email. this is why the dems are so jealous. one word from president trump has the entire country talking. ains ains watching "fox & friends" and enjoying my morning covfefe. >> >> covfefe. >> thank you, guys, we have a lot of breaking news now. another breaking day and another horrific terror attack. at least 80 are dead. more than 360 are injured in what is considered a highly secure area in kabul, afghanistan. there are several western embassies in that area. security remains on high alert. it is ramadan. no claim yet of responsibility. more details as we learn them minutes away from back inside of america's newsroom. first though there is more breaking news from the white house. moments ago fox news confirms president trump is expected to take the united states government out of the paris climate agreement. a lot of this has to do with jobs and the economy and so much more. let's get after it. it's wednesday i'm bill

hemmer and welcome to america's newsroom. good to see you, shannon. >> shannon: good morning. i'm shannon bream. it is a busy morning at the white house already. as we mentioned president trump said he would have an answer this week on the paris deal. now we know days from returning overseas trip he is expected to withdraw the u.s. from that agreement. >> bill: also, there is this today. the abou president is going aftr democrats after what he calls a witch-hunt into a one-time campaign aide carter page. >> shannon: chief white house correspondent john roberts joins you live on a busy morning from the white house. john, start first now with what we know about the paris climate deal. breaking news. >> shannon, bill, good morning to you. i ran into a very senior administration official in the halls of the white house just a few minutes ago who cautions me that the president has not yet made the final decision and is still weighing options. but two sources, aside from that person have told us that the president is expected to announce, as soon as today, that the united states will withdraw from the 2015 paris climate

accord. you are looking at pictures here from the president's meeting last week in europe where he met with g-7 leaders. he also met with the 28-member nations, the other 27-member nations of nato. we were told by his chief economic advisor gary cohn that he had been listening very intently to these leaders about the concerns of the paris climate accord, why it is important to them. he suggested at one point that the president sticking on this whole issue was evolving, but there are a lot of pressures here at home for the president to pull out. to adhere strictly to the protocols of the paris climate accord, the president believes would put an undue economic burden on the united states and threaten -- begin to fall behind countries like china and india in terms of manufacturing and job creation. there are two factions here at the white house. one faction believes that while it's complicated to get out, it would be complicated to stay in. and that the united states needs to withdraw. then there is another faction that the thinks that the united states would be better to stay in the paris accord at this moment, shannon it looks like the

faction that would have the united states leave the paris accord is leading the charge here. again, we're told no final decision on the part of the president, but we're also told that he is leaning heavily in that direction. you know, we always said during the transition that this is what he has decided but he could always change his mind. i think that's where we are right now. >> shannon: he often does. all right, john, thank you for update on that. now let's turn to twitter. the president is very active this morning. what's on his mind? >> well, the president is infuriated first of all by that photo released over the weekend by kathy griffin holding a mock severed head of president trump. the president tweeting out this morning, quote: kathy griffin should be ashamed of herself. my children, especially my 11-year-old son barron, are having a hard time with this. sick! the president taking aim at house democrats on the house intelligence committee to postpone indefinitely testimony from carter page who once sat on the campaign

advisory committee. page was identified in dossier as the trump's campaign point of contact with russia. certainly he did travel to russia at least a couple times during the election campaign. page insists that he has evidence that james comey, the former director of the fbi and john brennan, the former head of the cia and others provided false testimony in their appearances on capitol hill. page says that he has evidence to the contrary, though he is not saying what those falsehoods are. in a letter that fox news obtained that page wrote to the house intelligence committee he says, quote: in the interest of finally providing the american people with some accurate information at long last, i hope that we can proceed with this straight dialogue soon. the president jumping on that notion this morning tweeting out, quote: so now it is reported that the democrats, who have excoriated carter page about russia don't want him to testify. blows away their case against him and wants to false misleading testimony by james comey, john brennan.

witch-hunt. what's really interesting about this tweet, shannon, is for months we have been told at every turn by white house aides that carter page was never a part of this campaign, never advised the president. sat briefly on an advisory panel, and really didn't have anything whatsoever to do with the campaign. and now the president is out there promoting his testimony on capitol hill. interesting times we live in. shannon? >> shannon: every day a new twist. john roberts live for us from the white house. thank you. >> bill: a ton to analyze yet again. on the couch this morning here is he chris stirewalt. the doctor. talk about the climate deal from the following perspective. as the candidate, trump said it's a job-killer, he would get out of it. there is a lot of push and pull on each side. and it appears he has made up his mind at least now. >> well, the people in the business community, a lot of people in the business community take the point of view that the united states should do paris climate deal what other countries do, what some of the countries do and ignore it. stay in it and say but we can't make these things that

we said we were going to make and these were too ambitious and we are going to scale that back. you stay in and water it down so that way you get a seat at the table, you are still part of the discussion. once the united states pulls out, once we leave, then the rest of the world goes on on its own hook and the united states is over here. the business community of course is worried that eventually when a democrat becomes president again, what happens in terms of the consequences later are much steeper. but, this is something for donald trump's base, something that shows him as a man of action. shows him engaged, and shows him doing a big thing that will anger europeans and angering europeans is something his base likes. >> bill: also come out and say he kept his word because that's what he campaigned on. the sides are very interesting. have you foreign leaders on one side with american ceos teaming up to stay in the agreement. steve bannon and people like senator ted cruz saying to get out of it ted cruz penned a piece this week

saying it would obliterate $3 trillion of g.d.p. i believe this is a president trump now talking to people in pennsylvania and wisconsin and michigan, ohio, et cetera. >> right. whether this is a real agreement and enforceable agreement or not, as you say, if it's donald trump against big business and elites and global elites, that is exactly the kind of thing that fires up his base at a time that he needs them a great deal. so from a political necessity point of view, even if it's not the thing that the business community wants, or that they want to do, it is something that he may feel the political necessity at this moment to do. >> bill: we are waiting for more language on that. stand by, we will read the words very carefully when they come out. another topic now. you wrote a piece with this jared kushner deal and carter page story that shannon and john roberts were just detailing. trust?te a piece yesterday now, what is the an dwel angle o

understand inside the west wing, how small that circle may be getting? what's your view on that? >> well, at some point, sooner or later, trump has to decide who are the people in his administration that he will trust and empower and give them the opportunity to succeed? because right now everybody is set up for failure. because, if you make a mistake, if you have a problem as jared kushner now does, then the other crabs in the pot can pull you back down to the bottom of the bucket and somebody else takes their turn at the top. the way the successful administrations always work and the president should either empower his chief of staff reince priebus or find a new chief of staff that he will empower saying you are running the administration of this government on a day-to-day basis. you are really the chief operating officer. i will make the big decisions as they come by. but you are going to run this on a day-to-day and you are going to be really the chief of staff. until the president is ready to do that, none of this matters because it's just going to continue to be the swirling cyclone of chaos. >> bill: chris, thank you. more coming up with you a bit later. chris stirewalt more in d.c.

more to get to in a moment. 8 past the hour now. >> shannon: another big story this morning, former national security advisor michael flynn will hand over some documents to the senate intelligence committee as early as next week. part of the committee's investigation into russia's involvement in the 2016 election. it comes, this latest twist, after flynn's attorney said he would decline a subpoena and invoke his 50 amendment rights. the senate panel also issued two subpoenas to flynn's businesses. once those were narrowed flynn in return agreed to give over some documents relate to the businesses and some personal materials. we have more details on this with a live report ahead on america's newsroom. of course, that comes after a lot of chatter about whether he was trying to get immunity deal. whether lawmakers would be interested in talking to him. >> bill: we all want to know what the truth is, right? it seems like it's a long way off now. democrats are clawing at this issue day after day. so when robert mueller is prepared to present his evidence, we'll know a lot more. >> shannon: patience is a

virtue. >> bill: we shall see then. in the meantime, we have this big story here. nuclear tipped missiles headed for the united states, a top priority for president trump. and this administration. the pentagon just tested a system designed to shoot down icbms from the sky. was this one a success? we'll talk about that in a moment here. >> shannon: and you remember this, chaos at the texas state capitol, massive protests, shoving lawmakers, a state moving toward a full ban on sanctuary cities. so what comes next? texas lieutenant governor dan patrick joins us live to talk about that coming up. >> bill: sean spicer in the briefing room after two weeks. trip overseas. ready to take on reporters and defend his boss. what he said is the source of our fair and balanced debate today. >> he is very pleased with the work of his staff. i think he is frustrated like i am and like so many others to see stories come out that are patently false.

