mercedes schlapp: mary.ary thomas: it is really my parents. i'm a first-generation american, they came from india in 1972. when they came, they really had education,ation -- but they knew in this country unlike any other country in this world, if they work hard, they would be able to be successful, and that is what they did. they started a successful band -- family business, a reliable technology company. they thought about fiscal responsibility, the importance of family, loving our country and being so grateful to be here and be citizens of this great country. that is really, they are my foundation. mercedes schlapp: i think -- [applause] mercedes schlapp: there is so , the kindhere who are of think about this idea of running for office or taking their conservative passion to the next level. so you will have gone through this experience of running and campaigns -- what do you think it takes to win? mary thomas: i am happy to start. i ran against a long serving democrat in wyoming. wyoming is one of the redd

joining me now, mercedes schlapp along with communications director neil shah rocha. mercedes, to you first. it all came down to a matter of trust. michael flynn blew it. he wasn't truthful about what he said about the nature of his call with the russian ambassador. is that going to satisfy democrats who say, wait a minute, we need to know what went on here and who knew what and when. >> well, absolutely. you already saw senator mccaskill from missouri come out and basically say this is why we need further investigation into the russian meddling in our elections, and it gives the democrats ammunition to further voice their opinions on this. as we know, the top republicans have said that they are not going to investigate this in the committees. what we do know is that it's perfectly legal for during this transition period for the, these individuals, these transition officers to speak to the foreign governments. they spoke to over 30 foreign governments during that time. but what did happen here is the fact that president trump values trust, he values loyalty from his st

david: joining me mercedes schlapp, former bush spokesperson and fox news contributor and i believe zoomrelative to that guy moderating that panel. in fact she is the wife of matt schlapp who you just saw moderating that discussion. steve bannon, i think most people wanted to hear from him. they hear from reince, quite a bit, former head of the rnc, now the president's spokesperson but steve bannon said something about the difficulty this administration has trying to change things, trying to drain the swamp. let's play that and get your response. >> if you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight you are sadly mistaken. every day, every day it is going to be a fight. that is what i'm proudest about donald trump. all the opportunities he had to waiver off this, all the people who have come to him, oh you have to moderate. ever day in the oval office he tells reince and i, i committed this to the american people. i promised this when i ran, and i'm going to deliver on this. david: mercedes, that is a point a lot of people forget. even conservative folks who support

mercedes schlapp, geraldo rivera. let me ask you about all those supposedly conservative intellectuals that have now been proven and 11 days so wrong on who donald trump is. >> this choice was a choice that would definitely please academics, historians, philosophers, ideologues. the mystery is, and i do not know if you know something i don't know, i don't believe this judge has ever ruled on an abortion rights case. >> sean: he was an originalist, even you would probably argue with me that roe v. wade it was bad law, it should have been left to the states. >> be careful what you wish for. >> sean: you are a state's rights guy.me >> the tenth amendment confers to the states. as their own sovereign in many ways, you cannot argue sanctuary cities are illegal if the states have the tenth amendment that says -- >> sean: you and i need two hours alone. >> what do you guys talk about? >> sean: what is your take on people that were so wrong? >> what donald trump is doing us that he is keeping to his word, sean. he has made it

charles hurt, mercedes schlapp, and matt bennett. why don't you take that on first.t is a jaw dropper. >> i am not sure what she meant by that. i will say this. what about the president and his staff have done over the course of the last couple of months, since before the inauguration, is actually quite dangerous. they have denigrated the media over and over again. they have said that if there is news that they don't agree with, it is fake. that is a real problem. we don't want, in this country, do have the president telling people they can't trust with a c in any media. the only thing they can trust is coming straight out of his mouth. the thing coming out of his mouth often aren't true. he routinely stretches the truth are out outright lies. we have to have the media trusted as a check on him just as we would in any other president. >> martha: must go back to the first thing first. then, we will go back to the second part of your arguments. charlie, the comments suggesting that there is a slippery slope that could be gone down and that vladimir putin, who has, by m

mercedes schlapp. the president says fake news is the enemy of the american people. he says the media drops the fake and misquotes him. then he goes after an entire network. is it the fake news for the network? >> i think there is the situation with the fake news. the fact that information comes out that is not necessarily accurate. some of these networks run with this information, sometimes not verified. and it seems to be a recurring theme in some of these networks. it doesn't mean -- there are plenty of good reporters, and i think that he's decided he's going to pick a fight with cnn and several of the other outlets. i think what you are learning in all this is social media has impacted how traditional journalism functions. so we are seeing the hierarchy of traditional journalism being disrupted. americans can go to different places to find their news. we have seen for example, a spread of new conservative websites. and you see that on the left as well. that's where the bigger -- where we are seeing the change. this obviously a new almost media order. i know we ta

