thank you for your service, sir. >> bill: i feel old already. >> shannon: it is a beautiful thing. let's go skydiving! >> bill: have a great monday, everybody. we will see you tomorrow! >> jon: a fox news alert, we await action and then senate, repealing and replacing obamacare with a new battle brewing over the gop's health care plan, good morning to you, welcome to "happening now," i am jon scott. >> info jenna lee today, president trump clearly telling senate lawmakers not to let the american people down on health care. but senate majority leader mitch mcconnell indicates that the process will not be rushed. while some other senators are saying that today will start from scratch. still the president's team insisting that health care reform will happen. >> he will get this done. we will repeal and replace obamacare. we will give america a better

product. >> we remember schoolhouse rock when we were kids, we are going to go through this process. is it ugly, maybe. is it slow? yes, but it is the right way to do it. >> jon: live for us now at the white house. kevin. >> what a great idea, right? i remember "schoolhouse rock." i know you do too. it was good stuff. if you are wondering how the president is looking at this time i would say that the white house official told me that he is confident and pragmatic. he understands as the health care debate moves into another phase. the house was right here, a number of g.o.p. members celebrating with the president as they now have a chance to send it over to the senate as they take a swing at replacing the aca or obamacare as it is more popularly known. house speaker paul ryan says that he is convinced the fight to repeal and replace is an absolute must when manfred >> this is not a rescue operation.

you have to acknowledge that every state is a little bit different. we are trying to achieve here is that it gives states the ability to meet the population, but put the resources in there so that everybody can have an affordable health care coverage. >> also had on the agenda, nominating and affirming more judges like neil gorsuch, but the president is expected to release ten nominees to federal courts. at this according too many sources at the white house including two on the president's short-list by the supreme court. he is probably going to try to draw from the same template that got neil gorsuch over the finish line as well. white house protection agency scott pruitt, going to replace half of them members on the scientific board, a broader effort of republicans changing the way that the agency evaluates the scientific basis for its regulations. in case you are wondering, yes, this is not going over so well with some of the folks actually on that board. robert richardson, a dismissed

member saying this on twitter, today i was trumped. i had the pleasure of serving on the epa board, and my appointment was terminated toda today. some more fall out there, in case you're wondering what is happening with the president today, he has a pretty big schedule. he is going to meet with mike pence, the secretary of state, and each arm is mcmaster, a lot of people wondering what will come of those meetings today. we are not expecting a full read out, but we do have the press briefing coming up today at 1:30. i will be here for you, all the latest. back to you. >> jon: i will give you the first question. looking forward to it. we will see you then. reaction from both sides of the aisle to the gop's health care bill. even president obama weighed in as a trump administration defended the plan. joining us now, the anchor of "special report," bret baier. we saw it in the rose garden last week, members of the house all gathered there.

was it a bit premature? >> well maybe a bit, but it was a legislative victory to get it through that stage. it is a multistage legislative process. i think that you heard over the weekend from both democrats and republicans, the reality that this is going to take some time. the senate, most people say that they are going to start from scratch. you heard susan collins saying as much this weekend from maine, and i think that that will take a lot of time. if anybody thinks that this is just going to happen somehow before the august recess, i think they need to think again. it is going to take three weeks before the congressional budget office even scores this house bill. so the senate may take up a completely different version. at the senate has to pass something and then get it to a conference committee where the house and senate bills come together, and then they vote on that. so we are looking a ways down

the road. >> jon: there was a lot of talk about all of this over the weekend, especially on the sunday morning show. i want to play some of that now for the viewers. >> there are no cuts to the medicaid program. if there are increases in spending, but we are doing is apportioning it so that it allows the states greater flexibility. >> under the spell, you cannot be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. >> but you charge people more? >> you cannot charge people more. it is like waiting until your house is on fire today and buy your home owners insurance. want to make sure that people stay covered to keep the cost down. >> first of all the health bill is not going to come before. at this time it is starting from scratch, we are going to draft our own bill, and i am convinced that we are going to take the time to do it right. >> it is my hope of millions that regardless of party, such courage is still possible.

