it is 6:30, let's get to it today. marks the halfway point of president trump's first 100 days in office. >> the run down, this is of course one of the top talkers tonight at 6:30. use the #5at630. . president trump promised a lot of things on the campaign trail from the florida wall to the repeal and replacement of obamacare. how much has he accomplished in his first few week >> fox 5 contribute tore and political reporter, thank you very much for joining

start with the news of the day, michael flynn just this week registering as a foreign agent, something that he probably should have done before because he was lobbying on behalf of turkey during the trump campaign, before i ask you about it, sean spicer was asked about it. let's take a look at his response. >> we trust people to fill out the forms, that they're required to do so in an honest and legal manner. and in this case, the retroactively filed the forms he was supposed to do. we advised him to do what the legal and proper thing was and that's the right thing for this administration. we did the right thing then. and we expect every employee to follow the law. >> were you the did flynn do the right thing? your take on all of this? >> michael flynn just, i'm sure they talked over the mike flynn story after he left the administration but clearly. these were questions

administration, all of the -- not only, but other foreign governments asked about. foreign governments, this clearly aissue that what they're seeing accomplishments. >> we're having a little bit of trouble hearing you. we got to get this next question to you. seems like we gotten the bugs worked out. let me ask you about some other things we heard about. attorney general jeff sessions asked 46 obama era attorney generals to resign. is that typical >> it is that after the start of a new administration, you switch out the attorney generals. it's actually being done a little bit later what we were expecting, it's interesting because there are certain attorney general whose are investigating things related to trump and it's not clear whether they will is that he on or be forced to go. it's one thing to accept the resignations >> let's try to figure out

some wins and misses are for the trump administration is. let's talk about the travel ban. when it was first issued there were many problems. they tried to reposition on that, how do you think that's going >> they clearly have taken a closer look at that travel ban to make it something that won't be as clearly challenged. although there have already been lawsuits filed about that new travel ban coming into effect on march 16th. that's for trump supporters. and that they will probably see that as a win. although, other people have said that it's not helpful in any way in fighting terrorism. he's completing one of his promise also. which was stop travel countries where they harbor terrorists >> what are some of the other win that is the trump campaign is seeing and made promises to the run-up to the election? what are some of the others >> really the first you could really speak,

lobbying fans from executive orders, they've repealed obama era issue, the transgender bathroom issues and funding for -- keep funding for abortion. also, the healthcare repeal is the big one they're working on now. and what's important politically at least, take away the policy of all of this is that the image is that he's actually quickly working on all of the policies that he promised. whether or not what gets done, whether the wall gets built, there has been what looks like action towards it >> let's talk about healthcare for a moment. perhaps surprising to some. among the most vocal critics of the trump care package, if you want to call it that, are republican, conservative republican, how difficult is that going to make it for the trump administration to sell this to the republicans in a broader sense? >> it's

incredibly easy task. they're trying to, donald trump is trying to -- really well. he called it beautiful. it's going to be a beautiful picture. there are clearly a lot of republicans who are wary of what they're calling obamacare light, and that they are unhappy with it. we're still in the beginning stages of this bill and a lot can happen. a lot of wheeling and dealing can be done. now you know what we went through eight years ago. >> we mentioned some of the wins, have there been losses >> clearly a lot of. and the question dogging the administration and personnel staff are not very -- already, we the national security advisor quickly did not help for the stability. the questions concerning jeff sessions and russia, those are not helpful at all and if you're trying to get through a lot of

policy, those are all distractions. >> political reporter for piloto, and a fox 5 contribute tore. thanks for joining us, have a great weekend. the president and house gop leaders are pushing hard to sell the new healthcare plan to america. earlier the president met with key house committee chairmen about the bill. >> the house repeal and replace plan ends the obamacare tax hikes, cutting taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars. it elements the obamacare mandate that forces americans to buy government approved plans. it provides with flexibility overhow medicaid dollars are spent giving power from washington. and back to local government which we all want to see. do a much better job. >> some would say he was preaching to the choir. those were the history of the two committee who passed this through. let's bring in the senate for

health policy research at george washington university. you authored a study on the economic implications of repealing the affordable care act. >> we found if it was repealed this would cost 2.6 million jobs across the country in the first year and going up to 3 million and it would do tremendous financial damage to states across the country and make state and local governments lose tax revenue >> is there anything in this new american healthcare act that would help reduce those numbers >> we haven't had time to look at it completely. i would think that the impact would be a little less. there's still some provideses to provide tax credits to low income people. on the other hand, something that hadn't been in the bills before was the huge restructuring of medicaid and trying to sort of cut medicaid spending over very protracted period. and that will cause a lot of extra damage. so we haven't done the

