>> only four days left. >> there you go. thank you for joining us. >> "outnumbered" starts now. >> fox news alert on the white house, hitting back after the author of that controversial tell all says his book is going to end the trump presidency. president trump says it's all lies. his allies come out to defend him. this is "outnumbered" sandra smith here today harris falker and and kennedy and joining us today we welcome become republican congressman ronda of florida. he announcerd he's running for governor of the sunshine state. he is outnumbered. we welcome you sir. >> happy new year to everybody. >> congrats on the big announcement. >> thank you. >> let's begin war of words is intensify over that controversial white house tell

all. michael wolff stands by everything he wrote and claims it will end the trump presidency. president trump called a fake book written by discredited author. meantime cia director mike pompeo and cory lewandowski are both defending trump. >> those statements are absurd. just pure fantasy. the president is engaged. he understands the complexity. he asks difficult questions. this president reads material that we provide to him >> this is a book of fiction. not only is it not accurate, there's so many misrecipes -- misrecipes. -- misrepresentations. the guy is a liar. >> things got heated during an interview between cnn jake tapper and trump senior adviser stephen miller. >> it happen to be a true statement.

>> it's self-made billionaire who revolutionized reality tv. >> i'm happy that you said that. >> snide remark. you have 24 hours a day anti-trump material. you will not give three minutes for the american people -- >> i get it. one viewer that you care about now -- >> no. you know what i care about? >> quite an exchange there. president trump tweeting jake tapper fake news cnn just got destroyed with stephen miller of the trump administration. watch the hatred and unfairness of this cnn flunky the president tweets. white and exchange. you do wonder though, has the administration brought more attention to this book than the media itself? >> the president, he's a queens guy. he's a couldn't puncher, when people punch he punches back.

especially a book like this. you have pompeo there, cia director, one of the most respected people. he brief the president everyday. when i talked to the president, this guy is sharp. he's working his butt off. he's traveling around the world. he's back here and doing all this stuff. i just think that this guy is trying to sell books. unfortunately, because what he's doing the anti-trump narrative the elite media, they're running with it. bunch of false things. media trying to suffocate it. it's just because -- >> he spend any time watching any other television networks, dominated the headlines. i wonder when this starts to fade. >> the president has to stot reacting to it. that's the martest thing you can do, portray yourself being bigger whatever narrative someone else is trying to push. when you punching down, you compound the situation.

that's what the president is doing. i really he has to stop. i thought the exchange with jake tapper and stephen miller was fascinating. it was very entertaining. i downloaded the book this weekend and read a lot of it. i did this was entertain -- you don't extract too much truth out of them. it's like weekly in the dentist office. you want something that's mindless and fun. that's what this is. michael wolff said he's going to bring down the presidency with this book. i don't think that's going to happen. >> i see the people over their launch going, did kennedy compare us to michael wolff. >> you're saying that, this is a gossip book. the problem is it's being presented as truth by individuals in the media. i think that's the problem. i think that's a frustration with president trump. even the author of the book said

his objective is to take down trump administration. he said there was a looseness with the truth in his book. he arrived at his own versions of events. it's presented as truth by members of the media. even just basic facts are wrong. when john boehner resigned. staying president trump didn't know who former speaker john boehner was. they went golfing band -- back in 2013. there's basic accuracies with anyone with half a brain could realize that are false. >> the idea of making it with stories come faster. you giving it some sort of oxygen. one thing that the president does, he would agree, does better than anybody is sell his own narrative. i'm sure the people of queens, new york are thanking you for the shotout. if he think think there's some

word to be put out there. challenge with this, the caution i put forth where the president and white house are concerned, the questions starting to come about how did you let somebody in this close to america's president. how did do you that? >> there's some responsibility. >> i've been saying that since day one. did somebody break the rules? other thing is, i haven't heard anybody refute on point some of the things steve bannon said. does this guy have tapes? michael wolff. i don't know. elevating the story. >> i know we're going to talk about steve bannon. when you look at the resources that this administration is throwing at defending this book from his allies to people within his white house. does he need to be doing that? does he need to be fighting that hard. shouldn't he put the focus back on the issue? >> if he weren't talking about it, do you think the press would stop talking about it? this is what they want to do.

