they say it is a decrease over the administration's budget in 2017. it would eliminate or reduce more than 30 programs that duplicate other programs, are ineffective or are better supported with state, local private funds. the budget released just this week. in terms of charter schools, etc., what is the administration proposing? how are they going to focus their funding and priorities on charter schools, since it tends to be a largely local or state issue? guest: that is right. education secretary duncan's has s hasd about -- devo talked about how she wants to return power to decision-making to the local or state level. the first they are focusing on in the budget would redirect about $1 billion in title i money, which is money that goes to low income school districts, and it would take that money and thatit to school districts have open enrollment policies or create open enrollment policies, so a student could choose a public school from within their current school district, whichever one they want to go to as opposed to the one date are assigned to

a hold jofr from the obama administration. ite house counsel and said we've intercepted some calls between michael flynn during the transition who at that point had been named as the nominee or the designee as the national security adviser, come conversations between him and the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak in washington. it turns out that what flynn represented that it was just hall greoliday

that's the responsibility of the incoming administration. this whole thing about the clearance is a red herring. the administration does the vetting. >> amy, the senator from minnesota is joining us. she's a democrat on the judiciary committee. did you know about this warning from president obama to then president-elect trump over michael flynn? >> no, i had never heard about it until today. but i'm not surprised given that president obama had basically fired flynn from his administration. so i don't think it's a surprise at all. i was more surprised by the fact that the president, president trump, is now trying to act like, you know, this wasn't their problem, he'd been hired originally by the obama administration whien in fact there were clearly several warnings, something we'll be asking sally yates about today. >> during this upcoming hearing that's supposed to begin in about an hour half. >> the first will be about the fact that she had warned the white house and while she may not be able to reveal classified information, she can tell us

he also spoke about the administration's efforts to make changes to the tax code. this hearing is just under two hours. >> members of the committee want to briefly comment on the horrific terrorist attack in manchester. americans are bond to our british friends by common language, culture and many other things such as common law. as a boy i remember the strength that to us americans to witness the courage of the british people as they stood strong in the battle of britain. we know the result of the british people will once again vanquish a common foe. today i think we can speak to all members of the committee when i say god save the queen and god save great britain. we care great deal for friends overseas and we wish them the best. today's hearing will have a dual focus. we will discuss the president's budget for fiscal year 2018 and ongoing efforts to reform our nation's tax code. we are pleased to be joined here today by treasury secretary, stephen mnuchin will provide the ministrations perspective on these important issues. we welcome you back to the committee a

until the administration provides the unedited transcript, until the administration fully explains the facts of this case, the american people will rightly doubt if their president can handle our nation's most closely kept secrets. i yield the floor.

i share the administration's concerns about our debt, which ballooned by nearly doubling under the previous administration. the president's budget and visions increased economic growth that eventually reaches 3%. as i understand it, that vision relies on implementation of a number of policies, including pro growth tax reform, cutting out unnecessary regulation, building infrastructure, and some other approaches as well. i think reforming healthcare is part of that, boosting energy production, reducing deficits. that would significantly improve the supply side of the economy, of course, this is not unheard of that the administration places its belief in the efficacy of its policy proposals. for example, in former president obama's fiscal year 2010 budget growth was assumed to get to as high as 4.6% and was assumed to average 3.8% over an extend eight-year period. and that was premised on policy prescriptions. may critics want to criticize the growth projections it's more realistic than a number of budget proposals we've seen in the past. particularly some that came from the previous administ

trish: you're saying the administration is going to interfere. we're making the point then that you somehow don't trust the fbi enough to do their job, and i think ron's pointing out that you trust the fbi to do what's right regardless of anything that may be coming from the administration? >> i do, trish. i think the challenge here is because the administration's selections recently, certainly the deputy attorney general who is now arguably in charge of the russia investigation because the a.g. is recused, the question's going to be, you know, for the fbi to do its work with the maximum impact, by and large you need the assistance of able and willing prosecutors. and so that comes from doj. and i think questions are being raised about what's going on within doj now. will they move slowly, will they see things differently than the fbi. the fbi needs legal process in many of its investigations particularly when you're talking about complex financial transactions, overseas transactions. you really need a team of both very capable investigators as we

