Good evening, kevin. It good evening, happy st. Patricks day to you, for all our viewers out there the uncommon presidency of donald j. Trump taking another interesting turn as the current commanderinchief seem to take a notsosubtle jab at the former president right in front of a key ally. President trump as far as wiretapping this past administration, at least we had something in common, perhaps. Of [laughter] it was the irony of ironies, there he was the president fielding questions about the claims the white house had repeated that former president obama had used the u. K. Spy agency that gc hq to eavesdrop on him after the 2016 election all while standing next to the german chancellor whose phone was in fact tapped by the nsa under president obama. President trump all we did is quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the ones responsible for saying that on television, i did make an opinion on it. The explosive claimant picking up on white house officials after legal analyst judge Andrew Napolitano. Three Intelligence Services informed fox news that president obama went outside the chain of command, he didnt use the nsa, didnt use the cia, didnt use the department of justice. He used gc hq, what the heck is gc hq . Thats the initials for the british spying agency. Narrator the Fox News Division was never able to match the claims. That didnt stop sean spicer from impeding it. Judge Andrew Napolitano made the following statement, three intelligence sources have informed fox news. Narrator that claim has reverberated across the globe all the way to ten downing street where a spokesman for british Prime Minister theresa may said weve made clear to the administration that these claims are ridiculous and they should be ignored and weve received assurances that these allegations will not be repeated. They wiretapping story part of a wideranging News Conference that included discussion of the future role of the u. S. In that nato, the 28 country Defense Alliance that includes germany. It President Trump i reiterated to chancellor merkel my strong support for nato as willa is the need for our nato allies to pay their fair share for the cost of defense. Narrator that theme of fairness to america continued in his comments on trade which he suggested enriched our training partners at the expense of workers. President trump all i want this furnace, germany has done very well in trade deals with united states. The two leaders will get a chance to meet facetoface once again, thats happening somewhere in july at g20 hosted by chancellor merkel and the germans. Bret will have much more of all of this with the panel, the secret service is under fire tonight with two separate instances involving the white house, what about that . Its not a very good a story for them. The first of those two stories beginning right here in washington where it sources tell fox news, the jumper who jumped the fence on friday a guy by the name of Jonathan Tran who had two cans of mace on him actually may have jiggled the door to the executive mansion, he may have been on the ground for at least 60 minutes before being detecte detected. Hes facing multiple charges. Investigation is also underway for a secret Service Laptop computer that was stolen. It could include plans to trump tower and information about the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server. The agent in question reportedly left a bag containing a laptop in her driveway in brooklyn. A spokesperson for the agency says the laptops are encrypted are and are not permitted to contain classified information. As you can imagine thats raising the ire on lawmakers on capitol hill some of whom are calling for an investigation. Bret especially after the history of the secret service in recent years, thank you. Secretary of state rex tillotsons first trip to asia is making waves as he says nothing is off the table in dealing with tensions from the peninsula. The Demilitarized Zone between the north and south korea. A few feet into the north korea side of the Demilitarized Zone, refused to rule out south korea and japan could obtaining Nuclear Weapons to counter north korea. Reporter are the assumptions of the table . We are extension views as i did in japan. Im extension views with the leadership of the republic of korea as well as to our views on various approaches that can be taken. Reporter not ruling out either of those options . Nothing is been taken off the table. Before meeting the foreign minister, he toured the joint security area territory shared in the dmz were north and south korea forces stand feet from one another. It it was important to come up here to get as close as we go to to this line between north korea and south korea. I think it reinforces the strength of our line spirits we go on this trip to japan, south korea and eventually china, he is proclaimed the era of strategic patients with north korea as over and u. S. Partners need a new approach. At a later press conference, he also left open the option of military force. If north korea takes actions that threatens the south Korean Forces or our own forces, then that will be met with an appropriate response. If they elevate the threat of their Weapons Program to a level that we believe requires action, that option is on the table. Narrator he stressed the u. S. Wants to avoid a military conflict, they turn attention to north koreas ally china, he traveled there this weekend and brings a message that china needs to further curb at the norths actions claiming the Chinese Government has reacted inappropriately to the increasing threat. For more than 60 years, this was the primary threat, north korea was just behind me. Now its just one of many vulnerabilities as they continue developing their Nuclear Weapons