yes, it is, by the way, i think the fourth one. rob: isn't politics fun? heather: it gives us a lot to talk about though. rob: endless cycle of news. "fox & friends" starts right now. we will see you later. heather: bye. >> news breaking moments ago from the justice department. the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the fbi investigation of russian government efforts to influence the 2016 election. >> i have not seen any evidence of actual collusion. where is the actual crime that they think they need a special prosecutor to prosecute? >> it is obvious there are some people out there who want to harm the president. we need the facts. >> i rise today, mr. speaker, to call for the impeachment of the pet of the united states of america. >> what is the motive of these people? who is putting these leaks out? this isn't about democrat, republican. this is about getting what's going on in the moment and understanding that our country

itself is under attack from within. >> breaking overnight, a tulsa police officer cleared in the shooting death of a unarmed black man. >> dozens of some of l.a.'s most dangerous gang members were rounded up and arrested. >> criminal organizers like ms-13 represent a grave threat to the safety of americans. >> no politician in history has been treated worse or more unfairly. you kant let the critics and the nay sayers get in the way of your dreams. ♪ ♪ we're an american man ♪ we're an american man ♪ we're coming to your town ♪ we're an american band ainsley: i just observed there are more american flags out there than normally. avenue of americas. then have you four american flags out there. brian: other people call it sixth avenue.

steve: other people do. fifth and seventh. ainsley: look at the street sign it's avenue of the americas. if you look at the official name avenue of the americas. people say sixth avenue if you are a new yorker. if you look at the street sign it says avenue of the americas. brian: good point. if you are writing us write avenue of americas. steve: we are the number one morning cable news show thanks to you. we will starter with a fox news alert. reverend mueller who once upon a time was the fbi director for barack obama and also george w. bush has been named special counsel looking into the russia ties to, if they exist, anybody involved in the trump campaign. and this guy was actually appointed by the deputy assistant attorney general rod rosenstein who, keep in mind, he is the guy who came out with the memo that donald trump and associates used as a reason why they fired james comey. brian: for a day until the president sat down with nbc and changed it.

and that was the beginning of when the wheels started coming off and they felt as though -- the democrats felt as though they had some momentum to do. this the white house didn't even know about this until about 30 minutes before it was announced. ainsley: i was watching tucker's show, was it kellyanne conway they cancelled the interview at the last minute they said we just found out about this information we need to process tand will get back with you, tucker. this actually should make you feel good because people really respect rod rosenstein. they do respect mr. mueller. so i think it's in good hands. everyone has said they have stellar reputations. this is going to be apolitical. they will look at the facts and get to the bottom of it so we can move on as a country and get people back to work. bryan brian people have bad taste in their mouth from patrick fitzgerald and his investigation of valerie plame affair whether they found out richard arlington leaked the story don't worry about it continue to investigate. scooter libby on perjury.

ken starr was sitting where he is sitting said whatever do you don't do this it didn't turn out well. he was the result malmat. ainsley: special counsel to look over there is a difference. steve: what happened at the fbi and the department of justice with mr. rosenstein, apparently, keep in mind, he was against the special counsel idea until over the last couple of days apparently his thinking evolved to conclude that a special counsel was needed to prove to the public the investigation was going to be thorough and impartial because it has become so political. president trump last night about an hour after it was issued said this: as i have stated many times a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. i look forward to this matter concluding quickly. in the meantime i will never stop fighting for the people and the issues that matter most to the future of our country. john mccain has some advice for the president and that is this.

just whatever information you got, get it out as quickly as possible. let's get this thing over with. as long as there is no connection, mr. president, you'll be fine. brian: i would love to hear not have russia in the news for a while. sadly i think the senate committees as well as the house committees are going to continue their investigation. and with that come all these leaks and accusations and referrals and premature conclusions. by the way nancy pelosi comes out and says a special prosecutor is just a first step but it cannot be the last. mueller is still the chain of command under the trump appointed leadership. can he not take the place of a truly independent outside commission. what's it going to take to place her? steve: she wants an independent commission not a counsel but a commission. ainsley: everyone thinks this might stop the hysteria from the democrats, i don't think so. brian: look how they have reinforced i'm going to push and get sessions to recuse himself. push this deputy and question

his indog telling gri at this and force him to go outside and they got it they will continue to push. ainsley: jason chaffetz was the one that sent out the letter to the fbi who said have you one week to give us this memo. he was on with tucker last night saying you know, where is the evidence? what is there to prosecute? listen. >> i think they are feeling the political heat. maybe watching too much television and reading too many newspapers and whatnot. look, i have not seen any evidence of actual collusion. where is the actual crime that they think they need a special prosecutor to prosecute? i just -- i haven't seen that. there has been a light of flail ling but that flail ling started before january 20th. steve: that's a good point. apparently on january 4th the trump transition team found out mr. flynn was under investigation. apparently there was an ongoing federal investigation looking into whether or not flynn was secretly working as a paid lobbyist for turkey during the campaign. there is from flynn screen left right there.

also, it looks like the two names that keep coming up are mr. flynn and paul manafort. apparently down in the commonwealth of virginia. there have been a number of grand juries impaneled and according to nbc news, apparently both are formerly considered subjects of a criminal investigation. no suggestion the president involved. but these two fellows apparently subjects of a criminal investigation according to nbc news. brian: because he was working for ukrainian leader a stooge of the russians ousted by the ukrainian people who wanted a true voice in their own government. however, when you are a strategist, you could be a strategist for nigeria. you could be a strategist for bulgaria because you are an american expert. since a lot of the world -- since the world is so interconnected and have you expertise they he will use you other places. we saw that, joe trippi was telling me how many differential countries he worked with in africa. steve: joe trippy, a political peril for the democrats they

have been screaming they want a special counsel now they got it this guy is going to look far and wide to see how russia impacted our election. but here's the thing. not just going to be looking at republicans, also there are a lot of democrats who have taken money from russia as well. at least that's what the professor from george washington said last night. >> people ought to be a little cautious. you know, a special counsel is livlike a live correspond in the water it can hit anything. this city is awash with money. there are a lot of democrats, as well as republicans that have been hired by russian outfits and extensions of moscow. this is a sort of a cottage industry in this town. people should be very careful when they ask for a broad scope because you wouldn't be able to say for certain who would fall under it. steve: be careful what you ask for. ainsley: i woke up this morning. i'm really glad this is happening. now we can get to the bottom

of it the facts will be out. the president will release what he has. we see the memos. move on as a country and get back to work. wouldn't it be nice for you to have more money in your pocket? the president is talking about tax reform. they want more money so they can send their kids to college and maybe go on a trip or vacation with your family. brian: meanwhile the stock market took a huge dive yesterday because of this mess. ainsley: so much uncertainty. brian: the president of the united states in connecticut over at the coast guard where he was giving commencement address. he gave up his current plight and said don't worry, i'm not stopping. listen. >> we've saved the second amendment, expanded service for our veterans. i've loosened up the strangling environmental change wrapped around our country and our economy. we've begun plans and preptions for the border wall. we're going to give you major tax reform. i didn't get elected to serve the washington media or special interests.

i got elected to serve the forgotten men and women of our country and that's what i'm doing. steve: okay. so regardless of the special counsel, which was appointed last night, the president of the united states says full steam ahead with his agenda. now all he needs is some help from congress. brian: he adjusted last fall and won the election. he has to take these last 10 days and adjust his team, rally his troops if he wants to be successful. he can't continue to have 10 days of self-inflicted wounds like he went through because the democrats can't wait for one mistake let alone a series of mistakes. ainsley: we want to congratulate all those coast guard academy graduates. so wonderful. so successful. let's hand it over to jillian. jillian: happy thursday. getting close tort weekend. good morning to you at home as well. let's begin with protests breaking out overnight in tulsa after a jury finds a white police officer not guilty in the shooting death of an unarmed black man. officer betty shelby says she

was afraid for her life with she shot terrence crutcher. he refused to follow orders as he walked towards her car abandoned in the middle of the street. shelby thought he was reaching for a gun. they found pcp in his system at the time of the shooting. crutcher's family says the verdict is hard though accept. the doj will open a civil rights investigation into the case. president trump considering four candidates to replace james comey as fbi director after a series of interviews at the white house. among the candidates, former democratic senator joe lieberman who is now an independent. also in the mix, acting fbi director andrew mccabe, former oklahoma governor frank heating and former fbi executive assistant director richard mcfeeley. the president could make his choice by the end of the week. milwaukee's top cop might be joining the trump administration. sheriff david clarke says he's going to work for the department of homeland security working closely between the agency and local police. cracking down on illegal immigrants.

dhs not confirming that just yet, tweeting senior possessions are announced when made official by the secretary. no such announcement with regard to the office of public engagement has been made. and breaking overnight, rocker chris cornell has died. ♪ gone for all ♪ too long jillian: the lead singer of sound garden. passing away unexpectedly hours after playing a concert in detroit. the cause of death not yet known. he was just 52 years old. that's a look at your headlines this morning. >> see you in a little bit. steve: all right, jillian, thank you. >> thank you. steve: mainstream media calling obstruction of justice every turn of the trump administration so far. >> what's more needed to prove obstruction of justice than the president fires the guy coming after him after asking him to drop the case. steve: why didn't they care

