let's turn to chris stirewalt.someone who knows a thing or two about the white house press office, dana perino. previously press secretary to george w. bush. a lot of back-and-forth about the bill. you just heard what senator thune said. let's hear a democratic senator earlier tonight. >> this is nuclear grade bonkers what's happening tonight. we are about to reorder one fifth of the american health care system then we will have two hours to review a bill which at first blush stands essentially as health care system arson. >> bret: senator murphy. >> he ain't all wrong. this is a horrible way to reassure people that you care about their health insurance and their family and all of their stuff. this is as bad or worse than what democrats did in 2009 when they were stumbling and tumbling through on obamacare. i will put it this way. you are talking about what's going to happen, there will be fake debate on insincere amendments to a nonexistent bill buried >> bret: other than that, it's a-ok? >> we wonder why people d

let's bring in fox news politic editor chris stirewalt. chris, what do you think? will we see sean spicer, the real sean spicer on "snl" on saturday night? everyone likes when you make fun of yourself. >> it would be a good play for him, no doubt. i think there is something else at stake here, and i think the fact that you see in fact that he's coming out with his de facto replacement, scaramucci, you see that chief of staff rolling out there and going on with sean hannity, arguably the single most ardent defender of president trump, that it's very obvious if spicer he wants to demonstrate that he is not just going to hold the president armless but there's going to be a booster for president trump that he wants to show here that there's no blood blood, he's not mad, he's just moving on. he will continue to be a team player even if he is not the team at the white house. >> melissa: is on the bottom of your screen a short time ago, one of the quotes of coming out that sean spicer saying perhaps the president can benefit at this point from a clean slate. what you thin

sandra. >> sandra: joining us now, chris stirewalt. back with us. also with us, jessica tarr love.ributors. they have a new book out tomorrow. "america in the age of trump." first, we haven't heard from you tonight, doug. the governor on the beach, the residence of his state can use that beach but he was enjoying it with his family. what? >> yeah, how can the governor -- any governor and this one happens to be the least popular governor in the united states, we now have some sense why -- be so ethically obtuse and it just insensitive public opinion? based on his comments, sandra, you get a sense he really doesn't care what people think. this is just really, really bad. >> sandra: he said he didn't get any sun, jessica. >> he can't with a baseball cap on. he was totally insulated. i agree completely. with what everyone has been saying. it's clear that governor christie has tapped out. he has the lowest polling average in the history of polling. for any governor. he knows what his fate is to be. it turns out he is only on that beach for 45 minutes. and then he's in a press conference

chris stirewalt breaks it down. grab a partner, it's time to dance. i'm dagen mcdowell in for kennedy. the nuclear standoff with north korea taking a grim turn after the country tested a missile that could be capable of hitting the united states. the wall $street journal is reporting the white house warned the hermit kingdom that the u.s. is prepared to go to war. this latest round of escalation started yesterday when the north launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile. limit experts say this is a major step forward towards the nuclear attack capabilities. the state media claiming its leader kim jong-un was pleased with the test. president trump said he's on top of the crisis. the president also put pressure on china, tweeting trade between china and north korea grew in the first quarter. so much for china working with us. but x l -- but we had to give it a try. you would agree china ignored sanctions. it has benefited continuing to trade with north korea. they haven't joined the party to contain that regime. so what now? >> president trum

joining me, chris stirewalt. he sounds like a 12-year-old,ing a young man with a very bright future. chris: summer cam has been worse than expected and he wants his moth tore pick him up now. kennedy: did kushner's statements he released before the hearing and some of his comments afterwards do anything to soften the magnifying glass over his head? >> for him, yes. but it makes it worse for donald trump, jr. and paul manafort. kushner made it clear that he was not there, he came late, left early. didn't know anything about all of that. that it was all a big mixup. he never even read the email for the meeting that took place with these russian operative and it was innocent and he stumbled into it. shortly thereafter su you theres assistant to set up a phone call so he could leave. kennedy: why do you think don, jr. isn't in the white house? >> i think one offspring and the offspring's husband is enough. you couldn't imagine having two children at the white house. i don't know if that's why don, jr. is not there. i

