Capable of firing artillery rounds about 20 miles to their targets. That will bring these marines very close to the iraqi state, the increase in the posture in syria comes days after the u. S. Military sent another group of u. S. Special Operations Forces in northwest syria, an increasingly crowded battlefiel battlefield. Turkish groups, kurdish groups and russian forces. Top u. S. Commander in iraq which oversees the war against isis said these forces are within grenade range. Donald trump accepted a plan from defense secretary jim mattis how to accelerate they mission against isis. Heres what donald trump said in his joint address to congress a few days ago. I directed the department of defense to develop a plan to demolish and destroy isis, a network of lawless savages that have slaughtered muslims and christians and men and women and children of all faiths and all beliefs. We will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the muslim world to extinguish this vile enemy from our planets. President trump has not revealed plans publicly. Tomorrow and capitol hill, the head of the u. S. Military Central Command will be briefing congress, the Senate Armed Services committee. Expect questions from lawmakers about this plan to defeat isis. Now that they have confirmed conventional u. S. Forces on the ground in syria to defeat isis to go along with some other army units weve reported about. Rocket artillery into raqqa, part of this ramp up to defeat and crush and destroy isis. Bret Lucas Tomlinson at the pentagon. More on this with the panel. Fight firm mosul inside iraq. Now to a fight of a different type here in washington and one thats shaping up to be a political battle of epic proportions. House republicans are at war with each other tonight over the leaderships plan, depending on your perspective, to replace a faltering obamacare with a better alternative or just put a fresh coat of paint on a broken down structure that will remain in place. John roberts is at the white house with what President Trump is doing to promote the new plan. We start with chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel, a tension packed capitol hill. House committees are working getting a first crack at the g. O. P. Health care proposal. Democratic strategy appears to be to delay it, hoping it will be enough to stop it. I said i would like to make a motion to postpone the markup for 30 days. I dont understand why thats not in order. I moved to table the motion, if its a motion. Did your staff provide it . As the chairman, you are trying to rush the bill. Resistance on the republican effort to scrap and replace obamacare. You are afraid of sunshine and we will insist that if the spotlight and the public is going to react, i assure you. Lets not rewrite history. You claim you had a cbo estimate. You did not. You had a letter. Wasnt based on the bill. It was based on specifications by a 3committee working group. Kevin brady tried to keep moving forward. The most important thing for all americans to know is we will ensure that our legislation meets the instructions before it reaches the house floor. Democrats took swipes at the bill and even President Trump. With this bill needs is some extreme vetting. We are being asked to vote without knowing how much it costs and without knowing what size it is. A stick of the budget the Congressional Budget Office would weigh in. The only question about the cbo, is going to be good or great . White House Press Secretary notes cbo has been wrong on health care before. If you are looking there for accuracy, youre looking at the wrong place. They were way, way off last time in every aspect of how they scored and projected obamacare. One criticism is that the legislation doesnt fully repeal obamacare. The very first paragraph says it amends the Affordable Care act. It doesnt repeal it. The American People want us to repeal it and replace it with something different. Congressional sources say it isnt fair because full repeal is not allowed under reconciliation. Paul ryan continues trying to rally the republican conference. This is the covenant we made with the American People when we ran on a repeal and replace plan in 2016. This is what our bill does. After this morning meeting, a conservative said he didnt think the geo g. O. P. Plan would work. Nothing with costcontainment price reduction health care. We are designing a system thats not going to lower costs. A white house ally emphasized the stakes are incredibly high. If the republican conference doesnt pass it, our agenda goes down the tube. We have to get obamacare repealed and replaced before we can begin tax reform. Bret fox news has confirmed a republican has asked g. O. P. Members if they are with the president in favor of the package, trying to push conservatives to get on board. Senior white house Officials Say the Health Care Bill is open for negotiation and could possibly be changed along the way to passage and when the final bill is presented, the administration and congressional leadership will make it a binary choice. If you vote for it or watch obamacare collapse and Insurance Companies flee. The question is, does President Trump have any leverage on skeptical republicans or even some democrats to push the Health Care Bill across the finish line . Senior Officials Say the president will make a number of trips to push it. White house is not confirming a trip on saturday but the louisville courier journal is