>> all expense paid trip including five terrific days at the hilton aruba caribbean resort. >> we'll give you all the details during the break. >> thank you so much. >> bill: good morning. everyone. this must be the most critical week in washington since donald trump won the white house and the final day of decisions at the u.s. supreme court. we await two big opinions. one on religious freedoms, one on border security and possibly on the travel ban that has yet to be resolved. a brand-new week begins now. >> shannon: it's going to be busy. i'm shannon bream. the supreme court justices will release the final rulings at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. we could find out whether the judges will take action on president trump's travel ban. >> bill: growing speculation on the possible retirement of the court's most reliable swing vote justice anthony kennedy.

kellyanne conway talked about president trump. >> the president made very clear at any time when he gets to a federal appointment at the supreme court level or district court, the circuit court, that he will appoint people -- nominate people who have fidelity to the constitution. don't just legislate from the bench. >> shannon: the margin for error for healthcare is shrinking. five gop senators say they can't support the current bill. putting the vote before july 4 in jeopardy. >> bill: mike emanuel watches the battle on the senate side but we begin with dug mcelway. the possible ruling on the travel. what can we report? >> the last day of the supreme court session. not only does that decision wait but also the fate of justice anthony kennedy. many presume could be potentially retiring today.

more on that. first the travel ban. the doj petitioned the high court asking the injunction on the travel ban be lifted. that following two lower court decisions the fourth circuit court of appeals in richmond, virginia, which ruled the executive order was unconstitutional on religious grounds. and the ninth circuit court of appeals ruled that the immigration law violated the administration's reasoning and it needed a stronger national security request to make their argument. the court has another important legal decision today. it's expected the rule on a major church/state separation case, missouri state that prohibits the use of taxpayer money for church-affiliated school involving the use of a state funding for a rubberized playground surface which this religious school asked for and was denied by the state. it has potential for 39 states

that barred direct taxpayer fund than to church-affiliated school. >> bill: rumors about justice anthony kennedy. what are you hearing there? >> the best argument for his potential requirement comes from the chairman of the senate judicialary committee charles grassley who said earlier this spring he expected to see a retirement from the supreme court this summer. he would have had to have been given a heads-up. the best argument against his retirement occurred perhaps this weekend when he had a reunion of his law clerks and made no mention of any potential retirement according to people who were there. also another argument against his retirement is that he has already hired his law clerks for the 2018 term. it sounds to me that if anybody was considering retirement they would not make that move. that's a very strong indication that retirement is programs not imminent. >> bill: thank you, doug

mcelway on the steps of the supreme court. >> shannon: capitol hill days before the end of the month deadline five gop senators are withholding their vote. it is setting up negotiations behind the seat. tracking it all mike emanuel live on capitol hill. good morning, mike. where do we stand heading into this critical week? >> republican leaders are trying to address the concerns of their members as a number of senators are considering how they'll vote. >> right now i'm undecided. there are things in this bill which adversely affect my state. a couple of the things i'm concerned about. if those can be addressed i will. if they can't be addressed, i won't. >> gop leaders are waiting for the congressional budget office to weigh in on the cost an impact of the bill. we could get that information today. a member of the republican leadership team talked about republican critics of this measure. >> every one of them is

committed to a fundamental change away from obamacare and central government control and into local control and patients making decisions. we're going to continue to work with each of them through the process. every one of them has very good points that they're making. i want to work with all of them. >> the buzz on capitol hill is what kind of concessions mitch mcconnell could make to get conservatives and moderates on board. >> shannon: what are democrats saying about the odds of getting this bill passed in the senate. >> democrats don't seem to underestimate the power of the majority leader mitch mcconnell to get this done. democratic leader chuck schumer said the odds of them passing this bill are 50/50 at best. he called the bill devastating and says it's what making it so hard to pass. another top democrat says his side won't support it. >> no, not as written. i will tell you two things that were omitted from your interview with secretary price. i asked him 10 days ago in a hearing before committee have

you seen the republican plan and part of the discussion? he said no, i haven't seen it at all. this is the man responsible for implementing it. >> the question of whether gop leaders force a vote this week or decide to allow more time to see if they can get all their members or just about all of them on board. >> shannon: all right. a lot of work to do there on the hill. mike emanuel checking in for us. >> bill: want to bring in daniel halper from the washington free beacon. >> great to be here. >> bill: as you explained there is a real urgency among leadership. what are you hearing about that? >> i think the senate leadership on the republican side understands the faster they can get a vote on this the greatly likelihood they have of passing. if it drags out and takes a long time the democrats are not going to cross the aisle. they've made that very clear. there is no democratic support for this bill. republican opposition might

grow, they fear. and there might be a rallying cry and constituents who express concerns and in some ways when obamacare was passed, the healthcare town halls had a lot of democrat members of congress had to return to and get berated by constituents. there is a fear that will happen on the republican side. that's why mitch mcconnell wants to do it as soon as possible. there is opposition. >> bill: we heard some of it from republicans over the weekend. ron johnson from "meet the press" on sunday morning seems hesitant to go forward this week. >> i don't have the feedback from constituents who will not have had enough time to review the senate bill. we should not be voting on this next week. we should have started the process reaching out to the democrats, pointing out the fact obamacare didn't work. >> bill: let's see how he moves throughout the week and what he says. president trump tweeted this. democrats become nothing but

obstructionists. all they do is delay and complain. they own obamacare. with that as a background, can republicans afford not to vote on this? >> i think the biggest indicator will be the cbo score. if it's a good, decent cbo score i think it will make it harder for republicans to vote against it. if it's bad and devastating that might be the end of the bill and require more time to change. that moment over the next couple of days whenever that cbo score is dropped will be the big moment going forward for this week determining the pathway. ron johnson, if you read between the lines does sound like he could support something. there are only two republicans so far mike lee i count as one and rand paul who sound like they will not support this bill under any circumstances. the rest seem like they're gettable. according to susan collins, senator from maine. seven to eight senators have reservations about the bill.

already republican leadership has to contend with 12 to 13 republican senators who are on the fence or against it. so it's a lot -- it's a big haul for mitch mcconnell to do but he is good at rallying his party. >> bill: he can herd the cats, you're right about that. daniel halper there live out of aspen, colorado. going back to the u.s. supreme court. that was your post. today could be a big day. >> shannon: it is fun to be there on the last day with all the big cases coming in. they didn't have a lot of landmark cases. they were 4-4. they didn't lot of big cases of consequence. >> bill: you're okay with sitting there. >> shannon: the justices or bill hemmer? what kind of choice is that? a top democrat is criticizing former president obama's

handling of russia's meddling in the presidential election. >> he should have spoken out to the american people saying this is what russia was doing. >> shannon: should he have raised red flags before the election? we'll debate that. >> bill: also fox news alert now chairman joint chiefs of staff on the ground in afghanistan. got this word an hour ago. tell you about the new military options being weighed in that war. >> shannon: and hanging out in a whole different way at six flags. a teenager dangling from an amusement park ride and a good samaritans who came to her rescue. amazing. >> before it could cause damage to you -- it is better to suffer a minor injury to save someone from a serious injury.

