kelly: fox news alert and very busy day in washington. former fbi director andrew mccabe fired two days before set to retire for his role in allegedly leaking -- leaks with the fbi, the fbi's probe and the clinton administration, president trump praising the move, trump's lawyer meanwhile now calling for an end to the mueller-russia investigation. welcome to brand new hour of america's news headquarters i'm kelly wright. julie: and i'm julie banderas u attorney general making decision to fire andrew mccabe and mccabe

argues the move is the president's war on fbi. president trump praising the decision overnight tweeting, quote, andrew mccabe fired, a great day for the hard-working men and women of the fbi, great day for democracy, james comey was his boss and made mccabe look like a choir and we begin with garrett tenney live from washington, hey, garrett. >> i can tell you the justice department's position that no one is above the law. an investigation by doj general andrew mccabe lacked candor or lie today investigators that were reviewing the fbi's handling of the probe, private

e-mail server, leaked information to a reporter about the bureau's investigation and now session's statement added the fbi expects and proposal stated all fbi employees result in dismissal and integrity is our brand. mccabe has been preparing for the possibility. he issued statement last night claiming he did nothing wrong and argued he's being targeted by president trump in an effort to discredit as a witness against the president and special counsel robert mueller's investigation. the oig's focus in this report became part of unprecedented effort by the administration driven by the president himself to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation and stipme of a pension that i worked 20 years to earn.

doj officials are pushing back, in the last year the fbi has fired 19 other employees for also lacking candor or being dishonest, the difference with mccabe, though, is he did it while he was under oath which could open up to federal charges but mccabe is planning to fight for his pension in court and he has hired a former doj inspector general to represent him and meanwhile still a lot of details we don't know about his action that is led to his firing, both sides are anxiously wait to go see those details and the doj inspector general's report which is expected to be released in the next couple of weeks. julie: meanwhile the president's personal attorney want to see end to mueller investigation, he's actually calling on rod rosenstein to take action. ellison barber live. ellison what is the president's now saying? >> he hopes rosenstein will end the special counsel investigation in a statement

provided to fox news john dowd said, quote, bring an end to alleged russia collusion investigation manufactured by mccabe's boss james comey based upon fraudulent and corrupt dossier just ended in merit in light of recent revelation. dowd is trump's personal attorney and speaking in own personal capacity and not on behalf to have president. democratic senator chuck schumer released statement, mr. dowd's comments are yet another indication that the first instinct of the president and his legal team is not to cooperate with special counsel mueller but to undermine him at every turn. the president, the administration and his legal team must not take any steps to curtail, interfere with or tend special counsel's investigation or there will be severe consequences from both democrats and republicans in a tweet, a late last night, president trump said that the firing of mccabe was a great day for democracy, obviously there are a lot of democrats as well as andrew somebody cake who disagree with

that. democrats say they believe this is part of an effort to discredit the special counsel investigation, julie. julie: ellison, there were also rumors and i want to use the word lightly and i hate rumors, rumors that more positions in the president's administration could be in the chopping block, any indications of more changes on the way? >> nothing concrete at this point. there's a lot of speculation among white house ranking file but press secretary huckabee sanders said at press sanders towards the end of the week that there were no upcoming personnel changes. >> i have just spoke to a number of staff this morning reassuring them that there were personnel changes, no immediate personnel changes at this time and that people shouldn't be concerned. >> fired secretary of state rex tillerson is set to stay in position until the end of the month and then president trump plans to replace him with current cia director mike pompeo, julie, there are some

even on the right like senator rand paul who are saying that they're not thrilled with that nomination, rand paul says he plans to do essentially whatever he can to try and stop the nomination from actually making it through senate, julie. julie: ellison barber reporting from the white house, thank you so much. kelly. kelly: we will talk more about all of this, joining me now is john bussy, fox news contributor, john, i'm glad you're here to shed some light and perspective on all of this, because as i look at this and as the american people look at this, there are all kind of scratching their heads saying what's next, this is kind like a bombshell on the psyche of the american people, the justice department, the fbi, andrew mccabe and andrew mccabe basically saying that allegations against him are to smudge his career and cause him harm to likely testimony that he will have to do before special