. >> melissa: there's chris stirewalt with fox news editor heard chris, is it finally here?nally happen? for like singing the "final count on." >> i don't know. i want take you into the jungle of it, but briefly for this. senator rand paul said today, what they would move on to was repeal the eventually. repeal later. you vote for a full repeal, but delay the implementation until later time. that is something that does not have enough support to get to the bowsprit at that is in fact what mitch mcconnell is telling his fellow senators and a close lunch today. it is a motion to proceed. if we will proceed on legislation that is delayed repeal and delayed replacement, they do not have the votes for that. and this goes down. it depends on -- if you think about it this way, this is like a guy has been dating a bunch of gals. >> melissa: [laughs] >> he's been seeing them and it's going around, and they all show up at the same place at once. and promises made to be reconciled against other promises made as he senators come forward and say, well, mr. majority leader, you said this,

thank you very much, chris stirewalt. good to see you. we will be hearing from president trump in about an hour, when he gives a statement on health care from the white house at 3:15 eastern. after what the white house is saying victims of obamacare. vice president mike pence will be joining him for the announcement, it will carry for you here, live. a close call in this ties. a navy spy plane had to take evasive maneuvers after foreign fighter jets buzzed it. why in the volatile region aware plays out, and why it happened. investigators working to get to the bottom of a tragedy in texas. ten people now come at the number of dead rising. inside a sweltering 18-wheeler in an apparent case of human trafficking. now the driver is in court. facing serious charges as prosecutors say more arrest could be coming. >> their suffering, the people. at that point, there is no room but mercy. did i want them to know we cared about them whoooo. going somewhere? here's some advice. tripadvisor now searches more than 200 booking sites to find the hotel y

chris stirewalt, i saw you chuckling as a representative moran was talking. he's done full aerial gymnastics through the last 72 hours. where are they now? >> chris: what's funny is, he's quite right. this is the most foolish possible way that you could devise a system to provide health insurance for american people. doing it basically with a gun to your head, and then it's, can we bribe your state with a certain number of things? nobody liked obamacare when it was passed because of exactly this junk. they say, just pass something. you've got to hurry up and pass it no matter what. >> sandra: it's so messy that the american people are having a hard time seeing what's in front of us right now. what is actually on the plate as far as what may be voted on, what may not be voted on? >> chris: there's a simple way to think about this which is their need to be about eight or $9 billion provided to the insurance company to prop up these failing individual market markets. those are 12 million customers. if relief does not arrive for them, because they have dropped ou

joining me now is chris stirewalt. i was talking moments ago whether or not having yet a second general inside the white house might be a game changer. your thoughts? >> it comes down to this. donald trump, who went to military school for high school has an obvious deep reverence to military commanders. he shows deference and respect to them that he does not show to most other people. as james mattis successful tenure to this point as the secretary of defense up to and including pushing back to the president suggests there may be a model here for kelly, that trump may give him the respect and loyalty that might set kelly up in a position to success. >> harris: how do you think just in terms of the leadership style that we'll see differences from this chief of staff? >> we know from lots of reporting that trump sought kelly over a period of weeks. that kelly was reluctant, and can you blame him, reluctant to take a job right in the middle of the strike. trump had to woo him that this would be the right thing. kelly was

> sandra: so this will be taking place now, we are told, it should last about 90 minutes, and chris stirewaltanding by, chris, i want to bring you in here, because the president has just arrived at the pentagon, he will be meeting for quite a long briefing, we are told, james mattis, joseph speed nine, this is a big moment for the present, people who have been on the ground and seen multiple tours in afghanistan, syria will be a priority in this conversation, chris? >> remember that this is a president who has taken a very different approach to his predecessors, really dating back to lyndon johnson in the sense that he has given tremendous autonomy to the department of defense and to secretary james mattis, and instead of them coming to him for permission, can we drop this bomb? can we kill this guy? he says you have the broader presidential duty, do whatever you think is right in this moment, and then we'll talk about smart strategic decisions. this is where the present comes into do this. >> sandra: okay sounds the president has entered to the pentagon, and just a little note, the meeting i

