Good evening. Good evening. Startling revelation unveiled today that the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee devin nunes backed up evidence he was wiretapped. Its unclear whether the white house new house intelligence chairman devin nunes was at the white house the day before he revealed trump transition officials have been swept up in intelligence gathering. Nunes had been viewing documents at a secure facility. In a statement, nunes spokesman said chairman nunes met with his source at the white house in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided by the source. The information comprised executive branch documents not provided to congress. Because of classification rules, the source could not put the documents in a backpack and walk them over to the House Intelligence Committee. Nunes says his source was an intelligence official, not a white house staffer in that the information was contained on the executive branch could be your system. White house dismissed any notion of what nunes did was unusual or improper. We have asked these entities, house and senate Intelligence Committee, to undertake the review. It is partially at our request. He has said from my understanding on the record that he did not meet with white house staff. Democrats had a different take. Ranking member of the senate Intelligence Committee called nunes sleuthing suspicious prayed Senate Minority leader proclaimed he has to go. If speaker ryan wants the house at a credible investigation, he needs to replace chairman nunes. President said nothing about the nunes revelations, working to get past the stinging failure of the health care plan. Citing bills to rollback regulations on education, labor, and land use. I will keep working with congress with every agency and most portly with the American People until we eliminate every unnecessary harmful, job killing regulation. White house proclaimed the president was moving on from health care to tax cuts but today the press secretary said maybe health care isnt dead just yet. We are not saying its the end of health care but were looking for a way forward. A lot of the members on both sides of the aisle have reached out, not just to the president but members of the team, willing to share ideas. They think it will make the build stronger. Ultimately the goal is to get to 216 and potentially 218. Conservatives in opposition to the bill, white house is reaching out to moderate democrats for support. Any plan to repeal and replace obamacare would likely be a nonstarter. White house announced today a plan to streamline the operation of the federal government, appointing the first soninlaw Jared Kushner to head up the office of American Innovation very white house ed kushner may be making a trip to capitol hill to talk with members of the senate Intelligence Committee about his conversations with russian officials and other foreign nationals during the transition. Shannon john roberts life in the white house. The blame game is providing republicans with their very own version of march madness tonight. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel has that part of the story from capitol hill. Further consideration of h. R. House leadership was forced to pull the Republican Health care proposal. The blame game launched. The president is disappointed in the number of people that he thought were loyal to him that werent. President trump took turns plumbing conservative House Freedom caucus. Hes being advised about the critique of the House Freedom caucus. Hes been getting bad counsel from the media come up from some in the leadership who have set some of us shouldnt even exist appear. White house budget director, Founding Member of the Freedom Caucus, took aim this way. Plenty of blame to go around. Trying to figure out what happened, i think what happened is washington won. Texas congressman ted poe quit the Freedom Caucus and frustration paid no matter what frustrations, the goalpost kept getting moved. Freedom caucus decides no is the answer. Some began accusing the group of saving funding for planned parenthood and keeping obamacare, the leader talked about his role. At this point i can tell you know one has been more self critiquing then me. Ive looked at all this and said that i spent a little bit more time . Should i have spent more time with the tuesday group . More time with democrats to find consensus . With pressure on the lawmakers, a key member tried to move things forward. Lets get back to work. Lets not blame people. Lets do with the American People sent us here to do, repeal this law. After the effort failed, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham received a hostile reception at a town hall. Mostly democrats attacking graham, and he challenged the crowd to bring it on when he is up for reelection in 2020. I am not afraid of losing this job. Thats not my concern. Im afraid of losing this country. What im afraid of is this country falling apart because people cant listen to each other and they just yelled. There may be more yelling by the president and leaders on capitol hill. Next the first 100 days is when you are supposed to be able to get cooperation. Shannon not so much this time. Thank you. Senate democrats delaying a vote on Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch. Supposed to happen today. Its been rescheduled for next monday. 