to be one of the best wood rollercoasters in the history of mankind? how do you beat the beast? >> rollercoaster connoisseur. not me. "happening now" now starts right now. >> jon: fox news alert on new signs the historic summit between president trump and kim jong-un could be on again sort of like making peace between your children, right? >> melissa: absolutely. >> jon: i'm jon scott. >> melissa: i'm melissa francis. president trump tweeting today that north korea had a solid response to his letter in confirming that a top lieutenant for kim jong-un is heading to new york. he is the vice chairman of north korea's ruling party who deals with interkariian affairs and has accompanied to kim jong-un to all four recent summits with foreign leaders. all this amid word the u.s. is pausing in new sanctions against north korea.

>> number one concern is not prosperity and economics. it is important to him. i'm not suggesting it's not. clearly that has always been about security. why nuclear weapons, why ballistic missiles and pointing them at the united states? all because he wants his regime to be secure and stay in power. he is a young man and he is looking out many, many years down the road and he wants this regime to stay in power. >> jon: let's get the latest from doug mcelway live at the white house right now. >> from all appearances it appears the singapore summit with kim jong-un is on again. that's the expectation of the president of the united states who tweeted this morning and i quote, we have put a great team together for our talks with north korea. meetings are currently taking place concerning summit and more. kim yong chol, the vice chairman of north korea heading to new york. cameras did catch vice chair kim yong chol boarding a flight from the beijing airport.

who he will meet with remains unknown. he is major player close to kim jong-un and former head of north korea's spy athey and preparations move ahead elsewhere. >> the president sent over two delegations to -- one for logistics and one more diplomatic purposes praiking preparations for june 12. if it doesn't happen june 12 it could happen thereafter. >> much remains unknown. will the u.s. be able to get a full accounting of all of kim's nuclear weapons and have the ability to verify the destruction of those weapons if these talks get that far? and there is this question. >> are you going to drag this out over many years way beyond the president's term of office so that it's more of a promise? >> also there is china's massive influence over north korea. in fact, just today the white

house announced that on june 15th three days after the scheduled start of the summit it will announce a full list of those china hi-tech companies which will face a 25% tariff. something that will anger china and perhaps influence these talks. and lastly, separately, there is this from the president. after he indicated that he would no longer tweet about the so-called fake news media with this tweet he said sorry, i have the start focusing my energy on -- well, he was back at it again tweeting the fake mainstream media has from the time i announced running for president run the most highly sophisticated disinformation campaign --

>> melissa: pos ited that means that the u.s. wants to stop negotiating through south korea. is that how you would interpret that or is that what you're hearing? >> not necessarily. the way the white house is pushing it this morning is that it's optimistic because of the envoy the june 12 summit in singapore may still take place despite president trump calling it off. the north korean's are responding to the letter he sent to kim jong-un last week. >> melissa: the fact that's back on doesn't mean it's let get all these other people out of the room and talk to each other one-on-one? >> we've known they've been having some talks with north korea previous to this. we don't know what the extent of those are because president trump himself has not answered questions from reporters asked if he has talked directly to

kim jong-un and what the talks have been and what level. when president trump made the decision he would call off the summit it took south korea by surprise. the president of south korea has been at the white house a day prior and he did not walk away thinking president trump would call off the summit before north korea started daunting vice president mike pence but the south korean's didn't walk away from president trump that was the state of play. >> melissa: it is a different approach over other administrations. keeping the element of surprise and unpredictable. if you're trying to do anything else business or personal versus diplomacy, where it seems like everybody wants to telegraph their moves 100 steps in advance. is the new approach welcomed in washington or sort of scary? >> the president got a

surprising endorsement over the weekend from james clapper who he spared with on other issues. he said kim jong-un may have met his match in president trump because he is so unconventional and someone that is willing to back away from the table and call off talks and clapper said he believes the president is heading in the right path and the summit should still happen. that tells you where the feeling is in washington on this particular issue. that president trump may have been right to call off the summit until he got kim back to we are wanted him to be at the negotiating table. >> melissa: i guess that was pretty surprising. there will always be people second guessing or saying i told you so when it's all over. very easy to sit from the sidelines. one of the biggest hang-ups when we heard this from general jack keane earlier is the idea what does the u.s. give up and promise and when? we want the verifiable denuclearization and the timing is very important to the u.s. the president probably doesn't

