every day. >> all the best to you and your beautiful wife. >> and keep playing that country music. >> have a wonderful weekend everyone, see you monday. >> rick: this fox news alert from fox news global had headquarters in new york city. this comes after a strong jobs report this morning. >> molly: u.s. employers citing more than 200,000 jobs in july as the unemployment drops to 4.3%, all of the strengthening president trump's claims that his administration is working to boost the economy. we are covering all the news happening now. >> we are taking a stand, this culture of leaking must stop. >> molly: attorney general jeff sessions addresses the leaks of classified material, but will that help stop release

of information the trump administration considers it damaging? lawmakers leave washington for their summer break with some big ticket items on their to-do list, what are the chances they complete it when they return? flames engulfed one of the world's tallest apartment buildings. it's all happening now. attorney general jeff sessions slamming these leaks coming out of the white house and threatening new consequences for anyone who slips information to the press. congress leaving washington for the august recess without accomplishing much on its to-do list, so how does that bode for those big ticket items on the agenda when they come back? we will take it to doug mckelway now who is standing by with more word from the white house. >> we all know how frustrated the president of the united states has been with these continual leaks, his frustration has now filtered down to the department of justice, the fbi and the

director of national intelligence who all promised a crackdown on leaks. session cited one leak just yesterday, "the washington post" publishing transcripts of president trump's private conversations with the president of mexico and the prime minister of australia. >> no one is entitled to surreptitiously fight to advance battles in the media by revealing sensitive government information. no government can be effective when its leaders cannot discuss sensitive matters in confidence or talk freely in confidence with foreign leaders. >> on that note, sessions ventured into what many people consider to be dangerous territory, promising to look into reporters who are the recipients of leaks. >> one of the things we are doing is reviewing policies

affecting media subpoenas. we respect the important role that the press plays and we will give them respect, but it is not unlimited. >> that is dangerous territory because as we all know, reporters and the press is protected by the first amendment to the united states constitution, that has not stopped some judges. in 2005, a fox news contributor was sent to jail after a federal judge said she was "defying the law" by refusing to divulge the name of a confidential source. she spent 85 days in jail. sessions added that the doj has already stepped up in tripling the number of active investigation since the end of the obama administration. that said, cracking down on leaks is a virtual impossibilit impossibility. back in 2014, 5.1 million americans hold some form of security clearance.

that is 1.5% of the population. ensuring that our security state is going to be have leaks. >> rick: thank you. >> molly: president trump is firing back against the russian investigation, both on twitter and in person before a big crowd of support he . >> the white house says it is more concerned with these leaks than it is reports about the special counsel convening a grand jury and possibly issuing subpoenas. last night, president trump came out swinging in a state that he won by more than 40 points. he told a crowd of thousands, not only is the russia story fake but it is being pushed by democrats, still bitter over their loss last november. listen. >> the rational story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the

greatest loss in the history of american politics, that's all it is. they are trying to cheat you out of the leadership you want with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us and most importantly, demeaning to our country and demeaning to our constitution. >> so far though special counsel has not confirmed the reports on the president's legal team did a mock were not aware of the grand jury. they also insist president trump is not looking to fire mueller but lawmakers are not taking any chances, they have introduced a pair of bipartisan bills to protect mueller's job. lindsey graham is behind one of those bills and he explains why this morning on fox. >> i think a lot of people in the country want to make sure he can do his job without threat or fear, i want to make sure he can do his job without threat or fear.

i find no evidence of a crime by president trump or his team and i find no reason to fire mueller. >> bottom line, senator lindsey graham says he wants to protect the process, possibly protect the president from mueller but he also wants to protect the white house for many more leaks. he says they are hurting the president, hurting the white house and that he is willing to hold mueller personally responsible for any more leaks that come out of this grand jury. >> molly: that is the word of the day, that is what everyone has been talking about. thank you. >> rick: the damage is done after a massive building fire in dubai, flames soaring more than 80 stories high, still vivid for residents who live in that building, and it wasn't the first time it caught fire. plus, leaks coming from the white house and congress, attorney general jeff sessions not only said he wants to put a stop to them, he said those who spill classified information will face appropriate criminal charges.

