Six or seven years in this area. Were thrilled. Were about 12 feet in and were just getting started. Great to be with you this saturday for a special edition of americas news headquarters. Im Leland Vittert in washington. Hi, liz. Elizabeth hi, im Elizabeth Prann on the east side of detroit home to milton manufacturing corporation, which you can see behind me. Leland to the very point of manufacturing in america, President Trump tweeting out just last night. Quote, time to Start Building in our country, with American Workers and with american iron, aluminum and steel. It is time to put america first. Elizabeth of course, you can add coal to that list as we find out. Before we get to that our top story of the day. President trump is spending a working weekend at his golf club in new jersey, leaving a washington those reeling from former fbi director james comeys testimony. The president said he would 100 testify underoath. Kristin fisher is tracking from new jersey and joins us live, hi, kristin. President trump is spending a relatively quiet weekend in new jersey. No Public Events planned today, but what he said at that press Conference Left plenty of work behind in washington for his legal team. At the top of their list, President Trumps unequivocal answer to the question of whether or not he would be willing to testify under oath to counter what comey said on thursday that, among other things, the president had asked him to take a pledge of loyalty. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of 100 , i didnt say under oath. I hardly know the man, im not going to say i want you to pledge of allegiance. Who would do that . Who would ask a man to pledge of allegiance under oath . So, somebodys lying, either the former director of the fbi or the president of the United States. But this he saidhe said could all be cleared up if there are indeed tapes as President Trump has hinted at. He was asked that question directly at yesterdays Rose Garden Press Conference and all he would say is ill tell you about that in the very near future and youre going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. So, read into that what you will. He then tried to shift the focus back to the more substantive policy issues of the day. No collusion, no obstruction. Hes a leaker, but we want to get back to running our great country, jobs, trade deficits. We want them to disappear fast. North korea, big problem, middle east a big problem. So thats what i am focused on. Thats what i have been focused on. And today hes focused on whats happening in afghanistan. Reports of two u. S. Soldiers killed by an afghan army soldier. The White House DeputyCommunications Director said this hour that someone from the National Security council is here here in to brief the president about that issue. Elizabeth kristin, thank you so much. Leland the House Intelligence Committee wants all the memos fired fbi director james comey has on his conversations with President Trump along with any tapes if they exist of those conversations in the white houses possession. Lets bring in california congressman John Garamendi to talk about it. Appreciate you being here, sir. Thank you. Good to be with you. Leland a couple of days ago from your interview on msnbc, the president is clearly obstructing justice, you said. That, sir, is a crime. The question, arent you innocent until Proven Guilty in this country . Well, thats certainly true, but theres an awful lot of smoke here and an awful lot of concern that americans have. We really want a presidency that we congressman, you just accused of president of the United States of a crime based only on smoke or do we have hard facts . Well, lets say this, weve got the former director of the fbi who has laid it out very, very clearly that the president tried to turn off the investigation. Thats obstruction of justice. Now, can that be proved in a court of law . Were going to find out because we do have an independent Investigation Underway by former fbi director mueller. Well see where that goes. We also have to get all of this out of politics, out of the congress, into an independent n in because of the issue of obstruction of justice and involvement in the campaign, but just as important, the election process itself was attempted to be compromised by, apparently to be compromised by the russians. So we need to understand all of these things. Leland okay. Its critically important for the democracy that we want to have and want to believe in. Leland so, ill take that as perhaps, rather than saying he did commit a crime he might have committed a crime. Its interesting you bring up fbi director, then former director james comey, in what was a recitation of his side of the story against mr. Trump. He also gave a recitation of his version of events back in july of 2016 when he gave a press conference highlighting his investigation to Hillary Clinton and the email server. Im sure you remember that. It was compelling to say the least, in which he said, mrs. Clinton exercised terrible judgment, didnt know if it rose to the level of a crime that he would prosecute, but certainly laid out a lot more facts than the former director did against mr. Trump and despite that this is what you posted on facebook about Hillary Clinton less than a month later. Patty and i are blessed to count bill and hillary as some of our closest friends. I look forward to working with hillary as our nations first woman president. So, why the double standard if after mr. Comeys statement about President Trump he committed a crime and after his statements about Hillary Clinton she should be the nations first president. She should be compared to where we are today. She should be, but thats not where we are. I do believe