>> summer is really not here until the first of june, we get a lot of fakes. >> you can still play around. not going to stop him. >> have a great day everybody, "happening now" starts now. ♪ >> jon: kicking off a crucial week in our nation's capital as congress returns from spring break. good morning to you, i am jon scott jon scott. >> jenna: i am jenna lee, lawmakers have just days to reach a deal on the federal budget and avoid the government shutdown that so many are talking about. the president says it is full steam ahead on tax reform and health care, also high on the agenda as president trump closes in on 100 days in office. our chief white house correspondent john roberts is alive with more. >> good morning to you. the president has dismissed the first 100 days as a ridiculous standard but still the white house is planning a flurry of activity between now and saturday which marks the 100th day. so far, what has eluted the

president has been any kind of legislative victory, certainly signed a tremendous number of executive orders, 25, higher than any president since lyndon johnson, and he is on track to set a post-world war ii cots to get a vote on obamacare repeal and replace if he can this week. in fact, we could have the language of a new amendment from the moderate tuesday group, more conservative house freedom caucus later today, then it's possible between wednesday and saturday that they will be a vote. he's also pushing for $1.5 billion in additional funding for congressional -- construction of a border wall as part of a spending bill that has to be passed this week. democrats are pushing hard against the idea, nancy pelosi said building a border wall is a sign of weakness even though she and other democrats supported the idea back in 2006. here's how jeff sessions pushed back against democrat complaints a little earlier today on "fox & friends." >> throughout the whole process, i've been saying that whenever you come up with anything that

actually fix the problems, that is what does not pass. they will pass anything as long as it doesn't work. they will talk about fixing the border again and again and again, but when the chips are down, they back off. let me tell you, we are this close. >> if they don't get an agreement on a spending bill by midnight friday, risk of the government shutting down, the government will run out of money at that part. the president indicated a border wall is his top priority, tweeting out this morning: "the wall is a very important tool in stopping drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth -- and many others -- !" but according to the president's budget director mick mulvaney, these negotiations may be expendable, listen to what he said with chris wallace on "fox news sunday." >> will he sign a government funding bill that does not include funding for the border wall? >> i think you saw his answer in your little lead and which is we don't know yet. we are asking for our priorities and importantly, we are offering

to give democrats some of their priorities as well. they've made it very clear they want these cost sharing reduction payments as part of obamacare. we don't like those very much, but we have offered to open the discussion to give the democrats something they want in order to get something we want. >> it may come down to the idea that the president gets a lot of what he wants, $30 billion in new spending for the military, a whole bunch of new border patrol agents and i.c.e. agents, if democrats give him all of that but not a foot of wall, he may have to take that deal. we will see as negotiations are still undergoing peer by the way, the president wants to bull something else out this week. this is not anything that will get done legislatively before the 100th day, but he will outline a lot of his principles for the tax reform plan, it will be introduced sometime in the next few weeks. >> jenna: another busy day in washington, d.c., thank you. >> jon: president shifting his tone on the importance of the first 100 days. during the campaign, he often promise he would get a lot done in that time frame.

now he says the 100 day benchmark is ridiculous. still, the administration is calling the president's first three months in office a succes success. >> here's the deal, the president signed over 28 bills already, healthcare may happen next week, it may not, we are hopeful it will. as far as the border -- he said the military, we have right now in the cr, negotiating one of the biggest increases in military spending in decades. so he is fulfilling his promises and doing it at break neck speed. >> jon: that is reince priebus, the president's chief of staff. with us now, bret baier, the anger of "special report." his detractors and maybe even more neutral observers say he is potentially going to finish out his first 100 days without any major legislative accomplishments. is that fair? >> we will see. this week is a huge week as you mentioned. a lot of moving parts. you are right, healthcare is

pending out there. there will likely be an effort on the healthcare bill again. whether it happens this week or next week, sometime soon, that is with the administration plan is. i just don't know where capitol hill is as far as the specifics. what is interesting is the interaction between the funding of the government and the healthcare bill and how much of this administration and leadership on capitol hill is using both of those in negotiating points for all sides of the republican party. in other words, if you do not get it here, maybe you're going to get something here. the going bet is that a continuing resolution will happen at the end of this week. in other words, punting it whether it is a week or two weeks to fund the government and then other things are ironed out including the border wall, and whether healthcare is this week or next week, the administration is looking for a big w, a big win legislatively. paul ryan, the house speaker at the beginning said this is really a 200 day plan.

