>> what's the over/under on president trump and senator corker taking a picture today? do you think it will happen? great way to continue the story, right? >> happy tuesday, everyone. >> she will see you at noon. bye-bye. >> jon: some new details about the ambush in niger including when u.s. forces called for help and how long the attack went on raising more questions about the assault that left four americans dead. good morning to you, i'm jon scott. >> melissa: i'm melissa francis. the chairman of the joints chief of staff telling reporters the families of the four fallen soldiers and american people deserve answers about what happened in the west african nation nearly three weeks ago. general joseph dunford appealed for patience during the investigation. >> we lost four americans in this incident. we had two others wounded.

that makes it a big deal to me. that gives me a sense of urgency to identify exactly what happened, to communicate exactly what happened to the families and the american people. so i personally am not comparing this to any other incident. what is most important to me aside from getting the facts, is identifying those things that we can do better in the future and that's my focus. >> melissa: national security correspondent jennifer griffin. >> the u.s. troops didn't ask for air support an hour after the attack began. then it took the french fighter jets another hour to appear overhead, a full two hours after the attack began. >> when they requested support, it took the french aircraft, they were ready to go in 30 minutes and then it took them 30 minutes to get on the scene. but it is important to note that when they didn't ask for

support for that first hour, my judgment would be that unit thought they could handle the situation without additional support. >> that's different from the timeline first provided by the pentagon saying the french jets were overhead within 30 minutes after they were urgently requested. officials say the 12-man special forces team could not communicate with the french jets above making it impossible for them to drop bombs because the jets -- the french jets couldn't tell the difference between friend or foe from the air. general dunford said once he learned sergeant johnson was missing he brought the full weight of the military to search for him. >> when did you alert the white house? >> we notified the white house as soon as we had a soldier that was missing. it was probably around 9:00 or 9:30 washington, d.c. time the night of the 4th.

at that point knowing we had a missing soldier we made a decision to make sure all the resources to include national assets were available. >> sergeant johnson's body was discovered two days later by niger forces. questions remain about how he got separated from his unit. dunford troops said troops in niger are not supposed to go with u.s. forces. a drone was sent overhead within minutes after the attack began but if a drone had been watching the troops from the beginning it would have spotted the terrorists closing in. >> jon: republicans are preparing to have a policy lunch with president trump on capitol hill as he makes his big push for tax reform saying he would like to sign a bill by

thanksgiving. >> we let the president take the lead working with mcconnell and others that want to see productive changes whether on tax reform or getting better deals, fixing some of the mistakes through things like the iran deal, putting pressure on north korea. this is a president who wants to be aggressive, wants to take big action. >> jon: peter doocy is live for us with more. peter. >> it's very rare to see the presidential motorcade at this end of pennsylvania avenue but the house and the senate and the president never really got on the same page about a healthcare plan a few months ago. now today's lunch is to make sure that they are all together unified about the tax proposal that is coming in the next couple of days. there was just one republican senator that voted no on the budget, which leadership describes as the mechanism for tax reform. that's senator rand paul but i talked to paul's spokesperson who said the no vote on the budget is not going to stop him from supporting the biggest tax

cut possible. there is also going to be a senator at today's lunch, bob corker who just said this morning he would not vote for trump as president again but that apparently doesn't mean he is definitely going to vote against the president's preferred tax plan because he says he still has a job to do as senator from tennessee. that's similar to what senator john mccain said a few days ago. he won't let personal problems with the president interfere with what the people of arizona ask him to do. this morning the house majority leader kevin mccarthy said they'll get tax reform two weeks sooner than expected because they won't make any changes to the budget that the senate just passed. that puts the bull's-eye on the end of this year for getting something done. there is a growing concern now that if tax reform is not done by the end of 2017 and it bleeds into 2018, a lot of people that work here in the senate are going to lose their jobs and get voted out in the mid-terms. we should know more about how confident or concerned

