>> you can't go back to say hey, the ball splashed out half my beer. can i get a refund? >> melissa: i'm sure the ball was perfectly clean. she has the beer. fabulous. thank you for joining us. >> "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. breaking news. new details emerging about the highly anticipated department of justice internal watchdog report. abc news is reporting the d.o.j. inspector general michael horowitz has concluded that james comey defied authority at times during his tenure as f.b.i. director. it's breaking now. this is "outnumbered." i'm with the co-host of the friends -- "fox & friends," abby huntsman. and host of "kennedy" kennedy. and marie harf. joining us in the center♪ former house speaker and fox news contributor newt gingrich.

author of "trump's america, the truth about the nation's great comeback." he is "outnumbered." we have a lot to get to. this is breaking now. >> newt: i am definitely outnumbered. >> harris: good to have you. let's get to it. former f.b.i. director james comey reportedly in hot water as he await the release of the d.o.j. inspector general report. it's been delayed. we have been reporting that. one source telling abc news the watchdog draft explicitly uses the word "insubordinate" to describe comey's behavior during his time as head of the f.b.i. the draft reportedly criticizes the former attorney general loretta lynch over her handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. this is meaty. we knew there would be fireworks. what is your reaction? >> newt: somebody inside justice decided they would leak this. i don't think it has gotten anywhere except for the justice department so that

means somebody inside justice is really angry about the way it's being handled. i think they decided let's just start getting it out there. >> harris: any surprise, reaction, par for the course with james comey from you? >> newt: i don't know i have a surprise about it. look. i think comey was a terrible person who did terrible things. i think he did it in the bush administration. i think he did it as head of the f.b.i. i think if mcnabb gets immunity and testifies comey will be in worst shape. i think mcnabb and comey -- >> harris: you mean andrew mccabe, the former deputy of the f.b.i. >> newt: mccabe who was fired with four charges of broken the law. the top guy at the f.b.i. fired. the number two guy at the f.b.i. fired. this report apparently says the attorney general was doing things that were wrong. which i believe means you eventually will get to valerie

jarrett and barack obama. >> harris: that is where i want to go with you, marie harf. you have a line of command that would reach to the president, to the white house potentially. >> marie: maybe. >> harris: i said, "potentially." >> marie: first it's a draft report so we don't know if there are caveats or context. we have to wait and read it together when it's finalized. i always said about james comey. he is by no means a perfect public servant. i think he has done damage to his reputation and a lot of democrats hate him, too. that being said, some of the criticisms he has raised can also be true. so we have to sort to separate those out. >> harris: like what? what are you talking about? >> marie: some of his criticisms of president trump and the fact president trump fired him in part because of the russia investigation can still be problematic even if james comey wasn't perfect. you asked about barack obama. we have no idea. we have no idea what james comey was doing or if he was talking to obama or the white house. i don't i know why you brought up valerie jarrett. she hasn't been part of any of

this. we have to wait until we see the report. >> harris: i want the speaker a chance to respond to that. >> newt: first, you have the specific text message in which one of the f.b.i. agents says to the other the president personally wants to be kept briefed on all of this. >> marie: on the election meddling investigation. >> newt: well, on the investigation into the trump campaign during the election. second, you know just the way the white house operated the idea that valerie jarrett wouldn't be in the middle of this is inconceivable. >> marie: you have no evidence she is. you are throwing that out there. i have no idea if she was. >> i want to get to something else. the interesting thing is you have three top players in the f.b.i. and top players turning on each other. andrew mccabe assumes that he is going to receive the same sort of liberal outreach. i don't think he is going to. i don't think he needs to be immune from the prosecution.

