>> we'll close out national siblings day. >> where are your siblings? >> they had to work. will you have yourself until after the show. >> we'll stick around. why don't you get out of here. >> thank you. >> bill: fox news alert on monday morning putting pressure on putin. rex tillerson on his way to moscow. the u.s. ready to push russia on its support of syrian president assad as moscow responds with a threet to the united states. russia, syria, north korea all foreign policy hot spots getting hotter by the minute. we're off and running already. >> shannon: have you recovered from the masters yes? i'm shannon bream. more on that. a first iran, russia and terror network hezbollah issuing a

joint response. america crossed red lines and they would respond with force in the future. president trump meeting with foreign policy team over the weekend at mar-a-lago. his secretary of state pointed the finger at russia saying moscow failed to destroy syria's chemical weapons. >> regardless of whether russia was complicit here or whether they were simply incompetent or got outwitted by the bashar al-assad regime you would have to ask the russians. they've failed in their commitment to the international community. >> bill: u.s.s. carl vincent sending a message to north korea leader with continued missile testing there. benjamin hall is live in turkey. we're in south korea and we begin with kevin corke from the white house in washington >> while the white house and trump administration tries to

find policy footing moving forward on syria this morning he is thanking the u.s. navy for conducting that strike on the regime in syria. he is retweeting something the navy put out. interesting picture want to share for the folks at home who may not have a chance to make their way to twitter. he is saying thank you, u.s. navy, #usa. cool picture. the president also calling personally to thank the commanding officers, russell called well and andrea sloth and crews and their professionalism to make sure the missile strike would be carried out without issue. great smiles to hear from the president. the u.n. ambassador nikki haley is making it clear there is no chance at peace in syria as long as bashar al-assad is in power. >> you'll see pressure on the political solution. that's what's going to happen. in no way do we look at peace happening in that area with

iranian influence and with russia covering up for assad and no way to see peace as assad as the head of the syrian government. >> they point the finger at russia suggesting they aren't only the principle stakeholder in all this but the key defender of the renegade regime led by mr. assad. now the position by the administration is this, get on board, russia. understand that backing this assad horse is a losing proposition and get on board, the sooner the better. >> we aren't saying that we are the ones who are going to effect that change. what we're saying is other countries have to ask themselves hard questions. russia should ask themselves what are we doing here? why are we supporting this murd rouse regime that is committing mass murder of its population and using the most heinous weapons available. >> the next step from this vantage point is work with

congressional lawmakers and find out what general policy would be acceptable to them and advance u.s. interests. >> bill: leading coverage kevin corke at the white house today. >> shannon: the syrian government showing no signs of slowing down air strikes launching war planes from the same base the u.s. missiles heavily damaged at iran and issue issued the statement saying what america waged in an aggression of syria is a crossing of red lines. from now on we'll respond with force to any addressor or breach of red lines from whoever it is. america knows our ability to respond well. benjamin hall live near syria's border near turkey with more. you've been speaking to some survivors of the chemical attacks. what have you learned? >> shannon, it was videos of those brutal chemical attacks with pushed president trump to launch the tomahawk strikes. speaking to the people who survived those and witnessed

them firsthand it is easy to understand what drove him. among the people who we spoke to was a man who lost 22 others and today reunited with family members. he described to us some of the things that he saw. >> as i entered the house, the whole family was dead. grownups dead. family on top of each other. my wife, my children, my brother, his wife, their children. my nieces, all of them dead. after a few minutes i fainted. >> among the dead also his 11 month old twins. he buried them and his wife with his hands. he gripped onto them until the end and spoke to us about the american strike. >> i want to tell president trump the first strike was good. it saved us. but just a few hours later, the air base continued working. it is like a challenge from

assad. i can still attack and from the same base you attacked. >> we've been in contact with some of the people who are still in country, the town that was attack. assad is bombing at a greater pace than before. little respite for them there. >> shannon: we hear about an attack. isis attack on a coalition base in syria. what can you tell us about that? >> this happened on saturday. it was rather complex attack at a coalition base in the south of syria. we do know that u.s. forces were present at the time. it happened at the garrison on the syrian/jordan border and a vehicle-born ied. 20 to 30 fighters followed by a ground assault and suicide vests. it failed but a daring assault and a reminder that isis remains on the offensive in some parts of this country. they try again and again. this was the same base that russia bombed last year that the u.s. had to come and defend

to save their coalition allies. back to you. >> shannon: benjamin hall in turkey. >> bill: what is the administration's ultimate goal in syria. john bolton, good morning to you. you could write chapters today. what does the u.s. transmit to vladimir in moscow this week? >> if anybody believes that telling vladimir putin that bashar al-assad is a ruthless thug, that his administration is filled with ruthless thugs and doing ruthless thug things to the syrian people is not going the produce a reaction in vladimir putin. he couldn't care less. what does he want in syria? he wants the russian naval base and wants the new russian air base there. and i think he will do next to anything to keep the assad regime in power. there is no chance that i see

that the russians will sacrifice assad even after this attack. you know, the spirit of john kerry is probably stirring somewhere in massachusetts saying i've done this for four years. i can negotiate with the russians, too, here is how it goes. we have a peaceful transition of power, the russians agree assad leaves. he tried it for four years. the russians won't do it. the trump add inis traition needs to come back to what the president has consistently said which is that his priority is the destruction of isis. the attack he ordered on thursday was confined. the rational was confined, the attack was confined to the use of chemical weapons. he can change his mind but so far the president himself has had a very limited focus here. >> bill: i thought that was mcmaster's big point with chris wallace on sunday. he drove it hope repeatedly. ambassador ryan crocker who knows the world well said this sunday as well. >> when i was ambassador in

kuwait i referred to a carrier battle group at 100,000 tons of diplomacy. i worked closely with central command to be sure we had carrier presence up in the northern gulf when we needed it. >> bill: he said president got it right in syria and in north korea but this is just the beginning. how would you react to that, sir? >> i think that's correct. the message of the strike the president ordered at the end of last week obviously felt in syria and in moscow but i think heard with equal clarity in tehran and north korea. after eight years of no drama, they've got a president who actually feels very strongly about these weapons of mass destruction and i think biological, chemical warfare but at the top end of the spectrum is nuclear proliferation represented by north korea and iran. i think he is very much focused on target about weapons of mass

destruction proliferation and usage. >> bill: last point. an extraordinary think to see how quickly international matters come to the forefront because the previous administration had a much different approach to it. now you see this white house putting its foot forward in so many ways. >> shannon: the obama era in america foreign policy is over and it ended with the tomahawk strike at the end of last week. more to do to be sure but i think the administration now needs to focus particularly on what the middle east looks like after the destruction of isis, which hopefully comes before the end of this year. you aren't going to put -- they're trying to recreate the iraqi government. doomed to failure. we need strategic thinking here as the goal of destroying isis is pursued. >> bill: thank you, sir. great stuff. john bolton leading the analysis coverage from

