for sure. >> whether we can get to 15% or not remains to be seen. >> maria: senator, thank you. see you tomorrow morning on fox business network. 6 to 9 a.m. on mornings with maria. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 in d.c. where republican senators are calling for an investigation into president trump's potential russia ties. the white house says bring it. the press secretary sean spicer again defending how president trump handled the general flynn controversy. you'll hear what he says now. thousands more american troops could soon be headed to afghanistan. president trump's top advisers are putting together proposal for a change in strategy to take on the taliban. look at the new plan of action. inside the hurricane hunters. a look at the pilots and planes

that fly into some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. let's get to it! first from fox news desk, the white house defending its handling of the former national security adviser general michael flynn. this comes a day after sally yates told lawmakers she warned the white house that flynn could be blackmailed by russia. yates testified that less than a week into the trump presidency, she told white house officials that flynn lied to vice president pence about his russian contacts. also, that the russians knew that he had lied and that they could use that information to black male him. the president did not fire flynn for another 18 days. last night president trump tweeted, sally yates make the fake media unhappy today. she said nothing but old news. today sean spicer said the white house made the right call about flynn when it fired him.

he also said that president obama appointed yates and she was a supporter of hillary clinton. spicer said the white house was not defending flynn's actions. >> it's not a -- i think mike flynn honorably served our country in uniform over 30 years. as he noted, lieutenant general flynn was asked for his resignation because he misled the vice president. beyond that, he did have an honorable career. he served with distinction in uniform over 30 years and the president does not want to smear a good man. >> shepard: the white house blamed the obama administration for flynn having a security clearance, questioning why trump officials would have to run another background check on him if the white house had already done so. john roberts is on the top story and live on the north lawn. john?

>> the white house ran us through the tick tok of how this ran down. sally yates came over from the ce when she was the acting attorney general. the next day, the 27th, there were questions about what yates was talking about. asked her to come back to the white house. over the weekend into monday, january 30th, you might recall, sally yates issued that edict to all of the u.s. attorneys to say that she could not defend the president's immigration ban. the night of january 30, she was dismissed from the trump administration. on february 2, don mcgann went over to the department of justice to take a look at the documents that sally yates had said that she had been looking at which raised concerns. there were conversations that were had. i'm told they were difficult conversations between the white house counsel, the chief of staff and lieutenant general michael flynn to get to the

bottom of what he had talk with sergei kislyak, the russian ambassador to the united states. don't forget too, saturday the 28th, there was the phone call with president putin in which michael flynn was in attendance. after that, don mcgann having seen the documents, michael flynn was fired. the white house said they looked into the situation with flynn before coming to the conclusion that he needed to go. here's what spicer said at the daily press briefing. >> i think we've been very clear as to what happened and why it happened. i think the president made the right decision. and we've moved on. >> something else that we're learning, shep, in conversation with former obama administration officials is that president trump could have avoided all this had he taken president obama's advice two days after the election when president obama said to president-elect trump, when it comes to a national security adviser based on my experience with him when he was the head of the defense

intelligence agency, you can probably find a better candidate than lieutenant general michael flynn. shep? >> shepard: the white house has said that lindsey graham look into president trump's business dealings to see if there's ties to russia. senator graham said it would be helpful to see his tax returns. but that it's too early to say whether the senator will attempt to subpoena them. this comes after senator graham yesterday asked the former director of national intelligence james clapper whether he was worried about possible connections between president trump's business interests and russian officials. clapper said he couldn't comment because the issue could be part of an ongoing investigation. president trump has so far refused to release his tax returns and as we reported here, he's called the investigations into potential collusion between the campaign and russia a total hoax. back to john roberts. john? >> i spoke with somebody close to senator graham.

