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>> that's going to do it for now. going to be okay. >> >> it's hard to keep up with you. >> piece of cake over there. it was moving today. >> let's do it again tomorrow. >> gina haspel hearing live. >> "happening now" starts now. >> jon: we begin with a fox news alert. it's decision day on the iran nuclear deal. president trump set to announce whether he will follow-through on whether he will pull out of the deal. good morning to you. i'm jon scott. >> and i'm melissa francis. will he nix it or fix it? in less than three hours, the president will reveal his plan for the iran deal. an agreement he's blasted for years, calling it's a disaster among other things. our european allies still back this agreement, which could collapse if the u.s. withdraws. critics cite real concerns about trusting iran. >> the iranians have been lying. every time their lips move, they
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lie. they're working with the north koreans until a few weeks ago on their icbm and nuclear program. the europeans want to keep things as they are for the trade value. if we sanction them again, we ought to sanction anybody else that does business with them. that will stop the euros to bail them out while they cheat on this program. >> john roberts is live with more. john? >> good morning to you, jon. gauging the percentages between nix or fix, nix has the edge right now. the president would like to fix it with a deal that takes care of everything that iran is doing. the short term nuclear program, the long-term nuclear program, the ballistic missile program and the destabilizing behavior. the white house is playing this close to the vest. we know the president in the last hour spoke to emmanuel macron. we understand that the jcpoa was the centerpiece of the phone
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call. the president spoke to president xi of china. the jcpoa might have come up but that was mostly about trade and north korea. the president has made no secret of the fact that he does not like this deal and indications are at this point that he will not sign a new waiver of sanctions. the waiver that he and the president signed every 90 days under the terms of the agreement. that could begin the process of the united states pulling out of the joint comprehensive plan of action. mark short saying a short time ago here on fox news that it would be no surprise if the president pulled out. listen. >> it's hard to think that iran is following the spirit of the deal. the president has been clear about his demands for a better deal. >> the idea that iran is cheating took new life after the israeli prime minister laid out
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evidence and intelligence that iran still had plans to build a nuclear weapon. there's still a difference in on how to do this. mike pompeo, the new secretary of state, john bolton both in favor of pulling out. james mattis thinks it would be better to stay in. the president has also heard from our european allies, french president macron a couple weeks ago and again on the telephone. angela merkel, the chancellor of germany, theresa may urging him to stay in and seek a second deal. iran threatening to restart their nuclear program if the u.s. pulls out of the jcpoa. when he put with president macron, the president warned iran against doing that. listen here. >> it won't be so easy for them to restart. they're not going to be restarting anything. they restart it, they'll have bigger problems. bigger than they've had before. you can mark it down. they restart their nuclear program, they'll have bigger problems than they have ever hat
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before. thanks very much, everybody. >> the president also taking aim at former secretary of state john kerry after reports that he has been engaging in below-the-radar contact with iranian and european leaders about the deal. the president saying john kerry has to get off the stage. john kerry can't get over the fact that he had his chance and blew it. stay away from negotiations, john. you're hurting our country. the president has been given a range of options on what to do from his advisers. i'm being told he went through a methodical decision-making process. jon, today is decision day. 2:00 this afternoon. >> we'll have that live obviously. john roberts, the chief white house correspondent. thank you. >> thanks. >> new york's attorney general resigning after a stunning report in which four women accused of assaulting him while they were involved with him. the district attorney opening a
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criminal investigation into early schneiderman who was a high profile advocate of women's rights and a fierce opponent of president trump. >> the details of the alleged misdeeds were revealed last night in a searing article put out by the new yorker. four women alleged schneiderman choked and abused them while they were in a romantic relationship or had an encounter with them. two of the women went on the record and said they had to receive medical attention after the encounters of assault, they said. the nypd said they have no complaints filed by the women who told the new yorker that they were worried that he could kill them or have them followed our phones tapped. after the story broke, schneiderman issued the following statement.
