing illegal done. where are we? >> in hopscotch, try to jump to the second.

it's an important story. all of us should want to make sure that our privacy interests are protected and there's surveillance by government agencies and further revelation of american citizens, that is supposed to be foreign actors. as a lawyer, it's difficult to prove intent. what was susan rice's intention in unmasking those names? they hadn't found good cause or justification or probable cause to unmask, that they had information in their possession that would warrant the unmasking of those american citizens. she came to a difference conclusion, so one of the reasons could be she did it for political reasons. do you think she's doing to admit that to anybody? no. but nevertheless, there has to be an investigation to prevent these types of abuses going forward by either side, whether

your a partisan divide or who you play to. >> and the breaking news overnight that the fisa warrant was for carter page and the white house said we hardly knew him and he never met was president trump. but he was announced as an official advisor and one of the things he was to advise on is russia and europe. the government had been watching him since 2013. what do you make of that? >> the case that the fisa warrant was renewed. i saw catherine herridge taking on fox. she said it might be based on weak evidence. if it was renewed, the judges are so dumb. but it's unbelievable. something is going on here. what struck me with the susan rice part, there's lots people going back to benghazi, they made her into her whipping board. but the fact is that i'm reading today, mike hayden, a republican, former cia director,

saying it's not only not a smoking gun, everything she did was routine. that's what you should be doing if you're national security adviser in terms of asking people above you in the intelligence agencies who is this because you want to know about the level of threat to the u.s. interests. that's what she was doing. >> can the white house distance themselves from carter page and use the surveillance of carter page as proof that there was surveillance and it was inappropriate? >> i'm not sure it was inappropriate. it may or may not be. here's the way it looks. we've been following this quite a bit. u.s. citizens tied to some foreign entity with questionable dealings so you go to the fisa warrant and you do what you're supposed to do. it will legal. unmasking by susan rice, not illegal but certainly political. there's no other reason to do it. >> it was after the election.

>> still no other reason to do it other than for political reasons. >> it was her job -- >> there was no security, there was no threats. the cia, the fbi and the intel community can do that and they chose not to do it. she did it for political reasons. one more, leaking of general flynn's name, there's the illegal act. they still need to find out where it goes. one more, are there others to follow? i've said this for a couple weeks now. i'm waiting to hear. there's going to be other names that we know about. the only reason why is because of the illegal unmasking of the names. >> and the associated press reported that paul manafort, the campaign chairman that left late july, that he will retroactively register as a foreign agent, which is something that if you're going to do work from a foreign government, you can do

that retroactively. may have to pay a fine. >> is that story in the b block? >> i just follow the news. sorry. >> oh, my gosh. >> say whatever you want. >> i want to respond to -- this is the second time he's mentioned susan rice as a whipping boy. she blamed a terror attack on a video. she has no credibility. how ironic her name is rice but she offers no grain of truth. for a reporter interviewing donald trump, like maria, it's like shopping at whole foods. you go in expecting to get some pasta and make some pickles. you love with three bags of groceries because he's constantly delivering. we get blocks and blocks of information every time he's interviewed. he's the pest gift for a reporter. >> is it like empty calories? >> really? >> you seem to feast -- >> we have a lot to chew on.

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secretary, general, the numbers are down 68%. it's like a record. people are not trying to get through anymore because they can't. >> that is the president echoing his message that he had from the campaign, eric, about building the wall. he's essentially doubled down. he's taken ten bids. he would like to take more. he seems pretty specific in terms of his resolve to get this done. >> doing the math on that. by the way, that wall -- there will be a wall and it will likely be beautiful and guess who will pay for it? mexico. they'll figure out a way. i'm trying to figure out the timing. taking bids now. april 12th? i don't know. put a shovel in the ground by fourth of july. nice and sunny. >> eric bowling, ladies and gentlemen. greg, you talked about that trump is the wall. >> he is the wall. first, there was one plan to

cover the wall with solar panels. i don't know if you saw that. we'll keep people out that want to work with a products that doesn't. joke, america. we need a strong border. >> solar panels are a problem. >> to your point though, trump is the wall. in fact, the media is now calling jeff sessions' plan horrifying. it bolsters that theory that it's just the plan that scares people off. perception is the perspiration. when a burglar has a choice between two homes, one with a pitbull, one without, which will they choose? we have a pitbull in the white house. people will say maybe we'll wait. >> we should send pitbulls to the wall. >> quite a performer i'm told. >> this is true. >> what do you make of the

president's messaging here? >> he's really strong on this one. he's consistent. in one day, you had him walk back, take different positions. he said himself that nato was obsolete and today in his press conference, he said i used to say that. i no longer believe that. he said i will not call china a currency manipulator and changed his mind on janet yellen. and he will support the export import bank. so those were things that were important to his base. so now he's taking to people, met with the chinese president, having a change of mind. on this one he has not changed hit mind at all. it's interesting to look at public surveys about the wall. they like through policy, even just commentary stopped a lot of the illegal immigration from coming across. >> as a deterrent.