but what he is saying is i will gladly turn on comey. comey has said there is classified information about loretta lynch that showed she directly meddled in the investigation. and comey also, you know, he tried to say he and mccabe were best friends but perhaps he wasn't as honorable as people have thought. but you know, it will be very interesting to see where we go from here because if you believe james comey -- it's fine to do a deal. you can believe him at his word when he says loretta lynch was so compromised he had to go rogue and out on his own, which contradicts his testimony that he believes in the chain of command. if he really believed that, that means he couldn't go to the president. he couldn't go above her to the chain of command above her. and appeal to the president and say she is doing something wrong so he went out on his own. >> harris: so a person who would have leaked information about his conversations with the president to a friend whom he had employed at one point

as head of the f.b.i. as a special type of agent at the f.b.i. he leaks to that columbia professor that person we are supposed to suspend belief about everything else that he is telling the truth and not think that any of what you said happened. it's a stretch perhaps for some people politically. i want to get to this, though. the word "insubordinate" apparently is used by the inspector general's report. this is leaking, again. a lot of leaking. so we want to be able to see it as marie says if we can, as unredacted as possible. insubordinate is a serious word. that is not a little going rogue or he felt he could expect to the president because his boss was in the way. that conotes in this report he did something wrong. >> abby: insubordinate used for the head of the f.b.i. the irony this goes against the man he is trying to portray he is. james comey out on a book tour and he is trying to be the example for the leaders coming

up. in that interview with george stephanopoulos he said i follow that chain of command. >> harris: that is what kennedy was saying. >> abby: to your point. this is against the person he claims to be. the people i feel for the most in this, the bigger picture is the morale at the f.b.i. >> harris: definitely. >> abby: you have 35,000 employees. many of them are there for the right reason and they take the job not to be political but to serve this country. you have all of the guys at the top pointing fingers at one another. i think it's disgusting and i think it's sad to see in this country. >> newt: as a his attorney and as a -- historian and novelist -- >> harris: and a former speaker. >> newt: let me just suggest that if you have the number two person at the f.b.i. guilty of something, you potentially are turning on the number one person at the f.b.i. who if you read the rosenstein memo, which was devastating which trump should have released before he fired him. because it was devastating. what we are seeing today because rosenstein said we can

never rebuild the morale at the f.b.i. as long as he is still there. that is in the memo by rosenstein. then you have comey -- the head of the f.b.i. saying of his boss, the attorney general, that she clearly has done things that are terribly wrong. and now i understand you want to suggest that the obama administration was so sloppily run that you could have the attorney general, the head of the f.b.i. and the number two person of the f.b.i. all doing these things at the white house they were totally ignorant. that is inconceivable. >> marie: we'll wait for evidence and we'll see. >> newt: the justice department has done everything it can to avoid the evidence. >> marie: i want to interject this quickly. seeing there might be accountability in a story that the media said was closed there might be accountability is good thing. >> kennedy: this also shows that the inspector general so far has been pretty thorough and maybe we don't need a special counsel. >> harris: i was just thinking the same thing. in fact, because we still have

to see the ticktock on what he found out on the hillary clinton e-mail investigation portion of it, which we will get to, waiting for the i.g. report. and with the delays that we learned about this week i have had many lawmakers on the hill tell me it will be worth the wait because it will answer some questions. and clearly it's answering questions we might not have known we wanted to ask. >> a group of democratic lawmakers requesting top d.o.j. and f.b.i. officials confirming they did not give anyone from the legal team access to the same classified information on the russia probe briefed to the congressional leader last month. democrats stating in a letter that the president's attorneys and the congressional republicans will ultimately attempt to use the information against the agency. adding, "we respectfully request that the department of justice confirm going forward d.o.j. and the f.b.i. will not brief additional members of congress who are not part of the gang of eight on the matters." we should note that the house

oversight chairman trey gowdy was the only lawmaker present at the briefings not part of the bipartisan gang of eight. so mr. speaker, this is part of this backdrop of the russia investigation. the kerfuffle or who went to what briefing. i think the white house landed in a good place to brief the gang of eight. but then the white house had an attorney for part of the meeting. they got criticism for that. was the criticism warranted? that is what the letter is addressing in part. >> newt: it would have been just as well off not to do it. look where we are at. we have had a year and a half of this. this is all sort of stuff kept either secret or it's redacted. this is absurdity. in jerry mcguire, "heshow me the money." after $17 million and all the lawyers show me the evidence. don't tell me there is a magic secret hidden place. the whole point of the election of donald trump was the american people sending a

