talking about green bay having 18 inches of snow. i know you get snowfall in the midwest every april. but 18 inches of snow is something else. it's not fair. >> we need a break. start dressing like it's summer. thank you. "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: we have a fox alert. we're waiting for potential new action on syria. after the missile strike hit the weapons program. i'm eric shawn in for jon scott. >> and i'm julie banderas. president trump not backing down from his mission accomplished statement. he said the weekend strikes with perfectly carried out but hundreds of syrians gathered in damascus saying that their armed forces succeeded in confronting the strikes. they took to the streets waving flags and rallying in support of the assad regime. all this as the u.s. gets ready to hit russia with new sanctions

for enabling bashar al-assad. our u.n. ambassador nikki haley makes it clear we will keep up the pressure on syria. >> be very clear, if we leave, when we leave, it will be because we know that everything is moving forward. we're very invested in the political process in geneva and the talks continue. >> david lee miller is live with more. david, thank you for joining us. what is the very latest where you are? >> julie, it is peaceful here. perhaps deceptively so. just this weekend from this vantage point where i'm standing, we witnessed an exchange of artillery fire. in the distance over my shoulder, a few hundred yards away are syrian villages that are rebel held.

it seems that the regime of bashar al-assad is emboldened by the u.s. air strikes and now there's concern that he will try to retake the territory behind me. as you mentioned moments ago, there was a really today in the capitol city of damascus, about 40 miles from here. hundreds took to the streets. they demonstrated in support of the regime. it was broadcast live on syrian state tv. what is worth noting now, this was the second such rally since the air strikes took place. this type of event would not happen without just government approval but support. many of the syrian officials and russians are doing everything they can in a p.r. campaign to try to minimize the impact of the u.s.-led strikes. meanwhile, for the prohibition of chemical weapons are now in syria, the inspectors are not on the job. russia is preventing the

fact-finding team from getting to douma, the site of the alleged attack. russian officials that pledged their full support now say the inspectors lack the required u.n. safety approval. in an interview with the bbc a short time ago, russia's foreign minister, sergey lavrov says he rejects u.s. concern that russia might have destroyed or damaged potential ed. lavrov said i can guarantee that russia has not tampered with the site. lastly now, today the u.k. prime minister, theresa may, is going to speak before parliament. she's going to be on the defensive. she's going to explain to members of parliament that the strikes in which the u.k. participated, the purpose was not regime change or to interfere with the syrian civil war but to stop the use of chemical weapons. the opposition labor party is trying to make its case to get

legislation to require parliament's approval for further action in syria. julia? >> thanks, david. >> former fbi director james comey taking district aim at president trump. comey describes the president as an ego-driven liar that treats women like meat. he says he's morally unfit to be president. this coming ahead of tomorrow's release of mr. comey's new book called "a higher loyalty." >> i don't buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent. he strikes me as above average intelligence tracking conversations and knows what's going on. i don't think he's medically unfit to be president. i think he's morally unfit to be president. he's not unfit to be president on moral grounds. our president must embody respect and adhere to the values

to the core of the country. the most important being truth. this president is not able to do that. he's morally unfit to be president. >> what can we learn from comey's claims? daniel halpert is here with us from the weekly standard. what is the immediate impact in washington by comey's book and the interviews he's give something. >> he's upset everyone. there's nobody else that genders so much bipartisan hatred as comey. president trump and his supporters hate him and same with hillary clinton and her supporters. it's a remarkable come together and yet so on the one hand you're inclined to like him because so many people hate him or i am because i'm contrarian like that. but on the other hand he's so self-righteous and a moralizer that he does a disservice to himself and the institutions that he used to represent. it's a big problem i think going forward.

