thank you for joining us and have a fabulous evening. the evening at it is next. -- "the evening edit" is next. liz: major developments from capitol hill to wall street. we have a text field rally in on his hands while treasury secretary stephen mnuchin just met with the highest-ranking lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle about spending in infrastructure and more. you'll never guess what might be coming here is the hands. potentially higher federal gas taxes. we'll hit the middle and lower classes hard. guess which two democrats 2020 contenders want higher gas taxes? it names are next. do the doom and gloom or is of the party why the media forecast over trump's recession ever since he won the election have

not materialized. we will give you a reality check on that and on the trump pulls as the doom and gloom are so worn. we will fact check those claims. the last time the american economy grew like this was in the 1990s during the internet revolution. even "the news york times" saying this job market is white-hot. to the democrats not running for office but running after trump any way they can prevent talking about democrats launching probes holding hearings in august nancy pelosi tomorrow morning will have an impeachment meeting. we will show you what top ohio democrat insiders are saying and what congressional insiders are saying. it's the canary in the coal mine wake-up call for top democrats. do i ran the acting defense secretary says yes the u.s. show of force today rainy and got the message across for now but warns of threat moving forward remains a real one. we break that down tonight with former retired general plus lord conrad black pardoned by

president trump is our guest tonight plus all the warfare happening washington a massive flooding and dangerous tornadoes with wild rescues in the planes in the midwest states. they were walloped by a powerful and dangerous storms. the damage is so severe and it could get worse with more storms but to slam away. thanks for joining us i'm elizabeth macdonald. the evening added starts right now. first of congressional leaders wrapping up a high-stakes meeting today. media reports coming in to her that gas taxes might go up to pay for infrastructure. this comes from a media outlet roll call reporting the federal gas tax might be on the table. the two top democrats joe biden and bernie sanders have supported a federal gas tax increase predicate of the middle class and the poor hard.

we want more details what happened with the meeting could let's get to hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. >> budget talks broke down in round two of the big four meeting the between mcconnell schumer pelosi and mccarthy and mnuchin and mulvaney. we don't know what happened but we did hear chuck schumer walking out of the room telling reporters they had a disagreement over non-defense spending. he says the republicans need to compromise to fund the needs of the middle class but this caught everyone by surprise. walking into round two budget talks majority leader telling mitch mcconnell telling reporters that he was optimistic they would strike a deal by the end of the day with democrats. >> a negotiated agreement with the house democrats is the best of three alternatives. the other two being arguing back and forth over the length of cr.

only knows how long ora sequester which hits defense with a 71 billion-dollar cut at the end of the year. >> that sequester is what votes republicans and democrats in congress want to avoid happening that the threat of the sequester was not enough. in fact minority leader chuck schumer mentioning today that there were some details the need to be worked out in this round two meeting. >> there are still significant issues outstanding particularly the domestic spending issues things like health care and infrastructure and think that average middle-class folks need but we are having good discussions and we are meeting again at 4:15. liz: that meeting ended with no deal liz. liz: hillary thank you so much. so high-stakes meeting and we are going to stay on this. thanks for reporting hillary. this is just coming in acting defense secretary patrick

shanahan declares the massive u.s. show of force to iran has put iran on hold in terms of potential for attacks on americans but let's get to lucas at the pentagon with more. >> liz defense secretary patrick shanahan received intelligence may 3 and acted on that intelligence to deter iran and iranian backed forces. that intelligence is borne out in attacks and i would say it's also deterring attacks. we have deterred attacks based on every posturing of assets. it deterred attacks against american forces. >> we shared with the house and the senate are strategic campaign effort to push back against iran's maligned activity 40 years of terrorist activity. >> shanahan and pompeo briefed house and senate lawmakers this afternoon. many top republicans agreed with the intelligence assessment. >> it's a very good racing on

how the threat streams were different than in the past, that the attack on the ships in and the pipeline was coordinated and directed by the iranian government the ayatollah. >> there was an escalation by iran with proxies. this is a response to de-escalate and provided current strategy so iran does not come aggressive. >> many democrats extremely skeptical. >> it was not very enlightening in terms of how it's going to progress and how our actions are going force what they are looking for but i believe a war with iran would be an absolute disaster far worse than a war with iraq in the hope the american people tell this administration that we will not go to war in iran.

