not on my watch. pests never stop trying to get in. we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. >> the president landing in washington a short time ago after visiting with the supporters in ohio ahead of the highly contested primary election on tuesday. hello everyone and welcome to "america's news headquarters". >> the president wrapping up a roundtable with small business leaders in cleveland just a few hours ago where he criticized current immigration policies and highlighted his tax laws. this is the work during the reset button brings new lawyer rudy giuliani walked back comments on the story over the course of a couple of days.

ellison barber is live at the white house with the very latest. >> hi dear the president is trying to keep the focus on jobs, the economy, tax cuts. please undo that that the roundtable in cleveland and also statements that he made over the past couple of days in dc. but in the past couple of days, payment to stormy daniels has been the primary focus. $130,000 payment to stormy daniels that she received from longtime trump attorney michael cohen. install news because the newest attorney, rudy giuliani.he made an unexpected admission during an interview. >> he made the payment and the president repaid. question is a statement quote - clarifying some of his remarks basically there is no campaign violation. the payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the presidents family. he would've been done in any

event whether he was a candidate or not. he also said that quote - my reference to timing were not describing my understanding of the presidents knowledge but instead my understanding of these matters. regardless the remarks seem to contradict previous payments made by michael cohen and the president. the president reminding the press that giuliani is new. >> rudy is great but he is distorted. and he was not totally familiar with everything. we're not changing any stories. all i'm telling you is that this country is right now running so smooth. and to bring up that kind of crap and to bring up witchhunts all the time, that is all you want to talk about. excuse me, excuse me. you take a minute look at what i said. >> the president said on air force one, and april. >>.

[inaudible question] >> the president says he paid michael cohen a retainer fee and the reimbursement came that care about the president and his legal team have denied the affair ever took fifth place. when the president left to go to cleveland and when he came back reporters tried to ask him about this. the payment as well as stormy daniels. no response. >> we try all the time i've been there often. thank you. >> we are now learning investigators on the robert mueller team have interviewed this man. a california real estate investor and one of the presidents closest friends and confidence. garrett tenney is live in washington with details on this one. what do we know about his time with donald trump? >> the two men have no agenda for at least 30 years. over time they have become close friends and confidence. he also played a crucial role

in the early days of the dom trump campaign and a top fundraiser during a time when most republicans did not take the candidacy seriously. after donald trump won the election he was directing the inauguration. his wealth of knowledge on donald trump the person, businessman and on the campaign itself. individuals familiar with his special counsel interview told me that investigators asked a lot of questions running the financial matters of the campaign, the transition and the inauguration. russians also focused on two officials from the campaign who have already been indicted. former campaign chairman for metaphor and former deputy campaign trail, rick gates. >> and a federal judge ruling on the paul manafort case has some tough words for robert mueller. tell us about that. >> yes. the judge suggested that the team may not even have the authority to be investigating the alleged crimes. metaphor is facing a 10 count indictment on tax and bank run charges for crimes going back as far as 2005.

yesterday it was revealed that some of the information investigators used to view the charges came from her previous doj investigation. that led to the judge to question the authority and motivation of the team to prosecute the alleged crimes telling them you don't really care about his bank fraud, you really care about what information he can give you to lead to mr. trump and an impeachment or prosecution. the team argues they were given broad authority to investigate any matters that come in the course of their work. they say some of the powers are secret because they involve ongoing investigations and national security issues for the judge were not convinced and gave them two weeks to provide either the memo or an explanation to have a case falls into this. >> always interesting! thank you garrett tenney. >> the president reiterating that he is still open potentially to talking with the special counsel, robert mueller

after rudy giuliani during the presidency voting in recent weeks, the former new york city mayor going on a media blitz saying that he will have two set conditions before potential q&a between the president and robert mueller. let's bring in a defense attorney and former prosecutor. a fox news legal analyst care by show of hands. thank you for coming in. do you think this is a good idea for donald trump to sit down with robert mueller? >> our hands are down. [laughter] >> that is what i figure. here are my questions. the president said that he might do this if it is fair. but the only way they could be. he knows the questions in advance which would be a written interview. potentially, or is there another way? >> that is a great question. yes, it could be written questions. but as we spoke prepare for today, it has been proposed and robert mueller said no. the written questions, the big issues i give over a million documents and so many pitfalls when it comes to all the questions that have already

been proposed throughout this that robert mueller must ask each of the questions has multiple tentacles. it is really just intended to track the president in some way and frankly, not only answering the questions, god forbid the president takes the fifth. then that's a whole host of other issues. >> at the president wants to talk and his attorneys do not want to talk, how do you convince them that this is not a good idea?the president says he likes to speak! >> he has been saying that he wants to talk and that is motivated by public perception. as attorneys, we cannot take that into consideration. it is not the advice he is getting from counsel. as he said multiple times, his attorneys are telling him not to speak. that will be the same advice i would give. the 49 questions have been released, look at the news today. a close ally of donald trump was interviewed by robert mueller. there is no other reason for

him to be interviewed as to ask questions about the president. >> i want to ask about rudy giuliani who has just joined the legal team. none others did not talk at all to the media. now rudy giuliani is an and he is talking a lot! a smart strategy? >> where both lawyers is not something you generally do. what we do, frankly, our clients do get approached by the media. asked the questions ahead of time. what are the questions they want answered? we will respond in written form. because this is when it starts to get a slippery slope. things may come out that you and not intending. not in any way to harm your client but it could. >> alan dershowitz comments earlier this morning said on fox and friends, the statement coming out how to come through one person with one voice consistently. we've seen what has happened on the hannity show. he said multiple things that

were inconsistent with what michael cohen said and what donald trump has appeared problematic when you're trying to put together a defense. and there is an investigation going on. let me ask about another case. the one in virginia/maryland. the judge with paul manafort. basically said you do not get unfettered access. he's very skeptical and whether or not they have a purview to go into the -- collectives by the judge wants to see this in private. is it i will look at it but i will not share this. you have given us to me, is heavily redacted. i want to know, what we told and then i will decide. what i will tell you frankly, any defense attorney will tell you, when your clients are in