signal they are sick of a washington establishment operating in secret. >> harris: also in that movie "help me, help you." let me do what i can, you do what you can. >> marie: trey gowdy came out of the meeting and he said he is more convinced that the f.b.i. is proper in how they handled the investigation. paul ryan seems to agree with him. let's look at what he had to say. >> i think chairman gowdy's initial assessment is accurate. i think -- but we have more digging to do. i want to make sure we run every lead down and make sure we get final answers to these questions. >> newt: can i say something on this? >> marie: of course. >> newt: i was really surprised by gowdy saying this. >> marie: do you think he believes it maybe? >> newt: he may believe it but chairman nunes made the point none of the documents have been exposed. they give a briefing. >> marie: they got access to documents in the briefing and kennedy, trey gowdy came out

saying he thinks the f.b.i. behaved properly. he is respectedded in the issues. >> kennedy: i understand. but the issue the democrats has is trey gowdy was part of the briefing. what are they upset about? it seems like everyone is moving chess pieces just because they feel like they should be playing a game. >> marie: right. >> kennedy: it's really obnoxious. i agree with you completely but i also agree for the future administration regardless of party. let's get used to releasing information. let's get used to transparency in this government. not just to protect the president or to protect our chances in the midterms but to protect the rule of law and civil liberties here. those are violated when you have an opaque government. and when you have a gross abuse of power, or whether it's political or otherwise. we need to see that thrown open immediately so we -- you know what happens? we abstract and you keep some things secret but you show some others with redactions.

it just keeps this broken system in place. you know for future generations of lawmakers, makes it okay for them to use these great tools for their own needs. >> abby: speaker, where does this end? we have a minute here. you say the american people want it done and they want to focus on the economy and things that impacts their daily life. how do you think this ends? >> newt: this? i think it gets worse and worse. people finally stop and say explain again why all of hillary's accomplices were given immunity. explain again why none of this stuff was ever carried out as a legal thing. the more we are learning even today, the sicker the system looks. so that piece i was just -- is going to gust worse but for the establishment. not for donald trump. on the other front if we have very many more months we are told we'll have 4.8% real growth. and yesterday's report there are now more jobs available than people looking for work, i think those kind of things affect the american people

much more. the average american talks about that a lot more than they talk about washington. >> harris: in the next chapter in that potentially could be the gap that you see between people looking for work and the jobs out there is the skill base. what happens if the skills start to catch up with the jobs? that will be like a head wind. first, it's beautiful for the people looking for jobs. but a head wind for democrats in that sense. all right. so the president right now is about to make news in the rose garden. we are watching minute by minute on this. everybody is assembled. so this looks like it may go off on time. the president is signing the veterans affairs mission act today. it addresses new v.a. health plan. some of the reporting that has come in recent days was very critical of the healthcare program that set aside for our veterans and military people who served. so to shore that up almost right on time on cue, you have got this happening today. we'll learn about that v.a. mission act no doubt as he signs that today. so we are watching for that

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>> harris: breaking news. this is what we told you we were watching before the commercial break there. and now we see the vice president of the united states mike pence there on the dais with other veterans and members who have been invited today. the president is about to sign the v.a. mission act today in the rose garden that we are looking at right now. we anticipate with the vice president already out there that the president will be joining him shortly. that is usually the ticktock on all these things. people have been seated there for quite a while. so this was supposed to happen right about now. and as it comes together i can tell you that new v.a. health plan that the president will be signing counters what has