>> there doesn't seem to be a ton of support for it. he has to ask members of congress to pony up money for it. that will be an interesting bargaining chimp -- chip for him. >> i would watch a bargaining chimp. sounds like a game show. >> i would watch that. >> and there's been a lot of flip-flop, changing his mind. what do you make of that, dana? is it okay to do that? does he have to stay consistent or do you evaluate things as they come? i have and idea about china. >> to me, when i look at the numbers, he's maintaining support of republican voters. they're smart people. they say that he's changing course on many things. he didn't get obamacare replaced and repealed in a few days. that's what he said he's going to do. the pressure now, kimberly, is less about the wall and much more about tax reform. that is the boiling pot in washington at the moment. when it comes to the wall, his own homeland security says we

won't build a wall. we may put up fencing, may do more in terms of surveillance in other places. we're not building a wall. trump says we're building a wall. we have bidders. take to mitch mcconnell, paul ryan. saying that's not on their agenda. that's not something that they'll be fighting about right now. they are trying to get the obamacare deal done to get tax renorm done. that's the cutting edge. as far as this stuff, it plays to the base. >> can you imagine how many times he said it's going to be a big, beautiful wall and asks the crowd who will pay for it? mexico. it will get built. >> and mexico will pay for it. >> yes. there's so many ways to make them pay for it. >> you can say i like donald trump but that wall is a fantasy. is it ridiculous? >> i still say building a wall will save america a lot of

money. a lot of money. >> juan, you keep talking like that, the wall will get -- >> taller. >> ten feet. >> my airplane will come down. >> okay. ahead, as you know, college kids these days, they need a lot of safe spaces. some students at notre dame feel unsafe because of our vice president and he's coming to speak to them soon. greg gives them a free speech message next. at angie's list, we believe there are certain things you can count on, like what goes down doesn't always come back up. [ toilet flushes ]

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>> president mike pence is set to speak at notre dame's commencement ceremony. some students are not pleased. in fact, they feel unsafe. not sure why. he has no criminal record. seems nice.

but he did grow up catholic. which he has certain views on gay marriage and abortion. i can see why students would be fearful. students that go to the university of notre dame, a catholic school, which leads me to ask, if you feel so unsafe about pence, why are you at that school? >> totally. >> pence's beliefs are not that objectionable. students are mimicking karl rove, sharing fearful messages about pence on white boards. it's disgusting. first, they wrote it in english. writing such messages in english is an act of message. why must the boards be white? do they have a problem with black boards? what message are they sending? white boards are superior to

black boards? these punks should be expelled. after all, the school's mascot is called the fighting irish, not the weepy snowflakes and it's a leprechaun like me. >> i was waiting for that. >> you wanted to insult me but i got there first. i knew you were going to do it. >> the size? >> the complaining about commencement speakers, we see it all the time. it's funny. pence reflects the values of the college. he reflects the values of the college. you're a hypocrite saying you don't want him there while going to the damn school. >> right. i know. maybe because they like the movie "rudy" and they said i want to go to notre dame and didn't realize that -- >> great film. >> it is a great film. >> a catholic university. >> another little guy. >> capable of big things. i see the theme. this is sad. a university is supposed to be where you open your mind to a

broader education. you should be excited the vice president of the united states will be there. if you want to protest about it, write an essay, go on the internet -- >> that takes work. >> it's works. you have to listen and show up and attend and be something meaningful and broaden your mind. i'm disappointed. i love notre dame. >> eric, not feeling safe is not the thing you say when you disagree with someone. >> so you mentioned the catholic university aspect. i went to their website. here's their mission statement. the university encourages a way of living with a christian community and liturgy. notre dame sur sues their objectives through the formation of an authentic community graced by the spirit of christ. >> amen. >> you can apply that to pence. >> right. >> if their mission statement is to teach kids, that should be

your opening speaker, your commencement speaker -- >> your valedictorian. >> he should have tenure there. i love the university. i don't know what's going on there. >> they have a great book store there. they invited president obama here if that's his real name. he's pro choice. he was pro choice. so you know, the university was -- what is pro life, invited a pro choice speaker. there were protesters, but that is consistent with the values of the school, correct? >> correct. we're talking about education. notre dame was founded as a catholic. a lot of schools founded in religious tradition. notre dame, you know, i think it's a great school, but let me tell you, what is going on here, they didn't want trump to speak. the students acted in such a way as to prevent an invitation, which is pro forma that notre dame invites the new president to come speak. >> wow.