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>> schneiderman resigned and stepped down saying the allegations would be too much of a distraction for him to continue. after quickly losing the support of democratic leaders including governor andrew cuomo who spoke out this morning. listen. >> change comes when people demand change and change comes when the problem is revealed and exposed. that is always step one. >> if true, the ironic twist become his role as an outspoken figure in the me too movement against sexual harassment which angered two of his accusers. in 2016, his office published a know your rights brochure for victims of domestic violence. in 2010 when he was a state senator for manhattan, he introduced a bill to make intentional strangulation a
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violent felony. barbara underwood will take over for now and an interim replacement will be chosen by the state legislature with voters deciding on a new attorney general in november. it goes on. >> thanks. >> jon: for more, let's bring in jock mccormack, writer for the weekly standards. what a 24 hours. the allegations come out and the governor goes after him and he tender it's his resignation. doesn't usually happen that quickly. >> not usually but these are horrific allegations. multiple allegations, multiple people confirming the stories were told. it's hard to is see how it would have played out differently. first, you have to praise the victims for speaking out and the journalist that helped them tell their story.
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one of the victims urged her not to come forward because schneiderman is too strong of a politician. it shows that either party, whether it's democrats that originally defended people like -- dismissed allegations like bill clinton or republicans that dismiss them against roy moore or donald trump. >> jon: trump is no fan of schneiderman. schneiderman went off trump in court on several issues but brings to light the tweet that donald trump send out in 2013. we're writes five years ago, anthony wiener is gone and spitzer is gone. is schneiderman a crook? that was put out on september 11th, which has its own
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hallmarks of 2013. do you know new about what the now president knew then? >> i do not. you don't know if that is speculation or if he heard a rumor or something more than that you see democrats saying now, al franken for much less worse things, he's gone. now schneiderman for horrific allegations is gone. people in missouri, there's allegations about the governor who is refusing to step down. they would point out that multiple allegations of sexual assault against the sitting president, donald trump. he's still in office. so i think you'll have both sides pointing fingers here. what underscores is this isn't a partisan issue. that malfeasance can occur in either party. >> jon: hats off to ronan pharaoh who exposed harvey weinstein and now the attorney general of the state of new york. >> yeah. he's done an excellent job.
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and jane mayer he's a done a great job. even with the bravery of the victims, you don't know if they would have felt comfortable to speak out. in terms of the political impact, i don't know if it will have any impact. governor cuomo called for schneiderman's resignation. and cuomo faces cynthia nixon. so if you wonder if this alters the environment of the people viewing the race and many are sick of the whole system and they want someone fresh. >> jon: the early polls showed her way behind. it's getting tighter. an interesting race to watch. john mccormack from the weekly standard. thank you. >> attorney general jeff sessions with very tough talk on immigration. what he's now threatening to do to those that enter this country illegally.
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and gina haspel is back on capitol hill ahead of tomorrow's confirmation hearing. why some charge she's the target of a smear campaign by democrats as the white house becomes her to the hill. >> we want her to get a fair hearing, a thorough hearing and we're confident that not only will all of the members of the senate see what the rest of us see and certainly some of the people that have held the position see but gina is more than qualified.
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hearsay. we can't let it happen again. mrs. haspel didn't ask for this fight. if that's what it takes to get america the best most qualified person to lead the cia, we're more than willing to wage and win that fight for her and the rest of the country. >> jon: joining us now, utah republican, chris stewart, member of the house intelligence committee. she's going in front of your senate, not your committee. if you were voting for her, would you? >> absolutely. she's an outstanding candidate. nobody else qualifies like she does. once again, we're seeing many of our democratic colleagues in the senate obstructing and in an unfair way. just has to stop. it's not what the american people want. it's not what they expect or deserve. >> jon: she has spent her career at the cia. she was even a covert operative in the field. the rub against her from a lot
