starting to be a big consumer product. david: >> i have to tell you, microsoft hitting all-time high today. it is a member of the dow jones industrials. we've got five wins in a row for the dow, longest streak in three months. that will do it for the claman "countdown," folks, hope you are here tomorrow. i'll be here too. david: closing in the green for a fifth day in a row, popping up about 184 points right now. the s&p 500 and nasdaq also mostly climbing on the strength in energy and financial stocks. hi, everybody, i'm david asman. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." more on the big market movers. here's what else we are covering in this busy hour. coming home. three americans held hostage in north korea on their way back to the u.s. right now. the details surrounding their release and what this could mean for the highly anticipated meeting between president trump and kim jong-un. and this is a scene from the iranian parliament, burning american flags. david: that is nice, lovely,

lovely. melissa: this is in response to the u.s. pulling out of the nuclear deal. what iran is threatening to do beyond this, and how the president is responding this afternoon. david: so glad we're not doing a deal with them. melissa: and the president's pick to head the cia on the hot seat, grilled by democrats on her involvement in the torture of terror suspects. who has worked with gina haspel and backing her confirmation. david: that was quite a hearing. the dow soaring as the surge in oil is boosting energy stocks. oil closing up a whopping 3% to settle above 71 bucks for the first time in 3 1/2 years. phil flynn, a price futures and fox business contributor watching the action in oil and gold from the cme. and nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange, but phil, i want to start with you, is the oil pop all about iran? >> it isn't, dave. i would like to tell you it's all about it, it's also about strong demand.

obviously it was a historic day for oil closing above $71. the first time we've seen that in years. but it's not just about iran. the situation with iran raises it will lose supply, we've got a strong global demand market and can't afford to lose one drop of oil. if you look at u.s. inventory today, a very, very strong sign, they fell. the other thing is the dollar and the oil are going in the same direction. they're going up. that's only happened seven times in the last 35 years. it is always a very bullish sign for oil. melissa: all right, phil, thank you so much. nicole, financials also fueling the rally today. reporter: that's right, we had greens across the board, right? a great day on wall street. only seven dow components in the red of the 30 when i took a last peek before i jumped out here. the dow up 182 points, had been up over 225. still holding onto nice gains there. up three quarters of 1%.

the s&p 500, you can see also up 1%. so that's why we are seeing those gains. looking at the dow leaders right now. the dow leaders include the financials like you mentioned, melissa, and you can see jpmorgan, goldman sachs, morgan stanley, bank of america, those were among the best performers. look at that. 2% gains. we'll get to the ten year bond yield and the deal on walmart, it came, it's here, $16 billion but going to cost them over the next several years. this is an investment in e-commerce in india where it's an area of growth. look at the stock, it dropped 3% because there are near-term repercussions and record-record, apple, amazon, closing record for both. both closing at records today. back to you. melissa: very nice for the stockholders, nicole, thank

you. david: we have todd horowitz, and gary b. smith from the cadena group, and fox business contributor. good to see you. gary, the oil was up from the get-go, from 9:00 in the morning, eastern, but wasn't until 12:00 that we saw the markets really spike. why the delay? >> you know, it's interesting, i think part of the iran thing filtered into the market ands popped, i think a lot of people are followers. i saw my gosh, oil is not going to come in, i better get on board. and to phil's bigger point. not just right now. the oil chart, oil's been going up a year, dave. you know as well as i do, when people see prices going up, it attracts interest. that caused the spurt about midday. david: phil said it wasn't just about iran, this is a lot about worldwide demand, really at a record. we haven't seen anything like this in a long time. that's a bullish move for the