>> this blind escalation with the hopes the iranians will come to the table in the end. >> iran's foreign minister says the trump administration is playing a dangerous game. today the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff canceled a planned trip to europe to meet nato allies. many say a sign of tensions with iran remain liz. liz: it's not just a show of force that the sanctions that are having an impact to the "washington post" reporting trump sanctions on iran are forcing haspel love to make draconian cuts to the budget. a senior hezbollah official telling the "washington post" quote there's no doubt the tensions that had a negative impact of the trump of claims $10 million have been wiped off of iran's bottom line since november but this is iran announces it has quadrupled its uranium enrichment capacity. major general robert scales and his reaction. a lot going on here. what's your reds into this? >> two things who liz. the first thing as the iranians

are very good at gorilla warfare and warfare in the shadows because they have hezbollah under their control. they have a radicalized military who are extremely confident with these gorilla type wars but they are terrible at conventional wars. their military is not terribly good poorly trained poorly equipped and the morale is in the toilet. you are chosen by your religious preference not by your military skills so what the president did was exactly right. he put heavy metal in front of the iranians and they saw what the consequences might need if they were to resist and they backed down. it's something we should have done decades ago with the iranians and it's a good sign you think if you look at the future that the iranians will never be able to stand up to

american conventional military power. liz: it's pretty scary that yemen is believed iranian backed groups are using drones. what's your reaction to that? first of all these drones had one success against the pipeline. it was a lucky hit. their drones just like the rest of their military are extremely primitive. the technology that they use in those drones they borrowed from the chinese and they took some of that technology from the drones that they shot down american drones that they shot down over iran. other than that they are one trick pony. this never turned into a serious threat against the united states or saudi arabia. the great threat is twofold. number one is the continued activity of hezbollah in syria and number two of course is the long game they play which is the evolutionary process of developing nuclear weapons. liz: many americans don't want

the u.s. to go to war in iran. what iran. what do you say what do you say to that? >> it's not going to happen liz. there's no reason to go to war against the iranians. the key word here is deterrence. the iranians are scared to death of american military power. they saw what we could do in iraq and in fact many of their soldiers fought against the americans in iraq. they have no desire. remember they spent 10 years at war against saddam hussein in the 80s. they have no desire to repeat that. liz: let's stay on that because we know iran is one of the worst human rights abusers in the world executing teenagers and women. that's why so many were outraged when the obama administration want to give the iranian regime billions of dollars given how they were so abusive to their own people torturing and murdering them. bernie sanders says trump is basically the bully here. what's your reaction to that and we have word coming in sir that there is more indication that

there is another case of the assad regime using chemical weapons on his own people in northwest syria. this is what goes on the middle east. >> yeah it's assad added again. i don't think we have have the right strategy years ago when we were trying to take him down and now when he is perfectly willing to use chemical weapons against his own people not to worry about it at all. there's going to be no full scale war against iranians. we are worried about war in the shadows because hezbollah is a serious threat. here's the other thing liz. remember the target for their rainy and is not the united states, it's israel. is israel. isn't iran in their intermediate ballistic range missile has a range of 11 miles on the target distance for the western desert to tel aviv is 980 miles. liz: general thanks so much for coming on.

let's get to your money. barry willis -- gerri willis has more. >> a good day in the markets dow up 197 points the s&p up 24 the nasdaq up 83. early in the day all about trade as investors focused on a 90-day trade on huawei. that helps the markets but then the focus went to retail and urban outfitters with results. the company announcing a rent the runway style product that people need to be excited about. when he came to other retailers reporting today a mixed bag. kohl's and jcpenney out with big disappointments blaming china and trade for their troubles. t.j. maxx and home depot didn't seem to have that trouble. at upside surprises. 170 shoe retailers writing a letter to donald -- donald trump asking for hauled in the increase in tariffs on china's footwear. they say it will hurt their