>> when you read the whole transcripts, a lot of could bes, maybe, i don't knows on hard questions. like the effect of him calling out the investigation political on the race as well as, you know, the impact of calling it a matter as opposed to an investigation. how do you see those claims? >> i think the worst part of it was just the pure speculation. george would ask him about the allegations against president trump were true. he's a former director of the fbi. he should base his answer on facts. instead he says, well, it could be possible. it is or it isn't. he doesn't know or he doesn't have evidence to prove -- >> he says there's some obstruction of justice when he said the president told him to go easy on general flynn. he doesn't have any specific anything beyond that. >> he's accused of crimes and speculating. it's irresponsible. >> you wrote a book about the

clintons in another part of this interview that is fascinating. he was involved in the vince foster investigation. and george asked him, did you come away with any impression of hillary clinton and the clintons he says he has none. do you buy that? >> what i came away with, he really hates donald trump. i understand that president trump is. and therefore george focused on president trump but he didn't have the same hatred for hillary clinton and didn't seem to have the overwhelming hatred for anybody else and it shaded his judgment. obviously, look, he is right when he says that there was no good outcomes in a lot of these situations. when you're investigating the democrat and a republican or satellites of their candidacies, there aren't many good outcomes and people have distrust. somehow he appears to have made

it worse for himself and the institution that he represented throughout the campaign at various steps of the way. his tour does nothing to dispel that. >> here's kellyanne conway talking about him this morning. >> this is somebody that is not under oath in interviews and writing a book and this is somebody that is giving a revisionist version of history. the president hardly knew the man. the president said that. the president answered within days of their interaction in a press conference for all of -- you played the clip last night, that he did not ask him to stop an investigation. >> he said under oath that he was never asked to stop an investigation. >> i don't think -- i didn't compare the transcripts. i don't think it differed that greatly when he was under oath. in his version of events, he's the hero and surrounded by a bunch of people that aren't and he's the one that has to save justice, the american justice

system. i think that's just false and i think, again, it created huge problems for the fbi. by the way, by the way as an institution, it still suffers from and will suffer a long time due to his actions. >> daniel halper, thank you. >> there could be high drama in the federal courtroom today. michael cohen appears before a new york judge. also expected in court, stormy daniels. the adult film star that claims she had an affair with the president more than ten years ago. daniels was paid $130,000 by mr. cohen shortly before the 2016 election. president trump's lawyers asking for an independent review of material taken from michael cohen's home and offices to determine what should be covered by the attorney client privilege. >> a fox alert on a horrible situation in south carolina.

riots at a maximum prison there. police are responding to reports of multiple inmate on inmate altercations. this all going down at the lee correctional institution. started at 7:15 last night. authorities said it took eight hours for them to regain control of the prison and secure the situation. thankfully no state employees were injured, we're told. the coroner saying it appears that many of the seven inmates that were killed suffered from stab or slash wounds. this happened to be not the first time that the prison has seen just violence. last month several convicts held a correctional officer hostage. julie? >> boston staying strong. it's been five years since the bombing took place. as runners made their way through this beautiful city, the emotional tributes to the victims and the survivors. plus, fall-out after the u.s.-led strikes against syria. why more could be on the way and

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many lost limbs and what they thought was their dignity. but they're turning it around and turning it into acts of courage, kindness and peace. >> that was one of several events held around the city as part of one boston day. it's a day meant to encourage acts of kindness and good will. julie? >> julie: fox news alert on syria with the u.s. warning more air strikes are possible on the heels of the u.s.-led missile attack on assad's chemical weapons program over the weekend. >> the president has made it very clear that when it comes to weapons of mass destruction, we have no tolerance for it. we're going to watch out for the best interest of the american people. so he made a point and hopefully assad gets it. if assad doesn't get it, it's going to hurt. >> julie: now major general donald alpstead.

thanks for talking to us. did you find this mission a bit underwhelming, disappointing by sending a message to assad that we already sent a message and he repeated the same atrocities? what is the same point of sending message? why not wipe out their artillery and air bases? why not end it now? >> i think it was significant the response that we had. that was a pretty substantial attack. it was confined, proportionate. it leaves a lot of room for escalation if it's necessary. the russians, when they tried to intervene and broker in 2013 and run interference for assad to protect his possession and ultimately with a plan to help eliminate chemical weapons, that ultimately never happened. when they joined the fight in 2015, they have been running top cover for assad. throughout the last year or

more, they're running interference for assad in the united nations which has enabled him to continue to employ chemical weapons. the international norm needs to be enforced that you won't use chemical weapons against people and noncombatants. so i think it was a violent but proportional attack and appropriate to stop what is happening now and leave leverage for the future. >> julie: it could have been bigger. the president chose a restrained option. the president originally reportedly wants his team to consider strikes on russian and iranian targets, which would have been three times this size. it would have included hundreds of missiles at three targets. but jim mattis warned of a possible russian response. let's talk about the retaliation factor here.

