style rally. the immigration bill is likely to come up. >> bill: speech me one starts now, have a great thursday. >> we begin with a fox news alert. a new day in new leaks out of the white house. this time, phone calls between president trump and the leaders of mexico and australia shedding new light on the very tense exchanges. welcome to "happening now," i'm rick leventhal and for jon scott. >> molly: great to having her in in the new studio. i molly line. that leak most likely being discussed right now and the presidents meeting with national security advisor h.r. mcmaster. later this hour, the president will head to a rally this evening in virginia. the so-called bray's act would create a merit-based system and/or migration in half in ten years.

the idea is meeting resistance. john roberts joins us live from a north lawn with a look at all of this. >> good morning to you, the president is meeting with the national security advisor h.r. mcmaster this hour and the president is expected to go ballistic over this latest leak of classified information. remember at the back of februar february, he was upset with leaks of excerpts from his conversation with the president of mexico. now, "the washington post" has been linked to the full transcripts of those phone calls. on generate 27, -- "we are both in a political bind because i have to have mexico pay for the wall, i have to. we should both say we will work it out. they will work out the formula somehow as opposed to you saying we will not pay at me saying we

will not pay." the president going on to say, believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically, this might be the most important to talk about. the president also talking about the cross-border drug trafficking and how it's affecting some very important states here in the united states saying they're sending trips to chicago, los angeles and to new york, up in new hampshire, i won new hampshire because new hampshire is a drug-infested den. the president going on to talk about the drug gangs and the cartels in mexico saying i know this is a tough group of people and may be your military is afraid of them, but our military is not afraid of them and we will help you with that 100% because it's out of control, totally out of control. the president seeming to suggest they are u.s. military might be able to help with the drug cartel and a drug problem across the border. then the next day in the conversation with malcolm turnbull, the president zeroing

in on his deal for the u.s. to take more than 1200 refugees that australia was holding an office or detention centers. the president saying this is going to kill me. i'm the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country and now i've agreed to take 2,000 people? i agree i can vet them, but that puts me in a bad position. it makes me look so bad that i've only been here a week. the president going on to say i hate taking these people, i guarantee you they are bad, that's why they're in prison right now. they're actually detention centers, not prisons. they are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people. the president going on to say in this exchange, i will be seen as a a week and an effective leader and my first by these people. this is a killer. turnbull saying, you can certainly say it was not a deal that you would have done, but you are going to stick with it. the president responds saying i've had it, i've been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all da day. put in was a pleasant call, this

is ridiculous. the call lasted another minute or so and both leaders hung up. he had briefings yesterday over the proposal with the way it green cards are handed out. >> i name to the studies, i named the studies. >> i asked for something specific. >> "the new york times" can hire although load skilled people of the country. speak out that's one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant, and foolish things you've ever said and for you to still -- the notion that you think this is a racist bill is so wrong and so

insulting. >> and some heated words in cyberspace today after russian prime minister said president trump signing the sanctions bill yesterday showed the trump administration is both powerless and ends all hope of a better relationship. the president taking to twitter this morning to put the blame on congress saying our relationship with russia is at an all-time and very dangerous low, you can think congress, the same people that can't even give us health care. we've had a week's worth of news of the white house and it's four after 11. >> molly: it you are an unbelievable amount of ground. these transcripts come out we'll probably be seeing reaction to those transcripts as well appear there's so much to talk about. >> i think you're correct in that assumption. >> molly: john roberts from the white house, thank you. >> rick: that proposed immigration proposed immigration modulation drawing a lot of heat on the hill. democrats and even some republicans have been quick to criticize the move and as you saw, the pushback from the media

has been particularly aggressiv aggressive. >> you want to build a wall, it's about a sweeping change. >> surely, you think a wall effects green card policy, you can possibly believe that, do you? the notion that you believe immigration is at a historic lo low, jim, jim. >> i want to be serious, do you really not know the difference between green card policy and illegal immigration? you really don't know that? >> rick: a.b. stoddard associate editor and charlie hurt his opinion editor and a fox news contributor. welcome to you both that was quite a scene at the white house. the president said that this will restore our competitive edge and it undercuts the fundamental vision of the nation. what say you? >> i'm not going to weigh in on

