nathan's now the official hotdog of major league baseball. thank you mr. vice executive president and john franco will finish the hotdog and tell us about his son in the minor leagues on the way to major league baseball. >> bill: here we go 9:00 in new york city president trump with a pressurage of trumps and calling out congress on health care yet again. all this as he gets set to sign a new executive order rolling back more resolutions from the obama years. i'm bill hemmer live in new york city in america's newsroom and shannon good to see you. >> shannon: i'm shannon bream once again in for martha maccallum and president trump suggests maybe they should be investigated over their ties to russia and news devin nunes met

with a team on the investigation and here's nunes last night win o'reilly. >> we've known about this long before trump sent his famous tweet out about the wiretapping at trump tower. we knew there was additional unmasking of americans' names and had sources for that information. i needed a place to find the information and review it. >> shannon: chief white house correspondent john roberts kicks off our coverage. good morning. >> good morning. as pressure mounts over the russia investigation as to what they were doing during the campaign trying to influence votes the president is returning to a familiar theme from the campaign trail taking another page from the book "clinton cash" that while secretary of state clinton approved the sale of a canadian company to a russian company and they owned

one-fifth of the uranium reserves and new revelations john podesta may have failed to disclose stocks he held at a company when take job at the obama administration and tweeting why isn't the house committee looking into the deal that allowed big uranium deal and the praise of russia by hilary or podesta and the trump-russia story is a hoax. make america great again and it comes as calls for devin nunes to recuse himself from the russia investigation after the ainformation appeared to partially vindicate the president's claim of a wiretap came from a visit influence made to the white house the day before he released the information. the white house said they don't

think nunes did anything improper. listen here. >> we've asked the house and senate intelligence committee to undertake the review so it's partially at our request and he's said from my understanding on the record he did not meet with white house staff. >> in fact nunes said he met with an intelligence official and he couldn't look at the information on the computers on the house system in capitol hill. white house officials insist there's still something out there that may come in the form of series of requests to look at certain people and unmask them. we haven't heard the last of the it, shannon. >> shannon: and president trump will push forward on something else, new repeals of obama epa

regulations. >> he'll sign an executive order to rollback obama era rules on climate change and the clean power plan as well. it will allow more existing coal-fired power plants to stay in operation and allow more to be built. the president putting on the coal miner's hat campaigned hard on bringing back coal jobs to the country and the epa administrator scott pruitt said the executive order will help do that. >> the clean power plan under the previous administration was not about clean power it was about picking winners and losers and they had an anti-fossil fuel mentality and cost us jobs in the sector. it's going to be about energy independence again. >> it's unclear how many jobs this executive order may save because the move from coal has been because of cheap natural gas and increased automation in

the existing coal mines. it's a promise and one the president made on the campaign trail. we'll see if it can come to fruition. >> shannon: john roberts live at the white house. thank you. >> bill: with me byron york and fox news contributor. lots of tweets from the white house and i had a tweet yourself i caught an hour ago trump has two numbers of success, how many jobs created and how many wages go up and to you that's back on message. >> occasionally the president veers on message and tweeting this morning praising ford motor company for investing in new plants in michigan. you talk to strategists and they'll say look the reason president trump was elected was to create more jobs at higher wages. the two measurements of his success will be how many jobs are created and how much wages go up because there was a lot of job creation during the obama years unemployment went from 10%

in 2009 to 4.7% today but household income is lower than it was ten years ago. people are not costable not comfortable and making enough. >> bill: this russia thing's not going away. how do you shake this little dog? >> he can't shake it but maybe he can stop agitating it himself and wants to stop the ties those are legitimate subject but on capitol hill there's momentum and speculation where devin nunes went at this or that moment and what can stop a lot of that is if nunes shows what he's got and presents what evidence he has it could, if it's what he says it is, change the conversation. >> bill: good point there. back on the tweets from this

morning. here's two on health care. the freedom caucus was able to snatch defeat and after so many bad years they were ready for a win. the democrats will make a deal with me on health care as soon as obamacare folds. don't worry we're in good shape. i don't know how you read that but is the discussion the possibility of a deal is not dead yet? >> that's the only way to read it. look, republicans have been running against obamacare for seven years and they're just supposed to stop 60 something days into his presidency? that won't happen. also everyone says and this is actually bipartisan obamacare has lots of problems there's fewer and fewer plans being offered. rates are going up and premiums and deductibles are sky high. there's serious problems with

obamacare that won't go away because the republican plan failed. something will have to be done in the future about obamacare. >> bill: thank you. byron york, back to shannon in washington for more on this. >> shannon: in the midst of that, bill, there's plenty of health care news. house gop leadership will hall a news conference at the top of the hour and we learned there was a meeting last night at the white house with the vice president chief of staff and pet peter doocy has this for us. >> it's on to item number two on the legislative checklist and that's tax reform. tax reform was always going to follow the repeal and replace effort as part of a 200-day plan laid out by leaders in the house and senate and he said health care reform is not did forever but the calendar is expected to change now that the american health care act is not front and

center. that means we which items for 2018 may have jumped the line now that lawmakers have unexpected free time. an infrastructure is another package and something speaker ryan teased last week while conceding defeat on the health care bill and something republican leaders plan to court democrats for and they're still not sure if the conservative house freedom caucus plans to play ball with their legislative priorities. something that wouldn't wait for a coalition of democrats or republicans is the debt ceiling. the government will run out of money april 28 and need to pass a measure to borrow more or there will be a federal shutdown and there's talks about the potential for a government shutdown because the spending bill is not something that can be withdrawn if there is not enough support. that is something looking ahead we expect to hear more about the strategy for making sure that passes and the strategy for making sure republicans can

deliver or at least try to deliver on some of their campaign promises but we're going to hear from the house leadership here at the top of the hour and it's going to be the first chance to hear from ryan since friday and we'll hear from him again before he's had a chance to address the members and the thing fell apart friday. >> shannon: peter doocy, thank you very much. we understand over the weekend there were several meetings and conversations the speaker and president have had and publicly the president says listen, he's got my full backing i don't blame him at all for what happened. >> bill: sounds like everybody's catching their breath for a moment and we'll see what comes next. republicans are getting together on a health care meeting of their own and share that with you when it becomes available. trump administration putting sanctuary cities on notice. >> last may the department of justice inspector general found the policies also violate

federal law. the president has rightly said disregard for law must end. >> bill: that's the a.g. warning cities to comply with immigration laws or risk losing millions in federal funding but guess who's already lining up against the plan? is there a legal showdown now looming across the country? >> shannon: former vice president dick cheney sounding off on russia saying president trump clearly won but if moscow was part of it it would be war. john bolton will weigh in. >> bill: also there is this now, two undercover cops in what is called an ambush on duty and the manhunt is on for the attackers. >> we have two officers shot. we have two officers shot.