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>> shannon: there is a report that russia is calling for its u.s. ambassador to return home as scrutiny continues to mount here in the u.s. he has been under investigation. >> obama knew about russia a long time before the election and he did nothing about it. nobody wants to talk about that. i hardly see it.

it's an amazing thing to me. in other words, the question is if he had the information, why didn't he do something about it? >> bill: president trump calling out former president obama and taking to twitter doing the same. he said this. the reason that president obama did nothing about russia after being notified by the cia of meddling is that he expected clinton would win. this all after a report says the obama administration sat on information that it had prior to the election. why was that? marie harf, good morning to you. you have your work cut out for you. go ahead and defend the administration previously as to why you don't talk more about this >> there was a lot of debate. the administration and publicly. if you remember there were a lot of press reports last june, last july, last august. this wasn't a secret. we were all talking about russian meddling. there were some people in our administration who thought if we did respond more aggressively before the election the russians would respond and try to tamper with the votes. so we did not want to be seen

at partisan. we wanted the make sure that we protected the integrity of our voting system here in the u.s. >> bill: i can see how it was a really sensitive matter. as we look back at this in hindsight adam schiff the democrat said this on cnn. listen. >> i think the administration needed to call out russia earlier and needed to act to deter and punish russia earlier and i think it was a serious mistake. >> bill: now you have this source in the "washington post" on a big story that was put out on friday morning, the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend. i feel like we sort of choked. that's a quote, marie. >> i saw the quote. john kerry and others pushed for more aggressive action and it is an interesting debate to have. i probably fall on the side of doing it more and doing it earlier. here is what i'm focused on today. it's an interesting debate about history. what i'm most concerned about today is the reports i'm

getting the trump administration isn't taking the threat seriously and isn't doing things to prevent it from happening in the future. donald trump until i guess the tweets this weekend or today wouldn't even admit it was the russians who were doing the hacking. that's a problem. >> bill: we don't know what the story is but the hand of putin was involved and we have the word from president obama and jeh johnson when he testified to the following. the first week of october he put out the warning. >> i think the larger issue is it did not get the public attention that it should have, frankly, because the same day the press was focused on the release of the access hollywood video. that's what made our news below the fold news that day. >> bill: the problem with that comment. that was october 7th. the election was a full month away. there is nothing to prevent the administration from going back to the headlines and saying this is going on, you need to

know, and we're putting russia on notice. >> we privately put russia on not and publicly said. let me compare what president obama and candidate trump were doing at the at the same time. we were debating a tough problem about how to respond. people can disagree. at the same time candidate trump was standing on stage at a rally asking the russians to hack hillary clinton and asking them to release more of her emails. put it in the context of who is tough on russia and who is not. >> bill: he was not in the white house then and the administration kept quiet until early december. you had a two-month period that was an active decision not to go public. in the sensitivity because of the election perhaps that's the way we come down on this.

however, president obama did not think donald trump was going to win. >> none of us thought donald trump was going to win i don't think. >> bill: is that the overriding logic as to why he keep quiet? >> no. it was for two reasons. the first is we were concerned that russia would actually take more aggressive action before the election and try to tamper with votes. we did not want that to happen. second, we didn't want to appear to be acting in a partisan way. i want to bring it back to today and where we are. it's an interesting discussion. donald trump's administration is now in charge of making sure it doesn't happen again. i have heard from numerous people inside the administration that because trump will not admit it was the russians who actually did it last year, that they are not taking steps to prevent it from happening again. that should be of concern to all americans. >> bill: this is a fair question for sean spicer and others in the administration. put a fine point on this. you had the information and decided to sit on it.

now many look back at that in hindsight and say that was not the right call. give you the last word on that, marie. >> it shows how tough these calls really are and that we have never seen a foreign government interfere in an election in the way they did. >> bill: did not change any votes. >> that's right. it should be concerning of americans if all parties. we struggled to deal with that in realtime as it was happening. did we do everything perfectly? no. we have a responsibility now to prevent it from happening again. i think republicans and democrats can all agree on that and i worry that's not happening. >> bill: thank you for your time out of washington, d.c. we'll see you real soon. 20 past now. >> shannon: a horrifying scene left several dead, dozens missing. a boat carrying tourists sinks. where it happened and the search on now for survivors. >> bill: president trump weighing in a moment ago in the battle to pass a healthcare replacement plan in the senate. what he is now suggesting may happen if congress cannot come

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? i agree it's hard and hard without having the other party giving any cooperation. i don't like the crash and burn idea because i would like to see responsible policymakers try to improve the situation. i don't like the suggestion of throwing your hands up in the air. but i think that the republican senators are close but they don't have a lot of margin given they're doing it with only republican votes and we'll see how it plays out over the next week. >> shannon: they've had a bit of a straight jacket since they have to do the 51 votes. it ties their hands. if the senate can't get anything done, what other options are there other than letting it crash and burn? >> i don't think crash and burn is ever an option. the question that i've been wondering about is are you better off trying to get bipartisan legislation down the road and letting it pass with just republicans have their votes and they each come to the table and say the democrats and republicans had their say. if it fails the republicans say

okay, it didn't work with just us maybe we work with you. i think the former where it passes and the democrats are unhappy with the results and have incentive to come to the table is more likely to get to a bipartisan result in the future and it is essential to have a bipartisan result so both parties have some ownership of this. >> shannon: you know there are many on the left. democrats wrote and passed this thing without a vote from the gop they're placing some blame on the increased spikes and premiums on president trump saying he is making the market unstable. here is what secretary price moments ago on "fox & friends." >> this bill would provide market stability, make it so insurance companies can come back into the market and provide -- offer coverage for individuals. it would make it so there are insurance reforms so individuals have more choices. >> shannon: that was on fox news sunday yesterday. what do you make of that argument? >> i do not except the argument the problems in the obamacare exchanges are as a result of

president trump. it seems to me and we know this, there is a great piece tt "wall street journal" last week said costs were going out before and insurers were dropping out before. this is not a new development. secretary price is talking about the most complicated part of this. what will the impact be on insurance markets and premiums? the hope and design is to try to bring down premiums so you don't have to subsidize people as much. we need to see how it all plays together to see how it works. >> shannon: the gop said if they get this part of the bill passed there are other things coming down the road to sell across state lines. are you hopeful those things would happen and what impact would they have? >> absolutely. it's an essential part of the strategy. the third bucket or phase. i think there are certain things such as purchase across state lines that could get bipartisan support and could be put into a must-pass

