>> that was some sizzle, great to have you. >> thank you, ladies. >> elected have to talk about, wrapped it up with good conversation, go to mohammed bin zayed tonight -- the "outnumbered" overtime, and now "happening now" ." >> heather: fox news alert for you, president trump just wrapping up his commencement address at the u.s. coast guard academy and prepared to head back to washington. >> jon: list as the commander-in-chief cups of a growing political firestorm over former director james comey and accusations of intelligence sharing with russian diplomats. we are covering all of the news "happening now" ." >> he shares information in a way that is wholly appropriate. >> jon: national security advisor and now vladimir putin insist president trump did not reveal any intelligence sources or methods. >> the president was not even aware of where this information came from. >> jon: now new concerns about

the security of intelligence they share with the u.s. plus... peaceful protests turn violent during the turkish president's visit. supporters and critics of the controversial reader go at it. who started this brawl? and a fox extreme weather alert. >> pulled walls off people. >> jon: deadly tornadoes from texas to the great lakes. >> take care of the babies and elderly. >> jon: and it is not over. it is all "happening now." but we begin with this fox news alert, president trump facing new fallout from a report that he asked former fbi director james comey to drop an investigation of his friend, i am sorry, fired national security advisor michael flynn. a claim that the white house is denying. welcome to the second hour of "happening now," i'm jon scott. >> heather: i am held their childers once again and for jenna lee. president trump just wrapped up

a commencement at the u.s. coast guard academy and will soon return to our nation's capital where a lot is going on. that is where the white house is also dealing with claims that president trump disclose classified information to top russian diplomats in the oval office. house lawmakers holding weekly news conferences this morning, the g.o.p. asking for patients while the democratic colleagues call for action. >> we cannot deal with speculation and innuendo. there's clearly a lot of politics being played. our job is to get the facts and be sober about doing that. >> given the gravity of the events that have occurred over the past weeks, we should already be conducting robust and transparent investigations and oversight. it is unacceptable that we continue ignoring these scandal scandals. >> jon: we have team coverage on all of the latest developments, chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill,

but we begin with senior white house correspondent john roberts. >> good afternoon to you. the president came out swinging at the commencement address at the coast guard academy just a few minutes ago. his speech was all about the coast guard until he got to the point where commencement speakers typically offer a little bit of inspiration to those who are graduating. watch with the president said here. >> you will find that things are not always fair. you will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted. but you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight. look at the way i have been lately. especially by the media. no politician in history, and i say this with great maturity, has been treated worse. >> president standing defiant in the face of two new challenges,

first a memo from the former fbi director that suggests the president asked james comey to drop the fbi investigation into the former national security advisor michael flynn and second claims that he inappropriately shared sensitive intelligence with the russian foreign minister, charged that the president vehemently denies. both those issues have ignited calls for hearings on capitol hill, some have democrats going as far as to accusing the president of obstruction of justice. but the president insisted he's going to continue to pursue his agenda regardless of what his political opponents say or do. watch here. >> adversity makes you stronger. don't give in. don't back down and never stop doing what you know is right. nothing worth doing ever, ever ever came easy. and the more righteous your fight, the more opposition that you will face. >> there has been no further expiration from the white house on what the president said to

the former fbi director, only denial that he asked comey to end the investigation and on the intelligence sharing from russia, the present got some perhaps unwelcome support today when russian president vladimir putin announced he would be happy to release a transcript of the meeting if the president asked him to. which, of course, public questions as to whether the russians recorded the meeting. secretary of state rex tillerso rex tillerson. >> reporter: mr. secretary, vladimir putin is offering a transcript of that meeting. do you think they were bugging the oval office? >> i would have no way to know that. >> do you think that russians were bucking the oval office, i have no way to know that is the response. whoever leaked that information was very good at what they did because they sort of put the white house and a bit of a box here in order to fight back against those claims, the white house would likely have to release or at least reveal some classified information that

