governor pentz concluded his time in office, he concluded all communications to ensure that state emailsere properly archived in accordance with the law. it doesn't seem a little ironic on the surface, considering how critical then governor pence was, but his people say it was completely different, he was not dealing with information at a high level. >> jon: john roberts, live on the white house lawn. with more on this now, white house correspondent for "the wall street journal," you've written extensively on those over the last few days, this topic. what is the very latest? >> as we saw last night or yesterday afternoon, the attorney general has recused himself from any russia related, campaign related investigations. that seems to have taken some of the tension out of what we saw yesterday, in terms of lawmakers on capitol hill calling for him to resign, pressing for him to recuse himself, he did that, so that's kind of given him a little bit of space. he came out and he addressed it very early and directly, and then we saw the president back him very strongly and what's interesting ab

they were encouraged by statement you made a misstatement's by vice president pentz in munich, that seem to give them some relief in their belief that nato was still alive and well. you talked about russian adventurism or however you characterize it and they live it every day. they can look across the border at the planned military exercise in september of 100,000 russian troops and see some real threats to the borders of the countries i have just named to you and so i want to know why in your request supplemental request there is that money also set aside, more money set aside for the european reassurance initiative. >> senator, we prioritized at the request for what we could execute this year. that was one point. a second point is that as you know, there are four framework nato nations, united states included, canada, germany etc. that are mounting reinforced battalion combat teams to some the nations you visited, poland, lithuania, to make a clear demonstration of nato sperm and unified response to any further adventurism by russia. this is a time when this calculations can occur. we

. >> tom: carly, you took issue with the fact that he said pentz doesn't trust himself. would that be problem? >> he's a traditional guy who made a passing comment years ago. he said he has a happy marriage, this is a value that he holds. it might be a little different, whole areas liberals to attack someone's way of life. >> carly asked me out for dinne dinner. >> tom: coming up, breaking up is hard to do. the woes of the e.u. after the break. and my first book "mean dads for a better america" is available for preorder. coaches to be 24 to find out how to get it. ♪ careful joe, they've got you outnumbered. the dinosaurs' extinction... don't listen to them. not appropriate. now i'm mashing these potatoes with my stick of butter... why don't you sit over here. something for everyone is awesome. find your awesome with the xfinity stream app. more to stream to every screen. ♪ >> live from "america's news headquarters" ," former national security advisor michael flynn wants to make a deal. his attorney confirms his client is in talks with eric house and senate intelligence c

government, which vice president pentz has been for many years, how do you make at this so that it isadvantageous? for females? >> tucker: i agree with the on that. like uncle americo. >> i agree with the outrage, that's a little -- >> tucker: almost 400,000 people have now signed a petition demanding melania trump to move to the white house from new york. for many years, you do not attack the first lady unless she does something unusual. what is this? >> this seems crazy to me because she has said and it may be unconventional that she's not in the white house but she still doing first lady duties even still being out in the white house. because she wants her son to finish school, she somehow is now being blamed and the reason for it is they are paying an exorbitant amount of taxpayers for her security. what about all the vacations the obama's went on? >> tucker: government spending, i wish we had more time. thank you both. we will be right back. [laughs] i came to ibm to manage global clients and big data. but i found so much more. ( ♪ ) it's really a melting pot of activities and pe

>> i'm here to talk about today is that the pentz/ryan plan will take away cancer screenings and birthontrol for millions of women in this country. >> tucker: you said that. i think health screeningst. planned parenthood probably do some good work but the reason it is a controversial place is because it is the biggest abortion provider and you are one of the people that run it. what do you think? if you can hear the fetal heartbeat and it is extinguished, is that a big deal or not to you? >> i take seriously all of the health care work that we provide, i believe in safe, legal abortion. i believe it it's up to each woman and individual. i'm not going to make a judgment. >> tucker: why can you not give me a straight answer? it's not like you have not thought of this. >> i would say that it is a fetus. it is up to each woman to decide -- you and i can differ on this all day, tucker. >> tucker: you are not telling me what you think. is it a separate being or is it a piece of flesh? >> 70% of americans believe that roe vs. wade should be the law of the land. that women should each individu

russian ambassador and the topic of conversation along with blatant lies to vice president michael pentz meet the standard for the fbi? >> i have to give you the same answer. i'm not going to comment. >> now i know that you probably cannot comment on this as well, but i think that it is really important that we review a short timeline and that is based on press reporting, because we need to get this for the public record, i think. so on december 25th, 2016, mr. mr. flynn exchanged text messages with the russian ambassador. on december 28th, 2016, mr. mr. flynn reportedly spoke on the phone with the russian ambassador. by then it was pretty clear that the obama administration was going to take actions against russia. on december 29th, 2016, mr. flynn reportedly spoke on the phone with the russian ambassador again. that day the obama administration expelled 35 -- and announced a new sanctions. we also know from the press reporting said sometimes in december mr. flynn met with the russian ambassador at trump tower, and that mr. trump's son in law was also there. the purpose of the meeting w

key is the conservative caucus you mentioned your mark meadows chair and he met today with president pentz who was also on the hill. he's been busy on the hill lobbying for this legislation. even after that meeting with the vice president, mark meadows is still a no press market. >> mark meadows says he is still a no coming out of the meeting. what he said he need right now is changes for dramatic changes. unfit to further repeal specific obamacare provisions. he says the bill does not go far enough to got the core and essence of obamacare. again, there are a number of conversations happening -- we expect conversations to go late into the night and into tomorrow. tomorrow as well these next 48 hours will be crucial. were seen the president holding meetings at the white house, the vice president on the hill and his staff, to stand out holding one-on-one meetings with some of these reluctant and recalcitrant conservative members, such as the senator from tennessee who met with one of debbie's of staff and he was unable to turn his vote but these are the types of conversations that are happen