martha. >> martha: carl, thank you very much. >> you bet. >> martha: joining us us is marc siegel andssor of medicine. good to see you tonight. >> good to see you, martha. >> martha: repeal and replace is the big question. we have seen protests already breaking out across the country. people saying their healthcare is going to be taken away from them. you know dr. price and now hhs secretary dr. price. how is he going to do it. >> well, i think he is going to be a point person for this. as carl cammeron is just saying we don't know the pace this is going to roll out. is he committed to restoring the doctor-patient relationship as front and center for healthcare decisions. he doesn't assume, dr. price, that insurance is always the answer or government is always the answer. i can tell you in the doctor's office a lot of times somebody comes in with insurance, like obamacare and they don't necessarily get the services they need. dr. price is aware of that. he is a practicing orthopedickist for 20 years. he has been talking about this since you obamacare was initially passed. he is very a

>> well, martha. it's no surprise that the white house thinks that the fbi is its partner after what the fbi did in the last two weeks before the election. but, however the time line is parsed, the fact remains that the chief of staff asked the fbi to do something that the fbi denied and that is problematic. this russia situation, martha, keeps getting deeper and deeper. and they are trying to make it go away but it won't. >> martha: why do you say deeper and deeper when so far and, you know, all we have is what we know about it. so far the reports are that they have not found any connection that's troublesome. so why do you say it's getting deeper and deeper? >> we have a national security advisor who was dismissed after lying about his communications with the russians. we have a chief of staff who asked the fbi to assist the white house politically by publicly down playing a pending investigation. >> martha: you just heard they claim that that went the other way. that the fbi reached out and said he

good evening. >> thank you, martha.n the last 10 minutes, the republican chuck grassley at dianne feinstein sending this letter to the attorney general and fbi director. "seeking the content of the national former security advisor flynn." information about protect all my potential links about information, as the president blamed politics in the media for his national security advisor's exit. >> people are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the democrats had under hillary clinton. i think it is very, very unfair, what has happened to general flynn, the way he was treated, and the documents and papers that were illegally -- i stress that -- illegally leaked. >> also come out later today, naming the middle east on harvard as flynn's replacement. the trump administration having the it -- hoping it will blunt further comments. fox news is contacting former intelligence an obama administration officials separately and directly. in the meantime, the washington free beacon reports that ben rhodes is the center of the i

i'm martha maccallum. and this was president trump just days here in jacksonville before the election. >> president trump: the border crisis is the worst it has ever been. it is a national emergency. they go to jail for five years, guess what is going to happen? they are not coming back, folks. our people don't want to do it. ever weak, weak politicians don't want to do it. a trump administration will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. we will end illegal immigration. we are going to stop drugs from pouring into your communities and poisoning our youth and everybody else. and we will support all criminal aliens. quickly from our country. >> martha: states like florida, cities like jacksonville, part of a movement behind the president's victory, drawn to him by a host of issues, not the least of which was a talk like that just days before the november election when it come as your member, nobody thought he was going to win. those ideas resonated in a big way. we heard tonight is vague speak to

martha. >> martha: thank you. joining me now the reaction to all of us, governor mike huckabee, fox news contributor and two-time presidential candidate. an austan goolsbee, economics professor at the university of chicago. he served as chief economist to president obama. welcome. good have you here today. some of these details still sinking in and being sorted through. governor huckabee, let me start with you. what did they say to you? >> i think it's as donald trump is keeping a campaign promise, one that the american people elected him to do. let me ask a simple question. do you lock your doors at night when you go to bed? of course you do. you do, often does, so do i. why? because we don't know who is going to come through those doors. donald trump is locking america's doors at night and he says if you would like to commend, knock on the door, we will come to the door. just like in every neighborhood, we don't open the door and invite everyone and who knocks on the door. we'll check these folks out and see. th

martha. >> martha: thanks, trace.oining us now, republican congressman sean duffy with one of president trump's fur supporters in congress, robert zimmerman, a democratic strategist. thank you so much for being here tonight. i want to get first to this piece of news that happened a little while ago. it has to do with judge gorsuch, who made some comments about president trump's comments on the judiciary. here is what senator blumenthal, who spoke with judge gorsuch today, had to say about their discussion. >> he certainly expressed to me that he is disheartened by the demoralizing end up orange comments made by president trump about the judiciary. >> martha: representative duffy, what he think about that? is that a problem for you? figure first off, i think this is a lens of the democratic senator. >> martha: the comment was confirmed by judge gorsuch. >> i don't want our president to go after the courts. whether it is donald trump going after the courts are barack obama, who went after the supreme court on a state of