would then bring more criticism upon the white house. so all they could do right now is just basically say it did not happen. >> jon: john roberts, chief white house correspondent, thank you. >> heather: meanwhile, as you can imagine, problem stuck in the white house leading to fireworks on the house floor where at least one lawmaker said that it was time to impeach the president. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has more on that angle for us from capitol hill. >> good afternoon to you. a number of lawmakers i talked to today said they want to see exactly what james comey has written. they want to hear directly from the former fbi director. house oversight chairman jason chaffetz sent a letter to the fbi last night setting a deadline for one week from today demanding "all memoranda, notes, summaries and recordings referring or relating to any communications between comey and the president." yet already, some have jumped ahead to the letter i word, impeachment.

>> the plurality believes that the president should be impeached, more than 40%, i think that can grow. i assure you that once you wait in american people, that will be the difference in the attitude about this. i want to thank you mr. speaker for this opportunity because but for this opportunity, you might not hear my voice. >> gentlemen yields, members are reminded to refrain from personal attacks against the president which could be an impeachable offense. >> the senate have an ambitious legislative agenda after passing an obamacare repeal and replace plan, house speaker paul ryan is eager to pivot toward tax reform, rank and file members say they are still focused on addressing major issues. >> what hasn't tried to be a distraction? i am not distracted. we are bringing dodd-frank repeal to the floor next week regardless of what goes on over there. the legislative business is still continuing. it's only a distraction if you let it be a distraction.

i don't see it as a distraction. you guys will be here asking about another issue in a week or two. it's just an evolving news cycle these days. >> for now, top republicans on capitol hill resisting calls for a special counsel noting that the congressional committees are doing their work. >> heather: mike emanuel, thank you. >> jon: so as the white house deals with one issue after another, some lawmakers are wondering if president trump is up to the job he was elected to do. others point the finger at leakers and the outlets publishing the leaked information. >> it strikes me that i used to be a prosecutor, if somebody came to me and asked me to squash the investigation, i would scream buddy murder about it and tell the world. i don't know. what's happening, couple large newspapers that are so vitriolic and hateful against the president that every little scrap of paper that blows across their desk that says something bad about him, they blow it up.

i think that's what you've got. the use of nonsourced materials in this town is just amazing. >> it is more than troubling at this point. there seems to be a series of things that have happened to show the ineptness of the president in terms of the travails of the sources. as he said come he's learned it's a very difficult job. what comes with that of responsibility. certainly in terms of the leak of the information to the russians, but there are 70 questions so i think it's time for an independent commission. >> jon: i am joined now by amy holmes, political analyst for rasmussen reports and liz smith former deputy campaign manager -- to be to commanders a good title. >> i like that. >> jon: for presidential candidate martin o'malley. so amy, you think some of the members of congress are getting ahead of their skis on this issue. >> i think you could use that

phrase and all the hysterics on the house floor, they may fire up the democratic base, but it really discredits the judgment of these democrats that are leaping to judgment on so little facts. i want to show you a headline from "the washington post" less than a year ago touring the obama administration, holding it up here "u.s. offers to share syria intelligence on terrorists with russia." and we did not see any of this pitchfork and torch coming over the hillside for president obam president obama. >> jon: he did not see it, but les was nodding in agreement. >> i agree with you, hey! i totally, totally, totally agree. it is way too early to be using the i word, impeachment. i think it erodes people's credibility, whether it's coming from democrats or than never trump, even the congressman yesterday used the i word, and look, before we jump to that, we need to get to the bottom of all the facts here.

