ed rollins. with the president's call to get the vote tomorrow. >> he wants this thing up or down. that's a brave and courageous position. he has done everything he can do to make this legislation pass. ryan has to tell him tomorrow morning i don't have 218 votes. lou: is he trying to flesh out the speaker? he said to the president of the united states fan the american people for weeks he has the damn votes. >> obviously he doesn't. the realistic thing, if he doesn't have them tonight, he's not going have them tomorrow. the carry part of all this -- lou: he could give up the speakership. >> he's been weakened by the process. lou: has the process been weakened by him? >> i think the american public is interested in politics because of the president. and his activity. he has done and lot of things in a short period of time. lou: listen to this. next week congress goes on recess. theyon reces we have a president in the white house who is a disrupter, who is a leader, achieve, a winner, and he's driv

lou: all right, ed rollins, thank you so much. breaking news now, 95 million people along the nation's southeast and the eastoast tonight are under threat of severe weather. think about that. 95 million people in the east. that fast moving storm system raking parts of the midwest spawned two dozen tornadoes. three people were killed. the storm continues to move and some of the hardest hit areas outside of chicago and southern missouri, and now it threatens the southeast, the east coast. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. the question is this -- cast your vote on twitter, we'd like to hear from you. follow me on twitter -- on wall street today, another historic day for stocks. the dow surging 303 points, closing above, that's right, above 21,000 for the first time ever. it was only 35 days ago that the dow crossed through 20,000. the s&p rose 32, the nasdaq up 79. all three major indexes at record highs tonight. volume on the big board, the heaviest of the year, 4.3 billion shares traded. the trump rally picking up steam, markets

ed rollins thank you. >> thank you. >> great to see you. lou: vote in our poll, do you believe that democrats will be begging president trump to pass health care legislation to fix obamacare when it fails. cast your vote on twitter. on wall street today stocks closed mix, dow down 60. nasdaq gaining 11, not much reaction to failure of the republicans to move the healthcare legislation through the house. volume on the big board 3 billion shares, dow, s&p and nasdaq posting worst week of the year, down less than 2%. the ceo of charter communication met with the president today announcing that charter will invest $25 billion in this country, and hire 20,000 american workers. >> a reminder to listen to my report three times a day, coast-to-coast on the salem radio network, up next. speaker ryan praising the president for pushing healthcare, despite the speaker's failure to deliver the votes. >> president gave his all in this effort. he did everything he could. to help people see the opportunity that we have with this bill, he has been fantastic

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lou: back with us matt schlapp and ed rollins. this story gets more bizarre every passing day. intelligence committee making a demand that you prove something or not within 24 hours is preposterous. ed: i would suggest he talk to the two gentlemen in the committee because necessity work for him. if there is anything there, go forward. if not, suggest to the committee, there is nothing there. what the committee is trying to do is make the president looks fool i and i don't think that's fair to him. lou: do you agree, matt? matt: if the obama administration was not surveilling trump world why did the "new york times" and the washington post write storey after story after story about how trump was so wired up with putin in russia, there were several investigation going on. what was the obama administration look at these connections with putin or not. they can't have it both ways. i think the president is making a fair points. let's put on the table what happened. let's go through the intelligence committee. i want to know what happened. lou: i'm -- i'm astounded by this. we have h

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ed rollins and michael goodwin. let's start with his week delay for a man everybody knows should be on the supreme court. >> you have to understand in that week they all go on recess. they are out two weeks. they have one more week here and part of the second week. they can delay this thing a month. lou: the coming and the senate have a racket. the president is a whirling dervish. he's working 24/7 web's going all the time. then here is speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell. >> they have spring break every month. you would think that the sense of urgency the country expressed in the election would carry over and this would be a productive congress. howie: you would think with looking at the issues and challenges and threats we have got, somebody who say we need to convene until problems. >> extreme partisanship means nothing gets done. we have to figure out how to get it done. they stumbled badly on the healthcare. lou: speaker ryan said for weeks he was going to pass it and he had the votes. what is going on with ryan?

