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white house senior adviser mercedes schlapp is attributing change of heart from trump administration. >> because of the fact, his administration came up with a very strategic solution in ensuring that there's the maximum pressure campaign on north korea. these economic sanctions are hurting that country and the mere fact that it wasn't done alone, so i think it shows that president trump not only in his strong leadership in basically saying we are going to stabilize the region, put focal point on north korea, but also being a coalition builder in the meantime. arthel: joining us bill richardson, former u.s. ambassador to the un, former governor to new mexico and former secretary energy under clinton's administration, the governor has been a frequent negotiator in north korea so we are very happy to have you here this evening with us, sir, thank you. >> thank you, thank you.

arthel: so in the meanwhile as you well know, governor, that kim jong un is also bragging about how they completed north korea's perfectly accomplished nuclear missile program in under 5 years so he doesn't need to test icbm. is this a prosummit concession or not? >> it's a prosummit development. i support what the president is doing meeting with him and basically saying this is a positive development, but remember what he did not do was going to dismantle the nuclear weapons or missile. what he's going to do is put a freeze on any testing, any future explosions, but that is a positive step, that he's shutting down the nuclear facility where he detonates, i've been there, so these are good steps but let me tell you something about the north koreans, they are up to something, either good or bad

and i'm not sure, but this is a positive -- i want to see it as positive but you have to watch him, their tactically, they have a strategy and my only worry here is that they have a strategy, i hope we have a strategy. arthel: yeah, i've got several questions popping in my head regarding what you just said, governor, first i want to go here, how capable is iran nuclear agreement -- north korea's nuclear arsenal? >> the defense intelligence agency says he may have 60. the missile arsenal is pretty strong true, he can get guam, he can get the hawaii, alaska, probably continental united states. whether he can get with his missiles and nuclear war head to the conty -- continental united states, we don't know yet, he's probably close to getting there.

i do feel that kim jong un feels he has maximum ledge in nuclear arsenal because technologically he's advanced dramatically. is he capable of hitting us with a nuclear war, i don't think yet, but it could be very close. but this is the time to negotiate, to stop him, curb their use, to put limits, put freezes and hopefully denuclearization, although i have my doubts whether we will be able to achieve that, certainly not in the first negotiating session. arthel: what will it take if it doesn't happen in the first round of talks because president trump is saying, listen, in order for these talks to even happen, we need you to promise to denuclearize, what if that any further happens? >> well, i think what the president needs to do, i hope the administration is -- there are a lot of important steps that could happen, we talked about nuclear freezes, testing of missile shots, of nuclear shots, stop the chemical weapon's exports to syria,

missile and nuclear exports, that's important, but i think what we have to look at is each side looks at denuclearization differently. we think it's dismantling nuclear weapons. the north koreans think it's basically a freeze. i think, arthel, this is going to take not just one session, we need to set up a process. the president needs to perhaps get a secretary of state a process that maybe it's going to take to 2020, maybe more time, but let's be patient and let's be recognize that a lot has been achieved lately, let's not throw it away for just, you know, not getting something at the summit, the summit is good. arthel: right. >> i've negotiated with these people, it's going to take a long time and it's going to be difficult. arthel: maybe the president is listening to you, don't think it's one and done. you mentioned, mr. pompeo, so he has not been confirmed as of yet, he goes up in front of the

committee on monday. what happens, governor, if mike pompeo is not confirmed as a secretary of state, how does that impact these upcoming summits? >> well, i'm going to be candid, i believe he should be confirmed. i mean, the fact that he was in north korea, he's setting up the summit, he's the president's choice for secretary of state, you know, i worry about some of his views, i'm worried about what he's saying about iran, let's cancel the iran deal, i mean, he said it, i worry about that, he seems to be a very prepared man, i was a member of congress, he was a help of congress, that's good, but i do think for these negotiations, i think he should be confirmed. secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, top people that my president wants, i think, the congress should give the president that latitude to have him confirmed and in office. that's what i would do. who am i, i'm nobody now.

arthel: you are always somebody, governor. you are always somebody, absolutely, for sure. i want to circle back now to what is kim jong un up to, you mentioned moment ago, what is it that he wants? does he want to join the older of world leaders besides the good press that we believe he wants, is it financing for his poor economy, what is he up to? >> well, it's an excellent question. i think he does want to join the world community. he has an end game, we don't know exactly what it is. he doesn't want to get knocked off. he loves his power position. he wants sanctions lifted, he wants, i think, the end of the armist of the korean war, but a lot of it, arthel, ego, he wants to make a deal, he thinks the big powers in the region are north korea and the u.s., not south korea, not japan, not china, so, you know, this is for

them -- this is very big and this is why the president should drive a hard bargain to get as much as we can but beprayered and -- be prepared and be patient that in one summit it's not going to be achieved the denuclearization, worth the effort but takes some time and we set a standard and we set a timeline. arthel: so there is, of course, talking of releasing the 3 citizens held captive in north korea, what else do we get in return, governor? i know you are saying, be calm, be patient, we are on a good track here but it's going the take time. you know, how much time do we give this in terms of getting some sort of progress and what exactly the president trump wants out of this and how do we monitor everything in the process? >> you have to have strong verification standards. i remember president reagan saying trust but verify. i think that makes a lot of sense.

the international atomic agency, international inspectors, hopefully u.s. inspectors, in the past with north korea we didn't have the inspection regime. we do with iran which i think is good, but i think what we also need is, you know, we have the remains of our soldiers, there are thousands in north korea from the korean war, let's get some of the remains back, that's important to families. let's get some family reunification that also involve korean americans and south koreans and north koreans, a lot of humanitarian steps and in the longer run, you know, some real concerns about human rights in north korea, the golags, finding ways that there can be an improvement in the economic situation of a lot of people there that are starving. arthel: finally, governor s there political jeopardy in the u.s. for taking this meeting, what could go wrong? >> well, you know, if the summit

explodes or the president gets mad and leaves, i wish he wouldn't say stuff like that or kim jong un does the same, you know, the status quo before the summit was terrible, missile test, tension in japan, south korea, we have american troops, you know, ready, i just think if this summit doesn't work, the risks are that the relationship not only will go downhill in the region, tensions will rise and we will be talking about preemptive military strikes which i think is a disaster option for everybody. so i think there's a lot riding on this. i think the president took a risk. i think it was the right risk but there are risks and i just hope we have a strategy and we are prepared. arthel: governor, the always relevant governor bill richardson, it's a pleasure to have you on our newscast, thank you very much, take care. >> all the best. arthel: thank you.