counsel robert mueller, where do we fall on this? >> there's a microwave of looking at this in a macro way, the microwave is that the fbi appears to have gotten one of the guy fibbing to the inspector general and is punishing him for that, now both sides are going to use that for their partisan, one side is going to say, hey, look, it was internal investigation, happens in fbi, happens in any organization, this is normal, we are going to procedures, the other side will say, no, this is a sign of something much greater that the entire investigation is, you know, fraud. well, this was an event leaking apparently to a reporter involving the hillary clinton investigation, not donald trump, so you are seeing a lot of things right now, the tweets by the president, the macro on this is that the mueller investigation is moving forward. it does not need mccabe, it might call on mccabe anyways to

testify, the grand jury can then decide who to believe or we don't believe him. the mueller information is moving forward and that's why you are seeing aggravated tweets by the president that seem to be, you know, declaring that there's nothing wrong, that there's no collusion, that the house intelligence committee didn't find anything when, in fact, the house intelligence committee was republicans. kelly: we have yet to hear from the democrat side and everyone looking at this from the special counsel's point of view because that will be the determining factor -- >> i think that's right. i think the public should just wait to see what bob mueller says. this is a republican. kelly: how do you wait when you have both sides putting pressure on the special counsel and both sides putting pressure on each other in this country, you have the left blaming the right, the right blaming the left and caught in the middle are these men and women who serve in the fbi and the president stating

that he believes in the fbi yet saying this is a great day for america with the taking down of andrew mccabe just a couple of days before retirement and there are people cheering for that? >> yeah, there's criticism by mr. trump of institutions of the united states that is concerning. we count on the fbi and the fbi can be counted on. mr. mueller is a republican who is conducting an investigation and i think the way that the public is going to have to deal with what you are describing is to be patient because he's moving very deliberately. he's got guilty pleas already, he's gotten indictments, there's -- there's something there to investigate, whether or not it leads to obstruction of justice charge against the president or money laundering or collusion, we don't know, the investigation is not over yet. kelly: to your point deputy attorney general rod rosenstein stating that a week ago says that he sees no reason to stop the mueller investigation, yet we have this morning the

attorney for the president john dowd saying he should stop this now in the wake of what's happening with mccabe, is that the right thing to do at this point? isn't that taking to political status? >> it is because the two aren't directly related, yeah, there's a little bit of overlap because mccabe may be called to testify in mueller information. look f your client is under investigation and you're the lawyer, it's not unreasonable to expect that that lawyer to say, hey, stop investigating my client, the other macro issue here is that the republicans face as the democrats a midterm election and a lot of -- of congress members are looking at this and saying it keeps getting thrust into the new in part by the president's tweets and it's hanging over the republican party and that's going to be headwind for a lot of republican congress people that are running for reelection in the midterms. kelly: as you know, for his base this is actually very good for his base, he will be able to tweet and get his base up in

order to support him in midterms, but to the larger extent, what does it do to the country in moving forward, obviously we have to wait for the mueller investigation to conclude, obviously we have to find out what's going on not only with andrew mccabe but peter strzok and other people who were not doing allegedly all they were supposed to do on behalf of the fbi that's being truth-tellers? >> right, when the president criticized large institutions like to fbi, he mention it is state department in one of his tweets today as well, we are left wonder what's that about, i think that there is -- there's a -- an erosion when the president speak that is way, i think the public is metabolizing this and president trump has a certain style, he's not always on speaking terms with the truth.

kelly: he's never been a politician to be fair. >> right, not uncommon for him. this is his style of operating and i think that there's a certain discounting that maybe happening with the public as well. kelly: also evident that he doesn't like andrew mccabe and yet the 20-year career for andrew mccabe has come under this cloud of doubt and as a result of that he's now been fired, so what's -- do you think he will face any criminal charge in the future? >> we don't know. there's a story in the wall street journal online right now, we have to see how this resolves right now. he will contest what was said about him and the reasons why it was said about him, he will try to protect his exception. why was this -- kelly: protect reputation too. >> and reputation certainly first and then his pension. why was this announced on a friday night before sunday retirement. kelly: that's a good question, john, we don't have the answer to that one.

