collusion. they have made significant progress for regressing some of the west conflicts, so when i met with president putin for about two and a half hours, we talked about numerous things. among those things are the problems that you see in the we're very much involved. i entered the negotiations with president putin from a position of tremendous strength. our economy is booming and our military is being funded $700 billion this year. $716 billion next year. it will be more powerful as a military as we've ever had before. president putin and i addressed the range of issues starting with the civil war in syria and need for humanitarian aid and help for people in syria. we also spoke of iran and the

need to halt the nuclear ambitions and destabilizing ambitions taking place in iran. as most of you know, we ended the iran deal, which was one of the worst deals anyone could imagine. that's had a major impact on iran and substantially weakened iran. we hope that at some point iran will call us and we'll make a new deal, maybe we won't. iran is not the same country it was five months ago. that i can tell you. they're no longer looking so much to the mediterranean and the entire middle east. they have big problems that they can solve probably much easier if they deal with us. so we'll see what happens. we did discuss iran. we discussed israel and the security of israel. president putin is very much involved now with in the discussion with netanyahu and working something out with

surrounding syria and syria, specifically with regards to the security and long-term security of israel. a major topic of discussion was north korea and the need for its to remove its nuclear weapons. russia has assured of us their support. president putin agrees with me 100%. they'll do whatever they can do to make it happen. discussions are ongoing and going very well. we have no rush for speed. the sanctions are remaining. the hostages are back. there's been no tests, no rockets going up for a period of nine months. and i think the relationships are very good. i'll see how that goes. we have no time limit, we have no speed limit. we're just going through the process. the relationships are very good. president putin is going to be involved in the sense that he's with us. he would like to see that

happen. perhaps the most important issue we discussed at our meeting prior to the press conference was the reduction of nuclear weapons throughout the world. the united states and russia, 90%, as i said and we can have a big impact. nuclear weapons is the greatest threat of our world today. they're a great nuclear power. we're a great nuclear power. we have to do something about nuclear. so that was a matter that we discussed in great detail. president putin agrees with me. the matters we discussed are profound in their importance and have the potential to save millions of lives. i understand many disagreements between our countries, but i also understand that dialogue and when you think about it, dialogue with russia or other countries, but dialogue with russia in this case where we've had poor relationships for many

years, dialogue is a important thing and a good thing. so if we get along with them, great. if we don't, we won't get along with them. but i think we have a very good chance of having very positive things. i thought that the meeting that i had with president putin was really strong. i think that they were willing to do things that frankly i wasn't sure whether or not they would be willing to do. we'll be having future meetings and we'll see whether or not that comes to fruition. we had a very, very good meeting. i wanted to clear up -- i have the strongest respect for our intelligence agencies headed by my people. we have great people, whether it's gina and dan coats or any of them. we have tremendous people, tremendous talent within the agencies. i think they're being guided properly. we all want the same thing.

we want success for our country. so with that, we're going to start a meeting now on tax reductions. we're going to be putting in a bill, kevin brady is with us. i might ask kevin to say a couple words about that and then we'll get back on to a private meeting. kevin, could you give a brief discussion about what we'll be talking about? >> yes, sir, mr. president. thank you for having members of the ways and means committee here today. peace through strength is foreign policy that works. it works best when america has a strong economy. a strong military. under your leadership, house and senate republicans are delivering or them, this is how we can strengthen america's economy even more. the best place we can start with america's middle class families and small businesses. so today we're here to talk to you about making permanent this tax relief. one, so they can continue to grow.

two, so we can add 1.5 million new jobs and three, we can protect them against the future washington trying to steal back those hard-earned dollars that you and republican congress has given them. so thank you very much for having us here today. >> and the time of submittal, what would you think that would be? >> we anticipate the house voting on this in september and the senate setting a timetable as well. >> that's great. thank you very much. >> president trump saying he misspoke during his news conference with russian president vladimir putin and he sees no reason why it wouldn't be moscow that meddled in american democracy, not that it would be them, wouldn't be them. i'm rick leventhal in for shepard smith. president trump with damage control after catching backlash over his summit with russian president vladimir putin in

helsinki. there he gave the former spy a pass on meddling in our election and questioned the findings of america's intelligence agencies. that caused a lot of fall-out on capitol hill where a wave of republican lawmakers and the president's closest allies slammed his remarks in finland. paul ryan setting the record straight on russia earlier today. >> let's be very clear so everybody knows, russia did meddle with our elections. they're doing it around the world. they did it to france, they did it to maldova and the baltics. russia is trying to delegitimize democracy. >> we have team fox coverage. catherine herridge is in washington. first, kristin fisher live at the white house. kristin? >> rick, there was really two big questions heading into this press availability with president trump. the first, does he believe, does he accept his intelligence

