jason chaffetz. >> no. it's an salut absolute disaster.sident obama promised our premiums would go down on average $2,500 per family. >> martha: which never happened. >> sold on this bill of goods really never happened. >> how is this going to lower premiums. that's what i want to know. how is this move today going to lower premiums. >> because we have got to get rid of the whole thing. >> martha: let me just -- some of the elements of this are that you would have associations, say a small businesses have you people who aren't covered under different plans, they can get together and purchase insurance together as a collective. this is an idea that's been around for a really long time. and cross-border purchasing has been around for a very long time. it makes sense to a lot of people and, yet, feels like nobody has ever been able to enact this fairly simple opportunity for people. also for people who want catastrophic care. i'm young, i'm healthy, i want to purchase what i need right now. why aren't these ideas something worth trying zach a

i do want to ask jason chaffetz about some unkind comments who were made in an exhaustive piece about postretirement john boehner, who obviously used to be speaker of the house. here's what he said about you, jason. apparently there is love lost there. trey gowdy, that's my guy, even though he does not addressed. then he leans back in his chair and said blank jordan come up blank chaffetz." you can read the rest. >> i held no ill will towards the speaker but i was a little surprised to see that. if john boehner supported memory for chairman of the oversight committee. i wouldn't have been the chairman if it weren't for john boehner, but that has an expectation from the seniormost leadership that you hand over your boating card and you get online and support everything they did and i just wasn't that kind that's not what i did, -- if you're going to let me together with jim jordan, i'm okay with that. >> martha: is the upper christmas card list? >> i didn't get a present from them last year. >> martha: could to see you today. still had tonight on "the story," a new sexual assault alleg

joining me corey lewandowski and mike huckabee and jason chaffetz on deck.ll with us to break down the uranium one scandal and the russian dossier. first my opening statement. it's time to shut it down, turn the tables and lock her up. that's what i said, i actually said it, lock her up. the hous house of cards upon whh the obamas and the clintons built cushion connection, the clinton campaign and the dnc paid $12 million for a dossier to connect donald trump to russia. to circumvent federal election laws, the campaign paid a law firm who paid a research firm to paid a former british crime to get dirt on donald trump from kremlin-connected russians. why is this important? the fbi previously worked with this christopher steele who was a british spy and under director expwraims comey they paid him an additional $50,000 to continue with the research. this dossier was used not only to smear the president, it was used to create a special counsel. it was the basis for congressional hearings. the reason for wall to wall anti-president trump coverage. but in additio

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and another all-star lineup including conservative author mark steyn, congressman jason chaffetz andormer nfl football player. but first my opening statement. establishment republicans beware. if you think you can keep doing what you have been doing, which by the way is nothing, and keep your seats, keep drinking or smoking whatever your favorite lobbyist is procuring for you and your insignificant irrelevant, inconsequential not worth a rat vote. this week non-establishment candidate judge roy moore wouldn't u.s. alabama senatorial runoff in spite of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's pac giving luther strange $9 million. think about it. roy moore with virtually no money wins even though the president @megynkelly's request supports the sitting senator. now that would make sense. the president at at mitch mcconnell's request supports the sitting senator. moore is more like trump. this was an anti-mcconnell referendum. moore is a horseback riding cowboy who knows how to handle a weapon, a constitutional christian conservative who twice chose to lose his job rather than compromis

jason chaffetz thank you so much.rporate earning news right now. ebay shares are down about 5% after-hours, following release of its third quarter results. revenue exceeding analyst expectations with earnings in line but e-commerce giant is reporting weak guidance going forward in the fourth quarter. melissa: garmin and amazon teaming up. the two tech companies producing garmin speak with amazon alexa. uh-oh. jack of all trades device that lets you stream music, playlistses, place orders for home delivery and control certain household functions like lights, locking doors, while sitting in your car. that is a recipe for disaster. of course the device can give you great directions using garmin gps. that is either a huge home run or -- what happens if you're giving alexa, you're telling it to do something at your home someone pulls out you scream? david: i rather have you talking to a device than seeing somebody do this. melissa: that's true. david: the missing hero has been found, the secure guard at the las vegas attac