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mercedes schlapp, a.b. stoddard, charles krauthammer. mercedes, you hear the president. i think a lot of people get focused on the day-to-day. you have some big things happening. one is the obamacare replacement which is expected at the beginning of march and the tax reform rollout that at some point is going to be coordinated probably also within the month of march. >> congress has been trying to move forward on obamacare first. they are trying to figure out the component of what they're going to do with the obamacare taxes. concerned if they take it out, leave it in. that impacts tax reform. it's something i think we are all anticipating, winning to see if the republicans can find the common ground on obamacare. will that be repaired or replaced. but it comes to tax reform, it's something i think so many republicans in the mainstream are saying we've got to do this now because they're going to lose political capital. >> bret: is there enough momentum on tax reform to get a big win here for the trust administration? >> no, not right now. what is going on right now is th

. >> i spoke already this morning to mercedes schlapp who is the wife of matt schlapp and said that pence'slic because it signifies coming together to get president's agenda done and we had a rare appearance from steve bannon, the white house adviser, here is what he had to say about all of that. >> all he's doing right now is he's layed out an agenda with those speeches with the promises he made and our job every day is to competent cue cute -- execute on that. >> so we don't know what president trump will talk about in this speech, we expect he will probably take a shot at the media, he likes to do that but we will probably will hear about a new conservative movement and certainly a lot of millennials. cpac draws new people. heather: president trump is also preparing to show vision to congress, the speech will focus on the renewal of the american spirit. >> the address will particularly focus on public safety including defense, increased border security, taking care of our veterans and then economic opportunity including education, job training, healthcare reform, jobs and tax and regulat

the founding executive director of georgetown's institute of politics and public service, and mercedes schlappalso a fox news contributor and republican strategists. chris stirewalt, i will start with you first. the feud, it continues and it captivates all of us. your thoughts. >> it certainly works for donald trump. this is the best thing for him. he had a little bit of a bumpy lift off, not the bumpy's diver. a rough first month in some way ways. bashing the press and the forehead with a shillelagh and saying that they are just a bunch of rotten, dirty slime. his base loves it. they hate the press more than they hate democrats. they hate us more than they hate liberalism, and so far that they see that there is a difference. so, he gives double coupons here. not only does he get to change the subject because reporters can't resist talking about themselves. they would just run right on the path to become instant media critics. they would try to put howie kurtz out of a job. they are running away after that. they change the topic for trump. he also get to fire up his base. >> sandra: i'm sure h

mercedes schlapp, columnist for the washington times. and amy walter, and amy i want to start with you. >> we had seen over the last couple weeks some warning signs. the first was that the hearing kept getting pushed back and there was starting to be rumblings about what's going on. why isn't david moving at the same pace as the other nominations? then came the concerns about juan's personal life. hiring someone he didn't pay taxes for and we learned this week his ex-wife and comments she made on the "oprah winfrey show" even though she was disguised. it was a piling up of problems. if you are republicans on capitol hill, you are dealing with stories about the white house, the chaos about the russia leaks, flynn resigning. did you really want to go and find out this which could lead to another few days of bad stories? >> dana: >> bret: charles mentid there is usually one nominee who doesn't make it through for one reason or another. i mentioned tom daschle. does this put a speed bump, another speedbump in addition to the flynn resignatio

jonah goldberg, senior editor national review, mercedes schlapp, susan page, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. good evening. no lawyers at this table. that might be a first. oral arguments happen tomorrow. what happens? >> it depends on which charges are doing it. i don't know who they are. it's a very left of center circuit. it has always been. i would think just on those facts, my guess is the trump administration gets bad news from them. but that said, i think it has more to do with the left-wing politics of the circuit than the merits of the case. whatever you think of the actual policy, justice scalia used to have a stamp that said "stupid but constitutional." i am not saying the trump policy is stupid. i support most of it but just because people don't like it doesn't mean it's unconstitutional. the president has broad authority in these kinds of areas by statute and by the constitution. if it goes to the supreme court, it would ultimately end up in trump's favor. >> bill: is he within his bounds, let's say, if you go back to 1952? the immigration act clearly cave the presid

and mercedes schlapp, former spokesperson for president george w. bush., let me start with you. everybody is paying some of attention to michael flynn, they may have missed this battle, which they will be paying a lot of attention to. >> a gigantic hippopotamus that swims up for the bottom of the pond. the thing is, republicans are debating, went to repeal it, and when to replace it, with all of this stuff. they are dithering around talking about this. the reality is, the law is falling apart under their feet and under the feet of the country brady assigned major insurer is dropping out of the pool. they want participate. a new chief who is very determined that he is going to blow this thing out of the water. the republicans are having an academic discussion right now. they want to do it on their terms, they got to do it sooner rather than later or they will pay a heinous price with voters next year. >> martha: so true. i remember when president trump said, i thought about letting this thing fall apart, just letting everybody live with it and to see how b