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...awkward. >> i'm advised the actual hard drive after it was determined it was dysfunctional and with experts no emails could be retrieved was recycled and destroyed in the normal process. >> so was it physically destroyed? >> that's my understanding. steve: remember lois learner supposed lost emails during the investigation of the irs targeting of tea party groups? mainstream media gave the obama administration a pass back then. so why is the trump administration held to what seems like a different standard? joining us now from the tea party patriots a group targeted by the irs, jenny beth martin who joins us from our nation's capital. good morning, jenny beth. >> good morning, steve. thanks for having me. steve: you feel like given what is happening right now with the department of justice and whatnot, you're curious

where they were with the irs scandal. >> yeah. frankly i was glad to see comey go, as far as i know he didn't lift one financing tore get to the bottom of what happened with the irs targeting. and we have seen that there was obstruction of justice from what i can tell during that investigation. certainly, we never have had accountability from the justice department or the fbi. steve: what kind of obstruction of justice are you talking about? >> well, we had even the president of the united states at the time, president obama, getting on national tv saying there is not a smidgen of corruption that happened with the targeting. he said this while there was supposed to be an investigation going on. you were just playing clips of koskinen, the irs commissioner, who was saying that the evidence was apparently destroyed. the email evidence was destroyed about what happened during the targeting. we still don't know exactly

what happened and now lois learner wants to have her testimony sealed in a class action lawsuit. steve: she and holly pause who are both named in this, the federal class action lawsuit brought by groups like yours looking into the targeting, they, lois learner and holly pots feel that their safety is at issue if the public finds out what they say in disposition. >> they need to be kept safe. i absolutely think that needs to happen. i know what it is like when threats are made against you and you need to feel safe. we need to know what happened. they need to testify. and the public needs to hear that testimony to be able to get to the bottom of this -- the what happened to us so we can finally have justice. steve: sure, jenny beth, you say ultimately, at the end of the day, what this all comes down to with mainstream media and the left, they are just steamed that donald trump won and hillary lost. >> yeah. they really are. they are outraged but the outrage isn't about comey or

memos or all these other things. what i think the real outrage is, they're upset because it is not president hillary clinton and it is president donald trump. if i were president trump, i would get outside of this awful swamp in washington, d.c. and take my message to the american people. steve: okay. i think he made that clear yesterday at the coast guard academy he is going to do that. why is john koskinen still at the irs? do you wonder that? >> i do. i think he needs to be fired. we called for his impeachment. if he is not going to be impeached, he should be fired. he certainly shouldn't have his term extended. steve: jenny beth martin from the tea party patriots thank you very much for joining us live today from our nation's capital. what do you think about that? tweet us or email or facebook. cops have to call them community members. we're going to tell you where that is happening coming up. summer just around the corner and chances are your kids could get hurt. so can you tell the difference between a fracture, a sprain,

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administration. ice now averaging 400 arrests every day. ainsley? ainsley: okay. thank you, brian. you're going to like this segment. pay attention. more than 2.6 million kids are treated in the er every single year for sports and recreation-related injuries. and as the weather is getting warmer, these visits are on the rise. so what is fact? what is fiction when it comes to these common injuries, when it comes to our kids? dr. taya mendez is orthopedic surgeon with new york orthopedics. he joins us now to break it all down. thanks for being here. good to see you again. >> thank you. ainsley: we are seeing injuries on the rise right now because more people are playing sports right now, right? >> yeah, absolutely. sports injuries and kids are one of the highest growing segments of injuries at all. so we see them in the summer. we see kids playing sports all year round so the injuries are rising. ainsley: let's go through fact or fiction when it comes to sports injuries. the first one, falling from the monkey bars likely means that your kid has a concussion, fact or fiction?

>> so that's false. it's fiction. here's why. concussions make up about 10% of er visits. obviously the most common things being bruises, sprains and broken bones. the problem is concussions are settle. the signs are settle. the kid is not going to be screaming if they have a bruise or broken bone things to look for loss of consciousness tell tell sign. continuing to have a headache. saying they have photo phobia or sensitive to light. ainsley: what do you need to do. >> take them to seek medical attention. ainsley: you shouldn't do hot compress. >> no. they should seek medical attention. ainsley: next one is being able to bea weight is usually. >> unable to bear weight. not a sign of ankle fracture but it is true you need to seek medical attention. things we look for ottawa ankle rules. if you go to er and unable to bear weight tenderness on the

bones sign you need an extra. the difference between a break and fracture they are actually the same thing. so there is really no difference. but, some sprains are actually worse than breaks. so you may need more treatment, more physical therapy, potentially more surgery than a simple break. ainsley: fracture obviously break as broken bone. what is a sprain. >> sprain is the ligament. you are actually don't break the bone but you injure stretched out ligaments around the ankle. ainsley: break out the heating pad for sports injuries fact or fiction. >> i get this question all the time. we have to really understand what heat or cold dose. so cold cry owe therapy it decreases the circulation and the joint and decreases the swelling. heat dose the orp sit. increases the circulation to the area. after acute injury 24 to 48 hours. we advise to put cold on the area. what happens when you pull a muscle, you get an initial injury from the pulled muscle

but then you get this secondary injury cascade. cold therapy or ccyro therapy can blunt the injury. back strain. so the back muscles actually what they can do is go into spasm to protect themselves. and it's been shown that heat is actually better than cold initially after a back injury. ainsley: interesting. on the back use the heat, anywhere else use cold. >> correct. ainsley: this one is shocking. if your kids like to swim, listen to this mom and dad. drowning can happen hours after your child has left the pool. that's fact or fiction? >> this is actually true. ainsley: i can't believe that how in the world can your child drown after they leave the pool. >> the good news this is very rare. after you take water in your lungs, your larynx or voice box goes into la ringo to shut off. the kid can leave the pool and still be in spasm unable to get air into their lungs.

ainsley: you were telling me during the break because i was questioning you about this because that can't happen. you were saying usually coincides with injury. >> usually coincides with initial incident of swallowing the water. unable to breathe, hoarse or feeling lethargic. if the kid has any incident in the water. they should definitely be observed. ainsley: what if you get home and your child is observing without the water. >> you observe them and take them to the hospital. ainsley: so scary. good job. still ahead, the left in hysterics calling for impeachment. >> you are talking about impeachment. you are talking about what are the facts? >> i think this is going to put us a little bit further on my way for whaivel calling for so long and that is impeachment. ainsley: but, is there any there there? is it time for the president to cut out the middle man and be his own messenger and chief? amy holmes is here live with a new take. come on home, amy. >> come on over

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steve: big news this morning robert mueller former fbi director is going to be special counsel looking into the russia investigation. let's bring in amy holmes political analyst. okay. politically, what's this mean? >> what this means we don't know what it means exactly. we still don't know if there is a crime for independent counsel or special prosecutor. steve: some leaks wouldn't we have heard by now given the number of leaks if there was some there there? >> one would think. so it seems that our former fbi director had something very interesting to say. i think you have a sound bite about that? steve: yes, we do.

ainsley: let's listen to this. this is comey testifying. you found this sound bite. do you want to explain it. brian: tucker played this last night may 3rd, unbelievably in a precent move james comey was asked do you ever feel pressure to drop a case. if you did, how would you act? listen. >> if the attorney general or senior officials at the department of justice opposes a specific investigation, can they halt that fbi investigation? >> in theory? yes. >> has it happened? >> not in my experience. because it would be a big deal to tell the fbi to stop doing something that -- without appropriate purpose. we are oftentimes they give us opinions that we don't see a case there, so you ought to stop investing resources in it. but i'm talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal. it's not happened in my experience. steve: okay. so even though the question was about the attorney general

or specific attorney general. >> he said that would be a very big deal and it hasn't happened in my experience. ainsley: he just said that few weeks ago. >> he said that may 3rd which is many months of a this comey memo that we still don't have eyes on. we don't know exactly what mr. comey was trying to tribe about his conversation with president trump. but i would say with the independent counsel and i warn everybody, i remember bill clinton and i remember ken starr. he starterred with white water and he ended with mondayca. so what this means is that a special prosecutor, independent counsel has great latitude to investigate anything. so, at this point, we don't know where it's going to end up. ainsley: james comey said that hasn't happened under my eye, under my watch, then all they need to do is subpoena him and get him in front of committees, the senate and the house and say that. steve: play the tape. >> your own fox news anchor gregg jarrett. he is a lawyer.

he said james comey put himself in a box. writing down this conversation he had with mr. trump. if it really rose to the level of obstruction of justice, he would then have been compelled to report it immediately and he didn't. brian: a lot of times. steve: which is a crime. brian: administration a little uneasy a lot of people feel including the reporter that broke the story the worse that comey has is not brought up first. so he might have other evidence. but i'm very interested in what he had in july that led up to his little -- hillary clinton did nothing wrong but let me tell you everythinglike did wrong. >> brian, i feel right now when it comes to the mainstream media, they have been he wanting to take down president trump since november. and what we're experiencing right now is death by a thousand cuts and by a thousand leaks and all these out-of-context bits of information and then we dig up may 3rd, 2017, that mr. comey said actually, it's a big deal and it's never happened. brian: really pushing for impeachment.

they are using that buzz term. not everybody like adam schiff said it rose to that yet. here is a look at what was happening on the house floor yesterday. >> i rise today, mr. speaker, to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america. for obstruction of justice. >> the big question did, president trump try to block the fbi's russia investigation, commit an impeachable offense? >> are we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet another impeachment process? steve: it's interesting, amy, while democrats because this came out of nowhere given the comey thing suddenly you are talking about impeachment, according to the mcclatchey papers the democrats are pole testing impeachment. >> they are. actually i read about this. it's not principle, it's politics. they are actually focus grouping would impeaching president trump be good or bad for us as a party? they're not saying good or bad for america. ainsley: don't you have to have reason to impeach.