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>> rick: more now on that other big leak jolting the russia investigation, special counselor mueller reportedly paneling a grand jury. president trump's team is taking this news stride. >> when you've got an investigation, it is typically how they move forward. it is really very much a standard operating procedure when you've got a situation like this. with respect to the m paneling of the grand jury, we have no reason to believe the president is on and under investigation .

the journal broke this grand jury story, the news value is obviously significant. is that also an example of the leaks that are permeating the white house and washington? >> it is maybe permeating the white house, i agree that this is not surprising that they would impanel a grand jury. i think it is going to be a problem for somebody, because look, robert mueller has 36 lawyers working for him right now and i think this inevitably means there will be indictments of somebody associated with the trump campaign, probably not mr. trump himself. you don't impanel a grand jury without coming up with indictments eventually. >> rick: i want to talk about the grand jury but i am also curious to your reaction to the attorney general's press

conference this morning. >> i don't have a problem with the attorney general threatening to prosecute leakers inside the government. that is a problem and i would not want to be one of the leakers who got caught. i am very troubled by his assertion that they might start to investigate reporters receiving leaks. apparently, there is the first amendment issue there and this to me is another part of the problem with the administration keeping this issue alive. this is only going to incentivize reporters to chase those leaks. if they think the government is attacking the press again like this, the trump presidency has to assume this issue is going to stay elevated. >> rick: they call these leaks a betrayal of america and they suggest publishing the information can endanger it national security. >> that is a claim the government always makes. what it is endangering is the trump presidency, there is no question that a huge problem inside the trump white house,

presumably general kelly is going to get on top of it. i call it friendly fire. you cannot achieve your goals in a administration like mr. trump's if you have people bombing one another every day of the week as they have been doing. >> rick: the president says he is not a target of this particular grand jury investigation that your newspaper has reported on, is there any way to know that that is true? >> i don't know if there is any way to know that it is true but i agree with what lindsey graham set a little bit earlier, there is no evidence of our that mr. trump committed a crime. i believe he means collusion. let's remember that the story originally was about possible collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. it has since move from that with mueller's investigation to the possibility of financial crimes, perhaps committed by one of the other members of the trump campaign, that is not the same story we began with. we have moved off to something else and i think if they

actually do and eventually indict one of these people or a federal crime, which is easy to do, there is going to be a legitimate concern over this being a hit job because collusion was the original stor story. >> rick: the story in the journal suggested this could very well take months. >> i think it is inevitable, it is going right through 2018, into the 2018 midterm elections and that could be a problem for president trump, his approval rating is now below 40%, they better get up above 40% by the middle of 2018 or a lot of republican candidates are going to be pushing back against his presidency. >> rick: will the journal be reporting on what's happening behind those closed doors? >> i think all of the press and washington will be trying hard to find out what is going on, not so much inside the grand jury but inside the mueller investigation. particularly with these special prosecutors, that is the way of the world, world leaks out.

>> rick: i guess we will watch and wait. thank you very much. ♪ >> molly: for more on this and where these leaks might be coming from and how they are transmitted, morgan wright is a cyber security analyst at the center for digital government. thank you for being here today. to start things off, the attorney general really saying they want to clamp down on this culture of leaks but that can be tough to do in this modern age, you can just snap photos of things. one of the steps to make that happen? >> you hit upon it right there, at one leak that came out of the jared kushner briefing by an intern, you are going to start getting some draconian measures. you got to start leaving your equipment out, a lot more background, a lot more polygraphs and if the fbi is involved and it becomes a national security investigation, there could be some technical measures used like lawful intercepts, software deployed on targeted devices, to collect

information to see if, in fact, that person is the leaker. >> molly: attorney general sessions saying the department have tripled the number of active leak investigations compared to the number in the last administration, he top talked about for people being charged with unlawfully distributing classified information. does the digital age make it easier to track the leakers? >> they are not spies for a foreign government, they are not given support to spy against us. they are not always trained intelligence operatives, a lot of times they don't understand the tools that can be brought. you hit upon something key, they have tripled the number, more fbi agents are on it. every fbi agent that is investigating people who are leaking this information, one less fbi agent going after isis, human trafficking, this does have a cause for society. they think they are doing some kind of civil duty, they are impacting the safety and

security of normal citizens who live in town that need to be protected from the staff. >> molly: kellyanne conway alluded to something earlier today, the white house is rather small, is that part of what may make it easier to find these leakers? >> kind of like with reality winner, only six people pointed out that document, it became easy to find out who did it. when you need to share information with the u.k., canada, new zealand, australia, they don't trust us because we can't keep this information secret but we've got to be able to share information within our own borders so we can connect these dots. when you don't share information we are back to where the cia and fbi are operating, we saw what happened with 9/11, we can't afford to have this culture but until they stop the leaks and i think the social media, the use of this and the limited number of people who have it at that they have tripled it and put

