>> take a look, everyone. we'll take you inside on monday. a brand-new couch and studio. two floors. you've never seen a studio like this. very exciting. a couch built to win. >> it's beautiful. >> bill: making couches great again. the white house going on offense and defense fending off a backlash against the decision to pull out of the paris climate deal as it takes its appeal on the travel ban all the way to the u.s. supreme court. a lot of movement on a friday good morning. >> shannon: any time there is action at the supreme court i get an extra spring in my step. i'm shannon bream. the president made the announcement about the climate deal in the rose garden and pledge to put america first. >> president trump: i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris.

i cannot in good conscience support a deal that punishes the united states, which is what it does. the world's leader in environmental protection while imposing no meaningful obligations on the world's leading polluters. >> shannon: fox team coverage. ryan zinke is standing by with a closer look at the climate decision. kevin corke on the white house after the dramatic move and chris stirewalt with analysis. we begin with kevin. good morning. how is the white house reacting to the international criticism that it hurts the entire world. >> one word stands out. defiance. the white house will tell you that listen, there are literally tens of millions of americans that feel like this was not only the right decision, it's the latest

example of this president not only keeping his word, shannon, but also defending america first. >> president trump: the rest of the world applauded when we signed the paris agreement. they went wild. they were so happy. for the simple reason that it put our country, the united states of america, which we all love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage. >> as you pointed out this decision has drawn its fair share of -- some would even say a steady stream of criticism including france's new president macron who had this to say in english. >> where is the relief? we all share the same responsibility. make our planet great again. thank you.

>> make our planet great again. the president and the white house of course would argue that's exactly what the president is doing but not limiting the economic impact that the american economy would have if it were to remain in this versus not being in it. that's what they keep telling us, shannon. >> shannon: also the white house following through on another pledge. this one has to do with the travel ban 2.0. what can you tell us about that >> you've been involved and watching this carefully from your perch. the white house is once again saying while it has been kicked around by the lowers courts and most part defeated at the lower level they're once again saying this is exactly what they intended to do all along. take this fight all the way to the u.s. supreme court. let me share a bit about what mike pence said today. >> the american people are

heartened but equally frustrated by decisions in courts that call into question whether the president of the united states has the ability to control who comes into this country. the ability to come into the united states of america is a privilege, not a right. >> did you catch that? it's a privilege and not the right. that's exactly what the vice president said this morning and what the president has long said and that's also what has been essentially laid out in this statement by the department of justice. let me share a bit of it. we have asked the supreme court to hear this important case and confident that president trump's executive's order is well within his lawful authority to protect our communities from terrorism. it should make for a very interesting conversation and we're certainly looking forward to it. i'm just betting you are, too. >> shannon: you know i absolutely am. we'll talk about it with our panel in a few minutes. kevin corke at the white house, good to see you.

>> bill: the climate deal. ryan zinke from idaho. i know you're from montana and you have said under oath you don't believe climate change is a hoax. how do you defend the decision and why reject the accord? >> it's easy to defend. it is not about climate change, it's about the deal. the deal is bad. it's only 20 pages but as you read through it, we pay for it, we pay billions of dollars up front, more than anyone else. secondly is the deal itself, even by mit doesn't do anything. it doesn't move the needle if everyone complies, and we lose jobs. it was a bad deal. if we're going to sit down and have a climate change deal, then let's make it fair. i hear the criticism on it but when we lose jobs, when russia, china and india take a walk. china's emissions goes up.

it doesn't decrease until 2030. so everyone else is more competitive, we lose jobs, it's a bad deal. >> bill: a lot of reaction to this. former president obama who pushed this through said the following. even in the absence of american leadership as this administration joins a small handful of nations that reject the future, i'm confident that our states, cities and businesses will step up and do more to lead the way and help protect for future generations the one planet we've got. are you rejecting the future with this decision? >> no, we're not. of course the last administration also negotiated the iranian deal. this was a bad deal. i think the president has said he will renegotiate it, offer to renegotiate it. but it should be fair and the burden should not rest on american jobs and the backs of our manufacturing base. nobody does it better -- i just got back from alaska.

as far as our technology goes, we're leading the world in innovative technology across the board. clean energy, oil and gas, coal. we are leading the world in making sure that we have clean air, clean water, but if everyone would step up like we have and innovation, technology, pursuit of cleaner, better energy, then we wouldn't have a problem. the president took the decisive action he should. >> bill: john kerry went further. more kids will have more asthma in the summertime. he said you're putting america last. he said economic growth will be challenged. john kerry helped push this through as well. to him you say what today? >> well, john kerry also pushed the iranian deal through. again, you look at the construct. the agreement is only about 20 pages. it has to do with accepting a bad deal. if we'll sit down, let's make sure the agreement has shared

burden. this one does not. it gives the world's leading polluters a free walk for 2030. costs us billions of dollars up front and million else of jobs. these are hard working people. blue color people, manufacturing base of this country. in no way does the current or the last deal that the president actually took action and by the way, he is doing exactly what he said he would do is put america first. >> bill: last point the "wall street journal" said the news underreported this week and a number of points she makes. in part because the white house is failing on the message this is what she points out. the order to reopen alaska's reserve to oil and gas, dakota access went live, fish and wildlife service may stop the obama add min istations -- you're part of. commerce secretary -- open to

completing the trans atlantic trade and thune said his caucus is drafting the replacement of obamacare. a lot in one week. you just came back from alaska. we've debated drilling there for decades. will it happen under this administration yes or no? >> we're focused on the strategic petroleum reserve. again, the petroleum reserve. the last administration made millions of acres unavailable in petroleum reserve. we're focused on looking at it and doing assessment of what's in the area. there is a block called 1002 within the anwar, everything is on the board. >> bill: is that a no or maybe? >> anwar is a congressional issue. congress has to take that up. on our side we're going to continue and make available sections that are in the

petroleum reserve. i look at it as america is much better for energy dominant and the world is safer if america is strong. we have the resources, let's get to it. we'll do it responsibly, environmentally conscious way. nobody is better at oil and gas and energy all the above than the united states. we do it better than anybody, everybody. our regulatory environment is the standard in the world. >> bill: thank you for your time. mr. secretary, thank you. >> shannon: we'll bring in chris stirewalt for his thoughts on these hot topics. i want to hit both of these big things. let's start with the paris deal. the meltdown was not unexpected by the left but man -- >> in an era of particularly stupid political discussions this one is of towering -- this is a fake deal and passed

because they couldn't pass something real. this was a participation trophy treaty that didn't address a underlying problems. was bogus from the beginning. people who are conscious environmental activists, knew it was a joke. the freak-out that greeted donald trump's decision to leave a fake treaty is not indicative of the treaty. it doesn't have anything to do with the content in here. it is a perfect absolutely clear depiction of what the opposition to donald trump is like and if you ever wanted that snapshot, it was perfectly on display yesterday. >> shannon: another round of opposition comes to travel ban 2.0. the president promised back with travel ban 1.0 i'll see you in the supreme court. they've filed there and we'll await action by the justices. >> you get your super woman cape comes out and you're starting to feel it when we talk about the supreme court. i fear to tread in that space.

