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joining us on the couch press secretary ari fleischer is here and happy to have him. you are out numbered, sir. back to the couch for you. all right, always good to have you. a lot going on this morning. let's get started. a tough round of questioning for christopher wray this morning. lawmakers demanding answers on whether or not anti-trump bias exists within the f.b.i. here is what he had to say. >> my experience now six months in with the f.b.i. has validated all my prior experiences with the f.b.i. which is that it is the finest group of professionals and public servants i could hope to work for. every day many, many, many times a day i'm confronted with unbelievable examples of integrity and professionalism and grit. there are 37,000 people in the f.b.i. who do unbelievable things all around the world. and although you would never know it from watching the news, we actually have more than two investigations. and most of them do a lot to keep americans safe. >> chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been watching all of this with us. a strong defe

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ari fleischer served as white house press secretary for president george w. bush. is now a fox news contributor. welcome. one of the rules of the state of the union. one of the things you want to accomplish is set the stage for the agenda for the coming year. how well do you think the president did on that point? >> his agenda is the major initiative. he did really well. he left out two major initiatives. tax reform in the can and infrastructure and immigration reform. he did the major dry-cleaning. >>paul: that's interesting because i see most thinking, i've watched too many state of the union addresses. you usually see a little more substance on the issues point he really zero in on immigration in detail but on some of the others, they were almost one-liners. let's do something about prison reform, not a lot of detail. >> that's consistent with donald trump. from the days of his candidacy, he is not focused on a deep level on policy. on initiatives. it's much more about personality and being the businessman. going to washington to change washington. i remember du

every fleischer served as press secretary for george w. bush. he is now a fox news contributor.e of the rules of the state of the union, one of the things you want to accomplish is set the stage for the agenda for the coming year. how well do you think the president did on that point? >> his agenda is the major initiatives he did really well. he left out tax reform in the can and infrastructure and immigration reform. he didn't do the laundry list. he did a major dry-cleaning. >>paul: usthat's interesting because i see - - i have watched too many state of the union addresses and one of the things you see is a little more substance. the president zero in on immigration in detail. but on some of the were almost one-liners. let's do something about prison reform, infrastructure, permitting, move on. not a lot of detail. >> and that is consistent with donald trump. he has not focused on a deep level on policy. it's much more about personality and about being the businessman that can go to washington to change washington. i remember during the campaign he went to o idaho to give a ma

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joining us now ari fleischer, here's what we know from the memo.ly talked to one person in particular that red the underlying documents. ari, we know the fbi and doj knew the dossier, they knew it was fabricated, they knew it was false information. even they said they were in the infancy stages of verifying t remember months later, it was james comey that said, oh, it's not verified, and it's salacious. as he informed the president elect. they also knew it was bought and paid for by hillary clinton, they never told the fisa judge. they also knew the guy who wrote it christopher steele hated the president and had an agenda. they also knew they couldn't spy on a trump associate as mccabe said without the dossier. they used it any way. they used it to impact a presidential election, using the opponent's bought and paid for lies. you can't write a spy novel worse than this. >> no, it's very disspiriting sean. the idea that you can have a campaign pay for opposition research, that then gets funneled over to the fbi so you can investigate your opponent,

joining us now is ari fleischer the former white house press secretary under george w. bush and fox news contributor. it is never the job that any president wants to have when they become consoler in chief at a time like this and there are all kinds of screams and criticisms from around the country at what happened yesterday in parkland. give us your sense of how president trump handled this one today. >> i thought his remarks were the right remarks and this is the time that presidents have to look into their hearts and say how can i help? what words can i use to sooth those who suffer? i think the president found the right words. these are among the most difficult things presidents have to do is to become the nation's comforter in chief and it's a moment every president goes through and i thought the president did a very artically, emotionally and well. >> no child should ever be in danger when he or she goes to school. no parent should have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them goodbye in the morning among the words the president used. you know, aga

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ari fleischer, one of your guys, press secretary, said when he was 30, they had the '91 desert stormade in america and it was a spectacle he really enjoyed. >> dana: yeah, and he said he wouldn't mind doing it again. it was after the military victory, cost $12 million of the time. this would cost upwards of 22 million. jennifer griffin was on the 2:00 show and i asked what's the reaction at the pentagon. she said it was a collective eye roll. i think the democrats were predictable in their response. i don't think it was politically smart to do that. i think what you should've said is to say we honor the troops all the time. we honor the military. in fact, what we should do, mr. president, the money you want to spend the parade, let's put it into increasing wages for the men and women in uniform. that would be a better way to do it, mr. president. then they would look like they are being petty and turning it -- as soon as i heard about this news, i knew it would be another one of these dry line in the culture wars saying owned and if you are not for this, you hate the military. you do

