governor huckabee is still white and i am still black.ust because it's a racist, we don't switch colors. jesse: the governor has a great andgreat -- a tan. but that doesn't make him racist. >> when did donald trump become a racist. he was the toast of the town much new york city. when did he become a racist. most of people don't suddenly change their entire lifelong philosophy at the age of 72. i would like someone to tell me the moment in time in which he suddenly switched from being this guy every one of every race loved and wanted to hang out with to being a racist. jesse: in the democrats' mind it happened when he came count else today lay tore that summer in d down the escalator in 2015. the green new deal according to the number crunchers, will cost $100 trillion. $93 trillion. herman cain. the 999 plan can't even get that much revenue. >> no. that number that they estimate the green new deal is going to cost is 4.5 times or more the size of our gross domestic product. it does not make any sense. remember the book i wrote. they thin

governor huckabee is still white and i am still black.ust because it's a racist, we don't switch colors. jesse: the governor has a great andgreat -- a tan. but that doesn't make him racist. >> when did donald trump become a racist. he was the toast of the town much new york city. when did he become a racist. most of people don't suddenly change their entire lifelong philosophy at the age of 72. i would like someone to tell me the moment in time in which he suddenly switched from being this guy every one of every race loved and wanted to hang out with to being a racist. jesse: in the democrats' mind it happened when he came count else today lay tore that summer in d down the escalator in 2015. the green new deal according to the number crunchers, will cost $100 trillion. $93 trillion. herman cain. the 999 plan can't even get that much revenue. >> no. that number that they estimate the green new deal is going to cost is 4.5 times or more the size of our gross domestic product. it does not make any sense. remember the book i wrote. they thin

are talking to his people and sarah huckabee sanders the press secretary kind of gave an update to her first statement there's the question of obstruction of justice and it appears that sanders is clarifying the white house's position on that piece of the their report from the attorney general second the sanders says the special counters investigation did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with russia in its efforts to influence the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election that stays the same but then she goes on to say the report identifies no actions that in our judgment constitute obstructive conduct that's part of a. statement from sarah huckabee sanders so you can see that this whole idea of obstruction of justice is what people are focusing on now the white house an initially saying that the summary of the re report showed no obstruction of justice now they're basically saying in our judgment it shows no obstruction of justice so clearly there's a lot to parse here again important to point out that this is just the in

last night sarah huckabee sanders released a statement saying this. chairman nadler and his fellow democrats have embarked on this fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two year false narrative of russia collusion is crumbling. the democrats are more inned in pathetic political games and

optimistic, let's can't we all get along candidacies in 2008, barack obama among the democrats and mike huckabee among the republicans, the two most optimistic candidates and both came out of iowa with the win. there's that version of it. amy klobuchar was the midwesterner get things done messenger with me in this today and that also has an appeal with a certain chunk of iowa voters. i think they both sort of present the two almost competing types of messages to appeal to them. but i tell you this, with the iowans, i came away with one larger impression, which is joe biden's got a lot of work to do, because while joe biden is well-known, all of these democrats seem to be interested in essentially test driving a whole bunch of new cars before they sit there and decide whether the guy from delaware is

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>> before i answer your question, i want to say hello to mike huckabee.d i served as governors together and collaborated on many initiatives when we served in the national governors association. to answer your question, i don't know. i think it's a mistake for the dnc to do what it did. but as you said, if i was dnc chair, i think tom perez is doing a good job. if i was dnc chair, lara, i say give me bret baier, chris wallace, rod williams, and you can have that fox debate any way, any time any numbers of times. >> laura: i'm confident it woul. you can pick the commentators and moderators, i think we should have the debate on fox. let me tell you. even if you persuade 3% of fox viewers, 3% last time out carries michigan. >> laura: fat chance -- i'm just kidding. you are making a very valid point. governor huckabee, i want to play something else from perez, because he doubled down on this. the barring of any fox news hosting of a democratic debate. let's watch. >> this is about -- in this new yorker report, it's about interference at the highest level of f

here is mike huckabee, former arkansas governor and fox news contributor.r, because this is a guy who makes all kinds of lofty statements after he made a fortune investing in spotify, airbnb, uber. he started one of those ethical investing funds you can make money and be ethical at the same time. bono is involved in it. here is one of his courts every dollar is used most effectively narrowing gaatp, advancing progress towards economic inclusion. from that word salad came the man who now is alleged, you know, spent a fortune bribing his child's way into usc, pretending like he was a place kicker. allegedly changing his test scores. what do you think of the hypocrisy here, governor? >> there is biblical verse, melissa, pride goeth before a fall and this is a pretty big fall for some of these people especially a person who is claiming to be ethical. this is one of the moist unethical and disgusting things we've seen in the way of a crime wave in a long time because it is people who are cheating a system and it is not just that they're cheating for their kids,

