for life to that employee orem ployees. apparently it's a lot harder than you think it is. it's statistically impossible. >> stop the war on the media. fake news, fake presidency, that's what it's going to come down to. a fake presidency. we are live on capitol hill tomorrow and wednesday. "morning joe" coverage of president trump's address to congress. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks so much, mika. good morning. i'm stephanie ruhle. we are talking budget crunch. president trump to announce a new budget today with huge increases in military spending and drastic cuts everywhere else. >> going to get a massive budget request for our beloved military. >> new calls for an investigation into his team's russia connections from republicans this time. >> you are going to need to use the special prosecutors statute and office.

>> detained. ali's son says he was held by u.s. customs for hours because of the sound of his name. he will join us live. a twist ending only to be found in hollywood. how do the academy awards give the oscar for best picture for the wrong movie. >> there's a mistake. "moonlight" you won best picture. >> incredible. we are going to begin this morning with president trump kicking off a huge week in washington just 30 minutes from now. he'll be dropping into the meeting of the nation's governors, then 30 minutes later, he sits down with the head of the largest health insurance companies. they are talking obamacare, of course. we have the best team to cover it. i want to start with this budget outline. we are expecting it from the trump administration. kristen welker is following it from the white house.

let's break down what we know. it sounds like big money for military and cuts for everyone else. >> reporter: that's right. it's emblemmatic of what we heard on the campaign trail. this is what will be included in the president's budget. it will call for an increase in spending for the military as well as the department of homeland security, intelligence agencies, what will be cut? domestic programs, things like the state department, environmental protection agency, nondefense programs as well as programs for humanity. what does it mean for entitlements? that's the big question. according to our conversation he's not going to touch entitlements. that was really years of republican policy. house speaker paul ryan called for big cuts to entitlements including $2.4 trillion in a reorganization to the way the entitlements are handled.

this is going to be a break with past republican orthodoxy when it comes to that. again, the increase in spending is something the president has been talking about for quite some time. as you pointed out at the top, in a short time, he's going to meet with the governor's association. later on this morning, a meeting with the ceos of top health care companies, humana, aetna. will we get a health care proposal out of that meeting? likely not. this is going to be a strategy session. expect the focus on timing. when is the president going to roll out his pro po sal for health care and what is going to be in it? that is what we are tracking on a very busy monday before the president delivers to congress. steph? >> we have a great panel. ali velshi and my panel, maria kumar, ceo of voter latino and josh, senior editor for senior

adviser and casey hunt is on capitol hill. casey, i'm going to get to you in a moment. ali, i want to start with you. can we afford increasing? >> depends on how you think about it. president obama made it $661 billion. we are talking somewhere between $40 billion and $90 billion increase in military spending. when you look at that and add the stuff to homeland security and the intelligence agencies, you are looking at cuts across the board to all other agencies of 6% to 7%, maybe 9%. there are going to be a lot of problems in congress. democrats certainly won't support those kind of cuts. a lot of republicans, for political reasons won't support those kind of cuts. the problem you end up with then, the only two choices are raising taxes, which donald trump has taken off the table, that means increase in deficit. ironic because he tweeted the deficit has been reduced under him. the point is, doesn't matter how

good of a negotiator you are, there are some circles you can't square. if you are going to spend that much, you have to cut things or increase taxes. looks like the deficit is going up. >> i want to talk about that tweet. president trump put it out yesterday. national debt went down by $12 billion. when president obama was in office, it went up by $200 billion. when president obama took office, he took a flaming pile of fire coming out of the financial crisis. also, it's the first month. assuming this is true, what could president trump point to that he or his administration has done to make the budget, to push -- excuse me, to help me here, reduce the deficit. >> the treasury was spending down cash reserves it had, a cash management thing. it's not a reversal in the government's fiscal position at

all. we are not going to have continued decreases in the debt. the budget will not shrink the debt, it will grow it. i suspectald trump will say we will be so rich and the economy is going to grow so fast. it's clear the white house is going to issue projections that are not that rosy. it is going to be faster. they are looking for 2.4% growth. when donald trump talks about the economy, he will say 2.4 is a floor and we are going to hit big numbers, we are going to be so rich and that is what's going to pay for it. he will say he has an answer whether or not he does. >> when people hear increase the military budget. who is going to benefit from that. it's not necessarily the american people but government contractors, people who are going to balloon under this administration by the looks of it. what programs are going to get cut? pbs, legal services for the poor. we are talking the communities that are going to get hurt. >> and the environmental

