>> what have you got, hemmer? that's what you would say. >> did you do your taxes? >> yes, i did. i'm studious about that, you? >> yes, homework is done on this side. thank you for joining us, see you tomorrow. "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: we begin with a fox news alert on if you fallout from the u.s. led air strikes in syria saying the action violates international law. >> syrian tv says the u.n. committee is in douma now as russia condemns those strikes saying they violated international law and hurt the peace process. mike tobin is live from our middle east bureau in jerusalem with more. >> at long last the inspectors from the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons

have arrived in douma according to syrian state tv, 10 days after what is believed to be a chemical attack and four days after syrian and russian officials took control of douma. russia and syria have denied chemical weapons. u.s. and france say they have proof. they were delayed due to security concerns. ominous warning out of israel. a source released pictures are iranians are supporting the fight in syria. one image is an airport where a source says syrians are establishing a base. also an image that israel says is an iranian drone in east syria and a picture of the airport in tehran saying it's the location where iran is flying personnel and supplies into syria disguised as a civilian flight and released a picture of the commander of the

revolutionary guard. all these can be targets if tensions between iran and israel flares into further conflict. netanyahu has long said his military will not tolerate iran establishing forward bases in syria. back to you. >> thank you. >> jon: breaking news this morning. former f.b.i. director james comey firing back at president trump during his first live interview since the launch of his new tell-all book. he calls the firestorm of recent tweets an example of how mr. trump misunderstands or disrespects the rule of law. some lawmakers are questioning comey's credibility. >> mr. comey misled the american people in both investigations, the clinton and trump investigation. with clinton at the urging of the attorney general calls the clinton investigation a matter not an investigation. then he allows the country to

believe the president is under investigation when he wasn't and had been told by james comey he wasn't. i think the guy messed everything up from the get-go and doesn't have a whole lot of credibility. >> jon: let's bring the white house correspondent for the daily caller. it's interesting. james comey was always seen as a white hat guy in washington he was the law man, the respected law man. some of what has come out as a result of his book and book tour seems to stain that image a little bit. >> yeah. that's exactly what i'm hearing from the many f.b.i. veterans who worked with james comey for every25 years. they said i loved working for him and respected him in the office and even defended him in the clinton email investigation but they're saying a bridge too far is this time with director comey's comments about the president's personal appearance, the tanning goggles, the length of his tie.

several of the f.b.i. veterans i talked to, very high-level people in the senior executive service said it is demeaning to the director of the f.b.i. and stokes deep state conspiracies and damages the f.b.i. brand and makes director wray's job even harder at this moment. >> jon: comey says he is trying to take people inside the room and give them the flavor of these high-level discussions. >> exactly. he is saying he wants to sell books by taking swipes at the president. i thought it was interesting that he didn't take us into the room in such vivid detail with president bush and president obama. any time that people have said he is sniping at president trump here he says i'm only showing you my experience with three different presidents and with the first two as an example of his so-called ethical leadership and president trump standing against that. it is quite clear that director comey has developed a deep

personal animosity towards president trump and you see it in his book. >> jon: you have to wonder with somebody like christopher wray or any f.b.i. director to come, you have to wonder what the effect is going to be on the high-level conversations that they might have with a president or attorney general. >> one of the most senior people that i talked to from the f.b.i. said the most shocking thing from director comey's book is his willingness to disclose in detail his private conversations with the president of the united states. and what is so concerning about that is that the president must -- he must be assured that his conversations with senior members of the intelligence services are not going to leak in that he needs to be able to ask the difficult questions. he needs to be able to look at the intelligence and ask probing questions and not ensure they will be memorialized in such vivid detail include the eye goggle

tan. it makes it more difficult for people interacting with the president on a daily basis. >> jon: not only what's in the book but launched on this tour the book tour, and who knows what is going to come out in the coming days? >> he has several interviews lined up. he is selling out auditoriums. $800 a ticket. so this is not going away any time soon. i'm sure the president will be lobbing several shots across his bow as he did on twitter yesterday where he said director comey and former director mccabe committed many crimes which comey took exception to this morning. >> president trump playing host to japan's prime minister at mar-a-lago amid growing tension between the two countries.

