commencements since becoming president. it comes after the white house fallout of the sudden dismissal of james comey during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the trump administration or rather trump campaign, i should say and russia. now this is as four candidates prepare to interview today for the fbi director job. we have a team of political reporters and analysts standing by here. let s begin with cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles who is at the commencement. you see him there on the left. what are you hearing from the crowd there? i understand there s about 7,000 students and families who will be watching. what are they saying? what do they expect? reporter: well, this is expected to be a pretty friendly crowd for the president. this is a group of people and voters in particular that generally supported him during the election and, of course, here at liberty university their president jerry falwell jr. a very influential evangelical leader that allowed the thank you. right there on the right-hand side of your screen we see from moments ago the president as he arrives taking some steps down to the waiting car and on his way to liberty university. as the president prepares to speak there in lynchburg, some waiting to hear from him are still conflicted over their support for the president. let s go to another part of the city there, lynchburg, another cnn correspondent spoke with a family that is mixed on their support. not all of them supported him, the president. reporter: hey guys, good morning. there seems to be, many constituents in the heart of the bible belt who are not sure what to make about president trump s recent tweets and behavior. what we did find the president still enjoys the benefit of doubt from many of those in the heart of the bible belt and we found that was at play under one family s roof. they call it the white house of lynchburg. the white family tackles everything at the dinner table from projects to politics behind the controversial firing of fbi director james comey. those who are, which is the majority here, those who are pro trump voted for trump, i think something like this doesn t, isn t going to shake them one bit. reporter: larry white and his wife kathy are raising their family in lynchburg, in the center of virginia but leaning right more than 50% of the city voted for donald trump. we all basically have the same world view. a christian world view. but when it gets into politics there s certainly going to be some variation. reporter: the whites are highly conservative but also conflicted when it comes to their views on president trump. i didn t actually vote for him. reporter: 23-year-old ana white is one of the few in her family who didn t cast a vote for president trump. recent trump tweets have reassured her of her decision. her president trump voting family members still stand by their choice. i don t think there will be any one time oh, okay shouldn t have voted for him, he was not the her joy thought he was. like he wasn t a hero to begin with. you didn t vote for him thinking avenues hero. i have trust issues with the former president. and the president before that. so the idea of trusting this president, or not trusting is not new. reporter: this is the kind of dialogue you ll find at the white s dinner table. intense. we get very intense and passionate. there s a lot of us so it s hard to talk at the dinner table. reporter: this weekend it s trump s turn to talk in lynchburg a place that welcomed him as a candidate and now as president. this part of virginia is home to some of trump s steadfast supporters as the city republican vice chair. he was part of the reagan revolution. it s important for people to come to lynchburg, meet voters, meet people and see what it s all about. reporter: over 100 days into trump s presidency griffin and fellow republicans seem unphased by the controversy swirling over the white house. i want to support the job he s doing. i want him to be a good representation of america. i love this country reporter: the white s faith in president trump is being tested but their faith in the office is unshakeable. a feeling shared by many in this brass buckle of the bible belt. and the white will be in the audience waiting to hear president trump speak. the comey termination has dominated the conversation at the dinner table. people here say they are questioning the timing. others felt it was the right thing to do. there was a consensus with one question among the white family and that is president trump should stop tweeting. thank you. let s bring in our panel to discuss. cnn commentator, cnn political analyst, cnn presidential historian and former clinton campaign media director. welcome to all. we re just a few minutes away from the president speaking today. first to you, adams, our presidential historian. this president first choice here liberty university. the significance and what you expect to hear from him? first of all i m always interested when the president use as prayer address. i m interested in the themes he focus on. we re going to see some shift if any in his message. i m also going to be looking for statements by the president president likes to interact with the audience. maybe he ll say some things off the cuff that s not in his prepared remarks. it would be interesting if he were to refer to the last week and talked about how he understands leadership. be interesting if he talked about rule of law. and it would also be important if he doesn t refer at all to the controversy of the last week. so, i ll be listening intently. ron, what do you anticipate we ll hear? are we going to hear something that will make news today? are we going to hear a message of unity as we have gotten word that at least it will in part be something along those lines and how will he do that? i ll be surprised if he addresses the issues that are front and raised by his dismissal of the fbi director. evangelical christians are a corner stone of the republican coalition based on issues, you know, especially when conservative christian movement started it was often described as values voters. it s hard to see how donald trump with everything that s swirled around him in the campaign was an example of values, you know, defined in that way. it was more about issue position and particularly the appointment of a fifth republican justice on the supreme court which has been his biggest policy achievement so far. he won 80% of white evangelical christians. this is right at the corner stone of the coalition and i think he ll be talking about the policy positions that kind of connect him to those voters. i think that will be the principle message i think today because as i say, it is not really a values connection, it s a policy connection and that was made very clear in this campaign. you see on the stage the president there arriving to his, his left, your right on the screen. this is jerry falwell jr. head of liberty university there. as we watch here live pictures, the president preparing for the commencement address his first commencement as president of the united states, not all of these students are supportive of the president. during the campaign we know there were protests today. but during the campaign there was a petition online and a letter liberty united against trump. i want to read just a portion of this to give us maybe some color about some of those in opposition. because our president has led the world to believe that liberty university supports donald trump, we students must take it upon ourselves to make clear that donald trump is absolutely opposed to what we believe and does not have our support. we re not proclaiming our opposition to donald trump out of bitterness but out of a desire to regain the integrity of our school. they go on to say we don t want to champion donald trump we want only to champion for christ. so, the narrative that this is in full an audience that is friendly to the president, maybe not 100% accurate. i think that s true. i think that certainly if you re an evangelical who believes that lying is against what the bible teaches, if you believe that committing egregious acts of sexual assault against women by groping them that s against what the bible teaches then you re going to be in opposition to donald trump and i think that, you know, the students who wrote that certainly were concerned about a number of different things he said during the campaign whether they be racist or sexist and i think that coming out against donald trump shows that they believe in the tenets of the bible and what it teaches and they have integrity in that regard. don t go anywhere. we see them putting hand to heart. most likely saying the pledge of allegiance. we ll be right back as we have word from the president as he was on air force one on his way to make his commencement speech. we ll play that for you after the break. stay 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with the power vested in people you re looking here at the liberty university commencement as it gets under way. the president not in your screen there but shortly as he delivers the first commencement speech to liberty university. the first extended appearance we ll see from him after the firing of fbi director, now former africa director james comey. this comes during that period, the question now was the firing of james comey directly related to the fbi investigation into russia s immediate knowledge to the 2016 election? here s what the president said a few moments ago on air force one on comey s replacement. watch this. do you think you might make a decision or an announcement? these are outstanding people that are very well known. highest level. before the trip next week important,ly? even that is possible. our panel is back with us now. let s start with andre. we didn t get you last time. just now potentially days away, andre, from the announcement of the next potential fbi director. that s exciting. you know, i have my own favorite but whom ever is i think it starts a fresh start to a new presidency. many people were concerned about the former fbi director s different ties and allegiances. so part of it in the administration is cleaning it. and keep in mind part of donald trump s big sale to the american people he was draining the swamp. i m a firm believer in term limits not only for members of the united states congress and senate but so many of these agency heads. it needs turn over from time to time. if you look at the list of people who are being considered these are fresh faces from outside of washington. let s put up the four faces if we can. go ahead, andre. well, my hope is that we do get somebody that has a nonpartisan background. but outside of that it s time for some turnover in so many of these different positions not just fbi director. i know when i was a state senator i got rid of the magistrates and put new ones in. people elected me over the person that had been there for a long time and i came in with a different idea and different approach to government. there were some growing pains but that s part of continuing this wonderful electoral system we have and if people didn t like that they didn t have to vote for me next time as they can with donald trump. i want to ask you, adams, we had some reporting from cnn here from some senior white house officials that there s a sense of dejection that most were caught offguard by the decision to fire james comey and even vice president mike pence was rattled by the events this week. what do you make of that characterization of the morale in the white house this early on in the presidency? well, this president seems to be winging it a lot of the time. and the decision to remove the director of the fbi at a time when the fbi is under take an investigation of the 2016 campaign creates at the very least leaving aside legal and political issues. terrible optics. and the president normally works with his inner team, i mean previous presidents, republican or democrat would have worked with their team to come up with a communication strategy, a messaging strategy to prepare the american people, to explain why such a potentially controversial decision was made. and, obviously, it didn t happen in this case. we saw that with the scrambling, the fact the explanation of why comey was fired changed and the president himself upset or undermined the white house s explanation. i don t know whether the morale was high or low. i wouldn t be surprised if it was low. what i think will be interesting to watch is the extent to which the white house team can be consistent over the next little while. has the president learned anything from this? will he? can he learn from this? the impression that the united states, the american people got last week was a country that was led by a white house that is in disarray. and if the morale is low there, it s not surprising to me at all. let me come to you, ron from the air force one there we heard from the president that it could be potentially a few days which means we go from firing of james comey to now the path to confirming the next fbi director. is washington ready to pick the next guy or woman without knowing how or why the previous fbi director was let go? i think your question answers itself. there are many, many questions to be answered about how the previous person was let go. i can t andre s point kind of misses the central issue here is that whatever the other motivations, other justifications were for removing james comey, the president fired the senior law enforcement official overseeing the investigation of whether his campaign was colluding with the russians in an effort the destabilize the 2016 election. that s the core issue. that hangs over whoever comes into the job. whoever he points no matter how independent, no matter how well-respected is coming in to office with the knowledge that the president fired their predecessor while they were pursuing this investigation and to tim s point acknowledge that that was part of his thinking in the interview with lester holt after sending out the white house or allowing or encouraging the white house staff to go out with a completely different story that they undermine and made not true from the beginning. that s there. that s part of this legacy going forward, no matter who steps into this job they know their predecessor was removed by the president while they were investigating. now, we ve had legal scholars today in the newspaper debating whether that amounts to an obstruction of justice depending on the mine set of the president. all of that is a very serious cloud over this next appointment and the idea that we re going to turn the page and move on to the merits of another person without fully investigating here i think is kind of unlikely. a lot of people think this investigation can t move forward without hearing from comey himself. and we re getting word from the new york times reporting this morning that comey does want to testify, but he wants to do so publicly. let s listen to senator mark warner here from last night talking about james comey and testifying. we just heard from the director that he s not able to make it tuesday. it s my hope we can find a time, i think it s really important that the congress and more broadly the american people hear director comey s side of the story. what do you make of the news this morning that comey wants to testify, he wants to do it publicly. do you think that will happen? i do think it will happen. i think eventually we ll see director comey take an oath and testify before the congress in an open hearing because i think that he believes in transparency and in some points in history, you know, it was to a fault i think that he s been criticized for the way he handled the e-mail investigation and almost trying too hard to appear transparent in that regard so i think it s important that he testified in front of congress under oath because we do need to get to the bottom of not only the hacking but now this new issue that s been raised this week which is why the president would all of a sudden in the middle of a ten year term now what was mentioned earlier is that there should be term limits. there are. there s a reason why there s a ten year term for fbi director. they are supposed to be apolitical. be able to go across more than one administration so they are not partisan. the fact that the president in his own words admits he fired director comey because of the russian investigation into his own campaign we need to know more about that specifically and also ensure that the investigation continues in earnest in the fbi and senate and house and i don t know how we do that without a special prosecutor. i think that this process actually has been too politicized. i do hope we hear from information director jim comey. stay with us. you see on 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koem. the president spoke about finding a replacement for him on air force one a little bit earlier. let sist end to this. do you think you might make a decision before saturday? these are outstanding people that are very well known. highest level. we could make a fast decision. before the trip next week possibly even that is possible. i think the process will be quick because almost all of them are very well known. they ve been vetted over their lifetime essentially but very well known, highly respected, really talented people and that s what we want for the fbi. i ll see you over at the school. have a good time. thank you very much, mr. president. hearing from the president as opposed to one of the surrogates whom we ve heard a lot from. let s play sean spicer at yesterday s daily briefing there at the white house. i m going to play this for our panel as we welcome them back in. again, let s listen to sean spicer, a bit of sound, a match up from yesterday s briefing. i m not aware. i haven t spoken to him about it about the reason. identify not asked him about the deputy identify not asked him about general lew i don t go through the list of employees and ask him. so identify not asked him specifically about that. the number of times yesterday, ti adamt we heard se say i don t know, but more than we ve heard in the past. how has the president s, i guess, 180 on how he came to the decision to fire james comey affected that relationship potentially between the president and his communications director, the press secretary, deputy press secretary? well, i don t know about their personal relationship but i ll say this, which is that the white house communications director, or director of communications, his job or her job sometimes is to support the president and clean up the president s messes if that s required. i think the problem last week and this gets back to something ron said is deeper than that. the president just didn t change the rationale the public rationale for firing comey. the way he explained himself put himself in joe jeopardy. i m not saying yet legal jeopardy but he actually he actually deepened suspicions that he did this because he was worried about the direction that the russian investigation was going. i m not saying that was the reason he did it. but the way in which he explained himself. and the letter that he sent to mr. comey. both of these are tell tale, and give you a sense that s what motivated him. if that s what motivated him there will be enormous pressure on whoever he selects. let s listen here to the president of the united states, his first commencement speech. [ applause ] thank you very much, everybody. and congratulations to the class of 2017. that s some achievements. [ applause ] this is your day and you ve earned every minute of it. and i m thrilled to be back at liberty university. i ve been here, this is now my third time. and we love setting records. right? we always set records. we have to set records. we have no choice. it s been a little over a year since i ve spoken on your beautiful campus, and so much as changed. right here the class of 2017 dressed in cap and gown, graduating to a totally brilliant future. and here i am standing before you as president of the united states, so i m guessing there are some people here today who thought that either one of those things either one would really require major help from god. do we agree? [ laughter ] [ applause ] and we got it. [ applause ] but here we are celebrating together on this very joyous occasion, and there s no place in the world i rather be to give my first commencement address as president than here with my wonderful friends at liberty university. [ applause ] and i accept this invitation a long time ago. i said to jerry that i would be there. and when i say something, i mean it. [ applause ] i want to thank president jerry falwell and his incredible wife becky. stand up, becky. for their kind words. their steadfast support. and their really wonderful friendship. let me also extend our appreciation to the