so they previewed up front that 100 days was going to be a tough call. >> jon: the border while obviously a controversial issue, but it is when the president was quite vocal about and clear about when he campaigned. what democrats actually shut down the government over funding the border wall? >> there is the rub, there is the back and forth, there is the moment. democrats historically have had a good job of -- done a good job of labeling all government shutdowns or any standoff as a republican issue, even though it may factually be the democrats that sometimes force that issue. if they have obviously managed to label it as a republican thing. and nothing either side wants the government to shut down, bul likely go until the end, in the going but is you're going to see a continuing resolution that

punts it once again. >> jon: attorney general jeff sessions was on "fox & friends" this morning talking about who gets blamed if there is a shut down. listen to this. >> the way the system works is that whenever the government is shut down, people blame the republicans. let me tell you, it will be the democrats that shut this government down to block the funding of the wall. that is what the question is. are they going to shut the government down? we will have a bill moving forward with some money in there for the wall, and it will be up to congress to pass it. if the democrats filibuster that and block it, they are the ones shutting the whole government down just to keep the wall from being built, no doubt about it. >> jon: i guess the $100 million question is which side doesn't get the blame if it happens? >> i don't think it's going to happen, again, but the messaging is key. you see the attorney general laying out the messaging ahead of this battle. the other thing to point out this week is that while all of

this domestic policy is happening, there is a lot of foreign policy that is moving forward, and you have this administration aggressively courting some key democrats and key republicans on the issue of foreign policy. you have lindsey graham and john mccain at the white house having dinner, bob corker is going to meet with the president. you have the secretary of state going to chair the united nations security council on friday. are they lining up a north korea sanction resolution out of the u.n.? i think you are going to see both a touting of domestic policy on regulations lifting and foreign policy on big things changing the world. >> jon: the president complains this first 100 days thing is kind of a media construct and artificial, and he should not be held to the standard. but we in the media are sort of holding him to the standard, and i know you're going to be doing special coverage all week long as he approaches that 100 day mark.

>> that is right, we have a series of reports we've been working on for a number of weeks about the first 100 days. they are going to air at the 5:00 hour appeared this week, "special report" goes two hours, 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. eastern time so we have a lot more time to expand upon all the things happening and there are a lot of moving parts, so we need two hours. >> jon: i hope you get time and have further extra hour. >> eric bolling will start, so i will be back next week. >> jon: bret baier, great to have you on. >> jenna: fox news report, james mattis making it an mackinac -- unannounced visit to afghanistan today meeting to discuss strategy entry level in the face of an emerging telegra, this is the stage for the first commander for afghanistan back in 2001 pair national security correspondent jennifer griffin is back at the pentagon with more. >> the visit comes on the heels of the worst attack by the tele-

band since the war began. the afghan the afghan ministry of defense met with james mattis but has now resigned in the wake of the attack on an afghan military base in northern afghanistan this weekend that left more than 140 afghan soldiers died. there are suggestions the pakistan-based group may have coordinate if the attack, at a press conference this morning standing next to the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, james mattis was asked about reports the russians are now arming the taliban. >> we are going to have to confront russia with what they are doing being contrary to international law or denying the sovereignty of other countries for example, any weapons being funneled here from a foreign country would be a violation of international law. we continue to get reports of this assistance. >> general nicholson was asked about why he chose to drop the military's largest nonnuclear weapon in the province on the

border with pakistan recently, the mother of all bombs targeted the tunnels used by isis fighters who cross the borders into afghanistan from pakistan. >> i will say we were sending a very clear message to isis not only isis here in afghanistan but also isis mainland that if they come here to afghanistan, they will be destroyed in keeping with the secretary's intent, they will be annihilated. >> reports from that area suggest they are still heavy fighting between u.s. and afghan forces and taliban and isis fighters around the area where the emily b was dropped. secretary mattis is weighing a request from general nicholson for more troops, jenna? >> jenna: base to watch, thank you. >> jon: new developers on the investigation into russian men laying in the 2016 election with a key closed-door hearing set now. who is said to testify about the role that a mere prudent may have played in the presidential race? we are live with that story.