17 Senate Democrats and independents have announced their opposition to the nominee. For President Trump and republicans, how do they put Humpty Dumpty back together again . Brit hume is here with some thoughts. Hi, shannon. Not clear to me that they can put it back together again. The damage from the action on friday and the failure of the bill to pass is likely to be quite longlasting for a couple reasons. One is one of the things this bill wouldve done had they managed to pass it and eventually get it through the senate was it wouldve created some budget space which is under congresses arcane budget rules. Its necessary when youre trying to legislate on taxes. This bill had some budget savings in it which were significant enough to make it much easier to do tax reform because the worry about tax reform as you are going to redo some taxes and try to come out in a way that you dont add to the deficit and thats hard to do. If you have budget savings as a result of another bill, makes the job easier. As a practical matter, this becomes much harder. Not to mention the fact that its not at all clear that the Republican Caucus with this group that seems determined to say no to almost anything, its not a dependable ally. The job Going Forward for the next thing becomes harder, not to mention the fact that when you do tax reform, they are going be special Interest Groups who lose their tax breaks. They are going to lobby washington. On top of the fact is that you are not going to get much if any democratic support. You have to tried to do this with republican votes only are almost exclusively. That is tough. The road ahead is hard and its been made harder. Shannon do you see any context for this . President s in the past two of done something similar . Im trying to think of a time when a president , with the first item on his agenda, top item, has failed this spectacularly and this early. I frankly cant think of one. I think its almost unprecedented and i think, i will say this. I think the president , she clearly got the capacities he clearly got complexities. I think he figured out that it is complicated. He understood the budget rules under which they were trying to operate. He seemed to get that too. Seemed smart enough to recognize where the blame lay. Plaintiff democrats. He was wise enough to see that the House Freedom caucus which he should have been able to depend on where a huge factor. President seems be learning as it goes and hes not going to give up. Never has. B can find a way forward but it wont be easy. Shannon one of the things that are going to have to tackle next. What they are trying to do his tax reform. The Freedom Caucus chair, mark meadows, said he didnt necessarily need to see them as being revenue neutral. Sounds less conservative than the position he had on health care. The conservative view is not to add to the deficit. Now what we have here is the guy saying, and remember this, you cant pass it through the house. You have to also consider whats going to happen in the senates. You are not going to get much help from democrats in all likelihood. They have to consider something that could be put through the senate under the budget process there are lots of rules attached that have to do with spending and taxation and the deficit. For him to say that we dont need to worry about that, thats wrong. You do have to worry about it if you going to legislate in this arena. There is sort of a pieinthesky quality to what a lot of these members in the group seem to favor. They are always in favor of some bill other than the one before them or some bill that couldnt be passed if were brought to the floor. Thats not going to get you anywhere. Shannon brit hume, always good to have your insight. Thank you. In new york, activists are holding what is being billed as the First Ever National conference on sanctuary cities. There is a new call from the white house to end the practice of providing legal shelter to Illegal Immigrants. Rick leventhal tells us the administration is using the power of the purse to try to persuade. I strongly urge our nations states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm theyre doing. As Jeff Sessions spoke about the danger of sanctuary cities, the First Ever National conference in support of sanctuary cities was underway in new york city. January 20 was a tragic day for our nation. Bigger organizers say they want to protect immigrants, especially the undocumented, by crafting policy to confront mass deportation. We are going to become the administrations worst nightmare. White house says illegal in new york accused of assaulting a toddler. Crimes against children, murder, countless americans would be alive today and countless loved ones would not be grieving if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended. He could not be more wrong. He could not be more inaccurate and unable to actually see the realities in our cities and states. New york city is a statement city. If the president wants to put it at risk to make a point to a dwindling base of support, he is being irresponsible. From the center of immigration studies, he says otherwise. Sanctuary cities are taking the Immigration Law into their own hands. In a way that is in legal and counterproductive to broader Public Safety goals. For safetys that dont come around to the Trump Administration position, the cost could be high. Continuing a dialogue and discussion. Ensuring that money for Law Enforcement only goes to cities who are dissipating in a cooperative way. Organizers of the conference say it would be illegal for the white house to withhold funds from places that dont comply with the law. Administration says it can and it will, setting up the possibility of more court battles. This conference resumes tomorrow. Shannon thank you very much. Its not just democrats and immigration advocates trying to stop President Trump from building the wall along the mexican border. People who live there are planning to fight the seizure of their property. Casey stegall explains from dallas. It was a cornerstone of President Trumps campaign. Erect a wall between mexico and the United States to keep Illegal Immigrants and smugglers out. Whos going to stop them . Not me, not you. She may be skeptical over how much of a deterrent the structure will be. She and her family owned land along the border in south texas, and they have received a letter from the department of justice offering 2900 for more than 1 acre of their property. Fair market value says the federal government not even close says the family. I dont think its fair. 58 grandchildren and greatgrandchildren and we are going to be getting about 50 per cousin. Legal scholars say this is one example out of possibly thousands where the feds will have to exercise Eminent Domain to snatch up private border property to build on. It can be scary, intimidating, emotional. The attorney specializes in Eminent Domain law. He says the Lone Star State is unique and predicts many here will put up a fight. 