been critically written about just this week and last week. a choice program that doesn't seem to be working. but even with this choice program, that the president would sign today, the other one will still be in place for another year while they roll that in. this is a big deal. the veterans there, you know the story with the v.a. and how some suffered on waiting lists and even died. this addresses people having more of a choice after serving this nation. as it happens live and the president steps up we will go straight to it. kennedy? >> kennedy: very good. here is a fox news alert. president trump declaring, "great night" for republicans as we get results for primaries in eight states. that includes the big one. california. where president trump threw his support behind a republican businessman who has captured a top spot in a critical race there. a lot of focus on california where the democrats were able to avoid getting shut out of some of the key congressional races by securing second place finishes in every house race

that they are targeting come november. and in the race for california governor, republican businessman john cox earning a chance to go up against democratic lieutenant governor gavin newsom. president trump threw his support behind cox who spoke earlier on "america's newsroom." watch. >> this state is wonderful. and we've got to change the regime in sacramento. get the special interest out of power and return the state to the great golden state it is. >> kennedy: will that message resonate? president trump tweeting "great night for republicans. congratulations to john cox on a really big number in california. he can win! even fake news cnn said the trump impact was really big. much bigger than they ever thought possible. so much for the big blue wave. it may be a big red wave. working hard!" peter doocy live from beautiful del mar, california. >> harris: that is nice. >> kennedy: close to san diego. what is going on, peter? >> even though democratic

candidates came in second place in some house districts they really want to flip to take back the house that is good enough for now because they made it to the ballot. according to the democratic congressional campaign committee as we await final results in districts the democrats are in a stronger position than ever to take back the house and winning districts in california will be central to that path. turnout was relatively soft here yesterday. 21.8% statewide. despite weeks of television ads blanketing the airwaves and the campaign flyers clogging mailboxes up and down the west coast. there was a major primary day problem in l.a. county where a printing issue left 118,000 voters names off the rolls. the registrar tried to warn anybody whose name was missing to file provisional ballot. but for anyone who didn't get the message by 8:00 last night, no way to cast a boll boll -- ballot now. the senate primary is between dianne feinstein and the more liberal state senator kevin de leon. as the democrat for governor

gavin newsom is already signaling the anti-trump tone his campaign is going to take. >> we are a state where we don't criminalize diversity. we celebrate diversity. we invest in children, jeff sessions. invest in children where we don't tear them from the loving amounts of their mothers and their fathers. >> but now california voters who might like donald trump have a candidate for governor themselves. john cox. >> it wasn't donald trump that passed the sanctuary state. gavin, you did that. you're the one that is protecting ms-13. you're the one that is making our communities less safe. >> so the golden state did not take a really hard left turn or right turn in the primary last night. that means that now voters have a few more months to

decide how they want california to be ruled for the next few years. kennedy? >> kennedy: interesting place. beautiful day. thank you, peter. let's talk about this. gavin newsom obviously has grand aspirations here. he has taken a pledge he will not run for president in 2020 but he is certainly looking beyond the state house in sacramento. how do you think the race will play out and do republicans stand a chance? >> newt: they have a chance. more chance than they have had in recent years because the combination of the massive tax increase. gasoline is more than $5 a gallon in california. 65% of californians say the state is too expensive for the cost of living. newsom is running with a commitment to both raise the income tax and raise the property tax and proposing to have a government-run health system which will be wildly expensive. so i think if cox can penetrate with a message just about the cost of being in california and newsom is the

problem, and if he can take every newsom attack on trump and turn it back into let's talk about california, i think this could become a much closer race. >> abby: gavin newsom tweeted respond good good night for campaign. he says please come campaign for him, trump, as much as possible. >> harris: bill hemmer's interview this morning with mr. cox. i would say this. he can do the things you are talking about because we watched him do it live on fox news this morning. he talked all about the spending and the legacy of the spending and the problems with the spending right now in the context of questions about sanctuary cities and all of that start of thing. he did that pivot from the criticism on the president that you are talking about. i know it's one interview. it was the first one i've seen of him live since kind of taking on newsom. but it's interesting. newsom is part of that apparatus in california that is very tough to beat so it

