. >> narrator: at trump's side, his chief strategist, stephen bannon. >> trump has told me multiple times that he actually loves to fight. in bannon, he saw someone who was just like him, someone who loved to fight. >> narrator: bannon had engineered a sweeping executive order aimed at fulfilling a campaign promise to restrict muslims from entering the united states. >> that's steve bannon's idea, is to just throw everybody else off-balance, knock them back before they have a chance to resist. >> narrator: until this moment, the order's details had been a well-kept secret in washington, even among trump's own team. >> they wanted to rush this thing through and get it out there, and essentially take a shock-and-awe approach to changing immigration policy. >> defense secretary mattis knew very late in the process that this was what was going to be done during this visit. >> bannon didn't want other agencies to have a chance to see what was in this executive order and say, "whoa, whoa, wait a minute. slow down. this might not be something we'd want to do." >> john kelly is the new secretary

. >> stephen bannon, senior white house advisor to president trump.utation because everyone is calling him a racist and anti-semite but they talked to his teammate in hollywood. they work together and this is what this guy said. he's a democrat. steve has great character. he's not a race or anti-semitic. he's a good friend and an incredibly hard worker. he has beliefs and stand by him. they are not based on racism, he believes what is honestly best for the world. i am glad this guy stepped up and said something. i will see you next week in d.c. >> that'll be our stephen bannon moment. for your next stephen bannon moment, try tomorrow. never miss an episode of "the five." set your dvrs, "hannity" is up still on the trump demonstration changes the timeline, saying the president lost confidence in fbi director james comey right afte. democrats continue to equate president trump with richard nixon plus the house speaker is here to react to the moves for the first time. this is "special report" ." good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. the re

. >> stephen bannon, senior white house advisor to president trump.everyone is calling him a racist and anti-semite but they talked to his teammate in hollywood. they work together and this is what this guy said. he's a democrat. steve has great character. he's not a race or anti-semitic. he's a good friend and an incredibly hard worker. he has beliefs and stand by him. they are not based on racism, he believes what is honestly best for the world. i am glad this guy stepped up and said something. i will see you next week in d.c. >> that'll be our stephen bannon moment. for your next stephen bannon moment, try tomorrow. never miss an episode of "the five." set your dvrs, "hannity" is up next. >> sean: tonight, comey is out and the tinfoil hat conspiracy leftists are losing it. the vice president defense presidents move. the unhinged late-night hosts are absolutely beside themselves. >> this is the kind of thing dictators do. >> sean: "hannity" starts right here right now. thanks for our friends on "the five." this is a fox news alert, and other massive

i will see you next week in d.c. >> that'll be our stephen bannon moment.i for your next stephen bannon an episode of "the five." set your dvrs, "hannity" is up next. >> sean: tonight, comey is out and the tinfoil hat conspiracy leftists are losing it. the vice president defends presidents move. the unhinged late-night hosts are absolutely beside themselves. >> this is the kind of thing dictators do. >> sean: "hannity" starts right here right now. thanks for our friends on "the five." this is a fox news alert,ds and other massive breaking news night. mark levin, newt gingrich, michelle malkin, dr. sebastian gorka, jay sekulow, geraldo rivera all here tonight with reaction. tinfoil hat conspiracy liberals in congress, the desty-um

i looked closely, there was one of chuck schumer and one of stephen bannon. of them was airbrushed looking like chuck schumer had a halo on top of his head. stephen bannon looked not so good. >> mike: he looked like he just robbed a bank. >> abby: if you're looking for hypocrisy, just look at the cover. >> mike: it's frustrating to see this. call it slime because that's what they've become. it used to be that "newsweek" and time and magazines of that nature were at least relatively objective in reporting and analysis of the news, not directly, but an analysis. now there are just organs for left-wing opinion and it's very tragic. >> harris: and my misremembering or was there discussion about sarah palin when she was on the cover of "time" magazine? >> meghan: it was michelle bachmann. >> abby: president obama had a halo on his head. >> harris: people on the right didn't have a halo. >> mike: horns. >> meghan: this is a copy of a mad magazine cover that has already come out of the white house looking like the kremlin. they are also copping a children's comedy m