eric: always good to see the former ambassador, president trump in florida estate. phil keating not too far from mar-a-lago. >> president trump sent regards, at least he tweeted them out in mar-a-lago and indicated that's where he would be watching live television coverage of the former lady barbara's bush funeral procession. he tweeted out a photo of portrait that hangs inside the white house, he also wrote, quote, today my thoughts and prayers are with the entire bush family, there's a remembrance display located at her portrait in the center hall of the white house. attending the funeral in houston in person first lady melania trump who represented her husband's administration there. she sat in the front row and afterwards released this statement, quote, today the world paid tribute to a woman of indisputable character and

grace, it was my honor to travel to houston give my respects to barbara bush and the remarkable life she led as a mother, wife and fearless first lady, my zinger east thoughts and prayers continue to be with george h.w. and the entire bush family. president trump also tweeted out this motorcade view of the big crowd down in key west on thursday which lined his motorcade route where trump was briefed on the ongoing drug war and wrote, fantastic crowd in key west, florida, thank you. prior to watching the funeral inside the winter white house, president trump spent the morning a few miles away at his trump international golf club, eric. eric: that was a deeply service for mrs. bush, we will have a report in a moment on that. meanwhile in the president in his tweeting, tweeting defense of long-time attorney michael

cohen. >> a very strong defense. that came out very early this morning during a tweet where the president also harshly lashed out at "the new york times" and specifically the reporter from the times who wrote today's story. the story suggested that michael cohen just may flip just as feds raided law office and home and cohen may be indicted in the next 90 days. white house senior adviser mercedes schlapp. >> president trump is a fighter and you will known his opinion. and when it comes to michael cohen, he doesn't like that obviously you're seeing so much of this expansion going on with the raids and -- and the situations, and so i think for the president, you know, he's going to talk about what he thinks and his opinion about that. >> president trump right now remains at mar-a-lago, winter white house on the final weekend of the winter tourists in west

palm beach, whether the president comes back before thanksgiving remains to be seen, he is going to, scheduled to return to washington sometime tomorrow afternoon. eric. eric: i guess i mean the hotel rates go down. hope they do. >> got that right. eric: arthel. ♪ ♪ arthel: an emotional day as hundreds of people gathered at a church in houston to pay they respects and celebrate the life of former fist lady barbara bush, phil keating reported moments ago, first lady melania trump attended the funeral along with former president obama and clinton and their wives. to honor wife of 73 years and commitment to family literacy, former president george h.w. bush wore a pair of socks adorned with books. >> reading, literacy for all was as you know barbara bush's great

passion. every great book has a good beginning, but also a wonderful end and so the life story of barbara bush is best described as a good read. arthel: mike emanuel in houston, tell us all about it, mike. >> you get a sense this was the funeral that first lady barbara bush really wanted, there was faith, humor and a few tears. the eulogy given was from former florida governor jeb bush. >> genuine and authentic by the best role model in the world. her not coloring her hair. by the way, she was beautiful till the day she died, hugging of hiv patient at the time when her mother won't do it, standing by her man in 1984 election, and

a thousand other ways barbara pierce bush was real and that's why people admired her and loved her so. >> jeb bush made reference that his mother did not want the funeral to be too long or too weepy, it was scheduled to be about 90 minutes or so, wrapped a few minutes early and he and the others did a really good job of keeping their emotions from overcoming them, arthel. arthel: of course, it was so very, very touching, mike, tell us what everything was like after the funeral service was over? >> well, it was really a celebration of first lady barbara bush's life so there definitely was some joy, when the casket left st. martin's church, it was appropriately solemn and peaceful and afterwards when the casket made way to college station, texas, some of the guests were reflective of what they saw today. >> it was a great tribute to an outstanding, amazing lady. i think she would have been very pleased. well done, everybody participated, the kids, the

grandkids, everybody had wonderful things that accurately portrayed the life of barbara bush and she would have been proud, it was beautiful ceremony. >> living till age 92, mrs. bush played active role in planning this day, beautiful day in houston, arthel. arthel: a beautiful day, indeed, to serve a beautiful life, a lady with such dignity, grace and compassion. mike emanuel, thank you. >> amen. eric: strength and honesty. we are now back to washington and lawsuit, the democratic national committee taking legal action alleging conspiracy by the trump campaign and the presidential election with the russians all to defeat hillary clinton and why the president says why legal move can backfire. the memos from james comey sparking fire storm, the president tweeting that comey made stuff up, why the justice department's are reviewing documents and that could spell

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arthel: new renaks the wake of justice department turning over memos from james comey to congress detailing the former fbi director's interactions with president trump. house oversight committee chair trey gowdy pointing out what he calls a double standard by comey. >> when he was upset with president trump he leaked memos, when he was upset with loretta lynch, nobody knew about it. nobody knew that he didn't have confidence for loretta lynch, he appropriated a decision away from himself. arthel: the president is has also tweeted about this meanwhile the wall street journal reports that at least two memos comey shared with a friend to have leaked contained classified information. the president also tweeting about today saying that, quote, james comey's memos are classified. i did not declassify them, they belonged to our government therefore he broke the law.