he brought him into the administration. and the first job he gave him was a high ranking job at the e.p.a. and the local press at home in washington state absolutely could not believe that this guy from washington state has been brought to d.c. to work at the e.p.a. this was the headline in the seattle times. quote, trump's e.p.a. pick bumbles from washington state onto national stage. calling its, quote, an incredible tale of failing up. in an incredible tale of failing up, this former washington state senator is now off to help president trump oversee the nation's 15,000 employee environmental agency. what could possibly go wrong? calling the appointment a, quote, textbook case of party patronage cronyism. "the seattle times" says, quote, what's shocking at this isn't done benton's anti-green views, given that he's going to work at the e.p.a. what's shocking about this is don benton has a perfect track record of flurry and interpersonal conflict resulting in legal or disciplinary action at every public position he has ever

this is part of a deeply troubling pattern from the trump administration. they fired sally yates. fired preek barrara. fire director comey, the very man leading the investigation. this does not seem to be a coincidence. this investigation must be run as far away as possible from this white house and as far away as possible from anyone that president trump has appointed. given the way the president fired director comey, any person who he appoints to lead the russia investigation will be concerned that he or she will meet the same fate as director comey if they run afoul of the administration. the american people need to have faith that an investigation as serious as this one is being conducted impartially, without a shred of bias. the only way the american people can have faith in this investigation is for it to be led by a fearless, independent special prosecutor. if deputy attorney general rosenstein does not appoint an independent special prosecutor, every american will rightly suspect that the decision to fire director comey was part of a cover-up. i will take one or two questio

why didn't the trump administration vet him further? his, because of president trump's tweet this morning. general flynn, he blames obama for flynn essentially. "general flynn was given the highest security clearance by the obama administration, but the fake news media seldom likes talking about that." well, i want you to listen here to general john kelly. the secretary of the department of homeland security said this to fox news about the vetting that he underwent before he took his post. >> i would tell you this, the process i just went through, they completely ignored my last 25 years, started from scratch. i had to submit, again, financial statements, my tax records, anything and everything -- any foreign contact i had had, anything and everything. and then they checked at the fbi. so, i think the process -- i can't imagine how much tighter it could possibly be. >> so, andre, secretary kelly says the trump administration, it was on them to vet, and they did vet him. that's directly in contradiction to what the president's saying in h

the obama administration didn't bring one person. it was entirely their right not to bring anyone to guantanamo. so there has been no isis member brought to guantanamo. and so, i think we prudently concluded that the litigation risk is well above zero, that certainty is better than lack of certainty, which stephen and others have stressed, and the senator has stressed, it was kind of him to do so. i don't know what charlie and stephen think, whether they have read the paper, but i think when you look at the litigation, just abeus litigation and you look at these isis members, i don't know who they are. i haven't been in the government for a long period of time. i can imagine that trying to connect the dots as a government lawyer between this particular isis member back to the people who could fall squarely under aumf, that might be a heavy lift for a government lawyer to do. so that is the conclusion. to your second part of your question, i don't know what this administration is going to do with respect to the periodic review board. w

. >> the administration has to answer the question why now? >> bret: president trump writing the letter that he believes comey cannot lead the fbi. >> essentially puts the nail in the coffin for president trump to fire him. >> bret: tonight, new questions. did the president hint at comey's firing a month ago? >> we will see what happens. it's going to be interesting. >> bret: what happens next in the russia investigation? >> catastrophically compromise the investigation. >> the investigation going on in the intelligence committee. >> bret: we have all of the angles covered. a special edition of "special report" starts right now. good evening. welcome to washington. i am bret baier. the reality tv star billionaire businessman who made "you are fired" a catchphrase used it this afternoon and what is turning out to be one of his most controversial moves yet. president trump's dismissal of james comey has rocked washington. democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the trump campaign and the russians

hawaii was the first state to sue the trump administration over the revised travel ban which removed iraq from the list. c-span petitioned the ninth circuit to consider allowing live broadcast of the court granted our request. live coverage begins monday at 1230 eastern on c-span.fficer: >> yesterday, chuck schumer called for a special prosecutor to investigate the trump campaigns ties to russia. he said justice department officials should brief senators on this firing of fbi director, james comey. >> well, mr. president the dismissal of director coming has raised troubling questions over the last few days. the president of the united states fired the man in charge of an active investigation about the president and his campaign ties to russia. the truth is, the dismissal of director coming as part of a much longer pattern of this administrations interfering with, or removing the people who are in a position to conduct an independent investigation of the president and his t administration.. the administration requested the chairman of the house and senate intelligence committee's help