how does that play a role in deciding to strike when and where? >> in this particular case it's complicated because of the deep involvement of the iranians and the russians. to expand our efforts to directly target russians and iranians obviously has some serious consequences. we have to be prepared to follow on that kind of an expansion. so i think confining it right now to the chemical weapons portion of this and to not get more deeply involved in the civil war where the united states can never match that of those the combatants in that particular fight. you know, we're trying to create a sense of moving towards the next step, which could be diplomacy. at this point, it's putting assad once again on notice that this just can't be tolerated. this level of violence that includes chemical weapons.

by the way, when you look at the russian's involvement, they have enabled the use of chemical weapons and threaten countries with nuclear weapons. we have to check their behavior. >> julie: but with russia's help. there's confusion over washington, whether washington warned moscow in advance and the pentagon said they didn't warn russia. the ambassador in moscow says the united states did in fact communicate with russia to reduce the danger of any russian or civilian casualties. should be the u.s. be warning russia about striking their ally after assad has ruthlessly killed innocent children by gassing them with russia's help? >> it's a priority for the u.s. military and the president to avoid confronting and engaging in combat russian forces. >> russia doesn't want a war with the united states. let's be clear on that. >> so to take the russians on

militarily, we have fantastic capabilities, capacity and, you know, air men and naval presence that can create the military effects the president wants on a moment's notice. so we still have fantastic capability. but we don't want to have a -- create the chaps for escalation. >> thanks, major. we appreciate you coming on. >> julie: eric? >> eric: former fbi director james comey speaks to abc news george stephanopoulos. so what did we learn from that interview? we'll take a look. the multistate man hunt for a 56-year-old grandmother. >> we've worked around the clock to obtain an arrest warrant. u.s. marshals are actively

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dangerous. >> congress has asked james comey to come and testify multiple times of which he denies being able to do but yet he found time to sit down with george stephanopoulos for five hours. >> eric: that's sarah sanders criticizing george stephanopoulos as well as james comey. the five hours comprised into a one-hour interview by comey with mr. stephanopoulos. our media panel joins us right now. was george tough enough? james holloman is here with us. vince, let me start with you. james comey, credible or full of us? >> full of it. i mean, i think you can only come away with that impression having watched him sort of meander. we've seen him do this many times. meander through explanations and try to offer a self-justifying rationale.

no matter what the accusation is against him, he finds a way to slip out of it. there's a very good reason he began this with bill clinton's former press secretary. this was the gentlest place he could have go to. he feels like he can get a fair hearing with hillary clinton supporters. >> eric: james do you buy that? you think mr. comey acquitted himself properly? >> it was -- george let comey talk. it was a long conversation. comey has some credibility. i read his book over the weekend. he criticizes himself at times. that's been lost in the top-line coverage of his criticism of the president. but this is one piece of a much broader tour. the deal -- abc worked to kind of crush this into an hour.

they posted the full transcript. he's also doing a host of kind of random things including stephen colbert show. he's going on the view to reach women. he wants to sell books. >> eric: you read the book. what do you like the most and what troubles you about the book? >> the further back things are, the more self-reflective and honest he is. he talks about mistakes as a college kid and being bullied in his dorm. he's self-critical. he's less self-critical in his role of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and he is kind of less self-reflective on what he says about the president. what is interesting, just like a 270 page book, donald trump's name is not mentioned after 200. this is a memoir of his life. he talked about his time in the

