an interview with. [inaudible] a former news anchor turned politician who many say could be the next prime minister of israel. his thoughts on what he wants to hear from the president of the united states when we see you tomorrow. now, more news from new york. >> this is a fox news alert. the search for the next fbi director is heating up. despite canada's headed to the department of justice today to be interviewed. as a replacement for fired director james call me. welcome to a new hour inside america's news headquarters. good afternoon to you. i'm julie i'm kelly. the trumpet ministration wasting no time at all in a search for a new chief for our country's top law enforcement agency. president trump is saying today that the white horse could name from his successor as early as friday.

>> they been vetted over their lifetime. they are very well known, highly respected people. that's what we want for the fbi. kelly: allison barber is reporting live from the justice department in washington. allison, we expected the attorney general and deputy attorney general to interview for candidates today and that number increased. is the newest addition to his work. his name is adam lee. he's a special agent in charge of the division. he is expected to be here for an interview sometime between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. there are four other candidates interviewing today.

sources tell fox news that they are allison fisher, former assistant pretty general acting fbi director, andrew mccabe, michael garcia, a judge from new york and sitting texas senator, john cornyn. alice fisher arrived early this morning, a little before 7:45 a.m. on her way in the reporter asked if she had any comment before the meeting and she shook her head and said, no thank you. sources are telling fox news that the ministration has the short list of about 12 candidates. whoever they pick has to be confirmed by the senate. kelly. kelly: who are some of the other contenders present were. reporter: to big names that you may recognize. former nypd commissioner ray kellyanne also congressman trey gowdy. he is very well known for leading a host of congressional investigations into been godly. one other interesting name has come from a few different senators, particularly republican senator merrick garland. he said he would like to see the white house consider looking at merrick garland for this role. he, of course, the judge that president obama wanted to appoint the supreme court. kelly: thank you for your reporting from the state

department and will continue to watch the development. will continue to watch the romans as they move forward. should be a busy week b5 meanwhile, president trump denying the new york times, that he asked comey for a pledge of personal loyalty. >> i read that article. i don't think it's inappropriate selected you answer that question is no, no i didn't. it wouldn't be a bad question to ask. loyalty to the country and the united states is important. it depends on how you define loyalty. number one, number two, i don't know how that got there. i didn't ask a question. julie: let's bring in steve rogers a former member of the joint terrorism task force. thank you, for talking to us. number one the fbi director. it is his job, of course, to be loyal to the american public. as the head of the fbi, in charge of an investigation, he needs to be loyal to the white

house by sharing information that they are privy to. is it his job to be loyal to someone he is currently investigating #. >> is certainly appropriate for the resident if he wanted to ask a question. i take the president at his word that he didn't but as a leader you want loyal people around you . keep in mind that he loyal person is going to say no to you , at times, they won't be the yes-man that we see surrounding so many leaders. i think it's appropriate for the president, if you wanted to have that question, yes, with regard to the question of his investigation i would say certainly, that would be inappropriate. you certainly are going to have a person if you're going to be loyal to them leading them to believe that you want to favor them in an investigation. but the president did not do that. julie: do you think he was fired because he continued with his investigation of trump and any

collusion with russia so far, there has been no evidence. so far, he himself said there is no evidence. but he didn't shutdown the message. president trump is treated oftentimes why continue the investigation when it's a false investigation. it's fake news. there was no such thing. they're basically chasing a mouse. i believe he was fired because ironically, he wasn't loyal to the mission of the fbi. in july of 2016 when he was investigating hillary clinton's e-mails, he actually exceeded his authority when he stated that he would not pursue charges or prosecute hillary clinton. that's the job of the attorney general. when we talk about loyalty, the irony of all this, the director himself was not loyal to the mission and that's probably what was on the mind of the president when he actually fired him. julie: i would say much of his behavior has been quite a surprise to me personally. watching all the information that was coming out of the midst of this investigation, in the midst of a serious investigation you don't show your cards. you hold your cards close to the vest. you wait till all the evidence is collected and then you reveal

