quick name. >> i vote for leslie. i agree. honestly for names -- there are a number in the hopper. >> melissa: we gotta go to make room for shep. thanks. i'm melissa francis. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in washington with where a top republican is comparing president trump to richard nixon. >> it's now accelerated. watergate took nothing. this seems to be taking hours. >> shepard: now gop leaders want answers. did president trust request that james comey drop the investigation of the former national security adviser michael flynn? for now the white house denies it. the president accusing the media of treating him worse than any other politician. now one democratic politician is calling for impeachment. other democrats are saying not so fast. and vladimir putin offering to clear up the controversy over

whether president trump shared highly classified information with the russians. putin comparing american politics to a mental illness. let's get to it. first from the fox news deck this afternoon, the michael flynn investigation has taken a dramatic turn on capitol hill. some of the most power fful politicians are demanding comey to testify and in public. one of the highest profile republicans of them all is comparing the controversy to watergate. here's what the armed services committee chairman john mccain said last night. >> the only thing i can say is, i think we've seen this movie before. i think it's reaching the point where it's of watergate size and

scale and a couple other scandals that we've seen. it's a centipede that the shoe continues to drop. every couple days, there's 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. >> really unhappy situation. senator mccain today expanded on the comments in an interview with fox news. >> i was using that iran contra and other like similar situations, not just watergate. iran contra. the way that ronald reagan was able to over come iran contra, everything came out so there were no more questions. we need to get all the information out and move forward. >> shepard: sunshine is the best disinfecta

disinfectant. senator mccain said while watergate took many months, this latest scandal takes hours. all of this comes after president trump asked the fbi director james comey to stop investigating the former national security adviser michael flynn and that comey kept a memo about the conversation. the "new york times" broke the story and fox news has confirmed sources close to james comey said that president made the request days after firing flynn. according to the comey memo, comey was in the oval office when the president asked everybody else in the room to leave including president mike pence and the attorney general jeff sessions. everybody out but the two men. that's when the memo indicates the president asked james comey to stop investigating michael flynn. according to the document, the president told comey, i hope you

can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. and he's a good guy. i hope you can let this go. the memo indicates the president told director comey that he should consider putting reporters in prison for publishing previously classified information. the white house denied the memo. today the president blasted the news media to graduates of the united states coast guard academy. he said you can't let them get you down, get in the way:0 your dreams. president trump fired james comey last week and the president later admitted russian was on his mind when he made the decision. president trump suggested on twitter that he might have tapes of his conversations with the fbi director. the white house refuses to confirm or deny that recordings exist. now it appears the former fbi director may have responded through sources by beating the president to the punch.

the senate intelligence committee asked james comey to testify and in public and behind closed doors. it requested that the fbi turn over any notes or memo that comey may have written about his conversations with the white house. top members of the senate judiciary commit did requested all memos as well and asked the white house to turn over any tapes or recordings. lindsey graham said in a statement the sooner mr. comey testifies before the better for our nation. for all practical purposes, the political process will be ground to a halt by these allegations. jason chaffetz has called on the fbi to return over any comey memo. he said i have my subpoena pen ready. we'll have more ahead on the comments from chairman chaffetz. while some republicans are demanding answers, one gop congressman has gone a step further. the house overtight committee

member, justin amash tells the hill that if the president did ask to quash the investigation it would merit impeachment. the trial would be in the senate hypothetically. paul ryan is standing by the president. he says he expects congress to hear from james comey and warns republicans to not jump to conclusions and says we need the facts. >> it's obvious there's some people out there that want to harm the president. we have an obligation to carry out our oversight regardless of which party is in the white house. before rushing to judgment, we get all the pertinent information. >> shepard: a recorder shouted a question at speaker ryan asking if he has full confidence in the president and speaker ryan said "i do." some lawmakers are asking about

the confidence after sharing confidential information with the russian ambassador. this happened during a meeting at the white house the day after the white house fired director comey. the white house says the information was wholly inappropriate. mcmasters said that phrase nine times. today vladimir putin has weighed in finally. he's offered to hand over recordings of the meeting to help settle the controversy, as he put it. much more ahead on the latest reaction from capitol hill. first, we're learning new information about director comey and his memo. for that, we turn to catherine herridge live in washington. >> we just heard a moment from the senior democrat on the senate intelligence committee that wants the comey memos with the crush of reporters there, he says he's confident that comey will appeal and the bureau never asked for additional help. >> i think we have enough resources.

