before we go, don't forget. the faith-based film i produced is now available on dvd. good for the whole family. at walmart, amazon.com, hannity.com. follow me on instagram. there she is. let not your heart be troubled. no evidence of collusion. no evidence of collusion. 18 months of adam schiff lies. put up or shut up, adam. i'm so sick of these people. look what they have done to the country. >> laura: you know what? i want you to invite maxine waters to come sit down with you and really have a beautiful conversation. i think the two of you will -- >> sean: reclaiming my time. she says the same thing in every speech. >> laura: sean, great show. thank you. good evening from washington. i'm ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle." we have a ton of news including exclusive interview with the former white house chief of staff reince priebus. he get his take on the trump tariff fight.

turnover at the white house and the special election in pennsylvania. big news of the night, the house intel committee is ending the russian collusion investigation. we will tell you what they found out. string of package bombs are terrorizing austin, texas. we'll have a report on the latest. it has happened again. another potentially dangerous illegal immigrant released by local authorities before ice could take custody of them. unbelievable. by first, opposition within and without is the focus of tonight's angle. they were in the usual break-out mode after the president spoke in pennsylvania over the weekend. what they were obsessing about his harsh slam on todd they miced the heat. >> we put on tariffs and the european union is out there. you can't go higher than you are anyway.

they have trade barriers. we can't sell the farming goods there. they restrict us. they say we want the tariffs taken off. good. open up the barriers and get rid of the tariffs. if you don't do that we are going to tax mercedes-benz, we'll tax b.m.w. you want to have money? >> laura: back on the campaign trail. awesome! every since he slammed he would slam steel and aluminum imports in the united states the republicans on the hill are trying to convince him, mr. president, you are wrong. >> imposing the steel tariffs interjected uncertainty in the economy where it wasn't necessary. >> we will end up costing more jobs because of the tariffs than will be saved. >> i disagree with the president. >> i don't know of any trade war that ends well. that is not my reading of history. >> we want to limit the collateral economic damage as possible. >> laura: how many of those

guys want ohio -- well, now they are threatening to pass legislation to essentially nullify the president's executive order. >> all right. let's have tariffs and couple it with uncertainty. that is worse. tariffs are awful. tariffs to uncertainty is probably worse. >> we have legislative tools at the disposal and how do we get it to the president for the signature? >> i'm not happy with it. the tariffs are going to be a tax on the american citizen. >> i think there is a good chance we will nullify them. >> with respect to senator hatch you supported the t.p.p. and you wanted to expand nasa and you supported giving obama the fast track trade authority. he has been wrong on every trade related issue in my mind. now he and jeff flake, both soon to be retirees are

suddenly the sledgehammers against tariffs. once again we see that most don't get why trump against all expert predictions won the g.o.p. nominee and the presidency. do mitch mcconnell believe trump would have won ohio and wisconsin if he touted the globalist line that all trade no matter what happens to the american worker is good trade? do you remember all the rosy prediction about opening up the trade relationship with china? fabulous. free and more free press. please. no objective review since we approved china into the trade organization would say it's a win for the u.s. last year we had the highest trade deficit on record with china. by the way, china ripped off

our intellectual property and flooded the market with excess capacity of steel and aluminum. you can see the numbers there. this has driven down the prices worldwide and driven great u.s. companies out of business. the china communist regime ends up distorting the global marketplace. they are not efficient the way they operate. the president reiterated in pennsylvania look, they don't have a hand on the trade issue either. right now we are running $150 billion trade deficit with the e.u. they put up unfair barriers to the agriculture products, massive sub didties to -- subsidiaries and they have been taking advantage of the united states for too long. failing to meet military

obligation under nato. trump forced their hand and the sky did not fall. they are contributing more to the military. now he is defending the u.s. economic interests with the fairly narrowly cast aluminum and staff -- steel tariffs. there is historical precedent. buchanan wrote in a column lincoln to mckinley and roosevelt and coolidge, the republican party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen. through the seven decades the g.o.p. was rewarded by becoming america's party. trump's instinct on trade have been spot on for decades. as china become more repressive and the u.s. media flattened, the mainline republicans offer the middle class more of the same. more war. more immigration and more trade deal. the g.o.p. establishment and

