>> jon: we expect sean spicer at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. >> jenna: "outnumbered" starts right now. >> meghan: fox news alert, not holding back. president trump defending his decision to fire james comey through some of his strongest language yet. calling the former fbi director a showboat who left the agency in turmoil and insisting the decision to can him rested solely with him. this is the president fires warnings at comey and the media. this is "outnumbered," i meghan mccain. here today, harris faulkner, sandra smith, commentator and fox news contributor, rachel campos-duffy and today's a #oneluckyguy, judge alex ferrer. you are outnumbered. >> alex: happily so. great way to end the week. space we have a lot of nice to get to a selected jump right in.

president trump saying he would have fire james comey regardless of any recommendations as he explains why he had to part ways with the fbi chief. >> he made a recommendation, he's highly respected, very smart guy. the democrats like tim, republicans like him, he made a recommendation. regardless, i was going to fire him. i also want to have a really competent, capable director. he is not, a showboat her. he's not my man or not my man. he was appointed long before me. i want somebody who's going to do a great job and i will tell you, we're looking at candidates right now who could be spectacular and that's what i want for the fbi. >> meghan: president trump as quitting his attacks on comey, tweeting this morning james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts licking to the press. there is more, mr. trump floating the idea of doing away with press briefings altogether

tweeting is a very active president with lots of things happening, and is not possible for my surrogates to stand at a podium with perfect accuracy. maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press briefings and handout written responses for the sake of accuracy. okay, it's a very busy morning. thought i had my talking points on order, woke up this morning and i was like, all of the window. i do new ones. there is a so much to unpack with this. i guess we should start with the tweeting. with him saying maybe i can possibly get rid of press briefings altogether which by the way, press briefings have been happening at the isaacs of america since 1910. >> alex: i personally don't think you should get rid of press briefings. he certainly is gun shy because the media is relentless in their not letting up on him no matter what happens. he could cure cancer tomorrow and say what was he doing last week? they don't cut him any slack. i can see why he is basically saying what's the point? i'm never going to get any honest coverage.

that being said, the press briefings are not as much for the reporters. therefore americans, the rest of america to hear his viewpoint. not all reporters are against him. i don't think you should cancel press briefings, but i certainly understand why he feels that way. >> meghan: harris, you've been and a journalist your entire adult life. what you make of the idea that we could get rid of this after 100 years? >> harris: i don't take this as a warning shot across the bow. what i hear him saying is let's weigh the fact that we are trying to get accuracy and that's the bottom line. i have taken issue publicly with some of the questions that come during a white house press briefings, complaints from reporters, a kind of see it from both sides. i read on twitter today, if there is a fire, the president may be bringing the smoke. he has a top changing the narrative on why he fire james comey. let's get to the nugget of the candy bar. that really is an issue more to me than what's happening with the press briefings or anything

else. the story has to be consistent. >> meghan: i took his tweet as many as a threat to james comey. better make sure i didn't record something that was said. i think most rational people dead. >> sandra: that threat was much different then maybe we should do away with the press briefings. those are two completely different things. as far as press briefings are concerned, that goes back to the messaging that you have been talking about that's coming out of this white house. why condemn the media when there are highly qualified journalist sitting in that room asking questions? he's comparing the media stream and in that room to how they treated the president obama. he's saying they're not getting the message right. you have said they should start looking within and look at the message they are putting out from the white house and how they're doing it and who is doing it. >> meghan: people were conflating two things that aren't usually exclusive. james comey could have been needed to been fired, i agree with that. the white house could also be

doing a really bad job controlling the narrative right now. for some reason, republicans are conflating the two. we were talking with us early, would you make of this tweets? >> rachel: i think the media and a lot of people take the things he says very literally and i think the mac and people understand that it's not a literal thing. they take him seriously as a person as a president, but they don't think the things he says literally. i think he is expressing how frustrated he is with the press corps and i have to say it, there are good journalists in that room, but frankly when i watch those press conferences, i think the best questions are the one that are coming via satellite from those journalists that they're picking from middle america. they have a better handle on what people are thinking. this obsession with the firing, people in d.c. our young people thinking about it 24/7. there is no -- he's not america's favorite mayor like rudy giuliani.

