a federal investigation in addition to the state charges. much to play out for the case in a lot of healing that will have to happen over months, weeks, however long and charlottesville, we wish the best to everyone who was involved this weekend. >> leland: we have already seen memorials there. "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: we begin with a fox news alert on new fallout from the deadly violence in charlottesville, virginia. court action for the suspect the growing criticism of the president's response to the tragedy. new reports that president trump will speak out on charlottesville again today. welcome to "happening now" on this monday. i'm jon scott. >> i am heather childers prior to the president just arrived back at the white house. minutes from now he will sit down with his chief of staff and then meet with his attorney general and the director of the fbi about the deadly charlottesville attack. after jeff sessions defended president trump saying that there has been too much focus on

the white house response to this weekends violence. >> jon: we have live the fox coverage with ellison barber in charlottesville, virginia. but over to kevin with more on the presidents packed day today. how >> you are right about that. a busy day indeed going from new jersey to the nation's capital. then in new york later tonight. we do expect that the president will weigh in on the violence in charlottesville. he will need as he pointed out with his attorney general jeff sessions and griffith parade to talk about the rally that happened down the state, he had not far from the nation's capital, but ahead of the trip, interesting to see. the third largest pharmaceutical company resigned from the american council sending responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. of the man's name is kenneth fraser. actually the ceo of -- writing today that the countries leaders must honor the fundamental values by rejecting expressions

of hatred, bigotry, and group supremacy. that's from kenneth fraser. a sharp retort from the president who wrote that he will have more time to lower rip-off drug prices. that's coming after the violent confrontation that left one dead and 19 injured over the weekend. while some have criticized the president for not being forceful enough in his denunciation of white supremacist, the attorney general says that the president has been crystal clea clear. >> well, he might have -- he made a very strong statement that contradicted the ideology of hatred, violence, racism, white supremacy. those things are condemned in the country. they are totally unacceptable. you can be sure that this that this department of justice and his administration is going to take the most vigorous action to protect the rights of people

like heather heyer to protest against racism and bigotry. >> the attorney general of the united states jeff sessions, we expect the president to talk about to the ongoing problem of theft at the hands of chinese companies. the schedule is as you know what covering the white house can change at any moment. now back to you. >> jon: it is a busy day. kevin at the white house. thank you. speak to court action today in the deadly charlottesville attack. james alex fields has been arraigned on murder and other charges. >> jon: accused of plowing his car into protesters at a white nationalist rally in virginia killing 32-year-old heather heyer, while wounding more than a dozen others. more fox coverage now with ellison barber live in charlottesville. >> hello, the attack happened in this area where i am standing on saturday.

the street was covered with some shoes that were from the victims struck by that card. now those shoes have been replaced with flowers. many of the notes to heather heyer, the 32-year-old killed after james fields drove his car into two other cars and to the crowd of people. appearing before a judge for this past hour via a video link from jail. the judge determined that he could not afford an attorney. at the public defender's office could not defend him, because someone working in that office has a relative who was involved in this incident's. the judge assigned him another attorney. as he said, bail was denied at the hearing, but it might be revisited down the road. once fields is able to meet with the attorney he was assigned today. at the 20-year-old james fields was seen in photos marching with a white supremacist group. they were here for the sole called unite the right rally.

they said they were protesting the removal of the confederate statue. to the rally never officially began because violence broke out. heather heyer's friends say that they were not part of an official group, but they spent the morning peacefully marching against a white supremacist who are here in town when a dodge challenger came running down, speeding down the road where they were walking. here is how one witness, a friend of heather heyer described it. >> we hear a commotion at the front of the crowd, and i see bodies flying. and then the search for heather began. and we did not find out, nobody knew where heather was. i had to start asking around the hospital. asking around the hospital coming into than a detective told me that it was her. it is still so unreal. i could not go to sleep last night. it was hate. >> fields is charged with second-degree murder, malicious