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together and pass a new repeal and replace healthcare bill and save dollars. that, of course, comes after the call yesterday to blow up the legislative process there. >> bill: to go to 51 votes. debating that, too. with regard to the climate deal, you just 9 day trip overseas what the posture was of foreign lords in these conversations that may come out of it later today also. stand by waiting for word on that. this now from austin, texas. >> he walked by, walked back and told us i called isis and we both, what do you mean? you did what? he said yeah, i called ice. he said f them. >> do you say things to incite people and that's exactly what i did. >> bill: there have you a democrat and republican lawmaker out of texas explaining what set off this confrontation at the state house. the scuffle happened two days ago on monday over illegal immigration. protests erupting over governor greg abbott's new law that cracks down on

sanctuary cities. that law goes into effect on the first of september. here to explain all of this now lieutenant governor of texas dan patrick. sir, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. good to be with you. >> bill: tell us why this law was even necessary. >> well, bill, in texas alone, these are our statistic. not national. we arrested over 210,000 criminal aliens from 2011 until the beginning of this year. we charged them with over 1 half million crimes, bill. over 1,000 murders, 6,000 sexual assaults. 67,000 drug crimes. hundreds of kidnappings. these are real crimes committed by people here illegally. criminal aliens almost two thirds here illegally. sanctuary cities could not make us safer. real crime connected to people here illegally. sheriff in austin saying she has. >> bill: what does the law do in texas? >> what the law says first of all that local law enforcement has to cooperate with ice. if there is a detainer out,

they must hold those people on the detainer. here in travis county, sally hernandez who ran on sanctuary hernandez in her campaign that she would let people out including criminals was not following federal law. secondly it says that no local official like a mayor or any elected official or police chief can tell their police or deputies on the street that they can ignore federal law. if they want to ask for the identification in terms of citizenship upon a legal detention, they can ask that. that's what's been happening across our country, bill, mayors and we have seen them all around the country who are going to defy donald trump but for years they have been defying federal law. they have been telling their police don't ask. these are real criminals, bill, hurting real american citizens. we have to future a stop to it. >> bill: let me get to a few more questions here. what if -- you mentioned austin, travis county. what if they do not cooperate with state law? what would the state do? >> first of all, the jurisdictions could be fined, but those who are ignoring state law, which would be ignoring federal

law, they could find themselves in jail themselves. so you lock them up. it's a serious issue. >> bill: there will be a court challenge before this goes into effect. >> of course. >> bill: can you win that court challenge? >> you know, i have been involved in legislature now in over a decade. every time we pass good conservative legislation as we do in texas, the left always takes us to court. we win almost all of the time. i believe this law is sewerly constitutional. we have a trite protect our citizens. when trump called for the end of sanctuary cities, the senate which i'm president over passed that bill in february it finally passed the governor's desk in february and i signed it. we are leading the nation and we want other states to follow. you have to realize, bill, we are a bored state every state in the country is a border sheriff. these people committing crimes across our border illegally are in every state of the country. >> bill: i understand the case you are making. you mentioned austin. is it just austin? you have got a big state in texas. >> well, we have had issued with houston. we have had issues with dallas. we have had issues with other cities. i want to go back to those

stats, bill. imagine 500,000 crimes that have been committed by people who have come here illegally over the last five to six years that you could wipe those off the books. those people who weren't killed. those women who weren't sexually assaulted. the drug crimes that weren't held. all the cost to society and the cost to victims, we have to clean this up. and the idea that sanctuary cities make us safer by welcoming people is just nonsense. >> bill: one last point here. the critics say this will weaken the relationship between the residents of said city and the local police. you've heard that. what do you think about that? >> i think it's the argument the left makes because they have no other argument. because what could they say? it's okay for criminals to come to our country? of course not. >> bill: that's not true the relationship with the police is weaker because of it? >> we'll find out. i don't believe that to be the case. i have no data to show that would be the case. i think what will happen, bill, we are seeing it, even though we don't have a wall yet. just the position that the president has taken and texas has taken has dramatically dropped the

people coming across the border. criminals coming across the border or people come for a better life and a job, we have had a dramatic impact. the people crossing the border is down significantly. i believe our crime stats are going to continue to lower because those people are coming here to commit crimes that are coming across the border. we have made significant inroad the last six months since trump became president on this issue. and since texas has taken a strong stand. >> bill: thank you, sir for your time. dan patrick governor in texas. three months before it goes into effect, sir. we will follow it from here. >> thank you, bill. >> shannon: meanwhile g.o.p. lawmakers ready to take a stand to try to stop illegal immigrants from hurting u.s. citizens. we will tell you about the latest push to make kate's law a reality nor country and to deliver on one of president trump's biggest campaign promises. >> bill: also that man accused of stabbing two heroes to death two good samaritans. that man is in court and speaking out, still. >> portland have you no safe place. this is america.

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♪ >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. the pentagon successfully intercepting a mock war head over the pacific ocean amid accelerated missile development in north korea. the test demonstrating the ability to take down a missile headed to the u.s. jonathan hunt covered it live. he is now live at brandenburg air force base in california. it sounds like they are celebrating success this morning, jonathan. >> yeah. i think everybody at the pentagon very pleased with what happened yesterday. but i think the sound you hear is not exactly celebration, but huge sighs of relief coming from officials at the missile defense agency as the interceptor missile was launched from vandenberg here yesterday, there was a huge amount of pressure on

the mda to make sure this was a success. remember, what they were doing when we showed you this animation yesterday. an icbm, similar to the kind that north korea is trying to develop, was launched by the u.s. out of the marshall islands in the pacific. then the intercepter was launched from here in ventricle denberg and den vandet the ibm hundreds of miles up over the pacific ocean. it was not easy to do. vice admiral james searing director of the missile defense agency said in a post test statement yesterday quote: this system is vitally important to the defense of our homeland and this test demonstrates that we have a credible deterrent against a very real threat. i'm incredibly proud of the war fighters who executed this test and who operate this system every day. and nobody knows better than

admiral syring. shannon, one day this might not be a test but real thing. shannon. >> shannon: very true. better to get it ironed out now. do we know if the system is going to be expanded? >> yeah, it is. there are currently 36 of these interceptor missiles in the united states. four of them here ativan denberg air force base in california. 32 in alaska. we were given exclusive access to the missile fields there and the silos 70 feet deep silos in which the 54-foot long missiles are kept. there will be eight more across the nation. four more of those up at fort grealey by the end of this year. the crews are stand by there. 24/7, 365 days a year. simulating all kinds of potential attacks against the united states. so that think are ready to react if and when that kind of attack comes. and they know better than

