>> always a good thing. >> behave. keeping an eye on you. >> i look forward to that. go to the right floor tuesday. have a great weekend. "outnumbered" starts now. >> fox news alert. president trump about to depart for an official visit to japan. we could hear from him before he boards marine one on the way to joint base andrews. meantime, taking a major step to investigate the surveillance of his 2016 campaign and the origins of the russia probe ordering all 16 u.s. intelligence agencies to cooperate with william barr's investigation and giving the a.g. the authority to declassify any documents related to his work. this is "outnumbered." happy friday. i'm melissa francis. we have dagen mcdowell, lisa

boothe, capri cafaro and joining us on the couch, alex conan, former communications director for marco rubio. a lot of communicating going on in washington. it's not very friendly communicating, i'm afraid. maybe you can give them advice. >> i'm from minnesota. minnesota nice. >> yeah, that might work in a nice -- >> unless you're amy klobuchar. >> not nice. >> here we go. president trump ordering all u.s. intelligence agencies including cia, fbi and dni to quickly cooperate with attorney general barr's investigation into the launch of the russia probe and the surveillance of the russia campaign. judiciary chairman lindsey graham telling "fox and friends" that this is part of a larger review of those investigating

his campaign were politically motivated. >> barr will look at it from a criminal point of view. horowitz will tell us how the department of justice and the fbi behaved. i'm going to make sure it never happens again. i want to make sure that we have fisa laws that can detect when somebody is giving the court garba garbage. you can't just open a counter intelligence investigation on a candidate without good reason. >> adam schiff criticizing the president's decision tweeting "while trump stone walls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, trump and barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies. the cover-up has entered a new and dangerous phase, this is un-american." alex, i love it. the cover-up is the declassifying of information.

feels jumbo shrimp to me. >> his tweet made no sense. >> jumbo shrimp? >> his tweet is the whole point. what happened in 2016, our intelligence services were politicized, that is un-american. we don't want that to happen if future elections. there's an investigation that the attorney general is now conducting into that. at the same time, congress wants to have their own investigations which the trump administration doesn't want to participate with. i think this is all healthy. it's going to take some time. i think the american people are getting sick of it. >> dagen? >> sick of finding out why the investigation into the trump campaign was started in the first place? >> it's been going on for four years. it hasn't. bill barr as he pointed out with bill hemmer last week, robert mueller did not look at the predicate for the investigation being launched. he didn't look at the evidencery

basis of that. he looked at potential collusion and cooperation between russia and the trump campaign. it bears looking at. given what we know, it bears looking at. you don't even need to get into the weeds with this. you had a campaign official from the trump campaign spied on. the basis of that warrant was a dossier put together and paid for by his political opponent. that's all that you need to know. there's millions of americans that want to get to the bottom of this. who thinks there was manipulation against president trump and his campaign in the election. if you're worried about russian interference and we got the mueller investigation, you better be worried -- >> people are concerned. transparency and more information is always important regardless of who is behind it and things like this. they need to be exposed. to your point, i think there's a

generic fatigue of investigations in general. i agree with you that obviously the mueller investigation has touched these issues. i have a question. what about the i.g. report coming out? how does that interface with this? a lot of conversation -- >> the i.g. report, they can't subpoena and call people no longer in government. so all of the people that were dirty dealers that were fired are not a subject to it. what we're going to learn is a big question. here's what lindsey graham had to say about that. >> we need this court because people are out to get us. the point is, if you can take the law in your own hands for political purposes, it's not good for a democracy. here's what i think you're going to learn. the people involved had political motives, out to get trump and wanted to help clinton. how do you prosecute her if you want her to win? the reason she wasn't charged is because they knew that if they charged her, she probably wouldn't win the election.