but this is the -- these problems are the consequences of the president's talk. you can talk about what's in the law. i don't know. these are the consequences of the president's talk in the campaign talking about muslims and banning muslims from the united states. courts are punishing imfor what they say is his intent. >> shannon: you have a doctorate in hillbilly justice. we'll take that. have a good weekend. >> bill: a lot more coming up. mark the 8th of june. james comey breaks his silence in front of the senate committee and the american public as well. talk to karl rove what's on the line for that and governor mike huckabee is here as well next hour on that plus there is this today. [screaming] >> shannon: chaos and panic after a gunman opened fire in a casino. the details on what happened

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>> the last time he testified under oath the f.b.i. had to correct that testimony. we want to brief everybody what deputy attorney general rob rows instein said. he looked at the investigation the way mr. comey handled

hillary clinton's email investigation and he said it hurt the morale and integrity. >> bill: thursday big day. he will talk about his private conversations with the president regarding the michael flynn matter and karl rove has been studying that. deputy chief of staff to george w. bush. karl, good day to you. based on what we know james comey took note and the president said something similar to i hope this can go away. where is the crime? is that a crime? >> there is no crime. the president of the united states is the head of the executive branch. the f.b.i. is not independent of that authority. the president was asking -- in essence i just fired this guy. he has been humiliated in front of the american people. can you go easy on him? the president could have directed him to drop the investigation and unless there is underlying corruption, the president benefited in a corrupt fashion from that decision there is no crime. there is political fallout but

no crime whatsoever. the president has the authority to do that. >> bill: here is what i'm seeing develop in washington a lot of people think that james comey is the last man standing with credibility in that city. other people like the president think he is a showboat. in your experience what is he a or b? >> i'll apply -- he is a hot dog. look, he will show up and my suspicion is will say the president brought it up and i was offended by this. well, the fact of the matter is that if he was offended he should have said to the president i think that's inappropriate or he should have said to the attorney general i think it's inappropriate. it wasn't and he didn't say it. now sanctimonyously in retrospect we'll say him play the role he loves to play the most, the only honest man in washington, d.c. it will all be retrospective. at the time he didn't say anything to the president apparently. didn't say anything to his direct superior at the department rod rosenstein. said nothing to his boss at the justice department.

jeff sessions. so -- >> bill: let me ask you this robert mueller special counsel. there is coordination with what comey can and cannot say. they've had a meeting. perhaps more than one. is that an issue or not? >> not for me. mueller is a straight arrow, boy scout marine. he sat down with comey and saying here are the things i'm willing to let you talk about and here are the things that will affect our ongoing investigation that i would direct you not to talk about. >> bill: hillary clinton, did you hear this comment from tuesday? i'll play it for you, karl, and get you to react on the other side of this. >> comey was more than happy to talk about my emails but he wouldn't talk about investigation into the russians. people went to vote on november 8th having no idea that there was an active counter intelligence investigation going on of the trump campaign. >> she says she was trying to bring voice to the whole idea about russian meddling and the

administration blew her off. >> it was a sad moment. this whole conversation with hillary clinton at the code conference is embarrassing to watch. it is painful. she asserts that there was an active conspiracy between the republic national committee and the russians spending $100 million to further to russian meddling in the campaign. $100 million out of the republican national committee budget. one quarter of the money they raised in 2015 and 2016 she said was aspent with the russian military intelligence. she was happy to talk about jim comey's press conference. he refused to indict her. a authority he did not have under law, practice or rule. it was -- it was not his authority to do so. hillary clinton was very happy to talk about that. she was -- what she is now

saying is he should have violated the rules and law and gone out and talked about an ongoing investigation before it was completed. she is calling on jim comey to have been a law breaker. i think his news conference was unfair to her and unfair to the american people. unfair to her because after taking it upon himself to say that she wasn't going to be indicted he then proceeded to trash her. that is not what prosecutors should do. it was a sad moment for hillary clinton. move on. move on. >> bill: we have seven days before the story of the week next thursday's testimony. we'll see what gives then. check out the article you wrote in the "wall street journal." the president is home but not home free. thank you, karl, in washington, d.c. today. what's next? >> shannon: senator lindsey graham not too pleased with james comey. he sits down with the president today and we'll ask him to explain the scandal over so-called fake email regarding

hillary clinton that comey told congress about but didn't give them the whole story. >> bill: a gunman opening fire at a casino resort. isis claims responsibility but officials say they aren't so sure. an update on that next. at angie's list, we believe

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35 people died, police say they don't believe right now it was terror. we're live in los angeles with more on this story. good morning, will. >> at this point it appears the suspect acted alone. overnight authorities released two pictures of the gunman dressed in dark clothes. head covered and at least one visible gun in his hands. authorities say the man stormed the resort manila's casino midnight friday and chaos ensued. >> i can hear gunshots, oh my god. right behind resort world. and you can see the smoke and there are gunshots and people are shaongt at each other. >> witnesses say the gunman poured gasoline on casino tables and carpets and let them on fire. 35 people suffocated to death. the windows were locked and bodies were found around the casino, hallways, inside a

bathroom. 70 others injured. many surviving by breaking windows and jumping from the second floor. some families still don't know if their loved ones survived. >> if my daughter is still there, they should inform us because we're so worried as parents. we have not known where our daughter is since midnight. we have not heard from her still. >> the gunman took his own life first shooting himself and lighting himself on fire. >> shannon: okay, why are authorities saying it is possibly an act of terror? there has been some claim of responsibility. >> isis in that area has said they are responsible but at this point authorities in manila say it was a robbery. he broke into a room and stole a bag full of gaming chips worth more than $2 million before he took his own life. >> as far as the police is concerned we can't declare it is a terror-related incident

because he did not intentionally hurt anyone. there is no indication that he shot people or caused an explosion. >> to put it into context the philippines has been battling with isis on the southern island. last week the president declared martial law for the island and the rest of the country if the threat spreads. >> bill: get back to two of our biggest stories of the day. the trump team making good on a promise to take the travel ban to the u.s. supreme court. what we're learning today. the commander-in-chief with this statement. the most popular comment came out the following way from the rose garden like this. >> president trump: i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. >> shannon: plenty of reaction about president trump's decision to withdraw from the

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>> bill: 9:32. president trump citing jobs and economy as the reason for the withdrawal from the climate deal. a big jobs number out last hour. wall street open and reacting to all this news. off a tick. unemployment dropped to 4.3%. that number came out at 8:30 today. we did not add as many jobs as hoped but this a day after the private sector reported a strong 250,000 plus jobs added in may. put all that together and we'll see how investors react to those headlines starting right now.