will be interesting to see what cox does. >> kennedy: there are a lot of democrats in the state. gavin newsom already won a statewide race. he is the lieutenant governor. he is incredibly well-known. he beat antonio villaraigosa who should have been a formidable opponent. antonio villaraigosa out-spent john cox and it didn't matter. he didn't even get half the votes that cox got. so, you know, is it just a foregone conclusion for newsom or does he actually have to run closer to the middle to get some of the counties that don't like his san francisco past or the support like the train to nowhere, the high-speed train that is not high-speed and it does not connect l.a. with san francisco? >> marie: california is a democratic state. the headwinds against someone like the republican candidate for governor are incredible strong. and just from numbers game, there are a lot of democrats -- these are liberal democrats in california. now what was interesting -- >> kennedy: in part of california. >> marie: in parts of california. >> abby: you also have a lot of military families and

military bases. >> marie: that is right. everyone said dianne feinstein would have a serious challenge from the very, very liberal democrat that ran against her who got like 10% of the vote. so yes, california is liberal. but there is a more moderate democratic party that still voted almost 50% for dianne feinstein that will help newsom. there just aren't enough republicans. especially if cox aligns himself with donald trump who is unpopular, even among california republicans. >> kennedy: but i'll say this about cox. if he can run the campaign in the general he is talking about, which is civil, and it's issue-based, he can reach some of the more con symptive democrats and there are a lot of independents in california. >> abby: people who don't want to live in sanctuary cities and there are a number in california. i would love for this fight to be competitive between cox and newsom. it would be interesting for the country to watch. but i think the midterms -- speaker you can speak to this as well -- is a lot about donald trump.

you will have the democrats, many running against him and the republicans wanting to side with him and visit the state. joe manchin in west virginia, a very red state and trump won it hands down. he -- >> harris: i am breaking in here, excuse me, abby, but the president walked out in the rose garden. we know he is getting ready to stein the a.v. mission act of -- v.a. mission act of 2018 to give choice and different healthcare option to the military veterans. as he steps up to the lectern we'll watch him live. ahead of signing, we anticipate he will make remarks. if that happens we will be perched here to watch it. so we know people just pulled in. we have two dozen people standing on the stage. and fully seated audience. let's watch together. >> president trump: today is the day. so it's very important. very happy. thank you for being here. this is truly an historic moment.

an historic time for our country. i'll be signing the landmark legislation to provide healthcare choice. what a beautiful word that is. "choice." freedom to our amazing veterans. i want to welcome our veterans. many of them are here today. every care-giver and service member who has joined us on this very momentous occasion. all during the campaign i go out and say why can't they just go see a doctor instead of standing in line for weeks and weeks and weeks? now they can go see a doctor. it's going to be great. you fulfilled your duty to our nation with tremendous loyalty and courage and with the signing of this veterans choice legislation. we take one more crucial step in fulfilling our duty to you. we are pleased to be joined today by our great vice president mike pence.

along with my nominee to lead the v.a. robert wilkie. wherever robert -- robert. stand up, robert. [applause] going to do a great job. and working along with robert is acting v.a. secretary peter o'rourke. so thank you. that is a great, a great team. i also want to thank some of our many leaders. i call them "leaders" because on this legislation they are indeed leaders. they said it would be very slow. it's political season. we have an election coming on november 6. so they said it would be very, very slow this period of time. i was just telling mike, mike, this hasn't been very slow. if you look we passed dodd-frank. right to try. we just got $700 billion for the military.

