"things work at home, don't be changing things." >> i like her. >> "happening now" no. >> eric: thank you, fox news alert. susan collins of maine says the senate intelligence committee needs to interview donald trump junior. >> julie: the white house downplays any talk of concocting that collusion between moscow and the trump campaign. we are covering all the news for you, happening now. >> it seems to be nothing. >> julie: the spotlight is on the president's eldest son, donald trump, jr.,, his meeting over a year ago with our russian employer. plus, the white house response to a report, former fbi director james comey may have memos

containing sensitive information. and -- >> let's all have a promise on repeal and spend more time getting it done. >> julie: as senators returned to work in our nation's capital, fresh indications that g.o.p. efforts to unite over health care faces new hurdles. it's all happening now. >> eric: we stocks of the fox news alert, the latest controversy concerning russia. the white house right now on the defensive over a new report that donald trump, jr., met with the kremlin connected russian lawyer during the campaign to supposedly try to get some dirt on hillary clinton. others claim it is just opposition. we will examine this throughout the next hour, this is the next hour of "happening now," i'm eric in it for jon scott. >> julie: "the new york times" raising questions about the meeting, saying donald trump, jr., was promised damaging information on his

father's apartment opponent, hillary clinton. donald trump junior tweeted this morning... we are going to have more on this developing story with our guests, but in the meantime another big story making headlines today. the white house going on offense on a report about former fbi director james comey and his memos about conversations with the president. did he break the law? live in washington with the details. >> congressional investigators are in the process of documenting his conversations with president trump. a legal source close to the matter tells fox news that some of the material is considered law enforcement sensitive or possibly classified. some records documenting those nine conversations with the president were marked secret or

the lower classification level known as confidential. as fox previously reported, all fbi employees are required to sign employ employee agreements. whether he signed one of these agreements, they are considered fbi regulation. of this morning and conway said there appears to be a double standard. >> the boy scout choir boy defense doesn't hold up here. admitting under oath, handing over classified information through private recollection, it doesn't matter what he calls her, that is what it is. >> during his congressional testimony, he indicated that he knew the discussions were likely containing restricted or classified information and this exchange, he insisted the memos were not restricted. >> you did not consider your memo or your sense of the conversation to be a government document, you consider it to be

somehow your own personal document that you could share with the media as you wanted to? >> i understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president is a private citizen, i felt free to share that. i felt it was very important to get it out. >> the fbi is not commenting, a legal source talked fox news that summaries of this meeting are being handled by the fbi as government record and not comey's personal memos. >> julie: thank you so much. >> eric: back to our other big story, putting the spotlight on the president's eldest son, donald trump junior. "the new york times" saying that he and other members of the team including paul manafort met with the russian lawyer last june after being promise damaging information on hillary clinton. initially, donald trump, jr., said the purpose of that meeting was to discuss russian adoptions, and today on fox news sunday, chris wallace pressed the white house chief of staff about that explanation.

>> why would donald trump, jr., and paul manafort want to meet with the russian lawyer about russian adoption? >> i have no idea, you are going to have to talk to them. talking about issues of foreign policy, issues related to our place in the world, important to the american people like adoption, it's not unusual. when you go through a campaign, you are not just talking to one particular group of people about adoptions in russia, you have policy teams talking about our place in asia, talking about trade in china. they run the gamut. >> eric: for more on this, the national political correspondent for "the washington post" ." some today claiming this is evidence of collusion, others say it is just opposition research, where do you think this is going? >> we don't know where it is

going. obviously there is more smoke. or the president's personal lawyer denying the president had any knowledge of this meeting, but there is frustration among some allies of the president that they went out there on a sunday morning and said the president didn't do anything wrong, this is just about adoption and then yesterday afternoon, donald trump, jr., putting out the second statement saying the pretext of the meeting was that they were talking about dirt on hillary clinton. there are questions being raised by the nature of the fact that the story from the administration and from donald trump, jr., has been evolving. >> eric: he says it was information or presented information about an opponent and that he had duty. >> this is something a lot of campaign operatives are talking about today. no question, you always want to get dirt on your opponent. in this case, we don't know exactly what donald trump, jr., knew about who he was meeting

with, whether it was someone who had ties to the kremlin, a lawyer who had done work on some of these issues, if you are contacted by a foreign government, you may want to contact law enforcement. we don't know how they got the information. that is certainly an argument we are hearing from the administration. it wasn't necessarily clearly wrongdoing but we do have the statement that came out on sunday, that he wanted to get information about hillary clinton and he was willing to engage with this foreign national. >> eric: whether the person was sent by the kremlin are acting on their own, a foreign operative. here is part of the statement from donald trump, jr., saying that the woman stated that she had information on individuals connected to russia. her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense, no details or supporting

