them to police. everyone posed for the picture of the day and a memory to last a lifetime. thanks for joining us. i'm dana perino. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 at the white house where the news briefing is scheduled this hour. could be interesting. comes hours after fox news confirmed the special counsel robert mueller has interviewed the attorney general jeff sessions about the russia investigation. it's the first report of mueller questioning anybody in the president's cabinet. we're also tracking news that mueller's team questioned the former fbi director james comey last year. today the implications and the white house's response. plus, the president himself reacting to reports that his attorney general pushed the fbi director to fire his top deputy. the fbi director apparently pushed back. let's get to it.

and a live look outside the white house where the briefing is set to start just about a half an hour from now. the press secretary sarah sanders expected to get questions about the russia investigation. we get word that robert mueller's team interviewed the former fbi director james comey last year. that's according to new reporting this afternoon in "the new york times" newspaper. it reports the interview focused on memos that comey wrote about his interactions with president trump, that he said unnerved him. among the issues mueller is investigating whether president trump obstructed justice when he fired director comey. fox news confirmed that jeff sessions mel with mueller's investigators last week. the attorney general is the first cabinet member and highest ranking administration official that we know about to meet with mueller's team. the president said he's not worried about it.

>> [question inaudible] >> i'm not at all. >> [question inaudible] >> no, i didn't. i'm not concerned. >> shepard: president trump has criticized the attorney general for recusing himself from the russia investigation. sessions said so because he was involved in the trump campaign. sessions made the announcement after word got out that he met with the russian ambassador twice and did not tell lawmakers about the meetings during his confirmation meeting. sessions said he had the meetings because he was a u.s. senator, not because of his role in the campaign. the special counsel robert mueller is looking into moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. president trump and the russian president, vladimir putin, have asserted there was no collusion. john roberts is live on the north lawn. john? >> shep, good afternoon to you. sources familiar with the investigation say it was absolutely expected that robert

mueller would want to talk to the attorney general. after all, he was the chief foreign policy adviser to candidate donald trump during the campaign and he was at the very center of the comey firing last year. let's remember, too, that in addition to him meeting with sergei kisleak last year, he reflected to mention that in his confirmation hearing. that brought up the idea was mueller laying a perjury trap for sessions who seemed to have a problem recalling things. you can imagine mueller would want to talk to sessions for a couple reasons. was there collusion between the trump campaign and the russians in terms of trying to influence the u.s. elections and b, was there obstruction of justice in the firing of comey.

it was shortly after the meeting became public that sessions decided to recuse himself from the russia investigation. white house officials today made no attempt to hide the fact that the president was upset at sessions for doing that. though to a person on television today, they said there's nothing to see here and they believe the mueller investigation will wrap up quickly. listen. >> the president has done nothing wrong here. that's clear. >> the administration continues to cooperate with the special counsel. we have opinion transparent during this process. as we know, there's no evidence of collusion or wrong doing. >> there's no collusion during the 2016 campaign and no findings of wrong doing. we expect it to wrap up soon. >> now, in terms of the investigation wrapping up soon, another source familiar with the investigation said this idea that the inspector general of the department of justice is looking into the fbi's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail scandal may cause the mueller investigation to go on longer

than was originally thought because some of the people that were at the center of that inspector general's investigation, michael horowitz at the department of justice, were working with robert mueller. also, shep, this news too that comey was interviewed by the special counsel last year and the blazing headline that he shared his memos, his infamous memos, his recollection of meetings with the president with mueller. that particular headline is not new at all. because back when he testified with congress on june 9 of last year, comey said that he handed over his memos to the special counsel's office. shep? >> shepard: travel still in the works for the president tomorrow? still going to davos switzerland? >> yeah, he's going to the forum. he has a number of meetings set up. one with the u.k. prime minister, benjamin netanyahu and

