but i can answer kayleigh's question.pothesizing and bringing up the fact that he's been lackluster, slow, moving very, very slow on his feet in denouncing these acts of violence, he hasn't even really forcefully come out and talked about the muslims who were slaughtered in their own mosque in quebec. the reason being is that people are afraid. my grandmother who just passed away last week, she used to always say you that can't fall off the floor. and when you think about that theory, there are a lot of people right now, there are transgender students, there are african-americans who want criminal justice reform, there are jews who are being faced with anti-semitism. there are muslims who are being persecuted throughout the country with this rise in islamophobic attacks. there are a lot of people who are afraid, kayleigh, and that's the reason why. and if donald trump wants to kind of soothe that fear then donald trump needs to be a leader. being a leader means you speak forcefully out, not just against those things that

cnn political commentators kayleigh mcenany and charles blow. digging the new glasses. also political contributor hilary rosen and political commentator paris denard. good evening to all of you. hilary, the president turned a few heads this morning at the national prayer breakfast when he was asked -- when he asked a room full of lawmakers, foreign dignitaries, and religious leaders to pray for arnold schwarzenegger so that the ratings of his new show nbc's "the apprentice" would go up. what do you think? >> i don't really see what the big deal is. >> it was funny. >> i find that probably too many washington institutions end up being too self-important and somber. and my guess is the prayer breakfast has gotten that too. i don't want all these catholics and christians to start writing me that i'm being sacrilegious here. the fact the president made a joke at the prayer breakfast doesn't bother me too much. >> oh, my gosh. we have to mark this down today. anybody surprised by the comments or did you just think -- >> go ahead, charles. have at me. >> they were funny and l

trump supporter kayleigh mcenany, strategist maria cardona and nia-malika henderson.gh, what ais the trepresi going to do if republicans block support for the wall? he needs the money from congress. >> sure. and i don't think there will be a problem with congressional republicans. we've heard paul ryan come out and say we want to give president trump this. this was his number one campaign promise. and republicans, congressmen and women need to support a republican president. and i think he can do a lot of cajoling behind the scenes, maneuvering to get these republican congressional individuals there. and i think the one thing he needs to say to them is when have republican gop establishment congressmen and women ever cared about spending? you know, we're called back to two yaears ago with senator mik lee saying let's defund dhs because they've given out thousands of work permits over the last decade. now all of a sudden they care about spending. so, i think maneuvering behind the scenes will remedy this problem. >> here's the thing, though, support for the wall among

kayleigh mcenany, keith boykin, and nia-malika henderson, our senior political reporter.e "the washington post" is shocked and happy to be left off of that tweet. in all seriousness, he's had a great day. chaos and turmoil, true headlines. but the headlines about the stock market and the economy are also true. a big moment at boeing. has this and then he goes off on twitter about the fake news media and, you know, had to drop the word sick which i'm sure was heartbreaking for him because he had to add in more news organizations. skeersly, why not capitalize on the fact that he had a good day at boeing? he looked presidential. everything was going his way. >> sure. he's an equal opportunity employer including more news organizes. it's a personal attack on the media. i think the public at large views the media with suspicion. i think when he attacks the media he highlights the coverage, encourages viewers to view the media and their coverage with discerning eye particularly when there are gaps in the facts like the flynn transcript and left wing commentators inserting wild

and kayleigh mcenany.r all the reporting and focus on conflicts of interest, it is pretty stunning that she would have stood there at white house giving infomercial for ivanka trump's products. does it surprise you? >> kellyanne conway is an excellent spokes woman. very fast on her feet, smart person. she's gotten caught out on a couple of things lately. i think maybe she's over exposed and needs a break. but this also got blown up a little bit beyond what could have been a casual flip mistake. but what we have to focus on is why it got blown up. it got blown up because there's all of these looming conflicts of interest issues floating around the white house and this is the latest event in all of that. it starts with the president's own unwillingness to really observe, i think, more stringent conflict guidelines, the litigation in which melania trump said she awe her tenure in the white house as money making opportunity. ivanka trump's presence on economic advisory boards within the white house while she h

kayleigh mcenany. let's remind you what paul ryan said about entitlements and how important it is in a budgetary process just last year to "the wall street journal" journal. play it. >> do you consider it possible to arrive at a fiscal policy and plan that reduces the deficit without touching medicare and social security or military spending? >> no, you can't. it's a mathematical impossibility. if you do not tackle the drivers of our debts which are entultments, you cannot balance the budget and pay down the debt. >> you cannot do it. now he's not saying as much because the president isn't touching them in his budget. how on earth is he going to get enough republicans truly on board with him? how is he going to do it tonight in this speech? >> look, speaker paul ryan's absolutely correct when he points to these key entitlement programs as the chief drivers of our debt. this is what's so fascinating when you look at trump and the new conservatism that's come about because president trump has said i don'

