>> 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, but you are used to these

dynamics how? >> steve: i am, i grew up with a family of six kids total, four sisters, so i'm very accustomed to this dynamic. four wonderful ladies telling me i'm wrong. i also have a wife and three daughters right now, so once again, for on one. i've been lucky to be surrounded my entire life by smart, wonderful women. i do also have a son in additio addition. >> harris: let's begin with the news, shall we? russia's prime minister launched a blistering tirade against president trump just hours after the president signed a sanctions bill that punished russia for its meddling in the 26th election. in a facebook ranch, the russia russian p.m. and staunch putin ally says they hope for improving ties between our two nations and will trigger an all

trade war. he was on to say at the trump administration has shown total weakness by handing over executive power to congress in the in the most stimulating way. this changes the power balance and u.s. political circles. and that's not all. he added, the u.s. establishment fully outwitted trump. the issue of new sanctions came about primarily as a new way to knock trump down a peg. new steps are to come and they will ultimately aim to remove him from power. steve, what you make of this? >> steve: for trumpet supposedly being in collusion with the russians and supposedly being up puppet of putin or at least a friend, if this is friendship, i can't imagine what acrimony would look like. i think that lie has been revealed as a lie, that there was any kind of cooperation, but the reality unfortunately is, because america hasn't been strong, when the american military isn't strong, the world is a very chaotic and messy place. that's what we saw under the

previous administration and we are reaping the bitter fruits of an enforcement harvest. thankfully, we have a president is going to reverse that and has already started doing that. we need to spend more on military, we need to be clearer about our objectives and russia is mostly full. what donald trump. during the campaign, he said sometimes we can be friends, we have common interests such as defeating ice is come up over most part, russia is a photo and actions like this prove it. if you remember, president obama very famously said when he didn't know he was mike, i'll have more flexibility after the election. >> sandra: that's a lot of looking back, let's look forward and much of the president's next step be? >> steve: some subsidies take it has been terrific. for instance, going to poland, speaking clearly to the world, to russia, stop meddling in the ukraine, think about -- and

putting the missile shields back in eastern europe, something we promise to do years ago, never dead, so that is incredibly important counter to any menacing that they think they can do. >> harris: i want to jump in with a tweet from the president this morning, let's pop that up on the screen, if we can, because you want to do the back-and-forth here to show you where he is in terms of the establishment on the hill. all religions about russia is at an all-time and very dangerous low. you can thank congress, the same people that can't even give us health care. let's go to the one from senator john mccain if we can, our relationship with russia is that a dangerous low, you can think putin forward attacking our democracy and threatening our allies. >> abby: is just the beginning. and terms of power. the executive branch executes on foreign policy, that's always been the case for negotiating treaties, thinking about where

the investors are going to be. i think the president has a point when he is upset that his hands are potentially going to be tied when it comes to diplomacy. congress, they want to do this because when they go home to their base, maybe they're going on vacation for five weeks, they're saying we've been tough on russia, we push the sanctions come about the same time, they're hoping for more from the white house in terms of policy, and terms of what their message is towards russia, but their problem is, they don't have people in place. they don't have enough people at the state department inside to help figure out that policy actually is. >> harris: your father is stepping in to try and be confirmed as a new ambassador to russia. as a journalist, i know what you are a brilliant child as well, but you and your dad may have talked about this, i don't know. this before we -- we talk about all the time. he was appointed by the

president for that role, the congress ultimately gets him through. there is that balance, but i think ultimately, the executive branch has the upper hand when it comes to diplomacy, when it comes to working things out. often times behind closed doors. >> harris: is her dad upset about where we are? >> abby: it's a tough job, it's a very comic in a relationship think he knows, there are issues on the table that we have two hopefully work with russia on pier the most important one being terrorism in dealing with syria. arms race, dealing with ukraine, he is optimistic that we can hopefully make some and growth, i don't think you would take that job if he didn't have that hope. >> harris: it was interesting for you to agree with the such a critical role when former president barack obama, then candidate didn't believe russia was that big of a deal. this before that's taken a little bit out of context, but going back to what abby said, there is a tension here between congress and the president.