others. today he slapped the tariff on solar panels and washing machines will be a topic of conversations. the world economic forum is a globalist affair. the president taking america first. he would insist he's trying to protect american companies and american workers. we'll hear more about the president's trip to davos in 25 minutes during the daily briefing. shep? >> shepard: looking forward to it. john roberts on the north lawn. thank you. let's go to eric tucker, the justice department reporter for the associated press. he fired a report on sessions today for the a.p. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> shepard: what do we have in the way of details on the questions of sessions? >> still took place last week, took place several hours. it really comes as mueller's investigators are drilling in on the question of whether the president committed obstruction of justice. >> and why do you say that particularly regarding to sessions? >> sessions, of course, as you'll remember, played a critical role in the firing of

james comey, which is one of the episodes that mueller and his investigators are probing for possible obstruction. when james comey was fired, the white house said they were acting on the recommendation of the justice department. the president said i was thinking of this russia thing and i would have done it anyway. obviously, there's questions for sessions about what he knew v a vis a vis the firing of comey. >> shepard: it would appear that sessions was questioned by the special counsel and that would go to session's own reason given for having recused himself in the first place. >> sure. i have to imagine that there was a lot of questioning about that decision. not only the fact that he recused himself but the interactions that we know he had with the white house prior to announcing decision when it

became clear to the white house that jeff sessions was going to recuse, the white house contacted him and the white house counsel urged him to remain in charge of the russia investigation. we know from our reporting that he was acting on behalf of the president. so that adds to the complexity, adds to the texture of the possible obstruction allegations. >> shepard: so don mcgann made the phone call, it was the president that gave the directive? >> that's correct. >> shepard: now we heard the president in the pool spray say that he was not concerned about yesterday. what are the behind-the-scenes reporting on the fact that the president learning about sessions had given answers to mueller? >> i think honestly the president is accustomed to knowing that several of the people that are really in his closest orbit, including his son-in-law, jared kushner, have spoken to special counsel mueller. we know that hope hicks has been in there. we know that steve bannon is going in there at some point

soon. reince priebus, don mcgann. so in a certain sense, it's old hat to president for somebody he knows and worked with him to be questioned. the surprise element has disappeared a little bit. >> shepard: the reporting is clear that the number of people that are being questioned now who are extremely close to the president is historically speaking almost unprecedented. members of the cabinet. really everyone inside the president's inner circle except the president. >> that's correct. that is, as you know, the next big step that everybody is waiting for. the special counsel has expressed interest in an eventual questioning of president. there's not been a formal interview request made but we know that is under active discussion. we'll see what happens there. i know ty cobb recently indicated the president is

looking forward to it and they look for a necessary step in the resolution in the next four to six weeks. >> shepard: i believe it's the reporting of the associated press that they've been negotiating on the matter. do we know the details? >> they've been trying to figure out exactly what standards and terms would work out best for them. one of the ideas that is a possibility is could the president receive and respond to written questions in lou of face to face questioning. it's not clear if that would be acceptable to mueller. it's not unpredented by a sitting president to be questioned by investigators but there's all sorts of calculations that are being made. what sort of questioning would you expose the president. >> shepard: would that decision be the president's or the special counsel's? >> that's a great question. so, you know, really a witness or somebody who the government wants to question has a lot of flexibility and leeway to say no. you obviously have a

constitutional right to not be questioned. so it's certainly possible and feasible that the president, that his lawyers could choose to exercise that right and generate a legal show down. we're not at that point yet. it's impossible to say that that would happen. i would imagine the optics of rejecting an interview request would probably not be great. and the white house lawyer has given no indication that that rejecting a request is on the table. >> eric tucker, justice department reporter for the associated press. he's work is on the app and online right now. thanks. >> thanks. >> shepard: there's word that jeff sessions pressured the fbi christopher wray to fire his deputy director after president trump tweeted about replacing the deputy. follow that? wray reportedly threatened to resign in protest. now the president has responded to the report. you'll hear from him next. we'll also talk to a reporter

from the website that took the story and the daily briefing coming up minutes from now. stay with us. this is fox news channel.