businesses and in a report by uvs on the same topic analyst saying tariffs on chinese goods could lead to widespread store closures putting at risk $40 billion in sales. focus on retail focus on technology trade a busy day down here liz. liz: thank you. coming up rescues now underway after devastating tornadoes and historic flooding terror of -- through oklahoma and texas. forecasters warn more deadly weather is on the way plus president trump may be facing headwinds in the polls. we have the reality check for you at this stage in the 2016 campaign. hillary clinton was up doubled digit in the polls and unlike the 2020 democrats hillary clinton was not running against the sizzling trump economy. that story is coming up. i switched to liberty mutual,

because they let me customize my insurance. and as a fitness junkie, i customize everything, like my bike, and my calves. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ato be eye-catchingly we mabeautiful.ehicle we make them to be exhilaratingly agile. we make them to be meticulously engineered. and for the cla, we also made it for this. the 2019 cla. lease the cla 250 coupe for just $299 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

4 out of 5 people who have a stroke, their first symptom... is a stroke. 80 percent of all strokes and heart disease? preventable. and 149 dollars is all it takes to get screened and help take control of your health. we're life line screening... and if you're over 50... call this number, to schedule an appointment... for five painless screenings that go beyond regular check-ups. we use ultrasound technology to literally look

inside your arteries... for plaque which builds up as you age- and increases your risk for stroke and cardiovascular disease. and by getting them through this package, you're saving over 50%. so call today and consider these numbers: for just $149 you'll receive five screenings that could reveal what your body isn't telling you. i'm gonna tell you that was the best $150 i ever spent in my life. life line screening. the power of prevention. call now to learn more. liz: welcome back to the fox business network by devastation in the midwest and the plaintiff at least 19 tornadoes tore through five states including oklahoma and texas. followed by flash flooding. "fox news" steve harrigan is in oklahoma with more.

>> the tornadoes have for the most part left oklahoma but you can see what they left behind, tremendous flash flooding. they brought five to 10 inches of rain in many cases but we see major highway shut down and rose like this have become rivers. i'm standing on the double yellow line but it feels like a river producing fish go by and snakes and crawfish but if you look down the road you see a number of cars either partially or completely submerged. >> a very dangerous situation even though the drama of the storms are gone. this flash flooding which poses a great danger for the tornadoes themselves led zero catastrophes as of this morning in part because many people thought quickly how to save themselves and their families. >> i told my son and granddaughter to get in the bathroom. by that time we heard boom, boom and it probably lasted maybe 30 or 40 seconds. we opened up the front door and

i had a -- in the front gear. there's also been outstanding work done by the first responders producing local fire departments here working throughout the night under very tough conditions even into the morning hours pulling off a number of water rescues at least 20 overnight in stillwater. many of those people needing rescued, elderly trapped in their homes either damaged by the winter partially crushed by a tree or surrounded by water. first responders using high water trucks and ropes to get people the safety after terrifying nights in oklahoma. liz back to you. liz: steve harrigan in oklahoma thank you. we are not in the clear. more storms expected over the next couple of days. the "fox news" weather center adam cross has more. >> the system may cause problems yesterday and this morning. bit of a slow mover. everything highlighted in this big red talks with a tornado

watch in place. assuming there's a tornado on the ground the conditions are there that could set up this evening to the overnight hours. organs are running across missouri to st. louis one of the largest cities into southern illinois right now. this is going to be a slow mover we have to pay attention but not just the threat of possibly a tornado or. strong winds. there has been a major rainmaker as steve alluded to standing in big floodwaters widespread across northern oklahoma into kansas. these are areas giving up to five to 10 inches of rain for. the ground has been saturated all spring wrong -- all spring long. the flooding is become an issue across a large portion of the country stretching throughout la houma now the heavy rain falling in illinois. this is a slow mover and will continue to move down the mississippi. we see all the flooding in the last couple of weeks there. it's an ongoing problem is the system continues to clara radio tower by our forecast. you can see the timestamp in the corner but a slow mover through illinois early tonight but by

midnight beginning to creep into portions of indiana. the good news after my set direction liz at against a slow down a little bit may be weakening. we have at least a chance of isolated tornadoes possible. not the big outbreak we site yesterday but the concern continues to be the winds up to 60 miles an hour tale is a possibility in flooding unfortunately will continue today tonight and into tomorrow. liz: thank you so much. we have other stories we are watching closely tonight. we begin with this. u.s. aviation officials now talking about a bird strike as possibly having caused the second boeing 737 max crash in march. the ethiopian jet went down less than five months after crash in indonesia. the boeing executive theorizing saying a bird strike may have been behind the indonesian crash this is according to reports coming in. boeing's anti-stall system under fire blamed for both crashes but ethiopian airlines saved

