kellyanne conway.what powerful political woman is mocked for her clothes, depicted as haggard, called a witch and the "b" word. what's your reaction to this being in the new york tiesms saying you are unfairly attacked. >> i was asked about that before i read the article. i'm heartened by the article. i did not participate tonight. but a number of well-known prominent democratic women we know who worked very hardtop elect hillary clinton who i commend as obviously very good consultants and political oh own spent, they came to the defense of why a woman would be talked about in these terms. a lot of these comments come from women. i turn off a lot of it. if i don't read most of the praise and criticism, it keeps you in balance. howie: that's a good strategy for survival. >> i'm there to serve the president and serve the american people. how report infamous photo of you taking a picture on the oval office couch. and democratic koangman said -- congressman cedric richmond made a comment. >> i'm pro-life.

kellyanne conway is the special counsel to the president of the united states. look -- obviously the obama people did not think that your guy was going to win. they were shocked. it looks to many like they hatched this plan hey, let's get all this secret stuff. we gathered in the final days of the campaign, spread it throughout the administration so that everybody is able to try to blow him up over the next couple of months, leak stuff to the press. it looks like a coordinated effort by a former president and his team on a scale we have never seen before. >> and what you just said are based on published reports. steve: yeah. >> in the last week that said exactly that. let's make it very clear today. it certainly contra convenience the earlier spirit of cooperation in having a peaceful transition of power. that would be very disappointing. and, again, this is about bureaucratic systematic leaks in the intelligence and security communities. i would say say respectfully to senator schumer, this is a very typical response to the democratic party these days. it's tha

steve bannon credits kellyanne conway with saving trump. o doing, by the way, implicitly admitting they thought they were going to lose, which they say they didn't think but they clearly did. bannon says if kellyanne had not been there when the firestorm hit, i don't know if we would have made it. the article says bannon says it was kellyanne's presence that led wavering women and conservative voters to think if she could still support trump, i can too. >> there might be some fuel to that. if you remember back in august when she took the position, she was heralded by many of us and still is, you know, to a certain extent as somebody who kind of understood the establishment, understood politics as usual and not the -- >> came from working with -- >> not chaotic, you know, as donald trump was. also the campaign manager at a time when he was getting hit with these allegations of really having a bad relationship -- quite frankly, back to the ak says hollywood tape, need i say more. >> to which she is referring. >> to have a woman leading the cam

kellyanne conway said she was answering about surveillance techniques in general. let me read you the question she was responding to. one of the things that seem to be dogging him this week is the allegations about wiretaps. do you know whether trump tower was wiretapped. that doesn't seem to be the question about microwaves. she brought up microwaves. why do you think she was trying to drop that implication bomb. >> it doesn't make a lot of sense from a strategic standpoint, there isn't a lot of incentive from kellyanne conway or anyone in the trump administration to be bringing up this issue. weight it leads to are further questions about russia, about any ties about the trump campaign or some of its allies might have had with russia. it really doesn't do them a lot of good. mike rogers earlier in your show this morning said a similar thing. why are they raising this issue, this is going to be another week where we're talking about russia and a potential investigation into the trump campaign. it doesn't make a lot of sense insomuch as this is potentially a strate

next, eric bolling hosting a special "o'reilly factor," the trump agenda with special guest kellyanne conway and senator rand paul, treat me your thoughts on the show, don't chae the channel. ♪ >> eric: hi, i am eric bolling and for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching this special edition of "the factor," the trump agenda, president trump's first 50 days, it has been a whirlwind start for the administration, to say the least, and with us now, counselor to the president, kellyanne conway. let's start, he said depressing think of the week was the obamacare bill, what's going on, where do you see it, what is the president see it? >> the president is very confident that he will repeal and replace obamacare, i love the fact that this is the first major legislative action while he's been president, most executive in nature. we really see donald trump the negotiator and the decision-maker, the dealmaker, the great listener, sending senators into the oval office and the white house, working the phones with them, vice president pans on the help you much every day, secretary price, it's been a full cou