>> shepard: well, it appears resignations are on tap. the fbi director christopher wray threatened to resign. that's a reporting of axios. the president said that didn't happen. it all comes after we get word that the trump administration has been pressuring the fbi

director into firing his second in command. in other words, pressuring the man in charge to fire the number 2 guy. again, that's according to the reporting of axios and other organizations. sources say christopher wray threatened to quit after jeff sessions urged him to fire the deputy director andrew mccabe. sessions apparently took after after the president's tweets blasting the fbi. president trump got a question about this this afternoon. here's what he said in a signing ceremony as it was wrapping up. >> no, he didn't at all. he didn't even a little bit. he's going to do a good job. >> shepard: he didn't threaten to resign. he's going to do a good job. the president did try to make changes at the fbi. he fired james comey during the bureau's russia investigation.

the president later nominated christopher wray to replace comey. let's get to katelyn owens who broke the story. axios stands by their reporting, right? >> that's correct. we just updated our story. my colleague jonathan swan. >> shepard: tell me all you got. >> will do. the first thing we remember here, axios never said that trump himself was directly involved in private conversations with wray. our reporting is that president trump publicly urged sessions to fire mccabe and sessions privately urged wray to fire mccabe. that's when wray threatened to resign. that's when both the justice department and white house counsel mcgann backed off -- >> shepard: wait. to whom did christopher wray threaten to reshine and under what circumstances? >> that was to attorney general

jeff sessions, if he kept being pressured to fire mccabe. so jeff sessions then went to mcgann according to our reporting and relayed the message here. mcgann said it wasn't worth the media firestorm of losing another fbi director after comey. so you know, bringing that back forward to today, president trump was never involved in these discussions. whether or not they were relayed to him, i don't know. that's not what the reporting is. but then more importantly, my colleague, jonathan swann has noted that the fbi and the justice department were given full disclosure of what our reporting was, what the story was. i mean, still now have not denied on the report what happened according to axios. >> shepard: nobody has accept the president, right? >> right. >> shepard: what was the -- according to the reporting, what was the reason for this pressuring? >> you know, this goes beyond what was in our story. it's no secret that the

president thinks mccabe is tainted by the clinton investigation by his own wife's political activity by the money flow. the point here is not -- isn't to kind of judge whether or not mccabe deserves to be fired. the point is that this is some very abnormal interference on the part of the white house and the administration or the justice department and the fbi, which is typically a very independent organization. >> shepard: so that we're clear, you said this just a moment ago, but the reporters took that extra step of going to those involved and saying, here's what we're about to report. would you like to comment on anything? would you like to push back on anything? would you like to offer further clarity or any foot notes? we're here to take that information down, whatever you have to say. we may include it and they didn't say anything. >> absolutely. they did not deny any of the reporting that we put out last night. again, as you said, shep, the only person that has publicly

done so is the president himself saying that wray didn't not threaten to resign. again, this is the fbi and the justice department not disputing our reporting. once again, i want to stress, our reporter is that president trump was directly involved. he was publicly involved in calling sessions to -- >> shepard: that's indisputable. there's written -- all you have to do is to the bing or google on that. >> that's right. the reporting was centered around the private conversations with jeff sessions and christopher wray and wray responding by saying he would resign if this pressure continued rather than fire mccabe. >> shepard: it's an interesting line of reporting and follows a pattern. katelyn owens. nice to see you. best to jonathan. >> thank you. >> shepard: we're waiting to hear from the white house. we guess they will weigh-in on this. sarah sanders scheduled to speak to reporters right after ten minutes from now. first, shots fired in the

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>> shepard: a man that works near the school where a deadly happened this morning kentucky says he saw kids running down the hallway crying and screening. it happened at marshall county high school, benton, kentucky, 100 miles northwest of nashville, tennessee. police say a student brought a handgun to school and killed two 15-year-olds. a boy and a girl. 17 others were hurt. this governor, matt bevin

confirmed the teenage suspect is in custody. the governor is urging people not to speculate and await for the facts. mike tobin alive. benton. marshall county, kentucky. >> michael webb with the kentucky state police said this strikes to the heart of kentucky. we know from the governor, two people died. one succumbed to injured at the scene and one transported to the hospital where he later died of his injuries. there's some dispute about the number of people injured. the governor and the officials said here at the school board the number of people injured was 19. 14 injured by gunshot wounds. others injured in the panic subsequent to the shootings. the associated press is saying 17 people were injured. we're looking for clarity on the number. the suspected shooters 15 years old. he had a handgun. the motive is unknown. state police say even in a small

town like this, the students were prepared for a mass shooting. >> the students at that school did exactly as they were trained. the kentucky state police has been in this area recently teaching students and faculty how to respond to an active shooter situation. everybody in the high school reacted appropriately. >> now, in the high school, there's an atrium adjacent to the cafeteria where students generally gather before the first bell. according to the timing of when the calls came in, sounds like the shooting occurred just before that first bell and according to some people inside of the school, a third party information anyway, that that atrium area, the area where the students gather, are with the shots first rang out. governor matt bevins that this is a wound that won't heal. >> shepard: thanks, mike. the white house briefing set to start minutes from now.

