coming up. we have anthony scaramucci on the show this weekend. we have a waterside, a petting zoo, and maybe we'll have anthony scaramucci on the waterslide. >> add some babies and you will have great ratings. >> sandra: a promising week began with president trump focusing on american jobs gets complicated. the implosion of the republican health care bill. questions about attorney general jeff sessions future, and a warning from president trump for special counsel robert mueller. how will the white house get it all back on track? good morning everyone, i am sandra smith live in "america's newsroom" this morning. happy friday to you. >> rick: i am rick leventhal. bill and shannon are off. the white house dismissing the heat on president trump as nothing more than pointless distractions from the media. kellyanne conway says the american people are not fooled. >> compared to what he's doing in the white house, even this week alone, such an incredible

week with health care reform, it made in week, he was independent on yesterday's briefings, commission of the uss gerald ford in virginia. it's just been a very exciting time where he's going to push forward and that's what america is looking for. >> rick: chief correspondent john roberts is live on the north lawn. john. >> good morning to you. if there is a side show kelly on recess, it has to be that the print president is partially responsible for that. this week was supposed to be all about made in america, driving the health care bill for, but all that went off the rails when the president gave that interview to "the new york times" the other day in which he publicly flogged to his attorney general, jeff sessions. what was supposed to be, i would think a triumphant press conference yesterday at the department of justice about an international effort to take down some websites that were trafficking in drugs and weapons and instead turned into -- whether just sweaters would resign. book here.

>> i have the honor of serving as attorney general, looks like something that goes beyond any thought that i would've ever had for myself. we love this job. we love this department and i plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate. >> later in the day, the white house sarah huckabee sanders in an answer the question set of the president does continue to have confidence in sessions. he does not plan on firing him, and it does not appear to want him to resign either. there is no question that he has put sessions in a very, very difficult position because now he will go forward as attorney general of the public perception that the president has absolutely lost confidence in him. one other note we understand that the mueller investigation has broadened out to look at the president's business deal as long as his family, at least in relation to some russian individuals, the president in that "new york times" article

has seemingly warned mueller expanding out beyond russia to look at his finances, but at the moment, that investigation appears to be zeroed in on russian business dealing. the present looks like you might be okay with that. the white house yesterday reiterated the president has no intention to fire special counsel at this point. >> rick: john, we are hearing about another possible shakeup in the communications office. >> anthony scaramucci he was no stranger to people who watch this network and the fox business network, he's on fox business network for a long time. he's in line for being white house communications director, which is to ignite some palace intrigue. this scaramucci was a prominent figure during the transition handling a lot of those communications, shepherding and people like general david pretorius for interviews with the president. he and the president are very close. he was supposed to take a job in the administration in the west wing earlier this year but got boxed out by the chief of staff, reince priebus.

he's not the import bank working for the president, but if he comes back here to the white house, it's bound to ignite some old rivalries. however, killian conway set up "fox & friends" this morning that he would be a valuable addition to the team. >> anthony scaramucci is somebody who has been an incredible -- he's one of the killers on tv. he goes out there and thinks the president is treated very unfairly. we don't get any of the economic news out there even though our communication tries. the president has confidence in all of the people who work for him and we know that anthony is someone who is a friend to the administration. >> i got to say that i personally note anthony scaramucci and he has a very reserve at reputation as a fighter. you will remember that not too long ago, cnn ran a story about scaramucci's business dealings with russia.

scaramucci told cnn that was not true. three people got fired as a result of that report. he's not the sort of guy to sit on the sidelines and just keep taking punches. he hits back hard. >> rick: i wonder if this means the press briefings will be back on camera again. >> they wouldn't be with him. they would be with the communications director. >> rick: do you think they would make that change? >> might do some on camera things, but the person when you think of construct or is dan bartlett from the bush white house. he was very close to the president and was doing all of the strategic communications for what the administration but not really going on camera a whole lot. >> rick: john roberts at the white house. we appreciate it. >> sandra: sarah huckabee sanders defending president trump's comments about attorney general jeff sessions, saying he was essentially just trumped being trumped. >> i don't believe that the president is undermining. i think he was being very candid

about feelings that he had to. as i said, he has confidence in his ability. >> sandra: for more now it's fox news editor chris stirewalt. good morning to you and happy friday. you got the friday suit on. let's talk about that "new york times" interview briefly. that really changed everything. there was a hopeful message to start the week, white house rolling out it's a made in america effort, and then everything changed with the interview. the messaging changed, the media headlines changed. look at where we are today compared to monday morning. >> let me put even a little finer point on that brush, which is you have the health care legislation, republicans have a sweep of cuts to obamacare that they want to pass in order to pay for it so that they can pay for it next year and prop up the problems for next year. it looked like it was dead. everybody said it was over and

they failed, and then the president had the meeting with the senators and got them around and really sold the law and acted like he cared about it, said that were not just going to pass something but said specific things about the legislation. he looked for a second like maybe this would work. within the same take come up within very same day, he went out and had the years has r he said he hits, paper that he says is so dishonest and failing is awful. that wasn't apparent you because he invited three of the reporters in the white house, sat down with them, and invented about his own attorney general and reactivated the story about russian collusion and it went all the way into all of the bad places. he crossed the message about made in america. he crushed the hope that republicans were able to get this health care law unpacked. he undid all of that because it is quite obvious that he cannot think about much other than this investigation. >> sandra: he did hold that lunch on wednesday he mentioned to rally the senator saying

let's get to work. in fact he said to them, one that received a lukewarm message according to senators we spoke this week, nobody should go home, nobody should leave here until we get something done. i will point out the senate floor has no open session today and not many of them are working. chris, is the message getting out. are they changing their game based on the implosion of health care that we have witnesses we? >> well, i don't want to overstate it. i don't want to say there is no chance of they will do something, because in the end they have to have a budget done by the end of september or there's going to be a partial government shutdown. they have the debt ceiling raised by middle of the beginning of september or they will default debate in crisis. there's other stuff they have to do. spending money on popping up obamacare for next year is going to be part of it. at some point they are going to do it. we should always remember, the idea about a real repeal and replacement left town, pretty

much come up when president obama left office and trump came in. the republicans made it clear they would be never able to pull that off. >> sandra: really interesting. our self interest senators points the blame on republican leadership and the senators for really dropping the ball at this point. ted cruz was on "fox & friends" a few minutes ago and said, we are to blame here. thank you very much. what will it take for republicans to get a deal done on health care? president trump says congress should keep working until it happens. coming up 10:30 a.m. eastern time, marco rubio on where negotiations stand and what he thinks it will take to get a deal done. >> rick: calling for a day of rage to protest new security measures at one of the holiest sites in jerusalem. israeli authorities taking no chances following last week's deadly terror attacks.

