they need to give, too, the democrats do. it s called a compromise. i would like to see welfare reform. there are a lot of workers on the sidelines taking advantage of government programs who enter the workforce and they aren t entering the workforce. that s part of welfare reform. they have a sufficient number of government benefits it s a hard call. sometimes they ll get in and sometimes they won t. a lot more progress on substance and policy and should be the president s focus. sandra: top republicans meeting with the president at camp david and how to change the conversation with the book public this morning. ari fleischer, thank you for coming on this morning. bill: jon scott coming up next on happening now. good morning. good morning. the book that she was just talking about not only taking washington by storm but saturating the mainstream media coverage. other big stories like deadly protests in iran. are they being overshadowed by the gossip? plus the monster form pumme
keep a promise and i guess it s an early christmas present too for a lot of folks. lea: i love you just mentioned that he said it wasn t fancy because i think that depends on where you come from. when you come from trump tower to the white house, i guess it doesn t seem like it s that fancy. certainly a big accomplishment for the president and republicans. rick: as we look air force one at joint base andrews, majestic jet, they are pulling away the steps now, and i assume they will be taxing shortly to take off. we want to dive a little deeper into this tax bill that he just signed. i don t know if you ve been paying attention to mainstream media coverage of tax reform, but there was a new article on the wall street journal that says the press corps is blinded by its own biases. we want to redo a highlight from that article. you d be justified in believing that the entire republican party had been hit with a stupid stick. its members united to jack up the taxes of millions of
steve: bree, what do you think, our own john roberts said the president never said he believes putin, yet the mainstream media coverage was i saw several examples of where they were saying well, the president believes president putin over his own intel agencies. that s not at all what he said. yeah, it really isn t at all what he said. in the next breath he says i believe our intelligence agencies are very fine people that work over there. i think he is making a distinction that putin is not going to change his answer and, you know, we are just going to have to move on from there, right? we have to trust on own intelligence community. trust our intelligence agents and move on and go from there. if the reason why all of this matters so much is because there is an ongoing investigation into whether or not the donald trump campaign and to what extent they colluded with russia in order to meddle in the election, right? it matters. it matters to be accurate and it matters to be precise. b
the precedent for two options, one is pushing off the election and having republican leaders decide that they don t want to seat somebody who was elected is very danger no matter what party you re talking about here. chris: we asked you for questions to the panel, we got this from michael, has the mainstream media coverage been fair or has moore been unfairly prosecuted in the court of public opinion without the benefit of careful examination and due process? chuck, you work for the washington post which broke the story, how to you answer, michael? the best answer is to look at reaction to number of republican senator who is are not who you think of people uncritically read the washington post, resaw richard shelby, bill cassidy has been mentioned. they regard the story as or the information in the story as very credible information. in fact, subsequent to the post story, other news organizations have gone and asked the women the questions and they ve all repeated what they sai
the precedent for two options, one is pushing off the election and having republican leaders decide that they don t want to seat somebody who was elected is very danger no matter what party you re talking about here. chris: we asked you for questions to the panel, we got this from michael, has the mainstream media coverage been fair or has moore been unfairly prosecuted in the court of public opinion without the benefit of careful examination and due process? chuck, you work for the washington post which broke the story, how to you answer, michael? the best answer is to look at reaction to number of republican senator who is are not who you think of people uncritically read the washington post, resaw richard shelby, bill cassidy has been mentioned. they regard the story as or the information in the story as very credible information. in fact, subsequent to the post story, other news organizations have gone and asked the women the questions and they ve all repeated what they sai