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here with reaction radio host, larry elder, fox news contribute mercedes schlapp. that removed or when 90% of muslims were not included in the immigration band. that's not a muslim ban. especially the 40 muslim majority countries or the threat that donald trump had a call with president nieto of mexico and was threatening to invade mexico. or any of these other examples. there are so many now. it's on a daily basis. what does this mean for the long term for those news organizations? >> it's about time republicans started pushing back. you got a public editor who used to be at "the new york times" named arthur brisbane, who admitted that "the new york times" had the world view of a cultural and politicales progressivism. you got deborah howell, who used to be the person for "the washington post." she admitted in the 2008 contest between romney and obama smack obama that her more flattering front page stories of obama, moe pictures of obama, more flattering pictures of obama than john mccain, and of course wikileaks had exposed not only that "the washington post" suc

joining me with a look ahead to the big night, mercedes schlapp along with former dnc deputy press secretary jose munoz. pretty historic night. what is it, mercedes, that he think he needs to deliver on tonight? everybody keeps talking about all this division. what does he need to do when he gets out in front of congress? >> i think president trump needs to tell congress that he is sitting in the driver's seat, that congress needs to come together and work forward on pushing forward his agenda. i think it's very important to send -- he's sending two messages. one is to the american people saying we need to unite, we need to unite as a country, and he needs to send the second message to congress, basically saying i've got a bold agenda, and we need to move quickly, because we have a very limited amount of time because there is this slow-moving elephant called the congress that's not moving quick enough for him. president bush trish that's one of -- trish: that's one of the challenges, jose. anybody that comes from the business world, you want to get something done, you tell people to do it, a

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joining me republican strategist mercedes schlapp and democratic strategist jessica tarlov to talk about the politics of all this. i like to think that a judge is working aggressively to uphold the law as we heard from our last guest, mercedes. unfortunately a lot of judges, especially those on the left coast are not working to uphold the law but are solving for the equation, the kind of world that they want. so this may be influenced by this judge's political views. it may be influenced by his view of how he wants to see the world. how does it affect people who might be on the margin right now that are unsure of trump? does it actually make them feel as though they want to support the president more because the president should be in charge or are they starting to get nervous? what's the political ramifications. >> the judicial activist is a hot topic for republicans for the most part. when you looked at campaign, it was one of the top issues in terms of republicans supporting a donald trump over a hillary clinton because what we have seen through the obama years where he appointed over

bush and fox news contributor mercedes schlapp are, american university executive in residence capri and the host of media buzz on the fox news channel, howie kurtz. howie, i've got to ask you this. what i loved was when he opened up the press conference, and he said, hey, guys, dida miss me? [laughter] again, some of the first questions were about this thing, you know, bill maher saying that the president had been discussing classified information in front of guests at mar-a-lago. i mean, sean spicer turned it around, but that's where we began. the press is not letting up on their attacks of president trump. >> that's true, but i thought while it was a very contentious news conference, that the temperature has kind of been dialed down a little bit on both sides. i think sean spicer's becoming more confident in the role of white house press secretary. i think the reporters, while certainly asking a lot of aggressive questions or not, are not harassing him in the way of some of the earlier sessions. what really struck me, here we have a day in which the president goes to the african-a

i want to bring in mercedes schlapp. oint, the republicans have to end the division because they're divided on obamacare replacement and reform and they're divided on tax cuts. we have to end it this week becae if the republins don't come up with solid plans to get them through congress, got to have the plans this week i think they're toast. >> that's right. by staying divided the republicans risk huge political consequences coming into 2018. they recognize their political capital right now is high. they have an ability to deliver. i know that it is an aggressive legislative agenda they're pushing forward but look, they repealed obamacare over 50 times in the house. they know that it has to, they have to move together as a united front to he repeal and replace obamacare, and i know that it is going to take the congressional leadership to push along these members. they can not afford in the house to lose more than 22 republicans. they can not afford in the senate to lose two republicans. stuart: "the wall street journal" h

you may recognize her intervaoeer mercedes schlapp. lot of expectation ahead of the president's speech tomorrow and a lot of speculation about how he will be received by the crowd. he was there in 2015 to convince them he was running for president. 2016 didn't show up. didn't do so well in straw polls but he has done a lot of things that would make conservatives happy with his quick action on a number of fronts. some others still to work on. we'll see how he is received tomorrow. we'll cover it live when it happens on friday. >> bill: reince priebus on the stage as well. secretary of state rex tillerson meeting with mexico's president later today. he and john kelly already getting a chilly reception from mexican leaders. here is the quote now. on screen. coming up. mexico's foreign minister. we'll meet with secretary tillerson later today. we don't have to accept provision that one government aoun -- wants to impose on another. nigel, good morning to you. you've got experience in these international matters. how do you think it will go