the reason congress stepped in so aggressively on a sanctions is because of things like president trump's tweet this morning where he's blaming everyone else but russia for the deterioration of this relationship. this relationship is at an all-time low because they meddled in our election, there is doing things against our interest in syria my because of ukraine, because of crimea, because of all the things that russia is doing, it's not congress' fault. these are bipartisan sanctions, 98-2 in the state senate. the president can't seem to accept the fact that russia meddled as aggressively as they did come out won't be on putin like he has with almost every other world leader and congress is saying wait a second, we need to send a really strong message here when us democrats and republicans, if he didn't sign it, they would override it. >> harris: steve, just to dump teleport maria saying, we've learned that most recently from anthony scaramucci before his quick and abrupt exit that the president was still looking at whether or not he believed that

russia had meddled in our presidential election. >> steve: i would say this, is irrefutable that russia tried to meddle in our election, it's irrefutable that many nations tried to meddle in our election. i think with the president takes issue with and i take issue with is the constant refrain from the left that our election was hacked. it was not hacked. goats were not changed. did russia try to interfere with information? sure. we also don't know, by the way, and what was revealed, here's the key part too, the sum of the present gets stuck on, which he showed. what was revealed was true and i don't know that russian hack to the dnc, but whoever did revealed truths about the democratic party, but the democratics really didn't want us to know. talk about an inconvenient trut truth. things like they couldn't stand catholics, things like they were colluding with the mainstream media. >> harris: are you rolling your eyes question or he's not making this up. >> marie: it's not fair to say democrats hate catholics.

why in some of my colleagues over to the intelligence community and national security, i tripped on the first thing you said, yes, russia meddled, so do a lot of other countries. that is a thing of the president says that bothers a lot of people. what i'm saying is we've never seen anyone metal and election at the extent and the level that russia dead end democrats and republicans should agree that's a bad thing. no other country has ever done that. when you equate it to something else, it's like you're diminishing the severity of the, and i think people are worried that that means is a administration isn't doing things to prevent it from happening again. >> abby: you think about our relationship with china or our relationship with russia. >> marie: we hacked their elections? >> abby: there are a lot of things that go on any foreign

policy level that the immigrant people, even the media, many of them don't know about. that's been this way for a very long time. i'm not trying to have a putin talk, i'm talking realistically about what goes on behind these channels, behind closed doors that many of us are unaware of. the u.s. is not innocent. >> marie: it would never do it russia did. >> abby: on it saying that at all. >> harris: we move on, new questions about mainstream media bias after cnn's jim acosta got into a heated exchange with a trump aid over the administration's new immigration proposal. >> this whole notion of they have to learn english before they get to the united states, are we just bring in people from great britain and australia? >> i am shocked at your statement. >> harris: it was tense. we'll show you more of it, show you what acosta said after the briefing that's raising even more eyebrows. and yet more leaks of the

white house launching transcript of phone calls between president trump of the leaders of mexico and australia. who is leaking, people? who? and what will they do about it? after the show, you can see is pop up alive after the tv version of us goes away. click the overtime tab on our page, foxnews.com/outnumbered or go to facebook, watch us live there. our handle, fnc and tweet us anytime you want. ♪

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>> sandra: fox news alert, new leaks coming out of the white house just one day before attorney general jeff sessions is set to announce a crackdown on the very same thing. "the washington post" obtaining transcripts of official phone calls between president trump and the leaders of mexico and australia. shedding new light on their tense exchanges. doug mckelway joins us live from the white house to let us know exactly what's going on here. >> it's hard to see how the president is not going to be infuriated and/or embarrassed over these leaks, especially coming as it does just a 24 hours before attorney general jeff sessions has his press conference at the department of justice on cracking down on internal white house and administration leaks. first, let's get to the first