. >> shannon: ari fleischer, always great to have you with us. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> shannon: be aware, bad guys. we are going to introduce you to two women who fought off an armed robber and took him down. they beat the bad guy at his own game by exercising their second limit rights. the video unbelievable. you will hear the first-hand account, their story (phone ping) gentlemen, i have just received word! the louisiana purchase, is complete! instant purchase notifications from capital one . technology this helpful... could make history. what's in your wallet? >> shannon: hard stomach moments in the liquor store in tulsa, oklahoma. go online and watch the whole thing. the owner of the store fending off a armed robber with her own handgun. they join us now live and, ladies, i have to say. my heart was racing watching this thing. i cannot imagine living through it. what was going through your mind? as this was all playing out? >> just, i wanted him to stop. i just wanted him to leave. i didn't want him to shoot my daughter. didn't wa

and this is what ari fleischer tweeted. he said, ds and most media will decry this objecting to the cost, when it happens many ds won't like it because it's militaristic but most americans will eat it up, they'll love the pomp and take pride in the show of force, honor of the troops. listen, i think it may be true, i think he's right. should the president be politicizing our military like this? >> you're asking me the question, don? >> yeah, it's for you, andre. >> don, i see this a different perspective. i see a gentleman who as a young man went to military school, who comes from a different generation, who believes in america first. he ran on a premise of make america great again. he truly believes in our military. he wants to build it up. he wants additional funding. if you look at all his campaign rallies, there was so much about veterans, our military. we don't look at other countries and say, they had a military parade, that's a terrible thing. in fact, this will bring more attention to our veterans, it will bring att

. >> sean: joining us now the hill's joe concha and former white house contributor ari fleischer.ave talked to one person in particular that read the underlying documents, ari, we know that the fbi and the doj knew the dossier. they knew it was fabricated. they knew it was false information. even they said they were the infancy stages of verifying it remember, months later, it was james comey that said oh, it's not verified and it's i salacious as he informed the president-elect. they also knew it was bought and paid for by hillary clinton. they never told the fisa judge. they also knew that the guy that wrote it christopher steele hated the president and had an agenda. they also knew they couldn't spy on a trump associate, mccabe said, without the dossier. so they used it anyway. and they used it to impact a presidential election. using the opponent's bought and paid for lies. you can't write a spy novel worse than. this. >> no. it's very disspiritting, sean, the idea that you can have a campaign, pay for opposition research that then gets funneled over to the fbi so can you inve

. >> harris: for more on how the trump administration is handling this memo, let's bring in ari fleischer. great to see you. one of the documents we got was the page in the half from the white house. d classifying this information. it's pretty detailed. how important is that? >> it's the power of the president to declassify information and i think that's what you have here. if i was in the white house i'd have done that one other thing today, i would declassify adam shifts memo. let the public seat both memos at the same time and let the public render its judgment about who is right and who is wrong. i read the devin nunes memo. it is troubling. what you see is that the fbi relied on a document paid by hillary clinton's campaign. an essential part of why they got the warrant. >> harris: is there maybe not a straight line because we don't have everything, is there enough indication that anything this warrant had to do with needs to be looked at? anything? that's a quite a bit. >> i suspect the fisa court is already doing that. with this news out there i suspect they are going back through

ari fleischer on that.is something that i think our own john roberts pointed out could go on awhile and back and forth investigating this could go on for a while. what do you think of that? >> well, i think the principle mistake president trump made was in his initial state when he only praised rob porter. he talked about due process. he talked about people are innocent. if they claim their innocent, that's his point of view. he neglected to talk about the women involved here. when you have a she said, she said, she said and he said, which is what you have here, it would have been appropriate for the president to acknowledge that women are victims of domestic violence and society needs to come together. of course, we don't know all the facts but he took one side of the story and that's come back to bite him. >> neil: yeah, he tried to dial it back with sarah sanders but to little avail. you know how you get security clearances and the like and all the wringing you go through to get that. i'm sure you dealt

. >> shannon: ari fleischer, always great to have you with us. you. >> thank you so much. >> shannon: be aware, bad guys. we are going to introduce you to two women who fought off an armed robber and took him down. they beat the bad guy at his own game by exercising their second limit rights. the video unbelievable. you will hear the first-hand account, their story next. thou hast the patchy beard of a pre-pubescent squire! thy armor was forged by a feeble-fingered peasant woman... your mom! as long as hecklers love to heckle, you can count on geico saving folks money. boring! fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> shannon: hard stomach moments in the liquor store in tulsa, oklahoma. go online and watch the whole thing. the owner of the store fending off a armed robber with her own handgun. they join us now live and, ladies, i have to say. my heart was racing watching this thing. i cannot imagine living through it. what was going through your mind? as this was all playing out? >> just, i wanted him to stop. i