information was provided. it quickly became clear she had no meaningful information. that is evidence that he was trying to get some dirt even if there wasn't any. >> that is why chris wallace's question was so good. he asked why the campaign chairman and the president's son-in-law and president's son one to meet with the russian lawyer to talk about adoption. >> eric: is it okay to go meet with someone who says they have information on hillary clinton you should know about? >> it may not necessarily be illegal but it is certainly not kosher. a lot of folks on the george w. bush campaign in 2,000 were noting this morning that in 2001 someone shipped to the briefing book, the campaign immediately called the fbi and

turned it over because they felt it would be improper for them to take advantage of that. there is something to be said for foreign government coming calling, you probably want to be very suspicious of their motives. >> eric: we don't know who she was, she is a highly connected lawyer. "the wall street journal" is reporting today, state owned companies, family members of top government officials are among her clients. her husband recently served as deputy transportation administrator of moscow. last rash geek chart and arctic article, stating "liberalism is a mental disorder."

liberalism is a mental disorder, there she is. you know where i have heard that before? michael savage, the radio host. he had a book by that name. could it be this russian woman is just a van, she could be a listener, a fan of donald trump, she just politically takes it on her own or is this something more nefarious, the center to try to dig into the trunk campaign with the suppose a dirt? >> i wish i knew the answer to that question. robert mueller will certainly be investigating as part of his probe, susan collins want to interview donald trump, jr., she is on the senate intelligence committee. >> eric: do you think that will happen? >> i bet he will agree to sit down and talk with investigators, may be closed doors in a private session or to

talk with the staff. jared kushner has pledged to fully cooperate with the probes and answer their questions. i think it would be hard for him to justify not answering their questions. the fact that donald trump, jr., has been willing to push back on twitter, to basically say publicly, i did not do anything wrong, i was taking meetings and trying to learn information about my dad's opponent, he is going to want to publicly or privately make the case that he didn't do anything wrong. >> eric: apparently it was set up by p.r. client of our russian pop star that was involved in miss universe. if this could be much ado about nothing. >> that's why the investigation is so important. there is smoke here and we have to figure out whether there is fire or not. that is what a bunch of different investigators are trying to do. there is a lot we still don't know. we've gotten different accounts

and that's why it is so important to get the bottom of what happened. >> eric: that is for sure, it is very intriguing and pretty mysterious and we will be investigating. julie? >> julie: right now, rex tiller's and is on the ground in kuwait to address a diplomatic crisis between american allies. of the secretary arriving just a short time ago after leaving turkey. concerns about partnerships to combat terrorism. the secretary shuttled the diplomacy, will take them to these countries over the next several days. live from the state department with more on his trip. >> good afternoon, this conflict is not dragging onto into its second month.

the united states is trying to insert itself into this conflict and that's most public way whate secretary of state traveling to those countries, is just landed in kuwait city. the reporters traveling with him said "we have had one round of exchanges and dialogue and did not advance the ball" ." he also says the sides are months away from an actual resolution and that is very discouraging. department officials say he has spent the last few weeks speaking with his counterpart in the region about this dispute, the secretary traveled to kuwait having just left turkey where he met with the turkish president. turkey has been assisting its ally qatar, the state department says tillerson spoke with him about the qatar crisis and regional security. meanwhile reports from the region say qatar's attorney general has announced an effort in his country to seek

compensation of billions of dollars for the blockade against it. saudi arabia, uae, bahrain and egypt all submitted a list of more than a dozen demands of qatar to end this crisis. qatar rejected that, the u.s. said that approach was not viable so this crisis continues. >> julie: thank you very much. >> eric: president trump taking another shot at former fbi director james comey. this time accusing him of breaking the law. a new report is revealing about his testimony. a new reaction to donald trump, jr.,'s meeting with our russian lawyer during the campaign. one ranking democrat in the house intelligence committee now says he needs to be done. of multiple symptoms. ♪ that's why there's trintellix, a prescription medication for depression. trintellix may help you take a step forward

