Transcripts For FOXNEWSW The First 100 Days 20170424 : compa

My first time, or at worst, during my second term. I have to speed it up a little bit. Martha get a move on it, right. Also this telling thought. Watch. Dealing with politicians so much, im so much more impressed with these people. Martha so the white house, trying to get congress to step it up on capitol hill, gary cohen will there be, so will steve manu chchin, and wednesda secretary of state will brief 100 senators, in an unusual move. The democrats and republicans will be together. Getting a briefing from the secretary of state on the reality of the threat that exists from north korea. So as 100 days draws to a close, the president expected to going back to using his pen for several more executive orders over the course of the coming days, one of them emerging this evening. We are going to mention that in just a second. Lets go to kevin cork at the white house, what can we expect over the course of the week. Reporter youre right, martha. A frenzy of executive orders here in the last week of the first 100 days in office, where President Trump and i think this is also important to point out, in fact, by friday if it keeps it up, hell have signed nearly three dozen executive orders in his first 100 days, thats the most since world war ii. Now, there are a few that i want to run by you. The very first, i think arcs, a of people will find interesting, whistleblower at the department of veterans affairs. How about this one, one for a review of designations under the antique quitties act, more on that in a bit, implementing an american first off shore strategy and executive order promoting agriculture and rural prosperity in america. Now, i mentioned i wanted to drill down, martha on a couple of these. First, the order improving accountability and whistleblower protections at the va. It will establish an office of accountability and whistleblower protection and also help the va secretary discipline or even fire va managers and employees who fail to carry out their duties in helping our veterans. Obviously, a very important executive order for the president. There is another, this is the America First Energy Executive order. It directs a review of the locations available, get this, for offshore oil and Gas Exploration and certain regulations governing off shore oil and Gas Exploration. That should abe very big set of news there, especially on the energy front. Speaking of, i want to tell you about one more. It will probably get a little bit of pushback, the antique quitties act, and that will look at howhebama ainistration in its final months in office decide to set aside million of acres of American Land as monuments and other specialty designations. What that means is essentially taking it off the table for possible expiration for Energy Resources or any other development. The administration wants to look at that and could get blow back, but theyll move forward on it. Well see if the review makes a difference. For now, back to you. Martha critics saw that as a Government Land grab essentially. Thank you very much, kevin. Kevin cork at the white house. Lets go to mark, former speech writer for george w. Bush, good to have you here. Good to be with you. Martha a lot on the table. The evaluation of what he has done so far, zach, let me start with you. As he heads into this, a bit of frustration on a legislative front, but he has a lot of unraveling of what the Obama Administration did that he has meth methodically worked his way through. It has been a big disappointment, but sort of a lot of unraveling, most of these executive orders are theater. Theyre study groups and blue ribbon commissions. It is the it is a perception of activity, because what theyre could go doing is getti. There is failure after failure on that side. And theyre panicking in the white house. Thats why youre seeing this flurry of activity right now to see if they can paperover their extraordinary broken promises. Martha perhaps you have another viewpoint on it . Mark, what do you think . Zach wasnt saying that when barack obama was using his pen and phone. He had a different line back then. As did all the democrats did. Look, donald trump has donald trump has can look back on this 1 hundred days and say that he has accomplished something more significant than any of his predecessors in modern history, putting a Supreme Court justice on the Supreme Court that will affect the direction of this country for the next three decades. Barack obamas is forgotten. George bushs tax cuts, those have been amended by his successor. For the next three decades, every 54 vote that goes the will be Donald Trumps 100 day achievement. Martha it is interesting to look at sort of the Communications Effort that we have seen happening clearly this morning, and in recent days. You see Steve Mnuchin out front, nikki haley, very much out front. I think there is an effort to put some of these folks that they have a lot ofonfidee in out there speaking on behalf of the administration, and talking about what they want to do. So this tax reform picture that were getting, if you can simplify the tax code, asth ma knew ch mnuchin wants to do, cut the tax rate for individuals and corporations as well, zach, are you what do you think . For or against cutting taxes for the middle income folks and for businesses in this country . Look, everyone is for cutting taxes for middle