bush, ari fleischer is here. i'm glad you're here. a lot of good news, bad news, hard news. >> ari: typical day. >> harris: we will work through it. the mayor of new york city is calling today's explosion and attempted terror attack. here's a picture of the alleged bomber. the image was released by the nypd. he's reportedly 27 years old, was curing a crude pipe bomb. he apparently was battling injured, burned in the incident. three innocent people also hurt. state officials are saying this could've been much, much, much worse. >> this mail was wearing an improvised low tech explosive attached to his body. he intentionally detonated that device. pick up the device is based on a pipe bomb. it was effects to this person with a combination of velcro zip ties. >> this is new york, the reality is that we are the target by many would like to make a statement against democracy him against freedom. we have the statue of liberty in our harbor and that makes us an international target. >> harris: live outside the port authority bus terminal in ne

. >> harris: we got ari fleischer talking about the tweeting in a moment. i caught a little bit of news on the reagan national defense forum this weekend, i was watching you moderate. we have the video of this. i know you asked mike pompeo about this, i want to get your response. >> we deliver him a set of things he needs to know that happened overnight, a set of things we are thinking it's important for him to know, if he's got someone coming to visit we need to make sure he is fully briefed on. so we can begin to plan our intelligent lay down for the months and years ahead. he asks a lot of hard questions. >> when you hear the stories or see these stories, that he is not with it or that he is totally checked out -- what do you think? >> it's absurd. it is demonstrably false. >> harris: that's funny. >> it was a great event. there were things, the national security advisor saying how close we are to moving closer towards military action, pompeo say he sent a letter to the revolutionary guard and iran, saying if you go after or engage troops and continue wh

bush and fox news contributor ari fleischer. former deputy attorney general. we're learning more more about two members of, one i understand as part of the mueller team from another one was reassigned elsewhere but it's pretty interesting what's been revealed so far. the white house seems a little bit concerned or at least his pointing fingers, that this is evidence that this may not be fair. what do you think? >> it's really troubling me, shannon. i say that as someone who continues to defend by viewing the individual. i know him. i find them to be a boy scout, man of the utmost integrity who only wants to do the right thing. but he has a problem, and the fbi under chris wray has a problem. america can never doubt the integrity of the fbi. now we have reasons to do so. the fact that an fbi agent in charge of, one of the people in charge of the hillary investigation could be so biased, partisan. he's the one who interviewed cheryl mills and huma abedin and they gave him information that was contradicted by their emails and nothing happened to them. you have to

go back to 2001, ari fleischer, chimed in, former bush communication guy talking about the problems ofat brian ross did back in 2001 where he blamed saddam hussein for it. it turned out to be wrong. melissa: yeah. >> ari fleischer told him it was wrong at the time. >> irony of this of course, he ends up doing the opposite what appears that what he wants toç do, he gives a toward to the president, then raise and say fake news. because here are news reports come out in favor after left-wing point of view that were wrong and seems to fulfill what the president has said. >> this is second major and expensive reporting disaster abc has had this year. if you remember back a little ways, they had to settle back in summer the beef products lawsuit. that is the one where they took this amazing company, and raked it over the coals, and said that its product, its beef was "pink slime." they ended up settling out of court. bpi seems very happy. and since the amount that was potentially on the line for abc was $5.7 billion,. melissa: wow,. >> you figure that bpi probably got a good chunk of settle

charles: ari fleischer predicted white house aides would keep trump from tweeting.t didn't happen. >> people love it, especially the folks who support the president. but my biggest political prediction of failure was cnn and the economists who said the stock market would crash if donald trump were elected president, and, boy, were they wrong. charles: let me ask you, mark. 2018. there are a lot of things going on. do you have some predictions for us? >> the biggest prediction is the american people will see there is a benefit in tax reform. it will be the democrats, especially the 10 in the states that they have won. charles: vince, 2018? >> the mueller investigation will come to and cloo conclusion and it will come to the conclusion there was no collusion with the russians. but you could see a top democrat indicted by the very same mueller investigation. tammy: kind of a dovetail on the idea of mueller's investigation. with sessions bringing up new reviews of uranium one and the barack obama hezbollah dynamic, i think we'll see a new special counsel. while hillary

