home. he will enjoy a lot of blueberries while he's there. thanks for joining us. i'm dana perino. here's rick leventhal in for shep. >> president trump demanding the justice department investigate whether the fbi put a spy in his campaign. right now meeting with the fbi director and a top justice department official. the president also blasting special counsel robert mueller's team saying investigators couldn't find evidence of collusion with russia, so now they're looking at other countries. the president's lawyer, rudy guliani says mueller's team could wrap up another investigation by september. and tough tack on iran by secretary of state mike pompeo. >> we'll track down open ties around the world and crush them. >> than as the secretary's warning about what's to come. in hawaii, poisonous steam and

clouds of acid. new dangers from a volcano. we'll go live to the big island. also, china's plan to make it to the dark side of the moon. that's ahead in this hour of "shepard smith reporting." i'm rick leventhal. a live look at the white house where president trump is supposed to make with christopher wray after the president ordered the justice department to see if agented supplied on his campaign for political reasons. that's what sources are telling fox news who say officials scheduled this sit-down last week. the president tweeted yesterday, i hereby demand and will do so tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi, doj infiltrated or surveyed the trump campaign for

any such purposes and if the demands were made by the obama administration. this comes by "the new york times" and others reported that the fbi had an informant that met several times with trump campaign officials several times during the 2016 presidential election. democratic lawmakers are criticizing the president saying he has no business trying to intervene in the doj. dianne feinstein tweeted the justice department is not an arm of the white house. the justice department is independent and serves the american people. its job is to follow the facts and the law. law enforcement investigations number be initiated and carried out free from political interference. the president's lawyer says robert mueller could wrap up much of the russia investigation by september. more on those comments in a moment. first, chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge on fox's top story live in washington. catherine? >> thanks. good afternoon. a white house official confirmed to fox news the meeting was scheduled last weak to go over

outstanding congressional requests with president trump scheduled to meet at this hour with his most most senior officials including rod rosenstein, christopher wray and dan coats who oversees 17 intelligence agencies after the president's call for an inn vestgation. the justice department announ announcing a new investigation. the line of inquiry if there was political motivation in how the fbi used agents to collect ed. if anybody did infiltrate in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action. as part of the reporting, fox news learned the oversight

committees devin nunes and trey gowdy want records related to the intelligence source and whether information from that source was used in the russia case or for object taping surveillance forms. >> i can tell you nobody was interested in an informant. we asked for documents that we have not received from the department of justice. so they continue to leak out things about this informant and we don't know if there's one informant or more informants because there's so much out there now that it's really getting tough to follow and all we're asking for is give us the documentation that you used to start this investigation. >> republican congressional investigators say rosen stein may also have a conflict in this situation because he signed off on at least one of the surveillance renewals for a trump campaign aide. rick? >> rick: so what are democrats saying about this? >> the ranking democrat, adam schiff said the president's allegations including claims about a former british spite,

christopher steele, have no factual basis. >> this is part of a string of meritless allegations from the beginning that i was wiretapped in trump tower, a vast unmasking conspiracy, the investigation began with the christopher steele dossier, all of which was untrue, all of which as you pointed is designed to create in alternate reality for trump supporters to live in. >> they emphasize that with a congressional subpoena issued in april, the department has been in contempt for several weeks. rick? >> rick: catherine herridge in our washington bureau. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> rick: president trump slamming the russia investigation in a series of tweets saying "things are getting ridiculous." the president wrote "the witch hunt finds no collusion with

russian so now they're looking at the rest of the world. oh great." now there's allegations that saudi arabia helped trump win the election. president called the article long and boring. kristin fisher is live at the white house. kristin? >> it sure is, rick. we know this meeting happened because don jr.'s attorney put out a statement confirming it took place. he said donald trump jr. recalled the meeting with the prince and other individuals. they pitched him on a social media platform and he was not interested in it. eric prince arranged this whole meeting. george nader is an emissary for two well-think princes. and there was an israeli

specialist in social media manipulation. according to the times, the meeting was convened to help the trump campaign win the election. if true and fox can't confirm it, it would be the first indication that countries other than russia may have offered help to the trump campaign. president trump responded to that article in a series of seven tweets yesterday. one he says now that the special counsel's or the witch hunt as he called it has given up on russia and looking at the rest of the world, they should easily take to it the mid-terms where they can put some hurt on the republican party. don't worry about dems fisa abuse and the dossier. now we're seeing him apply pressure to get this wrapped up well before november, rick. >> rick: the president's lawyer, rudy guliani has said the mueller team has set a deadline. what do you know about that? >> rudy guliani is claiming that

