>> i have to admit we've been eating like savages. >> bill: good morning, everybody. breaking news overnight. now the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the atlantic on a collision course for florida. irma is still is cat 5 with winds in excess of 185 miles per hour. back with us today is irma. round two. >> good to see you, too, and dangerous storm now. i'm julie in for shannon this morning. irma is slamming caribbean islands as it heads to puerto rico and prompting mandatory evacuation orders in the florida keys.

the governor sounding the alarm. >> we're preparing for irma to impact our state. it is too early to tell exactly where the storm will hit, it is important that all people keep an eye on this very dangerous storm. do not sit and wait to prepare. get prepared now. >> bill: that's the warning. phil keating live in florida city in southern florida. good morning there, phil. how are preparations? >> preparations are hard to get right now. here is one of many, many gas stations in south florida where there are no cars here because there is no gas here. every single pump no gas, no gas, no gas. joining me live now nigel wallace with at&t. how difficult is it to find gasoline for your vehicle? >> in is my fourth one going to it. every gas station either has no gas for premium. people are forced to put

premium because there is no gas. >> the sense of panic among the people? >> every day it gets worse and worse. i feel like people should have prepared a little while ago. i've been ready for a week now. every day we get closer it gets worse and worse. >> florida city is the end of the line on the florida peninsula. from here you go south and cross over to the florida keys and key largo. there is a mandatory evacuation for all of the keys from key west up to key largo for all tourists beginning at sunset last night. the traffic flow coming out of the keys. people hauling out boats and jet skis coming out and traffic when i was driving south from miami this morning the northbound traffic was borderline insane. people were crawling. tensions are high. people are panicking without a doubt. that is the situation right down there. over in miami beach all night long and this morning people have been filling up sandbags. that's a low lying barrier

island. the mayor there anticipates there will be a mandatory evacuation of all the barrier islands, especially miami beach. it hasn't happened yet but he encouraged people to get started. as we get closer to friday and saturday, traffic will be crazy throughout the state. i know that people are emptying shelves at basically every grocery store and home depot. i tried to get cases of water last night. completely empty. everything cleaned out. it is happening in gainesville, orlando and tampa as all of these forecast models show this storm making a northbound turn and basically impacting the entire state. but right now south florida bracing for something they haven't seen in a long, long time. it has been 25 years since hurricane andrew and reportedly meteorologists are saying with 185 mile-an-hour winds

hurricane irma is rivaling the size of andrew. >> back in washington president trump says he'll revisit it. the program to protect illegal immigrants who came as children if congress can't fix daca in six months. all this coming hours before the big four head to the white house for a meeting this morning. house speaker paul ryan, nancy pelosi, mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer will all be there and peter doocy is joining us live from capitol hill. hi, peter. >> hi. the president insists he isn't trying to cast aside these young adults who were brought here illegally in the last couple years by their parents. and he is saying he doesn't like the way president obama set up daca. now president trump is trying to pressure lawmakers with this. he said online congress now has six months to legalize daca,

something the obama administration was unable to do. if they can't, i'll revisit this issue. as congress starts work on an immigration package some within the gop are brainstorming ways to make that bill attractive to both parties. >> if you legalize them and don't start securing the border you'll have until wave of illegal immigration. there is a deal to be made here. i think we should have a strong secure border security plan, marry that up with the dream act and make a down payment on immigration reform and move forward. >> it is unclear how much democrats want to play ball because they're already accusing president trump of acting in bad faith. >> the first and only direct conversation which i've had with president trump was the day of his inauguration and i thanked him for the kind words he said about dreamers and daca. he looked me in the eye and he said don't worry about those kids. we'll take care of those dreamers.

>> daca not the only thing on the agenda. harvey relief. raising the debt ceiling and funding the government happening by tend of this month. the big four are going to the white house to hash things out. mcconnell, ryan, pelosi and schumer trying to find some middle ground and should know by this afternoon how likely that is. >> bill: a lot of meetings at the white house. direct from the white house kellyanne conway senior counselor to the president. welcome back to "america's newsroom." good morning to you. the tweet from last night at 8:35 went like this. congress now has six months to legalize daca, if they can't, i will revisit this issue. what does the last part of that mean? >> he expects congress to act. the constitution doesn't support this program. president obama himself never intended for it to be permanent

and he certainly went outside of the usual authorities to establish the program. didn't bother to take it up when he had 60 democratic senators early in his administration. what president trump means if congress fails to act now they get an additional six, a total of more than one year to take up daca as they wish, then perhaps he will revisit it. he will look at that at the time. hopefully congress will act if they feel so strongly about this. if others who run in front of the tv cameras constantly and don't bring their concerns and their pieces of legislation to this white house for the president to sign or reject, then he perhaps will revisit it. he made that commitment. >> bill: the suggestion is that he would reconsider the decision of yesterday. is that what he means? >> the suggestion is that he will revisit any type of issue that requires additional

presidential action. but he made very clear yesterday through his attorney general and through his own statement from the white house, bill, that the daca program is unconstitutional and that his hand was forced in two ways. number one, you have the state attorneys general who were filing action as of yesterday and then he had his -- number two, he had his attorney general take a look at it. doj and dhs looked at the program and looked at the words of president obama himself who said the executive should not make an end run around congress. congress passes immigration laws here. the most important thing to note is that this president has as daca one piece of a larger immigration reform plan. he has already taken action on sanctuary cities, on kate's law in memory of kate who was gunned down by an illegal alien who had been deported many

times and convicted of felonies. and also enforcement actions. e-verify. >> bill: this is very important to nail down. is the president considering finding a path to allowing 800,000 dreamers to stay here? >> bill, the president took action yesterday through his administration. now it's time for congress to act. in that tweet the president is saying if congress fails to act he will revisit it. now it's up to congress. if congress will start acting let's set a great trend with congress actually acting on major pieces of legislation. hopefully they'll get moving on harvey relief, the debt ceiling, daca if they choose. certainly on tax reform. the president is going to north dakota today to talk about his tax reform, energy unleashing policies. he is going there with democratic senator heidi high camp and this is all important.

>> bill: you wonder whether or not i'll take that as a maybe based on the previous three questions about revisiting it. >> nobody should be committing the president's time to this six months from now. let's have congress act. punting these issues to the executive branch, which is what president obama did, he took executive action through a memorandum through dhs five years ago or so. congress should be acting on this. they either can choose to act or not to act. it's congress who makes the laws in this country. if they feel that strongly about this they should act. >> bill: when you mention tax reform, will that get done or are so many other issues just overwhelming the issue of tax reform that was pushed the month of august? >> it should get done this year. the president is ready with pen in hand to sign healthcare reform if they move forward. a lot of governors are

supportive of that and working on that very strongly over the recess. he is ready to sign tax reform. he met with the big six yesterday. he has the big four meeting today with respect to the leaders in both parties in both chambers. so this president as a disrupting force in washington and a successful businessman is always ready and able, bill, to do many things in short order. but he is relying on congress to act. many of the things that he can do without congress through executive action he did early and he did often in his administration. the congressional review act, 14 of them. the regulatory. he took action outside of the congress but he relies on congress for matters on tax reform. we have to simplify the tax code. give middle class tax families relief and repatriot a lot of

money and bring the jobs and money back to this country. >> bill: we'll talk about again real soon. >> the cleanup in texas continues with families facing enormous challenges on the road to recovery. can congress get texas the aid it needs? >> bill: president trump says his new tax plan will set the market free and make more jobs. whether or not the president or congress can deliver on this packed september agenda. >> tensions bouncing around the world as north korea is expected to test another missile. cabinet officials are briefing conference for choices for the rogue regime. we'll talk to ed royce next. >> we should let every country know that we will always look out for our interests, our secure and make sure that it's working for us, not making sure

