Shepard smith. Reporting begins now. Well, the white householding their first briefing in 42 days. It comes as President Trump rolls out his new budget requesting 8 billion for a border wall. One of the biggest topics at the briefing, reports that President Trump told republican donors that democrats hate jewish people. The press secretary, Sarah Sanders, not confirming whether the president made the comment, but she did say that President Trump has repeatedly condemned bigotry. The chief White House Correspondent john roberts reporting live. John . Good afternoon to you, trace. This builds on comment that the president made friday as he head out the door to view the tornado damage down there in alabama where he said that the Democratic Party is antiisrael and antijewish after the democrats in the house passed what the president called a watereddown resolution about antisemitism and antimuslim sentiment in this country that fell out of comments that congressm congressman ilhan omar made. When asked about whether the president said that democrats hate jews at a fund raiser al maralargo friday, heres what the press secretary said. The president said that democrats hate jewish people according to a recent report. Weve seen him tweet in the last couple days that democrats are the antijewish party. Does the. Really believe democrats hate jews . The president has been an unwavering ally to the jewish people. The remarks have been made by democrats and failed to be called out by democrat leadership is abhorrent and sad. It should be called by name. Shouldnt be done the way the republicans did it when steve king made terrible comments. We called it out by name, stripped him of his Committee Memberships and wed like to see democratics follow sued. Sarah sanders was asked several time if the president did say the fund raiser at maralargo that the democrats hate jews. She would not confirm that. The president did call that resolution last week disgraceful, trace. Trace john, sanders also faced questions about the president s budget. Not just sanders but russell vogt. He gave us a breakdown of the president s budget. The most controversial point in the president s budget is he wants 8. 6 billion to build a border wall that is 5 million in the Homeland Security budget and 3. 6 billion in the defense and military construction budget. That would complete according to the office of management and budget nearly 722 miles of border wall. One of the really contention issues here is that about in the defense budget, 750 billion, 165 billion of that is called the overseas contingency budget, which is off the books. There are a lot of critics that say the president may be putting a lot of money into the oco budget as its called to back fill money that hes taking from other areas of the military to build the wall. So i put that question up. Listen here. Theres concerns by some budget watch dogs that money in the overseas Contingency Operation will build a wall on the southern border can you allay the concerns that the money will not be used to be build a barrier . We have not used any money for the completion of the wall. We do have emergency spending that we devote to it and we continue to the military rebuild by asking for what is necessary to complete the wall. That does include military construction funding. We back fill in fiscal year 19 any funding that is used in military construction. In fiscal year 2020, we asked for congress to appropriate these dollars. Theres also very important vote coming up in the senate to rebuke the president s emergency bill to not fund the wall. The president has promised to veto it. Sarah sanders was asked about that earlier today too. Listen to what she said. The president is taking his Constitutional Authority that congress branded him. Lets not forget, the only reason he has the authority to call a National Emergency is because Congress Gave him a right to do so. They failed to do their job. The president is fulfilling to do their duty and hes going to make sure he does to secure our borders. The only question appears to be at this point, trace, how many republicans will defect to vote for this bill, which would block the president s emergency declaration. Currently theres four or five. Rand paul said there could be as many as 10. The white house is worried they could get to 67, which would be enough to override a president ial veto. If that were to happen, trace, politically that would be terrible for the president. Trace it would, john. I also asked you ask Sarah Sanders about staff shakeups. Yes. Jennifer griffin pinged me that theres rumors floating around at the pentagon that the acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan would be tapped to permanently replace james mattis that left in december of 2018. I asked the press secretary if that is indeed the case. Listen here. Im not going to make any Personnel Announcements at this time. I can tell you the president has a great deal of respect for acting defense secretary shanahan. He likes him. When the president is ready to make an announcement, he will. Theres a lot of actings in the administration. Any possibility of removing acting from Mick Mulvaneys tit title . A lot of possibilities there. The reason why we have acting is were waiting on the confirmation process of a couple of those folks. Some of the reasons they have actings as well is because the president likes the idea of acting people in their roles. Perhaps he thinks it makes them work harder. I dont know anybody that could possibly work harder than mick mulvaney, whether he was acting or permanent chief of staff. So it sounds like there may be some changes to titles coming up. Mick mulvaney may become the permanent chief of staff. The president is very happy with what hes doing there. Mulvaney is having the time of his life. While Sarah Sanders would not confirm that Patrick Shanahan will be nominated to replace james mattis, you want a permanent secretary of defense, not an acting. We have a permanent attorney general and soon to follow have a permanent secretary of defense. She was smiling when you asked the question. Letting on a little bit there. John roberts live for us. Thank you. Lets see how lawmakers reacting to the president s budget proposal. Mike emanuel live on capitol hill. Mike . Good afternoon. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is blasting it saying this is a budget for the military Industrial Complex for corporate ceos, wall street and the billionaire class. Its dead on arrival. We dont need billions for a wall that nobody wants. We need a budget for all of americans. Much of the fight over the budget debate this spring will be over that border wall. The president wants 8. 6 billion for it. The president s allies support that request but note that democrats are in the majority in the house. They dont want a border wall, they dont want border security. You know, they give lip service to it. We really could have resolved this the last time if the senate could have voted for the budget that came out of the house. That was last time. Expect quite a fight in the months a head as they fight over the issue of the border wall. Trace . What is the latest to reject the president s call for a National Emergency at the border . All indications are a vote is expected this woke and it will pass with democrat votes, 47 of them and a handful of republicans. Hes going to veto this, and then his veto will be sustained. They wont be able to override it. Republicans say they continue looking for a way to encourage the president to find another path rather than this National Emergency, trace. Mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. Thank you. Lets bring in john bussey, wall street journal associate editor and fox news contributor, the Parent Company of the journal and the Parent Company of fox news share common ownership. I want your take on this controversy, whether or not the president said he did or did not hate jews. What did he say on that . He said theyre antijewish. Its elevated rhetoric. Sarah sanders got asked about this. Are you going to dial down the rhetoric going into the 2020 election . She said essentially no. This was a press conference where that issue came up. It was prominent at the press conference. It was a press conference in which no news was made. If you had not had a situation where we have not had a press conference for more than six weeks, you wouldnt have noticed anything having changed. There was discussion of china, of appointments that have been delayed and a variety of other issues including this one, which is rhetoric, statements that he made about democrats. It was nothing new. Just more sort of elevated rhetoric from Sarah Sanders as well about, you know, democrats being to blame for everything that the president was faulted for. Trace a couple of fascinating things. 8. 5 billion for the border wall. The welfare to work requirements. What do make of these . Is this a rehash of something or did you find something novel in this part of the budget . A lot of these issues have been fielded before. I think youll see, trace, this budget really being what budgets are frequently when a president puts one before congress, its a wish list and an intention list. Its not something that actually gets much traction. The bigger issue for this budget is the fact that it is laden with deficits. The deficit in this past year rose 28 . That was really not discussed by Sarah Sanders. That is really going to be an issue for congress to contend with. Republicans in the past have been very much antideficit, this Republican Party is raising them. The other thing the budget did including a lot of the president s wish lists for spending, including more than 8 billion on a border wall, is push out the date that the president sees balancing the budget. It had been 2028. Its now been pushed out to 2034. Again, something that would have been not seen by the Republican Party in the past. Embraced by his party this time around. Trace a good point. John bussey, wall street journal. Good to see you. 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Jennifer griffin reporting live. Jen . Trace, u. S. Navy veteran Michael White was detained last july in iran while traveling on a valid visa on a visit to see his girlfriend, an iranian woman he met online. Whites mother from california said her son was diagnosed with cancer and his incarceration in iran could be a death sentence. We want to be clear, he worked as a commercial janitor and never has been a supply. White served in the navy for 13 years. In february, Irans Foreign Ministry said white didnt face spying charges. White is the First American to be detained since donald trump became president , trace. Trace how many other americans are in prison in iran . Theres at least five other american citizens being held in iran, including the 81yearold business man and former u. N. Representative that has been held over two years and diagnosed with epilepsy. His son was lured to irans avin prison and arrested on trumped up charges. Chinese american graduate student, zia wong was sentenced to ten years in prison. I spoke with his wife at princeton university. He is not a spy. Hes not a spy. Hes just a history nerd. All he wants to do is to do a Good Research and teach the rest of his life. Theres an iranian american art dealer and his wife being held at irans notorious avin prison. They received a 27year and 16year prison sentence respectively. Another permanent u. S. Resident that advocated for Internet Freedom was sentenced ten years on espionagerelated charges. Finally, former fbi agent Robert Levinson vanished without a trace in 2007 while on an unauthorized cia mission to iran. His family still waiting for news of where he is. The iranians deny having him. Trace . Trace thanks, jennifer. Social Security Disability benefits can be a life saver for some americans. For others, they represent a chance to cheat the system. The feds are considering a new move to crack down on scammers using social media. 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