>> you would actually think so. i warn democrats remember bill clinton they impeached him they didn't remove him from office. it was bad bad for republicans. brian: fires comey, has differing explanation lings, what happens afterwards gave the momentum for this deputy attorney general to come forward and say, look, i just want to get an special counsel to work this on the side. so the question is, is donald trump, these contradicting these people at some times. in other words, people contradicting him. is it full-time for him to step forward and start being his own counselor. have less press conferences wither sean spicer and sarah huckabee sanders and more with him? >> i think that's a really interesting idea. a lot of the americans less press conferences more just information from the white house. but i also want to let america know, you are looking at me right here, the media also pushes story lines to get ratings.

so when they have, you know, congressman and senators on television, they say well l. you vote to impeach him? they are doing this because they want to mike news. they want to get headlines. and treating the president like kno notella. ainsley: focus on the facts. if there is there there, we will know about it. if there is not, we will know about it thank you, amy. >> thank you. ainsley: hand it over to jillian, have you headlines. jillian: very warm thursday morning in new york. harsh words from the state department after this violent brawl outside the turkish embassy in d.c. the department saying, quote: we are communicating our concern to the turkish government in the strongest possible terms. we showed you this video of turkish president erdogan security punching and kicking protesters to the ground. all of this hours after erdogan met with president trump. pc police on patrol in seattle.

no longer using the word suspect when filling out reports. instead they will be referred to as community members. the reason for the change, police representatives think it is to make sure reports are politically correct. some officers are pc offended saying some of the so-called community members can be dangerous. the seattle police chief says the changes are purely for accuracy. well, take a leak at this video. it is horrifying. this police body cam video shows an officer's split second reaction when a driver attacks him with a rifle. this is all unfolding during a routine traffic stop in denver, colorado. [gunshots] >> shots fired. k-15 shots fired. >> don't move. >> how frightening. the driver charged at the officer trying to hit him with his gun when falling to the ground.

the officer fired two shots hitting the suspect in the arm. the officer held him at gunpoint until backup arrives. the department released the footage saying it's a prime example of what officers are trained to do before they hit the streets. and how about this one? united airlines is now apologizing after charging a soldier $200 for bag serving two years in afghanistan. the airline allows military members to travel with up to five bags for free. but first lt. join reuters' bag was too heavy so he had to pay. >> i'm not looking for sympathy necessarily but some form of empathy towards the situation. at least become a discussion and courses of action to solve the issue. there was none of that. it was just cold. >> united now reimbursing him for the fee. that's a look at your headlines over this thursday morning. back to you guys. steve: that's a little crazy. not like he was bringing home souvenirs, jillian, he was bringing home body armor.

brian: logic has left the building. for some people at united are not empowered to use logical thinking. this is how much it weighs. this is what this person should be doing. i'm going to take action. it's incredible. ainsley: if anyone serves our country, we need to be bowing down to them. not charging them extra money. i'm glad that united did give him the money back. brian: we should make sure that kevlar vests are lighter. that would help our guys actually fighting the wars and get them on. ainsley: give them scottie >> scott: y vest. steve: we know how some in the media feel about the trump administration. >> donald trump's ignorance of everything about government, his ignorance about the fbi, his ignorance about the law. his ignorance about james comey himself. steve: okay. but what do the american people think about the constant undermining of host

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brian: hear about impeachment and everything i just mentioned, what are people say talking. >> when you do talk radio. you are a guest on my program. you know how this works. we do all the research and bring all the facts. this spaced on a two line alleged conversation that was, i guess, leaked or phoned in to the "new york times." from a memo that james comey allegedly wrote. now we hear the word impeachment. whether we read that transcript on the air and say this is all based on. the audience, the calls will go crazy with how could they be talking about impeaching the president when we don't even know the full scope of this conversation. we don't know the context. we don't know what was said before or after or how it was said. the writer from the "new york times" michael schmitz the guy who wrote that headline with the word wiretap on the eve of inauguration which everybody said there was no wiretapping. the story they changed the headline in the "new york times." no one is reaching out to this reporter and asking him who phoned you? brian: andrew, the crazy thing is while we're doing this and

we have to delve into this and explain to people when are the tax cuts coming? they actually want to find out what's the deal with the border wall? you know, how have we cracked down on illegal immigration and they actually want to get maybe into infrastructure plan that both sides can work on there is a frustration. >> if you look at the big chunk of the map. electoral map that gave trump the victory. look at the things he voted on and running on. you are seeing republicans hemming and hawing on tax cuts. building the border wall. it's amazing. the republicans are almost as bad as the democrats in trying to stop this agenda that the majority of the country territorially voted for. brian: by the way justin amore of michigan says impeachment standards letting his personal views get. in one thing you can always count on is late my shows being equal opportunity offender. jimmy fallon struck me. one of the most talented guys. lately he has been slumping and he thinks he knows why. he was too nice to donald trump.

they have a right to be mad, meaning his audience. if i let anyone down it hurt feelings that they didn't like it. i got it i didn't do it to humanize trump. i didn't think it would be a compliment. he did the thing we all want him to do. he had fun with him. he let him touch his hair. it was great appearance. he is apologizing for that. >> leno, the grea greats, they mocked politics. dana carvy could make fun of republicans and democrats, make fun of the absurdities of politics, there was never that vague. now it seems like the late night comedians are comedians without senses of humor anymore. they become these kind of miserable cartoon characters of themselves. brian: to get ratings entered they have to kill the president. he apologized for not. insult for 65 million people who voted for them. >> half the country is not watching them know him. >> an dry wilkow, thanks so much. coming up judge napolitano,

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>> news break from the just department aappointment of special counsel to oversee the fbi investigation of russian government efforts to influence the 2016 election. >> i have not seen any evidence of actual collusion. where is the actual crime that they think they need a special prosecutor to prosecute? >> it is obvious there are some people out there who want to harm the president. we need the facts. >> i rise today to call for a the impeachment of the president of the united states of america. >> it's not principle, it's politics. they are actually focus grouping would impeaching president trump be good or bad for us as a party? they are not saying would it

be good or bad for america. >> dozens of some l.a.'s most dangerous gang members were rounded up and arrested. >> criminal organizations like ms-13 represent a grave threat to the safety of americans. >> no politician in history has been treated worse or more unfairly i can't let the critics and the nay sayers get in the way of your dreams. >> a presidential photo bomb. >> what's been the difference? what clicked for him? >> george w. bush having some fun at the texas ranger's baseball game. ♪ i said shake, rattle and roll ♪ i said shake, rattle and roll ♪ i said shake, rattle and roll. >> you can tell it's 1950s so empty. steve: feel like it shut be a black and white picture. brian: should be a little lp record spinning around and see ron howard's name and arthur fonzrela. steve: so hilarious president

bush photo bombing that reporter. brian: story built for definition and some level headed analysis, it's this one. >> there is a lot of moving parts, brian, and aenormous wheel has just been placed in the midst of all the others called robert mueller and all the assets and resources available to him and the prime is i of his investigation over the others. so now we have a determination by the justice department that all of this stuff. all of the allegations against president trump for evidence of which we haven't seen anything so far. allegations that came from the memo from jim comey. allegations about general flynn. all of this will be investigated by one person in one place at one time and that person is a very well respected guy. steve: rod rosenstein. brian: for those who don't

sign up four your class special counsel robert mueller maybe named into allegations of any type of russian collusion in the last elections. >> this is the present day version of the independent counsel that ken starr was in the bill clinton era. this is slightly different, the terge is slightly different. the authority, the function is basically the same. to create an independent team within the justice department. using justice department resources and assets. money and fbi agents and other tools available to them to determine if any crimes have been committed and if any crimes can be proven and if any person should be prosecuted we don't know how long this is going to last. he has a charge to examine the general flynn, russian allegations. allegations about the president himself. and any related matters and any related matters. >matters.

steve: what does that mean? >> anything that addresses peripherally the believability of these people he can go to. so ken starr starts out looking at a land deal in arkansas and ends up with monica lewenski and we all know how that ended up. ainsley: good or bad thing for the president? >> well, both, actually. this will lessen the pressure in washington, d.c. the republicans and the congress should be very happy. it takes a lot of pressure off of them. and this investigation will be conducted bloat radar screen. not on national television. not in the halls of congress. hopefully not by information being leaked, leaked, leaked to the point where it's a flood this is a real investigation. this isn't members of congress grandstanding. grand jury with subpoena power. there will be a federal judge assigned to this who can issue search warrants. there will be a large team of fbi agents they are not going to request things like they did in the hillary clinton

investigation. they will show up with search warrants and seize things. this will be fast but we won't see it we will see it when the independent counsel will tell us i'm about to indict or there is no there there we are closing up shop. steve: i have heard a number of legal analysts talk about how robert mueller who was the fbi director for both president obama and george w. bush is above reproach. great g man liked by both parties. but i have got a question for you. he is also very good friends with james comey, does that impact this. >> i don't think so. i think at this level you're not talking about a financial relationship with him. you are not talking about them being in the same law firm at this level their friendship is going to help. steve: can he put the friendship aside. brian: adam schiff should listen to you. this is not a substitution foreinvestigation in congress. they think they still have the ball here. do they still have the ball.

>> they are going to try. get reelected both parties. they get reelected by getting their mugs on television. if they think they are going to get documents at the same time or ahead of the special priewrd, they are wrong he has prime is i in this and federal rules of criminal procedure. if he gets a document, let's say comey's memo he is. he gets this. he can't share it with the senate, it's evidence in a criminal case. is he required to keep it secret. now, this will help some of them because it keeps them from having to make difficult decisions but it will frustrate some of them like adam schiff and chuck schumer who now have lost control over this rolling ball. steve: also doesn't this help sean spicer ultimately now in the press briefing when somebody asks a question about russia. you know what? we have special counsel right now. >> go ask them. steve: right. >> spokesperson as well saying

you know what? it's a criminal investigation. we are not allowed to give you a snapshot in the middle of it come back to us when it is over. ainsley: we have heard obstruction of justice and impeachment? >> impeachment is a political judgment which he is not charged, bob mueller is not charged with making. that's really up to the congress. but he will look at obstruction of justice to see if there has been an attempt tto obstruct justice conspiracy to object strucketd justice or actual serious effort to obstruct justice. steve: when you look at what james comey apparently wrote in his notes and we all know he was a big note taker and ever every meeting with donald trump, the president of the united states would take a lot of the notes and write it all down. when he said i hope you can let this go, does that rise to the level of obstruction of justice? is that the boss saying hey, back off? >> so i would want to see that and any lawyer would in my view before making a -- giving

you a meaningful or prudent answer. i would want to see the context in which it was stated, the contents of all of the memos. the tone of the languages wage and whether or not his observations stayed the same over five month period during the which there is five memos. i'm not avoiding your answer. i'm basically saying i need to know more before saying yes or no. brian: the date is may 3rd. question about a similar situation that might come up. and the question really focuses on attorney general or a deputy. let's watch. >> is the attorney general or senior officials at the department of justice opposes a specific investigation e can they halt that fbi investigation? >> in theory? yes. >> has it happened? >> not in my experience because it would be a big deal to tell the fbi to stop doing something that -- without appropriate purpose. i mean, we are oftentimes they give us opinions that we don't see a case there, so you ought