your information back you're absolutely correct. in all my years of one person, i've never seen anything like this. a lot of information is being made public when there's an ongoing investigation. keep in mind, there is not one shred of evidence that there was any collusion with the russians. so, all of this information and the president is right. we talk about big news, i have to tell you, it's starting for the american people in law enforcement across the country to see news being manufactured by a lot of other musicians. kudos to fox news. you kept on focus. you kept on bringing back to the people. thank god you're around. julie: one thing that really bugs me was the fact that we heard from james comey, way too much. i don't believe that we should be hearing from the fbi director ever when it comes to an investigation. thirdly, i never heard of an fbi director make so much tv time.ht clearly, that doesn't mean you're supposed to be on tv everything a week. to come out and release information and false information. how do you go from there are hundreds of thousands of e-mails that were released by hillary

clinton to, just a handful and while they were classified but were not going to press charges or prosecute? >> it's only in my view, this is not factual but in my view, heat , during the course of his investigation of the lakeland e-mails he covered the attorney general. the attorney general did not want to come out and make a decision regarding hillary clinton. what he did, he probably did a favor and said i'll take the heat. i'll take a bullet for you. at the end of the day, it backfired. you're right julie. when a law enforcement officer goes public with this stuff, it eventually caved in and backfires. julie: let's talk about the rest an investigation does the fbi continue to suppress sessions recuse himself from the investigation. but he is also taking part in the fbi director's replacement. there's the question has he really recuse himself and where does the fbi move next #.

>> they will always do their job it's the greatest law enforcement agency on the face of the earth. there's no success or failure. a new director comes in and they move for. keep in mind, yet the senate, congress, all kinds of agencies investigating this. yet, what's amazing, there's no shred of evidence that there was collusion. the fbi will continue to do their job. julie: who do you think is the best man for the job or woman the best person for the job if someone from within the agency. they'll gain the respect, if you walk the shoes of an fbi agent and you're the director, you know what they're good for. julie: you hear about rudy giuliani and chris christie and a lot of people wondering how they would play a role is fbi director? >> they are great people. they have a good background but there's nothing like a law enforcement agents are worked within the agency for many years and knows the trials and revelations and challenges that you have. it's like that old indian proverb, walk in my moccasins and you know what i'm going through. julie: yeah. i would agree with that. whoever they choose, doesn't

have to be wearing moccasins but i definitely agree with that. >> i agree. julie: not just the policy. >> the president is doing a good job and find the right person. julie: thank you very much. for more on all of this, tune into justice with judge judge jeanine for her in-depth interview with president trump. that airs tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox news channel. kelly: president trump delivering the speech at university in virginia. he was acting on his presidency so far. kevin is live in lynchburg, virginia with more details about his speech and his address to all those students at liberty. reporter: what a great day here in lynchburg. nestled neatly among the rolling hills in virginia. were at the campus of university

liberty and he gave his first commencement address as commander-in-chief. while he did do most of what you'd expect a commencement speaker to do, say congratulations, poke fun at their wayward lives as undergraduates, even making fun of the school's football team future schedule which is ambitious to say the least. resident trump wanted to make certain that he encourage the students, most of all, to be true to themselves and be bold. >> nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same. to do what is right and they know what is right. but they don't have the courage or the guts or the stamina to take it in to do it. reporter: as the kids would say these days, hey, you do you. that was the president's message

to the assembled. by the way, some estimate 50000 people were here in the stadium sees about 30000. about 10000 on the field itself. at least another ten on the hills and on the concourses all around here. taking in what turned out to be a pretty interesting speech which saw the president, kelly, try not on his personal experience only but his political experience. >> carry your self with dignity and pride. demand the best from yourself and be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures. does that sound familiar, by the way the more people that tell you it's not possible that it can be done the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong.

reporter: i do want to pass this along. i thought this was great. he talked about the mom. he said look, tomorrow is mother's day. celebrate your day today and do all that but don't underestimate the impact that moms have, not just on your life, but the sacrifices that they make in getting you to this point. if you're a kid and graduating today, one of the many thousands here, give it up to mom. the president made that point as well. were getting a little went here. kelly, back to you. kelly: really quickly. he also said we don't worship government and we worship god. we have big face and big dreams and humble beginnings. that's a good thing that moms would tell us a long time ago. kevin, thank you. reporter: absolutely right. julie: a fox news alert. a massive cyber attack now be described as unprecedented. it's hitting dozens of countries around the world. victims include fedex in the us, many hospitals in the uk, railway system in germany.