the policy, i can tell you on the policy to this, the white house has done something to change the conversation and energize the presidents debates which has been waiting for immigration and what he is stalled on taking any action on the dreamers, even issuing work permits to some of those recipients, and this is going to be a great boost with them. if you look at the reaction in congress from someone like lindsey graham in south carolina, forgetting his criticism of president trump, he says the interest in the needs of his estate really preclude him from supporting this, it would devastate tourism there. there would be a labor shortage, so there would be policy debates in opposition to this, both from democrats and republicans. it is not a question of getting it to a vote, they won't even start on this. they have way too many things i need to get to.

>> rick: limited to charlie on that, "the new york times" calls this one more priority. is she right? 's is not going to happen? >> i think there will be resistance from both parties on the hill, but the bottom line is this isn't probably the crowning, most important issue that got donald trump elected in the first place. you've got democratic base voters leave the party in droves in the last election to support him. when lindsey graham talks about the tourism industry or the hotel industry and things like that, that's exactly what these voters are talking about. they're talking about the issue of suppressing wages and bringing in foreign workers so hotels don't have to pay higher prices and pay living wages to americans who want jobs. this is a critical issue for donald trump.

if he doesn't pull through on this, he is going to have a real problem with his voters. what i do think congress -- i hate to overestimate their intelligence, but they've got to understand how important this is to hand dominic him , but how much it can hurt them if they fail. >> rick: charlie, do you think the president's surprise of the pushback? >> it's hard to say. i will say having covered immigration for 15 years, there is nobody, there is no issue that political reporters understand less then a migration. political reporters on capitol hill in washington, they live and this is a gilded cage and they have no concept of the pain and agony that so much of this illegal immigration causes for regular people and the rest of the country. we saw that spectacularly at that white house with stephen miller.

>> rick: a.b., miller said why would they want to bring in more low skilled workers? what was your reaction? >> again, we are talking about illegal immigration, not illegal immigration, he is interested with political reporters understand immigration, that doesn't matter. were talking about the unified republican government who could not pass a health care bill. they need to provide some economic growth in the first or second quarter of 2018 before the midterm election and 12-15 legislative days remain before the end of the fiscal year. they have to pass government funding bill, they have to pass an increase and raise an debt ceiling and raise the sequester

of 2011. this is not a joke. don't have a time in the interest. >> rick: we have to leave it there, i apologize. >> molly: breaking now in venezuela, the country's president denies tampering with the vote count, but says the antigovernment vote testers stopped people from casting their ballot. he also delayed by one day the installation of that new assembly, so it can be organized peacefully. this is the opposition gears up for even more deadly arrests. steve harrigan is following all of this live from our miami bureau. >> molly, they've had to push back the start of that constitutional assembly by one day. they were afraid of violence, this comes after sunday's road which brought thousands of people out on the street and left ten of those protesters dead. madero is now facing charges of voter fraud, the head of the

electronic voting machine company said the results in venezuela from that vote on sunday were tampered with by at least 1 million votes. nicholas madero, the venezuela president who has been branded as a dictator by the u.s. has pushed back against those charges. he said they are being pressured by and brits. he's already thrown top of his two opponents in jail, sending mass security forces to their homes in the middle of the night, putting them in prison, he says more jail cells are ready for other opponents and he's talked about stripping opposition legislators from their immunity. as far as sanctions go, more than 20 countries have condemned to the vote in venezuela as a sham. the u.s. has imposed sanctions on madero himself. so far, he hasn't stopped at them saying bring on more sanctions if you want, donald trump. they're not going to hurt us. the real test will be if the u.s. goes further if there is more violence, and they crank up sanctions on venezuela's oil industry, that is not happened

yet. back to you. >> molly: this is one to watch watch. steve harrigan, thank you. >> rick: a bipartisan effort to fix obamacare gaining steam on the hill now, but getting it done could be an uphill climb. do you think? plus, the past several months have been good for your 401(k) and all the dow is on pace for another record close, it's up about 14 points right now, how long can you keep rolling? ♪

