even limbaugh, everybody knows david limbaugh. but his goes, even though they are equally incised, we top to bottom, left to right so we want to see him first. especially if he's on the shelf. >> does david limbaugh have a say in how that cover looks? >> david limbaugh says he loves everything we do and i'm not kidding. he absolutely loved it. >> does and coulter have a say in everything we do? >> the very first book i did for her, i've only been here three years and i will admit i didn't even know who ann coulter was three years ago. my very first book, one of them was ann coulter book and i had to ask myself doing my research, why do all of her books look like sex in the city? yes, she's attractive. very thin, nice body, you know. i don't want sex. i want it to be about ann coulter's brain. the first book i did was, and it broke away from her mold was trust your faith. and the look on her face basically follows you everywhere. the eyes. she said it was her best book ever, best cover ever so i was happy with that. >> john caruso,

and this morning we had rush limbaugh saying in a sound bite from his radio show yesterday that steve bannon was the leaker in the white house. is there truth to that? >> look, i think we all know that he spent a lot of time with reporters. i have think he spent a lot more time with reporters than he ever did with the president. and i think that's very telling. one of the most important things that you can do when you are working in any capacity but especially in politics is to be loyal. and i think we have seen a side that is frankly very, very disappointing. and something that i hope we don't have to deal with again. brian: by the way, senator bill cassidy for the record is a doctor. met with the president multiple times and he said there is no doubt about it he is mentally fit to be president of the united states. i will go with his suggestion because he has had the face to face and he went to school for that. >> absolutely. i agree. steve: all right. meanwhile, sarah, some other breaking news that we led our program with the department of justice apparently is looking into the cli

. >> two days ago rush limbaugh suggested because of the deep state we have to take in the possibility that cia misled the bush administration about weapons of mass destruction. kennedy: rush limbaugh is not allowed teen farm chair civil libertarian. >> people who used to have to want to tap into phones are now reversing their arguments. kennedy: those people still wanted to do that last week when they reauthorized section 702 of the fisa act. >> i love this the investigation of the investigation of the investigations going on. what it's doing, it's getting the people where they don't really carry inmore. we are so shell shocked by all of this. what chuck schumer was saying could have been said by a republican talking about the russian investigation. we are being bludgeoned on a neatly basis by all of this. kennedy: i don't care and i don't believe it. my problem is with the politicization. i have a hard time with politicos on one side minimizing something then on other side maximizing some of the same things. >> i have problems with conspiracy theories. they have consequences and they

rush limbaugh was correct on his program that the growth is unprecedented. one year ago after president ump was elected, the stock oft market increased by 28.5%. today the dow jones his another record high, up every 7,200 points since the 2016 election. since the start of the year, the stock market has already reached six new record highs. i'm grateful for the leadership of president trump who has tweeted this agreement with the leadership of speaker paul ryan and house republicans. this has promoted economic growth through the anticipation and market enact the of bills, creating immediate jobs, reduce regulation to allow small sinesses to begin hiring again, and reform our tax code so that families will be able to keep more of their hard-earned paycheck. in conclusion, god bless our troops and we will never forget september 11 and the global war on terrorism. again, and reform our the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. smith: unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my re

has not has a lot to resolve the isis problem for sure at the same time the syrian conflict now is limbaugh and instead of the scale eighteen this particular conflict in the middle east what he has tricked through a good another go. with so far now we're faced by with one open ended conflict that is going to be between the united states. then go into if you're in iran and beyond so far in terms of conflict i don't see a particular strategic way out of this mess unfortunately we had a lot of it coming from the white house but we don't have any effective strategic decisions try into the skill of distribution or at least help with the syrians outcome that would be favorable to all. of this because the whole journey for process in the house has been big history yes and i've seen i mean there i'm so i don't want to sound naive here but there is a way out here it's called sitting down at the table and negotiate an end of this have internationally observed elections i have nothing against that. make sure no of these foreign proxies leave make sure the gulf countries stop sending arms and money to