washington, d.c. you think about it right now the pressure on american military. we have military action in iraq, afghanistan, syria, to a lesser degree in libya, somalia. sick theaters of operation. >> shannon: so much criticism the military has been hollowed out is part of the funding battle coming up soon. president trump faced with his first real foreign policy test. how is he doing? >> the world had looked at this area and seen the profound abdication for eight years where the united states had disappeared. america is back and it is liable to react. >> shannon: he is not the only one praising the president's handling of syria. is president trump succeeding where president obama fell short? >> bill: isis striking christians on palm sunday. two churches attacked on one of the holliest days of the year. the latest we're learning about

both coming up. >> shannon: a fox news alert the ninth seat on the supreme court will no longer be vacant. judge neil gorsuch becomes justice gorsuch today. >> 30 and 40 years from now people may not remember any of our names but they certainly will know who justice neil gorsuch is. we're on to you, diabetes. time's up, insufficient prenatal care. and administrative paperwork... your days of drowning people are numbered. same goes for you, budget overruns. and rising costs, wipe that smile off your face. we're coming for you, too. for those who won't rest until the world is healthier, neither will we. optum. how well gets done.

>> shannon: right now judge

neil gorsuch is taking the first of two oaths that will make him the 113th supreme court justice. the senate confirmed him on friday. john roberts administering the first oath in a private ceremony at the supreme court. then at the white house at 11:00 a.m. eastern justice kennedy will do it in public. the high court is scheduled to hear several new cases starting on monday. >> never been more encouraged by the trump administration than i am today. >> a strong moral case to make for what the president did. stronger now in fact than when president obama faced that same situation. >> i think the fact that we acted was very important and i support the president's action. >> bill: there you have on both sides there president trump getting good reviews from his critics as he handles his first foreign policy crisis.

mary anne marsh, alex conant to both of you good morning. quickly alex, you've had three days to think about this. let it soak in. overall the reaction seems to be positive for this white house. >> i'm very impressed by donald trump's handling of this crisis. first major foreign policy crisis as president. he acted decisively and quickly and he made the right decision to go into syria and to punish assad for chemical weapons attacks. i was impressed. he needs to lay out a strategy of where we go from here. assad can't remain as president of syria. as long as assad is there there will be more attacks on civilians. he needs to lay out a long-term strategy for removing assad and what comes next. >> bill: it strikes me they laid out the strategy. go after isis and if chemical weapons are used again you'll

hear from the united states again. that's what i heard from sunday. mary anne, go. >> what we haven't heard is what's the goal here? that's the bigger concern. if you wished obama had bombed syria after the red line you support this. if you wish -- if you supported trump because he said he wouldn't you oppose it. the real concern is what's the goal and the strategy? bombing is a tactic. the person who put it best is the poor father who you just showed on the segment before who lost 22 members of his family and buried his 11 month old twin daughters by his hands. he said the bombing was a temporary step. they opened up the airport and started bombing them again. that airport was up and running quicker than delta got back in track this weekend. >> bill: i've heard that line before. i'll grant it to you. >> i used it yesterday morning in boston. >> bill: charles krauthammer makes a bigger case now. that's about american power when he said this.

>> you just wanted to say it's not that there is a new sheriff in town, there is a sheriff in town. there was an absence for eight years, america is back, and you aren't allowed to do whatever you want. that in and of itself will have a big effect. >> bill: america is back. there is a sheriff in town, alex, is that the message? >> he is absolutely correct. under obama we had leading from behind which meant no leadership at all. vacuums all over the world which countries like russia, china, assad, isis were quick to fill. now finally after eight years of obama america is taking the leadership role on things like syria like we saw this weekend. it is the right approach. i think our allies around the world are breathing a sigh of relief to see that america is back. >> bill: i would add listening to nikki haley the folks at the united nations are pleased to see something finally was

decided in syria. >> exactly. >> the problem. nikki haley says nothing will change unless assad goes. tillerson saying nothing will change. the same policy with syria. we haven't heard what that policy is from donald trump. that's the big concern here. again, you have to state the goals to then have the strategy to fulfill it and tactics. bombing isn't a goal or a strategy. >> bill: they cleared it up with wallace on sunday going after isis first remains our priority. take it one at a time. >> yes, all roads lead back to russia as you know. assad is russia's proxy. how does donald trump deal with putin and asaad and deal with syria and russia unless he gets russia on board and i doubt that happens. >> as long as assad is in power there will be a civil war in syria and you'll see islamic extremists fighting assad's government. he has to go as my former boss marco rubio says this weekend

they're two sides of the same coin assad and isis. you need to go after both of them and a strategy to do it and the president needs to lay it out. >> bill: thank you, alex and mary anne. 21 past the hour. >> shannon: fox news alert. dozens are dead hundreds injured after suicide bombers devastate two churches in egypt. a chilling look inside the latest isis attack targeting christians. >> bill: police on a manhunt for this suspect calling him a national threat this morning. >> even more awkward that somebody that seemed so innocent could do something so terrifying and become a threat to the whole united states.

>> bill: former president bill clinton paid a visit to former

president george h.w. bush over the weekend. president clinton tweeted this shot out. great to spend time with george h.w. and mrs. bush in houston today. we caught up with kids and grandkids. old times, new times and socks. a better look at the picture. he gave him a pair of socks. these have had quite a friendship over the years despite the difference politically. socks is what matters in 41's life. >> shannon: he loves them. they've been able to work on charitable things together and find common ground. good to see that. we don't see it a lot in politics and d.c. >> bill: nice. >> shannon: a fox news alert. terror rocking cairo on palm sunday. suicide bombers left devastation an two coptic christian churches. isis is claiming responsibility. more than 100 wounded and

dozens dead. we have a latest. david, as bad as this sounds and looks, we're hearing this could have been even more deadly. >> that's right, shannon. these attacks were horrific but security measures that were in place at one location may have saved lives. both attacks were caught on camera. we caution some of what you are about to see and hear can be disturbing. surveillance video that was taken at st. mark's cathedral in alexandria. the seat of the coptic church shows a suicide bomber turned away from the main gate. that's a crucial moment. he was prevented from entering the cathedral and directed to a metal detector. walks past a female police officer and he detonates his device outside the cathedral. however, at least 16 people were killed including three police. two hours earlier at st. george's church in tanta 29 people died in a huge explosion.