more fbi agents on it, we should be seeing some indictments and arrests here pretty soon. >> molly: even within people who are on on the same team, republicans have different agendas and different goals. with that, it can be very difficult to find out the intention of these leakers, is that part of it? >> yes, a lot of times you will look at holdover people because they may be loyal to a previous administration, whether it is a republican or democrat and some people may feel like they are compelled to do stuff. this has become a culture of leaking, a culture of lionize and people who are the leakers. you now have the pendulum back to the left, you will see a crackdown, less freedoms, less capability for people to do their job, but you are right. he goes back to this fishbowl,

all the attention being focused on it. somebody is going to break and let loose who is doing the leaking and one thing will lead to another so it will be a series of stones, we will step on them and find out who is doing the leaking. >> molly: that seem to be a pretty stern warning from the attorney general today. thank you for your insight. >> rick: reports of a grand jury being impaneled by special counsel robert mueller exploding in the media but is it being overhyped? and a scary situation at an irs facility when a suspicious package made some of the workers sick, the latest on that investigation. to replace that spoiled food. and we really appreciated that we're the webber family and we are usaa members for life. could be preventedrrent with the right steps. and take it from me, every step counts. a bayer aspirin regimen is one of those steps in helping prevent another stroke. be sure to talk to your doctor

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>> rick: new information on a massive fire ripping through one of the world's tallest buildings. fire crews in dubai now saying they have the flames in a high-rise under control, at one

time more than 40 floors of the 86 story building known as the torch were burning. it's the second time in two years that this tower has been engulfed in flames. it is not clear what started the blaze and fortunately no one was hurt. >> molly: a fox news alert, a story just breaking at the end of the first hour of "happening now," firefighters say the ten people near the suspicious package at an irs building in kansas city are feeling better because they are now away from the envelope that showed up in the mailroom. authorities say they had chest pains, some even vomited. firefighters add the envelope smelled like ammonia and had no powder. officials say the packages now quarantined so the building does not need to be evacuated. >> rick: special counsel robert's people reportedly in paneling grand jury. it comes as president trump once again dismisses the

investigation as a fabricated excuse for democrats. >> there were no russians in our campaign, there never were. we didn't win because of russia, we won because of you. they are trying to cheat you out of the leadership you want with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us and most importantly, demeaning to our country and demeaning to our constitution. >> rick: let's bring in a fox news media analyst. it was a fascinating news conference this morning, the attorney general and the director of national intelligence, senator lindsey graham says he is never seen leaks like this, have you? >> this is the weakest administration i have seen in my professional lifetime. at the same time, this "wall street journal" report saying there is a grand jury being operated by special counsel robert mueller who by the way he was appointed by president trump's deputy

attorney general. it is pretty routine, i understand the breathless coverage, this is what prosecutors do. they impanel grand juries. and then they decide whether it is an indictable offense. >> rick: how much responsibility does the media have in handling leaked materia material? how dangerous is it to leave the decision in the hands of editors and reporters? >> this is an angel debate. the existence of the grand jury is supposed to be secret, that is a leak in and of itself. a lot of the leaks we talk about on the air and that i read about or not of classified informatio information, there is a lot of infighting in this white house that goes on all plays out in the press. when it does come to classified information, journalists have to ask themselves if it is damaging to the country, they often do consult with the administration to find out what details may be left out. this is clearly a white house that is pretty much at war with the press and i think is

perfectly willing to make an example of the press when it comes to the sort of crackdown. as you know, the obama administration went pretty far in obstruction, too. when it came to finding out who those sources were for journalists. >> rick: "the washington post" just published this phone call the president had with two world leaders, now there is talk that other world leaders don't want to get on the phone with the president because they are worried that what they talk about will become public. >> and i can totally understand that, it is amazing. there have been other leaks that somebody from within the administration would want to damage and undermine the president by putting this out, how can any president -- whether you like donald trump or not, how can he put conducted foreign policy if he can have confidential conversations with other foreign leaders. i think this is why the white house is going crazy about this, not unrelated to the decision of jeff sessions to have this news conference.