thank you, chris stirewalt and washington. shannon, what's coming out? >> shannon: attorney general jeff sessions says he is staying put. >> had a lot of criticisms, and steadfastly determined to get his job done, and he wants all of us to do our jobs, and as that is what i'm here to do. >> shannon: can he do his job effectively amid all of the criticism from his boss? our panel will debate. >> bill: also, passing the russia sanctions bill will happen, adam kinzinger is coming up. >> shannon: cracking down on the notorious gang known as ms 13, how they are working together to get those criminals behind bars. >> the communities being victimized, they should be safe, reports the crime again, we don't don't target victims of the crime rink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. rink ensure. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. this is cand right now, lobster. we're serving up more delicious crab than ever. classic favorites like crab lover's dream. and new dishes like southern ki

here comes chris stirewalt. this is really out there, chris. how solid is donald trump space? >> i like that she has boundaries. in cold blood. >> martha: [laughs] >> wright, truman capote. the president doesn't have to worry about his base at this moment but we have to understand what his base is. the voters who are with him, we are talking about people in places like tennessee and alabama and north georgia and west virginia and across the southern apalachee. they aren't going anywhere in they don't particularly care. the problem he has with swing voters, from the rust belt. from rural to industrialized economically struggling counties. places like lucerne county, pennsylvania. like saginaw county, michigan. these are trump-based voters, former democrats and went with a republican, took a gamble. and now they are seeing -- they may not care about russia but they are seeing an administration that is troubled and cannot advance on key agenda points. >> martha: that's the problem. people want to see big things done. that's what they were promised. they were promised that the swa

chris stirewalt breaks it down. grab a partner, it's time to dance.in for kennedy.

. >> leland: here with more, chris stirewalt, fox news politic editor of the halftime report. great to see you here this morning. >> you keep saying it, i'm just not. >> leland: there we go. is it possible for this meeting to live up to the hype that it is getting? >> i mean, yes and no. for people who understand how this stuff goes, we know, you and i know, viewers at home now, these meetings are all part of the orchestra or the ballet of international relations, the reason that we have a g20, in fact, is of the leaders of large countries, have a space for them to get together, talk to each other, as john roberts called it a mixer for the heads of state. they can talk to each other in a way that sets the frame for peaceful trade, avoidance of warts, all of these things that we like. this is part of the normal course of diplomacy, but if you are living in an alternate reality where if you believe is happening in the world right now is what russia has staged a silent coup against the united states and that donald trump is a vassal of vladimir putin, then you are watching every

the biggest moments from the rally, the big news today and some of the headlines for tomorrow, chris stirewaltward kurtz. first, to "the washington post" story that says among other things, oh officials say sessions is due to announce in coming days a number of criminal leak investigations based on his accounts of sensitive intelligence information. one of the things, chris, that the president has been calling for. >> if there's anything you think that would get donald trump off of jeff sessions' back, it would be saying, you always talk about the leaks. here's some illegality and were going to prosecute, move on it. talking to republicans today, i don't get the sense there is anything no matter how plum a piece of prize fruit sessions puts out in front of trump, is anything that's going to get him off his back. i think he hates the guy. >> bret: are reporting says he doesn't have any plans to step aside and that he still going to continue to do his job, even in the light of beleaguered, weak, and everything else he's tweeted. >> jeff sessions getting a lot of support from conservatives and re

. >> harris: chris stirewalt is the editor of halftime report. chris, great to see you.are on the precipice of seeing the other side of congress. we saw it with the house friday afternoon. are they going to vote to debate to go forward with the bill? it's deja vu all over again. signs may be of positivity. you're hearing some of the senators say we're talking, we're listening. that's movement. >> the argument here is all we have to do is take this one politically damaging vote and then on the other side of this, we will get into a space where we can start amending the bill an making deals. all of the training and all of the back room stuff, all of that sausage making that people hate. but that's the part that actually works to get legislation passed in the senate. once they agree they were not going to repeal obamacare, then basically the house came to that conclusion first. now the senate has had to come to the painful collusion for republicans. that's never going to happen. the president just wants something to sign and he wants something that will prevent the explosio

