Meantime, the president is the doing a lot of work overtime, going after the media right now. Now questioning the need for White House Briefings as we presently have them. That he is concerned that the way we go about them one gotcha moment after another. Maybe the best way for the media to proceed Going Forward is to give a written he question. They will give you a written response to make sure everything is accurate. He had it with all of this. But for the timebeing, White House Briefing is on. Less than an hour, sean spicer will do the duties today. Blake burman with the latest from the white house. Reporter speaking of work, sean spicer will have the work cut out for him at the White House Press briefing later today, after President Trump set out series of tweets this morning, one click after the next generated one headline after the next. Kind of went through one of them a little while ago there as relates to the president questioning the need for press briefings. The president tweeted out the following, quoting here from President Trump. Maybe the best thing to do is would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy, he questions . The backstory to all of this, the White House Press shop gave one version as to how the president ended up deciding to fire jim comey tuesday night and all day wednesday. Thursday in the interview with nbcs newss lester holt with his own version. Twitter defending his press shop and also questioning the need for these press briefings. c what will be front and center in the priest briefing in an hours time, neil, another tweet, that President Trump sent out earlier this morning relates to jim comey. The president tweeting, quote, james comey, better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. The conversations conversations, din are took place at white house, other phone calls which the president was told three different times bit former fbi director that he was not under investigation. What does the president mean by these tapes . Are there tapes . What might he plan to do about them . Lots of questions there, neil. As that one is very much in its infancy, but a headline generator. Neil, within the last hour or so, tax advisors to the president released a onepage letter basically saying that the president does not have any investments in russia. The russians dont have any invests with mr. Trump or the trump organization. You see a list there up on your screen. There are a few exceptions though according to these tax advisors to the president. Those being as you know there was the miss America Pageant in russia. He ended up selling that. He sold a megamansion to a russian billionaire. 1 00, sean spicer at the white house. Mustsee tv, neil. Neil payperview events. I hope he doesnt disband them. Do we know where the president will be this weekend, blake . Reporter nothing officially reportable from the white house. Until they put that out there, it is lips sealed i guess on that one. Neil thank you very much, buddy. President is warning, james comey not to get any idea about leaking their conversations. Real clear politics, caitlyn huey burns. What he seems to be intimating, caitlyn, he has tapes now, and he might not. Just the thought that he could opens up a whole lot of questions. What do you think . A whole lot of questions, and questioning the relationship that this president , already fraught relationship that this president has with the fbi and the intelligence community, two, not to put it simply, this raises a lot more questions, and something that i think is going to be continued as blake mentioned to be asked in the groving today. This is a very sears russ allegation i think. Neil obviously what the president is trying to say, he had it with the leaks. That has been more of his concern, his administration concern sense taking office, not so much the alleged russian ties to the election but more to the point, how all this stuff gets leaked out. Whether you like what the president is saying, dislike it do the constant attacks on intelligence agencies and wondering how the information gets out hurt him . It cant be just coins denial he cancel ad planned voice to it fbi headquarters slated for today, right . Right. Heard from the acting fbi director, mccabe yesterday, in testimony that he contradicted what the president and white house said that fbi agents lost faith and trust in comey. So there is that contradiction there. But certainly this does raise lot of controversy regarding the president andthe fbi, but to your point about the leaks, if you were someone who wanted to prevent these kinds of leaks or put the hole in them, these tweets like this, and other actions taken over the course of the past couple of days i think will only serve to exacerbate that. Neil get your thoughts, caitlyn what youre hearing from people about how it would look, not so much for the president asking comey if he was under investigation, but that comey responded no fewer than three times he was not, if that is true, what do you make of that, just the comey part of that . Well, there are a lots of questions being tossed around by legal scholars about what the actual impact of this is. A lot of people have brought up the comparison of, of course bill clinton meetings on the tarmac with loretta lynch. Neil right. As kind of a comparison to kind of put that in context here. But what is really, you know, why this is an issue, is, we talk a lot about different process things. I think in this particular instance, process is really important because we heard from the president through his interview that he did yesterday and also through a series of tweets over the past couple of weeks, that he did not, he thought the Russian Investigation into possible elements of collusion was a hoax. And so taken together all of this again, just raises questions about the timing and the reasoning for this