right? for an hour. >> what a week. >> get your questions ready. have a great weekend. check out smitty at noon. "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: and we start with fox news alert. it is a big day in washington >> melissa: it is. >> jon: big changes coming to major policies. president trump expected to announce a new strategy on the nuclear iran deal this afternoon. hello, i'm jon scott. >> melissa: happy friday. i'm melissa francis. the president levels a major blow to obamacare with his healthcare executive order yesterday mr. trump now saying that subsidies to insurance companies participating in the program will be cut off. and the president says americans will have more options. >> president trump: after obamacare they were unable to afford their association plan so they had a great thing,

their employees were happy and then it ended. with this executive order, americans will likely soon have those options. we will be very happy to provide them to you. >> melissa: chief white house correspondent john roberts is live from the north lawn on another busy day, john. >> the president ending the "newsweek" with a bang. he has been a proponent of cost sharing -- the president will end the $7 billion in subsidies to health insurance companies under the obamacare health exchanges. the president saying at the values voter summit it is his intention with the lack of congressional action to dismantle obamacare bit by bit. listen here. >> president trump: we're taking a little different route than we had hoped because getting congress, they forgot what their pledges were. so we are going a little different route but you know what? in the end it will be just as

effective and maybe it will even be better. >> the democrats are up in arms over the elimination of the subsidies and an executive order the president signed yesterday that you were talking about to allow more americans to buy health insurance across state lines and buy short-term health insurance. the democrats are saying it is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of america. make no mistake about it. trump will try to blame the affordable care act. it will fall on his back and he will pay the price for it. the biggest news coming at 12:45 this afternoon when the president gives his speech on iran. he will announce he will not re-certify the iranian deal. it requires recertification of the iran nuclear deal every 90 days. it doesn't take us out of the

so-called joint comprehensive plan of action. it leaves it intact. it kicks the iran deal to congress. the president is going to urge congress to enact tough new controls on iran that go well beyond the nuclear deal. the violation of any one of which could trigger the reimposition of sanctions. now congress basically has three options in iran. they could follow the president's lead as he will lay it out today. choose to unilaterally reimpose sanctions against iran or they could do nothing, which i'm told by many members of congress is the preferred course of action. any way it works out in congress, though, melissa, president trump has satisfied his base now. he said during the campaign and when he was president that he was going to do something about the iran nuclear deal. this afternoon he will do it and then it is up to congress to decide what it wants to do. but that's the way it is laid out so the president can say to his base, i did what i said i was going to do. >> melissa: let me tweezer out

one piece of what you said there. doing nothing is the preferred course of action in congress. truer words never spoken, my friend. i mean, you can just slap that label on everything. >> you could broadly apply that to congress. in this particular case doing nothing leaves the iran deal intact. i'm not sure legally what it does about part of it. a lot of people might broadly apply that phrase to congress. >> melissa: john, thank you. >> jon: the president says his executive order is a win/win for millions of americans. >> president trump: with this executive order americans will soon have those options. we will be very happy to provide them to you. my administration will explore how we can expand something called short-term, limited-duration insurance. these health insurance policies are not subject to any very

expansive and expensive obamacare coverage mandates and rules. the cost of the obamacare has been so outrageous it is absolutely destroying everything in its wake. >> jon: nancy pelosi releasing a statement quote. thanks to president trump's executive sabotage, the millions of americans will preexisting conditions could lose access to the affordable health coverage they and their families rely on. joining us now the executive washington editor of the "wall street journal." the political lines are pretty firmly drawn already. the president thinks voters are going to blame democrats. nancy pelosi and the democrats seem to think voters are going the blame the president. where does it lie? >> well, i think that is the question politically at least that will frame the debate for a while now. you know, the democrats have been saying for a while that if

