guy benson, richard fowler, they are back with me now.earing and seeing, guy benson, your thoughts? >> i'm struck by your interview with congressman macarthur from new jersey, that member of the tuesday group, the moderate. his tone, i think, was exactly right. there were americans anxious about health care. obamacare is collapsing. this bill has all sorts of information coming around. they're not sure what's coming next. i think macarthur showed humility and reassurance. i think other republicans ought to take notes on his example how to talk about this. i'm not sure this is the best moment to be cracking beers, clinking champagne glass and high fiving. there's a long way to go. i think there are a lot of things in this bill that are good. i think obamacare is failing. but macarthur i think found the right tone. >> sandra: to be sure, we don't know there's any champagne involved, but we do know there's been a bit of a celebration planned and the president is standing by at the white house waiting to welcome those who voted yes on this bi

bring in with that, guy benson, political editor from townhall.com. s out for the day. guy, it would be hard for this speech, as you predicted, to be more presidential. >> yeah, it was full of gratitude, as it should be. a very powerful speech of bits of anecdote and courage. it was a powerful speech because it was yes, delivered well and written well and that sort of thing. but the reason that it resonates and the reason that i think it was so affecting is because of the people that were honored in the speech. people that have died fighting for this country. i think sometimes most americans who do not serve at an all-volunteer force, we've been at war for many years now and the only reason we wonder if we have enough hot dogs and cheeseburgers for the grill is because of the guys like those in this speech. i think sometimes it's very easy for us, especially in this town where we're focused on politics, politics to lose sight of that. that's why memorial day is so important not just as a day of celebration for americans and welcoming in summer and that

guy benson, political editor at townhall.com and a fox news contributor. simon rosenberg's president and founder of the democrat network and a former campaign advisor for president clinton. president clinton fired an fbi director over questions about his use of a private aircraft. what concerns do you have, simon, about the sudden dismissal of james comey? >> there is obvious reasons to be concerned. he was leading an investigation into the president and his team at a time when a looks like there's been a dramatic escalation in that investigation. what we've learned in the last 24 hours is that there is a grand jury, the grand jury issued subpoenas over the last several weeks, there's now a criminal process in place being run out of the fbi through the grand jury and to mike flynn and his circle and a senate intelligence committee yesterday asked for financial records from donald trump and his family. they're looking to see if there are financial nexus between him and russia. these are huge escalations. to me, it looks like the president is doing everythin

guy benson is a political editor for townhall.com and a fox news contributor.ol guy, does this seem incrediblyo have this article and then publish it on memorial day?y? a day were we are honoring our fallen heroes, many of them coming from the marine corps.s, >> yeah. look, i covered this as a layperson and a civilian.n i have never served in the military nor has anyone in my h immediate family. but we are also thankful, especially in a day like today to those who have and continue to do so. as a journalist, i have no problem with scrutiny or criticism of any institution in america.m that is how we do things in this country, including the u.s. marine corps, which overall is so revered and for very good o reason. for me, though, it is not a beef with the fact that vox, with the website, whatever criticize the marine corps. it is the timing. we, america, have one day come out of 365 every year, where we set it aside to remember, with gratitude, the people who havee died in our military, defending our freedom. and to tee up the for this day is, i understand why people who are really objecting. >>

host of kennedy on fox business, >> kennedy: kennedy and guy benson is our #oneluckyguy. it is that season. guy, good to have you here. we are just hours away from a dramatic test. the pentagon for the first time i'll try to take out of the sky the kind of long-range muscle north korea is believed to be developing. this after the rogue nation testfired a short range ballistic missile on monday. the latest in a series of missile tests to try to find world pressure and threats of war sanctions. north korea's leader kim jong-un who supervised the lunch warning of a bigger gift package to the u.s. james mattis warning of dire and unimaginable consequences of war break out. >> conflict in north korea would be the worst kind of fighting and most people's lifetimes. the north korean regime has hundreds of artillery cannons and rocket launchers within range of one of the most densely populated cities and on earth which is the capital of south korea. the bottom line is it would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat. >> sandra: jonathan hunt is live. >> they are preparing

business dagen mcdowell, recon capital chief investment officer kevin kelly and fox news contributor guy bensonow so far, guys. >> it's been far. that map cracked me up. wisconsin, what's going on in wisconsin? my home state is new jersey, the most misspelled -- googled search term is twelve. maria: a lot of people had problems spelling pneumonia. kevin: i had a problem with the covfefe. dagen: that's a good dog name. maria: maybe will turn out to be something. joining the conversation fox news senior judicial analyst andrew napolitano, former ceo of ck restaurants, andy puzder and kt is here to talk about u.s.-german relations. stay with us. big show ahead. we tick it off with our top story, the president will take a lead role in getting out his message. the president should head that role, watch. >> the best messenger is the president himself, that the american resoundly chose him as their president because he understands the frustrations and concerns an values of the american people and he's probably the best person to communicate that. maria: this as communications director that michael dub