community's findings that russia did meddle in the 2016 election and does he believe putin or does he believe the intelligence community? as he said, president trump just said that he misspoke during that press conference with russia president vladimir putin. he said that after he saw all the criticism come out from the media and from the republican members of congress, president trump says he got out a transcript, read it over and it was then that he realized that he simply misspoke. i want to make sure i get this straight. he said i said the word "would" unstead of wouldn't. that's what he said and that's what got so many people up in arms. he said what he meant to say, i don't see why it wouldn't be russia. so that was president trump. that's about as close to as an apology that you'll get from a president like president trump coming out saying that he

misspoke. the other big headline that was just made by president trump is the fact that he came out and said that he fully supports the findings of his intelligence community. he says that he does accept that they believe that russia did med until the 2016 elections and he has the full faith and full support of our intelligence community. the former house speaker, newt gingrich saying that this was the biggest mistake of mr. trump's presidency. he said he needed to come out and fix it and he needed to do it fast. president trump has come out and attempted to fix it within a day of this press conference taking place. rick, we'll now have to wait and see if this is enough to quell some of his critics. >> kristin, just so our viewers know, it's pouring rain there at

the white house. the lights went out when he said he had full faith in our intelligence agency. he said while there was meddling in the election, it didn't affect the outcome is what he had to say. president trump talked about the nato summit and building relationships and getting our nato partners to pay more. tell us about that. >> yeah, he said that he had an even better meeting with russia. he said he had a good meeting with our nato allies. he went so far to thank the nato secretary general. he's been taking a lot of criticism for being nice to putin and too tough on our nato allies. so he went out of our way to thank the nato secretary general and made sure that -- to talk about what he was able to accomplish from that meeting with nato. he says that he helped strengthen the nato alliance by getting them to pay more. some $45 billion more and helped them to pay their bills on time. in terms of the other things that -- some of the other

accomplishments that he got out of that meeting with russian president vladimir putin, president trump pointed to north korea, israel and syria and iran. but there were no hard deliverables from the one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin, rick. >> much more on all of this ahead. kristin fisher live at the white house. thanks very much. we're monitoring reaction from u.s. intelligence officials. team fox coverage continues with catherine herridge who is also live in washington. catherine? >> the former top spy in the obama administration, james clapper, who faced his own calls for resignation about statements he made to congress, said he believes the current national director of intelligence dan coats should be considering his options. >> what you have to balance is, am i doing more good by leaving and, you know, reinforcing a

principle or do i do more harm if i leave. so i'm sure that dan coats, i'd be very surprised if he's not going through that calculus himself right now. >> i don't know brennan, a frequent critic of the president is now joined by cia director who said i was willing to comment on the press conference. he said it could have been worse and until he got to the end, he couldn't have been a lot worse. coat issued a forceful statement that the u.s. intelligence agencies have always been "clear in our assessment" of russian meddling. there's no former state from coats today. it's important to note later this week he's scheduled to speak in the as espn security forum. >> thanks, catherine. we'll have more on the

president's 13-plus minutes of comments on what happened in helsinki, what he said what he meant to say and we'll get reaction from another white house journalist coming up just ahead.

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links bring in zeke miller from the associated press. zeke, my first thought is why did he wait this long to correct the record. what is your reaction? >> same reaction. it was 27 hours from the press conference yesterday with vladimir putin. we've seen multiple tweets by the president and a number of interviews by the president. if he knew he misspoke or had seen the initial coverage and read a newspaper, turned on tv, we know he did because he responded to the tv interviews, we didn't he clear this up beforehand. he let the american people and the world think is what he meant to say, if this is indeed a true walk back. we've seen the -- a rare admission by the president of a mistake. in the past, we thought this time last year after the charlottesville incident, he made a highly publicized walk back and a couple days after that walked back the walk back. are we see that to play out

here? the president was reading closely from a script. so how authentic is this walk back by the president and will it last. >> rick: the criticism was fast and furious. came very quickly. momentarily after he spoke at that news conference. is it fair to call this damage control? was this an orchestrated way of trying to save face? >> that's certainly what it looks like. when you put that time frame to it. the criticism, condemnation by members of his own party has been pretty much universal with the exception of rand paul. moments before the president spoke and made this walk back, we heard from mitch mcconnell issues a very public re-assurance to american allies overseas that we value nato and european partners are friends and russia as a foe. something the president hasn't been willing to say. so it was coming from all corners and the president

