lou: fred barnes.he economy set to be a big theme in the president's speech tonight, and the president already vowing to rev it up. >> we're going to get jobs back in our country. you see what i've done, ford announced. general motors. fiat announced. they're all building big plant, coming back into the united states. they were fleeing. lou: and joining me next, our own trish regan joins us. we're live from washington, d.c. with just over an hour until the president's address to congress. this is the silverado special edition. this is one gorgeous truck. oh, did i say there's only one special edition? because, actually there's 5. aaaahh!! ooohh!! uh! holy mackerel. wow. nice. strength and style. which one's your favorite? come home with me! it's truck month! find your tag for an average total value over $11,000 on chevy silverado all star editions when you finance through gm financial. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and up go your rates. what g

joining me now, executive editor at weekly standard fred barnes. >> thank you. lou: here we are friday, and it has been an extraordinary, another one, week, a third week of this presidency, in terps of news, and -- terms of news and challenges he faces. >> indeed. he has done a great deal, but he needs to do now is get lawyers who won't let him down as he has been let down so far on this immigration case. look, president has under constitution, the right to create and enforce immigration policy, statutory law that gives him, that i instead his lawyers are arguing this is why he it this and so on, and the judges are asking about president's motives, and lawyers talking about that, but most glaring area was that all these judges, in this district level and appeal level raised this question, well the 7 countries, they have not sent and terrorists, they have not come from there, since 9/11. and the justice department lawyer, for president trump, did not know that there had been more than 60 cases, convicts, he said he it not know. the -- >> i can hear your frustrati

the executive editor of the weekly standard, fred barnes, and always good to see you.d -- >> thank you. lou: this is fascinating to watch. the president steps forward with the extraordinary press conference which he dismantled the practitioners of this craft who had gathered to attack him ain, i guess. and now he's take his message directly to the american people, still with twitter, but still in campaign mode and taking it on the road. >> and it's working on the road it. worked well at the press conference as well. i mean, you know the press should have liked it. when you compare -- trump's press conference with those of obama, obama's were almost as long as trump's was yesterday, but he would always filibuster. so trump, they got in more than twice as many questions as they usually did at an obama press conference, and then they still complain. lou: they still complain, they whine, and they attack him and this government. i mean, this is really something to behold. you know, whether it be, whatever news organization. their corporate chieftains have decided to unleash

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melissa: fred barnes, "weekly standard" executive editor and fox news contributor. wow, the knives are out. they have taken down two on the trump team so far, if you count puzder as well. what do you think of what is going on? how do you evaluate the overall situation? >> i think the puzder thing is different from the flynn thing. it is really not, though i thought puzder would be a great labor secretary, not alarming the way the flynn ouster is. here we have somewhere in the administration, a trump group, intelligence community, leaking information that is damaging to flynn, and i think, we're going to see more of it damaging to other people working for donald trump. devin nunez, the chairman of the house intelligence committee believes that more is coming. and, this is incredibly alarming. the content of these releases, of these leaks is really not alarming of the fact that they are taking place. this most secret of information be released to press or leaked to the press -- melissa: by multiple sources. by multiple sources. not just one source. there is a lot of l

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and "the weekly standard"'s fred barnes. melissa: back to the markets the dow slipping today but still closing above the 20,000 mark as more uncertainty from the white house weighs on investors. adam shapiro on the floor of the new york stock exchange around peter barnes watching the action from the nation's capitol. we'll start with adam. >> tyson, largest meat processor in the country, everyone knows season chicken, they announced in one of regulatory filing they received a subpoena from the sec, allegations emphasizing allegations that tyson and other meat producers conspiring to fix prices on chicken. that stock suffered subsequently from the notice of the subpoena it was down 3% today. disney, an article talking about who will replace bob iger in 16 months when his tenure is finished and apparently the board is not letting anyone leak information who might be the potential replacement. disney was down almost a full% today. one of the big winners today, who doesn't like a toy, hasbro hit a record high after the "opening

joining me, the executive editor at "the weekly standard," fred barnes. were you laughing? as compliment. >> we haven't all been winning, but we all tried. >> you had reagan. that's all you need. lou: let's turn to this extra. we are talking about -- talking about significant money. it wouldn't have happened if the president had not engaged directly with the ceos of lockheed martin and boeing and other companies to make it happen. >> that's right. lockheed o and the pentagon said they were going to do it anyway. of course, they weren't. like the nato countries spending more on their military. it has nothing to do with trump. lou: if we can get those countries to couple with 2% of their budget for nato, everybody is in. >> this is a first giant step forward. i think to our men and women who basically fight these battles and protect us, it's very, very important we get the best equipment at the cheapest price. he has set a tone that people have to be very careful for people and i think it' a great move forward. lou: the defense secretary is setting quite a tone in asia saying

