performer in the all american summer concert series. >> we love him. it will be a fun day. >> watch eboni at 5:00. >> bill: good morning, everybody. breaking news now. president donald trump getting ready to hit the road again for coal country taking his message to the people and voters of west virginia with a campaign-style rally. he faces pushback to reform america's immigration laws. good morning, everybody. i'm bill hemmer live in "america's newsroom." >> shannon: do you feel ready for the two hours ahead? i'm shannon bream. critics on capitol hill wasting no time slamming the president's immigration overhaul claiming it has zero chance of passing in congress. stephen miller says those odds will improve as people learn more about it. >> it has been my experience in the legislative process.

there are two kinds of proposals. proposals that can only succeed in the dark of night and proposals that can only succeed in the light of day. this is the latter of those two. the more that we as a country have a national conversation about what kind of immigration system we want and to whom we want to give green cards to, the more unstoppable the momentum for something like this becomes. >> bill: fox news confirming the ag jeff sessions has been assured by the new chief of staff john kelly that session's job is safe despite the recent criticism from the commander-in-chief. >> shannon: let's check in with white house correspondent john roberts joining us live from the white house. >> bill: good morning to you. he has only been here a few days but the new chief of staff john kelly is moving to quell the storm, trim the sails and right the ship. over the weekend before he even officially took over as chief of staff john kelly called jeff sessions to say while the president is still upset about your decision to recuse

yourself from the russia investigation, he has no intention to fire you nor does he want you to resign. so please know that you are a valued member of the team. sessions is expected to hold a news conference tomorrow to outline the department of justice's investigation into the leak of classified information. that should go some distance to please his boss. the president getting an earful yesterday from russia over his signing of the new russia sanctions bill. russian prime minister saying the president signing a bill he didn't like proves the trump administration is utterly powerless and described the bill as a trade war and that it ends any hope of a better relationship. the president taking to twitter this morning to voice his opinion about it and seeming to agree at least partially with him tweeting our relationship with russia is at an all-time and dangerous low. you can thank congress, the same people that can't even give us healthcare. one of two signing statements that the white house put out after the bill was signed, shannon, the president seemed

to indicate that the bill was open to interpretation as far as how it trims his executive powers. wealth -- we'll see if there is a fight with congress over it going forward. >> shannon: a sharp backlash to the president's immigration reform plan. didn't take long. >> clearly the white house is still optimistic it might be able to get comprehensive immigration through or a bite size chunk. it deals only with legal immigration as it relates to green cards. what the white house wants to do in conjunction with senators david perdue of georgia and tom cotton of arkansas, they want to get away from the lottery or priority of family reunification. they want to make people who are highly skilled and who can speak english go to the front of the line. it prompted sharp exchanges yesterday at the daily briefing

when the president's chief policy advisor stephen miller took to the podium. >> glen, glen, i named the studies. i named the studies. >> i asked you for statistics. >> it will make a carve-out. the times can hire low-skilled worker and see how you feel about low wage substitution. >> ethnic flow of people into this country. >> that's one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you've ever side. the notion that you think that this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting. >> no trick to the rumor vince mcmahon was promoting yesterday's briefing at the white house. the bill would reduce the number of immigrants to a million down to 500,000 and the president taking issue with a couple of reports that he called the white house quote a dump. tweeting out this morning i

love the white house. one of the most beautiful buildings and homes i have ever seen. fake news said i called it a dump. totally untrue. and all i can say to that, shannon, is clearly the president has never been in the press room here at the white house. >> shannon: it's not exactly luxurious for people who have that misconception. it is not a gilded palace by any means. >> shannon: i think you're right. john, thanks so much. president trump is backing support for an immigration bill that could dramatically overhaul the system as we've been discussing. they doubt it will be get into the starting gate on capitol hill and faces the possibility of two major hurdles. lawmakers of both parties are under pressure to vote against it. some say this could enhance the president's argument that the senate should go to a simple majority. vote for all bills and in the

middle of all this unfinished business on capitol hill today could be the last day of the senate session until september. house is already on recess. >> bill: as we mentioned a moment ago heading to west virginia tonight chris stirewalt is live and in person in new york city. what's happening, my friend? quite a comment yesterday, cosmopolitan bias came into the conversation. you are a guy from detroit, st. louis and west virginia. bring your cosmopolitan bias. >> you won't find that in west virginia why president trump will be today. he will find a love there for him personally and it's indicative of the challenge that he has. the voters of southern west virginia aren't republicans in the typical sense. republicans typically we're talking about suburbanites. more affluent people is the traditional base of the republican party. southeastern ohio, eastern

kentucky, southern west virginia, places like that, these are traditionally democrats and these people love donald trump because what he has as his core of support is the new deal coalition. he has the old democratic coalition of blue collar white working class voters. they don't care whether his policies are conservative or not or republicans like it or not. they just like him. >> bill: he was in northeastern ohio last week, i believe it was. that's one of those democratic counties in the whole state. your point is well taken. with regard to secretary kelly karl rove writes in the "wall street journal." how long this new tone will endure is unclear. will mr. trump resist mr. kelly's efforts to impose order or realize that a strong chief of staff reflects a strong president? much as james baker's service revealed ronald reagan's confident leadership. is that what we're in for? >> i would think about it this

way. how much time, how long? i don't think it will be an either/or proposition. how long does it work and go on? when we look at the question about kelly, we talk about a situation where trump today tweets a tweet that won't help him advance things. he basically agrees with the deputy putin that says this congress is terrible and he deplores his own sanctions and attacks his own party. kelly's task is basically how long can he survive in the barrel and provide order to the staff? there will be limits on how much he can manage. >> bill: kellyanne conway told us live yesterday that he has the door to the oval office. how long does it last or do you believe it will? >> one thing to accept the fact that general mattis at the pentagon has autonomy and over there and the guy and the president has been differential

and giving them space. kelly is sitting right next door. and every day when the president wants to give in to his impulses, that kelly will be right there. and also what about his son-in-law and his daughter and his favorites on the staff. what about the people who don't like the door has been closed? now the oval office is a restricted access space where before it was hey, boss, how are you? let me give you this. kelly says you aren't giving the president any information any data without showing it to me first. if he can make that stick it would be a revolutionary change for this administration and a huge help. >> bill: from the free wheeling guy. how long structures lasts. what's next? >> shannon: a big show ahead. north korea continuing down a dangerous path and it's nuclear and missile programs are taking front and center stage. ambassador john boulton says china may be the only way the u.s. can resort to avoiding military action. he will join us next to explain.

