former gw bush press secretary ari fleischer is coming up.witter "after the bell," vote on what you think the most important top i can tonight should be. >> we're really excited about talking about our successes of the first year, but even more so we'll accomplish over the next seven years. you know what they say about the early bird... he gets the best deal on the perfect hotel by using tripadvisor! that's because tripadvisor lets you start your trip on the right foot... by comparing prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. saving you up to 30%! you'll be bathing in savings! tripadvisor. check the latest reviews and lowest prices. melissa: here is another look where the stocks ended the day at the tonight's state of the union address. the dow fell over a little 1% seeing first back-to-back loss this is year. of all major averages they are still on track for their best month in years. so there you go. david: got to keep that in mind. >>> a history-making moment. president trump set to make his fi

let's bring in former white house press secretary ari fleischer, great day to have you along, your time matches my dress. what should the white house to? they can't dodge this, they got to take this. what do they do? >> all you can do is say what the president says, you have to reframe the issue and bring it back to the fundamentals of the agreement they are trying to get and work toward the agreement and try to look through what the president said. that will only work for about one minute and the rest of the briefing will be the press banging on the president. >> harris: you saw the end of the mlk proclamation, how much does it help to have purdue and others come out and say we didn't remember hearing it that way but this was the discussion? >> harris, i'm a little more focused on what does this mean for the president and for getting an agreement to build the wall and change immigration. and protect the dreamers which is what i would like to see happen, all of the above and here is my take on it. donald trump is probably the only person who can get an immigration agreement. his predece

ari fleischer, expert medications. steve wynn, a genius at building things and making things. >> be very careful with the use of the term wise guy. >> understood. ollie north, aaron dershowitz professor of law and my law professor. it's great to have you here and great have this opportunity to talk about things that matter to the american people. let's start with all that i ever want to talk about, this country, this republic. what lincoln called the last best hold of her. he said we should. [inaudible] how are we doing? how does our republic fair. look at it historically and in terms of the future and in terms of what you do. how is america doing. >> i think we are doing fabulously well. the reason i say that is because america's greatest strength is we are a self-correcting democracy and always have been. we handle our differences politically. we handle them through the ballot box. think about the turmoil that's taken place and the founding days of the civil war to the 60s. through some of the violence that took plac

i wonder what ari fleischer has to say about that?ent from what he said in the news conference a month ago when he got asked that question and gave the answer the lawyers wanted which is we'll see. then sarah sanders the press secretary said he would meet with mueller. now the president himself has put it on the record. look, this is inevitable, sandra. we've seen these investigations before. special counsels talk to everybody. it's what they do and they get to the top of the pyramid and the ball is in bob mueller's court and becomes the key, huge moment. the conduct of foreign policy in this nation that we get this investigation behind us or know if there is something serious that needs to be adjudicated somehow. it is hindering america's ability to have a foreign policy with russia, whether you like it or not, that this executive donald trump wants to pursue. the investigation is messing that up. i look forward to this coming to an end and frankly i do think -- i've said it regularly. mueller is the right man to lead this investigat

>> jon: former white house press secretary ari fleischer on the special counsel invest into the trump campaign and russia and a partisan face-off in the house intelligence committee's meeting. democrats are denouncing the majority's handling of the report and threatening to issue their own minority report. joining us now georgia congressman doug collins vice chair of the house republican conference and serves on the judiciary committee. ari fleischer in the sound bite was talking about collusion and there have been a lot of headlines about collusion. the question is there any evidence? >> well, what we've seen is not at this point. what he says is very true. let the investigation go. if somebody did something wrong we've always said those should be held accountable. at this point in time what we're finding out is more concerns about the way the f.b.i. has handled not only the investigation leading up with the clinton side of the house and emails that leads into collusion which nothing has been shown. the frustration here is what are we actually going for? the president has an agenda t

