♪ ♪ >> i'm a very active president. >> are you moving so quickly that your communications department can't keep up with you. >> yes. >> what do we do about that? >> we don't have preferences. >> thpreferencepress conference. >> the more they get sucked in to the elite media the more get sucked into the swamp. >> james comey better hope there are no conversation conven tapes of our conversations before they start leaking to the press. >> i hope james comey will be hunnettes. >> those that are saying investigate trump, why are they not saying yes we need to pursue the clintons, there is far more evidence there. >> i have empowered our

prosecutors to charge and pursue the most serious offense as i believe the law requires, plain and simple. if you are a drug trafficker, we will not look the other way. >> why don't you want our kids to have good food at school? what is wrong with you. >> mother mother the title that claims your heart and changes your heart forever. >> this is one of the many opportunities for us to thank the incredible military mothers who love and care for our nation's heroes. >> thank you for all that you do. ♪ from the mountains ♪ to the prairies ♪ to the oceans white with foam ♪ god bless america. abby: what a powerful moment that was yesterday at the white house. that military band performing in front of all those military moms.

perfect timing for mother's day. clayton: army corps and marine band performing wonderful and honoring military moms. jon scott is with us today. jon: is it friday today? clayton: it's not friday. jon kind enough to give up his weekend here on the curvey couch. abby: are you ready to go. jon: i'm willing to try. bailinbagel imri realize peoplet up and get bagels. clayton: animals and pet them in their beds with their families. i forgot people had families. >> jon: my dog gave me a funny look when i got up. abby: not happy. my dog used to do it at first now he doesn't move. clayton: jampacked show. jon: what a way to begin with god bless america. clayton: the search is on this mornings because the first wave of interviews for the fbi

director getting underway at this hour. abby: conducting a search to replace fired fbi director james comey. jon: allison barber live in d.c. with the latest on the search for us. >> four people are heading to the department of justice today for interviews to become the next fbi director. this after president trump told fox news the search is already on. >> what about the new director for the fbi? you're looking for someone now. >> yes. >> before we get. >> to me that's one of the most exciting questions you can ask. >> okay, good. >> we have some great candidates. we are interviewing people. we are going to pick somebody who is outstanding. that's what we want to get. >> there are four people we expect to see today acting fbi director andrew mccabe, current republican senator john cornyn, alice fisher, she is at a private law firm now from 2005 to 2008 she oversaw the doj's criminal division

and then judge michael garcia of the new york court of appeals. sources tell us the list of candidates is bigger than these four. reportedly it includes former nypd commissioner ray kelly and south carolina congressman trey gowdy. gowdy is, of course, known for his role leading congressional investigation into benghazi. no matter the pick, they will need senate confirmation. back to you. abby: that will be a tough one. thanks, alisyn. clayton: interview th the president gave with judge jeanine pirro. white house press dinner in washington that he said i'm not going to go there i'm going to go out to pennsylvania and have my own rally while you guys are rubbing elbows back in washington. last night on justice with judge jeanine, he is saying that he thinks he might end up getting rid of these white house press brieferrings all together. abby: saying you know what?

if anything, maybe every other week i will go speak directly to the american people. here is what he said. >> when we have those press conferences, i said we shouldn't have them. sarah huckabee. >> 100 years you have been doing them. >> there has never been action like this. this is crazy. -- they are getting higher ratings on those press conferences- >> -- why seriously consider stopping press conferences? >> no. we do it in a different way. >> how? >> piece of paper with a perfectly accurate. >> in writing? >> asked 100 questions or 50 questions or 20 questions, if they get one out of 50, just a little bit off, 5%, 10%, 20%, it's the next day it's a front page story in every newspaper. >> right. >> press conferences weren't even covered for obama practically. they were on c-span and c-span 2 and there was nothing going on. >> but will you put an end to them? >> these press conferences are like the biggest thing on

daytime television. abby: you could just see the frustration in his face though, jon. we laugh about the way he says things it's so trumpesque. in that moment you can see he is so angry how th thed me has treated him since he has been in office. unfair. the fact they don't follow through on actual fact. the way his press office as treated spokes people. sean spicer and sarah huckabee sanders. tough job and how they're treated in interviews. really disrespectful. >> jon: would you want to be the person behind the podium? clayton: no. who would want that job? >> jon: absolutely hammered question after question after question and yeah, they make some mistakes. clayton: the idea we are going to cancel press conferences and hand you a slip of paper with a perfectly worded committee going through line by line to make sure we are 100 percent accurate. if we get something slightly wrong that's the thing that ends up on the front page news.

hand out a paper to everyone people are going to need further clarification. you said, this what are do you mean by this? who do you call? do you get on the phone and call the white house police office? i notice on page 5 there is no press briefing for us to have a dialogue. abby: throughout history such an important balance that we have in this country with the free dome of the press and our politicians and the president of the united states. i understand his frustration because we have covered it every weekend here. you cover it every day on your show. there have been many times where it has not been fair. i think have you got to find that right balance. because the press is not going to change. he dose have to find more ways to speak to the american people. >> jon: you use the word tweaking. that's what's going on here. he is tweaking the press. he does enjoy the exercise. abby: yeah. >> jon: newt gingrich was on sean hannity's program it might be time to get beyond the so-called media listen. >> donald trump is not the

chief entertainer of the united states. he is not the chief wrestling match with the elite media he is the president of the united states with a big job and some very big goals. and what they ought to do is get out of all this junk. focus on the big goals. they ought to report to the nation on the big goals. ignore all these reporters. close down the pressroom. send the reporters off. they can sit over at the hay adams go to starbucks across the street. i don't care where they go. get beyond the elite media and treat them as the dishonest opponents, which is what they are. they are dishonest opponents pretending to be reporters. clayton: we will see what happens this week with that where there is smoke there is fire. if newt is needling him and telling him to do this we might see the end of the press briefing. abby: the american people have lost confidence when it comes to the media when i'm out there talking to voters, they say we want the real story we feel like the president is not given the benefit of the doubt.

he doesn't do everything right but we want to know what's going on there. with the media they don't have a very high grade when it comes to the american people. maybe that's why president trump does need to go out and speak to the american people. we don't want to be like north korea. >> jon: press briefings take place 1:30 p.m. in the middle of happening now which is my regular programming on fox. i happen to like them. sean spicer at the podium. we want to know what you think. should president trump get rid of the press briefings. send us email. clayton: president trump needling the protests with a tweet. he likes to take to twitter. he took to twitter and raised a lot of eyebrows. he said james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversation before he starts leaking to the press. we should be clear. we don't know if there are recorded conversations. what is he talking about in the mainstream media jumped all over. this take a look how they

responded to trump's tweet. watch. >> tonight, president trump's warning to the fbi director who he just fired saying james comey, quote better hope that there are no tapes. is that a threat to the man who was heading the russia investigation? >> threatening comey? president trump says he better hope there are no tapes of their conversations. the white house refusing to deny that president trump has secret recording devices. >> a tweeted warning that to jas comey about recorded conversations but are there any. >> is the white house recording conversations? are there tapes? abby: you watch that and think something real. something serious is going on, right? judge jeanine in that interview that's going to air tonight exclusively with president trump. she asked him directly about that and those tapes. he didn't want to talk about that. here is what he said to her. >> in a tweet you said there might be tape recordings. >> i can't talk about. i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be

honest and i hope he will be. and i'm sure he will be and i hope. clayton: he likes to take to twitter and make these comments and then his staff ends up having to walk it back. we know this because we have talked to members of his staff he lobs these things and we have to dile it in and reign it in. jon: sean spicer the term yesterday was no further comment on the president's tweet. which is an interesting way of saying it. trump puts it out there and says better hope there are no recordings, but he is not saying they actually exist. it's kind of an interesting way of phrasing it. clayton: he knows there has been all these leaks over the past few months. is he getting ahead of potential leaks? abby: trying to protect himself. clayton: he can point the fingers at comey and say see they are leaking this stuff. ainsley: or scare them to make them think they are recorded. high speed cat and mouse game

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nortnorth carolina kids had the chance to explain to the commander-in-chief how they came one that name. >> that looks like a mean machine did you right there. how did you come up with the name trump? do you have an idea? >> simply becaus it conquers al. ainsley: competition against 100 different schools. he at this. clayton: happy to be a nerd. put on your tin foil hats, everyone because the media has so-called theory about the james comey coverup. what about the coverups the media didn't cover like the irs and benghazi. abby: baffled when elizabeth warren's commencement speech took this left turn. >> no one in this country is above the law. we need a justice department, not an obstructionist. a justice department. abby: does that inspire to you go out and make a difference

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abby: welcome back. watergate is known as one of the biggest coverups in american history as we know. the mainstream media cannot help but draw comparisons between that and firing of james comey. jon: media research center found may 9th the day comey was fired compared frowmp president nixon 107 times. abby: what about some of the real coverups that the media did not cover? >> jon: let's ask former secret service agent and host of the podcast renegade republican dan bongino. thank you for being with us early on this saturday morning. >> happy to be here. jon: give us your take on all

of these references to nixon and watergate as a result of the firing of the fbi director? >> yeah. it's just ridiculous. it's almost laughable. the sad part is a healthy vibrant constitutional republic requires an honest media and the left-wing media in america has become not only dishonest but i believe the single most destructive force in american politics today. it's not that we have low information voters i have heard a lot of people say. it's we have misinformed voters. it's not that they don't have information, it's that they consistently have the wrong information. and that is due to the media. and the use of the term coverup here, while, again, apologizing for benghazi, the irs, the gao scandal, fast and furious, under obama the entire time is ridiculous. abby: to that point the media controls how much of the scandal they want to cover and pay attention to it you

mentioned the benghaz obama yea, benghazi, the irs. phone records. i don't remember that being discussed as deeply as. this. >> yeah. abby, let me walk you through how this works. this is how the media covers a democrat scandal, knock benghazi and the irs. we will use those two. they will mention if the democrat media for a week or. so they will talk about it in very non-adversarial terms. after a week or so, without getting any answers, abby, it all goes away. if you mention it again on fox or another outlet that actually covers these stories, they will say it's a witch-hunt. this is incredible. now for the republican scandal. they will mention it every single day until someone is fired or some sean given that doesn't reflect well on the republican party. the approaches could not be more -- abby: why so different? >> because the left wing media has an agenda. i remember being a secret service agent and traveling overseas in the press pool and

hearing members of other, say, networks that are not this one and other print outlet and the way they seemingly engage in this group think that is so focused on making republicans look bad, it's just incredible. it's really no more complicated than that they have grown up in a university environment that waters the seeds of far left liberalism. and they are just intent on protecting the crown of liberalism no matter. what i mean, it's really that simple. >> jon: let's all remember what the irs did to conservative organizations during the obama administration. remember. abby: remember that? kind of a big deal. >> still ignoring it today. still no answers on what happened. jon: dan bongino in florida. enjoy the sunshine. >> you got it. abby: thank you, dan. the left-wing media says firing of comey is because of

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russia spends as much as those three countries combined on defense. president trump has promised to boost the budget by another 54 billion. democrats are in hysterics over the firing of fbi director james comey. >> the dismissal of director comey establishes a very troubling pattern. >> comey was not fired because of hillary. comey was fired because of the russians. >> the whole echo of watergate is very strong here. >> this is unprecedented. >> this is very dangerous stuff. this is the kind of thing that undermines people's confidence in our rule of law. >> what we have now is a looming constitutional crisis that is deadly serious. clayton: by casting doubt on our democracy are democrats serving russia's interests? that's what the "new york post" is floating this morning. here is fox news contributor

mercedes schlapp and democratic strategist and fox news contributor richard fowler. good to see both of you this morning. >> good morning. clayton: the "new york post" saying by doing all of this we are serving the interest of rush who after all we know were meddling in our election. richard, did you go on to say that donald trump ask s. bullying his way around the presidency right now. how do you mean? >> let's talk about this russia situation. i disagree completely with the "new york post." here's the thing. we need to figure out what russia did and engaged in our election so it doesn't happen again. when you know what happened you are less likely to repeat it when it comes to donald trump, everybody -- they are blaming the mainstream media, there is a lot of blame and pointing going on here. but this would not be a story today, i tell you, if the comey firing was done a little bit cleaner, a little bit neater. right? if trump had given some time to find comey's replacement before he fired him and said i'm continuing -- continuity and power here at the fbi we wouldn't be talking about in

this morning. clayton: we wouldn't be talking about, this mercedes, if this was a clean firing. do you agree? >> i do agree with that to a certain extent. i do believe once comey was fired, it gave the democrats an opening to attack. i think the democrats are the ones bullying president trump because you have this hypocrisy coming from the left where you've had, for example, maxine waters basically saying that comey had lost all credibility. you had senator chuck schumer basically saying that we have lost confidence in comey. so what does trump do? trump fires comey and then all of a sudden schumer and all of these other democrats are saying this is a constitutional crisis, we need a special prosecutor, and, let me tell you something, andrew mccape, the act be fbi director, the testimony this week, he made it very clear that even with comey departing the fbi, that the investigation will continue, which means that for the democrats, they are excited because their end goal for the president is impeachment which is absolutely ridiculous because they have believed for

a long time that the president has beened of a crime. >> let's be clear, there are some democrats that believe we should impeach the president. i'm not one of them. i think he rightfully won this presidency. do you feel there is a close connection between some of his associates and the russians? absolutely u so does the justice department. this week we find out that mike flynn and some of his associates will be -- there is a subpoena for mike flynn and grand jury subpoenas going out to his associates. clearly there is more than just smoke there. >> richard, come on. >> go ahead, mercedes. >> you have to have an investigation and reach a final cex. >> >> i agree. >> have you heard senator dianne feinstein say there is no evidence of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. democrats are so anxious to find the crime and so anxious to make the point of this russian collusion there is no evidence. clayton: do you agree with mercedes that democrats undermine comey and this was the problem from the beginning? >> not at all. >> not at all.

