Will do for you. Is that what you are paying for u parents . We will make america safe again. We will make America Great again. God bless you and good night. I love you. Were the kids in america everybody. Brian that is the delphi Lacrosse Team. That is how they choose to come out on their home field the American Flag with the voice of the president giving a speech at a rally. Ainsley how dare them. That is so offensive. Brian he wasnt saying dont vote Hillary Clinton. He was talking about america. Ainsley how Great America is. The president of the United States. Brian yet, the Lacrosse Team has to backtrack and apologize for anybody they offended with those words. Outrageous. Steve we dont know if anybody was actually offended. We know they have preapologized for using donald trump who is by the way to the whhorror of some democrats the president of the United States. Brian he won. Ainsley we are going to dive into this throughout the show this morning. We will replay that video for you if you missed it right now we are going to talk about who is going to replace the fbi director. Brian a lot of lacrosse highlights today. Ainsley you should be happy. Brian absolutely. Steve im going to hgtv. I love to see them when they flip those houses. Meanwhile, lets talk about the news. Intense search underway for the interim leader for the fbi. Narrowing down to 4. They are looking for a permanent director of the fbi. Ainsley james comey breaks his silence, sending a letter to his former department. Brian it was classy. Chief National Correspondent ed henry is live to the capitol where the fbi director will testify in a few hours. Is he also rumored to be a contender to take the top job. Andrew mccabe acting director of the fbi. He will be a standin basically for james comey before the Senate Intelligence committee today. That had already been scheduled. Its a hearing assessing global threat. You can bet there may be questions about russia and other matters before the bureau right now. Mccabe very controversial in the waning days of the president ial campaign how it came out that as a top fbi official his wife had run for Political Office as a democrat in the state of virginia and had a lot of money raised over 500,000 by the democratic governor, terry mcauliff, who of course, was a top advisor to Hillary Clinton, the democratic president ial nominee. As i mentioned, mccabe standing in now for james comey in the testimony today. Comey knew this morning, speaking out for the first time, a letter to fbi agents saying among other things, quote, i have long believed that a president can fire an fbi director for any reason or for no reason at all. Im not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed. I hope you wont either, he says to the agents. It is done and i will be fine although i will miss and you the mission deeply. Democrats are certainly not shy about diving in and charging that this is all about a coverup. Thats why comey was fired. The president just as firm in saying no. It was about comeys poor performance. Watch. Why did you fire director comey . Because he wasnt doing a good job very simply. He was not doing a good job. While interesting you mentioned heres the list. The idea of restoring confidence in the fbi, which is something the president talked about in announcing all. This a lot of the contenders for the job were told are insiders, people who may have the confidence of fellow agents. Adam lee special agent in charge of the richmond, virginia agent. Michael anderson chicago. Paul abbate cyber unit. And william evan its ina counters terrorism. Andrew mccabe the acting director is the potential full time chief if you will can cat for that. Republican senator Chuck Grassley very powerful lawmaker said yesterday he cannot see that happening because of mccabes ties to the democratic governor of virginia. Back to you guys. Ainsley they will stay away from anybody controversial. Highly controversial. Above board,. Brian they just need a simple majority to get whoever across the finish line. They need all the republicans, not a single democrat although you would hope it would have bipartisan. Steve ed just indicated the real reason that the president got rid of jim comey because he wasnt doing a good job. Apparently the president questioned mr. Comeys loyalty and judgment. He was really angry that mr. Comey would not investigate the leaks that we have heard so much about or his wiretapping claims. And mr. Trump came one a plan on how to do this while watching television over the weekend at bed minister when he was watching the sunday shows. He said i have an idea. The next day mr. Rosenstein came in on an item unrelated and they talked about it they came one a letter the next day. And the next day after that mr. Comey was gone. Ainsley the president touched on this. He tweeted about just the hypocrisy how one minute they like comey, the next minute they hate him. Steve the democrats . Ainsley the democrats. And then they like rosenstein. They approved him 96 to 6. Now they dont like him because he suggested comey