i spoke with ari fleischer. welcome. ari: thank you, howie. howie: when the "new york times" goats to donald trump, jr. and says we are about to publish your emails, and he releases them, what is the fallout from that? ari the newspapers and media have the obligation to go to the source. but if you then take that and preempt the media, next time the media needs something from you they will call you 10 seconds before they have to file their story, and that doesn't help you in the long term. howie: as a matter of white house damage control with the press, how damaging is it in the case of the president's son, his first white house statement says it's a meeting primarily about adoption. the second statement says we were told this russian lawyer has opo information about hillary clinton. and then we learn there was a russian counter intelligence officer there. ari: this is a classic case of how not to do it. bill clinton's white house taught everybody how to do it. when you have damaging news put it all out and do it on day one. the trump white ho

we continue now with ari fleischer, jeanine pirro.er hire me and that's a job, i'm not suited for it like you are. -- >> it is a fun job. >> sean: i do admire you guys, with wow, i felt bad for sean he got the crap beat out of him and he is a gracious guy. >> tough job, it's tougher when you do it for donald trump. he does not do things the traditional way. so you get squeezed when you are the press secretary. and sean has taken the high road. that is good to see. good for him and his family. i do have to point out that there is another thing that i think they read between the lines. it was increasingly clear that he was going to be a man without a portfolio. there was going to be a new press secretary, and what would sean be doing? that's what he was getting at when he was head if he was hired, you make these changes coming to rev up communications, i won't have a role, and it is confusing to have me around. i think that's what it ultimately came down to. >> sean: i was asking him if you have ever seen it this bad, and pat was talkin

we continue now with ari fleischer, jeanine pirro.'s a job, i'm not suited for it like you are. -- >> it is a fun job. >> sean: i do admire you guys, with wow, i felt bad for sean he got the crap beat out of him and he is a gracious guy. >> tough job, it's tougher when you do it for donald trump. he does not do things the traditional way. so you get squeezed when you are the press secretary. and sean has taken the high road. that is good to see. good for him and his family. i do have to point out that there is another thing that i think they read between the lines. it was increasingly clear that he was going to be a man without a portfolio. there was going to be a new press secretary, and what would sean be doing? that's what he was getting at when he was head if he was hired, you make these changes coming to rev up communications, i won't have a role, and it is confusing to have me around. i think that's what it ultimately came down to. >> sean: i was asking him if you have ever seen it this bad, and pat was talking about it, i've se

let's go back to ari fleischer on the phone.ou just heard confirmation of sean spicer, he has resigned an order to make room for a new appointment and that is anthony scaramucci-esque munication director. what do you make of what you're hearing coming out of the white house right now >> he's quoted as saying scaramucci would be a terrible choice. sean had no choice but to leave. they have to get along hand in glove, then to see things eye to eye, otherwise there are cross purposes. there's something else going on here and that's the president's comfort zone. he's brought on anthony scaramucci because he wants comfort. he is a finance guy, he does not have background and communications strategies. he's effective on tv, but he's been brought in -- i have questions still about the white house's ability to manage communications issues. >> harris: this is harris, good to talk to you. there were some among the staff in the inner circle of the president who weren't so sure about scaramucci as as a communications director because next o

and republicans to the same lobbyist who met with donald trump, jr., jay secular, larry elder, ari fleischer, patrick buchanan and dr. sebastian gorka all here on this a busy friday breaking news addition of "hannity," also an investigation into what is real collusion between democrats and the media that they are not telling you about, that this time it's very monologue. there are several reports about the meeting donald trump had with his russian lawyer in 2016, reporting the man has ties to russian intelligenct although he denies it. this comes as the hill is breaking another major story tonight about who donald trump, jr., met with and how they are tied to the democrats, that's right, the democrats. according to the hill, this russian lobbying effort has ties to three russian businessmen and the lobbying a team included a former democratic congressman and a former government officia official. the report also details how these pro-russian lobbyists including one of the people who met with donald trump, jr., also try to meet with democrat and republican members of congress. in other words a