>> [laughs] no, martha. our president would allow an 500,000 immigrants with new green cards every single year. that is keeping with historic norms. very generous if you look at other countries around the world. i think we need to get a legal immigration system that works for american workers. over the last several decades, we have seen wages stagnate for blue collared workers. we have record numbers of low skilled immigration. i think those two things are directly connected. we will focus on american workers first. >> martha: so, you want to lower the number of people coming and in order to improve the opportunities for citizens of the country in low-to-mid wage jobs, right? >> that's right, martha. only about one in 15 immigrants coming in today are coming in because they have demonstrated skills or because they have demonstrated economic need. most of the people coming into our country come in because they are a distant relative of a curren recent immigrant, coming in under the outdated lottery or as a re

martha. >> martha: thanks, trace.ere now, david, an attorney, and antonio, the former mayor of los angeles. a candidate for governor of california. welcome to both of you. >> hi, martha. >> martha: lastly, we played a sound bite from president clinton, which sounded not that dissimilar from what we have heard from president trump in many ways. here is president obama talking about illegal immigration. >> those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. we simply cannot allow people to pour into the united states undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully, to become immigrants in this country. >> martha: must go to the mayor first. what is the difference? why is there so much hysteria over the trump action? >> first of all, i will defend president obama when it is warranted. i am not going to defend his deportation policy. i didn

"the first 100 days" with martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: breaking tonight, president trump came to work swinging today, determined to fight back amidst charges that the white house is a flailing and besieged. he declared apparently out of the blue, let's have a news conference today, shall we. it was the likes of which we have never seen, a full frontal jousting parry with the press and a packed east room at the white house. he slammed them, intel leakers, fake news, congress, perhaps tired of letting others communicate for him, he tried to write their ship as a multi-headed opposition tried to drag it down with a watergate anchor slung around its neck. welcome today 28, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. good happy with us tonight. what may have set him off? this "wall street journal" page one story, "spies keep intelligence from donald trump on leak concerns." >> president trump: "the wall street journal" did a story today that was almost as disgraceful as the feeling "new york times"'s story yesterday. any suggestion that the united states intelligence community, this was

martha appeared to >> martha: fascinating to go back to that sound bite.th mark, dana loesch is the host of "dana" and matt bennett, former deputy assistant to president clinton. welcome to both of you. good to have you here. >> thanks, martha. >> martha: before you, you look at that moment, it was one of those things that made you catch your breath. an awkward moment in that room. he pressed forward on it. he believed that he won and that that gave him the mandate to move forward. why is it not the same for president trump? >> look, we are not litigating what obama did in 2010. what if we are talking about it with what is going on right now. the fact is we have never seen an opening of an administration anything like what we are seeing with trump. trump, all of the blame for this, really should be laid at the feet of donald trump. he is completely mishandling -- >> martha: he is doing exactly what he said he was going to do as a candidate. he won 306 electoral votes, now, he is going on that list and doing those things. what is so shocking about that, mat

martha. >> martha: a problem.d, thank you very much for joining me now, general jack keane, chairman for the institute of the study of war. general, good to see you. quite a bit to talk about. your reaction, you see the pictures up there. i know you know them all. who is best suited for the job? >> i hope the president looks at somebody's stature, the american people would know that person, have confidence in them, particularly based on the background. clearly, the most qualified as david pretorius. unequivocally so, given his years of combat experience, most sick successful general we haved since world war ii. did a great job over at the cia. he knows most of the foreign leaders in the world. still coming to this day, he has relationships with them. he is very familiar with all of the global security challenges united states are facing. >> martha: could be bad luck for him, with his history, given the way that flynn is leaving, they may not want that to deal with. >> i think that is easily overcome just by his re