the church was transmitting the service on the internet when the bomb went off. the video as you will see end ab druptly but audio continues. shrieks of victims could be heard. isis claimed responsibility for both attacks. in a recent video isis described the coptic christian community of egypt as infidels and ratchet up the number of attacks on the community that accounts for only 10% of the total population. >> shannon: dwindling by the day. all right. how is the egyptian government responding to all this? >> this was a day for funerals in egypt but it was also a day for the government there to take action. just a few hours ago the presidential cabinet approved a declaration for a three-month state of emergency. the egyptian parliament is soon expected to give its required approval. this declaration will give

broad powers in combating terrorism. the military has already been brought into assist police and isis splinter group claimed responsibility for a number of attacks in the sinai region of egypt and only hours ago a rocket was fired from that area into israel damaging a greenhouse but causing no injuries. earlier in the day, israel shut down its border with the egyptian section of the sinai after there were intelligence reports that some type of attack was imminent. and as you may note, this is the start of the passover holiday. many israelis will vacation in the sinai with beautiful beaches. not this year. the government has cautioned it is simply not safe. >> shannon: holiest week of the year for more than one religious group in the world. >> bill: whether it's egypt or iraq christians are under assault in that part of the world. >> shannon: the ones left.

they have been virtually run out of there. >> bill: terror in the middle to growing tensions in asia the u.s. turning up the heat on north korea kim jung un. there is a carrier being sent there. >> he is making a serious mistake. if you're an adversary of the united states and you don't worry about what trump may do on any given day you're crazy. >> shannon: senator lindsey graham warning syria and russia about wagging fingers at the u.s. after that missile attack on a syrian air base. what president trump's unpredictability on the world stage may be an asset in dealing with global hot spots. can the u.s. take out assad and isis at the same time? >> i believe the united states of america can address both at the same time. we can walk and chew gum. we have the capability to do both. what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever?

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>> bill: fox news alert. president trump sending a strong message to north korea deploying an en toir u.s. carrier strike group to the region with ships amid concerns over north korea's continued banned missile tests and nuclear program and the possibility of another test forthcoming. we have the latest from south korea. >> a lot of activity and provocation coming from north korea. as you noted that aircraft carrier carl vincent group steaming towards the waters off of the korean pens inla. destroyers with guided missiles on board. the u.s. navy is redirecting that group here after trouble making by north korea.

but as we found out today, the u.s. air force also has a piece of this action. take a look. >> there is nothing more old school than this. the iconic u2 spy plane been in operation for over 60 years in the skies over the korean peninsula for over 40 keeping an eye over a current foe in north korea. >> those aircraft operate out of one hour south of soule. they can operate in the sky 10 hours at a time and go as high as 14 miles. they avoid being too specific about what they do up there but they're always locked in on the conventional, the unconventional activities of the north korea regime. if there is trouble spotted we

spend time with the a10 tank killer planes at that base. they've seen a lot of action in other hot spots. they provide a close cover for ground troops with missiles and with a very nasty machine gun in their nose cone. here is how pilots of the two planes described their missions. >> can be a very tense time. that's what we do here is we do our daily mission but we're always maintaining our readiness. >> we go to the same airspace we've been going to in a wartime situation 30 miles in the north of us and we'll be there in defense of the >> no officers say they are planning for a preemptive strike, military option, but they also said if they're provoked and they said that's happening quite a bit lately, they are ready. >> bill: thank you, greg, good to have you on the ground in

south korea. >> shannon: mr. trump sending a message to syria by using chemical weapons. by using the air base to strike the same town again syrian president bashar al-assad may be sending president trump a message of his own. here is senator lindsey graham. >> i'm glad trump did this. he is no longer obama in the eyes of our enemies but he needs to do more to close the deal. there is a new sheriff in town. here is what i think assad a telling trump by flying from this base, f you and i think he is making a sir yas mistake. if you're an adversary of the united states and don't worry about what trump may do on any given day then you're crazy. >> shannon: a fox news strategic analyst mr. peters. what do you make of this suggestion by lindsey graham the president's unpredictability at your own risk you ignore it. >> president trump's unpredictability in the case

with syria can be a useful asset as long as behind the unpredictability there are steady hands at work. senator graham i think really missed the boat on this one. i usually agree with him. asaad is sending a couple of airplanes from the base was a sign of desperation, a signal to his people see, the americans didn't stop us. our goal in the friday morning strikes was not to destroy the air base, not to shut down the runways. it was to punish assad's air force, the base specifically that had launched those attacks and to warn assad not to use chemical weapons again. now, it is a success if assad doesn't use chemical weapons again. if he does, ultimately the mission failed despite its tactical success. 58 of 59 cruise missiles hit their targets, that scared the russians and scared the iranians and a lesson to the world. >> shannon: i know you think if there will be retaliation it

will come from the iranians. what do we do and how would it play out >> putin has gotten as far as he has gotten by bluffing. when we gave him an hour's warning that we were coming to hit that air base he didn't even try to stop us. he knew he couldn't. but when it comes to iran, they are much more forthright and forceful. they believe they're on a roll. so i would worry that iran may try to retaliate, perhaps in iraq, by trying to grab some u.s. forces prisoners. staging suicide bombings. or other attacks against u.s. forces. so what i'm looking at this equation i see this incident cruise missile attack on the base friday morning total loss of face and influence for vladimir putin. angering iran. they want to hit back and not sure how, asaad i think despite his sending a couple of old airplanes in the air learned a

valuable lesson. we'll see. >> shannon: why do you stand on the conversation all weekend about what is the true priority. getting rid of isis or assad. should one be priority over the other? >> that's an important question. people are missing the point. we had a guest on earlier from the left of center who is saying well, you know, this air attack didn't cure cancer so it wasn't any good. this air attack was specifically to deter the further use of chemical weapons. nothing more than that. it wasn't to remove assad. it wasn't. when you get beyond that if you want to talk about strategic priorities, i'm all for defeating isis and destroying the call fate on the ground. however, we need to reassess. we're fighting isis while russia, iran, hezbollah and syria are fighting the syrian people. if we do finish the job of defeating isis in syria, the inheritors of our success are

the syrians -- assad, russia, iran and hezbollah. i think president trump inherited a real mess. i've been skeptical of many things of president trump. in this instance he got it exactly right and we'll have to see where it goes from here. >> shannon: if assad stays put for now if the focus is shift evidence to going after isis, which by statements coming from the administration that seems to be that's where they are going now. many think assad is the most golden recruiting tool for isis and al qaeda and with the exception of him being gone you won't make progress on the front of those who would be radicalized. >> that's exactly right. we can destroy the physical caliphate on the ground. isis controlled territory but the organization will go on because the syrians, iranians and russians have been the primary recruiting devices for isis because they've been

attacking sunni muslims who isis claims to represent. but this is an incredibly complex problem and i think what gives me real hope here is i think from general mattis, and from mcmasters the national security advisor we're starting to see the outlines of developing policy and above all, clear thinking. by the way, president trump is now being applauded for this attack around the world. it's amazing. that's probably registering on him. >> >> shannon: plenty of that in d.c., too. thank you, colonel peters. >> wins it with a birdie on the first playoff hole. >> bill: so beautiful, too. fantastic finish, final day of the masters at august coming down to a one-hole playoff on

the 73rd hole. >> after so many years, once and for all for sergio. >> bill: sergio garcia finally winning a major tournament after two decades of heartache. he overcomes a two shot deficit against justin rose. great match here. garcia had played in a record 70 major tournaments which means british open, u.s. open, masters and pga championship before finally winning yesterday in augusta. a great champion. >> almost as good a golfer as bill hemmer. >> bill: not even close. >> shannon: i didn't watch. i was on the train but watching it on twitter. >> bill: it was a gorgeous, gorgeous time. the first two days of the tournament they had rough weather and brings these spectacular golfers down to earth a little bit but saturday and sunday was spectacular.