bush and newly minted fox news contributor, ari fleischer and he is outnumbered. welcome back and congratulations. welcome to the family. it's always good to see you and so much developing. should we get right to it? let's jump right in beginning with that. donald trump junior releasing the email chain that suggested he knew russia wanted to help his father get elected. a short while ago, trump junior releasing a statement saying, to everyone an order to be totally transparent, i'm releasing the entire email chain of my emails. the information and suggested they had about hillary clinton that i was political opposition research and as we have said, she had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the magnitsky act. catherine herridge georgia from washington with the very latest. this is changing minute by minute. >> that's right, developing within the last hour. donald trump junior releasing these records and so far, a review has identified key sections about the proposed meeting. the emails were sent by a british journalist with the

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among our guest ari fleischer. fred barnes, and retired four-star general jack keane. >>> a good lineup, back to markets on close, dow in red, third day in row, investors waiting for a round of earnings report, we're on earnings stand by now. a statement from federal reserve on wednesday. so nicole on the floor of new york stock exchange. the nasdaq making roars again, a big part of the story. >> right. so we'll start with a record, people like to celebrate records, and new highs. that is what we saw for the nasdaq, we're seeing a new closing high here for the nasdaq, but also the 50th record close since the election, nasdaq doing great. a lot of tech names with it. also hitting high, amazon hit highest left ever 1043 today, we'll hear from amazon later thursday. we hear from facebook this week. web md a big mover, over 20% moving to a new high, because of kkrmoving forward with their takeover talk $2 .8 byion, every -- billion, everyone loves web md it has been a big mover. and hasbro came under serious pressure,

even ari fleischer should be televised, not in real time. play later. know what is going on here, which is sean spicer and president ultimately believe there is too much grandstanding in front of the cameras but they never quite admitted all but getting rid of televised briefings. day-to-day. meanwhile there hasn't been one in quite some time. i think more should be on tv i think they help the administration get message out. as well as reporters should be seen in the 21st century asking questions of the president's spokesman. melissa: they help other administrations get message out. with this group, it hasn't worked out that way. they're deflecting incoming what is going on. i'm not saying whose fault there are incoming volleys. in the past it would help get their message out but that hasn't been the case. even though we may not like it has been a smart move over past 13 days. >> welcome to the nlf. part of having a white house to take tough questions. if reporters are unfairly beating up on administration's spokesman the audience can see that. these we

there was a lot of respect, even though that wasn't always the same politics, was summerlike ari fleischerh administration. there was not as much for scott mcclellan who came next and he turned out not to be great and then turned on president george w bush. but the last press secretary had committed snow, was a lovely man. he had the same deft george w bush out of getting along with people, even people absolutely opposed to this policy is would like with him in person and want to work with him in person and want to work with him. what does anthony scaramucci bring to the role? he certainly brings the president's trust, and the trust of ivanka trump and jared kushner who reached out to him to assure him about getting the comedic asian is a rector role despite the fact that chief of staff writes previous and steve bannon we re writes previous and steve bannon were not in favour, because he does not have this traditional public relations experience. reportedly he was supposed to have a job with the trump administration much earlier cos of his early support. he headed a part of the transition

ari fleischer said maybe it's time. you think it's a good idea, too.epublican governors want the things that you say the swamp is preventing from happening. >> i'm not saying you -- brian: republican vs. republican. >> let's say they do go ahead and somehow figure out a way to pass this bill, right? cbo has already told us premiums are going to rise for people over 50, low income going through 2018, the election. how in the world and then come down. how in the world are did you going to go to the voting booth in 2018 and hold the house, which you need to hold with premiums rising than obamacare? ainsley: this thing is out. it's dead. >> good. ainsley: they are saying they are going to repeal it do they repeal itsy bitsy pieces of it, because then you only need 50 votes if it effects revenue. you need 60 votes to repeal the entire thing. brian: republicans look like dopes if they. >> they do. they already look like dopes. it's their only option. it's better than the alternative of passing a bill that's going to ruin the lives of americans and they are g

