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Perez is in washington. what have you learned? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. the bad news for the president is there are more memos to be revealed according to people close to james comey. he is known to document big moments in tenure. a source told pamela brown that the fired director shared e-mails close to him about major conversations he had with donald trump. particularly those that he felt left him uneasy. the conversation left comey concerned that the president was trying to stop the...

Be surfacing now after hes been fired. why wasnt he apprising anyone of this, what he had his supporters obviously see as an apparent obstruction of justice by the president. why wasnt he apprising any one of its in a more timely way? >> bret: the calls on the hill for, if there are tapes, to hear them, see the transcripts. to have comey testify. they are going to increase. we have tried to make to get republicans to come out and talk to us. and there are not republicans willing to go on camera ...

Drift was coming to an end. this administration decided north korea was fast getting to the point of reaching something that would be intolerable for the united states. chinese dont much like the north koreans, they recent them, see them as ungrateful for the help they get. the chinese are sending signals. theres been a big debate in the foreign ministry in the military about china being close to north korea. now its surfacing, which suggests that theoices saying weve got to rein in north korea ...

The civil war as trump has said he wanted to during the campaign. >> although that line about chemical weapons, thement himself talking about barrel bombs, which have killed far, far, far, far more children in syria than chemical weapons. sean spicer himself appearing to enunciate a barrel bomb red line, which would obviously be much more expansive, katrina, even though the moral logic of it is actually pretty impeccable to my mind because either way you have dead innocents. >> secretary tillers...

Factionalization in this administration, which is surfacing and is very difficult to understand. were witnessing an escalation in yemen, in somalia, an escalation of counterterrorism strikes, an escalation of killing of civilians, and im worried about a catastrophic collision course this administration. and think of those who are applauding the syria strike, chris. to me, a disastrous presidency, one of its worst acts possibly was syria strikes and you heard these pundits applauding. sanity is n...

Militant islam, which is really been plaguing the government. im sure that the topic of syria, how to work together to defeat isis was mentioned and it dwelt extensively in both conversations with king abdullah of jordan and president al-sisi of egypt. president trump has been concerned about this, he has always been. the fight of back against isis takes priority. these are the leaders that the nations whose cooperation is indispensable in that fight. i think this could be the kind of surfacing ...

We have fox team coverage. brit hume assesses the political impact of the wiretap bombshell in the deeper meaning of the gorsuch nomination. mike emanuel has the latest nose count on the senate floor. we begin with chief white house correspondent john roberts and a familiar name from the obama administration surfacing in yet another scandal. >> james, good evening. two weeks ago, chairman of the house intelligence committee announced to the press and president he had uncovered a disturbing trend...

Be a week where ryans powers of persuasion are tested on capitol hill on that argument. >> absolutely, even though some folks might be dismissing the cbo report, you can be sure everybody will be reading it. >> reporter: thats right. >> thank you so much. if president trump cant provide evidence that the obama administration or specifically president obama himself ordered an illegal wiretap of him, what happens then? ill ask a republican lawmaker about that. plus congressman steve king says ...

Was fbi or justice or cia, the new boss is, of course, would be trump people. we all worried there would be some risk that some of the evidence or some of the, you know, paper trail might suddenly disappear. that there might be a desire to sort of cause investigations and make them more difficult. for our part in the congress, a number of us wrote to the agency chiefs and others and to the last president saying, hey, do all you can within the law obviously to preserve whatever evidence there may...

-- i think the president has the right answer, that this is a national security issue. this is not an about discrimination. he just needs to justify it. he can just say it, he needs to explain it, make the case to the american people. >> harris: you get the last word. more contacts between trump associates and ambassadors are surfacing. who is in touch with that same ambassador and whether anybody really did anything wrong. reports that barack obama is making a comeback and his new d.c. home wil...