mueller's team told him the obstruction of justice investigation could be wrapped up by september 1, if, a big if, if president trump agrees to be interviewed by the special counsel by mid july. so guliani is dangling the interview saying if you give us an end date, we'll give you an interview. don't forget it's entirely possible that the special counsel could subpoena president trump and force him to sit down regardless. rick? >> rick: kristin fisher live at the white house. thank you. let's bring in jordan fabian for the hill. there's another meeting going on at the white house this hour. we're hearing now from senior white house official telling one of our producers that the tweet topic and the potus concerns will absolutely be brought up during this meeting between the president and the fbi director and the deputy attorney general. >> that's right, rick. the million dollar question coming out of this meeting is whether or not this internal

watch dog investigation is going to be enough for the president or if he's going to demand to go further and open up a criminal investigation into the claims that his campaign was illegally surveilled. that would create a huge standoff with the justice department. they've been reluctant to acquiesce to those requests. we'll see what happens at 3:00. >> rick: jordan, you say the president calling for an investigation is treacherous territory. why? >> it's rare for presidents to go to the justice department and ask for investigations. there's this fire wall between the president and law enforcements to prevent politically motivated investigations. the president has crossed that line and going from attacking the russia investigation to demanding actions. we'll see again if this creates a more political legal problems for the president. >> rick: as you know, the president has long called the mueller probe a witch hunt.

some would argue the presence of an fbi mole during his campaign, that that might support his argument. >> yeah, there's reports out there that members of the trump campaign had spoken to a professor when has been an intelligence as set for various government agencies. that shows the depth of the investigation that was going on in 2016. not enough was known at this point to know whether that was done appropriately or inappropriately. that's what members of congress are acting here. this situation coming to a head at this meeting with deputy general rosenstein. >> rick: you think a probe of the doj/fbi would in any way undermine or affected the russia investigation? >> whether it would affect the actual investigation remains to be scene. the battle playing out now is the battle for public opinion. influencing people whether they think this mueller investigation

is appropriate or not. a second investigation into the mueller investigation might influence more people to think maybe it's inappropriate. so again, yeah, we'll see what happens. >> rick: the other big headline over the weekends, rudy guliani suggesting the president will sit down face-to-face with bob mueller sometime over the summer likely in july. >> that would be an incredible event. i would caution that rudy guliani added the qualifier that he wants the interview to be tied to a september 1 end date for the mueller problem. i don't think that that is something that robert mueller would be interested in. so that might be a significant road block. he's advised the president against sitting down for that interview. >> rick: we've heard that from a lot of lawyers that said don't sit down because these investigations swerve off topic. >> that's right. if the president makes any kind of false statements or

misstatements in that meeting, it could open him up to legal jeopardy. that's why they have advised against it. >> rick: thanks, jordan for your time today. >> thank you. >> rick: this morning a moment of silence and tears for ten people killed in that texas school shooting. ahead, we remember those that died. what we've learned about the teenage suspect. that's next.

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texas remembering their classmates and two teening that lost their lives friday when a gunman opened fire in their high school. folks laying flowers and pictures by ten white crosses, one for each victim. texas held a statewide moment of silence. santa fe moved their graduation ceremony to a church where the speaker said would take time for the community to heal. but he added, we're going to be okay. everybody is unified. the suspect in jail. he confessed for the killings but still not sure about a motive. casey stegall. the suspect talked about targets that he had? >> yeah, that chilling information comes from the probable cause affidavit that not only outlined the admission that you spoke of but it also outlines how he went into he

went into further detail with police. he wanted people to tell his story. that adds up with electronic journals after the shooting and told how he would commit suicide instead of getting caught. instead, he surrendered. he was charged with capital murder an aggravated assault. over the weekend, the accused gunman's family released a written statement where they said they were shocked as everyone else and that this was not the boy they knew and loved. rick? >> rick: how is the community holding up, casey? frankly, they're doing as every other community that has faced such violence in their back yards. they're doing just as they all have done. they're leaning on their faith

and each other for the emotional support and for answers. multiple prayer vigils as you can imagine have been held since friday's tragedy. people have lined up around the block to donate blood for those still in the hospital and to replenish area supplies. a baptist church has been converted into a family crisis resource centers where grief counselors are on hand, fbi victim services and people to help plan funeral arrangements. the resiliency and the caring, what we're seeing here in this community, it's always a sight to be hold in the middle of such darkness. >> rick: casey stegall in santa fe, texas. thank you. secretary of state mike pompeo setting out a tough new strategy on iran. one that he says will include