general kelly is going to run a tighter ship, that is clear. he has made clear that people will be fired, not necessarily over classified leaks but over the finger pointing, making the president look bad. it is difficult to stop all leaks especially in the culture we live in now but i suspect we may see a reduction of it if general kelly has his way. >> rick: the president has to be wondering how things got this bad. >> he put together a team and his white house that had not worked together before, almost none of them had any government experience and these factions developed. as a reporter i like to point out what is going on behind the scenes, i like people to tell me things off the record but it has clearly been very damaging for the trump administration to have so much of the dirty laundry, it

seems like almost every day. >> rick: we will be watching your show this weekend, thank you. >> molly: the house in the senate go on recess despite making more progress in addressing obamacare. a look at the option on the table, plus where things stand today. and the senate blocks the president for making an appointment during the august break. our panel weighs in on what may be behind that move. ely, there's rocket mortgage by quicken loans. apply simply. understand fully. mortgage confidently.

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>> remember health care reform? >> molly: repeal and replace, that was going to happen. >> rick: still in limbo as congress breaks for its august recess. congress leaving town with a lot of questions unanswered. live in washington with this. >> good afternoon, the immediate plan is for hearings and the committee that handles health issues after labor day. the panel's top democrat patty murray says they will look at stuff to stabilize the insurance markets with concerns that they are collapsing. that will be a bipartisan effor effort. meanwhile, a key republican is selling his proposal, a broader one giving governors more control of health care dollars. >> when you hear a republican say we've got to move on, we haven't taken our best shot at replacing obamacare. why don't you take the money we

would spend on obamacare in washington and grant it back to the 50 states? >> i member of the g.o.p. leadership team was asked if he could get 50 senators to vote yes. >> if all 35 come to the senate and say they want the plan, that would be the best thing that could happen, even better if a few democrat members would join. >> there are also the issues of subsidies to help lower income americans afford their insurance with which president trump has threatened to stop paying. the senate democratic leaders were in cutting those payments would be devastating. >> insurers in three states, north carolina, pennsylvania, iowa, have each released separate rates for 2018.

one, if the payments were made, one that is 20% higher if they are not. >> republicans got 49 senators to yes, they needed 50. plenty are motivated, it is just not clear if there is a repeal bill that would have enough support. the more likely may be a bipartisan bill to stabilize the markets short term. >> rick: i guess you get to go on vacation, too? >> tonight. >> rick: enjoy. >> molly: congress is not getting anything done this recess, neither will the president when it comes to making appointments. the senate blocking mr. trump from doing so. thank you both for being here. u.s. lawmakers are headed home and despite the fact that republicans won back the house, the senate and the white house, there is no major legislative agenda or accomplishment that they can grow about when they

get home and now we are seeing they may take this last-minute action to ensure that the president will be able to get these recess appointment as well. >> i think this is why there is a new poll out that says the approval rating of congress is at 10%. i think there should be some kind of when you get below 20% when it comes to what americans think of you. they are deliberately obstructing the nature of what the american people want, which is some action. it doesn't have to be rapid but there has got to be something done. we are seeing what is possible with the economy, with just donald trump being president and the potential and the optimism that has created but congress has got to get its act together. the republicans are at fault here, you can't really blame the democrats, we know what they stand for. the republicans are obstructing their own president and i think this is about the swamp versus the independent action of the white house and the american

people. >> molly: there may have been something you could agree with and there, don't blame the democrats. what do you think this signifies that they are putting their foot down before they walk out of washington? >> i think president trump made a big mistake by attacking jeff sessions and there is supposed to be a healthy tension between the legislative branch and the executive branch, that is understood. when he went after jeff sessions, i think it gave senators an opportunity to show that they don't trust the president. he put all of that relationship aside, i think there is an opportunity when they come back on tax reform, on infrastructure, can you imagine what their rating would change of congress came back and said they were going to work in a bipartisan way, the schoolhouse rock way of passing bill. just a bill setting on capitol hill where you have bipartisan cooperation, no

reconciliation, committee hearings and a trillion dollar infrastructure package that could be passed, an opportunity to provide tax cuts for the middle class. that would change the 10% approval rating and also the 33% approval rating that president trump has. >> molly: when you were talking about tension, to go bipartisan pairs of senators have been filed as a legislation to prevent president trump from firing special counsel robert mueller without cost. >> every senator thinks they can be president but the fact of the matter is, actions that impede the actual ability and constitutional rights of the president are unconstitutional. this is an important thing for the president to push back on so there isn't a precedent. of course what they have already done is made it possible for him to not be able to do a recess appointment which is petty and stupid but that is what they are doing. they not only are deliberately -- it's not incompetence, it is a deliberate effort to i think not just have

