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Running things. Something should happen. Martha you can see the evolution on this tonight on this day 77. The commander in chief now being presented tonight with the military option by his secretary of defense, general mattis, and has Diplomatic Options by his secretary of state, mr. Tillerson. Both individuals, who in recent times, have seem to be somewhat on the sidelines. They are both in front and center, as the west wing dynamics have gone through some big changes. Martha good evening, welcome to the first 100 days i am martha maccallum. All this while the president has a meeting that he has wanted for decades, and that meeting is happening as we speak, the pictures just moments ago. Mr. Trump has railed against chinas unfair trade practices for years as a businessman. Now, as president , he can take action. But the threat from north korea, chinas aggression in the region, makes this now a game of highstakes poker. President xi and his wife arriving in florida, followed moments later by the president and the first lady, as you can see, earlier this afternoon. Now, and moments, we will talk about all of this with senator jim risch of the Foreign Relations committee. First, we go tomorrow log over all of this is unfolding as we speak. Our chief white house correspondents john roberts. John. Good evening to you. I dont know how many times i have attended the high level summit between the u. S. President and a number of World Leaders when it has been overshadowed by other developments. That appears to be happening again tonight. The president coming down here to florida to meet with xi jinping, the chinese premier. The first facetoface meeting. It was sort of an icebreaker summit, supposed to set the parameters for future talks between the two nations, really give us an indication of how relations are going to be between the two leaders over the next four years. Of course, Something Else raises its head and overshadows all of it. What is raising its head now, of course, the situation in syria and whether or not the United States is going to take military action against the regime of bosch are all assads. Im told that a lot has gone into changing the president s thinking, and it is not just the apparent gas attack against syrian civilians, but really a pattern of escalation that has occurred over the last week, ever since nikki haley said publicly that regime change was not to necessarily the top priority when it comes to theory of the United States. They said i want lead to the other, escalating, escalating, until we saw that gas attack. There is a feeling of the administration now that Bashar Al Assad might have taken a declaration by nikki haley in saying that as a green light to do whatever he wants, basically just took the ball and ran with it. Now, the president considering whether or not to launch military strikes against syria and this idea that regime change was not a priority is flipped around 180 degrees and regime change is definitely becoming a priority. Rex tillerson, the secretary of state, who we have barely heard a squeak from over the last month, came out today and articulated how that regime change would happen. Listen to what he said. The process by which assad would leave is something that requires an International Community effort, both to first defeat isis within syria, to stabilize the syrian country, to avoid further civil war, and to work collectively with our partners around the world and the political process that would lead to assad leaving. Now, that is something that wouldnt absolutely happen overnight. That would take some time to do it. You have to defeat isis first for the secretary of state also sending a message to russian president vladimir putin, who is expected to stand in the way of a u. N. Resolution on assad and syria, saying that he hopes that russia would carefully consider its continue to support for the assad regime. Martha. Martha thank you. Here with our reaction tonight, senator jim risch, a member of the Foreign Relations committee. Senator, welcome. Obviously, a very busy day on capitol hill. Now, the issue of what to do about syria and whether or not the president will want military action. What is your reaction to all of this . First of all, the story is moving very quickly, as im sure you have seen today. Those were horrific pictures that we have seen. Back in august of 2013, we saw the same thing. At that time, president obama had laid down a red line and said that they if they cross it, he nothing happened. Now, President Trump has made it somewhat the same declaration. Although, he didnt use the words redline. But he is explained pretty carefully that has has changed the calculus. As has been explained by the various Administration People that you heard from today, they are considering the military option. I have concluded that that probably will take place. I think the question right now is what does it look like . How big is that . Abroad is that . How surgical, how long, how short . What kind of coalition to they bring together to do it . Martha senator john mccain, his calculus has been consistent on this for years. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives. The pictures and images we are seeing in the recent days are horrific but there are pictures that we never saw that are equally horrific for all these years. I want to play part of our conversation last night. He was very specific about the military move that he thinks needs to happen. Watch this. So, what we need to do, we need to stop Bashar Al Assads planes from flying, we can do that easily, say dont fly or you will get a shot down. If we start operating out of the six bases that they have, we will creator your runways with cruise missiles and other weapons. But you cant fly because we are not going to let you drop nerve gas, we are not going to let you drop chlorine, we are not going to let you drop barrel bombs. Martha what do you think . Do you agree with that . I have been in meetings all day long talking about options. Certainly, that is one option on the table. There are a number of other options that are on the table. I will tell you, the ones that are going to be wringing their hands over this art are the people in moscow. They have to make some serious choices as to how much capital they will spend on this. Their expenditure is going to go up pretty dramatically. The world is watching. We have a new president , our enemies and our friends are weighing every move that is made to see whether they can count on the United States. I guarantee that north korea, they are weighing this very heavily. They are future actions are going to be dictated by how the president responds to this. Martha hard to understate the importance of what is happening right now. Senator, thank you so much. Good to have you here tonight. Here now with more, bill bennett, host of the bill bennett show, he is a fox news contributor. Welcome, good to have you with us tonight. You know, i actually want to start by playing that infamous moment from president obama when he talked about crossing the redline. Lets watch this. Then, susan rice making comments just about a month and half ago about this. Lets play it. We have been very clear to the assad regime, but also to other players on the ground that a redline for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation. On the socalled chemical weapons redline, indeed, we had put in place the assets necessary to use force, to try to strike at those chemical facilities and commandandcontrol entities that we thought were relevant to our chemical weapons concerns. In the meantime, we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from syria. Martha susan rice has been much in the news, just a month or so ago saying that we took care of that problem and there are no more chemical weapons. We see clearly there are, bill, and the horrific pictures over the last couple of days. I would say this. There were a lot of disgraces in the Obama Administration. This is perhaps the worst, like rwanda was for bill clinton. At least bill clinton had the decency to admit that. I would say the following. This president , if he draws a redline, i would be more confident that he will keep his promise, then in the case of president obama, he is a man who tends to keep his word. However, this is a dramatic switch from what the president said during the campaign. Now, maybe it is because of what john roberts was reporting and a senator risch was reporting. Remember that the heart has its reasons and we are all moved by this. But as senator risch pointed out, we saw these same films, the same videos in 2013. To the heart has its reasons but the head must control what happens. It seems to me, and i have been listening to fox all day, like a good student of fox, what general keane was saying, you could launch these tomahawk missiles from the eastern mediterranean, take down their air capacity, as senator mccain was adjusting, and that would give people relief. That wouldnt be regime change. But that would be stage one. And that, seems to be, is achievable and thought putting more boots on the ground for you martha it seems that that is a two pronged approach, obviously. One to destabilize, to set assad back on his heels essentially and make it clear to him that there is a new game in town. What do you think the russians would do with that move . How much are the russians mixed in here with this flying assault . There is talk of russian airplanes involved. That is a tricky part, presumably, the pentagon knows this. Let me bring up one of another point no one has brought up. The worst refugee crisis and the hair freaked history of the world, according to the u. N. , is of syria. Barack obama needs to answer that. It would change peoples view of donald trump, what ended, somewhat, if you were to come forward and say we are going to relieve these people of this horrible stuff. It would be pretty hard to paint him as heartless if thats what he did. Lets just be smart about what we do. Martha interesting. Great insight, as always. Bill, thank you so much. Good to see you tonight. Bill bennett. You remember when president obama told mitt romney that his concerns about russia were so 1980. Well, russia now at the center of the syria question. As bill bennett and i just discussed, they have been for years expanding their presence of the middle east. So, how what action, if we take military action in syria, which we bear email way, will it escalate those tensions . Karl higbee and Julie Roginsky debate that next. Plus, a republican has been alleged spying by the Obama Administration getting down today under pressure. Does this help or hurt that search for truth . And there goes the upper chamber. Remember the deliberative body . It gets down into the mud today as a slim majority is all you need to do to confirm the next Supreme Court justice. A big day of change in america that when come back. Our democratic colleagues have done something today that is unprecedented in the history of the senate. Unfortunately, that has brought us to this point. But then i realized there was. 