The equipment didnt work too well, their equipment. And they didnt shoot one. You heard oh, they shot 40 down, then 50 and then i called and they said no sir, not one was shot down. Bill kevin corke traveling with the president in florida but we begin to mike tobin in jerusalem. Mike, hello to you. Hello there, bill. Its a Big Development. However, the russian and Syrian Forces have had control of that town of douma since last thursday. So they are giving the skeptics a lot to work with in terms of the ability of the russians or the syrians to clean up the site and produce the result that they want. Of course, they have been claiming all along the chemical attack wasnt real and later said it was staged by that First Responder group called the white helmets. It is a development that the inspectors from the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons have been in that town. The skeptics will have a lot to work with. I want to make the right turn. A Big Development coming out of israel now. Israel is making a statement that they know where iran is setting up bases inside of syria. Israel took an unusual step today of releasing satellite images of iranian locations inside syria. The first location we can show you shows Iranian Forces basing at an irrelevant airport in syria and an iranian drone in east syria. They released pictures of another airport in tehran. This is the airport that i ran is flying weapons and people into syria. It is sometimes disguised as a civilian flight and it released the image of the air force commander of irans revolutionary guard. He is a potential target if things escalate. Netanyahu has said that israel will not tolerate iran establishing forward bases inside syria. Bill mike tobin live. Sandra President Trump is weighing plans for new sanctions on russia plus a possible meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin later today he will sit down with japanese Prime Minister abe. Were live in West Palm Beach with kevin corke. What is the white house saying between the gap about what nikki haley said about sanctions and what the white house is saying . They talked about the gap throughout the day yesterday in social media. The white house argued there is no gap. Simply because there hasnt been a formal announcement and no monday rollout doesnt mean something couldnt be on the way. Sarah sanders has been talking about this. She said listen, there are considerations, additional sanctions are underway. Thats important to make. She said the president has been clear he will be tough on russia but at the same time he would still like to have a Good Relationship with them. A relationship i think its fair to say thats increasingly strained because of the kremlins support of the assad regime which has been accused of using banned chemical weapons on their own people. Russia promising chaos if there are more u. S. Actions against them. In particular air strikes. As for a possible meeting, the kremlin said there has been no discussion between the u. S. And russia about a possible meeting between the two leaders. But that can certainly change at a moments notice. Sandra meanwhile the president is set to meet his japanese counterpart abe for a twoday summit. Whats the agenda there . A lot riding on this meeting. Theyll talk about north korea, right . But i think there is also increasing concern that there may be a deal made between the u. S. And maybe north korea down the line that doesnt do enough to address shortrange missiles. Its one of the Major Concerns for the japanese. Were talking about a relationship between two men that have gotten along for some time. The president and abe met here last year but they also met over in japan. Let me take you to twitter. The president saying this. Im in florida looking forward to my meeting with Prime Minister abe of japan working on trade and military security. Now, it is also fair to say that despite the great relationship the two men have had, this twoday get together is coming amid concerns that the president might try to link north korea nukes and economic concerns, sandra, in order to score more concessions that would favor the United States. President trump our country has been taken advantage of for many, many years, japan, south korea and so many countries, with china were at 375 billion trade deficit. So we started a process and well see how it ends up. But we are going to win. We lost years ago by president s and others allow than this to happen. They should have never allowed it to happen. There you hear it. It is not just about Regional Security but access to markets and economic cooperation. Part of a big couple of days here including a dinner tonight with the first ladies of both countries. Sandra all this talk of the economy, well be watching the markets when they open 24 minutes from now. Kevin corke, thank you. Bill another big story. Congressional deadline has come on gone to turn over the comey memos. The request came last week from the heads of three House Committees arguing they have the right to view the documents in unredacted form. So far a no go. Hugo gurdon, welcome back to our program. Some reporters have seen the memos, makes sense for congress to see them, too. Whats the holdup . What would explain that . Well, the d. O. J. And the f. B. I. Are treating these memos as though they were classified. Theyre not classified. As you say, a friend, a professor at columbia university, a friend of james comey has seen them and passed them to the New York Times. The New York Times reported on them. There is no reason. Its an out rage that congress, which has a constitutional duty of oversight over the executive has not seen them. You know, the kind of pompous title of james comeys book is a higher loyalty and he is implying he has a higher loyalty than the president. His loyalty seems to be to his bank. He wont give details to congress. Bill he leaked the memo in the first place. Reporters from the New York Times have seen them. We know what james comey has concluded. If you watch the entire interview from sunday night he said it himself, there is no proof of collusion that he has. There is no proof of the dossier that he has. There is no proof that russia has blackmail material over the president. Those are his words. He offered no evidence to rebut any of that. There is absolutely nothing new in this other than all of the details about the supposed wrongdoing or alleged wrongdoing or fanciful idea about wrongdoing was already known. He focused on the length of the president s tie, the size of his hands. He speculated and gave his judgment about the moral fitness of the president to be president. Who cares what james comey thinks about the moral fitness of the president . He was elected by the voters of the country. He won 30 states out of the 50. He is the president and congress is congress. It has the duty to look at oversight over the executive and it should be seeing the memos that james comey wrote. Bill the tour continues. He is doing a lot of interviews in the next two weeks. His second interview with George Stephanopolous in two days today. His reaction to the Michael Cohen raid a week ago of his home and office hotel room here in new york city. Here it is. It shows me he doesnt know or doesnt care what the rule of law looks like. Nobody broke into anybodys office. It doesnt happen. Its a total distortion of the way things work. Bill it doesnt happen. Paul manafort may disagree with that when he got the knock on the door at 6 00 a. M. Whats your view . My view is this raid on Michael Cohens office does pose some serious jeopardy. It is very interesting that we started off with the russia collusion allegations and thats fading fast in the rearview mirror. Then there has been the suggestion of obstruction of justice in the way the president spoke to james comey. But i dont think that many people think thats going to hold even though comey himself says maybe there was obstruction of justice. It seems to me at the very lease plausible denyability about that and now the resistance to trump has fastened itself onto the idea that a lot will be revealed in the raid by the raid on Michael Cohens office. Thats a different matter. There may be more there nothing to do with the original source