and Ballistic Missile program. Bret rich henson traveling with the secretary on the border with north korea, thank you. Tensions also high tonight in israel. Syria fired missiles at israeli warplanes following air strikes within syria. The army says Aerial Defense systems intercepted one of the missiles but would not say whether any other missiles hit anything inside israel adding the israeli civilities civiliad aircraft was not compromised. For israeli warplanes were violating syrian airspace. Spin on thursday and part one of our debt rising series, we told you the deadline for congress to raise the debt ceiling had come and gone wednesday. Treasury Department Actions have delayed what is expected to be another political standoff. In part two, we look at the consequences for continued in action and what if anything can be done to fix the rising debt. President trump i am sending congress a budget that rebuilds the military. Narrator while his administrations budget reflects a scaling back, President Trumps recent address of congress did not spend time to sit detailing plans on how to spend the National Debt creeping toward 20 trillion an hour how to reduce the debt built up. Im worried the problem is getting worseited too long to ms at the numbers continue to get worse. If the partisanship in this town is living both parties to compete over who can be more fiscally irresponsible and thats a very dangerous game. Narrator all of this has realworld consequences on your wallet in the u. S. Economy as a whole. Considered the scum of the Government Debt as a percentage of our Gross Domestic Product is about 77 , just two years ago, it was 73 . This is the apportioned debt economists say is held by the public, bonds on the open market that determine Interest Rates. By that measure, our debt is projected to rise to 89 of gdp within the decade. By 2035, the Congressional Budget Office predicts it will rise to an alltime record of 106 of gdp, exceeding the alltime high set in world war ii. Bret the debt limit does not authorize new spending limits that just allows the government to fund existing budget obligations that congress and president and both parties have already made. The Trump Administration laid out its own ambitious agenda, its budget blueprint. On the campaign trail, it was a familiar refrain from both major candidates Hillary Clinton and donald trump promising their economic plans would not add to the National Debt. Raising eyebrows from skeptical economists. Think of it as a big cake. President trumps ingredients likely will include a 4. 5 trillion tax cut, a major infrastructure investment, along with the regulation, energy, and trade overhauls, all things he says will supercharge the u. S. Economy. But tax experts predict to make it all happen will require trillions more in federal borrowing, if true, our National Debt cake will only add layers. Put another way, if the u. S. Economy starts to cook, inflation starts to go up and then Interest Rates would have to be raised as well. If Interest Rates rise just 1 more than current projections, the interest the u. S. Pays on the current 20 trillion National Debt would be 632 billion. Thats a 50 billion more than the current Defense Budget. Over ten years, that 1 interest heart would make for a 1. 6 trillion increase in what we pay interest in the National Debt. Who holds our debt . The top holders are actually u. S. Citizens and american entities such as state and local governments, pension funds, mutual funds, and the federal reserve. Together they own 69 , or 13 trillion of the National Debt. Foreign nations hold 31 of the total debt might japan is now the largest foreign holder of debt with 1. 1 trillion, followed closely by china. With just more than 1 trillion. Trump aides acknowledge their budget would add a shortterm debt but they say thats a good thing arguing that spurring Economic Growth would produce more tax revenue to pay back the debt the supplyside argument. Officials insist the overall debt will remain manageable. Relative to the overall economy. Much of the money is going into entitlement programs like Social Security and medicare, that means that we are not seeing investments in productive activity which affects jobs and wages. Huge consequences for americans. Bret some lawmakers argue for a dollar for dollar discipline, binding reduction plans with any increase with the debt ceiling. Others say debt ceiling increases should be paired with overhauling Social Security and medicare, programs that eat up the largest part of the federal budget. A real program for reducing the debt has to be bipartisan, and it has to be the kind of program where everybody gets a little bit hurt, so that we stave off a much bigger catastrophe. Bret lets talk more about the debt, budgets, and the Trump Administration. Joining me now from the north lawn of the white house, mullaney, director of office of management and budget. I want to start with your reaction to the reaction of the rollout of the budget, a former member of congress and a conservative one, im sure to get pushed back on all sides. Sure, ive been a member of congress, i had my own constituency, represented my own people in south carolina, i know that every member of the congress and house and senate have the groups back home they feel like they need to take care of and thats fine. Theres also a lot more special interests at play than there are other places, a lot more lobbying for example. What i tell people is this. The president represent everybody, he rip her since the entire nation, thats who this budget was written for. This was not a budget written in consultation with special interests or lobbyists or many members of congress, this is a National Budget from a National Representative and a former