japan is concerned about the meeting with north korea. the president saying i'm in florida looking forward to my meeting with prime minister abe of japan working on trade and military security. the visit could be a test of their personal friendship, though, as president trump pushes for new tariffs on japan. >> jon: just in a major alert from two western allies. officials from the u.s. and britain now confirm russian hackers are behind a series of cyberattacks against government and private networks. the targeting is affecting million else of devices worldwide but authorities are not able to specify exactly how many devices have been compromised or the objective of this hack attack. >> new surveillance being released of lois reiss. she is on the run for weeks. where the nationwide manhunt is taking police and they continue to warn she is armed and

dangerous. is house majority leader kevin mccarthy a lock for the new leader and why the gop is calling for unity. >> i think it's important that republicans be unified heading into the mid-terms with respect to that. our focus needs to be on making sure the next speaker is a republican.

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christi, texas. >> melissa: one of the big questions facing the house is who will replace speaker paul ryan as speaker? house majority leader kevin mccarthy and house majority whip steve scalise are seen as the frontrunners. many look for a new speaker of the house as a wide open race. let's bring the a congressman who is a member of the freedom congress and sits on the house judiciary committee. thank you for joining us. you list as one of the most important things in the next speaker to keep the trump agenda moving. who do you think would be good at that? >> i think there is a whole lot of people that are committed to that and i heard jim jordan talking about it this morning. i think he would be excellent and others, maybe even somebody like a mark walker. there are a number of people who are committed to the trump agenda and that's what we promised we would do. and that's the change agent that the people elected. so we need to be

correspondingly changing. >> melissa: another point that you made is someone who is serious about balancing the budget. and from this seat it doesn't look like there are a lot of folks in washington that are serious about that. of the names you mentioned who is most committed to getting the size of government and spending under control? >> i do believe that that's where jim jordan's strength lies. general mattis testified recently that it is a threat to the united states of america is this budget crisis, the debt, the deficit that we have. jim has talked about it and understands it and as long as we keep kicking the can down the road we exacerbate the problem. this is something that the next speaker has to come in on day one committed to doing is balancing the budget. >> melissa: the next thing you talked about someone committed to getting back to regular order and a reason why it seems like that isn't happening and has to do with trying to get

enough people to agree to things. do you think jim jordan is the kind of leader that could restore regular order or would someone else be better? >> jim would be great and others that could do that. item one, the budget, is directly tied to the failure to put these items on the floor that people debate them and vote them up and down. i can't represent by constituents adequately. you give me a 2300 page bill at 8:30 at night and get your amendments in by 10:00. this is the kind of thing that americans want to change. jim is a change agent. others that want to be change agents. we can't keep going with the status quo and expect anything different. >> melissa: how did you get to a point to that's what's happening? what's the main blame for the example you just used? >> number one the senate's 60-vote filibuster rule. that doesn't mean the house can't go by regular order.

it doesn't mean we can't produce the very best possible legislation we can and send it over to the senate. the way we're doing things now is doing it without regular order we don't put pressure on the senate to do regular order. we have to keep pressure on them as well and why you need to do regular order. >> melissa: you say you want someone who will tell members the truth. that sort of implies that speaker ryan hasn't been doing that. >> i wouldn't say it's speaker ryan that i'm implying. i think that everybody needs to be more candid, more open, more transparent and say this is what's going to happen. when i look him in the eye i want to know what they're telling me is the truth. so they would expect me to perform and my promises. i want to know they'll keep their end of the bargain and go into regular order. that's one thing we all want and talked about. it's one thing we all expect. >> melissa: congressman biggs, thank you for joining us,