security experts racing to contain the fallout. we have brian in our video with the latest. >> hackers use microsoft windows flaw to launch what appears to be the largest cyber attack of this kind in history on friday. the leaked flaw was once secretly used as a cyber weapon by the us national security agency. hackers exploited this method to infect computers with iran somewhere through spam e-mail or attachments that iran somewhere launched your computer holding your data hostage in the user must i pay a ransom or their data will be deleted. this is a screenshot of what the virus dubbed wanna cry looks like at the surgery center in new england on friday. the $300 to be added in ransom and increased over time. this attack is alarming because of the sheer size and speed hitting more than 70 countries including the us, uk, india, spain, china and russia. it affected all kinds of

industries from the fedex corporation here in the us to british hospitals and medical centers. the russian interior ministry, french call maker and others. this virus affected 20% of the national health service. most of it is back online, simply and many were forced to cancel routine procedures, emergency room services were scaled down, the uk prime minister calling the attack on hospitals absolutely disgusting. >> interpol has said it is unprecedented in terms of scale of the cyber attack. the national cyber security center is working with all organizations here in the uk that have been affected. >> microsoft had released a security update to protect against this very attack in march. all microsoft winners are to download it. knowing his claim response ability for the attack, yet. this is highly sophisticated. governments and companies are now trying to assess how much money and data was lost while

also re- upping those cyber defenses. julie: thank you. kelly. kelly: the wells fargo is going to a whole new level. why the number of customers who were affected could be far bigger than we ever knew. and president trump will he really do away with the daily white house briefings? fair and balanced debate coming up next. >> would you seriously consider stopping the press briefings. >> we do it. different way. we do it with a piece of paper . the citi double cash card. double means double.

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julie: a local check at your holdings. police are investigating three people in a highly. it happened at a nursing home east of columbus. the alleged gunman thomas was found dead at the scene. so far no word at the positive motive for a five alarm fire ripping through a multimillion dollar construction project just outside oakland. that same also going up in flames last july. no injuries have been reported in authorities are now investigating the incident. new court filings as many as three and a half million unauthorized account may have

been opened by wells fargo. that according to seeking $142 million settlement with the bank. wells fargo is pushing back calling that figure quote unverified. >> we would do it in a different way. >> how smart. >> a piece of paper with a perfectly, accurate, beautiful answer. there asked a hundred questions, 50 questions, 20 questions, and they get one out of 50. they're just a little bit off. 10%, 20%, it's the next day a front page story. >> so. >> press conferences were even covered for obama. they were on c-span and c-span two. there was nothing going on. >> will you put an end to it? >> these are the biggest on daytime television. >> they are they are blowing away everything on just about

everything when they on daytime television. what i'd love to do is stop them kelly: that the president trump talking with judge jeanine and raising the possibility of doing away with the daily press briefing calling that a quote good idea. a team a is a democratic strategist and former president of the young democrats of america. ashley pratt is a commentator and us news and report reader. thank you both for joining us. let's weigh in on this. president trump first caught a lot of members of the media offguard on friday when he fired off a couple of tweets on friday morning, he treated this. as a very active president with lots of things happening, it is not possible for any surrogates to stand at the podium with perfect accuracy. then he followed that off with this maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press reading and handout written responses for the sake

of accuracy what do you think about this, ladies mark will begin with you -- i'm sorry can't get the right name, amira. >> a team of, sorry. >> yes, the press conference is a necessarily press briefing is needing to be televised at the level that they are, now. i do think a daily press reading are important especially in an open democratic society. trump has had, for a while, issues with coverage and some of that can be reporters in the relationship with his present surrogates. at the same time, ensuring that there's actually with all of the confusion this week what happened with comey and wife, not prioritizing, not making sure your press people have the right comments and they don't represent you well and that could be what be solving the problem. kelly: ashley, what you say