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about the unmasking or identification of term campaign associates in the intelligence. devin nunes was criticized for sharing that information with the white house before briefing committee democrats. temporarily has stepped aside until an ethics plan is resolved. he says that he will continue to investigate the unmasking. meantime, the ranking democrats shift, also complaining for releasing classified information. the trump dossier that was put together by a former productive -- british intelligence officer is under use green tea after a trump associate denied the allegation of the dossier that he was the point of contact for the campaign and brush. republicans have criticized the fbi's appearance on the dossier, but director, he has made the case that investigators are neutral. >> what makes it easy is that we are not on anybody's side ever.

we are not considering who's ox will be gored by this action or dissection. whose fortunes will be helped, we just do not care. we cannot care. we only ask what are the facts? what is the law? what is the right thing to do? speak at the next public hearing will include john brennan, former acting attorney general who was fired by president trump over the travel ban as well as former director of national intelligence james clapper, we expect that probably about mid month. >> jenna: interesting pet allowed to watch for. thank you. >> jon: remembering the victims of the holocaust. ♪ sirens blaring as one country comes to a standstill and a somber tribute to the millions killed by the nazis. the trump campaign taking aim at a new foreign policy trouble. iran finds itself in the crosshairs. >> and unchecked iran has the potential to trevor the same

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>> as far as iran is concerned, i think that they are doing a tremendous disservice to an agreement that was signed. it was a terrible agreement. it should not have been signed. it should not have been negotiated the way it was negotiated. i'm all form agreements, but that was a bad one. as bad as i've ever seen negotiated, they are allowed to live not living up to the spirit of the agreement. and we are analyzing at the very, very carefully. we will have something to say about it in the not-too-distant future. iran has not lived up to the spirit of the agreement. and they have to do that. >> jenna: speaking with the italian prime minister last week criticizing what he has always called the failure nuclear deal with iran. along with recent comments from secretary to listen. finding itself firmly in the administration process. we are joined by andrew peake, the former intelligence officer, now a professor of national

relations at the university of southern california. nice to have you back. the editorial board of "the new york times" categories as the trump organization stands this way. saying it has an ominous tendency to demonize iran and misrepresent the threat that it represents paid what you think about that? >> that is a preposterous statement, it is finally assisting in real terms of the threat to the region, and looking at the underlining problem with the nuclear deal. i did nothing to eliminate around power, it enhanced it. and it enhanced its ability to bully its neighbors. >> jenna: the obama administration will say it like they did at the team, the nuclear deal was to address the nuclear concern, not a state sponsor of terror or other mischief that takes part in the region. what do you think of dad's? this is the very narrow look at the iran deal by those that supported it. and now with trump and saying, i want to get more out of it, it

relies the actual intention of the original deal? >> i think that's a fair point to make, but the problem is that the nuclear program is only one component of iran's power, you also have the support of terrorism, the islamic revolutionary guard corps, so by making the nuclear deal, you remove all of the leverage over a run without resolving all of the secondary concerns there right now pose the biggest threat to. >> jenna: an interesting political peace came out this weekend, going to characterize at the best of that i can. "obama's hidden iran deal giveaway." a 20 page piece reporting, and here is what it says. we have been told in the past that there is a side deal with the iran deal that nobody knows about, but there are certain parts that we know about. the fact that some iranian prisoners were released. they say that this was sanctioned by leaders, part of the negotiation. nothing to see here. with this reporter is revealing that some of these guys that were released are some of the