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situation by the president's national security team rex tillerson and james mattis. an important get together. ed royce will be there and he is with me now. i know it's classified. how much can you share with our viewers about the importance of that meeting today? >> well, bill, i can share this with you. it is a national security threat to the entire country as we're well aware, the development now of three stage icbms as well as the ability to deliver a warhead has reached the point where america is at the brink of being at risk. and as a consequence we need to look at what has worked in the past and what hasn't worked and develop a strategy and implement in. >> bill: you were in south korea a week ago, right? what did you learn? >> i was. one of the things i learned in

sitting down with a recent defector, a minister from north korea who had defected through london was a short history, if i could just go through what transpired in the past. in 2006, it is the only time -- it was the bush administration. it was actually the treasury department that decided to do it. they deployed sanctions in such a way the sanctions went on china, on the chinese banks and shut down all currency into the country. as a consequence they also were able to block the flow of energy, you know, that korea uses as a lifeline because the treasury secretary was so determined at the time. now, unfortunately those sanctions were lifted but we did find that shut down their program at the time because they didn't have the hard currency to run it. the dictator could not pay his generals and he was in trouble as a consequence of that. and i think the takeaway is, is

there the will now that we've passed legislation on august 2nd, the president signed it that allows for the sanctions of these chinese financial institutions. do we have the will to do that again? frankly, we have to do it. that will be my argument to my colleagues. >> bill: you're talking about china, not just north korea. the sanctions against north korea have not changed much. in fact, john bolton was making that argument yesterday. he said the following and i'll ask you about this. >> sanctioning the north korean economy is a waste of time. it's not an economy, it's a prison camp. the leadership doesn't care what the standard of living of the people is. we've tried that before even when it was one of the poorest countries in the world, it developed nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. >> bill: he is making the case that sanctions won't solve the problem. you are making the case go after beijing. >> i'm making the case 95% of

the subsidy is coming from china so we have the opportunity to go after beijing and shut down the financial institutions and give them a choice between bankruptcy or cooperation with the united states. and we know this, in 2006 that worked. so the question is, you know, what is the administration going to do? they now have the wherewithal with the legislation with my bill to do exactly that. and yes, it takes going toe-to-toe with china. given the national security threat to the united states, that has to be done. >> bill: yes or no, does this congress have the stomach to do that? >> well, i think that as a congress realizes that soon the entire united states of america is going to be within range of a north korean icbm and kim jong-un is running the place, we don't have another option

except to do what has worked. those financial sanctions, once in place, we cannot lift those until we get compliance. it can't be fits and starts, which is the habit. >> bill: thank you for your time and we'll see whether or not you get your way. the big meeting is today at 1:00. ed royce from the hill. >> julie: top democratic senator bob menendez facing 12 counts of corruption charges. he will be going before a federal judge today. why the outcome of this senator's trial could have major implications for the gop agenda. >> bill: the decision and daca sparking protests across the country. president trump saying he may revisit the issue if congress can't reach a consensus. we'll explore the meaning of that. first here is senator tom cotton on what he calls an unconstitutional program. >> congress, if they'll do that, also has to mitigate the consequences of that action.

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the corruption trial of senator robert menendez. he is accused of accepting gifts from a wealthy donor in exchange for political favors. the senator said moments ago to reporters that he never dishonored his public office. menendez is facing 12 counts related to corruption. six of which are bribery charges. some of which could land him in prison for a long time. let's bring in daniel halper, contributing editor at the free beacon and weekly standard. let's go through the bribery accusations. menendez is accused from taking bribes from dr. solomon melgen who donated $750,000 to the reelection pacts and sent the senator on vacations to the caribbean and paris but then menendez supposedly asked -- menendez said he was helping

out a friend. do prosecutors have enough here? >> it is a complicated case from the legal perspective because the facts don't seem to be too much in dispute. we know that solomon melgen, this florida doctor, gave money and gave trips and other goodies to bob menendez and we know that bob menendez intervened. i don't think they're disputed. the question is whether they were done because of their longstanding friendship, whether these gifts and this money was exchanged because of a longstanding friendship which is what menendez will argue, or whether part of longstanding corruption which is what the government will argue. another question is whether or not this constitutes an official act, the actions by bob menendez to help this doctor in florida. and that's because two years ago when he was indicted, he was indicted two years ago and last year the supreme court ruled in this virginia case

with bob mcdonnell, the virginia republican governor and said that he didn't -- he wasn't corrupt because he was just doing donors favors but it wasn't an official act. >> julie: there is a slippery slope when it comes to politicians receiving any kind of gifts whatsoever especially when they're up for reelection but politically there is a lot at play here. he is a democrat. if he gets convicted doesn't necessarily mean he will resign. that's another story. if he is unseated this could be a huge win for republicans who failed in the senate to pass healthcare. this could have huge ramifications in washington >> just one more republican vote could be handy for republicans on capitol hill. chris christie is the republican governor of new jersey. if he has to leave office before his term is up christie would be able to appoint his replacement. what's interesting is he is up for reelection in 2018. not only is he campaigning for

the jury's votes but also people in new jersey as we speak. it is -- there is a lot going on here that can help republicans and, of course, look, donald trump ran against washington and whether or not he is found guilty i think a lot of people might think that it's not just what is -- it's what is legal that is disgusting sometimes. and here whether or not he is found guilty people could still find his actions disgusting. >> julie: whether or not he is found guilty again doesn't necessarily mean he will be unseated. i want to point out it has been 36 years since a u.s. senator has been facing bribery charges. but unseating him does actually seem unlikely, believe it or not because the supreme court made it harder to convict a politician of corruption. the democratic nominee for new jersey governor, phil murphy,

the election is two months away and leading in the polls. if murphy wins and menendez doesn't resign or get kicked out before january he would likely be replaced by another democrat, right? >> right. chris christie thing only lasts until january since he is leaving office. if the democrat wins and this trial drags out and the verdict drags out or menendez is found guilty and stays in office until a democrat takes over, which we assume he will given the polls, the calculus could change, of course. this shows a larger issue of corruption in washington and not just what is legally corrupt but -- illegally corrupt but what is sometimes legally allowed that people might find offensive. >> julie: corruption in washington thank you for talking to us. >> bill: governor rick scott will brief reporters in a moment on irma and the preparations underway.

listen to phil keating talk about all the water bottles being sold out in places he visited. the nfl delays sunday's miami dolphins game against tampa bay and push it back to november now. we'll get back to all of that in a moment. the house will vote today on a harvey aid package worth about $8 billion. we'll get a live report out of houston on how best that money can be used on the ground there. >> julie: president trump heading to north dakota to promote tax reform. can congress agree to a plan with so much else on the agenda? we'll ask florida congressman ron desantis but first president trump. >> president trump: this is tax cutting to put it in a very simple term. we will cut taxes and reduce taxes for individuals and middle income families.