some of the democrats, well, they heard the call to wall street. they did not hear the voices of men like this. >> my father in the '80s lost his job due to imports coming in to this country. i want to tell you what that does to a man with six kids is devastating. i never forgot looking into his eyes in a household what it does to my family. you hear about it but it impacts you and it will never leave you. >> laura: that should never leave any of us. now donald trump, the only republican politician since reagan who can fill a stadium, he is supposed to listen to the same people who helped get our country into the mess that he has been trying to dig us out of? the same people by the way who couldn't see any of this coming. and still do not see the

threat china poses to the united states to freedom and yes, to free markets. i think it's time for the party to unify behind the president's vision to give the policies a real fighting chance. that goes for the white house staff as well. president trump needs key staff people around him. there can be disagreements. that is all healthy and good. but the core principle of ending illegal immigration, fair trade policies and stopping endless wars have to sacrosanct. with hope hicks gone he needs a communication director who is a seasoned strategist. one who is clearly going to articulate the president's message and drive it home with great events like the one we showed you last week and the voices that reinforce the policies. that requires daily message discipline. the chief of the economic

counsel should advance the policies, not advocate against them. gary cohn is a smart guy but he would never see the wisdom of limiting the manufacturing. he thinks it's fine if jobs are in mexico if it buoys the economic line of those making the car. but the president has enough people disagreeing with him. he doesn't need another advocate for them in the white house. this is not a perpetual debating society. working for the president should know the debate is over. american people chose trump's vision. time to get with the program. that is the angle. we begin tonight with an excluse ev interview with someone -- exclusive interview with someone who knows about the staff shakeup in the white house. he was chief of staff for trump and before that chairman of the republican national committee. and we are pleased to welcome reince priebus.

good to see you, man. how are you? >> great to be here. a lot to learn in that opening. >> laura: c'mon! what do you think about where we are right now? the republicans, we are going to get to what is happening on trade. the house committee, the intel committee today announced it is shutting down. they didn't find russian collusion and the president has been saying in consistently. what is your take? >> six or seven months ago there was a bubbling up of a call for the political leaders, party leaders in our party of the intel committee of the house and the senate should shut down because the mueller probe would be so far reaching there would be no need for these committees to continue subpoenaing people and interviewing people. it was the president that said no. let the committees do their work. so behind closed doors the president is saying no, let them keep going. i know that eventually they

will issue a report and the report will say there was no collusion. we never talk to the russians. we didn't negotiate with these people. so the president was confident it would happen. i have never seen it. i never spoke to russians at the r.n.c. i never heard of other people doing it. i never talked to people like papadopoulos or carter page. i'm not surprised. i want people to understand that the president was behind the scenes saying let the committees do their work. >> laura: maxine waters was on another network tonight. this is so hilarious we have to play it for you. watch. >> who would believe nunes was working in a credible way to find out what took place? as a matter of fact, he with us simply a messenger boy for the president running up in the middle of the night trying to prove that obama for example had wiretapped the president. so, they can conclude whatever they want to.

they weren't doing anything to begin with. it was not a credible investigation. >> laura: that is the democrats' take. messenger boy. i don't know if that is nice to say. >> that will be their take through the midterms and through 2020. the problem in the mid-terms, of course, is that you have marginal races that are in play. so 80% of the districts are either 90% republicans or 90% democrat. there are no real marginal races about 22 -- >> laura: we will get into the pennsylvania race in a moment. >> so this rhetoric won't work. impeachment rhetoric doesn't work in the marginal races. these are people that want to see washington work and the policy-driven debates is what you will see in the marginal districts. >> laura: yeah. speaking of, on the trade issue. you are a free trader. i hear free trade. i'm for trade. i want trade. >> it's great. $360 billion with china. with japan they have $68.8 billion trade deficit.

the south korean trade deal. each year the deficits have grown and grown and grown. how do you get leverage? he is getting leverage now. >> you do as you can see carefully what he is doing. he puts the chips on the table. he put the game plan on the table. then what he does is negotiate each piece. canada off the board. mexico off the board. had a phone call with the prime minister of australia over the weekend. tweeted out they are off the board. eventually he will put it on the table to negotiate one by one. >> laura: we are doing this now. this is what i'm saying. the republican party is criticizing him and he got to e.u. and japan to days ago to say we are standing against the china trade abuses. do you think they would have done that? >> no. >> laura: they never would have done that unless they

look at the trade tariffs. >> in defense of i like the monologue. very intelligent. in defense of part of it, the president chooses on his own to put people around him that don't agree with each other. major things. so even when i was there, it wasn't like a couple of narratives incorrect on the tariff stuff. this wasn't something that the president suddenly came up with and my god, he went out with the tariffs out of nowhere. this is something that was debated from before the inauguration. he wanted this steel and aluminum tariffs since before the inauguration. we debated it week after week after week. we got ticked off a few times at the staff and said where are the tariffs. this is not something that just came about. he has been debating it forever. this is what president trump is. to put gary cohn and --