some self-initiated by the administration. for example, in all of 2016 there were 17 cases filed in the adcdb area and there have been seven filed. if we were to continue with that trend, we didn't have quite that many filed at the beginning of this year. but if we were to continue with that trend now, you know, we could have something along the lines of 45 cases filed. i think we'll see more there. there are also some other more unused laws like section 338 of the tariff act of 1930. that allows for the imposition of up to 50% add valorem tariffs on goods if there's a discrimination action with regard to trade. that's in the trade act of 1974. but those are again laws that the president might be able to use looking at what's been done in other countries and imposing some sort of duties on goods coming into the united states. finally, in the trade remedy sort of area, we have a law called -- it's the international economic -- international emergency economic powers act. which we call ieepa. we refer to it as ieepa. it has broad

now the trump administration has inherited them but the trump administration may be switching positions. .. transgender students to the supreme court granted review on the issue and then when the administration came in and withdrew that interpretation that court to send the case back to the circuit to take another look. i think that case could come back without the administrative supports the obama position that could come back to the court. there is another case that's going to be argued in a couple weeks that involves the constitutionality of the structure for the consumer financial protection bureau and whether it is the structure and has authority is consistent with the constitution the panel on the dc circuit held that the director had too much power because it couldn't be removed by the president at will and he hadn't checked or balanced by any other fellow commissioners the way the independent agency heads are, so the circuit vacated the decision and if you look at the dc circuit it's not crazy to think that a. they said that the director is not constitutionally structured and so

what can we expect from the new administration going forward? how will potential changes in energy policy and production impact u.s. foreign policy? please welcome our moderator for this panel, the founder and president of the bipartisan policy center and his panelist to the stage. sarah lasitla, director and senior fellow, energy and national security program at csis. katherine mcgregor for land and minerals management at the department of the interior. and joseph stanko, partner at hunted & williams. >> good morning, everyone. thanks for sticking in with us. it's terrible. it's raining out there. good to be with you. i'm delight tobd here. i will just say a word about the bipartisan policy center. the essence of our mission is the constructive collusion of ideas. we are not nonpartisan or post partisan. we don't believe in abstract objectist. we believe on having practitioners with strong personal spiritual and economic interests willing to come together and hash it out. come up with a good set of ideas. so i feel like i'm in very good company

for the administration keeps changing, and you go out on the limb, the administration might saw thatb out right from behind you. the political pressures on them are going to be intense. they're going to want to look for ways to get out from those political pressures, and it could be the end result is it strengthens the case for a special prosecutor and independent commission or select committee of congress. >> woodruff: mark, i think you said three dozen republican -- >> this president will be under 40% favorable. ramesh's point is a good one that bears reflection on, the idea, judy, that the "wall street journal" editorial page leads its endorsement of firing comey by quoting the president had reacted to the attorney general's initiative in doing it. they're supporting donald trump, and they've got egg all over them. they've got poultry farm on their face. to have him say, how about being accused of being a show boat by trump? now that is tantamount to being called ugly by a frog. donald trump has never been a shrinking violet before. i didn't know grandstanding was a mortal sin in

we had periodic reviews, as you know, during the bush administration. it was called something different, it was called the annual review boards. a.r.b.s. i would certainly hope that this administration would review detainees' files on a regular basis. i don't know if they are. i suspect they may be. i would think that would factor in a court's analysis especially if counsel for the detainee brought that to the court's attention. how would would turn out, i don't know. i would invite my colleagues to comment if they want. >> i would just add i did read the piece. as i mentioned earlier, i think it's a useful contribution to the debate and analytically a sound treatment of those cases. i have no disagreement on it. i am concerned about the implications of citing the -- citing the ability to put detainees at guantanamo as a reason to have another aumf for the very practical reason that that is a political lightning rod. harkening back to our earlier conversation, i think it is desirable to have the executive and the congress agree on the war-fighting author

this is part of a deeply troubling pattern from the trump administration. they fired sally yates. fired preet bharara. and now they fired director comey, the very man leading the investigation. this does not seem to be a coincidence. this investigation must be run as far away as possible from this white house, and as far away as possible from anyone that president trump has appointed. given the way the president fired director comey, any person who he appoints to lead the russia investigation will be concerned that he or she will meet the same fate as director comey if they run afoul of the administration. the american people need to have faith that an investigation as serious as this one is being conducted impartially, without a shred of bias. the only way the american people can have faith in this investigation is for it to be led by a fearless, independent special prosecutor. if deputy attorney general rosenstein does not appoint an independent special prosecutor, every american will rightly suspect that the decision to fire director comey was part of a cover—up. the white hous