preliminary probes show no evidence of a bird strike in the crash there. the cause of that is not yet determined. the intercept media outlet claims a confidential document that allegedly shows facebook is offering to sell data from your phone to some 100 different companies in 50 different countries. we are talking telecoms getting your data. the data includes everything from your past and present locations your interest and your social groups. now to the story the census bureau warning the russian government could hack into data it collects in the 2020 census. a top official says it's very concerned about developing defenses against the russian cyber attack at the u.s. postal service introducing it to week past to hault mail from phoenix to dallas using robotic self-driving trucks. don't be alarmed, there's a

safety driver sitting behind the wheel along with an engineer in the passenger seat. the pilot program tops -- i hate to be a party but in time for memorial day chicago-based -- recalling a time ton nearly 2000 pounds of hot dogs. potentially contaminated with metal pieces. the hotdogs were shipped through multiple food services in the midwest including wisconsin illinois and indiana. coming up even "the news york times" has blue-collar workers are -- with time. the 2020 battle coming up in jerry nadler a powerful democratic chair of the house judiciary dropped a lot of bombs in the hearing. that's what critics are saying that he believes trump committed a crime. jerry nadler made a lot of threats. we will ask a republican member of the same committee about what happened at a lot more. that's coming up. stay there. ♪ vanishing deductib, you can... ♪

♪ earn $100... ♪ earn $100 off... ♪ off your deductible. ♪ deductible. ♪ for every year of safe driving. ♪ ♪ for every-- for every-- ♪ ♪ for every year of safe driving. ♪ what are you-- what key are you in? "e." no, no, go to "g." "g" will be too high. not for me. ♪ vanishing deductible. oh, gosh. sweet, sweet. play it cool and escape heartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tum tum tums (vo)with n♪w tums chewy i know what you're thinking. electric, it's not for you. and, you're probably right.

electric just doesn't have enough range. it will never survive the winter. charging stations? good luck finding one of those. so, maybe an electric car isn't for you after all. or, is it? ♪ sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. save $1,000 on the new queen sleep number 360 special edition smart bed, only $1,799. only for a limited time.

the doctor's office might mejust for a shot.o but why go back there when you can stay home with neulasta® onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. in a key study neulasta® reduced the risk of infection from 17% to 1% a 94% decrease. neulasta® onpro is designed to

deliver neulasta® the day after chemo and is used by most patients today. neulasta® is for certain cancer patients receiving strong chemotherapy. do not take neulasta® if you're allergic to it or neupogen (filgrastim). an incomplete dose could increase infection risk. ruptured spleen, sometimes fatal as well as serious lung problems allergic reactions, kidney injuries and capillary leak syndrome have occurred. report abdominal or shoulder tip pain, trouble breathing or allergic reactions to your doctor right away. in patients with sickle cell disorders, serious, sometimes fatal crises can occur. the most common side effect is bone and muscle ache. if you'd rather be home ask your doctor about neulasta® onpro. pay no more than $5 per dose with copay card.

♪ ♪ elizabeth: welcome back. you're watching the fox business network. we're coming into the bottom of the hour. the fight for 15 got really heated today in a protest outside a mcdonald's headquarters in chicago. it wasn't about raising the minimum wage, it was workers filing dozens of sexual harassment charges against mcdonald's. jeff flock has the details. jeff? >> reporter: perhaps you can see the protest in full swing here, 25 additional claims against mcdonald's restaurants, both those owned by franchisees as well as those owned corporately by mcdonald's. and the workers, essentially, say they've been making complaints, and they haven't been responded to by the folks at corporate. mcdonald's says 95% of our restaurants are franchisees, we can't necessarily, you know, can't control everything they do. on the other hand, padma, maybe

you know her, she had an answer for that one though. take a listen. >> if mcdonald's can dictate the specific type of pickle that can be used by their franchises in their burgers, why can't they dictate and enforce with penalties a comprehensive set of guidelines? >> reporter: mcdonald's ceo writing a letter in response to some of the workers' concerns. he says by strengthening our overall policy, a third-party-managed anonymous hotline, mcdonald's is sending a message that we are committed to creating and sustain thing a culture -- sustaining a culture of trust where employees feel safe, valued and respected. unfortunately, that is in, well, it's in conflict with what the workers here are alleging. that's the latest from chicago. elizabeth: jeff flock.