lawmakers are of the chances of getting tax reform done with the lunch with the president starting two hours from now. >> jon: wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall. peter doocy. thank you, peter. >> melissa: now let's go to the white house for the president's take on tax reform. chief white house correspondent john roberts is live on the south lawn. this is really taken over. it is getting big, everyone is in on it. what is the latest? >> it's been a busy morning to put it bluntly here at the white house. the president has tax reform at the top of the agenda for the lunch and wants the talk about other issues as well including the slow pace of confirmations for his nominees. he has a lot of jobs left open to fill. what's really gathering momentum this morning, melissa is the emerging food fight expected to take place at the lunch between the president and senator bob corker. earlier today senator corker was on television suggesting the president keep his nose out of the senate process to write the tax reform legislation

after the president tweeted yesterday he would not allow lawmakers to set a lower cap on 401k contributions. listen to what he said. >> if he will step aside and let it occur in a normal process. recently the white house in a couple of cases have been taking things off the table. there is a lot of work to be done. the tough part of this is upcoming over the next several weeks. >> that was just the opening salvo. he went on to take aim at the president's foreign policy urging him to leave foreign policy to quote professionals like rex tillerson and james mattis. those comments prompted a sharp response from the press secretary on "fox & friends" this morning. >> look, i think if bob corker is suggesting leaving it to the professional and he is referring to himself, we've left it to him long enough and he has been ineffective and now i think we need to let the president take the lead on this

front working with leader mcconnell and others. >> then the president tore back into his twitter feud with corker writing bob corker, who helped president obama give us the bad iran deal and couldn't get elected dog catcher in tennessee is now fighting tax cuts. he dropped out of the race in tennessee when i refused to endorse them and now is only negative on anything trump. look at his record. corker fired back on twitter against the president saying quote same untruths from an utterly untruthful president. #alert the daycare staff. to which the president responded isn't it sad that lightweight senator bob corker who couldn't get reelected in the great state of tennessee and fight tax cuts. the feud is still ongoing. corker was giving a number of interviews in the halls of capitol hill. he regrets backing president trump. the president is still tweeting what he calls corker's incompetence but we have other news to tell you about so we'll

put that aside for a second. today marks 120 days since the supreme court back in june allowed the president's executive order on the travel ban to be implemented. the supreme court backed it up again in a subsequent ruling in september. one of the things that's expiring today is the 120-day ban on refugees. the so-called section 6 of the executive order. the president is coming up with a permanent remedy and solution to refugees. he will cap refugee admissions at 45,000 for fiscal year 2018 and enhance procedures for entries basically going to be raising standards for vetting individuals. it will likely include biographical data. social media data and apply standards across the board for men, women and children. men are vetted more stringently than women and children but all that will be at parity. the president is expected to sign an executive order to

implement the changes at 5:00 or 6:00 today. >> melissa: like a normal tuesday morning. >> every day is monday at the white house. that's how we look at it. >> melissa: absolutely. well, you know, it keeps it exciting and the proof will be in the pudding. we'll see what gets done and we'll all judge. john, thank you. >> jon: is there going to be a food fight in that building where john roberts is standing? the president is getting ready to head the capitol hill for a working lunch with senate republicans. the food fight will be in the capitol, not the white house. tax reform on the menu. one senator who will be there joins us live to tell us what he wants to hear plus the search for a killer in a quiet florida neighborhood as police reveal what all three victims have in common. >> nobody comes into our house and does this, not now, not ever. this is our streets, these are our neighborhoods, this is your community, and we are not going to let evil win this race.

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>> jon: breaking in washington where the president is about to head to the capitol for lunch with senate republicans and expected to ask them to pass tax reform. >> we've been waiting for the opportunity to do it. republicans having a majority in the house and senate give us an opportunity to accomplish something really important for the country to get it growing again. >> he is at a fork in the road. if he throws in with mcconnell and -- if he chooses to help the companies keep production in the united states not the bill that mcconnell has. if he does that it's a bipartisan bill. >> joining us is senator rob portman from ohio who serves on

the finance committee. the goal we're told is to get something passed by thanksgiving. that's november 23rd. today is october 24th. is that realistic? >> that may be a little ambitious but by the end of the year is doable because we spent years on this. we're long overdue in reforming a broken tax code. we've had over a dozen hearings in the last few years alone in the finance committee. i think there is a consensus now there is a way to fix the code to bring back more jobs and investment and to help middle class families be able to get ahead. i'm excited about it. >> jon: you heard senator brown saying the president or perhaps mitch mcconnell should reach out to democrats to get votes to help this thing passed. is it important? >> sure. i think it's important. by the way, it's happening. i'm talking to democrats, the president as you know had a meeting at the white house last week with members of the democrat and republican finance committee. and we had a good discussion.