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of people, a lot of senators is that she oversaw sites where water boarding was practiced. how do you answer that? >> yes. so your argument is she was overly tough on terrorism -- and the time -- this is an important point. congress and the senate were aware of waterboarding. they authorized these measures. not only were they aware of it but they authorized that. now people are criticized for doing what she was told to do by members of the senate and by members of the congress and the administration. she didn't envision this herself. she was authorized by congress to do this. the hypocrisy of some of these individuals saying we're going hold you accountable for what we told you to do and because you did what we told you to do, you're not qualified to lead the cia. it's a nutty argument in my opinion. >> jon: has anybody looked at
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the practices that al-quaida and isis and these other organizations put forward in the treatment of their enemies? >> yeah, it's hard to compare. you have to remember the context of the time, after 9-11. you're sitting in meetings where democratic leaders and republicans were looking at an administration and demanding you have to do something, this is a crisis for us. do something to protect the american people. we didn't know what was coming next. for people to go back years later and to be critical of those people that felt committed to protecting americans and american security and to hand peck at these kind of things. we made a decision of water boarding since then. it's probably appropriate. but at the time, it was a policy that congress ascribed to. again, it's nothing but -- it's unfair to say you're not qualified to lead the cia because of that when we know she's one of the most qualified candidates we put forward to be
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the cia director. >> jon: it's fair to say and i don't want to pick on john mccain. he's a national hero and he's undergoing treatment for brain cancer but he's one of those that has said that water boarding is torture and we do not torture in this count trip. >> so that was our policy. that is something that we were working our way through at the time. we worked through it with a real sense of urgency. it's not like gina is a person that came up with this idea and advocated it on her own. she was doing what she was authorized to do at the time. >> jon: very quickly, are you making predictions about her approval? >> you know, senate is very close. we have a couple of republicans that are a rascal. you don't know what they'll do. if she can get before the full senate, she will be approved. there's a handful of democrats that will look and say look, let's treat her fairly. she's clearly qualified. she deserves a vote and i think
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she will pass. >> congressman chris stewart, republican of utah. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> melissa: the volcano in hawaii swallowing everything in its pass and damaging and destroying more homes after two new cracks open up. we'll take you there live. and it's primary day in four key battleground states. but all eyes are on in west virginia. what the candidates need to do to security the gop nomination. >> if you want to be nominated in a republican primary, you can't really afford to get cross ways with trump. so they're all trying to be the trumpiest of the candidates. mom? dad? hi! i had a very minor fender bender tonight in an unreasonably narrow fast food drive thru lane. but what a powerful life lesson.
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>> melissa: right now primary voting underway in four key states that trump carried in 2016. folks watching ohio, north carolina and indiana. most of all, west virginia. that's where republicans hope to flip joe manchin's republican seed from blue to read as three leading republicans make their final pitch, including don blankenship. >> people know that i'm more in agreement with trump's policies than anyone else. obviously they told him some stories like they've been telling west virginiians for years. >> he's looking to send a clear message that we need somebody that can beat joe manchin. >> there's too much at stake for west virginia. we must defeat joe manchin in november. don blankenship is not the man
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that can beat joe manchin. >> melissa: let's bring in larry sabado. we have three states that the president carries where they have democrats now. that's a possibility of maybe picking up three seats if the right republican is there. right? in order to run in the primary? which ones do you think -- >> yes. >> melissa: handicap the three races for me. >> sure. as you know, they're all competitive. president trump carried them and he carried these three states handily from a large margin of nine points to a gigantic margin of 42 points. certain through they're flipable vulnerable democratic seats. ohio is one where you have an incumbent democratic senator, sherrod brown. we know he will be opposed and
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it will be competitive. indiana, three republicans running. we don't have enough time to discuss all three. i'd say i don't think it matters all that much which one is nominated. i think they can be competitive against senator joe donnelly, the one-term democratic senator. the day is about west virginia. that's the center of the political universe. and there it's clear to everybody, democratic, republican leadership, that the lead likely to win in november is don blankenship. you can see the other two running a competitive race against joe manchin, the democrat. >> melissa: is that conventional wisdom? blankenship makes the argument that he's the only one that has beaten joe manchin. the stuff we looked at yesterday, he was in the lead. he's more popular than they are now.