income folks, but thats not what tax reform is for this white house. This is for the wealthy and leaving the middle income folks high and dry. Martha thats not what they said today. You may turn out to be right, but thats not what they are stated goal is today. Im right. Martha youre sure you are right. Why would they want to do that . That makes zero sense. It absolutely makes zero sense, which but thats the playbook they did with the Health Reform repeal act. They went after popular programs, like raising seniors premiums, and they seem to be doing the playbook with socalled tax reform, a big fat tax cut for the wealthy. Martha that wont go over well if thats the case. Thats not the case. Donald trump was elected because the democrats lost their 700 counties in this country that voted twice for obama. A third of them voted for donald trump. Those are the votes he will give a tax cut toch. Zach is wrong. What they need to do, however, is learn from mistakeshey made with the obama care repeal. Dont rush it. They seem too desperate to get it under the wire. The 100 days doesnt matter. No president in the history has been judged by history on his first 1 hundred days. They need to get it right. Take their time, bring the different constituents in, explain it, build public support. Dont rush it. Martha mark, benchmarks do matter. Think about real life. Everyone gets benchmarks. You have an annual review, school, you get a grade. It is not to say it is the be ends endall, but this is a president , and if you look at the people around him, these are people who work on deadlines all their lives. It seems that only congress doesnt understand the meaning of saying you know what, lets get this done by x date, all you ever hear is why they cant do that, zach. Look, i agree. I mean, but look, this administration has had very clear bench marks that they set out themselves. This is donald trump himself who had ten pieces of ledgislation, including a job creation bill, which we havent seen, buy america, executive order, but allowed the Keystone Pipeline to go forward with foreign steel. So look, i think bench marks are good. I think deadlines are good. But this administration is not keeping martha thank you, you guys. Good to see you. Joining us now, fox news senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolotino. I know overreach is something that you are always concerned about. Right. Zach made the argument that this president is overreaching. I dont think he is. I think a lot of the executive orders are actually beneficial to the american public. An executive order is an instruction from the president , somebody who works for him in the executive branch, could be Steve Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, jeff sessions, the attorney general, as to how the president wants a certain law interpreted, or a Certain Program to be followed. When donald trump puts that in writing, it is transparent and its available for all of us to see. Most of his predecessors did not give those instructions in writing. These things dont change the law. They sharpen the focus of the executive branch in certain areas of law to conform to the president s thinking. After all, he is the one that was elected to enforce the laws. Martha a lot of it is undoing that the prior president did. I mean, for instance, the veterans policy that we talked about would allow you to fire people at the va. Yes. A lot of people think that is a wise thing to be able to do. It is about time. If a hospital isnt being run efficiently, and a team could do it better, of course, administrators should be able to fire. My favorite is the one that is truly revolutionary. He told the i. R. S. Not to collect taxes due for people who failed to obtain health insurance, and those tax bills were due martha there goes the individual mandate. Correct. He did that, even though the Affordable Care act is still the law of the land. Thats how certain he is that the individual mandate will go. This is the first time in American History that an american president has told the irs not to collect a lawful tax. Thats revolutionary. That is arguably changing the law in anticipation of congress changing the law. Martha in terms of what we just started to learn about tonight, it has to do with canadian import news this country, exports. What does he want to do. Impose a 20 tariff on soft lumber coming in from canada, staying out of the weeds, a long running dispute, interestingly, under nafta, a treaty that the president has criticized harshly. But the president of the United States has the power on his own to impose a 20 tariff retroactive to the beginning of his presidency. This fulfills a promise to keep american lumber manufactures on an even keel who are supportive with price supports by their government. Martha judge, thank you very much. Youre welcome. Martha good to see you, sir. Still ahead tonight, two professors go on offense, taking aim at assaults on free speech that we have been documenting quite closely during the first 1 hundred days here. Thats the scene at berkeley. Professors will join us tonight on their new effort. Prolife democrats under attack from their own party. As the dncs new strategy seems to be either you are with us or against us, when it comes to abortion rights. Can you be a prolife democratic in todays world . Bill bettic joins us, straight ahead. As long as they are prepared to back the law, row versus wade, womens rights, then i think they can be part of the party. At lincoln financial, we get there are some responsibilities of love you gotta do on your own. And some you shouldnt have to shoulder alone. Like ensuring your family is well takecare of, today and tomorrow, no matter how life unfolds. Visit lincolnfinancial. 