is the nrcc implying they were hurt in some way by this intrusion? if so, how?e this was a foreign attacker. if so, who? if the material wasn't publicly released, it wasn't used for ransom or blackmail, wasn't used against house republican candidates, what happened to it? i mean, is there any possibility it was given to the nrcc's political opponents or to the democrats or press and we haven't heard about it yet? and why would the republicans need to hire a really big expensive p.r. firm to manage the response to this given that their p.r. effort around this was to keep it entirely secret? one of the reporters behind this strange and puzzling scoop joins us next. stay with us. today... back pain can't win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. if your moderate to severeor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio®, the only biologi

it very clear the nrcc is taking this very seriously. an outside law group, as well as an outside communications firm to help through all of this. obviously hacking has been on the forefront since the 2016 campaign and since so many democratic organizations were hacked during that campaign. the nrcc, which was hacked this time around and dccc were talking about coming to an agreement and agreeing to never use hand material during campaigns. that was happening during the midterm elections. they couldn't reach that agreement but the nrcc did agree, the chairman said they would not use material like that in a cam papaign ad. other campaigns can elevate them. both of these committees have tried to make sure that doesn't happen. there's still a lot left to come out from the hack of the nrcc. >> thank you very much, dan. >> the president's son is calling out kellyanne conway's husband, saying he's being disrespectful to his wife. and joe biden calling himself the most qualified candidate in the entire country. what democratic stars think of th

is the nrcc implying they were hurt in some way by this intrusion? if so, how? attacker. if so, who? if the material wasn't publicly released, it wasn't used for ransom or blackmail, wasn't used against house republican candidates, what about to it? i mean, is there any possibility it was given to the nrcc's political opponents or to the democrats or press and we haven't heard about it yet? and why would the republicans need to hire a really big expensive pr firm to manage the response to this given that their pr effort around this was to keep it entirely secret? one of the reporters behind this strange and puzzling scoop joins us next. stay with us. ♪ ♪ applebee's bigger, bolder grill combos are back. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. after a scratch so small rocket you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ in them therr hills on your guarantevacation.fin

>> you know, it's fairly remarkable that no one knew about this and the incoming chairman of the nrcc only learned about this last night, was briefed about this last night. and the answer that we got when we pushed on this was they felt -- the nrcc felt increasing the small circle of people who knew about this would somehow increase the number -- the number of people who might be legally liable because they were aware of the situation. but also they felt that it would somehow compromise the integrity of the investigation that was taking place right afterwards, right after they discovered this hack in about april. the nrcc let the fbi know about it and so they really wanted to keep the circle on this pretty tight. >> alex, the concerns seem to be as well that this may be something that involved a foreign agent. do we know anything more yorbey that or who it may have been? you know, we pushed on this as well and the nrcc sort of felt that if you look at the nature of the attack, they felt that it bore the hall marks of a foreign agent. in the course of reporting on this, we heard specul

. >> the nrcc, the campaign arm of the house republicans, were hacked. nrcc confirmed to fox news that yes, there was a cyber intrusion but an unknown entity. even though politico came out with the news, they revealed it to the public. there was four senior nrcc aides that were hacked. thousands of e-mails that were exposed. this attack was detected back in april. so there's a timeline too in terms of when they decided to come forward with the information. the nrcc was asked why they waited so long. they didn't want to share any confidential information. they say there's one line in the report that stood out stating that party officials would not say when the hack began or who was behind it. although they privately believe it was a foreign agent due to the nature of the attack. if we're speaking about who knew about it, right now many big republicans in the house are unaware, paul ryan, speaker paul ryan was not aware and several others have no idea about the hack. this comes at a time in the 2016 election, there was hacking but not even with the politic