>> jon: so there you here at the end from the man for whom the obamacare bill, the affordable care act came to be named. it was such a heavy lift to get the thing passed in the house, now you hear senator say that they are going to start all over. is it going to be possible to find some unity between the two chambers? >> yes. i think a lot of people in the house realize that the bill it was going to be passed and sent over, probably change significantly. coming to some conclusion together, a lot of house members said that they are anxious to see what the senate comes back with. from there you get to a bill that they are hoping that covers the pre-existing conditions, brings down premiums, and enables a fixing, if you will, of obamacare if not totally ripping it up from its roots. the republicans who talk best about this emphasize the

obamacare issues in the states that don't have any choices about health insurers. many of them are leaving. and by the end of this year you would have a situation where a lot of people will be facing a lot of scary decisions based on the current state of the aca, obamacare. >> jon: and parts of iowa, tennessee, insurers are rapidly dropping out of the market. is that going to help sell attempts to reformed this? >> i think so, how far the reform goes, does not completely change the dynamic of insurance overall. does the senate just take a completely different approach? we don't know yet, but we do know this. it is going to take time. it is not going to be quick, and there will be hearings, it will be a process. in the meantime, the administration wants to move forward with tax reform, which is also a big bite of the legislative apple.

>> jon: i guess senate republicans are more centrist to their employees in the house part of the freedom caucus in the house was especially prominent in the crafting of the bill. are they going to be satisfied with whatever the senate comes up with? >> that is the big question. the ted cruz, the mike lee, the rand paul, all of these folks had been talk to you. they have been talking about health care. in fact, rand paul has had numerous meetings with president trump and talking about a way forward. he has his own proposal. don't be surprised if you see something that does not look like the house bill at all. but maybe it tries to court that group and the moderates like rob portman. >> jon: don't hold your breath. >> and don't hold your breath. >> jon: bret baier, we will see you tonight. thank you very much. >> julie: a fox news alert, the leader of isis and ask him

to stay and was killed during an afghan rate last month. military has just announced, two military rangers lost their lives in the battle. that happened in the same area where the u.s. dropped the mother of all bombs, fox news national security advisor from the pentagon with a very latest details on this. hello, jennifer. >> well a bombing campaign is underway right now. in part of eastern afghanistan where the pentagon says it killed the afghan head of isis. that was on april 27th, the afghan prayer president's office confirmed the announcement in kabul, secretary jim manus on the way to denmark said this about the campaign against isis. >> they are on their back foot in syria, they are on their back foot in iraq. they have lost a lot of ground. they still have some strengths. we have eliminated.

the fight goes on. >> we have now learned that the two u.s. army rangers who were also killed on april 27th in eastern afghanistan, sergeant joshua rogers of bloomington, illinois, and to sergeant cameron thomas of ohio were killed in the very same raid that killed the afghan head of isis two weeks ago. the pentagon is now investigating whether the two americans were killed as a result of foreign and friendly fire. this is the same area where the u.s. dropped moab, the largest nonnuclear bomb in the air force's arsenal, that was dropped on april 13th. it was employed in the wake of an isis attack on a hospital in kabul that left 50 dead. today the afghan president said that it was overseen on the hospital attack, but he is of course now dead. at the top commander in afghanistan, john nicholson issued the following statement, any isis member that comes to afghanistan will meet the same

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it violates the establishment clause of the first amendment that prohibits the government from making laws respecting religion. president trump arguing, never disavowed his intention to support muslim immigration, instead he announced that he would achieve that goal by banning individuals from muslim countries, rather than a religious test. he explained that when people were so upset that i used were muslim, he would be talking territory instead of muslim. plaintiffs believe that the president's prior statement in an attempt to ban muslim integration, and their belief is irrelevant, because 2c of the revised order does no such thing. and merely suspends temporarily of the entry of certain aliens from six countries previously identified by congress and the executive as posing heightened terrorism risks. the full fourth circuit court of appeals will be hearing the arguments today. that is where, the audio will be streamed live. that is where still.

but judge jay parkinson the third will be sitting out the proceedings today, because his son-in-law is the acting solicitor general, and he will be representing the trump administration in today's arguments. for those of you keeping score at home, the official name is international refugee assistance project. >> julie: thank you so much. >> jon: business is booming for video streaming services like netflix, but one reason for the popularity, the low cost could be taking a hit from the tax man. and house republicans passed their health care bill, putting the ball in the senate's record. but does the senate have the same sense of urgency that we saw in the house. >> now the focus can be now that we have the funding budget through on the senate side on health care, so i expect them to do it. and i do not think that it will take that long to do it. wifi.