wounding, and hit-and-run. he could face more charges, doj and fbi have opened a civil rights investigation into this attack. >> jon: allison barber at a very sad charlottesville, virginia. thank you. >> heather: let's switch gears for a moment as we await the presidents meeting with the attorney general, lawmakers on their august break. and to this headline in "politico" touts our attention. protecting brutal september, and goes on to say senior officials have described the coming months as brutal, bad, or really tough. because of the confluence of complicated issues. they also say it is provable to get the presidency back on course. joining me now is david catton's, the senior politics writer. let's talk about this list. it is a long list. it begins with a september 30th deadline for raising the debt ceiling, also the funding of the

upcoming budget period in infrastructure, tax reform, possibly obamacare back on the table. what is the most important to tackle first? >> it has to be the debt ceiling. this is a perpetual ritual here in washington. a short-term funding extensions to keep the government going. the difference is that republicans control all leverage of government. he will have some conservative members of the house who have already said that they want spending cuts, they want some spending reforms. a long term reforms in exchange for their votes to raise the debt ceiling. the white house is not agreeing with that. they want a clean debt ceiling so that they can move on. so that that can be a sticking point between conservatives, particularly in the house and the trump administration. >> heather: one of the other points made in the political article and others, the president wants to get everything done at once, of course a lot of those issues you just mention involve congress, we know that he has not gotten a

lot of help in that area. should his aides temper some of the expectations? or should it be the other way around? congress and republicans be able to work with him to get things done like he wants? >> i think that the aides will try to temper expectations, but it will be hard. the president is frustrated. we saw how angry he was at senate republicans could not get together on a health care reform deal that would have repealed obamacare. actually lashing out, obviously at the senate majority leader of his own party. he is going to need mitch mcconnell and paul ryan in the house for some of these big-ticket items. you have seen speaker ryan promising that we have to get the tax reform done here. we have to have some hearings in the fall, and you're going to have that question of does the president want to push for an obamacare repeal at the same time. a lot of people in the senate and the house saying that we have to move on, but the president saying, no, you have

to do it. it would be hard for me to seek how they do tax reform and the obamacare repeal at the same time with all going on in september. >> heather: not only the discrepancy, but an issue of opinion within the white house itself. so how do you get the white house aides on the same page? >> it will be if they are there. there. steve bannon, the chief strategist, a flurry of reports that he is on thin ice with the president. he is clashing with the national security adviser. h.r. mcmaster, also different views on spending. he wants funding for the border wall which is a priority of the president during the campaign season. again, a lot of people on the hill have said that that is not going to have been. even republicans. so there are some devices within the white house, we will have to watch over the next few weeks to see if there are additional

personnel changes coming. particularly because we have a new chief of staff in there. john f. kelly, only in there for a few weeks now. you may be making moves internally to really try to home down on white can be accomplished legislatively for the president. >> heather: some of the things that happen over the weekend, we have this onslaught of reaction to the president. whether he reacted enough into what happened in charlottesville. also his reaction is strong words against north korea just last week. how much of a distraction will both of those issues be moving on in the agenda, and what can he do to move forward on that? >> he will have to speak more on charlottesville, members of the own party coming out and saying that he has not spoken strongly enough about that. that will dominate to this week. north korea dominated last week. so you have these external events that are outside of the control of the president, happens to every president that

occupies the white house. you put up the best well laid plans, and then something happens beyond your control. a national tragedy like this saturday and charlottesville, or a foreign policy crisis like in north korea. he has to manage i'm, and it's going to take a lot of time, energy. it could also set back the legislative goals that he wants, tax reform, obamacare, and infrastructure. >> heather: do not forget the russia investigation. which will come back as well. thank you for joining us. >> jon: widespread criticism to the response in charlottesville. the vice president is going after the media. this meant suggesting the press is being unfair. is he right? the media panel weighs in. north korea could test launch another muscle as soon as tomorrow. how will the u.s. respond? >> i've heard folks saying that we are on the cusp of a nuclear war, no intelligence that we are in that case today.