i think that's why it is incumbent if you have a problem with leaks, let's see if there are tapes, let's have jim comey testify publicly, have an independent commission, special prosecutor, but jumping to talk about impeachment is getting over the skis and a little bit like the boy who cried wolf at this point. >> i'm sure you remember back in the '90s when president clinton was impeached, it did not help the republicans. they left very badly in the midterm and regained speaker of the house. >> that was a lesson, i was in high school at the time. it eroded the trust in government, and i agree that i thought that was unwise at the time and it is unwise for democrats to be hyperventilating about this by now. >> jon: i was in junior high school. senator marco rubio of florida has similar thoughts, here's what he said this morning on "fox & friends." >> first of all, i think these are important matters whether it

is this or the comey is a symbol before anyone rushes to judgment, were not going to base our opinion solely on a news article. i'm not saying they are wrong or right, i am saying that we have an obligation to look into them but before we form opinions and advocate for action, we need to know what the facts are. i did not just speak to the white house, i spoke to one of the people at that meeting, they vehemently and repeatedly denied that the president said or did anything that would have compromised u.s. intelligence, sources, methods or intelligence relationships around the world. there is no transcript of the meeting apparently, there are notes. i imagine at some point very soon the president should make those available. >> jon: the two of you, you come from the republican point of view and democrat point of view, but we are in such a high part due to my hyperpartisan atmosphere right now, would it not behoove us all to take a deep breath and see what is going on? >> i think we come at it from a common sense point of view, for example, "the new york times"

report about that comey memo. if you saw it buried in the piece, it was actually read by a third party over the phone to the reporter. they never put their eyes on it so as far as we know, this could have been the collected works of dr. seuss. we also know there was reporting from "the washington post" prior to this and eight comey-trump meeting that the fbi reviewed michael flynn's calls with the russian ambassador and found nothing illicit pair the same article in january prior to the meeting, it said that general flynn was not under investigation. so i think that there is a lot of information we don't have that we need to collect before we make any of these judgments. >> that is exec levi we need an independent commission and a special prosecutor. >> special prosecutor is a different thing. >> i do know that which is why and putting them separately and for jim comey to testify publicly and release his mom most so we can see it. let me say something counterintuitive, this might be good for donald trump because if there is nothing there will learn that and the more

transparent everyone is. >> jon: we are just getting worth of the senate judiciary committee is asking for any tapes that might exist from the white house and also asking for copies of the gym comey memos as written which is what "the new york times" got a red transcript of. it's going to be interesting. we will see. nothing that paralyzes washington is good for getting the rest of the nation's business done. >> not good for our country. >> jon: amy holmes, liz smith, thank you both. >> heather: how about another ugly scene in our nation's capital with protesters coming under attack. so what in the world started this smack down and who got arrested? we are live with those details peered plus, the follow continues for the president over that james comey memo with vladimir putin, vladimir putin offering to help.

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>> probably be the last person the president needs to vouch for him right now is vladimir putin who is going give him any weight and whatsoever. if they want to say something, hats off, send it our way, but whether it will be given credibility, i can tell you that it would be less than zero. >> we need the facts. it's obvious there are some people out there who want to harm the president, but we have an obligation to carry out our oversight regardless of which party is in the white house. that means before rushing to judgment, we get all of the pertinent information. >> heather: reaction from two top house lawmakers to the

recent reports that president trump shared classified information with top russian officials and new reports that the president asked fbi director comey to drop an investigation of michael flynn. some say this is sparking concern about u.s. allies about intelligence sharing while vladimir putin is saying that president trump did not share state secrets, and he is even willing to give congress the tapes to prove it. joining me now, former u.s. army intelligence officer andrew peach, thank you very much for joining us today. so let's start with putin come he wants to help out, he's offering these tapes, actually went on to say that he thinks the united states is developing political schizophrenia and saying that the internal political struggle and the u.s. including all of this anti-russian rhetoric can harm the united states itself. so what is he up to? >> i would take anything putin says with a grain of salt. the russians clearly do not have our best interest at heart. they don't know what is

classified and what is not that the u.s. designates, but i think there is a kernel of truth here. look, donald trump came to office promising a more conciliatory policy toward russia, so it's actually beneficial for the russians if he is stronger so they can reap the benefits of that more conciliatory policy. i would actually be kind of interested to see what they're transcript has to say. ashley don't see any reason why it should not be accurate. >> heather: you believe they do have a transcript but you do not believe they have the oval office bugged. >> no, i assume they had no takers at that meeting as i assume we did as well. if there was an intelligent issue with the white house, that would be an operational intelligence issue i would not expect u.s. officials to comment on that, and it would raise really interesting policy choices such as if there was a bug in the white house, would we remove it? or would we feed false information into it and thus lead the russians to think something else? >> heather: let's listen to some other comments, this is from house intelligence