stephen bannon wants him to pull out of this. this is a campaign promise that he ran on. he thinks climate change is a hoax, snow and should be surprised that he more than likely will end up pulling out of this. the united states is the largest carbon dioxide emitter behind china. china's involvement in this, 2030 -- i'll be old in 2030. the idea that anything will be done by 2030 -- i always thought it was a nice allusion of actually getting things done when it comes to fighting climate change. i'm not a doomsday person when it comes to this. i'm somewhere in the middle. i wish it was a little clearer. >> sandra: even though he called it a hoax, he put in place, rex tillerson who acknowledged it as a climate change. >> marie: he argued to stay in. the head of exxon wrote president trump a personal letter asking to stay in the agreement. the oil companies support this. the u.s.-made -- you anchor the rest of the world, 200 countries. >> sandra: america first. >> marie: what does that mean? that the statement, that's not a policy. the rest of the world is looking to us and

he wasn't a real loyalist in the sense were kellyanne conway and stephen bannon armor. he didn't fit into the mold. talk about the loyalists, and -- might be a return to the campaign days if he gets his wa way. >> jon: it's pretty interesting that those two in particular are apparently making a comeback now that the white house. >> trump is clearly comfortable with them. he's known them for quite some time. i think the bottom line here with dougie is at the president wasn't happy. this is just the beginning of changes for how this white house communicates its message. the president knows that it's not working. something had to be done, something had to be changed. whether that changes the press briefings or trump going on the road, he enjoys doing that. trump has to be the focus of the messaging and i think he's going to take a more active role in i it. >> jon: does the president need a communications shop? is peter that's the thing. the other week he said you can't listen to anything my press secretary says because what i say is final. you saw that in the campaign. he

for your next stephen bannon moment, try tomorrow. never miss an episode of "the five." set your dvrs, "hannity" is up next. >> sean: tonight, comey is out and the tinfoil hat conspiracy leftists are losing it. the vice president defense presidents move. the unhinged late-night hosts are absolutely beside themselves. >> this is the kind of thing dictators do. >> sean: "hannity" starts right here right now. thanks for our friends on "the five." this is a fox news alert, and other massive breaking news night. mark levin, newt gingrich, michelle malkin, dr. sebastian gorka, jay secular, geraldo rivera all here tonight with reaction. tinfoil hat conspiracy liberals in congress, the destroyed truck media, they are absolutely losing it. completely unhinged. of course over james comey being fired. which needed to happen. that is tonight's important opening monologue. deranged liberal crackpots are at it again. at the very important decision to fire the fbi director, pushing brand-new and complete daily, completely insane conspiracy theories. trump was asked why he decided to fi

for your next stephen bannon moment, try tomorrow. never miss an episode of "the five." set your dvrs, "hannity" is up still on the trump demonstration changes the timeline, saying the president lost confidence in fbi director james comey right afte. democrats continue to equate president trump with richard nixon plus the house speaker is here to react to the moves for the first time. this is "special report" ." good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. the reverberations from tuesday's surprise firing of fbi director james comey have political washington in the kind of frenzy rarely seen even the most pressure packed times. president trump is defending himself, saying comey was not doing a good job. vice president mike pence is sticking up for his boss, calling the dismissal of the right at the right time. congressional democrats, some of whom have called for comey's head following the clinton email investigation or demanding a special prosecutor. john roberts joins us from the north lawn. >> good evening. in this tangled web of claims and counterclaims, one

stephen bannon is still there. gorker we are told is leaving. here he is a little bit of his time on television defending the white house in controversial moments. >> there, it's a signal there's a new sheriff in down. his name is donald j. trump and we are not going to follow the policies of the prior administration. it's a slam dunk. he's completely within his mandate. there is a problem with these seven nations and i expect the courts to decide in favor of the white house. >> why is he leaving? >> there's all kind of talk about this. one is the broader picture which you talked about which is the diminishment of that wing of the white house. he is one of the leading ideologyists inside that team on the anti-muslim, you know, breitbart type program. he's on the way out. there's also a question about his security clearance, can he get a security clearance in which case are you able to do national security polticies. there's talk about putting him in some other place. >> keep an eye on that. up next, persistent or foolish. the white house says it