be fired. Brian rosenstein was upset because monday he was at a lunch with attorney general sessions with the president at which time the president says listen im going to get rid of comey. Can you draw up an outline of all the things he has done. They do. They draw up an outline. All of a sudden by our show on wednesday, basically, it looks like Rod Rosenstein is the reason why he was fired. And he was so upset that he evidently threatened to resign. He says im not going to be the fall guy. It wasnt my idea. I just outlined the reasons for him to let go. Thats why the narrative changes. The president takes responsibility. Among the people critical of the president is Newt Gingrich. If you are going to be the quarterback of the football team. Have you got to tell everybody the plays. Because the communication of the president s move, which has there is a myriad reasons to get rid of the fbi director. But out of all the reasons, they didnt is a a Communication Team in place. Evidently the president is eating his dinner and realizes there is no nobody defending him on any of the shows. Thats when he you saw Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Huckabee sanders come forward and start defending the president. Is he mad at his Communication Team for not getting out there. Ainsley dems have been complaining for months and month about director comey. Now that he has been fired they pretend to be aggrieved. Phoney hypocrites. Steve all right. So could this be what the president is talking about where the democrats had been attacking the character of Rod Rosenstein. Keep in mind, he was approved practically unanimously by democrats and republicans like the final scores ainsley. Ainsley 96 to 6, 94 to 6. Steve got to add up to 100 946. Democrats not so long ago just absolutely loved this guy. Mr. Rosenstein is a very fine man, an excellent, longtime prosecutor in the Justice Department. I respect him as a prosecutor. Once named under a republican president he was retained by president obama. He is a professional by every standard. And every measure of his performance. Rod rosenstein is a professional prosecutor. He is a person who basically is a professional. He is a public servant. We trust his judgment. He has been a person who has called it the way it should be. He has not been partisan. And we believe this was a welcomed nomination by President Trump. Steve so there you have got them showing that he is a man of integrity and good judgment. And hes the guy who came one rationale and a number of just an eye ten area of reasons why mr. Comey had to go. Ainsley makes it look like everything the president is for theyre against no. Matter what it is. We had Newt Gingrich on yesterday saying if the president said the flag was red, white, and blue, they would argue no, its fuchsia. Brian newt has to get his story straight. Newt tells us the letter pushed the story forward. Then he tells the washington post. It wasnt that the president has got to do a better job communicating. Ainsley thats two different things. He is saying the president has to do a better job messaging. Brian better job of messaging. Newt said to us that that letter pushed the president to act. Did he know that this letter didnt push the president to act . Because it doesnt rosenstein was so upset he wanted to quit because of that. Steve there are so many different stories. I dont know we know the full story yet. But we do know that if you watch the Mainstream Media, obviously james comey a big story and the fact that mr. Comey himself yesterday put out that letter that said, look, if the president wants to fire me, he can fire me. Last night, of the big three networks, youre not going to believe the ooment of coverage not just on comey but simply on the russian collusion thing. And just about the collusion. Take a look. Over on cbs, they did seven minutes and 58 seconds. About the russian theory. 7 53 on abc. And 9 minutes and 1 seconds over on the peacock network. It looked Something Like this. Walch this. Ainsley not just the comey coverage. It is the fact that they said, what was it, wasnt specifically comey coverage it was all on the conspiracy theory. Take a listen. Steve there you go. In a previous career, President Trump was a master at explaining why he fired someone. But critics are not buying his explanation for the firing of james comey. The timing raises questions. Comey had just asked for more resources for his investigation of russian interference in the u. S. Election, including possible collusion by team trump. But democrats tonight say they know why. They say it all comes down to russia. And adding to the white house concerns this week are new indications the investigation may vehicles anded to include trumps business and personal finances. Fbi insiders tell nbc news that many at fbi headquarters believe he was fired because he would not end the russia investigation. Brian nobody thinks you can end the russia investigation here. No one also points to any proof of collusion. Even Maxine Waters said ive seen the information. Theres no