he's not somebody everyone's in love with. people right now are thinking about all the good things that are happening which frankly the president should talk about which is the economy. >> sandra: only puts back on that. i would say couldn't they have ruled that out better? couldn't he have gone about it better so it didn't dominate the media? >> rachel: that's a people like about it because in a way, you see some buddy coming from the private sector who is not an insider who doesn't always do things the perfect way or the way that's expected. >> alex: that's exactly the point. he's used to being the ceo and the ceo, he was probably used to the fact that once he set a policy in this way we're going, there is no blowback. >> meghan: part of my problem right now is it's very important to me that we get the reputation of the fbi intact. i think the greatest people in america serving our country out of the military. there are literally keeping us safe every day. the idea of the reputation could be complete tarnished, james

comey is not the entirety of the fbi, he was just the head. there is a lot of hits being taken at them right now and there has been and we need to collectively get on the same page. this messaging is so sloppy and so rookie. we've been timeout all week. it's freshening for people like me. these two things don't have to coincide with one another. james comey could have been a bad leader, but the entirety of the fbi is full of courageous good people who put their lives on the line. >> harris: i understand what you're saying. they are not necessarily mutually exclusive. some of his ability do something badly don't have to be separate. in this case, they probably worked together. i'll give you an example. sarah huckabee sanders was put in a position to go and answer questions full well knowing that she hadn't been briefed on some of the ideas or questions i might come up. you have to anticipate that particularly, this media that has showed some hostility toward the president and his surrogate

surrogates, members of the media, are going to ask questions like was the thing about this long term, was a short-term? those of the basics. for her to come out and say i hadn't specifically asked the president that question, so my answer is different than his. that's not acceptable, but what kind of position as she put in if she hasn't been able to gain access? i don't know why the question was asked. >> meghan: he is contradicting his own narrative by saying one thing and then sitting down with lester holt and sings on the completely different. if the more if the american public is confused, that's because the story is changing minute by minute. >> harris: i think is a great point that the american public likes this kind of unpredictability by him, but in their growing tired. the obsession is over the wrong things now. why can't we be obsessed with health care? we can multitask as a nation. why can't the obsession -- >> rachel: i live in wisconsin

wisconsin. people are talking about health care because that's something that directly affects them. i think there is a disconnect between what's happening in the white house press corps and what's happening in middle america. in middle america, people are concerned about health care and they do want to talk about that. the media is alienating themselves even more than they did in the election. that's because they are not in tune. right now in middle america, orders are up for construction for manufacturing. >> meghan: you're in a bad, bad place in your campaign or presidency or time in office when you start to completely blame the media for all your problems. at a certain point, when you're tweeting about the stuff, contradicting yourself, going on tv when sarah huckabee -- bring

in rosie o'donnell, singh's temper went to move on in the moment you're coming on tv to talk about it. to say this is rookie and jv messaging is putting it politely right now. i'm sick of it, i think the american public is sick of it. they love him and i love them for the outside of what this is, what happens in middle america when you elect someone with no experience, you have a mess of messaging because he didn't know how to do this. that's why have i have said politics and having history and politics and a legacy, even in some context or another is important. right now are seeing the ramifications. >> sandra: two hours ago, after all that tweeting he did all morning and all last night, he said china just agreed the u.s. will be allowed to sell beef and other major products into china once again. this is real news. this is obviously clearly a frustration coming thoroughly from the president. >> rachel: i think it's a mirroring of a people are

talking about in the middle of the. it's why washington, d.c., was so shocked when he was elected. they are not in tune with what people really care about. i don't think people care about comey and when they put in a news director who is good, i think this will all go away. >> meghan: he should listen to you an tweet, the average american doesn't care about comey. that would tie this up a lot easier. listen to rachel, please. hillary clinton may not opt out of the woods yet. why a new fbi chief could reopen the case on her emails. after a challenging week, president trump says he doesn't care about the cosmetics and how all this looks. should that come and raise some concern ng keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love.

