blake burman, what's going on? white house, not an attack on the president. this woman who has been apprehended is described as mentally ill. this is on on the west side of the white house, 17th street and e. so if you think to have white house as a square, this is happening to the west of the west wing as a car that this woman was driving ended up going into one of the barricades. it is a heavily fortified, if you've never been around the white house, a heavily fortified area, and there are these massive barricades that go up and down, down when they let cars in and up when they do not let cars in. it appears it was up at the time. that woman, as i mentioned, has been taken into custody. i should tell you after the joint press conference when i was coming out to the camera for the nurse time at the top of -- the first time at the top of the 3:00 hour, that was a scramble of law enforcement. that in and of itself not necessarily unusual when there are lockdowns, but we were trying to figure out what exactly was goi

blake burman. blake burman, can you hear me from the white house? reporter: gotcha, what's going on. liz: we are waiting on the president. do you expect reporters to shout out questions, we were told it would be on tape. sometimes they do a switchous. it could go live possibly. what are you hearing? reporter: never know at the white house, he is in virginia at customs and border protection facility there, expected to do a roundtable and meet with folks at that targeting center there, not sure, liz, if we will hear from the president, if obviously he'll respond, shout out questions, if we get that close to him. i presume you were going to ask about the market potentially. the market is something the white house clearly keeps an eye on and touting for many months now. on a day like today, i believe it's down 650 or so, it is something that we'll have to see if the president comments or not. the big story here at the white house, no doubt about it, is the decision from this president on this day to declassify the memo that adam was talking about up on

blake burman live at the white house, with latest on this. blake, the president really seemed to be building some consensus about what could possibly get 60 votes and, that they could get something done which you know, would leave us all in shock. reporter: opening remark from the president, this is now the time to act. president trump convening these lawmakers, keep in mind, this comes on heels of the meeting with students from parkland here last week. state and local officials last week. this is really the tail end of it, with the president getting involved with 17 lawmakers, 10 republicans, seven democrats, saying hey look, we need to come together on a select group of issues that can get 60 votes. i tell you what was also remarkable, melissa. was that the president challenged at multiple points within this discussion republicans in that room over their allegiance to the nra. the president at one point saying that he, or at least suggesting, that he supports raising the age of long gun ownership up to 21 years old. the president wants to gi

for latest go to blake burman at the white house. blake, i would caution yes, some of it is the spending bill, but a lot of it is concerns about inflation and what that does to various algorithms that people are trading off of. it causes them to change them. that is in part why there is volatility. full us in on shutdown that is short-lived. >> you have opinions across the market what sick at thatting place and why it is taking place. here in washington this was one of the rare bipartisan moments in the sense that you had republicans, democrats coming together to get the massive spending package across the finish line, funding government through march 23rd, and $300 billion in spending, but listing the debt ceiling, or spending rather, for the next 13 months. there is also republicans and democrats coming together that in sense many were not like this at all. in fact 84 democrats, 83 republicans on capitol hill who voted against it. you can separate it into three different buckets. on one hand, president, republican leadership, funds

latest blake burman live at the white house. hey, blake. reporter: trish this paint as pretty rosy picture. this is president's report on the economy from the council of economic advisors. a 500-page document outlines how they see the economy in the first year under the president and where they see it going here on out. you're right it, touts the tax cuts a basis for good economy running forward as the president's top economic advisors see it in terms of gdp this president talked about 3, 4, 5% growth. this is the projection from the cea, short term, above 3% gdp. when you get into the middle of the 10 year window, exactly 3% range and back end of the 10-year window slightly under 3% gdp they warn the president's top economists. challenges remain in yate for longer term, increased opioid dependence, increased labor productivity around wage growth and downward pressure on the lable force participation from demographic shifts. by the way president trump is meeting with top union leaders and the issue he is talking about is trade. it is six of

we'll go straight to blake burman to break it all down. blake, what did the president had to say. reporter: there is this conversation nationally after the parkland shooting what can be done to keep schools safe, what can be done to keep mass shootings out of our classrooms, back back into october, there was debate about bump stocks why they are needed especially after shooting in las vegas. where 50 people with killed, injured 1100 others. he fired from a hotel room into a concert, because of a bump stock, allows the gun to be fired at rapid fire succession, in an event to honor medal of valor participants, the president announced after studying issue, signed a memorandum essentially that would ban bump stocks. listen to president trump moments ago. >> just a few moments ago i signed the memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. i expect that these critical regulations will be finalized, jeff, very soon. reporter: the white house was fairly silent in the days after the las vegas shooting on the i