the obama administration moves in and tries to undermine obamacare, obamacare creases to be the democrat's problem and becomes president trump's problem. we did an interview with the president in the spring and i asked him this question. i said if the law goes south once you are president you tend to own responsibility for things, won't that be the case? he said not for now. it is still the democrats' law. eventually it will be my problem. democrats are counting on the president is now having to take the blame for anything that happens to individual consumers that they don't like. the trump administration clearly believes obamacare is called obamacare and still the democrats' problem if it's not working right. >> jon: doesn't supreme court back him as to whether or not the white house can unilaterally repay the insurance companies. >> yes, the question whether

the administration can take it upon itself to simply choose to pay subsidies to insurance companies to provide policies under obamacare. but the political question is whether the people who sit behind in congress will fix the problem by proposing and passing legislation that authorizes those payments. that could still happen by the way. some republicans that may be the way to go. you eliminate the legal question and it becomes a budget question, not a legal question and we'll see if that happens. it is not very clear from what the president is saying whether he thinks that would be a good idea or not. >> jon: the tweets like that from nancy pelosi the democrats will try to pin it on the republicans and to see whether that blame sticks. >> that's true. that is a big question and kind of a logical disconnect in what the president is saying. he is saying as he did several times yesterday these steps i'm going to take will make the situation much better. we'll fix the problem step-by-step using executive orders but at the same time he

reaches out to democrats and says this is a big mess, you ought to come to me and let's work together to fix it. it is not very clear whether he thinks he is moving on his own forever more or whether it's an attempt to create a situation which democrats think it is in their interest to come back to him and try to once again come up with a bipartisan fix. >> jon: the tweet he put out in the pre-dawn hours this morning. the democrats, obamacare is imploding, massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. dems should call me to fix. he is open to negotiation, the question is whether the other party will answer the call. >> right. whether they think they need to or not. the democratic suspicion these are steps designed to undermine and bring about the further collapse of obamacare. compelling democrats to come and negotiate a deal with president trump more to the republicans' liking. whether it happens remains to be seen. it is a stand-off at this point.

how bad will things get and who will take the blame when they get worse? >> jon: and the only way i guess that voters can express that is at the ballot box. we talk about november 2018, right? >> right. a cautionary footnote. there are people in congress from both parties. moderate senators from both parties led by lemarch alexander talking about steps to fix the insurance market in a bipartisan way to fix the problem, not simply let it get worse. that could take on a life of its own now. not clear whether president trump is interested in that or not but that may happen whether he leads that charge or not. >> jon: let's say that millions of insurance policies get canceled en masse now as a result of this. are people going to be really blaming the political leaders or blaming their insurance companies? >> probably both i would guess. one of the things we've seen in the last few years is when

those sorts of the things start to happen politicians are receptive and responsive to public outrage and you may have public outrage here. what that response is remains to be seen. but it is not necessarily the case that we have a static situation here. this could change fairly rapidly for months to come and maybe it does lead to some kind of a bipartisan solution down the road. between here and there, there is every reason to think it will be messy. >> jon: the washington editor at the "wall street journal." you will have your hands full. >> as usual, yeah. >> jon: thanks, jerry. >> melissa: crews gaining ground on the california wildfires. the number of dead rising as well. a live report from wine country. we are awaiting a major announcement from the white house whether president trump will re-certify the iran nuclear deal. how it would pass the buck to congress. >> as flawed as the deal is, i believe we must now enforce the