republicans found the firing problematic. some republicans in ho join me in asking store a commission. need a commission to investigate. this jeff flake from arizona said the firing is problematic. senator burr saying listen i think this problematic. we need to get to the bottom of this. there are republicans saying wait a minute here. there is something wrong. clayton: mercedes should there be an independent. >> absolutely not. they both have. >> they are both not credible. >> richard burr and mark warner are working hand in hand to make sure this senate intelligence committee. >> time for a commission. >> i don't think so. let the investigation goes through the process including the fbi. no need for commission on this. clayton: 10 year career.

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>> we face a looming constitutional crisis. >> your democratic colleagues, senate and house, have called what we're in right now, what happened today, a constitutional crisis. do you agree with it. >> i think it is the appropriate term. >> this country could be careening toward a constitutional crisis. >> so let's get the straight skinny on constitutional crises judge alex ferrer from former dade county circuit judge. good to sthi morning. >> good to be with you. clayton: constitutional crisis? is what trump did this week unconstitutional. >> nice phrase to throw around. not unconstitutional. perfectly legal never sense. the director of the fbi serves at the flesh of the united states. he can be fired for any reason and fired for no reason at all. i don't know why he was fired. obviously it doesn't look great when there is a pending investigation. the reality is an fbi

investigation like the email investigation could last years. so, the president supposed to stick with an fbi director he doesn't like or doesn't want because this investigation is going on for years? no. he can fire him and look for somebody else. but, you know, politicians nowadays they look for a reason to like stir their base up. so even if they don't agree that this is a constitutional crisis. even if they don't agree that this is going to effect the investigation in any way, which it won't. people who say that don't know how investigations are conducted, they are still going to pound that theme to get their base riled up and angry so they come out and vote in the next election. abby: you would think the media is smarter than that to know what he did was not unconstitutional. where are they coming from? why are they doubling down on this. >> have you not seen how the media feels about trump? this is not going to change. and that's one of the things i think president trump unfortunately has to accept is that he is responding to everything the media does and the media cannot stand him in

general. i mean i don't mean every reporter. but inth the large part of the media despises him. and they are going to take shots at him in every way they can. you look at the way they covered the sandals under the obama administration and this scandal. thethey are covered completely different. that's just the way it is. >> jon: it has been suggested that a new director of the fbi could open a investigation into hillary clinton is that possible. >> it is possible. whether it's wise or not, i don't know. there is argument to be made it should be looked at again. comey made misstatements when he announced that he was not going to prosecute her. saying things like there wasn't intent. there was, first of all, some crimes that don't require intent. there were crimes that were charged not charged but investigated that based on gross negligence alone wouldn't require intent were appropriate. secondly, there was more than enough evidence. intent is a question for the

jury. intent is a jury question. if you have any circumstantial evidence that shows the possibility of intent, it goes to the jury to determine was the appropriate intent there? clayton: here was the president talking about blornt james comey should have exonerated hillary clinton. here is the president's reasoning take a listen. >> when he came out with that scathing set of circumstances, the server, the illegal server, the emails, 33,000 emails that you get subpoenaed and then you don't show and you erase those. you lea delete them. get rid of them. acid watch them. when he did all of that stuff that was disgraceful. when is he covering everything point after point, i was with lawyers watching that. i happen to have unrelated lawyers and they were saying wow she is putting here, guilty, guilty, guilty. then he get to the end and he said she is free as a bird. abby: lot of people were surprised in that moment. >> i was one of them, actually. you know, i think that comey, it's interesting because this is my own personal opinion.

i have no inside knowledge. i think he didn't want to decide the election. he knew if he indicted hillary on what could be a weak case nut sense of getting a conviction, he would basically be naming trump president. ultimately people argue that's what he did later on when he sent the letter that said the investigation was open again. clayton: the president has said he would maybe want to continue the page on this. is that enough for the fbi to say okay we're also turning of the page on this? >> the fbi has already made a determination unless the president or i should say not the president but unless the attorney general says i want to get a fresh look at this. they probably aren't going to reopen the investigation. democrats should be in favor of that because frankly. abby: who wants that? >> we are completely divided. until there is a clear answer from somebody viewed as independent again, this is never going to be put to rest. abby: judge, good to have you here this morning. >> good to be here. thank you. abby: headlines this morning starting with senator chuck

grassley now wanting to know how an fbi translator married a terrorist and the agency never found out about it. the agency lying to authorities when she traveled to syria in 2014 and married a prominent isis recruiter who she was supposed to be investigating. grassley requesting investigation to uncover how the romantic relationship even started and why the agency never knew about it. and a liberal woman accused of trying to run a republican congressman off the road all because he voted to repeal obamacare? police say this woman wendy wright followed representative david can you say tdavid kustuof banging on window. she called police but she took off by the time they arrived. she was later arrested after she posted about the confrontation on her facebook page. commencement speeches are supposed to be about inspiring graduates about the future. elizabeth warren accused of ripping our president at the university of massachusetts after firing of fbi director

james comey. watch. this i'm trying to keep this a apolitical. the principle that no one in this country is above the law and we need a justice department. not an obstructionist u a justice department. [cheers and applause] abby: democratic senator not stopping there. going on to mock senior white house advisor kellyanne conway for the phrase alternative facts. and so drinkers around the globe dousing the flames over the new cinnamon flavored pepsi fight fire. have you heard about this drink not even out yet. many who have already tried the slushy version at 7/11 they say it is absolutely horrible. one person tweeting this if you like things that taste bad, get ready for cinnamon pepsi. another one saying fuel your next protest with the smooth taste of pepsi fire. the company still struggling to recover from controversial

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what's going on gerri? >> it's not good. the democrats are blaming the republicans but all of these problems really baked into the affordable care act to begin with what do we know right now, right? prices are going through the roof. there that is a big problem. there is no choice. it's not affordable. north a marketplace. all these insushiers are signing up 2018. that's what insurers across the country are hoping will happen. we are finding many of them are dropping out. they don't want to participate. they are losing money hand over fist. clayton: aetna pulled out of obamacare. blaming it on the trump administration what aetna had to could. >> aetna lost $200 million last year. lost almost a billion dollars since 2014. they can't make money at it and this is why. they are required to give 10 essential benefits. they can't write a policy that fits the person. they have to have one size fits all. then they have to cover a group of people that includes mostly older, unhealthy people. young people can't afford this coverage.

they don't want to get it at the end of the day making money at this is merely impossible. all the major insurers have left the marketplace. united healthcare, the largest insurer in the country can't make a go of it. they have left, aetna, humana and more are going to come. abby: they want to aassurance they are going to makes a much money as possible. ceo single pair i think we should have that bebait. >> okay, wow, so that would be a big deal, right? i feel us slowly marching to single pair. what that means basically is that the government pays for coverage. it would be on uncle sam to pay for our healthcare. this already happens in canada and great britain. both of those countries. they all use this program. and what you find over time is the cost kind of escalate out of control because nobody wants to say no to coverage. abby: no choice to the american people, right? >> no choice. i have got to tell you it's going to get worse before it gets better. we are watching state by state very closely to see who is going to come up with no

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>> i'm a very active president. >> are you moving so quickly that your communication department cannot keep up with you. >> yes. >> what do we do about that? >> we don't have press conferences. >> the more they get sucked in to dancing with the elite media, the more they're dancing on the quick sand of the swamp. >> the first wave of interviews for the next fbi director, getting underway at this hour. >> four people are heading to the department of justice today. >> the president warning, quote, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. >> all i want is for comey to be honest. and i hope he will be. and i'm sure he will be, i hope. >> those that are saying investigate trump, why are they not saying yes, we also

need to pursue the clintons? there is far more evidence there. >> this is not my first commencement speech. the institutions to which i have spoken at previously include bryman school of nursing. hollywood dj academy, and trump university. ♪ not even funny, just weird. >> how did you come up with the name trump? anybody have an idea? >> >> they are never going to put that on television. ♪ i give my life ♪ i give my life ♪ i give my life for you. abby: very rainy morning in new york city. supposed to clear up this week. >> clayton: that's to the a storm sewer. jon: that's backed up.

clayton: you read my mind. jon scott is in with us this morning. abby: we love having you. jon: look like that outside it's a nice day to be inside. abby: true. clayton: we have 24 hours of this. jam packed show. the search is on for the next director of the fbi. first wave of interviews getting underway this morning. top doj officials are conducting the storch replace fired fbi director james comey. abby: alisyn barber is outside the department of justice with the latest this morning. good morning. >> good morning. people tell us a handful of candidates will be coming to the doj this morning. sources tell us the first interview is set to take place in about 30 minutes. the president says these are, quote, great candidates. >> what about the new director for the fbi? you are looking for someone now. >> yes. >> to me that's one of the most exciting questions you can ask if you want to know. >> okay, good. >> we have some great candidates.

we're interviewing people. we are going to pick somebody who is outstanding. that's what we want to get. >> four people meeting with the attorney general and the deputy attorney general and sources say that we can expect to see acting director andrew mccape as well as current republican senator john cornyn, attorney alice fish his or her actually worked for the doj a few years ago heading up criminal division and michael garcia head of the new york court of appeals. these are not the only names they are considering. we are told by sources there is a short list of about 12 candidates. whoever they pick, they will have to begin this 10 year tenure by getting confirmed by the senate. as you guys know, that could be a little bit tough. back to you. clayton: senator john cornyn that would be an interesting pick. abby: and alice fisher. that would be an interesting pick. you think about the doj and all of the thousands of agents and what they have gone through over the past year.

you have to go in there and say i believe new and start clean. jon: somebody not a yes man to the president. clayton: saw pier president trump speaking with judge jeanine it will air tonight. one of the things he said with her which had her really challenging him on this is the idea he might want to get rid of white house press briefings all together where sean spicer gets up and gets battered back and forth by the press. he had this to say about getting rid of them all together. >> when we have those press conferences can i actually said we shouldn't have them. >> 100 years we have been doing that you can't put an end to that. >> there has never been action like this. this is crazy e. >> they are getting higher ratings on those press conferences. >> would you seriously consider stopping press sessions? >> no we do it different way. >> how? >> do it through a piece of paper with a perfectly

accurate beautiful answer. i will give you an example. >> in writing? >> they asked 100 questions or 50 questions or 230 questions. if they get one out of 50, just a little bit off, 5%, 10%, 20%, it's the next day it's a front page story in every newspaper. >> right. right. so? >> press conferences weren't even covered for obama practically. they were on c-span and c-span 2. and there was nothing going on. >> but will you put an end to them. >> just a minute, these press conferences are like the biggest thing on daytime television. abby: i think since he has been in office one of the biggest challenges he realizing he faces a lot on his plate with foreign policy, economy all those things, the media has proven to be one of the biggest challenges, when anything breaks. the way it's delivered to the american people i have zero control of it. he hates that. the way they have done it many can agree has not been necessarily accurate all the time or fair.