proof of collusion. That something that you would see on inside edition or extra years ago. Now the nightly news is running with innuendo. Steve so what it is is if you are on the left and you dont like mr. Trump, you see the firing of james comey as a coverup. Its a coverup. They are trying to get rid of that obviously the dems who have made it clear they want a special prosecutor, to them, russia will be their benghazi. They will push this for a very long time. Brian the problem with beangsz had you hard facts and had you people on the ground. Here, you even have the people on the ground saying there is nothing that we have found to link these two things together. And it was beginning to go away. Ainsley just because the director is going to change doesnt mean that investigation wont continue. Steve oh, its continuing. Ainsley hand it over to abby who has headlines for us. Abby happy thursday to all of you. We do start with obamacare because it is officially on life support. Etna now fully pulling out of exchanges by 2018. Health Insurance Company blaming the move on projected 200 million loss this year. Financial hit its no longer willing to take. Last year etna was operating in 15 states with losses of 450 million. Remaining insurers are requesting big rate hikes next year. Brand new video of in of general james mattis arriving in london with international leaders. They are expected to discuss terrorism and growing crisis in somalia where u. S. Navy seal was just killed. Kyle milliken died last week supporting al shabaab. So sad. Education secretary betsy devos booed delivering a commencement speech at floridas buffoon. As i said im very grateful for the opportunity to be with you today. [crowd booing] abby several students turning their backs and raising their fists in the air. She has been under fire for calling historically black colleges quote pioneers of school choice. That was a rough moment for her. Brian but she did great. She stuck with it. Be a meanwhile straight ahead. Ainsley one of the Largest HealthInsurance Companies as abby was saying saying goodbye to obamacare. We say hello to stuart varney. 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They needed far more young people, Healthy People tone roll in these exchanges. Fewer older, sicker people. Thats not what they got. They got it the other way around. And so now costs are just spiraling upwards. The bought line here is obamacare is dead. This is the final phase of the death spiral. Its done. Stick a fork in this thing because its finished. By the way. We have anthem, cigna and molinena, three other huge health insurers, they are considering, quote, unquote, a total withdrawal just like etna. Its done, its finished. If that is true and obamacare is finished. You would think that Mitch Mcconnell would that take thats story and knock on Chuck Schumers door today and say hey, its dead. We have got to Work Together to fix it. What the democrats want from the senate bill is more obamacare. They will want more. Steve but its dead. They want to resurrect it in the new bill that will eventually come out of the senate. The republicans are going the opposite direction, cut it back, replace it give the money to the states to decide how theyre going to distribute that money. And allow the states to decide what must and must not be covered. There is a complete difference here in as they go into the senate. So we dont know what comes next. We havent found yet. Were gonna find out soon because we have to because obamacare is dead. Ainsley these senators need to put their politics aside and think whats best for the american people. When you have Companies Like this pulling out. Who is going to be left . There is virtually nobody left. Brian single pair. Thats what they were hoping for. Thats where the democrats want to take. This they want like a british system. The National Health service in britain or the canadian system. Thats what he this want. A single pair where everybody is all covered by the taxpayer and you go to the government for government care. Brian they thought was going to be president to do it, Hillary Clinton. Are we going to get that . Thats where the democrats want to go. They will shape that bill as it comes into the senate and goes out of the senate. Thats what they want. The republicans are going in the other direction. This is going to be the battle of all battles. Healthcare in the future. The bottom line is, obamacare is dead. Kaput, stick a fork in it. Brian i understand all the phrases. We will get more of that from 9 00 to noon. If you are not careful you will have to watch. Brian nare you kidding me . Ainsley can islamic extremism be cured . James mitchell says no. He can s. Going to join us next with why. Brian can you smell the rock is cooking for 2020 . Maybe a run for the white house . Like the first of july because baby, youre a firework theres nothing more important to me than my vacation. So when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. Booking. Com gets it. 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