bush administration under george w. bush. he clashed with dick cheney over things like enhancing interrogation tactics, nsa wiretapping or surveillance. that was really interesting because again, that's 14 years ago. there's more distance. less sort of in the moment. less political heat around it. so comey is more self-critical, more honest about what happened. >> vince, let me show you a montage finally of george stephanopoulos' questions. here he is. >> to those that say you should have brought hillary clinton before a grand jury, why not put out a one-line statement that we decline to prosecute? if she was sitting here today, if you knew that letter would elect donald trump, would you send it? >> eric: you still gave him a pass? >> yeah. he spent more time defending the hillary clinton camp than anything else. all the follow ups were about hillary clinton. then you had the critics say framing whenever he talked about

donald trump, very little push back there. i know abc compressed this five hour interview into an hour. but they left on the cutting room floor that was of interest everything from calling rod rosenstein dishonorable and calling barack obama irresponsible. nobody of that made the final cut, including going after trump for his face and the bagses under his eyes and his hand was the right size. that was nonsense compared to the news value that was in the other five hours. >> and does not think that rosenstein will fire mueller, which could be a big headline. we'll see. have to read the transcript or buy the book or go to the library if you don't want to pay for it. thanks, vince and james. >> julie: tomorrow is pay uncle sam day. after president trump's tax reform. big changes are coming to your tax bill. next april! what should you do to prepare for the new law? and in washington, all the talk

centers on who could replace paul ryan as speaker of the house and when? we'll discuss next. >> we all think that kevin is the right person. our leadership team. i'm not saying every person in congress.

>> eric: we're one day away from tax day.

most americans won't see a difference with tax reform kicking in next year, the 2018 one. peter doocy live in washington to explain all things taxes. hi, peter. >> so far the most noticeable thing is the tax reform bill has added income to weekly or biweekly stay stubs. the changes to the way individuals actually file their returns aren't coming till next april when this happens. >> the standard deduction will be larger, this means individuals will deduct more against their taxable income than they would previously. this may mean lower tax bills and may mean a lot of individuals may not have to itemize their deductions anymore. >> next year is when the tax rates drop and the obamacare era penalty for not having health insurance disappears along with the individual mandate. it's also going to be the first time that workers in large

numbers realize that for the first time in decades, they don't have to cut a big check to uncle sam. >> for a lot of people next year will be a lot different. they won't owe any tax. there's a bigger exempt amounts, bigger standard deductions. they might have children and child credits. so what you'll probably see next year, some people filing thinking wait. this is fantastic. >> democrats continue to criticize the changes to the tax code is unfair to individuals, arguing the law favors corporations because the corporate tax cuts are permanent but the individual ones that start next year only run through 2025 unless congress votes to extent them. eric? >> eric: and other changes. we'll have to check with h&r block or grandma, whoever does the taxes. peter, thank you. >> i fully anticipate handing the gavel over to the next speaker of the house. >> and you believe --

>> i think kevin will step up. one of the reasons why i was comfortable making this decision is because we have a very capable leadership team. i -- >> why do you think -- >> i believe we'll get the votes. >> julie: paul ryan on his endorsement of majority leader kevin mccarthy to succeed him as house speaker. some republicans are criticizing his decision to finish out his term and retire in january arguing it will lead to a power struggle within the party ranks. let's bring in our next guest, ari fleischer, former press secretary for george w. bush. great to see you. you think the speakership vote should be postponed? >> no, i don't. you know, i've watched or this morning made a couple phone calls to a few members of congress to get their take on it. you have to have an insider's perspective. the members i spoke to and they said this represents an

overwhelming majority of the caucus thinks stability is the right course. let the speaker do what he said. finish out his term. hold the speakership elections after the november election. i agree with that. i think that's the wisest course. >> julie: ryan's camp argues that house republicans would be best served in the mid-terms by keeping him in the post through the election. how will ryan's presence affect republicans in the mid-terms by ryan sticking around and is he hampering kevin mccarthy's role as his ultimate replacement? >> no, he's not. i think kevin mccarthy will most likely be the speaker. let's wait and see what happens after the election if there's any external events. in fact, i can make the case that it will enhance republican fund-raising because not only will you have the current speaker out there, that will raise money and it won't be diminished, you'll have a spe