those tensions now spilling into neighboring jordan as thousands protest in the streets of them on about the the dash metal detectors. more with this. >> rick, you can see behind me, we are outside the lions' gate entrance to the temple mount compound in the old city. border police are positioned here. it is called -- you mentioned the classes. before we get to some of that video, i just want you to kind of follow me as we walk up here just to give you an idea, come up here david. the police have barricaded the road going up to the actual entrance to the old city. this has really been the center of the violence since friday, at last friday's attack, and then israel's decision to install the metal detectors outside the entrances to the temple mount. israel security cabinet last

night decided to keep the metal detectors in place despite concerns raised by the white house about that decision, and also of course, the anger and concerns among muslim leaders and palestinian leaders, palestinian authorities spoke with jared kushner yesterday and talked about this and the concerns that things will continue to escalate and possibly spiral out of control. today, overall, friday prayers were pretty much under control. there were clashes of the road just behind us here this afternoon, protesters throwing bottle rockets. we are also at another entrance where hundreds of people showed up for friday prayers. while there was a tense atmosphere, they were getting into position, it ended peacefully with the crowd dispersing. while it is calm, for now, that could change once the sun goes down.

temperatures cool off, it is very hot, and more people show up. >> rick: thank you very much. >> sandra: o.j. simpson soon to be a free man. >> i think i have kept my word. i have done my time. i would just like to get back to my family and friends. >> sandra: the juice gets paroled but can he stay out of trouble? we will put that question to alan dershowitz, a member of the 1995 defense team. >> rick: a deadly earthquake rocks a holiday resort setting thousands of tourists running for their lives. details of this developing story coming up. >> sandra: new reaction to president trump's criticism of jeff sessions, one of his earliest supporters. how will this affect the administration? our panel is here to debate that. first, here is tucker carlson. >> he's mostly the most effective member of trump cabinet. in return, the president attacked him and the feeling of touch.

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well as the equally passionate arguments against it. >> i am no danger to anybody. i never have in my life, i've never been accused of it in my life. nobody has ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. >> you are saying a classic sociopath, a narcissist, maybe even a psychopath, and he is talking, manipulating the you >> i was that i have been pretty good with people. i basically have spent a conflict free life. i'm not a guy that ever got in fights on the street with the public. >> to me what was missing in that room and dismissed almost by the commissioners on the parole board were the mutilated bodies of o.j. simpson's ex-wife and her friend ron goldman. he almost cut her head off. >> rick: joining out is alan dershowitz who was on simpson's defense team when he was tried for murder back in 1995. you remember the dream team that helped acquit o.j.

>> the prosecution bundled the case. that's my job. i am proud of the role i played. i helped expose police planting of evidence. i helped expose much racism in the country. my job and the job of every defense attorney is to cross examine, challenge the government's case and leave it to the jury to make decisions. imagine a country without -- you can't imagine if you go to russia, go to china, you go to cuba. if anybody is in trouble and your family, you want a zealous defense. >> rick: you want a great defense, but at the same time, you had a guy in all likelihood who committed a double murder and he walked free. >> you blame the prosecution for that. they decided to put on a socket evidence that clearly had been tampered with by the police. they decided to put the person who you just saw, who had a racist history on the stance, they decided to try the glove on

and i was right there in front of the jury when they could have tried the glove on outside of the presence of the jury and seeing whether it would fit. they made every wrong decision in the case, point the finger of responsibility at them, not at those of us who constitutional protections for it. >> rick: yesterday's hearing was fascinated to many, especially when o.j. told the parole board that he was a good guy and a lived a conflict free life. it sounds like he's a man into my appearance because now you understand how smart our decision was not to put them on the witness stand. there were many who said put them on the witness stand. we didn't put him on the witness stand because we knew he would not make a good witness. if the prosecution have been as smart as we were entered and confirmed on the witness stand, they may very well may have won back case. they never said he held a weapon but i don't know if that is true. >> rick: we know that he clubbed two people to death. >> we don't know that. the jury acquitted him.

he's not obligated to repeat the prosecution's version. >> rick: would you agree that infidelity was his biggest offense? that's what he told the parole board. >> that's all we didn't put him on the witness stand. i was in his lawyer yesterday. >> rick: what was your reaction to hearing him yesterday? >> i was very happy that he was paroled but it shouldn't have been necessary. he got a tenfold increase in his sentence for a minor, minor crime that he would've gotten three years because of what geraldo rivera believes, namely, that he made it a double murder. the double jeopardy clause of our constitution says want to have been acquitted, remember our constitution also says -- that's part of our system and it's unfair to then take revenge on him and multiply his sentence for a small crime because you believe he committed a big crime for what he was acquitted. that's our legal system. >> rick: o.j. says he's going

to move to florida. there's talk about a reality show. what your advice to him? >> >> o.j. calls me, i'm going o tell them, o.j. do what -- stay out of the public light, go to your family, lived a quiet, quiet life. he was a divisive character, he should not remain in the public view. that would be my advice to him. >> rick: we will see if he listens. thank you very much. sandra. >> sandra: thank you. much more on what's next for the juice. judge jeanine pirro will join us next hour. >> rick: breaking news on of the state department on the u.s. and north korea. with the trump administration may now be doing to stop americans from traveling to that rogue regime. >> sandra: all right pushing for tax reform, saying that g.o.p. is close to consensus. >> we want the senate to keep working at it until we get this right. don't forget, obamacare is

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>> rick: an international manhunt now turning up some leads in the case of six missing teenagers from the country of parenti who vanished after a robotics competition in washington. now two of them apparently seen crossing the border into canada. this according to the d.c. police who also see the search is still underway. they say there are no signs of foul play. >> sandra: house speaker paul ryan said he is confident the tax overhaul will get done this year, saying that g.o.p. is close to consensus on reform. he made the announcement yesterday at a new balance factory in boston. peter doocy was there and had a chance to sit down with ryan. he joined us now live. peter, good morning.

tax reform, i will ask this question to you. 5 minutes before the opening bell on wall street, it does a taxi from have to obamacare to be repelled? the market would certainly like to know. >> the speaker told us yesterday that even if obamacare falls flat, the congress has places that they can look for money to pay for tax reform. >> we still can do tax reform, regardless of what happens on health care reform. we already put in a contingency plan for that. we will do tax reform no matter what happens in respect to any other issues like health care reform because we know we have to do tax reform. it's a once in a generation opportunity. >> ryan played a pitch for tax reform came on the floor of a new balance factory. their ceo says there could be new balance factory like that one if congress creates a friendlier tax code. ryan says that is coming in the

fall and he is also preparing to vote again on health care, hoping that the senate doesn't just send back a straight repeal bill. ryan said back in may they be voted on a repeal and replace measure and he holds that that is what the senate sent back at some point. >> sandra: is the speaker worried that since they haven't passed major legislation thus far, but that is a sign of what's to come? >> no, not yet. i asked him for one big law that he has passed to go home to voters and say "look, senate has passed big laws" and they said they've been very busy. >> most of what we do and congress is bipartisan. we just passed a big overhaul of our military, a big upgrade in our military the other day, with a huge bipartisan vote. we just passed an overhaul of our career technical education system that came out of the house a month ago. big pipe cement bipartisan vote.

