general when he was a surrogate for the campaign? a story breaking her live on fox news channel. a stay with us. we are outnumbered online. >> jon: a fox news alert, president trump on his way to virginia right now to deliver remarks from the uss gerald ford. >> jenna: the president speaking for the first time since allegations that attorney general jeff sessions met twice with a russian ambassador during the presidential campaign and failed to disclose it when questioned at a confirmation hearing. we will get into more of that and cover all of the newest "happening now." >> i have not met with many russians at any time to discuss any political campaign. >> jenna: new revelations about attorney general jeff sessions and his contact with the russian ambassador during his presidential campaign. this as reports surfaced about the obama admin initiations pushed to spread intelligence on russia's meddling in the presidential election. determined not to let the issue die.

president trump signaling he could potentially make a deal on immigration reform, will there be compromise? one of the political biggest issues. and president trump lowering expectations for the swift repealing and replacement of obamacare. while republicans struggled to unify on a plan. is it just too big to fix? it is all "happening now" ." ♪ >> jenna: we begin with the attorney general who is under a cloud of controversy over his meeting with the russian ambassador during his time as senator and whether or not he disclosed that information to congress and the american people. welcome to the second hour of "happening now," i am jenna lee. >> jon: i'm jon scott. more republicans are calling for senator jeff sessions to recuse himself from any investigation of that trump campaign linked to russia, this afternoon reports that he met with the russian ambassador to the u.s. twice during the campaign. an apparent contradiction to his

sworn testimony during confirmation. we will get into that and a bit. in the meantime, protesters from moveon.org rallying outside the justice department a short time ago demanding sessions resignation as is the top democrat in the senate. >> the bottom line is we have an obligation to get to the truth. we must evaluate the scope of russia's interference in our election and if they are agents of government have penetrated into our high level of government, the integrity of the ranch is at stake. >> jenna: republicans are standing by jeff sessions saying they trust him to do what is right. >> i think that is ridiculous. we're still going through a period where our good friends on the other side are hyperventilating over the election. they expected to win, they lost. >> jenna: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the latest. >> thank you, the attorney general acknowledges he

met with the russian ambassador twice and says it was part of his job on the senate armed services committee and the contact was not connected to the trump campaign. the speaker of the house of this money that the democrats have blown the russian issue out of proportion based on briefings he has received from the outgoing director of national intelligence james clapper and the echoing cia cia director mike brennan. >> many of us went down and got the briefings after the election before the inauguration and never have we ever seen any evidence presented to us that an american or a person in the trump campaign was involved a regular with the russians. >> during the confirmation process, democrats say the attorney general should have been more forthcoming. in the senate questionnaire, his answers are technically correct. he responded no when asked "several of the president-elect nominees or senior advisors have russian ties, have you ever been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the russian government about the 2610 election either before or after election day?" after the democrats are applying

a double standards because attorney general lynch never recuse yourself after meeting with bill clinton one week after the fbi interview about the emails, the house minority leader said no. >> she did not have a major role in the hillary clinton campaign. this is a complete different thing. the reason we have been saying that the attorney general sessions should step aside in maybe should never have been confirmed is because he was a surrogate. >> former intelligence officials have also confirmed to fox news elements of a story that first appeared in "the new york times," the outgoing obama admin attrition was determined not to let the russia issue die and to that end, intelligence about russia's interference of the u.s. election was circulated so that it would not be buried. >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: as information continues to drip out about the alleged russian influence in the u.s. election and possible ties

to trump's campaign for president, we are learning how the obama administration continued to influence that investigation. in the last days of the obama white house, "the new york times" reports obama staffers worked to preserve information across government offices, leaving a trail, and effect, for investigators to follow. chris wallace is anchor of "fox news sunday." an interesting time in washington. have you ever seen anything like this? >> no, in the two stories in the paper today are so interesting because on the one hand, the one in "the new york times" as you say points out that some people in the obama administration were so concerned about russian interference in the election and the possibility, and i emphasize possibility, of collusion between trump associates and the russians that they wanted this paper trail, this information trail out there. then the very same day, we here in "the washington post" about the fact that jeff sessions had