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my own knowledge of how it was done when i served in the bush administration and in the obama administration, there is an extensive vetting process by the fbi. >> i only have 50 seconds. ms. yates, are there any reasonable arguments that can be made in defense of president trump's executive order? >> i don't believe there are reasonable legal arguments that are grounded in truth they can be made in defense of his argument that the travel ban was not intended to have an impact, a religious impact, and to disfavor muslims. >> so you believe the arguments made by the lawyers who are now defending the executive order are unreasonable. >> i believe that the department of justice has a responsibility to uphold the law and to always speak the truth, particularly when it's about something as fundamental as this executive order was. deals with religious freedom. but let me say this. i have tremendous respect for the career men and women at the department of justice, including the lawyers in the civil division, or handling this. they are obligation was different than mine. they must make an argument,

, the bush administration, and the first six years of the obama administration. >> tonight on the communicators, we ask jeffrey, director of the center for internet communications and technology policy at the american enterprise institute and chris lewis, vice president and public knowledge, their thoughts on the impact of the proposal. >> we think the rule that we got in 2015, the net neutrality rules, are working. it's wildly popular. overwhelming majority of americans want to have clear rules of the road and a protected open internet. we're concerned that he's going down a path to review and potentially even repeal some other all of those rules. >> from the internet's inception until the day the rules were passed the internet was free and open. there wasn't a problem. as the chairman said there was no controlled internet with i.s.p.'s or anybody else interfering with people's ability to pose content or reuse the applications or look at the content of their choice. >> watch the communicators, tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. comedy central's sinage provided the entertainment at the dinner.

the administration is committed to working with you to change that. we are working diligently to bring tax relief to the middle and uppe lower income americanss well as make american business competitive again i would like to speak about the importance of free international trade. it could be considered either free or fair in the meetings with my international counterparts i've stressed this dual importance just two weeks ago i had productive meetings with the finance ministers of the g-7 with a renewed spirit of mutual understanding. it is the uncompetitive taxes from blocking their way to the. in the coming months we will work with the committee in congress and we will look back on an important time for the country's economy in history. for the jaws into the middle class and certainly the recipe for a. it's not enough to help all americans throughout the world and you pick a key role there. we have nearly $20 trillion in debt and you are using extraordinary measures until congress addresses the debt limit later this year. the budget cuts and deficit

they know that it is going to stand as a monument to the failure of this administration. r built. and they don't want to see the money wasted in the way that, trump would look to see it. >> uh-huh. >> of what of ice, raised them a moment ago. the fact this is enforced here and there at will. how do you push back on that presiden? >> set some limits when central administration isn't setting limits. we are going to have to depend on the court system. to set some of the limits. telling them you can't do enforcement, sensitive location for example. you can't hang outside courthouses and think that is legitimate immigration enforce. tactic. you can't target those, who engage in free speech for arrest when they're engaging in that free speech. you can't decide that you are going to engage in a street raid without any basis for doing so. we will have to see, courtrts sp in. set limits. because so far, the central administration, isn't setting any of the limits. >> since weep ju just discussed. the muslim ban. sanctuary cities. defunded the wall. this budget, budget hearings. this

the u.s. administration to increase u.s. troops in syria to fight isis, and will the saudis ask for more troops, i mean boots on the ground regarding fighting isis, and regarding more involvement, more u.s. involvement in the fight in yemen? thank you. >> i did not hear the latter. >> yemen. the u.s. role. >> okay. i think when it comes down to he fight against terrorism, if you look from about 2003 on at he state department reports on terrorism, you will see saudi arabia identified as a critical partner in counterterrorism. a lot of that has been expanded to the point where we used to have two security and advisory missions in saudi arabia. one dealt with the national guard and the other dealt with the national forces. we know have one for the ministry of the interior which deals with counterterrorism. certainly when it comes to finding security against terrorism in a critical country in terms of our economy, that is reserving the flow of gulf oil exports, there's no question that saudi arabia has been a critical partner. yo

