joining us now, our friend juan williams and also maria bartiromo.u like some of this. >> sure, i like some of it and i think we need tax reform. i think we need to simplify and i like the idea that you can do your own taxes. i don't think you or i or maria could do our own taxes. but i do think that when people say wait a minute, he really is going to do something for the middle class -- that is very attractive. as opposed to what we heard during the campaign which i think was more easily divided from my side of the street as a big giveaway to the rich, i think he is making steps here that aim at the middle class. >> sean: maria, we still have 95 million americans out of the labor force. we still have the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years. 50 million americans in poverty and on food stamps. people are suffering. i want those companies building factories and manufacturing centers. >> i think you can get it and i think at the catalyst for that.t we have been watching business, the business sector in recession for the last decade. they've been unw

that was juan williams on clarence thomas. he's been conveniently transformed into a monster about whom it is fair to say anything, for whom it is fair to do anything, williams said. by the time bill clinton won the presidency, bork had become a verb -- a verb. and high-tech lynching was on the lips of the nation. wounds were fresh and deep when this democratic president had the chance to name two justices of his tone the -- of his own to the court. now, mr. president, republicans could have responded in kind to these nominees, but that's not what happened. when president clinton nominated ruth bader ginsburg the senate confirmed her 96-3. when president clinton nominated stephen breyer, the senate confirmed him 87-9. i, like the vast majority of republicans, voted for both of them. we did so in full knowledge of the considerable ideological differences between these nominees and ourselves. ginsberg in particular had expressed notably extreme views. even advocating for the abolition of mother's day. a nominee for the supreme co

juan williams is here. and bizarre foods host andrew zimmer joins kennedy to explain how food can help bring us all together. ♪ ♪ dagen: i'm dagen mcdowell, trying to substitute for the very fabulous kennedy. first up tonight, president trump has a warning for the republicans who threw a monkey wrench in his plan to repeal and replace obamacare, and he's threatening to fight those opponents in next year's midterm election. this morning the president tweeted this: the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast. we must fight them and dems in 2018. exclamation point. as you to know, the key freedom caucus prevented fellow republicans from getting the number of votes they needed to pass their health care bill. the president said this week he still plans to get it passed. democrats have largely sat this one out and met the republicans fight amongst themselves, but members of the freedom caucus are are pushing back against the president. in fact, michigan congres

bret: even juan williams couldn't get on campus? kennedy: that conservative fire brand juan williams. he's nothing but hatred and animosity toward the oppressed. how panicked are the insurers at the state of flux with these healthcare laws that may or may not go? bret: they rely on the payment from the department of health and human service to the cover the cost of subsidies. you remember 60% of those who enrolled in obamacare qualified for subsidies. and the trump administration threatened if they don't figure out obamacare and a repeal and replace, that they are going to somehow draw back or stop or slow the payment of the subsidies. that has the insurers' hair on fire, and they have met at the white house. basically administration is saying, we are going to try this again. we have, we believe, the votes on the freedom caucus side and the tuesday group which is the moderate republicans, and we think we can get it across the finish line and this is how they plan to fix it. kennedy: what kind of pressure does this put on republican

. >> juan williams said this. >> if i see people who are in muslim garb and identifying themselves first and foremost as muslim i get worried. >> npr quickly fired juan williams. >> a black person not allowed to do anything but be liberal. >> the left will devour its own for a ideological breach. >> campbell brown once gave money to democrats and then she dareed to criticize teacher tenure. the left attacked her. and they barely attacked her argument. they smeared her character. >> you are a bim bo and a beauty face. and rather than debate me on the issue. >> smear her personally? >> i am sure you get comments on your website and i get e-mails. toughen up. you know, the public dialogue is not a place for the bashful. >> she said people on the left don't silence anyone. it is mistaken to suggest that is a conspiracy of the left. there are exaggerated and intolerant views over the political spectrum. >> i am not saying conservatives don't do it but no one is it living in fear of oh, gosh, i will lose my job. >> cherylat kinson did a lot of reports on sibs. >> when she started to investigat

juan williams, what could that look like? uan: it's scary because we are in context on this has heay newsday with what could potentially be a terror attack in sweden with the truck. we have the u.s. involved in a situation, not sure how it's going to play out in the middle east in terms of the syria air strike, cruise missile strike, and the russian and potential iranian response. then you come to the fact that north korea is there and the president is at mar-a-lago meeting with the chinese president. it's not been an easy relationship and is the idea that the united states would go into that neighborhood and assert itself would certainly antagonize the chinese. when you ask me, what does that look like? what could the u.s. do? i think it would require some military action. i don't know what else we could do. >> harris: kennedy? >> kennedy: where opening all sorts of worms. we want to go into africa? >> juan: this is a point you're making earlier. >> harris: actually, i made that point during commercial. >> kennedy: it's very