i do think that the very issues that senator brown talked about middle class tax cuts, helping u.s. companies be able to be more competitive. bringing back jobs and investment from overseas is what the tax code will do. i hope we get democratic support. there is a difference on should there be tax cuts in this or not and second is what the deficit impact will be. we republicans believe if you do the kinds of things we're talking about you'll have more economic growth and therefore more revenue and be able to help the deficit and those are differences we'll have to work out. i hope we do have democrat support. better for the country right now and be better for the longevity of the tax code for some sustainability in what we do. >> jon: you represent ohio, a blue collar state in large part. a state that voted for president trump. when democrats say this is a giveaway to the wealthy kind of tax plan and that it is all about cutting taxes on corporations, how does that

help an ohio worker? >> well, that's not what it is going to be. let's say it is going to reduce taxes on businesses, which it will be. we have to do that to be competitive. everybody gets that. when you have the highest business tax rate in the entire world among all the industrialized countries and 2 1/2 to $3 trillion locked up overseas that isn't coming back we have a real problem. so we do have jobs and investment leaving this country. companies in ohio are choosing to become foreign companies. it is crazy. a new study just came out saying there would be 4700 more u.s. companies than foreign companies if we had done this kind of tax reform about a decade ago. so we want these jobs back here. so for the people i represent i was just visiting five auto plants in ohio last week and talking to the uaw workers and the other auto workers there about their future. they want to have a competitive tax code because they don't

want to fight the corner competitors tied with one hand behind their back. they want more investments with jobs in america. >> jon: you will be one of those lunching with the president. what is your top issue? >> jon, this is unusual. we've worked together with the house and white house up to now. so it's more that we will make a commitment to continue to do that over the next couple months. otherwise it will be tough to get this across the line. again, so far so good. as compared to healthcare i would say we've been better both on process and substance. in working together. bringing everybody in including democrats. letting them know what we're doing. being more transparent. having committee hearings and having a committee report or mark-up where you have the opportunity to offer amendments. it will be an open process. i look forward to continuing to work closely with the president and the house. we may have some differences. that's okay. let's vet the differences. at the end of the day let's find a way to come together, find common ground and get this done for the american people. >> jon: you are something of a

fiscal expert from your time at the office of management and budget. you can assure people these tax cuts as proposed will grow the economy? >> yeah. if you looked at the budget we just passed it would say you are allowed to have some tax relief. some tax cuts even though on what's called a static score basis if you assume nothing will change it would cause a deficit. but if you assume the changes we're talking about which are pro growth will bring a lot of jobs back and let people be able to get ahead middle class families in oel owe and elsewhere, that will grow the economy. every economist will agree with that. some differ on how much. but a .4% increase in our economic growth over the next 10 years willfuly pay for the kind of tax relief we're talking about. most economists believe as i do it will be far more than .4%. instead of growing at less than 2% which is what congressional office says let's grow at 2.3%. that's relatively small amount

of economic growth so i'm confident that we'll do better than that if we can get the tax reform bill passed. that will help incentivize the economy and bring back wages. we'll end up having more deficit reduction because of the expanded economy and more revenue coming in. it's time to get it done. >> jon: sounds good to the folks in ohio. higher wages, everybody likes that. >> it's needed. thanks for having me on. >> melissa: a top u.n. official calling north korea the most pressing crisis our world is facing. how our next guest who served on the national security council thinks this crisis can be resolved. plus a florida neighborhood on edge after three people are shot dead in 10 days. the clues police are following from this surveillance video. >> the problem is what we're wondering about they don't know nothing about the killer. so we don't know what is next.