entire falwell family, trey, sara, leslie and caroline. thank you for everything you do to make this university so exceptional. truly one of the great schools. most importantly to our new graduate, each of you should take immense pride in what you have achieved. there s another group of amazing people we want to celebrate today. and they are the ones who have made this journey possible for you, and you know who that is? nobody. you forgot already. you re going to go out and do whatever you re going to do. some of you will make a lot of money. some will be even happier doing other things. they are your parents and grandparents. don t forget them. [ applause ] you haven t for got them have you? never ever forget them. they are great. especially this weekend let s make sure we give a really extra special thanks to the moms. [ applause ] don t forget our moms. because graduates today is your day. today is your day. but in all of this excitement don t forget that tomorrow is mother s day. right? i had a great mother. she s looking down now. but i had a great mother. i always loved mother s day. we re also deeply honored to be joined by some of the nearly 6,000 service members, military veterans and military spouses who are receiving their diplomas today. would you please stand. please stand. [ applause ] wow. [ applause ] that s great. thank you very much. great job. we re profoundly grateful over tory single one of you sacrificed to keep us safe and to protect god s precious gift of freedom. it is truly a testament to this university and to the values that you embrace that your graduating class includes so many patriots who have served our country in uniform. thank you very much. to the class of 2017, today you end one chapter but you are about to begin the greatest adventure of your life. just think for a moment of how blessed you are to be here today at this great, great university. living in this amazing country, surrounded by people who you love and care about so much. then ask yourself, with all of those blessings, and all of the blessings that you ve been given, what will you give back to this country and, indeed, to the world? what imprint will you leave in the sands of history? what will future americans say we did in our brief time right here on earth? did we take risks? did we dare to defy expectations? did we challenge accepted wisdom and take on established systems? i think die, but we all did. and we re all doing it. or did we just go along with convention, swim downstream so easily with the current and just give in because it was the easy way, it was the traditional way, or it was the accepted way? remember this, nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right, and they know what is right, but they don t have the courage or the guts or the stamina to take it and to do it. it s called the road less traveled. i know that each of you will be a warrior for the truth. will be a warrior for our country. and for your family. i know that each of you will do what is right, not what is the easy way, and that you will be true to yourself and your country and your believes. in my short time in washington, i ve seen firsthand how the system is broken. a small group of failed voices who think they know everything and understand everyone, want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think. but you aren t going to let other people tell you what you believe, especially when you know that you re right. [ applause ] and those of you graduating here today, who have given half a million hours of charity, last year alone, unbelievable amount of work and charity and few universities or colleges can claim anything even close, we don t need a lecture from washington on how to lead our lives. i m standing here looking at the next generation of american leaders. there may very well be a president or two in our midst. anybody think they are going to be president, raise your hand? [ applause ] in your hearts are inscribed the ovals of service, sacrifice and devotion. now you must go forth into the world and turn your hopes and dreams into action. america has always been the land of dreams, because america is a nation of true believers. when the pilgrims landed at plymouth, they prayed. when the founders wrote the declaration of independence, they invoked our creator four times because in america we don t worship government, we worship god. [ applause ] that is why our elected officials put their hands on the bible and say, so help me god. as they take the oath of office. it is why our currency proudly declares in god we trust. and it s why we proudly proclaim that we are one nation under god. every time we say the pledge of allegiance. [ applause ] the story of america is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams, and humble beginnings. that is also the story of liberty university. when i think about the visionary founder of this great institution, reverend jerry falwell sr., i can only imagine how excited he would be if he could see all of this and all of you today and how proud he would be of his son and of his family. in just two days we will mark the tenth anniversary of reverend falwell s passing. i juiced to love watching him on television, hearing him preach. he was a very special man. he would be so proud not just at what you ve achieved, but of the young men and women of character that you ve all become. and, jerry, i know your dad is looking down on you right now, and he is proud. he is very proud. [ applause ] so congratulations on a great job, jerry. [ applause ] reverend falwell s life is a testament of the power of faith to change the world, inspiring legacy that we see all around us in this great stadium, this is a beautiful stadium, and it is packed. i m so happy about that. i said how are you going to fill up a place like that. it is packed, jerry. [ laughter ] it is a beautiful campus. it s a world class university for evangelical christians and i want to thank you because boy did you come out and vote, those of you that are old enough. in other words, your parents. [ cheers and applause ] boy oh, boy you voted. you voted. no doubt many people told him his vision was impossible. and i am sure they continue to say that so long after he started at the beginning with just 154 students. but the fact is no one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can t to be done. nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic, because they are people that can t get the job done, but the future belongs to the dreamers. not to the critics. the future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say. because they truly believe in their vision. at liberty your leaders knew from the very beginning that a strong athletic program would help this campus grow so that this school might transform more lives. that is why a crucial part of reverend falwell s vision for making liberty a world class institution was having a world class football team. much like the great teams of notre dame. great school. great place. in fact, vice president mike pence is there today. doing a fabulous job as he always does. [ applause ] a few years ago the new york times even roa story on the great ambitions of the liberty flames. that story prompted a long time president of another school to write a letter to jerry. it s a letter that reverend falwell would have been very, very pleased to read. jerry tells me that letter now hangs in the wall in the boardroom of your great university. it came from the late father theodore hesper who was the beloved president of the university of notre dame, 35 years ago. like this school s founder, he was a truly kind-hearted man, of very, very deep faith. in the letter the father recounted recount ed notre dame s own rise to a football powerhouse and he wrote something so amazing and generous, he wrote i think that you are on that same trajectory now and i want to wish you all the best and encourage you from the start, and from being able to start very small and arriving in the big time. thanks to hard work, great faith and incredible devotion those dreams have come true. as of february of this year, the liberty flames are playing in the fbs, the highest level of competition in ncaa football. [ applause ] don t clap. that could be tough. don t clap. that could be tough. i m a little worried. i don t want to look at some of the scores here. swrerry, are you su jerry are you know what you re doing here. those other players are big and strong and fast. from the most humble roots you ve become a powerhouse in bothation and sports and just wait until the world hears the football teams you ll be playing on your schedule starting next season. president falwell gave me a list of some of those schools, the ones you ll be playing in 2018. would you like me to read the names, just came out? would you like hear them? i m a little bit concerned. [ laughter ] u-mass. virginia. auburn. jerry, are you sure you know what you re doing? [ laughter ] jerry, auburn. i don t know about that, jerry. this could be trouble, jerry. rutgers. old dominion. brigham young. army. i might be at that game. who am i supposed to root for? tell me. that s a tough one, jerry. i don t know, jerry. i ll have to think about that one, jerry. buffalo. troy. virginia tech. oh, no, jerry, ole miss. and wake forest. those are really top schools. maybe in four or five years. maybe you ll build it up. the success of your athletic program arriving on the big stage should be a reminder to every new graduate of just what you can achieve when you start small, pursue a big vision and never ever quit. you never quit. if i give you one message to hold in your hearts today, it s this. never ever give up. there will be times in your life you ll want to quit, you ll want to go home. you ll want to go home, perhaps to that wonderful mother that s sitting back there watching you and saying mom, i can t do it. i can t do it. just never quit. go back home and tell mom, dad, i can do it. i can do it. i will do it. i ll be successful. i ve seen so many brilliant people, they gave up in life. they were totally brilliant. they were top of their class. they were the best students. they were the best of everything. they gave up. i ve seen others who really didn t have that talent or that ability and they are among the most successful people today in the world because they never quit and they never gave up. so just remember that, never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you. carry yourself with dignity and pride. demand the best from yourself. and be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures. does that sound familiar, by the way? the more people tell you it s not possible, that it can t to be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. relish the opportunity to be the outsider. embr embrace that label. being an outside serrefine. embrace that label. because it s the outsiders who change the world and make a real and lasting difference. the more that a broken system tells you that you re wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead. you must keep pushing forward. and always have the courage to be yourself. most importantly, you have to do what you love. you have to do what you love. i ve seen so many people, they are forced through lots of reasons, sometimes including family to go down a path that they don t want to go down. to go down a path that leads them to something that they don t love. that they don t enjoy. you have to do what you love, or you most likely won t be very successful at it. so do what you love. i want to recognize a friend who is here with us today, who can serve as an inspiration to us all. someone who doesn t know the meaning of the word quit. real champion. a true, true champion. both on the field, off the field, he s a hall of fame quarterback for the buffalo bills, really a good friend of mine, amazing guy, jim kelly. where s jim? he s here some place. stand up jim. [ applause ] what a great man. [ applause ] jim kelly. he was tough. jim, do you have any idea how much money you would be making today? they would hit jim, it was like tackling a linebacker. they would hit jim and keep going down the field. he was much more than a quarterback. he had tremendous heart and he knew how to win. jim is tough and his toughest fight of all was that he beat cancer not once but twice. [ applause ] and i saw him and his incredible wife as they were in a very low moment, jill. very, very low moment. and it was amazing the way they fought. it didn t look good. i would have said maybe, maybe it s not going to happen. but there was always that hope because of jim and jim s heart. but i want to just say it s great to have you here today, jim, and these people are big, big fans. if you can get a young version of jim kelly, you ll be beating a lot of teams, jerry. so, interestingly, though, i said i wonder what jim is doing here. his daughter erin crosses the goal line to you and today with you. so erin, stand up. where are you, erin? where is erin? congratulations erin. congratulations. graduating from liberty. [ applause ] great choice. thank you. liberty university is a place where they really have true champions. and you have a simple creed that you live by, to be really champions for christ. whether you re called to be a missionary overseas, to shepherd a church or to be a leader in your community, you are living witness of the gospel message of faith, hope and love. and i must tell you i m so proud as your president to have helped you along over the past short period of time. i said i was going to do it and, jerry, i did it. a lot of people are very happy with what s taking place, especially last week. we did some very important signings. [ applause ] right, james? very important signings. america is better when people put their faith into action. as long as i am your president, no one is ever going to stop you from practicing your faith, or from preaching what s in your heart. [ cheers and applause ] we will always stands up the right for all americans to pray to god and to follow his teachings. america is beginning a new chapter. today each of you begins a new chapter as well. when your story goes from here, it will be defined by your vision, your perseverance, and your grit. that s a word jim kelly knows very well, your grit. in this i m reminded of another man you know very well. and who has joined us here today. his name is george rogers. liberty university cfo and vice president for a quarter of a century. during world war ii, george spent three and a half years as a prisoner of war. he saw many of his fellow soldiers die during the death march. he was the victim of starvation and torture as a prisoner of war. when he was finally set free he weighed just 85 pounds and was told he would not live past the age of 40. today george is 98 years old. [ applause ] great. [ applause ]
handle. what happened, in my opinion, is unacceptable. people have been talking about repeal and replace for seven years. long before i ever decided to be doing what i m doing. seven years they ve been talking repeal and replace and it didn t happen. not only didn t happen, it was a surprise. it was a horrible surprise. it was very unfair to the republican party and very unfair to the people of this country. i was not impressed. now, can he do good? i think so. i think we can do well on tax, cuts, reform. i think we ll do well on infrastructure and things will happen with respect to health care. i think things will happen maybe outside of necessarily needing congress. there s nithings i can do as president that will have a huge impact on health care. have you spoken to the governor of guam, and what did you tell him? i have not. i feel they will be very safe. if anything happens to guam, there s going to be big, big trouble in north korea. have you ordered any change in our military readiness? doini don t want to say. i don t talk about that. you know that. i m not one that says we re attacking mosul in four months. we do it or we don t do it. you re interrupting your trip to return to washington on monday. can you tell us why you re doing that? this isn t really a trip. i stay out of manhattan because it s so disruptsiive to go. i have meetings on monday and tuesday going to manhattan. it s so disruptive. all of my life, my adult life because i grew up in queens not in manhattan but during the time when ever a president came in, it was very disruptive. i think i m probably more disruptive than any of them. they have to close fifth avenue, when they have to close 56th street and many other streets. i m here for that reason. we re doing a tremendous amount of work. we re very large numbers of meetings and i m on the phone a lot. i m here for that reason. i would love to go to my home in trump tower but it s very, very disruptive to do. the trip to washington on monday. we have a conference scheduled. we have an important meeting scheduled. secretary tillerson spoken emphasizing diplomacy, are you two on the same page? totally. we re going to get effective movement out of the regime in north korea. the president has made it clear. he prefers a diplomatic solution. i think he responded to that a moment ago. the president is trying to support our efforts by ensuring north korea understand what is the stakes are. speaking of the state department, these recent attacks we learned about regarding diplomats in cuba. who is responsible for the acoustic attacks? we have not been able to determine who is to blame. every host country has a responsibility for safety and security we hold them responsible for finding out who is carrying out these health attacks. there are other cases with other diplomats as well. what do you make of this? it s awful. you just described it correctly. this is why weaver bringing people out. you re considering swen vene, what options are on the table? we have many options. i m not going to rule out a military option. we have many options for venezuela. we re all over the world and we have troops all over the world and places that are very, very far away. venezuela is not very swar away and the people are suffering and they are dying. we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary. u.s. led? say again. that would be a u.s. led military option? we don t talk about it, but a military option and military option is something that we could perceive. we heard from north korea on state tv saying we consider the u.s. no more than a lump that we can beat to a jelly any time? let me hear others say because when you say that, i don t know what you re referring to and whose making the statement. let me hear kim jong-un say it. you let me hear him say it. mr. president, do you support regime change in north korea or? venezuela? i don t want to comment. i think they are very different places. doin i don t want to comment. i support peace. i support safety, and i support having to get very tough if we have to to protect the american people and also to protect our allies. do you think your vice president will be a candidate for president in 2020? i don t think so. i don t think so at all. he s a good guy. he s left for colombia and various other places. he s been great ally. are you considering further economic sanctions against north korea? we are. they re already very strong. we are considering additional sanctions at a very, very high level. probably you can say as strong as they get. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. there you have president donald trump. wrapping up a roughly 12-minute news conference in which he made a fair amount of news on this friday afternoon. craig melvin in for ari melber on the beat. president trump there once again refusing to walk back any of his comments as they related to north korea. we saw him there flanked by his secretary of state, rex tillerson, u.n. ambassador, nikki haley and general mcmaster. he was asked about everything from those recent attacks, so to speak on diplomats there in cuba which there was significant hearing loss. also, we saw him make some news as it relates to monday promising a big news conference in washington, d.c. would not get specific in terms of subject matter but said there was going to be some sort of important meeting followed by a big news conference but again the lion s share of that news conference devoted to the topic at hand, the topic of the last few days. president trump, saying hopefully it will all work out. also, said he was being sacramen sarcastic earlier this week when he talked about thanks vladmir putin of russia for expelling those diplomats to save some money on payroll in this country. president trump wrapping up a news conference. we ve got kelly o donnel there and congressman gregory meeks. we ll get to what we might hear from the president on monday but just your general take aways from what we just heard from president trump in new jersey. the president has taken questions from members of the white house press pool four times in about 30 hours. he s spoken expassively on his views about north korea. he s used colorful and sometimes hyperbolic rhetoric and trying to suggest reassurance to the american people. the people of guam and also reassurance to south korea saying that with his role in all of this that they will be safe. at the same time there s been this ratcheting up of the language between the american president and the young man in power in north korea. stunning that the president wants to answer so many questions. in terms of the white house press we do not refer to this as a news conference because it s a limited number of journalists. it s unannounced. the president is going back to washington on monday. he has, in the past, foreshadowed news conferences that never materialized. that has happened before. we don t know the specifics here but this was not a part of the agenda. he had expected to be in new jersey jersey, a couple of days in new york and back to bedminister. we have been aware of this and being asking senior officials for the topic, the purpose and not been able to learn what that is yet. the president didn t advance too much for us there. this was very notable that the president also gave his secretary of state an opportunity to speak. we have observed rex tillerson at times trying to sound more calming. trying to reassure allies as he s traveled in asia today standing by side with the president saying they are on the same page. they both believe in diplomacy and threats going back and forth. also interesting to hear the president not rule out military action against venezuela. also indicating there that he thought iran had violated the spirit of the nuclear agreement as well. evelyn, the president tripling down, if not quadrupling down. today promising a big, big trouble. what does that mean? any idea? i m hoping that whatever it is on monday, if it relates to north korea that they will announce some sort of diplomatic breakthrough. his rhetoric still is a bit alarming. as you pointed out rex tillerson the secretary of state made a big poibnt of saying the president s bluster was aimed to strengthen their diplomatic efforts. he did say at the end, he said that kim jong-un, himself, had not said the blustery comments about beating us to jelly or whatever the north korea press said. interestingly the president seemed to be noting that, i guess, the north korean leader had heard his, the president s threat that he should cease and desist with threatening the united states. hopefully, that means there s some kind of behind the scenes hard core diplomacy going on that probably involves beijing as well. he also said at the beginning there s going to be a phone call tonight between president trump and his chinese counterpart president chi. this is what president trump said about guam just a few moments ago. take a listen. if anything happens to guam, there s going to be big, big trouble in north korea. have you ordered any change in our military readiness? i don t want to say. i don t talk about that. i m not one that will say we re attacking mosul in four months. we do it or we don t do it. there was an interesting exchange when a reporter there appeared to try and press the president on precisely what he has meant over the last few days with fire and fury and with some of the other language. the president said at one point, i think you know the answer to that. the reporter asking are we headed toward war. he said i think you know. he s trying to dial this back just a little bit? not from the president. in fact, the secretary of state asks more presidential thatten the president does himself. my hope is that he listens to someone that has, at least, a sense of rationality and understand they re not in a reality tv show or playing the wwf. the threats that the counter rhetoric that the president is talking about is childish in my estimation. it s like you going to stoop down no kim jong-un s level when you re the president of the united states and the leader of the free world and supposed to be other leaders around the world are looking at how you re conducting yourself in this matter. i m concerned about the president s demeanor. i talk to people around the worm world and they hear the secretary of state and ask me but he s not the president. what will the president do? i think the president when you listen to him, you never know or at least it sounds to me it s not plan. you don t see anything of substance coming out of his mouth. where was his plan? he never put forward any piece of legislation or anything that one can see and understand and move on. peter alexander, nbc national correspondent was the voice a lot of us heard a few moments ago peppering the president with questions be questions. he joins us now on phone. walk us through the atmosphere of all of this. president trump there flanked by his top national security. some of his top diplomatic advisors. what s most striking is the fact there s been four of these sort of press availability where the president has been peppered with questions on variety of different topics of the course of the last 36 hours with the president announcing he will do major news conference in washington, d.c. on monday. something has changed for the president. perhaps he s advised by his new chief of staff try to do more of the talking for himself, not just on twitter but in front of cameras as we did today. this was an opportunity. after yesterday it felt like he got a lot out of his system. perhaps he s been restless out here for his property. he wanted to address some of these topics on his own. i think a lot of people consider vacation at his bedminister property as we re in the pool van. we know he says he likes to go back to new york to his home. he misses his home but says it s inconvenient which is one of the reasons he hasn t godone it yet. he s going to washington, d.c. for a series of other meetings including the news conference on monday. one of the reasons he couldn t be in washington during his period of time was significant renovations taking place at the white house right now including photo you saw of the oval office cleared of all furniture as they just refurbished his office itself. we wait to see what it is he wants to announce on monday. he s been making news with every answer over the course of the last 36 hours. we got to wonder if we ll hear from the president over the rump is using language that s been heard by both of those individuals and the regimes they represent. it s great fodder on tell vigts. the important thing is how the north koreans react. not some chatterbox in north korea. it s a very serious moment. congressman meeks in addition to the news the president made, i think a lot of folks probably took notice on health care. he can do things as president on health care just watch. the president has consistently blamed someone for his failures. i ve yet to see a plan that he has put forward. he s yet to put a proposal and say this is what i, as president of the united states, wants. when something fails he tries to remove himself from it. there s no substance. what the president may have caught a number of folks by surprise not taking military action off the table in venezuela. did you see that coming? no, i didn t, craig. here s the thing. absolutely the president should never take military force off the table, but it s not the first thing that he should grab for. military force is to be used as the last resort. there s a lot of doctrines that have been written over time. you have to show the international community. what i find disturbing with venezuela and north korea now is this manufacturing of a crisis. the president is ramping up the rhetoric and creating a crisis. nothing changed materially from last week or last month with regard to north korea. they ve been steadily making progress and they are making more progress than before. they are still not at the point where they can get a nuclear weapon hitting, targeting, successfully hitting washington or new york. we re still not there yet. the president has given the american public the sense there s a new crisis here. he s manufactured it. hopefully, again, he s using his rhetoric to put diplomatic pressure on the various players. i think it s a bit dangerous because, again, as hugh, said the north koreans are threatening guam. we don t need to threaten the venezuelans. let s come up with a good strategy. use our diplomatic effort and use the military means as a last resort. you also have to wonder, he was flanked there by general mcmaster and secretary tillerson, you have to wonder if that venezuela line caught them by surprise as well. probably. really quickly, in terms of a pre-everyonetive strike or perhaps a military strike in ven venezuela, does he have the constitutional authority to conduct one or two of those? i think he has to come to the united states congress. congress has to step up and demand that he does. what he has to do is make case to congress and the american people. he clearly has not done that. with 100% respect to the congressman, he s 100% wrong. i would point to the panama invasion. i would point to any number of opportunities that where presidents past, including democrats have used force unilaterally. it s hard to understand how venezuela poses an immediate and direct threat to the security of the united states of america right now. exactly. it could to american people. that s why we went into agrgren unprompted. it s cuban advisors that s running the regime. let s beopen eyed and clear. there s only one country that invaded another country. he clearly likes them and that s russia. that s one country that s done something aggressively against another country. we re going to take a quick break here. president trump there saying fair amount in 13 minutes. we re going to continue to unpack it here for the next 30 minutes or so. this is the beat. we ll take a beat or two and we ll be right back on the other side. shawn evans: it s 6 am. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. and at our factory in boston, 1,200 workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. today we re bringing you america s number one shave at lower prices every day. putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. as one of those workers, i m proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. gillette - the best a man can get. rethink your allergy pills. flonase sensimist allergy relief helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy pills only block one. and 6 is greater than one. flonase sensimist. hey you ve gotta see this. cno.n. alright, see you down there. mmm, fine. okay, what do we got? okay, watch this. do the thing we talked about. what do we say? it s going to be great. watch. remember what we were just saying? go irish! see that? yes! i m gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. were you being sarcastic when you thanked vladmir putin from expelling 755 from russia. in order to reduce our payroll, i think you know that. by september 1st, we ll have a response. president trump there just a few moments ago responding to a question from peter alexander saying he was being sarcastic with those comments that he made about putin a few days ago. then he went onto sort of say it again that the russia embassy staff will reduce its payroll just as he said yesterday. you have any response to the russian president expelling 755 workers from our embassy? no. i want to thank him being we re trying to cut down on payroll. as far as i m concerned i m thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll. that was yesterday. a few moments ago he insisted he was joking. mr. ambassador, always appreciate your time. sarcasm as an effective tool in international diplomacy, does it ever work? no, not that way. by the way it was not clear to me, it wasn t clear to our members of the embassy that he s being sarcastic. it sounded weak in terms of russian ears. let s remember what vladimir putin did in response to 35 russian diplomats being asked to lever o leave our country. he pushed back. he doubled down, he tripled down. he said 755 americans had to leave. whether you like it or not, that was a strong response. what president trump said sarcastic or not was a very weak response. any idea when the president talks about a response by september 1st, what that response might look like. are you hearing anything that would give you indication about the size and scope of some sort of response? there is some talk about closing a consulate for instance. there may be other measures but he just loses the moment to say there s going to be a response in september 1st when is no flippantly says thanks vladimir putin. why is mr. putin the one person in the world that president trump refuses to criticize? i just don t understand that. you appear to almost be on the verge of getting emotional when you talk about this. well, because it s personal. i know those people in the embassy. these are not just numbers in some reduction in some kind of restructuring in some business. these are dedicated americans who signed up, an oath of allegiance to serve the united states of america. their leader is president trump. he needs to act like a leader for those people. i also know a lot of russians, by the way, that will lose their jobs and have virtually no chance of finding another job in russia because they are considered traitors to their country. those people are in dire straits right now. president trump should be applauding them, showing solidarity with them, thanks them from their service. not joking about them in some genuflection with vladimir putin. he insisted that russia was rooting against him in the election. here is what he said. there was no collusion between us and russia. in fact, the opposite. russia spent a lot of money on fighting me. do you know whether there s any truth to that at all? to the best of my knowledge and i ve been following the story closely for two years, i know of any evidence that the russian government or oligarchs spent money to defeat candidate trump. it s just the opposite. they applauded him including vladmir putin. he praised them. they stole data from the dnc and published that data in a way to help president trump. they supported him with their media outlets including ones available on twitter and facebook. they applauded his election. i don t know what that reference is. always appreciate your time. always appreciate your insight. thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. president trump making a fair amount of news at the top of the hour including comments related to mitch mcconnell. president trump not backing down. insisting that senator mcconnell should have known what was coming on health care. he should have punished those senators who didn t fall in line. we ll talk about that right after this. restlessness. extreme anxiety. pacing. a constant urge to move. if someone you know is suffering from schizophrenia they may also be struggling with akathisia: a common side effect of some schizophrenia medications. learn more at myakathisia.com. at the lexus golden uncoopportunity sales event before it ends. choose from the is turbo, es 350 or nx turbo for $299 a month for 36 months if you lease now. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. rethink your allergy pills. flonase sensimist allergy relief helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy pills only block one. and 6 is greater than one. flonase sensimist. you for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs. you re like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls. and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement™, we ll pay for a car that s a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. mcconnell and whatever the ball is, the day the shiny red ball, stick to this one message and unite the american people. lynn sweet. we did not play a sound bite from michael steele earlier. not our michael steele, but michael steel, john boehner s chief of staff, he said, i don t know if you saw this. mcconnell is going to be the senate majority leader long after donald trump is president. here are some of the other senators that have fallen in line. senator orin hatch saying i fully support him. jeff flake, he has my support. dean heller, i look forward to his leadership. john corning, no one is more qualified. senator corker, none better than senator majority leader mcconnell. senator collins, he enjoys broad support. the only lawmaker who has come out in this feud between the president and mcmcconnell, mo brooks of alabama. what happens when everyone gets back to d.c.? how does this thing end? it doesn t end. i believe what s happening hear is that president trump is playing the outside game. this appeals to the base. it appeals to people who may think that trump is also the boss of the senate. it s not easy. if things are easy in legislating, it would happen. the clock only started in january when you had a republican become president. it wasn t real before that. that s where president trump seems to kind of have a little what could i say. not the clearest understanding of the process. the clock started january 20th. in legislative time, like in dog years, you measure it differently. it s not easy. kevin, beginning genewt ging heard from him. here he is again not holding anything back. he talks about how mitch has to get this done. this is a team. the president is a key member of the team. you could argue he s the leader of the team. if things aren t working, maybe he needs to take part of the ownership here. if it is as lynn and others have suggested, if this is just another attempt by the president to throw some red meat to his base, what does that mean for mitch mcconnell moving forward. how does this affect him? first and foremost, the former speaker of the house is someone who president trump trusts. he someone who president trump listens to and on the issue of tax reform, it s someone who is working with the big six, as they are known, in helping behind the scenes to drum up support at the grass roots conservative level to get across their next big policy agenda item which is getting tax reform across. the first point i would make is republicans on capitol hill from their staffs to members of congress are frustrated every time president trump suggests or criticizes or goes off on twitter, so to speak, and takes away from their ability to use the republican controlled congress to pass a conservative agenda. on the flip side of that, there are conservatives all around the country sitting at home looking at why tax reform hasn t been done and why health care reform wasn t done. that s a frustration at the base. president trump wants to eease the concerns of his base. that s what you re seeing develop during this august recess. sounds like you re seeing there s two sets of frustrations. in lawmakers frustrated at the president. is that a correct summary? it s a good summary but it also shows the recipe for a deal here if president trump wants to work with members. they are human beings. they don t like being insulted and then berated and then saying, by the way can i have your vote. if you want to make a deal, craft legislation that gets the number of votes. how hard is it to count to 50. sometimes you need 60. there s a situation where the administration would reach across the aisle to work with moderate democrats to craft a fix it legislation. there is bipartisan consensus on the issue of rural communities and health care. that s people outside the beltway, they can t understand. i think we can all agree if trump decided to move an infrastructure bill, they always say roads aren t red. roads aren t blue. roads are green. they have that. when trump insults mcconnell, he could go what s that he will do. lynn was just brushing her shoulder off. she was dusting off her shoulder. one of the things that struck me, a few moments ago president trump chastises senator mcconnell for not stripping these senators of chairmanships and leadership positions. doesn t that just speak to what mitch mcconnell said that this idea that president trump doesn t have a firm grasp of how the system, how the process works there in washington? to miss supporters that s an asset. to his critics that s a liability. it depends on who you ask. the end of the day, republicans have campaigned on repealing and replacing the affordable care act for quite some time. whether you re a republican or democrat, the frustration amongst those in states like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, these are battleground states. there s a frustration about the rising cost of premiums. people want their premiums lower and looking at a republican controlled congress and a gop led white house. there is no bipartisan bill that was crafted. at the end of the day there was power and what you re watching is the back and forth. everyone blamed house republicans. at the end of the day, they