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joining me to talk about it jon hilsenrath is with us, republican strategist fox news contributor mercedes schlapp>> good morning. maria: you have been at cpac in the last couple of days and you have been watching tax reform. jon: a lot of business executives in town. maria: you have the business council and ceo's at the white house yesterday. jon: very hospital -- optimistic. they are counting on tax and regulatory reform to get the economy going. maria: expectation has gone all the way up here, guy, he has talked about roll back of regulation and we are all expecting it now. >> yeah, he made moves earlier with executive order, all right, we are going to follow through, the devil is in the details on capitol hill right mind you because there's disagreements, mercedes, you talked about disagreement among republicans and the se sequencing of everythi, obamacare first, tax reform first, that's a wait and see. mari i don't tnk he gets the votes for the border adjustment tax, maybe it's called something end and being -- there are several senators who said i'm not going to vote it. >> it's dead upon ar

matt and mercedes schlapp, taking the podium.y will be introducing the president who is due to speak in just a couple minutes time. the audience stand up, applauds. >> did you all show up for us? ashley: did you all show up for us. stuart: mercedes was on the show monday morning. she was on the show very recently. they're having a bit of fun at the expense -- yes, they have five children by the way? let's listen in for a second. >> first year, ronald reagan in 1981! [cheers and applause] >> wait. okay. so that means the 1980s, i'm pretty sure they didn't have twitter back then. but, just like the 1980s -- stuart: momentarily they will introduce the president, who has arrived in the building i believe. at this moment the dow jones average is down 60 odd points. when the president starts to speak we'll mark it down. where is the dow industrials. where are the dow industrials when the president begins his presentation. if he has any mention of the border tax, one way or the other, that would move the market. if he has any mention of

stuart: a republican conservative, mercedes schlapp is with us.e've had speaks of what i'll call democratic hysteria. i think it's peaking and this hysteria is becoming counterproductive and democrats are turning around, waiment wait a minute. have we gone too far? >> some democrats are saying we've gone too far. when you look at the case of jim webb. this former senator was a moderate democrat never a liberal the liberal part is taking over. when you look at who is running for the dnc championship. you're talking liberal congressman like congressman ellison. and i find that they lack the ability to connect with part of their core constituency, which was the working class, the white working class, where donald trump has effectively been able to turn those voters in his favor away from the democrat party. why? because the democrats are focused on identity politics. it's about what color you are, what sexual orientation, and it becomes, yes, very counterproductive. stuart: ray buckley, a democrat from new hampshire, i'm not sure whether he's involve

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>> ladies and gentlemen, please mercedes o the stage, schlapp, and matt schlapp. [applause] matt schlapp: did you all show up for us? >> mrs. schlapp: hello mr. deplorable. att schlapp: hello mrs. irredeemable. >> last time a president came to the first year, ronald 1981.n in applause] 1980s.y, that means the i'm pretty sure they didn't have twitter back then. like the 1980s, we're in a critical moment for our nation. we have with us an amazing the voiceo has become of the forgotten men and women of this country. [applause] mrs. schlapp: ladies and entlemen, you are no longer forgotten. [applause] i'm chlapp: you know what learning, is how good it feels our ve somebody lead fight.y who knows how to fighting for you. and the other thing i've learned, especially over the course of the last couple fight hethat when he fights for us unites us. [applause] mr. schlapp: you know something else, mr. president, as you fight, all of us here will continue to have your back. mr. schlapp: do you know what comes next here? to introduce the 2017, our president, donald trump. [ap

mercedes and matt schlapp on stage now. given a preview just yesterday on behalf of sean spicer at the white house when he stressed safety and security will be a priority in the president's speech today. as we await rich lowry is with me now. editor of the national news. rich, good morning to you. there was a time when a lot of people thought donald trump should not even be afforded the opportunity to be inside this room. wow how things have changed. >> you have to take a step back and just appreciate what an amazing turn about this was as you alluded to, trump has spoken at cpac before but he did it basically as a side show, a highly controversial figure and now he owns the place, which is what happens when you successfully vanquish hillary clinton and presidential election and become president of the united states. >> bill: it was a remarkable thing yesterday steve bannon and reince priebus on stage together. for bannon it was a rare public appearance. their interview together was dissected by the media and has been for t