the way his spokes people have been treated has just been terrible u. clayton: answer to cancel white house press briefings all together? abby: no. jon: i think he is having fun with the media on that point. abby: he loves to do that right, jon? jon: judge jeanine was a prosecutor before she was elected judge. she is tough in there. clayton: only goal of most people in that room is to attack and embarrass our president. enough. do you feel written questions and monthly live briefings. abby: fake news has controlled the news media far too long. jon: trump should not limit the daily questions but limit the amount of questions each network is allowed to ask in a certain time frame then maybe they won't l. not be so quick to ask idiotic questions. abby: i think it's important to have press conferences that's what this country is about the press working with the president. keep sending in your thoughts

because this is an important question. jon: friends@foxnews.com, right? abby: frengsdz @foxnews.com. this is important one because they feel like they are not getting the accurate story at home. at night wanting to get a sense what's going on in country. they are frustrated think are not getting the foul story. clayton: most of us want substance is the substance handing the press of a piece of per exceptly word communication and the press is supposed to sit there and read it that's what the obama administration used to do. they used to hand out press conferences and you would see it regurgitated on the nightly newscast almost word for word what was coming out of the white house. abby: isn't that what sean spicer did. he basically read off a piece of paper that came from president trump. he i. clayton: well, because he didn't want to have to put his own words on it. jon: speaking of sean spicer and the where team here is what he had to say. >> are you moving so quoikly that your communications department cannot keep up with you. >> yes. that's true. >> so what do we do about

that? >> we don't have press conferences. and we do. >> you don't mean that. >> well, just don't have them. unless i have one every two weeks and i do it myself. we don't have them. i think it's a good idea. first of all, you have a level of hostility that's incredible. very unfair. sarah huckabee is a lovely young woman. you know sean spicer. he is a wonderful human being. he is a nice man. >> he is your press secretary today and tomorrow will he be tomorrow? >> yes. well, he is doing a good job he gets beat up. >> will he be there tomorrow. >> well, he has been there from the beginning. clayton: that's an answer. we don't know if sean spicer would be out there. was speculation last few months whether he would be out or not. interesting the way the president phrases that he was definitive in his answer. are you moving too quickly for your communications team? he said yes, absolutely. i mean, let's dissect that a little bit. that's a huge thing for him to say and admit that his communications team is constantly having to play

catch up for the way is he jumping on twitter and making comments. he, in his head, knows better than his communication team what he is thinking. abby: maybe that's how he wants it to be. he always wants to be one step ahead of everybody. that's a tough job to have. if you are a specs person or the communications director for president trump. you guys do the press briefings every day on your show on happening now. that's not a job i think many people would want to do because you are dialing with the press but also dealing with president trump and wanting to represent him the best that you can you also can't keep up with so much going on. jon: words get dissected each day on the "the washington post." the "new york times" all of the networks. et cetera. abby: did i a behind the scenes with sean spicer. he is a very good man. you could tell when i was in there with him he cares deeply about the job that he does. he wants to do a good job. it's a tough one. president trump wants to continue to find the best team that represents him. it's not going to be an easy one. we will see how all of this continues to play out. clayton: let's talk about james comey because a lot is

being made about the private dinner that the president had with james comey. what unfolded there? you remember watching that 60 minutes interview right back when he became president and whether or not he was going to fire james comey. he said i don't know. i want to get to know the guy. during this private dinner he asked for loyalty according to the "new york times" if you read it headline. he asked for loyalty. in a private dinner trump demanded loyalty and comey demuired and said how about honesty instead? abby: presidenthis is not accur. this is what he said. he will. >> people suggest that the question apparently the "new york times" is selling that he asked comey whether or not had you loyalty was possibly inappropriate. could you see how they could think that. >> i read that article but i don't think it's inappropriate. >> did you ask that question? >> no, i didn't. i don't think it would be a bad question to ask. i think loyalty to the country. loyalty to the united states

is important. it depends on how you define loyalty. number one. number two, i don't know how that got there because i didn't ask that question. >> what about the idea that in a tweet you said that there might be tape recordings. >> i won't talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest. and i hope he will be. and i'm sure he will be, i hope. >> he loves to leave things hanging for the press and the american people. were there actually tapes that were recording all of those meetings? we don't know. maybe they were. and maybe this is a way to scare james comey in to saying anything that would be hurtful to president trump. clayton: he knew something. is he doing it preemptively so that james comey don't leak something of recordings that they have? but i can't talk about it. abby: talk about loyalty. he said there is no difference being loyal to the president and lyle to the american people. when you are loyal to the fbi. have you got to be loyal to your country.

clayton: we have other headlines to get to. abby: we do. starting with a fox news alert. russia's high speed cat and mouse game escalating. second fighter jet buzzes a u.s. navy plane. flies into south korea's air defense zone on thursday. coming within 70 miles of the uss strike group. the incident happening two days after the russian fighter jet came two pete navy surveillance plane over the black sea. and a scramble to get computers back up and running this morning following a massive worldwide cyber attack hackers using a tool done from the nsa lock up thousands of computers at hospitals, companies. demanding hundreds of dollars to at free them from ransom wear. forcing hospitals to close emergency rooms and turn away patients. fedex and the russian ministry have also been impacted and folds of honor is literally taking a stand for the american flags group holding

event in dallas. we talked about this last weekend. raising scholarship funds. major dan rooney recently joined us to tell us how all of it works. >> we have a group of great americans down here. and they are committed to stand every day until they raise a million dollars. they are standing 13 minutes at a time. the reason for the number 13 is there are 13 fields that bring the flag to triangled shape. abby: thanks to our jean are you viewers they have raids money for 151 scholarships. that is incredible. nostopping until they reach $1 million. >> it's a great organization. jon: despite the mainstream media's consistent attack once president trump, is he turning critics into believers. our next guest was a never trumper but has had a change of heart and tells us why next. and michelle obama slams trump

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hostile media is one the reasons he now backs the president even though he did not during the election. dennis dickson joins us now. dennis, you're in ohio. pardon me. but you didn't vote for president trump. do i have that right? >> that's correct. i did not vote for him. i wrote in a vote this year. abby: but you had a change of heart though. what happened? >> i'm trying to approach this with an open mind. i'm not going to bash the man. he is our president. i'm hoping i get a chance to vote for him in four more years. i hope he convince me deserves my vote this time around. i would like the media to give him a fair share to do so. clayton: do you think the media is giving a fair shake. >> oh, no. it's pretty much he can't do anything right. and anything he does is immediately attacked. i hear social media, facebook accounts. nothing but anger whatever he does. it's amazing how much vitriol is out there against the president.

abby: so you are a moderate midwestern republican. you hope he gives you the reason to vote for him in four years. give us a sense of your family and friends and how you are with president trump and how things are going. >> well, a lot of people were trump supporters. i had never seen that before. my county has always been a democratic strong hold. but this year driving around, people felt the government was out of touch with what they wanted. they wanted something different. they will didn't want the typical insider politics that they have been see for who knows how long. i saw a lot of trump signs. i saw my son's middle school voting for trump kids tend to vote like parents do. if they took my county they would take ohio. if they take ohio they will take the white house. jon: if you read the coverage, you generally get the impression that this is a white house in chaos that is just spinning its wheels. how do you see it from your vantage point in ohio?

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driver run as stop sign and slamming into car of a family heading to disney land. he has been deported 15 times over the course of 15 years. on friday, federal criminal immigration charges filed against him. this after he pleaded not guilty to all charges. joining us now with an update. lennox's dad benjamin lake. benjamin, we had you on earlier in the week. how is lennox doing, first of all? >> he is fighting every day. yesterday they unfortunately found another strain of bacteria inside his skull. so they have changed the treatment regime and added another antibiotic. but every day he is getting a little bit better. little tasked. hopefully that's just out swelling and that goes away over time. he is having trouble eating partially because they cutinto u chew.

that's sore for him. every day getting better. projected hopefully discharged on the 20th. jon: we hope and fray for a full recovery for your little boy. you were not a particularly political person when it comes to, you know, the immigration debate before this happened, right? >> yeah. i mean, we just, you know, we love our community. we're not trying to break apart families or anything like that. we just didn't really -- i didn't fully understand what was going on people getting arrested and getting passes and not having consequences or anything being implemented for them. jon: this somebody here, 15 deportations over 15 years and yet he has never been federally, criminally charged until this incident involving your son? >> yeah. that's what i was kind of shaking my head that's why i guess this was the last straw. i'm not sure though why i waited this long to happen. jon: the judge has ordered

that his face be blurred in these television images. we are not absolutely sure why. but it's absolutely unbelievable that a guy -- he was just deported most recently in january, right? >> right, right. jon: he is back in this country, apparently driving drunk. that's the charge. his blood alcohol content according to police twice the legal limit answered slams into your family vehicle. >> yeah. i mean, to me it's more of a character flaw type thing with this guy that he you disregard for our laws. obviously willing to come over that many times and willing to have domestic violence and previous dui. his character is to hit someone and drive away to. me, it just speaks to his character and now he is pleading not guilty. jon: constantineo is his name. what do you think should be his punishment here. >> it's hard because there has

to be some sort of justice. i know that goes on the measure taxpayers if we're housing him in our prison system and feeding him and giving him medical care. for me, obviously the deportation back to the different parts of mexico wasn't working. you know, i wish that our government other governments they serve time in their home country. ultimately i do want him to have consequences for what he does and realize as responsible citizens we have got to make sure we are ensuring the safety for everyone and not just disregarding rules and laws. >> john: well, benjamin, we know you are focused on lennox and helping your little boy get better. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> jon: just wanted to let our viewers know there is a go fund me paige page that friends have set up. go search to love for lennox or head to taepodon to tsk.

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>> 62 officers from 50 nations represented here today. jon: they come to the united states for what purpose? >> they receive a master's level education at this naval war college in newport, rhode island, in addition to that we take them on a series of field study programs so they understand our institutions, our government, education, free market, and today they get to understand media. jon: okay. sharing a little bit of the love with folks from all over the world. and the graduates of this course have gone on to be, well, do incredible things. >> yeah. they do. about 327 or so have achieved the rank of admiral. we have 23 heads of navy serving in that capacity today. jon: all who are graduates of this program. >> graduates of the naval staff college, yes, sir. jon: today they are learning about the american media. >> yes they are. we are privileged to be here. jon: again, congratulations to you and congratulations to the graduates.

it's a 11-month program and very intense. you wanted to say one last thing. >> yeah. we all want to wish the mothers out there a happy birthday mother's day weekend. jon: give a wave. >> happy birthday mother's day u. jon: abby over to you. abby: happy graduation. clayton: you hear commencement speeches and sometimes they get political and backy. president trump is going to be speaking at liberty university giving a commencement speech in two hours. abby: we have already heard from a number of commencement speakers this year. will ferrell was one of them at usc. >> i do not take this prestigious honor lightly. i have instructed my children and wife from this point on they have to address me as dr. farrell. the institutions to which i have spoken at previously include bryman school of nursing, hollywood d.j.

academy, and trump university. [laughter] i'm still waiting to get paid from trump university. [laughter] in fact, it turns out i owe trump university morn for the honor to speak at trump university. ♪ and i ♪ will always love you abby: well, he hit that perfectly u clarify clay i would enjoy seeing will ferrell speak. abby: every time i see him i still think of george w. bush because of the "saturday night live." clayton: senator warren decided to come out and slam the justice department saying we need more of a justice department instead of an obstruction of justice department. so she spent about 15 minutes in her speech and she sort of kicked to have by saying i'm not going to talk politics. abby: but let me talk

politics. clayton: but let me talk politics. watch. >> my pitch is for something different. it is to get more involved directly in the democracy of policy. your elected officials are increasingly working only for the few. the very wealthy few. and they are setting policies only to benefit the few, the very wealthy few. and i'm trying to keep this apolitical. but i can't help myself. the principle that no one, no one in this country is above the law and we need a justice department, not an obstruction of justice department. abby: no surprise there. elizabeth warren getting very political in her commencement speech. begs the question when it comes to graduation speeches and sending off these kids tout real world, should they get political or not? jon: how about telling them to go out and make something of themselves? how about that idea? clayton: great speech not remembering who said it.

great speech brutally honest. if you think part-time are going to hand things to you you are wrong. have you got to carve out things on your own. faced with adversity instead of these lofty ideals of commencement, painting a false picture about the future. abby: there is some great ones. i remember the founder of apple. do you remember he gave one before he died. steve jobs out in california. so inspiring about life and what he has been through and that's what i think kids are wanting is to be inspired, to be motivate you had to go out in the real world. as you said to live your dreams and do something in life. we want your thoughts on this. should commencement speeches get political or not? clayton: friends@foxnews.com. jon: we will be hearing from the president a little less than three hours from now. abby: do you think he will get political? clayton: do you think the president will get political today? jon: what auto would you like to larry? abby: i do have other headlines to bring you this morning. starting with the fight over obamacare.

getting physical at town hall meeting. watch. >> answer the question. answer it yes or no. would the senator shut your mouth? abby: that was was quickly escorted out by police in north dakota. he continued to yell approaching kevin kramer at points shooting -- at one point shooting money down his collar. he was finally booted out by police. terrible. >> and michelle obama creating a food fight with president trump slamming him for ending lunch program. even claiming that he dose not care about your kids u. >> why don't want you want our kids to have good food at school? what is wrong with you? and why is that a partisan issue? think about why someone is okay with your kids eating crap. abby: many parents and students credit siding the program food was so gross kids were throwing it away. speaking of food, far left

inch upset over new mother's day ad. that ad for macaroni and cheese dinner is sexist and promotes gender stereotypes. the ad says give mom a night off for cooking she deserves. they saw that as a suggestion only mom can cook a real dinner while dad microwave. clayton: ufo hunters claim they discovered an alien tank, rectangular ship on the moon scattered what appears to be other ruins. they say it may have been left from unknown civilization. coming from the same group that says they found a bunker on the moon. it could just be a bolder. what do you think it is? jon: i don't see any cracks from the tank, and that moon dust leaves calculates to same going to go with boulder. clayton: i think there is stuff. what do you think stuff on the moon?