always love jeff flock's reporting, gets right in the middle of it. here's what's happening with the 2020 race. more than 50% of people who were surveyed in polls said they probably or definitely will not vote for president trump again. 54% in a fox news poll and 52% in the quinnipiac university poll. but reality check, even at this time in 2016 hillary clinton was leading president trump in the polls with big double digits, and hillary clinton did not have the smoking hot economy that trump has now. trump won states like pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin in 2016. here's how he did it, he found the disaffected, blue collar pockets of workers that are not on the media's radar screen. those states had not backed a republican for president since the 1980s. let's bring in "forbes" media chair, steve forbe it is. this is a 020 fight -- 2020 fight we're seeing, right? >> it really doesn't mean much now, these polls, because people get mad and have certain issues.

but the democrats, thing big thing trump has going for him that democrats have to have a live candidate against him. when you have a candidate against an incumbent, suddenly, you have to make a choice. if trump can keep this issue about the economy and that the democrat proposals will wreck the economy, then he can pull this out again just as he did three years ago. elizabeth: because the issue is can trump's blue collar workers offset the suburban voters' uncertainty, right? >> yes. even suburban voters may not like donald trump, but the other side may jeopardize their improving lifestyle, and they may say, maybe, i'll hold the nose and do it. elizabeth: exactly. nobody really trusts the polls. you couldn't trust them in 2016. >> one, they have a harder and harder time getting people to respond and, two, a lot of people aren't going to tell a third party what their the feel things are. elizabeth: no president since george h.w. has failed to win

election. he had an s and h are crisis and recession -- s&l crisis and recession. we've got an outside group supporting president trump, america first action pac, it's going to spend a quarter billion dollars in six battleground states. here's the thing that we want to talk to steve forbes about, ohio democrats are saying, hey, party leaders, answer the wake-up call. they're saying trump will dominate the blue collar working class vote again. "the new york times" with this headline: there's no boom in youngstown, ohio, but blue collar workers are sticking with trump. and that's what's going to happen here in this election, right? the jobless rate is low. >> jobless rate is low, and you have say truck driving jobs, long haul, going for 100, $130,000 a year? so the opportunities are there. that's why you see more and more people going back in the labor force. the only overhang of the economy is of these trade agreements which is having halting

investments as people get the rules of the game. if they get those issues out of the way in the next few months, it's trump's election to lose. elizabeth: listen to ohio democrats, they're really worried about the bad messaging from democrat leaders. here's ohio democrats, quote: all we're saying is he won't turn over his tax returns, trump is saying i'm fighting china to get you better jobs. tim ryan, democrat presidential candidate, he's out of ohio, he says trump is, quote, punching china in the face while joe biden is saying china is not a serious problem. if we go into the election with that message, we're going to get beat again. >> well, he's a realist. he says the truth. it'll be interesting to see how he does in the debates -- elizabeth: people don't like him personally, they don't like his personal attacks and tweeting -- >> they're tired of it. they don't feel that should be in the oval office, but the bottom line is he's deliver thing, and democrats are

offering things that people aren't that interested in and proposals that'll hurt the economy. if trump sticks to that message, he's going to win again. elizabeth: you've seen it time and and time again, right? >> barack obama should have lost in 2012, but he shaped the issues. trump is do it in -- can do it in 2020. i delivered prosperity, they're going to wreck it. what do you want, more of the same or wreckage? elizabeth: steve forbes, thank you so much. >> thank you. elizabeth: the democrat probe into all things trump in full swing. nancy pelosi has called a meeting for nine a.m. tomorrow, they're going to talk impeachment. insiders are saying this push could be in trouble. plus, lord conrad black gives us his take on the heavy-handed democrat oversight. we've got a few key flip-flops to talk to him about and, of course, his recent presidential pardon from president trump. all that coming up. ♪ portfolios

to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. can't see what it is yet.re? what is that? that's a blazer? that's a chevy blazer? aww, this is dope.

