Is blatantly political. Correspondent kevin corke starts us off tonight from the white house. Good evening, kevin. Evening, mike. Some of the president of austrias own party, including trip roy says he should ignore lawyers go ahead and put that Citizenship Question on the upcoming 2020 census. He says quite frankly because we should. And as it turns out, the president agrees. Fake. Thats how President Trump described in news reports that the Commerce Department was dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the census. A claim seemingly at odds with his own commerce secretary, wilbur ross, who previously stated that the Census Bureau had already started the process of printing the questionnaires without the question. The notice to move ahead without the question came a week after the Supreme Court ruled that the administration could not add it to the 2020 form. Chief Justice John Roberts ready for the majority called the administrations reasoning contrived, arguing that the court could not ignore the disconnect between the decision made and the explanation given. Still unbowed, the president is fighting the decision, tweeting that he had asked the commerce and Justice Department stood whatever necessary to bring this most vital questions and is very important case to a successful conclusion. While theres no evidence to suggest that the administration will have its way on the issue anytime soon, there is evidence the president s Economic Policy are having a surprising effect on the trade deficit, and not in a good way. If the deficit soared to a fivemonth high in may, 55. 5 billion, up 8. 4 , including an 18. 1 increase with mexico to 9. 6 billion. Under 12. 2 surge with china to just over 30 billion. This is what americans need to know. Theyre unfair and frequently unlawful trading practices cannot be tolerated. Its been a very unbalanced relationship. It may improve, and im all for it, but it has to be right on the money. While the Administration Remains convinced a number of trade deals could be finalized in the nottoodistant future, overseas iranian leaders say they like a return to the nottoodistant past. The negotiations and aggressive sanctions establish a dialogue with the west. Today the countrys president warned that a failure by the west to rethink its policies pleads for even more uranium enrichment. We want to express regret, do it now. If you want to issue a statement, you can do it now. From july 7th onward, it will not be at 3. 67 anymore. Our advice to europe in the United States is to go back to logic and to the negotiating table. The president actually had a tweet about an hour ago where he suggested that the iranians need to be really careful, mike, because making threats like that can come back to bite you like no ones ever been bitten before. And one more quick nugget. I just want to wrap up that part about the census question. It would have understood for some time now that there are some Lower Court Judges that are suggesting that they need to know definitively from the department of justice whether or not they intend to pursue this idea of a census 2020 question about citizenship. If one says they need to know by friday. Another needs to know by monday the eighth. We will keep a very close eye on that, but for now, back to you. Mike something to walk so much water about it we can. Kevin corke, thanks a lot. Record high closes across the board after todays abbreviated Training Session on wall street. The industrial average gained 179, the s p 500 finished at 23. Nasdaq jumped 61. There is continuing fallout over the Facebook Group featuring current and former members of customs and Border Patrol and some posts considered racist and vulgar. Congresswoman alexandria garcia cortez, a frequent target on the site, says customs and Border Protection has a violent culture. If the Homeland Security department is investigating. We will speak live with the acting security secretary in a moment. First correspondent Casey Stegall has more tonight from dallas. Today the acting dhs secretary took to twitter to announce he launched an investigation into a Facebook Group that was uncovered this week, discovered by a private group for past and present Border Patrol employees which sewed racist and sexist post about migrants and lawmakers. He called the alleged activity disturbing and inexcusable. Adding these statements are completely acceptable, especially if made by those sworn to uphold the dhs mission, our values and standards of conduct. But the promise of an investigation isnt tempering public outrage. Protests have erupted across the u. S. In response to growing allegations of deplorable conditions at migrant holding centers. It is inhumane for children to be put in cages with no close, no diapers, no Running Water. The federal government however has denied allegations of migrant far less having access to fresh water or hygiene items and Border Patrol has said its doing the best with what limited resources they have, though a newly released report from the dhs Inspector Generals Office says thats not good enough. The 15 page document describes the situation as a ticking time bomb. The Inspector General was calling for immediate action after auditors made surprise visits to several south Texas Holding facilities a few weeks ago. Investigators also took photos noting one cell was holding more than 80 people. Almost half overcapacity. If others show women