that was reiterated by director mckay in public appearing last thursday. and also reiterated that director mccabe said this investigation is extraordinary to the fbi and they're going to make sure they get to the bottom of no matter where it leads. >> in addition to senate intelligence committee request, the bureau have asked to provide any notes by the director and shared with his director, andrew mccabe under the obama administration. so this request now expands the record search to the 2016 election when comey thought he had to speak about the clinton case because his boss had the appearance of a conflict after attorney general lynch met with bill clinton on a tarmac before hillary clinton's fbi interview. in the last few minutes, we've had a new tweet from jason

chaffetz. he says that he's getting a hearing on the calendar, but waiting on comey writing that he has a new contact number, shep. >> shepard: yeah. catherine herridge, in your recording, you're in contact with a lot of people in the know. i'm curious to know what they're telling you big picture. >> law enforcement sources told fox news that because of his background as a lawyer, career prosecutor and working within the government, comey really is a copious note taker and standard practice at the bureau and the justice department to take notes during or immediately after a meeting to memorialize the conversation. the timing of this has people's attention today. if you remember in early march two weeks after this meeting between comey and the president, he publicly stated his intent to serve out his ten-year term at boston college at cyber security

as note worthy with his unease at that meeting. >> boston is a leader of thinking and educating on these important issues. so this is a great place to have it. hope you do it many more times. you're stuck with me for about another 6 1/2 years. >> it's pretty unusual for a serving fbi director to talk about serving out his fixed term or typically what the fixed term is. there's a precedent for using fbi notes. there was a dispute in the bush era over the issue of surveillance and then fbi director robert muller provided his notes. >> shepard: on the matter of michael flynn, anything new? >> we haven't heard his side of the story for some time. according to people close to the national security adviser, he never asked trump to block any of the probes. flynn never spoke to the president to end or influence any on going investigations of

him. the source could not speak to trump's private conversations but said it was significant that sally yates confirmed that flynn's name appeared unredacted. so in plain sight in those intelligence reports. they said that is extraordinary around they see it as more evidence that flynn was singled out by the previous administration, shep. >> shepard: thanks, catherine. you're watching the president has come back from his speaking engagement at the coast guard academy where he gave the commencement address where he ripped into the news media. the cameras are there. there's the hope that he might say something. it's a pool camera. it's like it's on a boat at times. he will get into the choppers and head on back to 1600 in just a minute. democrats are renewing their calls for a special prosecutor in the russian investigation after the report about comey's

memo. to some degree, it's dividing the party. there's different theories on how to process. some democrats are saying there's no question this was obstruction of justice. listen to the texas congressman al green on the house floor this morning. >> i rise today, mr. speaker, to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states for obstruction of justice. there's a belief in this country that no one is above the law. and that includes the president of the united states of america. >> shepard: congressman green on the extreme on one end of the democratic party. we haven't heard anything like that. other democrats including top democrat on the house intelligence committee are warning not to go to that extreme. >> no one ought to in my view rush to embrace the most extraordinary remedy that removes the president from office. i think we're a long way from knowing the facts here at this

point. among those serious allegations are just that today. they're allegation that's appeared in the newspaper report. but there's allegations that will easily subject to prove. >> shepard: other democrats say it's too soon to talk about impeachment. that word is being used and often. let's listen here. chances of saying anything are slim to none. there's a pool reporter there. he may get a question shouted. you never know. he's waving now. it is remarkable and notable at least -- i don't know if it's remarkable. it's notable that his tweet storms have ended. the twitter -- the twitterization of the president seems to have ebbed yesterday after this information about

memos. make no mistake, the word is there's not a memo. there are lots of memos. lots of memos that fbi director comey has taken notes of this kind, copious notes going back to the bush administration. if you're an fbi agent, the word is, if it's not written down, it didn't happen. especially as director comey has said through sources or, you know, communicators that he was uneasy with some of the conversations. so it's our understanding that he was uneasy with more than one conversation and more than one note. do i know this? i don't know this. we'll know soon enough. peter doocy is on capitol hill. the divide on the democratic side, it's not so much of anybody supporting him. it's how extreme they're going on the day. >> right, shep. the most extreme was that al