legislation like s-chip reauthorization for children's health insurance. if you attach it to that maybe you can get it through and it would increase choices. the more you increase choices the more possibility is to bring down premiums. so you don't have to subsidize as month. >> shannon: democrats say it's a transfer of wealth to the wealthiest. we'll see how it plays out on the hill. >> bill: 28 past. our highest ranking general on the ground in afghanistan as the pentagon prepares a new strategy to combat the taliban, isis and other terrorists in that country. will more u.s. troops be heading overseas? we'll have a report moments away. >> shannon: we're waiting some potentially big news out of the supreme court. we could find out whether or not the justices will take up president trump's travel ban and two big opinions on border security and religious freedom. judge napolitano will help us

break it down. >> i think the travel ban is what a lot of us will be watching very closely for. the key part of that is the decision whether or not to allow the ban to go into effect or to keep it on hold as litigation continues in the supreme court.

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them to essentially reinstate the travel ban, four votes to say we'll eventually hear the case. might get one or the other today >> the issue is will the travel ban stay in effect while the case is being litigated that is what briefs are being filed and the justice is are reviewing the briefs and deliberating among themselves. or will the court not take the travel ban appeal from the justice department and simply say there are two trials going on, we don't usually get involved until there is a trial. there are three or four choices that the supreme court has. as you stated so nicely and correctly, the votes required for these choices differ. so i'm smiling because you're staring at your computer screen trying to find out what -- >> bill: we're watching the scotus blog. >> they were supposed to have announced it now. >> no action on the travel ban yet. >> shannon: it doesn't look

like there is anything on the orders list that would tell us yes or no on the travel ban. that doesn't mean at some point today we won't get information from the justices. all the briefs from both sides have been filed. we're waiting for a decision from them. maybe at 10:00 when we get the opinions, who knows? >> as we wait we speculate. >> shannon: about things like potential retirements. how much of a change do you think it would be to the court knowing the swing vote and on critical issues where justice kennedy has broken with conservatives. how much could it mean for him to step down and the president to have another bite putting a conservative justice on the court? >> it would make the debate over justice gorsuch seem like a picnic. if justice kennedy does announce his retirement it would be effective upon the confirmation of his successor. the president and senate would want the confirmation to occur before the first monday in

october before the supreme court convenes. a very hot, sticky and combative summer over the qualifications of the person that the president will nominate forreplace anthony kennedy. kennedy has been with the conservatives on many issues with the state versus the federal government but he has been decidedly with the liberals on social issues most prominently gay rights. this is something that would probably not be expected of a nominee to replace him. you never know. anthony kennedy was appointed by the most conservative president in the modern era, ronald reagan. he has become the classic swing vote. when he votes with the conservatives they win. when he votes with the liberals, they win. difficult to find a replacement for him. more likely to be close to gorsuch and thomas in the role of government in our lives to be nominated by the president.

>> shannon: as we await any hint from justice kennedy we have a couple opinions coming as well. we've been watching for months to see whether they would take this case and figured they would get a case that involved a christian business owner or religious business owner who says i don't want to participate in a same sex wedding ceremony. i'm happy to facilitate and find someone else to serve these couples but for me if it's part of my expression of artistic value i don't want to take part. now they'll hear the case in the fall. it's finally gotten there. >> this is also about the role of the state telling private businesses who you to operate their businesses. the state of colorado visited crippling penalties on this baker. so crippling it would be nearly impossible for the baker to stay in business because the baker declined the business of these folks. so to what extent can a religious view be used to refuse a customer when the customer is ready, willing and

able to pay for your service and otherwise you would take that customer? when can the civil rights of the customer be trumped by the religious views of the proprietor of the business? these are profound decisions that some people would say should be decided by the elected representatives but they're not going to be. they'll be decided by the supreme court and also a case we've watched as you know because justice gorsuch, when he was judge gorsuch, even when he was mr. gorsuch, wrote extensively on this issue on the side of religious liberty, not on the side of the state to interfere with it. >> shannon: he came to us from that region from that circuit out of colorado. it harkens back to much of the language and conversations we heard around hobby lobby about what a business can or can't do where religious freedom does or doesn't stop in these business relationships. we'll revisit some of those arguments. >> and we have a religious

liberty case if they're on time today in about 14 minutes -- excuse me, 20 minutes. that involving the asphalt in missouri. the state of missouri gives free asphalt to every school to repave their playground but they won't give it to lutheran or catholic schools who sued. the supreme court will rule this morning at 10:00 eastern. >> shannon: as you are educating us with the orders x looks like they may have turned down a critical gun rights case that people have been watching. those are some of the cases we're looking at as well. just so people know it takes four justices to say we want to hear this case. not that they'll vote for or against. sometimes getting to the four is critical. they hear thousands of appeals come to them every year, they only hear 100 or less. >> shannon: judge, thank you very much as we stand by for 10:00. >> hemmer, are you still refreshing that computer?

>> bill: i am. got another for you, judge. thank you. 22 minutes before the hour. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is now on the ground in afghanistan. this as the pentagon considers what might be a new troop surge this year. he will meet with top u.s. and afghan military officials trying to figure out how who handle growing elements of isis and taliban. >> shannon: president saying the democrats are trying to do everything they can to derail his agenda. >> president trump: their theme is resist. it's obstruction. a terrible theme in terms of getting elected and i think it's a terrible thing for the people of this koun -- country. >> shannon: is there bipartisanship out there? >> bill: check this out.

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>> shannon: a group of people coming to the rescue of a young girl at an amusement park. she dangled 25 feet in the air at six flags great escape in upstate new york. on their urging she fell into a arms of a group gathered underneath the ride to catch her. a man said he heard her scream and he couldn't just stand and watch. >> it made it worth it >> we were able to do something good and we saved a child's life. >> shannon: teenager was not seriously hurt. officials say they don't know how she fell out in the first place. the ride was in proper working

order. that is some video. that's literally a leap of faith and those folks -- another guy said i didn't mind if i got hurt in the process. it was worth it to get her down from there. >> bill: 16 minutes before the hour. >> i talked to senator schumer directly. great to get democrats to the table. we don't see it. their whole motto is obstruct, resist. it would be great to have democrats on the table on tax reform and healthcare and neil gorsuch and infrastructure. we welcome that. >> bill: kellyanne conway from earlier today. the president also is not holding back. he has sent out a flurry of tweets on this already. venting about the roadblocks to every part of the republican agenda. the democrats have become nothing but obstructionists. they have no policies or ideas. they delay and complain and they own obamacare. we'll talk about it with dave