>> rick: how about this fox news alert? that dow has touched another all-time high one day after breaking the 22,000 mark. right now, we are up almost 13

points, and he again today would be the seventh record close in a row and the 50th since president trump won the white house. >> we've got 40 elected officials, 20 democrats, 20 republicans working together to try and figure it out. people are sick and tired of fighting each other. they want solutions and people are scared, this is a life and death issue for a lot of people in this country and we need to work together to solve these problems. i can feel democrat, and can feel republican, we need both sides together. >> molly: that was tom swazi on "happening now" this week on the bipartisan effort to fix obamacare, but that could be a pretty tall order with the g.o.p. still divided on how to move forward. the president is urging republicans to keep fighting for a full repeal and he's even threatened to end federal payments to insurance companies for subsidizing out-of-pocket costs for certain consumers if it doesn't happen. joining us now, martha

mcnally, member of the house to talk about all of this unfolding, thanks for being her here. >> thanks for having me on, molly. >> molly: repeal and replace is not gone forward at this point in time and it seems are good's are reaching this, and reaching across the aisle. you are a member of a group of 40 plus, how is the cooperation going? >> it's good, we started about a month ago on this conversation. i was a g.o.p. lead and a small working group. 2018 is coming fast and while we have disagreements on a lot of issues in health care, the individual market is collapsing, we have families and individuals who are in crisis, 40% of counties in the country have only one option, a growing number have no option, premiums are going up, so what can we to invite some stabilization to this narrow individual market?

about 70% of americans get their health care there, while also providing some immediate relief to small businesses from the more onerous mandates in health care. we got behind closed doors, we negotiated and a spirited way, we pawed the whiteboard, it was give-and-take and in the end, this is a really good framework for the way forward. we've got 43 of us to agree that this is a good path for this immediate solution. >> molly: it's been dubbed the problem solver caucus. is this a way to get relief for small businesses? >> we do believe we need to fund the csr's, but republicans in a lawsuit about the are not under congressional authority, so we also agree the need to come under congressional authority. we need some predictability, but we don't want to throw money at the problem, we need some structural changes to the individual market, so we support a stability fund eventually a backstop for those with pre-existing conditions of the most complex medical issues. this was in both the house and

senate versions of the recent repeal and replace bell, but the big win is really on our side that i fought for and went to the mat was moving the employer mandate from 50 employees working 30 hours a week up to 500 employees working 40 hours a week. this is been one of the job killing mandates and obamacare where we've got businesses around the country sitting at 48, 49 employees working part-time jobs. getting our democrat colleagues to agree to this really unleashes job growth, job creation, and this is a really good thing. it provides more flexibility to the states through these things called 1332 waivers and an agreement that there need to be offsets. if you look at those very narrow framework to provide stabilization to the individual market, is going to help families and small businesses in our community, it's a starting point for us to move forward on this and 2018 which is going fast. >> molly: martha mcnally, we

thank you for joining us. >> rick: the president meeting with his national security advisor this hour amid growing frustrations over the war in afghanistan. what needs to be done to turn things around there? plus we are also waiting up president trump's participation in a department of veteran affairs health event at the white house, we'll bring it to the roosevelt room and that gets underway in a short time. you don't let anything

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♪ >> we are not winning in afghanistan right now, and we will correct this soon as possible. >> rick: that's jim mattis earlier this summer admitting that we are losing the war in afghanistan and the president is said to be increasingly frustrated over the failures there.

nbc is reporting that during a recent meeting with his national security team, president trump threatened to fire the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, a white house source tells john roberts this report is overblown. what can we expect is the president meets with national security advisor general h.r. mcmaster at this hour? let's bring in former advisor to for u.s. ambassadors of the u.n. rick, good morning to you. >> is and that this president's style, perform or you're fired and you will find somebody else and get the job done. >> specifically on afghanistan, a lot of americans are frustrated, we've lost our way a little bit. we have to decide what the u.s. policy is. are we going to do nationbuilding or some sort of nationbuilding or some sort of diplomatic program inside afghanistan and a surge capacity, or are we going to just say we went and because