firing because i think a lot of people that i have talkedded to have said, look, you can administer this firing but the fire something certainly suspect. Remember were not just hearing that from democrats. Were hearing that from republicans. Republicans i might add, who are conducting the investigation in congress and dont want their work to be undermined here. Neil well i think it is going to undermine a lot of work whether you disagree or agree with what the president is saying. The distraction is pushing back not. I cant see it not. Most people can walk and chew gum at the same time. Right. Neil when it comes to congress im not so sure. I worry about the health care thing getting pushed off. Anything pushed off beyond this year is dead next year but that is just me. What do you think . I agree with you, neal, important to note that lawmakers on capitol hill on respective committees involving tax reform and health care are working at the same time. But when you look at Bigger Picture here and amount of Political Capital that this president has to spend, it is not ery much. I can tell you, i was at a town hall for republican congressman in new jersey the other night who sponsored the amendment that kind of revived Health Care Bill, he not only got attacked on the Health Care Bill but also on the issue of this russia investigation, firing of comey. I talked to republican strategists who say, look, the republican members of the congress have to be able to go back to their constituents with some level of accomplishment. This not only serves to to distract them but drives president es Approval Rating not among republicans particularly among democrats that will serve to boost their base n the elections that really matters. Neil it does indeed, caitlyn, thank you very much. Thank you. Neil meantime we have International Sort of crisis developing here, maybe im overstating it, when a russian jets buzzes a navy plane armed with six airtoair missiles and coming 20 feet of a u. S. Aircraft carrier, the same week russian jets are strafing u. S. Positions just off and over the coast of alaska, you got to start asking yourself, what the heck is going on here . Fox News Pentagon producer lucas thompson. Lucas, what is going on here, and what has been our response to these developments . Neil, pentagon briefing just wrapped up moments ago, the pentagon continues to call this incident, quote, safe and professional, but as fox news first reported earlier today, that russian jet was armed with surfacetoair, armed with airtoair missiles. Neil that is in the black sea. In the black sea, correct. Neil im sorry. No problem. On tuesday a u. S. Navy reconnaissance plane, p h 8 poseidon, international airspace, routine Reconnaissance Mission in black sea, they increased significantly since 2014 since russia annexed crimea. This u. S. Navy aircraft is flying in the black sea and russian yet comes within 20 feet of the u. S. Navy plane. That is close considering both jets are flying hundreds of milesanhour, that russian jet armedith six airtoair missiles. That is rare with intercepts. Normally they are unarmed. Comes after a couple of russian capable bombers flew over alaska. First time they had advanced russia su35 jets with them. What is noteworthy, neil, the latest intercept in the black sea, occurred the day before Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov traveled to washington. A day before secretary of defense jim mattis went to lithuania on russias doorstep to calm nervous allies. Neil this same photo of lavrov at the white house with donald trump. Kremlin photographers allowed in, u. S. Press not. Kremlin media pounces on this, is all over the world. Im wonder aring what is going on here . If anyone was under suspicions that maybe this relationship was specially cozy, these are example after example where maybe not . Thats it. The Russian Defense minister actually was first to talk publicly about the incident in the black sea. That made the pentagon start scram plink because reporters wanted some answer, neil scrambling. Neil when they pounced on to it to explain what they were doing how did they . How did the russians explain this . Normal military manueverrers . Thats correct. Russians were saying su30, different type of jet, advanced jet. Pentagon says it was su27, older decades ago, quite capable of air force f15 neil. The russians take a lot of pride, with photos in oval office of exploitation, very save to say that. Neil regardless of the model loaded for bear. Right. Neil it could have been very dangerous. Right. Neil great stuff, lucas. Very good reporting. Lucas tomlinson, our pentagon producer. The u. S. And china of course always had an acrimonious relationship. Signs thatc might be thawing, courtesy of a trade deal chipping away at better than 300 billiondollar deficit between our two countries. Will it . Well ask the commerce secretary of the United States, wilbur ross. Are allergies holding you back . Break through your allergies. Try new Flonase Sensimist allergy relief instead of allergy pills. Its more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist experience youll barely feel. Using unique mistpro technology, new Flonase Sensimist delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances that cause your symptoms. Most allergy pills only block one. And six is greater than one. New Flonase Sensimist changes everything. Neil man, oh, man, this is not been a good week for retailers. A lot of selling concentrated over last couple days. It began you might recall with macys telegraphing problems, disappointing numbers. On heels of that virtually everyone else in this business saying you know, theyre not turning out in the stores. Theyre not coming to shop. What is going on here . Lauren simonetti on bloodletting that has not stopped, has it . Neil, im thinking im only person that goes to the shop. Believe