there's nothing to gain. >> nothing to gain according to limbaugh and this coming in right now. donald trump's criminal defense lawyer john dowd is telling nbc news, forget what you have heard over the last 24 hours, he is the one who will decide if donald trump sits down for an interview or not and dowd says he apparently hasn't made up his mind. and another white house lawyer ty cobb said that he will be donald trump's personal counsel. as for donald trump himself, he's started to frame his own defense. listen to his argument here, one man's obstruction is another man's fight. >> do you think robert mueller will be fair to you in this larger investigation. >> we're going to find out. >> are you concerned about that? >> here's what we'll say, and everybody says, there's no collusion, now they're saying, oh, well, he didn't fight back. fight back, oh, it's obstruction. >> if you fight back, it's obstruction. will trump's lawyers let this interview happen? they will if it's up to the client. >> are you going to talk to mueller? >> i'm looking forward to it actually. >> do you hav

rush limbaugh has a lot of pull.nfluence over a lot of conservative who is are both elected or activists. >> the reality is, intelligence folks do get it wrong sometimes and they did get it wrong with weapons of mass destruction in iraq. the interesting thing that people don't pay much attention to is every other service in the world got it wrong, as well. >> a former acting cia director and then he said bipartisan veterans or nonpartisan veterans, for most of us throughout our careers we maintained a neutrality. but if you have a genuine conviction that the country is endangered, you can't help but speak out about it. no one from the intelligence community who speaks out about trump does it with joy or with satisfaction. it is against the grain of the culture we have grown up with. do you feel that dilemma? >> i think that people who have been in these positions, and i would include retired military, need to be very careful in terms of political commentary because you can be looked upon as representing that institut

this was rush limbaugh this week. if the quote, unquote, intelligence community misrepresented on purpose the degree to which hussein had wmds because, i'll tell you, it was a very, very embarrassing moment. >> so if i get this right, the conspiracy now, it's not just to up end president trump but it goes all the way back to wmds. rush limbaugh has a lot of pull. >> the reality is, intelligence folks do get it wrong sometimes and they did get it wrong with weapons of mass destruction in iraq. the interesting thing people don't pay much attention to is every other agency got it wrong. >> a former acting c director and then he said bipartisan veterans or nonpartisan veterans, for most of us throughout our careers we maintained a neutrality. but if you have a genuine conviction that the country is endangered, you can't help but speak out about it. do you feel that dilemma? >> i think that people who have been in these positions, and i would include retired military, need to be very careful in terms of political commentar

congressman, we'll start with you, do you think rush limbaugh has a point. it doesn't seem to matter who is in charge it gets painted as all the republicans' false. >> rush is right. for eight years i was in the congress on the judiciary committee on the subcommittee on immigration. when the democrats had the house, senate and presidency, all the leverage of power they didn't introduce the bill. the two years on the subcommittee, they had two hearings. one to have a photo and the other to hear testimony from stephen colbert. in eight years you never saw barack obama get behind anything other than deferring it that's what daca stands for is the deferral. >> there's talk if you put the bills to the vote you can see where people stand. the house bill and senate bill are so widely different and so far apart. there's pressure for the leadership in the gop to get the house bill sponsored primarily from the house judiciary committee and put it to the floor and vote. everybody's got to know it's d.o.a. in the senate. >> it's a challenge to leadership. here we're tal

. - [both] rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot - and other observations. (audience laughing) and a lot of those books were about lying. - yeah. - and i have this just, i just can't stand lying and so i think what happened is that lying just became normalized or something and it didn't matter and so i talk about that. i talk about the contrast between what they tried to do to my character and through by putting jokes through the dehumorizer and what trump clearly (chuckles) his character, i do not know if you know this, is a little dicey. - do you understand, you're from the state in which hillary clinton prevailed but only won by 44,000 votes if i did the math right. - she won by one and a half points. - right. - there a lot of franken - trump voters-- - trump voters in minnesota. so you know people in minnesota who supported him. you have a sense why they supported him and do you have a better understanding of what caused him to win is a conference of those people who supported and-- - sure, sure, sure, i mean i write in my book about me growing up in the