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♪ >> i take issue with the fact that many in the national media spend more time criticizing the president's words than they did criticizing those who perpetrated the violence to begin with. we should be putting the attention where it belongs. and that is on these extremist groups that need to be pushed out of the public debate entirely. and discredited for the hate groups and dangerous fringe groups that they are. >> jon: vice president mike pence blasting the media coverage of the president's reaction to the violence in charlottesville over the weekend, suggesting that criticism of the president is unfair. joining us now, judy miller, pulitzer prize investigative author and reporter. and dan henniker of "the wall street journal." both are fox news contributor's. they are the media panel today.

does the vice president have a point? so much of the attention has been focused on the criticism that the president has gotten for not being as strong as some people think that he should have been in condemning the violence. >> i realize that mike pence had to say something that sounded like something that donald trump might have said. but of course he is not right in this news is news. if you have every major powerful person in his party or most of them criticizing what donald trump failed to say about the charlottesville attack, mike pence had to go out once again and rescue this administration by saying what needed to be said. which was white supremacists are condemned by this administration. he did that, but he had to put in a little bit of a trumpian twist, which is calling out us. at least he did not call us

canoes. >> jon: nobody thinks that the administration applauds this kind of thing. mowing down protesters with a car. >> no, they do not at all. let's not make any mistake about it. this administration and donald trump into the mainstream media have been in a death struggle going back to the campaign. the two of them are at the chapter and in opposition to each other. we know that. having said that, mike pence was right. it should be on the group, carrying nazi's flags in charlottesville. but it wasn't. we have to focus on the communications office and why the presidents listen to the communications office. they know that if you put out a statement like he did, that there is difficulty as tragedy on both sides, that will not be sufficient. then it sets in motion all these political forces, the reaction that judy just described. we had the event this morning for the ceo merck resigned, and then the president tweeted in

the attack on him about high drug prices. this is moving the emphasis entirely off of the event and onto the president himself in a way that he does not need. >> jon: you think that the coms director position should be filled? >> it should be filled. but will he listen? >> jon: "the wall street journal" ran this, and i thought it was an interesting line. its rights, so often with mr. trump, his official statement missed an opportunity to speak like a unifying leader, but the focus on mr. trump is a copout, because it lets everybody look at the deeper problem of identity politics on the rights and the left. do you want to go more on that? >> it is our belief that american politics is being driven way to the rights and way to the left, some of the administrations on campuses, people shut down, and flights and violence in places like

berkeley. the two extremes are beginning to take over the politics. and you are simply eliminating any sort of substance that should be in the middle of the politics, the things that we spend our times working our way through, but you have the two groups on the left and right dominating the politics and forcing themselves into the discussion like we are doing right now. >> jon: not unlike what is happening on capitol hill. the rights and the left dominate the house and the senate, but the metal is gone. >> exactly, the democratic party moving increasingly to the left, basically the republican party moving to the right. >> jon: let me interrupt you, the vice president is taking questions from the press. we will go live to the vice president's remarks. >> an assembly that is about to facilitate to dictatorship, 100s of political -- more than a hundred venezuelans have died.

president trump has made it very clear. we will not stand by while venezuela collapses into dictatorship it will not stand by as venezuela crumbles. but it is important to note that the president said a failed state in venezuela threatens the security and prosperity of the entire hemisphere and the people of the united states of america. of the failed state in venezuela will become an even greater problem in narcotics traffic flowing into our country across the southern border, victimizing families. even greater illegal migration across south america south america and compromising the borders and our economy and in some cases compromising the security of our families and communities. the president sent me here with a message of compassion to these families that are playing venezuela. we are with them. we stand with them. we are trying to restore

democracy in venezuela. and a message of resolve to all of our partners in latin america colombia, and beyond that we are absolutely determined to bring the full measure of american economic and diplomatic power to bear until we see democracy were stored in venezuela. >> reporter: are you making an argument for regime change in venezuela? and also, what with the u.s. offer for families like these or for what could become more of a problem with migrants? >> the united states of america has a long and storied history of generosity. with regard to refugee populations, and it is happening here in columbia from people fleeing as these families i heard from today, clinging to the east and in economic deprivation and political instability that exist here today. but the american people will

