and that will put a smile on your family's place. ignore the media busy buzzing the hive for controversy, there isn't one. give the man a chance, he's doing great. what matters to the american families is the economy and on that he gets a "a". leland: brand new tweets from president trump slamming the media for quote, pushing the phony russia story over the obama scandal. live at the white house as it breaks. elizabeth: and the president branding is fake news. an investigation into the russian involvement in the 2016 election and michael flynn pushes for immunity to testify. leland: and president trump's pick for the supreme court, judge neil gorsuch faces a make or break vote in the senate next week. will the republicans go nuclear next week to get him confirmed? ♪

great to be with you this saturday. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm leland vittert. if you can't tell by the back drop, i'm at the white house. >> that's right, a beautiful setting. i'm elizabeth prann, thanks for joining us on this first saturd saturday. president trump is taking to twitter today. taking aim at one of his favorite targets, the quote, fake news media and their coverage of the russian investigation. kristen fisher is live from the white house press room. hi. >> well, all week the white house has been trying to get back on message, but the russian investigation overshadows everything else. president trump made it known one day after the host of meet the press says that president trump was on verge of becoming a lame duck president. so the president said when will

nbc news talk about the obama surveillance scandal and stop with the fake russia story. and chuck todd said i slept well even though i stayed up late watching the upset u-conn, cow bells. and tweets from president trump, right? yesterday, the white house released the financial disclosures of several members of its senior staff and this is really the other story that a lot of folks are talking about this morning and it really should come as no surprise that the billionaire president has surrounded himself with a lot of wealthy people. so, let's dig into some of the data here. ivanka trump and jared kushner hold at least $240 million and as much as $700 million in assets and ivanka's business alone is valued at more than $50 million. gary cohn, the former number two executive at goldman sachs, estimated at 252 and 611 million bucks.

his income last year alone was as high as 77 million and makes him one of the wealthiest white house employees, i'll say. steve ban nonchief strategist made at much as 2.3 million last year and assets are valued between 11.8 and 53.8 million and kellyanne conway's estimates are worth somewhere in the range of $11 million and 44.2 million, wow. so, president trump he's going to be spending his days here at the white house, holding meetings, no public events scheduled, but vice-president mike pence, he's travelling. he just landed in ohio and he's about to be touring an electronics manufacturer called dinah lab and scheduled to tour it and speak, and expected to talk about jobs and the economy and may discuss the opioid epidemic. ohio is one of the centers of the crisis, so much so, many employees are having a hard time hiring people because they can't even pass a drug test. so, expect to hear from mike pence shortly.

jobs, economy, and perhaps the opioid crisis, which president trump signed an executive order on just this week. elizabeth: a busy saturday. thank you for bringing that to us. leland: mike to mike pence. let's bring in glenn hall joining us from the journal headquarters in new york, always good to see you. >> good to see you, leland. leland: you have two competing narratives this weekend, as kristin fisher reported, the white house is trying to get back on message and gain control once again of the story. you've got mike pence out in ohio talking jobs, talking the economy in a state they won and the president tweeting about the fake news media and the phony russian scandal as he would call it. are these working together or against each other? >> it's hard to know, the effort to get back on message with the economy, the president signed two executive orders

yesterday on trade. and you would have thought that was part of a bush push to get back on message and the other issues that aren't the ones that they campaigned on, and that the promises that they're trying to deliver back to their team. so every week, you see both the things happen. every week since he's taken office you see successes followed by blunders or maybe blunders is too far a word, but struggle from their goals. three stories probably that the white house is not that happy about. first headline, trump's agenda getting upstaged and then trump's closest aides from the financial leaks and financial stories. and an entire separate story on anti-globalist bannon, meaning steve bannon got rich as global capitalist. do these play into the president taking every morning to twitter? >> when they're trying to get their message out there, the

president responds to lot of different things and he's trying to set his agenda and make sure that his narrative isn't disrupted by narratives that are pushed forward by other media or channels. he's taken direct control and it's philosophy he needs to speak directly to the american people through twitter and in many cases it's worked for him and he's been able to redirect the narrative. leland: is that what we're seeing here this morning, do you think, a little bit of redirection in terms of trying to push away from the russian scandal, go on the offense, where the white house spends so much of this week on defense? >> it's been a challenge with this russia investigation. it continues to be out there and it's a distraction for sure. leland: but, glenn, is it a distraction or something more for this white house, when 70 days in, you have somebody who is a senior member of the campaign and then the national security advisor asking for immunity? is that merely a distraction or is that sort of something a little bit more? >> i think these are serious

charges investigated and you know, they create some possibilities for conflict of interest at the minimum. so, that investigation is going to continue. when i talk about a distraction, i'm referring to how the administration is trying to stay on its message and gets pulled off the message by various things, the committees in the house and senate investigating, the reports that are coming out in the moo he had-- media, all of these things cause the narrative in a different direction than they might want it to go. >> where is the coverage going, as you look forward. three world leaders meeting with president trump, jordan, egypt and china as well, we understand trying to make a big push on jobs, infrastructure, tax reform, possibly in averting a government shutdown. then you have, as you would call it, sort of the distraction for the white house trying to deal with the russia issue. >> one of the things we see, the president when he's not getting the legislative going the direction he wants it to go, he turns to executive

orders to make a point to the people that i am going to do things one way or the other and i think those trade orders that saw yesterday are an example of that, and you know, but the administration has also said, and working with ball ryan and others in the house and nate that they want to get tax agenda going now and they want to get an infrastructure shift going now so those are part of the promises they made in the campaign and i think that the president feels very strongly that every week he wants to show progress on the promises that he made. leland: as the wall street journal reported, the executive orders and rhetoric on trade has been way, way dialed down from what we saw during the campaign or even what we saw during the inauguration speech. >> yeah, one of the documents that we saw, this was an early document so we don't know the current state of things, it showed that they were not going to be as aggressive at renegotiating nafta as previously stated by the president and sort of a dialing back, maybe a practical pragmatic approach to that, to be clear those are documents