president. Were very pleased with the way it turned out. Spoon its interesting to say that, democrats including senator schumers office, putting out a series of headlines, many trump voters would feel program cuts and budget proposal, trumps budget could hurt manufacturing and innovation, trumps budget cuts could hit his base, rule voters. They are making the case that the budget as written now as proposed really goes to the essential trump voter who elected this president , your response but nothing could be further from the truth, but nothing surprises me coming from those sources. Many of them, senator schumer always good to be happy when the government spends less. They want the government to spend more, they want more control over your life and mine, thats how they do it. They tax more and they want to spend work or in this case borrow more. We targeted to programs that sound great but dont work. I told the president today he asked me about a couple of programs, mr. President , you could go to one of your rallies in ohio with 35 people, at ask if any of these programs help anybody in the wood would raise their hand. They sound great, many of them democrat programs, reviewed in a long time, when they review there does not producing any results, thats exactly what this president wanted to reduce spending. Bret how do you deal with the big numbers have enough good to touch longterm entitlement reform . Will get to long to longterm entitlement reform discussions along with tax reform discussions, revenue flows, larger policy decisions in a flood budget we will roll out in may. This was just the spending budget, what we call the blueprint, the first step in the traditional appropriations process that will now go to congress. Certainly we will be looking at all of those things as we try to figure out how to solve the problem you just mentioned which is that we have tremendous risk. If Interest Rates go to fortyyear historical norms, we could spend more than a trillion dollars of year on interest payments, that was one of the things on the back of our mind as we formulated this budget. We want to rebuild the military, guard the borders, more money for things Like Veterans Affairs and at School Choice but we didnt want to add to that deficit, thats why reduced spending in other places because the president is keenly aware of the risk that level of debt brings to the nation. Bret asked the briefing in laying out the budget, you said this. Regarding the question as to Climate Change, the president was very straightforward, were not spending money on that anymore, we consider that to be a waste of your money. Bret the sierra club pointed to the defense secretary and his testimony in which he says Climate Change can be a driver of instability and the department of defense must Pay Attention to the potential adverse impacts generated by this phenomenon. As noted above, its a challenge that requires broader whole government response. He goes on to say if confirmed, i will ensure the department of defense plays an appropriate role by addressing the National Security aspects. By saying its a waste of taxpayers money, does that send a difference message than the defense secretary was saying about Climate Change . I think you just heard him say at the end that hes going to deal with the Defense Department to the extent that this issue creates defense challenges, theres plenty of money in the Defense Department, 54 billion, one of the largest increases in modern history. To the extent that those interest arise in the National Security interest of the united states, there is money there. Go to the Bigger Picture of, when the president ran for office he looked people in the eye and said im not going to take your money anymore to fund this questionable climate science. Thats exactly what hes following through on, give the president credit. What you see is what you get. What you heard in the campaign is what you saw this budgets. A bret on the flip side, you have a lot of hawks up on capitol hill who said this Defense Budget does not go far enough. Senator mccain, max thornberry, a lot of them saying because president obamas administration, the military was cut by 20 while the world is dangerous, they say they want to see Defense Budget of 640 billion red is there a possibility this gets changed as the administration goes forward . Sure there is, the next step in the process is to have the house go to the appropriate patient process, and the spending process, what weve communicated to the house and senate, the message of the budget as this. We need more money for defense, we need more money for the other items that ive identified, we need to do that without adding to the next years deficit. The house is a different way to do that, better way to do that, we all agree that the Previous Administration cap of the Obama Administration got of the military. We need to fix that. We just need to do it without adding to the data. Bret ive heard you as a congressman say the budgets were dead on arrival thats what theyre saying about yours. Every Congress Says that about every president s budget. The point of the matter is this, its that topline message. What is the overall message of this budget . We need more money for this president s priorities, we did more money to enforce the border we need more money for School Choice. We need more money for Law Enforcement and enforcing all of the laws on the books. Those of the priorities of this administration but also not adding to the deficit is another priority. Thats what we did in our budget. If the house and sentenced to a different way thats fine. Wed be happy to negotiate with them as we go to the process. The topline message doesnt change. Rebuild the nation, dont add to the deficit. Bret we appreciate your time and happy st. Patricks day, thanks very much. Bret it yet another transportation project over budget by billions of dollars, we dive into wasting of your money, this time in hawaii after a quick break. G. And his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. Luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. Because all his belongings went up in flames. Jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. Visit geico. Com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. Why pause a spontaneous moment . Cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. Tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. 