It lashing out at senator blumenthal via twitter. Senator Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night after a long and bitter battle in the senate. The next confirmation showdown, tom price to be health and Human Services secretary. Mike emanuel is on capitol hill, but we begin with john roberts. Good morning to you. Already a busy day here at the white house. The president absently going off today. After blumenthal started dishing on a private meeting he had yesterday with neil gorsuch. Listen to what he said. Certainly expressed to me that he is disheartened by the demoralizing comments made by President Trump about the judiciary. Blumenthal said gorsuch encouraged him to go public. They say gorsuch did acknowledge the attacks as disheartening and demoralizing, but he did not say the president s comments were abhorrent. He could not comment on any specific cases and judicial ethics prevent him from commenting on political matters. He made it clear. President trump ripped blumenthal on twi
Nuclear weapons at an unprecedented pace. And Severe Weather causing devastation across the country. The flooding and at least rhymes translating entire communities to be destroyed. It is all happening now. Spacing we begin with President Trump diving into his first full week signing three executive orders as the new press secretary gets ready to face the media again. Welcome to the second hour of happening now, we will expect that press briefing, i am jon scott. Jenna im jenna lee. Sean spicer is such a kick that off about a half hour from now, after the aggressive First Encounter with the press this weekend over the size of the crowd at mr. Trumps inauguration among other things but President Trump is moving along with a very busy schedule including meetings with foreign leaders and executive orders to withdraw from the Transpacific Partnership and a federal hiring freeze. All of this as his cabinet begins to firm up. Jon we look at the latest from john roberts, john . Good afternoon
The Transpacific Partnership and nasa, their free trade agreement. Part of a very busy or stay here for President Trump. He did have a chance to meet with some Business Leaders. Pretty interesting look to how that meeting might go. We were able to get in there and take some pictures. He said, look, my agenda is simple. Im going to keep your jobs in america, and im going to fight for fair trade. If that is something that we do not have right now. We want to start making our products again. We dont want to bring them in, we want to make them here. That does not mean that we do not trade, we do trade. But we need to make our products here. Meanwhile, the president will also today in addition to the Business Leaders meeting, he will speak with congressional leaders talking about the Affordable Care act. He has also going to talk about executive actions on trade. A meeting this week with production administrator, and expected renegotiation as i pointed out. Also the issue of filling out the
Is it fair . Plus a fox news exclusive with the trump associate at the center of a controversy. Accused of trying to act as an amateur diplomat, he tells us his side of the story. And the new commanderinchief has called for the American Military to grow, but are some people and the pentagon working to block those plans . It is all happening now. We begin with a fox news alert, we are awaiting the White House Press briefing set to start any moment now as the Administration Launches an aggressive effort to tighten Border Security into poor criminals in this country illegally. Welcome to the second hour of happening now i am jenna lee. Jon im jon scott. New Homeland Security directives issued that just this morning as we expect a revised president ial order on immigration and travel affecting the same seven predominantly muslim countries. Chief white house crisp on john roberts joins us live from the north line. Good afternoon, we should also say this is the first sean spicer briefing and
Jenna a nationwide manhunt for a man accused of sending an antigovernment manifesto to President Trump and stealing more than a dozen firearms. By someone close to him fears he was a violent showdown with police. And the u. S. Facing a deadly opioid epidemic. How did we get here and how do we stop it . Its all happening now. Jenna we begin with this our expecting some breaking news and awaiting attorney general Jeff Sessions arrival in arizona se towards our border with mexico and meets with Law Enforcement officers as well. Welcome to the second hour of happening now, i am jenna lee. Jon im jon scott. Sessions is expected in the area south of tucson that was once one of the biggest 8 busiest places on the border for illegal crossings and drug smuggling. It comes as sessions plans to ask federal prosecutors to take a harder line on immigration offenses. Our chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is live in washington with more on all of this. We are awaiting the attorney g