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>> shannon: this is a fox news alert the search is on for anyone involved in a shooting in what's being called an ambush-style attack at an apartment complex in miami. one of the officers was shot in the leg, the other in the arm. both are expected to make a full recovery. those officers by the way are supposed to be part of an anti-gang task force.

>> after additional information that came forward to me that had nothing to do with russia and has everything to do with whether or not americans were masked properly or unmasked and i'm very concerned. i'm sure the democrats want me to quit because i'm effective at getting to the bottom of things. >> bill: this is catching fire house committee chair devin nunes under fire from democrats and some say he should step aside in relation to russia. he went to the white house grounds a week ago to look at evidence and what that is we don't know and we have a fox news contributor, marie, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. >> bill: are you jumping off the bandwagon. >> he has shown himself incapable of running an

independent investigation. >> bill: of what? >> i was heartened by the hearing he and adam schiff held a week ago that seems like decades ago now but the problem is the republicans have asked for the question of how people are unmasked in intelligence reports and how things are leaked to be part of the russian investigation so it's one big investigation now and instead of sharing information he learned with his fellow committee members information he got from the white house he made a big public show the next day of going back to the white house. >> bill: he's clarified a lot of that already. number one, he said the evidence he looked at had nothing to do with russia. he told o'reilly that last night and other thing he said if they have to go to the executive branch once or twice a week for intelligence because they can't get documents to the house. >> there's a secure room at congress so i'm not sure why he couldn't read them there. >> bill: that's what he said unless you're calling him a liar

that's what he said. >> i'm not. first of all he's provided zero evidence beyond his statements to back up the accusations people are now making off what he said. the bigger problem is the issue of unmasking and how the intelligence committee deals when americans are picked up incidentally in collection and it's part of the larger russia investigation. john mccain said he never heard of a situation where a committee chairman has gone to the white house which is the subject of several ongoing investigations. >> bill: he didn't go to the white house physically. he didn't go to the west wing and meet with the president. these are important distinctions. he has a reputation of respect. >> he went to the white house grounds and they don't just let anybody on the white house grounds. he went to the white house

grounds and met with somebody who has access to white house computers and the next day made a big public show of going back to the white house to brief the president instead of briefing his fellow committee members calling his credibility into serious question. >> bill: we can concede since no other republicans or democrats have seen the evidence perhaps it would enlighten the story and situation to allow them to see exactly what he saw, i grant you that. in the meantime trey gowdy said the following last night. watch here. >> i wish senator schumer and some other democrats would be more interested in the authenticity and reliability of the data whether it's white house or waffle house what difference does it make if the information is reliable and authentic. >> bill: what difference does it make? >> i care about the underlying evidence which is why it's disturbing chairman nunes hasn't shared that with his committee

and only seen it himself and shared it with the president. we have a lot of questions and those need to be answered and answered in an independent investigation. trey gowdy led the effort to get a select committee on benghazi. i think americans can agree the russian interference is serious as any issue in congress. >> bill: adam schiff can go to the white house grounds and look at the same evidence. marie harf thank you. twenty minutes past the hour. >> shannon: the father of a teenage rape suspect arrested himself and the latest developments and the measures the town is take as the story unfolds in the national spotlight. plus.

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funnel clouds spotted as well in the area unlike this one in the town of walnut, mississippi. another round of storms expected to slam the southern plains and in texas it's another cold rainy day with the cold front moving in from the west and it's downright dreary. day after day it looks like this. how's washington? >> shannon: we had stormy weather and lightning and thunder not the capitol hill stuff the actual stuff. it's been stormy here not much better than nyc. >> bill: we wait a day and maybe it changes or maybe not. >> shannon: we're following a story in washington. the father of a high school student facing charges of rape has now himself been real estated being arrested for being in the country illegally and henry millian was arrested. both suspects are in the country

illegally. we're joined from rockville with the latest. god morning, doug. good morning. >> and ice is now taking a more proactive stance in the arrest of illegals. we learned adolfo sanchez the father of henry sanchez millin was arrested after ice reviewed his immigration history and found him to be unlawfully in the united states. ice said in a statement released yesterday. in addition last night in the in the meeting after the jeff sessions comments saying those not in compliance will not receive federal funds and this would make this a sanctuary city. here's a taste of what we heard

last night. >> the city of rockville is deeply concerned what is report to occur. we're fully supportive of county law enforcement and the school district's investigation. >> a student representative please do everything in your power to keep the community safe and not enforcing racial immigration orders making our surroundings more hostile. >> that 15-minute long comment period was supposed to run just 15 minutes and went on for an hour. not a single person spoke out against sanctuary cities during the hour-long city and i tried to interview the city councilwoman and refuse to talk to us and when i tried to schedule an interview later this week she refused that and mentioned all five council members in rockville have received threats including death threats.

>> shannon: a new development in the case we're hearing about text messages that involved the younger of the two suspects. what can you tell us? >> t"the washington post" the 14-year-old claiming to have been raped said she sent compromising images of herself from a defense attorney to the 17-year-old defendant montano and intended to partake in sexual act the next day and they believe their clients to be innocent. it's taken an important twist and has really changed the narrative here, shannon. >> shannon: yeah, we will see what happened that day because that's what's critical. doug, thank you very much. >> bill: we heard from the white

house yesterday. the white house cracking down on sanctuary cities. >> countless americans woul be alive today and loved ones would not be grieving today if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended. >> bill: the white house making the case these communities are making cities less safe and forcing their hand on federal funds. that in a moment. >> shannon: president trump teasing a big job announcement for the job industry hinting ford could be making a major u.s. investment. >> bill: and controversy around the college class assignment. try to see the 9/11 attacks through the eyes of the terrorist. that was the assignment given to students. so what's that all about?