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>> jon: a fox news alert. tampa police are searching for a suspect after three murders in less than two weeks. three people shot and killed in the seminole heights neighborhood. people living in that area are on edge. >> it's scary. so i've really been a little more careful than i was because, you know, even though it's daylight, you know, you say there could be all the murders that have been at night, but then you never know if it could be in the daytime, you know? >> i'm very concerned. we have saturated this area. we have put and deployed police

officers 24/7. we aren't leaving until we catch this guy. >> jon: the three victims didn't know each other but all three rode the bus and were alone when they were killed. >> the most pressing in the sense that for the first time since the end of the cold war there is a nuclear threat. we forgot the nuclear threat for decades. it was very present in the cold war remember the cuba missile crisis and many other moments in which there was a possibility that the nuclear and we forgot about it. we thought it was finished. now for the first time we feel that there is a nuclear threat. because of that it is clearly the most dramatic crisis we face. >> melissa: that was the u.n. secretary general appearing on special report with bret baier as japan's defense minister warns that the threat from north korea is at an unprecedented critical and

imminent level. the washington institute's managing director michael sing is here with me and a former senior director of middle eastern affairs at the national security council. thank you for joining us. north korea calling it unprecedented critical level, imminent. these are very strong words. are they terrified by this? is that what you get from that? sometimes it seems like we americans are alone in our alarm over what's going on. >> i think you see a tremendous level of concern as the secretary general's remarks show. i'm not sure the u.s. has ever forgotten about the nuclear threat we face from china and russia also. you see countries in asia but also others boris johnson the u.k. foreign secretary for example just said we need to keep the military option on the table with respect to north korea. there is no doubt this has the world's attention in a serious way. >> melissa: at the same time

that language doesn't match with what the last administration said and continues to say when they go out on different talk shows saying that we have to just find a way to be okay with north korea having a nuclear weapon. that doesn't seem to match what japan is saying or what the u.n. is saying. can you reconcile those? >> i don't think that we can simply except and live with a north korea nuclear weapon. what's the alternative? what you see the trump administration doing, melissa is hoping to sort of get the north koreans into talks which would aim to denuclearize north korea by amping up the level of military threat and pressure on pyongyang. that is the approach they're taking so far. >> melissa: those on the left and from the previous administration say the way the president is approaching this is making it worse. >> well, i think the concern melissa is if we engage in military threats, which look like they're preemptive, could

we provoke the north koreans into themselves taking a preemptive action with a missile or some other kind of attack. i honestly think the real issue here is that i'm not in favor of the military option. that's something we leave as a last resort. but i think frankly also negotiations which seem to be what the trump administration is aiming for are unlikely to work. we can't trust any agreement we get with the north koreans and what concessions the united states would have to make. the pattern in the past is we enter into negotiations and all that pressure we built up we relieve only to see everything repeat itself. >> melissa: we give them something and they say we'll take that and also continue our nuclear program. thank you for the gift. everyone says that china is the key to this. any expert you have on, have to get china to intervene. what does that look like? china actually helping means they take away missiles? does it mean they remove things that they've built?

because north korea has shown they're very far along. so it seems like china would have to do something meaningful to remove what they have in order for that to be effective. >> well, i think the hope with china that the trump administration has because north korea depends so much on china economically. that you could use again that threat of conflict, that threat of war that would be terrible for china to induce the chinese to squeeze the north koreans to come to the negotiating table. a flip side which i worry what the chinese would like to see come out of all this is the u.s. make concessions like stopping joint military exercises with the south koreans and japanese. pulling back missile defenses both that happen to be china's objectives. to get the united states to back off its military posture in that part of asia. >> melissa: michael sing, thank you, appreciate your time. >> jon: brand-new information for you on the investigation into a russian uranium deal that took place while hillary