these two previously undisclosed meetings with the russian ambassador, and i cannot connect the two, but you do not have to be sherlock holmes to see the dots they are and think about connecting the dots where some of the information that had been left out there by the obama administration, did it include these contacts with jeff sessions? >> jon: let me go back to "the new york times" piece because the second paragraph says this. "american allies including the british and the dutch have provided information describing meetings in european cities between russian officials and others close to russia's president vladimir putin and associates of president-elect trump according to three former american officials who requested anonymity in discussing classified intelligence." you contrast that with the sound that catherine herridge just played from speaker of the house paul ryan who met with the former director of national intelligence, former director of the cia, and he says they told him there was nothing there, there was no evidence that any

russians met with americans for the purpose of tampering with the election. >> you are exactly right. it seems to be a pretty flat contradiction on the one hand as you say, "the new york times" reporting this. this is not the first time. they've been on this story and pushing it for some period of time that there were these contacts, secret contacts between trump associates and people involved either directly or indirectly with russian intelligence, and then as you say, you have had several people but most notably paul ryan saying no evidence of any collusion, communication, cooperation between the trump campaign and the russians in terms of interfering with the election. those two things stand in fairly stark contrast. >> jon: "the times" goes into some length to describe how the obama administration was working hard to make sure that first of all that there was no interference with the election but also that if any untoward meddling was taking place that

it would be essentially easy for investigators to find. >> exactly. that is clearly the point of "the times" story. i aligned that with what i have read, i do not have independent sources on that, that people of the obama administration were so concerned about the interference, so concerned about the possibility of collusion between the trump group, we will see, circle, in the russians, that they wanted all of the information out there, the clear indication that they were buried when the trump administration came and somehow they would cover it up. again, no evidence that there was any collusion or cooperation, but it is very interesting, as i say, on the same day that came out, that story, that we have evidence suddenly someone in the justice department has leaked to "the washington post" the fact that there were these two previously undisclosed meetings between attorney general sessions and the russian

ambassador. maybe nothing is to it because it could well be that as sessions now says, he was meeting with them solely as a member of the senate armed services committee appeared having said that, in the confirmation hearing, he said directly that he had no communication with the russians, he did not say as he said today this morning outside his house that there was no communication about the campaign. he said there was no communication. one wonders, given the fact that this was not just a random conversation with senator franken, this was in the confirmation hearing. he had been really prepared for that, why he did not make that clear or if it had just been an oversight, they have an opportunity, nominees do, to clarify the record to set it straight. he had weeks between then and his confirmation to do so, and he never said, i did meet with him but it was about this. that seems odd. >> jon: i have the feeling "fox news sunday" is going to be very interesting this weekend. >> no surprise about that, no shortage of coverage. if you really want to get conspiratorial, and again, i

don't have evidence of this, but why is it that this information about sessions would be leaked to one or two days after the best day of the trump presidency when he had that very successful state of the union speech? >> jon: sean spicer for the record says there is no there there. chris wallace, we have to run, we will be watching you on "fox news sunday," thank you. >> jenna: fox news alert, president trump's big speech coming up in the next hour on an aircraft carrier in virginia as mr. trump promotes his plan for major military buildup, the president will make remarks on the uss gerald ford which is expected to be disk the commission later this year. her correspondent is live from newport news, virginia. >> get to talk to you, excitement still building aboard the uss gerald r ford as we continue to await the arrival inside the hole here of the president of the united states of america. he did actually land not long ago, he will get a briefing before making his way in here where he will be greeted by thousands of enthusiastic

supporters. we are expecting the president to talk about the importance of not just this particular project but many projects just like it, highlighting, of course, his campaign efforts to build the united states military. of course, this massive vessel is the head of her class of navy supercarrier's named after the former president who served in the navy and the pacific during world war ii. the president also told congress he wants to boost by $54 billion u.s. military expenditures. that goal would also bring to 350 the number of navy vessels, and that means jobs, agenda, lots of jobs, not just for shipbuilders in his region in particular but all over the country. i want to share with you some ideas we expect the president to touch on. he's going to say thank you to the men and women who not only made the vessel happened, he will think those serving in the navy and marines, service members around the country. he will talk about jobs and how this ties into that as well and we expect the president to spend a great deal of effort talking about the importance of reestablishing american dominance, the military the greatest in the world but it needs the equipment to get the