talking points from early on in the administration, and we don't know why et how the president intends to progress. but we know that he's taken some initial steps here with the orders, which basically said i want you to study trade agreements and tell me if they're working and progressing. i want you to look at the uncollected tariff fines for dumping and making sure we're doing a better job. you know, steps, but this is not what was talked about during the campaign. leland: certainly not the ripping up of agreements that we heard then candidate trump talk about. we'll read about your coverage come monday in the journal. >> thanks for having me on the show, leland. leland: liz. elizabeth: there are reports that former advisor michael flynn's request for immunity has been turned down by the intelligence committee. and chairman devin nunes and

the investigation. >> to be clear what we're hearing, it's simply too early on in this investigation for any kind of discussion on immunity, not that it's being ruled out altogether. but the fact that the president's former national security advisor is requesting immunity at all is concerning to those on the hill, democrat and republican. here is congressman jason chaffetz on the news room. >> that general flynn is out there asking for i mmunity. if there's an open investigation for the fbi, that should not happen. >> adam schiff visited the white house to review the same documents that were shared last week with chairman devin nunes, that evidence led nunes to believe that the president and his aides may have been picked up in the course of surveillance operations after the election and then illegally had their names spread in reports across the intelligence community. after reviewing the evidence

for himself yesterday though, congressman schiff still had a lot of questions. in the statement he said in part, nothing i could see today warranted a departure from the normal review procedures and these should be provided to the full membership of both committees. the white house has yet to explain why senior white house staff apparently shared the materials with but one member of the committee to be reviewed with to the white house. and some in the intelligence committee are keeping distance from the white house and requested those documents be sent to them by the agencies that originally collected them. they also have a number of hearings scheduled to take place this week. still, a long ways away to go on the house side, the senate side, as well as the fbi. elizabeth: thanks for setting it up for us. we appreciate it. leland. leland: a heated political showdown shaping up on capitol hill this week ahead of the senate vote to confirm supreme

court nominee judge neil gorsuch. this was a huge part of president trump's agenda, something he's talked a lot about over the past couple of weeks and democrats are threatening to filibuster, while the republicans say they might go nuclear and change the senate rules. judge gorsuch dominated the weekly addresses from democrats and also from the president. >> judge gorsuch needed to convince me he would not join the posse of republican appointees that relentlessly stretched the law to benefit republican partisans and corporations at the expense of everyone else. >> in every step of the process, what has been clear to all is that judge gorsuch is a man who respects the law. he defends the constitution. and in so doing, he will protect our freedom. with judge gorsuch on the supreme court, america will be a more free, fair, and just

nation for all of our citizens. leland: doug mcelway live with where the fight is headed. hi. >> with the senate vote on judge gorsuch, there's a lot of jockeying at senate democrats near the 60 threshold to filibuster. two declared they'll vote for gorsuch, important because they're from states that trump won and both are up for reelection in 2018. missouri democrat clare mccaskill facing a 2018 reelection battle from a state that trump won told a no, and would filibuster. and told a private gathering gorsuch was one of the better ones. >> we hope that it leads to her support. it's hard to find any reason except for obstructionism to see why fellow democrats in her caucus have not been able to join them.

>> mccaskill had a warning should justice kennedy origins ginsburg leave the court. and take it off the list and take to the senate, no, no, they're not going to let us do too long until they move to 51 votes. >> she's talking about the threat of the so-called nuclear option if invoked by leader mcconnell would allow to change the rules for a supreme court justice with a simple majority vote. >> if it comes it a rules change, and i sincerely hope that it does not for the sake of the grand traditions in this body, for the sake of the advise and consent clause for the constitution, if it does, it will be squarely on the shoulders of the republican party and the republican leader. >> many leaders say it's hypocritical of schumer, it was under his party, harry reid for the branch nominees below the supreme court level. leader mcconnell protective of

the traditions has not said whether he'll pull the nuclear lever. but he says that gorsuch will be confirmed. elizabeth: with more on the battle on the hill, a correspondent for the washington examiner and she's been watching the high-stakes move and our go-to when we break things down. when we look at doug's reporting, i want to start and talk about the fine line the democrats are walking right now. it's risky to hold the filibuster for a number of reasons, but they have to make the decision obviously before it comes to a vote, am i right? >> i think it's a political calculation, they have to decide how things are shaping up for them in 2018 and i think at this point, they're looking at their base, the base is excited and opposed to donald trump. and i think that they look at this upcoming vote as a decision about whether to stop gorsuch or to allow him to go forward. and i think at this point, it looks like they, at least from

the minority leader's standpoint, senator schumer, says it's better for them to oppose gorsuch because that's the base wants them to do. we saw the protests and demonstrations after trump was elected. i think that democrats are paying attention to trump's approval ratings, not very high, in the 30's in some cases and in their calculations better to say no to gorsuch even if it leads to the u.k. option. you heard the sound bite where he said it's squarely on the republicans shoulders. and it looks like they're changing the rules to get their pick. and help the democrats in 2018. elizabeth: a game of chess essentially. there are a number of democrats, i think it could be-- you could probably sort it out for me are in states where donald trump won and maybe some of those senators we haven't

heard from, but then we heard senator that had the announcement today. and they're being vocal about the nos, that what we're going to be seeing? >> beginning this weekend, monday, when they have the vote democrats will announce what they're going to do up to the end. i wonder if mccaskill may be a leading indicator here. she's decided to vote against gorsuch, yet, her state voted double digits for donald trump, there's a couple more we haven't heard from, joe donnelly from indiana, a democrat. angus king, an independent from maine, who voted both for the democrats strongly. bolt are up for election in competitive races. they haven't said which way they're going to go yet. i think it's interesting if those two are key ones to watch. overall there are 10 democrats who haven't said how they're going to vote yet. we have some people who have

been there a long time. patrick leahy, dianne feinstein, who may give the vote for the president's pick for the high court. and this is has been in the past decade. leahy says it's wavering. it's not possible they will get the eight votes they need to prevent the filibuster. right now it doesn't look good. we could see things change early next week, my bet right now we may see the nuclear option that doug described where they change the senate rules and that threshold will change from 60 votes to 5 is for supreme court nominees. elizabeth: on the flip side because we've obviously been talking about who we could hear the nos from. are we surprised from the two yeses so far. heidi hidecamp and joe manchin? >> less surprised they're in less competitive races than