>> he goes on to say that we're going to find out that papadopoulos, they knew that he didn't have russia connections long -- very early on in this investigation. did nothing about it. they knew that the steele dossier was a liar and that the dossier was a disaster long before they took it to the fisa court and kept renewing it. go ahead. >> absolutely. i think the base question is why did they ever use the dossier in the first place to obtain a fisa warrant? we know that they were warned by bruce ohr, warned by top states department officials about the fact that christopher steele was not credible and he had a politic political animus. and ohr said he warned top doj officials that steele was funded by the clinton campaign. so why did they use the dossier which has been debunked to obtain a fisa warrant?

i find it to be the height of hypocrisy that the president is targeting his political opponents. where were they when fbi's doj used democrat opposition research to target and spy on the political opponent, then candidate trump and the trump administration? come on. >> trey gowdy said last weekend that once the american people read those transcripts and see the conversations, this will all change. they'll see from the start this was a faulty investigation. can you imagine trump unbound then? >> i want to say quickly that the president right now is talking to the press corps and we'll have that as soon -- we don't know what he's talking about. as we said before, he's getting ready to leave the white house. talking to reporters on the way out. we'll have it soon. dagen? >> what about the fact that this appears to have really started in 2015 with information from

intelligence agencies coming in to the united states being essentially funneled as a clearing house from intelligence agencies. those that protest the loudest have the most to louis. i point to john brennan and jim comey. they're pointing their fingers that know, we didn't want the dossier and the intelligence assessment. they're now blaming one another for wanting to put that piece of information in there. now looking at what went on between the election and the inauguration of why they were trying to basically clean up what they had done. because they -- the assumption was, hillary clinton if she wins, this won't be uncovered. so all of that will be looked at. >> i have a hypothetical question. what happens if and when all of this stuff gets out there to the public domain, which it should, but ends up the republican version of what we've seen like the democratic witch hunt where there is people like adam schiff saying we know that there's

collusion. we know there's obstruction and then -- >> so you saying unless there's no there there on the collusion -- >> there's all of these people salivating and clamoring. then all of a sudden -- >> we'll see. we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. >> that's my argument to the democrats that are creating this new narrative and the weaponization of bill barr's weaponization of the doj. let us look. let us find out the predicate of this. >> and also the inspector general's report which will be harder for democrats to attack. he's supposed to be looking at entities like the doj and find abuse -- >> they'll attack it. >> they will. >> i want to let people know once again, the president is talking to the press right now as we speak. we'll bring that to you. it's a tape play-back. we'll bring it as soon as we can, as soon as we're allowed to do that. so don't go far. should be spicy.

also, some democratic presidential candidates invoking president obama on the campaign trail. praising the man but not his policies. whether this shows the party's shift to the left and whether they can have it both ways. plus, the slime between president trump and speaker pelosi and it's getting personal. where this goes from her and whether these two can actually work together going forward. >> i'll tell you what, i've been watching her. i have been watching her for a long period of time. she's not the same person. she's lost it. is that net carbs or total?... eh, not enough fiber... chocolate would be good... snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. glucerna. everyday progress

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the european union and finished her and caused more chaos in this country. may says she would step down as the leader of the conservative party. another leader to be found and could take six weeks. and then the prime minister will try to deliver on the vote. three years ago the english people voted to leave the european union. take a look to what she had to say. >> it will and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that i have not been able to deliver brexit. it will be for my successor to seek a way forward that honors the result of the referendum. >> now, in fact, her handling of the process has been criticized by many. she's worked hard at it, months and months working with officials to get a deal. but a deal that the parliament

didn't like. it had been turned down three times. so now who will take over may's job? the leading contender, a colorful fellow, what they call a brexiteer, former london mayor, boris johnson. there's many other in contention. new any prime minister will have to deliver on the deal and many analysts say the conditions are not there. the culture is deeply divided and the country is deeply divided and resistance to compromise. the new deadline to get this done is october 31. some fear just another crash-out of the u.k. from the european union. some fear another general election, confusing things more. one final note. president trump is coming here early part of june for a state visit, three-day visit. theresa may will be the prime minister during that time. we are assured a lame duck prime minister. but already president trump is thinking of the next step.