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ari fleischer who served in the george w. bush administration has an op-ed talking about the president's first year. too many flags in trump's first quarter, he says. to grade his performance in football termsen he deserves credit for moving the ball down the field over several different drives but he also committed so many unnecessary roughness penalties along with giving up one huge fumble that he may have to give up 200 yards to score one touchdown. -- ari fleischer goes on to say but often mr. trump runs himself too hot to handle. -- host: again, that's some of the comments from ari fleischer this morning when it comes to the president's year in office. we're asking you to give us the same. the president's first year and what you thought of that. games letter grade and tell us why. 202-748-8001 for republicans, 202-748-8000 for democrats and independents, 202-748-8002. the president himself touting his own economic gains in this year while he's on -- while he's in florida making a visit to first responders there. "politic

we're joint with ari fleischer, former press secretary and emily susman, a democratic strategist. emily, great to have you on. what is your sense about the errors that we've been talking about? we had the tweet that went out of the empty stadium. we have the brian ross report from abc. he's suspended. obviously cnn has had multiple errors. is this just all random mistakes or is there an agenda here? >> i think the media is trying to get it right. i also say i'm happy to be your democrat on here, laura. >> laura: thank you. love it. >> the media is trying to get it right. there is more to the speed. there's not even a 24 hour news cycle right now. every outlet wants to break the story. the trump and russia connection, every outlet wants to be the one that broke. there's enough that puts enough between collusion -- >> laura: really? >> we don't know if it's criminal or not. >> laura: and ari, you can speak to this on the russia issue. we know campaigns have had contacts with russians. hillary's campaign did. barack obama -- people are reaching out to russian counter parts. the quest

ari fleischer said during the iraq war he claimed saddam hussein was the one who sent anthrax to washingtonreviously. he has a habit of doing this and he should know better because he has journalism credentials. >> jesse: speaking of the emmy ross won, maybe he should get the fake news award. up next, more fallout from the outrageous kate steinle verdict. another day of work. why do you do it? it's not just a pay check, you actually like what you do. even love it. and today, you can do things you never could before. ♪ ♪ you're developing ai applications on the cloud. finding insights hidden in decades of medical documents. and securing millions of iot sensors. so get back to it. and do the best work of your life. ♪ ♪ and do the best work of your life. what if we could keep more amof what we earn?d. trillions of dollars going back to taxpayers. who could possibly be against that? well, the national debt is $20 trillion. as we keep adding to it, guess who pays the bill? him. and her. and her. congress, we should grow the economy. not the debt. ♪ that was just a'ight for me. yo, checi mean,t d

ari fleischer wrote this. "the tax cuts just enacted prove president trump and the republicans can govern. next up could be immigration reform. a major infrastructure package and perhaps welfare reform being tough and hitting opponents is part of the political gain. the lesson of the first quarter is that avoiding penalties is just as important. mr. trump is capable of scoring more points. it won't happen if he doesn't show more mental discipline on the field." the title of that piece, "too many flags in trump's first quarter." does that analogy, that football analo analogy, work for you, kevin? >> it does. ari is spot on there. the opposition to donald trump has note been largely his agenda. his agenda is fairly mainstream. conservative mostly agenda. the opposition to him is just a hatred for him that is not all his doing, but there are some simple things that he could do to make it better. that would be to go back to the play he ran at the end of the 2016 campaign where he stopped tweeting for three weeks.

