>> we have defense so important. we need steel and aluminum. we're negotiating with mexico and canada. the nafta. depending on whether or not we reach a deal, also very much involved with that is national defense, but if we reach a deal, it's most likely that we won't be charging those two countries the tariffs. we have other countries that are very much involved with us on trade but also on military and working together with military. we'll be making a decision as to who they are. we have a very close relationship with australia. we have a trade surplus with australia. great country, long term partner. we'll be doing something with them. we'll be doing something with other countries.

we'll be flexible. at the same time, we have some friends and some enemies where we have been tremendously taken advantage of over the years. on trade and military. if you look at nato, where germany pays 1% and we're paying 4.2% of a much bigger gdp. not fair. we have lot of things going on. i think general with nato, because of my involvement, we've taken in $33 billion more within the next year and a half. they expect to have taken in $33 billion more. he said it's incredible what's happened since we became involved. i became involved by complaining. it was not fair. we were sending 85% of the money. it helps them lot more it helps us.

helps europe than us. we look at the military equation. general mattis it's important to him and me and maintain those great relationships. at the same time we want fairness. we viewed the trade and the military and to a certain extent, they go hand in hand. lot of progress has been made. i'm proud of nato. with nato, when you see the kind of money that's pouring in, that was never going to come in. people with delinquent, they weren't paying. now they're paying. not all of them are paying the fair amount. some owe billions and billions of dollars of money. they owe billions from past years. they haven't paid it. that's not fair. they want us to protect and they want to be a good partner and then they are delinquent on payment or they haven't made payment or they haven't made payments which are fair. we're looking at all of those

things. we're talking about tremendous massive amounts of money. but that goes along with trade also. we're looking at the defense. defense is very much also part of trade. we're going to be very flexible. as an example with mexico and canada, we're going to be throwing nafta into it. we're negotiating nafta now. i think we're doing quite well. it was my feeling i would terminate nafta or renegotiate it. we'll be perhaps coming up with a deal on nafta fairly soon or we will terminate nafta and start all over again. thank you very much everybody. thank you. sticking with 10 and 25 initial. i'll have right to go up and down depending on the country. i'll have a right to drop out country or add countries. we just want fairness. we have not been treated fairly

by other countries. thank you. thank you very much. >> julie: president trump holding his meeting there. touching on a number of subjects on trade. from the president he is sticking to 25% tariffs for steel, 10% on steel. we're going to protect the american worker said the president. he weighed in on jeff sessions and this lawsuit against the state of california, talking about what the mayor of oakland did. warning residents about the i.c.e. raids. calling the mayor a disgrace. he took the opportunity to tout tax cuts. they're showing tremendous results and as far as the gun control debate in that cabinet meeting, he said bump stocks are gone. we are working hard to harden the schools. one particular moment talking about trade, he said where is

gary. called him a globalist. referring to gary cohn who just announced his departure from the white house. in his own way, he's a nationalist. because he loves this country. an eventful cabinet meeting there. we got a fox news alert latest development in the russia appropriate. special counsel robert mueller team is honing in on two separate leads to discover whether russia meddled in the 2016 election. this is "outnumbered." former deputy spokesperson for the state department marie harf is here. joining us is michael waltz. and he is with due respect, outnumbered. >> happy international women's day. to all of you.

son of single mom as a father of a little girl, women's empowerment around the world, extremist doesn't exist. i'm proud to be with four strong women today. >> that was great. >> let you know everyday is women's day. >> now we're going to especially acknowledge it. >> the president left out, he weighed in on international wineless day. citing unemployment rate for women is 18 year low. >> extremist fear the most is a girl with a book. >> let's begin. the "washington post" reporting robert mueller team is looking into a meeting that happened just before donald trump inauguration. among those president george nader a united emirates advisor with ties to the kremlin. this as the "new york times" reporting mueller has learned of

two conversations in recent months which president trump asked former white house chief of staff reince priebus about matters they discussed with investigators. >> based on reporting here at fox news, special counsel has been looking at the issue of united arab emirates and contacts with the trump administration until september of last year. short time ago on capitol hill, we heard from the house intelligence committee democrat he wants to recall eric prince who testified last year about one meeting in particular that was january 2017 in seychelles. >> this meeting was at odds what we heard in the testimony before

the house intelligence committee. >> committee democrats want george nader to testify as well. he's reportedly cooperating with the special counsel investigation about this meeting because he played a role setting it up i. eric prince told them that it happened by chance. he also emphasized he was trying to build a relationship with the president at that time and did not have any kind of special access. the meeting goes to the heart of unmasking controversy. that's the identification of american citizens in foreign intelligence reporting. fox news can confirm that former national security advisor susan rice unmasked participants. she testified she unmasked a december 2016 trump tower meeting. than includes the president's son, the crown prince of the united arab emirates and others. the county prince is an