>> yeah. abby: that was resounding yes over there. clayton: the entire graduating class said yes they think there is stuff on the moon. that's our moisture. trust me they know. they know. here is one more look at it let us know what you think friends @foxnews.com. abby: next up, hillary clinton not out of the woods yet over email investigation. should it be reopened now that james comey is out. the man who tracked down the unabomber is weighing in next. jon: some students becoming fast friends with president trump that. >> looks like a machine you did right there. how did you come up with the name trump? does anybody have any idea? >> simply because it conquers all. [laughter] jon: more on that hilarious oval office moment coming up ♪ ♪ leave you up in the air ♪ let them brush your rock and roll hair

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decision to let hillary clinton off the hook in july. >> when he came out with that set of circumstances the server, 3 33,000 emails that you get subpoenaed and then you don't show and then you erase those. you delete them, you get rid of them. you acid watch them. when he did all of that stuff, it was disgraceful. when he is covering everything point after point, i was with lawyers watching that. i happened to have some lawyers that were unrelated lawyers, and they were saying wow, she is guilty here, guilty, guilty. and then he gets to the end and he said she is free as a bird. clayton: shock to everyone, i think. now that comey is out could new fbi leadership reopen the case against hillary clinton? abby: the man who caught the unabomber terry terchi. >> good to be here. abby: so much wrongdoing and evidence brought to the table

from james comey that she should have been exonerated. a lot of the people agreed with that as clayton said. should this be reopened? >> i it wouldn't be unusual to open any case. the fbi does that all the time. it certainly wouldn't be unusual to reopen this one. i think one of the things if you look at that director comey said at the time in response to a question in front one of those congressional committees is what would happen if fbi employees had done something like this? what would be the consequences to them? and do you remember his answer? it would be bad. they would be dealt with. and that's kind of the way i think many americans. i know i don't have any special insight into what people think right now inside the fbi. they certainly don't talk freely about things like that. but i have certainly talked to lots of nacious neighbors and lots of friends. i think everybody came away from his testimony and his july press conference kind of scratching their head with the same opinion. well, have you laid out the case that awful these things happened and that's kind of

interesting but, you decided that she shouldn't be prosecuted. but you have also left the door open that we certainly couldn't have other people hold high level clearances and top secret clearances in government. we certainly couldn't let them do that and get by with it i think it leaves a lot of people quite puzzled and rightly. so. clayton: maybe mentioned the fbi morale here and much has been made about the way that she was exonerated at the hands of james comey. a lot of fbi agents who worked on this for a long time. describe for us what the morale must be like inside of the fbi. >> well, it's interesting. regardless of what is swirling about outside in the world we all live in, fbi agents and fbi employees move along. they might be very emotional about something, they they come in the next day and they have plenty to do and plenty to keep themselves busy. they do not kind of get involved in this to the extent that they can't go ahead and do what they have to do.

i think that one of the great strengths of the fbi, you take a person like director comey, the fbi is a family and he was part of that family. and i think that it's really important to remember that when he came into that job and he came into d.c. to become the director of the fbi. he had his head held up high and he had a great reputation. in some ways, in some ways he left that way. that letter he wrote when he left was a very, very tremendous letter from a person who i think was a good leader. and left a lot of good changes and a lot of good things behind. but, like so many other people, and i saw this when i was in the bureau. i saw this when director free was around. the clintons roll in to town and they unfortunately leave a lot of good people who have great represengreat reputationse corner collapsed. i remember a good friend of mine in the bureau general counsel had to leave a number of years ago because of file gate.

yet, the clintons are still around and this stuff is still happening. so, looking back, it's almost like deja vu. abby: thee agents need shah morale boost so badly right now. terry, thanks for joining us this morning. clayton: thanks, terry. >> thank you. clayton: judge jeanine pirro has a big interview with president trump. abby: trying to find a gift for mother's day that mom will love? we have you covered. it's so easy even jon scott can do it. that's saying something ♪ just because you become a young woman now ♪ you did some things that you don't understand now ♪ before you ask "how to win at business." step one: point decisively with the arm of your glasses. abracadabra. the stage is yours.

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general john if you are waking up and realizing tomorrow's is mother's day and you still don't have a gift we have an answer. abby: great dyi gift ideas great nor all ages. >> good morning, thanks for having me. abby: start with the beach bag. >> we love this, too. so personalized. you have to have a canvas tote. you get some rhinestones and use stencil sills to stencil on favorite scenes: summer ready. abby: does that come with a trip. >> we hope so or the promise of one. abby: we love that. clayton: mom who clips coupons. >> mommy coupon. gets the kids involved doing activities around the house aka chores. you put this together. and all you need is card stock. some stickers and some colorful paper and then you can put it together and really

it's to help the kids help around the house. abby: if you are a dad out there and you say mom go get a pedicure we have some stuff to do. >> it's fun. jon: promise to put away my hot wheels so nobody slips on them. >> exactly what you need to do. clayton: moms love the picture frames how do you do this. >> pick them up at local craft star. buy stick on rhinestones, ribbon, markers and decorate it and put mom's favorite photo of the family in there. clayton: is that right smart. dive down to clay pots and get the kids involved? >> if you haven't noticed succulents are so on trend buy them at local store. clayton: i have been saying that they are so hot. >> that's right. they are so hot. get stickers and decorate gorgeous clay spots and give them out to moms on mother's

day. clayton: what kind of pens? >> get metallic markers that will definitely show up really well. i love the heart that abby created. abby: show the love on mother's day. >> that's right. jon: because we don't have time to go through all of this on particular segment there is this advice on the website. >> that's right. or if you don't want to do succulents create your own mug. abby: a lot of coffee mug. >> that's right. who doesn't deserve flowers on mother's day. every mom should get flowers. decorate your own bouquet sweep. we got craft paper. and this one you can definitely create with a toddler. toddler daughter created one with handprints. buy some flowers at the local florist and wrap it up. clayton: i love it. abby: no excuse to mak excuse.

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...awkward. >> i'm a very active president. >> are you moving so quickly that your communications department cannot keep up with you. >> yes. >> what do we do about that? >> bedon't have press conferences. >> the more they get sucked in to dancing with the elite media, the more they are dancing on the quick sand of the swamp. >> the president warning, quote, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. >> all i want is for comey to be honest, and i hope he will be. i'm sure he will be, i hope. >> those that are saying investigate trump, why are they not saying yes, we also need to pursue the clintons. there is far more evidence there. >> i have empowered our prosecutors to charge and

pursue the most serious offense as i believe the law requires. plain and simple, if you are a drug trafficker, we will not look the other way. >> why don't you want our kids to have good food at school? what is wrong with you? >> mother, the title that claims your heart and changes your life forever. ♪ god bless america >> this is one of the many opportunities for us to thank the incredible military mothers who love and care for our nation's heroes. >> thank you for all that you do. ♪ from the mountains ♪ to the prairies ♪ to the oceans white with foam ♪ god bless america ♪ my home ♪ sweet home ♪ god bless america.

abby: doesn't that just give you chills that military band singing in fronts of all those military moms. clayton: we were talking about it last weekend here on the show. they don't get the credit that they deserve a lot. abby: think about the emotions that military moms go through. they raise these kids to go out and serve and then, you know, many of them go off and serve in foreign places andey gy once in a while. it's a tough job. these mothers deserve so much respect this year and every year. clayton: good morning on this saturday morning. welcome to "fox & friends." jon scott sitting on the couch this morning. good to see you, jon john john from the mountains to the prairies from the streets slick with rain. that's what we have got here in new york city. clayton: in a short time president trump is going to be leaving the white house any minute to deliver commencement address at liberty university. abby: more than 48,000 people examined expected to attend making it the largest event at the university.

jon: kevin corke joining us. >> you are right. very first commencement address as president of the united states. very interesting, too. because i want to take you back to some video from 2016. remember, it was then candidate donald trump who came right here to liberty university. he had a lot of support from leadership here on this campus is it was that support that really helped him beat back this strong field of con tenders back in 2016. and, of course, help propel him to the president. all the way in 2016, november. fast forward now to today. and it's one of his decisions as president that's now dominating the news cycle that is, of course, the decision to fire fbi director james comey. exclusive interview with judge jeanine pirro he thought that decision would be actually well received. >> look. i thought that this would be a very popular thing that i did when he terminated comey because all of the democrats couldn't stand him. but because i terminated him

they said oh, we get some political points we go against trump. >> isn't that just how it works out once you become president. meanwhile the painstaking process to find replacement for the director is underway with as many as four candidates expected to be interviewed today including acting director andrew mccabe, john cornyn and a name you may have never heard from. alice fisher. top doj official if she were selected the first woman to run the agency. here at liberty it's a message of faith, family, and fidelity to country as the president addresses the 2017 class of graduates here at liberty university as we speak guys. back to you. clayton: kevin corke in lynchburg, virginia. it looks beautiful there. let's bring in ed henry. abby: hi, ed. clayton: nice to see you, ed. >> nice to see you all. clayton: president set to speak tonight on justice with

judge jeanine. the white house press briefings that you know so well. watch this. >> great. >> when we have those press conferences, i actually said we shouldn't have them. because sarah huckabee -- >> for 100 years we have been doing those. >> listen, no, no. this is crazy. we are getting high -- they are getting higher ratings on press conferences. >> would you actually consider stopping press briefings? >> no. we do it different way. >> how? >> we do it with a piece of paper with perfectly accurate, beautiful answer. i will give you an example. >> in writing? >> they are asked 100 questions or 50 questions, 20 questions. if they get one out of 50, just a little bits off, 5%, 10%, 20%, it's the next day it's a front page story on every newspaper. >> right. so? >> press conferences weren't even covered for obama practically. they were on c-span and c-span

2. >> will you put an end to that? >> these press conferences are like the biggest thing on daytime television. clayton: there you go getting rid of the press conferences get a paper in the mail. is there any truth to this. >> i don't know where to start. that is pure unadulterated donald trump right there. basically saying c-span 1 or 2 the way he pronounced that the new york accent where i'm from. i love that he is talking about it will make a headline. if somebody slips up. judge jeanine is great she says so? that's what happens at these briefings. headlines are made. this is a president who is one of the greatest communicators ever. he would not have been elected against the odds, against the mainstream media, attacking him at every turn. i'm laughing because i hear the president talking about the ratings are great. sure. that's awesome. but that's not what the briefings are for. here is wheat briefings are for. it's a chance, yes. they are playing a lookout of

defend defense. we go in as the white house correspondence. we try to press them and all of that and play some defense. also a chance for this defense to go on offense talking about jobs and repealing and replacing obamacare. the idea of doing away with these briefings are end up hurting this white house more than anything else. they will get tough with the mainstream media. that will rally the president's base u they should be using briefings as a tool to get the president's message and agenda out there. abby: what's the balance though, ed. we asked this question to our audience earlier this morning. do you agree with the president and get rid of press conferences. many people sending comments they agree with that they are angry out there. you spent time at the diners like i have, and you talk to the american people and they are mad. they say you know what sphwheent to give the president a fair shot but we don't feel like we're getting the full story with the media. >> you know what? both can be true is that the president ♪ getting a fair shake with the media. i'm not a commentator, i'm a reporter.

that's an objective fact. look at the front page of the "new york times" every single day, typically 2, 3, or 4 steers. he is out of his league, out of his depth. basically crazy. read the newspapers, this is there for everybody to see. it's true they are not giving him a failure shake. while it might be good to say i hate the media and not engage. if he engages, he can actually give his message out. i will give u. a quick story. in the obama days, robert gibbs would say i'm not going to do a briefing today. some of these old school folks like bill plant would tell me should be pushing back. look, democrat addition is when the president is in town, not traveling, there is a white house briefing. and i asked joe lockhart about this who was a clinton white house press secretary. people think oh the reporters are just whining, they just want briefings. lockhart as a democrat told me no, the obama administration is missing this. that that is a tool. that white house podium to talk about president obama's

agenda. and so my point is, every white house gets frustrated at the coverage, but it's what you do with it. if you simply walk away and don't engage, i think in the long run it's going to hurt. jon: the president was talking about w. judge jeanine about his communications team and well, it was an interesting comment. listen to this. >> are you moving so quickly that you'r your communications department cannot keep up with you. >> yes, that's true. >> what do we do about that? >> we don't have press conferences and we do. >> you don't mean that? >> well, you just don't have them recommendationth, unless i have them every two weeks and i do it byself. we don't have elm. this i think it's a good idea. first of all, have you a level of who was tilings that's incredible and very unfair. sarah huckabee is a lovely young woman. you know sean spicer, is he a wonderful human being. he is a nice map. is he your press secretary today and tomorrow snrncht yes. >> will he be there tomorrow.

