wants date to pay back 17 bucks spentd on movie ticket. she denies being on the phone the entire time. finally the ugly, kendall jenner denies bike face planting. sister posted it my work here is done. heather: "fox & friends" start here, bi. >> trump administration is denying a report asking james comey to end the investigation into michael flynn. >> comey wrote a memo in which he said that the president said to him i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. >> i hope that's a little different from saying i order you to let this go. >> no longer fake news. it's now dishonest news. >> it's another example, i think, of president trump just being treated differently because is he an outsider. >> walking free 28 years early. disgraced soldier chelsea manning released from prison.

>> tornado outbreak in the middle of the country. slamming wisconsin and oklahoma. >> we had a very, very successful meeting with the foreign minister of russia. fighters against isis. >> the president in no way compromised any sources or methods in the course of this conversation. national security is put at risk by this leak and by leaks like this. ♪ i was born free. ♪ i was born free e. steve: bob richy, also known as kid rock singing about being born free. it's going to be a hot one here in new york city. ainsley: how did he come up with kid rock? brian: long story. he is not that young anymore. he still looks good. but i'm just saying. i always thought new kids on the block would have a challenge but so is kid rock. steve: if you have kid in your name perpetually youthful. brian: billie the kid, dead. just telling you.

eventually all, you know, kids get older. ainsley: baby goats. i grew up in a city, columbia, south korea, almost a million people. brian: meanwhile, if anyone grew up anywhere on the planet had you a chance to pick up and seat breaking news that happened yesterday. that's the "new york times" story that evidently a source close to james comey, the former fbi director picked up the phone and called in to a "new york times" reporter and says i have a memo to read you because james comey kept copious notes of his meetings. one of which was the president of the united states, donald trump, at which time there was some explosive allegations there this is according to a source who read this excerpt which is allegedly to be james comey's noits about a meeting with donald trump. steve: an associate plaintiff comey's. ainsley: that's right. he says in the memo that james

comey either talked to the president or was in a meeting in the oval office. he said the president asked him to shut down the mike flynn investigation who used to be the nsa director. he said i hope can you let this go. he is a good guy. steve: when you say shut down the investigation, essentially that's the headline in the mainstream media. there are a lot of people who are saying when he said i hope you can lead this go, what did he mean, exactly? this morning we're going to be talking about what legal experts say is it obstruction of justice? probably a dumb thing to bring up with the fbi director. but did it break the law? we don't know yet. brian: here is what the white house said. they have a lot to push back on. they were working all night. arguably the biggest week in the history of modern politics if you consider the amount of big stories that are coming out. while the president is repeatedly expressed his view that general flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country the president has never asked mr. comey or anyone tolls end any investigation. including an investigation

involving general flynn who left after 23 days. steve: when you look at what he said i hope can you let this go, he is not ordering him to end it. what you have got and you look at the mainstream media, look at the legacy press and stuff like that, he ordered him deep 60 investigation. not exactly right. ainsley: here is the thing. if this is true release the memo. that's what congressman jason chaffetz who is house oversight he wrote a letter to the new acting fbi director and he said if this exists, if these notes exists, this memo exists we want to see them. steve: here's the thing. james comey has fancied himself the last honest man in washington, d.c. if it is true that the president ordered him to end the investigation on valentine's day as is suggested by the "new york times," that man right there, would have been obligated by law to immediately report it. but he didn't. he didn't come out with this we haven't seen the memo noe mow, an associate read to a

reporter over the phone. sebastian gorka who is working at the white house right now, says this is all part of fake news. watch this. i think we have to go to the next stage. it's no longer fake news. it's now dishonest news. it's not about political agenda. it's politics above national security. we have gone through the numbers. just since february, let's look at what has been leaked to the press. i'm just going to give you a handful. the a.p. leaked the conversation to the mexico, to the president of mexico. "the washington post" leaked eted conversation to australia. politico leaked the one to paris. and reuters. one of the calls to the kremlin. what is it going to stop? when is the conspiracy theory insanity of the resist movement. of the ben rhodes. nexus going to say, look, we're not going to endanger national security anymore. we're going to do actual

journalism. question. brian: a lot of that is a bit of a stretch. this isn't fake news. you have a source who says he is an associate of james comey that said he has notes in a diary of a meeting with the president. that's real news. anybody would be reporting that where did you go with that i think is where that's where i think a lot of editorial comes in to reporting. carl rove who is not a huge fan of the president came out and said, listen, this guy got elected and someone is stopping him from being president. >> he is a republican. he was elected with an r behind his name. who thinks that he is going to get the same treatment that either bill clinton or barack obama got? let's wake up and live in the real world. this is something that every republican president has to deal with. and that is that the press is against them. in this instance they are really against them. he has he offended them deeply. he has picked an argument with them deliberately. he insults them regularly. they are people and they react

to it and they react the way people normally react if you push them they are going to push back. they are pushing back with every bit of muscle they have got and looking at everything they can attack him with. there is a dual standard. one standard if you are democrat and one if you are republican. brian: speed trap at the end of the road going 56 in a 55. you don't say i was going over 10 miles over the limit. no leeway don't speed. you still were over the limit. and that's where the president has to approach things. instead, he is doublely defiant said i'm going to do things my way. get out of my way. steve: is he a disrupter. no doubt about it that's the reason he won. ainsley: article fox news has on our website. gregg jarrett wrote this excellent article. steve: is he a lawyer. ainsley: he knows the law. by write ago memo, comey has put himself in a box. if he now accuses the

president of obstruction, he places himself in legal jeopardy for failing to promptly and properly report it. if he says it was merely an comfortable conversation, he clears the president of wrongdoing. and sullies his own image as a guy who attempted to smear the man who fired him. either way, james comey comes out a loser. no matter, the media will hail him a hero. the reason i like the article is it's from an attorney's point of view. what is law, what is fact, what's legal, and what is not? it's illegal if james comey felt like the president was asking him to end an investigation answered thought it was obstruction of justice answered didn't report it immediatimmediately. steve: if he didn't report it immediately was it because he felt et language was so vague and that's the point gregg was making. he said i hope. he didn't say i order or command you to do that. if it was vegas that means there was no case there. too ambiguous.

brian: allegation is and easy to push back on that the president wengted out of his way to do it. he told attorney general sessions and vice president can you leave us alone. michael flynn is a good guy whatever. examine. ainsley: comey agreed. steve: did he agree. brian: feels so comfortable to put a surrogate up there to call the "new york times" to push back. this salah and order guy. why do you feel so comfortable leaking out your journal to a "new york times" reporter? steve: here's the thing. you have got to figure james comey, who has been in washington for a very long time, it sounds like he has been keeping notes on all of his important conversations. i heard somebody on the radio or something say it was his get out of jail free insurance policy where he had notes on everybody. if he has got notes on this president, we're probably going to see them. i would also like to seat notes he has got on barack obama. remember, it was suggested by some on the right that barack obama obstructed justice when he said of the irs, you know,

there is no there there. not even a smidgen of corruption with the irs. during an irs investigation. or the hillary ming thing, she didn't break any rules while they were investigating the fbi was investigating her as well. so, it is interesting that we would see this particular fbi agent's notes through the lens of the "new york times." we haven't actually seen them but jason chaffetz wants to seat actual paper. ainsley: maybe the president's get out of free card would say we are two friends sitting in the oval office and i asked him. he is a general guy. i think sea good guy department break the law? turns out of the president then fires general flynn as the nsa director. steve: that compounds and makes the obstruction of justice charge seem more likely. brian: you wonder if the president didn't just call him out because as you say two guys, well, is he a show boat i had to fire him.

you call somebody personally and say he is a show boat as opposed to what you are hearing is he served this country. he walked from a huge job to make less and giveback, i appreciate his secretary of state. i just think it's time to turn the page, instead he is a show boat, there is no russian problem. he should have dropped it i got to go. >> ainsley: clearly a leaker in the fbi. didn't like comey and didn't like the fact he was fired and brian: read this to the "new york times." you don't just leave your notes around from a conversation. steve: go back to our earlier point and that is if the president, if the fbi director felt that the president of the united states is obstructing justice, is he telling me to shut this down. he should have gone out the next day and keep in mind he has appeared in public. ainsley: a lot. steve: in congressional hearings. oh, by the way the president tried to obstruct justice. we didn't hear about any of this until after he was fired. ainsley: if you don't report it immediately then that's against the law. steve: by the way, what do you

think? ainsley: hey, jillian. jillian: all right. let's get you caught up on what you need to know. right now convicted traitor chelsea manning who put lives at risk by leaking top secret documents is preparing to walk out of prison 28 years early. the disgraced soldier formerly known as bradley will remain on active duty and eligible for military benefits on the taxpayer's dime. the transgender. president obama commuted the sentence days before leaving office. new satellite photos show a launch site with burn marks. analysts say the rogue nation may now be test ago missile capable of hitting alaska and hawaii. u.n. ambassador nikki haley now threatening new sanctions against countries supporting north korea. >> no one is immune to the threat of north korea. you either support north korea or you don't. but you have to choose.

you have to pick a side. jillian: haley wants to work with china on those new sanctions. desperate search for survivors including mother and young children after their plane vanishes over the bermuda triangle. finding will debris over the bahamas. ceo of designing companies skylight group. her two and 4-year-old sons also on board. the pilot nathan al rich is the ceo of a scooter company. the coast guard in miami losing contact with the plane as it left puerto rico monday. and that's a look at you're headlines. guys, i will have more for you coming up a little bit later. ainsley: we have been talking about there all morning. chow president trump track down and fighter leakers inside our intel agencies. next guest former cia analyst has an idea. brian: senator marco rubio message just starter add twitter meltdown. we will try explain. for adults with advanced non-small cell lung cancer,

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our next guest said there is a real scandal here in the mainstream media. fred fleitz former cia analyst and president at the center for security policy. fred thank you for being here. >> thank you. steve: we know so much about what is going on, perhaps, inside the white house because there are all these leaks in washington, d.c. what do we do about the leaks? because, in some cases, obviously, the reporter is not going to get in trouble if they publish something the way the first amendment is set up. but if somebody inside the government leaks to a reporter that person could get in trouble. >> that's right. look, steve, it comes down to this. there is no trump exception in a security agreement. you're into the allowed to leak sensitive intelligence to the press because you don't like president trump and you want to hurt him politically. but i think the mainstream media and congressional democrats they think there is such a trump exception. the white house and congressional republicans have to make a case this is very

dangerous not just for our national security but it is creating a precedent where it's acceptable to leak intelligence to ruin your political enemies. it isn't acceptable and the people who do this have to be prosecuted. steve: sure. it was just a couple of months ago that it was leaked out what the president said to the prime minister of australia that apparently somebody hung up on somebody else. where did that come from? there was other leaks of national leaders and the president. those leaks have stopped. but there are still other leaks coming from the house. and you say it's time to clean house in some cases? >> yes. and it's interesting you mentioned these phone calls to foreign leaders. this shows it's possible to stem leaks. the white house took steps. i assume they are not distributing the memos on the discussions widely. they are not letting people listen in who they can't trust. steps can be taken here. the first thing is there are hundreds of senate confirmable national security portions. the president needs to get names to the senate immediately. we know the democrats are going to drag their heels.