kayleigh mcenany and charles and hilary rosen and paris dennard. good evening to all of you.ary the president turned a few heads this morning at national prayer breakfast when he asked a room full of lawmakers, foreign dignitaries and leaders to pray for arnold swa schwarzenegger for ratings to go up. >> i don't think it's that interesting. too many washington institutions end up being too somber and my guess the prayer breakfast that way too. i don't want people writing that i'm sackra ligs but the fact made a joke doesn't bug me that much. >> write this down. >> charles have at me. >> they were funny and lighthearted. we know that president trump talks about his ratings and was a joke that i think was in good taste. >> consensus. >> what bothers me more is the presumption that we take the full force of government and all of our leaders go to a christian prayer breakfast and have a conversation really about in some respects this kind of christian oppression. really bothered me more he was talking about destroying the johnson amendment and that there were rumors about how the

jump in with kayleigh and sally, went to law school as well.egal nuance whatsoever or legal justification. not sure that donald trump knows what that is. but i do think he's doing more than criticizing, it's unfair to characterize when a senator mcconnell chastises a barack obama or elizabeth warren chastises donald trump with this scenario, and that's because donald trump has gone to the foundations of our democracy. put out there and tried to scapegoat these judges if any terror attack happens in this country. that sows distrust in the judiciary. i have to piggyback on sally's statement. it's not a simple criticism of one judge or another. setting bad precedent. moving forward let the courts play out. mcconnell said it on sunday. let it shake out and see what happens. >> move on to something else. last week nordstrom announced dropping ivanka trump's clothing line. declining sales after boycotts and in statement repeated strictly a business decision. however the president attacked nordstrom tweeting daughter ivanka tweeted so unfairly by nord

here to discuss, cnn political commentator sally cohen, kayleigh mcenany, bob cusack, editor in chiefhe hill." this is like a pre-election panel. look at that. so let's go. here is trump discussing the three federal judges who's going to decide the immigration ban case. listen. >> if you were a good student in high school or a bad student in high school, you can understand this. and it's really incredible to me that we have a court case that's going on so long. as you know in boston, we won it with a highly respected judge and a very strong opinion, but now we're in an area that, let's just say, they are interpreting things differently than probably a hundred percent of the people in this room. >> so the judge is strong and respectable when the judge agrees with him. what's your reaction, bob? >> i don't think there's any positive to this for donald trump. because he's going after judges, he's gone after john roberts before. and a lot of the trump agenda is actually going to end up at the supreme court. so, i think a lot of his aides are probably thinking, maybe this is not the best t

kayleigh, bob baer says it's a war on the intelligence community. what do you say about this review? >> i don't think that at all. i think we've seen a series of leaks. and i find it very troubling, troubling, you had nine former and current member of the intelligence community come out and share top secret information, as bob mentioned, not only that, "the wall street journal" reported today that members of the intelligence community are selectively deciding what to share with the president because they don't trust him. >> we do not have that reporting, cnn doesn't have that reporting. >> even if "the wall street journal" is wrong about that, the fact that they're leaking intelligence is very bad. the fact of president trump having somebody look over the intelligence community, that's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. >> is the problem the leakers? no president likes a leak. president barack obama prosecuted more leakers than any recent president. is the problem just the leaks? if the leakers are the problem, why did michael flynn get fired, then

. >>> we're joined by kayleigh mcenany, mary katharine ham and bakari sellers, cnn commentator, former democratic south carolina house member. welcome one and all. we have one eye, on capitol hill for when paul ryan takes questions. if we can, let's shift focus to tonight to the speech. mary katharine ham, 40 days into the administration right now. what do you think the president needs to do when he speaks to congress and the american people tonight, and what do you think he will do? >> well, what he will do is always up in the air. the thing remember to about this is it may not look like a normal state of the union. this is not texically state of the union but it may not electric like that. he may break some actual news by breaking with republicans up there. he guy mmay engage with members the audience. he may spend in time congratulating himself which wouldn't be that different from the last eight years. and we should not overestimate the extent to which the american people are upset about that. >> sorry to interrupt. stick with us for a second. let's listen to the questions that the