the throes and the thick of this type of investigation, all of the conversation happens behind the scenes. they are squeezing your client for information. they don't want them, they want the big fish. >> and paul manafort is not out of the woods yet. >> absolutely not. one judge in virginia, this is a tax case we are talking about. interesting point to follow up on. the august 2 2017 memorandum. by rosenstein. they redacted it to this judge to make the point that they had the authority to go after paul manafort in this way. this is also a battle between the doj and congress. because this has been a document that congress is trying to get and they have been battling. we have seen impeachment draft memo that has been authored and some other things that we have seen in the press. this memo is important moving forward. not only to this case but to congress. >> we have to go to your last

question. you think that this will last that long? >> it will take a long time. >> absolutely! >> the paul manafort case has to be tried before anything. at the very least we have to come to a conclusion on that case. >> looks at will have you back a lot! >> thank you. >> laura? rather, rudy giuliani. he will be on fox that would judge jeanine pirro on justice 9:00 eastern. be sure to tune in! >> that will be a big hour! now the economy. the unemployment rate at the lowest in 17 years. dropping to 3.9 percent as companies add hundred and 64,000 jobs in april. that is a huge number. the president, naturally -- >> report four percent initially. there are two ways of saying this.consider first time in 20 years first time in this century. >> let's get to peter on this. he has more.

>> management rate is now the lowest it has been this millennium. 3.9 percent. >> this has not been done in a long time. >> 164,000 jobs were added last month. even though investors and business owners are holding their breath we'll see what happens with tariffs. >> now i think they're waiting to see what will happen on trade because we will have some incredible trade deals. >> in china today for negotiations with chinese counterparts, treasury secretary, steve mnuchin offered optimism. but a bush era congressional budget director says this is the wrong way to get to 3.9 percent unemployment. this was because the labor force felt and participation dictate 62.8 percent. then there are democrats that claim that when good economic news comes that banks should be to obama.

>> if you think about what the economy was like when president obama took office and we were losing 750,000 jobs a month, now under his watch the unemployment rate dropped in half. it is encouraging to see that we are continuing to make progress. >> the donald trump economic team likes to have a defined point like the lack of unemployment now down to the lowest point since the early 70s. 6.6 percent. >> the black unemployment rate that we have been talking about is the lowest ever. it went down again. hispanic unemployment rate is the lowest ever. even for teenagers and females is the lowest since 2000. it is a heck of a lot of good news. >> the jobs report today, 2.6 percent boost to hourly pay compared to this time last year. the payment to stormy daniels was the most reporters were asking about. it was eating away at the president in dallas. >> we have the best employment numbers personally ever. and yet, all we hear about is this phony russia witchhunt. that is all we hear about.

>> my asked the president about the jobs report this one he also stressed he wants to have much friendlier trade deals with china and the only reason the us and china are playing nice with each other right now is because he says they have such great respect for the president. fox news. >> thank you peter. still to come, rudy giuliani remarks on the stormy daniels controversy this week. and overshadowing the presidents achievement on the economy. we will look at how the trump administration is trying to move its agenda forward despite all of what's happening in the legal drama. plus the former president george h. w. bush out of the hospital tonight. we are told that he is already planning a trip.we will tell you where. plus, paradise under siege! people evacuating hawaii's big island amid volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. >> this is a magnitude of what the volcano is doing in the air

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houston hospital. for an infection spread to his blood. actually for the funeral of his wife, barbara bush. a spokesperson for the family says the former president is doing well and happy to be home as you might imagine. mr. bush is planning a trip to the family summer home in maine. later this month. >> a fox news alert. we are keeping close eye on hawaii's big island. where do the people have been evacuated after the kilauea volcano erupted.on top of a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked the island yesterday. >> i ran in and i grant the dogs and put them in my car. i went and i grabbed up everything in here we are. so, yeah. lou moved to get away from forest fires. >> has a feel for those folks. we have team coverage.

our meteorologist looks at the health risk for people there. we will start with william in hawaii. about 30 miles from the volcano. all right william, people were evacuated. is that still in effect two. >> evacuation is still in effect. at the police checkpoint they will if you go back in for a short period of time to get a few more things because they could be losing their house for good if this continues. a lava field but this can vary welcome to the neighborhood and make their home at least inaccessible if not uninhabitable. i spoke to a fireman earlier today and he said something really interesting that we don't usually think about. because of the sulfur dioxide gas, i cannot let you back in their for a period of time because if there is an earthquake and this knocks over a tree and of course a tree boxer passage on the way out, then you have to bring first responders that cannot go there because of the gas being so deadly and poisonous. then they had to bring in a evacuation. he said is just not worth the risk to you or the first responders to the people and in

any kind of permanent basis. even if it may appear that the threat in the neighborhood is better. you're talking at roughly 700 homes that have been evacuated. back to you. >> talk about wildcard situations. what is the impact of the 6.9 earthquake from yesterday? >> i will not say is hilarious but it is huge in the sense that we are all talking about the fishers and the cracks in the earth with all of this ash and rocks and the steam coming out of there and the gas of course. but you have a 6.9 earthquake northridge was six. billions of dollars of damage and get all we understand, no fatalities but this is generally a pretty rural area. there is some damage to the post office but by and large everything is one or two stories and for the most part they checking the roads and bridges. it could be a factor because there's so many rivers and falls that come through but as of now for 6.9 earthquake, they had hundreds of earthquakes

before that. 2.5, 5.4 yesterday as well. it has been remarkable. but you know the earthquakes here are a little different than california. you have a slip fault and with this in a molten river of lava underneath where all of these communities are. it is kind of different. they come to learn to live with the small earthquakes on a daily basis. but not the kind of eruptions that we have seen in the last two days. back to you. >> will take the bright spots where we can get them. thank you and stay safe out there. >> as you heard coming of the big concern is the air quality after all of the eruptions. adam klotz has the latest. what is the situation there for the people that live nearby? >> is something folks really want to pay attention to. all this activity has been happening on the eastern edge of the big island. it is an area we are paying attention to. they will drive back and forth as the gas will continue.