additionally, he totally made up many of the things i said and already proven liar and leaker, where are memos on clinton, others. mr. comey is getting heat from other directions as well. >> yeah, james comey now under investigation for handling of classified information. folks will remember after james comey was fired, he shared several memos with a friend in order to be leaked to reporter, wall street journal reports at least two of the leaked memos contained information that was later deemed classified at the secret or confidential level. the justice department's inspector general is now investigating comey's handling of the memos as part of broader probe into the bureau's handling of the clinton e-mail case. now it is notable that as fbi director james comey had the authority to determine what information was and was not classified, the once he left bureau the decision was up to other officials and it wasn't until fired that he leaked

several memos, arthel. arthel: garrett, in terms of the substance of the memos, lawmakers seem to be divided about that, right? >> yeah, depending on which party they consumer they are reaching very different conclusions. republicans argue the memos prove that president trump did not try to interfere in the bureau's russia investigation and in fact, supported it. as comey wrote in a memo after meeting with the president, quote, he said that if there was some satellite, i took this to mean some associate or campaign that did something, it would be good to find out, but that he hadn't done anything and hope i would find a way to get that out that we weren't investigating him. democrats are pointing to another memo, though, which was widely reported last year in which the president asked comey to see if he could find a way to let the investigation to former national security adviser michael flynn go, and the president did try to interfere in investigation. >> these documents just further flesh out this intent effort

which donald trump has had right from the beginning of his presidency to try to sweep the entire russia investigation under the rug and all this is going to do is just further intensify the public's demand that they know everything that did happen. >> while james comey has certainly suggesting there may be case in the department of justice, he was asked by lawmakers on capitol hill and testified that at the time he did not feel the president was asking him to drop the investigation, arthel. arthel: garrett, thanks. eric: joining house is bob, former justice department official who served as deputy assistant attorney general under george w. bush's administration, bob, about two hours ago we just saw the president tweeted of comey this, quote, he broke the law, totally made up many of the things he said i said, so what will be the determination by the department of justice if he,

indeed, break the law? >> well, i think what you're going to see is something similar with what you saw with deputy director mccabe, you will see ig report that's very detailed, will go through the rules and will probably make some kind of referral if it's warranted to back to doj to prosecutor of some sort to determine whether to prosecute the case. i think that comey has some risk based on what's public available because his argument that personal memos as nonstarter, if you create a memo when director of fbi, that's the fbi's memo and the fact that he waited until after he was fired to leak the memos, he wasn't the person with authority at that point to do that. eric: let's take that step by step. i want to read the wall street journal, this is what they said, mr. comey has said he considered the memos personal rather than government documents, he has told congress that he wrote them and authorized the release to the media, quote, as a private

citizen. the fbi director comey had legal authority to determine what bureau information was classified an wasn't. do you think he will get away with that? he's fbi director and in the white house on official by, how can he claim that it was a private citizen? >> that to me is a nonstarter. i think it shows he recognizes there's risks, there's risk that he's trying to say that. i don't see the ig buying explanation for a minute because if so it would be a perfect defense to any allegation of leaking by high government official, you just say, well, that wasn't my work memo that was a private memo, my memoirs afterwards, it's not government property. eric: is it illegal -- his notes with the president would that be illegal, that's not considered classified or is it? >> it's a very tricky question because his computer is a classified computer and so he creates, he's doing what hillary

clinton did in that documents may not be marked classified when he creates them, well, of course they're not because there's not a classification official looking over your shoulder, i mean, again, people get this backwards, documents are classified because they are classified and get marked that way. they are not only classified because they are marked classified. in my understanding some computers are pruimentively classified, whatever is created on them by certain senior high-level officials, he will have an issue there in making his own classification determination, that's not the way it goes. in some ways it proves too much. anyone could do it. anyone could leak anything. eric: you mentioned hillary clinton, this parallels and echos hillary's case exactly. he has at least one document that he created, one of those memos was then later deemed classified just like hillary clinton, hillary clinton, he gave her the anointment to

basically not be charged with that. what would it mean if he's charged and hillary is not or what means since hillary wasn't charged, he won't either? >> well, i mean, i think there's hypocrisy all over the place in these cases. you look at flynn get being charged for false statements and then you look at mccabe and whether or not he will be charged with false statements and you look at comey who arguably made false statements before congress, so i think that, you know, it gets people very frustrated and continues this, this story line that all these investigations. >> unfortunately politicized and people were looking at whose ox is being gored rather than applying principle to everyone loved. eric: finally, do you think he will be charged? >> it's hard to know because there's technical aspellts of the classification issue that we can't know about now but i think it is very good chance that he will end up in the same spot mccabe is now a couple of weeks

from now, you will see ig report that identifies false statements or some unlawful leaks or both and they'll be a referral and some prosecutor will have that on his lap. eric: all right, more to come, bob, thanks so much as always. >> thanks for having me, sean. arthel: thank you, sir, several thousand people in gaza staging a fourth round of weekly protests on the border with israel, now a new voice entering the fray as the tensions continue to rise, what the european union is now telling the jewish state, plus central american migrants continuing their trek through méxico towards the u.s. border as president trump pushes to increase border security, the fight over illegal immigration is ahead.

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arthel: central american my grants who drew criticism from president trump have just started reaching the u.s. border while a larger group is just days away. many of the migrants say they plan to turn themselves over to u.s. authorities and ask for asylum. anita has latest from the los angeles bureau, anita. >> hi, arthel, the number of immigrants has dwindled quite a bit since the end of march, initially 1500 central american migrants making their way north and now you have a few hundred expected to reach the

u.s.-méxico border. some left early for the u.s. on their own and some of the women and elderly were taken in by méxico on a temporary basis. take a look at this map, this is the route many of them took starting out at capachula tall way to tijuana, roughly 2500-mile journey on foot, some of the travelers away on train, others on buses and trucks, many expected to show up in san diego border tuesday where they plan to turn themselves in and ask for asylum. >> we are heading north seeking a better life, as you know in honduras you can't live there anymore because of the gangs, we can't even go shopping because you're afraid, we are also worried that our children will be recruited by the gangs, those are the fears in our country. >> again, most of the people who reached the border are expected to turn themselves in and ask for asylum and they have to be able to prove they have faced persecution in the past or have

a well-founded fear of persecution in their country. it is a lengthy process that includes screenings, detention and court hearing but to be granted asylum here in the u.s. is really a gamble, many will instead face detention and a long hearing process and then possibly deportation. arthel, thank you. arthel: anita vogul, thanks, anita. eric: now we have fox news alert, violent demonstrations continue along the gaza border with israel now for fourth week, israeli officials were blaming terrorist groups hamas for staging the unrest, european union urging the israeli military to refrain from using lethal force, palestinians were killed yesterday, reports say that the young man's family asked not to participate in israeli-launched pamphlet trying to tell people to stay away. david, what do we know about the