mccaskill, donnelly and king, who are still there, we're wondering about king and donnelly, but manchin, his state voted for trump so that didn't surprise me. he's also a little safer in his reelection prospects, so safer for him to go for gorsuch and someone who occasionally does vote with republicans. that really wasn't too much of a surprise and hidecamp as well, she met with donald trump as potential cabinet position. those two less so. i'm keeping my eye on donnelly and king at this point and patrick leahy and see what he might do. it's going to be interesting. elizabeth: all right, susan. thank you. we could certain talk to you about it the whole hour there are so many nuances. thank you so much, appreciate it. keep it here on fox news channel for the latest ahead of the senate vote on neil gorsuch. and talking about the thoughts on the vote and whether or not

he will have to use the nuclear option. check for your local time and channel. and talking about the sean hannity interview with ted koppel and how the media is covering president trump. that's tomorrow on the fox news channel. leland: a massive highway bridge fire has shut down one of atlanta's busiest traffic arteries. more on the arrests coming up. caught on tape, the awesome power of mother nature and gravity. just check out that video. juneau alaska, we'll let now what happens to the fox in town next. it may be april, but the northeast is dealing with a whole lot of snow. adam is monitoring from the fox extreme weather center. didn't they get the memo, it's spring. >> i know folks want it to be spring, not the case in the northeast, snow continuing to

fall in this hour. plus some severe weather in texas. more after the break. i realize that ah, that $100k is not exactly a fortune.

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manufacturing company and is expected to make remarks in the next hour. when he makes the remarks, we'll take you to them live. leland: check out this video from juneau, alaska. cell phone video capturing a massive avalanche coming down into the town, including waterfalls that followed the snow down the mountain. the police officials say there were no injuries and get this, only minor damages to a gate and an unoccupied car. we'll get that video, incredible. elizabeth: more snow and ice underway to parts of the northeastern u.s. a cruel april fool's joke as mother nature unleashes a wintery mix. our own meteorologist adam is live from the weather center. some people don't want to hear this?

>> no, they don't. i'm ready for spring. we all are. >> folks up there have to be ready for it. this is a pretty good storm. watches and warnings across the northeast, how long is it going to be sticking with us. you're seeing it now, we can time it out in the hour by hour forecast. the good news, this isn't going to last forever so you're seeing the white and that's beginning to clear off this evening. kind of one last day here, your saturday clearing for you into sunday. you know it's windy and cool and at least you'll get a break from the snow. here is the current snow, it should be spring, but we still have impressive numbers. you're getting to some of the areas, up to a foot to two feet of snow. you need the warm air to move in and melt some of that away. where is it? spring, we're looking at more spring-like weather closer to the country and this is a big low pressure system moving off the west coast, working towards the texas area and that eventually today, later today, it's going to give some more spring-like weather. we're looking right along a cold front and by this

afternoon, not really happening yet, but by this afternoon and evening, that's going to turn into at least a chance of severe weather. this is a severe weather threat and everything you're looking at stretching in the yellow goldish color and we could see an occasional tornado, but these are thunderstorms, that's what we're paying attention to in the weather center the rest of the day. elizabeth: adam, thank you so much. appreciate it. leland: coming up, protests turning violent in paraguay. you can see angry protests. where does the investigation into russian interference go from here and what does the shirtless guy want from it and what all happened with the hacking and quote, unquote, obama surveillance as president donald trump is tweeting about it this morning.

>> i think it's important that there's been evidence of the president's campaign and russian officials. as you heard me state before, it was the hillary clinton, the architect of the last administration failed reset policy and told russian state tv it was designed to strengthen russia.

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you you >> police have arrested three people for their alleged involvement in a fire that caused a portion of interstate 85 to collapse, and causing major disruption to one of atlanta's main traffic arteries. the fire breaking out at a construction lot underneath the highway. police say no injuries have been reported, but officials say it could take months to rebuild portions of the bridge,

which of course means computers will be facing major traffic challenges. we'll have a live report on that story in the next hour. >> a number of reports coming out this saturday morning, the senate intelligence committee has rejected former nfs head michael flynn's request for immunity at least for now. this as president trump tweeted this morning, the media should stop caring about what he calls a phony scandal as relates to the russian involvement in the u.s. elections or collusions with his campaign. leon aaron is director of american studies, always good to see you. >> good to be here. leland: let's put aside for the moment, we'll come back to it, this issue of whether or not there was any kind of collusion between donald trump's campaign and russian intelligence and for that matter, whether the obama camp surveilled members of the trump campaign and used

the administration and their power to that end. put that aside. vladimir putin has got to be absolutely loving what's going on right now, that the administration, the white house, the national security apparatus of the united states, is caught up in this rather than confronting his quest to rebuild the soviet union greatness, whether it be in libya and egypt where he got groups in syria or in the ukraine. >> absolutely. he is very pleased, i think, because that distracts us from getting serious about our relations with russia, and getting serious is not trying to find out or glom onto what the russian ambassador said to it is to what the russian government is saying to millions of russians by a state-controlled tv and why millions of russians believe that russia is already at war, a proxy war with america, that

america and n.a.t.o. are attacking russia and one man that can save r you shall sha and win and that's vladimir putin and this narrative is going for this regime. mired in corruption, tens of thousands of 81 cities protested a week ago. incomes are down 10%. this is the only basis for that regime's legitimacy which makes it so dangerous because putin has to perpetuate this policy of confrontation with us. this is what we should be concentrating on. leland: you do get the sense that putin is itching for a confrontation. there was a leak that russian subs are on a cold war footing and mumblings inside and outside of the kremlin, this is the worst it's been since the cold war and russian relations, even worse than during times of the cold war. what's going on here. are things so bad in russia

that vladimir putin needs this foil, for lack of a better term in the united states and n.a.t.o.? >> yes, the regime is in trouble, we know from the public opinion polls, people hate the government from top to bottom as corrupt and deceiving. but except for vladimir putin, why? because he is expecting the motherland. he is the embodiment of this militarized patriotism. he's protecting the motherland and striking back and he's going to win. the problem is, as you indicated, that putin is like a man on the tiger. yes, he's made the tiger trot in the right direction, but, a, it's very difficult to get off the tiger of militarized patriotism and so he has to keep the country in a frenzy of besieged fortress and constantly serve evidence that russia is under siege, that the west is attacking, but that

