here now, marc thiessen, and matt bennett. good to see you both. >> good to see you. >> shannon: marc are they making progress, they seem to become of the leadership, the white house, on the same page with rolling it out, they can't lose more than 21 votes in the house and our concern is those who are still skeptical. >> we don't know because they haven't put out any coverage estimates. we do know whole new people will get covered. that gets to the big problems that republicans face. many of the people who got coverage under obamacare did through the medicaid expansion. there were some republican governors who said no and rejected it. in 13 red states that voted for donald trump, the governors excepted the. if you just repeal obamacare without doing something to take care of those people, they will be millions of people who lose their health care plan. that is a democrats job to take over your health care. the senators from those dates, many of the states, will say, they will say, unless there is a plan to take care of these p

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here with more on this, chris stirewalt, matt bennett and david wohl, gentlemen, welcome.to have you here. matt, let me start with you. what would be your objection to this judge? do you think the democrats will go that road? >> i don't know that there will be objections after the hearings are over. don't forget, a couple of days ago, going into the hearings about president trump's cabinet appointments, no one would have guessed that rex tillerson would have a relatively easy time of getting confirmed and betsy devos would come within a hair of not being confirmed. these hearings really matter. they get the opportunity to hear from these nominees themselves, ask him tubbs questions, really get a lot of things in the open. we don't really know what is going to happen with judge gorsuch. he is capable, intelligent, qualified, no question. we don't know what we are going to hear in the next three days and we don't know what objections will be. >> martha: what did you read in the tea leaves today? we get opening statements, it will get tougher. what did you see so far? >> i sa

here with more, david wohl and matt bennett. welcome, gentleman. have you both here tonight. david, let me start with puke. i know president trump means business. he wants to follow through with this. >> absolutely. these mayors, by the way, have decided to prioritize protecting criminal aliens over protecting the innocent citizens that they pray on. if you remember, we aired the exclusive story about my client whose fiance was killed by criminal alien who did and deported five times, a rap sheet a mile long. the reality was, he did nothing about it. this mayor, instead of reacting in a way a responsible mayor should react, he wrapped up his rhetoric about sanctuary cities, protecting the criminal aliens and making l.a. into a sanctuary city and ramped up its effort to obstruct the federal authorities and deporting them. just stunning. this is going on within cities all across the country, and l.a., probably the worst i have seen. the reality is, the tenth amendment lawsuit that was brought, that is basically means that power is not specifically de

william mcgurn, and matt bennett, former deputy assistant to president bill clinton. welcome to all of you. good to have you here this evening for evening. mollie, let me start with you. these calls also from walter jones, the first republican in the house to say that he believes that devin nunes should step down. what do you think? >> you have not just had him, but a few others who are known for having a lot of belief and faith and intelligence agencies and are not so concerned about civil liberties. what we have here is a big story about intelligence agencies capturing information on private american citizens and widely disseminating it. that is a huge scandal and one that we need to get to the bottom off. we have only begun to get some information as it is something that needs to keep going. it is not that surprising that certain people who are really cozy with intelligence agencies are nervous about devin nunes being right over target as he is now. >> martha: interesting. bill, in terms of this hearing that was scheduled, now, nunes said it was never officially sc

joining had me to discuss is jo philli phillips and matt bennett, former obama administration officialguys, great to see you. matt, president obama is upset and then some about this. do you think he will do anything about it, other than this statement? do you think there's more to come? >> well, probably not. i mean, remember, president obama is not a guy who talks in all caps or writes "sad" or in exclamation points. >> he did say he would speak out when he felt he needed to. >> that was about protecting the country. this is about slanderous statements, you have to go back to the 18th century to find this kind of behavior from one president to another. for obama to leak that he's irked and exasperated, that's about as hot as barack obama runs. you can tell he's pretty angry about it. who could blame him? trump has accused him of a felony and called him a "bad or sick guy." that is not behavior that one expects from a president, particularly directed at his predecessor. >> regardless of the charge of a felony, i do wonder, john, what happened to this relationship between these two men.

mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist, matt bennett, former deputy assistant to presidentill clinton, and cofounder of the third way. this is war. this is battle with the bureaucracy that lives within the beltway of d.c. they are not happy about it, mollie. >> i hope that this is war. i hope the trump administration understands the need to take on the size and scope of our bureaucracy, which has so much power, so many regulations, a really big problem with lack of transparency and lack of accountability. i think people understand, looking at the past few years can we have an irs that targets political opponents. we have a veteran affairs it administration that has systematic incompetence that has led to the death of americans. we have serious problems with bureaucracy and it will require not just executive orders like what we saw yesterday, but the fortitude to see it through to the end, to deal with the waste, fraud, much mismanagement, the control and power that bureaucracy has over americans lives. >> martha: this is a very big story. it goes to the heart of simple ques

here now, a fox news contributor, and matt bennett, cofounder of third way, assistant to president clintonod to have you both with us. the question that may be refugee vetting needs a little vetting. >> we really don't know anything yet about whether this has implications for policy or not. senator johnson's letter was not atypical, members of congress do this all the time. somebody comes in as a whistleblower, they write a letter and say we want an investigation on this. sometimes where there's smoke there's just people blowing smoke and sometimes there is fire. we don't know whether this is a real case of a refugee who is radical or not. it might be, and if that's the case, it needs to be fully investigated in an independent way, which is the very thing democrats have been calling on congress on. >> shannon: i think you would agree with that, the last point anyway, maybe not the first part, that this is an outlier of the case. >> it's not an outlier of a case. unfortunately, it happens all the time. so in 2015, the obama state averment testified before congress that the state department

matt. >> reporter: thank you tam, this oklahoma state lawmaker, john bennett is being criticized for makingroup of muslim students to fill out a question air which included do you beat your wife and do you denounce terror groups like hamas. the lawmaker released a statement saying the statements are based on islamic teachings and thought to be thought provoking. >>> several high schools in new mexico have sleep pods that can help your teenagers take a nap. they are like the share that lady gaga came out in. researchers say the pods can help students with anxiety. so far they are working and most students are energized and focus when they return to class after a 20 minute nap. >> beam me up scottie. interesting. new concerns at penn state the number of mumps cases have grown just as students are going out in the general public for spring break. >>> head of national intelligence weighs in on accusations of wiretapping at trump tower. those stories and more when "action news" comes right back. >> now on "action news," lawmakers in new jersey rally to secure religious centers after a wave of ha