do you think rush limbaugh has a point, usually painted as all the republicans' fault. >> no, look, rush is right. for eight years i was in congress, on the subcommittee on immigration. when the democrats have the house, senate. si all of the levers of power, they didn't even introduce a bill. the two years i sat on the immigration subcommittee, guess what, they had two hearings. one was to have a photo and the other was to hear testimony from steven colbert. the democrats have no moral standing on this, because in eight years, you never saw barack obama get behind anything other than deferring it. that's what daca stands for, is the deferral. they have no moral standing on this. >> shannon: all right, juan, there's talk if you would put some of these bills to a vote then you can see where people stand. the house bill and the senate bill are wildly different. so far apart. you know there's pressure for the leadership in the gop to get the house bill sponsored primarily by congressman goodlatte, put to it the floor, put to it a vote. everybody has to know it's doa in the senate. >> right,

not has not the result of the isis problem for sure at the same time the syrian conflict now is limbaugh and instead of the scale eighteen this particular conflict in the middle east what he has tricked through a good another call. with tookie so far now we're faced by with one open ended conflict that is going to be between the united states and then go into if you cations in iran and beyond so far in terms of conflict and there is i don't see a particular strategic way out of this mess unfortunately we had a lot of tory coming from the white house but we don't have any effective strategic decisions try into the skill of distribution or at least help with the syrians find an outcome that would be favorable to all parties. in this because the whole journey for process now has been become history yes and i've seen i mean that i'm so i don't want to sound naive here but there is a way out here it's called and sitting down at the table and negotiate an end of this have internationally observed elections i have nothing.

limbaugh they don't even get what's going on there and the left goes oh no no she's that russian lawyers or she just she was sent in by putin they all actually agree on it and i think the good thing is ok but no they hang on to sort of wake up and figure this out on both sides i hope so but i don't have a lot of hope but what this is a and oasis right here on cross talk ok because we'll talk about all of the issues here i don't have much hope for m s n b c i watched morning joke and meager today i mean what what universe did they live in i have no idea what they're talking about here ha i mean i think we all kind of agreed that you know the die is been cast here i mean us russian relations are for a generation done ok and i actually i don't really think about it much anymore ok because there's not much of that to be done about it but what i think is really interesting here in perth me personally it's not about trump it's not about hillary it's about the the future of the republic institutions and the very idea of democracy bernie sanders was burned ok he got it was stolen from him we had

rush limbaugh does a nice job distilling it down.t's not the president is racist it's that the president is asking all the questions the democrats don't want asked. take the a listen to rush limbaugh. >> he blew the whole thing up with one question. forget the words used. the question was why do you people on democrat side want to continue to bring people to this country that are not going to benefit this country? why instead do you not want to bring the best and brightest? these people in the media are a bunch of the biggest phony bolognas on this planet acting like they don't talk this way. they think about this way about flyover country as though anybody does think or talk that way is somehow subhuman. bottom line here is that the president of the united states was presented with an absolute rotten deal. pete: precisely the conversation the left does not want to have. who exactly are we importing into our country and how are they doing once they get here. if you listen to the left every single dreamer in this country industry a va

rush limbaugh said today on his radio show it amounts to moral preening from a drive-by media eager to phoney supremacy on to the media. acting like they don't talk this way. they think this way about mississippi and the american south and about fly it over countries. i can't stand this phoney superiority that these people who jected. as if anybody who talks that way is sub-human. with that lets bring in our panel. jonathan swan reporter, and susan page and byron york. just from our talking to people around the different sources it doesn't seem there is a lot of doubt this conversation happened. it's what the context was and what he was talking about on immigration. merit based immigration. >> it's not surprising to people who have spent time with the president because this is how he feels. you read about the immigration discussions. it doesn't matter a whole lot with immigration and trade, because the president has these very hard wired beliefs. that comment was in keeping with what he says privately repeatedly to people about these countries. >> but, just because he speaks about that

rush limbaugh think it's the other way around that the democrats are the echo chamber of the media. however it works, they feel like they have that as a second front to protect the flank. as we saw yesterday, i think the president and the president's staff is on to that. and what the president did last tuesday by opening up the room to the cameras for that meeting on immigration, which we saw a very reasonable man trying to come to a deal. yesterday we had a very reasonable doctor come on the scene, bipartisan doctor, he had worked with democratic and republican presidents in the past saying this man is healthy and completely insane. you saw the media go insane by that suggestion and starting asking about whether he was an alcoholic or a drug addict or whether he was obese, et cetera. so the public is beginning to see, i think, that all of these complaints about trump being at the root of all of the evil in the world is nonsense. >> and they remember eight years of barack obama where that same white house press corps which berated that doctor, which is always yelling about trump, th

