i'm so excited to be here with my friends, molly hemingway, and andrew claichb who i don't think need need an introduction. two of the smartest writers. we have so many wonderful writers blessed with having among us during these two days, but on culture, you two are some of the best, so thank you so much for being here. and one thing i found when i'm traveling is people keep saying to me and these are people who may or may not have voted for donald trump depending on what state they live in, in some cases, but the key thing, especially from in the middle of the country or not on the coast, the northeast especially, people will say things like, donald trump is president. and they don't say it, again, to dismiss him or anything, but it's coming from this place, like, he used to be the host of "celebrity apprentice," you know? how does that happen? what does that mean? it's a question. it's not a dismissal. it's not a criticism. and so, how are you processing that when people expect you to have the answer to that question? how does it happen and what does it mean about us and are there l

>> martha: trays, thank you molly hemingway, senior editor at the federalists.ntributor, all going to have to review with us to evaluate the week. it is fascinating when you look back at the statements and in many ways, you can play this game with every president. the game changes once you get in the white house. but what do you make of the action that president trump is taking versus the words, in many cases, that president obama laid down. >> look. you are 100% right. which is when a politician does this, it is moving in your direction, you say he's growing in office or maturing. if he's moving away from your direction, you say he's a flip-flop or who cannot be trusted. this is the reality of political life. because they all do it! because politicians will stay a lot of stuff to get elected. and we will them for that but we will praise them for this. when you get in office, you get new streams of information, new inflows where you will say, okay, we can't invade syria and win the war. nobody wins the war in syria. nobody wins afghanistan for there is nothing t

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i spoke with mollie hemingway from new york. you had a great couple on this.alk about the tone and intensity of this recycled comment from mike pence. >> you had the national post saying mike pence's evangel ask cal refusal to eat with ladies is the trip culture. others thought it was an example of sharia. vox was wondering fit was illegal to not dine with anyone who was not your wife. howie: what does it say about the media mindset. about the vice president who with his wife is a christian conservative being taunt and ridiculed for how he refuses to conduct his marriage. >> the original story was respectful. but there is something of a disconnect with a lot of people not understanding how from digital religious believers live their life. this isn't that bizarre behavior for christians, muslims, jews. people who believe they need self-discipline to guard themselves against infidelity isn't something they would do. this is news room culture that's out of except with that mindset. you need diverse views in the newsroom so when you encounter things like this you

we'll take up the hypocrisy wit mike gallagher and mollie hemingway next.oll we asked you should the united airlines ceo be fired for the treatment of the passenger dragged off his airplane. 54% of you said yes he should be. the left-wing national media attacking sean spicer after the white house press secretary compared syria's assad and adolph hitler. no doubt a mistake and he expressed a sincere apology. but it wasn't too long ago the national left-wing media was comparing trump to hitler. a "washington post" opinion piece. that same no "newsweek" asked, just how similar is donald trump to adolph hitler. the "washington post" ran an article "trump and the slow crawl of hitler's fascism." thew "donald trump not exactly hitler! but his nazi germany comments conceal a dark parallel pattern." mike gallagher and mollie hemingway. where was the backlash around those beauties? mollie: yesterday cnn had a story saying you should never compare anyone or anything to hitler. then i saw three other articlesn cnn has run about how people were making hitler comparison

for the feds to duquette joining me the author of the article senior editor at the federalist mollie hemingwayme back mollie. >> great to be with you. kennedy: you make and x. component article. number one journalist who claim -- have done a bad job of keeping tabs on the story where the federal government was using ill-begotten information and bad means to spy on private citizens please explain. >> to be clear it's entirely possible that carter page really is a russian spy and there were something in this dossier, the infamous golden shower dossier that there might be something in that is worthwhile. we know that so much in that dossier was not worthwhile and the fbi was thinking about paying the person to continue the research. we know that they use that dossier to secure a fisa warrant among other things and spying on the u.s. is something that is not supposed to be done unless you have an extremely good reason. so i think journalists should be making sure when you violate someone's privacy and you go after them for their association for their speech that they are doing so for great -- very

mollie hemingway. editor at the federalist. and jennifer, a democratic strategist. all of you. it's been another whopper of a week. chris, let me start with you as you look at grading week 10. what hav have you got? >> well, look, it's t. is spares and strikes. a couple of gutter balls. the biggest problem is that coming off of the do feet of trump care last week or the temporary defeat of trump care last week, the urgent necessity for this the administration was to show forward progress, speak in a clear voice. and mov o test. test. that this administration is capable and that up to the task and moving forward on things that are popular and, instead, most of the week was spent fighting about devin nunes. you had at the end general mike flynn with his seemingly out of left field request for immunity. and it was all off topic and it was all on a topic that was not helpful for the administration. so, c minus. >> martha: why do you think their wheels are spinning in that way, chris? >> there was a piece and i don't want to put too much into anybody's reporting but ther