speaker in the wings who will raise more money for republicans. you'll have two speakers out there to raise more money and get bigger crowds. so i think the right thing is to have stability. one other point here, is if you held the election today and the republicans lost the house, then the speaker would step down, no republican speaker anymore. he becomes majority leader. the majority leader steps down, he backs into the whip job. it creates turmoil because the whole election gets reversed if republicans lose the house. so the wisest course is what ryan laid out. let him finish his term and hold the leadership elections after the election. >> how much of this is a power struggle? paul ryan said there's nobody that comes close to raise the kind of money that i have. i can still raise for this majority. it makes no sense to take the biggest fund raiser off this field. i think almost all of our members see it that way as well. not necessarily all the members see it that way. congressman tom graves, when he

tried to make the case last week that essentially he believed that mccarthy should be voted in now rather than later. paul ryan, he didn't like that so much. he in fact publicly insulted the idea. i felt that maybe he was insulted himself. he doesn't believe that people would want to push him out. what is the harm in holding the vote now to secure the speakership? >> number 1, there aren't a lot of members in the caucus that field that way. a few but not many. and the harm is just what i outlined before. it's the stability argument. there's a lot more stability in keeping paul ryan here now. let's see if the republicans are in the majority or minority after november and hold the election then. i think members want more stability. they don't want palace intrigue and the race. you'd have a race for whip and everything becomes open now. yes, there's an element these are all power struggles to a certain degree, but also able stability to a greater degree.

>> all right. ari fleischer, thanks very much. i appreciate you. >> eric: there's a massive recall issued for eggs across the country. it affects nine states. they've been put on notice. coming up, we'll tell you what you have to do and where you look for the numbers to see if your eggs affected by this. and james comey said he had to separate himself from former attorney general loretta lynch. >> i was operating in a world where hillary clinton was going to beat donald trump.

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the eggs are sold in various stores in nine states including walmart and food lion. they're distributed from a farm in hyde county, north carolina. here's a look at the different brand names if you have any of these brands in your kitchen, do not use them. dispose of them immediately. >> eric: james comey speaking out about his tenure and his firing during the one-on-one interview with george stephanopoulos at abc news. he said his belief that hillary clinton would win the white house did play a role in his decision to reopen the investigation shortly before election day. he admits that decision was a no-win situation. >> i knew this was a no-win situation. one half of the partisan divide is going to be angry at us no matter what we do. the deputy director said you know you're totally screwed, right? i smiled and said yeah, nobody

gets out alive. >> eric: so was it fair to use politics in a determination in an investigation? congressman, you're a lawman. you served three decades in the jacksonville sheriff's office. you were in fact the sheriff. what do you think of an investigator admitting that he was influenced by political considerations? >> eric, i'm aghast at director comey's handling of this investigation. they talk about -- they sound like two tortured souls, don't they? the reason they're tortured is this. they're looking more at the political landscape of the investigation than the actual facts and uncovering the evidence that they needed to uncover in that investigation. in an investigation like this,

you should always be searching for the truth regardless of the partisan divide that he refers to. as long as you're based in evidence and fact, your investigation is secure and justified. >> eric: do you think he was based in fact? >> absolutely not. by his own admissions he was being influenced by the political landscape around him. he thought that hillary was going to be elected. look, i think that, eric, this goes back to the start of the investigation initially. it's very odd to me that h.q., the headquarters of the fbi, started this investigation. instead of the washington field office. that number 1 is odd to me. what is also odd is the break from protocol in not only talking about a criminal investigation that you're conducting, but given the background on it. i mean, that, eric, is a -- i'm astounded. >> eric: that is -- he defends

that. but there's a lot of other stuff to go through in this investigation and issues that you raised. hillary was not put under oath. what about the server? >> eric, worse than that, she was -- not only was she not put under oath, she was given immunity and there was no recording. that is unprecedented. i've never none of the fbi to conduct an investigation like that. >> eric: would you have handled an investigation like that if you had a suspect in the lockup? >> absolutely not. you don't offer immunity to everybody that could become a target in the investigation as they did in this case. you certainly -- even if you do offer immunity, you are still going to capture the information and what is said in the meeting by actually documenting the