we have to start the process to get these people in place. steve: fred, real briefly, exit question. why do people inside the government leak? is it simply to see their words on the news print or is it to, in this case, try to undo a president? >> there is a liberal tent within government bureaucracy. we know that i have think there is incredible animosity towards this president by many careerists within government. that's why we have to have mr. trump's people in confirmed positions to make sure the government employees follow the law and serve the president. steve: well, he would like them to follow the law and serve the president and keep their lip zipped. fred, thank you very much for joining us on this wednesday morning. >> good to be here. steve: good to have you. a story changing by the hour. white house pushing back on reports the president seemed to ask james comey to end the michael flynn investigation. we've got three different white house correspondents working that story, standing

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turkish president erdogan. who was in d.c. to meet with president trump. brian? >> thank you very much, ainsley. you know the number one story and believe me. the "new york times" source close to the fbi director that says that the president trump tried to end the probe into mike flynn. he would be fired 23 days later. and this story is moving quickly. the white house has one response. expect more today. i want to talk to three journalists who are all workings story to find out what they have. jeff mason white house correspondent with reuters and president of the white house correspondence association. caitlin collins is here fresh off fox report last night special edition at 11:00. she is with the daily caller. white house correspondent and katie pavlich. white house contributor. let's start with you, jeff, if we can where is this story heading? i understanding we are all waiting to see more from the white house, correct? >> we certainly are i think the questions will be to what extent are they going to

cooperate with representative chaffetz who you quoted earlier as saying he has requested that the fbi turn over any memos, any recordings about the conversations between president trump and former fbi director comey. i think the question that we posed to sean spicer today and other people at the white house is what kind of recordings are there? have they seen these memos? and to what extent is there documentation of at least three conversations that we know already that they have had based on president trump's own letter when he fired fbi director comey week ago. brian: so far sean spicer hasn't said much after the president's tweet that there may be recordings. he has not commented on that. where do you expect to go today. >> that's exactly right. i spoke with multiple administration officials last night and they don't really have an explanation for what happened beyond a denial. we haven't heard donald trump's side of the story what he says was said during that

meeting. all we know he is refuting the nature of this memo from james comey. but, it's important for us to get his side and to hear what he says was said during that meeting because right now, the narrative is that he asked him to shut down the investigation into michael flynn. brian: right. the question is for a guy in business the entire life and speak to someone yeah, mike flynn is a good guy. let's put an end to this or however he said that they might have a different perception of their approach and the actual dialogue unless there were tapes, katie pavlich, flight. >> as we have seen with capitol hill, there are multiple requests for these memos to be released so that we can get to the bottom of the story. and now i think the story gets kicked over to the justice department because there is a discrepancy between the "new york times" story and what the president allegedly said about michael flynn. and the testimony given by acting fbi director andrew mccabe last week who said nobody has tried to impede this investigation. and director comey's files, all of them, have been secured and that is my role to do

that. and so, you know, did the president obstruct the investigation by saying that the comey should let this go? that's a question i think the justice department is going to be grappling with today. and if that was the case. why didn't james comey go to the attorney general, jeff sessions and say this is a serious issue that i think you should pay attention to? did jeff sessions get told something we don't know yet? brian: bottom line james comey testify i imagine after he take as few days off. jeff, i want to bring you to what senator richard burr said because a lot of people looking for republicans last night. i imagine you were too to find out where they stand. you said. this i believe the director might have told us there had been a request like that and it was never mentioned by him. so somebody is going too have to do more than have anonymous sources on this one for me to believe there is something there. i could write something and read over to the phone which exactly by the way how it happened and tell them it came from comey. i think the burden is on the "new york times" if they are reporting it and they have got

somebody that's got the document, they need to get that document and get it released. all right, you are served, jeff, where do you go with that. everything he said seems very sober. >> everything he said also ties in with what representative chaffetz is saying which is that people wanting to see that memo. you are right it's important to see where republicans are siding on this. democrats as well. but representative chaftsd is a republican. and he has said that this is material he wants to see and that was also supported by speaker ryan whose spokeswoman said last night that it was important for the oversight committee to get ahold of that material. brian: kayla, overall the big perspective is do you feel as though the media is treating donald trump different than any other president? >> well, i don't know about that. but i think that everyone can agree that this story deserves a fair amount of scrutiny until we can get to the bottom of did. and richard burr saying that the burden falls on the "new york times." the "new york times" is the only reason we even know that james comey wrote this memo.

it was later corroborated by other outlets. they are the only reason we have heard of this. it's important to find out what really happened and what what is said during that because it's a big deal if the president of the united states asked the fbi director to shut down an investigation into someone he put in his white house and then fired him months later. brian: right. fired him months later but it wasn't right away. and that guy never secretary of defense anything and his deputy never referred to katie, going to be leaving in 48 hours going to saudi arabia and dropping by the vatican. what happens to this story? >> well, based on what i have learned from our colleague dana perino, when presidents go overseas it doesn't necessarily mean that things domestically calm down. in fact, the opposite tends to happen. so, just because the president will be overseas trying to change the narrative, meeting with a variety of different arab leaders and israeli leaders to get this peace deal that he says he wants to be a broker of, you can guarantee that the leaks will continue back home and they are still going to have a lot of fires

to put out unless they can get ahead of it, hire the right people, put the right people in place and figure out who is dessem naghtd this information from these meetings. brian: hire people. he has 60 he needs 1200 hired. >> exactly. brian: great job. >> thank you. brian: busy day. don't mess with my dad. heckler takes on donald trump jr. in montana and it's not pretty. >> tax returns. i would like to see them. >> i think the ones that were released showed he paid a much higher perrer is damage of tax than bernie sanders and barack obama. brian: he lesson on manors. president trump tried to pressure the fbi to try drop the russia investigation that according to the "new york times." is the media stretching the truth? still hilton is here. he will have a show soon and is he wearing a jacket ♪ and we can't stop ♪ and we won't stop ♪ ♪

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♪ ainsley: the white house calling fake news on the "new york times" report claiming that the president asked james comey to end the fbi's investigation of michael flynn calling it neither truthful nor accurate. steve: here to weigh in former director of strategy for prime minister david cameron and fox news contributor steve hilton joins us from our nation's capitol. how are you? >> i'm right here in the swamp. steve: you are up to your eyeballs in swamp land. >> yeah. steve: this memo that mr. comey wrote after the meeting with the president in the oval office said of michael flynn i hope can you let this go. there is a big difference between i hope and i order. isn't there? >> yes. i don't think you have to be a student of the law to see the

difference. and i think it goes to the heart, not just of this story. but of so many of these stories we're seeing in the lost few months, actually, ever since the president was inaugurated which is there is a pattern. remember, he was put in the white house, by the american people, precisely because he wasn't a professional politician. they had such a big choice of typical politicians. they had 16 republicans and hillary clinton. they didn't want any of that they wanted someone who was different. he get there and is he doing things differently. he is not program tied in the arts they say the spin of being a politician. so he speaks more freely. is he a different kind of person. every time he does something that is in any different from what people down in d.c. are yiewsd, they jump on it and magnify it and turn it into some kind of constitutional crisis. and what that's really doing, and the really big story here is that it's getting in the way of his ability to govern. he was put there to bring about real change in people's

lives. you know what really makes me so angry about all of this, is the way that the people are attacking the administration, just loving the sound of their own outrage. but where is their outrage about the people who are looking for work, people who have got work but can't afford to live on what they earn, people with kids in failing schools, so many things going wrong. but there is no outrage about that. all of that is really hard to fix. they say well he can't do fax reform that's really difficult. can't do healthcare reform. we can't do any of these things. so easy to jump up and down on scandals and washington games. it's really sickening. brian: like a soap opera is on and has high ratings but the midwest and south is not watching the soap opera and wondering when they are going to get to the reality show which is our reality show. having said all that, the president contradicted his own staff, the communication people being undercut by the president's words the next day from mcmaster and spicer. these are all self-inflicted wounds, even with the sharks around.

there is a way to avoid the sharks and the president hasn't done a good job avoiding them. >> yeah. i have think you are right. a lot of these -- they are not the massive constitutional failings that the critics of the administration make them out to be. he's got to understand that i think something serious is going on here. i think that the elite, the establishment, they really do want to get him out. they don't think the result of the election was legitimate. they don't want to wait until 2020. they want to get him out. that threatens not just his agenda but the real interests of all the people that voted for him and our viewers watching at home with these real problems in their lives. so he has got to understand that and, therefore, not give them any more ammunition. ainsley: i think everyone knew that was going to happen. karl rove wasn't a fan of president trump's. he even said it's because he has an r behind his name. what do you expect from the mainstream media. what is your advice to the president. how can he, with the messaging

issues, what advice if you were in the oval office with him, what would you say to him? >> i think the number one thing is he has got to push ahead with a strong clear positive agenda for change. i know they are say they are doing things every day that are making a difference. fine. they are the small things that actually don't tell the real story of the big shakeup that he was elected to deliver. i think he has got to get back and have an energetic agenda for really shaking things up to show the people that he is delivering his promises. steve. the trump people sent out email to supporters yesterday the sung line it said sabotage and the body of it reads you already knew the media was out to get us but sadly it's not just fake news there are people within our own unelected bureaucracy that want to sabotage president trump and our entire america first movement. >> that is undoubtedly true. by the way, it is not unique to this administration. i personally experienced that

in the government role that i played back in the u.k. many years ago. and actually. steve: you were sabotaged. >> actually, do you know who told me that? tony blair. tony blair, the prime minister of the u.k., ohio spoke to before we entered number 10 down street. he said to me clearly. it was a private meeting but many years have passed so i can share it now. brian: go ahead and leak. >> exactly. have you got to understand the civil service, the permanent bureaucracy they really do believe that they are the true guardians of the national interests and it's their job to sabotage these here today, gone tomorrow politicians have screwing things up. that's their mind set. i would imagine that's happening even more with this administration than most. but that is how they think. brian: right. i just think the president do react to this by getting a josh bolten, a steve hadley with a lot of experience in there that knows how to win these games. not argue with the refs, just win. don't complain about the field conditions and complain about what's going on.

find a way to win. have you got to adjust your game. here is what everybody is saying about it tech twitter writes on this on twitter. that's the thing there is no proof and here say and just that evidence self-written memo does not make that true. can you write anything in a memo it doesn't mean it's right. ainsley: raphael says president trump needs we the people to move forward with jobs. steve: we need the truth, i think comey is lying. your thoughts about mr. comey's memo? >> now we are where we are. we have got to see it we have got to get all this out in the open. what needs to happen is for finally, all these distractions and scandals and innuendo and rumor to try and put that behind us. and get on with these really important policy questions. how are we going to bring jobs back? how are we going to raise incomes? how are we going to improve schools? how are we going to have people have affordable healthcare? these things are what matter. we have got to get there soon.

the only way to do that, i think, regrettably is to get everything out, there have an inquiry, have an investigation. give people what they want and we can move on. brian: market is suffering right now. think are losing faith any agenda is going to get going. people are losing money. steve hilton, thank you so much. >> great to be with you. ainsley: mainstream media turning anti-trump into a business. >> i think we are in impeachment territory for the first time. >> really? what's the line between service to the president and service to the country, sir? >> also brought back three words from the days of watergate. obstruction of justice. ainsley: is resisting the president the newest form of journalism? steve: president obama may not be the climbed change champion. his supporters wish he was. the new head of the epa scott pruitt is here with his plan to create clean energy with a little common sense. brian: without destroying your economy.