he likes boris johnson. thought he would make a fine prime minister. he has a private dinner with boris johnson when he's here next month. always thinking ahead. back to you. >> thanks, greg. >> the fox news alert. the president speaking to the press right now as he heads to japan for an official visit. we could hear more insults levelled against him by speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. after wednesday's dramatic breakdown of the infrastructure talks at the white house. yesterday the president letting loose at a white house event hours after speaking pelosi questioned his mental fitness and said she was hoping for "an interventi intervention" by his family. the president said the speaker has mental issues. >> they will always say that even if it didn't happen. this happened once before. i walked out. i was so calm. you all saw me minutes later. i was at a news conference.

i was extremely calm. i was probably even more so in that room. so i walked into the cabinet room. you had the group, crying chuck, crazy nancy. i tell you what, i've been watching her. i have been watching her. she's not the same person. she's lost it. >> the president asking aides to confirm his contention that he did not throw a tantrum as pelosi called it in his brief meeting with the democrats wednesday. >> every time i go into a room, if there aren't cameras, they say he was yelling and screaming. kellyanne, what was my temperament? >> very calm no temper tantrum. they said you were fuming, rage, lost it. that's a lie. >> you were very calm and very direct. you sent a very firm message to the speaker. >> i've seen both. this was not angry or ranting.

>> smart answer. a little while later in that meeting, the president spoke about his consistent support for reform of u.s. trade deals. he referred to himself as a "extremely stable genius." that got a response from speaker pelosi. >> when the extremely stable genius acteds more presidential, i'll be happy to work with him on infrastructure, trade and other issues. i call hog wash on that. what do you say, alex? newt gingrich said even in the impeachment proceedings with president clinton, president clinton knew he did something wrong, he had to power through it. newt could sit down and have discussions with him about the matters of the day. that is not what is happening between the speaker and the president. nothing is getting done for the american people. >> no, i worked in the bush white house in the second term when nancy pelosi was speaker then, too. even though the house democrats back in 2007 and 08 had endless

investigations, we continued to work with them on policy issues like the iraq war. it was a big deal at the time. so it can be done. this is what trump does. >> and harp and the financial crisis. >> precisely. this is what trump does. trump gets people to fight at his level. he wants it to be personal. he wants the name calling. he wants people questioning his mental sanity. i worked or marco rubios campaign. he got us to do it and worked to trump's advantage. same thing is happening now. he's drawing pelosi on to his turf and he is more comfortable with the name calling than he is with debating the policy nuances. >> you're going to lecture president trump about his dignity? then you're going to behave in an indignified way? which for the speaker i'd say was undignified. >> the whole thing is disgusting and sad at this point. the fact that we have this conversation about the leader of the free world and the third ranking individual in our government, you know, going back and forth, trading insults about

their mental fitness is pathetic of where we are in our political climate today. >> i'm so sick of it. >> i'm going to take the other side. i think they're finally being honest. in the past, they would look at each other and say these nice things. you know they hated each other and hated the other one's policies. now at least they're calling a spade a spade. >> can i say, nothing is going to get done because we're heading to the 2020 elections. the only thing that will get done, congress has to fund the government in september. probably all they'll accomplish. the biggest joke of all because this all stems from a meeting about infrastructure, infrastructure won't get done. they don't agree on a what a plan should look like. they're not going to agree on how to get to a $2 trillion number. the only thing that congress does now is act when there's a crisis. we know the highway trust fund will be depleted next september. so congress will have to do something about that. >> god help us when we deal with