economy worldwide, right? >> it is, i want to comment on the oil part. oil itself isn't a backwardation formation. june oil is the most expensive than any on the board. to me, this is a fear trade. david: fear of what, todd? fear of what, specifically? >> fear what's going in the mideast. fear of what's going on in the united states. fear what's going on with the dollar. a lot of things creating fear here. if you go back to july of 2014, you will see the exact same pattern, december oil is $3 cheaper than today. that is not the right formation for oil. it is the opportunity to potentially sell it. but have to be careful because fear can last longer. david: it can. let me take the opposite point. we're seeing depletion of oil reserves because the world is using a lot of oil right now. there is an economic boom going on that really i don't think has been properly recognized, do you? >> absolutely 100%. look, the world, better or

worse, it runs on oil. and if the world is moving upwards economically it needs more oil. the same you can make the same argument by the way for financials. financials run on top of the economy. they don't fuel the economy, so as businesses spring up, expand, they need more funding, et cetera. that's why you're seeing financials move in tandem with oil. we're really in a sweet spot and you're exactly right. i don't think this administration gets enough credit for the economic boom. melissa: okay, hold it there, guys, bad news for boeing, or is it? the plane maker has $20 billion in contracts with iranian airlines. those deals could be scrapped following president trump's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal. the ceo is weighing in on the impact. you might be surprised. let's go edward lawrence with what he's saying. reporter: boeing and airbus are trying to figure out what to do with long-term deals in iran. most immediate impact will be felt by airbus, because they're

already delivering planes under a deal that was written in 2016. now it may be a european country but the components inside the planes are american. that false under the sanctions there. boeing is looking at a long-term hit here because last year they signed a $3 billion deal with an airline in iran to deliver planes. in total, boeing has agreements for $20 billion to deliver 110 airplanes. the ceo says the differences, though, that i have not started to make those planes. >> we had not made any skyline production slot commitments on those airplanes, and i think most sensitive to that was the 777 line or wide body line and none of the airplanes are in our back. reporter: and one major concern for the ceo of boeing is if airbus removes the american parts out of the airplanes, then they could sell to iran, possibly looking at chinese parts there. the ceo very concerned about

the next step there. >> it's very important to us that from a u.s. government standpoint that the outcome in iran is a level playing field between us and airbus. we need equal treatment. reporter: the airline industry has 90 days to wind down operations. oil, energy and finance has 120 days. the secretary of treasury says he will stick to the deadlines and enforce sanctions after that. melissa? melissa: thank you so much for that. todd and gary are back to react. todd, you got to love the american ceos, boeing ceo was smart, he did not slot the aircraft in. they knew there was risk there. i mean, it's not going to be as big a hit as you would think off the top. your thoughts. >> well, melissa, i look at this way. i get my news from two sources, fox business or the charts. boeing in great shape and the stock is up almost 2% today on

news. they knew they were prepared, they knew not to get too involved and the stock is performing beautifully and has been the number one performer for the last 18 months. i see no issue, no problems and unless you tell me they have a problem on fox news, they're in good shape. melissa: gary, it shows you, when you look at what airbus is doing, so much of the deal with iran is about the countries wanting to make money? >> well, absolutely. look, that's the bottom line. i'm kind of with todd, i don't think there's much of a hit on boeing. the headlines read going to lose, what was the number? 20 billion? exactly. that's not correct. it's kind of like i don't go to my supermarket today to buy a loaf of bread. publix doesn't lose the money on the bread. it gets delayed a little bit. boeings had a large backlog of the planes that revenue might get delayed a bit but they'll sell it to the next company or

country out there. minimal hit to boeing. melissa: guys, thank you. david: all right, nicole has all the details. twenty-first century fox parent company of fox business is reporting third quarter results. nicole, tell us what it is. reporter: that's right, the parent of the fox business network. we're taking a look at the latest quarter for fox a, that is the ticker symbol, coming in, the stock is virtually flat in the after-hours. though it did hit highs this week. and the numbers coming in, the estimates were 53 cents a share, we're using the thompson number of 49 cents. when you look at numbers that was a slight miss there, also revenue, that came in at 7.42 billion for fox. twenty-first century fox. we're also going to wait to hear anything more, but that is the latest. back to you. david: nicole, thank you very much. meanwhile, a war of words heating up. iran responding to the president's decision to pull

