Empire Actor Jussie Smollett for refusing to pay the cost of the investigation into his alleged hate crime hoax. Wyatt means bigger trouble now being for the battle director. Plus, 202 2020 town hall with a contender potentially Howard Schultz the starbucks invited h. The future of the Democratic Party and his views on the border controversy. Hello, welcome to fox news night, Shannon Bream in washington. We begin with chief National Correspondent ed henry and heading to the southern border, good evening, ed, the president is shutting the border down soon and still an option saying he will not guarantee the border is staying open for a year. And putting tariffs on mexican cars out there as a stick and if that doesnt work all bets are off. The president declaring the taxes on mexican cars, a powerful incentive for the neighbor to the south to get serious about spreading drugs and Illegal Immigrants across the border. In the president , you noted and Homeland SecurityKirsten Nielsen and president headed friday to the Border Crossing where barriers reinforced and nielsen said in yuma, arizona authorized Emergency Powers to help manage what she and obama officials have called a crisis level surge of Illegal Immigrants in recent days. The president running into the reality has to pull back from immediate closure of the border as he had promised because republicans like ted cruz in addition to democrats warned the consequences could be devastating. Shutting down the border would hurt the economy, violate our values and greatly hurt the country. I dont play games. I will do it. We will give them a one year warning, and if the drugs dont stop were largely stop, we are going to put tariffs on mexico and products in particular cars. Speed two prominent democrats say opposite approach, Julian Castro calling for what he calls the decriminalization of Border Crossing. California attorney general Xavier Becerra seems to agree since he declared Illegal Immigrants have not committed a crime and not harming anyone. While congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez leveled this attack on the Border Patrol as she drank wine and assembled a key of furniture on instagram life. At least im not trying to cage children at the border and inject with drugs, that is not a mistake, that is a deliberate policy to attack people based on the national origin. That is not a mistake, that is just hatred. That is just cruelty. That is just wrong ed secretary nielsen pushed back and defend a Border Patrol by saying kids not purposely put in cages. They sometimes detained in areas to protect kids, she says, well processed. Remember other democrats jay johnson who served under present obama and sing this effect is a real crisis at the border and Howard Schultz the potential candidate in the fox news town hall tonight faulted both parties with comprehensive immigration reform, but on the issue of cracking down illegal immigration seemed to side with republicans on the hill saying democrats are missing the issue, shannon. Shannon henry, great to see you tonight. Ed good to see you. Shannon pushing back after several Media Outlets and members and the special council Team Grumbling about attorney general bill barr portrayed their findings. Chief intelligence Katherine Harris on the Whisper Campaign the Justice Department with a statement taking issue with media accounts that the Mueller Report contains summaries that were releasable every page of the confidential report provided to attorney general barr march 22nd, 2019, with material protected under a law that protects confidential grand jury information. Therefore, could not be publicly released and the New York Times said special counsel investigators told associates their findings more negative than his four page summary last month. A senior democrat said it backs up effort to see the full report and secure muellers testimony. Some dissatisfaction over how accurately he represented the report but again, the answer is, lets see it. On twitter the president writing the New York Times had no legitimate sources which would be totally illegal concerning the Mueller Report. In fact, no sources at all. Separately these letters obtained by fox news shows republican senators grassley and grant alerted barr last month and investigators uncovered evidence of potential improper influence. This conduct misconduct and fox news knows they wanted barr to have the information before he reviewed muellers findings. After congressional investigators allege special counsel prosecutors selected quotes and court plantings with negative interpretation possible. This 2017 letter shows grassley directly warned mueller sending emails from George Papadopoulos among others about traveling to russia. During the race. The emails in question actually show the Trump Campaign wanted someone lowlevel to decline the invitations. Shannon on the muellers report to Congress Significant time pressure at the end of next week with a healths and sent on recess, and fox news, Department Officials hope to complete review in coming days and the attorney generals goal of midapril. Shannon. Shannon catherine herridge, thank you very much. Following Trump Administration recordsetting success to get held abroad released and sent home prominent hostage rights group chose mike pompeo with the top award with honors being yanked. Pompeo disinvited to the event. What is behind the very public snub . Correspondent rich edson has more, hi, rich. A foundation rescinded an award plan to give secretary of state mike pompeo and the official said rights in a letter, i understand that the foundation decided to resend the Freedom Award and my invitation to attend 2019 james w Freedom Award due to pressure from Media Partners in your fear stated in your recent letter that some guests at the dinner would not show my office proper respect if i attended. James foley a journalist kidnapped in 2019 reporting in Northern Syria and murdered in 2014 near rocca. The foundation bearing his name works to free american hostages kidnapped abroad and protect journalists working in conflict zones. Pump type pompeo rights to the mother of the foundations t that he plans on accepting the award and noted the administrations work to free americans like free from north korea. Otto warmbier at the return home in a coma and died soon after. Andy burks from yemen and others. In a statement to fox news the Foundation Executive director says the James W FoleyLegacy Foundation doesnt comment on the delivered and process that goes into the decision to award our honorees. We thanked secretary pompeo for extraordinary efforts to bring americans home and are grateful for all that he and his administration have accomplished to prioritize the return of our citizens. The foundation granted award to antiisis on brett mcgurk who resigned over President Trumps syria troop withdrawal announcements. Earlier this week the secretary hold an event at the state department to recognize american still held overseas. There were many like she weigh one and in a run. And paul in russia. The state department refuses to say how Many Americans considers detained or wrongfully held overseas. Shannon. Shannon rich, thank you very much. So is the media behind the pompeo disk and our main street yet outlets doing the work of the president s medics by