blake burman live at the white house with us. and, blake, i don't know, will people calling for christopher wray to resign over this? reporter: well he did put out a statement. just what we know from the fbi, trish, that about this phone call, that it took place on january 5th, earlier this year, to the public access line. that person called the line and essentially said this nikolas cruz was a monster in waiting, and according to the fbi, this is what the caller said that they noticed of cruz. that one, his gun ownership. two, of his desire to kill people. three, his erratic behavior. three, his disturbing social media posts, the potential of him conducting a school shooting. the fbi admits that should have been assessed as potential life threat. they say that was not forwarded to the miami field office. nothing was done after that. for years, upon years, upon years, trish, you know the line from elected officials, from folks all across the country which we just heard from the vice president himself. if you see something, say som

day focusing on school safety following last week's shooting at parkland high school in florida, blake burman grills the president's economic adviser about the administration's myth on that promised 4% growth. blake will join us and you're going to see how it all went down. >>> amazon accused of corporate welfare for holding contest to get the best deal from communities across the nation in search for a second headquarters. hillary vaughn live on the billionaire brothers who have actually taken corporate welfares themselves and why they're accusing amazon now. >>> and did you see this? kylie crushes a stock with a single tweet. kylie jenner puts out a tweet about aump and try to take it back because it was negative. the stocks the kardashian-jenner tweet sent stocks snapping into a nose die. less than an hour to the closing bell, investors are not happy about that. let's start the "countdown." . liz: breaking news, the navy's nuclear submarine base in banger, washington is closed after a potential threat. we wanted to tell you that suspicious items were found in a vehicle near a gate earlier

we have blake burman at white house. reporter: president trump made it absolutely known he was four with us with jeff sessions this time last year, shortly after he got into office as attorney general to recuse himself from the russian investigation. there have been other instances since then which the president has not hitten some of his displeasure with sessions that continued once again today. as it relates to the sessions's announcement that it would be michael horowitz, the inspector general within the department of justice and look into potential advise is a abuse, not lawyers from the department of just would look into the matter. it was this tweet president trump sent out earlier today, quote, why is ag jeff sessions asking inspector general investigate massive fisa abuse? will take forever. no prosecutorial power. already late on reports from comey, et cetera. isn't the ig an obama guy? why not just the does tis department lawyers? all caps he writes in all caps, disgraceful. this is his statement in full, jeff

trish: blake burman, thank you so much. joining me fox news contributor, former deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush mr. karl rove. karl, really, is this puny? i was talking to john garamendi just yesterday from california, democrat. he would like to see $2 trillion. >> yeah. trish: i did remind him that 200 million in seed money, if you get private companies involved, that can then turn into 1 1/2. and that's, that is a big deal! i mean that's, that's real money. >> i think you have to divide this into three parts. the idea that the federal government is going to step up to say to states and local communities, if you want to undertake a project, we will give you 15 cents out of every dollar you want to spend on it is not going to generate a lot of activity because a lot of states don't have the 85% or the 85-cent match that that would require. they're hard-pressed as it is. trish: yeah. >> on the other hand if you did this in the public/private partnerships, you would be in a place where you could get a lot of

trish: thank you very much, blake burman. joining me with reaction trump re-election advisory board member harm hand hill and democratic strategist michael star hopkins running for senate in new jersey. michael he is getting a lot of criticism combining these two issues, something i did right on the show on friday, because i don't think you can look at the two issues independently. i think you had a highly distracted fbi, a highly politically-motivated fbi. whether you can blame christopher wray for that, we can talk about that in a moment. i think you can. that may have come from the holdover from james comey, but nonetheless you had an fbi that was so distracted with this whole russian investigation, an fbi out there issuing fisa warrants based on piece of bad intelligence, if you can even call it intelligence, likely a bunch of garbage that the russians fed to christopher steele, which was paid for, his work was paid for by the democrats, and hillary clinton, and they took that as gospel enough to go out and issue a fisa w

now to blake burman with more. >> president trump has read this memo.urces expected to declassify

now to blake burman with more. >> president trump has read this memo. he is according to sources expected to declassify it. what would happen after that, it would be sent back to the hill to the house intelligence committee and they would make this public for all to see. we're led to believe as soon as tomorrow morning. the president earlier today, he went over to the congressional retreat in west virginia to address republicans there. he did not comment on this memo or on his thinking at all. but the house speaker, paul ryan, said it does serve a purpose. >> shepard: what it is, it's the congress' legitimate function of oversight to make sure the fisa process is being used correctly and if it wasn't being used correctly, that needs to come to light and people need to be held accountable. >> shepard: however, the fbi has said they have grave concerns with the memo. the fbi agent's association. in fact, publicly back the fbi head, chris wray and the top democrat on the house intelligence committee says that this memo is being used to target the fbi and t