of the investigation. There is reason to believe because of which lawyer was acting for whom and whether there was proper behavior by the lawyers, there may be some sort of peril in there. Whether it reaches the president , i dont know. Bill hugo, thank you. I mentioned abc this morning for james comey. I think he does the view later today. An interview last night with npr. A lot to go over. We shall get to as much as we possibly can. Sandra and as james comey continues that media blitz this week former f. B. I. Agents are coming out to criticize the fired f. B. I. Director for his comments saying theyre damaging the agency. More on that in a moment with our panel. Bill a Top Republican senator saying he has evidence two antitrump f. B. I. Agents still have top level security clearance despite being pulled off critical investigations. That senator rand paul is behind the claim and he will be coming up. Sandra Marsha Blackburn is here and will be weighing in as another California City votes no against the state. Ive had crimes committed on my property by an illegal immigrant. He was released. People who come here in the name of being christians and say kick them out is like what bible are you reading . Im mark and i quit smoking with chantix. I tried, um, cold turkey. I tried the patches. I was tired and i was fed up. I wanted to try something different. For me, chantix really worked. 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I dont think so even in hindsight. Bill well, this some would say gift is going to keep on giving. Former f. B. I. Director james comey responding to criticism about the handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation calling out Loretta Lynch for her decision not to recuse herds and it put the entire f. B. I. In a nowin situation. Marie harf former state Department Spokesperson and amos snead former press secretary for representative roy blunt. Lets bring up the quote from npr. Interview done last night. I saw this as a 500 year flood so where is the manual . What do i do . Wow. The life of joe, it is all these challenges befalling him and what is he going to do about it . All of his answers seem to be in that same vein. James comey is not a perfect messenger and a lot in his books and interviews for democrats and republicans not to like. I totally agree, including the sort of sanctimonious tone he often takes. That being said, just because he is not a perfect messenger doesnt mean we shouldnt take what he says seriously. Particularly his concerns about why he was fired, about the president s fitness for office. So i think in some sways ways we have to separate the two. The media blitz he is going on i wouldnt say problematic but mixed at best for both democrats and republicans. Bill everything is an attack. Amos, the more he talks, does he make a better argument or does he look smaller . Well, bill, welcome back to the comey circus. I think were on day seven or eight or how long well be here. Bill probably 13 or 14. Sandra were right in the middle. I think if you look at how he carried himself before the book tour. He was above the fray and wouldnt get down and play political games. He has totally shot that. He has been on tour calling the president a mob boss, personal insults. He made himself in a political pundit and lessens his voice but i predict well hear more in the next few days. Bill dont you think its interesting that he never told President Trump who was funding the dossier . Isnt it relevant his wife voted for Hillary Clinton and on camera saying that and three or four daughters marched in the march in washington the day after the inauguration . Do we not think that is significant to understand the entire context from which he is coming . Public servants are allowed to vote and families allowed to vote and donate money. Bill im not suggesting they shouldnt. To understand the entire story dont you think that context is relevant here . There are a lot of things relevant here and a lot of things that arent relevant and how jim comey handled the hillary email investigation which Many Democrats are more angry after his interviews and some things he has admitted. He needed to tell the American People she was under investigation but didnt tell the American People donald trump was. How he handled the number of things. Those are questions that need to be answered but the most important questions are being tackled by bob mueller. This is an interesting media circus. The book came out today. Weve been talking about it for four or five days. What Robert Mueller is looking at is what matters not the media circus. Bill fox news. Com, a former f. B. I. Agents writes now his book renews the controversy to the detriment of nearly everyone but jim comey who is out to repair his tarnished reputation and mete out pay back for his dismissal by President Trump. I think marie brings up a great point. Democrats blame comey for Hillary Clinton not winning the white house. Now he will make a fortune selling books to those same democrats. If you look at the circus, who knows where it comes next . It is amazing the voice you can find and the courage you can find on a book tour. Bill 500 year flood. Amos, ponder that. Talk to you guys soon. Thank you for coming in today. Sandra breaking news on Michael Cohen. A federal judge has said that cohens team can review the documents seized by the f. B. I. Were live with the latest. We see two travelers so at a comfort innal with a glow around them, so people watching will be like, wow, maybe ill glow too if i book direct at choicehotels. Com. Who glows . Just say, badda book. Badda boom. Book now at choicehotels. Com you know whats not awesome . Gigspeed internet. When only certain people can get it. Lets fix that. Lets give this guy gig really . And these kids, and these guys, him, ah. Oh hello. That lady, these houses yes, yes and yes. And dont forget about them. Uh huh, sure. Still yes xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. Now you can get it, too. Welcome to the party. Bill here we go, dominoes ramping up the food delivery wars at the beach, at the park or one of 150,000 other outdoor locations, they will bring a hot pie to you. Customers can place orders by way of wifi online or the dominoes app. Sandra it makes sense. I feel for the delivery men and women who will have a tough job to do. Can you imagine describing yourself on the beach. Find me. Bill two large pepperonis and we have the green umbrella. Sandra you know what . A pizza on the beach. Bill there is a dominoes below my apartment. Sandra that you frequent. Bill every two months i cheat. Their fresh pepperoni hot is killer. Sandra fox news alert for you this morning a federal judge saying trumps personal attorney Michael Cohen can review the documents seized in the f. B. I. Raids at his home, office and hotel room. Things could still be much more complicated based on how many documents will be considered privileged. Laura engel joins us to explain it all. Many decisions were made on how to move forward on the issue of Attorney Client privilege yesterday which Michael Cohen and President Trumps legal team are fighting hard to protect. His motion to keep f. B. I. Going through the documents was denied. The judge explained the matter is mute. The evidence is not available to either side. The judge ordered the government to give copies of all the physical and electronic documents to cohens attorneys so they can flag what they consider privileged information and cohens team can share that information with the president s team while the judge decides how to make sure items that should be protected arent disclosed to investigators. Cohen was also asked to reveal his list of legal clients. Attorneys turned over two names. President trump, elliott broidy, but would not name a third. The judge said the request to remain anonymous wasnt enough under the law which forced them to reveal the name as sean hannity. The fox news host spoke about it on his evening program. Michael cohen never represented me in any legal matter. I never retained his services. I never received an invoice. I never paid Michael Cohen for legal fees. I did have occasional brief conversations with Michael Cohen. He is a great attorney, about legal questions i had or i was