joe trippi, ellison barber, mollie hemingway. thank you.it involving the murder of a young dnc staffer. howie: katrina pierson, former trump campaign spokes fern now with america first policies. the media going haywire over the news that robert mueller convened a grand jury. katrina: i think it's overplayed. but anything involving the president and his administration is overplayed. this has nothing to do with russia, which is what i have been saying for a long time. howie: how do you know that? katrina: there has been no evidence found. collusion is not a crime. so what are we looking for here? howie: why does russia call russia a fabricated story when his own deputy attorney general rob rosenstein decide to investigate this matter. peer report left lost the election. they claim their server was hacked and leaked to wikileaks. we have not seen the server. there is no evidence that this actually happened. but this an investigation based upon an allegation from the losing team. howie: a number of anchors and correspondents raised questions in

mollie hemingway and jessica tarlov. just a tsunami of media criticism for denouncing violence on many side but not naming the group that carried out these attacks that drove the car into the crowd. mollie: the media are focusing on this horribly tragic story that led to the death of a woman run over by a car who appears to be a white nationalist. but you see the media try to push and hype this rally. this is a nationwide rally and they were able to gather just a couple hundred people. you give it wall-to-wall coverage and marginalize this group or other people would say they want that kind of coverage. they want to provoke conflict and maybe the media shouldn't be playing into that quite so much. howie: by making donald trump the focus of this protest he had nothing to do with, aren't some critics in the media also being divisive? jessica: i think the media does play a divisive role in what's going on in today's society. but he spent years criticizing barack obama for not saying radical islamic terrorism. we know why bar

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ben shapiro, mollie hemingway and jehmu greene will talk about the president and all of that that itntails. also the president did speak today about his strategist, steve bannon. >> i like mr. bannon. he's a friend of mine. but, mr. bannon came on very late. you know that. i went through 17 senators, governors, and i won all the primaries. mr. bannon came on very much later than that. >> martha: what is the meaning in that statement today from the president? the man who helped him win the white house in part be the in connection with to go? we will get to that ahead. but we want to start tonight with another important update on a story that was dominant in recent days. and the story was that the president may have taken a brink of war with north korea. so days later kim jong un appears to have backed down. and, yet today at that news conference that you just saw it was not one question about that. trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom tonight with the breaking details. trace? >> martha, for the time being, it appears kim jong un has backed away from launching missiles and i

lou: joining me now, mollie hemingway and charlie hurt. let's begin with ditch mitch, mollie.ok off last year was because republican voters were fed up to republican leadership. the fact that donald trump continues to rail against mitch mcconnell. fewer than 4 in 10 republican voters are happy with their leadership. lou: mitch mcconnell saying the president's expectations are too high. why not do the hon year yoobl thing -- honorable thing and move on. you have been there for 30-some years. charlie: you campaigned on it for 7 years. lou: mitch mcconnell and john cornyn are walk up at a crawl on camera. they can barely move, for god's sake. charlie: is this an excessive expectation of voters or the president to have of congress, then why did necessity campaign on it. they should have said we'll never repeal obamacare, but we'll do some little thing around the edges. lou: mitch mcconnell put forth the agenda of the dates of deliverance it was their deliver anls, not the president's. general john kelly talking to the staff of the white house saying here are your priorities. count

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mollie hemingway and jessica tarlov. just a tsunami of media criticism for denouncing violence on many side but not naming the group that carried out these attacks that drove the car into the crowd. mollie: the media are focusing on this horribly tragic story that led to the death of a woman run over by a car who appears to be a white nationalist. but you see the media try to push and hype this rally. this is a nationwide rally and they were able to gather just a couple hundred people. you give it wall-to-wall coverage and marginalize this group or other people would say they want that kind of coverage. they want to provoke conflict and maybe the media shouldn't be playing into that quite so much. howie: by making donald trump the focus of this protest he had nothing to do with, aren't some critics in the media also being divisive? jessica: i think the media does play a divisive role in what's going on in today's society. but he spent years criticizing barack obama for not saying radical islamic terrorism. we know why bar

joining me to discuss is mollie hemingway and mark simone. mollie.n interesting question. will there be a communications chief? there may not just be one after anthony scaramucci. >> i think there has to be one. even though this administration has shown it's willing to do things differently from previous administrations. getting the right person will be a challenge. you need someone who understands how things work well enough to be part of the establishment and understanding that this president communicates differently. he will never change in the way he communicates. this is something his voters consider a feature, not a bug. david: still on the payroll is mr. spicer, sean. >> it was just 10 days ago he stepped down. i don't know if he's officially still on the payroll. but in retrospect people are realizing he had a challenging position and he handled it well. but he might have had enough in that six-month period. but he might be able to help figure out the transition. david: let's talk about general kelly. will he have the discipline to organize t