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>> shepard: a live look inside the white house briefing room. we expect sarah sanders to take questions at any moment. the president tweeting about negotiating to open the government. nobody knows if congress will

reach an immigration deal by february 8. the dreamers, hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose parents brought them to the united states when they were children without documents. fox news confirms chuck schumer has withdrawn to produce spending for the border wall as part of the deal on the dreamers. peter doocy is on the hill with more. what are republicans saying in response to senator schumer, peter? >> shep the gop is trying to figure out how to balance out the negotiations. >> if senator schumer takes something off the table, i'm sure we take something off the table. right now i want to get started. i'm not asking us to start on my bill or anybody else's bill. the best thing we can do is have cornyn and durbin look at bipartisan ideas, narrow them down and say this is a good starting point.

add to it in terms of the will of the senate and start with a new product. >> graham is trying to work on a bill with his democratic colleagues that he thinks would be popular enough with both parties that could sail through the senate, 60, 70 votes he predicts. he doesn't want to work with his colleagues in the house until they're done here. that would be another mistake according to john kennedy that said that his colleagues need to remember that the house is an equal partner in this process. >> shepard: one of the effects has been to effectively split the democratic party. the centrists seem to get it. looking ahead to the mid-terms. but on the left, they're angry. >> they are angry, shep. and the minority leader chuck schumer was just trying to defend himself by essentially saying just because he couldn't squeeze a big concession out of mitch mcconnell before they reversed according and decided to support this three week long budget to fund the government, they did get, he thinks, a date

circled on the calendar to have daca finished by february 8. >> we're very pleased with how things came out. we're better off today when it comes to the cause of dreamers than we were four or five days ago. we've gotten a commitment from senator mcconnell. he made it not just to democrats but his caucus. that means a lot. we have renewed momentum. >> schumer enraged progressives by not getting a firmer commitment by a daca voted and now he has about three dozen protesters yelling and screaming and being arrested in his office. they're chanting say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here. shep? >> shepard: peter doocy live on capitol hill. let's turn to nancy cook, white house reporter for politco. nancy, nice to see you. >> thanks for having me, shep. >> shepard: where is this thing now? schumer is suggesting that he's

gotten a promise for an up or down vote on this matter. that's the senate. says nothing about house. says nothing about the president. >> yeah, i think what we're seeing, the shut down was a huge victory for the white house. but now really the hard work of putting together an immigration deal is coming to the forefront. i just talked to a senior administration official who said that despite this posturing on the part of the democrats and the republicans, both sides felt optimistic they were making progress. the thing is, the immigration debate is more nuanced now. it's partly about funding for the wall but there's fighting about the nuance things over chain migration, the visa lottery system and border security and the details of what that looks like. >> shepard: the fact remains, there's a portion of the president's base that believes that very vocally and has been clear about it that giving a

deal for the dreamers is tantamount to amnesty. they don't want it. does the president want it? >> the president, in my reporting, seems like he doesn't have as strong policy positions on sort of a wide range of things. i do think that historically he does have a stronger views on immigration than other things. we felt that going back to the campaign where building the wall and limiting, you know, immigration for the country was such an important part of the campaign. so if there's any deal with struck with the white house, they're going to have to be some key red lines on this. i think that he has sort of more hardened views on immigration, more aligned with stephen miller or chief of staff john kelly than people might assume. >> shepard: they're more in line with the sliver of his base that i was talking about. if we were to go ahead with a deal for the dreamers, a sort of path to citizenship for these