it or not we did go shopping last month. Commerce Department Says retail sales rose 4 and they have risen first four months of this year. What are we buying in april . Cars, gasoline, building equipment, and stuff online. Underline the last one. They continue to shift way they shop from brickandmortar to the web. Jcpenney out this morning with quarterly revenue. Down dramatically. Third Quarter Sales fell and stock hiing alltime low. Macysook at this, shares are down, neil, adding to the nosedive we saw yesterday the worse since the financial crisis. Macys says customers are spending money on experiences over things. Talk about nordstrom stock. Suffering a 16 stock in just two days. Its earnings were actually better than expected. Investors focused on weaker samestore sales instead. Sears ceo listen to the message he has for critics were not dead yet. Analysts and investors questioning sears ability to stop bankruptcy. The recent neat loss topped 600 million. Bottom line, the blue line, Department Store sales from the year 2000 until now it is down 35 . Look at that yellow line above it. It shows sales at nonstore retailers which includes amazon. Com, they have quadrupled just b so, neil, where did you buy your wife a mothers day exist . Neil that is for me to know and you to find out. You didnt do it yet, did you. Neil maybe, maybe not. What will happen the way the macys things imploding, maybe they sell it and call it the amazon thanksgiving day parade. Can you imagine . I can actually. Neil it is amazing. Sad what is happening. It happened much faster. Neil online, not as if people are not shopping. Theyre migrating online. But i live in new jersey, neil. I go to the mall, it is packed every single time i go on weekends, we keep hearing nobody is shopping. Consumer confidence is so high. It is not translating in spending. It is weird out there. Neil lauren, my version of hell is shopping. Youre a man. Neil you get there, looking for fire. No, no. It is my heaven. Neil walk around. My heaven. Neil unless they have a Hickory Farms kiosk im just not interested. Thank you very, very much, lauren simonetti. What a divergent world we live no now. China making nice with a trade deal that just could start hacking away at the huge gap between our two countries. No two countries have more of a trade gap than ourselves and china. The commerce secretary of the United States has a plan to change that. Hes next. At angies list, we believe there are certain things you can count on, like what goes down doesnt always come back up. [ toilet flushes ] so when you need a plumber, you can count on us to help you find the right person for the job. Discover all the ways we can help at angies list. Here comes the fun with seadoo. Seadoo has the most affordable watercraft on the market. Starting at just 5,299 and get 0 percent financing. Visit seadoo. Com today. When a fire destroyed the living room. We were able to replace everything in it. Liberty did what . Liberty mutual paid to replace all of our property that was dag and we didnt have to touch our savings. Yeah, our insurance wont do that. Well, there goes my boat. You can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. Liberty stands with you™ Liberty Mutual insurance neil welcome back, everyone, president saying American Consumer done a lot to boost Economic Activity around the globe. The problem we buy more stuff from abroad than folks abroad buy from us and that bothers the president of the United States as does his commerce secretary wilbur ross who joins us right now. Very good to have you, sir. Thank you for having me on. Neil this goes a long way or you hope will go a long way to address the large trade gap between ourselves and for example, the chinese who last year we had 347 billiondollar trade gap, accounting for 60 of our overall trade deficit. How does this start you cutting away at that . It starts cutting away with that for several regards. For more than a decade were trying to get legitimate u. S. Beef exports into china. They had expressed some concerns about the mad cow disease in the recall days. They expressed some concern about use of hormones. Weve overcome those obstacles. As of july 16th, the u. S. Will be free to export livestock to china. That is a huge, huge breakthrough. This is a 2. 5 billion market out of which weve been totally kept. Neil of course it is 2. 5 billion, what is a 340 billion plus gap. Where else do we start cutting away at it . In addition to that we have worked out a new regime for lng exports. As you probably know china is the Worlds Largest importer of lng. Were just in the early day of exporting. But there had been some regulatory snafus frankly on both sides of the equation which we now have cleared up. Neil lng youre referring to Liquified Natural Gas . Yes, Liquified Natural Gas and what this will do is let chinese importers sign longterm contracts with u. S. Exporters. Lng prices have been languishing for quite a little while, because frankly we have a good deal of oversupply. So it seemed weird, we have too much of it. It is much cleaner than coal would be. And yet we werent really doing a big job of exporting it to china. So now weve taken care of the problems on both ends. Third thing it will do, that will help the trade balance is, china had been resistant to biotech, to general ethically genetically engineered products coming from the u. S. Into china. There have been eight applications that have been stalled and stalled and stalled. We worked out the whole regime there is definitive hearing on it before the e of ts very month. Then there is a wh process for fixing whatever imperfections there may be left over after that. So these are there gigantic steps, in three gigantic areas of good. Neil do you think the chinese will honor it, the rap on chinese you cant trust them . Your boss said in campaigning, they rig their curr