he sees it out there. he's not going to let this narrative go unchallenged. it's a narrative that's not only true about the broader administration but it's attacking him this guy is not up for the job. which is not true. you disagree with someone politically fine, make that case. this nonsense that the left and this guy is engaged in it's counterproductive. >> somehow this is going to be the invoke the 25th amendment. >> notice that, who's involved with the 25th amendment. the cabinet. did he interview one member, no. >> we're going to continue this in a slightly different way. president trump's former chief strategist steve bannon expressing remorse for not responding sooner. comments that were critical of donald trump jr. and trump tower meeting he had in june 2016 with campaign officials and russians. bannon is quoted saying that meeting treasonous.

he says donald trump jr. is a patriot and good man. my comments were aimed at paul manafort. a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge how the russians operate. he should have known they are cunning and not our friends. those comments were not aimed at don jr. i regret that my delay responding to the inaccurate reporting has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments. so far there has been no official response from the white house to bannon's statement. that first tweet from the president was a smack down. now days later he walks it back. >> when i heard it, you got to be kidding me. don jr., he's a good guy. he's a patriotic guy. he is very loyal to his father. if you don't like his politics, that's fine. the idea that somehow he engaged in some type of treasonous meeting, that's poppy cat. i was shocked to hear that.

i'm glad steve walked it back. i'm not sure that undone the damage. at least going on record and saying, don jr. was wrong. >> i think we also have to take into account, potentially this was an out for president trump. steve banson has soaked up lot of oxygen, lot of negative attention. i think president trump feels that steve bannon put them in bad position in alabama. perhaps, this is an opportunity for president trump to break up with steve bannon. you have the mercer also saying, we're done with steve bannon as well. which is a massive hit for steve bannon. they have been part owners of breitbart. they have been his final backer. >> what is the future of steve bannon and politics? >> it's hard to say. obviously breitbart is powerful on the right. i don't know if he's going to

remain with that. that's a huge question to have. >> as a republican, you had to run for office every couple of years. now you're seeking the state house as governor of florida. who you go to for money? there are all these people whether it's the koch's or mercerses. lot of concentrated pockets of money on both sides. does this change how you fundraise? >> no. at the end of the day when you running races you got to find people that are similar in your views. you go to them and say, here's my plan. i like your support. if they think you're a good candidate, they'll support you. if they don't, they won't. >> steve bannon were going to back your florida governor run, would you allow that? >> i would not stop anyone from supporting me. i'm different from lot of other people. because the president tweeted for me. he hasn't done that for many

candidates. i think lot of the primaries, how do you position yourself, that's when the president is not involved. if the president has tipped his hand then that's a huge thing. that's really kind of what i think most candidates are looking for. >> he was kind of put on the hot seat last seat last week. his loyalty comes from former veteran days. he said this is what that's about. this is about loyalty. you make your own relationships when you're raising cash. people have to do that. steve bannon as best now is an awkward position. the president is he winning now with this? >> with the book? >> with his response. his ability steve bannon coming out. >> i really go back to what i said. i think that president trump going out with steve bannon. this is an opportunity to divorce himself of steve bannon without necessarily taking a hit from his base and people that

like steve bannon and like breitbart. i think president trump saw an opportunity. he took it. these comments which appear to be true, president trump used it as an opportunity. >> when you attack his family, you attack the president. even more personally than attacks on him or his intellect or mental stability. when go after his family and his children, that's his red line. >> for many of us. the american people if you look at social media, they seem to agree on that point alone. nbc news anchor, suggested the fbi's new probe of the clinton foundation is fake news and political side show. whether the mainstream media are playing defense for the clintons. president trump appears willing to sit down with special counsel robert mueller. while saying that allegations his campaign colluded with russia are dead. this is a top gop senator demanding a second special counsel to look at antitrump

