>> hello, i'm jerry for erica sean. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's news workers. >> a busy day of meetings, deals and ceremonies were present. on day one of his first official trip overseas we are alive in saudi arabia. >> james coney agreed to return to capitol hill to testify on the reston investigation in a public hearing after new details emerged from the president's oval office meeting with russian officials.

>> iranian president winning reelection today with this could mean for the us as well as the stability of the middle east. america's news headquarters starts right now. >> we begin with day one of his president trumps the first day in saudi arabia. the president received a regal welcome from this key american ally, complete with banquet, ceremonies, traditional saudi dance and that following the real business of the day. the president signing a 110 billion-dollar arms deal and holding meetings. with dozens of arrow leaders of tomorrow the president will be scheduled to make a major speech on fighting terrorism. he'll do it at the arab-islamic-american summit. john roberts traveling with the president and joining us live

from riyadh, saudi arabia. john. reporter: is just 11:00 o'clock here and the president is back at his hotel after a long day. most recently, he was at murabba palace with king salman for a banquet in his honor. the next ordinary scene. we saw a traditional war dance now deceased in times of celebration. the commerce secretary, rex tillerson, participating and some notable past participants in the dance were george w. bush and britain's prince charles. from a dinner it was into a golf cart and off for a tour of the national museum conducting by king salman. the centerpiece, and you mentioned it a center ago, the president was the hundred $10 billion arms deal and if the biggest arms deal that the united states is ever signed. after the signing ceremony, they presided over and export

licenses which over the course of ten years will be worth $350 million. all in all, the president today proclaimed his visit to saudi arabia a success particularly for us businesses. listen here. >> this was a tremendous day. i just want to thank everybody, tremendous investments into the united states and our military community is very happy and we want to thank you and saudi arabia for hundreds of billions of dollars in investment into the united states and jobs, jobs, jobs. reporter: now, clearly, this arms deal is good for us businesses like lockheed corporation, raytheon among others in rex tillerson, secretary of state in a press conference this afternoon at the press hotel said it'll be good for the us military because it will help the saudi's help themselves in terms of their security. listen to what tillerson said here. >> this huge army sales package

reduces the burden on the united states to provide the same equipment to our own military forces and will strengthen saudi security forces for the future. reporter: the president's big day tomorrow is going to be the speech to the arab islamic summit. some 50 leaders from arab nations will be on hand to listen to what the president has to say. there's a lot of anticipation as to exactly the tone of the speech tomorrow. greg, the president, of course, during the election campaign was deemed by many people to be anti- muslim. he insists he is not which is why the first foreign visit was here to saudi arabia and we also understand it will be filing back to the language, even his recent rhetoric, has stressed over and over again that it is important to identify the enemy as radical islamic terrorism.

he's gone so far as to say if you don't say it for what it is, then you can't fight it. of course, he was critical of president obama for not uttering the words that we understand that tomorrow, from the draft version, he will not say radical islamic terrorism though they are still making tweaks to the script, greg and it could be that the president says it but at the moment, he's not and their people in this region who could think that's a good thing. gregg: i was looking for his golf bag on the back of that cart. i didn't see it. this is all business. [laughter] i do want to add sq, the king did greet the president when he arrived which is something president obama didn't receive on his last visit. did that simply underscores the growing trust and frustration had if not animosity with president obama? reporter: i can tell you one thing. the new king, king salman is a big fan of resident front. the saudi royal family and leadership is a big fan of the president particularly because

he recognizes his saudi arabia does that iran is an extensible threat to our allies in this region. let's go back to may 208th of 2014 when president obama touchdown and the king did not greet him on the tarmac as king salman did with president today. the obama initiation back then plated down saying while the saudis wanted to have a big reception for us but we were coming in late so we didn't want to make them hang around for the president but there is not a lot of people in the saudi leadership who are now giving that line any kind of credence and you can see the difference just in tone, not just at the airport, but all over riyadh where there are posters of president trumps together with king salman and the official saudi pool television coverage has a graphic that has the two leaders side-by-side. they are very happy about the results of the american election here in saudi arabia. untrained. gregg: john, thanks very much.

