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as our chief washington correspondent james james rosen reports. just about everything associated with the president's signature domestic policy has been shrouded in controversy from the very beginning. >> it was the defining promise of barack obama's presidency. >> if you like the plan you have, you can keep it. >> affordable care act, the president's most contentious domestic initiative. at town halls, critics vented their anger, in part stirred by the tea party movement. >> strike it down. >> which arose to oppose what it called socialized medicine. even a bipartisan brainstorming session saw the president abraded its components. >> we are not campaigning. >> to cover the 44 million americans who lack health insurance, the measure expanded medicaid subsidies, offered online exchanges embraced by 39 states. find noncompliant employers and penalized uninsured people. the measure allow children to remain on parents plans through age 26 and banned insurers from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions. when republicans mustered 41 vo

obama and what he did to james rosen, the times and fox, outrageous.nalized it. >> donald trump is going to take tight a new level. barack obama tried to delegitimize fox. that didn't work put. donald trump is going to try to delegitimize the whole media. the media has helped him. there's a reason why the country doesn't trust them. >> this is the problem with how we handled ourselves throughout the last year. so many of us were so extreme and overt from in our partisanship that people don't necessarily feel that donald trump needs to be dif rent to the media. it's automobiles important to have that media investigate and hold someone accountable. >> it's like the boy who cried wolf. >> nothing but the boy who cried wolf. >> they were apoplectic over everything he did. no one is listening to him anymore. >> taeb breakup of the media where donald trump with go by the gate keepers and communicate with people directly true twitter decreases the public outcry for transparency and press conferences. and i think it's hard are for the public to see how importa

here is chief washington correspondent james rosen. >> and his first white house briefing, president trump's press secretary defended his excoriation of the news media over the weekend for their reporting on the size of the inaugural crowd and other issues saying the real issue is a perceived pattern of hostile coverage. >> there is a constant theme to undercut the enormous support that he has and i think it's unbelievably frustrating when you are continuing they told it's not big enough, not good enough. you can't win. >> spicer stood by his claim that the inaugural was the most-watched ever, counting in person and electronic viewership. he told reporters he will never intentionally lie from the podium, even as he acknowledged having passed along some white ridership figures provided by the inaugural committee that proved erroneous. spicer's tone was far more ingratiating than on saturday when he sharply criticized a "time" reporter for a erroneous report alleging the president had removed a bust of martin luther king that remains in the oval office. >> it was irresponsible and reck

>> bret: james rosen at the state department. after an engine falls off an air force plane midflight, fox 24 in charleston where the sentencing phase continued for a second day for the man convicted of killing nine black church members, friends and family testified about some of the victims today, despite shooter dylan dylann roof arguing that the emotional testimony is prejudicing the case against him. jurors are weighing whether to sentence roof to life in prison or to death. fox 25 in boston, where the bristol county sheriff's offering to send inmates to the border to help build a wall. an announcement today, an initiative suggesting that inmates could volunteer to build the wall or cleanup disaster sites. american civil liberties union calls the proposal inhumane and promised to fight and a plan that the sheriff puts forward. and this is a live look at chicago from fox 32, a day after macy's announces its plans to close 68 stores and cut more than 10,000 jobs across the u.s., sears and kmart followed suit with the announcemen

as chief washington correspondent james rosen reports, the president-elect is hardly waiting until january 20th to let pyongyang knows where he stands on the issue. >> and his new year's day address on state run tv, north korean dictator kim jong-un delivered the usual broadsides at america. >> we should terminate meddling of the united states and other foreign powers who aim for an asian-pacific invasion by controlling south korea. >> worse was kim's claim to have reached the final stages of testing for an intercontinental ballistic missile. if true, it would mean the stalinist regime in pyongyang which conducted two underground nuclear test last year would soon be able to strike the mainland u.s. with a rocket capable of carrying a miniaturized nuclear warhead. >> i believe north korea could fire a missile that could hit the united states today, and i mean at least the west coast of the united states, with a rocket that qualifies as an icbm. north korea probably has not perfected the technology for a reentry vehicle for the warhead and the technology for a guidance system. >> at the stat

