First up tonight, President Trump has a warning for the republicans who threw a Monkey Wrench in his plan to repeal and replace obamacare, and hes threatening to fight those opponents in next years midterm election. This morning the president tweeted this the Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they dont get on the team and fast. We must fight them and dems in 2018. Exclamation point. As you to know, the key Freedom Caucus prevented fellow republicans from getting the number of votes they needed to pass their Health Care Bill. The president said this week he still plans to get it passed. Democrats have largely sat this one out and met the republicans fight amongst themselves, but members of the Freedom Caucus are are pushing back against the president. In fact, michigan congressman justin amash responded to the president , warning it didnt take long for the swamp to drain, no shame, mr. President , almost everyone succumbs to the d. C. Establishment. So who will ultimately come out on top . Fox news ed henry is here now. Good to see you. Dagen good to see you, ed. I was waiting for donald trump to tweet about the Freedom Caucus just a matter of time. Dagen it took him almost a week, and he didnt call out anybody individually by name, which was surprising. Not yet, but closer to the midterms you could see him calling people out. This is maybe a preface to actually getting down and hammering individual conservative lawmakers if they dont come to his cause. I see this as a big shortterm political problem for him, though, because antagonizing others is not what he needs right now. We had heard from some of our reporting that before the Health Care Failure a couple weeks back steve bannon had called these Freedom Caucus members in and said, look, this is not a conversation, basically. This is the bill, this is what were doing, you get on or else, and a lot of them went, or else. So i dont see how doubling down on that in the short term is going to help them on health care, tax reform or the rest of his agenda. However, when you say whos going to come out on top, Donald Trumps been counted out time and time again dating back to the campaign and has prevailed, number one. And number two, he does have a point that these Freedom Caucus members at some point have to realize republicans have the keys to the whole kingdom. Theyve got to get something done. Dagen well, i looked at that bill and what the Freedom Caucus wanted that wasnt in it initially. But broadly speaking, it reforms medicaid, it gets rid of the individual mandate, the employer mandate, it cut taxes by a trillion dollars, it cut spending by roughly a trillion dollars. Broadly speaking, whats not to like . Well, there were a lot of other reform that is the Freedom Caucus wanted in there. I think the point that donald trump is trying to make, and maybe its a little inartful in the form of a tweet, in only 140 characters, of course dagen that was an artful tweet, ed, come on. [laughter] dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I think that is what the message should be, which is like was this a flawed Health Care Bill . Yes. Was it perfect . No. But i think what the white house was trying to do was get something through the house, since they spoke in front of the house and they have a majority at least on paper and get it to the senate. Because, of course, its going to change in the senate. And you know what . Its going to change again when they go into conference committee. That is the process. Dagen well, and the Freedom Caucus has been lambasted by the wall street journal editorial page, Dan Henninger wrote about it today, and karl rove had an oped, said bad excuses for republican fratricide, was the headline. And the other thing is, look, in terms of donald trump trying to bring the Freedom Caucus in like i say, in the short term this might be be doubling down on beating them up but whats the alternative . This idea of working with democrats, . Look at nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, they want to stop Health Care Reform at all costs. They want to leave obamacare in place, they dont want to give him a victory on tax cuts. So if the alternative to the Freedom Caucus is nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, ive got news for you, it aint gonna work, so he is going to have to come back to the Freedom Caucus. Maybe split em in half, split em in pieces, hes got to work with them. Dagen real quick, do you think they get health care done and Infrastructure Spending done this year . Highly unlikely. At least a trillion dollars for infrastructure, wheres that going to come from . Some of the cuts that the president wants in order to pay for his budget are already being called dead on arrival on the hill. Thats tough, and in terms of tax reform, i still think they can get tax reform, but in this tight window when youre also trying to avoid a Government Shutdown and all these over things, i dont see them getting things done by the summer, and that means a president without a shortterm victory. Dagen you brought me a book . Yeah, the problem is how but for a secret meeting that branch ricky had with the minister that helped push him over the temperature to pick jackie robinson, the problem is its signed to kennedy. No, just kidding. Its signed to dagen. Dagen ill still read it. She gets nothing. [laughter] thank you so much. The Senate Intelligence committee today started hearings on whether russia melded in the 2016 meddled in the 2016 election, but president Vladimir Putin strongly rejected those claims. As you know, the white house has been trying to shake allegations that russia did everything it could to get trump to win and Hillary Clinton to lose. The hearings today trying to determine to what extent russia spread propaganda and socalled fake news to achieve that, and senators say theyre trying to prevent this from turning into a political quagmire. Russia deployed this deluge of disinformation in a broader attempt to undermine americas strength and leadership throughout the world. The chairman and i agree it is vitally important that we do this as a credible, bipartisan and transparent manner as possible. Dagen so will this investigation yield any resultss the president has alleged . Lets bring in the springloaded party panel, political reporter for the young turks, editor at town hall and Fox News Contributor and cowboy boot lady, katie pavlich. And lincolns top hat podcast, ben brenberg. If were going to get a true bipartisan looksee into what happened during the election, were going to get it from senators burr and warner. Is that right yeah. Yesterday when they announced what theyre going to do with this investigation, they made it very clear they trust each other. There wasnt a a lot of partisan back and forth. They started by saying we trust each other, we also trust the members here. Theyve dedicated seven fulltime staffers the looking through what they said an unprecedented amount of information. And so theyre calming it down. The house is always, you know, no to have yously a little crazier than the senate is, and im glad to see theyre moving forward in a nonpolitical way because the bottom line is there has been a lot of political talk around russia. But russia attacks everyone. Marco rubio came out today and said, and said, look, my office was also attacked during the summer of 2016 by the russians, and so this is a bipartisan earth. It wasnt just targeted effort. It wasnt just