>> looks like a hell of a movie, huh? >> i'll watch. >> we have to run. see you at noon. big secret. >> herman cain. >> jon: we have a fox news alert for you. president trump will an hour from now welcome the president of greece to the white house. good morning to you. i'm jon scott. >> melissa: i'm melissa francis. one day since president trump took to the rose garden to tout his outstanding relationship with mitch mcconnell saying they're on the same page. they had lunch together and then held a news briefing yesterday at the white house that was spirited. the president dispelling any talk of tension between the two of them. >> president trump: i just want to say that we just spent quite

a bit of time inside with the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, who has been a friend of mine for a long time. long before my world of politics. early into his world of politics, i think. but we've been friends for a long time. we are probably now, despite what we read, we're probably now, i think, at least as far as i'm concerned closer than ever before and the relationship is very good. >> melissa: chief white house correspondent john roberts. closer than anything before could mean anything depending how close they were before. >> it's true, everything is relative. no question about it. yesterday's events with the president and the senate majority leader had an air of familiarity about it after rex tillerson came out a couple of weeks ago to say everything is fine between the president and me and then last week the chief of staff john kelly came out to say the same thing.

the president, senate majority leader coming out saying despite tears rhetoric between them their relationship is good and they are on the same page. there was a disconnect between the two leaders for the timetable for tax reform. the president wants to get it done this year. mitch mcconnell has only said he wants to get it done, quote, this congress. and yesterday left room for it to be completed next year, not this year. listen here. >> would you be okay if tax reform were not passed until next year? >> i would like very much to see it be done this year. >> the goal is to get it done this callender year but important to remember that obama signed obamacare in march of year two and dodd-frank in july of year two. >> contract that with what paul ryan. he will keep the house in session through the christmas break if necessary to make sure that he gets tax reform passed in the house by the end of the

year. that's why the budget director, mick mulvaney, expressed some frustration with the senate as he was interviewed with brian kilmeade this morning. >> i'm frustrated and the president is frustrated and people back home are frustrated. they ran promising to repeal and replace obamacare. they haven't done that. and tax reform and we're hitting a hurtle. we want to folks in the senate to deliver on their promises. >> the president has a joint press availability for the greek president. the possibility of more u.s. investment in greece to bolster its status as a nato nation and more important with the growing tensions between grao*ebs and turkey. they may have a few words with him. talking about donald trump might become the nominee of the republican party he said with this nomination marks, the

ideas it represents and the appeal it reaches and the threat to become even president, i hope we will not face this evil. he will need a pretty good ice breaker i would assume today, melissa, after saying that. >> melissa: i hope we won't see this evil and then he knocks on the door with his wallet open looking for help. john roberts, thank you. >> jon: president trump covered a lot of ground in that news conference yesterday. >> president trump: something that people aren't talking about is how many judges we've had approved whether it be the court of appeals, circuit judges, whether it be district judges. we have tremendous right now under review. we'll have a major announcement probably next week on the drug crisis and on the opioid massive problem. democrats are talking to the republicans for a short-term taking care of what we will call healthcare. so that people can have good healthcare without big spikes.

we are going to get drug prices, prescription drug prices way down because the world is taking advantage of us and we want to make sure the middle class is the biggest beneficiary of the tax cuts and tax reform. >> jon: let's talk about that with columnist for real clear politics a.b. stoddard. is christopher bedford the editor in chief and the author of the art of the donald. the president mentioned that he doesn't feel that his judicial nominations at the federal appeals court level and federal bench have gotten a whole lot of publicity. "wall street journal" had a front page piece on it last week and we talked about it last week, christopher. is it possible -- well, it is mitch mcconnell who is helping grease the skids for those nominations. is it possible that this talk of the war between the majority leader and the president is sort of overblown? >> i think it is overblown.

there has been friction between them and public friction from time to time but a lot of washington, d.c.'s reporting over the last few months as trump has been president has rumor mills. repeating soap opera type stuff and anonymous sources. does it merit months and months of breathtaking coverage? i don't think it does. they've worked together in the past. they traded shots back and forth. even some of the bigger pushers of these rumors, some of the d.c. newsletters have admitted the bad news often leaks when there is a disagreement and rarely does anyone report on the number of phone calls between them. i think it's been overstated. >> the president did not come through the washington political establishment. he have is not accustomed to the way things work in washington i suppose it's fair to say. have he and mitch mcconnell buried the hatchet? >> well, john, he was making an