>> ryan says a lot of the big bipartisan measures that are passing the house and getting signed by the president are not getting as much attention as i normally would because there is so much attention in the press about rush appears to be what i learned something today. new balance, at the factory are walking in with the speaker, only athletic shoes made in america? >> >> they are the only major brand that makes sneakers and to make in america. the ceo said yesterday stood right next to the speaker right is that if you clean up the tax code, we will build more factories like this one. you will see the speaker making more trips like this one as they begin to make the push for tax reform. >> sandra: bertie landed on my shoulder and told me it was your birthday. happy birthday, sir. >> thank you, sandra. >> sandra: peter doocy, thank you. >> rick: the youngest-looking 50-year-old i have ever seen. >> sandra: happy birthday to

him. >> rick: 50 years old! >> sandra: oh, stop. >> rick: there are new questions surrounding the future of jeff sessions after criticism from trump. was he calling out one of his most loyal backers a smart move? >> sandra: president trump's executive order cracking down on sanctuary city's suffering and other legal setback. will the supreme court having another fight on his hand? >> the century city stuff is unbelievable, it's unbelievable, it's unbelievable that we can allow to happen in this country is unbelievable. whoooo. going somewhere? here's some advice. tripadvisor now searches more than 200 booking sites to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird's words.

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>> the pressure is still this morning. you can wind up lashing at the people around you, especially the ones trying to help you the most. that's probably what's going on. and yet, attacking jeff sessions was still a useless, self-destructive act. the first rule and politics as a more and as a lead, don't shoot the friendly's. sessions is the closest ally trump has in this administration. >> sandra: tucker carlson disagreeing with trump's criticism of attorney general jeff sessions. the president's remarks raising questions of his future in the administration appeared quite a turn for the first major republican to back the president during the campaign. juan williams is the author of "we the people" and that brian is a former speechwriter for president george w. bush. good morning to you both. wonderful to see you. ned i will start with you first. criticizing one of your earliest and most loyal backers.

it was this a good move for the president? >> the president, you could say that he feels defrauded by what took place with no conversation, no heads up, recused himself. i think the thing people are still marketing with donald trump is, he's not going to play the usual d.c. parlor games. he's been upset, he is upset with what the doj is doing. if you look at what is going out the special counsel, he's very upset. sessions recused himself. rod rosenstein writes a memo and for all purposes trump policy memo. only in a world that is removed from common sense and rational thought does this all makes sense. on top of that, you have mueller's team he's put together with people, quite frankly, are conflicted and so my different ways. one of them work for the clinton foundation last year, especially on the case fighting to prevent emails from coming out about the private email server. there is a lot of frustration that is taking place and it was shot across the bow. we will see what happens after

this. >> sandra: you are clearly agreeing with the president could and should be frustrated. even those who say, he's got a good point, juan, did you have to criticize your earliest and most loyal backers in such a public way in an interview with "the new york times"? >> i think he eventually asked for his resignation. the obsessions, the attorney general, this is not news. the president has expressed his of discontent. he previously turned out sessions' offer of research to back resignation. it reverberates through the trump world. we are talking about people who are loyal and say at the president always values loyalty. why would he turn on jeff sessions, the first member of the u.s. senate to endorse him? he introduced donald trump at rallies and the like. i think it creates a sense that maybe loyalty is a one-way street here and that's not good for the president.

>> sandra: as far as the future of jeff sessions, here's where charles krauthammer says the future of sessions. >> he's obviously lost the confidence of the president. they're not going to say because if they say he has to resign and he doesn't want to resign. i think this sort of root limits. it's only a matter of time. >> i think that is correct. going to juan's point. i think only 26% of the americans think this russia deal is any part of a big deal. sessions accusing him because this whole chain of events and made a bigger story than most people think it is. trump, again, sessions was one of the earlier supporters, his actions have led us to this point were we have a special counsel, that quite frankly, i agree. it's only what you witch hunt g into the finances of donald trump. he will be met with a couple interesting choices coming up. do you let this continue on? he can pull the plug on it.

>> sandra: you bring up a perfect point to bring up that just yesterday, the president completed his first six months in office. trump, obamacare, and the ark of the field. if the president continues to show he doesn't have a toolbox for this job, he's going to go from not gaining support, which is where he is now to losing support. he is not magic, and they are not stupid. six months and, juan, does he look at his covering in his first six months and make any changes? >> so far, he has the republican base behind him. republicans still support donald trump. the question is going forward with the problems that he has had passing health care legislation, going into the fall and looking toward tax reform, if you don't see some traction here, do republicans start to bail, especially when you see something like the attack on sessions, 20 see the white house and people who are loyal started to question what is going on? that is not good for this presidency, it's not good for the nation because he is our

leader. i will say this, i think that he has to express some confidence. charles krauthammer said it wasn't act of no confidence in sessions. at some point he needs to say, i understand the process, i am a dealmaker, but there's no way to talk your way out of this. >> i would say, if he goes down toward the legislative agenda and gets tax reform past, considers what he does with the future of the special counsel, i think if they passed tax reform into 2018, i think they will all be on it. either pull the plug now for this will be going on years from now. make a decision. >> sandra: juan williams, ned ryan, thank you. >> rick: president trump's executive order cracking on a show called centura cities could be suffering another legal bloke. a federal judge in california refusing to reverse his own injunction blocking the order from taking effect. what will the doj do now. live in less and just this.

>> what comes next? has a legal and options, neither one is -- issued by the president in january, slashed money from jurisdictions that refuse to help i.c.e. deport illegal immigrants. chico california cities sued saying the president cannot take any or all of their money. attorney general jeff sessions agreed. saying that it can only suspend subsidies related to immigration. that's more consistent with the law. if this federal judge, and obama appointee who raised him $200,000 in campaign for the ex-president, rejected that argument not once but twice, leaving california officials. >> jeff sessions has had to narrow his definition of a sanctuary city. his plan to punish so-called sanctuary cities by withholding

federal grant dollars has been rejected. by a court of law. >> what comes next? jeff sessions is still considering taking millions mif federal grant money from jurisdictions. he urged politicians to reconsider shielding criminal aliens from deportation. >> these jurisdictions are protecting criminals that under the law should be deported. >> options, the judge is really in the area where the executive branch has a lot of latitude. it can appeal to the circuit or jump directly to the supreme court. a critic strengthen existing existing one but they have to go through the senate and vigorously oppose that. >> rick: nothing has been easy so far for this administration. thank you. >> sandra: a brain tumor not

enough for john mccain blasting the trump administration over a new serial port coming the president wants to stop arming u.s.-syria rebels. we will look into that next. >> rick: new details on a tragic shooting death of a minneapolis -- by police officer. the police department finally speaks out on the case. >> told him we were sorry for his loss and he should not have had this happen. again, justine did not have to die. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. and it's also a story mail aabout people and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you