this person insists this is being blown out of proportion. senator graham was musing an answer about whether or not he would want to investigate president trump's business dealings in russia. this person that i talked to pointing out that because there may be an ongoing investigation that senator graham might not be able to look into that at all. he thinks the bigger issue here is whether or not people's names were being unmasked, people caught up in intelligence collection and the names were being leaked for political reasons. this afternoon, when asked about it, sean spicer said, if you want to investigate the president idealings with russia, we welcome it. listen here. >> he has no business in russia, no connections to russia. he welcomed that. in fact, he's already charged a leading law firm in washington d.c. to sent a certified letter to senator graham to that point that he has no connections to russia. >> the president tweeting out again yesterday, talking about the allegations of collusion

between the president's campaign and russia over influencing the election. the president tweeting russia trump collusion story is a hoax. when will this tax-payer charade end. shep? >> shepard: russia is still trying to hack into our systems and meddle in other nation's elections. that's what the head of the national security agency tells the senate armed services committee. >> do you see any slackening, reduction in russia/chinese efforts to commit cyber attacks and even affect elections? >> no, i do not. >> have you seen any reduction there russian behavior? >> no, i have not. >> shepard: that's admiral mike rogers that said the latest example is the presidential election in france which wrapped up over the weekend on sunday. days before voter there's hit the polls in the run-off or the final round of voting, french

election officials said a significant amount of data and fake information wound up on social media. rogers stopped short of saying the russian government was behind the hacking but he said that u.s. officials were aware of russian activity and tipped off the french government. multiple investigations are underway into russia's interf e interference in the u.s. election. the chief says he won't get into whether he was aware of russian communications with the trump team. last night. trump called it a total hoax. catherine herridge is live in washington. catherine, what else did they say about the hacking? >> the next step could be

destruction of data. the prediction came in this exchange with the republican chairman. >> do we so data manipulation on a massive scale? most have been -- >> like changing voting rolls, yes. >> what happens if we change data? >> that's a different challenge for us. >> and a senior democrat declared cyber policy broken, even nonexistent. >> forcing the russians to pay a price for their attack on this country requires compelling americans who colluded or cooperated with them to pay a price or policy of deterrence is in my view an abject failure. >> not achieving desired result. yes, sir. >> the russian campaign cost $200 million and the impact beyond russia's wildest

expectations. >> shepard: there was a first today. the first time that the admiral talked about the unmasking, the potential unmasking of americans as they put it in the 2016 campaign. >> government data shows that nearly 2,000 americans had identities revealed our unmasked in reports last year alone. the nsa identified that a small number can request the unmasking. lindsey graham suggesting susan rice targeted the trump team last year. >> the bottom line here, it's possible for the congress to find out who requested unmasking of american citizens. do you know if susan rice ever asked for an american to be unmasked? >> i'd have to pull the data. i apologize. >> roger's office testified that it's a crime to leak the names and the nsa is find who asked for the unmasking of flynn because there's an extensive paper trail. many questions on unmasking, the

deferred citing classified information, shep. >> shepard: catherine, a north worthy revelation. we're learning of apparent errors of james comey, the fbi director. last week he told a senate committee about his decision to tell congress about classified e-mails from hillary clinton, which agents found on a laptop belonging to anthony wiener. he was married to huma abedin. they're now separated. last week comey testified that abedin regularly forwarded e-mails to her husband to print out. in fact, he said this. >> she forwarded hundreds of thousands of e-mails, some contained classified information. >> shepard: hundreds of thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. and no the website pro publica says it wasn't that number at all, a handful of e-mails and not one was marked classified. the "washington post" newspaper and the associated press have

since confirmed that report. back to catherine. what do we know, catherine? >> law enforcement source tells fox news that the fbi director always to provide the most accurate testimony to congress. if there's an error or ambiguity, the bureau will provide a written correction. this issue was addressed at the white house briefing. >> i'm not asked the president or the staff about that. the onish european is, i don't think there's any question on any account that there was classified information inappropriately shared on an unclassified system to an unclean person. based on fox's reporting, the fbi had to search through thousands of e-mails that were found on anthony wiener's computers to determine what clinton e-mails were new. so investigators had not seen them before and how many contained classified information. this may be where some of the confusion lies. i would add when there's reporting that the e-mails were

not marked classified as we showed here at fox news, a handful were marked classified in the fbi case. that little symbol actually doesn't have any impact on whether the information is classified. that was a false statement by the clinton campaign. >> shepard: thanks, catherine herridge. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: more ahead on michael flynn and how the trump team handled the situation. we'll look at the facts. that's next. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla's prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients.