hoppe and mary anne marsh. mary ann, you start. you're being called out. guilty as charged? >> i'm happy to be called out on that. no, it's clear the trump plural are trying to distract from the fact that the republicans control everything in washington they have the white house, the senate, the house, they got it all and they can't get anything done. if the healthcare bill at the end of this week doesn't get passed, it will be because republicans voted against it. no other reason. so i think this is way to try to keep -- >> bill: they may not vote this week at all. >> they're trying to distract. >> bill: mary anne is making the case you have the majority. look at yourself. >> the republicans have to perform, that's true. it doesn't have to be this week or next week. maybe the most successful president post war ronald reagan, most of the things were done just before the august recess of his first year. so they're coming on this and moving forward on some of these

things. that's going well. interesting thing here is the history of parties in america is fringe groups work on parties and the parties -- in the case of the democrats it appears the fringe group of resistance has taken over the party and the senate democrats can't act independently. we saw that with judge gorsuch most clearly. they couldn't act independently. they were told they had to obstruct him. that's a sad thing. he was a very good man and a person replacing somebody who had the same philosophy he had. it was strange that would become the situation. >> bill: take that on. >> what dave worked for speaker ryan he became speaker ryan. the republicans objected and obstructed and resisted every single thing barack obama and the democrats did. look what happened? they got the white house, house and senate and they still can't get anything done. as a strategy to win power it works. they can't deliver on their agenda and can't get it done and we'll see what happens.

>> bill: chuck schumer is talking about a message for the democratic party. he said this just yesterday. >> democrats need a bold common sense economic agenda. it's what we were missing. it won't be baby steps but bold. we're coming out with it this summer. >> bill: what does that look like? >> i hope it will be different from what they've talked about in the campaign and what they seem to be trending towards as to the socialism represented by senator sanders. but it reminds me i'll have to say the rhetoric reminds me of the summer of 2012, 2014 never got here under the obama administration. we never had recovery. republicans have to do something about it. they have to pass the change in healthcare to give patients and families control over their healthcare and furthermore they have to pass a tax reform bill. that's critical to getting growth going in this country. >> bill: mary anne, chuck

schumer says we need a bold, sharp edged economic agenda. it's what we're missing. >> he is right, absolutely. the fact is from 2003 to the great recession brought to us by george bush and in the post obama era, that's exactly what's needed and the one thing it needs to be people want a good day's pay for a good day's work. obama put everyone back to worked but no one is getting paid more for the work they're doing. it's a fact. >> bill: we'll go back to dave. >> freedom of the market and freedom of people to invest the way they want to invest to get tax cuts for all people will be helped by that. we're bound with a tax code with so many different versions to move your money around imposed to invest it, give people better jobs and students. we need job growth and job opportunity. it can only come with a fundamental tax reform that people have been talking about.

>> bill: dave, quickly. do you think they vote this week on healthcare or not? >> i never say senator mcconnell can't get something done he wants to get done. it's a tall hill to climb. they will be voting on healthcare before the august recess and the types of changes they have to make i think senator mcconnell can find that happy medium. >> bill: i'm out of time. thank you, dave and mary anne on a monday. mondays with mary ann marsh. >> shannon: five gop senators are holding out against the senate healthcare plan. the senate majority can only lose two votes. how will they flip three of these guys? brit hume will be here to give us his take next. >> bill: wildfires continue in the hot and dry american west. these conditions pose a real challenge. is there relief on the way for homeowners and everybody else? that's next.

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>> bill: has to be shot of the year. this is thanks to jordan spieth, the shot of the year. >> he has done it again just as he did at the john deere for his first win. >> bill: i can watch that 100 times. the crowd losing its mind. he lost the lead after the first nine. forced the tie on the first hole sudden death able to win it in a playoff there. hold it, hold it. boom. >> shannon: i feel like that's probably how you play. >> bill: never. he throws his putter at the same time the caddie throws the rake and they do the chest bump.

>> shannon: i have never had the reason to chest bump on anything on the golf course. you might hold out here. >> bill: good for spieth. >> shannon: wildfires threatening home across the west. firefighters in six different states currently battling fires, all of them dealing with record heat and dry conditions as well. thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. we're live in los angeles. good morning, to you, william. let's start in utah first. what's the situation there? >> nine days ago a guy in utah was burning weeds with a torch in his backyard. this is what it looks like. 67 square miles burned. 10% contained. winds died down yesterday. the largest fire in the u.s. 1500 people evacuated. the area is popular as a

mountain getaway for residents of las vegas. >> you know there is risk when you buy something in a forest but you don't anticipate it twice. we lost our home in las vegas in 2009 to fire and had to rebuild. lightning shouldn't strike twice. >> here in los angeles a motorist crashed into a tree sparking a fire. and because of the triple digit heat over the weekend prompted a massive response on the ground and in the air. the motorist was -- they had to close the freeway and it burned part of the studio used in the filming of old yeller, pirates of the caribbean. >> shannon: how about firefighters and their concerns for drones as well? >> right. the national interagency fire center says rains in the southeast and snow pack in the rockies and sierras should keep

fire down. but the rains we had in california fires will move fast. sunday a drone grounded helicopters and planes in northern arizona. the same happened friday at a fire in new mexico and four times in may which prompted the forest service to put this out. >> only authorized aircraft are per misted to fly toward wildfires. be smart, be safe, stay away. >> tracking people down is difficult out of the six incidents so far they only caught one of the culprits. back to you. >> shannon: william with the latest on the trouble out west. >> bill: interesting about drones. something you don't think about. conditions are so dry right now they can't take a chance. we talked about it, shannon, moments away. final day of the session, u.s. supreme court before the summer break waiting on whether there is word on whether or not the court will take up president trump's travel ban. stay tuned. we're back on that story after

the break at the top of the hour here.

>> shannon: any minute now we could get very big news out of the supreme court as we await a lot of high-profile decisions on the final day of the term. reports also swirling of a possible retirement from the bench. we're keeping an eye on it and we'll keep an eye on it for you. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." >> bill: good weekend? >> shannon: rested up and ready to go. >> bill: you'll need it because of this. i'm bill hemmer, another big story. right now the supreme court won't weigh in on the travel ban but we expect more clarification of that throughout the day. we'll stand by and wait on that. now the white house is looking to the supreme court court to keep it alive. rumors that justin anthony kennedy is considering stepping down. let's just talk about what we know right now. the cake matter, the cake case will be taken up. why did the justices want to hear this?

