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Nice to be with you on this fathers day. Happy fathers day to all the fathers out there. I am leland vittert. Elizabeth i am elizabeth brion. Happy sunday. The neighbors ask anyone to keep the families all the sailors lost in the uss collision and their thoughts and prayers. Earlier today, divers found the bodies of several sailors in the destroyer is flooded compartments. Meanwhile, investigators interviewing the crew of the filipino containership distractor fitzgerald off the coast of japan. Lea gabrielle joins us from new york with the very latest. Haik am elizabeth. Seven u. S. Sailors of the uss fitzgerald are not present that in the navy is not saying how many bodies have been found. A number of crewmembers remembered and treasured. The rest of the crew fought to save it. The commander of the u. S. Navy seventh place as you could not even see the extent of the damage to the missile destroyer. Most of it below the water line with a large gash. It was below the impact, not leaving much time in the space is open to deceive. The sleeping spaces for over 100 crewmembers. The western arctic as to how much warning they had, i dont know. That is going to be found out during the investigation. It was a Significant Impact that the crew had to fight very hard to keep the ship afloat. This collision between the fitzgerald and the ship about four times this site have been off the coast of japan. In the middle of the night around 2 30 a. M. On saturday when most of the crew was sleeping through the uss Fitzgerald Collision is the first mishap since february. That month, uss antietam damages propellers and spilled Hydraulic Oil after running aground off the coast of japan. Uss Lake Champlain had a south korean fishing boat. It took 16 hours to get it back to its home port. One of the crew had to be airlifted off the ship, elizabeth, the Commanding Officer in the state ram and that was destroyed. Thank you so much. On this fathers day, President Trump did not retreat from twitter during his time in camp david this weekend. The president repeated his claim that the Russian Investigation is a witchhunt. This after earlier tweets friday calling the Justice Department investigations into question. Kristen fisher live at the white house with the president s spin on this in his administration spin as well this morning. Reporter leland, for the fourth time in four days, President Trump is calling the investigation led by his own Justice Department a witchhunt. He said this morning on twitter, quote, to make America Great again agenda is doing very well despite the distraction of the witchhunt. Many new jobs, high business enthusiasm, not the regulations have become a 30 or legislative bills signed, a Supreme Court justice and Infrastructure Health care and tax cuts in the work. Meanwhile, the member of President Trumps legal team to explain in person for the very First Time Since agreed on friday the president seemed to imply he was the target of an investigation in the member commented jacek kkilo try to clarify that tweet. Here is what he said on fox news sunday. The president has not been notified by anyone that is under investigation. That tweet was in response to the Washington Post story that alleged that five unnamed sources, Anonymous Sources leaked to the Washington Post that the president was in fact an investigation. Reporter less than a minute later, he seemed to contradict his own clarification by sameness. Said hes being investigated for taking the action that the attorney general Deputy Attorney general recommended him to take by the agency who recommended determination. Whats the question . You stated some facts. First of all, you said hes being investigated. You just said reporter things got a little bit heated there. The big takeaways President Trumps legal team is saying that the president has no knowledge of him being investigated, but that doesnt mean that there isnt an Investigation Underway or that there couldnt be one in the future. In fact, as the sekulow said this morning i cant read the minds of the special prosecutor. The leland. Leland Kristen Fisher live on the north lawn for an inside analysis on the Trump White House and russian probe. Lets bring in whilst deana miles stand out. Nice to see you. Bush was in person, glad to have you on the show either way. As we listen to christian fishers report coming out with outside legal team who is having trouble getting on message. Yeah, thats absolutely right. You look at this kind of verbal acrobatics that has taken place over the question of whether the president is under investigation or not. Now some of that to paraphrase a former president on what the meaning of investigate is. But clearly present transactions are being booked out. But the white house and the president s own personal legal team seems to be struggling to get a consistent strategy to push back against the list. The strategy of the president himself seems to fold, which is intact the investigation which are seen him now use that term multiple times. At the same time, dividend paid by the way im doing greatest president. What is the administration, chief of staff, supervisors, how are they feeling about the effect of this tidbit if you will on their ability to get things done Like Health Care this week. The