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>> shepard: continuing coverage open the obama administration's warning to the trump white house against michael flynn and his contacts with russian officials. the white house is defending how and when it fired general flynn. the republican senator lindsey graham says he wants to look to president trump's own dealings with russia. the senator saying it would be helpful to see the president's tax records, which he's so far refused to release. the white house, president -- the white house says president trump has no business dealings in russia, so it would welcome senator graham's investigation. let's turn to emily goodin for real politics. >> thanks for having me. >> shepard: the yates testimony in part, one of the lines of interest in my estimation was, she said the underlying conduct was problematic in and of

itself. the underlying conduct of general flynn president not only did we believe the russians knew this but they had proof of the information and that created a compromise situation. a situation where the national security adviser could be blackmailed by the russians. it's my understanding from the testimony received yesterday that the white house knew of this compromised situation for 18 days and didn't fire him until the revelation turned up in "the washington post." is that right? >> that's right, shep. you saw sean spicer get grilled about this in the day's briefing. he was traying to turn it away from a process issue to a political issue. he said it was an obama appointee. we had to look into this. general flynn was ultimately fired. he left out what you pointed out, that happened after "washington post" revealed this. >> shepard: is sally yates known

as a political person? he pointed out that she was a supporter of secretary clinton. >> she is a president obama nominee but she's well-respected in that world. >> shepard: this matter of underlying conduct being problematic and being compromised, blackmailable potentially by the russians, is that a matter being disputed by the current administration? are they suggesting that general flynn might not be compromised or blackmailed by the russians? >> they have not gone into a lot of details which is interesting and still raising a lot of questions. they talk about his honorable military service. they've been done playing any questions like did president obama warn president trump not to hire him. this is still kind of a cloud hanging over the trump presidentsy. instead of getting into the specifics and just answering

these, they're going with this very general generic defense. >> shepard: the president himself does continue to mention this matter, especially in his tweets. >> yeah, exactly. you can see this is very much on his mind. i don't think president trump is someone that likes to be told what to do. i think maybe he felt his hand was forced here. he's reacting to that well. i think he has this attitude that i want to hire the people i want to hire and the people that i can trust and have close to me. general flynn was a long time part of the trump campaign, was with him for days on the campaign trail and president trump values those personal relationships. having people beside him that he feels he can trust. >> shepard: more on this on the fox news app and at foxnews.com. thanks, emily. >> thank you. >> shepard: former president obama has a message for americans that don't like the

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>> shepard: 23 minutes past the hour. former president obama says you get the politicians you deserve. he made that comment and others in milan. during his first public speech overseas since leaving office. >> i tell people you get the politicians you deserve. if you don't vote and you don't participate and don't pay attention, then you'll get policies that don't reflect your interests. >> shepard: the speech the late nest a series of political statements the former president has made since he left the white house. monday night, he urged members of congress to use political courage to save his signature healthcare law.

that was at the j.f.k. memorial library in boston where the former president accepted the profile and courage award. president obama has held a series of paid and unpaid speeches since january. his first public appearance was a couple weeks ago at the university of chicago. he told crowds that he had decided his next job would be to repair the country's future leaders. trace gallagher with the news. what else did the president have to say in milan today? >> he talked about what it feels like to be the president of the united states, the pressure, the burden saying you live in a bubble that he cause a nice prison saying you don't have the freedom to walk or sit at a cafe because there's always a security concern. now he says he can walk anywhere he wants as long as he takes a selfie every two steps. the former president talked about people's perceptions. listen. >> large portions of the country think you're an idiot.

