mollie hemingway? >> this breaks my strategy. you don't know the answer. i will go with claire. >> tucker: is a clear? >> the number of employees walking into the curved glass wall hasso gotten so bad, emergency services had to be called. workers are saying, we will put sticky notes on some of these glass walls and doors so people don't walk into them. apparently, reportedly, their process took the sticky notes off because it ruined the design, and the look of the building. >> tucker: to >> they are like birds. >> tucker: they run right into it. for the first term on the 35 year history of the show, however long it's been, we have a tie of negative 1. >> i want to see how low we can go. [laughter] >> tucker: all of your fears are true. question three, after a 20 yearn drought, which women's olympic team brought home the gold today after a close match against canada? can't buzz early. bret, you get to answer first because mollie hemingway buzzed early. >> u.s. women's hockey team. >> tucker: u.s. women's hockey team against canada

howie: joining us is rachael bade, mollie hemingway and jessica tarlov. the look is a little different. but mollie, fox news and got the memo first and this fueled criticism. >> the federalist did not get an advanced copy. we found it through the old practice of reporting. sometimes you can get things without them being leaked to you which is something i wish more people would have understood. howie: if a democratic committee chairman had written a memo and it appears on msnbc before anyone else. republicans would be crying foul. rachael, you were at the republican retreat, the greenbrier. how much were the media focused on this memo? rachel: they were obsessed with it. they were supposed to be talking about tax reform, 7 out of 9 questions were about this memo. one of the questions was speaker paul ryan, do you think devin nunes should step aside for the way he handled it. he said no, but tax cuts are working. the transition was hilarious. howie: the pre-game hype was almost at super bowl levels. what jumped out at me, christopher steele it was said in th

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joining me, senior editor at the federalist, mollie hemingway. in very called this tax bill unpatriotic. democrats are trying to frame the discussion in a different light. because they would like to piggyback on the success the tax cuts might provide while offering better solutions for middle class earners. mollie: democrats had a plan to fight the tax bill by saying that the bill was insignificant. and people didn't support the plan until they saw the increases in their weekly and monthly paychecks that can lead up to thousands of dollars a year. all of a sudden this tax reform package is quite popular. democrats claimed it wouldn't do much and people are seeing with their even eyes that it is. disparaging these dollar amounts is no big deal is politically unwise. but she was saying this is unpatriotic because it creates problems for future generations. there is a problem in congress, and it's not with tax cuts but spending bills passing on to future generations unstable situation. i don't believe she thinks this because she didn't say a word un

contributor, "washington examiner" reporter byron york, and senior editor at the federalist, mollie hemingway all the facts out of carter page because he just doesn't speak on that directly. but that point where he said, i have talked about this extensively with both houses of congress, which is true. if you read the interview he had with the house intelligence committee, it's just on and on and on. i thought the most telling part of your questioning is touting himself as an advisor to the kremlin. why would you do that. i think most people theorize, we are just theorizing, he was trying to make himself more like an insider than he was. >> laura: that never happens in washington or new york where people inflate the resumes. mollie molly? >> he was based in russia for a long time? he does have context in russia. it's actually not a crime to have these things. just seeing him talk about these things, it's very interesting. a man who has all the power of the federal government going up against him, surveilling him. it is very much affected his life, his business relationships. i think it's time

. >> molly hemingway joins me now, and wendy ostepo. thanks for being he here.ne of the more difficult conversations around this is the suggestion that some of the students' grief has beenko opted by groups who wanted to use this horrific situation to push their own thinking about guns. molly, what do you think of that? >> yeah, there's been unfortunate media handling of these traumatized children. they've used them as ways to enact what they always like to do, a gun control agenda. these children aren't forcing their ways on to cnn, town halls, or covers of magazines. media is choosing them to put there, to shut down debate and keep people from having a conversation about gun control. it's a type of thing that you don't see extended to all victims of gun violence. when a baseball team was gunned down, they weren't given the moral authority to weigh in for all people about what gun control should be. that's what it should be. civilized people should have debates where people weigh the pros and cons of gun control against our constitutional right as explained in

mara liasson, national political correspondent at national public radio and mollie hemingway, seniorthe federalist." interesting development in that there was someone there armed but did not act. >> there was a good guy with the gun outside and there was a bad guy with a gun inside. it doesn't always work out that if a good guy with a gun is they are he's going to save everybody. he didn't in this case. >> bret: what about the presidents bush? tweeting this morning saying "i will strongly be pushing copperheads of background checks with an emphasis on mental health, raise aged 21, end sale of bump stocks. congress is in a mood to do something. he goes on and on about specifics. says that the nra are good people but there is no indication from the nra or congress that they are ready to go. >> it depends on which provision. the nra has shown flexibility on bump stocks. the idea that you would live meant gun purchasing to people who are 21 years of age is going to be a very difficult sell to a whole swath of people. >> bret: it is that for handguns. >> a lot of what people think they kn