>> he gets beat up. >> will he be there tomorrow. >> well, he has been there since the beginning. >> interesting answer. >> tomorrow comes. he did an interview yesterday and sean spicer is still there i think it's very clear that the president is thinking about shaking up the communications team. here what i think about that having been a reporter. shakeup in democrat and republican white houses. i think when i travel and you talked about it abby, being at the diner and i have been out promoting my book 42 faiths. fans of the president tell me they like sean spicer because they like what you said a moment ago that he fights back and he doesn't take it from the media. i think to sean spicer's credit he has actually been tough. he has been doing what his boss wants him to do which is pushes back. i think he overdid it. i was at the briefing yesterday in the back of the room and i noticed that sean, i think, learned something from sarah huckabee who did a good job this week. she doesn't turn every question into a fight. she burns back. does it with that southern accent.

does it with a smile. and she is more diplomatic. and sean turns every -- practically every question into a fight. you ask him about north korea. you are wrong, you are wrong. you ask him about what the president had for lunch and sean wants to take your head off. i noticed yesterday it was less contentious in there. everyone thought it was going to be a big fight it was like sean calmed down. he didn't turn everything into a big fight but it may be into the. clayton: are you moving too fast tore communications team? >> he said yes. clayton: is that a problem? >> this is the beauty of the president and also the challenge which is that he is authentic. if you asked another politician, no, no. i'm not moving to fast. i'm doing it just right. he said yeah i probably am moving too fast. here is the big picture. why not slow down? number one for sean spicer he oftentimes doesn't know what the president wants him to say it seems like. he has one playbook that says

we're going to talk about healthcare today and then the president tweets about james comey. in fairness to sean spicer or whoever is in that job, sarah huckabee, who knows what's going on? i think the other thing is if this president would just slow down in general, with the tweeting and everything else, he is lined up for him now. he has had some momentum on healthcare. speaker paul ryan talking tough about standing up to the democrats and getting a tax package through. if he were to get both of those things done this year with trade deals and other things is he working on it would be amazing year. if the rest of the year is spent fighting about james comb underat justice department and russia, it's going to crowd out his agenda. he is going to have to figure it out quickly. clayton: seriously ed, would you ever want that sean spicer job? i would hate to be the president's spokesperson. >> yeah. i was at the white house yesterday because i was bringing a friend brian o'donnell who is nypd here. you will remember, this jon, last year when that crazed terrorist penn station with a meat cleaver and was trying to attack people and kill them. brian o'donnell tackled that

man and got slashed in the face with a meat cleaver which saved all kinds of lives. i brought him in town for fleet week he said i'm a tough new york stock exchange detective i wouldn't want that job. >> you are right tough job. abby: it's great to get your perspective. his father was the only fbi director besides jeff keepy to get fired. pete sessions talks about the firing and what happens next. >> lovely couple writes their own vows how romantic. this wasn't in the script. >> in this journey we make together. oh. [laughter] clayton: smacked heir in the head. honey, i swear, there was a bethere. i swear. ♪ going to the chapel ♪ and we're going to get married

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ethics questions about use of aircraft and everything else. was it right for president clinton then to fire your father and do you think it's okay now for president trump to have fired diswram james com? >> well, the issues that were related to my father were entirely different than they are today. the ethical boundaries of an fbi director always come in to play because they are always present. there was little evidence to support what president clinton did then. he wanted changes made on political basis. the country understood it. and the political changes that needed to take place today come from confidence that the country needs to have in the fbi director. it's my hope that what happens is that president trump, as well as attorney general jeff sessions work carefully with congress to avoid, by coming together with an understanding what do we want the director

of the fbi to do when placed in a difficult political consideration. and that's exactly where my father was. difficult, political considerations that someone then turns into an ethical issue. the facts of the case are very simple. it was mrs. clinton and her problems that led the director and the fbi, the very difficult questions. but the questions need to come about how does the director deal with issues of advising congress, privately, how do they make sure that those conversations are direct and straightforward without regard for trying to tip the hand of justice one way or another. and i believe that the attorney general must engage with congress and whoever this presumptive nominee is and have a lot of back door questions answered. what do we expect the fbi director to do when that director deals with very private information.

some which he may have or she may have a complete handle on and some which may be speculation. and that is the circumstance that james comey found himself in, not really unlike my father. and that's the issue that we have got to solve. abby: it's a great point. want to get your thoughts as well on healthcare. we will do that right after the break. we'll be right back. look, call right at home. get the right care. right at home.

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abby: we want to bring about congressman pete sessions. we wanted to get your on obamacare and tom price says we could see a full repeal of obamacare by august. what do you think? >> well, i do think that that's the thing to do. to aim at. i think it's important that republicans decide if we are going to follow what the

president wants to do and that is fix healthcare or simply replace it aetna was out. a major provider of healthcare across this country talking about how individual policies are the most expensive and the ones that are dying that they will not cover. in other words, it's just too expensive. the marketplace today is built for group policies. and republicans need to adapt themself and the senate needs to do this to move the american people to group policies. we can do this very easily by allowing the american people who would be on the tax credit to move themself to what might be called associated healthcare plans or large groups whereby they can take their tax credit to work. in particular, small business would rely on this. real estate agents all across this country would benefit directly. and it is really the place that republicans need to land to fix healthcare and if we do this successfully, taking what

the house has done, with the tax credit proposal, we can get the american people, not only to a better healthcare system, but one that will sustain itself for the long run. jon: i'm sure you have seen a lot of your fellow republicans are taking a lot of heat at town hall meetings from people who are upset about this proposal that the house has passed. what do you say to them? >> well, i have been meeting with people all over dallas. i'm meeting today with a group of women who are greatly aproceedsed. what i found out is that they did not understand actually what we are proposing that is the affordable care act, obamacare would stay in place 2017, 2018, and 2019. but that the reimbursement part for those on obamacare is 50% less than normal insurance and 20% less for the providers than what might be called

medicaid and that the bottom line should be medicaid should be what the basement should be, not 20% less. it's harmful to families and individuals. it's something that we have got to change. and i think it was an easy thing to pick up and beat republicans with if you didn't know what you were talking about. abby: the american people, many of them hoping for a change and fast. congressman sessions, great to have you with you with us this morning. >> this headline we are following. attorney general jeff sessions ordering all federal prosecutors to push for the harshest punishments. listen. >> i have empowered our prosecutors to charge and pursue the most serious offense as i believe the law requires. most serious readily proveable offense. it means that we are going to meet our responsibility to enforce the law with judgment and fairness. it is simply the right and moral thing to do. clayton: now critics are going

wild. what's fact and what's fix here? here to break it down is former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree. >> thank you, clayton. clayton: michael collins the director of the drug policy alliance writing this: he said this is a disastrous move that will increase the prison population exacerbate disparities in the criminal justice system and do nothing to reduce drug use or increase public safety. what's the truth there? >> i think that's a good of an overstatement. for one thing, this is not some dramatic new policy that the country has never seen before. this is actually a return to the policy that was in place under president bush. what attorney general sessions has done is essentially reverse several orders that eric holder issued during the obama administration and returned doj charging and sentencing policy to the way it was in the years preceding that. clayton: so you say we may see

increase in prison population but do you disagree on the racial disparity point. >> on the racial disparity point the issue here is number one i don't think there are going to be any sort of dramatic or any racial disparities. if there were, the solution is not to tie the hands of prosecutors out in the field. the solution is to go to congress and to change the through eliminate any racial disparities. i think the attorney general's approach here is sound. look, i understand there is very fair criticism that some of our drug laws need to be updated. they need to be modified. mandatory minimums need to be looked at. again, the solution is not to tie the hands of prosecutors. it's for congress to step in and amend the law to eliminate any problems or unfairness in the system. clayton: you mentioned former attorney general eric holder. he called this policy dumb. here is what he had to say about it the policy announce you had today is not tough on crime. it's dumb on crime. ideologically motivated cookie cutter approach only been proven to generate unfairly

long sentences often applied indiscriminately. long sentenced and applied indiscriminately. >> i'm not sure he read the memo. he says this is going to be doj want general policy. in individual cases, when circumstances warrant and the prosecutor and the supervisors in that office think that you should go with a lighter touch, seek a less serious offense, seek a lesser sentence, that's the appropriate course to take. so, in fact, it's not cookie cutter attorney general sessions have said this is our policy but we have to be prepared to make it sections in the particular case. clayton: yesterday's action doubles down on a policy that we know was ineffective and discriminatory in the name of helping communities. this policy destroyed many of them including the families that lived there. what's the truth here. is he right? >> well, no. i don't think he is i think the issue is that if you are removing violent offenders, drug traffickers. and other criminals from these

communities, i'm at a loss to see how that makes the communities more dangerous. in fact, it makes them safer. >> i think you what the policy here is to say look,let's idea long kale drug traffickers lo are disrupting these communities and get them off the streets. i don't see that as being desjimena tore in any sense. clayton: tom dee dupre thanks for joining us this morning with your analysis. >> thank you. clayton: fbi agent married to a terrorist? how does that happen? could hillary clinton 2020 be a reality? clinton insider ed klein is up next with that story ♪ i'm going to give all my secrets away ♪ this time ♪

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we heard other political speeches. elizabeth warrens and others. abby: it comes at interesting time. there is president trump walking up the stairs, air force one, headed to lynchburg, virginia for that speech. it comes a couple days after the firing of the fbi director james comey. it will be very interesting to see if things get political in any way today. >> jon: liberty university i have pivotal in his election campaign if you recall, the speech that he made there. clayton: back in april of 2016? >> yeah. here's what the president, owe were talking about james comey, of course. here is what the president said about james comey and firing him. take a listen. >> there is no right time. let's say i did it on january 20th, the opening, right? that would have been the big story as opposed to you the inauguration. i was thinking about it then. i was thinking about it during this period of time. there is really no right time to do it. but, i'm okay with it. as you know i have a decision to make and i have to make the

decision. he agrees that i have the absolute right to do it. everybody agrees. clayton: there you go. we want to bring in now journalist and author of guilty as sin ed klein who always has the inside story. inside of this firing. so what's the real story here, ed? what do you make of this? >> well, comey was, as you know, in l.a. when this happened. he got on his airplane after he was told he was fired. he was absolutely barking mad, i'm told. yelled and screamed, tried to get to the white house. phoned the white house several times to speak to the president. why to find out why he was fired no one in the white house would take his calls. abby: what do you make of the timing, ed? a lot of people have questioned that not the fact he was fired. many people agree with that decision but just the way it was handled and the timing of when he did it what do you make of that? >> i think that knowing donald trump as we all do, comey was, in fact, i think, upstaging the president in many ways. he felt -- he called him a

show boater, right? if there is ever a show boater, there is donald trump. and i think he just felt again and again and again at these press conferences. comey, the president sean spicer and other people were asked about this russian connection, so alleged connection. i think the president was just furious and was fed up. that's why he did it. >> john: what does comey do now? >> according to my sources who are very close to comey, he intends eventually after he has straightened this out with his attorneys, to do some op-ed pieces. give some interviews and eventually write a book about this. is he not going to be cowed by the president saying he has got the secret tapes. comey doesn't even believe that there is any incriminating evidence of these tapes. clayton: why are we hearing from comey because of lawyers right now? >> lawyers have told him to shut up, wait.