always come alongside. allies like colombia showed the crisis continue to drive greater refugee flow into colombia and neighboring countries, that being said, the president semihere with a message that the regime is experiencing change right now, and what we are witnessing is venezuela collapsing on dictatorship. to the election of the constituent assembly. the dismissal of the chief prosecutor. in venezuela, that all shows the regime is committed to using processes to change the laws and structures and ultimately the constitution in venezuela to full dictatorship. that is simply unacceptable to the united states. it is unacceptable to the allies across -- 12 latin american countries took a strong stand against venezuela's collapse

into dictatorship coming on the united states is going to continue to send a message of resolve and determination. we are going to continue with all of the resources to bear coming into the president said that we have many options with regard to venezuela. to ultimately make it possible for the people of venezuela to see the democracy restored. >> reporter: what about north korea and the patients being over? what can you expect? >> now for several decades the united states has embraced the failed policies of strategic patience. in successive administrations, both political parties have believed that negotiation and patients with north korea would achieve the long-term objective of the of the denuclearization of the north korean peninsula which has failed as we continue to see the camera regime in the

headlong pursuit of ballistic missiles -- ballistic missiles, and we will take and mount on those missiles, and president trump made it clear earlier this year that the erroc patience is over. the united states is putting all options on the table. we are marshaling the support of our allies in the region as well as china and unprecedented ways to isolate north korea economically and diplomatically. and the president will be speaking later today, prime minister -- all the resources of the united states and the president behind to resolve this present confrontation. with north korea. the president has said that all options are on the table, as the secretary of state has said, no future for the regime in pyongyang.

with the possession of nuclear weapons. >> reporter: [inaudible question] >> during all my experience in the campaign, never any evidence of collusion and any of the allegations paid i'm not of any of that, and the president has spoken his mind. but we will fully cooperate. in our cooperation of the special counsel. many of the long information, but the remains focused, i remain focused on the jobs that we have to do for the american people. rebuilding the military, restoring the economy with the policy that we see no more than a million jobs created all across the country. providing confidence in american consumers and american businesses. and hopefully we stay on task. >> thank you, we have to go. >> reporter: on january 15,

you said that michael flynn's conversations did not involve russia sanctions coming you said there was no contact between the russian government and the campaign, we know both of those to be untrue. any point in which you have gone back to everybody involved in the campaign now with the administration and asked them to be fully transparent with you and the american people? >> i think that i was very clear that's what i spoke about on television is exactly what general flynn told me. i believe that the president was right to move him out of this decision in the white house. and have also made it very clear that i am not aware of any contacts during the time that i was on the campaign. between any officials of the russian government and the officials of the campaign. and i stand by that. but again, we will continue to fully cooperate with the special counsel and provide them whatever information they require. we will stay completely focused on the task at hand which is to

make america prosperous again. make america safe again, to borrow the phrase, make america great again. thank you all. >> jon: vice president mike pence, touring on -- in south america, in colombia right now hoping to assure allies that there is no imminent u.s. invasion of venezuela. but also touching on a couple of critical issues, the north korean situation and also saying that he is not aware of any evidence of collusion with the russians or the russian government during the course of the trump campaign. let's get back to the discussion with the media panel. i guess that he is kind of the vice president fixer in chief, because the world has been concerned about some of the issues. would there be an invasion, for instance of venezuela under the regime? and the vice president is saying, no, that's not what we are talking about.