attempt yesterday. the president has been known in the last 10 months in office to be able to sort of reset the relationship, make the situation seem much better, more positive. he can turn on the charm. the problem is that they are fleeting. you can talk about anonymous sources it doesn't take a seventh grader to figure out if you're president of the united states attacking the senate majority leader on twitter and provoking him about the filibuster, a change that a majority of senators in his own party do not support, is just not a way to keep the relationship going and keep it unified enough to get through a very challenging and ambitious agenda. while it's the right thing to do for the moment, there is a long time between now and bill signing on tax reform. in those intervening months as you saw the president took two positions on steve bannon

outside war against republican establishment incumbents and during these months of legislative toil it will be much more complicating and really negative in terms of the outcome and the process if the president continues to sort of take the side of those trying to burn down the establishment and make it much harder on his relationship with congressional leaders and to get who he ultimately wants through. >> jon: hold on for a second. we'll continue this discussion after a quick fox news aleft. it is related to the economy. take a look at the dow numbers. 23,000. another record on the dow. first time ever for that number. melissa. >> melissa: we slipped down below it but we'll pop back up. there we go. look at these markets that have been fueled higher by expansion, the economy, the possibility of tax cuts. everything that we have going

on right now we hope it isn't squandered by congress if they don't get the legislation through. something to celebrate on wall street. for all of you out there and your 401ks and investments. >> jon: should be looking back today. let's get back to our discussion. you know, it's kind of interesting, christopher, a couple of weeks ago, a month ago all the news was about russian collusion and the investigation and was the president going to fire robert mueller. yesterday at that news conference he said no, he is not going to do that. that's not a big headline today. >> there is not too much to beat out of the russia investigation anymore unless you are a lower rated station that relies on this russia conspiracy theory there is nothing to talk about. no new evidence has come out. yesterday it should have been a big speech, a big headline. it wasn't donald trump melting down people didn't feel like it was news. he has followed the advice of his lawyers and taken a step back off this investigation and

he seems to plans to let it fizzle out. he said yesterday the american people aren't too interested in this investigation anymore. >> jon: he mentioned the parade of natural disasters that have bedeviled this country and administration. hurricanes in texas and florida, puerto rico, virgin islands. you have the terrible fires in california. so far -- give us your assessment of how the president and the administration are handling those. >> well, i think that californians would like more attention paid from the white house and president to the destruction and death and desperation caused by the wildfires. certainly the president handled harvey and irma, the first two storms very well. the government's response. he is getting poor marks much to his frustration on what's going on in puerto rico because it continues to be desperate. that said, the president does get -- he has gotten attention

recently for the fact that he and his legal team have stayed out of the russia investigation and stopped calling it a witch hunt. he said he won't fire robert mueller, special counsel. he said it again yesterday. he steps on his message as we all know with comments yesterday about how previous presidents have not been quick to get on the phone and call families of those who have fallen. this became really the big story yesterday is that everyone was pushing back on the fact he told something that was flat out untrue, offending people who had worked for president george bush at president obama and others, the visits, calls and letters to grieving families. president trump has a good way of stepping on his own message for things he wants to get credit for like what he has gotten the chinese government to do in terms of central back activities. stopping it in north korea, in terms of judges and in terms of the stock market.

he has a way of blowing it up. >> jon: one of the big takeaways yesterday my relationship with this man, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is outstanding. that's kind of the headline of the day. >> it is the headline of the day. the two need each other. they absolutely need each other. this is a big week for the u.s. senate. they need to pass the budget and get through the basic business of the u.s. senate and then they need to get to work on tax reform. it will be a monumental hurdle. not every republican was elected saying they'll do tax reform like every single republican was elected to say they would repeal obamacare. it will be difficult. donald trump needs a win. today mitch mcconnell will be his best friend. >> jon: wall street thinks they'll get tax reform done. we'll see if the politicians can make it happen. thank you both. >> melissa: authorities making what they're calling a final arrest in the killing of border

agent brian terry. whose death exposed a botch gun running sting known as operation fast and furious. more on that ahead. plus north korea reigniting its war of words with the u.s. why pyongyang is now saying nuclear war could come at my moment. >> this is propaganda from the north koreans trying to intimidate those americans who can be intimidated. unfortunately there are a large number of them. to monitor drilling operations in real-time, so our engineers can solve problems with the most precise data at their fingertips. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better.