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just being the devil's advocate, are you certain one of those two would be better and would either of them be better? >> after 2016, i'm not certain the sunrises in the east. so let's just stipulate that right now. >> fair enough. >> beyond that i'd say that it's considered the judgment of people in politics on all sides that that is true. doesn't mean it is absolutely true. i always tell people with conventional wisdom, the only thing you know is conventional. you don't know it's wisdom but you know it's conventional. >> melissa: on the democrat's side, are they sweating out one race, the ohio governor's race. talk to me about that. >> yes. that is going to be fascinating. republicans have done extraordinarily well in the gubernatorial races. they have controlled for 24 of 28 years and probably favored a little bit at this point to continue that. most likely nominee is attorney
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general mike dewine that also served in the u.s. senate. he's running against mary taylor who is john kasich's lieutenant governor. she's tried to distance herself from kasich who has become unpopular of republicans because of his opposition to trump. on the democratic side, richard cordrey, the attorney general in ohio and headed up the consumer protection bureau, he's running against dennis kusenich. cordrey is considered the stronger nominee. >> melissa: before you go, there was once again the conventional wisdom that the president's approval rating was low. seems recently no matter what poll you're looking at the president's numbers have moved up. all of a sudden you're hearing republicans trying to we'd themselves as closely as
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president -- as possible to president trump. is the tide turning? >> it's too early to know what the conditions will be when people vote in november. those that said we were headed to a shellacking were wrong when they said it. no one can know. too many things will happen between now and november. >> melissa: very true. thanks, larry. >> thank you. >> jon: president trump about to reveal his decision on the iran nuclear deal. if he pulls the u.s. out, what happens next? we'll have a look at the possible fallout. and plus a slow motion disaster unfolding in hawaii. molten lava destroying dozens of homes. there's a new concerns. we're life on hawaii's big idea next. >> it was devastating. every road you go down there in
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mount kilauea spewing lava and toxic gas forcing residents out of their homes. 35 homes and other buildings have been destroyed. william la jeunesse live from the big idea with the latest. william? >> jon, the red cross says there's 250 people sleeping behind me. there's no where to go. no hotel rooms and longer term, most don't have volcano insurance. the governor told residents last night, don't ask your agent if you have lava insurance. as long as you have fire coverage, we believe you're covered. >> you have to feel for the people that lost their houses. up to now, we're okay. >> so the anxiety is, that could change tomorrow. the lower kilauea is dumping lava, there's two new vents
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popping up yesterday. the more uncertainty residents face. >> we're in lelani estates. elsewhere, everything looks normal. the law have a flow has brought down the power lines. looks over here. you can see where it's moved next to this pole and stop add few feet from this gentleman's house. this is one of ten eruptions in the lelani estates what geologists believe is the lake lava level has fallen about 700 feet in the last few days. where is that magna going? they believe it's traveling underground and popping up here in this neighborhood. the concerning thing for residents here, their house may be here today, but maybe not tomorrow. they have no idea when this is going to end. >> so people are getting meals
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here at the red cross shelter. people are getting desperate and could last a long-term. part of their insurance could give them loss of use coverage. that may be some sort of cash. back to you. >> jon: it's unbelievable. thanks, william. >> melissa: wow. fox news alert on the iran nuclear deal. in a little over two hours, we'll learn whether president trump will withdraw from the agreement. the world bracing from the fallout from that decision, especially when it comes to how tehran could react. joining us now, jim walsh from the m.i.t. security studies program. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> melissa: we've heard all kinds of chatter from out of iran and threatening to start and it's possible they could keep going with just the european parties. what does that tell you if they're willing to stay in after
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the u.s. pulled out? >> i think, melissa, a lot of this has to do with iranian domestic politics. president rouhanni, if he's able to stay in the agreement, that's what they want to do. but that might be too hard domestically. they may feel out of pride that they have to strike back. tit for tat. that's what people are worried about. once we break it, they will be free to do whatever they want. >> melissa: i'm struck by what you said at the beginning, that they want to stay in. doesn't that tell you it's too good of a deal for them, that they're getting something for not very much if they want to stay in even if the u.s. pulls out? that's what concerns me. >> melissa, let me turn that back on you.