and children sleeping on the floor with mylar blankets. Border patrol contends that most of the agents are in fact following the rules. Noting many of them are parents themselves and they care about the welfare of these migrant children. Mike. Mike Casey Stegall in dallas. Thanks a lot. Joining us now is acting Homeland Security secretary kevin mcaleenan. Great to have you, thanks for coming in. President trump tweeted late today if Illegal Immigrants are unhappy with the conditions in the quicklybuilt or refitted detention centers, just tell them not to come, all problems solved. Your thoughts, sir . We also tweeted about the opportunity for congress to solve this congress and the beginning. We asked 18 months ago for legislation that would close these loopholes and prevent of the crisis from happening in the first place. Ive been happening with them i talk about the problems of the flow a family of children and the challenge it presents to Young Children in the journey in the hands dangerous smugglers and what we need resourcewise at the border. Weve asked congress for help. It took 60 days to get the emergency supplemental funding and we are applying it right no now. Mike you had some embers of congress visit the borders this week. Take a listen to this and i will ask you to respond, sir. This is them on their best behavior and they put them in a room with no Running Water and these women were being told by cbp officers to drink out of the toilet. They were Drinking Water out of the toilet, and that was them knowing a congressional visit was coming. This is cbp on their best behavior. Mike some of your congressional critics called in a manufactured crisis. Now they are sounding the alarm, what do you say . It was a crisis the whole time. Ive been talking about it since december and congressional testimony seven times. We held a press conference on march 27th in el paso sang the borders at the breaking point. We had 14,000 people in our custody. On june 1st that number was 20,000. So it absolutely has been a crisis the whole time. Thats why it asked congress to change the law and what we asked for emergency supplemental on may 1st that we just got last week. Mike what about the claim of breaking out toilets . Its just not accurate. If we would never ask anyone to drink out of out of the toilet. The women in that cell had access to a 5gallon jug of water with cops right outside the door of their cell, which was not locked. Mike someone suggest if ocasiocortez and members of congress were so concerned, they should have voted for the 4. 6 billion humanitarian aid package. What about that . It took us too long to get that eight and frankly i think its important for your viewers to understand, a lot of concerned about the number of children in our custody. Ive been sounding the alarm for a long time. With 2500 kids at one point in late may and early june in our custody and many of them had been there for several days. On accessible situation by any measure. That umber right now in our afternoon report is under 300 children and Border Patrol custody, and only 20 some odd have been in custody more than three days. The average had been moved to health and Human Services facilities, much better equipped for kids, under 30 hours. Barry different situation now that we have the funding to address the challenge. Mike youve come up through the ranks to be the acting secretary. What are your concerns about what your people there on the front lines have been dealing with and the overcrowding that . Are men and one on the border have been doing an incredible job with limited resources and without frankly a lot of support for months on end. Im very proud of them. Im very proud of the dedication they bring to their duties, the fact that they didnt sign up for this. They want to catch bad guys on the border, stop criminals from exploiting that border and bring drugs into the country, but theyve been pressed into service to really process, care for, address the medical needs, take children to the hospital for months on end now and theyve done an incredible job. Its our responsibility ideally working with congress, but if not, working with International Partners to address this flow and get them back to the priority mission. Mike what about these social media posts . You called for an investigation, what do you want to learn from that investigation . We need to address this urgently. We cant have these kinds of farming though my comments. If they reflect very poorly on the men and women in uniform and do not represent the kind of people we have in the Border Patrol. The Border Patrol model is on a first end and my experience working with them for 15 years, now 16 years since we started the department of Homeland Security, for example by that and their Mission Every single day. A couple of bad apples expressing these kind of views, they need to be addressed and held accountable, but its not representative of who they are. Mike no surprise Elijah Cummings is calling for you to appear in capitol hill. Do you intend to appear next week to i testified in front of congress five times in my first few months as acting secretary. If we are accountable to congress. The appear and do testimony. We are working on dates with the committee right now. Mike how difficult has this job and for you . Obviously a lot of attention, highprofile attention on the situation at the border. An unprecedented crisis