he's counterattacking and he's winning. i don't see any other winning dynamic for putin. >> to continue your metaphor of the tiger, how long till the red meat turns from what we largely see now, which is anti-america propaganda, some provocations overflying u.s. war ships, those kinds of things, into real blood. into a war, whether it be a proxy war, restarted in the ukraine, whether it be some kind of excursion into libya, whether it be trying to recapture egypt as a russian soviet ally. what does it go? >> that's the key question, leland. this is what we should be figuring out, what the pentagon and house intelligence committee and the committee on armed services, this is what we should be preoccupied with. exactly. that's the question and by the way, the blood is still there. i mean, in ukraine, they continue to kill 10, 20 ukrainian servicemen every few

days, so, the real question is, what next? well, my concern is that because of the sustaining political dynamic of his regime, legitimizing dynamics, he will try to start fooling around with the eastern frank of n.a.t.o., as stona, latvia, poland. lithuania. we're saying, well, the n.a.t.o. members, he will not dare. i think it is precisely because they're n.a.t.o. members that he might dare and he might get away with the domestic political triumph, that would be the dangerous thing. >> we have certainly seen president putin test every u.s. president that's come into office while he's been in office as well and see how far he can push things. leon, we'll have you back to talk about it if he continues his quest. >> thank you. leland: thank you. elizabeth: on camera, scary moments for the people on this sail boat.

what officials say caused the boat to capsize. and president trump has asked congress to focus on tax reform as the clock is ticking for lawmakers to avoid a government shutdown. we'll take a closer look for the two issues after the break. ♪ ♪ you were made to move. to progress. to not just accept what you see, but imagine something new.

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>> a fox news alert. reporting that the venezuelan supreme court trying to strip powers. video protests from people angry about the earlier ruling. evidently the country urged court to change its mind as venezuela descends into chaos and inflation and reports of hunger there.

in paraguay. setting this on fire. police lunched canons and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. the majority of the senators proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow the president to run for a second term. the opponents say that that weakens paraguay's democracy. protests or not, the proposal for the second term must now be approved by the other parliament house. elizabeth: president trump has asked congress to make tax a priority. our next guest says that could be difficult because of a

looming government shutdown. joining us now steve bell, now a fellow with the bipartisan policy committee. thank you for joining us. you have a rich history here in washington and bring some great perspective. obviously i say at that respectfully. first and foremost, tax reform and budget go hand in hand. these are not two entities, these are hand in hand and there's a deadline looming. that's not an april fool's joke. what faces the lawmakers, and also the president? >> the jammed schedule that you just referred to makes it very difficult to see tax reform getting done anytime before late fall, maybe even the end of this year. they have to do the april 28th deadline for the government shuts down. that's this year's budget. they haven't even started on the budget for next year, which is supposed to be done by october. they've got the debt limit and a lot of nominees in the senate that have to be approved yet. so, this schedule, because the defeat of obamacare reform, has

now really become jammed and i really have to question the people who gave the president the advice to go that way. >> that's what i was going to ask you, hindsight is 20-20. do you think that we should have been talking about this long before we talked about reforming, repealing and replacing obamacare? >> yes, let's look at history first thing reagan did, budget. first thing bush did, budget. it isn't the first thing that clinton did, but went from hillary care to it's the budget, stupid. we'll create jobs, taxes cut and reform, do it through infrastructure, but we're going to create jobs. it seemed to me we just didn't learn from the obama disaster as we should have and started with the economy, stupid. elizabeth: so, let's think positively. what, in best case scenario,

what do you want to see in the next few weeks, do you want to see lawmakers come out or the president come out ahead of it? >> i think it's best when they cooperate. if you look at '86 tax act. last major one, three or four years of real cooperation behind the scenes, between treasury and professionals, and the senate finance committee and ways and means in the house. we have a pretty good relationship now. the house has the camp plan, which, obviously, is-- >> the senate has the hawks. >> the senate has the hawks, but i've got to tell you that orrin hatch and chuck grassley and those people know they have to get tax reform done. so, i think a cooperative approach, what do you really want and a lot of work done by the ways and means committee staff behind the scenes, a cooperative approach could get this done and maybe by the gypping of next year you could have is on the books and affected. if you work together. elizabeth: we only have about ten seconds left, but there's a

lot of things in the president's budget that caught people off guard, meaning there's a lot of things that he wants to get accomplished. how does he do that? we're talking infrastructure, building the wall, pumping up the military, that's a lot and we still have obamacare on the books. >> yes, and i think the warning is this, he's asked for money for the wall, for this year's budget, not going to happen. the defense increase, it may be much smaller than anyone anticipates. so, i think we have to scale back our thinking on that for the rest of this fiscal year, and hope that we can really get something started and let's say, by september, october. elizabeth: steve bell, we appreciate it, a little dose of history and a little dose of looking forward. leland: after the break, down to the southern wall to talk about residents who are concerned about the president's promise to build a new wall.

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property confiscated for use, and in texas, the president will have to overcome for the border wall. >> it was a cornerstone of president trump's campaign, erect a wall between mexico and the united states to keep illegal immigrants and smugglers out. >> who is going to stop them? not you, not me. >> she may be skeptical how effective it will be. they own land in texas along the border offering $2900 for one acre of property. fair market value says the federal government not close, they say for land that's been in the family for generations. >> i don't think it's fair. we are 58 brand children and great-grandchildren and we are

going to be getting about $50 per cousin. >> legal scholars say it's just one example out of possibly thousands where the feds will have to exercise imminent domain to snatch up private border property. >> it can be scary, intimidating, emotional. >> he specializes in imminent domain law, he says the lonestar state is unique and many will put up a fight. >> it's privately owned and a whole bunch of property owners will have to give up quite a build of acreage. >> republicans have typically spoken out against the use of eminent domain quieting overreach. president trump has seen is differently mostly advocating for its use and defending it, including in the october 2015 interview with our own bret bare. >> now, just so understand, you're not taking the house, you're taking the house and

paying much more that be it's worth. >> even if they don't want to sell? >> even if they don't want to sell, depends on what, if it's to build a house for somebody else who has more money, absolutely not. >> legal experts say that land owners won't be an i believe to find the merits of eminent domain use as pertains to the border wall because it's been deemed a public use project. what can be contested, however, in court, what is fair market value and how large will the check be for turning over part of your property. in dallas, casey stegal, fox new news. news. >> terrifying moments caught on tape as heavy winds off the coast of california send this sail boat crashing into a pier. here is comes, the four people on the boat, we're told, suffered nonlife threatening injuries. you can see one pop out of the water right there, as rescue workers say they are indeed