people i speak to in washington and the general orbit of the president are concerned about this. Their worry is this investigation really swallows up their legislative agenda, makes it difficult to get a focus onto this. Only earlier this month they were trying to build a particular infrastructure week it became almost an in joke in washington. There is a real problem with the extent to which this issue is dominating the headlines and driving other things out of the headlines. This past week there was Work Training week and still on the sunday shows, youve got the headliner, jay sekulow from the president s legal team embroiled in this investigation. Take a listen. Uris which are trying to do now youre reading minds again. No, chris, idea with fact and law. Tommy what im trying to do because you dont know what im trying to do. Im trying to get a straight answer out of you. Leland who does that Trump Legal Team aside from the president view as their best spokesman or advocate for the president . Thats a great question and jay sekulow just learned the dangers of quarreling with Chris Wallace. He didnt come off particularly well. The president has hired another washington lawyer, john dodd to add to his personal legal team. President trump is such a distinctive communicator himself that he considers himself the best advocate and its difficult when other people did political people are members of his legal team try to take that on themselves. Leland how is the white house because every time the president tweets, every journalist rushes into the next briefing our gaggle and demands explanations on the tweet. It seems as though the answer that is now persistently coming out of, whether it is Sarah Huckabee sanders or out of the press secretary, sean spacer, is that tweet speaks for itself. Is that what they had to keep her line back on, no matter what the question is, try to move on . To a large extent, it is. Also trying to basically transfer all inquiries in the russian matter to the president s private legal team. But this issue is something that perplexes even strong allies of his because they worry that he trips himself up for the people in the white house having to explain tweets rather than putting forth their message and not the problem. Leland weve heard the president s message as it relates to something said wednesday he will be in iowa so he will have a bully pulpit as well. Appreciate your time. Elizabeth congress has two big agenda items at the top of this health care list, striking a deal on tax reform. Senate republicans said they would vote on a Health Care Bill by months end. Now that is rapidly approaching obviously. Ellison barber has more. Reporter at this point, the to do list seems to be growing. Of course one of the biggest items they have to tackle as health care that they say they will tackle as health care. Senate republicans like to go before july 4th. The legislation is it done. Democrats say that for starters they need to see it. The American People would really like to see us Work Together on Health Together on health care and there are plenty of changes we need to make to the Affordable Care act doing this behind closed doors is not what we did with the Affordable Care act. Senate republicans not every said definitive yes. Last week senator rand paul told a group of reporters, quote, i am more than willing to vote for partial repeal if they cant get a complete repeal, but im not willing to vote for a republican entitlement programs. In addition to health care, theres changes to the obama policy, republican senator jeff flake is calling on leadership to allow a vote on his legislation to lift restrictions that prohibit americans from traveling freely to cuba. Some republicans say regardless of the issue right now, the senate is simply too slow. We passed numerous bills, lots the regulation, tax reform has 30 started in the house. They are slow and to get off of their tails and pass them in. Fox news has learned Senate Democrats plan to get a series of speeches. We are told they could start tomorrow and go well into the night and they could last for weeks. They will focus on health care. Not going to be a slow week, but it will be interesting. We appreciate it. Brad blakeman coming democratic strategist who served in the white house. Ill matter is a strategist. Thanks for joining me. I appreciate it. Ill come to you and i had this conversation. I want to start with you because we saw the president tweets and he mentioned Health Health carex cuts. At the same time, we see a lot of criticism, the fact that it is being drafted in secrecy and there has been no evidence in a bill coming forward any time soon. What are we going to see this week . Well, its really problematic in our perspective . Even half of their caucus hasnt seen and its going to be great for them in the room for rational Budget Office says its going to take away 22 million Peoples Health care. I dont know how thats going to help. Elizabeth want to bring in brad. Weve been working on this for the past 70 years. Uris is happening. A legislative process. The house passed a bill and now it doesnt mean the senate is going to take up their bill. They are going to form their own bill. Once the senate bill is passed, theres a conference in both bills are discussed and will have a bill finally to be voted on