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I just want to let the world know i am 100 in favor, these folks and they are tough and they love their constituents and they love this country, these folks were nos yesterday and now every single one is a yes. Bret the American Health care act will likely be on the house for dominic floor for a vote thursday with members being told to expect late night, youll see or hear on fox news channel. Next day on wall street, the dow dropped 20, the s p 500 lost three, the nasdaq was of a fraction. For the week, the green across the board, the dow was up a fraction, the s p 500 gained two tenths, the nasdaq rose twothirds. For the third time, a judge in new jersey has ruled that there will be no special prosecutor appointed to over a criminal complaint against public and governor Chris Christie for the George Washington bridge lane closing scandal. The official misconduct complaint was filed in 2016 by a homer firefighter William Brennan a democrat who is running for governor in this years election. The rejection could signal the end of a nearly six month legal battle. The marine corps is starting a new recruitment ad blitz hoping to draw the interest of millennials. By showing marines not only as strong warriors but also good to citizens. If the campaign called battles one includes clips of marine veterans tackling an armed robber and marines unloading toys for tots boxes. The campaign has been and works for months and comes as the core is investigating a private Facebook Page were new photos of female marines were posted without there. The transportation boondoggles have to start with the bridge to nowhere in alaska and the big dig in boston. Now a rail project in hawaii is heading toward a similar infamous status, correspondent looks at your tax dollars being wasted in the 50th state. Its too late because its already in full swing. Like most big projects, this one began with high hopes, to solve gridlock in honolulu. If we build it, you will come. They lowballed the cost then they misrepresented the benefits to traffic. Narrator watchdogs say its a warning for the rest of us. Unfortunately the project is so far along, its unstoppable at this point. Narrator the above ground railway projected to cost 10 billion, 500 million per mile, triple which taxpayers were promised. Construction is five years overdue. The temporary tax to pay for it may go on forever. Absolutely, i think the Cost Containment and Cost Management has to be our everyday focus. Narrator short of cash, the city proposed cutting the track by 4 miles. If so, the train mrs. Downtown entirely and honolulu would owe the feds 1 billion for falling short. Right now i feel misled, when they authorized it was okay, great. Narrator as for congestion, one finally done, rail will only cut traffic by less than 2 . This is a certifiable boondoggle. You dont spend five or 10 billion for 122 return. President trump the time has come for a new program of national. Narrator President Trump proposes spending a trillion dollars on infrastructure by including private capital, he hopes to eliminate waste. The private sector has different incentives, they dont something unless its affordable, because if they build up and they run out of money, they go broke. As for lessons learned, hawaii does offer a cautionary tale. If the bank of uncle sam dries up, cities will need to get creative and bring in a private partner and increase accountability that auditors said was likely here. This case does illustrate the old adage in for a penny come in for a pound. Bret william, thank you, the epa has awarded 100 million to help Fund Infrastructure upgrades of flint, michigan,. The city hopes the funds will help reach the goal of 6,000 water pipes this year. They returned to detroits water system in 2015 but residents must still use filters or bottled water. President trump promised to bring back coal mining jobs and after his executive order, that stopped a protection will come up Mining Companies have begun hiring again. A Senior Correspondent reports from kentucky its a revival that may not live up to what it once was. Narrator carlos is a career Kentucky Coal miner hes doing something he hasnt done three years, mining coal. Im glad to be working. Thankful that i got a job again. A bounce in the economy created a demand for steel and needed coal to make it. An adversary to cold moved out of the white house and a president moved and who started rolling back regulations that crippled mining. Obviously were more optimistic, were looking for more projects. It its not a storybook ending for the coal miners. Here at the mine since 2012, they laid off 460 guys put in the last two months, theyve hired back 90. Nationwide Chemical Companies have laid off tens of thousands. New hires are in the hundreds. Its a little come back at this point. We are very confident, we are very about everything we are seeing since the november election and President Trump taking control of the energy in the agencies that regulate the industry. As technology advances, equipment becomes more efficient requiring less manpower. In the