president trump will sit down with low dobbs at 8:00 p.m. eastern. i'm dana perino. shepard smith is next. >> it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in washington. jeff flake is not ruling out running for president in 2020. president trump responding on twitter after attacks from senators on his own party. the president tells fox news there's a lot of love in the gop. >> we actually have in the republican party in a true sense great unity. >> shepard: the president making new comments about his tax plan and how it could affect your retirement accounts. plus, the trump dossier. fox news confirms the democratic party and the clinton campaign helped pay for the report that started out as a republican project. ahead, reaction from the

president and the clinton camp. let's get to it. >> first from the fox news deck this wednesday afternoon, president trump says there's a lot of love and unity among republicans. this as he continues his public fight with two senators in his own party. more on that in just a moment. first, a reminder how we got here. breaking in this hour yesterday, the announcement from the arizona senator jeff flake that he will retire at the end of his current term. on the senate floor, he said he will no longer be complicit in the face of what he calls president trump's reckless and outrageous behavior. the tennessee republican senator bob corker also ramped up his criticism of the president yesterday calling him untruthful and saying the president will be remembered for debasing the nation. analysts say the infighting raises questions about tax cuts and the party's agenda. the president said he's lunch

yesterday was a love fest with the exception of senators corker and flake. listen to what he told the fox business network. >> we actually have in the republican party in a true sense great unity. look at the democrats with bernie sanders that got taken advantage of by the dnc and now you're seeing all the stuff coming out. you see what is happening. look at hillary and bernie. that's big league stuff. we have great unity. i was with the senate yesterday, the entire republican senate. other than two people, there was a lot of love in the room. >> shepard: you can watch the full interview on lou dobbs tonight at 7:00 eastern time, 6:00 central on the fox business network. the president also took to twitter today to praise his meeting with republicans. he continued blasting senators corker and flake. he tweeted the reason flake and corker dropped out is simple. they have zero chance of being elected. now act so hurt and wounded. the meeting with republican

senators yesterday outside of flake and corker was a love fest withstanding ovations and great ideas for usa. jeff flake with a 18% approval rating in arizona said a lot of my colleagues have spoken out. really? they just gave me a standing 0. john roberts is live for us on the north lawn. hi, john. >> perception is a lot of this. the president thinks he's doing very well with his republican colleagues. some of them, namely senator corker and flake would differ. senator graham said he's on board with the president with his policies. they have disagreements but overall he supports president trump. at the moment at the very least, senators flake and corker publicly would appear to be in the minority. on the way to the helicopter as headed to texas and church in on relief efforts and a republican fund raiser, the president

reiterated that as far as he's concerned, all is rosy in the republican party. listen here. >> great unity in the republican party. that's okay. they have to do their thing. we have great unity. looked at what happened at the meeting. we had every senator including john mccain. we had a great conversation yesterday. john mccain and myself about the military. i think we had a -- i called it a love fest. almost a love fest. maybe it was a love fest. standing ovations. there's great unity. look at the democrats with bernie sanders and hillary clinton, that's a mess. >> clearly that was the theme that he repeated. his interview with lou dobbs was about 20 minutes before the president came out. he dismissed the criticisms of jeff flake saying when he initially heard about what he was saying, particularly the book that he wrote, he thought that he was a democrat. he was surprised to learn that he was a republican. in the end when it comes to

policy positions on tax reform, the. believes that senator flake and senator corker will do the right thing and support tax reform, shep. >> shepard: the president talked about something that a lot of people have been curious about. that is how the tax plan is going to affect people's 401(k) retirement accounts. >> this is what actually ignited the feud yesterday between the president and senator corker. monday morning, the president sent out a tweet saying that 401(k)s, which some people have been talking about, reducing the amount of tax-free contributions that people can make as a way to pay for tax reforms. the president said that is off the table, this is a boon to the middle class and that's going to stay. senator corker came out and said you shouldn't be telling us what to do in the senate. then this morning kevin brady, the chairman of the ways and means committee said, you know what? this idea of capping 401(k) tax-free contributions is something we should be looking at. so i asked the president about

