pen doing so right now. also, bunch of talk about the keystone pipeline. thanks so much for joining us on "america's news hq." i will be back here tomorrow. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. a hearing on russia's involvement in our elections isn't going to happen after all. now the white house on defensive. the dangerous push to wipe out isis going door-to-door. and the islamic state's last stand in its so-called capitol. the terror group's last major strong hold in iraq. today a new report calls out the u.s.-backed coalition suggesting it's been careless about killing innocent people. let's get to it. first from the fox news desk, the white house is denying reports that it tried to stop

the acting head of the justice department for testifying about the investigation into trump's campaign ties to russia. fox news confirms the justice department sent a warmer to the former acting attorney general, sally yates. fox news obtained letters showing department told yates earlier this month that she could not discuss a great deal of her possible testimony without permission from the white house. according to the letters, the doj told sally yates is because her testimony would include presidential communications that the trump administration considers privilege information. president trump fired sally yates from the justice department after she told the department's lawyers not to defend his controversial travel ban. the white house calls the post reporting false. the white house says they have no problems with her testifying. the hearing was tentatively planned for today.

former national intelligence director james clapper and john brennan were also set to appear. but devin nunes on friday abruptly decided not hold the hearing after all. the committee's ranking member, adam schiff has accused congressman schiff of scrapping the hearing to protect the white house. it's all very complicated. chairman nunes says he postponed the hearing to allow the committee to hear james comey and mike rogers behind closed doors. congressman schiff and other top democrats are calling for nunes to recuse himself from the entire russian investigation. last week, he said that reports may have incidentally monitored the president and top aides in

foreign surveillance that did not involve russia. chairman nunes briefed the president before sharing the information with the intelligence committee. after the briefing, the president said he felt somewhat vindicated in making his unsubstantiated claim that president obama order wiretapping at trump tower. last night, the trump-russia story is a hoax. >> are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation? >> why would i not? you need to go ask them why these things are being said. >> would the investigation continue? >> why would it not? >> they're saying it cannot run with you as chairman. >> you have to go talk to them. sounds like their problem. my colleagues are perfectly fine. they know we're doing the investigation. that will continue. >> chairman nunes claimed he met

with a source on white house grounds to view those intelligence reports. the congressman refuses to reveal his source and he won't say if the source was somebody inside that white house. nunes said he had to view the documents at a secure area at the white house because nobody submitted the documents to congress and nobody could move them to secure facilities. still at least one top republican says that the move has hurt the credibility of congressman nunes. here's what gop senator lindsey graham told nbc news this morning. >> i think he put his objectivity in question at the very least. here's what i would suggest. david go to his democratic colleagues and share the information so they all know what he's talking about. if he's not willing to tell the democrats on the committee who he met with and what he was told, i think he's lost his ability to lead. >> shepard: he hasn't done so yet. despite the back and forth over

the different angles of the russian story, it's worth saying that chairman nunes and jim comey and director schiff say there's no evidence that president obama ordered wiretapping at trump tower. john roberts is live on the north lawn. john? >> we have the letters here. le begin on march 14 when devin nunes and adam schiff sent a letter to sally yates asking her to appear before a committee hearing which would be tentatively scheduled today to discuss russian cyber activities directed against the u.s. election and leaks classified information. an attorney for yates sent this letter to the department of justice saying that if she does testify, she's going to probably talk about privileged information. the justice department then writes back to that attorney saying that such deliberative -- such communications are covered by the presidential communications privilege, probably the deliberative process privilege.

the president owns those privileges and mrs. yates needs to check with the white house. then a letter was sent to the white house. it said "if i do not receive a response by march 27, i will conclude the white house does not exert executive privilege". the white house never responded to the letter. that was de facto. a tacit approval of her going before the committee. and then of course we found out today the hearing was not going to happen. devin nunes saying the hearing was never officially scheduled. they wanted to make sure they would hear from comey in a closed-door session so they would have more information to talk to people in the open session, that would includes yates, bremer and clapper as well. it was a big topic as you can imagine in the white house press briefing. i asked sean spicer about it. >> there's reports that the hearing that was set for the 27th was not scheduled, it was cancelled by devin nunes to