job done, that much more coming our way shortly, but for now, back to you. >> jenna: back to you when the president starts to speak, thank you very much. >> jon: fox news alert, you know that brussels has been an epicenter of terrorism in recent months and years. right now, brussels police are checking a car. it might be -- the white van you see in the center of the screen. it was located with gas bottles and gasoline cans inside of it apparently. there was one blast heard. authorities have closed off a part of brussels to check the suspect vehicle. whether they have found active terrorism underway, we do not yet know but we are certainly on top of it and will let you know more as the hour progresses. in the meantime, charles krauthammer has some advice for republicans on obamacare, listen. >> the point is they need one plan. it is so complicated, as trump

has discovered come healthcare reform and health care economics, that nobody can predict with accuracy which of the plans will produce the outcome you want. >> jon: as the president and top republicans focus on repealing and replacing the healthcare law, can they agree on a planned? and has obamacare become too big to change? we have complete coverage on what could be taking place behind-the-scenes as well as analysis from our panel ahead. plus, some new accusations against the attorney general. a look back at his comments during his confirmation hearing as the democrats on the house judiciary committee all call for a criminal investigation

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>> jenna: fox news alert now, new developments surfacing on attorney general jeff sessions and his contact with the russian ambassador during the trump campaign when he was also a senator. democrats and house judiciary committee want a criminal

investigation of sessions who failed, they say, to disclose those contacts during his confirmation hearing. you may have seen a short snippet of his response during that hearing, but a reminder this was part of a much longer hearing back on january 10th. have you heard the whole question? the full exchange? for context, here's the full two minute exchange that is in question. >> cnn has just published a story, and i am telling you this about a news story that has just been published, so i'm not expecting you to know whether or not it is true or not. but cnn just published a story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president-elect week that included information that "russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about mr. mr. trump. these documents also allegedly

say "there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and inter intermediaries for the russian government." again, i'm telling you this as it is coming out. you know. but if it is true, it is obviously extremely serious, and if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i am not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign, and i did not have communications with the russians. and i am unable to comment on it. >> very well. without divulging sensitive information, do you know about

this or know what compromising personal and financial information the russians claim to have? >> senator franken, allegations get made about candidates all the time, and they have been made about president-elect trump a lot sometimes, most of them, fortunately all of them have been exaggerated or untrue. i will just say to you i have no information about this matter. i have not been in on the classified briefings, and i am not a member of the intelligence committee. so i'm just not able to give you any comment on it at this time. >> totally clear. >> jenna: top democrats on capitol hill now using the discrepancy between the sessions testimony and his communication, they say, with a russian ambassador to call for the attorney general's resignation. >> the fact that the attorney general, the top cop in our country, lied under oath to the american people is grounds for him to resign, his grants

for him to resign. he has proved he is unqualified and unfit to serve in that position of trust. >> jenna: just a short time ago, house speaker paul ryan address the issue of lawmakers interacting with ambassadors and whether sessions should recuse himself from any investigation of russian influence during the election. >> should he recuse himself, i think he answered that question this morning which is if he himself is a subject of an investigation, of course he would. if he has not come i don't see any purpose. we meet with ambassadors all the time. i did a reception about 100 yards that way with like 100 ambassadors last year. i don't even remember all the ones i met with and took pictures with. it is really common for members of congress to meet with ambassadors. >> jenna: he heard the whole exchange, what do you think? the white house says the reports are the latest attack on the trump administration bipartisan democrats and that sessions actions were consistent with his testimony.

