. >> alice paul was instrumental getting women to vote, equal rights amendment. why is it important for students like the two of you to be involved in this fight for women's rights? >> so i think because we are the next jen of people who are going to be voting and making changes that we want to see, it's important for us to be aware for what we're fighting for, and what we need to be fighting for, and they have been an adversary for what they call ordinary every day, and being aware what this is is important for us. >> absolutely. i definitely see see the ramification is the step in the right direction. we are so april privileged to be americans, but in third world countries, issues going on beyond our capacity to think including jegender inequality, d they pushed me in the direction to act globally, and this is a step to get the country to help other countries as well as our own towards gender e equality. >> questions or concerns about the country, we like meeting the two of you. we appreciate your candor and how bright you are, and how engaged you are. the alic

well tonight it was a great night to be outdoors and a great night to celebrate at the alice paul equality new jersey i emceed with south jersey magazine mary he'll, we had a great time an great group was there honorees those who capture the spirit of alice paul and the belief that everyone should have equal rights. we congratulate all the nominees and the girls advisory council who were involved. wonderful young ladies from high schools all around the south jersey area. fun night, guys. we'll zen it over to you, sean. >>> kathy, the phillies in action today and you'll see why they're not quite ready for opening day. plus the flyers trying to close that gap in the play off race. see if they can come a little closer or if their chans just slipped away. that's coming up next in sports. ♪ >>> only ten games left in the flyers season and they have a whole lot of teams to jump. only one team out of here can actually get into the playoffs. eight points back. so i say it's not actually happening. they need a hope and a prayer if they want slide into the eighth seed. steve mason ripped this team f

washington-based journalist alice paul stein -- alstein writing this freudian slip from donald trump.nd another journalist, jim roberts writing that angela merkel must love listening to donald trump talk about obamacare and domestic politics and his beefs with the media. and alex george writing in summary, reporters asking angela merkel important questions about trade and asking donald trump if he regrets his ridiculous tweets. everything is fine. and alex posting this picture of the two leaders meeting, the tweet, the woman destroying the west with the man who wants to save it. two other news, the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says his country is ready to take a tougher stance on north korea and it could include military action. he is on his first official trip to asia and he visited the border between the two koreas, greeting troops. and north korean soldiers looked on. the visit comes among heightened tensions following the missile tests from north korea last week. mr. tillerson: let me be clear. the policy of patients has ended. we are exploring a new age of diplomatic sec

we have alice stewart, republican strategist, former communications director for ted cruz, and dan pfiefer is here, former senior adviser to president obama. nice to have you both as we await paullet me just ask you, what do you make of the confidence nunes is not exactly instilling in people by not answering these questions, very direct questions that he could have answered to manu? and he says, no, no, no, you already asked that, why are you asking so many questions? go back and look at your transcripts. that is not being transparent. >> no. and i will say this, he has done the manu tango for many miles throughout the halls of congress. >> the manu tango, i like that. >> when you know manu's waiting, that's what it is. he has answered a lot of questions, but now it's where the rubber meets the road. and when you have democrats such as nancy pelosi and schiff and castro saying that he's compromising the investigation, time to step aside. but in addition to that, we also have republicans lindsey graham and john mccain say that this is too much of a distraction, this is disrupting the house, and they're saying it's time for him to recuse himself. that is a time when you need to

. >> it would be of alice and wonderland quality if this administration were to sanction him to investigate himself. >> reporter: but house speaker paul ryan rejected calls for an independent investigation. >> if there really is nothing there on the whole russia issue, why not just allow a special prosecutor to investigate -- >> first of all, we don't have that law remember at the end of the day we have to have protect our intelligence assets. we do not want to compromise our sources and our methods of getting intelligence from any adversary let alone russia. >> reporter: and on capitol hill fbi director james comey was making the rounds including a private briefing with the house intelligence committee. but after that briefing, democrats were not happy, including the top democrat on the committee, adam schiff who said that comey was not forthcoming on a lot of key details and now schiff calling for an independent prosecutor to go after this issue of possible russia connections with the trump campaign associates. but the question is will republicans go along with that. we're not getting any indication that is going to happen as of yet

. >> it would have of alice and wonder land quality if this administration were to sanction him to investigate himself. >> reporter: but house speaker paul ryan rejected call for an independent investigation. >> if there really is nothing there, there on the whole russia issue, why not just allow a special prosecutor to investigate -- >> first of all, we don't have that law because remember at the end of the day we have to protect our intelligence assets. we do not want to compromise our sources and our methods of getting intelligence from any adversary let alone russia. >> reporter: now, wolf, the fbi inquiry into russia comes as the house intelligence committee and senate intelligence committee are conducting separate inquiries as well. the house intelligence committee meeting today with fbi director james comey. and after that briefing, the top democrat on that committee adam schiff came out and was krilt cal of james comey for not being forthcoming about a number of details and now schiff, too, joining those calls for an independent prosecutor but something right now the republicans are not agreeing to. wolf? >> manu, we heard sessio