relief. we are waiting for those updates out o austin. >> sandra: "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: and we start with this fox news alert as we learn the name of the austin bombing suspect. the 23-year-old man identified as marc anthony condit. police say he died early this morning after he blew up an explosive inside his vehicle as the swat team closed in. good morning to you on this wednesday. welcome to happening now. i'm jon scott. >> melissa: i'm melissa francis. investigators believe conditt was behind all the bombings in the austin area the last 19 days. they are still searching for answers. >> that's the one thing we don't have right now is a motive behind. this we do not understand what motivated him to do what he did, and that will also be part of the continuing investigation as we try to learn more about him and to understand why he took the actions that he did.

>> jon: jonathan hunt is live from round rock, texas where police tracked the suspect to a motel parking lot. jonathan, talk us through how everything went down overnight. >> well, jon, i'm told by law enforcement source that they had the i.d. of marc anthony conditt for the last 36 to 48 hours. they knew the car that they were looking for. they knew his cell phone number and those two things came together here last night. they found the vehicle in the parking lot of this red roof inn behind me. at around the same time, i am told by this law enforcement source, mark condit it'conditt turned on hisl phone. they got the ping from that he was sitting in his vehicle at that point. as the swat team was arriving he took off in that vehicle. did not get very far. as we panned slightly to the left, where you see those

trucks right now, they are obscuring our view. right behind those is a mass of police vehicles. that's where they pinned his car in. and as officers approached, mark condit it't exploded some explosive device and that is what killed him this morning. governor greg abbott was on "fox & friends" earlier today and said every minute investigators are learning more about the suspect. >> he did not have a criminal history. we don't have any information he was ever a member of the military or anything like that. we are still trying to piece together why is it that someone like this would go on this effort. >> now, there is a heavy police presence right now in the austin suburb of flugerville. that is where mark conditt

lived. he had two roommates. they are being questioned. they are not suspects. investigators believe they may have useful information would are seeing a blog from 2012. the author of that blog identifies himself as mark conditt. we have not confirmed the authenticity of it. but he does identify himself as mark conditt. interestingly perhaps in that blog, he criticizes gay marriage and puts forward an anti-abortion stance. obviously all of those are things that investigators will be looking at, jon, as they try to establish the motive here, jon. >> jon: we know they used the cell phone but what else do we know about how investigators tracked him down. you say they have known at least 36 hours who they were looking for. >> right. the biggest break they got here and the bomber's biggest mistake it would seem is when he started

using fedex to ship at least some of these bomb packages. now, we were at the fedex store in sun set valley, another austin suburb yesterday where investigators say that he shipped some of those packages. now, when we looked in the windows of that closed up store, it was clear to us we counted something like a dozen ceiling mounted security cameras. and we know from investigators that they got a lot of surveillance footage from there. so they were then able to track him very quickly. they also were going through his online presence. and they learned a lot from that, again, according to governor greg abbott. listen again here. >> he did not destroy his digital footprint. it's my understanding that he went dark. he closed down access to his account so made it more difficult externally for us to be able to tap into it. i think there was a treasure trove of information in his house as well as digital

information that should shed light more upon who he is, what he was doing, why he was doing it. >> and the why he was doing it isn't going to be that easy to answer though, jon, particularly when you consider as investigators have said throughout this, that the targets appeared to be completely random. so what did mark conditt intend to achieve? what message did he intend to have sent? everybody wants to know the answer to those questions, jon? >> jon: yeah and perhaps we will never get them. that's the scary thing here. jonathan hunt in round rock, texas. thank you. >> melissa: president trump again going after the robert mueller-russia investigation on twitter this morning despite g.o.p. leaders warning him to leave it alone. chief white house john roberts is live from the north lawn. john, what did the president have to say this time? >> as you know over the weekend he was going off on the mueller investigation after the firing of the fbi deputy director andrew mccabe.