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>> fox news confirms that president trump's lawyers are discussing ways to respond to an

expected request by special counsel robert mueller to interview him. all this as the president appears to be okay with sit down with mueller. he says only collusion was between hillary clinton and the russians. watch. >> if robert mueller ask you to come speak with his committee personally, are committed doing that? >> just so you understand, there's been no collusion. there's been no crime. in theory everybody tells me i'm not under investigation. maybe hillary is. i don't know. i'm not. there's been no collusion. there's been no crime. >> meantime republican senator lindsey graham he second special counsel is needed to look into antitrump bias at the justice department and fbi. especially when it comes to possible links town verify --

between unverified links of trump dossier. >> a group that produced the dossier did mr. orr interact with mr. steele. during the time that mr. steele was being informant for the fbi, we now know he was shopping the dossier to out journalist outlets all over the world. >> has the investigation already gone far enough? should it come to an end as far as possible collusion with the russians >> where is the evidence of the collusion? what we're talking about with the dossier and stuff, that informs why there hasn't been evidence of collusion potentially. if in fact, the fbi took this dossier, which is an opposition research project funded by the democrats and hillary clinton. if they dressed up as an intelligence document and submitted to the fisa court to get surveillance and keep this

intelligence investigation going, whether maybe that was the impetus for that. if that's the case and it's all based off this discredited dossier, this whole russia collusion narrative -- >> would you be concerned about him sitting down with an interview with robert mueller? >> if they don't have the goods on collusion, just tell him to finish the case. you don't really need to be doing that. there's also an issue that's little bit different with the president versus normal witness. he's the president. he's in charge of the justice department. the idea that justice department can demand answers for something, it's little bit different. we have a separation of power system and ultimately he's in charge of the department. i'm not sure how i feel about doing that. i think it needs to be brought to a conclusion. >> reports are white house attorneys are looking at the format. it might not be a sit down interview. it might be series of answer questions via e-mail or on

paper. it does give president chance to participate at the highest level. when there's no evidence found, which he has contended. then you but it to bed. it's easier for the democrats to walk away from this. there's so much pressure for them to stay in the game. even though there maybe nothing there there. >> part of the issue that bugs me about having answered questions some of this is going to center around the firing of comey. here's the thing. the president has the authority to fire comey. the idea that some prosecutor is going to second guess that, if you think that was some abuse of power, there's a political process in the congress you can pursue. i don't think it was. that's the thing. is mueller sitting here like this judge and jury, you shouldn't have fired him? >> he can do that. if it's on paper, he can only do it from afar >> that's why the president wants to have series of written questions to sit down with lawyers and craft. so he's not challenged.

he doesn't fall into a perjury trap which it seems what mueller and his team want to set for him. >> it might upset other witnesses. the fbi rushes to interview flynn. >> not only that, if you're the president, i wouldn't sit down with mueller unless i had to. they've gone after flynn on this issue. papadopoulos as well. i would be very careful and take my advice on what i say to robert mueller and his team. if you're the president, this is got to be lot of concern about the back story here. james clapper who wanted to brief president trump on the dossier, that meeting was leaked to reporters. as you've mentioned, there's lot of concern that dossier was used by the fbi to obtain a fisa warrant. you james comey who said he

leaked classified information to spur special counsel investigation. there's lot of questions regarding the back story that needs to be investigated. >> fbi agent saying, we needed insurance policy in case this guy gets elected. >> and the flynn questions. >> if strzok said that in 2008 about candidate obama and that guy leaked to the media, you need insurance policy. the "new york times" building would met down. people would be going crazy. because it's about trump, oh well, who knows. >> i know we're going to touch on this. chuck todd basically conflated the congressional investigation with the fbi investigation? >> yeah, look, todd is trying to put water on this fire. they don't want to deal with this part of it. elite media they've been invested in the collusion narrative for over a year now.