. >> sean: here with reaction, fox news contributor ari fleischer and from a "the hill," contra is with the media tonight, let's start about the president's comments about immigration from countries, your reaction, and the media's reaction to it? >> unforced error by the president? he has his great economic message that the steps on. if you watch the other cable news network's, this is wall-to-wall. the thing is, the selective outrage -- >> sean: the same people thattle don't cover anything about what we are discussing come of the dossier those people? the overpaid people? >> selective outrage in this case, sean, is fascinating to me. this is the same person might donald trump has been publicly for 40 years. this is how he speaks. he'sit inelegant. he is unfiltered. but what people like about him so much is that he's authentic, warts and all. even when he says things like this, i followed this on social media, i don't think one trump supported drums to the other side because of this comment. they come to expect these things. i don't agree with him, but this is who he is. >> sean: did li

when we come back, sean spicer, ari fleischer, they weigh in on today's big blockbuster top stories. >> ♪ ♪ >> sean: back for the top story tonight, the house intelligence committee voting to release the classified memo thanks to a lot a view to eating out, call your congressman, saying, release the memo. following the vote, democrats and members of media immediately began condemning the move. they don't want to see the memo and they don't want you to see the memo.. speak. >> the republicans declared war today in the national security unclassified information. >> we've never had a situation in which the congress has moved into a criminal investigation. they'vees turned it into a political circus and that is exactly what is going on here. >> it looks a lot like watergat watergate. it also has branches of the salem watch trials and you threw on the mccarthy hearings and i think we've got one crisis about to happen here. >> sean: joining us now, former white house press secretary for president trump, sean spicer and former white house press secretary for president george w. bush, fox new

talking ari fleischer earlier this morning, he was very quick to point out the american peopl people, headlines everywhere right now and it's interesting and it's fallacious and people are tuned in and listening. but it doesn't affect them when it comes to their passbook and their family. ari fleischer was saying when the republicans huddle at camp david this weekend, they have got to get together and figure out a way to the conversation and this president has got to focus on what he's winning. >> harris: can they do that is the big question. just with the books they gives if michael wolff went to the white house and did not make it clear when he sat down with the president of the united states that this was journalism, that he was interviewing for publication or book or whatever, that sounds like an ambush. >> kennedy: no, this is a writer who had actually written a piece about the president that the president liked and therefore granted in access and michael wolff was originally going to write an article. if a journalist is going to take the raw material that he or she has in turn i

here now is ari fleischer, press secretary under george w. bush and fox news contributor.ar to you, always good to see you. >> happy new year. >> sandra: what do you make of "the new york times" offering up this new explanation behind all of this? >> the amount of ink that has spilled on collusion with no evidence of collusion is staggering. i understand -- and if anybody in the trump campaign did engage in collusion with russia to hack the dnc or john podesta's emails, they deserve whatever is coming to them. but we see no evidence that anybody did that so instead you just are getting this giant wave of story after story about why is the fbi investigating trump and the reasons keep changing. i think it's because they're such a desperation to attach the word collusion to trump, that anonymous sources just get passed on to the front page even if they contradict previous "new york times." >> sandra: to dig a little bit further in the national review piece, andrew mccarthy writes on "the new york times" report on papadopoulos "now with the page foundation of the collusion nar

let's bring in ari fleischer, former white house press secretary to president george w. bush and a fox news contributor. let's start with the latest tweets first from the president. is he suggesting that that the fisa act may have been invoked or may have been used in spying on his campaign. but then he seemed to back away from it. what is he doing to this very complicated vote that's in the house right now? >> yeah, looks like it's a good day to take him seriously but not literally. if you are a lawmaker and you have to vote on the specific provisions of this fisa legislation pending, the president threw a curve ball at you. not helpful in the legislative process. but the broader point the president is making about fisa and about collusion and obviously it's hot on his mind, the president has merit when he talks about why the fbi investigating this in the beginning and the unmasking that took place i think still does remain objectionable. not a legislative issue. a personal issue. >> jon: he also tweeted well, let's go way back to yesterday morning when he put out this

bush ari fleischer told politico president trump has to be normal.e is entering the must get things done part of his presidency in a big part of that can be driven by a state of the union speech that's normal and gets bipartisan support if he remains a president that solely represents his base, it will severely limit his ability to get anything done in congress if he gives a unifying speech and talk about things that elevate us, not divide us, he has a chance to move voters into his camp. the entire time i was talking, guy benson was shaking his head. it was at my? >> guy: you are enunciating every thing perfectly as usual and i think the council from ari fleischer is wise and correct but i am sorry, one speech even if it's a grand slam tomorrow night is not going to change the dynamics in washington, d.c. he's not going to become a unifying president because of one speech. people are speculating maybe he can help republicans for their chances in november with a good speech. i don't think he couldn't help republicans in mid-february because by the ti