protection agency. i know donald trump doesn't like it and the head of the e.p.a. doesn't like it, but americans like that rule companies can't dump stuff in your water. >> it could be a gray area. because the e.p.a. is important and the title, environmental protection agency doesn't mean there's not fat to cut. >> there's fat all over the government to cut. >> it's low level nondefense programs. we have had budget fights and big deficits and it's impossible to cut medicare and social security. the military spending has been relatively restrained. so, essentially there's been a lot of cutting in the programs. what you will find is we are going to spend as much money is popular once it comes out as specific program cuts, that becomes it. >> i want to talk about what president trump wants to cut. cut the conversation on russia. it ain't ending. the latest investigations into

russia, interference in the election and ties to the white house. now a top republican is saying a special prosecutor needs to look into it. nbcs capitol hill correspondent, i'm struggling today, casey hunt is with us. >> reporter: it's monday, steph. >> it is monday. what can you tell us? >> reporter: former chairman of the oversight committee here in the house saying there needs to be a special prosecutor to look into this saying jeff sessions, the attorney general was on the trump campaign and he can't do an unbias investigation into this. the special prosecutor statute should be used. this is the first time we have heard a republican calling for this in the wake of, you might remember john mccain and lindsey graham joined with democrats to call for at least a special committee to deal with this. this is the first time a republican called for a special prosecutor, however. then george w. bush, on our own "today" show earlier today

wouldn't say whether or not or rule out a special prosecutor. he wouldn't say one way or the other. he said he has confidence in richard burr, the head of the intelligence committee. that's where the most intrigue is swirling, steph. there was reporting over the weekend around whether republican officials with the committee called reporters at the behest of the white house to push back on the stories. it has been a russia story line where we have seen the most anger coming out of the white house, press shop and attempts to push back internally. watching all those developments, members of congress have, of course, been in their own districts on recess. we have going to get a flavor of what they thought about those angry town halls. steph? >> i want to share a bit of what george w. bush said on the "today" show earlier. >> you cannot have somebody, a friend of mine, jeff sessions, who is on the campaign and who was an appointee. you are going to need to use the

special prosecutors statute in office to take not just recuse, you can't just give it to the deputy, that'snother political appointee. you have to do that. >> this isot presint bush, that's darrel issa speaking of recusing himself. i believe we have that sound from president bush now, though. >> i consider the media to be indespenceable to democracy. we need an independent media to hold people like me in account. power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive. it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power. whether it be here or elsewhere. >> there you have it. what is your take? maria? >> i think that the fact that he is saying we have to create an independent committee, saying yes, it's not enough for the attorney general to recuse himself, we have something

bigger, it's testment the republicans are seeing weakness within the administration and be courageous and say let's have a look at russia. that's unusual. >> if we are hear thag from darrel issa and the white house continues to push, sean spicer reaching out to intelligence officials, top republicans saying we need to swat these russia stories and push them down, what is that telling you? >> issa was defeated for re-election. he's gearing up for a race. he wants to get to the center. individual republicans in congress want to look like they are doing their part without congress creating political problems for the trump administration. i think, you know, when republicans fail to hold the president akountable, it's a matter of self-interest. if you have a special committee and they create headlines about trump and russia, that's not good for any of these pple. i think issa wants to look like he wants an investigation.

there had been signs the democrats in the senate were increasingly satisfied with what richard burr is doing before this weekend's story about the phone calls with the white house. so, i think if there's going to be anything in terms of accountability, it comes from the senate, not the house. >> okay, you are talking congress, the pressure they want to put. can we talk about the pressure within the white house? it's amazing to me, sean spicer meeting with his own staff and white house lawyers saying i want to see your phones. i want to know who is leaking, then that story gets leaked. if the story about the staff leaking gets leaked, then president trump telling us, we are operating like a well-oiled machine. >> the part of the issue is that it would be -- there are some republicans, i hear your point about darrel issa, but some say whether it's a senate investigation or outside investigation, what needs to happen is at the end of it, everyone has to believe everything is okay and all that

could have been done is done. part of the problem with the concentration on the leaks, which is serious problems is anybody can leak anything. there's always an app that is smarter than what your boss can find. they need to say, hey, we want to find out where the connections were with russia and we want to clean it up, otherwise it is going to dog them the entire administration. a lot of republicans support the president and want him to succeed and say let's get it off the table one way or the other, whether it's senate or independent commission, let's get it done. a lot of people think an independent commission will work better. >> we are going to leave it there. that's why many people called for president trump's taxes. not that we believe there's something in there. transparency will calm the minds of people with doubts. why not offer more transparency and get everyone cleaned up and move forward to govern in nation. thank you all. maria and josh are not going anywhere. we have a lot more to cover.

next, ali's son is held in an airport two hours. they will join me live.