substantial job losses. a lot of economics will be felt across the country >> john boehner came out a long time and said there's to repeal obamacare. there's a reshaping or restructuring. but republicans seeming to push back they don't want to keep the obamacare name to it or some of the key components, what do they need to do to make this work and not be where obamacare had come where we're seeing premiums skyrocketing and people who may be losing positions they started with? >> well, there's been a lot of misconceptions, premiums have not risen as quickly after obamacare went up as they were before and in addition, there were lots of things that made things much more affordable. the tax credits that helped people and the health insurance exchanges, the competitive aspect of those. the medicaid expansion was huge. so they're going to be a lot of losses. people

healthcare act as proposed gets enacted we're probably talking about 12 to 15 million people losing health insurance. in the district alone, estimates suggests that maybe something on the order of 15 to 50,000 people could lose their medicaid coverage. the financial damage to the district over five years could be somewhere on the order of 2 to 4 billion dollars and the district is a small part of the whole country. can you imagine this over the whole country? the impact is breath taking. >> will those numbers are staggering, and i've not heard those numbers before. let me ask you this about the american healthcare act. does it do anything to address some problems that the obamacare act was trying to address in terms of not just -- in terms of getting some of the younger and healthier people into the system to help defray the cost of healthcare? >> the proposal that would say it will change

have to pay for health insurance premiums, that ought to lower prices, some for younger people. but at the and he knows of increasing prices for older people. so it's a devil's bargain. the old people who tend to be somewhat sicker are going to have to bear more of the cost >> thanks so much for coming in tonight. of course, a lot of people talking about politics. a lot talking about the weather. yesterday, beautiful in the 70's. today, very cold. and snow showers. gwen has the latest on all of that. hey, gwen >> i certainly do. we have showers to today that moved across our area and nothing that really accumulated much. at the most an inches to our north and northwest. but you might see some of a stray flake or two before the night is over. things will improve in terms of the sky conditions but the cold is another

those temperatures really plunging. frigid cold. right now it's 40 at dc. 38 at dulles. 32 at winchester. a chilly 36 at frederick. 33 at hagerstown. gusty winds to talk about. we're going to have significant wind chills. we're going to keep an eye on a storm system that is going to move its way through as we get to the beginning of the week, we have another one south. it will transfer its energy to this bigger storm system the beginning of the week, we could see a coastal storm that could bring us accumulating snowfall. a lot of factors, still have to come together before we can pinpoint it and really nail it down for you. but we're definitely going to keep an eye on it. but the area to the south. is not really as much of a worry. here's a look at your fox 5 accu-weather seven-day forecast. bitter cold tonight. cold tomorrow, gusty winds, significant windchills, going to feel like it's only in the teens and 20's. make sure before you go to bed tomorrow night that you set your clock ahead an

but if you take a look at my seven-day forecast, we struggle in the 40's, can't even make a 50 degree range here at all. once again, we're going to keep an eye especially tuesday with the storm system could start by monday night. back to you. >> thanks. gwen. congress voted to roll back an obama era education rule that could affect your children at costume. >> an education expert would help us break it down. 5at630 will be right back. ♪♪ know you have a dedicated advisor and team who understand where you come from know you can craft an investment plan

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senate voted to block the education rule created underwriter the obama administration that holds schools accountable for all to students performance. the bill passed 50 to 49. >> it was one republican who actually voted against it. the founder and president of

and education consultant joins us. thanks so much for joining us >> hello, shawn and tony >> we should mention this has passed the house, senate, the president is expected to sign it. critic argue this bill that holds schools accountable is really about closing the achievement gap between dis advantaged minority students and more affluent white counter parts. and there will be no accountability for schools. what is your take on this? is this a good thing or bad thing for our kids right now? >> i believe, shawn, that it's been paused as a rule, and i think we need to keep the implementation in process while we figure out whether there's a better way to do things or not. whichever way they decide to go, i think we need to stay focused on the students and make sure we provide them a healthy and stable educational environment, so that they have tools necessary to succeed in their educational journey

impact will it have on students? >> i believe, tony, that the impact should stay focused on making sure that the students are always provided an educational environment and all it's tools necessary so they can succeed, whichever way we decide, whether we decide for or against, this is something that politicians should agree upon, and from involving the students and making their educational journey anymore difficult than it needs to be. i personally as an international consultant deal with students from different areas of the world. i have the opportunity of being with affluent saudis as opposed to less fortunate students that come from libia or yemen. in terms of how i provide the services, i have to make sure that i'm consistent, and i provide the same services to all students. but i also hold them to the same standards in counter parts. >> critics will say