we will follow all the developments as the story unfolds. >> jon: fox news alert, a bit of heartwarming video for you here. the first lady melania trump visiting children at new york presbyterian hospital. she took along a copy of a dr. seuss book from her own library, she said. she read to the children from that book "oh, the places you will go." she emphasized that it is reading day, and it is also, we understand, dr. seuss' birthday. said that reading and education are very important and distressed to all of the children there that are obviously in the hospital and having a tough time of it should continue to read, get to 8 educated, and they will go all kinds of places. president trump vowing to take a hard-line stance on immigration amid new signs he might be willing to compromise, but will his supporters back a new plan? plus, it is his first official

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>> jon: it is the first day of a job for the new secretary of the interior, and his morning commute was probably more fun than yours or mine. but appropriate for the job. ryan zinke rode a horse to the office today, complete with cowboy hat, boots and jeans. his new job puts him in charge of federal lands including our national parks. vice president pence swarthout former montana congressman and yesterday after his confirmation by the senate. ryan zinke is a former navy seal, avid outdoorsman who pledged during his confirmation to oppose any attempt at large-scale transfers of federal

land. >> jenna: president trump continuing his hard-line stance on immigration, but some say he may be the person capable of brokering a sweeping reform bill. during his address to congress, the president said stopping the flow of illegal immigrants coming into the country would help propel more american families into the middle class. the president asserting the change he wants to make is for the security of the american people. >> i believe that real and positive immigration reform as possible as long as we focus on the following goals: to improve jobs and wages for americans, to strengthen our nations security, and to restore respect for our laws. if we are guided by the well-being of american citizens, then i believe republicans and democrats can work together to achieve an outcome that has eluded our country for decades. >> jenna: turned to me now, marianne, former senior advisor to senator john kerry and former

deputy assistant to president george w. bush. what we do not have video of is apparently this confirmation delay my conversation the present have a television ingress of the head of his big address to congress. i'm going to read a line from "the "los angeles times"," i was not in the meeting, hard at work, of course. >> started a flurry of speculation when he privately told television anchors over lunch this week he could support a compromise that allowed people with no criminal record to stay in the country and work and paid taxes." you say this is part of the strategy come and go over wall, why do you see it that way? >> he had himself identified as a senior at michigan official when he lost that trial balloon. look at how trump has campaign come he always talked about immigration and very stark terms, extreme vetting, restrictive immigration policies, deportation and all of that, and part of that certainly set him up so accepting a more reasonable path or something

less than that path would look reasonable by comparison. note that he lost the trial balloon on tuesday, got reported all afternoon into the evening, but tuesday night, you just played the clip of what president trump said he wanted his immigration policy to become a no mention of compromised so it is the best of both worlds. the public thinks he will be reasonable and cut a deal but he never had to stay publicly because it would anger his supporters. he gets the best of both worlds. >> jenna: is that the thinking of the big end goal behind all of this? >> no, i don't. i think what donald trump does is negotiates from strength. if you read his book, "the art of the deal" published in '87, you glass it is part of his 11 principals, the number one is thinking big, immigration is a huge generational piece of legislation. number two, he never gets wet to one way of doing things and that is where marianne does not understand democrats have to come to the table. they have to negotiate. donald trump is going to have come with his own terms, he's the president, we hold the majority in the house and senate, but once we have our

plan, if democrats do not come in good faith to negotiate, they are not going to get anything. >> jenna: that is interesting. where are the democrats? having seen those reports may be he is open to compromise, where are the democrats publicly saying, i'm going to give the president a call, maybe we can? >> first of all, democrats do not have to come to the table, and brad and i debated this on tuesday on fox radio. trump wants this done, in theory, he can do it with republican votes peer this is not a 60-vote bill and the senate. >> why wouldn't you want to do it, you are part of the government. >> the fact is republicans had eight years to deal with this, and they never came up with anything, they just kept defunding immigration, defunding border patrol and all of that. therein lies the blame. >> jenna: so president obama decided to use healthcare as his first legislation. >> actually come he deported more people than any other president. >> jenna: we are talking about when you have the politics in