that's not what kellyanne conway originally said. it was to clarify that she was claiming president trump was spied on his microwave or television or through a telephone. >> she had read that those are ways that those are someone that could be spied on. >> michael, one of your great pieces is available online. it is seven easy graphics that's laid out the potential trump ties to russia. >> i assume that you concur with us of the shiny project rules that is not in effect. the intelligence committee and how convenience and the intelligence committee cranked up an operating. the former president wire tapping of his office building. >> look over there. that's a great distraction. that chart kinds of bring you back. >> by the way -- thank you, i appreciate that. >> my point is that if we map all the connections that we can think of and i am getting reader mails and phone calls that you forgot this one and that. it is hard to be authorative. >> the one chart that we have in our political magazine comes out on all fashion paper. you could n

you brought up kellyanne conway.ne you're referring to her comments over the weekend when she was asked about the wiretaps and then she responded about the wikileaks report from last week about spy techniques that the cia used about cameras and microwaves and the like. your response to kellyanne conway? >> well, first, to even connect wikileaks and the allegations there to the investigation into russia is, again, an effort to try to take away from the dots that connect here, which is that donald trump and his team had significant ties to russia, and right now what we want to know is, were any u.s. persons working with russia during this interference campaign. it's an only a distraction. >> you said a lot right there, actually, with not so many words, you said the dots that connect. you've actually launched a website that says "connecting the trump/russia dots." in that website you have a lot of information that you say links the trump campaign to russia. yes, there are a lot of dots. what there are not, if you listen

howie: kellyanne conway, this thing subsequent viral. atic congressman receive c richmond told an awful joke about her. do you believe the awful joke about kellyanne deserved more attention. >> i think all of the women's groups should have come out? kellyanne conway's defense. if a republican had received something similar. they would be demanding a resignation, they would be demanding his wife leave him. ivanka trump is being targeted for something her dad said a decade ago. howie: it did deserve more coverage and more criticism. katrina peer southern. thanks very much. ahead more on the broke us outrage over that kellyanne conway photo. success has always been measured in zeros. but shouldn't it be about firsts? and seconds... how about adding a third? we think there's a bajillion ways to measure success. and whether you have hundreds or millions... we think you deserve the financial freedom to sleep like this at night. this is the new success story. and at t-i-a-a, we're with you. start today at t-i-a-a dot org. the search for relief o

but it's also untrue. >> so, what is kellyanne conway?s divorced when she was young. >> i grew up in a house of all women. my mother, her mother and two of my mother's unmarried sisters raised me. four italian catholic women raised me in this house. that has benefited me tremendously there's a certain humility that will never go away. >> while president trump uses social media as an important tool to communicate, and sometimes attack, conway tells us she considers it a cesspool. in part because of what her children see on it. >> it hurts my kids more than anything. they all read. they're all online reading. >> what do your kids say? >> mom, why do people say x about you or y about you. i say, well, that's their unconsidered opinion. they don't want donald trump to be president. they don't want me to be there with him. they don't want any of us. they try to pit us against each other which is completely ridiculous. i tell them, say a prayer for those people. something's got to really bother you that you feel so bent on criticizing someone y

>> kellyanne conway being the contortionist, trying to spin this. democrats are saying, look, you started this, you made these allegations, you have to follow through on them. but not just democrats. people like john mccain saying give us the proof. you said this. donald trump made the accusation and then kicked it to congress and said congress, you deal with this. now they're saying we don't have the evidence, congress has to investigate. now the department of justice is saying they want to delay presenting any kind of evidence, if any, was their quote. so this is a really big mess. to eli's point this comes of course with a backdrop of lots of important things needing to get done on the hill. >> now, chris jansing, david frum said tonight that the president's bizarre allegation of wiretapping, quote, served its purpose. we're all talking less about the russian story per se but this is also, as kaitlin pointed out a be careful what you wish for period. two interests emerge here, the democrats in hearings and the president has called for it to be in

start for the administration, to say the least, and with us now, counselor to the president, kellyanne conwaykellyanne, let's start, the pressing thing of the week was the obamacare bill, what's going on, where do you see it, what is the president see it? >> the president is very confident that he will repeal and replace obamacare, i love the fact that this is the first major legislative action while he's been president, most has been executive in nature. you really see donald trump the negotiator, decision-maker, the dealmaker, the great listener, different members of senate and congress into the oval office and the white house. working the phones with them, vice president pence on the hill almost every day, secretary price, it's been a full court press, also really a house and senate bill. we know it is going to, three-pronged, we want people to know it will be much improved, getting rid of this mandate, penalty, et cetera. >> eric: i think the big question is, is he willing to negotiate with the freedom caucus? need the freedom caucus to get that bill through the house and onto the senate.