about that? >> this is him continuing his war on the media. this is what helped him get elected with his base. that's part of what he is doing here. trying to drive that narrative of the dishonest fake news. with that being said, i am a republican and i have been a press secretary and i've been a reporter. i always believe in a free, fair press. this means that i, as a republican, thought the apartment premises were too selective. this means, right now, republicans would be wrong to the same thing and to cancel press briefings and not televise them. they need to be televised. i think they need to occur. i think press secretary's have an import duty and job to uphold by knowing the facts and information. it's a 247 new cycle, at least correct the misinformation if you don't have the answer so that way all users can be betrayed. i miss you, there will be the mainstream media and more conservative outlets, more liberal outlets and the information that they're going to provide to their consumers

will be different. at least the information will be other. kelly: good point. the president has defended his idea by stating there's an incredible level of hostility if you will from reporters toward his press secretary, sean spicer and his deputy, press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders. based on his assertion that the relationship is hostile and is our, how would you describe the relationship between the press corps and the president? >> i think it's probably not actually any better. i would say that i've never seen a press corps really always on fabulous terms with the press secretary. it was the nature of the relationship is always going to be one that can be respectful but often adversarial in the interest in upholding the first amendment. the problems arise for trump and his team when there is not consistent answers for big breaking news items, call me being a great example of that.

as someone who worked for a governor, works for janitorsnneg and making sure your communication team have the right message consistently from the start alleviates a lot of the issues that he had this week that led him to say he get read of the press briefings. kelly: ashley, let's be clear here. he's not the first president to have a somewhat described herself as being in a hostile relationship. we saw with president obama obama and even george bush who won 82 days without a news conference with the media and then you have president nixon who didn't want a press secretary at all because of the contentious relationship. what you say about this and moving forward? >> they have been a tad contentious. we seem very hostile media. we've seen a hostile administration toward the media which has created this perfect storm. when misinformation is portrayed and the media jumped all over it , i guess, rightly so but when

the misinformation is reported the white house then goes on a twitter storm and all the media outlets get offended by that as well. there's hurt feelings on both sides. with that being said, in the obama initiation we saw multiple times where both the president and himself and josh earnest ended up saying things to the extent of, that's fox news. there's always been a bit of a problem with the press corps and administration. it'll be interesting to see what happens moving forward. i do believe the press does have a duty to report the news to the american people. kelly: absolutely right. ashley pratt and fatima, these are one of those things where the news media can be a good resource and then it's one of those things where you can't live with them or without them. thank you both. >> very true. julie: to new saints in the catholic church as programs around the world flock to portugal. as that happens, christians elsewhere under siege.

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julie: pope francis naming two new saints to the catholic church. the saints are two children who 100 years ago said the virgin mary appeared to them in the town fatima in portugal. john is live in jerusalem with the story. reporter: what a celebration this was. half a million people attended pope francis open air mass and canonization celebration in portugal. this is a town of about 11600 people, half a million people descended from all over the

world for the canonization. imagine how many packed it was. for good reason, as mentioned, pope francis was there to canonize the two young shepherd children who said that they saw visions of the virgin mary a hundred years ago in fatima. they were seven and nine at the time and they say they saw the aberrations six times between may 13th 1970 and october 13 th, 1917 along with her older cousin luciana who, by the way, was on the way to statement. they died in 1918 were canonized for a miracle attributed to them listen to this, a little boy named lucas who fell out of a window in 2013 in brazil wasn't expected to survive or at the very least was being dead but the mother prayed to the two children and six days later, lucas woke up and began talking soon after release from hospital .

lucas who is fine today and his family met with pope francis, you can imagine i was emotional meeting, that said, pope francis also spent time with the palestinian, iraqi family, it's the second time the family met with the pope and the family's grandmother told pope francis that she hopes that at some point they'll meet again here in jerusalem. the last time the pope was here was back in 2014 and julie, later this month, president trump, as you know, will be meeting with pope francis, may 204th, in fact at the vatican. it's a highly it's been a meeting giving the strained relationship between the two leaders that will come after president trump visits israel also a highly anticipated meeting that will all be watching to see what comes out of or at least the visit. julie: thank you very much. kelly: the white house and turned his attention to the persecution of christians around the world. earlier this week, vice-president pence said america will prioritize protecting questions.