a spokesman for the nrcc saying to fox news, quote, the nrcc can confirm that it was the victim of aer intrusion by an unknown entity. the cyber security committee data is paramount. the nrcc immediately launched an internal investigation and notified the fbi which is now investigating the matter. to protect the integrity of that investigation, the nrcc will offer no further comment on the incident. hackers had a field day with the democrats during the 2016 campaign cycle. now it appears they have hit the republicans. it's not entirely clear how much damage was done. dana? >> dana: okay, mike. thank you. not only a busy day on capitol hill, but an emotional one. bush 41 service dog, that's sully right there. he joined the thousands paying tribute. we'll hear some other touching moments from the rotunda. we'll talk with someone who knew george h. w. bush very well. his vice president joins me live next. >> he showed us that how we live is as important as what we achieved. his life was an hymn of honor. no matter how much you clean, does your house still smell stuffy? that's because yo

number two, the question on the nrcc breach, it begs two things. it begs the continued failure in 2018 to have any data breach notification standards. [indiscernible] standard.is no whether it is nrcc or marriott, there is no standard notification i think is a flaw. we sawhink in many ways , as not only with the nrcc we get better, the bad guys get better. we may be strengthening our security. but one of the most vulnerable is the committees. even they are vulnerable. the ultimate startup is a political campaign. the notion cyber security will be on their top three in electing someone is not going to take place. i think we can for the most part celebrate what we know now in terms of our success in 2018. what i see in 2020, the worst-case scenario, is this cyber andween misinformation/disinformation. the example i site is when you have a foreign entity that would have a repository of personal and contacts you with information you think must be secure because it is personal information. you open it up and you do not get a post. you get her image and

largely to stay out of fights for the general election or leave it to the nrcc.call, her right, but i think that's a mistake. responding on twitter, news flash, i wasn't asking for permission. a little gender battle here. internal family feud about a very critical question for the republican party. we have a problem. we are more rural and a lot of white guys. >> you do have to consider that there is 100 women they recruited against other women as well. it's a bad year for republicans in the house race that were bound to happen. i think when she came in, she was the youngest woman in congress and she had that until alexandria ocasio-cortez won since her days in the george w. bush white house. i think she is ambitious and this is clearly a move to say i can be more influential as these party committees in general are less and less important. >> ort democratic side, some younger members have ambition. the women are dominated by men. listen to paul ryan trying to thread the needle on this. >> get a lease to going back to doing a great job. we put her in charge of rec

our source says the hacker obtained passwords but did not access other nrcc systems as a result of the breach. >>> a first for the ride-hailing industry. uber and lyft drivers will soon get a minimum wage. we'll get a check on cnn "business" next. place, the xfinity xfi gateway. and it's strengthened by xfi pods, which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. ...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. >>> "the new york times" reports ex-cbs chief leslie moonves destroyed evidence and interfered with an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations. a draft report from lawyers hired by cbs says moonves was invasive and -- evasive and deliberately lied. it lists nonconsensual sex in and out of the the workplace. it could cost him a $120 million payout. moonves denied more than a dozen accusations of sexual misconduct. >>> a dispute between the nooefl and the police -- nfl and the police over when kareem hunt's video was released by tmz. a league spokesman claims there we

she was getting ready to run for nrcc chair to head the campaign in the next cycle to reverse this trendin mccarthy, the majority leader, called her and said he wanted more of these back bench members he was close with and it infuriated the republican women in the congress. there's huge tension between the men and women and whether the republicans are willing to address and support female republican lawmakers and win back more suburban women. >> if the men would listen. >> if they care about winning back the majority, they will. >> simple math there, abby. >> we were talking about change in the white house. one more element will become even more problematic for president trump. he thought he would go into 2019 with someone close to him, who could help him navigate the political wins of his campaign. nick ayers, vice president's chief of staff, said no to that job. there's an expectation next year that some people are going to continue to be leaving within the white house, leaving for campaign jobs, for super pac jobs and others. some have already left like the white house political direc