hope you enjoyed it if you were watching. >> shannon: former national security advisor susan rice taking heat again after claiming that president obama had removed chemical weapons in syria thanks to a diplomatic deal. did she speak too soon? what did she know? our panel with a reality check. >> bill: president trump taking action in syria. how will congress react from the next move to the white house. >> i look forward to president trump making the case to the american people and making the case to congress about what further military action should be taken, if any. if the commander-in-chief's prerogative to defend this nation. without touching our savings. yeah, our insurance won't do that. no. you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance

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friend, congress needs to work with the president to try to deal with this long term strategy -- lack of strategy in syria. we haven't had one for six years during the obama administration. >> bill: we hear from senators on both sides. he is saying that president trump needs to work with congress on future action in syria. fox news contributor, byron, good morning to you. you lay it out in theory, yes, in practice, no. >> in theory the president needs permission from congress to make war. in practice that's not been the way it's worked out. we've had a couple of authorizations for military force in the last 20 years. one was for the war in iraq. the other one was after september 11th declared war on al qaeda and that authorization to use military force has been extremely flexible. presidents have cited that in the years since for several military actions. in other words, they've said

i've already got the authorization i need. now as far as attacking syria is concerned, if you look at president trump's letter to congress during the attack, basically what he said was i am doing this pursuant to my authority in the constitution to conduct foreign policy and as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. he said that's all i need. >> bill: we already have troops on the ground in syria, byron working there for some time. >> that's true. all of those were undertaken either under the old authorization to use military force, the one after 9/11 or on the president's authority. i think what is important to remember here is that congress will complain about it, and there is the war powers act which should require congressional authorization but no president, including donald trump, has ever recognized the

authority of the war powers act limiting presidential authority to make war. so congress will complain about this but as long as it's this kind of military action, cruise missiles, bombing, that sort of thing, very unlikely congress would actually do anything about it. >> bill: you make a great point there, too. libya was the same thing. at the urging of then president sarkozy in france, he was the one on top of the table slamming his shoe saying you have to go after qaddafi. i made this point 45 minutes ago. we have military action right now, byron, in iraq, afghanistan, syria, a somalia, libya, yemen. this is a lot of pressure for a military that is at the ready 24/7 around the world. and it seems as if the united states appears to be the only one who is now standing up to radical islam and we're doing

it in half a dozen countries right now. when you think about that burden and strain and wonder how long does it continue, and does it ever end? >> not any time in the near future. all those actions you described could be put under the larger umbrella of the global war on terror and as a candidate, donald trump promised to rebuild the military to make it stronger, clearly you need more ships in your navy to do that sort of thing. you need more of everything. and the other thing that he has tried to do is to push european nations, wealthy european nations to pay more for their own defense in nato. but this is a huge burden and a very long-term burden for the united states. >> bill: he has a national security team that a lot of people respect. thank you for your time today in washington, d.c. good to see you. >> shannon: another big story. a desperate nationwide search for a suspect considered armed and dangerous. why they call this man a

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>> shannon: police are search knowledge for a man they say wrote a 160 page anti-religion manifesto, stole more than a dozen guns and is missing. joseph jakubowski may be planning mass violence. what is the status of the search for this guy? >> the manhunt is expanding with local police as well as federal agencies from the atf and secret service getting involved in the search for joseph jakubowski considered armed and dangerous. he went missing on tuesday.

that's when police believe he robbed the armageddon gun shop in janesville, wisconsin. he has assault rifles and high-end handguns and believed to have body armor and helmet. he wrote a 161 page manifesto ranting about government and organized religion and sent the manifesto to president trump after posting a video on social media. >> april 4th, 2017, 5:43. >> bill: at a press conference they say he had become highly agitated by the state of national politics and told an associate of plans to carry out an unspecified attack after stealing guns. after the guns were stolen from

the gun shop in janesville his car was set on fire. >> shannon: does he have a history of violence? >> he does have a history of violence. did prison time for assaulting a police officer and attempting to steal that officer's weapon. >> there was one specific case where he attempted to disarm a police officer and were it not for the very secure holster of this officer would have most certainly disarmed that police officer and for that crime he was sent to prison. >> domestic abuse, battery, resisting an officer, minor drug possession. bad guy. every indication he is looking for a fight. >> shannon: the search continues. mike, thank you very much. >> bill: america's top dim mat calling russia incompetent. no shortage of conversation there. syria, alleged interference in the presidential election. we're live in moscow for the

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>> shannon: the u.s. gearing up for a showdown with russia. when secretary of state rex tillerson goes on a mission to moscow tomorrow with a pointed message for putin. i'm shannon bream in for martha maccallum. >> bill: good morning. international tensions over syria near the boiling point yet again. secretary tillerson finding strong support while meeting with g7 allies in europe before his journey continues to moscow. it is expected he will urge putin to back away on his support for assad. they appeared over the weekend on the talk shows with the following message. >> i'm hopeful that we can have constructive talks and have

russia be supportive of a process that will lead to a stable syria. i hope that russia is thinking carefully about its continued alliance with bashar al-assad. >> no way do we see peace in that area with russia covering up for assad and with assad as the head of the syrian government. >> this is a great opportunity for the russian leadership to re-evaluate what they're doing. why they are supporting a regime that is committing mass murder against its own people. so russia could be part of the solution. right now i think everyone in the world sees russia as part of the problem. >> bill: james rosen leads our coverage. james is live at the state department today and good morning there, sir. >> good morning, bill. it's fascinating. we're starting to see this difference in the way the different trump administration officials are addressing the subject of russia and in particular even republican foreign policy heavy weights have started the take note. sharp difference in language