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>> sandra: new developments this morning with the minneapolis police department speaking out for the first time about the killing of justine damond. she is the australian woman who was shot dead by officer mohamed noor. the officer was responding to the 911 call she made report a possible assault behind her home. >> these were the actions and judgments of one individual. i want to assure justine's

family, our community, and those in australia, that i will do everything in my power to make sure to process is followed and justice is served. >> sandra: reportedly, justine damond was shot because the officer was reacting to a loud bang he heard before damond approached the driver side of his squad car. >> rick: just one day after being diagnosed with brain cancer. senator john mccain slamming the trump administration for ending a cia program that armed moderate syrian rebels. the senator, issuing a statement, saying "if these reports are true, the administration is playing right into the hands of vladimir putin, making any concessions to russia, absent a broader strategy for syria, is a responsible and shortsighted." marie harf is a fox news contributor. in your peak is a former u.s. army intelligence officer who advised u.s. and nato commander in afghanistan. enter, let's start with you. could this be under the advice

of general mattis and the president national defensive? >> it absolutely could. i think john mccain is wrong on this. the decision to stop arming arab rebels in syria does not mean trump is given up on the goal of moving assad. it's a continuation of a strategic position back and jane are to arm the kurds and focus on them and not the arabs. in a longer run, it is a better way of not forcing a political transition in syria. assad supporters will be faced with a choice of sticking with him in accepting half a country, or getting rid of him in some kind of political reconciliation and getting with the kurds. >> rick: there barbara concerns about putting weapons in the hands of people we don't really know a portion it be trusted. >> has certainly been a concern but senator mccain actually is right here. the two countries that have always hated the cia training program are russia and iran.

by ending this training program, we are playing right into the hands of tehran and moscow, who are propping up the assad regime. i've spoken to a lot of my former colleagues at the cia who are very concerned about ending this program, particularly when we haven't heard a comprehensive strategy for syria. we will promised that we will get a strategy for president trump on isis. we still haven't heard that. i don't know how the administration views the future of assad. they have yet to state whether their plan is. that's concerning. >> rick: senator mccain also criticized a lack of strategy in afghanistan. it's safe to assume that this was discussed in yesterday's pentagon meeting. we were told it would be. >> that's right. i think they did a tour of the world and to help us they focus a lot on afghanistan because it is the longest war in america's history. we haven't heard a lot from president trump or his team about how they view what the goals there should be.

if there is a decision to send more american men and women in uniform over there which is on the table, they need to very articulate to the american people why they are going, what the goal is, and how we are going to achieve that. yet another place we haven't heard a strategy get from this administration. >> rick: andrew, you know that very well. do you think we need to be sending more troops there? >> at the president's right to tell the military leaders to go back to the drawing board. i don't know why going from 8400 troops in afghanistan to an additional 3,000 to 5,000 more which is what we are considering doing, will have more results than obamacare starting with 30,000 troops in afghanistan going to a hundred thousand. what's important is the money. historically, afghan governments have been stable when they are able to buy off their enemies, not when they've been able to crush them. >> rick: i want to move on to north korea. the administration has now announced that it will be an american citizens from traveling to north korea following the death of otto warmbier.

this geographical restriction will make the u.s. passport to enter the country illegal. good move? >> absolutely. i think it's a very good move. it's an unusual move that we don't restrict them from traveling overseas, but given what we have seen from north korea especially with the tragic case of otto warmbier, i think this is the right call. >> rick: new poll stressed that there is a slight word down poll of direction to stop the nuclear program and are prepared what you think about that? >> i think that will sustained, just as long as north korea doesn't retaliate at all. once north korea takes the obvious retaliation action, which is showing seal, that support for military strike will decline dramatically. that's a misleading statistic. >> rick: we have to leave it there. >> i agree with andrew on that. >> rick: thank you very much.

>> sandra: what is the best course of action for president trump and north korea? he is coming up in the next hou hour. >> rick: o.j. simpson will soon be a new man. can he stay out of trouble? judge jeanine pirro joins us for that and a lot more. >> i wish this would have never happened. i can't do anything about this media circus that's kind of going on right now. i would have made a better judgment back then, none of this would've happened. i take full responsibility. tech: when you schedule with safelite autoglass,

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>> sandra: the bible is notably the most read book and the world and marked back arguably the most of bated and now will have its own museum. it stands a mere three blocks from the u.s. capitol and the construction of the museum of the bible is now in its final

stages. fox news got a hard hat tour of what to expect. lauren green joins us now with more. good morning. >> more bibles in circulation today than any time in history, but at the same time, the understanding of the bible is at an all-time low. they focus on the stories of the bible, and more importantly the impact of the bible. >> there is no book in history that has been more vilified and influential than the bible. this fall, a museum devoted to it will look like this. right now, it looks and sounds more like this. the museum of the bible will be the longest dedicated to the judeo-christian holy work. >> comes on with 140 feet long. it's about 15-foot wide, but because of the channel class, it will two to three times as large. >> he gave fox a hard hat tour

of the 430,000 square-foot building dollar project. he displayed the first iconic words of the bible "in the beginning." he explains why innate age of religious strife and fewer people, the bible museum is more than necessary. >> is the most impactful book in the world no matter what views you have of the bible. it's the most banned book of in the world. it's the most debated work in the world. >> one section is devoted to the bible in america and its influence on the president and founding fathers. world history, cultures, science, art, and literature. >> one of the roles of the museum was to put the bible and back in the center of the conversation. >> at the museum will contain one if not the largest collection of biblical artifacts from all over the world. it will open doors to the public in november 2017.

>> sandra: thank you for the inside look, lauren green. >> rick: a busy hour ahead on this friday. our lawmakers making progress on health care and tax reform. marco rubio will join us live. >> sandra: a lot to talk to him about. plus the russian investigation is expanding. donald trump, jr., and paul manafort asked to testify next week. more on this in a moment. >> this is a very dangerous witch hunt that mueller keeps expanding because they can't find anything in the original charge. they will not find anything about trumpian trump in russia.

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>> sandra: new science the republican push for health care and tax reform has stalled. the president has urged lawmakers to cancel august recess until they pass a new health care legislation. it is all quiet on the hill today. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i am sandra smith and for shannon bream. look who is here.