now, for the top story, let's bring in james rosen who joins us from d.c.ear that even on friday, after he is sworn in, there may be some executive orders. tell us specifically what you know. >> bill, there will be a. lack of time after donald trump has taken the oath of office as president and before he walks out to pennsylvania avenue, to participate in the review of the inaugural parade, he will have time in the white house to sign a number of executive orders. we are told on friday, on january 20th, he will sign a number of them. they will mostly be logistical. they have to do with things like making sure that certain members of his family receive secret service protection and the like. mr. trump himself told us that the biggest signings will probably wait until monday, after the inaugural weekend, so to speak. even there, there was this debate between his advisors, amongst his advisors, on whether to do this "shock and awe" strategy that you just alluded to, or whether to do it to drip, drip, drip. basically, the drip, drip, drip, from the ascertain, w

fox's james rosen reports this time could be different.rter: 11 words from f house speaker paul ryan rya reignite add major battle onn capitol. >> planned parenthood nobody aby reconciliation bit. that means congressionaleanses republicans will use these t obamacare repeal effort as a vehicle for stripping plannedpi parenthood which carries outesut some 325,000 abortions a year ay of roughly 400 million in00 mili medicaid funding the group g receives for its otherther services such as contraceptionai and cancer screening. screening >> we will fight that decision n by the speaker to defundo d planned parenthood and youd pa know what, the american peoplepl are with us.h >> reporter: republicans andca d pro life groups say the fund thf willing go to local healthcaree providers that steer clear of tions.ons. the congressional budgetonalt office estimates t would impact 400,000 women. >> they don't come to planned td parenthood to make a political statement. they come because they need to e theyee high quality affordable careeca and we're proud

james rosen here at fox news. that's what's interesting about this. he called the obama administration the greatest threat to freedom in generations. the way they cracked down on whistle blowers, and tried to keep foia requests from going through. he did have this reputation that was not talked about much and it was not pressed on it much. and they had a friendlier relationship. howie: sean spicer was talking about moving the press room to larger quarters. trump settled that in a "fox and friends" interview. >> the press briefing room, are you going to move it? >> we'll move it to a larger room and the press went crazy. but some people in the press will not be able to get in. howie: did the media win that skirmish? >> i don't think the outcome is clear yet. i think the trump administration as kellyanne conway said this morning wants to change the terms of the relationship between the press and the president. clearly there is a war going on between the press and trump. we can argue all day who started it, who fault it. i don't know anyone right now who

chief washington correspondent james rosen is inside the rotunda tonight. >> just over 16 minutes, itigure seated on the dais that any figure has ever delivered. >> the establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. their victories have not been your victories. and while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land. >> at times, the newest president appeared to bristle at what he was hearing. >> bernie sanders could have spoken those words. and he spoke those words with the entire establishment sitting there. this is a guy who overturned two dynasties that created and built those establishments. >> heralding the dawn of a new create, a new vision, his reclaimed model, "america first first." >> every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit american workers and american families. we must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. >> it was shocking because it was just

james rosen. this we will be joined by former fbi director and hostage rescue team commander danny colson. mr. colson thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. arthel: are you surprised to hear about the probe and what dots will the doj try to connect in such an investigation and finally how long can this last? >> it could last a considerable period of time. the focus here is wrong. what we are focusing on is the fbi director. when the fbi director and his agency conduct an investigation based on the conduct of hillary clinton they didn't invest this case. she mishandled classified documents he reported it and now there is some criticism because she reported his findings. he is obligated to do that and essentially he gave her a pass. he gave her, didn't recommend prosecution now everybody is batting him. one thing we have to remember this is very important he is obligated come he promised the oversight committee that if there was other information developed in the hillary clint