well, the president quoting alan dershowitz, the noted constitutional expert from harvard on twit they're morning saying, quote: special counsel is told to find crimes, whether a crime exists or not. i was oppose to the selection of mueller being special counsel and still opposed to. i think president trump was right when he said there never should have been special counsel appointed when there was no crime or otherwise or obstruction of justice. other than misspelling the word council. the president accurately represented what dershowitz said on fox news and fox business. the president is being subjected to a quote legal colonoscopy. listen here. >> i don't like special counsel at all. i think special counsel really violate the core and fundamental precepts of justice. they are told to try to find crimes whether crimes exist or not. but when you bring in special counsel, i was opposed to the appointment of mueller to be special counsel. i still am opposed to it i

think president trump was right when he said there never should have been a special counsel appointed because there was no probable cause. >> all of the criticism coming from the president has, again, raised speculation particularly among his opponents that he may seek to have mueller fired. >> the white house shot that down yesterday at the daily briefing again insisting the president has no intention of firing mueller. sarah sanders did indicate yesterday that the president does have a certain degree of frustration about the whole thing. listen here. >> look, the president has been very clear about the fact that there was no collusion between his campaign and any other entity; however, to pretend like going through this absurd process for over a year would not bring frustration seems a little bit ridiculous. i don't think that any individual, including members of congress would like it if they had been accused of taking their seat in congress by doing something nefarious when they hadn't particularly if it went on for more than a year into their time in office.

>> the president's outside legal team is still in talks tas with special counsel robert mueller about a possible interview with the president. but they have been building a legal argument over the last few weeks that would narrow down the parameters of any kind of conversation with mueller. the president's attorneys suggesting that the only questions that mueller would be allowed to ask were those that he had to talk to the president about and that the information was not available from the treasure trove of documents that have been produced by both the white house and the transition. melissa? >> melissa: a lot to follow there john roberts, thank you. >> thank you. >> jon: for more on this we go to joh john mccormick senior writer for "the weekly standard." ment white house has said time and time again and they said it yesterday that the president does not intend to fire robert mueller. but the president sure seems hot under the collar about this conversation. complains about mueller a lot. cacan we believe that mueller's job is safe. >> we can't know that. this has been going on for

some time. the attacks on special counsel have been stepped up. calling out bob mueller by name. we don't know where that will lead whether it's actually to firing him. you have a lot of people on capitol hill -- not a lot of people actually just a few like jeff flake saying mr. president please don't do, this we are begging you. the only remedy we have after the fact through impeachment. other leaders like speaker paul ryan who said he has achieved assurances but hasn't made any clear explanation of what would happen what the consequences will be. we don't know if that will lead to it or the president venting frustration or furthermore trying to undermine opinion of the investigation. that's what bill clinton did and his team back in -- during the lewenski investigation. i think that dershowitz, you know, he is right in the sense that these investigations can sort of end up going in directions they weren't originally intended. what he left out is that we do know for a fact that there was at least a willingness to collude or attempt at collusion by the president's son donald trump jr. we know that from his

emails. whethewhether that rose to any criminal level we don't know that yet. there is certainly something there. so that's one thing that he misses and also the fact that had the president not fired fbi director comey, there wouldn't be any special counsel in the first place right now. >> jon: and had jeff sessions not recused himself. you mentioned paul ryan. there is another top republican on capitol hill that is opining about this. listen to what mitch mcconnell had to say. >> i agree with the president's lawyers that bob mueller should be allowed to finish his job. i think it was an excellent appointment. i think he will lead -- he will go wherever the facts lead him. >> jon: wherever the facts lead him. the i question is where are they going to lead him and exactly what does he consider his mandate? it was supposed to be russian collusion or russian election meddling and other matters that may come up. and it seems that, you know,

paul manafort's business dealing? rick gates' business dealings a lot of matters seem to have come to the attention of this special counsel. >> that's true. as i said, you know, these special investigations, they can sort of go off in different directions. where, you know, investigation of bill clinton and white water and monica lewenski. he obstructed justice with that. that's the bigger risk right now is whether there is evidence that the president obstructed justice over this. maybe there was no underlying crime. so that's really the issue here, i think. >> jon: well, as the president complains about the investigator, he certainly is appealing to the jury pool. let's put it that way. john mccormick, weekly standard, thank you. >> thank you. >> melissa: a first from north korea as that country hints that plans for diplomatic talks are underway. what this could mean for the possibility of an upcoming trump-kim summit. plus austin not yet in the clear after the death of the