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♪ jillian: welcome back to "fox & friends" on this wednesday. headlines. shut down donald trump jr. destroy the heckler who brings up his father's tax returns. take a look. >> tax returns. i would like to see them. >> i don't know. i think rachel maddow already showed he made 150 million bucks and made 45 million in taxes] crowd booing] >> showed he paid higher in tax than bernie sanders and barack obama. i really appreciate it thank you for the intro to that because i wasn't going to go there. [applause] jillian: all of that unfolding montana rally for republican looking to fill ryan zinke's seat. "the washington post" writer slammed senator marco rubio for sharing bible verses on twitter. rubio not shy about his faith shared this verse peace i leave with you. my peace i give you.

not as the world gives i give to you. do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. john 14:27. so, jennifer reuben tweeting back questioning if the senator had lost his mind. senator rubleio here live to respond at 8:20. stay tuned for that brian. >> let me tell you what is going on. president trump trying his best to drain the swamp. much of that draining happened at the environmental protection agency after the obama administration left behind get this a huge toxic mess. ainsley: more than 1300 super fund sites which are heavily contaminated still require clean up. steve: apparently that's still just the beginning. e.p.a. administrator mr. scott pruitt joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning. good to be back with you. steve: the press made president obama out to be the environmental savior. yet, when you look at the number of toxic dumps le your plate, it's a big number. >> absolutely. in fact, ainsley, you said these fights across the country have some of the uranium and led, posing great

risk to the citizens in those areas. examples where the e.p.a. didn't take any steps at all. a site outside of st. louis called westlake that's taken the e.p.a. 27 years to make a decision. not clean it up but make a decision on what should be done to clean it up. steve: that's crosses democrat and republican administrations. >> absolutely. i think when you look at the environmental left they look at the past administration as environmental savior. look at areas in the country that don't meet the air quality standards almost 40% of the country that qualify there. 120 million people. we had gold king in colorado. flint in michigan with water. super fund sites across the country. the area they struck them down twice. the supreme court struck them down twice. ainsley: does this mean can you get cancer if you are exposed to all of. this quite possibly, yes. that's why it's so important to focus the core of the mission on those areas. this president is a doer. action oriented leader. the past administration talked a lot. this administration is actually doing things to clean up the environment.

focusing on those areas you mentioned. brian: super fund sites that need to be cleaned up. what's first target. >> we are very focused on east lake. chicago. a site that has led. brian: do you know how to do it. >> we have a plan in place going to announce very soon on westlake. it's very important to make those citizens know we are going to take steps to clean up and china up quickly. ainsley: mr. pruitt, we are talking about memos and what's happening in the white house. this is what the american public really needs to be foe cuffed on, right? steve: our personal safety. ainsley: protecting our kids from cancer. >> they want leadership. and this president is providing leadership in so many areas. it gets lost in washington, d.c. malaise. steve: provide leadership to do what with the environment. >> clean up these sites. set a goal and say 1322 sites unaccept somebody. 22 years to make a decision is unacceptable. get st. louis cleaned up. steve: how much is it going to cost? >> the great thing about this is we have funding. people out there responsible

for these sites to clean up. moneys are there to do so. it's not a matter of money. it's a matter of leadership and attitude and management. we need to do it much better. brian: when are you going to make a decision about leaving and staying in paris on the paris agreement. >> i think when the president gets back from the g 7. i'm actually attending the g 7 early june as well there will be a decision on paris. very important we make decisions there soon. brian: it will be one of the big top topics. brian: many in the mainstream media turning anti-trump bias into a business. >> much of his rhetoric and many of his actions poses a danger to american democracy. >> three words, obstruction of justice. ainsley: is resisting this president the newest form of journalism? that's next.

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♪ >> after watching the clinton impeachment, i thought i would never see another one. i think we are in impeachment tear foretort first time. >> what's the line between service to the country and service to the president. >> three words from the days of watergate. obstruction of justice. >> donald trump in much of his rhetoric and of many of his actions poses a danger to american democracy. >> three words: obstruction of justice. ainsley: another day, another round of attacks on the trump administration by the mainstream media. so at this point has activism replaced journalism? let's ask political analysts with rasmussen reports amy holmes. hey, amy, great to see you. >> good morning. ainsley. thanks for having me. ainsley: what do you make of the mainstream media and them throwing opinions in constantly. >> i don't think this is anything new. i think the media has been v. been activists all along. ask hillary clinton during the

2008 election if the media had a preference obviously it was mr. obama trying to get him into the white house. what we are seeing here with these stories is this constant stream of leaks being pedaled to the "the washington post" and the "new york times" that actually endanger national security. and if you want to make a vietnam comparison. i think the apt 1 is that they seem to think you have to burn down the village in order to save it. that you have to threaten american national security in order to protect it. ainsley: steve hill to be was on earlier. he said the mainstream media feels like they have an obligation to save this country and that trumps journalism. >> no pun intended. >> and you saw a report last night i thought was incredibly irresponsible that president trump may have revealed israeli spy. >> that is not even something that president trump had portrayed to sergei lavrov. that was the leaker going even further to reveal damaging dangerous information. i see a lot of bias here.

and i wanted to show you. i think you have the headlines. ainsley: we have the headline comparing how they have president obama sharing information with russia comparing how they handled it when president trump does. this is the "the washington post" in 2016. u.s. offers to share syria intelligence on terrorists with russia. then when trump shares information with russia they put "on the record" this way. trump revealed highly classified information to russian transcripts. >> exactly there has certainly been reporting that her classified information all the time. they were saying this is the success of the administration and the administration was protected by the mainstream media. i want to point out one more thing and this is about the comey memo. something the mainstream media is not pointing out. prior to the meeting between the fbi director and the president, mr. flynn had already been cleared. that's accord ing to "the washington post, the fbi had investigated that conversation between general flynn and russian ambassador and had cleared him. ainsley: all right. amy holmes. thank you. >> than thank you, aims ainsley.

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>> the trump administration is denying a report. >> accusing the president of asking the fbi director james comey to end the investigation into michael flynn. >> they have a couple of large newspapers that are so hateful against the president. every little scrap of paper that goes across their desk that says something bad about him they blow it up. >> different kind of person. and every time he does something they jump on it, magnify it and turn it into some kind of constitutional crisis. >> did the president obstruct the investigation? if that was the case, why didn't james comey say this is a serious issue. >> walking free 28 years early. disgraced soldier chelsea manning released from prison. >> north korea's nuclear program could be much further

along than we thought. >> rogue nation may be capable of hitting alaska and hawaii. >> we had a very successful meeting with the foreign minister of russia. >> the president in no way compromised sources or methods in the course of this administration. national security is put at risk by this leak and leaks like this. >♪ you make me want to roll my window down and cruise. brian: it could be live. georgia florida line were on our show. we gave them their big lift. they were going to quit music. i said why do you have to sing owe together. you could go solo. ainsley: had nothing to do with how good their music was. all because of brian. brian: right. they won't admit it in any of the movies or interviews with rolling stone but i am going to go see them in june. steve: you announced that earlier. florida georgia line performed that song cruise on this program before any other. brian: it was your idea. you said why don't you do that

song cruise. steve: i'm not taking credit for it. they're great. let's talk a little bit from florida georgia line to they controlled the line. according to the mainstream media legacy press, the president of the united states has finally crossed the line because the "new york times" got a call from somebody who read them a memo. and the memo was written by the then fbi director james comey the day after he had a meeting at the white house on february the 14th with donald trump after a meeting with some other people apparently the president said you know what? i just want to talk to mr. comey here at the end. everybody else skedaddle. mr. comey stayed there. the president said two interesting things. one, i want you to find these leakers and throw reporters who publish classified information in jail. he said that and then he said regarding michael film he said i hope you can let this go. now, some people are saying well, clearly is he ordering

the fbi director to end the investigation. you know, some people are saying does it rise to the level of obstruction of justice? not so fast. ainsley: because you're saying the word hope is the operative word here. i hope you can let it go. he is not directing him to let it go. brian: he said he is a good guy. i hope can you let it go. he said after the meeting, according to the person who read this memo over the phone to a "new york times" reporter, which, by the way, you don't get that memo unless james comey gives that you memo. you don't make that phone call unless james comey tells you to make the phone call. you don't call the "new york times" unless you know it's the anti-christ of this administration because you feel it could hurt them the most. having said that you have got to wonder about the fbi and leaks if james comey is so comfortable with people making calls and verbatim. we after you left the meeting wrote this down and effortly handed the memo over and goes

keep this on file. ainsley: i want to see the memo. if he wrote all these down. copious notes about his conversations with the president, it would be great to see this memo. instead of just some leaker who is doing the wrong thing anyway by leaking out this information. steve: right. ainsley: calling the "new york times" and saying this is what the memo said. let's see the memo then. steve: drudge had a big headline comey's revenge. jonathan turley, the george washington university professor who is an expert on all this stuff, he says does this rise to the level of obstruction of justice he? said meh, he said the president could claim issue of concern for a long time associate. what we have a memo of a president asking highly inappropriate questions of an fbi director. this would be pretty thin soup for even an impeachment proceeding. so jonathan turley poo pooing. ainsley: gregg jarrett wrote a great article on foxnews.com. call it high kimes.