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you know, you would think he would aspire to be the president of the united states and act like a president of the united states. but that's just not going to be the case apparently and, you know, it's up to others who serve in elected capacity whether governors, mayors or senators to try to conduct themselves in a manner that is more becoming of a leader. but he is obviously not up to that and you know, look, i've had private meetings with him, dinners with him, i played golf with him, had multiple occasions where the staff has asked me to please intervene he was getting ready to do something that was really off the tracks and looks, i've seen no evolution in an upward way. matter of fact i would say it appears to me that it's almost

devolving. but look, you know, everybody has their own opinion about that and i'm here to serve for another 14 months. >> why aren't more of your colleagues speaking out the way you are? >> i've been very independent, i think, the whole time i've been up here and i probably have a unique relationship. i've gotten to know him in a different way than a lot of senators have through this last year and i also, you know, told the people of tennessee that i was going to run for two terms and so i gives you a sense of independence, i think. and just the, you know, i was in a pretty tough business. i start -- started when i was 25 and i've been around people that have the mentality of our current president and, you know, have through life just

learned how you deal with people like that. >> any chance of repairing your relationship with the president? do you have -- how do you -- [several people talking at the same time] >> i can't hear there are so many questions at once. i will see you at all lunch. >> jon: see you all at lunch says the outgoing senator from tennessee bob corker. he announced is not running again. president trump has turned that into a fight with corker suggesting that mr. corker, senator corker, had begged for the president's endorsement and did not get it and as a result declined to run. that's not the way corker sees it. he and the president are feuding. he will be lunching with the president and the rest of the republican senate delegation about an hour and a half from now. won't that be interesting. melissa. >> melissa: this just in on the

investigation into a controversial obama-era uranium deal. we're learning an f.b.i. informant who could be a key witness is under a gag order that prevents him from testifying before congress and lawmakers are eager to hear from him. >> he wants to be able to tell his story to congress and the american people. we in the congress in the house and senate have asked the justice department to release him from that. they are in the process of reviewing. that i think we'll get an answer on that very quickly. then of course congress if it comes to that could potentially subpoena him. this individual has a lot of information. i think he has documents and we need to hear from him. >> melissa: joining is now is joe trippi, brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush. brad, the thing i don't get about this and i'm not a lawyer, they are co-equal branches of government. can one keep a witness from the other? aren't they stopping them from

doing business? >> absolutely. as a lawyer i will tell you it wouldn't stand the muster i believe if the subpoena were not honored and congress were forced to go to court. the executive branch and legislative branch are co-equal branches. one can't prevent the other branch from doing their constitutional ability of congress, that's oversight. this witness is going to testify one way or the other either voluntarily or by court order. i think with a republican administration that release should be forthcoming sooner rather than later. >> melissa: here is what the witness's attorney had to say on "fox & friends" about this very issue. >> he began working for the f.b.i. they had him sign this non-disclosure agreement when he went to sue to get some of his money back that he had given out under the f.b.i. control, the loretta lynch justice department called his then attorney and said if he didn't dismiss that case, they

would ruin his reputation and liberty. when the justice department says liberty to me that's a prosecution. >> melissa: joe, what do you think? >> i think regardless of what loretta lynch did brad is right. this is now trump's justice department. if they want to release the gag order they can. what's striking to me you have a republican congress, republican president, republican justice department and that it may take the republican congress suing the trump justice department to get the gag order released. that's just crazy that that's where we're at. if there is something there, you would expect the justice department to let this gag order go and allow this person to testify. >> melissa: i want to start with the most basic crazy part of this whole entire story. the original point of departure.

in what world does it make sense for us to sell 20% of our uranium to russia? brad, right there you feel if somebody said that out loud today no matter who was in charge or who was trying to do it we would all say that sounds insane. why would we do that? to me there has to be more to this story or someone has to be compromised. brad, is that basic premise insane? >> no, it's mind-boggling to think we would voluntarily in a transaction receive money from the russians to give up 20% of our uranium. it doesn't make any sense. by the way, the f.b.i. has been investigating these russian actors for years and yet the clintons were able to ingratiate themselves while she was secretary of state. bill clinton got a $500,000 honorarium and trip to moscow and the clinton foundation gets