the pro sports act was sponsored by jason chaffetz.n orphaned on his departure from congress and it's an orphan no more. there's no rational reason why league offices of professional sports leagues that collectively generate about $2 billion in revenue should get a special tax benefit. i think it's in line with the overall objectives of the tax reform that the president wants to see and that the congress wants to see. we want a tax system that doesn't pick winners and losers, that has lower fair flat rates that are easy to understand, and that will generate the type of dynamic economic growth that we need to see in the country. >> isn't your beef, though, with the overall breaks in the tax code for sports leagues in general? why single out african-american players who are protesting racial injustice? >> well, this doesn't single out anyone. this legislation that i've taken over from congressman chaffetz would apply equally to all professional sports leagues, but certainly when you see a sports league like the nfl embrace what i perceiv

time now for our sunday group, jason chaffetz, nelly fox news contributor.st for the health, juan williams. julie pace, washington bureau chief of the associated press and matthew continetti. i've had a chance to be on the panel, but never to run the panel, so i will try to do my best. this is not a controversy at the white house anticipated before the rose garden press conference of mitch mcconnell. soon as president trump referenced of his predecessors handled outreach to family i knew they would have a firestorm on her hands. it included an appearance by general kelly in the briefing room of gold star father himself. this from congresswoman federico wilson. i feel very sorry for him because he feels such a need to lie on me, and i'm not even his enemy. and it didn't end there. president trump also took a stab at wilson saturday on twitter. i hope the fake news media keeps talking about wacky congresswoman wilson and that she is a representative is killing the democratic party. julie, what is the white house thinking this morning? >> as you say, this is no

we'll talk with jason chaffetz next hour about all of that here. >> sandra: the fate of sergeant bowe bergdahl rests in the hands of a judge this hour. he is in court for his sentencing hearing where he will learn his punishment for walking off his post in afghanistan. he pleaded guilty to the charges last week. in a recent interview with a british magazine he spoke out about his taliban captors saying they treated him better than the u.s. army. jonathan cyri joins us live from our atlanta yeah bureau. what kind of sentence could sergeant bergdahl face? >> good morning. in theory he could face up to life in prison. the judge is likely to take his willingness to plea into consideration. but he also has a lot of leeway in sentencing because as part of his plea, the prosecution offered no deal when it came to a sentencing. the judge has been given no recommended cap, no recommended sentencing guidelines. it is entirely in the judge's hands, sandra. >> sandra: jonathan, what are the mitigating circumstances here? >> sergeant bergdahl was held by the taliban for five years. a very unpleasa

house oversight committee chairman, fax news contributor jason chaffetz and mitch rochelle. thank you. >> i've got the orange tie up for halloween. >> the candy corn, too. >> the biggest secret of the morning is maria bartiromo loves halloween. maria: she gave me a gift. maria: at jury duty and right next to jury duty was the halloween shop. lots to talk about this morning. serious stuff on the docket. dagen: if you try to find one article about the tax reform bill, it's almost impossible. if you google it, go through every newspaper, every publication. it's just buried. maria: is incredible. once again this is when the news happens when they are about to release the tax plan this wednesday. incredible. taking all the oxygen out of the room. we want to go to washington where he kicked off the hour. robert mueller revealing the first charges in his investigation into russian meddling in the 2015 election with a 12 county debut yesterday could president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort. along with longtime business associate case. charges include money laundering