first of all i want to thank matt schlapp and his incredible wife and boss mercedes who have been fantasticds and supporters. and so great when i watch them on television defending me, nobody has a chance. i want to thank matt and mercedes. [applause] pres. trump: and when matt called and asked, i said, absolutely. i will be there with you. the real reason i said that, i didn't want him to go against me. because of that one, you cannot beat. i said absolutely, and it really is an honor to be here. i wouldn't miss a chance to talk to my friends. these are my friends. [cheering] [applause] pres. trump: and we will see you again next year and the year after that. i will be doing this with cpac whenever i can and i will make sure we are here a lot. if you remember, my first major speech. sit down, everybody come on. the dishonest media will say, he didn't get a standing ovation. you know why? because everyone stood and nobody sat. they will say he never got a standing ovation. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> usa. usa. usa. pres. trump: so, sit down. donald trump did not get a standing ovati

first of all, i want to thank schlapp and his very, very incredible life, and boss, mercedes.ho have been fantastic friends and supporters, and so great when i watch them on television defending me. nobody has a chance. i want to thank mat adversities. -- matt and mercedes. ,nd when matt called and asked absolutely i will be there with you. i didn't want him to go against me, because not one you can't beat -- that when you can't beat. it really is an honor to be here. i wouldn't miss a chance to talk to my friends. these are my friends. [applause] president trump: and we will see you again next year and the year after that. i will be doing this with cpac whenever i can and i will make sure that we are here a lot. if you remember my first major speech -- sit down, everybody. come on. [laughter] president trump: you know the dishonest media, they will say "he didn't get a standing ovation." you know why? because everybody stood and nobody sat. they will say he never got a standing ovation. [applause] president trump: they are the worst. president trump: so -- sit down. [laughter

first of all, i want to thank matt schlapp and his very, very incredible wife and boss, mercedes, whoave been fantastic friends and supporters, and so great, when i watched them on television defending me, nobody has a chance. i want to thank matt and mercedes. [ applause ] and when matt called and asked, i said, absolutely, i'll be there with you. i mean, the real reason i said it, i didn't want him to go against me, because that one you can't beat. so i said absolutely. and it really is an honor to be here. i wouldn't miss a chance to talk to my friends. these are my friends. [ cheers and applause ] and we'll see you again next year, and the year after that. i'll be doing this, i'll be doing this with cpac whenever i can and i'll make sure that we're here a lot. you know, if you remember my first major speech -- sit down, everybody, come on. you know, the dishonest media, they'll say he didn't get a standing ovation. you know why? you know why? because everybody stood and nobody sat. so they will say, he never got a standing ovation, right? [ cheers and applause ] [ crowd chanting "

first of all, i want to thank matt schlapp and his very, very incredible wife and boss, mercedes, who have been fantastic friends and supporters and so great when i watch them on television defending me, nobody has a chance. so i want to thank matt and mercedes. [ applause ] when matt called and asked, i said absolutely i'll be there with you. the real reason i said it, i didn't want him to go against me so i said absolutely. and it really is an honor to be here. i wouldn't miss a chance to talk to my friends. these are my friends. and we'll see you again next year and the year after that. and i'll be doing this with cpac whenever i can and i'll make sure that we're here a lot. if you remember, my first major speech -- sit down, everybody, come on. you know, the dishonest media, they'll say he didn't get a standing ovation. you know why? no, you know why? because everybody stood and nobody sat. so they'll say he never got a standing ovation, right? they are the worst. [ crowd wanting "usa" ] >> so sit down. donald trump did not get a standing ovation. they leave out the par they never

schlapp is a fox news contributor. great to see you both today. i want to start with you, mercedes.he right hated it when obama blamed everything on george w. bush. where is the cut-off? >> for president obama it was all eight years. i think he spent a lot of time blaming president bush on a economy. any time he would bring up an issue. for donald trump i think it's right for him to speak up and say look, we're looking at an economic growth that's disappointing under president obama you see the gdp growth at 2.1%. that great in historical standards and when you look at the issue on obamacare where you've seen so many failures, the skyrocketing premiums or insurance companies pulling out of supporting obamacare, i think it becomes very problematic. that doesn't include the foreign policy issue which, as we know, we've seen a vacuum of u.s. leadership on the world stage and when you look at the fact that russia is -- there has been the rise of russia in the middle east, the fact that he is making a lot of these calls in areas like syria and iran, it is very worrisome. i think for pres

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please mercedes o the stage, schlapp, and matt schlapp. [applause]