moved fast than the senate but i mean they were able to move a bill. part of that is the power of a two-year term instead of the safety of a six-year term. good to see i m not the only one working on a friday evening. yes. also in that q and a with reporters, president trump made sure to tout his achievements in office so far. very few presidents have done what we have done in a six-month period. whether it s optimism in stock market, whether it s all the many things including supreme court justice, regulations being cut massively. we have, i think, it s 48 bills being passed in the legislation. i m talking about legislature, not just executive orders. i think few have done anywhere near what we ve done. the president was also asked whether vice president pence would run in 2020 when the president would be running for re-election. do you think your vice president will be a candidate for president in 2020? i don t think so, no. no, i don t think so at all. he s a good guy. he s left for colombia and various other places. he s been a great ally of mine and great friend of mine. karen finney is a former s n senior spokesperson for hillary clinton s campaign. karen, we ll start with you re laughing. come on, craig. why? these days if you don t laugh, you re going to cry. now we re going to war with venezuela for heavens sakes. this is him trying to tout his accomplishments. number one he controls everything. if he can t get an executive order done then he s really in big trouble. the truth is, president trump is facing the great, a huge, huge failure with regard to health care. i understand why he s trying to blame it on mitch mcconnell and mitch mcconnell is trying to blame it on the president. the truth is he controls they control everything. he was not able to work with his own members to get that done. even worse, you had a number of members who made it clear they re not willing to walk the plank for president trump. i think you re seeing more and more people in the republican party distance themselves from in the republican party distancing themselves from the president. this is what he does. the day after the inauguration, he came out to try to tell us the sky was purple when we could see it was blue. safe to say that you disagree with the president s assertion that very few presidents have managed to do what he s done in the first six months. yes, yes. you mentioned health care. one of the things that caught them by surprise back and forthwith reporters, the president saying, there are things he can do on health care, just watch. how much does that worry you? it doesn t worry me. and i ll tell you why. again, look at what we saw in the defeat of the republicans efforts around health care. we saw democrats coming together, even though there are disagreements here and there when we talk about single payer, for example. you saw so much energy and activism around this country. you saw people holding their members accountsable. if president trump just today, there was a poll, the associated press reported on, four and five americans really want this repeal effort to stop. so i think if he tries to mess with that, he ll hear from the american people. not just the democratic party. and frankly, some in his own party so it doesn t concern me. there are reports now, the hill being among those to report that president obama is appearing to make a comeback of sorts in the fall. the hill reporting that he doesn t want to be a foil. do you want to see president obama return to the spotlight? i think it would be great to have his voice out there of it is a smart strategy on his part to not be a foil. whether he is out there or not, president trump has made it very clear he will blame president obama for just about everything regardless of whether or not he had anything to do with it. so be great to have president obama out there, have his voice out there. i think the other thing that i think the president has done, obviously, the man deserves a break, a rest after the incredible eight years. if you want to talk about accomplishments, i think we should look at what president obama was able to accomplish in the eight years where he didn t actually have control of everything for that whole time. president obama is really invested in the new leaders from the women s march to the new groups like indivisible and she should run and trying to help the new leaders and their vision. karen finney, former spokesperson for the clinton campaign. always good to see you, my friends. have a good weekend. president trump announcing a press conference on monday where he will likely face new questions about the russia hack investigation. and russia meddling in the presidential election. more on that news conference, more on that investigation, next. rethink what s possible. rethink your allergy pills. flonase sensimist allergy relief helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy pills only block one. and 6 is greater than one. flonase sensimist. clinically proven to relieve and prevent foot, knee or lower back pain, by reducing the shock and stress that travel up her body with every step she takes. so keep on climbing, sarah. you re killing it. dr. scholl s. born to move. yes, we have a conference scheduled. we have a very important meeting scheduled. and we re going to have a pretty big press conference on monday. a press conference promised for monday by president trump a few moments ago. we can expect questions on the russia investigation. abc news reporting today that investigators now want to question trump s long time personal assistant, rhona graff. we ve seen messages about denial of no collusion. the former prosecutor and former counsel to the attorney general. and the senior counsel for the deputy attorney general. good to see you both. james, let me start with you. why would investigators want to talk to rhona? i think there are a variety of reasons. it has been reported that she was on the correspondence that led up to the meeting among paul manafort, donald trump jr. and others with the russia lawyer who had promised information about the clinton campaign. but i think it is also reflective of the fact the investigation appears to be entering a new phase. and paul manafort is clearly emerging as the center of gravity of this investigation. his fingers are in a variety of places that the special counsel is looking at. special counsel has money laundering investigations related to mr. manafort. a separate probe related to his retroactive filing of the registration act and as mentioned already, paul manafort was at this meeting with the russian lawyer. so the news to me over the past week that is most striking is, the investigative actions that the special counsel is taking. they reflect the centrality of paul manafort, including the execution of the federal search warrant and mr. manafort s residence i know what the issuance of grand jury subpoenas to global banks, requesting information about his account transactions and records. eric, what james did not mention is paul manafort hiring this new legal team and apparently, robert mueller and his team receiving out, reportedly to paul manafort s son-in-law. are those is that a pressure tactic potentially? to reach out to his son-in-law? it certainly could be. his son-in-law is someone who has worked with him on business deals. he is, according to press reports, in the process of a divorce from manafort s daughter. and i would not feel very happy right now if i were paul manafort knowing that this man is speaking to mueller s team. gentlemen, i wish we had more time of breaking news cut into our playing time for this conversation. but thank you. eric columbus, a big thank you as well. and that is going to do it for me this friday evening.
everybody welcome to the show there s lots to look forward to as we kick off another week on your next here s what s coming up today. golden globes in the fade is named best foreign language film in los angeles. holiday on ice the world s best known ice skating show turns seventy five. and canine work is how dogs help boost sales in british shops. the award season is upon us and the first major event for film and t.v. fans was the seventy fifth golden globes which is my personal favorite because the films and series i enjoyed tend to get recognized that and there was plenty of recognition for european artists with winners from france scotland and germany will bring you up to date on how europe s finest did at the awards ceremony but first a look at how fashion was used to deliver a strong message to. the red carpet was full of. alack at the golden globe awards on sunday the stars wore somber outfits to show solidarity with victims of sexual assault and harassment in the film industry. but the mood of the winners was anything but black german director fatty cockiness pictured in the face one best foreign language film it was a moving occasion for the director and lead actors deonna clear thank you monique my wife my kids without you. because you are the dollar thank you so much i feel privileged today to do what i think is the elevating the foreign language thing. in the fayed tells the story of a right wing terror attack in germany the film is based on a real series of murders committed by a neo nazi terrorist group called the n.s.u. its members systematically killed at least nine people of foreign backgrounds director hakim is himself the son of turkish immigrants. people could have killed room i could be one of those targets of little or nothing which separates me from the targets and i was kind of like we are the people like kill me just because i don t car look south cal castro i crack him this year three of the five best foreign language film nominees came from europe film was up against swedish satire the square winner of the palme d or at cannes this year. this little golden globe jury voted for in the fate it likely helped that the film s theme proved topical as discrimination is currently a big issue in tinseltown and beyond and european cinema is contributing to the debate. last year dance director power fan who founded won the golden globe with alan the wonderful isabel. before it was hungary and last low nam ish with son of saul so european cinema is very present. present. sees her go plays a woman who loses her husband and child in a right when terror attack she gave a heart rending portrayal of paying film by those left behind. because of the. within the fade you can clearly sense the influence of american independent cinema since martin scorsese is fatty hawkins big role model woods and naturally lead actress deana kluger has enjoyed international success for years and worked with hollywood directors like quentin tarantino and vault and pages of. that are so i think that contributed greatly to in the faith winning the golden globe. going global. hunger made her acting debut with a hollywood blockbuster in two thousand and four she played helen involved on paper since troy alongside orlando bloom and brad pitt. in two thousand and nine she appeared in quentin tarantino s inglourious basterds. in the fade was her first german language film and it s now a golden globe winner in the fade is also nominated for an academy award will it take home the best foreign language film oscar as well the golden globes often predict the oscar winners but we ll just have to wait till march to find out. well we keep things current with our express up next which begins with a fantastic charity event that helps homeless people all over germany. seventeen head dresses from the baba angels brotherhood association have given more than two hundred homeless and needy people in ballin free haircuts. the association was founded in stuttgart in twenty six days. ever since the charitable baba s have travelled around germany to draw attention to the un s usual idea. that goal is to give a face to the homeless and the needy and to put a smile on. their says aisha now has one hundred eleven members throughout germany the offer for people in their respective cities free headcounts once a month. in twenty seven thousand more than three hundred thousand pilgrims followed the way of st james to santiago de compostela in spain that s a new record ninety three percent made their way in classic style on foot while seven percent rode bicycles in one thousand nine hundred seventy the council of europe declared the way of saying change its first ever european cultural route ever since the tradition of the pilgrimage has undergone an impressive revival with more and more people making this spiritual journey. last weekend the annual hack c. hood rugby match took place in northern england the event is held every january between the villages of hexie and west woodside. its route stay back to a legend from the fourteenth century. according to the tale the winds blew away a lady s silky riding hood thirteen farmers tried to chase it down and when they succeeded the lady gave them thirteen acres of land. bought on the condition that the chase for the herd be reenacted every year. right now it s freezing cold here in berlin one of the best ways to get through the long and cold winter is to embrace the elements and enjoy some seasonal and to time and a great example is holiday on ice one of the world s most famous ice shows twenty eighteen marks an important milestone for the touring company they ve now been going to seventy five years of course a lot has changed since the show s humble beginnings in the u.s. state of ohio in the one nine hundred forty s. my colleague meghan lee took a look at the latest installment cold atlantis. this is one of the world s longest running shows holiday on ice now entering its seventy fifth year it s an acrobatic adventure of sorts some thirty five skaters take to the ice in a program that changes every year one of the principle stars of the show is twenty five year old mighty long graf he s already had a long and successful skating career and this is yet another feather in his cap to do and i am no it s just the world s largest ice show you can hear the audience tonight right off to the number of people and that keeps you motivated to go out to get. this year s story centered around the legend of atlantis monte plays one of its richest inhabitants a man who seduces dozens of women before atlantis sinks underwater. legend has it the ancient utah big city suddenly disappeared due to the god s anger at the population to greet. the costume story ideas and choreography have come a long way in seventy five years holiday on ice began in one thousand and forty three in the united states over the years it has grown as a production introducing new characters and attracting many stars its audience has also grown steady over the years the show s signature opulence has remained consistent throughout. even after seventy five years holiday on ice still remains one of the most successful shows of its kind thanks in no small part to the theatrical performances its creative directors are always on the lookout for the most modern concepts to keep the audiences in awe . i m a big fan of game of thrones and i love the opulence and the beauty and the slight feel of of history but i wanted to give it a modern edge so if if we thought atlantis was alive now. artois this is how i would i would think it would look holiday and i says chalked up a number of records it s the most visited i show in the world with over three hundred twenty nine million audience members it s also appeared in the guinness book of world records five times. skaters who want to participate must have experience like julie sherry from switzerland another principal skater in the show up till two years ago she was competing on an international level. by the invade to be bad but the mules petitions you feel more into pressure on the atmosphere is tense. now i notice that the show is how we can all enjoy it because we have put a show together all of this can be socially orientated so this larry family and we show that to the outside weld deep in the in the house and. aside from the skating acrobatics n.p.r. trickle performances the costumes also play a central role created by international designer michael sharpe they were a major endeavor with many a lot just sticks. of a number of different worlds always thought. so how it once was in the trees bright pure moment and then when you have the place sinking on the go below the water it s a lot more surreal a video to inspire it. because it s essentially a sports everything has to be super flexible and really do your both durable enough to last at least six months many of the skaters have no less than seven costume changes per show and as the show progresses so does the opulence of each outfit. great costumes very impressive and. lovingly designed great music you know it s great fun it s fantastic i m upset me thrilled i didn t it was beautiful inside me i liked it when the fire came spouting out. how they are nice where seventy five years of history behind it the extravaganza is still as popular as ever. now to an artist who combines two of life s greatest joys art and food and it s not healthy ingredients that take her fancy. uses chocolate as a pan and margarine to mold her sculptures so apart from looking good some of the pieces probably taste quite nice to what happens when she suddenly fancies a snack. a sculpture made from marjorie created and modeled by artist sun you re on a poison. and what other minds you go by my mother always baked a lot so it was a normal material for me dough and margarine and it s easy to shape and to make sculptures with. plastic this is a special margarine it s in the it s keeps its shape well and it s very high lastic a bit like a modeling clay lasts business almost like touching a living thing. i ve been these. piece called just also made from archery in. their part of a performance held at the proms five university of out west on your isle why is it was a lecture and. that it taught us to us here something is destroyed when we eat them edible things are also destroyed we consume something and it s gone up. here it s a sculpture i just made that s being destroyed when it loses half of its shape through the impact but i think that s incredibly beautiful. the artist has won many accolades for her work including her drawings which revolve around the theme of cooking this one shows how to bake rye bread from sourdough. that s until she had misread us in the end i m interested in how things intermingle and how things are created and you can show that nicely in a drawing those individual stamps and then use it in a recipe. just looking at her drawings is enough to make your mouth water and leave you longing to share a meal with good friends. this time isn t the same guy we had last the spirit of sharing on that s where i m coming from. you set the table invite guests and share something. that s got a bit lost with old cuisine where everyone has his own plate and must make do with what s on it it s so restricting. a chocolate bar with another installations added that stuff mart the specialty ought to be allowed to depict this kind of decadence i have to use a lot of chocolate to show that i mean a lot of chad it s an overabundance i work with that and sometimes it can be wasteful but there s also positive wastefulness and for me using this much chocolate is positively wasteful and i simply wanted to see it. doesn t use that much chocolate while working in her own kitchen yet it remains a sweet temptation. markoff i miss i love milk chocolate although i discipline myself while i m working otherwise you just end up nibbling presence nasty. massy pans another sweet treat she s pressed it into a silicon mold to form a head is farms that moment i m happy when the head emerges and it s all shiny when it s been well pressed and then the almond oil settles around the edges and it looks like it s been freshly lacquered i really like that. sonia tops off her works of art with a chocolate coating their sweet but much too good to eat. let s continue now with another trip for your remarks extra tour that s our segment where you are audience can send us your dream travel destinations and we ll take you there. this time we got a request from the city of dia in costa rica dixie. wants to know more about austria a country that s almost ten thousand kilometers away one of the most beautiful corners of the alpine country is a town called time it s often referred to as the poem of to roll and it certainly looks the part. hoof stein is a feast for the eyes especially on a lovely day like this one with a dusting of snow and clear blue skies. the old market square is home to the town s and loveliest buildings luckily they were spared when a fire destroyed much of course in the eighteenth century. this is where visitors can also begin their ascent to the fortress many come just before twelve noon each day and there s a special treat in store. as the bell finishes tolling a concert begins it can be heard through