death of this teenager? >> eric, authorities have identified this boy as mohamed, they say he's either 14 or 15 year's old. he was one of several thousand demonstrators taking part in this protest near the israeli-gaza border. now three other palestinians were also killed and more than 200 were wounded. the un's meeting envoy accused israel of killing children. palestinians are calling human council, they also attached devices to kites and never to cause fires across the border, israeli forces responded with tear gas and live ammunition. the boy's father says his son did not have a weapon and killed in cold blood, 150 yards from the border when he was hit by gunfire. hamas which has control of gaza

is to blame for the boy's death, he said hamas, designated by terror group in the u.s., has been using civilians to act as human shields in gaza and hours before the demonstration took place as you mentioned, the israeli military dropped in gaza warning people not to take part in the demonstrations and saying that hamas was endangering their lives. israeli officials are saying that they are investigating the boy's death. eric: david, as you said, key spokesperson to get own citizens in gaza killed, what are demonstrators protesting specifically now? >> yesterday's demonstrations marks it fourth week in a row that the protests have taken place, the palestinians say that they are demonstrating because they want what they call the

right of return, they say that they were uprooted from their homes decades ago and now they want the right they say to reclaim their land and since the demonstrations began last month at least 32 palestinians have been killed in more than 1600 injured and protest to continue until the date of may 15th, that date is the anniversary of israel's founding, palestinians call the day of the great catastrophe and they say they will continue to protest until that date and possibly beyond. eric: all right, david lee. arthel: steve scalise is now recovering at home after going a planned surgery for injuries he received in in a shooting last summer, hospital confirming release and republican congressman from louisiana was critically wounded last june

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2016 presidential election and undermine hillary clinton's campaign by hacking the dnc servers, president trump tweeting just heard the campaign was sued by the obstruction democrats, this can be good news and that we will now counter for the dnc server that they refuse today give to the fbi, debbie wasserman schultz servers and documents held by the pakistani mystery man and clinton emails. let's discuss with kelly james, weekly standard. let's jump right in, does this lawsuit have legal teeth or is it more symbolic? >> i personally i think it's more symbolic, arthel. one of the interesting things about the lawsuit is if you look the dnc is actually accusing the trump campaign of being a racketeering enterprise. that's an extremely strong word. we all know what rack steering traditionally means, when the mob offers protection money to protect you against itself, this is not something that the trump

was -- campaign was at all doing. what they are really saying that the trump campaign encouraged russia and wikileaks to look for emails and release them. we already knew that. this is no news. we saw the press conference in which president donald trump made the joke, russian hackers, you should look for hillary emails, there's no new information in this, where are they going to get money from? the biggest claims are against russian federation or wikileaks, there's no way they will claim and get money from those people. julian assange is stuck in the embassy and doesn't have a lot of money to give away anyway. arthel: also by way of this lawsuit, the dnc are saying, yes, there was in fact, collusion between the trump campaign and russia too help candidate trump elected, i mean, special counsel mueller's investigation is on goij and so far no collusion has been proven, so does the dnc lawsuit

stand to interfere with the mueller probe in any way? >> that's one thing i worry about, arthel, you have the ongoing probe, robert mueller has excellent team, people who are experiencing with investigating the sorts of acts and i worry if the lawsuit does go ahead, you will have people that will spend resources, time and money answering the lawsuit and is that going to make it a little more difficult for them, for example, to testify in front of mueller's team or help to offer mueller's team, they are worried anything they say there will be used in civil lawsuit. i'm surprised in the way that the dnc would do this. obviously the criminal investigation is far more important than a civil suit, you know, the criminal investigation, that could lead to people getting jail time, real charges, the civil suit, the democrats are just looking for money for themselves. arthel: so could the lawsuit backfire, is this the most politically astute play by the

democrats? >> i personally don't think so. they must have thought it beforehand. they must be very confident that they are going to do very well in the midterms this fall for them to decide to spend resources in quite an important election year on high-powered lawyers for a civil lawsuit that's unlikely to result in them really getting any money and i have to say, i wonder if candidates throughout the country will be wondering, hey, i need resources to help me get elected, win elections in some of the really close races that with are seeing. race that is the democrats have a shot of winning that they didn't a few years ago and they will want every cent that they could get to work to sell ads, to get their candidates around those -- the states to convince people to vote for them and if the money is being spent on lawyers, they will have trouble doing that. arthel: big picture kelly jane, this is yet another lawsuit directio or indirectly involving the president, does the pie as a whole bear any consequences for

the president? >> obviously he's going to have to spend some money on lawyers to, you know, argue this lawsuit, now he's not named himself but the trump campaign is and in associates, his son, his son-in-law, he will have to spend more resources to do this and, yeah, it's going to take away from the resources he's spending on some of the other lawsuits. personally i think it's a big legal worry for him but he has to spend resources and perhaps one of the reason it is democrats launched the lawsuit because they certainly aren't going to win a bunch of money and damages i don't think. arthel: we have to leave it there, thank you for your analysis. >> thank you. arthel: your reporting i should say. thank you. eric: have you heard about this? spring meteor shower, look at that. arthel: pretty. eric: we will find out next on the burning sky.

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eric: haven't felt like spring but soon it will change. adam klotz in the weather center with the latest. >> first off, we are seeing spring-like weather, with that possibly severe weather, certainly big thunderstorms across the plain states stretching further south, that's where you see more heat. we could see severe weather this afternoon running into overnight hours, targeting area around dallas, texas, sports in northern louisiana, severe weather all running into the warmer air. isolated tornadoes is possible. otherwise pretty big thunderstorms sweeping across the region. next couple of days, eric, yeah, final yes, we have seen warm temperatures off and on but never so widespread, we are looking spots for sunday high getting into the middle 60's in the middle of the country and other spots closer to 80's. warm up and down the east coast. not just sunday but stick around for a little while as temperatures hoovering in the 60's, on monday and tuesday,

very comfortable air here that's going to be sticking with us in the next couple of days, eric. eric: good news, the meteor shower. >> any cloud cover you will see there, unfortunately it'll block it for you, we are looking at clear skies across the western side of the country. this is going to be really good from midnight running into really just before sunrise anywhere from 10 to 20meteors per hour. should be a good show. eric: we will be up there looking tonight, thank you. arthel. arthel: north korean dictator making stunning announcement, we will tell you all about it just ahead. (vo) at pro plan, we believe nutrition is full of possibilities to improve your pet's life.