arthel: while president hubcaps off his first foreign trip with rockstar status over there, former fbi director james comey is agreeing to testify publicly about russia's election and this comes after mr. comey was fired by the president earlier this month. garrett is live with washington with those details. reporter: that hearing will be for the senate intelligence committee which is one of several congressional committees investigating russians investigation in the russian elects election. they will revolve around that issue. as we've seen over the last few months, those investigations have a lot of crossover with other controversies that continue to pop up. the latest example of that is a new report by the new york times that earlier this month, during a meeting in the oval office, present trumpet told russian

officials that he had believes great pressure on him with the russian investigation by firing comey he allegedly called a nut job. that follows a separate report from the times this week that back in february president trump asked then director coming to end the fbi investigation into michael flynn at which part then white house denies that he asked anyone to deny any investigation. richard burr alluded to the controversies in the statement regarding comey's testimony saying in part i am hopeful that he will clarify for the american people recent events that have been widely reported in the media. this morning on fox and friends, harvard law professor, shared some specific questions he was expecting comey to hear back first, i want to find out if he was the source of the leaks of the memo that he was quoted in. second, i would ask him why he didn't talk directly, why he's using his friends, i would go back to his decision to speak to the public.

reporter: the senate intelligence committee hasn't set a date for comey to testify but we had thought likely it will be after memorial day. some lawmakers including senator lindsey graham aren't so sure that comey will be allowed to testify given that his conversation with the president will likely be a part of the newly appointed special councils investigation. arthel: thank you very much. gregg: the search continues for comey's replacement. it seems the president may now be leaning toward joe lieberman for the job. mr. trump naming the former summoner, vice president nominee a time back as a finalist for the position of fbi director. allison has more for us. >> joe lieberman is leading the pack to replace the fired director james comey. that according to the president himself. present trumpet told reporters that he is leaning towards the retired senator from connecticut, democrats aren't exactly thrilled with the idea.

>> it's a mistake to nominate anyone who's run for office. this is the moment when we need a law enforcement professional that has never campaigned for a presidential candidate, never campaigned for office, never worn a party label to head the fbi. reporter: senator bernie sanders is strongly speaking against it in the same and he said quote senator lieberman political history and his extreme views on a number of issues would make him a contentious and divisive nominee. that is not what we need now for the next fbi director. when it comes to picking a new fbi director many on the left and right have said it needs to be a nonpolitical pick but senator john mccain told reporters he be happy with lieberman because he feels lieberman has more experience than most. when peter king says the same he was chairman of the and he was also general of the state of connecticut and i would consider him a politician which people on both parties he's independent.

reporter: ultimately, the senate that votes to confirm the director and other candidates to fill in the running alongside lieberman, acting fbi director andrew mccabe, former governor frank and fbi official richard mcfeely. trump interviewed all four at the white house this week. lieberman served as three terms as a democrat and one as an independent. he caucused with democrats but in 2008 through his support behind a republican, thendate jn mccain and he actually spoke at the gop convention, much to the frustration of many democrats. gregg: allison barber reporting. thanks. arthel: we go to my hometown, new orleans where the last confederate monument standing is no longer. a statue depicting confederate general, robert e lee, lifted from its pedestal last night in front of a cheering crowd and it was the most challenging of the four monuments of the city council voted in 2015 to have it removed.

casey has more from washington. reporter: under the present city night sky a giant crane plus a confederate statue from the pedestal it was perched on for more than a century. the monument depicts pgt beauregard who led the 1861 attack on fort sumter an event that launched the civil war. >> a lot of people, even from your, don't know their history. reporter: that's widely why supporters have fought to keep. it serves as a reminder from where the country has been, noting history is not always pretty but you cannot rewrite it. >> our state without a past has no future. it is time to take a stand with our story is important. all of it. reporter: this is a bird better at landmark recently taken down across the big easy. last week crowd chanted and protesters celebrated as the celebrate president davis the