by writing a memo comey has put himself in a box. if he now accuses the president of obstruction, he places himself in legal jeopardy. can we change the full screen? brian: right. ainsley: for failing to promptly and properly report it if he says it was merely an uncomfortable conversation he clears the president of wrongdoing and sullies his own image of the guy who attempted to gir him. either way james comey comes out a loser no. matter et eminent domain will hail him a hero. brian: difficult for democrats to hail him a hero most sensational testimony in a public setting we have seen in quite some time whenever he decides to do it and i imagine it's got to be really soon after this leaked out. andrew mccabe on record also the acting fbi director. he said there has been no effort to impede our investigation. so to date, if there has been no effort did james comey keep this secret? keep it secret, it wasn't to everybody. because somebody called up with the memo and read it verbatim. so you have to wonder where this is going. and in the big picture i think this has a lot to do with the fact that the president came

out when he fired him and said let me explain to nbc what happened. the guy is a sho he is focusing too much on russia. i had to fire him to get him out of there. all i will advised statements even if you think it, keep it to the lunchroom. you come out and traditionally say james comey is a public servant. he is the wrong guy for this job in my mind i have got to start fresh. meanwhile do nothing but help the investigation into whatever they want with the election. steve: kind of like an episode of homeland. you know, where the fbi director keeps a file on the president of the united states. and, you know, he has been fbi director for 8 years. who knows who else he has files on. brian: he would have to have others. steve: you would think. we don't know for sure. we just know he had this kind of get out of jail free card where it depicts what was said. ainsley: how do you know, steve, what if they were in the oval office together. he said he wrote down all the notes. i understand if you on the phone can you type on your computer. if you talk oval office walk

away and jotting down notes. it's going to be psalmry of what he said, right? steve: we have heard that before where certain fbi agents interviewed somebody, they didn't record it, they took notes and extemporaneous notes. ainsley: if he thought he was doing something wrong. steve: which he is used to do. ainsley: if he thought he was doing something wrong, gregg jarrett writings from a legal standpoint he was obligated to report it immediately. by not reporting it immediately that shows he didn't feel like anything was wrong. brian: catherine herridge writes is he a former prosecutor who is known to take copious notes on just about everything. he has proven that in the past. he was backed up last time he had to go public by then fbi director robert muriel said yeah, i remember exactly that you have a guy come well prepared and can communicate. the white house is still efforting to get specific in the push back here. pushing ban 00 the russian leak situation that happened over the weekend and then what happened towards the end of last week with the series of interviews. steve: so it is curious if james comey thought the president was trying to obstructed justice back on

february 14th he didn't immediately report him. gregg jarrett makes the point obstruction of justice requires a specific intent. if mr. comey thought that the language was so vague where he says i hope you can let this go rather than i demand do you this. then perhaps it didn't rise to the level of a specific intent. that means no crime. brian: he let go of michael flynn. so that might have in james comey's mind, answered the questions after 23 days. jim reche one the senators from idaho said this overall last night to martha maccallum. >> it strikes me that i used to be a prosecutor. if somebody came to me and asked me to squelch an investigation, i would have been screaming bloody murder about it and told the world. so i don't know, you know what's happening, you have a couple of large newspapers that are so vitriolic and hateful against the president that every little scrap of paper that blows across their desk that says something bad

about them they blow it up and i think that's what you've got. the use of non-sourced materials in this town is amazing. steve: he is absolutely right. and then you look at this latest episode and by the way 5:00 hour on fox news channel is the most exciting because that's when mainstream media is dumping all this stuff out there. brian: 5:00 a.m. or 5:00 p.m.? steve: 5:00 p.m. for the most part. this big exclusive is based on a memo that nobody has actually seen. ainsley: my point. steve: person on the phone who read it to the "new york times" and to a couple of other big newspapers. brian: keep in mind too people banking on the fact it is not there. most likely it is there because he has a track record of doing it the fact is do if you write it done does it mean it's true and absolutely accurate. we can sit here and have totally different impressions of an interview we both did who was recorded. steve: why not screen shot it and take a picture of it and email it to somebody. why not see it?

ainsley: we talked to steve hilton who was a brit. he lives in america now. advisor to david cameron. prime minister. he said he has never seen anything like this. listen to what he said earlier on "fox & friends." >> what really makes me so angry about all of this is the way that the people are attacking the administration. just loving the sound of their own outrage. but where is their outrage about the people who are looking for work, people who have got work but can't afford to live on what they earn. people with kids in failing schools, so many things going wrong. but there is no outrage about that. all of that is really hard to fix. they say we can't do tax reform. that's really difficult. we can't do healthcare reform. we can't do any of these things. it's so easy for them to jump up and down on these scandals and washington games. it's really sickening. steve: american people elected donald trump the president, back in november. i understanding a lot of people didn't vote for him, but, at the same time, it does appear to a lot of people out there that the press, the left, the haters, the anti-trump people, they simply won't let him do the job that

he was sent to washington to do. brian: let's let jillian do the job we sent her to new york to do. jillian, what else is happening? jillian: we have a fox news alert for you right now. let's get right to that good morning to you. convicted traitor chelsea manning who put lives at risk by leaking top secret documents walked out of prison 28 hours early. disgraced soldier formerly known as bradley will remain on active duty and remain eligible for taxpayer benefits on the taxpayer's dime. the transgender convict sentenced 28 years to prison. president obama commuted her sentence days before he left office. new satellite photos raising big concerns about north korea's nuclear brahm. this picture shows a launch site with burn marks. analysts say the rogue nation may now be test ago missile capable of hitting alaska and hawaii. u.n. ambassador nikki haley now threatening new sanctions against countries supporting north korea. while you were sleeping, new

orleans removing history piece by piece. crews take down another confederate monument. this time of general p.t.g. beauregard. the supporters and protesters watching the removal. one side claiming the statue is a harsh reminder of slavery and segregation. others saying it's important part of history. this is the third of four confederate statues slated for removal in new orleans. a look at your headlines. more coming up a little bit later. ainsley: thanks, gizelleian. steve: coming up on this wednesday. police thought they were on routine call until they found bomb-making materials packed inside a car. and pete hegseth says there is a even bigger story here about the grow egg problem of terror inside america. pete, come on in with your coffee. you're next. brian: michael moore says he has a secret that will end the trump presidency? really? i sense another movie ♪ so put me on a highway ♪ ♪ and show me a sign

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♪ brian: routine arrest leads minnesota cops to ar senel of guns and bomb making devices. both facing weapon charges at

this hour. next guest says there may be a bigger story here. joining us now fox news contributor u.s. army veteran pete hegseth. pete, you know this area very well. how significant is this incident? pete: the incident in and of itself a routine traffic stop where the folk were being belligerent. the tops put them in the car and search the car and find ak 47s, grenades, drone parts, tons of ammunition. not what you would normally find inside a vehicle. and they arrest him for it this individual likely is a somali refugee. first or second generation, unknown. but has a bunch of priors as well. the question is if he has been arrested before for illegal hand ones, drugs, misdemeanors, why are people who have come here as a privilege to be an american. brian: right. >> after multiple criminal offenses staying here? brian: homeland security had him even though he has priors. i'm wondering if he is on the radar for homeland security? >security? pete: i don't think so. the fbi has their handsful in minneapolis because of issues with somali mowsm refugee

whose came to this country and try to go back and fight with al shabaab in smom i can't or isis in syria. heavily involved in the community. not to diet the entire community. when you see things like this. isis has been on edge for potential domestic terrorist attack. you don't want to see it. brian: potential voters, a mayor who is going to have a state of the city address. where is that mayor going to deliver it. pete: the mayor is going to deliver her state of the city address in a mosque in minneapolis. this is the left doing everything they can to fall over themselves to off and on over a new community. listen, we have always welcomed new immigrants and refugees. need to make sure they assimilate and show allegiance. a lot of enclaves and certain places haven't done that as much as you want. >> or shown allegiance to go fight with al shabaab. can you imagine if you gave the state of the city address in a church. brian: make no sense. >> the left would go nuts. separation of church and state. politics with religion.

here's the reverse. we have got to do everything we can we will see. betsy hodges will probably put on a head scarf and her address in a mosque. brian: james comey made a statement a few months ago said there are 50 investigations of isis and al qaeda terrorists in all 50 states. pete: not continue to diet refugees, immigrants, all muslims, that's not what we are saying. those communities need to be ratting out whose though ho are willing to be extreme. brian: pete hegseth, thanks so much. >> you got it. brian: coming up straight ahead, one thing we should all agree on there is a drug crisis in america. we have to stop it. turns out democrats would rather play politics. we have some proof sadly to relay. and the new miss u.s.a. is under fire for conservative views. what did she really mean when she said healthcare was a privilege? miss u.s.a. is here kára mccullough will be will be

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code found inside the boxes of specially marked lucky charms. brian: 23 minutes after the hours. one thing we should all agree on. drug crisis in america. we have to stop it some democrats would rather play politics. steve: author of she from federal prosecutor to federal prisoner, marine corps veteran and former opioid addict ken that joins us on the couch. >> good morning. a pleasure to be here. thank you. steve: unfortunate the opioid crisis would be political. >> it's going to cost lives. that's et dead reality of what's happening. what we need to do is come together as a country, nonpartisan and attack this problem. because we're losing 33,000 more -- you know, more or less per year in overdoses. and what's happening is the liberal elites, essentially are saying trump is doing nothing about this problem.

it's absolutely false. and he is giving $500 million in grants to states directly to states. he is basically closing down the office of national drug control policy which is a white house office which is a waste of money and ineffective. but the way they are painting it is that he is closing down this office and taking the funding. but he is not doing that. steve: andrew, there are some claims out there. we will have you tell us whether they are fact or fiction. >> sure. ainsley: first claim is trump has done nothing to address the opioid epidemic. >> right. that's absolutely false. what he has done is he has appointed tom price, who is secretary of health and human services to attack this problem and go into the communities hit hardest and disseminate some of these funds to these communities. he has also, as i said, he is shut down omdp a waste of money. saving hundreds of millions of dollars for their budget and redirecting those funds to the states where they need it the

most. brian: what about governor christie. didn't he put a commission for governor christie. >> he did. smart move. governor christie is a former prosecutor. he understands this problem. you remember during the primaries you talked about a relative that was struggling with addiction. it was very moving. brian: it was. >> his heart is in the right place. steve: donald trump who you say his heart is in the right place because he is doing something, he tweeted. this the democrats don't want money from budget going to border wall. despite the fact that it will stop drugs and very bad ms-13 gang members. so here's another one of his -- the claims. trump's tweet about dems resistance to funding the wall is allowing heroin in to this country is false. >> we have to look at the wall in a broader perspective. we're not necessarily talking about bring and mortar. all right? we're talking about higher levels of surveillance. trucks coming through. because we know that's where the bulk of it is coming

through. not coming on the backs of people trying to get into this country. that's one problem. what's happening is coming in through vehicles and the heroin and opioids are mixed in with legitimate commerce and legitimate products. we have to expand that. that's where the money has to go. trump is on border with that and he understands that other things is air creafts. planes, trains and automobiles. that's how this stuff is getting. in the virtual wall, the wall, whatever you want to call it is a step in the right direction. brian: it is going to be a mix. >> it is going to be a mix. ainsley: i was going to ask about his personal life. brian: real quick, donald trump, the president of the united states is not helping veterans with their addictions? >> ridiculous. he has completely vetted to help veterans, the veterans choice act allows veterans to go into private practice if they can't get into appointment with the v.a. there is a bigger point. what has to happen is tom price and hhs has to look at treatment programs. that's where the buck stops. if we put somebody in noah a 30 day treatment program that's not effective then we

are absolutely doing them disservice. addiction campuses we will put somebody in 30 days and stay with them for an entire year figuring out how to get their lives in balance. addicted people, their lives fall out of balance. a balance led curriculum gets them to that point. it's got to be the long-term approach. ainsley: i'm glad you are speaking publicly about it tell the folks at home how you went from a marine to a drug addict? >> it's interesting. i hurt my back in the marine corps. i couldn't do anything about it when i was in the marines. when i went to the yurve department. i speak publicly, professionally about these issues. ainsley: written a book about it. >> i wrote a book. so, you know, once the prescription pain meds went away. and i graduated to oxycontin which is nothing other than heroin in a pill. and i was just telling steve before we went on, those withdrawal symptoms were so powerful that i turned to heroin on the street. i'm not proud of what i did. you know, i committed crimes to get money for drugs. i committed crimes because i was angry and depressed. it's a long time ago. i wrote about it.