committee member congressman peter king on the intelligence community and the leaks, listen to this. >> this is a real national security problem if you support president trump or not, this goes to the office of the presidency, people leaking out confidential conversations between the president and heads of state, between foreign ministers of foreign countries, leaking out classified information, talking about alleged wiretapping. 99% of the intelligence community are outstanding, patriotic americans, but i do think there are people in the intelligence community and also i would say probably holdovers from the obama administration still in the white house who are working against this president, absolutely disgraceful and dangerous. >> heather: what is of greater concern to you, president trump, russia, or the leaks coming from the intelligence community to our foreign policy? >> i think the leaks are a disgrace, no doubt that an element of the intelligence community is at war with president trump and leaking things to former obama officials who then blow them up into the media.

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happened with that issue but i know they're trying to fix that and get it taken care of, but we've always thought the western wall was part of israel. >> the western wall's are was he one of the holiest sites in the jewish faith. it is clearly in jerusalem. but there has been an issue that has serious consideration, will be a topic that will be discussed during the president's trip between the parties that he meets with. >> jon: there seems to be some confusion in the trump administration when it comes to the location of the western wal wall. this ahead of the president's first overseas trip to the middle east, that includes a stop in jerusalem. as there are new concerns about intelligence sharing with our closest ally there, israel. after reports that the sensitive information the president reportedly disclosed to russian diplomats came from israel. joining us now, vice president of the american foreign policy

council. this report that the president gave some intelligence to the russians which may be he had not been authorized to give, how much damage potentially might this have done to the u.s.-israeli relationship? >> it's possible they could have done some for sure, but i think the broader context that you lead with is exactly right. this comes at arguably the worst possible time for the administration. this administration is trying to clarify its position on israel, palestinians, and also trying to cobble together a broader coalition in the middle east to include a number of gulf states including saudi arabia where the president will head as well. this creates a lot of trepidation in jerusalem among officials they are about the united states commitment to israel and about whether or not the policy is likely to fracture, likely to change as te president looks at these

competing priorities. this commentary and also the related leaks that seem to have come from israel certainly do not instill confidence at least in officials they are. >> jon: is a the leaks came from israel or the intelligence? >> yes, the intelligence originated it appears to be from israel. >> jon: the national security advisor h.r. mcmaster is considered a straight shooter. here's what he had to say on the president basically doing what he is allowed to do. here it is. >> what the president discussed with the foreign minister was wholly appropriate to that conversation and is consistent with the routine sharing of information between the president and any leaders with . that conversation was wholly appropriate to the conversation, and i think wholly appropriate with the expectations are of our intelligence partners. >> jon: so if the national security advisor is comfortable

with what was shared with the russians, should we second-gues second-guess? >> i think this is a question honestly for our intelligence partners. i think it is perfectly clear that the president has the authority to declassify at any time anything he sees fit. he is the commander-in-chief, after all. but their relationships, intelligence relationships that the united states shares not only with israel but also with england, european countries, countries in asia depend a great deal upon a level of trust that the intelligence that is shared bilaterally won't be spread any further. after all, this is really committee have their own intelligence sharing with the russians, if they wanted russians to have that, they could have shared it with them directly. from this israeli perspective, it creates trepidation and some doubt about whether or not that intelligence pipeline is as sacrosanct as it was before. >> jon: we are just getting word that the democrats in the

house, nancy pelosi and her caucus, are going to be holding a news conference about 30 minutes from now, 2:00 p.m. eastern time, regarding this comey investigation and the whole russian model. we will most likely have that for our viewers live on fox. in the meantime, the israeli ambassador to the united states ron dermer released this statement to fox news and others. "israel has full confidence in our intelligence sharing relationship with the united states and look forward to deepening that relationship in the years ahead under president trump." it sounds like if there is consternation in tel aviv over what happened here, it is not particularly strong or deep. >> i think that is right. if you are an israeli official, there are things to worry about, but it is not time to panic yet. however, you can be sure that when president trump does meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu next week, it