that lived here all their lives and they don't know any other home, he would be doing it against their wishes. you'd think they would want something in return, right? >> i think that the republicans that's talked to on the hill and elsewhere feel like there is a potential for a deal to be struck if democrats -- it's not necessarily -- it's not just about sort of the outcome of the deal and the details, but the sequencing. the republicans that i talked to said if we can get the wall funding, if we can get these other things like, you know, a limit of chain migration, a reform of the visa lottery system, then perhaps there would be more room to negotiate on the sequencing. >> shepard: depends on what funding for the wall means. because we now have heard from the president that this revised standard version of the wall, which is not a 2000 mile wall but some walling, fencing, some technology, some people, some

sort of combination of things, which, you know, i guess there's an estimate out there about $18 billion. but who really knows. >> absolutely. it's an interesting moment, too, for republicans. republicans sort of historically have always been sort of fiscal hawks and very worried about government spending. so there's no question, too, for folks on the hill, do they want to spend this money. to pull back for a second. i think both sides, democrats and republicans, are so energized by this because the wall and the idea of it is so a symbol of the trump campaign, both what people liked about it and didn't like about it. whoever wins this debate will have a huge amount of mow men thumb doing into the 2018 mid-terms. >> shepard: both sides would agree with that. thanks, nancy. you're the best. >> thanks. >> shepard: i've gotten all kinds of interesting news about the press briefing. you can see the microphone and the oval signs, which they kind of stolen the look from dana perino, if you ask me. do we have the look in the white house? looks so much like dana's show. we're not going to knock them on

that. we now know that it will be a group affair today. sarah and friends. h.r. mcmaster, the national security adviser i've been told there be there with sarah sanders as will gary cohn, the director of the national economic council. so gary cohn and m.r. mcmaster with sarah sanders minutes from now live from the briefing room here on fnc. as democrats face off with the white house over immigration, president trump's infrastructure plan has leaked to the media, again, it's axios breaking another story and publishing what they report is a draft copy of the infrastructure plan. how to fix all the country's roads and bridges and airports. it was one of -- it was candidate trump's major campaign promises. last month the president said infrastructure would be the perfect place to start working with democrats. adam shapiro with the news. what are some of the major details of this leaked plan,

adam? >> the white house won't comment about the leaked plan. how does $200 billion as seed money to leverage $1 trillion in capitol improvements to road, brings, waterways, transit systems throughout the country? that's what they're talking about, again, the white house won't confirm it. buried within the plan, take a look at the video when new york city opened their second after subway. if this plan were the law, the people along second avenue in new york city, their property values went up but they wouldn't be able to keep it. it would have value financing taxes. if you're a farmer in alabama and they built a highway, your highway value goes up but you don't get to keep it. that's what this is proposing. i've talked to people on capitol hill. doesn't sounds like anything that would pass the smell test here. >> shepard: what do you mean you don't get to keep it?

>> they won't explain. i asked for the white house what that would mean. you're a farmer in alabama, your property is worth $1. they build a highway on your neighbor's property, your value goes up to $2. that $1 gain in value, you don't get to keep. somehow the federal government, the state government captures that. the plan doesn't explain how they would do it. again, here on capitol hill, the people i've spoken to, they don't think that will pass the smell test. >> shepard: that will be fascinating to watch. the other part going to the pattern of favoring rural areas. a big chunk of money that would go to project in rural america. >> $50 billion. they want 25% of the 200 used to leverage improvements in rural areas to everything -- we've talked about this publicly with the administration. broad band, creating a better broad band network, power and electric grid, water plans to be improved, roads, bridges. all of it. the key here, $50 billion for rural communities just as seed

money that could be leveraged to more, maybe a couple hundred billion. >> shepard: thanks, adam. americans were among those that died in a taliban attack in afghanistan's capitol according to the reporting of the state department. afghan officials say the terrorist stormed into kabul's enter continental -- intercontinental hotel with suicide vests. no word on how many were americans. afghan forces have struggled to fight the taliban since the united states and nato formally ended their combat missions there in 2014. president trump has suggested sending thousands more u.s. troops into afghanistan. we're still waiting for the briefing to begin live at the white house. this was scheduled to have begun about 13 1/2 minutes ago as i reported. we've been given direction from the white house that h.r. mcmaster and gary cohn will join