joining us, "digital politics"* editor chris stirewalt is with us.me of the information about mrs. sanders, and i thought maybe she is a hopeless optimist and when she was trying to secure that giant bank loan from a and the dire sees, she thought donors love the college so much maybe at some point they would pony up. chris: maybe she did, but the case is important enough there is enough there there. the f.b.i. doesn't go off half cocked bringing charges against a sitting senator's spouse. there is obviously. >> significant stuff here. so far sanders himself hasn't wanted to deal with it. he has shunned questions and has been able to dojt issue. but it looks like he's going to have to belly up. kennedy: the lawyer who brought forth the complaint, bernie sanders say his complaint is worthless because he was the state campaign manager for the donald trump presidential campaign. those things aren't mutually exclusive and mrs. sanders may have violated the law. but one of the things the complaint states is senator sanders was bullying banks and using the

this is what chris stirewalt said earlier on "america's newsroom" ." >> it's an important point for thetration. there is no there, they are in one fell swoop, we have the death of the talking point that number one, and we also have that donald trump, jr., and other people in the orbit of the president, that they go forward and make statements that were untrue and did not correct them. this is badly hurt the credibility of the administration. >> leland: you just a side little bit. >> i like chris, but the fact of the matter is this is a firestorm within the newsroom. it's not a firestorm for the american people. the administration and its legitimacy is not affected here. this has been going on over and over. the biggest news on earth and that it's really not that big at all. this keeps happening, this is not new at all. every new revelation is supposed to be a big deal and it ends up not being. i think this is a little bit of hysteria gone haywire. >> leland: do agree with that? whether it's worth it or not and terms of the hysteria, it detracts from the coverage of what you talked about

chris stirewalt, i don't know if we have the sound, brian of chris stirewalt.be the chief of the staff. which is if people just want to blow past you and kind of go in and have have meetings with the president and they are not really on that calendar and not on the agenda and able to come out of those meetings and not relay what they discussed with the white house chief of staff, then it keeps that chief of staff isolated. abby: you know what though, clayton, i think a lot of it depends on the dynamic. i think we have kellyanne conway if we can bring in, if you haven't been listening about our conversation about the dynamic between the chief of staff, now john kelly and president trump. you were talking about this last night about being a peer and how you can't treat him like a peer but you look at somebody like john kelly and you look at his resume and sort of this man that's going to come in and hopefully get some things in order. talk to us about the dynamic the two of them will have? he had the ability, to clayton's point, to have more control of things to

chris stirewalt helping us with that in washington, d.c. one of the allegations he makes is that the russians are trying to get him to sign a deal that he was guilty of stealing 23 million dollars. he got out. others along the trail did not and what he is about to tell these lawmakers. >> shannon: he has called out a lot of people in washington who have enabled this whole thing to happen and do some public shout-outs to those folks under oath today. we'll see, stand by. president trump's new communications director not pulling punchs on leaks in the white house. >> there are hold overs and we have to move quickly. >> shannon: how many heads have to roll inside the administration to get the leaks to stop? the options facing the president, plus this. >> why would the attorney general of the united states tell the f.b.i. director of the united states go tell the american people something that is not true. last time i checked he wasn't director of the federal bureau of matters, but the federal bureau of investigation. >> bill: jim jordan turns

>> well i think the best reference i can offer you right now, trish, comes from chris stirewalt's newsletter"halftime report." if you haven't subscribed. excellent. he called this a very seriously weak sauce. i will say it is seriously weak sauce on big nothing burger. this isn't the new slogan for the democratic party. this was a silly fund-raising email you know subscribers the opportunity to choose from several options of what the new slogan should be. obviously this option was incredibly tone deaf stupid. should call into question who are the vendors we're using as party coming up with these terrible ideas. trish: i tell you what the problem is. everyone in the party has been there already. you're talking about nancy pelosi leading this party forward. frankly she is the not future. if i were her looking to cultivate young up and comers, generate new ideas. >> exactly. trish: glad you agree with me. >> pablo we agree. >> we agree. trish: have you seen the other guys? that is not a campaign slogan in your view, ned ryan will not work no matter what. >> not exactly on the level of give me l