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find your awesome and change the way you wifi. >> if you are running for office and you are a democrat, the republicans have made her life so easy. all you say is coming you know what, they cut $800 billion for health care for poorest among us. and they gave $600 billion in tax cuts for the wealthiest among us. please do not lie. please stop saying on tv that liberals are the ones asking for cbo scores. you have asked for a cbo score for years. i know, because i was there with you asking for a cbo bill for years! 's room that is congressman on morning joe today, making his feelings clear about the g.o.p. health care. as the rest of the media giving the bill of fare share?

joining us now on the medial panel, fox news contributor. and franco are during the years, box correspondent. thank you for being here. ln, it seems like in general the media are piling on the republican bill saying that the sky is falling because of it. what do you think of the coverage? >> well, i think that the coverage has been confusing, but somewhat fair, even though it has been confusing. i think that i wish the media would have taken more time and will take more time looking at the various people who are trying to promote their interests, and other words the health care companies, et cetera, and who is doing the lobbying, because i think that is very fascinating. >> jon: there were political report has looked at the republican seats that are up for reelection in 2018, and something like 20 republicans who hold seats are supposedly in a little bit more danger now

because of this boat. >> yes, it is a huge question on how it is going to impact 2018. you mention the political report. you have to mention guys like mario diaz ballard, and both republicans had some of the largest obamacare enrollment dates, but i do feel like we really cannot count out the republicans. trump, especially with trump, he has proven to be an effective salesman, among the 20. i have to say that guys like mario diaz ballard, and not on that list. if there were certain people who did not vote on that list. will they be impacted? >> jon: it does not take into account very often the fact that it talks about people who may be tossed off medicaid or may be paying more for health insurance, so forth. but again i come back to this time and time again, and most of iowa right now, you cannot buy an insurance policy under

obamacare. >> there are some pretty easy fixes to that coming in the media has not talked about that. they mention it occasionally like being able to purchase insurance over state lines. that would be great, and i come from a health care background, so i know something about that. but i think we have to look at the lobbyist and what their influences are coming and how much they are going to make on this parade i said next to a guy on a plane that said when this goes into effect, he is going to make a billion dollars. he had no idea i was a journalist. >> jon: we remember nancy pelosi famously saying that we first have to pass the health care bill before we find out what is in it. there was a whole lot of mystery when obamacare first came into being, and it was phased in over a year. it did not hit america all at once. could the same be true if get on the same page about fixing it? >> i think absolutely it could be that kind of thing. we still have not seen the cbo

report, the senate is taking it very slowly. or at least slower than the house was. i think there are so many different issues to fall on. the democrats need to be careful that they do not push it too much credit they do not want to become the same people that they are complaining against. it's kind of hard to say that you rise above partisanship, and here you are. you have them singing in the house chamber. >> jon: reince priebus, head of the national committee, now president trump's chief of staff, saying that he thinks that voters are going to reward the republicans for their health care effort. listen to this. >> they are going to reward the republicans that stood up and said we are not going to see the obamacare system that is failing and collapsing continue any longer. we are going to do something better. we are going to do our job as legislators to get this done. i think that the republican party will be rewarded.

>> jon: possible? >> of course everything is possible in this day and age. anything can happen in terms of politics. again the press needs to do its job in terms of really outlining what is in the bill, what isn't in the bill, what the cbo scoring will eventually look like. what the senators want versus what the how to once. and the press has not made that clear to the average person. >> jon: they also need to tell the whole story of the people that they are interviewing. not so much in newspapers, but on television reports, the people that are crying the blues about what is going to happen with their coverage are not going to be affected at all when you dig deeper into their backgrounds. >> i have to agree with ellen, i think that the press have really has to dig deep. if they have to go hard on this issue. we cannot stay to focus on the horse race that we all know do. i think that it is such an important legislation, bill, so

much attention to it. i looked at think that we will step up to the challenge. >> jon: let's hope. thank you both. >> julie: shocker, new drama with the investigation into russia and the presidential election. lawmakers get ready to hear from the alto deputy attorney general sally yates, what she said she told the white house about former national security advisor michael flynn before he was fired. a bit of the backlash at the town hall, the congressman back home getting booed by voters. what he said about health care that said the crowd off, could it create a bigger problem for the g.o.p. come 2018? >> you are mandating people on medicaid. ♪