>> laura: they are smart people. >> and they also don't agree with him. some white house has the same species of people. everyone is the same. he has no problem putting natural predators together. let them bring the "a" game and fight it out. then he make his decision. >> laura: i respect that. on the core issues -- >> but he is always going -- >> laura: he will go with his gut. talk about the pennsylvania district. district 18. this is being watched by everybody. that is a district that is really tight. it will be redrun in november anywhere but this -- redrawn anyway. but this is a bellwether. they say the prosecutor conor lamb ahead by a little. you are not so sure the democrats can pull it out. >> i think it will be hard for the democrats to pull this out. i think they may be overhyping this a little bit.

republicans are playing this pretty well by setting the expectations that they may lose. the president won this district by 20 points. today he is up by 12, 15. a loss of about eight points in that particular place. candidates matter. but this is really about the turn-out. i would explain to people in a district like this, if you had a bowl of popcorn and one was republican and one was democrat. the voters in the republican bowl, popcorn up top. the democrat bowl popcorn is two-third of the way. >> laura: hungry now. my favorite thing. >> but republicans have a full bowl to turn out. if they do really poor job and say they only turn out two-third and the democrats do a great job and get every single person out, then they can win.

>> laura: i don't see it. >> the data showing it trending back to the republican in the last few days. >> laura: i don't see how you can see the trump speech in pennsylvania and think that is mojo. i don't care -- >> one thing about the referendum on trump. you have to throw it out. if trump is on the ballot today he would win the district. so the question is the candidate chosen by the republicans? >> laura: no one is going to beat trump. c'mon. >> is the turnout in the district make the difference between the parties? >> laura: i am feeling like i go back to 2012 with the r.n.c. getting the murder board out to see the district. stay with us. we will talk about that issue of who should fill key vacancies in the west wing and what it could mean to the trump agenda and more breaking tonight after the break. >> "the ingraham angle" brought to you by -- of non-dry claritin and relief from symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy.

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there you are so good on tax cuts. he is so good on deregulation, infrastructure. i even like him on immigration. he has never been good on trade. if we have to walk out of nafta or the negotiations totally breakdown this steel thing turns in from a minor irritant to a major calamity for the economy and the stock market. >> laura: apparently he had two conversations with larry kudlow a friend of ours. what about that? >> he is a great pick because he is the word "trumpian." he is respected by wall street. he isn't afraid to push back. the president respects him. those are great combinations. >> laura: the tariff thing -- >> the president doesn't care. he loves gary cohn and gary hates the tariffs. still loves gary. we all do. he likes to have people around him that don't agree with each other. the president would be bored regardless of people write in the media about the drama and

the chaos, the president would be bored if everyone came in you are right. do it this way. >> laura: that is what the media think that he wants yes-men. you are so brave. we love you. you are great. that is the wrap on him. he wants the constant praise and he is annoyed the people don't praise him. >> he definitely wants to know if he is doing well. but when it comes to decision there is nothing major that get decided -- i can attest to this -- in the oval office that is a no-brain thing that people come in and make a decision. people come in, they stand around his desk. he allowed the argument to take place. they fight it out. he goes with whatever -- not always his gut instincts. he backs off of things quite a bit. but what the media focuses in on is the process of the argument oppose to the decision. that is what i try to remind people to do. focus on the decision. isis. in the courts. tax cuts.

regulations and even the tariffs. people won't like it but it's a process that includes arguing among smart people in front of the president and he gets it done. >> laura: what about the comms director? that is an important job. from pat buchanan in his day, fantastic for reagan. a huge turnover in the comms department. hope hicks close to the president. didn't have a huge background in the communications but trusted. i hear there is someone sort of close to her who might be thought of for the job. then we have mercedes schlaps fantastic and seasoned. what are your thoughts? >> this is an all-encompassing job. the press secretary is a big job. but the comms director does everything from working with the press secretary to make sure that the rapid response is in place, surrogates get out on the networks.