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>> melissa: a fox news alert for you now as we follow the latest from austin. the suspected serial bomber dead following a confrontation with police earlier this morning. he has been identified as 23-year-old mark an anthony conditt. but the investigation is far from over. >> this is the culmination of three very long weeks for our community. and throughout these weeks, we have talked about the importance of remaining village leapt and looking out for each other. i want to continue that message as we stand here

this morning, though, because we don't know where this suspect has spent his last 24 hours. >> melissa: let's bring in texas republican congressman roger williams who represent austin. sir, thank you for joining us. i'm sure have you been in constant contact in the district. what is the mood like now? >> well, the mood is one of somewhat relief but also people are very concerned and listening to local law enforcement, to be aware and be vigilant as we have said because nobody knows where this fellow might have been so it's over but, again, it's not over. and i think people are very aware of that. but they are relieved. as someone who lives in austin, i can tell you it's a big relief. >> melissa: people can't really piece together why someone would do something like this. what have you heard so far that might give you any insight into that question? >> well, it's a great question. and, you know, we have heard what his roommates had to say and like so many cases like, this people are

totally surprised at what these people do. so i think it's hard to -- hard to understand why they do it. i guess we will find out later on. but it's the same thing. everybody is surprised that he did this. >> melissa: yeah. it's also astonishing that he had so much expertise in bomb-making. can you tell us anything about that? >> well, i mean it was an expert as you say. he was not a rooky. and i think that is one of the things when they were tracking him down concerned irving. they weren't dealing with somebody that was just rogue on this. i mean, he knew what he was doing. he seemed to have a plan. that's why it's great that this thing has ended. >> melissa: yeah. so brave of those who tracked him down. >> no question. >> melissa: i can imagine as they were closing, in knowing that he is all about explosives. they had to anticipate, you know, that in some way it would end the way it did and that those who were tracking him down would be very much in harm's way. your thoughts on that. >> well, our first responders, we see all over the country. but, you know, especially in

texas when you look at the coordination between local, texas rangers and the feds, it all worked very well together and we saw people as you say stepped up, did their job, and we need to continue to thank our first responders, our police, our local law enforcement and federal officials for what they did. they went in harm's way to protect all of us. >> melissa: is there anything you can tell us about the cooperation from fedex. i mean, obviously him going into that station and using that facility made a big difference in terms of even though he was wearing gloves and a wig, it is reported, that it also was a break in the case? >> well, it was a real break. when he was on camera and so forth in that facility, that seemed to begin to turn it around where he could be identified. it all worked together. and it worked for the best of all of us in the community. and now we begin to move forward and be very careful as we said, on what's out there. it's not over with yet. and they need to report anything they see to the local law enforcement. >> melissa: what do you

think are some of the most important lessons that came out of this? >> well, i think the lesson is that we all have to be very careful in this world we are in right now. it's hard to understand why they did what they did. >> melissa: yeah. >> it also shows that law enforcement is there to help us. we need law enforcement. the thin blue line is there and we should go out of our way to thank first responders every single day. >> melissa: sir, thank you for coming on. we appreciate your time. >> thank you, melissa. >> jon: north korean state media expresses optimism ahead of the potential talks between president trump and kim jong un. ambassador john bolton joins us next with more on what might be achieved. plus, congress on the clock to get a spending bill passed. can lawmakers actually get it done and how will it impact our military if they don't? >> the last battle was really the big battle. the battle was always for about funding. and what funding would we go to the future with. military needs the resources.