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It is just further evidence that assad has to go. I think that assad is going to have to leave in order for the country to stop the bloodletting and for all the parties involved to be able to move forward in a nonsectarian way. Is martha joining me now, carl higbie, a navy seal veteran and supporter of President Trump. Julie roginsky, fox news contributor. Welcome to both with the lack of view emblematic, the sound bite, of how long this has been going on, and how many have felt for a long time that Basharal Assad must go. So far, there has been no progress. To say that this is a tragedy of our paper proportions cannot cover what is going on. For years, i have been saying that the president , the former president , needed to have a serious discussion with the American People about the options that were available in syria and the broader middle east conflict. To really make people understand the cost and potentially the necessity of going there. Whether you agree with that or not, there are decisions that need to be made as to whether as a nation to go forward and to get engaged militarily, not just syria, but iraq, libya, and other places are in flames right now. The Previous Administration did not do that. I think much to their shame. I hope this administration, before it makes any military decisions, does do that, does explain to the American People, both the cost of the benefits potentially of what it would take to get one and relieve people of the suffering. Martha that is the issue, carl. You put lives at risk. We already have at least a 700 u. S. Military on the ground there now. There are special ops there. Also, support for some of the entities in the Syrian Military who are fighting against the assad or jean. How do you see this . I see this as a making of a global conflict. It is far beyond a good guybad guy. Over happened over the players are here. There are two options for President Trump to consider, assad stays or goes. Anything else is political pandering. Barack obama was quick to talk tough and say assad must go but was not quick to commit any resources to it. This is something they need to think long and hard about here. Military action or no military action has global ramifications, not only considering isis, but our allies and other people in the region. Martha we have heard from nikki haley, we have seen the pictures, i think it is good that we do see the pictures. This is real, what is happening, it has been going on for years. As of the fact that hundreds of thousands of people. The New York Times did a frontpage story on torture chambers that were recently found. It is horrific. There becomes a moral responsibility to do something, julie. There is a lot of talk about this president and all president s go through this process, feeling the weight on their shoulders of these kinds of events and of being commander in chief. Do you believe that this has changed this president . I dont know. I think in general, i havent found a 70yearold man who hasnt changed at some point in their lives. Hope springs eternal. This president was not a fan a few years ago of going into syria. He was very opposed to it, very adamantly, those tweets that i read. Again, without making a value statement as to whether we militarily go into syria or not, i think it is very important for the administration over the president from the oval office to make a decision, to explain why we are going to do this. Carl made a good point, this has ramifications not just for syria, has ramifications for our relationship with our allies, the russians, the iranians, the israelis who are on the border. There are so many issues that the American People need to hear from their commander in chief about before we do anything. I would also say come as a personal plea, there are people in syria, as we saw from the specters, who are literally getting murdered in heinous ways that violate the geneva convention. I hope and pray the president takes a look at the refugee apology he opposes. Martha carl, last words. Bashar al assad doesnt give a damn about the refugees in the suffering in his own country. We need to keep that in mind when we weigh the costs as supported will take for us and our resources, our market soldiers and lives to solve this problem. Martha thank you, both. History unfolding tonight on the senate floor in a bid to confirm judge neil gorsuch the Supreme Court. Congress could be forever changed. Plus, new fallout after house intelligence chairman devin nunes work uses himself from the probe into the trunk campaign and russia. Intel Committee Member congressman chris do it is here on why he thinks the investigation will move forward without issue. Then, former intelligence chairman Pete Hoekstra here. He says mr. Nunez was brought on to distract from the resolutions about who was right. Straight ahead. Its his call. He called me in kamas went to do it, i said yes. Problem. But whatever trail i take, i go for my best. So if theres Something Better than warfarin, ill go for that too. Eliquis. Eliquis reduced the risk of stroke better than warfarin, plus had less major bleeding than warfarin. Eliquis had both. Dont stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. Eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. Dont take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. While taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily. And it may take longer than usual for any bleeding to stop. 