anyone, shannon, that when it comes to a real nuclear attack, they cannot afford to fail even once. so they will continue to do their work every day of every week, shannon. >> shannon: and we are grateful for that jonathan hunt, thank you very much. >> bill: so meanwhile the trump administration saying it believes china is being productive where north korea is concerned. this amid discussions between washington and beijing on the best way to reign in the rogue regime. u.n. ambassador nikki haley saying that china is trying to get kim jong un to stop nuclear and ballistic missile testing when she said this. >> china is doing back channel networking with north korea in a way that is getting them to try and stop the nuclear testing. so we believe that they are being productive. we do think that they are trying to counter what is happening now. and they have the lay of the land. >> bill: well, she also says the u.s. and china are talking about stronger sanctions against north korea in response to the ballistic missile launch just last weekend. interesting choice of words,

back channel. >> shannon: exactly. >> bill: china is back channeling north korea in the context of all of this now. >> shannon: do you think it was subliminal? i don't know. but they are doing it it's good news because china has been resistant to some the u.n. actions. >> bill: big time. >> shannon: good thing we are working together. new details pouring in after terror strikes in the heart of afghanistan. more than 300 people injured. we're told at least 80 dead in an area surrounded by worldwide embassies. it's supposed to be a safe zone. >> bill: awful pictures coming in on that shannon, you are right. defunding planned parenthood. it's been a republican rally cry for years. now there is a new report that shows exactly what the organization has been up to as republicans in congress move one step closer to their goal. >> i don't want my money, my tax dollars supporting abortion and murder. we should be adults and take care of the responsibility. men and women.

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>> bill: more now on the fifth day of ramadan so far this month has been deadly. more on the devastating bombing attack in afghanistan. no claim of responsibility. at least 80 are dead. hundreds are injured. conor powell live in jerusalem. you know the area well in kabul. tell us about that and whether or not this was an inside job conor. >> yeah. bill, this was an intersection massive explosion went off anybody who has been in kabul any time has been through it main entrance to the so-called green zone where all the embassies, the presidential palace is located. this is really the main area and it's also the last check point before you get into it. there is a series of checkpoints getting to this spot where this huge bomb went off that this truck would have had to have gotten through. afghan security forces and u.s. commanders are sort of hailing the afghans for stopping this vehicle before it got into the green zone but the real question is how did it get to this point? afghan security forces are

saying that it was a large tanker like truck that was packed with explosives, such a big blast that it left about a 313-foot dee 13-foot hos conference of the green zone. it is a big blast and very unlikely that this vehicle got to that spot without getting through several checkpoints with somebody turning a blind eye, bill. >> bill: you have to think this is probably the most secure place in the country next to the air base of kabul north of town. president trump is reviewing the strategy in afghanistan. would more u.s. forces make a difference, conor? >> bill, there is about 8,000 or so u.s. troops there, maybe another 1,000 or so foreign troops helping out, advising and doing counter terrorism operations. the white house is reportedly discussing a plan to send maybe another 5,000. and talking to people who are dealing on this issue and trying to figure out what they would do there, where they would be, the real question is what are these u.s. troops doing? if they are just there to

sort of do some more training at the highest levels with generals and command staff is not going to do much. the people who are pushing for more troops who tend to be from the pentagon say they need to be in there training troops at the lowest levels, at the company level, at the battalion level to be with of a daafghan troops on the frot line. if they're just there to be with generals it won't make a difference. >> bill: more on that devastating attack when we get more details. thank you, sir. >> shannon: sean spicer returned to the white house podium for the first time in two weeks and reporters did not miss a beat going head to head with him over the president and his attacks over what he calls fake news. >> i will give you an example. >> please. >> sure. friday the president was having a great discussion at the g-7. and someone from the bbc and ultimately an incoming reporter from the "new york times" retweeted that the president was being rude by disrespecting the italian prime minister. and, yet, the president did a great job at nato.

>> you are making something out of one tweet instead of vast majority of coverage. >> mistakes like that with all due respects i was asked to give an example and did i it. >> i gave an answer to jim. what i'm telling you is the reason the president is frustrated per pettation of false narratives use of up named sources over and over again about things that are happening that don't ultimately happen. i think that is troubling. >> shannon: brad blakeman. radio seahaw talk show host ricd fowler. who do you think was itching more to get back in that podium at the press briefing room. spicy or the reporters? >> i think the reporters were itching to get in that briefing room. sean spicer wanted to wear a hard hat and sort of hide here. here's the thing. being a press secretary, shannon is not easy. we can talk to our colleague dana perino talking about the struggles of one maintaining trust with the press and also upholding the

position of the white house and doing those things at the same time are very, very, very difficult. and i think what we see here from sean spicer is he seems to be more concerned the president pushing him to sort of maintain the white house position while diminishing trust with the reporter that covered this president each and every day. >> shannon: he would say they diminished trust with him. unnamed sources, constant leaks. spicer said things that never actually happened that you are writing about as if they are. it's clear they have some complaints of their own. >> there's no doubt about it. how do you face a press corps like you say who makes accusations yet they don't tell you who named sources are they won't tell you what the background is they just make these accusations drip by drip by drip. it's even hard for the white house to even answer a question when you don't have the backup for the allegations being made by a hostile press corps. i think it's gone way beyond adversarial. i think they are at war now. there is no surrender from the white house. if they think that's coming, it is not. sean spicer and his team and

the president are going to do their jobs as they see fit because that's what they are required to do. and the press is just going to have to like it. >> shannon: well, richard, where do we go? where is the line on this unnamed sources and leaks. we know it is often critical to breaking big stories and important news that the american people have a right to know. but has the line been crossed here? you know, we are talking about potential felony charges against people if they are caught leaking some of this information. i mean, we are talking about national security threats and those kind of things. can you understand the frustration from the white house on that point? >> oh, there is no question i understand the frustration of this white house. he has a leak problem. i have called it the leak of palooza that he has in this white house that comes down to president trump being able to manage his white house. he is a businessman. he is a billionaire. now it is time for this president to lead. he has been talking about leaks, shannon, since day one of this administration. we are now on day 140 and he is still talking about leaks and they haven't brought one leaker to justice. they haven't found one leaker. this white house has to do two things here, two tracks.

one, they have got to find a way to push their agenda forward. actually three tracks. second thing they have got to deal with the leakers and third thing which seems to be happening now is the president is probably going to continue to shake up his communications team to help him get in front of it. we saw yesterday the director resigned, more to come. what is happening here they are not getting in front of these leaks with providing the real facts of the story. they say fake news, fake news, fake news. they don't say this is the leak, these leaks are false and here are the facts. that's a problem for the white house. >> shannon: we know this is one of the main contentions that the president had the fbi director james comey. a lot of them are coming from the intelligence community. he weighs mad that there wasn't be being more done to investigate those. >> another reason why he needed to go. now as the president has said, he is tasked, his attorney general and i'm sure he will task the new fbi director with the finding leakers. that is the only crime that has been committed that we know of.

the allegations of the leakers pales in comparison to the national security damage that's been done by leakers who i will tell you are probably not political appointees. they are institutional career people who are doing this. and that's why, richard, it's so very hard to find them. but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't. and they can be found if proper resources are given and thank you, richard, for saying that the leakers should be found because a lot of democrats absolutely are taking the other position that somehow these people are patriots, they are criminals. >> shannon: well, maybe you guys can agree o on we are out of time. if you happen to trademark leaker palooza something that ohash tag onthat. >> i'm running to the patent office now. >> bill: president trump's tweets get a lot of attention around the world. one around midnight last night has buzzing and puzzled. despite the negative press

covfefe. top trender on twitter and facebook. it was removed a few hours later. the president earlier today sent this out. who can figure out the true meaning of covfefe. enjoy, he says. this was my wild guess, shannon. desert served in brussels. >> shannon: i like that. have you your own theory. >> bill: might be nice. >> shannon: sounds italian. covfefe. we are not sure the pronunciation much less what it is. i like your theory about desert. >> bill: it's delicious. >> shannon: rush limbaugh says he knows what's holding up republicans in congress. >> so the republican party, which is ostensibly the party of the president, and they owe their majority to him, particularly the senate. are road blocking donald trump more than the democrats are. >> shannon: it is no secret

that republicans and president trump need a legislative win. we're going to tell you what the president is saying this morning about his two biggest proposals in congress. >> shannon: also new video here showing one top republican explaining why he thinks democrats are not actually wanting an investigation on russia. watch. >> trying to destroy the russia investigation. they have never been serious about it one of the great things this investigation i can actually say what i want to say. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you.

