. >> i am saying if you look at all of the iconic geniuses in history, the hemingways, the van goghs,colns, the albert einsteins, they all had a mental health diagnosis. if you removed those people from history who had mental health issues, you would have no history. i think it is important that people understand -- and i give you the data in here to support that really having one of these issues actually may mean that you have an ability that even people who don't have these issues, you might have that ability. >> does the overabundance of gift or skill or talent in one area automatically equate to an under -- >> so i know exactly what you're saying. >> yeah, yeah. >> it is not like, oh, you know, we short-term you here so you get to have here, but the way the brain is wired and connected it is often the case that -- for example, with dyslexia, there's something going on in the left hemisphere of the brain that makes it difficult for you to process words and therefore be able to comprehend and read them. but there seems to be something because of that connection that's also connected

when "the federalist" mollie hemingway and mark alderman join us on what many are calling a witch huntplus, the republican health care bill getting a new push tonight from president trump himself as he goes into dealmaker mode. according to one report, levels that threaten some g.o.p. lawmakers. we will tell you about it ahead. >> we must act now to save americans from the imploding obamacare disaster. ♪ hemingway and mark alderman join for lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads here. today there's drug-free aleve direct therapy. a high intensity tens device that uses technology once only in doctors' offices. for deep penetrating relief at the source. aleve direct therapy. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. to take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. spending the day with my niece. that make me smile. i don't use super poligrip for hold, b

when "the federalist" mollie hemingway and mark alderman join us on what many are calling a witch huntplus, the republican health care bill getting a new push tonight from president trump himself as he goes into dealmaker mode. according to one report, levels that threaten some g.o.p. lawmakers. we will tell you about it ahead. >> we must act now to save americans from the imploding obamacare disaster. ♪ >> sandra: developing tonight, knew reaction to a steady drumbeat in the media that pan- candidate president trump's campaign work hand-in-hand with the russians to enact the 2016 election. the allegations persist despite democrats and intel officials from the obama administration saying no such evidence of collusion exists. watch carefully here at the media versus reality. >> we keep getting new information about troubling ties between the president and his associates and his campaign in russia and increasingly, with each new day, just said there were no early indications of any collusion and anyone in the white house. >> well, we have no evidence that at all one way or the othe other

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the smear." mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the medicallist."h all the mockery rachel maddow is getting, did she mishandle this story? >> i think so. i like her and her show is entertaining. but when you are not going to report the news you get in a fair way or realistic way. it hurts your credibility. howe. howie: rachel maddow is really smart, she got 4 million viewers for the show. but this was not handled as a straight news story. >> donald trump is the first presidential candidate in modern history not to release his tax returns. it turned out to be favorable news for donald trump. he makes a lot of money and pays a lot of money in taxes. but it's very news worthy that we have this and it's not illegal to publish these reports it's illegal to leak them. it's a felony up to five years in prison. but publishing is not leaking. howie: msnbc was putting aught a story that ended up being favorable to the president. >> after the break, after the break. howie: don't go away, stay tuned. coming up next. >> 23 minute before we found out donald trump

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, and journalists alike, about the quality of his writing and claims that people call him "the ernest hemingwaytwitter." [ laughter ] though i would say you're just the ernest of twitter. [ applause ] seriously, if ernest hemingway heard you say that, he would kill himself again. [ audience ohs ] [ laughter ] and any hopes that trump would start this week focused on serious issues were shattered when meryl streep -- while not mentioning him by name -- had this to say at the golden globes. >> when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. >> seth: and sure enough, this morning the president-elect responded to streep in a series of tweets, including one that said -- "meryl streep, one of the most overrated actresses in hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the golden globes." overrated? she's so good, people use her to compliment people in other professions. like lebron james is the meryl streep of basketball. or donald trump is the meryl streep of having thin skin. [ laughter ] now, whether these tweets are calculated distractions or just the ramblings of an u

the panel. mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" ." hadas gold, and byron york. everybody is all scared of the snow but i tell you there are some republicans that are scared of this report. they knew it was going to be bad. speaker ryan says he's encouraged. >> it is saying that in the planet would be cheaper and lower premiums but a higher number of uninsured people relative to obamacare which had a lower number of uninsured people but was much more expensive. there's also an issue of the cbo estimates. they are notoriously bad. think back to 2010 when they said that under obamacare you would have 23 million americans insured. it's actually 12 million. they also made a forecasting error. dramatically underestimated the cost of medicaid. we need to keep this in mind. >> bret: it's also important to point out that as they pitch it, it's a three-phase thing whether that is realistic or not. second phase is second price of hhs, here's his reaction. >> they ignored completely the other legislative activities making certain we have an insurance market that works. we d