>> the hr department didn't step up in this case. so i think -- we are kind of at -- we are at the end of the beginning on this. we are going see an appeal, we are going to see what happens with mr. mccabe. kelly: john, i appreciate you coming on in america's news headquarters. julie. julie: new developments now in the investigation of deadly bridge collapse in miami. a new released video, a voicemail revealing an engineer detected tracks in the bridge just two days before it collapsed killing six people. crews continue to work around clock trying clear the rubble. >> we believe that still underneath completely buried under there there are six peoples, doesn't mean that every vehicle had somebody in it. we removed two, we are trying to tackle two more. there's nothing that we can use to lift that because it's too much weight and right now some of the pieces are unstable and it's going to break apart. right now we are chipping away trying to lift, combination of

things. julie: steve now live from miami with more and this is just a tragic story because there were people who are still missing, loved ones calling around to hospital to hospital and unfortunately fearing for the worst. >> julie, you're right, there is agony for those families who are still waiting to find out if their loved ones are dead or alive or still underneath the bridge and, of course, the identification process is enormously difficult when you two millions pounds of concrete crushed on them and cars have been removed with real dignity, chaplain prayer and they are moving carefully and slowly here. they are actually going to takes 2 hours to pull the next two cars out. they are trying to do what they can. as you mentioned, a lot of focus is what caused the bridge to collapse and did a crack in the bridge have anything to do with it, a lot of attention on who might have known about the crack, there was a voicemail message sent on a tuesday, two days before the collapse from an engineer to a department of

transportation official, that voicemail was not received and heard until friday the day after the crash. here is that voice voicemail. >> i'm calling to share information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and cracking that's been observed on the north end of the span, the end of the span, we move this weekend, so we've taken a look at it and obviously some repairing or whatever have to be don't, from a safety perspective, we don't see any issue there. >> university officials said they knew about the crack and the transportation knew about the crack and the engineering firm and what's not clear is whether the crack was the cause of the bridge collapsing. they will not have the results from their investigation for at least one week, julie. julie: steve harrigon thank you so much reporting live from miami. kelly. kelly: russia going through with promise of retaliation against

the uk as tensions escalate following a nerve-agent attack on a former agent spy. admitting mistakes were made over release of undocumented immigrant, that story straight ahead. >> whether it was vehicular homicide, manslaughter, the fact that somebody died, he has every reason to run.

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julie: diplomatic back and forth intensifying before the united kingdom and russia. the kremlin expelling 23 british diplomats after the uk kicked out the same number of russian diplomats identified as undeclared intelligence agents. now this move by britain was in retaliation for the attempted poisoning of an exrussian spy and his daughter on british soil. it happened earlier this month. authorities believe russia is behind the attack and in an allegations moscow denies. >> and illegal immigrant suspected in deadly colorado hit and run turning himself in over to ice. and we are now following the story because the driver -- the denver sheriff's department had

let him go free after posting bail despite ice reportedly requesting to be notified upon his release. will carr live in lakes with more on the latest developments, will. >> and kelly, the denver sheriff admit they made a big mistake by releasing the illegal immigrant. three sheriffs deputies have been reassigned and they said simply they had a bad weekend, they released ivan from jail last weekend even though ice had detainer on him, he's in the united states on a temporary visa that expired three years ago, authorities say he killed a suspected -- he killed a man in suspected drunk driving cash. they charged him with vehicular hock side and booked him but then on march tenth the jail released him without notifying ice beforehand. >> this was shock to go know that something like happened and we want to make sure why it happened so we need to take action to make sure it doesn't

happen again. >> hit semitractor who died after it caught on fire. >> i don't think it's fair for him just to go back over the border and get lost and never been seen again or even worse, get -- get behind the wheel and drunk and kill somebody else. >> zamareta turned himself in on friday and sheriff ordered immediate investigation on how he was released in the first place, kelly. kelly: will carr, thank you, will. julie. julie: andrew mccabe says there's ulterior motive to his firing disrupting the special counsel's investigation, our political panel is on deck to discuss that and former national security adviser michael flynn has pled guilty to charges

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kelly: michael flynn reentering political arena, the former national security adviser endorsing republican congressional candidate in his foister public appearance since pleading guilty to lying to the fbi. this as text between fbi agent peter strzok and fbi lawyer lisa page give new inside as to why a federal judge was recused from flynn's case, gillian turner picks up the story from washington and more. >> president trump's first national security adviser michael flynn is back in the spotlight for the first time since pleading guilty to lying to the fbi in december. now he's talking about his indictment on the campaign trail while stumping for a california congressional candidate. >> i'm not here to complain about who has done me wrong -- [laughter] >> or how unfair i've been treated or how unfair the entire process has been. it is what it is and in my

previous statement defends themselves. >> revealing discussion they had about peter strzok's relationship to judge who later on went to prosecution. rudy contreras sat while flynn's investigation, they discussed the judge's appointment and float the idea of hosting him at a cocktail party. page wrote, rudy is on the fence, did you know that, i did, we talked about it before and after. i need to get together with him. page writes, i can't imagine either one of you can talk about anything in detail meaningful enough to warrant recusal. peter strzok replies, really, rudy, i'm in charge of espionage for the fbi, any fisa twharntsz come before him, what should he do given his friend oversees them.