. ♪ >> eric bolling with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, dana perino, and greg gutfeld.t is 5:00, and this is "the five." a very big news day, following four big breaking story speed devin nunes has stepped aside from the russian appropriate republicans have gone nuclear to get neil gorsuch confirmed. the u.s. navy coming closer to taking action in syria. and a high-stakes meeting is about to take place between president trump and china's leaders xi jinping. we begin with the house investigation of russia's meddling with our election. devin nunes stepped aside from leading the probe as the ethics committee investigates whether he improperly disclosed information. texas republican mike conaway will take over for nunes with assistant from congressman trey gowdy and tim rooney. adam schiff says it was, after all, the right thing to do. >> i think it is the best interest of the investigation. it will allow us to have a fresh start moving forward, this investigation is of such critical important that we need to get philippe back on track. it is, i think, worth noting that the

i am greg gutfeld with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, jesse watters and dana perino. you are watching "the five." ann coulter's berkeley speech has been canceled because sheke could not be protected. interesting. you have to wonder, if it were a radical liberal, would there have been an issue?ou it's only when you questionn leftist dogma that the dogs come out. call it a victory for the sharia snowflakes on campus. still blocking free speech. in fear of what, exactly? >> i am here to protest this administration. all the lies. hopefully we will be able to find -- we have reason to believe -- >> good luck. let's assess the safety argument. they have no problem protecting the left. imagine calling 911 and thee operator says someone is on their way, unless you voted trump. the concern for violence is actually pretty real. the modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable. which then removes the break between anger and violence. consider the simple equation, you stub your toe. what do you do? generally, you swear but imagine if you couldn't

. ♪ speaker hike mime greg gutfeld with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, eric bolling, and dana perino"the five" ." it was the mother of all bombs and the mother of all messages. >> at around 7:00 p.m. local time in afghanistan, the united states military used heb you 43 weapon, it is a accurately delivered weapon, we targeted a system of tunnels and caves that isis used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target u.s. military advisors and forces in the area. the united states takes the fight seriously, and in order to beat the group, we must deny them operational space, which we did. >> so we just dropped a big, beautiful bomb. it smashed isis titles but it did more than that, it ruined north korea's we can pick their coming up from their founder's birthday which means a missile test. what did we do? we preempted it. we out north korea'd north career. if earth is a village, they are the town drunk and we just smacked upside the head while beating the village gang, which is isis. they will respond with their own party favors, but we have seen the act before, and today,

that was juan williams on clarence thomas. he has been conveniently transformed into a monster about whom it is fair to say anything. to him it is fair to do anything williams said. by the time bill clinton won thd presidency board had become a verb and high-tech lynching was on the lens of the nation. words were fresh and deepen this democratic president had the chance to name two justices of his own to the court. in now mr. president republicans could have responded in kind to these nominees but that's not what happened. when president clinton nominated ruth debate or ginsburg the senate confirmed her 96-3. 96-3 did when president clinton nominated stephen breyer the senate confirmed him 87-9. o i like the vast majority of republicans voted for both of them. we did so in full knowledge of the considerable ideological differences between these nominations and ourselves. ginsburg in particular mr. president have expressed notably extreme views even advocating for the abolition of mother's day. a nominee for the supreme court ad

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here is juan williams on special report. >> there has to be a role for government in alternative energyyou look at germany and look at china and brazil, they are all investing in the alternative energy. >> i'm totally on board. there should not be government picking winners and losers especially in industry but even without government picking winners and losers we would still see this company being successful. the amount of value-added of tesla is phenomenal and they are not doing it on taxpayer's dime. john: i will keep an open mind about tesla but juan says these open subsidies germany and many these companies have now figured out oh my goodness electricity cost so much and they are cutting back on the subsidies while we keep them going. >> i think subsidies in general are a disaster. their take money out of the productive or of the economy subsidizing things that wouldn't be produced in the marketplace but if you see a company that is successful that most of its money is coming from the private sector, that's good. we also see them facing -- if you are a restaurant and you sell some

juan williams is here. bizarre foods host andrew zimmer joins kennedy to explain how food can help bring us all together. ♪ ♪ dagen: i'm dagen mcdowell, trying to substitute for the very fabulous kennedy.