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president pence swore in gina haspel. it's been the closest vote in seven decades. haspel's opponents grilled for for water boarding interrogations. before her confirmation vote, haspel said in hindsight, she believes the cia should not have carried out that enhanced program and today the president praised her. >> when you testified before the committee, it was over. there was not much they could say. there was nobody more qualified than you and you're going to do a fantastic job, gina. >> rick: haspel is the first woman to run the cia in the agencies history. she says that gives her tremendous pride. the trump administration issuing new demands to iran as world leaders work on a new deal.

mike pompeo said the u.s. will not renegotiate the 2015 deal, which president trump pulled out earlier this month. the administration seeking a new deal with new terms that some analysts say will be nonstarters for iran. the secretary of state threatened punishing new sanctions if iran doesn't change course. >> we will apply unprecedented financial pressure. the leaders in tehran will have no doubt about our seriousness. they will be the strongest sanctions in history when complete. >> rick: the campaign to squeeze iran's economy already started. mike pompeo warned today that it's just the beginning. let's go to rich edson live at the state department. sounds like the administration is taking a page from the north korea book. >> it is. they're giving this the same name. they're calling it a pressure

campaign. the idea is to isolate economy, isolate their economy. mike pompeo saying much like the offer to north korea that iran could be welcomed back to the global economy, could lift sanctions if it changes its behavior. >> our willingness to meet with kim jong-un shows the efforts for diplomacy to help solve the greatest challenges. that willingness, that willingness has been or commitment to resolve this challenge forever. >> rick: pompeo listed a dozen requests of iran like release detained americans and stop their nuclear program and more. the administration and pompeo say they want to work on a grand treaty with iran that i'm compasses this. >> rick: but u.s. allies are

skeptical this will work. >> yes, especially those part of the iran nuclear deal. they wanted the united states to stay in the agreement and build on it. boris johnson is the u.k.'s foreign secretary and he spoke before the secretary of state did it and said that ballistic missile, iran's behavior, their disruntsive activity, nuclear activity. if you try to pull those in a giant negotiation, a jumbo iran negotiation a new treaty, that seems to be what they envision. i don't see that being very easy to achieve in anything like a reasonable time scale. the british and other countries are trying to stay in the iran deal, salvage it, trying to work with iran on this. iran's foreign minister said that this is a sham to regress old habits. policies dictated by special corrupt interests and repeats the same wrong choices and will have the same ill rewards. iran is looking for partners in

the post jcpoa solutions. the state department officials say they're going to also be working with other countries around the world to try to create a global coalition to counter iran. rick? >> rich edson live at the state department. thanks very much. the white house calling a temporary truce with china on trade and the stock market loves it. right around 25,000 today. how this will affect your bank account. and the north koreans inviting journalists from around the world to watch it shut down a nuclear test site. inspectors are not welcome. is this just a public relations stunt ahead of his summit with president trump? that is coming up. i got scar tissue there.

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negotiate. he said president trump reserves the right to slap those tariffs back on if talks with china break down. analysts say there's a sense of relief in the markets today. let's take a look at the dow, which just dipped below 25,000 but up 265 points at this minute. edward lawrence from the fox business network is live. good to see you. the markets love this. >> yeah, rick, this put a calm in the markets. markets hate uneasiness. this is a major driving force for the games today. if we get an agreement with china, that means china would agree to reduce the deficit with the u.s. they're not going to cut. they said they're going to buy more u.s. products, more jobs, more money with companies and business. also, putting a halt on the trade war has also taken out the uneasiness in the market with -- there could be a tit for tat sort of tariff on either side, which could hurt both markets.

however, commerce secretary wilbur ross said it would hurt china more than a trade war would with the u.s. >> rick: the two sides saying they made progress? >> yeah. a big leap forward with the negotiatio negotiations. they moved over to a frame work for the deal. under the frame work, china agrees to buy more u.s. products and reducing the deficit. they're going to make meaningful increases in agriculture and exports in energy. the chinese will add amendments to laws to protect intellectual property of companies. the frame work encourages a two-way investment that strives to create a fair and level field. the talks will continue next week in china. the representative will be the commerce secretary wilbur ross. now, the attention to detail is very important for the negotiations going forward. the chinese love the fine print.