prevent this white house from publicly invoking a claim of executive privilege. can you speak to that? >> the report in the post is 100% false. the letters this they publish on their website all back up everything i just read. they specifically say if you don't respond, we're going ahead. we didn't respond. we encouraged them to go ahead to suggest in any way shape or form that we stood in the way of that is 100% false. >> and members of the intelligence committee continue to suggest that there's no evidence that the president was wiretapped at trump tower, this white house continues to insist that there's no evidence that anybody from the trump campaign and the transition or the white house colluded with russia in terms of trying to influence the election. sean spicer was asked about that today and managed to get off one of his better lines. watch this. >> i've said it from the day that i got here until whatever. there's no connection. you've got russia. if the president puts russian

salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a russian connection. well, i appreciate your agenda here. the reality is -- hold on. at some point report the facts. >> the white house is quietly suggesting to me, shep, there's more to come out on this idea that members of the transition were caught up in surveillance. they're not suggesting what it was, but might be something related to a pattern of requests that were coming from someone and the requests from people to be unmasked. so potentially more to come on this, shep. >> shepard: we've heard democrats, many of them calling for chairman nunes to step down. are there any republicans calling for him to step down? >> not that i've seen and certainly none here at the white house either. the white house is fully comfortable with the fact that he was just across west executive drive, probably 100 paces away from the oval office looking at intelligence the night before he rushed down to tell the president about it. some people have wondered why if he was just across the street,

why he didn't come over that night and tell the president, why the big show of it. the white house saying they think he's think he's doing his job. listen to spicer. >> it's not up to me. he's appointed by the speaker. these up to the speaker and the house of representatives. we're not going to start commenting on that kind of stuff. i do think that he is running an investigation which we asked for. >> running an investigation that the white house initially asked for. you remember, shep, going back probably a week after the president initially released the tweet, while he was at mar-a-largo fuming over the fact that the after-glow of his joint address to congress had been wiped off the front pages by what was going on with jeff sessions and his conversations with russians that he fired out that tweet. then he came back a week later and said we want the house and the senate intelligence committees to look at this, trying to get it out of the white house where they hoped it would stay. somehow keeps coming back here,

shep. >> shepard: john roberts on the north lawn. thanks, john. let's turn to anna palmer from politco. good to see you, anna. >> good to see you. >> shepard: russian salad dressing. he said report the facts at some point. a lot of facts out there involving a lot of people. still a lot of questions they won't answer. >> yeah, i don't think this issue is dying down any time soon. frankly the intel chairman nunes and as long as he continues to come publicly forward and insert himself into this ongoing drama is something the white house will react to. certainly sean spicer had a great line there with the russian salad dressing. it doesn't -- misses the point in terms of the fact that there's a lot of questions surrounding what kind of surveillance may have been happening what did sally yates go, why is the white house pushing back on allegations. as the intel community works through the process, the question is going to be what is

going to be nunes' role. will there be other republicans that come forward asking him to step down. >> shepard: this is important to understand. there's not a suggestion by anybody credible that they were surveilling anybody illegally. the suggestion they were surveilling foreigners under fisa legally. so the courts have said yeah, there's probable cause to surveil this person. whoever that person is caught on the phone or in electronic communications of some kind with different members of the trump team. not to suggest anything nefarious happened. we don't know what happened in those conversations, but we will know. and they know. the white house is trying to keep us from getting answers to those questions while the investigations both criminal and in the judiciary are trying to get those answers. it's just that simple, isn't it? >> yeah. what is really happening is this process goes forward with the

intel committee and the investigation of what was actually happening is -- was there any improper behavior happening with the trump transition team. so far there's nothing to suggest every single chairman and ranking member in the house and the senate has come forward saying there was no legal surveillance of the trump campaign or the trump white house by president obama. so this is much more a nuance kind of argue of what they're trying to find out, what happened, where was russia, what was russia trying to do as far as the 2016 election and as far as the trump transition. >> it's already been established according to our intelligence agencies, 17 different intelligence agencies, that the russians interfered with the election about swaying votes. that's another matter. but interfered with the election. reportedly one of the largest interferences that has ever been captured. the question now is were members of the trump team helping

