that is very classy that the commander in chief would stop and try to help the gentleman in service to our country, nice gesture. >> bill: good effort. we are going to blow out of here. >> shannon: while you will be here tomorrow, right? >> bill: yes, we have to roll. "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: starting with a fox news alert, donald trump, jr., under fire this morning. defending himself with the russian lawyer, said to be linked to the kremlin. at that meeting, and then paul manna ford, and the president. kushner will have the accusations in the denials this morning. hello, good morning, aaron sean in her jon scott. >> and i am julie banderas. claiming that the meeting was about russian adoptions until "the new york times" forced him to admit that he had been told that the russian lawyer might have had dirt on hillary clinton.

the trump administration is doing damage control. the president's counselor kellyanne conway on "fox & friends" earlier today. >> he has said clearly that the meeting was taken, he did not know who was coming. it was somebody who he knew through the miss universe pageant, that the trump family, i guess mr. trump had owned and managed for a while. fine, he goes into the meeting, he says it was vague, ambiguous, very obvious that there was no helpful or meaningful information. at the meeting quickly turned over to the meeting of russian adoption, probably the pretense in the beginning. no action was taken, no follow-up whatsoever. >> julie: live at the white house with more. >> you know, never a dull moment around here. can i throw that out here. if you look at the white house, they will say that it is a nothing-burger if by that you mean layer upon layer of

accusation and speculation. let me share a part of the tick-tock and the facts as we know them. you laid it out very well. giving people a sense where we are on the story and what exactly we are talking about here. a donald trump, jr., did take the meeting last summer. he is on twitter this morning talking about it. and he said, "the new york post" got it right. calling "the new york times" expose a big yawn. he tweeted this. it went nowhere, but had to listen part of the problem is that he did not mention that meeting on his disclosure form, and the white house said he turned in his paperwork prematurely, that is the big nothing-burger. points out that mention previously by kushner and manna ford, at the meeting last summer. this is a huge statement, i cannot give it to you all, it would take too much time, so let me share the important parts of

his statement. the woman, we are talking about the attorney in the meeting stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia where funding the democratic national committee in supporting mrs. clinton. that's what we have learned. the statements were vague, ambiguous, made no sense. goes on to add that she began discussing the adoption of russian children. it became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along. most importantly he writes at the very end. again, here is kellyanne conway. >> i think what is important is that we are at today 200 or so of no evidence of russian collusion. people want to convert wishful thinking into hard evidence. what we do know have been, not russian collusion, but russian conversation between president putin and president trump three days ago. >> always on message, kellyanne conway. there a lot of democrats that

are not buying all of the explanations. listen to california congressman adam schiff. >> the president's son had denied any meetings like this, they claim that the meeting had nothing to do with the campaign, and yet the trump campaign manager is invited to come to the meeting, and there is no reason for this russian-government advocate to be meeting with paul manafort or the president's son if it was not about the campaign and show policy. >> okay, can we get a little bit of clarity on this, sarah huckabee sanders will be hosting "to the gaggle -- not going to happen that's afternoon, she will take questions about russin meddling, probably not. generally they post those out to outside counsel, but we will have audio after the conclusion from the white house. i will add one final note, the question in many at the

white house, was the real intentional purpose for the woman at the meeting? and why were you trying to get campaign information from someone from another country. that is a back and forth we are following here today. as i mentioned, never a dull moment. >> julie: know, there is not. i think of her reporting on it. >> eric: on this monday morning, lawmakers are back to work on capitol hill. after the recess. some senators really got an ear full from the constituents about the still not passed health care bill. this is president trump putting new pressure on congress over repealing and replacing obamacare before the august recess. >> if he can't get this done right now, i agree with the president, let's honor the promise on repeal, spend more time to get it done. >> eric: will they get it done before august? live on capitol hill with the very latest, hello, mike. >> good morning.