the civil rights issue of our time. >> martha: how's he doing? our fox news political editor, molly hemingwayor editor at the federalist, and zach buchanan, senior dnc advertiser who honed their trump warm room. let me start with you. thank you for being here. what did you think of the trump administration we? >> i give it a very solid d. the only reason it's not getting a f is that the speech on tuesday met the bar that a trained monkey would have to meet up for it to be a good speech. read from a teleprompter and didn't cause a scandal. so that's why he's getting a d. in less than 24 hours after that speech, he was mired yet again in more scannable involving russia. we learned that members of his administration were in communication with the russians at the same time the russians were helping him get elected. that's why she gets a d. >> after that, i feel like -- >> martha: if you feel like... >> super easy. >> martha: exactly. that's what i was looking for. >> look. it was two administrations in one. we saw the donald trump with a lot of people, republicans and democrats, independence alik

are we seeing what steve bannon called the destruction of the administrative state? mollie hemingwaynd by night away and next their experience is coveted. their leadership is instinctive. they're experts in things you haven't heard of - researchers of technologies that one day, you will. some call them the best of the best. some call them veterans. we call them our team. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night,blind. and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. >> the deconstruction of the meditative state. they were selected for a reason, the deconstruction. the way the progressive left runs is that they can't get it passed, they will put it into some sort of regulation in an agency. that will all be deconstructed. >> martha: that was president trump's steep my chief strategist, steve bannon, describing one of the main objes of this administration. boy, does it have folks in the u.s. bureaucracy uneasy. yesterday, while the media focused on russia and other health care stories, the president chipped away at tha

health care stories, the president chipped away at that administrative state, signing an executive order that required a review of every federal agency to look for cuts. mollie hemingwaytor at the federalist, matt bennett, former deputy assistant to president bill clinton, and cofounder of the third way. this is war. this is battle with the bureaucracy that lives within the beltway of d.c. they are not happy about it, mollie. >> i hope that this is war. i hope the trump administration understands the need to take on the size and scope of our bureaucracy, which has so much power, so many regulations, a really big problem with lack of transparency and lack of accountability. i think people understand, looking at the past few years can we have an irs that targets political opponents. we have a veteran affairs it administration that has systematic incompetence that has led to the death of americans. we have serious problems with bureaucracy and it will require not just executive orders like what we saw yesterday, but the fortitude to see it through to the end, to deal with the waste, fraud, much mismanagement, the control and power that bureaucracy has over americans live

in a "new yorker" article, ernest hemingway reveals to the writer that he once "lived with," "slept witht drunk with" "a close friend," who was a what? >> [laughs] what? [laughter] >> it's hemingway. >> it's hem--of course. uh... i'm not really sure where i'm going with this. >> i know you want to get to that $50,000. but let me just remind you, you are at $30,000. and that is yours to walk away with, should you choose. and now with an incorrect answer, you're giving back $25,000 and you leave with $5,000. no more lifelines. >> um... i'm going through books that i know hemingway's written. i don't-- i don't remember him being a big hunter. remember him being a fisher. none of that helps. um... i... i don't know. it just seems like a weird thing to take a one in four shot at. with nothing to go on, i don't think i can. >> all right. so what are you gonna do? >> i'm-- i'm gonna walk away. final answer. >> okay. [cheers and applause] congratulations. >> [groans] >> what do you think it was? >> [sighs] oh, man. um, i can't even guess between moose, bear, and tiger. >> it was a bear. c, a bea

the votes? lou: we'll find out tomorrow. tammy bruce and mollie hemingway is thought to be a failed process by speaker ryan. i'll never find a safe used car. start at the new carfax.com show me minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.com. ostriches don't really stick their heads in the sand. a peanut is not a nut. and a real john deere is actually real affordable. you learn something new everyday. the surprisingly affordable john deere e series tractors. now you can own america's tractor for just $99 a month. learn more at your john deere dealer. lou: in our online poll last night we asked do you find amusing the dems and the trumpers are twisting themselves into knots that the trump cam was surveilled. 96% said you are amused. joining us now, mollie hemingway, and tammy bruce. great to have you here. let's start with you, mollie. the speaker has just been told by the president, no more negotiating, take the damn vote an has had a belly full. your thoughts. i added