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get started for free at ancestry.com. >> shepard: 14 minutes before the hour. the governor of washington ordering the department that handles drivers licenses to stop giving information from immigrants that were here without documents to immigration and customs agents. fox news has learned the department handed over license applications for some people including information about where those people were born. dan springer is live in seattle. dan? >> shep, as you alluded to in washington state, you do not have to be a u.s. citizen to get a driver's license but you have to answer questions about where you were born on the application. about 20 or 30 investigation as month, ice agents were asking the department of license to hand that information over and it was leading to some deportations. well, when democratic governor jay ensley learned that the

justice department was helping ice, he questioned -- >> shepard: pardon the interrupti interruption. sarah sanders has arrived. let's listen in. >> our thoughts and prayers are with the families in marshall county. for more updates before we bring up a couple of special guests, i'd like to leave no doubted where the white house stands on the flake-graham agreement on immigration reform. in a bipartisan meeting, we outlined a path forward on four fourer -- four serious issues. unfortunately, the flake-graham-durbin agreement does not meet the benchmarks.

it would not security our border and retain the visa lottery system. in short, it's totally unacceptable to the president and should be declared dead on arrival. the president has been consistent on the immigration and what his priorities are. his views are shared by the vast majority of the american people and have bipartisan support in the u.s. senate and the house of representatives. moving along, we have incredible economic news to share today. j.p. morgan chase announced this morning that because of the trump tax cuts, they will raise wages for 22,000 of their employees, create thousands of new jobs and increase small business by lending $4 billion. in total, the moves are part of a $20 billion investment plan for which the j.p. morgan chase tax credit. disney announced 125,000 employees will receive a $1,000 cash bonus and the company is

investing $50 million into a new employee education program. lastly, verizon announced today that all of their employees, other than the top management, will receive 50 shares of restricted stock. this amounts to about $2,500 per employee. employees will share in the company's success verizon said in a release. we're one year in and the president is just getting started. we're pleased to see our great american workers and families are already feeling the positive effects of the president's policies. as you know, the president will be travelling to the world economic forum later this week, so i brought in a couple of special guests to preview that trip. nec director gary cohn that played a major role in the tax cut and h.r. mc mastmaster will discuss the trip and answer the questions and then i'll take your questions. general? >> i'm with the general. >> in general.

>> thanks very much. >> good to see everyone. thank you, sarah. it's great to be here today with general mcmaster my cohort in briefing you guys. as sarah said, we're going to the world economic forum to share president trump's economic story and to tell the world that america is open for business. we want the world to invest in america and to create jobs for hard working americans. president trump's economic agenda has unleashed the u.s. economy. his policies have led to a rising stock market, low unemployment, drawing gdp growth. the administration's commitment to deregulation and our passing of comprehensive tax reform have helped level the playing field for our businesses and our workers. as a direct result, president trump's tax reform and tax cuts over 100 companies have announced policies that would create jobs, benefit our workers and grow our economy. this story will only get better

as we continue to invest and rebuild america's infrastructure. at the world economic forum, we will reiterate america's commitment to domestic and global economic growth and prosperity, strengthen close ties with other world leaders and catalyze international business support for the president's agenda. president trump will reiterate that a prosperous america benefits the world. when the united states grows, so does the world. the. will continue to promote fair economic competition and will make it clearer that there cannot be free and open trade if countries are not held accountable to the rules. the president said america and his administration supports trade but it needs to be fair and reciprocal. we will share about the president's schedule and the economic agenda and then i'll hand it over to general mcmaster to discuss our national security priorities at the world economic

forum and the president's meeting with world leaders. the president departs tomorrow evening and arrives thursday morning local time in switzerland. on thursday, he will have a variety of meetings with world leaders and a quick meeting with clause schwab, the founder of the forum. thursday night, there will be a reception with world leaders to honor the president. later on that night, the president will host a small dinner with select european companies to share our economic success stories and to encourage them to continue to invest in america. to attendees run companies that have sizable footprints in the united states. they have invested in our economy and we want them to continue to do so and encourage others to join them. the president looks forward to hearing from these ceos and how his administration can help them continue to grow their businesses in the united states. on friday, he will have more meetings with world leaders and then he will deliver his speech