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it a shiite shrine in kabul. the bomber detonated a device killing 29 people and wounding more than 50 others. the attack happened as afghans gathered to celebrate the persian new year. the country's minority shiites typically mark the day by visiting shrines. ♪ >> jon: first north korea nation run news agency announces th the atmosphere is right for reconciliation. the meeting comes before

north korean leader kim jong un. first time pyongyang has even hinted that plans are underway. joining us now, ambassador john bolton and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. a fox news contributor and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. ambassador bolton, what are we to make of these new pronouncements or maybe overtures from the kim regime. >> i don't think they are really directed at the united states. i think this is warming up the people of north korea, the leadership and so on as to what may be about to come here. as i have seen the reports of this statement, it really is referring more to reconciliation with south korea than anything else. president trump is not mentioned. the meeting with the united states is not mentioned. so, it continues the pattern we have seen now nearly for two weeks that north korea has not made any public statement about a kim-trump summit. as i say, i think this is internally directed it

remains worrying to me that the north koreans haven't said anything publicly. i assume that the administration is pressing south korea and maybe through other channels north korea pretty hard to make sure we know exactly what they offered. >> john: it's also my understanding that although they have agreed to talks with the american delegates and the president, they have not agreed that denuclearization is going to be one of the topics, if they leave that off the table, should the president still go? >> it was my understanding and again we are south korean envoys filtered through the government in seoul told us here. as far as i'm concerned, the issue that matters is denuclearization. all the rest of it is interesting and academically significant, i suppose. but, unless kim jong un is really prepared to have a conversation about how to denuke rise as soon as possible, then i think this would be revealed as a ploy

to buy more time for north korea to finish the last technical steps they need and they are significant steps to be able to hit targets in the united states with nuclear weapons. i think the north koreans are very worried about the trump administration, the level of pressure has been increased significantly. and the possibility that it would go beyond economic pressure, i think, has finally become very real to the regime in pyongyang. >> jon: have you written an article that suggests that in your mind we don't need to endure some kind of an attack in north korea before taking military action against them. >> absolutely not. i don't think that we need to wait for north korea to drop a nuclear weapon on an american city or a japanese city or any other kind of city in order to defend ourselves. this was very much the thinking of the bush administration, the george w. bush administration national strategy not because we want to use military force. nobody wants to use military

force. but leaving north korea with nuclear weapons is very troubling. general dunford the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said last summer in aspen that he was asked isn't it unimaginable we would use force on the peninsula and general dunford replied what's unmanageable to me is that we would leave north korea with a capability of dropping a nuclear weapon on denver. >> jon: we have the prospect of some kind of an agreement the north koreans can you name an agreement that they have signed that they have lived up to? >> not one. fred aclay, a former director of the arms control agency, a well known academic once said the north koreans were capable of boundless mendacity, his phrase. that's why i think this conversation doesn't need nine or 12 months of low level diplomatic preparation. i think it is the kind of conversation you can have very directly right at the top. are you ready to do you nuclearize or should we just

go sightseeing for the rest of the day? >> jon: very quickly the united states and soviet union maintained mutually assured destruction that kept the world free of nuclear weapons after hiroshima nagasaki. why would that the not work with the north koreans? >> one, who would want to go back to that world? two, the mutual assured destruction came very close to falling apart on any number of occasions. three, the north korean regime is a bizarre regime. for whatever reason, the soviet calculus use of nuclear weapons match. that there is no guarantee that applies to the north korea. four, we are talking about a multi-polar nuclear war not the bipolar standoff of a cold war. it's a very different situation we have never encountered before. sixth and last for now it's not simply the threat of what north korea would do with its own north korean weapons. it's the threat they would sell those weapons to others, to iran, to al qaeda, to other would be

nuclear powers. that is a real danger that i don't think people have taken enough account of. >> jon: with evidence out there they have been selling chemical weaponry to syria that's pretty disturbing thought. >> exactly. >> jon: ambassador john bolton good to have you on. >> good to be with you. >> melissa: the senate intelligence committee holding a hearing on election security right now as we speak. is enough being done to protect our political process? plus, congress scrambling to reach a budget deal as top house leaders push for more defense spending. is our military in jeopardy of being hollowed out? when you look at the mercedes-benz glc... ...with its high-tech cameras and radar... ...contemporary cockpit... ...three hundred and sixty degree network of driver-assist technologies... ...and sporty performance... ...what's most impressive about the glc? all depends on your point of view.