baddest of the bad coming and an example, one of them was part of the procurement program by iran for technology to build iuds that killed american soldiers. the is a really bad guys, and nonpartisan folks are saying the realization of this is actually a scandal, now that we are learning more about it. you saw the piece, what do you think about what we learned? >> i was horrified by the politico piece, i can say is a veteran myself, i think that every member of the armed forces should be horrified at the obama administration essentially waived charges and amnesty of people involved killing americans in iraq. a lot of american servicemen foster lives to these ieds. i would be very surprised if there was not a was not a congress meeting on this in short order. >> jenna: that was one of the prisoners. we will have the writer for the

political piece on our show tomorrow. we think that the viewer should learn more about it. what do we do now, andrew? what is a path forward? >> we have made some progress in checking the desire to harass the neighbors. in very short order after trump came power, he held meetings with the saudis and egyptians, and when to buffer incoming and struck syrian nuclear chemical facilities in the first u.s. action against the syrian government. all of those are elements of rolling back iranian influence to the region, and to that comes as a huge relief to israel and the sunni bellows. >> jenna: how difficult will it be to do that? >> >> enormously, on the sanctis alone, the problem is that it took a decade to get to the european sanctions on iran, and now they really do not want to roll them back without serious evidence of iran cheating on the nuclear part of the deal. so if we try to impose unilateral sanction and push

back here back unilaterally, that could cause a diplomatic rift with the europeans, the closest allies and use much of the support. >> jenna: we will mention that as well, a key part of the deal, so we are looking back at a past administration, their deal is already done. if you can take the best parts of what you saw from the obama administration and apply it to this administration and bring some new energy, what would that look like as far as what the relationship becomes? we prioritize when we are dealing with that? >> i think that there was a long range of legitimate questions about our relationship with the gulf states like saudi arabia and others. they have some connection with forms of radical islam coming and i think that obama touched on that in his detente with the wrong, saying that this is not the healthiest thing for us to totally be in the camp of these states. and make domestic reforms, but i think that the entire draft of the obama administration, the willingness to overlook almost

any trans aggression by the iranians and their allies in hopes of getting the deal really make it necessary to junk much of the past policy. >> jenna: we will see what happens, because people are saying that trump is going to burn the other direction. so maybe we can study to get to tell the parts that are best for america. whatever it may be. andrew, it is very tabular. thank you so much. >> thank you, jenna. >> jon: outsiders making a flash in the tradition, while traditional politics got left in the dust as two presidential candidates burn off with big implications for the future of europe. plus with president trump closing in on 100 days in office, the commander-in-chief says that the media are downplaying his accomplishments, is he right? the media panel weighs in.

♪ >> jon: as we have mentioned, president trump is going to reach a milestone. saturday will mark his 100th day in office. he just tweeted ," no matter how much i get forward in the first 100 days, media will kill." we will ask a couple of media members. a pulitzer prize winner, and crispy tin, w-2 online editor at the weekly standard. thank you both for being here. judy, are you ready to, well, i don't want to say kill, because

that gets you in trouble with the secret service, but are you ready to pronounce it as success or failure? >> failure, or in the words of our former president, george w. bush, that is some weird stuff. and he did not say stuff, but i am on tv. look, he was the one who embrace the 100 a standard. i may think it is also ridiculous, but he has nothing to show other than one important thing which is the justice of the supreme court, and that is wonderful of her conservatives, but what about the other things that he promised, no muslim band, no health care, and may be able come back, but we do not know, if anything donald trump has made obamacare more popular than obama ever made it. we have no one at state department to cover out the policy that he wants to implement. we do not even have a single assistant secretary nominated. we do have an excellent

communications guy at treasure way, by the way, tony scion, with whom i have compensated and disagree for a long time here at fox news, but look, when are the american people going to figure out that they have been lied to? nothing has been going on. drain the swamp, he is the swamp. he brings in lobbyist regulating the very clients that they once lobbied for, so i think the populace have a reason to be very disappointed in the president. so far. he can learn. we will see. >> jon: we will get chris's take on the first 100 days. >> sure, i think to judy's point, there has been allowed said about him the oak overshadowing every accomplishment that he could possibly have. it is a really fundamental moment for a president to support a supreme court justice, but there's only so much that a new president, trump, barack obama, anybody can do