bill chris col, juan williams, mo ekleithee of the institute of politics and public service, and lisaoothe. you heard general mcmaster the national security advisor at the top of the show. are you satisfied this administration has a clear strategy going forward in syria in and particularly the question i asked. is this just about chemical weapons or is the president prepared to act if there is by conventional means the slaughter of civilians. bill: they haven't worked it all out. but if they had not acted now, we would be in even worse shape. so let them work out the strategy. i have a lot of confidence in h.r. mcmaster. if the trump administration end up non-dissously -- that's my standard for the trump administration -- i'm hopeful it does. the replace many of mike flynn with h.r. mcmaster is a good strategy. there was a crisis and they handled it competently. the meetings, diplomacy and military stuff coordinated. keeping it secret. that was impressive. if you thought the trump white house was a chaotic place, h.r. mcmaster has the fashion security side of it under control. chris:

buy benson, the political editor at "town hall.com" and juan williams. this report of devin nunes going away, coming back, talking to reporters about alleged surveillance. how big a story is that? >> we heard the president say the press is getting bogged down in process. that's how stories get told. we need to see if 9 media is using devin nun else as a distraction the way donald trump uses his twitter feed as a distraction. >> i think it's hard to follow the expript and the plot in -- i think it's hard to follow the script in this saga. there doesn't seem to be hard evidence on either side of this. one of the beefs i have with the media in our coverage of this controversy is they are focusing so much on the house acrimony, very little attention is spent on the senate side. if we are trying to figure out what's happening with russia visa advice our arecollections, iaof -- advice vis a visour ele. >> we are focusing on that process it's a distraction whereas the senate intelligence committee's investigation might be doing parole work. howie: that assumes

. >> martha: republican strategist and juan williams, cohost of "the five." s filled out tax returns would love they are blank piece of paper that they are starting with. is that possible? >> yeah, martha. if you and i put it together, we can do it. >> martha: put a big zero on it, send it back. sounds good to me. >> the difficulty with this is that everybody has a favorite item in terms of deductions, interests, exemptions. and so everybody really has a hand in trying to figure out how to reform taxes. the minute that you skin one person's cat, that person is going to scream. president trump has a ready seen this. the board of adjustment tax, he says he's not so sure. that's a favorite of paul ryan. i don't know how you are just that since he has to work with ryan to get tax reform done. >> martha: paul ryan has been working and thinking about tax reform for many years, alex, as you know. this is his chance now to put that forum into action. do you think they are going to be able to see eye to eye to this, and more importantly, what can the american people ex

i am dana perino along with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, greg gutfeld, and this is "the five" ." saturday is president presidens 100th day in office. also renewing the health care push. >> we want to go when we are ready to go. this has been a very bottom-up process. it takes time to do that. we are doing big things. i talk about 200 days. we are working on the path to get it right and not some artificial deadline. >> thought is going to be dictated by the speaker and the majority of the house when they feel they have the vote. that being said, we feel very positive about the work that is being done to get to that and -- >> they are simultaneously facing a test on a world stage with north korea and its alarming nuclear weapons program. rex tillerson spoke about it earlier with bret baier. >> we are just in the early stages of executing a strategy. it does involve bringing significant pressure in pyongyang. and how we deal with this threat, we have been very clear. we do not see regime change in north korea and we are not seeking a collapse in it. we are not seeking reunification

smith, host of kennedy on fox business, kennedy, also from fbn, dagen mcdowell, and today's 322, juan williamsumbered. good to see you. >> juan: what a newsday. this is the kind of newsday that you feel like is a fire hydrant.