>> bill: russia blasting the u.s. in the wake of the new sanctions saying they will hurt a fragile relationship. president trump blaming congress for the very same things. we'll talk to deputy assistant to the president sebastian gorka. >> shannon: this officer managed to walk away after being hit by a car. check it out. >> every time i watch it i am shocked and amazed that i was able to walk away the way i could. you don't let anything

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>> shannon: the pentagon confirming the deaths of two u.s. service members in afghanistan killed yesterday when a suicide truck bomber ambushed their convoy in southern kandahar. the taliban claiming responsibility. this year nine american troops have been killed in afghanistan. the white house says it's currently weighing a decision to deploy thousands more service members to that country. >> bill: president trump signing sanctions against russia and north korea but he calls the bill seriously flawed and even unconstitutional. john bolton former u.s. ambassador and fox news contributor good morning to you. help us understand overwhelming vote in congress. why do they see this so differently than the president? >> i think congress is focused

on the involvement, the interference of russia in our election last year and their unacceptable actions in eastern ukraine. the president is focused on his hope he can make a deal with putin. it's one reason he put rex tiller son at the state department. someone who had experience dealing with the russians. the sanctions to the president's perspective will interfere with that. my view is neither one of those positions is right. i think the president will find himself disappointed with vladimir putin and the russians as he was disappointed by the chinese over north korea. >> bill: it is a question of time before the relationship changes. >> right. i think -- i think putin follows russian national interest and across the board on everything as far as i can see our interests and aligned with russia. the president's constitutional objections should not go unnoticed. what he is saying is he is

reserving the right not to have some of the restrictions that congress put in on lifting the sanctions effect him. that's standard operating procedure for presidents. so it's something that we can look forward to down the road, not in the mead future perhaps but down the road. >> bill: russia wasn't the only one. it's iran and north korea also. you write a piece in the "wall street journal" that i encourage people to read. you're a hawk when it comes to north korea. america's policymakers, especially those who still support the 2015 iran nuclear deal should take careful note. if tehran's long collusion with pyongyang is even partly mirrored in the nuclear field the iranian threat is nearly as imminent as north korea's. tie those two together. >> for almost 30 years we've stove piped the iranian and north korea nuclear weapons threat. that's been a mistake.

now it's important to look at what the connections are because they've both been developing ballistic missiles for the purpose of using them to deliver nuclear warheads. i think there is every reason to believe there is cooperation on the nuclear front and maybe worse of all whatever north korea accomplishes, i think iran can have the next day by writing a check. a lot of this debate we've been having over the iran nuclear deal or how to handle north korea ignores the fact we really have a global threat here based on the cooperation between the two of them and the mistakes we've made for 25 years in both cases about how to handle north korea and iran have brought us to this point. >> bill: you have are making a case in part to make a first strike against north korea. how do you imagine dealing with the fallout from that? >> i'm not making the case to do that. i say there is one diplomatic piece left to get china to

reunify the two koreas. we've wasted 25 years pursuing the long policy. the real issue as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said it's unimaginable to him to allow the north koreans to have the capability to destroy american cities and that's the real fact. we're not looking for a confrontation here but i find it unimaginable as well to leave that regime in north korea or frankly the regime in tehran to use as terrorist devices. we talk about the nuclear program and terrorism as if they're separate things. in the hands of neither north korea nor iran or nuclear capabilities military threats to the united states, they're threats to our innocent civilian populations and terrorists and that's what they're aimed at. >> bill: more on tehran nikki haley said this. >> one country uses its support

to conduct its foreign policy and to compensate for its own weakness. the country is iran. it's training, funding and arch of terrorists has continued unabated to this day. the international community must work together and do more to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists. >> bill: as north korea gets so much more attention this does not but i imagine it has not been solved either. last word on that. >> she is absolutely right. the iran nuclear deal was intended by the obama administration not just to handle the nuclear threat but to help change iranian behavior more broadly. it has failed on both grounds and as nikki haley is saying, imagine if this is the way they still behave on terrorism today. how will they behave when they have nuclear weapons? >> bill: more to come. these won't be solved tonight. >> shannon: groundbreaking discovery that could lead to repairing a baby's genetic defects before its born.

critics worry it could end some lives all together. details on this study as well as ethical concerns ahead. >> bill: new questions about who unmasked whom. former top aide to president obama ben rhodes the latest focus of that growing investigation. we put that question to james langford who joins us on that as well as the latest pushback on healthcare. care of mom? office depot/office max. this week, filler paper just one cent with five dollar minimum purchase. ♪taking care of business.

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>> bill: so republican rising star looking to take on a long-time senator. josh hauly has launched an exploratory committee to run against claire mccaskill. apparently vice president mike pence called him personally about a 2018 run. we'll see how that shapes up.

>> shannon: major breakthrough in genetic research. scientists manipulating the dna in human embryos repairing a gene responsible for a heart defect. we have more on the story from atlanta. how significant is this breakthrough? >> very significant, shannon. the first time that researchers have been able to manipulate the genes inside a human embryo to remove a mutation that causes a very serious disease. in this case they were targeting a disease called hcm, a heart condition that produces no advance symptoms but caused sudden death in healthy, athletic young adults. researchers went into than embryo and removed the mutation. they started replicating healthy genes instead of the disease-causing mutation. the study's author says it's a matter of triggering the process and nature does the

rest. >> so i've been joking we did very little ourselves. all we have to do is tell this is the problem and you need to fix it. >> the researchers have published their findings in the journal "nature." >> shannon: to the ethical concerns that have come up. with is that about? >> people worry about the nightmare scenarios of designer babies where parents are determining their baby's eye color, texture of hair, superficial qualities like that. these researchers acknowledge that's something that needs to be prevented but they say what they are focused on is not altering healthy genes, but repairing mutations to prevent diseases not only in individuals, but potentially family lines. entire family lines down the road, shannon. >> shannon: jonathan is live for us in atlanta. >> bill: 25 past. president trump looking dramatically reshaping immigration in the country.

>> this competitive application process will favor applicants who can speak english, financially support themselves and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. >> bill: he is making the case his plan will empower the american worker. can it pass congress, however? oklahoma senator james lankford to way in on that and there is this this morning. >> shannon: some are calling it a tinderbox in venezuela at this hour as the socialist nation braces for more violence today. how the white house is looking to hold the regime accountable for what many are calling an all-out assault on democracy. >> this is something the administration has done well. for those who like to criticize the president on this issue people should point it out. other he a bipartisan issue in american and the administration deserves credit for that.