bending to that reality. >> rick: and yet in the past, the president has said that he agrees with the intelligence agencies conclusions. he has said that he understands that russia may have meddled in the election. he doesn't think it affected the outcome and there was no collusion. i want to play that moment when he said he misspoke during yesterday's news conference. here it is. >> i thought i made myself very clear but having reviewed the transcript. i have to say i came back and i said what is going on? what is the big deal? so i got a transcript. i reviewed it. i went out and reviewed a clip of an answer that i gave. i realized there's a need for some clarification. it should have been obvious, i thought it would be obvious. i'd like to clarify in case it wasn't, a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word "would"

instead of "wouldn't." >> rick: so the question now is this enough for his republican critics? >> yeah, it takes the pressure off right now. you know, this is only one part of a controversy surrounding the president's trip. you know, the president -- even if you take this correction at face value, the president didn't challenge vladimir putin directly publicly about russia meddling in 2016 or ongoing effortses for 2018. he didn't publicly challenge him on things like crimea. his efforts to back the assad regime in syria and also going back earlier in the trip, his comments about american allies overseas and the united kingdom. that's what as drawn this criticism from the president. the president addressing the big shiny object. if you take the entire trip at face value, there's a lot there for the president's critics and his friends to find fault in.

>> zeke, i'm told the reporters shouted would he condemn putin. the president didn't respond. he did say during the statement that it's important as he said for quite some time now, it's important to have a good relationship with russia. it's better to be friend than enemies with russia. is that enough? what is the feeling with his comments now? >> it's probably not enough for the president's critics. maybe nobody will ever be enough for the critics when it comes to this issue in particular. but it does fit in the broader pattern. the president needs a certain amount of leeway to have negotiations with actors, friend or foe, on a range of subjects. the president doesn't have a lot of good will there that he's earned. >> thanks, zeke miller. the president said clearly today, russians attempted to

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>> president trump's summit with vladimir putin getting a more positive reaction in moscow than here in the united states. kremlin officials are praising the meeting with trump as a win for putin. one headline on a state-run newspaper reads, the west attempts to isolate russia failed. putin told chris wallace that he thinks the summit with president trump helped improve the relationship between the two world powers. >> we're starting to achieve

some understanding which gives us ground to say some things, a lot of things have changed nor the better in today's meeting. >> rick: for more reaction, let's go to benjamin hall. benjamin? >> rick, of course, no great surprise that russia media was very positive for president putin. it is largely state-run over there and criticism is very rare. people on the streets had a different take. there was among them recognition, a sense that this hadn't changed any of the major issues that have affected their lives. anything that have changed co be a very poor country. >> i think nothing will really change. in situations like these, politicians try to hold their ground and do not want to lose in any way. >> at least it will not get any worse, i think. the very fact that they met in helsinki and talked normally is a positive thing. >> some of the other press focused on the fact that this

was an opening, an opportunity for real change. but throughout their coverage, there was a deep reminder of the distrust of the russians towards the u.s. so yes, very positive coverage in the russian media. the one thing they didn't talk about, that president trump didn't put on the table was sanctions relief. that would have had a real impact for the russians. the one thing that they were all looking for. >> about benjamin, what about the global impact of the summit? >> you heard president trump upset with the fact that they were talking about hacking and talking about nuclear disarmorment, the iran deal. a lot of issues that were bigger than the two of them. there were no concrete agreements on those issues. president trump said during the summit that they disagreed on the iran deal. but on the syrian issue, they were getting closer. later on fox news, vladimir

putin denied any involvement in syrian civilian deaths. >> victims are inevitable. they're always questioning who is to blame. it's the terrorist groups that are to blame and destabilize the situation in the country. the terrorists are the true culprits. >> a complete denial of putin of their involvement in the syrian war. the two groups we're waiting to hear from, nato and ukraine, the two groups that really have to face off against russia, we have not heard from either of them. i know both sides were hoping to hear more from president trump on their issue. we had a bit of a clarification now in the words that he just said. we're still waiting for more on that and the support that they have countering russia. >> rick: benjamin hall, thanks very much. fox news has confirmed senate republican leaders are considering a measure that would