that a short time ago. here's his response. >> 401(k)s are very important. they're important because that's one of the great benefits to the middle class. i didn't want that to go too far. that's why i ended it quickly. >> kevin brady said this morning, it could be on the table. >> maybe it is. maybe we'll use it as negotiating. trust me, that is one of the great things. you know, there's certain elements of deals you don't want to negotiate with. 401(k)s -- kevin knows it. kevin brady is fantastic. he knows how important they are. >> so the president made sure that he got his point across. that's a big one, shep. currently people are allowed to put away tax-free $18,000 a year. a lot of that being a company match. people over 50 can put in over $ $23,000. if that was capped back -- some people are talking about $2,500

or $3,000, that could be a big impact on the way people are saving for retirement. the president did not lay down a red line. he says he wants to see 401(k)s left alone. >> the president defended his phone call with the window of a u.s. soldier killed in niger. the widow of ladavid johnson has accused the president of forgetting her husband's name when he called her. what were the specifics today from the president? >> this happened a week ago today when the president made four phone calls. one to myeisha johnson. he insisted the calls were about condolences, about talking to the family and listening to the family. he disputed myeisha accounts that he was insensitive and that he didn't have a grasp her husband her's name. >> i was really nice to her. i respect her.

i respect her family. i certainly respect ladavid who i called him ladavid from the beginning. they put a chart, ladavid. it says ladavid johnson. so i thought from the beginning, there's no hesitation. one of the great memories of all time. no hesitation. i think she's a fantastic woman. i was extremely nice to her, extremely respectful. >> what the president was talking about, when you make the calls, he does have an informational card in front of him that gives him points about the person who he is calling, points about the person that is deceased. the president saying again, shep, this afternoon that these are the most difficult calls to make. they're very difficult calls for the family to field as well. we heard about what john kelly said. the family is looking for re-assurance from the people that their deceased loved one was in the field with but the.

does feel compelled to make the calls. the one thing i should have asked him, does he intend to make more calls. we'll save that for next time. shep? >> shepard: thanks, john. now back to tension between the president and a couple members of his party. a day after announcing his decision not to run for re-election. jeff flake says he's not ruling out running against the president. >> are you open to challenging him in 2020? >> that's a long way away. i'm focused on next 14 months in the senate. making sure that we get some good policy. there's some things i want to accomplish in the short term, certainly myself and senator tim kaine are pushing an authorization for the use of force. there's the daca issue and broader immigration policy. so i'm going focus on that.

>> shepard: that wasn't a rule-out. senator flake said he did not vote for president trump in november but he didn't vote for hillary clinton either. peter doocy with the news on capitol hill. jill stein? who is left? >> i remember hearing shep around the time of the election that he would vote in evan mcmullen. but mcmullen, not the president, who is trump, the big reason that flake says he's stepping down. his republican colleagues are telling news the hallway, they still need flake's votes for the next 1 1/2 years until the end of his term to get the big republican agenda items through. >> he's going to be a senator till next year. so what we have to do on healthcare reform and tax cuts has to be done while he's still in the united states senate. >> something else grassley told

me, he thinks flake could have had a bigger influence on president trump if he would have stayed a senator as other republican senators are suggesting that flake's frustrations with the president may have been more productively shared in private. >> i'd prefer to focus on the things that unify republicans rather than divide us. there are distractions. they get aired in public. i prefer them confined to private where we can have intrafamily discussions and fights. >> to that point, senator lindsey graham is telling his colleagues that are butting heads with the president to knock it off. across the aisle, democrats see a major opportunity and they're already pointing to one of their own in the house of representatives as a possible challenger that could flip the seat. it's congress woman kirsten cinema from the ninth district. the democratic senatorial campaign committee has a

statement out that says senator flake's retirement is another example of the divisiveness in the republican party. they claim their nomination will fall shirt of kyrsten sinema. the lawmaker that she seeks to replace, flake, has been elevated by the democratic minority leader in the senate, chuck schumer. he today on the senate floor said that flake has one of the best consciouses of anybody on either side of the aisle in the last several decades. that is of course something that schumer waited to say until after he found out about flake. >> shepard: they're all politicians what do you expect? peter, thanks. and more on the trump dossier. the clinton campaign and the democratic party helped pay for that report about possible ties between team trump and russia