that natural tension between the president and congress but to keep president trump in particular specifically from accomplishing his agenda and the agenda is about lifting up the american people but at this point the only thing they can consider and care about it seems are themselves. >> molly: you had a pretty long wishlist there a moment ago, days are short when everyone returns to washington, what do you think and actually be accomplished? >> i think tax reform can be accomplished. democrats, 45 of the 48 democratic senator sent a letter to president trump and said they want to work with him, they want to make sure the middle class is prioritized over the top 1%. they want to make sure they don't increase the deficit through tax reform. there is a real opportunity here, the better deal democratic senators launch a couple weeks ago calls for oh trillion dollar infrastructure spending package. that is something president trump wants. the obstruction tammy mentioned, there is a lot of practice that

republican senators have doing this because from day one under president obama, mitch mcconnell said "we are going to obstruct and stop his agenda." and then you saw him do that with the supreme court justice position where they denied the president his constitutional right. >> if we are going to be doing tax reform, what we really need is dealing with obamacare. as long as obamacare exists in the fashion it is, it is bad for small business and the middle class, that for independent, individual health care plan holders. even though you might be getting some kind of a tax break, we won't know economically what is happening because of obamacare, congress failed in that regard. all the rest is going to be theater because we have to get that done. >> molly: we talk about congress failing, they are headed home, what kind of reception do they face? >> i do not envy the reception they are going to get. i think that 10% rating that

tammy mentioned is going to be felt, we are going to probably see some viral videos of senators and members of congress being approached by their constituents very angry, i know the republican senators and members of congress have not wanted to hold town hall meetings and have run away in a state of fear from their own constituents. i think their constituents are going to hold them accountable and we are going to see some anger now. very nonviolent but i think there is a lot of anger out there. >> they are going to feel it in november of next year because i don't think any of this is going to get any better, i think this is going to be par for the course. >> molly: thank you for joining us. >> rick: combing through the rubble after a school explosion turns deadly. up next, what we are learning about the cause of the blast, plus the russia investigation entering a new phase with special counsel robert mueller is reportedly in paneling a

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>> molly: new information on a fatal explosion at a school in minneapolis that we brought to you yesterday on "happening now." officials say two school employees were killed and nine injured in wednesday's blast, the cause believed to be a gas explosion. officials also say they are still trying to secure the building as this investigation continues. >> our number one concern is to make sure all of our investigators are safe and not imperil before they go. tomorrow we will look at how soon we can get into the building. >> molly: a receptionist and a custodian died in the blast. >> rick: the nation's capital facing the likelihood that the russia investigation is in fact

heating up after reports that special counsel robert mueller's and paneling a grand jury. a member of president trump's legal team is downplaying the significance of the move. >> grand jury's are supposed to be secret proceedings, right now it is out there. from practicing law almost 40 years, grand jury's being impaneled in situations like this are pretty much standard prosecutorial approach and frankly not unusual. >> rick: let's bring in our legal panel. welcome to you both, the attorney general and national security director this morning issued stern warnings to anyone contemplating a leak of classified information, what happens if these leakers are caught, what are the penalties? >> one of the things we worry about is what kind of leaking it

is. it is a different standard if you are leaking information, but if you are talking about something that is confidential or classified, obviously a much higher standard. that is got to be clear in an age where we just yesterday heard an investigation that is supposed to be secret. the reason grand juries operate in confidentiality is the secret to their success. if we are going to know everybody who is subpoenaed, what kind of the documents they are looking at, it is going to compromise the integrity of the entire investigation. that is not a win for anybody. the white house are glad, they want to get to the bottom of matter sooner than later. >> rick: what is the likelihood that anyone goes to jail over this? >> to me there is a real likelihood that someone could go to jail. when you look at the meeting between jared kushner and certain russian individuals,

when you look at donald trump juniors misleading statements that seem to have come from air force one, there is a real possibility that there is not only an obstruction of justice charge but also that when it comes to the filling out of those security documents, those were intentional misleading statements. to jay sekulow's point about the confidential nature of a grand jury, members of the grand jury themselves are required to be confidential and not leak any information but witnesses, a defense attorney that is not allowed to actually say anything, they are not required to stay silent. that is when you see a lot of the public statements. >> rick: i am hearing that federal grand jury's are different. >> one of the things we have to remember is that when you hear the word grand jury, you automatically think indictment. you should think investigation. that is the purpose of a grand jury.