joined now by ben shapiro editor and chief at daily wire.com who wrote about this today and ari fleischerfox news contributor. great to have both of you with us today. ben, obviously the underlying story here is ugly. it does not look good. and the more we learned about it today and went through some of these blogs and information that's out there is a big fall for rob porter. no doubt. he helped righ write the state f the union just a few days and ago now he has lost his job. your thoughts. >> major fall from him. a falwell deserved from the credibility of the allegations and of course got multiple allegations from multiple different women. you have a police action that was filed against him. a temporary restraining order. the real question here is what did john kelly know. and even if he only knew some of the allegation, why would he allow rob porter to get so close to the president? that really is the question to me. it's clear to me that from what kelly has said, what the administration has said he didn't, for example, have access to the photo of the ex-wife who was hit in the face. a

the read from ari fleischer, the press secretary for george w. bush. so you're seeing this and how this went down. how it continues to be a big national issue now with some of these same protesters planning to do the same in washington next month. others promising follow up rallies ahead of that. how should the president handle this pent-up different kind of rage? a lot of it is from kids. >> he needs to do two things. he needs to listen today, act tomorrow. this is an issue, neil, where our country finally has to get serious about this violence in the schools. we cannot be this type of country. we cannot be. children should not have to go through this. parents shouldn't have to go through this. the solution is in the hands of adults. doesn't have to involve gun control. a series of things that can and should be done to prevent guns from falling into the hands of people that should never have guns in the first place. and that could include raising the age to 21 for all long arms and firearms, hand held guns, which is already the law of the land for fir

. >> with all these messy complications, tony's defense attorney, bruce fleischer, thought about two. >> a lot of of people thought that because of the rothstein ponzi scheme that he had something to do with the murder of melissa lewis. >> and deborah villegas was back in the hot seat herself, being grilled by homicide detectives who bluntly asked her about scott, the ponzi scheme, and melissa's murder. she had her lawyer with her this time. >> was melissa aware of anything that scott was involved with, and i'm going to use the term ponzi scheme? >> no. >> and then the questioning got more direct. >> was there any discussion between you and scott about having melissa killed? >> absolutely not. >> are you aware of any discussion or conspiracy of hiring tony for melissa lewis' murder? >> no. before i would have let him kill melissa, i would have let him move back into my house. that's the biggest regret that i have in all of this. >> but detectives did learn one new thing about melissa and scott, some dish. >> she had an inappropriate relationship with scott. >> melissa had had a brief

feeling that things aren't that bad because the other people who come here are also poor alexandra fleischer is sometimes embarrassed that her lifestyle has fallen to this level. one person to say i try not to let the kids know how poor we are we try to act normal but it's sad that we have no money to go on vacation. no vacation no family outings no movies meals that arca leanne and casey fleisher have gotten used to the fact that there's not enough money to afford extras. not that. i don't like the fact that my family is this poor i don't like to think about it because it's all a little sad members of our. management. and. so much. the aid organization arca is in the east berlin district of health. here every other child lives on the edge of poverty in other words these families live off of a little more than half of the average german income. from market doesn't understand why in a country as wealthy as germany children still have to live in poverty on the fringe of society with parents who have lost all courage. in three dozen to the financial system. and that's simply disastrous for chil

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tomorrow an on media buzz, howie kirtz, and he talks with ari fleischer how the white house deals withragedies like this shooting. leland: and throughout the day we'll be remembering the 17 members of the parkland shooting who as steve harrigan said are beginning to be laid to rest. 14-year-old alyssa alhadeff, the parkland soccer club had a message, we'll quote for it. live for aliyssalyssa, be her v and breathe for her, alyssa loved you all forever. eboni: 35-year-old geography teacher scott beigel tried to save his students. when shots began to ring out, beigel unlocked the door to let children inside for shelter. one of the children he saved said, quote, i thought he was behind me, he wasn't. when he opened the door, he had to relock it so we could stay safe, but he didn't get a chance to. leland: 14-year-old martin is remembered by his older brother miguel as quote, a funny kid, outgoing and sometimes quiet. he was sweet and caring and loved by all of his family. most of all, he was my baby brother, my family and i have no words to describe the event. all my prayers to the lost on

ari fleischer, corey lewandoski join us. ten minutes away.l face off against the new england patriots. brian: eli manning joins us right now. coring to reports he has won two super bowls. he is going as civilian but a professional. why is there a bed behind you at u.s. bank stadium? i thought those were suites? >> exactly. that is what courtyard has done. i'm hire in u.s. bank stadium where courtyard transformed this suite into courtyard guest rooms, the winners of the courtyard super bowl sleep over, wake up here sunday morning to enjoy the festivities of the super bowl. brian: two winners are cory marshall and cory's wife chelsea. your brother surprised them in san diego, right? >> yes. so, cory is just a huge, huge, peyton manning fan. and huge football fan. so he entered into this contest, this sleepover and, you know, contest, and he got to meet peyton and obviously courtyard is bringing them here. get to sleep here, saturday night, wake up in the stadium. and, kind of see what happens behind the scenes of super bowl. watch the game with