when will come from a different direction. this will be pushing this in the end. it should weaken as it moves a direction and emergency officials know how far you can get and how close that you can get. you will be seen that general direction pushing the gas inland towards the center of the island. as the gas continues to climb up to get a higher level of the atmosphere, the wind shifts directions and it is good news for folks across the island because the wind at a higher elevation you can see here from the clouds moving across the map, the winds are moving off towards the east. it will grab anything with upper elevations. it will move that out to sea. it will clear things up at the higher elevations. you do have to continue to be concerned about what is happening on the ground level. back into the united states. as you look at the forecast in the next couple of days. clear across the country. the only spot where we see a lot of rain and unfortunately they are seeing a lot of grains as the spot where a lot of folks were today. this is the kentucky derby.

64 degrees, rain has been falling nonstop. this is now the widest derby in history of the derby. running up over 2.3 inches of rain so far. unfortunately here in the forecast, we are going to see rain continuing to fall. we have to pay attention to the timestamp. this will be in and out over the next couple of hours. >> the infield at the derby is a mess to begin with. the rain on top of that! >> i am jealous about not being able to go! protests across russia against the upcoming inauguration of vladimir putin for a new six-year term. what we are learning about the people arrested. plus, the president on the way back from trade talks in china. when -- what this means for

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controversy around adults are, stormy daniels turning to overshadow the president historic progress with north korea. mr. trump yesterday talking about plans for an unprecedented summit with kim jong-un and ending at the possible release of three americans that the rogue regime has been holding hostage. >> we are having very substantive talks with north korea. and a lot of things have already happened with respect to the hostages. and i think he was a very good things. we are in constant contact with the leadership. we are in constant contact with north korea. we actually have worked out a time and a place which will be announced shortly. very soon. >> the wall street journal

editorial board questioning the president credibility. writing this on thursday. mr. trump is compelling a record that increases the likelihood that you will believe him during a genuine crisis. a despite over speaking with robert mueller or a showdown with kim jong-un. he should worry americans will stop believing anything he says. jason russell is a contributor, editor for the examiner. thank you for being here today to talk about this. there's a lot to talk about. >> yes. >> certainly a lot of news with all of this both on the legal matter concerning the president. what is happening around the world. how can the president and his team keep the focus on what many would consider the larger issue like north korea? >> i think it is a tough play for sure. i think part of it just has to be keeping the focus as much as possible on progress with north

korea, economy, jobs and things like that. we have seen this everyone in the white house press briefing room, maybe they want to talk about stormy daniels and other salacious topics like that. and what rudy giuliani talked about last night. >> go ahead. >> those will be interesting things. but of course part of it is that he tweets about all of these things. and his tweets often on their own or focus. if you can focus on jobs numbers and things like that, i think it will be more press coverage. >> we saw what unfolded this week. the former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani, talking about payments to stormy daniels. it was only a story no one could ignore. how do you think they can work to minimize that if you're trying to promote the presidents work? you talk about the tweets and things that come up.an article to try to pull that back and it doesn't happen. >> i think that is incumbent on

rudy giuliani. it comes on to fox news tonight and yes, he will answer questions about stormy daniels but he also has to keep the focus on, he has to remember that role as white house counsel and his job there is to serve the president and do what is best for the white house. that will be keeping the focus on important things. things affect peoples lives. north korea and the economy. as a lawyer generally are not working with the economy but it is still something that in his role as a surrogate and a spokesperson for the president that he can talk about. >> and a reminder that is not:00 eastern tonight with judge jeanine. moving forward, what you see happening with thelegal team ? i have been reading a lot about people questioning the current lineup and will it stick? a lot of changes. do you think this will be at? >> i think this is what we been expecting from the administration all along. people come in for a few month , happier or a year and then they move on. some people have stayed around

in a cabinet for a long time. some not lasting as long as we thought. it is hard to predict these things. when john kelly took over as chief of staff, some people said he would last a few weeks. some people said a few months. now he is been there at least nine months and there has been controversies but he has managed to gather those. he seems pretty strong in that position for now. so it is always hard to predict. for now it seems to be pretty well in place. >> do you think this is a good lineup? [laughter] >> i think it is interesting for sure. it is interesting to have giuliani there to hear what he is saying in the media but is questionable how much he is helping the president in that role. >> the proposed u.s. senate with north korea and hopeful release of us hostages being held there are important matters to talk about. i want to bring it back to that. also job numbers. there is a lot that can be done many safe to keep the focus on

these issues. if you can get in the room, if you can help advise these folks, what would you say? >> we know that the president is not going to delete his twitter account, right? like i said before, it is how the media gets distracted by what he is tweeting about robert mueller and stormy daniels. he is not going to delete it obviously. if we can managed to keep his tweets focused on north korea, on the job numbers, then he is not going to like the firestorms that we have seen with the tweets in the past. again, he will not delete this but he can stay focused. it will be progress i think. >> jason russell, thank you so much for sharing your perspective. good to see you, as always. >> thank you. >> in the meantime a nationwide march across russia today has thousands hitting the streets protesting the upcoming inauguration of vladimir putin. an independent police monitoring group says more than 350 protesters were arrested

and detained by police. many of them, minors. kitty london has more. >> demonstrating against the fourth term in office for vladimir putin. protests in moscow and several other key russian cities. the atmosphere was heated with demonstrators shouting and waving corruption practice. police in riot gear were quick to crackdown and clear demonstrators in a matter of hours. hundreds of activists were arrested around the country. sometimes with force. amongst those detained were opposition leader -- who organized the rallies. he adjusts the crowd before being dragged away by police. he was arrested several times before. he was banned from being in the

recent election. many demonstrators calling for vladimir putin to resign. there have been several protests over the past year. let me prunus to be sworn in this coming monday. he is reelected with a large majority. he has been in power as prime minister as president since the year 2000. when vladimir putin is sworn in on monday, it will make him russia's longest-serving president. >> that was kitty logan in london. thank you. >> and the president successfully negotiate a trade deal with china? or will he plunge the us into a trade war? one of the nations most influential voices in business will weigh in. with powerload™ technology. feed the line.