>> an extraordinary abdication of american leadership. he has made as an environmental pariah in the world and one of the most self-destructive moves i've ever seen by any president in my lifetime. >> shannon: that is former secretary of state john kerry blasting president trump over existing the climate deal. other high profile democrats go on the attack. hillary clinton clinton tweeting historic mistake. the world is moving forward. paris withdrawal leaves american workers behind and bill clinton saying walking away from paris treaty is a mistake. we owe our children more protecting our future creates more jobs. al gore. undermines america's standing in the world and threatens to manage humanity's ability to solve the climate crisis. juan williams and author of the book "we the people." and molly hemingway, a fox news

contributor. welcome to you both. i thought it was interesting that former president clinton's tweet said treaty. he used the word treaty. that's one of the main gripes people had about this. if it was a treaty it required senate approval and never went there. if much of what president obama accomplished in his time is pieces of paper this administration will be able to undo them. >> the key point here, i take it to heart what you said. it's executive action on some level and people found it grateing. president obama said it is hard to get something as complex as a climate deal through the legislative body and america was showing leadership to the world by saying we can agree to lower our output of greenhouse gases and hoping that the rest of the world specifically china, the leading emitter of greenhouse gases, would fall in line. it was an example from the obama administration point of view of american leadership.

>> shannon: juan, you know you don't get to skip the constitution because something is hard to get done. >> i said i appreciated your point. i don't think it's skipping the constitution. we've seen in other examples, you have some leeway for the executive to take these steps. the question was whether or not even among democrats, not just republicans who are accused of obstructing obama's agenda but even among democrats could you get a joe manchin in west virginia and the senator in indiana to vote for something when you see them under attack for potentially costing manufacturing and coal jobs. >> shannon: molly, here is the thing for me. i found it hard to understand at one point we were told the president should stay in. not that big a deal. a good faith effort to the world. then i saw protestors outside the white house saying he has decided to cook the planet by protestors and basically it's the apocalypse. >> there was a conflict.

no big problem with staying in the agreement because it was meaningless but leaving the agreement means the apocalypse is at hand. the agreement itself was meaningless and not a treaty with no enforcement mechanism. activists and administrative state officials were going to put a bureaucratic architecture that would have cost $3 trillion over the next few decades and lost 6 million jobs and why it's so important when you enter into an agreement with other countries that you do go through senate ratification. because this was something that would have cost the american people, the american worker so much and when we made an agreement that allows china and india to do nothing for 20 years, where we're the taxpayers are expected the pay third world dictators for their climate change issues and we have to take all these costs you want to make sure the public is on board. if they aren't, we have no business entering into the

agreement. >> mollie, polls show the public is on board and public thinks there is a crisis. we've had three straight years of -- >> if that is true there would be no trouble getting it through senate ratification. that's what should have been done. >> there is so much heated rhetoric especially on the republican side where people say this climate change thing is being overdone. we don't believe it. i think it's become a touch stone for some people on the right. it's going to be very hard. i think you would agree, mollie. >> shannon: we'll have to leave that one agree to disagree. that's fair. waint to move on to the other big story the president said i'll see you in the supreme court about the travel ban 2.0. late yesterday they filed three different petitions but want to stop the lower courts from stopping the travel ban. they feel confident about a win. the supreme court now is fully staffed. wouldn't be surprised to get a 5-4 decision. i want to read something that came from the dissent of one of the judges in the lower courts that ruled against the ban.

the supreme court will shudder at the adoption of the new rules with no limits and bounds majority's criticism of a candidate's statement into a constitutional violation referring to the fact instead of ruling on the text of the ban they looked at what the president said during the campaign and said basically this is all about religious discrimination. >> it's why it's important to have a reasonable court weigh in here. whatever you think of the travel ban, whatever you think of donald trump, whatever you think of his campaign statements, setting a precedent that the text of an executive order is less important than what some judges believe the intent of a candidate is is a horrible precedent that could negatively affect all sorts of law making. this is a legitimate discussion to have. it needs to be had in a reasonable sense and not because a judge in hawaii thinks that feelings might be hurt from a travel ban or

ridiculous reasons we've had in holding up this ban. >> shannon: one of the judges in ruling against the travel ban 2.0 said the president had no demonstrable facts about the specifics that came from the countries named in the travel ban. we know the initial seven countries came from a codfication that came from the obama administration and the ones who picked these seven countries as being the most dangerous. >> that's right. they picked them in terms of being breeding spots for terrorism in the world. the question was -- i think this is what mollie was just talking about -- whether or not you take into account the fact that the president had discussed banning muslims from entering the country during the campaign. we know that even top aides to president trump said that they were looking for ways to avoid this kind of judicial review by not saying that they were after a muslim ban but in effect making such a ban. that's what the courts are really hung up on, shannon. >> shannon: we'll wait for

action from the justices. juan and mollie, good to see you both. >> bill: nba finals between the cavs and warriors. good night for golden state as well. >> goes right. curry the rebound. curry deep three. pops it in. >> bill: he will crush you. curry 28 points for him. durant newly added this year 38 points for him. 113-91 final. game one goes to golden state. game two is on sunday night between cleveland and golden state. do you have a horse in this race? >> shannon: i don't. the high kick by steph curry. he does it all. >> bill: become an ohio guy, i shade toward lebron. lebron waited in the tunnel for all of his teammates to come up and gave them all a high five to make sure their heads are in the game for game two.

the best teams from both conferences going at it. >> shannon: we're all tied up in the stanley cup final. president trump holding off on a pledge to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. how that is playing out with america's closest ally in the middle east. we'll talk to mike huckabee in our next hour in "america's newsroom" and there is also this. >> this was full nationalist america first, damn the rest of the world. >> mad libs for conservatives. >> this will be the day the united states resigned as the leader of the free world. >> bill: the mainstream media went off on this decision yesterday getting out of the paris deal. it is not just television, either. check this. this is a magazine cover in germany depicting president trump bringing on the apocalypse. the end of the world as we know it the magazine says. bernie goldberg on the media's doomsday coverage straight ahead.