90 of land in texas has privately owned. It means a whole bunch of Property Owners are going to have to give up quite a bit of acreage in order to build this wall. Republicans have typically spoken out against the use of Eminent Domain, citing government overreach. President trump however has seen it differently. Mostly advocating for its use and defending it, including in this october 2015 interview with bret baier. Just so you understand you are not taking the house. You are taking the house and paying much more no, no. Paying much more than its wort worth. Even if they dont want to sell. It depends on why. If its to build another house for someone else who has more money, absolutely not. Live in dallas tonight, legal experts tell us landowners will not be able to fight the merits of an Eminent Domain case since the border wall has been deemed public use. What can be contested in court, what is fair market value and how much should it be for people who turn over their land . Shannon that can take a lot of time in court. Casey stegall, thank you. Up next, where the president is sending 200 u. S. Troops. First heres whats some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. Fox19 in cincinnati. The search continues for the shooters in sunday mornings deadly incident at an area nightclub. One person was killed, 16 injured. Police say two are in critical conditions. Three in serious condition. Police chief says it appears multiple individuals fired shots. Authorities are asking witnesses to come forward. Fox 32 in chicago, one of the suspects in the theft of dozens of guns has pleaded guilty. Eight people are charged with stealing the weapons. One has been sentenced. At least three others appear headed for trial next month. This is a live look at new york from fox 5. The fearless girl gets to stay. New yorks mayor says the popular new statue of a young girl staring down wall streets famous charging bowl will be allowed to remain through february. Its become a symbol of women in leadership. Thats tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. We will be right back. Wanna get away . Now you can with southwest fares as low as 59 dollars oneway. Yes to low fares with nothing to hide. Thats transfarency. Shannon a british counterterrorism official says theres no evidence last weeks attacker was associated with the Islamic State or al qaeda. The official says the 52yearold man had an interest in jihad but there is no indication he discussed his plans with others. Isis claimed responsibility for the attack. Please continue to question two other men detained since the attack which left four people dead. American troops are headed to the fight against isis. Lucas tomlinson tells us how many and where they are going. U. S. Defense officials tell fox to companies from the 82nd Airborne Division based at fort bragg North Carolina, some 200 troops and all, will be departing soon for the ice has spiked in mosul. This comes days after the uss george h. W. Bush entered the persian gulf to begin air strikes against isis in iraq and syria. The pentagon is ramping up operations against terrorist groups around the world. U. S. Officials tell fox the deferment of homeland securitys recent man onices larger than cell phones on flights to the United States from some muslim nations was imposed in part because a laptop was used to bomb this somali airliner last year. Elsa bob in smalley acclaimed responsibility. The top u. S. General for africa said the terrorist group could strike again. They have demonstrated they can do this so i think its something we continue to watch. This terrorist threat from alshabaabs reason they have asked for more latitude. More than capable in making judgments on the targets. We are all well capable of making the calls. The general told congress alshabaab regained territory last year and today continues to carry out attacks on u. S. Backed African Forces and western hotels in the capital, mogadish mogadishu. Isis remains a nagging problem in southern libya. Requiring the continued presence of u. S. Special operations forces. Isis has not left. Were going to keep the presence on the ground because you have to have it. Were going to develop intelligence and take out targets. In of pair of the two bombers flew a mission from missouri to libya to destroy two isis training camps. Officials say isis has begun to appear in somalia. The general says the terrorist group is no longer coming to libya in large numbers. Shannon thank you. Coalition forces are embarking on one of the most dangerous parts of their campaign to root out the terrace getting up close and personal. Agyeman hall explains. Benjamin hall explains. The city is being demolished. Iraqi forces are moving closer to victory. Now as they enter the old city in the west of mosul. The fighting is not only street to street, it is doortodoor. Isis fighters who remain seem intent on dying in the