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>> i think it's very important for all of us to recognize one of our great strengths is for people to worship the way they want to or not at all. the bedrock of our freedom, a bedrock or our freedom is the right to worship freely.

you see, i understood that this was a conflict and people that murder the innocent are not religious people, they want to advance an ideology and we face them in the past. >> that, of course, is former president, george w. bush, this morning in an nbc exclusive defending the right to worship freely when asked about president trump's travel ban. we are learning the president's refugee and immigration executive order is expected wednesday. the original order barring entry from seven countries created mass confusion at airports and blocked by a federal appeals court. muhammad ali jr.'s son says he was detained by immigration officials and questioned about his religion. he was traveling back from jamaica with his mother who was also briefly detained.

ali was detained hours despite saying mess a u.s. citizen and the son of the u.s. heavyweight champion. welcome to all. muhammad, let's start with you. what, exactly happened on that day in the florida airport? >> i got off the plane and i was going to baggage claim. the guy from immigration pulled me aside and asked me my name. i was like, okay, my name is muhammad ali. he asked me, what is your religion? i was like why would you ask me what my religion is? he asked me and i said i'm a muslim. it was like he didn't believe me. he took me in the back room and asked me the same questions, again. i answered them. i was like what is this all about, you know? what's going on? he was like, oh, we are checking

something. i was like okay. i was waiting like an hour and 45 minutes to check something. i was like i have things to do. where is my mother at, you know? what's going on with her? i didn't know. >> you were held for a shorter period of time, but you were held. do you believe it was because of your name or questioning your religion? >> i was outrageous. this has never happened to me, ever, being in the united states. i felt very uncomfortable. this has never happened to me before. i was concerned about muhammad because i made a statement to the officer that this was my son and we are traveling together. when they separated us, that sent a red flag with me and i was wondering why did they do that. >> has anything like this happened to you before? >> no, this is the first time

and hopefully the last. >> well, the u.s. customs and border protection put out a statement saying they will not comment on any individual case but they did put out a statement i'm going to share here, if we can pull that up. they shared this with "the washington post." every day, cbp officers process more than 1.2 million international travelers. we accomplish our mission with individual lens and in accordance of the law. they do not discriminate on religion, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation. we treat all travels with respect and sensitivity. do you believe that's the caseying the travel ban was just put in place and nothing like this ever happened? >> what i think to that is they say it's their job. check everybody that goes through, everybody, not just me or random people. >> you have said there's an interesting twist to the story when you look at history.

why? >> if you consider the fact that we have always protected people's religious rights, it's something that was fundmental, rock solid in our constitution, then you go back in our history and start to wonder, since when do we ask people about their religions when they enter the united states? are they questioning you if you are a christian? are they going to ask you if you are a jew? that flies on the fact of what is happening. we know, not just from the ali's, we have been getting calls, e-mails from all over the country, the world, people saying, what do i tell them when i come into customs? should i admit i'm a muslim or deny it to get through immigration? this is bad. shocking. >> does this change how you feel as an american? >> yes, it does. this is the first time ever i have felt uncomfortable. you know, muhammad ali, everybody knows him that is a

person that stands up for what you believe in. i have been with him all my life and never encountered such a thing. we must carry on that legend. if we let people get away with it now, there will be no end to the trauma. these people are going through a lot. not just us. going through what we do, it's going to happen to others. we must make a stop to it now. >> if president trump was here, he might say i'm so sorry you were detained for two hours, my goal is to protect the country and the american people. what would you say to that? >> i'm not american? >> what if he says yes, sorry it took two hours, i'm trying to protect you. trying to protect everyone here. >> i don't get it, i really don't. >> i would give him the holy koran, read it. we are people of peace. if you want to profile somebody, profile the criminals. >> can i offer, the united

states has been a balancing act, we balance rights against needs. what's happening in this country and why people are having trouble believing what mr. trump would say, we are rapidly marching toward that balance becoming out of balance and placing their so-called evaluation of the need to enforce a ban, which even homeland security came out with a report the other day and said there's no evidence to support the ban. there's no evidence anybody from any country committed a terrorist act. where is the thinking here? when do we now -- why are we now saying our fundamental rights are no longer necessary? it's more important we wall off america, literally, then keep out the barbarics. that's what we have to do. that's what he's saying. everything in this country depends on a balance between our constitutional rights and needs to protect ourselves. that is not happening.