we are talking about using american economic and other powers to return to democracy to the country. >> i was struck by what the vice president did not say. he never said that the military options with respect to venezuela were on the table. which is what the president said he was talking about marshaling all economic and diplomatic measures to counter what is going on, which is regime collapse in venezuela. he also use the same language with respect to north korea. he says, we were marshaling all economic and diplomatic measures. i think that mike pence is of the voice of reason in the administration. and he sends out to reassure allies in south america and in a show that the united states, the rhetoric of mr. trump should not be taken on its base. >> jon: he said that the president send him there on the trip, but talking about some very important issue saying that

the strategy of strategic patience, for instance has utterly failed and north korea. that is clearly a reference to what the obama administration approach was. >> yes, exactly. we have a piece on "the wall street journal" editorial page today cowritten by jim mattis and rex tillerson saying exactly that, that strategic patience is not the way to go anymore. we will ratchet up pressure on north korea, trying to induce china who has most leverage over north korea to pressure them into the nuclear rising. but the article makes clear, there is a nuclear option there. and that the united states is not going to step back from that. we have given the south koreans south korean missile defense system, the chinese criticized us. we are not apologizing for that, but we are pushing forward in the area. i like mike pence going down there and sing so publicly that

we are supporting the venezuelan people. this is a tragedy that has been off on the side. that was important for him to do. >> jon: behind them essentially turning the place into a dictatorship. what a mess. all right. judy miller and dan henniker, the media panel today. we think you both. >> heather: we will talk about north korea coming up, but in the meantime a desperate scene unfolding in texas. illegal immigrants found locked inside a stifling tractor-trailer only a few miles from the mexican border. the latest in that investigation up next coming in tension with north korea could come to a head this week. i made concerned that kim jong-un will launch another missile tomorrow. saying that the rogue regime has been warned. >> the president has made it very clear to the north korean regime how america will respond if certain actions were taken.

>> jon: fox news alert, the chairman of the joint chief of staff is in south korea today exploring military options there. >> heather: discussing how scary this is. what will happen next. all these concerns about north korea launching another missile tomorrow, which is a national holiday there. cia director mike pompeo saying that the threats from the rogue regime are serious. but that war is not imminent. >> we have heard folks talk

about being on the cusp of a nuclear war, no intelligence would indicate that with the dr in that place. >> heather: a gram graham allison joining us now, the secretary of defense and the author of "destined for war." thank you for joining us. >> think they're having me. >> heather: you heard us say that north korea could launch another missile tomorrow. let's begin there. if they do, what do you think will happen? what will the response he, what should it be? >> two dates coming up tomorrow, a special day is, and then the 21st of august when the joint u.s. south korea exercise begin begins. kim jong-un has threatened that he is going to do this launching four media ranged missiles that could attack could go on. i would say that the odds are pretty good that we will see a test of that sort. president trump has repeating

the proposition that he is not going to let north korea continue advancing its nuclear capabilities which it does every time it's conducts a test. so over the next days and weeks we will see whether we simply say, well, you cannot do the next two test coming you can't in the next test, you can't do the next test, or if at some point he draws a brighter line, and conducts a limited military attack to prevent further tests. >> heather: we heard the vice president speaking, and in his comments he said that the era of strategic patience is over. he said that it has failed, in fact, it has utterly failed. with that believe you that you're entering more of an era of action where we are going to take action? back in 1994 coming you actually said that we should attack north korea. >> well, we should recognize

this as almost impossible problem that president trump inherited. his predecessor obama, bush, clinton, i was in the clinton administration have tried to deal with it, extremely difficult to prevent a country from doing things inside its own borders if it wants to. in '94 we had a chance to attack north korea to prevent it from acquiring any nuclear weapon material. senator perry was the secretary of defense, he recommended attacking then. i strongly supported that recommendation. and even in retrospect i agree. but in that case, even more today, if we attack north korea to prevent further launches, it is possible, and even likely that they respond by attacking soul. they could kill tens of thousands of people very quickly. then we prevent that from them trying to kill hundreds of thousands of people, and then we find ourselves in the second korean war.