donations from these russian actors being looked at by our very f.b.i. for bribery and extortion. this is the way they do business. to allow this to concern. if the f.b.i. knew it and didn't head the clintons off at the pass again it's a stain on the f.b.i., it's incredible this was able to happen in the first place, and i'm sure we don't have the full story. >> melissa: republican, democrat, no matter who we're talking about, way too many people have been doing business with the russians and if we think that's a threat and a bad idea, this is a great place to start because this is one of the most dangerous and valuable assets we could have possibly sold to them and it makes no sense. >> i would say what makes little sense is that this is a -- the republicans have complete control over these investigations. they have are in charge of everything. >> melissa: isn't it crazy that we would be selling them uranium? don't you think way too many people are doing business with the russians?

>> first of all, it is worth investigating. i didn't say that. i'm saying where is -- it's the justice department, this justice department that can release this individual and can move on prosecuting if there is something to prosecute. for some reason they haven't done that. i think that is -- i know i've already said that but that's a point i want to make. >> melissa: you already made it and you were out of time. i was offering you time to say something else. we're out of time. >> jon: hillary clinton saying she was not personally involved in the approval of the uranium one deal. but is there a russian connection to washington was vladimir putin trying to affect our election? our next guest talks about that. >> the most direct and assertive campaign the russians every mounted.

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>> jon: new information for you now a front line documentary takes a closer look at how and why vladimir putin was targeting u.s. elections. the intelligence community admits they failed to get washington to publicly condemn russian meddling in our democratic process. >> in the days before the election there was constant interaction between the experts at c.i.a., f.b.i. and n.s.a. we were monitoring and using our abilities to understand what the russians might have up their sleeve at the 11th hour. >> jon: michael kirk conducted the interviews for this program and joins us now with a preview. michael, it's hard to believe but vladimir putin was a lieutenant of the freedom

loving boris yeltsin and is now running the show in russia and sort of in many ways much of the old soviet union. >> it is a fascinating experience i just had spending the last eight months trying to figure out who vladimir putin is and what it was that caused him to decide to meddle in our elections that the russians did during the 2016 election and to get to know him and why he did it is to understand he has had a lifetime of grievances that he has built up over the years against the united states, against ronald reagan, george w. bush, barack obama and, of course, hillary clinton, grievances based on the idea that they are part of a regime change that they want to do to remove him from office. he watches them with saddam hussein and the arab spring and

mubarak and qaddafi being killed over and over again and begins to believe we're after him. >> jon: and he thinks that is what, the price of democracy or the price of freedom? >> he really sees the world in two terms. his kind of world in russia where he is trying to make russia great again and the terms that american presidents see especially george w. bush after 9/11. this idea of democracy being the forward agenda of the united states to putin. the word democracy to him is something that he finds opposite to what he is trying to do. from the people we talked to, we talked to 55 people over the last few months including 30 hours of interviews in russia, and people there and here really believe that what he was trying to do was create chaos and disruption to show the people of russia and the rest of the world that democracy in america is just as bad and just

as screwed up as maybe it is in his country. >> jon: didn't he tell boris yeltsin he was going to take this democracy ball and run with it? >> we have a woman in the film, a wonderful russian woman, very smart, been around a long time. she said he is a a liar. she asserts that putin was always a kgb man waiting to, as i say, make russia great again by establishing its power in the world and against the united states. everybody i talked to, almost everybody i talked to said we're headed to a cold war 2.0. a new cold war with new weapons. >> there is much more in the documentary, michael kirk the filmmaker. catch putin's revenge parts 1 and 2 october 25th, tomorrow, and november 1st on pbs. >> melissa: a teenager says she

