He let the Prime Minister know it, according to accounts. Just moments ago, top trump aides met with the australian ambassador and apparently smoothed things over. Additionally, a phone call with the president of mexico also because of international ripples. Again, we might not be hearing the entire story on this. While earlier reports of the Trump Administration was easing sanctions on russia, turned out to be false, u. S. Ambassadors. United nation nikki haley employed some tough talks on the floor of the u. N. Today, regarding the former soviet unions recent intrusion into ukraine. There is a few things on the plate for you. Lets bring in marc thiessen, juan williams, and Pete Hoekstra, all here on mr. Tripps rewriting of the international orders. Lets go to john roberts. Good evening, john. Good evening to you. A lot to unpack tonight. Lets start with the sanctions on iran. That mediumrange mental test was on sunday. The white house came out and said that iran was being put on notice, the National Security advisor that said that. We had a briefing later on that day with Senior Administration officials that said they were mulling over how to respond. Here is how theyre going to respond. As soon as tomorrow, they will impose sanctions on more than 20 iranian entities. They say that they are being sanctioned for terrorist related or missile related activity. The white house needs to be creative here with the application of sanctions, so as itself, to not violate the iran nuclear agreement. The white house likely does not need to go through congress to impose sanctions but it does have a lot of support on capitol hill for punishing iran. Listen. I would be in favor of additional sanctions on iran. I would like to put as much toothpaste back in the tube as possible. I think the last administration appeased iran far too much. I think they went too far with iran. As a result, iran is far more active than it otherwise would be. If you have ever tried to put toothpaste back in a tube, you know how difficult it is. The president finding less support on capitol hill for his recent dealings with australia, mentioning at the top, the president is upset about this deal that the Obama Administration cut back in november for the United States to take in more than 1200 refugees currently being held by australia and offshore detention facilities. According to white house officials, the president had a frank phone call with Prime MinisterMalcom Turnbull about it. So much so that senator john mccain felt that he needed to call the ambassador to apologize on behalf of the United States. You mentioned that the ambassador came in and they talked him through that whole thing. The Prayer Breakfast this morning at the washington hilton, the president did not dissuade as of the notion that that phone call was very tough. Listen. When you hear about the telephone calls im having, dont worry about it. Just dont worry about it. They are tough. We have to be tough. It is time we have to be tough, folks. We are taking advantage of by every nation in the world virtually. Its not going to happen anymore. The president did say he would honor that agreement with a caveat, though, that all of those refugees would be subject to extreme vetting. Heres another headline for you. We just got a statement from the press secretary. President trump has shifted his position slightly on settlement in israel, sending a note to Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, to say, while we dont believe the existence of settlements as an impediment to be scum of the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving that goal. Something else to chew over tonight. Martha. Martha there is a lot. John, thank you very much for sorting out so much of this. The spring in marc thiessen, former chief speechwriter for president george w. Bush. And juan williams, cohost of the five. Pete hoekstra, former Trump CampaignNational Security advisor. Gentlemen, a lot on the plate as we have said. Marc, let me start with you. The breaking news that john roberts just mentioned, a pretty strong statement that comes from the president on settlements in israel. Sure, absolutely. The president said in that speech this morning that we got to get tough because the world is in trouble. Hes absolutely right that we need to get tough because the world is in trouble because barack obama projected weakness into the world and the consequences have been disastrous. We need to get tough on our enemies and start supporting our allies. That is what he is doing when it comes to israel. He is making a statement of support. He needs to realize that australia has an ally, too. We need to support them and focus our toughness on our enemies. Quite frankly, he is doing that, too. You look at what is happening in iran, he is imposing sanctions for Ballistic Missile tests, a far cry from barack obama sending unmarked bills on secret planes to tehran. He is getting tough on al qaeda. If you look at that, barack obama was sending drones to take out these guys. Donald trump just sent a special Operations Team to capture these guys alive and get intelligence. They werent successful. They got a lot of intelligence. It would have been blown up with a drone. He is getting tough on our enemies. He is going to be backing our allies. So, i think he is after a pretty good start. Martha juan, does any of this disturb you today . What we have just seen in terms of the statement on president netanyahu and israel, trump walking back, i think of the Campaign Mode is able to