there were islamic extremism's having a safe haven inside afghanistan and we have to make sure there is no safe haven. the problems we are experiencing now are because we have had eight years of barack obama weakness in the area. there's no question about it. in light of the failures in iraq to really pull out all of our troops way too fast and not have a plan in afghanistan, now we're left with about 9800 troops in afghanistan. we have to figure out what the policy is. we have to be able to put special forces in there, go after the bad guys, kill the bad guys and then do some sort of diplomatic push. trump is being very good at developing a relationship with the indians, so what we can do is pressure pakistan to say we

need a little help here. and then drop back and have a policy where we are just going to ensure that u.s. national security is not threatened by a safe haven in afghanistan. >> rick: this is the longest war in american history and many have tried and failed, so the question is, can anyone figure out a way to win? >> if anyone can, its secretary matus, he's got the support of the troops, the troops are frustrated. again, i think we can have some sort of a base in the region to monitor so there is some sort of assurance, small base of u.s. support, not going to house to house, but just ensuring that if somehow there's a safe haven developing that we can vomit from the air, we can make sure that we work with our partners to kill the bad guys.

we haven't been able to have that, we've had some handcuffs but on the military over the last decade and i think that has to change. >> rick: will find out what happens in that meeting later today, i want to switch topics real quick. these are the transcripts of those phone calls to the leaders of mexico and australia. i would imagine the president has to be very, very upset about this and maybe you have a short memory, but i don't remember these kinds of leaks coming out of the obama white house, do you? >> leaks like this are terrible. they have to stop. we have to get to the bottom of it because it's not good for how policy is made. one thing that's very clear is if a leak was going to happen, i would much rather get caught being tough than being weak. when obama got caught on the hot mike with the russians, what we saw was a moment where he was literally saying to the

russians, give me a little time and then i'll do your bidding after the election. that moment of being weak is devastating. i think the base of support for donald trump and a lot of americans are frustrated with washington, they want to see somebody who was annoyed with the process, they want to see somebody who's talking very tough and when donald trump gets caught being very tough pushing a u.s. agenda and pushing u.s. policy, it's not great, it certainly ruffled some feathers, but i think that ed also plays to the base to say this is why we elected donald trump. he's a someone who gets annoyed at the status quo. >> rick: we appreciate your insight this morning, thank you. >> molly: a wave -- where these refugees are hiding plus what is being done to help them. and new poles with some bad news for president trump as his approval rating reaches a new low, so what does the white house need to do to turn

things around? our panel debates. >> we have a growth rate, a gdp which has been much higher than, as you know, anybody anticipated, except maybe us, but it's going to go up. it's going to go higher, we are doing good job. you can see jobs are pouring back into the country. who's the new guy? they call him the whisperer. the whisperer? why do they call him the whisperer? he talks to planes. he talks to planes.

watch this. hey watson, what's avionics telling you? maintenance records and performance data suggest replacing capacitor c4. not bad. what's with the coffee maker? sorry. we are not on speaking terms.

>> rick: some troubling new polling for president trump, two new polls show the president's approval rating setting new lows as his legislative agenda stalls in congress. >> molly: both surveys show only a third of voters approve of the president's performance less than 200 days in. the latest poll has a president's approval rating falling to a historical low of 33% while 61% disapprove. gallup has a disapproval rating of 66%, just 36% approve of the job he's doing. joe trippi and patrick griffin are here. thank you for joining me. to kick things off, the low being reported for the presiden president, 61% disapproving, 61% saying he's not honest, what does this mean for the administration? >> we may have lost patrick's

mike -- >> i've got you now. i was saying what does this mean for the administration? the number that troubles me most is the 60% funding the president on trustworthy. we're starting to get into hillary clinton territory which is somewhere nowhere and wants to be. the issues metrics now favors the president going forward, i think there are three words that concerned my democratic friends in washington. they are general john kelly. he can bring discipline to this and the issues with immigration, tax reform, foreign policy where the president is quite tough, and this economy, i think he's got some good things to talk about. even democrats will have a hard time running away from that. i think you can turn these numbers with discipline. that's what general kelly is about. >> molly: is this a turning point? so often we can hear the other

side of the aisle talking about bad numbers, will this be a changing point? >> it really needs to be. there are a lot of alarming numbers in these pools for the white house. some of the most significant ones, noncollege educated whites are now negative on the president. that's never happened before, that's big for a part of his base. older americans have now increased their negative ratings. both of these groups, by the way, would have been adversely affected by any of the three health care proposals that the president got behind. i'm not sure if that's the reason or if because repeal and replace didn't pass, but he's got to put some points up on the board, particularly with his base he was now eroding. that's what caused the drop from 39, 40% now down into the lower