host of media buzz on fnc, molly hemingway senior editor at the federalist and richard fowler, sr., fellowil, the reason that his numbers are lower than president obama's were at this point than president bush's were at this point is that the media hits him so hard that it weighs on them. >> every president faces a learning curve and they do think that networks view this president with disdain. i have to say no president in our lifetimes has been subjected to such a relentless barrage of negative coverage in a bitterly hostile commentary and personal ridicule commits not just ideological, many journalists and some are being fair have a visceral disdain of her donald trump. i guy they said would never win. he has a different style, he is talking, tweeting, working out his positions in public, that is in contrast to the calibrated leg which of most politicians. >> i have to wonder because we did three different town halls, wanted to talk to voters and see how they are feeling now and test the support whether it was waiting or not. those are just three rooms full of people. in every case when

now he's there, mollie hemingway and matt bennett coming up on that. plus we show you how the department of homeland security has been overhauled in these first 88 days. so were going to examine how they intend to work together in the crackdown on cartels and illegal immigration coming up. and a brand-new book that everybody's buzzing about today. the untold story behind the scenes of the clinton campaign, the authors join us just ahead. >> he's taken the republican party a long way from morning in america to midnight in america. he wants us to fear the future and fear each other. liberty mutual stood with me when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ ♪ i'm dr. kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. ♪ energy lives here. your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and up go your rates. what good is having insurance if you get punished for usin

molly hemingway. what do you make of it because it takes the trust we had or other administrations had in the u, in that would brocker something that would avoid steeper conflict was wrong? >> it really was a susan rice's problem, they voluntarily removed all of chemical weapons. you had john kerry saying the same thing a couple of years ago. people in the obama administration acknowledged there was gaps and problems surveilling what the chemical situation was, clapper last february testified in front of congress that there were huge gaps in our ability to understand where their chemical weapons were and what not. susan rice should have known not to say this, trotted out to say things that are helpful to the obama administration that aren't true. most notably right after the benghazi situation where she knew it was not an organic protest in response to a video already immediately the obama administration knew that this was an organized terrorist attack and went to sunday shows to say otherwise and als

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." the media struggled over covering religion. >> the new york-based and washington-based media powerhouses don't quite get religion. we have a fabulous religion writer, but she is all alone. we don't get the role of religion in people's lives. howie: i give him credit for candor. mollie: it's something you hear editors say every few years. but you don't see the changes you would like to see so they do a better job of covering the news. a lot of the problems with coverage of religion which is one of the most important aspects for many people's lives is it's not more covered anywhere else from sports to politics. howie: particularly when you get to television news. it seems like it's barely covered except major holidays, the pope gives speech, the pope comes to america. why do you think that is. mollie: for many people religion is a subtle force for good in their lives. howie: there is no conflict. you can't put two people to yell at each other. mollie: someone making a casserole for a ne

lou: mollie hemingway and byron york joining us. to ends the violence which many of the democratic organizations -- left-wing organizations are paying for, seemingly falling on deaf hears. mollie: this should have been a good issue for activists opposed to trump. he hasn't released his tax returns. you should have seen big large-scale otests. the fact that it's just extreme groups who are violent shows it's not going so well for people opposed to donald trump. no matter people's politics, they should condemn violence with it's used in this way. lou: the president hasn't released his taxes and it doesn't appear he ever will. under audit is the way the administration says he hasn't. the american people in survey after survey, not many people are ex o exorcissed about it. he changed the fact on the ground. he's not going to do it and they can't make him do it. you will see democrats on the hill try to use a russia investigation to make him do it. on the issue of protests, right after if the inauguration, there was a legitimately huge p

mike gal letter and molly hemingway. where was the backlash around those beauties? ing you should never compare yoner anything to hitler. then i saw three other articles cnn has run about how people were making hitler comparisons. after 2016 when so many people in the media openly stated donald trump was a bigger threat than hitler, that they would be upset sean spicer inartfully made the point that chemical weapons weren't used on the battlefield by hitler. lou: there is nobody, his fiercest critics, nobody thinks he's anti-semitic. we are getting so fed up with this pretend judge rage. lou: and then it becomes a defensiveness on the part of the conservatives when it occurs to them in which they fall in line and simply roll over and say, sorry. but no one says a word about the left. mike: nobody pushes back. lou: i would just say until people can kind some equity and fairness here and expect the same conduct of everyone, what's the point. >> we are count rabbit hole. conservative speakers being blocked. i interviewed people who are just this week from the city journ