>> bill: waiting on the governor of florida, rick scott

will brief reporters if florida as preparations continue in the sunshine state for irma packing 185 miles an hour winds. if you think, julie, a year half ago a cyclone in the pacific winston. it just about wiped out parts of the pacific. it, too, had winds in excess of 175 to 185 miles an hour and if that force is right now treating some of these caribbean islands with the same ferocity you can only imagine what these people are going through. a storm of this size is moving at 16 miles an hour. what is the big deal? that's fast for any storm of this size and magnitude. at least -- at least it is passing through as opposed to hovering and destroying everything in its wake. so we don't know once the images come to us, once the storm clears, what will be left of st. martin and so many others we've been watching already today. >> julie: when you look at the damage that was done by

hurricane harvey in houston and the infrastructure there and compare it to the infrastructure in homes in antigua and others, they have poorly constructed wooden roofs. people are being evacuated and brought into schools and churches and so forth. but they have never with stood category 5 winds in these areas. florida, however, has been bracing for this. of course here we handle things much differently in florida in particular no stranger to handling category 5 hurricanes. florida congressman ron desantis joins us now to talk about florida and governor rick scott will be coming out. how do you believe things are going in far of preparation for this massive storm? >> i think they've been going well. the president has been forward leaning. we appreciate him offering federal resources and governor scott as always is making sure we're prepared.

we have some of the best local emergency management officials in the country for obvious reasons and i think it's important that people in florida listen to their local officials, listen to governor scott and have a plan and take the precautions. this is a massive, massive storm. there has been some encouraging movements it may be tracking more east. i pray it misses the coast of florida but it's too early to tell and we have to prepare for a significant storm. >> julie: harvey relief aid has reached $8.5 billion and sets a precedent at the largest aid package in history due to a natural disaster. as florida prepares, how has harvey relief impacted the state of florida? >> it has impacted how floridians are viewing it. matthew did do damage along the florida coast. not a direct hit.

florida hadn't had a hurricane hit in years and years. there were concern people didn't heed the warnings. they did. but now looking at the situation and the defshstation of harvey i think people are being super cautious, which is a good thing. you see the water flying off the shelves the grocery stores. people are starting to get out of dodge to protect themselves and their family. in that sense i think florida, the average person knows what could happen. >> julie: there were hard lessons learned in houston. you remember some political officials there didn't necessarily call for mandatory evacuations. you are aware of that, right? there were not mandatory evacuations put into place or evacuations put into place as all. people were encouraged to stay home and many of those people ended up flooded in their cars, many drowning in their vehicles, some rescued from rooftops. let's talk in florida.

right now there are voluntary evacuations underway. let's talk about those. these are so critical. now is the time for people to get out. not after the storm has hit. >> that's correct. governor scott has done a great thing by suspending all tolls so if you're leaving south florida not going to have to worry about paying tolls. make sure you have a plan and have what you need. people can transport pets interstate without being an issue with the neighboring state. so i think the guidance has gone out well. there are some areas that will be under a mandatory evacuation. the florida keys, monroe county. i think you'll see something similar for dade and some other southern florida counties. as the storm shifts, if it does to the east, you start to implicate all our counties on florida's east coast. i think it's important to listen to local officials. evacuating people is not something you do willy-nilly. you did it because you think the risk of people staying there to life and property is simply too high. that at worst you have an

inconvenience of people leaving when they didn't end up having a hit but better to err on the side of caution. they're making those decisions with the best information they have. >> julie: i lived in florida and i know evacuations as well. we got evacuated every single month during hurricane season. i do remember, though, when people evacuated, it was tremendous. the traffic on the streets, everybody heads north, right, to orlando. now apparently some people are buying plane tickets trying to get out and some airlines are inflating their ticket prices. anything at all that can be done to prevent this? one person was trying to book a ticket to atlanta and their plane ticket jumped up to $3300 from $500. for people to evacuate safely it needs to be affordable. >> absolutely. the plane, if you can do that at a reasonable price is probably a good thing. the reason is because the storm

track is uncertain. people don't necessarily even know where to evacuate. some of the tracks have it hitting the entire state. you don't necessarily have a coast you can evacuate two. if it's on one coast you can go to the other coast. plane flights could be good for other people but concerning someone would jack up the rates to try to take advantage of the situation. we do police that with a gas and some of the necessities on the ground in florida. >> julie: the airlines are hard to police. >> bill: that will be more of a federal issue but something we have to look at and not encouraging to hear that. >> julie: thank you very much. governor rick scott of florida will hold a news conference any moment now on the preparations going on for hurricane irma. >> bill: he is right about the forecast, too. >> julie: we didn't know where it would make landfall until this morning. >> bill: president trump calls on congress to act on behalf of the so-called dreamers. >> president trump: people think in terms of children but

they're really young adults. i have a love for these people and hopefully now congress will be able to help them and do it properly. >> bill: can congress act within six months? if not, then what? we'll debate it next.

>> bill: governor rick scott is taking care of his florida with the latest warnings for folks in florida. >> tonight the order will be into effect for all residents. if you're told to evacuate, get out quickly. we can expect additional evacuations as the storm continues to come near our state. everyone must listen to their local officials. listen to your local officials on evacuations.

individuals with special needs will be evacuated from miami beginning this morning. miami-dade county officials are advising residents living in low-lying areas to start evacuating today. i can't stress this enough. do not ignore evacuation orders. remember, we can rebuild your home but we cannot rebuild your life. realtime traffic information and evacuation routes is available at www.fl511.com. at my direction all tolls have been waived across florida roadways. we're preparing for irma to directly impact our state. while it's too early to tell where the storm will hit it is very important that all floridians keep a close eye on this dangerous storm. don't sit and wait for the storm to come. it will cause devastation. get prepared right now.

i activated the army national guard to support with planning, logistics and operations in preparation for potential impacts from hurricane irma. these 100 members are stationed across the state right now. and air assets from the north carolina national guard are getting hospital evacuations in the florida keys this afternoon. i'm activating another 900 guard members with 1,000 by the end of the day to respond and prepare for hurricane irma. on friday all 6,000 remaining available national guard members will be reporting for duty. i stand ready to activate additional guard members throughout the week as needed. 13 helicopters and more than 1,000 tactical high water vehicles are on stand by. florida national guard is coordinating with other states and national guard bureau to ensure approximately 30,000 troops, 4,000 trucks, 100 helicopters and air evacuation crews are ready to support our

state. fish and wildlife. the conservation commission is preparing search and rescue teams for potential deployment. utility providers, i've been in constant contact with utility providers. they're already working on staging and asset allocation so they can return power as quickly as possible following the storm. they are pre-positioning resources throughout the state and in neighboring states. we know from previous storms how incredibly important it is for power to be restored quickly. i'll talk with the utilities often throughout the day and urged county and city officials to reach out to their utility providers so we can all work together in response to irma. regarding shelters. if you're evacuating to the keys shelter at florida international university. we're working hand in hand with the counties to ensure shelters are available for other communities who may need to evacuate. there is no reason for anyone not to evacuate if you're ordered to do so. shelters will be available and you should follow the

directions of your local official to go to the shelter that fits your needs. families can go to www florida disaster.info to learn where shelters are in your area. meals, shelter support trailers and water, the state logistic resource center for deployment as needed. we'll be pre-positionings these goods once we have a better understanding the path of the storm. and local points of contact with volunteer organization with feeding and sheltering operations, american red cross has a disaster relief operation. last night i spoke with u.s. health and human services secretary tom price who told me that hhs has disaster medical assistance teams en route to florida. these rapid response teams aid in medical care for those who need it after the storm. the department of education is in contact with school districts.