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with a jared kushner or the president's son if it wasn't about the campaign in russia policy. obviously they were trying to influence one of the candidates, the leading candidate at that time on the republican ticket. >> the meeting -- he did not know the name of the person who was coming, he knew the person who set it up. somebody he knew from the miss universe pageant, he goes to the meeting, he says it was vague, ambiguous, very obvious there was no helpful information. and that the meeting quickly turned over to the matter of russian adoption which is probably the pretext of the entire meeting in the beginning. no information was gained, no follow-up whatsoever. i think what is important here is that we are at day 200 or so of no evidence of russian collusion. >> julie: mixed reactions to reports the president's eldest

son, donald trump, jr., met with a kremlin link to a lawyer during the campaign, because that lawyer was offering damaging information about hillary clinton. republican senator susan collins says trump, jr., should testify before the intelligence committee. first of all, at this point it doesn't look like they did anything wrong, that meeting was simply gathering information prior to an election that could have potentially had damaging information about hillary clinton. what say you on susan collins believing the senate intel committee should now talk to donald trump junior? >> good lawyers will tell their clients if you don't have anything to hide, don't hide. answer the questions. so far he has appropriately reasonable and legal explanation. it is not a crime to meet with the russian official or russian lawyer. if the lawyer said during the conversation, here is information that we have to from the democratic national committee, except that

information and use it. if the only conceivable violation would be if they accepted some information and it was somehow construed to be a political contribution in kind that is not money but something of value and they used it. arguably that is a violation of the federal campaign election act. however, it is a simple penalty, not a prosecutable crime unless there is some sort of money laundering or embezzlement. >> julie: the woman they met with apparently knew the trumps and the acquaintance was met through the miss universe pageant. apparently donald trump, jr., and president trump both had some information on her. it was unknown to the president that this meeting ever happened. the question is, is it evidence of collusion with the russians because you know a lot of people

are going to jump all over that. >> let's not forget that there is no criminal statute that makes it against the law to collude in a campaign. collusion is and incriminated g word because it is a crime in antitrust behavior. maybe it should be a crime. after all of this, perhaps congress will pass a law saying you cannot coordinate or act in concert with a foreign government. but so far, collusion is not a crime. >> julie: thank you so much. >> eric: lawmakers are back at work after the fourth of july holiday today. the battle over the republican health care bill front and center. majority leader mitch mcconnell, his job got a lot harder over the weekend because more republican senators have been peeling off from the bill

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going to do. introduce a bill, say to the democrats, it doesn't mean they control it, and even when they lose, they are part of the process. that's what democracy is supposed to be all about. >> julie: or dire prognosis therefore a republican health care bill. the clock ticking down before the august recess. even with the new draft, back to square one as the congressional budget office has to weigh in with its analysis. as a deal in the cards? let's bring in our panel, richard fowler and lawrence jones, thank you both for coming on. first, i just want to say that mike pence is apparently going around saying that the deal is close and it may be that may come as a surprise, but there is

some major optimism weighing in from the white house. lawrence, your reaction to that? do you believe it? >> i wouldn't jump to conclusions until i actually see the senator 's vote the bill. i would like to say this, part of the reason this is such a struggle is because they did not do what the american people sent to them there to do. back in 2010 when tea party patriots across the country protested, they said repeal. these establishment people are now saying replaced. they should have repeal the bill and came up with a solution afterwards. now they are in a pickle. >> julie: that is one way of putting it. richard, i want to ask you, senator ted cruz spends the weekend pushing an amendment he authored, basically it is designed to bring conservatives on board with the bill.

it is going to allow them to offer cheaper plans to the young people who have been hammered by obamacare and offer them lower premiums. is that going to help sway some of these undecided senators? >> i think republicans have a major problem in their caucus. part of the carcass is saying repeal no matter what. other individuals are in states that benefit from medicaid expansion and the affordable care act, these americans will get hurt by what ted cruz is proposing, they are opposed to it. i think that is going to be the number one problem for mitch mcconnell, how does he balance the far right with the more moderate republicans? the truth of the matter is, this idea of repealing and waiting two years for replacement is problematic for the marketplace. we are dealing with private

companies needs. what insurance company is going to get into the market when there may be a totally different law that has different regulations on how we provide health insurance to our customers. that is why this is so problematic and why they are really trying to thread a needle here but the threat is invisible. >> julie: the biggest reason this is problematic is because republicans do not have the votes to pass this health care bill. democrats are not going to oblige as long as the g.o.p. wants to repeal. the question is, can they pull it off without a full repeal? how is this for conservative senators who made a promise to their constituents? >> i'll tell you what, rand paul has the perfect solution to this. you can do the full repeal and take care of the spending stuff in a different bill, repealing all the taxes, the mandate, medicaid expansion. you can put all the extra goodies that a lot of the

moderate republicans want to go that with the democrats and they will vote for that. it gives these legislators coverage, they can say they didn't vote for the bill but to get rid of obamacare, you get rid of the mandates and then you stop all the medicaid expansion. that is the way to go. right now, if the republicans don't do what the patriots are there to do, they will be replaced. >> julie: here you have the health care bill which does not seem to be doing well. then you've got tax reform, something president trump really wanted to be hammered out by at least fall. can tax reform even happen without health care passing? do you split the bill to attack tax reform first? >> you can't do one without the other. here's the other problem. i don't think mitch mcconnell