the concern for republican leaders was allowing them to go home without voting, might be a bad thing. might firm up the resistance. now several senators are saying that original g.o.p. health care plan is likely dead. >> the bill that was in draft form that mitch mcconnell first presented, ten senators have come out against. he is trying to rework something that will pass, but the original version, ten folks opposing is not going to pass. >> i was senator tweeted over the weekend... he wrote... other republicans say that they are not giving up hope. >> most of the folks that were having trouble with do you want to get to "yes," they do supports most of the bill. there are people that are not there yet. we have a new version coming out today or tomorrow, and to that

is meant to bring on board people who still have their reservations. i hope we will get there. those on the other side are not waiting around to see if republicans can figure this out. senator bernie sanders did an event last night, and mitch mcconnell home state of kentucky and he made this appeal to the majority leader. >> i beg senator mcconnell, listen to the organization in this country, who are in the forefront of medicine who oppose this disastrous bill! several months ago, if you know, the house of representatives passed a bill very similar to the senate bill! >> there is already talk of a plan b if republican senators do not to unite around an updated bill. we should get a better sense as they return here to the capital. >> eric: over the weekend, alabama strain saved at the senators should just cancel the august recess to get this done.

chances are they would not do that. we will see. >> julie: allred, senator john mccain giving a pretty stark assessment of the fate of the senates health care bill, take a listen. >> my view is it is probably going to be dead. >> julie: there you go. joining us now, senior politics writer added to world news and report. a lot of republican senators much like john mccain, not putting a lot of steak and promise into the thing passing. mitch mcconnell still hoping that it will. do you believe that the july 4th recess made a bad situation worse? >> it looks pretty bleak right now, but i think that the comments from senator toomey on fox were pretty constructive that there is going to be another version rolled out this week. that is our best hope right now, but just in the hearing the conversations over the weekend from republican senators, it does not look like they are on a path to "yes." i was at an event over the

weekend with senator, and i talked to the republican voters on the ground there. just as mad at the republicans as they are at the democrats. they were telling me that they could not believe that after seven years of campaigning that they have not united around a plan. in some of that is because not a lot of people thought that the president trump was going to win the presidency. i think that set up the problem, i think the big question now, how much time does mitch mcconnell give his coalition? the republicans to get on board? does he pull the plug at the end of this week? or does he keep going through august? >> julie: there is a lot on the table at this point. only three weeks left before lawmakers take off for a month-long recess in august. they can only lose two senators. there are at least three hard naes.

when push comes to shove here, what are the issues that are most going to swing the senators one way or the other? >> the problem is the balancing act between the moderates who do not want to eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions and at that think that the medicaid cuts are way too deep. that is the susan collins, the capital out of west virginia, states with a lot of medicaid patients. then you have the conservatives like rand paul, ted cruz who are saying this is obamacare like. too much money in this part of too many mandates. so it is very hard. i think that mitch mcconnell is going to have to pick a path one way or the other. very difficult for him to split the baby and make both sides happy. >> julie: let's talk about a new report, the collusion between donald trump, jr., and russia, maybe this would not have been such a big deal if it had been disclosed early on. by the fact that it was disclosed only after "the new york times" printed a

piece is troubling money. here is donald trump, jr.,'s statement on this saying that after pleasantries were exchanged, and he is talking about a woman that was set up to an accomplice of his. the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting clinton. her statements were vague, ambiguous, made no sense. and then he says that she went on to start talking about an adoption agency, forum that what they wanted to discuss and russia. he believes that to be the true agenda. he does and his statement saying that his father knew nothing of the meeting where these events. it is a point of just to basically free his father, the president of having anything to do with the meeting where you been knowing about it? >> i think so. but with the russian story, almost snowballing into the problem with most scandals, that the cover-up is worse than of the crime.

kellyanne conway has a point when she says there is no evidence that there was collusion between the trump campaign and russian officials, by president donald trump is on the record saying that nobody from the campaign met with russian officials, vice president of mike pence is on the record saying the same thing, and we get a jury pier of information that is contrary to that. and now they have to explain it. so we are supposed to believe that donald trump, jr., either never told his father about the kremlin attorney back in june, or that the president is lying. that is the option that we are left with. that makes a tough political situation for the white house. >> julie: to be clear, the person outside of the legal team says that the president was not aware of and did not attend the meeting. as far as who was there, jared kushner was among them. what reason would donald trump, jr., have to meet with anyone associated with the kremlin? >> i think he said that there