state colleges and universities and receiving updates before, during and after the storm. to find out if your local school district is closing visit florida department of education website at www.fldoe.org. at this time all school districts and colleges are monitoring irma and her path. for questions on school closures call your superintendent. lake -- i'll be speaking with them later today. the u.s. army corps of engineers are lowering water levels in lake okeechobee to have flood control systems in preparation for the storm. routine inspections of the hoover dike are taking place and more will be taking place when the lake level is 17 feet.

now it's 13.68 feet. we've seen reports on the news of stories being out of water. members of the media. report any confirmed shortages to state emergency operations center by calling 850-921-0217. if you call we'll work with retailers to make sure they're getting the supplies back as quickly as possible. yesterday i signed a state of emergency. allows us to get all the resources we need into our state including bottled water and non-perishable foods. while retails are working as quickly as possible to fill their shelves we ask that you prepare. as you prepare, be considerate of your neighbors, take only what you need. we have been in touch with retailers and more supplies are on the way. if you visited a store yesterday and found a shortage.

go back today to get supplies when things have been replenished. fuel availability. the state is monitoring fuel assistance request and we are getting emergency field supplies and equipment. we're moving as much fuel through the system as fast as possible. waivers on struck weight restrictions are helping move fuel to get it to you quickly. the state is working as quickly as possible to bring fuel to communities be considerate of your neighbors. take what you need to evacuate. don't take extra. state offices in monroe county are closed until further notice. other counties will be announced as they are determined. i directed state offices in 67 counties to be closed on friday. we now need volunteers. that's what our biggest need is right now. encourage all floridians that can volunteer to prepare and respond to the store.

go to www.volunteer florida.org to sign up for volunteer opportunities. volunteers make a huge difference in these emergencies and help with shelters, food distribution and response efforts. your efforts can make the difference a family needs to get through the storm. we prepared for potential storms all year and irma is no different. every family needs to have a plan, have a disaster preparedness kit and be ready today. praoep right now. assume it will impact the entire state. for details how to create a personal plan visit florida disaster.org/get a plan. if you need to fill your prescriptions do it today. fill them early so you're prepared. we're working closely with our federal and local partners to make sure our communities have all the resources the need. we declare a pre-landfall emergency for the entire state

of florida which freed up federal funding and assistance. we're 100% focus at making sure we have timely information on this storm and we'll continue to closely monitor hurricane irma and issue updates throughout the next few days. i cannot stress this enough. get prepared. know this is your responsibility. know your evacuation zone. listen to your locals. this storm has the potential to devastate our state and you have to take this very seriously. i've gone through a variety of tragedies. we went through andrew and hospitals we evacuated. we evacuated a hospital south. it moved and hit that hospital and it was devastated. understand that even though we have seen the latest path that moves it further to the east it can still go anywhere. there is a great chance it will go up the west coast and panhandle. the entire state needs to be

prepared. glad to take any questions anybody has. >> is there any specific plans to get fuel into the keys? there are shortages along the area here. >> absolutely. we're calling the suppliers. we're working with highway patrol. we're doing everything we can to get fuel here. we believe we'll continue to bring fuel around the state. a mayor said some of their stations didn't have fuel and we're doing everywhere we have fuel shortages. if you know of any make sure you let the state emergency operations team know and we'll do everything we can to get the fuel here. we're doing everything we can. highway patrol is helping, everything we can to get the fuel down. >> how long will you keep bringing in the supplies? >> as long as we can. we'll continue bringing supplies as long as we can. but we have to know -- i know the retailers want to do their

job. if you let us know we can help the retailers have the information. >> is there concern if people try to leave the keys and miami-dade county you will see a serious traffic issue like houston saw years ago during rita? >> if you listen to the evacuation orders, they'll be given in a timely manner so people have time to evacuate. but if you wait, that's where the problem is going to happen. whether it's highway patrol, local law enforcement, dot. we'll try to keep all the evacuation routes open and -- if you hear something, you have to tell us but we'll keep doing it. >> how do you reiterate the seriousness of this? some floridians don't take it seriously necessarily. you brought up hurricane andrew. how do you reiterate how serious? >> andrew in my case i lost -- i had 500 employees without homes. but here is what we didn't have

in andrew. we didn't have this amount of wind. andrew was not as big as this is. this is 185 mile-an-hour winds and they're tracking higher than that sometimes. it is -- this has the potential for significant storm surge. we didn't have that in andrew. if you remember last year in -- that happened in an area where -- it wasn't in a major area, we had 10 feet of storm surge. that devastated. it goes in for miles. so you have to -- we have a plan in every community for if we'll have storm surge how far the water is going to go and how they're making their evacuation orders. listen to them. i have a daughter in naples. she lives inland a little bit. she is listening. she is calling me all the time asking me make sure you listen to your locals. we have a plan. the whole state does. you have to listen. >> if the storm does travel

northward it will affect the state. after it passes south florida is there a concern that after the rain has stopped even the storm close up to jacksonville area of getting supplies down this way? >> we'll do everything we can. you're always worried about everything. so you worry about what will happen to bridges and roads and worry about all these things. what you have is -- you plan what you'll do to respond to it. so we are pre-positioning assets to the extent we can and move it south as fast as we can. you have to be careful not knowing exactly where this thing is going to go. if you remember matthew last year which scraped the coast. any moment it was only 20 miles on our coast. it could have come in and scraped the coast. this is way bigger. this has the potential for way more storm surge than matthew had and hermine was never this big and neither was an drew. >> what about plans for traffic

flow on the overseas highway in the coming days? >> right now if you look the roads are open. you can get out. so if people are listening to their evacuation orders that won't be an issue. we'll do everything we can to keep the evacuation routes open. whether it's the national guard, highway patrol. they'll keep doing it. we'll deal with the issues as they come up. our goal is to make sure it is more efficient as to keep it going both ways. if we have emergency vehicles have to get down here, that slows that down. thanks, everybody. >> bill: so the big headline there for later tonight mandatory evacuations will begin in florida and they will start in the southern keys in florida and they will probably move up the coast depending what the storm does. the governor rick scott is well in control of this as is job one for any governor, much less in the sunshine state where they deal with this time and