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>> sandra: president trump's decision to fire james comey renewing speculation that a new leader of the fbi could reopen the hillary clinton email case. a veteran former agent tells fox news that case and immunity deals given to former clinton aides could be revisited saying, i would be surprised if they did not review all the investigations regarding hrc and come up with a conclusion

regarding prosecution. the statutes of limitation hasn't come into play yet. this as acting fbi director andrew mccabe tells senators the comment to prosecute clinton didn't sit well with some agents. >> there were folks within our agency who are frustrated with the outcome of the hillary clinton case and some of those folks were very vocal about that. >> sandra: and his testimony last july, director comey said the whole fbi wasn't involved in the decision not to go after clinton. the >> it was a unanimous opinion within the fbi on your decision? speak to the whole fbi wasn't involved, but the team of agents and investigators, yes. >> sandra: could this be a reality? will ask the judge. could her email be revisited? >> alex: absolutely. the statutes of limitation i'm not expired, as long as they haven't expired, that's one of

the things that pops into play when they remove the head of the fbi because -- >> sandra: my first thought is here we go again. the >> alex: all the work's been done, it's not just a matter of tying up a few loose ends which wouldn't take much time and reevaluating the case. as you heard a lot, some of the crimes that she was investigated for did not require intent which made people scratch their heads when james comey said there was no proof or intent. there are crimes that were committed by gross negligence. there wouldn't be a lot that needed to be done, the work has been done. you can't really go back and revisit it when the guy who said no, there's no crime committed here is still heading the fbi. >> sandra: i can already hear the cries mill left, move. >> rachel: i have a question for you, judge. one of the things he was criticized about where the

immunity deals that he gave to huma abedin and cheryl mills and other aids. he basically gave them something for nothing. if you got an immunity deal from the fbi, could they revoke that? >> alex: yes and no. the deal is not with the fbi, the deals with the united states government. deal stands. however, most immunity deals require several things, including complete forthrightness, openness regarding her testimony, absolutely no misstatements or misrepresentations, no perjury. they can look back and look at every statement they got from him aberdeen. >> harris: they can just go back and see what he said. he accused her of not just being negligent, but he questioned whether or not she was smart anymore. he used other words.

>> alex: we are talking about immunity deals are given to her i.t. guy. all those deals could be a misrepresentation of a statement, a failure to disclos disclose. failing to disclose that you uploaded emails to another server because i'm sure they grilled her about what did you do with all the emails you received? that alone could violate it. whether it's republican or democrat, i believe that if you have evidence of corruption, you never eradicate. what happened to her? did she plead the fifth? if statute of limitations wasn't expired, i would reopen that. >> alex: if you want to rebuild credibility, get another person in. >> meghan: the clintons'

leather out of everything, so i don't know how they could slither all of this as well. it's a bit of upright dream. they lived by a different set of standards. i've said before, and chelsea clinton can murder someone, get off scot-free. they do not live by the same laws the rest of us on the couch do. i would love to think that james comey was incompetent, which i thought he was in this is why they got off, but there's no reality at 11 where i could see hillary clinton paying for the crime she's committed. >> sandra: the network evening news at it again, giving the comey lot of coverage. they focused on something more than others. the president saying and it's not about looks, it's about getting the job done. we debate. think again.

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>> harris: it's been an interesting week for president trump with critics pouncing over his firing of fbi director james comey by a hand-delivered letter. his dismissal officially announced and what some have called a pretty awkward moment or statement delivered by sean spicer. the next day, the president met with russian foreign minister over questions of the investigation. some democrats and media outlets making watergate comparisons, henry kissinger made an appearance to say hello to lavrov. >> i never thought about it. it was set up a while ago.

frankly, i could have waited, but what difference does it make? i'm not looking for cosmetics, i'm looking to do a great job for the country. i'm looking to create jobs. i'm looking to create strength and security. i'm looking to have strong borders. i'm looking for things like tha that. >> harris: the messaging on that was very direct and very strong. it's consistent with how this president has done things. he'll roll out something irrespective of what the calendar says the next day, he said that time and time again. >> alex: there's no way he fired comey on tuesday and then picked up the phone and invited lavrov. as he said, he doesn't care about optics, he doesn't care about the impression it leaves. he's going to get rid of someone am of the chips fall where they may. on the one hand, he says i don't care how things look, but his

reaction, his tweets to every shop is taken on him the lies that indicates he does care how it looks. you can't have it both ways. that's why he is accused of having a thin skin because he reacts to every criticism it's made of him. >> rachel: he responded honestly in an interview. he said i don't want to be combative, but the only way to survive is to be combative because the media is so one-sided. i just want to say that if he could stay on that message that he gave, i thought that answer is right on with the way he responded. i think that's what people care about. there are some danger for the democrats. they're putting all their eggs in this russian investigation. if donald trump stays focused on the economy, iffy -- if kids move out of their basement because they're getting jobs after they graduate from colleg college, those kinds of things will allow him to get reelected. that's what people care about. >> harris: onto a dissenter, because at some point you make all the time. >> sandra: what he stating as fact.