>> rick: all right, thanks, edward. china taking a big step in their motion to explore the dark side of the moon. launching a satellite that will help officials to communicate with a space craft that they sent there. the country would be the first to put a ship on the far side of the moon. u.s. defense officials have said chinese are using their space program in part to try to stop other countries from using space assets during a crisis. the chinese say their plans are peaceful. the summit between president trump and north korean dictator kim jong-un looking far from certain. now the man that helped broker that meeting traveling halfway around the world to make sure that it still happens. south korea's president will meet with president trump tomorrow in washington. president trump says the north must give up their nuclear

weapons as part of any deal and pyongyang officials say they plan to destroy the country's nuclear testing facility this week. analysts warn we've heard that from north korea many times before. let's bring in tara maller and a former military analyst at the cia. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> rick: kim threatened to pull out last week. back maybe? >> the president has says if it doesn't look like it's going in the direction of the united states, he will pull out. the summit could be in jeopardy. you're seeing posturing by both sides here. hopefully things will go smoothly and hopefully the united states will go it in prepared. what we don't want is for something to sort of go the wrong direction before we etch get to the table and we don't

want the meeting to go poorly or we're really in a worse off place than where we are right now. >> rick: one thing that has remained consistent, everybody is preaching skepticism. >> absolutely. there's reasons to be cautious. you want parties to be talking and diplomacy to have a chance. with the north koreans, we've seen this before. we've seen them make claims about compromises they might be willing to make and we've seen them back off from those claims. we've seen that the united states and the north koreans have very different perceptions and definitions about what denuclearization entails. i think the united states needs to make sure that when it goes into this summit, that president trump knows the ins and outs of the north korean nuclear program and know what's the united states is and is not willing to budge on in any sorts of compromise. we don't want an agreement reached that can be backed up by either party or with the support of our allies. >> we've seen good will

gestures. releasing three captive americans and then apparently going to allow journalists into that test site. of course, journalists are not inspectors. so will they know what to look for when they get in there? >> you raise two good points there. we've seen the conciliatory measures before, which really important in the lead up to the summit to show good faith from both sides. having said that, the north koreans could flip this on the united states and say what has the united states given us. we made these two gestures. on the second gesture, which is coming this week, the destroying of the nuclear facility, the underground facility, you're right. they're letting journalists in but they're not letting in the experts. the people to really know if everything we think is being destroyed is actually being destroyed. north koreans are known to cheat in the past and be deceptive when it comes to their nuclear

to say. there might very well be some destroyed capacity this week, but they have other sites and this is not really a significant portion of their nuclear program at large. >> rick: as you said, denuclearization is the goal. is there any other possible outcome that might satisfy if the -- the u.s.? >> sure. i don't think you're going to see a scenario where they agree to give up everything in an exchange that would be satisfactory. you could see a timetable with a phased denuclearization. so denuclearization would be the final result. in the shorter term, there might be more specific and verifying confidence building measures like the destruction of certain missiles that could reach the united states or the shutting down of certain facilities. this would be towards the ultimate goal of denuclearization. frankly what the united states

is aiming for. just a matter of a timetable and what we're willing to give up. and what we're willing to give up -- >> rick: this is a historic sit down. the first between a sitting president and a leader of north korea. many are crediting president trump's personality and unpredictability to forcing kim to the meeting. now you have the two strong personalities in the room and i wonder if that helps or hurts with an agreement. >> i think it can cut both ways. high risk, high reward potential but high risk and very low reward if not extremely high cost potential in this case. you have two volatile unpredictable personalities that have never met before in an extremely high stakes summit. everything could go smoothly in the photo open sense but that begs the question what happens when the summit is over and details get worked out.

all might be fine in front of the camera and hand shakes and things might seem rosy. in four or five or six months we don't seep this coming together in terms of the instrumental frame work on paper being carried out by officials in north korea and here with verification measures, then the meeting is just a meeting. so i want to be optimistic. i want to believe we can reach a positive conclusion if not a positive development here. i mean, the worst case scenario here is for something to go wrong in the meeting or in the lead up to the meeting. then you might see them resume missile testing like they were five, six, seven months ago. anything can happen. >> rick: anything can happen. thanks, tara. >> thank you. >> former kohl's president don blankenship says he's still running. a spokesman said he will run as

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>> rick: officials on hawaii's big island warning folks of a toxic steam cloud from the kilauea volcano as acid plumes and tiny glass shards fly into the sky. the lava now hitting the ocean in two spots is causing a toxic chemical reaction. the cloud stretching about 15 miles. this video from last night shows

lava flowing from the volcano and shooting into the air. the hawaiian volcano observatory reported the amount of sulfur dioxide in the area has tripled since yesterday. >> there was another explosion from the summit sending ash a mile in the sky. right now, it's the lava flowing. two fingers hitting the ocean creating lays. it's a steam plume packed with hydrochloric acid and tiny pieces of glass. we jumped in with the hawaii national guard that took us as close as we could get. here's what we found. not too long ago, we were in this area with the hawaiian national guard when police said we needed to get out. it wasn't safe. we take a look behind us. we can see what they were