reporting officials they are preparing for a president ial visit. Kentucky is home to senator rand paul, one of the most vocal critics of the American Health care act as it stands today. Worth noting candidate donald trump won 118 of kentuckys 120 counties november, six more counties than sitting senator rand paul won in his reelection bid. The election math may play out with house members too. For the conservative Freedom Caucus, candidate trump overwhelmingly won each member. Trump actually got more votes than several of the representatives in the caucus. Take a look at the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, mark Meadows North carolina. President trump won 16 of 16 counties in the district, 76 of 100 counties in North Carolina and he came just shy of the congressmans vote total in that district. In floridas sixth district, candidate trump got more votes than Freedom Caucus congressman rhonda santos, winning all four of the four counties in the district. In west virginias second district, candidate trump got almost 20,000 more votes than Freedom Caucus congressman alex mooney, overwhelmingly winning all 17 counties in the district in west virginia. It is not just the leverage on health care but on the judge gorsuchs nomination. The pressure will be on the senate democrats. Up for reelection in states where candidate donald trump won more than 80 of the counties. Claire mccaskill, candidate trump won 111 out of 114 counties. In montana, the democrat runs in a state where candidate trump won 50 out of 56 counties. Joe manchin running for reelection were all 55 counties voted for donald trump. In the indiana, joe donnelly is running in a state where 88 of 92 counties went to donald trump. There are seven other states just like that which is why outside groups supporting the Trump Administration are already running issue ads and many of these 11 states. One of them came out today. For decades, americas president s have broken their promises. They have deceived us, push their political agenda. If you like your doctor or Health Care Plan, you can keep it. Now we finally have a president committed to keeping his promises. Above all else, we will keep our promises to the American People. Support the president and tell the liberals not to fight the trump agenda. Bret President Trump is meeting with conservative Republican Leaders about the Health Care Bill at the white house but its a moderate republican who is at the center of breaking news. John roberts joins us live from the north lawn with details of a major diplomatic appointment. Good evening. Fox news has learned President Trump has tapped the former utah governor in 2012 president ial candidate jon huntsman junior to be the new United States ambassador to russia. Sources say President Trump called huntsman, who was the ambassador to china in the obama administration, ambassador to singapore under bush 41. Offered him the job and huntsman excepted. He will go through the vetting process and he will be off to moscow. As the president uses his top man in moscow to deal with vladimir putin, he is putting the hard sell on his Health Care Plan to skeptical republican conservatives. The president invited leaders of some of the most prominent conservative groups opposed to the American Health care act. The president is proud of the product weve produced. We are in full sell mode talking about how this is the best way to solve the problem the American People face. The groups have labeled the new Health Care Bill obamacare lite, a warmed over substitute from government run health care. The president s senior counselor indicated it was at least some room for compromise. The president has made it clear this is the plan but that the president has use the word negotiation. Theres also a process of play. Everyone knows is this American Health care act makes its way through the normal channels it probably will be changed somewhat. The president was looking down the road and looking to address the cost of prescription drugs, meeting with elijah cummings, who has had harsh words in the past for the president. He was enthusiastic and he was clearly aware of the problem and he made it clear to us he wanted to do something about it. Cummings had another message for the president about his dire descriptions about the africanamerican community. Most africanAmerican People are doing very good and we hear those words about carnage and we are living in depressed situations, i told him it was hurtful. The president will work to sell the Health Care Plan to senator ted cruz, inviting crews and his wife to the white house for dinner. A year ago, ted cruz was ripping the president for sending out a nasty tweet about heidi. I dont get angry often but you mess with my wife and kids, that will do it. Donald, you are a sniveling coward. Sean spicer is predicting a far different dialogue tonight they are looking forward to a great dinner. The president is going to engage with everyone who can help with ideas and thoughts and opinions on how to move the country forward so he looks forward to dinner tonight. Next week, we will get a better idea of what it will take to fulfill his plans to rebuild the military. s omb director releases more detailed budget numbers. Because the president not adg to the deficit. Conservatives are skeptical of the budget blueprint, worried the assumptions about revenue and spending and cuts just wont add up. Mick mulvaney, on tuesday, we are