>> rick: rick leventhal and for bill bremmer. pleasure to be here. the house and senate have left town for the weekend and it seems that both on health care and tax reform won't come anytime soon. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. what are the expectations heading into next week? >> i just talked to key republican senator in the hallway who described health care reform push as being like a puzzle. they're still trying to make it all fit together to get 50 republican senators to yes. >> the fight to move beyond the status quo of obamacare was certainly never going to be eas easy. but we've come a long way, and i look forward to continuing our work together to finally bring relief. >> even after outlets meetings here and capitol hill and the involvement of the president, vice president, and 13, there sn senators who don't sound convinced about getting behind this effort. >> i don't think this bill

repeals the affordable care act in adult tickets the appropriate replacement. it's a pretty high threshold and will be something substantially different. >> that is congress speak for better care reconciliation act. i know you are wondering, rick. >> rick: it must be pretty quiet there in the rotunda with everybody gone for the weekend. >> it is very quiet. >> rick: how are democrats gearing up for that vote next week? >> they are mocking the uncertainty of the moment. they say they don't even know what the republicans plan to vote on next week. >> we democrats don't know what our republican friends are planning to vote on next week. i'll bet many republicans don't know yet either. what would -- what we do know is that a $200 billion slush fund tacked onto a bill that would got medicaid and other services by well over a trillion dollars

is like putting an old band-aid on a bullet wound. >> i'm told that preliminary vote in the senate is likely tuesday, but the situation is all very fluid. as for tax reform, a lot of folks on the hill are saying that is a fall and late in the year-type exercise. >> rick: mike emanuel, thanks very much. the near time is shaping up to be a quote some of republicans on the hill and the p suggest the president is largely to blame for the lack of progress on their ambitious agenda. steve hayes fox news contributor. we sell republicans and democrats play baseball game after representative scalise was shot and there was supposed to be a sign they were coming together. they can play together, but they won't work together? >> there are only symbolic moment in washington, d.c., were people who think bipartisanship get excited.

this is as partisan that washington has been in years. i expected to remain so. that's not the room real problm here. it's the republicans unable to get something done with the majority and the house and senate and the white house. three to houses took today off. >> took today off, but they had decided to stay into august and you got senate leader suggesting that they are going to get back to work and they're going to try again on health care. there is a slim chance of success because the basics, the fundamentals of this law and this debate, are not working in republicans favor right now. give some republican senators who are too conservative, some who think a stupid liberal. it's deeply unpopular across the country. the process by which this final legislation was produced is something that leaves a lot of republicans uncomfortable. >> rick: nancy pelosi said something to affect that this has been the worst six months in the history of the presidency. would you agree with that?

>> that's exactly what you would expect nancy pelosi to say. nancy pelosi would've said the same thing with her ted cruz or jeb bush had been elected. that's what nancy pelosi does. >> rick: there's no question that there has been trouble. you hear this when you talk to republicans in the house and senate privately that they are looking for more leadership from donald trump and they are not getting it. it is not able to talk about the details of the policy, particularly with respect to health care in way that he thinks he needs to be able to do. when you have these conversations and you are trying to get that one or two left the votes, you can make a serious policy pitch for why this is better for the country, why it's necessary. "the new york times" has an op-ed today that because the effort to repeal and replace obamacare "an embarrassing popcorn for the drama." >> that's what you'd expect "the new york times" to say. just like nancy pelosi. it may be the nancy pelosi left

on that. they have a point. this has been a bad moment for republicans after seven years of promising to repeal and replace. they haven't been able to do it. the legislation they produce in the house and the senate does not shift the country towards a more free-market path in health care, which is what republican said they would do. >> rick: next week, donald trump, jr., jared kushner, and paul manafort all scheduled to testify before committees. i wonder if you think this is going to be a pivotal moment for this initiation. >> if they end up testifying, i certainly think it will be an interesting moment. one of the things that has been serious about the way the the p white house has been able to attack it, they have been very transparent in some respect, but they have been willing to talk about this in ways that sometimes get their lawyers headaches. donald trump, jr., gave his interview to sean hannity. the president gave interviews to

"new york times" and other times talking about these issues. if they testify, i i think they can expect some difficult questions from democrats and republicans as well. i think it's a good thing for the country. i think democrats should be more transparent. i think the white house should be more transparent. this kind of radical transparency will give the public some insight as to what actually happened here on both sides. both sides are making charges against one another. we should see it from the inside out, if that's possible. >> rick: steve hayes in washington, have yourself a great weekend. >> sandra: russia's involvement in syria, one of the pressing issues being discussed at the annual aspen security form. mike pompeo saying he doesn't expect moscow to leave anytime soon. arguing that the russians "love to stick it to america." >> we are certainly trying to find places where we can work alongside the russians, but we don't have the same set of

interest there, and so, from an intelligence perspective, we are staring at the places we can find to achieve american outcomes and our country's best interest and not theirs. >> sandra: catherine herridge is there live in aspen. catherine, what else of the cia say about russia? >> russia really tries to make a case that is in syria against isis, but the cia director told the forum here in aspen that is not what he is seeing. >> do you see any evidence that russia has actually pursued a serious strategy against isis as opposed to more moderate rebels we have supported or otherwise tolerate? >> no. only the most minimal. >> the cia director was also asked what her russia's interest in the region and he pointed specifically to the seaport on the mediterranean and he also said that russia is always

looking for opportunities, simply to mess with the u.s. >> they love a warm water naval port and they love ticket america. they can find anyway to make make our life more difficult. from intelligence perspective, they have the clear intention to remain there. >> cia director said he does not see a future with assad, and that's going to be one of the sticking point with russia because of their long relationship. >> sandra: pompeo was very critical of the iran deal and the congressman. did he have anything to say about that? >> there is no daylight between his hawk's position in congress and what we are saying in his new job as a cia director. he made this interesting analogy of the deal, a lot of us may be able to identify it calling iran compliance a nightmare. >> i kind of think of irani in compliance with the nuclear deal like a bad tenant, they don't pay their rent and they sent

another one and it doesn't clear. the next day, there's an old old tired sofa in the front yard and you tell them to take away, and you know, they drag it to the back. this is irradiance compliance today. >> the cia director hinted that there is going to be a policy shift in the way this administration deals with iran. the president has really gone out of his way to feel this coalition with the the and thas going to be pushed back against in the region. >> sandra: catherine herridge, thank you. >> rick: we are just days away from paul manafort and donald trump, jr., possible appearance on capitol hill to testify what they do or do not know about possible ties to russia. judge jeanine pirro joins us to give us or take. >> sandra: the president's pick to replace james comey as one step closer to heading up the fbi. what christopher wray needs to do next. >> rick: o.j. simpson getting his first big step toward

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>> rick: a fox news alert, john roberts is confirming that anthony scaramucci is meeting with president trump at the white house this hour. scaramucci is a wall street

veteran and worked on president trump's transition team, but he could be named the next white house communications director. amid reports of a shakeup looming in the white house media team. we will bring you any new information as soon as we get i it. >> sandra: both donald trump, jr., and paul manafort scheduled to sit before the senate judiciary committee next week, but neither of them had said publicly yet if they are going to appear. senators threatening to send them a subpoena if they do not. >> i don't know if they will accept it. we sent a letter and asked them for appearance. we also, i think, made it apparent that -- i don't know if we set it in the letter or not, we indicated to them publicly that we would subpoena if they don't come. >> sandra: joined me now, jeanine pirro. thank you for being here. i was getting a little caught up because we are in this discussion about whether or not they would accept or not accept it. as far as we know, we are not

reporting that they have accepted, but we heard in the office, he doesn't even know whether or not he's accepted but if they are scheduled and if they don't agree voluntarily, they are subpoenaing. >> they are scheduled which is interesting. they are scheduled for the 26. if they don't appear then, they will be subpoenaed. there's no question about there. jared kushner has already agreed to a appear before senate entails. that will be behind closed doors. this will not be because it's a senate judiciary and not intel. >> sandra: josh roberts is confirming about kushner's appearance before the many, it was negotiated as an interview with staff. he says that this means that while he will be speaking on the record, he is not expected to be under oath. the interview is with the staff, but it is possible that some members will also be there. we know that about that meeting, but don, jr., and manafort, do they have to speak? >> if they don't show up, they will be subpoenaed.