martha. >> martha: thank you, trace. former spokesman for the dnc, and a fox contributor, genital back welcome the republicans have said for years that they have plans to replace this and now it comes time to do it and they seem to be at odds. >> they have been cracking walnuts on the soccer since 2009. 2009. now they get down to go time and they are not ready to go. part of it is that whatever happened, everybody wants a distraction. the democrats felt the same way with president obama won trying to get the original put in. they're going to be disruptions. remember, all the people who lost their plans, the doctors, and all that stuff. there is inherent instruction in this. before they -- one to play the political cost. there is a political cost and tended to this with disappointing members of your base, dealing with frustrating people in the middle, when do you do and how? until he gets on with that, they are not going to be able to settle on a plan. >> martha: meanwhile, the people its premiums skyrocket. we've a map t

hi, trace. >> hi, martha.or mitch mcconnell says they are not concerned about betsy devos' nomination, which is interesting, because when you run the numbers, at the very least, this goes down to the wire. alaska senator lisa murkowski and main senator, susan collins, the first two g.o.p. senators to break with trump, they say they are worried about betsy devos' lack of familiarity with public schools. >> i think chairman of the committee for working with me and with my colleagues on this matter. but i cannot support this nominee. >> madam president, i will not, i cannot vote to confirm her as our nations next secretary of education. >> now, there is pressure on republican leadership to keep the other g.o.p. senators on board because there is no democratic support for devos, which means there is no wriggle room. if the vote was held today, it would be 50/50. vice president mike pence, the president of the senate, we need to cast the confirming vote to confirm devos. the vice president has never been called upo

"the first 100 days" with martha maccallum starts right now. ♪ >> martha: breaking tonight, presidentrump comes to michael flynn's defense, as democrats delve into hyperbolic comparisons, calling it the worst crisis since pearl harbor or watergate. we will drill down on the reality tonight with breaking news on the story just moments away. from chairman of the house oversight committee, jason chaffetz, who was news to break here this evening. welcome today 27, everybody come up the first 100, i am martha maccallum. >> he has been treated very, very unfairly by the media. as i call it, the fake media, in many cases. i think it is really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. >> martha: the defense comes as a new report in the washington free beacon claims that flynn's departure was the work of former president obama loyalists, hoping to keep the iran deal intact, a deal that flynn detectives. -- detested. they are alleged repeated contacts with russian intelligence. while all this was playing out today, navy vice admiral robert harvard is expected to be the new national security adv

"the first 100 days" with martha maccallum starts right now. ♪ >> martha: breaking tonight, two weeksnto a donald trump presidency and we are already seeing signs of a new world order. enemies and allies alike on edge as the disruptor channels the art of the deal on the international stage. this is what day 14 look like, everybody. good evening, i'm martha maccallum. late today, the white house taking aim at a ron. slamming them with sanctions set to take effect as early as tomorrow, most likely, and retaliation for a recent ballistic missile test. day 14 began with leaked excerpts of a call to the australian prime minister. not usually a newsmaking event for the president was upset over and a bomb of a deal to take in some refugees that originally wanted to go to australia. he let the prime minister know it, according to accounts. just moments ago, top trump aides met with the australian ambassador and apparently smoothed things over. additionally, a phone call with the president of mexico also because of international ripples. again, we might not be hearing the entire story on this.

martha. >> martha: thank you. joining me now the reaction to all of us, governor mike huckabee, fox news contributor and two-time presidential candidate. an austan goolsbee, economics professor at the university of chicago. he served as chief economist to president obama. welcome. good have you here today. some of these details still sinking in and being sorted through. governor huckabee, let me start with you. what did they say to you? >> i think it's as donald trump is keeping a campaign promise, one that the american people elected him to do. let me ask a simple question. do you lock your doors at night when you go to bed? of course you do. you do, often does, so do i. why? because we don't know who is going to come through those doors. donald trump is locking america's doors at night and he says if you would like to commend, knock on the door, we will come to the door. just like in every neighborhood, we don't open the door and invite everyone and who knocks on the door. we'll check these folks out and see. th

martha. >> martha: dan springer, thank you very much. we showed you the tweet that the president sent out right away after this decision. senior white house correspondent john roberts life from the white house lawn with more on the story tonight. good evening, john. >> martha, good evening to you. we heard of the president talk to a number of reporters who were gathered by sean spicer's office. called the white house press pool, a small group of people that go in to the presidents events when he is speaking with dignitaries or having a meeting or as happened today, when he was watching senator sessions get sworn in as the attorney general. apparently, he came back, had a few words of the pool. we don't have the full content or the words that he said. but apparently, he said, this is a political decision and he looks forward to seeing you all in court. that is repeating the tweet that he sent out a little while ago where he said "see you in court," the safety of the nation is at stake. we don't yet know, martha, the full context of this i