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>> the news continues to break the saturday. we are covering and it all here on "america's news hq". here is what is making news right now. the push to create more good paying jobs here at home. he is about to speak at a electronics manufacturing plant at the heartland. we will bring you those comments life when they happen. >> brand-new tweets from president trump aimed at the media among others. about what he calls their obsession with a fake news story regarding russia.

jeff sessions effort to crackdown crack down on illegal immigration is getting pushback from sanctuary cities coming up. president trump taking aim at some of the favorite targets on twitter this morning. they have the very latest. we talk about this quite often on saturday. >> he is making nice with one new was organization. we did call them is the new york times and he is referring to a story that they wrote about obama care. the feeling new york times finally gets it. in places where no insurance company offers plans. there be no wait for them to you subsidies to buy health plans. however with republicans or democrats.

in no uncertain terms that he is willing to work with democrats to repeal and replace obama care if the conservative health freedom caucus does not get on board this time. as for the news organization that he's taking a fight with. the target is nbc. he said yesterday he's on the birds -- verge of becoming a lame-duck president. in the ongoing investigation into his campaign ties to russia. so president trump when well sleep as chuck todd start talking about the scandal and stop with the fake trump russia story. for those wondering. don't feel sleepy at all. you are now all caught up. i want to ask you because we've been following mice --

vice president mike pence what is he doing there today. >> he's can we talk about jobs via the economy as you said he is going to give a listening session. touring the electronics manufacturing plant. so ohio as you know is one of the centers of the crisis. many employers are having a hard time hiring people because they can't pass a drug test. i'm sorry you're looking at life pictures right now of the vice president touring this manufacturing facility. and again he is expected to talk about 30 minutes. while president trump they're here at the white house. one of the things a lot of folks are talking about is the financial disclosure that the way has put out yesterday. check out these numbers.

they are worth at least $240 million possibly as much as 700 million. gary cohn director of the national economic council is worth somewhere between 250,000,611,000,000. cp and in his assets were in the range of 11.8 and 58.8. it should come as no surprise that the presidents around him subs was some very wealthy people but i think it's safe to say that all of those people are making a lot less money now that they're here at the white house. thank you so much. >> more on this. the white house, lynn -- calmness with the help. they want to change the narrative. they did not want to talk about what clearly president

trump calls the fake trump russia story. the question is on one and you have him out there working on saturday in the heartland touring a factory work clearly a lot of trump voters would be working his supporters are. where he won in ohio and then on the other hand you have the president back here on saturday morning ahead of that vice presidents prep treaty -- tweeting tweeting about taking this on. is this the way to change the narrative. i think it's more a way to shore up his base in a way that two things have connected. they really want that. they want a real concentration on the kind of heartland investor you're talking about. in voters who believe the media is unfair to president trump. on the second point we can debate that all day as to whether the media is or is not

unfair i think the attacks on the media do serve a political purpose with president trump's base whether they serve that purpose without wider elector. >> great analysis. we move on to the second part of the story. they get put out last night. the friday afternoon document dump. they are worth a lot of money and you see these headlines the top of the washington post. the closest aides heal from ranks of financial leaks. do that folks that you're talking about the lower income trump voters who are diehard devoting his of the president do they care that he is surrounded by millionaires and billionaires or do they bill that as proof of his success. i think it's an interesting question on it is true interesting level. if they were suspicious --

suspicious they were not had voted for him in the first place. they clearly vote for him believing that has business acumen is comparable to politics. but when it comes to aid worth hundreds of billions of dollars i've got to think that if the term administration hits a rough patch people will look at that. and think is a former goldman sachs partner really understand what i'm doing. i have to wonder if the president's political appointees are gonna say hey look to working-class americans how can the president understand your plight when he's surrounded by your people. i want to bring this back to what the president calls the obama scandal. in two reported what you hear

from inside the white house. our his advisers really pushing this narrative or is it me pushed by the president himself? >> i think it's a combination of both. the white house clearly believes that there was some underhanded behavior by members of the obama administration were former members. the difficulty they face is that that behavior does not equate to what president trump originally tweeted. but certainly they believe that there has been a push to disseminate the damaging information in a way that cuts across usual practice. they certainly seem like the obama surveillance scale is it in a dope or muddies the water. a busy week ahead. i just wanted to get quick break for our viewers can and

go back to columbus ohio. this is a live look at him. he is touring there. he is looking at equipment you see him there. he's also listening to employees that was one of the biggest pushes for the white house is a talk about jobs and change the narrative. we will be taking his comments at life we expected within the next hour so course when we see him take the podium we will bring those remarks live. >> back to our top story the financial disclosure for more than a hundred of the trumps it ministration staffers let's bring in our panel. it is the cochairman of great america alliance. thank you so much for joining us. did anything to surprise you out of the financial disclosures last night. this is obviously protocol for any administration. more than a hundred and 80 disclosures release.