time again. he was also careful to point out that we really don't know what this storm is going to do or where it will go or what day the storm hits. we have a few projections but every three hours the national hurricane center comes out with the latest model and it changes things here and there. it referred to a jog to the east a couple of times. whether that continues, we don't know. maybe it comes back to the line we were looking at yesterday at this time. we don't know. but the warnings with citizens in florida is that they'll do everything they can to make sure evacuations are carried out safely, quickly and efficiently. >> julie: staying ahead of this. they declared a state of emergency in 67 different counties. like he just said he asked president trump for money ahead of the emergency. they have the money to prepare for before and after the storm. >> bill: in the meantime you have a storm now that's churning at 185 miles an hour, the winds top speed sustained. that is something the atlantic

has never seen before. >> julie: florida hasn't seen. hurricane andrew, this doesn't even compare. that was a huge storm. >> bill: back in 1999 there was a storm that was coming in this direction toward florida. it was a category 4, not quite a category 5. hurricane floyd. it was going right for the center part of the state. whatever happens with storms when they interact with land they change. that's the guarantee we know. something will change. >> julie: and the winds also will die down. >> bill: it did. it went to the north, julie and unbeknownst to any predictions it stalled over north carolina and flooded to eastern half of the state. >> julie: that's the last thing you want it to do. it is traveling at 16 miles per hour. it is not sitting over these islands. >> bill: as we try to predict. be patient with us. we'll do the best we can and rely on the experts to take us through. right now irma 185 mile-an-hour winds. to washington now.

there is a big meeting for the big four heading from capitol hill to the white house as we speak meeting with president trump later this hour with a lot on their plate as they tackle the fall agenda. house republicans will hold their weekly news conference. a lot to get to now. our coverage continues. brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm bill hemmer as we say hello at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. >> julie: what a packed hour and another one to come. i'm julie banderas. president trump meeting with congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle heading into a busy september. budget, harvey relief, tax reform. all on the table as more. kellyanne conway describing the effort will bill last hour. >> this president as a disrupting force in washington and successful businessman is always ready and able, bill, to do many things in short order. but he is relying on congress to act.

>> julie: mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. what are expectations heading into this big four meeting with the president today? >> julie, good morning. a bunch of critical issues congress must address by the end of the month. president trump would like to hear from the house and senate leaders. at the top of the list are hurricane harvey relief money and also extending what is known as the debt ceiling. the government's ability to borrow money. >> i know that securing this emergency funding is very important for the president and i know that preventing a default or shutdown amidst such an historic natural disaster is also very important to him. these are the president's immediate priorities, pass disaster relief, prevent a default, and fund the government. we have to get all three of these things done and we have to do it very quickly. >> expectations are the house

will vote by midday on the first chunk of harvey relief and the senate will take it up and we expect the senate will attach the debt ceiling to that to address two key priorities in a hurry. >> julie: what are the democrats saying with the president interested in getting tax reform done. >> the president summoned key lawmakers yesterday afternoon to the white house to talk tax reform. democrats say they want a seat at the table. >> if republicans want to avoid the pitfalls they ought to abandon the idea that one party can en aikt major changes. if republicans are the only ones in the room on tax reform the vast majority of benefits are likely to go to those at the very, very top. >> the house and senate are scheduled to be here for 12 legislative days during the month of september so a lot to do before they can get on to

tax reform, julie. >> julie: thank you. >> bill: president trump taking an active role in the tax reform. a big trip to north dakota today trying to sell that plan. marc thiessen, good morning to you. they are making a push and fanned out through the month of august. when you consider the issues, can this as important as it is, get overwhelmed? >> it's entirely possible. they have a lot on their plate. they have disaster relief, the debt ceiling. they've got to pass a government funding bill to keep the government from shutting down. faa and defense authorization and then also the reconciliation window, reconciliation is how you pass it by 51 votes. that closes at the end of october. they will have to pass another budget in order to get reconciliation rules so they can pass this with a simple majority which is the only way this tax reform will get done. there is a lot on their plate

in the way. >> bill: the big six republicans are meeting and he is moving to a new level. >> very much so. donald trump is making this a priority. i think it is significant he is traveling to north dakota today with a vulnerable democrat in a state that donald trump won by 36 points. what that signals is that donald trump has learned the lesson of the obamacare repeal debacle. that 52 republicans are not enough to get 51 votes. he is going to need some democrats to get tax reform done or tax cuts done and the only way he will do that is if he starts pressuring -- 10 democrats up in 2018 in states that donald trump won including five that he won by double digits. he need those five democrats to be in the mix. >> bill: failure is not an option, right? >> it is not an option. >> bill: this is what he said yesterday afternoon about the plan he would like to see come

together. >> president trump: make the tax code as simple as possible. it is extremely complex. it is not fair and it is extremely hard to understand. so we want to make it as simple as possible. second, we must provide tax relief for middle class workers and families. third, we must restore a competitive edge, which we've lost and finally bring back trillions of dollars that are currently parked overseas. >> bill: it's a big list. i just wonder what the bill looks like. and whether or not it does not check all those boxes and rather you come back to just a standard tax cut across the board. >> that's the big question coming up. one of the things with all the obstacles we describe, one of the advantages that he has is that there is much broader agreement within the republican party over tax reform than

there was over what to do to replace obamacare. he has a better platform there. republicans are much more disagreement. they got rid of the border adjustment, the most controversial part of the proposed tax reform. that's a good thing. it's easier to get the votes together. the bad part of that is you lose a trillion dollars in revenues from the border adjustment would have brought in from our foreign trading partners. what that means is you can't -- it is much harder to do broad-based tax reform and harder to lower rates. donald trump wants to get the corporate down to 15%. without the border adjustment there is no way to do that. we'll probably be at 22 or 25%. you'll have much less robust tax reform than we would have had otherwise and it is not clear whether it will be tax cuts or tax reform. >> bill: look for two message. see what paul ryan is what the message is out of the meeting today, the big six out of the white house. marc thiessen with analysis.

>> julie: hurricane irma battering the islands with winds measuring 185 miles per hour. rick scott of florida saying at times the winds exceeding those speeds. meantime florida officials ordering people in the storm's path to evacuate quickly if ordered as irma approaches. meanwhile, house lawmakers prepare to vote on a multi-billion bill to help those slammed by harvey. we're live from houston this morning with more. hi, brian. >> that money can really be used right now for housing. fema says more than 50,000 people are staying in motels and hotels paid for by the government. more than 570,000 people have already applied for some sort of financial disaster relief and assistance. i'm here in west houston which is still flooded at this time. to my left you can see a cemetery that's flooded. we have cars that are stuck behind me. hundreds of homes and businesses were flooded after

the mayor had to release water from two local reservoirs in this area. now that is particularly why they say they need that $8 billion asap in the area. as you can see people are still suffering from the devastation of harvey. >> julie: brian, how are the schools doing? the stories of the children, the youth that have been dragged into this has just been so alarming and upsetting. what are the schools doing? >> 218,000 students attend 300 schools in the houston independent school districts. more than a billion dollar in damage. nearly every single school has suffered water damage or some sort of damage and we visited for estabrook middle school with the superintendent yesterday. they had three feet of water in that school. destroyed the library band room and gym floor. >> as bad as this looks we have

seven schools that it's even worse. they were under four or five feet of water for five days. we have one school in our portfolio that because of the surrounding flooding in that community we haven't even been able to set foot in that school. >> crews are working around the clock to get school back to normal. schools will start now september 11th and guess what? all students get free lunch for the rest of the year after they suffered such a horrific storm. >> julie: that's a good thing. brian, thank you so much. >> bill: back in washington waiting on this now. any moment now house speaker paul ryan and republican leadership have their weekly news conference. the first time we've heard from them since the august break got underway. back to work post labor day in a packed september agenda. we'll take you there live when it starts. >> julie: as tensions escalate between the u.s. and north korea russia announces it may be ready to step in. harsh words. there are conditions.