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>> bill: 9:30 in morning. take you down to wall street. opening bell. we crossed and finished above 22,000 for the first time. big numbers from apple it's powering forward. sales and earnings having a positive effect on many things. we might open a little lower at the open. dow above 22,000, first time ever the result of a 20% rally in stocks since president trump's election back in november. he tweeted this a short time ago. business is looking better than ever with business enthusiasm at record levels. stock market all-time high. that doesn't just happen, end tweet from today. >> president trump: this legislation will -- it will restore the sacred bonds of trust between america and its

citizens. this legislation demonstrates our compassion for struggling american families who deserve an immigration system that puts their needs first and that puts america first. >> shannon: president trump touting his immigration reform plan to promote american jobs and higher pay. questions about whether the plan can get through congress and to his desk. james lankford is member of the homeland security committee. thank you for your time. what do you make of this immigration proposal? we have pushback from both sides of the aisle saying it will never get to you for a vote or anywhere else. >> most americans think that's what our immigration system is and surprised to find it is not. there is assumption people that come to the united states through our legal immigration system are coming to join our economy. that's not necessarily true. 70% of the people come come because they have a family connection not necessarily because they are starting to engage in the economy.

most other nations around the world, their immigration that comes to their country comes first because they want to be part of a certain job or job field and they are coming to the country bringing more skills to be able to advance that. canada and australia. he is trying to shift it to a system focused on emotion -- economic. >> shannon: most people agree the system is broken. it is enough to get to debate this which we saw with a challenge on healthcare. >> i hope it is something we can proceed to debate on. the senate is supposed to be a place where we have debate on any issue. the 60 vote threshold has been used to keep us from having debate on critical issues. i proposed to make a change in that rule so that we can get on and debate any issue. it is absurd to say we can't dauk about it.

immigration and illegal immigration is a big issue as well as legal. let's actually have debate on it and try the get to a resolution. >> shannon: you've written a very interesting op-ed talking about how to make the senate work again. you aren't going to where the president is gone to take everything to 51 votes but there are some changes that can be made so the minority, whether it's you or the democrats can't stall all business as usual. nominations and those kinds of things. you write it's time we put an end to the hyper partisanship and delay to serve the needs of the american people. we can be deliberative and productive at the same time but it requires fundamental changes in the rules not eliminating the filibuster entirely. would you have to push from your own leadership and any from across the aisle >> i've had a large bipartisan conversation with a group of senators and talking about the issue. there is a lot of support for this. most people don't know there are two votes on every bill.

you have to have 60 people to agree to start debate and 60 people to agree to end debate and then when you pass the bill it just takes 51. what i'm proposing is taking away the first one. it takes a simple majority to open up debate. debate any issue, topic or bill. if the minority is not heard you keep the 60 vote at the end to make sure we can keep debate going until every voice is heard. that's the heart of the senate is do debates, not prevent us from doing debates. keep the 60 at the end. get to resolution and final passage. we need to change the rules on how we do nominations. democrats have held up the nominations for president trump where he can't get his staff in place. typically a president would have 200 staff brought through senate confirmation. president trump has 50 at this point. it has been this deliberate slow walking of these nominations. we need to stop that so a president can bring their own staff on board. >> shannon: very frustrating

when you get to the point the minority can stop business as usual. the point about the president. what do you make of those within your party who are openly criticizing him. questions about how much tension between there is the hill and white house. you try to get things done and so far a major legislative win alluding you. >> that's been the big frustration. the healthcare the largest of those. 49 republicans solidly behind getting a chance to get rid of the individual and employer mandate. move healthcare to state control. we needed one more republican to do it. couldn't get them to do it. the frustration people have. why can't all republicans think alike? we have a very open party that people can engage in this arena of ideas. everyone doesn't fly alike in this. so with that we still have problems to be able to move some things through. also the house, senate and

white house all work independent. you have to be able to work together to be able to get things done so it will be important to work with the white house. we don't need the white house doing what president obama did. president obama ran against congress for eight years and said congress was the problem and made a combative relationship between congress and the white house and got very little done. we need the white house working with congress. let's sit down together and work it out. the house, senate and white house have to all agree to make legislation. we shouldn't demonize each other but work together to find our differences, get them solved and get it resolved for the american people. >> shannon: one of the things keeping you busy is the probe into russia. more information about unmasking request by ben rhodes under the obama administration. what can you tell us how things are proceeding on the senate side? >> some people don't know what unmasking means. it is typically when we do

foreign intelligence and trying to be able to listen in on two groups of terrorists. if terrorist one is talking to terrorist two and talk about assassinating an cam can or getting involved in american something and name an american that information is gathered but the name of the american is blocked out. it will say american person one in all the listing. at some point some individuals will say i need to know who that person is because they talk about attacking them. the f.b.i. will say i need that person unmasked so i can figure out if we need to protect this person. when nunez is asking is why this person needed unmasking. he is trying to get to the bottom of the issue about classified information. how did it get out? did this person have to have the name unmasked? it is not necessarily bad. it is something that happens very commonly as we try to protect americans' identity but protecting americans if they face threat. it is a reasonable question to say did this person need to know this information? if they didn't, why did they

ask for it and what happened to that information afterwards? >> shannon: senator james lankford from oklahoma, thank you so much. >> bill: 42 before the hour. venezuela president nicolas maduro ignoring evidence of widespread voter fraud and calls for investigation. it handed him power to re write the constitution and sparked outrage and street protests. steve harrigan is watching the latest on this story as it develops. good morning. >> we could see more fireworks in caracas did, protestors are marching toward the capitol to come out against the new constitution. they're scared about possible violence. 10 were killed in that vote on sunday. and now the president nicolas maduro, who has been branded as a dictator by the u.s., is being accused of voter fraud. the head of the election voting company said the numbers were

manipulated by at least one million votes. maduro denied those charges and said the company is being influenced by, quote, gringos and brits. not only did the government pick the candidates, now the head of the voting machine company said they manipulated turnout as well. maduro has thrown two top opponents in jail coming to their homes in the middle of the night with masked intelligence agencies. as vowed to throw more opponents in jail and if we see more arrests, more violence, we could see u.s. sanctions step up. so far maduro has mocked the u.s. sanctions targeting him and other official essential. if they target the oil industry we could see the collapse of that economy. more fireworks today. >> shannon: the white house and justice department calling out "the new york times" saying a story it published whether the administration with planning to weaken affirmative action policies to benefit whites was completely wrong.

>> bill: dramatic video showing a car plowing into a police officer while the officer was making a routine traffic stop. he is okay and we'll tell you how this ends up. >> i just kept telling myself, you know, you're in the middle of the road. you are in the middle of the freeway, you need to get out. the last thing i need to do is get hit by another car. hi i'm joan lunden.