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it's okay. dad took care of us. ♪ >> melissa: fox news alert, election officials facing tough questions on capitol hill about how to better protect our elections. homeland security secretary tristen nielsen and former homeland security jeh johnson both testifying before the senate intelligence committee on a hearing election security. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is at the hearing. catherine, what have you heard so far? >> well, thank you. melissa, and good morning. in the last few minutes we have had dramatic testimony from senator angus king of maine. he has told panelists that he has read the classified version of the senate intelligence committee report on russian election interference and to use his words, he calls it, quote, horrifying and based on everything he has read, he is seeing indicators that suggest what happened in

2016 was really a warm-up by the russians for something much worse. also the ranking democrat on the committee is calling on the president to do more. >> the threat is real and the need to act is urgent. we need the administration to accelerate its efforts. perhaps most of all we need a president who will acknowledge the gravity of this threat and load a whole of society effort. to harden our defenses and inoculate our society against russia's militias interference. the fact that the president did not even bring up the topic of our election security when he called vladimir putin to congratulate him on his victory in a precooked election i believe is extremely troubling. >> the witnesses this morning, the current homeland security secretary and her predecessor testified about how the russians cyber specialists were able to exploit this theme essentially foreign intelligence activity that was targeting domestic state

election boards. now, we also understand from that testimony that the vulnerabilities include registration of voters. the transmission of the votes. the tabulation of the votes. and then also, the certification of the votes. and now these vulnerabilities are public, witnesses testified that the threat now goes beyond the russians. >> were there any votes that were affected by this intrusion in to any system in america? >> not to my knowledge, sir. >> secretary nielsen? >> we have no evidence that any votes were changed once these vulnerabilities have been made clear, it's not just russia that we have to worry about. these are vulnerabilities and attack vectors that any adversary could pursue. we think the threat remains high. >> we have also had a very dramatic exchange from senator ron biden he told the panelists that almost half of all americans are using voting systems that have some kind of security vulnerability such as a back

door. but it seems the states and the feds are kind of powerless to make changes because these systems exist in the private sector. here is that exchange. >> does your agency have the authority to mandate basic cyber security in the electronic voting machines used in this country? >> no, sir. >> does any agency? >> not to my knowledge, not at the federal level. we absolutely have to have a way to audit and have -- be able to verify the integrity of the information of the votes. >> i think that sounds like a step in the right direction because i was just stunned at the brazenness of these voting machine companies. i mean, the biggest one won't answer anything at all and you have now told us that the status quo is a national security threat. >> one of the biggest take

aways from the hearing this morning is that specialists are really recommending that with all of the election, all of the voting machines, they really have to have some kind of paper trail, some sort of ability to audit those votes because the intelligence shows that russians are trying to probe these state boards of election. and one of the hypotheticals that was given is that they want to change registration voter roles so that when people get to the polls on election day, they will be unable to cast their ballot, mel. >> melissa: catherine herridge, thank you so much. great report as always. thank you. >> you are welcome. >> jon: a battle brewing on capitol hill on congress massive spending bill before friday's deadline. one of the greatest locks border funding and daca deal. pushing hard for funding for our military. so can a deal be reached in time? let's bring in oklahoma senator james inhofe, a member of the armed services committee. this thing is going down to

the wire as it seems to do more and more often these days. the house is hoping to vote on its version of the bill on thursday, tomorrow. county senate turn this thing around and get it out the door by friday, the budget deadline? >> yeah. in fact i anticipate it's going done done by i would say early on thursday -- not early noon on thursday maybe a little after. that's assuming the house does what they say they are going to do. that's meet first thing tomorrow morning. i think everyone recognizes it's -- snow storm here has something to do with it they recognize we are out of time. we need to get it done, and, of course, my major concern here is that we go ahead and take care of what we authorize our senate authorization committee on defense. that's got to be done. >> jon: yeah. under sequester you would have had a budget of what, 568 billion for defense this year you? are actually going for 700 billion? >> that's exactly right. in fact, obama's request was even below that.