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conference to take a question when the reporter who was essentially an ally of the white house, ari fleischerord straight tweeting care to guess how many questions i took from reporters who went on to join the obama white house, and this radio reporter, this conservative radio host chimed in saying over 2 dozen journalists went on to work in the obama white house including the former white house spokesman. colin kaepernick if you look at how many questions conservative outlets got under obama it wasn't many. heather: by that logic with every news conference the last eight years, fake news, also chiming in on this blackmail scandal or controversy. that bullying, intimidating citizens -- slamming nbc, he said cnn -- the market anything sensational, nbc holds my dear. the president talked about nbc yesterday when he was in poland saying the network must have forgotten how much money he made them off of the apprentice. rob: the apprentice was all they had, terrible programming. everybody remembers this picture warranting a -- heather: reports circulated that the secret service questioned kathy gr

there was a lot of respect, even though there was not always the same politics with someone like ari fleischerr scott mcclellan, who came next, ben heaton out not to be great. he turned on president george w bush, but the last press secretary he had, tony snow, a lovely man. he had that same gift that george w bush had of getting along with people, even people who absolutely opposed to his policies, would very much like him in person and would wa nt to much like him in person and would want to work with him. so what does anthony scaramucci potentially bring to the role? he certainly brings the president's trust, and the trust of a bunker and jarrett, who apparently we re a bunker and jarrett, who apparently were pushing for him and reached out to him about getting the communications director role. —— the trust of ivanka trump and jared kushner. reince priebus and steve allen apparently were not in favour putting him into that role because he does not have the traditional public relations experience. reportedly he was supposed to have a job in the trump administration much earlier because of hi

that brings us to ari fleischer, press secretary under george w.rump administration at new offense of approach will push policy in the right direction. >> jared had a very good day, and effective pushback and he did it well. >> the president went on the often send focus on policy and i hope that is the beginning of something new, a relentless policy focus driven by the president. the republican strongest hand is policy, donald trump and republicans were elected to build a wall, repeal and replace obamacare, fix the economy, increase wages for struggling americans. if they do that the sky is the limit for donald trump and the republicans. >> all eyes on the senate floor where in a few hours the vote to repeal obamacare will take place. >> as donald trump turns up the pressure on republican holdouts and john mccain, the toughest guy in the country announcing his return to washington being diagnosed with brain cancer flying in to cast what could be a deciding vote. >> hope he will be okay. in washington dc ahead of the big showdown. >> you are right.

be talking about people on capitol hill testifying regarding who unmasked all those names and ari fleischerge w. bush dropping by. senator james langford talking about healthcare. they are starting over for the most part. the guy who runs the interior department and and colder in the news because she has a problem on delta airlines. we talk about the trouble in the sky and the news of the day, a busy 3 hours, 121/2 minutes from now on the channel you trust for your morning news. dad: flash drives? yup. that's dad taking care of business. laptop setup? yup. but who takes care of dad? office depot, office max. this week, all hp ink, buy one get one 30% off. ♪ taking care of business if you could book a flight, buy one get one 30% off. then add a hotel, or car, or activity in one place and save, where would you go? ♪ expedia. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to f

you have people like ari fleischer saying this is a case where everybody is looking for information butou don't take information from a russian government that is our adversary. we don't know. we do know that a couple days later, donald trump himself is saying russia, if you can get hillary clinton's emails, we would love it. >> greg: that was a joke. >> juan: this is no isolated event at this point. there is no longer the ability to say oh, there's no evidence of collusion. this is evidence of collusion. let me finish. we have a pattern now. we have a pattern of an inner circle holding meetings tied to people associated with russian president vladimir putin. >> kimberly: he also said that's not true. >> juan: you are having a case of amnesia. >> greg: collusion requires a two-way street. cooperation. if listening is collusion, then no journalist could ever write a story. if someone calls you and you are doing opposition research, you will go. you sit down and go i'm doing this as a favor to some publicist. it's interesting to think the russians would use a u.k. publisher for this. that

bush and newly minted fox news contributor, ari fleischer and he is outnumbered.d congratulations. welcome to the family. it's always good to see you and so much developing.