green called for president trump's impeachment. when he did that, he rebuked by fitzpatrick. he reminded green that he can't make unproving accusations like obstruction of justice like that on the floor of congress. very few democrats that we heard from that are willingly to push for impeachment like green. the week did start off with nancy pelosi saying she doesn't think her side has a case against president trump yet and has continued off all of these leaks with democratic leadership trying to gather information before they publicly push for impeachment against president trump. >> i'm not afraid of the i word. independent. independent commission. independent investigator. that's what i support. that's also the general consensus of our democratic

leadership. >> so the i word they like is investigation, not impeachment. congress woman maxine waters said yesterday that she basically prefers impeachment over the democrats winning back the white house in 2020. that is not a very widely held view among democrats in the house or in the senate. i talked to a few democratic senators a few hours ago. they're basically saying before there can be any talk about impeachment, they need to know more about the russia case than just what they read in the paper. >> some of your colleague s are talking about impeach meant. what do you think -- >> i'm a prosecutor. i want to see the evidence. no time to talk about that until we see the evidence. >> senator king, an independent from maine that votes with the democrats last night said he thought we were moving towards impeachment but very quickly walked that back this morning saying that he does not think we're there yet. >> shepard: thanks, peter.

it will be interesting to watch this. will republicans now want to get all of the information that they can find, all of us out in the open. so whatever it is that is coming, good, bad or indifferent, it can be ended before the mid-term elections. that's one strategy. the other strategy is to slow-roll this thing. it will be interested if not telling. it will be interesting to see which it is that republicans tend to prefer. the russian president vladimir putin said president did not share classified information with his country's ambassador and foreign minister and offered to give u.s. lawmakers a transcript of the meeting to prove it. as if a russian transcript of anything would prove anything to anyone. yes, with sound effects. that naturally led to questions about whether russia recorded the conversation, which might be different. today the secretary of state rex tillerson said he doesn't have a clue.

>> mr. secretary, vladimir putin is offering congress transcripts of the meeting. you think the russians were bugging the oval office? >> i would have no way to know that. >> shepard: russia bugging a meeting. nobody is buying the idea that the russian leader has anything to offer. >> i don't talk to murderous dictators like vladimir putin. he says he doesn't use gps guided bombs to bomb hospitals in syria. that's untrue. his word doesn't mean a lot. >> and in a different interview, the main senator susan collins says it's absurd that anybody would take any evidence from putin. rich edson is at the state department. what else did vlad have to say? >> he offered denials, criticisms and jokes.

he said he's going to reprimand his foreign minister, sergey lavrov for failing to share intelligence with him after the meeting with trump. putin said the u.s. has political schizophrenia. >> what surprises me, they're shaking up the domestic political situation in the united states using anti-russian slogans. either they don't understand the damage they're doing to their own country, in which case they're stupid or they understand everything and dangerous and corrupt people. >> this comes as the united states is trying to negotiate with syria. >> shepard: there's word that other nations are worried about sharing intelligence with the united states now. new validity to that? >> there's some officials that say other nations would have pause or concern of sharing information because of what happened last week.

we spoke with one former ambassador u.s. ambassador to nato and russia that says the united states has explaining to do on how they handle their intelligence. >> i think we have some re-assuring to do. i think the administration can be effective and convincing people that they can share with us and we can share with them. i think it's critical if we're going to deal with threats like isis ordeal with the threatening behavior of russia, that we have full confidence there our key partners. >> national security adviser h.r. mcmaster said that the president's conversation with the russian minister was wholly appropriate. >> shepard: thanks, rich. the markets hate uncertainty. today and for the first time since the white house turmoil began, they're reacting with concern. analysts say traders are worried that president's trump's c controversies delay tax reforms.

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>> shepard: continuing coverage of the fallout on the report that president trump requested that james comey and the investigation of the former national security adviser, michael flynn. "the new york times" broke the story citing that comey wrote after the conversation, the

memo, fox news has confirmed that. several committees demanding to see any records of the president's communications with director comey. a.b. stoddard is here from real clear politics. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> shepard: you said republicans have a choice to make and soon. what is it? >> well, they're waiting i think paralyzed until comey comes and testifies on capitol hill. he wants to do an opposition and he will have to answer questions about what happened in the oval office, what transpired in that conversation and why he did not bring it to the attention of the attorney general, the department of justice or tell anybody else at the fbi like andrew mccabe that testified last week that there was no interference in the investigation thus far. we did he inform the house chairman of the -- house intelligence committee chairman, the ranking members about this along the way? he might have an explanation for that. that makes things look perilous