i am martha mccaul sxum this is the first 100 days. throughout the days, the president's closest advisor spoke out including reince priebus and steve bannon. they drilled down on the opposition and laid out their plans in no uncertain terms to an audience a year ago would have thought the appearance was unlikely. mike pence comes to the podium. he is what president trump called the best decision. he will go first, the president's big moment tomorrow. but first tonight, a major show down over trump immigration doctrine and it is playing out in the state of connecticut. the governor is telling police do not enforce federal law here and do not cooperate with immigration and enforcement agents. we'll speak to wendy hartling of connecticut whose daughter casy was murdered by a criminal illegal immigrant that was supposed to be deported. first from trace on what is going on in connecticut and other parts of the country, trace? >> reporter: martha, we know the biggest cities like new york and chicago and others say they will not work with the

martha? >> martha: i thank you very much.ur panel, a group of lawyers, veterans, civil rights advocates, law enforcement, political strategists, and everyday americans who feel very strongly for or against president trump's executive order. let's bring a run in. good you all with us today. thank you very much for being here. i want to start in the back row. you are a veteran of the iraq and afghanistan war. your personal feelings when you heard about this executive order, and how you think it's going so far. >> when i first heard about it, what i thought was the ability that the president is giving homeland security in the appropriate departments the chance to take some time and think about what's actually taking place. what's going on, who are they letting end, what are the review standards, how are we doing it and why are we doing it? when i saw that, it was great, i thought this is a good chance to see what's going on. when i started to look, i do social analytics, i looked at who is really driving the conversation. there'

>> i am not going to comment on that, martha. i have nothing more to say about it. >> martha: brought about the letter that has come from jason chaffetz and the house that has gone to the government ethics board? they say they consider that to be a very serious, potentially a serious violation of the government ethics code. >> we are aware of that letter and we are reviewing that internally. i am just really happy that i spent an awful lot of time of the president of the united states this afternoon and that he supports me 100%. >> martha: you spoke about that matter and he is not -- doesn't have any intentions to suspend you? >> we spoke about a range of matters, he supports me 100%. it was was a heartening moment. all i can say, at some point in your life, you ought to have a boss who treated me the way that the president is treating me today. >> martha: kellyanne conway, a lot to talk about tonight.

she became martha washington's closest body slave. all who knew the washingtons on a personal level were familiar with the judge. she often accompanied her mistress on social calls. since moving to new york and then philadelphia, the first ladies life was filled with socializing and public events. so it's important to realize that this relationship between mistress and enslaved person at least in terms of ona judge, it was a very kind of intimate relationship. not necessarily in the best of ways but ona was around martha washington constantly helping her with the most intimate responsibilities, dressing, bathing, combing hair. she was around. she heard everything that went on in the executive mansion. judge understood her mistress. she knew just how much martha washington loved her grandchildren. she had out that every single one of her children fathered by her first husband. martha washington had no choice but to look towards her grandchildren for hope and enjoyment. and although she was only 27 when she married george washington, th

like martha, judge had no choice about the move. miss washington and ona judge may have shared similar concerns, but of course, only martha washington was allowed to express this content. martha washington was unhappy and everyone knew it. the president's nephew, robert lewis would be aware of it. when he arrived at his estate, things were in disarray. lewis was chosen to escort his aunt and grandchildren to new york but was surprised and a bit concerned when he arrived to find a frenzied and hectic scene. lewis wrote quote everything appeared to be in confusion. end quote. the manifestation of ms. washington's conflicting feelings. robert lewis described the de r departure as an motional moment for the slaves and the first lady quote after an early dinner, and making all necessary arrangements in which we were greatly retarded it brought us to 3:00 in the afternoon when we left mount v. the servants of the house and a number of field negro came to take leave of their mistress. numbers seemed agitatedand much affected my aunt equall