told, will host a bowling and pizza party here. Selling the members of the Freedom Caucus on the budget and the Health Care Plan. Bret john roberts, thank you. President trump is seeking to slash billions of dollars from the coast guard, tsa, and fema to pay for the border wall and immigration crackdown. White house Budget Office proposal would pump up the budget for immigration and customs by about 36 but it would, the cost cost of several major programs. Sean spicer would only say the administration is trying to move ahead with existing Homeland Security funds first and will release its full budget soon. Fbi director james comey says he intends to serve out the remainder of his 10year term. He told a conference in boston you are stuck with me for another six and a half years. Comey has been involved in a lot of political intrigue. This weekend he asked the Justice Department to publicly reject an allegation from President Trump that his new York Business phones were tapped under the orders from thenpresident obama. Laster, comey wade and twice on the Hillary Clinton email scandal that clinton aides openly blame for her loss. Theres more fallout from the leaking of topsecret information about how the cia supposedly monitors electronic devices. Supposedly just bad people. But could that include all of us . Catherine herridge has the latest. A u. S. Government official tells fox news that the fbi has launched a criminal investigation after wikileaks posted more than 8,000 documents allegedly from the cia cyber unit. The white house would neither confirm nor deny authenticity, sean spicer said there appears to be a double standard. The interest and outrage last year by a lot of democrats when it came to leaks, were not hearing as much outrage now. Among revelations that apples iphone was the target of programs that exploit previously unknown weaknesses, allowing the ca to capture audio and video recordings as well as extract user data and contacts. Apple said in the statement while our initial analysis indicates that many of the issues today or patched in the latest ios, we will continue work to rapidly address any identified vulnerabilities. Former intelligence officials and Cyber Security experts have the evidence points to an insider the likelihood Government Contractors were involved. I can say the ability to do this can be attributed to me before or five bad actors. Russia, china, perhaps a large organized criminal group. But this is a sophisticated act or. Emphasized cyber spying tools are not turned on u. S. Citizens, Michael Hayden defended the cia. These tools would not be used against an american. Why not . Americans are the ones who buy the samsung tvs. There are some bad people in the world who have samsung tvs. Nsa develops tools. Cia develops tools we can use. Those secrets have apparently been spilled by wikileaks, the same group that posted former nsa contractor edward students stolen records. Rush our recently extended snowdens asylum. Two eyes in the Intelligence Community of integrated and it means we have to refocus and continue to rebuild and be able to understand what our adversaries are trying to hide from us. Former intelligence official says some documents are from last fall and not beyond, indicating the breach had stopped. Fox news has learned that a cia memo directs employees not to discuss the leaks or view the documents online. Bret thank you. Up next, the armies storied 101st Airborne Division being asked to do more with less than indepth exclusive report from fox news from fort campbell, kentucky. Here is what some of our affiliates are covering. Fox 9 in the twin cities where the youngest son of the virginia democratic senator and former Vice President ial nominee tim kaine was arrested during an antitrump protest. 24yearold lynwood kane and for others are suspected of the lighting a smoke bomb inside the Minnesota State capitol. Fox 12 in portland, Oregon Lawmakers consider a proposal to provide free postage for election ballots. It would cost about 650,000 a year. Oregon is 1 of 3 states that conduct elections entirely by mail. This is a live look at austin, texas, from fox 7. State legislators are considering a transgender bathroom bill. Legislation cleared a first vote after 13 hours of Public Comment dominated by transgender rights supporters who oppose the measure. A Senate Committee advance the proposal that would require people to use public bathrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificates. Their birth certificates. Thats tonights live look fro did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Bret tonight a fox news exclusive, a storied military unit hurt by budget cuts forced to do more with less. Now having difficulty performing its mission. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has this indepth story from fort campbell, kentucky. In 20003 at the start of the iraq war, the u. S. Military relied on the 101st Airborne Division to transport roughly 4,000 american troops deep into Enemy Territory in one night. Landing in mosul, forcing the iraqi army to fight on two fronts. Dwight eisenhower relied on the screaming eagles to jump behind enemy lines on dday. After six years of budget cuts, Army Commanders say would be difficult to carry out those operations today. We used to have two Aviation Brigades, over 200 aircraft. Now we are at slightly 100 aircraft. If you had to move out tomorrow and do a brigadelevel assault, could you do it . We could not. This train was apparent when we visited fort campbell, kentucky. Our requirements havent reduced so you have an inexperienced Maintenance Group that has to support a hightempo of support. P is the commander of the Aviation Brigades. When this combat Aviation Brigade deployed to afghanistan, they had to leave their maintainers behind. The result, nearly 1,000 Army Helicopter mechanics lost nearly a year of training. They are skills atrophied and some of the most senior experienced apache mechanics left for other jobs. Our maintainers didnt have a fleet of aircraft to work on. The military had to spend 106 million to on contractors to do the job. He is and apache pilots. The decision to leave their maintainers at home is nearly doubled maintenance time. 30 to 45 days normally. Here its taking Something Like 60 days based on experience. Its not just a shortage of experience. These world war ii era buildings are spread across fort campbell, leading to more inefficiencies. If we look at the ceiling, you can see the water damage causing the wood to begin to dry rot. Robert hale, who served the obama administration, warned that military is exaggerating the readiness problem. This is the time when the Services Want to put their worst foot forward and make clear all the problems that are there, so i think we have to be a little skeptical. He raised alarm bells when he testified that 3 out of 58 army combat brigades could deploy right now. When we say fight tonight, that means that unit needs no additional people, training, and no additional equipment. Three is where we are at. Commanders trip with a need from other units. When you reduce the overall size of the military and reduce the amount of brigades you have to deploy, you have to demand the demand goes up. The army downsized by 40,000 soldiers two years ago. Now it wants 30,000 more troops. President trumps budget will increase funding for the military by 54 billion but some of this cant be solved by new recruits. Those troops still have to fix old equipment, and that takes time. At fort campbell, kentucky, Jennifer Griffin, fox news. Bret china is warning what it calls a headon collision with the u. S. , south korea, and north korea. The communist north continues its Ballistic Missile program while the south and u. S. Engage in highprofile war games. Rich edson is following the action from the state departmen department. China is proposing a deal between north korea and the United States. North korea should suspend its nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs and the u. S. Should hold its annual ongoing military exercises with south korea. The answer from the u. S. State this is apples and oranges. What were doing with with south korea is in no way comparable to the blatant disregard north korea has shown with respect to International Law and International Concerns about its Nuclear Weapons program. The state Department Says north korea must move first and this morning u. S. Ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, summed up north Korean Leader kim jongun. We are not dealing with a rational person. North korea is advancing its Nuclear Weapons program. Of the u. S. Has deployed a Missile Defense system to south korea. China sees it as a threat wants to reduce regional tensions. Translator the two sides are like two accelerating trains coming toward each other and neither side is willing to give way. The question is, are both sides really prepared for a headon collision . Next week, Rex Tillerson will travel to japan, south korea, china. State Department Says north koreas Weapons Technology has reached a point where the u. S. And china needs to examine responses beyond sanctions and as engagement with china intensifies, the Associated Press reports the Chinese Government has granted preliminary approval for nearly 40 trump trademarks to allow the trump Family Business to develop ventures and hotels, insurance, bodyguard and escort services. Ben cardin, the top democrat on the Senate ForeignRelations Committee writes office in beijing have come to appreciate the potential return on investment for china and having a positive personal business relationship with the president of the United States who has not taken appropriate and transparent steps to sever his relationship from the corporation that bears his name. The white house says the president has extracted himself from the Trump Organization and says he has no knowledge or input in these types of developments. Bret rich edson live at the state department. Isis terrorists dressed as doctors stormed a Military Hospital in afghanistan today, killing and injuring dozens of people. John huddy has details from our middle east newsroom. The sound of gunfire crackled from the Military Hospital today. Afghan police and military forces stormed the building, trading fire with the isis militants disguised as doctors who killed more than 30 people. Wounded more than 50 others. This is reportedly a picture isis released of one of the four attackers. All were killed. Translator the fighting started and we were trying to figure out what to do. To attackers dressed in white coats go to the fourth floor. Two of my friends were killed. Isis has been in afghanistan since 2014 but the taliban is the dominant militant group in the country. Its been responsible for a series of recent attacks. Todays violence underscores the Security Problems in a country where terror groups are able