Then, according to those in the room, he asked house caucus chair mark meadows to stand. Reportedly, with a wink and a smile, said something like, mark, i am going to come after you. I Hope Congress and meadows will be with us in the end. Fox news can report that the Vice President , mike pence, made a special visit to privately speak with meadows today. We have not seen this kind of process since obamacare was passed along party lines. The congressman said despite being singled out today by number one and number two, he is still a no. So, how is it going to go . There is 30 or so votes that are no among conservatives, then come about ten to 20 other moderates. I dont know what the web counters for the Freedom Caucus. I note the discussions i am having a very positive, President Trumps visit today with House Republicans was very persuasive. Martha what is the truth . Effort fails, it may be hard to prepare the rift between the white house and the so far and causa trend, such as, our ne
Denied a connection. I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from chairman nunes on that count today. I really dont know to what chairman nunes was referring but he said whatever he was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection. Shannon we will speak with South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham in minutes. First we begin with White House Correspondent john roberts. Good morning. There appears to be little argument whether the National Security adviser, susan rice asked for the names of the Trump Officials to be unmask and theres debate whether what she did in improper. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee devin nunes was talking about this on capitol hill march 22 and said she he was troubled by what he read unmasking and reports that could identify would was being referred to in the reports. Many white house officials have access to the same documents nunes and adam schiff have reviewed. At the briefing
Had their dreams come true. New years, i watched it here in new york city, it was unbelievable this year. The weather was so cooperative, the entertainment was unbelievable, and its exciting to get onto 2017, and in about three weeks its going to even be a little more exciting. I feel like im in a locker major giving us a little pepto. Lets get started. On capitol hill, lawmakers set to be sworn in and members expected to reelect paul ryan as speaker of the house prayed once that is done, republicans who will be soon in charge of both the white house and congress for the first time in a decade say they have an order of business to be able to who repeal and replace obamacare. Lawmakers will also take a look at overhauling taxes and reversing obama era regulations. And the senate will start vetting president elect Donald Trumps cabinet picks, who Many Democrats say they plan to target. Chief congressional corresponded, our friend mike emanuel, joins us from the hill. Busy guy. Hey, mike.
One story, spies keep intelligence from donald trump on leak concerns. President trump the wall street journal did a story today that was almost as disgraceful as the feeling New York Timess story yesterday. Any suggestion that the United States Intelligence Community, this was just given to us, is withholding information and not providing the best possible intelligence to the president and his National Security team is not true. Martha while the president awaits the confirmation for senator dan coats, who is going to be as director of National Intelligence and a big important coordinator and all of the scum of the New York Times is winning this headline. White house plans to have trump ally review intelligence agencies, an outsider. We are joined for the white house reaction and tony schaefer. We begin tonight with catherine herridge. Catherine. Thank you, martha. Based on the reporting tonight, there is deep unease at the fbi over new Law Enforcement lakes amid the bureaus probe of f
Protect our country and keep our people safe. That will be coming very soon. John roberts joins me now. John, the white house says the revised executive order coming as soon as friday. Im told by a couple Senior Administration officials we can expect it to come out friday. They dont know if its friday morning or afternoon. The president has an appearance at cpac. It will involve the same seven countries as the original executive order. Iran, iraq, syria, libya, yemen and carveouts for groups of individuals. Legal permanent residents, other visa holders who got caught up in the original order when it was applied and some got sent back home when they should have been allowed in the country and a temporary ban allowing refugees into the country but drop the idea of indefinite ban of refugees from syria. What the white house, the department of justice and Homeland Security have done is looked at the court orders and all the court action that was taken against the original order and written