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China is key to president trumps strategy of isolating north korea in order to force cooperation. china is of course the largest trade partner with north korea. and it also comes at a time when xi is hosting a trade summit in beijing being attended by world leaders including the russian president vladimir putin. officials in china condemned the latest launch but theyre calling for restraint from all parties. >> thats the reaction there. thank you so much. setting us up for matthew, bringing him ...

Sites suggesting russia is being targeted. what we know is interior ministry says 1% of computers were effected but they dont think any data was leaked or released and their servers werent damaged. russia health ministry says they werent compromised. seems to have hit several domestic banks and telecom companies reported attacks, they provide a megaphone. we know from the adviser to putin, he says this wont have big democratic impact, may see various data breaches. and we heard from edward snowd...

Mercedes schlapp and democratic strategist and fox news contributor richard fowler. good to see both of you this morning. >> good morning. clayton: the "new york post" saying by doing all of this we are serving the interest of rush who after all we know were meddling in our election. richard, did you go on to say that donald trump ask s. bullying his way around the presidency right now. how do you mean? >> lets talk about this russia situation. i disagree completely with the "new york post." her...

In fact, i was focussed on the secretary. >> prices response on wednesday, he commended the police in west virginia for doing what they thought was appropriate, arresting you after you had been shouting questions. and he did say to your point about the press conference, that gentleman was not in a press conference. is that a meaningful distinction to you and what are you going to do about this? >> its not a meaningful distinction. i mean, anyone who has worked in this profession for more than a ...

In this case, it was admitted, the president himself. i banltd guy out of there. i wanted to sack him. and the fbi director cant be sacked except for cause. he brings in this guy, a legitimate public official with a good record. i believe he really believed there was a reason for cause to remove him. but thats not the story theyve been the pointing out. and the president under some good questioning by our colleague lester holt today said i did it. a little jack nicholson moment. >> it the wont h...

Swalwell. i was shocked we had a letter coming from the attorney general with the workmens. isume any any recommendation would be solely that of the deputy attorney general who i know quite well and i think the world of. he is -- he was our u.s. attorney here in maryland over ten years. rosenstein. but i think rosenstein now has a duty -- i think were going to have to do two things. one i think we need to to have the independent commission as congressman swalwell and i put forward. but we also h...

Jim comey was in a tough spot. he was put there by loretta lynch when she left the attorney general at the time with president clinton on that tarmac on the private plane in arizona. when that happened, his avenues about what choices he had about coming forward our own or not, as he explained in the recent hearing on capitol hill, were kind of limited. some of the fbi say he was boxed into a corner. others say he went too far. he was over his skis in a way he dealt with it. its outside the way t...

Earlier this each, i spoke with one lawmaker, eric swallwell who serves on the house intelligence committee. earlier today when asked if you had seen classified evidence of collusion between trump campaign associates and russia you said yes. there are things you cannot say. can you give a sense of what you have seen thats pointing in your opinion to collusion? >> anderson, theres evidence of collusion, both on the classified and unclassified side. my hope is that the world will soon see it. also...

Compared to that same time last year. spokesman for the agency pointing to a change an "enforcement policy because quote, reference to president trumps crackdown on illegal immigration. >> jon: texas is now the 11th estate to call for a constitutional convention to take back power from the federal government. doug mckelway live in washington with more on that. >> this is a remedy for washington paralysis that has been around since the constitution was signed but has never been used. it is spelle...

From the white house, our chief white house correspondent john roberts rejoins is from the south lawn. >> good evening to you martha. this obviously was the presidents decision because he is the one that makes the decision whether or not the fbi director stays. it was the same decision that president clinton made in 1993 when he fired william sessions, the only other fbi director who have been fired but the white house released kind of pointing to rod rosenstein who is the deputy attorney genera...