standards for recusal are quite high, i just don't this poses an actual conflict and he doesn't know what you do, peter strzok responds, generally he does know what i do, not the level or scope or area but he's super thoughtful and rigorous about ethics and conflicts and suggested social settings with other would be better than one-on-one meeting, i'm sorry, i'm just going to have to invite you that cock trail party. there's no confirmation yet as to whether or not the cock trail party ever occurred but we, will, of course, keep you up to date. kelly. kelly: gillian turner reporting from washington, thanks, gillian. julie. julie: in the wake of ex fbi directors andrew somebody cable's firing, president trump's person attorney now pushing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to end the special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation, john dowd saying this in statement to fox news, i pray that acting attorney rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous

example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general jeff sessions and bring an end to alleged russia collusion investigation, manufactured by mccabe's boss james comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier, just ended on the merits in light of recent revelations, let's bring in political panel now, jay, former senior adviser to ohio governor john kasich and the managing director of mercury llcanton -- llc and antoine, ex fbi director saying he's a victim on assault of mueller's probe and just days calling to end the mueller probe altogether, jay, was the firing fair first and foremost?

>> well, i think what you saw last night when the firing came out at 10:00 o'clock at night, as soon as it came out they started attacking and politically motivated, i think both things can be true. this so me is not the same as the mueller investigation. it's very different. this is one where career government officials did an investigation and they probably found something that -- that mccabe did incorrectly and the firing could be very warranted. the reality is we don't know what the ig will report a few months down the line in the spring. we don't know what's in the report, it could be completely justified. i think the detractors of the president need to be careful. this is not one that they may win on. julie: okay, probably found something. according to jeff sessions you the justice department inspector general and fbi's office of inspector responsibility concluded that mccabe did unauthorized disclosure to news media when mccabe authorized the fbi spokesperson and fbi

attorney to provide a reporter with content of conversation that he had had with senior official from the department of justice, so antoine, why would any one in the fbi ever release any information to the media about a private conversation? >> a couple of things, i want to thank him to 20 plus years of service. julie: yeah. >> number two, the timing of all of this is ironic, he will have his day in court because i would imagine there would be some type of lawsuit against doj about his firing and due process especially knowing that he was hours away from benefiting from full retirement from u.s. government and number three, it's ironic that this thing happened at friday night at 10:00 p.m. when there's been a constant attack on the fbi and our intelligence community since the special prosecutor has essentially turned up the heat

of investigation of mr. trump and campaign whether there was ties of collusion and russia, it's ironic that maybe yesterday and day before the announcement came of the firing that the special prosecutor handed down some indictments or some information to look into trump's finances, i think it all works together. i think in the end it's very unfortunate, you know, unlike comey, he was a 20-plus year career staffer at the fbi and so it's very unfortunate. julie: jai -- >> but the ig's office conducted interview, the interviews in this investigation, they are the ones that have the report. i just think that before you rush to judgment that thus was a political hit job, we have to see what's in the ig report at tend of the day -- >> i don't. i don't disagree with you on that regard but if you look at the president's tweets and posture about him for the last several months, one can safely

conclude that this is has to be political, this has to be -- this was one step in the direction of trying to force the special prosecutor out. all you have to do is put the statement put out by donald trump's lawyer in which he said initially he was speaking on behalf of the president. julie: with all due respect too, i want to look at mccabe's history, 22 years in law enforcement, he has voted republican every single presidential election except for this past one in 2016 he did not vote. there were many within the fbi that were clearly democratic, clearly hillary clinton supporters, this guy didn't vote one way or the other. i want to read part of a statement that was released by mccabe, he say that is this attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally but taint to fbi, law enforcement and intelligence professionals were generally, it is part of the administration's ongoing war on the fbi and the effort of the special counsel investigation which continued to this day.

jai, let me ask you, do you believe at all an attempt to stop the investigation as mccabe is claiming? >> i don't think that the two things are related at all. mueller investigation is going to go on and in my opinion not support on capitol hill to stop mueller investigation and i for one support going forward in full transparency on that. i don't think that they are the same thing. i think this mccabe investigation was legitimate and whether you can argue about the tone of the tweets, you can argue about the time two days before, that doesn't mean that the firing was incorrect and that's what we have to remember too because i think right now everything is inflated and that's not the right way to go about it. >> who can dispute his statement that there was -- it's been a series attack on the fbi and the intelligence community by the party of law and order? they've become the party of cover and run, cover up anything that may look partisan -- look bad towards trump and run away from it.