and let me be clear, this is part of the problem with the obama administration. fend the south korean and japan. we are living up to our treaty obligations. >> thank you you, sir. >> lou: the mayor of berkley, california questioned about his ties to a group that is inciting protest and violence in the country. we'll have that with edrollins jackie: i was point-five credits away from completing high school and i didn't do it. my support team never stopped pushing for me to be better because they knew who i could become as a person. group: surprise! jackie: i've been given an opportunity and i'm just thankful for it. narrator: find free adult education classes near you at finishyourdiploma.org. >> new details. >> lou: 32-year-old jesse ara began is a member of the extremist facebook group inciting violence nationwide. the berkley police green chief blasted for his hands off approach and sitting and watching as demonstrators and protestors attack viciously recollects on the streetses of berkley. officers failed to intervened in brawls in a protrump rally. >> and rand

the 1.9% growth rates the previous administration assumed at the end of their administration, and the 1.3% growth rate for the entire ten-year period the cbo assumes, the congressional budget office assumes, are simply -- we simply reject. that is a pessimistic look at what the potential for this country and for what this country's people is. we reject that pessimism. you know what, we probably should have gone in and assumed 3.5% or 4% growth because that would be aggressive. 3% growth is just getting back to normal. i say it and i say it again, if you're 30 years old watching this and sitting here, you have never had a job as an adult in a healthy american economy. it's either been a recession or slow, sluggish economy stumbling along at less than 2% growth. the difference between 2% growth and 3% growth doesn't sound like much. in fact, i cringe when i hear people say it's only a 1% difference. the difference in that is tangible. 3% economic growth in a healthy american economy, if you don't like your job, you can quit because you know you can go get another job. if you get laid of

. >> the administration has to answer the question why now? >> bret: president trump writing the letter that he believes comey cannot lead the fbi. >> essentially puts the nail in the coffin for president trump to fire him. >> bret: tonight, new questions. did the president hint at comey's firing a month ago? >> we will see what happens. it's going to be interesting. >> bret: what happens next in the russia investigation? >> catastrophically compromise the investigation. >> the investigation going on in the intelligence committee. >> bret: we have all of the angles covered. a special edition of "special report" starts right now. good evening. welcome to washington. i am bret baier. the reality tv star billionaire businessman who made "you are fired" a catchphrase used it this afternoon and what is turning out to be one of his most controversial moves yet. president trump's dismissal of james comey has rocked washington. democrats tried to link the action to the investigation of a possible connection between the trump campaign and the russians

think the administration is a fickle. they can't move on with the things you want to do things that are necessary. frankly i'm still fumbling about is, license the president talking to democrats? he could get democrats -- if you want to democrats in good faith and talked about how to work on the obamacare bill without repealing it, because that is an artifice to come by the way -- and then get it done -- you can get a passed in the senate when -- that way -- then you can move on to tax cuts. there democrats willing to work on them, someone to work on infrastructure. right now, he is using just republican majorities in the house to get things done. they don't agree. all it's doing is showing that the republican party is fractured. -- do other men well or john have anything to add? any more questions? final question, yes. quite thank you. when helen was talking about russian influence into the election -- possible russian influence, you mentioned that this could be a call for american democracy. i know that many foreign corr

the u.s. administration to increase u.s. troops in syria to fight isis, and will the saudis asked for more boots onr the ground regarding isis, and regarding the fight in yemen? >> i did not hear the letter. >> yemen. >> okay. i think when it comes down to the fight against terrorism, if you look from about 2003 on at the state department reports on terrorism, you will see saudi arabia identified as a critical partner in counterterrorism. been expandedhas to the point where we used to have two security and advisory missions in saudi arabia. one dealt with the national guard and the other dealt with the national forces. we know have one for the ministry of the interior which deals with counterterrorism. certainly when it comes to finding security against countrym in a critical in terms of our economy, that is preserving the flow of gulf oil experts -- oil exports, there is no question saudi arabia has been a critical partner. you only have to look at the state department reporting, which basically is fair to say reflects the v