say, we are israels ally. I dont know that we werent ever israels ally, martha. Martha many people felt that under president obama it wasnt always that open and warm, big, warm embrace. No i think they didnt get along personally because i think president obama represented the United States of america is interested in making sure that there are some kind of lasting peace in the middle east and not encouraging the very settlements that trump at one point he seemed to want to allow. Martha now, he is saying no new settlements. Thats right. You can see he is starting to walk back as he faces the reality of dealing with a very tense world. I think that even in terms of the kind of reaction that you are seeing from foreign leaders who are, as you put it, i agree, on edge with trump, you are seeing a manhattan Real Estate Developer who is used to exerting dominance at the start of relationships, alpha male behavior. But you cant do that with people who have to be our allies, negotiating partners, people that you want to be on your side when bad times come. Martha why not . Why cant you . Why cant you act like that . Because you need to allies. For example, australia, they have this saying, australia as part of a very parched select group of people, countries, that we trust with our most sensitive intelligence, martha. For us to suddenly be badgering Malcom Turnbull to suggest that Malcom Turnbull, this is a bad , we dont understand, to cut him off, i think that is insulting. We need to rely on him. Martha i think Everyone Needs to take a selective deep breath here. We need to look at what is actually happening. Tonight, it appears that the s3 of the situation, Prime Minister lets bring in Pete Hoekstra on this. They said it was a cordial conversation, it was fine. When President Trump looked at this deal, he said, these are 1250 people who tried to get into australia from the seven countries that we are now banning people from industrial he wouldnt let them in. Australia has had a horrific p. R. Situation over the people stuck on papa new guinea on this island. They want to deal with this problem. Apparently, got president obama to agree. They will take this problem off their hands, we will bring them into the United States. President trump looked at this and said, i dont know if this is such a great arrangement. Thats exactly right. I think that is what marc had to stop at the beginning of the segment. He is talking about donald trump is saying, we have serious issues that need to be dealt with. I am sending a clear message to nato. You need to pay up and you need to be relevant or it is gone. We need to make nato relevant and make it be effective or it doesnt serve its purpose. With our ally and australia, he is saying, this is a terrible deal. The bottom line is, we need to get serious with refugees. We need to get serious between us, australia, and europeans. We need to resolve the issues of the middle east. We need to resolve the problem of isis. The problem is exerting strong leadership. What he now needs as he needs his team in place. He needs his cabinet in place. He needs his ambassadors in place. He needs these other positions filled on the National Security scene, so, we can put a fullcourt press to put these priorities in place. Actually, i think the kinds of things that john mccain did today are very, very helpful. I think john mccain agrees with the overall strategy and plan of where donald trump is going, may disagree, but him calling the australian ambassador and reinforcing the importance of this relationship is absolutely helpful. Martha im not sure john mccain wanted to be in on that partnership that is the role he played today in the end. Quite interesting. Thank you so much, gentleman. Great to talk to you. Thank you. Martha still had come a two weeks into Donald Trumps presidency and some Media Outlets are already drawing some comparisons. They are comparing donald trump to former president nixon. Is that fair, is that right . We will by end when we come back in our media conflict segment tonight. Plus, violent protests erupted at a College Campus at uc berkeley. You might ask yourself, what gets people so fired up that they broke windows, these protesters . We will show you what happened and why when dave shapiro and Richard Fowler join us on the followthrough we come right back. Take one. Directv now. Stream all your entertainment anywhere anytime can we lose the all. Theres no cbs and we dont have a ton of sports. Anywhere, any. Lets lose the anywhere, anytime too. You cant download onthego, theres no dvr, yada yada yada. Stream some stuff somewhere sometimes you totally nailed that buddy. Simple. Dont let directv now limit your entertainment. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Martha the first 14 days in office has seen a President Trump of bucking conventions and moving at a blistering pace. In the process, he has created a essentially months of stories in just a matter of a couple of weeks. Perhaps caught by surprise and mud, the drawing some provocative conclusions about his presidency so far. Consider these headlines. Drawing comparison to richard nixon. A besieged trump. The latest cover of the economist characterizes his presence in the white house as in insurgents. Time magazine features a villainous looking steve bannon on the cover with as they deem him, the great manipulator for a joined now howard kurtz and ari fleischer. Welcome, good to have you here. It is fair to say that the media is drowning and a sea of stories that is sometimes