support the findings of u.s. intelligence officials that russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election. that could be setback for president trump after not standing up to vladimir putin who continues to deny the accusations as reported moments ago. the president said he misspoke yesterday on election meddling. perhaps he has corrected the record. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with more. mike? >> hi, rick. yes, chuck schumer is issuing a call for action following the helsinki summit. >> our response to the debasement of american interests before a foreign adversaries do not respond just in word but in deed. our republican colleagues cannot just talk to talk. some haven't done it. most haven't. our republican colleagues as a body need to walk the walk. >> senate republican whip john

cornyn of texas said lawmakers need to get serious in a hurry to prevent future election meddling. >> we better wake up. rather than the blame game and pointing fingers, we better get ready for the mid-terms in 2018. >> we're less than four months from the next election, the mid-terms. no concrete steps have been taken, rick. >> rick: mike, maybe it's too soon. not sure if you've gotten reaction from the president's clarification? >> there's not been any immediate response to what the president has been saying. a lot of lawmakers have talking about congress speaking with one voice about the issues going forward. they do not approve of moscow's behavior. there's buzz on capitol hill about the possibility of more sanctions to get congress to speak with one voice saying moscow's behavior is not appropriate. senator john tester from montana said he's all for more sanctions

against moscow. he says he's not sure there's a political will to do it. paul ryan told reporters that he's open to the possibility of more financial pressure on the kremlin. >> we already put in place sanctions. if the foreign affairs committee or the financial services committee and the senate banking committee think there's other sanctions that we have not placed on russia, i'm more than happy to consider those. >> less than four months from the mid-terms, it's hard to get republicans and democrats from the house and the senate all heading in one direction. we'll see if this time is different. rick? >> don't hold your breath. mike emanuel on capitol hill. thank you. president trump says last week's get together with our nato allies went well. that's after he slammed some of our closest allies over trade and spending. now the top republican in the senate is defending our friends in europe while blasting russia. that's coming up. i have type 2 diabetes. i'm trying to manage my a1c,

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>> rick: president trump saying moments ago that he had a successful meeting with our nato allies and saying that everybody was thrilled. last week, the president had harsh words for our allies. he accused them of not paying their fair share and russia was holding germany captive over oil and gas. president trump slammed the way that theresa may handled brexit before saying he never criticized her. president trump warned europe about the dangers of immigration. all that before his meeting with the russian president. the top republican in the senate had this to say. >> let me just say to our european friends, we value the nato treaty. it's the most significant military alliance in world history. we believe the european union countries are our friends.

the russians are not. >> let's bring in john bussey, a fox news contributor and associate editor at the "wall street journal". he joins us from madrid. thanks for being with us, john. >> a pleasure. >> let's start with nato. how is spain reacting to the president's words and to the meeting last week? >> well, i think they're taking all of this in context. they're looking at the president now trying to change what he said yesterday. the context they're thinking of is what happened before that meeting. you just outlined it. it was one criticism of a nato ally and a european ally after the other and calling nato a foe, a trading foe. once he was at the meeting, calling out the u.s. saying that many years of u.s. foolishness and stupidity have resulted in this bad relationship with russia. so the europeans are looking at

this and wondering what to make of their previous trust in the united states. can they trust the new president. one spanish newspaper ran the headline, trump folds to putin after humiliating europe. they're quite concerned what happened in that meeting. it was a one-on-one meeting. no note takers, no witnesses other than the translators. usually there's aides in the room. what the did they really talk about. was there information divulged to putin that affected european security. they found the whole thing mysterious and concerning. >> rick: so safe to say not everybody is thrilled as the president suggests regarding the nato situation? >> i don't think so. the president probably had a good argument going into this saying that nato allies need to be stronger. they need to have higher military spending so that if somebody does happen, nato as a whole can come to its own

defense along with the united states. not count on u.s. military to solve the problem. that's a compelling argument. it's the manner in which it was done. also in concert with a lot of other criticism of european allies that they felt alienated. then they watched this relationship with putin. putin, his folks innovated ukraine, have supported violence there, took back crimea. these are all things that nato has a sharp stand on and the europeans wanted to see that affirmed by the u.s. president and they didn't get that. >> rick: john, the president said he misspoke yesterday during the news conference with russian president vladimir putin. in fact, he does believe the russians meddled in the 2016 election but didn't affect the outcome. your reaction and his attempts to walk it back. >> i think it's probably -- you know, using the language that

you heard already, walk it back for one. and do some damage control. this is a president that says what's on his mind and we have to assume that he meant that in russia. he got a bad reaction. now he's reacting to the reaction. it's a president that has gone out of his way to cozy up to putin. it's been very concerning to the gop and others that see putin as a foe of america, not having just meddled in the u.s. election but being add odds with the u.s. including syria and north korea. so you know, this is a president who kind of wants it both ways. the question is why. why is he so interested in having this cozier relationship with putin? is he so averse to criticizing him on the world stage when he has the world listening to a press conference like we heard yesterday?