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. >>> after more than a month of absence, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders formally went before reporters for a daily briefing yesterday where she faced questions over whether president trump thinks democrats actually hate jewish people. that question followed axios report that the president made the remark over the weekend during the republican national committee fundraiser at his mar-a-lago club. >> yes or no does the president truly believe democrats hate jews. >> i am not going to comment on potentially leaked statement. >> do democrats hate jewish people. >> he's had a lot of opportunity over the last few weeks to condemn the comments. i'm trying to answer. the president has had and laid out clearly his position on this matter. democrats had a number of opportunities to condemn specific comments and. have refused to do that. that's a question frank lie i think you should ask demonstrate what their position is since they are unwilling to call this what it is. >> joining me now from washington, d.c., white house correspondent jeff mason. jeff, great to have you th

conway has said, they are entitled to their own alternate facts and the kind of work that sarah huckabee sanders does every time she takes the podium where she tries to weave fiction into some alternate form of reality, that i think is among the most corrosive acts in terms of a democracy and now with these new technologies and an electorate that is being acclimated to the idea that we are all entitled to different truths makes our democracy very vulnerable. >> jeremy hurt from cnn. >> on the michael cohen testimony, there has been a lot of talk about where the investigations go. do you foresee bringing in donald trump jr., jared kushner, ivanka trump, are they witnesses you want to bring back or bring in for the first time and separately, would you want to talk to robert mueller in your committee when he's done with his investigation? >> in terms of witnesses we have brought before the committee in the past, we are examining that list as well as a great many witnesses the republicans refuse to bring in in the first place, and you will see a mix of both. obviously michael cohen testified

here we have mike huckabee and ceo of the new voice herman cain. i will begin with you today so what about waters words? . >> you could be an attorney but stick with your day job. [laughter] you are much better. . >> every time the democrats think they have the gotcha. but then they continue to spew that same narrative no matter what. and with those results that he generates but to embarrass the president at all cost why else would they hold the hearing at the same time the president is trying to denuclearize the peninsula of korea? they only care about trying to bring down trump. >> didn't want protection from kim but the second term and is it a coincidence the hearing was on the same day of the summit? right. >> total coincidence they had no idea it would end up like that. what is amazing the democrats have run out ofts cheese. the sad thing is that every time he answered a question , it helped him rather than hurt him one of the first rules is you never ask a question in open court that you don't already know the answer to these are guys that we

publicly from people like sarah huckabee sanders, you're clearly hearing lack of inclination to actually engage with the question, listen to what sarah huckabee sanders said, and tell me if you think she answered it. >> we're not going to comment on security clearances. that's the policy of the white house, and it continues to be the policy of the white house. we're also not going to get into comments and a back and forth over things that are dealing with the oversight. >> get used to that response. when president trump was asked about the security clearance yet yesterday he answered a different question, the question on the 81 requests for production of documents of different individuals. the white house response is inconsistent and a little confused. >> hans, i'll see you at the white house in a bit. kasie hunt, while this is going down over by the west wing, you have michael cohen who just a little bit ago walked in through the gaggle of cameras and is behind closed doors with house investigators. >> reporter: yes. i apologize we're trying to get -- you saw walk right by here. i feel

huckabee copied me." white house argues this morning it's going to crack down on waste and fraud, so medicare is going to cost less money and senior also never notice their health care plan was "reduced." >> he's not cutting medicare in this budget. what we are doing is putting forward reforms that lower drug prices that, because medicare pays is a very large share of drug prices in this country, has the impact of finding savings. we're also finding waste, fraud and abuse but medicare spending will go up every single year by healthy margins and no structural changes. >> except for $800 billion over ten years not going into it. >>> speaker of the house nancy pelosi startled her own party saying she's not interested in impeaching the president. "not for impeachment" she said. the announcement came as part of an interview with "the washington post" where the speaker said she was making news and unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i don't think we should go down that path,

