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Trs. >> press secretary sean spicer continued to refer all questions about the russian investigation to white house outside counsel. spicer said that jared kushner absolutely continues to have the full confidence of the president. wolf? >> all right, jessica, thanks very much. jessica schneider reporting. the white house is clamming up tonight about more than just the russia probe. multiple officials refusing to answer a key question. does the president still believe climate change is a hoax? le...

Uniform across government. but there is something to be said. they put out statements, and the thing he can take questions from the press every two weeks or so. i think those media availability is for him are pretty enlightening. >> jon: james freeman, judy miller, both fox news contributors. >> heather: and we continue to await the presidents remarks there on capitol hill. but in the meantime, a new problem in the friendly skies. what united just admitted as the airline struggles to recover fro...

As you mentioned, andrew jackson died, i believe, 16 years before the civil war started. based on my history, andrew jackson also owned slaves. theres a lot of misperceptions there. look, the president of the united states reserves the right to have his opinions. the president of the united states has the right to talk to press or not to talk to the press. he also reserves the right to end the press conference or media availability when he wants to. ive been in hundreds of press conferences with...

Garland right there, just as a reminder. we also just saw, here is video of it from just moments ago, president trumps supreme court nominee in a first media availability with vice president mike pence. lets listen in. >> good morning. thank you very much. >> welcome, everyone. this is the first opportunity to meet with judge gorsuch. i think the president made an outstanding appointment. were all thrilled and looking forward to getting the confirmation process started. >> thank you all for bein...

John lewis in miami, where we find mariana. dp congressman lewis address this fight at all and what was the message he was hoping to send today? >> reporter: so, congressman john lewis did not mention this very public feud with president-elect trump that has dominated the headlines just days before the inauguration. it was highly anticipated that he was going to give remarks reacting to donald trumps tweets, essentially calling him all talk and no action. there was even a media availability here...

Thats why any airplanes in the area, even if theyre coming into the tarmac, in to be unloaded, would probably most likely be out on the tax areas and the runways. >> were now told -- david, thank you very much. we are being joined from the fort lauderdale airport. theres an ongoing situation right now baggage claim, media availability at the staging area. this sounds pretty disturbing if all of a sudden all of these people rushed ouchtd terminal to the tarmac. >> yeah. well, youre right. weve se...

Outside the terminals, but clearly people heard the shots and basically ran for ther lives p that is where we find te passengers now. >> jenna: that is what we have now at this very moment. what we have from the airport going back is the best source of information we have from wsvn. fort lauderdale airport has a twitter feed themselves. this is what the airport is saying publicly. there is an ongoing incident and terminal 2, baggage claim. media availability is at the staging area, that is a not...

On the fact that we have fire damage all the way through to the roof on the back wall, in the rafters, on the steel beams, and until we have an absolute, i dont even want to speculate on whether it was the first or second floor. [ inaudible ] no. >> so again well certainly provide more information, but we would like to really have atf on board, and have that opportunity to determine causes, areas, things like that. were going to conclude this portion of our media briefing. throughout the day we ...

Floor more likely than the second floor? >> its hard to determine based that weve got fire damage all the way through to the roof on the back wall. its in of the rafters, on the steel beams and until we have an absolute, i dont even want to speculate on whether or not it was a first or second floor. >> reporter: it seemed in the first answer you may have been entertaining the first floor as -- >> no. >> again, well provide more information. we would like to have atf on board, have that opportuni...

We need to wrap this up here. as we move forward here today, we will be providing the names of seven victims to you. many of these names have been circulating on social media. we will confirm serven names fo you. well be releasing that through the city on our city website and on social media. werewo working on that now. when we get back to our office in field, were work on getting that list out to you. >> thank you very much. >> what were going to do is we will send an e-mail out advising of the...