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we have ed rollins. your reaction to the deliberate way in which the president delivered that phrase and naming the enemy. >> it is very important. it is what he said all the way through. no disrespect to at this time the advisor. they are advisor and that's what the president says and believes. and that is a point he needs to make. >> lou: the president also, and i concur with you on that. i find it troubling that some of his advisors might be suggesting caution in that. we saw it with george bush, it was a disastrous idea on the part of rice and his national security team, president bush's. we saw the same thing with president obama and now 15 years later in to the conflict and still discussing things like terms of reference when talking about radical islamist. it is troubling. >> i think the president was emfathic and his top priority is the u.s. military. tremendous thing he did the navy seal owen and his wife. >> lou: wonderful moment. >> he said if we put young men and women in combat we'll make hi

lou: ed rollins joins us next. stay with us. lou: the trump administration is tired of the national left-wing media anti-trump bias. sean she is 'er made it clear if someone is interested in ties to russia, they ought to be focusing on clinton and obama, not trump. >> last year tony podesta lobbied against sanctions for russia's largest bank. and john podesta sat on the board of a russian company. as secretary of state hillary clinton along with the obama administration approved a deal that gave russia 1/5 of america's uranium reserve. bill clinton received half a million dollars by a paid beach by a bank connected to the our iranian deal. lou: do you hear the stampede? that's the national left-wing media rushing to investigate those stories. president trump says he feels somewhat vindicated by devin nunes over the surveillance of mr. trump. but he also offered this promise on the campaign trail. >> we are going to start winning again. our country doesn't win anymore. we are going to win so much you may even get tired of winning

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ed rollins, thank you, sir. always making it fun. between you and chad i noticed the i.q. average goes up remarkably. up next, mouse intelligence committee chair devin nunes explaining why it was important to tell the president about those intelligence agencies that disseminated surveillance on the trump transition team before and after the election. >> i wanted him to was i saw and he has every right to see it. lou: president trump says he has been vindicated. he's been right all along. christopher he wil ferks rrel wn us from judicial watch. stay with us. we are coming right back. dear predictable, there's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say: if you love something... set it free. see you around, giulia ♪ as after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. what about the people i care about? ...including this little girl. and what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wond

ed rollins, thank you, sir. always making it fun. between you and chad i noticed the i.q. average goes up remarkably. up next, mouse intelligence committee chair devin nunes explaining why it was important to tell the president about those intelligence agenciethat disseminated surveillance on the trump transition team before and after the election. >> i wanted him to was i saw and he has every right to see it. lou: president trump says he has been vindicated. he's been right all along. christopher he wil ferks rrel wn us from judicial watch. stay with us. wewewewewe bp uses flir cameras - a new thermal imagining technology - to inspect difficult-to-reach pipelines, so we can detect leaks before humans can see them. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. hey, searching for a great used yeah! you got it. just say show me millions of used cars for sale at the all new carfax.com. i don't want one that's had a big wreck just say, show me cars with no accidents reported pretty cool i like it that's the power of carfax® find the cars you want, a

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joining me now, republican strategist, veteran of 10 presidential campaigns, ed rollins. not thinking we'll get tired of winning, would you. >> he can send woody johnson over to england. lou: take an afternoon off and fix that, too. >> this is a must-win for the president. he has done everything he needs to do. i worked in couple white house. you could not ask for a more superb effort from him and his team listening to people and twisting arms. whatever it took. he has to win this thing. i think right up to this point in spite of what ryan wanted to down isly, they are on the verge of a big win. lou: we are seeing amendments and public hearings and we are back to the way things are supposed nobody this great constitutional republic. and devin nunes, the head of the house intelligence committee with what appears to be another win for the president seeing evidence of surveillance of the trump transition team. are you kidding? this is outrageous. >> this is an act of courage on his part as the chairman of the committee. and basically to go to the white house and say this is

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we want to bring in panel ed rollins, former white house adviser to president regan.pondent. what do you make of pete bajara? >> he's been an exceptional u.s. attorney and done a wonderful job but they'll be someone else come in and he was always kind of schumer's guy. if i was the president i would want my own person there. maria: people wonder what happened on the case that is are in pete's desk? >> they are still there. outstanding u.s. attorney's office here in the country and i'm sure that the ones that are valid will continue. maria: a new president comes in and he does a sweep, he wants -- he or she wants their own people in there, then -- then why is he grand standing and sending out twitter notes, i was fired, i didn't want to leave. >> well, he was invite today trump tower in november and giving assurances that he would stay on. i think what changed was the leaks and tactics within trump's administration has, i think, provoked the sort of purging you're seeing right now where, i think, they are feeling like they need to put all of their own people, layers an