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>> bill: that is one tough hombre. we hope for your recovery real soon. well done. >> stock market hit an all-time record high today over 22,000. it will go higher, too. we're doing a job. and you are going to see jobs are pouring back into the country. factories and plants are coming back into the country. >> bill: touting the performance of the economy. fox news contributor ned ryun, founder of american imagine or -- and also doug schoen. ned, you have a lot of talk about the economy and tax reform coming. hasn't happened yet. talk about fewer regulations. some of that has happened. talk about illegal immigration. look what's happened at the

border. if you give it attention you'll get results, is that true? >> part of this is based off investor optimism for the future about what is to come. at the same time it's based on what is actually happening. if you look at what trump has been able to do in the first six months, look at the keystone and dakota pipeline. he has rolled back 860 regulations in the first six months. and he signed that executive order saying for every two regulations we cut we replace with one. they operate on a 16-1 ratio. you look at who he is placing into positions, scott pruitt at the dpa. deregulators. putting people into position trying to remove regulations as well. i think another part of just real evidence of what is happening. you look at taking apart the administrative regulatory state you have to look what he is doing with the lower level federal judges and putting in young conservative judges are enemies of the regulatory state.

>> bill: doug, do you agree with the premise? >> i think on issues related to activities where unilateral action can help, the economy, immigration, certainly. but on larger issues like healthcare, tax reform, infrastructure you need bipartisanship and the ability to talk in private and so far the administration has not succeeded and i dare say some talking is counterproductive. >> i'm trying to get rid of costly regulations. much work left to do but great business and jobs will grow. mark meadows, republican from north carolina is making the suggestion that you have to get tax reform completed by thanksgiving otherwise it dies in the middle of an election season in 2018. is that true, ned?

>> totally agree with that actually, bill. listen, sadly most of these guys on the hill aren't profiles in political courage. they lose whatever backbone they have in an election year. it has to be done. i believe tax reform in some form. i would say i hope they don't go for maybe comprehensive but they go for realistic. let's repatriate some income sitting overseas. you could bring in $260 billion toward infrastructure and the wall. let's shoot for 15% corporate tax or settle for 20. focus on tax cuts for the middle class and small business. let's be realistic. let's not go for comprehensive coming out of the gate. i couldn't agree more, bill. you have to have it by tend of the year. >> here is what i would say. all good but we need to involve the democratic party because the majorities in both the house and senate are not big enough as we've seen with healthcare to do big things

without bipartisan support and on healthcare it may well happen. on tax reform it was done in 1986 with again bipartisan support. i would make a plea to the president tone down the rhetoric, bring chuck schumer and nancy pelosi is. as much as you may not want to work with them and try to do what you're talking about. >> bill: do you think you have three democratic senators who might vote for tax reform? >> absolutely. >> bill: you believe they're willing to go for it >> they have to because of electoral necessity. >> look at the 10 democratic senators up for reelection that are in deeply red trump states. of those 10 i think trump can have an honest conversation with about let's get bipartisan tax reform through. good for you and me and most importantly good for the american people. >> again, we're all americans,

not partisans. >> bill: thank you, sir, ned and doug, thanks to have you boefmgt >> shannon: a train derailment in pennsylvania forcing a small town to evacuate. the hazard that has officials unsure if people will ever be able to return home. >> bill: vicious attack on camera. a commuter getting savagely beaten by those around him. it's tough to watch there. what may have led to this disturbing scene. >> it's appalling. no heart and no conscious. that makes me sick.

>> bill: evacuations in effect for those in a small town outside the pittsburgh after a freight train derailment. 3 of 32 cars caught fire. spokesman for sfx saying one

car contained liquid petroleum gas and molten sulfur. no word when people can go back to their homes. >> shannon: police in texas are investigating a brutal attack on board a subway train the dallas. that victim was beaten unconscious. the whole thing was caught an video. we're live in dallas with more on this disturbing story. good morning, casey. >> good morning. the victim that you see in that video says that this whole thing started when he asked those teenagers to stop smoking marijuana on the train. what happened next all recorded by eyewitness cell phone. you can see four or five teenagers attack the adult passenger kicking, punching and slapping him.

happened on the dark green line train this week. dallas area rapid transit. the video then shows two random people joining in so the person rolling on the incident says he was afraid to help. ultimately the victim tried fighting back before the girl hit him in the head with a skateboard knocking him unconscious. he claims the transit police could have done more. >> bill: to me i was assaulted in another type of way by the police officers who were just standing there looking at me like i did something wrong. >> awful. we want to catch the ones that did this. the individual who was assaulted has refused to press charges but dart has the power to press charges. if we can catch them we'll do so. >> jones tells our local dallas a filliate that's not true. he does want to press charges. he had to spend a night in the hospital from injuries he sustained in that attack.

>> shannon: casey, thank you very much. >> bill: deadly explosion taking two lives at a minneapolis school. what caused this blast here. the details on an unfolding investigation. >> shannon: we'll talk sanctions against russia and venezuela as well as president trump's immigration plan. deputy assistant to the president sebastian gorka joins us straight ahead. >> i've introduced a temporary guest worker system governed by the states. i think that's a far better approach. mouth. mouth. i just drank tons of water all the time. it was never enough. i wasn't sure i was going to be able to continue singing. i saw my dentist, he suggested biotene it feels refreshing. my mouth felt more lubricated. i use biotene rinse twice a day and then i use the spray throughout the day.

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>> shannon: a scramble in the senate to clear the decks and leave town. a week earlier than scheduled after putting healthcare on the back burner with a bunch of other stuff leaving thorny legislation ahead in september. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm shannon bream.

we're staying here, not taking our august recess. >> bill: good morning, i'm bill hemmer. this could be the last day the senate meets until september and when congress returns after labor day they'll be facing urgent deadlines. senator james lankford suggesting a way to speed things along last hour when he said this. >> what i'm proposing is taking away the first thing where it takes a simple majority to open up debate. debate any issue, topic or bill. if the minority is not heard you keep the 60 vote at the end to keep debate going until every voice is heard. that's the heart of the senate. >> shannon: daniel halper joins us live. you're there, you're in your chair and not boarded a plane to leave washington other folks will do that. let's look at what they're leaving behind. some important deadlines we have along the way. you've got the debt ceiling coming up. government funding will run out.