in Hillary Clinton. I think im not asking you. No, i understand. Leland im not asking you whether or not you believe in Hillary Clinton. Im asking you the same layout of facts of misdeeds by one person by the former fbi director, isnt the same. Is it different because shes a democrat and you believe in here. You said it yourself. You said director comey said it does not rise to a crime. To this indicates whether President Trump did. He said its a crime that no one would prosecute. Thats a substantial difference. We can go back and look at the words, but that there was no crime committed. Here he said in his estimation, that comeys estimation that the president did try to stop the investigation. And he used the president s own words with regard to the firing of comey. I think we have two very different situations in which in one case, he said it was not a crime, and the other, at least something that could be prosecuted, bad judgment, yes, but not prosecutable. And in the second situation, he said very clearly, that he was fired because of the russian investigation. Now, is that going to be a crime . Well, well see how it turns out. We do have an independent Investigation Underway with mueller. Leland congressman, i want to get this in very quickly, what james comey said about Loretta Lynch. Take a listen. At one point the attorney general had directed me know the to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me. Leland that could certainly also be the attorney general trying to interfere with an investigation, yet, i didnt hear you calling for a special prosecutor about Loretta Lynch either. Well, first of all first weve heard of that was a couple of days ago during the Senate Testimony. Secondly, the investigation did go forward. The question whether its a matter in investigation, as i understand it, wasnt an attempt to stop it, but rather, simply how to label it. And that seems certainly interference, okay. Well, i dont know, its a label of whether its an investigation or not. But here is the bottom line of all of this. We need to get to the bottom of this. We need to understand if the president. Leland so youre fine with the special prosecutor looking both into i want to button this up before we leave. Youre fine with the special prosecutor getting into the issue both of what President Trump might have did and also if perhaps there was interference by the Obama Administration into the investigation into Hillary Clintons email server youre fine with both of those for a special prosecutor . Put it all out there, everything. Weve got to get to the bottom of all of this, its got to be made public. The American Public must know and we also to to have an independent investigation. Leland ive got a hard wrap and give equal final as we always do to a Republican Congress woman coming up in a couple of minutes. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Leland good to see you. Elizabeth and well get to that interview, but first, a fox news alert. An afghan official says two u. S. Soldiers have been killed and two wounded after an afghan soldier opened fire on them in eastern afghanistan. We heard this initially from Kristin Fisher reporting the afghan soldier was killed in the incident according to the official. A similar attack occurred in afghanistan in march when an afghan opened fire on forces in the hellman province. Leland right now, dueling marching across the country around the issue of sharia islamic law and police are preparing for possible conflict as counter protesters have come out as well. Bryan is at one of those in new york city. So far, any clashes . Hi, leland. Yeah, there have been some clashes. Police around the country have fear there would be because of the dueling protest actions in 28 cities in 19 states. On one side antisharia law people, that believe sharia and islamic law is a threat to the constitution. On the other side, you have those who believe that this movement is antimuslim and they are antitrump, antifascist, and they believe that this is they believe that this is all a racist thing. So, you have two different sides. The police did everything they could to split them up across the street. Theyve been crossing the street and now youve got a mix of protests, theres been some pushing and shoving, and you have extreme elements of both side. Its apropos of the policies of our countries right now. The ncpd is doing a good job making sure that one protest stays there and the other antisharia law stays there. And what the disconnect is. One side believes the antisharia law side believes theyre antimuslim. And and we spoke to protesters who are pro trump who say its not about being antimuslim. This is america, that we need to do for ourselves, we do, we have to look out for each other. Im for islam. I dont, you know, discriminate against anything or religion or anything, its just extremism part of it that is sort of like, you know, makes everything so bad. So, these grass roots marches are happening again. The marches against sharia law organized by act for america. A large National Security organization is how they characterize themselves. But the other side of it, the antifascists and those that are against this movement say that the act for America Group is actually antiislamic and they believe that it is a veil, essentially, for people to be racist and against muslims. Listen to one of the supporters of the other side that we spoke to today. Thisser not for our right or freedom, theyre for the freedom of just a very small percentage of this country. So, again, leland, well be watching the protests throughout the entire day here. 28 cities in 19 states, dueling clashes expected throughout the day and considering what we saw in portland, oregon