>> martha: kevin today and kenosha, now mollie hemingway fox news contributor and matt bennett former deputy assistant to president clinton and a cofounder of third way. it was interesting to watch the president sort of talk about the record of "the first 100 days" who, and he believes it's a very strong one, making the argument there today. but when you look at some of the numbers out there pull up coal, president trump's job approval, 41% approval rating and hold onto this for just a second, which is higher than 35% back in march and the one you got on the screen, the percentage you think how he's doing on the key characteristics, keeps his promises, that one is down 17 since february. strong and decisive leader down seven, can bring about change the country needs is down seven. your thoughts? >> there's one thing that we might want to learn since 2016 is that sometimes his polls don't tell us everything about people's support for donald trump. one of the things he was very consistent about throughout the campaign was his desire to change things with the economy. i don't think that

>> donald trump has succeeded in getting a lot done in the search for 100 days but one thing molly hemingwayou look at things other than legislation. in terms of putting forth his own ideas that are unpopular with president obama with the exception of the immigration issue, it might be the only thing his voters cared about the entire first-term. >> looking at the obamacare, that legislative win. >> north korea launched a massive military drill overnight as donald trump calls the senate for a briefing at the white house. kelly right with overnight developments on that. >> reporter: the status quo is unacceptable, that is what donald trump says about the way the international community is saying about escalating tension, and nuclear tests today to markets anniversary of military and the regime is trying to develop a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the us adding to his a third us citizen. donald trump planning to me with the entire u.s. senate when they, or 100 members for a briefing. secretary of defense jim matus, chairman joseph done. and director of national intelligence, will update sen

mollie hemingway, author of this cool little book, "trump versus the media." and joe trippi, fox news contributor. it was a form of counter programming against the white house. did it work? erin: i think it did. comedian at that dish went after the media, too swieg need to tree store public confidence and get the trust back. but i want to read a line from the "new york times" story about this. mr. trump's thumb in the eye to the express corps felt manufactured. he spent much of the last week to the same reporters that he snubbed saturday night. this was the strategy and it works. howie: trump along with his staff decided to dominate the news and make the speech in part about attacking the press. mollie: when he announced he wasn't going to go to the dinner that was a technical knockout. and when he announced he would do a rally at the same time, it was bloodying the corpse. it just felt different without having the president there. then to have the jokes made by the president, but at the dinner to see people congratulating themselves for being so important. th

stoddard, mollie hemingway. nior editor at "the federalist" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. mollie, should we be surprised to find susan rice at the center of the story? >> ever since devin nunes talked about the unmasking, i would assumed it would be lower level. this is not a minor flunky. already a pretty serious allegation, now something much bigger. >> it's important to remind their viewers, as i often do, i did two weeks ago, that although people want to confuse the two. unmasking is not leaking. unmasking is not wiretapping. it is not surveillance and while devin nunes lied about this, president trump lied about it, susan rice lied about it. this revelation could be anything from a scandal to a crime. should be a separate investigation. who leaked it? was the unmasking legal? that's different from an allegation that president obama ordered wiretapping. it's not actually a story. it's about two separate things and they may be two separate wrongs. unmasking is not wiretapping and not leaking. i

and that news conference today, also, my interview with italy's prime minister, stephen hayes, mollie hemingwayarles lane, and jason riley, and had an institute senior fellow. jason, i'll start with you. your thoughts on the iran nuclear part and north korea first? >> i have seen some mixed messages. you have met us -- i'm sorry, secretary of state rex tillerson saying it looks like he may be n might be following the letter of divide here. you have trump saying but they are violating the spirit of the law. yesterday, sean spicer told martha maccallum, we are still reviewing end, we haven't reached a conclusion. i think we want to see the administration get on board in terms of how they're going to handle it. what we do know is, if they don't, the future is north korea. and we see what a menace north korea has become because they have a weapon. we cannot let iran get to that point. >> bret: charles? >> the president says they are violating the spirit, but they don't say exactly how they are violating the spirit. and he understands he ran against it and the deal has all kinds of shortcomings and

