Press secretary under george w. Bush and Fox News ContributorAri Fleischer is here, a busy man these days, great to have you in the center seat. You are outnumbered. How does it feel . Ari i love it, bring it on. Harris lets get to the news. President trump making new comments on russia, believing that he believes that russia tried to interfere in the election. Watch. You say that you agree with u. S. Intelligence that russia meddled in 2016. I have said that before. I have said that times before. And i would say that to that is true, yes. You have not condemned putin specifically, do you hold him personally responsible . I would, he is in charge of the country, just like i consider myself responsible for things that happen in this country. If you believe the agencys, is putin lying to you . I dont want to get into whether or not he is lying. Harris reporting the President Trump was briefed two weeks before his inauguration with highly classified material showing putin personally order meddling. Meanwhile the president says that he accepts the conclusion that russia is still trying to interfere. And as he made it clear to putin, it is unacceptable. We cannot have meddling, we cannot have any i let him know that we cannot have this. We are not going to have it. And that is the way that it is going to be. They said that the threat is ongoing, do you believe that . He is an expert, this is what he does. He has been doing a very good job. I have tremendous faith in dan coats, if he says that. I would accept that. I will tell you, it better not be. It better not be. Harris that comment coming after some confusion out of the Cabinet Meeting yesterday when the president appeared to say no to a question of whether russia was still trying to metal, Sarah Sanders says that amid all of the back and forth, he was saying no to taking more questions. Democrats are not taking his word for it, watch. He changes his mind every other day, he restates the obvious every other day and models it every time. Dan coats, former republican senator from indiana said clearly twice within the last week that we have a blinking red light. The russians and perhaps others are doing everything they can to undermine this election. Because the president and this administration are in complete denial, they are refusing to take the steps necessary to fortify our election system despite this. But the effort by others to make an attack on voters. Harris you know, the messaging component of all of this is tricky for the white house. It is day three, and the president has gotten on board with everything that the democrats and other critics are saying that he needed to say. So what needs to happen next. Ari the worst question that limb back lingers as a substance problem, and that is that the president did not handle the News Conference right from a substantive attempt point of view. Now he has a Communications Problem that has lingered. I do not know why it has to be so hard. I do not know why President Trump will have a News Conference with president putin and not simply say to president putin on camera, do not mess with americas elections, he should have done that. He has done it with Angela Merkel and theresa may, he could have and should have done it to president putin was saying that there are things that we could work on. If he did that, everything would be so different. Harris trish. Trish it was a layup, it was easy. All he had to say was, yes, im not going allow it to happen. Anybody that wants to mess, we will come after you. That was an easy question to answer. He missed that opportunity, and now we are looking at the fallout. And it just gives the left ammunition. They are running as hard as they can with it. You will know that, capri. They are calling for impeachments, treason, they were calling for impeachments anyway. Now they have something that they have to be careful with. Capri they can hang their hat on it. He should not give them the ammunition. Melissa we need to be careful for this reason, there is an underlying concern, but we go too far, we lose credibility about dialogue, so lets take collusion out of it for a moment. Lets take what does putin have on trump and the salacious stuff out of it. The real question that i have is why this instinct would make inconsistency . Why is there tough talk at the g7 and then going to shake hands with north korea . Melissa this is how he wants to deal with the problem, that is why he will not apologize properly or whatever it is that everybody wants to do. He goes back on it, because he does not want to be forced into dealing with it this way. Im not saying that he is right. But i think what is making people scratch their heads, democrats and republicans, and media outlets, why is people like the tough talk donald trump, and you have done it with nato and theresa may, and the gola merkel, justin trudeau, but somehow you are willing to play a little bit more soft with kim jong un and Vladimir Putin, is that because he is trying to do the opposite of Previous Administration . So i think that there is a conversation that needs to be had, obviously it looks bad as far as it looks like particularly in the context of the conversation. Melissa but it is that simple, he wants to flip the script. Harris you cannot be completely consistent across the board, because they are all different. Melissa if you are going to be hard on people, you need