Transcripts For FOXNEWSW The Daily Briefing With Dana Perino

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW The Daily Briefing With Dana Perino 20190214

To answer that we go to mike emanuel. Hes live on capitol hill. Everything is still kind of up in the air. Reporter dana, no question about it. Senate leaders are trying to work on an agreement to lock in that senate vote. Once there is an agreement, it could happen quickly. The senate will go first then kick it over to the house of representatives. Theres also the expectation that there will be strong bipartisan support in the United States senate. The wild card is President Trump and his position on it and the Senate Appropriations chairman sounds hopeful. I talked to the president last night, what, 7 00, 8 00, and i talked to the Vice President a couple hours ago. I just him, told the president last night that i had signed the confidence report. We felt it was a down payment. It was not perfect. It was not everything i wanted. I knew it was not everything he wanted. We had some good things in there. Reporter but there is a fair amount of tension here today. These are big votes and its not entirely clear what the president will do. Dana what is the pitch for support from democrats . Reporter for one it keeps the government open. Avoiding another partial Government Shutdown. Some argue this is the way congress is supposed to work. Negotiate and even compromise. Checking our borders should not be an exercise in partisanship. Im glad this bill supports common sense investments that focus on technology, infrastructure and personnel that are need at the southern and Northern Borders fro vied actual security that works. Reporter there is some grumbling here about dropping an 1100 plus page bill around midnight last night and here we are. But deadlines force action and theres a deadline coming up. Dana . Dana thank you. More on this now with andrew litman former chief of state to senator al franken and veteran call toll hill adviser and first time on the show. Antonio, good to be here. Let me ask you this was congressman tom graves. He was talking about what it was like to get this bill at midnight. He tweeted this. Heres my first look at the final conference report, a total of seven funding bills with 30 minutes notice. I was allowed one hour to review. I could not sign off. Obviously other concerns about this, but what do you think will actually happen in the end . Will it pass in the senate . I am confident that its going to pass. The longest Government Shutdown in american history, partial shutdown, Mitch Mcconnell does not want that to happen again. He has a great expression, theres no education in the second kick of a mule. This would be the third kick of the mule. Its better for them to avoid another shutdown. Dana what do you say about, though, that there are many conservatives who think this is just not good enough and democrats won one this time against the president . Welsh the president s poll numbers have rebounded tremendously since the last shutdown. My view is, look, the perfect cant be the enemy of the good. The good is lets fund the government. He did get a down payment on the wall. Every year since hes been president there has been new money for construction along the southern border. It may not be everything every conservative wants. Take the win where you get it and keep chipping away an moving forward. Dana an grdreandrew, what d think . This became a fight of the president versus all of congress. Democrats and republicans are acustom to compromising on these spending bills. Theyre never totally satisfactory. Everyone wants something. But when the president made it just about the wall, thats like his white whale and he only could do harm to himself by making that issue of principle. The main issue in budget negotiation. Budget negotiations are spending numbers up and down. Dana nancy pelosi, who used to be on the appropriations committee, knows that as well. Well see if the president signs it. Well see if the president will sign it. Also, another topic. Mitch mcconnell saying the senate is going to vote on the Green New Deal thats endorsed by several 2020 president ial candidates. Chuck shumer is not too happy. Listen. Since republicans took control of this chamber in 2015, they have not brought a single republican bill to meaningfully reduce Carbon Emissions to the floor of the senate. Not one bill. In fact, the republican majority spent the senates time on legislation that would make Climate Change even worse. Dana what about that criticism, antonia . Well, look. I think theres a difference of opinion on this topic. Senator mcconnell is from kentucky. It is a coal mining and coal producing state. He ran his race in 2014 on coal and the president has been an avid supporter of fossil fuels. Look, at the end of the day this demonstrates a tremendous difference between the parties. It is red america. They want to have cheap fuel costs. This is where you have a partisan divide. Senator mcconnell wants to have a vote on it. Senator schumer shouldnt be afraid of it. Well see where the chips fly once the vote happens. Dana many calling Mitch Mcconnells move to be cynical and a stunt. My question is, if thats the case and they believe that, why wouldnt schumer just tell all the democrats, go ahead and vote no on this and beat him at his own game . Yeah. Theyve done that in similar circumstances before. Its the type of stunt democrats have also attempted when theyre in control. Its familiar if youve been around a long time. Democrats can vote against it. They can abstain. In the end it has no actual effect. Its just an aspiration statement. Dana today is the anniversary of the parkland shooting and, of course, we have to think about all the things that occurred. It was very troubling, of course, to all of these people today who see them this morning, mourning the loss. The house, led by the democrats, passed a big background check bill yesterday. More is coming on that front. Do you think that has any hopes of passing in the senate. Look, my heart goes out for all the parkland families. I cant even imagine. Im from new england. Guns resonate where im from throughout the country. I do not foresee this being considered in the senate. Democrats could obviously offer an amendment moving forward. I just dont think the numbers are there to get Something Like that through the senate. Dana andrew, gun control advocates that want to see more action are not just waiting around for washington, d. C. Theyre working in all of these state capitols across the country. Having more success there . Well, theyre having more success in some of the states. Theyre also registering voters. The big story of the 2018 midterm was white women in suburban districts where gun control is probably most salient to voters. Now its working to democrats advantage. Dana our hearts are with all of those victims families as they grieve today. Andruw and antonia, thank you very much. Sparking questions about the russia investigation and efforts to remove President Trump from office. Andrew mccabe claims there was a lot more than idle talk about using the 25th amendment to replace the president before he was fired. Jillian turner is live