and matt schlapp. i was dismayed today, matt schlapp, going to you, back by popular demand, fan favorite. for a president so obsessed with how he's covered in the media. >> right. >> there's not one person other than i think we can agree, a very uneven performance from kellyanne conway last night on cnn, there wasn't anyone, not the author of this memo, not the attorney general, not anyone from the justice department, not arguably any of their supporters in league circles. i don't know, i'm sure they have some, right? why wasn't anyone defending this decision? >> they don't really do rollouts. that's now how this works. they make announcements. >> to say the least, their staff didn't know. >> you know this, senior staff often know big decisions but the rest of the white house staff aren't going to know. >> you think the whole senior staff knew -- >> there were plenty of times in the bush administration i learned what happened by watching television. as embarrassing as that was. the president didn't see

matt schlapp is here. i'm going to go to you. much like with the >> matt: ca- comey firing. >> matt: i think the thing with drum, every time there are these controversies in this turbulence, and i will admit there is a lot. he's done things in a way we haven't seen presidents do, but if you get to the heart of it, it was that president trump believes russia is an important ally. they both want to destroy isis. he wants to make sure they get a leg up in that fight. as president obama before him try to do the same thing. i think where we get confused as we say he shouldn't of have those -- how to those photos get out? it was a little sloppy, but in the end, i think the policy is correct and it reminds everybody what is the trump policy. it is let's at least trying to get along with russia and do everything we can to kill and defeat isis. >> kat: i think it's a little bit more than sloppy if there's a switch in the message like that. >> dom: i disagree. i think the shot of the day is the screenshot of "the washington post" newsroom.

matt schlapp, and author of reversing the apocalypse. i have been glued to the television. i'll start with you. what do you take from all of this? matt: i didn't know wilbur ross could dance so well. they break all the rules. you can see the hospitality. they really want to work to see the extremists in iran. you have got the most religious of muslim countries greeting him like a king. >> it's interesting. i think you can look at saudi arabia and say this our ally where we find the most distance between our stated values. in terms of their treatment of women and their rule of law. and i think frankly that was an area where there was always a discomfort with obama because he was aggressive and outspoken about human rights. president trump hasn't put that front and center in the same way, welcoming the president of the philippines into the white house and his comments. strong men around the world. matt: a lot of us didn't appreciate the president going soft on be the castro regime. the thing is, donald trump is going to talk about a pragmatic and realistic foreign policy. what

let's get right to it with my political panel, matt schlapp. i have to start with his question. hillary clinton should she be in charge resistance? should she be in charge of the democratic party? >> anything can happen in politics but i think it's highly unlikely she'll be the leader of the democratic party. when al gore lost, he did lots of other interesting things, and i think that's what hillary clinton will do. judge jeanine: why is she saying she'll be in charge resistance and raise money? this woman thinks she should be in charge again. >> she is saying she'll be part of the resistance. she has a lot to add to the public debate. she has demonstrated leadership capability. she can add to the rhetoric and description of why president trump is not the right president for the country right now and is not leading us in the right direction. but she won't be the leader of the democratic party. judge jeanine: can the public believe what she says? matt: i have a big smile on my face. i feel she has so many people to blame for her loss. she gets p

let's get right to it with my political panel, matt schlapp.s i have to start with his question. hillary clinton should she be in charge resistance? should she be in charge of the democratic party? >> anything can happen in politics but i think it's highly unlikely she'll be the leader of the democratic party. when al gore lost, he did lots of other interesting things, and i think that's what hillary clinton will do. judge jeanine: why is she saying she'll be in charge resistance and raise money? this woman thinks she should be in charge again. >> she is saying she'll be part of the resistance. she has a lot to add to the public debate. she has demonstrated leadership capability. she can add to the rhetoric and description of why president trump is not the right president for the country right now and is not leading us in the right direction. but she won't be the leader of the democratic party. judge jeanine: can the public believe what she says? matt: i have a big smile on my face. i feel she has so many people to blame for her loss. she gets