if they don't speak, they will be held in contempt of congress. we have seen this happen before. my instincts are that they will speak. they've indicated that they will. it's up to the lawyers. at last minute they could pull out, try to arrange some agreement, try to have parameters on it, limits to what they talk about. this is a political game. this is not about finding the facts as much as it is each side positing their own theory as to what happened at this meeting. even a lawyer that manafort, jarrett, and don, jr., have admitted they met with his disguised as a russian government lawyer. she's not a russian government lawyer, she's a russian lawyer. there is so much out there that contradicts. here's the issue. the issue is this is a danger zone. whenever you go in and you say

something inconsistent and if you are put under oath, then it's perjury. prosecutors do it all the time. >> sandra: whether we think it's warranted or not, at this russian investigation is certainly expanding. it's out of control. trump unloading on one of his biggest and early supporters this week, jeff sessions. i have to get your take on that. saying, if i knew he was going to recuse himself, this russia thing has gotten so big, that's been a big part of the story for the white house. >> i love jeff sessions, he is one of the most honorable people and d.c. he's got integrity. he's recuse himself in a case where honestly i wouldn't have recuse myself. think about loretta lynch and all that happened with the prior administration. she actually had a meeting with the husband of someone who was a target of a criminal, active, criminal investigation. she has recused herself. that becomes political. the rules are different now. we've got donnie, jr., in the

crosshairs. we've got jared kushner, the son-in-law. the truth is the president has no control because sessions is out. we know the deputy ag is going to be out because of rod rosenstein work there. he's out of the investigation. that's why mueller has this total control over everything that's going on in the white house. >> sandra: now the president's firing warning shots at mueller saying don't take into my family's finances. >> i don't blame him. this is a fishing expedition. mueller and his staff is conflicted. mueller started by trying to assess the credibility between jim comey and the president. isn't that where we started? mueller is like this with jim comey. they are pals. >> sandra: you don't think it's a fair investigation? >> i don't think it can be. the people they are hiring, the connection so they democrats, is an indication to me that there is an agenda here. the fact that they are going so far beyond the mandate of special counsel tells me that

this is not a good sign. >> sandra: i want to throw now to o.j. simpson to get your take on this. this was him saying that he takes full responsibility yesterday. >> i wish this would have never happened. i apologize. there's nothing that i can do about this media circus that is going on right now, but i can do something about the whole thing in the beginning. i would've made a better judgment back then. none of this would have happene happened. i take full responsibility. >> sandra: if only i could have been in a room with judge jeanine watching that you say because i am sure you were glued to the tv watching that. what is next for o.j. simpson? >> he will be released on parole is what's next. conditions of parole be very specific. he will be on a tight leash, a short lease, and he's got to be careful. if he does a reality show, if there's anything connection to the death of rod goldman and nicole brown simpson, that will

be attacked by the judge that event leveled against him in the civil suit for the homicide. the guy is a boldfaced liar, he's a serial murderer, and he's got a whole kind of raid issues. >> sandra: obviously don't believe he should be a free man? >> i disagree. i'm going to surprise you. he should be a free man and i will tell you why. that sentence that he went in on whistle beyond the pale. i did this for 30 years. this guy was sentence for a crime that he was acquitted of. i think he should be in jail for life. beyond that. the law is the law. we have to respect it. you do not sentence someone based upon their ability to get an acquittal in another case. >> sandra: will he stay out of trouble? >> i think the guy is scared to death. he doesn't want to die impression, but what do i know. >> sandra: thank you for being here. good to see her. req. >> rick: we have breaking news out of the state department on

north korea. the trump administration what they may be doing to help americans from kim jong-un's rogue regime. congressman ron desantis will be here. >> sandra: and for all of the allegations about the administration being close to russia, washington is now working on slapping more sanctions on the kremlin. how that could impact president trump's and putin's working relationship? >> g.o.p. senators couldn't forge a way forward on health care, president had them over for lunch. where do we stand now? florida senator marco rubio was there and he will be here next. help people find their way. fastsigns designed new directional signage. and got them back on track. get started at fastsigns.com.

>> sandra: we are getting an update on the crash and killed seven american sailors last month off the coast of japan. u.s. official telling fox news that crewmembers aboard the

uss fitzgerald made mistakes that led to the collision and that a number of people "should have spoken up." a philippine cargo vessel slammed into the ship, ripping a hole in the star board side causing several compartments to flood. the investigation into the crash is ongoing. >> rick: lawmakers working on a bill to replace more sanctions on russia and limit the president's ability to rollback any of these penalties. that is likely to be pushed forward by the g.o.p. led house despite plenty of pushback from the white house. garrett cheney's live from d.c. this is one piece of legislation that seems to have bipartisan support. >> congress wants to send a -- for messing with our elections. this had an overwhelming bipartisan support. there is a lot of concern about can support that they could put

with desire to improve with russia. including provisions that could allow to block any attempt by the president to ease penalties against moscow. the white house has been lobbying hard against republicans in the house to vote against the bill saying it will limit their ability to negotiate with other countries. here's mark short at the white house. >> our concern is that the legislation we believe such an unusual precedent of delegating foreign policy to 535 members of congress by not including certain national security waivers that have always been consistent in the past. speak up despite pressure from from -- the bill will likely pass before the august recess and return to the senate before reaching the president's desk. the white house is not said if the president will sign it or be the first veto of his presidency. >> rick: h your understanding the house is looking to make some changes, but right now those are not expecting to

return some power to the president. >> that's what the white house has been looking for. top senators told us yesterday that there've not been any discussion about taking place. some in the house have come from a change that republicans put and that would prevent democrats from having any ability to block the president's sanctions on their own. they've also expressed some concern that the sanctions could impact their ability to business with russian companies, and that's something we are told that they are now working through. >> rick: garrett tenney in washington. >> sandra: another week comes and goes with no vote on health care reform. the president stepping up the pressure on capitol hill to get some things done soon. will next week bring some progress? florida senator marco rubio joins us live next. >> rick: family and friends coming to o.j. simpson's defense and his parole hearing. the former football star to be set free at a later date probably this fall. we will learn more next.