and republicans to the same lobbyist who met with donald trump, jr., jay secular, larry elder, ari fleischerastian gorka all here on this a busy friday breaking news addition of "hannity," also an investigation into what is real collusion between democrats and the media that they are not telling you about, that this time it's very monologue.

ari fleischer is a former secretary serving under president bush, and a brand-new contributor. we have worked together on different spots, "outnumbered," welcome to the fox family. >> it's great to be near it, and thank you. >> harris: officially, because you have been here for bed. on "outnumbered" a couple weeks ago, i threw some shade. you wouldn't take a break if you're working on a roof is mike it rained on. that is like health care republicans and democrats need to get done before they leave for august recess. >> i get it. this is a big list, even though they have been promising forever. the margins are tight. fundamentally, these 52 republican senators cannot look each other in the eye, figure it out and get it done, why are they there? they were elected to do the heavy lifting. not appropriation bills. you have a robot or machine do that. this is the core of republicanism. repeal and replace obamacare and tax reform. they have to do the big jobs. >> harris: and politically speaking, they flipped it. they flipped the switch on democrats. primarily on this issue. this nat

what about people like ari fleischer who said, you want opposition research, but you are not from thean government. >> eric: another one. he hasn't been exactly approachable. >> the republican party is largely behind donald trump, eric brady >> eric: nonpartisan the answer this question. if what donald trump, jr., did could be construed as collusion or what not, want every single congressman be under the same accusatory veil as donald trump junior? they all meet with russians. all of them. >> they should meet with russians but they are not running a campaign! he was a central actor in his father's campaign and he responds to an email that says, here's information intended to interfere in the campaign provided by the russian government, come to the meeting, and he brings the campaign chai chair. >> eboni: we will take a very quick break. we have a lot more to say. we will be right back. ♪ whoooo. i enjoy the fresher things in life. fresh towels. fresh soaps. and of course, tripadvisor's freshest, lowest prices. so if you're anything like me... ...you'll want to check tripadvisor. we no

>>> ari fleischer was telling me the media lost all of it is credibility. might have just seen the proof after this. ♪ growing up, we were german. we danced in a german dance group. i wore lederhosen. when i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasn't finding all of these germans in my tree. i decided to have my dna tested through ancestry dna. the big surprise was we're not german at all. 52% of my dna comes from scotland and ireland. so, i traded in my lederhosen for a kilt. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. get started for free at ancestry.com. >> the problem now anything russia the press runs to scandal. my problem the watergate comparison, enron comparison, everything is a scandal comparison. one of the reasons the president lost credibility with the american people, everything is a scandal. neil: they're brought up on that, you're right there is no comparison yet, dismissed by administration, later on to come to find there is more there there. >> we found the press overreacted and there was less there there. neil: ari f

we have press secretary ari fleischer on that. good to have you. >> great to be here.s. >> neil: what do you make of that maybe this donald trump jr. thing, we're nowhere near that, i grant you, but you've seen the obsession and the coverage, that this is the start of it. donald trump has got to be careful. >> donald trump jr. that i would have done differently on the interview, he walked up to the line and said there are things i would have done differently. all he had to say, on this one, the critics were right and i shouldn't have taken the meeting. that would have had a different impact. that's the right answer, too. >> neil: didn't he say -- >> he said looking back, i would have done things differently, which is different from saying the critics were right. saying it overtly and that's the best way to feel. that's the right thing. i do believe that when a foreign government, particularly the russians, the chinese, the north koreans on the iranians say we can help you win an election, your answer is no. i think it's true if any nation, canada or anybody. those four

the read from fox news contributor, ari fleischer. i remember so many administrations trying to crack down on this sort of thing with mixed results. this has been a particular problem for president trump. now there's a new sheriff handling the things for them in the communications department. what do you expect of this strategy? >> well, he's 100% right. the leaks are debilitating and terrible. you pick up the newspaper and read who said what in the oval office. i can't imagine a time when i ever turned on my colleague and revealed publicly what they said to the president in the oval office. happens regularly in this administration. anthony's prom is going to be, i don't think the leaks are coming from the communications staff. they're probably coming from other corners of the white house. is he going to fire jared, ivanka, rice, the national security adviser? >> neil: you're making the assumption the leaks are coming from those people. are you using them as an example? >> using them as examples. my point here is the communications st

