Havent we been here before . Didnt i rail against this before . It doesnt matter whos door is close, not on our watch. Locked out and were trying to figure out. You remember watergate . Get ready for door gate. Started with harry reid holding the chosed door meetings. Republicans say theyre being locked out. They call him the handyman. I admire guys like him. This is handyman any of kids cartoon fame so you can open any door and keep it open. Absolutely. Mr. Handyman can open any closed doors. If need be, keep them open permanently. Theyre not open right now. We didnt like it when democrats are playing this and we dont like it when republicans do it. We understand the reasons for both but theyre not tolerated under our watch. Our producer, chad, is a hater of closed doors. Chad, there you are with rand paul trying to get to the bottom of why he wants to get to the bottom of the closeddoor meetings. What progress have you made . A lot of stage craft by rand paul. The bill was not in that room. That belongs to Kathy Mcmorris rogers. We thought the bill might be back there because scott walker, the governor of wisconsin was addressing house republicans. There was this visual for a minute, the Police Officers who were there to protect governor walker. That maybe they were hiding the bill. Thats not what was going on here. The reason were not seeing this bill right now is that a, its not complete and republicans want to be very careful here to make sure that details of this dont leak out so that gives them time pose different versions here. And theres 430 members in the house. Five vacancies. You can only lose 21 votes on the republican side before they need help from the democrats. That wont happen. The turning radius is very narrow here. So they dont want to lose people on the left in the republican conference. Republicans on the right of the conference. Its very narrow. People want to see the bill and this is why mark walker, a republican from North Carolina said hey, we cant do the same thing the democrats did. We cant be hypocritical going after democrats for lack of transparency. We want to lead by example. I hope its open, not just for us but for our constituents. It was funny yesterday. Well see this bill, probably in the next week. Rand paul had a staff wheel over a copy machine in an effort to tray to get the bill. This is a lot of stage craft that was going on here on capitol hill. But at the end of the day, were probably going to have details of the bill leaked out next week. This is a messaging week for republicans. Probably going to a markup session before two committees, the ways and Means Committee and the energy and Commerce Committee the week after that and try to put it on the floor the end of the month. The reason being, they want it through the house and get it to the senate before either. They still have to deal with the confirmation battle of neil gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Neil let me ask you, the reason why theres big differences in the republican party, they dont want to create, the rand pauls and the ted cruzes, they dont want to get an obamacarelike version or an albatross of a federal monstrosity and make one that is less of an albatross but still a monstrosity, right . They wont accept it. We dont know the page numbers of the bill. Eventually they will add and subtract. The thing i watch to see, how open the rule is. This is where the they allow members to offer amendments to the rule. When they did obamacare in 2009, the final version in 2010, there were two amendments made in order, neil. There was the stupac amendment that encouraged pro life democrats to vote for the bill and gave republicans an alternative. Those were the two amendments. Well see what the republican dos this time. Neil thank you, ted. What happened behind closed doors doesnt stay behind closed doors here. An Interesting Development where chad is that you had the Vice President of the United States with Speaker Paul Ryan at this event. That led some to think that maybe the administration is on the side of the leadership here and not some of these renegades. Tom price, you can see from health and human services, that they like that approach that the speaker is taking and not the approach that rand paul and the other conservatives are taking. No way to read much into that. I bring that out there because some have seized on that as proof that the senators are facing an uphill battle. Who knows. I have a feeling these guys know. Scott brown our fox news contributor, democratic strategist. Senator, you know, your party had a thing with closed doors. Turns out some republicans have a thing with closed doors. But when you open them up, you realize they reveal parties themselves that are in disagreement within themselves, right . Sure. This is the art of sausage making, the legislative process. Transparency is always important and welcomed. No question about it. Members of congress, senate and house, both parties should have access to the language so they can review it. Whether or not they give it out is a whole other thing publicly. So i think that members, lawmakers should have access to this language so they can review it. I understand why theyre hesitant to do so. Once you get too many cooks in the kitchen, things get messy. I was the coauthor of the medicaid reform law in ohio as well as the healthcare prior