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jason chaffetz said koskinen testified untruthfully.e was deep into the cover-up of lois lerner's cover-up. they went after conservative non-profits and enact audits for people they disagreed with. he was instrumental in that cover-up. remember the 24,000 emails just disappeared. he said sorry, those emails are gone forever. judge jeanine: you know what's amazing. he was so splug. he said we lost those emails. judge jeanine: i'm thinking i can finds this stuff. then he comes back and says oh, we found them. all of the emails, what are we talking about? we are talking about emails of lois lerner, and all of this obama administration attempt to punish republicans. and this guy is still getting a check. the president has an agenda. yet this guy is still collecting a check from taxpayers. why? >> unacceptable. secretary mnuchin has the to remove him and he should. this guy is an obama holdover that does not hold the agenda to make america great again. they want to redo the tax rates abductions, and with that is non-profit status. and you ar

joining me corey lewandowski and mike huckabee and jason chaffetz on deck.ne scandal and the russian dossier. first my opening statement. it's time to shut it down, turn the tables and lock her up. that's what i said, i actually said

here is jason chaffetz talking about the same thing. >> they have got to get the media to do its job.y be asking something impossible. places like time magazine, donald trump junior on the cover saying red-handed only to find out they used the wrong picture, the pictures should have been hillary clinton. that was the precursor, this document was the precursor for everything to do with robert mueller and all these other investigations and radio silence from the national media and silence from the democrats. rob: we want to get your comments on that, friends -- waiting for you to say it. friendsfirst@foxnews.com. jillian: you can tweet us or send a message on facebook, this won't go away anytime soon, we are learning more information, what you think about it at this point. there is no fire but a lot of smoke. rob: a close call but major win for the trump administration, the house approving a $4 trillion budget paving the way for tax reform the president tweeting big news, budget just pass, 20 republicans joining democrats in opposing the measure. we spoke with peter morici about why dem

joining us is former congressman jason chaffetz. please use your x-ray vision, your emotional x-ray vision. what was the president talking about when he made this comment? >> nobody knows exactly. it's sort of i begannesque. there was a time in -- it's sort of reaganesque. there was a time when people thought he might actually pull the trigger. and we were at more peace with ronald reagan than just about any other time. you have a president signaling to the world, i.e., china in particular, we'll pull the trigger if we need to. that's ratcheting it up so there is movement to calm the waters. that's my hope anyway. i think he's priming us a little bit and signaling to the world players. if you have the ability to influence the situation and take down kim jong-un a notch so he doesn't do something stupid, now is the time to do it. the united states is not going to sit by as it did with barack obama and hope one big group hug would solve the problem. kennedy: clearly a lot of times when the president talks and when he tweets. he's talk

jason chaffetz said koskinen testified untruthfully.as deep into the cover-up of lois lerner's cover-up. they went after conservative non-profits and enact audits for people they disagreed with. he was instrumental in that cover-up. remember the 24,000 emails just disappeared. he said sorry, those emails are gone forever. judge jeanine: you know what's amazing. he was so splug. he said we lost those emails. judge jeanine: i'm thinking i can finds this stuff. then he comes back and says oh, we found them. all of the emails, what are we talking about? we are talking about emails of lois lerner, and all of this obama administration attempt to punish republicans. and this guy is still getting a check. the president has an agenda. yet this guy is still collecting a check from taxpayers. why? >> unacceptable. secretary mnuchin has the to remove him and he should. this guy is an obama holdover that does not hold the agenda to make america great again. they want to redo the tax rates abductions, and with that is non-profit status. and you are g

eastern for mike huckabee, jason chaffetz and the chairman of the board -- all of them. >> jesse: masa breaking news tonight. who funded the original fusion gps opposition research on president trump? good evening, everybody. i'm jesse watters and this is "fox news tonight." thanks for being with us. brand-new information. we now know that conservative publications the washington free beacon set in motion opposition research that eventually led the dems to a dossier that included unverified claims regarding ties between trump and russia. for more on this developing story, let's go right to james rosen who is in d.c. with the latest. >> good evening, the washington free beacon said it has approached the