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eric: and we start tonight with a fox news alert. new reaction to the surprise announcement from north korea on its nuclear threat. the leader of the rogue regime, kick tater kim jong-un promising to close the country's nuclear test site and also he says his nation is ready to suspend its long range missile test l. that ahead of the planned summit with president trump. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's news headquarters." i'm eric shawn. >> and i'm arthel. the regime says its quest for nuclear weapons is complete and no longer needs to test the weapons capability. meanwhile, experts are urging

caution with pyongyang. jillian turner is in washington with more. >> in a dramatic aboutface, a statement issued, reading in part, april 21 north korea will stop nuclear tests, the north will shut down a nuclear test site in the northern side to guarantee transparency in suspending neck tests. and new reports surfacing that in mike pompeo's meeting with him over easter. president trump weighing in with a treat saying north korea agreed to suspend all nuclear tests and close up a major test site. this is very good news for north korea and the world. big progress. look forward to our summit. today all signs point to go for a trump-kim summit and things are looking up for the trump

administration's plan to try to strike a deal that no american president has been able to do successfully. these developments come six days before kim is slated to meet with his south korea counter part, president moon and weeks before his anticipated faceoff with potus. whilshould he continue to produe results like the one coming to light this morning. the tables on capitol hill may very well turn in his favor. arthel: thanks, jillian. eric: let's bring in the chairman on the house chair committee on the asia and pacific. good to see you tonight. >> thanks, eric. eric: as we just heard, do you think suspending the test could be restarted in a new york minute and shutting down the

test site that could be reopened, that's encouraging or is it a mirage? >> i think it's great. i think it's really encouraging. we're going to take this one step at a time to see how it plays out. but with president trump having strong language and rhetoric in the beginning got us to where we are. so i think this is all positive signs. eric: they are really feeling it. >> they sure are. eric: what it's like for them with the stranglehold? >> i personally feel that's one of the reasons that kim jong-un went over to china to meet with xi jinping to find out how to goish yait witgoshnegotiate wit. we want a peaceful resolution of what's going on on the korean peninsula. eric: he's decided to suspend

the long range tests, something that could hit us. what about the short and the medium range? it's like he's dangling something out like they've done in the past and then they do the old bait and switch. do you expect to happen? you're looking at complete denuclearization that most say he'll never do. >> well denuclearization is different to us than kim jong-un, we've been through this president with president clinton, president bush and president obama. what happened is we didn't follow twhreu the sanctions. the sanctions that president trump has put on with the unanimous vote in the security council, these are biting. we've made sure that the treasury is keeping presh sheun on it anpressure onit. and what we don't want to do is back off sanctions until we move forward step by step. and i think of ronald reagan.

trust but verify is something we need to ad her adhere. kim needs to understand this is a different sheriff in town. the whole is to bring this to a resolution. if you look at the country since world war ii, every country we've been in a conflict with since then are some of our biggest trading partners. get rid of the o conflict and let's look at trade. eric: all he has to do is look over the boar border and see the incredible success from south korea from the 1950s. >> definitely a night and day difference. eric: i'm going to play you a sound bite, president trump saying he goes to the meeting -- kim has never heard anybody say no. he doesn't know what that word means. he's probably never heard a world leader say no but that is what he could hear with a trump meeting. john bolton is a contributor here for many years and about a month ago with me on sundays i

asked him about that meeting. >> got a lot of respect for him. >> he said it could where a short meeting because they want to talk about one thing, denuclearization. i want to play this from last month. >> i hope to have a very successful meeting. if we don't think it's going to be successful, we won't have it. we won't have it. if i think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we're not going to go. if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. eric: that's talkin.>> that's tt denuclearization. anything else is just a waste of time. >> short meeting? >> okay. fine. eric: that's the advice that mre president. >> i think it would be a short meeting if that's what they came up with. but denuclearization from the

north korean side means they want us to pull back, get our weapons out of the area. with us we want them to denucleanucleardenuclearize th . and if kim jong-un can do something that we can verify and that the world community, not just america or south korea, but the world community can hold him in check and get him to transition to into a market economy with the rest of the world would be an awesome thing. the world would be better served and your military would be too. eric: and the north koreans, the millions starving to death. >> it's terrible. eric: with the alleged concentration camps, the way people have been treated. >> we haven't seen people trying to escape out of a country where their own country is shooting them. in a long time. it just tells you how backwards they are. most people are trying to get into another country and they're

trying to get out of that country. and that tells you what's going on and the condition in there. eric: we'll see what progress can be made when that meeting comes. congressman in florida tonight. thank you for joining us. arthel: congressional lawmakers are finally getting their hands on the memos kept by james comey regarding his conversations with president trump. the former fbi director giving some of the document to a friend who shared the contents with a reporter. the president calling that illegal and using it to attack the mueller investigation tweeting, james comey illegally leaked classified document to the press in order to generate a special counsel. therefore the special counsel was established on an illegal act. really? does everybody know what that means. garrett is live in washington with more. >> well, the justice department is now investigating james comey over those leaked memos as well. "the wall street journal" reports that two of the memos

contained information that was later deemed classify. the inspector general is investigating comey's hand lick of the memo as well as other classified material. comey was well aware that his conversations with the president were sensitive and could be classifieded as he noted in a january memo stating i am not sure of the proper classification here so i've chosen secret. please let me know if it should be higher or lower than that. democrats are touting the memos as proof that president trump tried to interfere in an investigation. >> the president be interfered a big way, i hope you can see your way letting michael flynn go. that's a profound violation of tradition. this is the sitting president of the united states asking the head of the fbi to stop an investigation. >> republicans are arguing that the memos prove that the president did not try to

interfere in the russia investigation and that in fact he supported it as comey noted, the republican chairman who demande demanded ts releetst leased a statement saying former director comey's memos show that the president wanted al la las allegations of coordination with his campaign and russia fully investigated. as director of the fbi james comey had the authority to determine what information was and was not classified. but once he left the bureau, those decisions were out of his hands and up to other officials. and it was after he left the bureau that he leaked his documents. arthel: thanks. eric: and ted yo ho is back, a busy guy. congressman, you're one of 11 members of congress who sent a letter to attorney general sessions asking for an investigation of mr. comey and mrs. clinton. >> absolutely ls what d.