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>> bill: fox news alert on this military jet crashing in arizona. the pilot said to be killed in that crash. an f-16 yesterday 100 miles north of tucson during a training mission. the jet was based at tucson airport. the air national guard. the unit helps train pilots for international u.s. allies overseas. the jet's pilot hasn't been identified yet. >> president trump: the folks we're talking about, a great love for them and people think in terms of children but they are really young adults. i have a love for these people and hopefully now congress will be able to help them and do it properly. >> julie: that was president trump yesterday calling on congress to make a decision on the future of the daca program. right now as he talks to lawmakers chuck schumer and

nancy pelosi are calling out the president for that move. overnight he said he would revisit the issue if congress can't get something done in six months. all this as lawmakers face pressure to overhaul the tax system and more. a busy couple months, especially the month of september. sean duffy joins me now. i want to talk daca. this is what it means. by rescinding daca the announcement yesterday jeff sessions made 800,000 immigrants brought in illegally to this country when they were children would be now deemed illegal. the announcement caused major backlash. do you believe the backlash caused trump to hedge last night when he tweeted he will revisit if congress can't get anything done in six months? >> this is coming from a left who will be angry no matter what the president does. he could have ended it yesterday but he gave a six month window for congress to do its job to deal with the

dealers. it was compassionate of the president saying i want to take care of young kids who came here no fault of their own. i understand i can't do it myself. i'm not a king. i'm a president who executes the law, i don't make the law. that's congress. i thought what he did was very compassionate and the left no matter how he behaves or what he does will come out and criticize him. i thought he was spot on. this gives us an opportunity to not just deal with the dreamers but also deal with the root cause of what brought us dreamers, an insecure southern border to whether we build a wall, fence, use drones or sensors. we have to secure the southern border. this trying to accomplish both things. >> julie: i want to listen to chuck schumer as he is speaking now for the president concerning daca. >> senators are here. >> thank you very much, senator, i want to thank the senate and the house for their

incredible, fearless leadership on a hallmark issue of our time which is making sure that american values play out productively by protecting dreamers and their families. you will hear it over and over and over again because the president's decision to end daca stands as an indefensible and unjust act of cruelty against nearly 800,000 young people who trusted the american government with their hopes, their contributions and their dreams. now, many of us, particularly coming from new mexico, no stranger to the issues of immigration, no stranger to the issue of mixed status families. i have to tell you, i remember like it was yesterday the first time i met with dreamers over lunch. hearing from them directly. they don't know this is not their country, right, until they apply for a driver's

license or they go to college. and in one fell swoop everything they know to be true, a country that they believe in, that they support, that they fight for, immediately is removed from them and their entire families. jasmine, one of my constituents, is a law school graduates who wants to be an immigration lawyer. she wasn't aware about her status until she applied for a driver's license. for many dreamers in addition to having it ripped away, here is another emotion. they are ashamed. they feel their potential was capped. they feel fear for themselves and as important they are afraid for their parents who risked everything to protect them and give them a better life. they feel this overwhelming burden of being undocumented. daca changed all that. it unlocked their potential.

it freed them from the crippling fear of deportation. >> julie: listen to congressional democrats on daca. we don't know if paul ryan is attendance. let's talk about daca for a moment. we're talking about the fact that it is basically being rescinded, the executive order put in place by president obama in which it did not give congress an opportunity to act and the president acted alone. all this is doing is now turning it over to congress. most laws that is how this works in washington this is not trying to get 800,000 people who are now in their 20s and 30s that came in as children to get deported out of this country. this is just about following the law. >> it is just about following the law. i was listening to the press conference and i look at democrats. they controlled the house, senate and white house in 2009 and 2010. they didn't deal with the dreamers. they didn't take up this cause and help the kids. it was marco rubio in 2011 who

had a bill to deal with the dreamers that president obama jumped in ahead of him and did this executive action which totally tanked the actual fist to this law. they talk about cruelty. what is cruel is you have an open southern border that encourages parents to come up with their kids. >> julie: very dangerous conditions i might add. >> incredibly dangerous. >> julie: i can't imagine putting my child in a potentially deadly scenario and what you encounter when you cross these borders, the immigrants are jammed into buses and vans and many are women and children. this is trying to prevent these deadly acts from taking place in the future. not necessarily saying everyone who is here you're out. that's not the case. criminals could be treated differently. but now -- >> julie, if you don't secure the borders you will have dreamers for the next 20, 50 years and dreamers every year coming to this country. let's deal with the 800,000 today but fix the problem in the long run so we don't have

this situation 10, 15, 20 years from now. there is a wide agreement in the house that we want to deal with these kids who came here no fault of their own. they only know america as their country and speak english and they're good people. we want to deal with them but also fix the problem. the six-month window gives us time to deal with harvey, the government and tax reform and then deal with the daca kids, yes. >> julie: congressman sean duffy, thank you very much. >> bill: fox news alert. getting reports the most sturdy buildings in the caribbean being destroyed by winds as we speak. the latest on that storm in a moment here plus is the administration making a case to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal? should we walk away? we weigh in on that next. >> i'm not making the case for de-certifying.

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this is todd hardy. a fitness buff, youth baseball coach-and lung cancer patient. the day i got the diagnosis, i was just shocked. >> julie: so now reacting to democratic leadership in congress reacting to the president and the announcement of daca. here is paul ryan. house speaker. let's listen. >> you turn on the tv in america today, you look at all the vitriol, the bitterness and rioting and all the rest of this. you begin to wonder whether or not our civil society is holding together. this hurricane shows that it is. this shows that our civil society is still very, very civil. an email went around janesville wisconsin to various churches and schools and we wanted to fill up one semi trailer at farm and fleet with the business name to send aid down

to the j.j. watt foundation. a local hero who plays for the houston texans. the next day when we collected stuff at our kids' schools. we filled nine semi trailers. that's just in janesville, wisconsin. getting aid down to houston. and so what i think is a good story out of all of this is in this country citizens, when they see other citizens in need, they step up and answer the call. and so it is something that we should take stock and encouragement from. now, we, government, have a responsibility as well. and as the majority leader said, technology is a good thing and it is helping us but what it is also doing is it's moving money very fast through the system, as it should. that's why we won't leave until we get this done to make sure the response is there. we have another hurricane right now, hurricane irma, heading to our shores and it is critical

we act immediately. so for now we've got to make sure we team up with our first responders. we are really encouraged and heartened by the people grabbing their boats and rescuing their citizens. by people all around america sending aid and with one more hurricane, one with 185 mile-per-hour winds hitting our shores again. those people in that line are in our thoughts and our prayers. so i just think it is really important we take stock of the fact that civil society in america is well and alive and it is on display. citizens are helping each other and the government will be there to respond to the needs of people who faced this unprecedented devastation. any questions? >> [inaudible question] i was wondering whether you support a stand alone bill with daca and broader immigration. the second part is -- [inaudible]