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>> jon: a fox news alert, dramatic development into the investigation in russia meddling in the 2016 elections, we await testimony from attorney general sally yates, catherine herridge is live on capitol hill with more. >> thank you. the focus today at that hearing this afternoon will be on the six critical weeks leading up to the resignation of national security advisor michael flynn. most of what is reported no has been based on anonymous

sourcing. this will be the first time that we have one of the principal players testifying on the recor record. then acting attorney general sally yates in late december and then into january told the trump team that there was a problem. serious discrepancies between what flynn had been saying publicly and privately about his conversation with the russian ambassador sir jake has so yeah, and what she knew to be the case based on a transcript that dealt with russian sanctions. after she notified the white house in late january about three weeks later flynn resigned having lost the confidence of the president. in a series of tweets today, mr. trump wrote "general flynn was given the highest security clearance by the obama administration - but the fake news seldom likes talking about that." "ask sally yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to w.h. council." the other key witness today is james clapper, he headed the 17

intelligence agencies that finalize the report into russia meddling in the election in january, and recently in march, he told one of the sunday shows that they saw no evidence of collusion between the trump team and the russians. >> we did not occlude any evidence in our report, and i say hour, that is nsa, fbi, cia with my office, the director of national intelligence that had anything, any reflection of collusion between members of the trump campaign and the russians. there was no evidence of that included in our report. >> it was in the last few minutes that we had a series of reports again anonymously sourced that saying president obama warned president-elect trump not to hire flynn as the national security advisor. we get an on the record comment in a couple of hours from sally yates on them to. it is bound to come up at the white house. but over the last 72 hours, a

number of anonymous source to report seem as a military would say, designed to prep the battlefield or set the table for sally yates during this critical ceremony this afternoon. >> jon: do we know how much of the testimony will be scripted? can she talk about anything? >> there will be restrictions in terms of what they call presidential privilege, executive privilege. there was a dustup between sally yates and to the white house six or ten months ago. she said she was being blocked from testifying publicly, the white house as i was not the case. we will have her on the record this afternoon and see how many times she says she is blocked from providing further details that we can see senator graham to press her on these issues. if this is the first time we have had a principal player on the record on the bulk of the story has been sourced anonymously. so we are going to get out much better sense of the timeline, the tick-tock that led to the resignation. >> jon: we will have it here

alive, that will be fascinating. thank you. >> they only died, because they were acting on a loan. >> shame! shame! shame on you! shame on you! shame on you! >> the real vote is in november, where you take them out of the process! voting on our health in many ways, thank you! >> julie: that was idaho congressman getting food at the town hall raising fears that other republican lawmakers may face the same reaction. a joining us now, fox news contributor, radio talk show host, lauren jones, tv host of the lawrence jones show, thank you both for being here and talking to us. let me ask you, what do you make of labradors remarks? >> well, they are false. we have seen people die because

of not having health care, being afraid to go to the doctor because they are afraid of the cost, we also know for a very long time in america, the number one cause of bankruptcy was both care bills, so people get sick, they go to the hospital, they have an unfortunate illness, and they have to play pay millions and millions of dollars for that health care. the affordable care act was not perfect, but it made a lot better. what we see with the bill last week, going to make things a lot worse. one, it phases out medicaid to the state, a lot of republicans including governor john kasich has said that this is a good thing. really helped the people of ohio. same thing in arizona paired helping them immensely. we will see that it gets rolled out. that is the tip of the iceberg. >> julie: are people may be missing his words a little bit, lawrence, responding to a delusion of comments on social media. he said that it was not very elegant, but he had this to say on facebook. i was responding to a false

notion that the republicans health care plan will cause people to die in the streets which i completely reject. he went on to say in the 52nd clip that the media is focusing on, i was trying to explain that all hospitals are required by law to treat patients in need of emergency care, regardless of their ability to pay, and that the republican plan does not change that. to me ask you, is the left in the media trying to drum up anger in order to dissuade anyone from supporting the bill? >> well, i think the media is a part of this as well. they were not critical of obamacare, then all of the sun and they want to fact-check stuff, the crazy part about this is that congress was right, people are not going to die. they act like people are going to go into the emergency room and the doctors are not going to serve them. that is factually incorrect. i think the left right now is making an emotional argument, because it works for them. you have comedian sykes saying that people are trying to undo