to stop investing resources in it, but i'm talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal. it's not happened in my experience. ainsley: all right. so is there even a need for an investigation. >> puzzle, question, does that contradict the portions of the memo that an fbi agent read to the "new york times" or does it supplement? we don't know the answer to we see all of the memo. brian: relevant? >> absolutely relevant. under oath and statement subject matter. ainsley: he said that would be a big deal if that happened. never happened in my experience. and after the memos allegedly these alleged memos were released to the "new york times," they did this story. did you read gregg jarrett's piece yesterday on fox news? he said if comey few there was obstruction of justice answered didn't report it immediately then he is in big trouble. that's against the law. >> i don't read the law the same way my colleague does. i also would caution against

that kind of judgment because we don't know to whom the memo was sent. for example, if the memo was sent to the public integrity section of the fbi or public integrity section of the justice department, then there is no criticism of comey. if he just kept the memo on his iphone then he just wrote it to refresh his own recollection and didn't report it to anybody. steve: could have been just his personal notes which he did apparently share with some his colleagues in the fbi? >> yes, yes. steve: not an official memo but just hey, this is what happened? >> the obligation to report something pertains to a completed crime that you observed. it doesn't pertain to every piece of evidence. brian: personally, can i give a recommendation to you? >> i'm getting nervous here because it's national television, kilmeade. what are you going to say to me that's personal. >> don't go to church at 5:00. the last four days news breaks and they need you. you can't be caught in a church. you have to be tv ready. >> i was at mass last night

when ken rosenburg, shep's executive producer found me and we did a level two. meaning all the fox 5s in the country and i was in the vestibule of a church. steve: you had your phone turned on in church? that's the first thing they tell you turn off your phone. >> i saw rosenberg's name i had two answer. brian: two hail maries by the power invested in me you are forgiven. i think i'm in "watters' world." i'm not sure. ainsley: please pray for him because he just told you not to go. [laughter] steve: thank you, judge. jillian: just let him call you out like that and not respond? brian: he is a bigger man than me. jillian: all right. good morning to you guys. get you caught up on what you need to know. protests break out overnight in tulsa after a jury finds a police officer not guilty in the shooting death of an unarmed black man.

officer betty shelby says she was afraid for her life when she shot terrence crutcher he refused to follow orders when he walked to the car running and abandoned. shelby thought he was reaching for a gun. no gun was found but autopsy found pcp in his system at the time of the shooting. the family says the verdict is hard to accept. the doj will open civil rights investigation into the case. president trump considering four candidates to replace james comey as fbi director. after a series of interviews at the white house. among the top candidates joe lieberman, the party's nominee for vice president in the 2,000 election he is now an independent. also in the mix right now acting fbi director andrew mccabe, former oklahoma governor frank keating and former fbi executive assistant director richard mcfeely. the president could make his choice by the end of the week. and breaking overnight, rocker chris cornell has died.

♪ won't you come ♪ jillian: lead singer of sound garden and audio slave passing away unexpectedly after playing a concert in detroit. the cause not yet known. he has been open about drug and alcohol addiction in the past. cornell was just 52 years old. he leaves behind a wife and three kids. it's always, always heart breaking when you see someone die far too young. steve: sad story. ainsley: thanks jillian. brian: 13 minutes after the hour. coming up the leader of a terrorist group convicted of dozens ever murders a free man going home to a parade. ainsley: stock market grr now blames president trump. stuart varney is coming up next. brian: is he always walking ♪ can't you see ♪ i don't have

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of course, blaming none other than president trump. but is that really fair? brian: yeah. here to break it down for us is varney and company own stuart varney from the fox business network. stuart, what caused this? >> the bottom line is that investors are increasingly anxious, increasingly worried that they will not get any of the trump growth agenda, the trump growth plan this year that is a legitimate concern. the market went straight up after the election because we were expecting tax cuts less red tape, infrastructure plan. we haven't gottenfully of it six months into the presidency. these investigations and the political turmoil simply make things worse. ainsley: why the concern now? >> look, we have an extraordinary 10 days have we not with scandal after scandal and the appointment of a special counsel now to investigate any russian connection. that is political turmoil. that's going to hang over any legislation that reforms the tax code. that repeals and gets rid of obamacare. this is hanging over

everything. so, it makes it less likely, i think frankly almost impossible that you will get tax reform done this year. and if it's delayed until next year. brian: paul ryan said the opposite yesterday. he said we are still moving along. he said that's a big miscon sessions. >> the perception is you can chew gum and walk at the same time. whether you can actually do that or not, i don't know. all these scandals, the turmoil gives the democrats a perfect opportunity to stall everything that president trump proposes. they can stall it that's what wall street is worried about. you won't get it done this year. steve: you know, a lot of people have said, look, congress wasn't on board with the trump agenda anyway before all this hit the fan. but, the market sold off yesterday on the news of the comey thing. not on the news that there was a new special counsel. >> that's true. steve: i think what this is going to do is let the white house and also the hill get some traction on some other things essentially saying okay, let's move this trouble over here.

now let's focus on what the people want us to do. >> the assumption is that the democrats will let them move this trouble over here and get on with the trump plan. steve: this is what the democrats have been calling for. they got what they wished for. >> let me tell you what the market judgment is this morning, not yesterday, this morning. we are going to open up with another 100 point lost for the dow industrials in about two hours' time. we're going down again this morning. that means the market does not believe that you can shift this trouble to the side and we just get on with the trump agenda. the market is sending a message. get your act together or we can't do anything. wall street will decline. even the republicans are saying the same thing. get your act together or we can't pass anything in congress. brian: the only thing that can keep politics out of this is if the american people lose money. the 401(k)s are taking a hit. that would sober people up. >> this over-the-top media response to this latest investigation that is hurt guilty you and every one of our viewers, hurting their

money. brian: watch varney and company 9 to noon on fox business network. >> yes, please. brian: thank you. >> thank you, everyone. ainsley: mainstream media can't stop talking about impeachment. next guest says that is all hogwash. lawrence jones is our next guest. there he is, next.

♪ ainsley: we have some quick headlines for you about two convicted felons that are pardoned or were pardoned by president obama. first, the leader of a terror group responsible for killing americans will be celebrated in chicago today. oscar lopez rivera just released from prison was the top boss of faln which carried out over 100 bombings across the u.s. including the 1975 explosion in new york city, killing four and injuring more than 60. he will also be honored in a

parade in new york next month. and another person fresh out of prison chelsea manning now tweeting as a free woman 28 years early. hours after her release she posted first step to freedom. picture of her feet reading converse sneakers and yes she got her hot greasy pizza and a picture to prove it. >> steve: all right. meanwhile as a second counsel is overseen the russian investigation. mainstream media wrapping up new favorite word and it starts with an i. >> i rise today, mr. speaker, to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america. for obstruction of justice. >> the big question did, president trump try to block the fbi's russia investigation commit an impeachability offense? >> are we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet another impeachment process? brian: you see the cheerleaders in the background. lawrence jones is the host of

the blade and joins us now to react. are you surprised by this? great to see new person by the way. >> great seeing you. i'm not surprised because the republicans were weak. they had no spines and the democrats saw blood in the water. and now they are just attacking like vultures. brian: first blow come when jeff sessions says okay, you win, i will never back out? >> he should have never recused himself. brian: president called mar-a-lago to say what were you thinking? >> democrats will continue to fight. here is the deal. where were the democrats from the mainstream media when we had fast and furious or the irs scandal which i will talk about in the beginning of the program, or beans? ainsley: or hillary clinton break being the law. >> there was no calls for impeachment and investigations. this is why republicans should held their ground. steve: democrats have been calling for a couple of weeks for a special counsel. now they have got it. now what happens? >> they should be scared that this guy is there. steve: absolutely. this guy's term was extended because he was so good. you didn't hear his name a lot.

he was very respected? law enforcement community. i want to see him review the email scandal. i want to see him review benghazi, all these other irs scandals and all of that. open the flood gates. steve: i don't know if that pertains to this particular investigation. however, we played a sound bite from professor jonathan turley the george washington university professor who said when they look into this, got to keep in mind washington, d.c. is awash in russian money. so, you know, if they are looking into manafort, next thing you realize hey this top democrat got money. >> russian ambassador. everyone meets with this guy. we don't know what back door deals have been done or hasn't been done. the democrats are playing partisan politics. and they have the mainstream media pushing this agenda. all of the sudden the media wants to ask questions. they didn't do that for the last eight years. we have been calling for investigations and investigations and they didn't pursue any of our leads. ainsley: lawrence, what are people in middle america trying to provide for their family think about all of this.

>> it's nauseous. they want a president who can get results. quite frankly he has got a lot done. all these distractions is distracting the agenda e the jobs, the healthcare fight. all the other issues they want. brian: lawrence, the probable is in many ways is that he gets -- the president does not take a backwards step in his real life, his business life, and now in his political life. because of that he created more trouble, it seems, for himself by the tweets. by the taunts, by the ways he said james comey is a show boat. by the way i should have fired and it was all my decision contradicting his people. that adds to the chaos and makes it hard to fight. >> i have said this before. he needs to stay focused and stop doing all these interviews why would you reward people who continue to bash you. he shouldn't have done some of these interviews that they're using against him. the president needs to connect with the people. he is not doing that right now. brian: he needs a confidante somebody he trusts.

ainsley: press conferences and not sean spicer? >> that could be problems. [laughter] >> more problems could happen with him doing a press conference. sometimes he changes his mind on the spot. it's hard to get a consistent message when the president is so bomb bass and he likes the -- he goes with the moment. he is a businessman. is he not a politician. steve: yeah. now that there is a special counsel. the good news is as long as there is nothing there, this is going to be fine. >> they move to something else. once cave in i know something different. since you caved on this. now let's go to something else. ainsley: don't you think the american people are so frustrated because they like his policies. they like the fact that he wants to build a wall and he cares about border security. they like the fact that he wants to put more money four pocketbooks with tax reform. he can't get anything done because the mainstream media has so much power and they won't let him. every little thing he does wrong they go after.

we get so caught up in the minutia of that. >> that's true. the president's biggest mistake is he wants to be liked. he should have stuck with the voter. let the voters like you. don't worry about the media. don't worry about outside politicians. stick with the people. the people got you elected. remember all these polls said you couldn't win. stick with the people. steve: good pointed. lawrence jones, thank you very much. brian: nice to see new person. >> i appreciate it. ainsley: coming up, we are going to continue a conversation on this story. democrats screaming for impeachment. dr. bill bennett. brian: she preaches intolerance and white trash. we will tell you what the dean of yale had to say ♪ everybody talk ♪ everybody talk ♪ it started with a whisper ♪ and now was ♪ credit score... just not about protecting it. confidence is a state of mind. find it in the free creditwise app from capital one.