mollie hemingway and ned ryun. good to see you both.ying the blame game when something happens like what happened in charlottesville, virginia. but the "wall street journal" had a terrific editorial talking about things that led us to what happened in charlottesville. it's called the poison of identity politics. this means allocating political power, contracts, jobs, and now even salaries in the private sector based on the politics of skin color and gender rather than merit or performance. a politics fixated on indelible differences will inevitably lead to resentments that extremists can exploit in ugly ways on the right and left. ned >> we should be looking for common ground because at the end of the day we are all americans. what is frustrating me, but i'm not shocked at the total hypocrisy. we should reject white supremacists and the kkk and the alt-right, but we should also be rejecting black lives matter. david: governor mcauliffe did not focus on the violence coming from the left of the political spectrum yet he received no critic

joining me is mollie hemingway and mark simone.to see an attempt to pin the charge racism on anybody who is pro trump or republican. i think the media feels like they got the attention of people because that's about all you see on the news. mollie: i wouldn't say we are beginning to see this, i would say it's what we have seen from the media going back decade, and it explains trump's reaction to the attempts to paint all republicans racists. but when you call everyone a nazi or hitler it starts to lose its punch. going back to reagan and george w. bush and enmity romney it was disappointing to see myth romney play into this when he claimed there were only problems with kkk and white nationalists and people fighting them are pure of heart. that was the type of game democrat typically play. david: tens of millions of people who say this is the base of donald trump. it's racist and i didn't know the nazi party was 30 million to 40 million strong. the implications are so ridiculous, you can't take it serious. >> racist is what a libera

tomorrow on the show, chris stirewalt, mollie hemingway and dave smith. night. beholder. so meet the beholders. >> these paintings just did not appeal to me. and i don't think they appealed to my wife, either. >> i said, well, i guess the salvation army is as good as anyplace. we don't want them. >> but one man's trash... >> it just knocked my socks off. >> we have $50,000. >> within a few weeks, everybody knew about it. >> ...is another's treasure. >> did you ever consider stopping? >> there is a point we all have to stop. but no.

. >> bret: mollie hemingway, a.b. stoddard, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. she is joking of course but ten days ago anthony scaramucci was going to be and announced as the new white house communications director. ten days later, he's gone. >> what a ten days. unbelievable interview he gave where he was so vulgar and had such inappropriate things to say. this was ten days that felt intense. having said that, i think these changes we are seeing might make it true that there is no chaos now, meaning getting rid of scaramucci should help tamp things down. we need c with reince priebus' departure. he was supposed to help with the legislative agenda, best friends with paul ryan, you couldn't get a more establishment republican person. things didn't go so well. trump wants to change direction and you can hope things will go better with someone who is more to his liking. >> bret: this suggests general kelly has power, that he has some power from the president himself. >> absolutely. i think everyone was surprised. it was clear kelly was in charg charge. kelly report

in washington, david catanese, mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," and here in chicago, brunell donald and a proud chicago resident. mollie, your thoughts. what that potentially means. >> the reason why donald trump had any chance during his candidacy was a widespread republican frustration with leadership. i'm not sure if it's entirely surprising to see trump continue to embody that frustration people have. mcdonald's will be paul trump had unrealistic expectations at how much could be done in terms of repealing obamacare. that's the responsibility of men like mitch mcconnell who, for seven years, promised republican voters if you gave them a republican president that they would repeal this legislation. i think this is something a lot of people are feeling frustration with and they would like to see congress getting stuff done. >> bret: david. >> trump is mostly right on this. this and i did have a lot of time to get their act in order and they couldn't get it done mainly because they didn't think they'd be in this position. they didn't think president trump would be p

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> having a targeted, skilled, coherent immigration policy should not be controversial. the change that deals with merit-based allocation of spots is wise. the only thing that's controversial is decreasing the number of people allowed entry into the country. there are two main problems. with our legal immigration system. not focused on skills enough and the portion that does focus on skills is poorly designed. 30% of people coming into the country have anything to do with an economic case. half of those are merit-based. 6.5% or something. having an immigration system that matches more with what canada or australia does, it's long overdue. >> bret: new green card recipients, you look at, no stats for 2016 yet. 2015, about 1,051,000 new green card recipients. you look at how many green card holders are here in the u.s., this goes back to 2014, 13,200,000. charles, big issue and won the white house thinks they can have a win on. >> long overdue.