authorization reform law. Can tell you, this is a twostep process. We had Interested Party meetings with everybody under the sun for month and months on end along with democrats and republicans from both chambers trying to hash something out. It wept through the Committee Process where there were amendments or markups at the federal level. Neil scott brown, when people see this thing, theyre reminded of the fact that not all republicans are in agreement on this. The reason why it gets to be more of a worry is that the markets are always poised for perfection here and that this thing has to go off without a hitch. So the gorsuch hearing go off with out a hitch and the tax cuts go off without a hitch. If this stumbles, then all of that stumbles too. Do you agree . A little bit. I think theyre both right. I think theres an opportunity for secrecy to get the committees to do their job, to get a baseline bill out there. Eventually include all the various members of this house and senate. I think rand is right as well. I think the approach that he should have hopefully well start to make is he should be working directly, ask to be part of the team to come up with his solutions and recommendations. Neil he has a solution. He says hes not being given a chance to be part of it. Its a little early in the process. Neil fair enough. Theres costsharing opportunities with faithbased groups, a crossboarder competition. He has great ideas. He will be part of the process and part of the solution. Hes a doctor. And he has access to copy machines. Loves to copy things. Cat, let me ask you this. You can be a judge after the fact here. A lot of people are angry at republicans saying this is their priority to kick things off. They had to have gotten a sense theres great divisions in the ranks on this. Theyre not that wide, the gaps are not that wide but they are what they are. Had they gone and pounced on tax cuts first, they would have avoided this. They could have avoided it for a little bit. Cant avoid it forever. Its ridiculous theyre not letting rand paul see it. Hes in congress. Is it mean girls . I dont understand. Are they worried that isis will see it . Who cares. Let them have it. And from what were hearing about this bill, they need small government cooks in the kitchen. Theyre taking about keeping the mandate, paying it to insurance instead of the government. I dont care if youre paying it to me. If the government is forcing you to buy something, its not a small government. Im interested in the best bill possible more than i am political discomfort. Absolutely. Neil you know, maybe capri, you help with this. The dirty little secret here is whether people like what the republicans are doing or not. The healthcare law is falling apart because the means by which you finance it is falling apart. People love the idea of preexisting coverage and getting your kids on your policy. They like that. What they dont seem to realize is that doing nothing is not an option here. So its politicized to death. Thats why democrats and republicans neil theyre not working together. Theyre doing the closeddoor thing and i dont like closed door. Im the guy on the outside looking in. The way to get the best bill possible is to get as many brains on it as you can. Especially free market brains. With respect to any one saying we have to fix it, when i got elected, they had over 300 chances to fix it. Now the democrats say lets fix it. I dont care what word you use, lets save the American People and the american businesses and give them options that they deserve. Unless you have a product to contemplate, were theres plenty of products. Rand paul has one neil this thing is this thing is going to need paddles pretty soon because its dying right now. You can be on the right or left, but as its going its unsustainable. Sorry about closed door thing. But not on our watch, america. The dow eeking out a gain today despite talk from no less than the Federal Reserve boss that you know what . Were going to hike interest rates. She all but said it. Janet yellen said in the next couple weeks, we could be another 1 4 point higher on interest rates. All of that and snap chat shares soaring. Up 11 . This has increased what . 60 in value over 38 million . The guys behind in worth at least 5 billion plus. This is wrong, by the way, guys, because they dont have equal number of shares. But theyre billionaires. Who cares . Theyre only 26. I find that infuriating. More after this. [car engine failing to start] [clicking of ignition] uh wha woof eeh woof wuh [silence] [engine roars to life] [dog howls] dramatic opera music swells from radio [howling continues] neil all right. A new vetting coming from President Trump next week. This occurs at a time that dhs is reporting this a lot of radicalists that come here, they dont instantly become radicalized. Its years after getting here. Who is predisposed to that and when with mark stein. I was looking at the incredible books this young man has turned out for america alone. The undocumented. Way ahead of the trends. Great to have mark stein with us. Good to see you my friend. Good to be with you, neil. Neil on this effort, this is the administrations version of another mulligan of this. I wonder if hes going to run into the same buzz saw of opposition. Even if he is clarifying, you know, the types who get in here and that its limited to new visa entrants