has the boats for a straight up reveal. you need 50 50 votes to get a straight repeal. 22 million americans could lose health care if you pass the senate bill as is. >> they are losing health care right now. >> is uniquely worse, the cbo score is uniquely worse. >> julie: the cbo score it does also take into account the people who would not be forced into obamacare, we have to take those into account as well. >> eric: meanwhile, an unsteady truce in syria right now. the big question, will it last? the cease-fire bringing some relative peace to that part of the country. president trump's meeting with vladimir putin, is this a sign that our two countries can find more common ground and actually

work together? >> we are not going to forgo progress simply because we have a disagreement in regards to this meddling in the united states election. what it means is we need to move forward with things like a cease-fire in syria.

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southern part of the country. despite its limited scope centered around the city of darra, there is hope that the deal will be a first step to a stable peace throughout syria. >> this latest cease-fire will bring about something more long term, but there is apprehension that will indeed happen. keep in mind, this is the fifth attempt at a cease-fire in syria since february of last year. for now it seems to be holding, behind me, the lights of the u.n. compound at the border crossing, we did hear sporadic gunfire earlier this afternoon right there on the border. we heard what sounded like machine-gun fire and also gunshots.

that has also been reported in the other two provinces, the so-called de-escalation zones as part of this agreement, the daraa province along the border with jordan. russia's foreign minister said earlier today that despite the cease-fire starting at noon on sunday, it has yet to be consolidated, meaning the details being worked out along with the positions of the players involved. israel is certainly one of them, israeli prime minister said yesterday after this went into effect that while israel welcomes a genuine cease-fire in syria, it will continue to prevent the military entrenchment along the border. overall, the prime minister said, iran's military entrenchment and establishment in syria as well.

that said, another round of peace talks kicked off yet again in geneva, aimed at bringing about some long-term peace, there are really low expectations that that will indeed happen. other peace talks have failed. that said, the cease-fire agreement seems to be holding from our vantage point. >> eric: let's hope for a successful cease-fire. the president proposed cybersecurity effort in moscow had a firestorm of bipartisan criticism. the president acknowledged that with history, saying this...

can more progress come from that sit down? david, welcome. first, you've got to start with the fact, vladimir putin boldface lied to the presidents face about russian interference. if you think the president could put that aside and we could build a constructive relationship, is that even possible? >> it would be nice. this latest information from president trump is it really confusing. i follow this really closely and i can't figure out what his position is on russia and the russia hacking. he suggested that maybe it was not russia again, but before that he seemed to be moving towards the conclusion that our

intelligence agencies, that russia did purposely hack to interfere with our election and hurt hillary clinton's chances of winning. secretary of state tillerson agreed with that in may. from closing to this meeting, claims afterwards that he forcefully confronted putin on this, but the foreign minister says that didn't happen and that actually trump accepted putin's denial and then he comes forward and says he wants to have a cybersecurity task force and somehow cooperate with russia, not like asking a burglar to join you in securing and protecting your home and giving them more access to your home, it doesn't make sense. >> eric: obviously it is not going to happen, but take a look at some of the facts. secretary of state tillerson has been in ukraine, supporting the ukrainian government against the

kremlin. you also have other actions of the president has been taking. you've got other areas. this administration is basically -- some say very strong against russia despite all these other allegations. >> i agree with the missile attack on syria that trump did, i think it was important that he did it. we had this excellent reporting in israel on the new cease-fire. it is a dubious cease-fire that was rush out of this meeting, it is not at all clear that it is going to be successful or effective, notably the part of syria that it is now engaged in that creates a cease-fire. it's not even clear that this will help. they haven't even worked out the details, one of the details that needs to be worked out is who is

actually going to police the cease-fire. i am hearing that they are talking about having russian police police the cease-fire. it would be inviting russia into this area. that is why israel is concerned. >> eric: what would that mean? you've got thousands of missiles, do you fear this type of cease-fire agreement could give iran that opening that they would need to be right on israel's border? >> i absolutely do and there is reason to fear it. israel has already seen some incursion, israel is very worried about it. although iran has precluded from going in there right now, in the future, if russia controls that area, iran will certainly go

back and that means iranian backed forces would create problems and setback the overall goal which is to create peace in syria. assad stepping down would bring and compromise. >> eric: assad showing no sign of going. israel will broach nothing when it comes to this. thank you for your insight and we will certainly get back to you as this develops. >> julie: a new report shedding light on former fbi director james comey's testimony, did he break the law? our legal panel will be bringing their knowledge to the table, the discussion when we return.