in washington with the story. Reporter surprise. Its america catherine. Mccabe went on the record confirming some reporting we brought you back in october, dana, that he left serious about recording the president and invoking the 25th amendment. May 2017 is a pivotal month. Deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, just two weeks into the job, when President Trump fired james comey eight days later rosenstein appointed the special council. Mccabe all tells cbs news that the fbi launched an obstruction of justice case in addition to the fbis on going investigation into alleged russia collusion. I was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and won the election for the presidency. He might have done so with the aid of the government of russia, our foremosted adversary. Reporter the Justice Department stopped short by saying that. It reads, quote, the Deputy Attorney general never authorized any recording that mr. Mccabe references. Based on his personal dealings with the president , theres no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. In a tweet this morning, President Trump hit back, disgraced Andrew Mccabe pretends to be a poor little angel when, in fact, he was a big part of the crooked hillary scandal, a reference to the email investigation, and the russia hoax, a puppet for a leaving james comey. Its important to note mccabe was fired for violating the fbi ethics code and that included lying to federal investigators. Justice department watch dog referred mccabes case to the u. S. Attorney here in washington for criminal possible prosecution. Dana thank you. Were politics behind some of this . Well talk to someone who knows how these things work from inside the Justice Department. Plus, amazon backing out of a plan to open a Second Headquarters here in new york city. Not everyones happy about it. We needed this. This guy wants to be everybodys best friend. I want national healthcare, i want that, too. Apparently i have to do it myself now. This is loma linda, a place with one of the highest life expectancies in the country. You see so many people Walking Around here in their hundreds. So how do you stay financially well for all those extra years . Well, you have to start planning as early as possible. We all need to plan, for 18 years or more, of retirement. I dont have a whole lot saved up, but im working on it now. I will do whatever i need to do. Plan your Financial Life with prudential. Bring your challenges. dealing with Psoriatic Arthritis pain was so frustrating. My skin. It was embarrassing. My joints. They hurt. 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The next day i met with the Team Investigating the russia cases and i asked the team to go back and conduct an assessment to determine where are we with these efforts and what steps do we need to take Going Forward . Dana john yue was Deputy Assistant attorney general under george w. Bush, now a law professor at uc berkeley. Let me ask you your view from when you worked inside the Justice Department. What Andrew Mccabe is saying he did and the timing of that, does any of it sound inappropriate, unethical or even illegal to you . At best, mccabe and a group of his aides, just like jim comey were these crusaders who didnt think the rules applied to them. At worst theyre people who motivated a bias against trump. Looking for the russians as mccabe has said based on very little to almost no evidence. So i wouldnt say its illegal that they could be prosecuted for it. If you are going to investigate the president , you should go to the top of the Justice Department, either the Deputy Attorney general or the attorney general and ask them permission and to ask for the evidence that you actually have to start an investigation. At that point in time, back in the summer of 2017, to say firing jim comey itself was grounds for an investigation is a very difficult and prompt decision and may not even be el because President Trump was exercising his own constitutional powers to remove subordinate executive Branch Officials and prosecutors. Dana take a listen to what he said in this excerpt that was in the atlantic. He said about rosenstein. His eyes were focused on a point in space toward the door. He started talking about the firing of jim comey. He was obviously upset. Said he was shocked the white house was making it look like jims firing had been his idea. He was grasping for a way to graspt situation. He said theres no one i can talk to this. Theres no one here that i can trust. By my reading the only people in the room were mccabe and rosenstein. If rosenstein was thinking he couldnt trust mccabe, maybe there was good reason for that. Sometimes you cant lots to other people when you have to make decisions like, should we investigate the president to try to remove him from office under the 25th amendment . Thats why the president appoints people and the Senate Confirms them, to make those tough decisions. Im afraid you look at that account by mccabe, you read about rosenstein and mccabe talking about potentially wire tapping the president , trying to get a majority of the cabinet and the Vice President to find the president unable to do the job. I dont think they were up to the jobs they were in. I think they were panicky. They should have taken their time and thought about it and considered whether the firing of jim comey was constitutional and within the president s authority, which lot of people now realize was the right thing to do. We should point out rosenstein disputed mccabes accounts here. Paul manafort, who has been under the gun legally, now a judge has found that he actually did violate his plea agreement. So what does that mean Going Forward . One, it gives us a lot of direction, or hints to the direction that the special counsel investigation is going. So if you look at what manafort lied about, what the special counsel is interested in is whether manafort and a ukrainian who has tied to russian intelligence were passing information back and forth, trying to do favors for each other while manafort was chairman of the trump campaign. It has nothing to do with what manafort plead guilty to before he was the campaign manager. That kind of shows you what theyre what the special counsel is pursuing is did the russians and their intelligence agents use manafort as a way to get to trump . And did that affect the campaign in any way . So far i dont see any evidence that shows thats true. Dana do you think the special counsel is wrapping up soon from what you can see . I think so. Yes, i think so. Theyre not really i think you would see more witnesses, more plea bargains if they were actually making more head way on this trump russia conspiracy to commit federal law narrative. Dana okay, john yoo, we always appreciate you coming on. Thank you. Why is amazon scrapping plans to build a new york city headquarters . Well get into that next. Plus a survivors marking one year since that Horrific School shooting in parkland, florida. How the community is honoring the lives that were lost. I still wont leave the classroom to use the bathroom or anything in the middle of class. Im still afraid to go in crowds and stuff. 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