but i speak across the country about it. ainsley: how long did it take to you get off these drugs. when you make a decision to get off these drugs, how long does it take to you get from that point to healthy again. >> the key -- it's a great question. the key is the treatment piece i talked about. 30 day programs, take new, take your money and dump out out out of 30 days. we need evidence based. we have to stay with that person. we know statistically if we can get the addicted person to the year, then the chances of success, you know, skyrocket. and it's a beautiful thing to see somebody come out of that fog. brian: andrew mckenna thanks so much. >> my pleasure. thank you very much. brian: meanwhile, straight ahead. steve: what happens when you ask dishonest media to question their sources? >> nbc. >> karl? >> who are the sources? >> oh because they are hiding behind news anonymity. >> oh, please. steve: only gets uglier from there. stay tuned we will play that for you. ainsley: new miss u.s.a. under fire for this. >> do you think affordable

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he was on cnn answered got into a little tiff with kate baldwin one of the anchors over. this watch. this two former officials knowledgeable of the situation confirmed to cnn. two former officials came out, name those people and then we have something to talk about. >> one protect sources. two, it's not just cnn. it's "the washington post." "new york times," "wall street journal." cnn. >> who? yeah but who. >> abc. >> who are the sources? >> carl? >> who are the sources? oh because they are hiding behind anonymity. >> paul, please, do not even start with me. you are going to attack sources? that is ridiculous. >> so you think mcmaster is lying. >i'm not saying mcmaster is lying. >> he didn't answer the question. but that's his opinion. >> you cannot attack. >> do not attack the stellar reporters of cnn. brian: it's his opinion that mac master was there he was the only one in the room with intelligence back ground. ainsley: he did answer the question. the reporter said general mcmaster did the president release classified information

to the russians and he said no, he did not. brian: right. over and over again. steve: right. it's shocking to watch the reaction. it is four on one right there. she asked him a question. he answered the question. i don't think she liked the answer. brian: he got berated. ainsley: did you watch tucker last night. y'all have to watch the tucker clip. ainsley: tucker did a segment last night on it. brian: see it online. big question if you question people swimming against the story, be prepared for huge blow back when i think that any time the situation would be different, series of things where intelligence was leaked out in the previous administration and it didn't seem to be any interest, let alone blow back. steve: i think that goes to the larger issue we have been talking about this morning on how for the most part the media are simply against the president. in many, many ways. ainsley: our next guest is proof of that she will talk about that coming up. first we will hand it over to

jill who has headlines for us. jillian: midway through the week. begin with desperate search for survivors. including a mother and young children after small plane vanishes over the bermuda triangle. coast guard finding debris over the bahamas. ceo of designing company sky light grown. 2 and 4-year-old sons also on board. pilot the ceo of scooter company. the coast guard leaving contact with the plane as it left puerto rico on monday. two people are under arrest after a violent brawl outside the turkish embassy in d.c. >> you know better. [shouting] jillian: you can see in video security guards punching and kicking protesters to the ground. demonstration turning violent over clashes between the turkish president supporters and critics. earlier president trump did meet with the turkish president at the white house. protesters calling for a

summer of resistance in texas. they are vowing to fight the new ban on sanctuary cities in the state. the new law will allow police to ask people about their immigration status and force cops to cooperate with ice. demonstrators calling for support through marches and protests saying the new law will make cities less safe. they are also wanting texans to vote against governor greg abbott next year for signing the law. we have all had a bad first date, right? how about the first one ever? a texas man is suing a woman he met online after she allegedly texted through their movie and then left him at the theater. >> it's principled action against a person who exhibited really insulting behavior towards me and towards everyone else. jillian: he wants his date to pay back the $17.31 he spent on her ticket. she claims he made her feel uncomfortable so she had to leave. i don't know if we are going to get update on that one, if

we do, we will let you know. ainsley? ainsley: thanks, jillian. she has beauty and she has brains. ♪ ainsley: miss district of columbia, a nuclear chemist, just crowned miss u.s.a. but she has received all kinds of backlash over a few of her stage answers like this one. >> do you think affordable healthcare for all u.s. citizens is a right or a privilege and why? >> i'm definitely going to say it's a privilege. as government employee, i am granted healthcare. and i see firsthand that for one to have healthcare, you need to have jobs. so, therefore, we need to continue to cultivate this environment that we are given opportunities of healthcare as well as jobs so all the american citizens worldwide. ainsley: here to respond to her critics is miss u.s.a. kara mccullough. congratulations first of all. >> thank you. thank you. ainsley: after the pageant this is what everyone is talking about.

not that you are a nuclear chemist. beautiful. and your mission to help young girls, they were talking about your answers. they didn't like the liberal media didn't like that you said it was a privilege to have healthcare and then we're also going to play other bites coming up. what was your response to this? you are learning firsthand if the mainstream media doesn't like your stance, they're going to go after you. >> and you answered everything i was about to say. essentially, i'm like soaking this all in and i'm going to be a woman and really tell people that, hey, i stand behind what i said. we are given this opportunity to live in america. and i'm extremely thankful for everything. ainsley: that is a privilege. >> yes, it is i'm extremely grateful. everyone, it's definitely a good aspect to have affordable healthcare for people. and but i definitely am not taking my healthcare for granted. that's why i said it's a privilege. ainsley: let's play another clip when they asked you if you consider yourself a feminist. listen to this, her response.

>> as a woman scientist in the government, i would like to translate the words from feminism to equalism. i really don't want to consider myself, i try not to consider myself like this diehard, you know, like oh, i don't really care about men. one thing i'm going to say is though, women, we are just as equal as men when it comes to opportunity in the workplace. ainsley: so you consider yourself equalist. what's wrong with that? >> the way our nation is set up, everyone is offering an opinion. that's the beauty of america. we can definitely speak on things that we don't agree with i just chose to use the word equalism. i am all about women's rights. look at you. my mother was a chief petty officer in the navy. i'm a scientist at the nuclear regulatory commission. come to my agency. i would love to introduce you to some engineers, women engineers and friends. i chose to use the word equalism. i understand that women have so much opportunity to be given to them in the

workplace. ainsley: we should all be supporting one another. >> yes, ma'am. ainsley: gosh, your platform is amazing. what do you plan to do to help young girls. >> i'm glad you asked. i have a self-funded program called self-exploration for kids. i struggled with math as a child. ainsley: did you. >> oh my goodness, yes. i had a phenomenal teacher in the eighth grade. she really broke down my way of learning. so now when i tutor kids, guy through everything step-by-step and essential the program is supposed to just introduce children to science. especially girls. i want them to so see it from an aspect that's fun, easy, inviting, expand your imagination rather than something that's difficult like what i was challenged with. ainsley: a good teacher can change it all for you. they are phenomenal individuals. >> yes, ma'am. ainsley: my mother was one for 33 years and my sister is a school teacher now. they don't make enough money. they give and give and give. what's your message for the president. he used to own the pageant. and going forward as someone

who is also attacked by the mainstream media. what's your message for him. >> i would say honestly the media is the media. that's one thing we can't get away from. i mean, i would just tell him continue to be yourself. you know, stand behind your word. everyone is going to attack you. there is going to be critics, the nay sayers regardless of what you believe in yourself and how you are trying to really integrate american people. ainsley: people said he was never going to win and he did win. you were telling me you thought you bombed in the prelim and look at you now. you are miss u.s.a. >> i can't believe iainsley: coe are happy for you. >> thank you. ainsley: when is miss universe. >> between november and january. i will definitely send you a thank you note. we wish you all the best. ainsley: thank you. do you think donald trump had l. make america great again? scott rasmussen says it's really up to you. he will explain that next. plus, it was a hit show that hit back at liberal america. >> i know what microaggressions are it's the latest liberal attack at free speech. a lot of fun --

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brian: quick headlines. memo morphing into resistance summer. the dnc will hold $1 million to hold rallies between town halls and neighborhood meetings across the nation. that hoping to attract new democratic voters. they will have to have something to say though. michael moore unleash agnew strategy against the white house. the film marng who everyone wishes would go away reportedly working on a new documentary called fahrenheit 11/9. that's the title references the dale date president trump was elected. also a play on the 2004 film about george w. bush fahrenheit 9/11. steve?

steve: thank you, brian. big story of the day, so-called memo magically surfacing in the "new york times" claiming president trump urged former fbi director james comey to end the probe into michael flynn. a report the white house is already calling fake news. scott rasmussen joins us now. he is the president of rasmussen media group and senior fellow at kings college here in new york. and author of a brand new book comes out this week called "politics has failed. america will not." he joins us live. good morning to you, scott. >> good morning, steve. steve: what do you make of comey memo read to a reporter at the "new york times" and bunch of other papers. >> steve. this is an example of a broken political system. if i say something bad about brian kilmeade to you, most days you're probably going to defend him. but if i said the same thing to somebody else, they would say oh, brian is this terrible evil person and they would take my words and twist them a different way. our political system is so bradley broken now they decide our views on everything on whether it helps or hurts our team.