we go to our blake burman at the white house. reporter: hi, trish. the white house acknowledging that president trump had indeed read the four-page memo. the president did not mention it or his decision within the past hour or so as he addressed congressional republicans in west virginia. the president now on his way back here to the white house. according to sources the president is expected to declassify the memo. it would be sent back according to sources back up to the hill. at which point the house intelligence committee would get it. it is believed at this point likely timing could be released at some point by tomorrow morning. one of the top republicans on the house intelligence committee, peter king, he called this memo a little while ago, vital. >> i don't want to oversell it. i agree with trey gowdy. republicans sometimes oversell things. it is important in the body of evidence to be out there. reporter: democrats have been fighting this memo, some on the house intelligence committee on the democratic side trying to produce their memo. the

blake burman, thank you very much. steve forbes is with us. clear the cpac folks are a conservative outfit. they have been around a long time before. i'm sure you've spoken there before. they were reluctant with donald trump in the beginning whether he was conservative enough in his first year. i think they were genuinely pleased with the conservative tendencies of this president. >> they had a love-fest. the reason why his speech went over an hour, david, since he is always getting beat up by the mainstream media, nice to go to an audience in close place like that and get cheered and cheered. they love judges, deregulation, tax cuts, hitting lame stream media some call it. so as they would say, with them what is not to like? david: you're a condition serve tiff but you're also business people and some business people are not conservative by the way. there are liberal business people but the combination of conservative values and implementing them in policy and business, very pro-business stance because of the fact that he is a businessman, th

blake burman live at the white house with details. look, blake, i think the big takeaway for people here, is this was kind of a big deal and despite what some like james comey have said, that's it? no, there is a lot there that i think should be of serious concern. of course we would like to see it all. we need to see what the democrats are saying. i personally would like to see the actual documents themselves, the raw intelligence as much as we can, just so that we can all make our own assessment of this divorced from political prisms. reporter: the white house is leaving open the possibility to this fisa application being made public, if it gets down to that point. that is still a very long way aways though, trish that came aboard air force one as raj shah, the principle deputy press secretary spoke to reporters briefly. he was asked about the democrat memo that the house intelligence whit tee will meet next few hours up on capitol hill. raj shah saying the white house is open to further progressing the memo, getting it to the light

melissa: here with more from the white house is blake burman. blake, i heard you asking very important questions there, the one we care about the most, what the heck is up with all this spending. i'm not sure that is exactly how you said it. reporter: something like that. melissa: the market is asking the same question. what was the answer? reporter: we spoke with the principle deputy press secretary raj shah his first time behind the podium filling in for sarah sanders. i thought there were a few headlines or break it down if a few different ways in our back and forth about the deal up and capitol hill and spending in general. shah saying the president is indeed concerned about spending and the president has been concerned about this for years. you know the projections are u.s. will have to borrow roughly a trillion dollars next year or this fiscal year rather. now you have this 300 billion-dollar spending bill, if passed over the course of two years. so i asked shah what is the president's plan to pay for all of this? is it indeed economic gro

for very latest let's bring in blake burman at the white house. blake. reporter: 38 governors speaking with the president. bipartisan group both democrats and republicans. the issue, hour plus long discussion on school safety. the president saying no bigger fan of the nra than him. no bigger fan of the second amendment than him. he has interesting relationship in the post-parkland national conversation taking place with the nra on one hand like nra they are calling for strengthening of the background check system, calling for more focus, more money going to mental health issues. however, on the other hand president is saying he wants to see the age to purchase a long gun be raised to 21 years old. the nra does not support that. the president revealing in front of these governors earlier this morning, he had lunch at white house with nra leadership. he told those governors to put their faith in the nra. listen here. >> don't worry about the nra they're on our side. half of you are so afraid of the nra there is nothing to be afraid of. you know what they'r

i want to go to blake burman on what is in there. hi, blake. reporter: trish, the three-page memo on the dossier compiled by chris sister steele, a dossier paid for by the dnc and clinton campaign was used as an essential component to get a fisa warrant surveilance of a one-time, former member of the trump team, the trump campaign team, carter page. the essential crux of this 3 1/2 page memo, that without this dossier, there would have been no fisa warrant, thus raising questions whether or not this was one big surveillance abuse. the, memo goes on to say, and i quote here, deputy director andrew mccabe testified before the committee in 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the court, the fisc, without the steele dossier information. the memo takes issue with an article from yahoo! news used as part of the fisa warrant application process saying quote, the article does not corroborate the steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by steele himself to yahoo! news. the memo also says that christopher ste