>> shannon: there have been a number of these cases that have christian or religious business owners who say i don't want to take part in a same sex ceremony. what i do is artistic in nature, cake, taking photographs. so far they've said note. this is a baker who is a christian who didn't want to take part in the same sex ceremony and referred them to other people who were happy to do it for them. finally they've -- they have the private conferences. it takes four justices saying we want to hear this. you have to think that justice gorsuch was part of that. they were down a justice for months. we will hear about it in the fall. the case will be argued in october. >> bill: no word yet on the travel ban. let's talk about that now. gorsuch is on the bench as you mentioned there. will the court take up this case that originated in the

west wing of the white house or not? >> shannon: so many different things they could do. they could say we're going to vote the lift the ban. the lower courts that have said the ban can't go into effect or do something different which is actually hear the entire case on the merits. normally that would happen in the fall. nothing has been normal about this travel ban case. we'll see what happens. we would expect justice gorsuch will be part of the voting process. they haven't given us word this morning in the orders list. it doesn't mean the court can't make a decision. it has been fully briefed. we just wait for the court. >> bill: you were sitting wednesday and during a commercial break you said hemmer, i think there is a chance we could have a retirement on monday. just a chance. now, justice kennedy is 80 years old. he will be 81 in about a month and he moved up his annual retirement party by about a year? >> shannon: we don't want to call it that. the clerks party.

>> bill: he moved it a year. >> shannon: my inside sources say they think he is leaning towards staying for another year. you see him there with justice gorsuch, who was his clerk. the first pair to be a former justice and his clerk serving at the same time. to have a justice and former clerk, both justices. a lot of people think he wants to do a year with his former justice and to me keep in mind justice kennedy has been an important vote on a number of gay rights cases, same-sex marriage, that type of thing. now they'll hear the case with the christian baker out of colorado he may want to weigh in. a lot of people say it's about religious freedom. the first opinions coming in and we'll wait to hear from those and potentially from justice kennedy as well. >> bill: we'll watch the live blog. when the news hits, we'll bring it to you. another story from washington the other big news on monday morning the white house throwing its weight behind the republican healthcare bill. watch this every day of the

week. an all-out efforts with the trump teamworking the phones to get senators on board and they have their work cut out for them. five republican senators have declared opposition publicly to the bill in its current form. that's enough to sink it when it heads to the senate floor for a vote possibly before the fourth of july holiday. peter doocy watching that. how is president trump trying to convince republicans to vote yes on this now? >> he is using his phone, bill, to call and to tweet. just a little while ago he tried to rally republican lawmakers together against democrats by writing this. republican senators are working very hard to get there with no help from the democrats. not easy. perhaps just let o care crash and burn. over the weekend he was making calls. he is three senators short of being able to pass the healthcare bill. he is just not working on those officially opposed but reaching out to some who haven't made up

their minds. some of those lawmakers like senator luther strange say they appreciate his efforts. >> it was a great conversation. he encouraged me by his personal participation in dealing with not only me but all my colleagues to try to find out how to address their problems. their legitimate issues here. this is the legislative process. everybody has a position. encouraging to have a president willing to work with us. >> the majority whip in the senate said president trump has been so aggressive behind the scenes in trying to get the votes to get this passed that they're trying to hold him back a little bit. >> bill: what are senators waiting for before they come out for or against this bill? >> the price tag from the congressional budget office is big. it won't say how much the bill would cost but reveal how many people could lose or gain coverage from this senate healthcare bill but that's not all that senators are worried about.

>> it makes absolutely no sense to eliminate federal funding for planned parenthood. there already are longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion. that's not what this debate is about. >> there are many different issues keeping senators on the fence. senator john barrasso who helped write the draft said he thinks his colleagues are making good points and he will work with all of them to try to get there. >> bill: thank you, peter doocy with the setup from the north lawn. >> shannon: one of the biggest players in this effort saying it's no easy task. here is health and human services secretary tom price on fox news sunday. >> what we're trying to do is to thread the needle and make it so the president says every single american needs to be able to have access to the kind of coverage they want and insuring that pre-existing illnesses are covered. no lifetime caps and individuals have the choices

necessary so that the system is responsive to people and patients, not responsive to government. >> shannon: let's bring in brit hume fox news senior political analyst and host of fox news sunday yesterday. what sense do you have there on the hill and in washington and from the secretary this actually will get to a senate vote this week and whether it will pass? >> i am not sure it will get to a vote this week. you have different members with different objections and when you boil it down. one of the things at the center of this is the same old problem that has been plaguing this city and this country for decades, and that is entitlement spending. obamacare entailed a very major expansion of medicaid to bring in -- take it beyond poor people's healthcare into a lot of people who are not by previous standards considered poor and it has added to the really strong growth in the cost of medicaid.

it is these entitlement programs and the spending on them that is ballooning the budget deficit and the national debt. this bill would do something over time to diminish that at least as far as medicaid is concerned even though the spending will continue to grow up it would curb the rate of growth. it always runs into problems. if you listened to dean heller from nevada he was objecting to that. that's a problem for a number of people in states where they went along with the president's proposal to expand medicaid. that's a big piece of this that has to be worked out somehow. >> shannon: you mentioned senator heller. five gop senators say they have significant objection at this point that would keep them voting from this. here is what senator barrasso had to say about those potential critics and maybe winning them over. >> every one of them is committed to a fundamental change away from obamacare and central government control and into local control and patients making decisions.

we're going to continue to work with each of them through the process. every one of them has very good points they're making. i want to work with all of them. >> shannon: the president tweeted out just moments ago it will be tough. democrats aren't helping us at all. maybe we let obamacare crash and burn. not a good option for most real world americans. >> the dilemma the republicans face is there. there is a political price if you act to change things in a major way. people have become accustomed to their medicaid care they didn't previously have. they like that. they worry if it went away what they would do. and at the same time you have people who have been getting subsidies that might fear they'll go away. there are subsidies in the bill. you pay a price if you pass the bill. and work it out with the house and finally, you know, get a final passage. on the other hand, if you don't do it and you are a republican, most republicans have promised

that they'll repeal and replace obamacare. there are arguments about whether this actually does that but it changes it in important ways. so either way you have a problem. one is people will be mad if you pass it and a lot of people will be mad if you don't. this is why this is so close and this is why this is so difficult. >> shannon: you have at least one democrat out of west virginia saying if they'll let us in the room we can talk about fixing this thing together. >> yesterday on fox news sunday senator durbin said he doesn't know of a single democrat who would be interested if voting for this bill and the president is right he can't count on a single democratic vote. >> shannon: and he has to work on republicans, too. >> bill: it could change every day. we know what the white house is doing. president trump is burning up the phone line. i think it was one senator john cornyn suggested to back off a

little bit for a moment. we'll see if we get a vote on thursday or friday. if not, maybe later in the month of july. we'll try and piece this together as we go. another big story we're watching and monitoring decisions from the supreme court. first the senate judiciary committee opening a new investigation involving the former a.g. loretta lynch. >> there are legitimate questions raised by allegations and it is -- >> bill: why are senators looking to the former attorney general's involvement in the email scandal. >> shannon: dozens killed after an oil tanker flipped over. plus this. >> bill: that is -- you can't see it but the jet engine is shaking at 35,000 feet.