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. >> people never thought this could happen, it can. people never thought you're going to have a situation where we're having serious and positive communication with north korea, and we are. what happens? who knows? we have a chance at something really great for the world, and great for north korea, and great for everyone. david: and already, it is an unprecedented success. secretary of state mike pompeo headed back to the u.s. right now after retrieving three american hostages. president trump announced their release this morning on twitter, and earlier today provided details regarding the highly anticipated historic summit with kim jong-un. here now with the latest from the state department, fox news correspondent rich edson. rich, before anybody had the story the president was out with his tweet about the hostages? reporter: he was, david. good afternoon. this is shortly after the secretary of state mike pompeo met with kim jong-un this morning for about 90 minutes.

he returned to his hotel and the reporters traveling with pompeo asked the secretary if he had secured the release of the three american detainees. pompeo would only cross his fingers at that point. a u.s. official says north korean official showed up and informed him that, yes kim jong-un decided to release the three americans, tony kim, kim hak-song and kim dong-chul. they should be careful not to make the same mistake because it was a hard decision for kim jong-un to release the three. they boarded the plane, doctors checked them out. pompeo said they appeared to be in good condition, pompeo says they also informed the three former prisoners when they officially exited north korean airspace. pompeo says they were thrilled at that news. meanwhile, back at the white house, president trump offered his appreciation. >> special time. nobody thought this was going to happen, and if it did, it

would be years or decades, frankly. nobody thought this was going to happen, and i appreciate kim jong-un doing this. reporter: pompeo says he spent 13 hours on the ground in pyongyang. he says, quote, i'm thrilled we have them back. i'm happy that president trump set the conditions for this to happen, and i'm thrilled with. that there's a lot of work to do to achieve our ultimate goal. pompeo says they set the conditions for a one--day summit that can be extended for a two-day summit between president trump and kim jong-un. the president said though he favored something at the demilitarized zone, he said it's another location, and will let us know date and time within the next three days. david? david: lot of people thinking singapore might be the place. thank you very much, melissa? melissa: here is harry tazianis, thank you for joining

us. >> hi. melissa: what do you make, what do you read into the release of the hostages right now, and is there a danger to us getting too relaxed at this point? >> well, i think history cries out for us to be skeptical. i think it's good for us to be overjoyed, to be happy that you three tortured americans are coming home. that's a great thing. but we have to remember history here, and dealing with north korea is pretty much like you're trying to negotiate with lucipher. not always the way you think, and 99% of the time they're lying. we have remember the regime we're dealing with. the north koreans have over 100,000 people in political gulages, they have one prison camp three times the size of washington, d.c. we can't forget the regime we're actually dealing with here. i'm optimistic but skeptical. melissa: it's surprising that a lot of us thought they would have that summit at the dmz. what do you make of the fact that they're now saying, nope,

not going to be there? >> i think it would have to be singapore, to honest with you. where i would get worried is if we had this in china. it would be intelligence coup for the chinese. what i would be worried about is president trump and kim jong-un had private talk, sort of like president had a side bar. i know there's a temptation to do that but the chinese would have a seat at table, whether we like it or not. i think singapore would be a better location if not at the dmz. melissa: why do you think they decided against the dmz? >> i don't know, the only thing that would make sense is president trump didn't want to have the same optices and photo-ops and the same setup there. was other locations they could have done it along the dmz. maybe kim jong-un didn't want that either, maybe he wants a fresh set of photo-ops, it could be the optics to be honest with you. melissa: we're going to know in the next three days where it's going to be. they said a one-day summit that