according to sarah huckabee sanders, it has been 100% contained. acting dod secretary shanahan traveling with president trump, briefing him on this, he's also traveling with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, they briefed him on this development. i was with the president on the south lawn earlier this week when he signaled there was going to be a big announcement related to isis, clearly this is what it is and the president will want to talk about it. this is something he campaigned on, something he's been talking about for quite some time. important to point out, though, it doesn't mean isis is no longer a threat, it doesn't mean it's been wiped out completely but that territorily it has been eliminated from syria. >> these are live pictures as the president is headed to mar-a-lago. let me get reaction to this statement by sarah huckabee sanders, ambassador mcfaul. >> it's an achievement. we want to eliminate territorially the caliphate of isis. the effort to do so has been a success, started by the obama administration, just to remind your list

press have to wrestle with, what do we prioritize when we have a chance to ask a question of sarah huckabee sanders, similarly as the congress has to prioritize and say we can't look into everything, what are the most important things for us to look into. one of the issues that i keep coming back to, even though it's not an issue before the intelligence committee, but as someone who co-founded along with mike pence the caucus on freedom of the press, is very near and dear to my heart, and that is last year we learned that the president was secretly meeting with the postmaster general, apparently in an effort to browbeat the postmaster into raising postal rates on amazon as a way of punishing jeff bezos and "the washington post." more recently, we got some confirmation of a concern that i expressed last year as well and that is was the president seeking to hold up the merger of the parent of cnn as a way of punishing cnn. well, it was reported about a week ago that in fact, he had nstructed members of his staff to tell the justice department to hold up that merger. and if either one of these

if he is a racist then i'm white and huckabee is black. he is not a racist. okay?ernor huckabee is still white and i'm still black otherwise we will switch colors. jesse: the governor has a great tan but he's not black. [laughter] when did donald trump become a racist? for decades the toast of town and the entire world everybody one of their picture with him they all wanted to hang out with him. when did he become a racist? he is 72 years old most people don't suddenly change their ostire life long philosophy at the age of 72 i would like for somebody to tell me that moment in time in which he suddenly switched from being this guy that everyone of every race loved to being a racist. tell me when that happened. jesse: and the democrats mind it happened when he came down the escalator. now from black to white to green. the green new deal will cost, are you ready? almost $100 trillion. $93trillion. the 999 plan cannot even get that much revenue. >> no. that number that they estimate will cost is four.five times or morepr the size of our gdp. it does not make any sense

we have mike huckabee and kellyanne and ken starr. we have congressman mark meadow, jim jordan and jason chaffetz and many more. brian: we are going to try to cover a lot of news today. the biggest story around the globe and certainly in this country william barr came up with and that is along with rod rosenstein, which is brilliant by the way to have rod rosenstein still there to say like. steve: to validate it. brian: this the is guy that more than likely offered to wear a wire to wiretap the president. they looked at it and said here is your conclusion. ainsley: rod rosenstein said he was so alarmed by the bias between strzok and page and that's exactly what we are finding, we are going over all the media reports last two years and looking at the costs of the investigation and how big this scope really was. 675 days. total cost 25.2 million. 2800 subpoenas. 500 search warrants. obtained more than 230 orders for communication records. 50 orders to tap phones. 13 foreclosure government requests for evidence and they interviewed 500 w

steve: mike huckabee will react to that.ing all forms of bigotry? connell: freshman congresswoman ilhan omar denying to comment about her anti-semitic comments. let's find out more. our next guest lives in the congresswoman's district. the congresswoman has zero regard for jewish-americans. tony lazaro joins us now. what makes you say that? >> it is interesting, here in the fifth district of minnesota this is where the largest jewish population lives in the state and people are starting to feel very uncomfortable with representative omar's comments recently. i think a lot of people were very open-minded to her in the beginning but a lot of that has changed recently with her repeatingly so close together making these type of remarks that really show zero support to israel whatsoever. connell: she came out against other democrats like president obama saying hope and change was a mirage. >> yeah. i think what is really interesting is the other democrats she going after along with aoc and rashida tlaib is really hurting the demo