to carry out largescale attacks, often targeting military and medical foods little days facilities. Translator a hospital is a protected place in any religion at any faith. An attack on a hospital is an attack on all afghan people. The Military Hospital is very near the u. S. Embassy in kabul. John nicholson, commander of u. S. Forces in afghanistan, called todays attack and unspeakable crime. Bret john huddy, thank you. The father of a slain u. S. Military member spoke out against president donald trump, candidate donald trump, at the Democratic Convention says his travel is being restricted by the government. That is according to the washington post. Its a story thats gone viral recently. Khizr kahn maintains he was forced to schedule a cancel a speech in toronto. The Canadian ForeignMinistry Says it has nothing to do with the situation. The post reports the u. S. Government cannot prevent citizens with the passport from traveling if they have not been charged with a crime. Some american women are replacing work shoes with walking shoes. Many refused to show up to their jobs, instead taking part in protests designed to put an emphasis on their importance to society. Not everyone is going along with the program. Julia banderas shows us. It is International Womens day and around the world, women are making their voices heard, holding rallies on almost every continent including several in the mideast, calling attention to lower wages, sexual harassment, discrimination, and other issues women face every day. In my opinion, womens rights are humans rights. We are fighting for everyones rights. In the u. S. , women are being encouraged to take part in a day without a woman, a massive nationwide strike thing held from boston to los angeles. Thousands of women speak out for equality to highlight the impact women have on the global and domestic economy. Todays rally is the 4th of 10 protests slated for the Trump Administrations first 100 days, organized by the womens march group. Early this morning, President Trump weighing in on twitter, writing i have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy. As lawmakers urging focus on womens issues on capitol hill, nancy pelosi also chiming in at a rally in the nations capital. When women succeed, the world succeeds. Here we are, and a day without a woman, just imagine what that would be if we could take it to its fullest extent. But some women encounter the protest by going to work today and share their reasons for doing so with a hashtag weshowup on twitter. They say by not showing up to work, women arent sending a unified message. Having teachers and other people stay home, we are not coming together for the cause that women can fight for. 13 people were arrested in new york city. Organizers say dozens of schools were shut down across the country. Critics would argue politics has no place in the classroom. Bret julia banderas, thank you. Stocks were mixed. Dow was down six to nine. S p 500 lost 5. Nasdaq was up for trying. House republicans have a plan to repeal and replace obamacare and now the battle is on. We will talk about it all with the panel when we come you promised the American People they are going to repeal and replace obamacare and this is what you come up with . This is a bad joke. People who didnt like obamacare are going to hate this. A prescription for disaster. As President Trump often says, bad, sad. We are fulfilling these promises in a very transparent and thoughtful manner. What may be the most important bill i will have worked on in my career. Im going to applaud President Trump for working with us to bring forward a common sense bill that lets patients be in charge of health care. The markup sounds and sights from those Committee Hearings where the bill is actually being written and will likely be changed along the way as there is pushback, not only from democrats but as you heard from republicans. Where are we on this . Stephen hayes, mara liasson, National Political correspondent at National Public radio and matt schlapp. Okay, mara, the sound and fury of the pushback. When push comes to shove at the end of this i think they are going to have the votes. Bret why do you say that . This is really important. They cant do much of anything else without doing this. Also paul ryan seems very, very confident and he has a nice cushion in the house. He can afford to lose around 20 conservative republicans if they dont want to vote for it. Bret . I think he can pull it off. Whats interesting to me is that if the president starts putting pressure on some of the conservative republicans. He is going to kentucky bret not confirming it. Putting pressure on rand paul. To me whats really going to be interesting is over time the way its craft, the people whose Health Care Costs are going to go up are people between 40 and 64. Too young for medicare. A lot of those people are trump voters, and the people whose costs go down our younger millennials and they potentially will have Cheaper Health Care because the ratio will be changed. You can charge older people more than you are now. Those are not trump voters. Bret the pushback is from conservatives to say this is not fully being repealed and it leaves an entitlement state in place. The leadership is saying its in three phases, and it seems like they had a hard time explaining it off the getgo. There is this first part and then the regulatory part secretary price does and then theres the other piece of