30s. >> molly: he's got a 77% approval among republicans. speak out that's not big number >> molly: patrick, your thoughts on seeing them, he's heading to west virginia, he is going to keep that base with hi him. >> i think you will and 77% is still a pretty good number. joe's right, it could be better. the problem is that the president needs to widen that base. i agree with joe, he has to put some ws up on the board. that's a real challenge, but i think you cannot look at the reporting on fox news today or anywhere else. the gdp is in good shape, and the month of june, 350,000 people came off the obama sidelines and reenter the job market. these are very important things happening and some challenges. i do think the president's pivot

point and i think with the changes made in the white house, we can find the president more disciplined by some of these issues, i think we'll start to get some traction. he's never going to throw away that twitter machine, that's like taking away superman's uniform, but if general kelly can get some of the messaging more disciplined on these key issues, i think the president is in a good position to actually be able to move toward 2018 and the midterm elections in a much, much stronger position. >> molly: he's talking about the job numbers, do these poll numbers matter if people's lives are seeing a difference? >> that's an interesting point because we saw the economy improved towards the end of obama's term, his approval numbers did not. that continued with trump, the economy continued to improve, the stock market has gone up,

but trump's numbers have not gone up with it. that's very, very unusual. normally the economy is moving, the approval numbers move with it. that says to me that either people are not feeling this yet or more importantly, the twitter and the other things at the president has done to kind of create chaos and sort of this feeling at the white house is a very stable, which may be general kelly can fix, that's really hurting the president. people are not seeing the positives, they're just seeing the negatives right now. >> molly: it's interesting, we hear that. general kelly seems to be the name on everyone's mind, thank you so much, thanks for stopping in to discuss, we appreciate it. >> rick: just on, a remarkable story of montreal. that city scrabbling to cope with an influx of refugees. officials turning the olympic

stadium into a temporary shelter as asylum-seekers continue to stream into the canadian sanctuary city. laura ingle has more on this from new york city. >> canadian authorities have made it known that refugees seeking asylum would be welcome in their country, and now, so many have come to take them up on that offer. as the issue of where to put everyone. the temporary solution has been to open up the doors to the historic montreal olympic stadium after local shelters were filled to capacity. the first wave of asylum-seekers arrived yesterday by the busload. the stadium was filled with cods, blankets, and food over the weekend to prepare for this influx of people who had come with whatever belongings they could carry. the number of migrants looking to enter canada from the united states illegally had an additional increase this spring after president trump announced his administration would remove the temporary protective status,

granting nearly 60,000 haitians living in the u.s. after the 2010 earthquake. that program is set to expire in january 2018. the mayor of montreal tweeted about what he thought as a direct connection, the translation from his french social media dispatch reading this. again, a consequence of the immigration policy of donald trump. we'll continue to monitor this situation. >> rick: thank you, laura. this boxers alert, the president speak at the white house, let's listen. >> we will do this through health services, telehealth services, we are expanding the ability of veterans to connect with their va health care team from anywhere using mobile application on the veterans own phone or the veterans own computer.

this will expand access to care for our veterans, especially for those who need help in the area of mental health, which is a bigger and bigger request. and also in suicide prevention. it will make a tremendous difference for the veterans and rural locations in particular. we are launching the mobile app that will allow va patients to schedule and change their appointments at va facilities using their smartphones, this is something they were never able to do, technology has given us this advantage, but unfortunately we have not taken advantage of that until now. we are working tirelessly to keep our promises to our great veterans. it's very important in my campaign and on the campaign trail, the veterans mean so much to me in this administration. in the past six months, i have signed historic va accountability legislation. i've assigned legislation to