want it to drag out through his whole administration and even into a potential second one. what are you hearing it would make sense for the u.s. to give up in return? >> president trump is saying that he would be willing to promise kim that he would be protected if he were to give up nuclear weapons. no, shall-not something we saw in libya. we could potentially see diplomatic relations open up in north korea. we aren't necessarily talking about an embassy but something that clapper brought up over the weekend being a direct line of communication moving forward so that kim and the north koreans would feel more comfortable with giving up the nuclear weapons. there is this question of what complete and verifiable denuclearization means to both parties. kim says they'll agree to complete dee nuclearization and the verifiable question is an open one. that is something president trump and kim would have to talk about before there is a

deal. >> melissa: with little verification on the iranian deal and the president trashed that so much he has to ask for more or he will look pretty silly. >> jon: breaking this morning israeli jets bomb what security officials say was a military training site in gaza. the strikes coming after more than 25 mortar shells were fired from gaza into southern israel. mike tobin is live from the israel/gaza border right now. >> the gaza strip he see behind me has been calm for several hours. israeli defense force put out a statement saying they wrapped up their portion of the operation. remains to be seen if palestinian militants are interested in escalating the fight further. israeli war planes pounded targets in the gaza strip. 35 targets, hamas and islamic jihad were hit from training camps to weapons dee pose and

what israel called a maritime target. a smuggling tunnel was hit several times. palestinians sources say the training camps were empty. no word on any casualties. back out live i turn the camera around 180 degrees to show you something. that rectangular box that is tan and green, that is an israeli iron dome battery. those have the interceptors inside the box. they have been activating throughout the day here as the palestinian projections come in. you see the black earth. the palestinians launching kites with fires and crashing them on the israeli side. the scorched earth is started by the palestinian kites.

you see them all along the border. >> jon: mike tobin reporting live. thank you. >> melissa: republican leaders scam bling to contain -- mid-term elections looming. freedom caucus member gives us his take coming up plus what was called a thousand year flood happened again just two years later. this time it may be even worse. >> i thought this is it. we'll end up going into the river. , no we'll be okay. we'll make it, we are going to make it.

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>> melissa: rescuers in maryland are searching for a missing member of the national guard. the 39-year-old was swept away by the raging floodwaters in ellicott city while trying to rescue people. the storm finally calming down

by monday leaving the city reeling in its wake. >> two, six foot wide came down, all the furniture was moving. the floor had buckled and the wood is getting higher and higher. gary, i don't want to drown in here. >> it seemed like it happened in seconds where it was an insane amount of water surging down the main street. >> melissa: wow, people there shell shocked. they're facing a new rebuilding job just 22 months after the last devastating flood. >> jon: wow. >> i think that even in some of the more conservative bills that have been talked about there is the ability to become citizens. so that's the narrative that is not really out there. the most important thing is to secure our southern border so that we don't have to deal with this problem a decade from now, two decades from now. i think that's we're well on our way to doing that. >> jon: that is mark meadows on what would happen to the

so-called dreamers under his group's conservative immigration plan. republican leaders are trying to broker their own deal before meadows and his team can force a vote. freedom caucus member congressman bratt. what's in this proposal? >> there has been a little misreporting on it. it is not the freedom caucus position. there are 25 republicans that are working with hoyer and 200 democrats to do democrat policy. the freedom caucus always wants to do what's in the republican platform and what we've promised we would do when we all ran for office which was not do an amnesty bill. you have -- we want a vote on the goodlatte bill. 200 republicans. we don't want to vote on this queen of the hill thing that will produce an amnesty and they know how it worked out. four bills included in there. no one knows what's in the four bills. they are pushing that process.