>> kennedy: thank you so much to ari fleischer, we are back tomorrow at noon eastern. we are ready to go to harris faulkner and the power seat. >> harris: a pipe bomb detonated in a new york city subway passage between times square and the port authority bus terminal. one of the busiest transit hubs in the world during the morning rush hour today. that explosion injured three people and the suspected bomber and caused commuter chaos, filling the passageway with smoke, while it was crowded with morning commuters and sent many running for the exits as you may imagine. authorities say the suspect as of 27-year-old bangladeshi man who had an explosive device strapped to his body and may have set off that device by accident. a photo from the scene posted to twitter shows a bearded man crumbled on the ground -- crumpled on the ground, i should say, his shirt apparently blown off and the police officer holding a man's hands behind his back. while acknowledging this could have been much worse, new yorkers must not bow down to terror. >> if the reality turns out better than the

. >> i want to ask you, i thought it was interesting that ari fleischer tweeted this. you remember he was the white house spokesperson under president bush. he said ed gillespie ost. roy moore lost. the lesson, a base only potus isn't enough for the gop to win. d's hate trump more than r's love him. potus needs to improve his approval rating. bob, how many times have people on this program and other programs and political commentators and strategists, how many times have they said the exact same thing, yet this administration and president doesn't seem to listen, he goes back to the base, he needs that ego boost. >> i mean, we do have to think also they haven't gotten much done legislatively, they don't have a big bill win they didn't get health care done opinion i think they're going to get a tax bill cut done. is that going to get him to 50%. the white house has to think, let's get to 50%. on bannon, i think, how is he going to raise money after this massive loss, i think a lot of republican incumbents who were nervous about bannon a couple days ago, they're not so

what do you make of ari fleischer's comment? >> he has more freedom to take on something now dividing democrats, and that is there was not a recognition that all issues of harassment are equal. what senator al franken did is not the same as what harvey weinstein did, as what others who were forced out of their jobs did. when you talk about equivalency there are issues. our society recognizes the difference between going 20 miles over the speed limit and something far more serious. you don't have to take away the seriousness of what senator franken did, but i think you need to since we do in everything else in life when it comes to making these judgments recognize that what he's accused of is not as egregious as some of the other mortally gross, lewd and sickening acts that some of the accused did. this is what i am talking about at large in these -- in this post weinstein era. >> interesting to see a democrat saying that about a democrat saying he should not have resigned. i will say what they got in his lack of an apology yeste

. >> ari fleischer had an interesting tweet he just posted. i will read it. franken should not have resigned. his fate should have been left to the people of minnesota. moore who had sexual contact with a 14-year-old should dropout. conyers should have resigned. franken is a creep who acted inappropriately, but his facts are different. >> as a new landscape he likely did take one for the people, but his conduct is being judged as inappropriate and unacceptable. he made the case that it was the people of minnesota that he could no longer properly serve and he was saying it is up to minnesota and not the democratic party and my colleagues in the chamber. i see that i can no longer serve them. >> there is more to discuss, but donald trump jr.'s refusal to discuss about his father after reports about the infamous trump tower meeting back in june of 2016. adam schiff is the cop democrat and he said donald trump jr. cited attorney-client privilege. >> here invoked the privilege and we made it clear at least on our side of the aisle we didn't think it was a recogniz

ari fleischer tweeted this, he was the white house spokesperson under president bush. he said, establishment candidate ed gillespie lost, roy moore lost. the lesson, a base only potus isn't enough to win. potus needs to increase his approval rating or democrat turnout will kill republicans in 2018. how many times have political commentators said the exact same thing but yet this administration and this president doesn't seem to listen? he keeps going back to the base, because he needs those cheerleaders, and that ego boost? >> well, i mean, we do have to think also that they haven't gotten much done legislatively. they don't have a big bill win. they didn't get health care done. they haven't gotten transportation done. i think they're going to get this tax cut done, but is that going to get him to 50%? no. i think the white house has to think let's get to 50%. on bannon, how is he going to raise money after this massive loss? i think a lot of republican incumbents who are up for re-election who are nervous about bannon a couple of days ago, they're not so nervous anymo