so it's a liberating feeling when you suddenly realize, okay, i'm still here, i still wake up every day and i still have the opportunity to do some good. >> the primary focus about his speech was about agricultural innovation and how we feed billions without destroying the planet in the process. >> shepard: is he out and about early in a political way, a historical arc of former presidents? >> yeah, if you look at recent history, it's a bit unusual to be this outspoken this early. former president obama has made it clear he's not going to sit on the side lines while his healthcare law is being dismantled. mr. obama said he hopes congress are at least willing to look to the facts and speak to truth about healthcare. obama did not mention president trump. aside from coming out against the travel ban in january, the

former president has said very little about the current president. obama is staying political because he says it's a way to train and elevate a new generation of political leaders. as for giving highly paid speeches so soon after leaving office, it's normal. bill clinton gave a bunch of them and george w. bush and ronald reagan gave their fair share. >> shepard: thanks, trace. they're add it again in moscow. soldiers and tanks and missiles taking part in a massive military parade today. details of what vladimir putin told the crowd. so there's word now that president trump's advisingers are putting together a plan to send as many as 5,000 additional u.s. troops into afghanistan. what we're learning about a possible shift in strategy in america's longest war as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news.

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>> i'm lea gabrielle with the fox report. more with the headlines. hundreds of firefighters are in florida trying to contain the flames. officials say some people are ignoring evacuation orders and staying put. aaron hernandez is no longer a convicted murderer. a judge agreed to erase his conviction. investigators say the former new england patriots tight end hung himself in prison. a judge just acquitted him of a 2012 murder. he was suffering a life prison sentence for murder of oh didn't lloyd. and no injuries were reported when it sank with the u.s.s. carl vinson. more continues with shepard smith after this. termites, feasting on homes 24/7.

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>> bottom of the hour. top of the news. 10,000 russian soldiers marching for the victory day parade. russia marking 72 years since the defeat of nazi germany in world war ii. an estimated 26 million soviets died in the war. the day of remembrance is one of russia's most important holidays. the parade normally includes a flyover of russian aircraft. officials said they had to cancel that since it was too cloudy today. this is video of the rehearsal over the weekend. the russian president vladimir putin seen right here out on parade. the crowd in red square in moscow. he said the world leaders need to work together to prevent war. russian is accused of interfering in the 2016 u.s. election and aiding the dictator bashar al-assad in syria. another picture here. always missiles. today no exception.

putin said armed forces of russian are capable of repelling any potential aggression. he showed off military equipment including this intercontinental ballistic missile. here you can see tanks designed for arctic conditions. they set up a new base in the arctic. president putin placing flowers at a world war ii memorial. president trump meeting at the white house today with his national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster. as the pentagon proposes a possible shift in strategy of afghan after 15 years of war. military officials say pentagon officials are calling for an additional 3,000 to 5,000 troops to help fight terrorism and train afghan forces. yesterday the defense secretary james mattis said a decision can be expected soon. michael o'hanlan is with us from the brookings institute.

upping the troop levels in afghanistan. more than one way to look at this. what is your take? >> hi, shep. first of all, in the grand scheme of things, it's worth remembering the amount of additional troops being considered is modest compared to where we've been. >> we had 100,000 troops in afghanistan in the early obama years. we're down to 8,400 right now. if the increase takes us to 11,000, 12,000, in the one hand, it's the wrong direction compared to what most of us would prefer. it's nowhere near the levels of a decade ago. it's the number that commanders recommended four years ago before president obama. obama was always struggling, always trying to put pressure on the afghans, president karzai to get their act together, to take responsibility, to reform their own institutions. he saw this tool of american military presence as a lever.

so he cut our forces faster, which took away our ability to be there with the afghan units that needed our help. in a way, this proposal would take us back to the what happened in 2013-14 that president obama rejected. >> shepard: what is the specific goal, michael? >> well, take for example the battles in the helman province or the city in the north that was taken by the taliban. we knew that the afghan units that were protecting those areas were weak. we knew they needed help. but under the previous strategy, we didn't have mentors in the field with them. i'm not talking ant main formations of combat troops. i'm talking about small advisory teams. we didn't have enough to do that. we didn't allow authorities to call in american air power in most circumstances as well. if those two things were to change, you have a better chance at reversing some of these gains