security for the country and job security and national security, that all does take priority over optics, but optics are a big part of keeping the country safe. but we look like, what we sound like, it is very important. i would ask you, do you think he staying on that message? you think he is pushing the economy enough? is he heading towards tax reform fast enough? is he staying on that message? the >> rachel: first of all, we have to detach the message from the actions. i think in all its uproar about comey, his agenda economically is moving forward. the numbers are up and it looks really good. i think the democrats are in trouble and i think it could be that people are more focused on this, on law and order, -- >> harris: what's going on with line order today along with our attorney general jeff

sessions? concentrating so much on how they're going to attack certain types of crime, drug crimes, saying these words today, it's not just about the people who have the most money being hit by crime, but everybody having the right to feel safer. that was part of the trump message. it is definitely being walked out on this friday. irrespective of the shiny objects that you mention. >> meghan: it's focusing more on his actions than his words. i have also come to be conditioned not to take everything he says literally. i wish i had a president where i did have to have a psychology degree to understand the same? yes. he's probably going to move on. the other thing i conditioned myself to do, is as a trump crisis or is this a crisis for the notices of america? i think this is just a trump media crisis manifesting itself. this is a real danger.

what did offend me was the idea that you're letting russian median and to take pictures, but not american media. miraculously, and ends up all over the internet and on our television screens everywhere, being surprised that russians and keep their words. every knows how i feel about russia. >> harris: these were cameras, these are listening devices. i tweeted out an article that one of the reporters had done that felt like they were left out about what do we know about how that's being disseminated? those are fair questions. >> meghan: they can do anything. i think we need to gave a very strong lines that these people are not our allies. president trump is making the same mistakes of obama and bush. that being said, i'm not the president, but letting them and an outlet in the america media and is not helpful when he just fired the fbi head and you're being accused of colluding with russia. >> alex: i would assume that

anybody who came with the russian foreign minister, whether he's a photographer or whatever, as part of the espionage detail. who needs to go around doing all kinds of things when he was part of the espionage team which i'm sure he still is. going back to the question of trump and appearances, i totally agree with you, sandra. what the president does and what he says in the appearances he casts, in most markets. he's his own guy in the public elected him and they like him for that. what he does -- 's been on the market is moving in the right direction. >> alex: yes, but it could go in the wrong direction. he shouldn't back off completely because frankly, he'll never get honest coverage in the media.

>> sandra: president trump about fed up with the mainstream media and the coverage of the coming firing now threatening to cancel future white house briefings to get more accuracy. it appeared he may be onto something. according to a new study by the media research center, the three big networks spent 62% of their nightly broadcast coverage on wednesday pushing a comey conspiracy theory. suggesting the president fired him because the russian investigation was closing in. so far, there is absolutely no evidence to back that up. this is the new yorker released a controversial new cover, comparing comey to the man who is dragged off a united airlines flight. you'll all remember that. >> rachel: i think those numbers that you showed, and has a lot to do with why the american people don't have any trust in the media. they're taking all of this with a grain of salt. does it look bad?

he's acted on presidential many times and he does things in a nontraditional way, but people like that. i think he's learning on the jo job, he's doing quite good, he could be better. i think if this russia thing turns out to be a big nothing burger, it's going to be another when. >> sandra: is in this more evidence of why the president is so frustrated with the media? >> harris: even after an interview with lester holt on a broadcast network, he's been tweeting furiously this morning because he was still trying to get his message out. he had just sat down with so-and-so, but i've got a lot more to say. right after you said that before the commercial break about how washington isn't getting it right and they're focusing too much on how comey was fired, i will do my twitter feed and people were like, she's right. this is only care about. i lost my job, i need to know

what's going to be better for me. i need to know what health care is going to be for the next enrollment period in november. i saw a millennial -- i know you think i don't know any. they're saying it's the price of not participating up again? these are things america cares about right now, so the president can leave his surrogates in a unified manner, can i get on the same page and let them go do that, he can concentrate on the things that you pointed out the people care about. >> rachel: i think he is. after health care, they need to form the habit. you hope the political firestorm doesn't stop that train for moving forward, but you get tax reform, guess what you get? you get jobs and economic growth of any written election. >> sandra: the president does have to deal with this.