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welcome back. you are watching msnbc, i'm stephanie ruhle. it is time for your morning primer, everything you need to know to get your day started. we begin with president trump's nominee for navy secretary, withdrawaling his name. he dropped his bit citing ethics requirements and the undue disruption the job would have caused to his private and

financial interests. >> 23 people were injured when a pick-up truck drove through a mardi gras celebration. he was pulled from the truck at the scene. his blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit almost two hours after the crash. the man accused of shooting two indian immigrants will appear in court this morning. 51-year-old adam perrington is charged with first degree murders and two counts of first degree murder in what is being investigated as a possible hate crime. 100 headstones at a jewish cemetery were vandalized over the weekend. this comes a week after vandals damaged 150 headstones at a jewish cemetery in st. louis. the entertainment world lost two of its own. actor and director bill paxton passed away this weekend at the age of 61. the original tv court judge,

judge joseph wapner, you know judge wapner of "the people's court" passed away at 97 years old. the father of the navy s.e.a.l. that was killed in late january during a raid in yemen that left as many as 29 civilians dead. his father, bill owens is telling the miami herald, not only did he refuse a meeting with the president, but he wants an investigation into the first counter terrorist operation approved by president trump. hans, walk me through what happened here. usually after a combat death, there is an investigation. how unusual is it for a family member of a fallen soldier, just weeks after, to call for one? >> somewhat unusual but it's because of the unusual nature of this. it's in yemen. there's that aspect of it.

typically, there's a 15-6, a formal investigation when a u.s. service member dies that is handled at the pentagon level and then those, that information is briefed up the chain of command, go to the secretary of defense and ultimately informed to congress who has questions about this investigation. one quick thing on the timing, though, steph, because it happened in yemen, a difficult place to get to, it could take longer than normal investigations. there's a credibility assessment that falls short on why civilian casualties took place there and there's going to be a more formal investigation into the loss of that off spray, a $75 million aircraft. steph? >> was this going to happen regardless or as a result of the father speaking out? when the father speaks out, it almost implies or sends the message there wasn't anything going to happen. >> it's automatic. this is standard review. this was well under way, these

investigations and inquiries, well under way before the father spoke out. but, you know, this is something we have seen weigh on the last two presidents, now this one. talking to the families of the fallen and getting their opinions, taking their views. in this case, there wasn't a conversation. the father refuse zed the meeting. both obama and bush had emotional visits with family members, getting strategic advise on how to prosecute those wars. a difficult time for any president. >> today, we should hear more about the white house's plan to combat isis. president trump told us before, he doesn't plan on telling us everything. why let the world know the secrets of how to get the bad guys. what should we expect? >> lighter rules of engagement and more artillery. if you think what is happening in syria and mosul right now, you have a lot of air strikes hitting mosul. i just got off the aircraft

carrier in the mediterranean. they are taking strikes. it seems as though the fight against isis has already been accelerated. something the military wanted is looser rules of engagement, u.s. troops and officers closer to the front line and then more use of artillery in syria. the big question in syria, taking the islamic state, the capitol of brock ka, what do you do after? who takes the city? what does the force look like and ultimately, what does it look like a year, two years down the line? a difficult question. steph? >> thanks, hans. president trump promises to increase the military spending in his new budget. we are going to talk to former navy s.e.a.l. scott taylor. later, before the best picture flub, it was a chaotic night at the kos cars. >> i want to say thank you to president trump. remember last year, it seemed like the oscars were racist?

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welcome back, i'm stephanie ruhle. we are waiting for more details on the president's budget outline today. one is expected to include a budget increase for the military and homeland security. i want to bring in scott taylor, a former navy s.e.a.l. and member of the appropriations committee. congressman, good morning. i know you deal directly with

budgets for the military and homeland security. right now, just to put it in perspective, there is more than $600 billion earmarked for military spending. that is more than russia and china combined. why do we need more and for what purpose? >> well, we also had a lot of targeted cuts with the military for years now. we have a huge problem with national security apparatus in terms of maintenance, readiness for deployment schedules, bidding ships and industrial shipbuilding base. if you don't have predictability, you lose skipped workers. you mentioned something that is very important. it's important at the same time, i have been asked this several times, we can thread the needle to make sure we are spending money wisely. there are programs that may not reflect the threats of today and tomorrow. we have to get a handle on those. if we have extra infrastructure, we have to look at that as well.