really strong effort that they were united, and the article after article about jared kushner and stephen bannon being at odds. and rumors of staff shakeups. the assumption should be that the staff is going to remain as it is now, whether or not sean spicer might be out as press secretary has been floated for weeks and weeks. it has not happened. i think that this is sort of reflective of the environment that he likes to work in. he likes the chaotic uncertainty in the workplace, and these rumors are going to continue. is that my expectation the white house is going to stay the way it has been until something changes. you have to take each rumor with a grain of salt, given that none of them have led to a staff shakeup so far. virginia. lorton, go ahead, greg. caller: just a couple of quick points. -- ifing is, with comey the president does not like him, he can fire him. that is the way it is. the way he responded to the hillary clinton investigation, he should have been fired. secondly, the president has the power to decide -- that is part of the constitution. as thesefar investigations go with

i mean, it came from the stephen bannon world, you know, jared kushner being there could be a big problem and here we are. >> i think you make a good point. let's be clear. that's story sort of develops now, jared kushner facing this scrutiny from the fbi, could it affect an opportunity for steve bannon behind the scenes here in the west wing? there is reporting that he may be one of the people in whom the white house is vinvesting to honcho the war room. they've been look forg streing fighters that can participate in this fight. as you look at this trip, the beginning of the trip they celebrate the as waya win that, saudi trip. as the trip has gone on and the advisors have come home, reince priebus, jared kushner, ee vaiv trump, there are stumbles most notably with the nato allies. what we should focus on is as soon as this trip ends and the holiday is over and everyone is back in the white house, the team is reunited so to speak, there are a lot of questions that need answering. not only how are they going to sort of staff up, how are they planning behind the scenes to deal with all thi

stephen bannon, you know, trapped in a connection of arab and diplomats in saudi arabia.is business as usual. we all deploy the loss of life of innocent people -- do floor the loss of life of innocent people. everyone does. it we cannot have double standards in which we say someone killed in europe, their lives are more valuable than the lives being taken in large parts of the muslim world. and unless the west understands that these double standards provoke and anger more people, it will carry on. how do you stop it? there are all sorts of things going on in britain. -- tells to prevent schoolteachers to spy out in. it tells students, if you hear one of your students can honestly muslim, saying something that is unacceptable, report him. asking children and teachers to spy on school students -- amy: couldn't the manchester model be used? you showed the parents. you talk about the children who have died. and use that model for children killed in yemen, iraq, afghanistan? name the names? >> absolutely. this model should be used. but the media is not under our control or und

remember, stephen bannon, the eitbart website, has been advocating the nationstate as opposed to eu.arlet: what happens to marine le pen now that she has lost election? that she team up with other populists across europe and maker influence felt that -- make her influence felt that way? no, that would be very contrary to what she has been saying. france is about france and closing the borders and all this. she is a member of the european parliament. it is a bit of a joke. she hardly ever goes there. she gets a salary. some of it she uses for her own political purposes, and she has been sued for that. she has been having for parliamentary elections. my gut feeling is next year there will be a party congress and they will change the name of the national front and they will try to make it more of a populist force and they will find a different name. not going to be easy, because as long as you have a le pen chairing it, it will be the national front, with all the background behind it -- her father being some kind of neofascist. it is not easy for her to make people forget about this, th

but other voices urged withdrawal, including chief strategist stephen bannon.did 22 republican senators, including majority leader mitch mcconell, who said that it was an important part of rescinding president obama's "clean power plan"-- which has long been the target of republican lawmakers. the trump administration also took aim today at another rule on greenhouse gases-- specifically, methane emissions. the e.p.a. is stopping an obama administration rule that would cut down on methane leaks and pollution from oil and natural gas drilling wells. let's look at what's at stake if the president opts out of the paris accord. michael oppenheimer is a professor of geosciences and international affairs in the woodrow wilson school at princeton university. he has been a long-time participant in the u.n. panel on climate change, which produced reports on the subject and won a nobel prize. and, phil kerpen, the president of american commitment, a conservative group opposed to the paris agreement. gentlemen, welcome to you both. phil, i would like to start with you fir

