katie pavlich, i go to you first. what do you think?> i think we always have to take special elections with a grain of salt. however, i understand the spin that is coming from the rnc. they keep arguing that conor lamb ran essentially as a republican. that may be true. however i do think that the rnc and republicans have to be worried about the number of seats that are being retired in districts that hillary clinton won because those are very easy seats for democrats to pick up. i think that they do have to be worried about it and make sure they have good candidates. to bury your head in the sand and say it's no problem -- kennedy: and you have to pick the good candidates before they run. because when you get in the race and you realize that the party, the party's opponent is coming up right nipping on your heel. >> it's true. for me the most troubling thing about this for republicans is that it does seem to indicate that donald trump -- you know, when he's on the ticket, he pulls people across the line. he has the capacity to do that.

katie pavlich, townhall.com editor. great to see you tonight. talking about this addition of joad to jennifer. the hills says adding digenova says trump wants to go more on the offensive. "the new york times" said he represents an aggressive presence on the team. >> yeah, i think he has a record in washington, d.c., of being somewhat of a bulldog and as the mueller investigation gets closer to the white house, not in the sense of any wrongdoing but in the sense of wrapping up the investigation, the president wants everyone on his team who can defend him against any kind of allegation that the mueller pro brings. looking at the fact that we are now a year into this and all the indictments that have come down are unrelated to russian collusion or the presidential election of 26 teen, i think the president is doing what he thinks is best in terms of defending himself and making sure he's covered on all bases. bring him in and knowing how politics works in that town, probably not a bad idea. >> shannon: adrienne, clearly the president is going on th

here with us, katie pavlich. co-host of "after the bell", melissa francis. for the first time on "outnumbered," the former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton, adrian elrod. also joining us, former chief of staff to senate majority leader, mi

howie: we have fox's katie pavlich reporting that the president wants pete hegseth. and you had an observation about the fox green room. juan: i think it's a staging area for the president. he surround himself with yes people. he has watched them on tv or has become accustomed to seeing them on tv. howie: this is becoming the new narrative. he's just hiring loyalists. is that fair? doesn't every president have his share of loyalists. sarah: the president shouldn't have people in his administration who are trying to convince him not to implement policies he ran on. mollie: he encourages people to fight with him. it's not a good idea for the secretary of state position to be one of those. howie: i think the media wants people to restrain him from the policies he ran on because some in the media don't like those policies. howie: "media madness." still ahead. scaramucci. smile dad. i take medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol. but they might not be enough to protect my heart. adding bayer aspirin can further reduce the risk of another heart attack. because m

former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton adrienne elrod and katie pavlich and in the center seat, fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano is with us. >> we got a lot of news. a growing wave of resistance against california state sanctuary law. right now, local law enforcement officers are not allowed to communicate with federal immigration officers. that means they cannot warn the feds when a criminal illegal immigrant is being released from custody that day. now, the orange county sheriff is finding a work around. they are posting the prison release dates of all their inmates regardless of immigration status. california's attorney general suggested that he'll punish those who he perceives to be in violation of the sanctuary law. watch. >> state law is state law. it's my job to enforce state law. i will do so. >> that mean laws in the sheriff's department? >> i think i just answered that. >> orange county undersheriff is responding. he said his department is not doing anything illegal. >> they were threatening. my hope they will read the langua

town hall editor and fox news contributor at katie pavlich, host of "kennedy" on fox business, kennedy. in joining us on the couch, chris bedford. he is "outnumbered," good to have you. >> chris: great to be back, happy monday. >> harris: you are one of my favorite accounts on twitter, so creative. >> chris: thank you. >> sandra: this is a big deal. new developments today after a busy weekend at the white house and all of washington reacting to jeff sessions firing fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. mr. session says mccabe was terminated after an extensive and fair investigation, which found that he leaked to the media and did not tell the full truth about it. at first the president's personal lawyers reacted by calling to the end of the mueller probe. white house attorney ty cobb said the president is not planning to fire mueller. the president for the first time specifically mentioning robert mueller in a tweet, saying the russia probe never should've started in the first place. marc short asked where this is all going yesterday, watch. >> we have cooperated in every single way, ever