worried about. a big pile of lava still on fire. plumes are from two separate lava flows coming in contact with the ocean. if you're on soil of this pal of lava, you could need an airlift to get to safety. >> that road is an important coastal highway. you can see the white plumes. that's the lays that we've been referring to. the white house said there's no device to test for lays, if it's getting too close. i moves with the wind. we had to watch the sky because it with change direction at any moment. rick? >> rick: i can't imagine trying to clean that up. is there any way of knowing how long this might go on? >> there isn't anyway of knowing how long this could go on. i did ask the hawaiian national guard what you do with the lava once it's dried up and cool. he said they can either break it

down, chisel it away or pave over it. the main concern moving forward would have to be how unpredictable this volcano is. you'll have a fissure open up, there's lava and then another explosion. >> we hope the flows keeps as a release point to allow the lava to enter the ocean without damaging any further residences. we know it's unpredictable. a lot of pressure in the rift zone. we know it could change at any point in time. >> one other point that i want to make is, there's been some questions to us about whether or not it's safe to travel for -- to hawaii for vacations. the county's mayor tells us that hawaii is open for business. this volcano is impacting a small fraction of the island. they're telling people to come out, it's not impacting air travel either.

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>> rick: fox news confirms that new yorkty police are investigating celebrity chef mario batalli. an unnamed woman says that he drugged her and sexually assaulted her in 2005. batalli denies it. laura ingle is following this story. the accusations growing now? >> they appear to be working. we're working on details of a

second woman who has come forward with similar allegations against mario batali. this happens to do with the cvs, "60 minutes" show. the woman said she was drugged by mario batal. and then blacked out. the woman went to police in march of this year to report the incident which mirrors an account given to "60 minutes" in which the unnamed woman said that batali assaulted her at a restaurant that he invested here in new york city call the spotted pig. >> i work up, i'm on the floor of an empty room. wooden floor. i see broken bottles. the first thing i think i've

been drugged. i've been assaulted. >> many know batali from a show called "the chew." and batali issued a statement that said --. >> you might remember batali was fired from "the chew" in december after four women accused him of inappropriate touching over 20 years. >> rick: the reaction from his business partners have been swift. >> it has. and b&b hospitality group, the company that he co founded with a fellow chef said they will self all ties with batali, issuing a statement to fox that says "the accounts tonight were chilly and deeply disturbing, this is the first we learned of them. our partnership is ending. restaurant workers that say

they'd were abused by batali saying the man you see on tv is not the man that they know. >> i think mario batali is a monster. he's been lauded as this incredible chef and this lead esh. but behind the scenes, he's hurtful and he does not respect women. >> we're currently awaiting an update from the nypd. >> rick: so they're investigating but no charges. >> that's correct. >> rick: thank you. a cougar that attacked and killed a mountain backer and injured another person near seattle was severely underweight. that according to wild live officials in washington state. they saw the cougar was about 100 pounds when it should have weighed 140. the sheriff said the two men tried to scare the big cat away and did everything they were supposed to do but something was wrong with this cougar. dan springer has more live in

seattle. dan? >> hi, rick. attacks on humans by cougars or mountain lions is very rare. there's a3,000 big cats loving here. the mountain cat was on top of the body of the man he just mauled to death. wild live officers shot and killed it. they say it was a 3-year-old male and a bit under weight. some experts believe it could have been a case of mistaken identity. the cougar might have thought the two mountain bikers were a couple of deer, which was the main food source for them. it happens in the foothills east of seattle. the men were experienced mountain bikers and saw the cougar stalking them. they got off of their bikes and try to steer them away. for awhile that seemed to work. >> they stopped, did the right thing. made a lot of noise. one person swung his back at the

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>> rick: president george h.w. bush now in maine for the summer after a healthcare following the death of his wife, barbara. jeb tweeted out a photo said my beloved dad is in maine nor the summer. that i have a home in kennebunkport and the 93-year-old has spent every summer there since his childhood except when he was a navy pilot in world war ii. last month he was hospitalized with a blood infection. mr. bush promised he would make it to maine and he did. i'm rick leventhal in for shepard smith. the dow up nearly 300 points right now near closing around

25,000. "your world" with neil cavuto is next with details on why the market is doing so well on this day. have yourselves a great week. stay tuned. >> neil: all right. stocks surging as rick pointed out. the wise house and china seem to put off their treat beef for now. another least week or so, we're told. much more on the impact from a growing optimism about a trade deal. meantime, much concern about being in a certain room at the white house. can you imagine this going down? the president sitting town with rod rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray. the meeting was scheduled a week ago but a lot has happened since and in house. this comes against the president investigated intohe