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to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov >> on a sunny day in the rose garden what could be defined and construed as a dark speech. >> one of the most bleak depictions of america's role in the world as environmental partners. >> this was full nationalist america first, damn the rest of the world president trump. >> it was almost like mad libs for conservatives, the speech. >> it will be the united states resigned as the leader of the free world. it is not short of that. >> bill: well, no shortage of opinion on the media from this climate decision. bernie goldberg joins me now. fridays with bernie. good to have you back, my friend. good morning to you. we did not know what the president would decide.

but once the words came out of his mouth, the reaction was almost predictable. i was listening to so much. it almost gave you the impression, bernie, that there was no other side to this debate other than trump is wrong and everybody else is right. how did you hear it? >> full disclosure right off the bat. full disclosure. i care about climate change as much as the next guy as long as the next guy isn't al gore. i want to get that straight, okay? you're absolutely right. the reaction was totally and completely predictable. that's because for the liberal elites in this country whether they're in the media or out of the media, this isn't just about science to them. this is about religion. climate change is their one true religion. when you challenge anybody's religion there will be blowback. they'll get angry, that's what we're seeing. if the green elites are in a

tizzy over this, it's no surprise that the media elites will be in a tizzy over this. when you get a headline like the "new york daily news" which says trump to world, drop dead. that's a less sophisticated version of what you are getting in mainstream newspapers across america today. >> bill: not just america, around the world. we found this in germany on the cover. trump blowing on the world or i don't know what the depiction is. i know what the words mean. end of the world as we know it. i don't know what you say to germans on that. here at weather.com on the website that so many americans go to every day. there was a litany of doomsday predictions. by the way partially owned by nbc universal. maybe the scientists are right. i look at my app from last weekend, they can't tell me what the weather will be like in three days. how do we know what it will be like in 13 years or 113 years?

address that. i don't know what your view is on that. >> it's an absolute fact that the further out you go, the less difficult it is to predict what is going to happen. nobody would dispute that. yet they are predicting what is going to happen 50 and 100 years from now. i read a lot of this stuff preparing for today, bill, a lot. i ought to get hazard pay for all the stuff i read. >> bill: what did you conclude? >> that there is more moral outrage over this about something that may happen way down the road than there is about other things happening today. there is more moral outrage over climate change and trump's decision to withdraw from the paris accord than there is over fatherlessness in america. in black america over 70% of kids are born without a father in their lives. that causes immediate damage.

when barack obama, who the same media slobbered over, when he said that isis was the jv team, that cavalier description of an immediate threat didn't generate the moral outrage that president trump's decision generated. and it comes back to the same thing. that when it's a matter of religion, you don't challenge the faith. you were right about another point. you said there is only one side of the story in the mass mainstream media. that's on any issue there is an accepted position, whether it's about race or gender or climate change. and if you deviate from that position, you are the heretic and why we're seeing so many people in the media taking the exact same position over this issue. >> bill: just want a quick quote from your column this week. so much news coverage about the

president has been negative because journalists don't agree with his policies and a lot don't like them. you think it's personal and you've expressed that. we'll see if that changes in time. >> shannon: gop senators sending mixed messages whether a repeal and replace bill will get done this year for obamacare. mitch mcconnell, can the republicans get it together?

>> shannon: senators are sending mixed messages about whether they'll get healthcare reform done. some say don't count on it moving forward next week. others say we're busy drafting it.

others say it might not happen this year. dr. marc siegel joins us now. happy friday, good to see you. the latest thing we have senator burr who chairs the intelligence committee very busy with that. may not happen this year with a huge campaign promise. >> i'm worried to see that out of senator burr who is very conservative. we thought the house tilted the bill a little bit to the conservative side and now the senate would have to try to move it more to the moderate side. if they lose conservatives they have a problem with it. maybe they should consider how to bring democrats in. what could they do to get democrats interested in this bill? >> shannon: there are sticking in there is bipartisan concern about like the medicaid expansion. >> i would consider keeping that. it's in 32 states which have 20 republican senators. it is hard to take away an entitlement once it's been given. i would reform it and put in

bridges to jobs program and premium buy-in. they've done it in indiana. i would consider trying to do that into this bill. that's one thing. >> shannon: they will have to work on building coalitions to get something to 51 including maybe using the vice president's vote as a tiebreaker. i want to ask you about the new poll, interesting story out of california. i thought it was fascinating. people say we want universal healthcare and everybody to be covered. then when you ask further questions about okay, are you okay with us raising taxes to pay for it? i don't know if people think stuff is free. the number drops drastically when people say there will be a price tag? >> 250%. isn't that ironic? we want it. anything we want but who will pay for it? it looks like the california nurses association is saying that over $100 billion will have to come out of taxes. what kind of taxes? sales tax. you don't think they have enough sales tax in california? another 2.3% big business will have to play. $96 billion up front on gross

profits. that will be a job killer. if you put single payer into california, 150 billion dollars in tied up with employer based insurance now, as far as i know employers use that as an incentive to give people jobs. i can't pay you that much but i'll give you your health insurance. people love that. employers take a tax deduction since the 1950s on that. single payer erodes that. everybody but 3 million are covered now. the 3 million people most are illegals and that will be a huge burden. taxpayer pays. >> shannon: one of the first things i learned in business classes is there is no free lunch. >> bill: next hour a big hour coming up. a former f.b.i. director james comey testifies in public.