legislation dealing with across the lines and other elements that are attractive to republicans. Conservatives are right in their criticism and my colleague at the washington examiner, an expert on this. Liberals have won the central philosophical argument and republicans are reduced to fighting over the mechanics. That is the fight we are watching take place. I dont agree with mara. I dont think this bill passes. There is an evolution and Something Like it could pass or something with revisions could pass because ultimately the question leadership is going to post to conservatives and others is do you want to be for obamacare or this . Bret a binary choice. If you believe as philip klein suggests that this is basically obamacare lite. You are accepting the structure of obamacare and the philosophical underpinnings, that basically this is a question of universal access. Rather than a question about cost and freedom to choose in quality and care and health outcomes. What do you gain . Republicans want to own the politics of it. Bret that the tax credits are leveling the Playing Field, that its a reverse of the subsidies and that its leveling the Playing Field on taxes. And then market places, when you create, in phase three, across state lines and tort reform, that creates the market by which costs go down. I think part of the argument is reasonably compelling, these tax credits are no doubt better than the original subsidies even though your hearing they have effectively the same thing. Thats one part of one part of one part of the argument. Not the whole argument. This is the fundamental political fact. They have to pass an alternative. I think the alternative will change greatly and paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell would be very smart to have a freewheeling amendment process. Allow conservatives to feel like they are part of the creation of the bill but nobody should be mistaken. At the end of the day, if republicans failed to replace and repeal obamacare, they are going to be hurting going forward. Bret here is some congressman and Kellyanne ConwaKellyanne Conway. We are going to go into this and try to make the bill better if we can but right now its not what we told the voters we are going to do. The very first paragraph says it amends the Affordable Care act. Doesnt repeal it. Everyone knows is this American Health care act makes its way through the normal channels, it probably will be changed somewhat. Bret and then this is House Speaker ryan talks about it. What you are seeing is we are going through the inevitable growing pains of being an Opposition Party to becoming a governing party. Being an Opposition Party, we had divided government. 64 of our members have never known what its like to work with a republican president to have a unified government. Bret in other words, theyve got to make something happen. Because they promised this for seven years. This is their number one campaign promise. They have to it to get onto anything else. Bret but are there going to be enough people who say we dont have to do this, because i didnt agree to this. In the end, they are going to say you cannot undercut a new president on his first big legislative bret how much Political Capital will President Trump invest in it . Does it all of a sudden become ryan care . We dont know. He says he is in selling mode. He is going to go out there. Bret breitbart is already calling it ryan care. One of the things that strikes me as we are not seeing the campaign now. Its great if there is a campaign to come, find. Where is it . Why havent they been building the case . I thought the president missed an opportunity in the joint session addressed to tell the story of obamacare. There are Great Stories to be told about how much damage obamacare is done. Raising premiums, all of the stories that People Like Us who do this for a living know, but i dont think the story is well known and yesterday tom price took the podium and said obamacare is collapsing. You know the story. And i thought to myself, people dont really know the story. Part of the john republicans will have is telling the story and republicans always like to jump to budgets and they like to jump to numbers than they like to jump to facts. Part of what you have to do is tell the story, and they havent taken the time to tell the story and i think now after you are receiving republicans beating each other up, telling the story now becomes harder. Bret part of the story is that the Insurance Companies are leaving. Thats right. It is imploding, thats a fact. President trump has said he knows obamacare is going to be its own demise pretty soon but the responsible thing is to come forward. We really have been telling the story and guess what . The American People bought it and they think obamacare is the failure. Paul ryan is right. It is time to step up. You have to do it in a way people feel included and the way this was rolled out today, they dont feel that way. Bret nextel, President Trump dealing with north korea and china. Breaking news about u. S. Marines on the ground in syria. I directed the department of defense to develop a plan to demolish and destroy isis, a network of lawless savages that have slaughtered muslims and christians and men and women and children of all faiths and all beliefs. We will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the muslim world, to extinguish this file enemy from our planet. Bret of course, President