much of. the music is coming from the so-called citizens tower. it s home to the world s largest freestanding organ locals call it the hero s organ each day the song the good comrade is played to honor all those who have fallen in wars throughout the world. the organ pipes are located at the top of the tower but the organist sits down below it s not an easy job since you can never practice without thousands of people listening in. so in the afternoon belongs to the heroes but the night. belongs to an entirely different kind of character. he s armed with a lantern and a weapon called a how bird. he s stein s nightwatchman household level these days the night watchman is a tourist attraction but he used to serve an important function he d warn the population if a fire broke out and keep an eye open for thieves not a job for the faint hearted. at the off best of all night watchmen were pretty special people and they weren t much loved by the townspeople because they were always on the go after dark. in the towns ordinary citizens were rather scared of the dark fact that there were no street lights no lanterns it was really dark quiet time gray so the night watchman was the only one who really dead to go out at night. that is apart from the people who wanted to stay out drinking. people still like to do that here in the remote hope. it s the quaintest street in kuta but also its most infamous. and is also the hour for example has been around for six hundred years or so and then there s a guest house there s also alcohol the local was known for its good beer back then today it s more of a wine bar. of course there were people who drank a lot and got into fights but in some towns the night watchman was more of a night police missed out and he kept peace and order this sort. of night is quite a sight during the winter season visitors can accompany the night watchman on his rounds at least once a week it s a chance to visit some of the town s lesser known corners as well as here scary stories and interesting anecdotes and see could shine from a completely different perspective. the saying goes you can t teach an old dog new tricks but it turns out that all four legged friends are marketing geniuses and recent is marketing executives have come up with all sorts of innovative and crazy concepts to boost businesses but a recent study shows that dogs may hold the onset apparently canines keep the customer coming in fact they spend an average of eight euros more in shops that have a hairy help. this is bertie outwork. from notting hill spends the entire day at the house alone that belongs to his mistress crystal and christe. roller if you like. people that s what he loves doing all day long so i generally sit by the door and when the salon is busy with clients then he just walks around to each chair sort of gives everyone a bit of a cuddle. crystal s customers don t only drop by to get their hair done many enjoy as well. so the dog helps build her customer base that can be an advantage for a small business. a recent study by american express shows that having dogs in britain is places of business increased turnover by the equivalent of some sixty eight million euros a year. i come here to see firstly anyway even if i don t have my hair cut so i go past and say hello to. bertie s career is just getting started bulldog has become an instagram influence. the remote business people in britain are using dogs to improve their image on social media. he also appears as a must for the new book shop. people following you for for his personality for what he s up to and then by that. they end up becoming interested in his business where he lives what he dos eventually walk through the door. honey one cost to james is a business psychologist she s not surprised by the study s findings. the research by american express looking at the effects of having a pet in a small shop i think is really interesting because it confirms what we probably in charitably know. which is that pets are not only good for our health but they can be good for all wealth particularly if you have them in a small business environment where customers are going to be drawn in to interact with the dollar goal come in and it s a really good icebreaker sometimes yes sometimes no florist cari cooks loves having her dogs at work but not all of her customers are as happy as she is about getting an enthusiastic greeting from a four legged friend. when they come in here we always say we ve got two dogs and a few will run and greet you which probably isn t the best big if you are afraid that if i come with you cannot be hopefully overcome some people face some people will just run out the show but it s very. talks and not just for one best friend that also find work colleagues. of p.t. and fandom happiness for attention. this is allowed them to generate free advertising the study says the likelihood that customers will post something about a shop on social media goes up twenty two percent if there s a dog in the place. dogs like huxley are definitely good for business. before we go we just have time to introduce this week s prize draw as it s a new year we d like to know which resolutions you ve made for twenty eighteen just head to our website d.w. dot com slash lifestyle to share what you intend to achieve in the coming twelve months and you could get the year off to a great start by winning a euro max wristwatch like this one. for today about for now. next time on your own max speed writer really casting holtz races down mt. hundred kilometers an hour speed riding is a cross 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west palm beach airport, following the president s first physical exam as president. according to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. before leaving washington for this martin luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. and throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congressman carlos ro bechlt. llo strongly distanced themselves from the remarks, all in a state, florida, a home to many immigrants and their families, including 300,000 haitian-americans, most in south florida, some of whom protested the president s comments. and republican governor rick scott also reacted to trump s for so long. do you get the sense that he s sort of distracting from his own policy agenda with the comments he made this week about other countries, whether true or not, with tweets he puts out about everybody from author michael wolff to news anchors? there are definitely republicans in this town who would very much agree with the premise of that question. they see it as constant controversies that do distract, that they have to sort of answer for things on a constant basis because the president has stoked up controversy again. that is a problem for people who are more used to a much more focused, much more deliberative approach from a president. gillian: so, distracting from his own policy agenda, some might go as so far as shooting himself in the foot. take a listen to the sound bite from speaker paul ryan in wisconsin. you re trying to broker a deal, right. yeah, so how do you do that with this? so we just have to get it done. gillian: talking about the president s comments this week on fisa, during the leadup to the vote on the hill, and then also, you know, on the comments he allegedly made during this meeting with lawmakers, using a vulgar term. so, it seems like, even speaker ryan is saying we re forging ahead, we re trying not to let the president, you know, get in our way. it s a little unusual. oh, it s massively unusual, particularly since congress has an absolutely full plate of things it needs to get to. there s a very intense congression congressional agenda. people need to get things done fast. time that you spend on other topics to accomplish those goals. gillian: and you create unnecessary obstacles when you speak out on issues that aren t necessarily appropriate for the president to be commenting on. i want to pull up for you what john mccain had to say earlier this week. he said, people have come to this country from everywhere. and people from everywhere have made everyone great. our immigration policies should reflect that truth and our elected officials, including our president, should respect it. those are some fairly scathing words from a senior lawmaker who has been working on not just immigration, but national security issues for decades. what do you make of that? i think that it is part of a firstly genuine objection to what the president is supposed to have said, but i also think it s a point that many republicans believe the republican party has to be welcoming to an ever more diverse america. and i think that they feel comments like the ones attributed to president trump cut against that in a very serious way. they see it speaking to his base, yes, but his base is a minority of the country. and so, they don t think that that is a winning strategy over the medium or long-term. and i think that they have sincere objections to it as well. gillian: we ve got to not just worry about the base. the president doesn t have to worry only about his base facing in 2018, part of his role and responsibility is to help usher republicans across that goal line. so certainly not helping there, right. absolutely not. one of the interesting things i think in the past couple of days, we re seeing lawmakers from competitive districts really being to the fore criticizing the president. someone like congressman korbela, and pretty scathing. and i think we re seeing those republicans trying to create some distance between themselves and the president on this kind of talk. gillian: well, hopefully they will get to the other side of this. republicans will be able to put it behind them and move forward. niall stannage, thanks for joining us. mike: and statistics in the house nearly $300,000 have been spent quieting harassment and discrimination claims against house members since 2003. hi there, mike. the nearly $300,000 comes straight from taxpayers and was used to settle 13 claims against members. house. that average is out to almost a settle a year. here is a look. 27,000 was paid out between 2003 in 07. then, a big jump between 08 and 2012 with 174,000. then 91,000 from 2013 to last year. we don t know who got the payouts because staffers had to sign a nondisclosure agreement. to start mediation. we know one of the offending congressmen was from texas. his former communications director received 84,000 after she accused him of making inappropriate sexual comments. he announced he s not running for reelection and said he ll pay the money back. earlier, he s waiting to see thank you very much. gillian: president trump now pointing the finger at democrats for what he s calling a missed opportunity on daca and immigration. this after a week of meetings on the issue without any clear results. our own molly heninberg is following the latest on this story. hi, gillian. there s no bill until there s a bill and right now there s no bill at least publicly that can get 60 votes in the senate and get the president s signature. legislators had hoped to include immigration reform and wrap it up in a bill to keep the government funded, but that spending bill has to be done by next friday and it doesn t appear at this point that there s enough agreement to include immigration in that legislation. on daca, which stands for the deferred action for childhood arrivals, which protects some 800,000 illegal minors from deportation, and then the dream act gives them a pathway to legal status. some democrats want just to focus on that for now. the top house democrat nancy pelosi is asking for a daca and dream only piece of legislation now. and in a statement yesterday, she said, quote, in october, the president wrongly decided to terminate daca. since that time. the president has constantly said he supports daca. what is clear is it that we must insist on a clean dream act, which is supported overwhelmingly by the american people, has bipartisan support in congress and must be enacted in january. but that doesn t sit well with republicans who wants border security or those who want to end chain migration. or those who don t want legal status for young, illegal immigrants. some of these people that are negotiating from the other side, aren t there in good faith. i think that they re there trying to make their political point, and they don t really want daca, they want the dream act. that s what they want. they re calling it daca, but they want a path to citizenship, a path to amnesty and that s part of the problem. congressman big says he does not believe that the daca issue would prevent legislators from coming to an agreement to keep them open and funded by next friday. thanks for that reporting, molly. mike. let s bring in michigan congressman dan killdee. do you want a clean daca bill? yes, and i think it s sometimes in a partisan divide where one doesn t exist quite as much as people say it does. republicans in the house, i know, and democrats would like to get a daca deal done, and would vote for it, if it was on the floor. ways a little disappointed to say that the president says this is a missed opportunity. we have sessions on tuesday, wednesday, thursday. we could bring daca codification, a bill to the floor and i suspect it would have more than 300 votes in the house of representatives and would sale through the senate. funding over this daca issue. why don t we negotiate in good faith on the issue, roll up your sleeves and let s work this out, but let s not hold the funding of our military hostage over this issue, that s irresponsible and they need to stop it. mike: congressman, your reaction to her comments and are we headed for a government shutdown? i don t think so. we ll see the. the republicans control the house, the senate and have the white house. the idea that it s the democrats fault who have no power to put anything on the floor that we haven t taken action on these issues, that s playing politics and look, congressman i know has a track record and she s got her point of view, but saying that it s politics is basically playing politics. why don t we just do what congress is supposed to do when members of congress agree, democrats, and republicans on an issue, let s vote on it. to say that s playing politics to me i think is disingenuous. that s governing. mike: wouldn t it wise to separate a controversial issue like immigration and government funding and a budget, it seems all are difficult enough individually for this congress to do. your thoughts, sir? well, i mean, we can separate it. we can put the daca bill on the floor on tuesday. and get it done. and basecle i basically set that aside and don t have to conflate these issues. there s a moment when the budget bills come up. democrats the republicans don t have the vote to keep the government open. when democrats are asked to rescue the republicans from themselves by providing enough votes to keep the government open cause they don t have them themselves, we have to have some of our priorities included in the action that congress takes and not be put in a position where all the things that democrats care about never get decided, never get a vote on the floor. mike: right. but the republicans who can t govern without us are unwilling to acknowledge that. that s just not right. mike: you know, your republican colleagues want more border security so where is the solution on this immigration issue? is it in the bipartisan by camerale talks that speaker rhein has been talking about? do you think those bipartisan house are the key? this is obviously an issue where we need a comprehensive approach. we need border security, no question about it. we need to fix this broken immigration system and there are areas of agreement. i was really disappointed that the president didn t hold to his word when he had the bipartisan meeting just a few days ago, and then was presented a bipartisan solution to this problem after saying that he would accept whatever these folks put together and sign it, and he said no. so, i don t know who s whispering in his ear, but that was disappointing. we can solve these problems and we have to do it in a comprehensive way. democrats have to acknowledge that border security is an important subject, but we also have to have fixing to these other problems and not create a pejorative out of family migration. i mean, this issue of chain migration is one that i think is getting a bit misunderstood. family immigration is a part of the history of this country. my own hometown thanks for your time. dan kildee from the great state of michigan. see you soon, sir. thank you very much. mike: we ll have more coverage. chris wallace as an exclusive interview with california attorney general, and what s next. and president trump s immigration comments and steve bannon s ouster from breitbart tomorrow at 11 a.m. eastern. gillian: it came from outer space. what the spacex cargo vehicle just brought down from to earth from the international space station. a tough message from kim jong-un to the white house, as the south korea olympics slated for next month. and watching the thermostats plunge, more problems on the roads and airports. and adam is monitoring from the fox extreme weather center. i know when we see you we re getting bad news, go for it. unfortunately, we re looking into a system going into the northeast, on the back side cold air is funneling in. i ll have details after the break. i take pictures of sunrises, freezing rain causing major slowdowns on roads, and meanwhile, the folks in buffalo, new york, were dealing with melting snow and flooding problems because of warmer temperatures. meteorologist adam is at the extreme weather center with all of today s forecasts. take it away. yeah, kind of a wild day yesterday. a real rollercoaster giving me a bit of a cold. and we re tracking a system off the northeast. one you re talking about. it s running off the east coast and the back side of this system we re looking at a major change in temperatures falling down into the teens in many cases. add in the wind chill and you ll notice a huge difference falling back down into the negative across a huge portion of the country. and it s still too early, winter is not over yet. it was 60 in new york city yesterday. unfortunately, that isn t going to be sticking around. now, as we go farther into the forecast, this is from saturday into sunday. these are daytime highs across the country. and not horribly bad, but pay attention to what happens on monday. suddenly, another round of arctic air is going to be settling into the center of the country. you re looking at temperatures falling back into the negative. and that goes even deeper into the country. so we re talking about another huge arctic blast that s going to be pushing in, getting into the middle of next week. it s not just coming with the cold temperatures, it s going to be coming with eventually a system that s going to be working through. and here is your future radar, this is sunday into monday. right there, is where that system is, unfortunately, it s going to be coming with ice, it s going to be coming with snow, as much as i would love it to warm up, unfortunately, that s just not going to be the case. this is something we re dealing with, another big round just around the corner, guys. well, adam, you stay there. hang tight. no need to come here to our nation s capital. thank you. mike: i got home last night 60-something degrees and got up this morning, 30-something degrees. all of us have a little frog in our throat. gillian: thanks, adam. you re the best. mike: authorities say the same russian hackers who targeted the dnc are back. who they re probing for information now. the clock is ticking for lawmakers to reach a deal on daca and immigration. how their lack of progress is resonating with voters. the immigration debate in washington? unfortunately sigh sidelined with this ridiculous controversy as they re calling it. it s a sad day when this president who clearly trusts, i m not sure why, but he still trusts the principle parties in the room to speak candidly. he s coming from an environment, used to the oars rowing in the same boat and he s not used to those to sand bag him. whether he said these things and it s clear about seizing power and not achieving goals. mike: we re less than a week from a possible government shutdown. what do folks outside of the beltway think about that? i think it s clear if we re going to hold up military spending or call this a government shutdown, if you want broadly, if we re really holding it up to secure the border, i don t know that that s the plank the democrats want to walk. i get that i ve yet to hear anybody why border security the is something we re against. if the president used rough language in a private meeting with lawmakers, does your audience care? no, for heaven s sake. you know, i said last night on twitter, mike, i