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>> shannon: former f.b.i. director james comey marking his calendar, an important date for a public appearance on capitol hill. his first public statements and testimony since he was fired last month. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm shannon bream. good to see you. happy friday. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer, good morning, everybody. that testimony before the senate intelligence committee will likely center on the russian investigation and interactions with president trump before he was terminated. senior counsel to the president kellyanne conway saying that comey's testimony could clear up a lot of misconceptions. >> when director comey goes to testify, i think that will be a very clarifying moment.

i would repeat in his most recent sworn testimony had to be corrected almost immediately. he was off by hundreds of thousands in his projected calculation. but it is more important to have somebody testify under oath than to have his friends and his former colleagues out there speaking to the media not under oath. >> bill: that from earlier today. catherine herridge on this today. good morning. how is the white house handling the questions about the russia matter? >> two sources close to the matter tell fox news the special team will be set up within the white house to focus on the russia probe so the special counsel investigation and questions that arise there that investigation do not derail the administration's policy objectives. it includes lawyers, re specialists to handle questions from the media and the investigators as the special counsel takes over the f.b.i. case into russia's meddling in the 2016 election and whether there was coordination with the trump campaign team. this morning kellyanne conway explained their thinking. >> it will help for people to

realize that since there is a special counsel now, some questions should be referred to mr. mueller and, of course, other questions should be referred to the outside counsel. that's the appropriate chain of command here. >> this week the white house began referring calls and questions on comey to the outside counsel. >> bill: a lot of talk about the following point with his testimony next week, could the white house block it in the end before it happens? >> legal experts say the wild card here is whether the trump white house takes the unusual step of invoking executive privilege to block or limit testimony about the president's conversations with fired f.b.i. director james comey. they say the administration may be in a weak position because mr. trump has been so public about the russia case from his tweets to this termination letter for comey where the president cited their private discussions. >> i think having the president weigh in on a blow by blow every time there is a decision about whether or not a witness gets called or what a witness says is an unusual way to

handle it. from an attorney perspective there is a little indigestion with his legal team about this approach. >> expectation is there will be more relevant congressional testimony before thursday's hearing with comey focusing on intelligence collection and whether lines were crossed by the obama administration during last year's election cycle. >> bill: big week. she is laying the foundation in washington shannon has more. >> shannon: chris wallace, the anchor of fox news sunday is joining us. busy time in washington good to see you. a lot of stories. let's start with the looking forward to the comey testimony on thursday. there has been a lot made of his coordination with special counsel, robert mueller, as to what he can and can't talk about before he goes before the senate. part of it is public and then it goes into closed session. will smoking guns and anything interesting on thursday? >> this is one of these moments

if you've been around washington a while that we've seen where you are in a huge controversy. i won't call it a scandal. a huge controversy. one of the key figures gets up in public under oath taking the oath and very dramatic. and we've seen it before in other cases. we'll see it with james comey. my guess is he will be very cautious about what he can say about the actual investigation. that's a matter of law enforcement. my guess is he will be much less cautious about his conversations with president trump and there has been a lot of leaking clearly either from comey or people close to him about some of those conversations, a dinner where supposedly the president asked him for a pledge of loyalty. and that fateful conversation in mid-february when the president -- remember, he asked everybody else to get out of the room including the vice president, including the attorney general to meet alone with comey. and according to again leaks

from the comey side, apparently asked comey to go easy on michael flynn who had just been fired as the national security advisor. it is one thing to read it in the paper or to read a quote. it is a very different thing when james comey is testifying about that in public and my guess he will testify about that part in public before he speaks behind closed doors in a classified hearing. >> shannon: the f.b.i. thus far has declined to turn over the memos if they do exist. it will be from his mouth. don't you anticipate there will be gop senators who will say if it was such an egregious request made to you why did you testify there wasn't anybody ham perg the investigation or saying something in january? >> i'm sure you can see from what catherine just reported the white house is going into a war footing here. they realize it's a political war. a war for the future of the trump presidency and by setting up a war room and lawyers and

all of that, they are going to be very aggressive. i think you'll hear that from some of the republican senators. i think in fairness, if you look back what he said in the hearing. he was asked specifically whether or not he had ever been asked by the justice department to go easy or to impede or pull back the investigation. not about the president. and my guess is that will be a fine point of distinction there. as far as why he didn't resign, i suppose part of the argument might be -- i am not going to presume to know what he will say. there might have been an effort to try to derail this investigation and by resigning he would only be enhancing or enabling that. >> shannon: let's talk about the other hot story. the reaction to the president deciding to withdraw from the paris climate deal. here is a little reaction from our colleague, dr. charles krauthammer on that topic. >> if this is such a popular,

consensus issue. when the democrats had the white house when obama concluded this why didn't he go to the senate? we have a constitution. there is a reason why we have provisions because you want treaties to have substance and permanence. so you go to the senate to get a consensus of the country, expressed by a 2/3 majority rather than an executive agreement. >> shannon: we noted, too, the tweet that came the from former president clinton he called it a treaty. it's easy come, easy go if it's an executive order or piece of paper. >> i don't know that i would agree with charles the fact that it wasn't submitted as a treaty and obviously there is a question about executive actions means it wasn't popular. it takes a super majority of 67 votes to pass a treaty and clearly with republican opposition, political opposition that was never a way, the democrats didn't have that kind of support and have

that support from enough republicans to pass it. that doesn't mean there isn't broad support. the public opinion polls would indicate there is a lot of belief and support for climate change restrictions and for the paris accord. not 67% but around 60%. >> shannon: chris wallace. thank you for your time. we want to let people know about the perfect guests you have this weekend to talk about this. tune in to fax news sunday. chris will talk about the climate change deal. the paris climate accord with epa administrator scott pruitt. of course, you can check your local listings for a sunday morning air time as well. >> bill: pruitt has been a busy man. you know when there are big moments and not. this is a big moment. it will send the story further along or could end it. we'll see together. in the meantime, shannon. this from europe. british police releasing new images as they track the final days of the planning for the

manchester killer. these pictures show abedi with a blue suitcase, which hasn't been located yet. he is also spotted walking around an area of manchester four days before the attack. investigators asking anyone who saw him during that time come forward they want to speak with you. meanwhile prince william showing his support for manchester meeting today with first responders. there is a big concert with numerous stars planned for sunday to help the city and the country move forward. nine minutes past the hour. >> shannon: back to another top story of the day. the trump administration making good on a promise to take the travel ban fight all the way to the supreme court. so what will it take to get the highest court in the land on board with either side. >> bill: the u.s. embassy in israel will stay put for now. governor mike huckabee has been in israel many times. he is here to talk about that delaying the move to jerusalem coming up. >> shannon: former f.b.i. chief

robert mueller taking the reins of the investigation into russia. where does that leave congress? lindsey graham joins us to explain his concern about potential conflicts between mueller and comey. first here is kellyanne conway, senior counselor to the president. >> that's the appropriate chain of command here. people get $100 every time they say russia. it's all speculative. 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. buttrust angie's list to help., [ barks ] visit angieslist.com today.