looking for input and perspective. Hannity later reiterated his statement on twitter saying his discussions with cohen never involved any third party. Sandra Stormy Daniels was in the courtroom for all of this, too. What was that like . It was pretty chaotic to be truthful. There were reporters chasing her into the courthouse. Daniels says she has a vested interest to be there after cohen paid her 130,000 in 2016 in reported hush money for her alleged sexual relationship with mr. Trump. For years mr. Cohen has acted like he is above the law and considered himself a openly referred to himself as mr. Trumps fixer and played by a different set of rules or should we say no rules at all. He has never thought that the little man or especially women even more women like me mattered. That ends now. The next Court Proceedings should take place after all sides have had a chance to look through the documents and will reconvene. Sandra what a day it was yesterday. Bill we always find ourselves often in these the scrum of the media. That was Something Else yesterday with the rain coming down, the wind blowing sideways and all those people falling all over each other on the steps. Not the place you want to be. All right, from california governor jerry brown speaking moments ago about his battle with the Trump Administration on immigration. Here is what he said. Its time to just chill. Recognize the fact that theyre here. Now, if trump wants to round them up, you know, like some totalitarian government and ship them out, say that. Bill california facing more push back. Marsha blackburn is next. Sandra as americans race to get their taxes sent in today because today is tax day, President Trump is touting the strength of the economy and the new tax law. Reaction to all of this from our very own Charles Payne live on set. President trump you see whats happened to your wallet. 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You gotta swiffer immigration with all the other talk and noise about the border, the fact is america has a 10 to 11 Million People that are here and they are human beings, they have families. It is very important they be integrated in a humane, intelligent way. Instead its an inflammatory football that very low life politicians like to exploit. Sandra california governor jerry brown speaking in washington addressing his battle with the Trump Administration on immigration. All of this coming as more and more california cities continue to fight back against the states sanctuary city laws. The city council in los alamitos reaffirmed a vote last night to exempt the city from that law. Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn. Thank you for being here this morning. Good to be with you. Sandra there is a trend developing here. I want to ask you about it. Are you seeing this growing antisanctuary city sentiment growing across the state . We are seeing it grow across the country. And sandra, here is why, when you allow sanctuary cities, first of all it puts your citizens in peril and people know this. You can look at the crime stats, you can look at other stats that support this. Second thing is when you do this, when you have sanctuary city policies, you are allowing these sanctuaries to publicly flaunt and violate federal law but you are doing nothing to hold them accountable. And the third thing is people are smart. Tennesseans are smart and they know that when you allow a sanctuary city basically you make every town a border town. And what they want to do is make certain that we abide by the rule of law. We are a nation of laws. They want that law to be upheld and they want their citizens to be safe. They dont want to make decisions that are going to run up the cost of Law Enforcement and crime. So i think you are going to see more cities across california opt out. Sandra well see where that goes. Meanwhile the fight is ramping up the war of words between the california governor and our president. You just heard jerry brown speaking a few moments ago in d. C. The president just about one hour ago hitting back on twitter saying this, looks like jerry brown and california are not looking for safety and security along their very porous border. He cannot come to terms for the National Guard to patrol and protect the border. The high crime rate will only get higher. Much wanted wall in san diego already started. Who is winning this fight, congresswoman . The president is winning this fight and he is going to win this fight and the president is right about this. When you see how city governments are responding to the governor of california, you know that they agree with President Trump and they disagree with governor brown. And let me tell you Something Else, sandra. When i talk to moms, one of the number one things they talk about is the security and safety of their children and of their families. And they know that the influx of gangs, the influx of sex trafficking, the influx of drugs over that porous southern border makes their neighborhoods and communities less safe. So you are going to see security moms move forward in these 2018 elections and say look, if there is a step the federal government can take to help secure this country that there by secures by neighborhood im all for it. We hear that every day. Sandra following this vote, this morning county city voting to opt out of california sanctuary state laws the aclu called it a blatant violation of the citys obligation to follow a state law that puts our local resources to use for the safety of our community rather than toward federal immigration agencies. Does this open the city or these cities to lawsuits, congresswoman . I dont think it does because theyre complying with federal law. So obviously the aclu is saying in this they think that state law should preempt or trump if you will federal law. Now, what would happen how would the aclu respond if there were to be sanctuary cities for tax evaders, sanctuary cities for epa violators, sanctuary cities for gangs, or sanctuary cities for drug traffickers . How would they respond to that . We are a nation of laws. We abide by the rule of law. The president is right on this issue. And that is why you are seeing growing support from city councils, from county commissions, and from citizens across the country that are saying illegal entry is wrong. Sandra i want to ask you about the senate race in your state of tennessee. Bob corker sent you a Campaign Contribution and wished you well. We are looking at the latest polling in the state. The latest showing a 10point lead by your democratic opponent. How is this race going, congresswoman . It is going great. Im standing on federal property so i cant really discuss my race. I will tell you this, it is going great. We have great grassroot support and we are heartened that the issues that people really are focused on, more tax cuts, building that wall, supporting President Trump and having good conservative Constitutional Supreme Court justices. Sandra you know there is a lot going on and we appreciate you coming on this morning and congresswoman, thank you. Bill great moment during yesterdays boston marathon. An american runner winning the womens race the First Time Since 1985 an American Woman has won the boston marathon. It was not easy. They battled powerful wind and a cold rain, too. Get this, during the race she actually slowed down, stopping to wait for a teammate who had to pick up another shirt or jacket on the side. Despite that she still won the race with des. Sandra it was appropriate for me to stand and give her an ovation i will. I will applaud her. I knew about her but wow, what a shining moment there. Bill real machine. Were hoping she comes on americas newsroom and talk about how she won. Five years to the day the bombing and all that weather wrapped in. Congratulations, awesome. Sandra a stunning new cybersecurity alert. Warnings of russia hacking attacks could put millions of americans at risk. Bill also the president s order of air strikes in syria sparking new legislation. The senate over the use of American Military force. Senator rand paul here to react to that and a whole list of issues next. Dont go away. Experience lexus Safety System plus standard in the 2018 lexus es and es hybrid. Lease the 2018 es 350 for 399 month for 36 months. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. All i hear from some of my colleagues is the domino theory. Sometimes the domino theory is relevant but sometimes its not. I dont need to give this president an open check to do what he wants to do. I have concerns about if this is what their final version is, flipping the nature of what congresss role is. Bill a lot of reaction. Senators sounding off for the use of military force. Senate Foreign Relations committee introducing new legislation days after President Trump ordered the air strikes in syria on friday night, lasted about an hour. Senator rand paul is on that committee and with me now. How are you doing, senator . I have a long list. Lets get right to it. Cnn. Com you wrote the following. Mr. President , trust your gut. The Afghanistan War should be over. Our troops should leave. Is Syrian Civil War should never been our fight. Lets end our involvement. I suppose youll draw a hard line. Unfortunately the authorization theyre putting forward will expand the president s authority to involve us in war. Currently were involved in six or seven countries actively and another 10 or 20 sort of intermittently. This new authorization will authorize all of those wars and then some. For the first time it will authorize something called associated forces which means anybody on the planet who says they are associated or we think are associated we can go to war with. And so my fear is that this new authorization will not constrain the president but will actually expand the president ial power, will expand our military involvement around the world. Bill i can respect your opinion. You have Islamic Radical terrorism across the world and trying to contain it. For every terrorist you kill, are you killing more terrorists than are created . We kill a terrorist somewhere in algeria, what do the relatives become terrorists or go home and say its fine the american killed the leader of our village. Were fine with that or strap on vests and decide to attack the u. S. Im not so sure the war on terror is beneficial or working at this point. Bill okay. Now, on the syria strikes. Jack keane told us a week ago the russians have already been in there and stripped the site clean. What are inspectors to find when they eventually arrive . This is a real question and i think that assad is either the dumbest dictator on the planet or he didnt do it because you think about it. Theyve been winning the war for over a year. The only thing that galvanizes world opposition to the assad regime, the only thing that gets us involved in all is the use of chemical weapons. When you compare them to other weapons there are other weapons much more lethal. 10 guys with machine guns are more lethal than this attack was. Im not saying it was horrific. It doesnt make sense for assad to have done this because it galvanized the world against him. Bill do you doubt that he did it . He is either the dumbest dictator on the planet or he didnt do it. I havent been given any briefing about what the proof is. Bill you ask why strzok and page have access. You say there is no reason that cant be stated publicly and removed from security clear ns. It is perplexing that they can communicate back and forth about bringing down a sitting president and they arent fired from office for that. I have no information as to whether or not there is even an john going investigation about them. I asked the f. B. I. Director can they search the databases for americans they dont like . Can they search for people who have been contributors to the president and type an americans name in because they dont like them . The response was he wouldnt answer me but said all agents still have all top secret access and so the answer is essentially yes, they are still there and they still can access their database. I personally think that every f. B. I. Agent and most of them are good people, but i think every f. B. I. Agent should ask a judge for a warrant before searching an americans records. This is something ive been fighting for for years. Bill are you going to block mike pompeo to be secretary of state . The president thinks the if there is no military solution in afghanistan who wants to send more gi. He is for sending more gis to afghanistan. I dont think we should send one more soldier there. Declare victory and come home. Bill you stated that as well in the past. Youll introduce a bill to balance the budget in five years. Seems like a pipe dream in washington these days. Republican majority and the president signed a bill two weeks ago a budget that just busting everybodys bank. Do you have any support from the president if you pursue that bill . You know, i think the president has been shown he is unhappy with the recent spending bill that busted the budget caps. He signed it, though. Im putting forward what conservatives want. A 1 cut. One penny out of every dollar cut across the board and guess what, the budget balances within five years. The other thing im introducing is reconciliation instructions so by simple majority we can expand Health Savings account to try to create competition in Health Insurance and drive prices down. Bill sounds like some good ideas. I know thats a long road to go. Senator, thank you for your time. Appreciate you running down the list today. Rand paul, the kentucky senator there from the hill. Thank you, sir. Sandra it is tax day and President Trump says that next year this will get a whole lot easier for many americans. President trump remember this. This is the last time youll fill out that long, complicated, horrible return. Sandra president also saying the economy is booming and republicans have put a lot more money back in your pocket. Charles payne is here to weigh in next. When trying to save for the big things in life, we tend to start small. Less of this. Cut back on that. But if it feels like a lot of effort for a little gain, change that. 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Have you havent done them file your extensions. I did mine last week and i had to pay more because im in jersey. Im one of these people who have to sacrifice for the greater good but im okay with it. Sandra the president and his team are touting the massive tax cuts and really theyre saying you arent really going to feel the full benefit of this tax reform and these tax cuts this year, it will be next year. Are they managing expectations . I think they are and managing them wisely. You have an Opposition Party and media will come out and say whats happening . Then they boiled it down to the bonuses being the story which was a huge mistake. Five million americans have gotten bonuses and wages are going up. 6. 1 million job openings. We have an economy thats on the move. Give you an example this morning. Johnson and johnson reported their earnings. Theyll invest 30 billion over the next four years in research and development and pointed to the tax cuts. So it is hard to quantify that, right . We know 30 billion is a lot of money and will go to a lot of peoples pockets. Sandra apple will invest 350 billion in the u. S. Economy over the next five years including 30 billion as a direct result of the tax cuts. You have to build branches and populate them with new employees. A lot of ways. We probably have to wait two or three years to assess how great it was and it will still be difficult. Sandra ill ask the question people ask you and i see you stop you and say what is going to happen with the stock market . Larry kudlow, the president s new Economic Advisor said we a looking at the biggest economic boom for this country in two decades. Is the best yet to come here . I think so. This morning we have two things. Housing starts were up huge. One of the best numbers in more than a decade. Yesterday we had earnings from j. B. Hunt. A trucking company. Trucking is the lifeblood, the ultimate proxy of how great the economy is doing. Stock was up 7 . You never see a trucking stock up 7 in one day. They had volume, pricing power. Were doing Amazing Things in this country. Sandra let me pull you back. Are expectations getting too high perhaps when it comes to Economic Growth and profit growth, gdp, a surging Economic Growth as a country . Are the expectations too high . The market certainly is climbing as a result of it. For a country that became accustomed to celebrating mediocre it may be too high. We wont be able to do the taxes on the postcard. A really big postcard. They are working on it, they said. Charles payne, great to have you. Bill im one of the people that stops charles all the time. A warning from the government about a tremendous weapon in the hands of an adversary. Who is enemy is and what is the threat. Fired f. B. I. Director james comey. New comments about President Trump after an interview just last hour. Thats coming up at the top of the hour. Be ill glow too if i book direct at choicehotels. 