from the oval office in the first 100 days an arbitrary stander of a new administration. a legislature does not move with speed, if you are going to try to do something as expensive as health care, we have to remember the affordable care act was not even passed by the senate until december of your two of the obama administration. so try to affect the health care regime is a massive undertaking, we see how abstained the administration is off the bat because of some of the policy feelings. if you are drawing gloom and going to get the tax reform, that is going to take on this. if he hears of some details. then there is infrastructure, this cannot be set up and knocked over like dominoes. it takes time. >> jon: he did say that he was going to be a change agent in washington coming as it comes with a learning curve, judy. it does take some time to wrap your arms around the enormous powers of the presidency. high marks on the syria

intervention. >> from me among others. yes, yes, there are some things that i like. i am very comfortable with some of the people that he has appointed in his national security team. i hope that he listens to them. i liked the limited strike on syria to make the syrians pay a price for the use of chemical weapons. but the problem is that he has made such big promises. he was bound to fail. if you knew anything at all about washington. and that is the problem, he has not even learned the basic rule of washington which is that you get more bees with honey than vinegar. all he has to do is kind of pay attention to the congress weather then insult them. and the same with the media. he will have them eating out of his hand. but he has not seem to learn that either. >> jon: do we set up another artificial metric? 200 days, 300 days? get our assessment then? >> how about four years prior to

that would be the one i would suggest, but judy makes a great point about working with congress. we have already just finished the differences in parity between the white house and the congress, but the democratic president who was notorious for not working exactly well with the congress, now that we have the republican congress, the republican president, you would expect these things to be expedited. but you have to take more of a holistic view of this stuff. longer down the road there are some qualitative things that trump has done with respect to setting regulatory emotion, and he has done some stuff with the pipeline for example, and things that were priority in recent years that he has gotten the ball move moving on, but it's going to keep rolling for months and months to come, because that is how it works. >> jon: the chief of staff says that he does a great deal, a couple of hours from now we will hear from his spokesman, sean spicer at 1:30 eastern time. so we will see what he has to say about all of this. >> oh, i am sure he will be as

gracious as ever. >> jon: i'm sure. thank you both. >> jenna: turning team some news overseas. the presidential election turning heads in europe, dominated by the socialist and conservative parties coming to an end, one candidate described as a pro a centrist, and to the other as a far right isolationist, now advancing to the center. the foreign affairs constituent is live in paris. >> another finding today that making some pretty interesting choices on their way to selecting a new president. voting yesterday, choosing from 11 different candidates, the two top vote getters are going on to the runoff election two weeks from now, for the first time in modern french political history, candidates from either of the two major parties will be involved. the top vote getter, independent centrist, a manual.

never held elected office, he is calling for all sorts of reforms and change, but also embracing a lot of the established institution including the european union. also the right-wing populist. he she will have to ditch the e.u., the current comments he repaired and renegotiated france's terms what these bodies and institutions. this is one way to fixing the stagnant economy, also talking about slapping new tariffs on imports into the countries. trying to boost two jobs. cracking down on the borders and taking down terror suspects. but taking a more inclusive tone, listen to some of the colorful and mixed reactions that we got on the streets of paris today. >> i am happy for him. >> you are happy? >> he is young, but we do not know if he will be good.

>> it is trump versus hillary clinton part of the same thing. >> you escaped the worst. >> polls today show that macron will beat le pen. rallying to the cause, but only planes had the themes of le pen. she says she is the change candidates, has some words about her candidates. it should be interesting in the next two weeks. >> jenna: we will see what happens when the votes are counted. thank you. >> jon: can we get the eiffel tower as a backdrop for our shots? that would be terrific. we hear how the people of france are reacting, but wall street is also taking notice and stocks are up 202 points, fox news business network takes a look at