>> first let me say president obama was wrong to do it in the first place. he overstepped his constitutional bounds. we, the president and congress take an oath to support and defend the constitution. so president trump was right in his decision. he made the right call. i'm also encouraged by the fact he gave us time to work out a consensus. to find a compromise. because these kids don't for the most part don't know any other home than the united states. i think the president was right to give us the time we need to find that compromise. where does that compromise exist? that's what we'll spend the next months figuring out. i think it's totally reasonable and appropriate that when you take a look at the daca dilemma, it is in large part stems from the fact that it is a symptom of a larger problem. the larger problem is that we do not have control of our borders. and so it is only reasonable

and fitting that we also address the root cause of the problem, which is borders that are not sufficiently controlled while we address this very real and very human problem that is right in front of us. i think that's perfectly reasonable. to the second part of your question, we will not be advancing legislation that doesn't have the support of president trump. we'll work with the president on how to do this legislation and if we have legislation coming through here that is worked with and supported by the president i'm very confident that our members will support that. susan. >> [inaudible question] >> i hope they don't mean that. let's think about this. we have all this devastation in texas, we have another unprecedented hurricane hitting florida and they want to play politics with the debt ceiling? it will strand the aid we need to bring to these victims of these storms that have occurred

or are about to occur and they also want to threaten default on our debt? it's disgrateful at this moment when we have fellow citizens in need to respond to these hurricanes so we don't strand them. i think what those -- what the leaders you just described proposed is unworkable and it could put in jeopardy the kind of hurricane response we need to have. look, many of us got the calls from the administration who said fema is moving so fast that we're running out of money as early as friday to tuesday. so we've got to make sure that we have the authority, legal authority to go out and be able to put money back into fema so we can respond to these hurricanes not to mention the fact we have to start pre-positioning for the fact that irma is about to hit florida. to play politics with the debt ceiling like schumer and pelosi are doing, i don't think is a good idea.

>> when you say it's a disgrace, why not lift the debt ceiling on your own side. the democrats have been critical of your side not providing the votes on big things. you guys have the majority. why not provide the votes on your side then if it's that important to make that argument >> it takes 60 votes in the senate. the president doesn't want to give more leverage where it shouldn't occur on the debt ceiling. if it was a majority vote we could do it. it is a 60-person vote in the senate. you know that. >> [inaudible question] >> i think the president made the right call and the president gave us the time and space we're going to need to find where that compromise is. as i mentioned in my opening remarks, this is a home that people know and they don't know any other country as a home. there is a serious humane issue here that needs to be dealt

with but it is only fitting and reasonable we deal with the root cause of the problem. what we don't want to have happen is another daca problem 10 years from now. we want to make sure we fix this issue for these young people and address the root cause of the problem so we don't have the same thing 10 years from now. that's totally proper. so i do believe that there is a compromise to be had here. we'll work with our members to find where the compromise is so we can bring solution to this very legitimate problem. >> julie: there you go. that's the weekly news conference held by the gop and paul ryan and first, of course, talking about florida and the preparation there as we know, president trump has gone ahead and pre-approved before the hurricane irma actually made landfall. we don't know if it is definitely landing on florida, but florida preparing with evacuations and so forth. also addressing the daca issue and basically saying now it is in the hands of congress, as it should be when any law is

presented and later becomes a bill. so now it's up to congress to decide what to happen with that. >> bill: saying the president made the right call, too. see what they can get done. in the meantime we were watching images. some of these images are stunning. irma battering the caribbean islands charting a course for florida. we'll look at the storm's path and see if it's jogging right or left, east or west and where it could be heading next. >> julie: reports that north korea has been seen moving an icbm missile. we're live from seoul, south korea right after the break. >> bill: a scandal brewing in baseball. the play that has some calling foul on the boston red sox. dirty sox? >> julie: are you a boston red sox fan? >> bill: i'm a baseball fan.

>> julie: russia now calling for a diplomatic resolution to the north korea crisis in response to pyongyang's test of what it claimed to be a hydrogen bomb. all this as south korea officials believe the north korea officials were seen moving an intercontinental ballistic missile. greg palkot is live from seoul, south korea with the latest. >> there is a lot of tough talk today. there is some tough action in trying to resolve the crisis over north korea on this peninsula. let's talk about the action we're watching overnight. reportedly being deployed south of here, 200 miles south an american military base four more launchers to a thaad anti-missile battery. there are two launchers already there. it will toughen up the defense in the south against anything coming from the north.

officials are tracking the movement by north korea of possibly yet another icbm missile to a launch site. there is a national holiday on saturday in north korea. that could be a possible trigger. also this past weekend strong nuclear test by north korea was condemned today by russian president putin and south korean president moon meeting at a summit in russia. putin said no more sanctions, no more threats against north korea. president trump is set to talk by phone this morning to a person who could have a whole lot of pressure on kim jong-un, president of china. china is being relied on by a lot of people as possibly the key element in this. china so far has been dragging its feet a little bit. one more final note, julie, went up to the border near the

dmz and talked to the people about the crisis. they said they were nervous and getting on with their lives. i asked one about president trump. he said a little bit too much talk. he wanted some reassuring action. back to you. >> bill: want to bring in lieutenant colonel ralph peters who just wrote a piece getting a lot of attention. colonel, good morning to you. you're opening line. better a million dead north koreans than a thousand dead americans. the fundamental reason our government exists is to protect our people and our territory. >> that paragraph concludes we never want to hear in this country the words said we should have done something. bill, if anybody can come up with a viable, realistic solution short of dropping bombs, great, that's wonderful. nobody in their right mind wants war but we have to look

at this practically, ethically and morally. it is not practical, ethical or moral to wait for north koreans to kill americans in large number. the reason we have a government is to defend our people and territory. north korean threat, although it's still not fully right, we still have a little time. it is qualitatively different from the russians and cold war or even the chinese. the continuing threats to devastate america and kill americans. the overt outrageous hostility expressed toward us by kim jong-un and his regime is cause for alarm. i just don't buy this idea that we must wait until a nuclear missile destroys an american military base or seattle or san diego or honolulu before we can do anything. we have a moral, legal and ethical right. >> bill: you would take action now. >> not now, soon.