♪ ♪ >> the democrats don't want the investigation on russia. they want an independent commission. why do they want an independent commission? because they want to continue the narrative that vladimir putin and donald trump are best friends and that's the only reason why he won because hillary clinton could have never lost on her own. >> bill: this is very interesting video just

released intelligence chair devon nuns ou nunes claiming investigation russian meddling it will not come to the conclusion they desire that comment happened at private dinner last month a day after nunes recused himself from the investigation. and he said in that meeting that go ahead and report it. this is what he believes. mark thiessen, columnist from "the washington post enterprise institute and fox news contributor. mark, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. how are you? >> bill: i'm fine. thank you. nunes in his position is quite clear. he states it there. put trump with putin and you've got a winner. what do you think of his comments, given the profile that he has on a story like this? >> sure. well, i mean, since he made those comments, there actually has he been an independent special council appointed by the trump justice department by rosenstein and so that really takes that out of the hands of the democrats at this point. there is going to be an

independent investigation. they can't really politicize it anymore because there is an investigation going on and i think that's good for the republican party at this point because they can get back to doing what they are supposed to be doing, which is legislating. instead of obsessing about russia. >> bill: here is the democratic response. eric swolwell from california. is he also on the intelligence committee of the house. >> i think republicans and democrats, because republicans are on my bill as well, care about the future of our election. and if we don't have free and fair elections, what do we have in this country? so i hope both parties can put aside politics and just get to the bottom of what happened. >> bill: i think everybody wants an answer. i think you would agree with that. >> yeah. >> bill: when he says free and fair, that's a suggestion in that answer is that the election was not fair, mar marc. >> because vladimir putin told hillary clinton not to go to wisconsin or michigan. that's what happened, right? come on. this is the problem with the russia probe is that the democrats are trying to use it to delee jit mize trump.

we all, republicans and democrats know that russia tried to interfere in our election and we want to get to the bottom of it so we can ensure that our elections are free and fair and without foreign interference that should be bipartisan goal. undermined by the fact that they're trying to use it to delegitimize donald trump. the true reality is, again, we have got an independent now. we have got somebody who everybody agrees is going to do it fairly in bob mueller. let's move on. let's start le legislating. let's start doing the people's business. people are sick and tired of hearing about russia, russia, russia every day when they want to hear about is we passed tax reform. we passed healthcare reform. we passed a bill to deal with opioids. we passed school choice reform. they are sick and tired of washington wrapping around its axle talking about russia, russia, russia all the time. can we walk and chew gum at the same time? please? >> bill: antic total totally

last week i was in ohio and nobody asked me about russia. so point taken. >> exactly. >> bill: carter page says he wants to testify and democrats are not moving forward with that what do you make of the movements of carter page, a guy who is not paid to me looked like he was looking for a job on the trump team. did not get one. and was later, you know, forced to step aside in september of last year. and as i ask you that in the vein of robert mueller and his accusation which by all accounts seems to be moving forward at pretty quick pace at the moment. >> sure. >> bill: does robert mueller tell carter page don't testify just sit down for now or are the democrats not really interested in what he has to say? >> democrats and republicans on capitol hill should take their cue from bob mueller and if he doesn't want people to testify, then they should not testify. carter page, by the way, he is a junior ranger. he never even met donald trump. he is the key linchpin to

the russia conspiracy to coordinate with vladimir putin. he never even met with donald trump. he was outside advisor who didn't get a job in the administration. this is like completely peripheral figure. not only to government today but to the trump campaign. why are we expending any energy on carter page? let bob mueller do his job, listen to him, defer to him, he is an independent guy. everybody agrees that what he is going come to a purely objective conclusion and go back to work. >> bill: there is that. thank you, marc. marc thiessen in washington. >> take care, bill. >> bill: shannon, what's next? >> shannon: possible shakeup in the mainstream media. scott pelley could be on his way out. we will look at why and what it means to the landscape. >> bill: also comedian kathy griffin facing massive backlash of her photo with a bloody mask of president

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♪ ♪ >> i sincerely apologize. i'm just now seeing the reaction of these images. i'm a comic, i crossed the line. i moved the line and then i crossed it. i went way too far. >> shannon: comedian kathy griffin apologized after a photo of her holding a bloody severed head mockup of the president drew criticism from just about everyone. howie kirtz is the host of media buzz and fox news analyst. i have watched her apology several times. to me it does seem genuine. i don't know how she didn't expect this kind of reaction. what do you make of the

fallout now? >> well, you know, first of all what kathy griffin did was so beyond the pale, so beyond any standard of human decency that it is really hard to fathom. this isn't a one line bad joke and she blurted it out. it was premeditated. she participated in a photo shoot and she is just now getting that people might be offended by it? even in an era, shannon, when so many celebrities feel free to make tasteless jokes and otherwise bash donald trump and most of the mainstream media shrugs. this went so far it's causing a severe backlash. >> shannon: when you have chelsea clinton no fan of donald trump tweeting out it's vile and wrong and never funny to joke about killing a president. there were some tweets out there from the u.s. secret service that, you know, didn't address it directly but say we keep an eye on everybody we are protecting. folks wonder whether she may get a phone call or not. the president has tweeted as well saying this: kathy griffin should be ashamed of herself. my children, especially my 11-year-old son barron are having a hard time with this. sick. what do you think will happen to her professionally, if anything?

>> well, it's a really interesting question because cnn which, of course, puts her on with this big extran gaf zoo every new year's eve with anderson cooper tepid reaction criticizing what kathy griffin did. well we are evaluating whether to keep her on this new year's eve special. if she had held up a bloody mask the head of any other president, there is no way that cnn would want to put her next to anderson cooper for that big night at the end of the year. she would be gone. i think what cnn is really saying is we are going to watch the reaction and see if this blows over. >> shannon: we know comedians push the edge. that's what they do is push the envelope. part of what they do is making a mockery going too far. she admits she went too far this time. you think there is a double standard. you mentioned had this been another president the reaction would have been swift and a lot more harsh. >> i give comedians a pretty wide berth. sometimes they are going to insult people go too far. i get that again, the idea that she would spend this

time in this photo shoot and not think it was going to cause this explosion i think speaks to a mind set among the holiday set that it really is possible to say or do just about anything when it comes to donald trump and you are going to get high fives, in this case even kathy griffin now realizes what a horrible mistake this was. >> shannon: there is audio during that photo shoot that seems to suggest she knew there was going to be trouble. all right, howard kurtz, thank you very much. >> bill: dare we suggest the act intentional the apology came after she felt the reaction of the public. it was fierce. as you point out, when you lose chelsea clinton, all right? right? you have gone well over the line. >> shannon: i didn't hear an apology to the president. i heard an apology for doing it i'm not sure it was directed at him. >> bill: a lot of reaction on that. a lot of reaction on, this shannon. the president is about to make news on the paris climate accord. this will be a big deal. will the u.s. stay or go? we will find out soon.