the faa authorization, that goes away, national flood insurance expires, that's a list of everything that happens at the end of september. but they were going to give up part of the recess. instead they didn't get healthcare done and they're leaving anyway. >> they won't get anything done. when they do come back there is this talk maybe they can pivot to tax reform and lower people's taxes and come back to the table on healthcare. as you point out there isn't any time to do any of those things because all of these other authorizations and funding runs out and they have to sort of take care of the housekeeping stuff before they can get to the other things. so there isn't much urgency on capitol hill much to the frustration of americans at home. i don't think in the long run it will serve congress well to get a couple more weeks in august rather than staying here trying to get these things done so they can actually turn to substantive things that people voted on in the last election. >> shannon: from a pr

standpoint people would feel like they're making an effort. they've hit a lot of roadblocks. let's talk about the fact we have insurers warning of massive spikes next year because there is uncertainty what's going the happen with healthcare in part and also the other part of it is they're worried they'll lose millions of customers forced to buy their stuff. with that in mind is there added pressure on both sides now to get something done? who is going the pay for this in the mid-terms if they don't find a resolution on healthcare? >> the pressure is on one side, the republicans. democrats feel pressure to stop anything from happening. but with that said they want to introduce their own reforms and their own ideas so they can say they have been standing for something and laying the ground work for the 2018, 2020 elections. if they can put forward substantive reform and legislation i think it gives them some sort of platform rather than saying we're against trump, against republicans. we stopped everything from happening. that's not enough. they need something that they

can actually stand for. >> shannon: and what people unlike us who are so far inside the beltway covering this stuff all the time may not remember there have been dozens of changes to obamacare under both president obama and when things got passed through congress and made it to his desk that had republican votes. both parties acknowledged along the way things can be fixed. reading about this idea democrats wanted the make more changes under the last administration but pressure from the white house for them not to work with republicans to do that. do you think that as you mentioned now anything they offer up would get serious consideration and move the ball forward? >> not really. in the last administration under president obama they operated under two assumptions. if they started tweaking obamacare it opened the whole -- it opened up to huge problems from the republicans and republican-controlled congress i should add. they wouldn't be able to

control the process. they also operated under the assumption that hillary clinton would win. any fixes they needed to make they could be pushed off to the next administration when rates started to spike and when all those things happened. those things didn't really hold, right? so now you're left -- it is different circumstances where the democrats have to put forward something. i don't think they actually are forming their legislation in mind that they have to get republican support or republican votes and that even mitch mcconnell will bring it to the floor. they're laying the ground work for 2018 and 2020. >> shannon: i haven't heard a lot or gotten a whole lot of press releases about town halls or meeting with constituents during this recess. we'll keep an eye out for those. they could get really interesting. good to see you. >> bill: there is a flurry of foreign policy news out of the white house. president trump reluctantly signing the sanctions bill that

targets, iran, north korea and russia. that happened yesterday. sebastian gorka, thank you for taking the time to be with us. sort this out on the sanctions. did he agree with this regarding russia or not, sir? >> look, the signature is there. there are some issues especially when it comes to calibrating our sanctions with the sanctions and the concerns of our allies. and we hope -- the bottom line is as the president has said many times before this is a geo politically important nation. we hope those sanctions don't have to have the full force applied to them but we have issues in the congress improved the bill. that's why it was signed. >> bill: here is the tweet earlier today. our relationship with russia is at an all-time and dangerous low. you can thank congress, the same people that can't even give us healthcare.

listening to your answer, it's clear based on your tone that he did not want to go forward with this. what does he believe is a better way, doctor? >> look, i like to quote the boss. if you go back to i think it was the last press conference the president gave in trump tower as he was leaving the podium somebody shouted out to him what about relations with the kremlin? what about vladimir putin and he gave an answer that is true then and stands today in august of 2017. he said in theory we would like to have better relations with russia. why? it's a nuclear power, a permanent member of the united nations security power. it would be foolish not to have better relations but he added right now it doesn't seem likely after the expulsion of our diplomats it seems less likely. he closed his comments. if that's the case, so be it. the man is a pragmatist.

he is a patriot and pragmatist and he looks at the world as it is not as the obama white house did, as they wished it to be. >> bill: let's move to another part of the world then, afghanistan. there are reports and rumors from a heated meeting in the west wing about the generals running that war. is the president satisfied with that strategy now? >> look, nothing is carved in stone. what the president did here in the west wing a week ago in the situation room is he asked them very pertinent questions and he basically doesn't want this administration to make the same mistakes that both the bush administration and the obama administration made. he wants everybody to look at the core assumptions upon which our plans are based and say are these assumptions sound? the key question, what is the national security relevance of afghanistan to this country? when that question is answered

adequately we'll know which options we should apply and the president will make the decision. >> bill: does he have confidence in the general running that war? >> absolutely, absolutely, yes. look at what this president has done for the last, you know, six months. he has reinstilled this building behind me its confidence in the military. look at our actions in afghanistan and our actions in syria. look at what we've done with our iraqi partners in mosul. he loves our military and respects them and have been trained and do your job because we trust you. so it is not a question of confidence, it is a question of inheriting bad ideas, false assumptions and reassessing what's good for america. >> bill: now to north korea and china. a newspaper the china daily said this. trump is wrong, it says in his assumption that beijing can

single handle the matter of north korea. what card left do you have to get china to act? >> we have the president's twitter feed, we have the most powerful man in the world making it very clear that we came out of the summit with high hopes. let's look at the facts. forget op-ed pieces in newspapers across the globe. china controls more than 80 percent of the imports into north korea. that's a massive point of leverage. china has wanted a buffer state since 1950. but at some point a buffer state that destabilizes the region isn't good for beijing, either. the president has made it clear he is not satisfied and disappointed with what beijing has done since mar-a-lago and he wants them to step up to the plate. >> bill: can a twitter feed change the mind of those leading china? >> if you can win a u.s. election with it it's pretty

powerful. >> bill: another topic breaking now. news of this. apparently the conversation the president had with the prime minister australia and leader of mexico have been leaked. without getting into the details of the conversation that public, what would you say is the level of confidence you have for secretary kelly and others working in the west wing to finally put an end to the leaks that have been going on for seven months now, sir? >> general kelly is a legend in the marine corps. he is a military professional. he has been an incredible success as the president said, a star as the secretary of dhs in this administration in just the last six months and he knows better than anybody else that these kinds of leaks of classified information are a threat to the security of you, bill, your family, and everybody in this country. congress has already stated that there have been more than 60 leaks of national security

import since the president was sworn in. that's political agenda trumping national security. if anybody is going to stop it it is general john kelly. >> bill: thank you for your time. i hope you come back real soon. >> i'd be delighted. >> bill: we'll talk to senator tom cotton to talk about the sanctions bill and the immigration move he helped co-author and has the backing of the president at the white house. that's coming up later this hour. >> shannon: you know without a doubt it was one of the hot topics the president talked about and often differentiated himself from the other 16 republicans running. his tough talk on immigration. it is going back to one of his key promises as he heads out to a rally tonight. we'll see. the white house pushes back about a report on the department of justice investigating affirmative action at universities. they say the times got it all wrong.