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robert murielrobert mueller undk obama and george w. bush will be special counsel looking into the russia affair. joining us now former secretary of education under president reagan and also a fox news contributor bill bennett. good morning to you, bill. ainsley: good morning. >> hi, everybody. brian: best selling author and special counsel named good move or bad move for the administration? >> mixed. i think the special counsel thing is rife with potential mischief. you are giving the guy the car, the keys, credit card for gas all year. he becomes one of the two or three most powerful people in the country. simply by being named. however, if you're gonna have a special counsel, i think robert mueller is as good as republicans and donald trump could hope for. a man of unquestionable integrity. princeton will he lacross player, a jock, more important a marine, a decorated marine, bronze star in vietnam.

i like him. he is part of the swamp, i guess. i wanted to make this point later. he is part of the swamp who could be trusted, i believe. so i think good news on that front. if donald trump didn't do any collusion, and i don't believe he did, mueller is great news. if he did collusion, i don't think he did, mueller is bad news because he will get to it. ainsley: what happens next? what's the process? >> yeah. well, the process is it goes quiet or it should go quiet. mueller will not give press conferences. this should at least tone down the volume of the democrats. it may not because, you know, they are infected with some kind of -- you know, this disorientation syndrome in regard to donald trump. but, the perfect answer by the white house, i think you guys made it earlier by sean spicer, look, this is special counsel. it's in his purview. let's wait and see what he finds out. this will calm them down for 30 or 40 minutes and then they will start screaming. there is now a good response

to the screaming which is let the special counsel do his work. steve: absolutely. i have got to ask you though, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is the guy who decided to appoint this special counsel. it's interesting because up to like a week ago, he was against the idea because he felt the fbi could actually do it on their own because they are independent and they are the fbi, of course. but apparently because the politics and everything else have become so thick in washington, d.c., apparently his thinking evolved to conclude that a special counsel was needed to prove to the public that the investigation was thorough but impartial because that's what's going on. you know, you refer to the swamp people. people just feel like everybody has got an axe to grind. >> yeah. and i think this was partly in redemption of his own reputation. i think he felt a little bit like the fall guy. you know, the advice i got to washington is think high, --

think low, act high. excuse me. think low act high. let's assume the base motive here. i think rosen stein wanted to redeem his own reputation. show he was strong. i heard him all over the liberal media this morning praftz to the skies as this great guy. but whatever the reason, mueller is -- mueller is a good choice. by the way, i think mueller is -- my own personal opinion -- is out to get trump. i think he thinks of himself as maker and unmaker of presidents. i unmade one or helped to unmake one in the case of hillary clinton. now unmake another. brian: mueller or comey? >> comey, comey, comey. brian: a lot of people just peaced out. >> no, no, no. play it back. cut it out. comey is. brian: i understand. the independent counsel has been disbanded, i understand, because iran contra and white water both sides said let's stop this. what did they stop by stopping

the independent counsel counsel? >> not much. somebody who operates outside the pursue of the justice department. this guy still reports to the justice department and technically he can be fired by the president. not a good idea i would say. wouldn't be a good idea to fire mueller. >> plus i think he is going to do an honest and thorough job. let me come back to the comey point. ainsley said earlier, pointing out to that testimony of may 3rd when comey went to the hill and asked whether there were ever efforts to obstruct justice while he was there by the president or anyone else. he said no. that is very important for him to have said. let's see what he says next week or the week after. my guess is it won't be good. but i don't think that will effect mueller. ainsley: at the taste of what is yet to come. maybe it won't be good. you never know. we have seen him change his tune several times. i know the president went to washington and said he he wanted to drain the swamp.

is there anyone in the so-called swamp that you think is beneficial for him? >> yeah, look. i guess i'm a swamp creature of sorts. i have been there a while. i like to think i'm in the swamp but not of the swamp. there is all sorts of talented and abled people of washington. i'm having a conversation later with donald rumsfeld. there are people like that. you may need some people from the swamp to get after the people in the swamp because they understand how the swamp works. think of the john sununus, the andy cards. people like that. they can be very useful, very helpful. not everybody from the swamp is a creature from the black lagoon, this creature from my childhood movies. some of them i have think could be useful. he has to get after the swamp creatures who are leaking and maybe doing more damage to this presidency than anybody else. even comey. steve: no kidding the swamp leaks, no doubt. bill bennett joining us today from, i believe, bald head island, beautiful down in north carolina. bill, thank you very much. >> you gave me away, man.

i want mee people to think i'm working hard at my desk in the swamp. ainsley: ainsley knows where i am. ainsley: outer banks, beautiful. brian: plus we can track you on your phone. all right. ainsley: bill, i know they love you there. kiss that southern soil for us. let's hand it over to jillian who has headlines for us. jillian: track everything on your cell phone these days. isis may be working on most deadly attacks yet. the terror group reportedly forming an elite chemical weapons cell made up of terror experts around the middle east. potentially deadly operation being set up near the border of iraq and syria. isis has unleashed more than a dozen chemical attacks in recent weeks. this story might make you scratch your head. man stripped aman at the beach e pictures of suv. sinking off the sand new jersey. 50 miles away from toms river. frantically trying to dig it

out with a shovel working against the tide, he failed. the suv is back on land. there is a story to be learned there. don't do that at home. okay? abc is responding to major backlash african selling the hit show last man standing. the company is speaking out as nearly 300,000 angry fans sign online petition to give the conservative sitcom back. >> i know what microaggressions are. latest liberal attack at free speech and a lot of fun. >> abc entertainment president shutting down rumors their decision had anything to do with politics saying, quote: i cancelled "last man standing" for the same business and scheduling reasons that i cancelled dr. ken and american crime. and it's your shot of the morning right now. all right. we will have that for you guys a little bit later. stay tuned for that. brian: nice tease. steve: thanks, jillian. brian: let me tell you what's coming up straight ahead. the former commander-in-chief

as he walks by. you will see it in a seconds. steve: just another tease for the shot brian: you are right. brian: coming up soon, the weather. steve: gavin, are we going to look at the shot of the morning? ainsley: we are going to look at it right now. steve: president bush is a regular at rangers home team. ainsley: he owns the team. steve: that's right. as he was walking down the steps behind that reporter for fox sports, he was either calling out to her, which i doubt, or he was speaking to the person ahead or behind him. >> it looks like he is saying hey to her. she is on camera. here is the reporter, she is kicking herself. i will could have turned around around talked to the president of the united states. and i missed it. shot of the morning. worth waiting for. brian: absolutely. fantastic. by the way, who is gavin? steve: gavin is the producer. gavin is the producer in our ear that would have said ainsley, turn around. the president is behind you.

ainsley: the producer should have told her. democrats are furious over the president's alleged tampering with the fbi investigation. where was the outrage when former attorney general loretta lynch held a secret meeting with bill clinton while she was investigating hillary. texas senator louie gohmert is here with more on that ♪ i want to scream and shout ♪ and let it all out ♪ and scream and shout ♪ and let it out ♪ we saying oh 24hr protection from frequent heartburn. all day, and all night. now packed into a pill so small, we call it mini. new clearminis from nexium 24hr. see heartburn differently.

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ainsley: james comey might be headed back to capitol hill on allegation the president asked him to stop investigating general michael flynn. steve: lawmakers demanding to see et fbi's director full notes he might have infamous. bill clinton and attorney

general loretta lynch while his wife hillary clinton was under investigation louie gohmert joins us now from our nation's capital. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. >> always good to talk to you all. steve: they have opened the canal of worms. >> they have. steve: looking into mr. comey's memos regarding, you know, his meeting with president trump. is it appropriate then to look at anything regarding hillary clinton and maybe former president obama as well. >> it was totally appropriate to look at those things back when they were occurring. it's still appropriate. it needs to happen. and if he had a memo about his meeting over flynn, which is totally appropriate. i mean, the constitution talks about the president's executive authority. it doesn't mention an fbi director and attorney general. he is the one charged with enforcing the laws.

it's perfectly appropriate. but, if he is so good at taking memos as we are hearing, where were they on these other issues? surely he talked to loretta lynch about the meeting with hillary clinton. where's the memo on all of those things. ainsley: good point. >> it's just not there. and they still haven't shown anything that russia did that affected the election. and people have come up that can't stand the republicans clapper on up. they can't point to anything. next thing we have a special counsel? this is really troubling. i know everyone is singing mueller's praises. i remember all too well the invaluable damage that that man did to the fbi. he had a five year up or out program all across the country. position for five years, you had to either come to washington or get out. we lost thousands of years.

why did he do that? because he knew the young guys would salute the flag, salute him and wouldn't have enough experience to know when they weren't doing something appropriate. and he is egotistical. he's a problem. brian: wow, robert mueller is a problem. are you saying smurl a problem. >> is he a problem. he wastes money like crazy. this is not a good thing that's just happened. ainsley: the president must be listening to you because is he tweeting about what you are talking about. he said he just tweeted with all of the illegal acts that took place in the clinton campaign and obama administration, there was never a special counsel appointed. >> that's right. there should have been. there were so many things that came up. loretta lynch should have recused herself on multiple things, including hillary clinton. and so should comey. there were a number of things that required a special counsel and i think that the reason some people didn't go to prison was because there was not a special counsel now

we turn around with any proof of wrong doing at all. can't point to anything that was actually -- brian: you know what was amazing, congressman. you were in the majority and you never got your special counsel. you got two houses, the minority and special president. it'sth. >> it's crazy. >> our guys try to look like we are so much above board and it gets expensive. you're going to end up doing stories about mueller being a problem. i promise you. ainsley: all right. thank you so much, congressman. brian: i hope you are wrong. >> i hope i am. ainsley: he hopes he is, too. the congressman knows this. it's not easy looking like steve and brian every morning. they are going to head out to the plaza. brian: really? ainsley: got to get a new hair cut. brian: i'm getting a hair cut? ainsley: yeah. brian: sports cut.

