billionaire democrat tom stiers throwing his clinical weight and more portly potential we all his money behind senator dianne feinstein's primary challenger kevin daly on. consider more progressive, the state senate president appointed an illegal immigrant to unofficial government tote. president trump facing criticism over tweet criticizing california's governor. "soooo many sanctuary areas want out of this ridiculous, crime infested and breeding concept. infested and breeding concept." one political analyst calling him a racist. talking about sanctuary cities as documents were -- there is a racial undertone in the comment. tonight's panel, fox news contributor leslie marshall. radio host larry o'connor.

financial support from tom stier, nancy pelosi is careful with her language. >> whether or not the president should be impeached as a matter that is being dealt with in the justice department. i don't know that they are going to impeachment but whether they have the facts of the law to make a determination of how they go forward, we don't have that

. >> reporter: one of 30 spots on stier's nationwide tour. >> trying to go to as many different places including red states. >> this is the first tame i saw anybody really putting out a call to discuss this issue which is very important to me. >> reporter: stier is funding the effort with his own money. >> i think we said we were going to spend $20 million, and i don't know how far we passed that. >> this feels a little bit like testing the waters are you going to run? >> what i have said and what is true is that i think that 2018 is going to end up being the critical year and we don't know what is going to happen this year. >> this is aerfect place to start from. and why hide that. this is where you start with a good base. >> reporter: the q and a session lasted an our and a half. for more on the tour go to abc7news.com. in oakland. katie utehs. >>> tonight two heroes get a big thank you from a man who likely wouldn't be here today if it weren't for their brave actions. >>> a nationwide school violence hoax we told you about takes a strange turn. >>> how you can welcome the newest mem

asking if this campaign was the beginning of >> reporter: one of 30 spots on stier's nationwide tour. >> trying to go to as many different places including red states. >> this is the first tame i saw anybody really putting out a call to discuss this issue which is very important to me. >> reporter: stier is funding the effort with his own money. >> i think we said we were going to spend $20 million, and i don't know how far we passed that. >> this feels a little bit like testing the waters are you going to run? >> what i have said and what is true is that i think that 2018 is going to end up being the critical year and we don't know what is going to happen this year. >> this is a perfect place to start from. and why hide that. this is where you start with a good base. >> reporter: the q and a session lasted an our and a half. for more on the tour go to abc7news.com. in oakland. katie utehs. >>> tonight two heroes get a big thank you from a man who likely wouldn't be here today if it weren't for their brave actions. >>> a nationwide school violence hoax we told you about takes a strang

. >> some liberals are using it to fire up the base with billionaire activist tom stier pledging $40illion toward impeachment. >> he can go into a rage. how bad doesn't have to get before congress does something? >> even though she welcomed the financial support from tom stier, nancy pelosi is careful with her language. >> whether or not the president should be impeached as a matter that is being dealt with in the justice department. i don't know that they are going to impeachment but whether they have the facts of the law to make a determination of how they go forward, we don't have that information. >> liberal columnist from "the new york times" notes america abhors impeachment and warrants it's quite possible trying to impeach and remove trump could have the opposite effect than the one desired. it could boost rather than diminish his popularity and an acquittal by the senate would leave an even more popular president in office. the president has used the threat from california congressman maxine waters to fire up his supporters. >> we will impeach him. we will impeach the preside

it is tom stier.ake a listen. >> i know it's up to us to do something. >> tom stier, the california businessman. best known for his ad campaign to impeach president trump. drew attention this week for the influence he's managed to shore up. the daily priest preclaiming steyer's campaign building him a political death star. his campaign has an e-mail bank that is 5 million supporters strong. he joins me now. i want to talk about your impeachment campaign but i got to ask you about this. honestly this potential trade standoff at this point or war with china. the president tweeted, i want to share this, we talked about it in the commercial, trade wars are good, they're easy to win. easy to win? he's going after aluminum and steel. even though aluminum/steel is laughable for china. if you want to go after internet, intellectual property, forms of artificial intelligence. now china's coming back at us and the president hasn't said anything. >> if you look back in history, stephanie, every big war starting

. >>> billionaire democratic mega donor tom stier was at a town hall meeting calling for the impeachment of president trump. hundreds of people in the crowd ate him a standing ovation when he walked in the room. he spent $20 million for an ad campaign collected 5 million signatures calling for the president's impeachment. the russia investigation has not reached a conclusion. he said there is already evidence to show the president obstructed justice.>>> impeachment is not about putting somebody in jail. it is about removing them from office. nixon never went to jail. he never would have gone to jail. he would have been a private citizen.>>> the meeting in oakland is the first of 30 town halls he has scheduled across the country.>>> the deadline set by trump for u.s. response to last weekend for suspected chemical attack in syria has come and gone with no action from the military. the white house said a missile strike is not the only option on the table. defense secretary james madison said the u.s. is still awaiting confirmation chemical weapons were used in the attack that killed dozens