and then it's rush limbaugh on three channels at the same time spewing hate. this kind of vitriol and hatred that's been infecting the airwave withs for 30 years and now is at a crescendo point where radio stations in san francisco, radio stations in santa fe, radio stations in seattle, all alternate voices are gone except for maybe an npr station. you know -- >> host: all right. jane, i think we got the idea. conservative radio and then jane's view, a takeover of radio. >> guest: i have not studied that phenomenon. i don't refer to it. i do know there's just the general idea that liberal interests control much of the broadcasts and conservative -- television broadcasts, and conservative interests control much of the radio broadcast. when i'm talking about control of the news, i'm not speaking to the industry bandwidth and that sort of thing. i just don't know about that. i'm talking about how special interests from both parties and corporations have been able to, as i say, get their nose under the tent in newsrooms. not just influence us with their talking po

for the people that read him and knew him but he wasn't a regular on fox or guest hosting for rush limbaugh and online as he is today. that was a fun discovery for us and a fun opportunity to bring g someone even more broadly available to the readers. somebody that got away, there are several big conservative stars that have published books and we haven't been able to publish all of them. probably one that i would love to publish that we did and was clarence thomas. we talked with him about his book. in the end he published with someone else. >> host: there has been a slew of big houses with conservative titles. >> no doubt. it's fascinating and interesting timing. within a month of becoming the president and publisher of regnery because everybody had discovered conservative books, random house started, penguin started sentinel. they didn't exist in the year 2000 and then five years later they were all actively competing for conservative authors. i think it has been healthy and good for us to have to compete with other houses to know that we need to be on our game and approve that there is

it wasn't just rush limbaugh. consider nn had nice things to say. ainsley: it's a real. it's real.e cameras and stayed after the cameras. it is clear what both sides want. listen. >> here is what is at play here 72% of america want this dealt with. 72% believe that this should be based on worker or immediate family. name me other concept or idea or issue in washington where 70% of the americans agree. this is one where americans will hold us accountable like health care and taxes. president wanted to bring a sense urgency to the issue. steve: president mate it clear there will be no deal on the daca without a wall. arizona sheriff joe arpaio is running for the seat vacated by republican jeff flake. jeff flake, the senator was ask. on cnn whether or not i would support joe arpaio. he said no, no. he said that is not our best forward as republicans. well, we had joe arpaio on less than an hour ago. we asked him about senator flake's comments and this is what he had to say about him. >> i know he doesn't like people. who cares. he is not running. he is saying that i'm not going to las

. >> this morning we had rush limbaugh saying that steve bannon was the leaker in the white house. is there truth to that? >> look, i think we all know that he spent a lot of time with reporters. >> you know bannon. you know sloppy steve. >> janice was one of six guests that attended the dinner party that was detail in the michael wolff's book. >>> the details are accurate. roger sat to my right and we were talking about donald trump and roger said, i'm a lifelong republican but these guys kind of scare me. >> the story that he writes, that you think is basically true. >> i think there are some anecdotes that may be true. >>> he said they insult his intelligence. what are the things he they say? >> they say he's moron, an idiot. >> what i think is unstable is the impact on the country. >> not only is he helping me sell books but he's helping me prove the points of the book. this is extraordinary that a president of the united states would try stop the publication of a book. >> jeff is joining me now. the white house should be focused on this strategy session at camp david. instead

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it was open warfare from people like rush limbaugh and others on the right. when barack promised it, by the time he tried to do it he had spent all his political capital on health care. donald trump has proven this week in his fight, in his tug of war that was maybe caused by this book with steve bannon that he is the guy with whom the republican base will stick. it's not steve bannon's base. it's not ann culture's base. it is donald trump's base. and when he says i'm willing to take the heat, you know what take him up on the offer, call his bluff. >> i think that's significant he said that. >> move quickly and put something in front of him to sign chblt we are looking at a scenario where we might see a state of the union, what, a couple of weeks away where that go can stand on the podium and tell that he was able to get a dream act compromise passed. wouldn't that be something. >> incredible. >> yeah, it is incredible. >> anna, laura, i appreciate all your voices. >>> coming up joint news conference at the white house, president trump will be taking question