>> i am here on the behalf of the president. it's a tangible sign of his commitment. we want to defend christians and frankly, all who suffer for their beliefs. i stand here today as a testament to president from tangible commitment to reaffirm america's role as a beginner pope and light and liberty to inspire the world. kelly: he deals with the issue is president northwest university which students who overcame persecution as well. doctor castleberry, let's just say ample disclosure, it was an honor to speak at your university last week for the commencement. let's move on and talk about this thing called christian persecution. i got to speak to some of your students. the pope called attention to the serious atrocities committed against christians.

president vice-president pence says will prioritize the protection of christians. during the first amendment dressed at liberty he gave assurance of this pop protection to this university. >> as long as i am your president, no one is ever going to stop you from practicing your faith or from preaching what is in your heart. kelly: i am interested in knowing what you say about the president and vice president as they talk about christianity and the fact that it is under persecution. >> first of all, thank you to fox news who is doing a great job of getting these religious freedom issues into the press. a lot of other outlets aren't covering them at all. we all appreciate what you're doing. as for president trump and vice-president pence, they had gained a great gratitude of christians all over the world in bringing these issues to the front.

the issue of persecution to death of christians around the world is a serious issue. thousands of people are dying every year due to persecution and we really appreciate vice-president pence to speak from a devout position himself and take these issues to heart. president trump has made the religious freedom important issue in his presidency. kelly: i want to drill down to how widespread the issue is. before you became a president of a christian university, he served as a missionary. in that role, did you encounter or witness any of the persecution of christians in your travels into the like of which we talk about today? >> absolutely. i lived in el salvador during the civil war there and saw pretty ugly things. not in person but was there when ugly things happen. even though things pale in significance to the kind of things seen around the world today, both in islamic context which vice-president pence certainly signaled in speech but also in places like india where hindu nationalists are proceeding christians and killing them.

buddhist nationals and myanmar, you don't think about this has been persecutors but that is what is happening. of course, state persecution in secular states like north korea and others around the world. this is serious global issue. kelly: one could argue that it goes both ways. christians have also been guilty of committing acts of persecution and that some people today might say that the justification for what goes on today. >> well, there is no justification for persecuting anyone because of their religious police whether they are religious or an atheist. people have every human right to believe what they believe and not be persecuted for it. especially, if they are not permitting acts of violence against other people. there's always going to be human infallibility among believers of any religion but that doesn't justify being killed and having their houses of worship burned and destroyed. about 200 christians of worship houses were destroyed every month.

there is no way to justify that. there are those who would seem to believe that christians deserve to be persecuted. kelly: next week, president trump is taking a tour to saudi arabia to andrew sloan and ilia. he is affected to promote peace, progress and prosperity for jewish, muslim, christian faiths and he is expected to seek a stronger and closer relationship with the arab world and calling for them to take a stronger stand against isis and radical islam to stop terrorism and persecution of christians. your thoughts about this perspective do you think it will bring about reconciliation among all faiths and perhaps a repudiation of anyone who persecutes others? >> every bit of attention is given to the issues has helped some. this trip won't solve all of the problems but we do appreciate the attention it's been given. the press can do a lot more to highlight some of the good news

around the world that happening on this. we just had a segment about the pope's travel to portugal. he went to egypt on april 208 th and 29th and had a two-day conference with the grantee mom there and they came out with a tremendous statement in favor of human rights. the greatest authority in sunni islam, the islamic pope, called for the respect for people to be able to change religions. kelly: thank you for letting it be known. we appreciate your insights on this difficult problem that the president will be dealing with as well. thank you so much. >> thank you to you. julie: are the chilly relations with north korea find out. why a diplomat says the regime might actually be open to negotiations with the us. president trump tweeting out a message to former fbi director james comey, but wasn't a threat >> the president has nothing former to add.