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Has high confidence that russian state sponsored cyber actors are using compromised routers to conduct man in the middle attacks to support espionage. Maintain persistent access to Victim Networks and potentially lay a foundation for future offensive operations. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is live in washington thank you, sandra. Good morning. This alert from u. S. High level Cybersecurity Task force issued yesterday about the breach they say was backed by the russian government targeting and infecting routers from Government Agencies to private businesses and critical infrastructure. During a briefing they said once a hostile nation controls a router they control the flow of information. Officials have high confidence that russian president Vladimir Putin is behind the attacks that are part of a broader Cyber Espionage campaign to steal passwords. There is an offensive cyber capability. The Campaign Goes back at least a year and said the russians could be prepositionings for use during tense times. Fox news asked if the compromise could be used to disrupt the midterm elections. Officials didnt rule it out. Sandra a house deadline passed to produce the james comey memos. What now . The deadline came and went last night with no indication from the three House Committee chairmen that the Justice Department handed over the comey memos. Lawmakers want access to all seven memos after some were leaked to the media by a friend of comeys and the former director talked on abc news. Here on fox the republican lawmaker who sits on the House Intelligence Committee called out the former director. If he had any guts he would have done it on his own not leak it to some favored professor who will pass it to the media. If it was so important that he had to get these memos out, then man up, have the guts, do it yourself. Comey has maintained the leak was appropriate and involved unclassified information but the republican senator Chuck Grassley who heads the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Said at least one of the leaked comey memos likely contained classified information. They contain classified information at the secret or confidential level. Sandra thank you. Bill another alert. Syrian state tv saying a chemical weapons Watchdog Team has entered the town of douma. The scene of a deadly chemical attack that triggered last weeks joint military air strikes against the syrian regime. Kentucky senator rand paul speaking out about what he thinks inspectors will find there. I think this is a real question. I think assad is either the dumbest dictator on the planet or he didnt do it because you think about it. Theyve been winning the war for over a year. The only thing that galvanizes world opposition to the assad regime, the only thing that gets us involved at all is the use of chemical weapons. Bill rich edson, investigators finally getting the chance to go to that chemical attack site now. Good morning. This is 10 days after the supposed chemical attack. Investigators, international ones are finally getting access to that site. The British Government among others have claimed that russia and syria were denying the opcw, the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, access to douma. The Syrian Government declared control of that area on sunday. Now, russia blames the delay on the United Nations, the United Nations said not us. They had given inspectors full access to the site. United states said russia may have visited the site and they claim the attack was staged and the u. K. France and u. S. And others say we have evidence it was the assad regime and it justifies the attack from friday night. Bill it appears the administration is holding off on more sanctions against moscow for now anyway . It looks that way. The white house says officials are considering new sanctions and plan to make a decision in the near future. Unremarkable statement unless you consider what the United States ambassador to the United Nations said sunday. Nikki haley had said over the weekend that the administration was going to announce new sanctions on monday. Monday came, monday went. We had no sanctions announcement. This is by the way moscow, the russian state media, says the russian legislatures, hundreds of them are signing on the bill that would put sanctions to american businesses in response to u. S. Sanctions against russians that have passed the administration over the past week. Also earlier in the month you had the United States and russia expelling dozens of diplomats from each others countries. It appears a little bit of a halt in the back and forth on the sanctioning. Though the timing that we had expected for yesterday the administration isnt ruling it out but made no announcement yesterday. Bill rich edson. A lot to cover from the state department. Sandra lets bring in chris stirewalt. Good morning to you. Well continue this conversation with the president showing that he is quite pleased with the way things played out. There as we know he initially responded Mission Accomplished and yesterday he said it was way over 100 missiles shot in they didnt shoot one down. Every single one hit its target. Well, everybody likes success and especially in this where you have a clean operation where you are not talking about mass civilian casualties or u. S. Boots on the ground. There is a reason that american president s have long favored tomahawkstyle interventions because the exposure is low. Now the question is, whats next . And the whats next part gets a lot harder. Sandra there is a joking moment hard to believe through all of this yesterday with ambassador bolton in that room standing over the president s shoulder. The camera caught him a couple times as the president joked about bolton getting all the credit. He is the president S New National security advisor. He even received standing ovation. Watch this. President trump john bolton is here. We had a big successful hit. John. [applause] i think [cheering and applause] john, thats pretty good. I didnt expect that. Im a little jealous. Are you giving him all the credit . You know that means the end of his job, you know. [laughter] Sandra Bolton intimately involved in the what is next. The president joking he was jealous at the attention that bolton was getting there. You know, he is by the president s side now as of april 9th was his first day on the job. What a weird moment that was. But okay, 2018, look, bolton is viewed with deep, deep and abiding suspicion by people like rand paul or people who are more dovish on these questions. They view him as a war monger going to drag the United States into conflicts on the ground in the middle east. Those are the tensions between those two branches of american politics. The interventionists and noninterventionists. The russians want to play up that friction and divide that space so they can paralyze the United States so we arent able to take appropriate or reasonable responses whether you think this one was reasonable or not. The division is the key to their strategy to immobilize the World Community and theyve done a good job in europe and with nato. Sandra there was a couple moments like that in the room yesterday. It being tax day we wanted to look back when he decided to take a jab at the democratic florida senator bill nelson. Watch this. President trump we didnt get one democrat to vote for us and senator nelson was hostile to it. Let me tell you, if for any reason they get in, meaning the democrats, they are going to raise your taxes way up high. We cannot