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♪ ainsley: well, we talk about all sorts of things on "fox & friends," including where the guys should get their hair cut. remember this? brian: they have this barbershop that's sports themed where they have nothing but sports television around while you get your hair cut. that's genius. ainsley: why didn't they talk about that earlier. steve: are you talking about sports cuts? brian: is that sports cuts? yeah,. >> sports clips. brian: is that new? steve: they have had one in my town five years. brian: for some reason i just got it now. steve: they do have one in my town. now brian and i get to try them out here on the plaza as

they try to comb through our hair that has about half a can of aqua net in it. brian: actually theme franchise. here along with sports clips stylist gabby and erin. ladies, look who is next to you. he is a legend. ainsley: how did you come up with this idea because it is genius. >> my wife and i have been in the business about 40 years running salons. and about 25 years ago we realized nobody was paying any attention to the men. we thought if we provided a great experience at the same time getting a great hair cut at great value. ainsley: have you ever thought about adding beer? that would be perfect. steve: they have a lot of kids. ainsley: do you like carona light. >> you are the first person to ever suggest that. ainsley: i am? janice: gordon you were in the service yourself. >> i was. >> air force a number of years. >> how did you go from being in the air force to owning salons? >> did i a stint with price

waterhouse has a consultant and then read about it franchise in the "wall street journal" and sundayed like a good opportunity. opened my first salon in 1979. steve: you ar1979steve. janice: you are in u.s. and canada. >> all 50 states and canada. brian: our genius because you don't do anything. >> you figured it out. ainsley: how come you are in the kid's chair a little bit. brian: can you jack me up. my dentist can why can't my hairstylist. steve: thank you. i got a chance to watch sports and talk to guys. it's fun. ainsley: gordon are they more hans some now? >> spectacular. more hans some. steve: now that there is new management in the russia investigation. will that be enough to stop the democrats' calls for impeachment? we will discuss that at the

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russian government efforts to influence the 2016 election. >> i have not seen any evidence of actual collusion. where is the actual crime that they think they need a special prosecutor to prosecute? >> it is obviously there are some people out there who want to harm the president. we need the facts. >> arise a date to call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america. >> it's not principle. it's politics. they're focus grouping. would impeaching president trump be good or bad for us as a party?

they're not thinking would it be bad for america? >> dozens of l.a.'s most dangerous gang members were rounded up and arrested. >> a grave threat to the safety of americans. >> no politician in history has been treated worse or more unfairly. you can't let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams. >> you've got to see this. a presidential photo bomb. >> what has been the difference? >> george w. bush having fun at the texas rangers baseball game. >> this is pink; right? >> it is pink. >> although that's why. >> the white house raise your glass another day today is thursday. it's going to be a hot one here in new york city. but not nearly as hot as it was at the white house. the 5:00 heuer when it was discovered that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in the public

interest had declared that robert, former fbi director would be special counsel looking into any trump ties to russia. ainsley: that's right the president just tweeted this morning. he says with all of the illegal tacts took place in the campaign and the obama administration, there was never a special counsel appointed. steve: counsel misspelled there. brian: if robert muller is not the robert muller that described to us a negative view of him, most people have positive views of him after 12 years heading the fbi as a prosecutor, i do know this. it looks like the law firm he was at representing paul manafort. that's going to be an interesting tie. we know he's best friends with james comey. what i hope is people do some investigating, and we stop hearing the leaking and the punditry on this.

i hope the white house was not barely informed of this. they found out a half hour before it was ultimately announced. we know kellyanne conway was pulled back from the tucker carlson show last night. i don't know inning they're trying to get their communications all set and homogenous. ainsley: president trump was meeting with new candidates to from the fbi open seat and in the middle of that, he was alerted that guess what? there's going to be a special council. steve: with the president tweeting twice, the tactic they're taking is unfair and not necessary. they did name mr. muller because he worked for both barack obama and also george wgeorge bush is going to make it harder for democrats to say the result of the investigation was partisan because clearly, he is, and we've heard from a lot of people, a straight shooter. we had judge napolitano on the program earlier today. he agreed robert muller is a

man of integrity. however, there is peril when you have a special counsel. watch. >> well, both, actually. this will lessen the pressure in washington, d.c. and this will be conducted below the radar screen. not on national television. not in the halls of congress. hopefully not information being leaked, leaked, leaked, where it's a flood. but this is a real investigation. this isn't members of congress grandstanding. there will be a large team of fbi agents. they're not going to request things like they did in the hillary clinton investigation. they're going to show up with search warrants and sees things. so this will be fast, but we won't see it. we'll see it when the independent counsel is about to indict or there is no, there this. we're closing up shop. brian: the only thing that bothers me, do we really want to get to the bottom of things is the senate intelligence committee and the house

intelligence committee adam schiff, senator bur. they're still going to be their investigations. which means there's still going to be leaks, there's still going to be a lot of politicians finding the spotlight. saying this is fine. now i want a i want counsel on top of the counsel. ainsley: do you remember when james comey said he looked at all the reasons of indicting hillary clinton and at the end he said, no, we're not going to indict. and all the democrats said we love james comey. he's great. and then the announcement a few days before election, they flip-flopped. now chuck schumer said he's in agreement with rosenstein. he likes muller, he's the right individual for this job. so if they turn up there's nothing against the president and they're able to clear his name, chuck schumer better not come back and say we need to redo this because he's liking these two individuals that have made the decision to do general counsel, and he likes robert muller.

steve: because muller is above partisanship, he said. absolutely right. it will be good for trump, provided there isn't anything out there. nbc, however, says that both paul manafort and michael flynn have been -- it sounds like they're the prime targets. there are multiple grand jury subpoenas and nbc says both are formally considered by department of justice. subject to criminal investigation. so you have those names out there. and washington, d.c. is such a lyric town, if there's anything bad about the president of the united states, we would have heard it last month. brian: well, we'll see. because i would like to see start debating health care again. i think the next thing the president should do is beside pushing tax reform, is start doing some infrastructure. steve: sure. brian: so let's start doing that and that's where the democrats will have to get on of their butts because that's what they ran on. steve: but, you know, the democrats have been calling for the special counsel and now they got what they wanted.

i mean, it was pretty much universal. although a few of them wanted impeachment. but they got what they want. so i think this is going to allow the white house and hill to actually get some traction on stuff like you just mentioned. donald trump is chomping at the bit to get stuff done. and he made it very clear. he has this list of stuff. he wants to get it done and now it's robert muller there, maybe this investigation will finally be done quickly and effectively and aboveboard. brian: here was a little bit of his address to the coast guard. congratulations, men and women. but you got the president to speak to you. >> we've saved the second amendment, expanded service for veterans. the chains wrapped around our country and economy. we've begun plans for the

border wall. we're going to give you major tax reform. i didn't get elected to serve the washington media or special interest. i got elected to serve the forgotten men and women of our country, and that's what i'm doing. steve: there you go. so we wanted to know what you thought about the turn of events in the last 24 hours, and we got just about a million e-mails. ainsley: that's right. we're going to start with this one. this was a comment from facebook. trump is the best thing that could happen to america. it's nice to have a president to look out for the american people first. brian: martha rights she says keep fighting, president trump. the swamp is a very ugly place. steve: rhonda also on facebook. the president, the people who voted for you are not distracted by all of this hoopla. keep your promises, and we will continue to support you. brian: and if the past is a way to look and see what the future will bring when it comes to this, if it ends up

being something people deem as unfair, bill clinton benefited, believe it or not, big time when it came to his approval ratings after the investigation into that ugly affair he had. his approval ratings went through the roof. steve: keep in mind, he was also impeached. brian: from the house. it stopped in the senate, and you need two-thirds of the senate. steve: he was impeached. we want to know what the people feel, so we're heading on of to a diner in the great state of michigan. so stay tuned for that. ainsley: in the meantime, let's head over to julian. >> good thursday morning to you guys. protests breaking out overnight in tulsa after a jury finds a police officer not guilty in the shooting death of an unarmed black man. [chanting no justice, no peace. [. >> officer betty says she was afraid for her life when she shot terrence. he refused to follow orders. she thought he was reaching for a gun.

no gun was found. but also found pcp in his system at the time of the shooting. she said she was innocent from the beginning. >> i never wanted to be in that spot. his actions dictated my actions. >> you did your time. >> i never wanted to kill him. >> a lot of emotion there. the family says the verdict is hard to accept. the doj will open a civil rights investigation into the case. the leader of a terror group responsible for killing americans will be celebrated in chicago today. [chanting] >> oscar lopez ar just released from prison, which

carried out over 100 bombings in the u.s., including the 1975 explosion killing 64 and injuring more than 60. he'll also be honored in the parade next month. so is milwaukee top cop joining the trump administration? says he's going to work for the homeland security working closely between the agency and the local police cracking down on illegal immigrants. dhs not confirming that yet tweeting senior positions are announced when made official by the secretary. no such announcement with regard to the office of public engagement has been made. and breaking overnight, rockrer chris cornell has died. ♪ ♪ >> the lead singer of sound garden passing suddenly and unexpectedly. hours after playing a concert in detroit.

the cause of death not yet known, about her has open about his struggle with drug and alcohol addiction in the past. cornell was just 52 years old. he leaves behind a wife and three kids. look at your headlines right now. see you guys in a little bit. steve: all right. julian, thank you very much. meanwhile, coming up cops are not allowed to call suspects, suspects anymore. they have to call them community members. we'll talk about that coming up. brian: and of president obama's speaker intelligence about the bin laden raid. the media went berserk; right? no. we'll take a look at the double standard that seems to be existing in today's environment. gradually zoom out, and then we'll do something else