important player. he has a close relationship with the russian president vladimir putin. she feared the meeting were a evidence back channel between the administration and moscow. the meeting was described effort by the administration in good faith to build relationships during the transition. source with knowledge of the investigation tells fox news that the president did talk to reince priebus about his interview with the special counsel. it didn't really go into the substance of his testimony. >> lot to get to there. thank you for the update. what do you make of these developments? >> republicans all they see is americans and the americans are our enemy from the russian standpoint and they just want to sow chaos.

putin couldn't be happier. on this meeting whether it was by happenstance or they set it up, we set up back channels all time. it was post election. marie it's called negotiations where private sector citizen have some type of dialogue. the uae had a special interest here, they want to drive a wedge between russia and iran. they are worried about iran and if they could facilitate the new incoming president and putin having a strengthening relations -- i don't see much there there. there's a difference between inappropriate and illegal. >> i think the point of the report is that susan rice lied to house investigators when she was asked -- she claim to have no idea how the unless about the meeting which came from the the unmasking of the intelligence reports which she asked for got to the "washington post." >> she may not know.

she said she asked for the american to be unmasked. she doesn't know how that got to the post. lot of people, more than you think would have had access. you guys have no evidence she leaked it. you can't say that. >> unmasking was a very big deal. >> when i worked there it was too. >> we have seen now that susan rice has done it in droves along steel ansamantha power. they blast it out they know the odds are. >> that's not true. there were reasons to unmask these people. they were having pleats with foreigners. they were working to undermine foreign policy. the normal channels who know who leaked it. >> i'm troubled by this "new york times" report. not for reasons that you might think. they are report being don m

mcgann telling them to fire the special counsel and issue a statement denying "new york times" report. then the conversation with reince priebus. you take that and earl you had the former attorney general eric holder saying president trump will face obstruction of justice charge from the special counsel robert mueller. you technically have an obstruction of justice case. i've known bob mueller from 20 to 30 years. he's trying to make the case. this looks the like "new york times" trying to put pressure on the special counsel to come up with an obstruction of justice charge. even though the president having conversations with his own advisors as judge napolitano said that's not coaching a witness. he can have these conversations. even the "new york times" article goes into this. attorneys don't think this looks like that. it looks shady and it smells bad. they trying to -- well, did you

know that they trying to basically loin up a case for the special counsel. >> bottom line for me, completely appropriate for the president to be talking to his staff afterwards. that is different what bill clinton accused of and nixon in coaching witnesses. that's the distinction we have to make. talking to them afterwards -- >> maybe this is just a public campaign against the president and for some sort of obstruction of justice case. if you start adding up what you're hearing from the liberal leaning media and former obama administration officials, thumb down. >> we are just getting started. more to come. the chairman of the democratic national committee getting called out for inflating party fundraising numbers. what he said and what the facts really are ahead. plus attorney general jeff sessions responding to growing

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>> the nation top law enforcement officer now considering appointing an independent investigator to look into alleged obama era surveillance abuses during the 2016 campaign. attorney general jeff sessions responding to a letter from house oversight committee chairman tray gowdy and bob goodlatte asking him to name a second specially counsel. here's the attorney general in interview with shannon breen. >> i have great respect for mr. gowdy and chairman goodlatte. we'll consider their recommendations. i have appointed a person outside of washington many years

in the department of justice to look at all the allegations that the house, judiciary committee sent to us. >> they were worried that the inspector general wouldn't have the same subpoena power. what you say to that concern? >> that's a concern that i think is worthy of consideration. we'll consider that. >> interesting. what do you think? >> take a step back and put this in context. our fisa process is sacred. that's what keeps us the firewall that keeps our massive intelligence apparatus which is the best if the world. keeps them from looking at our own citizens. this has been set up since the day of edgar hoover who was abusing federal authority. that process is absolutely critical. i'm all for taking hard look at whether that process was abused.

i personally was fine with the investigation. now folks shifted because of this scope issue. because of folks no longer with the d.o.j., no longer with the fbi and maybe with other agencies. i think we definitely have to take a hard look at it. >> i think you can take a hard look at it and inspector general are doing that. so far there has been no evidence that we have seen publicly. there's been accusations there hasn't been hard evidence that the fisa court behaved inappropriately. there's been lot of accusations. these fisa court officials are bipartisan. i think almost all of them were appointed by republicans. they run this process a very stringent way. if there comes out there was something done wrong, let's look that wrong. there's doubt in part for political reasons.