the taliban has made. right now, the estimate is the taliban hold 10% of the country. the country has 60%. the other 30% is contested. we have to make sure that 30% doesn't fall into taliban hands. >> shepard: what do we know about the specific mission of the additional troops combined with those already on ground? >> yeah, we don't really know. i'm surmising from what i know about the past proposals. again, the main additional capability was these teams of advisers together with the support, the rapid response strike groups that would be needed to help them if they got into trouble, the logistics to get them supplies if they were off in the distant parts of the country. think of it in terms of maybe 20 teams of advisers, each one of them with 20 people. support behind them, logistics, protection, et cetera adds up to 2,000 to 4,000 people here. >> the specifics are not with us

yet on deployment. michael, thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard:. trump has given the green light now for the united states to arm kurdish fighters in syria despite objections from one of our key allies. that's the word from the pentagon. u.s. officials say arming the kurds is necessary to capture raqqa. raqqa is the islamic state's capitol in syria. even though our nato ally turkey has rallied against that plan. the defense secretary jim mattis said he had a good talk about the issue today with his turkish counterpart in his visit to denmark. jennifer griffin has details. >> turkey had fought the u.s. arming the kurds tooth and nail. they consider them terrorists. the u.s. relies them on the most able fighting force on the ground in syria.

the pentagon had this spokes man dana white. yesterday they want to equip democratic forces as necessary to ensure a clear victory over isis in raqqa syria. the statement described the kurds as "the only force on the ground that can successfully seize raqqa in the near future." the pentagon plans to send an mored vehicle like the this one here as well as small arms, ammunition and construction equipment like armored bulldozers. defense secretary mattis returns later this week. the turkish president will visit the white house next week. the turks carried out air strikes at three locations in syria and iraq kill ing 20 u.s. allied fighters angering the pentagon. shep? >> shepard: jennifer griffin reporting there this afternoon. thank you.

the vice president mike pence meeting with lawmakers on capitol hill. one of the main topics will most likely be health care. but politco is now reporting white house officials are planning to take a different approach to healthcare with the senate than with the u.s. house. here's the thing. instead of talking to the lawmakers, they will lead it to mcmcconnell to come up with the votes to pass the bill. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. senator mcconnell is responding to complaints that no women hel this bill. >> shep, there's been a working group in the senate meeting for months talking healthcare. it's made up of gop leaders and other key players. as you can see, it does not include any women and the senate majority leader took some heat for that. >> the working group that counts, it's all 52 of us. we are having meetings every

day. nobody is being excluded based on gender. write about what is actually happening. we're having a discussion about the real issues. >> privately separate republicans say not a woman or women was an unforced error, shep. >> shepard: mike, some democrats are just about as critical as this bill as the house democrats were. >> that's right. they're picking apart the bill that passed in the house and calling ate broken promise to working people. a key democrat just moments ago called it scary. >> a lot of people that have employer coverage think that they're home-free. they're not home-free. the house bill would lift the cap, the limits on their out of pocket expenses. in america, if that goes through, people that have cancer have real reason to be frightened. >> wyden says it's devastating. republicans are reading letters from constituents saying obamacare is crushing them, this

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>> shepard: hurricane season get started soon. we're getting a close look at the planes that help the forecasters learn about the storms. hurricane hunters they call them. they fly into these monsters. they gather crucial data on their side and strength and help forecasters warn the public. four planes are in washington today and we're getting a rare look inside them. adam clots is live with more. adam? >> as part of hurricane preparedness week, the national weather service is urging everyone to get ready for the

upcoming season, which as you mentioned begins on june 1. four noaa planes are on display to the public, including stop in washington d.c. these are some of the tools that forecasters use to predict storms. >> the tools on display from noaa and the air force are providing us key data earlier than ever before. they give us all more time to prepare better information on when to act and how to best prepare ahead of and be in a safe place when a storm hits. >> this is video from a plane flying to the eye of hurricane matthew. the most famous is the hurricane hunter, the p-3 and flies through the eye of a hurricane and feeding back information like pressure and wind speed. can it read wind speeds at every level and helps at predicting storm surge.

kermit and miss piggy spend ten hours in every storm. and another noaa jet flies around the storm and gets size and wind direction. the mission is to discover the storm's path. this plane will make stops in raleigh, orlando and miami. >> shepard: how do you incorporate this information in your forecast? >> what is this plane doing? every time it heads out, we learn changes in wind speed and pressure. we combine it with ocean temperatures, upper level winds and we get an idea where the storm's path is going to be and that's what matters most. >> shepard: thank you, adam. ahead, a mob scene at the airport. customers appearing to be fed up and causing a ruckus after spirit airlines cancelled flights in south florida.