that will emphasize everything we have talked about today. now i'll hand it over to general mcmaster to talk about the meetings. >> good afternoon, everyone. the president will use this travel to the world economic forum to reiterate his commitment to mutually beneficial partnerships and as gary said, to fair and reciprocal international economic systems. as the president has repeatedly said and has been made clear in a national security strategy, economic security is national security. the president will also use his time in davos to discuss other national security issues including international effort to denuclearize the korean peninsula, our coalition to defeat isis, our efforts to counter iran's destructive agenda, to perpetuate violence across the greater middle east as well as iran's ballistic missile activity and the fundamental flaws in the iran

nuclear deal. on thursday, the president will meet with prime minister may of the u.k. to discuss the conflict in syria, iran's destabilizing behavior, ways to address short comings in that iran nuclear deal and our shared goal of denuclearizing the korean peninsula. he will meet with prime minister netanyahu. he will also meet with the african union to reaffirm the u.s.-african relationship and talk about trade and security. he will also meet with the president of switzerland, the host nation nor the world economic forum, to discuss bilateral investment, economic growth and innovation. in all of his meetings, the president hopes to increase economic opportunities for the american people, to build

partnership to address common security goals and to find new ways of reforming international and regional organizations to make them more effective and more accountable. the president looks forward to a very productive trip on behalf of the american people. thank you. >> he outranks me. he said i had to go first. >> the first question, your economic -- as far as the economic growth, we just had a litany of businesses that are going to give back to the american people. isn't it unfair to give the president credit for that? they already had that money in their coffers, right? what we're saying -- they would have not turned it loose otherwise? i had a second question for him. >> i would disagree with your premise completely. look, if they had their money in their coffers, they could have done it last year, the year before, the year before, the year before.

seems like -- since we've passed the tax reform plan, all of these announcements have been made. if you look specifically at the words in most of these press releases, all of them are talking about the regulatory relief that we have seen and we've seen the tax plan mentioned directly that companies now feel more comfortable about the economic position they're in. they feel better about the u.s. economy, they feel more confident about their earnings and they feel like the lower tax rate allows them to share more of their potential earnings with their employees. so i think there's a 100% correlation between what we have seen these -- almost to close to 200 companies do and what we've done and the tax policy standpoint. >> my follow up to you, general mcmasters. you mentioned north korea. they said they're in talks with south korea. has the president's policy led to where we are now and how big of a threat is north korea now

compared to even three weeks ago? >> yeah. as president moon has said, it is the president's policy, his ability to rally international support behind the campaign of maximum pressure that has made a significant difference. what you see that is fundamentally different from a year ago is the common commitment across all nations that denuclearization is the only acceptable outcome on the peninsula. second, that the international community and china in particular does have a great deal of coercive power to bring to bear to this. the third element is that everyone recognizes that we can't repeat the mistakes of the past. really to fall for what in the past has been the north korean ploy to create the illusion of success and talks and to use that to lock in the status quo as the new normal while they continue to pursue these programs with undiminished

vigor. so the danger is growing. i think it's important for all of us to recognize the north korean regime for what it is and how grave a threat this is to the world. >> one other thing. on the wage increases, that is coming out of future earnings and the stock grants are companies making an investment in their future. going to you. >> one question for you and one for the general. so the president is travelling to davos to present his america first agenda. how can one square an america first agenda with goals of increasing trade? the president has spoken many times of trade deals and other international agreements in which the u.s. is being ripped off and other countries are laughing at us. does he believe that all of these negotiations and

agreements are inherently zero sum? and that, you know, for america to come first, do other countries have to take a back seat or can agreements be truly win-win? >> look, the president believes we can have truly win-win agreements. america first is not america alone. i said in my remarks when we grow, the world grows. when the world grows, we grow. we're part of it. we're part of a world economy. the president believes that. he's going to talk to world leaders about making sure we all respect each other, we all abide by the laws and we all have free, fair, open and resciproca trade. the president truly believes that we will grow. he went to the g7, the g 20, nato, the u.n. he's talked about these positions consist