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on him and his partner. he was hit but not before returning fire. the deputy was rushed to the hospital. the harris county constable precinct showing other deputies visiting the wounded deputy in the hospital and asking for prayers for their hero who is expected to undergo surgery. >> jon: taking congress back from the republicans in this year's mid-term elections could be harder than democrats at first thought. a recent "washington post"/abc news poll shows the gap between support for democratic and gop house candidates has the dropped by more than half since the beginning of the year. the most potential for change exists in the house where democrats need to flip just 24 seats to regain the majority. let's talk about the political prospects here. lawrence jones, editor in chief of campus reform.org and with us former missouri state

representative don calloway. thanks for being here. don, i'll start with you. according to the post/abc news poll in january a generic democrat led a generic republican. would you like your representative to be a democrat or republican led by 12 points. now it's down to 4. as a democrat are you nervous? >> not at all. i expect the democrats to take back the house in november. senate will be tougher. the house you have 44 retirements. not folks leaving because they're done with the process. you don't leave congress if you think you'll be in the majority. you have 60 seats bluer than the one than democrats took back. i won't say blue wave. a lot of time and democrats have a lot of ground work to do in voter outreach and developing a coherent message but i expect the democrats to take back the majority in november.

>> jon: are you nervous? >> republicans should be nervous. when you have this large a percentage of congressmen leaving the house, that draws some concern. a lot of this is because a lot of those chairmanships have expired, the gop have the unofficial rule where after you serve so many terms you can't be a chairman anymore but puts back on the democrats. what they're doing now is causing the republican base to rally around the president when it comes to immigration, gun policy. before the party had got a little complacent because we had just won the election. it happens all the time. whatever party it is they get complacent after they have control of all parts of government. now when they're pushing the liberal policies it will rally donald trump's base. >> jon: is that why the gap is closing? president's approval ratings aren't great but up. >> this president has been historically bad. we still have six months to go.

you had the october surprise and november surprise. anything can happen in the span of six months. it's a ton of time. individual candidates are rallying the base. we see things like the march for our lives and women's movement, continuing to gain steam across the country. no reason to think these things will dissipate by november when you see the continued resistance to things like common sense gun reform and the president continues to alienate large segments of the population every day via twitter. >> you see a surge in gun sales and go out and vote for the next election for the republican party and so i would love to see the democrats continue the nonsense when it comes to guns. it will make our base show up to the polls. >> i encourage the president to continue what he is doing. every day he alienates a wide swath of the american people. >>

>> jon: why are his approval ratings going up? >> mid-term elections are a referendum on the president. he has gone from f to d. nowhere near where he needs to be to carry his party to the majority in november. >> you may not want to use polls as a determining factor when it comes to donald trump. we saw what happened in the past elections. polls aren't the right way to track it. people support him. whether you like him or not the republican party has an issue but not so much donald trump. >> jon: january was a 12-point gap. democrat advantage over republicans. now it's down to 4. >> you have to let history be our guide. show me where an unpopular president in his first year have carried his party. >> you show me a poll where

every pollster predicted this guy wouldn't be president. we will do it many more times. >> i'll see nancy pelosi in the chairmanship by november. >> jon: we have a lot of discussion. >> melissa: a federal judge weighing a decision in the case of president trump's personal attorney. the president's legal team is not happy. plus ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley announcing new sanctions on russia, but the white house says not so fast. >> you will see that russian sanctions will be coming down as they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use. >> tech: at safelite autoglass

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considering how to handle records seized in that f.b.i. raid on president trump's personal attorney michael cohen. he is asking the judge to block investigators from reviewing the material arguing it is protected by attorney/client privilege. >> prosecutors revealed that when they did the raids on michael cohen's residence and his office, that they had numerous electronic devices including telephones and that for what they could the computer devices they actually took images so his lawyers, they say, already have much of the evidence and know what is there. >> jon: laura engel is following the story. >> michael cohen's motion to keep investigators from going through the documents and electronics seized last week was denied. the matter is mute because the evidence is not available to either side yet. instead she ordered the government to give copies of

all the physical and electronic documents to cohen's attorneys so they can flag what they consider privileged information. cohen's team can then share that information with the president's team while the judge decides how to make sure items that should be protected aren't disclosed to investigators. cohen was asked to reveal his list of legal clients yesterday in court. his attorney turned over two names, president trump and elliott broidy but wouldn't name the third. the request was enough to name under the law and the name was revealed as sean hannity. he responded tweeting this. michael cohen has never represented me in any manner. i never retained him, received an invoice or paid legal fees. i've had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which i wanted his input and perspective. yesterday at the courthouse the adult film actress stormy daniels was on hand. she said she had a vested