eric: what do you want? >> i want this to progress where it should be. what comey did was wrong he ande knows it. he marked the memos confidential and secret and then went to christopher wray and asked if they were government property and he said yes. he let those go. it wouldn't be different than an attorney working on a real estate cloa sho closure that gey in for escrow. that's not his money. eric: well you know, in terms of the memos, he says he's a private citizen. those were his personal m memos. do you buy that? >> no, i don't. not after you mark them classified and secret and then you ask the sitting direct ir his opinion and he said they belong to the fbi ap then he took them after he was let go. that's a clear breach. what the goal is to investigate

that, hold him accountable and then fo follow the trail with hillary clinton, the damages servers, the servers that shouldn't have been out of the government's per vie purview. the one thing i hear overrary over again when i come back tony district is people are fed up that people in power in washington are held not to the same standards as us. we're above the law. and that needs to change. that's our goal to make this happen, with loretta lynch and whoever else is in the trail. eric: and what disturbs people is that mrs. clinton was not put under oath when she was investigated. others are. the others have had to plead guilty to lying to the fbi. and you're not even under oath when you're talking to the fbi. the critics say there's a double standard. and this case. >> there were 17 witnesses that

were never brought up and she wasn't sworn in an investigated herself. and i mean, it's just a sham and it's something that the american people see, they see through it and they want those people held accountable. and i think that's what we're going to get. eric: and finally in terms of the comey situation, which very much echos, as i said in the last hour, it seems, the clinton situation where the material or some of it, at least two in the comey material, according to the washington post were then later classified as being classified. same thing as hillary clinton and she skated. do you think comey will skate or let's say he's charged and she wasn't or he's not charged like she wasn't. what would that say about the fairness of the judicial system to the american people? >> well, i think we need to follow it up to where it goes. and it would be a travesty if she is guilty, which, you know, there's so many people out there that feel this. and when james comey exonerated

here in june or july, when ever it was, that wasn't his job. his job was to report should she be investigated or not. but he gave an opinion on what she should do. eric: she felt he doesn't have criminal intent and that was the basis of that. >> but you look at some of these other countries like south korea, they just sentenced their previous president, president parks to 20 years in prison because they did an investigation and it led to that. that's something that the world is looking to us to follow the rule of law. and if we don't follow the rule of law at the highest levels, it percolates down. and everybody says why should we follow that. i feel confident it will lead to someone having to fay to pay fo. eric: no one is above if law in our country. >> we need to remember that. eric: thank you. >> i appreciate it. have a great weekend.

. arthel: and emotional farewell to a beloved former first lady. barbara bush laid to rest today in a private ceremony at the george h.w. bush presidential library. her husband of 73 years attending funeral services in houston earlier. the senior president bush wearing a pair of socks with a book motif to honor his wife's commitment to family literacy. we're live at college state wtion texas. the final moments were so beautiful they were for family only. reporter: they were. this was a day designed by the former first lady herself. and with that in mind, after the funeral service in houston, the bush family motorcade arrived at the campus of texas a&m. no sphrendz thefriends.just family. mrs. bush requested 700 cadets flank barbara bush drive as her loved one arrived at the george

h.w. bush presidential library and museum. the motorcade curved around the building. the procession then drove over a bridge approaching a pavilion before reaching a wooden area where her grave was placed next to the bush's daughter who died when she was three. the bush family members requested that the media turn off their equipment to leave this moment private for them. mrs. bush didn't want a fuss. arthel: and this was a very different than the public service in houston. tell us about that. reporter: yeah, that's right. there was the funeral service that was held and the world was able to say good-bye as the service was held at the st. martins e mis episcopal chun houston. 1500 friends and family seated inside listened to and shared an necanecdotes of barbara pierce,

bush, wife to george herbert walker bush for 73 years. first lady melania trump was in attendance as were the former first ladies of obama and clinton. and as requested, jeb gave the eulogy. >> her authentic plastic pearls, her not coloring her hair. by the way, she was beautiful until the day she died. reporter: former president george w. bush close by the side of his father the entire time. the family at times tearful bubt also laughing and cheerful. arthel: thank you. we wish the family our condolences and prayers, of course. thank you. eric: a woman of such strength and grace and honesty and our

thoughtthoughts are with the buh family tonight. a knew leader in cuba and that means no more castro. that mean we'll get our 90 fugitives back? how about the accused and convicted terrorists and cop killer disbloos law enforcement officers across the company wrapping up security after receiving threats from the no toy yous ms-13 gang. how the police plan to handle that threat. >> he was a significant player. he was ordering hits. he was describing to other members how it is they ask permission to commit a murder. he was getting down to the details of how deep to dig a hole where they would dispose of a body.

arthel: law enforcement officers nationwide on high alert after receiving threats from the ms13 gang to murder police officers. this coming after one of their alleged kingpins overseeing operations across the east coast was arrested earlier this week. the notorious gang is the largest on long island and has thousands of members across the country. brian llenas joins was the

details. >> we've learned that an informant told police on thursday that ms13 were looking to kill a police officer in new york. the gang member telling the informant, quote, the police have been making too many arrests and it's time to take the streets back and take out what cop like we do in el salvador. ms-134's alleged kingpin diaz was just indicted in new york on thursday. they told the informant that the gang is looking to kill a cop in response to the crackdown. diaz is accused of leaderring murders, beatings and directing the gang's drug operations along the east coast. his arrest led to the arrest of 17 other gang members in sell so vmembers in elsalvador.

defeating the gang has been a top priority of attorney general jeff sessions and the trump white house. arthel: how is -- we were talking about police. what has been their response to this threat? >> right. so county police launched an offensive against the gang. all police departments on long island, especially, are on high alert and extra precautions have been taken. this threat on wednesday was the second threat against police officers by the gang in less than a month. >> ms-13 wants to threaten cop in this country? ms-13 is going to get an answer. there was a threat, an individual that was planning to execute a cop but by the grace of god, that didn't happen that night. >> no arrest has been knead for either of the two threats. there's a $50,000 reward for anyone with information that leads to an arrest.