is kellyanne conway the reason donald trump is president do you think?think there's a good case would not have won the election if not for her. she was campaign manager in the final stretch, third person to run the campaign. also crucially part of the intellectual infrastructure of forming the trump populist agenda. particularly on immigration. for 20 years kellyanne conway has been outside the mainstream of the republican consultant class arguing that republicans need to talk more about immigration and talk about it as working people's issue. she's been producing polls for a lot of the immigration restriction groups on the right that a lot of the republican establishment would not talk to or considered fringe. but she really believed in it. and bannon told me that he was making a cabal a few years ago running brietbart, described as cabal composed of himself -- and kellyanne conway. and alternative to view that had to pass immigration reform. and trump became the vessel for the view that you could galvanize a new segment of the white working-class elect

( laughter ) ( applause ) but that picture there is how you know kellyanne conway doesn't have a blackrandmother, because if my grandmother found me sitting on the couch with shoes on, i wouldn't be sitting on anything for weeks! like trump and conway are lucky those black people didn't just start whipping ass in the white house. one of those grandmothers would be like how many times sri told you about your feet on that couch?! what did i dwroil about your feet -- no, no, please! and where are your tax returns? where are your tax returns? where are your tax returns? no, no, please, please! ( applause ) those are shoes! they're fake shoes! ( laughter ) all right, what else going on? yes, yes, last week, congress went on break. so as is the tradition, they all went back to visit their districts to host town hall meetings where they can connect with the people they have been screwing over. normally these meetings are emptier than floyd mayweather's bookshelves, but when you tell people that a president retires to russia is planning to take their healthcare away, you may as well put your f

kellyanne conway wants to clear this up. she's moments away from being on the show. >>> right now let's bring in republican congressman steve king of iowa. always a pleasure to have you on the show. you have your own comments to explain. you tweeted support of mr. vilders running for prime minister. you wrote he understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. we cannot restore our civilization with somebody else's baby's. this is being condemned by many regions of american politics and citizenry. what did you mean? >> of course i meant exactly what i said as is always the case. to expand on that a little further, i've been to europe and spoken on this issue and i've said the same thing as far as ten years ago to the german people and any population of people that is a declining population that isn't willing to have enough babies to reproduce themselves. i said to them you can't rebuild your civilization with somebody else's babies. you've got to keep your birth rate up and you need to teach your children your valu

kellyanne conway kneeling on the couch was internet meme for two days.teresting that the hbcu college presidents who met with president trump were kind of unsatisfied with the results of the meeting and disappointed at his lack of support for the education. that to me was the story. instead everyone talked about kellyanne kneeling on the couch. i thought it was stupid and congressman was obnoxious make the joke about it. >> didn't do the story here. picture there was taken out of context. trying to get a picture of the people. maybe sitting back down looking at camera, we didn't think it was story. there she is taking picture. what has become the story is the response to the picture. bakari a few minutes before the comment and at same event senator tim scott jokingly said, anybody seen the controversy. come on people, you remember the '90s, that couch has had a lot worse things. come on now. you say both men crossed line from comedy to -- >> regard ms of what you think of kellyanne conway or or lack of affinity for the truth or propensity to tell falseho

what is kellyanne conway's status nowadays in the white house?eard as much from her. >> i think she's definitely -- she has a lower profile the past couple weeks than right out of the gate, right after inauguration. those comments, certainly the white house viewed them as offhand. although she didn't say go out and buy her clothes, i'm going to. it was a pretty stark endorsement there. she has not been as visible. of course, last week there was the mini scandal, the memes popped up with her kneeling on the couch in the oval office to get that photograph. in general she's played a lower profile of late, and that might be due to this. it might be just letting this gloss over and fade and let the story die down. >> i don't know if it was kellyanne conway's endorsement or if it's just ivanka's sort of shining star, but have the sales for her brand -- they're skyrocketing. let me read you some numbers. the best performing weeks in the history of her brand according to the president. according to e-commerce aggregator, from january to february, her sal