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we just got back from china. will have to work trade with china because it has been a one-way street for decades. we just cannot have it open. we will do that and we have a lot of respect for the president and from china. >> here is with the us is asking of china. the trade imbalance to be cut by $200 billion by the end of 2020. cut tariffs on american products and agree not to retaliate on any potential us actions. your enemy now we have an investor, advisor and president of the -- management group and fox news contributor. thank you for joining us? that was a long list. the administration came back with nothing for the most part. was this a failure as the first go around or just a first go? >> i think it is a first go around. the good news is they are meeting and you have to remember, these are going to be the two superpowers going forward. we have aligning interest.

they will get this done. we will meet somewhere in the middle.i don't think it will be a grand bargain when all is said and done what he thinks of incremental steps will get done because anything else is bad for the economy here over there and around the globe. >> you think the president wants to meet in the middle? or incremental steps like you just said or does he want to drastically shrink the widening trade gap that he has talked about now for more than two years? >> i think he wants to go as far as he can but i think he is going to have to recognize that china is just not going to lay down and say here, we are going to give everything to you. as the art of the deal says, sometimes you have to meet in the middle and i'm hoping cooler heads prevail. we don't know exactly what the right thing to do is but we do know when all is said and done history states if you have too many tariffs and they go back and forth inherits global growth and that is the worst.

i hope they get it right. >> is talk about marcus for a second. it is just something trading on the thousand point range in the last year or so. our market just waiting for trade to shake out before there's any sort of move one way or another? we look at actual administration items, infrastructure is not happy because there is an election in november. market is just waiting for this china situation. >> i think partially. market deal with so many other things. but this has been front and center to look at the newspapers every day. it is being written up about. you just have to realize, this is big stuff. it is not small potatoes. if you think like a walmart, who buys my tennis stuff from china, if prices go up, walmart has to make a decision. pass it on to customers or eat it themselves. either way it is bad news. markets will matter. going forward i will promise you one thing. if we end up with a trade war

back and forth it will be globally and you will see markets down two, three or 4000 points because of it. >> speaking about markets. warren buffett. commented on this. he has that big gathering out there for his annual summit in omaha. he essentially said that he doesn't think it is going to get to a trade war. >> we are in a trade scrimmage with them and it is important does not turn into a trade war. it hasn't gotten said or has not gotten the point where it becomes self reinforcing it. i think both sides are smart enough to know that a trade war would be better for each of them and back to the rest of the world. is he right?or both sides, essentially could say we don't need this? >> we have a model on the office never argue with warren buffett. he has been right too often.

i agree. again, the consequences of anything else is mind-boggling. especially when you have two countries that are prospering in ways. anything anyone imagines. again, the most important part of the equation is hopefully, they both get it. they both find a happy place. probably somewhere in the middle.we can move forward because global trade is the key to great economy around the globe. we have had great global trade everywhere. there is another issue also. europe, then being such great allies of us, they are being targeted also. it is not just going to be china. it will be your and other places. >> there is a saying in the nfl then give to quarterbacks you have none. meaning that you want to focus on one thing, have one thing and have it be elite. there are a host of trade deals that the president and the administration of trying to cut with china as we talked about. nafta, he spoke with angela

merkel of a potential deal with the european union. but at a point where they're just going to many possibilities out there? do the markets want to see one major thing happen? or are they fine with potentially sifting through this and seeing where it lands? >> i think you make a great point when there are so many things happening at once trying to move things at once. there is a war as far as markets go in business owners big and small. it is uncertainty. there is a lot of uncertainty right now with business owners. especially in the steel and aluminum business. farmers, no one knows what will come next. the quicker we get something done the factory get something done the better. i have to tell you, the economy around here is on a glide path. if they want to screw this up medical offer six months or a year. we have a midterm election. one has to wonder how much will get done knowing it is coming. by the way, china doesn't have

elections anymore. dude running the show does not have to worry about that. that is another important point to make as things move forward. >> november is right around the corner.thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> and nasa sending a robot to mars. with a launch unlike any other. how this mission may help pave the way for humans on the red planet. i accept i don't bike the miles i used to. i even accept i have a higher

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leslie capture this on her cell phone while flying in a private plane 5000 feet above. incredible view of this! it will take six months for the spacecraft to reach mars. charlie 300 million miles to get there. after landing, the inside will dig 16 feet below the martian surface and scientists hope to probe deep inside marching and more about the planet temperature, heat and seismic activity. that's right. mars quakes. they believe exploring deep below mars both reveal more about how planets are formed. >> is important for us to understand the origin of our solar system and how it became the way it is today. in addition to quantum planetary science, the mission i view as human exploration as mars. >> they expected to land in

november. >> so mars quake might be the word of the day. how do we think this will all play out? >> this will be in the next six months they will conduct maintenance and make sure that they are on the right approach to mars. the spacecraft will go from 80 miles above into the atmosphere 14,000 miles an hour and small rockets in the large parachute will slow it down as it gets towards the surface. 12 descent engines will begin firing landing safely on three legs. the solar panels will then power the entire rover over a two-year period as it does the exploration. pretty incredible stuff. it has a very high failure rate. only about 40 percent are successful. we will see, we have high confidence. >> really cool stuff! if there's ever a time or one of us gets to go -- [laughter] >> thank you very much.