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steve: 22 minutes ago, the president tweeted this. this is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in american. you know, when the obama administration leaked top secret information about the bin laden raid, the media was silent. now a much different story. joining us from the capitol

brie payton. what do you make of that, brie? >> i think he has a point in that. everyone treating the situation is treating it rather differently than the way they treated the obama administration. i wrote a story they really week talking about the media double standard regarding leaks coming from the obama white house and leaks allegedly coming from the trump administration. half of the media has doubled down that donald trump reportedly shared classified information in a meeting with russian officials. top intelligence officials have unequivocally denied that this ever happened and that he shared nothing improper, yet they're still being snarky about it. steve: sure. >> yet when the obama administration did far worse, the media was totally silent. so i think he has a point that there's a very large double standard and that's causing a lot of americans like myself to really ignore the screens of these russian investigations, all the russian accusations stemming

from the media. steve: no doubt there's a double standard. first, we're going to do the washington post. when president obama was president june 30th, 2016, the headline was u.s. offers to share syrian intelligence on terrorists with russia. and then when president trump is president may 15th, 2017, trump revealed highly classified information to russian diplomats. and of course as it turns out, that story not quite the same as the headline that the washington post had put in as soon as they got the story.u'ret and that's not the first time the obama administration leaked information in order to protect their friends in iran. you know, a couple of years ago they did leak information about israel supposedly using air bases, and they did so in order to protect iran. and, you know, the media really didn't have anything to say about this. the obama administration also declassified information about israel's nuclear program which

really breaches a long-standing relationship with our long time ally. and this happened just as tensions were heating up between him, leaving a lot of the things that he did purely out of sight. but no one in the media cared about this at all or cared to report about it. so i do think that this double standard really just shows and highlights their true intentions that it's not about holding someone accountable, it's not about telling the truth, it's about bringing a republican president down. steve: and to the double standard point, donald trump 35 minutes ago donald trump tweeted with all the illegal acts that took place in the clinton campaign and the obama administration, there was never a special counsel appointed. and of course last night it was announced that robert muller, the former fbi director would be special counsel looking to all things russia. >> yeah. and i do think -- you know, i do think that we need to get to the bottom of what exactly russia did and didn't do throughout the election because i think all of these spell that we really did have a play into the

kremlin's game. and when they did interfere in our election, which it kind of seems they did, i think that they did so from a propaganda perspective. so i think when we go about a b and scream and act hysterical, i think exactly what moscow wants. and i think that we need to be precise and careful. so i think we need to get to the bottom of this story. but i do wonder by bringing a special prosecutor what kind of can of worms this isoming up. steve: well, we'll find out. we do know russia tried to influence the election a lot of people on both sides of the aisle said that. but collusion, nobody has shown that so far. all right. brie payton, we thank you very much for joining us from the federalist today. >> thank you very much for having me. steve: you bet. next up, how should president trump handle the leakers plaguing the white house? bob massie says he needs a little mom mentality. >> you took the first place like the man, and you learned the two greatest things in life. look at me. never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

steve: always keep your mouth shut. fox news legal analyst bob massie is live next to explain. allergies with nasal congestion?

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more than 41,000 people put behind bars since president trump's inauguration. ice now averaging 400 arrests every day. all right. brian: the heyday of the mob and gangsters learned early on to keep information confidential, remember? >> you take it like a man, and you learn the two greatest things in life. look at me. never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut. ainsley: our next guest says the same idea should be used to handle leaks at the white house. steve: bob massie is host of property man, fox news legal analyst and now he's going to tell us how good fellows should be the president's adviser. bob, you've got to go. >> let me tell you. honest to god, when you look at this, i don't know how this guy, the president is able, brian, to work in the environment he's working. knowing that there could be a snitch around. i mean, i hate snitches. and let's understand -- but

let's understand the environment we're talking about. we're talking about people that he's talking to that's my trust. and now he has to be concerned that whatever he is saying to certain people confidentiality is going to be leaked. i don't know how you work in that and become effective. and more importantly, to me, as an american, i look at it and say how is this man supposed to govern and lead when he can't trust some of the people that's leaking things. i don't understand how he's able to do what he's able to do. steve: and one of the things about the leakers, bob, it's one thing when a reporter gets the information. you're going to put that in your tv show. but the lyric inside the government is potentially breaking the law. >> no question about it and of course we heard judge napolitano earlier talk about these types of things, a special prosecutor and the investigation, here's what's interesting to me. you know, in the old days, guys, when you had a coup, and i really look upon this whole thing as, like, a coup.

you used to bring guns and bullets. now they bring words. they bring words. they bring leaks. things in the paper. the other media outlets to try to destroy somebody. i have to tell you what bothered me. my 11-year-old grandson said to me the other day why is it that he need seems to be so mean? now, what do you say to a kid? i mean, isn't there at some point a responsibility? brian, you have two little children, ainsley you have children, steve, your daughter's a lawyer. you don't have to like what the guy does but do you have to be so mean spirited and say the things that they say? if you don't like the guy, vote him out in four years but don't be so disrespectful to the man. and that's what's troubling to me. brian: my wife just texted me to remind you we have three kids. >> i'm sorry about that. brian: no, i understand. and also when jimmy phalens says i'm sorry about being nice to donald trump.

i didn't want to normalize him so 60 million people that voted for him are abnormal, and he was apologizing to the 33 states he won. >> we have no first amendment rights as a conservative in this country any longer. we've seen what's happened on campuses. we have no rights to say anything. well, hell to all of these people because the way i was raised, you have an opinion, you show respect to the office. there's a lot of judges i went in front of over the years that i didn't agree with, but i show respect. i didn't agree with president obama, but i showed the position respect. you do not have to denigrate families and generations and have my 11-year-old grandson and your three children say to you potentially why are we losing civility? and, by the way, when you talk to judge napolitano, tell him when you check your phone in the church, it's a venal sin not a mortal sin. steve: the judge's phone rang last night in the church. he was attending latin mass and next thing you know he wound up on tv.

ainsley: gave it up early. >> i'm always early. i'm always early. ainsley: he lives in las vegas, for you at home don't know that. that was early in the show. thanks. brian: yeah, the judge goes to a mass in all latin. steve: he does. brian: does he understand latin? ainsley: he knows the law. memorized it. coming up, more on the leaks, specifically the snitches behind them. we have a team of experts, and they have a pretty good idea of who it is, and they say they dishonored our country. steve: is and a national guardsman was just trying to get home from afghanistan until an airline made it a heck of a lot harder for him. wait until you hear this one. it's going to get you going, fo, i joined the army in july of '98. i did active duty 11 years. and two in the reserves. our 18 year old was in an accident. when i call usaa it was that voice asking me, "is your daughter ok?"

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brian: 28 minutes before the top of the hour and a fox news alert, the department of justice naming robert muller to head a probe into russia's interference into the 2016 like a. so what does this mean? and will it finally get to the bottom of the leak surrounding the trump white house? or be like so many other special investigators when it goes out of control? our intelligence is here to weigh in. former intel committee chairperson pete, good to see you, sir. former senior intelligence officer tony with us as well and former cia military analyst dr. tara is with us. so first off, let's talk about your first take on robert muller. chairman, you know him. what's your thoughts? >> i think it's an excellent choice. i think this is going to put some integrity behind this russian investigation. it's going to take it off of capitol hill. you're going to find the senate and house intelligent committees are going to be much less empowered to do the work they can because whenever they're asking for

information, it's going to be the response they're going to get back from justice is you might be impeding an investigation. so the activity is now going to be with muller and nowhere else. brian: so, tara, you're used to doing investigations. also very familiar with washington. are you concerned about making this political? or do you think that muller is different than all the others? >> i think muller is a good choice. it's a good choice when you have democrats and republicans coming out with fairly simple messages last night. he's been known to be honest in washington. he brings bipartisan, and i think he has the trust of the american people, which i think is important. a lot of people have seen this turn partisan over the last few weeks. i think people are happy to see somebody brought in from the outside who to be frank i think the previous point is exactly correct. the capitol hill will still handle it, and i'm glad you see warner and berk coming

together, but this helps depoliticize it, which i think is important at this time. i think the trump administration should welcome it. i think that having a neutral third person brought in to be honest, they should be happy with that decision, although i don't think they are. brian: now let's look at the president's tweet this morning. by the way, they didn't really speak about it last night, and were not given a heads-up. he says with all the illegal acts that took place in the clinton campaign and the obama administration, there was never a special counsel appointed. this is the single crazy witch hunt of a politician in history. colonel, you also know washington is the president taking the right tack there? >> i agree with president trump. i'm skeptical of my colleagues here. look, everything in this town is political no matter what. and my worry is always exactly what president trump said. will mr. muller go down the path of looking at the very concise and very well documented cases of

wrongdoing? look, i know a lot of folks in this town. i've met a lot of the senior intelligence officials. so far there's no, there there for the russia investigation and everybody knows that if there was something there or had been leaked a long time ago. so i'm just concerned what chart he's going to be given. how long this will stretch out and, look, the most clear evidence of collusion with the russians is on the clinton side with john and tony podesta having a relationship with the russian banks. brian: i don't think they're going there. tara, has your years and contacts, have they turned on this administration? is that what we're witnessing now? >> no. i think that's a very unfair characterization. the intelligence community is made up of some of the most hard working patriotic individuals. they have missions every day with al-qaeda, to what's going on in mosul. they're writing the

president's daily brief just as good as any other president. brian: i want to get everybody else in. that's your point of view. now, chairman, we do know with the russian situation somehow when it got to the intelligence community, it did end up in the washington post. some are skeptical. >> some are very, very skeptical. but i trust muller. what i don't trust is the washington post and the new york times. what we saw this week, you know, they released headline breaking stories on monday and tuesday, you know, within 24 to 36 hours. those stories were significantly discredited. so what i'm concerned about is the work that muller may do is how it's going to be twisted by these media outlets to improve their subscriptions, their media hits, you know, there was applause in the washington post newsroom supposedly when they got so many clicks in their story. they're about ratings right now. they're not about investigative reporting. they're very, very sloppy in the work that they're doing.

they're doing a disservice to the american people. brian: they got a call from somewhere and said, hey, i got this information from the white house. you have to print it, in their defense. just how they're getting it. colonel, tara, pete, great job. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. brian: julie, you have the other breaking news. >> that's right. good morning to you. this video, you have to say. it is horrifying. just take a look at the police body cam video. it shows an officer split second reaction when a driver attacks him with a rifle. this all unfolding during a routine traffic stop near denver, colorado. >> two shots fired. shots fired. get on the ground. get on the ground. get on the ground. don't move. >> frightening video. the driver charged at the officer trying to hit him with his gun when falling to the ground. the officer fired two shots hitting the suspect in the arm.