and tone between secretary of state tillerson and nikki haley on russia. the secretary was in italy this morning meeting with the british foreign secretary boris johnson as part of a g7 conference. europeans said they saw the trump administration moving their way on syria. namely being allowed for asaad to stay in power and tillerson and white house signaled as much. nikki haley has taken a sharper tone. then we saw the chemical attack and response from president trump ordering a military strike and it spilled out on the sunday talk shows with tillerson talking about a political solution of some kind to be negotiated with assad himself and hailey telling interviewers that regime change is something we think will happen. let's watch. >> at the end of the day it is a complicated situation. there are no easy answers and a

political solution will have to happen. but we know that it is not going to be -- there is not any sort of option where a political solution will happen with assad at the head of the regime. >> the united states is self-determination. what the united states and allies want to do is to enable the syrian people to make that determination. we've seen what violent regime change looks like in libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. >> marco rubio of florida was quoted over the weekend as saying there seems to be a real difference between our secretary of state and our u.n. ambassador on the subject. when lavrov, the russian foreign minister welcomes tillerson to moscow tomorrow it's possible the russians themselves won't know what they're in for. >> shannon: for more on this oliver north is a fox news military analyst. good to see you today. how are you? how do you think this plays out.

who was sent a message by the strikes? it seems like it could be a long list, russia, iran, turkey, where do you think it goes? >> look, they also just issued a statement from the so-called joint operations center which is russia, iran, and obviously damascus. they're saying by the way the u.s. has crossed red lines by attacking syria. from now on we'll respond to anyone, including america, if it attacks syria and crosses the red lines. the bottom line of all this. the message was received loud and clear. if you care about somebody you don't send flowers, you send cruise missiles. that message was received about everybody to include vladimir putin who i can assure you does not want to start a shooting war with the united states. the iranians perhaps something else. you could see terror spiking and hezbollah getting out of control in southern lebanon. maybe some in yemen. all those kinds of things are possible. the end of the day the russians have got to keep assad in power

because it's the only real guarantee that they have for them to have the bases that they've got there. so what secretary of state tillerson needs to be able to do is convince lavrov that they need to start thinking about making mr. assad a roommate for eddie snow den in moscow. >> shannon: other groups in the coalition include hezbollah of all places. >> and hamas. >> shannon: russia, syria are aligning themselves with those groups. no mistake about it. where do you go from here? this is such a tangled web. i heard this weekend senator graham talking about equipping and training the people from within. i know that's been attempted. we have boots on the ground. he says it may take another 5,000 or 6,000 american troops to get it done. >> we need to speak with one voice in this country. there is a lot of discord coming out of the trump administration. but the statement that was made

by tillerson and reaffirmed by general mcmasters the national security advisor is to reassure congress that the cruise missile strike on the air base had the very narrow focus of deterring further use of weapons of mass destruction. the trump administration cannot make a no notice change in strategy, for example, regime change, without triggering some kind of congressional call for an authorization for military force and weeks and weeks of debate. that all has to take place at some point because that's what is ultimately have to happen. in the short term what we have to make sure is they don't use more chemical weapons against the people of syria. >> shannon: of course, secretary tillerson heading into moscow tomorrow to talk with russian authorities. we have a brand-new sound bite from him. i want to play it and get your reaction. >> if you violate international norms and violate international agreements, if you fail to live up to commitments, if you become a threat to others, at

some point a response is likely to be undertaken. >> shannon: that sounds like a warning to people not in the region, people in that region but beyond that as well like north korea. >> exactly. it is next to impossible that the russians, the air base were unaware of the serin attack, before, during ar after and russia would guarantee that assad's chemical weapons were destroyed. putin has egg all over himself and knows he cannot afford to abandon assad and risk losing access to those bases. >> shannon: good to have your input. thank you, sir. >> bill: history will take place in about 50 minutes from now. judge neil gorsuch will be sworn in for a second time today as the 113th supreme court justice. a beautiful day for that ceremony. he will recite his judicial

oath in a public ceremony after a private ceremony happened last hour. we check in from the high court with more. judge gorsuch now officially justice, is that correct? >> not just yet. there are the two oaths. he has to take them both before he is officially able to become the next associate justice but we know that the judicial oath will happen at the white house next hour. last hour judge gorsuch, bill, not justice yet, took the constitutional oath in a private ceremony at the justice's conference room inside the supreme court. one that every federal employee is required to take and that is the one where they need to swear that they'll support and defend the constitution. in this case, the constitutional oath was administered to gorsuch by john roberts. we're told that mrs. gorsuch held a family bible that was used for the proceedings. their two daughters were there. all the other justices were present as well and so were their spouses except for justice briere and so were the

widow and son of the late just is antonin scalia. they're all joining at the white house next hour for the ceremony in the rose garden and the oath will be administered to gorsuch around 11:00 by justice anthony kennedy who gorsuch used to be a law clerk for, his old boss. >> bill: what does he have on this plate? after this morning it's a big deal. what next? >> after this morning, bill he can start hiring his own staff and bringing in his own clerk to the court and then he can get to work. the high court this term is expected to hear some important cases concerning religious liberty and it is possible that arguments about president trump's executive order on immigration could make their way here to the supreme court this term as well. >> bill: thank you, peter.

peter doocy live at the supreme court. thank you, peter. keep the spot warm for you. >> shannon: i'll be back. speaking of warm, what a beautiful day in the rose garden for this. former boss swearing you in so you can serve side-by-side on the bench together and make history. >> bill: we'll have live coverage of that as soon as it begins. we have the cameras positioned there. we'll let you know when it happens with judge gorsuch. >> shannon: a lot more news. president trump wrapped up meetings with chinese president she jing ping to talk about north korea. >> this is a rogue regime that is now a nuclear capable regime. they agreed it is unacceptable. >> shannon: how to answer the -- >> bill: how police say this man was able to slip through their fingers in sweden once

before. we have information on that. >> shannon: former national security advisor susan rice claiming the obama administration got syria to give up its chemical weapons stockpile. fast forward to 2017. not so much. big fact check just ahead. >> we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from syria in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses,

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observing a moment of silence paying tribute to the four killed on friday's attack in stockholm. we're learning of a second arrest so far and new information about the man accused of carrying out that truck attack. swedish police say he was ordered to leave the country after his request for asylum was denied. he stayed in sweden and allegedly dodged deportation by giving them the wrong home address. that's too easy. that's the update from stockholm. >> shannon: former national security advisor susan rice under fire yet again. first benghazi, seeking to unmask trump tran ition names in intelligence report and now she claimed president obama found a diplomatic way to get rid of syria's chemical weapons stockpile. >> on the red line we had put in place the assets necessary to use force to try to strike at those chemical facilities in command and control.