this is ari fleischer, the former press secretary.hould have been left to the people of minnesota. moore who had sexual contact with a 14-year-old should drop out. conyers who hit on employees should have resigned. franken is a creep who acted improperly but his facts are different. go. do you agree with that? >> i basically agree with that. but i think what the democrats did today was a brilliant move of political jiu-jitsu. they have become the party of family values. which is quite an amazing feat. >> so glad you said that. because on the way home yesterday i was listening to the competition and they were talking about democrats now. and it's flipped. >> it's unbelievable. >> right. >> the democrats are cleaning house and the republicans are becoming the party of it's acceptable to molest and hit on 14 and 16-year-old girls. now obviously one of those is a winning political strategy and the democrats have it. >> you think that is, you think the democrats have the winning strategy? >> in terms of long-term 100%. but the problem is t

ari fleischer, former white house press secretary to george w.h tweeted, quote, franken should not have resigned. his fate should have been left to the people of minnesota. moore, who had sexual contact with a 14-year-old should drop out. conyers, who hit on his employees, should have resigned. franken is a creep who acted inappropriately, but his facts are different. here's more reaction from republican senator bill cassidy and other conservatives as well. >> sad the way it's all played out. there is certainly no due process for him, but a little nervous when people are brought down by in some case anonymous, on the other hand obviously there was credibility on their side. and they pressured him out. not much more to say on that. >> all of these nice people, none of whom have given back the money that they raised from harvey -- >> weinstein. >> weinstein. none of whom who have repudiated hillary and bill clinton. suddenly moral outrage create a lynch mob. what you saw today was a lynch mob. let's not have due process, let's not ask anybody any q

mccurry, the former white house press saeshth after bill clinton, and i'm thinking of all of them, ari fleischer, joe lockhart, i mean, even dana perino, was there a friendly adversarial relationship. now the friendly is gone. there are more adversarial relations in that room than there is friendly. >> hang on, because i want to go back. i am listening to both of you, when the first couple of questions and this was felt so personal because the questions out of the gate were about her boss and they were about these women who came forward today who are all calling for this congressional investigation and when you heard sarah sanders and we heard that they believe that these women are lying and that, you know, denying all of the allegations, but brian, she was referring to eyewitnesses. >> yes. >> eyewitnesses that come forward. do we know who these eyewitnesses are? who she referred to? >> we've asked. >> who are they? >> that would be a great question to have answered that we haven't had answered. more importantly, what we'd like to do is to see some equivalence. the american public would like to

ari fleischer sees a problem when the integrity is questioned.the problem why why are questioning it. >> america can never doubt the integrity of the fbi. but now we have legitimate reasons to do. so the fact that an fbi agent in charge -- one of the people in charge of the hillary investigation could be so biased, could be so partisan and he also is the one who interviewed cheryl mills and huma abedin and they gave him information that was contradicted by their emails and nothing happened to them. you really do have to scratch your head and wonder what's going on below the mueller level. it ♪ healthy for the country if legitimate questions are raised and are not answered. the fbi and bob mueller need to assure the american people that this is being done with inning to gri at this. brian: there are more questions, too. this guy andrew weismann. sally yates came out and said yeah i'm going to get that travel ban in place. i'm concerned about terror laden nations that don't have proper paperwork to come here. he rolled out a hastily prepared docume

brian: i agree with ari fleischer's tweet. regardless if it is true or not it is damaging.is damaging to the country, bus the secretary of state looks diminished. for the secretary of state not to have a full strong, portfolio representing administration is problematic, especially with north korea simmering. steve: you heard kellyanne's take on verdict in kate steinle case. our next guest dedicated her life to helping families that lost loved ones to illegals. why she said americans deserve better coming up. ainsley: he was "gq" citizen of the year. colin kaepernick is given a new award by "sports illustrated." don't be fooled. why it is just a new way to attack president trump. ♪ i can breathe again! i can breathe again! vicks sinex... breathe on. ♪ but it might be hard to handle ♪ ♪ like the flame that burns the candle ♪ ♪ the candle feeds the flame ♪ topped steak & twisted potatoes at applebee's. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. ainsley: back with fox news alert. kate steinle's accused killer, illegal immigrant deported five times, found not guilty of murder.

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