if it turns oout this was built on a sand castle, they will not look good. >> ly jump in -- i'm going to jump in now. mainstream media appear to be playing defense for the clintons. new fbi investigation into clinton foundation over potential pay to play. republican senators push for a criminal probe of the author of the trump boss -- dossier hillary clinton campaign partly funded. morgan ratford suggested it's fake news and political distraction. chuck todd seems to agree there may be political motivation after pretty leading question. >> this real verse fake news. we learned about developing investigations into the clinton foundation and the author of that controversial dossier. is this a real investigation or is that just a political side

show? >> it looks like perhaps could be a political side show. >> i was given go ahead to call it defense. >> the issue with the foundation when clinton came out, you had all these donations that the author able to find through canadian records. uranium one deal 2.1 goes to the foundation before the deal is approved. my issue was, congress never really investigated that until most recently when we started doing it. i don't know whether the fbi ever investigated that. you can't tell me having millions of dollars pour into a family foundation at the same time action taken. she was supposed to report all those donations to obama. that was part of the deal for being secretary of state. there were number of donations particularly the uranium one, she didn't report >> it's not pay to play they are

investigating. this is tax evasion too that they're looking into. these are serious allegations that they're looking at. >> my thing is, if they didn't do anything wrong, i don't want them to have to face something if it's not legitimate. but at the same time, we have questions about were they treated differently by obama's justice department. >> i think it's very interesting. you have people on both sides saying that the fbi is playing politics. that's essentially what chuck todd saying by reopening or expanding or starting a new level of the clinton investigation. he's basically say that the fbi is playing politics. that's what people on the right have been concerned about with the trump collusion investigation with this mueller investigation. it doesn't seem like the fbi necessarily political. but just doing whatever it can to protect itself and protect its power. >> maybe they have to correct from a investigation that never got off the ground or wasn't allowed to proceed or in the prior administration with the foundation.

i know you have people who are now looking at the foundation. that grew out of our efforts in the congress. when this informant came out. we got to look at the issues. we are doing that in the congress. >> can i jump i in. we have spokesperson from hillary clinton. he says, let's call this what it is. a sham. this is a if di -- philanthropy that does work. continues with jeff sessions doing trump's bidding by heeding his calls to meddle with a department that is supposed to function independently. >> president trump president --t obama was concerned about selecting hillary clinton and how that will be perceived. it wasn't republicans concerned about her ties to the clinton

foundation while simultaneously serving as secretary of state. it was also president obama. referring to the fbi in concern over bias, that stems from the fact that we have text messages exchanged between peter strzok and lisa page talking about an insurance policy that they discussed and deputy director's office. this is evidence of great cause for concern. quite frankly i'm concerned that more people in the media and left have zero regard for that or concern to get to the bottom. american have every right to know. >> with the foundation too. here's the question, was this pay to play or not. one thing we can agree on, since are the election it's over, the clinton foundation raking in the cash like they used to. that's just the reality. why are people -- why are they not giving to it anymore? >> why aren't countries like

saudi arabia funneling tens of millions of dollars into the clinton foundation. you have former president, former secretary of state who knows so much about executing and delegating and they got so much free time. what better time to hand them the big hand full of money and do god's work with it. >> this is a legacy point too. we saw chelsea clinton getting on board to help. i don't know what the parameters of the foundation are at present. that would take reporting. as far as the availability, i would maje that's pretty clear. >> chelsea is not working for nbc. she's got free time as well. those are three giant titans of philanthropy. >> plan talked between north and south korea approaching. could this pave the way for talks with pyongyang over nuclear weapons program.

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majorities. the president plan to invest every effort to make sure that happens. >> we need more republicans so that we can really get the rest of the make america great again agenda passed. i will be actually working for incumbents. i think that's going to happen. we'ller very involved. we had somebody that lost state of alabama. i think as far as i'm concerned, that was a shame that was lost. >> will republicans hold the majority desantis? >> it's in our hands. you see lot of good things with the economy. you will start to see money coming to the united states. we already see some of the businesses because of lower corporate rate. are plowing that back.

we can grow three, four percent or more, that's going to make a difference in people's lives. we're starting to see, -- it's good thing that the stock market. when you start to see salaries and wages go up, that really impacts blue collar folks in middle america. >> we know rural america came out to vote for him. when you see what has transpired, kennedy is going to make this big speech today. i love this. talk to the farmers of america. we need them. they're struggling in many different ways. healthcare is a huge issue. these are small business people when it comes down to it. >> i'm glad you touched on healthcare. lot of people in rural area who had their choices decimated by the various healthcare laws and sun -- uncertainty. government has done so much screwing around with healthcare and health insurance.