and guy benson. welcome back. so much news to get to as we kick off with a glorious tuesday. i hear hillary clinton making the nixon-trump comparisons. i think they are incredibly lazy and short-sighted coming from democrats who didn't lose the presidential race. i didn't think it was possible to drudge up any more rage against her. ben: she said i would note rather be anywhere else in the world than here today. i was like fact check false. you would like to be the president of the white house and you are not and you seem awfully bitter. shy got the thing wrong about impeachment. but laudable circumspection from cory booker, the senator from new jersey who isn't peace quite that way. between the two of them his approach is responsible. kennedy: what he's doilings obviously running for president. he knows that some day if he becomes the nominee or he's the elected the words of impeachment will come back to bite him. if you think you have a good chance of becoming president, you don't want to continue to lower the fresh hold. >> he is one of the democratic party's youngest star

we're short on time, guy benson.thank you very much for your debut here, up next, brit hume on how trump versus comey battle is playing out in the press. brian, i just need to know if the customer app will be live monday. can we at least analyze customer traffic? can we push the offer online? brian, i just had a quick question. brian? brian... legacy technology can handcuff any company. but "yes" is here. you're saying the new app will go live monday?! yeah. with help from hpe, we can finally work the way we want to. with the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes. >> for this son of indiana it's great to be home again. my mother is with us today. 83 years young. and you know, i'm pretty sure my mother never thought she would see me at a graduation at notre dame. hi, mom. the notre dame class is a class of extraordinary accomplishment. you came from all over north america and all over the world. some 3,143 men and women with graduate with 3,171 degrees. by my count, that difference means we have about 28 graduat

we are joined by marjorie clifton, a form consultant and guy benson.butor and term editor of town hall.com. marjorie, let me ask you, do you see this as being set up to fail? is this going to be reef written by the senate in did the house do it all for nothing? >> the house put this together pretty darn quickly. the senate republicans are look at it on a different side. anyone who passes this bill has to carry it into their district for voting. there has been an issue with people with preexisting conditions. and they estimate 24 million people would lose their health insurance. anybody who picks up healthcare has a hot potato. being able to get the cbo to assess it and understand the economic impact, they think this will take months to put something together, but it will look very different. julie: let's talk about preexisting conditions. guy, you say that that whole premise out there, the preexisting conditions not covered or that if you have a preexisting condition, whatever you have is considered a preexisting condition, you will end up paying more.

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kennedy: jessica tarlov, guy benson, and senior editor at the federalist *, mollie hemingway. i will start with you, mollie. what do you think the purpose of this leak was? this particular one where the senior f.b.i. agent reached out to the "new york times" and read part of the memo. mollie: comey and his associates reached out to the "new york times" specifically sow jason chaffetz would have for the memos. kennedy: i want to make a little bit of a distinction. is it to influence who the next f.b.i. direct is your or to bring down the president. mollie: yes definitely. we are in a coordinated campaign that has larger goals of undermining the presidency. but to fund might presidency you hold up sessions from being appointed. all these different people you want to keep from being at the agency. it's clear we didn't have a good investigation beginning to who was leaking from the f.b.i., in some cases criminal leaks. we didn't have an indication that combr comey was digging into that. but they don't want someone to do a good job of investigating those leaks. kennedy: do you thin

guy benson. some of the federal courts allow you to have a camera.bout the three judges, clinton appointees who heard the case yesterday and seemed skeptical and referred back to the president's comments he made as a candidate. it seemed to be more than the text of the ban itself. so do you think it matters what he said on the campaign trail and would it have mattered if the same ban came out from, say, a president barack obama? >> that's the question. the lawyer in this case who is arguing against the trump administration executive order kept going back and saying context matters. here is what the president, then a candidate, said about muslims or a ban. what the government lawyer is saying arguing for the trump administration is what matters now is the fact that donald trump is the president and there is black and white text available. there is an actual executive order here. not a campaign promise, it's not some potential idea that might take shape. it has taken shape and here is what it actually says and in practice it is within the scope of the

guy benson, you make a big difference. you for visiting us on friday. >> bill: christians slaughtered in egypt again. new details on the massacre coming up in minutes. also this from this week. >> president trump: all people who cherish life must unite in finding, exposing and removing these killers and extremists, and yes, losers. they are losers. >> bill: there is the challenge. how will the nato alliance and sunni leaders react to it. what about russia in all this? ambassador john bolton takes that on in a moment. first here is a word from dr. charles. >> the president refused to say the simple phrase, we will honor article v, which is if one of us is attacked, all of us is attacked. 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. we asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. travel with my daughter. roller der

for more on this, guy benson, townhall.com, also richard fowler, fox news contributor and host of the richard fowler show. want to get your thoughts on this, just breaking out of that news conference, president trump responding to a question shouted to him by reporters, about intelligence sharing, accusations that he essentially threw israeli intelligence under the bus with the russians in the oval office. take a listen. >> president trump: i never mentioned the word or the name "israel." never mentioned that. in that conversation. so you have another story wrong, never mentioned the word "israel." >> leland: there's a few ways to look at this. one, perhaps, the president is trying to put it behind him. on the other hand, he's kind of allowing this to be brought back up again when if he ignored the question and walked off everything would be fine. >> well, i think it would be an enduring issue. i'm not sure the allegation is that he used the word "israel" in that alleged meeting in the oval office. it was that he may have compromised an israeli intelligence agent or source the ground