russians as they worked to hurt hillary clinton's chances and help donald trump's chances? that is the central question, right? >> yeah, i think that is a central question. i think there's -- it's kind of getting details, right? there's been -- obviously james comey, collusion with russia trying to interfere. what does that mean? we haven't gotten details yet and that's something we'll be following in the coming days and weeks. >> great to talk to you, anna. >> thank you. >> shepard: if you're a junky on these matters, here's some great source tear here. our corporate cousins. there was a piece about connections regarding russia. it's in the "wall street journal." the headline is a trump team ties to russia, who's who. includes jared kushner, paul

manafort, carter paige and roger stone, a long-time republican objective. all the details about the questions that are listed at wsj.com at the trump russia connection. the news continues after this. fun in art class. come close, come close. i like that. [ all sounds come to a crashing halt ] ah. when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. awww. try this. for minor arthritis pain, only aleve is fda approved to work for up to 12 straight hours with just one pill. thank you. come on everybody. aleve. live whole. not part.

>> shepard: president trump taking a sledge hammer to environmental regulations that

president obama put in place. the president signing his latest executive order and doing a short time ago. it begins the process of dismantling some of president obama's most significant climate change policies. it tells agencies to stop trying to reduce the carbon pollution from electric, oil, gal drillers and coal mines. critics say it won't create more jobs. the approach will hurt the economy and democrats say the president is ignoring the dangers of climate change in order to reward his supporters in the fox fuel industry. blake burman is live with more. what does this order do? >> a lot of red ink as it goes to president obama's greeni initiative s. the clean power plan was at the heart of the plan.

it called to reduce carbon dioxide levels by a third by 2030. president trump called that plan a disaster, especially for coal miners. >> perhaps no single regulation threatens our miners or energy workers more than this crushing attack on american industry. >> the president called for lifting the ban on federal lands as it relates to coal production and also he put a pause on what he sees as many job-killing regulations. >> shepard: democrats say we will pay a price for this and a big one. >> yes. in a word they are horrified by just what happened a little while ago with this executive order. take a look to tom harper that held a news conference before this order was signed. >> that executive order abandons the progress we made addressing the threat of climate change, protecting americans' health, from dangers, pollutants and

safe-guarding our country for generations. thanks to this executive order, our future looks darker, dirtier and less prosperous. >> the sierra club director called this the single greatest attack on climate in the history of our country. >> u.s.-backed troops are on the move in iraq. they're going after isis fighters in the streets and making big gains. but there's a brand new report today that claims the progress comes at a huge humanitarian price. sky news takes you to the front line where civilians are paying a heavy price. that's next. you always pay

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>> shepard: shepard smith reporting. continuing our reports from the front line in iraq. american-backed forces trying to drive isis terrorists from mosul. today a new report from the human rights group amnesty international indicates the u.s.-led coalition is not doing enough to prevent civilian deaths and injuries. the report states the air strikes have destroyed homes with entire families inside. the u.s. officials say they're investigating. today the top u.s. general in baghdad talked about a resent coalition air strike that killed more than 100 people. he said the coalition "probably had a role in the casualties." he puts a hot of blame on isis. the terrorists purposefully force civilians in areas that they know they will drive. the pictures are just horrible. here's a destroyed house in mosul. the fighting between security

forces and the islamic state displaces countless iraqi families. do the children look scared to you? they're boarding a truck that will take them to a refugee camp in western mosul. here's some iraqis carrying bodies. that's what's left of their neighborhood. people have had to dig graves for their own relatives and friends. our sister network sky news has a brand new look at the dangerous door-to-door fight in mosul and the civilians caught there in the cross hairs. here's alex crawford from sky news. >> is extremists are putting up fierce resistant in the old city, which for iraqi forces is the jewel.

operations have been hampered by the geography of these densely populated areas and cold waters. isis being eliminated but a huge alarm about the high rate of civilian casualties in doing so. the men from iraq's elite scorpion unit is pushing back. but look at this. this building is held by government forces. the rounds hitting it are from islamic state fighters. they're firing over our heads despite being outnumbered by the troops, they're not giving up.