coming in. So what do you expect to happen . I think theres a group of people that basically object to anything he does. We hear this response that only 50 of american terrorist attacks are perpetrated by people born outside the u. S. So what is the point of banning people outside the u. S. . If 50 of automobile fatalities were caused by canadians, america would have every right to ban people with canadian driver licenses from driving around down here. If you can lower the rate by 50 , that is worth doing. That said, the other side also right that we have problems with longterm radicalization. After that summer of terror in france, French Security officials told me a few months ago, theyre all obsessed in front with what they call fast track radicalization. Like the nice truck boomer, he was radicalized in 20 minutes. Is that longterm neil but that definition, they dont know how to handle this. We might we have the problem here in our midst, if theyre already here, some seem fine now but in months or years that might not be so fine. None of this would address in any approach that the president takes or others try to take. No, no. Were in basically broadway as they say on broadway, nobody knows nothing. All we can say, which is a crude correlation, the less islam you have, the less terrorists you. Have you dont hear about attacks in japan or poland because they have few muslims. But we have a problem with second and Third Generation i dont like the term radicalization. They mean it like its the west nile mosquito. You just perfectly normal and suddenly bitten by the radicalization bug. The guy, for example, the orlando nightclub killer that slaughtered all those people in that gay nightclub, he was raised by somebody who himself shouldnt have been let in the country. Its what the president says is simple prudence. Even if its 50 or 35 , if you reduce domestic terror attackspy 35 , why not go for it . I know you and nigel did the global refugee crisis. The key was that was a world why phenomenon there and the overwhelming number of folks are fine. Theres not a lot of room for error here. No. This is europes problem, this is our problem. This is a lot of peoples problem. So i guess it goes back to something you guys were talking about last year. So the question is how can anything the president does now, how can it change the equation here . Well, i thi said the other night actually in the congressional address, he as president owes a duty not to the world, but to the citizens of the United States. The existing citizens of the United States who have the right to choose who crosses their borders. Just as up north in canada, canadians have the right or norwegians have the right or New Zealanders have the right. This idea that somehow it is immoral basically the premise of the ninth circus decision that all 6 2 3 billion people on the planet that arent american citizens have some kind of inherent right, at least potentially to immigrate here is nuts. The people on the side of the president on this issue and he should stick to his guns on it. Neil and no one ever wants to look like theyre racist or insensitive or callous or mean to the plight of refugees. Theyre more concerned with how theyll look than safety. Thats when i think you cross a dangerous even idiotic line. No, immigration is treated as an or of moral exhibitionism. Most of the people that advocate for open borders dont have to live on the front line of it. Like the women that i saw in formerly peaceful swedish towns that are being advised by mayors and Police Chiefs to not go out at night. The capitol city of austria in the year 2017. Its fine if youre living in one of these big swanky mansions and you have your border wall around your garden, thats fine. But the country should have a border wall, too. Neil mark stein, great catch. Quit writing so many books. Thanks, neil. You cant keep up with them. Neil thats a compliment. All these distractions, whether you agree theyre big or not, what are they doing to the markets . After this. When youre close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . If you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. 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Its handled by od employees who know that delivering freight. Means delivering promises. Od. Helping the world keep promises. Neil all right. We told you about the market that was up today. The fear always seems that its priced for perfection. You heard that here a couple times. Everything has to go just right. This repeal and replacement of obamacare, judge gorsuch, get him approved as a Supreme Court justice and finally get the tax cuts through. That has got to work like clock work. So what if it doesnt . The fear is that the tax cuts, for example are delayed or even this year potentially denied, then what . We have larry here, an economist and lindsey. Lindsey, lets say the tax cuts get put off and the markets have been running up in anticipation of them, how are they going to make them richer and make earnings more realistic and facing the stock prices that dont look so heady or crazy. What do you think . Thats the problem. At the point the market is ford ward looking. We havent seen much improvement in the economy but business its and consumers that this programs agenda of creating a reduced tax, reduced cost, Regulatory Environment is going to usher in this