you sarah huckabee sanders coming out and saying he is exhilarated, saying it is a great day for presidentessentially he is in the clear, but i refer you to the editorial in the fc this morning when it says "mr miller's report is not the beginning of the end, it marks the start of the next phase, and if anything the political battle is likely to inte nsify". political battle is likely to intensify". —— mr mueller. there is apr intensify". —— mr mueller. there is a pr war here, mr trump is not out of the woods yet. will leave it there because i want to get onto this peter tabichi, who is the science teacher in kenya, who teachesin science teacher in kenya, who teaches in rural can you, he has been nominated as the world's best teacher, and it is a lovely story with lovely pictures, he is quite phenomenal when you read about him and what he is doing —— teachers in rural kenya. when i read this story this morning, in essence he is taking this award on behalf of a lot of teachers out there. he is in unique case, to recap the story, he donates 80% of his salary back to the school in rural kenya

>> if sarah huckabee sanders wants to get into a credibility ratings battle with me, i'll take her on are the president's feelings of working with his kids? because not every president has had his children in there in official capacities in the white house. >> no, they haven't. we have a nepotism law to stop it. >> stephen: a weak one, evidently. >> suggestion. please don't do that. ( laughter ) so how does the president feel about it? >> so beyonce is actually -- he's very ambivalent. he was very ambivalent about having them come in. he hates it when they get negative press. he's probably not going to like reading about this book too much. he hated it when jared couldn't fill out his security clearance form many, many times. >> stephen: if there were 100 corrections in the security form, yes. >> he hated it when, you know, they both misused email. they used private email servers. >> stephen: why do you think the president doesn't get them out of there? >> so it's really interesting. he asked john kelly, former chief of staff, to make their lives so miserable that they would just resi

with white house press secretary and woman who brought lemon squares to the book burning, sarah huckabeenders. last night, huck-a-buck tweeted out this "new york post" graphic: "mueller madness! which of the angry and hysterical @realdonaldtrump haters got it most embarrassingly wrong? hashtag-you decide." that hashtag you decide is also the hashtag robert mueller used regarding the obstruction charges.çó ( laughter ) now, as soon as i saw this jokey bracket full of media personalities huckabee wants to smear in the wake of the mueller report, i knew it wasn't worth my time... until i saw that i made the big dance! ( cheers and applause ) whoo! whoo! ( piano riff ) i'm a conference champ, baby! ( cheers and applause ) you see that? >> jon: yeah, i see that! >> stephen: thank you very much! ( audience chanting stephen ) exactly! ladies and gentlemen, if you watch the show, you know if i'm in, i'm in it to win it! okay? ( cheers and applause ) i'm the ultimate cinderella story, i'm an enchanting ballroom dancer and many of my interns are mice. ( laughter ) right next to my photo on this mu

you will not believe what kirsten gillibrand wants to give illegal immigrants, mike huckabee next. later, to the lone star state to see what texas thinks of robert francis, beto, and the reason why o'rourke, literally after he lost to ted cruz. i'm not making that up, literally. straight after the break. ♪ or other child. or their new friend. or your giant nephews and their giant dad. or a horse. or a horse's brother, for that matter. the room for eight, 9,000 lb towing ford expedition. jushis local miracle ear t at helped andrew hear more of the joy in her voice. just one hearing test is all it took for him to hear more of her laugh... and less of the background noise around him. for helen, just one visit to her local miracle-ear is all it took to learn how she can share more moments with her daughter. just one free hearing test could help you hear more... laughter...music...life... call now for your free hearing test from an industry leader: miracle-ear. ♪ >> sean: we showed you how democrats want to abolish the electoral college. lower the voting age and you stack the supreme co

huckabee is wrong. >> huckabee can play the bass, though. >> let's line up for that. you will have malignant cooties you can't get rid of. he's radioactive, beware. >> the betsy devos situation, the attempt to defund special olympics. the feature of this administration is that he will set up his people and then he will knock them down himself. betsy devos was talking about his policy, the budget out of the white house that had no funding for special olympics. maria shriver is here, very important, funding for special olympics. he said, oh, no, i fixed it. he causes a problem and fixes it himself. atmosphere strange thing. what are you all looking for? i want to pivot back to the primary for a second. everyone assumes everyone in california are for kamala harris. are there other candidates making waves? are there people -- visits? >> first, kamala, i love. i really love elizabeth warren. she has the most policy points that i'm like, okay, girl. because of the pock hanta, people are pushing her aside. >> it's important, are other candidates coming here? >> i'm sure they