i'd like to thank our former chairman, the gentleman from utah, jason chaffetz, as well as our current chairman, the gentleman from south carolina, trey gu di, ranking member, the gentleman -- trey gowdy, ranking member, elijah cummings, as well as chairman of our subcommittee, the gentleman from north carolina, mark meadows and ranking member, the gentleman from virginia, jerry donnelly. -- gerry connolly. for their efforts to move this forward. i would like to thank the entire massachusetts house delegation for their efforts in sponsoring this measure. this honors the life and legacy of our 35th president, john f. kennedy, and his impassioned commitment to public service, peace, equality and diplomacy and ensuring a better quality of life for every american. our remembrance of him affords us the opportunity to reflect on his vision and mission in the face of the many challenges we face as a nation today both as home and abroad. as we grapple with difficult issues from health care to economic reform, let's -- let us recall his understanding that, quote, one true measure of a nation is

eastern for mike huckabee, jason chaffetz and the chairman of the board -- all of them. >> jesse: masa breaking news tonight. who funded the original fusion gps opposition research on president trump? good evening, everybody. i'm jesse watters and this is "fox news tonight." thanks for being with us. brand-new information. we now know that conservative publications the washington free beacon set in motion opposition research that eventually led the dems to a dossier that included unverified claims regarding ties between trump and russia. for more on this developing story, let's go right to james rosen who is in d.c. with the latest. >> good evening, the washington free beacon said it has approached the house intelligence committee to answer questions about the money the conservative news outlet paid for the purpose of conducting research into the lives of then candidate donald trump. all of the work at fusion gps provided to the free beacon was -- it appears in the steel dossier, none of it. ... the christopher steel dossier was compiled by this man, former british spy christopher stee

jason chaffetz has something to say about that.t 24 hours after waking up and learning of that horrific attack in las vegas. is there anything in your mind that could have been done to prevent something like that from happening? >> i don't know of a single thing that would have prevented this evil that possessed this person to do this atrocity. i wish there was something that i could do to go back in time and make sure that it never happened. but, you know, let's grieve for those that are affected by this. people, as the speaker said, are fighting for their lives. you have parents and loved ones just finding out that somebody was killed for goodness sake. it is just not the time to dive into the politics and try to score political points on this topic, it is just not. >> sandra: it seems the gun debate is already raging here. it happened fast. we know the president is set to be on the ground in las vegas tomorrow. what do you want to see from president trump? >> i think him showing the compassion. he will be doing that in puerto ri

but before i get to that, a few weeks ago, i had congressman jason chaffetz on and without going through transcript of what happened, he said that when he was a congressman, before he left, when he was with government oversight and reform he spoke to attorney general jeff sessions and he actually visited him and he said it was the most frustrating discussion he had ever had and he asked him about irs, and the clinton e-mail scandal, and what the attorney general was willing to do, you know, the new attorney general under president trump. and chaffetz said i didn't see the attorney general willing to let -- administer justice and he said -- he basically told me he wasn't going to pursue anything on those major cases. how can the attorney general of the united states tell a sitting congressman that he's not going to pursue justice because a democrat is involved or because it involves another administration and are some people above the law in this country? >> well, i will tell you, judge, first, great opening statement. you hit the nail right on the head on that one. it is very frustrating

eastern for mike huckabee, jason chaffetz and the ch >> mueller has brought on indictment down tonightrat scandals. >> you have uranium one deal which is play pay for play. >> russians were trying to infiltrate. >> shocking new details on who funned the original fusion gps opposition research on president trump. >> operation. >> i don't intent to be silenced. >> the more she's on the stage, the better for republicans. [laughter]

jason chaffetz said this morning, i don't see any reason for him to continue on as the leader. there you have the president saying he's going to talk to steve bannon to get him to consider some of the people he's fighting here on the establishment side of the republican party. >> shepard: and you asked the president about his tax plan. >> yeah, because there's been a disconnect going on. the president wants it done this year. paul ryan, the speaker of the house said he would keep the house in session through the christmas break to get it done by the end of the year. mitch mcconnell has been the lone voice saying we'll get it done this congress, which means it would have until january 2019 to get it done. i asked the president if he would be okay if tax reform didn't get done by the end of this year and maybe played out until next year. listen listen in. >> i would like to see it done this year, john. i would like that. we won't go a step further. if we get it done, it's a great achievement. it took years for the reagan administration to get taxes done. i've been here ninth mont