was information that could be damaging to hillary clinton's campaign, and to look, campaigns listen all the time to outside groups about damaging information on their opponents. you are collecting opposition research. this is someone from the kremlin. this is a foreign agent. that is not the norm in campaigns. that is very outside the norm. i think that is what he is saying. he was not really sure of the actual motives of this attorney. what they were actually bringing, but he wanted to figure it out. that's why he took the meeting. we will probably learn more about it in the coming days and weeks. >> julie: i think what hurts her case is the fact that multiple government agencies including the fbi on the cia have come forward and provided evidence that russia did meddle in the 2016 election. it remains unfounded that there is no collusion between the campaign and russia, but the trump administration needs to do

all it can and all the damage control possible to continue the narrative that they had nothing to do with russia. this does not look good. >> and they need to be transparent about what happened in the past. if they keep saying that there are no more meetings, and more meetings come out, that will undercut their case. >> julie: thank you very much. >> eric: two doctors are engaged in the prime of their lives, but then they were brutally murdered, allegedly by the man that you see on the left part of the suspected killer faces a judge today, and we will have an update. we will look at the president's continuing battle with the media, even as one of the closest aides makes an convention this morning that may surprise many. >> he has been treated very unfairly, very dishonestly, not by all media. not even by most media.

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>> eric: some new jobs in president trump's ongoing battle with the media today. at the president retrieving a code from a political analyst saying this... so, is this true? meanwhile the president senior advisor kellyanne conway, praising some of the media when she appeared this weekend on media buzz. >> there are a few journalists out there who have really done a great job of trying to get that to know this president in his administration, his cabinet, his senior staff. they are still doing what traditional journalist clement journalism has always done. trying to get the story. >> eric: does it die down? a fox news contributor, townhall.com. lynn sweet, from the "chicago sun-times." welcome to you both. let me start with you. the president and kellyanne conway, only praising the people that they see as allies, perhaps, and who get the story is correct, have editorial

credibility and journalistic accuracy, would this be fair to say? >> i think that is probably mostly fair. any politician wants to get positive coverage or coverage that they view as fair. if their opponents would have a different definition of what constitutes fairness. will this ever die down? as long as the media continues to be pretty aggressively hostile to the administration, not just adversarial, but hostile. as long as they keep getting something's wrong, sometimes in a big way, it behooves the president to continue pounding away, because it motivates his face, calls into question some of the negativity surrounding his administration and his agenda. and i think if you look at the polling, which the white house i'm sure is doing every single day. it is not like president trump is well trusted by the american people, he is not. but the new npr holdouts came out a few days ago said that while the president is in a weak

position on credibility, the media is seven points worse. if that is a dynamic, you better believe that the white house is going to try to flog that. some of the media would say it is not about being hostile, they are doing their job. trying to hold the administration to account. trying to hold some of the statements that the president says to account and what is correct, and that would be third defense. >> it is more than the defense, that is a reasonable, good, accurate explanation of what a lot of the journalists are doing. into that is holding the president accountable for the very base, saying the statement true or not, fact text only men checking was not just made for donald trump. it has been going on a long time. it is a basic work of what journalists do. now having said that, yes, journalists have to be always on guard, extra special en garde to be accurate, one of the examples that i could give is how people

are talking about how there are 17 intelligence agencies that concurred on russia collusion in the election. there are 16 agencies plus the director of national intelligence. there were three relevant agencies that did the investigation into the cia. >> eric: what does this do to the view of journalism? >> it means that you cannot separate the journalists who make mistakes. correcting them. you have to be careful. on the other hand, a media segment, i wanted to bring up that the media has to be very, very careful to be accurate and double check everything. that does not take away the basic role of journalism, which is to look at the very basic, what the president says, is it correct? president trump often says things that aren't true. in a statement or twitter. it is not hostile to correct it.

>> eric: don't mean to interrupt you, we are up against the clock. we will continue this after the commercial break. up to the media to try to correct those misstatements. we will look at that when we come back. these days families want to be connected 24/7.