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guy benson and caitlyn burns of real clear politics.com. good evening to both of you. in the spirit of mothers day weekend. let's start with the ladies. a lot was said today. there wasn't a whole lot of action one could argue but there were a lot of words. where are we going into the weekend? >> a lot of words coming from the president. first we have a fired fbi director. there are interviews going on under way recommendations being made to fill that void. you have a week in which you had conflicting reports, sometimes at odds with one another, reports from white house staff and the president. that's something we have to keep an eye on. also keeping an eye on how congress w is absorbing this kid of news and what reaction they'rebs calling for. we have democrats and some republicans calling for the need for an investigation. i don't think that is going to have much... republicans at large are not going to have much that.te for i was at a town hall this week in a republican district and this kind of news is permeating outsideis of washington and new york. paying attentio

melissa: here is guy benson, townhall.com political editor. he is also a fox news contributor. ama campaign regional field director. thanks to both of you for joining us. guy, what do you think, do they have a point on the leakers? >> i think they have a problem with leaks across the board. some are national security leaks which is a crime. some are just unpleasant, an fortunate inconvenient political leaks, some which are coming from within their own white house. so it does seem like at the moment the trump administration is getting swallowed up by leaking and for his own political future, and on a national security level as well, they have to do something about it. melissa: robin, what would that something be? i mean other administrations on both the left and the right have been beset by similar things. feels like not to this degree but how would you even go about figuring out who is doing this? >> that is a tough one, melissa. i'll tell you they're having meetings every morning where, they're calling loyalty meetings where they list the staff, to list five things that they li

. >> bill: guy benson with us in studio for a change. nice to see you, guy. good morning to you. you just heard dr. krauthammer's view of it. what is your view based on what we think we know right now? >> i think he is generally correct. the opposition would argue kushner didn't have a well defined position at that time. the development we've reporting today and "the new york times" has gotten it from trump sources that the russians were the ones who broached this initial contact with kushner. that could be a game changer about the dynamics and who might be in the wrong. >> bill: explain the reason to differentiate that. why could that be significant? >> the way the "washington post" reported it and a lot of official washington is handling the news is that jared kushner, the son-in-law of the president elect at that point, called up the russians or contacted the russians and said hey, let's get together and chat. i want to talk about some things and by the way, let's do it at your secure facility over your secure system. that looks a little unusual, frankly, to a lot of people in

>> many thanks to but guy benso benson. >> stay with us. facebook, on the web. it will be back tomorrow. "happening now" starts now. >> jon: and we begin with a fox news alert, we are awaiting the daily white house press briefing with press secretary sean spicer, where he is expected to take questions about the resignation of his boss, white house commune occasions director mike dubke. this will be spicer's first on everything since the president left for his trip abroad at more than a week ago. we are bringing it to you live when it begins. but, we begin with new reaction to the announcement that white house communications director michael dubke is resigning. welcome to the second hour of "happening now" on this tuesday. i am jon scott. >> jenna: i am jenna lee. >> jon: mike handed in his resignation, and offered to remain onboard and told the transition is concluded. the president's policies moving forward. for more on all of this, kristin fisher joins us life in the white house. >> this big staff shakeup that we've been hearing so much about, but then again,

. >> shannon: for more on that guy benson is a political editor and fox news contributor.ee you this morning. as they're doing the whip counts where they try to figure out what votes they have, role call is reporting seven members of the gop whip team themselves are undecided. are they going to be able to herd the cats? >> that's the big question now. a few weeks ago it looked like it was the house freedom caucus, the conservatives who had more objections and derailing the initial version of this bill. now it's a lot more moderates who are skittish about pre-existing conditions. it is a misplaced fear in a number of ways but it's a difficult job for speaker ryan and the whip team because of what you just said. when you have members of your whip team undecided, that says the lot about the status of things. >> shannon: okay. we're looking as gop leadership has taken the podium. do we want to listen in or wait for the speaker to get involved? let's listen. >> i'm excited this bill has come to the floor and that the speaker and the leader and the chair woman have been so suppo

they believe somebody has got to know this guy. >> live in arlington, jackie benson, news 4. >> thankou. >> tonight in prince william county, law enforcement came together at a memorial and vigil for the 17 men and women who lived or served there and have died in the line of duty. among them officer ashley gwinden who was killed in her first full day on the job. today the officer's family was one of five added to that fallen officer's memorial outside police headquarters here in the district. prince william county police officers and windon's family were there to see it today. news 4 talked to her aunt and her uncle he is ceremony, the first time the family spoke publicly about her death. >> irt was a so it's just her life was remembered about serving others and not just her son. >> the officer's aunt and mom plan to join hundreds of bicyclists traveling to washington this week in honor of fallen officers. >> to state the obvious, you don't want your national security adviser compromised with the russians. >> former acting attorney general sally yates said today several red flags shou

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