the democrats will offer up a huge amount of votes for pure amnesty of up to 10 million folks over a decade. so the compromise bill, the democrats never want to compromise. we already have dealt with daca. that's the goodlatte bill dealing with all the kids daca qualified and they get a new status and can join the workforce, etc. and the major problem is this latest piece that is a political cycle. they are saying let's just do a wall in exchange for daca. then you will have another daca in five years. everybody knows that. the wall isn't the major problem. over half the problem we have is from visa overstays and lack of e-verify and chain migration. that's in the trump plan. the goodlatte bill is even better than the white house proposal in my view. it has been studied for 30 years. senator obama agreed with most all the points i mentioned. e-verify. bill clinton and barbara jordan

did. the democratic party has gone off the rails on identity politics. we have 25 republicans working with 200 democrats to do a democrat bill and the good news is paul ryan and leadership promised it has to be majority of the majority republicans in order to pass the bill. all they have to do is block this is put the goodlatte bill up for the vote. the discharge petition goes away and we can legislate as a conference. >> jon: you are talking inside baseball for the folks who don't follow this all that closely but let's talk about what's in the goodlatte bill. particular off three or four primary points if you would. >> so the wall and border enforcement is in there. that's a big part. drugs are coming across, see people coming in. a surge at the border. that's not the major part of the problem with immigration. the major part is people come in, 7 billion people in the world would love to come to the

united states and work but want to do it illegally. that's the problem. e-verify makes sure we're hiring people here legally. we don't have a problem with immigration. we let in over a million folks legally last year. e-verify and chain migration once a person comes in they can bring in their entire extended family. not just mom, dad, brothers and sisters but aunts and uncles, whatever. it blows up the numbers. we need to bring in the folks that fill the skills gaps. everybody knows we have a labor problem here. a lot of it is due to k-12 but some due to the cheap labor push and big business cronies know they don't have to pay the bill. they get cheap labor and profits goes up. the taxpayers pay for the schools. 26,000 per year who is paying the tab? the taxpayer. hospital overflow, schools

overflow. all sorts of issues come with that that the american taxpayer they have a gut feel as to what's going on here. that's why you don't hear much from the democrats on it. it's a 60, 70% issue that goes in our favor. >> jon: how confident are you that speaker ryan will allow this vote? >> ultimately the discharge petition could go through but it is pure politics. it will draw attention to the american -- >> jon: i talk about a vote on the goodlatte bill. >> they should be whipping it harder. the secretary of agriculture calls you. no one is getting calls to whip the goodlatte bill. 30 years of rational policy to solve the problem and help the dreamer kids. it is a total win/win. it looks like a democrats are winning when the republicans are in control and there is no better way to disspirit your base and all the republicans that we promised tax cuts, we delivered. on this one we cannot blow this

issue. everybody knows this is one of the issues that separates the american people from the elites up in the swamp and everybody knows that. >> jon: congressman dave blatt, republican from virginia. we'll be watching. >> melissa: students are returning to school in sante fe more than a week after the mass shooting there. we are live from the school to see how students are handling the day. and after two years in a venezuelan prison a couple of americans -- an american couple is finally coming home. >> i want to thank every person that prayed for us, that was here for us, everyone that was worried about us. everyone that helped us in whatever way they could.

>> jon: american josh holt and his wife are finally back home in utah after two long years in a venezuelan prison. [cheering and applause] you can hear the couple getting a warm welcome from their friends and family at the salt lake city airport. holt and his wife were held in prison under suspicion of terrorism and gun running. a long-term diplomatic effort by members of congress helped free them. holt's parents say they're glad this long, emotional rollercoaster is finally over. >> melissa: high school students in sante fe are back in classes. the building reopened to students today for the first time since that deadly shooting more than a week ago. school officials are pledged counseling resources appeared they say there will be

additional officers on campus. casey stiegel is live at the high school with more in sante fe. >> i can tell you we have seen ourselves that increased police presence outside of sante fe high school here this morning. 11 days after gunfire interrupted the first period here. the crime scene tape is gone, most of the glass is repaired and the building now once again open. and what a sight. look at this video early this morning. dozens and dozens of people just lining the streets with signs, waving to passing school buses, cars, posters reading sante fe strong. we love you. bystanders, some wiping tears who felt it was important on so many levels. >> i'm here for support for the students, the school bus drivers as they are pulling up.