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♪ >> shannon: a big decision expected from the white house. fox news confirming president trump is expected to drop out of the paris climate agreement. a senior administration official warning though the president is weighing his options, has not yet made a final decision. the president tweeting just a short time ago that a decision will be made in the next few days. ♪ >> shannon: but first the russian investigation gaining steam on capitol hill. former national security advisor mike flynn agrees to turn over some documents to the senate intelligence committee following three subpoenas. welcome to a busy brand new hour of america's newsroom. i'm shannon bream. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer, good morning to you. shannon good morning to you. general flynn now planning to hand over the business documents and other personal

material next week. congressional investigators setting sights on trump's personal attorney. catherine herridge now all over this. catherine, good morning to you. where are we today? what have we learned? >> thank you, bill. good morning. a source close to flynn says he will be providing records close to the senate intelligence committee adding the committee has recently narrowed the request for flynn's personal records and able to accommodate the request without sacrificing fifth amendment protection. there are subpoenas for flynn's business records which the source says do not have the same protection as personal documents. the source close to flynn emphasized that the former national security advisor has wanted to cooperate with congress and is grateful the committee narrowed the scope for request for information. we are hearing about this now because flynn's team faced a tuesday deadline to indicate their intentions and face a june 6th deadline to begin sharing those records, bill. >> bill: catherine, the president's personal attorney is now involved. who is he? and what's the question there? >> well, a long time

personal attorney for president trump confirms to fox news that congressional investigators are requesting information and his testimony as part of the probe into the russian interference in the 2016 election. and whether there was collusion between moscow and trump officials. michael cohn told fox news the requests are coming from the senate and house committees the. we're working to confirm a report that cohn has failed to cooperate for now because he considers the request overly broad. meanwhile the request of carter page informal advisor to the trump team has been postponedthe date of june 7th. page at the center of the anti-trump dossier continues to deny he was moscow's point of contact. in this letter to the house intelligence committee page writes the urgency of delivering truthful facts really does matter and this exigent necessity has only seemed to grow in recent days. a source familiar with the matter said page's testimony was put off at the request of democrats on the house intelligence committee. a spokesman for the ranking member adam schiff told fox

news they do not comment on any communications they have with potential witnesses, bill. >> bill: catherine, thanks for that. catherine herridge in washington. >> shannon: will let's bring in steve haze a fox news contributor. googood morning, steve. >> good morning, shannon. >> shannon: three subpoenas, one of them was to have him testify. let's be clear it doesn't sound like we are going to get that. >> correct. >> shannon: these documents. how much of a difference will they make? >> turns out what they're and what they tell us about michael flynn's activities. the interesting thing that catherine herridge just reported on was that the flynn team thought that the request was too broad before. it seems that they have narrowed the request. the senate committee has narrowed its request and flynn is willing to comply. to put this all in a broader context, i think these congressional investigations really don't matter nearly as much as the special counsel investigation that bob mueller is going to be running. >> shannon: yeah. we are hearing that there are several key players that have been reached out to by

any number of these investigations to testify. the president's personal attorney obviously his son-in-law who says he is has been to come and want to talk to lawmaker about what i know. carter page and many others. and what do you make of what we are hearing now about the carter page testimony that he is saying i'm not going to be allowed to come and testify and actually rebutt some of these things that are not true? >> yeah, what's interesting is the report something accurate that committee democrats don't want to hear him certainly at some point it won't be defensible for the committee to just say we don't talk about witnesses. they will need to provide an explanation as to why he has been disinvited if he, in fact, has been disinvited. it's not as if the american public hasn't heard from carter page. carter page has been giving interviews for months now. people who wanted an opportunity to evaluate the veracity of what he's saying can do so in these other interviews. he, of course, is free to offer his, you know, a lengthy rebuttal to what has been alleged against him at any time.

>> shannon: and, again, patience is urged in all of these cases. >> right, exactly. >> shannon: we are not in hurry. we are going to take our time. we know a special counsel can take years. essentially it could last for the entire term of this president. meanwhile i want to turn to another issue here facing the president. the fact that he needs big legislative wins. rush limbaugh is saying it's actually the g.o.p. because they control the house and the senate. they are the ones who are throwing up the road blocks to things he wants to get done. here is a little bit of what rush had to say yesterday. >> the republican party, which is ostensibly the party of the president, and they owe their majority to him, particularly the senate. are road blocking donald trump more than the democrats are. because the democrats cannot. the democrats don't have the votes in the house to stop trump. the democrats don't have the votes in the senate to stop trump. although there is the 60 vote cloture requirement. it's not the democrats standing up and saying we are not going to help.

we are going to stands in the way of any foolish tax cut. it's the republicans standing up and saying i just don't see how -- there is no room here. >> shannon: all right. for example, let's talk about the example on healthcare it was a nail biter trying to get that thing passed in the last minute negotiations, in the senate they are taking their time and saying we are not picking up that house thing we are doing our own thing and a lot of concerns about whether the g.o.p. will be able to coalesce to 51 on a lot of those hot points, too. yeah, the party has some internal things to work out. >> i don't think there is any question about that. i think what you would hear from capitol hill in response to what rush limbaugh says is that the president hasn't provided the kind of direction that they're looking for on capitol hill. and at times the president has said things that are internally contradictory. you just had this tweet from president trump a few days ago where he talked about obamacare and the prospect of, quote, adding more dollars, unquote. what does that mean specifically and how if you are a conservative on capitol hill and you are worried about the rising costs of the acha and

healthcare more broadly you are going to want to know the specifics of what the president means when he says he is going to add more dollars. at the same time the president has suggested he would be willing to work with democrats to craft an alternative to this republican-led healthcare reform. what does that mean specifically? and if he is serious, what would that mean for the future of healthcare reform? is he moving towards single payer? so a lot of those details have to come and they have to come from the white house. >> shannon: all right, well, we will stand by to see what more comes from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. steve hayes, always good to see you. >> thanks, shannon. >> bill: you get a sense if this continues along this same path that this is going to be the story out of washington, d.c. if you get in the late summer and there is no movement or much movement on either of these two big issues, this is what everybody will be talking about. >> shannon: yeah. >> bill: that's my sense. >> shannon: there is definitely a back and forth with the president and with the hill when you see him saying two days ago in a tweet or a day ago in a tweet essentially let's blow up the legislative

filibuster in the senate so we can get things done. come out and saying that ♪ going to happen. today in his tweet when he talked about republican senators and he said all good people. clearly may be trying to mend that fence. >> bill: see what they do. mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. >> shannon: heavy lift. >> bill: heavy lift and a lot of pressure. stand by on that. let's go overseas. new information emerging about the man behind the manchester massacre. police say it appears salmon abedi bought most of the bomb-making material by himself. but investigators are not ruling out the possibility he had help from a larger terror network. greg palkot live on the investigation in london now. and, greg, what do we know today? >> hi, bill. new information today, in fact. police now thinking that perhaps the manchester bomber was a bit of a lone wolf. police releasing new information about the man. 22-year-old british libyan man salman abedi. they say he purchased a core

component for the backpack bomb he used to kill 22 and jury more than 100 in that terrible concert attack last week. and then he assembled them on his own. all in the four days leading up to the attack after he had returned from libya. now, bomb-making instructions are pretty common online, especially, for example, on isis websites. the isis terror organization had claimed responsibility for the attack. police still say though that they're looking at whether there was any kind of a support network backing him up. also turns out that they are really trying to find out if they had their handle on all of the explosive materials. they released just a couple days ago another picture of the attacker with a blue suitcase. one assumption had been that some the leftover explosive material or the explosives were transported in that suitcase. there had been scenes of police searching a landfill near manchester and some supposition that they are actually searching for the suitcase there. all tolled, bill, 16 people have been arrested over the course of the investigation so far.