this thing is beautiful. i love the lights. oh man, it's got a mean face on it. it looks like a piece of candy. look at the interior. this is nice. this is my sexy mom car. i would feel like a cool dad. it's just really chic. i love this thing. it's gorgeous. i would pull up in this in a heartbeat. i want one of these. that is sharp. the all-new chevy blazer. speaks for itself. i don't know who they got to design this but give them a cookie and a star.

today's senior living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms

and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. and there's never been an easier way to get great advice. a place for mom is a free service that pairs you with a local advisor to help you sort through your options and find a perfect place. a place for mom. you know your family we know senior living. together we'll make the right choice.

♪ ♪ >> here we go again, the theater is open, and the summations are coming in. in fact, right now, we're running over the norms of congressional oversight, we're dabbing9 the edges of running roughshod on the constitution. elizabeth: that was doug collins this morning after don mcgahn did not appear to testify after receiving a subpoena from house judiciary. chad pergram is on capitol hill with the details. >> reporter: don mcgahn didn't show, so jerry nadler issued two more subpoenas this afternoon, one for annie donaldson who used to be mcgahn's chief of staff when he was white house counsel and also for former communications director hope hicks who's now the communications executive vice president for fox corporation. nadler said he's determined to get this information and witnesses. listen. >> nothing in these unjustified

and unjustifiable legal attacks will stop us from pressing forward with our work on behalf of the american people. we will hold in the president accountable one way or the other. this committee will hear mr. mcgahn's testimony even if we have to go to court to secure it. >> reporter: now, there's a lot of pressure right now on house speaker nancy pelosi as to how to handle this. i talked to one senior house democrat last night, and here's what they e told me. quote: pelosi isn't going to be able to hold off impeachment much longer, this is coming to a head. the speaker plans a caucus-wide meeting for all house democrats tomorrow to talk about their options. you talk to some freshmen democrats who represent swing districts, they're concerned about distracting from issues at hand dealing with health care and wages. one thing that's known here on capitol hill, if they do open a formal impeachment inquestion query, that's going to suck all the oxygen from those issues, and that's why the house

majority lead e steny hoyer, said, quote: to say there's no political a call chus would not be honest. they have to determine what the political consequences are if they go for impeachment, liz, back to you. elizabeth: thank you, chad. now, the trump probes are in full swing, and house speaker nancy pelosi clashing with democrats pushing for impeachment. big meeting tomorrow on that with nancy pelosi. others worry they risk taking their eyes with off issues that matter most to americans. here's nancy pelosi earlier today. >> madam speaker, are you -- [inaudible] impeach the president? >> no. >> [inaudible] representative debbieless coe, serving on the house judiciary committee. great to see you. >> it's great to be here. elizabeth: first, your reaction to today's hearing on don

mcgahn. >> well, you know, this is nothing more than what we're getting used to, unfortunately, by the democrat majority, and that's subpoena after subpoena after subpoena. and that's after two years of the mueller investigation going on, 2800 subpoenas, a whole bunch of, what, over 40 fbi agents. i mean, they're not satisfied with anything. i don't think if they would have said he's, trump is totally exonerated on everything, they still would have gone after president trump. this is all about the 2020 election, and that's all that it is. it's a total political circus. elizabeth: so do you feel like touch trump's not exonerated totally on everything? >> well, certainly, you could tell from the mueller report in volume one that there was no collusion or coordination with russia, and then they said that they couldn't find enough evidence, or they could not get him on obstruction of justice, so then attorney general barr

and rod rosenstein determined that there was not enough to charge him with obstruction of justice.

elizabeth: president trump slams mexico and democrats alike for what he says is the gnawed and broken border -- flawed and broken border system that both are abusing. stay with us on that. ♪ ♪ what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you've got cut-rate car insurance, paying for this could feel like getting robbed twice. so get allstate... and be better protected from mayhem...

like me. ♪ ifor another 150 years. the fire going ♪ to inspire confidence through style. ♪ i'm working to make connections of a different kind. ♪ i'm working for beauty that begins with nature. ♪ to treat every car like i treat mine. ♪ at adp we're designing a better way to work, so you can achieve what you're working for. ♪ the matters.ar... introducing the all-new 2019 ford ranger, it's the right gear. with a terrain management system for... this. a bash plate for... that. an electronic locking rear differential for... yeah... this. heading to the supermarket? get any truck. heading out here? get the ford ranger. the only adventure gear built ford tough.