can play this immigration hawk thing, make the base happen, respond to the criticism to levine, limbaugh and on and on and get back in his corner. i think there is a chance he gets back into the middle again. you never know what side he is on. they will do an extension this week and put this for another two weeks. the date i have seen is february 16th. it allowed time with this court ruling to let people be safe from deportation while he roars like the wall builder he once was on the campaign. >> wes, representative john lewis, obviously his history fighting for civil rights in this country will always be remembered calls the president a racist. yes. they are ideological opposites. representative mia love, first haitian in congress said i can't defend the indefensible. the president comes out and says i am not a racist last night. where does? leave us? >> most people who aren't racists don't generally have to put out statements saying they're not a racist. somewhere you have gone wrong, right? but i think beyond that it does, it puts us in a place where it is increasingly becoming clear

rush limbaugh weighing in. >> that's the best promotion a book and get.awyers send the publisher a threatening letter. you better not publish that. all that does is make everybody "what's in this sucker?" they want to read it before he gets published. that's the best promotion. >> bret: there is obviously other news but this has been the news in washington. that's why it's here in the panel. let's bring the panel. tom bevan, real clear politics cofounder and publisher. molly hattaway, senior editor at "the federalist." charles lane, opinion writer for "the washington post." okay, the cease and desist and all the coverage that has come from the white house about this book has been something. >> rush is right. it's a publisher's dream to have that kind of publicity. i'm sure the book is going to be a best seller instantaneously. but the president's statement against steve bannon last night, rebecca mercer's statement against steve bannon today has been extra ordinary. >> bret: rebecca mercer as part of the mercer family. they supported him with money, . >>

realities, some americans consuming reporting from "the new york times" and cnn, others consuming rush limbaughhannity, what is thefect effec the country? is it doing damage? >> the feedback, thefect on l e the moral and the duty to protect the ballot box is also looming because we have an election coming up in november of this year. we have the presidential election in 2020 and we've done nothing to secure our country from another hacking like that occurred from russia. it's not disputed that russia attacked us but we have put in zero reforms to fix that and i'm afraid that that's part of the republican effort to try to protect the president. they are unwilling to do anything to protect the next electi election. >> that's probably the biggest part of the story. we know there was this russia interference and not a lot of steps to take action against it. there were sanctions, however, weren't there? >> yeah and tomorrow is the deadline for the president to impose them. the congress overwhelmingly voted to put sanctions in place against russia and its military and intelligence officials however t

david: the thing is, actually it was rush limbaugh made a great point today.said since there is no evidence of collusion between trump and russia, trump has to prove that he didn't do it. that is he has to prove a negative, which of course you can't do. so they keep hitting on this theme that he has to prove that there was no collusion. you could do that forever, right? >> yeah. proving a negative is extraordinarily difficult. it is frankly, just like the idiocy of the last 24 hours where people are saying trump was thinking about or tried to fire mueller in june. says who? he has denied it. any communications or any contingencies thinking about that are all privileged. some people in the media are trying to report a negative. something that didn't happen. it is like reporting that we did not, you know, nuke north korea. david: that's right. >> it's a non-event and reporting it as something that actually did happen. david: well, yet, this story is getting far more attention and far more press at least during this week than any of the information coming out of

rush limbaugh cheering the president for his comments. >> and there are others as well who say they're back on his team. >> exactly. >> who i will not name. will not give them the credit of saying they're back on his team on immigration now that he's said this. thank you both. appreciate it. >>> up next, the world reacts to the president's comments, including one nation asking, point blank, do you put our country in your profane category? >>> plus, new interview with president obama, weighing in on russia's interference in our election and life after the presidency. >> i sort of enjoyed puttering around the house, trying to figure out how does the coffee maker work and fighting with michelle for closet space. but if that's not enough, our app helps monitor your spending too. and if that's not enough to help you save, we could start a carpool. look at this traffic. don't worry. ok, if that's not enough we'll start a trainpool. oh i have a meeting in five minutes. and if that's still not enough... i got it. we'll just create a shortcut. we'll do anything, seriously anything to help you s