and hopefully passed and signed by the senate. Elizabeth have a question for you. We heard health and Human Service secretary tom price interviewed by senator durbin a few days ago. Not even he had seen any evidence of the draft of any legislation. Does that make you nervous from the standpoint that this is how they draft legislation, but also can be done quite differently. It doesnt make me nervous at all. I know from colleagues of mine on the hill what is going on. The relevant committees in the senate are working very hard and once they are satisfied with the bill drafted, it will be shared with other republicans and democrats. It would be great to get democratic votes on our bill. Something democrats did not seek or want from republicans in a jam their bill through. You have to pass it before you knew what was in it. That is just flatly not true. Leader pelosi, speaker of the house. Elizabeth you want to bring you in because we heard from Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer last week drafted a letter to mitch mcconnell, the majority leader asking that he wanted to have a more robust debate. That is not really how the democrats did it. Do the republicans have to have that responsibility . To be fair, lives, there were hearings, markups. Hundreds of amendments. This is legislative days. 87 senators have no idea within this bill. Thats not a process. That is hiding facts from the American People and their own colleagues to rush something through. He says theres going to be a conference. Theres not going to be a conference. They will pass something under legislation and in secret in the house has to decide we pass this or not. There is no working together here. Elizabeth bring up a perfect segue for me and i want to bring u. N. , brad. Are we wasting our time talking about democrats . Should we talk about the bill satisfying the most conservative senators like senator mccaskill and senator rand paul. They are very different viewpoints on what this bill should look like him especially with the medicaid expansion. Republicans make the mistake and we dont try, at least in earnest to bring democrats then. Democrats should want to replace an repeal upon the care because the disaster we created we give them a way out. We are in power. We control the house and the senate and we control the white house. It is our obligation, our promise made in 2016 that we would do this. We can do it alone or with democrats. My advice is never give up on the ability to seek bipartisan support. Out, i want to give you the last word in your prediction on what we may see in the next week or two because weve heard a lot of hopes they want to get something passed where they distracted by the fourth of july. You will see the democrats from the speech process trying to delay things and really shed broad light on the senate. Republicans will be successful at janitors campaign, telling people its good for them but taking away millions of Peoples Health care which is politically problematic. Elizabeth al mottur, brad blakeman, we will seek her predictions come true. Thanks very much. You saw the exchange between Chris Wallace and jay sekulow. You can see the interview, the full group of president jones legal team. Chris wallace airs again at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time on the fox news channel, a very heated exchange. Leland you dont want to miss that. Chris has some Great Questions and jay has some interesting answers. Moving onto this week, democrats need to flip 24 seats to win back the house in 2015. They are hoping that comeback starts on tuesday. Georgia special election, the most expensive house race in u. S. History is set to finish as a nailbiter. Polls show karen handel and 30 rolled john ossoff locked in a virtual tie heading into tuesdays final bow. Within 140,000 ballots have already been cast early. The district is considered a tossup and safely conservative since 1979 thinning both news country Newt Gingrich and tom price to washington. Results coming in on tuesday night. Elizabeth coming up, treacherous weather in the heartland. Millions of americans or affect did. The very latest forecast from our fox weather center. Plus, the president spent fathers day weekend at his other son camp david, we will speak with dr. Robert jeffress about the importance of our fathers throughout the lives of their children no matter what age. We will also get an update on majority with Steve Scalise. Outside of Washington Hospital center with the very latest. Hi, molly. Reporter hi, elizabeth. A different kind of fathers day. The father of two, Steve Scalise, senator of louisiana. The latest on his prognosis just ahead. Whoooo. Youre searching for something. Ahead. There is. Because tripadvisor now compares prices from over 200 booking sites. To save you up to 30 . On the hotel you want. Trust this birds words. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. The lowest prices. Once upon a time hansel and gretel came upon a house made out of gingerbread. Being quite hungry, they started eating the roof. The homeowner was outraged. Luckily the Geico Insurance agency had helped her with homeowners insurance. She got all her shingles replaced. Hansel and gretel were last seen eating their way through the candy cane forest. 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