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raiding a home in deer born, michigan. a matter of national security. this is near detroit. agents on the scene for several hours along with law enforcement from multiple agencies. the f.b.i. saying there was no threat to the public and involved an incident that occurred out of state. so that's confusing. more details expected to be released later today on that. >> shannon: the trump administration taking its fight over the stalled travel ban 2.0 to the supreme court. the department of justice asking the high court to let the revised version of the ban take effect. vice president pence saying he is sure the justices will rule in the president's favor. >> we remain very confident that when this matter reaches the supreme court of the united states they'll recognize the right of the president in the constitution and in the statutes of this country to control immigration in a way that puts the security of our country first. >> shannon: jordan sekulow is a familiar face to us here at fox

news. good to see you. we have three different petitions. we won't get too far in the weeds of those. this is in the supreme court's court. i want to read about the judge who ruled against him in one of the lower courts and joined by several other judges said about this thing. instead of looking at the text they considered what the president had said on the campaign trails and what others connected to the president have said. he said this, the order speaks with vague words of national security but in context drips with religious intolerance, an mouse and discrimination. your response. >> this is key to how the court will decide really on the merits of this case. i do believe the supreme court doesn't have to take any case. when it comes to presidential power it is likely it will. that bigger part of this case will probably be heard in the fall. sometime october. but the question will be did these statements by campaign associates, by president trump on the campaign trail as a politician before serving in

the government, before governing and issuing this executive order have anything to do with the actual text. when you look at supreme court precedent unlike the lower courts, the supreme court precedent is clear you don't look behind the facial challenge. the text of the executive order. even these judges that ruled against this executive order found it unconstitutional admitted on its face it is constitutional. you had lawyers in court opposed to this saying if it wasn't donald trump that put it through they would hold it constitutional and not challenging it in court. the big question, shannon, will be the immediate question will be the stay. we have two stays requested here on the injunctions that have gone into place. one in the ninth, one in the fourth. you could be individual justices. kennedy and roberts or five justices referred to the entire court and have the order go

into effect in hours from now. there is no timeline for how quickly that stay can happen. it can be denied as well. that doesn't mean the trump administration has lost. >> shannon: essentially as you noted they've asked for a full hearing on the merits of the case. that would take a long time and a long ways down the road but they want those immediate requests to lift the ban so that the travel ban itself could move forward. one of the dissenting judges in the case out of the fourth circuit said the supreme court will shudder at the majority's adoption of the new rules with no limits or bounds. looking at the outside statements. one that transforms the criticisms of a various candidates statements into a constitutional violation. we've covered a lot of cases recently at the supreme court. they've ruled against the use of executive power many times including president obama. why do you think this is a different case? because it's immigration and the makeup of the court is

different? what do you anticipate? >> you have strong makeup of the court for the president. it could be a 5-4 situation. that being said sometimes we're surprised in these cases because you not only have the constitutional power of the president when it comes to national security, which the court has also recognized this broad power but you have statutory power. you have congress that has delegated power to the president to be able to act in the immigration and nationality act for many decades. to be able to step in when necessary, when he deems necessary to ban people who are not u.s. citizens from entering the country. on the refugee issue. these are pauses. get things together and specific the countries on refugees. it is not forever. so he is acting what we like to call the pinnacle of presidential power when issuing an executive order. it is not a gray area. he has constitutional power and statutory grant of authority by

congress. again the courts recognize that but went to the campaign statements. there is not a lot of good precedent for the aclu in the states that have challenged president trump on this executive order that that will hold up at the supreme court. that would be something new for the court to look behind the text of an executive order and go to what's made on a campaign trail. it sets a dangerous precedent. politics is politics. governing is something different when you are in office and you can't -- i don't think you should be ham strung by taking action because of what was said or not said on the campaign trail. >> shannon: it is interesting years ago before he was a justice or judge, now justice gorsuch wrote a piece talking about how the left often uses the court to accomplish things they can't be done otherwise. this could tie up the travel ban for years. we will watch and wait for action from the high court. jordan sekulow, thank you very much. >> bill: 19 minutes past the hour. as you can imagine there was lot of reaction at home and around the world to president

trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate deal. the left has gone into overdrive. the world in a panic mode over this. governor mike huckabee has been watching and listening to all of that and he will join us with his reaction live in a couple minutes here, shannon. >> shannon: one state taking on big drug companies accusing them of knowingly fueling the opioid epidemic. the man behind that lawsuit joins us next. >> we will stop the drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth and we'll expand treatment for those who have become so badly addicted. these days families want to be connected 24/7.

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pouring into our country. it has become a crippling problem throughout the united states. drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death in our country and opioid overdose deaths -- >> the state of ohio has filed a lawsuit saying pharmaceutical companies have mislead doctors and patients about the power of this medication. mike dewine is with me now. go ahead and make your case. the burden of proof is on the state. would you say to these companies about how you believe the evidence points to them, sir. >> this is not a decision, as you know, that we would have made lightly. we looked at this and all the evidence. we think the evidence is going to clearly show that for an extended period of time

beginning in the late 1990s these major drug companies tried to change the culture of prescribing. they basically were spending millions and millions of dollars, talking primarily to primary care physicians. they didn't target the specialists but those who you and i would go see in our local community. they told them the drugs were not very addictive. historically these opioids, pain pills, are used for end of life. someone has cancer to alleviate their pain. or they are used just one or two after something has happened, an operation or an accident. they were never used really for this long period of time. so the drug companies looked at this and they start ed to try

to change the culture. they set up this machine. the machine unfortunately is still going and been going for about two decades now. what they have been doing -- >> bill: based on your case, sir, do you believe they were doing it out of ignorance or do you believe it was an act of profit? >> no, we think the evidence is going to show that they knew they were misleading. one example would be if you look -- when you open up your prescription there is a little fine print in there and it goes on and on and hardly anybody ever reads it. in that fine print they were much more honest about acknowledging the dangers. bust -- but when you looked at the brochures put out to doctors it was a very different story. and -- very sophisticated how they did this. >> bill: understand the case you are making here. what i don't understand is why

ohio? now, here are the numbers, in 2015 opioid deaths 3,310. that's in ohio. from 2014 to 2015 the number increased more than 21%. now, i know new hampshire was in the spotlight during the election. what's going on in your state that has led to this epidemic? >> this really started with a huge spike in prescribing of pain meds. we saw it first really in southern ohio in many of our appalachian counties. today it has spread throughout the entire state. what many times happens is people go from the pain meds to the heroin and to the fentanyl. we think 80% of people who are on heroin started with pain meds. i'm not sure that i can answer exactly why this is happening in the state of ohio but i can tell you it is very, very

serious and what is happening is our children's services are overwhelmed. half the kids in foster care today in ohio is because one or both parents are addicts. we see it manifested in jails that are just overcrowded and become detox centers. >> bill: we'll follow the legal case as it winds its way through. mississippi still waiting on an answer for a case in that state as well. now ohio. we'll see what happens. sir, thank you for your time. mike dewine the a.g. there from dayton, ohio today. >> shannon: james comey going public facing senators on capitol hill next week. lindsey graham says it's time for comey to answer some tough questions and he is meeting with the president later today and will join us in minutes. >> bill: a new invention headed for the battlefield. the liquid that can stop bullets cold and protect our