steve: former congressman jason chaffetz.l flatts edition. i said no we need the original from tom cochran. we got it today. ainsley: we like rascal. pete: rascal is fine he followed on tom cochran. steve: little bit what is happening today, congressman, looks like the president is going to sit down with mitch mccouncil. figure out how to get the budget done and figure out if they can do anything with taxes. explain their relationship, would you? >> come in and big group hug and kiss each other on the cheek and say come on, let's have a hotting to. i just don't -- look, when the team isn't performing well, and putting wins up on the board, a lot of people on that team want to see a change in the coach. donald trump, all he wants are bills to sign. he just wants to president left to him got enough. looking to congress and don't fundamentally understand why we don't have repeal and replace for obamacare where is the tax reform bill. we talk about all these principles, introduce the bill so we can build the momentum to win the v

former utah congressman jason chaffetz watching and listening along with me here.ir? >> i think the president hit it out of the park. i think it will be very well received by conservatives and values voters types of people. i look at the progress that he has made over the last 18 months. the fact that barack obama is no longer the president is very important to these voters. i think when he said i -- one of the best lines that i liked. in america we don't worship government, we worship god. and you saw a very longstanding ovation. the only curious thing i think the president said was that we were legislatively ahead of schedule. i don't think anybody really believes that. i don't know where he came up with that. that's the only thing i think he said that would really cause you to scratch your head in this speech. >> bill: one thing cued up here on christmas. all right. this was something you heard a lot during the campaign last november, october, as we were leading up to election day and delivered that message again now. here we go. >> president trump: we're gettin

let's bring in jason chaffetz.le are being informed about what happened. what was behind this attack. >> look, i think the public wants to know but we also need to be patient because you have everywhere from the fbi and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. but you are also, given the international nature you are will have the nsa, the cia, the department of treasury looking where money is flowing. i think they know an awful lot. i'm actually glad they are not sharing that at this point. if we are just patient a little bit, i know that they are on it. and i know they are making progress. and as much as i personally want to know. let the law enforcement people do what they need to do. abby: otherwise we are distracted by every other situation that might have happened. >> law enforcement also wants to see what other people are doing. where are they moving? what are they chattering about? where are they moving money? steve: sure. >> if there is something bigger than this, they want to know that and let them do

let me ask you about jason chaffetz, he was one of the key leaders in the benghazi investigation. here's what he wrote this morning. congress investigated benghazi and extortion 17 about the chinook helicopter. congress should also investigate the deadly attack in niger #truth. do you agree at this point? even the widow has all of these questions. does this call for a full congressional investigation? >> what i would offer is that congress is already engaged. i've been engaged on this since shortly after it happened. i've already talked to members in the military that are very aware of this situation and congress is already engaged. now, we can politically grandstand or we can try to deal with a delicate situation. we can cast aspersions on somebody or we can insert ourselves into somebody's grief. i don't think any of those things are appropriate. >> so you saying handling like benghazi would be political grandstanding? >> it's not like benghazi, because there you have the state department, you had contractors, you had indecision within the state department. what we're talking ab

time i thought maybe it was just me, to i asked all my colleagues to join with me to a letter to jason chaffetz and also the honorable bob goodlatte, on may 16, 2017, could we, please, could we please have a hearing on russian interference in our election. it's very, very important to our democracy. they hacked the rnc and the dnc. both parties. we should be bipartisan about the integrity of our elections. and, again, up til today no action. and we're having a a hearing today on political advertising, but we still haven't had a single hearing, single public hearing on the russian interference in our election. ironically today i did learn in politico that mr. goodlatte has announced the 11th hearing on the clinton investigation, on the hillary clinton investigation. the department of justice investigation of secretary clinton. so it's, you know, we've got to get together on this stuff, and i know it might be painful for everyone. i actually asked ms. wasserman schultz would she come and testify. yes, she said, she would. it would be difficult, but she would. she would come and help us delve into