it's very unfortunate. at tend of the day, presidents come and go and members come and go but the fbi will be around, one of the most sacred institutions in our democracy and we have to be realistic about that, just because there's no support on capitol hill to do away with the mueller investigation, that doesn't mean that there hasn't beens to take away the credibility -- julie: the fbi was investigating hillary clinton and server and the investigation which james comey had known about and released right before the election was one that angered a lot of democrats as well. it goes both ways but now that we have a republican in office any investigation is going to be seen perhaps as political witch hunt but to be fair again, mccabe was fired, he was going to retire literally just two days later from -- >> hours. julie: 22 years of federal law enforcement that has got the burn badly to end successful career this way, but, jai, my

question is, since mccabe was retiring, how does this ultimately affect him and affect the investigation that he was instead fired instead of retired? >> well, look, i think the optics are terrible, i don't dispute that at all. look antjuan and i will agree, the administration handled it incorrectly. you start to have hardened folks in institutions like the fbi, like the state department and other places and they start to come out against you and sharpen their knives and take notes. they are going to have a lot of dedicated enemies towards them, any missteps by them, they will be recorded. that's what i caution the administration, handle this better and maybe better off but maybe justified in the firing. >> the good news according to the announcement or his statement or someone close to him, he kept memo just like comey did and the american people will know the truth one way or another. julie: all right.

>> the book is coming out next month, the comey book. >> there you go. the story will be broken. [laughter] julie: all right. jai thank you very much and antjuan, thank you both. >> thank you. julie: oh, my god. 500 chapters. kelly: not about that but her life. julie: behind the scenes. kelly: a lot going on saturday. robert mueller subpoenaed the trump organization recently focusing on a potentially real estate deal in russia, the proposal for trump tower in moscow was pitched to donald trump's lawyer by developer and part time u.s. covert intelligence asset félix sader. the deal fell through but the president's critics think it may be the smoking gun. jessie watters spoke with sadeer about the investigation. >> i'm assuming that mueller spoke to you?

>> i'm sorry, i can't answer. >> i'm going to assume that's true. >> i've been interviewed by the house intel committee, yes. kelly: you may want to watch more of that, you can watch it all the full interview with félix sader at 8:00 p.m. on watter's world. julie: airliner admits to third incident involving a pet this week, plus the trump administration issuing it is toughest sanctions yet on russia for host of actions including cyber attacks on the u.s. but what are those sanctions and are they tough enough? >> we have the number one offensive cyber capability in the world and we should respond in kind, we have to got to take the gloves off.

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julie: united airlines is reporting third pet-related incident in just a week.

airline diverting a flight in newark, new jersey after realizing a dog was placed on wrong plane. the united actually state that is the dog was safely delivered eventually to owner, this follows two other incidents this week for united, one family's french bulldog died after flight attendant demanded carrier with the dog inside be placed in bin overhead. another dog mistakenly flown to japan instead of correct destination in kansas. kelly: white house taking a tougher stance on russia this week it announced sanctions on 19 russian citizens and five entities for cyber attacks on the u.s. power grid and meddling in the 2016 presidential election. virginia congressman scott taylor sits on both the house appropriation committee and homeland security subcommittee as well. he's also a former navy seal, first of all, thank you for your

service. >> thank you for having me. kelly: indeed, let's get right to the point here, with the new sanctions the trump administration is taking tougher stance against russia that goes against the grain that critics say he wasn't tough enough, should the trump administration be doing enough or more pressure on russia? >> it's a good important step, they join in condemnation of moscow with allies over in the united kingdom. i think we will have to ratchet it up, russia has been a bad actor and quite frankly the united states, we need to have a polly, broader policy that says like a monroe doctrine if you will in cyber that tell it is world and certainly russia what they will not do and be flexible enough to act but won't tell countries what they won't do but russia not only in elections and power grid, we need to have