and blake burman usually covers for us. outing this will be the fuel for the engine of the economy. how much gets into the economy and we start seeing the effects? >> well, you see people with paychecks now and the federal government set it up in february you start seeing 90% in your paycheck so it's going to take time to get into the paycheck, of many paychecks and have that money filter out. 1.5 trillion dollar hole here over ten years and what the administration says is, there's going to be growth that pays for that over time and they say you just heard hogan earlier in the show, you've got these tax cuts or the bonus checks coming through and they tout that as one of the successes and the president himself says they didn't think it was going to be like that. leland: notably, they're not touting what the dow did on friday, but that part has been left out of the talking points this weekend. blake: one i think this you shouldn't do with this? bet it all on the super bowl, save it. leland: great advice. blake: unless you wan

meantime, blake burman with the latest from the white house. blake? reporter: hi, there, neil, the white house within the last minute releasing the economic report of the president. this is a pretty lengthy, 500 plus page document put together by the president's council of economic advisors. we've gone through it t paints a fairly rosie picture coming out of obama administration. tax cuts, the president talked about the need and the want and how he feels potentially we could get to 4% gdp growth. however when you look at 10-year span as the administration economic advisors are projecting out, they're projecting gdp growth over 3%. when you get to the back end of this 10-year term, dropping just under 3%. they do warn though of some headwind in both near and long term and this is it. they write, quote, challenges remain for 2018 and the longer term including increased opioid dependence. the recent low rate of labor productivity and wage growth. downward pressure on labor force participation rate from demographic shifts. there is the debate, neil in was

blake burman at the white house with more on that. hey, blake. reporter: i covered scott israel in miami, interviewed him when he was running for sheriff. what you get is out of the broward county sheriff, and nation is seeing that today. shortly after he spoke the president spoke at the white house. president trump had a message for america's children, saying you should not feel alone. you are not alone. you should feel protected. there are people who you can talk to. there are people who you should go to talk to. the president also addressed very briefly what he feels needs to happen to change the tide of what seems to be one mass shooting after another. the president never mentioned the word gun. instead he talked about the need to address mental health. >> we are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficulty issue of mental health. reporter: top democrat in the house nancy pelosi took a much different stance earlier this morning, she would rather get something accomplished legislatively

cheryl: blake burman at the white house has more for us. >> there is a conversation taking place across the country about school safety and how to keep mass shootings out of our classrooms. so to back it over with a conversation about own stocks as it's been 142 days since 52 people at a concert were murdered in 800 injured when a gunman fired up 1100 shots by the use of a bump stock, which gives fans the ability to fire practices session. at a ceremony on tuesday awarded the medal of valor, president trump revealed he supports regulation that would nullify bump stocks. >> i sent a memorandum to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapon into machine guns. i expect that these critical regulations will be finalized, just coming very soon. >> later today president trump assesses the need for students and parents on the idea school safety shootings then on thursday the president will meet with lawmakers and officials on the issue as well. the president remains open to shoring up the nation's background check system. talk to you in new york. cheryl: also today the white h

cheryl: blake burman is limited white house details. present trouble in the same session on wednesday on the issue school safety in the white house says the president is quote, supportive of looking for ways to improve the federal background check system. he spoke to senator john corning last week. he has a bill with senator chris murphy which would strengthen reporting standards. the white house says the discussions are ongoing. >> he has a phone call to the fbi. we look for ways to do fix the system you want to understand what broke down and allowed for this individual to go on unattended by the people raising red flags. reporter: resident trackback at the white house after we can get away at his residence in south florida, during which much of his twitter attention was focused on russian meddling with the president than once point saying obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election, so why didn't he do something about russian meddling. back to you in new york. lauren: good question. speaking of russia. an hour after news br

blake burman live at the white house with the latest. blake. reporter: melissa, those two pieces of legislation the white house now supports a reaction to the stoneman douglas shooting. the first is the stop schools violence act that essentially calls for reauthorization of funds, federal money that had gone unauthorized for years that will be sent to schools to prevent against violence. the white house believes that there is support in both the house and senate for this measure. the second is the "fix nics" bill. looking to background checks and getting states, getting governments to report criminal records into the background check system more accurately. and if they don't, penalizing them. the press secretary earlier today, sara sanders suggests as well, more proposals could come down the line from the white house by week's end. >> the only two specific pieces of legislation that we are announcing support for, two i mentioned. anything further comes later this week. the president, as i said, expects to meet with a number of lawmakers tomorro