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mexican cartels. we're live from los angeles with more on this one. william, can you tell us more about the arrest? >> i sure can. this is the last of seven mexicans indicted in the death of border patrol agent brian terry. five are serving prison time in the u.s. two in mexican jails. the mexican military and u.s. law enforcement arrested the 37-year-old saturday in the city and state of chihuahua. he is charged with first degree murder with agent terry. he and three other agents were in the arizona desert when they confronted a cartel rip crew. when the agents yelled police the mexican opened fire. two guns at the sale were sold with the approval of the atf and department of justice. congress investigated and found then attorney general eric holder in contempt for failing to turn over documents that

implicated his department in a cover-up and president obama claimed executive privilege. many documents were eventually released show the doj investigation was a sham to cover up their own ineptitude and to discredit congressional investigation and silence the media. terry's sister said i'm happy to know the last fugitive is finally in custody. i have been very hopeful the last six years that ald involved that fatal night will be brought to justice. it is bittersweet news for my family. it won't bring brian back. the man was likely be extradited and one other defendant. other defendants got 27 to 30 years. >> melissa: thank you, william. >> jon: back to that extraordinary news conference yesterday. the president and senate majority leader.

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>> melissa: new moves on the healthcare front with president trump looking for a bipartisan deal to fund obamacare subsidies even though he cut off the cost-sharing subsidies,

your taxpayer dollars, last week. last week he sounded confident that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will get healthcare reform done. >> this man will get it done. i think get it done long before anybody else and i think it will be a great healthcare. >> melissa: joining us now josh holmes former chief of staff to mitch mcconnell and jim kessler, former legislative and policy director to senator charles schumer and senior vice president for policy and co-founder of the third way. thanks for joining us. josh, do you share the president's confidence? >> i think he has done a couple of important things over the last couple of weeks which have created leverage for a movement on healthcare. we saw the first eight months of debate on this issue democrats basically sitting back and admiring their handiwork of obamacare while the whole system collapsed and not the impetus necessary to get them off the dime and into

the conversation. by some of the executive actions he has taken with the association health plans and with this latest insurance subsidy he has provided the momentum for democrats to have to take another look at this. clearly republicans are motivated to try to do something. the american people are not satisfied with the current system as is. >> melissa: we're hearing now from our own reporter, reporting that lamarr alexander is working on a transfer of taxpayer dollars to the insurance companies to help subsidize the price of insurance. is that a step in the right direction? >> there is a saying in washington if you want to get something done, make sure patty murray is involved. the lamarr alexander's partner is murray who is from washington state. those two are adults. they don't play games. they try and get things done and a lot of deals hatched in

washington have their thumbprint on it. i want to be clear, though, this is -- this preserves the basic structure of obamacare. these are fixes to obamacare, not repeal of obamacare. and my belief is that this cements obamacare in place for the foreseeable future. >> melissa: there is a fix for payments. a lot of people don't like the idea of government subsidizing healthcare for people. by the government i mean our audience, taxpayer dollars. the government itself doesn't have money. it is all coming from us. but at the same time there are people who can't pay for their health insurance, aren't going to pay for their healthcare. there is no way to take that back at this point some say. >> it's an important thing to draw a distinction with. nobody has talked about medicare, which is, of course, a government subsidized option

for our seniors or medicaid, a government subsidized program for the low income. nobody is talking about that. what we're talking about is the subsidies given to insurance companies to stabilize an insurance marketplace that is broken after the implementation of obamacare. the question is what do you do about? i think there are a bunch of republicans that will have some issues with a straight what they term as an insurance bail-out here. i think they will have to be more reforms to get it across the finish line in the republican-led house and get the majority of republicans in the senate. i think optimism should hold back a little bit. they have to do tax reform. that's what they have to stay focused on. the healthcare thing should come but they have to get their priorities straight here. >> melissa: jim, the president created a ticking time bomb by not refunding those subsidies. we've learned from the current system forcing healthy people to pay for the sick people

wasn't going to work because the healthy people wouldn't operate in their own economic disinterest. they would sit on the sidelines. maybe separate out the sick people and find a more efficient way to get this all paid for but somebody has to pay for it. how do we do it? >> melissa, all insurance is healthy people subsidizing sick people. obamacare, look, the basics of obamacare look like they'll be preserved in this new deal. medicaid expansion will be preserved and it takes care of some of this. is subsidies for the insurers. nobody likes to do that. >> melissa: they may $10 billion in profits in 2017. the idea these insurance companies are starving to death is not what they report to the fcc. that makes it tough. >> of course. we're looking at these price spikes and we need to get them under control and to do this temporarily for several years

