Thank you for joining us. We begin this hour with the developing news out of japan. Seven sailors are missing after a u. S. Warship collided with a larger merchant vessel. It happened early saturday morning. The warship is the uss fitzgerald. Three were evacuated but theyre all in stable condition at this point. The philippine merchant vessel has been identified. For more on this story, lets bring in a journalist with us live in tokyo. Good to have you with us this hour. Lets, first of all, talk more about this operation. Continues hour by hour. Now, what is the latest youre hearing from officials. Well, its been 14 hours, george, since this collision took place off the coast of japan and the seven missing crew members, the search is still under way by both the u. S. Side and also the Japan Coast Guard who has also been involved in this rescue operation from the beginning. Wae havent had any updates since this afternoon regarding the whereabouts or the conditions of the missing seven p
Memo about fisa abuse. The president has to give final approval before you can see and a hannity exposeinto how the destroy trump media is. They have lied to you the American People for over a year and ignoring a mountain of evidence of corruption in one of the biggest scandals in American History. Thats tonights breaking news. Opening monologue. A busy hour. We start tonight with the massive shakeup at the fbi. Fox news reporting that Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe has been removed from his position at the bureau. This is very important. The timing of mccabe leaving the bureau comes hours after the fbi director viewed the classified memo. The daily beast is reporting that mccabe and james comey and Rob Rosenstein are all named in this 4page document. Other reporting suggests that the fbi director Christopher Wray was concerned about the upcomi upcomi upcoming Inspector General report. Our sources are saying that mccabes exit is the opening of a much bigger scandal unfolding in the mont
James comey has been interviewed by prosecutors probing whether his Deputy Andrew mccabe broke the law, could he be facing time behind bars. The pres. Speaking with World Leaders late tonight but it seems the white house is not backing down, just minutes to go before those tariffs go into effect that many claim a spark a trade war with our closest allies. We have Team Coverage today, Kristin Fisher looking ahead to tomorrows white house visit by km jong chol. Catherine herridge looking at the mccabe Development Center secret memo. Mac thin in chicago talking with those looking for president ial pardon but we begin with chief National Correspondent ed henry on the controversial tariffs. These tariffs start hitting some key us allies in less than an hour. The pres. Extended the deadline a month to work on fairer deals for americans in his words but in the case of canada the trade web just went home, the pres. Said hes moving forward, tariffs 25 on steel, 10 on aluminum imports from canad
Days after President Trump fired thenfbi director james comey. Rosenstein, since that reporting came out friday, has denied the story twice. But now, were here. Lets get over to the white house. Kaitlan collins is there. Whats the latest that you know . So there is a lot of conflicting reporting right now. So many reports coming out, but what we know, kate, is Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general, offered to resign to john kelly. Its unclear when exactly that happened, whether it was yesterday or today. Thats what were figuring out right now. We do know hes offered his resignation to the president s chief of staff. Of course, kate, that comes after that bombshell reporting that he had considered wearing a wire to meet with the president or encouraging other members like the Vice President , the attorney general at the time, the dhs secretary, to remove the president from office. Those are allegations that Rod Rosenstein has denied vehemently in two statements on friday alone, bu
Rosen stanfo rosensteins job on the line. The bombshell report that Rod Rosenstein wanted to invoke the 25th amendment to remove trump from office and suggested wearing a wire on more than one occasion to secretly record the president. A source close white house tonight says that could serve as a pretext for firing the Deputy Attorney general in any administration. This has the president s allies pouncing, calling for rosenstein to be fired, from conservatives like former arkansas governor mike huckabee, who tweeted that if its true, Jeff Sessions needs to fire rosenstein and if he wont, donald trump needs to fire both of them. To other fox news personalities and the message really doesnt get any more clear than this. Now he must be fired. And rosensteins boss, attorney general Jeff Sessions, also is said to be upset and concerned tonight after reading the reports about his number two. According to sources, rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring of 2017 shortly after the presi