[applause] that is a big one. we needed to get that. the military will be stronger, bigger, better than it was before. hopefully we won't have to use it very much. but the fact we have it so strong means we probably won't have to use it as much. i want to thank all the great people in the audience that helped us so much. on december 22, which doesn't quite fit into the january 1 date, but on december 22 we signed the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country. that is a big one. [applause] we got $1.6 billion we have already started the wall on the southern border. the wag started. $1 -- the wall is started. $1.6 billion. that is so important. i have to recognize some of the people that worked so hard to make all of this happen. johnny isaacson. where is johnny?

has johnny been working. [applause] have you worked with jerry moran and the whole group? you and jerry. where is jerry? hi, jerry. [applause] good job. bill cassidy. tom cotton. dean keller. all here. tom tillis. lindsey graham. i see lindsey up there. todd young. thank you. joanie ernest. i did you a good favor for the farmers yesterday, right? we love the farmers, right? good. i'm glad it worked out. john hovan. steve danes. all here. we have on the house of representatives mike kauffman. brian mast. jack bergman. buddy carter.

did i introduce you, senator? what is going on? i hope so. if i didn't introduce you, i'm in trouble. you know the problem with this, there will be four people we didn't introduce and they'll never speak to me for the rest of my life. they will make sure i suffer, right? i apologize. jennifer gonzalez. peter king. where is peter? stands up. you have been so nice to me. he should. he comes from new york. he should. right, peter? thank you, peter. jack bergman. our chair phil rowe. phil? [applause] what a great job. that was a lot tougher than we thought, right? you would think it'd be easy. it makes sense. you would have thought. kevin kraemer. jim banks. andy barr. claudia tenney.

martha mcsally. i hear you are doing very well, wherever you may be, martha. i hear martha is doing very well in the great state of arizona. [applause] that is what the word is. don bacon. brad winstrom. jason lewis. kathy mcmorris-rogersrogers whos terrific. kathy? hi, kathy. representative neil don. representative lee zeldin. ann custer and julia brownly. i want to thank -- i assume we have a couple of others out there. anybody i didn't announce? you want to stand? we'll announce you. you deserve it. thank you all very much. really. it's incredible. [applause] finally, i want to thank the fantastic veteran service

organizations that helped us push today's choice legislation across the finish line. whenever i spoke, this is one of the most important things. it was something i got the biggest hand for. people want to take care of our great vets. they are our great people. four years ago our entire nation was shocked and outraged by stories of the v.a. system plagued by neglect, abuse, fraud, and mistreatment of our veterans. there was nothing they could do about it. they couldn't do anything about it. good people that worked there, they couldn't take care of the bad people. meaning you're fired. get the hell out of here. with us today are many brave veterans who endured the grave injustice, including steve cooper and laura villa. they served their country with honor only to be denied the medical treatment they desperately needed. to steve and laura, no one should suffer what you suffered. they suffered gravely. no one who defends our country in uniform should have to

fight for their lives when they come back, when they come to their home. we commend your strength and courage in the face of hardship. we pledge to act your name. and in the name of every other veteran who has been so badly wronged and neglected and mistreated. to those who serve our nation, who risk life and limb for country, we must never be denied care, access or treatment that they need. that is why we are here today and that is why we are signing this most important bill. it makes so much sense. it's been so long. they have been working on it for years and years and years. and it wouldn't happen. and accountability is the other one. as a candidate for president, i promise to make reforming the v.a. one of my absolute highest priorities. and from the first day of my administration, that is

exactly what we have done. last year i signed the historic v.a. accountability legislation. meaning, you now can immediately get rid of people that don't treat our veterans right. that rob us or cheat us or aren't good to our great vets. you can get them out. you couldn't do this. for 40 years they have been trying to pass this. phil, you know this. 40 years. they couldn't. made so much sense. but it was hard. you have civil service, you have unions. of course, they would never do anything to stop anything. but they had a great deal of power. in the end they came along. everybody came along because they knew it was right. we passed something that hasn't been that recognized and yet i would put it almost in the class with choice. almost in the class with choice. v.a. accountability.

passed. now if people don't do a great job they can't work with our vets anymore. they're gone. [applause] so we are very proud of accountability. in the campaign i also promised we would fight for veterans choice. and before i knew that much about it, it just seemed to be common sense. it seemed like if they are waiting in line for nine days and they can't see a doctor, why aren't they going outside to see a doctor and take care of themselves and we pay the bill? it's less expensive for us. it works out much better. and it's immediate care. that is what we are doing. so we are allowing our veterans to get access to the best medical care available, whether it's at the v.a. or at a private provider. in a few moments i will keep that promise that i have been making ever since the first day of my campaign.