the panel. mollie hemingway, abie's daughter, charles krauthammer. >> people are excited about comey confirming there is an investigation we already kind of knew that. i thought what was interesting was him talking about the level of leak activity we've seen. in his words, how much of it was dead wrong. that does speak to the coordinated campaign we've seen. reference to how few people would've known the name mike flynn and how that was caught up in surveillance. only a few people at the highest levels of the obama administration would've had access to that information. that somehow made it into the press. we've seen this ongoing campaign and we have a lot to learn about how those things came out and what it means about what the obama administration was doing or how much it knew about the campaign. >> bret: i talked to brit. adam schiff laying out a case that if there is collusion, what it would look like and asking questions along that line but trey gowdy laying out the case about the leaks and help mike flynn's name gets out there. >> mike flynn lost his job because he was in discussing sancti

the coverage. erin mcpike and mollie hemingway, and joe trippi. if you said this was the end of donald trump's presidency -- >> i wouldn't lump lawrenceo donnell in with the rest of the media. it wasn't just the media democrats cast it as a huge victory for them. but it was covered and talked about like a football game. healthcare is supposed to be a very personal issue. now you have people in the country wondering what hhs is going to do to implement healthcare and obamacare. we should be asking the rest of the country what they thought about how it was covered. howie: nobody liked this bill in the end. but do you have the sense many in the press are celebrating the outcome? >> that's what it seemed like. it was such a defeat for donald trump because people want to bring them down. but it's good for the media to cover it's just the level of hysteria that goes along with that is a bit much. in november the media coverage tone was democracy is dead. moist's look at these clowns, they can't get a bill passed. it has to do with why people don't take t

with us to share the reporting and insides, margaret talob of the bloomberg news, molly hemingway, and jackie cue skuci. day 47 is not unfolding the way the trump administration had hoped. >> i am recusing myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the united states. i feel like that i am -- i should not be involved in investigating a campaign i had a role in. >> now, for the record, it was jeff sessions right there, not democrats, who gave misleading testimony to congress. it wasn't democrats who met with the russian ambassador at last year's republican convention and it wasn't the democrats who invited the russian ambassador to a meeting at the trump tower. the president wants you to see this is all politics. the democrats are overplaying their hand he said last night. they lost the election now they lost their grip on reality. the real story, the president says, is all the illegal leaks, classified and other information, it is, the president says, a total witch hunt. welcome to day 43. interesting politics. w

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and the trumpers are twisting themselves into knots that the trump cam was surveilled. 96% said you are amused. joining us now, mollie hemingway you here. let's start with you, mollie. thspeaker has just been told by the president, no more negotiating, take the damn vote an has had a belly full. your thoughts. i added the belly full. molly: there is something to be said for just having a vote on this. they learned they could repeal more than they thought through the senate reconciliation process. you can get some moderate on board as well. it might be time to just start over from the beginning and do a much better job with this whole process. lou: tammy, do you think it president is right, if this fails we'll move on to tax reform. tammy: i think that's his art of the deal. he needs to convey to these children he's not going to baby them anymore. they are not going to have the vote in the dead of night. they are going to do it in the daytime so every american can see the debate and every one of those people votes and how they behave. that's one way for daddy to get those children in line and it's appropriate. paul ryan says th

the panel. stephen hayes, charles lane, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalists. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. is a lot going on in washington. we heard a lot of different topics touched on. i want to bring up something that was a tweet from the president. this is from the real donald trump account. "democrats are smiling in d.c. that the freedom caucus have saved planned parenthood and obamacare." if they're going to get to the rest of the agenda and the other things they have to do, they've got to kiss and make up. >> yeah, what we've seen from virtually everybody involved is taking shots at one another and making up are trying to make nice. a lot of it taking place behind the scenes. if you are looking for who to blame on what happened, the answer is everyone. the president, house leadership, freedom caucus. i happen to be sympathetic to the substantive argument that freedom caucus made and i share their disappointment that the original bill wasn't more free market and didn't push more aggressively toward the kind of real reforms we needed -- we nee