policy and it has to have, we have to have the ability to respond in kind, we have the ability to do so and we should. i would like to see the administration ratchet up the pressure. kelly: congress, i'm glad that you brought up fact that we need policy in place because let's talk about what is possible in our own wheel house, as you know, there were six bipartisan members of the u.s. senate -- senate foreign relation's committee and they were basically talking about the global engagement center which will provide $40 million to enact more cybersecurity which would repel russia's attempt to get into our power grid, into our private industry as well as into our government, what's the hold-up there? >> so, you know, there's a lack of understanding, a lack -- i think there needs to be a whole sort of revolution in thinking and where we go here. right now the united states doesn't have a policy of what is an active aggression if cyber space, what's an active war in

cyberspace, voting machines, power sector, what if, the united states has the best capabilities of the world, we should lead on this to set the rules of the game and help with international allies and partners and -- and foes to write the rule. you know, 90% of cyberspace is in private hands and why that's important is never again will we see a conflict that does not have some sort of cyber component to it so gone are the day that is you have military target and civilian target because they are so intertwine now, sooner than later, we've got to get together and we have to lead as a nation to create these policies and set the rules of the games internationally because as computing power gets better, it won't be just nation state that is we have to worry about but transactional actors, criminal syndicates and even individuals and it's important to grab the horn by the bulls. kelly: that's a powerful statement especially about the 90%. there has to be a public-private

partnership in defending homeland. what hope do you think sanction wills have on russia and working jointly with the uk which is also working on the same issue with not just cybersecurity but also the poison that took place against two -- former russian double agent as well as his daughter? >> well, this is the first big overt move i believe by the administration and quite frankly russia has been get get away with a lot of stuff. to be fair, because there was a vacuum in the middle east, you saw what happened in annexation of ukraine, there wasn't a lot of pressure put back on them, so they made pretty bold moves and they've been able to do that so it's important that the united states lead and stand with allies to let russia know that you will not go any further, they've been emboldened and filled vacuums and areas that we have to cooperate on like syria, for example, because they are there, but it is important that we stand up and we let moscow

understand that they are not moving any further and that we stand together with allies to do so. kelly: congressman scott taylor from virginia, thank you, sir, for your perspective and obviously for some very good information about the cyber war and how we have to combat that against russia. have a good day, sir. >> thanks for having me, you as well. julie: march madness already in full swing. plus, painting the town green in celebration of st. patrick's day. for the first time. trying something new can be exciting. empowering. downright exhilarating. see for yourself why chevrolet is the most awarded and fastest growing brand, the last four years overall. switch into a new chevy now. current qualified competitive owners and lessees can get this 2018 chevy equinox for around $199 a month. chevrolet. find new roads.

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kelly: so the second round of march madness getting underway but many fans, brackets are completely busted right now. the university of maryland baltimore county pulling off a stunning 74-54 victory against top overall seed virginia. biggest upset of the history of the ncaa tournament, umbc becomes the first 16 seed to win a game in 136 tries. they will face number 9 seed kansas state tomorrow. wow. julie: well, everybody is irish for the day today. everybody except for me because

i wore black, i apologize. but you know what, i'm green at heart, as millions across the country are celebrating st. patrick's day bryan llenas live outside of studios of midtown manhattan one block where new york city parade is making along it's way fifth avenue. >> you're wearing black and i'm not surprised always the rebel. [laughter] >> 257th st. patrick's parade in new york city, the first on march 17, 1762, 14 years before the declaration of independence and o sk, today is an important day, it is all about celebrating st. patrick, the apostle of ireland, he's the person who brought christianity to ireland back in 1631 and ever since then new york city has led the world with largest parade, some 100 marching bands, 2 million spectraiters, cardinal timmy dolan in attendance as the parade went by. not only here in new york, in chicago as well.

this is the river front in downtown chicago, they die the river green using a vegetable die that is put in the water, it is safe for the environment, that's a big parade that's happening there at noon as well and vice president mike pence in savannah, georgia, who knew, 300,000 people in georgia celebrating st. patrick's day there as well, he's with mother and wife, his grandfather is from ireland and 13 million-pints of guinness will be served tonight and i have seen people that have had a few. julie: a few dozen. all right, thank you so much, bryan. kelly: are we done already? julie: we are. we will be back in an hour. kelly: we will be back at 4:00, in the meantime. flonase sensimist.

>> welcome to the journal editorial report. the white house shakeup continues with reservoir changes to come. we begin with the firing of rex tillerson, donald from announcing his ouster on twitter tuesday along with his pick to replace him, mike pompeo, trump ally the president says shares his foreign-policy vision. >> i worked with mike pompeo for quite some time, tremendous energy, tremendous intellect. we are always on the same