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to invest in the states of michigan. it comes three weeks after president trump pushed auto executives for more u.s. jobs and plants in the states. there's no plans it was already in the works or part of the influence and this tweeted today big announcement from ford today major investment to be made in three michigan plants. car companies coming back to u.s. jobs, jobs, jobs, end tweet. >> shannon: the trump administration taking aim at sanctuary cities threatening to pull funds. the attorney general jeff sessions making the announcement yesterday at the white house. >> it could result in withholding grants, termination of grants. i strongly urge our nation states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm

they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws and to rethink these policies. the people want and deserve a lawful system of immigration. that keeps us safe and one that serves the national interest. >> shannon: a former communication director for then-virginia governor tim kaine and strategist at 270 strategies and ed lowry a fox news contributor. welcome to you both. when a poll on states should be penalized 43% say yes. >> whatever the polling says it's a common sense moves. the cities should not be allowed

to forbid federal law which is what they're doing when they keep their officers and police from sharing information and it will be a long fight as jurisdictions go to court and ultimately they'll be on the losing side you saw miami-dade buckle and say it's abandoning its sanctuary policies. >> shannon: and los angeles yesterday said there's no way they're going along with this and rahm emmanuel said it's unconstitutional and another saying my sofs will continue to ensure local governments have the tools they need to legally protect their immigrant xhunths and we won't stop fighting the trump immigration policies and the law says local authorities have an obligation to report to

report when someone is here illegally by law they have to inform the feds. >> the federal government sets immigration laws and localities have the obligation to comply with federal law but part is what is concerning people is the larger people is we haven't done anything on comprehensive immigration reform and states and localities have a patchwork solution in their communities so there's a larger issue going on. the other piece of this and what should be clear on this is yes, about federal law but it's also a specific pivot from what has been bad news for the administration over the last several days. first you started off with issues in the defeat around the obamacare repeal effort then you have ongoing -- >> shannon: sticking is the sanctuary city thing during the campaign he put everybody on notice and not a surprise the attorney general said you'll

lose federal money if you don't start following federal law. >> not a surprise but there's a red herring because there's scapegoating of undocumented people are criminals and they commit crimes less than citizens. >> shannon: a red herring? >> the cato institute is not part of it and the answer during eight years of the administration was they encouraged the sanctuary policies and loosened programs that enhanced cooperation when it came to enforcing the laws so the first step to any meaningful comprehensive immigration reform if we'll ever get there has to be enforcement not just waving people in the country and then

saying it's fine you can live here unmolested. we must have borders. we must enforce our laws and that's the first step to any broader reform. >> shannon: would you agree with that? lots of groups that want to see immigration reform some agree on that part make sure we're enforcing what we have now and the borders are secure and then we can get to the bigger overhaul. both sides agree something has to be done. >> there's broad consensus to your point but i would pushback respectfully on what rich said on the obama policies. what we heard from attorney general sessions was the reiteration of a similar announcement made by the obama administration it's about federal law and making sure people comply at the local level. >> shannon: all right. we'll see because we know how some cities are responding and several lawsuits have been threatened so we'll track all of those. great to have you both with us. bill. >> bill: 22 minutes before the hour. more on the sanctuary city crackdown in a moment and former

arizona governor will join us and we'll talk to her in the next hour and why dick cheney said russia may have committed an act of war. ambassador john bolton is next to react on that. >> there's a serious effort made by mr. putin and his government and his organization to interfere in major ways with our basic fundamental democratic process.

s >> shannon: top gop leaders will hold a news conference at the top of the hour. you see the empty podium there. we expect they'll talk about tax reform next on the list. top of the agenda after the failed obamacare repeal and replace efforts and expect they'll get questions from that and russia and other things. we're following it closely and take you there live as soon as we get the very latest.

>> not any argument at this stage that somehow the election of president trump was not legitimate but there's no question but there was a serious effort made by mr. putin and his government and organization to interfere in major ways with our basic fundamental democratic processes. in some quarters that would be an act of war. >> bill: strong words from former vice president dick cheney. my guest, ambassador john bolton. good morning to you. he wasn't saying the election wasn't legitimate but russia was meddling. >> it's unacceptable for any foreign actor to meddle in our

election and getting to what the russians did is important so we have a common database. whatever else they were doing i think they were trying to undermine americans' faith in their democratic institutions and that's serious business. >> bill: do you find moscow does that in the u.s. and other places? are western democracies the targets of such influence? >> no, i think it's all over western europe. they're very concerned. i was just in albania last week and throughout the balkans the threat of russian interference in their election was taken seriously and across europe as well. it would not be surprising this is the active operations campaign in the days of the cold war the soviets did all the time and i think it requires a very vows -- very serious american response. >> bill: what do we do about it? >> we should make them pay some

prices and other consequences to build up the structure of deterrence so they don't try this sort of thing again and it should affect our relations across the board. there's a lot of misinformation on what the russians did which is why getting to the bottom of it is critical. >> bill: do you think congress will get to the bottom of it? will we know? >> they have an opportunity if at the stop fooling around about process arguments in who talks to whom and so on. if we have the information we acquired. >> bill: i would not underestimate the weight we assign to the russian attempts to interfere with our political processes. that's a big comment there. >> it's supporting argument for the active war point.

you cannot -- you should not anyway be allowed to interfere in our elections and get away with that. >> bill: consequences being sanctions? we build our technology better than it is now? >> stiffening our response to things like russian violations of the inf treaty, redoing the new treaty the obama administration negotiated with them. i'd have a number of major changes and policies towards the russians motivated in part by the mistakes obama made. putin think he can get away for almost anything and for eight years under obama he pretty much did. >> bill: nikki hailey is making waves at the united nations. >> good for her. >> bill: she's gone in with a strong opinion from day one and now she's lead boycott of u.n. talks to ban nuclear weapons. she has 40 countries behind her saying they will not attend.