turn over the -- all his papers to mccape, his former deputy who now is the acting attorney general. he is not thrilled by the way that the president has asked mccabe, i think his name is kenneth mccabe? jon: andrew mccabe. >> andrew mccabe. thank you. because mccabe's wife as you may recall, has a connection to the hillary clinton friend, the governor of virginia, terry mcauliff who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in his pac to mccabe's wife when she ran for the state senate in virginia. also, he -- comey, i'm told, believes that mccape may have been the source of some leaks about the clinton emails. and that doesn't make him very happy, either. abby: this is certainly not the last we are going to hear.o. you can be sure there is more to come. abby: what happens to hillary clinton from here? >> hillary clinton just began a super pac called onward

together. i think we all know about that. i think it should be called hangers on together because what is basically is going to do is pilfer big bucks from billionaires from this super pac so that hillary clinton hangers on huma abedin, cheryl mills, jake sullivan, jennifer pam merry could have jobs. clayton: we are talking about 2020. do you see in your reporting is there any chance hillary clinton rubs for president again in 2020? >> a lot of people have said, including me, as long as hillary clinton draws a breath, she is going to be running for president. clayton: really? abby: there is no way. democrats have to get behind that we have tried this a couple of times. this didn't work for us. >> totally agree with you. right now, bernie sanders and tom perez, the new democratic national committee chair are going from state to state to state in the united states.

all 50 states trying to set up committees that will be in the bernie sanders part of the party, the far left wing part of the party. that is not hillary clinton's part of the party. jon: is he actually not a member of the democratic party. >> no. jon: the interesting thing the party has pinned its hopes on a democratic socialist who is not even a member of the party. >> that's true. and then, of course, have you got perez who says that anybody who has anything other than the straight line on abortion shouldn't be in the democratic party u. clayton: looking on the left-hand side of your screen the president boarding air force one taking off short throif liberty university where he will speak at 10:30. first speech we have seen since the firing of james comey. who do you think will be his replacement? there were names out there floating around. senator cornyn would be an interesting choice. what is your reporting telling you? >> my reporting tells me that nobody knows at all.

but that ray kelly is certainly a figure who would be acceptable to both sides of the aisle. clayton: former nypd commissioner. interesting. liked by both democrats and republicans. >> that's right. abby: you can see the bottom part of that screen graduates at lynchburg, university. an important place for president trump. liberty university in lynch bugg, virginia. obviously we were saying an important place for the president during the campaign as well. jon: i have to correct myself i have to president boarding the 747. >> it is not the 747 version of air force one today. if you look, it is a smaller aircraft. it is still considered air force 1 because the president is on board. i'm guessing that the run ways in charlottesville will not accommodate 747. that's a big aircraft. >> the president will probably tell you this is a bigger plane anyway. abby: he definitely. we well, what do you expect him to say today tote graduates. we have been talking about commence you meant speeches

and many of them, elizabeth warren spoke recently getting political. should they get political? should they not. this comes on the heels of a lot of breaking news in washington. >> you talk to the president's speech writers, and they will tell you we never know whether a is he going to say, ever, ever, ever. he has he got his speech. he starters the speech and suddenly he goes off. who knows, he may say something about james comey today. >> abby: he may say something on stage we never know. clayton: terry tuurchy the man who found the unabomber. the people working on hillary clinton email investigation said we are done. she is exonerated. whether a is the morale like in the fbi. >> the day he gave the press conference exonerating hillary and at the same time indicted her for being careless. the morale was terrible inside

the fbi i'm told. there were times comey would walk down the hallway and meet agents who refused to look him in the eye and say hello because they were so teed off that ever everything they had done, in their view, he had blown it i think the morale inside there, despite what everybody says that the fbi people do their jobs, which is true, has to be confused and chaotic and fearful, actually, inside there. jon: it was curious that he weighs the investigator and, yet, put on the hat of, well, the prosecutor and said no charges. >> that's right u. jon: a lot of people found curious. abby: interesting times. we will keep an eye on it. after this break. clayton: we will have more "fox & friends" in two minutes. what is scary? pneumococcal pneumonia. it's a serious disease. my doctor said the risk is greater now that i'm over 50!

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right now to give his first commencement address at about 10:30 this morning. we will keep a very close eye on that one and give you any updates you need. tensions between the trump administration and mainstream media reaching new heights this week in an exchange that started with an eye roll. watch this. >> i was on your show also last fall saying we were going to win michigan and how we were going to do it. that was fun. but here is what happened today. let me tell you something, hillary clinton is in search of sexism as a lame excuse as to why her disastrous candidacy and campaign lost six months ago. i face sexism a lot of times when i show up for interviews like that. could you imagine rolling your eyes, having a male anchor on the network roll eyes at hillary clinton, at a female representative, spokeswoman for president obama or president bill clinton? i think not. abby: so does kellyanne conway have a point? here to debate is former adiscontestant inn elmore and cathy areu.

good morning to both of you. thanks for being here. i will start with you, does she have a pint there? i'm trying to think of josh ernest, former president obama's press director if that ever would have happened with him, anderson cooper or anyone else, would you see an eye roll. >> absolutely not. absolutely sexist. answer soof political wise. this would not have happened to a male or a democrat. eye rolling in and of itself is a sign of rudeness, immaturity and lack of respect. this was done by anderson cooper. >> the face of a nut network. we are not talking about a shock jock. we are talking about the face of network. support president trump as second class citizens. we being demeaned and talked down to. people are roll their eyes. we evidence support, president of the united states. this is not some exstrategic point of view or horrible ideology so it's really sad

and something has to change. abby: cathy, regardless of what party you affiliate with, isn't there respect you should show for the office of the presidency and the people who represent it? >> i have seen the eye roll many times. i think this is a lame excuse for sexism as borrowing kellyanne conway's own words. this is a lame excuse for sexism saying anderson cooper was sexist to her doing eye roll when the white house is giving terrible talking points? she was making no sense. she was being sarcastic and snippy with him. maybe the eye roll was an accident. it probably shouldn't have happened. it was unprofessional at best. no way was it sexist. journalists have a right to question it and eye roll was the sign of a journalist questioning the white house official u nothing wrong with that it was well deserved. >> eye roll by professional journalist is never well reserved it's rude and

classless and shame on cnn. i. >> i think everyone can agree with that we head out to liberty university as our own kevin corc is set. also joining us is geraldo rivera. and while our military heroes fight oversees. many unsung remain home. meet the insurance military wife of the year? you will only see that right here on "fox & friends." pretty special ♪ what doesn't kill you ♪ make ♪

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to keep us safe, many unsung heroes remain at home. jon: each year our armed forces gather together to name one very special recipient of the military spouse of the year. we are proud of to welcome now -- air force spouse and the 2017 armed forces insurance military spouse of the year britney bacher. also her husband, air force office of special agent adam bacher. abby: congratulations. >> thank you. jon: how do you get nominated to become military spouse of the year. >> nominated by friends, family. respected members of the military. we don't really know who gives us our nomination until after we've been nominated and it's posted. jon: would you have got to be busting with pride. >> absolutely, sir. for the last 18 years, brittany has supported me through deployments, lengthy.

and first time invited to military function to support brittany for everything she has done in the community and our family is amazing to be the plus one at a military function is a great opportunity. abby: adam, how many years did you say? >> 18 years. abby: give us a sense what you did for those 18 years and how you managed to keep up for the home life. >> for 18 years, three deployments, two deployments to afghanistan and one to iraq. multiple lengthy -- gone more than i was home. for me you can't plan for the -- you know, the storms that come through and maybe uproot a tree or the little things that hatch at home that i would not be able to take care of. and my wife is so amazing and handels the big things all the way down to the small things. it allows me to focus on the mission. jon: i have read a little bit about what do you.

i'm exhausted just reading about it it's not just that you are taking care of the home fires, you are a volunteer. you've started a foundation. you are a business woman. >> yes. so i left the corporate world is what i call it. i left the corporate world to just volunteer and to be able to support his career. and the best way to do that is from home. i still wanted to utilize my master's degree but i found a business i could do at home. i taught ear military spouses learn how to be mobile. two years ago my son was born and he surprised us with down syndrome and other diagnoses. immediately we knew we could help other military families. we founded the down syndrome advancement coalition, specifically to help children with down syndrome. i also volunteer with our exceptional family member program to really help all military families that have a child or dependent with special needs.

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>> i'm a very active president. >> are you moving so quickly that your communications department cannot keep up with you? >> yes. >> what do we do about that? >> we don't have press conferences. >> the more they get sucked in to dancing with the elite media, the more they're in the swamp. >> the quick wave of interviews with the fbi director getting underway at this hour. >> four people are heading to the department of justice today. >> the president warning quote james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. >> all i want is for comey to be honest. and i hope he will be, and i'm sure he will be. i hope. >> those that are saying investigate trump, why are

they not saying, yes, we also need to pursue the clintons? there's far more evidence there. >> this is not my first commencement speech. the institutions which i have spoken at previously include prime onschool of nursing. hollywood dj academy and trump university. not even funny. just weird. >> how did you come up with the name trump? does anybody have an idea? [laughter] they're never going to put that on television. >> and a fox news alert, you're looking at multiple boxes, like the brady bunch this morning because on the left side of your screen right now, that's liberty university where president trump will be speaking in about an hour and a half's type of there on the lower resigned of your screen. the president boarding air force one from interviews. >> yeah. we recorded that live here.

he's in the air at the moment. should be landing there lynch, virginia very shortly to speak to the graduating class. >> not very far. not a long flight from joint base andrews. >> supposed to speak at 10:30 a.m. this morning. >> and as our resident pilot and aviation expert, you were talking about it might have been the larger version of air force one, they might have downsized it to arrive at charlotte airport; right? >> looks like he's on the 757, which they still call air force one. but because 747 needs a whole lot more runway than this smaller plane, they are probably using the smaller plane today. >> good thing we have john scott here for that expertise. >> that was insightful analyst. >> we do want to bring in kevin, who was live in lynchburg, virginia at the university where that speech will happen in about an hour and a half from now. kevin, good morning. >> hey, good morning. what a great day to be on a college campus and very interesting i should point out. this isn't your traditional

college campus. this is a college campus where fate is at the very heart of the educational mission, and it is also a place where president trump has been before. keep in mind back in 2016, he came here as candidate donald trump, and he enjoyed a great deal of support from the leadership here at the university. no, he didn't come here as a politically-experienced person or someone who would be considered a traditional conservative and certainly not evangelical and yet, it was that experience that helped propel him to victory in november of 2016. a chance today to address the graduates of the class of 2017 and now that he's president, he's obviously still making headlines. only now, it's because of some of the decisions he's making. now that he's in the big chair. among the big ones in the news this week is his decision to fire fbi director james comey. the president telling fox news in an exclusive interview with our judge, he actually thought that decision to fire james comey would be well received. >> look, i thought that this

would be a very popular thing that i did when i terminated comey because all of the democrats couldn't stand him. but because i terminated, they said we get some political opponents. we'll go against trump. >> and that is how the game is played in the nation's capitol. the president now keenly aware of that fact. meanwhile the pain-staking process of trying to find a replacement for comey is underway, as you mentioned interviews already taking place on this very saturday. a couple of names i want to throw out at you. the acting director, most people in my circles of sources tell me there is almost no way he has elevated to director on a full-time basis. meanwhile, we're also hearing the name today of texas senator and another interesting, you may never heard of her but inside the circle if you will, she is very well regarded as the department of justice if she were to be selected by president trump, she would be the very first female to head

the agency. in the meantime back here in the rolling hills of the commonwealth of virginia,'s address clearly one that will discuss fate and family and a country. it should be a beautiful day here and of course we'll have all the details for you throughout the day. back to you now. >> 7,000 graduates awaiting that in a stadium holds 84,000 people. >> such a beautiful place. thank you, kevin. >> and you have an update. >> 7100 feet of runway at the airport. >> so not enough for a 747? >> i don't think so. >> geraldo doesn't need much runway. some say i do, some say i don't. >> a dark and stormy mother's day eve here. so we've got -- we want to get your take on the white house press briefings. if you listen to the show tonight, it's an exclusive interview, judge with the president tonight. we got some excerpts in clues as to what we might see and the president talking about he may want to get rid of the white house press briefings all together. just get rid of them.