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>> melissa: a father rescues his 15-year-old daughter from a shark with the help of his son. the 15-foot shark tossing the teenager into the water as she was kayaking in south australia. her dad raced to get her in a

motor boat. his son dragged her across the shark's back to safety in the boat. >> how do we get her out? i don't know. we were in the right place at the right time. what scared me the most out of yesterday was the veracity of how that shark attacked. this shark will probably kill someone before they do something. >> melissa: amazing. she suffered only minor injuries. her father said the rescue took about 30 seconds and she doubts he would have survived another 10 seconds. >> jon: wow. >> melissa: wow. >> jon: right now eyewitnesses testifying at the kate steinle murder trial. a mexican man deported multiple times before the shooting now charged with second degree murder in a case that sparked a national immigration debate. although he admits shooting

kate steinle his attorney claims he is not guilty of murder. we're live in los angeles now. >> this is high profile case, the jury is not sequestered. the judge said keep an open mind and don't watch the news. the prosecutor said yesterday in open remarks steinle is dead because zarate pointed a gun at her and pulled the trigger. witnesses, video from a fire station camera and the defendant's words will show he fired intentionally throwing the weapon in the bay and running from police. the sole witness yesterday was her father. her last words dad, help me, help me. >> today is about the steinle family and the incredible resolve they've shown through this entire process. and we'll do everything we can to bring this family justice. >> the defense claims it was an accident and the weapon fired accidentally on its own. back to you.

>> jon: thank you, william. take you now to the intelligence chairman holding a press availability to make an announcement regarding the intelligence committee in the u.s. house. let's listen. >> we'll keep you posted with further details. let me go to mr. desantis filling in for mr. gowdy today. >> we do have a witness who was a confidential informant who wants to talk about his role in this and we're in contact with the justice department to release him from a non-disclosure agreement. if that doesn't work out in timely fashion we obviously would be able to subpoena him. on the oversight committee and my subcommittee will be focusing on how the interagency process worked in this. we don't think that it worked out very well. so we have jurisdiction over the various national security agencies and want to get as much information as we can so we can see what happened.

>> next we'll go to mr. king. he is of particular relevance not only because he chairs the subcommittee that overseas f.b.i. and d. o.j. and treasury and he was a chairman back at the time and sent a letter questioning the sale of this company, sent that letter to the treasury secretary at the time. we're happy he is still here and will be the point person from our committee on the investigation. mr. king. >> thank you, chairman. back in october of 2010 at that time i was the ranking member on homeland security and myself and three other ranking members sent a letter to the treasury department raising real concerns why we would allow a russian-owned company to get access to 20% of america's uranium supply. any number of objections we raised up to the highest level. i got a letter in response from

treasury secretary geithner saying this was getting full scrutiny. it was brought to the highest levels of the obama administration including the treasury secretary. so it's important that we find out why that deal went through and certainly in view of recent allegations and questions it's important this inquiry goes forward. there won't be any conflict here. we'll go forward together in a cooperative way and specifically the emerging subcommittee of the intelligence committee has jurisdiction over the f.b.i.'s counter intelligence efforts and treasury departments. it fits in uniquely. in view of the fact that seven years ago this month i raised these objections with the treasury secretary who said they were being fully investigated and we want to see what happened to that inquiry. what information was brought to their attention. what they knew then. why they acted or didn't act and put in context what has

come out since then. this will go forward and again look forward to working with ron desantis, an outstanding member of congress. we'll take a couple of questions. >> what evidence is there that there was -- [inaudible question] >> let me first say, so our committee has been looking into this for a while now. we have been in touch with different individuals who have brought us information. i think as mr. desantis has stated, there's a concern over the nondisclosure agreement. we don't think that that is concerned. >> california republican, the chairman of the house intelligence committee talking about something that melissa was talking about earlier, that deal that allowed russian companies

to buy about 20% of u.s. uranium at a time when hillary clinton was secretary of state and big dollars were flowing to the clinton foundation from russian interest. >> congress in peter king's made the point why do we never sell them a uranium and we will hear a lot more about that. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: we begin with the fox news alert. a tax reform is front and center in washington today. president trump is about to address republican senators at their weekly policy lunch, he is going to urge them to get tax reform done by thanks giving. as they are getting to work on key details of a plan for massive tax cuts that everyone can get behind the president says. this is "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. here today, sandra smith. democratic strategists and fox news contributor jessica tarlov. commentator and fox news contributor rachel campos duffy is here and today is #oneluckyguy, former deputy campaign manager for donald j. trump for president and fox news contributor, david bossi is here. he is