was ever since 18 years old since you ve been voting in this country the american left has been telling people stay out of our bedrooms, butt out. sop stop with the social issues frpt the second in private he supposedly allegedly says one curse word and suddenly the left takes to the billy graham crusades, where did that come from. mike: what about the comment made by house leader nancy pelosi, talking about people with an immigration deal. five white guys i call them. you hope a hamburger stand next or what? so the five guys joke seemed to fall flat in the room. your thoughts, chris? that s just that s the perfect example, mike of what we re talking about. if you want to talk about race, you know, trump says, s-hole countries and that s a racist term suddenly and she specifically says five white guys. she invokes race. if ever there was racism on display in an off the cuff remark, it s miss pelosi, not the president. mike: and the assumption here, chris, is that late next week congress will punt again, meaning a short measure. how do that play outside the beltway. that s grist for the mill. i think most of us expect that s probably what will happen. folks that listen to this show and i speak for myself, what nobody wants is to colina daca bill business. where ever you are on daca, i don t know any conservatives or republicans that would suggest only daca, no wall, no border security, no dealing with chain migration. that would be a terrible mistake. so, i d rather wait and prolong it then rush to do something that we ll never go back and fix again. mike: a few seconds left. do you have a prediction in 2018, a lot of anxiety with a lot of republicans at 2018. your thoughts, chris? historically, if you want to look at history. we can t seem to these guys as a predictor, maybe republicans lose the house, perhaps. i think that republicans could pick up the senate. i know they won t lose the senate. i bank on them keeping control. senate, but they may gain republicans in the senate. mike: after this, chris is headed to atlantic city to place some bets. go eagles! . mike: chris, thanks. thanks, mike. gillian: the u.s. senate in the cross-hairs of the same russian computer criminal hackers that caused problems for the dnc last year during the general election. chief political correspondent catherine herridge talks about it. and at the height of 2016 election, with wikileaks and the same hackers are now targeting the u.s. senate. according to new research, hackers are going after lawmakers network of context, as well as compromising information for blackmail. these cyber hackers, speak russian, and going to trap visitors with malware. and they set up fake accounts and fancy bear hackers used the strategy during the french presidential election to steal e-mails in an efforts to influence the outcome. the u.s. intelligence community believes the hackers are closely aligned with president vladimir putin and they documented the decades long effort to undermine democracy. the administration is not doing enough to punish russia in the 2016 elections and prepare us for the 2018 election. the fancy bear hackers went quiet. but with no solutions on penalizing moscow, the hackers got busy. they predict that rogue political complaints are not likely to go away with the olympics and major operations in 2018. in washington. catherine herridge, fox news. gillian: be sure to keep it right here with us at america s news headquarters. at the top of the next hour, 1 p.m., discussing the latest developments in the russia probe with florida congressman ron desantis. mike: searching for missing crew members on an iranian oil tanker are facing fiery conditions. why it s still in flames after colliding with another ship. president trump now says he thinks he has had a good relationship with north korea s kim jong-un, but the u.s. isn t letting up its stance against the hermit kingdom ahead of the olympics. what to expect as we get closer to the opening ceremonies. boost gives me everything i need. to be up for doing what i love. boost high protein be up for it ship s last box. and 29 missing at this hour and the exact cause of that crash is unknown. south korean president moon says the trump administration s tough stance on kim jong-un drove north korea to reopen diplomatic lines, but the trump administration is not softening their stance on the hermit kingdom ahead of the olympics. vice-president mike pence is leading the u.s. delegation in south korea. for this, i want to bring in jack keane, strategy analyst, general, the administration was sort of playing coy when it comes to the u.s. relationship with kim jong-un. the president i wants folks at home to take a look. the president said he probably has a very good relationship about kim jong-un. he said that you people, media he was talking to at the time, are surprised and went on to say when asked when he spoke to kim jong-un. i m not saying i have or i haven t, i don t want to comment. what do you make of that. it s hard to characterize the president s relationship from a distance, but i m not aware of contact, but that s clearly up to him. he surely does talk to world leaders on a regular basis. gillian: why not just say no? looking at it from the outside, i think this is probably the most challenging and difficult relationship that he s got with everybody in the world. clearly, we re on a path here where a military option is on table. there are some negotiations that have taken place, it s talking and chewing at each other, but we ve got to have a healthy dose of skepticism here because the north koreans have always used negotiations to advance their technology program and they ve used it in the past to obtain goodwill which is obviously going on here, and also, when it s with the south koreans to try to drive a wedge between ourselves ap the south koreans. so we ve got to look at realistically. could something better come of it? we hope so, but that s the way we ve got to look at it. gillian: that s the bilateral relationship side. from the military side do you feel there were mixed messages, also. president trump agreed to not go forward with the joint military exercises with south korea until after the olympics. at the same time the department of defense flying b-2 bombers over the region. i think we should be doing more on the military side to strengthen the policy change that we made dealing with north korea and that is that the military option is back on the table. that was general mattis, now secretary mattis that made that statement on the first visit to the far east shortly after the inauguration back in january of last year. but here is some things i know the chinese and the north koreans are looking at to determine, is our policy real? why are we still sending families to south korea with their military spouses? this should now be what we call in the military an unaccompanied tour. like iraq and afghanistan is. we should also be preparing to bring the families that are there home, making the policy changes that are going to be able to accommodate a move with such a sizable population, we should be making plans to bring the american population at home. gillian: who makes that decision, general? is it state department? is it dod? in dealing with the military families dod, and the other thing, gillian, if we re going to go to war, there s a possibility we are, director pompeo of the cia said we re months away from the showdown. if that s the case, as we were in iraq and afghanistan, we re an ocean away, which means we have to prepare, theater level logistics, we have to put in place ammunition and we actually have to start moving some forces that are going to be able to accommodate the reality of that. i also believe while some people would look at that and say those are provocative act, you re going to force north korea to action. i would say rubbish to that. and the provocative act is nuclearizing icbm s and pointing them at america. and those are proven measures that any military force would have to do if they have a credible policy of wanting this to use a military option. and i m not suggesting all-out war, but a military option, a very limited military option which obviously could escalate to war. gillian: how worried are you about, forget who is more provocative than who, rights? but how worried are you about a move from the trump administration that they necessarily they don t necessarily believe is a direct threat, but ends up being a miscalculation that pushes us offense the edge, sort of unintentionally into war? are you worried about that or not really? you have to calculate that and with every option that you put in front of the president, you have to layout what the risks are associated with those options and we have capable people, you know, who know how to do that and certainly, kim jong-un, once he makes the decision to react to some $what he believes is a provocation by the united states and starts a shooting war on a peninsula, that s the end of his regime. that s and he knows that, and all the people around him know that. we would crush that regime in a matter of days and he knows it. gillian: the worry is that we, the united states worries then about the south koreans to a degree that kim jong-un probably doesn t, right. he doesn t worry about the south koreans. he s just using the south koreans as a vehicle to put some pressure on the united states by driving a wedge between us and the south koreans. gillian: well, some scary stuff, general keane. thanks for your expertise today. we love having you. good talking to you, gillian. gillian: thanks. mike: after the break, a frightening ride for passengers on a greyhound bus that ended in a chase across state lines. we ll take a look at what happens. and a chaotic scene in an international terminal causing scores of delays and very unhappy passengers. what officials are doing to address this storm-related travel mess. what happened over the weekend was completely unacceptable performance. we will assure that the failures that occurred over this weekend will not occur in the future. managing blood sugar is aseries. and when you replace one meal. .or snack a day with glucerna. .made with carbsteady. .to help minimize blood sugar spikes. .you can really feel it. now with 30% less carbs and sugars. glucerna. no one burns on heartburn. my watch! try alka seltzer ultra strength heartburn relief chews. with more acid-fighting power than tums chewy bites. mmmmm.amazing. i have heartburn. ultra strength from alka seltzer. enjoy the relief. 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no, kansas has one governor brownback and he makes the decisions. and colorakoh collier is waie wings as he s expecting a quick confirmation, brownback began handing over duties to colyer. that was six months ago. i teach about politics, one they think i teach you don t count on the u.s. senate to do anything until it s done, especially confirmation. the senate ended without a vote on brownback or dozens of other trump nominations and now there is confusion in kansas. lt. governor jeff colyer was making appointments and events and governor brownback was doing a tree lighting event or the question is who is in charge. it s like abbott and coste o costello, who is on first. and for appointees didn t make confirmations, thank you, potus, i ll continue as governor. s for the positions requiring it, only 241 nominations have been confirmed by the full u.s. senate. while he waits on washington, brownback appears to be retaking the reins in kansas. the question remains for how long. could he be gone in february, june, later than that? who knows. a spokeswoman tells fox news, the renominations could be considered in a timely fashion and they will not require another hearing, but they will need another committee vote before once again heading to the full senate. in topeka kansas, alicia acunas, fox news. gillian: much more ahead in the next hour. president trump says democrats are to blame forestalled immigration reform. why, he says, bipartisan meetings are not working. and from the front lines to the top brass, we ll give you a sneak preview of a brand new series that looks at how the military makes the most important decisions of the day. stick with us. . . everything we do will have an effect. . . plus growing criticism of robert mueller s russia investigation and calls for better transparency, we will talk to republican congressman desantis that sits on foreign affairs and judiciary committee. we get unprecedented look at our military s fight against isis courtesy of brand new geographic special. we want to fight and we want to take care of business here. i know personally i don t want our nation, in fact, any of our allied nations to have to deal with this enemy. so we have to go get after them here today and take care of business. and president trump kicks off the long weekend in mar-a-lago with an early morning tweet storm suggesting that lawmakers are far from reaching a deal on daca and accusing democrats of stalling those negotiations. for more on all of this, let s go live to phil keaton in west palm beach. what can you tell us? president trump should be wrapping up his morning golf game at nearby trump international golf club where he arrived this morning in the big long motorcade around 9:30 this morning. as usual scenario in palm beach, he begins the morning bright and early tweeting this morning he was praising the economy and digging at democrats including this one about ongoing daca negotiations, what to do with the estimated 700,000 dreamers in the country. quote, the democrats are all talk, no action, they are doing nothing to fix daca, great opportunity missed, too bad. of course, it was the oval office meeting thursday about daca and immigration which led to the all consuming controversy about what members of both parties confirmed the president said about haiti, el salvador and african nations. leading to these questions after trump s proclamation expanding the martin luther king, jr. historic site friday. mr. president, are you racist? florida senator rubio and curbello strongly distanced themselves from the president s remarks including 3,000 haitian americans some who protested the comments yesterday while commemorating eighth anniversary of the country s devastating earthquake. on david lederman netflix show, guest, none other than former president obama. one of the things that michelle figured out in some ways faster than i did was, you know, part of your ability to lead the country doesn t have to do with legislation, it doesn t have to do with regulations, it has to do with shaping attitude, shaping culture, increasing awareness. as soon as the president is finished at the golf club, he is expected to then motorcade back to his winter white house at mar-a-lago on palm beach, only about 8 or 10-minute drive and the president has no public events scheduled not only today tomorrow or monday and it is monday afternoon we expect that the president and first lady melania and son baron will be boarding on air force one and returning to the nation s capital. jillian. phil, i had to take a double take at david letterman, i barely recognized him. i need to grow one. [laughter] stay cool at mar-a-lago, thanks, phil. president trump has tied daca and immigration to the budget debate and with just days before lawmakers are faced with another potential government shutdown, the clock is ticking for a solution. latest developments. hi, molly. it s no simple task. democrats are saying, let s just focus on young illegal minors first and then get to the rest. but republicans say, not so fast. they want border security too and say they ve been promised funding for a border wall before and then the funding didn t come through. i m so mistrustful i think that we keep our promise first and then not give up our leverage until until we built that wall. but democrats say why wait, they believe they have enough bipartisan support to extend what s called da to daca to protect from deportation and also pass the dream act that gives them path to legal status. it would takes 4 minutes and we might as well get it done in signal to the american people when we have bigger issues like budget issues, infrastructure bill, like real problems in health care that we ought to address, that congress actually can come together and overcome what looks like differences. legislators had hope today include immigration reform to the bill to keep funding of the federal government but that spending bill has to be done by next friday and it doesn t appear at this point that there s enough agreement to include immigration in that legislation. mike. live in washington, molly, thanks a lot. more on the battle over budget and immigration, i want to bring in scott wong, senior reporter at the hill. thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. take a look at facts on immigration. this is the immigrant population in the united states by country of birth in 2016. it s the latest numbers we ve got, total immigration from africa at 2.14 million, el salvador as you can see there is 1.3 million, haiti, just over half a million at 668,000 and norway at 22,000. so allegedly these are the types of figures that the president was react to go earlier this week in the meeting with lawmakers where he used expletive reportedly. the numbers don t look very high to me. well, a number of republicans pointed out that, you know, we all have immigrant backgrounds in our ancestry and so that was the point i believe that lindsey graham made to the president in pushing back to some of the remarks, one of the most personal, i think, responses to the president s controversial comments came from mia love, the first haitian american republican lawmaker to serve in the united states congress, her parents were born in haiti and came to the united states looking for a better future for their family and so i think, you know, some of the backlash that we have seen in response to president trump s is not only coming from the left but republicans as well. if you break down the numbers a little bit, i was just struck whether the reporting about the expletive is right or wrong, the numbers like, for example, african immigration today in the united states total is 2 million people, but that s almost 60 countries, i thought it would be a lot higher, i was remarking that, you know, this is not this is not an all-time high of immigration as we are being made to believe. i want to ask you also about the president wanting to get rid of the diversity lottery system for visas. he believes this will help put an end to what the administration calls chain migration. he says that what he wants is merit-based immigration, as you know, that essentially means people meet certain qualifications before they are able to come into the country. can you tell us about those qualifications, what they are? i don t have any specifics on the qualifications themselves but president trump did when lindsey graham and dick durbin brought this plan, bipartisan plan, you know, essentially it would shift, it would do away with the diversity lottery which is a random lottery program and it would shift some of those 50,000 slots over to the tps program which is the countries like haiti, el salvador. temporary protective status, and the president said, well, let s not deal with those countries, why can t we make this all about merit and, remember, these were comments that he made two days earlier in the televised meeting in the white house who said who would disagree with bringing in people based on on a merit system and so this is something that the president has insisted on. he has suggested this to congress. so far, democrats have not signed on board. they are pushing back against the merit-base system and they want other assurances for daca at this point. so the administration as far as i can tell has not really clearly defined what those merits are. they ve alluded to the idea that people should speak english prior to coming into the united states, that s one qualification, another qualification is that they should be prepared to in some way contribute to the national economy, am i missing anything? i don t think we have seen specifics so far. i think what the president is talking about are professionals like doctors, for example, doctors from other countries coming to the united states, graduate students who want to further their education and take advantage of the good colleges in the united states. those are examples of the types of people that president trump is saying let s make this all about merit, let s take the best and brightest from around the world and let them come to the country rather than ran do random lottery drawing. how do those qualifications compare to refugee population? the united states agreeing to take people who are fleeing prosecution, war, terror around the world, are we going to keep refugees in separate categories or they ll get bundled into the immigrant populations, the merit-based folks? i think that s what s being discussed. if you do away completely with the lottery system, the plan, the bipartisan plan that lindsey graham and dick durbin put forward would have shifted 50,000 slots over to countries that are dealing with either manmade disasters, civil war, strife or natural disasters like we saw in el salvador and in haiti. these are there s a lot of questions that still have not been resolved. the president s comments, controversial remarks have only sort of inflamed the situation. i think democrats and republicans have been driven into the respective corners. that s not a great place to be with four legislative days before a government shutdown. yeah, as you point out, a lot of loose ends, a lot of major questions here that will affect all americans that need to be hammered out on the hill, in the white house in the next four days, thanks so much for being with us. thank you. mike. third high profile republican has thrown her name into arizona seat, martha mcsally officially announced candidacy friday. former air force colonel and first female fighter pilot took a world war ii fighter plane to campaign tieing her service record into how she ll work in the senate. i m running my race and we want to make sure that people in arizona know options and i m working with the president. you look at my voting record, even though i m in split district, i have to most reliable record with the president and i continue to vote with him. i was at the white house this week and i ve been invited other times to talk about health care, tax reform, infrastructure and now immigration and i m honored about that. mcsally faces competition for the republican nomination, former arizona sheriff joe arpaio and former senator, state senator kelly ward. that should be a heck of the race for the republican nomination. you know, i have to say, a woman fighter pilot throwing her hat in the ring, not a day too soon, this is the kind of thing that americans all across the country have been calling for. jeff flake is retiring so they are throwing their hat in there. yeah, feeling good about that. brand-new details emerging on the las vegas mass shooter from last year and just how meticulous he was in covering up his trail leading up to that deadly massacre? 