the president wants a vote. let's bring in our panel. mollie hemingwayris stirewalt, and karen, national political correspondent, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? >> i think they are serious about this. it does i'll hang in the balance. what i find curious is, this has been categorized as a great ideological debate between the moderates and the leadership and a freedom caucus, but the fact is that what they disagree on is procedure. what ryan has tried to do is to get this through reconciliation. simply a structure under which you only need 51 votes in the senate. and that is what has been doing this because, on account of that, he's had to do the phase three, which is the stuff that the conservatives want, but he can't do it now. what i do not understand is, why you don't just load up the spill with the stuff that everybody wants, ryan and the conservatives, meaning tort reform, buying insurance across state lines, and stripping away the onerous obama mandates, stripped them all away. if it dies in the senate from a filibuster, the

the panel. tom bevan, mollie hemingway, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. tom, what do you think? the fallout of the speech and what you heard today from all sides. >> easily his best news day since he took office. he sort of have these glowing reviews pretty much across the political spectrum. he managed not to step on his own good news day. he tweeted early this morning "thank you." that was it. that's a change for him. we've seen him do that a few times since he took office and coupled with the run-up in the dow, new high. this was easily his best news day so far. >> bret: let's listen to the treasury secretary. just heard from devon newness. >> our objective is to pass tax reform by the august recess and that's a very aggressive timetable but realistic and something that president and i are committed to doing. >> by august, voted, done, agreed. by august? >> i am hopeful. a lot of education has to occur which is why i'm coming on your show talking about tax reform. >> bret: different optimism. hopeful versus it's happening. >> it's interesting how for the last month we've had o

the cbo has painted a very dark picture. >> martha: let's go to mollie hemingway. you are listening to this, what you think? >> it is not a battle between trump and the conservative members of the house. it is a failure of republican leadership in the house. when you think back to what happened, when obamacare was pushed through in 2010, american voters responded by giving democrats the worst defeat of any major party since world war ii. then, republican said, we need more, give us the senate. voters gave them the senate in 2014. then, republicans said, that's not enough, give us a republican in the white house. they did that in 2016. now, they can repeal? it's not a repeal. whatever you want to say about it, it doesn't repeal obamacare and it doesn't replace it. it keeps the medicaid expansion. it keeps the premiums high on insurance companies and it adds entitlements. it's true that republicans won't be happy if republicans were elected to congress and they don't repeal and replace obamacare. that is why it needs major change before it goes forward. >> martha: ant

the feds? thanks, director comey. mollie hemingway joins me. welcome. >> great to be here. kennedy: should we be worried about privacy and its total sacrifice at so-called altar of security? >> absolutely. we don't have an expectation of absolute privacy so make sure when you are talking to a priest or attorney, make sure they are willing to keep the information private. we accepted the surveillance state at local, state and federal level. or nsa pick up meta data on millions of americans. kennedy: or the nsa reading every email transmission that comes in and out of this country. mollie: the distance between the government and the people is even greater and there is a secretive bureaucracy that's powerful and doesn't feel the need to be transparent about what it's doing. kennedy: you said you used to hear people say do what you want, it's a free country. >> i heard that all the time when i was growing up. you would be told, it's a free country, people dock what they want. that's the not happening anymore. you don't hear that statement or sentiment or that general way of lif

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. >> bret: you heard the chairman pushing back against that, saying it's not true. let's bring in our panel. julie pace, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. we are seeing the details, julie. it's of the structure we thought it would be but perhaps more detailed on the tax credits and exactly who's getting it and who's not afraid >> that was important. it's a central question going forward. how people who aren't able to afford insurance on their own are going to be able to offset the costs. you are seeing some obvious areas where republicans are going to be concerned, people like rand paul coming out and calling this obamacare lite. one of the things i'm going to be watching for is how involved is president trump and working the phones with the publicans were going to be on the fence. this is his first major legislative priority as president, and he's going to have to kind of work some of his own party to ensure he can get a bill passed. doing mollie, we know secretary price has a long history of dealing with this as a congressman, as does mick mulvaney. we are