the first korean war, 50,000 americans died. >> heather: what action do you take that can stop kim jong-un without killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people? >> that's a puzzle that president trump and the administration are trying to solve. i think what they are trying to signal to china which has the greatest capability for effecting kim jong-un's action is that they are prepared to attack north korea with all the risks that entails including risk of a war in south korea. including risk of war between u.s. and china which is what happened in the first korean war. they are prepared to take that risk whether they continue tests that are going to give them the capability to attack the american homeland. if china gets the message and believes it, then china could act particularly, because it supplies 90% of the oil to kim jong-un, to squeeze the oil in

such a way that he would stop testing. and the reference that you just made in the previous segment to the op-ed by tillerson and mattis makes it clear what they want to do is stop now where north korea is. and if it stops now, the u.s. is prepared to sit down and negotiate. i believe only of trump is able to make that credible will china take the actions that he wants. but without making it credible, he is running the risk that we do it. >> heather: we need help from japan and south korea as well. but china has to follow through this time. thank you so much for joining us. >> they are a crucial actor. >> heather: thank you. >> jon: just in, more than a dozen illegal immigrants found in a hot trailer in texas. the scene coming weeks after authorities found nearly 100 people locked in a sweltering

tractor-trailer in san antonio. many of those people died. casey stegall live in dallas with more. >> yes, the authority's work tipped off to this one after a relative of one of the immigrants actually called police, because they were worried, had not heard from the loved one. that is when authorities tracked the trailer down to this parking lot. it was a truck stop in edinburg, texas, close to the border. they knocked on 18-wheeler doors until they heard people yelling for help. officials say that they discovered 19 illegal immigrants locked inside a back trailer. they were all from mexico, guatemala, honduras, and even romania. the conditions do not appear to be life-threatening, but however, two people, a man and woman connected to this time i have been detained, not arrested. a statement listed by i.c.e.

homeland security investigation continues to work closely with state and local law enforcement in pursuing leads in an effort to determine who is behind this smuggling venture. the investigation continues. you mentioned that this comes on the heels of a similar discovery less than a month ago in san antonio. federal authorities found 100 immigrants packed in the back of a sweltering semi. the truck was in a walmart parking lot. to the store employee noticed people walking around he had dehydrated asking for water. they called 911, ten people die died. the alleged driver of that truck, james matthew bradley was arrested at the scene. and now faces federal smuggling charges. he claims that he did not know people were inside his trailer as he was driving it around, despite witness testimony that the immigrants locked inside were yelling for help and banging on the walls for hours

trying to get somebody's attention. >> jon: casey stegall in texas. thank you. >> heather: the heat not the only thing they are dealing with in texas, a wet weekend as well, that meant floods. floods forcing people out of their homes coming into the roads were not any safer. plus a profile encourage and selflessness. we have told you him as a medal of honor recipients. an incredible gesture. you will deftly want to see this. he will join us live next. >> cell sprinted ahead at every meeting regardless of enemy fire with resolve. i don't know why i didn't get screened a long time ago.

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injuries reported, thankfully. and over in the east coast, tropical storm moving through the atlantic between the u.s. and bermuda. americans probably do not have to worry about landfall. but the storm will bring strong waves and rip currents. >> jon: right now and update on an american hero and his incredible act of generosity. you might remember the story of sal giunta, barack obama awarded him the medal of honor. the highest military decoration for valor. here is president obama describing the events on the battlefield in afghanistan which led to this moment in the white house. >> cell sprinted ahead at every meeting regardless of enemy fire with his own. he crested the hill alone with no cover about the dust kicked up by the storm of bullets still biting into the ground. there he saw a chilling site. the silhouette of two insurgents

carrying the other wounded american away who happened to be one of sal's best friends. he moved forward, he killed one of the insurgents, wounded the other who ran off. >> jon: fast-forward to last month, and staff sergeant giunta remembering his former colleagues in arms with a selfless adjuster, at a ceremony in italy, he gave his medal of honor to his unit. >> i want this to stay here in italy with the 173rd, to the men and women that turn this every single day through their selflessness and sacrifice. i present this to you, sir, for the 173rd grade. [applause] >> jon: so the 173rd airborne brigade is the recipient of sal giunta's medal of honor.