could be stretched into two. that's interests. i mean if it extends longer, is that a bad sign they're not able to agree to things so far? what do you think? >> if it extends longer, we could be looking at history to be honest with you. what the trump administration is looking for from kim jong-un is a declaration that they will get rid of nuclear weapons. a timetable but most important that north korea will allow international inspectors to go all over the country and document and get rid of kim's nuclear weapons. and that means they'd be able to go anywhere, anyplace, any time, they want to check out kim jong-un's bathroom, they have to be able to do it. that's the key. melissa: president obama said anywhere, any time inspections on iran at the time, and that was not true. >> that was a huge mistake. melissa: careful when we hear the words. harry kazianis. david: be cautious and remember otto warmbier, if you want

exemplification of the regime, how otto warmbier was treated. that is the nature of this regime. we should be cautious. a another nightmare in a plane, evacuation forcing passengers on a delta flight to exit on the plane's wings. we're going to tell you the cause of this kayous next. officials are working to keep hawaii residents safe following the kilauea volcano's destruction. there's a new threat about to engulf the island. wait until you hear this. we have a live report from hawaii after the break. >> makes your eyes water. your throat hurts. everything hurts. >> it doesn't seem real. >> almost like you can feel the lava flowing under you.

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earnings. the media company saying it remains committed to offer to buy up the remainder of sky news. twenty-first century fox is the parent company not only of fox business but also fox news. melissa? melissa: more destruction in hawaii. lava spreading across the island forcing thousands of people from homes. look at that. as two more volcanic vents have cracked open. david: ooh! >> watch it go. william la jeunesse is on the big island with the latest. reporter: this is a slow motion disaster, and now lava is covers more than 100 acres here and two vent us that mentioned yesterday, those erupting, those had residents fleeing for the beach because they were told the eruptions emitted sulfur dioxide gas to high levels. >> makes your eyes water, your throat hurts. everything hurts.

so and your lungs literally ache so you got to run. reporter: that will also give you a headache, i can tell you that. there's a little contradiction here. in a sense have you mandatory evacuation of course, but police are giving out permits to let people back into collect stuff. some residents headed back to the mainland, others are in shelters hoping their home will survive. >> heart break. i know those people, they're my friends, i've known some of them 15, 16 years, they don't have insurance, they lost everything and they have nowhere to go. reporter: people are warned to also wear protective gear, you might be able to see. it's dried up and raining on and off today yesterday and today and because the sulfur dioxide levels are 12 times what is considered health tea, can turn into sulfuric acid and can burn you. a lot of people are resourceful, living off the

grid but you sense a certain resignation among people that this thing is going to go on much longer than they're willing to tolerate. melissa? melissa: be careful. thank you. david: when the rain burns, what a sensation. there's a chaotic scene on a denver runway. a delta plane evacuated as it taxied to the gate after passengers reported smoke filling the cabin. people used emergency slides and over wing exits. it came from small amount of hydraulic fluid dripping to the auxiliary power unit. thank god it could have been a lot worse. melissa: yeah, a new low for the mainstream media. can you believe it? how far will they go? and finding the media more critical of president trump than ever before. is it backfireing? . david: i think it is. president trump issuing a new warning a day after pulling the u.s. from the nuclear deal.

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. melissa: global impact, the international community responding to president trump's

decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. the move sparking approval and outrage from across the world depending where you look. here now with more on this from jerusalem is benjamin hall. benjamin? reporter: there has been continued, very often polarizing views on president trump's announcement since he made it. on the other hand, people say this is a courageous move, it puts iran back in the box. people say this makes peace in the middle east far harder to get and don't approve at all. leading approval is prime minister benjamin netanyahu on, a visit to moscow to visit vladimir putin. he along with others in the region including saudi arabia, bahrain and the emirates have spoken in great support of president trump's decision. president putin has spoken of his hope to prevent the conflict to continuing talks with iran. as for iran. yesterday president rouhani said his president was preparing to restart uranium