before we go, we do want to wish a very happy birthday to juan williams, be here on monday when he turnsa youthful 21. juan, you look mahvelous for your age. we'll bring you snacks. this is an fox news alert, i'm bret baier. in washington, we are following several major stories, starting up with reaction to president trump's military strike on syria. russia has moved a warship into the mediterranean toward the u.s. ships that launched those missiles. the strikes were in retaliation for a syrian chemical weapon strike on rebel-held territory earlier in the week. another huge story tonight, the senate confirms neil gorsuch to the u.s. supreme court, a historic vote following yesterday's nuclear option of eliminating the filibuster. so what is next for a field supreme court bench? and date significant drop drop

joining us now is juan williams. i set this up fairly. we understand this can be used as a battering ram against the entire refugee population in america. that would be horribly wrong. the question then becomes, can you report the story on a national basis. which has not been reported. inas a responsible way? >> i think it's clear to everybody it's disturbing. the question becomes then, once you move beyond the local news value as you say, the folks out in idaho played this big. then it becomes a matter of news value. to me if i was the editor of a big newspaper, national newspaper, would n i think that illustrates something larger that would speak the people all over the country? as you said, it is unfair and wrong to suggest that the academics -- actions of these or action of folks in maryland where that rape occurred, somehow tell us something about the larger refugee issue. >> bill: would you cover it? >> i would cover it if it was in my community. >> bill: would you cover it lisa? >> yes, i would cover it. i think there's broader con

only from tums >> tucker: fox news political analyst was just talking to be off camera, juan williamsote an article that said the chances president trump leaves office prematurely through impeachment or rake the nation keep. republicans are in no hurry to give -- supposedly increases every day. williams also boldly said democrats have made themselves look apolitical in recent months which presumably will give them more authority if they actually attempt to impeach trump. you have to redirect this for an estimate. juan joins us now. he has been there like 20 minutes and already you are impeaching him. >> i am not impeaching him, i'm just telling you though that from the political point of view, if you look at the poll numbers right now, there was a really interesting poll that said if people believe russia was involved in colluding with the trump campaign, about half of them say trump should be resigned or impeached. the second was oh, guess what? 44% believe russia was involved. these people are ready for resignation, impeachment, whatever. as you know, the most recent poll numbers ha

juan williams, be here on monday when he turns a youthful 21. juan, you look mahvelous for your age. we'll bring you snacks. this is an fox news alert, i'm bret baier. in washington, we are following several major stories, starting up with reaction to president trump's military strike on syria. russia has moved a warship into the mediterranean toward the u.s. ships that launched those missiles. the strikes were in retaliation for a syrian chemical weapon strike on rebel-held territory earlier in the week. another huge story tonight, the senate confirms neil gorsuch to the u.s. supreme court, a historic vote following yesterday's nuclear option of eliminating the filibuster. so what is next for a field supreme court bench? and date significant drop drop off and drops numbers for last month, just 98,000 added, the fewest in a year. the unemployment dropped to a nearly 10-year low of 4.5%. we'll look at what happened and why. first, response to president trump's missile strike has been generally positive. some congressional democrats signaled suppor

juan williams, dana and it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." >> moments ago, president trump wrapped up a news conference with the nato secretary general addressing the crises in syria and stepping up pressure on russia to abandon support for bashar al-assad. hours before his secretary of state rex tillerson met face-to-face with vladimir putin in moscow. more on that in just a moment. the u.n. security council also tried to condemn syria's attack on its own people but the vote failed because one member on the council veto's the resolution. remember, it takes only one permanent member to veto the vote. who vetoed the effort? it was russia. president trump stood by his decision to strike syria after assad gassed his own people. >> when you get to the gasses, especially that form, it's vicious and violent. everybody in this room saw it too many times over the last three or four days. young children dying, babies dying, fathers holding children in their arms that were dead, dead children. can't be a worse sight. it shouldn't be

. ♪ speaker hike mime greg gutfeld with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, eric bolling, and dana perino five" ." it was the mother of all bombs and the mother of all messages. >> at around 7:00 p.m. local time in afghanistan, the united states military used heb you 43 weapon, it is a accurately delivered weapon, we targeted a system of tunnels and

. ♪ ♪ >> dana: hello, everyone i'm dana perino along with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, greg gutfelding. this is the five. less than 100 days since taking office, president donald trump is making his mark on the world stage first with a u.s. air strike in syria in response to the chemical attack. and then yesterday with the massive bomb dropped in afghanistan killing 36 isis militants. meanwhile the world is watching north korea in growing concern that it may be closer than ever to launching a sixth nuclear test. this comes as the country prepares for what it's calling a big event to mark the anniversary of its founr'

. ♪ >> eric bolling with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. 5:00, and this is "the five." a very big news day, following four big breaking story speed devin nunes has stepped aside from the russian appropriate republicans have gone nuclear to get neil gorsuch confirmed. the u.s. navy coming closer to taking action in syria. and a high-stakes meeting is about to take place between president trump and china's leaders xi jinping. we

juan williams is here. trying to substitute for the very fabulous kennedy.