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before we do that ari fleischer is standing by live.et your thought on this immigration thing is going to play out for days, maybe weeks and for a long time after that. do you believe given the position of the far left in america whether or not the democratic party is willing or wanting to give this white house an its president a victory on anything? what do you think about that possibility? >> no, they definitely do not want to give the president the victory and that's the problem, that's one of the squeezes that the democrat party is under. the democrats deserve scrutiny, too. there is a split. 10 democrats in state that donald trump won who don't want to shut down the government to allow daca to get amnesty. they're in a different position from the base of the democratic party. they would like to see an agreement reach. the base in the democratic party does not. >> bill: do you see that position changing? when you think about dick durbin from last week and think about this back and forth, is there anything that can bridge that divide

we are also bring in ari fleischer: ari, you were commenting on this last night.as irredeemable deplorable human being that clings to god my bible and i believe in the second amendment and my religion. a lot of things are said in politics but what do you make of the conflicting views? how do you -- where do you come down on it? >> well, here's where i come down, sean. i believe in addition, i believe in being inclusive. i believe in welcoming people in this country and we should get the votes of hispanics, earnings from, doesn't matter who you are. their ideas are the best and can help lift you up. if you are hispanic or african-american and hear the president talk like that you wonder if the president cares about you. that's the problem words like that from the president. he might be speaking from the gut, the kinds of things people say privately. he let's it rip on occasion and sometimes it's helpful to be politically incorrect. other times it pushes people away and i can understanding that. that's why i said what the president did i thought was hurtful. i wish

we are also bring in ari fleischer: ari, you were commenting on this last night. asking as irredeemable deplorable human being that clings to god my bible and i believe in the second amendment and my religion. a lot of things are said in politics but what do you make of the conflicting views? how do you -- where do you come down on it? >> well, here's where i come down, sean. i believe in addition, i believe in being inclusive. i believe in welcoming people in this country and we should get the votes of hispanics, earnings from, doesn't matter who you are. their ideas are the best and can help lift you up. if you are hispanic or african-american and hear the president talk like that you wonder if the president cares about you. that's the problem words like that from the president. he might be speaking from the gut, the kinds of things people say privately. he let's it rip on occasion and sometimes it's helpful to be politically incorrect. other times it pushes people away and i can understanding that. that's why i said what the president did i thought was hurtful.

former white house press secretary ari fleischer. s can be laundry list but sometimes they can have an overall message. seems like this message from the excerpts and with the president said today is about unity. >> that's exactly what donald trump needs to preach tonight. this is going to be his biggest audience of his presidency. you're going to have sometimes 50 million people watching. it's an unfiltered chance to show people who you are and what's in your heart. the forum in which the president delivers that speech, it is made for presidents. there's going to be applause for what he says. it's in a signal to people at home when they hear the reinforcement of what he's saying through applause. everything favorable for the president. his weakness is his unfavorable ratings. still underwater. estate of the union like this, especially if it's unifying, is a chance to fix it. move the numbers in donald trump's direction. >> bret: it is, a.b., the one time when all of government comes together. whether they are on the same sheet of musi

ari fleischer. let's talk about the origins of this. this is important. the origins are simple.e an email server investigation that they were exonerating before investigations. it was written months before they interviewed main principals. then we have a dossier used to influence the american people. that was not true. and it was used as a foundation to get a fisa warrant to spy on a president-elect. to me that's the biggest story in our lifetime. it's such a danger because fisa is all about spying on americans. you better have good cause than research that was never verified. >> you also have the office of the national security advisor and others in the obama administration unmasked. >> sean: one a day. >> that's correct, sean. >> the bush administration never did it. the amount of times obama administration did night and day. >> sean: 300% increase. that's one of the early stories we broke. >> sean, i think the american people need to see. it we need to put all of the fixes in so we protect everyone's consitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure. we have to vet