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this is reopening something that is already been closed, we are joined appropriately by james rosen. is this, james? >> many trump supporters, conservatives and legal experts are questioning the timing and particularly the scope of this investigation into the conduct

under the current president, if i'm not mistaken james rosen of this network got invited as coconspirator of leak investigation of state department official who thought town the ultimate source of information. >> the phone records and other private material were without his knowledge or anyone at fox were subpoenaed and obtained. >> yeah, leak information inevitable is going to lead somehow to reporters. sean owes us a little better explanation. >> i disagree with that. >> a couple of dais earlier, how did nbc get exclusive look, who gave him this report and why, politics. >> that's a fair question. >> a fair analysis. >> what i'm saying is he said that one day and a couple of days later he said he we wanted to direct senate and house committees to investigate. going after the source of a leak is a problem. it's a warning shot to intelligence community. he's rumbling with the intelligence community and once he becomes president he doesn't want the intelligence community to leak to the press. >> government authorities do have a right to go after that. there's the distinction that reporting

susan page, from "usa today," and james rosen. right, james, first, an overview about this news conference in your assessment. >> the hand-to-hand combat with selected conference of the news media whom mr. trump deemed especially dishonest or irresponsible in their reporting. there was a lot of news. we learn, for example, that the repeal and replace for obamacare will happen, as mr. trump said, essentially, simultaneously. we learned that we are expecting a major report on the hacking defenses within 90 days and that we should get a supreme court nominee within the first two weeks of the trump presidency. there was a lot to it, substantively, quite apart from the sort of raucous flavor of the thing. i think in all, it made good on his promise that he made when he visited the carrier plant in indiana and november. he said, if it is not presidential, that's okay. that's okay. i think he isefine what it means for us to have a presidential news conference. >> bret: i didn't invite you on here for the impression, added bonus. susan, th

james rosen, thanks. shannon.: america first it is one of the main themes of president trump's inaugural speech. what exactly does it mean for our allies, and specifically nato? >> we're going to see what happens but, we have a great country, and we want to do what's appropriate. we've been pushed around by a lot of different people. lots of bad things are happening. but i think you're going to see a big improvement, really. shannon: fox news alert, crowds gathering for for the woman's march in nation owes capitol. the crowd is so big, that is it is blocking the route to the white house, that is keeping the march from beginning. ♪ >> we assembled here today, are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capitol, and in every hall of power. from this day forward, a new vision will govern our land, from this day forward, it's going to be only america first. america first. bill: so you heard it during the campaign. you heard it yesterday outlining the theme, america first, in that inaugural add

used and abused agencies under this president to target people don't like, the irs, they spied on james rosend james rising bread and so there is a lot of abuse in the system, and so they are saying if hillary can rig the primary against bernie, is obama rigging the transition against me? let's get a fresh set of guys, my guys, and there and will make a different assessment. >> if you are saying it's okay to be skeptical of the intelligence coming out of obam obama's intelligence teams, is that okay to make it public? >> jesse: i think trump makes everything public, and obama sure made what he's been doing public, so i think it's tit for tat. >> language. >> i have to ask you about that very thing, what are we entitled to know? i think we are strong enough as a country to learn exactly what russia is doing, is there enough of a case there, or are they hiding something? >> he's the president-elect, the moment that he says knows something that they don't and that we don't, don't you think that should be disclosed? >> jesse: maybe he will discuss it at his press conference next week. >> that's f

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier.istence that mexico will pay for a wall along its border has triggered the trump administrations first full on diplomatic desktop. mexico's president has canceled a visit to washington. mr. trump spokesman floated the idea of a 20% tax on mexican imports to fund construction of the wall. all this on a day with the new american president t

katie, you know as we saw with the clip and the report by james rosen this could get ugly on the hillo matter which person gets the nod tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. >> as james noted in his important report about the facts of who these nominees are, democrats are still very bitter and upset that garland didn't get a last-minute chance to be sitting on the bench because they know what is at stake here. not just about donald trump replacing scalia but being able to shape the future of policy in the country based on supreme court decisions for the next three decades. they'll put up a fight. despite things not being controversial before trump became president they then do became controversial and you can bet that chuck schumer will take a playbook page out of harry reid's old ways to cause controversy about the nominees. >> shannon: both these finalists i'm led to believe, hardiman and gorsuch. with this president i feel like he is an independent operator and we can't be too sure about they hear the name. with both of those. many democrats voted for both of these guys. that will be interes