ari fleischer had some tweets i want to get your impression of, he said, i never minded a good fighth the press. it is part of our democracy, but this goes too far. some think it is funny, i think it is in poor taste. the reason the president does it, it is because the president made themselves so unpopular, it is a fight that the president actually wins with much of country. that's the part i want to ask you about, very quickly. again. is there any soul searching to be done from the press about what does he mean we made ourselves so unpopular? what are we doing that is making us have such low approval ratings with the public. >> there has been soul searching, there should be more soul searching, patly self- lpae self-inflick ee eed wounds, but has to do with politicians like president trump telling people not to trust the media. we could do a better job telling our own story and telling how it is real and not fake news. >> the rupert murdoch wall street journal, he did not attack that specifically. so the president, you know, interesting where he decides to pick his fights. >> great

what about people like ari fleischer who said, you want opposition research, but you are not from thenother one. he hasn't been exactly approachable. >> the republican party is largely behind donald trump, eric brady >> eric: nonpartisan the answer this question. if what donald trump, jr., did could be construed as collusion or what not, want every single congressman be under the same accusatory veil as donald trump junior? they all meet with russians. all of them. >> they should meet with russians but they are not running a campaign! he was a central actor in his father's campaign and he responds to an email that says, here's information intended to interfere in the campaign provided by the russian government, come to the meeting, and he brings the campaign chai chair. >> eboni: we will take a very quick break. we have a lot more to say. we will be right back. ♪ work up a sweat during the day. not at night. only tempur-breeze® mattresses use an integrated system of technologies to keep you cool while you sleep. ultra-breathable support layers channel heat away from your body. purecoo

i thought ari fleischer made a point where -- may have been today. he said some of these revelations don't look like they are nefarious. they may be examples of misjudgments and on the part of people that are new to politics. in hindsight, the flames can be fanned and look to be made more nefarious than the intent at the time. so i think similar point relates to -- i think a good example of what i'm talking about is with jeff sessions. there were accusations that he covered up meetings with the russians. those meetings were innocent arranged for him by others. one was a passing meeting where many other people were present. its true that he didn't declare it and make it a big deal and felt he had to recuse himself from anything to do with russian. all these intricate details in the end, what do they add up to? do they add up to a standing argument that the president of the u.s.a. is a russian agent? that's what they're trying to say. i don't think anybody believes that. that's not to say there were mistakes and misjudgments along the course of this. >

i was speaking with ari fleischer from the bush administration. he said busyh had never -- he on abush had never been trip before and not had one press conference. at the very least, we needed access to senior administration officials, and we were not really getting that at all. so i wrote a story about the fact the president had not done a press conference and that we were not getting access that the administration usually give to a traveling press corps, and the press office took exception to that and asked the white house correspondent association to put out a statement disproving my story, saying it is not true and they are getting enough access. the white house correspondent association's number one goal is to get more access for us. so they would not going to record with that. they were in a lot of talks with the administration during the entire foreign trip. i do not think they were happy to not have access to the president during that time. there are administration officials on the record. that they think they have the right to ask an inde

about it, if a white house historically has gotten a message they need to correct, they say hey ari fleischerver the press secretary is go out and fix it instead he does it himself. that is the magic of twitter. >> is he much more efficient. i respect that he cuts out the middle man. in some ways he is not that modern. i actually think in some ways is he very much like winston churchill. he came from a very wealthy family. winston churchill did not have a enter perfect life. he colored outside the lines in a lot of way. he had a very salty tongue. it took me a while to get used to president trump's salty tongue. winston churchill gave all kinds of insults. they are legendary. we should have side by side winston hunc churchill's insults and donald trump's tweets we would see similarities. steve: next up o a picture of ivanka trump taking trump's chair. can't knock down faith. the support for this damaged 10 commandments monument. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed

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