enrichment in case the deal collapsed, and today iranian politicians burned american flags in parliament to screams of death to america. while the supreme leader himself addressed president trump, calling for him to go to hell. >> this man will die, and his body will turn into ashes and food for worms and ants but the islamic republic will continue to stand. reporter: amid further increasing tensions, within one hour of president trump's announcement, there was a military strike on iranian targets in syria, possibly rockets, warehouses and convoys. that happened south of damascus and reported to be carried out by israel. according to reports, there were 15 dead, among them 8 iranians, that is one of the concerns as the growing expansion of iran in the region, that is what president trump was hoping to prevent. reaction very split. some very positive, others not

so much. >> benjamin, thank you. >> i would advise iran not to start the nuclear program. i would advise them very strongly. if they do, there will be very severe consequence, okay? david: strong words from the president. here now to react is utah congressman chris stewart, a member of the house intel committee. congressman, thanks for being here. what should the u.s. do if iran now ramps up nuclear missile technology? >> well, i think they need to do what they promise to do. to increase the sanctions to bring allies in to reimpose the sanctions and use diplomatic and economic levers to convince him not to do this. i think the president was very thoughtful on this. we went from three-month increments, we're looking at it, looking at it. he made a thoughtful decision but it was the only thing he could do. anyone who is fair about this looks at this agreement and realizes it was devastatingly, the foundation of this thing

was just unyielding and impossible to implement and it was really the only choice he had was to take a look at this. david: the question is if the sanctions are not enough, if they defy the sanctions that we put on and continue to build their nuclear arsenal. some people are saying that israel, which has showed enormous fortitude in terms of getting intel out of iran, last week benjamin netanyahu showed display, extraordinary amount of evidence they managed to steal, a ton of evidence. why not leave it up to them? if something beyond a sanction is necessary, if military action is necessary, could we leave it up to the israelis? >> perhaps, i really don't think we're going to get there. look, people have been saying president obama and secretary kerrey always created this false choice. you either have to have this agreement or we're going to go to war. that's not true. it wasn't true when they said

it, i don't think it's true now. there's a lot of tools we have between the two extremes, the agreement or military action, and we have the tools available us to and the president is going to use those tools. david: let's talk about -- forgive me, i want to talk about how the tools will be implemented. sanctions against u.s. companies if they dare to defy the sanction we put on, but they're the secondary sanctions and john bolton talked about them to fox news, i want to play the sound bite and get your reaction, go ahead. >> the sanctions take effect immediately, so there's no new business allowed under the terms that are prescribed for existing contacts, winddown conditions in effect and the department will be laying those out in details. licenses of american technology, if american companies can't use those licenses to sell to iran, neither is anybody else. david: now let's just take one company, for example, airbus, 10% of parts and equipment come

from the united states. they sell completed planes that are partly made with u.s. hardware to iran. that would be prohibited under the sanctions that are prosed. what way are they going to hit the european allies. >> there will be, which is why the european allies were anxious not to reimpose sanctions. technically they're not compell compelled to, the economic reality is they would fall under the sanctions and by proxy would be affected by them. it's one of the things to recognize, this can't be in effect, isn't a surprise to our european allies that they would be put in the position when. president obama created an agreement that was so weak and so distrusted by not just republicans but other people in washington, d.c., that he knew he couldn't get it through the senate as a normal treaty would be. everyone is known for the last few years, this was built on a

foundation of sand and deception and likely come to an end. david: a lot of democrats were against it as well. some of whom are upset about the president's pulling out of it. president obama's justification for it originally is if we release the money to the iranian government, it's going to bring them out of dark ages. people will wake up, become more democratic. none of that has happened. they used the money internally, haven't bleeded it out into the economy. they continue to do the military sanctions in lebanon and syria, they practically own lebanon by nour. lord knows what they want to do with the uea. exactly what way have president obama's plans to bring them out of the dark ages work, if at all? >> they haven't worked and it was built on a fantasy from the beginning. i ask the question again and again, what historical evidence that we can trust iran as a