your favor, you choose one big thing and president obama did not choose that, it seems that president trump's choosing and a way, and i'm curious with how publicly president trump is talking about the wall, for example, border security, why this is for the benefit of all americans and security. is he giving republicans some cover to now say, okay, we're going to secure the border so i am actually open to maybe not a pathway to citizenship but some sort of legal status for those that are illegally here in the country? >> donald trump is a transactional person, it's all about making a deal. in order to get something economy have to give something. if the democrats come to the table in good faith, they're going to be able to negotiate a bill good for all americans. why in the heck with democrats not take the president up to try to influence the bill that's going to be past quick smack mccue nowak, they want to blame everything on republicans. the american people spoke loud and clear. they are sick of dysfunctional government. we should be able to make deals and for the good of america, you get something, i get some income of the american people get something they can live with and

respect. what is wrong with that? >> jenna: we will see if the art of the deal does come back and becomes more invoked in the blame game. both sides are pretty good at that now, maybe we can move onto another challenge. great to have you both, thank you. >> jon: face-to-face with ices fighters, fox news gets some rare interviews learning about the terrorist mindset. we are live with more on that. and new concerns about the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare with some lawmakers worrying it might not be possible to get the government out of the healthcare business. this comes as the g.o.p. gets some advice from charles krauthammer, what he says they should do. we will go in-depth.

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>> it isn't so rare to get information out of isis, so rare to have informants in that group that this facility offers a gold mine of treasure trove of information services. the facility and program we went to see at an undisclosed location outside baghdad was designed by u.s. trainers, and it holds some key isis members. guards there say the only coercion tactic they use is sleep deprivation. behind each one of these is an isis prisoner guilty of killing many people. some of them show remorse, others feel no guilt at all. abu omar, 25, started as a guard at a checkpoint in mosul, arresting women who were not veiled but quickly moved up the ranks to making and setting bombs. he calmly told us about one of his many deadly attacks. >> picked up the car with the bomb and acted near a busy cafe close to the traffic police. i then got out, locked away and called a number on my phone and blew it up.

>> he told us that that attack killed over 100 people. he also said very plam he was just following orders come he had a license to kill. most of the people we spoke to at this facility were from baghdad sales, and as isis disappears from the battlefield, these are the kinds of men, the kinds of groups who will lead the future insurgency. we also learned about americans fighting inside isis. can you tell us about the americans you met? >> there were two or three of them among the foreigners, fighting and training others. they were more radical than the others. they were in charge of threats against the west. >> that man went on to say he was a global warrior, warrior for islam and he believed the caliphate would conquer the world. that is the threat we are facing at the moment. >> jon: benjamin hall, live from london, what a story, thank you. >> jenna: native element in the effort to repeal and replace obamacare with fox news learning the g.o.p.-controlled house could unveil their plane as early as this week, but can

government get out of the healthcare business after seven years of obamacare which is what many conservatives want. doug's doug looks at that and he is live in washington. >> from the very first day since its passage in march of 2010, republicans have to fight tooth and nail to repeal obamacare, numerous votes, promises from mitt romney back in 2012 and again at 26 to invite virtually the entire g.o.p. field, but all of that hue and cry has given way to a difficult truth of one party elder admitted last week. >> i should not have caught it repeal and replace me, that's not going to happen. basically they are going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. >> in other words, what was once a taboo in republican orthodoxy, government health care is here to stay in part, how else is it possible to cover 11 million people as they were before the

passage of obamacare? how did repeal become repeal and replace or more realistically repeal in mostly preserve? >> psychologist talk about the status quo bias. that is even if something is bad today, we fear that tomorrow it changing it might be worse. it is why people will stay in a job they don't like rather than move to a new job. >> it is a hard truth and washington that it is toxic for the party empowered to take away benefits that have already been provided, especially from previously uninsured people. >> they got better coverage under this law than they had before. for low income people that had a hard time affording premiums inn the pre-obamacare world, they got pretty big subsidies. >> as we are tuesday night from president trump, market forces will be put into play after the g.o.p. plan is put into use with tax credits, expanded health savings accounts giving more power influx ability to the