they're from everywhere. the love and support of strength of god that i have to help them stay strong as well. >> 10 people, eight students and two teachers were shot and killed after this school after a teen student gunman admitted to shooting those he didn't like. he remains in jail. 13 were seriously hurt. many survivors say, including the students, that returning to campus today is exciting and sad. in other words, bittersweet. >> i have mixed emotions. in a way i'm glad we get to go back to school. because i don't want that day to be the last day i ever set foot in my high school. but also i'm so worried. i'm kind of scared. >> 11 days later and it doesn't get easier to hear. officer john barnes, school

police resource officer who was shot while trying to subdue the attacker at the time was just upgraded from critical to serious condition yesterday. so a step in the right direction for his long road to recovery. back to you, melissa. >> melissa: heartbreaking. thank you. >> jon: president trump holding a campaign-style rally tonight in tennessee aimed at shoring up republican support in congress. but could he actually face a challenge from within his own party in 2020 for the white house? three weeks after erupting, hawaii's kilauea volcano shows no signs of letting up. >> lava started making its way down the streets. fire, public works, police, all -- the area was defined. they went door-to-door to get the people out or to warn them

basically and kind of disturbingly some people just refused to leave.

>> jon: fox news alert. hawaii emergency officials going door-to-door as fast-moving lava from the willway volcano continues to carve a path of destruction forcing a new round of evacuations there. jeff paul is live on the big island. are people leaving, jeff? >> it's a question that

emergency responders are asking themselves. one civil defense administrator told us it is giving them terrifying insight as police and fire personnel go out and tell people to leave. yet many still refuse. as a result those emergency responders are now putting themselves in harm's way as they struggle to rescue those who become stranded when it becomes too late. the lava flows without warning are starting to flow much faster than normal and can catch folks offguard. when that happens it is not just the lava that makes an escape difficult and dangerous but lots of vegetation on fire, smoke and toxic gas in the air. listen to one man who was just rescued and barely made it out alive. >> i looked outside and i see a river of lava going down the street 10 miles an hour. i opened the door and it came inside. we waited until morning and then we ran through the cane grass up to my neighbor's orchard and threw my dog over

the fence. three fences, then he bit me. and he ran away. >> lava in this area covering around four square miles. >> jon: what about the summit at kilauea? what's going on there? >> we're seeing a lot of video of the lava is at the lower rift zone with fissures. we're 25 miles away from the summit of the kilauea volcano. we see explosive eruptions. it sent ash in the air 15,000 feet and 4.5 earthquake this morning. there wasn't a tsunami warning but the officials in this area warning folks this will keep on going. >> jon: wow. jeff paul at kilauea. thank you.

>> melissa: just one year into president trump's first term. one republican is looking at 2020 as a chance to possibly run against him. retiring arizona senator jeff flake saying he is contemplating entering the race. adding that he hopes president trump faces a challenger or two in the gop primaries. >> not in my plans but i have not ruled anything out. i do hope that somebody runs on the republican side other than the president. if nothing else, simply to remind republicans what conservativeism is and what republicans have traditionally stood for. >> melissa: let's bring in our panel. brad blakeman and dave brown. thank you to both of you for joining us. dave, let me start with you. what i find somewhat amusing about this is that jeff flake has voted with president trump

84% of the time. so i don't know -- i don't know what he is opposing. >> i think it's a great point. underscores the senator flake has been all talk but really no action when it comes to opposing the president. he still is a sitting united states senator. if he wanted to grind the senate to a halt day after day to oppose president trump's agenda he could do that. instead he has chosen to support almost every single one of the president's nominees no matter how unqualified and failed to stand up to the president on immigration and he gives a really good speech but i think at the end of the day senator flake needs to take action. he has failed to do that. >> melissa: brad, what i find amusing on both sides of the aisle is it seems like there is i guess clever game to poke the bear, to set off and do anything you can to try to en flame president trump and hope he responds on twitter or hope he calls you out by name and use that to get yourself

attention. we see it from politicians, from people writing books, we see it from comedians. it seems to work spectacularly for getting yourself attention. is that kind of what jeff flake is doing here do you think? >> absolutely. but the president isn't taking the bait. as dave properly pointed out, how do you go against a president when you voted for him 84% of the time? his policies you support. your platform is gee, he is not a nice guy. nice guys finish last and jeff flake may be a nice guy but he won't go anywhere against an incumbent president like president trump who has a record to run on. a record that senator flake supports. >> melissa: dave, who do you think would be an effective person to stand up against president trump as you put it? you say somebody has to stand up against him. there are a lot of voters that don't agree with that because they support the president. but who in your mind could mount an effective challenge? >> sure, let me say i sincerely

hope senator flake does run. i suspect all democrats would be pleased to see a crowded republican field in 2020. but for someone to be effective at competing with this president, you can sit back and send a tweet and capture and earn a media news cycle will have to be someone who is charismatic and self-fund. i imagine republican donors won't be super supportive of a potential spoiler in the race. >> melissa: there is a lot of never trumpers out there and they raised money that time. do you see that person, dave? anybody out there that could be effective? >> at this point i know governor kasich expressed interest. we saw how well he did last cycle. senator rubio if he grows a backbone i would love to see him go into the race. >> melissa: is there anyone ton the republican side that can pose a threat? >> no. because he has a record.