juan williams, dana and it's 5:00 in new york city.five." >> moments ago, president trump wrapped up a news conference with the nato secretary general addressing the crises in syria and stepping up pressure on russia to abandon support for bashar al-assad. hours before his secretary of state rex tillerson met face-to-face with vladimir putin in moscow. more on that in just a moment. the u.n. security council

. ♪ ♪ >> dana: hello, everyone i'm dana perino along with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, greg gutfeld eric bolling. this is the five. less than 100 days since taking office, president donald trump is making his mark on the world stage first with a u.s. air strike in syria in response to the chemical attack. and then yesterday with the massive bomb dropped in afghanistan killing 36 isis militants. meanwhile the world is watching north korea in growing concern that it may be closer than ever to launching a sixth nuclear test. this comes as the country prepares for what it's calling a big event to mark the anniversary of its founder's birthday on saturday. charles krauthammer shares his thoughts on how the president is handling all these international challenges. >> i think this is reassuring that we are returning to the classic american definition include our allies and most important we accept world leadership in a way that had not been accepted by obama and seemed to be not accepted by trump, the candidate. >> dana: general jack keane agrees with the commander-in-chief's military stra

michael and fox news political analyst author of we the people, juan williams, former democratic congressmandona edwards and rich lowery, editor of the national rebuke. you were pretty concerned ahead of time donald trump for all the treatrics, he's been a pretty conventional republican conservative? >> i think that's exactly right. if you're living on another planet, and i think juan thinks he's living on another planet for the last 100 days, you're hearing about substantive things that have happened, you would think this is a fairly conventional republican administration doing fairly conventional republican things. chris: does that make you happy? >> happier than i expected. it's not the greatest 100 days ever as president trump likes to portray it. judge gorsuch is a home run. he's begun the deregulatory rollback, the big incomplete, chris, is on capitol hill where he could still get health care reform and tax reform but could get shout-out on both. chris: congresswoman edwards, how do you see the 100 days? >> he hasn't had a significant legislative achievement, health care has gone down

bill kristol from the weekly standard, fox news political analyst and columnist for the health, juan williamsthee of georgetown university's institute of politics and public service in "washington examiner" contributor lisa boothe. phil, you heard general mcmaster, the national security advisor of the top of the show, are you satisfied that this administration as a clear strategy for going forward in syria in particular the question i asked, which was is this just about chemical weapons, was the president prepared to act if there's just a conventional means the slaughtering of civilians? >> they've at least done what they had to do to lay the predicate down. if he had not acted now, we would be in even worse shape than after president obama didn't enforce his redline, such original, a visual violation of national norms. let them work out the strategy, i have a lot of confidence. i do think -- if the trump administration ends up nondisastrously, -- >> chris: nondisastrously? >> that's my standard. >> [laughs] >> i'm hopeful it does. the replacement of michael flynn can really be an important m

i am dana perino along with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, chris wallace, greg gutfeld, and thisrday is president trump's 100th day in office. also renewing the health care push. >> we want to go when we are ready to go. this has been a very bottom-up process.t it takes time to do that. we are doing big things. i talk about 200 days. we are working on the path to get it right and not some artificial deadline. >> that is going to be dictated

i am greg gutfeld with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, jesse watters and dana perino."the five" ." ann coulter's berkeley speech has been canceled because she could not be protected. interesting. you have to wonder, if it were a radical liberal, would there have been an issue? it's only when you question leftist dogma that the dogs come out. call it a victory for the sharia snowflakes on campus. still blocking free speech. in fear of what,

but practically, and juan williams might know better, they need the money, they need to show the healthcaregs to move on to do taxes. what i say about this president is wonderful is he is leading. everything that is happening in the world is being led by a strong leader, that his people are paying attention to, in that feels a lot better. i think that is what he wants, to keep that momentum going. >> jenna: what do you think about that? >> i think the key here is if you do not have the money for a low-cost health care plan, it is hard to justify the tax cuts that the president has in mind. so we have seen not only in interviews as president trump did with maria bartiromo but paul ryan going back to the middle of the healthcare debate, he made the case to his house caucus, guys, we have to get this done because we can't get tax reform done without it. so to pick up on what was being said earlier, that is the promise the president made, not only healthcare reform, something much better than obamacare, but tax reform. i think that is so important to so many of his allies in the business commun