. >> harris: let's bring in our power panel, jessica tarlov and jason chaffetz.re fox news contributor's. i'm going to come to you first, congressman. national security issue, this is important. does he have a point? >> he doesn't. the fbi and law enforcement should be doing their investigation and not injecting themselves in a political campaign. it's up to the political campaign to do their own vetting. remember, he pled not guilty. this person is presumed innocen innocent. i'm sorry, it's not the fbi's job to go in and say hey, you are making a bad decision on your personnel. it's unfair to the person who is the subject of that investigation because he could be in the clear and it would probably ruin and destroy his career and the second part is he is a political candidate at that point, donald trump. >> harris: even if the country in question was russia? >> it could be russia, china, it could be ecuador. it doesn't matter, that's not the job and the role of the fbi. they're trying to keep that as secret as possible, that's how they do these investigations. if

and then i will have a panel with jason chaffetz, continuity, one williams -- >> yeah. >> and julie pace ap. >> i think juan wants to know what you are going to ask him? >> that's always helpful. dana, one of the things i'm always amazed with when i get back in the briefing room, how many people now are in that room. it used to be a pretty select group of reporters. but now -- it's going to sound awful to people, but it's a cattle call at the moment. how does it strike you? >> this is a rare friday afternoon because it's quiet. as sarah sanders told me, usually on fridays there is some big news. they've done a lot of fire rings on fridays, so there's been a whole lot of things happening. tonight, aaron landers and i and a hair and makeup are the only ones in here. >> did you ask her about the previous boss, sean spicer? >> the one thing i asked her, what was it like when you became the press secretary? i think some people, if they think they want to have this job one day, they imagine when you get the job, it's like some big, fabulous thing where the stars come out, there is a band, it's

eastern for mike huckabee, jason chaffetz and the chairman of the board -- all of them. >> jesse: masa breaking news tonight. who funded the original fusion gps opposition research on president trump? good evening, everybody. i'm jesse watters and this is "fox news tonight." thanks for being with us. brand-new information. we now know that conservative publications the washington free beacon set in motion opposition research that eventually led the dems to a dossier that included unverified claims regarding ties between trump and russia. for more on this developing story, let's go right to james rosen who is in d.c. with the latest. >> good evening, the washington free beacon said it has approached the house intelligence committee to answer questions about the money the conservative news outlet paid for the purpose of conducting research into the lives of then candidate donald trump. all of the work at fusion gps provided to the free beacon was -- it appears in the steel dossier, none of it. ... the christopher steel dossier was compiled by this man, former british spy christopher stee

president obama claimed executive privilege, but to the dismay of former congressman jason chaffetz,ew administration refuses to waive the privilege, leaving the family with the same unanswered questions. >> it's up to attorney general sessions to pull the trigger, release the documents, give congress what it deserves to see and give the brian terry family the peace it needs to understand what happened. >> while the u.s. and mexico may share political differences, source of a law enforcement on both sides of the border remain committed in this case to finding justice for one of their own. >> bret: thank you. a senior syrian commander says u.s.-backed forces have liberated the city of raqqa from isis terrorists. it would be a major defeat for an extremist group said to be collapsing. jennifer griffin is following the situation. >> the pentagon isn't yet ready to pronounce the ice is capital completely liberated. at a press briefing earlier today, a u.s. military spokesman told reporters 90% of of raqqa s been captured. >> the fight in raqqa is more about a fight against ieds and explo

. >> harris: that's what jason chaffetz said they should be fighting about now. >> dagen: willful invasion on those campaign-finance filings, that is a criminal act. >> katie: buried under a different name. >> marie: bob mueller is looking at how russia interfered in our election, how they were able to do that, and whether there were americans of any political strife who helped the them. >> dagen: is a bob mueller should be fired. he is best buddies with jim comey. did jim comey use that dossier to trigger wiretaps on on the p campaign? >> harris: as they did their snooping, so on and so forth. last word to you. >> kevin: last word to me, i know nothing, i see nothing. everyone from both sides of the political i'll do that. >> harris: looks like president trump is going big on his culture war with the nfl players. who are taking any during a playing of the national anthem at games. a new fox poll shows ruble ratings have dropped. what is the say about president trump's influence over the debate? and in the apology from the irs over the tea party targeting scandal. the justice department ha