until we can get these markets under control and we want more players in these markets. we want more insurers in these markets and look, if it needs a public option at some point, some medicare buy-in for people over the age of 60. >> melissa: to get more insurers in and try to get prices under control. does it send it back to the states and letting people have more choice. not mandating people buy coverage they don't want and can't afford. making it more competitive. that's the only thing that's worked in the economy. >> that was the core basis of graham-cassidy they tried to pass in september and renewed efforts. if anybody thinks it will be a straight insurance pay-out here, i don't think that we've suspended the laws of gravity in a republican-led congress any time in the last couple of days here. i think there is going to have to be important reforms in order to get the political volume of votes in order to get

this passed. my sense is it will have to be pretty significant. democrats have to be willing to deal with it. up to this point they have not been willing to deal on anything. >> i wouldn't agree with that. >> melissa: we have to go. keep that number $10 billion if profits for the five major insurance companies in the first half of 2017, keep that in the front of your mind, gentlemen. thank you. >> jon: major developments in the ongoing conflict in iraq. two u.s. allies now fighting over territory. why the president says he is not ready to get involved. plus fire crews in california working day and night to try to contain the flames as thousands will be going home to ash and dust. we're live with the latest. >> this car flew from that street in midair to there and we were right there. there was at least five times where we're going to die.

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>> melissa: right now firefighters in california wine country are making some progress in putting out the raging wildfires. at least 41 are confirmed dead. close to 100 are still missing. tens of thousands who were forced from their homes have now lost everything they own. >> we all sweat bullets at this time of year because it becomes really dry. we haven't had rain since about april and as soon as you see a northeasterly wind kick up, that's when you know it's kind of a santa ana condition. the winds came up. it was like a fireball. the winds were so fierce, so fierce. >> melissa: in the meantime we're tracking two new fires. claudia cowen is live in santa

rosa. >> crews are keeping a close eye on the ridge behind me where active fire continues to threat en several thousand homes. you can see the thick white smoke. it is coming from the oakmont fire. this one broke out over the weekend. at last report it had burned 1,000 acres and 16% contained. winds are calm and evacuations have been lifted in parts of the three counties. more a week after fleeing for their lives, tens of thousands of people are going back into their neighborhoods and many are bracing for lasting emotional damage. among the 41 people killed in this incident, a cal fire contractor who died when his truck flipped over and crashed on a steep road. fatigue may have played a role. teams have been going non-stop. the number of those missing has

fluctuated. at one point 400 people were unaccounted for, now 100 are missing. as each day passes and we're now at day nine, officials are growing increasingly concerned that some of the missing will be found dead. cal fire officials just releasing updated numbers saying all the major wildfires are now about 80% contained and hope to have them all fully contained by friday. as things wind down here more fires to tell you about. a wildfire breaking out 100 miles away and forcing evacuations. no rest for these weary california firefighters. >> melissa: it is amazing. thank you. >> jon: on the other side of the world this just in, kurdish forces are retreating from more territories in northern iraq one day after iraqi government soldiers retook the oil-rich city of kirkuk which had been claimed by the kurds.

both sides clashing over control of land for decades but they've always backed the u.s. in the fight against the islamic state. >> president trump: we don't like the fact they're clashing. we aren't taking sides. we don't like the fact they're clashing. we have had good relationships with the kurds and also been on the side of iraq even though we should never have been there in the first place. we aren't taking sides in that battle. >> the foundation for defense of democracy head. this administration is kind of in a box. the kurds have always been allies of the united states but always part of iraq. now they want to separate from iraq and the administration is left to figure out who to back. it has decided to back nobody at this point. >> yeah. jon, i think it's a mistake. what is happening right now. this is not about arabs and kurds, what this is about is the islamic republic of iran,

the irgc versus america. the head of theirs force versus general mattis and about the supreme leader of iran versus donald trump. this is about iran on the offensive in the region against one of our closest allies that bled beside us in battling isis and america needs to be no better friend or worsen me. >> jon: iranian forces are participating in the battle against the kurds. >> yes. the head of the revolutionary guard. he is notorious and led the iranian offensive in the middle east and working with iraqi security forces and popular shiite militias in order to lead the offensive against pro-american secular kurds who have fought with us against isis and been one of our closest allies. >> the iranians have joined forces with the iraqi army to

defeat the islamic state. now that that is largely accomplished within iraq they're turning their attention to the kurds? >> this is the response to donald trump's speech on friday on iran. what he is trying to do is kill donald trump's iran policy before it even takes off. on friday the president was very bold in saying that we're going to announce the policies and national power to neutralize and roll back iranian. this is their response to donald trump on monday. to back an aggression and offensive against pro-american kurds, take more territory and expand their territorial ambitions in the middle east. >> jon: how do you see this thing ending? it appears the kurds have kind of been set back on their heels militarily even though they're fierce fighters if the iraqi government wins here, do the kurds wind up under some kind