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all, just working every day as most reporters do to try and just tell the story and get the facts. and put them in context. that is the essential job. that is what is happening here with the president who does not always say the facts. >> eric: i agree, what would you say? >> i would agree with everything that was just sad. it is very important for the journalists and the views that we are coming from to link arms on behalf of the truth and hold leaders accountable, elected leaders accountable from any party. it should be the media's job. what the american people want is for the media to evenly treat both parties which does not always happen. and i think that one of the pitfalls that the media finds itself in, some of the media is that journalists want to believe the narrative sometimes whether it is conscious or subconscious chance, and they are invested that they are willing to go down a rock and get sloppy or take

shortcuts that lead to mistakes that are pounced upon, understandably by the trump white house or the target of those mistakes, and that is something that journalists have to be careful about. it is something that we see a lot of during the trump years. >> i just hope to get this in, fact-checking a president is normal. you don't want to let any president say things that are not true. president trump says things that are not true, or in contradiction to the things he's had before. that is part of the routine coverage, and it is not part of some new job that journalists are taking on. >> that is exactly what we do and why we're here. at the same time, remember the old saying, if your mother tells you she loves you, check it out? >> that is city news of chicago, that's where it comes from. >> eric: old rules still apply. thank you. >> julie: right now opposition

supporters are bound to continue for justice in turkey. tens of thousands joining the leader as he completed a 25 day march from ungaro to his temple over the weekend. of the merge from justice to protest over a crackdown after last year's failed coup when the government arrested thousands of people, including opposition leader, as well as those accused of ties to terror cruise. >> eric: the fox news alert, those wildfires raging in california are continuing at this hour. the triple digits have turned the state into a real tinderbox. the great state of emergency, issuing thousands to evacuate. 14 separate fires have been burning throughout the state, some 5000 firefighters battling those flames.

>> these firefighters were engaged in a firefight last night. when you have fire that extreme, and vegetation close to the house, very, very hard to save everyone. >> eric: can they get a handle on this? the details from the los angeles borough. >> here is what is happening. remember the five year drought and california? that left us with millions of dead or dying trees. combine that with thousands of acres of dense overgrown fields from those record-setting rains, well, you get a powder keg of fuel. waiting for a lightning strike or a cigarette, boom. we have 67 new fires in california alone. two of the worst, santa barbara county, 1700 firefighters on scene. the fire also trapped 90 kids on saturday who were out camping until the force guide got into get them out. in two days, the fire burned through 37 square miles in $47 million. >> in an area that has not burnt

in 60 years or older, in some cases, the area has been affected by a drought in the last five years which has been the most severe in california's history. >> in northern california, ten homes destroyed their forcing 4002 evacuate, near sacramento. all over the west, triple digit heat has some 15,000 firefighters working overtime. not only does it lower the flashpoint for fuel, but things get overheated, resources are them. nationally one helicopter for every two fires. we will go to arizona on sunday, both closing the north and southbound lanes of i17, stopping traffic from people coming back from the mountains. in colorado, nine fires they are, chewing up about 15,000 acres. a lot of it near aspen, evacuations, but nationwide they have had to stop helicopters

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>> julie: after losing the white house last november, a string of special elections since then, how can democrats get back in the game? the next to guest writing in "the new york times," the path back to power for the democratic party today as it was in the 1990s is unquestionably to move to the center and project the siren calls of the left whose policies and ideas have weakened the party. the co-author of that article joins me now.

managing partner of the status quo group. thank you very much for talking to us. you make a lot of interesting points in your article. you talk about president clinton and how he used supporting a balanced budget to help democrats drift towards the center. what issues today should democrats cling onto to help the center -- help center the leftward drift, as you call it? >> i think that democrats have to define a new center. part of that means not letting some issues like crime, infrastructure being taken over completely by the republicans or president trump. remember, democrats had huge support against the working-class voters who switch to trump. the very voters voted for obama. fiscal responsibility is important. looking at the new economy and how it is affecting people, what is happening in retailing, the opioid crisis, immigration reform with borders, but with

path to citizenship. those kinds of issues have to come right to the forefront of what the democratic party stands for again. it is consistent with the ideology -- ideology and consistent with bill clinton. >> julie: let's talk about specific people in the party, nancy pelosi, charles schumer, what they need to do in particular and other democrats? because they continued to campaign against the senate health care bill. they are going to come to the table on health care only if republicans give up on repeal. pretty steadfast on that. how can democrats meet the g.o.p. in the middle? >> health care as i pointed out on the piece, an issue where democrats are winning the issue. i think they'll republicans are not united. they cannot figure out what the purpose of the plan is. i think on that issue, democrats are better off waiting to see what happens on the republican process, whether or not they are able to take repeal off the