civilians are desperately trying to escape the fighting. terrified by the bombings but caught in the middle. running out of food and water as the battles rage around them. many have been telling how the jihadists have been using them as human shields. >> last night they told us you have to come out and go for a walk. and we were prepared to go with them. god save us. police came forward. >> if they do break free from their captors they have to go there is minds and roads littered with unexpected bombs. for too many can't get out. they have no water or

electricity and just white flags of protection. with is fighters hiding amongst the homes, they're traumatized by the advancing troops. >> at the moment, they're stuck here with is fighters in the next building, just monitoring any slight movement at all so they can attack and move forward into the old city proper. retaking mosul would be a whatsive blow against the islamic state. but if it comes at the expense of civilian lives, it could be an apparent victory. >> rescue crews set off the bomb sites with no expectations of survivors. you don't have to look far to find civilians in mosul. iraqi forces are facing a ruthless enemy that don't shirk from sheltering from helpless

residents. the first teams are often prevented from reaching air strikes for days and there's a narrow window for rescue. >> there's no food or water. he will suffer from medical problems. and then die. >> the field hospitals are filled with people desperate for help and youth is no protector against a sniper's bullet. he's 3 years old by targeted by jihadists with no regard for life. for many of the civilians trapped in mosul, there's no where to run and hide. alex crawford, sky news, west mosul. >> shepard: the civilian victims. today's report from amnesty international said their failure to take precautions from death and injuries is in flagrant violation of the international humanitarian law. sky news spoke with a british man who is having second thoughts about joining isis in the first place. he realized he wasn't cut out

for the bloody battle after he traveled to syria to fight with the terror group. now he's trying to go home even if it means losing his own freedom. >> i just trying to get my life back. if i have to go to prison in order to do that, i'm prepared to do that. >> shepard: if i have to go to prison, i'm prepared to do it. his story is fascinating. it's at foxnews.com. russia is trying to reemerge as a global power. the top u.s. commander in europe explains the progress president putin has made around the world. coming up, what the commander says the united states must do to counter that is next.

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hill today calling for more troops to deter russian aggression. in a house armed services hearing, general curtis says the u.s. has a less more than 60,000 troops in europe. as the top commander, he says he needs a bigger land component and more people on the ground. he also said russia will continue to press against international norms and that the united states should push back. >> we need to demonstrate strength. we need to be strong. that is what russia respects. their opportunistic. where they see weakness, they will take advantage of it. >> the general said the entire united states government needs to be part of the interests to deter russian aggression. not just the military. pete-doocy with more. nato could be important in deterring russia. >> very important, shep. he says that russia has already shown us why. >> russia does respect nato.

it's one of the reasons they're trying to undermine nato and fracture it. >> but the general is warning that russia will keep pushing up against what he calls international norms. he thinks there should be more troops in europe. the general explains that it's hard to figure out what russia is doing and why. because some of the weapons they have in the field can be used in conventional conflict or in nuclear conflict so they will put these systems out and the u.s. doesn't necessarily know right away what that system is there for. the focus of today's hearing is just on deterrence, making sure that things don't heat up anymore more than they are in europe. >> shepard: the general says he needs more manpower. looks like they may get more money. >> right. more members are planning to apparently pitch in more money. we heard that 22 nato countries are planning to increase the amount that they give to the alliance.

right now there's five nato countries that pay the 2% of their gdp that they're supposed to. this does follow months of criticism from president trump who has complained that the u.s. spends a disproportionate amount of the alliance. it's something that president obama expressed frustration about on his way out of office. he discomplain about free riders, countries not playing as much as others for defense. >> shepard: a state-owned russian bank under u.s. sanctions confirmed that some executives met with jared kushner during the transition. that's according to a statement that the bank provided to reuters news agency. as we reported yesterday, kushner met with the head of the bank back in december. he also met with the russian ambassador to washington.