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>> rick: what comes next for o.j. simpson? in a battle repoll board voted unanimously to release him nearly a decade after he led an armed robbery. one of those men testifying in support yesterday of his release. >> is time for to go home to his family, his friends. this is a good man who made a mistake. if you call me tomorrow and said, bruce, i am getting out, would you pick me up? i will be here tomorrow. i mean that, brother.

>> rick: dan springer has the latest. dan, that was a fascinating couple of hours of television yesterday. >> i can tell you it's not going to be tomorrow for his body, the dealer who was the victim and his armed robbery here in nevad nevada. o.j. simpson will spend at least the next month or so in the same prison that he has spent the last nine years in northern nevada. during that time, they will work on a release plan, which will include exactly where he will live, when he is to check in with his parole officers, and all the new rules we will be living under, such as no illegal drugs, no hanging out with balance, and no getting drunk. he must admit to using a breathalyzer and could be sent back to prison. many of his former attorneys does not have a lot of confidence in him. >> everyone is talking about him being free. he is not. he is on something called a

legal restraint. parole is not going to be easy for him. it's going to be almost like a dog on a leash. i don't say that in a bad way, but he's going to have a parole officer who is going to him what he can do and what he can't do. if he doesn't follow it, he's going to be back in prison. >> simpson will be set to a halfway house just before his release which is scheduled sometime on or after october 1st. the prison system will not tell us exactly when he will be out, but we expect them to go to florida after the halfway house where he has his two youngest children. >> rick: dan springer and lovelock. thank you. >> sandra: health care reform stalling for republicans as the week comes and goes with no vote on capitol hill. the house and senate have left town for the week and amid growing pressure from the white house to pass legislation as quickly as possible. >> we would like the congress and the senate to do its job to

pass health care reform. as the president said the other day at the lunch, and i was right there, he looked at them very politely and said i figured six months, you have been promising this for seven years. i am ready pent in hand. >> sandra: joining us now, marco rubio. thank you for being here. another week has come and gone with no vote on health care. where do things stand? >> i still think we will get something done. i want to get this done right, but i also want to get it done in a timely fashion. one of the things that have happened i was companies all across the country have been ready to file rates for 2018 and the individual states, so it's important to give them some level of certainty about what te future looks like. that's one of why i analyze it. i ran for election in 2010 on the promise of repealing and replacing obamacare. i was reelected in 2016 with the same promise. i will keep that promise. i am prepared to vote for a bill to repeal or a vote to repeal

place. i want to influence the direction that goes, but ultimately, it would truly believe that obamacare has been a if our country. anything that makes it better than what is right now, within our principles and the promises we made, that's what we should do. if we don't, people have a right to ask themselves was the point of having republicans if they are going to do what they say when they ran for office. >> sandra: how would you describe the frustration of the president? we know there were several meetings with you and your colleagues. we know that nobody should leave until something gets done. what sense are you getting from him? >> my sense is that this is someone who is not a politician who just got elected president who had been hearing republicans for the better part of eight or nine years replacing repealing obamacare and he got here in the majority in the house and in the senate, how come republicans want to republican things? why won't they pass with a been to telling people they will do for a long time? you can go into the debate about

the differences of opinion, which i respect on different professions of the law, but ultimately someone with the president who is not a politician, i imagine he is truly puzzled by why won't republicans do what they said they were going to do all these years when they were in the minority and asking people for congressional majority. >> sandra: there is certainly a lot of blame getting thrown around. in a piece in "the wall street journal" this morning, our self-interested senators, "mitch mcconnell busted pretty much every movement and his effort to rally 50 votes for an obamacare replacement. he's listen, he's negotiated, he's encourage, he's cajoled, lather, rinse, repeat. it's time for mitch mcconnell to make this all about his self interested members." is that fair? >> i don't know. it's important for us to narrow it down and out we are talking about. we are not talking about the system. this is not deal with the va or medicare or people that have

coverage through their employers, which is the vast majority of america's premier are debating medicaid and the individual market. i think the debate is about medicaid. there are people who believe that we are going beyond simply rolling back expansion. we are actually reforming the future path of medicaid. this is more than just obamacare repeal and replace. this is entitlement reform. i want us to reformat and put it on a sustainable path. that's the one place where you are seeing some friction with a handful of members in the senate on the republican side who are arguing, why are we doing so much on medicaid? let's only deal with the parts of medicaid that obamacare dealt with and not add any additional elements to it. >> sandra: i want to talk a little bit about tax reform because there's a lot of concern that if health care is not getting done, what happens with tax reform? even working on the child tax credit, something closely with the market on in making the tax code more workable for working class family.

>> list that we are going to do. we are going people, don't make a lot of money, off to both parents are working and there's a single household or a single parent is working, and everything costs more. graphs are out there that shows how much it was our spending per child per year. we want working families to be able to keep more of their mone money, to be able to invest in their children and their children's future. one of the ways want to do that is by taking all of these different child credits that are out there and consolidating them into one easy to use tax credit so you don't even have to hire an accountant to do it. this would leave more of their own money, it's not welfare, leave more money off of their taxes. more money from your taxes into your pocket so you can pay for day care, college, you can use it to buy your kids the computer they need to finish school. you can use it, quite frankly, for the cost of living with food and housing and closing, which continues to go up. everybody is fretting how much they will go out there and

afford to buy my kids the clothes they need for the school year. we want them to keep more of their own money and help working families who have been left behind by things going on on the last 20 years in our economy. >> sandra: it will be a busy week next week. do you more progress coming from washington next week? >> i hope so. i think we will get there. i really do display all the negativity. it's taken time but that's the way this process works. i really believe we will get there. we have to get there, and that's why i know we will. we want marco rubio, we really appreciate you being with us this morning. speak to the head of the ca giving an indication to a kind of action the u.s. is considered and north korea. our government just announced a new ban on traveling there. congressman ron desantis joined us next. 32 >> sandra: if you are done with the hassles of planes, trains, and buses. how about high-speed travel underground. he's got permission to get

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>> sandra: new details on a florida sinkhole that opened up a week ago. the crater growing and additional 10 feet swallowing up a pool and concrete slab, to go collapsed into the sink hole in it first opened. it's now about 235 feet wide. officials say the sinkhole is dormant, but it's unclear how much weight the surrounding soil can actually support and that delaying cleanup efforts at this point. there are concerns that equipment needed for recovery may just be too heavy. speak to the cia chief and aspen offering the strongest indication that the trump administration is considering bridging change in north korea. >> as for the regime, i am hopeful we will find a way to separate that regime.