obama years and some coal fire power plants shut down or built up a structure to burn natural gas. That put competition with fracking and cheap fossil fuel. A even though coal is coming back and there will be employment in the future, its unlikely to go back to what it was ten, 15 years ago. Narrator Retail Business people in coal towns like hazzard kentucky are happy for any comeback but they know theyll never come all the way back. When they started doing all the layoffs come on my business went down tremendously. Narrator are the new hires due to something tangible the president has done, like the rollback and regulations . Or just a symptom of optimism because coal has a proponent in the white house as opposed to an adversary. Everyone from who we spoke from the university of experts in the coal miners themselves say its more about the optimism. Back to you. A bret mike, thank you. The days of the short bench on the highest court may be coming to an end. Monday is a start for her confirmation hearings for Supreme CourtJustice Nominee neil gore such to replace Justice Antonin Scalia who died last february. What will the hearings actually look like . Chief Legal CorrespondentShannon Green has a preview. President trump he will uphold and defend the constitution of the united states. Its something judge neil gore such failed to do. The night his nomination was rolled out. I pledge if im confirmed to do all my powers prevent to be a faithful servant of the constitution and laws of the entire country. Embassy groups on the left and right are split on that opposition as they ramp up their arguments and ads ahead of confirmation hearings for gorsuch was kick off on monday. Donald trumps nominee for the Supreme Court doesnt respect the constitution paid the constitution just as it was written. Hes about to face the critics had on as he goes before the committee where democrats have vowed to make his path to the High Court Less than smooth. If he shows in his answers that he is out of the mainstream as his opinions indicate that he may well be, i will use every tool available including the filibuster to oppose him appeared prochoice advocates are sound of the alarm over where he may stand on the issue of abortion. Given President Trumps assurances that he would choose a prolife nominee. Certainly President Trumps litmus test makes it seem as to get elected in the first place hes already made his mind up. He will be hard to trip up no matter how he heeded hearings made yet. Ideologically opposed to this nomination come hell and high water come i think in this case, once the American Public sees judges gorsuch up there in the scent of testifying, they will realize what a terrific nomination this is. When asked about the possibility of invoking the Nuclear Option which would lower the vote threshold needed to move nominee forwarded from 6060 to just 51 votes, a number of senators from both sides of the aisle have expressed hope it will not come to that g. O. P. Leadership leadership is not ruling it out. Bret thank you, see you monday. 9 00 a. M. Eastern time when shannon and i will host a special edition of americas newsroom covering the start of the gorsuch hearings. Ill be back at 6 00 for the special report tonight. The allstar panel joins me to breakdown President Trump, Angela MerkelNews Conference and some of our affiliates around the country are covered tonight. In greensboro, north carolina, were a five alarm fire broke out in downtown raleigh. The flames started in in the building and engulfed in other structures and caused a crane to collapse after a seven hour fight, the fire was extinguished, the cause is not known. Fox 25 in boston with a first full day of jury deliberations the case of a pharmacist accused of causing a deadly meningitis outbreak. 25 counts of seconddegree murder murder for carelessly chipping paint and steroids cost can outbreak that killed 64 people. If convicted, he faces life in prison. This is a life look at new york from our affiliates, the big story there tonight . Fifth avenue filled with revelers for the 256th annual st. Patricks day parade. The first of march in manhattan was held 14 years before the signing of the declaration of independence. Held in 1762. The day, new york mayor andrew cuomo joined in march and with state troopers print this years parade honored Catholic Charities and the new york state police. Thats tonights life look, will be right back. Confident in our investment experience around the world. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Do you think it was a mistake to blame British Intelligence for, my second question, are there from time to time tweets that you regret what smart President Trump probably wouldnt be here right now but very seldom. We have a tremendous group of people that listen and i can get around the media when the media doesnt tell the truth so i like that. As far as wiretapping, this past administration at least we have something in common perhaps. All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television, i did make an opinion on it. Bret President Trump referring to judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst here on fox news who over the past few days has said this. Three intelligence sources have informed fox news that president obama went outside the chain of command, he didnt use the nsa, he didnt use the cia, didnt use the fbi and didnt use the department of justice. He used gchq. They have 24 7 access to the nsa database. By simply having two people go to them saying president obama needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate trump, conversations involving president elect trump, he was able to get it and theres no american fingerprints on this. Bret we love the judge, we love him here at