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decision earlier today on "fox & friends" live from the white house. >> yesterday president trump made it very clear that we're withdrawing from the paris accord. we're putting the american worker, the american economy first. but you also heard him leave the door open to renegotiating a better arrangement to maybe reentering the paris accord under new terms and new conditions. >> bill: that from earlier today. mike huckabee with us now. good morning to you. there has been so much reaction. we're trying to take it all in as we go along. the new french president macron said it's time to make the planet great again. you've been monitoring the reaction. what do you take from all this right now? >> the most interesting thing, bill, is that this overheated rhetoric from the left is so beyond the pale that frankly i think they've contributed more to global warming than the co2

emissions over the past 50 years. you would think that donald trump had ordered every oil tanker in the world to come and dump oil on the shores of the u.s. and light it on fire. the point is this whole deal might have in its best form reduced the temperature by 0.2° over the next century. this was, to quote hillary clinton, a nothing burger to begin with. it would have hurt poor people in america. the very people we're supposed to be helping. if you raise electricity rates by 20% elon musk and bill gates can pay for it. all the private corporations like apple can afford it. you know who can't afford it? the family who barely puts groceries on the table. 20% increase in electricity. if they lose a job, where do they get the money to take their kids to school? this is what is being lost in

this. this was a redistribution of wealth from the u.s. to underdeveloped countries around the rest of the world. this was a decision donald trump made to protect americans rather than to protect people for whom we have no immediate responsibility. >> bill: let me play this quick comment from mark thiessen. he was serving in washington when the senate got the vote on a similar deal some 20 years ago. here is what he said about that. >> i served in the bush administration when george w. bush withdrew from the kyoto treaty on global warning. i'm experiencing all the same outrage and the world is coming to an end and all the rest of it. you know what happened when george w. bush pulled out of the treaty? in the next 14 years we reduced our emissions from 18%. >> kyoto went for a vote. this didn't go to congress. in memory serves the vote of

kyoto was 95 to 0. not a single senator thought it was a good idea then. i have one more topic. >> the reason it was a bad deal in part was because president obama never submitted it to the senate. he had so little confidence that it would be approved and popular he did it unilaterally committing $3 billion of unappropriated money from the u.s. to this whole thing. if it's that great a deal then put it before the senate, let them vote on it. that has never happened. i'm glad the president did what he did. >> bill: you were in israel recently. during the campaign president trump said he would move the capital from tel aviv and jerusalem. it will not happen for now, perhaps forever. are you okay with that? >> no i'm not. i think the president should keep that campaign promise. he is saying it's a bargaining chip in the negotiation and it will happen, not a matter of if but when. i think frankly he should have done it right off the bat when he was sworn in. if not he should have done it

when he was in jerusalem, perfect opportunity. a missed opportunity. i was there, heard the speech at the israel museum. was sitting there in the audience waiting for him to say it. i sat there with the mayor of jerusalem and others all hoping for it. >> bill: why do you think he held off now? you mentioned possible negotiations but you know how difficult that's been over history. >> it's not going to make a big change in it. the pressure was a lot of those arab nations will be angry if he does that. they'll be angry anyway. that won't change. it is not only a campaign promise, it is the right thing to do to recognize jerusalem as the rightful capital. the capital of the jewish state. the jewish people are the only people who have ever claimed jerusalem as a capital in 3800 years. and frankly, it's one way of saying to the world, we truly are an ally of israel. so i'm disappointed the president didn't do it.

i hope that he doesn't let another six months go by and do this same waiver that has been going on for 22 years since 1995. >> bill: every six for your tim. 3 1/2 years to see if that changes or not. mike huckabee in little rock. congratulations on your new grandson. enjoy, enjoy. more coming up. >> shannon: there is a new spelling bee champ. here is the word that clinched it. >> she knows what it means. >> bill: she is so chill. 12-year-old from fresno california won the 90th spelling bee with the word marocain. the sixth grader is the first solo champion after three years straight of having ties. she wins $40,000 in cash and

prizes. yeah, fantastic. >> bill: you know why dad is so family being in the family room night after night. >> shannon: that's a huge accomplishment. a lot of pressure for a young kid, too. congratulations. >> bill: what does it mean? >> shannon: i'll get back to you, tbd. >> bill: f.b.i.'s russia probe headed by special counsel. some lawmakers have some concerns. senator lindsey graham is one of them. he meets with in the today and he will explain his concerns live from d.c. >> shannon: this is something you never want to see if you're sitting on a plane. flames shooting out from an engine. why do i have to keep reading these scary plane stories? take the train. >> a huge thud and continual thud and the engine was spewing fire and you could smell smoke in the cabin. are allergies holding you back?