i don't think kellyanne conway shoots from the hip. i think she's smart. is there a larger strategy at work here? i don't know. i raised this in my column. is this part of a trump strategy to try to either make this a little murkier or broaden the investigation? it's hard to say. but the fact of the matter is that the president of the united states accused his predecessor of wiretapping him. it's been almost ten days now. that allegation has not -- there is not a scintilla of proof out there. here we are with the republican controlled house demanding evidence, and we're not seeing anything. i asked her about that, and she suggested there are other surveillance techniques to do it. look, is that a possibility? i don't know. but the fact of the matter is, a high ranking official in the white house -- >> she's not even standing by that anymore, right? she's now blaming you, saying you misinterpreted the question in general. may i just say as a fellow reporter, in the universe of convoluted questions, and we ask many of them in our careers, that was not one of

conway counsel el to the president in a cbs sunday morning profile. >> quijano: kellyanne conway councilor to president trump sat down with norah o'donnell for a cbs sunday morning profile conway talked about some of the controversy and criticism swirling around her and what life is like at home with her husband and children as they get ready to move to washington. >> what time do you get in the morning. >> i get here around 7:30. >> what time do you leave. >> it varies, not early it really varies. usually not before 8, 9. i have a very hermit like existence here and part of it is because of the secret service detail, part of it is because if i want to go out with a friend for dinner it's photographed and it's talked about. what did she eat, what did she do, what was she wearing. it's kind of weird. i'm not a celebrity, i'm just a pollster who happened to become a campaign manager. i've been trying to keep a much lower profile here. >> which is why she tells us we're seeing less of her these days. she says she's trying to cut back on screen time. p people should not look at me as somebody

but i'm saying that kellyanne conway has been attacked -- >> when did you come to her rescue when thisas going on? i mean you cannot be hypocritical and say that, oh, my god, now kellyanne conway is some type of feminist hero because she's being criticized but you didn't come to the rescue of michelle obama. >> you're completely doing a strawman here about bringing up a record that has nothing to do with the current situation. kellyanne -- the way that kellyanne is coming under attack right now is so out of bounds, and is so over the top, you know, the snl and open the door for this kind of thing from a sitting congressman to attack a woman of power in the white house, it's really -- it should have been condemned really strongly. >> okay. >> i feel like you bringing that back around is really a complete straw man. >> i've got to get to a break. we'll discuss on the other side. we'll be right back. >>> we're back now. a cell phone video captures a very disturbing scene when a customer in a texas walmart goes on a racist tirade. back with me now, joseph per really, hillary rosen and baka

is kellyanne conway why donald trump is president, you think? >> i think there's a very good case to be made that he would not have won the election were it not for her. she was his campaign manager for one thing, at least in that final stretch, the third person to run his campaign, but she also crucially, was part of the intellectual infrastructure of forming the trump sort of populist agenda, particularly on immigration. for 20 years, kellyanne conway has been outside the mainstream of the republican consulting class, arguing that republicans need to talk more about immigration and talk about it as a working people's issue. she has been producing polls for a lot of the immigration restriction groups on the right that a lot of the sort of republican establishment would not talk to or considered fringe, but she really believed in this. and bannon told me that he was making a caball a few years ago when he was running breitbart. he described it as a caball, who really believed there was an alternative to the gop autopsy view that you had to pass

at the washington press club foundation annual dinner at the expense of white house counselor kellyanne conway. take a listen. >> and you can just explain to me that circumstance, because she really looked kind of familiar in that position there. >> so leader pelosi, the joke was sexist, it was disgusting, shouldn't the congressman apologize to kellyanne conway and honestly where is the democratic party in expressing outrage at this? >> i wasn't at the dinner, i'm just finding about this. but the fact is i'm still in sort of a state of what is going on here that the person who occupies the white house is a person who was on that hollywood video that said the crude things he said about women. you all are criticizing cedric for something he said in the course of the evening and he may be should be criticized for that. i just don't know the particulars. but i do every day marvel at the fact that somebody who said a gross and crude thing that president trump said wouldn't even be allowed in a frathouse and he's in the white house. >> well, i think we've covered the "access hollywood" tape quite a

and kellyanne conway trying to widen it out.y're both trying to broaden it out that perhaps it wasn't barack obama who ordered illegally it would be to have donald trumped tapped. it's what you're saying is them trying to fuzz it out and explain it away without actually explaining it because nobody can come up with a good explanation, and again, as i say every day, it could be all cleared up if the president picked up the phone and said to the fbi, why don't you release the information that i know. >> and we're going to a week from today -- by anna, we're going to hear about the russian meddling. what's your take this? >> well, if the administration can't explain the nonpartisan cbo report, i'm not sure that they will be able to accept anything that comes out of hearing next week. i have to say that the president and everyone around them know a lot of russian people than i do, and i know a lot of russian people. there are a lot of questions, and we're all looking forward to what comes out next week. but there are a lot of questi