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kelly: north korea's top diplomats staying in beijing the regime would be willing to meet with the trump administration, if quote the conditions are set. the diplomat did not say what those conditions were but if he talks or pop happen they would be the first negotiations between the us and north korea since the last round of talks fell apart nine years ago. julie: president trump in the meantime is sitting down with judge jeanine here on the fox news channel. the conversation turning to

fired fbi director comey and the president danced around this question. >> what about the idea that come in at what you said, 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. i'm sure he will be, i hope. julie: charlie is the opinion editor at the fox times and he got fox news between her. thank you for talking with us. what you make, first of all, of the president from street printing at tapes and those who interpret it as a threat #. reporter: i think, it was a sly strategy on the president's part he's trying to send, firing a rocket over james comey to make sure that in the days going forward that he does play doesn't play back fast and loose with their conversation.

it's important that he makes this point that jim comey has, three different occasions, said that no, mr. president, you're not a particular target of the fbi investigation. i think he wanted to make it known that there may be consequences if jim comey tries to dispute that. julie: but, he mentions it takes that's just not a word you throw out there unless the conversation was taped. it's sort of like his tweet when he talked about president obama wiretapping him. then they later dialed back on that and said well, we didn't do silly mean the phones were tapped but that was surveillance you can't use words like this and expect us for not to just i don't know, walk away from them and not pay attention to them. the word tape means that the conversation was possibly taped. reporter: right. i think that's why we've had sean spicer say that judge jeanine and the president himself try not to talk about it anymore. i. julie: that's impossible.

>> i know, i know. julie: if he would just stay off twitter and i know that's how he communicates with his millions of loyal followers but you can't do that and expect us not to talk about it. the whole reason you're doing that is because people are going to talk about it. i don't know which he wants us to do but. reporter: what that points up is that just how important it was for him because he had to know this would be a topic of conversation for days and weeks following. it underscores just how much he wanted to make sure the message got made to jim comey. the other point that i do think is important to remember. julie: he could've texted him. reporter: indeed. i don't think it's nearly -- i do think it's worth remembering. i certainly don't walk around the white house or walk around congress ever thinking that my

calls are not being recorded by somebody. when you look at the calls that we've seen lately whether it's general mike flynn or the conversation that donald trump had with the australian prime minister in the first days of office that got leads for the state department and reporters. then the most amazing case, i think, for former congressman who had his calls from his office in congress with foreign leader were recorded and later leaked to the washington times. then they were relayed back to him. he believes, absolutely, that was done by the previous administration. so, the idea that all sorts of taping of phone calls all overtime are going on right now that is indisputable. julie: that is very, very easy to keep a phone conversation. all you have to do is have a iphone. he keeps his iphone close to his pocket.

let me ask you, regarding, some democrats are saying that there is a strong case for obstruction of justice against trump. if indeed this recording took place. congressman jerrold nadler said in an interview on friday that trumps dismissal of fbi director comey and subsequent tweet that comey better hope their conversation wasn't taped was a strong case that trump tried to obstruct justice. your thoughts. reporter: i don't really see the connection there. if anything, what that threat or what that persuasive technique by the president would do would just simply ensure that comey say what was true and not say something that wasn't true. comey, speaking truly, i don't see how that's in any way an obstruction of justice. julie: in normal circle, though, if you're going to tape recording your supposed to tell that person. in some states is illegal, it's

different in the white house and i agree but if you step into the oval office then you better think there's cameras on you. by the way, we've recorded this entire interview. i just want to be very, very open. reporter: i didn't realize that. julie: and we have a couple people of watching as well. reporter: off the record. julie: completely off the record thank you. kelly: passengers on one of the country's busiest airports bracing for possible delays this weekend and dozens of airlines take part in a massive overhaul. details on that, next. i count on my dell small business advisor

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kelly: we've got 15 seconds. julie: yeah. so what do we talk about? oh, yeah, we're going to be back at 4:00. kelly: we'll see you then. julie: "journal editorial report" is next. ♪ ♪ paul: welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. prumple plunged the capitol into turmoil with the abrupt firing of fbi director james comey. the white house originally citing the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, even releasing a memo that offered a scathing assessment of mr. comey's handling of the investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. but the president himself told nbc news on thursday that he would have fired comey regardless. >> i was going to fire comey.