." >> politico contacted the nrcc on monday. what the [ bleep ] weren't more people told?ionship has worsened. he tried again to [ bleep ] around in our elections. >> nicole kidman, destroyer. melissa mccarthy, can you ever [ bleep ] me? >> terry crews from brooklyn 911, i can't wait to [ bleep ] him. >> he said he was going to be a pastor at one point. all these great things. and i've seen -- a pastor, then he decided he liked to [ bleep ] too much, figured that wouldn't work out. >> we saw a declining eli manning last week. they played mark [ bleep ] sanchez. >> women who [ bleep ] pigeons have a lot of old bread at their house. >> oh, no! i seen this on the late show! you're going to hold me down and take turns [ bleep ]ing my [ bleep ]. >> that's disgusting. do you [ bleep ] his 24-inch [ bleep ]? >> no. >> what happened to it? >> he never had one. >> i have an eight-inch [ bleep ]. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: we'll be right back with jimmy tatro! ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ kevin, i hav♪ your caramel brulee lattes ready! ♪ when you have nausea, ♪ heartburn, ♪ indigestion, ♪ upset s

set, senior adviser for moveon.org, karine jean-pierre, eli stokols, communications director for the nrccmatt gourman and leighann caldwell. thank you for being here to look at the year that was and the year that's to come. eli, how does president trump start off 2019? is he in a position of strength, of weakness? what is he going to have to tackle with democrats taking back the house? >> he seems to be in a much weaker position. you think of kavanaugh being the biggest success for him in the past year. but the elections delivered the verdict in november and it was an obvious setback for republicans. a referendum on this president at a very controversial administration. a lot of these policies. and democrats picked up 40 seats in the house. and the president as a result of that is going to have to deal with a whole lot of investigations, not just into the russia matters that we've heard about for two years but into personal financial issues in terms of decisions that he made or didn't make. relaxing of sanctions. the khashoggi stuff. democrats have already indicated they plan to subpoena

for more on this, former communications director at the nrcc and john summers a democratic strategist. john, i'll start with you. i find this story to be probably unlikely. joe biden would have to recognize president obama is gonna meet with a lot of democrats going into 2020. >> yeah, absolutely. i thought it was an interesting headline, but i don't think there's a whole lot there. biden's been around a long time. he knows how this stuff works. and he knows president obama loves him. in fact, president obama said one of the smartest decisions he's ever made was selecting biden as his vp. he even gave him the medal of freedom. obviously, president obama loves joe biden. but it's also no secret that president obama said he wants to help support a new generation of democratic leaders here in the country. so it on makes sense that he's meeting with potential plausible candidates. >> dana: jon, you mentioned new. matt, letted me point you to this new poll from usa today, showing that -- asking democrats and independents who do you want in 2020? 59% said someone entirely new. what do you t

. >> so let me bring in matt gorman, a former nrcc communications director and former spokesman for jewish and mitt romney. we also have doug thornell. republican lawmakers like senator pat toomey are saying this is much ado about nothing, but what will it take for trump to agree on a deal that the, in fact, refund the government? >> thank you for having me, first of all. the only thing that matters is whether president trump and leader schumer can agree on a deal. that's what matters. whoever -- whatever opens the government will need democratic votes through this senate. so unless that happens everything else doesn't mean anything. let's take a step back. it's in each side's interest at the moment to dig in and prepare for a longer shutdown. obviously president trump can show his base that he's committed to funding the wall and leader schumer and speaker designate pelosi over in the house can show that they're willing to fight president trump and really make sure that their basis are riled up as they go into the next congress. that's what matters right now and i think that's why i wouldn

the nrcc first learned of the possible attack in april. they informed the fbi and launched an internal investigation, but senior republican house leaders were not notified. party officials believe the hack was peperpetrated by a foreign agent. in georgia, republican brad raffensperger has won the runoff to become the next secretary of state, filling the seat left vacant by brian kemp. kemp, who was declared the winner in georgia's contentious gubernatorial race, oversaw the state's controversial voting practices which included efforts to suppress votes through the exact match system, which resulted in putting over 50,000 voter applications on hold because of minor discrepancies. raffensperger is likely to continue many of his predecessor's practices. last week, groups tied to kemp's former opponent, democrat stacy abrams, filed a federal lawsuit aiming to overhaul the georgia elections system. meanwhile, in wisconsin, the republican-led legislature has been in session all night in an attempt to pass a series of bills to weaken ththe power