for the president or might be some strange james comey explanation that allows members to say this is not what it seems. if he says he absolutely saw it as potential obstruction of justice but had a good reason for not sharing it for those that recused themselves into an investigation for not telling the truth about meeting with the russian ambassador, that comey feels he had to keep it quiet. if there's something like that that really implies influence on the investigation, that will probably prompt members to say we have to move on to some kind of other independent probe and that yes, perhaps could be a president trying to intimidate and fbi director into closing an investigation. at this point, they're waiting to have to make that decision depending on what they hear from comey. until we find out when he's coming, they're waiting in a very high pressure situation. >> shepard: what is it that moves the pendulum over?

i ask because i think a lot of our viewers and people that i speak with on this matter all over the place think this is some kind of emotional loyalty thing going on. isn't this really just about percentages? when republicans or if at some point they look at the numbers and they go, if i stick with him, i can't way. since i can't win with him, i'm turning against him. what is it that makes that happen? >> that's absolutely the case. they're already watching president trump's polling numbers, which are getting a little bit worse. we have not seen -- i don't think the full impact of what's happened in seven days yet. you know that 24 seats separate the republican majority from the minority. there's very good chance the democrats could take back the house seat next year in november and regain control of the house.

so members who are really having a tough time in that healthcare fight, members in the districts that hillary clinton won or that president trump by not a lot, maybe 5 percentage points or less and they're being asked by constituents, what's going on with the russian investigation, why is congress not investigating the conflicts of interest with president trump with his business dealings? at some point, it's about political fortunes and not whether they can give party loyalty under president trump. >> shepard: i'm out of time. who could lead a turn on this matter? who would be the person? a bob corker of the en -- tennessee or a john mccain lindsey graham thing? >> it will be the senior voices that are worried they'll lose their seats and the house will go democrat next year. >> shepard: thanks, a.b. >> thanks, shep. >> shepard: president trump

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>> shepard: the white house continues to deny that president trump asked james comey to drop the fbi investigation into the former national security adviser michael flynn. sean spicer just repeated that denial to reporters on air force one. the president himself has not spoken about the issue or the comey memos specifically. he had this to say at the coast guard academy's graduation ceremony. >> look at the way i've been treated lately. especially by the media. no politician in history -- and

i say this with great purity -- has been treated worse or more unfairly. you can't let them get you down. >> shepard: president trump on his way back to the white house with john roberts is now treating people badly and worse. john, what did sean spicer have to say there? >> the president just arrived, by the way, marine one just took off. what did sean spicer on the white house or the president have to say that would kind of move the story along? not much. sean spicer questioned about it several times aboard air force one, which is the smaller version from connecticut. the question was several times about what the president said in the meeting with james comey and not given much. here's audio. >> the president has been very clear that the account that was published of how the event occurred -- >> could you confirm --

>> we made it clear. i'm not going to get further comment on that. >> all we have to go on is the president's assertion yesterday that the conversation is describe in this comey memo, which no news organization has seen, did not happen the way it was the president did not say what he said to james comey, only that he never asked him to drop the investigation to michael flynn. today at the coast guard academy, we saw a very familiar president trump with a posture that was defined, under fire and vowing to fight on. listen here. >> over the course of your life, 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.

never ever give up. >> again, we haven't seen this memo. the contents were confirmed to fox news a short time ago. there's people in congress, shep that are trying to get ahold of the actual memo itself. jason chaffetz sent a letter to the fbi asking for that and other memos that comey may have written over his communications with the president. we're also told though by a source close to comey that there may be more memos about to be revealed as well. >> that should be interesting. the president scheduled to fill comey's job, he's scheduled meetings. do we know with whom? >> we do. an interesting surprise. the president upon his return will be meeting with four candidates for fbi director. among them, take a look at this. former connecticut senator joe lieberman. he has a degree from yale but

has no law enforcement background. he ran for vice president on the ticket with al gore in 2000. the democrat and independent for decades. i don't know how real this would be in terms of his consideration for the fbi. he's 75 years old and again no law enforcement background. certainly kind of is a little bit of a wake-up call to the democrats to say that the president is thinking outside the box with this pick. the other one that he's talking with this afternoon, the former oklahoma governor, former u.s. attorney, frank keating who himself is 73 years old. he will be talking with the acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe and richard mcfeelly who is also in the fbi. >> shepard: thanks, john. as we reported, the republican chairman of the house oversight committee has asked james comey to testify next week. jason chaffetz has demanded the fbi turn over all memos and