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this as some of the recent controversy surrounding his administration and his legal team takes a new turn. hello everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm laura ingall. >> the president now distancing himself from comments made by the latest addition to his legal team, saying rudy giuliani will quote get his facts straight -- facts straight. ellison barber is live at the white house with the very latest. did the president talk about that payment at all today? >> he didn't, and reporters tried to ask him about it as he boarded marine one this morning and headed to cleveland, but no response was given. he just kept walking to marine one and mouthed thank you. the president is really trying to focus on jobs and the economy, but that's been difficult in the past few days. the attention has not been on that no matter how hard they have tried to push it in this

administration. it's been on the $130,000 payment daniels received from long time trump attorney michael cohen. that's because trump's newest attorney rudy giuliani made an unexpected admission during an interview with fox. giuliani said the president reimbursed cohen for the daniels payment. giuliani released a statement quote clarifying some of his remarks. he said quote there is no campaign violation. the payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the president's family. it would have been done in any event, whether he was a candidate or not. my references to timing were not describing my understanding of the president's knowledge, but instead my understanding of these matters. regardless, giuliani's remarks seem to contradict previous statements made by cohen and the president. president trump reminded the press that giuliani is new. he also disputed the claim that what president trump is saying now is different than what he said in the past. >> rudy made the statements.

rudy's great. but rudy has just started and he wasn't totally familiar with every -- you know, with everything. >> mr. president -- [inaudible] >> we're not changing any stories. >> here's what he said on air force one in april. >> do you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> [inaudible]. >> president trump said that he paid cohen a retainer fee, and the reimbursement was made through that. blake? >> so what did the president have to say in ohio today? did he make any news? >> he made a little bit of news. he hinted at potentially some future actions in regards to immigration and also healthcare. >> we're going to get the wall. even if we have to think about closing up the country for a while, over the next few weeks, we're going to have a very very big announcement on healthcare. >> for the most part, the president used that roundtable today which was on tax cuts to focus on tax cuts, jobs, and the economy, all things that he sees

as positives for the american people and his administration. that's the same play book that we expect republicans to be using heading into the election. and of course in ohio, they have their primary election on tuesday. blake? >> yep, a lot more of those roundtables between now and november. thanks. >> you bet. and for more on this, let's bring in the deputy make managing editor -- deputy managing editor for the weekly standard. great to have you here today. >> great to be here. >> so much to digest with all that's gone on this week. let's take a look at what mike allen wrote in on wednesday. he said a source very close to trump said for the average human, nothing scares them more than legal issues. he does not care. his whole adult life has been spent on litigation. he's not afraid of high-stakes legal stuff. he's just going to start swinging and knock people's

heads off. what do you think about that? >> that's quite a statement. i think there's a lot of truth to it. i know if i knew someone was going after me or i was in legal trouble, i would be very nervous because i have no experience with that. but donald trump has a lot of experience with that. he's come through and been a success. i think the fact that he's hired rudy giuliani and added him to the legal team, i think that does give kre dense to the idea -- credence to the idea that he is going to be more aggressive, go on offense and spend less time on defense. >> could that be a winning strategy, i mean, politically at least? >> you know, it is interesting, you know, do people sort of wonder is giuliani up to the job? he has the hardest job in washington right now except for the president. he's 73. i just saw him about an hour ago, speaking at the 2018 freedom convention, and i chatted with him afterwards. he's in fighting form. he's in good spirits. he didn't seem to me like he had

gotten any sort of dressing down from the president, as some might think or trying to spread the rumor that he is. i mean, he is taking a bolder strategy. he came out day one right after he was hired and said he's going to work to bring this probe to an end. i think that's a different strategy, rather than letting robert mueller dictate hey when this is going to happen and when that is going to happen. they are trying to bring it to some sort of conclusion. i think that would be the best thing not just for the president but for the country and the world because there are pressing issues that we want our president's and his team's full attention on. >> absolutely. you just saw giuliani and talked to him. we know he's going to be on tonight with judge jeanine 9:00 p.m. eastern. did he give you any hint as to where he's going with that interview tonight? >> he's really -- it is amazing to me what kind of spirits he was in. it was great. i have to say he still has that amazing star power and charisma that people see him as bill richardson called him democratic

former governor bill richardson took the stage before giuliani and talked about how much he was pleased to be sharing the stage with america's mayor. after i chatted with rudy, a woman came up to me, is that rudy giuliani? he is one that gets a lot of attention. the fact that trump has brought him on the team i think indicates trump is not shying away from the attention. i have to say, you know, he didn't really want -- he wanted to talk about iran. he wasn't happy to take too many questions about daniels. but he seemed to me to be very bold, very brash and not going to be backing down no matter what everybody in washington has been saying about him in the last few days. >> right. i wanted to get your take on the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former trump campaign manager paul manafort and what he had to say this week. what did you make of that? >> yeah, that's quite surprising, and when it comes from a judge, you know, you

really have to take those comments seriously because most judges are very sober, reflective people. and it is true that, you know, the charges against paul manafort don't have anything to do with the trump campaign. so farther all things that involve -- so far they are all things that involve his work outside of the campaign. he did get tied up in that because of his connections because robert mueller is allowed to look at whatever he finds. i think some people are wondering why is this probe taking so long? why do most of the indictments have nothing to do with the campaign? yeah, when sit going to end? -- when is it going to end? you never know how long these sort of investigations are going to take. i think a little more information as to how much long they are is going to go on and is it going to find anything? i do wonder is robert mueller and his team, do they feel like they need to get some sort of high-profile indictment out at the end to justify the fact that washington has been talking about them non-stop since they started? >> and i want to draw attention

to one of your pieces this week. what about roger stone? you wrote this week that the on-again-off-again confidant may also be a growing target of mueller. how do you see it? >> i think this is actually going to be potentially more damaging. you know, everyone is talking about manafort, but it's manafort's protege gates that stayed with the campaign after paul was fired and worked right up until the inauguration, and so roger stone it seems to me that robert mueller's looking at roger stone and his work with gates, says he's looking at conversations they had at dinners. and we know that roger stone has proudly boasted of being in touch with who we thought was a lone hacker that attacked the n dnc -- dnc servers but now know is an agent with the russian intelligence. this is something where we could

see some actual charges about solution going on -- about collusion going on. whether trump is connected, i don't know. stone might have been doing it on his own. i think roger stone is pretty worried right now. >> all right. that's a very good point to make. a lot of people making it as well. we appreciate your perspective. we had a lot to get to. kelly jane, thank you very much. >> thanks, laura. >> be sure to watch fox news sunday. chris wallace will have exclusive interviews with former federal attorney and former white house special counsel lanny davis, huge show, check your local listings for times on that. there are new developments in the russia investigation as two top advisors to the former fbi director jim comey have resigned from the bureau. james baker and lisa page who both sparked controversy and raised questions about the credibility of the probe are leaving their jobs. garrett tenney is live in washington with the very latest. hi there, garrett.