chris stirewalt, fox news politics are, editor, and howard kurtz, fox news media analyst and host of media buzz. welcome to all three of you. lots happened on friday. let me just turn to you, chris. what you want to take first or? >> did administration has been trying to turn the page, and as you and john were just discussing it's very hard to turn the page when midway through the crinkle you have a news story that lands on top of that one. you can see scaramucci today trying to put the best face forward, say it's going to be a clean break, new chapter, but even in the midst of doing that in real time you have a microcosm of the story for the trump administration every time they are trying get a new start the new think traps on their head. >> martha: molly, look at what we've learned over the past couple of days, looks like there is a leak fest going on again. in terms of what's coming from perhaps the mueller's camp. now we learn that jeff sessions conversations with sergey kislyak maven more substantial. may be the campaign, but there was an intercept, and then you have the pushback

the biggest moments from the rally, the big news today and some of the headlines for tomorrow, chris stirewalt, howard kurtz. first, to "the washington post" story that says among other things, oh officials say sessions is due to announce in coming days a number of criminal leak investigations based on his accounts of sensitive intelligence information. one of the things, chris, that the president has been calling for. >> if there's anything you think that would get donald trump off of jeff sessions' back, it would be saying, you always talk about the leaks. here's some illegality and were going to prosecute, move on it. talking to republicans today, i don't get the sense there is anything no matter how plum a piece of prize fruit sessions puts out in front of trump, is anything that's going to get him off his back. i think he hates the guy. >> bret: are reporting says he doesn't have any plans to step aside and that he still going to continue to do his job, even in the light of beleaguered, weak, and everything else he's tweeted. >> jeff sessions getting a lot of support from conservatives an

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now we have chris stirewalt, mollie hemingway, and richard fowler, a national syndicated radio talk showt, and both of them are fox news contributors. first, i have to ask you, when he went to journalism school, at what point did you find out that intimidating your sources was a good idea? >> i don't want to -- i don't want to say something too unkind, but journalism school is substantially a bad idea. >> dana: [laughs] >> especially as compared to the more important thing, which is to start when you are young and from work hard and figure it out and make a lot of mistakes, hopefully before you get to the national level. >> dana: intimidating resource is probably not within that learning pattern. >> because you learned early on that when you choose and are given permission to protect the identity of a source, that is a big deal, and you were supposed to have a good reason for doing it, and it is not on the basis of good behavior. >> dana: who are they to decide, mollie? they get to decide if he has good behavior and they are going to basically hold his name hostage in case he steps out o

fox news politics editor, chris stirewalt. ed henry. washington correspondent, james rosen. they are all standing by.

we're joined by foxnewspolitics.com editor chris stirewalt. e. i want your value judgment. can he do it? >> he certainly can. there may be no one better suited in washington, d.c. today to do the job, not just because president trump has extreme deference for military for generals, for military leaders, also the fact that kelly is a person who over course of his career, much brought him in and around washington as person who is esteemed, deeply esteemed, in a bipartisan fashion, holds respect of members of congress but certainly carries with him, his experience in afghanistan. this is a man who, whose family gave a child, gave his son in the war in afghanistan. this is a guy who gets it and he is, if the president will let him, if the president will allow him to succeed is a guy set to succeed. stuart: the president wants a new start in relationship with congress and members of his cabinet getting things done. i have to ask you about tax cuts. you into -- knew this was coming. listen to former reagan economist art laffer. he was on this show ea

chris stirewalt here. chris, good morning to you. you have the pictures of the pump, yet the images, and you had a lot of handshakes. >> yes. and a great choice. a great choice for trump to accept the invitation. it was a good look and not just the optics, not just the lavish sprays of color and diplomacy and history and all that stuff, but a good look for trump as part of the community of nations and to step into for the first time that we are starting to see as the leader of the west. you start to be able to imagine donald trump stepping into the role of the real leader of the west. in the meantime, the beat goes on whether it's russia or health care. >> bill: this onrush of krauthammer wright says. it turned out to be incompetent collusion, amateur collusion, comically failed collusion that does not raise the fact that the trump campaign officials were ready to play and they announce later collaborate more fruitfully. we don't know. if nothing else is found, the evidence is to back to damning back. is it? >> is not what a lot of d