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." a.b. stoddard and chris stirewalt, politics editor at fox news. mollie, they didn't have the votes. can they have the votes? is there so much pushback there's not enough skin in the game for these people who are against it that they don't fear any fallback? >> they have been rushing this. no need for the rush. doesn't need to be a failure for trump. doesn't need to be a failure for republicans paid what they have to do is repeal the law. the previous iteration did not do it great if it takes time to work it out and fix it and do something other than keep the fundamental architecture of obamacare, they should do that. >> bret: can they get there tomorrow? >> that's a rush and i don't know they can. it's good they are taking their time and it's good to know they don't have the votes and it's good to know conservatives are able to make the case they don't want to push something through that isn't up to their standards. whether we can get there tomorrow is another thing entirely. >> bret: the

the brown couch." kind of getting into like hemingway-land, you know? n? that's not meaningful." cut it. "jane sat on the couch." and then, if you're like me, and i have this really active inner nun, you're kind of like, "why is it meaningful that she sits on the friggin' couch?" [ light laughter ] so you cut that. [ laughter ] and you just have jane. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> but -- >> seth: and then you go to work. >> but you don't suck yet. but, that is a way of conveying respect. you're saying to the reader, "i know you're as smart as i am, as worldly, as experienced, as good-hearted, so i'm not going to waste your time with phrases that haven't been considered, basically." >> seth: well, i've never read one of yours that didn't seem considered. thank you for this fantastic book and everything that came before it. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: it's so heart-breaking, but so funny. >> thank you. >> seth: it's always such a pleasure to see you. george saunders, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] "lincoln in the bardo" is in stores

here to weigh in on this is senior editor of the federalist mollie hemingway. points. tell the viewer at home who hasn't read basically your thoughts on. this it says something about washington, d.c. that it's not couples who are unfaithful that draw attention but couples that do. here you have a marriage that has lasted for many decades that has been not just successful but very intimate and close and they have guidelines that they have set up, no dinners alone, no boozing it up unless the spouses are together. and a lot of people were genuinely truly upset. it's almost boggles the mind that people could be upset about some simple guidelines for how to have a successful marriage. ainsley: this was original quote he wrote in 2002 if there are alcohol being served and people being loose i want to have the the best-looking brunette in the room standing next to me. i would be so glad and honored he is protecting our marriage. >> everyone has different guidelines and this is theirs. a lot of people saying this sexist that he won't booze it up with a woman who is no

. >> tucker: we are joined right now by mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," and danielalper, senior editor atat the august "washington post." welcome to you both. were you surprised by his answer?ps he didn't seem upset about the release of these tax returns. >> he didn't even deny that he knew about it. he just said it did not come from the white house. i'm not suggesting that he did,e just if you listen to the answer, it is a little strange. the tax returns actually did him a favor, right? a lot of people were interested and there is a lot of speculation, hillary clinton was going on suggesting he paid no taxes or he perhaps did something illegal.g it does not seem that is the case. only a couple of pages here. there's probably hundreds of thousands of pages over the years, obviously we are curious to see more, but this has sort of diffused the whole talk about tax return. >> tucker: i thought the mostor interesting part of the entire interview, which i'm sure will be ignored by everybody, was his response about relative tax rates. for some reason, it's a bedrock prin

come on back please, senior editor, now at the federalist, molly hemingway. ain. >> great to be here. stuart: what do you mean we can't trust the media? what do you mean by that. >> everyone is different, many in the media you can trust but overall there is overarching narrative many in the media push, make it hard to trust what they're saying what you need to know. take for instance the president's approval rating as byron reported himself, the president had a pretty low approval rating on the day he was elected t might not be a best metric to judge the success of this president. if you look at booming economy, that might suggest people have different views about the president. one of the most undercoverred issues throughout the 2016 campaign people's frustration with the sluggish obama economy. last year gdp growth was 1.6%, the lowest in five years. president obama was the first modern president to never have a single year of economic growth above 3%. this is, these are also interesting changes would be good for the media to cover as they have all the breat

the trump team, whether he requested physical surveillance, monitoring, or administrating subpoenas, known as national security letters, to gather information for you >> martha: thank you very much. joining us now, mollie hemingway, fox news contributor and senior editor for the follower federalist. william mcgurn, and matt bennett, former deputy assistant to president bill clinton. welcome to all of you. good to have you here this evening for evening. mollie, let me start with you. these calls also from walter jones, the first republican in the house to say that he believes that devin nunes should step down. what do you think? >> you have not just had him, but a few others who are known for having a lot of belief and faith and intelligence agencies and are not so concerned about civil liberties. what we have here is a big story about intelligence agencies capturing information on private american citizens and widely disseminating it. that is a huge scandal and one that we need to get to the bottom off. we have only begun to get some information as it is something that needs to keep going. it is not that surprising that certain people who are really cozy with intelligence agencies are nervous about devin nunes b