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FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting May 8, 2019

Our reporting begins with the battle with the Trump Administration and the democrats over the constitution. The president exerting executive privilege for getting the full mueller, the unredacted and complete report given to the attorney general as well as the underlying evidence gathered in the russia investigation. The white house making the announcement as the house judiciary commissioner jerry nadler was gavelling in a session on holding the attorney general william barr in contempt of the congress. Chairman nadler saying President Trumps latest move is a clear sign of the president s blanket defiance of Congress Constitutional duties. Throughout the day, democrats and republicans have gone back and forth over the special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation. No person and certainly not the top Law Enforcement officer in the country can be permitted to flout the will of congress and to defy a valid subpoena. No person, not the attorney general, not the president can be permitted to be above the law. Democrats have no plan, no purpose and no viable legislative agenda beyond attacking this administration. If it wasnt for him being president , he would be in prison with Michael Cohen and he obstructed justice as the Mueller Report says is so, we are in danger and we need to respond and act for the people of the United States of america. Its all about trying to destroy bill barr. Democrats are nervous that hes going to get to the bottom of everything. Hes going to find out how and why this started in the first place. Democrats have weapon iced our critical oversight responsibility. Moving today, to hold the a. G. In contempt is not only unwarranted, it is shameful. I think we believe the American People deserve better. This collision is the definition of a constitutional crisis. The breadth of this obstruction is beyond anything in our nations history. Shepard if the Committee Votes to hold bar in contempt, it will be up to all lawmakers in the house. If they hold barr in contempt, it will be only the second time in American History that the attorney general faces this kind of legal trouble. President trumps latest move against House Democrats signals a growing fight between the executive and legislative branches over the constitution that if not expedited could take years for courts to resolve. Democrats want the full mueller. The full report and testimony from the special counsel, plus the testimony of the former white house counsel, don mcgahn. Catherine herridge reporting live on capitol hill. Catherine . The debate has resumed in the last 15 minutes. What we anticipate is two more amendments and then the final vote what we heard from republicans today is they say the Justice Department has negotiated in good faith with House Democrats and recent days they have offered broader access to the records and the underlying documents. They say the attorney general cant get beyond this issue of the grand jury material, which would require a court order in order to share with congress. The democrats have said consistently that that is the grand jury information is a side issue and the larger issue is about obstructing independent oversight. I can only conclude the president now seeks to take a wrecking ball to the constitution of the United States of america. By citing the attorney general of the United States for contempt of congress, were saying im standing up for the law, i am not going to break the law by complying with that part of your subpoena shows an overreach on the part of the majority. Of key for republicans, they say democrats are not liking the findings of the special counsel on collusion, so conspiracy between Trump Campaign officials and russian government officials and they dont like the outcome on obstruction that was decided by the attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general. But democrats say its about something much different that when you read the Mueller Report and you specifically look at volume 2, the obstruction evidence is strong. In is not a witch hunt. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, its a duck. If it looks like obstruction, sounds like obstruction, smells like obstruction, its obstruction. This is not about seeking the truth as we heard this morning. Its about raw partisan politics. Our democrat colleagues have weaponized our critical oversight responsibility. So were expecting a vote on the contempt resolution sometime in the next hour or so, shep. The general view is that it will pass along party lines. And then it goes to the house leadership and they have to decide whether to proceed and under what circumstances and the timing. So will it be a criminal, civil or inherent contempt, which is enforced by the house. The bottom line is that its shaping up to be a legal, a court fight that will continue into the 2020 election, shep. Shepard thanks, catherine. Legal analysis coming up minutes from now on the contempt vote in the House Committee and the president exerting executive privilege over the Mueller Report. That is on the run down at the bottom of the hour. First, when two gunmen stormed a high school in Highlands Ranch colorado in denver, some students fought back. Among them, a United States marine recruit. His name is brendon bailey. The marines say the young recruit helped save his fellow classmates when the suspects came into his classroom. Baileys father told the New York Times, when one team pulled a gun from a guitar case, his son jumped up with others to try to tackle the suspect. Some of the other hero students were apparently shot including this senior who died trying