>> so they get pence in place. then you get people -- this is all over the country in terms of the college campuses. you get the college democrats, the gays, protesting. they don't like the trump administration policies. that's what's going on here. when they do things like they say to people, we don't want to hear you because we disagree with you, i find that appalling on a liberal arts campus. >> you know dash that, notre dame is sexy. it's why they should have to be sexist and sexy. >> i was like a leprechaun? >> why does it have to be dame? was. >> that in the d block? >> yes. >> it's a reference. >> it's so incredibly whimsy to say you feel unsafe. use your words. >> yes. use your words. and also, i feel like these colleges should cancel commencement. why have it? save a lot of money.

if you want to do a service project as a class, a graduating class, fine. if it caused so much anxiety for you to have the vice president to give your speech, don't go. >> i blame the movie. these little -- holding up signs, that started with love actually, i love you, with the little signs. i hate that. >> tell that to "the today show." >> i've seen you in my neighborhood. >> he's outside my window with a spine. >> sean spicer still apologizing for his hitler blunder. he said he let the president down. the latest on the spicer storm.

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>> it's been a rough 24 hours for sean spicer. the president's spokesman trying to calm a storm created when he falsely claimed that hitler didn't sink as low as assad forgetting about the holocaust. now many are calling for his

resignation. >> i screwed up. you know, i hope people understand that we all make mistakes. i hope i showed that i understand that i did that and that i saw people's forgiveness because i screwed up. it really is painful to myself to know that i did something like that. i tried to make a comparison. there's no comparing atrocities. it's disappointing. i've let the president down. >> dana? >> i felt for him. when you're at the podium, a couple things going on here. the policy is behind where the press is. he's being asked to explain things that are not set in stone. the president is figuring out what we're going to do. it was assad that used the chemical weapons that put this thing into motion. so he's add the podium answering questions that are unanswerable right now. trying to make comparisons on the fly are difficult if you

don't have it exactly right or read it from something written. one of the things that i always got accused of including here on this show, i'm very careful and deliberate in my word choice. it's partly because i was always afraid of causing something like this. sean immediately apologized. nancy pelosi calling for his resignation was a step too far and assured that he will never get fired. i thought the three network new casts last night that all led with this as the biggest thing that is happening. meanwhile, you had rex tillerson on his way to russia, a north korean activity. i think it was -- it's water under the bridge now because of the way sean handled it with grace and dignity afterwards. >> do you see any problem here? one for the president and two for the jewish community. you have several communities saying he should be gone.

>> the unfortunate timing is passover which exacerbated everything. he may have the toughest job in the administration. a hostile press firing questions at him. >> that's true. >> but he can't be excused for this. answer the question, sean. don't elaborate. that press conference started out familiar. he was having fun, got joking. good too wordy. don't speculate. just go to it. that ship needs to be tightened up. he can tighten it up. not fired. >> kimberly, people say remember of the holocaust day, didn't include the jewish community. people are worried about attacks. what is going on? >> it's like 9-11. never forget. always have to be cognizant of of the pain and the suffering and the horrific loss of life. he seems to be very sincere in terms of his apology.

i'm sure he didn't sleep at all last night. so he's tried to get in front of it, talking to everybody, answering the questions, saying it was unfortunate and he feels bad that he let down the president. i'm sure he does. let's see how he handles it going forward. >> greg, how would you get out of this? how would you heal this wound? >> i'm not interested in that. i'm more interested in the fact that everybody knew that he made a mistake. he knew he made a mistake. it didn't stop the sharks from circling. people love the low-hanging fruit of outrage. it's great. when people point out your mistake, they make a mistake. like the hill reporter that went after him and referred to sean spiter as hitler by accident. then they another guy from think progress going after me for saying he mid a mistake. he, mistakes, like a facebook post by spicer.

everybody makes these mess stakes. shut up. stop talking in my ear, producer. it's like it doesn't help when you talk in my ear telling me we have to go makes me talk more. people love to express manufactured outrage given any opportunity because it feels good. it's much better instead just to talk to real people. >> do you have anything else to say? >> no. >> okay. one more thing is coming. >> my name is brian. i'm proud. as a micro-biologist i ensure that dog chow leads with high quality ingredients. i'm claudine and i quit smoking with chantix. smoking's a monkey on my back. it was, it was always controlling your time, your actions, your money. it had me. it had me. i would not be a non-smoker today if it wasn't for chantix. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood,

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