area of pro growth. Getting the economy back on track. If we start to hear that the president and the administration is pushing this agenda out or potentially this agenda is becoming derailed, theres very little that the market can hang their hat on. Confidence only take the market so far. Well need to see the positive policies translate to reality in order to maintain this type of momentum in the market at this point. I heard you and Maria Bartiromo into this that democrats could like nothing more than to disrupt that ask agenda and any means they can, side show they can, whether its with the attorney general or all the other developments. So be it. The fear seems to be if they succeed in delaying this, that could be a problem, right . Very much a problem, neil. The democrats, the republicans will need some of the democrats to get on board with the Replacement Parts for obamacare. Number 1. Number 2, i also point the finger at the republicans. Where have they been in the last year or so . When they were putting together this tax reform package in the house, they didnt expect donald trump to win the presidency. They have elements neil thats an excellent point. Corporate tax reform, neil, its a tax on imparts that we talked about. A lot of republicans are not okay with that. Theyre worried about Retail Prices going up, gasoline prices going up. They need to get their act together and snap to it. Neil larry, i still think were going to get the taxes, find a way to repeal and replace. What im not so sure is that its going to happen on the time frame maybe the markets want. Then i want to know what would the fallout be of delayed. Still not denied but delayed. Neil, its a real concern. These distractions have yet to slow down the trump agenda. Optimism surges in the stock market. Small businesses an Consumer Confidence at a 15year high. The risks are not the distractions, not the recusalre. But if the trump agenda is slowed down and you dont get the reforms we expect or Infrastructure Spending doesnt come in. Maybe the european elections get a surprise victory with the wrong party and washington doesnt like that. That is its a snake that bites you, the one you dont see. Investors are worried about the trump agenda. Thats not what they should worry about. They should worry about distractions and something we dont anticipate. Maybe its the 20 trillion debt that slows down the recovery. Neil lindsey, americans are spending money that they dont have yet. Maybe they can spend tax couple money that doesnt materialize. Then what . Thats part of the problem. Confidence is at this tenyear high. Consumers pulled back in spending activity at the start of the year. Neil interesting. So were seeing the disconnect between what the survey measures are showing, what consumers are saying and doing. So this goes back to the idea that confidence will only be supported for so long. Were not seeing this translate into the underlying data. Neil you still think its going to work out . I think so. The Trump Administration will do tax cuts, maybe make them retroactive. Number 2, theres a lot the Trump White House can do like the regulation roll back. Thats one of the reasons that youve seen small cap stocks hitting new record highs as well. Those regulations are even more burdensome for small businesses. Neil guys, thanks very much. Everybody is fixated with this, that were going to batch it. Not like the Ronald Reagan days in 86 with those tax cuts. I hate to break it to you, you should have been in the kitchen when they made that sausage. Lets meet the guy that was there after this. Neil what is with the latest liberal love affair with george w. Bush . Some say its long overdue until you understand what liberals are loving. Its more with hating donald trump. Well explain in 60 seconds. We asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. Travel with my daughter. Roller derby. Now give up half of em. Do i have to . This is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. But, if we start saving even just 1 more of our annual income. We could keep doing all the things we love. Prudential. Bring your challenges. Neil all right. Been there, done that. What if i told you this commotion back and forth, the division over republicans and taxes is going to undo it. They said the same thing in Ronald Reagans presidency in his two major tax cuts. The first in 81 and the follow up that revised the entire tax code in 86. So we somehow survived that. David was a frontseat player in that, economist, former chief of staff for jack comp. Hes behind so many great books. The great equalizer, the one that warrants the attention here. David, i was so refreshed when i read your column on that. We forget that. You jarred my memory. I forgot about jack kemp and Ronald Reagan went at each other. Go to that time and how republicans overcame their differences and got this stuff done. Right. I think the republicans right now needs to take a chill pill. Theyre so upset. Theyre taking these vote counts. 1981 and 86, it was nasty. It wasnt pretty. There were elbows flying. I sat in a room where jack kemp and Ronald Reagan didnt agree. It got aggressive. 