the officer held him at gun point until back up arrived. the department released the footage saying it's a prime example of what officers are trained to do before they hit the streets. pc police on patrol in seattle. the police department there no longer using the word suspect when filling out reports. instead, they'll be referred to as community members. the reason for the change? police representative think it is to make sure reports are politically correct. the seattle police coo says the changes are purely for accuracy. some officers are offended saying some of these so-called community members can be dangerous. and how about this story? united airlines is apologizing after charging a soldier $200 for an overweight bag on its way home from serving nearly two years in afghanistan. the airline allows military members to travel with up to five bags for free but his bag was too heavy packed for helmets and boots, so he had

to pay. and it looks like we don't have that sound byte from him but regardless, he was very upset as you imagine. united is now reimbursing him. and that's a look at your headlines this morning, guys. steve: all right. thank you very much. 20 minutes before the top of the hour. the drudge report has its story right now and a fox news alert and roger ailes, one of the founders of the fox news channel has died. they have published -- drudge has, a statement from his wife elizabeth. ainsley: she says i am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband roger ailes passed away this morning. rodger was a loving husband to me, to his son zachary, and to -- and a loyal friend to many. steve: he was also a patriot, profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard, to rise, and to give back. during a career that stretched over more than five decades, his work in entertainment and politics, in news affected the lives of many millions.

so even as we mourn his death, we celebrate his life. ainsley: you're in our thoughts and our prayers and so is zachary, their beautiful son. rodger, rest in peace. brian: back in a moment

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steve: former fbi director, that man right there robert muller named special counsel for the fbi russia trump probe. brian: this as the white house denies a report saying president trump revealed too much information to russian foreign minister citing unnamed sources. steve: james freeman is the editor of the wall street journal, fox news contributor, and he joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning. good to be here. steve: we're going to start by sharing an excerpt from that washington post article that got everybody going. and this is it. president trump revealed

highly classified. brian: information to a russian foreign minister ambassador in a white house meeting last week. that according to current and former officials who said trump's disclosure jeopardize a critical source of intelligence on the islamic state. you have questions. >> yeah. i have a lot of questions. it was essentially all anonymous sources in that story, including not just people who are not in the meeting but people not in the government anymore. basically former officials in the government. brian: why does that bother you? >> well, first of all, i don't know why a former government employee needs amanymority. normally the current ones want it so they don't get fired for saying something. and giving amenity is basically saying he gave away too much information in this meeting. well, hr mcmaster said, no, he didn't. he didn't reveal any military

operations that weren't already public. nonstory. >>: so is that the new standard? you can have people from the previous administration who are out to get donald trump anyway show up in the news pages of a newspaper and just criticize. >> well, this was the question is who are these people? now, i don't know if it was the same sources, but i have to say to the credit of our news organization, the reporters on our news side covered this, and they did quote people on the record criticizing the president. brian: and who were those people? >> who are they? you have long time democratic donor who served in the obama administration, had been one of the lawyers on the al gore recount in 2000. and another one quoted criticizing the president was someone who had worked for administrations of both parties but was a never trumper last year saying this guy's not fit for office. steve: well, here's the thing. ultimately while it was a big story, it was wrong, according to the general.

watch this. >> 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 whom he's engaged. that conversation was wholly appropriate to the conversation and i think wholly appropriate what the expectations are with our intelligence partners. brian: that's an incredible guy with a rich background respected by both sides of the aisle but yet his statement was diminished. even though he made it back-to-back days. >> yeah. this is a giant in the military. huge career. well earned as a tank commander, as an expert in counter insurgency and the point is, look, when we have these meetings, russia is not our friend, obviously. but when you have this kind of meeting, we do have a common interest of airlines not being shot down around the world. brian: and isis. >> yes. and there will be information sharing.

otherwise, why do you have a meeting? steve: sure. great point. all right. james freeman from the op-ed pages of the wall street journal. thank you very much. brian: good to see you, james. >> appreciate it. brian: meanwhile, straight ahead she survived brain cancer but little did she know the insurgent who saved her life would become the love of her life. they share their inspiring story ahead. steve: but let's talk to bill. >> our prayers to beth and zachary going forward. we are getting reaction from the white house live there in a moment. the president is reacting already to what is his early defense in the days of this matter. was there a crime? is there a crime? we'll do a deep dive into that today. and how is congress doing on tax reform and health care? we'll check in there as well. these are important times. they are significant issues for our country. hope you can join us in ten minutes. top of the hour here on america's newsroom break through your allergies.

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ainsley: it is national brain cancer awareness month, which brings attention to the disease that the national cancer institute estimates nearly 24,000 people in the u.s. will, unfortunately, be diagnosed this year. because of stats like that, lori was terrified when she discovered in her 20s that she had a brain tumor. but thanks to her surgeon who later became her husband, she survived to become one of my best friends. and joining us now with her incredible story is lori, her husband, dr. peter who is a cranial-based surgeon here in new york. and the executive director and senior vice president of north well -- new york head and neck institute, and they have a precious 9-year-old son peter. good morning to all of you.

>> good morning. ainsley: so glad when i learned it was brain cancer awareness month, i wanted to share your story because you and i met -- we met in bloomingdale's. i had just gotten the job. i was shopping for earrings, and you were wearing these beautiful necklaces, and we'll talk about your company in just a second. but what happened to you? all of your friends are planning their weddings and graduating from college. >> well, i was in my 20s, and i was doing my first job at l magazine and everything in my wife started to get progressively worse. the first was that i was always exhausted. my balance was off, i was gaining weight and everybody else was having fun around me and everything in my life seemed to be getting worse and worse. i even remember a point where a friend of mine asked me and called me asked if i was drinking in the morning because i couldn't even walk a straight line. so that went on for about five years before i was diagnosed. ainsley: what were your symptoms? >> the biggest symptom i think was complete exhaustion to the point where you would have to plan out your entire day because you don't know how

you're going to make it through it. weight gain, loss of balance, just total. ainsley: so, peter, what was she diagnosed with? >> a regular brain cancer called a chordoma which cells that were left at the base of the skull. kind of where you put your finger in the tip of the nose and ear, where those lines come together, those cells are deposited whenever she was developing the fetus and, unfortunately, turned into a tumor very rarely in some people as they get older. ainsley: wow the chances for survival for lori in her 20s weren't good; right? >> no. particularly then. we had some new techniques that i had been fortunate enough to participate with that really increased the ability for someone to too survive this type of cancer. ainsley: like what? >> well, we have techniques instead of disassembling the entire forehead and facial structure, we can now go through the nose and take these tumors out largely, completely, and we have additional treatments in the form of radiation therapy, namely protons that can really

go far in treating chordomas. ainsley: and you all fell in love and got married. >> it was a process. >> it was a long process. obviously, he has a god-given gift, a skill. but then when i got to know him as a human being and the sacrifices that no matter what's going on, he gets up every day and helps people. ainsley: so glad you met him. he saved your life and now your best friend and now you have this precious son. anything you want to say? >> well, my dad saved my mom's life, and she wouldn't be here if he didn't, and i wouldn't be here if he wouldn't. ainsley: well, i know you are so special to your parents. they love you very much. and i love you very much. go to her website. it's luludk.com, you can buy these necklaces and some of this money goes to cancer survivors. thank you so much. love you. >> i love you. ainsley: we learned some sad news that our former ceo roger ailes passed away this morning, and we want to remember him.

he's dead at the age of 77 years old this morning. brian: and this is a statement from elizabeth ails. she says i'm profoundly sad and heartbroken to a report that my husband roger ailes passed away this morning. he was a loving husband to me, toxicology son zachary, and a friend to many. profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard, to rise, and to give back during a career that stretched over more than five decades. his work and entertainment, his work in politics, and in news affected the lives of many millions. so even as we mourn his death, we celebrate his life. steve: indeed. roger ailes helped build fox news channel into the powerhouse it is today. rodger would tell stories during our state of the business meetings that he would hold twice a year here at fox news about how he started in the business. he was actually a production assistant in cleveland and philadelphia. he eventually worked his way

up to run the mic douglas show. brian: in three years he went from pa to ep of the most successful daytime talk show maybe ever. he got the biggest guest to arrive in ohio and do his show from bob hope. ainsley: rodger believed in hard work, he ran four political campaigns, many people out there would say that he saved this country by starting the fox news channel. rodger gave every single one of us on this couch an opportunity. he put food on our table and, you know, he went out in such a sad way but who doesn't have stones? we all have our stones and cross to bear and, rodger, i will love you forever. you gave me an opportunity, and i will forever, ever, ever be grateful. i know i wouldn't have gotten this job if it weren't for you. and i hope that you rest in peace, rodger, and i hope that you are at peace. brian: i know that his impact on the country is beyond a shadow of a doubt. you think that he saw nixon in the greenroom but. steve: that's right. richard nixon came to the mike dug lass guy.

brian: saw him as an underdog, next thing you know he's helping richard next onget elected. brian: he said you can't hate television. it's not going away. it's not a fad. steve: and then essentially later when he was serious about running for president again, richard nixon called up roger ailes and said how would you like to help me and rodger did some political consulting for a while. he then after political consulting, and he helped candidates of all levels of the political spectrum, he wound up running cnbc and at one point at cnbc, they started a new cable channel called america's talking. rodger's wife beth ails hired me, and i then went to work there. that's where i met rodger and worked for him. and then after i left cbs, rodger said you need a job? we're looking for some folks called this new thing called the fox news channel and rodger hired me. brian: and, steve, very few people knew him as well as you and your family.

steve: know him through his wife because she had hired me and, you know, the thing about rodger is he has -- he was a big personality, and he, you know, you would go to his meetings, and you would just love hearing the stories about talk about i had all the jobs of everybody in this room. which would be true because he started at the bottom and worked hideous way up. ainsley: at our hardest times, he was there for me when i went through hard times. janice, are you okay? >> i wouldn't be here without that man and when i was diagnosed with ms, he got on the phone and said whatever we can do for your family because we were all part of a family, and, you know, he was a presence, and he will be missed on this channel. he will be missed. brian: wow and of course born in ohio. he considered himself a lunch pail guy, a blue-collar guy in a white-collar position. roger ailes passed away at the age of 77 we just found out

this morning. we'll be talking about that throughout today. bill hammer and shannon are next. ainsley: rest in peace, rodger.