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well, we have the ability in our house rules to declassify, classify documents that are in the possession of committee and we had major breakthrough with doj and fbi finally agreed to provide the information regarding the trump dossier, the fisa surveillance, all those questions that we ve had for months and i think all the members of congress will eventually be read into that and even people not on the intelligence committee will be able to review it and i think that s good, but to me that s inadequate. i think the american people need to know how this information was used, did you have one administration spying on the campaign of an opposing party and i have report that is the dossier was, in fact, use today get fisa surveillance on a trump associate and one of the questions i have is, did the fbi when they got the dossier, did they know that that was a democratic-party funded document and still went ahead and used it, that s bad. but if they didn t know the genesis of it, the origin of it and still used it, that s also bad. so i think there s a lot of questions that need to be answered and the best way to do it is cut through the smoke and des classify and make it public. we have a public of january 9th letter here, have you gotten any response from speaker and his team so far? so i talked to the speaker last week about getting in all the members of congress read into this. he was very open to that. i think the speaker has done a good job on this. he has backed devin nunes, he told rosenstein you have to produce the stuff. i think the speaker will be open to this and i talked to chairman nunes and he s definitely trying to move forward with invoke declassification order from his committee which is great. there are great patriotic professional with n the fbi but what are your concerns about the role of some at the fbi as it relates to the house intelligence committee investigation? well, you re right, we have phenomenal fbi agents serving all over the country and all over the world, my fear with all of this is the bad actions of a few people like peter strzok who said we can t take risk of trump presidency and lisa page, that their political actions and the way they conducted themselves will make the bureau look bad. i still have confidence in the fbi at large but i think there s been a problem with the leadership going back to the hillary e-mail investigation and then through this trump so-called russia collusion investigation that is going to need to be addressed. we have seen it be addressed so far to a certain extent. comey has been fired. mccabe is on the way out, peter strzok in administrative position, so let s just get all the facts, let s hold people accountable and let s move forward. we need a strong fbi and i m 100% in favor of a strong law enforcement. this is not the first rodeo, do you expect the documents will be declassified, congressman? i think there s a very good chance that they will be, yes, because the public interest is in intense in this and you declassify in a way that if there is some type of source and method you can protect that but still get the information out to the people. there were high-profile issues at the irs several years ago, should anyone be surprised that some at the fbi may have played politics? well, i think that s a good point, l oh, lerner was not not appointed by the obama administration. the outer veneer they may not be, they can often act in partisan ways, lerner did that to the hill and peter strzok and lisa page text messages, they had bias against donald j. trump, they did not want him to be president and we wanted to make sure there was an insurance policy to prevent it. congressman, are you getting all the answers you want on the steel dossier and the information at this stage? well, we haven t gotten them all yet but i think the fact that this information will be provided to the congress is a huge step forward, it s a big victory for us. we are going to get all the answers one way or another, i wish we would have gotten them sooner but over the next probably two months between this and then the ig report with the hillary e-mail investigation, i think you re going to see a lot of scrutiny on how the obama doj handled these cases in 2016. congressman ron desantis of the great state of florida, i look forward to seeing you on the hill, sir. thank you. thanks for your time. gillian: after heated election virginia now has its now governor, democrat ralph northum who defeated ed gillespie was sworn in today at noon in richmond, he addressed a crowd of about 4,000 spectators who braved very cold weather to watch. northum called for unity amongst all virginians. it can be hard to find a way in a time that there s so much shouting, when nasty shallow tweets take the place of honest debate, if you felt that way, i want you listen to me right now, we are bigger than this. so help me god. [cheers and applause] northum, 73rd governor in the state s history. after holding bipartisan meetings on immigration and daca earlier in the week, president trump is now slamming democrats over what he s called a missed opportunity. the president took to twitter this morning saying, democrats are, quote, all talk and no action. for more on the immigration debate let s bring in fair and balance panel brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to president george w. bush and al, member of clinton finance team, former member of the clinton finance team, easy for me to say. gentlemen, thanks for your time. great to be here. brad, let s start with you, your thoughts on president lashing out on democrats in twitter? i think he s dudley right. democrats did not come in the bipartisan meeting with any intention in dealing in good faith. how do we know that, dick durbin outraged over what the president may have said at the meeting. and when he left the white house, he didn t go to sticks, in front of the press corp and show his outrage, this was calculated that they will policy, want government shutdown, they don t want a deal on immigration, they think they with get away with blaming the trump administration, the president went to deal in good faith, he said it during the meeting we saw a week ago, he said it it was a bipartisan commit yes we saw a few days ago and democrats have taken attack that he couldn t be dealt with, they choose to attack him. that s the best spin i have ever heard. the president engaged engaged il vitriol. when ronald reagan left she talked about shining city in the hill, he talked about a place that had doors that were open in anyone in world. and dick durbin and all democrats did come in good faith and the president should be commended for that meeting and that was a bipartisan, great discussion, he unraveled the whole thing with what he said. my guess is plenty of presidents from both parties have used colorful language at times behind closed doors, brad, are you surprised the president did it in bipartisan meeting which it was the other night? no, there are some words and, of course, the president he said denies the word alleged, let me tell you something, in negotiation, specially with legislators things are going to be said that are never intended to public con summing. it s the heat of the moment. there s also context to what was said. what happened before the harsh word that the president used. he agreed he used harsh words and didn t agree he used those words. and the democrats, i guess they never listened to lbj tapes where he used not only foul language but racial language against black americans, so when dick durbin said language has never been used in the oval office, then he should be listening to the lbj tapes and lbj, what was he able to do, he passed civil rights legislation and the president wanted to deal in good faith, the democrats, they renigged on that. look, no one is denying that he said it other than one man, the president who has a history of saying things that are a little untrue. what we have here is a situation, it s so sad because this is a look right into his dark soul, these are chilling and disparaging comments. you do so to emerge from tough situation. we should want people with fortitude and wherewithal to come here. we are heading into, perhaps, potential government shutdown in less than a week, he needs to get democrats that vote for some things, to get some things across the finish line, what about the timing and what about the week ahead. i still think we are going to get through. i don t believe they ll be a shut down. i hope you re correct. i hope that there isn t a shutdown. we shouldn t be politicizing the the economy and the health of the american workers and that s federal workers and private workers that will be affected by government shutdown. we shouldn t be doing that. we shouldn t be holding people hostage and i do believe daca, if democrats want to work in good faith there s still opportunity to do it. he s probably the most transactional president. what about the democrats who try today link daca to some of the funding talks, feeling they have leverage because democratic votes will be needed to get things across finish line, how does that play out, does this get separated, we tried on daca, let s do it in march, where are we going there? there s still not much time but i m hopeful that they ll be bipartisan deal that includes border security and daca protections. a bunch of senators came with proposal that included that, there s a chance. again, the comments make it tougher because that riles up the base for good reason. nobody would have ever known about those comments had the democrats not rushed out in a coordinated effort. fascinating discussion, gentlemen, thanks for your time. good to be with you. gillian: it s often hard for civilians to understand exactly what the members of our military are up against when fighting isis and 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moment for citizens in hawaii as ballistic missile alert get sent to citizens accidentally, the screen grab was sent out by congressman and she reiterated that the alert was a false alarm. people in hawaii received this morning stating a ballistic missile inbound but authorities said alert was sent out by mistake. that is confirmed at this moment the lingering effects of extreme winter weather at the start of january has created quite a mess for jfk airport with damaged equipment and dozens of delayed flights, not to mention scores of unhappy customers and jfk in new york not the only airport seeing headaches, bryan llenas joins with the latest. hey, mike, chaos in americas airports, one air traffic controller, what he called a, quote, horror show, jfk airport at new york city. dozens and dozens of planes sat on the tarmac for hours filled with passengers, thousands of bags were delayed or never made it to destinations, people slept at the airport for a couple days and then a water main broke flooding the international terminal. so weeks before that, the world s busiest airport hartsfield in atlanta lost power canceling flights and recent airport fiascoes are underscored infrastructure concerns at our nation s airports, so the american society of civil engineers recently gave our nation s airports a d grade, airport congestion is on the rise, asce is expected that 24 of the top 30 major airports in this country may soon experience thanksgiving peak traffic volume at least one day every week. you look at the graphic, last month the nation s airports released reports saying they require $100 billion in infrastructure needs between now and 2021 because of this congestion. that price tag has gone up 32% in just two years. airports want congress to eliminate caps on passenger facility charges, they want the faa to allow them to charge more than the max 4.50 per passenger so they can invest money in infrastructure. meanwhile there are efforts to modernize air traffic control systems, the president wants to privatize stripping responsibility from the federal aviation administration and given the responsibility to independent nongovernmental administration. they believe will speed up nationwide and faa is handling the next gen program, updating 1950 s era radar systems to satellite radar technology which would lead to less delays and more efficient performance and hope to be done by 2025. currently there s congressional group called the problem solver s caucus, they are trying to draft the trillion dollar infrastructure deal, we will see what happens. bryan llenas on travel drama and elsewhere, bryan, many thanks. of course. gillian: now from the halls of the pentagon to front lines in afghanistan, iraq and south america, new documentary gives you, viewers a front row seat to battle against extremism. the number one priority for us is to protect the homeland and the american people from an attack and also to protect allies from attack against violent extremists. the most important things is to surround yourself with good people and take advantage of the talent that we have in the u.s. military. gillian: filmed over the course of 18 months, the series with never before seen images from the front line of war. scott is the executive producer of chain of command, the series, premiers monday and he joins me now live, scott, this is just incredible project and excited to have you with us to tell us a little bit more about it. i want to ask you first a question about timing, essentially why now, you know, the wars in iraq and afghanistan have been raging for 16 plus areas, what made you and then the pentagon decide that this this story needed to be told today? it s a very important story that we are telling. ithas been years in discussion between national geographic and national geographic studios and with the department of defense. you know, as you had mentioned earlier, we started feeling about about a year and a half ago and we started very slowly and when you do this type of show, it s it s all built on trust because we are allowed into privileged worlds that have never been, you know, they never had cameras allowed before and we wanted to do it through the eyes of men and women who are most involved in the fight against extremism. you talk about footage, things that have never been allowed, access that has never been given before, one of those as i understand it, we have never gotten to see live footage from inside an f-22 before, is that right, and we see that in the series? that s correct, combat mission, that s exactly right and so these are the worlds in which which through discussion and through, you know, obviously these are sensitive worlds and these environments that we are in are extremely fluid at times but a chain of command is really a collection of soldier stories. it is about the men and women who serve. it s told through their eyes, you get a greater depth of the larger stories, the larger story, you get a greater depth of their mission but you understand their sacrifice, you understand the commitment and, you know, as we go into these worlds, what we describe you re in the room and the way we define a room you could be in the drone room just on the outskirts of mosul or in the cockpit or you can be with a father and a mother who are saying good-bye to, you know, their three kids under 5 as they are about to deploy to afghanistan. now, there have been many, many documentaries on the great men and women who serve in these environments gillian: but i don t think, scott, not one that we know of where you really get inside the minds of service members and their families and get to see life sort of through their eyes from their perspective. i wanted to ask you particularly about one thing that really struck me when i was reading about the project, the strategic plans that are hatched by top military brass at the pentagon have the sort of real, very real effects for service members and affected trajectory of entire lives, service members on the ground and one of the things you really wanted to do here was sort of connect the dots so that folks understood that, do you feel like you got any answers? you know, it was it s playing out over, you know, a section of time where we started, for example, with the battle of mosul. we were there at the beginning, right when they kicked off and we were there towards the end and that plays out in the first four episodes. so through the men and women on both u.s. side and also with the iraqi forces, you understand their mission, you understand the complexity of that environment. you see, like you said, in the drone rooms in several occasions and you understand how difficult it is and you get greater depth of the fight for mosul. gillian: i m sorry to interrupt you, we have to leave it there, we are out of time, everybody stay tune, look for the series premiering on monday on net geo, scott, thank you for bringing the story to us. thank you. gillian: mike. mike: back to fox news alert now, more details on the frightening moment for citizens in hawaii when a ballistic missile alert was sent to citizens by mistake. democratic congresswoman tried to reassure hawaii residents on twitter and reiterated that the alert is a false alarm. people in hawaii received this warning just after 8:00 o clock in the morning stating that a ballistic missile was inbound but authorities have said alert was sent out by mistake. for more let s bring in lucas thompson, pentagon producer, lucas, i know you talked to folks at pacific command, what are they saying? mike, they are saying this was a false alarm, a message being pushed out by hawaii s emergency management system, there s no word right now on why this message was sent out, it was simply somebody hitting the wrong key or was this a possible hack of the system which has been a strong concern for a lot of people involved. you know, the biggest problem is, who wants to wake up in the island of hawaii to this kind of message when you have a pga tournament, country club, millions of people living their lives on saturday morning wake up and the first thing they see on phone checking text messages is take cover, seek shelter a ballistic missile is inbound. it has been put in place recently because of north korea testing successfully intercontinental missiles last year. of course, folks in hawaii have been on edge with the north korean regime and have been practicing what what happens if there s an emergency situation. we have video we can show folks at home exactly what they ve been doing in hawaii to prepare. [sirens] and that was the sound people have not heard since world war ii. mike: excellent, point, lucas, imagine waking up to that on saturday morning in picturesque hawaii and thinking there s incoming missile from investigator korean regime and must be alarming and people might be quite rattled. we don t know the cause. right now there s no cause in why the message was sent out inadvertently. mike: quite alarming situation, thank god it was a false alarm. lucas thompson, thank you for reporting. credits for congresswoman telling everybody not to panic. mike: no doubt about it. thank you, lucas. gillian: kudos for the congresswoman for getting that info and getting out to constituents. i can t imagine bone-chilling out on saturday, living your life with your family and you hear, you know, the sounds of those alarms are very, very eerie. mike: absolutely. reminds nuclear alerts of when you were growing pup. gillian: of course. and you have no sense of what the danger really is, you know, the folks on the ground hearing this for the first time didn t know that it was potentially a missile or something else. you imagine that, you know, doom and gloom is a few seconds out. it must be terrible. mike: it took a while to find out whether this was legit or this was a false alarm, she sent the tweet out and hopefully a lot of folks in hawaii got the information promptly and were able to calm down pretty quickly. but just stunning when you consider the world we live in these days, the north koreans doing all kinds of test in the fear that perhaps it s not going to be a test or false alarm. we are hearing that there was 35 minutes, mike, between the alarm and then the all-clear, the mistake being declared. so that s an awful long time for folks on the ground to be left wondering and maybe panicking about what has happened. 