to save students. Kendrick ask a castillo was a member of the schools Robotics Team set to graduate days from now, a witness told nbc news as classmates and students ran for cover, kendrick stepped up and lunged at the suspects. Classmates calling their actions to protect other students incredible. You can imagine yourself in that situation. Everyone wants to say that hey, ill stand up. Take a bullet for the rest of the class. Actually doing it the truly incredible. Definitely shows you the difference between good and evil in that moment. Shepard the two suspects are set to appear in Court Minutes from now. Alicia acuna reporting live on scene in Highlands Ranch, colorado. Alicia . Shep, this will be an advisement hearing for the two suspects. The Douglas County sheriff says theyre also students of the same school. The sheriff says deputies from a substation nearby arrived within two minutes yesterday and could hear the gun shots as they ran into the school. Investigators say there was a struggle and then the two shooters were taken into custody. Law Enforcement Teams have been searching the suspects homes and a vehicle. The house has disturbing graffiti covering it. The sheriff says he will not discuss a motive. We know pistols were used in this assault. The number of weapons at the school, we wont release that. There was two hand guns. Ill tell you that at this point. Nine students were shot. Eight injured, one killed. 18yearold Kendrick Castillo was three days away from graduation. I know you have an obligation to put out a picture but soon, very soon, let us move passed focusing on the identity of the suspects and their images and focus instead on the innocent victims. And those suspects will be in court at the bottom of the hour. Shep . Shepard thank you. Pentagon Officials Say they will not be able to bring back the remains of u. S. Soldiers killed in the korean war. Not for the time being. 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They cite a new credible threat as the white house puts it from iran. Also this past hour, the Trump Administration hitting iran with new sanctions. The latest action and a fresh round of tension between washington and tehran. Today irans president announced that nation will no longer honor parts of the nuclear deal that it signed with the United States and other countries and agained to start producing more highly enriched uranium. All of this exactly a year after President Trump announced the United States was withdrawing from that very nuclear agreement. Mike pompeo made an unannounced visit to iraq yesterday after the u. S. Deployed a fleet of warships and bombers to the region. Rich edson reporting live this afternoon from the state department. Rich . Shep, the state Department Says they will work to deny iran all paths to a Nuclear Weapon as the secretary of state is traveling in the united kingdom. Hes meeting with british officials and says irans announcement is just another threat from iran that this happens a lot with iran. Theyll make threats and the United States will followthrough and monitor the situation as it goes. Britains foreign secretary jeremy hunt said if iran breaks the deal, there will be consequences in terms of how european powers react. What the iranians want, they want the european governments still part of the nuclear deal, they want them to help them, the iranians circumvent american sanctions. The u. S. Put sanctions back on the iranian government. They are looking for a path around it and expect the british and germans to help, shep. Shepard rich, the rhetoric continues to escalate. A new warning for iran today. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff speaking at a Senate Committee said the United States warned iran last week about the intelligence that it had gotten about the iranian threat. That eventually led to United States to announce they were deploying a Carrier Strike group to the persian gulf. We sent messages friday to make sure it was clear to iran that we recognize the threat and postured to respond. The lincoln would have made its way to the gulf. What i asked was to accelerate the movement. Patrick shanahan said the president received credible information about the threat. The administration has refused to share details about what the threat is or was. Shep . Shepard rich edson live. Thousands of American Families whose loved ones never came home from war in korea will have to wait longer for possible closure. Pentagon Officials Say theyre suspending talks with north korea and recovering remains about missing soldiers because they havent heard from pyongyang in months. Jennifer griffin has more. This was one of the key pledges and key achievement to come out of the first summit with kim jongun in singapore last june. The pentagon suspended talks about recovering more remains of missing american soldiers from the korean war. The remains of 5,000 americans are thought to be located in north korea. In a ceremony presided over by Vice President mike pence after the first summit, north korea returned 55 boxes of what they claimed to be human remains. Only three americans have been identified. That was a lot of fanfare. A spokesman confirmed to us the decision to halt talks about the missing americans in an email to fox news. Fox news first reported in february the freeze and discussions with north korea as pentagon officials accused of the regime of dragging their feet after only one delivery of remains. The Trump Administration has said it was an accomplishment. Sarah sanders said were not seei seeing missiles being tested. Now the remains are coming home. Those talks are now off. Soon we could be getting messages from debt collectors. 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