11 people remain in police custody. three have been released. additionally just in the past 24 hours. in custody in the u.k. one of abedi's brothers in custody, detained in libya where they were living and another brother, also the father. police say they still have something like 3,000 lines of investigation outstanding. just about every police force is connected with this investigation in one way or another. it's a nationwide search. and that terror threat still at the severe level. back to you. >> bill: you can clearly understand why, too. greg, thank you. greg palkot live in london today. >> shannon: devastation in afghanistan. a terror attack killing dozens, injuring hundreds more, all of this happening in a highly secured diplomatic area. so how could this have happened? new details just ahead. >> bill: also, republicans promise to defund for planned parenthood. new data finds the information is actually relying more on government money. we will take a look at those numbers in a moment.

>> shannon: media continues to go after jared kushner in next phase of firestorm over reported back channels of communication with russia. >> the elite media wants to forget that obama created back channels to iran. at the time, of course, they all thought obama was wonderful so it must have been a good idea. richard nixon created a back channel to communist china. you can go down item after item like this and say to yourself surely "the washington post has somebody with a sense of history.

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>> bill: president trump meeting with two more candidates today as he searches for his next fbi director. white house confirming he met with john pistol and chris ray yesterday at the white house. pistole. wray ran the criminal division under george w. bush. president trump will continue meeting with candidates until he finds the, quote, right leader. so more coming on that shortly. >> shannon: yet another terrorist attack overseas. this time afghanistan, terrorists striking the heart of the capital. at least 80 people have died. that number continues to grow. hundreds more are injured there. most of the deaths civilians, including women and children. lieutenant colonel ralph peters fox news strategic analyst joins us now. colonel, great to have you with us. what do you make of this? because it comes in an area we are told is supposed to be among the most secure. the embassy is there.

it's a diplomatic sort of enclave. and, yet, apparently there were numerous checkpoints that would have had to have been crossed or breached for this to get where it wound up. >> well, several things happened. first of all, they didn't penetrate all the way into the area. from what i'm told, the bombing was really on the fringe of the diplomatic area. it did hit the -- damage the german embassy, the turkish embassy, the french embassy and some others. however, the fundamental problem in afghanistan, the problem of legitimacy for the government is corruption. and so clearly, as you pointed out, shannon, there had to be complicity at some level. but the terrorists, and i believe it was islamic state by the way, the terrorists were all so very, very clever, as they often are. they use this big tanker truck that takes away septic waste from cleaning sewage systems. i can guarantee you the afghan guards on duty would

have inspected any other truck. but a truck carrying sewage waste. they don't want to touch it and get defiled. this was really smart. saying you don't want to touch this stuff, guys. it was a well-run operation. now, why do you think it was islamic state? i do not believe it was the taliban. they do not go out of their way to kill afghan or other civilians. possible that it was al qaeda. but, it bears the hallmark of the local state islamic state in corzine because they just want to create carnage. and they did it, remember, in the opening days of ramadan, the most important month of the islamic calendar. and so, this savagery where, again, most of the victims were afghan civilians, most of the victims are muslims. few diplomats reportedly possibly some media people hurt. this is islamic state doing two things. one affecting the local situation, showing that they are there and they can do a lot of damage.

also, islamic state doesn't think in terms of rand mcnally and mapped borders the way we do. they are hit back -- to me, they are hitting back for all the suffered in syria, in iraq. they are truly an international organization and expect more. >> shannon: as you said, don't think it's the taliban. interesting to me so often there are so many groups that run to take responsibility. the taliban denying they had any involvement with this. i want to turn to the kurds now because i heard repeatedly from sources during the obama administration that they were making overtures again and again to the administration to be able to purchase, not for us to gift them anything, but things that they needed and were reportedly turned down at every turn to try to get some of these things. now we understand the u.s. is giving them small arms, maybe some vehicles. turkey not happy about it. the turkish deputy prime minister saying this: quote, we cannot accept the presence of terrorist organizations that would threaten the future of the turkish state. we hope the u.s. administration would put a

stop to this wrong and turn back from it. such a policy will not be beneficial. you can't be in the same sack as terrorist organizations which, colonel as you know is the way they refer to the kurds. >> the erdogan hates the kurds. he calls everyone a terrorist. even glen aged cleric living quietly in the poconos all terrorists. but the kurds, with whom i have been affiliated in the past. i have seen them in action early in the iraq war. the kurds have the number one advantage that any ally can bring to the table. they will fight. and they are excellent fighters. they are tough, they are committed. and, yes, the iraqi kurds and syrian kurds want their own state. and why indeed shouldn't they have it? they have been oppressed by all of their neighbors. occupied by arabs, oppressed by the tuckers. while we want good relationships with turkey turkey cannot dictate to us

about who our allies are when a time when turkey is playing a triple game doing virtually nothing in syria while the kurds are giving blood on the front lines, killing islamic state terrorists every single day. and so i would just say the policy of arming the kurds is long overdue. obama's committed a tremendous damage and this is one move which i will definitely give the trump administration big points. in fact i would give them heavier weapons than we are giving them. >> shannon: maybe we are. they are good fighters and they do have skin in the game. >> they are freedom fighters. >> shannon: colonel, great to sigh, sir. thank you. >> bill: devastating blow in kabul. more to come on that. it was one of president trump's biggest campaign promises. >> kate's law.s a good thing. they can't even get it passed. they are devastated. their lives are ruined. >> bill: republican bill could breathe new life in to this law while cracking down on illegal immigrants

committing crimes. live report on that moments away. >> shannon: uber driver ends up needing a lift after running into that. check it out. >> there were no barricades up. it was -- sinkhole hadn't been reported yet. like i said it was just water flowing across the road. he didn't know there was a sinkhole attached to it.

>> shannon: an uber driver and passenger take unexpected detour landing in a massive sinkhole in san diego yesterday. check it out. the damage was caused by a ruptured water main that apparently left several nearby homes briefly without water. the driver and passenger were able to get out safely. >> bill: some of those potholes are around here. >> shannon: never to be seen again. >> bill: especially after a long winter. good luck in san diego. ♪ >> bill: top republican

senator chuck grassley demanding answers after illegal immigrant deported from the u.s. 15 times is accused of nearly killing a 6-year-old boy in a hit and run in california. all this as republican lawmakers work on a bill that will include kate's law. william la jeunesse live on that in l.a. why was he not in jail instead of moving across the border 15 times? >> well, bill, you know, this guy's record reflects policy in the last decade. it wasn't a mistake and explains why the new attorney general supports kate's law to impose a mandatory five year minimum for illegal immigrants who are caught reentering the u.s. after being deported. so, this is constantine know ban accosta heavy drinking and nearly killing a family in chicago. the obama prosecutorial descretion. that directed the u.s. attorneys to only file charges against the most criminal serious aliens that allowed many to stay in the u.s. but also gave mexicans who were deported a free

pass to go home without a criminal record. that's what happened here. new jersey russ times accosta was caught entering illegally using fake documents or sneaking over the border and u.s. attorney gave him a free pass even after arrests for dui, domestic violence, prosecutors using their discretion refused to prosecute. that is why the new administration bill, opposes sanctuary like policies that alieu misdemeanor criminal aliens to stay in the u.s. indefinitely. >> bill: what does senator grassley want and how would kate's law prevent similar incidents if at all, william? >> after entering illegally the second time, accosta would have gone to jail for five years, mandatory minimum and this 6-year-old that you see here would not have been found almost dead on the highway. it explains sessions new orders for prosecutors to charge and pursue the most serious offenses. >> people who reenter after being convicted of a crime, they get deported and come right back.

you just can't deport them again. they have to be punished and that sends a message more and more that you shouldn't come back. we build a wall and deport them, they are not coming back. >> so democrats blocked kate's law in 2015 and '16, the same language of kate's law resurfaced the border security bill the g.o.p. hopes to pass this year. >> bill: we will see. william la jeunesse reporting from los angeles on all of that. >> shannon: this guy deported 15 times the last time was in january and he was back 10 days later. it's clear that something needs to be done with the system for somebody accused of serious crimes to so easily just flow back and forth. >> bill: doesn't quite make sense to a lot of folks. >> shannon: coming up, back to one of our top stories this morning. former national security advisor mike flynn says he will share some documents with congressional investigators. judge andrew napolitano joins us on that, next.