a holdover from the obama administration, what was it, take us back, about her ever-so-brief time at the head of the justice department that brought us to this hearing today. >> well, good morning, chris. it's also important to note that sally yates is a career prosecutor, seen as nonpolitical, though she did serve in the obama administration and was the acting attorney general as you stated for ten days at the outset of the trump administration before she was fired over an unrelated issue on the president's immigration executive orders. but the essential question this morning or this afternoon and about three hours' time here on capitol hill on the senate side before the senate intelligence subcommittee, is what did salary yates say to the administration, say to don mccann, the white house counsel, just five days into the administration, when she warned him in some capacity about the statements of michael flynn? recall now that it was flynn, we established and talked to the russian ambassador during the transition. sergey kislyak, it turned out to be something more than that, that fl

what the trump administration is doing. that is the so-called two-phase strategy of which on the first phase placement of additional economic sanctions on north korea where we urge china's serious implementations. then, on the second phase, to include all necessary means to -- pyongyang. i think this is the right approach to go beyond strategic patience. nevertheless, tokyo and washington needs to consult further on the strategy. all concerned parties, including china and russia, are committed to the denuclearization as a common strategic goal. this is a great asset that five parties need to retain. however, tokyo may disagree if temporary action is produced by north korea's freeze an nuclear tests and icbm deployment. we will -- alleged secret deals struck by washington and beijing. when we talk about the red line, from tokyo and seoul's perspective, it has already been crossed since a long time ago. what we need here is an alliance strategy of long-term containment with north korea. maintaining constant strategic superiori

repealed in 1999 toward the end of bill clinton's administration and some bernie sanders and elizabeth warren camp have issue.his a big this is a difference between bernie sanders and hillary linton campaign, where clinton said she didn't feel that had the -- would have averted 2008 financial crisis. now the other question, inside is there acan party, lot of steam for a major, you know, return to glass-steagall middle r is there some ground and then the economic aspect, president trump has hung presidency so far on job creation inside the u.s., gdp, the first quarter numbers were really not still says gdp could get to 4 or 5%. banking reform at all the economy? these are parts of the puzzle and the legislative reality, trying to move healthcare, move reform. there are initiatives he wants to undertake, it's been slow does adding one more huge one to the pile do? host: our guest will be with us the issues.t 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents, 202-748-8002. you mentioned glass-steagall, you history as far as graphics are concerned. or problem ofssue ha

russia is a dark cloud hanging over the trump administration. o many different allegations, so many different individuals in the trump administration, some of them have now had to recuse themselves, including the attorney general, that i think the donald trump administration needs to make a basic decision. they have to understand that this administration is under siege and will be, in terms of public opinion. and in terms of the law, and to all of these questions are answered, they ought to begin to cooperate with these investigations. and you have seen this begrudging attitude, the addition avowel that there is a -- if your intelligence community and the fbi had told the american people, as they did in january, in an unclassified letter to the american people, any normal president would have wanted to defend this country, investigate it fully. he should have launched his own investigation. so the trump administration needs to get its arms around this story and fully cooperate. i would just say this in closing. if i had read "the washington post"

i would say the trump administration, in terms of its rhetoric, shares that point of view. terestingly enough i think what you are seeing is some extent, the generals and the pentagon, the admirals, and secretary mattis elevating the discourse, using sharper language like we are going to annihilate isis. if you zoom back and take the 40,000 foot view, we are not seeing a massive surge of troops and to these countries and that is designed for a very good reason, at least as the pentagon would see it. they do not want to put american troops at risk or raise the risk of causing civilian casualties. host: on the issue of troop levels at yesterday's briefing, said hesecretary mattis had not made a recommendation on the troop levels in afghanistan for president trump. but during the briefing, general joseph dunford talked about the possibility of a troop increase in afghanistan. let's take a look. nor do inot able to, seek to get commitments for additional forces because that will be met by heads of state -- made by heads of state and their forces. president trump will be in bruss

the obama administration was spying on america. violating the constitution and in doing so with a sanctimonious tone that would have had had us all disbelieved any such account in his presidency because the national left wing committee was compliceit. oversight committees were spied on and e.g. norring that fact. this is ransid what occurred under president obama. >> it is reckless criminal behavior. i pray to god that the attorney general has a grand jury impanelled this can't be glossed over or talked about as an unfortunate incident. this is government agencies knowingly, and willfully lying on the fisa court. and for domest pic politicals purposeses just like it did the irs. it is consistent that the administration that used irs against political opponents would use the intelligence system to also spy domesticaly on their opponents. this had is abuse of power and authority like we have never seen in this country. >> lou: part of this rest with the fisa court calling it a lack of candor. >> it is contempt and there should have be