jared kushner did not discuss anything important and he's volunteered to answer questions from lawmakers handling the russian investigation. kristin fisher is here live at the white house. kristin? >> shep, the reason this meeting is raising so many red flags, not only is the bank under sanctions, but the chairman was appointed by vladimir putin. he has close ties to the kremlin and a deep understanding of how the intelligence agencies work. so much so that he graduated from cfsb, which trains people to work in russian you can seev moving with jared kushner is raising eyebrows on capitol hill. the white house says that kushner has done nothing improper. it was his job during the campaign and the transition to serve as the primary point of contact for all foreign governments. he was wearing that hat when he

met with gorkov in december. that's different from the russians. they said it was a business meeting, a spokesman for the kremlin said tens of meeting were held and one was with kushner's company and with him. it's routine business. so business being the key word there. according to reuters, some senators want to question kushner about whether or not he talked to gorkov about possibly investing in one of his manhattan real estate projects. kushner has volunteered to testify. this cuts to the core of one of the concerns about the trump administration. that is concerns over conflict of interest, not to mention concerns over this administration's potential ties to the kremlin. shep? >> kristin fisher live on the north lawn. thank you. after failing to deliver on healthcare, the white house is doubling down now on the possibility of working with democrats to pass big ticket items including tax reform. >> we're going to build a coalition and we're going to work with members of both sides of the aisle to see what we can

find agreement and move forward. i don't want to prejudge the outcome at this point. >> shepard: earlier today, gop leaders said they're getting gop lawmakers ready for the tax reform bill. >> we want this to be the last tax season that americans have to put up with this broken tax code. i don't want to us become a fractionalized majority. we have to sit down and talk things out until we get there. that's what we're doing. >> president trump has called for lowering tax rates for middle class and corporations. a major sticking point could be a proposed border tax on imports. some republicans are critical of it. john bussey is here. they're trying to say we're a united party. yet last week they proved they're absolutely not that. >> they're going -- this is a tricky issue. they don't want to spend the rest of their political capitol

on something that doesn't bring in a victory for the administration. they're turning to taxes. the white house says, look, we're going to be driving this train. that's the language that they're using. michael bender, our washington reporter has a story on this. the question is the white house going to be driving it or are they going to work closely with congress. kevin brady, the head of the house ways and means committee said look, we hope the white house works with us. ryan has a plan. the republicans have a plan. we need the white house to work in concert with what is already going on in the house of representatives. >> the suggestion is that they'll reach across political lines to get democrats on board with some of this. what would be a democrat's incentive to work with this administration? >> a lot of democrats that think that the corporate tax code, the individual tax code needs reform. needs to be fixed. there's some conservative democrats that they could appeal to. it's tricky. the friction s exist because of

the democrats. they don't want to give president trump a victory even on tax reform. democrats say look, your plans favor the rich, giving tax breaks to the rich. we're looking for something that gives a bigger tax cut to the middle class. even within the republican party, the border tax that you mentioned. taxing imports, not experts. retailers that rely on imports say this is unfail to the retailing industry but more fair to manufacturers that export. >> if you tax imports, so we're clear, it's not like the government just pays it. they pass it along to the consumers. so your towel from china go up by whatever that percent is. >> that's why the retailers don't want it. >> consumers don't want that either. >> they don't want to raise the prices. the markets are up again today. expectation, have been the last few months, expectation that

will there be some revision in the tax code. the question is how much does it bite into the deficit. is the administration willing to see the -- >> shepard: it's the freedom caucus. >> exactly. within the republican party. are they willing to begin to address entitlements, which is the big ticket item in washington to bring those costs down such that they can afford to fund a tax cut. >> a thing to watch is, they're looking for a billion dollars to do 62 miles of this border wall. and these border states, they're not for it. >> every time you're intoing to spend money on the infrastructure plan, which has a lot of people saying this is the right way to go, republicans and democrats. rebuild american highways and bridges. they're saying that will cost money. where are we going to find money and money to fund a tax code? >> maybe mexico. >> it will be tricky. >> shepard: ahead, ford motor company is announcing they're