steve: does it help -- obviously it hurts donald trump. but people, you tune around right now on the other channels and talking about obstruction of justice. talking about impeachment. i think they have officially booked the room for the impeachment proceedings. >> i think they have. what other people are talking about is how great the aaron judge is doing for the new york yankees or summer vacation plans. at some point this all politics all time forces people to tune out. if you are an opponent of donald trump, you listen to all this stuff and you say why aren't those republicans putting the country above their party? and if you're a supporter of donald trump, you say why isn't the "new york times" putting the country above their own views? steve: you actually included james comey in this book, didn't you? >> i mentioned him as part of the problem. broken political system. people in charge are frustrated by the fact that the rest of us think we live in a free and self-governing society. and what the book is about, it's really a message of hope for all those that are

depressed about this political system that we're in. it's also my own personal journey. i was depressed about our broken political system. couldn't see any way to be hopeful about it i looked to congress. i see 535 reasons for perform. but now i'm very optimistic about where our country is going. steve: you talk about the importance of community and how people lead the government and not the government leading us around. >> that's right. the story in america is always culture and community and technology politicians lag behind. back in the 1970s, you know, pivotal decade for america. there were all these stories about presidents and foreign leaders and stagflation and iranian hostages. two guys dropped out of college. nobody noted anything about it those two guys have had a bigger impact on the world today than all 8 presidents combined. steve: who are the dropouts. >> steve jobs and bill gates. steve: they did okay. >> they did okay and they created this decentralizing world. we have more power in our smart phones than the

presidents had in the 70's. steve: no kidding. >> because of all of that our society is decentralizing. people like james comey want to created a regulatory state and that's the tension we are in. that's the political tension. it's the contrast between a centralized government and a decentralizing society. steve: it's a fascinating topic. his new book is called "politics has failed" america will not. >> thanks, steve. steve: thank you very much, scott. meanwhile it was a tv show that hit back at liberal america. >> i know what microaggressions are. it's the latest liberal attack at free speech. and a lot of fun. steve: now that show has been cancelled. coincidence in the star tim allen just responded. he's coming up. ♪ back on the ground ♪ won't you please, please tell me ♪

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♪ ainsley: this week it was announced that abc would be canceling second highest rated comedy called last man standing leaving many left to wonder did it outwardly conservative star tim allen have anything to do with this. >> i know what microaggressions are latest liberal attack at free speech and a lot of fun it could do them. ains whants is real reason that abc took the show off the air. joining us now with his thoughts is the author of the unholy trinity blocking the left's assault on life, marriage and gender mr. matt walsh. thank you, matt for joining us. >> thanks for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. for folks at home that have not watched the show. tell us about the show that makes it so conservative. >> it's a show all about, you know, it's the last man standing. a show about the last manly man trying to survive in this overly feminized pc culture.

devout christian in the show. the character show reflects in a lot of way tim allen's own views being kind of a conservative and republican. and but the main thing the show is successful. people are watching it. anchoring their friday nightlineup. and they cancelled it anyway. ainsley: why did they cancel it? >> look, they are saying that tim allen's salary was too high. they had this other show modern family gay. gave raises to all six characters on the show it doesn't make sense. they cancelled it hollywood in general despises conservative americans. middle americans. they don't want to appeal to normal conservative americans because they think that we're all kind of toothless white trash, bible thumping bigots. they think if we have this show that appeals to us they are doing something wrong. and that's -- i think especially with abc, you are look at the other shows they have on this network, they just had this special on gay rights. it was a huge flop. they have had overtly

anti-christian shows. many of them in the past. and so i think that they -- they are just not interested in appealing to us, to, you know, jesus freaks, i guess. ainsley: tim allen did tweet about it yesterday. this was announced last week they were canceling the showing. he tweeted about it yesterday. he said stunned and blind sided by the network i called home for the last six years. #last man standing. you can respond. >> yeah. that's -- and i would be surprised too if i were him. i think, look, you can see it's just a tv show it is a tv show. at the same time we know that television has this real capacity to shape the culture. and the way that families and people are portrayed on tv, that has a huge impact on the culture itself. and obviously these television companies know that, too. which is why i think they get a little nervous when they see a show like this appealing to this audience. ainsley: yeah. >> that's why they try to

shove these other shows on us that people aren't interested in. ainsley: show is successful and people are watching it you would think from a business point of view take the politics out of it they would continue it thanks, matt for being with us. we appreciate it what is hillary hiding? turns out a lot. it's all legal. but sh r shhh, don't tell anyon. experience the first-ever 471-horsepower lexus lc 500 or the multistage hybrid lc 500h. experience amazing.

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>> the white house denying a report that president trump asked james comey to end the fbi's investigation of michael flynn. >> comey wrote a memo in which he said the president said to him i hope you can see weigh clear to letting this go. >> i hope that's a little different to i order you to let this go. >> the media seem to think they have to burn down the village in order to save it. >> i think the elite establishment they really do want to get him out. >> convicted trader chelsea manning had put lives at risk by release top secret documents. released from prison 28 years

early. >> north korea nuclear program could be a lot further than we thought. the rogue nation could be tested a missile capable of hitting alaska and hawaii. >> the president in no way compromised in the source of this investigation. >> the media is the media. but regardless what you believe in yourself. i stand by what i said. we are given appear opportunity to live in america, and i'm extremely thankful. >> that consolidation album i got. >> i used to listen to it on am radio in the '70s. >> how do you do the hustle? >> i can't go over it now. >> we're watching it behind the camera. >> as a public service, we cannot broadcast that. brian: right so there's a lot

going on today, and i've been saying. steve: really? brian: i've been saying this since last thursday, but it gets bigger and bigger. here's the story. first off, let's go back to the russian story. you know what happened when the foreign secretar lavrov and the president of the united states met in the oval office. then it leaks out that the president leaked out top secret information. now we know it came from israel. and the president said i didn't do that. and, by the way, mcmaster, general mcmaster the chief of staff also said i was there. there was no leakage of top secret intelligence. meanwhile, guess who just weighed in on this. vladimir putin. steve: he did, and he was very busy. and you could see the headline right there. stupid or dangerous. he is actually referring to american politicians, and he's blasting mr. trump, president trump's critics. and what's interesting as well is that he has revealed that

russia will hand over the records between the president of the united states and mr. lavrov, if requested by any of the senate or house or fbi. ainsley: whether or not you want to trust the russians, that's another thing. but we have a general who said it never happened. he said he was in the room, he came in on camera to fight what folks at cnn are saying. they asked him with classified information. he said no. brian: and, by the way, this is an isis attack. evidently president trump said, listen, we have a source in isis and there's going to be some plot, and he thought it was necessary to seems to mention that to the russians at which time vladimir putin has now said his country is willing to give records of president trump's talks with the foreign minister as well as the ambassador, and he calls the controversy over intelligence schizophrenia. are they in our oval office taping us?

was the ambassador wearing a wire? >> don't know but apparently the russians are able to provide any information they can. and we heard from general mcmaster yesterday, and it seems like that story for the most part had died down until about 5:00 yesterday afternoon when as drudge put it, comey's revenge. a reporter at the new york times was called and former associate of james comey, the former fbi director, read some of a memo that mr. comey wrote the day after he had an oval office meeting with the president of the united states. and here's the passage that is getting all the traction. apparently the president of the united states said to mr. comey "i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go." comey then said "i agree. he's a good guy." so now given the fact that it apparently sounds too comey

and his associates that the president was trying to force him to end the investigation into mr. flynn, now you've got democrats talk about obstruction of justice and of course invariably impeachment as well. ainsley: the white house is denying it. they're saying it's not accurate. so jason chaffetz, congressman jason chafitz, the house of the oversight committee sent this to the new active director of the fbi. and said if this memo does exist, if these notes exist, we want to see them so we can investigate this. brian: pretty soon, and they want to see them now. evidently it happened in february. he was getting a terrorism briefing to happen. the president said to the attorney general and the vice president could you please leave. i want to speak to the fbi director directly. and he thought it was so important, he jotted it down in his notes. and somebody close to the former fbi director thought it was so necessary that he gets -- he or she gets this story out, they call directly to the new york times and say

i'm not going to give you the memo. i'll read you what it says. now, i'm not saying the memo doesn't exist. but it says at least couch the story according to an unnamed source who reportedly was reading a memo reportedly from the fbi director. that is hardly the "we have to impeach this president. everybody who's with me, let's get in line. ainsley: last night i was watching sean hannity's show and his entire monologue was who the lyric was. he had sebastion on. >> we have to go to the next stage. it's now dishonest gnaws. it's politics above national security. we've got gone through the numbers just since february. let's look at what has been leaked to the press. i'm just going to give you a handful. the ap leaked the conversation to the mexico. to the president of mexico. washington post leaked the

conversation to australia. politico leaked the one to paris and reuters, one of course to the kremlin. when is it going to stop? when is this conspiracy theory in sanity of the resist movement, of the ben rhodes, connally carl, nexus going to say, look, we're not going to endanger national security anymore. we're going to do actual journalism? brian: it is journalism to get a call somebody close to the fbi director to say this is his notes as a meeting from the president. so it's not true. it's not fake news. steve: but how did the new york times verify that the memo was from, you know, they didn't see with their own eyes. it is peculiar that they just took it on the voice on the phone. okay. i've got this memo from mr. comey. let me read it to you. and apparently they did this -- associate of mr. comey did call other news outlets.

what's curious about this. it's all about. okay. well, then why did we just find out about it yesterday if on valentine's day a couple of months ago mr. comey heard with his own two ears the president of the united states trying to obstruct justice. mr. comey who regards himself as the last honest man in washington, d.c. would certainly the next day then turn in the president of the united states or during one of his many appearances in public, he's been before congress when they asked him about stuff, he could have said you know what? the president tried to obstruct justice. we haven't heard any of that until yesterday and, in fact, andrew mccabe who's currently running the fbi on a interim basis, he was asked whether or not anybody who tried to shut down the investigation and apparently mr. comey did tell some associates that this story was out there. he would have said something last week, but he didn't. ainsley: gregg jarrett says he has an obligation by law as a fbi director if he thinks there's obstruction of justice, he has to report that immediately. and by not doing that, maybe

it insinuates james comey doesn't think the president did anything wrong. brian: but washington was rocked yesterday. that's why you saw the special report. that's why you saw brett come back at 11:00 live. and there's some people on other channels or even republicans knuckled under. almost impossible to catch up with and a lot of them don't want to be contradicted with because th the president's so sloppy, he contradicted sean spicer, contradicted mcmaster with a tweet, people who want to defend the president want to make sure the rug isn't pulled out the next day. now, talk about extremist language. look what dan rather put on his facebook page. i end each of my days with a silent prayer for my country. it has been a ritual for some time. permeating my soul, and it seems unlike anything i've ever felt before but in the end, prayer. my goodness. let's talk about hyperbole. steve: from prayer to courage. look, if you read fair and

balanced legal analyst today, they say legal obstruction of justice is a tricky issue, and it would be hard to prove that the president crossed a line. our own gregg jarrett who is an attorney, he wrote this: by writing a memo, comey has put himself in a box. if he now accuses the president of obstruction, he places himself in legal jeopardy for failing to promptly and properly report it. if he says it was merely an uncomfortable conversation, he clears the president of wrongdoing and sullies his own image as a way who tried to smear the man who fired him. no matter the media will have him a hero. brian: the bottom line is the people who didn't like him because of the obama administration insist on doing things or the dni that got under their skin. so the question is i understand thoroughly the sentiment the president feels who knew -- got to know him very well. this is a guy who gave 30 plus years to the country.

he was essentially saying unofficial business like way, not a legal way. hey, can you give him a break? look what he has given to the country. but in the big picture, the president is getting under more scrutiny, but he has to be smart about it. if you know everyone is gunning for you, you don't speed, you don't run outside the lines, and you just make sure your agenda gets through. ainsley: there's so many variables here. but if he's sitting down with james comey in the oval office, he said he was taking notes of every conversation on the phone and the oval office he had with the president. who's to say he didn't walk out the oval office and then jot down what they talked about. when he jot down the notes, he's just saying what i think what he said. it may not be verbatim. when but i do want to see the memo. steve: he's the expert, and it will be interesting to see it because everybody's calling for the memo. there will be a difference from what i think the president said to what i ordered.

i thought we would bring you up to date. ainsley: those are all the facts. you make a decision and tell us what you think. in the meantime, let's hand it over to jillian who has headlines for us. >> what you need to be to know before you head out the door. convicted trader chelsea manning is at risk by leaking top secret documents. walked out of prison at 3:00 in the morning 28 years early. will remain on active duty and be available for benefits on the taxpayers dime. originally sentenced to 35 years of prison. president obama commuted her sentence days before leaving. a desperate search for survivors including a mother and her young children after their small plane vanishes over the bermuda triangle. started finding debris near the bahamas.