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I kno within the ranks, some see it differently on a personal basis. En it comes to the policy position, i think we need to be clear and unequivocal. Martha with a recent pugh study revealing one in five democrats consider themselves prolife, party strategists are asking is it wise to potentially alienate this swath of the constituency, especially after losing so many Blue Collar Workers this past november. Joining me now, bill bennett, former education secretary under president reagan and fox new contributor. Bill, good to see you. Thank you for being here. Thanks, martha. Martha it raises this question in my mind, can you be prolife and consider yourself a democratic . Or are you not welcome in the party any more . If i might just for ten seconds, personal comment. The passing of keato burns, a brilliant, hilarious and wiley person from whom weve all learned. She continued much to this debate. Well all miss her. She did so in a way to persuade people to her point of view. Not this bludgeon, this stick that the democrats are using. Theyre just going to make their party smaller, as well as less tolerant. No tolerance for speech on campus from the left, and now no tolerance for people who believe in life, who are prolife. You put a 20 , i would suggest, i think the numbers would hold up, martha, if you look at union households, which you know went more for trump this time than before, many of them democrats, those numbers would be higher. 30 to 35 . So this is, im afraid, the mind set of the democratic party. One other example. Remember t marches in washington, after the trump election, when they were wearing those the ugly business on their heads, prolife could not be a partner. If you were prolife, you could not be a partner if you were prolife, member of a prolife group. You couldnt be a partner. You could participate, but couldnt be a partner. Second class citizens. It is a very bad idea for a party, which is dwindling any way. Look, who is champion of the mayor of only harksmaha, but be sanders is saying wake up, broaden yourselves a little bit. First time i can recall agreeing with Bernie Sanders. Martha 37yearold mayoral candidate, keith mellow, who has gotten a lot of heat for running as a democratic in omaha, because he happens to be prolife. You look at people like bob casey from pennsylvania, you look at a number of the tradition of irish catholics, in the democratic party, who may find themselves feeling like they dont have a home. Hillary clinton lost the catholic vote, and that was pretty extraordinary. And she lost wisconsin and pennsylvania and michigan by 1 . Is it a politically wise move. I do want to bring up this other moment from tom perez, in terms of coarseness, which i know is something you care deeply about. Lets watch this. You bet. He doet give a [ bleeping ] about health care when we have the skinny budget of this president. He calls it a skinny budget. I call it Something Else that begins with s. And my mama taught me you shouldnt do potty talk. I hope you dont mind, because this is a [ bleeping ] budget. Martha on the end, looking up at her mom, like oh, my gosh, did you hear what that man said . Who does this work for . Apparently it works for the audience. Thats the problem. It is not so much someone used to say about the striptease, it is not the striptease, it is the applause. It is a very oldfashioned comment, but it is the audience responding positively. Remember the phrase, senator noyhanan, is it possible well come to miss Debbie Wasserman schultz. Bernie sanders needs to be heated. This is an odd situation. It is a very serious matter. When you take an issue of such fundamental importance, and remember that lots of people in this country, including democrats, believe, you know, as ca catholics or jews or protesta s protestants, one must be careful about this, it is life. To rule it out category you are not welcome here is a big mistake. It is a mistake morally, a mistake theologically, but for what were looking at tonight, it is a big mistake politically. They need to listen, did i ever i think would say this, to Bernie Sanders. Martha he has spoken up quite a bit on the College Issue as well, in terms of allowing free speech, encouraging dialogue, living in a world where we can respect each other and listen to each others views. He wants a big tent. You said very wisely, you said wisely about michigan and wisconsin. I think if you had one catholic in each parish in michigan change their mind and vote for clinton, rather than trump, she would have won the election. I think thats true, if you count michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. Remember, barack obama won the catholic vote substantially. She lost the catholic vote. Message to democratic party. Look at the lights. Wake up. Martha something to think about. Bill bennett, good to see you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Martha Justice Neil Gorsuch has had notable court of appeals opinions in his past, including a freedom of religion cases. Including the hobby