process. they may want to suggest some changes that have greater cost control on obamacare. i think that they are winning that issue. if you look at some of the other issues on infrastructure, why don't they put forward a complete plan for infrastructure in the united states? democrats believe that. i think they can put forward some really strong positive plants on issues like that and will make many supporters. >> julie: we have to talk about the midterm elections, going to come up faster than you can count them. there's a lot riding on the g.o.p., obviously to hold onto the seats, but more pressure on the democrats. use of the special elections, recently, and democrats got slammed in there. they need to take a platform on in order to try to take control of the house? one key demographic that democrats have struggled to keep in their side is the working class, the working-class voters so that he write about, how

those voters feel abandoned by the democratic party. >> first, let me just say in the last harris poll, the republican party was negatively perceived by 63%, and the democratic party was negatively perceived by 60%. let's say right now that no one is really "winning" any decisive edge from the previous contents. that's what the special election shows. i think that they have to put together some kind of platform that puts progress over partisanship here in order to break the logjam. and whoever does, 89% of the voters want the politicians to break the logjam. will be the big winner in the midterms. that's what they have to take. >> julie: be appreciated. >> eric: coming up we will have an out of the world to look

at an enormous natural phenomenon. scientists think it has been raging for about 400 years, but a nasa spacecraft is taking pictures of today on jupiter. some major progress to tell you about in the fight to defeat isis. the iraqi prime minister in mosul, saying that to the one time de facto capital of the islam state has been liberated. but the situation is dire. next, how can we defeat the radical islamic terrorist group once and for all?

>> julie: right now we are nearing a close encounter of the historic kind as nasa's spacecraft gets ready to fly directly over jupiter's giant red spots. getting the first-ever close-up of the 10,000-mile wide a storm. the probe using the eight instruments to gather data and take photos of the natural phenomenon that is nearly 400 years old. >> eric: how about that? meanwhile, back here on earth, some new information in the

fight to defeat isis, congratulating the troops on liberating mosul, which as you know, the one time de facto capital of isis. the eight month long flight has taken a terrible toll. >> people focus on mosul and the devastation that is quite astounding. with mosul, the devastation is almost complete. what we need to remember is that there is a very large area around mosul, and other areas and other parts of the country that have also been devastated by this conflict. so when we look at every building, it is not only with mosul that we will need resources, but the whole area around mosul. there are towns that were homes to hundreds of thousands of people that are completely diverted. >> eric: more than 800,000 citizens have been displaced by the fighting, so what is next? what happens when isis is defeated? tom logan joins us, covering

politics for the "washington examiner." good to see you. there are still creeper sales, isis terrorists are sporadic. but a major victory after three years. remember that there was the speech announcing the isis caliphate. how can we rebuild on the success? >> the first thing to say is what we need to see now is a consolidation of prime minister, the leader of iraq, as he attempts to rebuild through the ruins of mosul, not just the city, but the political consensus of iraq, between sunni and shiite parties, various times on the side, and so that iran does not go into mosul with the militias, the pmf, the driving back into isis. >> eric: do you think that is

possible? >> yes, i do. that's what they have done traditionally when they have gone into the cities. mosul is a multi-bacterial city, but they have abused for sunni citizens, and that's what we have to stop. >> eric: amazing, that devastation is just overwhelming when we see the ruins of mosul, can they rebuild? can the spirit to be rebuilt? and can you drive isis out of the country when you have such overwhelming destruction as we are looking at right now? >> well, of course it can be rebuilt, the key is that it is rebuild in a way that goes along side the political rebuilding, but the broader issue with isis in iraq is that it still controls a number of settlements, especially out of time, the border crossing town,

and in the days and weeks ahead, we will see a big uptick in isis car bombings as i try to move to a terrorism campaign versus the loss of territory. >> eric: fuel and insurgency, meanwhile, some other good news, the agreement between u.s. russia jordan in the cease-fire of the southwest area of syria. that is encouraging. we are telling that it is holding after 24 hours. other cease-fires on the part, do you think this will succeed? >> i think this is a little bit skeptical. i predicted that the russians would dangle this for trump. if the iranians are supporting it, the russian supporting it, it is desired to last a few days as with the seas for, and the weakened american credibility, also behind the scenes, the russians and iranians of militia will be moving to try to encircle any rebel forces. there is a big showdown.