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist"., where are we on this and where it stands? scenes the story has now, some of it gone to is the memo going to be everything we think it's going to be? >> i don't know if it possibly can be. so much has been made of it. i think there will be significant new information in it. what we learn about the behavior of certain law enforcement senior federal law enforcement officials will be traveling to people. is it enough to change the debate in washington about trump and russia and the fbi and all that? i don't think it probably is but i think we will learn at noon n new information. it would be nice to understand what the claims and counterclaims are. >> bret: here is >> ryan. >> they would love nothing more than to play politics. devin nunes helped shepherd a reauthorization of 702. he is focusing on keeping the country safe, focused on national security. what they are trying to do is sidetrack us. >> that was interesting today because he went on to say let me tell you what this memo is an

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" and former maryland democratic congresswoman donnat saying it's infrastructure week. does it go the distance? >> no, i don't take it does. we've had infrastructure weeks before, haven't had much success. part of it is the way the president has chosen to talk about infrastructure in the past. rather than emphasizing deregulation and getting rid of permits, which they are doing more. they have talked about necessary stimulus and the spending aspects. that's not going to appeal to republicans in the house and i don't think it ought to. this is going to be a tough sell for the president on the infrastructure package alone. i can't imagine it goes anywhere. >> bret: molly. >> the typical ways that we hand out money to corporations. in the stimulus bill, it was a lot of shovel ready products but didn't do a lot to change the infrastructure. a policy analyst has done good work on how to do smart infrastructure spending. he talks about coming up with projects that help regional or national interests and can enable private wealth generation as

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist."z, national political correspondent at "the washington post." congress saying they are going to put a legislative packaging. when you hear the president talking about the nra and you shouldn't be worried about it, do you think there's a chance something might come together? >> i think it's still going to be difficult. i think they are still miles apart on some of the issues. i think it will be partly determined by how much people try to do. if they can go leaner and simpler, maybe they can do something on background checks but beyond that, i don't know what they are going to be able to do. these standoffs have existed for a long time. the nra has been very successful in blocking efforts in the past after other shootings. i think a lot about what to do with what role the president chooses to plan how effective he is. >> bret: apparently had lunch at the white house with some nra leadership, including wayne lapierre and others. mollie. >> it's interesting we are even talking about gun co

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist."ve republicans saying something needs to change. we need to do something in the wake of this. we heard similar language after the las vegas shooting in which republicans seem to support the idea of banning bomb stocks. arming getting close to critical mass, that something will happen? or will be talked about and like we have seen they will fade away. >> history suggests there will be a moment here like there was with bomb stocks and then it will go away. that said, i think this really does feel like there is a different current in the water. i think we see evidence president trump feels there is something different about this time too. the main difference to me i think is the kids. it is really hard to look away and really hard to ignore 17, 18-year-olds blaming adults, blaming the president, blaming the political system, blaming both parties for not doing enough. if that level of action and political engagement continues, it's going to be hard for everyone to look away. >> john: tom,

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." welcome to all of you.ere's a lot of money for defense, domestic money. what is it doing to the budget deficit in the long term? makes the budget figure and the deficit bigger. no doubt about that. what it shows is a lot of lawmakers don't want another government shutdown and they are tired from staggering from one continuing resolution to another. the government is going to shutdown in three weeks and then to accept it out of that again. there's no way to do it. republicans have been wanting to get more money for defense. they are going to get a lot more money for defense. democrats have been wanting more money for domestic spending. they are going to get back. and the budget hawks are going to get mad. they will stage protest votes. and then everybody will make a deal. >> shannon: a.b., this is something republicans have talked about for decades. they don't like government took up big government and spending lots of money. >> i like the parties coming together. where this ends up that we have no idea. the

your attention to broad sites publishly on numerous topics, including one by our good friend, molly hemingway on trump and the media, roger, please state us out. >> there's been no term that populism. it's a word in search of a definition. for many people, populism is like the term fascism. the redder to cal weapon whose very lack of semantic presomethings -- precision is part of its attraction because anything you don't like can be effectively impugn evidence you can deemploy the p ford or the p word and get it to stick. what does populism mean? 99 times another of 100 it meanly little more than i don't like this person or policy. notice the term racism, has a similar, all-purpose, content free aura of -- save that for another day. thinking about the term populism reminds us of the curious fact that certain words accumulate a nimbus of positive associations while others sell man tick -- semantically inknock cause have a portfolio of bad feeling. so, for example, consider two very different careers of the terms, democracy on the one hand and populism on the other hand. democracy is a word tha