arthel: thanks, brian. eric: in 1988 police officer eddy burn was shot and killed execution style here in new york by a drug gang. president trump responding to reports that his personal attorney michael cohen, well is cohen going to flip? we'll look at his mounting legal troubles. and could mike pompeo's nomination for secretary of state be in jeopardy some some >> look at what they're doing to pompeo, brilliant guy. hillary clinton gets through. the republicans aren't part dison. she wins with an overwhelming vote.

eric: well i'. well i'm goin. i believe he should be

confirmed. he was in north korea. he's setting up the summit. he's the president's choice for secretary of state. i worry about some of his views but i believe for the negotiations he should be confirmed. >> former u.s. ambassador, governor bill richardson with me last hour backing mike pompeo for secretary of state. he's facing fierce opposition from democrat senators as well as rand paul. marc thiessen writing, for the first time in the history of the republic, it seems increasingly likely that a majority will vote against the president's nominee for secretary of state. if this happens, it would be a black mark not on mike pompeo's record but on the reputation of this once storied committee. joining me, john buscy. what do you make of marc thiessen's statement? >> one is, he has to be

recommended by the committee and the committee is going to make its own judgment. look, it would be unprecedented for them to discharge him with an unfavorable recommendation but boy, this has been an unprecedented time in politics anyways, including this president. the question is what happens to pompeo. so even if he gets a negative recommendation from the committee, mcconnell, the head of the senate can take his vote to the full senate anyways. what's going to happen there is a little bit still up in the air but he has a better chance of getting confirmed because there are some democrats in red states, states that went for trump that are moderate, moderate democrats that are likely to vote for him. arthel: as you well know, director pompeo went to north korea over easter weekend, no state department or national

security council joined him. was pompeo the right person for the secret session or was the president positions pompeo for guaranteed confirmation as secretary of state come monday? >> he didn't achieve a guaranteed confirmation because we're not there yet. and there's a good story about this on "wall street journal".com. there was clearly an effort to position him as a diplomat. this is what the democrats are concerned about. he's too hawkish, we're not sure he's the right guy for the job. that is a diplomacy job, not a cia job. he's going to be in tandem in the white house with john bolton, who is also a hawk. that concerns some republicans and a lot of democrats. also, look, some of the democrats are opposing him because they oppose president trump. so there's that element as well. but he comes with some baggage, and that's what's being lit imaited nolitigated through the.

arthel: i want to play a little more of the sound with my interview of former ambassador richardin'. >richard snt. >son.>> what he's going to do it a freeze on any testing we any future explosions. but that is a positive step. arthel: so does the ambassador have a point. is he saying, listen, you can't really trust kim jong-un completely but we're heading in the right direction with this upcoming summit between him and president trump? >> well, it's good to be sitting at a table negotiating rather than rattling sabers. and i think that richardson is correct in kind of pointing out that -- the sort of sub text there is that we've heard these promises from north korea in the past and they do what they wish to do. if they get from the united states what they want, then perhaps the u.s. will get from north korea what it wants.

mr. pompeo had a moment there to be the diplomat, which is what the white house was seeking for him to do. there's some concern about this battle as a whole in the foreign relations committee and then the final vote on the senate floor, damaging him, signaling to the world that he doesn't have the support of the senate. i'm not sure that matters. the key things for our allies and adversaries to know is he has the full support of the president trump. when he's out on the stump, he's speak forking the head of the united states. that's made clear by president trump that he has his full endorsement. arthel: you say as long as president trump and kim jong-un get what they want fra the the e meeting, it's good. but i have to move on because i want to touch on something you said a second ago. i want to play some sound from senator tom cotton from earlier

this week. let's listen. >> mike pompeo will be confirmed as the next secretary of state will. this that wilthat will happen n. i can't imagine that those facing reelections in states that our president won by landslide elections are going to oppose a nominee. doug jones, the recently elected senator from alabama will vote for him as well. arthel: by the way, senator hide camp from north dakota has become the first democrat to back pompeo's nomination. does this nomination put certain politicianpoliticians in politil handcuffs? >> he pointed out that some are compelled to be supportive of pompeo. several of those did in fact support him when he was nominated to be the cia director.

some say hey, look, that's a totally different job. our chief diplomat requires different skills than mr. pompeo has. these are senators, moderate senators for the most part in states that supported president trump during the last election and they're going to be in very tricky political territory. and you see this play out with a lot of nominations where there might have to be support for a candidate that might otherwise wish to support because they're playing to their constituency back in the home state. arthel: last year rex tillerson became the first secretary of state to be approved by a party line vote when all democrats on the committee voted no, they didn't want to nominate him. he got the job, lasting one year and one month on the job. does this in any way reflect on the president's choices? >> well, i'll leave that to you and the public to decide, given

the revolving door in the white house has not just been tillerson but a lot of other people that have left. i think what you're seeing now is a consolidation of people around president trump who have a sort of like mind with him on issues like north korea, like military intervention, like the iran deal. that could be a good thing, could be a bad thing. it could cause more coherent policy making with less disruption in the white house. it might be a bad thing in that it doesn't have enough alternative views going into the nation's policy making. and we have a president who sometimes acts on his impulses. if there are people around him that don't mitigate that, that could be problematic. so i think right now you're seeing the president pick people that he feels are more in line with his thinking. and mr. pompeo is certainly that. arthel: not my place to decide. like you, i just report the news. thank you. >> my pleasure.