. >> leland: we saw this shift between the bush administration and the obama administration. the obama administration shifted toward homeland security. it will have a security everywhere. now it's shifted back toward taking the fight to the terrorists on their home turf. >> isis said they are going to create a caliphate. what's happening now as they are becoming much more orchestrated. they're saying let's continue admission, but let's do it outside of the area of the caliphate itself. >> leland: that was a big part of president trump's message. creating that center. a little bit more on that coming up. >> julie: meantime, president trump wrapping up his visit to israel and now heading to rome, his final speech emphasizing america's unbreakable bond with israel and condemning the attack on manchester. parents, unable to find their children in the aftermath, fearing for the worst. >> i don't know where she is. i don't know if she's alive even yet. ready or not, here i come. ♪ anyone can dream. making it a reality is the hard part. northrop grumman command and control systems al

but the president is doing something that a lot of administrations don't do. he's jumping into this very early, and pursuing a peace deal, and putting his son-in-law, jared kushner, as a mediator, someone who has great authority within the white house to try, and so any president should be commended for trying to bring the two sides together. i think it's also, there's a lot of significance to what the president is about to do as we look at these live photos. the president is also talked about moving the embassy, the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he made that promise and backtracked on that promise in part i'm sure because he realizes to follow through on that would tip the scales in the negotiations and alien raitt both palestinians and also arab leaders as well. so that's going to be something to watch closely, as well as the religious and political significance of what you are watching here, as you see rabbis and security folks there at the western wall, to see a sitting u.s. president come to visit the wall, oren talks about the politics of it. i

at the previous administration assumed towards the end of their administration and the 1.9% growth rate for the entire 10 year window the cdo growth rate assumed -- cbo assumed, we reject. that is a pessimistic look at what the potential for this country and what this country's people is. we reject that pessimism. and say, we probably should have thated 4% growth because would be aggressive. 3% growth is getting back to normal. i say it again, if you are 30 years old and you are sitting here, you have never had a job as an adult in a healthy american economy. if you had been -- it has either been a recession or a sluggish economy stumbling on it 2% growth. the difference between 2% and 3% growth doesn't sound like much. it is a 50% difference. the difference is tangible. it is 3% economic growth. in a healthy american economy, if you don't like your job, you can quit because you know you can get another job. if you get laid off, you know you can start your own business. opportunities people have forgotten about and these are the things -- the optimism in the country that the president i

a hold jofr from the obama administration. she had gone to don mccann, the white house counsel and said we've intercepted some calls between michael flynn during the transition who at that point had been named as the nominee or the designee as the national security adviser, come conversations between him and the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak in washington. it turns out that what flynn represented that it was just hall greoliday greetings was no case. they had discussed the sanctions that had been put on russia. vice president pens was given bad information. the upshot is michael flynn lost his job. so the interaction between yates and mccann, we can expect her to expand on that. everyone from the president down in the white house has been talking about this publicly. that will give yates for mewmory to talk. we saw the fbi director here on the hill last week tightlipped about it. we can expect yates to be tightlipped as well as jam clapper. he the director of national intelligence during much of the obama administration, h

the u.s. administration to increase the u.s.roops in syria to fight a says and more boots on the ground regarding fighting isis and regarding more involvement, more u.s. involvement in the fighting and then? thank you. >> i think when it comes down to the fight against terrorism, if you look from about 2003 on at the state department reports, the country report done terrorism, saudi arabia identified as it is the partner and counterterrorist them. a lot of that has been expanded to the point where we used to have two security advisory mission in saudi arabia. went out with the national guard and the other with regular forces. the ministry of interior. certainly when it comes down to finding security against terrorism and a critical country in terms of the economy and preserving the flow of gold oil export, there's no question it's been a critical partner. if you look at the details of that, look at the state department report named, which basically is fair to say reflects the views of the national counterterrorism center. that p