the debt ceiling. >> how about the border. >> there's the new nafta agreement. there's things that 80% of congress can agree on and can get done. but it requires the leaders to sit in a room and do it. >> quickly on the infrastructure thing. this is -- everybody always says it's the low-hanging fruit. we had years and years and years of continuing resolutions where we were unable to get infrastructure funding and a highway bill because congress for whatever reason was not acting. so you -- seems like so easy. everybody wants infrastructure and stimulus and improvements. >> can't agree how to pay for it. >> that's right. nancy pelosi keeps talking about cover-up, cover-up. i'll give her this piece of advice. stop trying to make fetch happen, gretchen. if you remember that. the republicans need 18 seats to retake the house. there's a lot of those democrats in those swing districts that put nancy pelosi back in that

job who are not happy about this impeachment push regardless by the far left -- >> and 31 trump districts that republicans are targeting to try to flip again in 2020 that went for democrats in 2018. so democrats should not be too self-assured. the house is on the line. >> what if this is a fake fight that nancy pelosi picked in order to satisfy the people on her side that want impeachment, they'll have the fake fight a few days and get together and get something done? what do you think? >> maybe. >> let's hope. >> she's picking this fight because it helps her with her liberals. >> just kidding. >> i think they start impeachment proceedings because it democrats more investigative power. >> no way. >> yes. she's boxed in. now she's started fighting with him using words and using insults. guess what? you can't win that fight against donald trump. ask marco rubio.

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>> so the president was departing the white house south lawn as he gets ready to go to air force one to go to japan. he stopped and talked to reporters. we're in the process of turning around that tape. we'll get to it any minute now. less than a minute now. he talked about everything as you can imagine. he wendt through the laundry list. dagen? >> he said i can work with nancy pelosi, work with the speaker. did you hear what she said about me? i just responded in kind.

he talks about everything from infrastructure to the effort to create more transparency and medical and drug pricing. he talked about mueller, he talked about the kind of power that he's given the attorney general bill barr. >> that's been one of the big questions. if all of the classified documents did contain everything people thought, why wouldn't he declassify? now he's doing that. let's listen in. >> we want to be very transparent. as you know, i declassified everything. everything they want. i put it under the auspices of the attorney general. he's in charge of it. he's a great gentleman and a highly respected man. so everything that they need is declassified. they'll be able to see how this hoax or witch hunt started and why it started. it was an attempted coup or take-down of the president of the united states.

should never ever happen to anybody else. it's very important. people have been asking me to declassify for a long period of time. i've decided to do it. you're going to learn a lot. i hope it's nice. but perhaps it won't be. >> [question inaudible] >> we want protection. the middle east, we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops. mostly protective. some very talented people are going to the middle east right now. we'll see how -- we'll see what happens. >> [question inaudible] >> about 1,500 people. >> [question inaudible] >> yeah, that's possible. i do believe you can't go down two tracks. if you look at judiciary, if you look what's going on, all they talk about in the house is this. i'd like to talk about lowering drug prices, which i've done

better than any president ever. we had a year this year, as you know, drug prices went down. first time in 51 years. i'd like to talk about -- with congress, i can get prices down 40 and 50%. but i can't do that when all they do is want to try to do a redo of the mueller report. they're very unhappy with the mueller report. they want a redo of the mueller report. it's over. there is no redo. they lost. it's very clear. there was no collusion, no obstruction. so there's no redo. yes. >> should doctors perform gender reassignment surgery? >> we'll see. >> [question inaudible] >> i feel badly for teresa. she's a good work. worked very hard. very strong. she decided to do something that

some people were surprised at, some people weren't. it's for the good of her country. i like her very much. i'll be seeing her in two weeks. david? >> why are you considering pardoning war criminals? does that endanger our troops? >> we're looking at pardons for a lot of different people. some of these soldiers are people that fought hard, long. we teach them how to be great fighters and when they fight sometimes they get really treated very unfairly. so we're going to take a look at it. i haven't done anything yet. i haven't made any decisions. there's two or three right now. it's a little controversial. it's very possible that i'll let the trials go on and i'll make my decision after the trial. >> anything on the fate of michael avenatti? >> i wish him a lot of luck. >> [question inaudible] >> i may very well talk to her