we have had devastating cuts to our military apparatus. you mentioned russia and china, we want to have the unfair advantage. >> that's a fair point. there is word that given this increase, we could see massive cutting and cutting in social safety net programs to pay for it. for constituents in virginia, what do you say to them to fear losing their security because the government could want to buy a new fighter jet? >> i would say to them, i have heard nothing about that first and femost. i think the president made clear the past couple days, they are not going to look at those programs. that said, if you are a democrat or republican or independent, you know the programs need to be reformed in some way, that's for another topic of discussion. in terms of other agencies, i think it's fair to say some have been bloated as well, too. everyone should bare the burden and tighten the belt. i'm not opposed to that. >> i want to change topics a

bit. do you believe there needs to be a special prosecutor appointed to lead an investigation into russia's ties to the trump team without saying there's definitely a problem there, people who simply want transparency? >> i think that's a legitimate concern. not yet is the short answer for you. i think the fbi has been conducting the investigation, still. we don't know how broad it is. it's broader than simply flynn, but you had a classified briefing with the senate intelligence committee. they emerge from there on a bipartisan way and say look, we need to have an investigation. i support that, the ranking member from my state, i support that. we'll see what they find and we will take it as it comes in terms of whether we need an independent one or not. at the moment, i would say not yet. >> the father of that navy s.e.a.l., you, yourself, being a s.e.a.l., who was killed in yemen, he wants an investigation into exactly why his son died in

yemen. we know an official investigation is already taking place. specifically, the cause of why his son died. do you think we need that kind of investigation? his father wasn't willing to meet with the president. >> well, let me preface this by saying a gd star family is sacred, period. their voices should be heard. they shouldn't be dismissed by any means. it's a very tough thing. most people in the country have no idea what that family is going through now. it's normal to want answers, for sure. reasonable, of course that they want answers. as you said and the last guest said, there are multiple investigations that go into that. yemen is a difficult place. i spent years in that area. it's a very difficult place to operate in. but, i would let the investigations that are currently taking place have their course. that being said, like i said, the father or any gold star family is sacred to us and they have a right to say what they please. >> congressman, thank you for joining me. i appreciate it. >> anytime, thank you, steph.

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evening. it ended with legitimate confusion. did you see poor warren beatie's face? they seemed to be confused about who won. >> and the academy award -- for best picture. >> you are awful. come on. >> "la la land." >> i mean she says he's impossible. i think he was put in an impossible situation. the problem was, "la la land" didn't win. viewers saw commotion among officials, which all led to this very awkward moment. >> i'm sorry. there's a mistake. there's a mistake. "moonlight" you guys won best picture. "moonlight" won. this is not a joke. this is not a joke. i'm afraid they read the wrong thi thing. this is not a joke. "moonlight" has won best

picture. "moonlight" best picture. >> it happened in 2017. after "la la" producer became "moonlight's" presenter, warren beatie tried to explain the mix up. >> i opened the envelope and it said emm stone, "la la land." that's why i took such a long look at faye and at you. i wasn't trying to be funny. >> oscar's accounting for price waterhouse issued an apology that read the presenters had been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered was corrected. we are investigating how this could have happened. you know, if i was allowed to, i would make a russia joke here. i'm not going to. i want to talk about this. i'm joined by my panel. first, price waterhouse, 364

days a year. plain vanilla stuff. this is the one night when you get to be super cool and glamorous, what do you think happened here? >> i don't know who hands the envelope to people, we saw warren was holding the envelope that said best actress. i don't think price waterhouse is in the job of handing him the envelope. there must be somebody -- >> that's their -- they have one on each side. they have it memorized. there must be somebody from the oscars who is part of this to say, hey, make sure we get all this right. >> steve harvey is feeling so much bettered to. >> marisa tomei is feeling better. >> let's not fix on the envelopegate or the envelope. for the first time in history, a film about the modern black experience won the oscar, right? a year after oscar so white and oscar made a push to have greater diversity in the vg group, right? now we are seeing a pay off.