ari fleischer, thank you, sir. letter to congress asking leaders to save daca. jeff bezos, amazon guy, mark zuckerberg, facebook, tim cook, apple. joining us now, congressman sean duffy, republican, wisconsin, and his wife, fox news contributor rachel campos duffy. we've got them sitting together. [laughter] >> hey, stuart, how you doing? [laughter] stuart: i don't want to go on and on with the president's vulgar comments. we've dealt with that, let's move on. we've got these ceos saying get onboard with daca. you are a are republican congressman. you're going to have to deal with this. are you comfortable with getting onboard with daca? >> absolutely, what i think is -- stuart: you want them to stay? >> only if we accomplish the mission of securing the border and getting rid of chain migration. so if these ceos want daca kids to stay, talk to democrats to sit down and negotiate and give donald trump a decent deal. but before those comments were made yesterday that have blown blown up the news media. donald trump w

hiding my sympathies that i was once offered a job in frank lautenberg's office and yelled at by ari fleischer for asking questions i never would have asked the democrat when little did he realize i probably agreed with everything he was saying but felt it was my duty to hide my political sympathies something that is much less so in the mainstream media. the white house dossier, the idea was to do accountability on president obama and a sense of humor and analysis and news and credited the white house still as a reporter with white house dossier, all through most of his presidency i held him to standards and pointed out things he was doing wrong, things that both objectively and from a conservative standpoint as well as today with donald trump sometimes it is saying wait a second, what are you doing but also the media is treating him unfairly, so that is the purpose today is that still continues and that i'm passionate about. >> sometimes people take offense when actually one of the most liberal trial lawyers, plaintiffs lawyers, democrats, a three day seminar, and jump across and shake his ha

joining me now were former white house press secretary ari fleischer is back.me back. >> thanks, kennedy. kennedy: shots fired. who started this one? >> quell, yeah, the big red button that trump was threatening to use, he just used it on steve bannon. i have never seen a statement like that come from a president this that is a 2-by-4 to the head of a former aid. and this former aid if he said those things, he deserves it. now is there truth to what bannon is saying? let's read the exerts, find out what he says. but i bet you that steve bannon is going to be denying those excerpts from those books. kennedy: this book that's coming out, it sounds like a lot of it is based on steve bannon's narrative. and for a while even in the alabama senate race, when the president and steve bannon chose different candidates for that special runoff, it seemed like, at least from both of their points of view, what they said publicly, that they still had a common name even though they picked different candidates and then the president of course later endorsed roy moore. when did

it's impossible to think the first press secretaries of the previous two administration, ari fleischerr robert gibbs would have allow thad to go on, having said that in sean spicer's defense, this was a press operation at a white house like no other. wolff writes in the book. he actually asked for official assess to the white house and there was no one able to give it to him but there was equally no one to tell him to go away and that's pretty remarkable. >> stephen, in one of your pieces you write trump's image is under siege and the "fire and fury" the version the president wants america to see and the one that emerges from behind the scenes reports. is trump helping or hurting his public image when he declares himself in his tweets today a stable genius and wolff a fraud? >> i think that it depends on how you see the president. it's difficult to think that there is anybody in america in the world right now who has not made up their mind on what they think of donald trump. so if you see that tweet, you are quick of president. we've soon it today. a lot of people have come out and sai

former bush 43 press secretary ari fleischer on that. what gets either side to blink in the course of this. >> if they both think it is not working for them. if the political pressure neither party feels this is absolute win for us, we're crushing the other side it makes people compromise. you know, neil, the congress is 100% right. the house passed 12 appropriation bills. the problem is the filibuster. when i worked in the senate, the senate passed every single bill. they never filibustered to forge a height fight over one bill. get rid of filibuster in senate on appropriations. i do wish for that. neil: if they were to end now, democrats take control -- >> fine. it is majority rule. neil: okay. >> that is the decision the electorate makes. when the electorate says we want republican or democratic senate they should be e powered -- neil: supermajority treats senate difficultly not good enough. >> i negative supported that frankly. i said that when barack obama was president, they should get rid of the filibuster as well. i'm consistent