it seems like a long time ago. i'm going to sign legislation that will make veterans choice permanent. i just can't stress the people here, the people in the audience, senators, congress men, the great people working at the v.a. and soon to be secretary wilkie. and everybody. the work they have done to get this through is really inspirational to me. i have learned so much from the stand point i actually see how hard these people work. and this was very important. phil and mike and everybody, i really appreciate what you have done. it's been incredible. it's been for years, for 30, 40 years they have been trying to get this done. and they haven't been able to. we got it done. if the v.a. can't meet the needs of the veteran in a timely manner, that veteran will have the right to go

right outside to a private doctor. so simple. yet so complex. this legislation also expands access to the care-giver program for seriously injured veterans. because no matter where you served or when you fought, if you were in uniform, at some point if you wore that uniform, then you deserve our absolute best. that is what we are doing. [applause] this bill speeds up the claims process. increases the health services, expands access to walk-in clinics. and fights opioid addiction. these are sweeping historic changes. there has never been anything like this in the history of the v.a. never been anything close. we will not rest until the job is fully done.

my administration has also taken action to ensure veterans can seamlessly transition the medical records from the department of defense into the v.a. i have heard so many stories how difficult it is, almost impossible. how is that possible? it was almost impossible to do. it took years to do. we'll do it immediately now. we are set up. we have the right systems. after years and years of waiting, the two departments will finally use the same system. they're matching. today we also mark another milestone, the 74th anniversary of d-day. the allied invasion of normandy. june 6, 1944, more than 70,000 brave young americans charged out of landing craft, jumped out of airplanes and stormed into hell. they gave their heart, their blood, and their very lives on

the beaches to drive out the enemy and strike a lasting victory for our country and for freedom. in every generation there have been heroes like them. patriots who answer the call to serve. who do whatever it takes. wherever and whenever we need them to defend america. they put everything on the line for us. when they come home, we must do everything that we can possibly do for them. and that is what we are doing. [applause] they can be very proud of their country because literal ly this week we have gotten the best financial numbers. the best economic numbers. the best numbers on unemployment and employment that we have ever had as a

country. strongest economy we have ever had. it's so good. because we can do so many more things when that happens. including, of course, jobs. among the best job numbers ever in the history of our country. african-american unemployment. the lowest it has ever been in history. hispanic, unemployment. the lowest it has ever been in history. women unemployment, lowest it's been in 21 years. soon to be history. a little bit more it will be history. numbers that nobody has ever seen. we have added $7 trillion since the election. $7 trillion to our country's worth. our country's -- the value, the value. we have added $7 trillion to our country's worth. we have never had anything like this. and i will tell you what. it will get better. cutting regulations.

cutting taxes. just starting. so it's now my great honor to sign the v.a. mission act. or as we all know it, the choice act. and to make veterans choice the permanent law of our great country. and nobody deserves it more than our veterans. thank you all very much. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. >> harris: all right. so the president now wrapped up his remarks and he spoke directly to veterans who have have -- you have fulfilled your duties and now time to give back to them. he said whenever he was on the campaign trail before he was president this is the issue people asked about most, take

kairg of our military veterans. he says it gives them choice. he said no person should have to wait to see a doctor eight, nine days. they should have the choice to see who they want. this is the mission act for the veteran affairs that the president has just signed after comments that were detailed on how he sees the issue and how he wanted to help. in the end he says he wants to shore up the v.a. so veterans won't need to use the program so much but it's there for him now. it will take some time to roll this in. we have been reporting maybe a year or so. but we will cover it as it happens. president signing the mission act for the v.a. you saw it live. meanwhile, the top 2020 campaign going on offense against the main stream media. campaign manager brad parscale launching a website saying it will highlight the president's achievement and push back against the media's lies, mistakes, distortions and