steve hayes, mollie hemingway, mo elleithee, and charles krauthammer. good evening. steve, would you like to begin? >> the president's silence over the first two days of the controversy said more than his words earlier today. whenever you have white supremacists and neo-nazis holding hate rallies that lead to violence and eventually committing acts of domestic terrorism, you denounce them partially. you denounce them specifically and then you do it again and again and again and then you do it one more time for good measure. that's what presidential leadership would have looked like and we didn't have it. you had it for many members of the senate, republicans and democrats. tom cotton called out white supremacists specifically. said what they were preaching was an anathema to the united states. the problem for president trump beyond this missed opportunity and great moral failure is that we know what it looks like when donald trump wants to call somebody out. we know what it looks like when he wants to condemn somebody. he's done it for journalists. he's done it to hi

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mollie hemingway editor and -- good evening to all three of you. molly start.house handling this as of today? >> it seems like every trump story of the past couple of years fits a similar pattern which is trump says something that is in part incendiary or outrageous or even outright false but also coupled with that is very true that many people in the establishment aren't willing to say. and then there is a reaction to what he says that focuses on what the media, usually feel is false or problematic in some other way, and they focus on that to the exclusion of the larger conversation and trump fans focused only on what they like about what he said that was true. they decline to talk about the problematic aspects of it. this conversation is not very fruitful right now from either the trump white house or the establishment response to it. and just to take an example, mitt romney had a tweet last night where he said that something to the effect of these white nationalists are just completely evil. but the people fighting them are all pure of heart. i don't remembe

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." >> president trump sounded like he couldn't waitget to election day buddies got a long with gone tax reform forgets to blaming claire mccaskill. tax reform is an opportunity for republicans to get all back on the same page with the president. but i think the big question, the nutshell isn't necessarily work congresses. the president is going to have to get his republicans together. the treasury secretary said this is going to be passed by august. and it hasn't been paid for members of congress and tax-writing committee members have different ideas than the president about the rates, the corporate rates. he's got a long way to go. there are a lot of details. tax reform at something, released tax cuts something republicans should be able to unite around. >> bret: frankly, they need a w. >> they do. the economy is something that has gone well for donald trump already. it's something his treasury secretary said is his number one priority. 3%, 4%. in order to make that happen, you need to see some reform of corporate tax rates. we've not

mollie hemingway federalist and a.b.ciate editor at real clear politics. >> federal law could not be more clear. state and local governments do not have the right to deviate from federal law when it comes to immigration policy. they have to share information. and unlike so many things where the federal government is kind of overbroad and overreaching, immigration is one of those things that is specifically stipulated in the constitution as something that is handled by our federal government. so, this is something that will be a tough case to -- for chicago to make. >> bret: the mayor, some of the people who stood beside him in this press conference over the weekend, said it's just not right. take a listen. >> the bern grants are for technology from everything for vehicles to radios, to tasers that help strengthen the professionalization of our police department and create a proactive environment. but they also help build trust. we will not compromise the rights, safety, our break the sacred trust of the people that live

marie harf and molly hemingway. the ethics complaint digs into why this guy barred from accessing the house i.t. system for months was still on the payroll. the congresswoman's office said they had him help with printers and websites and kept paying him. does it pass the sniff test? >> it sounds bizarre to me. i'm willing to criticize democrats even though it's my party. we should get some answers here. what is interesting to me is these conservative watchdog groups are focused on relitigating investigating hillary clinton and deber wasserman schultz and they're focused on relitigating the players here and focused on other things. let's get to the bottom of this and get answers. >> shannon: this is a very 2017 situation here that we have, molly. let's tell folks about what we know about this i.t. staffer. he faces one count of bank fraud where he got a loan on a rental property and wired the money to pakistan is the allegations. worked for a couple of dozen house democrats. double charged the house for i.t. equipmen

for more on this, joined by former dnc staffer and mollie hemingway, editor for the federalist and aibutor. good morning to you both. espn says it's a shame that this is even a topic of conversation. we regret that it's become an issue. who made an issue? >> the statement from espn are not helping them. this is a story that's almost hard to believe it's real. i didn't believe it was real when i heard it. >> shannon: nor did i. >> saying they don't like it's becoming a situation, they're the ones who made it a situation. it is sort of the logical dead end of the cultural revolution that we are in right now that begins with toppling statues, goes after markers, and now apparently short of staring at similarity with a name is enough to get you pulled from a broadcast. >> shannon: i don't know your reaction. it felt very the onion to be when i read it. i thought i was getting pumped like we are getting let along here until i saw the official statement from espn. do you think that anyone watching or listening to this uva game, cannot wait for college football, would've said that announcer