fox but the Fox News Division was never able to back up those claims and was never reported on this show on special report. The British Government issued a Statement Today after sean spicer read that report from the podium. Weve made clear to the administration that these claims are ridiculous and they should be ignored and weve received insurances that these allegations will not be repeate repeated. With that will start with the panel, opinion editor for the washington times. Amy started associate editor of real clear polymer gnomic politics and columnist charles krauthammer. The white house is signing a number of things, not talking about specific evidence, their setting news reports and obviously a report by judge Andrew Napolitano that we couldnt back up. Honestly from the beginning from the first tweet and the followup tweet from the president on that otherwise sleepy saturday morning, it was clear from the beginning, he was referring to news reports. He was referring to an online news report about the fisa warrants, one that was denied and one that was accepted and approved. He was talking about some of the other surveillance that was clearly not wiretapping but other types of surveillance that was written about in the New York Times and the washington post. All of that reporting has been debunked. Bret has, its statement by the doj that theyve complied with all the information and then you have the house and Senate Intelligence committees saying that they didnt have an egypt indication that there was a advise on trump tower. None of the people who reported that including the New York Times have corrected the reporting is what i mean by that. Bret but you know the whole back and forth. The president tweeting, he has access to all of the intelligence agencies, they all report to him. He could pick up the phone and find out the real information. I think the biggest legitimate charge against him is a fact that you do have access to this information. Can you imagine if he did do that quick to mark the media goes crazy over this. Imagine if he did do that and he demanded that these fisa records were made public which of course he could do and i wish he would, i think it would either prove him wrong or proven right. At least it would prove that hes interested in getting at the truth. Bret he says Something Else is coming out in the next couple weeks, well see what that is. The bottom line here is that we are now its two weeks of dealing with this issue where theres a lot of things that are going on around the world. Right. It was really amazing to watch him with chancellor merkel not only refusing to give her her handshake in the oval office, at that press conference when this wiretap discussion is going on which is an international embarrassment, then they bring up the brits being the Intelligence Service for the brits leveling a false ellas allegation at them. Then to administration officials, hr mcmaster and the National Security advisor and the spokesperson sean spicer this morning apologized to two separate british officials over this and then later on today, sean spicer the white house secretary says we didnt apologize. When trump was asked about it at the press conference, his response was very dismissive and he said youll just have to talk to fox. There was no concern about the alliance, the appearance of false allegation, and apology. Even if he didnt use the word apology, there was a way to handle that moment. It was really demonstrative of how he looks at our alliances, the international order, processes. This is how President Trump has always dealt with challenges to anything good is just to do that. I think the job requires Something Else but this president is different. This job in those moments with allies require Something Else. Its because they see it. The conduct of your staff, its not to be blown off. Bret i want to turn to nato, do you have southern on this . Its a farce now. The idea that we the media, the agencies, the congress are running around chasing their tails on a story that everyone knows is not true but having to pretend that it might be because hes the president. We know how its going to end, we have a lot of real enemies in the world, we really have to go around and antagonizing her bethel is quick to market bret we will cover at every step of the way, no matter what happens. Will follow the facts. The president and chancellor talking about nato the messages there, take a listen. President trump i reintegrated the strong support for nato, many nations over vast sums of money from past years. It was very unfair to the united states. The nations must pay with al. I was gratified to know that the president indicated how important he think nato is, its a prime importance to us. We said during our summit meeting in wales, germany needs to increase spend interpretive bret of people have talked about it for a long time, many administrations. One of the countries need to do to not have paper armies in nat nato. It seems like the message was strength. We have from the White House Team sources with directe of thg describing it as contentious, pressing it hard against the chancellor to own up to their responsibilities to nato and defense spending. White house saying this was a shot across the bow, toot of gdp and goes to mystic line. If recently issued in the first place suggesting to the press, he did not value nato. Clearly he does value nato and he values it enough that he is going to insist, there are reports out of the white house they are moving in that direction which is very good positive step. Bret i want to play one more sound bite the president on health care from the oval office. President trump i just want to let the world know i am 100 in favor, these folks and they are tough and they