president of the confederacy was removed. earlier this month a large monument commemorating the 1874 battle of liberty place was loaded up on the truck and taken away. this controversial plan was approved two years ago after decades of people suggesting the icon to promote racism and white supremacy. the mayor simply says time to change. >> we will no longer allow the confederacy to literally be put on a pedestal in the heart of our city. reporter: contractors performing the work say they have had to wear blue with us because of threats even wearing face masks to shield their identities. one final monument is still scheduled to come down sometime soon. it's a statue of general robert e lee. all of the landmarks will be stored safely in a warehouse until the city decides what to do with them next. in dallas, casey siegel, fox news. arthel: thanks so much. gregg: former director james

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five welcome back, doctor comey agreed to testify in a public hearing about the ongoing investigation into russia's electric russian meddling. he will appear before the senate intelligence committee. this is a new document emergence from president tom's closed-door meeting with russian officials where mr. trump reportedly said the firing of comey had believed, quote great pressure on him. join me now is vince who is an editor in chief of the daily caller. great to see you. call me could have declined to testify citing the special investigation and he could have said, all right, i'll do it but it has to be in private but he deliberately chose to make it public which invites the question here, what is his motive? cameras will be following every word and will this word be comey's revenge project there's

been a lot of speculation that this rollout of many metals about his conversations with trump have been leaked to the public and this was the opening act of comey's revenge. as noted, the decision for this to become a public testimony clearly suggests james comey really does want to set the record straight or grind and ask in front of television cameras as he goes after the president of the united states. i am not sure that he will be able to contractually make that case. look at this memo that was released supposedly that he had, suggesting that the president try to pressure him into dropping the flynn case. even if that memo exists, how he didn't treat it with the severity that you would think the fbi director what the five is not classified but it deals with what may be an ongoing investigation and he's breaking all kinds of fbi and doj rules.

let me ask you because i think comey will be asked, of course, about the private meeting in february with president trump. i suspect that comey will be asked quite directly, did you believe the president was trying to obstruct your investigation and, vince, his answer could be tricky legally great don't you think? >> i think so. especially because if he says i was pressure to drop the case entirely there will be questions in legal ones about comey's role in that. suggesting that what should he had done if he was under pressure to drop this case. if it was simply to jot your ideas down and talk to them and hold onto them for later use, i'm not sure that people will be satisfied by that in the senate intelligence committee should it be satisfied by that. gregg: is comey thought it was obstruction and he failed to report it immediately to

supporters at the department of justice then comey could be charged with a crime. it's 18 usc section four so comey, vince, may be in a bit of a box here if he didn't report it as the law demands. he might have to say, i was troubled by the conversation but i didn't think it rose to the level of obstruction. again, to say otherwise, put james comey in legal jeopardy himself. this is why i think democrats won't be satisfied by james comey's testify as many people at this point think they are. this is to say that he will come out and face the legal country they were discussing and as far as revealing more information he can't do that. he's going to have to remain tightlipped on the things they want to know any entire public wants to know has there yet been any evidence that the trump

administration or anybody into orbit colluded with the russian government in any capacity during the election. you would think, by now, seemingly hundreds of weeks we've heard, that one of those leaks would contain that information. that hasn't happened yet. gregg: when james comey was director of the fbi and investigating whether there was any collaboration between the trump campaign and the russians, i would expect, would you expect, somebody to ask, all right, mr. comey, it's not a crime to collude with the russians or collaborate with them. it may be wrong and it may be stupid and may be politically poisonous but show me the statute making it a crime? since the fbi investigates crime, white, mr. comey were you looking for a crime that doesn't exist in the law. >> this is the question i'm desperately hoping someone asks. it's that at the base of this, no matter what you think of trump or whether he acted in

separately or somebody in his affect orbit acted in a properly, as a legal standard, the fbi and eagles with a law was broken and i'd like to know from james comey whether or not what law specifically he feels was at risk here and why the fbi even began its threat. remember, when he testified in the past the primary focus of the fbi investigation as best we know spent on russian meddling the subsidiary focus was whether or not there was collusion with the trump orbit. i'm hoping the senators push clear answers on the law he was focusing on. gregg: part of his problem was that it's the rule that the fbi you don't talk about ongoing investigations and this one is ongoing. is now in the hands of special counsel. i'm wondering to what extent is he going to say, i can talk about that. >> he seems a bit hamstrung especially now that robert moeller has taken over the special counsel investigation.