kellyanne conway and scott pruitt of the epa on c-span 2, here we pick up coverage about 1:00 p.m. eastern time with remarks from dr. tom price, again live at 1:00 here on c-span3. health news, the u.s. house will vote on the republican plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act next thursday at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. you can watch live house coverage over on c-span. >>> german chancelor angela merkel is in town for a visit at the white house, we'll have live coverage of that, expected to start at 1:20 eastern time, you can watch it on c-span 2. >> and next week the -- looks into allegations of russian interference into the 2016 election. >> and of course on monday the president's pick to be the next

"the lead" starts right now. >>> kellyanne conway says she is not inspector gadget.news cast will self-destruct in 60 minutes. "the lead" starts now. deadline day for the white house to provide proof that president trump did not make up that claim that president obama tapped his phone. could a microwave oven end up on the capitol steps before the day is done? >>> health care reality check. what's the cost for you? what's the cost politically? republicans bracing for the budget estimate on their plan to replace obamacare. >>> plus,

now we're hearing from kellyanne conway that it might be a greater surveillance. she did not say where she came up with this idea but i think it's significant that the trump administration is employing the strategy to try to broaden this investigation. >> and by broaden is that a nice way of saying really distraction? because if they don't have any proof of these allegations and they are in one way the best suited to improve. >> is it real or sit smoke and mirrors. here we are in the second week of this debate and we don't have a firm picture of that so yesterday when i sat down with kellyanne conway talking about a wide variety of issues when she started to talk about this, i don't think this was just a kind of flighty comment. i think that this is a serious strategy on the part of the trump administration and you know what i think is also at work here chris, something also deeper here. there is an enormous disdain within the trump administration. you probably picked this up yourself that they don't feel accepted by the democrats. that there's still a lot of push

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howie: kellyanne conway, this thing subsequent viral. democratic congressman receive c richmond told an awful joke about her. do you believe the awful joke about kellyanne deserved more attention. >> i think all of the women's groups should have come out? kellyanne conway's defense. if a republican had received something similar. they would be demanding a resignation, they would be demanding his wife leave him. ivanka trump is being targeted for something her dad said a decade ago. howie: it did deserve more coverage and more criticism. katrina peer southern. thanks very much. ahead more on the broke us outrage over that kellyanne conway photo. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured

today kellyanne conway said she was speaking in general terms. she was not talking about trump tower at all. the question was about trump tower. chief white house correspondent john roberts is live on the north lawn. the camera microwave will get you every time. >> i can confirm, shep, having been in trump tower, there's a couple microwaves that i have seen down there in the basement where the deli is. the white house refusing to specifically answer any questions regarding this. certainly the president has had ample opportunity to, though he sort of hit away from the press the last few weeks, when he was asked about this during a couple pool sprays last week, refused to any answer any questions about it. he will likely get asked about it this afternoon. so far nothing specific. the latest evolution is the press secretary saying the initial tweet about "wiretapping" meaning he didn't believe his phones were tapped directly but there were other forms of surveillance being used against the folks there at trump tower. listen to what the press secreta

he did not know them very well, but over the years, that is how he got to know steve bannon, kellyanne conwayhow he got another mercer's. they would all talk. mercer i think found ande summits frustrating she thought they were too soft and sheration and trade also thought that no one paid enough attention to her. william: is she an egomaniac? would even people who call themselves supporters and friends of hers call her a force. william: a force. is that a euphemism for something? vicky: i think she is clearly a very assertive personality. someone who would definitely consider themselves a friend of hers, you know, she perhaps has , youq, which means that know, obviously, means she has low eq. she does not read of room well. what she is interested in is politics, her agenda, and getting it across. she first got herself really noticed after the mitt romney loss in 2012 when she stood up at the university club in new paraded the room for saying he had had a terrible candidacy and data operation, and sort of scolded them all and everyone was like, who is this woman? william: there is great detail