let that happen because this country is starting to rock with our businesses coming back in. It is starting to really rock. Sandra i wanted to bring up that moment because its interesting. As the discussion is the economy and republicans keep pushing that message the president touting his success on the economy, is that a sign of things to come with the midterm elections coming up . Certainly in florida where the president keeps one of his homes and has a longtime ally in rick scott, the governor there who is running against nelson. I suspect well be seeing a lot of President Trump when it comes to the florida senatorial race. Nelson has to figure out how to deal with that and how to turn the positives that trump brings into the race to the negatives to undercut scott and portray him as a lackey to trump. I think the florida race will be a hot one because of the president s rooting interest here. Sandra a lot going on today. Summit with japan, abe. Chris stirewalt, you have a busy day and thank you for being here this morning. You bet. Bill the comey media blitz continues this morning. The former f. B. I. Director hitting President Trump yet again calling his twitter critique not normal. Plus this. I do believe the president is right when he argues the Attorney Client privilege is under assault. On the other hand we learned they have been surveilling, watching and investigating Michael Cohen since before donald trump was elected president. Sandra first the raid, now the fallout, Michael Cohens day in court. Assistant attorney general tom dupree what it could mean. Bill why police say a student may have been targeted in the latest murder on campus. Many leads were developed and have to be followed up on. Thats always part of any investigation. Canvassing areas, doing different searches, speaking to witnesses. All those things were done. Just another day on the farm. Or is it . This farmers morning starts in outer space. Where satellites feed infrared images of his land into a system built with ai. 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Joining me now is Rachel Campos duffy and leslie marshall. What do you make of that . He says the American Public is numb to trumps tweets and calls for people. I think what the American People are numb to is all this salacious details. He keeps saying prostitutes, moscow, porn stars, and the liberals are so frustrated that conservatives and evangelicals in particular arent tearing their hair out. The left has normalized pornography and debauchery and want us to be up set about the claims with regard to the dossier. Look, this is an attempt by the resist movement in comeys family, outside of the government, inside of the government, to dispir it trump voters and distract from the booming historic economy. You just talked to Charles Payne. This is an incredible boom. Jobs are up, government dependency is down and its a threat to the progressive socialist slide we were on under the obama administration. Sandra even Trump Supporters say they wish he would tout the economy and talk about the market and jobs and making more money. Leslie, when it comes to comeys criticism of the president on twitter, its interesting because he says thats not normal. Well its not business as usual. But not normal. Isnt it not normal for a former f. B. I. Director to sit down and go on a media blitz attacking a sitting president . I would agree with you there. One of the things i had a problem with not writing the book and publicly speaking. We have a First Amendment right to do that and a right to make money and a right to be disgruntled at our former employer. A lot of people that trump has fired that may be in line for book deals right now. What bothers me about this and i said it before, i dont feel that comey should be commenting on potential obstruction of justice or collusion with russia or anything that the special counsel is looking into investigation. However, i do think that somebody has been fired and is angry at a former employer can go on and badmouth them and tweet. The president is making the American People in my opinion lose respect not just for him, but for the office he holds by as i said before juvenile behavior on twitter and not having president ial behavior. Sandra anything that comey in the interviews cant answer definitively truthful or not, ill leave that debate out there is left to speculation and there has been a lot of speculative answers by the former f. B. I. Director, rachel. There have been and there has been just i think the American Public sees such a double standard. There is no equal justice under the law. Imagine if donald trump had deleted 30,000 emails and took a hammer and bleach bit to all his devices and paid the russians for a document that would lead to an investigation of Hillary Clinton. Why didnt comey he was in the office with the president. Telling him about a dirty dossier and didnt tell him it was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the dnc. When asked about it by George Stephanopolous, it didnt serve my purposes at that time. The president deserved to know that and the American People deserved to know that. The only reason we know it is Congress Demanded the records from fusion gps and found out who paid for it. Nobody was offering up this information. Its a fake scandal. President trump, i hope you and the republicans go back to the economy. This is what people care about. Where i live here in wisconsin people are too busy for this. Theyre going to work, theyre doing their jobs, and they dont care about the fake scandal. Sandra there is a lot more interviews to come. The president is talking about the economy. Thank you to both of you for being here. Bill the u. S. And u. K. Blaming Vladimir Putins government saying the kremlin is behind massive cyberattacks against the west. 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We need the peaceful democratic nations of this world need to stand up and speak and act against the spread of those horrific weapons and i think the president did the right thing. Sandra he said he thought it was the right thing to do. Senator John Barrasso joins us from the Foreign Relations committee coming up and well continue to ask him about this. Bill moscow moving closer to cyber war against the west. Intel officials warning russianbacked hackers are behind attacks. John, how are you doing and good morning to you . What are the russians doing and what are they after . The russians are doing what theyve been doing for years, looking to get into u. S. Systems, companies and even the government. Any proprietary technology. Anything they can do to disrupt our commerce and the operations of the government. Bill why would they do that now . Well, this has been going on for a long time. They didnt just start after the syrian attacks. Theyve been looking at our systems forever. Now as things are heightening up in syria they may decide to use those methods they put in place to try to disrupt everything in the United States. Bill very interesting. They were threatened with sanctions 48 hours ago. Do they reach out when Something Like that affects the oligarchs and people in putins government . Certainly theyre aware of what the u. S. Can do back to them and they dont want to be the subject of cyberattacks themselves. They dont want the sanctions, but they are going to send a message to the u. S. That if you do something to us, we are going to do something to you. Bill why is russia so good at this . Or are they . Well, theyre good at it but so are other countries. We dealt with iran and north korea, sony had that major attack. But it is the way you fight the wars in the 21st century. It is a lot easier to get behind a computer and wage a battle than to send soldiers overseas. Bill are we good at it . Were excellent at it. When sony was hacked north korea lost their internet actions for a few days. The u. S. Will fight back if necessary. Russia should take that to heart if they dont want to suffer the consequences. Bill theyll go after the router of a company or a Government Entity if the router is old or has not been updated. Its an equipment issue, right . And a password issue. Is that how you defend yourself . Its an equipment issue but also an issue of the people who are