their suggestion that he might not be able to say very much at all. the hope here is that he is able to answer some questions and bring some clarity to the public. if in the end, all this does is create more suspicion but not give answers both the senate and james connor did a service to the american public. gregg: he has something in mind for. vince, good to see you. six iranian president winning reelection this weekend. we'll take a look at the global impact coming up. president trump presents is being overseas as he brokers a massive arms deal with the saudi kingdom.es i had, what that means for the fight against terror e rutabaga, with eggplant... done! that's not fair. glad i had a v8. the original way to fuel your day.

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gregg: welcome back. the people of iran have spoken. they're giving the incumbent president four more years in office and he says the victory represents iran's interest in

promoting family relations all over the world. john is live from jerusalem with more. reporter: yeah, greg, we'll see about that. he won his reelection by a pretty wide margin, 5157%. in truth seven out of ten voters. 70% of the 56 million voters. big turnout, big day. big challenges ahead for around reelected president who also said in a televised address after winning that he feels the weight of this responsibility perhaps more now than ever considering what was said in saudi arabia earlier. he called the election a v for freedom and independence and he seen as a more liberal minded leader. his victory is really a victory for the moderates, for those who want more freedom within the

country and better relations with the rest of the world. as i said, he has many challenges ahead, such as reducing the country's high unemployment rate, and dealing with iran's hard-line elements. iran was a major topic today as i talked about in intro in saudi arabia. saudi arabia and iran haven't had relations since 2016 in the us is clearly throwing its weight behind saudi arabia perhaps now more than ever by signing at 110 billion arms package earlier today. secretary tillerson was in saudi arabia said in part that he hopes ronnie will use this term to dismantle around network of terrorism and ballistic missile testing and restore the rights of free speech, expression and the right to organize, if honey effects to change relations with the world, those are the things he can do. president ronnie says his victory is for peace against violence and to live with the world and friendship away from radicalism. he also added the quote we are not ready to be belittled and

threatened so a little warning or some talk that iran's leadership is known for print 500. gregg: . arthel: meanwhile, president trump making a splash with his first official day overseas. the present and the saudi king signing several ingredients in creating a massive arms deal worth $110 billion. what does that mean for saudi arabia's military presence in the middle east. bringing in retired colonel special forces arthur. can you hear me, colonel? there you are. let's start here, colonel. in what ways will disarm steel change saudi arabia's military presence in the middle east? >> one thing this arms package is going to do is affects everybody watching us right now. for every saudi plane, every

saudi ship the date of purchase that goes to the persian gulf or the red sea, that's a us navy vessel. that's a full navy crew that doesn't have to be overseas. that's a jet pilot, that means a lot of americans can be home with their families because the saudi's have more equipment, capability and training to step up, protect their own borders, protect the middle east and stand against iranian influence. most important, if more americans at home with their families. arthel: how critical is saudi arabia in a successful fight against isis and internet tradition to reducing the burden on the us military to conduct counterterrorism operations there in the region? how well does this deal benefit the us? >> saudi arabia has incredible influence of the middle east. as you know, they are the protectors of the seed of islam. their ability to project power in the persian gulf and the red

sea and to step up and lead is required a coalition of sunni, arab allies together to put down growing iranian influence. it's very, very important. as you know, for eight years are eight sunni they been waiting for the us to turn its back, really, and a pullback that hand from iran and go with the friendly nations that we been working with for so many years. saudi arabia is ready, willing and able to step up with you is a permit that they purchased and they weren't given, and the training and advice. there ready to take a more active role in the middle east. arthel: everyone has a motive. how much can saudi arabia be trusted? where are the landmines, politically and those that come from attacks with potential military consequences? yes, that's a great question. one thing we know that i've seen and anybody seen in the middle