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katie pavlich is reporting that president trump is strongly considering replacing shulkin.eportedly on thin ice after an inspector general report found that he and other senior leaders missed misused funds during a trip to europe. shulkin is accused of inappropriately accepting wimbledon tickets and having taxpayers cover the cost of his wife's travel, all this after the firing of rex tillerson. the president said yesterday he is getting very close to the cabinet he wants, and today, there is a new addition. the white house announced that larry kudlow accepted an offer to serve as the president's top economic advisor. gary cohn held that job until he resigned last week, reportedly in part because he disagreed in part with the steel and aluminum tariffs. he has known the president for years. >> he called me sunday afternoon, and i thought he was going to call me and follow me out because i had some problemsd explaining his position to me, his thinking on the matter. we got into the conversation and he started talking about the director job, but it was a good thing. >> we don

harris faulkner, katie pavlich, fox news analyst marie part of, and congressman sean duffy, republican from the great state of wisconsin, and he is outnumbered. glad to have you back. >> sean: great to be here. >> harris: all right, our work is done here. >> sandra: all right, let's get started. we could be looking at history in the making, kim jong un requesting a sitdown with president trump as soon as possible. the when and where have yet to be decided, but the potential milestone is already drawing praise from republicans and democrats alike. sean spicer reacting earlier today. >> kim jong un is coming to the table, he is going to have a discussion with the present. that is a huge won for the south korean people. huge won for our allies in asia, and for this country. so we have got to stop trying to figure out what is going to happen next and it just let the process unfold. so far, he has shown that he can be very successful in a moving in this country forward. >> sandra: but some do remain skeptical, given the track record. here is senator marco rubio. >> donald trump was elected

here with us, katie pavlich. co-host of "after the bell", melissa francis. for the first time on "outnumbered," the former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton, adrian elrod. also joining us, former chief of staff to senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, josh holmes is here. he's outnumbered. good to have you here. >> great to be here. >> look at you. you wore a hankie. a week from today, voters in pennsylvania will decide which candidate to send to washington. many see the race as an early indicationer for what the two expect in the mid-terms. recent polling shows them tied. the district went overwhelming for president trump in 2016. both have military experience and high right it in their ads. >> as a father of military, i understand what it means to send young people to battle. right now america needs expert with real experience. lives are on the line. >> what is missing is a thank you to the people that serve every day in our schools, and our hospitals, on our streets and construction sites. it helps us remember who to say thank yo

katie pavlich, mo elleithee. my, there's a big battle on this issue.resident campaigned on it. shouldn't be a surprise. but rolling it out like this was. >> it was a surprise, not just to the markets. it was a shock inside. i can't overstate how unusual it is for white house aides, a couple hours before a big presidential event, to have no idea. this tells you how they think compared to how the president thinks. they were telling us he can't do this. the paperwork isn't done. the president has been saying he wants to do this. axios has reported, saying bring me my tariffs. this is a president getting what he wanted and the chart you showed is part of the argument that aides have been making to delay, try to put it off, buy some time. >> bret: gary cohn is one of those pushing back. has a supporter eight in wilbur ross in converse, robert lighthizer and he campaigned on it. some of the states affected. >> the administration is gambling on the idea that the ends will justify the means. they know it's a big risk. shows that tariffs aren't always good for

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here today town hall editor and fox news contributor katie pavlich. anchor of the intelligence report on fox business trish regan and former deputy spokesperson for the state department and fox news analyst marie harf. in the center seat host of the revolution with steve hilton and ceo of crowd pac. ceo himself is outnumbered. steve: him here himself. >> harris: i'm great. are you great? >> i'm still shocked flying over from california how cold it can be in new york this time of year. >> harris: amazing how long winter is. i'm going to serve that groundhog. >> groundhog in lots of trouble. >> harris: let's get to the news. attorney general jeff sessions reportedly considering whether to fire deputy director andrew mccabe who has been on leave since january and set to retire on sunday. this stems from an internal doj investigation into activities during the 2016 election. including the hillary clinton email case. if mccabe is fired before 5:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow, he could lose a full pension that he has built after nearly 22 years of public service.