communications between comey and president trump. congressman chaffetz tweeted the oversight committee will get the comey memo if it exists. i need to see it sooner rather than later. i have my subpoena pen ready. jason chaffetz argued that he wouldn't open an investigation until there's evidence. mike emanuel continues live on can toll hill. congressman chaffetz said he's having trouble getting in touch with james comey. >> that's right. he told me a number that he used to communicate with the former fbi director is not working. so he's reaching out publicly to say he wants to track him down. that includes sending out a tweet earlier today. paul ryan made clear the relevant congressional committees will be thorough in doing their work. >> i will leave it to the committees doing investigations,

just remember, there's an investigation occurring at the fbi. an investigation in the house and an investigation in the senate. we have three investigations going on. i'm not going to micro manage or armchair investigations. >> he went on to say their job is to get to the facts and to be sober about doing it, shep. >> mike, you spoke with congressman chaffetz about his future in congress. i've read a lot of things. >> that's right. it sounds like he does not intend to be around here much longer. chairman chaffetz said that he has his plans and he's going to get this investigation launched but sounds like he's going to continue on his personal time line. he says there's always things to investigate but at the right time, it's time to pass the baton. he said there will be a new oversight committee chairman and expects that person will take that responsibility very

seriously, shep. well receiveded by all accounts. and then flew to andrews, got off the air force one, got on

marine one, flew back to the white house. when he got back to the white house, it was time for that walk across the lawn that presidents have been doing since fluff was a kitten and she's a full blown cat. during that walk, we have come to see reporters yell questions at presidents. sometimes if they're in the mood to talk about something, sometimes they'll walk over to the podium. always microphones there. if the president wants to talk, the president can talk. he's the president. so you ask questions that are relevant to the day in theory. you hope you might get something out of the president. the questions have been coming for president trump on the matter of this comey memo for a while. you kind of expect, he'll start tweeting about this. they'll offer up a defense. send out sean spicer, have a series of defenses and a competing narrative. that's not been the case. as the president gets off the

helicopter, will he answer questions? the tape is being played out right now. >> shepard: whatever they asked, they got a wave there, you can

see. some other people walking off there now. reince priebus and kellyanne conw conway. republican lawmakers say they're pushing forward with their legislative agenda despite reports about president trump. the house oversight committee, jason chaffetz said the house still has to pass meaningful legislation and gets it to the president's desk. barry laudermilk of georgia said the memos from james comey are not a distraction. he says the comey memo is "not a distraction." others say it's tough to stay focused on work in congress. shelly moore capito of west virginia says what's going on

with the president takes your eye off the ball. mitch mcconnell said he could do with a little less drama from the white house. alex is here from politco. not a distraction. that's a more interesting quote. >> it is. here's the things. the crises that have enveloped the white house have threatened to knock them off stride. >> hasn't it happened? >> it has. so many things that he wanted to move on. healthcare has a long road to go now as well. as we enter this investigation phase, it's possible none of these things are going to move until much closer to the election year. don't forget you have the august recess that congress will be out for. as we get into the mid-term year, it's harder to get members of congress to think about moving these pieces there.

>> shepard: democrats are not interested in these anyway. why would they be of any assistance with this hanging over? a lot of democrats have been saying, we're not going to do anything until you get a special prosecutor and you get the facts out of this white house. not saying anything untoward has happened. just they want the facts. >> well, absolutely. democrats might have been interesting in negotiating on infrastructure. you're seeing capitol hill turn into a war zone over this. who knows where this goes from here. but you know, there's a lot of pessimism now from republicans increasingly that much of anything is going to get done. you're seeing republicans starting to worry about if i do go along with the president's agenda, if i do help him out on moving bills, does that come to hurt me? it's a big problem for the white house right now. >> shepard: that calculation is underway in every office, every