in the meantime we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from syria in a way the use of force would never have accomplished. >> shannon: is it another case of susan rice getting ahead of herself? let's bring in the panel. lisa boothe and campaign director at the center for american progress. emily tisch sussman. emily, "washington post" give it four pinocchios. they called it a whopper. how do you respond? >> they also noted what she said was correct at the time. it required a little bit more context. i think the important thing is here now this is where we are. it was correct information at the time. what every america should want is the administration try to go with soft power before turning to military action. that's not what the current administration has done. they've changed course in the course of the last week even over 24 hours. nobody knows what the strategy is here and that's what we

should be very concerned about. >> shannon: a lot of people look at the past eight years the soft diplomacy in this region didn't work. these particular powers maybe don't understand long term. >> a soft power should always be a first step before going to military action. you can't do that if you've got the state department. you can't do that if there is no predictability for people on the ground doing the negotiation. you definitely can't do that when your secretary of state and u.n. ambassador are saying totally different things on regime change or no regime change. no strategy. >> shannon: they seem to be unified on the message that assad can't be part of the post civil war situation. play a little more of what former ambassador rice had to say and lisa, we'll get to you. >> the president stated the u.s. view. the use of chemical weapons can't persist. we didn't.

we managed to accomplish that goal more thoroughly than we could have by some limited strikes against chemical targets by getting the entirety of the declared stockpile removed. >> shannon: she talks about the declared stockpile and known weapons. technically she was right. what they knew about and what was cat logged was allegedly turned over and done away with. there were gaps and discrepancies about what syria did or didn't have. she was technically right. >> what we've seen with the obama foreign policy, the world is on fire with isis having a foothold in 18 different countries, iran has been emboldened under president obama. russia has gained a foothold in the middle east and basically moved into the role that president obama and america should have had in syria. syria is a mess. this is all the result of president obama's failed foreign policy. look, susan rice had made this statement basically to try to save face for what she acknowledged was one of the

obama administration's great failures in syria. the "washington post" gave it four pinocchios said it was wordsmithing. six months prior to these statements that basically syria's declaration was unverifiable and not to be trusted. four days earlier the treasury department placed sanctions on syrian officials. semantics game. she has a pattern of lying whether it's benghazi, bowe bergdahl and contradicting herself in a matter of a couple of weeks most recently the unmasking of trump officials. foreign policy failures and a big problem and trouble with the truth. >> shannon: i want to note something that former secretary of state john kerry's exit memo to the obama administration, 11 days before she made those comments on npl and he

acknowledged syria continued to use undeclared chemical weapons. was it a slip of the tongue? even within the administration they were acknowledging they still had chemical weapons. >> what she said was correct with the information they had at the time. not picking and choosing information. israel believed so strongly the chemical weapons had been turned over at the time they stopped using gas masks. a couple months later did acknowledge there were chemical weapons there. the situation has evolved. i think all of this takes us back to the point of what is the doctrine? what is the pathway moving forward? there is unpredictability for service members on the ground not just in the military but also the state department. no predictability for them. >> shannon: i know your husband has served, emily. we thank you for his service and you as a military spouse, lisa, thank you as well. >> bill: a lot depends on assad and what he does next. president trump changing his mind on tax reform.

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every day. >> bill: that is the white house chief economic advisor insisting tax reform is the number one domestic priority for donald trump. white house officials telling us everything remains on the table as the president looks for new ways to gain wide ranging republican support. that's key, too. how do you get that support? guy benson fox news contributor from denver, colorado catching a late spring season ski. i kid. you're working out there. blake berman reports an hour ago it's premature to suggest that the tax plan the president campaigned on has been scrapped. now, where do you think this is when people like senator rob portman are arguing there is a lot going on behind the scenes that we aren't privy to? >> i'm sure that's true. the senator is right. bill, i think what's so important when we talk about tax reform is sequencing of legislation. keep in mind we thought a

couple weeks ago the healthcare bill was dead and buried and now it seems like maybe after this april recess congress will take another stab at that. if they do, if they pass something, that changes the playing field completely for tax reform because it makes it roughly one trillion easier in terms of the baseline. if that doesn't happen, then there is a revenue problem and the house has some ideas how to deal with it. the senate has made rumblings they aren't happy with the house plan and the white house is caught somewhere in between. factors all over the place with more question marks than answers at this point. >> bill: on that last point paul ryan pretty much said that in in comment from a week ago. >> the house has a plan. the senate doesn't have one yet and they're working on one. white house hasn't nailed it down. even the three entities aren't on the same page yet on tax reform. >> bill: the other thing he said recently tax reform may take longer than healthcare reform.

that's saying something. that was from speaker ryan. >> if you look at the history of this, bill, the last time there was a major overhaul of the american tax code and tax system, the goal here, i was 1-year-old. it was 1986. a lot of people want to do it but it's hard. president trump is smart for now to stay ambiguous and open on some of the details because look what we saw with the american healthcare act on round one there was not real consensus forged and then it hit a brick wall. i think it's really important to get the republican party all on one page before you start down that path or else you could have another dead end which would be a real black eye to the administration. >> bill: lesson learned on healthcare. my feeling is they get it done. i don't know if it's august or the following spring but i think they will figure out a way within the next year, year three months. >> i think that august will be

really tough now especially since they are making the second healthcare push. the timing of everything gets pushed back. you're right. one of the reasons why i think there was optimism in the business community about jobs and the economic picture moving forward, the trump rally on wall street. people were counting on the republicans to get two things done, healthcare and tax reform. they got to at least get one of them done, if not both or else that's a real problem politically and economically. >> bill: guy, thanks, guy benson watching everything from denver, colorado. travel well. we'll see you soon. >> shannon: secretary of state rex tillerson heading to moscow to confront russian adversaries about syria. live report from russia next. >> bill: the u.s. missile strikes against syria shaking up political strategy around the world. where the battle with isis fits into that? >> what we saw was a reaction to the use of chemical weapons. we didn't see a coherent policy