i'm talking about stylistically but you can't argue with success. if i was advising the president i think that would be my mantra. you can't argue with a record. the economy is doing well, he is making inroads in foreign policy that people have thrown their hands up for decades and said it's impossible in north korea and iran. he is having it with great success. i don't see any republican having the wherewithal both financially and ideologically to challenge this president. >> melissa: dave, i've heard democrats say the exact same thing. that's their concern. that you may hate his style but he has a lot to point to in terms of results. >> i have to respectfully disagree with that. he is very good at being bombastic. he announced hastily the north korean summit before he canceled the summit. >> melissa: look where they are now. that looks like a smart move.

he walked away from the table and got everybody snapping right back on his terms. >> even a smart move or this new cycle and something else will happen tomorrow? anybody who read that book that he had ghost written for him the art of the deal knows he thrives on being unpredictable and throwing hand grenades. >> that's a good thing. >> we're completely alienated from our allies in europe about iran. >> it's leadership. >> when you're the only country. >> sometimes you have to go it alone standing on principles. >> let's see what happens with the details. you know that president bush, like president obama, much more methodical and strategic in how they engaged. >> can't argue with success is the point. >> melissa: isn't that the point? there have been many who have walked this road ahead of president trump and were in the

situation that we're in and they did it the traditional way and now many americans want to see someone just try something else. the definition of insanity. doing it the same way over and over again to the same brad result. >> that's right. sometimes it's a shame that your friends and allies don't see it because they are acting in their own selfish interests and you have a president who comes in and changes the dynamic. the president is doing something that presidents should be doing all along. acting in our interest first. putting america's interest first. >> melissa: we'll go. spirited discussion. thanks to you both. have a great day. >> melissa: thank you. >> jon: an unusual reason for a delay in a baseball game. these kids in libertyville, illinois watching while this dirt devil made its way through the baseball diamond.

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program linked to russia. the f.b.i. says the program has the ability to not only collect personal information but it can also block web traffic. the justice department believes that a network of hundreds of thousands of routers is already in the control of hackers. wow. >> jon: that canceled summit between president trump and kim jong-un might soon be back on. a top aide to north korea's leader heading to new york for talks on preparations for a face-to-face meeting. but even if the summit does happen, will there be an agreement on denuclearization? we have a heritage foundation northeast asia senior research fellow. somebody who has studied this issue long and hard. we're in uncharted waters, the summit was on, then off, now it looks like it might be back on, bruce?

>> exactly. and the pace of the events even just in the last week really is mind-boggling. we had a u.s./south korea summit. a sudden surprise interkorean summit and now talks of more sanctions on chinese financial entities long overdue now on hold pending the summit and the senior north korean advisor official going to new york perhaps even coming to washington to meet with trump. so it really is hard to keep up with the fast pace of things going on. >> jon: it is not a diplomatic word but the north koreans got a little snarky last week and what led president trump to cancel the summit. the fact that it now appears to be back on, does that mean that they want this more than we do? >> well, there were actually four north korean statements and sort of typical fashion they were insulting and occasionally threatening. the most important was from another senior official who

really articulated publicly the wide divergence in views. what pyongyang thinks and what washington thinks. with this kim yong chol coming. we don't know if it's just talking about logistics in order to get the summit back on track or whether he is bringing some message from kim jong-un, whether north korea is willing to actually deal on their nukes or not. so the substance is far more important than the logistics. >> jon: does president trump go into this meeting essentially saying the only reason to have it is if you are willing to completely dismantle your nuclear program? >> right. a lot of people depict the cbid, the complete verifiable dismanhattanment as a proposal. it is a requirement.