blake burman keeping track from the white house. blake. reporter: expected to pass through the senate but much of what you talked about in your discussion there, you have senators who said look, because of all this spending that this creates we're not for this. for example, bob corker and jeff flake came out against this on the senate but the real problem rests within the house. conservative members of the house freedom caucus say they came to washington stop runaway spending. they think this new budget caps deal is exactly that. it was republicans for years and years and years on end who were sounding alarms of spending and the need to get that under control especially during the obama administration. now while it was a much different time in the economy in 2010, 2011, 2012, listen here to paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, two of the folks who an geared this deal that republicans members of house and senate are about to vote on what they were saying about spending five, six, seven years ago. listen here. >> ourest goal for this year get the

our own blake burman live at the white house with the very latest. blake? reporter: david this 3 1/2 page memo says that the dossier prepared for by christopher steele which was paid for by the democratic national committee and hillary clinton campaign was used by the department of justice an the fbi to go to the fisa court, get a warrant and -- one time trump campaign advisor carter page n that memo it says, and i quote, deputy director mccabe testified before the committee in december 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisc, the court, without the steele dossier information. it also goes on to say that steele himself had it out for the president saying, he was quote desperate that donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president. speak of the president, here was president trump commenting on this earlier today from the white house. >> it's a disgrace what is happening in our country. when you look at that and you see that and so many other things, what is going on, a lot of people should be asham

she criticized them, panned them, but blake burman you're at the white house. blake, we should encapsulate this here. a lot unfolding at this hour. number one, the press conference delayed to 4:00 p.m. eastern, third time in a day. number two, the president is on the move working on what he hopes to highlight areas about infrastructure plan. what did you say alicia? >> we've got a couple seconds here. but go ahead, blake. you tell me which one matters to viewers, because there is too much to judge here. reporter: a lot going on. i want to point your attention to something president trump said within the last half hour, as you know, this whole, and i'll turn your attention to the rob porter scandal engulfed this white house. there are questions why president trump has not specifically come out and condemned domestic violence. the press secretary sarah sanders read and reiterated statements from the white house podium. moments ago before the camera the president addressed this issue. take a listen here. >> i am totally opposed to domestic violence of any kind. eve

fbn's blake burman is live with more. >> hi, trish. the president first broached this idea yesterday in the listening session with students from parkland and their parents, their families. other victims of past shootings as well of potentially arming teachers, arming faculty and staff within schools to defend schools so long as they're experts and adept with guns. the president took a former stance on a different listening session with state and local law enforcement officials, state officials as well. the president even suggesting that there should be a monetary incentive for some of these teachers. listen here. >> what i'd recommend doing, the people that do carry, we give them a bonus. give them a little bit of a bonus. so practically for free, you have now made the school into a hardened target. >> president trump also saying he supports raising the age of gun ownership to 21 years old. the white house today also appeared to shut the door on a potential assault weapons ban. here's the principle press secretary raj shah. >> we're lo

thanks very much, blake burman. senate republican conference chairman john thune from south dakota on this what do you think, senator, how doable is this? >> it is doable, neil, but nothing is ever easy. we're trying, as was pointed out negotiate a final deal the senate could dropped. they have to go back to the house but we need the budget cap for military raised. it is national security. i would characterize it as a crisis. we heard consistently from secretary mattis and from the service chiefs we have our readiness at risk if we don't start making some adjustments and plussing up the amount of resources we're dedicating to the military. unfortunately anytime we do that the democrats hold that hostage to getting dollar for dollar increase in non-defense spending in the budget. and so that is what is being negotiated right now. in addition to some other things might be carried on that bill that would go back to the house. we'll see how it transpires this afternoon. i think the negotiations are coming to a conclusio

neil: blake burman, thank you very, very much.ntelligence is here. kevin the president is quick to point out, indeed ross rosenstein was when it was announced last week, that it didn't alter the outcome of the election but they didn't go so far the collusion issue was fully resolved. chris christie had interpreted this, as no collusion to this point. regardless who is right or wrong on this, are we missing the bigger picture here? what is your sense of what these indictments mean and where this investigation could be going? >> yeah, i think, i think we are looking at missing the larger picture here. these indictments weren't meant to establish whether or not there was any coordination between the trump campaign and the russians. this indictment simply grew out of a counterintelligence investigation started by the fbi a couple years prior. this was the investigation largely that james comey was referring to in his testimony before congress march 20th of 2017, and in which triggered the deputy attorney general to create a special co