and then most importantly to me, it is this was a subject that the dccc, along with the nrcc, republican house campaigner, where talking about, what is fair game whas, what is not. the parties weren't able to come to an agreement to discuss that. but still this was something i think everyone was cognizant that could end up happening. it ended up happening. we'll have to see what the receipt nenext steps are. >> seems like a one off until it hits you. mark, thank you. >>> next, we're going to dig into new developments in the russia investigation right now. right now, this minute, the special counsel is preparing the sentencing memorandum for michael flynn. what does that mean? what are we going to learn? we'll bring you the details the moment we have them and break down why michael flynn's role matters big time to president trump. so a tree falls on your brand-new car and totals it. and as if that wasn't bad enough, now your insurance won't replace it outright because of depreciation. if your insurance won't replace your car, what good is it? you'd be better off just taking your money and

the nrcc say they were hacked during the 2018 election. news covered live from washington, d.c. ♪ >> harris: beti fever appears to be growing among democrats. polls show that beto o'rourke, who lost his race against ted cruz smoke emerging as a top contender to take on president trump in 2020. he came in third, bringing the power panel now, judy miller here. a pulitzer prize winning author. kila mccullough, radio host what you make of it question marks to go there's no way he will be the nominee. he is far too progressive. if the democrat's want to win the white house, he is the wrong democrat to do it. joe biden is their candidate for 2020, if they want to try and take back the rust belt areas that trumped it away from them. >> harris: even though he has run before and lost, it let's hear what joe biden says before we go to judy miller. watch it. all right, then i'm going to read it. "i think i'm the most qualified person in the country to be president. the issues that we face as a country today are the issues that i have worked on my who

we had an event that we had planned for myself in forth worth but the nrcc decided i couldn't win but gave that date and time to dick armey and did it in denton, texas and i was so mad that i crashed his event. and i went up to the security checkpoint and they wouldn't let me in. and i asked to speak to the advance team and the head of the advance team was a man named ron could have man. he said this is pretty unusual. this is for dick armey but he talked to the vice president and he said sure. i got on the stage with the vice president. and i was only there for three minutes, but my picture and the video was in the tv market that night and the vice president sked me to go to houston and i had montgomery county. he flew, but i drove and i got to be in that rally that night. when he was going to texas a&m as president, i represented a&m and i got invited to fly on air force one with senator gramm and i wore my texas a&m tie. as we were sitting in air force one, he had on a beautiful silk tie. and senator graham had on an old cheap tie. and he said joe, you ought to give your tie to the

the nrcc denies those reports. raised concerns about his re-election campaign two years ago.let me get back to leeann. it seems to me the question is, if there is taint here, if her was cheating, criminality, should the election count, even if the numbers don't add up to the difference between the winner and the loser in the first count? >> yeah, it's interesting what dallas woodhouse said. he said that he would support a new election if there is enough evidence that would change the outcome. all he's stating is the law. that's what north carolina law says and that's what the board of elections would have to do if it would change the outcome of the election. you know, i talked to him just before we went on air about that "washington post" story and how they're saying that pittenger, who is the republican who ran against harris in the primary, made these concerns to him and the party after the primary and said, look, there is something shady going on in bladen county and robeson county as well. and woodhouse said he didn't remember. he couldn't confirm or deny. it's not someth