why. >> a great day for the 401(k), spiking over 200 points, the nasdaq sitting at its highest level in history, stocks and prance ending at their highest level in nine years the market just closed minutes ago. and cheering that attacked a pro-european union, more status co-candidate took the first election. macron will face off against the far right candidate le pen in two weeks' time. of the recent poll says that that matchup, macron has a 62% chance of winning, that's why the markets are rallying, but the polls in the markets got brexits wrong and the trump victory wrong. anything can happen. back here at home, big week in washington has wall street looking very closely. can lawmakers agree to fund the government and avoid a shutdown that could have a midnight friday? putting a wrench in those negotiations, president trump wants any spending deal to include funding for a border wall. the last shutdown in 2013 did not put a wrench in the stock

market, and without the tax-cut plan extended wednesday, the stock market games may last a bit. >> jon: a lot of people would welcome that. >> oh, yes, indeed. >> jon: thank you. >> jenna: a new reason for parents not to get too crazy about cleaning, perhaps a good thing for all of us this week. suggesting that when it comes to your child's health, dirt don't hurt, we will explain coming up! ♪

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>> jenna: some new information on bacteria and children's health, suggesting that kids embracing clean homes may be more likely to develop food allergies, asthma, et cetera. at the university with the department of chicago, also an author of an upcoming book "dirt

is good." it is great for parents to hear this. not only those of us who may not are the best housecleaners out there, and might be the truth. but how much dirt are you talking about when you say that your kids should be exposed to dirt, what exactly are you saying? >> we need a good balance. we need a balance between being hygienic, health promoting, keeping them away from the dangerous bugs that might make them sick, you want to make each other exposed to a rich and diverse world, so if they get licked by a dog in the face, that is good. that's what we want to see. >> jenna: what about when they pick up a popsicle off of the floor and put it back in their mouth? >> absolutely. that is significantly proven to have health promoting benefits, allowing the kid to be exposed to some of the bacteria and germs, and maybe a little bit of dirt that can stimulate entering their immune system. >> jenna: either you are grossed out by what i just said, or you are parents and you are like, yes, my kids totally do

that. and when your parents, kids do disgusting things. they pick up all things and put them in their mouth. and you wonder if you should be that concerned or how you should navigate. it is really interesting when you are not just talking about exposing kids to dirt for the overall health, but why the health and their gods is important for their brains. can you make that connection for us? >> writes, so your gut is linked to your brain, you have a whole nervous system around your gut, and that actually goes up a superhighway of nerves to your brain. bacteria in your gut produces serotonin, things like you have heard before, and others. and actually helps our body to process energy. and even allows our brain to function differently. so when the bacteria in your gut is disturbed, it disturbs your brain, causing depression, anxiety, maybe neurological disorders such as autism. >> jenna: i had not heard that before. what is the research like on

that specifically? >> we have shown that there is a reduction in the abundance of bacteria that that god produces some of these neurotransmitters and children the develop autism. even when you are ready for school at the age of five, whether you have developed the skill set to neurologically, behaviorally to cope with school. that can be predicted by the types of bacteria that we find in your intestine as a child. so we know that the bacterial community and how it affects the immune system and how your brain develops is affected by the things that you are exposed to early on. >> jenna: it is so interesting. there could be a connection, one of the things that you talk about your book and do your research, we think that we are healthier because we are cleaner, but where in fact the opposite might be happening, if we do all generally live in fairly clean the cleaning supplies that we have these days. so if you are wondering, how can i best help my child besides letting them pick things off the floor and put it in their mouth,

how do you do that? >> yes, so remember, with 150 years of cleaning up session, because 150 years ago we were dying in our tens of millions from bacterial infections. it makes sense about the paranoia there for a reason, but we got rid of them, use of vaccines and cleaning products has removed many of these dangerous pathogens, so you want to now allow your child to be exposed to richer diversity. take them gardening. take them out into the park. allow them to have a pet or an animal, take them on the farm, open the windows in your apartment or home more frequently. increase their exposure. even planting a potted plant in the home can make a difference. so get their hands dirty. it's good for them. >> jenna: i'm going to check that off the list for sure. it's great to have you on the program. "dirt is good." the new book coming out. we will look forward to it. thank you so much. >> my pleasure.

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>> we have a quick reminder of the prime timeline m, tucker carlson moving to 8:00 p.m. eastern, "the five"

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