we really saw a range of information released last night. >> there were no surprises. donald trump is can it bring in successful people and it's really a model to middle-class americans he has enforced some policies and candidate trump became president trump because he talked about middle-class americans and how he can create jobs how he will repatriate money coming back to the u.s. and frankly and really protecting the borders and moving sinks rate cities. these are types of policies that will help them get back to work and make sure that their neck and had lower wages and that they can compete for the average american jobs. robert i want to bring it into the conversation here. what the issue is is that with

his it ministration been full of millionaires and billionaires he wants to pivot the tax policy. it's one that doesn't affect the middle class. it doesn't help the poor and working-class people in this country and of course there cannot look towards him as what grows has policy. >> i do want to shift topics to jobs. we are following vice president mike pence down in columbus ohio. and we looked at some recent fox news pulling and it showed that 33 percent of those polls wanted trump to accomplish job creation right off the bat. it was one of the highest numbers of priorities. i want to bring into this because how do you keep manufacturing jobs and you actually grow manufacturing jobs will also sing competitive with emerging technologies. repatriating some monies back getting back the american

process of the corporations so they can continue to create jobs and maintain jobs that are u.s. jobs. number two, we talked a little bit earlier about the adp came out last month. gift of a culture of confidence in the u.s. where the marketplace and look the markets do not lie. it hovers right on 21,000. we are to continue to win and get u.s. jobs. and they talk about him doing that as president. i want you to keep in mind that the budget query jobs report have about 225,000 jobs added in february. that will be coming on friday. i want to ask you some of the same questions. there is a big push.

were seen reports of the possibility of artificial intelligence replacing summary jobs. how do you pacify both. what has to happen is the president has to come through on his pledge with $1 trillion in infrastructure. it is for the proof that the nations in need of this. you can ease the transportation for employers. we believe what we have to do. they have a create manufacturing construction. i think obviously everybody wants jobs. we thank you for your conversation. >> new details breaking on house investigation into possible russian interference

in the u.s. election. we are following multiple reports that the former advisor and his request for immunity has been turned down at least for now. this is questions still continue this weekend about the behavior of the house intelligence committee chairman. we are joined alive at the very latest. up until late friday. they had been only one that had seen this. there are at least one or two other people that had as well. the top democrat was able to review the same documents that the white house and chairman new nunez was shown last week. when he called a press conference to announce that there was no evidence that the members of his team were picked up in the force of surveillance opportunities. they were spread across the

intelligence community. this information was significant enough that they went to the white house. without debriefing any other member of the house intelligence committee. the top democrats couldn't discuss the context but he did suggest why there was so much cloak and dagger involved. in these materials they should not be provided to the full membership of both committees. they shared these. only for the content to be briefed. after reviewing the documents they met with present trump at least it was a cordial

conversation. so we have this part of the store. i also had how michael flynn ties into this. the former national security adviser that resigned in disgrace for lack of a better word. he said he wants immunity in exchange for his testimony about his contacts with russians. is he going to get immunity or not. was made to both the house and intelligence committee. at this time we're told it's too early on in the investigation to consider any kind of immunity deal. there is a lot of witnesses. with sources and methods. that hurts us. if anyone has done that for political gain something that actually affects us in our national security long-term is

a criminal offense. >> the congressman also suggested that it would take some pretty valuable information to make any immunity deal worth it. garrett, thank you. the coverage of the house intelligence committee and the russian investigation is he. howard kurtz sits down with a deputy press secretary. to discuss the administration's reactions. they talk about the trump administration and the climate policy. and joining him senate majority leader mcconnell and a lot of things to talk to him about coming up tomorrow. check your local listings for time in channel. elizabeth: getting back on message. working alive into ohio.

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they are drawing new legal challenges. >> duis assault, burglary crimes against children and murders countless americans would be alive today and countless loves ones not be grieving today if these policies of sanctuary cities were granted. from the white house podium the legal part of these issues will come before that. mister chairman always good to see you what i am most interested in i know near and dear to your heart and your passionate about it how much

is required of the house judiciary committee to change the law and for that matter how much is up to attorney general sessions to enforce the laws that we already had on the books. >> there are great many laws that were not enforced. therefore there is a lot that secretary kelly in the homeland security are about enforcing right now. including making it absolutely clear with regard to the century cities. they are held and then there. the unaccompanied minors. many involved with gangs have gotten into the interior of the country.

a murder in my neighboring county just this week. it's a very serious problem. i believe the whole congress is prepared to give the ministration what they need. >> what do you mean. how did the loss had to change to keep from happening what you are describing especially the catch and release. is that policy or does not require a change in law. it does. for other than mexico. people apprehended coming into the country can be returned directly across the border but if you come from central america and most of the people who have been coming up through mexico hundreds of thousands of them have come up from guatemala we need to be able to change the law so they could be returned promptly and safely to their home country

without having to go through a lengthy process and certainly without having to release them into the interior of the country. they also engage in an silent fraud. we need to reform our loss to make sure that the ministration has the resources to hold people until they are properly processed under the law and then it can be returned home. the president has a lot on his legislative agenda some of it has bipartisan support a lot of it has some real roadblocks coming up shall we say how can folks be confident that we have so many controversial and tough things coming up whether it be government shutdown or obama care that failed in terms of repealing and replacing obama care how can they be confident something as controversial as this is changing the catch and release

a lot that you just described how can they be confident that that is going to pass. i think the best way to accomplish that is to enforce the lot to the fullest extent possible right now at the same time that the congress works on additional laws that the ministration needs. by doing that the american people are going to see that our laws are being enforced. as they see that and they see the need for additional changes i think they will demand it. that was a pretty clear and concise answer to that question. looking forward you had changing catch and release. the two teams were accused in the rockville case. that would've meant that they had been shipped back rather than allowed to come as you pointed into the center of the country. what is next.

we know the attorney general's changing things as it relates to legal immigrants who are in federal prison what is next on your agenda going forward. certainly we have to get sanctuary cities cooperating for the congress will be taking a very proactive step to cut all funds to communities that refuse to cooperate with federal government agents and enforcing our laws. we are a nation of immigrants there's not an american watching your program is now who can go back several generations and find someone and their family who came to the nine states united states for the opportunity here. but we are we're also a nation of laws. our laws will be enforced because if they are not it breeds lack of respect. we now had 300,000 convicted aliens in the country that the obama administration did a very poor job trying to round up into port from the

country. we certainly can do a better job of that and secretary kelly is already hard at work on that. >> we will have you back as these bells worked their way through the committee. thank you sir. >> we are waiting remarks from vice president mike pence in ohio. when he does. he will bring you that life. and coming up. have the latest on the arrest of three suspects in connection with the bridge collapsed. they are facing another scandal. it continues. we will have more on this after the break. this