what do you think of that? >> i think it's exactly the right thing to do. the fact so many countries are boycotting these fake negotiation clearly the right thing to do. we have a nuclear nonproliferation treaty and this is a fantasy to ban the treaty of all nuclear weapons. it's not going anywhere and it's a good sign we don't and 40 other countries don't give it a hint of legitimacy by not showing up. we should carry that through and get off the u.n. human rights council. i have a long list of things like that. it's an excellent step. >> bill: does this administration do that? >> i hope they do. they should. >> bill: who comments from nikki haley is there anybody that think north korea would join the ban on nuclear weapons and anyone joining the talks do they understand the threats we have,

end quote. wow. >> the problem with north korea and iran they would agree to a ban and then violate it. that's what north korea has done and iran is doing with obama's nuclear weapons deal. that's the problem internationally. these countries are agreed to almost anything. we pay scrupulous attention to our international obligations. most of our adversaries have not. >> bill: she made it clear north korea is her number one prior. john bolton, good to see you again. >> shannon: outrage in the classroom as a college professor asks students to write a paper from the speperspective of the terrorists on 9/11 and the school is defending it. plus this.

>> bill: reporters on the ground inside mosul get first-hand look at the terror tools being use isis and the many civilians caught in the crossfire.

>> shannon: a college assignment on 9/11 causing an uproar. because students were asked to consider the attacks from the terrorists' perspective. in other words, how might al-qaeda or a non-western historian describe it and don't worry about not agreeing with it

the point is to see a did in perspective. you guys get all kinds of interesting reports on things going on at college campuses did this one surprise you? >> the weird intersection of the universities and 9/11 is something we see. a few years ago the university of minnesota student government voted down a resolution on having a moment of remembrance on increasing incidents. >> shannon: we have a quote from iowa state university. they said it's similar to the vital work being done at our diplomatic at such as the central intelligence agency and say it's about critical thought and getting inside the head of -- they wouldn't say the bad guys, most americans would say the bad guys but seeing it from their perspective.

is there value in that? >> the idea to put yourself in the shoes of terrorists to see what strategies they'd use is a valid idea but this assignment said things like use your imagination. it's a 500-minimum word writing assignment not what is al-qaeda's perspective and where do you think they'll strike next. it's an assignment to perceive how historical perspectives can perceive the same event but it's silliness. >> shannon: you'll end up with a paper where if you're writing from the perspective where america is the great satan and i hate them what american student will want to write that paper. was there a way for people to opt-out and i imagine some said i'm not doing it. >> the assignment did not appear to count that much as part of a student's grade. it was early in the semester and why it was a 500-word minimum

and it was to get outside of your comfort zone but you wouldn't see this assignment on the pulse nightclub shooting because it's too recent. you wouldn't see that kind of assignment. >> shannon: what big saying if you want to historically think about what's going on in nazi germany i can't imagine being asked to write a paper on the holocaust. >> or the tiananmen square master. >> shannon: there's so much going on in education on the speech issues and the left taking a specific view point and they say that's not what they were doing you must have more material than you can actually sift through on a daily basis. >> actually at the leadership institute campus reform we published more than 1300 story

and we had a story from the loyola university of chicago and i was for self-identified white students to discuss racism. we have better job security covering liberal views. >> shannon: this is real stuff and it's always interesting and sparks a good debate and conversation on what conversations we should be having in higher ed and the purpose. thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> shannon: bill. >> bill: shannon, we're only minutes away from republican leaders laying out their strategy for what is next. speaker paul ryan house republican said to hold a news conference and we'll carry that live for you when it begins. health care, russia, tax reform expected to be hot topics.

a break here and back in a moment on "america's newsroom."

>> shannon: paul ryan and house republican leaders set to hold anus conference any minute. the first after a busy week in which paul ryan was force to abandon a vote to repeal and replace obamacare. and new questions being raised about the russia investigation that presser is sure to be anusy one. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm shannon bream in washington for martha maccallum. >> bill: i'm bill henry. we have a split broadcast this week in new york. good morning. paul ryan calls for devin nunes now defending his visit to the white house grounds with a source gave sensitive information about incidental information on the trump transitional team and how it was explained to bill o'reilly last night. >> we go to the executive branch once or twice a week.

it's not unusual. there's intelligence products we don't have access to in the house of representatives but have the clearances to see them. there was no sneaking around. i walked onto the grounds, said hi to people, did not go to the west wing. did not talk to the president. >> bill: catherine herridge picks up the story. democrats think nunes should recuse himself from matters regarding russia and top republicans are coming to his defense. where is the story now? >> what we heard consistently is they want the chairman of the house intelligence committee devin nunes to take himself from the investigation and a senior republican in the senate said the issue had become a distraction. >> i would leave that decision to the leadership of the house committee excuse me of the republicans in the house probably paul ryan but there's

no doubt it's dominating the news. it's an issue of utmost importance and it has to change or they'll lose credibility. >> the minority leader took to the senate floor. >> if speaker ryan wants the house to have a credible investigation he needs to replace chairman nunes. he seems to be more of a partisan for the president than an impartial actor. he's not been cooperating like someone interested in getting to the unvarnished truth. >> he voiced his confidence in the chairman republican devin nunes and his vote is the one that matters here, bill. >> bill: what is the status of the hearings? they were going to happen today and they will not happen. why and what's the explanation? >> the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee recalled two key witnesses after

last week's public hearing. james colmey and the head of this nsa admiral mike rodgers. he planned they would appear today and then told yesterday that was canceled and rescheduled in the future. devin nunes explained what happened in the o'reilly factor. >> we hope they'll show up in the future but clearly last week there were over 100 questions they couldn't answer in an setting and wanted a classified setting to set the foundation for the investigation. >> republicans on the house committee want to hear from the fbi director and nsa director again before they hear from three key witness who's served under president obama in the intelligence community and at the justice department. so they want to in many respects get their ducks in a row but democrats say by cancelling a hearing that had already been agreed to with the former cia director and director of