obamacare because people hate obama. i think the left knows what strategy works for them, drumming up race wars, saying that people are going to die, it is a gender thing. i think it has traditionally worked for them. i don't think it will work this time. considering that the insurance companies are drawing out of state. >> julie: let's be clear here, race, gender does not play a role in the debate. the biggest confusion over the bill is not about race, gender, it is about cost. it is about premiums. medicare, rising costs for those with pre-existing conditions. the elderly, that's what people are worried about. the bill does -- with pre-existing conditions, here is the sticking point, it does allow states to opt out of the provision that requires insurers to give everyone within certain age brackets the same rate. otherwise health care rates differ from person to person. is that something that the senate will change? >> we will have to see what the senate does, but that is a

problem that the senate has stipulated to be part of the problem. the strategy from the left, anybody is saying that you should not depend upon the emergency room to get coverage. a lot of times when people go to the emergency room because they are in pain, if they had health care, a pre-existing condition, they could go to their health care physician, and treat the larger disease. but let's go back to the particulars, the metrics of the bill, what it does do, as you said, instead of raising premium costs on income, based on age. so it means like somebody like me who is 30 and healthy will pay five times less, could pay five times less as an older person who is unhealthy. that is problematic. >> it is absolutely problematic. >> why not, though? when you get older, hold on, no, i'm not discriminating. as you grow in age, as you age coming we know that you have more health issues.

that is a logical statement to do >> you are saying that grandma and grandpa should pay more? >> you're going to have more complications as an older person. >> you want to grandpa and grandma to pay more? >> you can repeat it over and over. >> it is not an emotional argument. you think it is health care for a healthy 55-year-old to pay five times as much. >> julie: we are running out of time, i think the biggest problem is a misunderstanding, a lot of confusion around this. i just want to read, house majority ryan tried to explain, and he says that people with pre-existing conditions, it's important to make a note of this will not pay more if they keep continuous coverage, he says that the key of having continuous coverage is to make sure that people stay covered and that they move from one plan to the next if they want to. that does not sound as ominous as critics are arguing. i think the problem is that they are not explaining the bill properly. >> that is part of the problem, but the other is --

the other problem when they opt out of the community care, the community problem, they can opt out coming into the pre-existing conditions, the only option they have is to go into a high risk pool, we know that doing that will cost two, five, six, 20 times more even if the federal government gives more money to the pool, not going to be enough to care for these individuals. that is why this bill is absolutely problematic. you will see that it is going to be problematic for republicans in the senate. >> julie: i apologize, the debate will continue in the senate. thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you, julie. >> jon: there was a time when american farmers use to see the entire world, but now several nations are outperforming american growers in some key crops. how overseas competition is costing some u.s. farmers their jobs. plus a massive wildfire burning in southern georgia, now dry wendy conditions are fanning

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the weather conditions are not helping firefighters who have high pressure anchored here west of the state of florida in the southeast. that is promoting sinking and drying and warming air. not a lot of rain and the forecast. low humidity, that it's going to mean high fire danger over the next several weeks. the drought monitor is not good either. it has been dry for several months in the region. are they really need to get in the moisture. there is a forecast rand paul as we head into saturday, the high-pressure is protecting any rainfall into the region, and maybe may is the driest month in florida. we will be watching that as well as severe storms, you can see large hail, damaging winds, and ice through the workweek, there is this a severe threat. across the high plains, going to move into the central plains, then ongoing throughout the work week. we will keep you posted throughout the week. >> julie: thank you.

>> jon: some new information on one of america's economic backbones, farming. countries like brazil and even russia now outperform the u.s. farmers in exporting both wheat and soybeans. a recent "wall street journal" article laying out how this is impacting firmer incomes, the agricultural dominance has eroded. other countries rising share of global trade and their been busting harvests have helped fuel a multi-year downturn in crop prices that is pushing some u.s. farmers out of business. jesse newman as the agriculture reporter for "the wall street journal." that article goes on to say that 2013 was sort of a banner year in the u.s. since that time, income has fallen by half among farmers here. >> that's right. thank you for having me pit it is true. it is a tough time for u.s. farmers, and we have seen just a huge shift over the past couple of decades. the u.s. has a lot more

competition when it comes to feeding the world. so once upon a time, the u.s. was the world's top crops are prior. for example in the mid-1970s, the u.s. made up of more than 70% of the world soybean exports. at that number has fallen to less than 40% this year. and you know, you have a similar story in corn and wheat. so it is a new reality for u.s. farmers, they just got some rival rebels that were not there several decades ago. extended powers like brazil who are giving farmers are run for their mom money. >> jon: i am old enough to remember the population bomb productions from the '70s. a saying that the whole world will be starving by now because population would outstrip the food supply. brazil and even russia are able to grow such bumper crops that u.s. farmers are really hurting right now. >> it is true.