>> hey, blake. you know, not too long ago both of these folks held top positions within the fbi until they were reassigned amid accusations of bias against president trump. jim baker was the bureau's top lawyer and lisa page was not only a legal advisor to comey and his deputy mccabe but also a member of special counsel robert mueller's team. page was reassigned after investigators discovered her text messages with another top fbi agent which were highly critical of president trump. baker was reassigned late last year amid a doj investigation into allegations that he leaked classified information to a reporter about the trump dossier. the fbi tells us the pair simply resigned to pursue other opportunities, but one former doj official believes the timing of their resignation is also likely related to the report by the justice department's inspector general which is expected to be highly critical of fbi officials. >> the speculation is that it is going to be pretty tough on a lot of different people that were involved the clinton investigation, including them.

if they are not employees of the department of justice, the ig doesn't have any jurisdiction over them and won't be able to punish them or fire them or anything like that. >> however if there are criminal findings in that inspector general's report, they of course could have charges brought against them later on, but that report is expected to come out here in the next couple of weeks. a lot of folks looking forward to seeing that. >> a lot of ig's in washington are busy these days garrett, thanks >> you got it. and president trump set to hold a meeting with south korean's president at the white house ahead of his planned summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. and earlier in our nation's capital, rudy giuliani while speaking at a convention about iran says he expects pyongyang to release three american captives in the coming days >> there is a good chance that three long time hostages in north korea will be released over the next several days. [cheers] >> i pray --

[cheers] >> i pray that that happens, but that didn't happen accidentally. just like your freedom isn't going to come about accidentally. we've seen people die to bring about that kind of thing in north korea, a prisoner who was released, a year or so ago, who died, , what a tragedy that is. >> jillian turner is in washington with the details on this. >> president trump will host president moon of south korea on may 22nd in advance of his anticipated summit with kim jong-un of north korea. the negotiating team has settled on a location for the summit, but not quite ready to disclose their choice just yet. likely in keeping with the president's stated goal of never broadcasting national security plans in advance. however, it's not keeping the president from teasing the event. >> we have actually worked out a time and a place which will be announced shortly. >> where? >> very soon. >> also in play is the status of

three korean american hostages being held illegally in the north. one since 2015 and the other two since 2017. they've reportedly been relocated from a labor camp to a private hotel near pyongyang. a sign experts say indicates they ma be released -- they may be released in advance of the trump kim summit. >> we're having very substantive talks with north korea and a lot of things have already happened with respect to the hostages. >> kim jong-un has long been detaining american citizens to use as bargaining chips in his dealings with the international community. it is nearly one year since the death of otto warmbier. they used him as a political pawn for as long as they could, and when he was no longer value to them, they essentially sent him home to our family in a body bag. the ideal is to complete the

release and transfer of these hostages before the start of the summit. they want the two leaders to focus exclusively on the nuclear issue during their face-to-face meeting. in a gesture of goodwill intended to speed up korean reunification, the north moved its clocks forward 30 minutes to sync with the south, a small step in the right direction. laura? >> all right. jillian turner thank you very much. the me too movement spreading now to the nobel prize. the swedish academy that decides the winner for literature has been rocked by sexual abuse allegations. now it is delaying a decision until it can sort through the trouble. >> they have to restart. they have to -- maybe there are more of them who need to think about being in the academy or not being in the academy, and we need to have fresh people in the academy and also new guidelines

for the work in the future. >> no, i think they should not go on like this. i think they should all leave. >> this means the two prizes will be given out next year, one for 2019 and the other for 2018. president trump visiting ohio as republicans look to flip senate seats in several key battleground states, including the buckeye state. will the president's trip help make a difference evacuations are underway in hawaii as an earthquake and exploding volcano rock the big island. what we know at this hour. >> all around here is a sulfur smell. i think we're one street over from lava right now. just can't satisfy.

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a fox news alert, one-two punch of natural disasters in hawaii. the big island first experiencing a volcanic eruption on thursday. then a magnitude 6.9 earthquake yesterday. the lava from the volcano still causing mandatory evacuations and putting dangerous gas in the air. >> i'm probably the last person everyone wants to see up here because we're the people that tell you no that you cannot go

into a subdivision or no you can't enter your residence. we take our guidance from the individuals that know best. the army, the air force, and the fire department that's out there testing the air quality. >> william la -- william la jeunesse is live with more. what dangers are residents facing this hour? >> number one of course, you have lava. basically you have 800 homes that are built on top of or adjacent to an underground river of 2,000 degree liquid rock. this is what it looks like when it comes to the surface and it dries. it is really very very sharp, but this literally went through and it obviously knocked out several trees. that's one issue. this stuff will destroy anything in its path. for instance, here, there used to be a fence here. it totally just swallowed it up. number two, you have eight very active vents or cracks in the

earth where they are spewing 100 feet in the air ash and steam and rock. that stuff comes down. it is going to burn your house. thirdly, of course you have the earthquake. 5.4 and then a 6.9 magnitude earthquake yesterday. 6.7 was 60 billion dollars in damage. luckily because this is largely a rural area, they have had no fatalities remarkably and very little property damage, one or two story homes. finally of course you have the sulfur dioxide gas we talked about which is very very toxic. the firemen told me, you smell it the first time and then it burns your senses and you don't know you are breathing it after that and you are literally burning your lungs. it can burn out your eyes, your throat, infections, all bad stuff. so these people are facing lots of threats, and that's one of the reasons they are saying you have to evacuate. you are living in shelters. you can't live in your house.