>> events. events with the steelworker. mercedes worked on that. >> all the events whether it's harley davidson coming in. >> laura: get him on the road. he is great on the road. he is great on the road. >> right. the comms director job is extremely important. it's also with president trump who knows every article that is written. he watches all of the key moments that define the narrative. i have never seen a person more in tune -- >> they criticize him for that. you watch tv. >> but in regard to the communication i don't think in modern history there is a president that cares more about what the american people are reading and perceiving that is being done by the administration. that is not to be criticized. >> laura: did he go over the line on the chuck todd comment? >> i wouldn't use that language. no. i think chuck is a

professional. i have nothing but press text text -- but respect for him. >> laura: are you kidding me? have you seen what he said about you? >> i don't know what he said about me either. >> laura: he has been horrible to the president. how is that fair and balanced? >> i would think saying those words brings unwanted attention -- >> laura: i wouldn't use it either. >> something to avoid. >> laura: it's his thing. it's his thing. finally on north korea, i know you have something to say about that. this could be a big breakthrough. it is unbelievable that he is meeting with kim jong un. what is your take? how did the decision come about? >> i think the narrative on that got out of the gate all wrong. the idea on a whim the president accepted an invitation without thinking about it. as i understander it, the south koreans came in the oval office the president had

general mattis in the office, general mcmast irin the office, the vice president in the office. the deputy director of the cia. the d.n.i. director dan coats in the office and others in the office. i think people run with the narrative and they don't realize the president isn't making the decisions in a vacuum. these are things that i think the american people need to know. this is something, new comms director would correct immediately. get out in front of the people so people understand that the president is surrounded by really smart people. that talk and argue about things and the decisions are made. including whether or not to meet with the north koreans. >> laura: mercedes would good at comm? not that i'm pushing. she'd be great. she should get it. thank you for coming in. we appreciate it. you might think by the way that authorities want to keep track of illegal immigrant

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posted bond and he left. here to discuss this, the former d.n.c. deputy press secretary. jose, great to see you. i just learned about this. i was driving this morning on i-70 to the denver airport for an hour and a half and this crossed my, you know, my cell phone. i'm thinking, first of all the road was dangerous. i wasn't driving. this guy caused a fiery crash. he is released and they didn't notify i.c.e. until an hour after the release. i know you are an advocate for illegal immigrants and the immigration process but this ain't good for your case. i can tell you that. >> look. i'm not an advocate for undocumented immigrants to commit serious crimes. any undocument immigrant that considered serious felonies including this one should be

deported. what i advocate is this. we have to be careful with these sort of cases because we don't want to generalize and allow people to think these people are criminals. you know it, too. every year the f.b.i. releases report of 10% of the undocumented immigrants in the country are actually criminals. should the sheriff department from denver look into this? absolutely. i don't neif there was a miscommune -- i don't know if there is a miscommunication or what have you but they should look into it. we agree. >> laura: we have sanctuary jurisdictions which a good friend of mine said we should call them fugitive jurisdictions because they are places fugitives should live because they have a good life. they will be released back in community, even if they are arrested because people like kamalla harris, i'll play the sound bite for you, thinks the immigration customs enforcement should no longer exist. let's watch. >> should i.c.e. exist?

certainly. i'm a prosecutor. i believe there needs to be severe consequence when people commit serious and violent crimes. if a human being kills another human being. a woman is raped or a child is molested there needs to be serious consequence. if they're undocumented they should be deported if they commit the offenses. i.c.e. has a purpose and should exist. >> laura: to be cleared she got killed in the commentary afterwards because she is a senator from california said i.c.e. should exist. that is how left the democrats have gotten if she says of course you need enforcement. you need people to go to communities and remove dangerous elements. it is hard to do that when we have an oakland mayor thwarting the federal immigration officials by announcing to immigrants guess what, they are coming. >> you know what? if we had a president who had leadership to pass comprehensive immigration