city. Taking as many lives with them as possible. Until civilian casualties keep rising, as isis fighters use them as human shields. Those who have escaped say that isis militants forced entire families to march in front of them as they advanced on counterterror forces. Translator cannot use air strikes but we cannot use mortars. Thats why we are going carefully to care for the civilians. There has been collateral damage. One of its planes carried out an air strike on march 17, which left countless civilians dead. Conflicting reports suggest at least 150 were killed and that number could rise. U. S. Military added the strike wasnt took out was at the request of Security Forces and had targeted isis fighters and equipment. An enemy hiding behind women and children is a humanitarian, we do Everything Possible to restrict the loss of life. Militants have been using car bombs, snipers, and mortar fire. Despite the setbacks, iraqi Prime Minister speaking on Fox News Sunday believes the battle will soon be over. We finished the job in a short time. It is within reach. By when . The next weeks. Because some isis members are already preparing for that with member said to be hiding among civilians. And special units within Iraqi Military forces have been tasked with identifying and arresting suspects. Either those who sided with or supported isis during their brutal rain. Even as the battle rages on, people are looking ahead to what comes next. What formal isis take and how to stop them going underground . What role will the u. S. Plan now that President Trump has raised the ante . Shannon thank you paired President Trumps chief spokesman is condemning the arrest of hundreds of Peaceful Protesters in russia over the weekend and calling for the release of those still in custody. Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent amy kellogg tells us what all the trouble was about. This is the first time in a long time versus updating of the streets. Tens of thousands came out, and about 90,000 cities across the country paid i believe people should express their public spirit and show they arent slaves. Protest aimed not directly against president Vladimir Putin but his Prime Minister. Accused of having a vast array of Properties Acquired dishonestly. These were demonstrations against corruption. Putin ended up getting shut it down too. The Opposition Leader and organizer was arrested. He was given two weeks in jail for resisting arrest. In moscow, at least 8,000 showed up. Police arrested more than 1,000. Most were released. European union called on russia to release the rest. The state Department Said detaining Peaceful Protesters is an affront to democratic values. The crime then calls the protest the provocation. Translator the kremlin respects peoples stance on the right to voice their position. We cant voice the same respect to those who consciously misled people into that yesterday and provoked legal actions. Speak with the last time russia saw street protests was in 2011 and 2012 after voter fraud in parliamentary elections and putins decision to run again for president. The russian president blamed then secretary of state Hillary Clinton for encouraging the protests, and many say he never got over his displeasure. Those protests were bigger in scope than yesterdays, and its not clear to what extent sundays mergers are reflective of the greater russian population. Of course, putins popularity remains very high but yesterday did prove that significant numbers of people are prepared to take to the streets to voice their anger and desire for some change. Shannon. Shannon amy kellogg, thank you very much. Late today, uber said its resuming testing of selfdriving cars in arizona and pittsburgh. National correspondent william la jeunesse tells us why the company was tapping the brakes on the program for the weekend. Self driving trucks and cars are three years away but the road has had more than a few bumps. The latest, friday in arizona when a driver illegally made a left turn, crashing into a selfdriving uber suv. The two employees inside escaped injury. I hope this brings new jobs. I hope it brings convenience and safety. Coopers Upcoming Program arrived in arizona december after dispute in california over mandatory exit reporting. Unlike california, arizona doesnt require a special permit for selfdriving vehicles. One you Six Companies test Autonomous Cars in 13 states. In december, and uber suv did not see a stoplight in San Francisco and sailed through a crosswalk. February, a google Autonomous Car sideswiped a bus while trying to pass. In may, a tesla driver died in a selfdriving crash but investigators could not attributed to the autopilot system. The things that go wrong in the driverless car world are going to create a more durable system. Coopers 43 selfdriving cars travel up to 20,000 miles a weea human muscle take control approximately every eight tenths of a mile. The theory that if you remove the driver, you remove driver era, there are defects. If the automation doesnt work, then what . Airplanes are much safer than car transportation. Its going to take a while before we get driverless vehicles to the same level of safety as air transportation. As for the accident friday in arizona, police did cite the human driver for failing to yield to the computeraided car. As you said, uber in the test markets, phoenix, tempe, pittsburgh, San Francisco. Shannon with some adventurous folks. William la jeunesse, thank you. The Associated Press says northline is law limiting transgender bathroom access across the state more than 3. 