james rosen "fox news."aura: army issuing new guidelines for religious dress making it possible for servicemembers to more openly express their faith. chief religion correspondent lauren green has more. >> hijabs will become were common in the ranks of the u.s. army. new directive to accommodate soldiers like army reserve major kemal comes from a long line of family servicemembers. >> at father, my grandfather both served in the indian air force. my great-grandfather served. for seikh this is something that is part of us and serves not just to your community but to mankind in your country. it's a part of who we are an part of what we do. >> the new combination is a result of -- on behalf of seikhs >> the rules cover the most commonly requested religious accommodations that include turbans for seikhs and orthodox jewish and perhaps others pay jobs for muslim women. an army chaplain says the major pushback against the changes came from the military's uniformity hair short faith and clean-shaven with an all-mal

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier.'s insistence that mexico will pay for a wall along its border has triggered the trump administrations first full on diplomatic desktop. mexico's president has canceled a visit to washington. mr. trump spokesman floated the idea of a 20% tax on mexican imports to fund construction of the wall. all this on a day with the new american president took

this is reopening something that is already been closed, we are joined appropriately by james rosen. what is this, james? >> many trump supporters, conservatives and legal experts are questioning the timing and particularly the scope of this investigation into the conduct of james comey. it will be carried out by the inspector general. the president-elect himself tweeted before don and i quote, what are hillary clinton's people talking about? guilty as hell, trumpet said investigators will probe his statement about the lenten investigations. and the letters that comey sent to congress just days before the election. and then closing the case again. they urged comey to resign. >> i think it is hard to be a director of such an important institution when that trust is no longer there. >> i think the fate of the people of the fbi are somewhat shaken in their leadership. the fate of the country and the director of the fbi is somewhat peerless. given all that, he ought to spend more time with his family. >> tucker: loretta lynch was forced defectively to recuse herself from the clinton email

chief chief oxygen correspondent james rosen is in the d.c. newsroom with on that. mes. >> good evening. president-elect trump has used social media to rebuke certain companies, to nudge others to preserve american factory jobs. today's tweet appears to be the first time he has endorsed a specific product line other than the trump brand, of course. it calls into question whether he will continue such practices as the nation's chief executive. headquartered in maine, and known for its iconic waterproof duckbilled boots, l.l. bean came under attack from left-wing groups after "the associated press" reported last week that linda bean, granddaughter of the company's founder and 1 of 10 members of its board of directors, personally donated beyond the legal limit to a pro trump political action committee and the pine tree state. a group called hashtag grab your wallet urged to boycott linda bean claim to the company actually experienced a slight uptick in sales. >> i never backed down. if i turn right and i do feel that they are bullies, that is all they are. a small kerne

last time around was a losing battle, but as chief white house correspondent james rosen reports, thisime it could have a different outcome. >> 11 words from house speaker paul ryan reignited a major battle on capitol hill. >> it would be in our reconciliation bill paid >> that means they will use the obamacare repeal effort as a vehicle for stripping planned parenthood which carries out some 325,000 abortions a year of roughly 4 million in medicaid funding the group receives for its other services such as cancer screening. >> you know what, the american people are with us. >> republicans and pro-life groups sadie funding will go to local health care providers that steer clear of abortions. the local congressional office says it will impact a certain number of women. >> for many of them, we are their only health care provider paid >> a similar effort by republicans one year ago ended with a veto by president obama. among other promises to pro-life groups, president-elect trump pledged in writing to defund planned parenthood, but just six months earlier, he was talking like this. >> loc