>> jon: if kim isn't willing to consider that. he has to be willing to consider that in order to meet u.n. regulations? >> we're able to hear you. >> jon: have you lost contact with us? maybe we have. bruce, are you able to hear us? we'll work on that for a minute and hope we can reestablish our connection to bruce. once again, the summit appears to be back on. president trump is going to -- or at least a north korean -- bruce clinger is our guest and we're sorry about the technical problems that ended up cutting our link with him. >> melissa: if you need a caffeine jolt skip starbucks. why the chain is closing

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>> coming up fresh optimism for the on again/off again summit between president trump and north korean dictator kim jong-un. a top korean official is headed to new york for talks. as the united states says it will hold off on major new sanctions. so will the meeting go as planned? >> that's the big question. president trump set to rally tonight in tennessee. the site of a crucial senate race. republican candidate marsha blackburn hoping to ride the trump train to victory. >> our guy in the middle. "outnumbered" at the top of the

hour. see you soon. >> jon: investigation is underway to find what caused a three-alarm fire that ripped through an apartment building in manhattan yesterday. flames could be seen pouring out of the windows on the top floor of that six-story building. at least two firefighters were injured while responding. crews believe clutter in the apartment made the fire worse but the actual cause still under investigation. >> melissa: breaking right here on "happening now", thousands of starbucks stores across the country ready to close their doors and conduct a racial bias education program. this comes after the arrest of two black men in a starbucks in april set off a wave of protests. brian yenis is live in philadelphia where it all happened. >> the starbucks behind me is where it happened where the manager called the police on two black men for coming into the cafe and not ordering

something. starbucks apologized for the incident. moments ago the starbucks put the shutters up and sign on the doors and locked the doors closing until tomorrow morning. they're having racial bias training. one of 8,000 stores around the country having this training today. it is a four-hour training. some 175,000 starbucks employees will watch training videos which includes a cameo by the rapper common. the training was created with the help of civil rights organizations like the naacp. employees will break into groups and have discussions on racial bias, share personal experiences, and even reflect on the history of racial discrimination in public places. the starbucks executive chairman howard schultz spoke on cbs this morning. >> it doesn't have to be about race. it could be about ethnic background, sexual orientation. station in life. it is all about trying to provide a level of empathy and compassion and a new level of sensitivity.

>> you'll remember on april 12 the starbucks manager called the police on nelson and robinson as they waited to meet a business partner. police arrested them for trespassing and apologized. but one estimate starbucks stands to lose $12 million for closing their stores four hours this afternoon. >> melissa: at the heart of this is a wildly overpriced cup of coffee. sometimes you forget that. brian. i'm being sarcastic. those out there are skeptical about today's training, right? >> yeah. there is one expert who says -- who concentrates on how to be most effective in the workplace and he says that he -- it's tough to do this type of racial bias training in one day. >> the challenge with unconscious bias is we don't see ourselves when we're being biased as biased. very little of the time. so any strategy that starts with how do we encourage people to be less biased will be an

uphill battle. >> starbucks says it's just the beginning and plan on doing more trainings in the future and bringing in globally. >> melissa: unconscious bias, the new p.c. >> jon: some call him kim jong-un's right-hand man and he is headed to the u.s. what that trip means for the potential summit between president trump and the north korean dictator. . need something printed? the business advisors at office depot can assist with exactly what your business needs to grow. get your coupon for 20% off services, technology and more at office depot and officedepot.com.

>> a dramatic new discovery gives a glimpse to an agent tragedy. officials at pompeii have uncovered the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous rock while he was trying to escape the explosion of mount vesuvius 200 years ago. he was trying to run from the corruption which is believed to have killed around 30,000 people. officials say they can even tell he had a leg injury but apparently slow down his attempt at escaping.

>> that's incredible, look at those pictures. that was fun. i think you for joining us. >> "outnumbered" starts right now. >> sandra: fox news alert, president i'm confirming the vice chairman of north korea is headed to new york for talks. you will be the highest ranking north korean official to visit the company since 2,000 as the president suggests there is a lot of new help that is it will take place. this is "outnumbered." i am sandra smith. here today, harris faulkner. town hall headed in a fox news contributor, katie pavlich. democratic strategist and fox news contributor, jessica tarlov in joining us on the couch, fox business pinker david as men and he is "outnumbered." if >> david: so happy to be back. thank you all. how could you not be happy? >> jessica: your daughter just got married.