86 was written off as dead a half a dozen times. Neil by the way, jack kemp, what didnt they get along on . Kemp wanted to go further . What was the deal . Yeah, he wanted 3 years of 10 and reagan compromised on 1010 and the 5. The way tax policy works is, you know, most of the time, if you do a whip count a year ahead, six months ahead, theres not votes for tax reform. People say i dont like this, i dont like that. Get the bill on the floor, where they have to vote for it, this is the most important thing right now. If the republicans and trump produce a bill that is that deals with labor and capital, has a big middle class tax cut, thats huge. Its very hard once the bill is on the floor for a republican senator to vote against the middle class tax cut. He will have an opponent saying senator, they think theyre undertaxed. Theres maneuvers to keep it off the florida. Thats where Donald Trumps 30 million social media people will probably come into play. This is theres way too much pessimism right now. Neil no doubt. But we have way more debt than back then. Im wondering whether that stymies efforts to make this a big old tax cut because youre going to hear conservatives that will say, well, we cant go too, too far because its going to make the debt worse. What do you think of that distinction . I think that they need to put the border adjustment tax in the bill and put it out for discussion. Right now, everybody is taking pot shots at it. I have pros and cons with it. Neil you think we should do it . It raises a trillion in revenue. They ought to put that out and say if you dont like it, come up with something else. We cannot have a budgetbusting fiscal stimulus for a number of reasons. They look very carefully at alternatives if they dont like that. Its not enough to just go to the senate floor, the house floor and say this is a stupid idea. You have to neil you said so terrible that Ronald Reagan was pragmatic about. It wasnt his way or the highway. He knew what could get passed versus what didnt. Do you think trump will be flexible . How will it go down . I think he will be the deal maker ultimately. Neil i think youre right. It will pass the house quickly. And i think mnuchins treasury secretarys argument that by august, that could happen in the house. Probably take longer in the senate. As long as the Senate Leadership says were going to do whatever we have to do, well threaten people with the loss of subcommittee assignments. Once they get it to the floor, hard to vote against it. Neil very wellput. Great insight on this. He did play a revolutionary role at a key time. And we got through it. It was an amazing time. Neil it was. You remind me in this column. I urge everybody to get your hands on it and relive history. Weve been there and done that, although we havent seen Something Like this. Raids at caterpillar. What is behind them after this . Liberty mutual stood with me when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. I just snapped a photo and got an estimate in 24 hours. My Insurance Company definitely doesnt have that. You can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ Liberty Mutual insurance youve got mail what did you think id look like . Im wirey. Net. Uh, i love stuff. 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Department of commerce showed up to the Global Department headquarters. Caterpillar says that raid had something to do with one of its swiss subsidiaries saying in part we believe the execution of the search warrant is regarding, among other things, expert filings that relate to the matter first disclosed in the 10 k filed december february 17, 2015. Caterpillar argues transactions are valid. This morning the u. S. Commerce secretary commented on the investigation saying they might have something to do with caterpillars imports and exports. Immediately after the raid yesterday, caterpillars stock fell losing 5 percent of its value. The ceo raised a statement to employees saying they apologized for the unexpected raid and reminds people that theyre an honest lawabiding business. Neil . Neil matt, thanks. Great reporting. So what really is going on here to matts point . Carolina, what do you think is going on here . First of all, neil, if i were caterpillar, i could be sure theyre looking for some equipment to dig out of this hole. Because it looks like the d. O. J. Is getting involved and theyre flexing their muscles, using a shock and awe technique here. Previously we know as the company has stated before, theyve been investigated by a host of federal agencies. The alphabet soup, the sec, the irs, you name it. Looks like the United StatesAttorneys Office is getting involved at this point. That means there could be criminal charges here. In what area . A multinational conglomerate. Does bit everywhere. When we heard this break yesterday, we thought could it be involving itself in sanctioned companies. It didnt make sense with the all many multiplayers involved. What it looks like is parallel investigations are going on here. The sec is involved. Again, it looks likes once the Attorneys Office and Justice Department gets their claws in you, theyre not going away. Theyre sending a strong message to caterpillar. We know this is a surprise raid. Neil by the way, they were cooperating. They were. Neil with the authorities. The authorities coordinated and raided their offices so they might have felt this is a sign. A clear signal, theyre trying to theyre a formidable opponent. The United StatesAttorneys Office is not backing down and this is a clear signal that this is not going away. My instinct is this is the