our blake burman live at the white house with the very latest. blake. reporter: david, meeting yesterday at the white house with those students the president trump first broached idea having teachers, faculty, staff, within school, adept and expert handling guns having guns inside of schools to be able to protect schools. the president was much firmer in that with listening session among state and local law enforcement officials. president suggesting at one point, there should be monetary incentive for those who bring guns into schools. listen. >> what i would recommend doing is the people that do carry, we give them a bonus. we give them a little bit of a bonus. so practically for free, you have now made the school into a hardened target. we need to let people know, you come into our schools, you're going to be dead. it will be fast. reporter: president also reiterating he supports advocating raising age of gun purchases to 21 years old. however the white house appeared to shut the door on banning assault weapons. here was the principle deputy press se

blake burman live in d.c. with the very latest from the president, hi, blake. >> hi lauren and president trump over the weekend did not specifically mention christopher wray by name instead he talked about the institution as a whole , about this missed phone call from last month questioning why it was not forwarded along. the president tweeting over the weekend "very sad that the fbi missed all of the many signals sent out by the florida school shooter. this is not acceptable. they are spending too much time trying to prove russia collusion with the trump campaign and there is no collusion get back to the basics and make us all proud." here at the white house today they were asked a spokesperson was and would not say whether or not they feel wray should resign which the florida governor rick scott has called for but the white house saying president trump at this point is supportive at looking into sur ing up the federal background check system. >> you have the phone call to the fbi and so when you're looking at

blake burman at the white house with the latest., right? >> right. ivanka trump, president trump's oldest daughter. as the white house points out, she's a senior adviser to the president. she found herself on the korean peninsula as the olympics wind down and also as the trump administration levied its harshest sanctions yesterday. steve mnuchin saying that ivanka trump was briefed. >> ivanka trump has been briefed on this, part of the team. she had dinner with president moon. they had a private discussion in advance about this occurring. this has been an interagency process. >> now, the sanctions target the shipping industry and try to crack down on the vessel-to-vessel activity that allows north korea to engage in shipping activities. at the press conference, president trump was asked, well, what happens if the new round of sanctions don't necessarily move the needle? the president saying, we'll have to see, we will have to go to phase two, which may be a very rough thing. neil? >> neil: thank you very much. so will the sanctions

our own blake burman on the north lawn with the wrap up of another busy day. >> hi connell it was a pretty big revelation as well from president trump who acknowledged earlier that over the weekend here at the white house he had lunch with the leadership of the national rifle association that lunch taking place on sunday with wayne lapierre and chris cox. today earlier this morning the president had a meeting more than an hour or so with 38 of the nation's governors republicans and democrats alike inside that room and the president said at times they should pushback against the nra but he also said they have nothing to fear. president trump: don't worry about the nra they're on our side. half of you are so afraid of the nra. there's nothing to be afraid of and do you know what? if they're not with you we have to fight them every once in a while. that's okay. reporter: you'll remember the president had been pretty vocal after the stoneman douglas shooting that the age for gun ownership should be raised to 21 years old however at his last two public speaking events on friday at cpac in front

we're monitoring this presser, most of questions, virtually all of them, blake burman had to do with rob porter and the allegations. we're going to continue to follow that. suffice it to say the dow is inches away from a full 10% correction and with the better than 1,000 fall off there, it could happen and be the i's dotted and t's crossed. a lot of this has to do with good news. that strikes you as odd. but this point decline which represents a little more than a

you heard our own blake burman, pushing him on that number because some people think it might be higher than 3%, but kevin hassett making a point it is not always exactly what you think. sometimes it is 4%, then 2%, then 4% and 2%. maybe average out somewhere around. so what kind of economic growth mr. we going to get right now? tell you the markets looking forward to something because we're up 285 points right now on the dow. as we watch this rally i'm joined on set by assistant editor, "wall street journal" editorial page, james freeman. national bar association pact chair, scott bold en. >> that is the long-term trend of united states, preobama. obviously, things get a lot more, moved a lot more slowly in the obama years. but that is a long-term trend. we didn't see kevin hassett brag about it. but, he has a lot of credibility right now, because last may, his team put out an economic forecast for 2017, they said it would be 2.3%. real gdp growth. that is exactly what the commerce department said last month. so, i think right now, not just looking at history, but also looking at his r

let's go to blake burman.eporter: president calling for a government shutdown here at the white house earlier this afternoon, seeming coming out of left field if there is not tightening at the border to crackdown on illegal immigration. comments came earlier today during a roundtable which the president was talking about the need to get tough and crack down on the violent gang, ms-13. here is what he said. >> we have to shut it down because the democrats don't want safety and unrelated but still related, they don't want to take care of our military, then shut it down. we'll go with another shutdown. reporter: here is where things stand, congress is trying to currently avoid another government shutdown set to take place on thursday night. then after that point, move on to the immigration debate, leaving many questions what exactly the president was referring to. the white house press secretary sarah sanders that president trump is not looking for a shutdown, saying actually there was a shutdown it is the democr