on the treason issue the president seemed to mess up sarah huckabee sanders talking points on treason because sarah huckabee sanders came on this show and others and said people accused the president of treason and how long that was talking about john brennan and others. the president i don't know whether he intentionally mixed it up or by accident but said others were treasonous. >> this is i'm rubber your glue impulse. . but the stakes are far higher. to your point about russia's attempt to influence elections, fbi director wray, department of homeland security has been very, very clear and consistent about the clear and present danger of this. so when the president diminishes it, it's not about saving his own face he's sending a message we're not taking these threats seriously. >> if he doesn't belief vladimir putin president trump, i don't know who he'll believe. >>> now to this. british parliament remains dead locked over brexit even after prime minister theresa may offered to resign if her plan was pushed through. cnn nic robertson is live at 10 downing street in london with mor

doug mckelway, thank you. >> bill: for more on this governor mike huckabee. how are you and welcome back here. i guess it's done and dusted, right? time to move on. >> i'm sure that's how the democrats are going to play it. they have a bigger issue. what they needed to do was serve up a double cup of double expresso condemning the anti-semitism that had been expressed by congresswoman omar. instead, they gave basically a little small cup of lukewarm water. it was really an insult. it almost did more harm than good because they really didn't do anything. and when she came, was accused of saying some inappropriate things he got condemned by name on the house floor and lost his committee seat. nothing has happened to omar. nothing. and she has made disgusting, insulting anti-semitic, anti--jew anti-israel comments and nothing happens. i think nancy pelosi has a problem on her hands. she has got some, you know, very young horses in the corral who have broken through the gate and are running wild and she cannot control them. >> bill: speaking of which ocasio-corte

joining me now with reaction relatable podcast host allie beth stuckey, fox news contributor mike huckabeeshare a love and passion of israel. this prime minister has been as good with moral clarity than any i have seen in my lifetime and i hope he gets reelected you have been to sderot and gaza. have you made the tours. such a small area that they must defend. they do not have defensible borders. >> sean, i will actually be there this coming monday and tuesday. one of the things that i find ridiculous is when hamas and israel -- islamic jihad say they didn't do it. who did? a boy scout troop? who has the capacity to launch rockets towards tel aviv. this is a bunch of terrorists. i'm so frustrated that a lot of people in the american media and in the u.n. don't understand that israel is under attack constantly by a group that by anybody's definition is not a country. it's not a government. it's a terrorist organization. israel has to fight back it's their only way. that's why the prime minister is so important there right now. >> sean: it is essential that b.b. stay in office. it's essentia

last night sarah huckabee sanders released a statement saying this. chairman nadler and his fellow democrats have embarked on this fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two year false narrative of russia collusion is crumbling. the democrats are more inned in pathetic political games and indicatoring to a radical, leftist base. trump's 2020 campaign released a similar statement. a white house official tells nbc news the white house counsel's office acknowledges that the judiciary committee needs reasonable accommodation to perform legitimate oversight committees. the white house office counsel plans to review the requests on a case by case basis but some of the request may present clashes over executive privilege. >> joining us now elena. great to have you on this busy morning. let's talk about the democrats and all of these sweeping large scale investigations that they are looking into, everything in the trump world, possible obstruction of justice even financial wrong doings. what specifically are they looking for in these documen

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and the morning that first statement from sarah huckabee sanders cooperative indicating they would work together. the president when we asked him around lunchtime what he did, he said we always cooperate, and then came that statement from sarah huckabee sanders last night, and then this morning president up and tweeting. he's calling the democrats crazy. he's using strong language when you look at the direction the president seems to be taking it this morning, at least on twitter, it is a marked shift from yesterday. and hallie, just what they're dealing with, basically the strategy from the democrats seems to be to be asked to be cced on everything that all the 81 people may have sent to the mueller probe, to the special counsel's office. it's a way to piggie back off that investigation while broadening it out. you have companies. the president's companies and campaign, his inaugural committee and his cabinet. it's the broadness of the requests that's going to be a real challenge for this white house. >> hans there at the white house. hans, thank you much. let me bring in now chairman