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>> shepard: ford the hiring and the president is tweeting his approval. the auto giant announcing they will make a $1.2 billion investment in michigan and add 130 jobs at an engine plant there. the president firing off a tweet early this morning before the news, big announcement by ford today. major investment to be made in three michigan plants. car companies coming back to the u.s. jobs, jobs, jobs. the president has pushed companies to keep jobs in the united states. he's taken credit when it happened like in november when carrier pledged to keep 1,100 factory jobs in indiana. gerri willis joins us right now. did the president make this happen? >> you know, other than the fact that it was first discussed in november 2015 by ford, we knew

about this. this was baked into the pudding. let's -- >> shepard: it's good to have it. >> sure. i'm not going to say no. i don't care -- >> shepard: more jobs. >> and $1.2 billion, right? let's work through what that is. $850 million to upgrade a michigan assembly plant. they're going to build rangers and bronco s.u.v.s. you're excited about that. $150 million at the romeo engine plant outside detroit. that's where the 130 jobs go. $200 million for a data center. they're going to store information that they collect from our connected cars. they're all out to get us. >> have to keep that. what more to we know about the 130 jobs? >> the jobs that were already at this romeo engine plant, they're making small cars, they're going to mexico. trump has not been in favor of that. originally what in order was going to do there, build another plant. they're not doing that but have

more jobs in mexico. but know we have this announcement, too. >> shepard: both of these things. two things. fantastic to see you. >> good to see you. >> shepard: the mother of a child with special needs says she's furious with the transportation security administration for how they treated her family at the airport. we'll show you the video. jack knocked over a candlestick, onto the shag carpeting... ...and his pants ignited into flames,

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>> shepard: north korea is at it again. getting very serious. the north koreans conducted another rocket engine test over the weekend adding to concerns that the country is getting closer to developing a missile that can hit the united states. that's what u.s. officials tell fox news. it's north korea's third test of a missile engine this month. this is new. happened over the weekends. u.s. officials say the successful test demonstrates

that dictator kim jong-un's military is improving missile technology. u.s. officials tell fox news there's signs that north korea is closely conducts another nuclear test. we were treated like dogs. that's whether a woman wrote on facebook about her son and her experience with tsa agents at the dallas fort worth airport. her name is jennifer williams. she included this video of the screening with her post. it's gone viral now. you can see an agent patting down her son, aaron. the woman said she asked the tsa to screen her son in a different way because she says he has a neurological disorder that makes him feel uncomfortable when somebody touches him. tsa said they followed proper procedures. trace gallagher with more. why did this agent do this pat down in the first place? >> apparently because they found a laptop in his book bag after

it was being screened. laptops are supposed to be taken out. even though the body not set off the alarms, he was told to still submit to a pat down. tsa says the boy fully cooperated. because of the americans concerns, two police officers were called to oversee the process. the pat-down took two minutes for a 11-year-old boy with shorts and a t-shirt seems like a thorough check. the mom said he was patted down excessive excessively. she went on to say that she felt like the agents were traumatizing her son for no reason. shep? >> shepard: tsa claims they have reason for doing the pat-downs. >> yeah. an undercover audit revealed some major lapses in airport security in the past couple months. so earlier this month, tsa eliminated five methods used important pat-downs in exchange

for a much more comprehensive approach. at some airports, the searches included more appropriate contact. but gizmoto asked about general contact and said the new protocol does not mandate the touching of passengers genitals. so even though the tsa followed the rules of patting down the 11-year-old, it appears to most that private areas were included. tsa points out that all pat-downs are still done by agents of the same sex. shep? >> thank you, trace. coming up, a major milestone for aviation. it happened on this day in history.

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water for the first time. you see, american and british navies flew seaplanes in world war i and then they went domestic. airlines like pan am put them to use sea to sea. it's china clipper aircraft made the first readily scheduled flight between two oceans in the 30s. after the war they built longer runways and the dawn of the jet age made seaplanes less relevance. but some pilots still used them in places like the florida keys that happened 107 years ago today. didn't even have an iphone. should news break out, we'll break in. this time yesterday we told you we had eight straight sessions of losing days in the market. that just got exploded. consumer confidence numbers came out this morning. the markets loved it.

the dow up just about .75%. our man on business is neil cavuto. "your world" with neil cavuto is coming up on america's choice for news and information on cable. >> neil: all right. if yesterday was the trump slump because it seems like everybody was pouncing on the sell off what do we call today? the trump bump? we are up 150 points. we had very good economic news that spurred that including consumer confidence hitting the highest level in 16 years. and another report that housing prices hit the highest level in 31 months. there's more tabbed infrastructure spending in the works and talk that the administration and congress are working tightly on redoing the healthcare thing, which the markets took as a sign that they have not saved up with that and