. >> sandra: for more now it's fox news editor chris stirewalt. good morning to you and happy friday. you got the friday suit on. let's talk about that "new york times" interview briefly. that really changed everything. there was a hopeful message to start the week, white house rolling out it's a made in america effort, and then everything changed with the interview. the messaging changed, the media headlines changed. look at where we are today compared to monday morning. >> let me put even a little finer point on that brush, which is you have the health care legislation, republicans have a sweep of cuts to obamacare that they want to pass in order to pay for it so that they can pay for it next year and prop up the problems for next year. it looked like it was dead. everybody said it was over and they failed, and then the president had the meeting with the senators and got them around and really sold the law and acted like he cared about it, said that were not just going to pass something but said specific things about the legislation. he looked f

stirewalt joins us now. always great to see you, chris. thank you for joining us. this week x if so, is it just procedural to agree to debate? what's going to happen? >> i just wish i knew -- i think they're going to vote, i just wish i knew what the heck they were voting on. ashley: right. >> and i think that actually may be the idea. i think the idea here that mitch mcconnell and his team have is that there's a saying in politics which is that you want to treat people like mushrooms, which is to say you keep them in the dark and you cover them with manure. [laughter] ashley: yes. >> i think that's what's happened for a lot of republicans in the senate which is they're not sure what's going to come up this week. they don't know whether they're voting on the mcconnell plan, the amended mcconnell plan, the repeal and the place. there's enough uncertainty here that i think mcconnell hopes he can create some movement right at the end with the element of surprise. ashley: but, chris, how can that be when day after day, hour by hour we're all just screaming at the repub

. >>> joinings now, foxnewspolitics.com editor chris stirewalt.ood thing for haven't all passage of health care or bad thing? >> depends on whether or not somebody has a good idea. more time is bad for this bill as currently constituted. think about it this way the very fact absence of one senator halts any discussion or progress on the bill, that tells you, reminds every other senator this thing is hanging by one vote, and has been all along. they can only afford two defects. they already have the two defects all likelihood. the question, can you innovate? can you use this time to change the debate, change the discussion because if they keep grinding out the same points they will find out they don't have the votes in the end. stuart: as a d.c. kind of insider, hope you don't mind me calling you that? >> i know you mean it with love. stuart: as a d.c. insider do you have any idea if there is, if there are new ideas for health care reform? >> well the big question is basically this. can moderates be, i say this with love, bribed. is the money that

joining us now, fox news politics editor chris stirewalt. i think i've got this right.form, give it to congress this month and say vote on it now. what's the chances of that happening? >> well, people in hell want ice water, i suppose. people want a lot of stuff. that ain't gonna happen. they're gagging on health care right now. right now congress is in realtime failing on health care, and they know it. they can't get there. they don't have the votes. we're waiting for scores, we're waiting for all stuff. you can say -- or the president can say i want a tax plan. i want an infrastructure plan. i want all these things. when you -- as calvin coolidge said, when you don't know what to do, do the work that's in front of you. and the work that's in front of congress is trying to get this health care bill done. stuart: so in your estimation, there's not going to be an august recess. there is no way on god's green earth that lawmakers can go away when they haven't completedded health care reform or tax reform. >> well -- [laughter] i mean, if they stay and don't do anything --

>> here to weigh in is fox news politics editor chris stirewalt. they are in terms of winning elections. they've got a lot of work to do, and what their platform is, what they stand for, and then something like this comes down and you are thinking is that really going to get people to polls? >> i mean it will get some people to the polls. it will get people in those districts that are safely democratic to the polls. probably the best hope for them on this is that the president would notice that they are doing it and that he would comment on it or engage in it in some way or that his supporters would comment on it or engage in it, give it attention. if they could get that and reinforce the notion that the president is mentally unwell, they are never going to successfully remove him from office this way. >> people go to the polls and they vote because of an agenda, because of policy, because of things that will hopefully make their life better. you look at some of the bills that have been put on their desk to pass, sanctuary cities, and we have calcu