laura? >> you know, i keep thinking about all the people that live there of course and then all the people that have come to visit hawaii, and, you know, that obviously takes a lot of planning and all those people are now dealing with this as well. there's really no way to predict mother nature's time frame for when things can get back to normal, but what are the experts saying >> i can tell you that in 1955 there was a quake that lasted -- excuse me, earthquake, a volcanic eruption that lasted three months and created a lava field not unlike you see here, but it was 4,000 acres which of course is huge. and the experts tell us from the volcanic observatory that this is likely going to get worse before it gets better. they told residents in a meeting last night, and this is the officials from the observatory, if you will, that they are expecting more eruptions, lasting longer, earthquakes and aftershocks to continue for days. the truth is, mother nature when it comes to disasters, it could

really care less about how we feel about it. it is just mother nature. i will tell you that they brought in the national guard to monitor the air quality because that is a real danger. i think adam clock said we're supposed to have some improving weather conditions. that would be some good news especially for first responders because they are keeping everyone including us when we tried to go there well away from where these vents are which are spewing the gas and the ash and the rock, etc. back to you. >> i wonder what the flights out of there are starting to look like. thank you very much for that report. stay safe. thank you. different kind of situation now in north central arizona where a wildfire is now in its eighth day. firefighters there saying this all started with an abandoned illegal campfire. the flames then destroying dozens of homes with evacuation orders still in place this evening. anita roman from our phoenix affiliate ksaz has the latest. >> mark and marie called up a

trailer full of supplies. >> blankets, mattresses, food, lots of drinks. >> the couple who had a cabin for the last five years on unit 9 helping those who lost everything, even though their home burned to the ground. they were allowed back in beginning at 8:00 a.m. >> we're blessed that we are not the ones who live up here full time. this is not our everything. >> it's stress. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah. i thought i could get back up and get my truck and they said no you can't go back in. >> gary bennett evacuated sunday night. he had to wait until 2:00 p.m. to head home. that's because his home didn't burn and he's grateful for that. >> the fire just was headed towards winslow, and it just -- the wind kept taking it towards winslow. that's the only thing that saved us. it never jumped the road.

>> about 6 miles down the road, south from where the community is situated, crews from u.s. forest service were working the hot spots. >> right here we had a hazard tree, an oak tree that was leaning up in to some other trees that were creating overhead hazards for firefighters and the public. >> the big concern on the fire line today, the wind. they picked up, and that of course makes the fire extremely unpredictable. >> this fire is coming back to life now that the weather's changed. >> fire behavior analyst says they haven't seen smoke for a few days since the rain and snow helped knock the tinder fire out so he's keeping a careful eye on how things are moving. in the meantime, the people who lost their homes are hoping things will be back to normal sooner than later. >> we can rebuild. you know, we lost the home, but we didn't lose our memories. >> that was anita roman, thank you. it's incredible to see the pictures that william la jeunesse is bringing us from hawaii.

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blake: just a week away from a major decision for president trump to decide whether or not to abandon the iran nuclear deal or keep the united states in the deal. and now there are growing questions about how tehran will act if the president decides to walk away.

david lee miller is in jerusalem with the details. >> if the u.s. decides to pull out of the iran deal, most experts say it will be difficult to predict what happens next because the u.s. is only one party to the agreement. france, china, russia, the u.k., germany and iran could still honor the deal. but there would be global implications if the u.s. does decide to walk away. on may 12th, the president will have to decide to renew waivers for sanctions that target iran's central bank and oil exports. if that happens, countries buying iranian oil would have to reduce purchases or face penalties imposed by the u.s. some experts say the oil exports could be reduced up to a million barrels a day, that could result in a spike in the cost of gasoline in the u.s. there is also another date to keep in mind. by july 11th, president trump will have to decide about other sanctions that target iranian companies and individuals. the president can decide to

reimpose all sanctions at once or do it piecemeal. the gradual approach could provide the leverage and time to come one a new or amended agreement. if iran considers the agreement dead, it might act unconstrained in the region, targeting israel and increasing its influence and presence in syria and lebanon. some analysts warn iran could abandon restrictions on its nuclear program that were previously agreed to and increase uranium enrichment. the head of iran's atomic energy organization says the country has the capability to enrich uranium to a higher level than before the deal was signed. blake? blake: one week to go, a big decision, david lee miller thanks. laura: there are reports john kerry is speaking with u.s. allies in an effort to save the deal. a kerry source said this to the boston -- part of the equation is if the former u.s. energy secretary or john made a bold

statement, trump is crazy and he might do the opposite just to spite them. you are liable to spur this guy in a direction you don't want him to go in just to be spiteful. ernie was also a negotiator on behalf of the obama administration. we want to bring in a former cia station chief and fox news contributor. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you. laura: is this going to be even more of a reason for president trump to pull out? do you think this is going to really go that way? is that how it will play out? >> i don't really believe that secretary kerry is going to influence the president's decision. it is unseemly or worse potentially a violation of the logan act for secretary kerry to be seeking to influence the situation on the ground with meetings, reportedly with a german and iranian foreign ministers, but again, i think the president will make his decision irrespective of what secretary kerry is doing. laura: we also had prime minister netanyahu revealing documents in a power point

presentation showing iranian efforts to increase its nuclear program before the 2015 deal was ever agreed on. here's what he said this week on our air in a message to mr. trump. let's listen. >> it's either fully fixed or fully nixed. you need a major overhaul or a new deal in the fully fixed. the person that will make that decision for the united states is one person. that's president trump. and i trust his judgment. i know that he will do the right thing. and i said yesterday he will do the right thing for america, the right thing for israel, and the right thing for the security and peace of the entire world. laura: so what do you make of that? >> well, prime minister netanyahu is 100% right. it is a flawed deal. iran is technically complying, but there are three major issues: first, it doesn't address the sunset clauses so by 2030 iran could be on a breakout for nuclear weapon. it doesn't address iran's development of ballistic missiles and it frees up a lot