improve the veterans choice program, we are starting to really get that to a point where choices just becoming something that they are extremely happy about and they wanted it for many, many years. we are working to enable seamless care between the departments of defense and veteran affairs. we have launched a groundbreaking new website that allows veterans to compare wait times and quality of care at va facilities and other hospitals, so we are actually able to compete our facilities with other hospitals and other va facilities, so it will strike a little competitive advantage and get people moving even better. we have dramatically increased the number of approvals for veterans to see the doctors, so they're going to have many more doctors of their choice. these accomplishments are only the beginning, we will not rest until all of america's great

veterans can receive the care they so richly need. we've only been here for six months, but tremendous progress has been made and i want to ask dr. shelton to give us a little preview of what's to come. thank you. >> mr. president, thank you so much. what we are announcing today is a big deal for veterans, it's really going to expand access were veterans and away we we haven't done before. as you may know, the va already has the largest telehealth program in the country. last year, we had 700,000 veterans who bought the telehealth services through the va and we actually can do this for 50 different specialties. take a look at all those specialties on this chart, we can provide telehealth services from tele- dermatology to tele-

dentistry. this is the type of thing it's available to our veterans, but what we are announcing today dramatically expands our current capabilities. mr. president, by working with the office of american innovation and a department of justice, we are going to be issuing a regulation that allows our va providers to provide telehealth services from anywhere in the country to veterans anywhere in the country, whether it's in their homes or in a location. we call it anywhere to anywhere va health care. that's a big deal. just think about this, that means will be able to use va providers and cities where there are a lot of doctors and nobility was those doctors and veterans and rural areas where there aren't many health care professionals. you talked about mental health and suicide prevention. this is one of those areas where we can use that expertise.

today's announcement is going to allow us to do that. what we are going to be working out nationally with the rollout across the country is what's called va video connect. va video connect allows va providers to use mobile devices to connect with veterans on their mobile devices or their home computers. that's a big deal. currently, we use va video connect with over 300 va providers at 67 of our hospitals and clinics across the country, but that's big stomach stomach to make going to be rolling out nationally. we are also going to be announcing a new technology called the veterans appointment request. is allowing the veteran on their smartphone to allow to schedule their appointments directly with va providers or to change their appointments or cancel their appointments with va providers. today, this is available on all 18 of our regions across the

country and we've already booked more than 4,000 appointments from veterans directly from their smartphones so they can schedule their own appointments, but now we are announcing the national rollout of this. if it veterans want to see and get the appointments request, you can see on our website mobile.va.gov. what we are doing is removing regulations as they prevented us from doing this, we removing geography so we can feed up access to veterans and offer our commitment to them. let me show you how this works, mr. president. if we come over here, we use technology in a way that's pretty incredible. in fact, mr. president, i one of those doctors, i practice right here in washington to my clinic

and or a gun. i want to say hello to our veterans today. how are you? he served in the coast guard foa helicopter rescue swimmer and serve the country and here we are in oregon. this is our great team denise and terry, and peggy, i understand there might be some area of concern. can we take a look at that? >> yes, sir, . this is the area. >> as we focus in on that, you can see, mr. president, i can take a look at that area and if i have any concern about this, we can send this to a specialist or we can take a look at it, thank you. we'll be right back with you soon, i just want to show the

president a few of the things. we'll be right back with you. mr. president, if you walk over here, this is actually the new doctor's bag. the doctor's bag of the future and you may actually recognize this because this is the doctor's bag that travels with you when you go on air force on one. we have dr. ronnie jackson, your doctor here that usually takes care of you, dr. jackson, and we are now able to bring this doctor's bag into the home of our veterans, our nurse practitioners, our technicians, they are able to use this type of technology, the same technology available to the president of the united states. that's the way it should be because our veterans deserve that type of technology. i'm going to show you just one or two other things, dr. neil evidence over here, one of our doctors is going to show you va video connect but i talked about. here we are in oregon, high, how

are you can you raise your hand? here we are on our mobile device and we can use va video connect. watch this, mr. president, if we need to bring in a specialist from anywhere in the country, we can. do you want to say hello dr. watts? >> good morning dr. shelton, good morning everybody. thank you so much for your service. >> dr. watts is now connected to oregon, so we can get the expertise from anywhere in the country immediately. the va is able to do this right now. thank you very much. mr. president, this is how we are expanding access, this is how we are bringing the very best technology available in the