morning in washington trump told vice president pence and several senior aides, reince priebus, stephen k. bannon and donald mcgann among others he was ready to move on comey. first he wanted to talk with attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to whom comey reported directly. trump summoned the two to the white house for a meeting according to a person close to the white house. the president had already decided at that point to fire comey according to this person. but in the meeting, several white house officials say trump gave sessions and rosenstein a director to explain in writing the case against comey. compare that to what press secretary sean spicer told reporters on tuesday, that rod rosenstein made the decision himself to review comey. and what sarah huckabee sanders told us and reporters yesterday. >> sarah, you've made reference repeatedly to the report by the deputy a.g., rod rosenstein. who asked him to make that review? he's just arrived at the justice department. who asked him to undertake that review? >> i'm not aware that it was requested. all i

chief of staff reince priebus advisers jared kushner and stephen bannon and deputy cia director gina haskell. trump asked comey to stay behind after the meeting broke up and they spoke alone. trump told comey that flynn had done nothing wrong with president trump saying, quote, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go, he's a good guy. i hope you can let this go. the memo said comey did not say anything to trump about curtailing the investigation, replying only i agree he's a good guy. the white house responded by saying it is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation stating that while the president has repeatedly expressed his view that general flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the president has never asked mr. comey or anyone else to end any investigation. so joe, i feel like this is a defining moment in the chaos that is this presidency. frame it out for us. >> it is. i hope you can let that go are going to be words that not only haunt donald trump and his dealings with james comey, but also is something th

the apparently lessened influence of stephen bannon. but beyond that, i don't know what to make of it and my grade is so provisional. we have like 5% of the course work in here. i probably shouldn't go on at great length. if you'll give me one more minute. i'd say the following. i'm waiting to see most importantly what comes from the house and senate intelligence community investigations and the on going fbi inquiry into potential, the possibility of collusion with russian intelligence with the russian government in the election itself. the hacking and timing of the releasest e-mails to embarrass the clinton campaign. without prejudging what might come out of them although i would say lots of smoke, not much fire, ervverything hinges . that and never has russia policy been so tied to what happens in american domestic politics and what happens in washington. it's impossible to assess what he's doing out therein dependently of what is happening in d.c. if those investigations produce a smoking gun, then everything changes. in other words,

even those who you would consider might be sympathetic towards flynn, stephen steve bannon for example, have had enough of him. he is viewed as somebody who was reckless and somebody who with great regret was part of this team. what they will do, what you can expect early in the week is for them to say of sally yates, she was an obama person, she acted politically when she was the deputy attorney general and blocked the travel ban. and so they will probably take that political tack early in the week. >> michael you are in the briefing room every day. this the shoe dropping or are they tuning it all out. >> i think this is victory. i think next week ooeld they would like to talk about victory in the house on health care, moving on to tax ereform, what they want to do in the senate on health care. instead it's russia all over again. they continue to be dogged by it and can't shake it. >> they are going to be hammered by the revelation it was someone on their own transition team calling the obama white house for an assist. can you look into a crystal ball for us. how are they going to dea

tom: i'm not quite sure the sequence yet but i believe reince priebus and stephen bannon have exitedway back to washington. why are they attending the land of greg valliere? want to give they support to the budget director who has heavy lifting to do. everyone ishat going to criticize this visit to the middle east as a photo op but it is a really good photo op . for the next few days, trump does stop the bleeding on the budget and russia. francine: how will he be greeted -- good morning, first of all. how will he be greeted in washington when he comes home? hunch that this could boost his approval numbers, a little bit. stop thethink it does bleeding. we are not talking about russia this morning. the budget will be controversial but talking to benjamin netanyahu will be the lead story world. francine: the first leg of the trip was saudi arabia where we were this weekend. then he is in jerusalem and israel. then he goes to the vatican and room and then to nato and the g7 . there does he need to be more careful to stay on message and on script? greg: nato and brussels. i think he is go

