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Cabinet members at the white house saying it wouldve been great for democrats and that he would have done it for free. he also says that he gets more promotion than any person that ever lived. a saying that he does not need that promotion, but "the washington post" reports that he had to drop the idea because congressional republicans were feeling mighty uneasy saying "it became clear that the move had alienated republicans and was part of the impeachment inquiry that threatened the presidency. ...

Act since this president has shown a total unwillingness to do something in the face of this slaughter. so the key is to act quickly, as you say, tom is of the essence. griff: hill sources tell me this morning that reversing this course is a quote matter of hours at this point. it will be very interesting to see what senator graham has to say to you guys. steve: thats right. thank you very much, griff. the senator will be with us in 90 minutes. meanwhile, griff just featured the presidents tweet...

Question what do we want to know? it is more complex and more simple at the same time. i think the american people, any fair minded person, they want to know what happened. we used to say in the news mississippi, what is the tick tok? what is the sequence of events here, who knew what when? who had what motivation. thats where things like finances, blackmail, and bribery come in. i have a sense from talking to my hill sources that youre not going to get that immediately. the reporting out of thi...

Allowed to to be brought. three republican hill sources told fox, they questioned whether the russia probe shifted from russian collusion to an obstruction case against the president. may 2017 is a pivotal month. robert mueller was named special counsel eight days after president trump fired fbi director james comey. two hours, then fbi agent peter strzok tested page. weve been open the case weve. wore on. andy is a reference to andrew cabe who took over for comey. paige, replied we need to lock...

We didnt have an answer. thats obvious. page told investigators with the house judiciary and oversight committees. republican congressman john ratcliffe handled the questioning. >> lisa pages testimony, can i say, is consists tent with a lot of other testimony to the point that neither she or peter strzok and the folks at the center of the trump-russia collusion investigation had any evidence of collusion with russians nearly a year into the investigation. >> this morning, the president seized o...

Evidence of collusion with russians nearly one year into the investigation. >> the presidencies on it, "no evidence. the case should never have been allowed to be brought. may 2017 was a pivotal month. eight days later, special counsel robert mueller is tapped to lead the investigation. lawyers for strzok and page have not responded for foxs questions for comment, and we will update our reporting if we get anything to add. whats important here is that with page confirming russian collusion was s...

Which the white house could green light the memo. walk us through it. >> hallie, i think our viewers can be forgiven if they think theres been a lot of conflicting information this week. >> because there has been. >> yes. because our sources are giving us conflicting information. >> thats exactly right. literally, mike, let me pull back the curtain for a second. you and i talk all the time offline along with our white house team on this reporting. there are times we will get information from one...

Now to a developing story. hill sources tell me house speaker paul ryan wants to vote on the senates version of the budget by this week, accelerating the process for tax reform. the president spent the afternoon on the phone with house republicans giving them what amounted to a pep talk. he talked to the group about how to message the plan urging them to call it a tax cut instead of tax reform. he basically says no one understands what tax reform is. and he warned if they cant get the tax cut do...

>> you mean theres something beyond dialup? im going to have to call my -- >> yes, don, im going to -- im coming to new york and im going to show you how to use the internets. im going to do it for you. im going to help you. im going to try you on snapchat. it will be great. well have a great time. >> its a series of tubes as i understand from the former -- >> tubes. several tubes. maybe more than one. yeah. >> all right. from al gore. thank you, kara. i appreciate it. dana, i need you to stick ...

Jamie gangel and shimon prokupecz broke the story. jim is going to join us with what you are learning. >> hill sources and intelligence sources all briefed on the investigation tell myself and my colleagues, jamie and shimon, that congressional investigators are examining whether attorney general jeff sessions had and additional private meeting with russias ambassador during the presidential campaign. investigators on the hill are requesting additional information including schedules from sessio...