one of the things that kayleigh brought up is not all the way accurate.deporting individuals with criminal records who committed violent crimes. thp expands these individuals who will be deported and detained. mass deportation policy put forth incorporates status offenses and noncriminal records so taking away mothers and fathers and sisters of brothers as symone said who are working and contributing to society. and one of the things that shows ineptitude of this white house. this white house is deporting all of these individuals regardless of where they're from to the contiguous country where they entered. ecuadorians, haitians who entered through mexico deported to mexico and they're not mexican. the confusion will be paramount, but also the fear these families are facing every day is just not right. >> is leaving daca program in place an olive branch? >> i think what leaving it in place is just proof positive this situation, this issue is a difficult one. you can go from campaigning and then you have to move into governing. and just like you had govern

kayleigh mcenany, john pedoris and ana navarro, cnn political commentator.ways good to have you here. the fear that comes with the immigration guidelines, you come here illegally, you're here illegally and could be deported. what is the balance of these two things? >> it does cause fear. i don't think people should be fearful. sean spicer clearly said we don't want to touch daca people or dreamers. >> people drought in as children or teens and they have lived here and lived well. >> absolutely. most illegal immigrants are very good people who want a shot at the american dream. i can promise you that donald trump believes that most americans are good. >> the problem s. the president has said other things as well that went to a broader and negative picture of the immigrant reality. and now these guidelines speak to that notion. it's broad. it's not just about being convicted. it's not even about being arrested or about being charged. if enforcement officials think you are a risk, they could throw you out of the country. how does that play? >> it's reflecting i

i'm glad to hear kayleigh and matt disavow him. conservative movement kind of likes this guy, and has embraced him. >> there's a lot of conservatives national review, i would say most mainstream conservatives don't like him, it's more of the alt-right, the breitbart.com likes him. he gets some mileage out of the british accent. he plays the victim card all the time. identity politics, you can't call me a bigot because i'm gay. >> i'm going to let you finish, matt. this goes into what i want to say. simon and schuster cancelled his book. the book was going to be entitled dangerous. he'll probably publish. he'll posted an apology on your page. my only experience as a victim led me to believe i could say anything i wanted to no matter how outrageous, my usual blend of british sarcasm may have come across as flippancy. a lack of care for victims. i deeply regret that, people deal with things in the past. kay lee was saying, she didn't believe the same. she said the same thing. >> i'm a very forgiving person, i want to forgive someone i

and to kayleigh's point. there was, i can't think of his name, but he did go back and say maybe it wasn't him. the guy had a history of making statements that weren't necessarily true. and people took that and ran with it in '86. >> those are all old charges. you know, kayleigh points to a more more recent record of jeff sessions, so is it really fair for senator warren -- >> what she was doing was reading a letter from coretta scott king, who herself is the recipient of the congressional gold medal. one of the highest medals congress can award. i presume senator sessions voted for that. i would expect he did. this is an icon who's no longer here. she wrote a letter strongly opposing sessions for the judgeship that jeffrey was talking about, and that's what elizabeth warren was reading when somehow senator mcconnell got the vapors and shut her up. she's not obeying her boss, boss mcconnell. >> ask senator santorum. he's been shut down before. decorum is important. i encourage everybody to watch marco rubio's

discuss with symone sanders and kayleigh mcenany, jonathan ssa eveny and paris dennard.ood evening to all of you. i think symone and kayleigh called each other. >> we coordinated. >> we've heard the reports about infighting at trump white house but today they dismissed that talk. take a look. >> we share an office suite together, basically together from 6:30 in the morning until about 11:00 at night. >> i have a little thing called war room. he has a fireplace with nice sofas. >> and i consider him -- secondly, a very dear friend and someone that i work with every second of the day. and actually cherish his friendship. >> thing i respect most and only way this thing works is reince is always steady. his job by far one of the toughest i've ever seen in my life. >> should they take this on the road? did you think it with as genuine? >> i did. look they were honest. said you heard reince say we're very different people and they were real about that. but i think at end of the day what is going on with them is that you resent the fact that this other person is pushing against

you when you're giving the public bad, wrong, erroneous information, how would you answer that, kayleigh? >> look, i think it was good he did not follow in that incorrect line of i guess information. i think sometimes he hears information, he did have a historic pennsylvania, michigan, states not won since reagan that's an accurate fact but i think sometimes he hears that and gets it wrong and messes up on the nuance. >> he admitted he was given that information and that's what he read. >> i think he didn't continue down that line of information was a good thing. >> anna navarro what say you? >> i can we just saw brilliance in action. the guy gave us a one hour 15 performance to distract us. and he did. in fact. he knew he was doing it to a level he even told us i'm going to go watch tv and there's going to be people saying i was ranting and i was raving and unhinged. he was performing. we're talking about the electoral college vote again. you know what we're in and onot about is the explosive campaign -- >> yes, we are. >> we're concentrating on unpacking "the whip" la-- whiplh we all j