he might come out every two weeks and do his own. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> the president acted in a cowardly fashion. he's a coward. >> it's a grotesque abuse of power by the president of the united states. >> we face a looming constitutional crisis. >> what's going on here is an effort -- >> that's not the correct sound byte. abby: we're just making sure you're awake this morning. >> get rid of the white house press briefings, he might do one with his own or just hand papers to the press with perfectly-worded press briefings so he can do this back and forth. >> don't believe it. as a former candidate, semi successful candidate on celebrity apprentice, i can tell you that donald trump would never, ever walk away from a hit show. and the sean spicer white house press briefing is beating the soaps. john knows beating the soaps, helps all of the cable news outfits, beating the talk shows.

it is a hit show. i mean, it obviously has some real problems when sean spicer -- first of all, when he started with that absolutely preposterous in your face defiant crowd size on inauguration day. his very first debut was, you know, you and the press are dumb asses -- excuse me. but you don't know anything the crowd was a lot larger than your eyeballs were telling you, and he recovered from that rocky start. but what happened last week when he and the president were on different pages when it came to why director comey was fired, that shows the danger of the kind of intense passionate encounters that these press briefings have become. you can't be sean spicer and be out of sync with the boss. you're the boss' spokesman. you can't give one reason for the comey firing and the boss give another. you have to be on the same page.

i think that sean spicer has involved. sarah huckabee sanders i think is also up coming with terrific potential. but what they need is and trump's not going to -- president trump's not going to cancel this hit show. but what they need is a absolute acute briefing where they specifically can recite the president's position, not their own. >> well, maybe they're out of sync with the boss because the boss is way ahead of them. listen to what president trump told judge jenin. >> are you moving so quickly that your communications department cannot keep up with you? >> yes. that's true. >> so what do we do about that? >> we don't have press conferences, and we do -- >> you don't mean that. >> well, just don't have them. unless i have them every two weeks, and i do myself. we don't have them. i think it's a good idea. >> first of all, you have a level of hostility that's incredible, and it's very unfair. sarah huckabee is a lovely young woman. you know sean spicer. he is a wonderful human

being. he's a nice man. >> is he your press secretary today and tomorrow? >> yes. -- well, he's doing a good job, but he gets beat up. >> will he be there tomorrow? >> well, he's been there from the beginning. >> see, the toughest thing for sean spicer is ridicule, just like donald trump. it's one thing to criticize but when you ridicule someone, like, yesterday someone in new york were amazed by the spectator of melissa mccarthy, the comedian rising through midtown, manhattan traffic on a mobile mockup of the podium addressed as sean spicer. so we know that tonight will be a real bombshell that really make a lot of fun ridiculing sean spicer. it's difficult to recover from that kind of humiliation. he's got to, you know, man up and do it. but he's going to be hit. i think what has to happen, they just got to be more professional. they've got to have an absolute briefing prior to the white house encounter with the

gathered press core. they've got to have a specific -- and when they don't know an answer to something, sean spicer has to say i haven't briefed -- the president hasn't briefed me on that one. next question. all right. but what about the secret recordings of the -- i've yet to speak to the president on that. you don't want my feelings, you want the president. just be able to say i don't know with confidence. because once he engages -- i mean, 49 guys -- men and women in the seats in the white house press, these are the pros. they are ruthless. they will cut your heart out if you give them an opening. abby: right? >> and he has to be very careful that he doesn't -- they say doctor do no harm. sean spicer, white house spokesman do no harm to poet us. but, again, the president sometimes very. he has to stay on message. i wish -- if i could make one suggestion to the president, it's to get a tweet editor.

write it and then just before you send it say. okay. it could be like a journalism student. what do you think of this one? >> well, mr. president, are you suggesting that you had a secret tape recording going on when you had dinner with james comey? is that what you want to say? you really want to say? >> no. no. i don't want to say that. >> well, you mentioned that, and that was one of the latest tweets from president trump. he talked about james comey and the potential secret recordings he says james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press, as you said, geraldo, it's hard for anyone to stay up with president trump. but he loves to leave these little things hanging. we don't quite know what that means. >> to me, this was very important because people my age, it conjures up secret recording. as an attorney i can tell you if indeed there are secret recordings or any recordings of the president's encounters either in the oval office or any other room in the white house having dinner and so forth, then by law, those recordings belong to the

people of the united states. they are the property of the people of the united states. it is a crime once the recording has been made to destroy the recording. they are also subject eventually to subpoenas. that's what brought down richard nixon. you have to be extremely careful if you do that -- and there's nothing wrong with recording. a lot of people record particularly when it is momentous occasions. i'm not suggesting it's a sin against humanity. but you have to understand the consequences. once you go down that road, aside from conjuring up all the negative images of richard nixon. that tape has a life of its own. donald trump may have indeed recorded but that recording now belongs to all of us. it is subpoena by the congress of the united states, and it cannot be destroyed without a criminal offense being committed. so this is heavy stuff. and for him to suggest it, why? because he's threatening comey? what does he get out of threatening the exfbi director? he's trying to spin history

here unnecessarily. it's his discretion. >> well, all eyes would be on him in about an hour when he's speaking at liberty university there in virginia. we'll see if he mentions anything about the media. >> i'm sure he'll take a shot at the media. it's a friendly crowd. >> and he may call you up to be his tweet editor. >> i would take that job. i would. >> thanks, geraldo. so the mainstream media comparing the firing of james comey to watergate? >> i think the real issue is the long longer this goes on, the more and more this looks like watergate. >> some are comparing this to watergate. >> well, it's understandable that people are comparing it to watergate. >> our next guest breaks down this watergate obsession. >> plus, you've heard of microaggressions. but what about macaroni aggressions? what's got the left so outraged about this mac and cheese ad? more people than ever

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>> i think the real issue is the longer this goes on, the more and more this is looking like watergate. >> some are comparing this to watergate. >> well, that's understandable that people are comparing it to watergate. >> well, the mainstream media obsessed with comparing fbi director james comey's firing to watergate. abby: here to react, political analyst, amy holmes. amy, always good to have you here. >> good morning. >> thank you so much for having me. good morning. abby: we were talking the hip oka hypocrisy on so many levels has been what we haven't seen. >> this is the holy grail for journalists, journalists that brought down a republican president. and a lot of journalists were actually inspired by bernstein and of course we thought the white house components dinner that woodward and bernstein

were the headliners, they look up to these guys and think to themselves, what will my movie rights sell for? who's going to play me? red ford or hauf man? >> take a look. the media center did an analysis over the first few hours and the use of watergate on comparison of news, 107 comparisons from trump to nixon. and 11 rejected the -- only 11 of them rejected the nixon comparison. is it a fair comparison, this idea of an impeachable offense? will be the has been we've seen a lot of legal analysts, you had allen, the very famed and respected legal professor from harvard on fox news yesterday. no, it's not. and, in fact, in washington, d.c. for example, when it comes to recording conversations, it's a one-party recording law, so that doesn't really make sense. mr. also said am i under investigation? and he said defense attorneys

always ask that of the clients of the prosecutor. so a lot of this is overblown, historical comparison i don't think line up and other political historians have said when it came to watergate, you actually did have a pile of evidence of crimes that had gone on and a cover-up. in this case, we don't, and we've even had intelligence -- the top intelligence officials, including clapper saying we haven't seen yet any evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. so what is this really all about? >> media are always after the white house saying that they are not telling the truth, they're not being accurate. but there are many examples out there. really, false headlines. the new york times just days before the james comey was fired had this headline saying comey asked for more resources for russia inquiry. and then that turned out not to be the case when you listen to andrew mccabe's testimony in front of the senate committee. listen.

>> i'm not aware of that request, and it's not consistent with my understanding of how we request additional resources. i strongly believe that the russia investigation is adequately resourced. >> that they didn't need extra money. that they didn't need to ask for additional resources to go after this. >> right. and we also saw this story the deputy attorney general had threatened to quit over all of this and then when he was asked directly by a local reporter, he said, no, that wasn't true. but do notice that these false headlines or misleading or incorrect headlines are never in the president's favor. they're always to make the story worse, and i brought in these two magazines. thank you, john, for holding them up, to show you media bias and pictures. on this side, we have mr. chuck schumer, the senate majority leader. >> smiling. >> smiling, photoshoped. abby: look how good he looked. >> do you see how pretty he looks? on this on this side, we have steve bannon warts and all with the black background looking like darth vader.

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>> fox news alert. we're awaiting the president's first commencement address as president. liberty university lynchburg, virginia is the spot, and you can see the graduation ceremonies are already underway. >> a class of what? 7,000 graduates. i think the stadium holds about 38,000 people. >> and it's packed. that means all the parents there ready to hear the president speaking. >> it is packed. well, beautiful there in lynchburg, virginia. he should be arriving any moment. supposed to speak around 10:30 a.m. this morning, so we'll keep a close eye on that.

>> the question is will he say anything political? will he address anything with the james comey investigation? or stay on faith, family, and have a successful career for these graduates because a couple of the other speeches we've been showing you over the last 24 hours, we have senator warren and will ifer he will out there getting political. >> my pitch is a little bit different. it's to get involved directly in the democracy of policy. your elected officials are increasingly working only for the few, the very wealthy few. and they are setting policies only to benefit the few, the very wealthy few, and i'm trying to keep this apolitical, but i can't help myself. the principle that no one, no one in this country is above the law. and we need a justice department. not an obstruction of justice department. >> do not take this prestigious honor lightly. i've already instructed my

wife and my children from this point on. they have to address me as dr. ferrell. the institutions to which i have spoken at previously include school of enough, hollywood dj academy, and trump university. i'm still waiting to get paid from trump university. in fact, it turns out i owe trump university money for the honor to speak at trump university. and i will always love you. abby: that's a way to go out on a commencement speech. and we've been asking you all morning do you think these speeches should be getting political or give advice to kids going in the real world and comments have been pouring in on this one. >> yeah. by the time students graduate from college, they have been indoctrinated of four years of nonsense. no one more speech probably

doesn't matter. >> will rights commencement speeches should not be political. commencement speeches should be motivational, congratulate other, or spiritual. period. abby: will do anything to sway over to a liberal way of thinking. i do think there's a concern out there with a lot of parents that you send your kids to college, you're paying for this amazing education for four years and in many cases, you're only getting one side of politics, you know? one point of view. and then you see these commencement speeches. when it should be the time when you just hear this inspirational motivational speech. >> and you think about some of the famous speeches; right? steve jobs famous speech, you brought it up earlier talking about some of his failures, his battle with cancer, him getting fired from the company that he created and being able to bounce back and then come back and create the things that he created. there's some other speeches talking about the adversity that you'll face and overcoming that. so i think that's what you want to hear. >> and the irony is listening to elizabeth warren's

commencement address, she was criticizing the very wealthy and how things in this country favor the very wealthy and she is among the very wealthy people in america. >> and isn't that ironic? you're speaking to college graduates. they want to have a good career. you want to build wealth. why are we demonizing wealth building? abby: that's a great point, complaint. so betsy devos, she spoke at a graduation, and i don't know if you saw the video of that. booze, heckling, she handled it beautifully. i think at one point. of that university said if you are disrespectful, we're going to have to throw you out of here. but it's a very divisive time just in general in this country and with these commencement address for these students, i think we can all agree they're going out into the real world. they need to learn about life. they need to learn about the ups and downs about living their dream, going after what they believe in. i mean, that should be the message. >> and accepting other people's points of view, no matter which side of the aisle they come from. >> exactly. let us know your thoughts. foxnews.com where you come