one thing that the trump administration has done very well on is retaining a case in southeastern syria from which they used to project power against isis and challenge the adversities that they are doing. >> eric: have we just given a vacuum with us. look at a rock, i am going to show you the map, it is iran trying to create a shia person to get a foothold on the mediterranean. it does the cease-fire agreement enable iran and assad? >> that is the fear. the slaughter of bombings and salvation campaigns, the iranians, the russians, they have no interest on anything other than a total victory. and we have to be aware of that. as long as we have the military presence on the ground, where occasionally the iranians will push against us in southeastern syria and we bomb them, we will

have implements to say, look, you can keep your basis, but it is not going to be america dictating what happens, but assad has to go, having killed hundreds of thousands of sunni citizens is a ban of recruitment. >> eric: just looking at photos, by the way. i saw bright on the border of israel, you look over at syria and the fighting, you can see how close it is, the prime minister expressing concern because some of the fighting has spilled over into the israeli territory. they have responded. that is why it is so crucial, good to see you. thank you for your analysis today. >> julie: well, the texas redistricting trial takes off in federal court. the panel of judges ruled that lawmakers knowingly discriminated when lines were redrawn back in 2011. did the state intentionally take action to give republicans an

edge? that is the question. we will try to answer it for you. a shark is spotted near a crowded beach, everyone is told to get out of the water, immediately. but for one summer, it was too late. >> we started closing down the beach, bringing everybody into shore, flying double red flags on the tower.

>> julie: coming up on "outnumbered," donald trump, jr., pushing back against "the new york times" on a meeting he had with the russian lawyer, some started to bang the collusion drum yet again. we'll just end up paying nothing-burger as the white house chief of staff says? >> an impossible bombshell, rumor comey writing about the president, may have contained

classified information. why are we not shocked? whether we will see any consequences tonight. >> who better to ask then #oneluckyguy. jason chase bids joins us on "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. >> julie: after a -- shark attack send someone to the hospital, started near paul over beach, it happened yesterday, everyone was ordered out of the water immediately, as the crowd was evacuated, one man was bitten. he will be okay. officials say that shark attacks are rare for the area. >> i've worked here 20 years, never had one. after some research, i've never seen an unprovoked shark attack in miami-dade county. florida is that shark attack capital in the world, but it's usually worth beach area. >> the only thing you can do us down the sideline, that is pretty much as far as i go with me. >> julie: go to a pool, one way to avoid sharks.

i personally thought that shark warning was a joke. the victim suffered deep gashes, but is expected to recover. >> eric: good thing he is okay. well, the battle of the district lines in texas, headed to court today. a panel of judges had ruled that lawmakers knowingly discriminated when lines were rear drawn, and some of the texas districts back in 2011, lawyers for the state say that they already fix those maps come alive in san antonio with what the politicos are now working o on. >> hello, good to see you. this has really been in the making now for about six years or so. let's start with the background, little bit confusing here. but following the 2010 census in 2011, the legislature in texas redrew all of the political boundaries for the congressional districts and the house districts. a number of court challenges were filed, alleging that they

were drawn to favor republicans and minimize democrats. then those courts order the maps to be updated in 2013. but back in march, the panel of three federal judges ruled against texas saying that lawmakers knowingly discriminated against minority voters since the data shows more latino and african-americans tend to bow to democrat. at the time the judges invalidated three congressional districts in the south and west texas. plus all up up in the austin area saying that they they pacd minorities in some districts and divided them up to dilute their voting power. >> you know where the voters are, you can draw the districts to be sure that the republican majority is enhanced in the democratic minority is further just enhanced. so you can advantage your party a great deal. >> if the judges rule against the state of texas after this

trial, the state could be forced to redraw all of its political boundaries for the 2018 2018 -- election and face punishment from the department of justice. we will let you know how things go. >> eric: we will be right back back. if you have medicare

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before "outnumbered" starts right now! ♪ >> harris: this is outnumbered, i am harris faulkner, sandra smith, meghan mccain, host of kennedy, and today's #oneluckyguy, the former congressman of the great state of utah, and fox news contributor, jason chaffetz is here. he has "outnumbered," always great to have you. >> the new car smell. i will take that as a great complement. spoon i needed to too. let's do the news. at the white house is pushing back against a r