that does lend to that sort of uncertainty. if republicans can create economic certainty for people in rural areas and people in the suburbs and people in big cities, i think it's a sure thing that they maintain a majority. however, if the economy slides and people don't see the fall out the positive fall out from tax reform, i think republicans are in big trouble. >> the president in the late stages right before tax reform passed, made this point. he was talking specifically about the farmers when he said, we took a look at that pass through legislation for small businesses. he said i know many of you may think it's are the bigger end of that. it's specifically to farmers. just listening to that sort of basic talk i thought was helpful to make it. we all eat. that works. other thing i don't know if you caught it this weekend, i don't know he'll bring it up today, the economy is good technology

-- for him. we're seeing lowest number of african-americans in 45 years. that is really another talking area for him. another example if you will where he wants to take this economy. >> to go back to that rural support that he got during the campaign, lisa. is he holding that support? >> yeah, i think he is. rural america help deliver the presidency to president trump. those are the voters he went to and said you were the forgotten men and women. i'm speaking to directly to you. i want to help you. it's very important for him to maintain that connection to him to speak to them about what he's doing to help them and better their lives. kennedy is right in the sense, lot of these rural areas they have no choices for healthcare. that's a scary thought. i think it's important for him to speak directly to them. let them know he wants to help. he wants to help their lives. >> the reason i bring up african-americans in that sentence, you remember early on, the president talked about

blacks mostly urban areas. he's going to an area. i lived in midwest for most of my life. blacks aren't just in those urban areas. this is another way he can do outreach there too. i pointed out, i don't know if people saw that statistics. >> the idea that it's all inner city. you have a black middle class. this economic is going to help them as well as help folks in rural areas. i think it's a good story. i leak to see that unemployment rate get down to 5% or lower. >> we will leave it there. all eyes on the korean peninsula. south korea prepare talks with north korea. nearly two years, could this ease tensions between the two nations and open the regime to sit down over nuclear weapons program. congressman desantis is here and he will weigh in next.

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with north korea the first dialogue between the two nations. president trump takin taking crt for the renewed communication. saying he will be open for the dialogue. >> we have a very firm stand. i will be absolutely -- i will do it. right now, they're talking. it's a start. it's a big start. if i weren't involved they wouldn't be talking about olympics. it will be much more serious. something can happen and something it come out of those talks that would be great thing for all of humanity. >> u.s. ambassador nikki haley insist lot needs to happen. >> there's no turn around. what he said, yes there could be a time where we talk to north korea. lot of things has to happen before that takes place.

they have to stop testing. they have to be willing to talk about banning their nuclear weapons. >> you got the olympics coming up in south korea next month. south korea needs to be stability for everyone to engage all the nations of the world to participate. they want north korea to sented -- send delegation. >> they are really concerned that the olympics work well. that's probably driving it more than the issues. at the end of the day, you have a guy in charge in north korea. those nuclear weapons are his insurance policy to remain in power. we're trying to bring other pressure to bare economic pressure and diplomatic pressure. unless he thinks that pressure my dislodge his hold on power, he's going to cling to weapons. i think you need to ratchet the pressure higher. china take one step back and one

step forward and two steps back. it's kind of same song and dance. you can turn the screws more to changes calculation. he'll continue to develop his weapons. >> they do need each other. south korea needs peace. north korea needs money the sanctions are working. what do the president do next? >> i always look for points of slowing a deal down. we have a president who understands that time kills all deals. if the deal is that this rogue regime leader want to open up everything he's got and go after us, if we can slow him down in anyway, maybe we can break the back of that deal. does the talk of talks tomorrow actually slow down the game? that's a good thing. if there is going to be hope that diplomacy works or something we can give him in the meantime. i don't know what that would be. that gives us the little bit more time to do it and takes steam out. what's your take? >> there maybe some truth there. it's important to recognize you're talking about north korea. we're worried about him using that.

