howie: joining us is erin pike, amy holmes, and marie harf. erin, "huffington post," whiplash. 180. exclamation point. >> what you played there, nato hasn't changed. some countries are slowly in a very small way increasing their defense spending. in part he says, and the secretary-general says it's because he made it such an issue. but it's the same organization. flip-flops like that have to be called out. howie: they have to be reported on. the president accused china of manipulating its currency. president trump tweeted i'm not going to call china a currency manipulator while we need their help. >> things look different once you are in the white house. i would make the argument president trump is staying true to form if not through substance. even throughout the campaign he was stays consistent. after san bernardino he made the comment about the muslim ban, then he pulled that back and moderated. what has been consistent is donald trump has always projected strength. that's always his top priority and you saw it with the syria bombing and afghanistan. howie: when a politician flip

marie harf is the former state department spokesperson and a fox news contributor.come to you both. this is a very stunning letter from the u.n. to think about the fact that saudi arabia sits on the women's commission and that iran takes her turn on the human rights commission, but they are horrified and they think we may be breaching people's human rights here, ari, if this health care law leaves some people without coverage. >> the united nations wants to lose more support of the american people even faster, this is the way to do it. if they can impinge of the national sovereignty of the american people. one important caveat, martha, this was signed by one official on the human rights commission. it's not clear who he is speaking for, whether it is for himself or clear that he can't speak for the entire united nations. it is insidious nonetheless. it makes my head explode. the idea that they considered supervision of america and our congress and our democracy, this is why globalism is losing ground to nationalism. this is why the e.u. is losing support among europ

marie harf was the state department spokesman during the obama years and fox news contributor now. welcome to america's newsroom. did you support what the president did in syria last week? >> i did. i thought it was a good response to president assad's use of chemical weapons. what i'm more focused on now is the strategy going forward and what happens next in syria. and i think you've heard pundits say this was a strong response and it sent a message but that it hasn't fundamentally changed the course of what's happening in syria and we don't know what the strategy is and we'll see what comes out of the meetings in russia today. >> bill: was president obama offered the same option when he was president? >> in 2013. i was very involved at the state department at the time when assad used chemical weapons then, we did make a decision to use force. we went to congress and asked for their authorization to use force against assad and they did not give us that authorization. what my former boss john kerry did. so much talk about this including president trump in the interview with maria.

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here today, here and make -- meghan mccain, melissa francis melissa francis, marie harf, and today's #oneluckyguy, with a serious hat on, brian kilmeade, cohost of fox and friends. he is here on outnumbered and he is outnumbered. >> brian: what a big day. you have one idea what it's going to be and then the chairman of the intelligence committee says i'm going to recuse myself from the russian investigation. i could give a solid argument for about four lead stories today. >> harris: we are going to throw everything at the canvas and do the news. fireworks in the senate floor. republic is the next few hours are expected to finally go nuclear in order to end the democrats filibuster of judge neil gorsuch. that will change the process for only a simple majority of votes needed. earlier, the leader of the senate democrats, chuck schumer blasted the republicans vowed to use the nuclear option. speak out it doesn't to be this way. when a nominee doesn't get enough votes for confirmation, the answer is not to change the rules. it's to change the nominee. presidents of both parties have done

. >> bill: want to bring in marie harf to talk about this. welcome to "america's newsroom." you dealt with this a lot in your previous role. it appears most republicans, most democrats who attended, the message for them was this administration, james mattis, president trump, are taking this seriously. what did you hear? >> i think that's right and quite frankly i believe that's why the white house brought all these senators actually to the white house for this briefing that normally would have taken place on the hill to really underscore that they're taking it seriously. i've also heard from my friends on the hill, though, bill, that there wasn't a lot new in terms of actual detailed policy coming out of that meeting. and that there is still a little bit of lack of clarity on what the actual goal is. is it to get back to negotiations? is the red line north korea being able to make a missile that could reach the united states. a lot of questions about the strategy beyond this general notion that nouk is an urgent problem, which isn't breaking news. >> bill: to your point look

brian: marie harf is full time now. she used to be in the state department about w. barack obama.t and she said there is no problem with this? >> it is not at all unusual for the national security advisor to request additional information a and that by here i mean unmasking of intelligence report that does not mean she leaked it and no one has reported it. we should not equate unmasking with leaking. we have seen no until eli lake's report or others there were partisan motives behind. this. steve: there is no obvious need for the unmasking of these names other than political curiosity. ainsley: 100 percent. why are the democrats surveying the opposing party's candidate? why are they surveying him? brian: that argument is we are concerned that the next administration coming in is too close. ainsley: are they allowed to do that? are you allowed to just surveil the next person running for president? he. steve: under the fisa stuff you can. but the name of the american citizen that they talked to is supposed to be covered. unless you are a member of the trump team and it looks like th

former states department spokesperson under president obama marie harf and former advisor to presidental numbers have remained very high. they got -- only got higher throughout the course of this campaign. and as a democrat, i want my party to look at all the reasons we lost in 2016. there are a lot of them. starting with a bad campaign strategy, candidate with a lot of baggage. a lot of external factors, misreading the country's mood, especially in key states. blaming a popular former president who was elected twice -- i worked on that 2012 campaign -- who enacted a number of what i would argue are pretty big policy successes, it's a stupid thing to say and i don't think it's true. ed: wow, stupid thing to say. >> saturday morning i'm awake, ed. ed: to the point she has had her coffee. david, you are a democrat as well. keith ellison sour grapes. he is deputy chair he wanted to be chairman of the dnc and lost that race to tom perez. is this sour grapes? is he angry? >> let me defend a little bit of what keith ellison said. you know, democrats can disagree and be stronger for it a grea

marie happen. harf said on "fox & friends" that was stupid thing to say. is part of the problem. his approval ratings are high but the democratic party isn't. barack obama, really in a way destroyed the party for his own benefit. this now is the dynamic of, appreciating and emgreatsing barack obama is not going to help other candidates at this point. he is going to be having a speech. it will be good for him but not for the party. liz: not your parents democrat party anymore. he is just coming off a trip, he was on david geffen's yacht with bruce springsteen and writing his third memoir. i don't know anybody wrote one autobiography. he is writing three of them. approval ratings, depends who they are polling. he basically destroyed the democratic party. stuart: that is strong stuff. we better go out with that. >>> this is a terrible story. afghanistan's defense minister resigned following the taliban attack that left well over 100 soldiers dead. it was the deadliest attack on the armed forces there since 2001. we have the ugly details for you after this bre