one. this was with the leader of mexico on generate 27th about the wall. we're both on a bit of a political bind because i have to have mexico pay for the well, i have to. we should both say we will work it out. it will work out on the formula somehow as opposed to you saying we will not pay in me saying we will not pay him a political standpoint, that's what we would say. politically, this might be the most important thing to talk about. and now, trump on illegal drug importation. they're sending trips to chicago, los angeles, and new york. up in new hampshire, i won new hampshire because new hampshire is a drug-infested then. trump on drug cartels. i know this is a tough group of people and may be our military is afraid of them, but our military is not afraid of them and we will help you with that 100% because it is out of control, totally out of control. now let's turn to the next day on conversations with prime minister malcolm turnbull of australia and discussions about a prior agreement with the

obama administration and the u.s. to accept 1,200 refugees off the coast of australia. this is going to kill me, i'm the world's greatest person who did not want to let people into the country and i've agreed to take 2,000 people and i agree i can vet them, but that puts me in a bad position, and makes me looks so bad and i've only been here a week. another full screen. i hate taking these people, i guarantee you, they are bad. that is why they are in prison right now, they're not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people. apparently that's a reference to dairy farming, i don't know. another full-screen coat. i will be seen as a weak leader by my people, this is a killer. turnbull response to that, you can certainly say it was not a deal that you would have done, but you are going to stick with it. trump response finally, i have had it, i've been making these calls all day and this the most unpleasant call all day. putin was a pleasant call, this

is ridiculous. i always hearken back to the comments for the "washington examiner," trump supporters tend to taken very seriously, but not literally. trip opponents tend to take him literally, but not seriously. >> sandra: thank you in the breaking story from the white house. leaked transcript of classified phone calls with foreign leaders, we just heard some of the words that were changed between the foreign leaders. this is timely, obviously, we'll hear from jeff sessions tomorrow. what you make of this? >> steve: it's treasonous, quite frankly. who's ever leaking this information, this is treason against national security of the united states. if they have a political interest against donald trump,

they should come public with their political views and run for office. to use our security apparatus to try and upend the drum presidency or any presidency, they need to be caught, rested, and thrown in jail. >> sandra: they're going to be coming out tomorrow and cracking on those leaks. what can they do about it? >> steve: the swamp is hard to kill. it's not funny what's going on with the swamp, the swamp teachers are proving and currently resilient. we shouldn't be surprised. they have existed for their own benefit to the detriment of the country. think of the power, the money, the influence that has been stolen from the american people, including by the way, security which it right seems to be deliberately trying to sabotage our president.

by the way, this is an all that embarrassing. we president who speaks plainly. >> harris: i don't know whether or not it's embarrassing, it's dangerous. >> marie: i would come back to one thing you said, i would guess that the trump white house is limiting these transcripts to a very small number of members. if the trump people do think it's coming from nonpartisan bureaucrats or someone that they think, i would guess they already started limiting them which would be the smart thing to do if you're trying to correct in a leaks. at this point, i'm guessing they're keeping stuff pretty tight. >> sandra: the question is whether or not anyone will be held accountable. jeff sessions, the president himself has been very critical of jeff sessions and being able

to tackle this problem. >> abby: this is one of the biggest challenges the white house faces right now are these leaks. here, they want to focus on their agenda and time and time again, this becomes the headline. you think about being the leader of the free world, that has to be the hardest job of the free world. they have to be so frustrated inside that white house. i have to question the role of media. when you're given a document that is leaked, we are talking about our national security and the safety of the american people in the world, at one point as a journalist do you say i'm not going to leak this out out of the protection of the goodness of the country? i feel like we're struggling to find a balance. >> sandra: we wanted to make sure to get to that. the white house trying to turn the page under a new new chief of staff john kelly, his latest efforts to take control of the west wing and whether this will be a game changer for president trump. plus, a new report calling women the survivors in the white house after so much recent staff

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aides dropping off articles on the president's desk and waiting for him to react with a screaming phone call or a hastily scheduled skate staffing must stop. he will not accept walking into the oval office and telling the president information without permission. the generals in charge. >> steve: i hoping get this under control. the reality on the ground is there is a so much good news. the border is finally under control, the economy is accelerating. we have a great story to tell. instead, too often, the mainstream media who hates us, number one and is biased, but number two, we've handed them stories that are distracting about white house intrigue when we should be talking these wonderful accomplishments. i think discipline and order in the west wing will lead us to be able to message much greater about the things that are accomplished six months and in the many, many more akam which is to come.