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>> shepard: hillary clinton's presidential campaign and the democratic national committee helped pay for the so-called dossier that raised questions about president trump's possible ties to the russian government and other matters. that's what a source confirms to

fox news. the president today called it all a disgrace. former british spy christopher steele helped write that report. it contains claims unverified by fox news about president trump, his associates and possible ties to the kremlin. an unnamed republican reportedly first hired that political research firm, fusion gps, to dig up opposition research on candidate trump during the gop primaries. fox news confirms a lawyer for the clinton campaign and the dnc contacted that same firm to continue its research in april of last year. former clinton campaign spokesperson brian fallow responded on twitter. he said if it helps in robert mueller's investigation whether the trump administration colluded with the election, then it's money well-spent. he tweeted i regret i didn't know about christopher steele's hiring pre election.

if i had, i would have went to europe to help him. catherine herridge is live in washington. >> at the same white house news conference a short time ago, the president laid into the democrats on the dossier. >> hillary clinton always denied it. the democrats always denied it. now only because it's going to come out in a court case they said yes, they did it. they admitted it. they're embarrassed by it. it's a disgrace. it's really -- it's a very sad commentary on politician in this country. >> litigation over a congressional subpoena drove the disclosure that mark elias along with the dnc hired opposition research firm fusion gps in april 2016. the research led to the trump dossier that was shared with the fbi. on fox earlier today, the house government oversight committee chairman questioned whether federal investigators knew about the dnc clinton funding and

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yes, might have started with the republicans early on. i think i would know. let's find out who it is. i'm sure that will come out. >> this letter filed as part of the litigation that i mentioned earlier said there was a client before the clinton campaign and the dnc got involved. there's speculation a never trump republican got the ball rolling in 2015 on the research. but those reports are anonymously sourced. on capitol hill, our contacts questioned if there's foreign money involved or payments to foreign sources that provided the intelligence and that's one reason fusion gps is trying to stop to release their financials. >> shepard: they'll eventually fibbed out according to the president. despite infighting, president trump is confident that republicans will get their tax plan through the congress. not only that, the president

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>> shepard: president trump now says he thinks some democrats will vote for the gop's tax bill. but the top democrat in the house, the minority leader, nancy pelosi, is calling it a cruel dangerous plan. she says it raises taxes on the middle class while giving tax cuts to the wealthy and at the same time increases the national debt. speaker of the house paul ryan says he can't see why anyone would vote against the republican tax bill. he claims the plan will not have a big effect on the deficit. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. we don't know the details of the

plan yet. we don't know who fits in to what category, we don't know who pays what and we don't know how this will affect the national debt, do we or the deficit? >> no. sounds like a lot of it is fluid. one challenge is, you need revenue. so you need some vegetables to go with the steak. for now republican leaders are trying to keep the gop unified. >> it's clear we share a lot of the same goals. it's clear we're united in an effort to take more out of washington's pockets and put it more in middle class pockets. >> one idea out there is perhaps creating a separate tax bracket for those that earn more than a million dollars a year. the white house has not ruled that out. >> if you look at the blueprint that's been agreed to, agrees to a top rate of 35%, which is a reduction of what is there. the president and the white house team says if you need to compromise by picking a different rate, we're open to looking at it.

that's where we are. >> so clearly sounds like there's wheeling and dealing going on on the final tax reform package. shep? >> shepard: if you pay state or local or municipal taxes, once you pay them, that amount is deductible from your federal income tax. there's discussions about doing away with that deduction. do we know where we are on that? >> that sounds fluid as well. one estimate is by doing away with that, you can generate $1.8 trillion the next decade or so. lawmakers from new york, new jersey and california are fighting it. >> they say, well, let's just take away the deduction for people above $100,000, $200,000, even $400,000. or they say, you can choose between taking the statement and local deduction or the mortgage deduction. that one is like saying taxpayer, we'll chop your right hand off or left hand off.