4 out of 5 people who have a stroke, their first symptom... is a stroke. 80 percent of all strokes and heart disease? preventable. and 149 dollars is all it takes to get screened and help take control of your health. we're life line screening... and if you're over 50... call this number, to schedule an appointment... for five painless screenings that go beyond regular check-ups. we use ultrasound technology to literally look inside your arteries... for plaque which builds up as you age- and increases your risk for stroke and cardiovascular disease. and by getting them through this package, you're saving over 50%. so call today and consider these numbers: for just $149 you'll receive five screenings that could reveal what your body isn't telling you.

i'm gonna tell you that was the best $150 i ever spent in my life. life line screening. the power of prevention. call now to learn more.

♪ ♪ elizabeth: the fallout mounting after the president's latest pardon to former media titan lord conrad a black who joins me now. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for inviting me, liz. elizabeth: we've seen really rough reaction to your pardon in the media. what do you say to your critics? >> well, i haven't seen much of them the, but i'd have to know the criticism. the fact is the president made it very clear that his motivation was it was an unjust verdict and that i wasn't guilty of anything, and i wasn't. i mean, they started with 17 counts, all were either abandoned, rejected by jurors or vacated by the supreme court unanimously.

and then they resurrected two spurious counts, and the white house counsel -- after examining the material submitted on my behalf by alan dershowitz and others, said that the i shouldn't have been convicted. elizabeth: what was your reaction when you heard about the pardon? >> well, i was very satisfied and gratifieded, naturally. i mean, the whole thing was an outrage. from a-z, there was not a word of truth in any of it, and it's very gratifying after you've spent three years in prison for something you wouldn't have dreamt of doing in a thousand years to have the whole thing, in the president's own word, expunged. whatever the critics say, they're in favor of justice, so they should look at the facts of the case. elizabeth: sir, i read your columns for a long time, and you are an historian, you are interested in, of course, all things, a lot of things political. i'd like your reaction to what happened in the don mcgahn hearing today. here's republican congressman doug collins. let's take a listen.

>> actually go read the rest of it that he has been offered to read which he has chose not to read. he left out what he doesn't want to have to come back to and the frustrate thing thing that has brought us here again and again and again, and that is the conclusion there was no collusion, there was no obstruction charge. there's nothing here. elizabeth: there are seven committees probing president trump, ten showdowns we're monitoring right now. your take on all of this? >> well, look, it's not my place to mind read, but it's nonsense. it's all nonsense. there was never a word of believability in the allegation that this president chewedded with a foreign -- colluded with a foreign power to rig the election. no one ever nominated by an american political party for the office of president would have dreamt of such a thing. as for obstruction, it's bunk. the attorney general outlined in his four-page summary the three ingredients of an obstruction offense, none of them is present, and they're just wasting everyone's time.

now, i assume that the attorney general and others are right when they say that the democrats are trying to defer the investigation into the conduct of those who got this nonsense going in the first place. everybody knows that brennan, clapper, mccabe, comey and mrs. clinton lied to federal officials, and they all were -- they took apart and creating this echo chamber between a politicize ised intelligence service and part of the justice department, and the press over this outrageous, dirtiest political trick in american history, the steele dossier -- elizabeth: yeah. sir, quickly, i want to get back to this. you know, the media critics are only saying you got the pardon because you're friends with president trump, and you wrote a glowing book about him. your reaction to that. >> they should look at the facts of the case. the white house counsel and his staff looked into it and agreed that i should never have been charged. i take the president at his word. anyone who says that, that's fine if they don't like the