republican office? >> you can bet that every house republican right now is going to start to look at polling in their districts to see how popular president trump is there. if president trump has ant approval rating below 50% in the 30s, the 40s, that could really turn off some republicans from working them. >> shepard: his approval rating is well below 50%. he's under water on approval. >> it's a big problem. you know, you didn't see -- took six years for george w. bush to hit an approval rating as low as president trump's is right now. it took a long time. so he's really at a historic level in terms of his unpopularity. it's quite alarming to republican strategists across the country. >> shepard: you look back the last 50, 60 days of this presidency, the one thing that seemed to give him a nice healthy bump in approval was the

missile strikes over in syria. is there anything else he can do now to change the subject? the narrative is well laid out. how do you change it? >> it's a great question. and i'm not totally sure what the answer is. look, when you have a national emergency, it's in times of national emergencies that can help presidents look more like leaders. every day that goes by that this white house is consumed by crisis, it hurts the president and hurts him politically and hurts republicans as well. >> shepard: thanks, alex. great to see you. >> thank you. >> shepard: the feds confirming that the turkish president's security guards were involved in a brawl outside the country's embassy in d.c. what we know about why the fight broke out just hours after the turkish president visited the white house. in addition, we've watched the dow. the question was will traders

see bargains in there late in the situation? will the dow have goned down so much that they get back in? we have 12 minutes left and the answer for the moment is no. we'll continue to watch after this.

>> shepard: the feds say they're talking to turkish officials after a brawl outside of the embassy in d.c. it involved the turkish security staffers versus protesters. in a statement, a spokesperson said we're concerned by violent incidents. statement media in turkey called the protesters kurdish supporters of terror. the d.c. police chief called the

fight unprovoked and brutal. he said the brawl sent nine peoples to the hospital. it happened hours after president trump met with president erdogan at the white house. jennifer griffin is at the white house. that's quite a thing. >> i passed by the aftermath. there were police cars up and down mass mass avenue. the secret service and the state department had been brought in to help the d.c. police since some of the attackers could have been traveling on diplomatic passports. it's the type of scenery that you expect at their home. a senior u.s. official tells fox the attackers were members of the turkish president's security detail. among them, his personal body guards. men in black suits working for the turkish government crossed

the street and attacked turn -- turkish protesters. >> yesterday we witnessed what appeared to be a brutal attack on peaceful pro testers at the turkish residents. >> we just received a saying turkish officers were involved. that is from the state department spokesman, shep. >> shepard: what do we know with certainty about this trump erdogan meet something. >> last week was trump authorized the u.s. military to arm the kurds.

that angered president erdogan. dozens of police vehicles, as i mentioned, lined massachusetts avenue near the embassy resident last night blocking the way two vice president pence's house up the street. you don't expect to see these kinds of scenes in the nation's capitol. you don't in nondemocracies. >> shepard: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. president erdogan in turkey has imprisoned 300,000 political opponents. prominent new yorkers helped make wall street the world's financial capitol and happened on this day in history. (avo) come with us... ...to a new world. deeper than the ocean. as unfathomable as the universe. a world that doesn't exist outside you... ...but within you. where breakthrough science is replacing chemotherapy with immunotherapy.

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>> shepard: at least two people died after powerful storms formed tornadoes and left damage in wisconsin. we're getting word from local officials that it's a severe one. a twister did touchdown in northern wisconsin flattening a

mobile home park. the sheriff said one died, 25 hurt. a tornado destroyed 40 homes in elk city, oklahoma. a fire chief said a man died after running from his house. this is what is left of the mobile home park in wisconsin. here's part of a blown-out building, a big tree ripped up from the roots there. here's a photo from the debris. workers holding turkeys that survived the tornado at a farm in wisconsin. on this day in 1792, the new york stock exchange was born. a group of brokers met under a tree on a street called wall to set the ground rules for trading stocks and bonds. new york was already a very important financial hub. the new york stock exchange became a powerful institution after it all came together on wall street 225 years ago today.

wall street has been on quite a run since this presidency began. today is a whole new matter. that is the top story on the hour to come. it's "your world" with neil cavuto coming up right now on fox news channel. >> neil: all right. happy birthday, big board. not welcome to everybody. i'm neil cavuto. all of a sudden, concerns about president trump, the concerns of his administration and growing talk of i'm peachment, if you can believe that. add it up, there were down arrows. the dow and the nasdaq and s&p suffering their biggest declines since september of last year. a lot of this has to do with some of the things these guys want badly, like tax cuts, healthcare reform, like getting rid of a bunch of regulations. the kind of stuff that a market friendly administration has been promising. so again, you don't have to be right or left on this