we're giving you can choice. >> one line of attack, the tax reform package will cause the deficit to explode. >> mr. speaker, see the math of your own budget. there ain't no deficit reduction. you're only increasing the national debt. >> a vote on the budget expected tomorrow assuming it passes. we're told we should see the fine print of the tax reform package a week from today, shep. >> shepard: that's before they vote on the tax package or after? >> no. we're supposed to see the paperwork a week from today. there's a timeline that says the house will vote before thanksgiving and then in theory, the senate would vote before christmas. but it can be very fluid up here on capitol hill. >> shepard: it's tight in there. mike emanuel on capitol hill. thanks a lot. let's go to tom now from the white house, a reporter for the associated press. good to see you. >> hi, shep. how are you doing? >> shepard: so many people e-mail us or reach us on social media and say what about if i

make this and -- we don't know. there's no way to know. why aren't they releasing the details? >> well, they're in negotiations right now. you have the president who is the art of the deal, an entire congressional body that does deal making. i'll be honest, i think also is they just don't know. mike was sayinger earlier, they don't know how to balance the steak against the vegetables. you have to make up the deficit that you're creating here. you have a lot of folks, corker being one of them, saying they don't want to add to the deficit at all. so there's so many moving pieces. this deadline that they have here of next week is hugely important. now we have an idea of when we might start to see something solid. >> shepard: for a lot of traditional conservatives, small government conservatives, fiscal conservatives, they're not going to want a great deficit increase as they haven't for years and

years. it's a thing about which conservatives have been complaining as long as i can remember. so if they do have a deficit increase, it's going to be more than bob corker. a lot of republicans won't like it. >> absolutely. mike pence got his start a decade ago fighting george w. bush on these very issues. so you have something inside the administration, the vice president himself who is a fiscal hawk. it's a key question right now. as you said, it's a huge leverage point. it won't just be corker. there will be a lot of conservatives concerned about this. >> shepard: let's say you make $75,000 a year. will you know before your representatives in washington vote how this new tax plan is going to affect your family? will the people get the details? >> i hope so. >> shepard: so there's not an answer yet? i hope so too.

>> yeah, we'll get details. hopefully in time to do thorough analysis. there's big ticket items out there that we're looking at. you talk about deducting state and local taxes. we heard the president said earlier today, he wants to protect the 401(k) tax exemption. they're all big items. changing one, removing the other, modifying or whatever, we're talking about hundreds, thousands of dollars for the average family. >> shepard: tom from the associated press. nice to see you. >> thanks, shep. >> shepard: the feds going public now with secret files on the sandy hook school shooter. we're learning more about how much planning may have gone to the massacre that killed 20 first graders. details ahead. the rock and roll hall of famer fats domino died. his real name was antwaun domino

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>> shepard: a top united states diplomat is now warning lawmakers that pyongyang may be walking away from diplomatic talks with the u.s. this after recent comments from president trump. that's according to a report out from nbc news. fox news has confirmed it.

president trump has threatened north korea with fire and fury as he put it and he's repeatedly called kim jong-un little rocket man. president trump has said the united states has been unsuccessfully dealing with north korea for decades and that policy did not work. rich edson live at the state department. rich? >> secretary of state rex tillerson says his government has a few channels open to the government of kim jong-un probing about the potential of discussions in the future and also about the three americans that are still imprisoned in north korea. that's according to officials on capitol hill. discussions between the united states and north korea have slowed as of late. state department officials explain the communications with north korea are nowhere near actual negotiations with the regime over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and

they also stress north korea must demonstrate a dramatic change in behavior before the u.s. would negotiate. >> they are not showing us that they're interested in sitting down to talk. our position on this hasn't changed. it was the same last week and the same the week before. they need to show us that they're serious. >> state department officials say the conversations with north korea began earlier this year in the process that freed otto barnbier, the american from ohio who died when he returned to the united states. president trump travels to asia next month where officials say the u.s. will press containing north korea and trying to isolate them. china is a major piece of that as it's north korea's most significant ally, accounts for a large portion of the trade and will be among the discussions next month, shep. >> shepard: thanks, rich. president trump says he talks