. >> tom stier once to use this, sign my petition for impeachment but also give me your personal informationi can use -- for a narrow group of democrats it is in their personal interest to talk about the subject. you are hearing, republicans are fundraising on it, talking about it and talking about it because they -- the president's voters were not sure, trump only people who are traditional republicans, voted for trump in quadrennial, would they show up? if you can scare them into thinking the president is going to get impeached, you can get some donations. shannon: a third of the democratic caucus did vote to move ahead so there are some who want to support it. let's talk about the midterms a few times. shannon: making the rounds, james comey revealing all the focus about the shelves. will he change his tune about telling all the congress? byron york asking the question, joins us next live. dray, when he was younger, he loved to smile; and we knew he would need braces because his teeth were coming in funny. that's when he had the bunny rabbits. we called him the bunny rabbit. now, those ar

. >> peter: tom stier has been running ads, millions of dollars, saying we need to impeach.to resist that base? >> kimberly: it is fool's gold. knock it off. alerts. this is a fox news alert. controversy today surrounding president trump's pick to lead the department of veterans affairs. senate delaying confirmation hearings for rear admiral ronny jackson over allegations of improper conduct at various points in his career. fox news has obtained exclusive new developments and we go to john roberts. >> good afternoon. getting from a source some reports and counseling records related to dr. ronny jackson that were signed by president trump and also once signed by president obama with commentary. president obama writing "ronnie's positive impact cannot be overstated. he's a tremendous asset to the entire white house team. the level of performance and responsibility far exceeds his current rank. promote to rear admiral now." this would be seven years ago. this was dated 2016. "ronnie does a great job. genuine enthusiasm. incredible work ethic. he continues to inspire confidence

. >>> >>> billionaire and democratic donor tom stier hosted a town hall in oakland calling for the the impeachment of trump. the hundreds of people gave a standing ovation when he walked into the room. $20 million of his own money into an ad campaign. he has collected 5 million signatures calling for impeachment plan the investigation has not reached conclusion. he argues there is already evidence to show the president obstructed justice.>>> impeachment is not about putting somebody in jail. it is about removing them from office. richard nixon never went to jail. he just would have been a private citizen which is what he became. >>> tonight's meeting the first of 30 town halls that he has scheduled across the country.>>> rhetoric escalating between the u.s. and russia over serious nicole attack on civilians. today trump tweeted russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria. get ready russia because they will be coming. nice and new and smart. you should not be partners with a gas killing animal who kills his people and enjoys it. fox news john robert tells us some are q

.>>> tom stier billionaire mega donor call for impeachment of president trump. hundreds of people in the crowd gave him a standing ovation when he came into the room. he has spent $20 million of his own money in an ad campaign calling for the impeachment of the president. the initiative has collected 5 million signatures while the rush investigation has not concluded yet he argues is already evidence to show the president obstructed justice. >> impeachment is actually not about putting someone in jail. it's about removing them from office. richard nixon never went to jail and he never would have gone to jail. he would've just been a private citizen which is what he became. the meeting in oakland is the first of 30 town hall meetings that has scheduled around the country. >>> in about an hour the senate foreign relations committee is holding a confirmation hearing for the current cia director, mike on pale to become the new secretary of state. he is expected to face questions ranging from syria, russia, china. he's a former republican congressman from kansas. he

stiers says the president has ab instructed justice and abused the pardon power. the meeting begins at 7:30 at impact oakland. >>> we have another unbelievable example of the smoking hot housing market in the south bay. get this. home values are rising by $800 every day in san jose. the numbers from the online company zillow. the value of a san jose home goes up by $798 daily. home values in san francisco are next in line, increasing $481 a day. how about oakland? every day homes there rise in value by $309. >>> you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. i didn't do the math to see how much the houses were going up in seven minutes. let's talk about temperatures and how they're up to 12 degrees cooler this morning. in the north bay, clear lake at 41. followed by santa rosa and guerneville at 42. seb baft bill at 43. 45 in napa. american canyon with vallejo and san rafael the warmer spots. alameda at 53. lafayette 48. same thing at redwood city and tracy at about 47. if you're going to be out today during the afternoon and evening hours

democracy alliances a group of rich democratic donors, billionaires george soros and tom stier are donorsot that far from now, reparations could be a top item on the democratic agenda. the former communications director for harry reid, the senate majority leader of nevada. he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: i like the story. it allows us to have an honest conversation about what this wouldd mean, reparations. by the way, i'm open minded as i am about all things. how would it work? would immigrants, a lot of immigrants in this country, newly arrived from mexico, have to pay for reparations? >> let's take a step back if we are going to have an honest conversation and talk about how we are not anti-god, we aren't for eliminating the borders. we do see gender. so i think a lot of the things that -- you are creating a stereotype, doing a great job of using -- >> tucker: i appreciate -- [laughter] i don't know if if you are a nightly viewer of this show but i think we prove all that night tonight but i encourage you to watch. let's get to this, rep