7 billion in lost business. That is despite republican assurances that the bathroom bill is not hurting the economy. Several companies backed out of projects because of the law. Sporting events, concerts, conventions canceled. Other measures show that North Carolina has a healthy economy. They republican Lieutenant Governor says news outlets are exaggerating the Economic Impact of the law. Stocks rebounded after losses in the morning. Dow ended up losing 46. S p 500 dropped 2. Nasdaq gained 12. Who is winning, who was moving the blame game following the Health Care Failure . Will ask the panel after a quick break. What makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever . Heart healthy california walnuts. 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We are going to get back to the agenda. Jobs, jobs, jobs. We need 60 votes in the senate to do anything, including a bathroom break. Shannon lets bring in the panel. Stephen hayes, charles lane, mollie hemingway, Senior Editor at the federalists. Syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. Is a lot going on in washington. We heard a lot of different topics touched on. I want to bring up something that was a tweet from the president. This is from the real donald trump account. Democrats are smiling in d. C. That the Freedom Caucus have saved planned parenthood and obamacare. If theyre going to get to the rest of the agenda and the other things they have to do, theyve got to kiss and make up. Yeah, what weve seen from virtually everybody involved is taking shots at one another and making up are trying to make nice. A lot of it taking place behind the scenes. If you are looking for who to blame on what happened, the answer is everyone. The president , house leadership, Freedom Caucus. I happen to be sympathetic to the substantive argument that Freedom Caucus made and i share their disappointment that the original bill wasnt more free market and didnt push more aggressively toward the kind of real reforms we needed we need in our health care system. If the republicans dont Work Together and get health care back on the agenda, it will be a broken promise from republicans of historic proportions. Shannon sean spicer and others have said its not gone away. Saying the health care fight is not over. But they are barreling forward with other things like tax reform that they want to get done. Where do you think health care bubbles to the surface . Paul ryan said its here for the foreseeable future. Its not clear that everybody has the same sense of reality. I dont think theres ever been a time in our history where theres been one party simultaneously totally dominant and totally incoherent within itself. I dont expect, maybe there is talk about health care in this and that, i dont expect it. I might be wrong but i think i expect them to pivot to tax reform and try and make a run of bad. When they do, theyre going to have to be more deliberate and more careful. Before they launch a bill, make sure theyve got everybody. The problem is the Freedom Caucus, they might vote against anything, even the Ten Commandments. Shannon i want to play a little bit from the chair, mark meadows. Talking about the idea of tax reform. Heres what he said. Tax reform and lowering taxes will create and generate more income. Were looking at the fine balanc balance. My personal responses no. He sounds like they are not going to be line drawn in the sand. Because they said the reason you had to do health care was to get the budget savings that you could apply to tax reform. Now they are just going ahead with tax reform. To be fair, you can work it either way. There are so many gains to be made through tax reform that maybe he wants to focus on that. There really is an issue of Health Reform needs to happen pray they might say they are done but its certainly not done with them. The legislation is a failure and Insurance Companies will continue to leave and millions of people will continue to suffer. It has to be dealt with. Shannon charles, how do you see it playing out in 2018 . Running against this on an appeal. If they dont do anything beyond what they did on friday, what happens in 2018 . I think its ruined. This is not just a promise betrayed. It is a complete inability to govern, particularly youve been arguing for something for seven years. It arrives and you are unprepared. Thats why i think it has to come back. I think the time it comes back is in the fall when you get new numbers. New premiums. Theyre going to be much higher, fewer choices. Far more insurers are going to be withdrawing from the exchanges. At that point, i think there will be an opportunity. I think what they have to do. Heres the irony. Among the republicans in the house, including the Freedom Caucus, there would be a general consensus on what we want to do with the leadership decided to tailor the legislation to fit the niceties of the reconciliation rules in the senate. That makes no sense. Put everything in the bill, including what is called the phase three stuff. Its supposed to come later but the stuff the conservatives wanted that everybody really wanted. Including tort reform, stripping out the coverage requirements which are largely irrational. Put all that in the bill, and if it turns out that in the senate needs 60, well, it will be the democrats who have to filibuste filibuster, and left the country walked them watch them deny the reform. You may have to wait until the fall but thats what they ought to do. Shannon i want to make sure we touch on the issue with devin nunes with the revelation today that he apparently went to the white house to see whatever the sourcing was from the documents that he is referencing britt i want to play a little bit of Chuck Schumer had to say. His actions look like those of someone who was interested in protecting the president and his party and that doesnt work when the goal of the committee is to investigate russia. Shannon here is what