lobbing criticism at the attorney general . Lets talk about it with strategists and president of research center, great to have you with us. A lot of speculation what led o this award being yanked from secretary pompeo disinvited from the event. I talked with someone who saw the email communications back and forth with a foundation and the secretary. There were expressions there was concern the administration had not been supportive of freedom of the press or journalist and that was interfering with the highlighting of good things that have been happening. Brett, did that work for you . Dont you find it amazing for you yanked away the award to give to the secretary of state and dont give a reason for it . I mean, to me, it is utter powerless on the people who did this. That they would buckle to some pressure from somebody and some people but the secretary himself knows what it is because he was the one that proper the explanation when he said it was the media, look organizations threatening to disrupt the which is why they had to do it, richard, the Washington Post opinion piece writes this under the headline this is how bad tromp derangement got in washington. It says, any objective criteria pompeo deserved the award in two years in Office President trump to release 20 people. That is more captive freed in two years than president barack obama got released and eight. I mean, that is the work of the organization. You would think they would want to celebrate such good circumstances and results. And at the risk of being snarky, twitter includes a statement from three hours ago that the Foley Foundation said one specific reason they decided to disinvited the secretary of state. That is because the administration was gutless by not pressing for accountability around the murder of look this Foundation Stands up for press freedom. You have a president who says the press is the enemy of the people. So you cant exactly fault them for trying to distance himself from people so slavishly supporting the president who says the press is the enemys people shannon i give him the award in the first place . I think they did it before the thoughtlessness displayed around the saudis and once in full display, they couldnt live with themselves. Incidentally, none of these people in the press, all of these mainstream groups didnt disassociate themselves publicly or they would have had they been so revolted of the prospect of giving this award. So im just saying, my statement on what the foundation said and not what anybody is reporting. Shannon i want to ask about too quickly weigh in on anonymous forces bubbling up saying they are unhappy. The mueller team speaking and apparently be associated to near times, Washington Post and others about this. Quick comment from both of you on this, brent, you first. Brent first, i counted five times where they used the word sum and as usual they dont cite the sources but better than this, shannon 25 paragraph story that took them until paragraph 16 to say they dont even know what the problem is. There is no specifically on what the problem is coming from people who are not identified. This is a story . The problem is the mueller staff wrote a summary that was designed to be made public and instead come up bar substituted his very truncated summary and the president wasnt exonerated and the president says the exact opposite. Of course you would expect from the white house. Shannon but the doj released an official statement and said every page of the Mueller Report was marked with confidential information when they didnt have to liberty to release that and they tried as quickly as possible, the bottom line but a lot of folks thinks he will beat that april 15th deadline because he pledged as he did during confirmation hearing that he would put out as much as possible. So lets wait and see, and if it seems truncated to come im sure the subpoenas will start flowing. Richard and brent, thank you both. President trumps former attorney Michael Cullen to delay his three Year Prison Sentence and reduce jail time by offerinw evidence. His lawyers to covered 14 million files from computers, phones, ranging over the past ten years and he says could be of value. An investigation against the president. 2020 democrats lining up to impress al sharpton. Today canada and a judge taking heat for declaring one time all lives matter. 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Peter good evening shannon, independent howard shore Howard Schultz servig the field by summer if you will actually launch a formal campaign and if he does he might run against joe biden who he didnt want to disqualify tonight for bad behavior, but who he did sympathize with for what he described as possibly being some sort of political dirty trick. Biden has served the country for 40 years. As Vice President for eight years and the only thing i would ask is one question, why is this coming up now . Im not questioning the women on any level, but it is concerning to me that all of a sudden on the eve of whether he was going to announce or not, this is all of a sudden coming up. It is concerning. Peter scholz rebuild in the town hall he supports a womans right to choose but only for the first few months of her pregnancy because scholz believe abortion should be outlawed in the third trimester. In my view, there should be no abortion that is in the last trimester. President clinton said something along time ago [applause] president said a long time ago that doesnt apply come abortion should be safe, legal and rare. And thats where i met. Peter even after an hour of being peppered with questions by democrats and republicans, its tough to tell what a ticket would look like if Howard Schultz is on the top of it. Even though several danek they would pick a woman as a running mate, schultz didnt wao go there. I have to choose the person with the highest degree of experience and merit and i hope its a woman but at this point i dont know. Shannon may be the more important question for you is running mate eight republican or democrat . I didnt expect that question. I think that person has to be complementary to skill base and experience. Peter starbucks is still a big part of the schultz story. He spent part of the day prepping for tonights town hall at a starbucks getting a coffee and then several longtime starbucks employees who worked locally that wanted to come and they were expressing fault that schultz as president could possibly run the country like he runs starbucks, shannon. Shannon when your employees are happy, that is a good endorsement. We will see if he gets in my peter doocy, thank you. Not yet a part of the 2020 field but reportedly leaning that way, former President Joe Biden with new criticism tonight. And is now twitter dust off of President Trump and so many want to get into. The power panel, Ethan Bearman and flew lives matter randy sutton and contributor lisa boothe, great to have you with us, hi, shannon. Shannon an interesting piece that talked about rich and political bidens, is his ego. His fundamental offense is not realizing that some people might not be into joe biden as joe biden is in to joe biden. He has an ego not libido problem, what do you think, lisa . Lisa i think maybe a little bit of both. It is undeniable to say the photos and videos of him out there does not c