what came out of hearing and you no how the white house is responding our own blake burman. this story. reporter: no matter what they talk about the white house, whether it be infrastructure, whether to get a daca deal, budget, all of it, all of it here at the white house is engulfed by this boiling controversy of who knew what and when did they know it about the former staff secretary rob porter, who has been abused by both of his ex-wives of abuse. the story here at the white house was six or seven days, was this the investigation of porter was ongoing up until the time he resigned. however the head of the fbi himself, director christopher wray went up to testify on capitol hill to testify on something completely unrelated. he laid out a much different timeline. here is how he described his bureau's involvement. wray said the first report was submitted in march of last year. in july the background investigation was complete. fast forward the fbi followed up follow up information. wray testified in january today, one month ago it closed the file. earlier this month the fbi

first to blake burman at white house where we're about to hear from the president in just a short couple minutes. hey, blake. reporter: momentarily what we were told. president trump, the australian prime minister as well here for a joint press conference. the president saying earlier today that the issues of trade of course, security would come up, this is one of those instances where they are going to get questions from both sides. you know the issues of guns and school safety will be most likely asked upon the president today. earlier today he made several comments both in the speech at cpac and as he was leaving the white house here about school safety and his continued push to want to arm teachers, teachers who are experts, teachers who are adept. the president at one point saying he doesn't want people necessarily with 100 different rifles around the schools. instead he wants concealed carry. the president took direct issue with that one law enforcement officer, that one person with the broward sheriff's office assigned to the school and did not run in when the bullets started flyi

trump set to give the green light on releasing controversial fisa memo could be made public today blake burmanouse with the very latest there blake, good morning. reporter: good morning to you as well right the president is expected to declassify this meaning could come before the american public at some point later today. the president has not yet at least publicly commented on this memo contents thinking but once again this morning, he took direct aim at top brass within department of justice fbi tweeting out quote, the top leadership investigators of the fbi and justice department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of democrats and against republicans. something when would have been unthinkable a short time ago, rank-and-file are great people, now this memo will likely be released through official channels on capitol hill, where there is a distinct partisan divide. >> what it is the congress's legitimate function of oversight to make sure that the fisa process is used correctly, and that if it of his being used correctly that needs to come to light people need to be

we're monitoring this presser, most of questions, virtually all of them, blake burman had to do with rob porter and the allegations. we're going to continue to follow that. suffice it to say the dow is inches away from a full 10% correction and with the better than 1,000 fall off there, it could happen and be the i's dotted and t's crossed. a lot of this has to do with good news. that strikes you as odd. but this point decline which represents a little more than a 4% hit has to do with signs the economy is picking up steam maybe a little too much steam and that prompted more interest right now in folks who were worried about interest rates and parking their securities in something where they can get the full backing up uncle sam. deidra bolton has been following this. we go to her now. >> i did a search to zoom -- >> the good old days. >> yeah. i'm not the only one thinking about this. it's a little bit extreme. just the background. you know this. long team wall street strategists coined this term in the 80s. it was describing investor demand for high yields to compensate for two thi

blake burman is live breaking it down. hi there cheryl we expect the president with this listening session any moment now and the white house just releasing a list so we've got a better idea of whose going to be inside the room with him along with the vice president. it includes the mayor of parkland, florida and six students from marjorie stoneman douglas high school including the student president there and many of their parents along with those who have been affected by the shooting at sandy hook. this is a president and this is a white house that appears to be actively considering what to do next, as there is this national conversation taking place on just how to go about eliminating these mass shootings that are taking place inside of school classrooms, a white house source telling fox that the president is considering at least becoming an advocate for potentially raising the age in which somebody can purchase a gun legally though it it appears how much they could do at the federal level with this considering this is

after sandy hook after san bernardino did not make it out of the senate. >> thank you so much, blake burmane about that house leader kevin mccarthy great to see you thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me come in. >> is there appetite in congress right now to get something done, differently on guns. >> of course, we are looking at it we've already taken some action, the national instant criminal background check there is no there again kid cruz ever should have had a weapon, when you look at it local law enforcement, the fbi, he literally wrote that he was going to be a school shooter, that was delivered to fbi so no places should he ever have been able to have a weapon, but we need to strengthen, the program we have sitting in the senate senate has a version as well, hopefully, we can get that done as quickly, bump stock, house and senate never voted on that that was put into effect by ats hoping they were taking action to remove that if not we can take action as well we do need to have all information, from the local state fed because there seems a lot of failure here and this shoo