>> i think senator flake would serve his constituents better. >> the trump team answering things from flake. we'll look at that closely. >> shannon: a deadly school explosion. what happened moments before that building collapsed. >> pulling the weeds out of my wife's garden and kids are off playing soccer and all of a sudden we were talking about sonic booms and felt like a sonic boom. you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.

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>> shannon: the white house pushing back strongly against the "the new york times" in a story that the justice department would be going after affirmative action programs as university and the implication was to uncover bias against white students. the doj and white house say the times got it wrong. this is about a group of asia american students in a complaint filed in 2015 under president obama. to talk about it matt schlapp. jessica tarlov and senior director of research and co-author of a new book, you're both very busy. >> i'm exhausted hearing it. >> shannon: thank you for taking time today.

let's talk about this. the article came out yesterday citing a leaked document that didn't have any information about who would be the subject of these investigation. here is what it said. the document, calling for people to join the investigation doesn't identify who the justice department considers at risk because of add min policies. the phrasing it uses cuts to the heart of programs designed to bring more minority students to university campuses. it turned out this was about defending asian american students. >> right. this is so typical. this is the swamp. these are the leaks that we're used to trying to explain in republican administrations. most of the bureaucracies in washington, d.c. are dominated by career employees favoring the democrats. when they see a republican president coming in with an agenda and part of it is to scrutinize programs like this they'll leak it to their

friends in the press and then get the administration to put the brakes on and say we weren't going to do that. i hope the department of justice doesn't overreact with this story and stop this very reasonable attempt, if they're doing it, to scrutinize affirmative action programs and make sure these programs aren't actually discriminating against americans. >> shannon: something we have from the justice department. the posting sought volunteers to investigate one administrative complaint filed by asian american associations that the prior administration left behind unresolved. the department of justice is committed to protecting all americans from all forms of illegal race-based discrimination. jessica. >> it makes sense. they've explained what happened. i don't think it was that much of a leap for "the new york times" or anyone to have cause for concern about what this administration thinks of the value of diversity. it goes back to the beginning of the trump campaign where he made all sorts of absurd

comments about mexicans and african-americans and women and minority groups in general. "the new york times" went too far here. they shouldn't have run with that. to write about this administration and jeff sessions in particular on record from as far back as the 1990s speaking out against the values of affirmative action i think is totally on point and an important discussion to have. >> shannon: to give context he and many other lawmakers talked about it, their concern was they wanted the laws to be enforced in a way everybody would have a fair shake, not it would wind up punishing people. >> i understand that and we want everything to be as fair as possible. this country has a long history of discrimination against minorities of all types. racial minorities and ethnic minorities and socio-economic minorities. does the trump administration believe diversity benefits all americans. >> shannon: in this case they

wanted the make sure it benefited asian americans. >> this is the silliness of all this. what jessica's argument is, there is so much racial bias at yale, harvard, princeton, the hot bed, the center of left wing orthodoxy in our country that believes in some of the silliness associated with the diversity police. this is where we have to go because if we don't have these programs these fine institutions would be discriminating against blacks and hispanics. i find it the most silly argument i've ever heard. after half a century the country has to ask itself at what point do we start accepting kids into the programs with with the best records no matter what color they are. at some point, jessica, you have to let these programs go.

>> you don't think these programs benefit america? >> shannon: i think it's important to note the supreme court recognized the validity of using some criteria. they don't want quotas. they said, though, it is important to look in a holistic way about the backward where someone comes from and circumstances they faced in their life. >> we need to listen to the supreme court about the ruling in michigan and what progress we've made from that. more matt to say we need to re-evaluate the programs and we sit in privileged positions and we're white americans. >> stop, i don't want to hear that. that's absurd. >> you can say that all you want. >> shannon: we'll have to leave it there. matt is not going to agree on the white privilege argument at this moment. we're out of time. >> there are lot of whites in

america suffering. >> shannon: thank you, both, we appreciate your time. >> bill: president trump making a major announcement supporting a proposal to reform the way people legally come into the country. tom cotton is one of the lawmakers behind that bill. >> shannon: white house chief of staff john kelly laying down the law in the west wing. how will it affect the ways of the white house? >> the president is the president and he will run the white house as he would like to but he has empowered general kelly as the chief of staff to focus on the staff and be with the president for a number of critical meetings and conversations. i applaud that.

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>> shannon: we're getting new information on the fatal natural gas explosion at a school in minneapolis. it happened at minnehaha

academy yesterday, two people died in the blast, one person has been identified as a receptionist who worked at the school. a witness described what happened. >> felt like a sonic boom and compression and the bang and all you saw was a cloud of smoke, dust, debris and i just took off running. kids ran off the field at one end, i ran over to some other people and a couple of workers. they were in a state of shock and there are people trapped. >> shannon: the cleanup street underway. they have discovered a second body. a janitor is still missing. the cause of that explosion is now under investigation. >> bill: new white house chief of staff john kelly cracking the whip on communications in the west wing. kelly establishing a chain of command making it clear the communications will flow through him. my next guest writing about this is dan henninger from the

"wall street journal." nice to see you, dan. kellyanne conway said the following about secretary kelly. >> i believe that general kelly obviously commands a great deal of respect, if not deference and he shows respect. he is somebody who wants to empower his staff to succeed. he has closed the door to the oval office. i applaud that. i'm a big protocol and pecking order kind of gal. it's a good thing. >> bill: he closed the door to the oval office. that's the line that caught my attention. how does it change things? >> the door won't be closed to donald trump, that won't happen. mr. trump likes to talk to people either on the phone or in person and i think that is a good thing. he listens to a lot of people. the problem it seems in the white house is that people were coming in at any time and disrupting the president and what general kelly is going to try to do is get a more coherent decision flow.