what this was intended to be, it's called essa, every student's studies, act. that was the original intent was this bill to make sure that schools to state level were held accountable to make sure there were no imbalance there between those students. now it's taken away from the federal government with oversight and given to the state, there's concern the states will not handle that properly. do you think this should stay with the federal government or is it best in the hands of the state? >> i personally believe that we need to again, stay focused on the students, and i think that the federal law, as it stands, should be implemented while we figure out which would be the best suited solution for everyone concerned. the students, the teachers and the educational institution. >> let me ask you this. are you surprised this is something the trump administration would act on in this way? >> of course, tony, everyone is surprised.

feel any type of chaos or the educational system to be in a state of chaos while everyone decides how we proceed. this is where my concern set forth that i believe the bill should remain enacted and implemented while we figure out what needs to be done to have a stable environment for the students to proceed. >> education consultant we appreciate your opinion, thanks so much for coming in. >> thank you so much. it's been interesting. there's been a lot of talk about what's going to happen with education. we know when the education secretary was betsy devos came in, there's been a lot opposition to her. that will be interesting as we weave our way through the administration. >> this particular act really seems to be about the whole movement to decrease the involvement of the federal government in our daily lives "unquote. some of the concern is some states will not live up to the

expectations. of course, every new president has to hire hundreds of people to serve in their new administration. >> a recent report shows a gender gap when it comes to hiring in the trump administration. we'll take a closer look when 5at630 returns. . z29pgz z16fz

like all presidential administrations, the trump administration had to hire hundreds of people when it took over the white house. according to a bloomberg news analysis of records released by the federal government. women only account for 27% of roles in the trump administration. >> that number falls short of the percentage of women in the u.s. labor force which is actually 47%. political consultant and strategist joins us to talk a little bit more about it. marina, thanks for joining us. >> good to see you guys >> wednesday was international women's day, the president tweeteab

critical role women play here in the u.s. and around the world. since he's been elected we've seen a wave of protests before and afterwards. did these numbers though really matter or is this much ado about nothing >> i think the numbers matter. it's women's history month. there's no better time to talk about the dismal state of women's disrepresentation in the entirety of our government not just in mr. trump's administration. what we're talking about is we just don't see the amount of women in our government represented. we just don't see what's proportionate to our population. the representation we've come a long way certainly, but you know, fact is, in 2017, we only have four governors out of all the governors, only four women. that's really staggering. that tells you when the numbers are that low, our representation in terms of women elected officials has dropped. these are dismal numbers and if they won't forego any help

the future. mr. trump since he's taken office, president trump as a candidate. he talk add great deal about how he promoted women in his business, how he was amongst the first of visible ceos to have them in the higher echelons of the company leadership. we thought that would be go. fast forward here, he's taken office and we just don't see anything that really signals he's going to change the way things have been happening as usual. >> do you know how these numbers -- and we should say it's early in the administration -- 50 days in, and there are more hires to be made. do you know do we have a sense of how these numbers compare to previous administrations, the obama administration, the bush administration? >> right. so out of the 24 really top visual positions within the trump administration. four are held by women. when you look at president obama's first cabinet we saw seven women only. so truly the comparison like i said, we haven't

that far. it's hard to be critical of president trump when president obama certainly wasn't changing things entirely. now, people do >> let me say, i think we were just talking about specifically the cabinet positions is what we're talking about, the overall, we know that the trump administration hasn't done the overall hiring but i believe during the obama administration, there were 43% women. during the george w bush administration, 1 third of the hires were women. i think it's -- there's a little bit of difference right now but like you said we're only 50 days in >> they haven't filled many positions that don't require any confirmation of any sort. he's been very slow to fill a number of these positions. we hope he sort of goes up but we're seeing certain agencies, more women, for example, in the department of state. but agencies, the department of energy very low in terms of women. something below 20%. that's troubling. i'm hoping they change things, because again, the one

hear from this administration is that kellyanne conway was the first successful female presidential campaign manager. and we would hope that that would set the tone for the rest of -- >> absolutely. >> administrations. >> maybe they're listening. hopefully they heard what you said. >> i hope so. >> marina, political consultant strategist thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. >> probably mentioned cloirn has been a little sidelined recently >> we've seen a lot of ivanka ca too. >> speaking of donald trump and aaron schwarzenegger. we'll talk more about that when 5at630 comes back. cloirn

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