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>> julie: right now, a bombshell report shedding light on memos prepared by former fbi director james comey on his conversations with president trump. reports indicating he may have broken his own agency's rules when he shared at least one of those memos with a friend because some of them may have contained sensitive or classified material. let's discuss further with our legal panel. thank you very much for talking to us. just another day, more information, bombshell information, this one about these memos. he talked about them for a very long time, and then he got fired. there were a total of seven memos prepared after nine conversations he had with president trump. four of those memos are marked as classified at a secret or sensitive level.

it is what he did legal or not? >> i say absolutely not legal, here is why. it was considered property of the government, they were made following meetings he had with the president of the united states. these are not dear diary notations he was making out lunch, these were obviously government property. the second question is did they contain classified information and if the answer is yes, he committed a crime. >> julie: you had conversations with the president of the united states, you cannot possibly call these memos personal information. at this point, what makes him believe is the former fbi chief, he worked in the fbi, that any kind of information that he gleaned out of a meeting with the president of the united states in the white house would be personal information?

>> he wants you and i and your viewers to believe that, but the truth of the matter is, this was political leverage to get back at president trump, he released this information to initiate a special prosecutor being appointed to go after donald trump. in my mind, i look at this, i say this is more like playground politics. he has now resorted to acting in a juvenile matter. he is now saying i'm going to get back at you. but i have news for former director of comey. there is an fbi policy that every director, every agent has to sign. within that agreement, they say that they will not release any classified information unless there is written consent given by the fbi. here, no consent was obtained. i will go one step further, if i

was president trump, i would question whether comey did an investor investigation of hillary clinton. i think that investigation is toxic. >> basically he ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized hillary clinton on. the other question is, does robert mueller investigate james comey? >> somebody has it too. what he is doing is concocting his very own defense based on what he did in the hillary clinton investigation, he declined to prosecute hillary because he said we've got all this evidence of misdeeds but we can't prove that the intent was to commit those crimes. now he is saying basically the same thing, i did not intend to commit a crime so don't prosecute me, come on.

>> julie: we've got to go, but thank you. >> eric: the fight for charlie gard continues, the infant's survival hanging in the balance. his parents are back in port, cap next an update for the fight for their son. the roles you play in life are parlet's dance grandma! you. and you're not going to let anything keep you sidelined. come on! that's why you drink ensure. with nutritious calories 9 grams of protein, and 26 vitamins and minerals. that was the best one ever!

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>> coming up on the top of the 2:00 p.m. hour on the east coast, and off-camera white house briefing in a few moments. also, the democrats plan for the midterm was a lot like 2016. president obama, nancy pelosi, maybe even hillary clinton set to hit the campaign trail. and russia and the u.s. form of cease-fire in syria. but there are some other hands

in the pie, some are backing the rebels there. next on "america's news headquarters," i hope you will watch. >> eric: a case attracting global attention, the plight of little charlie gard. his parents back in the u.k.'s highest court, hoping they will be granted permission to take him home to our country for what they say is desperately needed treatment. >> and emotional appearance that brought a glimmer of good news. the judge today granted his impairments until wednesday to present research and set a new hearing for thursday. >> charlie's parents are forward to new evidence being presented before the high court this thursday, the 13th of july. that will result in his parents

taking him to either the united states of america or to italy for groundbreaking treatment. >> 11-month-old charlie has a rare disorder requiring a ventilator for him to breathe. >> we've been fighting for his medication since november, we are now in july. we feel it should be our right as parents to decide to give him a chance at life. >> their fight is not only for his life, it is also about parental rights and whether the government can be the moral authority. president trump has expressed support for charlie's parents. at least one u.s. hospital has offered to help charlie with experimental treatment. u.s. lawmakers are introducing legislation in the u.s. the parents have a page that raise more than $1.7 million so

far. >> eric: it is a heartbreaking struggle for those parents. >> julie: we are awaiting the daily white house briefing, which is being held off-camera today. stay right there, we will be back.

>> they gave her joining us. "america's newsroom hq" is starting now. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. where minutes away from the white house press briefing. we are told is off-camera this afternoon, and it is the first time since president trump return from europe. this is "america's newsroom hq," i am harris faulkner. getting a first crack at a first topics with the conference including differing accounts between president trump and vladimir putin. that conversation leading to a cease-fire agreement and syria, that went into effect yesterday. all this coming alongside controversy for donald trump, jr., who is defending his 2016 meeting with the russian lawyer. peter doocy is live for us outside the white house as we