interest to be there after cohen paid her $130,000 for alleged hush money for her alleged sexual relationship with mr. trump. >> for years mr. cohen has acted like he is above the law and considered himself and referred to himself as mr. trump's fixer. he has played by no rules at all. he has never thought the little man or especially women, even more women like me, mattered. that ends now. >> the next court proceeding should take place in a few weeks after all sides have had a chance to look through the documents and reconvene. the judge said she may appoint a neutral lawyer to help decide the confidentiality of those items. >> jon: laura engel. thank you. >> melissa: this just in. syrian state tv says an international chemical weapons watchdog team is entering the site of a chemical attack in the syrian city of douma. that attack killing more than

40 people and prompting the u.s. and its allies to carry out a missile strike on syria's chemical weapons storage sites. russia condemning the allied strikes. the white house is backing away from ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley's pledge of new sanctions against russia. >> president trump: did our generals do a great job and our military do a great job? [applause] and you know, with way over 100 missiles shot in they didn't shoot one down. the equipment didn't work too well, their equipment. and they didn't shoot one. you heard oh, they shot 40 down, then 50. then i called and said, no, sir, every single one hit its target. think of that. [applause] >> melissa: joining me now is a

joint special operations task force officer and founder of brameer group. let's me start with the investigative group. is there any traces to hide those weapons if others got to the scene first or will you find residue? >> what i think the first thing we've seen is syrian/russian officials are willingly wanting to provide 22 witnesses. if that doesn't smell a little rotten to everyone else, i don't know what does. taint your witness. the fact that we've waited so long especially with douma and now holm to let inspectors in i'm skeptical that anything will be there or if they haven't altered it or removed evidence. >> melissa: can you remove evidence of chemical weapons? wouldn't there be some residue left behind. is it realistic to think they could wipe it clean? >> well, it depends on the chemical. if we talk sarin gas it has a very low densities and high

burn-off rates which is one of the reasons we hit when we did. there would be evidence there but russia, syria, they are constantly trying to paint a different story. a week ago they blamed it on the u.k. i'm skeptical of the whole thing and the inspectors that they are actually letting on site. >> melissa: moving on to the other topic when we talk about these sanctions that nikki haley may have talked about the other day or may have thought were coming. now apparently don't seem to be for now. how would you characterize our posture towards russia right now? >> in my opinion haley is great and she has some extreme tenacity. i applaud her on her efforts. but i think we'll revert back to general mattis and it seems like that's the person that has president trump's ear right now. he has been a leader on the battlefield for decades and certainly while we have a president that loves to talk about building walls, the one wall we don't want to build is between ourselves and russia

inviting putin in the united states to talk and have a conversation keeps the door open. i think it allows us to resolve this with diplomacy. i will fall back and trust general mattis on this and see how it plays out. we have a force that's on the ground. we have 2,000 troops there in syria. we have many more in jordan. we have 1800 marines there, a total of 3600 troops nearby. i think we are oef okay. we just need to let diplomacy try to work before we jump the gun. >> melissa: if you were to survey everything we're doing right now vis-a-vis russia whether it's the president's tweets or it is these air strikes in syria or if we talk about the sanctions, the expulsion of diplomats and ambassador down to whatever is happening with the latest round of sanctions and russia retaliating with the cyberattacks. how would you characterize the president's posture towards russia? on one hand he is inviting him

but a lot of the stand is very tough when you look at the physical actions that he has taken. how would you characterize it all together if you had to say? >> well, i applaud him for being tough. that's something we have been missing for a very long time with our foreign policy. i also applaud him for being strategic and listening to those folks around him and seeing what are the next steps and being cautious. russia was given the opportunity to move their vessels out of the harbor. it was a good move. we let them know what was going to happen or could potentially happen without showing our deck. it is a give and take here and i think that with the folks we have in the state department, our incoming secretary pompeo, general mattis. we have a good team and are in good hands. >> melissa: what do you think should be the next move? >> there are a lot more people in the pentagon working on that. i hope that we can take this and try to at some point formulate a very strong middle

eastern policy when it comes to syria. at some point i would like to see some of our allies and partners step up and take part of the ownership here. i have think the u.s. will maintain and be the leader. >> melissa: thank you. >> jon: americans are getting a little extra time to fill out their tax returns with the deadline falling today. is the president's tax overhaul making this day a little less painful? the benefits some are already seeing and what we can look forward to next year. we'll get some perspective from senator john thune who joins us live next. >> today marks the last day that people will have to file under the old tax code and it is out with the old and in with the new.