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by that definition, no deal would be good. that's not how negotiations work. iran isn't happy with aspects of this deal. the u.s. isn't happy with aspects of the deal. that's why it's a negotiation. that's how you get a successful result. our own intelligence community, the defense department, state department, they all say iran is complying with the deal. that's what iaea says. that's good news for us. >> melissa: let me turn that back on you. i studied negotiation. both sides are supposed to walk away feeling chaffed. it concerns me that they're getting the economic benefit and they're not sticking to what they're saying. you talk about them sticking to the deal they have twice, the iaea has said they have too much heavy water. they shipped it out. what do you think about the evidence that they changed the
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name of their nuclear program and kept the documents somewhere else? none of that compelling to you? >> no. the director of intelligence has testified in open session that iran is complying with the deal. so has the secretary of defense. so has the secretary of state. so has iaea. everybody has said that iran is complying. the complaints about the deal that people have -- >> melissa: not early -- not everyone. israel doesn't. >> not even israel presented evidence that iran is not in compliance. >> melissa: they did say at the beginning they were supposed to come clean whether they had a plan or not. they said they didn't have a nuclear programs and the documents show they did. i understand your point. you think you can see the point if nobody likes what's going on outside, especially the ballistic missile program, should that have been part of it and isn't it wise for the
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president to try to press to include that now at this point? >> well, i would say no. i say most of our allies, that's why boris johnson was here yesterday pleading with the president. we have -- this isn't a u.s.-iran deal. there's a u.n. council resolution. if iran did this, we would call it cheating and if this deal false apart, it's going to be more difficult, not less difficult to address the missile issue because iran will feel more threatened. the hardliners are about the weapons, not the agreement. if that's the group that prospers here, the missile problem will get worse, not better. >> melissa: we'll see. much like north korea. thank you, sir. >> thank you, melissa. >> jon: the white house promises strict enforcements of immigration laws.
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attorney general jeff sessions unveiling an aggressive push to crack down on illegal immigration, including possibly separating children from their families. our political panel is here to break it down. >> i have put in place a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry on our southwest border. if you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. it's that simple. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember.
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need a change of scenery? the kayak price forecast tool tells you whether to wait or book your flight now. so you can be confident you're getting the best price. giddyup! kayak. search one and done. >> melissa: george zimmerman heading back to court today. this time charged with misdemeanor stalking after allegedly threatening a private investigator. according to reports, zimmerman called the investigator 55 times leaving dozens of voice mails, texts and e-mails in a nine-day span including a threat to feed him to an alligator. the investigator was working with a production company doing
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a documentary about trayvon martin. zimmerman was acquitted of the shooting in 2013. he will return to court may 30th. >> jon: tough talk from attorney general jeff sessions during a visit to the u.s.-mexican border. he unveiled a zero tolerance policy saying authorities could separate children from parents if their enter the country illegally. the attorney general issuing the warning to anyone that breaks the law. >> if you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. it's that simple. if you smuggle illegal aliens across our border, then we will prosecute you. if you are smuggling a child, we will prosecute you. that child may be separated from you as required by law. >> jon: joining us now for political discussion, alex
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conan, a partner at firehouse strategies. also with us, dave brown, senior adviser to senator patty murray and a democratic strategist. dave, i know you have a problem with this approach announced by the attorney general. what is it? >> jon, i think we can be tough on immigration and we can ensure we're enforcing laws but do so in a manner that is humane and consistist with american values. what kind of people are we if we tear children away from their mothers at the border? or if we turn away a family fleeing from a re-religious persecution? our dreamers being sent home after years of living in america, paying taxes and contributing to society? what jeff session said, they're not american values. they represent the worst of us. >> jon: he did say may separate
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children from their parents. he didn't say it would happen. alex, give us your take on these policies as announced by the attorney general. >> some people assume that jeff sessions is doing this because he doesn't want trump to fire him. obviously president trump has been very critical of the justice department and the attorney general. i worked for marco rubio for 2013 when we tried to fix the immigration system. jeff sessions was the top proponent on that. he's a hardliner on the immigration issue. my hope is he's measures by the president and this administration will put pressure on congress to finally fix the problem. we have a broken immigration system. the reason people keep pouring in is because we need to do more on border security. we have to modernize the system and deal with the undocumented people currently in the united states including dreamers. it's the congress' responsibility.
