really have a serious budget until you start to talk about entitlements. bret: we should point out president obama s budget had one vote and did not get past in its form as it was thrown up to capitol hill. let me put this up for state department. a real pushback from capitol hill on that number, roughly 30% cut. we are not going along with the budget. it undermines american leadership and puts american lives at risk. i ve been in congress nearly 30 years. i ve never seen anything so reckless when it comes to the state department authorization. the level of spending the state department has been undertaking, particularly this past year, is simply not sustainable. we re going to construct a way forward that allows us to be much more effective, much more efficient, and be able to do a lot with fewer dollars. secretary of state tillerson saying he can get it done with
based on the information available to us, we see no indication trump tower was the subject of any surveillance. before or after election day 2016. white house spokesman said the committee s statement is not the final word. the statement clearly says that at this time they don t believe it. they have yet to go through the information. for 7 minutes, spicer read through news reports about surveillance and tried to turn the tables. where was your passion and concern when they said there was no connection to russia? where was it then? crickets from you guys. president took the same approach wednesday with tucker carlson. i read a new york times article talking about wiretapping. there was an article. i read other things. i watched your friend bret baier where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening and
effect. bret: william la jeunesse live in honolulu. rex tillerson is calling for a new approach in dealing with the threat from north korea. tillerson made the comments in tokyo while also saying north korea need not fear the united states. rich edson is following the secretary and has our report from south korea. 20 years of international pressure, sanctions, more than a billion dollars in aid, all designed to convince north korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs. that is the results. secretary of state rex tillerson said the worlds approach north korea has failed. in the face of this threat, it s clear that a different approach is required. north korea and its people need not fear the united states or their neighbors in the region who seeks only to live in peace with north korea. in tokyo, tillerson is
and clinton loyalist told a washington intelligence groups another allegation is settled. on the question of the trump campaign conspiring with the russians here, there is smoke but there is no fire at all. no campfire, no candle, no spar spark. there s a lot of people looking for it. he joins former senior intelligence officials. no evidence. but does it exist? not to my knowledge. friday deadline, house intelligence committee wants a cia, fbi, nsa to explain who identified americans whose phone calls or captured during foreign surveillance. whether the names go beyond mike flynn. i ve been clear about my concern about the incidental collection on general flynn, how it was put into a product, how it was unmasked, how it was leaked to the public.
immediate collapse. prolonged delays could hurt the u.s. credit rating and further increase deficit costs into the billions. seems like the legislative priorities are not so much about let s fix the debt, fix the deficit, control spending but really just to continue spending, continue to add to the debt and deficit. bret: if our creditors ever lose confidence and our ability to pay back our debt, interest rates could shoot up dramatically. that would be disastrous for anybody who has ordinary kinds of debt, mortgage, car debt, consumer loans, and for businesses that want to invest. it could be could precipitate another recession. he went up congressional leadership to determine when, not if, the debt ceiling will be raised. the government is not going to default. we will do it. bret: tomorrow our series