it is a vehicle to pursue investigation, whether that means bringing witnesses, documents, it doesn't mean there is going to be an indictment. grand juries are never a good thing, especially if you are somebody in the trump administration right about now, i don't want to downplay the seriousness of the fact that one has been impaneled a couple of weeks ago. we shouldn't just automatically jump to the conclusion that that means somebody is going to be indicted. it also lessens the extent of the investigation. >> rick: this could last through 2018, liza going to take so long for this inquiry? >> financial crimes, especially when you are looking at federal financial crimes, those investigations take a long time. the one thing we have been able to point out as that originally the grand jury was impaneled in virginia, now we see that bob

mueller has expanded that case to bring it to d.c. not only is the flynn case now part of that grand jury investigation but we have also heard that donald trump, jr., has been subpoenaed, the investigation, it usually comes to a point where people have to face the facts of whatever they have done, whether they be guilty or not. >> rick: the ag hinted that journalists could be the targets of these leak investigations. when do you think we will learn about what is going to happen behind the closed doors of that investigation? >> if the last six months have been any indication of the next six, i think the answer is going to be yes. we don't want any adverse, we don't want people want people to be able to do their jobs without being affected. i think unfortunately the leaks are going to continue.

>> rick: thank you very much for your time, have a great weekend. >> molly: the world is watching, venezuelan president, his new assembly will do what he wants. the goal is to control every aspect of the government and rewrite the constitution. the opposition is not giving up in the violence could escalate as opposition leaders try to block this from coming together. ...what you love. ensure. always be you.

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>> hello everyone, i'm sandra smith. no reaction from the australian prime minister to the leaked transcript of his calls with president trump. we will tell you what he says about their relationship now. plus, former dnc chairman.

have you ever been to a cracker barrel restaurant? how about all 645 of them. one couple is on a quest to do just that, we will ask them why on "america's news headquarters." >> molly: right now some incredible images out of southern california as powerful thunderstorms and flash flooding in a los angeles suburb. the flooding is so severe that the strain was brought to a halt when the raging waters threaten to wash out parts of the track. firefighters had to rescue about 200 people. the flooding also overtaking the roads in the area, a stranded truck driver had to be rescued by helicopter. thankfully, no injuries reported. >> rick: a major showdown is underway in venezuela. >> molly: president nicolas

maduro begins his new assembly today. all this as an investigation is underway into whether the recent elections were rigged. steve harrigan's life from me miami keeping an eye on this for us. >> right now you have two competing governing bodies, the new constituent assembly, they say they want to arrest members of the national assembly and right next-door you have the national assembly, they say they're going to fight to the death before they give up their seats. around these competing governing bodies you have a lot of protesters. some for the government, some opposed to the government, there are certainly risk of violence here and we have seen quite a bit of violence over the last four months. more than 120 people have been killed in street demonstrations, ten killed just sunday during the vote for this new constituent assembly that has been announced as a sham by more than 20 countries, including the u.s. voters had a choice only four candidates picked by the government and those candidates

included the president's son and presidents wife. electronic voting machines indicate the final results were off. what is going to happen next is anyone's guess come up with the likelihood more violence is high, we have already seen the president send mass security forces to arrest opposition leaders. he is threatening now to strip delegates of their immunity, arrested them, even arrest his own attorney general. if we do see another way of arrest, we could be suffered u.s. sanctions against the oil sector in venezuela. >> molly: thank you. >> rick: a big change could be in the works for dunkin' donuts, here's a hint. it has something to do with the doughnutsol.

>> time for the final 30. dunkin donuts is toying with the idea of dropping the donut altogether. >> executives say they want to be known more for their coffee, kind of like starbucks.

the name change is being tested on a couple locations out there in california. >> they're not dropping donuts. just the word. >> you'll get your donuts. >> thanks for joining us. >> "america's news hq" starts now. >> the trump administration putting leakers on notice. hello, everyone. happy friday. i'm sandra smith. attorney general jeff sessions saying the government has tripled the number of leak probes. the director of national intelligence saying they mean business. >> important to stress, any disclosure outside of authorized channels is a criminal offense and we will simply not tolerate the illegal release of classified information. >> sandra: we have fox team coverage. john roberts is live at the white house. but first we start with doug mcelway live from the department of justice. doug, we understand the administration wants to potentially look at rep