east, when you demonstrate strength, when you demonstrate power, when you pull back a little bit on diplomacy and move in with dealmaking and a forceful hands, tribal based societies respond well. i think we will have a greater engagement with saudi arabia, more engagement directly person-to-person and better shoulder to shoulder and quite literally, then doing the right thing more often because the strongest tribe, the united states is there with them making sure everything is progressing in a direction that we all wanted to go. arthel: john to give us a report on iran. is iran the entry point to better relations between saudi arabia and us? can you anticipate or maybe forecast president to the appearance of a stronger more united front between the us and saudi arabia? >> secretary tillerson press conference earlier today with

the foreign minister of saudi arabia was telling. it's a shot across the bow of iran. literally telling them that we are siding with saudi arabia and their sunni arab allies. were providing arms ammunition, training and one day he was asked by the correspondents in the pool was if he would make a phone call to his counter part in iran. that's not how it works in the middle east. he said i won't make that call. i'll talk to him sunday. our secretary of state is already showing iran, i know how it works over here, i know how to operate from a position of strength and you're not going to get the same treatment used to get from our country. arthel: speaking of the previous treatment, and the relationships before under president obama leadership, why now? why president trump? why is he being received they are in saudi arabia in this manner that were watching here in these images?

>> he leads the strongest tribe, like i said. those in the middle east, tribal based societies, they are countries but they're still ultimately tribal based societies that understand and respect power, threat of force and the use of force and dealmaking. the us president embodies all of that. it's a great example in the middle east of the leader of the strongest type. it's something that their use two and more comfortable with. right down to his son-in-law helping make a deal or better deals for military equipment being installed to the saudi's. they're completely used to doing business for centuries the way were doing it again with them. arthel: speaking of doing business, this is bound to come up, president trump dealing with saudi arabia and then we'll get to israel and both of those countries. might those business deals somehow crop up and disrupt the progress that appears to be being made right now. >> we'll just have to let it bear out. what is have to let it bear out

and see where these arm deals in the help that were providing them now, let's be patient and wait to see how that goes. let's not jump to conclusions. we have to let the president be the president and we have to let him set the national and international agendas in the way that he was elected by the public to do. arthel: you make some good points. we leave it there. thank you, sir. and i want to remind anybody that president trump on his first overseas trip. we have all the complete coverage right here on fox news. keep into the right here and also tomorrow, "fox news sunday", specifically at 3:00 p.m. eastern chris wallace will have an exclusive interview with secretary of state, rex tillerson about the president to the middle east. chris will also speak with senator john mccain about the trip as well as, the appointment of a special counsel robert muller to investigate the russian meddling into the presidential election.

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arthel: a frightening thing happening on american airlines, flight to hawaii a turkish man was arrested after apparently trying to get into the cockpit during the flight. passengers were able to stop using one of those drink carts to block his path. the whole thing caused two fighter jets to escort that flight to safety, to honolulu. authorities say the same guy was arrested in another incident in lax in los angeles for opening a door that led onto an airport ramp. >> on five this was overshadowed by new revelations on the russian pope and accusations of potential obstruction of justice in his meeting with now former director james comey. this as reports service that the president ignored the advice of his own lawyers and contacted former national security adviser michael flynn. that revelation to the coming days after a new york times report that the president asked

comey to drop the flynn investigation, lots to talk about. let's talk to alex little, former prosecutor doug burns. you know each other, too. douglas, let me start with you. obstruction, as you know, is a specific intent crime. if trump tells comey in a private meeting that he wishes or hope that flynn can be cleared because flynn is a good guy, does that kind of vague and ambiguous elliptical language really rise to the level of specific intent? >> not necessarily. necessarily being the key word. i was frustrated, disappointed, even disgusted to see legal figures pontificating on a tv segment about how this is obstruction of justice. like it's some type of game show answer. if not. we need to meticulously part parse every single word and we need to look at complete memos,