>> harris: and must be refreshing for people to have the look that you're doing and i wonder if the generals able to get everyone in the white house to look at themselves. >> steve: there is no doubt in my mind the mainstream media is a dishonest bunch of advocates in opposition of the president. having said that, that's the reality we have to deal with. we can't cry about the hand we're dealt, let's play the hand well. how we played well? my messaging on we've already succeeded in. the economy being number one. there are some negative things to talk about there. >> sandra: looking at what john kelly has done so far, everyone wonders what the long-term impact is going to be because there's been so many changes so fast in this white house. >> abby: and who's going to stick around question marks before the communications director, that's one of the biggest position that you would agree who's going to come into that role because that's such a key role to do what you're saying, kudos to general kelly for everything he's already done.

i think that will be the next stage. >> abby: i love how general john kelly is someone who has to be convinced to come and do this job because he was doing things. he had results that he could speak to. i imagine he told the president, i'm only doing this role if you let me play the role of chief of staff and that means i need to have access to everything, your schedule, i have to crackdown, we have to figure out who are these leakers and also, really play a role in the agenda. you really want to help the president navigate what's going on on capitol hill, navigate the problems, how do we execute them, i have all the confidence in the world that have general john keane can't be successful as tivo's accolade on who can. >> harris: to see you and maria agree -- >> sandra: john kelly, not keene. >> harris: if you look at the total picture in all of this, what this says, it's going to be

the end of the fireworks show where they just shoot everythin everything. i wonder if leakers will do some of what we're seeing today with these phone conversations of the president has had with other leaders and fill in the gaps because the generals coming after them. >> steve: after he went to warsaw after such a terrific trip, talk to so tough against russia and favored stopping and apologist. i think you're right, something good is happening in the white house, these nefarious people say we have to strike. it has to stop, and i think it will. as much as the media and washington, d.c., fixates on entry, most americans don't care very much. they care about seeing their wages grow, being able to afford

tuition, those are the issues. if we get taxes cut, and we will, then we are making enormous progress in 2018. >> abby: meantime, a new political report notes that despite all the recent comings and goings of the white house, women appear to be thriving at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. several officials on the team have either resigned or been fired, but it's a much different story for president trump's high profiled female advisors who have had a far more stable run and have even been promoted in some cases. one white house official telling politico, mr. trump has always been a promoter of women in the white house. the president has employed women at the highest levels of his companies and now his administration and successes are a testament and has part to his leadership. he would be the first to tell you more importantly, their capabilities. i read this yesterday on politico and it was such an interesting piece to write

because the president has oftentimes been criticized for the things he said about women, the treatment of women. we were talking about this a lot in the green room. this is not the first time he's surrounded himself with women. he's done that in his business dealings, but also when you compare men and women, for the most part, women don't have the ego is that men. what we were saying is can you imagine a woman giving the interview that anthony scaramucci did? that's what i mean by egos. when you're in the west wing and you are saying these things and you're trying to compete for the other guy to run the ship, women have a certain respect. it comes from being a woman, being raised that way. many women in the white house, our mothers, their different. >> harris: she will do well because she can balance a life with four kids.

she said that to an open audience. she meant it. >> steve: she would try to claim that the president is somehow misogynist. the first woman to ever successfully manage a presidential campaign in history, pretty incredible. it is very noticeable how many women are there. >> sandra: there is a woman sitting with us who worked in the last white house. maybe you can give us some additional perspective on this. >> marie: if you have a bad day, you go home to me pour a glass of wine, you don't call the new yorker.

i think women have learned to handle adversity and politics. >> sandra: wine helps me a lot lot. >> marie: there will be tough days and politics at the cia where i worked, these are places where women didn't always have leadership roles. you learn how to deal with it and a healthier way than some of these really big male personalities that are no longer the white house. >> abby: the "washington examiner" does not agree with that. one of the women who have succeeded in terms of circle are those who play along with the role of the president's cast. he gave a shot to his former campaign manager at a black-tie dinner. i see my kelly and. she then smiled it would be nice if we could talk about anything today about being sexist or racist.