kellyanne conway was on the "today" show this morning. here's what she said when savannah asked her about this wiretapping claim. >> this is information he had, he tweeted about it, he brought it up so he has the power to cl clarify on it. why not? >> i can't comment on his private conversations he's having with the justice department. >> so what are we hearing from the justice department. >> first of all, i want to commend you on your talent for understatement saying that today is chilly. >> yeah, i have a body warmers underneath this coat, pete. it just a whole thing. >> okay. secondly all the justice department will say is that they are studying this letter, a request from the chairman and ranking members of. house intelligence committee. the letter asks for information about what the government knows about the wiretap claim and has been described at setting a, quote unquote, deadline. there's no sense of a deadline here that if the government doesn't comply there's some sanction. but the administration is in a bit of a box here. on th

kellyanne conway, told the bergen county record in new jersey -- these are her words -- there are manyways to surveil each other. i guess the question is this, congresswoman. is the trump administration, the trump white house now moving the goal post? >> they do it every single day. i heard -- i watched that interview, wolf. and i was dumbfounded. >> the interview that kellyanne conway -- which interview. >> where she was talking about a microwave. i have never heard such a thing. it's so typical of people who go out to speak for president trump. they're asked a question and they never answer it. she was asked do you believe what donald trump said about barack obama? she said, what i can say is there are all these different forms of surveillance including microwaves that turn into cameras. no one believes that stuff, nor should they. but it shows the lengths that people in this administration will go to to detract from some of the most outrageous things that this president is saying. this is the other area that concerns me. when we have a real tragedy here, when god forbid we have to d

who would you rather have on your couch, kellyanne conway or bill clinton?clinton. >> would you leave him unattended though? >> no, no. >> maybe the couch was added later by the failing new york times. [laughter] [applause] do you think she should have to go to couch sensitivity training? >> without a doubt. >> have you had a worse experience on a couch than this? >> yes. the answer's yes. >> me too. laugh -- [laughter] my grandma covers all her couches in plastic. should my grandma get a job covering couches in plastic at the white house? >> yeah, if they're going to continue to do that. grand ma, get those covers. -- grandma, get those covers. [cheers and applause] >> thanks, guys. i would like to cover the important issues, so now i have my finger right on the pulse of america. greg: this marginalizes your concerns. that's what happens, when you go after everything. what about the big mole you've got to whack? >> i'm excited about this because three years ago it would have been white woman hiding her legs from black men. greg with: we've replaced black pe

kellyanne conway said her response was about surveillance articles in news generally. their head line, she insists is just wrong. >> put it on the shoulders of president obama saying that in fact he -- >> i always get up close to mic microwaves and my wife tells me not do that. maybe it because she knows somebody is surveilling me through the microwave. we are expecting maybe today to get the congressional budget office score. what do you think's happening? is the white house looking forward to that? arthey bracing for it to say mething that they don't want it to say? >> i wouldn't say bracing for it. they've sort of taken out a series of preemptive strikes against it, perhaps. we heard from sean spicer, in an effort to devalidate we heard from the budget director mick mulvaney saying the congressional budget office was wrong in the way it scared they're anticipating the cbo's findings a lot about the fact that this is going to be costly and that it may cost people their coverage. instead of dealing with those numbers, they'ring to preemptively hit out at it. >> kasie

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i don't think there's a doubt that kellyanne conway is one of us. last night, daniel talked about courage. i don't think anyone can doubt that you have the courage to stand up for what you believe in when it feels like the entire world is lined up against you. >> i do want to say donald trump is a conservative and i think you should look at his budget, his health care plan, some of the things he's done by way of executive order early in his presidency. many of the principles he ran on and he was able to engage many voters who were not necessarily as attracted to candidates in the past because they felt that, you know, the way to beat vanilla but to be rocky road and show contrast. i think you'll be pleasantly surprised. and mike pence, our vice president as well, a conservative, so i think the national review crowd should be very happy. >> american health care act. smooth sailing? easy peasy, everything going great? >> so you know how the legislative process is in washington, dc. this is no different in that the house has its version and by the time

ainsley: kellyanne conway can be on the show we will ask her about it.: according to a press report i read he feels besieged by all these leaks because many of them are against the law. ainsley: making america think can we even trust these individuals running our intelligence community. steve: anyway, another slow news day as you can see and we kick things off here on this monday morning. in the meantime heather joins us right now. scary news out of north korea. heather: a fox news alert. north korea intensifying its show of force overnight firing several misses provocatively close to japan. the u.s. strongly con demg the launches calling it a violation of u.n. security council resolutions. the chilling intimidation tactics from the communist country coming just days after joint u.s. south korea military drills kicked off. and just hours from now, president trump is set to sign a brand new executive order on immigration. the draft 2 will include some major changes. one of them is expected to be removing iraq from the countries on the no travel list. but