eric: president trump is spending the weekend in florida. that's where he watched the funeral service for former first lady barbara bush. first lady melania trump attended the funeral in houston. the president is sending his thoughts and prayer to the bush family. filphil keating is live with mo. reporter: the president spent most of the morning at his trump international golf club before returning to his winter white house across the water on palm beach island at his mar-a-lago estate. he indicated he was going to watch the live tv coverage of barbara bush's funeral. he sent out several tweets today, one lashing out at the "the new york times," a story in today's paper. but we're start with this tweet on behalf of the bushes, the president writing, today my thoughts and prayers are with

the bush family. at the neun ral funeral servicen houston, first lady melania trump represented the administration sitting in the front row and among four former presidents among the 1500 people there. releasing this statement, it was my honor to travel to houston to give my respect to barbara bush and the remarkable life she led as a mother, wife and fearless first lady. my sincerest thoughts and prayers continue to be with george h.w. and the president's entire family. this began this morning with michael cohen suggesting that he might role on the president. not only did the feds raid his office and hotel, he's also the person that paid stormy daniels the $130,000 to keep her quiet.

cohen's attorney suggested in court yesterday that they expect that cohen might be indicted within the next 90 days. >> as i said right from the beginning, i don't think the president has real worries about mueller and the investigation of alleged collusion or obstruction of justice. where he ought to be focusing his attention -- i'm not his lawyers -- but new york, cohen, whether cohen flips, sings or composes. that's the fear. reporter: and president trump is at mar-a-lago as we speak right now. he has no public events on tonight's agenda. and no public events scheduled for tomorrow as well. and in the afternoon we're expecting him on board air force one to return to washington. eric: thanks so much well there's a new leader in cuba. a castro is out. but when will we get our convicted terrorists and cop killers back. joe connor whose father was

killed in a terrorist bombing in new york is here and wants answers. >> we're disappointed that the cuban government offered to silence soises rather than allow its people a meaningful choice through free, fair and competitive elections. napoleon is duping us! all around louisiana... you're a nincompoop!

eric: an historic end of an era in cuba that many thought we would never live to see. the first time in nearly 60 years that a castro is not leading the county. canal being sworn in as president. the communist island nation is still however a safe haven for 90 fugitives of justice, including a cop killer on the left, on the fbi's most wanted terrorist list right now. and the guy on the right, the bomb maker, seen on the right of the screen within on the most wanted domestic terrorist list.

that explosion killed four people, one of them was frank connor. there's frank. open our next guest is one of those little boys. he is the coauthor of this book "shattered lives." a book she says is about the impact of terrorism and the perverted political man pill that some have draped over terrorist causings with praise and adoration. he's joseph connor, been come paining for justice ever since and joins us now. a pleasure and honor to have you. >> thank you. eric: you have been fighting this for decades and this book, this book, which is about, about what you went through, what your family went through and what terrorists victims have gone through, tell me the amazing story how this started. >> well it all started when i was 9 years old and we were going to be celebrating my birthday that day when they father was murdered.

finally i decided i wanted to writing about it. it was two years of the clintons released the terrorist that killed my father. i was getting on the train on september 10thth, 2001 and i purposely avoided my cousin steve because i wanted to write about what happened two years before. i didn't see steve that day and the the next day he was murdered as i saw the planes explode in the world trade center from my office downtown. i started writing about my dad and our family, and about how the injustice that my father and jim gazork and charlie murray injured that day, and alex burger, what they felt and their families had gone through. and so finally i met with jeff inburr who had writ an few books about his family during the

holocaust. and then we put this book together. eric: it's a magnificent effort. do you believe that victims of terrorism, what you've gone through, every time there's something on the news i call you. do you feel that your voices are appropriately heard by our government officials . >> no. it's so, so relevant now. we're looking at cuba and we know that william morales is in cuba and we're not demanding his return, charlie hill's return before we do anything more with the new regime in cuba is to get these guys back. they're terrorists, they've been convicted and there's no reason why we would deal with a country who harbors terrorists. eric: you think it was a big mistake to open up the diplomatic relations. is the state department going to work on it? >> it's too late. you don't give away what you have first and then expect to get something back later.

that's not the way it works. eric: your message to president trump would be what? >> cut off all relations with cuba right now. get these guys back before we begin any more conversations. toughness works. strength works. and we need to use that leverage against cuba right now to get the terrorists returned. there's a ton of american tourists' money, up to billions of dollars within an $87 billion economy, we need to use the leverage and get these guys back. eric: and finally you've criticized what some consider the political correctness over some of the terrorist causes. >> i think my father was killed by the wrong brand of terrorists, by markist leftist terrorists. the clintons who released them initially, obama released otion carlo pedestrian and then they have a parade where they're calling him a freedom hero last

year. these people were markist terrorists. they wanted to enslave the puerto rican people. eric: they haven't been convicted. in terms of the cause. >> they were convicted and sentenced up to 90 years. they threatened to kill the judge at sentencing. these are bad guys. eric: when you see some in this country who think this is a freedom movement. >> there's no freedom involved. the puerto rican people, last year 97% voted to become a state. these people had nothing to hang our hat on. they were terrorists and they wanted to enslave the puerto rican people. eric: i can only think that your father would be very proud of you. >> i hope so. eric: the book, "shattered lives" by jo connor and we'll be right back. in a small tight-knit hometown community.

arthel: queen elizabeth is marking a major milestone celebrating her 92nd birthday. as the royal family prepares for two other big events as well. kitty logan has more from london. >> queen elizabeth is celebrating her 92nd birthday. she's britain's oldest and longest serving monarch.

the day started with a special gun salute. april 22nd is the queen's actual birthday. she has another official birthday in june. these are busy time's for britain's royal family with a wedding coming up and the baby due. prince harry was out with his fiancee megyn markle out earlier in the day. the couple attended an avent ahead of the next invictus games to be held in australia in october of this year. a sporting event for injured military veterans. a prompt close to prince harry's heart. but first his focus is on his wedding in just four weeks from now. and there is another important royal event coming up soon, a royal baby is due any day now. the duchess of cambridge is expecting her third child with prince william and royal fans are already gathering outside the london hospital where she'll give birth. some hoping there might be a birthday gift for the queen.

it might be late for the queen to receive news of the great grandchild on her birthday but the celebrations continue with a special concert this evening. arthel: and that is going to do it for us. eric: are you getting ready for the royal wedding next month? it's huge. arthel: my invitation has gotten lost in the mail somehow. i'm excited about it. i'm all in. we're here tomorrow at noon. eric: noon and 4:00 p.m. arthel: right now, up next, "the fox report." thanks for joining us tonight. eric: have a good night.

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