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>> shepard: it kind of looks like the start of a riot. that's the quote from a sheriff's deputy that was there at the time describing the crowd of customers at spirit airlines ticket counter. that is south florida, ft. lauderdale hollywood's international airport after spirit cancelled flights yesterday. a witness said he was waiting in line for three hours. sheriff deputies say the crowd became aggressive and some customers threatened and screamed at spirit employees. they arrested three travelers or would-be travelers. spirit is blaming a bit of a labor dispute with pilots for

cancelling hundreds of flights. kennedy is here. she's the host of "kennedy" on fox business network. she's sprouting her own wings. that would make things easier. >> certainly. this is so disconcerting. another airline story. we've heard about giant bunnies dying and being cremated against their will, moms being beated with strollers and passengers dragged off of flights. this wouldn't be a great time for a pilot's union to be eng e engaging in shenanigans. they're essentially having their own work stoppage. >> shepard: your take on the injunction. >> i mean, i think strikes are for communists by and large. i think this is -- >> shepard: strikes are for

communists? >> those are my personal feelings. newer wearing comey red. >> it's so learned. >> shepard: i know spirit flies many routes as delta and spirit is known as one with fewer frills. >> yeah. you have to pay for everything. you have to pay for hand soap. if you don't give them $10 in cash, you leave the lavatory with dirty hands. i don't know if that is true but it seems like it. they nickel and dime you. they have the worst customer service of any airline on the planet. >> shepard: so you get what you pay for? you should get a pilot. >> it helps. in less ted striker will screw it up over macho grande. >> shepard: i was reading the

best customer service around the world. it's hard to find a u.s. airline. largely that change has happened post consolidation. we're down to four major airlines. and then some others, including spirit. >> but united, delta, american, they all have their big p.r. problems. seems as though the pilots are compounding this issue right now when airlines really need to stabilize. >> shepard: what do you think is needed? more competition? >> always. yeah. >> shepard: i wonder how you get to that with these big companies buying each other off? >> it's difficult. in this day and age with the sharing economy and when you see companies rethink and higher platforms like uber, maybe you need something like that. maybe there needs to be a paradigm shift in airline travel so we rethink the way we fly. right now we want it all. we want space, cheap flights, we want our giant bags into overhead bins.

>> shepard: lie flat beds would be night. >> oh, my gosh yes. >> shepard: and medication. >> maybe gin and tonic. prescribe me something. >> shepard: those are available. but recently flew to europe. you know, you complain about the equipment. it's horrible. you complain -- nicest bunch of people. they were the nicest bunch of people. they couldn't have been nicer. i know the situations are not rosy. >> very difficult. >> shepard: every time you look at your phone there's something horrible happening. >> and especially in france where they elected a man named against a dessert cookie. >> i was in france. i knew there was a collection. never heard about it. never saw a poster or campaign ad. i'm sure it was happening but escaped my gaze. >> and here, we're talking about candidates for 2020. >> shepard: who is we? >> we be discussing it on

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>> shepard: so you ever look at modern art and say, i could do that! one prankster said he said that and he thought parentally tricked others into agreeing with him. lillian is here. he made art. >> yes. two friends were at their university's art festival in scotland. one of them put this pineapple down on a pedestal to see if people would think it's art. he captured the snap chat "i made art." a few days later, they went back and put a fancy glass case on top of it. it stayed on display for six days. people came by. the festival says they were in on the joke, but i don't know if i believe that. >> shepard: what sort of feedback did they get? >> i think people thought it was funny. one of the guy's friends asked

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