rob: as democrats ramp up calls for a special prosecutor, matt schlapp is pointing hypocrisy.l council was ever appointed despite several instances that warranted one. >> look what happened in the obama years. no special council. you had hillary clinton's e-mail problems. they trailed fox news reporter, ap reporter. issue after issue after issue, no special prosecutors, guess what, there are laws that handle these things and the republicans should have been more aggressive. look at the democrats, within weeks, they are saying we have to have one. judge is right, once you have the overlapping investigations, actually it doesn't provide the political clarity the country needs. the president is right, they can do this quickly. we have been talking about this for six months. not one example of one illegal action. not one russian name. there's nothing to this. it's an investigation in search of a crime and it really needs to come to a close. heather: how about another controversy. legal battal over president trump's immigration order taking center stage in front of three judges all

tonight's breaking news, former white house press secretary ari fleischer and matt schlapp. thank you for joining us tonight on this busy breaking news evening. matt, i will begin with you. what is your reaction to president trump calling out nato members for not paying their fair share? >> kimberly, it was never about making europe great again. i actually think it's kind of a refreshing and diplomatic circle to have an american leader just be very direct and honest. there was a period of time in our recent history where america was so dominant and big and so optimistic about our economic leadership that we could cavalierly just pay for things all over the globe and shed our jobs. i think trump has connected with the american people who say we have lost so much about america, it's time for us to stand up for what is in our interest. it's in our interest to have a strong nato but it's the right thing to do to fulfill their commitment. >> kimberly: >> exactly right. it's just not right. one of the terms for signing up is that you are supposed to spend 2% of your budget on defen

joining us now jennifer saki and matt schlapp. i give you the first bite at the apple, matt.sident has been doing and saying is good and justified because? >> well, i mean, i think there has been some bungling over in the west wing on how they handled this basic question of their interaction with russia. at the end, chris, i heard you say throughout the hour there are two things that i'm focussed on is i'd like to hear just one little piece, a shred of proof that there was kind of inappropriate collusion, of which we have heard zero. and every one of these people that testifies when they answer this question, they answer saying there is no evidence of collusion and, you know, i think the second piece of this is the underlying charges. somehow this trump presidential campaign, which one was of the most unor dox we've seen, that somehow the russians needed the trump campaigns to figure out how to hack us and who to hack. that premise is pretty absurd. i think vladimir putin has been trying to hack into our society for a long time. i don't think they needed the trump campaign's

. >> kimberly: here with reaction is american conservative union chairman matt schlapp.nks for staying up with me and staying up with america. i want to talk about the president's remarks at nato. important, calling them out to their face, being very transparent and saying listen, you want to enjoy the benefits of this organization and make it an alliance that matters, you've got to stand with the united states financially as well. >> obviously, as a patriotic american, of course i support everyone paying their fair share. kimberly, look. he did not reinforce article five which said an attack on one nation is an attack on all of us. nations in the baltics are worried about russia. doesn't send a good message to our allies around the world. i would have preferred the president to have been positive and assertive about the central alliance in american democratic life which is the nato alliance. while the president was right to ask for the money, he would've done better for the united states being more positive and asserted the role of article five. >> kimberly: the preside

. >> kimberly: here with reaction is american conservative union chairman matt schlapp.anks for staying up with me and staying up with america. i want to talk about the president's remarks at nato. important, calling them out to their face, being very transparent and saying listen, you want to enjoy the benefits of this organization and make it an alliance that matters, you've got to stand with the united states financially as well. >> obviously, as a patriotic american, of course i support everyone paying their fair shar share. kimberly, look. he did not reinforce article five which said an attack on one nation is an attack on all of u us. nations in the baltics are worried about russia. doesn't send a good message to our allies around the world. i would have preferred the president to have been positive and assertive about the central alliance in american democratic life which is the nato alliance. while the president was right to ask for the money, he would've done better for the united states being more positive and asserted the role of article five. >> kimberly: the

kimberly guilfoyle and matt schlapp amartya samara. kennedy: they twisted the james comey saga. "the wall street journal"'s dan hannah jersey or plus should president trump get rid of the white house daily press briefing at henry has more in a devastating cyber attack circling the globe but we are told -- what role does the nsa play? grab a flashlight, we are going in. the white palace is loaded with intrigue in the hunt for a new fbi or continues with the tire tracks soaking on james comey's back at least a few dozen names have been dropped. acting fbi director andrew mccabe is on the list. the tune of $700,000 in party cash and terry mcauliffe and her failed quest for a senate seat. former house intelligence committee mike rogers and the running of fan favorite among f. ai agents and former assistant attorney general alex fisher wanted to female names on the list. she would be the first name director. dark horse michael leavitt not only has the legal background and a judge also the legal at boeing and we know the present like corporate tribes. ray kelly was one of several cand