hard for all of us to keep up with, so much coming down the pipeline. In terms of those headlines, ari, as the press secretary, would you be okay with those headlines are what you push back . The insurgent headline is probably a pretty good one. I dont think donald trump would mind being called an insurgents in washington, d. C. I compare this to the way barack obama came into the d. C. , the soft, easy, loving press. Reporters wanted to believe in him. But donald trump, they dont like them, they dont want to believe in him. They leap on every little thing that goes on and try to magnify it or exaggerated or get it wrong with the Martin Luther king bust being removed from the oval office, to say he is doing things that are terrible and they have to correct themselves. Its a pattern. Martha howie, he is going at such a rapid pace, this president , that in some ways, people say, you cant make the next a comparison, and its only been a few weeks. It is like dog years. It is been to occur in some ways. Perhaps it is justified based on the activity. What do you think lexmark President Trump is overloading the circuits. Already, the press is going good nixon card. Comparing him to nixon and saying he has a fortress mentality perhaps, on the basis of one canceled trip to milwaukee is an absurd stretch. All the comparisons when President Trump fire the acting attorney general for not carrying out his order, controversial, to be sure, on the travel temporary ban, comparing it to nixon saturday night max during watergate, a criminal investigation of the white house, not involving a previous administrations holdover, also totally erroneous. We have to remember, President Trump has declared war on the press. It is almost as if the news outlets are using that as an excuse or a reason to throw the kitchen sink at him. Martha he is giving them plenty to work with and they are giving back plenty to work with and it seems like the relationship has been like that through the campaign, as well. I want to go back to this Time Magazine cover that has steve been in on the cover looking villainous. People are digging into everything that he said and all of his bright bright years and they do see a lot of what we are seeing from President Trump in the writings and what they have set over the years about immigrants and the like. Is this fair . Are you concerned about the role that he place of the white house . I dont know steve bannon. Ive never heard of him until he became famous for going to work with donald trump. When he went to the white house, to the campaign, all the coverage about islam a phobia, misogynistic, antisemitic, sometimes, when you hear that everything is wrong with someone, you check yourself and go, there is Something Else going on here. They just dont like him for some reason and they are getting up at him. Merit or no merit. I think that is the case with steve bannon, best i can tell. Particularly, antisemitic, that attack, there is no evidence, nothing that supports it. They make it anyway. This is what i just find, the price going too far to paint people they dont like negative. They did similar things to karl rove. They never did that to Valerie Jarrett or david axelrod. They were hands off of president obama. Martha Valerie Jarrett got a fair amount of negative attention, i would say. In many cases, these people are very quiet and keep to themselves because of their role and they dont want to be the person in the press. I think that allows the press to read things into their behavior that may or may not be true. Howie, i want to ask you about the leakers in the store they got out today by the president on the phone with the Prime Minister of australia. What you think is going on . This is a revolt by the government against President Trump. Some fairly senior officials, perhaps the state department, other white house, we dont know, gave to the Washington Post and the ap, either detailed accounts or leaked partial transcripts of these tough calls with the leaders mexico and australia. It is stunning to me that that kind of confidential conversation involving a president would be leaked. I would publish it, too, its a fascinating story. It means that the president cant have an expectation of privacy when he is having these highlevel secret talks. Thats addressed to me that the bureaucracy is rising up against him. One quick point, martha, during the campaign that press completely messed of the anger and frustration among these trump supporters. I fear we are in danger of doing that again. Martha thank you, howie. You look at that leaked story, the white house that it did not come from them. It came from outside the white house. Very few people in the room. The australian said it didnt come from them. Someone, as you point out, is trying to make the president look bad. Truthfully or untruthfully, it appears thats what happened. We will see where it goes. Ari fleischer, thank you so much. Howie, great to see you. It was one of President Trumps most Famous Campaign promises. Tonight, we are learning to the southern border wall could come to fruition as donald trump likes to do, the president , way ahead of schedule. Perhaps, under budget. We will show you the exclusive timeline from his new secretary of Homeland Security in an exclusive interview coming up ahead. Plus, shocking violence at uc berkeley reignite the debate about free speech on College Campuses today. Does it exist . Venture per euro, himself a target of this behavior, and Richard Fowler come away and on this, coming up next