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier. president trump's insistence that mexico will pay for a wall along its border has triggered the trump administrations first full on diplomatic desktop. mexico's president has canceled a visit to washington. mr. trump spokesman floated the idea of a 20% tax on mexican imports to fund construction of the wall. all this on a day with the new american president took his first rides on marine one and air force one to huddle with republican allies. john roberts kicks off the coverage tonight from the white house. >> good evening. it only took four days of his first official working week but president donald trump is already deeply embroiled in his very first diplomatic spat. it began last night when mexico's president enrique pena nieto schooled president trump. >> i am saddened and against the decision by the united states to continue with the construction of a wall that for years, far from joining us, has divided us. >> that leaders were planning a meeting for next week. after pena nieto

here is chief washington correspondent james rosen. >> the clinton global initiative claims to have helpedillions of people. hillary clinton in 2016 wasn't of them. for the clinton foundation, points of controversy amid allegations they traded access and favors when mrs. clinton was secretary of state in exchange for large cash pledges. >> the clinton foundation made it possible for 11 million people around the world with hiv/aids to afford treatment. >> now this form filed on january 12th, they notified state authorities of plans to lay off 22 employees for discontinuation for the global initiative. an attorney has reviewed mountains of filings and claims it nor cgi ever complied with the governing. >> health, global initiative, they have never adequately disclosed that gigantic sums. hundreds of millions of dollars towards the clinton foundation that should have been reported in new york state filings year by year, beginning in 2004. they have never yet on that. >> a foundation spokesman told fox news that this is old news that was reported on widely back in august and september. >> we a

here is chief washington correspondent james rosen. >> protesters in the gaza strip warrant president trump against any move of the u.s. embassy in the wake of a move by they had obama administration in its final days to unlock $220 million in u.s. funding to help palestinians with debt relief, water and energy infrastructure. republican lawmakers had put a nonbinding hold on the money in protest over the palestinian authority's efforts to seek unilateral recognition at the united nations. the trump white house declined to take a position except to emphasize the president's frugality as he wraps his arms around the federal budget. >> is very concerned about how taxpayer money is spent, whether it is sent overseas and what we get for it in terms of the relationship or support for our democracy or aid to another country. >> former top aide at the state department noted the funding amount is small relative to u.s. financial support for israel which includes a 10-year deal worth 38 billion in military aid and that the israelis themselves have supported such funding. >> if we don't help th

james rosen sets the stage for what could be a battle royale here in washington. >> we are not looking for payback. >> chuck schumer said all he's looking for is a mainstream supreme court nominee. president trump said to tune in on tuesday to learn who that will be. >> a person who is unbelievably highly respected, and i think you will be very impressed with this person. >> jeff merkley from oregon said he doesn't care who is nominated. he is going to filibuster that individual because senate republicans refused to consider judge merrick garland, president obama's choice to fill the vacancy left by the death of justice antonin scalia. merkley said we need to fight this constitution-shredding gamut with everything we've got. >> for a party preaching tolerance, it's interesting to see democrats have have come ot against this unnamed nominee. >> neil gorsuch has ruled in favor of companies objecting on religious grounds to obamacare mandates that they provide coverage for female contraception. judge thomas hardiman won a senate confirmation vote of 95-010 years ago. he supported gun owne

sources in criminal cases, hit reporters like james ricen with subpoenas, hit people like fox news' james rosen as criminal co conspirators. what do you make of obama's track record here? >> he likes to shut down reporters and the truth. this is a president who prosecuted three times as many people under the espionage act who are whistle blowers and informants, it's clear he has a clear track record of shutting this down, and i think as members of the media who survived eight years under, this i think they'll find relief under donald trump who seems to be a little more interested in getting the truth out there, and making the public more aware of what's going on. liz: you know, chris, the obama administration did prosecute nine whistle-blowers, that's triple all other presidents combined and top editors said this about obama's hostility towards the media -- and also we had the pulitzer prize-winning journalist at the "washington post" saying -- chris, your thoughts? >> and it's funnto see now people in the press are worried, they're worried that for example that donald trump is going to do some