states to administer medicaid and increase competition by allowing americans to purchase insurance across state lines. late this money, house speaker paul ryan said republicans are all working on the same piece of paper, same plan, and they will keep their promises, but things have changed over the years. >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: get to some advice now for the g.o.p. on repealing and replacing obamacare. it comes from syndicated columnist charles krauthammer who shared it last night on "special report." >> picked a damn plan since nobody knows for sure which one is ultimately going to be the best. be unified. then you've got a political case to make to the democrats. >> jon: joining us now, richard fowler, fox news contributor and radio talk show host and john, republican strategist and consultant, former director of african-american outreach for their republican party. you heard that advice for your fellow republicans from charles krauthammer, what do you

think of it? >> i agree that there should be a unification here, but i think speaker ryan pointed out that we are unified. he pointed at the administration and the house, the congress is on par with president trump and utilizing tom price's plan which is set to increase affordability and access. i would say we are unified, i can understand that there is imagery put out there that there are multiple plans floating around that we don't know what's going on, but i would argue that is not the case. >> jon: the speaker actually mentioned it during his weekly news conference just this morning. i want to play that for you now, richard. >> we are all working off the same pizza paper, same plan, so we are in sync. the house, the senate, and that trump administration because this law is collapsing. every republican ran on repealing and replacing, and we are going to keep our promises. >> jon: so it sounds like, richard, the speaker and other

republicans have taken charles a posh b.s. advice, they are all on the same page come he says. >> i don't know if that is necessarily true, and just because your campaign on something doesn't mean that you should keep it come but what we are getting signals from on the paul ryan plan, it will require some set of rollback of medicaid expansion, in their five members of the united states senate who are republicans who are on that plan, cavuto from west virginia, taylor from nevada, rob portman, susan collins from maine, and murkowski from alaska, if those five senators are not part of the republican strategy to get on the president desk, it fails, does not pass the vote. republicans have a problem, not donald trump, house and senate republicans have repealed the affordable care act 50 some odd times but have not taken the time to come up with a real replacement to give americans the same coverage that they have now. remember, 11 million people now have healthcare insurance, under paul ryan's plan, that number is just going to fall short.

>> jon: you heard the speaker say they are that the law is collapsing if we don't do something about it, it's not going to be around in a year or two, what about the costs of all of this? >> when we started the whole healthcare conversation back in 2010, 2009, they said it was going to be 31 million folks ensured by this and only cost $858 million. now we know that it is on par to cover only 25 million people and cost us $2 trillion. that is about $80,000 per perso person. if we repeal in replace it, so i going to cost $137 billion. that tells me that it is on track to collapse, and any idea this can continue as is is a false narrative. >> i would not go -- that is a fuzzy math at best. >> the congressional budget office has fuzzy math? >> they said over and over again that the replacement plan that we have seen republicans introduced times previous would

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>> jon: fox news our lord, the long, slow process of confirming president trump's cabinet nominees continues right now. members of the senate are voting on the nomination of rick perry, the former texas governor to be secretary of energy. it is expected that governor peary will be confirmed as our nation's next energy secretary, we will keep an eye on the boat and let you know when it is all said and done. >> jenna: president trump has called the iran deal the worst deal ever and today secretary of state rex tillerson meets with the director of the international atomic energy agency, the u.n. nuclear watchdog. their discussions, as the white house weighs its options on the iran deal, rich edson is

live with more. >> good afternoon, that meeting with the director general happens in about 10 minutes here at the state department, secretary of state rex tillerson says he will review the iran nuclear deal with the trump initiation to see where to proceed from there. you mentioned president trump has recently called the deal a disaster. the trump administration could walk away from it, but there are problems with doing so. first off, many of the concessions given to iran were given upfront. they were frozen assets that iran now has control over, and many of the lifted sanctions against iran would need global coordination with other countries in order to reimpose those sanctions. you may not get all the countries on board, and you may get some opposition from businesses now doing business with iran. u.s. allies have said that if iran doesn't violate that deal, they could snap back those sanctions, but it could be difficult to get everyone on the same page again. with that, security experts and a number of those who have been inspectors in the past have said