joining us now sal giunta, and the president and ceo of america warrior partnership. thank you for being with us. i met you both in the past. sal, giving your medal of honor to your entire unit, why? >> it was the only thing that felt right. i've been struggling struggling now for six years and to change about how to wear this and robert presented the biggest, the fastest, the best, most selfless men and women i have ever met in my life. and i receive the accolades for things that we did, not things that i ever did. and without medal and symbolism, it belongs to the men and women of the 173rd. we do not fight because we hate what was in front of us, we fight because we love what lies behind us. and i have done that was someone to my left and my right,

somebody willing to follow. in the units i did that was left 7173rd, and that award is more there is in it could ever be mine. >> jon: i know that you have joined the board of directors of the warrior partnership, that's part of the reason that jim is here. sal, i know it is tough. you describe it there. it is tough to be a medal of honor recipient in some kind of ways. it is also tough to be a soldier, a marine, a sailor and come home and reintegrate into the community. that is part about what america warrior partnership does. but talk a little bit, sal, why you decided to join this particular organization. >> the american warrior partnership is incredible. it is organized and filled with wonderful, amazing, selfless people that want to engage communities around the united states. in today's age, it is easy to show support to those wearing the uniform or preparing to go

to seize or come back, but when they reintegrate into society, they are average americans that have done incredible things. did they do not go to the same place or at the same way. with the american warrior partnership, we go to the communities across the united states and provide service, whatever service that may be. there is no silver pill, there is no magic item that is going to make everything better for everyone, but the american warrior partnership is in pursuit of all the ways that we can assist the fellow man and woman and reintegrate back into society, and make society better as a whole. >> jon: we want to talk about that's on the other side of the break. how does america help paris integrate its returning members of the armed forces? that is just ahead on "happening now" "

>> coming up this monday on "outnumbered," president trump meeting with the fbi director, expected to speak at some point today. what will he saying in the growing calls for him to call out white supremacist by name? >> and sending reports as security officials warned the obama administration starting in 2013 about russia's efforts to disrupt democracy. what they did or did not do with those warnings. the special counsel should look into it? >> yes, that is an interesting story. all that plus a #oneluckyguy, "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. do not move. we are coming your way. >> jon: retired argent staff speed, recipient of the medal of honor. and ceo of the morning partnership, talk to us, jim, about the reintegration program that to the warrior partnership is trying to help accomplish. >> yes, thank you. a great opportunity to be out

here and share with sal giunta. america has warrior partnership, what we do is empower communities to empower veterans. so we believe that the best place for a veteran to reintegrate is at the community level, not from the top down, not from the belt way, there is a big play in it, but it has to happen at the community level. but we do at americo warrior partnership, we trained communities to do proactive outreach and engagement to all veterans. world war ii veterans, the vie, korea, because they are the best people to be peers and assist in the transition. they have done it before. it has to happen at the community level. >> jon: you are a veteran yourself, so if someone wants to, if americans, the viewers want to reach out and help veterans like sal, and others, what is the best way to go about it? >> there are a number of

different ways, about 45,000 veteran nonprofits in the community throughout the nation. a lot of confusion on where to go and how to access it, folks can go to their local county veteran service officers, which 2000 county service officers. american legion's, vfw's wounded project. and also americo warrior partnership. what we hope to do is create communities throughout the united states that have a single point of contact for there is no doubt where they go to. where the veteran goes to you for your assistance. and connected to the resources that may not be known. i would say that the worst thing is that you do not know who you help. you have to know the vet. >> jon: we will get that information on our website as well. we are back in just a moment.

>> we will see you back here in an hour. >> that was a fast hour already. we will see you then, "outnumbered" begins right now. >> harris: we will begin with a fox news alert, president trump at the white house meeting with attorney general jeff sessions and fbi director chris right. to those leaders were told we are talking about the violence unfolding during the white supremacist protest in charlottesville on saturday. expecting new comments from the president some point today. all of this as a suspect who allegedly ran his car into counter protesters and killed a young woman was arraigned today. 19 others as you know were heard in knots, some critically. this is "outnumbered," i am harris faulkner. sandra smith, kennedy, cohost of "fox and friends" abby huntsman's. and #oneluckyguy, the opinion editor charlie hurt is here. he has outnumbered. happy to have