tip of the iceberg. The swiss subsidiaries. Theyre going through every document. They have the resources and the time and theyre going to go through and check and see whether or not theyve been complying with the laws. Could get ugly. Neil quickly, i know the ceo is saying hes going to cooperate, he is new. He was among those meeting with donald trump at the white house, the ceos trying to find a way to ignite global growth. How much of a role would the president have in this or is this being done by the agencies involved at that level only . A good question. As you know, were entering New Territory here on all fronts. I say not much in my experience. But you know, these agencies have their own federal mandates. The president oversees them. The agencies really move by themselves. Sometimes they coordinate with each other, sometimes not. But i mean, im going to say not that much. Carolina, thank you. The ceo of caterpillar, the executive chairman that went to the white house. Still everybody is trying to get a sense of what is heck is going on here. You dont see this every day. Liberals praising george w. Bush. But maybe for not the reasons you think after this. Recommend synthetic over cedar . Super food . Is that a real thing . Its a great school, but is it the right one for her . Is this really any better than the one you got last year . If we consolidate suppliers, whats the savings there . 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After eight years of liberals knocking bush for handling of iraq, for hurricane katrina, being portrayed as a dummy, now theyre saying hes preaching the gospel when it comes to trump. Theres one very good reason for that. Its because trump is considered by his critics to with the enemy du jour. Neil part of what they like is what he says about the media. He had an acrimony relationship with the media. But they like the fact that they will glean from that that he is not a fan of Donald Trumps approach to the media. Even though he never said that. He just said that he has a respect for, you know, the state and all that. But what do you make of that . That this is more about using him always a wedge to go after trump than to legitimately and genuinely price praise president bush . The media didnt give him credit for anything. Now hes out there, defending journalists, rejecting the notion that the journalists are the enemy of the people as trump has stated. Its like your exboyfriend in high school. Theyre showing up at the class reunion and looking good. Neil theres a little truth on president bush and he doesnt get credit for this. Everything imploded with the financial melt down. He was behind the auto rescues and tarp and the fund that president obama would get credit for. So whether you like that sort of thing or not, it started with president bush. So is it just for whatever reason, should he accept the fact that now hes getting maybe some of the credit or the good regard that he wouldnt have gotten otherwise, even if its because of the trump thing . I think that for any president , time has a way of rehabbing a president ial image. For president bush, hes been outs of office eight years. Time helps. Hes been living in texas away from the political mudslinging that goes on here in washington. Hes painting. Painting pictures of warriors and his pets. Neil hes a very good painter. He took this off when he left office. I was shocked to hear that. A lot has to do with the way he behaved as an expresident , right . Barack obama, michelle obama, those two struck up a good friendship. Really admired the way that he wasnt always jumping at the obamas. Oftentimes would make reference to what they inherited with that. What did you make of that . I should say, hes been gentle in his criticism of President Trump. Theres no bashing going on, no slamming of the current president going on here either. So its been very soft criticism. For a lot of these commanders in chief, youre viewed in light of your successor. So now that eight years have gone on and we had President Trump, a lot of people are viewing president bush differently. Neil as they will with trump down the road. Thanks, judy. Great seeing you. Great to see you. Neil President Trump pushing School Vouchers at a Catholic School in florida today. Did it resonate . After this. Online u. S. Equity trades. Lower than Td Ameritrade and etrade. You realize the smartest investing idea, isnt just what you invest in, but who you invest with. Test test test test test test test test neil, the president says it is a working weekend and this is a direct quote, he says there is no rest at the southern white house, it is all work here. He is the energizer bunny. Thank you very much. Well be exploring that, what he wants to do, versus what congress and the republicans will let him do. Cost of freedom tomorrow. Beginning at ten eastern right through noon. See you then. Hello everyone im dana perino along with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, Jesse Watters and greg gutfeld. Its 5 00 in new york city and this is the five. Dana its a witch hunt. That is how President Trump is robbing to the out skrie. In a new string of tweets the president calls Jeff Sessions an honest man. He says the democrats are over playing their hand. They lost the election and now they have lost their grip on reality. 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