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fred barnes we have got to leave it there. thank you for coming on tonight. we are coming right back with watch -- with much more so please stay with us. president trump paving the way for economic growth and prosperity for all american businesses. >> this executive order is one of many ways we are going to get real results when it comes to removing job-killing regulations and unleashing economic opportunities. tom: another day another executive action. our president is slowing down anytime soon. media mogul steve forbes joins us next. and our commander in chief wants answers and he wants them now. mr. trump calling on the f. e. i do find those responsible for damaging the white house leaks. with x1 you get the best of the oscars. you're a funny guy. funny how? how am i funny? scorsese finally wins. could you double check the envelope? show me best picture. what's the difference? show me best actor. i do not take tonight for granted. thank you so very much. get all the greatest scripted and unscripted oscar moments on xfinity x1. the oscars, live sunday, febr

david: joining us judy miller and fred barnes. here is the thing.words are one thing, actions are another. are you concerned about the rhetoric turning into some kind of action that would be even more distasteful than the receipt rick? >> i'm worried about the media turning into a bunch of weanies. the first amendment provides people of the press, it doesn't provide the media freedom from criticism. the fact is, i read the newspapers, i read "the washington times," watched shows on television, and the press didn't seem deterred at all. they were still attacking trump. mccain knows better than that. david: we don't have to go back very far to what other presidents have done. president obama's war against fox news was worse than what donald trump is saying now. i start with evidence number one or evidence a. would be james rose be. james did a report on north korea. the obama justice department tried to indict james rosen as a coconspirator to espionage. that's unprecedented. that hasn't been done before. then i give you all the forums the obama admin

fred barnes we have got to leave it there. thank you for coming on tonight. we are coming right back with watch -- with much more so please stay with us. president trump paving the way for economic growth and prosperity for all american businesses. >> this executive order is one of many ways we are going to get real results when it comes to removing job-killing regulations and unleashing economic opportunities. tom: another day another executive action. our president is slowing down anytime soon. media mogul steve forbes joins us next. and our commander in chief wants answers and he wants them now. mr. trump calling on the f. e. i do find those responsible for damaging the white house leaks. we will take that up and much more next. stay with us. hey, searching for a great used car? i don't want one that's had a big wreck just say, show me cars with no accidents reported find the cars you want, avoid the ones you don't plus you get a free carfax® report with every listing i like it start your used car search at carfax.com wheyou wantve somto protect it.e, at l

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stuart: we've got fred barns joining us from washington d.c. he program, sir. >> thanks. stuart: i'm sure you heard what the president had to say. he went on to say that the media is dishonest. not all of them but most of them, and he knows that they are dishonest. i think -- let me just try to interpret this. i think the president is referring there to the way the media always insists that somehow or other president trump doesn't like immigrants. he opposes immigration. that's the dishonesty. because president trump, in my opinion, he opposes criminal aliens. he opposes illegal immigrants to this country. not all immigrants in a blanket sense. what say you? >> well, i agree with that. but -- and the president, we see this in the so-called muslim ban. we also see it in this argument with australia, which i think the media thought, oh, the president was being terrible in speaking with the prime minister in australia, and you probably know about this. and that is australia does not want to have any immigrants who are muslims. that's why some who t

fred barnes is with us. fred barnes must be on board. fred, good to see you, sir. >> thank you. get the obamacare plan, initial plan in place early march to mid-march. he says it's got to go first. it cannot be tax reform. it's got to be obamacare first. you don't like that, do you? >> the tax plan needs to go first but there is reason that trump was talking about it and if you pass the obamacare replacement first it allows you to have bigger tax cuts and because it opens some more space for -- in the budget for tax cuts and that's -- republicans would like to do that. it would help their plan which they hope their tax plan, which they hope to pass by the august recess with congress, boy, they better pass it by then. stuart: do you think that's a realistic timetable, we had people on the program today say, yeah, mid-march is a realistic timetable to get that first initial plan for obamacare on the table andfter that, you n go after cutting, is it realistic to hope for -- i know you're laughing. is it realistic, though, for a tax plan before august? >> you know what, i talked to

stuart: fred barnes, thank you very much.istol myers, special adviser to the president on regulatory reform. now, liz, $20 billion, he's adviser to the president and takes a stake in huge drug company, is there a conflict of interest in. >> it sunt seem th way, you can say that about a lot of the advisers. then make the meetings transparent, what is he advising him on, have him testify on congress on what he advises the president. do it transparently. ashley: the kind of things that critics will jump over. it's too easy. stuart: big names, check them all of the time because that's where the money is, facebook another new high. i believe we are around 135, $136 per share as we speak. 136. they are going to live stream one baseball game a week, maybe making them a new entertainment vehicle as oppose to just getting messages from your friends and relatives. tesla, they report the results after the close of the market today, the stock right now is down 1%. very close, still very close to its old time high, stay was, we are not do

fred barnes is with us from "the weekly standard." what do you say, that dodd-frank is going away.mantled. that's huge news for our economy and every single person in this country. big deal. >> i have to say, i'm a little surprised. i didn't know it would be this sweeping. some of dodd-frank will have to be removed by congress. but this cut out the heart of it. what will happen is we'll get more bank lending and consumer choice. we won't have a shrinking number of financial advisors to run our retirement accounts. regulations often have an effect of reducing whatever the product is that you are regulating. dodd-frank was really not necessary. back in 2008 the problem was not the lack of regulation. it was the lack of astute regulators. stuart: the left is going to go crazy on this. i have not seen anything yet from senator elizabeth warren. i'm sure she'll be in there pounding hard. this is a giveaway to wall street. they stole your money and stole your house and now we are giving them more money. >> i think she might have a little bit of success. these reforms, you wouldn't call t