how to approach and rush limbaugh both attacked him today. why is that?first of all, the movement is bigger than any one person. i asked six people on the way into the fox studio here who steve bannon is, none of them new. every single one knew who donald trump was and every single one knew about his efforts to make america great again. then you get to the specifics. no, donald trump jr.'s meeting with a russian woman lawyer was not treasonous, not illegal, not improper. steve is neither a lawyer nor an experienced political strategist. that meeting is a nothing burger.n it looks more and more like a setup to me, given the fact that the russian woman lawyer was in the country illegally at the sufferance of the obama administration. so i don't really understand what would motivate steve to say those things when it is the president who has given him the opportunity for high public service. when it's a president who's given him the white house office. well, you could chalk it up to anger over being fired if he had made these comments after he was terminated,

work guest hosting for rush limbaugh. and that was a fun discovery for us on a fun opportunity to bring some a more broadly to readers. some that got away, there are several big conservative stars that i publish books and they haven't been able to publish all of them one thing we didn't publish was clarence thomas. i would've loved to publish them and work with him. in the end he publish with someone else. >> there has been a slew of big houses with conservative titles that. >> there's fascinating and interesting timing. within a month it seemed everybody could see conservative books. random house they -- others started threshold. those three did not exist in 2000. five years later they were all actively competing for conservative authors and conservative books. i think it's been a healthy thing. it has been good for us to compete with other houses that we have to be at our game we certainly had authors who published with us, left to go to new york and came back. we've heard from authors that was fun to be published with

media that is partisan , the way the right-wing media grew was during the clinton years when rush limbaughhe drudge report and fox news fed on scandal after scandal after scandal of whitewater and vince foster, and ultimately became star investigation. and then the fox news growing more during the obama years with all kinds of fake scandals. now, large parts of the media, msnbc, lots of liberal websites growing exponentially by constantly not talking but donald trump's dangerous foreign policy or the ignoring of climate, that a decision over the russia scandal and getting great benefits from it. that is what happened, we have a balkanized media that sees audiences, whatever they want to hear, without any journalistic standards and the incentive is to constantly inflate and exaggerate and make it as sensational as possible and people are eating it up to the profit of the media outlets. .hat is what is going on when donald trump says it is energizing his base, he is right, it is dividing america between i hate donald trump and therefore will believe everything about rush i hear versus i love

more goes to what rush limbaugh was talking about. they're worried mr. trump is going towillingly mislead mueller. because if you want to talk about a trap, the president's best defense in an interview with mueller may be, don't take me seriously. the president's biggest problems may be that he's been telling the truth so far, maybe. in which case, he's got more than perjury to worry about. for instance, if you ask mr. trump, would you have taken dirt on clinton from the russians, his answer has been sure. >> it's called opposition research or even research into your opponent. it's very standard where they have information and you take the information. >> if you ask, did you fire the fbi director because of the russia investigation, his answer has been, you betcha. >> in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. >> and if you ask, did you know michael flynn lied to the fbi when you fired comey, his tweets

>> and you see it there, tucker at the end, ann coulter, mark lavin, rush limbaugh saying whoa, wait a minute. you were our guy on this. you were the build the wall anti-and necessity little marco, jeff is soft. what happened yesterday? was that as they fear, proof that the president has decided in year two he's going to be the manhattan republican who is with george w. bush, comprehensive immigration refor, maybe even citizenship or was that a one-day episode of the reality tv show that sometimes is the trump white house where i need democrats right now so i'm going to pretend to be nicer and softer? which was it? >> i think it was one day of the episode of the trump reality show. frankly, what happens behind the scenes will be different from what we saw in the room. there's another element of in that i think is constantly being revised and debated inside the white house which is at what point does trump start dealing with his problem with independents. at what point does he acknowledge his base and try to keep them as happy as he can, but also start dealing with the middle. and dac

rush limbaugh tried to justify the president's actions. >> donald trump could not possibly believe thatuld abandon his three-year position on immigration and still maintain the support of his base. donald trump just could not be that obtuse. >> could he, robert costa? >>. >> the question facing president trump is is he in office to serve an ideology or merely looking for political victories? if he's seeking just a victory to shore up his own support and not looking to rally conservatives ahead of the midterms, cut a deal with democrats on daca, maybe including some border security, of course. based on my reporting, many people in the republican base will revolt but that may be the price he pays to try to recover some of his presidency. >> yet another point alienating the president from his base, the announcement that he'll head to the world economic fornum davos, switzerland, later this month. the event has become synonymous with global elites. a group mr. trump attacked during the 2016 campaign while vowing to improve the lives of america's working men and women. the panel and robert a