reform, we wouldn't be in this debate about the sanctuaries cities. you know this very well. majority of the ill grants in this country -- immigrants in this country are law-abiding citizens. they cop attribute to the economy and create jobs -- they contribute to the economy and the taxes. >> laura: 10% commit crimes? >> under 10%. >> laura: if there are 12 million people here illegally, 10% of that is a lot of people. we don't need more criminals. we have plenty of criminals. >> i agree with you. >> it's illegal immigration for a reason. it's not legal. we are more legal. >> we agree -- laura, we agree on that but let me be clear. if we legalize, majority of the undocumented population in this country, we will be a whole lot easier to look for the one that commit violent crimes, it would be easier. we are now looking at 14 million over the undocumented immigrants. put them on the line to make

sure they assimilate to the country, learn english and pay back taxes. >> laura: why do you think we have so many court appointed interpreters in the state court and traffic court, and you have the state appointed interpreters? for people who have been in the country for ten, 12, 15 years. you talk to any cop who has to appear in court regularly in northern virginia, they are like yeah, we have 15 different interpreters and they have to speak various languages, not just spanish. the idea that everyone is coming here and assimilating is not true. people come here and speak their own language because they can. i don't think it helps assimilation at all. >> put a similar in place to help assimilate better to make it easier for them. great assistance to make it happen. that is simple. all the things you want to address, guess what?

president trump can do it. >> laura: 1.8 million. 1.8 million. 1.8 million dreamers would have gotten amnesty. the democrats did not want to give him that campaign issue. >> that is not true. that is not true. >> laura: 2 million almost. >> he took away daca. he took away daca. he is the one that took it away. we wouldn't be debate-- >> laura: he would give them legal status. better than daca. you think the deal was a bad deal. 1.8 million up from 800,000 that could have gotten amnesty under trump? >> horrible deal. horrible deal. he held the dreamers hostage and tried to try to finish the obsession with the wall we know won't help america. >> laura: you don't want to a wall. 1.8 million was no good. >> we already have a wall with mexico. >> laura: it's not realistic. we love to have you on. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> laura: it looks like the

president will try a new approach to end school violence. we debate it next.

>> laura: the left is apoplectic that the white house decided not to pursue a proposal to raise the age to buy a rifle and discussing the merit of arming teachers. let's discuss this with dan mongino and geraldo rivera. what up with this? the president came out early on and indicated that, you knows he would be in favor of the raising the age to buy the weapons and the conservatives were screaming about it. now it doesn't look like anything will happen. >> i was profoundly disappointed by the president vacillation on it. the last time dan and i debated was the 17th of february at a dinner with the

president at maroulis -- at mar-a-largo so it would be as hard to buy ar-15 as it is to get a bottle of beer in florida. i want to congratulate the students of parkland high school and governor of rick scott. florida did pass raising the age limit from 18 to 21. three-day waiting period also and banning of the bump stocks and the so forth. the president when i had dinner with him had just come out of the hospital and he had seen the savage nature of the wounds inflicted on the young people by the awesome destructive weapon. he was moved by it. i'm shocked that he blinked and backed down from the n.r.a. i lamented and hopes that he comes back to the position he has held at various times in the last three weeks. >> laura: dan? >> geraldo, again, that is a false equivalent. saying that you have to be 21 to purchase alcohol, a mind altering substance and

comparing it to maybe a 20-year-old who wants to defend themselves with a shotgun living by themselves or an 18-year-old who wants to hunt is absurd. i could throw the analogy at you. in florida you can drive a car at 15. maybe we should buy a rifle at 15. >> you can't buy cigarettes until you are 21 in many states. i think the reason that has nothing to do with firearms. >> for the young people is they evolve. kids have all kind of issues. like cruz obviously did in parkland. they are going through the being bullied or girlfriend breaks up with them or they -- they are growing, becoming adults. >> laura: most firearm fatalities come with handguns. some handguns you have to be 21 to buy as well in other states. i guess what trump came out and saw is we ban assault weapons 94 to 2004. all the studies demonstrated

that we didn't decrease the number of the fatalities because of that assault weapons ban. i think when -- >> i disagree with you. >> laura: the measures sound good, the justice department, institute for justice did comprehensive review after the assault weapons ban and they weren't pro or con. they said it didn't have an effect. so i think the president, the emotional moment, i agree, he probably reacted to that. after some time he probably said there is a lot we could do to prevent this beyond going to the quick legislative fix. i bet that is where he came down. >> i just think the n.r.a. is so awesome in the vindictive power it can unleash on anyone that the president was everybody mocking many of the legislators in the meeting saying you are afraid of the n.r.a., you are afraid of the n.r.a. i'm not afraid of the n.r.a. guess what? when he had those series of meetings with the n.r.a. folks, he changed his position