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>> melissa: president trump set to make a big foreign policy announcement with the white house -- from the white house this afternoon unveiling the u.s. strategy moving forward on iran. all signs point to the president declining to re-certify that landmark nuclear deal. here he is talking to sean hannity. >> president trump: it's a very bad deal. i'm not saying anything different than i have been saying for two years. it is a horrible, horrible embarrassment to our country. we did it out of weakness when actually we had great strength. >> melissa: joining us for more on this topic the vice president of research, foundation for defense of democracy. we also have christopher swift. national security studies professor and national

securities attorney. thanks to both of you for coming. jonathan, let me start with you. do you think it's a good idea to not re-certify? what happens next? >> well, i think we need to distinguish between de-certifying and walking away from the deal. the president is kicking this to congress saying he no longer sees this deal or that he doesn't see this deal as being in the national interest of the united states. he has questions about enforcement. he has questions about iran's regional activities, ballistic missile activities and asking not only congress but the international community, the nuclear deal negotiators, to go back and look at ways to fix this. he is thrusting all of this into a period of uncertainty, of instability but not walking away from the deal. he is trying to get people to fix the problems that i think many of us have long seen in this deal. >> melissa: one of the biggest problems is that when president obama was walking around selling this. we remember the phrase he said there would be any time

anywhere inspections, there would be snap back sanctions. there hasn't been a single inspection, much less anywhere any time inspections. >> there are deficiencies on the inspection side. >> melissa: they don't happen. >> the other piece they haven't snapped back yet because there is no verification that iran has abdicated the deal. i agree with jonathan this indicates the president is not happy with the deal and is consulting with congress and wants congress to take more of a leadership role here. i agree we need to distinguish between de-certification in this instance and blowing up the entire nuclear accord. the question i have for the administration is if you have a problem, why do we think we can solve it by making it bigger? this period of uncertainty that jonathan is correctly identifies makes it difficult for our allies. >> melissa: i have to stop you there. you say there has been no

evidence? first of all we haven't been allowed to go in and do any inspections. second of all the u.n. has said that they have an illegal amount of heavy water on hand. more than they agreed to. that is only one thing you would need that for. >> they have more -- >> we have seen multiple problems. i think the nuclear problems may actually just be a small part of it. i think what we'll see from the president today as i understand it is a broader strategy in looking at iran's behavior across the region. looking at the way they've deployed the irgs, the revolutionary guard and the way they use proxies across the region and looking at the ballistic missile capabilities and tests. all of these things are cause for significant concern. and this is really what is prompting the president to say that he doesn't see this deal as being in the national interest. we provided iran with more than $100 billion and look at what they're doing with it. and that's why we'll go back and look i think at the entirety of iran's behavior, not just the nuclear deal

itself. i think it's the right move and what many critics were saying from the get-go. >> melissa: christopher, it is ridiculous for you to say there has been no verification they violated the deal. there is also no verification they've gone along with the deal because we aren't allowed to go in and look at anything. >> melissa, the iaea has done some inspections. those inspections i would think as well are deficient but i want to get to the broader point that jonathan made about iran's bad behavior in other domains. we know they're supporting the syrian regime, mucking around with the civil war in yemen and they are still sponsoring terrorism. there are lots of problems with iran and we need not just the united states to take a tougher line on that but our all -- allys to take -- by turning up the temperature on the nuclear front we may be encouraging our allies to take a more reactive

approach to u.s. policy on the other fronts that jonathan correctly identified as being national security concerns. >> melissa: jonathan, christopher brings up our allies. one is israel and where has this whole thing left them. >> the israelis have been irate. i think they're pleased to see this half measure. people in israel are saying don't destroy the deal but fix the deal. netanyahu even said fix it. not nix it. at a certain point you might have to nix the deal but he wants to fix the deal. this is what the president is now asking everyone to do. and i think you have the israelis, the arab countries as well are pleased with this. it's the europeans nervous because they have invested so much in the deal itself and invested a lot in iran financially as well as the russians and chinese. >> melissa: they are using it as a market to sell their

products and they don't want to lose it come what may in the future. a tough problem. not sure we solved it but thank you. >> jon: remember army sergeant bowe bergdahl? how will he plead as his court-martial gets underway. is the media missing the bigger picture? >> president trump: it's disgusting the press is able to write whatever they want to write and people should look into it.