this is not a mike flynn, this is not a sean spicer or stephen miller, steve bannon, reince priebus or he has a unique status that is names challenging for donald trump and challenging for us to try to figure out what donald trump does. >> what i want to know is did the president-elect in early december know what mike flynn and jared kushner were doing. hold that thought. we're going to take a quick break, and we'll resume this excellent conversation right after this. ready, go. ahhhhhhhh! shake! shake! shake! shake! shake! done! you gotta shake it! i shake it! glad i had a v8. the original way to fuel your day. so you miss the big city? i don't miss much... definitely not the traffic. excuse me, doctor... the genomic data came in. thank you. you can do that kind of analysis? yeah, watson. i can quickly analyze millions of clinical and scientific reports to help you tailor treatment options for the patient's genomic profile. you can do that? even way out here? yes. even way out here. and it's also a story mail aabout people even way out here? and while we make more e-commerce deliverie

lady and a long list of top advisers, including jared kushner, ivanka trump, reprobus, steve bannon and stephen miller. now, at his first stop in saudi arabia, the president is set to deliver a major speech on islam aimed as, as he put it, it encouraging muslim leaders to fight hatred and extremism. a harsh move for a president who has had harsh words for muslims and steve miller who wrote the travel ban has a long history of anti-muslim rhetoric. wolf in. >> athena jones reporting for us, thank you. up on capitol hill, reaction is one of shock and dismay. let's got to our congressional correspondent phil mattingly. what the are you hearing? >> the blowback swift. republicans not real responding yet, but when it comes to democratic lawmakers in both the house and the senate, you get a mix of reaction, wolf. those who are just stunned to those who believe that this is evidence of obstruction. take a listen to an interview i just had with congressman dan kildee of michigan. >> it's -- it's dumbfounding. i mean, just when we think this president has gone as far as he could possibly go, we hear thi

stephen miller, who we are familiar with his feelings, is the author. >> it's people like steve bannone president surrounded himself with a number of people with extreme views on islam themselves. but, the second question, really, is can one speech, you know, establish a new u.s. role, presence, view of the united states in the region. remember back in 2009, president barack obama gave a speech in cairo on the middle east and the middle east intervenes and imposes an agenda. two years later, the arab spring, not about the united states, and we have been trying to pick up the pieces since then. a speech, in and of itself is not going to be enough. even if the president gets the tone correct. >> again, i get back to the credibility. if you go back to 2009, think about the time there after, donald trump was the main birther in chief, going after the president for being born in kenya, having a muslim background. trying to fear monger off of that. it's not one speech, but it is one man we are depending on to try to create a aspiration of leadership or a good will and faith that people globa

here's steve bannon realizing these are not the kind of men in white robes he's used to. ( laughter ) ( audience reacts ) ( applause ) >> stephen joke because we love. ( laughter ) it wasn't all sword play. trump also helped at the opening ceremony for "the global center for combating extremist ideology" by laying hands upon this glowing orb! ( laughter ) whatever qualities that magical sphere confers: eternal youth is not one of them. fellas, if i may, you need to work on your "not-looking-like-supervillains" skills. look at that! it looks like you're activating the undersea robot to emerge from its volcano base and kill aquaman. ( laughter ) jim, can we pull out and see who else is there? saruman and gargamel. i knew it! ( laughter ) ( applause ) of course, the centerpiece of -- i don't know what they're doing. >> jon: yeah, i don't either. >> stephen: i would be surprised if you did know. if you knew, i would be a little worried. >> jon: yeah, i know. >> stephen: of course, the centerpiece of trump's saudi visit was his speech to the muslim world, which he apparently gave in crazy ahmed's chandelier emporium. trump had a lot

steve bannons of the world, jared kushner, who is the president's son-in-law who has his own issue whether he filed his foreign paperwork for basically being an agent of foreign clients. stephen miller who had a lot to do with muslim ban. he's bring that circus overseas. if you were with the state department, how would you deal with that? >> very challenging particularly for the first trip. the first trip is for an easy ally country where the security on your side, security on their side had a history of coordinating with each other and you have the ability to make things work. you don't try to throw your self several logistical hurdles like trying to visit the old city in jerusalem. historically and thousands of years very contentious. there's security challenges through the trip, political challenges going from saudi to sat can to israel. all places where words matter. every word you say has thousands of years of history, implication behind it. now we have a president who doesn't view teleprompter or reading from the script as a priority. there's challenges logistically. the circus you mentioned, there is a lot of people from the west wing to be going on this trip. what tha