ed rollins.at to see you. >> thank you very much. >> lou: a close vote but advances ryan care. >> it does. it is a fight to get it all the way through. the speaker talked p about making minor changes. the critical thing he doesn't understand. only way they succeed is if they put it together to sell it. it will not go through the senate. the senate will be tougher. >> lou: the president put his shoulder behind ryan care. p but is it strong enough in terms of the speaker's straightforwardness and willingness to bring in changes within the conference in the house and in conference when the senate does pass it as i assume and hope they will. they are going to a mend it. will it be obamacar or ryan care or trump care? >> it is not trump care if the president is not fuely supporting it. it is not going to pass. the senate is not enthussed about the bill. the speaker doesn't have the ability to get it through, it may be thu the house. but the rules committee pretty much control. my sense it will be clos

cochair of the great american pack and reagan campaign manager ed rollins will join us. want to miss a moment of it. the fight of repealing replace obamacare, white house or saying president trump will be done with healthcare and move on to tax reform if this bill is not passed. sean spicer reaffirmed the president's ultimatum. >> the house freedom caucus made significant changes to the bill that they put forward that make it a stronger bill that continues to move towards the principles we laid out but it the end of the davis is the only train leaving the station repealing obamacare and giving us an alternative to replace it. this is the train that is leaving the station, the choice, the pledge. maria: changes include the following, getting states the right to determine how to handle essential health services. formerly that was on the federal level. it added $15 billion for drug addiction and newborn care. joining us to talk about it is congresswoman marsha blackburn, thanks for joining us. you were in meetings on capitol hill talking about passing this bill, expected to

the dean of republican strategist, ed rollins, pulitzer prize winning columnist for new york most i'ma michael goodwin joining me. some in the white house may want to reassess their thinking. >> this president is not going to be a partisan president. he wants to make sure that people don't get left behind, and there is competition in the marketplace, if those three things are incompatible with some members of republican house, then we need to work with moderate democrats. lou: the same dems that have obstructed president trump every stay, every step of the way since inaugurated. good evening our top story, attorney general jeff sessions announcing a major crackdown on sanctuary cities saying that trump administration will withhold billions of dollars of federal funds from city that do not comply with federal immigration laws. there are more than 300 sanctuary cities and counties in the country, the announcement comes as activist in new york city hole hold a first ever national conference in support of sanctuary cities, fox news correspondent rick leventhal with our report. >> i urge ou

we led off with obamacare, now joining us, ed rollins, jessica tarlov, and rich lowry, editor of "nationaled. we had a great three years together. >> you have done a fabulous job putting this in front of the public and you created a great show. obamacare. tell us your thoughts on that. >> this is a disaster. it will hurt the president long term. getting stuck with this idiotic reconciliation in the senate where you have to moist and drafted a bill for the senate as opposed to a bill for the house. it wasn't good public policy in the end. maria: are we going to see a repeat when they bring a vote for tax reform to the floor? >> the speaker has to present to the white house when he has 218 votes or on the senate sight 51 votes. anything less than that you are not going to push and shove and make it happen. you better make sure you have your vote in line before you say this our bill. maria: what about this, jessica? >> on tax reform? i think it's more likely than healthcare. but there was potential to have compromise on a infrastructure bill which donald trump talked about throughout the camp

>> guest: she outspent him in soft money and he did have a super hack that got started, ed rollins and jeffrey got something that raised 32 million. she, hers raised more money than any other in american history. and they spent it all. she had a ground game with 960,000 volunteers on the ground and it exceeded barack obama . ground game. she had the ceo of google in charge of social media, she had academia, wall street, she had the bang this. she had 240 newspaper endorsements and he had 19. but there was a message and the message was burned like a brand. everyone in america knew what the message was. everyone in america didn't know if you asked right now what is hillary's message, they knew his message, make america great again and we are going to get jobs back. what i would say to them at trump tower, what was the one about and they would say we are on the message because part of the message is he's not a politician, and i think that the american people are tired of politicians. they had the last two presidents of the rich got richer and the poor got poorer and some argue it helps fr

off staffing five-one and out if you counting money and trump did have a superpack that started ed rollins and jesse benton got something going but raise 32 million. she her superpacked more money than any superpack in american history and they spent it all. she -- had a ground game with 960,000 volunteers on the ground. it exceeded barack obama's ground game. she had eric schmidt, the ceo of google in charge of social media. [laughter] she had hollywood. she had acedemia she had banks, wall street, 240 newspaper endorsements. he had 19. but he had a message. and the message was burned like a brand. it just, everybody in america knew what his message was. everybody in america didn't know if you ask them right now what is hillary's message, but they knew donald trump's message make america great again and jobs back and what i would say at a tower off the message supertweet with about no we're on message because part of the message is he's not a politician. and i think the american people were tired of politicians. they had the last two presidents, the rich got richer, poor got poorer. some