howie: kellyanne conway, this thing subsequent viral. ic congressman receive c richmond told an awful joke about her. do you believe the awful joke about kellyanne deserved more attention. >> i think all of the women's groups should have come out? kellyanne conway's defense. if a republican had received something similar. they would be demanding a resignation, they would be demanding his wife leave him. ivanka trump is being targeted for something her dad said a decade ago. howie: it did deserve more coverage and more criticism. katrina peer southern. thanks very much. ahead more on the broke us outrage over that kellyanne conway photo. by the time you head to the bank and wait to get approved for a home loan, that newly listed, mid-century ranch with the garden patio will be gone. or you could push that button. [dong] [rocket launching] skip the bank, skip the waiting, and go completely online. get the confidence that comes from a secure, qualified mortgage approval in minutes. lift the burden of getting a home loan with rocket mortgage

. >> kellyanne conway was asked about the president's wiretapping claim by a local reporter up in jersey. let's watch her. >> do you know whether trump tower was wiretapped? >> there are many ways to surveil each other now unfortunately -- >> do you believe that was -- >> there was an article this week that talked about how can you surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways and microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. so much we know that is just a fact of modern life. >> sure. >> well, you heard no answer there of course. today kellyanne said she wasn't talking about specificallyeffort to surveil trump power but speaking broadly about surveillance techniques. let's watch. >> why would you make a suggestion like that without any evidence? >> i wasn't making a suggestion about trump tower. those are two separate things. >> that's what you were asked about. >> and i answered him about surveilling generally. >> but you have no evidence that that surveilling was used at trump tower. >> i'm not inspector gadget. i don't bel

kellyanne conway's not the only one who was getting into the fight with nordstrom's.the press secretary, mr. spicer, he was getting into it as well. bashing on nordstrom's on behalf of the president. and his daughter. this whole thing has gotten way out of hand. and the white house needs to acknowledge at least that the rules that apply to everyone else in the executive branch also apply to the white house, which they clearly do. >> what would you have them do? jason chaffetz and elijah cummings of the house oversight committee, what would you like to see them do? >> i think they need to have a hearing and call the white house lawyers in there and ask them what they mean when they say that because the white house is not an agency, that the ethics rules don't apply to the white house. and why they've taken a position that's different from every other white house. and which rules specifically they don't intend to comply with. i think this is of the utmost importance to find out if there's going to be any ethics at all in this white house. because so far i'm not impresse

kellyanne conway, listen to this exchange. >> allegation that trump tower is wired.at can you say about that? do you know whether trump tower was wiretapped? >> what i can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately. >> do you believe -- >> there was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways, microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. we know that is a fact of modern life. >> sure. >> i hope my microwave is not spying on me. >> this is the situation that donald trump's words have forced his aides into. a bizarre conspiracy theory of your microwave spying on you or your mug, whatever. donald trump has two choices, either to retract or give evidence. he probably has many more choices, one to say, he might get a question about it tomorrow with the press conference with angela merkel. he could say i don't want to talk about this anymore, i'm moving on. we have seen him do that when he puts forward conspiracy theories whether it's

that's how he got to know steve bannon, kellyanne conway, also how he got to know the mercers. they'd all talk. but rebecca mercer i think found these summits frustrating, and she thought they were too soft on immigration and on trade. she also, you know, thought no one paid enough attention to her. >> cohan: is she an ego maniac? does she need the attention? >> even people who would call themselves supporters and friends of hers call her a force. >> cohan: is that a euphemism for something? >> she's leerl an assertive personality. someone who definitely considers themselves a friend of hers says she perhaps has a low e.q., which means, obviously, she has low e.q., she doesn't read a room well. what she's interested in is politics, her agenda and getting it across. and she first got herself really noticed after the mitt romney loss in 2012 when she stood up in the university club in new york and berated the room for saying, you know, he'd had a terrible canvassing and data operation, you know, and scolded them all, and everyone was sort of, like, who is this woman? >> cohan: th