positive there could be a battle with the gop over new regulations receipted to tax code changes, blake burmanax legislation is it going to be treasury irs? or the omb? . reporter: a couple calls on this, this morning maria without getting too much into the weeds, of tax policy, regulation here in washington essentially you've got office of management and policy and budget controls regulation implementation process in d.c. then you got treasury department irs overseeing implementation of this new tax code, so it is -- it is the folks at treasury irs saying look get this done quickly we are to ones to drive this but then you've got omb saying hey this is our lane here we are the ones that oversee regulation you kind of got a few different entities here, i guess you could say battling it out as washington tries to maneuver the complex process of the new tax code, and the regulations with it. speaking of the tax code there is a new poll out, that shows basically what the administration thought all along as starts to get rolled out would it become more popular with americans this new poll from sur

possible three bills that could have passed, with the president's proposal getting the least support blake burmaner: maria good morning to you one senator described this a crash and burn experience even that might be generous, because this was a failure for the united states senate but also this is a failure for this white house as well, three different proposals that were taken up yesterday by senate, did not get the necessary 60 votes now white house is pointing the finger at democrats. >> it ask exposes democrats for what they are people who use politics and put that over people, because quite frankly this is a fix for daca they have been dying for, for a long time, and the president gave them three times what president obama offered them so for whatever reason they still don't want it. >> problem for white house the plan got least amount of support was the one, that was supported by the president, the president framework picking up just 39 votes in senate 21 short what have they needed and 15 votes shy of that bipartisan mush would have given money to wall protects for dreamers chuck schumer

blake burman live at white house with the latest we have that deadline blake march 5, where do we standreporter: there is a federal judge that upheld the prior riling another federal ruling maybe at least appears as if that could be, a potential soft date at this point president trump had set a march a deadline lawmakers trying to beat at this point, yesterday the senate supposed to have this open format freewheeling kind of debate, got bogged down yesterday, as there were arguments over process, and democrats objected to a vote on amendment, over so-called skwhair sanctuary subcommittees so that i was disappointed the majority leader attempted to start voting today with an amendment that does absolutely nothing to address daca, does absolutely nothing to address border security. >> i am ready to get started. this is a debate they said they wanted, i said we have an open fair process. we're trying to do that. >> so that stymied start of the immigration debate is expected to begin in full force later this morning, here at white house yesterday, president trump jokingly read the few senat

forged by senate leaders they are hoping to avoid the government shut down set for midnight tonight blake burmanhite house this morning, with the very latest, blake, over to you. reporter: maria good morning to you check books opening up, up on capitol hill deal negotiated by congressional leadership called for additional 300 billion dollars roughly in new spending over the next two years, while also keeping the government funded flew march 23 president trump yesterday he imploring for page writing on twittered the budget agreement today so important for are great military ends dangerous he sequester gives secretary mattis what he needs to keep america great republicans democrats must support our troops support this bill. the defense secretary, mattis, came to the wllths press briefing yesterday to call for passage. >> i cannot overstate the negative impact to our troops and families morale from budget uncertainty. reporter: votes expected later into the evening on this, but especially in house, there is no sure thing on passage because on one side of the pendulum you've got republicans worried

following president trump's massive budgets proposal includes increased funding for border security blake burmanhouse with that angle he there is now, blake good morning to you. reporter: maria, good morning to you as well a pretty unusual process taking place in yu states senate right now essentially, no road map a freewheeling form of debate, president trump says, he wants to see a detail struck on immigration, and tweeted out the following this morning, writing negotiations of daca have begun, republicans want to make a deal and democrats say they want to make a deal. wouldn't it be great if we finally after so many years solve the daca puzzle, this will be our last chance, there will never be another opportunity, march 5th pointing to decline ther-- deadline there a deal mirrors what white house wants to see a pathway to citizenship major board security tax reforms to image process as whole one senator backing this is tom cotton. >> the president framework is not an opening bid in negotiations, it is a best and finalizing offer. he is taking parts of many other proposals put them together, w

our own blake burman is live at the white house with more on this story. blake?d emotional listening session yesterday with students of stoneman douglas high school, their parents and others affect9 by school shootings in the past. this is the second portion, the follow-up to that as president trump, within minutes here, will sit down with state and local officials, law enforcement officials as well. the president has been actively tweeting on this topic today. once genre affirming that he is -- again reaffirming that he is open to putting guns in schools potentially with some teachers, arming some teachers. the president tweeting out earlier, quote: if a potential sicko shooter knows that a school has a large number of weapons, talented and teachers and others who will be instantly shooting, the sucko will never attack that school -- sicko will never attack that school. must be offensive. defense alone won't work. the president also outlining his priorities tweeting, quote: i will be strongly pushing comprehensive background checks with an emphasis on mental hea