more black actors won oscars than ever before. the message is when black actors and actresses are given a chance, even in lily white hollywood, they can be recognized for it. >> josh, your take? >> i think it's sort of unfortunate this ended up overshadowing "moonlight's" award. it's not that people shouldn't talk about the incident. yeah, you saw that through the acting awards. the first muslim winner, ever, of an oscar. i was surprised it hadn't happened decades ago. >> i think he handled himself so nicely when he came out and presented this. could you imagine being in that situation and having to hand that oscar off to someone else? to your point, this idea that last year there was so much backlash against the academy saying you are not recognizing

the stories that americans are feeling and recognizing and they listened. they took a step back. they created spaces for talent and actors to come up. that speaks to what the president could take from actua take the playbook from hollywood and where we are going as a country. >> and took active steps to put hundreds of new black, brown and female voters in. instead of a film that i think "la la land" was a great film but we got a film about modern, black, poor, gay life winning and someone struggling with identity. >> what they did was they actually went back and looked at who was doing the voting and they brought in a whole slew of folks that were of different life experiences. we had america ferreria, who was youngest to join the academy. she said we need to bring more people that actually have our experiences.

in a that is where america is going towards. you can say the friction we did in the united states was a massive change and the academy fixed it almost overnight. >> i thought we were going to see -- there's still a lot of work to be done. i thought we were going to see more actors and actresses make big statements again trump and there was very little against that. it was saint m-- and jimmy kimm trolling him all night long and saying he was racist and stupid and -- it was just bizarre. >> they had basically everybody wearing blue pins and people didn't talk about it but then they went and did their research. i think at the end of the day when everybody keeps saying there's fake news, giving people space to find out where they are, i think that opens up volumes of conversations and

builds bridges. >> i think we want to say where it's never acceptable to call someone racist and stupid and foolish. >> if they are, we must underline them. we don't want people to be racist but we should call racist people racist. >> we don't want it to be socially acceptable --racist. >> we need to set the bar higher. >> the conversation we had is our children are watching. how do we have conversations if our children are hearing adults talk teg lowest common denominator and not being held accountable for the things that people are -- >> i'm glad we didn't have more sanctimonious speeches, i thought the statement for the iran i iranian -- it would have just made hollywood look too far set

apart. >> it was a night about celebrating great art and that's certainly what it did. we're going to take a break. next former president george w. bush speaking exclusively to nbc. what he says about divisions in our country next. and coverage begins at 6:00 a.m. with morning joe and runs all the wave through the speech with live coverage and analysis. what if technology gave us the power to turn this enemy into an ally? microsoft and its partners are using smart traps to capture mosquitoes and sequence their dna to fight disease. there are over 100 million pieces of dna in every sample. with the microsoft cloud, we can analyze the data faster than ever before. if we can detect new viruses before they spread, we may someday prevent outbreaks before they begin. no one burns on my watch!

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president george w. bush took the chance to talk about the divisiveness, especially when it komts to the media. >> i think you have to take the guy at his word that he wants to unify the country. when i was president, you mattered a lot more because there was like three of you and now there's all kinds of information being bombarded out and people can say things anonymously. it's just a different world. >> i want to bring back my panel for one final thought. >> the president is clearly very concerned about whether he's going to deliver on the jobs promises he made because if he doesn't, then the people with him, a lot of them will turn

against him regardless of the media filter bubble we're in. >> whether we're talking about friday, not everyone being part of the press gaggle, do you believe these are important issues? are is this inside baseball and the truth is going to come out and the press will press on? >> i think the important issue is when you look at who he's giving press credentials, too. not just your traditional media, he's brought in breitbart and alt-right folks. if you're talking about a divided america where you're consuming the media, the main street right. when he talked about an incident in sweden, he said "i heard it from fox news." who is going to fact check that? >> what a way to start the week. that wraps us up this hour. i'm stephanie ruhle. u ca find me all day long on

itter or tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. right now my colleague hallie jackson isn't just in d.c. she is in this superstar, fantastic, fabulous new set where we are holding court. hallie? >> you are right. we are coming to you today from a new perch in washington this morning. check out what's behind me, the jefferson memorial, the washington monument and inside the white house, president trump meeting with governors and health care execs. and senior administration officials tell us more money, a lot more money, is helpediading the pentagon. and today a potential investigation picking up stream. plus historically high disapproval ratings all setting the stage for the president's first address to congress tomorrow. we have so much to talk about this monday morning and we have

our full team ready to go, kristen welker at the white house, glen thrush in washington, jeremy with us on set. let's talk about what we know and then i want to dive into some of those budget numbers. >> reporter: it comes as the president is poised to unveil budg and his first joint dress to ngress. he will undoubdly discuss it with the governors. it's going to call for an increase in spending to the military, to dhs, to intelligence agency, not a big surprise there. those are things he talked about on the campaign trail. it's going to call for big cuts to domestic programs, agencies like the epa, humanitarian programs. of course those are thanksgiving th -- things that democrats are going to need to argue need to be protected. and interestingly, hallie, his budget calls