about north korea when he called to congratulate the president of china as he starts his second five-year term. president trump tells the fox business network's lou dobbs that he has a good relationship with president xi jinping. president xi says he plans to stay in power quite a while. the ruling communist party appointed five new officials to help him lead the country but did not choose an obvious successor. analysts say president xi will probably run for a third term, which hasn't happened in china for like two decades. the communist party is elevated his status by adding his name to the constitution, next to past leaders. twitter announcing they're trash ago transparency center to share more information about the ads on its site. lawmakers have been talking about forcing web companies to do that after google, facebook and twitter reported that

russians planted ads to interfere with the 2016 u.s. election. deidra bolton is here. what's going on? >> all of these companies are saying, u.s. government, you don't need to meddle with our business models. we're going to self-police, we're going to front run some things that you're going to try to force us to do. so essentially twitter is setting up this transparency center website. we can all go there. it will have specific details, how long certain ads have been running, who is paying for them. who is claiming, perhaps i should say, is paying for them. that is separate from the twitter news feed. that's what a lot of journalists use. twitter will put on a political sticker and if a candidate's name is mentioned, twitter will disclose the information about it. so all three questions, twitter, facebook and google are beginning to move to take responsibility as we have to as

a radio has to. so if you mentioned a candidate's name, you have to say who is paying for it. >> shepard: i don't understand the difference. if you watch a commercial on fox news channel, it has the annoying paid for by. but on the internet -- >> there's a big gray area, which is why executives from all three companies have to go to d.c. they're going to get grilled on this. so in a run up to the election, the tricky things a lot of ads were not purchased for specific candidates. they were these divisive issues. it was the accusations -- >> shepard: who paid for it. that's the question. >> okay. listen, you three companies are big, you have a lot of influence. you can't get away saying we're just the pipes, the plumbing, you have to take responsibility for the content there or be transparent for that. it's going to cause the companies a lot of stress. facebook said, okay, okay, we'll hire some humans, about 1,000 employees. >> shepard: that's good news.

>> because people -- >> shepard: hopefully american people. >> yeah. these companies have to make an effort. >> shepard: deidra, good to so you. a congressional committee asking the head of equifax to testify about the hack that affected so many middles of us. but the ceo was a no-show. reactions from lawmakers and a new statement from equifax. that's next. people would stare.

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this was a minority hearing. they're allowed to do this on any big issue. the democrats calling their own hearing. they invited three ceos. nobody showed. the companies are not saying why they didn't come. you can guess. they would have gotten an ear full. i want you to hear what the congress people had to say. >> equifax has badly handled every aspect of this breach. >> the information stolen included the social security numbers and the date of birth for over 145 million people. that's half the population of this country. >> subpoena. that will get their lazy asses up here. >> shepard: wow! >> yeah. people weren't happy. >> shepard: they were right on the facts. 145 million were compromised. there's this new decision by our leaders in washington that the people cannot longer ban

together in a class action lawsuit and sue the big banks if they do something wrong. what about these agencies? >> or any financial institution. the senate said huh-uh, we don't like that rule. we're tossing it out. a big fear there. how about the people in this equifax breach? guess what, you can do that. according to equifax, i called them, they told me enrolling in the free credit file monitoring and identity theft protection products that we're offering does not prohibit consumers from taking legal action. the congressional action overturning the rule does not change our position. they got into a heap of trouble that folks figured out they were putting in request, this demand that people could not sue into the material when people got hurt. do you remember that? >> shepard: yeah. if we do something to you, you can't sue us. thanks. >> there was a lot of controversy about that. the company not backing off of