i think the fact this is a military -- four star general says one thing. he knows how to win and i think at this point in the trump presidency, they have to start thinking about more victories, more wins. that healthcare defeat was a big deal for the white house and it doesn't help mr. trump if he is going to focus on big issues like taxes, like foreign policy, be interrupted by people who want to talk about other things before he gets to the goal line. general kelly will create a coherent structure that the president can concentrate. we know about north korea's intercontinental ballistic missiles. this president has some big challenges. i expect general kelly to hold these people away talking about second and third level issues. >> bill: leon panetta says kelly knows the challenges he

is facing. >> the north korea issue is enormously complex. most likely what the united states will need to do is create a policy of escalating firmness, to lean on the north koreans and chinese. it will take all of the president's attention and focus. as a military man general kelly understands how you execute a policy like that. i think part of the problem in the white house with all of these anonymous leaks is general kelly would understand, too much friendly fire in the white house. they keep dropping bombs on one another. he is going the try to get them to stop doing that. >> bill: we'll debate that in a little bit. your piece on screen the white house c words, words unheard from anthony scaramucci, credibility, company herens and consistency. you explain what. >> the big thing here is consistency and credibility. there was an event last week that i think we noticed and talked about but it was very important. that was the vote in the house

and the senate to impose sanctions on russia. overwhelming. only three votes against in the house and two in the senate. what those votes said was essentially a vote of no confidence in the president. i was told by at least two senators we don't trust him on russia. we're afraid he will change and go off message on russia. and i think what general kelly will bring to this -- to the white house now is a sense that if you are going to commit to something like russia or north korea, the message and the policy has to be coherent and consistent and credible. because if it isn't, you start losing your allies. members of congress get nervous and allies overseas get nervous. he will say straight down the middle is the way to victory. >> shannon: the white house takes aim at a republican senator jeff flake feeling the heat following his remarks in his new book jabbing at the president. the divisions within the gop.

are they keeping it from getting anything done? we'll put that question to marsha blackburn. >> bill: how about dooming along at more than 200 miles per hour? we'll show you where you can make that happen.

>> shannon: the trump administration says it doesn't need extra authority for its war on terror in the middle east. defense secretary james mattis and secretary of state rex tillerson doubling down on that theme. congressmen push to use military force passed after 9/11. the trump administration says it is not seeking revision and has enough military authority to fight isis and al qaeda.

>> the president still -- does he have any response to senator flake's comments? >> i'm not sure about any potential funding of a campaign but i think that senator flake would serve his constituents much better if he was less focused on writing a book and attacking the president but in passing legislation. >> bill: after the release of excerpts from a new book that goes after the republican party and president trump and president bush. marsha blackburn, senator. what did you think about the book by jeff flake? let's start there. >> jeff is a friend of mine but if we want to talk about that book we need to go back and look at what happened to cause the american people to go without -- both democrats and republicans and we have responsibility. we as members of congress, everybody should take responsibility.

the american people expect a set of deliverables, they expect action. they did not see those deliverables met or the action they wanted to see so therefore they went with someone outside the box. and we have to realize our nation is well served by robust political debate, democrat and republican. and finding consensus and so our job should be to make certain that this republican president is the most successful that he can possibly be. and this republican-controlled congress delivers on the expectations of the american people. >> bill: i had a different take on his book. he was with us a couple of days ago. the headline was that he is against president trump. but really the premise of the book goes back 15 years talking about no child left behind and prescription drug benefits, etc. he is making the case that the republican party has gotten away from its conservative values. on that charge, do you think he

is right? >> i would say it is not the republican party that people should be frustrated with. they still stand for the same principles. smaller government, more individual control, and these are the things -- freedom, free people, free markets. what has happened is congress is not delivering to meet the expectations saying that legislation would be one thing and then it is not. not getting out there and messaging and explaining what they are going to do, what bills will be about and building consensus for those ideas. >> bill: john mccain on the floor of the senate. newt gingrich makes this case. >> that's our problem. and as you and i have talked before, the republican party has not done a great job in the past 10 years of messaging -- i should say congress house and senate has not done a great job

of messaging what we're for. >> bill: newt gingrich says this. the key is to keep the focus on the 48 democrats in the senate so they either vote with us in washington or get voted out of office back home. that will be much more productive than shouting at ourselves and complaining about our own team. what about that? >> well, team is an acronym. together everyone achieves more and yes, achieving the goals of this administration and of our congress should be at the top of the heap. the circular firing squad does not work. instead of firing at each other, we need to be turning and saying how do we bring democrats to the table? and having our constituents and constituents of other members hold them accountable for the votes that they cast. people want to see healthcare reform, tax reform, immigration

addressed, infrastructure, broadband expansion addressed. bill, these are the things repeatedly we hear from people, democrat, republican, independent that they want to see take place and they are expecting congress to show up and do their job and deliver a result. >> bill: they're watching. thank you for coming back. >> yes, they are, thank you. >> bill: we'll talk again. >> shannon: new information about a plane that almost went on a collision course at san francisco airport. the air canada jet landing a few weeks ago barely missing several planes on the ground. the ntsb discovering a shocking blind spot in the airport's radar system. good morning, adam. >> that report notes a few very unsettling facts for those on the planes, counting the one trying to land. it is a major hub for the u.s. seventh busiest airport in the

united states and a gateway to europe and asia. take a look at this diagram we have for you now to give you an idea of what happened. two parallel runways at sfo, the one on the left is closed for repair and thus the big x. there is a big flashing light out there with an x on it. the one on the right is where planes were alternating taking off and landing. just to the right of that is the taxiway where four planes are waiting the take off where air canada was aimed not at the runway but at the taxiway and that's where the near miss took place over the taxiway. a picture from the tower that night. it came close. the tail on the 787 is 56 feet high roughly above the ground. air canada at its lowest was 59 feet high. that's a razor thin margin of miss. also a second photo gives you an idea air canada passing over the next two planes higher altitude. the pilots sensed something was

wrong. pulled up on their own and one air traffic controller working that night. he would order the plane to climb as well a few seconds later. clearly it would have been too late. now other facts. interesting. both pilots had more than 30,000 hours combined. there seemed to be confusion about the lights on the runway that night. a few minutes before midnight and it was dark. the flight crew of a second airplane in the queue on the taxiway switched on landing lights as air canada approached to warn them they were flying toward the taxiway. the most disturbing, the discovery of a blind spot in sfo's radar system that delayed an automatic notification to air traffic control. a 12 second black spot that was supposed to use to warn of these situations wasn't there. one more thing, the ntsb didn't get the boxes from the plane because they were taped over.

those weren't basically taken into custody before they were taped over. they didn't have the communication between the pilots themselves. >> shannon: very interesting. you've uncovered a lot of interesting facts. >> bill: i don't feel better. >> shannon: i love to fly. no i don't. >> bill: will congress get on board with the new plan aimed at fixing a broken immigration system. tom cotton is live from the hill next. >> the green card reforms will give american workers a pay raise by reducing unskilled immigration. this legislation will not only restore our competitive edge in the 21st century but it will restore the sacred bonds of trust between america and its citizens. zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. nexium can take 24 hours. when heartburn strikes, take zantac for faster relief than nexium or your money back. take the zantac it challenge.