love their constituents and they love this country these folks were nos mostly nos yesterday, i just want to thank you, were going to have a health care planet thats going to be secondtonone its going to be great in the people will see that. Bret some thought the president wasnt signing on to the speaker of the house, thats the republican study group, he says theyve all turned. As is the change in tide . Was very important he is 100 behind the bill, republicans have been very nervous about which pages on it thats very big, symbolic and subsequent steps. It helps that he turned to a study group into yes. It does not mean there are not other conservatives, the numbers are in the high teens that can only lose 21 or 22. Commence a moderate with freedom caucus. Spill next up to the lightning round, secretary of state to asia look at the confirmation hearings. These options on table nuclear is asian of the peninsula as we discussed . We are exchanging views as we did in japan. Exchanging views with the leadership of the republic of korea as well as to our views on various actions that can be taken. Not really know if either of those options what to mark nothing is been taken off the table. Bret nothing is been taken off the table, secretary of state and the Demilitarized Zone between south and north korea. Our own rich edison getting that interview we havent heard a lot from the secretary of state. The this was a big moment, charles, significant what he said today in messaging. Yes, when you say nothing is off the table, he hasnt said anything new. When you add which he did the era of strategic patients is over, that was the theme of the Obama Administration, perhaps you might even say the bush administration, strategic patients meaning the regime is doomed, the cat it can sustain itself, were going to wait, were not going to go to war, were not going to threaten. The regina understood that and they have therefore pushed ahead. When we say that era is over, that means only two things. Either were going to advocate or support denuclearization of south korea and japan, or we are going to shoot them down or hit their basis. End of the audience for this is not the regime and north korea, its china. China are the ones who would be moved by either of those threats and they are the key. I think that is a real shift in our policy, its going to have many effects. Its going to be that rather than what weve done for the last eight years. Bret addressing nuclear is asian of the peninsula, just the messaging of that is significant. Thats really what hes talking about proceeding with. He said no more payments, no more multicountry negotiations, no more. What does that mean quick to market for not going to do a print abstract, the pressure is on china to come on board as we weapon ice south korea and japan, i really hope he has the posture and is going to be effective with the chinese that hes actually telegraphing. I dont know how much the chinese respect or fear President Trump at this point. If you look at the tweet he sent today, well see. I hope to listen is going to be as effective as the chinese. Bret monday will have the full coverage of the gorsuch hearings, the confirmation hearings. Is your sense that there will still be this big democratic push back against his nomination . There has to be a fight. A significant fight of some sort. The problem from the beginning for democrats has been the establishment democrats elected democrats versus their base, their base is just they are dug in about this nomination. The democrats backs are against the wall, theyre going to have to make a good effort of fighting. I think in the end, gorsuchs background and assuming he does well and based on what weve seen so far, i think he probably will do well in the hearings, its good to be very difficult for them to actually mount a challenge. Bret senator schumer told me not a signal democrat is come up for him, most have come out against him. He would not address whether the Nuclear Option has to be used. I thought his response to you was a very muted one. I think he understands this is a gary cooper character. Attacking him is a losing position. There will be a lot of noise a lot of appeasing of the base but in the end theyre not going to risk the Nuclear Option. 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Everything in one place, so you can travel the world better. Brett we are back with the panels win ares loser accident, charlie. My winner is nick movane. It is the most fiscally conservative budget that i have seen rolled out in the town and he did it and the way he described it in the meeting and justifying every penny to the people paying taxes was a nice addition. The loser is the federal courts for striking down the federals travel ban and in the ruling despite its stated purpose and where they get the evidence for doing it. I have no idea. I have two st. Paddys day dogs. The fox news Family Channel is rigby who belongs to audio booth skip. They made my day. Loser is the rachel ma d ow show. I dont know how compliceit are they with the anchor. Trumps tax returns are important but the two pages they got are not important. My winner are the Prime Minister of the netherlands and my dutch is rusty. But he takes an all right candidate who looks strong. My loser sean spicer. I worry about p his health. I would like to see a cardiologist up there when he does press conference. Brett first 100 days with martha starts now. Martha breaking tonight. President trump and Angela Merkel went facetoface and trying to make it work. I am martha maccallum. President trump was a harsh critic to merkels strategy and she suggested he is looking at Vladimar Putin with rose colored glass. President trump pushed her hard. They faced the cameras earlier today