about that, yeah. there's word and rumor that the fbi and others were involved, cia were involved with the u.k. having to do with the russian hoax. i may very well talk to her about that. yes. >> mr. president, how is your relationship with nancy pelosi, is it soured to being too personal and some of the videos disseminated -- >> i don't know about the videos. i can tell you what i'm here is to help the country. that's why i did this. our country is doing unbelievably well. we have the best economy we've probably ever had. we have the best job numbers we've ever had. the best unemployment numbers we've ever had. with all of the things happening, that's what i'm all about. i don't think they can go down two tracks. i want to get drug prices down. i want to get things like if you look at infrastructure and others, i want to get things done. i don't think they're capable of going down two tracks. i think they can only do one

thing or the other. so let them finish thedo. they were very unhappy with the mueller report. no collusion. no obstruction. no nothing. they're very unhappy. they're angry about it. they have to get over their anger. wait a minute. they have to get over their anger and they have to get into infrastructure, drug prices and things like that. because they want to do a redo like even the fact that they're asking bob mueller to come and testify. he just gave them a 434 page report which says no collusion, which leads to absolutely no obstruction. he just gave that report. why does he have to testify? it's ridiculous. they ought to get on to drug prices, lowering them. we can cut them by 50 or 60%. the one thing i'm very proud of also on drug prices, i brought

it down first time in 51 years. that drug prices went down. if i could work with congress, we could cut 50% and more off of drug prices. i can work with the speaker. sure. i can absolutely work with her. >> what do you want to accomplish with your personal attacks on the speaker? >> excuse me. this just shows how fake you and the news are. when you say -- when you say a personal attack, did you hear what she said about me long before i went after her? did you hear? she made horrible statements. she knows they're not true. she said terrible things. i just responded in kind. you think nancy is the same as she was? she's not. maybe we can all say that. i think frankly -- right now we are -- i'm only speaking for myself. i want to do what is good for the country. i think nancy pelosi is not helping this country.

i think the democrats are obstructionists. they're hurting our country very badly. we can pass so many difference bills right now. but all they want to do is investigate because they failed with robert mueller and the mueller report. they want to try to get a do over of the mueller report. doesn't work that way. just so you know, i was the most transparent and am transparent president in history. we gave 500 witnesses. i allowed attorneys to testify in front of bob mueller. 2,500 subpoenas. 1,400,000 pages -- we gave it. i didn't have to give any of it. we gave it. and then we get a great result and they say oh, this is terrible. let's do it over again. you can't do it. our country doesn't have that kind of time. >> [question inaudible] >> we're going to see. i gave, as you know -- i

declassified i guess potentially millions of pages of documents. i don't know what it is. i have no idea. i want to be transparent. everybody wanted me to declassify. i've done it. and you can almost say he's trusted. a highly respected man. our attorney general is in charge. let's see what he finds. but we have -- we have documents now that i have declassified for the purpose of the attorney general. he can then show them to the public, do whatever he wants to do with them. you have to get down to what happened. because what happened is a tremendous blight on our country. what happened, the investigation, they tried to do that takedown and you can't do that. let me just tell you, this should never ever happen to another president again. >> what message do you want to

send to families that are concerned about you sending troops to the middle east? >> well, i think it's going to be very good in the middle east. they stage terror all over the world. they're a much different country than when i first got here. when i got here, they were at 14 different locations fighting. right now i don't think iran wants to fight. i certainly don't think they want to fight with us. they cannot have nuclear weapons. under the obama horrible agreement, they would have had nuclear weapons within five or six years. can't have nuclear weapons. they understand that. >> [question inaudible] >> the question is so falls and so phony. the attorney general -- let me explain to you something. the attorney general is one of