there. Hows the job . Managing a crisis is hard. No question. Getting these resources last week will certainly get the situation of people in our custody, allow us to manage that better with temporary facilities, increase medical support with food and supplies. Thats great, my goal is to actually address the causes of the crisis. Engaging with mexico. President trump started the dialogue with mexico that transformed that effort. It weve seen a 25 drop in just the first three weeks of that agreement coming into force. Ive been working with guatemala, with honduras on a similar type of agreement that can change this flow in the region and really address the financial problem of family and children exporting a little and coming of economic migrants to the country. Mike the president s job that they are getting more funds than the congressional democrats, do think the mexicans are really serious about being good partners on this . They are working very hard. Theyve deployed thousands of National Guard to address Border Security on their southern border between chiapas and guatemala. As well as transportation. Theyve been working very well with us. Mike mr. Mcaleenan, thank you very much. Wish you a great independence day. All right, you too. Mike thank you. Americans all over the country are here in washington preparing for fourth of july festivities. There is growing controversy tonight over something that is normally not controversial at all, for july 4th celebration. Correspondent ellison barber is live on the National Mall tonight with the latest. Good evening, allison. Hi, mike. We are at the Lincoln Memorial. If you can see our military vehicles here, there is a military van. They from practicing, preparation set up, well underway. President trump says all of this will eventually make for the show of a lifetime. The last time someone rolled through washington, d. C. , the year was 1991, marking the end of the gulf war. Abrams responded on Freight Train outside of d. C. Tuesday night. Sources tell fox news they will move closer to the Lincoln Memorial tonight. Two military fighting vehicles came in on truck beds in the dead of night. This afternoon they were moved to the front of the Lincoln Memorial. As crews assembled bulletproof glass in preparation for president donald trump. We are going to have a great fourth of july in washington, d. C. Criticism nomadic critics say this is the sort of thing you see in north korea and not in the United States and President Trumps plan speech makes the day for all americans partisan. The politicized fourth of july before he opened his mouth. We dont want tanks on the streets of d. C. A number of groups have permits to protest. Many of the people visiting the mall today said they are excited and dont believe any of this is problematic. Im all for it. On july 4th at 11 45 a. M. Local time, National Independence day parade begins in northwest d. C. The department of interior says there will be floats, military units, giant balloons, drill teams, and more. Then theres the salute to america event at the Lincoln Memorial. The president is set to speak, the u. S. Army band is set to play that traditional capital fourth concert happens after that, and then fireworks. The white house reportedly gave 5,000 tickets to the department of defense, the pentagon said President Trump said, instead invitations. The chairman of the joint chief of staff. Notably absent from the attendance list are the chiefs of the army, navy, air force, and the marines. The white house has said little about the overall cost. According to report in in the Washington Post, the National Park service is diverting nearly 2. 5 million primarily intended to improve parks to cover some of the associated costs. The president tweeting today the cost of our great salute to america tomorrow will be very little compared to what it is worth. As for the military leaders not attending, a spokesperson for the pentagon told fox news that it is not unusual for Senior Leadership to send senior Senior Leadership to send rep as an additional function when they cannot attend because of competing commitments. Mike ellison barber live on a busy National Mall. Thanks a lot. Up next, which democratic president of candidate has the best chance of defeating President Trump . First, heres what some of our fox affiliates on the country are covering tonight. Fox 5 in las vegas has the family of a woman killed by a gunman, raining down fire from an las vegas Highrise Hotel suite, files of wrongful death lawsuit against eight dont gun makers and three dealers. If the lawsuit contends their weapons are designed in a way that could easily be modified to fire like automatic weapons. None of those cited in the lawsuit have commented so far. 58 people died in the shootings in 2017. Wbr be in louisville as a mass of jim beam warehouse filled with 45,000 barrels of bourbon, destroyed by a huge fire, the boys sent flames shooting into the night sky. Authorities say it generated so much heat that fire trucks lights actually melted. A county official says the fire may have been started by lightning. This is a live look at Oklahoma City from fox 25. The big story there tonight, the defendants in oklahomas trial against drugmakers ask a judge to rule in their favor. They argue the state has failed to prove they are responsible for the opioid epidemic. Attorneys for Consumer Product giant Johnson Johnson and Janssen Phar