using the equipment. Everybody on the computers has to be aware not to click on links that can download malware that enables the russians to access the system. While the russians wont target your home computer they may target an entity that you will access. You want to make sure you use good cyber hygiene, Good Software and good passwords in place. Bill good advice. A statement on screen for our viewers, russian state sponsored actors are using compromised routers to conduct attacks to support espionage, maintain persistent access to networks and what do you think of james comeys book tour and the interviews he has been doing so far . It is certainly interesting to see. I dont think it behooves any former director of the f. B. I. To be acting in any way other than maintaining the stoic f. B. I. Presence. When you look back to director louie free, he investigated bill clinton and you read his book there is no name calling or assertions of mafia don. It would be good if everybody took a step back and tried to make sure they were being mature about this discussion. Bill interesting. You think its hurting the f. B. I. Or helping it long term . I dont think its helping the f. B. I. At this time. I think the reality is that regardless of whatever the book tour may present, the men and women of the f. B. I. Are professionals. 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Saving you time, so you can keep saving the world. Kids safelite repair, safelite replace bill fox news alert. Michael cohens first day in court is done. What have we learned . This is law 101. What did we learn . We learned that the first battle in this next stage of the war will be over Attorney Client privilege and it will be over what documents are going to be allowed to be accessed and reviewed by federal prosecutors, what documents and evidence will be admissible in court. There will be a lot of debate about what documents are shielded by Attorney Client privilege and which are not. Bill they are supposed to have that settled in two weeks. I imagine thats a pipe dream. That is tough. Bill napolitano is saying the judge should have made this call. Dont give that paperwork to the government side. Dont give it to Michael Cohens side. Have the judge decide whats relevant or not. Ultimately the judge will make the final call. As a practical matter in a situation like this where you have what we understand to be a very large volume of documents, it can be difficult for any one individual, let alone a federal judge, to go through page by page and item by item. Much is stored electronically. Attorney client privilege you cant say everything in his office is fair game or off limits. This is something where you have to do a painstaking document by document march through the whole thing. Bill that will take forever is what i concluded. Was it necessary to out sean hannity . Thats a great question. I think the way that cohens attorney teed it up it almost became necessary. He portrayed it as there is a mysterious third client we cant reveal because of concerns of embarrassment. For better or worse it is not a legitimate legal justification for keeping Something Like that secret. Once it was teed up that way it became inevitable that hannitys identity would be disclosed. Bill when you go deeper into this what do you find to be either important, or fascinating from the legal perspective . I think whats fascinating it underscores the breadth of what you can find when you raid an attorneys office. Attorneys will typically have multiple clients. They will have their hands in a whole lot of Different Things and lord knows what youll see when you take the lid off the pot and look in. I think this is just the beginning of what were ultimately going to find out mr. Cohen had in his possession. Bill does it happen if bob mueller has not been installed . There is a report suggesting that Michael Cohen was under investigation before inauguration. Is that true . You know, its hard to say how much of a role mueller played in this. No question this particular raid was apparently put into action through bob muellers referral. So i think in the short term the answer is no, this wouldnt have happened in the way its unfolding absent muellers involvement. Long term would there have been an investigation of cohen . Your guess is as good as mine. If there was an ongoing investigation, it wouldnt surprise me but not in this time and place. Bill did you see the story that came out in 24 hours bob mueller cautioning people about media reports being wrong . I did. Its a useful caution. When you talk about secret raids and seized documents there is frenzied speculations. Its okay to say were at the beginning stages. We dont know what was seized or how the evidence might play out or the significance. Dont jump to conclusions. Bill what stories arent true, thats what you wonder, right . Why was the lawyer for Stormy Daniels in court yesterday . Did he need to be there or was it a show appearance . As a legal matter he didnt need to be there. I think if you asked him he would probably tell you that he has a client who has an interest in this whole proceeding so he was doing the responsible thing by being in the courtroom. Was it coincidence he was at a hearing with intense Media Attention . Probably not. At the end of the day a lot of people are at the hearing and the eyes on the world are on whats going on in this world and not shocking. Bill you mention Attorney Client privilege. The tweet from the president two days ago. Attorney client privilege is a thing of the past. I have too many lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices and homes will be raided with everything including their phones and computers taken. All lawyers are deflated and concerned. Are you . I wouldnt say Attorney Client privilege is dead. The raid and whats going on right now underscores something that a lot of members of the public and a lot of lawyers may not fully appreciate. The Attorney Client privilege is strong but it has limits and it can be overridden. Well find out in this case how far the limits extend and whether or not its appropriate to override the privilege. Bill a clear spoken man on the law. Come back any time. Sandra a Small Plane Crash landing on a colorado highway caught on camera. Look closely or youll miss it. Unbelievable footage. The cessna crossed a fourlane highway and went over a guardrail and flipped over but didnt crash into any cars. Only one passenger had an injury. Can you imagine you are sitting there and see a plane landing on the highway. Bill they always get you at the drivethru. Car or plane. Breaking news now, department of justice confirming Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein has requested an extension on the release of those comey memos. Weve been talking about how three republican members requested unredacted versions. They want comeys notes of his conversations and interactions he had with the president. We know the d. O. J. Needs more time. More on that when we get it. Sandra plus only days after the u. S. Led missile strikes in syria comes a new bill in the senate that could limit President Trumps ability to carry out a similar mission in the future. Senator John Barrasso sits on the senate Foreign Relations committee and he will join us with his take next. President trump with way over 100 missiles shot in, they didnt shoot one down. You heard they shot 40 down, then 50. No, sir, every single one hit its target. Think of that. Mother. Nature sure smells amazing. Even in accounts receivable. Gain botanicals laundry detergent. Bring the smell of nature wherever you are. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. Bill news from congress. Another republican leaving office. The 15th congressman from the state of pennsylvania, the area of allentown, pa. He have put out a statement. After discussions with my family and careful reflection ive decided to leave congress in the coming weeks. That adds to the list. Is it up to how many . More than 40 republicans who will not seek reelection this year. So thats a long list and a lot for those folks to do. Breaking news there on charlie dent. President trump did our generals do a great job . Did our military do a great job . [applause] and you know, with way over 100 missiles shot in they didnt shoot one down. Sandra Syrian State Television reporting inspectors are finally in the town of douma, the site of this months chemical attack coming as Congress Introduces a new authorization of military force only days after u. S. Missile strikes against Syrian Chemical Weapons facilities. It would only allow military force against terror groups but not against foreign governments. Joining me now is senator John Barrasso, a member of the senate Foreign Relations committee. Thank you for being here. Why now . Why has your committee introduced this new authorization of the use of military force just days after the strike in syria . I oppose it. I support the president and had full authority in syria. Those people promoting it some want to authorize the use of not much force. I think that some of these people are trying to tie the hands of the president and his ability to act as commanderinchief in keeping us safe and secure. So i oppose the effort and try to stop it in the senate. Sandra is the latest strike in syria the reason why your colleagues have introduced this now . I dont think so. This is something theyve been working on over the years. Something like this was introduced previously. I opposed it then. Theyre trying to limit the president s authority that i believe he has. Sandra would it have prevented the president from doing what it did . I dont think it would have. I think the president has the authority now. I dont want to limit that authority. It also talks to the role the committee has in terms of getting a secretary of state in place. In terms of what the president did with syria. If you want to broadcast your deterrents, the goal is to deter assad from using chemical weapons, you have to have the capacity and the United States has the military cap always tee to do it. President trump showed the leadership and commitment to do it and communicate to them youll use this power again if the behavior continues. Sandra you mentioned mike pompeo. Happening without a confirmed secretary of state. Will he ultimately be confirmed . I believe he will. The democrats have been so obstructive in part of their Resistance Movement to anything the president tries to do in terms of getting his team in place. There are many members who voted democrats who voted for mike pompeo when he was confirmed to be cia director who seem to be held hostage by the liberal left who dont want President Trump to have his team in place. I fully support mike pompeo. Anybody that listened to the five hours of testimony knows he is the right person for the job. First in his class at west point. Harvard law, member of congress, member of the c. I. A. Traveled with him and security conferences with him. He knows the people and issues and he is the person for the job. Sandra some of your colleagues are on the fence . Rand paul gave us a nonanswer. Listen to this. Even mike pompeo admits there is no military mission. If there is no military solution there, who wants to send more gis . Unfortunately pompeo is for sending more gis to afghanistan. Sandra what do you say to senator paul . Well, the second that President Trump nominated mike pompeo rand paul has been very consistent came out against him. You have this unified democrat opposition trying to keep mike pompeo or anybody that the president nominates from getting on the job. The president needs his team. He deserves to have his team. We need to get mike pompeo on the job. Sandra are more saention on russia coming . Well wait and see what the president does and what we hear from the United Nations. I think we need to do whatever we can to limit russians activity. Putin is cunning, aggressive, opportunistic and take advantage of any opportunity and i think the president has the right instincts in terms of going after putin. Sandra whats being considered . There are a number of different sanctions certainly in terms of some of the pipelines that russia is trying to build. This nord stream to to transport gas from russia to europe. Putin uses energy as a weapon to hold people hostage to russian energy. We need america to be more dominant in energy. The president talks about Energy Dominance not just Energy Security or independence. We need to be using the resources we have at home in america to be able to sell and send that energy overseas so people arent as dependent upon russia. We need to use energy as a geopolitical weapon as well. Sandra the possibility of more sanctions coming and urging the president to remain tough on putin and russia. The white house has left the door open and showed that the president is still possibly willing to meet with Vladimir Putin. Would you think that is a good idea . The president will make that decision but i think what is a good idea today is to get a secretary of state in place, confirmed. If diplomacy is the answer, the democrats continue to point to that, we need a secretary of state if place and the full team can make those decisions along with the commanderinchief President Trump. Sandra a meeting with our president and putin, is that something you would support the president doing . Ill support the president in his final decision. Sandra a lot happening. Well see where it all goes. Senator barrasso, you have a big job on your committee there. Thank you for being here this morning. Thanks for having me. Bill a mustwatch summit putin and President Trump. In a moment were going deep. A new rocket and new mission. What is out there . I mean way out there. New polling shows the democrats lead might be slipping ahead of the midterm elections. Did Party Leaders jump the gun anticipating a blue wave in november . New video of a grandmother suspected of double murder. Is lois reiss talking to her alleged victim . It is tax day. Looking ahead to next year when the new tax reform law might result in drastic changes for millions of americans. Happening now top of the hour. See you then a couple minutes away. A multimillion dollar rocket on a mission deep into space. Spacex will launch its first nasa spacecraft this week. Its a refrigeratorsize satellite. Mike massimino knows about it. Here is a picture of it. Ive seen that. What is it . It is an exoplanet which means planets outside our solar system. It is an expo planet hunter to find planets in other Solar Systems in a way that is going to broaden our knowledge of those planets. Weve been looking for about 20 years we know there are planets in other well open up the window. Bill you went to hubble twice. Twice. This one its mission is to look for planets relatively nearby about 200,000 stars it will be able to look at and look for planets orbiting those stars. That is its mission is to find these stars and categorize them, try to find these planets around these stars, categorize those, one that may have life as we know it. In other words, a planet about the size of ours that is not too far or not too close to its star, looks like it has a rocky surface. That would be a candidate for life. It will do its analysis and turn it over to the james Webb Telescope when it launchs. Bill you are excited about spacex, the fact theyre doing this, is it special . Very much so. The first time they have launched a science spacecraft like this. Spacex, when they launch their payloads there is Something Interesting going on. There are a couple of interesting things in this case. Not only are they putting the probe into orbit but they will also try to return the booster. A couple months ago where they had these two booststers come back. It will land on a platform in the ocean. Stay tuned if it will work. Well see it didnt work the last time they tried it. See if they can land it on a platform in the ocean. Bill elon musk, i guess he dont like a challenge. Its very challenging. Thats the advantage of private enterprise. They are taking these risks, using the very smart people they have, capitalizing on the technology that nasa has already developed and taking it further beyond what our imaginations come up with. An interesting spacecraft. I hope it finds something. Bill tomorrow we expect to see it. Hopefully it will launch on time. Sandra james comey taking fresh aim at President Trump what f. B. I. 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