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>> welcome back to a fox news alert, we're awaiting the president for his arriving of the first commencement address during his presidency there in lynchburg, virginia in front of 38,000 people, this comes a mere 24, 48 hours after firing james comey and the headlines that it has made and the controversy that has engulfed washington. abby: and many of those headlines coming from a exclusively interview that judge had that will be airing tonight. we want to bring her in. first of all, congratulations on a very well done andrew, judge. as we wait this commencement address from president trump, what are you expecting to say today? >> well, first of all, liberty university is a very warm and receptive audience, i believe, for the president. but i suspect he's going to be talking about religion, the importance of god in the students' lives. i know jerry and junior and becky. i mean, these people are

incredibly supportive of the president. i imagine that the president is going to tell them that, you know, what they've got to do is remember that they have a mission, their mission is to be true to themselves, to be true to god as well as to country. i think it's going to be a real patriotic religious kind of supportive speech. and i know having spoken to myself, this audience is going to love whatever it is that president trump says. >> we had a chance to speak to the president yesterday and that interview will air tonight. something we haven't shown yet, a clip from your interview is trump's reaction to how he thought the comey firing would go. why don't you -- why don't we play this, and i want to get your take on his answer. take a listen. >> look, i thought that this would be a very popular thing that i did when i terminated comey because all of the democrats couldn't stand had

me i. but because i terminated him, they said we get some political points, we'll go against trump. so i assume there would be failur fairly popular, and they got together and, again, said we're talking total obstruction. this is obstruction. they got together and all of a sudden they love -- it's funny. when you listen to schumer and other people talking about comey. but then you go back a few months and get their statements from a few months ago, and they couldn't stand him. so it's a very interesting thing. . >> so, judge, he thought that the firing would have been well received. it turns out it wasn't. does that surprise you? >> well, i think that -- i'm not surprised by anything that the left does. the hypocrisy that is coming out of the left is stung and, you know, with the firing of comey and comey himself admits you can fire me for any reason or no reason at all all of a sudden there is this conspiracy theory that the democrats are coming up with. but even more than that,

you've got to look at them and think these people are schizophrenia ic, hillary clinton, they think lost the election because of james comey. they're out there in full force saying he's this horrible human being and then when the president does precisely what he has the right to do, precisely what they wanted, all of a sudden this is now a horrific thing, this is obstruction of justice. let me tell you something, guys. that is hog wash, and i believe that the american people understand what's going on. you cannot talk out of both sides of your mouth and then criticize the president. it doesn't matter. if this president under which cancer, they would still criticize him. >> you also ask him about the idea of ending news conferences. daily press briefings from the white house. that was kind of an interesting moment. here it is. >> when we have those press conferences, i actually said we shouldn't have them request because sarah huckabee. >> 100 years we've been doing. >> listen. no. no.

but there's never been action like this. this is crazy. we're getting higher ratings -- they're getting higher ratings on those press conferences. >> would you seriously consider stopping these press sessions? >> no, we do it in a different way. >> how? >> we do it through a piece of paper with a perfectly accurate, beautiful answer. i'll give you an example. they're asked 100 questions or 50 questions or 20 questions. if they get one out of 50, just a little bit off, 5%, 10%, 20%, it's the next day it's a front-page story in every newspaper. >> right. right. >> press conferences weren't even covered for obama, practically. they were on c-span and c-span2. there was nothing going on. these press conferences are like the biggest thing on daytime television. >> judge, were you surprised by that? abby: your face looks surprised. >> well, i was surprised, you know, look, i tried cases for

years. okay? and you can't get one person to stick with their same version of events if you keep going over and over it. so forget about having three or four people repeat the same version of events. this is so unfair and so the president's saying, look, i don't need this. how about this? you submit a question in writing, i'll answer the question, and then let's get on with the question and my successes, and i think that's the most frustrating part for the president is that they are looking for the media anything that they can find to say, oh, there's an inconsistency. well, that's just human nature. abby: well, judge, not everyone gets this unique opportunity to sit down one-on-one with the president, especially in this unique time in history, give people a behind-the-scenes. i'm sure you talked to him with the mike mics off. what was your take away? >> well, my take away is this. the president is working extremely hard.

he has a mission, and he is focused on that mission. he is somewhat surprised by the reaction of the media, and i think there is in spite of all of that a focus, a laser focus that he has on delivering on the promises that he made to the american people. and you will see the successes if you look beyond the media, and i think that this is a president who's going to continue to focus on what his promises were to the american people, irrespective of the media's criticism. >> we will be watching. tonight at 9:00 p.m. is when that interview airs. justice with judge denene piro. great to see you, judge, as always. abby: thank you for being with us. i have other headlines starting with a fox news alert, and here is a live look at a massive fire tearing through buildings in california. firefighters battling that blaze trying to contain it as smoke pours into the sky, as you can see there. began with a apartment building under construction.

there are no reports so far of any injuries. we'll akeep an eye on that one. and an exal-qaeda fire now wants an antiterror job in the u.s. bryant neil was sentenced to eight years in prison this week for planning to bomb a long island railroad train and walmart in 2009. well, the plots were never carried out, and he provided key information about the details while testifying in court. the 35-year-old now telling a judge that he wants to make amens by working as a counterterrorism analyst. that is not possible. and far less critics on twitter, lashing out fame over the company's newest mother's day ad, apparently that ad is sexist and promotes gender stereotypes. it has the caption that reads give mom the night off from cooking. she deserves it. well, critics say that as a suggestion that only moms can cook a real dinner while dads can get away with microwaving something from the freezer. still waiting from a response from stouffer's.

what do you think about that? and a loving couple writes their own vows for their big wedding day. but this was not in their script. watch this. >> on this journey that we make together. >> on this journey that we make together. [laughter] >> that groom spotting a bill and quickly swatting it away, hitting the bride right in the nose. guests watching the mishappen start to gasparino but the minister quickly explains what happened ask of course they all start laughing. and, hey, it makes for a great story to tell for the rest of your life. >> on national tv. abby: true. good point. >> we're going to be joined by pastor coming up in a little bit to talk about the president's speech at liberty university and while abby was reading headlines, we got an update on the president going to virginia, he got on air force 1 and got on the back of the plane to talk to the press and in that brief discussion with the press about the

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. >> a fox news alert, we are awaiting the president in lynchburg, virginia. >> yeah. just a few moments because he was on air force one and the press pool is in the back of the plane, he went to the back of the plane and started talking to the press and made some headlines by telling he would have liked to get the fbi leadership post in place before he makes that mid-east swing. he's going to be in brussels on may 25th. he's going to stop in the vatican ahead of that. not much time there to make the decision in the next few. >> friday. >> i think his first op is in saudi arabia. so, look, he didn't say anything for certain but as you can see at the bottom of the screen there quote we can make a fast decision. obviously, he wants to get

this done. he wants to find the right person for that job. he says there's great people on there, and, look, he was optimistic enough to go to the back of the plane and talk to the press core about it. and he said absolutely. >> and the interviews start today. so he's going to make a quick process of the interviews and the decision. abby: before he speaks at this commencement address in lynchburg, virginia. but for that, we want to bring in senior pastor and fox news contributor pastor robert. good to have you, pastor. >> good morning, pastor. >> thank you. >> so as you know there is a lot of news going on. but with this speech that we're going to hear in about 45 minutes, what are these graduates needing to hear right now? >> well, i think the president's going to inspire them with a vision for the future, a vision of hope. but i also hope that the president is going to address the wider evangelical audience who propelled him into office who will be tuned in to today's speech. and i think what he needs to do is to concentrate on all that he's accomplished for

evangelicals in just 100 plus days. several weeks ago at a white house dinner he hosted for religious leaders, i had the chance to outline that these leaders all that he's accomplished. i mean, his pro-life stance of allowing states to defund planned parenthood, confirming justice gorsuch, the religious liberty order he signed last week. we need to concentrate on these real accomplishments instead of being distracted by the manufactured comey crisis that's being generated and propagated by the media. >> because the first 100 days the report card that the president generally got in the media is that accomplished nothing. you dispute that. >> absolutely. i mean, he is delivering on everything that he has promised. and, look, i would say to evangelicals who tune into fox and friends and are watching the speech today, we have to separate what we don't know from what we absolutely know. we don't know that there's been any collusion trump campaign in russia.

there's no evidence to support that. but what we do absolutely know is that liberals are mounting a monumental effort to paralyze and prevent this president from in facting his conservative agenda, and we cannot allow that to happen. >> let's talk about these graduates. i mean, they're facing an interesting time period in our nation's history right now and the job market, you know, a shifting economy, wage stagnation in this country. what do you think the president will talk about? do you think those graduates will hear any of that today? >> i think they will. and, again, i think it's going to be a subtle reminder that the president is being paralyzed by liberals from a fulfilling not just commitments to evangelicals but to america as a whole. of tax reform and health care reform and more jobs. and, look, if liberals succeed in their effort to stop this president, it's not just conservatives who lose, it's going to be america that loses. and that's why it's so

important that we put these distractions behind us and move forward with the business of the american people. >> all right. pastor jeffers, we appreciate you weighing in as we're looking live in lynchburg, pennsylvania. thank you, pastor. abby: we'll be right back. >> thank you click click (male announcer) hit escape with great deals. like redhead rock bridge cargo shorts for under $15. only at bass pro shops. how if guests book direct ater, choicehotels.com and stay twice they'll get a $50 gift card? summertime. badda book. badda boom. got you a shirt! ...i kept the receipt... book now at choicehotels.com

abby: what is the best way to show mom how much you love her on this mother's day? how about cooking the perfect meal together? well, former nfl star tony gonzalez is teaming up with judy to show us how it's all done. good morning. >> so many talents but cooking apparently is another one. >> oh, absolutely. and look at that. >> every mother's day your son tony.

he said you call him anthony. >> yes, i do. >> i'm in trouble already? >> tony makes you a mother's day meal? >> yes. he does. and when we get in there, we whip it up together and make it -- >> i love it. so what do we start with? >> this is my mother's favorite meal; right? the carne asada, and it's pretty simple. you take this mayonnaise, throw it on top, you take a little cheese. >> after you grill it? >> after you grill it. you take a pinch of this, a pinch of salt, and that goes great, just really, really good. >> oh, that's great. so i've been eyeing this. carne asada. so how does this work? >> this one's pretty simple. mom, you want to go ahead and put beer in there? you get ten squeezed limes. this to make the marinade. >> it has to be a phil bottle. >> and the right beer; right? >> and the right beer. and really goes with everything and let me tell you something about ma dynamics

ello, the reason we teamed up with them is because they exemplified the fighting spirit the way my mom raised me. i don't know if you've seen the commercial ads, it's all about fighting spirit, getting out there and chasing dreams. >> if anybody your son, you know he has a fighting spirit. >> absolutely. >> he's also very tough too. she will knock you on the head every once in a while. >> oh, yeah, i grab him and throw him around. >> i love it. so the beer. how much of a difference does it make? >> i think it makes all the difference in the world. this stuff has such good flavor. it goes really well in the marinade and what you do is put the meat in there for an hour. >> it's perfect. . >> do you remember what these are -- >> and these are what? >> basically what it is is it is a -- the mexican bloody

mary. do we have any right here? you can do them both ways. go ahead. pour them there. >> you do yours. >> same one, huh? >> getting started ahead of time. >> these are great. you have them with brunch. really brings out some good flavor. >> i love it. >> and as always, don't drink too much. >> well, tony, i also want to ask before i let you go. where are you going next? apparently big announcement's coming. i want to break it right here on fox and friends. >> look at you. you reporting good stuff. >> honest. >> i have recently moved over to fox. >> really? >> your fox family, and i join the pregames on the nfl kick off show right before terry and michael. but looking forward to it, and it's going to be fun for football season. >> i love it. we are lucky to have you. congratulations and congratulations on a incredible career and an amazing mother. >> yes. happy moms day, huh? >> so sweet. all right. for more information on these recipes, of course go to fox and friends.com.

thank you, both, to tony and judy. have a great mother's day. >> thank you so much. >> we'll be back after this you ..

>> a short time from now donald trump will arrive in virginia to address 38,000 people at a packed stadium, 7000 our graduates going out in the world. talking about faith, family, life in public service. >> we heard some speakers this year, should commencement addresses be political, your comments, always -- critical thinking is a part of spending kids into the real world. >> inexcusable how these people politicized them, what happened to giving young people advice on

support in going on their journey into real life. commencement speeches should tell kids about truth and how life is, politics should never be involved. the president will be here, you can watch live at 10:30 eastern. good morning, we are looking live at liberty university where donald trump is about to speak, his first commencement address, his audience, 18,000 graduates and others in friendly territory, unlike washington dc, wave of controversy, fbi firing continues to swell. will that smash hopes for healthcare reform and tax cuts? the next two hours we are on top of it all, pat buchanan trying to take the president down, attorney general pam bondi