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we are just moments away. we of course have seen him do this over the past couple of weekends. takes trips to the heartland. we met with local business leaders a little bit earlier. he is he's now wrapping up that to her in american owned and operated manufacturing company we are told it employs a little bit more than 300 people the vice president's remarks are expected to start any minute. they will focus on jobs, the economy the first message that we've heard back to ohio and the vice president's remarks as they happen. please had arrested three people in connection to a fire that led to parts of the interstate 85 to collapse.

our own brian has the latest on that story. >> the manic use of's starting this fire just north of downtown atlanta was in court this morning. now faces charges of first-degree arson and criminal damage to property. has bond is bond is set at $200,000. this is not his first run in run-in with the law either. arrested more than a dozen times since 1995 mostly drug charges. he smoked crack before starting this fire. two others that were believed to be there. our charged with terminal trespass. they broke out on thursday afternoon in an area used to escort construction materials. they want they have the fire was started or white flames

just sick black smoke shot into the air. from a driver dozens of firefighters battled the blaze as they dodged flying concrete. the temperatures were so high this portion of the highway collapsed. amazingly no one was injured. the fire devoured 350 feet of interstate 85 that will now need to be replaced in both directions. this is an important stretch of highway that carries about 400,000 cars per day through atlanta no city already known for its tragic -- traffic woes. one night near it -ish traffic. we expect the demolition to last throughout the weekend and into monday. the big question on everybody's mind is how long will this take it to repair we are not able to give you a firm estimate at this moment but you should know that this

will take at least several months to get this rebuilt. as for the cause we don't have any idea. the federal government is pitching in to help the department of transportation and we will give them $10 million for the initial repair work. that traffic is no drug. i appreciate it. have a great day. they are embroiled in new scandal. and on the allegations and what can be done by it. since the boston marathon bombing back now live. he is just taking the stage there he had been visiting the facility and listening to some of the employees. he is sitting down now. we will listen in. >> it's great to be back last fall takes all of you and thanks to your hard work and your support and your prayers. ohio voted to make donald

trump the 45th president of the united states of america. i spoke to the president this morning and he asked me to simply to say thank you. and to tell you to promise you we will never forget the support of the great people of the buckeye state. and let me say thank you to senator rob portman and for joining us today. the people of ohio appreciate your principal leadership and karen i truly cherish our friendship with you and jane. give him another vigorous round of applause. speaking of my wife karen she is really sorry she can be with us today. sherry have dinner plans.

all kidding aside my wife of 31 years is an amazing woman. this week alone she traveled across the country to support our military families and also went out and stood by children recovering from serious illness. i'm so proud of her. and my wife and i are so grateful for your support and your prayers for our little family. you all. let me also say i think it to my friend of some years he is a member of the ways and means committee. chairman of the health subcommittee. he is one of the most respected voices on tax reform in the united states congress. the hometown congressman. i think you so much. and thank you to mayor brad mcleod for being here today

and for your great leadership. as a privilege to have all of you with us today. in the present and i are grateful for your support. and finally i thank you to gary james and the whole lab team for hosting us today. it is a true american success story. since 1981 you all have been doing here what our country does best. taking big ideas and bring them to life on the factory floor. it's amazing to see what you had accomplished. over 300 employees in a state of the art facility a great reputation congratulations to the whole team you are in the american dream and we congratulate you on your success. and just so great to be with you today. many of whom are still with us. people like the flag lady are here.

i can personally testify that that is a great business. and all of these these great business leaders think you for coming out today and sharing your perspective on the challenges and opportunities we have to turn this economy loose. it is the greatest privilege of my life to be vice president to president donald trump. it's humbling for me to say it the president of the united states is my friend he loves his family and he loves his family in this country with boundless determination. and he is a three-part attend agenda i hear about every day. jobs, jobs and jobs. it's happening right here in ohio already. it is just amazing the first to job reports two job reports were already out showing that nearly 500,000 jobs had been

created this year including more than hundred and 35 thousand new jobs in construction and manufacturing. thank you for a new president it has been a great year for american jobs. it would invest $1.2 billion here in america to protect and create nearly 4,000 jobs on tuesday the president signed a historic executive order. and give american job creators the kind of low-cost power that they need to grow and yesterday in yesterday the president took decisive action to level the playing field on international trade. under president donald trump trade well mean jobs and put american workers first. and you know american businesses are already getting

the message. they were joined by the leadership of the national association of manufacturers and the announced that manufacturing companies had not been this optimistic and more than 20 years. 93% of manufacturers are excited since the year 2000. president trump knows what all of you know. that when manufacturing is strong america is strong. and he is fighting every day to bring american manufacturing back. president trump minute when he said on tuesday we believe in those really magnificent words. made in the usa.

they are the engine of our economy. thanks to president trump that is about to roar. it's not just this past week but literally front since day one present trump has been fighting to get our economy moving again. he is been signing bill after bill to rollback regulations. he ordered every agency in washington dc to find two regulations to get rid of before issuing any new redtape. [applause]. just last week creating tens of thousands of american jobs and strengthening america's energy future. decisive action to affect american jobs. by enforcing the laws of this country. for the citizens of this country and illegal immigration is already down by

60%. and we are just getting started. since the date the president was elected he has worked tirelessly to keep his promise to repeal and replace obama care. the present i know what all of you know that every day it survives is another day. that the american people struggle. we all know the truth about this failed law higher prices lost plans fewer choices. obama care is the burden on the people of ohio and it's a burden on ohio's job creators. that's why the president has worked so hard to keep his promise to the american people to repeal and replace obama care was something that actually works. i had been incredibly inspired by the president's hands on leadership on. and we are so grateful to

speaker paul ryan and all of the house republicans like congressman pat t barrie who stood with us over the past month to begin the end of obama care. thank you congressman. but, as a song about he thought about a week ago congress wasn't quite there. a hundred percent of house democrats every single one and a handful of republicans congress basically said that they weren't ready yet to begin the end of obama care. it really is a shame. but as congressman t barry who said to me a few minutes ago said it's not over yet. obama care will continue to explode putting a great weight on millions of americans but the president and i have faith that congress is in a step up and do the right thing. even as we speak. therefore jean have working to craft legislation and be