look at mollie hemingway at the federalist with the details of the moment by moment report by report, fact by fact about how this has unfolded and how the clinton team and clinton machine has been involved from the beginning. people expect rhetoric and certain kinds of spin. now the difference now these days is that there is a variety of information media outlet where the democrats and liberals are the establishment in general, including some of the republicans don't control all of the information come out. people are not just reliant on sources from television. amazing amount of details like that letter to susan rice. we have seen it we have actually seen the letter. that is something maybe 10 years ago the measure people wouldn't even see. so we are seeing at the very basic dynamic at least some kind of shenanigans funny business leading up to this. >> and how is by the book shenanigans? >> committees and that this investigation will make a difference. >> martha: felipe, the reason that by the book, i guess, is getting attention was in quotes. they are wondering why she wrote it on

here now, mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," and a professor and political commentatorh of you this evening. those are the three choices, tt you get if you enroll in that class. >> not surprising. i'm wonder for these college students, is it really worth going into debt over, is this the type of thing that will prepare you to go into the real world? we have problems with kids not being able to get jobs out of college and this is what you're seeing. you have this replacing of learning naked politics. adults used to spend college time teaching students what they need to know to become good members of society, now it seems they're pandering to whatever kids are goofing off about, televisions series, video games, whatever it is that is happening. >> martha: wendy, what do you think? >> as a professor, our job is not just to educate students about what is they want to learn but also what may pique their curiosity. educators, there have been courses through history that talk about presidents and talk about things that are intrinsically woven with the presidency. during obama'

mollie hemingway is senior editor at "the federalist" and she has looked deeply into this.oining us.et i guess the central question, and ed had a quick take on it, after the nunes memo, was thezz steele dossier, the buzzfeed document that is mostly unproven, why is that the basisu for these fisa court requests? >> a year ago, if you said you were worried that this buzzfeed dossier can mother russia salacious document might have been used to secure a wiretap, you might have sounded crazy. now we have multiple and just>> this latest one is a democratic memo that confirms in fact this dossier was used to secure a wiretap against ao trump campain affiliate. a big story.ca >> tucker: this b-17 memo, the one that was going to blow up the nunes memo, confirms that it was used to get the wiretap? they admit it was used, a narrow use, and then the bulk of their own memo shows that it was a huge portion, that the claim that carter page went to moscow to meet with secret russians, that was a key part of the application to secure this wiretap. >> tucker: does the new memo knocked on an

mollie hemingway editor at the federalist and guy benson political editor at town hall.com. march democratic strategist joining us this evening as well. first crack at this as you take a look at it, molly, what does it tell you? >> well, the story is very oddly written. so i think we is a lot more to learn about it that point you just made about how they got duped and felt like they were just being used by russians who wanted to sow chaos. that's what this story has been all along clinton come up with crazy russian conspiracy theory to undermine the campaign and presidency and it was all fed by russians. you know this dossier was forced to inside the kremlin operatives. people knew this guy was creating this dossier. it allowed russians to kind of play around with the guy who was doing it and this entire operation has not been good for the country but we don't have even at this late date confirmation of this dossier. and here we have someone who was willing to be paid to hand over proof of it and he still didn't have the goods. >> martha: it's weird though because, guy, the

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. >> tucker: mollie hemingway senior editor at the federalist and looked deeply into.mos getting confusing. central question and ed had a quick take on it was after the nunes memo was the steele dodd yea, the buzzfeed document mostly unproved even now was that the basis for fisa court requests for surveillance. >> it's funny if a year ago you said you were worried buzzfeed doze dossier might have been used to secure a wiretap against a american citizen you might have sounded crazy. >> tucker: true. >> now why have this democratic memo that confirms in fact this does quay was used to secure a wiretap against a trump campaign affiliate. big story. >> tucker: schiff memo, the one that was going to blow up the nunes memo and make us realize trump was a russian agent confirms the steele dossier was used to get the wiretap. >> the way democrats say they admit it was used narrow use but the actual bulk of their own mommy shows this was a huge portion. the claim carter page went to moscow to meet secretly with russians that was a key part of the application to secure this wire

molly hemingway is here. >> what paul ryan tweeted out a link to article.a paycheck and went down to only a woman getting buck 50 increase. she was elated. i can purchase a costco membership a lot of people in d.c. think that is nothing. they make so much money that they think being able to afford a costco membership only something unwashed masses would be happy about. but i think stars being out of touch, making fun of people who are excited to get more money in their paycheck is what is really out of touch. steve: when nancy pelosi was talking about crumbs it adds up to thousands of dollars to some families. ultimately to the horror of the democrats because they are, they were on the wrong side of this, 90% of american families will get more money in their pocket, which come next november i'm going to think they think that is a good thing? >> here is another thing, a lot of people in the media bought democratic talking points that paul ryan made a huge error by tweeting this out. but for the last month republicans have been making fun of nancy pelosi for