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>> shannon: it is the final day of the supreme court term and we're getting the cases we've been waiting for including this one a religious case rights out of missouri. it dealt with a church that had a pre-school. they applied for a grant that would help the cover safety materials on playgrounds at all

different schools across the state applied for. they ranked fifth out of 44 applicants but told they could not get the grant because it was state money and they were a religious pre-school. well, in what appears to be a 7-2 decision the supreme court has ruled with the school in favor of them. the chief justice writing in part. the exclusion of trinity lutheran from a public benefit for which it otherwise qualified solely because it is a church is odious to our constitution and cannot stand. we bring in thomas dupree. what do you make of this ruling? >> a terrific rule and gratified by the fact it was a 7-2 vote and that is the chief justice stated, you can't single out an institution simply because it has a religious affiliation that our constitution prohibits the establishment of religion but also protects the free exercise. what the chief is saying in

this case you can't single out and discriminate against a school simply because of its religious connection. >> shannon: you know there were critics who argued that the state got this right, the school was wrong. no public funding in any way should ever flow to any religious institution. and i heard them and read many dissertations about those going into this case saying it would be a horrible thing for the united states of america should the ruling come down the way it did. there is going to be a mix of public money and religious institutess and it opens the floodgates. >> that's one massive overat statement. the court is reaffirming the balance our founders struck when we established the constitution and the bill of rights. that is to say that it's true that we can't recognize an official religion but to suggest there needs to be this absolutely barrier between state funding and religious instruction or teaching is wrong. it's wrong in light of the text

of the constitution and frankly it is wrong if light of our nation's practices and traditions. >> shannon: as you know we're waiting as they're reading more opinions from the bench. justice kennedy now reading one from the bench and all eyes are on him and whether he will have any big announcement today. somebody that you know well from the supreme court, an advocate who is with the constitutional accountability center and they often file in these cases. i want to play a little bit what she had to say about how big a change it could be to the court if justice kennedy does decide to step down. >> it would be huge. it would really be a seismic shift for the supreme court. he has been the swing vote in favor of marriage equality. recent in favor of racial justice, whether it's through housing or in education, through affirmative action programs. it would be a strong shift of the court to the right. as they always say in the supreme court those who talk don't know and those who know don't talk.

>> shannon: just speculation at this point. at some point another justice will leave the court. whether it's this year, next year or years gone by. he is an interesting one because he is such a swing vote. solid with the conservatives on many things but not really on social issues. >> i agree with elizabeth it would be a seismic shift in the supreme court. you would replace justice kennedy, the swing vote and sides with the liberal block on the court. you would replace him with someone who likely would be conserveive if president trump nominates adheres to the list he sets forth. you would see a dramatic shift in the hotly contested constitutional cases we love to watch. >> shannon: what do you make of the fact they finally decided to take up one of these cases pitting a religious owner against the interest of same sex couple or marriage ceremony. it looks like this fall will be

the time. >> i suspect it is very possible justice gorsuch played a key role behind the scenes here. we saw the case we were discussing a few minutes ago about funding for religious schools and trying to add to the docket with the issue percolating for a long time about the rights of christian bakers, whether they have a right to serve or not serve a gay couple. this is the sort of issue i suspect we'll see the court returning to in the years ahead if they solidify a conservative majority we'll see more in the freedom of religion space. >> shannon: all right. tom dupree. always good to see you. >> bill: we've talked about the gorsuch effect on this court. it seems to be the story already today. the impact is being felt. >> shannon: a lot of people saying they see him pairing up with justice thomas. they thought he would be more alito to the center.

i didn't know what to expect. you never know until someone gets on the supreme court bench. a lifetime appointment. you can't get rid of them unless you impeach them. >> bill: this moment on a bill that starts to violently shake at 35,000 feet. the pilot telling passengers to pray. twice. so what caused this? >> shannon: what i always do on planes anyway every flight. >> bill: new guidelines how to report on the russia investigation. howard kurtz on that next. what's the best way to get

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airasia says single engine failure caused the plane to violently shake mid flight. the technical issue worrying the captain who told the passengers to say a prayer more than once. that's not what you want to hear. thankfully the plane landed safely in australia. no reported injuries. >> bill: cnn may be implementing new strategies on how to tackle its coverage of russia and donald trump after the network had to delete and retract a story last week. howie kurtz here to talk about this. let me share the apology first. here it is on screen. on june 22nd, 2017, cnn.com published a story connecting scaramucci with the russian investment fund. it did not meet the editorial standards and since retracted. links to the story have been disabled. we apologize to mr. scaramucci.

what was this story all about? >> good retraction and apology and very bad mistake. scaramucci is an advisor to president trump. the cnn story tried to -- they claimed he had discussed possible lifting of u.s. sanctions against moscow in a conversation in a secret meeting. there was no secret meeting. he said he gave a speech at dabos. a russian official came up to say hello and he has never done business with russia. he went to russia once as a 25-year-old student. the key thing is here scaramucci telling me i was disappointed cnn published the story. he said it was a lie and accepted the apology. >> bill: cnn has a new policy. how common is that? >> everybody makes mistakes and when a mistake like that happens you try to make sure it

doesn't happen again. according to an email from a senior executive posted this morning by buzz feed. no story related to the russia investigation and president trump can be posted on cnn.com without the approval of two top executives. it was so thin, anonymous source. even if the claim was true it was hanging by a thread and i was wondering how did it get posted? apparently -- >> bill: the new policy is everything regarding russia goes through a single source. that's what we take from that, right, howard? >> look, anonymous sources can be very useful in journalism. if you don't have documentary evidence you're at risk and putting your reputation at risk by relying on somebody whose name you can't share with the public. >> bill: the white house is getting a lot of attention on the white house press corps. you had sean spicer in over the weekend and he talked about whether or not the hearings in the briefing room would be

televised and this is what he said. >> it's a very one-sided discussion that's occurring now. we've allowed the audio to be used today and the other day. what happened a couple days ago when we laid down ground rules networks like cnn broke through the ground rules. >> bill: what is the policy and how is this going to be resolved? >> the reason this is a huge controversy now is that of the four days the president was in town last week three of the press briefings were off camera gaggles. only one was on camera. the one today is scheduled to be off cama. cnn sent a sketch artist like we don't know what spicer looks like behind the podium. i met with somebody who believes that every briefing has to be on camera. spicer argues you get more done off camera. less grandstanding by correspondents. that may be true. people are entitled to see many of the briefings. it has been a big daytime hit