>> melissa: army sergeant bowe bergdahl is set to enter a plea in his court-martial case on monday. he faces court-martial for

desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. they say he walked away from his outpost in afghanistan and quickly captured by the taliban who held him prisoner for the next five years. president obama later traded five guantanamo inmates for his release. he is expected to plea guilty but his legal team has made no comments. >> jon: president trump is keeping up his criticism of the media particularly what he calls fake news and recent reports about his nuclear weapons policy from nbc use. is the media itself becoming too wrapped up in the daily back and forth with the president? "wall street journal" editorial board member writing this. mr. trump will keep baiting the media with shiny objects. in the background government is being redone. so what is she referring to

there? let's talk about it with the editorial director of the washington examiner. and a senior politics writer for "u.s. news and world report." i should share with viewers the title of that piece. it is called scalias all the way down. she argues while the media are obsessing about the president's latest tweets, what is happening the president is nominating conservative for federal judgeships and reshaping the judicial branch for 40 years or more. >> kim is right on this. what's happening. this is something that president trump and even before he was president has done a lot. draw attention over here but do substantive things over here. what he is doing is appointing or nominating texture allists, judges who believe the law is what it says it is and should not be interpreted meaning something else by leftist

judges. while he is drawing attention for tweets on north korea and on nbc and fake news he is reshaping the judiciary and these people could be on the courts for the next 40 years. maybe as long as it's needed to undo some of the damage the left has done to american judiciary. >> jon: we all know about justice neil gorsuch. the president's only nomination so far to the supreme court. this goes to federal judge ships around the country. >> mitch mcconnell didn't allow judges to come through, once president trump took office he had 100 vacancies to fill from the obama years. just starting out on day one. he has already made a pretty big impact on that filling these basically week-by-week and putting out statements on

-- they haven't gotten a lot of attention. from the media perspective let's be honest about this. it is much easier to cover president trump's in the moment tweets than it is to do a big story or a big deep dive and research on his judicial appointments around the country. i think that is part of the factor here, too. it takes a lot more resources to do these stories, these deep dives on a judicial long-time supreme court justice elevated to a federal bench. that's also part of it. >> jon: here is how howard kurtz sees it. this is the emerging media narrative about trump. constantly getting mad. doesn't know much about foreign policies and generals and advisors have to save him from himself. kimberly points out mitch mcconnell is helping him grease the wheels for a lot of federal

appointments. the president has criticized mcconnell quite often on twitter. behind the scenes mcconnell is helping out with the judicial program. >> it is one of the extraordinary ironys. mitch mcconnell is besieged by the bannon wing of the party who promised to primary republicans who voted for mcconnell to be leader. but mcconnell sat on the appointment or nomination of merit garland during the final year of the obama administration and the one who extended the end of the filibuster to supreme court nominations and the judges are flowing into the judiciary. it is like in the wizard of oz. he tells dorothy, don't look at the guy pulling the levers behind the curtain. president trump is doing all of these things which attract media attention and behind the curtain there are a lot of substantive things going on.

>> jon: harry reid helped out by changing the filibuster rule on another short of a supreme court appointment. >> mitch mcconnell is a change this week getting rid of the senate blue slip law, this arcane law that allows a home state senator to object to a judicial appointment. he will get rid of that. so that was the democrats' last stand to stop the judicial nominees from moving through committee and getting votes. mcconnell will get rid of that. it will allow for a bunch more judges to get through. that's why i think you got the reception you saw earlier today when president trump was at the values voter summit. he wasn't a social conservative but they love him and the activists love him. he is allowing them to choose a lot of these judges. the judicial committees and the conservative interest groups in washington are doing the leg

work to push these nominees forward and mitch mcconnell is facilitating that quietly in the senate. >> jon: the trump years in the white house will last eight years at the very most but the impact could go on for generations. fascinating stuff. hugo, david, thank you both. >> melissa: democrats pulling no punches in calling president trump's executive order. our panel debates that next. wildfires still raging in northern california. the scope of the disaster is staggering. we're live in the fire zone coming up. ♪