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House Intelligence Committee chairman devon dude has removed himself from the investigation into the trump campaign, that he had been passionately pursuing. As congressional ethics watchdogs had questions over his handling of the whole thing. Tonight, the man replacing him is speaking out, saying he thinks nunes did nothing wrong, adding that the investigation stays on course. In moments, we will speak to house intelligence member Chris Stewart before Pete Hoekstra is here. He says this is just a distraction to take the heat off of susan rice. First, correspondent peter doocy with an update. Chairman devin nunes has already dispatched a lawyer to the House Ethics Committee asking what evidence they have on him. He also wants a speedy investigation. While it is in progress, he will not be in charge of the house until russia probe. It will be texas congressman mike conaway today. He said he doesnt think nunes did anything wrong. He also still isnt sure what nunes saw that made him so sure the Obama Administration inappropriately unmasks names of trump transition officials. Have you seen the documents . You have not seen what it was . Not since last night. Do you know how much longer it is going to be until you see the documents that are basically the reason i chairman nunes had to step aside . Again, we will conduct the investigation in a workmanlike manner, and pursue every leading into the bottom of all of this. It will take as long as it takes. Im looking forward to working with my colleagues. President trump said on air force one he thinks nunes is a highquality person and the Intel Committees top democrat has long accused nunes of acting inappropriately applauded him today. Im sure it was was a very difficult decision for him. As he mentioned, i think it is in the best interest of the investigation. Part of the nunes controversy was that he took relevant intelligence and went to the president with it before he went to other Committee Members. The new head of the russia probe tells me that he has not talked to President Trump about his new role and he is not going to talk to anyone at the white house about it unless their name comes up in the court, course of his investigation. Martha here now, house intelligence member congressman Chris Stewart. Good to have you here tonight. If this has been a tough road on the house side for this investigation. What do you think about the fact that nunes was pressured out . That has been a tough road. Frankly, it has been tougher because it had to be because people have been overly political. One of the great things about the Intelligence Community as we generally do our work behind closed doors to, we dont do it in front of television cameras, and we try not to be political. For devon to be put in the situation, i challenge anyone, tell me what you think you did wrong that would require him to remove himself. I am glad that he did and made his own decision. He did try to protect the committee, members like myself and others, so we can do our work. He didnt do anything that would require him to do this. I am frustrated and frankly a little angry that the politics of us has gotten such that he would be forced into that situation. Martha you dont think it was a mistake for him to go to the president . Why not . Speak it was he made clear, it may nothing to do with the rusted investigation. It was information that he felt was appropriate, and necessary for the president to be aware of. I would challenge anyone, why was that wrong . Committee will have access to the information. He advised that he had the information, he advised both parties, republicans or democrats. To take that to the president of the vote circumstances, i just dont see where people would fall to that. Martha and nunes statement, he said several leftwing academic groups have filed accusations against him. He has stepped aside temporarily. You think this will move quickly and that he will be exonerated and back on her . You think he is gone for good . No. He has not gone for good. If you understand what these complaints were, they are just absurd for you martha why did he step aside . He wanted to protect the integrity of the committee. He knew that the story and the press would be talking about this for as long as he was in that position. He didnt step aside permanentl permanently. He didnt resign from his position. He is just a stepping aside while the Ethics Committee does their work. By the way, i hope they do this very quickly. If you saw how absurd these accusations were, they can do it by the weekend. Have they do it quickly. Martha i hope nunes is on their side. Thank you very much. We will talk to Pete Hoekstra created i i know that you were disgusted with this move today. I disagree with devin on this political decision that he made today. I know he did it for the code, as he believes, for the good of the committee. But the bottom line is, the mouse squeaked in the elephant ran. You had an outside group make what i believe will clearly come out as bogus ethics complaints. I wish devin had stayed there. He was bringing critical information for to the forefro. He ends up being the first casualty. Its absolutely wrong. Martha what do you think about the fact that similar forces have driven out Jeff Sessions from this investigation, the attorney general now has no hand in any rush or related investigation. Now, devin nunes doesnt either. The good thing here is devin is not participating in the russia investigation. He didnt recuse himself from what i think is going to be the very big story here, which is what was going on in the white house, with unmasking individuals in the trump campaign, reports today saying unmasking members of congress. This may even go as far as eventually identifying that there was unmasking our borders, people in the press. That is the story of how the Obama Administration misused to the Intelligence Community for what i believe are inappropriate purposes. Martha do you think susan rice will testify . Do you think the Senate Intel Committee will get this worked on and do you have faith in the house Intel Committee . As we have talked about before, richard burr is going to get this work done. He is a quality guy. The senate is approaching this differently. They will get this done. I think susan rice may testify. I think she will take the fifth. I dont think she will give the senate or the house Intelligence Committees any information. I think the house Intelligence Committee is going to come back. Mike conaway come again, another quality congressman, they will t this work done. Martha before i let you go, what do you think about the fact that susan rice made these comments saying that we removed all the chemical weapons from syria and were successful in that effort. Benghazi, syria, syria is a disaster, it was a disaster for the last administration. There is no way you can make that picture looks good. It is just disappointing. It is going to be very difficult now for the Trump Administration to move forward and put together a coherent strategy. It is not only what do you do now, but what comes after removing assad or keeping assad in place . There is no good answers right now. Martha Pete Hoekstra, always good to have you with us. New details this evening on the stalled efforts from speaker raw onions chamber end obamacare. Are they coming back to life on this thursday eve . 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Republicans eight democrats forced them into this move. Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer says they were just innocent bystanders in this whole thing. These past few weeks, we democrats have given judge gorsuch a fair process. Something Merrick Garland was denied. My colleague came into this debate with an open mind. I think many of them wanted to vote for judge gorsuch, at the outset. Martha what do you think . For more on that, mike emanuel joins us. A pussycat Chuck Schumer on the whole thing. Good evening to you. Good evening. We just learned that the final confirmation vote on judge neil gorsuch is set for 11 30 a. M. Tomorrow. Earlier today, the nomination for the judge was essentially stuck with democrats responding to their base, which is demanded of a fight, fight, fight. If Mitch Mcconnell promised that or so it will be confirmed one way or another before lawmakers leave for easter recess. Part of the republican page was that he was vetted by the American People. After all, President Trump gave voters a list of names he would nominate for the Supreme Court. This was part of keeping a promise to voters and putting points on the board for the president. We said we would love the American People decide who would select the next Supreme Court nominee. And then, we would vote to confirm that nominee. The American People on november the eighth selected President Trump. President trump nominated judge neil gorsuch. Tomorrow, we will confirm the nominee. We will deliver on that promise. It was an unusual scene on the senate floor today. There wasnt the usual chit chat and backslapping. Senators were at their desks during the series of votes. When it was done, so im worried about longterm damage. The senate has been hailed by many, including our nominee to the Supreme Court, judge gorsuch, as the worlds greatest deliberative body. And yet, today, i think one more blow has been struck at that title and reality. After the final vote, there will be a cooling off. Max, a couple of weeks of recess. But that is not likely to be long enough to cool the tensions between republicans and democrats. Martha. Thank you very much. Here with mark tonight, did david wohl, attorney interim supporter. Juan williams, cohost of the five. The senate, as you said, supposed to be the deliberative body. It is supposed to be the adults of capitol hill who can take Something Like a Supreme Court nomination and ruminate over it and discuss it and debated up and then, vote on it. If those days appear speak to ts attempt to filibuster, martha, was nothing short of a tactical disaster for democrats. Four years ago, harry reid changed the rules. Republicans are saying, we will do the same thing. The reality is, that makes it so there is going to be, as of tomorrow, after this vote, a 54 conservative majority on the Supreme Court and here is the key thing. Within the next couple of years, if Ruth Bader Ginsburg retires, justice breyer, there could be as much as 872 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, which could create cultural changes, legal changes in america that could be earthshaking for decades to come. Look out because they will regret the move of not giving up a straight up or down vote in this case. Martha it appears that this is rooted in a couple of things. Anger towards republicans over Merrick Garland at anger toward the basic fact of the matter that donald trump won the president ial election and they are not going to give him anything prior i dont know if they wouldnt give him anything. I heard one republican senator say today if donald trump had nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the famous liberal that the democrats wouldnt have approved of it. From a democrats point of view, they had a nominee, Merrick Garland, s not only highly qualified, he was a consensus pick and confirmed and so many offices by republicans that he was denied the opportunity. Martha gorsuch has the same description. I dont doubt that you could argue that Bashar Gorsuch was d but garland was distinguishing his position. I wanted to pick on something dash go martha that is why they didnt vote for him . The point was that they denied. This is the power the point i wanted to pick