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yes, takes presidential leadership but my hope sees as what congress is doing, they will take matters in their own hands and pass long overdue legislation to modernize the system. >> jon: dave, you talk about religious prosecution. you think that the people that came up from guatemala are freeing religious persecution and not just looking for economic opportunity? >> i'm glad you brought up the caravan. this has been the most disgusting debates. these are people following our rules. they're not trying to enter illegally. they're petitioning for asylum. to answer your question, yes, some are facing religious persecution. it we goes a broader question about prosecution priorities. why isn't jeff sessions and this department of justice focused on organized crime, drug
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interdiction, the types of issues that should be a prosecutorial priority for the administration, properly on the i-5 corridor. so again, i think i disagree with alex and much of what he said. what is sad about this debate, it's about politics for the president. he's not interested in finding a bipartisan solution to immigration. it's politics ahead of the mid terms and trying to rally his base. >> there is terrible gang violence in honduras and also in venezuela, brazil. you can't open your doors to the entire world is the argument. alex, your take. >> there's always room in america for asylum seekers. there's people that are legitimate troubled that under the current administration we're talking far fewer refugees than we have in the past. the fundamental issue here is that our legal immigration system is broken. that puts pressure on all aspects of america's immigration system.
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i give credit to the trump administration for enforcing laws that the obama administration simply ignored and for the trump administration sending national guard troops to the border, doing what they can to put pressure -- to fix our broken legal immigration system, to fix our border security problems. however, at the end of the day, it requires congressional action. i hope president trump puts more pressure on congress to act and tries to make a deal, this is a real opportunity for president trump since reagan to fix our immigration system. >> democrats had the white house, house and the senate in the early years of the obama administration and didn't do anything then. why not? >> come on, jon. i was with alex in the senate in 2013 when the senate passed bipartisan immigration reform. you'll recall paul ryan and john boehner and others in the house wouldn't move it. >> you had control of all three bodies. >> again, when we focused on
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trying to solve the dreamer issue, alex, i'll hold you to it. they're hard issues. for some on the right, they don't believe -- >> no. this is -- >> it's disingenuous to say the democrats are not focused on the issue. >> this is a pet peeve of mine. president obama didn't take care of it. he played politics, including democrat. rather than reaching across the aisle to marco rubio, he signed an executive amnesty which has been caught up in the courts and the next president easily revoked. >> jon: we have to dave it up. dave and alex, good discussion. thank you. >> melissa: kim jong-un makes a secret trip to china. what we're learning about the latest meeting ahead of a highly anticipated summit with president trump. hello, aloe.
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in local classrooms and creating new career training programs. antonio villaraigosa for governor. >> coming up on "outnumbered," we await the president's decision on the iran nuclear deal. what will the president do? what should he do? what will likely be the impact of whatever move he decides to make? >> and the president's clout with voters being tested in key republican primary, particularly in west virginia where he's come out against an outsider candidate who calls him trumpier than trump. >> and we don't get to so i our guy in the middle. "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. >> melissa: a bit of surprise headline. north korea's kim jong-un returning home after a two-day
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secret meeting with president xi. greg palkot with more. >> jon: this meeting happened in the chinese coastal town. kim took a short flight there. the first time he took a flight as a north korean leader. it happened over two days. word didn't get out about the meeting until kim had left. according to chinese state media, it was a cordial friendly exchange of views. kim said there's no need for his nuclear capacity, he's ready for denuclearization as long as the other parties eliminate hostile threats in a phased way. that is a crucial issue in the planned summit. some analysts say this week's
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meeting between north korea and china, remember the leaders had another meeting in march in beijing is a continuing effort by china to have some kind of say in the talks. maybe a reason why president trump had been set to speak by phone with president xi earlier today. finally, we're still awaiting word on exactly when and where this u.s. north korea summit will be held. the latest reporting puts odds on singapore and now as late as mid june. finally, melissa, there's new reports suggesting that there's a bit of a wrangling between washington and pyongyang about exactly what will be said and what will be decided upon the long and winding road. back to you. >> melissa: thanks, greg. >> jon: first lady melania trump the target of stinging comments after releasing her platform to protect kids. why are critics lashing out?
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because things for joining us. it is because she says it flew by and i did. >> he really did. >> "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: fox news alert, we are waiting an announcement from president trump on the iran nuclear deal. just a few hours from now, the president will tell the world whether the united states will stay in that agreement or not. his decision could mark a significant moment in this presidency. as questions grow about the implications of withdrawing. this is "outnumbered" ." i'm harris faulkner. here today, town hall editor and news contributor katie pavlich. democratic strategist and fox news contributor jessica tarlov. rachel campos tempe. and joining us in the center seat, founder of caldwell strategic consulting gianno caldwell is "outnumbered." this is a big day.
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