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." mara liasson, national political correspondent, national public radio and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. the focus right now is the government funding towards the end of the week. seems like the border wall is going to be the issue as we close in on friday. >> democrats have done a great job with obstruction. they don't have a lot of power for they've done a good job using whatever power they have to cause problems for president trump. this is a curious issue for them to obstruct on because i think in general while people might want a literal wall, they definitely care about border security and enforcement. these are areas where there should be some negotiation. >> the wall as a metaphor. if donald trump can get something in the government funding bill about border security, he can claim victory in the democrats can say they didn't vote to fund the wall. he is already said he doesn't want a government shutdown period he's already backed up the final negotiating position. if

steve hayes, mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," mara liasson, and charles krauthammer i mean, my head is spinning. this is a complete 360-degree change from his policy on syria which, even though a lot of trims foreign policy had not been fleshed out, syria, he had been clear year after year. criticized president obama not just for erasing the redline, all of a sudden, we're talking about military action in putting himself in the sandbox that obama did. he doesn't like what assad is doing, but does he want to get rid of him? troops on the ground, something he said he wouldn't do? >> there are u.s. troops on the ground. >> doesn't mean more u.s. troops if he is really talking about regime change. we're not quite sure what the president was talking about, but we know what to was moved by, he said he changed his mind, what is he going to do about it? >> it's quite remarkable, only a few days ago that he said through his spokesman at the u.n. and also his secretary of state that we would not be continuing the obama reproach of wanting regime change. the official policy was

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mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." mara liasson, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles, your thoughts on the write up. think of it is a silly and alarmist analogy. the difference between the cuban missile crisis and this is that the soviets in 1962 had an active deployable, utterly devastating nuclear arsenal. that was at stake. this is armageddon was at stake. as of now, the north koreans don't have an operational nuclear force which is what is driving this entire issue right now. the stakes are infinitely lower. it seems to me the administration has made a decision that the north koreans are accelerating their rush to breakout to the point where they have a nuke on a missile that could reach the united states or even just reached japan and they're not going to allow it. the problem is, it is accelerating. they've been doing more tests at a faster pace and have developed a panoply of missiles that were on display over the weekend that surprised a lot of analysts. it's not as if we can stand by as we did fo

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president trump: we're talking about surveillance >> shannon: let's bring in doug schoen and mollie hemingwaycan there be bipartisan agreement about this that we should all be concerned about the potential use of national intelligence monitoring for political purposes? >> absolutely, shannon. look, the senate committee i think has had more success in achieving bipartisanship between senator warner than the house committee. i think both committees should seek to see how far this so-called unmasking went. certainly look at susan rice. but look to see if there were other unmasking. privacy is protected in the constitution. we need to see the nature and extent of what has happened. i think we're at the beginning, not the end of the investigation. >> shannon: mollie, how intelligence committee member not named told us. we'll be performing an accounting of all unmasking for political purposes. this is now a full blown investigation. do you think they get anywhere with it? do you think anyone will be held accountable? how does it play out long term? >> when nun es revealed that there were things wid

bring in our panel, stephen hayes, mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" ," mollie, let'snada. you had president trump tweeting this morning, canada has made business for our dairy farmers in wisconsin and other border states very difficult. we will not stand for this. watch. and you have a now 20% tariff on softwood lumber coming from canada, and the administration saying they are not going to put up with what canada has been bringing in. what do you make of that? >> the trump administration is trying to make this seem like a trade for when that actually is not exactly right. these types of duties on lumber have been in the works for month, part of an issue going back 30 years with canada. you saw this type of duty under the reagan administration, under the bush administration. and it is true that canada has a cartel that fixes prices on dairy. it is also true that we have a very messed up system with their own dairy market. we have subsidies and protectionism that have really made our market inefficient to market forces. so we can point to what they are doing incorrectly

joining me now is senior editor of the federalist molly hemingway. saying it they come breathlessly to her defense. >> this tape is from a month ago and nobody noticed it at the time and people started paying attention to it and the last few days we people listening to what she was saying. everyone is rushing to her defense. she was caught saying some stuff that did sound really bad. collecting information on the trumps, disseminating it not just at the intelligence agencies but also on the hill. she openly states why people are leaking, which is a horrible crime and by definition a violation of national security. and she, i think, is upset that she was caught saying these things yeah, it is interesting that people in the media rushing to defend her. pete: watch the coverage the way shariers is attacked every day every conceivable angle about devin nunes. we have the amount of coverage this got from the m mainstream media. you have a former administration official. still news once you find out about it who is admitting what effectively is being alleg

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