on it. why? i think that there is a direct correlation between the pressure the n.r.a. inflicts on any elected official and their actions. it's something that is very, very depressing, particularly when the people want change. majority, if you ask them, the various surveys taken everybody wants change. it's a very small minority that has dan's position. >> laura: i think you can say -- >> really? >> laura: about power of planned parenthood, too. there is no room for debate there. there is a lot more mortality involved with planned parenthood on the annual basis of 235,000 baby -- 325,000 babies aborted. dan, you can wrap up. >> geraldo, listen, i'm running with about 4,999,999 more people in the n.r.a. you may have missed their numbers. but it's about 5 million americans and there are probably more who think they are members of the members of the n.r.a.

to say it's a small group like it is the empire from the "star wars" series is utterly outrageous. the n.r.a.'s power is in that 5 million people show up and vote for their second amendment right to defend themselves. >> wait until the march of march 24. you will see a march. >> laura: we'll be covering it. that is for sure. by the way, susten, texas, gripped by fear -- austin, texas, gripped by fear. what the police are saying about the deadly explosions of packages across the city. more information when we return. daily probiotics, endless fiber-- it could be wearing on you. tell your doctor what you've tried, and how long you've been at it. linzess works differently from laxatives. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. it can help relieve your belly pain

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>> laura: a string of packages bombs struck terror across the city of austin, texas. authorities are scrambling to find a suspect and revealing disturbing new information tonight. fox's trace gallagher joins us with more from the los angeles bureau. trace? >> laura, so far this bomber is lethal and very elusive. 6:45 this morning a 17-year-old boy found a package on the front step. brought it in the kitchen to open where it exploded killing him and injuring a 40-year-old woman. it's unclear if that was his mom. witnesses say the explosion was loud. authorities say it was also powerful. and similar to the package bomb that killed a 39-year-old man on march 2.

just as police were investigating the parallels of the first two bombs, a third package exploded. severely injuring a 75-year-old woman. now investigators are looking at patterns. for example, the packages have all been found in the morning they believe the bombs are dropped off at night in boxes that appear to be about the same size. the police chief told martha is no amateur. >> it takes skill to build a device and deploy it to the intended target without having it explode in the process. we are seeing how easily it explodes once the victims are handling them. there is a certain level of skill going along with what the individual or individuals is doing. >> we know the first two explosions happened 12 miles apart. the third bomb went off five and a half miles from the second. both victims who died are african-american. the 75-year-old female in critical condition is hispanic. police are not ruling anything

out but say it is too early to tell if the victims were the intended targets or if they might be hate crimes. surveillance cameras near the location are being scanned to see if the video captured any potential suspect. the packages were not delivered by the postal service or shipping companies like fedex and u.p.s. police are now telling everyone in and around the austin area that if a box shows up at your home and you did not expect it to call 911. back in the '70s, '80s, and '90s the unibomber sent packages around the country and it took the investigators 18 years to bring him to justice. >> laura: trace, thank you so much. when we return, the last bite.

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last bite. that's so cool! we have some breaking news for you. the president announced today that commerce secretary wilbur ross will be meeting with the e.u. about lowering tariffs on american goods. he's been a big supporter of the president's steel and aluminum tariffs and our cameras finally caught up after his preliminary meeting with the e.u. trade czars. we ask him what american workers can expect from those negotiations. ♪ >> laura: i'm blaming raymond for that. i cannot wait to see the full eve summit footage. is that a separated at birth? that's just awful. few people, no sense of humor. actually that's pretty funny. that's all the time we have. we have ed henry, who is in for

shannon bream. going to do a fantastic show. he always does. fox and friends, the man does everything. >> ed: i can't wait to see what you take on in the cabinets tomorrow night. everyone's going to need to tune in for that. >> laura: thanks, have a great show. >> ed: here's what's on tonight. speak with the house intelligence committee wraps up its investigation with a bombshell, no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. does it mean for the robert mueller probe? ellison barber breaks it down. then we will take you to battleground pennsylvania for the interview everyone wants tonight, but only fox news tonight has the exclusive with republican candidate. we will also hear from martin o'malley, former presidential candidate, who is stuffing for democratic candidate connor lam, who has a surprising lead as it goes down to the wire interim country. plus, the u.s. and france bow they are prepared to attack