and so, and this is necessary. we have already done. this we have authorized it. and a lot of people don't understand how that works. but it's got to be appropriated. it's got to be in this bill. and it will be. we got to keep in mind, jon, a lot of people don't know what obama did to the military. i don't really say this critically of him because he is, you know a very proud liberal and liberals really don't care that much about the military. but we went down to the point at the end of last year only 33% of our ground brigades, i'm talking about the u.s. army now, could be deployed because of the maintenance problems and those problems. same thing with aviation brigade and the same thing of our f-18s that the marines use. 62% of them couldn't fly. now, we have changed all that without this budget, we have changed it just by upgrading putting new emphasis on military so that we are way ahead now from where we were a year ago. let's keep in mind that, you

know, obama had a policy, said you can't put any more money in defense unless you put an equal amount in to the social programs, or nondefense programs. and that's what we have changed now. it's called parody and we have successfully changed that with the supplemental that we passed a short while ago. >> jon: you seem to have a political soul mate in the speaker of the house paul ryan wants the military funded at higher levels. here is what he had to say. >> last year we lost 80 service members in training accidents and exercises. that's four times as many as we lost in combat last year. it is because the military has been hollowed out over the last 8 years and this budget agreement that we are putting together fixes that. we owe it to the men and women who are putting themselves in harm's way for us to give them the best equipment and the best training they can get so they can keep us safe. right now we are not doing that. >> jon: it sounds, senator beings like you echo the speaker's thoughts. >> yeah, as a matter of fact, can you look at all

the problems that you have talked about in the last couple of years, with the air force and the navy. the losses that we have had. the accidents we have had. a lot of those can be pinned right back to the fact that we underfunded the military and they are not taking care of the maintenance. maintenance and modernization are the first things that are cut by an administrator, an administration that is not pro-strong defense. right now, you know, i just got back from the philippines, south korea, guam, japan, all these areas where people are really building up. china, do you know what they are doing right now in the south china sea. all these things are happening. these threats are very real. and we kind of have lost the reputation of being the country that leads the free world. and we are going to change that. >> jon: and, of course, the russians are making mischief all over their sphere of influence. senator jim inhofe of oklahoma, it's good to have you on. thank you. >> thank you, jon. >> melissa: president trump renewing his commitment to crack down on sanctuary

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set off an explosion in his own car. they say that this suspect had a couple of roommates who are cooperating with authorities. no reason to believe that they are involved at this point. but they are also leaving no stone unturned to be sure that he didn't have some kind of help and that there might not be other devices out there. so the search goes on in pflugerville, texas. can you see the heavy vehicles there. a number of agencies, fbi, alcohol tobacco and firearms as well as local authorities participating in this search looking for answers as to why he did it. >> it's called law and order and safety. and we're going to have it in our country. i want to thank everyone around the table. we appreciate it we will win on this issue. sanctuary cities are dangerous and we're going to take care of the problem. >> melissa: president trump putting sanctuary cities on notice as the show down intensifies between the

white house and the state of california for their refusal to cooperate with immigration officials. let's bring this our panel mark water is a former special assistant to president trump. former press secretary to vice president pence and jim kessler is former legislative and policy director to senator chuck schumer of new york and senior vice president for policy and co-founder of third way. thanks to both of you for joining us. >> thank you. >> melissa: mark, what do you make of this bags so far? >> it's a battle for one of the fundamental principles of our constitution and that is that the federal law takes priority here, state and local governments cannot just pick and choose what laws they want to represent. in california's case, it's reckless, it's radical and for what the mayor of oakland did, she should probably be facing charges for obstruction of justice or harborin harboring hugives. >> melissa: jim, i didn't realize cities could ignore federal law.