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>> jon: this is a fox news alert. 31 people are confirmed dead now in the massive wildfires raging in california wine country and that number could go up because hundreds are still missing. we're reporting live from the napa county fairgrounds now. >> thanks so much. we're getting word that firefighters are making progress in containing the fires but they have brought a lot of devastation and destruction to the wine country area so far. we're pleased to be joined by krista cruz, the president of the sonoma county wine growers.

you've lost your home, vineyard threatened by the fire. you had to evacuate your mother. how are you dealing with this? >> it's been a surreal week here. there is an amazing spirit in sonoma county and napa valley as well. people are rallying together to make sure everyone is safe and has supplies. we'll get through this and rebuild as soon as we can get everyone safe and out of the fire zones. >> we've heard reports about wineries being damaged or destroyed. 15 in this area. you say the vines should be okay. >> in fact, probably the most surprising thing for folks is the vineyards are acting as natural fire breaks. you'll see a fire going through the valley and when it hits a vineyard it is stopping the fire. in fact, vineyards aren't being destroyed. they are saving lives and structures and part of the fire maintenance and containment solution here. >> we know tourism and the wine industry are the economic drivers of this area. how might these fires affect

that going forward? >> the biggest thing i can say out there is folks, don't cancel your reservations, please come to sonoma county and napa valley. they will be the drivers that help our communities. we need you now. >> jon, i talked to a fire chief from a fire department outside of here. we have people from nine different states here at the staging grounds to battle the fire. he says if the winds don't kick back up they expect this containment numbers to jump in the next 24 hours. back to you. >> jon: robert gray fox business, good advice there. thank you. >> melissa: president trump taking another hit at obamacare announcing he is scrapping federal subsidies to insurance companies that participate in obamacare exchanges. the president tweeting obamacare is a broken mess, piece by piece we'll now begin the process of giving america the great healthcare it deserves.

democratic leaders blasting the move saying sadly instead of working to lower healthcare costs for americans, it seems president trump will single handedly hike american's health premiums. a spiteful act leveled at working families as the middle class in every corner of america. patrick griffin is a former media consultant to four republican presidential campaigns and liz smith is a former deputy campaign manager for martin o'malley. thanks to both of you for joining us. patrick, from that quote it sounds like they love what's going on. chuck and nancy are on board and think it's fantastic. was that your interpretation there? >> chuck and nancy better get someone to give them an electoral map from the 2016 campaign. seems their idea only the coastal elite represent working americans. quality access and affordability which is what the affordable care act was supposed to deliver to

working-class americans is exactly what it hasn't done. so i think yesterday's announcement by the president's executive order was a good first step at single handedly begin to dismantle obamacare administratively. we'll see what happens. the president an interesting line in his speech when he said some republicans forget what they campaigned on. i have think this is a very important issue for him. he needs a win on the board and this is a good way to do it. >> melissa: if you don't want to dismantle obamacare and you want to fix it, it seems like the only way to do that is by giving more of our audience's money, more taxpayer dollars and more government funds to the insurance companies. is there another way to fix it besides giving them more money? >> there are a number of proposals out there. >> melissa: like what? >> letting medicaid and medicare negotiate for lower drug prices. lowering the entry age for medicare, introducing more competition into healthcare markets with the public option.