>> steve: you can taken that literally. i'm sure it was cute and funny from both sides and having seen the two of them together -- >> harris: if kellyanne conway had a problem with it, we'd be talking about it. >> marie: i wouldn't want them to hear some of that. he needs to be little more careful, especially now that he is president. >> steve: one of the main reasons he won is because he wasn't so plain and direct with the american people and they found it incredibly refreshing. he speaks in a calculated way. >> marie: you can be plainspoken and not be offensiv offensive. >> abby: he does have a number

of women, including the press secretary who is a first mother of three children. >> sandra: that's the point i was going to make. this piece points out a number of women with a 3-6 children. >> abby: it may be a use the wrong word, ego at the top, but i do think that women, to all of our points have found a way to juggle it all and is not necessarily about them. we don't have a choice. >> harris: i married a strong man, but i do more multitasking. >> abby: coming up, a heated exchange between jim acosta and stephen miller. we've been watching this all day long over the new immigration proposal. are we seeing more mainstream media bias?

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♪ >> sandra: new questions about media bias on a heated exchange over the white house immigration proposal which would cut legal immigration and emphasize highly skilled workers in the west. watch what happened when jim acosta made it clear to the white house policy advisor stephen miller he didn't agree with the plan. >> 's whole notion of they have to learn english before they get to the united states, are we just bring in people from great britain and australia? >> honestly, i am shocked at your statement, that you think only people from great britain and australia would know englis english. it reveals your cosmopolitan

bias to a shocking degree that in your mind -- this is an amazing moment. that you think only people from great britain and australia would speak english is so insulting to millions of hard-working immigrants who do speak english from all over the world. have you honestly never met an immigrant from another country who speaks english outside of great britain and australia? is that your personal experience? that's not what you said and it shows a cosmopolitan bias. speak out you are trying to engineer the ethnic flow of people in this country. speak out that is one of the most insulting, ignorant, and foolish things you have said. >> sandra: a few hours later, he appeared on cnn with this accusation. >> at times, the white house has this unhealthy fixation with the

mexicans, the muslims, and the media. their policies tend to be crafted around bashing one of those three groups and we see it time and again. >> sandra: he also claimed the administration is sending out a dog whistle to certain parts of the country. >> we have a roomful of people that refused to ask us questions that america cares about. it's more about tv star moments, more about sign bytes for the evening news. it's also important for us to push back on some of the ridiculous bias in the media. they should be talking about the success of this president and they refused to do so because they were wrong in november and they been wrong every day since. >> sandra: where do we begin? you said you couldn't wait to talk about this. how did that exchange -- >> steve: i'm so hot about this. first of all, jim acosta's performance are the reasons for

why people hate the media and don't trust the media, it's because of that kind of bias. as i said earlier, if he wants to run for office, run for office. you are supposedly reporter, he's not much of a reporter at all, but the content which is even more offensive to me that has bias, him trying to make it a racial issue with the left, always does come i don't to talk about policy, they lose the argument if they revert back to you or racist. news for him, more people speak english in india than in englan england. they could have gone to the upstairs of the white house and meet their first lady of the united states and is in from australia or great britain. this is not a racist issue, it's absurd for him to throw that out there. as the son of an immigrant who did at the right way, illegally, it's offensive for us to equate legal and illegal immigration. >> sandra: do you -- you clearly didn't agree with jim acosta and his approach of this discussion. what did you think about stephen

miller representing the way he did? >> steve: we have the smartest minds on this and our immigration system badly needs to be reformed and i'm very glad the president is tapping into this. other presidents haven't. having said that, i think we can mentions a little better on it. i would like to tell stories about people who are having trouble getting here who belong here, about people who don't belong here and are dangerous, so through storytelling, we can do a little better. >> abby: even on the most important part, we are talking about immigration policy, this is something we should all care about. we should all care about getting this right, but here's the problem. the focus today, the focus for the last 24 hours is this exchange between stephen miller and jim acosta and who was on a more ignorant than the other one. that's why think the white house got in some trouble. he did not know quite how to handle that situation. clearly, he's a good debater.