on cable news. i suspect it is not sean spicer's decision but the president who isn't pleased by the spectacle of reporters shouting questions at the press secretary. >> bill: i sense more to come on that, howie. >> i think there is a shift here. i think this represent the frustration the president feels rightly or wrongly at the way he is being covered particularly on this russia story as he calls a hoax and fake news and we could be seeing a complete remaking of the way that this white house communicates with the media and the public. >> bill: howard kurtz in washington thank you, sir. 29 past. >> shannon: all right. it is a big day at the supreme court awaiting several key decisions. we're getting breaking news from one source trying to verify for ourselves as well that they are going to take action on the travel ban. they have decided to hear the case. that means it gets pushed into the fall term it looks like a briefing schedule will take place so it will be heard

during the first session in october. that's when the term starts up in the fall. we're trying to get more about that. in question is whether any part of the travel ban or pause will take effect in the meantime. we'll track that down and tell you a lot more right after this commercial. >> bill: battle lines are being drawn on the hill. senate healthcare bill on the lines this week. what it might mean for the fate of the bill as we get breaking news from the hills. we'll tell you about that right after the break. >> there will be counties across this country that won't have any insurance company providing coverage. you have premiums going up. deductibles going up. folks have that insurance card but no care.

>> shannon: we now officially have action from the supreme court on the so-called travel ban by the president. here is what we know. they've granted certain in this case. they'll hear the case itself. but that's not going the happen until the fall term in october.

so that is big news. but in the meantime what happens we're told they are going to lift part of the bans on those that would have been covered by the ban. so we're wade -- wading through that. let's bring in judge napolitano. your reaction. >> the reason we're chuckling. we have summaries of what the supreme court ruled. some people have seen the ruling but we haven't. going on the basis of the summaries we can conclude the following. this is a substantial political victory for the president. one that he actually predicted he would receive. so the supreme court will hear the justice department's appeal of the ninth circuit court of appeals which upheld the stay on the ban and it will hear the fourth circuit's appeal which did the same thing. but in the interim between today and when the supreme court rules, the president's travel ban will stay in effect.

and all court rulings that have interfered with that travel ban are null and void as of today with the following exception. if an immigrant from any one of the six countries articulated by the president in the travel ban has a relation, a blood or legal relation in the united states of america, they will not be subject to the travel ban. all other persons from those six countries will be subject to the travel ban. that's actually a little bit of a nuance. it sort of something we didn't expect and cavs out an exception in the travel ban that the president himself didn't put in there. additionally when the court hears oral argument on this in october it will also hear oral argument on the ability of the president of the united states and him alone to establish immigration policy as part of foreign policy for the united states government. >> shannon: we have a little

bit more that i can read you from what we're hearing now. as you said in practical terms parts of the ban may not be enforced with a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the u.s. it illustrates the relationship that qualifies for individual, a close family relationship is required. foreign nationals who wish to enter the u.s. to visit a family member has such a relationship and they have to be formal documented and formed in the ordinary course of life essentially. those are the kinds of relationships we're talking about. does that make sense to you? >> yes, it does. the supreme court will be criticized, i think, for redrafting a portion of the travel ban but it will also -- by the trump people, but it will in large measure be lauded by the trump people for having underscored not in a direct way but in a practical way the ability of the president of the

united states to establish foreign policy and to use immigration policy as part of that foreign policy. remember, this is not a ruling on the substance. president trump was right or wrong. but we know that at least five justices of the court -- we don't know which five, we can probably guess. we know at least five justices of the supreme court voted to keep president trump's travel ban in place for the most part until they can formally review it in october. the exception is one that they crafted which you just summarized, shannon, for human beings in the six countries who have blood or legal relationships with human beings in the u.s. they are not subject to the travel ban. they are still subject to the ordinary requirements of immigration. doesn't mean they automatically get here. there is no total bar as to those folks. >> shannon: they add on and say

relationships with entities and they give examples. in some of these cases they were brought about by universities who said students count get to them. students from the designated countries who have been admitted to the university of hawaii are considered to have a relationship with an american entity. so would a worker who accepted an offer of employment from an american company or a lecturer invited to address an american audience. that's beyond family. >> that's interesting. the plaintiffs in the hawaii case are a professor in the middle east authorized to lecture and hired by a university in hawaii. he is not a plaintiff anymore. because he can now come in because of this exception that the court carved out. even though they are going to hear this case in october, the people challenging it will have to go out and find new plaintiffs to challenge it. the people they chose to challenge it fit in under the supreme court's created exception this morning.

>> bill: libya, somalia, yemen, syria, sudan and iran. iraq was on the original list and that country was removed. >> the same countries that the obama administration identified as likely to produce terrorists and the same countries articulated by the trump state department with the exception of iran. >> bill: the white house will argue it gives the commander-in-chief the authority to keep the american people safe. and if he deems there is not a proper vetting system in place, then you need to take that temporary pause and figure one out. >> nicely put, bill. the president will have a chance to hear with finality in october the nature and extent of his authority individually without consulting congress by executive order only to use immigration policy as an instrument to further foreign policy to keep the country safe.

>> bill: in the interests of national security, this was drafted in late january, i believe. >> this is the second executive order from march. >> bill: it was ruled on in early march. the court will take it up in october. when would you get a ruling from the justices after that, judge? >> probably before christmas. but give them at least a month. sometime in november. >> bill: a national security issue. 11 months down the road from deciding this. >> you are but you are giving the president the benefit of the doubt and the tools to keep the country safe in the interim. to that extent donald trump did the right thing and should be very happy at this moment at what the supreme court has told him. >> shannon: interesting there are no dissents from this decision, judge. that means that everybody is pretty much signed onto the framework that they'll do it now. allow certain portions to go forward. hear the case in the fall and

no dissents filed on that decision. >> it's fascinating. our political colleagues will be talking about this for a couple of days. you can imagine the tweets coming from the oval office in a couple of minutes. but the bottom line is it's a victory for president trump and for what he has said he would do and did in fact do. >> bill: thank you, judge. rolling along here. judge napolitano instant analysis. thank you, sir. an important day for opponents of a new sanctuary city law in the state of texas. >> bill: sb4 is an unconstitutional attempt to make the fear and harm done under the ice raids be the daily life of people in texas. >> bill: a state threatening to cut funding from sanctuary cities. our panel will debate that. >> shannon: several senators facing pressure from their home states to say no to the healthcare bill. governor john sununu is on deck.