country and it really, thanks to your help and coming through the regulation, the office of american innovation, we are able to expand access dramatically today and to roll this out. as you said, with our accountability bill, replacing electronic goal stomach medical records, we've been able to do incredible things. this is just the beginning of what we are going to do, so thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, doctor. i want to thank him and i hope your skin is in perfect health. you look pretty good to me, what do i know? >> why don't you say something if you want to say hello to the president? >> good morning, mr. president, how are you a question mark >> you look very healthy to me, i will tell you that please make sure his skin is

perfect. thank you very much, great technology, great to meet you. thank you. [applause] we're going to west virginia tonight, we're going to have a great big announcement which will be very exciting. we have a very big announcement tonight. i believe i'll make it an west virginia outcome is that would be an exciting. thank you very much. >> molly: we're just losing to the president of the united states, donald trump as well as va secretary dave mitchell can they say anywhere to anywhere va health care, this is about telehealth and the big effort reaching out to rural veterans who may not find getting to the va facilities to be quite as easy, of course we witnessed how it will work, essentially allowing veterans to connect using their smartphones or the

computer is what this telehealth services. it's being called va video connect and with a particular focus on mental health and on suicide prevention. we also just heard a little bit about one gentleman's skincare problem, perhaps the most talked about skincare problem or not a problem, hopefully he's doing just fine. a rollout of some amazing new technology. >> rick: breaking outcome in a reaction to the u.s. response to the north korea crisis with china welcoming comments from our secretary of state saying the u.s. is not looking to topple the north korean government and would like a dialogue at some point. this comes after the north and their back-to-back icbm missile tests last month. joining is now, will heard who sits on multiple committees. secretary of state rex tillerson seems to be turning down the heat on north korea, is this an effective strategy in your opinion? >> i think we need to have and

all the above strategy, we do need to bring everybody's temperatures down, but we also need to be prepared to shoot down another test. we're willing to use our batteries to do that. we've got to make sure that everything we do is in concert with our allies in the region of south korea and japan, we also need those two allies to start to get beyond some of their cultural problems and start working closer against this common threat and north korea and we need to continue to put pressure on china to do more when it comes to north korea, 90% of north korea's economy comes to china. china has a big stick when it comes to dealing with kim jong-un. >> rick: i'm wondering if there's any evidence that kim jong-un could be convinced to abandon his weapons program. he doesn't seem to be open to dialogue up until this point.

>> there's one thing that kim jong-un is pursuing and thus to keep his hold on power and he believes that having an intercontinental ballistic missile that can be topped with a nuclear weapon is the key for him to maintain his position as the head of the north korean regime, so i would agree with you 100% that he is going to stop at nothing in order to produce those nuclear weapons. preventing him from having nuclear weapons should be one of our most important strategy when it comes to that region. >> rick: the president signed sanctions into law, but part of the flaw is that he can make more than congress could. >> i think my colleagues and i disagree, and i think earlier today and late last night, vladimir putin claimed this was

a trade war. to me, that's classic russian misinformation and disinformation. they are involved in open warfare against our allies. they're trying to cyber attack. the russians are using their natural gas and oil to exert pressure on european markets. the russians are using asymmetrical warfare so they stop that. you continue to see a strong response of congress and trying to get them to stop. >> rick: we appreciate time, after shut it -- cut it short because of the president. >> molly: a new next hour of speech anyone, a close call in one major airport and i we're learning a blind spot. we are live with the story.

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>> rick: we should do this again, maybe an hour from now? >> molly: sure, "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert, the boiling tensions now between the united states and russia making headlines. the two nations possibly hurtling their way toward the worst relations and decades. of course, all of this following president trump signing a bill that imposed new sanctions on the kremlin. russia's prime minister launched a scathing personal attack on our president saying he showed "total weakness in the most humiliating way." this is "outnumbered," i'm harris faulkner. here today, sandra smith, cohost of fox and friends weekend, abby huntsman, and former deputy state department spokesperson and fox news contributor marie harf, and for the first time, or "outnumbered" ," #oneluckyguy. fox news contributor steve cortez and he is outnumbered,