mike huckabee will join me live. my one-on-one exclusive with house speaker paul ryan coming up. when does he think congress will get tax reform and when will it get done and steve bannon's reported plan to raise taxes on the rich and the man's whose commitly will write tax reform bill, kevin brady is with us live coming up. now comes word senate republicans may not be finished with the fight. i will talk with republican senator mike rounds of south dakota for update. we are look ago head right now on sunday morning futures. ♪ ♪ ♪ maria: white house begins new week with new chief of staff. president trump selecting current homeland security secretary john kelly for the new chief of staff replacing outgoing chief reince priebus. kelly expected to be sworn in tomorrow morning right before cabinet meeting. mr. trump hoping military discipline can bring order to west wing. joining me right now to talk more about it, former arkansas governor and fox news contributor mike huckabee. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, maria. great to be with you on the sunday morning.

joining us now, former arkansas governor mike huckabee. governor, would you, a heck of a blow against your daughter. with would your response be to cnn about this? >> i thought it was amazing cnn is talking about truth and honesty. getting advice about truth from cnn is kind of like getting recipes for the 4th of july from hannibal lecter, come on. they're the champions of fake news and fraudulent news. they're constantly reporting stuff turns out to be untrue, including jake tapper had to go back and admit the big thing he held up from, rather "the national enquirer" didn't exist t was totally fake. the attacks on my daughter point you out the hypocrisy here. what did they do? they attacked a woman, my daughter, for doing her job. now why did donald trump send the tweet out in the first place. because he was attacked by a woman, namely one of the hosts what i called bsnbc. who was calling him mentally deranged. calling him unfit for office. and her partner was saying that he was a shmuck, a goon, a thug. this is just, but, if there is any

with us former arkansas governor mike huckabee. welcome back to the program. what do you think about general kelly bringing discipline and one voice to the white house. is the president going to listen? >> i think he will because he has got someone who in essence a peer. somebody on the same level. has been ceo of something really, really big. in this case a military operation. battlefield command. all of these are great qualities. a person like general kelly is truly tested. he doesn't care whether people like him or not. he has taken people combat. he has been in the position where he knows that the decision he makes and the way he leads, in his case, had a choice of whether people lived or died. now nobody will live or die what he does as chief of staff per se, but i think it's a good choice, a solid choice, the president is wise to pick him. stuart: does he have some diplomatic skills? because he is going to have to be a bit diplomatic when it comes to dealing with members of congress. these are politicians. he is a military guy. the president is a busines

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liz: this takes us to former presidential candidate and governor mike huckabee. good to see you, governor. >> things, lives. good to be with you. >> we think of the trump junior e-mail story? lots of talk about the meeting show an intent to conspire with russia, that he gave different reasons for the meaning. what is your take? >> here's a guy never involved in a campaign before. he's involved with his father's campaign and someone says i may have information that would help you with opposition research on hillary. of course he takes the meeting. the bigger issue when the meeting has started, it was so exciting that jared kushner got up in five minutes left. paul manafort was lucky not his phone the whole time and after 20 minutes, donald junior said this is really a waste of my time. i think that is how america feels. america right now wishes he could get up and walk out, get on its own or just in the meeting rather than listen to the mainstream press and the democrats, but then i repeat myself. go over and over the same scenario in continually try to find some

here is former governor mike huckabee. he is a fox news contributor. what is your take on that cover, first of all? that was quick. >> didn't take them long at all. that is you all the media is obsessed about. that is embarrassing for them. they don't have the ability to be shamed. if you honestly watched most of the networks you would think there is not a thing in the world going on except an absolute total obsession with whether or not donald trump, jr., had a meeting with the russians and he is already said that he did. lasted 20 minutes. it was so exciting, jared kushner got up and left after five minutes. paul manafort, looked at his phone, after 20 minutes, don, jr., said i'm done. melissa: what did you think of the revelation today, we'll see if it bears out, but the idea that the russian attorney involved was in the country because she was going to capitol hill to meet with other people? that she didn't have the proper visa in order to travel. reportedly, this is according to "the hill," former attorney general loretta lynch is the one that act