35 minutes. mike: yeah. gillian: unbelievable. mike: you can imagine the panic at 8:00 o clock in the morning, what, we are under attack, we have to run, load up the family, where do we go? is it nuclear? gillian: we should probably stop complaining about the weather on the east coast. mike: exactly right. wbr id= wbr68660 /> thankfully false alarm in hawaii and thankfully that congress woman tulsi gabbard grot the information and alerted constituents and were able to calm down 35 minutes after the initial alert went out. all kinds of investigation now to try to figure out whether somebody pressed the button, whether there was a hacking, exactly what led to this, but a tough way to start your day in hawaii, imagine folks on vacation or people who live there who are living under the threat of north korea, hearing those sirens first thing this /b> morning. gillian: you know, that will be the million dollar question now going forward is the investigation into what exactly went wrong. i don t know if we still have lucas with us but maybe we can ask him, lucas, do you have a sense of what the procedure is of taking this forward, how they can rectify the situation or prevent it from happening in the wbr-id= wbr69260 /> future? although it s not a u.s. military system, hawaii s emergency management system, this is a lot like amber alert set up and better or for worse, now in technology can reach out people very quickly. within minutes, millions of people on the island of hawaiis had message saying the missile was inbound. in terms of investigation, they re going to have to go back in the logs and find out, interview all the people and something on the keyboard or is it more sinister and that is all the systems are prone to hacks, outside actors, somebody trying to have a little bit of fun, great cost and we now to find out in hawaii how bad people were impacted, anybody drive off the road, anybody, you know, freak out at home and you also have pga golf tournament, people living their lives and also big events that go in hawaii around the clock. mike: in post 9/11 world you don t take things for granted, anything less than quite deadly serious and you can only imagine the panic people felt in hawaii. thankfully it was a false alarm, all kinds of information now to figure out how to prevent this from happening in the future. you don t want to cry golf from constituents and leave house, run, and then god forbid there s an attack of some sort, emergency at some point, you don t want people to say, it s another false alarm. gillian: everybody because false sense when it comes to these kinds of alert that really do at the end of the day end up saving lives, protecting people, lucas made a really interesting chilling point that i hadn t thought of which is, perhaps this wasn t a mistake, perhaps this was some kind of motivated attack against the united states by an infiltrator, we don t know, this is just speculation, of course, at this hour but if this was not an accident, who is the perpetrator and how can they be stopped and how can this be how can we prevent this from happening again, it s very scary. mike: if you are just joining us, folks in hawaii woke up to alert on their phones telling them there was an emergency, perhaps an incoming missile, 35 minutes later, democratic congressman tulsi gabbard got the information that it was false alarm and there s no incoming missile and there s no incoming missile and so the question is at this point, the breaking news trying to figure out why this happened, who is responsible, was it a mistake, was it a hacking, these days we don t feel like our personal information is secure and so it s a foreign actor or what caused this. lucas, i want to ask you while we still got you on the line here, we are hearing from u.s. pacific command, from the spokesperson, they are confirming that it was a false alarm, do you know do you have anything else on that, can you tell us what you re hearing from your sources? gillian, the u.s. pacific command is based in hawaii and they track all of north korea s ballistic launches and when they put out the statement, people with rest assure not only are actors, these are the guys and women that you track this type of missile launches, they could make that judgment. gillian: while we have you, i want to get viewers the benefit of tapping into your expertise, can you tell us a word about pacific commands mission and what they do more broadly? the u.s. pacific command is the largest combatant command in the world leading the u.s. military, the pentagon has divided the world into different sections, the pacific, u.s. pacific command based in hawaii in pearl harbor runs all u.s. military operations, army, navy, air force, marines, in the entie pacific region, southern pacific, all the way to hawaii and parts of the pacific. so you re talking about hundreds of warships based in hawaii, you re talking about ships based gillian: lucas, we have to
the pet did not survive the flight. and what the airline is now saying tonight. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. that massive storm hitting at this hour, but first tonight, the storm swirling inside president trump s cabinet. president trump firing secretary of state rex tillerson, and doing so in a tweet. the president firing tillerson, then calling him several hours later from air force one. the president naming cia director mike pompeo as the new secretary of state. and look at the wall tonight. at the top there, tillerson fired. he was not the only one fired at the state department today. the undersecretary of state, steve goldstein, who tweeted that tillerson did not know the firing was coming, he was then fired, too. in addition to all of the vacancies that already exist at the top of the state department. and so, we begin tonight with abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. reporter: president trump is in california today, reviewing prototypes of the border wall he hopes to build. a trip overshadowed by what he did early this morning, firing his secretary of state, on twitter, no less. mike pompeo, director of the cia, will become our new secretary of state, the president declared. thank you to rex tillerson for his service! as he left the white house, the president explained he just didn t see eye-to-eye with his secretary of state. rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. we got along actually quite well but we disagreed on things. reporter: as for his new choice for top diplomat? tremendous energy, tremendous intellect. we re always on the same wavelength. reporter: tillerson s day began flying back from africa, landing in washington at 4:00 a.m. at 8:44, seeing the tweet that the president had fired him. and minutes after that, his spokesman putting out a statement saying tillerson had wanted to stay on the job, adding, the secretary did not speak to the president and is a moron, and then refused to deny making the comment. i m not going to deal with petty stuff like that. reporter: that prompted trump to call tillerson weak. sometimes i d like him to be a little bit tougher, but other than that, we have a very good relationship. reporter: and the president even suggested, quote, i guess we ll have to compare iq tests. and i can tell you who is going to win. adding to all the drama, the president today hinted there may be more firings to come. i m really at a point where we re getting very close to having the cabinet and other things that i want. so, let s get to jon karl with us live tonight from the white house. and jon, as you know, tillerson today did not mention president trump by name other than mentioning that phone call from air force one. but he did urge state department officials to move forward with, quote, honesty and integrity, were the words he chose today. but jon, while we have you, there s another shakeup to get to tonight, after the departures of hope hicks, rob porter, two very close aides, a third aide, you ve learned, escorted out of the white house? reporter: this was one of the confirmed assistant secretary for east asia, no ambassador to south korea, and no special representative for north korea policy. he left just before the meeting was announced. so, all of the key people at state responsible for the region are in acting or interim positions. but maybe mike pompeo can change all that, david. speaking of mike pompeo, the choice to succeed him, to run the cia, will be gina haspel, the first woman to run the spy agency. but martha, she didn t come without controversy, either. reporter: she doesn t. gina haspel was in charge of one of the cia black sites, where they did so-called enhanced interrogation, including waterboarding of al qaeda operative abu zubaydah, who was waterboarded nearly 80 times. she is no doubt going to be asked about that during confirmation hearings. david? all right, martha raddatz live at our washington bureau tonight. martha, thank you. also at this hour, the massive storm hitting right now. the third nor easter to slam into the east coast in less than two weeks. blizzard conditions across new england at this hour, several big rig accidents blocking highways, including i-290 near shrewsbury, massachusetts. first philly and new york, the system now slamming new england tonight, where up to two feet of snow is possible. winds gusting more than 80 miles per hour. blizzard conditions. and abc s adrienne bankert is in marshfield tonight. reporter: tonight, wicked weather. the third nor easter in less than two weeks arrives in boston, as a full blown blizzard. if you re out there traveling on the streets of boston today, be very careful. look at the pile of the snow that these snow plows are pushing already. and it takes up lane and a half. reporter: in marshfield, the storm surge nearly swallows the few drivers daring to risk venturing out in these coastal towns. live power lines dance in the wind. gusts above 80 miles an hour in some places. power lines arc in orleans, starting fires in sandwich. reporter: we are on the south side of sandwich. this giant pine tree has actually fallen over and it was caught by the power lines. reporter: outages hit nearly a quarter of a million customers across the commonwealth. troopers urge residents to stay off the roads. not much traffic out here. if you are home, stay there. if you have to go out, take it slow. reporter: tractor trailers jackknife on multiple interstates. on the mass pike, the speed limit reduced to just 20 miles per hour. that is a truck that has flipped onto its side, right on the pike. obviously, a scary situation out here and a testament to just how slippery the roads are. reporter: air travel not any easier. boston s airport, a ghost town. about 75% of flights canceled. crews use fire to keep commuter rail switches from freezing. and plow trains to keep the tracks clear. so, let s get to adrienne, she s live tonight in a very windy and wet marshfield, massachusetts. we re really thinking about the people of new england tonight, because we know officials have told you, it could be once again several days before the power comes back. reporter: yes, david. they re calling this a multi-day restoration. residents are weary, so are crews. they ve been working nonstop through these three nor easters. now, residents in coastal towns like marshfield, they are watching the tide here and it is still snowing. we could see another half a foot of snow overnight. david? wow. those waving churning water behind you. get back inside, adrienne. thank you. let s get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano, he s live along new york s west side highway tonight. a bit of different scene, as people head home here, rob. reporter: certainly is, new york relatively unscathed, but eastern new england, as you saw, still getting pounded with that blizzard right now. the radar still thick with snow, the winds are howling, in some cases, gusting over 80 miles an hour. we ll get another 6 to 12 inches, as adrienne said, tonight, and behind that, cold, blustery, snow showers all day long for much of the northeast. and that cold air goes all the way down into the deep south once again. freeze watches and warnings with temps getting down near freezing. teens for wind chills. and this active pattern continues. dare i say, the potential for another nor easter, the beginning of next week. david? all right, we ll be tracking that, as well, unfortunately. rob, thank you. we re going to turn next tonight to the deadly bus crash in alabama. a high school band traveling back home from disney world to houston. police say the driver of the charter bus was killed when the bus veered off interstate 10 there, plunging down a 50-foot ravine. there are multiple injuries tonight, and here s abc s steve osunsami. i m going to need some help. we got a full charter bus, multiple, multiple injuries. reporter: police and fire who raced to the scene are still trying to figure out tonight why the driver of this tour bus lost control. add screaming children to this image of tossed pillows and stuffed animals, and this is what they saw. we need some blankets and some gloves. anything warm. we re getting hypothermia setting in. reporter: the bus was on the way home to texas, carrying the channelview high school band, seen here. they had just finished a trip to disney world, when police say their driver ran over a median and fell 50 feet down a ravine on i-10 near the alabama/florida state line. the driver, seen here, was killed. 37 people, most of them students, had to be rushed to the closest hospitals. some had to be physically cut out of the bus. i don t know exactly how many, maybe two or three, that had to be cut out. reporter: our station in houston was there when one of the students called home. some students were stuck under seats, some were on top of other students. reporter: federal investigators have a team looking into this tonight. the tour bus operator says that their driver, who died here, was a long-time employee and that they re cooperating with authorities. david? steve osunsami again tonight. we also have new developments here in the urgent search for a possible serial bomber in austin, texas. as we reported last night, three package bombs exploding, two people killed. those packages left on doorsteps. and what we learned late today. abc s alex perez in austin. reporter: investigators in austin tonight desperately chasing a suspected serial bomber. we are going to follow up on every lead. reporter: anxiety gripping the city after three packages exploded, killing two. everybody s on guard, everybody s real suspicious if there s any packages. reporter: emergency officials flooded with more than 265 calls of suspicious packages. package near the ground, or on the ground near the mailboxes. please advise her not to mess with it. reporter: this is the home where the first bombing occurred back on march 2nd. you can see the impact, the power, ripping right through this wall, blowing out the door. authorities tell abc news the explosive devices were constructed with nuts, bolts and nails, generating shrapnel. and were triggered to explode when picked up. the fact that they have been able to not only build these bombs, but then travel with them and deploy them to the target locations without them exploding shows they do have a certain level of sophistication. reporter: and tonight, the youngest victim identified. 17-year-old draylon mason, a dedicated student with a passion for music. the reward for any information leading to an arrest in this case, now up to $65,000. david? alex perez tonight. alex, thank you. overseas at this hour, to england, and 24 hours after british prime minister theresa may demanded that russia answer for the nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his daughter, a new mystery unfolding tonight. another person dead. authorities say russian exile nikolai glushkov was found dead in his home in london. police listing his death as unexplained. counterterrorism officers have taken charge of the investigation as a precaution tonight. back home now, and to tonight s pivotal special election in pennsylvania. the high stakes battle for a congressional seat in a swing state and in a district won by president trump by double digits. the president campaigning for the republican, former vice president joe biden for the democrat. and what this could all mean for november. abc s chief national correspondent tom llamas is there tonight. reporter: tonight, a house race in this southwest pennsylvania district could set the tone for the midterms. polls show the race between republican rick saccone and democrat connor lamb neck and neck, even though republicans have held this seat for 15 years. i hate to put this pressure on you, rick, they re all watching. because i won this district, like, by 22 points. it s a lot. go out and make sure he wins! reporter: on lamb s side, former vice president joe biden. i asked lamb today about his sudden rise. do you think this is because people really like you or do you think they re really upset with the president? hopefully, it s because they like me, and they believe what i ve told them, which is that i m going to work really hard for every single one of them, no matter what party they are. reporter: in the last hours of this campaign, saccone delivering this baseless claim about democrats. they have a hatred for our president. i tell you, many of them have a hatred for our country. and i tell you some more, my wife and i saw it again today, they have a hatred for god. reporter: i asked saccone about this after he voted today. do you believe democrats hate this country and hate god? he wouldn t answer. no answer to you, tom. but you did catch up with both candidates today in this high stakes election? reporter: that s right, saccone did answer my question about president trump. he says he s doing a great job and they love him in western pennsylvania. as for lamb, for his part, he told me he s not afraid of the word compromise. he will work with republicans if it helps the people in his district. david? tom llamas with us live from pennsylvania. thank you, tom. and to florida tonight. and news this evening about high school shooting suspect nikolas cruz. prosecutors filing formal notice to seek the death penalty for the shooting rampage, killing 17 people at stoneman douglas high school. cruz is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow. his attorney says cruz is still willing to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this tuesday. the bail bond agent opening fire, shooting a man she was trying to take into custody. her son was right there in the room. and what a court has now ruled. also, the family horror on board a united flight. what happened after a flight attendant told them to put the family dog in the overhead. that pet did not survive. how the airline is responding tonight. and then, the new surveillance footage. an armed home invasion. a mother and child inside this house. the boy there running for safety. safety. a lot more news ahead. ead. ed non-small cell lung cancer, safety. a lotpreviously treated with platinum-based chemotherapy, including those with an abnormal alk or egfr gene who ve tried an fda-approved targeted therapy, who wouldn t want a chance for another.? 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