this is reopening something that is already been closed, we are joined appropriately by james rosen. at is this, james? >> tucker, going to be with you. many trump supporters, conservatives and legal experts are questioning the timing and particularly the scope of this investigation into the conduct of james comey. that will be carried out by the inspector general. the chief among these skeptics are the president-elect himself, who tweeted before dawn dawn and i quote, "what are hillary clinton's people complaining about with respect to the f.b.i. based on the information they had she should never have been allowed to run - guilty as hell. they were very nice to her. she lost because she campaigned in the wrong states - no enthusiasm!" investigators will probe comey's statement about the clinton investigations. and the letters that comey sent and the letters that comey sent to congress just days before the election. reopening and then closing the case again. observers from disparate points along the political spectrum today urged comey to resign. >> i think it is hard to be a director

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chief washington correspondent james rosen takes a look. >> confronted with evidence that president trump's own lawyers proclaimed the 2016 election free of voter fraud, in contrast with the president's own claim this week that invalid ballots cast by millions of illegal aliens cost him the popular vote, white house press secretary sean spicer said the lawyers were only focused on states facing recounts. >> look at california and new york, i'm not sure though statements, look at those states in particular. a lot of these issues could have occurred and vigor states. that's where i think were going to look. >> arguing against proposed recounts from a mr. trump's attorneys affirmed the december all available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake. house speaker paul ryan agreed and remarks on tuesday. shortly after 7:00 a.m. the president tweeted "i will be asking for a major investigatin into voter fraud, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even those registered to vote more dead and many for a long time." d

president-elect does not understand why democrats keep calling for investigations or probes like the one that james rosenust reported on. he treated this morning. "what are hillary clinton's people complaining about with respect to the f.b.i. based on the information they had she should never have been allowed to run - guilty as hell. they were very nice to her. she lost because she campaigned in the wrong states - no enthusiasm!" meanwhile on a conference call with reporters today, the transition team confirmed that incoming national security advisor retired lieutenant general michael flynn took a call from a russian ambassador the day before the obama initiation announced sanctions against the russian government and transition officials said the conversation was partly about setting up a different call later with president putin and mr. trump, that would have to happen after inauguration day p there also text messages between them wishing each other merry christmas, but transition officials are disputing reports that he broke any rules by communicating with the current administration after -- communica

some of these are offers paragraphs taken from sources like james rosen, the wreath journal and many k file team found some of the plagiarisms came from a podiatrists website. there were a variety of sources that she apparently lifted from used in her 2012 book. the trump team is saying the attempt to discredit monica is a distraction. but reporting, journalism is not the same thing as having a politically motivated attack. the publisher of the book harper collins hasn't commented. that's all for this edition of reliable sores. i'll see you next week. >>> cyber strike. the additional intel report on russian hacking says vladimir putin wanted donald trump to win. >> mr. president-elect, listen to these people. putin is up to no good. and he better be stopped. >> will it be enough to convince trump smile' ask white house counsellor, kellyanne conway. >>> plus, airport attack. the latest details on the shooter who left five people dead in florida. >> we have not ruled out anything. >> was he inspired by isis? wh

last time around was a losing battle, but as chief white house correspondent james rosen reports, thisime it could have a different outcome. >> 11 words from house speaker paul ryan reignited a major battle on capitol hill. >> it would be in our reconciliation bill paid >> that means they will use the obamacare repeal effort as a vehicle for stripping planned parenthood which carries out some 325,000 abortions a year of roughly 4 million in medicaid funding the group receives for its other services such as cancer screening. >> you know what, the american people are with us. >> republicans and pro-life groups sadie funding will go to local health care providers that steer clear of abortions. the local congressional office says it will impact a certain number of women. >> for many of them, we are their only health care provider paid >> a similar effort by republicans one year ago ended with a veto by president obama. among other promises to pro-life groups, president-elect trump pledged in writing to defund planned parenthood, but just six months earlier, he was talking like this. >> loc