and really -- >> melissa: what does that mean? more competition with the public option. what do those words mean? >> when you put in a government option to compete -- for instance, in some markets now in some we're seeing there is only one employer and i will tell you this and i'm going to agree with you this law is not perfect. that's not an ideal situation. >> melissa: if the government is in the healthcare business that's taxpayer dollars. all the things you're talking about is taking more money from taxpayers and giving it to insurance companies. >> melissa, the government has been in the healthcare business for decades. >> melissa: that's not what i'm saying. the solution is more money from the government. >> we're going the pay for it one way or another. >> melissa: yeah. >> how about this? if you take millions of people off the healthcare roles? we'll pay for it when people go to the emergency room. >> melissa: healthy people are going to pay for sick people no

matter what is what she is saying. >> no matter what healthcare costs money and we'll pay for it one way or the other. why don't we pay for it up front? >> melissa: let me ask you. isn't the problem with the fact there isn't enough money in the system now and see is saying one way or another everybody has to kick in more in order to get this done. the problem is maybe that we're trying to force people to buy health insurance they don't want and they don't need. is that even moral to force people to buy things that they don't want and spend their money where they don't want to do it? >> of course it is. it's ridiculous. the thing that's fascinating about chuck and nancy. they seem to not understand that they set the house on fire, poured gasoline on it. the house is burning down and they continue to suggest that the president is trying to fix it is a bad thing. the definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different outcome. when the government gets in the business of trying to decide

winners and losers, mandate a one size fits all big government solution from the concrete canyons of washington to states around the country it is a bad idea. it has failed again and again. it hasn't worked now. the democrats need to understand we need to try something different. you cannot defend soaring premiums, less coverage and less access when they claimed they were going to fix it with obamacare. >> melissa: the first half of the year the five major insurance companies made money. they don't need a bail-out. i don't know if we solved it but we tried. thank you. >> jon: it was a rollicking good time, too. >> melissa: for a friday especially. >> jon: you are on top of your game. for most of puerto rico the lights are still out. president trump faced backlash after his tweet about withdrawing federal aid. he now appears to be changing his tone. our next guest a former nfl star talks about his big plans to help that island.

>> jon: weeks after hurricane maria the crisis is puerto rico is far if over. president trump facing backlash for his tweet yesterday. he wrote congress to decide how much to spend. we cannot keep fema, the military and first responders who have been amazing under the most difficult circumstances in puerto rico forever. white house chief of staff john kelly weighed in at a news conference yesterday. >> so this country -- our country will stand with those american citizens in puerto rico until the job is done but the tweet about fema and dod is exactly accurate. they won't be there forever. and the whole point is to start to work yourself out of a jaw and -- >> jon: president trump changed his tone on twitter this

morning. the wonderful people of puerto rico know how bad things were before the hurricanes. i will always be with them. former nfl star jack brewer is leading a major effort to bring water and emergency supplies to the island. is that what you think is most needed right now, jack, is private efforts? >> no question. we have to have the society and other americans come in and join this cause. i've done this all over the world. when you talk about issues with clean water in places like puerto rico right now folks are drinking contaminated water and they are getting water-borne diseases. it is bad and the epidemic is continuing to spread. the real problem with the situation is the way we're deploying our aid. we're paying to ship in bottles of water when we can use aqua

tabs. puerto rico has infrastructure. we need to use the taps. a lot of towns we have to think smarter, not harder. so that's what we're trying to do. we're partnering with a group med gift that helped raise millions of dollars for various medical initiatives all over the globe. we are trying to continue these efforts. more importantly raise awareness and let folks know that these problems are real. let's not make it into a political debate. this is a humanitarian crisis and it is our responsibility as americans, it's our responsibility as humans to help these people right now. >> jon: you are taking that responsibility on your shoulders heading to the island yourself. >> we'll bring aqua tabs. we have a few million of those we're bringing to the island. partnering with some great organizations. we've got the former miss puerto rico coming with us, amanda serny has joined our effort. a number of celebrities and

influencers trying to raise awareness. we'll go there on the ground. bring in as many medical supplies as we can. we have medical teams joining us. we have folks that are donating planes. organizations like city of hope who is also bringing in medical supplies for us. so this is a team effort. this is the time now for americans to come together. let's stop talking about kneeling for the flag and whether or not we're having each other's back on all these other political issues. right now is the time for this country to come together as americans and let's try to help these folks. >> jon: a lot of nfl fans know you. you played for four different teams during your career. so how -- what can people do to support your efforts? how can they make a contribution and get involved? >> we've just launched med gift.com/jbs. go there and help our causes. we don't have any paid staff. we're all volunteers trying to help our fellow americans. any support we can get is appreciated.