kimberly guilfoyle and matt schlapp amartya samara. kennedy: they twisted the james comey saga.ould president trump get rid of the white house daily press briefing at henry has more in a devastating cyber attack circling the globe but we are told -- what role does the nsa play? grab a flashlight, we are going in. the white palace is loaded with intrigue in the hunt for a new fbi or continues with the tire tracks soaking on james comey's back at least a few dozen names have been dropped. acting fbi director andrew mccabe is on the list

matt schlapp, former white house political director for president george w. bush. matt, let me start with you. it was smooth and even there for a long time. at the end it started to get a bit more contentious. then it was over. what's your take? >> you know, i think that these white house briefings are great television. the thing the trump administration has to keep asking is are they driving the message they want to drive? sean came out with their perspective on the trip by and large everybody is praising the trip. it was a great trip. then we get into the question and answer part of it. >> melissa: it is kind of a question of what is the message. first question was about the jared kushner story. it was a question like when did you stop beating your wife. let's listen to it. i will let simon react. >> i'm wondering if you can tell us when the president knew, whether the president knew at the time that jared kushner was speaking to establish back channel communications at the russian embassy through the russian government and if he didn't know at the time, when did

when you look at the interview the president gave yesterday, i remember matt schlapp and many othersh bill clinton meeting on the tarmac with loretta lynch, they were clutching their pearls. they could not believe what is happening. now you have the president sitting with lester holt saying i asked about the investigation into me and my associates. there is no pearl clutching there. there's no irate behavior there. the question is who leaked what. people and americans throughout the country, whether you are democrat or republican, fly over big cities are beginning to see the president, one, he is a liar, and two, he cannot be trusted. i think it is his words that is doing it and creating the downfall. >> matt, let's get a take on the words in the interview. when the president said to lester holt when asked about russian interference. he said if there was hacking. he questioned the finding of all 17 u.s. intelligence agencies. he questioned if we have 17 intelligence agencies which we do. yesterday, he signed the executive order starting a commission to look into voter fraud. an unsub

matt schlapp contributor with the hill.tor for the cook political reporter and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. well, if the media and people who cover washington were not in a flather already and this and this interview, tweets today, it put them over the top. >> wow. it's been a heck of a week. try to even think about what happened this week because so much happened. and all i can think of when it comes to comey is that as strange as the politics are around it, one of the reasons why james comey got himself in trouble where democrats had lost confidence in him, the president had lost confidence, a lot of republicans like me had lost confidence in him is what we were reading about in the "new york times" which is that he is going to try to win this news cycle. he is going to push back on the president aggressively. it's a two-person dinner and jim comey was the only other person in that dinner and is he getting the story out exactly what happened. that's how he plays the game. that's why he became a political acto

matt schlapp. much more ahead. "special report" coming up. >> this is a fox news alert. it seems this is common practice. an explosive report comes out minutes before the show that seems to change the entire focus here in washington. perhaps around the country. tonight, another one. the trump administration is denying a report first put out by "the new york times" and confirmed by others now that the president asked then fbi director james comey to end the bureau's investigation involving former national security advisor michael flynn and contacts or alleged contacts with the russians. let's go right to john roberts. digesting this breaking story coming out. >> coming from "the new york times" which says it has a memo from jim comey that was written after an oval office meeting that he had with the president back in february. apparently there were a number of people in the oval office at the time, according to "the new york times." the president asked everyone, including the attorney general jeff sessions to leave and said he wanted to have a private conversation with th

shannon: let's bring in david goodfriend, former staff secretary to president bill clinton and matt schlappng the two of you won't agree on much this morning. i want to give you both quickly a chance to say your piece. david, start with you. you heard paul ryan saying there are multiple tracks of investigations here. i won't micromanage. a number of republicans saying we want to follow both in the house and senate wherever the facts lead. are you confident they will? >> i am. the reason is because i'm standing here in the russell senate office building of the capitol behind me on fox news with you and we're not talking about tax reform or healthcare reform or jobs or infrastructure or anything of the things that people voted for donald trump to do. we're talking instead about donald trump's actions or misdeeds or maybe even crimes in the white house. republicans in congress want to get things done. the minute that other republicans in addition to chaffetz and mccain start to realize this president is an impediment to the republican agenda you'll start to see action against this president. n