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>> bill: there he is. a bit of a new page on the russian matter. michael flynn ready to provide some documentation without giving up his right to self-incrimination. judge andrew napolitano fox news senior judicial analyst has been looking at this. good day to you. >> likewise, bill. >> bill: apparently documents deal with two of the businesses he ran. >> right. >> bill: or had been running. >> the first subpoena he got can w. which he refused to comply and he had the right to do so demanded some

documents, that could have include included personal documents. he has the right against self-incrimination. the seconds subpoena demanded business documents. his lawyers negotiated a deal with the lawyers for the senate intelligence committee. here's all the documents. here's what we'll give you. and in return the general can still invoke his protections under the fifth amendment against self-incrimination because there is a whole team of fbi agents listening to everything he says and they might indict him on the something he said. >> bill: this story is running in a hundred different directions. >> yes, did is. >> bill: take it up to 30,000 feet, based on what we know, what is your sense of michael flynn and whether there was wrongdoing or not? >> based on what we know, the russians materially interfered with the presidential campaign. dni has said that cia has said it fbi has said it the question for the fbi and for director -- former director mueller the special counsel

is did michael flynn facilitate that? second question, was michael flynn a paid foreign agent, paid by the government of turkey and paid by the government of russia through middle men, not directly by a government check, at the same time that he was the national security advisor of the president of the united states? that would be a felony. third inquiry is did michael flynn lie to the federal government in an environment where he was compelled to tell the truth? three potential crimes which looking. >> bill: can you answer any of the three today? >> no, i don't. i could if i saw the documents. here is the problem for the general. whatever they agree he is going to surrender, those documents are public and available for the special counsel. the case is going to start moving in that direction. the senate can't indict him, of course, but the special counsel can. >> bill: okay, flynn is character number one. carter page is character

number two. never paid on behalf of the trump team. clearly wanted to be on this team. interviewed for the job, et cetera. had a short meeting with presidencandidate trump, right? >> right. >> bill: now democrats are excoriated carter page about russia. don't want him to testify. he blows away their case against him and wants to clear his name by showing the false or misleading testimony by james comey, john brennan. he concludes by saying witch-hunt. here's the case. carter page wants to talk. democrats don't want him. is that on its face where this is now? >> well, the president has a point. put aside whether james comey and john brennan lied under oath. that will be determined by somebody else at a later date. but, they asked him to testify. he said yes. he gave what's called a proffer. p-r-o-f-f-e-r. an offer of what he would say if he testified. they didn't want it. it didn't fit their

narrative. >> bill: do you think that's because democrats did not fit the story, you say or because, perhaps, robert mueller said hey, i'm in charge now? >> i can't answer that. i'm going to guess it's not because robert mueller said i'm in charge. i'm going to guess it's because carter page came across as a witness who would not be helpful to the democrats but would be helpful to the president. this is the problem with congressional investigations. there are political motivations behind everybody on those committees. a, they all want to get reelected. b, the republicans want to make trump look good. c, the democrats want to make trump look bad. they are not as pure or law enforcement driven as the independent counsel. >> bill: carter page did work in russia. he wanted to be on trump's team. he got dropped. how deep would his roots run? i would suggest not very. >> i would suggest the democrats have come to that realization. >> bill: mike lee from utah on nsa surveillance.

listen here. >> every presidential administration starting with fdr all the way at least through nixon had used intelligence gathering agencies within the government to engage in political espionage. this is human nature. this is why we need a constitution. it's why we need limits on government. >> bill: you're writing a piece on this that will be out tomorrow, correct? >> yes. >> bill: what do you think of his position there? >> well, i fully agree with him. for the first time since 1977 when the fisa court came into existence, it admonished the nsa for violating fisa court orders and spying on tens of millions of americans without lawful authority. in another world, the spies would be indicted for that. that's how serious the violation is. >> bill: depending on how deep this runs, the nsa could be changed as a result of this story. >> one reason? the guy in the white house has been a victim of this kind of spying. he knows what it's like. >> bill: thank you. judge, more to come. andrew nawntd, thanks for coming.

shannon? >> shannon: military force with the pentagon successfully intercepting an icm high above the ocean. meanwhile concerns are growing whether china is doing enough to reign in the rogue regime. kim jong un claiming capability of reaching u.s. military bases after that latest test launch. doug mckelway joins us live from the state department. doug, there are new complications in the korean peninsula that have china riled up today? >> that's right, shannon. as we know south korea has a new president, president moan jinping who has brought in to clean up corruption. china sees this new president as someone they can work with more closely than his predecessor. nor korean president seems more inclined towards some skepticism toward u.s. motives. we saw that when president moamoan. when hmoan -- moon.

the thad, short for terminal high altitude defense missiles. designed to shoot down small to medium range ballistic missiles in dissent stage. they were put in place because of recent north korean launches and stepped up launches of kim jong un in north korea. china's president xi despite all the overtures president trump made to him and president to mar-a-lago this winter sees missiles as a threat to his own nuclear defense. china also weary of any potential alliance between the united states, south korea and japan. they see that not only as a threat to north korea, but as a threat to their owns a expirations of nato like threat to their owns a expirations. china's build up of islands in the south china sea the placement of defensive missile batteries in those man made islands, recent buzzing of u.s. planes in the region are all sending signals that china is not going to be reigning in north korea's kim jong un at least to the extent that the u.s. would like h to.

shannon? >> shannon: all right. doug mckelway live for us at the state department. thank you, doug. >> bill: it was a major rally cry, he said, for republicans. >> i have always voted to defund planned parenthood and will continue to do so. i think the power of the purse is something we should use. >> bill: republican lawmakers have been pushing to defund planned parenthood for some time now and now their new healthcare bill is a chance to do just that details on that plus what the report shows about some of the work the organization is actually doing today. >> shannon: a first of its kind mission. details as nsa plans nasa planp to the sun ♪ ♪ with advanced technology, so we can make sure oil and gas get where they need to go safely. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better.