Trump in the joint address to congress. Now we are getting confirmation from pentagon officials that u. S. Marines, a detachment of u. S. Marines is now on the ground in syria, somewhere near the capital of raqqa, but it is part of this operation to go after isis on the ground. The deployment is expected to be talked about by the head of u. S. Central command up on capitol hill tomorrow, and you have a situation where you knew there were hundreds of special operators working with local indigenous forces, as you see isis control both in iraq and syria, now u. S. Marines on the ground, a different element, a different side to the war in syria. We are back with the panel. This is significant. I think it could be significant. What you have under president obama with respect to isis was fighting not to lose. The president didnt want to have attacks here on the u. S. Homeland. He wasnt engaged in the way you would expect to win back the battle against isis. Even though we had periodic successes. I think the difference is, donald trump is committed to win. He wants to defeat isis, as he said. At some point, hes going to have to explain this, talk to the American People about what he is doing. We heard reports about the increased air war against isis, hearing now but these ground troops. Hes going to have to explain this. He has a long history of saying, we dont want to give her what were doing, we need the element of surprise. Bret a fair point. Thats true, but one thing obama didnt do well was talk about the wars we are fighting, we kept fighting in afghanistan. The president and commander in chief owes it to the troops and the country to talk about what were doing. Bret is your sense come out tomorrow, that there is a full court press here . That he wants it faster, not like this longterm plan . I think he wants it faster, but how many more troops as a going to take, how long did that to be there, even after you get rid of isis in a certain area, how long you have to stay . This is a problem had an iraq and afghanistan. He is making a commitment, he says we have to win. Exactly what winning looks like . A stable syria . What does it mean . Because iraq has taken us an incredibly long time, but i think he is trying something different, ramping it up. I dont know if he wants to talk to the American People about this. He doesnt want to. He doesnt want to. Remember, he ran on obliterating isis from the face of the earth and not getting america involved in any more interventions. Those are often in conflict. Bret but if you have soldiers, marines, special operators on the ground facing danger and possibly fighting and dying for the country, as the commander in chief, you are going to have to address that. And his Budget Priorities tell you so much, the big increase at the dod, the big cuts in other apartments. I think there is a heart attack about being aggressive with isis. And when to disagree here a little bit. I think we have boots on the ground, when you have our men and women on the ground, there are times of the president has to speak to the American People and give them a clear indication of why we are there and the limited scope as to why we are there. I think it is good for president s when they do that. And the American People and our allies are always relieved at those moments. Theres always going to be a big battle on the budget question. I disagree with that, this is not a huge increase, it was a sufficient increase. Not just mccain and others, i think youll hear this from the house Armed Services committee, from rankandfile republicans who say, we cant afford to have a budget that spends just a minor increase, 3 more than president obama did in his last year. Youre going to have a much more substantial increase. The other stuff is big. But this increase is not enough. Have john mccain and Lindsey Graham and others saying, this has got to be 640 billion, to come out at 603 billion i think left a lot of National Security types saying, this isnt even serious. When you walk off 60 of the federal budget, you dont want to touch entitlements, you are limited. You have to get it from somewhere. To bret again, we think those numbers are going to change by the time we get into may, because Mick Mulvaney is going to not do that. Then well see if donald trump wants to change his whole approach to the national budget, which is that entitlements are sacred. He has already bitten off a whole bunch. You cant do that on top of tax reform and what is going on overseas. Bret we didnt get to north korea and china, which is a huge story and developing, but there is more time because the return of the online show bret no, this is not a new show. That is the animation that will roll in about a minute to start special report online. 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Wikileaks promising the worst is yet to come and a fierce wind fell across the country. A plane blown off a runway and bigwigs, now desperate race to deadly wind fueled wildfires. It is going to be a beautiful day. Thank you for watching fox and friends first on this thursday morning. Abby thanks for starting your thursday with us, on capitol hill lawmakers talk about healthcare all night. You are looking at the Energy Commerce committee debating pages of the bill. Using delay tactics to disrupt the process was the ways and Means Committee passing it less then an hour ago. We have brandnew reaction from both sides. Long night. It was a