to be hard on people. Harris the summit, the most recent one with russia was a success, he says except with the real enemy of the people, the fake news media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed including stopping terrorism, security for israel, and nuclear proliferation, trade, ukraine, peace, middle east, north korea and more. There are many answers, some easy and some hard to these problems, but they can all be solved. That in a tweet from the president of the United States this morning. Ari and the president is right about a lot of that. I wish that he could have more attention focused on that. The reason that he is not as he created the controversy with president putin. This is a lesson per president s when you say what needs to be said, people focus on your secod sentence, but if it does not go, that is what they focus on. Im glad that he corrected it. It is the right thing to do. It shows Going Forward that he knows he misstated what happened with russia and their interference needs to be toughe tougher. But his part about putin and responsibility, he said that putin has responsibility because he is the president of the country. No, he has a responsibility because he directed the attack. It is not a passive issue because you are president. People underneath you did something, thats what America Needs to recognize about putin, why he is a danger to both Political Parties and our natio nation. Trish but i think that this is a president who was flipping the script and literally everything that they did from president obamas love affair with the media, he is going in the opposite direction and creating fake news media. President obama embrace the g7, they are best friends in the whole wide world, he is doing exactly the opposite. If you go down the list for better or for worse, and im not saying that this is the right way to go, im just saying that he is literally doing the opposite in every situation of the person that came before him, president obama drew the redline, then he let the other guy across it, everywhere you g go. Capri and also generally speaking on what we have relied upon in a postworld war ii, 20th Century Alliance that has kept the peace and stability globally, there has been this order that you know, i think the west adheres to, and all of the site and the globe is changing, and the United States is now reacting differently. Only time will tell whether or not harris i want to jump in on the point of what we dont know, on capitol hill or here in america, this feels similar to me, the moments after the deal was signed with iran, and we were looking at the fact that there were all of those side deals. Republican said that it would be different, that there will be transparency, so should the American Public know more about the meeting that took place, no matter how you get to that information . Does a president need to tell us details . Because right now we are getting them plum Vladimir Putin . Ari yes, but it does not bother me. Harris and he lies to Vladimir Putin. Ari but it is important that he has a oneonone with Vladimir Putin and the translators, they need to get to know each other. George bush had one on ones with Vladimir Putin. Harris but what do you make up for it when they say syria and meetings were made . Ari the appropriate thing is to build on what took place in the meeting. And i expect that secretary of state can and will do that. Harris you dont want to hear from the president . Ari it would be fine for him to do it as well, but that should be routine and normal. There is nothing to be alarmed about that President Trump met oneonone with Vladimir Putin. We need to know what they said, that is helpful, but president s have a right to oneonone meetings with foreign heads of state. Melissa Senate Democrats are making a big push to hear from the only person in the room with President Trump and president putin at that private meeting. They want the interpreter to testify before the Senate Foreign relations committee, but republicans are fighting it, they say doing so would set a dangerous precedent. In the meantime on the house side, the Top Democrats on the Intelligence Committee adam shift along with Eric Swalwell asked the committee to subpoena for a closed hearing. Republicans voted that down, telling bill hemmer why it is so important for lawmakers to hear what happened in that meeting. Listen. He has priors, i was the prosecutor. So this individual has priors, he has had russians in the oval office before, and the security secrets to them, now that we are learning that he expressed a willingness to turn over u. S. Ambassador to the russians, there are a lot of questions of whether any secret deals were made with Vladimir Putin or whether any security is at risk that we should know about. Melissa listen to what Lindsey Graham said if he was asked if the interpreter should testify. Absolutely not, that will be the last Senate Meeting privately, and i can tell you that there may be times when we need to do that. I cannot imagine how that would affect the precedent in terms of their ability with foreign leaders. Melissa this hunt to talk to the interpreter and nancy pelosi standing there and asking what does putin have on trump . It reminds me of when we had the folks over at cnn looking into the camera saying is the president to mentally ill . Is he unfit . Its like when you take it that far, you