Of jobs. It has let to better jobs. It has led to better jobs. It has led to increased salary. Julie ellison barber has the latest. The president is trying to emphasize tax cuts and the economy as we head into this election season. Many republicans are doing that as well. The president sat next to Republican Senate candidate congressman, who is hoping to win the Ohio Republican nomination and beat democratic senator brown in november. Tuesday is primary election day in ohio. The president endorsed the congressman last week and stumped for him today. Jims really doing great. Hes really got a big shot at doing it. Hes been a fantastic congressman. And i really suspect youre going to be an even more fantastic senator. We need your vote. We feed your help. We need your help. Go out and help jim. The president hinted at potential future actions in regards to immigration and healthcare. Were going to get the wall, even if we have to think about closing up the country for a while. Over the next few weeks, we will have a very big announcement on healthcare. This week the president has had difficulty keeping the discussion on policy. A lot of that is because of his newest lawyer Rudy Giuliani. He threw a wrench in the media cycle this week when he told Fox Newss Sean Hannity that President Trump repaid Attorney Michael Cohen the 130,000 he gave to adult film star Stormy Daniels in order to get her to sign a nondisclosure agreement. Giuliani released a statement, quote, clarifying some of his remarks. He said the repayment is not a campaign violation, and quote, my references to timing were not describing my understanding of the president s knowledge, but instead my understanding of these matters. Giulianis remarks seem to contradict previous statements made by cohen and the president. The president disagreed with that assessment. Rudy made the statement. Rudys great. But rudy had just started, and he wasnt totally familiar with every you know, with everything. Mr. President were not changing any story. Heres what President Trump said on air force one in april. Do you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . President trump said that he paid cohen a retainer fee in the reimbursement came from that. Julie . Julie ellison barber, thank you very much. Investigators on special counsel Robert MuellersTeam Reportedly questioning this man on your screen, california Real Estate Investor in their russian meddling probe. He is a close friend of President Trump who played an integral role in the 2016 campaign. Garrett tenney is in washington. Garrett, what do we know about the interview . Well, julie, to understand why this interview is significant, you have to know about the relationship with the president. They have known each other for more than 30 years. Have done business deals and or Close Friends and confidant. He played a crucial role in materially days of Donald Trumps campaign in the early days of Donald Trumps campaign as a top fundraiser during a time when most republicans didnt take the candidacy seriously. Following the election, he tapped him to lead his inauguration committee. He has firsthand knowledge of the president as a person, as a businessman and as the candidate which is why investigators had a broad range of questions for him. One individual familiar with the interview told the Associated Press that the questions included financial matters about the Trump Campaign, the transition, and the inauguration. Another individual told the ap investigators focused almost exclusively on two Trump Campaign officials who have already been indicted by mueller, Paul Manafort and rick gates. Julie . Julie and special counsel muellers team is apparently now facing some pretty tense blowback in its case against Paul Manafort. It is coming from a federal judge. What is that judge saying . Well, the district judge had some harsh words for muellers team yesterday not only questioning their motives behind the case but also going so far as to suggest that investigators are on a mission to take down the president. He told them, quote, you dont really care about mr. Manaforts bank fraud. You really care about what information mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to mr. Trump and an impeachment or prosecution. Manafort is facing an 18 count indictment on tax and Bank Fraud Charges for crimes going back as far as 2005. Yesterday it was revealed that some of the information investigators used to bring those charges came from a previous doj investigation. That is what led judge ellis to question the authority and motivation of muellers team to prosecute manaforts alleged crimes given that the information came up outside of the special counsels work. Judge ellis gave prosecutors two weeks to provide evidence or an explanation as to how this case falls under their purview. Julie . Julie thank you very much. For more on Robert Muellers russia probe, lets bring in steven nelson, a White House Reporter for the washington examiner. Thank you very much for talking to us. So pretty powerful words coming from a federal judge. I mean, does mueller have unfettered power the way that judge ellis describes it . Well, it would appear to an outsider, yes, but this judge is a bit of a character. Ive been in his courtroom before. And what he says isnt always when he uses exciting words to describe a case, it doesnt always result in an exciting ruling. I was in his courtroom for a hearing about the nsa over internet surveillance, he lectured the attorneys on both sides, he questioned the seriousness of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court saying there was no one arguing the counterpoint but then his ultimate ruling was less excited. We dont know yet how this will factor in how he decides various things in the case. Julie sounds like he should have a tv show. Judge ellis goes as far as accusing mueller of using criminal cases to pressure trumps allies to turn against him. That sounds like entrapment i mean if you were to actually define what hes saying there. It certainly sounds critical of whats going on. But then again, we dont know we dont know how hes going to rule really. And he wants to see the source memo that outlines what muellers team can do. We really have to see where it goes from here. Julie theres this hearing in a federal court in virginia on friday. U. S. District judge ellis sharply questions whether mueller exceeded his authority in filing tax and Bank Fraud Charges against trumps former