>> bill: key priority for president trump about to get underway at the white house. v.a. secretary david shulkin will be at the podium next

hour. a bit earlier in the month he said the v.a. is considering plans to shut more than 1,000 v.a. centers across the country as that faces deep challenges to improved care for americans. president trump calling for 6% increase in the v.a. budget. that news conference starts in 45 minutes. 11:30 a.m. eastern time. ♪ >> i don't think this is an either-or issue. i think you can defund planned parenthood and that's what needs to happen. >> there are plenty of avenues and areas for women to go for women's healthcare. most of the stuff planned parenthood says they need to do they don't do anyway. >> they do know unequivocally it's wrong to use taxpayer dollars to fund planned parenthood. >> shannon: republican lawmakers repeatedly push to defund planned parenthood. the report is out after a four month delay showing a jump in both government funding and abortions. let's bring in mercedes schlapp, g.o.p. strategist, former spokeswoman for george w. bush and leslie marshall syndicated radio

host. both fox news contributors. great to have you both this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> shannon: government funding up slightly over last year. 554.6 million this year. 553.7 million last year. something interesting to note though apparently over five year's time the number of patients to planned parenthood down. they are still getting the same federal and state government money. leslie, is that fair? >> well, yes, it is fair. because when you look at the overall number of people they are helping, over 2.5 million people, and when you also look at the threats to some of those people, whether it's the federal government wanting to reduce medicaid or whether you just look at not just planned parenthood, centers that have closed a number of them throughout the united states, but other clinics that have closed because they don't have proper funding. these are -- these are lower income women predominantly that need somewhere to go for these female health

services and not just reproductive health services. >> shannon: there are federally qualified healthcare centers and this has been a main point in this whole conversation. they outnumber planned parenthood clinics 20 to 1 across the country and mercedes i know that the president has offered a deal to planned parenthood either you -- we will keep giving you money and stop doing abortions or this money can go to those centers that don't do abortions but handle 20 times the patients that planned parenthood does for some of these things that leslie suggests. >> first of all planned parenthood should change its name for planned abortion services. what planned parenthood is in the abortion business. what we have seen when you look at what the services they provide in terms of pregnancy supervisors, that would include prenatal care. miss carriage referrals, that is -- you are going to see that abortions account for 95% of their pregnancy services. so, first of all, let's be real on what services they are providing. we have seen cancer screenings go down for planned parenthood, prenatal care go down for planned

parenthood. the number of clinics, the number of patients go down. when we are looking at from purely business model let's ask ourselves a fundamental question why should american taxpayers give money or allow their tax dollars to go just simply to planned parenthood when we do have federally licensed clinics that provide more and better comprehensive services for women. >> shannon: we do want to put up some of the numbers. >> you referred to them mercedes for 95% of those who come in who are pregnant, this is kind of a breakdown of some of the services. last year 328,000. 348 abortions. that number is up. at the same time, leslie, you, we have coming off of those videos that came out last year, and investigation by the house select panel. they have now referred a number of planned parenthood affiliates for criminal investigations, charges at the doj, state officials, state authorities and others. should that be ironed out before another penny -- we're talking about more than half a billion dollars of taxpayer money goes to

this particular organization. >> well, first of all, as you know, here in the state of california, over 13 felony charges have been brought against those responsible for the video. with regard to planned parenthood and the state of texas alone, you are looking at 13 investigations and on a congressional federal level three investigations all have found planned parenthood not guilty. so, i would have a problem halting the funding. i don't want to keep medical care, especially for lower income women and with regard to what mercedes said, i do agree that the money should be shared, if you will, share in the wealth. but you don't defund one. >> richard doesn't believe in that he doesn't want to share the money. there is no sharing the money. they have a very strong lobbying arm in congress. that's why they have been able to basically carve out their funds, the federal funds. and it should be a competitive process to allow other clinics that provide even better services to low income women because what's happening is that the mission of planned parenthood is obviously

shifting. its shifting towards being primarily focused on abortions. it's where they make their money. it's why they push medical standards lower. problematic for planned parenthood. there are better options for women across the board. >> shannon: leslie, what do you make. numbers from annual report. factual numbers that anybody can go online and see the report that was released. contraceptive services providing down 20%. cancer screenings down 50%. what do you make of that at the time. when this organization is trying to make the argument as you are that they are providing those valuable things to people it seems like abortions are up and other screenings services are down. >> it doesn't mean that those aren't happening. when you look at the numbers. yes, the numbers are down. i'm not going to dispute the numbers. and planned parenthood puts the numbers out there. they are obviously not hiding anything. but, the reality is and this is what happens in any business, even medical business, you're going to have services that shift at different times or in different years. it doesn't mean people aren't getting

contraceptives. it doesn't mean they aren't getting cancer screenings. this doesn't mean they don't have education. when you look at the pure numbers of people that are going through their doors and then you look at the number of abortions performed, the number of people that are getting services that are not abortion services are far outweigh that. and you don't punish those individuals, if you will, for the numbers of abortion may be unsettling. >> shannon: quick word. >> planned parenthood business model failing. receiving more revenues from the government. that to me does not make any sense, leslie. the money should be competitive. other federal clinics, licensed clinics should have access to those funds. the fact is that planned parenthood has dominated in the sense of the abortion industry and that is what their primary mission has become. not comprehensive services for all women. >> shannon: all right, mercedes and leslie, again, for heck toes who want to check it out it's there online. check it out for yourself. thanks for being with us this morning. we appreciate it. >> bill: jon scott is coming up next for what's happening now. jon, what's cooking?

>> >> jon: good morning, bill. president trump making news on the russian investigation and healthcare and accidently creating hilarious twitter #. we will explain plus new developments in the russian investigation as former national security advisor mike flynn agree toes turn over some documents. also, we are awaiting a news conference from the veterans affairs secretary. we will have it live. happening now. >> bill: good deal, jon. see you then. 10 minutes away. another day, another horrific terror attack. more than 90 killed. 400 wounded. in what was considered a relatively safe place in kabul afghanistan. that's next. the latest.

>> shannon: we are expecting a big announcement from nasa that apparently has plans for the first mission to the atmosphere. solar will launch 2018. that should include forecasting of space center events and impact life here on earth and astronauts. that's hot. >> bill: rumor has it. wear your sunscreen on that visit. we will wait for that from nasa coming up today. jetblue flight forced to make an emergency landing after passenger's laptop caught on fire. this now as the government considers banning carry on laptops on international flights. a decision we await. julie banderas at jfk for more on this. will this impact a possible ban here in the u.s., julie? >> you know, that's a good question and that does remain to be seen. but the department of homeland security obviously will be weighing all options as the potential dangers in

the sky. and last night's incident is a perfect example of how obviously a laptop ban is put into place to potentially rule out the risk of a terrorist trying to use a laptop as a bomb. but, last night an example that laptops could potentially pose different types of dangers and why laptops on board planes could be dangerous for other reasons. you know, we have heard of lithium batteries on cell phones blowing up mid flight this time someone's laptop literally burst into flames on jetblue flight from new york to san francisco forcing emergency landing in grand rapids, michigan. in a statement, jetblue says the following: flight 915 from john f. kennedy airport was diverted following reports of smoke emitting from a carry on bag holding electronic device. passengers while surprised remained calm. >> i was stunned. i knew something was going to happen because, you know, lithium batteries catching on fire when you are up at 38,000 feet, you can't help but think that, you know, we

have got to do something. >> so i was prepared for it. >> luckily that fire was put out before the plane actually landed. fire rescue crews were there. firefighters waiting for a possible fire, but it was put out. the flam plane took off again some 40 minutes after it landed on that emergency landing tarmac. >> bill: more to come on that. julie, thank you. julie banderas at jfk. >> shannon: we are expecting big news from the white house as president trump weighs his options on the paris climate accord. will he pull the u.s. out of that agreement? a live report on that and all the other white house news of the day top of the hour.

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could only look on as the horse galloped down the streets of midtown. the horse was running around for a few blocks. she's a safe end. >> have to run, have a good day, bye-bye. >> jon: we begin with this fox news alert. president trump is now expected to withdraw the u.s. from the climate accord. the move is already being blasted by democrats. good morning, welcome to "happening now" ." >> heather: this news comes as information is the ever-expanding russian investigation includes the inner circle including his own attorney. we are remarks