of money, 100 billion dollars plus sanctions relief so that iran can pursue its state sponsored terrorism. so there are major issues with the deal, and the president -- president trump i think is frustrated by the pace of an effort to negotiate either a separate deal or a supplemental deal to improve our standing and protect our national security. i think that's what's driving his consideration of terminating the deal on may 12th. laura: is any of this surprising to you? >> no, we -- president trump has said this -- said during the campaign that it was a flawed deal. it was a bad deal. we shouldn't have signed it. again, i think the question is what do we do about it? i would highlight that the president can terminate the deal, but it is the congress who will decide whether to reimpose the sanctions. so we could be in kind of an intermediate phase where the congress is holding on imposing sanctions while the president seeks to use that leverage to induce what is absolutely not a united front, you know, germany, france, and the u.k. all have

economic interests in iran, china and russia certainly are not out to support us. russia building its nuclear power plant for iran. but perhaps this will induce some movement on the part of the other signatories so we can get a better supplemental deal. i don't think iran would take immediate action to kick out iea inspectors or increase their stockpile of enriched uranium. those are certainly options open to them. restart the heavy water reactor. but again, those are options for iran. it will put a premium on our intelligence community to collect the intelligence on iran's plans and intentions for sure. laura: such a big week ahead. we are one week away from this decision to stay or pull out. is there anything you see that could happen to change the direction it seems to be going? >> i think right now the president and his team are certainly considering all the options as well as the ramifications for the decisions that we make, and you could always be prepared for some sort of a surprise going forward. although i don't see our

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where it's much more attractive to house employees outside the city. and that is bad for the city. it's bad for jobs. it's bad for the city's economy. >> the tax revenue would be used to build homeless shelters, tiny house villages, and affordable apartments, despite spending on homelessness that has ballooned to 200 million dollars a year, the number of those on the streets has grown 20% in two years to nearly 4,000. >> housing and homelessness is absolutely -- absolutely a regional crisis. but we have to act with urgency right here in seattle to get folks inside. this creates almost 2,000 affordable homes. >> amazon is looking at an annual tax of $540 on each of its 40,000 employees. the on line retailer will pay 21.6 million dollars more a year. even though it's spending 10 million dollars to build a homeless shelter in one of its many new office towers. at the same time amazon is looking for a second headquarters. >> what amazon is doing is

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national midterm, that's a quote from you. how so larry? >> ohio has long since been the bellwether of the country, almost always gone in the same way as the country in terms of picking the presidential nominee. i would say today they're more republican than average nationally, but they are still competitive enough so that we always look to ohio as one of the great cross roads of american politics. that's going to prove true this november as well, in their governor's race and especially the senate race that you just cited. blake: let's talk about the senate race that's likely to shape up come november. jim got to get through the primary not expected to have any troubles and sharon brown who is the incumbent. you have it right now as leaning democrat, the incumbent keeping his job. does he have a chance to close the gap and if so, how might president trump factor into all of this? >> he absolutely has a chance, a

good chance, fair to good at least to close that gap. why? because ohio wasn't just won by trump. normally ohio's close. this wasn't close at all. president trump got about 8% margin, 8% majority in ohio. that means and still does mean that he has a lot of support there. in fact, the democratic vote virtually collapsed in eastern ohio. you can see that when you look at the county and precinct maps from 2016. so i think president trump will have an impact in ohio. he's strongly behind the congressman. ohio's one of ten states that trump carried in 2016, but where there's a democratic incumbent senator on the ballot this fall. you can guarantee that president trump and vice president pence will be all over those states in the weeks and months leading up to election day. blake: you say ohio has been moving more and more republican, if brown were to lose, and keep in mind he's won his last two races in that state as you know

by 12 and 6 points, if he were to lose, is that -- and i don't want to sound dramatic with this, but is that the end of democrats in the state of ohio? >> you know, if they lose sharon brown, and they don't recapture the governorship this fall, they are not going to have much of anything at the state level. actually as it is, and this is really incredible, in 24 of the last 28 years, republicans have had the ohio governorship. i mean, that doesn't even suggest it's that competitive. but in national elections, it usually is, but as i say, it may be becoming more republican. blake: let's talk about the governor's race on the democratic side there is a primary as well. richard cordray is running and dennis kucinich is well known within that state is running as well. there's kind of a couple different pockets. you have elizabeth warren, she's backing cordray and groups that are like bernie sanders are

backing kucinich. is this sort of a litmus test, look forward past 2018, but a potential litmus test for if those two decide to run, warren and sanders in 2020 as to what that primary could look like for democrats? >> very easily. although keep in mind, the last we checked, there were a lot more democrats running than there are horses in the kentucky derby. so you never know how that's going to shake out. there's no question, democrats were faxalized in 2016 -- factionalized in 2016. there will be a lot more factions in 2020. where the center of gravity among ohio democrats will it be more mainstream that will back cordray or will it be among the people further to the left i think they will be backing former cleveland mayor and congressman dennis kucinich. blake: when you look at the generic ballot in these house and senate races, it is very

very favorable for democrats right now. in fact, when you go to real clear politics and look at every single poll taken, it's all blue. and this is the average right here, 45 1/2 essentially to 39 1/2, a 6 point lead to democrats. does that sound right to you right about now where we sit here in the beginning of may staring down november in a handful of months? >> well, it's between 6 and 7 percent. that's substantial but it is not nearly as large as has been measured from time to time just a few months ago. nor is it all that substantial compared to some past cycles where democrats did in fact take over one or both houses. also i tell everybody, it is early may. you mentioned it. i give you credit for that. some people seem to think it is election eve. loads of things will change and will happen between now and november. so i love following it. you love following it. everybody in the political community is obsessed with it. but it's too early to say that this absolutely predicts the

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