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>> shannon: america's top diplomat offering harsh words for russia ahead of a meeting about syria with his kremlin counterparts. russia turning it around saying it shows washington's unwillingness to cooperate on syria. we're live in moscow with more. good morning or evening. i don't know what time it is where you are. i'm not sure. >> good late afternoon to you, shannon here from moscow where secretary of state rex tillerson is scheduled to arrive tomorrow amid a time when russia, like the trump administration has been escalating its rhetoric. the kremlin is saying the west's demand assad must go has no prospects. the russian foreign ministry is saying that russia and the united states can work together to fight terrorism but it will

be difficult according to the russian foreign ministry because of the rhetoric and anti-russia sentiment coming out of the united states. secretary of state rex tillerson is scheduled to meet wednesday with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov. a state department official says the secretary would meet with russian president vladimir putin if invited. the kremlin is saying now a meeting with the u.s. secretary of state and vladimir putin is not on president putin's schedule so far. secretary tillerson and the trump administration since last week have been in a way blaming the russian and putin regime for the chemical attack in syria last week claiming russia was supposed to guarantee syria had gotten rid of and destroyed all of its chemical weapons. tillerson has said russia is either incompetent, complicit or out witted by the assad regime. it's that environment that he will come to moscow tomorrow. as to assad's removal there are

varying degrees of commitment we've seen from the trump administration. the secretary of state is talking about a political process, negligent yayss with the united nations countries to set up as he puts it a way for the syrian people to determine the fate of bashar al-assad in the future. though the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has been saying there isn't an option where a political solution going to happen with assad at the head of the regime. this as the secretary of state is meeting in italy with g7 counterparts. used to be the g8 until they suspended russia's relationship when it was the group of eight. they're discussing among other countries the future of syria, extremism and the secretary of state comes to moscow tomorrow. >> shannon: thanks very much. >> there has to be a degree of simultaneous activity as well

as sequencing of the defeat of isis first. what you have in syria is a very destructive cycle of violence. perpetuated by isis obviously but also by this regime and their iranian and russian sponsors. >> bill: the top priority in syria is defeating isis but assad is in the cross hairs. what to do? a carl higbie, good morning to you. was mcmaster on point there? go after isis and it remains the first priority? go ahead. >> yes, you're 100% right. so is mcmaster. the issue here is we fought a battle of appeasement for the last eight years. if we negotiate and apologize they'll lay down arms and stop bothering us. that's not the case.

we have two options. if you defeat this enemy you take their lives or hearts. the appeasement battle didn't work. you inflict so much damage to the enemy they are unwilling to continue fighting. mcmaster understands that. it's a difficult battle. not just in syria, it's global. northern africa, we have all through the middle east. it is spreading like cancer essentially coming all over through lone wolf attacks and things like that. it is a difficult battle to fight. >> bill: we have military action in half a dozen countries already. nikki haley said you cannot achieve peace in syria as long as assad is still in power. is she right? does a civil war continue to rage in that country until assad is gone? >> nikki haley has a very difficult position to hold here. the issue is if we remove assad we have to be willing to commit to possibly two, three, four decades of occupancy to restand up a government. we have toppled governments and

dictators before. we may not like what he is doing there but if we break it, we buy it. i don't necessarily know if we want to as american people want to commit the resources to going in there long term occupancy. we might find what he is doing heinous but with that said it's his country. not our problem. if we want to set up safe zones i encourage that. >> bill: as long as he doesn't use chemical weapons he stays and the civil war continues? >> yeah. i would say that we let him run his country as he sees fit up to a certain red line as we demonstrated we won't tolerate. >> bill: iran and russia are running towards each other. communication lines are open in a brisk way between moscow and tehran. this is what you find, carl. they will team up on one side and now you'll have tillerson go and say whatever he says tomorrow with sergei lavrov and possibly vladimir putin face-to-face. what comes of that meeting, if anything? >> i think this is a point

where you mentioned that they might be running together. i don't think so. i think russia, if they understand that we're willing to commit the resources to fight this battle, they don't want to do it. russia cannot sustain a war with us nor do we want a war with them. if we allow them -- we tell them straight up we aren't going to tolerate what assad is doing after that red line and that's all we're interested is up to that red line i think we can come to agreement here. russia said their support for assad is not unconditional. there is a good factor that we can get russia back on our side with tillerson's visit. >> bill: if tillerson is prepared to say that russia was complicit with what happened last week, that changes the relationship. if you have evidence that the russian air force is operating out of that same air base. if you have evidence that suggests that the russians knew that chemical weapons were being stored there, you have -- you take this argument now to another level, carl.

>> you do. we know that russia is using syria as a strategic airfield, strategic military operating base. that's their interest there. we know they're doing that. maybe they are complicit. maybe they aren't willing to do anything about it. that's something that tillerson needs to understand and they need to understand also that if you store your planes and your resources at syrian bases that are harboring chemical weapons you run the risk of getting them destroyed. >> bill: carl higbie, thank you. something to watch. appreciate your input today. 21 before the hour now. >> shannon: bill, we're just minutes away from judge neil gorsuch taking his judicial oath. coming up live coverage. swearing in ceremony, the official one at the white house. >> bill: that was a loud scare prompting a surge in 911 calls after one person hacked the

emergency alert system. sent this entire town into a bit of a panic, minor at that. >> it sounded like an air raid. i knew there wasn't severe weather. checked to see if there was severe weather. when there wasn't i thought we need to get out of here.

>> bill: they had a bit of a hack attack waking up many in dallas, texas, 156 emergency sirens sounding into the early hours of saturday morning. that has to be aggravating. police say someone hacked every emergency siren in dallas just before midnight friday creating fear and confusion and flooding 911 with thousands of phone calls. so far, no culprit has been found. >> we know how they did it so we can stop that from happening again. we don't know who did it. >> bill: those alarms went on and off for 90 minutes before

the system was taken off line. city looking at improving cybersecurity of its public systems to prevent this from happening again. >> shannon: part two of judge neil gorsuch's swearing into the supreme court to start at the white house in a few minutes. first we're getting new pictures of phase one. here it is. gorsuch taking his first of two oaths. this is inside at the supreme court. the chief justice administering the oath there. we bring in judge napolitano. good to see you, judge. this has been a very long road to get to this point. the republicans held that seat open saying they would do whatever it took. they went nuclear to get him to the bench and becomes official today. >> it was very odd the genesis of his role on the court. the democrats think this is a stolen seat. that president obama should have had his nominee get an up or down vote. you and i both know the nominee. he is not of the same mindset

of neil gorsuch: garland is well qualified. the republicans held firm. now judge gorsuch will replace scalia. this is a moment where a lot of trump supporters and conservatives have been waiting for since justice scalia died in february of last year. >> shannon: this is one of the main reasons people went out and voted. they were concerned about this seat. >> we're seeing on the screen what will happen live on the left. that's the rose garden of the white house where justice kennedy will administer a ceremonial oath. he is already justice gorsuch. on the right you see the first of the two ceremonial oaths. being administered by chief justice roberts. the reason i'm calling it ceremonial. i don't know if we have the picture. but before chief justice roberts administered that oath, then judge neil gorsuch signed about five pieces of paper. >> shannon: a mountain of

paperwork was laid out for him. there it is. >> thank you for getting that up there. as he finished signing the last of those. at that moment he became justice gorsuch. so the swearing in with his hand up and his wife holding the bible and chief justice roberts there ceremonial only. i don't want to take luster this. that's the legal moment when he signs the oath. >> shannon: he has to do the judicial oath with justice kennedy. the former clerk and boss to serve at the same time on the supreme court and they'll make history and be really busy. the court is in the midst of the term. all kinds of cases being heard and decided. they start hearing new cases on monday. justice gorsuch will be exceptionally busy. i hope his family has enjoyed seeing him. he will disappear for a while to get caught up. >> a tremendous amount of work to do between now and monday. a week from today when a couple of key cases are argued.

