melissa: thank you, bob cusack, doug schoen. >> thank you. d: that last word was from a democrat, for the record. >> an american patriot. david: american patriot. right on, doug. we love both you guys. you're the best. >>> a massive selloff going on wall street. will it continue? this the is worst week for the dow in nine years. what you need before the opening bell on monday. ♪ melissa: the president arriving at joint base andrews. the president an first lady will depart shortly for palm beach, florida. david: i bet he is glad to get out of that beltway swamp today. dow tumbling 665 points, more than 2 1/2%. this is the biggest drop since "brexit" in june of 2016. now for the week, the dow lost more than 1095 points, the worst point decline since october 2008. let's go back to nicole at the stock exchange. of course, nicole, it is in light of this huge 7,000 point rise, so you have to put it in perspective. >> oh, sure. when you talk about the election, from the election we're up 37% roughly. we already had a great 2018. so the trend continue

doug schoen is with us now, he's a former clinton pollster -- >> that's right.ars ago. i wasn't involved, mercifully, in this scandal. stuart: does this sound like something that the clintons would be behind? >> no, the clintons aren't behind this. the russians are behind this, and that's the point in this story. look, the russians felt they could effectively launder $3 million through a public affairs firm in washington to influence the clinton foundation. there's no evidence that the influence itself they sought was achieved, but it is clear they had a plot and a plan, and i think that it merits further investigation. stuart: but the clinton -- the uranium deal was signed. >> it was. but the nexus that you're hypothesizing has not been shown or proved which is not to say we shouldn't ebbs mother what mr. campbell -- explore, what mr. camp dell, the source, has said, we shouldn't investigate, but so far we don't have evidence that the money that was paid by the russians to the clinton foundation influenced hillary's position on uranium one. stuart: the money we

doug schoen, former president clinton advisor, they are both fox news contributors. those are good snippets what went on in the past hour. you saw the president, number one having cameras in there, so you could really see the back and forth what was going on. and asking one side, okay, so you want stricter background checks. that seems reasonable. we need mental health. what do you want? what do you want? we get 6 on that republicans and democrats. to people like steve scalise, talking about conceal carry over state lines. you will not get 60. don't include it. we want to make this as big as possible. i don't know, doug, you've been in the game a long time. >> i have. melissa: that looked like a recipe to get something done. could this be something that helps everybody in the midterms, who participates? >> yes. but we're a long way, melissa, from getting things done and appearing to get things done. we had a similar discussion a couple weeks ago on immigration that sadly degenerated. i think we need presidential leadership to continue. i applaud the president saying

come in doug schoen, he's already down in miami trying to escape the high taxes of the northeast. s starting to criticize their own and, oh, my gosh, do we dare criticize nancy pelosi? >> well, i -- for the democrats' sake, i think the sooner nancy pelosi goes, the better the party will do. and i took her comments to be totally out of touch with ordinary people. keith ellison is no conservative. he's not even a moderate. but he understands in his middle class district, as do the other members who criticize pelosi, that to say that $1,000, $2,000 is crumbs is just completely out of touch and, frankly, just plain wrong. ashley: yeah. she's the gift that keeps on giving. she has lots of one-liners, doesn't she? vermont senator bernie sanders blaming hillary clinton for not doing enough to stopping russian interference with our election. your thoughts on that? >> well, i guess i have a couple of thoughts. first, i would blame i'm sure hillary because there were a number of years where the russians ramped up, i think they began in 2014, and one of the questions would be where was the st

adding to this is the memo mania sweeping washington doug schoen former advisor to president bill clinton and marc lotter former special assistant to president trump and former press secretary to vice president pence. good for both of you to be here this morning. thanks for being up with us. a lot of us were up last night watching that drama. doug, it was a wild one. here we are. it went to the president's desk. he has now signed it. where does that put us this morning? >> it puts us in a better place than we were yesterday night or yesterday morning. we got a bipartisan deal done. we've increased money for defense. it is certainly worrisome that the deficit is going to increase by a trillion dollars with this. but on the other hand, we're funding our needed priorities. we did it in a rare way with both parties cooperating. we didn't get daca done but i'm not one of those democrats who believe daca has to be part of anything. we still have until march 5th. sandra. i'm positive. this is a good development, notwithstanding the hard right and the hard left of both parties. >> sandra: marc, t

chris bedford editor of the daily caller news foundation and doug schoen fox news contributor. according to sources the edited version is the version that was shown to fisa f.b.i. officials on tuesday afternoon. chris, your thoughts. >> looks like there is another roadblock coming up right now to nunes releasing this memo. senator john thune saying hold on one second. i would like to senate intelligence committee to look at that. members of the gop and democrats in the u.s. senate haven't had a chance to review the document. nunes and the white house want to get it out. one of the things which may be somewhat misconstrued in a lot of this coverage donald trump doesn't need to do anything now to release this memo. all he has to do is wait because after the committee, the house intelligence committee already approved it after a five-day waiting period it comes out and goes public and at that point you will have to let the american people decide what they think. >> sandra: i want to bring you in here, doug, as we learn more about the president's plan. the f.b.i. officials were sat

stuart: also with us, former clinton pollster doug schoen who i will label as always a democrat. >> thank, stuart. stuart: you're welcome, my son, you're welcome. i have different opposing political opinions here. go to you first, doug. >> please. stuart: what changes to the gun laws would you make to address the specific problem of mentally-unstable people getting a gun? >> we have to tighten, strengthen, and reinforce our background checks, both at the federal level and at the state level. stuart, i don't think there is any reason anyone should be able to buy a military-style assault weapon in this country, period. stuart: hold on a second. >> i didn't say it was. i am saying what i would do. stuart: so how would you tighten the rules, background check to take account of mentally-unstable people? that is the question of this hour. >> there is the gun show loophole. stuart: no, that is separate story. i'm talking about background checks, the rules governing the background checks, which allow people to get a gun? >> as i understand the rules at gun shows that there are, is an exception fo