will be a topic of conversation insofar as russia is sort of a strategic partner of iran which is an enemy of israel. russia is deeply involved in syria and in the syrian civil war which is on israel's border. these are all things of legitimate concern for the jewish state, and there are things that are going to come up in the context of the free flow of information. >> jon: american foreign policy council, good to how you want, thank you. >> heather: as you probably noticed, investigations concerning russia still dominating the news cycle as lawmakers make a request for tapes from the white house and memos from james comey. plus, protesters coming under attack. bodyguards for the turkish president throwing the punches, but that smack down did not play out overseas. oh, no, this actually happened right here in our nation's capital. we are live with those details next. whoa, this thing is crazy.

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>> i think it is reaching the point where it is of watergate size and scale and a couple of other scandals that you and i have seen. it is a centipede that the shoe continues to drop. every couple of days, there is a new aspect of this really unhappy situation. you know, my friends, none of us, no matter what our political leanings are, no matter how we feel about trump feel this is

not good for america. >> heather: senator john mccain the latest blonde maker speaking out on all of the controversy, many others saying that they will do what it takes to get to the facts and for more on this, we are joined by the former chief counsel to the house judiciary committee and chris wilson, former ted cruz campaign poster and partner at wpa opinion research. thank you both for joining us. let's get right into this. chris, i will start with you. is this just a lot of overreaction? is this an effort to derail the republican agenda or more specifically president trump's agenda? >> no, in fact, you know how four republican senators coming out to take some sort of stand that there needs to be a further investigation, calling for release of the memo and for the senate to be able to review it and frankly, anyone who supports the republican agenda should join that and encourage a quick analysis of the investigation to determine if something wrong was done. if there was, it needs to be dealt with quickly because there is no way any agenda is past

while this is hanging over the heads of the republican party. it's unfortunate because that is not what voters are looking to have happen right now. >> heather: everything has come to a screeching halt. a speaker ryan trying to divert over to tax reform earlier today, but of course, the media not having it. julianne, speaking of moving forward with elections, how do you think this is going to impact democrats? >> i think it is too early to tell. made to get a lot more information. i applaud chris for saying what he is saying, that i think you will see more republicans coming into which is putting country ahead of party. any time you have the president of the united states, while we still need more information, anytime you have the president of the united states if it is true, strong-arming the head of the fbi to stand down on a criminal espionage investigation that could implicate him or his senior coterie of staff, that is the classic definition of obstruction of justice. so while we do not have all of the information now, if some of this is true as senator mccain

seems to suspect it may be as the congressman suspect it might be, you are hearing republicans even using the i word now, this is going to be a long, hot summer. things seem to be getting worse every day we find out new information. >> heather: all we know is law enforcement have confirmed to fox, a source that comey documented meetings with president trump and he documented one specifically that made him feel uneasy. most of the legal experts that we have talked with our very own gregg jarrett says this does not rise to obstruction of justice. >> i don't think it doesn't rise to that level, that is clear, but at the same time, it is something as you have pointed out when paul ryan tries to talk about tax reform, no one cares right now. no one's going to talk about tax reform. we have bodyguards for the leader of another country beating up american citizens yesterday, and that gets minimal coverage because of what's going on in the white house. we're going to get nothing done

and nothing else will be covered while this is being investigated, it needs to be quickly put behind us or we are just going to spend all of our time talking about nothing but russia, comey and the other distractions coming out of this administration so far. >> i think chris is right, and let me say your legal experts are wrong. >> heather: i will let you take that up with gregg jarrett. >> i'm happy to say that to them. it's true if it occurred outside the context of the president in the oval office, there would be a question as to whether there was an ongoing grand jury investigation or grand jury had been in panel, you may have technical issues by objection of justice. in the context of house representative's, and i lived through the 1998 impeachment as the chief counsel judiciary committee, it is not true. this would be classically obstruction of justice if you tell the chief investigator of the government who is looking into a criminal investigation that could implicate you, if you tell him inside the white house on a one-on-one meeting and a strong arm fashion, you ask other people to exit the ram, consciousness of guilt, that is classically obstruction of