. >> nina has tom stier to thanks for this as well. some of the folks that are the wealthiest liberal donors in the democratic party are spending money out there promoting that idea of impeachment. >> i know we don't want to compare donors now, do we? we don't want to talk about the mercers and the -- let's not go down that road. >> i'm stating the facts, but i -- >> stating the facts too. >> i think as much as the big risk for democrats here it is not only about the base politics, many soft trump voters would see this as a potentially as like a soft coup against a dually elected president. >> you can't do this to our delta pledges, only we can do that to our pledges. >> all the voters should be animated because the congress and the president, they should be about the people's business and cut out all of this foolishness. >> nina turner, kevin madden, thank you so much for being with us, i appreciate it. >> good to be with you. >>> this morning, social media giant facebook telling 87 million users their information was part of a massiv

donald trump rallying up the base, keep me protected from impeachment, or democratic candidate or tom stierr with television ads saying let's impeach donald trump, the vast playing field here for battle of control of the house is a bit more with folks in the middle and they're not necessarily wanting to be immersed in an impeachment drama. >> the new york times has interesting reporting that brings you into the room at the dinner with the president, with mitch mcconnell, with the white house legislative affairs director mark short, on them pleading with the president, warning the president about the danger of losing the house and the senate and the president saying, i don't buy it. what does that tell you? >> it tells me this political novice won the white house by sort of following his gut and i think that you see that again here. he's less interested. he's been getting briefings for months now from republican leaders about the history involved here, how precarious it is for a president, any president in their first midterm election two years into their presidency, more so for a president

billionaire democrat tom stiers throwing his clinical weight and more portly potential we all his money primary challenger kevin daly on. consider more progressive, the state senate president appointed an illegal immigrant to unofficial government tote. president trump facing criticism over tweet criticizing california's governor. "soooo many sanctuary areas want out of this ridiculous, crime infested and breeding concept. infested and breeding concept." one political analyst calling him a racist. talking about sanctuary cities as documents were -- there is a racial undertone in the comment. tonight's panel, fox news contributor leslie marshall. radio host larry o'connor. kurt schlichter, senior columnist at townhall.com. they are in separate studios. there will be no physical altercations. great to see you. i want to start with something the aclu had to say about this breeding concept thing that the president tweeted. no matter how loud the dog whistles, remember that border crossings are near an all-time low and border communities are militarized and deploying troops for a manufacture

talked the state of the government and an initiative he's really been pushing for months now, tom stier mission to impeach the president. >> he's leading a national movement to build momentum for the impeachment of president trump. he believes the president is uniquely unfit for office. >> take a listen to what he had to say among many thing, including your money, money, money. >> i think that he's naive because he is assuming that he can command and control other countries. i don't see this as very different from his statement that we're going to build this great wall, and the mexicans are going to pay for it. >> remember, he did say that. >> it was like, are you kidding? now he's insulting another country then assuming that he can control them and order them to do our bidding. it's exact same thing with china. when i look at his tax bill, when i look at this trade behavior, i sit there and think, wow, this is stuff that in the medium term is going to be devastating for the american economy, but in the short run, it's going to give us a boost of adrenaline. the fact of the matter is we

you see tom stier out there doing impeachment rallies. hoping that this becomes a central issue in the midterms for this year because i don't think it'll play well for the democrats because it will energize the republican base. and let's not forget, midterms are about the base. if this energizes the base, i think republicans keep the house. >> you think they do that in spite of what history says, ned? i mean, the expectation would be they're going to take the house, the democrats. >> i do, and partly because i'm looking at these congressional generic polls. you look at the recent abc/"washington post," the generic poll, only shows democrats up by four points. more importantly, republicans had a six-point advantage over democrats in the likely to vote category. what should be troubling to democrats is voters under 30 were saying that they're less than 40% likely to vote, and there was a massive gap in enthusiasm between the white vote, the black vote, and the hispanic vote. if republicans make this about a visceral issue, whether it's impe

. >> tom stier wants to run for president in 2020 and he wants to use this thing, sign my petition for me all your personal information so that i can then use you. >> shannon: it's very facebooky. >> barry facebooky. for a very narrow group of democrats, it is in their personal interest. but it's in the interest of a lot of republicans. now what you are hearing, they are absorbing it and blowing it back, their horrible cans or fund-raising on, impeach impeach. they are talking about it because they know it it will motivate the presidents voters who were not yet sure that what republicans call trump only, people that aren't traditional republicans but voted for trump in the quadrennial, will they show up? if you can scare them into thinking that, unlikely as it might look, that the president will get impeached, then maybe you can get some donations but get into the polls, too. >> shannon: in january, a third of the democratic caucus in the house did vote to move ahead. there are some out there who want to support it. we'll see what happens. let's talk about the midterms a few more times

. >> i talked to tom stier, the other day, a democrats who funded a $20 million national ad campaign on congress to impeach the president. do you think democrats in the midterms should -- excuse me -- should run on the idea of impeaching the president or could that end up backfiring? >> no, i don't think democrats should run on the idea of impeaching the president. and frankly, i don't think so from a -- it would not be the right thing to do. we have to see what the evidence is first, we have to have a lot more information before such an act would be justified. the other thing, once we are in control, if we are in control, god willing, i think the first thing that we would do, we'd want to be to get as much information as possible out to the american people what the findings, if they've been released to us of the special counsel are, and other investigations because ultimately, whether you're going to impeach the president or not, the american people are going to have to be satisfied that you've made the right judgment and that you've made it for the right patriotic reasons, not for