mark preston, bill krystle, kayleigh mcenany joining our legal experts. when you hear the president's response saying this is political, saying they're going to fight it, tweeting, see you in court in all caps, david gergen, it's clear where he stands on this. he won't revoke the order and try to write a better one. that's not how he's talking tonight. >> sure not although alan dershowitz has a useful point. alan's notion of repeal and replace has some resonance here. it may be the best way out for the president ultimately. he is going to fight in the meantime. he'll hurt himself if he continues tweeting and challenging the court and challenging the judicial system. but i must say it's a surprise to everyone just how broad and sweeping this opinion is written by including one judge appointed by george w. they reject the standing argument, the reviewability argument put forward by the government. they said they rejected the argument there was no likelihood of success citing donald trump, what he'd been saying through the campaign, he wanted a wanted a ban

bring in kayleigh mcenany, simone sanders, bakari sellers and matt lewis. thank you for being here.i, for democrats this supreme court announcement is painful example of when people say elections have consequences, nancy pelosi said that tonight in the town hall with jake tapper. what will democrats do? >> elections do have consequences and people have to realize this is not bork nomination. i don't think you can challenge the qualifications but still have to stay in the mode of resisting and channelling energy that you have out there. i think the democrats need to do something smart. sit down, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, whoever and say look, next seat make sure this seat is gorsuch, next get merrick garland a good shake at it and try to come up with a compromise. this seat doesn't shift the balance of the court. the kennedy seat is the one. i think democrats take that tack first before they burn the house down. if not, expect fill abusters as long as republicans don't go nuclear but when that happens, going to go out with a fight. >> all been saying that's not going to hatchet th

. >> i think kayleigh was right, why are the leaks happening, they need to be plugged up. other things, why does "the new york times" feel the need to report this? what is the point? if the point is to report facts because it's something that the american people need to know, it's helpful for us to learn more about the presidency, that's fine. but if it's this negative reinforcing -- >> the only people who thought it was negative was the president and -- i gotta go. >> don, what i need to say while they're focused on the leaks, i'm more concerned with the fact that the white house has proven itself not to be able to tell the truth. i'm not caught up in the bath robes and all that stuff, i just want the white house to tell me the truth. >> thanks, everyone. i'm going home to get in my bath robe now. i hope you will too. >> absolutely. >> goodnight, i'll see you back here tomorrow. 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. bowl without me. frank.' i'm going to get nachos. snack bar's closed. gah! ah, ah ah. ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don'

charles blow is back and also kayleigh mcenany, betsy mccoy, former lieutenant governor of new york andseptember or october all over again. talk about the ban. the president's travel ban. here's what he said about the rollout. >> we had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban but we had a bad court. a court that gave us what i consider to be with great respect, a very bad decision. very bad for the safety of our country. rollout was perfect. >> used word perfect to describe the rollout. >> i believe the law is perfect, perfectly on his side, whatever bumps in the road about the implementation. fact is if you look at ninth circuit, on average gets overturned by supreme court 80% of the time -- >> i know about hold on. i've been discussing this with so many people before. that's if you look at cases that are sent to them. usually cases sent to them have a high possibility of being overturned. that's why sent to them. if not a problem case, doesn't go to that court. >> anything goes to it in their jurisdiction. extremely left wing. >> it's not a bad record. it's part of the function of tha

. >> kayleigh, the people who oppose what president trump has proposed say essentially that criminalsere already being targeted for deportation, you know, the obama administration had a policy of going after hardened criminals. >> right, but there were also criminal illegal immigrants released into society under the obama administration. in fact, it was to the tune of 19,000 in 2015 alone. hook, i agree with ana entirely to the extent that most illegal imfrapts in this country are hard-working people like you saw in that piece, the father who wants a better life for his daughter, but we forget about another population of people, and that is victims of imgrant crimes, like sabine who lost the life of her son dominick at the hands of an imgrant who was not supposed to be here, who was deported to guatemala and came back in and she lost her son's life. this immigration executive order, we left it this out of this, creates an office for those individuals who are american citizens who have a right to life and want to gather information on an illegal immigrant and in some cases, they murder