justice. i'm not saying it is true, but -- 's before she do not know there is a strong-arming. >> i think that goes a little bit too far. >> >> one on one conversation we you tell someone to stand down would be interpreted as a strong-arming. i'm not saying that we do not know that occurred, but that is dangerous territory. >> heather: i don't want to interrupt either one of you, but we have to go, i appreciate your insight. >> jon: some new information on a disturbing scene and our nation's capital outside the turkish embassy. look at this. the mayor of d.c. is strongly condemning the violent confrontation between peaceful kurdish protesters and bodyguards for the turkish president. it is an affront to d.c. values and our rights as americans. the attack coming after president erdogan met with president trump.

national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with more. >> it is the type of senior expectancy and encore aware that president has detained nearly 3,000 medical opponents in the e of last july's attempted coup. >> yesterday afternoon, we witnessed what appeared to be a brutal attack on peaceful protesters at the turkish ambassador's residence in that 1600 block of 23rd street northwest. as a result of the assault, 11 people and one police officer were injured. >> two people were arrested last night for aggravated assault and for assaulting a police officer outside the turkish embassy residents. witnesses said the attackers were members of the court turkish president's security detail. among them were his personal bodyguards pigment in black suits working for the turkish government crossed the street and attacked the kurdish and turkish american protesters for

turkeys attack on kurdish backed forces in syria. the president was inside the embassy residence when the melee occurred at 4:30 p.m. last week, president trump authorized the u.s. military to arm the kurdish fighters in syria, angering president erdogan. the d.c. police chief apologized to d.c. residents for shutting down all of the main arteries during rush hour. as a result of the violence yesterday. on the way home from work last night, i can say that there were dozens of police vehicles lining massachusetts avenue near the embassy residence, blocking the way to vice president mike pence's house just up the street. there were a number of ambulances on the scene as well. you do not expect to see these kinds of scenes in the nation's capital. d.c. police officers were wearing body cameras, i am told, but the police chief would not confirm reports that two of president erdogan's bodyguards were arrested for their involvement, but released because they have double emetic

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>> heather: welcome back. people in the midwest are recovering after terminators touched on and parts of wisconsin. look at this widespread damage, one person killed, another 25 injured while areas of oklahoma have thousands without power after three tornadoes touched down there and now a new round of severe threatening the midwest.

meteorologist adam klotz is in the fox severe weather center with more. >> this is a very large system going to be continuing today. this is the system we saw yesterday that did produce a lot of real damage. everyone of these red triangles is where we saw a tornado touchdown, these reports were stretching from oklahoma up to parts of wisconsin, that continues today. here is the radar from the last 24 hours, see it really firing up, break right now, but it will come back later and what are we waiting on? perhaps more tornadoes, large tornado watch in areas of iowa, stretching down to kansas city area, all spots where the conditions are there, we could see more severe weather before the day is over. this will last until 7:00 p.m. so it takes the heat of the day, and that is where you can see the severe weather fire up. here's the future radar on how this plays out, the system is containing to move north from kansas city up to des moines, and into the overnight hours, very large and very powerful system but begin to lose the daytime heat, and heavy rain

stretching up again enter portions of wisconsin and the upper peninsula of michigan before eventually drifting off further north to canada. again, here's where we are focusing, iowa, but a bull's-eye over there reaching over to see the wrapper -- cedar rapids, tornadoes continued to be in place driven by some very warm d his assistant is not done just today, this is tomorrow, so those folks have to continue to brace themselves as we are looking at at least a chance of severe weather stretching back to portions of oklahoma, kansas then farther to the north again. this is a system we will be watching the next couple days. >> heather: stay on top of it, thank you. >> jon: the white house faces more controversy after an expose of new report that president trump supposedly asked the fbi director to drop an investigation involving russia. up next, we will speak with republican senator luther strange of alabama. why he says this is a distraction tactic. most on these balloons.