>> steve: i was causally thrown in the fire of cnn and mn bc. don't take the bait, even though you want to. >> marie: i think stephen miller was performing and i think they wanted a moment like that. in some respects coming to get more support for what they're doing. i know jim acosta, i do think he is at heart a very, very good reporter, he was pretty close to the line for my taste. i know how he did things get and everyone gets close to the line, but it's the job of the journalist in that room to ask tough questions. i think everyone's trying to figure out where that line is. do you know the number of debates reporters had with me at that podium?

>> harris: i happen to be watching earlier in the day in the very language that acosta used and that news conference, he had already spoken about it on the air and terms of the language and the background. reporters bring their lives with them, but the conversation had already taken shape. >> steve: to your point, the fact that we are talking about this and said of the proposal is a problem, and my opinion. >> sandra: are you a fan of that immigration bill or not? this before i would think he doesn't, but he is allowed to ask tough questions about his job. >> steve: i would bet my children that he hates the spel spell. he couldn't be more overt about his bias we have a problem in this country, we have far too much

illegality. i say this as someone who loves immigration, we're not doing it right. the reason i say this is the majority of immigrants right now are on some form of welfare. that's not okay. the system isn't working correctly. we can make it work by making it skills-based, by making sure we get people who speak english, love our country, and bring your skills. >> sandra: tweet us your thoughts at home. a stunning warning or minorities traveling to one state, the naacp initialing a traveling advisory saying go at your own risk. whether it's justified.

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extreme caution, race, gender, and color based crimes have a long history in missouri, warn your families, coworkers, and anyone visiting missouri to be aware of the safety concerns. i lived for many years in kansas city, missouri. i can tell you, this is like wildfire in that state right no now. >> marie: my dad lives in st. louis, so we have a lot of missouri connections here. i'm a little perplexed in some ways. advocacy organizations do have the right to weigh in on policy changes. this is in response to a law that was passed that we had talked about that was mentioned. that's within their right, i think it's a little bizarre, i've never seen something like this happen before. except, i was thinking back to last year when north carolina was going through the issue with the lgbt, the bathroom bill. other countries issued travel warnings.

if this law is as bad as this organization thinks it is, they can tell their members that. >> harris: i did a little looking i know that legislators have come to this point where they were trying to bring the law any comparison or inequality with laws across the country -- must be five missouri was a place where it was much easier to sue your employer particularly overt racial discrimination, so they made it more uniform with other states. the governor cited, if they have an ncaa issue, to extrapolate from that that missouri is a dangerous place is a bit of a reach. >> harris: the other thing it does, what does it do for the

economy? >> steve: the state of california is banning all its employees because they don't like the laws. using economics as political warfare, federalism is supposed to work. texas can have a different solution for bathrooms than california does and that's fine. >> abby: we shouldn't be living in a world in 2017 where businesses discriminate. when you read on the surface of it, no one should feel uncomfortable. i don't know what state you're living on, no one should feel uncomfortable or nervous about traveling somewhere. the naacp is exaggerating this a little bit. >> harris: i want to get sandra and so much on this because you lived in chicago and what this does is it muddies the

line between trying to fix something and also trying to attract crime. >> sandra: my chicago friend, steve steve cortes as a home in chicago. >> steve: regarding chicago, and set up focusing on reform in missouri -- >> harris: will be right back.

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>> steve cortes, you know that was a great hour. thanks for being here, happy to have you. and now, "happening now." >> molly: a fox news alert from fox news local headquarters here in new york, president trump getting ready to depart the white house for west virginia where he is set to hold a campaign style rally just a few hours from now. >> rick: a short time ago the president getting somewhat of a preview, saying he is going to have an "big announcement" that will be exciting for the media. a new legal headache for president trump's son-in-law as new york federal prosecutor subpoena his family's business. what alleged violations are they looking for? plus -- >> we must create