>> the courts will decide whether cities can do this or not. sanctuary cities are adhering to the constitution and it's the federal government that is trying to get them to change the laws. i want to talk a little bit about what donald trump said this is about law and order. here is some facts from jeff sessions own justice department, alabama, which for 35 years he has been senator and attorney general there. it has a no sanctuary city. it has a crime rate and murder rate that is twice as high as california. so if this is about law and order and safety maybe california is doing it right. >> melissa: we are straying off topic here. it's about when law enforcement has somebody in custody already and releasing them into the public as opposed to handing them over to immigration officials that are already looking to deport them. i mean, it's not asking cities to do anything additional, just hand over people they already have in custody. mark, what's so outrageous about that? >> you are absolutely right, melissa. what's outrageous is when california and other sanctuary cities refuse to do this, our law enforcement

professionals are having to put themselves at further risk to go take them back into custody on the street, in their homes and businesses. places where they could go out and gain arms, have friends. they are putting law enforcement officers' lives at risk. and the first time one of our officers dies because of this, it's one too many. >> melissa: jim, what about that specific argument about people who are already in custody for other offenses not turning them over to ice agents who are looking for them to deport them? what's the defense of that? >> so there isn't a defense of that. but that's not what they do. what the sanctuary city does is they say we have somebody in custody and you can pick them up, but we can't keep them in custody any longer because the crime that they are taken in on is a civil crime and under our constitution under the fourth amendment of our constitution the states and counties do not have the authority to keep people there longer. so they are bined by the law and the constitution.

it is the federal government that is falling down on this. it's their job to get there before they are released. they are notified, the federal government, they are falling down on the job. >> melissa: i would be interested to see that timing. i wish we had more time. gentlemen, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> jon: it may be spring, but the northeast is in the grips of another massive snow storm. our weather watch is coming up next. i'll take you there. take this left. if you listen real hard you can hear the whales. oop. you hear that? (vo) our subaru outback lets us see the world. sometimes in ways we never imagined. (avo) get 0% apr financing on all-new 2018 subaru outback models. now through april 2nd.

>> harris: president trump ramping up the pressure on sanctuary cities as we see evidence that border patrol in california is refusing to hand over criminal illegal immigrants with felony warrants. at least one agent says they fear sanctuary cities will release them without warning. >> sandra: and critics piling on the president for

congratulating vladimir putin on his re-election. even though world leaders from benjamin netanyahu to angela merkel did the same thing. so, is this fair? >> harris: all that plus in the center seat outmurder the top of the hour you will just have to watch to see. ♪ fox weather alert people in the northeast getting ready to slam another nor'easter. adam klotz is tracking the storm for our fox weather center. what can you tell us? >> melissa, right now we are beginning to see some of the heaviest snow hitting the major cities from d.c. running up to philadelphia, new york, not quite running up to boston yet. large system stretching back into systems of the mid west as well. heaviest snow farther inland. we are getting that snow, philadelphia, new york. the only spot not seeing it as of right now boston still waiting for this system to run its way farther to the north. don't worry the folks in boston are going to see at least some activity from.

this they are under this storm watches and warnings that stretches all the way back into the ohio river valley parts of indiana, portions of kentucky. all with this very large storm system as it continues to track its way up the coast. this is the future radar and you can pay attention to the hour by hour time stamp here. we will be dealing with this entire afternoon run into the overnight hours. there is boston beginning in the next couple of hours seeing heavier snow. this runs overnight. as we begin to get early into thursday morning, some of these cities like d.c., philadelphia and new york have now cleared off. still lingering in areas like boston. but that eventually will be clearing out for thursday. when it's all said and done, do i think some of the heaviest snow is going to continue to linger here right in the mid-atlantic, you are seeing darker colors areas where you will get that snow fall getting up to 16, 18 inches of total snow. areas that get the most. widespread we are talking about 6 to 12 inches of snow for. so major areas like new york city and stretching back down to philadelphia, right along the coast winds continue to be an issue with

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