we have defense capabilities. i'm just as worried if not more so of him transferring weapons to a country like iran. if you look what's happening now on the streets in iran with these protesters, they are challenging the islamist tyranny in iran. trump is behind them. >> these are times that echo what you say which is don't put us at pawns in the middle of these thing that you have going with other countries. >> right. here's the thing. if iranian regime buckle under this pressure. , that will be the number one source north korea will send weapons. north korea was involved in the middle east reactor in syria. unnamed jewish state in the middle east took out. they have a history of this. iran is number one place. >> are you saying the evil is real? do we have time here? that's my biggest concern. back in october, cia director

mike pompeo saying north korea is close to delivering nuclear weapon. we're talking about time. china and russia cheated. what tools do we have to slow that process or to try to stop it completely? >> when you start talking about beyond the economic pressure the political pressure, diplomatic isolation you start getting into military. this is not the type of situation where you strike the reactor and it's gone. this is a very complicated country. we have very little intelligence relatively speaking. it would not be an easy thing. in terms of the immediate casualties, could potentially be much worse than that. will have such dense populations. >> maybe you think the olympics is entree to some sort of diplomat i can -- diplomatic dialogue is best. >> would you like to see a dialogue? >> it would need preconditions.

i agree with ambassador haley. it's very likely to not yield fruit. given this guy's mindset. if you ratchet up the pressure and he feels threatened and you have preconditions, possibly. i don't think it's likely to work. >> all right. we will see. democrats now facing push back from the top donor and major clinton ally after party leaders called for disgrace senator al franken to quit and sexual misconduct allegations. now that big money donor threaten to drop support for democrat who helped push out franken. more on that in a moment.

>> it prominent democratic done nor now she's considering dropping her support for senators who urged al franken to quit. after he was accused of sexual misconduct. in statements to do "new york times" she wrote, in my gut they moved too fast. mr. franken was never given his chance to tell his story. for me this is dangerous and wrong. i'm a big believer in helping more women in political system. this has given me an opportunity to rethink how i can best help my party. new york senator gillibrand shot

herself in the foot by pushing frangen to resign. this is the same person donated to lisa bloom firm in trying to lure women to step forward and to bring accusations against president trump. now she's saying her party moved too fast on al franken. is there politics at play here? >> yeah. i wanted to hear from you. >> when they donate to candidates, they want to see a little bang for their buck. they want to be able to shape the ideology and they don't want to be disappointed. i think there are a lot of people -- joe manchin really vocalize this. lot of people having regret about how they pushed franken out. it's one thing to let the sham congressional ethics investigation take its natural course. it's another thing to activate the mob and have every female, democrat senator on facebook and social media, calling for his

head. i think what she's saying there have to be a middle ground. there's always with these narcissistic, fat cat who donate to those political causes. they always want to make sure they act like the emperor. >> what's so interesting about this, the money for these women come forward is notwithstanding. we can talk about all shades of wrong and maybe agendas there. we leave that set aside. this idea that people who have money or power or work or saying you got to listen to the women. the message that i hear sending is, we will listen to the women you're not quite as important what we might want to do with our money and politics and power. i think it's risky to send that message for a party. they haven't had a message. certainly not when it comes to economy. >> it raises questions how much is this actually about the me

too movement. how much this about politics. she's saying that kirsten gillibrand shot herself in the book. how viable are clintons in the democratic politics? >> that's a good question. whatever was accused of franken or other people, bill clinton was mother load of accusations. they said it didn't matter. he focused on his job. i think you're right. this is all rooted in politics. couple of fronts, they were pushing franken out during the alabama senate race. if they will not push franken out, they feared alabama voters they're accusing this guy of bad thing. they're in the doing anything when their people get accused. also if the republican won, they want to really highlight that ethics investigation. i thought they felt it would be tough. >> part of the bigger discussion is more about that whole cultural shift that we have

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>> sandra: many thanks to congressman ron desantis for returning to the couch today, lovely to have you back. it's not like you are running for governor or anything.

thank you for being here, we obviously appreciate it. we are back tomorrow at noon as we are every weekday, and now here is harris. >> harris: a fox news alert, the word of the day is regretful my man who trash talked the republican to a book author. steve bannon is expressing regret over quotes attributed to him in the controversial book "fire and fury." this as trump's former chief strategist as taking fire from the president and some of his closest allies. bannon says "donald trump junior is both a patriot and a good ma man. my support is also unwavering for the president and his agen. the backtracking comes as the book's author continues to defend the explosive details in the tell all.