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catches fire mid flight. video taken from inside the plane here. show you the flames shooting from one of the engines. scary experience for those on board. i bet, huh? here is one of them. >> i just saw this fire coming out of the wing of the airplane. and then it was smelling really bad like something was burning. it was scary. it was the smell of smoke that was the most scary. >> i looked at him and he looked at me and he just -- we're like hum. >> bill: the fire caused by a bird strike after take-off on the engine. the plane landed in chicago. 174 people on board were placed on another flight and all okay. marocain is silk fabric and ray onor a combination of these fibers. >> shannon: it feels like a girl fashion thing. more importantly she knew how to spell it. i always love they use it in a sentence.

can you spell marocain. >> bill: the marocain in my suit is most excellent. >> shannon: lindsey graham set to meet with the president today as james comey testifies next week. one thing he wants to know is why he never told congress -- senator graham is a member of the senate armed services and judiciary committee joins us now. i want to explain the email thing. apparently last year there were emails that surfaced that allegedly showed then debbie waser man schultz have a conversation with a political officer saying loretta lynch will have this -- whether it was made up or not. at some point were you briefed about that email and was it used as any kind of basis by then f.b.i. director james comey to get involved in the investigation? >> one, i was not briefed about

the email. i don't even know if it exists. i just know what i read in the paper about the email and the reason that director comey jumped into the investigation in july of last year. but i do know this. i do know that the director briefed members of the house and the senate that the real reason he took over the investigation and decided to take the role of the attorney general was not because of the tarmac meeting between president clinton and loretta lynch but he was concerned that emails existed showing that the department of justice in a bad light and he felt like he needed to take over the investigation and tell america, you know, hillary clinton didn't do anything wrong but she did a lousy job managing the email system. so i don't know what the truth is. the f.b.i. called my office yesterday saying they wanted to brief me but here is my point. i don't know what role any

emails played, if any. i do know what the director said to members of the house and the senate. they're my friends and he never suggested that the emails were fake when he discussed the matters with members of the house and the senate. and now the press reports that these emails were fake all along, which i am very confused and very, very suspicious. >> shannon: okay. maybe that's a good way to be when you have questions. and next week is the senate intel committee will have questions for the former f.b.i. director. we've heard that obviously because there is special counsel involved he has had to clear mr. comey for testimony in areas that he may need to stay away from and talk about. do you think you'll get a lot of substance -- not you directly, but the senate will with this hearing next week or are you worried about what he can or can't say? >> the worst outcome.

that he talk about conversation he had with the president in the white house where the comey team is alleging that the president tried to basically intimidate or stop the investigation of general flynn. that he asked the f.b.i. director to stand down. all i know is that director comey was fired by the president and any time someone is fired, you have to realize that they are probably upset about it. i like director comey but the democrats wanted him to go at one time. president trump lost confidence in him. you have to realize the man is going to testify has just gotten fired and his team or people around him have been leaking allot of stuff. here is what i worry about. he will just focus on his conversation with the president and not answer any other questions because of the investigation. that would be a hit job on president trump and i hope this hearing doesn't become a hit job on president trump. i think director comey should

answer the question is donald trump under investigation? is he a target? a subject of an investigation regarding him colluding with the russians. i don't believe he is. there is a cloud over the presidency that needs to be removed if the facts justify it being removed. so i just hope it's not a one-sided discussion where he recounts a conversation with the president and he won't answer any other questions. i think the president of the united states deserves for the american people to know whether or not he is the subject of the investigation regarding colluding with the russians. the russians interfered with our election but i have seen no evidence of collusion between the trump team and president trump as an individual zero evidence he colluded with the russians. >> shannon: there is that track and also this now track about unmasking people within the obama administration making requests to have names unmasked. here is kellyanne conway talking about that earlier on fox. >> it is one of the real stories and a major story that

is going uncovered by the mainstream media. where is that on the papers today? the highest ranking officials in the obama administration have been subpoenaed? >> we're talking about the former c.i.a. director and susan rice and the u.n. ambassador samantha power. how concerned are you about that part of the story? >> i have reason to believe that a conversation i had was picked up with some foreign leader or some foreign person and somebody requested that my conversation be unmasked. i've been told that by people in the intelligence community. all i can say is there are 1950 collections on american citizens talking to people that were foreign agents being surveilled either by the c.i.a., f.b.i. or the n.s.a. here is the concern. did the people in the obama

administration listening in and politicizing of the intelligence gathering processes? are the 1950 collections on american citizens. how many of them involved presidential candidates, members of congress from either party and if these conversations were unmasked, who made the request? i want to know everything there is about unmasking, how it works and who requested unmasking of conversations between foreign people and american members of congress. >> shannon: so you believe you have information that suggests you were an unmasked target. >> i've got information to suggest that i was incidentally collected. i don't know if i was unmasked or not. i've sent a letter to the n.s.a., f.b.i., c.i.a. requesting any collection on lindsey graham. if you have reason to believe a member of congress is committing a crime you get a warrant to follow us around like you would any other citizen. i meet with foreign leaders all

the time. and i would be upset if any executive branch, agency listened in on my conversations because i'm in another branch of government. >> shannon: we have to leave it there. we'll be back with more news after this quick break.

>> bill: what started out as a chemistry experiment could keep our soldiers and marines safe in battle. a 21-year-old air force cadet produced a cake-like batter where it hardens to stop a bullet. it is fully funded by the military. >> we have some cool video to help explain exactly what air force academy cadet haley we're

and assistant professor ryan burke did it. while in a chemistry class she came up with an idea no not only stop a bullet but do so in a way more wider and dr. burke was skeptical. her idea is a concept called sheer thickening fluid. she poured water in corn starch. he almost broke a finger. an object will push in. at speed it's practically impossible. they combined the flewed with anti-ballistic materials. the ingredients are secret. mixed and spread on the front of this block stopped a 9 millimeter bullet. same goes for a 44 magnum. it stops it from penetrating. more research is being done right now at the air force civil engineer center in florida with a co-inventor who they work with. weir's ultimate goal is to lighten the load.

a full vest kit is 26 pounds. you replace this with the new material it could lighten things by 2/3. >> this is something that our competition doesn't have right now. and with this advantage our soldiers if they were -- this body armor will move faster, move farther, jump higher. >> she graduated last month heading to clemson on a full ride thanks to the air force and continues to florida to continue her work to help protect her fellow members of the military. >> bill: cool story. thank you for that today. >> shannon: new development in the president's travel ban. the white house taking its case to the supreme court. we have late-breaking details along with major progress for the president's agenda you have likely not heard about. isor for tech advice. with one phone call, i get products that suit my needs, and i get back to business. ♪

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>> bill: i guess we where marek kane over the weekend. >> jenna: were you a champion?

there's always time >> shannon: i feel like it's going to happen. >> bill: have an awesome weekend. have a great weekend at home, everybody. "happening now" starts right no now. >> with that, president trump taking his case to the highest court in the land, now asking the supreme court to reverse ruling by two lower courts that blocked his temporary ban on travel from six muslim majority countries. this breaking on friday. we made it, it is a week and that's upon us. two more hours of news coming up. welcome to "happening now." i'm a linden for jon scott. >> heather: i'm heather childers and for jenna lee. the news of the administration, it comes on the heels of president trump's decision to