>> that's a really interesting answer. >> i'm sure than lovely north korean people of up to see him go as well. >> rick: the u.s. government may be getting ready to ban all citizens from traveling there after the death of otto warmbie warmbier. ron desantis joins us now. good morning, congressman. regime possible in north korea? >> it's an interesting concept that the director floated, and i think understanding where he's coming from on the black side, on the intelligent side, the problem with north korea for us has always been we know less about that country and the inner workings of the regime just about anywhere else in the world and this sealed totalitarian country. to the extent that we are able to do things covertly, there are people in north korea that we could be working with. that could be a game changer. separating kim from the nuclear weapons, i don't think he's necessarily saying that we are going to have an invasion of

north korea where you take them out with military force. i think he's talking about things that will be done outside the glare of the public eye. >> rick: they seem convinced that the best way to solve this problem is to get rid of kim jong-un. >> it's the only for sure way. there is a problem of applying pressure through china, even applying some military pressure in the region. if kim's ultimate goal to state power and if he gives up his nuclear arsenal, it's going to be more likely he gets removed from power. i think he's a guy that has some rational streaks. some of how he would respond to these things would be somewhat unknowable, but i think he's made the calculation that the nuclear arsenal is one way, an insurance policy, to maintain and be in control of the country. >> rick: we are hearing about this u.s. possible ban on travel to north korea. how many people actually go there? what effect will this really

have? >> it's not a lot, but it would've been good to have. he saw what they did with otto warmbier. they killed him, effectively, sent him back in his dying days of the united states, and it's just not a safe place for americans to go. if they end up doing that policy, it's probably the right thing to do. >> rick: in a poll, more americans said they would rather not use military force to disarm north korea. more say it now than they did before. what do you think the best way forward is here? >> the problem with using military force is that you probably could disarm him, but then he is going to then respond, and he has a lot of targets a very close by if you look at joe south korea. millions and millions of people there. tens of thousands of american troops there. he could be able to do a lot of damage. if you were a dictator in a different part of the world where he would have the capacity to respond, the military may be a difficult act different calculation. i like the idea of doing things covertly in the cyber realm, doing things we can do with

anybody in north korea that we can get in contact with, which is difficult. and then some of the other policies we know that the trump administration is presuming via china and other countries in the region. >> rick: i want to talk to you about the stalled health care bill. you have a very interesting way of looking at it, that the best way to repeal and replace it might be to force congress to live under the current plan. >> they were supposed to be under it, under the statute. what happened was when it was implemented in 2013, the obama administration issued an administrative role which effectively exempted congress from what would happen under obamacare. there's a lot of subsidies going to congress. they have their own special exchange in d.c. the president can't undo that by administrative action. i think if he were able to undo that and may congress live under it, i think they would be rushing to repeal it. >> rick: realistically, when and how can lawmakers get this

done? >> at the time is now. i think in the senate, they are going to the same things we did in the house. there was a bill that was drafted. members of congress had some thoughts on it. you had to work through those differences. i think they can eventually get it done. they've got to get it done. the president is right. people have been prattling about this for seven years. if you can get the votes to get back to what you campaign, why are there? >> rick: we appreciate your time, ron desantis. >> sandra: rick, i got a question for you. what if you could take a ride up the east coast completely underground in a series of tunnels? it may be closer than you thought -- no? elon musk said he got a verbal okay for this project. how's it going to work? you wouldn't do it? dad: flash drives? yup. that's dad taking care of business. laptop setup? yup.

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>> rick: 8 minutes away on "happening now," the implosion of the g.o.p. revised health care bill taking center stage this week with the media having a feed day playing the blame game. who is the biggest target in the coverage? a massive fire rolling through a small town in nash to mack. thousands forced to flee as crews work to control the flames. a woman shot dead by the police officer responding to her 911 call, they are demanding answers with the officer who fired the shot still isn't talking. all the head "happening now" ." >> rick: an incredible scene this morning. "the five" remaining survivors from the pearl harbor attack on the uss arizona getting a hero's welcome at the panel to my pentagon. they are there to meet with defense secretary james mattis

and joint chiefs chairman. they will also meet with president trump and vice president pence today. 1,177 sailors lost their lives on the uss arizona. the racket still lies where it went down. >> sandra: elon musk getting the verbal okay to build an underground train session. the plan will be to connect large cities on the east coast, sipping passengers from new york city to washington, d.c., in almost half an hour. brett larson is a technology reporter, anybody who sat in the kind of traffic we see around here today is thinking signed me up. what do we know about this? >> or anyone who has ever taken the oath ella between washington and d.c. it's obtaining a pony ride on a bumpy road. they've been talking about this for the past five or six years. made a public source think and he's done some successful tests in the past month via the

carriage that will go through this too. he now says he has a verbal agreement to build a hyper loop between boston and washington, d.c., that will make stops in maryland. the trip will only take about half hour. the concept is fantastic. you put something in a field vacuum tube so there's no air resistance, so these trains can really fly through these tubes, almost literally on the tracks, and they will do it faster than our current high speed rail and they will do it faster than an airplane. if he can build this, we are going to be able to get between big city points faster than you can get a domino's pizza delivery. >> sandra: we don't know who at the white house gave him this verbal okay. we don't know the source of that, and we also don't know if there any actual plans being made to begin this project. don't think if you're listening from the midwest that you are excluded. while he added that boston and providence would be the natural

extension of the wind. he also said the city of chicago has approaches about being a high-speed tunnel from o'hare to downtown. they've been great. >> he really wants to. he's got a map online. he wants to connect all of the large cities, chicago, salt lake city, denver, san francisco, l.a., all of these points in the u.s. and they want to be connected to this hyper loop so they can zip around in relatively short amount of times and that would change everything. imagine if you live in salt lake city and work in chicago and get between the two cities and 20 or 30 minutes. if you are in manhattan, you can even get a couple of blocks that fast if you are behind the wheel. it will be interesting to see if he can move forward with this. we are probably a good ten to 15 years away from this becoming an actual reality. >> sandra: some things we haven't even discussed is of dollars. how much money are we talking to build something like this? >> and who's going to pony up the most cash for something like that? they are still testing this.

they've done some small scale testing that has been successful, but they sought to do the large scale testing to prove that this will actually work. >> sandra: what does that feel like to go from new york city to washington, d.c.? i know there's probably a scientific explanation for why i won't feel this, but you are left kind of wondering what it feels like to go that fast. not even a half an hour and he sank 29 minutes. >> if you are definitely going to feel it when it accelerates much the same way you would when you are sitting on a the airplane gets ready for takeoff. when you hit the top speed, you probably won't notice. >> sandra: brett larson, thank you very much. >> rick: billions and billions. in moments, attorney jeff sessions said to give a speech on sanctuary cities saying they have confidence in him to do his job.

>> rick: i want to know what it costs to put your car and a hyper little. >> sandra: we didn't get to

that. until they build it, they don't really know. how much would you be willing to pay? >> rick: that's the question that we will answer soon. >> sandra: happy friday to you, it's been fun to work with you. >> rick: thank you so much, "happening now" starts now. ♪ >> jon: more staff changes could be coming at the white house as the president re-shuffles his legal team on this friday. good morning to you. i'm jon scott. >> heather: and i'm heather childers. it's friday. the weekend has begun. mark carvalho is the top spokesman for the president's personal attorney and is apparently resigning amongst those changes. mark estimates who was heading up the councils office will now be taking a lower profile role. all of this as he reports the presid