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administrative office and why. this happened at a school in prince georges county 35 miles west of annapolis. investigators believe the device had been there for several months. >> it is entirely unclear at this point as to what the goal of gathering that information was but i want to reassure parents and the community that it wasn't in a public place or a locker room or a bathroom where their young people might have images captured of them. >> melissa: crews sweeping the grounds for other cameras didn't find anything else. >> jon: fox news alert on this tax day which is the last time americans are filing under the old tax code. now that the president and gop pushed through tax reform legislation, the first major overhaul to the system in more than three decades. >> president trump: next year it will be a simple for the most part one page, may get a little bigger but it will be simple and easy to do and very

importantly you'll have a lot of money left over from what you have. and we didn't get one democrat to vote for us. let me tell you, if for any reason they get in, meaning the democrats, they are going to raise your taxes way up high and terminate this out. i'll veto it. >> jon: joining us now senator john thune who chairs the senate gop conference. you are pointing out to people this is the last time they will have to deal with the old system. >> that is correct, jon. out with the old and in with the new. the new tax code will be much simpler and going to allow the american people to keep more of their hard earned money. when you double the standard deduction and double the child tax credit, lower rates americans will receive a tax cut and just to put a fine point on that if you are a typical family of four with $73,000 of annual income you'll see a tax cut of $2,000 as a result of the tax reform bill and those benefits are starting

to -- american people are becoming more aware of that. next year they'll file under a new tax code that is simpler and reduces their overall tax burden. >> jon: a lot of people are seeing more take home pay because of the reduction in rates. you say the bigger bonuses come next year. >> that's right. right now they are starting to see as people through their withholding and pay stubs are starting to see a reduction in tax burden. a lot of people wait to file until the very end. when they do their return next year they can get the benefit of the doubling of the lower rates and a lower tax burden and much easier time complying and filing their taxes. and of course the benefit that comes, too, as businesses start to expand and grow as a result of the changes that we made, they will start seeing, i think, increased wages and more benefits and higher take-home pay as well.

those are all things that come about as a result of this. >> jon: when people have more money in their pockets they tend to spend it, right? it's good for everybody. >> that's what drives our economy, 2/3 of our gdp is consumer spending. when people are spending it on things that are priorities for them rather than having the government decide how to spend it it's a good thing for american families, our economy and growth and all benefits we expect to see not only in the near term but long term as a result of tax reform. >> jon: around the country and back in south dakota i'm sure you are seeing the same kinds of things. companies are boosting their 401k contributions, that kind of thing. >> benefit increases, bonuses, pay raises. we're seeing it in companies in south dakota and really frankly jon i think we've just touched the tip of the iceberg. i think you'll see more of that. some of these decisions have to go through corporate boards and

capital expenditures that will occur later in the year, expansion of businesses. those are all things that will continue to benefit our economy for a long time to come and when our economy grows and is expanding it also means the american workers benefit from that, too, in the form of better pay and higher wages. we're -- we are excited to get rid of the old tax code and excited to welcome in the new. it will be a significant benefit to the american people. >> jon: i because talking with my political panel and pointing out the democratic advantage over republican generic candidates in house races has shrunk substantially since january. do you think this is part of the reason why? >> i think that's part of it. when people think about politics and elections and who they want to lead them are thinking about the economy and their own pocket books. the kitchen table issues. everybody sits down with their families to talk about how to pay for the kids' college education and put aside for