kayleigh mcenany. and dana bash.ana, in terms of the presidential reaction calling this a political decision, it was a unanimous decision including a judge appointed by president george w. bush. would it surprise you if the president continues to go after these judges? >> to go after them personally rather, yes, it would surprise me given the backlash that we have seen from everybody including his own nominee for the supreme court. however, i'm told by a senior administration official that the backing that they say that they have for the allegation that this was a political decision is because of the fact that in this ruling the judges cite arguments that the washington state attorneys made talking about the fact that this is effectively just a part of the muslim ban that then candidate trump talked about on the campaign trail and that is they argue unconstitutional. now the judges didn't actually say they agreed with it but the fact that they referred to that argument a couple to-tiof times their ruling suggests to

jeffrey toobin, keirsten powers, kayleigh mcenany, tara setmayer. paul begala, and cam cuccinelli.u heard what senator richard blumenthal said, essentially the judge needs to go further and say it publicly. likely to happen? >> i think judge gorsuch is nobody's fool and has walked a clever line here, demonstrated some independence from president trump, but he's also not really rubbed the president's nose in it. i think it's a good confirmation strategy for him but it's also probably what he thinks. and that's, you know, a pretty good deal. >> attorney general cuccinelli, do you think there's any reason for president trump or his allies to push back on the comments or does it help the judge get confirmed and -- >> oh, god, no. >> what the white house wants? >> a lot of what you guys talk about in the media, does it make sense for him to tangle with this person or that person. the one person on earth that donald trump shouldn't be messing around with is judge gorsuch in part because he's his own selection to be the next supreme court justice. judge gorsuch appropriately and in a dign

. >> matt lewis, paul begala, trump supporters kayleigh mcenany and jeffrey lord. let me start with you. so many moving parts to this. where do you see this going? >> a couple things happened today. one-a lot of republicans especially on the senate side by the end of the day did concede this needs to be looked at. >> house side not so much. >> not so much. on the senate side it looks like they're moving towards a serious investigation of all of the allegations of russian hacking in the election and with respect to people around trump who had ties to russia and obviously flynn will be at the center of that. >> what i don't understand is if the white house said today clearly they don't think flynn did anything wrong in making that call or calls in talking about sanctions with the russian ambassador, if that is the case and flynn didn't think he did anything wrong, why is he lying to everybody in the white house? >> great question. this may be innocent. it was his right to talk to russian ambassador as incoming national security adviser. not unusual. but why did he de

developments tonight, ron brownstein, "new york times" op-ed columnist, charles blow, dana bash, kayleigh mcenany, paul begala, and penny nance, author of "feisty and feminine: a rallying cry for conservative women." dana, you have three geopolitical hot spots, iran, israel, and now russia. what do you make of all of the movements today? >> i mean, it's really hard to keep up. and i think in some ways, that's kind of the point. what i find most fascinating is what you just reported. that nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, went before this body, and said things about russia in crimea that the president, her boss, differed with kind of in an 180-degree way in the campaign. he has been very open to the idea of not being tough on russia, even open to the idea, at least on one occasion during the campaign, of just kind of leaving the crimea situation alone. that is not what we heard from his ambassador to the u.n. today. i just talked to somebody who was familiar with the drafting of her remarks, who said that the white house is well aware of what she was going to do, but

. >> i think -- i agree with kayleigh that steve bannon is sharp.ot of people going on tv for trump. his answer the politically smart answer. where trump will be most politically successful is when he's doing economic populism, inserts himself into culture wars, when he is getting involved in some of the theatrics of the trump presidency or doing the things that can be viewed by many, myself included, as being biased towards immigrants or attacking refugees, all those things. that is worse for him. if he is going core to a working class economic populist message, that's probably the best place for him to agree. i disagree with trump and bannon on the substance, but from a political point of view, probably the right thing to do. >> back to why he doesn't appear on the talk shows, i met him and found him to be very personable. others expected him to be very different. he slams the media constantly and he did so today, called it the opposition. a new quinnipiac poll with bad news, voters trust the media, 52 to 378%. that's not great for us, but it's re

joining us is trump supporter and contributor to the hill, kayleigh mcinany and jonathan tsini. there is what the president actually said about sweden and the way it was sort of interpreted by a lot of people who thought is he talking about a terror attack in sweden, it sounded like maybe, although he didn't actually say that, then he walked it back, essentially saying it's based on something i guess he watched on tucker carlson. >> once you know what it's based on when you actually watch him say it, it all sort of makes sense. last night meant the president watching fox news last night. >> it wasn't something that actually happened in sweden. it was a report last night about sweden. >> he learned about it. what is there to say about this? he doesn't always seem to be a very careful consumer of the news media. he took something from television and sort of intertwined it into his speech about terror attacks. i think a couple problems. one is he hasn't adjusted from being a candidate where you can get away with saying those things. you are not privy to the most important national