it's do undermine the russia investigation. but the inspector general can do this. >> it was manipulation of the fisa process by democrats where you go in and get a warranted to spy on a american citizen using a dossier funded by the clinton campaign. we know that this was used in part to get a warrant to essentially spy on an american citizen. we still don't yet know. to that point, the inspector general can't talk to people who no longer work at the fbi. >> they can. >> he can't compel to testify if they don't want to. by the way, bob mueller can look at this. he's going to go down every rabbit hole. >> based on what you said, are you suggesting that this discredit or damage the credibility of the mueller probe? >> the point i was making, i think some republicans supportive of the president are trying to discredit the fisa

warrant against carter page in order to discredit the entire russia investigation. it was a witch hunt. >> democratic partisan manipulated this process. >> in order to be manipulated, these fisa judges who were almost all appointed by republicans would have had to fall prey to this. they knew there was political partisan. they read all the footnotes. you know the fisa judges. >> this puts doubt no matter where it came from, does it need to be resolve. no matter where the doubt came from what the motivation was, lot of people don't agree that it was undermine the mueller investigation. it's there. it has to be resolved >> i think the inspector general can do it. >> this is where the american people trust their government that they have due process in

place. they're not being fed a bunch of garbage. >> in this democratic memo there was no use of the word political partisan or campaign much as clinton or democratic national committee. >> the battle just getting bigger. democrats slamming attorney general sessioner if the crack down on california sanctuary law that protects illegal immigrants. who will come out on top legally and politically? the president piece former campaign manager back for a second interview with the house intel committee. will he answer all their questions and what happened if he don't.

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looking at with respect to her individually. what she did is incredible. very dangerous from the standpoint of i.c.e. and border patrol. >> that's president trump touting his justice department and taking a jab at oakland democratic mayor. the debate over sanctuary law heats up. this one day after attorney general jeff sessions was in california's capital to announce a lawsuit against the state over its sanctuary law which enhances protections for those in the u.s. illegally. much the ag criticism also directed at oakland mayor libby shaff. >> here's my message to mayor shaff, how dare you, how dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical open border agenda. >> mayor shaff firing back. using sessions own twist words. >> how dare you distort the

reality about the declining violent crime in a diverse sanctuary city like oakland, california to advance your racist agenda. >> meantime, california democratic senator kamala harris says the trump administration maybe giving i.c.e. too much power. >> i should exist. let's not abuse the power. let's not extend it it areas ars that are not posing a threat to the safety and the public safety of these communities. >> the agency acting director he and his agents are doing their jobs. >> we're not abusing our authority. we're enforcing the law. kamala mayor needs to understand facts. 89% what we arrested, did have a criminal history. when we look at california the

last operation los angeles, 88% of those were criminal aliens. i tried to meet with kamala harris and diane feinstein to explain what i.c.e. is doing. they canceled the meetings. >> this might be michael the fight of the century for america. who gets to decide what is immigration law in this country. who gets to decide whether illegal immigrants get to stay. >> at my core, i'm a small government conservative. i don't want the federal government making blanket statements about issues. i'm all for local and state officials deciding things. but there's two things that are clearly a federal issue. defending our country through a military and protecting our borders. you cannot have individual states setting up its own immigration policy like california is going to do and there's one statute in particular that really jumps out at me. that california legislature just passed. that's making for private

business owners making it illegal for thom -- them to worh federal immigration officials. for the sake of law enforcement, who are putting their lives on the line day in and day out, military we know where it ends. they are in a gray zone and deal with criminals and to have your own state and local officials working against you. actively opposing, i find it absolutely egregious. >> that one statute that michael is talking about melissa, preventing private business owners from saying anything to immigration agents, a seems to violate the first amendment. the supreme court just decided 2012 essentially a immigration law lies in hands of the federal government. >> i look at the clause. it's something we learned about

early. where you can't ignore federal law. states can't pass laws a undo federal law. counties, cities can't be doing their own thing. especially on something that is like you said, is run primarily at at a federal level. we're talking about immigration. you can't come immigrate one town when it's against federal law. >> they have own visas and different rules at airport. >> one interesting idea i heard earlier was to bring this mayor to washington to try and defend her position to congress. i think that would be interesting. if it could be a constructive debate. where she talk about what she's trying to do and defend where these coming from. it would be interesting to see. >> congress have power to put pressure on the sanctuary cities and this sanctuary state. you can attach future funding,