ari fleischer under president bush. now he runs his own strategic communications firm. hi, ari. donna brazile, chairwoman of the democratic national committee. [laughter] >> i'm a local girl. libby: she also of course managed al gore's presidential campaign. >> how did that turn out for you? >> swinging chairs. libby: hey, it ain't over until it's over. next.see what happens and david urban, former senior advisor to the trump presidential campaign and serves as president of the continental group here in washington. thanks for being here. let me remind the audience both here in the room and watching online you can send that questions, use #postlive and we'll get to some of those later on. we have some talkers here so we will try to keep this answer a little bit brief. what do you want to hear tonight from the president versus what you expect to hear tomorrow night, congressman? mr. swalwell: i hope he speaks to the millions of americans who are not feeling the thrust of this economy. there's no denying the stock market is up, unemployment is at near full employment and the g.d.p.

journal, quote, too many flags in trump's first quarter, joining us the author of that piece, ari fleischerng what? too many errors in the first year? >> he has done a great job moving the ball down the field when you look at the economy, some of the outright ways to measure presidents gdp growth, low unemployment, stock market but then he keeps moving backwards because of what i call unnecessary roughness penalties was when he moves forward seems like he tweets something, says something that causes him to get a penalty thrown and moves backward that is a problem if you are donald trump. so many opportunities but penalties too. ashley: as you know, donald trump is donald trump and you can tell him don't tweet or don't do something but that will just encourage him to do it more because he likes to tweet because it goes directly to his base, the media can't get their head around it and his base kind of likes that irreverence. >> my argument is there's nothing wrong with tweets. i'm all around for donald trump going around the mainstream media but tweet smarter. there are times he has made inf

stuart: former white house press secretary ari fleischer, welcome back.s it is now, and i just love our president striding across the world stage, commanding the world's attention. what say you? >> you got it. and it's interesting because donald trump is a disrupter, and he is going to the place where the elites gather to talk about what traditionally is accepted about free trade and globalism and how that benefits the world. and i think you're going to hear donald trump make the case that it may benefit some people, but it's really hurt a lot of blue collar workers. and that was the impetus behind his surprise presidential win. and it's a remarkable thing especially for a republican to be able to go to a gathering like that and put things in the terms that blue collar workers can relate to. i think that's what he's going to do, and that's why it makes it a very interesting speech. stuart: very interesting, indeed. you're used to dealing with the media, but the media, i i think, refuses to give the president any real credit for all these bonuses being han

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can go to -- so five -- five different responses, and i saw -- you know, a republican, kind of, ari fleischerort of representative of -- that there's no clear democratic, i don't know, message or candidate for 2020 and as we get closer everybody's going to go further and further left until they actually fall off the face of the earth. and knowing you, do you ever look at the geographic center of the democratic party right now and kind of look around and just say, how did i get here? what happened? are you uncomfortable where it is right now, steny? >> let me tell you the good news, joe, from my standpoint? >> okay. >> i think you're going to see us win a lot of moderate seats around the country, moderate seats that can go republican or democrat, swing seats. we see it throughout the country in many, many areas of the country, the opportunity to take back seats that we've held or seats that republicans are losing so i think you're going to see a balancing, but i also think you're going to see a continuing unity of things that we think need to be done, investment in jobs, investment in infrastr

these guys, alan dershowitz, steve wynn, ari fleischer, dr. put on the show. pete: there they are. >> thank you. and the bottom line of all that is i'm the grunt. i'm just there to lend common seen to these ethereal level thinkers. that's what i'm there for. lisa: and colonel if viewers want more they can also see you on fox business tonight at nine p.m., war shores with oliver north, the tet offensive. >> which, by the way, was going right about now, just beginning right about now with the attack at the queson combat with the marines. i can be seen at 8:00 on our channel and 9:00 just quickly cut over to fox business networ. pete: all ollie all the time. wise guys tonight at 8 o'clock. we're looking forward to it. >> appreciate you. pete: president trump laying out his demands for a daca deal. >> we want the wall. the wall's going to happen or we're not going to have daca. pete: but democrats are threatening a government shutdown to get their way. our next guest defends our border every day and says the dems are politicizing border security.