2 and 4-year-old sons also onboard. the pilot is the ceo of a scooter company. now, the coast guard lost contact with the plane as it left puerto rico on monday and that's a look of your headlines. steve: the bermuda triangle. ainsley: and one pilot. that's scary. those small little planes scare me. thanks. well, coming up, what is hillary hiding? turns out, a lot. and it's all legal. that's next. brian: and what happens when heckler takes on donald trump jr.? the lesson of manners, occurre courtesy of the president's son. >> i think the ones that he showed he paid a much higher percentage of tax than obama. break through your allergies. try new flonase sensimist allergy relief instead of allergy pills.

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steve: hillary clinton announced the start of a new organization she is leading called onward together. the questions are already being raised about the groups' intentions and the way they will be receiving money in the form of donations. here with more editor for the washington street beacon, daniel helper. daniel, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: i'm confused. i thought hillary was against this kind of organization. >> she used to be against it and of course now she's for it.

it's kind of strange. look, if hillary clinton went away today, if hillary clinton lost election last november and went away, she would forever be known as a loser. so hillary clinton has to refurbishish her image, and she has to come back and fight back to try to gain some respect, at least among the democrats, at least among her friends for losing an election that she believes she should have won, and i think this is the start of it, and it just goes to show the clintons are never, ever going to go away and hillary clinton will always be a part of our life, and she'll be fighting for respect and for money from the democratic elite. steve: well, sure and from a business point of view, bringing money in, daniel, it makes perfect sense. there is a void of leadership on the political left, so why not have the first family of the clintons go right on in? although this -- explain the difference between the clinton foundation and this organization? because i know it's a tax thing. >> in theory, the clinton foundation is a charity, and this is a political

i'm sure once this gets some donations, we'll see that a lot of the donors are the same, a lot of the people are the same, a lot of the interests are the same. but you kind of wonder. there's a lot of anguish among the democratic party about hillary clinton. they do blame hillary clinton. this is one of the reasons she is fighting back. they blame her for the loss, she brought this largely upon herself. she ran a failed campaign. you can blame the russians and whoever all you want but really, it's hillary clinton who really screwed this up, and you've got to think it's hard to see how this will be successful, given the disdain among them for among democrats for the clintons. and, you know, look, a lot of democrats you ask them, they don't believe the clintons are the future of the party. her sticking around is really going to annoy a lot of people in her party. steve: well, she is out of the woods, she tweeted last week. all right. daniel halper, we thank you very much for telling us about the new clinton organization. meanwhile, the video is hard to watch. the horrifying moment an suv

right there -- oh, my goodness -- slams a teen walking down the street. what the driver did next is going to shock you. and more on our top stories. the white house pushing back on claims the president asked the fbi to stop with the russia investigation. the president former opponent and senate intel committee member marco rubio is here to react. next

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have a chance to talk to the white house. first off on russia and are what was said or not said to the foreign minister and the ambassador. were they given -- did the president inadvertently give away top secret intelligence. where do you stand with that? >> well, first of all, i think these are important matters. whether this or the comey news. so before rushing to judgment, we're not going to base our opinion on a news article. i'm not saying the news articles are wrong. i'm not saying they're right. i'm saying that we raised an allegation. but before we form opinions and advocate for actions, we need to know what the facts are. i spoke to one of the people that was in that meeting and they repeatedly denied that the president said or dig d anything that would compromise u.s. intelligence or intelligence relationships around the world. there is no transcripts of the meeting, apparently. there are notes, and i would imagine at some point here failure soon the white house should make those notes available to the appropriate committee.

>> senator chafitz sent out the letter saying we want to see these notes if they exist. >> well, i think congressman is asking for the memos by former director comey and that's a separate topic that i wrote yesterday and, look, that's a serious matter. again, we need to know the fact and so i'm not telling you that the news articles are wrong. i'm telling you that if you're going to deal with something of this magnitude, shouldn't we at least have facts before us before we establish firm positions? brian: and before we go to the next topic, somebody did take notes. russian president vladimir putin is saying he's willing to give talks with the foreign minister and ambassador. he calls the controversy schizophrenia. i don't know if they took notes but what's your reaction to putin's statement? >> well, i wouldn't put much credibility into what putin's notes are and if this comes in an e-mail, i wouldn't click on the attachment either. [laughter] and going back to the director issue, look, it's inevitable now and inescapable. i thought he was going to have

to do this anyway. but given what we read yesterday in the newspaper. director comey or former director comey will have to testify before the congress. i imagine before the judiciary committee, and he's going to have to turn over these notes and anything else that he kept, and we'll go from there. but i just -- look, i -- i don't know -- unless you were there, no one knows entirely what happened. so we need to establish facts before we jump to conclusions. and before the facts are, i'm always going to do what's right for the united states of america first and foremost. but we need facts. we're not going to make our opinion based on news reports because even the news reports are not firsthand accounts. they are the details given to them by sources and sources come in all shapes and sizes on both sides of the debate. sources try to spin reporters and i'm not saying that's what's happening here. i'm saying you cannot base simply on that. again, i'm not den grading the free media. i think the free media is report they do a great service for our country. but our job is to arrive at the facts before we can reach conclusions, not to mention

advocate for actions. steve: well, here's a fact. everybody in washington was elected to go there to get something done, including the president of the united states donald trump. and it doesn't seem much is getting done right now, aside from all of these acquisitions about stuff like that. but with all of these things coming out, it does seem there's an orchestrated effort to try to stop donald trump's agenda. >> well, again, i mean, let's figure out what's happened first before i can say the intentions of the people doing. steve: i'm talking about that's the net effect because all of this stuff is out there, nothing's getting done. >> yeah. so on the major issues obviously on obamacare and tax reform and the like, there are people working on it every day, irrespective of all of this. it most certain has taken the media attention and public communications attention but a great example today, there will be a hearing on my bill, veterans accountability bill that will give the va secretary to fire bad employees. people caught, for example, watching pornography while on

the job, et cetera. and that bill is going to pass out of that committee, and i believe it's going to pass out of the senate with bipartisan support and pass the house, as it already has. again, that's not going to get a lot of media attention today, but it's going to happen here in the next few weeks and when it does, we're going to have a better va, and it will be better for our veterans. so that's the kind of thing that's not going to get a lot of coverage; right? but it's important. and we can do that and the other stuff. brian: you know we've been covering the va diligently every single morning. so we appreciate you doing that. ainsley: yeah, you were -- i loved your tweets, by the way. you tweeted recently a bible verse and a lot of us when times are tough, we turn to the bible. brian: i watch sports. ainsley: you tweeted peace i give you not as the world gives. do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. john 4:27. and you had some journalists responded to that. tweets either he was hacked,

or he's totally lost it. brian: washington post. >> it's fine. i don't understand -- i think the problem they have is in the bubble and the world they live in. it's all about trump. it's all about the news. i tried to. i can't say i do it every day. i try to sit down andry the word. so if you read, that was the gospel from yesterday's missile, and i'll do the same thing today, especially if there's something in there that i think spoke to me, and i want to share with people on twitter. if people don't like the bible and they don't like the gospel, they don't have to follow me on twitter, i suppose. and there's 31 pro verbs. so what i try to do this morning is i read the 17th chapter of pro verb. and if there's something in there, i'll put it up on twitter. i don't know if people are offended or not. like i said, twitter is a voluntary thing. if you don't like it, unsubscribe from my twitter feed. brian: donald trump just passed out when you say not going to read twitter. steve: you've been posting bible passages for a long time and somebody yesterday thought, oh, he has the a

prayer for donald trump or something like that, and that prompted that? >> yeah. those words were written 2,000 years ago. so i doubt very much this was going to be going on today or yesterday when they were written. steve: good point. >> i just do that every morning. you go back in my twitter feed, and you'll see multiple examples throughout the last month or so that i've done pro verbs and the like. and there was no hid message behind it. it's just the gospel. brian: i think it's great that you're doing the va. as i mention lastly do you have any advice for the president? you guys seem to be getting along much better now. you have regular communication. any advice for this white house? >> in terms of in general? brian: yep. >> well, look, ultimately i think systems are important and so working out systems internally within the white house, there is a reason why -- i mean, you don't have to be purely conventional but there is a valley to convention. you guys have a process to get ready for your program every morning. you have producers that get there very early. i'm sure they tell you they don't get paid enough money to get will it that westerly, but

they prepare that day's show. there's reasons for these systems and i think if the white house became more systematic, they would avoid some of the friction that you're now seeing. some of the other issues are part of a environment that we now live in. so it's like anything else you know? i don't agree with anyone 100% and these people agree with me 100% on any given issue. the president have a policy agreement, that's fair and broad as a party is. but ultimately, i want the president to succeed because it's good for america. when we agree, we're going to work together. when we don't in our republic, i have a right to express my opinion, and we'll let the process work itself out. brian: senator ruby, thank you so much for your quality time this evening. >> thank you. ainsley: it is the democrats new favorite word. impeachment. but how realistic is that? senator joe-max is a democrat, and he's here live next ♪