and as you say, u.s. farmers, there are some good news, they are adaptable and resilient, right now focused on squeezing every bushel that they can out of each acre. unfortunately, the u.s. is firming just about all of the land that it has, whereas in brazil, places like eastern europe, still room to grow. brazil is an incredible farming story. you had growers they are much like during our own westward expansion, growers have migrated north in the 1960s and '70s to a region that is a fast and scrubby savanna. it was thought to be ill-suited for agriculture for decades. but farmers treated some acidic soil with lime and fertilizer, and it has turned into a soybean wonderland. >> jon: plus they effectively don't have a winter, at least not a cold winter there, they can grow their crops all year round. >> yes, he added that is a huge benefit. you can see pictures online of

this huge army of combines, harvesting soybeans, following 100 yards behind a second huge army of corn planters. the farming is on a massive scale and brazil, and they have room to go. >> jon: farming comes down four consecutive years in the u.s., that is rarely happen prior to jesse newman, thank you for covering it for us. >> thank you. >> julie: tv viewers are cutting the cable cord in droves, switching to low-cost streaming services. we will tell you why the cost of your favorite service could soon be going up too. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ >> jon: let's take a peek ahead at what is coming up at "outnumbered." what do you have? >> happy monday, republicans touting the health care bill that just past the house, but the battle moves to the senate, president obama is asking to show courage and stop the repeal, can a g.o.p. bill make it through the senate? what form will it be? >> the governor of texas making the first state to ban cities. will other follow state follow suit? >> we will ask our #oneluckyguy, asking minutes ago why it was such a big show? because it is a big day thanks to you guys. >> jon: he gets it up every time. >> you can't play with his laugh. >> you can't catch it on the inside. >> jon: we will see you at the top of the hour. >> julie: a number of cord cutters continues to grow with

more people switching to internet services like netflix because of the high cost of cable, but those savings could soon be cut. local governments try to take a piece of the action. the details from san francisco. >> hello there, julie pretty cities and even states are anxious about this cord cutting trend, because for many it means a financial hit, some are calling for a so-called netflix tax. >> the government and the power to tax is like in any vote, they pop out somewhere else. >> taxpayer watchdog groups are wary as cities argue that they are losing money i need to get creative. cable providers lost more than three quarters of a million subscribers in the first three months of this year. five times more than the same period last year. a trend that is meant to drop utility taxes and attached to cable bills. glendale, california, is among those considering increasing user utility taxes, covering gas, electric, telecoms

services. making up for hundreds of thousands in lost revenue paying per police. >> not to text you twice, but allowing a consistent flow of revenue that pays for the services as a business, as a visitor expect from the government. >> glendale is enlisting the help of cable providers to determine how a tax might work, but critics fear a slippery slope when streaming video services are taxed like a gas or water bill. >> if you allow a city to do that, you're setting a precedent where almost anything on the internet or even off the internet could be considered a taxable under utility tax credit that is very problematic for consumers. >> and netflix tax is on hold in chicago, on the books in pennsylvania, now considered by dozens of cities here in california. but consumer groups are threatening to sue, claiming that this is a new tax that did not get voter approval -- approval, lots of sequels come into the story.

so stay tuned. >> julie: thank you very much. >> next hour of "happening now, awaiting the white house daily briefing, the administration's reaction to the bombshell report that president obama warned president trump to steer clear of michael flynn. you don't let anything

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>> jon: we are back in an hour, "outnumbered" starts now. >> julie: see you then. >> fox news alert, the push to repeal obamacare is in the senate right now. it could face an uphill battle, paul ryan defending their efforts on health care, calling it a rescue mission. you are watching "outnumbered," i am harris faulkner, meghan mccain, host on kennedy, deputy state department spokesperson under president obama, and today's #oneluckyguy, judicial analyst, smiling face, judge andrew napolitano, he is here, outnumber, and he is happy. >> is a pleasure to be here, thank you. >> we have a lot sitting right into what