assured of this when congress finally decides to repeal and replace obama care president trump and i will be ready. we can take it to the bank. present trump well never stop fighting to keep the promises he made to the american people. we will repeal and replace obama care and give them the world-class health care they deserve. we will cut taxes across the bo small businesses manufacturers family farms. we will work with these great leaders in the congress to pass the biggest tax cuts and stays of ronald reagan. you know there is an old joke about how the tax code is ten

times the size of the bible with none of the good news. here are some real good news. the plan is good but more money in your pocket and make american businesses impactful again. one of the highest in the world so that companies the companies in american jobs can invest in create opportunities for american workers right here in ohio. present trump's can keep splashing through the red tape. the truth is the bureaucrats are too often standing in the wake of job creators making it harder for them to grow and trust. complying with federal mandates. over $13 a year for every single employee. all told redtape from washington dc actually cost the economy over $2 trillion a year. this enough money to create

more than 24 million new pain manufacturing jobs. and they are getting government out of the way. so they can no longer triple the economy. we are to keep that fight going. a new era of american energy has begun the war on coal is over. it's really heartbreaking to think that nearly a quarter of the coal miners have lost their jobs in the past few years. and that nearly half of the state's minds have shut down. countless ohio families have been forced to watch a good

paying jobs disappear from their communities. but now they had hope. the first day of administration present trump has been fighting for ohio and fighting for american energy. the executive order that they signed on sign on tuesday well and washington's assault on affordable energy and give hard-working americans and manufactures the relief they need. and president trump will put coal miners back to work as he likes to say we all like to say. we are can unlock our country's amazing national resources. you name it because lower energy more jobs and more growth and more opportunity for american families and american businesses. we are also also get a rebuild america if you haven't noticed it the american people have elected a builder to be present of the nine united states. and with a higher american strategy we are going to work with the congress were going to give the nation the best

road and bridges and airports that america has ever had. thanks to president trump work and have jobs and growth and prosperity like never before. making america great again. it also means standing for those that are protecting our communities our nations in protecting our way of life. i can tell you i'm with them every day president trump has no higher priority than the safety and security of the american people. that's why the president every single day is standing with the men and women there with us today. didn't mind getting on their feet and showing the men and women in law enforcement just how much we appreciate the job they do protecting our

families each and every day. [applause]. present trump is strengthening our borders. building a wall enforcing our laws. the criminals who threaten our communities and pray on our citizens off the streets of ohio and off the streets of america. they accomplish that. beyond our borders i could cannot be more grateful and more proud as the father of the united states marine we now have a president who will rebuild our military.

to give our soldiers, sam. and here in the homeland i just want to ensure all of you here. and this community. under president donald trump's leadership america skin strong and taking the fight to the terrorists on our terms on our soldier. isis is on the run. president donald trump well not rest and well not relent when they destroy isis at the source. to inspire violence here at home.

it's jobs, it's healthcare it's energy in its national security. in this president is also keeping its promise to appoint a strict constructionist to the supreme court in the tradition of the late and great anthony scalia. [applause]. by nominating judge neil gorsuch he has kept his word to appoint to the supreme court of justice who will keep faith with our constitution and uphold the god-given liberties. next week the united state senate will take the confirmation and let me just say as america saw in those hearings just a little more than a week ago judge neil gorsuch is one of the most respected, qualified in mainstream nominees to the supreme court in american history.

but remarkably yesterday your very own senator announced that he and the obstructionist democrats in the senate planned to filibuster judge gorsuch's nomination as an associate justice something that's never been successfully done in american history. let me say the president and i are confident with the strong support of senator rob portman we know for the sake of our supreme court for the sake of our country for the sake of our constitution we will overcome the obstructionist end of the and the united states senate will confirm judge neil gorsuch one way or another. [applause]. my friends the record is clear. president donald trump is a man of his word and action.

one other issue i would like to address. it hits close to home here in ohio. just as it did back in my home state of indiana. i want you all to know as america saw this week from the cabinet room in washington dc president trump is working every day to end the opiate crisis that is brooding lives and tearing apart families in ohio and across america. over 2500 ohio -- ohioans died in 20151 of the hardest hit states in the nation. he greets my heart to think of it. tens of thousands more still suffer in the grip of addiction. let me say your own senator rob portman and congressman had been true leaders on this issue. we are grateful for their leadership helping countless leadership to the work on capitol hill. the president and i are grateful for their strong and compassionate leadership as i know all of you are.

on wednesday of this week in the cabinet room in the white house president trump and i met with the group of people who have seen opiate addiction up close and personal. we heard that inspiring stories of vanessa and aj to young people who courageously overcame drug addiction and found hope and healing through counseling and medication to break the grip of addiction on their lives. we also heard from a mom tragically who lost her beloved son carlos the light of her life a young man of incredible promise in creativity to drug addiction. president trump told p.m. with real emotion p.m., your son will not have died in vain and that very day president trump announced the creation of the president's commission on combating drug addiction and

opiate abuse under president trump's leadership to bring it together committed leaders and medical experts and we will find solutions to stop the flow of drugs into our communities and help families who need it most. as the president said in his joint address to the congress in his own words we will stop the drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth and we will expand treatment for those who have become so badly addicted those two promises will be kept [applause]. by this president in the said ministration. under his leadership i just know our communities are countries are on the road to healing. my friends, we've really come to a pivotable moment in our nations history and i believe with all my heart in this moment we need every freedom loving american, we need all of you to stand up into speak out.

we need you to tell the world that you believe we can do better that you know it that present trump in his vision can renew and restore this an unabashed path to a brighter future. in my heart i know we are going to get it done because i have faith. as your ohio state motto says, with god all things are possible. [applause]. one of my favorite verses in old book comes out of the book of jeremiah is actually a gift for my wife the first year i was elected to congress back in the year 2000. it hung over the mantle of our little home in indiana when i served in washington deceive it hung over the manners of

the governor's residence and now they hang over the mantle in the residence of the vice president of the united states. it simply says for i know the plans i head for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. plans to give you hope in the future. those words millennia ago have been words that they have clung to and i believe they are as true today as they were throughout our history. november the people of ohio voted to give them a president with the strength and courage in the vision to make america safe again. you voted to give us a new leader who will make america prosperous again and i believe with all my heart that with your continued support and with god's help together we will make america great again. than