president or fine if they don't like me, but they could look at the facts of the case. it was bunk all the way. elizabeth: i want to get, quickly, to several democrats. democrats have been flip-flopping on key issues. let's look at adam schiff here. watch this. >> the steps the administration has taken to renege on the iran agreement, to try to force europe to renege on the iran agreement, to try to force iran to withdraw from the agreement, to go back to path of enrichment, the designation of the irgc as a terrorist group, the belligerent rhetoric from pompeo, from bolton -- >> the policy decisions. >> all of these policy decisions have led us to a state where confrontation is for more likely. this is why our allies are departing from us. this is why our allies increasingly are isolating us and not iran. and i don't see how these policies have made this country any more safe. elizabeth: but adam schiff's critics are saying you can't trust the him because four years ago he argued this a post on his

own web site that the obama administration should be much tougher on iran, and he said force should be used if they file to comply with the nuclear agreement. your reaction on adam schiff flip-flopping. >> well, that's all he ever does. you can't -- you know he's lying when you see his lips move. the fact is the president will get no credit for it, but he has revived the whole concept of nuclear non-proliferation. if it hadn't been for him, the north koreans and iranians would be nuclear powers by now. elizabeth: lord black, come back soon. great to see you. coming up, president trump says mexico thinks american taxpayers should be on the hook for the massive cost of illegal immigration. the president says that attitude is totally wrong. that coming up. ♪ ♪ you wouldn't accept an incomplete job

from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. flonase. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, hmm. exactly. so you only pay for what you need.

nice. but, uh... what's up with your... partner? not again. limu that's your reflection. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪

♪ ♪ elizabeth: let's welcome to show sheriff wayborne from texas. great to see you, texas. >> good to be back with you, thank you. elizabeth: president trump today threatened to take action against mexico for doing nothing to stop illegal immigration. sheriff, what do you think of that? >> i think that's a plausible thing. you know, they've left open their the bottom gate for all these people to come through, and their going as little as possible to stop that. and i think until they want to step up and help us, that the i think it's reasonable for us to take things away from 'em. elizabeth: so the president's saying the attitude with mexico is that it's okay to have the flow of migrants coming in, that

american taxpayers will just foot the bill for that. the president says he will have a response soon in all of this. is he going to shut the border again? what do you think it should be? >> well, i don't know that he'll shut the border, but i think that, one, he'll cut off aid, and he'll take punitive action like that. but i don't know that he'll shut down the border. that's not out of the scope for president trump. he will take the action. so it'll be interesting to see what he does unpack on this. elizabeth: what's your reaction to federal officials setting up two the massive tent the cities in -- tent cities in two border cities, 71% of illegals a arriving, one in donna, texas, the other in el a paso. it seems like a short-term solution, what's the long-term fix there are -- fix for this? >> allowing our congress to go to work today, whether they be democrat or republican, and revise the laws where we repatriate these people back to country in which they came from. that is the long-term solution, and that is the only solution. it would be good for congress --

elizabeth: even asylum seekers? even those who say they're running away from, you know, gang violence and other bad situations? >> well, i think that those are going to be in the minority. statistically, only about 6 or 7% of those people are really going to be the real asylum seeker candidates. and i think that we can vet those people quickly and really get to truth. most of them are here for economic asylum, and those people need to be repate trait thed -- elizabeth: that's to not covered by the law, right? >> that is not covered. and we've got to put the laws in place where we can act. elizabeth: quickly, california lawmakers are now weighing a plan to give government-funded health care coverage to adult illegal immigrants. what's your take on that? >> i think that is the craziest thing i've heard today, is that -- i know that california's considering that the, and they're just setting up an invitation for more problems and more people to come -- elizabeth elizabeth okay. >> and those kind of things. i think it's horrible.

elizabeth: sheriff, thank you so much for joining us, really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. elizabeth: thank you for having us in your holes and thank you for watching -- homes and thank you for watching. lou dobbs is next right here on the fox business network v. a good evening. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the department of commerce has granted china telecom giant huawei a 90-day reprieve in order to maintain the existing networks and support customers in this country. we take that up tonight, among other things, with china expert michael pillsbury, our guest. and at our southern border, the mexican drug cartels control both sides of that border. the cartels have killed 850 people in mexico concern 8500 people in mexico in the first three months of this year, up nearly 10% from last year's record number of killings. the cartels make tens of billions of dollars each year