how showed or how better would you like to see the president push back on this? >> meghan: i would like them to say what rachel said in the last block that this is a nothing burger, i made this decision for the reasons i thought were good. here's a video, move on. i would like him not to tweet veiled threats about possibly recording the head of the fbi. it makes people like me who are on the president xi, i want republicans to do well, but it makes people on his side like me and maybe i'm not as attached because i do live in new york city, i do not live in the art stomach to my stomach strange behavior. this is totally unprecedented territory for all of us. i am sick as i said before of

trying to figure out what he's trying to say. i don't understand why we have the jv team work in the white house when there are amazing strategists and people who could be working around him and quite frankly, if some of his surrogates can handle the pressure being on tv or from the press corps, don't do this job. find some and also can. 113 days and, i'm ready for some changes. >> sandra: will leave it there. the trump administration getting tougher on crime. attorney general jeff sessions rolling back obama era policies that east prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. could this lead to unfair sentencing? we debate ru lane. but what a powerful life lesson. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent,

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>> harris: daily we bring you the white house press briefing about us coming up and about 20 minutes we are told to

expect. that's particularly interesting on this day after president trump tweeted suggesting canceling future briefings. this comes on the heels of the press really trying to get to the heart of the timeline with the firing of the fbi director, james comey. the white house correspondents association and you know some of those press members and their are watching to see what the w hca will do has issued a statement. doing away with briefings would reduce accountability, transparency, and the opportunity for americans to see that in the u.s. system, no political figure is about being questioned. the white house correspondents association would object to any move that would threaten those constitutionally protected principles. on the record with that now. sean spicer, expected to step up to the lectern moments from now. will take elaborate here on fox news as we do each day. >> one of the first things we're going to do is restore law and

order to our country. we have to do it. >> meghan: then candidate president trump promising to restore law and order. attorney general jeff sessions paving the way for tougher drug sentences and doing obama era reforms encouraging was present times for offenders. in a memo, sessions calling on federal prosecutors to do the most serious charges possible against the vast majority of suspects. he says the goal is to enforce the law and a consistent manner. >> it means that we are going to meet our responsibility to enforce the law with judgment and fairness. it is simply the right and moral thing to do. it is important to note that unlike previous charging memorandum, i have given our prosecutors discretion to avoid sentences that will result in an injustice. the >> meghan: critics including the aclu blasting the move along with illinois

senator dick durbin who says it will send already skyrocketing costs even higher undermining other public safety priorities. judge, i'm going to you first. what do you make of all this? >> alex: i think everybody is partially right. yes, prison costs will go up because you'll be incarcerating more criminals, but there are two extremes here. one side likes to paint every drug offender is a nonviolent offender and that's just not true. all of the drug sellers are the ones to get the prison terms for sale are very violent offenders. they kill their opposition to get control of their territory, they kill people who don't pay their debt because they can enforce it in court. there actually violent. yes, we do have some users who sell in order to support their habit. to paint the brush that all sellers fall in that category is absolutely untrue. when we talk about sale, sale

means jail. they could go to jail. we should help treat the addicts who aren't sellers. on the other side, his position of we're going to seek to enforce the laws to the strongest possible degree, the obama administration basically took that away and said we are going to treat everybody with kid gloves. there's one thing in the middle that is a problem, those of the mandatory sentencing laws. they're very onerous. i talked to many federal judges who say i wish i could give this guy a different sentence. he doesn't deserve a sentence he's getting, but the laws are so tough. the obama administration is circumventing by not putting the amounts of drugs and things like that into the charging documents. i'm not a big fan of mandatory sentencing laws. i think doctors should be given discretion because you have situations where sony deserves a really serious sentence and some who don't. this is an example of

