then he said, over the next couple of weeks, you will hear interesting things. that is the bucket that hasn t been filled yet. i know you want top of all of that. john, thank you. i got to point out that every intelligence official who has been asked had said there is no evidence that that happens. maybe news reports i said that but nobody from intel has. martha: thank you. let s bring in our panel on what has been a very busy day. chris stirewalt, richard fowler, and charles hurt. gentlemen, welcome. it was a very spicy news briefing today, we could say. i want to start with this budget. there was a lot in there. you can pick it apart, it leaves the overall budget the same, even though they talk about cuts. chris, let me start with you. there was language and a way of looking at spending in terms of taking it from the taxpayer and giving it to someone else that we don t really hear put that way quite often. absolutely. if conservatives were lukewarm
i put myself in the shoes of that steelworker and ohio. the coalminer, the coal mining family in west virginia. the mother of two in detroit. and i really go to those folks, look them in the audience a come i want to take money from you and give them to corporation for public broadcasting. i will cut the wasteful government spending. the president is beholding to none of that. the president has drafted a budget for the entire nation. and my first budget report to congress, i m going to ask for the elimination of the defense sequester. we had america first and america first candidate. we now have an america first president and it shouldn t be surprising that we have an america first budget. martha: can they make that happen? first, chief white house correspondent john roberts takes us through this today. good evening. the new budget of the president released today could be described in this way.
reporter: so, the question is, are the new jobs related to something tangible the president has done, like roll back in regulation, or just a sense of optimism because they have a proponent in the white house as opposed to an adversary? the people out here in coal country from university experts to miners to people in the center of town say it s all about the optimism. melissa. melissa: interesting. mike tobin, thank you. stocks trending down today. you can see there, the dow down about 37 points, as hel companies react to the cuts in medical research president trump has proposed on the budget. dow right now is still above 20,000 at 20,913. fox business lori rothman is live at the new york stock exchange. lori? don t forget markets rallied after the fed rose interest rates yesterday and said we have two more. that was one great hike fewer than what wall street was afraid of so it was a rally yesterday. it s coming in a little bit today.
through the house budget committee. two top lawmakers also sounding off about the health care plan. chief congressional correspond anne mike emanuel is live from capitol hill. tell us first about reaction to the budget. reporter: good afternoon. typically lawmakers say thanks mr. president, but congress has the power, the purse. but today house speaker paul ryan praised the president and his team for outlining their priorities. end of the fiscal year we are at the cap level. so i don t see a big issue there. we just got the president s budget submission just this morning. this is the beginning of that step. what i m encouraged by is the notion that we re going to begin rebuilding our military. august 28th is where the funding lapses. i m not concerned about that. i think we ll hit our bench marks. reporter: house democratic leader nancy pelosi said a budget should be a statement of our national val uss. she said judging from this document, it appears the president doesn t care ab
with savings its where so all of that is done without an additional dollar added to the deficit. this budget does not balance the budget. this budget reallocates and reprioritizes spending as any family or business would do. this budget does not, for those of you that weren t here last week, does not address the big picture items like policy changes, revenue flows, tax policy, mandatory spending. the top-line spending budget. that s why we call it the budget blueprint and not the full budget. the full budget, which will contain the rest of those pieces and parts will be released in may. before i take questions, i m going to do something i don t ordinarily do. i m going to call on the new york times. they re in trouble. apparently where is my new york times guy? matt and alan. okay. they re in big trouble. i ll give you the first question. you have to deliver this message. they printed that i m the father