money for retirement and save enough to take a vacation next year. day-to-day decisions. 50% of the people in this country live paycheck to paycheck. any time you can give them more in their paycheck they're in a better position to make decisions that are better for their families and you take that money out of washington, d.c. and let the american people spend it. that's a much better outcome. >> jon: you are telling your constituents and everybody watching is the best is yet to come. >> i do think the best is yet to come and we're starting to see direct and immediate benefits but over time as these tax changes take effect, take hold in the economy, businesses begin to expand as a result of that we're seeing some of that already. but i think you'll see more as time goes on. the efforts of this tax reform effort that has been undertaken by congress and the president working together will yield dividends for a long time for the american economy and american workers and families and why today, even though it's a bad news day for the american

people because they have to file tax returns if they've waited until the end but good news in the sense that next year it will be out with this old tax code and in with the new one and much better for them. >> jon: a much simpler system on the way. john thune, republican from south dakota, thank you. keep it right here on this tax day. our own neil cavuto will have an interview with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell on your world 4:00 p.m. eastern time today. >> melissa: wildfires reaching near historic levels already killing two people and why the flames are likely to spread. california's governor visiting washington on the heels of a decision that puts him again at odds with the president. >> the other three republican governors have a political affiliation that i don't share. but i do -- i am concerned about our borders. right at home caregiver.

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>> coming up on "outnumbered" "the new york times" asking if james comey is hurting his image as a nonpartisan man of the law and why all the personal digs about the president's hair, hands, neck ties. comey defending himself today and we'll debate that coming up. stormy daniels giving her first interview today. what the former porn star has to say about her role in the growing controversy surrounding the president's personal attorney. all of that and #one lucky guy. "outnumbered" top of the hour, see you soon. >> jon: deadly wildfires ravaging western oklahoma as firefighters face another challenge. weather conditions reaching historic conditions not seen in a decade. mixture of high temperatures,

low humidity and high winds creating the most potential for wildfires to spread. the blaze has killed two and injured nine others. >> melissa: right now the battle between the state of california and the trump administration continues as governor jerry brown is visiting washington today and he is expected to talk about the rift. >> the whole noise and reporting on tweets and the trump versus everybody else distorts, i think, the reality. by the way, everybody wants to talk about trump but the republicans in congress are the guilty party. they make laws. >> melissa: peter doocy is live in washington looks like it will be fun there. >> governor brown already here in d.c. but has been followed from california by a controversy stirred by his decision to limit what national guardsmen on the border there will do.

president trump wants the guardsmen enforcing immigration law and brown says that won't happen but some kind of agreement may come soon. now the governor is blaming border problems on members of congress. he had some choice words for them after they could not come up with a legislative solution for illegal immigrants. >> the fact is america has 10 to 11 million people that are here and they are human beings, they have families, it is very important that they be integrated in a humane, intelligent way. instead it's an inflammatory football that low life politicians like to exploit. >> before brown took the stage president trump tweeted this. governor brown and the state are not looking for -- he cannot come to terms for the

national guard to patrol and protect the border. officials say they want local control of the border. >> i think people in san diego are finally waking up and seeing and saying enough is enough, governor brown. because in san diego county we manage a 5.7 billion budget on the county board of supervisors. only 1.7 billion is in our direct control. the rest are decisions being made by the state and federal government. these are oftentimes harmful decisions impacting san diego. governor brown needs to follow the laws of our constitution. >> brown is challenging trump on immigration but seems cool on the idea of challenging him in 2020. he said today he can't think of anything less attractive than the democratic presidential primary. melissa. >> melissa: well, that's something. all right. peter doocy. thank you. >> jon: the ousted f.b.i. director james comey comes out swinging against the president taking some personal digs in the process.

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>> good start of the day down on wall street. you can see we are up about 250 points at this point in the day right now on strong earnings out of goldman sachs, johnson & johnson, unitedhealth. got to watch at the end of the day, 4:00 p.m., fox business, see how it ends. >> it was not your usual breaking and entering call for a sheriff's department in colorado when they got word of a trespasser inside a vehicle. responding officers from the boulder county sheriff's office found a bear who had locked himself in a car early this morning. look at the poor guy. they say they were able to free him, no officers, no animals got hurt. just looking for a picnic basket grade >> he looks like me trying to get out of a speeding ticket.

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