legislators wanting to take control away the judges. i'm not a big fan of that either. i think if you want to be a judge, redesign. the seam of judges who act like legislators and say i'm going to interpret the law in this fashion. if you want to remove wife the law, quit being a judge and be legislator. >> sandra: ran paul, senator from kentucky, he is speaking out against this move saying mandatory minimum sentences are disproportionately incarcerating minorities for too long. he says a rollback of the policy will accentuate. >> alex: whether it's incarcerating minorities or whites, i don't think that's the issue. if you are incarcerating somebody who doesn't deserve to be incarcerated, i don't care if they're white, black, or hispanic, they should not be lumped in. if you have a three strikes, your outlaw and some grandmother writes three bad checks because

you can't eat and all of a sudden she's in prison for my 20 years, that's not what it's intended for. >> rachel: what about minorities who are living where the crimes are committed? these are people who have no options, they can't just get up and move. >> harris: those part of his point today when he was speaking. you are also a police officer so i know you have a take on it from that perspective. >> alex: absolutely. the biggest victims of crime and poor communities are poor themselves because they can't get out, as you pointed out. this is a tough issue for those reasons. >> meghan: i could listen to you debate this all day, but we are awaiting a white house press briefing which comes just hours after president trump suggests canceling future press briefings. we'll take it or live. plus some republic and lawmakers are getting yelled that, called names, and threatened amid growing fury over the obamacare

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>> sandra: more "outnumbered" just a moment, but first let's get to jon scott with what's coming up in a second hour of "happening now." we have a hint of what's going up at 1:00. >> jon: it's going to be exciting. we are waiting the white house press briefing. sean spicer set to take reporter questions. we can expect a lot of fireworks. questions ranging from the firing of james comey as head of the fbi and other issues and bombing the russian investigation. also after president trump suggested he might do away with white house briefings altogethe altogether. will also talk with wilbur ross about a new deal with china up ahead on happening now. >> sandra: we are all awaiting that briefing, jon scott, thank you. the >> harris: town hall events have become increasingly dangerous as lawmakers say fury over the push to repeal obamacare. watch this. [bleep] >> what you talking abo? you are insane!

>> you insisted that i pay before you will save me? that is a moral, sir! completely. you have no leg to stand on. >> harris: now in tennessee, a woman was arrested after a town hall meeting and is facing felony reckless endangerment charges. she is accused of chasing republican congressman donna doa highway and blocking his vehicl vehicle. what crosses the line and all of this? >> alex: people obviously are very heated about health care i know that we are looking at this now, but if you remember back when obamacare came out, we had really heated town halls for democrat supporting obamacare. last thing people want is their health care taken away. >> harris: that said, you can't threaten to harm people.

when you get to the point -- >> alex: she was arrested and she should have been arrested. even just being there and making real threats, there's a lot of innuendo. someone said i'm not going to forget what you're doing. that could be a threat, but it could be when election time comes around, you'll get my vot vote. the >> harris: can i ask you about free speech and how it works in terms of whipping the crowd into a frenzy? i know you can't say something untrue, but when you see that one man with the microphone and he goes on about his wife and how this politician got in the way of her health, what is protected speech? >> alex: it totally protected. remember in ferguson when the father of michael johnson,

stepfather told everybody, burn the town down, burn the city down and actually dead. it's unconscionable that he was not prosecuted. >> rachel: i have a husband who goes to these town halls. first of all, hypocrisy. conser down all the time. in this case, that poor congressman had a daughter who died and is telling a story about it and he was mocked and ridiculed as he's telling the story about his dead daughter. secondly, this woman who ran the congressman off the highway, this is the stuff i'm afraid of. this week alone, my husband received a letter from a constituent that says blank you. this guy it was an attorney in our town. the level of civility is off the charge to mac charts. what bothers me about the media is the story is about one of

these republicans doing that's causing these liberals, these people to act this way instead of -- a tea party person had run a congressman off the road. believe me, the entire movement would have been charged with this. there would've been called domestic terrorists and all of us in on the the couch know that. they are stirring things up. something's going to get hurt and as a wife and a mother, i am very concerned. my husband's had death threats, others have two. >> sandra: talk about tom macarthur, we talked with us on the couch yesterday, that man who was yelling at that pace in that volume level for over 10 minutes at the town hall didn't even want an answer. he didn't wait for an answer. >> rachel: where were the diane's when every lost their health care or not people who can afford their deductibles? >> alex: republic and party doesn't have it together. you know darn well that there

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