partner? there is zero evidence. it's very clear, by any measure their economy is worse than it was two years ago. that's the truth. this hasn't helped the iranian people at all. not by one penny or one dollar. all of this money has gone to war in yemen, to more death and destruction in syria. to expanding power through hezbollah and hamas and the quds force, and many of us said the money would be spent on. we can impose sanctions, diplomatic levers we can use, but we have to do it with eyes wide open. they're not a trusted partner. david: congressman chris stewart, thank you for coming in. appreciate it. melissa? melissa: president trump's cia pick in the hot seat. gina haspel facing tough questions on capitol hill. how the nominee for cia director is facing interrogation about her

interrogation of terror suspects. and speak with senator jim risch, one of the senators questioning haspel today. >> i support the higher moral standards that this country decided to hold itself to. i would never, ever take cia back to an interrogation program.

. >> i'm very proud of the fact that we captured the perpetrator of 9/11, khalid sheikh mohammed. we did extraordinary work. to me the tragedy is that the controversy surrounding the interrogation program which as i've indicated to senator warner, i fully understand that, but it has cast a shadow over a major contribution to protecting this country. david: it has clouded a lot of thing. gina haspel, president trump's pick to run the cia grilled by senate intel committee over interrogation tactics following

after 9/11. here now is republican senator jim risch from idaho. so senator, thank you for coming in. did she change any minds today? >> i don't know if she changed minds. she did what she had to do. because of the animosity towards president trump in this town going oanything he does, anybody he appoints is going to face grilling by the other side. she was ready for that, i think, and discharged herself very well, i thought. david: she was ready for anything. in fact senator feinstein grilled her about a book that mistakenly said she was in charge of the interrogation when she wasn't. not only was the book wrong but the author of the book went so far as to put out addendum to correct his own mistake, senator feinstein wasn't aware of that? >> apparently. that's the way it appeared as i was sitting there. david: well, it shows not only was she superprepared, but she

seemed to have a confidence. she exudes confidence, she was in the cia, and interviewed otherness ands how to be interviewed. she was playing on the techniques taught to cia agents. >> president couldn't find anyone more qualified to be head of the cia than gina haspel. the democrats don't want her because she was appointed by trump and they're looking for anything, they want to relitigate a program that's been long gone, it was gone before i got here, ten years ago, and admittedly she was at the cia while that program was on the interrogation program, but she had nothing to do with it. david: yet, there continue to be these myths, anybody who works for the cia who becomes a public figure has to deal with the myths. one of those was that she was responsible in some way for destroying the tapes of the interrogation oficalied sheikh

mohammed. mike morell, deputy director of the cia came out categorycally and said miss haspel did not destroy the tapes and did not order the destruction of the tapes, is that issue put to bed now? >> one would hope so. look, i've seen the classified documents on that, and what you just reiterated is absolutely accurate. her boss did that. she didn't, and it shouldn't be an issue here. we ought to be talking about her ability to lead the agency forward. david: there are several people from all kinds of backgrounds who have complete confidence in her ability to run the agency, including by the way, john brennan, probably the harshest trump critic around who not only endorses ms. haspel, but he himself was much involved in the interrogation program as she was. her superior, and he sailed through congress with his confirmation, 63-34. >> that's exactly right.

and it's deeper than that. i deal regularly with members of the intelligence community from other countries. the five i's plus other partners that we do intelligence with, and they know her, they've worked with her, and they're excited to have her as head of the cia. david: senator, i'd be remiss if i didn't bring it up. we only have 15 seconds. you're dining with the president tonight, what's on the agenda? >> well, obviously, the coming thing is north korea, we'll be talking about that, and some other, because i'm on foreign relations and intel, we'll be talking about things that touch on many, many matters that are in that realm. david: a lot of matters in the realm of great concern to americans today. senator jim risch, we thank you for coming here, appreciate it. >> thank you. melissa: slamming the dishonest media, despite a stronger economy and promise to north korea, the major networks

finding plenty for the president to dislike. is the negativity back firing? next.