>> bill: breaking news from the u.s. supreme court on the final day of the session before the summer break. we now know that there will be arguments heard before the u.s. supreme court in october on the travel ban issued many months ago. john sununu with me now and the former chief of staff to george h.w. bush. a lot of people wouldn't have expected this. did you? because it has been characterized already as a victory for the trump white house on this order. >> i think the court deserves a lot of credit. they gave a very smart carve-out in here which preserved the most important part of the ban. the concern that the white house had over people that were going to be hard to vet coming back into the country. the court excluded those that would have been easy to vet. those that already have relationships with the u.s. and said the white house was correct in putting a ban on those that would be hard to vet. i think it's a win. >> bill: we'll get arguments in

october as i mentioned there. 9-0 the court agreed to take up this case. that goes forward. the other thing that goes forward on the hill. there are reports now that the senate has made some adjustments in the healthcare bill already. we don't know what the specifics are or if that's the case or not. we'll wait to see if it comes out publicly. susan collins republican from maine is on the fence and said this on sunday about the passage. >> it's hard for me to see the bill passing this week but that's up to the majority leader. we could well be in all night a couple of nights working through what will be an open amendment process and i think that at least is good. >> bill: okay. big picture. do you get a vote this week? does it pass this week? >> i don't know if you get a vote this week. i think when it does get a vote it will pass because i don't think mcconnell will bring it to the floor until he has the votes. >> bill: okay. then do you believe this makeup

in the u.s. senate finds a way to get to 51 if you count the vice president? >> i do. it's a very complicated thing to do especially when you are undoing entitlements but they have a fairly good package there and i think each of the senators that is objecting has said that they have specific objections that they think can be accommodated and i think you had senator barrasso on earlier talking about how that process is going. important legislation is not easy to craft. they're working their way through it. it is not important to get it this week versus next week. it is important to get it done right. >> bill: you are talking the words out of john kasich. he said the same thing. >> no, i wouldn't go along with kasich. >> bill: let's listen to what he said and parse it the way you want. >> let's work together on this. let's not rush something through. let's have transparency and

some cooperation between the parties because if you don't, this bill is not sustainable. so i'm not saying just kill the bill. let's get something that is going to work that will create a stabilizing. all these issues around insurance and coverage and then get to the heart of the matter, which is the rising cost of healthcare. >> bill: in ohio they took the money on medicaid. what were you saying? >> john kasich is coming from the point of -- he by passed his legislature and got it approved by a board. because his legislature was opposed to the medicaid expansion and in fact his republican senate just this week has voted to freeze medicaid expansion in ohio and now has to go to the house there and we'll see what happens. it is unfortunate that people fell into this expansion of medicaid within their states and now as we're trying to undo

as the congress is trying to undo this horrendous expansion of entitlement it is going to be painful for some places but it has to be done or it destroys the system in the long run. >> bill: wind it down in part. governor, thank you. john sununu, former governor of new hampshire. thank you. >> shannon: how high is too high? a new study shows why seattle, the city with the highest in the country minimum wage may have hit its limit or gone beyond it. those details just ahead. welcome to the neighborhood. i brought you this pie to see if you're weird. wow, that smells intrusive. it is. did you want to come in, maybe snoop around a bit? that's why i'm here. wouldn't it be great if everyone said what they meant? ooh, i smell onions! the citi® double cash card does. only citi lets you earn 1% cash back when you buy, and 1% as you pay. the citi double cash card. double means double.

>> bill: success over the weekend. >> two, one. lift-off. >> bill: first time that

company launched and landed two falcon nine rockets. first one took off from florida carrying a communication satellite for bulgaria into orbit. yesterday's launch carried 10 more satellites for a cell phone company. spacex is planning to launch around 70 satellites by the end of this year. >> shannon: higher paychecks but smaller wages. how does that work? the results from a new study on seattle. a city with the highest minimum wage in the country, $15 an hour to improve the lives of low income workers but new research shows it could be having the opposite effect. dan springer joins us live from seattle with the latest. good morning, dan. what did the research find? >> the study that came out today shows that seattle's minimum wage law has cost the city roughly 5,000 low wage jobs. not only that, low-skilled workers are taking homeless money because employers have cut the hours that they give

out. this is a big blow to labor groups and all those pushing this $15 an hour agenda. they have had a lot of success in recent years with new wage laws passing in several cities and counties. the promise is always the same. a high minimum wage will put more money in the pockets who need it most. this study done by the university of washington found when the minimum wage jumped from $11 to $13 employers cut hours by 9%. wages for those did go up 3% by by working less those employees took home get this $125 less per month. >> this is a two-edged sword and if you raise this minimum wage the way seattle did you run the risk of taking money away from the people that you were trying to help. >> seattle's law raises the minimum wage each year. by 2021 everyone will be up to $15 an hour. >> shannon: how are leaders there in seattle reacting to

this news? >> well, we would like to know. they are basically dodging all the reporters asking them questions. we tried for several days trying to get a comment and none of them would return our phone calls. mayor ed murray issued a generic study over the weekend that stayed in part we were warned the economy would tank, jobs would dry up and employees would flee. today seattle's economy is the strongest it has ever been. the unemployment rate has gone down here, all the job growth has been in the people in higher income brackets. places like amazon, microsoft are adding jobs. but people at the bottom rung are not winning out at all on this. >> shannon: dan springer on the case for us. >> bill: the white house has gotten good news today. supreme court will take up president trump's travel ban and allow parts of it to be enforced very soon. how this affects his agenda moving forward. take you to the white house in a moment to check in on that. i don't know why i didn't get screened a long time ago.

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>> bill: back to the biggest news for the hour. we have been waiting for this since march? march 6, the travel ban is a victory for the white house. it will be implemented probably within, what do we think? three days? >> shannon: i think they said 72 hours. >> bill: and the whole court will hear it in october. >> shannon: three justices, thomas, gore's edge, and that the ban should be entirely like it should go into effect, they did not win, but partially lifted, that is a win for the trump administration. and all of the public formalities from the bench, we did not hear a peep from justice kennedy. that is not the only place that he could make another announcement, but he did not do it from the bench, so we will see, maybe he went away from the teaching like he does. a >> bill: or maybe he turns 81 on the bench. with regards to the travel ban, they did a carve out for people with connection to the country

who had a business connection to the country. -- >> shannon: family relationship. a >> bill: or in the case of hawaii, this was all started because a professor would come here and make a speech. there will be a carve out for that. >> shannon: for those who have connections. a >> bill: we have to run, big heavy day ahead. have a great monday, everybody. a "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: the fox news alert, two breaking stories, major implications for the president's agenda, welcome to "happening now" on this monday, i am jon scott. >> and i am childers pretty nice to be back on this monday. if the supreme court starting it off, the ruling that parts of president trump's travel ban can be enforced pending review by the justices of the controversial executive order in october. this as we await the congressional budget office on the senate bill to repeal and replace obamacare. and the president tweeting on the state of the health care bill, just a short