this is outnumbered, i'm sandra smith in here today, town hall editor and fox news contributor katie pavlich. company and grove after the bell on fox business, melissa francis. former deputy spokesperson for the state department and fox news analyst, marie harf is here and join us on the couch, former utah congressman and fox news contributor, jason chaffetz. he is outnumbered on a breaking news day. >> jason: lots of news happening. good men and women go to work and the atf, fbi, local sheriff's office and police department and god bless them. they've got their hands full in maryland and texas and love what they do and how they do it. >> sandra: let's get to the news. special counselor robert muller's russia probe and president tom's reaction to it getting more intense. for the first time at, attorneys from both miller's team and trumps legal team sat down for a face-to-face talk about topics investigators could ask the president. two sources tell cnn it was the first in-person meeting after several weeks of informal discussions. meantime, fox news is confirming the president is beating up

joining us are reaction katie pavlich editor of town hall.com along with antwon seawright democratic all right. let's talk about this. hillary clinton has been on a book tour that never ends. it just goes on and on and on. it's like cher's farewell tour it keeps going on and on and on. her book was titled "what happened." antwon, here is what happened. hillary lost and forgot middle america. hillary is now blaming sexism when democrats say time to leave the stage, please. your reaction to this? >> well, my reaction is this: i think it's -- i think it's quite disgusting for the right to harp on what hillary clinton as a private citizen is doing in her private life. look, she did lose the election. actually, she lost the electoral college because 3 million more people voted for her than president donald trump. she lost the electoral college. but she is in her private life. getting paid to do speeches. selling her book. and so why does the right wing want to harp on what hillary clinton says? i don't think hillary clinton gives two cents about what the right wing is doing. so leave her

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katie pavlich, news editor at townhall.com.on editor for "the washington post." it wasn't a surprise, it may be was a surprise how it was rolled out, but the president has talked about wanting to do this for quite some time. the question is whether it is going to be as big as they say it is. >> biggest essay it is in terms of the consequences with republicans in the chamber of congress are running about or whether the president is going to water down some of the things that he put on the table initially and if you look at the way that is negotiated, he tends to do that. the language that he used today in his initial opening line at the white house during his event with the steelworkers behind him, when he talked about this being about flexibility in cooperation with our true friends, both in terms of national security, trade, and our military bases, that says to me that he is not going to negotiate these tariffs on a trade issue, he's going to negotiate this with the respect of our nato allies contributing more money as he's ta

. >> bill: katie pavlich in d.c.ndra: we're learning more about the suspect in the deadly spring of bombings in texas. the new details emerging from this video confession, plus this. >> this was a major breach of trust and i'm really sorry this happened. we need to make sure there's no other cambridge analyticas out there. >> bill: mark zuckerberg breaking his violence. will he testify before congress. that lingers out there today. >> sandra: and critics accusing washington of being swept up in mueller mania and say the hyperbole has gone too far. texas congressman john ratcliff joins us next but first here's senator rand paul. >> congress always tries to get in the middle of stuff and most the time it becomes like a kangaroo court. even all the stuff over the russia investigation is all kangaroo court. there's a real investigation which is mueller in a criminal investigation. people would stare. psoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on figh

katie paf lim pavlich joins me. katie, i will start with you. know, a lot of people on the left say this isn't about taking guns away. it's not about banning guns. it's not about repealing the second amendment. but clearly for some people who no longer have an active political agenda, people like john paul stevens who has been on the wrong side of this issue for a long time, that's what it's really about, isn't it? >> first i want to say thank you for having me on your show to exercise my first amendment right to defend the second amendment rights of millions of americans all across the country. second of all, to your point. yes for a long time we've heard the left argue they want common sense gun reforms when you look at this and have people like justice stevens coming out saying they went a full repeal of the second amendment, which is virtually impossible because you need 38 states to agree to that and they're not going to do that because the republicans are in charge of most of the states. however that doesn't mean the local jurisdictions of

fox news contributor katie pavlich.e march former advisor to john kerry. ladies, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> happy monday. >> bill: monday indeed. just to refresh your memory, this is part of what she said last week, you didn't like black people getting rights. you don't like women. you know, getting jobs. you don't want, you know, to see that indian american succeeding more than you are. tell that to nikki haley and bobby jindal in louisiana. katie, i thought dick durbin's comments over the weekend very interesting. i will play that in a moment. is she explaining how this came off well? >> the old saying if you are explaining you are losing. here we are again with hillary clinton saying something about herself and dwelling on the 2016 presidential election in a public setting during an interview, year seas on foreign soil. where she insulted half of the country, if not more. and she doesn't just come out and say i am sorry for what i said. she has to include all these words to say i may have been misinterp