national intelligence and deputy attorney for the intelligence department they missed an opportunity. >> bill: catherine herridge thank you for that reporting in washington. shannon has more. >> shannon: for more steve hayes is editor and chief of the weekly standard and a fox news contributor. the new development and twists and turns every few minutes in this case but let's talk about the fact chairman nunes how he got the information. he said he had to go to the white house grounds which could be the executive office building crass the street because it's a specific kind of information available through the executive branch. the democrats are saying the fact he was at the white house shows it came from the trump team but that's not true. >> that's legitimate questions being asked he took information from the executive branch and took it public and took it to the president of the united states and it may end up back there and there's legitimate questions of separation of powers. what we heard from devin nunes

he had to go there to get the information in an expedited fashion it's not available in the congressional skiffs but as he said to bill o'reilly he had the clearances so he wanted to see it. the reason he couldn't share it with his republican and democratic colleagues on capitol hill is because he doesn't have the documents. he's given a disruption of the document and spoken openly what he has seen but doesn't have the documents and may have been a contributing factor in the cancelling of the discussion. >> shannon: he says the nsa is cooperating and sounds like the documents he needs is from them and expects them at some time. where do the other agencies figure into this the nsa and fbi and other intelligence agencies?

>> nobody knows. the fbi has an investigation on specifically russia whether there was collusion between the trump team and there's a separate investigation we believe from the fbi about the leaks and whether the leaks of mike flynn's name and the fact that appeared in the paper was a coordinated campaign. who leaked the information as republicans have said repeatedly through the process. we know there's one crime committed and that's it. james comey in his testimony seemed to downplay the leaks and potential leak investigation. i believe in private settings he's been much more frustrated about the leak investigation and has been more outspoken about the problems involved with leaking names. >> shannon: we're told the entire time chairman nunes has kept the speaker up to date and he still has full confidence in his ability to carry the

investigations into russia and whether they're leaked and otherwise. we'll hear from we believe speaker ryan momentarily. we're watching the empty podium there. do you believe it comes up today? >> they've had a long relationship. he worked with paul ryan on reform when he was a lonely soldier and co-sponsored it and i'm sure he's keeping him up to date. >> shannon: i haven't known dev devin nunes to be a showboater and he's quietly gotten work done. >> we have a piece in 2014 that laid out what devin nunes did as an intelligence committee

members because he was frau frustrated with the leadership with respect to the benghazi investigation. mike rodgers, the former chairman of the house intelligence committee wouldn't do things like pay for the travel for the benghazi heroes the people we came to know as the heroes who wrote the book and he took the issue to john boehner and he sat down with the three gentlemen in nunes' personal office and that became the benghazi committee. we learned a lot of what we learned in part because of devin nunes. on the osama bin laden documents he's been a one-man band and has gotten information out to the public in a way that's helpful. the question is with his new role as a trump transition official and supported the president was it proper to take the information from the white

house or executive branch and channel it back in to the branch. there's separation of power and there's questions to answer on the process when he next appears. >> shannon: steve hayes always good to see you. >> thanks, shannon. >> shannon: bill. >> bill: we're awaiting the briefing and when it happens we'll take our viewers there and there's a lot going on and we'll gauge the mood in the room and the reaction as to what they do next. there's reports suggesting the white house, president donald trump would pursue two fronts at the same time including tax reform and infrastructure concurrently. that would be a massive lift and we'll see if that's the shifting strategy in a moment from republican leaders in the house. so stand by for that. in the meantime, president trump calling on auto companies to invest here at home. now one company's apparently looking to pour money back into its roots in the state of michigan. also, mr. trump about to sign an order that wipes out president

obama's climate change agenda and the name of energy independence. question, will that bring jobs back and will it bring jobs back to places like coal country? >> we made tremendous progress while at the same time growing the economy. the past administration didn't do that so it's good to see the president come to the epa to set a new course to be pro jobs and pro environment.

>> bill: what is next for the republican strategy in congress now awaiting republican leadership in front of the microphone scheduled for 10:00 am eastern time a little bit behind but not by much. a lot of things could be on the agenda. what do you do next about health care if anything and tax reform or an infrastructure possibility? all this is thrown in the mix and when speaker ryan comes out we'll take you live to capitol hill. meanwhile, 10:15, shannon. >> shannon: there's new video to fox news capturing the desperate fight in mosul in a battle to reclaim the city. check this out. one reporter from our sister network sky news was with iraqi forces. here's part of the report as the battle continues to rage on.

>> the soldiers are launch bomb-laden drone they found in islamic state. the bomblets can fall off. we're watching the command and there are shouts and people run and i jump inside. >> are you ok? sfwlu can see the whole place is

covered >> you can see the whole place is covered in smoke. this is the islamic state's own drone pictures released on social media. >> shannon: joining us to talk more about this fox news military analyst jack keane. always great to have you with us. your reaction to the video you have seen war up close and personal but it seems mosul is reduces to rubble in many cases. extensive damage there. >> it's classic urban warfare it's the most difficult warfare you can see and if there's a hel on earth the soldier involved in the war this is it and for the civilians trapped by the conflict. isis will not let tens of thousands of civilians go and this is literally, block by block, building by building and room by room to clear the isis out of mosul.

meanwhile, isis keeps the civilians there, uses them as human shields and if the family resists in any way particularly the male part they mow the children and wives and anyone associated in front of the male resisting bending to isis' will. it's brutal for the people experienced this at a human level. something that will traumatize them the rest of their lives undoubtedly. >> shannon: as they're going door to door and en -- engaging in this how big of a blow is this to them? >> this is the last major piece of terrain inside of iraq and they can safely say they reclaimed the territory isis holds. the challenge for the future will be isis will still conduct terrorist attacks inside of

iraq. secondly the last three years has camouflaged the real problem that iraq is facing. certainly the military campaign is critical for them. also critical is political unity in side the country and they do not have it among the kurds, sunnis and shiias. if the baghdad government does not enfranchise the kurds and sunnis there'll be a major problem in iraq and it could lead to a civil war. the last time we had that political unity is when george bush ordered the surge in 2007 and 2008 and the political government then enfranchised the sunnis and kurds and the united states politically disengaged in 2011 when we militarily disengaged. it remains to be seen if they'll go back to a political unity.