the most respected people in this country. he has been for a long period of time. he's going to look at a lot of documents. some he might find interesting, maybe he will find none interesting. but for over a year, people have asked me to declassify. so what i've done is, i've declassified everything. he can look. i hope he locks at the u.k. and i hope he looks at australia and i hope he looks at ukraine. i hope he looks at everything. because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country. it's the greatest hoax -- excuse me. it's the greatest hoax probably in the history of our country. somebody has to get to the bottom of it. we'll see. for a long period of time, they wanted me to declassify and i did. >> what is this about? is it about getting pay-back for the two years -- >> this is about finding out

what happened. i won an election. i won it easily. 306 to 223. i won it easily. i'll tell you what, this is all about what happened and when did it happen. because this was an attempted takedown of the president of the united states. we have to find out why did somebody write a text message to two lovers that if she loses, we have an insurance policy. an insurance policy to take down the president. we're going to find out what happened and why it happened. let me tell you. it's not payback. i don't care about payback. it's very important for our country to find out what happened. >> are you worried the investigations are hurting your re-election chances? >> i don't know. my poll numbers are very good. i guess we have a 48 today. a 51. we have very good poll numbers considering. i have to tell you, if you

people would give straight news, i would be at 70. i'd be maybe a 75. you don't give straight news. you give fake news. with fake news, i'm still winning the election. if you gave serious good news the way you're supposed to, i'd probably be at 70 or 75 based on the economy alone. go ahead. >> [question inaudible] >> i just spoke to prime minister modi and gave him my warmest regards and congratulations. i just spoke to prime minister modi minutes ago. i just conveyed congratulations on behalf of the country. he had a great election. a friend of mine. we have a very good relationship with india.

>> you always said you admired -- >> i want somebody that will be fair. i think william barr is one of the most respected men doing what he does in our whole country. i just want him to be fair. i don't want him to be for me or anybody else. i want him to be fair. that's what he is. we're going to find out what this yields. i'll tell you, declassifying. people have wanted me to do it a long time. it's very important to do. basically what are we doing? we're exposing everything. we're being a word that you like, transparent. we're being transparent ultimately. that's what it's about. again, this should never ever happen in our country again. thank you very much.

>> we're sitting here because he never leaves in one shot. he does like to circle back and answer a few more questions. we wanted to stay for a second and make sure it was over. although he did basically cover everything as he stood out there and reporters shouted questions. he talked about the declassification of everything in the investigation and turning it over to attorney general barr for barr to decide what to release or not. saying that, you know, people have been asking to declassify for a long period of time. which is true. now he's chosen to do that. he talked about -- saying he would work with the speaker. he could at this point he said. that drug prices have fallen under his presidency. he wanted to do more work on

that. he would like to work on infrastructure. he said democrats are trying to do a redo of mueller. you can't do that. he mentioned the two lovers because he loves to bring that up. there was -- they had an insurance policy and we want to know what that insurance policy was. and this should never happen to another president. he mentioned something, dagen, that you brought up, about the cia in the u.k. he said that in the middle. he talked about that was part of the russian hoax and we're going to learn more about that. what else did you hear? >> he literally -- like you said, he literally covered everything. the mueller report to the democrats, you lost. no redo. that's a bumper sticker for you. the dems have to get over their anger. he talked about bill barr. i just want him to be fair. not for me. he's not working for me or for anyone else. we're exposing everything. we're being transparent, which is what you brought up at the beginning of the program. he went over everything.

i think he's taken a little page from ronald reagan intentional or not. because president reagan took things to the country. got people in the nation. if they want infrastructure, get angry. call your congressman. if you want this canada-mexico trade deal passed, get angry. call your congressman. he needs to do more of that. he talked about his poll numbers. he loves talking about that on how they would be higher if he got fair coverage. i would argue they would be higher if he talked about what is going right and a little less about some of -- >> well, some of the things that are far afield. >> if he just talked about the economy instead of name-calling, maybe he would be doing better. >> i don't know about that. everybody second guessed his way of doing things and he won. who knows. i just want to mention one more piece of news there. he said they're sending about 1,500 people to the middle east. we heard more like 2,000. so not sure about that.