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>> the president of the united states said i'm taking a stand today for american workers and the american economy and we're

putting american families first on immigration. we're saying our compassion first and foremost is for struggling american families and our focus is on the national interest. it is a major event. >> shannon: stephen miller shortly after the president announced his support for a new immigration bill. the proposal would dramatically reduce legal immigration effort. the bill is likely to face an uphill battle in congress. joining me now one of the lawmakers behind it arkansas senator tom cotton. good to have you with us this morning. >> good morning. shannon. >> shannon: not surprising to you, reaction from your gop colleague lindsey graham saying this. i fear this proposal will not only hurt our agriculture, tourism and service economy in south carolina. it in---i know when you restrict legal labor to employers it incentivizes

cheating. >> for a decade congress has tried to address this problem in the way that senator graham is talking about. they failed every time. in 2006, 2007, 2013. donald trump won last year and immigration was the distinctive issue in that campaign. i would suggest we listen to the people that voted for donald trump and tried to heed their wishes. they want an immigration system that works for american workers, for 40 years we've had wave after wave of unskilled and low-skilled immigrants coming into this country at a time when wages for people with high school degrees or less have been falling. we need to revamp our immigration system so immigrants are not driving down wages or taking jobs from blue collar workers while at the same time attracting the best, most talented immigrants from around the world to help make our economy more innovative and create jobs for everyone whether your ancestors came on the mayflower or you just took

the oath of citizenship. >> shannon: a reporter of another network is said more of the administration's agenda against mexicans, muslim, and media. a wink and dog whistle on the far right we won't let you down. >> this legislation is about helping the working class in america get a pay raise that they deserved for a long time. i've seen some of those reporters on other networks, shannon. i would have to say they aren't displaying their cosmopolitanism. there are more english speakers in nigeria, the philippines than in england itself. that's just one of the things. we try to attract people with the best mix to help our economy.

in addition to helping blue collar workers in america have a fair shot at a decent wage again. >> shannon: a long path again but something that got to the president's desk were the sanctions you passed with respect to iran, north korea and russia. the president issued interesting language, signing statements. it sounded like he was questioning some of the ability that congress will have to challenge him or some of the teeth that were put into the bill. he also tweeted this and we don't know if it's about the sanctions. a lot of people think so. our relationship with russia is at an all-time and dangerous low. you can thank congress, the same people that can't even give us healthcare. your response. >> well, shannon, the legislation included sanctions not just on russia but iran and north korea. it was an important piece of legislation to protect america's interests and put more pressure on those nations. more broadly, though, vladimir putin is to blame for the state of relationships between the united states and russia. it was vladimir putin who

invaded our partners. it was vladimir putin who provided missiles to rebels that they used to shoot civilian aircraft out of the sky in europe. vladimir putin who meddled in western democracies including our own when his intelligence released emails. vladimir putin is primarily to blame here. i would contend the obama administration encouraged putin that he could get away with those things which he largely did. the state of relations from the united states and russia lays at the doorstep of vladimir putin. >> shannon: you are going out on recess. a lot of folks hoped healthcare would get done. can you give us an update or timeline on how things are going with your various investigations into russian meddling. >> we stayed an extra week in august. i'm happy to stay as long as it takes. the people resist that have a direct correlation to how much

gray is on their head these days. we'll do our work through the recess or while we're here. our staff will keep at the interviews they're doing. document reviews. we've made a lot of progress. i hope we can put out an interim report in the short term about what russia did in our election last year and the way the obama administration handled that. we'll continue the investigation until we reach the conclusion and we'll follow the facts wherever they take us to reach those conclusions. >> shannon: senator tom cotton. maybe we'll see you next week, maybe you won't. thanks for your willingness. >> bill: 10 minutes before the hour. this is called hyper loop one and it might change the way you travel very soon. ♪ meet george jettison ♪ you always pay

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>> bill: there is a new rapid transit project could be on the fast track to becoming a reality. hyperloop one has hit a milestone. in a recent test run it was a big success from the fox business network hillary vaughn joins us to tell us all about that. good morning. >> good morning, bill. the hyperloop one ceo rob lloyd tells me the next step for them is commercialization. they could be breaking ground on a project here in the u.s. as early as next year. lloyd says they should have a shovel-ready project approved in a few months. they've accomplished their goal in record time. >> we proved the technology work. that's a big deal. we've done that and we need to prove where will it work? we need to work with governments. we need to work with states and federal regulators to regulate

it. >> the hyperloop technology was created in the u.s. and been manufactured here. now hyperloop one is deciding where to build it. and lloyd says states like colorado, texas, florida and ohio are all on a campaign to convince hyperloop one their state is the right fit. >> we're looking at all of those right now and beginning another level of discussion, a deeper discussion as to where could we build a financial case. where is there a right-of-way that makes sense and where could we start building the first hyperloop here in the united states? >> this technology could be key to getting freight carrying semis off the road. a quick commute but they'll need to convince commuters to hop on. >> bill: quite a road trip coming your way. hillary vaughn on that from los angeles. thanks. >> shannon: president trump refocusing on reforming legal immigration. that proposal faces a lot of

hurdles. the reaction straight ahead.

>> shannon: fired fbi director james comey cashing in with a multimillion dollar book deal. it will include his handling of the hillary clinton email investigation as well as allegations of collusion between russia and the trump campaign. president trump fired mr. comay back in may. the deal is said to be worth more than $2 million. a lot of people want to get their hands on it, but i wonder how much information giving classification and those other issues that he'll be able to cough up. >> bill: sensing some redaction. >> shannon: you open the book and you see black redaction's and have the pages, it won't be as juicy. >> bill: tonight, 7:00, west virginia, president trump will be there. we'll see what he has to say but all the things we've been talking about the past few hours. we've got to buggy. >> shannon: we do, i imagine it will be another campaign

style rally. the immigration bill is likely to come up. >> bill: speech me one starts now, have a great thursday. >> we begin with a fox news alert. a new day in new leaks out of the white house. this time, phone calls between president trump and the leaders of mexico and australia shedding new light on the very tense exchanges. welcome to "happening now," i'm rick leventhal and for jon scott. >> molly: great to having her in in the new studio. i molly line. that leak most likely being discussed right now and the presidents meeting with national security advisor h.r. mcmaster. later this hour, the president will head to a rally this evening in virginia. the so-called bray's act would create a merit-based system and/or migration in half in ten years.