underreporting. watch. >> so many accomplishments. almost 24 to 36 hours there is another once since he has become problem. hundreds of them. the media doesn't talk about those things. the p.c. and the media can spin up the stories they want. but the more they do it the more trump continues to rise. >> harris: this is coming the same day the white house press secretary sarah sanders got into a tense exchange with reporters grilling her about the drafting of the trump tower memo and questioning her credibility. here is how she hit back. watch. >> sarah: frankly, i think my credibility is probably higher than the media's. if you spent a little more time reporting the news instead of trying to tear me down you might actually see we are working hard trying to provide you good information and trying to provide that same good information to the american people. >> harris: you know, speaker, there has been talk recently about whether we even need white house press briefings every day. that maybe some of them should be in anffice and not all televised because i looks like some of the reporters might be doing grandstanding. i can't even imagine that.

>> newt: look, i advocated at the beginning of the administration that they get rid of the whole thing. >> harris: really? not even off the record? i was dripping with sarcasm when i said i couldn't imagine it. >> newt: here is what i mean to get rid of the whole thing. you have a relatively small number of reporters who are important because they are in the white house. they are pressure. they sit around and talk to each other all day. deep down they resent the fact that they are voyeurs. they are at the beckon call of the president. >> harris: has it always existed or just now? >> newt: existed since at least kennedy. the rise of television. my point is just there are a thousand ways to communicate with the american people. you don't owe the american people having 50 or 60 -- you have three or four clowns who insist on getting in fights with her. and they are only important because they get in fights with her. >> harris: click bait on social media because they can clip that piece of video and it's click bait.

look, if anybody doesn't think that is happening check out the twitter feeds. >> kennedy: i understand that every politician wants to get their side of the story out. that is a natural inclination. i rolled my eyes when hillary clinton did it. i don't think it's necessary here to have a website for that. the president has been very adept at using twitter for that. he has over 50 million twitter followers and he directs the media where he wants them to go. i like the exchanges. i like any sort of an open forum where the idea can get out. i also like -- i think sarah sanders does a very good job at keeping things tight and swatting people down. she has got an incredibly difficult job and it is easy for people in the room to gang up on her. her comportment is better than some of people who preceded her. not just in this administration but others. >> abby: the reason she is there that long speaks to how good she has been. the reporters have every right to ask about certain questions like the don junior meeting. why were they dishonest from

the beginning? i think the checks and the balances is an important thing. but there is something else going on and you make that point, speaker. they are in such a rush to find the negative that the president is doing. the perfect example is april ryan yesterday. they threw this birthday bash when the eagles, when he disinvited them from the white house on the south lawn. she tweeted out there were a bunch of boos to the president and she had to delete the tweet because it wasn't accurate. but the moment that the tweet was up there were thousands of retweets because people want to believe the narrative. they want to know something bad against the president. that is the problem. >> marie: sarah sanders has a credible problem she should answer for. >> harris: we want to break in with this now. we knew this was coming together. fox news confirmed that alice marie johnson serving a life sentence for nonviolent drug crime, her sentence has been commuted. that is different from a pardon. in the specific way, the life sentence will wipe away and she will go free. a pardon would have wiped away

any conviction and given her full forgiveness. the president has been on a roll for pardons and this sort of thing. i want to ask the speaker about this? do we have time before the commercial break? okay. your response? >> newt: i think the president has found something he likes to do. that improves the lives of people and clearly is his constitutional authority. he takes a certain personal please sure to helping -- pleasure to help people. >> harris: some media writing writing this is after the visit of kim kardashian at the white house last week talking about prison reform and about this sort of sentencing. >> newt: so? >> kennedy: you are right. she has every right to take a specific issue and one specific person because the problem with celebrities is when they go too broad and assume that everyone agrees with their philosophy that is when it's problematic. she found one case she championed and she is right about this. >> harri johnson going free on a nonviolent drug offense. the president givinger a

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