he said he doesn't think the iranians want to fight. that he is sending troops to the area to make sure that doesn't happen essentially. what did you hear? >> i heard that he doesn't really want to be talking about the investigations. he wants to talk about lowering prescription drug prices and infrastructure, wants to be talking about his tried deals. the investigations continue to be a distraction for him and his administration that every time he goes down that path, the next question is about something to do with nancy pelosi and the investigations and he would get distracted. so i think it's a reminder that this administration has been really knocked off course by these investigations even though nothing has come from them. it sucks up so much oxygen. >> you only get distracted if you allow it. >> they suck up a lot of oxygen and hurting his working relationship with congress as a result. >> and i heard what bias exists in the media. i didn't catch the reporter or

outlet, the question why should attorney general barr be trusted with declassification. i don't know. maybe he's gone above and beyond by releasing the mueller report. maybe because he's the attorney gen ram. i think the president's approval rating would be highfer he was covered fairly. i don't think they will cover him fairly even if he's talking about the economy. that's not what the they're reporting. we'll have people like cnn talking about two scoops of ice cream and ridiculous things to try to paint the president in the negative lighter. >> and the cover of the new yorker. it's an illustration, a cartoon, of bill barr, mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham shining the president's shoes. bar has -- al said last week, he's in that role to basically protect the office of the presidency and the executive branch and the powers granted to the executive branch under the constitution. that's why he's there.

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>> if you heard what she said about me long before i went after her. she said terrible things. i just responded in kind. look, you think nancy is the same as she was? she's not. maybe we can all say that. but i think -- i think frankly i think right now we are -- i'm only speaking for myself. i want to do what is good for the country. i think nancy pelosi is not helping this country. i think the democrats are obstructionists. they're hurting our country very badly. >> that was that. another part he said but i think we can work together. so i don't know. which one do you think it is? >> he came to washington d.c. as a deal maker. he continues to reach out to nancy saying i'm ready to make a deal. nancy pelosi has her own problems. most of her members don't want to make deals withtrump.

she's walking the fine line. trump is right saying i want a deal and not be the one that takes that off the table. >> house democrats i think at this point, what they're trying to argue, we're passing these business and the obstructionist republicans -- >> paul ryan said it forever and nobody believed him. >> that's another angle. they're saying that, you know, it's all who is on first, finger pointing back at one another. democrats in the house will say it's the republicans in the senate. and then back to trump. >> it's not what they're doing in washington. it's what these few talking heads like adam schiff are saying when they're jacky jawing on the tv networks nonstop. and kimberly stossel wrote about this, nancy pelosi and her impeachment dilemma. you can't accuse the president of crimes and don't think your constituents won't demand action. nancy pelosi had an alternative to declare it over and move on.

she declared this dilemma. >> is she jackie jawing? >> my dad made that word up. i hope it's not dirty. we don't want to get in trouble. >> regarding the impeachment talk, a lot of it is noise. the hill had a whip count. 32 democrats are on record supporting impeachment. if you look at the partisan makeup, they are all in heavy democratic leaning districts. what nancy pelosi needs to look out for are the democrats that are running in republican districts and particularly trump districts. those are the ones she's trying to protect. >> more "outnumbered" in just a moment. billions of mouths.

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here's melissa francis in for harris. >> fox news alert. eight people hurt after a reported package bomb exploded in the french city of leone in the eastern part of the country. the blast going off in the heart of the downtown pedestrian area. police have evacuated everyone from the area and sealed it off as the investigation gets underway. so far no word on whether this is linked to terrorism. we're going to have more on this just a bit later in the hour. another fox news alert. looks like investigating the investigators has begun in a big way. the president sounded off on this moments ago. let's go "outnumbered overtime." i'm melissa francis in for harris faulkner. president trump giving attorney general william barr sweeping new powers to investigate the 2016 surveillance of his white house run.