that now. >> shepard: good news for consumers. thanks. thanks, gerri. if you're okay with somebody coming into your home when you're not there, amazon has a great new things for you. they call it amazon key. heard about this? it lets you unlock the door remotely so they can give you a delivery. look at the video. all you need is to buy a lock with a security camera to watch for anything that is funny. plus, there's a microphone so you can talk to that person if you feel like it. amazon is set to roll out that service next month. you hear about that stuff. >> we would do that in a heart beat. >> shepard: yeah, if you love in rural america, you can't get it. the ups leaves it on the front porch. if they want to, somebody can yank it. >> or the ups throws it on the porch. no thanks, gerri. like to text and walk? that can get you a ticket in one stuff. how much will that cost? we'll get to that. first, having a heat wave in

los angeles. just ask the dodgers and astros. they're set to take the field on game two of the world series on fox. how hot will it be? rick reichmuth is live with more. i heard it could be the hottest series ever. >> yes. we broke the record by 5 degrees. the record from 1909 blew it away. got to 104 yesterday. the game was 103 at first pitch. still hot, already 99 degrees in l.a. we have a high fire danger across southern california. again, bad news because of the fires going on. today 100 in l.a. tomorrow things drop off to 88 for a high. still warm but certainly better. first pitch is 88 degrees for game two. winds not bad. so things will be getting quite a bit better. one other thing to watch, we have only been talking about heat across the country. take a look why. this is the future radar going

to thursday. north dakota, minnesota, we're going to be talking about the white stuff coming down across minnesota, maybe towards iowa. the temperatures have to be a lot cooler. friday's highs, omaha, 40. kansas city, 42. you get the idea. this spreads towards the ohio valley, eventually to the northeast. finally fall on its way. we'll continue to track that here in the fox weather center. right now "shepard smith reporting." be right back.

>> shepard: a fox urgent. demonstrations in south sudan have forced the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nicky hallie to evacuate. hundreds of protesters stormed the camp there where nikki haley

was. the united security guards fired tear gas to break up the crowds. we're told ambassador haley is for. airline passengers could have to go through a security interview before traveling to the united states. that's according to executives from these four major airlines that is say the stricter screenings will start tomorrow. now, exactly how some of the interviews will happen is not yet clear. some company reps say travelers will have to fill out forms and others will have to talk to airline employees. passengers should leave early. well, flying can be a miserable experience. you don't need me to tell you that, especially when you're on

the tarmac with nowhere to go. one airport worker found a way to make a few passengers smile. lillian has details on that. the concept is a good one. just depending on who is doing it. that could help decide whether it's fun or not. >> this guy is good. terry mcbride was leaving when he saw this amazing performance. he posted this to facebook and god more than six million views. it shows kyran ashford. he said he wanted to give people 30 seconds of positive vibes. he's given a lot of people that 30 seconds if not more. about a minute. >> shepard: when you're stuck on the tarmac -- >> he's known to rap sporting announcements. seems like fun. >> shepard: you ever walk around washington square park? there's nyu students that dance around the park. maybe we should sends them to

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>> shepard: oh, dear. one barber shop posted on facebook. when workers shared this video of a dear smashing through the glass door, springfield, missouri, no word on how the deer is doing. look here. came out of a back door quickly. that man there was kind enough to open it for him. on this day back in the year 1986, it was game 6 of the world series. they got underway. for boston fans, it ended in a painful fashion. it was the bottom of the tenth. the mets versus the red sox. new york. mets had winning run on second. when boston's first baseman when bull buckner missed a routine grounder. the ball went through his legs and down the right-field line. the mets won the whole thing in seven. but some sox fans still haven't gotten over that error in a classic that began 31 years ago

today. babe bucky buckner and then aaron boone. they're doing better lately. i'll see you later. cavuto is coming up. >> they made up the whole russia hoax. now it's turning out the hoax has turned around. you look at what has happened with russia and you look at the uranium deal and look at the fake dossier, that's all turned around. >> neil: he said it. he's had it. today we're all over it. the consistency of it. so forget these guys. new revelations putting heat on, well, these guys. first news of the uranium one deal. and now the dnc and clintons helped fund the trump dossier. that issue, being fair, being balanced. when it comes to russian ties,