you can attach strength to that. you can enforce the federal law or you don't get this amount of money. >> congress should actually take their job even broader. they should look at impressive comprehensive immigration reform. i foe that's not going to happen. this is why because both sides have now run so far to each corner. there were reports that the governor of california wanted to meet with jeff sessions. jeff sessions said no. now head of i.c.e. saying, diane feinstein and kamala mayor won't meet with him. no one is talking. no one is looking at real solutions. congress has opportunity to do that. president can't do it on his own. >> you go along the california border and kick it in the pacific. >> paul manafort is arriving at

a northern virginia courthouse. he's been scheduled for arraignment. you can see he's showing up to someone holding a sign that reads, trader. he's the president former campaign chief. he faces charges including tax evasion as well as bank fraud. grand jury indictment accused him of hiding from the i.r.s. tens of millions of dollars. pro russian politicians in ukraine. paul common tor man tort is nowl manafort is in that northern virginia courthouse. second time former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski is taking questions. lawn do you -- lewandowski was

not subpoenaed. he refuse to answer questions regarding his communications with donald trump after departing his campaign. it's unclear whether or not he will comply with those questions this time around. what do you expect? >> again, i want to remind everyone that vladimir putin, the head of russia, spends entire life as a colonel in the the kgb. no one is smiling bigger to see the house intel committee tear themselves apart now than putin. as soon as someone testifies it's leaked. congress do your job in a professional way. let's get through it and let's get back to the very serious business of oversight of our intelligence community, funding our intelligence community that's keeping america safe. fine, go testify. >> we'll see what happens. we don't know if he will answer questions.

>> without question. i think that what lot of peep wondering who's left after this. this sort of seems like it would mark some sort of turning point. once we gotten to this witness, how many more can there be? we need some sort of cloud hanging over forever. whatever the outcome is, let's get on with it. >> what's interesting is, the real focus is the bob mueller investigation. house and senate intelligence committee are -- cory is going to see the house intelligence committee. he may not answer questions. he cannot refuse to answer questions to bob muler. this isn't that important. because so many of the focus now is on mueller. i would say to you, not just funding our intelligence community but preventing it from happening again. we heard dan coates up on the hill, we don't have a government approach. we do not have plan in place yet. the election as you know, is not that far away. i think that's really what we need to be focused on.

>> this is a played right out of the soviet play book. they did it in the turkey and in europe. >> what should the response be? what should we be doing? >> what's unique about the united states as these elections are held at local and state level. dhs given clearances to state and local election officials and bringing them in. we have the private sector that is involved. russians will come after us again. they're doing more to disrupt our system than they ever did with divisions of soviet troops. let's hit back. i was disturbed to hear the head of the n.s.a. he doesn't feel like he has the authority. russia provides the strength, putin demies to deterrent. let's go. >> it doesn't just all fall on government. it falls on the private sector and social media

platforms who were manipulated by russia. they were caught flat footed. they do have this hands off approach until they get caught doing something wrong. >> there are holes exposed. let's hope they're stepping up. they're asking for the government to come crack down on them. >> i think they might be. >> the "washington post" now calling out dnc chair tom perez for falsely caming that democrats broke fundraising records in january. not even close. we'll debate that on this couch next. hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer.

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>> we raised more money in january of 2018 than any january in our history. if the question is do we have enough money to implement our game plan? absolutely. >> were you listening closely? new questions about democrats fundraising head into the midterm of that comment from tom perez. claiming the party hit records. now the "washington post" calling that claim false. here's a list. you can see on that beautiful screen, there are four monthly fundraise totals. past years they were larger than january 2018. which is highlighted there at the bottom. dnc spokesperson admitting to the post that perez was wrong claiming he meant to say the party raised more than any january since 2012. when you factor in nearly $1 million. i couldn't figure out the hand

motion. >> i have no idea why he said that. he clearly wasn't accurate. we talked about the fact that lot, here on couch that the dnc has real fundraising challenges. the dccc and the senate committee, and individual democratic candidates are breaking records for fundraises. there's lot of democratic money out there. people are spending. they are got giving to the dnc. there's some management problems. that will matter much more in 2020. >> i can tell you, under debbie wasserman shultz, it was rigged towarded hillary clinton. e-mails got hacked. it was a disaster. the democratic congressional

campaign committee brought in $105 million last year. that was a record. "wall street journal" did analysis that 23 republican held house districts that hillary clinton won the democratic donor money is giving those democratic candidates $4 million advantage. that was the last three months. the money is rolling in for the democratic candidates. >> we're very polite. >> i was looking at some senate numbers. axios put out this morning. i thought it was interesting. lot of people bring about how the president is not popular and what drag he is. we don't believe in polls. i'm one of those people that does not believe in polls. they were putting that on a state by state level, they looked a the ten hottest senate races and found that the president approval rating was higher than the democratic senator in six areas. his approval rating higher than his national approval rating in