all of the words in those memos. then, as you suggest, we have to look at 18 usc 1503 and study it carefully and study the cases. in my view, i side with professor turley who has said that he thanks this would be a very hard approaching case to make the five alex, if the president had said instead, mr. comey, stop the investigation or you're fired. now, that might be the specific intent required for obstruction, right? it certainly would. but that the context of this. you don't always have to say every word to be able to understand someone's intent. having a conversation like that with doctor comey, particularly one comey suggested for some leaks that he had been trying to communicate to the white house not to broach the subject, i thank you can. build a circumstantial circle case they are. gregg: doesn't he have the constitutional authority to tell any government plans to do something or stop doing

something smart. certainly. gregg: isn't that what the president then did. >> perhaps. that's why calling it a criminal is not doing it good. no one will prosecute the president in the courtroom. will it lead to further investigation, impeachment proceedings. parsing the statutory language here is not that useful. gregg: when nixon fired archibald cox that was not in and of itself obstruction. it was considered that he had a constitutional authority to do it. now, doug, doesn't comey himself have a legal poverty if he thought the president was attempting to instruct him his required by law to report it to the doj and failure to do so is a crime i read your article and studied it. it's interesting because it's a catch 22. it really exposes what really is going on.

if he thought this was such an egregious attempt to obstruct justice, a, he would have reported to superiors in the department of justice, d, cited to a statute to ms. prison of a felony saying if you know of a felony and you conceal it and don't report it, that is a crime in and of itself. that's almost like doing with the other side is doing. i would not suggest that it be prosecuted for that. gregg: why not? >> is over the top. [inaudible conversations] this is a disgruntled employee coming up with some weeks and weeks later. that's the common sense of this, sorry. gregg: it makes it worse that he waited three months. alex, robert muller. i want to talk about him. the special counsel prohibits him from serving if he has a conflict of interest. it seems like comey is going to

end up being a key witness against the president. so, doesn't muller long and close relationship with comey, agents say they were joined at the hip, doesn't that create a disqualifying conflict of interest for muller. >> probably not. this is washington. everyone knows everybody and everybody is close. you can make an argument and they been made strongly but if you look at how washington is operated for decades. they know each other well. look at cheney with scalia. liberals were calling for that to. gregg: that was in respect to an impending criminal investigation back is only different in the sense that what the motivation for why you want to remove comey. to remove muller. the argument is that muller is not going to do his job appropriately. you can define out to process. gregg: even honest people can be influenced the ways they don't even understand.

doug, if this end up being a he said, he said, how can muller fairly and impartially confess comey's credibility. while he believes mother his good friend over the man who fired his good friend i understand alex's point but at the same time i would cite to something you have cited yourself, great, if not just an actual conflict. to suggest that somebody with bob muller's background would necessarily adjust his focus may not be fair but what about the appearance of impropriety. that is something that is just as bad and that we need to deal with and ethics all the time. gregg: that's precisely why these ethical rules govern lawyers contacts in situations like this. alex and doug. that is really appreciate you being here. six all eyes are on the popular younger sister of the future queen of england, yes that is littleton.

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arthel: okay. and now a heart warming story out of florida. gregg: a service member returning home from duty to surprise his son at school. take a look. ms. . >> daddy? >> what's up, bud? >> dada! >> what's up, bud? gregg: does that put a smile on your face? ryan fontaine's 5-year-old son shocked nearly speechless. the navy sailor's been in the pacific for seven months unable to communicate on a regular

basis with his family. the two plan to make up for lost time by playing, what else, video games! lots of 'em. arthel: we're back in one hour at 6 p.m. eastern, but "journal editorial report" is up next. gregg: see you then. ♪ ♪ paul: welcome to "the journal editorial report," i'm paul gigot. months of you are the hoyle this washington capped off this week with the appointment of a special counsel in the russia probe. after weeks of political pressure, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein announced wednesday that robert mueller would lead the investigation, giving the former fbi director sweeping powers to look into russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and, quote, related matters. president trump reacted to the decision on thursday. >> i respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witch hunt, and there is no collusion