>> shannon: will the u.s. have to play a key role? do we step back and let them stabilize on their own what's the rule on the international community they within their own house can come together? >> many people just want to give up on iraq and i don't think we should. we made a heck of our commitment there with our own troops the leverage is wa we gave up in 2011 when the troops out we don't need them to the degree they're there but we need to keep troops to keep political and diplomatic leverage to move them towards political unity and hopefully we get skilled diplomats. we have not had that and the trump government has to make the commitment with iraqis we want to see political unity as a

strategic objective and less influence from iran than what we've been seeing. while i wasn't in the meetings with prime minister al-abadi i have a sense we know what to expect from the iraqis. >> shannon: the pictures from the video speak in a way a million stories couldn't otherwise and your account, general. always good to see you. thank you, sir. >> bill: remarkable reporting inside there and let you know how progress goes in northern iraq. in the meantime awaiting house republican leadership in front of the microphones. we're now 20 minutes behind but paul ryan will be there and they're wrapping up a gop conference behind closed doors so the big topics and the questions will follow. live to the hill in a moment. shannon. >> shannon: plus the trump administration is renewing efforts to end sanctuary cities

in the u.s. the attorney general threatening to strip federal funding. we'll speak to former arizona govern jan brewer live. she knows about the hot topic. >> the american people are not happy with these results and when cities and states refuse to enforce immigration laws our nation is less safe. so you're having a party?

how nice. i'll be right there. and the butchery begins. what am i gonna wear? this party is super fancy. let's go. i'm ready. are you my uber? [ horn honks ] hold on. the biggest week in tv is back. [ doorbell rings ] par-tay! xfinity watchathon week starts april 3. get unlimited access to all of netflix and more, free with xfinity on demand. >> bill: 10:24 now and ford expected to make investments in michigan plant factories. detail are murky but we're told the investment is significant it comes after president trump called on the auto industry to

create more jobs. melissa francis co-host of "after the bell." i said it's significant is it? >> look at it type of plants. these are plants that make self-driving cars and electric cars and some of the most important vehicles ford makes. it's the future of the auto industry and they're talking about investing in plants that make vehicles here. that's a big deal. it's a lot of jobs in a concentrated area. it's significant. >> bill: unions were pushing for this two years ago. same thing or not? >> that's the knock. it appears to be. i haven't seen the contracts but if you look at reports then and now it seems like we're talking about the same thing but you know why that doesn't matter because unions get sweeteners and contracts all the time and

companies say here's what we'll do down the road and it doesn't mean they're obligated it's just a promise. they can say the economic conditions doesn't support that so we made the plants in mexico instead. that will be the criticism but it's on trump to make it a reality and on the president to create a federal and local environment where the plants come to reality and stay here and support the jobs. >> bill: so see it through. >> i see president trump going to the area, persuading local lawmakers and being the deal maker and bringing together the unions and workers and say we're all going to work on this. we're all committed. we're going to create an environment where local people are trained to do jobs of the future alongside robots, by the way. these will be highly automated factories so workers will need

new skills and ford is training people for the jobs of the future but we need support from local government in term of tax incentives in terms of cheap energy and in terms of bureaucratic help to get this done. don't put up regulatory road blocks so everyone has to do their part but it's an environment of saying no, we don't want this to happen everybody is saying yes and they're clean energy vehicles. >> bill: two quick points. michigan i think you have 4.5 million votes cast in november. i'd say that was won by donald trump by 10,000 votes. it was that close. we led our show with byron york saying you can sake the russia stuff and shelf it and health care and shelf it. he'll measure success on how many jobs are created and wages go up. >> i believe that firmly. that's what people in america at the end of the daycare about. all the other stuff is noise.

is my family doing better than before. can we pay our bills without a pit in our stomach. can we put food on the table isly there a hope my children are a better future than me that's what drives people's political choices. he's right. >> bill: we're waiting on comments. how many shows are you doing today? >> three. i'm with bill o'reilly and fox business. >> bill: thank you. back to shannon in washington. >> shannon: president trump getting ready to sign a new executive order he says to move america towards energy independence. we'll break down the plan, bill. >> bill: and shannon, does the media give the president a shake. neil cavuto said it's all negative all the time. our panel will debate. >> i have no axe to grind but

the media does when it comes to the president or anyone that says anything good about the president.

>> shannon: busy day in washington. we're awaiting two live events. first, paul ryan will walk up to that podium any moment and we'll take you live when that happens and later today the president is going to move forward on a campaign promise to make america energy independent. he's going to sign an executive order to review energy regulations put into place by president obama. ed henry has more and in washington. what can you tell us about the new executive order? >> good to see you. this will be the president's first trip to epa headquarters. in the campaign he targeted the epa and talking about big staff

cuts and budget cuts because he think it's time to push back on a lot of obama administration regulations the president believes went too far in terms of hurting the economy medium and long term with excessive regulations you see him on the trail promising coal miners he would push back on the president obama clean power plant and scott pruitt was on "fox & friends" saying there'll be big changes. >> it will create jobs in the oil and gas and energy sector and coal sector across the country. for too long over the last several years you had certain industries and sectors of our economy within the crosshairs of the epa. these industries like the coal sector were under assault. that is not going to happen anymore. >> the key is the white house is saying today they plan to strike a better balance. they believe they can leave some environmental regulations in place but make it more fair to

have economic growth. >> shannon: what about the other side? i imagine there's been reaction from the left from democrats. >> democrats will be all over this and they're very frustrated and feel back it will roll back and hurt the environment and see what's in the executive order. among other things they say it will increase our energy dependence and directing them to review it and still up hold the law with the clean air act and focus on more prosperous autonomy and a moratorium on coal from the obama examination and president obama pushed through all kinds of regulations. the shoe now on the other foot. >> shannon: ed henry thank you for the update.

bill. >> bill: thank you, shannon. now to neil cavuto taking reporters to task claiming there's clear bias to president trump and the unhinged rage as he calls it keeps the press from being fair especially after the failure of the health care bill. this is what he said yesterday. >> the president doesn't like me or come on the show but that's his right. this over the top negative media response to everything he does is not right or fair. take just today. the same media that's all but ignored the stock run-unsince the election calling it this now the trump slump or the front page, trumpcare fiasco or the headline "the washington post" the blame game. >> bill: liz smith served for

martin o'malley. good day to you. trump slump, blame game. is there truth to cavuto's point at the moment? >> yes, it's like saying is water wet or the pope catholic. it's so blatant and obvious with some journalists it's comical. that said, that's where donald trump has been able to use social media in two ways to get his media out and expose reporters that are for more political operatives than journalists because what they tweet and put on facebook is so overtly partisan and antithe president it clouds what they try to report. liz, i don't think you agree but start the conversation. you heard what he laid out and believes some people just want the president to fail.