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martha maccallum, as mentioned, is on deck.how you that very controversial bud ad that will play during super bowl. lady gaga may cause some controversy during the super bowl. when we come back. 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 by quicken loans. [whisper: rocket] >> bill: "back of the book" segment tonight, did you see that? one of the big super bowl commercials will be a budweiser deal with an immigration theme. >> you don't look like you are from around here.e. >> [speaking german] >> welcome to america! >> you get out of here. >> go back home. >> these are my parents. >> thank you. >> next time, this is the beer we drink. have a budweiser. >> bill: joining

martha maccallum. >> i have got a switchboard to operate. >> bill: i have to go to martha, and she is of baltimore. the 18-year-old shot dead by police after a judge put him out on the street where she should not have done that. martha moments away. safe drivers who switch to esurance could save money on car insurance. in fact, safe drivers who switch from geico to esurance could save hundreds. so if you switch to esurance, saving is a pretty safe bet. auto and home insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. the search for relief often leads here.s, today there's drug-free aleve direct therapy. a high intensity tens device that uses technology once only in doctors' offices. for deep penetrating relief at the source. aleve direct therapy. ♪ >> bill: "back of the book"k" segment, tonight, "did you see that?" in baltimore, a 19-year-old named curtis deal arrested three times since the first of the year on drugs and weapons charges. nevertheless, judge nicole taylor allowed mr. deal to avoid jail, even though the prosecution told her he was dangerous.vo

i am sandra smith and for martha maccallum tonight. it is the interview at the center of speculation, former president george w. bush sitting down with nbc's matt lauer to offer observations about his own time in office and for the first time, reacting publicly to president trump's executive order on immigration. there are no questions tonight about whether some in the media have been too quick to characterize mr. bush's comments come as a personal slight to the new presidency. here are some of those comments. >> did you ever consider consider the media to be the enemy of the american people? >> [laughs] i considered the media to be indispensable to democracy. we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. i mean, power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive. it is important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere. >> by banning people from seven predominantly muslim countries from entering this country, do we make it easier or harder to fight the war on ter

martha raddatz is standing by. >>> also that moment late today. president trump taking his daughter, ivanka, to pay respects to the navy s.e.a.l. from illinois killed during the raid in yemen. >>> the hostage situation unfolding at this hour. an american prison lockdown. several workers being held captive inside. injuries reported. >>> the denver area officer shot and killed. the suspect coming up from behind, killing him execution style. tonight what we are learning. >>> and america strong tonight. the woman who lost her leg in the boston bombings. the firefighter who saved her and now what has the whole town celebrating. >>> good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on wednesday night, and we are following two major headlines coming out of the trump white house. tonight, that warning to iran, putting that country, quote, on notice. also less than 24 hours after the president revealed his pick for the supreme court, he is telling republicans to go nuclear to get his pick through if it comes to that. judge neil gorsuch at the capitol b

here's chief global affairs correspondent, martha raddatz. >> reporter: the raid started going terribly wrong from the beginning. the mission targeting the al qaeda operations compound had been in the works for months. but as the team of navy s.e.a.l.s -- flown in secretly from a u.s. warship -- and dozens of partner forces approached the compound, the s.e.a.l.s were met by withering gunfire. a source familiar with the raid told us today it was clear al qaeda knew the americans were coming. the pentagon says male and female combatants took up positions with heavy weapons, the intense firefight in close quarters, leaving s.e.a.l. william ryan owens dead and three other americans wounded. an osprey was called in to medevac the wounded, but in the darkness and dust, a hard landing left three more americans injured. the pentagon says at least 14 al qaeda fighters were killed, but officials are also assessing reports that the firefight left dead the 8-year-old daughter, her picture posted online, of radical american-born cleric anwar al alawki, killed in 2011. >> and martha raddatz with us l

. >> martha: all right. we have an 18-year-old, he wants to know specifically, how the second-order is going to be different. >> one of the big difference is that you are going to see and they executive order is that is going to be responsive to the judicial ruling, which didn't exist previously. these are mostly minor technical differences, fundamentally. you are still going to have the same basic policy outcome for the country but you are going to be have a lot of technical issues brought up by the court. those will be addressed. in terms of protecting the country, those basic policies are still going to be in effect.