of iranian occupation? >> it may be the end of their kurdistan and maybe the end of their -- not only their dreams but this autonomous territory they've carved out for themselves. look, they also badly miscalculated. they pushed ahead with the referendum despite the united states telling them not to and warning things like that would take place. that's water under the bridge. we have to move on and the united states has to establish credible deterrents and send a credible threat to the iranians and others we won't allow our allies, the kurds, who have fought with us, to be defeated. and again we cannot have a policy to neutralize iranian aggression on friday and then be complicit in iranian aggression on monday. >> jon: so the president has

de-certified the iran deal and wiping it off the table to the extent possible and this is part of the iranian response to his reaction? >> not only did he do that on friday when he de-certified the deal, which was right. unless the deal is fixed so iran doesn't have pathways to nuclear weapons and ibms but he rolled out the comprehensive policy and designated the revolutionaries guards as a terrorist organization. and now they're showing why they are a terrorist organization and a significant threat to the national security of the united states and our allies and we have to again send a message of clear deterrents that we're not going to allow the revolutionary guards and shiite militia as to continue their aggression against u.s. allies. we have to be no better friend, no worsen me. >> jon: if you were advising the administration, how should they respond?

>> first step is de-escalation. the second step is iranians will always take advantage of any kind of disunity. that's what they'll exploit. we have to try to unite the kurds who are divided. the iranians are exploiting divisions within the kurdish community and we send a message of american military deterrent that we won't allow it to occur and not allow the iranians now to move with the iraqis and shiite militias into urbil. they lost kirkuk but we can't allow the kurds to lose urbil. a major blow for u.s. interests in the region and u.s. national security and a big boom for the iranian national guard corp.

>> jon: what a mess. >> melissa: north korea escalating warning a nuclear war could come at any moment. why top u.s. lawmakers are calling for the administration to unify its rhetoric toward the rogue regime. >> kim jong-un is reckless and isolated. the president of the united states has to be smart and engaged. president trump should stop the little -- other nations recoil from that rhetoric.

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there. >> melissa: that's the opposite of what the former administration said. national security advisor to president obama susan rice said that basically we could tolerate a nuclear north korea. that we have to pretty much accept the inevitable were some of the things she said. what is your reaction to that statement? >> my reaction to that statement is the prior administration and indeed succeeding administrations going back 20 years really had tried to use the carrot and then the stick and then the carrot, all of which has failed miserably because we're facing a dominant threat here that's very serious. guess who is holding the bag? the american people. this is not a good situation and we have not been very good diplomatically at trying to restrict them. >> melissa: a lot of experts say the reason why this situation is different from the

others is you have a weapon in the hand of someone who doesn't mind starving his people, who doesn't mind killing his own family members, who is, you know, truly irrational. aren't there weapons we can use to disable their electric grid and other things that would be a step short of going to war but would cause some of these weapons to be damaged, destabilized? what are the other options? >> well look, the line between intelligence gathering and intelligence work and an act of war is a very thin line. i would argue that taking down a nation's electric grid is an act of war. if someone or nation did it to us i would certainly consider that an act of war. so we've got to be very careful here with what we are

suggesting. the reality, though, is that we have to exhaust diplomatic efforts and then short of that, we've got to have ready a military response. >> melissa: very quick the president is visiting asia next month and might go to the dmz. is that provocative? >> this is not the first time we've had a head of state go to the dmz. and we've had lots of members of congress go there. so i would say it's not provocative in and of itself. having said that, kim jong-un utilizes any action on our part and calls it provocative. >> melissa: thank you, appreciate your time. >> jon: with the controversy over the national anthem protests at sports games heating up, we're awaiting a big meeting between nfl owners and the players. we're live with details next. >> president trump: when you go down and take a knee or any

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they're objecting to racial injustice and police brutality. there was a meeting this morning talking about strategy moving forward for the meetings that start here at 1:00 this afternoon. of course, all this started last season with san francisco 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick who took a knee on the sideline. he left the team and hasn't gotten another quarterback job yesterday and he filed a grievance yesterday saying collusion. the president keeps talking about it and it remains in the headlines. >> president trump: it is very disrespectful to our country when they take a knee and the people of our country are very angry at the nfl. just look at their ratings. >> ratings are down for the second straight year and so is attendance. the owners hoping they can address that with these meetings. they begin at 1:00 this afternoon, jon. >> melissa: we're minutes away

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