that was selina wang and kevin carter.elon musk has set a high bar with the launch of model three, but that is an understatement. in order to hit the targets he has set, tesla needs to build 430,000 model threes, more than all the electric cars sold anywhere last year. our next guest is bullish, but does not believe in that production ramp. , the global head of auto research. our forecasts are more conservative than the company's forecast. we expect this vehicle goes into a soft launch mode in the fourth quarter, and our forecast is for 0, but 20000,000 comba units delivered by the end of the year. is toint of this year have those initial deliveries done, get the data and initial feedback from the community. next year, about 80,000 units. near 400,000e production. our number is. number is less than half or a third. we are constructive on the investment story. cory: what do you think the price of the car will be? >> an average transaction price of $60,000. at $35,000.re >> we think the kind of people who will order that car

we talked to kevin carter.e founder of -- >> tencent has a process where they look for the best and fastest growing companies and make an investment in it. they have a large portfolio. they have invested in a lot of technology companies. they're really turning their plan to take ownership of this world of connected electric vehicles in the future. they are not the only players in china. baidu has been investing. alibaba struck a partnership, so it does not come as a surprise. cory: these are financial investments. maybe not a partnership, but maybe a place at the table? >> it is unclear at this point. partnerships and sources are telling me they would not be surprised if there were partnerships. wechat is great for tesla to have their feed in. cory: they really want people texting more while they are driving. [laughter] $82 billion investment matters. investment matters. what do you think they want out of it? >> tencent has made close to 150 investments in private and public companies of all different types, bu

cory: that was selina wang and kevin carter.h tesla, elon musk has set a high bar with the launch of model three, but that is an understatement. in order to hit the targets he has set, tesla needs to build 430,000 model threes, more than all the electric cars sold anywhere last year. our next guest is bullish, but does not believe in that production ramp. morgan stanley analyst adam jonas, the global had of auto research. >> our forecasts are more conservative than the company's forecast. we expect this vehicle goes into a soft launch mode in the fourth quarter this year. and our forecast is for 2000, not 20,000, but 2000 units delivered by the end of the year. that is a very small above zero number. the point of this year is to have those initial deliveries done to get the data and initial feedback from the community. next year, about 80,000 units. we are nowhere near 400,000 production. even if you go to our number is 2020, less than half or a third. in spite of that, br constructive on the investment story. cory: what do you

in the meantime kevin carter tells us there were growing calls for rice to testify before congress.>>rter: several congressional committees are investigating the unmasking of trump transition officials collected as part of surveillance on foreign targets. there are reports that susan rice president obama's former national security advisor requested those names be unmasked and sent to the entire national security council. rand paul says if that's true she needs to tell congress what she knows her >> there could be a political figure in the obama administration that was purposely searching at database looking for trump officials. >> the committee said trump was never under direct surveillance as he alleged that the names of americans who are incidentally collected are usually sealed in the unmasking raises serious questions about the use of intelligence gathering for political purposes. >> if she was involved in a masking trump transition papers what was the reason i was there a political no motive.>> sources close to rice say she requested the information as part of her duties as natio

morning, fox news correspondent lea gabrielle is here, recon capital chief investment officer kevin kelly and lee carter, welcome to everybody. >> you dashed over here. lea: i sure did. there's a new sheriff in town. lots of news coming in right now. dagen: do you think president trump called call up the military commanders and said, what you've got? lea: it's really interesting because he's not saying the -- the white house isn't saying whether or not they ordered the strike saying the military commanders on the ground had been given the authority but i think it says a lot that the military on the ground had been given the authority to use this type of weapon and whether it was intended or not, dagen, it certainly sends a message around the world. dagen: it does. there's some tweets from a former soldier who lost his legs in fighting for our country and there's series of tweets he put out yesterday that were very powerful. he was speaking to the show force from president trump. coming up former reagan director is here, former trump campaign foreign policy adviser whalid phares. president trump's policy

cardona, cnn political commentator, republican strategist kevin matta, and cnn political analyst and chief for "the daily beast," jackie kucinich. carterpaige, met with a russian intel source prior to the campaign. and eric prince, who ran blackwater security, met with an associate of vladimir putin, the "washington post" reports, after the campaign, during the transition, in the seychelles. a lot of meetings with russians going on here. what does it all mean, jackie? >> you know, if the flow chart with the trump administration leads to russia, it's not good for the trump administration. this has been a huge distraction with them pushing a very ambitious agenda coming into this term, and right now this is a constant distraction. they're having to deal with this every day because as you talk about a lot, the drip, drip, drip. have they gotten all of this out there at the beginning of this, perhaps we still wouldn't be talking about it, but as these stories roll out, it just provides more fodder and raises more questions about what the relationship with trump administration officials and transition officials that have with russia. now, t

. >> sean: kevin corke at the white house tonight, thank you for it joining us now with reaction, sara carter from the american center of law and justice, jay sekulow. i'll get into this with more detail, it seems like the world is beginning to discover there is no more leading from behind, our relationships now, there won't be any more iranian dealsv and america is not going to wait and lead from behind. i sense the world is having a tough adjustment, the president of the second state a particularly tough on russia into vladimir putin today. >> i agree with you there. i think there was a lot of misinformation from the very beginning with regard to president trump and vladimir putin. i remember the stories coming out showing president trump and vladimir putin like they werere buddies.g i can tell you from the sources that i had come a people that are russian analysts, people that are very close to people in the kremlin and in the united states. people who are advising both trump and hillary clinton. vladimir putin had no idea how president trump was going to react. he was in a state of panic,

you know, carter page here, i don't know if people remember the movie "the usual suspects." my question is whether he is kent or keyser soze. he even looks a little like kevin spacey. he looks like this hapless figure. i don't know anything and i got swept up in this whirlwind. then there are these intimations, including the fisa warrant that suggest he may be the key to everything if there was some elaborate conspiracy here. maybe this is the guy who is a link to moscow. right now it's all unproven allegations, of course. but that's what is so fascinating. see either kind of a nobody who has been in this hilarious way blown way out of proportion, or really may be the key to this whole thing in a kind of sinister way. >> tim, why does carter page do interviews? he is really bad at it, as chris hayes showed here on this network. is it some ego thing where he actually thinks he does a good job in the interviews? >> he doesn't strike me as a narcissistic individual. but the weird thing is he doesn't want to stay silent. he is very easy to reach. it's very easy to shoot him a note or shoot him a text or give him a call. see very responsive to reporters, despite

carter is in the 70s. in the back. >> and kevin brown word. thank you for your hard work today. i like both of them have the highest regard for president reagan but a couple things he did confuse me particularly in the middle east [inaudible] he put on a big show in a couple days later -- the nike wrote in his diaries that the greatest regret in the greatest failure of his presidency was babe ruth. he regretted the position and not providing them with enough material to defend himself. he was really, really struck by beirut. reagan never went to the middle east and his entire life. never went to israel. it simply wasn't on his mind. what was on his mind as the soviet union and soviet hegemony. he was giving a speech in los angeles. and they asked him -- someone in the crowd asked about the middle east epitome talk about the middle east. once there was [inaudible] and the scorpion said to the crowd, carry me across and it won't sting you and it may carry you across an sting you. is that that's ridiculous, then we both will die. the drugs that's okay i guess i better do this. so h