Campaign ManagerPaul Manafort. He says the indictment appeared to be a way for mueller to leverage manafort into providing information about trump. As you know, there has been talk of the president firing mueller. Would it seem to you that this judge could potentially be in the president s ear because as we know, the president very much respects this judge. You know, i think that trump knows the political storm that would be created by firing mueller. Perhaps the judge could lay down a case for doing so, but it seems that President Trump for now is disinclined to do that. He realizes that could cause him more trouble than could prevent. Julie about getting rid of rosenstein. Theres been a lot of people out there that believe Rod Rosenstein should go. If not get rid of mueller, would rosenstein be something that the president perhaps would still consider, or is that off the table as well . You know, its a hot source of speculation, but trump, you know, has himself said people have been talking about this for a long time and these people are still around. So i think as of now, it doesnt seem likely that he would fire him either, but, you know, President Trump surprises us. Julie all right. Steven nelson, thank you very much. Of course youre going to come back to us because we will be talking to you later about north korea, south korea, a lot going on there. So stand by and we will back to you at the bottom of the hour. President trump facing a rapidly approaching may 12th deadline. That is one week from today, folks, may 12th to decide whether to stay in the iran nuclear deal, and now former secretary of state john kerry, hes coming under fire over reports hes been secretly meeting with World Leaders in a bid to save the deal . Harvard law Professor Emeritus weighing in. If it were in existence, my friend john kerry would be violating the logan act. He is negotiating, though he is not in the administration. And there are real problems with doing that. We can do much better than we do now, and if john can accomplish that, all power to him, but if what hes doing is just trying to preserve a bad deal, he shouldnt be doing it. Julie David Lee Miller has more from jerusalem. If the u. S. Does decide to pull out of the iran deal, experts say it will be difficult to predict what happens next because the u. S. Is only one country that signed on to the agreement. France, russia, china, germany, the u. K. , and iran could all still decide to remain in the agreement. But there will be Global Implications if the u. S. Does decide to walk away. On may 12th the president will have to decide to renew waivers for sanctions that target Irans Central Bank and oil exports. If that happens, countries buying oil would have to reduce purchases or face penalties imposed by the u. S. Some experts say irans oil exports could be reduced to up to a Million Barrels a day. That could result in a spike in the cost of gasoline in the u. S. Theres also another date to keep in mind. By july 11th, President Trump will have to decide about other sanctions, that target Iranian Companies and individuals. The president can decide to reimpose all sanctions at once or do it piecemeal. The gradual approach could provide the leverage and time to come up with a new or amended agreement. If iran considers the agreement dead, it might act unconstrained in the region, targeting israel and increasing its influence and presence in syria and lebanon. Some analysts warn iran could abandon restrictions on its Nuclear Program that were previously agreed to and increase uranium enrichment. The head of Irans Atomic Energy Organization says the country has the capability to enrich uranium to a higher level than before the deal was signed. In jerusalem, David Lee Miller, fox news. Julie David Lee Miller, thank you very much. Right now President Trump says plans for his historic meeting with north korean dictator kim jongun are coming together as we learn south koreas president will soon visit the white house. We will have details straight ahead. 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If this opens up, i will leave, but other than that, unless they force me to leave, yeah, i aint planning to leave. Whatever happens happens, thats it. Deal with it as it comes. Julie william la jeunesse is live on the big island. Still aftershocks, wow. Yeah, you know, the experts at the Volcano Center here in hawaii are predicting things to get worse before they get better. More eruptions and more earthquakes. Now, i want to show you Something Real quickly. You know, most people think that a volcano only erupts through the crater or through the cone, well the cone of mount kilauea is about 24 miles in that direction. This particular eruption, if you will, is coming through vents, considerably down slope from the cone of mount kilauea. There are actually eight of them, and they are clustered near one community. And indeed, that is the area where they have basically evacuated 1400 individuals, 700 homes. Also yesterday they got rid of everyone who is in the volcano National Park. That was 2500 people. Theyve closed the park. And Officials Say that they are most worried about these toxic gases that are associated with these eruptions, if you will, through these vents. It is called sulfur dioxide and it can burn your lungs, your eyes even your skin julie. That is one of the Reasons Police are keeping the media as well as any tourists as well as the residents away from their homes. Julie . Julie wow, what has been the impact on tourism . Well, as you probably know, there are generally six Hawaiian Islands that people go to, number one is ohau theres where you get 50 of the people. About 14 of the people come to this island, the big island of hawaii but most of them go on the other side. The truth is, these eruptions are really happening in a pretty localized areas and the state is going to Great Lengths to tell tourists you can still come to hawaii you are not going to get ash and debris and have your life threatened, if you will. It is still a hot spot but as of this point in time, the effects of this particular event is pretty loek localized. Localized. Even though it was a 6. 9 earthquake, the effect was pretty localized to this island and virtually no tsunami to speak of. Julie that is a blessing in disguise. Thank you very much. For more than a thousand people arrested for demonstrating in cities across russia, what they were protesting that caused this extreme police res