even hands-on support. if you want to come down with us reach out. we've done this all over the globe and you see on the screen we bring these aqua tabs to these countries and try to use our resources in a smart way. they don't cost a lot of money and so we can clean millions of gallons of water and hopefully save some folks. you have people now that have rashes that are threatening their lives from the water they're drinking and babies drinking dirty water. that's not acceptable in this country. >> jon: because these are american citizens and they are living like a third or fourth world country right now. jack brewer from the jack brewer foundation, we might mention as well. jack, thanks very much. good luck on that trip. >> melissa: the fallout from the sexual assault scandal surrounding harvey weinstein is widening. new accusation. weinstein hopes for a second chance after rehab. >> sexual assault is not about

sex, it's about power. it's about the abuse of power.

>> melissa: seven minutes to glory on this fine friday. president trump during our hour. we'll be announcing he will not certify the iran nuclear deal. his goal is to hold the regime's feet to the fire. we'll bring you the speech live when it happens. >> president trump striking at the heart of obamacare pushing to cut off those subsidies to insurance companies. the democrats already vowing a legal battle and plenty of politics already at play. >> top of the hour. one lucky guy will join us as well. >> jon: we'll be watching.

new fallout this morning in the sexual assault scandal surrounding harvey weinstein. actress rose mcgowan accuses weinstein of raping her. one acting coach explaining the good that coming forward can do. >> the more that you say no and you realize not only will that not destroy your career, but it will align you with the people in hollywood that are good, that do want to work with you and will help you in the right medium in order to push you forward in your career. those people exist here, too. >> jon: we're live with the latest from los angeles. >> the fallout continues. actress rose mcgowan complained years ago being raped and also complained to the head of amazon studios that weinstein

was helping produce one of her scripts. he said where is the proof? i received a settlement for the assault. claims amazon did nothing. she attacked amazon for ignoring her claim and quoting funding rapist, alleged pedophiles and sexual harassers. the next studio exec to fall may be price from amazon. amazon put price on leave. as for weinstein, cameras caught him wednesday not in rehab but in los angeles and thursday at a resort in phoenix. as for hollywood, the hypocrisy is deafening if you consider the lectures at the emmys and oscars telling america how to drive, live and it collectively protected one of their own. >> we all have to be responsible for the people we work with. if you see something, say something. people become complicit and try

to cover up things. >> according to tmz a clause in weinstein's contract permitted him to sexually harass women as long as he paid the settlements along with an escalating fine. >> you will not believe the contract that the weinstein company gave harvey weinstein in 2015. it tolerates sexual harassment, not one instance, not two, but an infinite number of cases. >> with the fines increasing to $500,000 and more than a million. that clause in the contract could expose the board of directors to police in new york and london. weinstein denies assaulting anyone. >> jon: unbelievable. what a story. thank you. >> melissa: president trump set to make a major announcement in the next hour. will the president decline to re-certify the iran nuclear deal? and what would that mean for the u.s. strategy in the region

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another great week. do you mind if i come in but you next week? great, i will see that too. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> sandra: fox news alert. we are awaiting an announcement from president trump on the iran nuclear deal. he is going to say he is not recertifying it. we are told he will give a harsh critique of the 2015 agreement and say it is not in our national interest. but he will stop short of trapping the accord entirely. living it up to congress to decide what if anything to do next. this is a friday edition of "outnumbered." i am sandra smith pretty here today is harris faulkner. former deputy spokesperson for the state department, marie harf. republican strategist and fox news contributor lisa boothe. at today's hashtag one lucky guy, we are lucky to have him, former house speaker newt gingrich is here and also has