all ten states and five the democrats would lose to republican it is that the election were held today. it kind of speaks to the idea that all politics is local. i feel like where we sort of come down on these. >> we have to make it distinction, rnc and dnc they're focused on getting a president-elected from their party. the congressional campaign committees are raising lot. on the republican side as well. folks are fired up. i can tell you in florida, the president amongst republican voters 80% approval rating. they are seeing their 401k go up. they're seeing the economy do well. they're seeing friends and families get job and raise. they are definitely drawing a distinction between good policy and all of this kind of noise about the tweet of the day. their lives are improving. >> we'll leave it at that. are you sitting down for this? you might want to.

the mainstream medial suddenly giving president trump credit for something. after reports out of south korea that north korea is willing to talk about the denuclearization. are we any closer to ending the north korean threat. >> you got to say, congratulations to the trump administration. they were able to move the ball here. liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched

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>> more "outnumbered" in a moment. we touch bases harris coming up on "outnumbered" involuntary --. >> former white house press sean spice her join me. paul common -- manafort court appearance today. the president asked couple of witnesses about discussion about counsel robert mueller investigator. did the president ask sean spice ber it and how big deal spicer this this is. joining me president's daughter-in-law laura trump. i'll ask her about reports that only person team trump is worried about in 20 twin cities is -- 2020 is former vice

president joe biden. >> thank you. >> recent overtures by north korea's regime turning heads. some of president trump's harshest critics are giving credit. after south korea said the north may want to talk with the u.s. about denuclearization. >> i think president trump deserves enormous credit for ratcheting up the pressure making sure the sanctions were real. there was no real that the obama administration couldn't have done that. they didn't. >> on north korea, there's no question that trump has moved the needle. >> i want to give credit where credit is due. the trump administration done good job. >> i've often said i think one place some of the tough talk may have impact. kim jong-un thinks donald trump really willing to use military force. >> as you know, president trump

realizes, diplomacy works best with credible threat of military force. it's what helps our diplomats. when they're sitting at the table. that said i'm incredibly skeptical about these talks. this is a play right of the north korean play book. they're done this year after year. they extend the hand and they buy time. don't think for a second that north korea's missile engineers around working like bees all through the olympics. they trying to drive a wedge between south korea and united states. if you look at the statements, we have no problem with you south korea. we'll never use our nuke on you. this is a problem with big old bad -- united states. >> we've said you have do give diplomacy a chance. could this present an opening? >> i don't think it does present an opening. i asked that same question so

many people over the past 24 hours saying is there an opportunity in here. it seems like the only opportunity so the president can say he truly sat down and tried. i'm with you. i don't think they slowed down for one second. i don't think there's really anything short of some sort of military action unfortunately that can stop this. >> i think there's more things you can do particularly with china >> right. sanctions in terms of the financial sanctions it's not just tough talk out of president trump. it's the trade cross the bored between north korea and china has declined sharply. you keep those sanctions in place. you keep your foot on that even put the hammer down. >> you can do more with the ship interceptions in terms of block aid. they can do we can do with military action. we have to continue to do. we can't allow them to buy time. head of the intelligence community gives it a year before the icbm is functional with a missile that can hit anywhere in the united states. the point i make, our missile

defenses at the continental level are only about 50% effective. once that thing is in the air, that's it. >> you have been watching this play out for some time. how is this president doing compared to his predecessors with tackling north korea? >> i think both north korean and chinese believe that the use of military force is credible. they believe him that he will not accept a north korea with a fully functional nuclear program. two things i want to mention as well, north koreans still holding three americans hostage. let's never forget otto warmbier. there's proliferation issue with iran. will have rich country in iran that needs a program. you have a poor country in north korea that has a program. >> do you think it's time for the blockade. others said that's act of war. >> not a blac blockade.

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>> thanks to michael waltz. good thursday "outnumbered." nice to have you. any parting words? >> i started with international women's day let's end remembering all female veterans out there as we speak standing on the wall and female law enforcement officers.

>> i like that idea. we >> now here is harris. >> president trump's form are campaign chair in a federal courtroom now as we go out numbered over time i'm harris faulkner. paul manfortin virginia arraignment for tax e vagz and bank fraud accusing him of hiding from the irs tens of millions he earned advising prorussia politician in ukraine they are part of robot mueller's investigation to russian efforts to meddle in the presidential election. >> chief intel johnson catherine has been working on it in washington. >> reporter: we received the statement from the president's attorney john do youed on the president's conversation that were allegedly document in the the new york times. with