on sunday, all eyes are on this protests. N. Y. P. D. Doing a good job of keeping everybody in check so far. Leland before you go, give us a sense of what the folks are looking for. One of the people who you interviewed looked like to have on a combat helmet. Are they looking for a fight, but pushing and shoving and name calling . The acts for America Group, the antisharia law group, a lot of the guys with the helmets, they came prepared for fight given what they saw in portland, oregon, the radical left side. They felt given what they saw there, having a pro trump or conservatives agenda in the middle of new york city could incite violence from the left. And of course, the left is bringing people here essentially saying that we need to defend dependence racists on the other side. So, both sides have come armed and ready just in case, leland. Leland weve seen that before with not great results. Bryan llenas on the ground in new york. Back to you and around the country as news warrants. Thanks, bryan. Elizabeth all right, leland, more on a huge week in washington d. C. Lawmakers have been taking sides after james comey testified on thursday. We heard from congressman garamendi from california. Lets reaction from the other side of the aisle, marsha blackburn. Good to be with you, thank you. Elizabeth so we heard congressman garamendi say an awful lot of smoke and americans want answer and he felt that the president was efforting to turn off the investigation. I want your reaction to that, not only to his words, the president was efforting to turn off the investigation, which were his words. But when you went home to your constituents just last week, is this what people want to be talking about, americans want to talk about and learn more about . First of all, i will tell you with my constituents, even those that were in d. C. This week for family vacations, very few people mentioned the comey testimony and the situation, russia, things of that nature. Theyre talking about jobs, economic development, getting rid of the Affordable Care act and putting the focus on how we grow the economy and get things moving again. Thats what they want to see done. And when it comes to the testimony yesterday, i think that it was very clear that there was not a request from mr. Trump to turn the investigation off, if you will. I do believe that as you listened to direct comey, what you heard was someone who contradicted themselves a little bit. When it came to the timeline, which when he sent the memo, how he used that memo, why he did. The curiosity that arose was the conversation with former attorney general lynch and the fact that she made a direct request to not refer to the investigation as an investigation or criminal investigation, but as a matter. Elizabeth okay. So we didnt hear the president respond on thursday. We heard the president come out pretty strongly on friday. Were you pleased with that response is this is that what you wanted to hear from the administration, as far as him responding to former feb director james comey on thursday . I think that what the president did was to make it clear that if he is needed to provide clarity, he will do so and he disagrees with mr. Comeys recollection of their conversation. And you know, were into a he saidhe said. And i think what we all want to know is what transpired between the two of them. I think we also want to know what has happened with russia and ive got to tell you, elizabeth. I find it so interesting, finally after decades of the russians meddling in our business, finally people are saying, oh, there is an issue with russia. Russia has not wished us well for decades. We have all known that. Putin is a bad actor. So yes, and you know, now with bipartisan support thats right. If i may, i want to interrupt you, its a big week and the president spoke at the faith and Freedom Coalition conference. I want to play a bite from that. You participated as well. I want your reaction, take a listen. We know that the truth will prevail that gods glorious wisdom will shine through and that the good and decent people of this country will get the change they voted for and that they so richly deserve. Elizabeth if im not mistaken, the participate participated, his fifth year annually. I want your reaction from the conference this year. Its going on today. What principles and goals do you want to accomplish and the movement. The evangelical movement that continues to grow. Weve seen this organization and Coalition Grow in just a few short years. Youre exactly right. The coalition is growing and it is grass roots leaders who choose to come to washington and really get armed with the facts and as i speak to them. I was delighted with the way they were taking notes and they were engaged and the room was packed and they were seeking that information. I really appreciated the president s remarks, and his commitment to delivery on the change to see American People voted for this year. It wasnt a partisan, it was something that said, this is what people, whether youre a democrat, republican, independent, these are the things you wanted to see done and this is what im going to deliver as your president. Elizabeth okay, congressman blackburn, thank you, we appreciate it. Have a great day. Good to be with you, thank you. Elizabeth coming up on this special edition of americas news headquarters. In detroit, were going to talk to the owner of the milliken manufacturing plant. Hin Highland Park. Its have the jobs in good times and bad. Why they havent given up on this neighborhood in particular. And going down to the mines as coal miners get a promise to fill. Welcome to detroit coming up. So the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight four weeks without