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different things there's on going investigations you never talk about to anybody. with that being said, did the president know there was an ongoing investigation into michael flynn with the fbi? if he did, did he say basically given his opinion of what he thought asking directly or putting pressure on? the intel committee will get the facts. we'll get the facts and go from there. i'm not going to speculate until i see the facts. ainsley: how are you going to get the facts? what happens from here? >> basically, if we understand -- if we need a subpoena, we can. we have subpoena power as you know in intelligence committee. the russians are willing to give their transcripts. i would like to see the american transcripts. i believe them a little bit more. brian: senator, let's talk about this. for example, you have the fbi director whose come in front of us all the time, comes behind doors all the time. and unless you're going to reveal something now, he's never mentioned before he he felt as though the president was pressuring him to drop the flynn investigation. why? is that okay with you that we

have to find out through a second source reading a memo out loud that's allegedly to be james comey's words. >> i've been around long enough that any time i'm inthe t office with a government high official, i have to assume that somebody's writing transcript basically taping something. and i'm going to be very cautious of what i say basically get directly what i'm trying to help my people in west virginia with or make sure our country's protected. so you have to always know that's out there. that's looming out there. are they using it? bail, i guess he's using it as a defense and these people basically coming from that line of work are always going to be very protective. brian: why didn't he tell you, senator? if this is true, why did he tell you guys? >> why didn't he tell us? brian: that the president was pressuring to drop the flynn investigation if this is true. >> i'm not sure that question was ever directly asked in any meeting i have been in. maybe asked privately by the chairman and vice-chairman but

not meetings i have attended. what this really comes down to is, first of all, i trust, i do trust our intelligence community. many, many people that we have given us this information. they do one unbelievable job. i would hope that the president will look at the value they bring this country. these are trusted allies at that fought with us, willing to die with us, and shed blood for us. these are people. we've got to get a cohesion here that we're all in this together, and it's all about keeping america safe, free, and strong. ainsley: senator, this is such a distraction. you know, americans voted for donald trump because they want jobs they want border security. they want a better life for their kids. and all of this stuff. i mean, every day we're coming in, we're talking about the stuff on the news. it seems like such a distraction that mainstream media is selling this narrative to put a stop on every single thing that the president is doing, and we're forgetting what the american people really want. how is this affecting you when you're trying to pass health care? you're trying to get the

budget deal done. >> i'm just trying and the last time i spoke to the president, i'm an honest broker. i'm just trying to get something done and accomplished. we talked about his tax proposal. i said i like your simplified approach. but someone sometimes somewhere some way, we have got to take care of this 20-trillion-dollar debt and it's accumulating rapidly every day. so if we look at the simplified program that he put together, tax reform, let's plug numbers that might work and take a look at that. he was receptive to that. i said as far as border control, the border wall, i think it would be a hard lift for anyone to vote for us to pay for it now when it was led to believe that they would pay for it. but if you want border security, we're all in on border security. we even pass a bipartisan bill. had nothing to do with amnesty. so you could basically restructure that bill, the immigration bill that basically was a tough bill written security border by republicans. so we look -- we're looking at different ways.

and i've said mr. president, get rid of the repeal and let's repair and there's not a democrat. it's broken top in. there's a pathway forward but all of this other stuff, and i would just urge my president, our president lay off the tweets for a while and let's get back to work. brian: yeah, and -- steve: you should tweet that out to him. all right. senator, thank you very much for joining us today. have a great day. >> hey, to all of you, always good. ainsley: thank you, senator. all right. let's hand it over to jillian who has headlines for us. >> everything's on twitter nowadays. it's kind of the way the world works. so shut down, donald trump jr. destroys a heckler who brings up his father's tax returns. >> 150 million bucks and paid 45 million in taxes. he paid a much higher percentage in tax than bernie sanders and barack obama. i really appreciate it.

thank you for the intro there because i wouldn't have gone there. >> all of that unfolding at a montana rally for a republican looking to secretary ryan zoningy. an out of control suv slams into a car, take a look at the video and then hit a teenager riding his bike and taking off. this all happening outside tampa, florida. amazingly the 14-year-old boy walked away with just cuts and bruises. he says he didn't know what happened until he was on the ground. >> i have my eyes closed, and i open them, and i see the tire right in front of him. i have two nuts here. i got road rash and a big nut in my hip. thankful. and i thanked the lord when i when i got up. >> and the driver is still on the loose. a violent brawl in washington, d.c. the video showing men in suits

punching and kicking protesters to the ground. the demonstration reportedly turning violent over clashes between turkish president erdogan supporters and critics. earlier president trump meeting at the meeting white house. those are your headlines. i'll send it back to you, ainsley. ainsley: thank you. steve: thank you. ainsley: she was putting lives in danger and now thanks to president obama traitor chelsea manning is free this morning. a a report live from prison. next your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. due to your first accident. this i can do, easily. i try hard to get a great shape. benefiber® healthy shape is a clear, taste-free, 100% natural daily fiber... that's clinically proven to help me feel fuller longer. benefiber® healthy shape. this i can do!

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with the details for us. good morning, alicia. >> good morning, guys. a lot of this is really cloaked in secrecy and the army is saying it's due to privacy concerns for chelsea manning. but, yes, at 2:00 this morning she did leave after serving just under seven years. now, here's a look at chelsea back in 2013. known then as private first class bradley manning. the former army intelligence officer was given an unprecedented 35-year prison sentence for leaking a drove of classified military information to wikileaks, including war logs from afghanistan and iraq. the day after being sentenced as bradley manning, the announcement would now go as chelsea and planned to go through the transition of workers' compensation an woman. regardless, the army said she would remain in the men's facility. the army was forced to provide hormonal treatment for gender dysphoria.

and one of its final acts, president obama commuted manning 35-year sentence organized her release. her case remains on appeal. this is an important point because as of today, manning remains an active duty soldier. unpaid but eligible for military benefits, including health care. why is that important? because she has been told that she is now eligible for sex reassignment surgery to be paid for by the u.s. military and as you mentioned, that means the u.s. taxpayer. back to you guys. brian: yeah, that is so offensive. unbelievable. thank you very much. steve: all right. meanwhile, -- brian: do you realize how much damage she has done to our country? gets commuted, all of that ungratefulness, and then gets all of these benefits when she gets out? unbelievable. steve: rushed to the hospital this morning after collapsing apparently after a bike race in washington, d.c. senator is 56 years old.

he apparently needed cpr and was taken away in a ambulance. there is no word on his condition. we will bring you the latest details. ainsley: republican senator from north carolina has a wife and two children. brian: wow. steve: in the hospital this morning. meanwhile. ainsley: could america learn from the past to confront the future? >> accidental afford to let confusion complicate things further. we must be clear with each other in direct. we must pay each other the tribute of canter. ainsley: what valuable lesson president trump could take from president reagan's handling of russia. brian: but first, let's check in with shannon to find out what's coming up on her show over the next two hours. hey, shannon. >> good morning, guys, well, the comey memo. does it exist or are we going to get a look at it? what exactly does it say? democrats and republicans are demanding answers while the white house says allegations are simply false. how damaging also is the endless stream of leaks? we're going to talk about that with congressman peter king who was said to be briefed by the cia director last night and today the house gop tries

to refocus the conversation on tax reform. congressman pete is here. he's a key player, and he joins us live. plus, obstruction of justice. impeachment. separating fact from fiction and what that all means. bill and i will see i top of the hour for americas newsroom

>> i just come from geneva in talks with general secretary. with all that divides us, we cannot afford to let confusion complicate things can further. we must be clear with each other and direct. we must pay each other the tribute of canter. brian: wow. president reagan's foreign policy legacy quote ending the cold war. so what could his handling of

the then soviet union teach president trump about handling today's russia? joining us right now fox news contributor talk show host tammy bruce. and russia might as well be another state. how often they have brought up and vladimir putin weighing in on our big domestic dispute right now. >> well, look, this is also a sign of global moo made a is that it really finally is a village in a certain way. so we're in this in a time where you have immediate reaction, you can hear from around the world, there's no delay, so that's going to encourage certain people to chime in. it's a generation now of people we're used to television. certainly a generation used to the internet. so that's one of the differences. but when you're talking about somebody like putin, this is what's interesting. reagan had his best success who was kind of very different. not like the old soviet leadership. and now we've got russia, which is not the soviet union but a man who is of the old soviet guard. so president trump is now dealing with effectively a soviet mentality and president reagan had the benefit of being able to deal with the

soviet union that was opening and would ultimately collapse. brian: so you have to tracks. you can talk to them, but you don't have to give into them. >> well, that's it. and i think with reagan experience and union negotiating as a entrepreneur, an actor. not amazon with politics as mr. trump's background in business. there's a recognition that you have to work with people. you have to be able to bring them in. but at the same time, your company is the one that you're mostly concerned about. so reagan all the time was reaching out to all the soviet leaders before him to say let's talk, we have the sound there at congress after geneva that, look, we want to have canter with each other. but at the same time, reagan was also building the military, he was very adventurous, very aggressive policy of pushing back communist aggression. and trump, big dynamic rebuilding the military. serious shifts to north korea while at the same time saying let's talk. let's get together. let's have these summits. >> you can do that with this

president with the linkage to russia. the controversy, the aftermath, the what just happened to oval office two weeks ago? >> well, it's going to be up to happen because the fact is the -- whether it's the democrats or those opposed to happen, the media will make the issue be whatever they want. in this case, they decided a long time ago, appellant, that it would be russia. when they were ignoring it when mitt romney was mentioning. so this in a lot of ways is just kind of happenstancal. i think where the president's decision comes in is how he handles it and how he accomplishes it. but the new york times talks about how the communication in the white house must change. and in its entirety because they are not even at this point participating in the native. >> but under staff does a better job briefing them. senator ruby on saying there's a reason there are systems two things. in order two things. >> yeah. and this is, though. it's as team work for sure. the president is the leader.

we know that president trump has the excellent foreign policy skills, he's going on his trip, but this is about having a team of individuals who can keep up with him. he's got to make those choices and if they can't keep up with him, he needs to switch them out. that's key. >> embeds have some leakers there that might be working against him. the explosive time to do any topic, especially the russian topic. when we come back, we're going to do something really important. going to wrap up three hours in about 45 seconds i had frequent heartburn, but my doctor recommended...

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>> back with that fox news alert. north carolina senator tom tillis being rushed to the hospital now after collapsing during a three-mile race in washington, d.c. >> it showed three people helping at the scene. the republican senator stopped breathing and needed cpr. >> he at first appeared to be unconscious but was revived and breathing when he left by the ambulance. no word on his condition. he posted this photo just before the race began.

>> the local cbs affiliate said three men saved his life. >> probably those three right there. >> wife and two kids. remember him in your prayers. >> we'll see you back on the couch tomorrow. >> bill: good morning, everybody. what is in the f.b.i. memo? these are the questions washington is waiting for this morning. at the white house put on defense. a report in the "new york times" saying president trump permanently appealed to james comey to end the investigation of former national security advisor michael flynn. something the trump team says did not happen. there is a lot to go through and we'll follow the facts as we always do. good morning. i'm bill hemmer. >> shannon: i'm shannon bream. "the new york times" claiming comey wrote a memo following a meeting in the oval office. the white house said the president has never asked mr. comey or anyone