>> look, if president trump thought this could be a cake walk and the media would roll over welcome to the nfl and the person to blame is the person he sees when he looks in the mirror. >> bill: how come? >> let's check the tape. he had an immigration executive order twice struck down by the courts. he said he would repeal obamacare on day one. it's day 68. it went down in a ball of flames. he can't get out of his own way. he had a well received joint address before congress and then subsequently torpedoed the coverage with self-sabotaging tweets falsely claiming president obama wiretapped his office. it's not just the media criticizing them. >> bill: i want david to respond

to that because you're trying to make the case trump is to blame. david, is he or not? >> the easiest job in america right now is the headline writer for "the new york times" because every day you come in to write a headline that question the ability of president trump to govern or as we saw the past weekend his whole agenda is up in the air because of what happened last week with health care. nothing really about the number of jobs that have are being created in america, or what he's trying to do to make america more secure or nothing about the increased defense spending and no positive headlines on the infrastructure bill he's looking to do. none of that. bill, let me say this -- >> bill: it's remarkable. >> thomas jefferson would be proud of his democratic party because he had to go by a newspaper but has political operatives to report on the

president. >> bill: you see this absolutely 180 degree different from the other person. that's a remarkable thing. liz, i ask david this question -- hang on for the question. there are some who want to see the administration fail. would you agree? >> no doubt. and many wanted to see barack obama's administration fail and mitch mcconnel said his number one job was preventing barack obama from getting re-elected -- >> bill: he just did not believe in the policies of the previous administration. >> look, in the first days barack obama was able to do and signed into law the stimulus bill and the fair pay act and signed into law expanding health insurance for low-income children and donald trump has

nothing like that to point to and at some point the playing the victim needs to end. he's the president of the united states. >> bill: there are some in the media you agree who want him to fail, correct, liz? >> i don't know in the media. there are partisans what want -- >> bill: you just said there are reporters that want him to fail. >> i said there are some who want him to fail in the democratic party. the best story for the media would be and what they would cover with glee is a trump comeback. if he wants to start focussing on his campaign promises of making jobs and renegotiating trade deals they'd be happy for that narrative. >> bill: we announced that too in the state of michigan. thank you. back to shannon in washington. >> shannon: here in washington we are awaiting house republican leadership statements they'll

make and questions to take at the podium. we're watching live. they've had a closed meeting at the gop conference this morning so when they want to go public and come out and share we'll take you live when it happens. >> bill: in the meantime a new warning for sanctuary cities the a.g. jeff sessions making good on a campaign promise. former arizona governor jan brewer is live with her take on the crackdown. that's next.

>> when cities and states refuse to help refuse immigration laws our nation is less safe. failure to deport aliens who are convicted of criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk especially jurisdictions that

protect perpetrators. >> shannon: jeff sessions setting his sights on sanctuary cities and states telling them to cooperate or risk losing federal funds. former arizona governor jan brewer. you know what the complications are with illegal immigration and the impact on cities and states and maryland is considering becoming a sanctuary state. what do you make of that? >> it's outrageous. we all know the department of justice has a responsibility of immigration and federal law trumps state or city laws and regulations. we've all been to the supreme court and we realize it is the responsibility. shannon, it teams to me that law enforcement in itself these mayors and governors too that have a political agenda they are

moving forward not to protect and to serve the people of their states or cities and seems to me that 80% of the people according to all the polls want our borders secure and want our public to be safe and they are pushing their fingers in people's eyes. i'm so grateful to attorney general sessions we will do the job we've seen neglected the last eight years. >> shannon: how ugly do you think it's going to get. los angeles said we'll never cooperate with this it's never going to happen and new york saying we'll do everything we have to protect our immigrant community. chicago calling the plan by the doj unconstitutional. they say they're going to court and win. >> they're not going to court and win. we've all been to court on these issues and they rule in the favor of the federal government. i know that jeff sessions has

the responsibility to dole out the to grant dollars to these cities and to the state in regard to the situation and i hope that they refuse to send it and he'll win on that one too and it's only right. people want to feel safe. they're making our cities and states dangerous. releasing these criminals, murderers, rapists back in the streets. what are they think they're harboring and protecting criminals. it's unbelievable that they would get away with this. >> shannon: how do you respond? we had a guest on earlier who said there are multiple studies that show the people who come here illegally actually have a lower rate of committing crime than people born in the u.s. are we just looking at isolated incidents that capture headlines but don't tell the whole story when we talk about the heinous

crimes done by people not here illegally. >> we have tens of millions crimes going on by legal but illegal immigrants that have been to court and released back to the community because of a political agenda is wrong, absolutely wrong and 80% of the people agree that they ought not to be doing that. law enforcement across this great country of ours should be working together to protect us and keep us safe and they're just turning a blind eye because of their political agenda. it makes absolutely no sense. i don't even think it makes sense to them other than they want to poke people in the eyes. it's unbelievable. >> shannon: the president -- go ahead, governor >> -- i hope jeff sessions, attorney general sessions takes money from them and it will probably be more unsafe because

they won't have the dollars. i don't know what they can do to them personally but something needs to be done. they took an oath to uphold the law and they're not doing it. >> shannon: we'll see how tough it gets. the doj responsible for $4 billion plus in grants that they say won't go to the cities and states and counties that don't comply. thank you so much. >> thank you, shannon. >> bill: to jenna lee and "happening now" coming your way. >> what's happening behind closed doors? we're awaiting the presser from gop leadership as there's new fallout for house intel chair devin nunes he's under fire as calls for him to step down to continue after interference with russians in the election. we'll look at the biggest protest in russia in years and what's behind it? and ford announcing a big investment and we'll talk to the ford president of the americas

on jobs, jobs, jobs. i got that quote from somewhere. >> bill: see you in 11 minutes. elon musk has helped perfect electric cars and now he's backing a new project how it can make your brain one with your computer.