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. david: and here's another look at our parent twenty-first century fox. executive chairman lachlan murdoch saying the company expects to request shareholder approval for the sale of assets to disney. that transaction by this summer. melissa? melissa: the media versus president trump. a new study showing 90% of the mainstream media coverage of president trump was negative during the first four months of the year. this is according to the media research center. this as the president's approval ratings are on the rise with an average of 43.2% according to real clear

politics, a 6% jump from december of 2017. here's todd starnes, fox news radio host. shocking look at the media evening newscast and found 90% of the coverage was negative but at the same time his approval rating is going up. do you think there's a connection there? a disconnect? >> it's shocking that 90% number. i thought that was rather low. i thought it would be 98%. look, the nation's a lot smarter than i think we give them credit for. so-called deplorables out there. i think they can see through the news coverage and understand what's really going on. especially when they look at their bank accounts. the economy is doing great, people are getting money back in the bank accounts thanks to the tax reform plan, and when they see the mainstream media focused on stormy daniels. see the mainstream media focused on the russia collusion nonsense, they see through that and they understand that the

mainstream media has one goal, one mission, and that's to destroy president trump. melissa: i saw shows leading the news with stormy daniels on a day hostages are coming home, you have to wonder what they're thinking as they're doing things like that. at the same time, i think we know what they're thinking, the "new york times" came out with a headline saying at a key moment trump's top diplomat is thousands of miles away, it said awol. that was mike pompeo on his way to rescue americans. here's what sarah sanders had to say about that. >> the press has a responsibility to put out accurate information. just yesterday the "new york times" accused secretary of state for being awol. awol, when he was flying across the globe to bring three americans home. that san outrageous claim. melissa: the "new york times" which was at one time supposed to be, you know, the paper of record, and then show their ham like that.

what do you think? >> i think this goes back to the president's argument about fake news and stories like this feed into the narrative. the media are not doing themselves favor by this. i think they're so intent on taking down this president and embarrassing this president and his administration that they're making sloppy, i hope it's sloppy mistakes. i hope this isn't intentional. melissa: shocking in the last 24 hours, the number of journalists willing to carry water for terrorists in iran, whatever the president does, they're going to be on the opposite side of that. what do you think? >> let's think about this, you have a regime that wants to wipe israel off the face of the earth, people in the streets burning the american flag are saying death to america and you have the mainstream media in the united states holding water, carrying water for the iranians it is absolutely offensive. melissa: yeah, what do you think it means in the long

term, because you do worry as it exposes the media and their bias that it does undermine journalism in all of this country? >> i think it has undermind. when you see the president out there at these big rallies. when you see the president tweeting and the reaction to the tweets, there's a reason for that. people are smart. we have smart news consumers, and they understand when they're getting fed a load of grade a fertilizer. >> i love how you put everything. come back soon, good stuff, david? david: robot invasion doesn't sound so scary if they're serving you good food. the new restaurant replacing chefs with robots. ♪

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melissa: food of the future. four students from mit teaming up. it looks good. you don't think that looks good? >> no, looks like my leftovers. robotic walks, spice prepares healthy meals for customers who order from a touch-screen. the robots screen themselves. that i like. new restaurant is not completely ought town must. -- autonomous. human staff is needed to prepare ingredients. melissa: more and more robots coming in. are they like ai robots? are they like facebook robots that invented their language and started chitchatting with each other? >> i hadn't heard about that. ai going hog-wild. like a science fiction movie. melissa: you have to be careful

with the chefs. >> happy birthday to my mom. couple days before mother's day. happy birthday, mom. melissa: that's sweet. that does it for us. "the evening edit" starts right now. no nobody thought this was going to be happen. if it did it would be years or decades, frankly. nobody thought this was going to happen. and, i appreciate kim jong-un doing this. and allowing him to go. we picked a time and we picked a place. picked place for the meeting or summit as we like to call it. think it will be successful. as i always say, who knows. liz: tonight president trump will greet three american hostages just released by north korea. a major foreign policy victory. now this. which major foreign leader want as sit-down summit with trump? get to your money. oil