meeting. they failed to do that. >> eric: do you think the fix was in? he defends himself and said it was handled appropriately and that's the way it was done. >> i don't know how anyone cannot believe that the fix was in when he goes on television in july and announces that -- he hasn't discussed any of this with the doj. the attorney general's office. and he goes on television and lays out the investigation and then puts on the a.g.'s hat, jumps out of his lane and says nobody should take this for prosecution. now he's the prosecutor as well as the finder of fact. it's very bizarre from a criminal investigator's standpoint. >> do you intend to read the book? what are they talking about in washington when you're in the

hallways there? >> i don't intend to read the book. i know some of the background on this investigation. you know, the fact that he would conduct this e-mail investigation separate from the ag's office, keeping attorney general lynch in the dark because of a russian intelligence memo that he thinks -- obviously he thought it was valid at the time because he acted upon it. this was reporting a text or e-mail between the head of the dnc, debbie wasserman schultz and a high staffer in -- that they were -- there was this agreement between loretta lynch and the hillary clinton campaign that this investigation wouldn't go long or too deep, that sort

of thing. so -- >> eric: we're up against the clock, congressman. i apologize. so we'll have to see how this investigation unfolds and all the coverage on it. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, eric. >> julie: reaction is pouring in in support of barbara bush that is no longer seeking medical treatment and is in failing health. our next guest will explain why the former first lady's decision is a sound choice for her condition.

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>> coming up on "outnumbered," president trump and the white house firing back after james comey's comments calling the president morally unfit for office. could he be hurting his credibility and whether the president's supporters care what comey says? >> we could see more sanctions

on moscow over russia's role in protecting assad in syria after the apparent use of chemical weapons. what is next for the united states and syria? >> and our lucky guy, "outnumbered" top of the house. >> julie: a fox news alert. an outpouring of support for barbara bush and her family after a spokesman announced she's in failing health and no longer seeking medical treatments. mrs. bush, 92 years old, left the hospital and is at home in houston receiving what they're calling comfort care. here with me now, dr. marc siegel from nyu langone medical center. thanks for coming in. >> good to see you. >> julie: this is so sad. she's 92 but she has so much life left in her. she's made a decision that taking dramatic care to treat what she has is -- are heart

failure and obstructive pulmonary disease. she wants to stop all treatments. what do you think? >> this is ground breaking that we decide this. we tend to think of comfort care for cancer. you have terminal cancer. it's not getting better or responding to treatment. you can draw care. for years now, we've known with severe heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she's had multiple hospitalizations, she wears oxygen, we know from studies that there's a time when you withdraw care there and you don't put a patient on ays -- respirator. >> julie: when you talk about

aggressive treatment like her, 92 years old, with her health history, what kind of aggressive treatments and how much more time could it give her? >> could give somebody months. we're talking about ventilators and respirators. kaiser foundation provides that 25% over the dollars of a person's age is spent in the last year of her life. medicare money going to people that are not going to recover. we as physicians know that a person won't get better but people don't want to give up the hope obviously. if you get beyond the point where treatment will work. she's been a pioneer before with literacy. saying if you want your child to read, you read. that's simple. for aids, hiv aids when it was a big stigma, she was out there advocating. she's a very strong person. she's facing death the same way. it's courageous.

>> julie: we'll be right back. our prayers, and hearts go out to the bush family. >> absolutely. >> julie: we'll be right back. try align, the #1 doctor recommended probiotic. with a unique strain that re-aligns your system. re-align yourself, with align.

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>> eric: thank you for joining us. >> julie: "outnumbered" starts right now. >> fox news alert. we're waiting for president trump to arrive in florida where he will host a roundtable on tax reform this hour. he could say more about former fbi director james comey's very public assault on his character. he's already hit back against the fbi director he fired after comey called the commander-in-chief morally unfit to be president. this is "outnumbered." i'm sandra smith. here today, harris faulkner, host of "after the bell." the host of kennedy, also on fbn, kennedy. the other fox news contributor, stephen hayes is here. he's outnumbered good to have you back. >>