to protect the integrity of the investigation, the nrcc will offer no further comment on the incidentis is a high-level hacking for the republican congressional committee. we will keep you apprised as new details come in on this, as they learn potentially who did it. meanwhile, cia director gina haspel is on capitol hill right now. started about 35 or so minutes ago. she is expected to pay respects first to president george h.w. bush. that has happened. you see her there, he served as a cia director before his presidency. gina haspel would then later be briefing some senate leaders on the murder of "the washington post" columnist, jamal khashoggi. we are told that's what's happening now. the cia concluded, as you know, that the saudi crown prince was responsible for the death of khashoggi. the director's absence from a full-center briefing last week -- which we covered right here on "outnumbered" -- lead to a strong rebuke by some lawmakers. the senate voted the same day to advance a measure which would cut u.s. military support for the saudi-led war in yemen. senate majority leader m

. >> i talked with the incoming nrcc chair very aware of the challenge facing republicans in 20.ban agenda that isn't defined by donald trump. number two, act blue totally destroyed us in the fund-raising capacity. coming out with an online portal to have republicans match what democrats did this time-out is issue number one and focus number one. >> how do you get small donors to vote republican? the problem for republicans is you have a lot of outside conservative groups pulling in dollars all over the place. democrats are much better in consolidating that through one portal. >> it being pro life hurt your party? >> i don't think that that's the issue any more. culturally i think it's much more on the gun issue and the unwillingness of republicans to say, background checks for all commercial sales is something that's reasonable and suburban -- >> toomey cut it. >> that's why he won. >> thank you, kimberly atkins, ryan costello and robert fine man. you're watching "hardball." you've had quite the career. yeah, i've had some pretty prestigious jobs over the years. news producer, e

we had an event that we had planned for myself in forth worth but the nrcc decided i couldn't win but gave that date and time to dick armey and did it in denton, texas and i was so mad that i crashed his event. and i went up to the security checkpoint and they wouldn't let me in. and i asked to speak to the advance team and the head of the advance team was a man named ron could have man. he said this is pretty unusual. this is for dick armey but he talked to the vice president and he said sure. i got on the stage with the vice president. and i was only there for three minutes, but my picture and the video was in the tv market that night and the vice president sked me to go to houston and i had montgomery county. he flew, but i drove and i got to be in that rally that night. when he was going to texas a&m as president, i represented a&m and i got invited to fly on air force one with senator gramm and i wore my texas a&m tie. as we were sitting in air force one, he had on a beautiful silk tie. and senator graham had on an old cheap tie. and he said joe, you ought to give your tie to the

the hacked accounts along to four senior aides of the nrcc. speaker paul ryan was unaware of the attack until they received questions about it this week. politicocials told information was withheld so as not to compromise the investigation. none of the compromised information has been made public. politico, usa today, and other papers have that story. the incoming majority leader of the house, steny hoyer said democrats might refuse to seat north carolina republican next year unless and until " substantial questions about the integrity of his election are solved." steny hoyer saying those comments yesterday to the washington post as north carolina election officials investigate whether an operative working on behalf of mark harris illegally collected in complete ballots from voters. - a new threat to harris' candidacies adjusting even if the narrow victory is certified by the state, harris could be subject to a month-long process in the house to determine whether he is ultimately sworn in. back to your calls. beverly has been waiting in north

we're finding out now the nrcc, the national republican congressional committee was hacked into but didn'tquite odd at best. but as it relates to mueller, he does need to wrap it up. how much more do we need to go through here? i think the signal that he is actually prosecuting people and going to the point of sentencing people prior to getting their testimony in another case is a signal that they don't have anything on the president that's going to be prosecutable. they know they don't. otherwise they would hold and want those people to testify against a president or somebody in his administration. they don't have that. that's why they're sentencing them now and the other stuff they'll have a scathing report but other than that i don't think it will amount to much. >> sandra: always good to have you on the program jason chaffetz. >> bill: thank you, sandra. fox news alert now. stocks taking a hit this morning. we got the 449 in the negative side. we're off 580 at the close before the weekend. so you are looking at well over 1,000 points in a couple days of trading for the dow 30. a lot of