"the first 100 days" with martha maccallum is up next. ♪ >> martha: breaking tonight, a new executiverder on emigration could come down at any moment. plus, president trump's search for a new national security advisor is over. it is day 32 of the first 100. i am sandra smith and for martha maccallum. just a short time ago, from his morrow log a resort, president trump announcing lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster will take over as national security advisor. the announcement coming exactly one week after michael flynn resigned from the position. plus, we learned that president trump is expected to double down on his immigration ban. he is going to sign a new executive order within days. that order will still target the same seven countries, iran, iraq, syria, somalia, yemen, sudan, and libya. as the president mull that into order, he has taken some heat for defending a ban and refugees by citing a nonexistent attack in sweden. some say the president was not entirely wrong. matt bennett, dana lash, and guy benson are all here on that and just moments. but before, let's go to john roberts

i am sorry. >> [laughs] >> bill: what say you, martha? the program was to make everybody more comfortable. the kids would say, that police man, i know him, he is my buddy, i high-five him at school every friday. once a month that this was. once a month, the police officers would come out and high-five the kids. hey, tgif, it is friday. some of the parents decided come as you heard in rob's piece, up, that it might make some of the kids uncomfortable if they are children of comfort, color or undocumented. if anybody believes this will lead to pulling one of these children out of northampton, massachusetts, i think that is nuts. it is a very pc community. i went to schmidt college, amherst is not necessarily -- >> bill: i know there are a lot of knots that live in that area massachusetts paper northampton, i know the community pretty well. if you took a plebiscite, which is a "yes" or "no" up and down a hi-fi friday, 80-20. 80-20. >> they are concerned -- >> bill: here is my question. wind of the country allow the crazy people to take over?

great member from alabama, martha roby. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. roby: i thank the gentlelady. mr. speaker, i rise in support of house joint resolution 43. congress must use its authority to strike this rule and stop the federal government from forcing states to funnel taxpayer money to abortion providers. this rule is wrong on process and it's wrong onpolicy. first of all states have every right to put in place reasonable guidelines for how their federal dollars are spent. for washington to attempt to coerce states in this way would be bad enough, but for un-elected bureaucrats and the department of health and human services to go around congress at the 11th hour of the obama administration is just outrageous. madam speaker, i think we all agree that low-income women should have access to the essential title x services, but why is it necessary for those services to be funded at the nation's largest provider of abortion? it isn't, of course, but the abortion industry and its

his first casualty as commander in chief. >> martha, did the pentagon explain why it posted the video in the first place, if it was nearly ten years old? and if it was under any pressure to put the video up? >> reporter: first of all, they didn't realize it was already public. a spokesman said they posted it to show what al qaeda is trying to do every day. and why these special operations missions are important. they said there was no pressure from the white house to post it, or from anyone else. david? >> martha, thank you. >>> president trump, finishing the week with another round of executive actions. and one that could affect retirees across the country. and protections in place when it comes to your savings. the president calling for a change in the rules for how financial advisors handle your retirement savings. also pushing for changes to dodd-frank. the president saying the law hurts small businesses. >> frankly, i have so many people, friends of mine, that can't get any money, because the banks won't let them borrow because of rules and regulations. and dodd-frank. so, we'll

martha raddatz is standing by. >>> also that moment late today. president trump talking his taught, ivanka, to pay respects to the navy s.e.a.l. from illinois killed in the raid in yemen. >>> the hostage situation unfolding at this hour. seven workers being held captive inside. injuries reported. >>> the denver area officer killed, and the suspect coming up from behind. killing hip execution style. tonight what we are learning. >>> and america strong tonight. the woman who lost her leg in the boston bombings. the man who saved her and what has the whole town celebrating. >>> good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on wednesday night, and we are following two major headlines coming out of trump white house. tonight, that warning to iran, pulling that country, quote, on notice. also less than 24 hours after the president revealed his puck for the supreme court, he is telling republicans to go nuclear to get his pick through if it comes to that. judge neil gorsuch at the capitol beginning to meet with the senators who will decide his fa

here's abc's chief global affairs correspondent, martha radda raddatz. >> reporter: it was a mission planned for months that fell apart as soon as it began. >> the intelligence was good, but until you get on the ground, you never know what's going to happen. >> reporter: they say an intercept in the vicinity outside the compound may have heard aircraft above, but that was not enough to call off the mission. on the ground, the team was quickly surrounded by hard-core fighters including women. a 360-degree hail of fire. s.e.a.l william "ryan" owens killed, three others wounded. the s.e.a.l.s called in air support to help them clear the compound, purportedly seen in these pictures. that is when officials think several civilians may have been killed, possibly including the young daughter of slain radical american cleric anwar awlawki. back in washington, president trump was monitoring the mission. >> he was kept apprised of the situation throughout the evening. >> reporter: president obama was in office when the planning began last november. concluding in early january. but the team want