targeted toward one Political Party or the other. One suffered more than the other, i would say, but this was an attack on the system, and that should be taken seriously by republicans and democrats. Dagen Catherine Herridge was reporting we found out the Cyber Campaign has continued to this day, in fact, attacks on paul ryan even after the Health Care Bill went down last week. And it doesnt look like this is going to be den. There were no government officials at this hearing, and it doesnt look like this is going to be conducted in public at all which, given everything thats going on in the house, a good thing. I wouldnt be surprised if there were leaks in this environment right now. Its complicated because i think theres a lot of distrust over this issue from the far right and the far left right now and those more towards the center are more engaged with their party, including the republican party, by the russia story. But theres distrust because [audio difficulty] that russias been pushing out through multiple different outlets. It should be a transparent process, but russias looking at every single thing that we do and say and tapping into paul ryan whos in a weak spot right now politically as well and is the enemy of steve bannon. All this stuff plays together and is complicated, and for once its dagen but we do need answers. We need answers whether the intelligence collection finish do intelligence agencies were abuse by that outgoing administration. Not just alleged collusion. Well, i mean, obviously, the russians, they had their hands in the 2016 election. The chinese also had their hands in the 2016 election. This isnt like particularly new. I dont think it swayed the election in Donald Trumps favor. I mean, at the end of the day the only thing we know for sure is that the dnc was colluding with the Hillary Clinton campaign to derail Bernie Sanders [laughter] dagen john podesta called bernie a dufus, by the way. Oh, i remember. I was there. [laughter] you know, this is exactly what putin wanted to do, he wanted to destable us and make us question our democracy, and every single news story about it makes putin feel stronger and better than before. Dagen instead of talking about cutting our taxes, were talking about Vladimir Putin and russia. The federal judge in hawaii who ordered a halt on President Trumps revised travel ban has now upped the ante and indefinitely extended that halt, and the white house is not at all happy about it. As you might recall, the revised ban was not as strict as the original. It was changed quite handsomely. It exempted green cardholders and temporarily barred travelers from six predominantlymuslim nations from entering the u. S. Iraq no longer on the list. But the judge in hawaii ruled that the intent was the same as the original, calling it a neon sign flashing muslim ban. In a Statement Today the Justice Department said, quote the president s executive order falls squarely within his Lawful Authority in seeking to protect our nations security, and the department will continue to defend this executive order in the courts. So where is this going next . Katie. They changed it even, too, because the original order gave an exemption to religious minorities right. Dagen they even took that out right. So it does not read like a muslim ban. Right, right. It wasnt in the first place, but even christians and yazidis who were under genocide in a lot of these countries by isis were not given an exception to come here as refugees. They changed it, they did what the court said they should do, and here we have liberals fighting this. I take severe issue with this context of putting this as banned from majoritymuslim countries. No, were banning people from failed states. Were banning people from governments that dont exist. Were banning people from systems that dont have any kind of vetting or paperwork or process at all. And so for this judge to extend this continually is a problem, and this idea that were just going to allow people from countries that have no systems at all into our country is absurd considering weve seen the consequences of that in europe. Dagen i just want to point out, though, the fact that this judge goes back to things that President Trump says on the campaign trail yeah. Dagen that is judicial overreach, to say the least. He ought to i said he ought to doff the robe and show us the im with her k tshirt. When the president campaigns on promises and moves forward on those promises and wants to adjust them with language that i completely disagree with you on this, katie. Number one, you need to have a visa to come from half of these, and theres an extraordinary no, theres not. Wheres the government in yemen . In somalia . Its not youre just letting in yemeni citizens unless theyre refugees, and thats when they go through the vetting. Theres no vetting right now. There is for people to come in places like libya. Maybe because barack obama had a Foreign Policy that allowed all these countries on the list to fall apart and have no and how many terrorist attacks occurred by yemeni citizens in the United States . What about, what about i dont like that argument because you have to preempt them right. Dagen its about tomorrow and wait until nothing happens to have a plan. Donald trump calls himself a master brander, hes even convinced people his steaks are good, but he really messed up in the beginning i would agree. The Obama Administration had put forward with the seven nations. Its only around 13. 5 population of the muslim of the muslim population, so its not a ban. I think we should privatize it and have small individuals be able to take care of immigrants when they come to this country, watch them, secure them, allow them to assimilate thats not a Refugee Program i wrote a story about how the government under george w. Bush let in to brothers who were iraqi refugees who lied on an immigration form, and they happened to come here, and we find out in 2014 that they are connected and brothers of a guy in iraq who held an american citizen along with a number of other hostages in a bunker for a year under hostile and torturous conditions, and yet they were in the United States. And, by the way, theyre also being charged with immigration fraud. The idea that we are allowing people just to come into the country from countries that are failed states with no central government, without any paperwork, the fbi and all the other intelligence agencies say they cannot track or keep you know, they dont thats absolutely false. That is not true. [inaudible conversations] james cey and admiral rogers both said they do not have the ability to vet these people, and yet were still letting them in theyre not the ones vetting. The the state department vets and theyre failing at it. Dagen ill give the final word. They have no information on these people from these failed states, thats the central issue. None. Dagen this judge in hawaii gives it a thumbs up, its aokay if these individuals keep coming into the country. I think we do have to stress assimilation in a its not so much about this ban. What President Trump is doing right now, he is giving the authority to officials to determine who is coming in and who is not. There was a [inaudible] dagen i really want to wrap and just say its his authority in the constitution of the United States to basically set Foreign Policy and protect the homeland. Ill see you guys in a little while. 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