the spokesperson said. Secure location where he could provide the information. The sores could not put the documents in a backpack, walk them over to the House Intelligence Committee. White house grounds is the best location. Representative nunes explained there was no place on capitol hill where he can view the documents. He had to do that on an executive branch computer. Nunes said today that the information wasnt just widely disseminated to intelligent agencies but back to the Obama White House. If thats true, evidence we have the makings of a big scandal. Shannon chuck, you know that immigrants are going to make a. Coming from inside the white house, who was it . They are tackling the p. R. Side. Lets assume devin nunes had to look at these at the white house, the only secure place. The problem is still that once he got the information, the first move was to tell the president. Go to the white house and talk about it with donald trump as opposed to, i dont know, the members of his committee. First he told the press. Take your pick. Supposedly running a Serious Investigation and i think that damage. You read the talk like it was the only proper place. The damage is significant. Nunes has a reputation of being a dog with a bone on intelligence issues. Previous issues, worked the advantage of the country. Exposed things on benghazi we never wouldve seen but for his work. The same is true with the usama bin laden documents. The question is, what are the documents . I dont thickly know enough about what he has to draw any conclusions about whether it is or is not, whether this is the scandal that mollie suggested it is. We need to learn more. Shannon will have to stay tuned, and we hope you will stay tuned. The panelists coming back. Next up, trouble in russia and more american troops headed to the middle east. Stay with us. Remember here at ally, nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. Whos with me . Were like a Basketball Team here at ally. If a Basketball Team had over 7. Im in. 7,000 players. Our plays are a little unorthodox. But to beat the big boys, you need smarter ways to save people money. We know what you want from a Financial Company and well stop at. Nothing to make sure you get it. One, two. And we mean nothing. [ om[ sniffs ]c ] little girl daddy and we mean nothing. Trapped by your unrelenting nasal allergies . [ meow ] [ sneezes ] try clarispray clarispray provides unsurpassed relief. 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Charles, more than 1,000 people in moscow alone more rested and the protest yesterday, anticorruption, antiputin. They dont take kindly to protest in russia. This is a malign regime. The statement by the white house was a very mild one. Think about what just happened the last couple days. Last thursday, a kremlin opponent, who took refuge in the ukraine, hes against the ukraine, he was shot dead in the street in broad daylight. Two days earlier, a week ago on tuesday, another critic of the regime, who represents the family, another guy who died on the orders of the kremlin, he falls out of a four story window when, according to the regime, while installing a hot tub in the fourth floor apartment. I dont know about russia but in the United States, installing hot tubs is not a known cause of defenestration. So, its a little bit suspicious. We have a president who talks about this guy, who was a killer. We are talking about putin. He kills his opponents. At least a dozen who are well known and it speaks about it flippantly. It doesnt mean you start a world war with this guy. It doesnt mean that you have to oppose everything he does. But this is a regime of which the Trump Administration has spoken very mildly and i think it is an affront to our values. It is also against our interests. There are europeans, like the leading candidate for president in france, who was just in moscow, she smoked a peace pipe with putin, she spoke glowingly of him. This is russia extending its influence in a way that will be very much and asked her mental to us and to the world. Shannon yet, he maintains more than 80 Approval Rating in russia. There really is a difference in how russia handles things. It is important but do speak out against brutal authoritarian regimes and the state department did condemn what happened in russia. You have other u. S. Leaders who issued a strongly worded statement. At the same time come only comes to foreign policy, you should be laser focused on the national interest. We work with brutal regimes all the time, china, saudi arabia, places with horrible human rights problems. Russia is no different. In terms of what our relationship should be with them, they should be based on our interests and whether we can ally with them or whether we need to watch our guard. Diplomacy is all about that. Today, were that Jared Kushner, the president s are not law, has volunteered and has asked to speak with the Senate Intelligence community about contacts he has had with various russian leaders and businessmen and other folks. My head is spinning actually at this point. We have this idea that somehow there was collusion between Trump Campaign and putin, on the one hand, on the other, sean spicer from the podium wagging his finger and denouncing the putin regime. Pretty strong terms, probably as strong as anything obama would have said. I guess i was struck by that because it wasnt just coming from the state department, now come out of the white house. I think there was something conscious about that, there would have been tremendous embarrassment to President Trump under the current circumstances if his white house would remain completely silent about what was going on over there. Remember, this is a president who during recent history said, we kill a lot