former lawmaker jason chaffetz writes, quote, congress investigated benghazi and extortion 17. congress should also investigate the deadly attack in niger, #truth. let's discuss with robby mook and scott jennings. robby is a hillary clinton's former campaign manager. scott is a former special assistant to president george w. bush. thank you both for coming on, gentlemen. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> so, scott, i'm going to start with you. should republicans who wanted answers about benghazi be just as intent on getting answers about niger? >> sure. i think we should get answers about what happened. but i think we need to do so under the framework of understanding that we have a lot of personnel in africa. it's clear that the fight against isis, al qaeda, and other terrorist elements is moving into the continent of africa probably more than we know right now. i think there's a lot of sensitive national security issues at play, and one of the things donald trump talked about during his campaign was not telegraphing to the enemy what we're doing and where we're doing it. so i think

jason chaffetz said, it may be time for a new senate leader. listen here. >> i don't know what the case is to keep him. with all due respect, he is a very nice gentleman, he is very accomplished. but you have to actually produce things coming into they have not been able to do that. >> however, south carolina senator lindsey graham who played golf with the president on saturday says that talk of replacing mitch mcconnell is premature. if republicans fail at tax reform the way they did at obamacare repeal, a lot of jobs will be at risk. listen here. >> mitch mcconnell is not our problem. our problem is that we promised to repeal and replace obamacare, and we failed. we promised to cut taxes and we have yet to do it. if we are successful, mitch mcconnell is fine. if we are not, we are all in trouble. >> successful, we are all fine. but speaker paul ryan ceded to the president's left wants to get tax reform done by the end of the year. said that he will keep the house in through christmas break if it is necessary to get it passed. mitch mcconnell

attention away from the white house rated their also taking aim at former oversight chairman jason chaffetz saying he did everything in his power to make public the details of james comey's investigation while essentially ignoring the term campaign connections to russia. i want to go to you first. do you buy that? that line of reasoning? >> brian: i do. i think there is that your whole theory is the theory of a foreign policy that president trump had brought up earlier that it is a failed foreign policy under the chairman of foreign relations, corker that left them with this mess, especially in the middle east. and it turns out was james comey, this was all intertwined. my objective is to get this deal to iran. a terrible deal with iran. we have a current president who is trying to fix everything at one time. >> sandra: so there. >> gillian: lisa, i'll get to you next. i know we were going to talk about this anymore but these things are all intertwined. of the subject of the iran deal. is that something you believed was the golden albatross that someone in the obama administration helped pu

i'm dana perino along with kimberly guilfoyle, congressman jason chaffetz's, this is "the five." going live to las vegas in a moment for the latest in the shooting investigation, but the nra stepping forward to address the effort to restrict gun use in america. ceo wayne lapierre pointed to history to prove that laws only work for the law-abiding. >> if legislation worked, the boston massacre wouldn't have happened. san bernardino, where california has every gun law you can imagine on

. >> brian: he doubled down on how he feels about guns, joinind us to react, jason chaffetz is alwaysn the move and a former chairman of the house oversight committee, fox news contributor. we also have with us richard goodstein a democratic strategist. do you think it's appropriate to talk about gun violence now? many say if you want to change things now is the time to do it while the focus is on it. >> at this point in time when w> talk about saying prayers, about pausing, in the house of representatives, you had two democrats from massachusettsof that wouldn't even join the rest of the body in taking a moment of silence to recognize the victims, that's how disgusting d this debate is already. hillary clinton is trying to be relevant, she's not she wants to take away your guns, divide this nation injecting herself into the story, it's just absolutely disgusting. when you have people in the hospital fighting to save their lives. >> brian: you don't have the leaders in congress doing that, chuck schumer is not taking that stance and neither is nancy pelosi. does it surprise you thatg