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sarah huckabee sanders echoed what the president had to say yesterday writing in a statement the special counsel did not find any collusion and did not find any obstruction. attorney general barr and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein further determined there was no obstruction. the findings of the department of justice is a total and complete exoneration of the president. george conway tweeted quote, you misspelled while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him. please fix. thanks. >> five days ago president trump called for the full report to be released. >> it's interesting that a man gets appointed by a deputy, he writes a report. you know, never figured that one out. my voters don't get it. i don't get it. at the same time let it come out. let people see it. that's up to the attorney general. i look forward to seeing the report. >> the president said the decision would be left in the hands of attorney general william barr who told the senate in january whether he could release mueller's report. >> under the current regulat

sarah huckabee sanders saying the following. she announced that the territorial isis caliphate have been 100% eliminated in syria. she directed reporters to the department of defense for additional information and she showed reporters a map of syria, possibly the nap that president trump has. >> harris: we know that was the one he held up, so you fully anticipated that would happen. >> morgan: i can't underscore how important this is, not only for the president before the men and women on the ground and our allies who have been fighting. what you are seeing is the actual physical territorial caliphate that isis put together, you have seen that completely destroyed and dismantled. now there's a lot of remaining questions of what happens. the institute for the study of war has put out a report that many of these isis fighters have gone back to iraq. remember, isis comes from something called a qi. al qaeda in iraq. it's a group that grew from there. there are many historical strongholds in iraq. they are defeated in syria, it's im

earlier today white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said the president will decide when he's ready whether or not to pardon manafort for his crimes. meanwhile, former cia director john brennan said today there is no doubt in his mind that trump will pardon manafort. >> personally, i don't have any doubt that mr. trump is going to pardon paul manafort at some point. the question is when. but then if he's also convicted of state charges donald trump is not going to be able to pardon him for that. >> with us this evening to talk about it, rick wilson, a veteran republican strategist whose views about the president are best expressed by the title of his book, "everything trump touches dies." recently released with new material in paperback including an even higher death toll. rick, always a pleasure to have you. thank you very much for coming on. i noted last week in real time the list of physical ailments that manafort's lawyers made clear that the court hear them out on. everything to my hearing but moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i wonder if they were setting up the

team beginning with sarah huckabee sanders. she released a statement to us where she says that they are now awaiting next steps. this, of course, goes through the attorney general, the president's most recent cabinet pick william barr and that the white house has not received or been briefed on the report. that is notable because there are concerns expressed by democrats about the white house getting what democrats have characterized as a sneak peek of the report. rudy giuliani has told me they are not seeking that and any decisions must be made by the department of justice. giuliani and jay sekulow, the president's outside legal team have also released a statement. they say they welcome the release of the report to the department of justice, robert mueller closing his business, turning over the report to william barr and they say the next steps will be determined by the attorney general. so that's where these things stand. what stands out about that, no calls for witch-hunt. no demands of no collusion. none of the typical rhet

if you don't know, mike huckabee is a famous bass player. [ laughter ] are you -- just since i have youi'm not. >> seth: that's exactly what a manchurian candidate would say. >> yeah, exactly. [ laughter ] >> seth: exactly. caught you. >> i'm not a manchurian candidate but i do have amazing staff and in no part thanks to the fact that we pay a living wage in our office. we don't pay any less than $52,000 a year. which means -- [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: yeah. >> which means so far two of my staffers have been able to quit their second jobs in restaurants and be fully present at work. and so, you know, i hope it's a lesson to our folks on the other side of the aisle that if you pay your staff, then -- >> seth: you'll be prepared. >> you'll be prepared. you won't be saying yes or no, capitalism or socialism. [ laughter ] >> seth: one thing i'm curious about, because obviously a lot of people, your colleagues across the aisle, they also consume a lot of fox news. do they then get, you know, bad information about you? and how has your interaction with them been so far? >> yeah, yeah.