>> bill: as promised house speaker paul ryan at the microphone. >> we have more choice and competition. we don't want a government-run health care system we agree on these things and we won't retrench to our corners. today we broke down the dividing lines within our conference. there's too much at stake to get bogged down in all of that. we're going to move forward on the things the american people sent us here to do. the house will act on another measure to reduce bad regulations. so far congress has sent ten measures to the president's desk. in the 20 years before this congress did one of these. we're also commit to securing our border and rebuilding our military and building our infrastructure and we want this to be the last tax season americans have to put up with this broken tax code. since i became speaker i have talked about the need to go from being an opposition party to

being a proposition party and governing party. it may take a little bit more time but we're certainly listening and are going to get there. the way i'd describe the meeting we just had with our members is we're going to work together and listen together until we get this right. it is too important. obamacare is a collapsing law. obamacare is doing too much damage to families. and so we're going to get this right and in the meantime we're going to do all of our other work we came here to do. >> i want to convey what the speaker just said. we had a very good conference. a conference from the microcosm are people on all sides and the discussion is what the american people are talking about. we promised we'd repeal and replace obamacare and that's what we're going to do. friday the time line wasn't there and the votes were not there yet. it doesn't mean we're not going to get there and that's what the conference was about and what

we're working towards. in the meantime we'll go back onto the floor as the speaker talked about for our regulatory reform. as you watched prior to the congress only one has ever been signed into law. we'll, we'll take the ftc privacy regulation up. that will be the 15th one that will have passed the house. the president signed four others into law yesterday again surpassing the total. this is the part of the plan of putting america back to work. bringing common sense regulation back and continuing on our path to repeal and replace obamacare and coming out of that conference i have more confidence we'll get it done. >> after this morning the resolve of our conference to repeal and replace obamacare has never been stronger. it's been positive the openness members have to get there and it's important to point out the vast majority of our conference

was already there in support of the bill we want to put on president trump's desk. to my democrat colleagues who were celebrating friday's action i think they're celebration is premature because i think we're closer today to repealing obamacare than we've been before and closer than we were friday. we're going to keep working. the issue isn't going away. obamacare continues to fail the american people and you'll continue to see double digit increases in premiums because obamacare doesn't work. the fact that our conference is more resolved than ever to repeal the law is encouraging and we're not going to stop until we get it done. >> coming out of the conference i remain very optimistic about our agenda. from the beginning we've known it's a very aggressive agenda we have and we remain committed to a better health care future to every person in the country and get to tax reform, keeping america safe and rolling back

resolutions. putting people back at the center of the government. we're fully committed to rethinking this government from top to bottom because if there's one thing that last week taught us is we are united around shared goals. now, how we go about implementing our vision is sometimes where we differ but i'm confident in our ability to come together, unify around shared goals and improve everybody's lives in this country. more freedom, more opportunity for everyone in this country. >> does anyone have any questions? casey. >> reporter: two questions, if i may. >> two? >> reporter: should devin nunes recuse himself from the russia investigation and do you know the source of the information? >> no and no. >> reporter: can you talk about exactly what you mean by getting it right?

[question indistinct] >> i won't tell you the time line because we want it get it right. we have an aggressive agenda and we want to make sure we get it right. we had a very constructive meeting with our members. some of those in the no camp expressed a willingness to work on getting to yes and making this work. we want to get it right. we're going to keep talking to each other until we get it right. i won't put a time line on it because it's too important to not get right and put an artificial time line on it. you're right, the insurers -- that's why i'm worried. the law is collapsing. if obamacare stays as-is it's unacceptable for the american people. it's not what we said we'd do. we're going to figure out how to get this done and i think what's

confusing so everybody is we have to use senate rules. we call them reconciliation. that means you can't pass the bill you really want to pass in the house because it gets filibustered in the senate. you have to pass a bill that can get through and prevent a filibuster and it's that frustration our members are grappling with. what is your name? the lady behind you? who are you with? >> reporter: they're calling on republicans -- >> we reconciliation is a tool because that gets it to law. that's the way to go. i'll give you one more. >> reporter: any sign the freedom caucus members are willing to compromise? >> i don't want us to become a facti factionalized majority. that means we'll sit down and talk things out until we get there and that's what we're doing and we saw good overtures

to get there because we all share the goals and we'll have to figure out how to get it done. thank you. >> bill: boy, it is pretty clear what the topic of discussion was behind closed doors. we've been waiting for this news conference for almost 50 minutes or so and my colleague shannon bream in washington, d.c. waiting along with me now. shannon, based on those responses, health care is still front and center. they're trying to figure out a way. part of the difficulty is explaining it to the american public is part of the answer from paul ryan. >> shannon: he said people that were nos are working towards a yes so it doesn't sound like it's been put to yes and something within their conference saying we're used to being a party of no and learning how to govern is something we're still doing and getting our sea legs underneath us and it sounds

like there was mending of fences. >> bill: i would agree. and the politics at play cannot be overlooked. when you run a campaign and talk about for seven years for repeal and replace you can't just turn your back on it and move on to the next issue entirely or completely and when you have a republican president the white house said they'd do the same thing. at this point they had to take a pass. what they're able to negotiate and what they're able to convince other members to do is something that remains to be seen. that was the headline from that news conference there. with that we've got to run. i do believe we have to go. see you at 6:00, right shannon. >> shannon: right here sitting in for bret. >> bill: "happening now" starts now. >> jenna: we are going to canoe following that breaking news. i'm jenna lee, welcome to happening now. a really exciting way to start

our show to get an idea from republicans. at one of the things we heard from paul ryan, if i can switch to camera one now, their efforts and what they want to look forward to it as a front. they say that they've never been more optimistic about the future when it comes to repealing obamacare. one thing that speaker ryan wrapped up on with the press or that there are some roles that come to the senate to go back and forth between the house in the senate to get to the end goal that they want to. it's confusing for us, so we'll talk about it in a moment. one of the things i'm watching for is the reaction from the freedom caucus members. you heard from the leadership that there i