>> the other question is, did the president go far enough today. did he condemn putin as much as he should have? should he be condemning putin more than he is? >> yeah, i don't think that you heard that, did you, in though remarks. you heard an affirmation of the intelligence community as he puts it, my people. the intelligence community as it exists now is in the context of criticizing previous leaders of the intelligence community and the military intelligence, which has found the same thing. they're all in concert on this, that russia has meddled. it's all of these other things. it's holding russia to account on crimea, ukraine, holding russia to account on their behavior in syria and north korea. that we just didn't hear it today, we didn't hear it yesterday either. >> john bussey with the "wall street journal." thank you. >> pleasure. >> rick: former president obama obama criticized president

trump's behavior today without mentioning him by name. president obama was spoking in south africa to mark 100 years since the late nelson mandela was born. it's the highest profile speech president obama has given since leaving office. the former president talked about what's going on in the world now. he said we're living in strange and uncertain times with each day bringing more head-spinning and disturbing headlines. he warned some politicians are using fear to go after the cornerstones of democracy. >> fear and resentment and retrenchment began to appear. that kind of politics is now on the move. it's on a move at a pace that would have seemed unimaginable a few years ago. i am not being alarmist.

i'm simply stating the facts. look around. strongman politics are ascending suddenly. the form of pretense politics and those trying to undermine every institution and norm that gives democracy meaning. >> president obama says the world stands at a crossroads. the former president said there's been an utter loss of shame among political leaders. he say they double down when caught in lies and they make stuff up. in closing, the former president said the world has been through darker times. he quoted the former south african leader that spent nearly three decades behind bars for fighting state sanction segregation. >> no one is born hating another

person because of the color of their skin or his background or religion. people must learn to hate. if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. >> the president saying love comes more naturally to the human heart and we should see that as our north star. there's a push among some house republicans to get rid of the man overseeing the russia investigation. word of impeachment for rod rosenstein. we'll head to capitol hill for the latest on that next. your insurance rates skyrocket after a scratch so small

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communications between american politicians and moscow. they say she was a gun rights activist and she tried to build ties with the national rifle association and other conservative groups. her later says the whole thing is overblown and that maria butina is not an agent of the russian federation. she's a russian national in the united states on a student visa that recently graduated from american university. as president trump continues to attack the russia investigation a couple of republican lawmakers are leading an effort to dump the man that oversees it. rod rosenstein. rod rosenstein appointed robert mueller. now republican congressman mark meadows of north carolina and jim jordan of ohio are trying to build support for impeachment. some members of congress want a vote by the end of the month. sources tell fox news that any

sort of resolution is days away at best. let's bring in senior capitol hill producer chad pergram. why are they trying to impeach this guy? >> they're concerned about harassment and how they threatened house staffers. they've been trying to get the departments from the fbi and doj for a long time. here's the problem. i spoke with one senior republican source. they said if they impeach the deputy attorney general, that will freeze everything. they're trying to stave this off. i'm told there could be two resolutions. one that is live, one that would command a vote and one come before, that would not be live, a glorified press release. here's the challenge for the house republican leadership. would they move to table or set this aside. not take an actual vote on impeaching rosenstein. the democrats do have resolutions of this nature.

usually it's kevin mccarthy that moves up and the table is on the vote to set aside or table. consider how rare impeachment is. there's only been 62 impeachment proceedings. they haven't impeached anyone since 2010, a federal judge. add there's been one federal official that was impeached, william belnap, the secretary of war in 1876. i asked mitch mcconnell earlifer they got an impeachment resolution from the house of f ref -- representatives. >> rick: have they ever attempted to impeach a deputy attorney general? >> no, not really. we've had the secretary of war

in the 1870s. and a congressman from florida was impeached in the late 1980s. >> rick: chad, if you could, to the president's turn-around when he said he misspoke with president putin. >> yes. chuck schumer got word of this while he was speaking in the senate. he said it was 24 hours too late. he said it was the wrong place. should have been made clear earlier. we just got word that mike pompeo will appear in an open hearing next wednesday. >> rick: fascinating times, chad. thanks for your time. minutes away, a sightseeing tour in hawaii turns into a nightmare. that was a lava bomb shooting to a boat, sending people to the

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