i asked sarah huckabee sanders earlier today if there had been any discussion about pardoning manafort. take a listen at what she had to say. >> the president has spoken on this already. he wants full transparency as he does in everything, every day. however, that decision is being left up to the attorney general. >> does this open the door for pardons for paul manafort? >> there's no discussion of that taking place at this point. >> reporter: will we hear from president trump today? we're not sure yet. we know he is meeting with the israeli prime minister. so far no public events. but certainly we hope we get to ask him a few questions. later on this week, he's going to be campaigning in grand rapids, michigan. you can expect him to take a very big victory lap there before a very supportive crowd. >> that is for sure. pete williams over to you. i'm curious what your big unanswered questions are and what exactly the attorney general is up to at the doj today. >> i think he's going about most of his business. there's going to be a long process to see how much of the mueller report can b

bring in mike huckabee. governor, welcome to the program. good to see you. look, i said in my editorial, it was an editorial top of the hour, i want to now investigate the investigators because i do believe a deep state coup was narrowly averted and i want to know more about it. what about you? >> absolutely, stu. as usual, you're right. i have to say it. hurts me to do so. look, we know this. there was a conspiracy, there was a coverup and there was an attempted coup but donald trump had nothing to do with it. tell you who had something to do with it. the people in the previous administration, people like comey and lynch and mccabe and strzok and page. there's a long list, clapper, brennan. those are the people who engaged in a decided attempt to try to overturn the results of this election and prior to, they were the ones who knew that there was russia attempt of interfering. they were the ones in charge of the government, not donald trump. so if somebody is going to be held accountable for what russia tried to do, apparently they weren't successful, but w

that worked for mike huckabee in 2008. he was the most optimistic ones. iowans graph t.e to th they are an update people and they like the bread-and-butter folks and amy klobuchar is a midwesterner, so they are familiar with her hand she sounds a lot like iowa politicians that talk about bred and butter issues. that sometimes gets reward, too, in/warnings but you do hear that, but the biggest thing i would say that i took away from talking to iowa voters is joe biden needs to be prepared for a long year, and i i s this way. look, he's going to come in on day one and be the polling front-runner. but all these voters are -- they want -- they are interested in new first. they may end u inbiden, okay. they know electionability matters to them b they know what you're going to get with him. the's a bunch of new cars over here and he has to hope that the w cars don't start well or will be too much to fix or cost too much money but he's got to fear that voters and iowans like to d this, hope that they don't fall in love with somebody else or another car f and can

sara huckabee sanders made the statements that he likes kim jong-un. nationaly he's his o security adviser and he thinking his winning personal is enough to get the north koreans change their whole view of the cessity or lack of necessity of the nuclear program. i think it's a dangerous derangement to think he is going to somehow, by acting nicely, treating nicely, saying that he loves chairman kim, changeorth korean behavior. it's a real danger to the country. white the administration goes through this conflict with itself, the north ko an spins on its nuclear program and continues building its mis les. >> i wa ask you also about the trump investigations. there's been aumber of revelations this week about president trump and the people around him, everything from h cozy relationship with deutsche bank, to ivanka trump and jared kushner reportedly using private messaging services to conduct official white house business. what's your take on this development? >> we have a lotf concerns about the intervention, for example, toow overrule hi chief of staff

ainsley: let's bring in raw huckabee sanders, white house press secretary.rs do what we put them in office to do about things that really matter instead of investigation, investigation, investigation? what are your thoughts? >> the president is exactly 100% correct. it is an absolute embarassment members of congress are using all their time and resources into attacking the president when they should look to try to solve problems this country has like the president is doing. they should follow his example of coming to work every day and looking for how they can help the american people, not how they can attack this president. it is absolutely outrageous that their number one job and their number one priority is to try to beat every person that is supportive of this president, beat them down and attack them instead of, look for these, just, expedition that you're seeing led by chairman nadler is truly an embarassment to congress and it is hurting our country. it is the opposite what they were elected to do, the opposite what we need them to do? steve: jerry na

we're joined by white house ress secretary sarah huckabee sanders. good morning, good to be with you. >> good morning. >> the president seems elated maybe even relieved. he said america is a great country at the white house yesterday. he's in aosition now to publicly support maybe even authorize trelease of this underlying mueller report. will he do i? >>hink that the president is doing exactly what he should, and that's leaving that decision into the hands of the attorney general, and we'll see what decision he makes on that front. >> well, last week he said let it come out, and of course there was a bipartisan vote house to release the -- publicly thse mueller report , so he's already on the record, so does he or does he not support the public release of this? >> look, i don't think the president has any pro it.with he has been the most transparent accessible president we've seen in modernhistory. this is a person who loves to engage with the questions day in, day out. he's more than happy for any of this stuff toome outecause he knows exactly what