the california employees retirement system. the largest retirement system in the world, is still trying to sue banks that claim they caused the 2008 crash. they filed the case too late. it is a class action. the supreme court will have to decide whether that goes forward. very interesting case out of missouri involving religious freedom. state of missouri gives money to every school in the state to repave the playground but not a religious school. there is no religious purpose to the -- >> shannon: they're saying there can't be any public money going to help. they'll start voting friday in conference when they decide which cases they'll take. they've taken a non-controversial light load when there is a limit of eight. he will start voting in the conference on friday and a number of other cases, gun rights cases, cases involving bakers and photographers, people who don't want to be forced to do business for a

same-sex marriage ser -- ceremony. >> i think the court is relieved. even the liberal wing of the court is relieved. they think in terms of legacy and in terms of decades and not days or weeks or months. they want the court to be a functioning court that sends clear messages. not messages by default. it's 4-4. the decision below is the law but not the law of the land, only the law for these two litigants. they don't want that. they want their court to be working. whether they prevail or lose. as of today, as of this morning, we have a full working court again. >> shannon: what's interesting, too, there are other more light hearted things. the fact the newest justice is put on the cafeteria committee. brought in a frozen yogurt machine with all the toppings we love at the supreme court cafeteria. we'll receive what we get from justice gorsuch. >> what became of justice

scalia's espresso maker if it's still there and i want to know what happened to the sign he used to have on his desk which said stupid but constitutional. is that still there? >> shannon: i'll investigate both of those things. we'll see it all live in just a few minutes. >> bill: watching that from the rose garden. also today dozens are dead in egypt. celebrating on palm sunday one of the most holy days of the year for christians. what we're learning about two different attacks next.

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president trump that has officials on high alert. somber day in london paying respect to a police officer killed outside the house of parliament. >> bill: 44 have been killed after bombing christian churches in egypt. two bombings on sunday. a suicide bomber approached the beginning of the church. stopped by a security guard and then detonated his bomb. isis claiming responsibility. vowing to step up even more attacks on christians in the coptic christians in egypt and in iraq have been under fire for years now. chief religion correspondent lauren green has more on this today. lauren, what are you learning? >> the coptics are the oldest church in christendom. isis warned of an attack like this calling christians its

favorite prey. funerals have begun as relatives of victims in the bombings bury their dead. 44 killed and scores injured in the blast. 27 killed at st. george's church in tanta. hours later 17 killed at st. mark's cathedral in alexandria. the seat of the coptic church in egypt. we're about to show graphic video shows the choir singing at the church on palm sunday. the day that marks jesus triumphant entry into jere us lefm. then a blast and screaming. christians are only 15% of the population in egypt they make up 80% in the middle east. the largest block of any country and why extremist have increased their attacks on the coptics. >> as for what any kind of terrorist group, what the intentions are, all we see is the results of their actions. and they have classed us as their prime targets.

>> reaction to the explosions egypt's president declared a three month state of emergency and this morning on "fox & friends" texas representative said the u.s. is in a better position under trump to help. >> we need to continue to help the good guys that are such a stabilizing factor not just for the united states but for israel, for the region. but we have got to help them. helping egypt is just doing wonders toward giving isis and the radical islamists like the muslim brotherhood a place to really grab hold. >> the comes come weeks before pope francis is scheduled to visit egypt in support of the minority christian population. >> bill: more to come on this. lauren green, thank you very much working that story in our newsroom. thank you, lauren. >> shannon: we're waiting the public swearing in of judge

neil gorsuch to the supreme court. he took the first oath this morning, the constitutional oath in a private ceremony at the supreme court sworn in by chief justice john roberts. he is now going to have a second swearing in. the judicial oath which will make him officially a justice of the supreme court. the 113th administered by justice kennedy his former boss. the pair will be the only people to serve together at the same time on the court. a beautiful day at the white house. >> bill: as we await the appearance by president donald trump, why don't we bring in our folks working the story with us today bret baier, anchor of "special report." peter doocy is working the story from the steps of the supreme court, too. bret. this was something if you think about the night of january 31 at the white house. president trump kept a good

secret. no one really knew. odds were that gorsuch would be the nominee but the reveal happened in front of all of us in prime time when he walked out in the east room that night and here we are almost three months later. >> i think for the republican party, bill, and shannon, good morning, i think this is a big moment. it is something that is the culmination of an election strategy that truly worked thanks in part to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and his moves with merit garland. it became the issue for a lot of voters that may have had a problem with donald trump, the candidate in some way, shape or form but some said i'm voting the u.s. supreme court here and this justice now, justice gorsuch, is a fulfillment of what donald trump promised. i think there are a lot of people looking at this day as a significant day. just quickly in the week, this has been a very good week for

president trump. the fallout and reaction to the syria action has been on both sides of the aisle very positive. the meetings between the egyptian president and before that the jordanian king and before that saudi arabia crown prince support for donald trump, president donald trump and the administration. this has been a good stretch for a president who had a rocky stretch for a couple of weeks. >> bill: a bit of wind to his back. >> shannon: interesting, too, as kellyanne conway pointed out over the weekend this is something that will last 30 years or president trump. there will be a justice neil gorsuch that will be so far the most lasting part of his legacy. 49 years old. that's a spring chicken on the supreme court. ruth bader ginsberg 84 now. very engaged in the arguments, very sharp mentally and she has

shown up every day and doing her job. she loves the work. we'll see whether the president gets another pick in the last three years. >> bill: the strategy with the nuclear option. this is something that will be debated for a long time to come depending which justice retires potentially next. >> i agree with you. because it happened this time, there won't be as much of a battle next time over that particular precedent because it has already been set by the senate republicans who point back to the democrats as being the ones who started it first. i will say as you look at the oval office there getting ready to move to the rose garden, it's significant to get a full bench because you look at the four cases that were decided 4-4 ties. in other words, they tied after scalia's death 4-4 and it goes back to the previous court. there was no precedent set by

the u.s. supreme court in those four cases. they dealt with things that conservatives would have a problem with going back the other way. now that there is another justice it's a very big deal. >> shannon: >> it is indeed. we are going to jump into this as a begins live. >> 11:00 here in the city. and 11:00 as we look into the oval office. between the president, judge gorsuch behind the window. we will see both men emerge in a matter of minutes here. august of 1967 in colorado, neil gorsuch later moved to washington, d.c., as a teenager when his mother joined the registration of president ronald reagan, the first woman to lead the epa. in 1985, neil gorsuch was among 175 students from across the country recognized as outstanding youth volunteers by president reagan