up. This is the power of obstruction. The republicans obstructed president obamas nominee, i think jeff merkley of oregon called at the theft of the century. You have a situation where david is saying, going forward, you can have a 72 conservative republican majority. What that says to you, martha, to me, to david is, the Supreme Court is not an impartial body, it really is an extension of partisan broken politics and the capital. Martha when people do come together and make these votes, we have seen it happen time and time again. Often, the judges dont necessarily move or decide the way that they party that nominated them things that they will. They are judges. We have to give them that latitude. Justice roberts was thought to be very conservative. It turns out monday dont think he is. Just as garland was an Election Year nominee. He was a nominee done by a lame duck president. No one thought he was going to get an up or down vote. The democrats didnt think so. Now, we have an eminently qualified, supremely qualified come apart in the pond, justice, who will be confirmed tomorrow. I am a good judge of judges. I have been practicing in front of them for 28 years. This man is the cream of the crop. No question about it. You should not be retaliatory in your decisions. That is what i said about Merrick Garland. To your larger point, you must have forgotten about justice kennedy. He was confirmed as a rag and pick in february of the president s last year. People are saying this is unprecedented, blocking president obama filibusters are unprecedented. Martha thank you very much. Straight ahead, we have new video coming in from maralago, more cameras were just allowed into a meeting between President Trump and the chinese president xi. You get to be a fly on the wall and see what is going on and they are just a moment. Plus, new reports tonight, House Republicans gearing up again to repeal obamacare. Its back on the table, folks. Will speaker and get it through on try number two . Martha developing tonight, it is true, republicans are back to the drawing board on health care. New reporting points to the Vice President putting some pressure on his friend a speaker ryan, urging the house to accept notable departures unt happened a couple of weeks ago. We have made some Real Progress this week. That is why we are here today. We have come together on a new amendment that we all believe will lower premiums and provide added protections for those facing real challenges gaining access to affordable care. This brings us closest to the final agreement we all want to achieve. Martha how will this go . Charles hurt joins us now. Emily is the action Fund Campaign director at the center for american progress. Welcome to both of you. This thing looks like it was dead but now it appears to be rising from the dead. What is going on . I think that there is an enormous amount of pressure on republicans and President Trump to try to figure out some way to salvage it. There has been a lot of negative press, that is not necessarily anything new for republicans. The notion that they can get things done when they have all the levers of power at their disposal is something that i think worries them, that will stick. Yes, they are doing everything they can to try to see if they cant affect something from the fireplace. Something you mentioned in your interview yesterday with mike pence, a big driver behind this right now, is the fact that the reason risch pence was picked s Vice President is because he was seen as someone who could work with congress and win over traditional conservatives who were unsure of donald trump. Well, if he can do that on this, then, people start asking, what is he therefore . There is an interesting piece today that said that paul ryan was brought into the white house, mike pence and reince priebus, they are all friends. They said, you have to get this through. You have to figure out a way to get this through. Emily, what do you think . We are in agreement. There is no other issue that this current Day Republican Party is so identified with. Other than repealing obamacare. They are in full control, control of the presidency, both houses of congress. And they cannot get it done. When the rubber hits the road, when they have a bill in front of them, it wasnt just blanket repeal, repeal, repeal, people noticed what it would mean for their health care. They were about to lose their health care. Tens of thousands of people, and every one of these congressional districts. What they are responding to is not just ideological, but it was practical. People that are actually terrified of losing the coverage on the health care. We are talking 70,000 people in every district. If we talk about what theyre negotiating him if they say they are closer to something, they are closer to an actual bill, that means even more people in every districts will lose coverage. Martha she thinks they may pass it and will be good for her side. No, not delighted. I dont want anyone to lose coverage. I think that when ryan said we would move on martha politically, you feel that this is going if republicans blow this, and it results in people losing coverage, as you say it will, it will make people want to vote democrat in the midterm. I dont want anyone to lose coverage. Lets also not forget the largest number of people that will lose coverage is when obamacare collapses, which is the direction it is going in right now. That leads to what i think is a very important point. If they repeal obamacare and replace it with something that is not much better or a little bit better, but it still is something that is too massive and the federal government cant handle