of people, too, when someone told him that putin was a killer. It is possible that events, quite on pristine events in russia, may actually be forcing the Trump Administration off of the position that the president himself seems to want to stake out when he was running. Shannon you make anything of Jared Kushner going to talk with them . We saw devin nunes, chairman of the house side, saying we want people to come forward, was the loss was, on any number of fronts. Several have volunteered. Now, it appears it will be Jared Kushner. It is progress. We need to learn more about that part of this discussion to pick up more we were on the last panel, as well. There is so much speculation taking place right now, so few people looking at this through soda straws, it is like trying to describe a 5,000 piece puzzle with eight pieces. You cant do it. We need to get more information. I think that information has to come out in public hearings, rather than private hearings. We know, as all this is happening, the fbi is conducting its own investigation. Speak it on front, we heard reporting from the pentagon, 200 u. S. Troops heading over into mosul. An ugly fight but they say they are making progress. We have the usual story about the civilian casualties, always exaggerated, played up. It can happen, it does happen, this is warfare inside of of te city. Isis does this deliberately because it knows the effect it has. In the end, the iraqis will succeed. It will be a wasteland. The question is, who goes there and afterwards . Who patrols that . Will it be the kurds . The government dominated by the Shiite Militia . This is a largely sunni city. Will it be the sudanese . I dont know how many there are. Will it be as . It was us for a while. Until obama pulled us out. We were the mediators between the sunnis, vitiates, and the kurds. Mosul was secure. A whole new world where the easy part is conquering the city. The hard part is government and maintaining it. How do you think this administration will handle it differently from the last one . Spigot that is what is interesting. A lot of Donald Trumps appeal was that he did have a different idea to foreign policy, a more restrained approach. Here, you have a situation where it looks like once again, well be involved pretty heavily. It speaks to why it is important to work with allies and other people, russia would be a great ally to deal with the situation in syria. The whole region. It will be nice to have some better relations with them at this time. The problem is that russia is not an ally in the region. Its interests are entirely inimical to americans. Its number one interest is to kick us out. That is why you cant get a policy going in which we are allies with them. Shannon we will leave it there. Panel, stick around. Up next, two young kids with both kids deployed overseas get a very special honor and a big surprise. So much lobster, so little time. At red lobsters lobsterfest any of these 9 lobster dishes could be yours. So dont resist delicious new lobster mix and match or lobsterfest surf and turf because you wont have this chance for long. As after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. What about the people i care about . Including this little girl. And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i asked my doctor. And he recommended eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. Yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. Eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. Both made me turn around my thinking. Dont stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. Eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. Dont take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. If you had a spinal injection while on eliquis call your doctor right away if you have tingling, numbness, or muscle weakness. While taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily. And it may take longer than usual for bleeding to stop. Seek immediate medical care for sudden signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. Eliquis may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. Tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. Plus had less major bleeding. Both made eliquis the right treatment for me. Ask your doctor if switching to eliquis is right for you. Shannon finally come up little daniel and isabella have been living with her grandparents in florida while both of their parents are deployed abroad and service our country. They decided to honor the kids at a spring training game with a very special twist. Check this out for you new york yankees. [cheers and applause] shannon the kids were there to throw out the first pages. It was their parents who were there behind the catchers masks waiting for them. They hadnt seen them in nine months. That is a lifetime when you are that young. Welcome home. They always pick the ones that make me cry. Thank you for watching special report. I am shannon bream. Good night from washington. The first 100 days with Martha Maccallum is up next. Martha breaking tonight, the most powerful democrat in congress is now calling for the republican investigating alleged spying by the Obama Administration to be removed from his post. As we learned new information tonight, suggesting how the Obama White House may have been keeping tabs on men president elect donald trump and his advisors. I am Martha Maccallum and it is day 67, everybody come after the first 100. The republican chairman of the house intelligence community, devon eunice, saying that he visited the white house grounds to see his source to look at these documents. He did that one day before he came back and made that now sort of famous appearance outside of the white house after he shared what he knew with