undermine your credibility. Trish ive said this before, this is why putin is getting exactly what he wanted. Because here we are, not trusting the person that we elected to the oval office. We do not trust him, so then we have to have the translator then provide information on what happened . This is crazy. This is bizarre, and Lindsey Graham is absolutely right. What foreign leaders are going to sit down with the president United States oneonone for an off record conversation and said that it would not be off record. Harris we had a problem early in the presidency with all of the elites of the phone calls at the president was having with the world leaders. But this is why specifically i ask you about the president in this instance given all that is happened in the last few days, he can flip the switch loudly and say, you know whats, im going to give you the notes to the american people, nobody has to interpret anything and nobody has to sit down, let me tell you about what came out, and he is either lying or he is not, but do not listen to him, listen to me, i am the person that you elected. Ari this is a normal matter of business, they have the responsibility to tell people what they are up to you in private meeting. That is a president ial prerogative. But this idea of subpoena of the translator is pernicious. I spent 15 years on capitol hil capitol hill. And this is an executive function. If you do not like who the president meets with, elect a different president. The president of the United States, the office of the presidency has that right. Congress may not take that right away from us. You do not use state department translators to prove your political points or to make your political points. If you have a problem, win and election. Capri im really torn on the issue, but i think in balance, we have to be very, very careful for all of the reasons that you stated. And in order to get rid of the problem, the reason they are going after the translator, because harris, as you said earlier that we are getting the information from russia. Harris the kgb is named putin. Capri who i referred to as a bond felon, out of a james bond movie. But would you be able to solve the problem if it is someone that to the American Public presents without posing anything that is top secret, some basic information so that we can put the stuff aside ari if i am the white house i have john bolton do a background with the press about what took place. Presumably that the president downloaded the National Security advisor that should fill in the press. Melissa in a normal world, that would solve the problem, but this is not a normal world anymore. I know that everybody does not forget, this is exactly what the russians wanted to do and they have succeeded wildly. Harris can i ask you, melissa, what you see the current problem is, i will take some grief about calling the president a talented communicator, he can be when he wants to be. He definitely can. Im surprised that it took three days to say the same thing that you might not think that he had to say. But we will see how long it is on the front pages still. But what is a problem truly . Is it to keep democrats and the critics at bay . Is it to try to quiet some of the nonsense that is coming out of putins mouth . What is the goal now in terms of moving this forward . Melissa just getting past it, i guess. I do not think that the president , i really believe that he wants to deal with Vladimir Putin the way that he wants to deal with it and he feels like he is being dictated to that he is supposed to call them out in front of everyone. He does not want to do it and he is oppositional. The more that you push, the more that he does not want to do it. So he is giving in, but not really. It is interesting to watch, but lawmakers facing off over immigration, the house passing a resolution supporting i. C. E. , but democrats calling it a political stunt. How will this all play out with the midterms looming . 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Melissa fox news alert, a new showdown on capitol hill over a number of democrats calling to abolish i. C. E. , the agency that enforces immigration law. House overwhelmingly passed to support i. C. E. , during democrats to vote against it. But 34 democrats and one republican voted against it and more than 130 130 democrats vod president which is like not voting at all. Steve scullys slim democrats who refuse to support the measure. Watch this. Last year i. C. E. Agents rescued or identified 518 victims of human trafficking. What if those i. C. E. Agents would have voted present instead of rescuing those victims. Luckily, mr. Speaker, they did not, they showed up and did their job to keep america safe. Melissa calling the vote a political stunt that affect i. C. E. Did nothing to prevent a separation from babies with their mothers. The legislation is tickling while rome is burning. Melissa lets jump over, john kennedy introduced a similar situation. Kemal harris blocked it from the floor. Today President Trump tweeted the two biggest opponents of i. C. E. In america are the Democratic Party and ms13. Meanwhile the democrats rising star, new york congressional candidate cortez is calling on abolish i. C. E. Activists to ramp up the protesting. We have to occupy all of it. We need to occupy every airport, every border, we need to occupy every office until those kids are back w