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>> hi, everyone, i am melissa francis peer republican senators saying moments ago "it may be that we need to look to an independent commission or special prosecutor regarding the whole president trump comey flint rush investigation." we're going to tell you who said that. and one of our guests has some unsolicited advice for the vice president. he says maybe he should threaten to resign, why? we are going to ask him. class a white legal experts are saying that there is no there there when it comes to potential obstruction of justice charges against the president. all next on "america's newsroom hq" ." >> jon: fox news alert, fox now confirms the details of a

memo outlined in "the new york times," memo written by former fbi director james comey, suggesting that mr. comey -- i'm sorry, the president asked mr. comey to drop his investigation. here is how "the new york times" wrote it. "new york times" has not viewed a copy of the memo which is unclassified, but one of mr. comey's associates read parts of it to a "times" reporter. "i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting michael flynn go," according to the memo "he is a good guy, i hope you can let this go." those are the words that mr. comey apparently put into this memo, the words he says of the president. joining us now, senator luther strange, also the former alabama attorney general. if those words were said in the oval office to you at the time the director of the fbi, does

that amount to a crime, obstruction of justice, anything like that? >> i don't think so. but i would like to speak more about the context, that is one side of the story. there are always two sides to every story. that is what we are dealing with right now so we have more to learn. >> jon: one attorney friend of mine, very capable attorney, said it is equivalent to saying i hope you get a sandwich, that by expressing a desire that something happens does not necessarily mean you are ordering that person to do something. >> i think we are really getting ahead of ourselves here a little bit. as the center from alabama, but here every day as people want to get on with the trump agenda which is what our state and the country voted for overwhelmingly. i hope we can turn our attention to that while our law enforcement officials and committee here in the senate and they can do their work while rod rosenstein and the folks at the justice department do their work and hopefully by the end of this week or in next week hopefully a new fbi director who will do

their work. i'm interested in the facts. i would be the first want to raise concerns if i thought our national security information had been misused in any way or and anything improper happened, but in the meantime, the people i hear from really want the real world problems affecting them addressed. you know very well, the ones i hear about repeal and replace obamacare, reform the tax cuts very unfair to our working men and women, build the wall, ease the regulatory burden, this is what most of my colleagues are working on. i think the media is a little hyperventilating here on this issue, getting ahead of the facts, and we are inclined to listen to some of the rumors or leaks as opposed to people like general mcmaster and others who were in the room or have actually knowledge of the event. >> jon: one of the things you think congress ought to be working on is the sanctuary city situation. you've introduced legislation to

that effect. >> absolutely. it's amazing to me to learn that there is injury jurisdictions that are preventing their own citizens and companies from bidding on building the border ball. we are a nation of laws, and it seems almost un-american that you would say to someone in your jurisdiction that you cannot even bid on building the wall that the american people want, so we have introduced legislation to send a message to the sanctuary cities, if you are not willing to build the wall or allow it to be built or analyze your own businesses in your jurisdiction, then you can have your transportation infrastructure funds shifted over to another jurisdiction that is following the law and cooperating with our federal officials. >> jon: come back and tell us more about it as it proceeds through the senate. senator luther strange, thank you very much. we are back in a moment. you don't let anything

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some democrats with regard to the russia situation. we'll have that for you just ahead. america's news hq starts now. >> melissa: all right. right now fox news can now independently confirm that former fbi director james comey wrote a memo claiming that president trump urged him to, quote, let go of the investigation into michael flynn. this is amid growing accusations that the president may have obstructed justice. hello, everyone. i'm melissa francis. welcome to "america's news hq." president trump just a few hours ago delivering the commencement address at the coast guard academy in connecticut. cadets greeting him with cheers and applause while some 300 miles away in washington, members of his party are becoming increasingly concerned. that a white house in crisis could derail the republican agenda. we have fox news coverage of all of this. john roberts has the latest from the white house. michael