>> bill: you conclude your piece. we must deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. the real world the greatest immorality war is not killing the enemy. the greatest immoralty will use. you can't make the case that north korea will act like russia. what are the options? >> unless a miracle occurs and we cannot rely upon miracles, you need -- if we absolutely must do this militarily, we can't do it in a half backed, half hearted manner. it has to be one that devastates the regime. in washington where we've plagued by so-called conventional wisdom we need to relook at all the assumptions, whether kim jong-un, what he

knows, if he is sane. we can't do anything because seoul is a hostage. we heard steve bannon make the crazy claim that 10 million people in seoul would die. we need to relook at this hard. if there is a peaceful solution, great, bring it on. but if there is not. >> he made the case last hour you go after beijing and that's your answer. >> no, it's not. i wish it were. the chinese do indeed have the capability to bring north korea to its knees. they will not do so because north korea is their only military ally and china sees us, not north korea, as the enemy. >> bill: ralph peters, thanks for coming back. talk to you next week, colonel. i hope you're wrong. >> me, too. >> >> julie: it wants documents related to a controversial and

unverified dossier that linked president trump to russia. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live with more. >> republicans on the house intelligence committee issued sub aoen yas for f.b.i. director christopher wra*i and jeff sessions after their departments provided things to investigators about the f.b.i.'s relationship with the british spy who come build the trump dossier. the increasing sention between congress and the fbi over the unverified intelligence. investigators want to learn whether the f.b.i. paid the british spy and what extent the dossier was the catalyst for the russia probe. they'll be required to appear before the house intelligence committee if documents are not provided. they want to know more about the f.b.i. relationship with the british spy who worked for an intelligence firm fusion gps run by glen simpson who hasn't

forthcoming with congress about the dossier. the question is whether the f.b.i. knew that simpson, who commissioned the dossier was working with the russians after the murder of a russian whistleblower. the team has not responded to fox news for questions, we confirmed that susan rice will appear behind closed doors today in front of the house intelligence committee and we anticipate two lines of questioning. one is the russia probe and also rice's decision to request the identification of trump associates in intelligence reports during the 2016 campaign. >> julie: looking forward to that and catherine herridge, thank you. >> bill: more reaction across capitol hill after president trump decided to resigned the program known as daca giving congress six months to figure it out. paul ryan said he got it right.

democrats disagree. kellyanne conway from our program just last hour. >> he will revisit any type of issue that requires additional presidential action. but he made very clear yesterday through his attorney general and through his own statement from the white house, bill, that the daca program is unconstitutional.

>> the president's decision to end daca was heartless and it was brainless. if this order stands, hundreds of thousands of families will be ripped apart. >> president trump was right in his decision. he made the right call. i'm also encouraged by the fact that he gave us time to work out a consensus, to find a compromise because these kids don't for the most part don't know any other home than the united states. so i think the president was right to give us the time we need to find that compromise.

>> julie: there you go. new reaction from capitol hill from both sides on the trump administration's decision to end that dreamer's program. kris wilson is a former cruz campaign pollster. bab low manriquez is co-founder of case street media. thank you for talking to us this morning. so yesterday was an interesting day when it came to this daca thing. we knew the announcement was coming. jeff sessions would resigned daca. the president started the day out tweeting congress, do your job. then sessions made his announcement and later in the afternoon trump tweeted still love dreamers and he tweeted he will revisit daca if congress can't get anything done in six months. chris, are you sensing an internal struggle here when it comes to what to do with daca? >> it's a tough question. i think from the very beginning there has been a tough internal

struggle. i do think, though, the rhetoric from chuck schumer is inappropriate. barack obama admitted himself that daca would be illegal. lawlessness is not compassionate. something has to be done for the people who have known nowhere else but the united states. what it allows congress to do what they were unable to do is come together and hopefully reach a consensus that allows them to stay here. let's be clear about what has to be done. you can't just allow -- you can't send a message to the millions of people around the world waiting to come here legally waiting in line that all you have to do is do it illegally and you get amnesty. concessions have to be made. you can reach an consensus and allow it to stay. >> julie: i know you're disappointed to rescind daca. but let's talk about what is lost in all of this as you point out. the president's use of the word

legalize. by legalizing it you allow congress to fix the bill legally. >> i was quite surprised by his tweet last night calling for a legalization to legalize the daca enrollees. that's a really big thing. there are a lot of different ways that they could be legalized or put right with the law. the most simple of them would be to issue a special green card for these people so that expedited green card they can apply for. the people have already been screened very thoroughly. it took a lot of background checks and things like that for them to apply and qualify for the program in the first place. i think ultimately it is time for congress to act. congress needs to think big in acting because otherwise this is just going to be a problem we continue to revisit every quarter of the political year forever that we could just take off the table right away by finding that perfect balance between compassion for undocumented people and the

enforcement that is necessary from the right. >> julie: one thing is not tabling this issue as they do have so many other congressional legislative agendas for the rest of this month but we'll have to wait and see how immigration plays into all this. gentlemen, thank you very much. >> bill: on a much different story, major league baseball has a major league scandal. what happened in the dugout of the boston red sox? hum. rance on time. tap one little bumper and up go your rates. what good is having insurance if you get punished for using it? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown

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>> bill: major league baseball. the boston red sox caught cheating using an apple watch to steal signs and predict the next pitch. how do you do that?

the story making front page headlines. "new york post" calling it the boston cheat party. another newspaper saying dirty sox. >> you know that all is okay in the world with everything going on. the front and back pages today. how do you like them apples? >> what happened? >> boston red sox against yankees were caught trying to steal signs. stealing signs in baseball to figure out what type of pitch will be thrown has been around since the beginning of time. it is really not technically illegal but when you try to pull in technology to cheat there is a problem. >> bill: boston red sox manager said this. i'm aware of the rule electronic devices are not to be used in the dugout. it's a league matter at this

point. who is watching what to give me the i watch signal so i can transmit what the next pitch is in realtime? how is that physically and electronically possible? >> think of some of the bang bang plays. somebody in the clubhouse the guy puts down one finger, fastball. he doesn't have to run to the dugout to let them know what it is. he transmits that. it's illegal. in every major league clubhouse, you have to shut off the cell phones. somebody transmits a message to the dugout. the trainer who the yankees kautz looks at his watch and let's a couple players know it will be a fastball. they can communicate out to the guys on the field. the guy at the plate, believe it or not in enough time knows the fastball is coming in. when it works best is when a team has a runner on second

base. the runner has a full view and can see what the catcher is calling and communicate with the batter. in that series the red sox fared well with runners on second base. they admitted it. >> bill: they are accusing the yankees of stealing their signs by way of the tv monitor. the dead giveaway is wearing an i watch in the dugout. >> yes. that's how you get caught. nowadays this is uncharted territory. they don't know what the punishment should be. they've never had something like this before. will they have to pay? if they do get fined can they settle the score using apple pay? >> bill: pretty good. i like them apples. >> the boston cheat party. >> bill: among all the news out there it's something to take us to a different place. thank you. julie, what's next? >> julie: fox news alert. big meeting at the white house with president trump and four top congressional leaders.

we'll carry it for you. we have a live report next.

>> jon: tone still signs by the way. you can't wear and i watch in the dugout >> jon: we start with this, a category five hurricane armas smashing into the caribbean island overnight. the strongest atlantic storm in recorded history is now heading straight for puerto rico, haiti, and cuba and irma can make a direct hit on south florida this weekend. good morning to you, i'm jon scott. >> heather: i'm heather childers. we keep using the word "catastrophic." it is still uncertain, as people all across florida are breathing for the worst. >> it's going to be crazy out of here, so i to be deadlocked. getting out of the keys, there's only one way in and one way out. it's why to be crazy. >> i'm