that what the trump administration needs to do his stricter enforcement of that agreement. a former inspector told the house foreign affairs committee, former weapons inspector david albright said "the administration also recognizes that if the deal is to survive and serve u.s. national security interests, the jc po, that is the iran nuclear deal, needs to be more strict we enforced and interpreted at its most significant weaknesses need to be corrected" he's called for more access for inspectors, stronger interpretation of what is in the deal, what iran is allowed to produce, and a stronger response if they could neither ballistic missile program. the trump admission agent has already done that to a certain extent by leveling additional sanctions on ballistic missiles and what it called to a supporting terrorism. "the wall street journal" is also reporting that a number of european allies are planning to present to the trump administration alternatives for stronger enforcement because europeans do not want the trump admin initiation to walk away from the deal peered back to yo

you. >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: one governor taking drastic measures to fight the opioid epidemic and his estate. why the feds are facing a daunting challenge when it comes to curtailing the drug crisis.

>> i am dana perino, we are awaiting president trump's speech aboard the uss gerald ford amid calls for his attorney general to resign. will he address it? i will talk to bret baier about that and what is next in the fight on capitol hill, plus greg gutfeld has a few things to say about democratic senator claire mccaskill in her twitter habits and whether she ever met with the russian ambassador. and chris carr well and i will be reunited, so get your popcorn and watch "america's newsroom hq" at the top of the hour. >> jon: the governor of maryland declaring a state of emergency as he tries to combat a growing opioid crisis and

parts of his estate, epidemic destroying lives in communities all across the country. peter doocy is live from annapolis, maryland, with more. >> you normally see a state of emergency for something like a storm or big riot, but here in maryland, the governor larry hogan has called a state of emergency to deal with heroin and opioid overdose death, he is dedicating $50 million over the next five years for prevention and treatment and enforcement in a state where the number of people who die from heroin or other opioids in 2016 was double the number that died the year this is actually about taking an all hands on deck approach so that together, we can save the lives of thousands of marylanders. >> president trump used the first big platform of his in the dash since inauguration with his joint address to congress to warn he thinks border security,

weak border security was helping drugs get into this country, and the fbi director james comey agrees. he is now saying the mexican cartels are growing poppy in mexico which makes it cheap to ship the drugs into the states and helps them corner the market. that means the feds need to make sure they tackled the source of the cheap drugs, not just dealers or users. >> we cannot arrest our way out of this problem. we have a very important role to play. our job is to try to crack down on the supply, literally, to be very blunt, to drive up the price to make it less and less attractive. >> i just spoke to governor hogan inside a few minutes ago. he said he called the state of emergency when there were riots in baltimore a few years ago, but nobody died during those riots. with the opioid crisis in maryland, people are dying every day. >> jon: sadly, it is not the only state with that kind of problem.

peter doocy, thank you. >> jenna: the company behind snapchat exceeding expectations and its debut at the new york stock exchange come how well did it do? the answer is next in "the final 30." ♪ ♪

>> jon: time for the final 30. jenna is so excited about one of the most anticipated ipo's in years. >> jenna: the founders of snap inc behind the snap chat ringing the opening bell today. it was a good day for snap with shares opening at $24 for the company. have been trading above that. we were playing around with snap chat a little bit. >> jon: i have never looked better. >> jenna: you really looked special. if you just need a pick me up, snap chat is great for that. it is all great for social media. your messages disappear after 24 hours.

most things we do we'd like to disappear. >> jon: imagine your anchor team with mustaches and sunglasses. >> jenna: handlebars. >> jon: thank you for joining us. >> jenna: america's news hq starts right now. >> dana: we are awaiting president trump's speech aboard the uss gerald r. ford this hour. in the wake of his recent vow to rebuild america's military. hello everyone. the speech is expected to begin at the bottom of this hour. back in washington, the trump administration is facing mounting pressure over attorney general jeff sessions reported contact last year with russia's ambassador to the united states. top republicans are responding to calls for sessions to recuse himself from the justice department's on going investigation of russian meddling in the election as democrats now are calling for the new ag to resign. >> i think he answered that question this morning, which is, if he himself is a subject of an investigation,