it, then, they will have not only tied to something almost as bad as obamacare around their own necks, they will let democrats off the hook for obamacare. And obamacare has been killing democrats now since it passed. I think thats a real serious political problem that republicans have to grapple with. As is often the case, donald trump was right when he said that politically speaking, the easiest thing to do would be to step back and let obamacare fail and let democrats pay the price. Martha given what both of you are saying, i asked Vice President pence about this yesterday, do you think you can get the democrats involved . It is clear that there are issues. It could be something that turns out to be politically more neutral for both sides. Perhaps, americans at say, gee, wasnt that great, they got together and fix it. Emily, the Vice President said he doesnt see any democrats coming to the table. As long as the premises repealing obamacare, then, they wont come to the table. If they can talk to a real compromise martha repealing in some ways, is that semantic . We are already over the rubicon. The federal government will have some responsibility for health care. Perhaps, you leave some of these words out and say, lets come up with a bill that works. If that does come off the table, then i believe the democrats will come to the table. They are trying to keep people covered. If that comes off the table, then they would come to talk for the problem is republicans have really at stake their hat on it. I think what trumps comments that charlie was referencing martha we have to jump to maralago at the chinese president. Thank you, both. Lets watch. The president of china and his incredibly talented wife, a great celebrity in china, a great singer, it is an honor to have you in the United States. We have had a long discussion already and so far, i have gotten nothing, absolutely nothing, but we have developed a friendship. I can see that. I think longterm, we are going to have a very, very great relationship and i look very much forward to it. [applause] thank you all very much. [indistinguishable] mr. President , do you still believe that there needs to be military action in syria . Thank you, everybody, thank you very much. Martha fascinating to watch this play out. The president said that he is beginning a friendship with the president of china, which is interesting in and of itself. To complement and his wife, said how talented she is. He said he hasnt gotten anything yet but we have been talking and building the basis for a friendship. A lot of people including the former ambassador to the u. N. Writing a piece this morning, saying that that is what needs to happen, they needed to begin a framework, a discussion, open this up, very volatile as she is with chinese expansionism in the South China Sea and elsewhere, and also issues of the trade war that President Trump has been fighting against as a businessman and now, as president of the United States, as well. Interesting to see the people at the table. Use Jared Kushner seated next to the chinese president s wife. Reince priebus was across the table, as well, as we watch the shifting of the desk chair is a bet at the white house and the west wing, we understand that there will be more of that going forward, as well. A busy evening at maralago as we watch all of this unfold this evening. Lets bring charlie and emily back in to get your comments on this. Your thoughts as we watch that play out . Charlie . For all the grief the president gets for being impolitic in politics, this is the setting where he shines. I think the reason for that is that he is unpredictable. There was a lot of talk in the Chinese Press that there were concerns of the president xi jingping would be somehow humiliated or something would happen, it would cause embarrassment to him. When donald trump doesnt do that, but those kind of keep everybody on their toes, it is where i think he is at his best. Martha just about 20 seconds. Emily, your thoughts . I hope trump learns the complexities that immigration is tied to trade, foreign policy, tied it to war. I hope he learns that quickly. Martha thank you, both. Now, for Something Different on this day before we leave you for your to speak governor reagan, whatever they call you, i dont care. [laughter] what do i care what they call you . You are the governor. You better make that phone call. I say this for my heart, governor. I met you once in the hallway to nbc, as you remember. I will never forget your words. Get out of the way, kid. Martha the legendary don ruggles come attributes pouring in, for more than half a century, he lit up the night clubs, no one, not even president s are federal celebrities were off limits. In 2012, he received the Johnny Carson award for comedic excellence. Friends like bob newhart to see there was no one who was kinder or a better human being. He once asked how he would like to be remembered and he said this. Im caring, i am loyal, loyalty in this business is very important. He will be missed. Dawn rickles, 90 years old. Have a good night, everybody. Bill the Oreilly Factor is on tonight. Do i think . Yes, i think. Bill President Trump President Trump commenting on the susan rice situation, which was a big break for him. Talking points will explain. I think it is crazy that we are considering confirming a lifetime Trump Nominee to the Supreme Court. That is nuts. Bill the far left trying everything to derail judge gorsuchs Supreme Court appointment but they fail. Well have the latest. Can i see some dance moves . I want someone to sing galveston for me. [laughter] i dont know the lyrics. Bill also, i had come is to watters in