rush limbaugh making comments about president trump's base. that's a group of conservative republicans, will give paul ryan a lot of heartburn on this issue. they need democratic votes in the house. a question of threading the needle, add the level of the unpredictable oval office and be it's unclear how this ends. >> kelly, a lot to talk about at the white house press conference. not a lot of opportunity. i think the president will probably call on two reporters. the president also tweeting about the russia investigation, the witch-hunt as he calls it. what will happen in this press conference that will happen with the prime minister of norway soon? >> reporter: expected to make opening remarks, and could give the president a chance to talk about the big, sweeping issues that would have common ground between the u.s. and norway. expect some of that. then as the tradition goes, typically it's two questions per side. each press corps. so prime minister salsberg and then the u.s. part of that calculation, what has the president said in opening r

brian: the ink will still be wet so watch your fingers, rush limbaugh on the leak and damage to trump. >> i will tell you everything that i heard all about bannon's time in the white house. i'm just going to -- it's some of it is real. some of it you might call gossip. the thing that i think everybody believes and that everybody knows is that most of the leaking that was coming out of the trump white house was steve banno bannon. over half of it. and that's what don jr. and jared -- well, don jr.'s comments primarily that's what they are referring to. and i have that on almost unassailable authority. steve: and then he went to a commercial. i recognize that music. i think what the president has learned with this book coming out is in washington, d.c. you hire some of the professional people who have been in washington for years, there is absolutely zero loyalty. somebody who is loyal though to this president is sarah huckabee sanders, she is the press secretary. she will be with us at 7:30. speaking of numbers, did you miss this yesterday in the dow jones industrial average closed abo

remember, you heard from rush limbaugh and mr. hannity, that this is going to add to the debt. that's pure, pardon the expression, horse manure. in reality, we are spending within that. we have the right and the responsibility to respond to the constituents needs. that's our job as congressmen. otherwise, what are we doing here? it is not just money. the earmark rule went further than that. it even went further because it would only affect one member, it was not under the earmark rule accepted. that's incorrect. what are we here for if we can't represent the people that vote for us? again, i mentioned to you, mr. chairman, this to me is one of the crucial issues to this congress, the next congress and this house. you heard in my presentation before the other day i love this house. i don't want any president, regardless of what president, to be running the house. that's what occurred now and the last administration and the one before that. we reneged and gave up our right as congressmen and congress ladies to the executive branch. with my written statement, i can only suggest re

you know, rush limbaugh, fox news, sean hannity, who has been a staunch ally and advocate, defender ofannon, you know, largely stayed out of this controversy and as we talked about him in our segment, you know, repeated hillary clinton's name ad nauseam. i think bannon has found himself on an island and it's a pretty lonely place to be. so i think this statement is what i was told by a person very close to him this morning, the quote, first step in an effort to try to repair the relationship with donald trump. >> little rehabilitation. gabe sherman, thank you very much. curt bardella, how difficult do you think it was for steve bannon to come out and essentially humble himself and do you think it will work? >> i think it was excruciating for him. the fact that it so long for it to happen. the excerpts from wolff's book have been out for a few days. you thought if bannon wanted to go down this direction, he would have put this out after the first statement from the president just raking him through the coals. yet he did nothing. he was largely silent. there was probably a lot of pushbac

they are using a lot of talk , rush limbaugh, all of these people, and whether they know they are doingia a favor, bringing down the government, whether they know it or not, they are doing it. it's really, really bad. host: what is congress doing right now when it comes to this original issue of russian interference in the 2016 election and to prevent it from happening in the next election? guest: it's a great question. let me go back, he was bringing messaging, use of social media platforms by russian agents. that is an issue that came up a couple of months ago. what was interesting about the nunes memo, there is a great project called hamilton 68, sponsored by the marshal democracy fund, which tracks these russia bots and the bots affiliated with the russian troll farm, as it is called, they got active pushing for that memo pushing for the nunes immediately. they are still active. google hamilton 68. you can keep track of which accounts are operative. i got an email a couple of days ago from twitter alerting me that i have apparently retweeted some of these accounts, you know? [laught